Chapter Summaries

Ronan entered the Wisdom Tower, where Porby guided him through its strange, book-filled interior and helped shield him from wizards curious about his bloodline. He finally met Kosti, the Seventh Magic Ring Ring Master, who revealed she had worried he might share Bennigo’s situation.

• Ronan met Porby, who collected his cut hair to trade for valuable items, and agreed to let him handle the exchange.
• Ronan climbed the Wisdom Tower’s spiral staircase and discovered its meditation-enhancing runes and the powerful wizards watching him.
• Porby gave Ronan a feather ring that concealed most of the attention surrounding him, then warned him against private deals with the tower’s Level Three wizards.
• Porby led Ronan to the tower’s summit and revealed that he was a Colorful Conch Parrot before introducing Ronan to Kosti.
• Kosti turned to Ronan and said she had worried his situation would be the same as Bennigo’s.

Ronan met Kosti, who explained Bennigo’s dangerous battle-driven path and gave Ronan guidance and magical items. After sending Bennigo a projection of the view from the top of the tower, Ronan entered the garden and confronted its invisible guardian.

• Kosti explained that Bennigo had advanced by forcing his potential through constant battle, but his exhausted potential was causing his soul to decay.
• Kosti praised Ronan’s greater potential, gave him a spatial ring, Neiman Alloy, and a Frostburn bracelet, and offered access to resources and help studying his bloodline.
• Kosti discussed Ronan’s advancement and cultivation, and suggested that he move into the tower.
• Ronan sent Bennigo a spell projection of the view from the tower, and Bennigo realized that Ronan had reached the top.
• Ronan entered the garden, endured repeated teleportations caused by its Rune Arrays, and turned to strike the transparent guardian with overwhelming force.

After surviving the transparent twisted humanoid in the Mysterious Garden, Ronan returned to the Silver White High Tower with two magic tools and continued studying the secret realm’s runes and shifting labyrinth. At home, he reviewed Kosti’s warning about Curse-Type Spells and examined the Frostburn bracelet and the resources he had received for his hair.

• Ronan recovered from the fight, stored the Silver Comb and mirror-like dagger, and considered how their runes might help him study spatial and mirror-type spells.
• Ronan assessed the Mysterious Garden’s shifting labyrinth, decided to investigate it gradually, and left through the lake entrance for the Arcane Circle.
• Ronan used Porby’s illusion ring to enter the Silver White High Tower unnoticed and silenced Serui, the Brass Door Lock, before returning to his room.
• Ronan recalled Kosti’s warning that his hair could be used as a Curse-Type Spell medium and that she had made the Third Level Wizards who obtained it sign Soul Contracts.
• Ronan arranged the Frostburn bracelet, the garden’s magic tools, and the resources exchanged for his hair, then considered Frostburn as a possible future Soul Rune.

Ronan received valuable resources and two unusual spatial magical items in exchange for strands of hair, then met with Kosti to discuss advancing to Level Two. Kosti prepared his advancement materials but advised him to visit White Stone Fortress first, where a temporary bloodline treatment could strengthen him before the Mirror Garden opens in four months.

• Ronan traded broken hair to three Third Level Wizards and received refined brain fluid, Moon-Eating Magic Whale blood essence, and two thousand High-Level Magic Stones.
• Ronan tested a mirror-like dagger that teleported objects it struck and a Silver Comb that unleashed spatial slashes, accidentally shattering his window.
• Porby summoned Ronan to Kosti, who said her analysis had found traces of Moonlight Elf bloodline components but no evidence of an ancient White-Haired Giant Demon bloodline.
• Kosti gave Ronan the materials needed to advance to Level Two and recommended that he visit White Stone Fortress for its temporary ice-beast bloodline treatment.
• Kosti explained that the Mirror Garden’s core Secret Realm would open in four months and urged Ronan to strengthen himself before facing powerful wizard geniuses there.

