Chapter Summaries

Ronan defeated Dorian in the fourth round, though Misha had arranged for Dorian to concede and let Ronan advance. Misha then cleared the way for a final match between himself and Ronan, who flew to the arena intending to end the farce.

• Ronan overwhelmed Dorian with his Frozen Earth Domain and defeated him with six giant serpents, while Dorian acted out a convincing loss.
• Hathaway was shocked when Ronan emerged unharmed, and Misha revealed that he had arranged Dorian's surrender because Ronan had brought him the Crown of Deep Knowledge.
• Misha ordered the remaining Level Five Wizards to withdraw and told Zorn to prepare Ronan for the final match.
• Valentine accused Heliodore of arranging Dorian's defeat, while Ronan learned from Zorn's message that Misha had orchestrated it.
• The Level Five Wizards withdrew, leaving only Ronan and Misha for the fifth round, and Ronan flew toward the arena to end the selection.

Ronan defeated Misha in the final spatial battle and emerged wearing the Crown of Deep Knowledge, overturning the Deep Sea School’s expected result. The spectators were left stunned, while Valentine angrily confronted Heliodore.

• Misha assumed Ronan had come to swear loyalty and asked him to stage a defeat for the watching elders.
• Ronan unleashed Forbidden Black Hole, overwhelming Misha and forcing him to relive the terror of his parents’ deaths.
• Ronan reassured the crying Misha that the Deep Sea position could remain his after Ronan became Child of Spirit Lake, then left the battlefield.
• The crowd expected Misha to emerge wearing the Crown of Deep Knowledge, but Ronan appeared with the crown while Misha stood behind him in tears.
• Hathaway watched in disbelief as Ronan won again, and Valentine demanded to know whether Heliodore was serious.

After winning the Son of the Deep Sea Selection, Ronan explored the Crown of Deep Knowledge and discovered its hidden Primordial Spirit Writing and ability to create powerful Elemental Lifeforms. Alazan explained that the crown was designed to work with an Elemental Pool, but Ronan decided he lacked the resources and need to build one.

• Ronan wore the Crown of Deep Knowledge and gained the beginner-level Tidal Meditation Technique, along with enhanced Spiritual Power, mental calm, and soul defense.
• Ronan discovered 2,382 previously unknown Primordial Spirit Writing characters inside the crown, matching the number stored in the Knowledge Tower.
• Ronan used the crown to summon several earth figures and a powerful obsidian giant, then realized it could create an army of Elemental Lifeforms.
• Alazan explained that the Crown of Deep Knowledge was meant to draw energy from an Elemental Pool and offered Ronan a blueprint for a simple one.
• Ronan declined the blueprint because he lacked the resources to build an Elemental Pool and had no use for a vast Elemental Lifeform army.

After claiming the title of Son of the Deep Sea, Ronan tried to use the Grand Elder’s apparent favor to deter Misha’s supporters, but the Grand Elder confronted him and Alazan expended much of his strength protecting him. Ronan reconciled with Heliodore, who revealed that Misha had been expected to take the position because it came with countless dangers and troubles.

• Ronan reflected that he had deliberately made his victory look backed by the Deep Sea Grand Elder to discourage Misha’s supporters.
• After Heliodore summoned him, Ronan encountered a powerful wizard in the Crystal Passage, and Alazan shielded him from the attack.
• Alazan warned Ronan that he had crossed a boundary by borrowing the Grand Elder’s influence, then withdrew to recover.
• Heliodore told Ronan he would dissolve their master-disciple relationship, but Ronan explained his potential and admitted that his apparent connection to the Grand Elder had been a trick.
• Heliodore softened toward Ronan and revealed that Misha had been expected to become Son of the Deep Sea because the position carried countless difficulties and troubles.

Ronan learned that the Lost Land would pit him against powerful monsters and rival wizarding forces, then was sent there alone to compete as Son of the Deep Sea. After receiving a ring containing directions and a gift from the Grand Elder, he entered the passage toward the Lost Land with clues about an Ancient Waterway, Quivada Oasis, and a Prophet.

• Heliodore warned Ronan that the Lost Land held deadly monsters, spatial rifts, and elite rivals, and explained that Misha had been expected to win the selection through his connections.
• Heliodore revealed that Ronan’s victory had disrupted others’ plans and that the Grand Elder’s warning reflected displeasure, though the Grand Elder had accepted Ronan’s claim to the Crown of Deep Knowledge.
• A Level Five wizard arrived in Ronan’s secret realm and ordered him to leave for the Lost Land, so Ronan entrusted Arrietty with a few instructions and departed alone.
• Misha regained his fighting spirit after Ronan left and declared that he would wait for Ronan to fail, while an unidentified figure secretly followed Ronan’s party.
• At the Lost Land’s rune array, the middle-aged wizard gave Ronan a ring and explained that calling on Deep Sea for help would cost him the Crown and his place in the competition.
• Ronan entered the dark passage, read the Rune Stone’s directions to the Ancient Waterway, Quivada Oasis, and Prophet, and continued onward.

