Chapter Summaries

Ronan advanced to a Ninth-Level Wizard Apprentice and improved his combat spells while weighing the risks of Academy missions. After discovering a mission that rewarded Soul Ignition Potion, he spent five days preparing, registered at the last moment, and joined a group whose members included Lei Ni.

• Ronan chose to delay joining the Academy until he was stronger and could find a mission that justified its risks.
• Ronan trained intensively, bringing [Electric Spark] to Mastery and strengthening his other spells and skills.
• At the Drunken Deer Bar, Ronan heard that a mission offered a Soul Ignition Potion and learned that Lei Ni planned to take part.
• Ronan investigated the mission, spent nearly all his Magic Stones on preparations, and registered on the deadline day.
• Ronan joined the mission group, where Lei Ni said farewell to his girlfriend and an ineligible apprentice was turned away.
• After hearing the rejected apprentice boast about his Electric Spear magic tool, one high-level apprentice quietly followed him away from the group.

Ronan joined a Hoddam Academy mission to destroy resources in a Secret Realm Space, where he unexpectedly encountered Linas and grew wary of Wizard Fao. In the Corpse Garden, Ronan recognized the danger beneath the graves, escaped the awakening skeletons, and unleashed a powerful spell toward Lei Ni and the Hook-nosed Wizard as they fought for their lives.

• Ronan concealed his Level Nine Apprentice strength, joined the mission, and recognized Linas among the Academy Wizards led by formal wizard Fao.
• Fao explained that the mission was to destroy potion resources in a Secret Realm Space and promised each wizard a Soul Ignition Potion as a reward.
• The group entered the Corpse Garden, split into teams, and Ronan was placed under the command of a Hook-nosed Wizard alongside Lei Ni.
• Ronan detected signs of undead magic beneath the graveyard soil and warned the Hook-nosed Wizard to leave, but the warning was ignored.
• Skeleton warriors erupted from the graves and surrounded Lei Ni and the Hook-nosed Wizard while Ronan escaped their attacks.
• Ronan formed a massive blue-black sphere of energy and sent it crashing through the skeletons toward the two trapped wizards.

Ronan and Lei Ni crossed the Corpse Garden’s deadly paths and found the Ghost Face Flower field Wizard Fao had sent them to destroy. After Lei Ni accidentally awakened the flowers and was seized by a Ghost Face Flower King, Ronan rescued him, but the garden’s awakened flowers pursued them.

• Ronan blasted a path through the skeleton warriors and led Lei Ni away from the Hook-nosed Wizard, who was killed by shadow scythes on the misty path.
• Ronan and Lei Ni crossed a river of corpse-eating fish, killed some of them for the mission, and discovered a vast field of Ghost Face Flowers.
• Ronan led Lei Ni quietly through the sleeping flowers, but Lei Ni stepped on a root and Ronan silenced the awakened flower before it could cry out.
• A second flower screamed, waking the field; Ronan cut a path through the flowers with an Energy Missile as they ran.
• A towering Ghost Face Flower King caught Lei Ni in its roots, so Ronan fought through the smaller flowers and blasted the King to free him.
• Ronan hauled Lei Ni to his feet and told him Iris would take his compensation money and sleep with his best friend rather than mourn him.

Ronan and Lei Ni escaped the Ghost Face Flower Field and reached a cottage where Fao killed Lei Ni and revealed that he had arranged for Ronan to die as well. Ronan offered Fao the bone ring in exchange for his life, then sprang a trap and unleashed a powerful attack.

• Ronan and Lei Ni reached a meadow beside a lake and a white cottage after fleeing the Ghost Face Flower Field.
• Lei Ni thanked Ronan and confessed his anger over Matthew and Iris, while Ronan grew uneasy at the crows near the cottage.
• Fao emerged from the cottage and killed Lei Ni with a spell, then explained that he had arranged a dangerous route and planned to control the number of survivors.
• Fao revealed Linas and agreed to let Ronan live in exchange for the bone ring, while Ronan claimed it contained the remnant soul of a powerful wizard.
• Ronan approached Fao with the ring, then released Valensuna from it and unleashed his Level Nine Apprentice power in a Master Level Energy Missile-Particle Torrent.

Ronan killed Fao with a second Particle Torrent and used his Power of Breaking Law Magic Domain to kill Linas, then looted their belongings and prepared to leave Corpse Garden. As he hurried across the grass, a vast flock of crows descended with a human figure flickering among them.

