Chapter Summaries

William learned that Herlam had died and that the young Lynn now ruled Iyetar, where new inventions and valuable glass goods were being produced. While William ordered a ship to investigate changes in the Sea of Mists, glassware became a sensation in the Hadratta Kingdom and fueled the rivalry between the princes.

• Cody told William that Herlam had died in a disaster in Iyetar and that Lynn, a young wizard from the Secas Empire, had taken charge.
• Cody showed William samples of glass and paper and described Lynn’s airship, vehicles, and alchemical machines, explaining that William’s people were waiting in Iyetar for a return trip.
• William ordered Cody to demand a half-and-half division of profits from Lynn, citing the increased risks from the Church’s investigations.
• After hearing that the Sea of Mists had changed, William grew suspicious and ordered an attendant to send another ship to investigate it.
• A week later, glass mirrors and tableware presented by the First Prince at the king’s birthday celebration won the royal family’s praise and helped spark a market frenzy for glass products.

Hattar and Anthony discussed how Harold’s gift of a Glass Mirror to Cardinal Bishop Lothar might alienate King Basel and the nobles, and planned to investigate Viscount William’s glass trade. At Iyetar Academy, Lynn learned that William wanted an equal share of the profits and ordered Laud to stall negotiations while preserving his own interests.

• Hattar raged over Harold’s success at the birthday banquet, but Anthony reassured him that the nobles’ support depended on their interests.
• Anthony explained that Harold’s gift to Cardinal Bishop Lothar could anger King Basel and concern nobles wary of the Church’s influence.
• Hattar asked what they would do if Lothar openly supported Harold, and Anthony proposed investigating William and the source of his glass materials.
• Lynn heard that William wanted to renegotiate their profit split, and judged that William was asking for too much.
• Lynn ordered Laud to delay William and negotiate slowly, with each side giving up ten percent of the profits to appease the clergy and nobles.

Lynn learned that Harold had gained the church’s support in the royal succession dispute and heard rumors that wizards in the Royal Capital could wield lightning. When Laud’s ring alerted him to a confrontation, Laud’s ambush of his pursuer Abel turned into a fight with a half-lion, half-human monster.

• The boatman told Lynn that Harold had impressed the nobles with glassware and was rumored to have the church’s backing in the succession dispute.
• The boatman reported that the church had recently captured three wizards in the Royal Capital, some of whom were rumored to wield lightning, and Lynn became interested in their abilities.
• Lynn’s ring, which he had left with Laud, activated as Laud dealt with the person who had followed him for two days.
• Laud dropped his disguise and vaulted over a wall, revealing to Abel that the alley was a trap.
• A half-lion, half-human monster attacked Abel, who used [Mage Shield] to withstand its blow before casting [Spike Obstacle] and piercing its body with spikes.

Abel attacked Laud after mistaking him for an enemy, but Lynn intervened and tried to talk with the hostile wizard. Abel unleashed Anthony's Lightning Storm, only to discover that he had struck Lynn's illusion while the real Lynn had moved elsewhere.

• Abel fought the half-lion monster, but Laud shot him with a modified musket and disrupted his finishing spell.
• Abel attacked Laud with Chain Lightning, and Lynn appeared to block it with a Water Curtain Wall.
• Lynn proposed moving somewhere safer to talk, but Abel summoned a stone golem and attacked him.
• Abel cast Anthony's Lightning Storm, seemingly engulfing Lynn and the golem in lightning.
• Lynn remained unharmed, revealing that his magical avatar had moved and that the figure Abel struck was an illusion.

Lynn helped Laud and Owen capture Abel, a Wizard who had been following them, after Owen fought him in an alley. The Priests arrived after Lynn and the others escaped, and the Archbishop ordered a report to Lord Lothar about the Wizards’ increasing activity.

• Abel panicked when his magic failed against Lynn’s illusion and fled by blasting down the alley walls.
• Lynn’s magic caused Abel to fall, and Owen attacked him in his transformed half-lion, half-human form.
• Owen endured Abel’s Lightning Barrier, broke through his protection, and knocked him unconscious after Lynn told him to hold back.
• Lynn checked that Owen was safe, reminded him to learn defensive spells, and explained that Owen was a rescued magical experiment now serving on the Security Team.
• Laud apologized for the operation going wrong, and Lynn erased traces of the fight before disappearing; Owen and Laud took Abel away.
• Priests arrived at the alley, found traces of Flame Magic, and the Archbishop ordered them to report the incident to Lord Lothar.

