Chapter Summaries

Lynn discussed magic and spacetime curvature with Harov, then returned to the school lounge to test how the Law of Universal Gravitation could simplify Force Field Magic. After developing a Deflection Field, he demonstrated it against Joanne, Elock, and Pierce, then prepared to retaliate.

• Harov bought Lynn's round Glass Mirror for twenty Gold Coins and passed it to someone who made it vanish.
• Lynn returned to the school lounge and began studying a Force Field Magic spell model, while assigning Philip and the others to find property in Greenriel for the Iyetar School.
• Joanne, Elock, and Pierce attacked Lynn with magic, but his Deflection Field turned aside their spells.
• Joanne set off a hydrogen explosion around Lynn, who remained unharmed and corrected her hydrogen-to-oxygen ratio.
• Lynn raised his hand and began preparing his own attack as Joanne, Elock, and Pierce braced themselves.

Lynn demonstrated Resonance Magic, incapacitating Joanne, Elock, and Pierce, then explained how it worked and revealed his lesser Deflection Field. He described his failed attempts to create Spatial Vibration Wave, a far more powerful spell that could attack through space.

• Lynn used Resonance Magic to disrupt the trio’s organs, and Elock surrendered before Lynn stopped the spell.
• Joanne, Elock, and Pierce recovered and asked Lynn what magic he had used, but he kept Resonance Magic’s principles secret.
• Lynn told them that the spell blocking their flames and frost was [Lesser—Deflection Field], an advanced third-ring spell rather than Fourth-ring Magic.
• Lynn explained that he had developed Resonance Magic while researching Force Field Magic and was trying to combine it with Ripple Magic.
• Lynn revealed that he had named his uncompleted spatial attack [Spatial Vibration Wave] and would need additional computing power to cast it.

Lynn discussed the Land of Wizards’ growing interest in exploring beyond the Sea of Mists with August, who privately supported opening it up. Lynn questioned how much they truly knew about the Church and urged August to ask the council’s chairmen, leaving the debate unresolved.

• Philip told Lynn that people were calling him and August Greenriel’s Twin Stars, and Lynn worried that the rumors might be deliberate.
• August visited Lynn and asked what he thought of the Land of Wizards’ development compared with the Secas Empire.
• August explained that Lynn’s theories had strengthened the progressive faction and said his decision could influence the council’s choice about exploration.
• August admitted that he personally supported opening the Land of Wizards to the outside world because resources were dwindling and competition was growing.
• Lynn asked how much August and Rol knew about the Church, then said the council’s chairmen might better understand their enemy.

Lynn questioned why the Holy See seemed beyond the wizards’ power, while Aiden witnessed a Doomsday Cult gathering that rejected Lynn’s scientific explanation of the coming celestial alignment. Aiden suspected the cult was using magic to inflame its followers and went to report the situation to August.

• Lynn reasoned that the council’s reluctance to oppose the Holy See meant the Church’s power might exceed what wizards could challenge, and he explained to Philip that other distant forces could also be involved.
• A middle-aged wizard told several hundred Greenriel City wizards that the Spirit of Elements would bring an apocalypse in five years unless they stopped using elemental power.
• A young Witch cited Lynn’s explanation that the five-star alignment was a predictable astronomical event, but the speaker denounced Planet Theory and convinced the doubters to reaffirm their beliefs.
• Aiden and another officer sensed that magic was intensifying the crowd’s fervor and recalled how the Doomsday Cult had grown increasingly radical over the past three years.
• Aiden told his companion to keep watching while he went to report the gathering to August.

Aiden and his companions tried to escape after discovering the Doomsday Cult’s gathering, but the red-robed leader exposed Aiden and trapped him in the hall. The leader empowered Xiya to kill Aiden, and the cult began its prayer ritual with renewed faith in the Spirit of Elements.

• Aiden found the exits blocked as the red-robed leader warned the hall that council spies had infiltrated the manor.
• The leader used a glowing black statue to reveal Aiden, while Aiden’s companions attacked and a constable was killed covering their retreat.
• Aiden nearly reached a window, but the red-robed leader struck him with a fiery whip, shattered his Mage Shield, and forced him to the ground.
• The leader ordered Xiya to finish Aiden and used the statue to fill her with power, enabling her to cast a Flame Burst Spell.
• Xiya hurled the fireball at Aiden as the gathered Wizards praised the Spirit of Elements, and the red-robed leader began the prayer ritual.

