Chapter Summaries

While preparing the competition grounds, Ronan reunited with Jerome and learned what had happened to Hoddam Academy and Lola after the Crimson Tower invasion. Ronan joined the Silver Magic Ring delegation as the competition began, while Caloni and Aqi Duo suspected his mysterious bloodline connected him to Shelby.

• Jerome recognized Ronan while they worked on the arena, and the two caught up about Hoddam Academy, Goya, and Lola's fall from Thorn Palace.
• Ronan thanked Jerome for the map by giving him a Storage Waist Pouch, then left as a Molten Crystal Lake wizard took Jerome for questioning about their private meeting.
• Ronan returned to the Silver Magic Ring camp, saw Orian watching his rival Jupiter, and met Aqi Duo, master of the Fourth Arcane Circle.
• After Ronan left, Aqi Duo and Caloni discussed his resemblance to Aqi Duo and wondered whether his powerful bloodline made him Shelby's descendant.
• As night fell, four competition arenas stood ready, and ten people from each faction stepped forward.

Ronan defeated a Black Nightmare Swamp wizard in the competition and realized he needed to stop letting Anglie dominate his thoughts. As the matches continued, he studied the other factions’ leading figures and noticed something sinister surrounding Rufus of Crimson Tower.

• The six Dawn Days’ sphere paired Ronan with Bartrand Crow, and Ronan flew to Arena Four as Ignatius and Anglie watched from the stands.
• Ronan unleashed One Segment Magic Domain Resonance and his peerless Absolute Freeze ice blade, swiftly defeating Bartrand Crow and leaving him frozen and kneeling.
• After the match, Ronan reflected on his obsession with proving himself against Anglie, then relaxed and greeted him; Anglie was surprised by the friendly gesture.
• Anglie called Ronan an expendable appetizer and revealed a tiny pattern of six overlapping rings on his fingernails, with the lower three rings decayed and incomplete.
• Clemens told Ronan that the Arcane Circle would investigate the Ancient Wizard Revival Society, while Ronan watched the remaining matches and assessed the factions’ leading figures.
• Ronan observed that Jupiter focused much of his attention on Rufus, Crimson Tower’s quiet representative, and sensed a savage, ancient pattern forming behind him from scarlet veins.

Orian defeated Gatuso in the first clash between Third Level Wizards, prompting Ronan to reflect on how Magic Domain mastery and spell choices shaped a wizard’s combat system. The second round began with Ronan drawn against Damien Ando, Thorn Palace’s Third Level leading figure, and he entered the arena despite Caloni warning him not to force a victory.

• Gatuso used a Magic Domain derived from a low-level spell against Orian, but Orian broke through with his Four-Colored Composite Spell and forced Gatuso to concede.
• Ronan concluded that low-level spells and their Magic Domains remained worth developing, while a wizard’s combat system should be refined as their strength grew.
• The first round ended, and the second round began with only three Silver Magic Ring contestants remaining: Orian, Ronan, and another Arcane Circle wizard.
• Ronan was matched against Damien Ando, a Third Level Wizard and Thorn Palace’s leading figure.
• Caloni told Ronan to do his best without forcing a win, while admitting he could not judge Ronan’s chances against Damien.

Ronan faced Damien Ando, a Third Level Wizard, in the competition and revealed the overwhelming power of his ice spells and Magic Domains. After Ronan froze the arena and prepared to strike, Damien broke free but unexpectedly conceded, leaving Ronan confused about his opponent’s motives.

• Ronan equipped the complete Winter Homeland Artifact Set and attacked Damien with an enhanced Small Blizzard, but Damien blocked it with a third-circle defensive spell.
• Ronan summoned his resonant Ice Blade, but Damien’s Thorn Rabbit Silk filaments ensnared it and pierced Ronan’s armor.
• Ronan revealed three First Resonance Magic Domains and used Multiple Mirror Lights to replicate his spells, startling Damien and the spectators.
• Damien activated Nature’s Protection and empowered his filaments, scattering Ronan’s surrounding spells.
• Ronan superimposed nine Magic Domains to unleash the Tundra Domain, freezing the arena and trapping Damien in ice.
• Ronan charged at Damien with a spear as Damien broke free, but Damien retreated and conceded despite apparently having strength left.