• Ronan unleashed a second Particle Torrent, erased Fao, and survived the backlash while Linas watched in disbelief.
• Linas demanded Ronan reveal his secret, but Ronan activated his second Extraordinary Magic Domain, Power of Breaking Law, severed Linas's arm, and killed him.
• Ronan looted Linas's Storage Waist Pouch, finding two Soul Ignition Potions, other supplies, and a locked metal box that he could not open.
• Ronan collected Lei Ni's belongings, abandoned the mission, and headed toward the exit of Corpse Garden with three Soul Ignition Potions.
• Crows repeatedly blocked Ronan's path before a huge flock darkened the sky, with a human figure visible among them.

Ronan met Anglie, the Crow Crossing wizard, who spared him, removed the mark that would have exposed Fao’s death, and gave him an unusual Soul Ignition Potion. After Ronan reached Hoddam Academy, Lola attacked him and killed Jo, but Jerome intervened and Lola was taken away.

• Anglie arrived at Corpse Garden, recognized Ronan’s talent, and threatened to keep him alive for their next meeting.
• Anglie’s crows removed the mark of resentment from Ronan, and he gave Ronan a strange Soul Ignition Potion before leaving to deal with the intruders.
• Ronan and Jo were released from questioning by Jerome and left the room as the only survivors of the Corpse Garden mission.
• Jo told Ronan he could join Hoddam Academy, but Lola suddenly impaled her with a vine tentacle and accused Ronan of killing Fao.
• Jerome fought off Lola’s attacks and protected Ronan until a green shadow seized Lola and carried her away.

After Lola's attack, Ronan received official enrollment at Hoddam Academy and discovered his Charged Weapon could break spells. As he prepared to focus on cultivation, he delivered Lei Ni's belongings to Iris and carried out Lei Ni's final request to Matthew.

• Jerome told Ronan that Lola was Fao's widow and the headmistress's daughter, then urged him to cultivate and prepare to become an official wizard.
• Ronan received his academy enrollment, a Soul Ignition Potion, and delayed letters from Lier, his father, and his fiancée.
• Ronan examined the Power of Breaking Law domain and resolved to advance his Spiritual Power toward the peak of Level Nine Apprentice.
• Ronan visited Iris at the Drunken Deer Bar and gave her Lei Ni's belongings and academy compensation.
• Ronan told Matthew that Lei Ni had requested his hand be broken, then broke it.

Ronan advanced his Spiritual Power to the vaporization stage while pushing his Basic Meditation Technique beyond Expert Level. The change brought his apprentice progress to 100% and awakened a new Lucid State for the technique, leaving him on the verge of a major breakthrough.

• Ronan reached 99% progress as a Ninth-Level Wizard Apprentice and chose to refine his Spiritual Power through Basic Meditation Technique rather than Ascetic Body Forging.
• After studying theories about Extraordinary Magic Domains, Ronan suspected Anglie had also comprehended one and felt urgent pressure to become a formal wizard.
• Ronan met his new neighbor Dobby, who explained that mentors taught combat schools and passed down Soul Runes to formal wizards.
• Ronan spent a month meditating in secret and using Power of Breaking Law, bringing Basic Meditation Technique to Expert Level 799 and preparing to vaporize his Spiritual Power.
• After drinking four bottles of Water of Asu and meditating, Ronan vaporized his Spiritual Power and saw his apprentice progress reach 100%.
• Ronan's Basic Meditation Technique advanced to Master Level 1 and gained the Lucid State.

After awakening Lucid State, Ronan improved his rune engraving and prepared to seek a mentor before advancing to full wizard. He discovered that Lola’s hostility had made the academy’s mentors avoid him, but Amala Blackthorne offered to examine him and then suggested he give up on becoming a full wizard.

• Ronan activated Lucid State, engraved five Swift Runes successfully, and failed to open Linas’s rune-locked box.
• Ronan went to the Mentor District to find a mentor and was rejected by dozens of wizards.
• Ronan approached the headmaster’s residence, where Lola threatened him, and realized her feud had turned the mentors against him.
• Ronan decided to ask Jerome for help, but Amala Blackthorne invited him to her house instead.
• Amala examined Ronan with her Spiritual Power and suggested that he remain a Level Nine Apprentice rather than attempt to become a full wizard.

Ronan learned that his poor soul aptitude made advancing to a formal wizard dangerous, but he chose to keep pursuing strength through body tempering. Months later, he stood over the corpses of two high-level Tier 0 magical beasts, terrifying two apprentices who stumbled upon him.

• Ronan learned that he would need at least five Soul Ignition Potions to purify his soul, but consuming them would likely use up his lifespan and kill him.
• Ronan asked about Soul Runes and learned that formal wizards used them to shape and strengthen their spells.
• Grace gave Ronan another Soul Ignition Potion and urged him to return if he somehow advanced, while he resolved to continue body-tempering.
• Two wizard apprentices searching for a buried bundle heard roars and mistook the sounds for a fight between wounded magical beasts.
• The apprentices found Ronan standing over a dead giant python and a barely living Four-Armed Ape, then fled in terror as he wondered whether his training had made him frightening.

