Chapter Summaries

Harov learned that a delayed-choice double-slit experiment had driven nine Great Wizards mad after they concluded microscopic particles could anticipate observation. At Lynn’s estate, Lynn began explaining relativity to a gathering of skeptical wizards, who started to connect his account of wave propagation to the constant speed of light.

• Vittorio told Harov that nine Great Wizards had gone mad during Jeffrey’s delayed-choice experiment, and said he had erased their memories and arranged treatment.
• Jeffrey, Arad, and Sanchez argued before Lynn’s estate that photons and electrons could predict the future and read minds, while Sterger challenged the idea of Quantum Ghosts and relativity.
• Lynn welcomed Sterger and the other wizards inside and explained inertial reference frames with the example of a silver coin moving at different speeds relative to the ground and the sun.
• Sterger asked why light’s speed did not change between reference frames, and Lynn explained that mechanical waves travel at speeds determined by their medium.
• Jeffrey realized that light’s wave properties meant measuring its speed involved measuring its propagation through a medium, and Lynn confirmed he had grasped part of the explanation.

Lynn explained why light differed from mechanical waves and argued that its speed was invariant because it was the universe’s maximum speed. The Great Wizards remained unconvinced and challenged his theory, leaving the debate unresolved.

• Dennis used ripples in water to argue that measured wave speed changed with the observer’s motion, challenging the principle of invariant light speed.
• Lynn presented a modified Michelson-Morley experiment and said its unchanged interference fringes showed that light did not travel through a fixed medium.
• Anthony arrived with the other chairmen and explained that light was an electromagnetic wave whose vacuum speed depended on vacuum permittivity and permeability.
• Lynn described space as resisting electromagnetic fields and proposed that light speed was an upper limit that no object could exceed.
• Sterger objected that one experiment could not verify the theory, while Dennis argued that running toward or away from light should change its measured speed.

Lynn explained relativity to the wizards, arguing that light’s speed could not be surpassed because time changed with motion, while gravity also affected time. He then addressed the strange Double-Slit Experiment and learned that the first-generation Supersonic Fighter Jet was ready for its first test flight, with Lydia chosen as pilot.

• Lynn explained how motion and gravity altered time, supporting his account with a Quartz Clock experiment in a Gravitational Field.
• Lynn described time as matter in motion and argued that an object reaching light speed would have stopped time, leaving the wizards to reconsider the foundations of magic.
• Jeffrey and Arad told Lynn about the Double-Slit Experiment’s strange observation effects, and Lynn proposed that light had no meaningful travel time while electrons had no meaningful spatial distance.
• Lynn gave the wizards his experimental notes on relativity, and Jeffrey and the others left the manor pondering space-time and mass-speed conversion.
• Dennis told Lynn that the first-generation Supersonic Fighter Jet was complete and ready for a test flight the next day, with Lydia selected as pilot.

Lynn and the wizards watched Lydia test the Supersonic Fighter Jet, which proved fast enough to threaten a Legendary with Undying Flame bombs. Harov ultimately defeated Lydia by exploiting the jet’s vulnerability to gravitational magic, while Lynn proposed guided missiles and turned his attention back to preparations against the Lord of Undead.

• Lydia piloted the newly built fighter jet through its maiden flight and broke the sound barrier at roughly three times the speed of sound.
• Lydia attacked Harov with fast, explosive bombs containing Undying Flame, and Harov’s Domain was threatened before he escaped the flames.
• Lynn explained how psionic control and radar or infrared detection could be used to create guided missiles, inspiring Dennis with new design ideas.
• Harov used gravitational manipulation and broad spell attacks to overcome Lydia’s hit-and-run tactics, and she returned to the training ground after about twenty minutes.
• Lynn told Lydia to improve before the Foreign Land mission, then declined Dennis’s invitation to help modify the jet because the Godhood Ritual and antimatter took priority.

