Chapter Summaries

Punk prepared a hidden cavern to summon the God of Red Sands’ divine kingdom, while Smile completed her bloodline and advanced to the Formal Level. After Kane finished engraving the complicated magic array, Punk activated it and revealed the divine kingdom’s gate.

• Kane spent three days engraving the divine kingdom portal array while Punk waited and Smile finished devouring the souls that completed her bloodline.
• Smile advanced to the Formal Level, manifested traits from the God of Red Sands’ bloodline, and discovered she could fly short distances.
• Punk warned Smile that she would need to obtain control authority over the divine kingdom once its gate opened.
• Kane completed the array without error, and Punk embedded the required magical materials and activated it.
• The spell succeeded, revealing the entrance to the God of Red Sands’ divine kingdom.

Punk, Kane, and Smile opened the gate to the God of Red Sands' divine kingdom and found it nearly empty and catastrophically shattered. Their contracted prizes—the divinity and divine office—were still assured, but Kane worried the ruined kingdom might be impossible to move.

• Punk used costly materials and his magic-array skills to open the gate to the God of Red Sands' divine kingdom.
• Punk, Kane, and Smile saw that the kingdom had lost most of its contents and that a third of its volume had been destroyed.
• Kane feared the damage had ruined the kingdom's movement engine and complained that it had lost much of its value.
• Punk concluded that a Legendary powerhouse had likely shattered the kingdom with Legendary Magic, killing the God of Red Sands.
• Punk and Smile remained confident they would receive the divinity and divine office specified in the Judgment Eye Contract, while Kane worried he could not carry the kingdom away.

Punk sent Smile into the ruined divine kingdom with Vector to find its control authority and open the treasure vault, while he and Kane waited outside. As Smile searched, Punk decided to take the divinity and advance to Legendary on a remote barren plane in the Astral Sea.

• Punk warned Smile to find the divine kingdom’s control authority and gave her Vector for protection against the Astral storms.
• Smile entered the divine kingdom with Vector, eager to claim the God of Red Sands’ legacy.
• Kane paced anxiously while Punk waited calmly, confident that Vector would keep Smile safe.
• Punk decided that after obtaining the divinity, he would leave Faerun and advance to Legendary on a barren plane in the Astral Sea.

Smile returned with control of the divine kingdom and led Punk and Kane to its surviving treasury, though two other treasuries had been destroyed and their contents lost. After the remaining treasures were unloaded, Punk spotted the divinity he had been waiting for among them.

• Smile returned with Vector and revealed that she had gained control of the divine kingdom and opened a portal to its treasury.
• Smile gave Kane the control crystal, confirming that the divine kingdom still had its mobility formation and belonged to him.
• Smile told Punk and Kane that two of the kingdom’s three treasuries had been destroyed and their contents were likely lost in the Astral currents.
• Smile emptied the surviving treasury into the cavern at Punk and Kane’s urging.
• Punk examined the piled treasure and recognized a golden radiance as the divinity he had been waiting for.

Punk discovered five portions of divinity in the God of Red Sands’ treasure, while Smile claimed two divine domains and reflected on the safety of a god’s divine kingdom. The three adventurers divided the remaining boxes and prepared to pursue advancement to Legendary on separate paths.

• Punk found and pocketed five portions of divinity, the key ingredient for the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion.
• Smile found the God of Red Sands’ Inland Ocean domain and a second divine domain, then described the divine kingdom as both a fortress and a cage.
• Punk and Smile argued over whether gods should remain within their divine kingdoms, while Kane listened.
• Punk proposed dividing the remaining boxes equally by number and took half, and Kane accepted the arrangement.
• Kane entered the shattered divine kingdom with his share to head for the Astral Plane, exchanged parting insults with Punk, and left Smile to form her own plan.

Punk Saiyan traveled through the Astral Plane and reached a barren Minor Plane to prepare for his advancement to Legendary. After arriving safely, he began building an underground workshop where he could inspect the God of Red Sands’ boxes and prepare the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion.

• Punk Saiyan spent more than ten years traveling through the Astral Plane with Vector’s help.
• Punk chose an obscure Minor Plane with sparse moss and insect life as his destination.
• Vector redirected Punk’s kinetic energy as he crashed through the plane’s crystal wall, leaving him unharmed.
• Punk ordered Vector to stop casting Directional Interference and began summoning an Earth Elemental.
• Punk started excavating an underground cavern for an Alchemy Workshop and planned to examine the God of Red Sands’ boxes and prepare the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion.

Punk built an underground alchemy workshop and began preparing Redeemer’s Divine Neutralizing Potion with one of his five precious portions of divinity. After a week of work, the divinity fusion failed at the final step, leaving his first attempt wasted.