Ronan endured five Soul Ignition Potions without achieving soul sublimation, then drank the special final potion Anglie had given him and successfully advanced to official wizardhood. His breakthrough sent a surge of power across Hoddam Academy, where he received a card welcoming him to the World of Mist.

• Ronan reached Expert Level 799 in Ascetic Body Forging and decided to attempt advancement rather than keep waiting.
• Ronan gave Dobby instructions and a list of names in case he died, then entered his dormitory to begin the advancement ritual.
• Ronan drank five Soul Ignition Potions, but each attempt failed as his body withered and his life force nearly ran out.
• Ronan drank the final potion, the unusual one Anglie had given him, and his Spiritual Power erupted as he successfully broke through.
• Dobby and other people at Hoddam Academy witnessed the light and aura from Ronan's room and realized he had become an official wizard.
• Ronan received a gold-trimmed card from an owl that read, “Welcome to the World of Mist!”

After becoming a Level One Wizard, Ronan examined the changes to his soul and aging body, then visited Grace to choose his spell school and Soul Rune. As Grace began preparing his Energy Affinity inheritance, scarlet clouds spread across Hoddam Academy and blotted out the sun.

• Ronan discovered that his Spiritual Power had liquefied and that his body looked decades older, while his completed Ascetic Body Forging seemed to be sustaining a new surge of vitality.
• Ronan left his room three days later and went to Grace, grateful for her help with his breakthrough and seeking first-circle spell and Soul Rune inheritances.
• Grace explained several spell schools and runes, and Ronan chose Energy Affinity spells and the harmonization rune.
• Grace asked for three to five days to prepare Ronan's inheritance and suggested he try the Mentor District again.
• Ronan and Grace watched as dense scarlet clouds spread over Hoddam Academy and blocked the sun.

A surprise attack by the Whispering Forest shattered Hoddam Academy’s Rune Array and plunged the academy and nearby town into chaos. Ronan fled the battle, but after reaching the forest, he was confronted by a black-robed young man.

• A blood-red spell called Blood Dark Nova destroyed Hoddam Academy’s Rune Array as black-robed attackers descended, and Grace was dragged from her home.
• Lola was freed when her vine prison began to collapse, then fled toward a direction tied to her obsession with avenging Fao as two figures pursued her.
• Ronan chose to escape rather than fight, changed out of his academy robe, and used a magical tool to disguise his formal-wizard aura among the fleeing crowd.
• A black-robed attacker hunted an escaping academy wizard and struck the crowd with a blood sphere, so Ronan fled town and ran into the wilderness.
• From the forest, Ronan saw the invaders gaining the advantage over Hoddam Academy’s headmaster and worried that he had not yet obtained the academy’s inheritance.
• A young man in a black robe holding a Short Staff appeared in midair before Ronan and looked down at him.

Ronan killed a Black Robe Wizard from Crimson Tower, then fought Lola as she attacked him with powerful thorn-covered vines. As Jerome and a beautiful witch arrived, Ronan unleashed two kinds of Extraordinary Magic Domain power and charged Lola with his broken sword.

• The Black Robe Wizard exposed Ronan’s disguise, revealed his allegiance to Crimson Tower, and mocked Ronan before attacking him.
• Ronan tore through the Black Robe Wizard’s blood spell, pierced him with his sword, and destroyed him with Particle Torrent.
• Lola ambushed Ronan with spiked vines, and Jerome and a beautiful witch flew toward the forest to retrieve her while fleeing the battle at Hoddam Academy.
• Ronan fought Lola’s vines with his sword, but she strengthened them and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Ronan rose despite his wounds, unleashed Particle Torrent, and charged Lola as Jerome and the beautiful witch arrived and sensed his two extraordinary domain powers.

Ronan was beaten nearly to death by Lola after she awakened a golden power, but the crisis triggered his Ascetic Body Forging breakthrough and a complete physical rebirth. He emerged from her shattered vine cocoon with a Master-level body and the newly active Immaculate Body talent, ready to strike back.

• Ronan's Particle Torrent failed to kill Lola, who emerged unharmed and transformed by golden power.
• Lola's golden vines overwhelmed Jerome and the beautiful witch's attacks, then battered Ronan and bound him in a crushing cocoon.
• As he neared death, Ronan refused to accept his fate and realized Ascetic Body Forging required a crushing blow to break through its old shell.
• Ronan's body broke free of the golden-vine cocoon in a burst of life energy, leaving Lola, Jerome, and the beautiful witch stunned.
• Ronan's Character Panel showed Ascetic Body Forging at Master Level 1/1600 and revealed his newly active Immaculate Body talent.