Ronan advanced to the top eight of the competition, where Anglie vanished after revealing his bloodline and telling Ronan to meet him at the Southern Wizard Genius Gathering. Anglie’s departure triggered a catastrophic assault on the arena, leaving Jupiter gravely wounded as a gray sun began to swallow the Dawn Days.

• Ronan told Caloni and Aqi Duo that Damien had surrendered before Ronan could fully defeat him, but he remained suspicious of the circumstances.
• Ronan received a bye in the third round and advanced to the top eight alongside Orian of the Arcane Circle.
• The draw paired Ronan against Anglie, who revealed a powerful bloodline and stopped Ronan’s attack with an invisible force.
• Anglie disappeared after warning Ronan not to die before their next meeting at the Southern Wizard Genius Gathering.
• A massive battle erupted across the arena, Jupiter appeared with a fatal wound, and a gray sun began swallowing the six Dawn Days as crowds chanted an eerie incantation.

The Ancient Wizard Revival Society attacked the Fighting Arena, using a spatial magical item to divide the battlefield and trap the factions’ wizards. Ignatius confronted Ronan for the World Stone coordinates, and Ronan answered by revealing a fused Magic Domain and unleashing Hecalto’s Death Gaze.

• A Third Level Wizard rescued Jupiter as wizards across the Fighting Arena turned on one another and black-robed Resurrection Society members joined the battle.
• Ronan discovered that a spatial array divided the battlefield into isolated sections, and he learned that the Society knew he carried World Stone coordinates.
• Ignatius killed a Third Level Wizard and devoured his soul before joining Damien and other Society members to hunt Ronan.
• Ignatius approached Ronan despite Damien warning that Lola wanted to kill him personally, and Ronan stayed to face them after finding a way out of the spatial prison.
• Ignatius filled the arena with fire and lava, while Ronan fused three Magic Domains into Hecalto’s Death Gaze and opened his eye against him.

Ronan killed Ignatius and Damien with the fused power of three Law Domains, then escaped the isolated Fighting Arena using the Mirror Dagger. His appearance in another space exposed him as a target of the [Resurrection Society], and the ensuing distraction reignited a battle with the Thunder Council.

• Ronan used the fused Law Domains and Hecalto's Eye to kill Ignatius and Damien, then recovered two Space Rings from Damien's remains.
• Damien's silver cube shattered, separating the Independent Spaces and leaving Ronan alone on the Goblin Plain.
• Ronan concluded the Mirror Dagger could help him move between spaces and teleported away, regretting that he had not used Hecalto's Death Gaze on Anglie.
• Ronan appeared in a space where the Thunder Council was confronting two [Resurrection Society] members, and one black-robed figure attacked him.
• Ronan escaped again with the Mirror Dagger, prompting the black-robed figures to recognize him as the coordinate and one to pursue him.
• The Thunder Council's middle-aged wizard attacked the remaining black-robed figure, restarting their battle.

Ronan faced Lola and eleven other [Resurrection Society] Third Level Wizards, survived their combined attack, and defeated Lola in his Complete Demonification state. Elsewhere, the [Resurrection Society]’s Dark Head discussed the World Stone and the failed search for its coordinates at Molten Crystal Lake.

• Ronan used the Mirror Dagger to escape a shifting Independent Space and returned to the Fighting Arena, realizing the [Resurrection Society] was pursuing him for the World Stone coordinates.
• Twelve [Resurrection Society] Black Robe Wizards surrounded Ronan, and Lola revealed herself as a Third Level Wizard and ordered the others to attack him.
• The wizards bombarded Ronan with Third Level spells, but Ronan emerged in his Complete Demonification state and punched Lola apart.
• Lola reassembled herself from the blood mist, while Ronan reminded her that he had killed her twice and challenged the remaining wizards to fight him.
• The Dark Head learned that the Molten Crystal Lake branch had failed to retrieve the coordinates and that Salanchi and Lola had gone there, then stressed the importance of securing the World Stone.