• Punk used Earth Elementals to excavate a cavern and spent several days building and fortifying a Master Level Alchemy Workshop.
• Punk began preparing Redeemer’s Divine Neutralizing Potion, carefully rehearsing the process and using one portion of divinity.
• Punk spent a week combining hundreds of materials into the potion’s base solution while Vector watched from the workbench.
• Punk guided the divinity into the base solution, but the energy connections shattered just before the fusion finished, causing his first attempt to fail.

Punk’s first attempt to brew the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion failed when the divine energy fusion collapsed, but he used the failure to identify the crucial danger and prepared a second attempt. His second experiment also lost its divine radiance despite his use of High-Level Energy Suppression, leaving the potion’s fate unresolved.

• Punk’s first potion attempt failed when a golden filament snapped and the unstable mixture exploded after he sent it through an Any Door.
• Punk dismissed his failure as a source of experience and identified the final fusion of divinity and base solution as the process’s key difficulty.
• Punk began a second experiment, planning to counter the fusion’s fluctuations with High-Level Energy Suppression.
• After a year of preparation, Punk cast the suppression spell when the divine energy filaments began trembling during the second fusion.
• The divine radiance vanished again just after Punk’s spell appeared over the filament.

After two failed attempts to prepare the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion, Punk realized that the broken energy chain scattered divine energy at light speed, beyond the reach of his Master Level spells. When Vector mentioned his Directional Interference spell, Punk seized on an idea and called the Magic Crow back before he could leave the workshop.

• Punk's second attempt to prepare the potion failed when the connection between the divinity and neutralizing solution broke, wasting another portion of each ingredient.
• Punk concluded that his High-Level Energy Suppression spell could not catch the divine energy scattering at light speed.
• Punk searched for a way to make a Master Level spell move superluminally but found no practical solution.
• Vector asked to explore the Minor Plane, and Punk warned him to avoid the unrepaired breach in the crystal wall.
• Punk suddenly focused on Vector's Directional Interference spell and ordered him back as the Magic Crow tried to leave.

Punk realized Vector’s Legendary spell could redirect the energy escaping during the potion experiment, so he forced the Magic Crow to assist him. With half of his divinity already used and only two portions left afterward, Punk began the third preparation of the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion.

• Punk recalled Vector’s Legendary spell, Directional Interference, and realized it could redirect the escaping energy while moving fast enough to intercept it.
• Punk ordered Vector to watch the energy chains and use Directional Interference when the golden thread broke.
• Vector protested, but Punk threatened to dismantle him if he failed to prove his worth, and Vector agreed to help.
• Punk removed the third portion of divinity and, after recovering his mana, began the third potion experiment with Vector’s assistance.

Punk and Vector completed the third attempt to make the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion by using Vector's Legendary spell to restrain the divinity as its connection broke. The potion succeeded, increasing the chance of advancement to Legendary by fifty percent.

• Punk prepared the neutralizing agent base solution and instructed the terrified Vector to be ready for the final step.
• Punk began fusing the third portion of divinity with the base solution as Vector tried to steady himself.
• When the divine energy connection began to rupture, Punk warned Vector, who cast Directional Interference.
• Vector's spell forced the escaping divine energy into the neutralizing agent, completing the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion.

Punk successfully completed the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion and decided to begin his advancement to Legendary without further delay. After recovering his magic power and calming himself, he drank the potion, beginning the advancement process.

• Punk and Vector successfully fused the divine energy with the neutralizing agent to finish the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion.
• Punk released Vector from the Alchemy Workshop and decided to pursue Legendary advancement, citing his stalled growth, his interest in the Silent Alliance, and the chance to find Kane and seize the divine kingdom's treasures.
• Punk removed and stored his fragile Master Level magic items, then prepared himself to advance.
• After his magic power recovered, Punk swallowed the potion and began his advancement to Legendary.

Punk began his advancement to Legendary by using the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion to shield his soul before perceiving the dormant Destruction Law fragment in the bizarre eyeball. The potion blocked the Law's worst backlash, leaving Punk able to endure the pain and begin comprehending it.

• Punk prepared to perceive a dormant Law fragment rather than risk confronting a Law operating in nature.
• Punk drank the Redeemer's Divine Neutralizing Potion and confirmed that its golden energy was protecting his soul.
• Punk picked up the bizarre eyeball, whose negative energy had been exhausted while corrupting Anya.
• Punk released his Soul Sense toward the eyeball and made direct contact with its Destruction Law fragment.
• The potion's membrane blocked the Law's backlash, and Punk began comprehending the fragment as his advancement to Legendary started.

After 3,649 years of preparation, Punk completed his advancement to Legendary and felt the River of Fate lock onto him with a warning. He dismissed the threat and turned his attention to finding a Legendary Magic laboratory to test his new power.