Ronan entered the Lost Land through the Ancient Waterway and fought through its monsters, breaking through to a new stage of Golden Fire mastery. He realized the mission would be difficult to complete alone and prepared to open the box left by the Grand Elder of Deep Sea.

• Ronan advanced through the Ancient Waterway, collecting a specimen from the creatures that ambushed him and activating ancient Illumination Crystals.
• Ronan unleashed Spirit Maya and cleared a ruined section of the waterway of monsters, including three Corpse Demons.
• Ronan broke through Brass Head to second-stage Magic Domain Resonance and sensed that his connection to Golden Village had grown clearer.
• Ronan recognized that reaching the waterway's exit and Quivada Oasis would require a team and could take years.
• Ronan took out the rune-covered box from the Grand Elder of Deep Sea and prepared to open it in the waterway.

Ronan activated the box and discovered it contained an Elemental Pool, which he used to create Elemental Lifeforms and clear the surrounding Ancient Waterway. After a month of preparation, he ventured deeper into the ruins and encountered a ghost.

• Ronan opened the rune-covered box, creating an unstable Elemental Pool that drew in energy and produced first-tier Elemental Lifeforms.
• Ronan fortified the pool with Rune Arrays and spent a month practicing with the Crown of Deep Knowledge while clearing Monsters from the surrounding waterways.
• Ronan recorded information about the waterway Monsters and fed their corpses into the pool, helping it grow to eight meters and produce third-tier Elemental Lifeforms.
• Ronan decided the pool was secure enough to leave and walked deeper into the darkness, defeating several groups of bat-like Monsters with Golden Fire.
• Ronan found a ghostly human figure pacing along the waterway and muttering to itself.

Ronan explored a ruined cottage and translated a craftsman’s wall diary, which suggested that Keldim’s waterway project unleashed underground monsters and contributed to the empire’s destruction. After activating a nearby spell node and checking on his Elemental Lifeforms, he decided to continue along the waterway.

• Ronan sent Aihaxia to devour the Artisan Ghost while he searched the ruined cottage.
• Ronan used the Spirit Lake Book to translate the cottage wall, which contained the artisan’s diary about the waterways and Quivada Oasis.
• Ronan read the diary’s account of people being found hollowed out and its warnings that the waterway project had released devils.
• Ronan searched beneath rubble, found a second spell node, and activated the lighting system with a high-grade magic stone.
• Ronan checked the Elemental Lifeforms through the Crown of Deep Knowledge and found that two had been lost.
• Ronan decided to continue exploring along the waterway.

Ronan explored the Ancient Waterway, where Aihaxia helped him defeat a soul-draining Mosquito Monster and uncovered evidence that Keldim wizards had experimented on otherworldly creatures. A Holy Shrine Stone revealed that the waterway contained dozens of Holy Shrine Altars, but a much larger, fifth-tier Mosquito Monster then rushed toward them.

• Ronan and Aihaxia fought through the Ancient Waterway, where Aihaxia grew stronger but increasingly difficult to control after devouring monsters and their souls.
• Ronan used Doomsday Sound to defeat a Mosquito Monster that absorbed power from Aihaxia and grew stronger whenever it was attacked.
• Ronan found a Holy Shrine Stone beneath the Mosquito Monster and read that someone had tried using an altar to alter monsters from another world.
• Ronan discovered that the Ancient Waterway connected to dozens or perhaps over a hundred Holy Shrine Altars, giving him a chance to advance his Ascetic Body Forging.
• Aihaxia sensed a much larger swarm approaching, and Ronan identified it as a fifth-tier Mosquito Monster.

Ronan returned to the Elemental Pool and found Hathaway attacking its defenses, so he overwhelmed her and killed the pursuing fifth-tier Mosquito Monster. After tormenting Hathaway to stop her strange advances, he learned that his warning had apparently awakened an unexpected attraction to him.

• Ronan sensed that Elemental Guardians near his Elemental Pool were rapidly disappearing and rushed back, suppressing Aihaxia when it attacked him on the way.
• Ronan found Hathaway damaging the Rune Array and killing the Guardians, then struck her and confirmed that the Elemental Pool itself remained intact.
• Ronan unleashed his Ancient Demon God Body, overpowered Hathaway, destroyed the fifth-tier Mosquito Monster, and warned her not to bring disaster upon herself or those behind her.
• Ronan repeatedly knocked Hathaway away as she approached him, then used Nails of the Soul to stop her strange, excited behavior.
• Hathaway crawled to Ronan and confessed that the encounter had awakened unfamiliar feelings toward him, leaving Ronan troubled by her new fixation.