Lynn oversaw Lydia’s departure through the Space-Time Gate to rescue Raphael’s team, then began testing his newly built particle accelerator in the Northern Lands. After dozens of failed attempts, a particle collision finally produced a result that astonished Lynn and Sanchez.

• Lynn told Sanchez that the Council could not commit all its forces to the Northern Lands and checked that the particle collision laboratory was ready.
• Lydia arrived by fighter jet, received three Alchemical Creations from Lynn, and flew with two airships through the reopened Space-Time Gate on her rescue mission.
• Lynn and Sanchez visited the laboratory, where Lynn explained that the electromagnetic cyclotron accelerator would smash particles apart to investigate atoms.
• Lynn and the alchemists accelerated a particle stream to one-tenth the speed of light and repeatedly tried to hit the target, but the first attempts missed.
• After nearly thirty failed trials, Lynn and Sanchez sensed a target disappear as the cloud chamber revealed trails from the collision.

Lynn captured an antiproton during particle collision experiments, bringing him closer to producing antimatter. Meanwhile, Raphael and the others were trapped by undead in the Foreign Land until Lynn appeared and offered to act as bait.

• Lynn failed to catch particles from the first hydrogen atom collision and decided to use Gravitational Fields to capture them.
• After nine more collisions, Lynn confined the scattered particles and captured an antiproton.
• Raphael and the others fought off waves of undead Shrieking Demons in a mountain nest near the Space-Time Gate.
• Raphael prepared to use Vittorio's nuclear warhead, while Evina suggested they draw the undead away and cast Skyfall.
• Lynn appeared through the Ring of Secret Magic and offered to act as bait.

Lynn used the Ring of Secret Magic to send an avatar into the Foreign Land and rescue Raphael’s team, then fought through the undead horde as the group headed for the Space-Time Gate. He left the Bone Dragon badly wounded, but it quickly regenerated and returned to the battle.

• Lynn revealed that the Ring of Secret Magic carried his avatar and told Raphael’s group that the Council was likely preparing a rescue; Raphael handed him the Uranium Stone.
• A Bone Dragon tore open the mountain and attacked, but Lynn kicked it in the eye, knocked it off the mountaintop, and sliced through it with a laser beam.
• Lynn flew outside and used Repulsion Fire Ring to engulf the undead horde in Undying Flame, while Raphael led Yoland, Evina, Tick, and the others toward the Space-Time Gate.
• Maka marveled at Lynn’s power, and Yoland explained that Lynn was only an avatar before Raphael urged everyone to stay quiet and keep moving.
• The undead stopped charging blindly and began trying to counter Lynn’s flames, while the Bone Dragon regenerated its wounds and climbed back up the mountain.

Lynn battled Winter Dragon Valok while Great Lich Cecil sent Death Knight Kolren to join the fight and pursued intruders seeking the Space-Time Gate. Cornered by Cecil and the undead, Lynn unleashed a nuclear blast that annihilated the undead army, leaving Valok barely alive.

• Lynn discovered that Valok’s frost breath carried Vengeful Spirits, while Corpse Mages’ barrier and Valok’s domain restricted his flight.
• Cecil sent Shado after the living intruders and ordered Kolren to help Valok; Lynn’s laser beam cut down hundreds of demons pursuing Shado.
• Kolren wounded Lynn with his Rune Sword, but Lynn used a decoy avatar to escape and attack Cecil, whom he suspected was the undead commander.
• Cecil restrained Lynn with Death Thorns and Words of the Dead, but Lynn poured his remaining power into the Uranium Stone.
• Lynn’s nuclear blast destroyed the undead army and devastated the surrounding land; Valok survived barely alive after enslaved specters absorbed much of the damage.

Raphael led Yoland and the others toward the Space-Time Gate, but undead forces detected and pursued them. As Night Demon Shado nearly killed the group, Lynn’s laser and Lydia’s supersonic fighter jet disrupted his attack, giving Raphael’s party a chance to escape.

