Chapter Summaries

Lynn defeated North in the banquet hall after resisting his Soul Shriek and burning him with White Phosphorus Fire. As Lynn searched North’s fading memories, the Soul Devouring Array continued spreading across the South City District, consuming souls despite the destroyed array nodes.

• North animated the banquet hall’s suits of armor and sent them against Lynn, who defeated them with magic and a crude summoned sphinx.
• North used Soul Shriek to restrain Lynn, then attacked with Magic Shock, but Lynn pretended to be immobilized and countered with White Phosphorus - Flame Demon Hand.
• Lynn burned North until he was near death, revealed that his soul power had let him resist Soul Shriek, and watched North die.
• Lynn searched North’s chaotic, dissolving memories and inferred that the array’s intelligent brain could only absorb nearby, detached souls of limited strength.
• Lynn discovered that the Soul Devouring Array kept spreading after his creatures destroyed several array nodes, draining the souls of manor guards and animals before surging toward the South City District.

Lynn discovered that the Soul Devouring Array was powered by a hidden source beneath the estate and learned the Virtual Domain’s capabilities. In the underground hall, he found a tortured Vengeful Spirit resembling Lydia and learned from Herlam that she was his daughter, Iyetar.

• Lynn sent Gnaw Rats through a concealed passage beneath the banquet hall to search for the Soul Devouring Array’s core.
• Lynn decrypted the Virtual Domain and learned that it could host gatherings while secretly drawing on its users’ Mental Power and computational capacity.
• Lynn asked 071 to locate the Virtual Domain’s magic source, and it pinpointed a place thirty meters ahead.
• Lynn followed the Gnaw Rats into a circular hall and saw a powerful Vengeful Spirit bound above an elaborate altar.
• Herlam appeared and told Lynn that the Vengeful Spirit was his daughter, Iyetar.

Lynn confronted Herlam, the Great Wizard behind Ieyeta Harbor’s secret Psionic research, and learned how Herlam had used North and Blood Thorn as pawns. Herlam suspected Lynn was the Evil Mage Merk, but Lynn denied it.

• Herlam revealed that North had acted on his own and that he had secretly allowed the [Faceless Ones] and [Blood Thorn] to conduct Psionic research.
• Lynn asked whether Herlam had invited him to join the [Faceless Ones], and Herlam instead questioned whether Lynn was Carl or the Evil Mage Merk.
• Herlam explained that he had sought Merk’s Psionic research and used Three-Ring Wizards to reconstruct the Soul Devouring Array and soul-transfer methods.
• Herlam suspected Lynn was Merk because his arrival with a Sky Airship and a preserved Witch’s body seemed too convenient.
• Lynn argued that Merk would not have exposed himself on the training ground and insisted that he was only Lynn.

Lynn seized control of Herlam’s Magic Net and counterattacked, but Herlam survived and used powerful force-field magic to repel Lynn’s spells. Lynn narrowly dodged another attack as Herlam unleashed an Iron Sand Storm, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Herlam demanded that Lynn reveal the method for perfectly fusing souls, then attacked when Lynn refused and said he did not have it.
• Herlam trapped Lynn with Slow Field and cast Magic Torrent, but Lynn ordered 071 to seize control of the Virtual Domain and sever Herlam’s connection to the Magic Net.
• Lynn struck Herlam with White Phosphorus—Flame Demon Hand, but Herlam deflected the flames and suffered severe magical backlash.
• Lynn used the enhanced computational power from nine Three-Ring Wizards to probe Herlam’s force-field magic with Magic Barrage, but Herlam destroyed the missiles with a wave of magic.
• Lynn demonized his cells and leaped aside to evade the wave, while Herlam filled the hall with an Iron Sand Storm.

Lynn used [Deflection Field] to survive Herlam’s attack while Herlam empowered Iyetar with the souls of countless people. Lynn’s Gnaw Rats freed Iyetar from the magic array, and the newly unleashed Vengeful Spirit attacked Herlam as Lynn condemned what he had done.

• Lynn cast Fourth-ring Magic—[Deflection Field]—to deflect Herlam’s [Iron Sand Storm], but the spell consumed half his magic power.
• Iyetar absorbed more soul power, becoming a crimson Great Wizard-level Vengeful Spirit, while Herlam attacked Lynn with [Vacuum Domain].
• Two Gnaw Rats poured reagent onto the platform and ignited it, destroying the alchemical magic array that restrained Iyetar.
• Iyetar broke free and struck Herlam, who panicked when she attacked him instead of recognizing him.
• Herlam bound Iyetar with [Undead Manipulation], and Lynn mocked him for believing a child could control the souls he had amassed.