Ronan forced Hathaway to sign a master-servant contract, then moved the Elemental Pool into the Mist Space. He discovered the pool could produce Magic Crystals and use its energy to expand the Mist Space.

• Ronan questioned Hathaway about how she entered the Lost Land, and she admitted she had copied Zalan’s key to the spell-array seal.
• Hathaway agreed to sign a master-servant Soul Contract and added her own conditions before signing it.
• Ronan shared control of twelve Water Elementals with Hathaway and sent her to explore for monsters and bring back their corpses.
• Ronan fed the fifth-tier Mosquito Monster’s corpse to the Elemental Pool, then transferred the expanded pool intact into the Mist Space.
• Ronan tried to create a fifth-tier Elemental Lifeform, but the pool lacked enough energy to sustain it.
• Ronan found Magic Crystals at the bottom of the pool and used its energy to expand the Mist Space.

Ronan secretly watched Hathaway defeat a Level Five Corpse Demon using a flexible magic array and discovered that his painful treatment greatly increased her Spiritual and Soul Power. As Hathaway served him in their tent, she explained that she had learned about rune arrays from books while confined in an attic as a child.

• Ronan followed Hathaway and watched her use Water Elementals and a mobile magic array to kill a Level Five Corpse Demon.
• Hathaway gathered the corpse while injured, then brought it to Ronan, who praised her and gave her healing potions.
• At Hathaway's request, Ronan lashed her with golden whips and noticed that her Spiritual Power had recovered and her Soul Power had improved.
• Ronan later asked Hathaway whether Madam Mel had taught her rune arrays, and Hathaway said she had learned from books while locked in an attic as a child.

Ronan discussed rune arrays and learned that Inheritance Magic Arrays had become rare in the modern Wizard World, then continued exploring the Ancient Waterway ruins for Holy Shrine Altars and clues to Quivada Oasis. A Holy Shrine yielded potent healing power but not what he sought, and the chapter ended when a Black Bat delivered a familiar ring he had given away long ago.

• Hathaway explained rune arrays and why Inheritance Magic Arrays were now rare, prompting Ronan to plan for gathering the resources to build one.
• Hathaway suggested searching old construction records for the Ancient Waterway exits, while Ronan resolved to keep looking for Holy Shrine Altars and clues to Quivada Oasis.
• Ronan opened a hidden compartment behind a fairy statue and found a Holy Shrine box whose power had a strong healing effect.
• Ronan contacted Hathaway, who reported no special gains, and continued exploring the abandoned waterway on his own.
• A Black Bat delivered the Treasure-Stealing Goblin's Linked Ring to Ronan, though he had given the ring to someone else long ago.

Ronan followed a Black Bat through a hidden teleportation array in the Ancient Waterway and found Jason in the Lost Land. Jason revealed that a Level Five Wizard was pursuing him and that he had discovered a lead to the Silver Ear Goblin treasure, while Ronan suspected someone was manipulating Jason’s life.

• Ronan followed the Black Bat to a concealed spell node and activated the teleportation array, arriving in a strange gray-white land he identified as part of the Lost Land.
• Ronan followed the Black Bat across the dunes and reunited with Jason, who had reached Level Four as well.
• Jason explained that he had summoned Ronan with the Linked Ring because he had found clues to the goblin treasure and needed to bring him into the Lost Land.
• Jason told Ronan that a Level Five Wizard was hunting him and that his pursuers had killed his family and friends while forcing him to grow stronger.
• Ronan listened to Jason’s account and suspected that someone had been deliberately steering his life through repeated hunts and fortuitous discoveries.

Ronan and Jason found a Silver Ear Goblin treasury, but a forest of rotting arms trapped them before they could open it. Ronan revealed overwhelming power and began testing his new Secret Art against the giant formed from the arms.

• Jason located the goblin treasury and led Ronan to a gray-white mound, but Ronan spotted Black Mist and stopped him from approaching.
• Pale, rotting arms erupted from the sand and attacked; Ronan used his Spiritual Force Field to carry Jason out of the forest of arms.
• Ronan sent Jason to open the treasure while the arms pursued him, then unleashed his Spirit Maya Golden Dharma Body and burned through the attackers.
• The arms merged into a hundred-meter giant that struck at Ronan, but his golden power broke apart its hands.
• Ronan formed a golden blade and launched his new Secret Art, Spirit Maya Poem - Golden Origin, at the arm giant.