• Raphael led Yoland, Tick, Evina, and the others through the undead blockade, but a detection barrier revealed them and more than a thousand undead griffins began pursuing them.
• Yoland slowed the griffins with Ice Storm, while Evina saved him from a concealed magical beast and Raphael killed hidden Winged Demons with Spatial Vibration Wave.
• The griffins encircled the group, then Night Demon Shado attacked with a storm and descended on them with his enormous wings.
• Lynn’s laser beam nearly severed Shado’s left wing, and a Council supersonic fighter jet arrived as Yoland recognized the reinforcements.
• Lydia’s Magic Missiles drew Shado’s attention and exploded in Undying Flame, allowing Raphael and the others to flee toward the Space-Time Gate.

Lydia used her supersonic fighter jet to hold off Night Demon Shado and destroy him with four missiles as a nuclear explosion engulfed the battlefield. Raphael and the others escaped through the Space-Time Gate, while the battered survivors faced the arrival of the Lord of Undead.

• Lydia harassed Night Demon Shado with cannon fire, then used Ionization Overload Mode to cut through the undead surrounding her fighter jet.
• Night Demon Shado activated Storm Domain and prepared to destroy the area with a Corpse Explosion Technique, but a nuclear blast interrupted him and forced him to flee.
• Lydia dodged Shado’s wing, fired all four missiles at close range, and set him ablaze with Undying Flame before he fell into the nuclear shockwave.
• Raphael and the others escaped aboard an airship through the Space-Time Gate, and Lydia’s fighter jet followed safely behind them.
• After the explosion, Valok emerged badly injured and learned that Cecil had survived by possessing a corpse wizard’s body.
• The Lord of Undead descended over the mountain range as Cecil and Valok prepared to face him.

The Lord of Undead punished Cecil for the failed assault but ordered him to locate the Space-Time Gate, while Cecil tracked residual magic and gathered his forces. Raphael and the others returned safely, but Lynn discovered that a tracking spell had followed them home, likely exposing the gate’s location as the Council prepared for invasion.

• The Lord of Undead crushed Cecil’s body for his failure, restored him, and warned him not to fail again.
• Cecil told the Lord of Undead that Shado was dead and claimed he could locate the spacetime node by following magical traces left by the escapees.
• Cecil found faint magical residue and summoned the undead army, whose regular forces numbered more than thirty million.
• Raphael, Lydia, Maka, and the others passed through the Space-Time Gate and received a jubilant welcome and medals from Harov.
• Lynn struck Raphael and the others with lightning, exposing a tracking spell that he suspected had been set by a Nine-ring Legendary Wizard.
• Raphael realized the tracking spell might have revealed the spacetime node, and Lynn sent the team to rest while the Council prepared to fight.

Lynn prepared to attempt godhood in Lordser, using the mana base stations and the Magic Net to overcome his limits. As his ritual began, the Space-Time Gate reopened and a vast undead army invaded, leaving the council’s forces to meet the attack.

• Lynn told Harov, Vittorio, Aurora, and Anthony that he planned to attempt godhood, estimating his chances of success at roughly fifty percent.
• Lynn gave Vittorio over a hundred rune spheres made from melted Corona Medals, each containing a fragment of Lynn’s soul, to install in the mana base stations.
• Lynn chose to perform the ritual in Northern City of Lordser, and three days later Raphael confirmed the spheres were placed before Lynn began connecting to the stations and expanding his domain.
• The Space-Time Gate reactivated, and Vittorio led the nine Great Wizards away from the failing Rune Locks as the council’s forces assembled outside the valley.
• The gate expanded to over two kilometers, then released a vast host of undead; Sanchez ordered an attack as artillery, airships, and fighter planes engaged them.

Harov and the Council’s forces battled an endless undead army pouring through the Space-Time Gate, using artillery, lightning, traps, and firearms until the enemy unleashed a deadly sea of wraiths and committed its elite forces. With the true assault beginning, Harov ordered the Solar Flame Cannon to fire a massive Uranium Stone shell.