Lynn attended the investiture ceremony at Corona Tower, where the Magic Council entrusted him with naming the planet. He named it the Eternal Star, then entered the Sky Realm as the ceremony awaited the arrival of another Legendary Wizard.

• Lynn arrived at Corona Tower with the Iyetar School apprentices and received congratulations from the gathered wizards.
• Master Raphael told Lynn that the council had chosen him to name the planet because he founded planetary theory.
• Lynn named the planet the Eternal Star, and Raphael approved the name.
• Raphael led Lynn and his companions into the Sky Realm, where Lynn saw the Legendary Wizards Vittorio and Aurora among the council chairmen.
• Raphael said the ceremony was waiting for Lord Faiz, while Lord Altoc could not attend because of his troubled condition.

Harov began the delayed medal ceremony despite Faiz’s absence, honoring Belon, August, and other wizards before presenting Lynn with the Corona Medal for his groundbreaking theories. As Harov prepared to hand over the medal, someone took it first and said, “Allow me.”

• Vittorio asked Harov about the Secret Magic Society, and Harov praised its Legendary Wizards’ knowledge of the universe and spacetime.
• With Faiz still absent, Harov began the ceremony and awarded Belon and several other wizards Morning Star Medals for their achievements and service.
• Harov awarded August a medal for defeating Kashimo, a leader among the remnants of the Psionics School.
• Harov praised Lynn’s planetary theory and Theory of Gravity and announced that the council had unanimously awarded him the Corona Medal.
• As Harov prepared to present the medal, an unidentified person picked it up and offered to present it instead.

Aurora unexpectedly kissed Lynn and called him her “Brown Star” during his Corona Medal ceremony, where he also received a councilor’s seat. The celebration ended when the wounded Black Dragon Faiz crashed into Greenriel City, and Lynn went with Philip and the others to investigate.

• Aurora pinned the Corona Medal on Lynn, kissed his forehead, and whispered, “Good afternoon, my Brown Star.”
• Lynn thanked the wizards and credited his Three Laws of Stars to collaborative research, declaring that practice was the sole criterion for testing truth.
• Harov announced a vote on Lynn’s councilor’s seat, and the Council unanimously approved him.
• A wounded Black Dragon flew over Greenriel City and crashed, prompting Lynn and Philip to go investigate.
• Lynn and the others found Faiz lying in rubble, badly wounded and bleeding, with no casualties reported.

After Faiz returned gravely injured from the Magic Stone Mine, the council debated how to respond to the unknown threat near Greenriel. Harov chose to lead an expedition with the other chairmen and Great Wizards, leaving August in charge and Lynn behind.

• Harov, Aurora, and Vittorio examined Faiz, confirmed his injuries were serious but not immediately life-threatening, and sent him away to recover.
• Harov told the council that Faiz remained in critical condition despite receiving a Resurrection Potion, and he suspected Faiz had encountered a powerful Magic Beast near the mine.
• Tick explained to Lynn that Mount Kogal contained a vast Magic Crystal Mine and a mysterious Space-Time Gate from which unknown Magic Beasts sometimes emerged.
• The council members argued over whether to attack the threat immediately or investigate first, while Lynn stayed silent because they had too little information.
• Harov decided that the three chairmen would lead nine Great Wizards to investigate and restrict the Space-Time Gate, but he chose not to bring Lynn.
• Harov appointed August to preside over the council's affairs while the expedition was away.

After Faiz’s attack stirred rumors of the apocalypse in Greenriel, Lynn suspected someone was deliberately spreading panic. He continued developing glass and paper and began recruiting skilled wizards to help build the Magic Domain.

• Lydia repeated rumors that the moon would fall when four planets aligned, and Lynn explained that such a disaster would require magic or an extraordinarily unlikely celestial collision.
• Lynn suspected the apocalyptic rumors were being spread deliberately to harvest faith and criticized the council for neglecting public opinion.
• Daren reported that he had successfully made flawless glass and said the paper Lynn requested would be ready by the following day.
• Lynn asked Elock, Pierce, and Joanne about their progress with the inscription spell, then gave Joanne and the others books on gravitation and advanced mathematics to copy.
• Lynn told Elock that the difficult problems were intended to identify wizards with exceptional calculation skills, whom he planned to recruit into the Magic Domain.