Lynn’s attempt to use Iyetar against Herlam ended with Herlam’s death and Iyetar turning on Lynn. As Iyetar struck an unseen barrier inside the Screaming Tower, Tick and Rol investigated the tower’s connection to a hidden citywide spiritual energy array.

• Herlam failed to restrain Iyetar with [Soul Bind], and Iyetar broke free and killed him.
• Lynn retreated from Iyetar, but she attacked him with crimson mist; his [Ice Domain] briefly froze her before she shattered free and blasted him into a passage.
• Iyetar lunged at Lynn again but stopped at an invisible barrier, and Lynn asked 071 to identify his location.
• Ten minutes earlier, Tick showed Rol that Ieyeta Harbor’s orderly building layout formed an alchemical array centered on the [Screaming Tower].
• Tick and Rol worried that Herlam’s citywide spiritual energy array might be connected to a looming danger.

Tick and Rol rushed to the South City District after a Soul Devouring Array began killing its residents, and they helped organize wizards to destroy its nodes by dawn. Lynn secretly aided their efforts but kept quiet about the souls gathering in the Screaming Tower and the Vengeful Spirit created there, leaving the group to await the council’s response.

• Tick and Rol sensed a surge of magical energy and hurried to the South City District, where fleeing residents and corpses filled the streets.
• Tick rescued a woman, learned that Alva, Anthony, and others were dead, and identified the spreading phenomenon as the Soul Devouring Array.
• Tick explained the threat to Philip and the gathered wizards, then urged them to destroy the array nodes while Herlam was away in Wizard City, Greenriel.
• Tick, Rol, Philip, Kevin, and the other wizards destroyed the array nodes by dawn, with Lynn secretly helping to take out several inner nodes.
• The group settled the survivors and met at Iyetar Academy, while Lynn concealed his knowledge that the collected souls had created a Great Wizard-level Vengeful Spirit in the Screaming Tower.

As Ieyeta Harbor reeled from the South City District massacre and eerie cries from the Screaming Tower, Tick and Rol suspected Herlam and sought Lynn’s help. Lynn instead focused on rebuilding the Virtual Domain into a cosmic simulation, preserving White Dove’s spirit and considering how to establish a school of his own.

• For two days, rumors about the soul-harvesting tragedy spread through Ieyeta Harbor as mysterious shrieks frightened the Wizard Apprentices at Iyetar Academy.
• Tick asked Philip about the Screaming Tower, but Philip and Orlando refused to explain its secrets before Herlam returned.
• Tick and Rol privately discussed their suspicions with Lynn, while Lynn reasoned that Herlam’s secretive organization made immediate attacks unlikely.
• Lynn transformed the Virtual Domain into a star-filled cosmos, but the intelligence brain warned that simulating a black hole would require more energy.
• Lynn ordered the intelligence brain to replenish its energy from stored soul power while preserving White Dove’s spirit body.
• Lynn reduced the Virtual Domain’s energy use and resolved to build his own school so he would no longer depend on outsiders.

Lynn created a grand cosmic meeting place called Beyond Space-Time for the Secret Magic Society and cut off the scattered Rings of the Faceless from the Virtual Domain. He then went to meet two Great Wizards sent by the council, including August, the Star of Magic, leaving the Iyetar School uneasy about their visit.

• Lynn built the Beyond Space-Time cosmic bubble and named it as the Secret Magic Society's meeting place.
• Lynn learned that the Faceless Ones he had connected to were either dead or unreachable, and he changed the Virtual Domain's entry frequency to disable their remaining rings.
• Lynn went with Joanne to meet the council's delegation at Iyetar Academy.
• A middle-aged Great Wizard and August arrived by carriage, and Tick and the Iyetar School wizards grew uneasy at the council's unusual show of force.

Raphael and August arrived at Iyetar and learned that a Soul Devouring Array had caused a tragedy in South City District. In the Screaming Tower, they confronted the Vengeful Spirit, and Tick recognized it as Lydia.