Ronan defeated Lola, learned that she could return through the Leaf of Innocence, and left Hoddam with Jerome’s map. Lola resurrected and vowed revenge, while Ronan reached the Silver Magic Ring, the wizard territory closest to Hoddam.

• Ronan used the Bone Spear Technique to pierce Lola and kill her, while Jerome chose not to stop him.
• Lola’s body turned to dust, leaving a Leaf of Innocence that Jerome explained could restore her after a costly process of regrowth.
• Jerome gave Ronan a map of Hoddam and the surrounding region, and Ronan left for the forest alone.
• Jerome told the gray-blue-robed witch that Lola had driven away a rare spellcasting genius and revealed he had wanted to tell Ronan how to kill her permanently.
• Lola regrew from the Tree of Innocence and cursed Ronan and the Crimson Tower, while a girl learned that Hoddam no longer existed.
• Ronan crossed the wilderness and arrived at the Silver Magic Ring, the gray-robed wizard territory closest to Hoddam.

After two months of travel, Ronan reached the Silver Magic Ring Wizard Land and settled into an inn in Seven Ring City with Jacob Weigiers's help. Once alone, he reviewed his progress and confirmed that his Ascetic Body Forging technique could not advance without its missing continuation.

• Ronan used Lola's Flying Ring to cross a canyon filled with rune arrays and arrived at the Silver Magic Ring Wizard Land.
• Ronan entered Seven Ring City with a temporary residence permit and met Jacob Weigiers, who offered to guide him.
• Jacob found Ronan a room at the Blueberry Inn, negotiating the rent down to two Mid-Level Magic Stones per month.
• Ronan thanked Jacob with ten Low-Level Magic Stones, settled into his room, and examined his improved appearance after bathing.
• Ronan checked his Character Panel and concluded that Ascetic Body Forging had stopped progressing because he lacked the rest of its cultivation method.

Ronan considered his options for a Soul Rune and worked on runes and a locked box while preparing to establish himself in the Silver Magic Ring. After selling some apprentice equipment, he learned that his unrefined Soul Aura marked him as a newly advanced wizard and asked a shopkeeper about melee weapons.

• Ronan examined the vitality gathered at the center of his chest and weighed whether to use the Bloodthirst Soul Rune or seek an inheritance through the Silver Magic Ring.
• Ronan practiced carving First Level flight and acceleration runes and continued cracking the rune lock on the metal box he had obtained from Linas.
• Ronan hired Jacob as a guide by offering him a chance to earn money, while Alida sold Ronan a map of Seven Ring City so she could spend the day with Jacob.
• Ronan sold surplus apprentice equipment at a magic tool shop and received two High-Level Magic Stones and forty-five Mid-Level Magic Stones.
• The shopkeeper explained that Ronan’s Soul Aura showed he had not refined a Soul Rune, and Ronan asked whether the shop carried melee weapons.

Ronan sought a close-combat weapon and learned that the Silver Magic Ring’s Metal Element inheritance suited his abilities, but he could not join the Arcane Circle without thirty years of residence or a member’s guarantee. After potion training brought only minor progress, he entered a spell training room to test his Energy Missile-Particle Torrent.

• Ronan bought a Tier 1 magic robe and learned about the Silver Magic Ring’s Metal Element spells, while the Chromium-Lu Alloy weapon proved far too expensive.
• Ronan went to apply for Arcane Circle membership, but the green-eyed registrar told him he needed thirty years of residence or a formal member’s guarantee.
• Ronan considered changing his spell path but decided to seek a guarantor, then spent days wandering the outer city without finding one.
• Ronan spent twenty-five High-Level Magic Stones on five Spiritual Power growth potions and gained only three percent in Strength Progress.
• Ronan entered a Level One spell training room and prepared to test his Energy Missile-Particle Torrent.

Ronan tested his Particle Torrent and Immaculate Body, discovering power that far exceeded his expectations and easing his worries about lacking a Soul Rune. After opening Linas's metal box, he found an inheritance of first-tier ice spells and its matching Soul Rune, Frozen Earth.

• Ronan used Particle Torrent against the Spell Testing Wall, and his full-power casting lit nearly all its Energy Absorption Crystals.
• Ronan activated Immaculate Body and moved so quickly that he nearly punched through the Spell Testing Wall, lighting every crystal across it.
• Lord Basil investigated the damaged monitoring runes in training room Number Five and ordered Gu Wei to find the powerful wizard who had used it.
• Ronan returned to the Blueberry Inn, where Alida noticed his white hair, and resumed his studies with greater confidence.
• Ronan opened the metal box he had obtained from Linas and found two inheritance Rune Stones, including the matching Soul Rune Frozen Earth.