Chapter Summaries

Ronan and Moriel escaped a monstrous wizard named Patrick by using the Space Key to cut through the Ash Mist Wall, then continued through Minotaur's Maze. They reached a blood-filled passage that Ronan recognized as the work of a Feast wizard, and fled into another passage as a river of blood surged after them.

• Ronan shouted Patrick's name, causing the four-headed monster to stop and struggle with itself.
• Ronan used the Space Key to cut through the Ash Mist Wall, pulled Moriel through, and sealed the opening before Patrick could follow.
• Ronan warned Moriel that the Space Key had limited uses and explained that the monster had been Patrick, a vanished Ghost Mist Society genius.
• Ronan told Moriel that the maze's sparse energy weakened wizards above Level Five but could make experienced spellcasters especially dangerous.
• After walking through the maze, Ronan recognized a blood-covered passage as the work of a Feast wizard and retreated with Moriel.
• Ronan cut through another Ash Mist Wall with the Space Key just as a river of blood came rushing around the corner.

Ronan and Moriel survived the maze’s moving Ash Mist Wall and reached a mysterious exit door. Beyond it, they found themselves before a colossal chained Bull Demon named Babu Li, who demanded an answer.

• Ronan and Moriel escaped a Ballet Dress puppet and an armored knight by cutting through the Ash Mist Wall, while Itai shielded them from a devastating attack and curse.
• Moriel used the Space Key to seal the wall, and the pair discovered a corridor lined with small doors.
• Ronan probed a Yellow Patterned Small Door and felt a terrifying force inside nearly pull his life force through the keyhole, leading him to suspect the maze was a prison.
• Ronan opened the smooth White Small Door with the Space Key, and Moriel followed him into a sunlit desert.
• Ronan and Moriel came face to face with a colossal chained Bull Demon, who asked whether Ronan was ready to answer Babu Li’s question.

Ronan and Moriel faced Babu Li, an Abyss Bull Demon guarding the labyrinth exit, and tried to escape without answering its impossible question. After their attack failed to reach the exit, Ronan used the Space Key to open a door and flee with Moriel.

• Ronan spotted a blue door of light behind Babu Li and learned that answering its question correctly would let them leave.
• Moriel answered that the primordial sky had countless stars, but Babu Li declared her answer wrong and demanded Ronan's response.
• Ronan proposed distracting Babu Li while using his Space Key to escape, and Moriel agreed to attack.
• Moriel struck Babu Li with her Ladies Cane as Ronan tried to teleport toward the exit, but a barrier blocked his Space Magic and Babu Li entered a rage.
• Ronan used the Space Key to open a door of light, and he and Moriel escaped through it.

Ronan and Moriel lured fifth-level Monsters through the maze and gathered them in Babu Li’s chamber, where Ronan provoked the Abyss Bull Demon into attacking them. As the battle began, Ronan told Moriel that this was only the first step of his escape plan.

• Ronan explained that he would use the maze’s Monsters to distract Babu Li, then led Moriel through the passages while drawing several dangerous creatures after them.
• Ronan and Moriel encountered a blood river, a sword-wielding knight, a burnt woman, a clown-masked figure, and Patrick, narrowly escaping each one.
• Ronan brought Moriel back to the passage of small doors and opened the chamber of a hidden prisoner before entering Babu Li’s room with her.
• Several fifth-level Monsters followed them into the chamber and realized that the light door could be their way out, but the prisoner from the opened cell did not appear.
• Ronan insulted Babu Li and claimed the Monsters would help him defeat the demon, provoking Babu Li into attacking them.
• As the Monsters and Babu Li began fighting, Moriel questioned Ronan’s plan, and he said the battle was only its first step.

Ronan sent Moriel to open the door while he held back the Level Five monsters, transforming with the Triple Spiral Palace and Ancient Demon God Body. As the battle intensified and he discovered a new power in his swordsmanship, a jester-masked monster struck him with a powerful beam.

• Ronan gave Moriel the Space Key and told her to open the door while he distracted the monsters.
• Ronan transformed into his Triple Spiral Palace and Ancient Demon God Body, then charged at the approaching Ballet Woman and knight-like man.
• Ronan fought the knight-like man, recognized his Elephant Spirit Dance, and broke free of the Ballet Woman's binding spell.
• Ronan briefly wielded a force that seemed to draw on a great law of nature, then stopped two monsters from reaching Moriel and faced five Level Five monsters alone.
• A jester-masked figure transformed into a gray glass-like form and blasted Ronan away with a beam.

Ronan unleashed the Forbidden Black Hole - Eclipse Moment, collapsing the Level Five monsters’ Elemental Spirit True Bodies and targeting Babu Li, while Moriel tried to escape through the blue door. An unknown tall, thin man appeared and nullified the taboo spell, leaving Ronan badly wounded as the monsters revered the newcomer.