Ronan prepared to travel to White Stone Fortress, where he hoped to arrange a Talent Transplant, and boarded a Black Swan airship with the Saint Blood Tree sapling. After securing his cabin, he abruptly entered Half-Demonification.

• Kosti gave Ronan a sealed letter of introduction to Ethan Tourte, supplies, and instructions to return within two and a half months for the Mirror Garden expedition.
• Ronan recognized that the address on Soraya's letter, White Stone Highlands, might refer to White Stone Fortress, then reunited with Bennigo and discussed the trip and Talent Transplant.
• Bennigo warned that the transplant could take effect only when Ronan formed a Spiritual Power Crystal and prepared a protective box for the Saint Blood Tree sapling.
• Ronan boarded a Black Swan airship bound for White Stone Fortress and received a private cabin with a Rune Array assembled from Kosti's supplies.
• Ronan took out the Saint Blood Tree sapling, then suddenly transformed into Half-Demonification.

Ronan’s Basic Meditation Technique reached 500 proficiency, purifying his Spiritual Power and transforming [Clarity Realm] into the new talent [Thoughtless Lake]. He tested the changes in the clouds above the Magic Airship and discovered that his spellcasting had become far more powerful and efficient as the ship neared White Stone Fortress.

• Ronan used blood from his Half-Demonification state to nourish the Saint Blood Tree sapling, then inhaled smoke from Mind-Devouring Monster Brain Fluid Essence to improve his meditation.
• Ronan spent the voyage meditating until [Clarity Realm] reached 500 proficiency, causing his Spiritual Power to shrink, crystallize, and increase greatly in purity.
• Ronan drank Kosti’s Spiritual Power purification potion and found that it had no effect after his meditation breakthrough.
• Ronan activated [Clarity Realm] and entered a state of absolute calm, which appeared on his Character Panel as the active talent [Thoughtless Lake].
• A middle-aged Level One Wizard aboard the airship was unnerved by Ronan’s icy, emotionless gaze as Ronan left the ship and flew into the clouds.
• Ronan tested his abilities in flight and found that his spells cast twice as fast, hit nearly three times as hard, used two-thirds less Spiritual Power, and that his Spiritual Power recovered almost five times faster under [Clarity Realm].

Ronan arrived at White Stone Fortress under the assumed identity of Linas, hoping to undergo Talent Transplant and deliver a letter to Soraya. He learned that the Tourte Family had left the fortress decades ago, but the Ice Bat Tavern offered another possible route to Talent Transplant.

• Ronan used Thoughtless Lake to sharpen his awareness, then continued meditating aboard the magic vessel as his Spiritual Power grew.
• After reaching White Stone Highlands, Ronan learned that White Stone Fortress held tens of thousands of residents and considered whether he could find Soraya with only her name.
• Ronan disguised himself as a wandering ice-element wizard named Linas, hired Gelu as a guide, and settled at the Ice Bat Tavern.
• Ronan asked the tavern to investigate the Tourte Family and Soraya while he continued cultivating and waited for information.
• A tavern representative reported that the Tourte Family had left White Stone Fortress decades earlier after its Third Level Wizard disappeared, and offered the tavern's own Talent Transplant service.

Ronan waited for a suitable ice-element Talent Transplant while strengthening his Spiritual Power and mastering [Extreme Frozen Weapon]. After his first attempt to fuse three ice law domains failed, Barisha finally reported progress on the transplant.

• Ronan learned that Talent Transplants were available to any wizard who could pay, and Barisha Ababok found that the Ababok Family had only unsuitable options available.
• Ronan paid Barisha to search among independent wizards, then waited a month and a half while other wizards underwent transplants and he gathered second-rank ice Spell Inheritances.
• Ronan restored his Spiritual Power to its limit, raised [Extreme Frozen Weapon] to Master Level, and demonstrated its extraordinary cutting power.
• Ronan attempted to fuse the domains of Desperate Ice Seal, Frost Veins, and [Extreme Frozen Weapon], but the spells exploded before the fusion could take hold.
• Ronan decided to improve the proficiencies of Frost Veins and [Extreme Frozen Weapon] before trying the fusion again, then received Barisha’s message that the Talent Transplant search had made progress.

