Chapter Summaries

Andres watched Yasen defeat Abad in a sparring match and gained a breakthrough in the Swiftness Profound Mystery. Yasen welcomed the young geniuses to the Holy Alliance, while Abad went to settle the conflict between Andres and Gallo.

• Andres recognized Yasen and learned that Yasen possessed Wind Lower God Talent, while Trevor explained that Abad had challenged Yasen despite being far from the Saint Domain's limit.
• Abad attacked Yasen with a strengthened flame technique, but Yasen's Sword Storm wore away his flames and stopped his greatsword.
• Watching Yasen's sword phantoms gave Andres an inspiration, and he entered the beginner stage of the Swiftness Profound Mystery.
• Yasen and Abad praised Andres's comprehension of Drawing Upon Heaven and Earth, and Yasen asked Abad to speak with Patur about Andres's conflict with Gallo.
• Yasen urged Andres and Inori to cultivate for the Human Race and encouraged Teresa to help the Goblin Merchant Guild cooperate with it.
• Yasen sent Trevor to guide the young geniuses through joining the Holy Alliance, while Abad went to find Patur.

Andres, Inori, and Teresa joined the Holy Alliance and learned about the Cadet Ranking and the upcoming Sacred Tree Fruit Contest. Andres decided to compete for the remaining contest slot, which could help him strengthen his Battle Qi and earn a Space Ring.

• Trevor escorted Andres, Inori, and Teresa to the Life Elf Race’s administrative building and completed their trainee registration.
• Trevor explained that the Cadet Ranking recognized the Holy Alliance’s ten most promising trainees and offered a God-level expert’s guidance and a Space Ring.
• Trevor told Andres that the Sacred Tree Fruit Contest had one remaining slot on the Elves’ side, formerly held by Patur, and that the fruit could address Andres’s weakness in Battle Qi.
• Andres, Inori, and Teresa received their trainee badges and booklets, then read the booklets in the hall after Trevor left.
• Andres decided he would compete for the contest slot and the chance to earn a Space Ring.

Andres and his companions chose residences at the Holy Alliance, where Matos offered to assist them on Ivan’s behalf. After learning that Andres had injured Gallo, Patur considered retaliation, but Abad urged him to let the feud end for the sake of the Human Race.

• Andres learned that Richard, ranked fifth on the Cadet Ranking, was favored to claim the final Elven slot in the upcoming Sacred Tree Fruit Contest.
• Andres, Teresa, and Inori registered for residences in the Human Race district with help from Matos, who had been sent by Ivan.
• Patur received Gallo’s account of his conflict with Andres and became furious that Andres had injured his son.
• Patur recognized that Andres’s potential and Trevor’s approval would make retaliation difficult, then welcomed Abad, who urged him to put the Human Race’s interests first.
• Patur agreed with Abad that the score between Gallo and Andres was settled and that the conflict should end.

Patur planned to keep Andres from obtaining the Sacred Tree Fruit after Abad left, then met Borg, a Goblin Merchant Guild director seeking to borrow his Mithril. Borg appealed to Patur’s opposition to Andres becoming a Saint Domain expert, but Patur’s decision about the deal remained unresolved.

• After Abad left, Patur resented him for disciplining Andres and planned to delay Andres’s advancement by keeping him from the Sacred Tree Fruit.
• Patur received Borg, a regional director of the Goblin Merchant Guild, who asked to borrow his Mithril.
• Borg explained that Yulian needed Mithril to become a Saint Domain expert and that recruiting him could improve Borg’s Guild ranking.
• Patur refused, saying the Mithril was meant for his own weapon, but Borg claimed he had a source of Mithril that would take too long to reach.
• Borg revealed that Andres had joined Ivan’s merchant association and warned that Andres’s advancement could cause Ivan to overtake him in the Guild rankings.
• Borg appealed to Patur’s desire to stop Andres from becoming a Saint Domain expert and urged him to cooperate.

Andres created the sword technique Wind's Chaotic Shadow and prepared to challenge Richard for a place in the Sacred Tree Fruit Contest. He learned that Yulian had already applied to challenge Richard first, while Patur secretly agreed to cooperate with Borg against Andres.