• Ronan endured the Level Five monsters’ attacks while Babu Li accused him of using them to help Moriel escape.
• Ronan activated the Forbidden Black Hole - Eclipse Moment, darkening the world and forcing the monsters’ Elemental Spirit True Bodies to collapse.
• Ronan directed the Black Eclipse Sun toward Babu Li and told Moriel to flee through the blue door with the Space Key.
• An unknown force punctured and erased the Black Eclipse Sun, pierced Ronan, and dispelled the taboo power.
• Ronan saw the Level Five monsters bow reverently to the tall, thin man who had been imprisoned in the cell.

Ronan and Moriel escaped the Level Five Monsters by leaving them with a Space Key that had one use remaining, while Ronan revealed that he had planned to explore the maze for Minotaur’s treasure all along. He explained that a hidden pattern in his Space Rune mapped the maze’s changing routes, and the pair set out to find the treasure.

• Narros gave Ronan his Ruby Ring, and Ronan left him and the Level Five Monsters with the Space Key before escaping with Moriel through a light door.
• Moriel realized Ronan had trapped the Monsters in the room to clear the way for his search for Minotaur’s treasure.
• Ronan explained that he had fought the Monsters to convince them the room’s exit was real and to make his plan succeed.
• Ronan revealed that a pattern hidden in his shifting Space Rune corresponded to the maze’s movements and displayed its routes in real time.
• Ronan and Moriel continued into the maze, confident that the rune map would lead them to Minotaur’s treasure.

Ronan reached the silver door at the heart of the labyrinth and found the Mirror of Emptiness, while Moriel vanished after forcing her way out. Elsewhere, Narros emerged into the outside world with several followers and declared that the world would remember forgotten names.

• Ronan explored the labyrinth with Moriel until a new passage revealed a small silver door.
• Moriel unleashed her power against the labyrinth, disappeared in flames and gray mist, and left behind a damaged Scarlet Feather.
• Ronan entered the silver door and found a silver vanity mirror that he recognized as the Mirror of Emptiness.
• Narros and other figures emerged from a glowing door into a desolate wilderness, and nearly half of them departed.
• Six wizards knelt before Narros and pledged to follow him, and he spoke of making the world remember forgotten names before mentioning Misha.

Ronan explored the silver mirror and received a vast inheritance of spatial knowledge from a mysterious blond boy in the Minotaur’s Maze. After waking in the outside world, he discovered the Mirror of Emptiness within his Consciousness Space and found that it could return him to the maze.

• Ronan entered the silver mirror and crossed a fog-filled space until he found a blond boy singing beside a red rocking horse.
• The boy brought Ronan into the mist, embraced him, and vanished as silver light entered Ronan’s brow, flooding him with spatial knowledge.
• Ronan woke outside the maze and learned from Arrietty that half a year had passed while he was gone.
• Ronan examined the Mirror of Emptiness in his Consciousness Space and saw it strengthening his spatial magic inheritance and elemental spirituality.
• Ronan touched the mirror with his Spiritual Power, and it transported him back into the Minotaur’s Maze.

Ronan discovered that the Mirror of Emptiness contained a vast, expandable space where he could enter and store living things, and he found a locked door tied to Minotaur’s spatial spell inheritance. After checking in with Alazan about their transaction, Ronan read that Juventus had advanced to Level Five with an eight-star primal spirit.

• Ronan tested the Mist Space, confirmed that he could enter it bodily, and moved his valuable possessions inside, including seeds and Moriel’s Red Lotus Scepter.
• Ronan examined Narros’s Ruby Ring and found ten cubic measures of unusually pure Magic Crystals, then used some crystals to expand the Mist Space’s fog walls.
• Ronan discovered a silver door inside the Mist Space that rejected his Spiritual Power, but the Mirror of Emptiness pulsed when he touched it.
• Ronan contacted Alazan, revealed that he had obtained part of a spatial Spell Inheritance, and confirmed that their transaction was still ongoing.
• Ronan read Arrietty’s Spirit Lake news and learned that Juventus had advanced to Level Five with an eight-star primal spirit.

Ronan read reports about Juventus’s eight-star advancement, Misha’s breakthrough, and the escape of Narros and other wizards from Minotaur’s Maze while continuing to develop his own abilities. He completed most of Aihaxia’s Doomsday Sound inscription, brought his Secret Chrysalis close to maturity, and tested his newly acquired Space Mirror Art.