Ronan defeated a Level Five Wizard with his Golden Fire inheritance, then joined Jason in opening a hidden vault filled with ancient Gold Coin. As Ronan began collecting the coins, Dodol III appeared and eagerly begged for them.

• Ronan used Golden Fire to split the hundred-meter arm giant and struck down the fleeing Level Five Wizard, who escaped as a dimmed figure beyond the horizon.
• Ronan reflected on the power of his second-stage Golden Fire transformation and considered resuming his Ice-Fire Fusion spell project.
• Jason opened the hidden vault entrance with the Linked Ring, and he and Ronan descended a concealed staircase.
• Jason found a platform piled with Gold Coin, and Ronan recognized that the ancient coins contained valuable rare magical metals.
• Jason offered Ronan all the Gold Coin, and Ronan began storing the piles with Mist Space.
• Dodol III sprang out beside Ronan and pleaded eagerly for the Gold Coin.

Ronan and Jason explored the lower platforms of the goblin treasure trove, collecting riches before reaching a vast chamber filled with magic tools and other valuables. Ronan found a golden page that might point to the Thunder and Fire Hammer, but Dodol III had chewed away most of the book, leaving the clue uncertain.

• Ronan gave Dodol III a few Gold Coins, then collected about 1.3 million more and let Itai devour them in Mist Space.
• Ronan and Jason found a platform piled with middle-grade Magic Crystals, divided them between themselves, and continued downward.
• Dodol III got trapped in a clay jar on a platform of spoiled potion materials, crashed into Jason, and fled down the stairs with Jason chasing it.
• Ronan and Jason reached the lowest platform, where Jason rushed toward the Dawn Rank magic tools and Ronan examined the treasures and stored a suspicious Golden Goblin Statue.
• Ronan caught Dodol III chewing a golden book and found an intact map page labeled "Golin's Hammer," which might reveal the location of the Thunder and Fire Hammer from Mechanical Heart.
• Ronan tried to learn more from the mostly chewed page, then watched Dodol III burp up an indigestible metal object that might have been part of the book.

Ronan and Jason pursued the Treasure-Stealing Goblin after it stole the platform’s treasures, but Ronan only recovered a Golden Linked Ring. They then encountered a group of Tangista Empire wizards, whose ambush forced Ronan to pull Jason into a desperate retreat.

• Ronan discovered that the Treasure-Stealing Goblin had stolen items from his Space Ring and swept the platform’s treasures into its golden bundle.
• Ronan and Jason chased the goblin through a spatial gap, and Ronan struck it with Golden Origin near a black forest, but it vanished and left behind a Golden Linked Ring.
• Jason lamented his lost fortune, while Ronan kept the ring and vowed they would return to the treasure site and reclaim everything.
• A cloaked Third Level Wizard attacked Jason with a Burst Rune Arrow, and Ronan caught it and identified the attacker as a possible wizard from the Tangista Empire.
• More wizards emerged from the forest, including a Level Five wizard, and Ronan dragged Jason backward as dozens of rune arrows flew toward them.

Ronan used his newly empowered Golden Origin to hold off the Tangista Empire wizards, but a powerful late Level Five commander arrived and shattered his attack. Realizing he could not defeat the knight, Ronan retreated to find help and left Jason behind to delay the enemy.

• Ronan advanced Itai to Level Five and unleashed Golden Origin, forcing three Level Five wizards and their forces to keep their distance.
• Ronan’s battle with the Tangista wizards sharpened his Golden Fire spellcasting, and he detected an eerie fluctuation nearby.
• A bronze-armored knight on a Black Nightmare Skeleton Warhorse emerged from the void and pierced through Ronan’s Golden Origin, wounding him.
• Ronan recognized the knight as a late Level Five wizard stronger than Mengerde and told Jason to hold off the enemy while he went for help.
• Ronan retreated and sent dozens of silver figures with similar auras in different directions.

Ronan and Jason escaped Tangista’s pursuit, but Ronan followed a mysterious call to a hidden altar and found the Holy Shrine Power he needed. As the power enveloped him in white flame, Ronan began transforming, while Jason warned that the pursuing knight was close behind.

• Ronan used Forbidden Black Hole to stop the pursuing wizards’ attacks, then fled with Jason while the Tangista knight continued after them.
• Ronan told Jason the teleportation point was at least ten sandglass turns away, but an intense desire led him to split off and follow the Black Line Guidance.
• Ronan found a hidden cave and destroyed the altar’s statue, revealing a pure white flame that resonated with the Life Light Sphere inside him.
• Ronan touched the flame and was engulfed in white fire as his body began a transformation, while Jason called to him from the cave entrance.