• Punk completed his soul's evolution and advanced to Legendary after 3,649 years of perceiving Law.
• Punk's advancement unleashed a surge of power that terrified the Minor Plane and devastated its fragile life.
• The River of Fate briefly locked onto Punk, exposing his past and part of his future while warning him against challenging the rules Ao established.
• Punk recognized the gaze as a warning from the River of Fate, but refused to let it frighten or deter him.
• Punk regained his composure and decided to find a Legendary Magic laboratory to experiment with his new power.

After reaching Legendary, Punk examined his heightened perception, physical strength, and command over natural laws. He tested his first Legendary spell by retrieving Vector into the laboratory, then told the surprised Magic Crow that he had only been experimenting.

• Punk felt the River of Fate’s threat recede and focused on learning his new Legendary power.
• Punk tested his perception and found that he could discern natural laws across a vast area.
• Punk discovered that his newly strengthened body could damage the laboratory if he failed to control his movements.
• Punk cast the Legendary Abjuration Spell Position Retrieval and brought Vector from outside into the laboratory.
• Vector realized Punk had advanced to Legendary and asked why he had been summoned, but Punk said he was only experimenting.

Punk tested his first Legendary Level Spell, analyzed its effects, and assessed the benefits of his new body. He turned from celebrating his advancement to considering the dangers and practical decisions that would shape his development as a Legendary spellcaster.

• Punk dismissed Vector after explaining that he had used a Legendary Level Spell to summon the Magic Crow as an experiment.
• Punk reviewed the spell’s speed and precision, then ended Location Acquisition, returning the altered spatial Laws to normal and sending Vector away.
• Punk concluded that changes to Laws were temporary but that objects affected by them retained their altered states, and he recorded his body’s bonuses to spell power and mana efficiency.
• Punk judged his advancement successful and rejected the idea of celebrating or showing off his new Legendary strength.
• Punk began considering which Legendary path to pursue, how to deal with the River of Fate, and how to develop with no resources.

Punk considered how to advance as a Legendary Mage and chose to stay on the pure Mage path. He established strict standards for selecting his primary and secondary Laws, but had not yet named the Laws he would focus on.

• Punk weighed the differences between Legendary Mages and warriors and rejected advancing through instinct and battle.
• Punk decided to continue with the pure Mage path he knew and enjoyed.
• Punk reviewed the approach of specializing in primary and secondary spell schools while broadly studying the rest.
• Punk required his primary Laws to be usable by instinct even when he was severely injured or unconscious.
• Punk planned to use his secondary Laws proficiently for experiments and to familiarize himself with other spells well enough to cast them correctly when needed.

Punk chose Destruction Law as his primary specialization and Fusion Law and Decomposition Law as his secondary specializations, drawing on his affinity and Wedraxia’s research. He examined the River of Fate’s mechanisms and resolved to keep advancing despite the threat of interference.

• Punk selected Destruction Law as his primary specialization because of his soul’s affinity and the abundance of combat spells.
• Punk chose Fusion Law and Decomposition Law as his secondary specializations so he could use Wedraxia’s accumulated Alchemy research.
• Punk distrusted Divination Spells because he believed the River of Fate could manipulate them.
• Punk reviewed the River of Fate’s Monitoring, Interference, and Annihilation mechanisms and considered how they threatened Legendary powerhouses.
• Punk decided to continue developing according to his original plan and seek power and intelligence about the River of Fate rather than retreat.

Punk decided to build his own power base rather than join a legendary organization or seize an empire from a veteran Protector. He planned to invest in a thriving kingdom and raise it into an empire, then set out toward the new world.

• Punk concluded that joining a legendary organization did not suit him and that he lacked the strength to take an existing empire by force.
• Punk recognized that ruling an empire could provide wealth and a steady supply of souls for his alchemy.
• Punk decided to find a prosperous kingdom, invest in its growth, and make it an empire under his rule.
• Punk reinforced his mage robe and resolved to move forward into the new world.

King Wise Hatak and his sister Chancellor Cynthia argued over whether Hatak Kingdom should expand despite lacking a Legendary powerhouse. As Cynthia wished for a Legendary protector, a mysterious figure in a purple robe appeared in the palace amid a sudden supernatural chill.

• Cynthia warned Wise that territorial expansion would expose Hatak Kingdom to danger because it lacked a Legendary powerhouse.
• Wise argued that expansion was necessary to provide for the growing population, satisfy nobles seeking fiefs, and honor the royal family's legacy.
• Wise asked Protector Mosen to support him, but Mosen could not offer an opinion on the political dispute.
• Cynthia failed to persuade Wise and privately lamented that the kingdom's prosperity left it vulnerable without a Legendary protector.
• A sudden, soul-deep cold swept through the palace, and a figure in a purple robe appeared before Cynthia and Wise.