• Ronan learned that Juventus had reached the eight-star elemental spirit grade and that Misha had advanced to Level Five with a six-star spirit.
• Ronan read that Mengerde had been injured and fled after a battle, and concluded that Narros and the other wizards had escaped Minotaur’s Maze.
• Ronan absorbed a Magic Crystal and continued inscribing Doomsday Sound onto Aihaxia, bringing the process more than halfway to completion.
• Ronan found that his Secret Chrysalis was almost entirely black and realized that he had to complete its final stage through his own efforts.
• Ronan discovered Space Mirror Art on his Character Panel and used it to send Itai’s Golden Tentacles through a spatial mirror to a point twenty meters away.

Ronan strengthened his mirror-based spells through Minotaur’s inheritance, then entered a mirror-filled room that revealed the ultimate form of Space Mirror Art. In his training with Heliodore, he learned that the Son of the Deep Sea selection was approaching, and Heliodore asked whether he would participate.

• Ronan upgraded the Multiple Mirrorlight Rune Seal to replicate spells four times and named its fivefold effect Fivefold Mirror Light.
• In his Ancient Ice state, Ronan summoned six frost giant snakes and unleashed a strengthened Hecalto’s Ancient Devour.
• Ronan tested Mirror Soul, then opened a silver door through the Mirror of Emptiness and discovered a room of mirrors whose combined spell fluctuations revealed Space Mirror Art’s ultimate form.
• During potion training, Heliodore noted Ronan’s recent growth and asked about his progress resonating with elemental spirituality; Ronan said he had made almost none.
• Ronan completed an Elemental Water potion, and Heliodore gave it to him before asking whether he planned to join the Son of the Deep Sea selection.
• Ronan asked Heliodore whether he wanted him to participate.

Ronan decided to compete in the Son of the Deep Sea Selection to gain a chance to ask the New Prophet about the Clarity Snake. After arranging for Sindison to bring Bennigo and the Saint Blood Tree from the South, Ronan began cultivating with a Fire Element and experienced a flash of inspiration.

• Heliodore urged Ronan to enter the Son of the Deep Sea Selection, and Ronan admitted he wanted the chance to question the New Prophet.
• Ronan met Sindison outside Spirit Lake, removed one of his Soul Nails, and sent him under contract to the South to bring someone back with the Ruby Ring.
• Ronan returned to Spirit Lake and considered how winning the selection could help him obtain the Clarity Potion and prepare for his conflict with Misha.
• Ronan released a Fire Element in Mist Space and drew it into his Spirit Maya Dharma body, where crimson runes appeared and sparked a new insight.

Ronan refused Hathaway’s final proposal and continued studying the deeper meanings of Golden Fire and other inheritances while registering for the Son of the Deep Sea selection. After awakening from a dream reincarnation, he concluded that Spirit Heart Amber had reached a bottleneck: to progress, he needed to find extraordinary power within a dream, perhaps with some luck.

• Hathaway asked Damien one last time to accept her proposal, but he refused, and she left after warning him not to regret it.
• Ronan ordered Arrietty to have the Maintenance Department repair the damaged door, then studied Golden Fire and recognized that his inheritances carried deeper understanding of natural laws.
• Ronan entered Minotaur’s mirror room to deepen his Space Mirror Art, then registered for the Son of the Deep Sea selection through the little old man.
• Ronan contacted Alazan and experienced a dream reincarnation as a horse herder, living seventy years and gaining 3,952 Primordial Spirit Writings.
• After waking, Ronan concluded that Spirit Heart Amber had reached a lifespan-based bottleneck and that he might need to find or develop extraordinary power in a dream to advance.

Ronan prepared for the Son of the Deep Sea Selection after using thousands of Primordial Spirit Writings to strengthen his Elemental Spirit and Spiritual Force Field. At the gathering, he saw Misha for the first time and learned Hathaway still intended to punish him despite Madam Mel’s warning.

• Ronan’s Spiritual Power and Elemental Spirit foundation grew as his Golden Soul burned away impurities and his Primordial Spirit Writings resonated.
• After receiving messages about the selection, Ronan met Heliodore, who explained that the first stage would rank participants by how many Primordial Spirit Writings they memorized in the Knowledge Tower over one moon cycle.
• Heliodore told Ronan that the Tower held about two thousand Primordial Spirit Writings and that the previous best result was thirty-one, then warned that Ronan’s existing knowledge could make memorizing more difficult.
• Ronan arrived at Ring Lake Space with Heliodore and saw Misha seated on a crystal throne among the gathered wizards.
• Hathaway watched Ronan coldly, while Madam Mel asked her to stop bullying him; Hathaway insisted their conflict was personal and promised to teach Ronan a small lesson.

Ronan entered the Deep Sea Tower’s knowledge trial selection, where he faced a thousand Primordial Spirit Writings to memorize. As the month-long trial began, Madam Mel left the Crystal Palace.