• Patur agreed to secretly help Borg arrange for Yulian to obtain Mithril and challenge Andres for the final Sacred Tree Fruit Contest slot, in exchange for a Mithril weapon within a year.
• After seven days of training, Andres used his new understanding of the Profound Mystery of Swiftness to create Wind's Chaotic Shadow.
• Andres decided to challenge Richard so he could claim the final contest slot and help Teresa compete for a Sacred Tree Fruit.
• Matos gave Andres information showing that Richard was a powerful Centaur archer, but Andres believed his superior realm and speed gave him a chance to win.
• Matos told Andres that Yulian had already applied to challenge Richard, and their match would take place in seven days.

Andres went to the Battle Arena to watch Yulian challenge Richard, hoping to study the fight before making his own challenge. The Saint Realm experts arrived as Yulian and Richard took their places, and the battle was about to begin.

• Andres learned that Yulian had absorbed a Stone-Devouring Beast's Magic Crystal Core and wondered whether his strength had improved.
• Andres traveled to the Battle Arena, where trainees discussed his reputation and compared him to Creig.
• Andres watched Yulian and Richard enter the ring and learned that Yulian had fewer supporters because his Druid Elf clan was small.
• Saint Realm experts descended into the ring to oversee the battle.

Andres watched Yulian and Richard’s Holy Alliance match, where Richard initially wore down Yulian’s Stone-Devouring Beast form with arrows. Yulian suddenly gained a Mithril-strengthened defense, and Matos suspected Borg had helped him obtain the ore needed to advance toward the Saint Realm.

• Andres met the arriving Saint Realm experts Trevor, Patur, and Bart before Bart officially began the match.
• Yulian transformed into a Ninth Rank Stone-Devouring Beast, and Richard’s arrows pierced his body without lasting damage because its outer stone could be restored.
• Richard kept his distance and attacked Yulian continuously, aiming to exhaust the power sustaining his stone body.
• Yulian’s body turned silver, and Richard’s arrows broke against it instead of piercing through.
• Matos told Andres that Yulian was likely absorbing Mithril and suspected Borg had helped him gather it, then explained the rivalry between Borg and Ivan.

Yulian defeated Richard and rose to first place in the Cadet Ranking, prompting concern that Andres would struggle to qualify for the Sacred Tree Fruit Contest. Despite Trevor offering to seek another way to obtain a fruit, Andres remained determined to challenge Yulian and formally applied to the Holy Alliance.

• Matos explained that Borg had gathered mithril to help Yulian reach the Saint Realm, while Andres judged that Yulian’s strength did not trouble him.
• Yulian used his physical advantage to defeat Richard, whose attacks could not penetrate Yulian’s defenses.
• Patur watched Trevor leave to find Andres and remarked that Yulian’s strength would make it difficult for Andres to enter the Sacred Tree Fruit Contest.
• Trevor warned Andres that defeating Yulian would be difficult and offered to ask Yasen to find a Sacred Tree Fruit for him.
• Andres insisted that he would challenge Yulian because he needed to win two fruits, one for Teresa as well as one for himself.
• Yulian rose to first place in the Cadet Ranking, and Andres formally applied to the Holy Alliance to challenge him.

Andres arrived at the Battle Arena to face Yulian, confident after raising his Battle Qi to the Ninth Rank and deepening his understanding of Swiftness. As Rhode began the match, Andres discovered a quest tied to Rhode’s Water Element talent, and the fight started with Yulian transforming into a Stone-Devouring Beast.

• Andres met Matos, Teresa, and Inori before the battle and said he was completely confident.
• Andres recalled that he had reached the Ninth Rank and improved his Profound Mystery of Swiftness during a month of training.
• Andres and Yulian arrived at the crowded Battle Arena as Saint Realm experts gathered to watch.
• Trevor praised the prospect of Andres joining the top of the Cadet Ranking, while Patur expected Yulian to win after his recent improvement.
• Rhode arrived to referee, and Andres discovered a quest requiring him to help Rhode win Lulutia’s heart in exchange for a choice of talents.
• Rhode started the battle, and Yulian transformed into a Stone-Devouring Beast as Andres drew his flexible sword.

Andres fought Yulian in the arena after revealing that he had reached the Ninth Rank, but Yulian transformed into a silver humanoid with overwhelming physical strength and resisted his attacks. The battle remained evenly matched until Andres’s flexible sword snapped.

