Chapter Summaries

Ronan brought the rapidly growing Ice Crystal Magic Serpent to Bennigo’s valley to perform a Bloodline Transplant and test the Saint Blood Tree’s ability to purify its blood. When the serpent broke free before the procedure began, Ronan confronted it outside the valley in his Winter Homeland armor, but his lance could not pierce the scale between its brows.

• Ronan forced the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent into Bennigo’s valley after struggling to restrain its rapid growth and powerful resistance to ice magic.
• Bennigo prepared the Bloodline Transplant rune array, while Ronan set the Saint Blood Tree nearby and considered using it to purify the serpent’s blood.
• Bennigo suggested forming a Master and Servant contract, but the chains suddenly went slack as the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent broke free.
• Ronan drove the serpent out of the valley, equipped his Winter Homeland Magical Armor, and formed a silver lance from his metals.
• The serpent fired crystalline lightning at Ronan, who shattered it and struck the scale between its brows, but his lance failed to pierce it.

Ronan fought the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, revealed a new fusion of his Three Law Domains, and nearly beat the serpent into submission. When it refused his ordinary contract, he bound them with Posilena's Soul Contract, a wager that could reverse their master-servant roles if either won a challenge.

• Ronan fused the power of his Three Law Domains and wounded the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent for the first time.
• The Ice Crystal Magic Serpent broke free of its sealing ice and advanced to the second tier, but Ronan transformed and overpowered it.
• Ronan battered the serpent until it was nearly dying, yet his ordinary master-servant contract failed because it refused to submit.
• Bennigo urged Ronan to kill the serpent and take its essence blood, but Ronan chose to draw Posilena's Soul Contract instead.
• Ronan offered the serpent a chance to challenge him and reverse their roles, and the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent accepted the contract.

Ronan used the Saint Blood Tree to purify the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent's bloodline and began transplanting it into himself. The procedure knocked him unconscious, and he awoke—or dreamed—as a nameless young man on an ancient Snow Field beneath two blood-red suns.

• Ronan questioned the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent about the Cold Scale Pythons that helped its transformation and promised to rescue the two surviving ones.
• Ronan extracted blood essence from beneath the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent's horn, despite its resistance, and ordered it to stay nearby.
• Bennigo nourished the Saint Blood Tree with the serpent's blood, and Ronan added his own blood before the tree purified the serpent's bloodline into a crystal.
• Ronan embedded the Bloodline Crystal beside his heart and used the Rune Array to begin absorbing its power.
• Ronan's eyes and aura changed as the bloodline awakened, and he lost consciousness while Bennigo watched.
• A confused, nameless young man found himself on a vast Snow Field, heard disturbing whispers, and saw two blood-red suns in the sky.

Ronan awakened the Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline, fused his three ice-element Law Domains, and advanced Particle Torrent to One Segment Magic Domain Resonance. He continued absorbing the bloodline’s power and hoped to gain more from the upcoming Mirror Garden opening.

• Ronan dreamed of a colossal multi-headed serpent whose name, Hecalto, was the Ancient Frost Hydra, while Bennigo witnessed Ronan’s bloodline aura and fused Three Law Domains overwhelm the valley.
• Seven days later, Ronan formed his five-hundredth pure-black energy particle and completed One Segment Magic Domain Resonance for Energy Missile-Particle Torrent.
• Ronan tested the amplified Schubert’s Seven-Colored River and judged it strong enough to contend with Clemens’s Aionilo’s Hand.
• Ronan reflected on how the Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline was increasing his physical strength, ice resistance, and spell insight as its Bloodline Crystal continued merging into him.
• Ronan received a faintly unusual rune fluctuation and listened to a Communication Stone.

Ronan prepared for Mirror Garden by testing his second-level magic tools and strengthening his combat abilities, then returned to the Seventh Magic Ring. There, Porby gave him Kosti’s practical promotion gifts as she prepared to lead a team into Mirror Garden.