• Madam Mel encouraged Hathaway to avoid wasting her energy on people and matters that did not deserve it, and Hathaway dismissed Misha as an arrogant fool.
• Valentine taunted Heliodore and proposed a wager concerning Ronan and his disciple Florence, then discussed the terms privately with Heliodore.
• Florence insulted Heliodore to Ronan, but Ronan calmly agreed with him and left Florence speechless before Florence fled.
• The Deep Sea School’s Level Six elders appeared, revealed a Crystal Palace around the gathering, and sent the participants into separate rooms for the selection.
• Ronan entered the Deep Sea Tower, gathered exactly one thousand unfamiliar Primordial Spirit Writings, and began memorizing them in a dream.
• While the wizards waited in the Crystal Palace during the month-long knowledge trial, Madam Mel rose and said she was leaving.

Ronan completed all 2,382 Primordial Spirit Writings in the Knowledge Tower, awakening the Crown of Deep Knowledge and astonishing the Deep Sea wizards. As Ronan left the tower, Misha learned that Ronan had supposedly awakened the crown for him and happily mistook the achievement as part of his own coronation plans.

• Madam Mel and Hathaway noticed the Inverted Tower erupting with light and hurried toward the disturbance as Deep Sea wizards gathered to watch.
• The tower expelled the selection participants, and the Crown of Deep Knowledge appeared above Ronan after he completed all 2,382 Primordial Spirit Writings.
• Hathaway and Valentine were shocked to discover Ronan beneath the crown, while Ronan accepted that it could not be taken and calmly walked down to Heliodore.
• Valentine confronted Heliodore and dragged him away to discuss another bet, while Florence stared at Ronan in disbelief.
• Misha resented Ronan for taking the spotlight until Zorn told him Ronan had said the Deep Sea King deserved a crystal crown; Misha then assumed Ronan had awakened it for his coronation.
• Hathaway called Misha an idiot as she watched Ronan, and Heliodore returned looking anxious and regretful.

After the Knowledge Tower round, Ronan drew attention from the Deep Sea elders but was largely dismissed because of his low soul aptitude. The dueling stage began, and Ronan was transported to an arena where he faced his assigned opponent, a chubby boy with round Crystal Glasses.

• Ronan discussed with Alazan how the Deep Sea valued soul aptitude over knowledge, while suspecting the Grand Elder and another elder had taken an interest in him.
• Misha regained his confidence and nodded approvingly at Ronan after speaking with Zorn.
• The Battle Tower of the Flame Faction appeared, beginning the duel stage of the selection.
• Hathaway pressured Laun to reveal a name, then sent Ronan the identity of his first opponent, Koske Dulin.
• Heliodore gave Ronan several spell potions and advised him to concede if he faced a Level Five Wizard.
• Ronan was pulled into a blue sphere of light and found himself above an azure sea, facing a chubby boy wearing round Crystal Glasses.

Ronan defeated Koske Dulin in the first round, then faced Sigel in the second and learned that someone had offered to pay Sigel to lose to him. Meanwhile, Valentine accused Heliodore of using underhanded tactics in their wager.

• Koske Dulin transformed into an Ancient Dragon Wolf and attacked Ronan, but Ronan defeated him and asked Heliodore to take note of his flesh-alchemy talent.
• The Freckled Witch collected the unconscious Koske, and Ronan returned to Heliodore as the first round ended.
• Ronan learned that his next opponent was Sigel, while Heliodore said he had wagered with Valentine that Ronan would advance through at least three rounds.
• Ronan entered the second-round arena and found Sigel waiting for him on a sandy battlefield.
• Sigel told Ronan that someone had privately offered him terms to deliberately lose the match.
• Valentine stormed into Heliodore's Crystal Room and accused him of resorting to shameless methods to win their wager.

Ronan advanced to the fourth round of Deep Sea’s selection, where Valentine and Heliodore’s wager over their disciples continued to escalate. Facing Dorian, a Level Five Wizard ordered to both teach him a lesson and let him win, Ronan began unleashing [Falling Snow].

• Ronan’s third-round opponent forfeited, and the fourth round began with the remaining wizards choosing opponents freely.
• Misha grabbed two nearby wizards and entered a light sphere, while Hathaway’s allies forced Ronan into another and matched him against Dorian.
• Valentine revealed that he had taken Ronan as a disciple to keep the wager alive, then warned Heliodore that Dorian had targeted Ronan.
• Dorian admitted that one person had asked him to lose to Ronan while another had asked him to teach Ronan a lesson, and he planned to do both.
• Dorian transformed into a gigantic toad and charged Ronan, who summoned a snowflake and began casting [Falling Snow] as the sky split open.