• Andres used Drawing Upon Heaven and Earth to cleave Yulian’s Stone-Devouring Beast body in two, revealing his Ninth Rank strength.
• Yulian transformed into a silver humanoid and charged at Andres with greatly enhanced physical power.
• Andres blocked Yulian’s repeated punches, but his sword only left shallow marks on Yulian’s body.
• Andres and Yulian continued fighting without either gaining a decisive advantage.
• Andres’s flexible sword snapped during the battle.

Andres defeated Yulian after his soft sword broke by using the Profundity of Swiftness, revealing that he had begun comprehending Law Profundity. Rhode stopped Andres from striking Yulian’s exposed Core Heart, then declared Andres the winner.

• Andres's soft sword broke, and the spectators and Human Saint Realm experts feared he would lose, though Lord Yasen remained confident in his potential.
• Yulian charged at Andres, who stopped holding back and used the Profundity of Swiftness through his broken sword.
• Andres unleashed Wind's Chaotic Shadow, cutting Yulian into pieces and exposing the Stone-Devouring Beast's Core Heart.
• Rhode landed beside Andres and stopped him from attacking Yulian further, and Andres sheathed his sword.
• Yulian reassembled himself and returned to his original form, admitting defeat, and Rhode announced Andres as the winner.

After Andres defeated Yulian and claimed the top spot on the Cadet Ranking, Yasen offered to guide his cultivation. Patur then sought the Beastmen’s help to kill Andres, but they refused and planned to recruit him instead.

• Rhode announced Andres’s victory over Yulian, and the Human Race Saint Realm experts congratulated Andres on becoming number one on the Cadet Ranking.
• Andres told Yasen that he had first gained insight into the Profound Mystery of “Swiftness” after watching Yasen and Abad fight, and Yasen invited him to study together.
• Trainees crowded around Andres after the Saint Realm experts left, but Matos helped him escape.
• Patur secretly met a Beastmen representative in a hidden stronghold and offered to do one thing for them if they killed Andres.
• The Beastmen representative refused, explaining that they intended to recruit Andres and would consider killing him only if recruitment failed.
• Patur left, pleased by the possibility that Andres might join the Beastmen and become a target of the Elves side.

Andres trained with Yasen, who guided him in applying the Profundity of Swiftness and considered Andres's advice on overcoming his cultivation bottleneck. As the contest for the Sacred Tree Fruit approached, Inori tried to grow closer to Andres, but he kept his distance; the contest day arrived.

• Andres sparred with Yasen, who helped him develop ways to use the Profundity of Swiftness to improve his speed.
• Andres suggested that exploring other Profundities of the Wind Elemental Law might help Yasen break through his bottleneck.
• Andres returned home, where Inori brought him apple pie and shared a meal with him.
• Over the following month, Inori visited Andres for meals and cultivation discussions, while Andres remained wary and kept an appropriate distance.
• The day of the contest for the Sacred Tree Fruit arrived.

Andres joined four other elven experts in the Sacred Tree Fruit Contest, where they found three fruits beneath the Sacred Tree and were confronted by the Beastmen's team. The Blood Elf leader took the fruits, and Andres launched an attack to reclaim them.

• Rhode named Andres the elves' leader and brought him and four other Level Nine Experts to the Sacred Tree island.
• The five elves reached the Sacred Tree and spotted three Sacred Tree Fruits among its branches.
• Five Beastmen appeared, led by a Blood Elf Male, and claimed the fruits for their side.
• The Blood Elf Male collected and stored all three fruits, so Andres charged at him to take them back.

Andres pursued the Blood Elf Male, who offered him a share of the Sacred Tree Fruits if he joined the Beastmen. The Blood Elf Male told him that Yasen had killed the human genius Creig over a family dispute, but Andres refused to join and attacked him to claim the fruit.

• Andres chased the Blood Elf Male through the Sacred Tree’s branches as the other fighters disappeared from view.
• The Blood Elf Male offered Andres a share of the three Sacred Tree Fruits if he joined the Beastmen and said they valued strength above status.
• The Blood Elf Male revealed that Yasen had killed Creig after Creig killed Yasen’s son, Alexei, and that human Saints had suppressed the story.
• The Blood Elf Male urged Andres not to repeat Creig’s mistake, but Andres refused to join the Beastmen.
• Andres drew his flexible sword and attacked the Blood Elf Male to obtain the Sacred Tree Fruit.