Lynn prepared a new gathering in the Magic Domain to strengthen his ability to face powerful threats, while glassware and advanced mathematics books went on sale in Greenriel City. Tick discovered that the first problem in [Advanced Mathematics] was far more difficult than he expected.

• Lynn decided to invite twelve Three-Ring Wizards into the Magic Domain and had the intelligent brain prepare the gathering place.
• Two days later, Daren sold the limited glass mirrors and other glassware to eager customers in Greenriel City.
• The glassware quickly sold out as wizards bought it for themselves or sought to resell it elsewhere.
• Tick bought [Advanced Mathematics] after learning that twelve Official Wizards would be invited to discuss a difficult problem.
• Tick read the first problem, which asked for the sum of the squares of every integer from 1 to 9999, and was overwhelmed by its difficulty.

Tick struggled through Lynn’s Olympiad mathematics problems, deriving a formula before becoming stuck on a five-monkey peach puzzle. Meanwhile, Lynn prepared calculus lessons in the Magic Domain to keep wizards occupied, but a strange dagger suddenly appeared and attacked him.

• Tick spent all night searching for a pattern in the first problem and derived a formula that matched his calculations.
• Tick found the five-monkey peach problem difficult because it gave too few conditions, and other wizards also struggled with the Olympiad questions.
• Lynn filled the Magic Domain’s second gathering place with mathematics books and planned to use calculus to keep wizards solving problems and speed up the cracking of their Mental Power frequencies.
• Lynn suddenly sensed danger, left the Magic Domain, and raised an invisible Magic Barrier around himself.
• A rune-covered dagger emerged from the air and slashed toward Lynn’s neck.

Lynn survived an attack by two wizards, killing one with his Repulsion Fire Ring and capturing the other. When he tried to search the captive’s memories, a Soul Restriction killed him, leaving Lynn and the arriving Philip and Kevin without answers about who ordered the attack.

• An attacker used a magic-breaking dagger to shatter Lynn’s barrier, but Lynn evaded him and drove him into view with a Repulsion Fire Ring that consumed his companion in White Phosphorus Fire.
• A second attack shattered Lynn’s Mage Shield, but the Deflection Field diverted the dagger; Lynn used magic waves to locate the fleeing attacker and knock him down with Resonance Magic.
• Lynn pierced the gray-robed wizard’s limbs with ice blades and questioned him, then triggered Memory Retrieval, causing a Soul Restriction to kill the captive before he could learn anything.
• Philip and Kevin arrived after hearing the explosion and screams, found Lynn unharmed, and saw the two attackers’ corpses.

After Lynn survived an assassination attempt, August explained that three other councilors had been killed and suspected the attacks were linked to the Doomsday Cult. The Security Team strengthened Lynn’s manor defenses and began investigating the cult as Lynn realized his Theory of Universal Gravitation might have made him a target.

• August arrived with the Security Team, took the attackers’ bodies for identification, and told Lynn that three councilors had been killed in the past two days.
• Lynn recounted the ambush while omitting his use of psychic magic, and August suggested the attackers had used Polarization Magic, shadow magic, or psychic illusions.
• August said the attacks likely came from the Doomsday Cult, whose followers opposed elemental studies and targeted councilors who excelled in them.
• Lydia suggested Lynn was attacked because his Theory of Universal Gravitation contradicted the cult’s doomsday claims, and Lynn recognized that this could make him a target.
• August said the Security Team was following wizards spreading doomsday claims, warned Lynn not to go out alone, and left guards to protect his manor.

Lynn rejected plans to flee or attack the Doomsday Cult and strengthened his manor while the council investigated. Meanwhile, wizards raced to solve his fifteen advanced-mathematics problems, and Tick discovered he was the twelfth to earn a Ring of Secret Magic.

• Lynn refused to leave Greenriel or strike at the attackers, choosing instead to fortify the manor and await the council's investigation.
• Lynn kept the attackers' dagger and considered ways to detect magic that concealed people from sight.
• Tick solved all fifteen mathematics problems after three and a half days of intense work and hurried to Lynn's manor to claim his reward.
• Philip checked Tick's answers and gave him a Ring of Secret Magic, revealing that Tick was the twelfth recipient.
• Tick concluded that meditation breaks to restore his energy had made him fall behind the other wizards.