• Ronan tested the Mirror Dagger and Silver Comb, reviewed his growing collection of magic tools, and assessed the power of his ice-element spells against strong Level Two Wizards.
• Ronan told the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent that it would get a chance to challenge him after he returned from Mirror Garden, then left while enduring worsening pain in his chest.
• Ronan returned to the Silver White High Tower and rejected letters proposing trades for his bodily materials, invitations to gatherings, and an offer from Tatiana.
• Ronan went to meet Kosti but found Porby in her place; Porby told him Kosti was preparing to lead a team into Mirror Garden and gave him her promotion gifts.
• Ronan recognized the emerald ring as a high-speed Flying Ring and thanked Kosti for it and the second-level defensive necklace.

Ronan learned that the Arcane Circles' exchange competition had selected young wizards for the Mirror Garden's First Battlefield, and that Kosti had intended for him to enter the less dangerous Second Battlefield. As the expedition began, Ronan joined Clemens beneath the metal ring and saw Orian, the young Third Level wizard known as “Four-Colored Metal.”

• Porby told Ronan that Clemens had lost in the exchange competition to Orian, the Arcane Circles' foremost young wizard genius.
• Clemens arrived and explained that the competition selected candidates for the Mirror Garden's three battlefields, and that Kosti had likely planned for Ronan to explore the Second Battlefield.
• Clemens told Ronan that Orian was the First Arcane Circle Lord's chosen heir, a Third Level wizard under a hundred years old who had mastered the connection between metal and elements.
• Two days later, the Mirror Garden's opening signal summoned the young wizards, and three enormous Magic Airships emerged from the metal ring.
• Clemens guided Ronan toward the gathering wizards and shared a treasure list he had prepared to help Ronan recognize valuable finds.
• Ronan saw the elite wizards from the other forces and identified Orian, whose Third Level aura and silver-white eyes made him stand out among them.

Ronan and Clemens joined the Silver Magic Ring expedition to the Mirror Garden’s Second Battlefield, while Kosti reflected on Shelby and her plans to find him. The airship arrived at Mirror Lake, where Ronan saw ships from three other wizarding factions and wondered whether Anglie had come with Black Nightmare Swamp.

• Ronan considered the Silver Magic Ring’s powerful Composite Spell inheritance and Orian’s unusual talent as Orian boarded the first Magic Airship with the other top wizards.
• Clemens suspected Ring Master Kosti had arranged for him to accompany Ronan, and Kosti later explained that Ronan was too weak for the First Battlefield while Clemens had been assigned to the second core secret realm.
• Kosti told a middle-aged man that Shelby’s Soul Lamp was nearly extinguished and that she planned to leave the Arcane Circle within ten years to follow his trail.
• Ronan received his assignment to the Second Battlefield and boarded the second Magic Airship with Clemens and thirty-four other Silver Magic Ring wizards.
• The second airship carried Ronan and Clemens to Mirror Lake, where they saw ships from Black Nightmare Swamp, Thorn Palace, and Molten Crystal Lake.

Ronan entered the Mirror Garden core secret realm with the Arcane Circle and discovered that he had arrived alone in a small room. Outside, the faction leaders monitored the explorers as the Green Robe Witch approached Caloni and remarked that two others had started again.

• The Third Circle Lord had the Arcane Circle wizards sign Soul Contracts and gave them plain storage rings for their gains.
• Ronan sensed the Ancient Frost Hydra Bloodline react and exchanged a brief look with Igor of Molten Crystal Lake, who was told he could unleash some of his bloodline power as long as he killed no one.
• The Green Robe Witch used the Nefa Key to open the Mirror Garden entrance, and Ronan saw a Thorn Palace wizard age rapidly after touching the Time Curse before entering the vortex himself.
• Ronan emerged from the vortex in a small room with no one else present, while his Vitality Orb quickly dispelled his fatigue.
• The Green Robe Witch used the explorers' rings to view and monitor their locations, then joined Caloni and said that two others had started again.