Lynn captured Abel, a Three-Ring Wizard, and tried to persuade him that they came from Wizard Land - Greenriel, but Abel suspected they were agents of the Church and refused to share his secrets. Lynn left Abel to consider their claims, while Owen's hearty meal left the starving prisoner wavering over whether the food was safe.

• Abel woke with his magic suppressed by anti-magic shackles and discovered that Lynn had taken the rune-covered ironwood rod he had hidden as a last resort.
• Lynn told Abel that he came from Wizard Land - Greenriel and explained that William worked for him, but Abel doubted his claims and accused them of serving the Church.
• Lynn asked Abel about his wizard school and its leader, and offered to discuss electromagnetism, but Abel refused to reveal anything about Thunder Magic.
• Lynn decided against torture and left Abel in Owen's care, hoping he would reconsider after spending time with them.
• Owen ate all the food brought for Abel, leaving the exhausted, hungry wizard wondering whether it had really been safe to eat.

After hunger drove Abel to eat, he questioned Owen about the Land of Wizards and heard an enthusiastic account of its inventions and prosperity. When a commotion outside signaled the return of a Sky Airship, Abel went with Owen to investigate, but saw only an empty sky.

• After two days of hunger and failed escape attempts, Abel ate the bread and beef gravy Owen had provided.
• Abel questioned Owen about the Land of Wizards, and Owen said he would need Lord Lynn's permission to discuss some subjects.
• Owen described Ieyeta Harbor's Sky Airships, Alchemy Cars, farm machines, factories, and Lord Lynn's plans to help commoners and build a steel fishing ship.
• A commotion outside made Owen suspect that the Sky Airship carrying cargo had returned, and Abel asked to see it.
• Owen took Abel outside, where Laud and the others watched the sky, but no airship was visible.

After two days of captivity and hunger, Abel ate and questioned Owen about the Land of Wizards, whose abundance and inventions sounded almost like heaven. When a Sky Airship was reported to have returned, Abel went with Owen outside to see it, where Laud and the others were watching an apparently empty sky.

• Abel repeatedly tried to escape, but Owen caught and beat him until hunger forced him to give up.
• Abel ate Owen’s food and decided to stay alive, gather information, and look for a future chance to escape.
• Abel questioned Owen, who described Iyetar Harbor’s airships, alchemical machines, factories, and Lord Lynn’s aid to commoners.
• A commotion outside prompted Owen to identify the returning cargo Sky Airship, and Abel asked to see it.
• Abel and Owen joined Laud and the others on the estate’s grassland, where everyone watched the blue sky and clouds.

Lynn arrived by airship with reinforcements and equipment to build an alchemical instrument, then explained magnetism to the gathered wizards. He demonstrated how a lodestone could magnetize an iron sword, leaving them puzzled by the effect.

• Abel questioned Owen about the supposedly invisible airship, then watched it appear as its Polarization Magic was lifted.
• Lynn's airship delivered seven Official Wizards, more than a dozen halflings, Lydia, Daren, and crates of equipment to Laud's temporary laboratory.
• Lynn identified an iron box as an Alchemy Internal Combustion Engine that could assist with generating electricity.
• Lynn explained that magnetism differed from gravity and described how a magnet's internal arrangement produced a Magnetic Field.
• Lynn placed an iron sword against a lodestone, then used it to attract an iron block, astonishing Orlando, Lydia, and the other wizards.

Lynn explained how magnetism and electricity worked, then used magnets, rotating silver coils, and the Internal Combustion Engine to generate electricity. Abel reached toward the coils and was struck by the current, recognizing it as the power of lightning.

• Lynn corrected Orlando's and Abel's ideas about magnetism and explained how electrons and electric charges produced magnetic effects.
• Lydia recited what Lynn had taught her about electricity but could not explain the terms when the wizards questioned her.
• Lynn described several ways to generate electricity, while Abel doubted that lightning could be produced so easily.
• Lynn arranged arc-shaped magnets and silver coils, then had Orlando start the Internal Combustion Engine to make the coils rotate and produce electric arcs.
• Abel reached between the magnets to inspect the coils, was struck by the current, and recognized it as lightning.