Ronan transformed into his Complete Demonification state and fought the Resurrection Society wizards, killing two while Lola escaped. He used the spatial map revealed by the silver energy seed to navigate the cage, then encountered Rufus in a Flesh Monster form.

• Under pressure from twelve Third Level Wizards, Ronan entered Complete Demonification and killed one wizard, whose substitute-death method let him survive.
• Ronan killed another wizard, but Lola escaped through a spatial rift with a golden ball of light after a Resurrection Society wizard delayed Ronan.
• Ronan escaped the Fighting Arena with the Mirror Dagger, while Salanchi ordered the others to report to Dark Head and use Lola as bait.
• Ronan discovered that the silver energy seed showed him a rotating map of the Dawn Magical Item's spatial cage, then used it to choose where he teleported.
• In a blood-soaked Independent Space, Ronan clashed with a giant Flesh Monster and recognized the exposed figure as Rufus.

Ronan was trapped in a larger Cube Space prison and confronted the [Resurrection Society] Dark Head, a half-step Dawn wizard. Near death from the Dark Head’s Aging curse, Ronan feigned surrender before shattering his Bloodline Crystal and heartwood to unleash a new surge of power.

• Ronan encountered Rufus after Rufus killed several [Resurrection Society] wizards, then used the Mirror Dagger to continue navigating the Cube Space.
• Ronan intercepted Lola and took the heartwood of the Innocuous Wood, but an unseen hand seized and destroyed her soul.
• The [Resurrection Society] expanded the prison and trapped Ronan with the Dark Head and the other Black Robe wizards, preventing him from escaping through space.
• Ronan attacked the Dark Head with Complete Demonification and Schubert's Seven-Colored River, but the Dark Head blocked his attacks and inflicted an Aging curse.
• As the Cube Space began collapsing, Ronan pretended he would join the [Resurrection Society] in exchange for sparing his life.
• Ronan ate the heartwood, shattered his Bloodline Crystal and heart, and unleashed a tremendous surge of power as he challenged the Dark Head again.

Ronan awakened as Hecalto during the collapse of the Resurrection Society’s spatial prisons, then struggled against the Ancient Frost Hydra’s will after returning to Bennigo’s valley. The Goblin Plain battle sparked upheaval across the southern wizard factions, while Bennigo tried to preserve Ronan’s will through a bloodline purification ritual.

• Ronan’s will was overwhelmed by an ancient presence, and he declared himself Hecalto as he emerged from the orb of light.
• The spatial prisons collapsed, and Hecalto pierced the Resurrection Society’s Black Robe Dark Head before vanishing amid the Dawn-level wizards’ attack.
• Bennigo sensed danger from a cracked hourglass, then saw Hecalto arrive in the valley and force the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent to submit.
• Hecalto briefly regained control and asked Bennigo to prepare a Second Bloodline Purification ritual; Bennigo used the Saint Blood Tree and the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent’s blood to sustain the struggle between their wills.
• The aftermath of Goblin Plain exposed the Ancient Wizard Revival Society’s deep infiltration, with rebellions, deaths, severe injuries, and losses across the southern factions.
• One month later, a notice stated that the author had health problems and was recovering while preparing for a long battle.

After returning to the Silver Magic Ring, Ronan proved his loyalty, had his World Stone coordinate extracted, and learned about Helamus’s legendary Talent Seat contest, which would begin in three years. Kosti then told him the Ring Lords planned to reward and compensate him for his actions and the dangers he faced.

• The Circle Lords ordered the Arcane Circle to hunt defectors from the Ancient Wizard Revival Society, and Kosti announced that Ronan had returned.
• Ronan met Kosti, signed a new Soul Contract, and heard her account of the infiltration and betrayals discovered after the battle at Goblin Plain.
• Kosti extracted Ronan’s Coordinate Mark, though Ronan sensed that a thin layer remained inside his body.
• Ronan asked Kosti about Helamus’s chief Talent Seat, and she explained Helamus’s legend and the southern contest scheduled to begin in three years.
• Kosti warned that Ronan would need to reach Level Three to receive an invitation and face powerful young wizards from across the south.
• Kosti told Ronan that the Ring Lords would grant him rewards and compensation for his performance and the risks connected to the World Stone coordinate.