Ronan explored the rooms and cottage of Mirror Garden, uncovering clues to a hurriedly abandoned alchemical laboratory and valuable energy stones. He left with three rare Space Energy Pearls, while Caloni’s wager arrangements continued outside the Secret Realm Space.

• Caloni and the Green Robe Witch agreed to a wager, and Caloni secretly arranged for Valinna and Clemens to compete in the exploration.
• Ronan contacted Clemens and Debby, then received a warning that conflicts between factions inside the Secret Realm Space could be intense.
• Ronan searched a series of empty rooms, using the mirrors and hidden passages to move through Mirror Garden.
• Ronan found a neglected cottage and inferred that its owner had left in a hurry after an interrupted gathering.
• Ronan discovered a damaged rune-covered slab bearing fragments about a failed forbidden experiment and collected the remaining pieces.
• Ronan found a box of refined energy stones, including three exceptionally valuable Space Energy Pearls, and stored them away.

Ronan uncovered a mysterious mark in the Mirror Garden and defeated a Thorn Palace wizard, only to be transported to the Echoing Light Corridor. Outside the Secret Realm, the gathered wizards recognized the silver orb at the corridor’s end as a Space Elemental Spirit and a Dawn Magical Item.

• Ronan retrieved a corroded metal ring from a waste trough, and it crumbled into a symbol that branded itself onto his palm.
• Debby told Ronan that Black Nightmare Swamp wizards had defeated him and taken his mission ring.
• Ronan escaped a spatial loop through a mirror and encountered a green-robed wizard from Thorn Palace on a rotating staircase.
• Ronan knocked the Thorn Palace wizard unconscious, took the contents of his Space Ring, and left him unable to continue the expedition.
• A spatial disturbance transported Ronan to the mirrored Echoing Light Corridor, where a voice announced the eighth inheritance.
• The wizards watching from outside the Secret Realm saw the silver orb and identified it as a Space Elemental Spirit and a Dawn Magical Item.

Ronan entered the Ancient Mirror Garden’s inheritance trial and discovered that the Echoing Light Corridor led to an arena where only one wizard from each platform could advance. After swiftly seizing his platform’s qualification rune, he challenged everyone there to fight for it.

• The four Third Level Wizards outside the secret realm suspected that the silver apparition was a Dawn Rank magical tool and wagered on which wizard it would choose.
• Ronan and the other expedition participants appeared in the Echoing Light Corridor, where their spells could not reach one another and Ronan raced ahead.
• The wizards were transported to eight mirrored platforms, and Ronan’s platform filled with nineteen participants from the four factions.
• The silver sphere announced that one person from each platform would advance by claiming its qualification rune, and a barrier enclosed the platform.
• Glenn demanded the other Silver Magic Ring wizards support his claim to lead, but Ronan seized the rune first and challenged everyone to fight for it.

Ronan used his artifact-enhanced ice magic to defeat fifteen second-level wizards and win his platform’s inheritance selection match. Outside the secret realm, Caloni learned that Ronan was the Arcane Circle’s sole victor and asked to see the battle replay.

• Ronan faced fifteen enemy wizards on the mirrored platform and equipped his magical artifacts as their spells converged on him.
• Ronan froze all fifteen opponents with his Ice Cold Domain while Glenn and the other two Arcane Circle wizards remained unharmed.
• Ronan summoned ice spikes against the opponents struggling to break free, and Glenn and his companions watched in astonishment.
• Caloni watched Clemens lose to a wizard from Molten Crystal Lake and learned that the rival carried a powerful family bloodline.
• The Green Robe Witch pointed out Ronan’s victory, and Caloni requested a replay of his battle.

Ronan defeated the remaining wizards on his platform with the Winter Homeland equipment, then entered the next inheritance-selection round and faced a Thorn Palace wizard. Outside the Mirror Garden, Clemens reflected on his defeat by the orange-gold-eyed youth and judged that youth’s bloodline stronger than Damien’s.