Ronan chose Cold Stone Manor for a Talent Transplant, then discovered that the Saint Blood Tree could purify a living creature’s bloodline. After testing it on a snow grouse and recording its transformation, he prepared to leave White Stone Fortress.

• Barrysha described the three Talent Transplant providers, and Ronan chose Madam Livy of Cold Stone Manor despite warnings about monsters and disappearances.
• Ronan planned to spend no more than fifteen days in White Stone Fortress and took out the Saint Blood Tree sapling to feed and examine it.
• Ronan noticed the sapling had grown crimson tendrils, summoned a snow grouse, and followed Bennigo’s advice to communicate with the tree.
• The Saint Blood Tree wrapped the snow grouse in its tendrils, purified its bloodline, and transformed it into a powerful creature that Ronan killed after it attacked him.
• Ronan recorded the results, replenished the exhausted Saint Blood Tree with his blood, and considered having Bennigo analyze his bloodline for purification.
• Three days later, a black carriage with silver trim raced across the snow beyond White Stone Ridge.

Ronan traveled to Cold Stone Manor to undergo a Talent Transplant and observed signs that the manor was hiding a secret. After the other visitors received their transplants, Madam Livy told Ronan his first choice was unavailable and offered to show him better options.

• Ronan arrived at Cold Stone Manor, where Madam Livy welcomed him and introduced him to the other wizards seeking Talent Transplants.
• Ronan watched You Ji Ke return from his transplant with stronger Spiritual Power, increased vitality, and a changed attitude toward Madam Livy.
• Madam Livy conducted transplants for the waiting wizards, and Ronan suspected Cold Stone Manor’s secrets were known to its visitors and tied to hidden benefits.
• Ronan chose the Cold Scale Python bloodline, but Madam Livy said she had already used its only share and prompted him to make another selection.
• Madam Livy set aside the Rune Stones and offered Ronan several better choices, and he agreed to hear them.

Ronan rejected Madam Livy’s offer to join Cold Stone Manor’s dangerous Bloodline Transplant experiments, but she revealed that Soraya was waiting for him. He met Soraya, a Third Level Wizard, who recognized the Ice Ring necklace and asked what Carlos was to him.

• Ronan and Madam Livy signed a Soul Contract, and she explained that White Stone Fortress had improved Talent Transplant and developed experimental Bloodline Transplant technology.
• Madam Livy offered Ronan bloodline transplants in exchange for a year of service, then proposed he leave an heir for the Cold Stone Family; Ronan refused and insisted on their original transaction.
• Madam Livy revealed that Soraya was waiting in the painting room, and Ronan entered despite her warning not to deceive her grandmother.
• A girl stepped out of a painting and questioned Ronan about Soraya, but an invisible force dragged her back into the painting as Soraya revealed her overwhelming power.
• Soraya recognized Ronan’s Ice Ring necklace as Yarlis’s and asked what Carlos was to him; Ronan denied knowing Carlos and presented a box containing a snow-white envelope.

After reading Halowen’s letter, Soraya recognized Ronan as a Lanster relative because he had condensed Frozen Earth and gave him the family’s rare ice inheritance and equipment. She revealed that the Frost Leaders were his enemies and promised to obtain blood from a third-level Cold Scale Python, then left her studio with Ronan, who asked about Cold Stone Manor’s bloodline transplantation method.

• Soraya read Halowen’s letter, mourned its contents, and accepted Ronan as her nephew after he introduced himself as Linas Lanster.
• Soraya learned about Ronan’s life and plans, then gave him Tundra Frozen Earth runes, the Ice Flame Rune, and numerous second-level magic tools.
• Soraya warned Ronan that the Frost Leaders of the Northernmost Land would eventually come for him because he wore the Ice Ring.
• Soraya offered to obtain essence blood from a third-level Cold Scale Python with Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent bloodline for Ronan’s Talent Transplant.
• Soraya left her studio with Ronan and recalled that she had come to White Stone Fortress long ago because of a man, with her brother Carlos helping her escape the Northern Lands.
• Ronan asked Soraya whether Cold Stone Manor possessed the true method of Bloodline Transplant.