Kosti took Ronan to the Arcane Circle’s Inheritance Imprint Space, where he received the Mirror Soul spell and gained access to four elemental inheritance spaces. Ronan entered the ice space to refine his combat system and address the hidden danger in his bloodline, while Kosti stayed behind to challenge the Circle’s treatment of him.

• Kosti explained the Arcane Circle’s origins, its search for the Mirror of Emptiness, and the principles behind the Omnipotent Magic Ring inheritance as she brought Ronan to the metal ring above the towers.
• Kosti revealed that the Arcane Circle had exceptionally opened its core Inheritance Imprint Space to Ronan because of the World Stone coordinates, then sent him inside.
• Ronan found a Rune Stone addressed to him and learned the unranked Mirror Soul spell could create a temporary summoned creature by copying a spell medium.
• Ronan tested the eight elemental doors and found he could enter the Metal Element, ice, earth, and Energy Affinity spaces.
• Kosti accused unseen authorities of treating Ronan’s supposed compensation as imprisonment and vowed to keep fighting for the compensation Damien deserved.
• Ronan chose the ice-element space so he could work uninterrupted on his combat system and the hidden danger in his bloodline.

Ronan examined the Ancient Frost Hydra bloodline he had fused into his body and recognized that its lingering will could still overwhelm him. He explored the Arcane Circle’s ice-element inheritance space and realized it could aid his secluded cultivation.

• Ronan saw that his Character Panel showed 1% Ancient Frost Hydra Bloodline and that his strength had risen to 40% of Second Level Formal Wizard.
• Ronan found the Ancient Frost Hydra’s remnant will sealed deep in his Consciousness Space and concluded that he had to avoid further fusion or using its power while he slowly weakened it.
• Ronan briefly activated the bloodline, transforming his eyes and hair and drawing a vast surge of ice-element energy toward himself, then stopped before the power reached its peak.
• Ronan walked deeper into the inheritance space and formed Frost Spears from its dense ice-element particles.
• Ronan inferred that the space simulated an ancient environment for spell practice and Arcane Circle comprehension, making it a suitable place for secluded cultivation.

Ronan used the cultivation room to strengthen his spells, study runes, and advance his Spiritual Power with rare resources from Kosti. After mastering Living Steel and discovering space-like effects in his Silverization Rune, he emerged to find Orian waiting in the room.

• Ronan found that the inheritance spaces accelerated his spell training and resolved to prioritize Ascetic Body Forging while studying the room’s extensive rune collection.
• Porby visited on Kosti’s behalf and delivered potions, including Meditation Worm larvae, which helped Ronan raise his Second Level Wizard progress from 40% to 42%.
• Ronan settled into a quiet routine of meditation, spell practice, body forging, and rune research, eventually mastering Living Steel.
• Ronan discovered that the space energy seed altered his Silverization Rune, giving his metal spells occasional space-like effects, and considered using the Dawn Rank staff’s core rune to uncover more of its power.
• Ronan left the metal-element inheritance space and found Orian reading at the table; Orian greeted him and offered him something to drink.

After three years of secluded cultivation in the Arcane Circle’s attic, Ronan advanced to the late Second Level Wizard stage, overcame several obstacles, and befriended a dust elf named Arrietty. He left seclusion to find the Arcane Circle changing and asked Kosti how soon the Southern Wizard Genius Gathering would begin.

• Orian visited Ronan, described the chaos following the Ancient Wizard Revival Society’s exposure, and said his fight with Rufus had been inconclusive; Ronan declined Orian’s offer to spar because he could not safely use his powers.
• Ronan recorded three years of progress in his diary, strengthening his spells and bloodline abilities, nearly eliminating Hecalto’s residual will, and eventually breaking through a Spiritual Power plateau, though he still lacked the Soul Power needed to reach the Third Level.
• Ronan befriended a female dust elf, named her Arrietty, and invited her to leave with him when he was finally allowed out of the ascetic chamber at age twenty-one.
• Kosti welcomed Ronan back after his seclusion, and Ronan saw that the Arcane Circle was building an eighth tower for a former Thorn Palace wizard.
• Kosti asked how close Ronan was to the Third Level; Ronan said he was still far away and asked how long remained before the Southern Wizard Genius Gathering.