• Caloni and the Green Robe Witch speculated that Ronan was Aqi Duo’s hidden illegitimate son, and Caloni contacted Aqi Duo to ask about a woman he had met twenty years earlier.
• Ronan used Winter Homeland’s power to kill the last Black Nightmare Swamp wizard on his platform and collected the defeated wizards’ task rings.
• Ronan spotted Clemens beneath the foot of an orange-gold-eyed, fire-blooded youth, then watched the silver orb begin the next round of inheritance battles.
• The orange-gold-eyed youth tried to break through his silver barrier to reach Ronan, whose Ancient Frost Hydra Bloodline reacted with pain and agitation.
• Ronan was paired against a late second-level Thorn Palace wizard as eliminated competitors returned to Mirror Lake.
• Debby asked Clemens how the youth’s bloodline compared with Damien’s, and Clemens said Damien’s bloodline was inferior.

Ronan fought through the inheritance selection after the rules sealed everyone’s magic equipment, then faced Igor in the final match. When Igor provoked him over his frost bloodline, Ronan unleashed a terrifying ancient transformation and pinned him against the arena barrier, leaving the watching wizards speechless.

• The inheritance selection’s new rule sealed the contestants’ magic equipment, forcing Ronan and the other wizards to rely on their own abilities.
• Ronan froze the Thorn Palace wizard’s Ground Spike Balls with his ice domain, and the wizard surrendered after his remaining plant seeds were exhausted.
• After a fire attack engulfed Ronan’s platform, he struggled to suppress a violent transformation before facing a Black Nightmare Swamp wizard and defeating his insect swarm with Schubert’s Seven-Colored River.
• The Green Robe Witch warned Caloni that Ronan’s final opponent, Igor of Molten Crystal Lake, could badly injure him despite Ronan’s powerful Magic Domain techniques.
• Igor covered the merged arena in red-gold flames and taunted Ronan about his frost bloodline, but Ronan transformed, extinguished the flames, and seized Igor by the throat.

Ronan defeated Igor after the Ancient Frost Hydra Bloodline clashed with Igor’s Ancient Fire Demon Blood, then claimed a silver staff with the power to stasis space. He emerged from the secret realm, froze Mirror Lake and the surrounding wizards, but was immediately struck by a powerful spell.

• Ronan suppressed the Ancient Frost Hydra’s violent will and recalled seeing fire-spitting ants in the ancient era as Igor’s Fire Demon Blood awakened.
• Ronan overwhelmed Igor, repeatedly smashing him into the platform until the frost-covered battle ended with Igor badly injured and confused.
• Ronan discovered that the clash had accelerated his bloodline fusion, then approached the silver orb and took the Space Stasis Staff.
• The staff’s vast consciousness invaded Ronan’s Consciousness Space, but the Mirrorlight Rune Seal made it retreat, allowing Ronan to memorize the exposed core rune.
• Ronan emerged above Mirror Lake, and the staff froze the lake, airships, and gathered wizards in place.
• A spell chant of “Searle Alu Ancient Cave” broke the stasis and struck Ronan with immense Spiritual Power.

After the Mirror Garden trial, Ronan gained a spatial-energy seed that strengthened his Mirrorlight Rune Seal, then confronted the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent to subdue it through physical force. During their battle, his Ascetic Body Forging broke through and awakened the Ancient Power form.

• The Silver Staff saved Ronan from the Molten Crystal Lake Dawn Wizard’s attack, while silver light expanded his Spiritual Power and left a spatial-energy seed in his Consciousness Space.
• Ronan learned that the Silver Staff had deceived the explorers to escape the secret realm, and he resolved to grow strong enough to surpass powerful wizards such as Anglie and Orian.
• Ronan followed a soul mark into the mountains and faced the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, then fought it in his Half-Demonification state to make it submit.
• As Ronan prepared another strike, black runes emerged from his palms and awakened an ancient power within his body.
• Ronan checked his Character Panel and saw that Ascetic Body Forging had advanced to “Ancient Power.”