Andres chased the Blood Elf Male to stop him from escaping with the Sacred Tree Fruit, while Theodore arrived with undead creatures to help. Theodore then betrayed Andres and badly wounded him, and Andres pretended to accept the Blood Elf Male’s offer while preparing to make one last move.

• The Blood Elf Male tried to flee the island, and Andres pursued him to keep him from taking the Sacred Tree Fruit beyond the beastmen’s protection.
• A Golden Skeleton attacked the Blood Elf Male, and Theodore joined Andres with two Corpse Weapons made from beastmen.
• Theodore explained that he had summoned the Golden Skeleton with Necromantic Summoning and used the Death Puppet Technique to make the Corpse Weapons.
• As Andres attacked the Blood Elf Male, Theodore struck him from behind and inflicted a severe wound.
• The Blood Elf Male revealed that Theodore was their planted agent and offered Andres a share of the Sacred Tree Fruit if he joined them.
• Andres concealed that he could still make one more move and flatly agreed to join them, demanding the Sacred Tree Fruit.

Andres killed the Blood Elf Male, seized the Sacred Tree Fruits, and ate one to break into the Saint Domain. As he pursued the fleeing Theodore, a God-level expert named Belam intervened and froze them both, triggering a system quest for Andres to help Belam regain his freedom.

• The Blood Elf Male and his companions attacked Andres, but Andres used his speed to kill the Blood Elf Male and take his Space Ring.
• Andres found three Sacred Tree Fruits in the ring and swallowed one while Theodore and the remaining Beastman attacked him.
• The fruit restored Andres's Battle Qi and made him a Saint Domain expert, so he took to the air and pursued Theodore.
• A God-level expert froze Andres and Theodore with his Divine Domain, then descended before them.
• The system identified the expert as Belam and gave Andres a quest to break Belam's Master-Servant Contract.

Andres learned that Belam was bound by a Master-Servant Contract and watched Belam confront Lulutia, an elf with extraordinary talent who had no Binding Quest. Lulutia questioned Theodore about betraying the clan, and he said he had done it to grow stronger and survive.

• Andres considered who Belam’s master might be and realized the Binding Quest to free Belam could be difficult to complete.
• Belam restrained Andres for breaking the contest rules, but Lulutia intervened with her Divine Domain and freed him.
• Theodore fled from Andres and thanked Belam for his protection.
• Andres learned that the elf was Lulutia, the woman Rhode loved, and discovered her Seven-star Demon level Death and Life talents and lack of a Binding Quest.
• Lulutia asked Theodore whether the clan had mistreated him, and Theodore denied it before saying he had betrayed the clan to grow stronger and survive.

Theodore explained that he betrayed the elves to pursue the strength he needed to become a Saint, and the God-level experts ended the contest for the Sacred Tree Fruits. Andres returned to the Holy Alliance as a newly recognized Saint Realm expert, where a banquet drew powerful figures eager to negotiate for his remaining fruits.

• Theodore told Andres that elven restrictions had prevented him from pursuing death magic freely, so he joined the Beastmen to seek a breakthrough before old age.
• Lulutia declared the contest over and left, while Belam and Theodore departed in the opposite direction.
• Andres returned to the shore, congratulated Rhode and the others, and traveled with them back to the Holy Alliance.
• The Human Race held a banquet for Andres, and influential guests crowded around him to offer congratulations and seek alliances or marriage connections.
• Yasen intervened to ease Andres's discomfort, then a Saint Realm expert asked what he planned to do with the two Sacred Tree Fruits he had left.

Andres refused to trade his two remaining Sacred Tree Fruits, keeping one for Teresa and hoping to exchange the other for resources. After rejecting Inori’s advances, he asked the Goblin Merchant Guild to acquire mithril for a sword and offered a Sacred Tree Fruit in return.

• Andres told the gathered Saint Realm experts that he would not trade either of his remaining Sacred Tree Fruits.
• Andres returned to his residence, where Inori tried to draw closer to him, but he calmly rejected her advances.
• Matos told Andres that Ivan planned to visit Holy Alliance City to congratulate him on becoming a Saint Realm expert.
• Andres asked Matos to use the Goblin Merchant Guild’s resources to acquire mithril for a Mithril Softsword.
• Andres showed Matos a Sacred Tree Fruit as an offer in exchange for the mithril.