Tick entered a magical library for an arcane mathematics gathering, where he and the other wizards compared their solutions to a problem about dividing peaches. Leibniz then presented a challenge: prove that Zeno could catch a turtle despite Zeno’s claim that he never could.

• Tick put on the Ring of Secret Magic and explored a lifelike magical library before a book guided him to the gathering.
• Tick explained his solution to the peach problem and admitted it had taken him about four hours.
• Alva said he had solved the problem in three hours and twenty-seven minutes, while Ellison revealed he had used dozens of apprentices to find the answer by exhaustive enumeration.
• Leibniz arrived, introduced himself, and welcomed the wizards to the Sea of Arcane Mathematics.
• Leibniz explained that Zeno had wagered he could never catch a turtle given a hundred-meter head start, and asked the wizards to prove Zeno wrong.

Leibniz explained Zeno’s paradoxes to Tick, Alva, and the other wizards, challenging them to reconcile mathematical reasoning with what they could observe. They left caught between the question of whether time and space had smallest units and how motion could arise from positions in which an arrow was still.

• Tick asked Leibniz why Zeno could catch a turtle if the chase involved infinitely many steps, and Leibniz illustrated the shrinking gap between them.
• Leibniz argued that Zeno’s eventual catch-up raised the question of whether space and time had smallest units, prompting Alva and the others to reconsider the nature of continuity.
• Leibniz conjured an iron arrow and asked whether it moved, then reasoned that if time consisted of smallest instants, the arrow would be stationary at each one.
• Tick, Ellison, Alva, and the other wizards struggled to reconcile the arrow’s apparent motion with the reasoning that it was still at every instant.
• Leibniz observed that the two paradoxes could have caused a second mathematical crisis in the seventeenth or eighteenth century.

Tick and other wizards studied Leibniz’s new discipline of calculus, which challenged them and increased their magic power. Meanwhile, the Magic Council argued over how to deal with the growing Doomsday Cult as Greenriel’s defenses and manpower proved dangerously weak.

• After three hours of thought, Tick admitted he could not solve the two paradoxes, and Leibniz said their answers required a new branch of study called calculus.
• Tick, Alva, and the other wizards spent ten hours studying calculus in the Magic Domain and discovered that the difficult work was increasing their magic power.
• Raphael urged the Magic Council to purge the Doomsday Cult, but another councilor warned that attacking hundreds of wizards could trigger a costly war in Greenriel City.
• The councilors argued over how to capture the cultists, while the discovery of more than three hundred members exposed Greenriel’s shortage of manpower and its weakened defenses.
• Several Great Wizards looked sympathetically at August, who had inherited the council’s troubles as acting chairman.

August presented intelligence linking the Doomsday Cult’s elemental theories to Altoc’s ideas and proposed a strike against the cult’s leaders. The council approved an operation for three nights later, while Lynn stopped Rol afterward to speak with him privately.

• August interrupted the council’s argument and asked Rol to distribute the Security Team’s intelligence on the Doomsday Cult.
• Lynn and the council read the cultists’ records and theories, including their belief that a conscious Spirit of Elements would bring about the apocalypse.
• August pointed out similarities between the cult’s theories and Altoc’s work, but denied that Altoc was involved.
• August revealed that the cult would gather in three nights and warned that Harov and the other chairmen might have been deliberately drawn away by the disturbance at the Magic Stone Mine.
• The council approved an operation to capture the cult’s leaders, and the meeting ended after the members discussed its details until ten at night.
• Lynn stopped Rol as he was leaving and asked to speak with him alone.

Lynn suspected that the Doomsday Cult’s transformation, the Psionics School’s destruction, and Coru’s departure were connected, and asked Rol to investigate. Meanwhile, the impostor posing as Odessa trapped the injured Faiz in a Doomsday Domain and attacked him with Starfall.

• Lynn told Rol to investigate arrivals from beyond the Sea of Mists and the Psionics School’s past activities, while keeping his theory secret.
• Faiz woke in his Greenriel estate, injured and disoriented, and realized the estate had fallen silent.
• A red-robed wizard claiming to be Odessa revealed a strange statue, and Faiz recognized that he was an impostor.
• The impostor cast Doomsday Domain, enclosing the estate in a blood-red space with five celestial bodies overhead.
• The impostor sent the silver celestial body crashing down as Starfall, and Faiz met it in midair and shattered it.
• Wounded by the collision, Faiz unleashed a blazing breath at the impostor.