Ronan awakened Elementary Ancient Power through Ascetic Body Forging and used it to badly injure the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, then extracted its bloodline essence while trying to coax it into submission. Kosti revealed that the mark on Ronan’s hand was a coordinate linked to a shattered World Stone and warned him that it pointed toward a world associated with the Ancient Mirror Garden’s past calamity.

• Ronan discovered that the rune on his palm was Elementary Ancient Power and unleashed a punch that severely injured the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent.
• Ronan extracted the serpent’s bloodline essence and offered to purify its bloodline if it formally acknowledged him as its master.
• Kosti summoned Ronan and praised his performance, then warned him not to let others study his bloodline.
• Kosti reported that the Mirror Garden exploration had yielded two Dawn Rank magic tools, a complete [Space Mirror] Magic Inheritance, and a shattered World Stone.
• Ronan told Kosti about the mark on his hand, and she identified it as a World Stone coordinate pointing to an unknown world that may have caused the Ancient Mirror Garden to flee.
• Kosti warned Ronan to keep the coordinate secret and said it would have no effect without a World Stone.

Kosti told Ronan that the six great wizard factions would settle ownership of the Mirror Garden’s resources through a competition on the Goblin Plain, and Ronan agreed to participate for the rewards and a chance to claim the [Space Mirror] Magic Inheritance. He began preparing for the contest by training his spells, while the valley around him froze under the force of his practice.

• Kosti explained that each of the six great wizard factions would send ten members under one hundred soul years to compete in duels two months later on the Goblin Plain, with resources awarded by faction rankings.
• Kosti revealed that the [Space Mirror] Magic Inheritance and a chance at a mysterious higher-stage qualification were among the possible rewards, and Ronan agreed to compete.
• Ronan told Bennigo about the contest and tended to the restored Saint Blood Tree in the Micro Secret Realm Space.
• Ronan assessed the challenge of facing likely Third Level Wizard geniuses and felt excitement and anticipation rather than fear.
• Ronan practiced his combat spells while waiting for the Mirrorlight Rune to transform, and his growing ice power froze the waterfall and covered the valley in snow.

Two months after advancing his ice magic and strengthening his domains, Ronan traveled with Clemens and Debby to the Goblin Plain for the wizard genius competition. On the way, he learned about rival Ignatius and Anglie Leo, and heard that Travis had died in the Third Battlefield.

• Ronan reviewed his progress, including his resonant ice domains and the Silverization Rune’s slow fusion with spatial energy.
• Bennigo tested a Saint Blood Tree blood spore purified toward Gray Elf blood and found that it had eased his Soul Decay Syndrome.
• Ronan left the Micro Secret Realm Space and boarded a Magic Airship with Clemens and Debby, who were traveling as spectators to the competition.
• Clemens warned Ronan about Ignatius of Molten Crystal Lake, and Ronan recognized Anglie Leo’s name among the Black Nightmare Swamp contenders.
• Clemens and Debby told Ronan that Travis had died after the Third Battlefield released ancient spatial and mirror-type spell puppets.
• The airship reached the Goblin Plain, where Ronan looked over the landscape as Clemens remarked that goblins had once lived there.

Ronan, Clemens, and Debby discovered a possible symbol of the Ancient Wizard Revival Society on Goblin Plain before encountering Jupiter, the Thunder Council’s powerful young genius. At the competition grounds, Ronan searched for Anglie but instead spotted someone he never expected to see.

• Ronan and Clemens found a pattern made of rotten-flesh slime in a maple forest, and Debby identified it as possibly connected to the Ancient Wizard Revival Society.
• Jupiter flew past the group, and Clemens identified him as the Thunder Council’s foremost genius and a mid Third Level Wizard who had defeated Orian.
• After Ronan and the others left, black-robed figures emerged from the ground, and their leader reprimanded Lola for acting on her own; Lola revealed her marked face and cursed the Thunder Council.
• Ronan secretly considered whether his abilities could let him fight Jupiter as the group continued to the competition grounds.
• At the venue, Clemens left to report the suspected society symbol, while Ronan found Jupiter and then spotted an unexpected familiar figure as he searched for Anglie.