Ronan studied Soraya’s research on Talent Transplant and Bloodline Transplant, learning how the Kachin Family’s methods worked and what was needed for a true bloodline fusion. He realized his Immaculate Body made him an ideal test subject if Soraya obtained the pure Cold Scale Python bloodline.

• Soraya gave Ronan materials on Talent Transplant and Bloodline Transplant, then declared that Linas would share authority over Cold Stone Manor and that its residents must obey him in her absence.
• Ronan learned that Talent Transplant used the Icy Soul rune, which could grant ice-beast talents but contaminated a wizard’s Spiritual Power and Soul Power with each embedding.
• Ronan read how the Kachin Family’s Bloodline Transplant experiments had caused test subjects to become monstrous, and how Soraya had improved the process by gradually releasing the bloodline into willing wizard subjects.
• Ronan learned Soraya’s requirements for successful Bloodline Transplant: pure blood, a strong body, and a powerful will.
• Ronan concluded that his Immaculate Body and strong will made him an ideal test subject if they obtained the third-tier Cold Scale Python essence blood carrying a trace of Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent Bloodline.

Ronan considered the risks of transplanting the Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent Bloodline and inspected the powerful Winter Homeland equipment Soraya had given him. Soraya then took him to a hunt for a Third Level Cold Scale Python, where multiple roars suggested more than one beast was present and left Ronan worried about her safety.

• Ronan decided that trying the bloodline transplant might be worthwhile if Soraya could obtain the Cold Scale Python's essence blood.
• Ronan discovered that Soraya had given him a twelve-piece set of second-level ice equipment called Winter Homeland and tested its pauldrons.
• After returning to the estate, Soraya took Ronan into the snow forest and told him to wait safely while she joined the hunt.
• Ronan arrived near the Fred Family wizards as Soraya flew toward the battle against the Cold Scale Python.
• Explosions and the beast's ancient roar shook the forest, and Ronan saw the serpent emerge before hearing two more roars.
• Young Fred Family wizards discussed Soraya Kachin's reputation and her reason for joining the hunt.

Black Robe Wizards ambushed the Fred Family during Soraya’s hunt for the Third Level Cold Scale Python, and a mysterious cloaked figure revealed himself as Anglie. Ronan recognized the man who had once shaped his ambitions, abandoned his retreat, and walked toward him determined to face him.

• A Fred Family wizard reported that dozens of Black Robe Wizards had entered the Rune Array, and the gathered wizards argued over whether to reinforce the Ababok Family.
• Black Robe Wizards attacked the Fred Family, overwhelming the group led by the silver-haired young man and forcing Ronan to begin withdrawing.
• Crows gathered over the battlefield, and a black-cloaked figure appeared, silently incapacitated Valinz, and received the black-lipped wizard’s respectful greeting.
• Ronan recognized the cloaked figure as Anglie and recalled their past encounters, including the Soul Ignition Potion Anglie had given him.
• Ronan chose to return to the battlefield and walked toward Anglie, determined to defeat the man who had once treated him as an insignificant insect.

Ronan pursued Anglie across the battlefield but was forced to fight Anglie’s black-robed subordinate when Anglie abruptly left. After freezing the wizard and rejoining Soraya, Ronan learned that the Cold Scale Python’s essence blood was far worse than expected.

• Ronan entered the [Thoughtless Lake] state and chased Anglie, but Anglie received a message, ordered a black-robed wizard to stop Ronan, and departed.
• The black-robed wizard attacked Ronan, who split his spell with a silver crescent blade and froze him with his three Law Domains.
• Ronan continued after Anglie without changing course, leaving the battlefield stunned by how easily he defeated the black-robed wizard.
• A red-haired woman told the brown-haired young man that Cold Scale Pythons had swallowed what he wanted and were being hunted by local Third Level Wizards; after receiving a message, he became interested in a growing fruit tree and left with her.
• Ronan came out of the [Thoughtless Lake] state, decided to postpone his fight with Anglie, and met Soraya, who took him away.
• At Cold Stone Manor, Soraya told Ronan that the wounded Cold Scale Python’s essence blood was much worse than expected.