After demonstrating electromagnetic induction, Lynn planned to build an Electromagnetic Cannon and offered the Faraday Cage as a gift to secure cooperation with Anthony’s school. Meanwhile, Anthony dangerously absorbed lightning in pursuit of mastering Thunder Magic so he could defeat the kingdom’s Sixth-ring Cleric.

• Abel touched the generator’s current and was knocked unconscious before Lynn explained electromagnetic induction to Orlando and the others.
• Lynn decided to pursue an Electromagnetic Cannon and agreed to send Laud to meet Anthony with a gift.
• After waking, Abel asked Lynn to meet his master, Anthony, and Lynn named the Faraday Cage as the gift he would send.
• In a secret chamber, Anthony drew lightning into himself until he reached his limit, then lamented that he still had not uncovered the secrets of Thunder Magic.

Anthony’s lightning experiment failed, and the Wizards learned that Abel had returned with Laud, an envoy from Greenriel. Laud offered cooperation against the Church and a discussion of lightning research, but the school’s Wizards suspected he wanted to steal their Thunder Magic.

• Anthony emerged from his sealed chamber after another failed lightning experiment and asked whether there was news of Abel.
• A servant reported that Abel had returned safely with an important guest, prompting the Wizards to fear that he had brought an outsider to their base.
• Anthony and the Wizards confronted Abel and Laud in the meeting hall, where Abel explained his absence and introduced Laud as an envoy from Greenriel.
• Laud delivered Lord Lynn’s greetings and proposed cooperation against the Church, then mentioned Lynn’s research into lightning.
• Rael and the other Wizards accused Laud of seeking their Thunder Magic, while Abel grew awkward at their suspicions.

Laud demonstrated a Faraday Cage to the wizards, claiming it could withstand Thunder Magic and challenging their confidence in their spells. Rael’s lightning struck the cage, but Laud stood inside unharmed, leaving the wizards stunned.

• Abel defended Laud’s claim that the Land of Wizards existed and insisted that its technology was genuine.
• Laud presented a copper-wire Faraday Cage as a gift from Lynn and called it the nemesis of Thunder Magic.
• Rael, Fula, and the other wizards took the demonstration as an insult, while Abel urged them to test the cage.
• Laud entered the cage, and Rael cast Lightning Storm at him.
• Laud remained unharmed as the lightning flashed around the cage and beneath his feet.

Laud remained unharmed inside Lynn’s Faraday Cage as Rael and the other wizards repeatedly attacked it with Thunder Magic. After Rael was badly struck when he touched the cage, Anthony unleashed Sixth-ring [Heaven’s Punishment: Thunder Judgment], leaving the cage shaking under the massive lightning strike.

• Rael ordered Fula and more than a dozen wizards to attack Laud’s Faraday Cage with [Chain Lightning], but Laud felt only a refreshing breeze inside it.
• Rael, convinced the cage’s protection was an illusion, ignored Abel’s warning and touched it, and lightning burned his arm and left him lying unconscious or dead.
• Anthony ordered everyone to stand back and began casting a powerful Thunder Spell while Laud struggled to remain upright inside the cage.
• Anthony cast [Heaven’s Punishment: Thunder Judgment], and a massive pillar of purple lightning struck the cage, shaking it and breaking the barriers raised by the wizards.

Anthony’s Sixth-ring Thunder Spell failed to harm Laud inside the Faraday Cage, and Lynn explained how the cage shielded him from lightning. Anthony then used the magnetic field generated by current to twist the cage inward, leaving Laud trapped and afraid.

• Anthony’s Thunder Spell devastated the meeting hall, but the Faraday Cage remained standing and Laud emerged unharmed.
• Fula and the other wizards stared in disbelief, while Anthony realized that the cage had exposed a fatal flaw in his Thunder Magic.
• Anthony asked Laud how the cage worked, and Laud cautiously said that Lord Lynn had mentioned eliminating electric potential difference.
• Lynn appeared inside the cage and explained equipotential bodies, electric current, and electrostatic shielding.
• Lynn suggested using magnetic force to counter the cage, and Anthony generated a Magnetic Field that bent it inward.
• Laud shouted for Anthony to stop as the cage turned from his protection into a deadly prison.