• Philip welcomed Raphael and August to Iyetar and said Herlam had gone to Greenriel.
• August and Raphael praised Lynn’s arithmetic courses and Star Chart as they entered the academy.
• Tick asked Raphael about Iyetar’s layout, and Raphael explained that he had designed it to house an array that suppressed spirits for Herlam’s research.
• Philip revealed the deaths in South City District, and Raphael concluded that someone had altered his array and hurried to the Screaming Tower.
• The Vengeful Spirit attacked Rol, but August blasted it away and Raphael dispersed its blood-red mist with an alchemical powder.
• Tick recognized the revealed Vengeful Spirit as Lydia.

Raphael and August captured Iyetar’s Vengeful Spirit and discovered that Herlam had died in Screaming Tower after the Soul Devouring Array was activated. The council concealed Herlam’s possible role in the city massacre, but stripped him of his honors and property, leaving the Iyetar School facing its end.

• Raphael used the tower’s formation to bind Iyetar, while August sealed her inside an azure crystal.
• Raphael found Herlam dead underground, and Orlando revealed that Iyetar was Herlam’s daughter, who had died in a magical accident.
• Raphael and the others questioned whether Herlam had acted alone, while Lynn quietly realized the evidence did not implicate him.
• Raphael and August announced Herlam’s death but blamed the massacre on escaped Evil Mages to prevent public panic.
• The council revoked Herlam’s titles and confiscated his property, and Philip, Orlando, and Kevin feared the Iyetar School would fall.

After refusing August’s invitation to join his school, Lynn chose to stay at Iyetar Academy and was asked to represent it at the upcoming academic seminar. With only four days left and the journey normally taking a week, Lynn prepared to fly to Wizard City Greenriel aboard his Sky Airship.

• August invited Lynn to join his school, but Lynn declined and said he believed Iyetar Academy would overcome its difficulties.
• Orlando and Kevin urged Lynn to reconsider, while Lynn privately preferred Iyetar Academy because it offered him more independence and a useful harbor location.
• Philip asked Lynn to represent Iyetar Academy at the academic seminar and promised that the professors would recommend him as the school's leader if they overcame the crisis.
• Lynn agreed to attend the seminar, and the professors realized his Sky Airship could make the journey in time.
• Lydia piloted the modified Sky Airship to Iyetar Academy, where Lynn gathered his companions and discovered that Tick, Rol, Raphael, and August also planned to ride along.

Lynn rode an airship with Tick and Rol and learned how wizards conducted academic seminars, where arguments over theories could be settled through displays of powerful magic. Tick warned Lynn that the Prophecy School planned to challenge his theory, and Lynn began considering inviting Legendary Wizard Harov to the Secret Magic Society.

• Lynn flew with Tick and Rol aboard an airship piloted by Lydia, and Tick considered how airships could transform travel across the Land of Wizards.
• Tick described a past seminar debate about the nature of fire, which Great Wizard Adela won by demonstrating his powerful [Fire Element Storm].
• Tick warned Lynn that the Prophecy School intended to find errors in his theory and challenge him at the upcoming seminar.
• Tick told Lynn that Legendary Wizard Harov had proposed universal gravity and confirmed that the continent might be spherical after Lynn published his planetary theory.
• Lynn reconsidered whom to invite to the Secret Magic Society and decided Harov might be a better choice than Raphael or August.

Lynn arrived in Greenriel aboard his Sky Airship and prepared to challenge the Prophecy School’s Star Chart research using the laws of celestial motion. He went to Harov’s estate hoping to meet the Legendary Wizard, but found many wizards competing to have their research brought to Harov’s attention.

• Lynn and Raphael entered Greenriel aboard the Sky Airship and admired the Corona Tower, the city’s great landmark and calendar.
• A wizard welcomed Lynn, Philip, and their companions, then escorted them to the Iyetar School’s private lounge.
• Philip asked Lynn how he planned to face the Prophecy School, and Lynn requested detailed data from its Star Chart research.
• Lynn wrote down Kepler’s Third Law and the Law of Universal Gravitation while waiting for Philip to retrieve the research records.
• Lynn arrived alone at Harov’s estate and saw wizards offering Theresa manuscripts and money in hopes of gaining Harov’s attention.

Lynn tried to meet Harov and presented his research on gravity, including three laws of celestial motion and an arcane formula, but Theresa rejected his request. Inside the manor, Harov struggled to reconcile his circular gravity model with the Star Chart data from the Prophecy School.