Kosti gave Ronan Soul Power potions and a key to the Mechanical Heart Ruins, where Schubert’s legacy awaited, and urged him to travel south for the wizard gathering. After preparing to leave, Ronan used the Eye of Truth to enter the Mysterious Garden and began testing his plan to break its maze of spatial Teleportation Arrays.

• Kosti gave Ronan two Soul Power potions and Schubert’s Marvelous Mystery Box, which served as a key to the Mechanical Heart Ruins, and explained that the genius gathering would begin in about four months.
• Ronan returned to his room, found letters from Orian and his friends in Restwind Harbor, and received an engagement invitation for Lier from Daimien Earldom.
• Ronan drank Kosti’s potions, raising his Strength Progress to 189%, and departed the Arcane Circle while Kosti watched him leave.
• Ronan used the Master-level Eye of Truth to locate the entrance to the Mysterious Garden Secret Realm and clearly see its spatial Teleportation Arrays.
• Ronan entered the garden after three years of studying spatial and mirror spells, then summoned Living Steel to begin breaking the maze.

Ronan defeated the warped humanoid guarding the Mystic Garden and discovered that its hidden rune could help him create a powerful new spatial spell. After the garden collapsed, he found a genuine silver key in the void, suggesting another layer of the Garden Realm remained beyond what he had uncovered.

• Ronan used his modified Silverization Rune to halt the warped humanoid and tear a silver light ball from its body.
• The light ball revealed a complex rune whose spatial-shattering power gave Ronan a new direction for modifying his spells.
• Ronan combined spatial teleportation, stagnation, and shattering into a new rune called Space Silvering, and named its attack [Shattered Silver].
• Ronan considered applying spatial stagnation and shattering to his Tundra Frozen Earth Rune and Ice Cold Domain, despite the temporary loss of Soul Power and Spiritual Power that rune modifications caused.
• The Mystic Garden collapsed into a black void, and Ronan found a silver key made from a spatial-attribute material floating at its center.

Ronan returned from the destroyed Mysterious Garden Secret Realm with a mysterious spatial key and prepared to travel, while Bennigo warned him that the growing Saint Blood Tree needed a hidden home and a population of kin. Ronan left with the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, which challenged him to a fight, as Orian joined a desperate battle against Andariel near the Fairy Ancient City.

• Ronan escaped the collapsing Mysterious Garden Secret Realm with a spatial key and received Kosti's warning about the Ancient Wizard Revival Society.
• Ronan returned to Bennigo's Micro Secret Realm Space and learned that the Saint Blood Tree needed a suitable environment and Saint Blood Kin to mature.
• Ronan departed with the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, which had grown into a Third Level Magic Beast and challenged him to fight; Ronan attacked it as they traveled.
• Orian received word that someone had arrived, then joined several young wizards in besieging Andariel above ancient ruins.
• Andariel overpowered the attackers with Nether Ghosts and threatened to kill them, but Orian charged forward in a burst of crystal-like radiance.

Jupiter emerged from a lightning trial and set out to reclaim the Helamus Genius Seat, while Venus and her strange young master hunted Rufus. Elsewhere, Ronan crossed the wasteland on an Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent, leaving two wizards to flee in awe of the coming contest among prodigies.

• Jupiter completed his lightning transformation and left after the voice in the Giant Peak ordered him to reclaim his lost glory and claim the Helamus seat.
• Venus and her dirt-like young master pursued Rufus across the black plain, forcing him to gather the blood clouds into a scarlet vortex and swell with power.
• Martin recruited Rolls to track a damaged puppet goat that might lead them to the Mechanical Heart, but an Ancient Ice Crystal Magic Serpent interrupted their divination.
• Ronan rode the serpent past Martin and Rolls, whose fear of its hunger left them convinced that death was near.
• After the two wizards escaped, Ronan reminded the Ice Crystal Magic Serpent that it could only eat wizards with his permission.