• The Council’s airships and artillery destroyed waves of undead, including thirty-five Giant Stitched Monsters, while high-level undead pressed toward the valley.
• Sanchez and the alchemists triggered the valley’s collapse, trapping more than a million undead in a pit that the artillery crews filled with fire.
• As the battle dragged on, the undead adapted their tactics, ammunition and Lightning Stones ran low, and Harov considered using nuclear weapons.
• Harov destroyed a dark sphere emerging from the Space-Time Gate, triggering an Advanced Corpse Explosion Technique that released toxic mist and a vast Sea of Wraiths.
• Bone Dragons, Shrieking Demons, Undead Griffins, High Banshees, and corpse witches emerged as the undead launched their elite assault.
• Harov ordered the Solar Flame Cannon to fire a five-hundred-kilogram block of high-purity Uranium Stone at the Space-Time Gate.

Nikru led an undead assault through the Space-Time Gate, but Harov’s forces killed him with a coordinated barrage from their Solar Flame Cannons. In the Foreign Land, Cecil used Nikru’s death to confirm the Moon Goddess had not fully claimed the plane, then left Deus in command as his scout found a second space-time node.

• Nikru emerged from the Space-Time Gate and expanded his Plague and Poison Domain, expecting to overwhelm the defenders with undead forces.
• Harov’s side struck Nikru with a Solar Flame Cannon, and he survived by using the Necrotic Mist and undead souls to blunt most of the blast.
• Harov ordered five more Solar Flame Cannons to fire together, killing Nikru and wiping out the undead in the valley.
• Vittorio fired a high-purity Uranium Stone through the Space-Time Gate, annihilating over a million undead gathered in the Foreign Land.
• Valok suspected Cecil had withheld information about the Solar Flame Cannons, but Cecil defended himself and judged Nikru’s death useful for testing the enemy and confirming the Moon Goddess had not fully taken control of the plane.
• Cecil left Deus to command the forces while his corpse wizard located a second space-time node.

Lynn began transforming his body and soul into a higher-dimensional form, becoming aware of everything within his domain. As the undead opened a second front near the Royal Capital, Harov and the others split their forces while Cecil and Valok pushed through the gate.

• Lynn dismantled his body and soul into microscopic elements and used his godhead and domain to become a special atom whose consciousness encompassed the domain.
• Harov and the others sensed a change in the elements, but the undead continued attacking their Northern Territory position despite the earlier nuclear blast.
• Vittorio detected that the Space-Time Gate near the Royal Capital had activated, and Harov, Aurora, Vittorio, and Lydia left to reinforce it while Anthony stayed behind.
• Valok emerged from the gate near the kingdom, killed the defenders with Life Deprivation, and swallowed their souls before Cecil could question their leader.
• Cecil raised the fallen defenders as soulless undead and decided that the invasion needed to accelerate.

Ham confronted Javin and his group when they tried to enter the Royal Capital to report to the Moon Goddess, and his guards discovered they were controlled corpses. Valok attacked the city as Cecil revealed the undead army, but the Royal Capital’s defenses wounded Valok while Cecil struck the nearby guards with a corpse explosion.

• Ham reprimanded the sentries for neglecting their posts and ordered them to enforce the Royal Capital’s security measures.
• Javin demanded entry so he could report to the priest of the Moon Goddess, and Ham’s guards opened fire when he tried to force his way in.
• Cecil and Valok attacked the Royal Capital with an undead army, and Valok flew toward the city while Cecil lifted his concealment spell.
• Bode and the other Great Wizards killed Javin and his group, then realized necromancy and a problem with the Space-Time Gate were involved.
• Valok attacked the city’s barrier, but the Great Wizards fired the Spear of Judgment from the Solar Furnace and pierced his wing.
• Cecil used Javin and the others’ corpses to unleash the Corpse Explosion Technique, engulfing nearby guards in poisonous mist.