Lynn explained how magnetic fields could defeat the Faraday Cage, prompting Anthony to recognize how much he still had to learn about Thunder Magic. Before Lynn and Laud departed, Anthony accepted an invitation to join the Secret Magic Society, and Lynn learned that Hadrattan wizards trained for lightning magic by enduring repeated electric shocks.

• Lynn used a magnetic field to destroy the Faraday Cage, and Anthony realized that magnetism could turn the lightning-resistant barrier into a prison.
• Anthony thanked Lynn and asked to study electric potential and magnetic fields under his guidance, while Fula and the other wizards reacted with shock.
• Lynn invited Anthony to join the Secret Magic Society and gave him a Ring of Secret Magic that would let him enter the Magic Domain the following midnight.
• Anthony explained that Hadrattan wizards weakened lightning and repeatedly channeled it into their bodies until they could imitate it with magic, a process that had killed more than a dozen wizards.
• Lynn noted the destruction in the meeting hall and Rael lying unconscious, then ended the meeting and departed with Laud.

After joining the Secret Magic Society, Anthony entered Beyond Space-Time and learned how the society explored the universe. Lynn explained the nature of electricity and lightning, leaving Anthony eager to pursue his questions about Thunder Magic.

• After Laud left, Anthony learned Rael had survived but had badly injured his right hand, then asked Fula to clear the ruined meeting room and brought Abel with him.
• The next midnight, Anthony placed the ring on his right hand and activated its magic, splitting his consciousness and sending it into Beyond Space-Time.
• Lynn showed Anthony the sun and distant stars and explained that Beyond Space-Time was a projection of the universe created by the Secret Magic Society.
• Anthony asked whether the Secret Magic Society led the Land of Wizards, and Lynn explained that it was an academic research organization with members across and possibly beyond the Secas Empire.
• Anthony asked what lightning was, and Lynn explained that electricity came from positive and negative charges attracting and repelling before colliding to produce light, heat, and lightning.

Lynn explained the relationship between electricity and magnetism to Anthony, introducing magnetic fields and the theories behind electromagnetic phenomena. He concluded by presenting four equations that unified electromagnetism and predicted that light was an electromagnetic wave.

• Anthony realized that electricity and magnetism were closely connected, and Lynn explained that they were interdependent aspects of the same phenomena.
• Lynn showed Anthony a model of the planet with magnetic field lines and clarified that objects fell because of gravity, not magnetism.
• Lynn taught Anthony about magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, and the conversion between electric and magnetic fields.
• Anthony asked who had developed the theories, and Lynn named several scholars from the Secret Magic Society, including Faraday, Ampere, and Millikan.
• Lynn revealed four equations describing electromagnetism, including the laws associated with Gauss, Maxwell, and Faraday.

Lynn used Maxwell’s Equations to entice Anthony, who mistook him for Lynn Maxwell and begged to become his disciple. Lynn implanted calculus and other foundational knowledge into Anthony’s mind, and Anthony emerged from the Magic Domain with surging magic power and a new breakthrough underway.

• Anthony offered himself as Lynn’s disciple after deciding that Lynn was the creator of electromagnetic theory.
• Lynn told Anthony that he first had to learn foundational arcanum knowledge, including calculus.
• Lynn sent the formulas into Anthony’s mind after Anthony lowered his mental defenses, testing whether knowledge could be imprinted directly.
• Anthony left the Magic Domain about ten minutes later and told Fula that he felt exceptionally well.
• Electricity gathered around Anthony, nearby metal objects flew toward him and melted, and his magic power climbed beyond its previous level.

Anthony advanced to a Sixth-ring Great Wizard after discussing electromagnetism with Lynn through the Magic Domain, while Lynn expanded his plans for the Secret Magic Society. Using Anthony’s computing power, Lynn tested his new material-deconstruction spell and demonstrated the destructive force of an Iron Sand Storm.

• Anthony sensed electric charge during his discussion with Lynn and advanced from a Five-Ring Wizard to a Sixth-ring Great Wizard.
• Fula and the others asked Anthony about his breakthrough, and he warned Fula not to judge Lynn by his appearance.
• Lynn withdrew from the Magic Domain and considered using it to recruit more Wizards into the Secret Magic Society.
• Lynn discovered that he could draw on Anthony’s computing power and used it to perceive the world through a Great Wizard’s senses.
• Lynn cast Advanced Material Deconstruction to break a steel sword into its component elements, then used Iron Sand Storm to shred a redwood table.