• Theresa collected the visitors’ manuscripts and refused Lynn’s request for an audience with Harov, dismissing his claims about his research.
• Lynn reminded Theresa that Harov had verified his planetary theory, but she said Harov already knew the law of free fall and had not published his findings.
• Theresa turned away and closed the manor gates, leaving Lynn to wonder how long Harov might take to review the submitted letters.
• Theresa entered Harov’s laboratory and found him furious over calculations that contradicted his expectation that celestial orbits formed perfect circles.
• Harov tore up his calculations, while Theresa gathered the pieces and treated his research as valuable despite its flaws.

Harov discovered that Lynn’s invitation contained three laws of planetary motion and a formula that could help solve his research into gravity. After verifying the laws against the Star Charts, Harov flew off to find Lynn and learn what the formula meant.

• Harov grew frustrated with the poor research submissions and opened an invitation to the Secret Magic Society that Theresa had brought in with them.
• Theresa revealed that Lynn had delivered the invitation along with three laws and a formula, and Harov found them written on its back.
• Harov recognized the first law and urgently checked the second and third laws against the Star Charts.
• After hours of calculations, Harov confirmed that the laws matched the stellar data but could not interpret the formula F=GMm/r^2.
• Harov learned that Lynn was attending the seminar and flew out himself to find him.

Lynn attended the magic symposium in Greenor City, where he watched wizards present new magic and learned about the Land of Wizards’ three major awards. The Prophecy School’s Yoland then challenged Lynn to answer questions about his Planet Theory.

• Philip asked Lynn where he had gone the previous night, and Lynn said he had tried to see Lord Harov but had been turned away.
• Lynn and Philip attended the symposium, where Asos demonstrated a flying spell made by transforming his back into bat-like wings.
• The Great Wizards gave Asos’s spell a poor evaluation, while a potion master earned a Morning Star Medal nomination.
• Philip explained the Morning Star, Silver Moon, and Corona awards to Lynn and said proving Planet Theory might earn him a Silver Moon Medal.
• Yoland of the Prophecy School addressed the symposium and asked Lynn to resolve questions about his Planet Theory.

Lynn defended the theory that the planet rotated on its axis, explaining how rotation caused day and night and why people did not feel the movement. He left Yoland struggling to answer his arguments and called on Joanne, Elock, and Pierce to present evidence.

• Yoland challenged Lynn to explain how the planet's orbit around the sun could account for day and night, and Lynn demonstrated that the planet also rotated on its axis.
• Yoland questioned why people were not flung off the rotating planet, and Lynn compared their movement to passengers traveling inside a carriage or airship.
• A red-haired witch argued that Harov's flight to the top of the world disproved planetary rotation, and Lynn explained that gravity extended far beyond the heights Harov had reached.
• Yoland demanded evidence of planetary rotation, and Lynn used the carriage example to leave him confused about whether he himself was moving.
• Lynn called on Joanne, Elock, and Pierce to bring forward the evidence they had prepared.

Lynn demonstrated that a pendulum’s swing gradually shifted, using the deflection to show the Wizards that the continent was rotating. The chapter ended with the assembled Wizards accepting the evidence and crowding around the experiment.

• Lynn built a giant pendulum setup and explained that the continent’s rotation would make the iron ball’s swing change direction.
• Yoland dismissed Lynn’s claim, but the pendulum’s needle gradually traced a leftward-shifting path in the sand.
• When Yoland blamed wind, Lynn asked August to create a Vacuum Domain, and the pendulum continued to shift at the same rate.
• Raphael and the other Wizards recognized the result as evidence that they lived on a rotating planet.

Lynn demonstrated with a pendulum that the planet’s rotation affected its motion, then explained how planetary movement caused day and night and the seasons. The Prophecy School wizards struggled to accept that their star chart was wrong, but took heart by recalling Harov’s research into gravity just as the seminar doors crashed open.

• The pendulum knocked over the fifteenth marker, and Lynn argued that its motion proved the planet’s rotation could be observed through an amplified effect.
• Lynn used spheres of water to explain planetary motion, day and night, the seasons, and the movement of the stars, earning thunderous applause.
• Lynn assigned Lydia, Joanne, Elock, and Pierce homework calculating the pendulum’s motion, and Joanne revealed that she had recorded the experiment’s measurements.
• Yoland and the other Prophecy School wizards faltered as they considered that their star chart might be wrong, until a Witch reminded them that Harov was researching gravity using their data.
• The Prophecy School wizards regained confidence by trusting Harov’s work, then the locked seminar doors crashed to the ground.