Lynn completed the first two stages of the Godhood Ritual and used his growing power to devastate undead armies invading the world. He turned his attention to the Royal Capital, where Harov, Vittorio, and Aurora faced Great Lich Cecil, Winter Dragon Valok, and the hidden Shadow Assassin Peromon.

• Nikru's Necrotic Mist overwhelmed the guards until an unexplained gale carried it away, while missiles struck Valok and Harov and Aurora arrived to confront Cecil.
• Undead broke through the Royal Capital's weakened Magic Barrier, but Bode's wizards fought them off and Vittorio sealed the breach with Rune Locks.
• Vittorio realized the Royal Capital's attack was smaller than expected and hurried to support Harov and Aurora as undead forces besieged other parts of the kingdom.
• Lynn completed the first two stages of the Godhood Ritual, destroyed millions of undead with natural disasters, and closed several Space-Time Gates.
• Lynn saw Peromon hiding near the battle at the Royal Capital and began gathering the elements to test his powers on the undead commanders.

Lynn trapped the [Shadow Assassin] Peromon in an endlessly looping space, then released him just as Cecil attacked Harov. Peromon took Cecil’s [Finger of Destruction] meant for Harov, and an immense presence descended after Lynn spoke to the undead.

• Cecil taunted Harov and the others, claiming his forces were slaughtering the plane’s living beings and the Lord of Undead would soon descend.
• Aurora and Vittorio attacked Cecil, but he escaped their spells, summoned High Necrotic Guards, and cursed Harov until he could no longer cast spells.
• Peromon struggled through Lynn’s looping Mobius Ring, where distorted time and endless identical corridors drove him into a frenzy.
• Lynn released Peromon to save Harov, and Peromon emerged into Cecil’s [Finger of Destruction], which erased most of his body.
• Peromon blamed the Moon Goddess’s power, and Lynn revealed that the Moon Goddess had died before an immense existence descended.

After completing his Godhood Ritual, Lynn annihilated the undead armies and defeated Cecil, the Great Lich, but Cecil’s death opened a passage for the Lord of Undead to invade. Lynn faced the invading god as its Divine Domain began overwhelming his own.

• Lynn appeared in a human form and disintegrated the millions of undead besieging the Royal Capital, while also assuring Aurora that he had dealt with undead attacking elsewhere.
• Lynn extracted a spell-interfering point of light from Harov and questioned Cecil about the God of Life and Creation and the Lord of Undead.
• Cecil deflected Lynn’s attack with a divine spark, then sacrificed four Legendary undead to unleash a Soul Shriek and Necrotic Mist.
• Lynn crushed Cecil with Arcane Locks and nine interlocking gears, and Cecil realized that the supposed divine spark was a creation containing Death Divine Power.
• Cecil’s destruction spread a chaotic aura that tore open a rift, allowing the Lord of Undead’s Divine Domain and monstrous true form to invade the world.

Lynn battled the Lord of Undead Darnatus, using an Antimatter Sword to sever hundreds of his heads but failing to stop his invasion. As the battle intensified and the planet’s Magnetic Field began shifting, the imprisoned crow destroyed itself to send a message across connected worlds.

• Lynn sent Harov and the others away from the Hellfire, then faced Darnatus as the Lord of Undead’s Divine Domain spread across the world.
• Lynn’s Arcane Locks decayed under Darnatus’s Death Law, so Lynn forged an Antimatter Sword and cut through [Breath of Destruction], Darnatus’s Divine Domain, and hundreds of his heads.
• Lynn realized the strike had not truly harmed Darnatus and that he needed to close the spacetime rift, while the battle’s shockwaves damaged the land and strained the Royal Capital’s defenses.
• Aurora told Harov that Lynn had severed Darnatus’s heads, but Vittorio noted that the enemy’s Divine Domain was still expanding; Vittorio then sensed that the planet’s Magnetic Field had shifted.
• The imprisoned crow recognized that the time had come and exploded itself inside its cage to transmit a message through soul entanglement, leaving Muto to find only its feathers.