Ronan advanced to Second Level with Soraya’s help, but the Talent Transplant using Cold Scale Python essence blood failed when his new Spiritual Power Crystal expelled the Icy Soul rune. The chapter left Ronan newly powerful but without the ice talent he had expected to gain.

• Soraya postponed Ronan’s Bloodline Transplant because the Cold Scale Python essence blood contained too little Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent Bloodline.
• Soraya prepared the Crystallization Array and Talent Transplant for Ronan, who refined the Tundra Frozen Earth rune while waiting for his Spiritual Power to crystallize.
• Ronan embedded the Icy Soul rune in his forming Spiritual Power Crystal and drank the stabilizing potion, successfully advancing to Second Level.
• Ronan’s three Extraordinary Magic Domains briefly intertwined, astonishing Soraya, who praised him as an exceptional member of the Lanster family.
• Ronan’s Spiritual Power Crystal expelled the Icy Soul rune as an impurity, and he told Soraya that the Talent Transplant had failed.

After advancing to Level Two, Ronan left Soraya’s manor and explored the Cold Scale Pythons’ abandoned nest, hoping to learn why Anglie’s group had come there. He discovered a ruined stone pillar matching an illustration in Old Wells’s notebook: the legendary Holy Shrine, whose power had already been taken—or eaten by the snakes.

• Ronan gained a brief improvement toward fusing his Three Law Domains during the failed Talent Transplant, and Soraya offered to help him try again.
• Soraya taught Ronan second-rank ice spells, the Tundra Frozen Earth domain, and methods for pursuing Magic Domain fusion before he departed for the Silver Magic Ring.
• Ronan returned to the site where the Cold Scale Pythons had lived and descended into their Serpent Nest to investigate its ancient ruin.
• Ronan examined the bones, platform, and damaged patterns inside the nest, then uncovered a broken black stone pillar carved with a kneeling woman.
• Ronan recognized the pillar from Old Wells’s notebook as a Holy Shrine and realized its Holy Shrine Power was gone, likely consumed by the snakes.

Ronan uncovered the core of a genuine Holy Shrine in the Serpent Nest and used its black liquid to locate another source of Holy Shrine Power. Following the trail deep beneath the ice, he found a huge dark-red egg and wondered whether it contained the power he sought.

• Ronan followed Old Wells's notes to open the black stone pillar and seized its screaming, spherical Holy Shrine core as the pillar shattered.
• Ronan reasoned that the Holy Shrine's leaked power had transformed the Cold Scale Pythons and attracted the wizard families and Anglie's group.
• Ronan used the black liquid to summon a guiding line, which unexpectedly led southwest to a snowy hollow dozens of kilometers away.
• Ronan blasted through the snow and excavated a deep, ice-filled fissure while following the guiding line underground.
• Ronan spotted a massive dark-red egg encased in black ice, with the guiding line entering it, and wondered whether it held Holy Shrine Power.

Ronan discovered and subdued a pure-blooded Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, then brought it to Bennigo while preparing to inherit its ancient bloodline. The chapter ended with Ronan demanding that Bennigo prepare what he needed for the inheritance.

• Ronan watched the giant egg hatch and faced the newly emerged Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent.
• Ronan froze the serpent, recognized its pure ancient bloodline, and stored it in his Space Ring.
• The serpent broke free, but Ronan froze it again and tried to bind it with a blood rune; the rune was repelled.
• Ronan reinforced the serpent’s icy seal with silver chains and spells, then set off for the Silver Magic Ring.
• Ronan rode the chained serpent to Bennigo and told him to prepare for Ronan to inherit the ancient.