Chapter Summaries

Roy reunited with Andov, exchanged supplies with him, and learned that Andov had given up pursuing advancement to build a future for his family in the mundane world. After returning to the Witch Tower with Athedia and Planje, Roy discovered that Nia had become an Advanced Apprentice and left for her hometown on the Old Continent.

• Roy told Andov that Ivent and Sailen had died in Osiris World.
• Andov arranged to meet Roy so they could exchange supplies, explaining that he wanted to prepare for his daughter's future.
• Roy and Andov traded goods in the royal city, and Andov described his plans to settle down and pursue a title in the mundane world.
• Roy inspected Andov's valuable minerals, herbs, and magical beast materials, then returned to the Witch Tower with Athedia and Planje.
• Roy asked Athedia to find out how Nia was doing and learned that she had become an Advanced Apprentice and returned to her hometown on the Old Continent.

Roy reflected on his magical progress and began training to improve his ranged attacks, planning to create rocket-propelled javelins. The chapter left him practicing his new approach while the author noted that the Orc arc had been too long and poorly planned.

• Roy decided he would support others in pursuing or abandoning their ambitions, even as Planje privately resented being held captive.
• Roy made emergency magic stones and reviewed how his spells and alchemical creations had developed over twelve years as a Wizard Apprentice.
• Roy concluded that he should expand his ranged attacks and considered using Memory Stones and Experience Stones to develop throwing skills.
• On July 10, Roy practiced throwing javelins while Athedia trained with her bow, and he planned to build a rocket-propelled alchemical javelin.
• The author confessed that the Orc arc had shortcomings and said future worlds would be kept to just over one hundred thousand words.

Roy tried to fund his research by selling Frost Blade and Mimic Mushrooms through the Witch Tower, and the mushrooms sold rapidly while the sword remained unsold. A Curse Seal Wizard from Xijilun Witch Tower requested a meeting to discuss trading technology, and Roy agreed.

• Roy searched for ways to learn curse-tracking techniques but found the available goods expensive and sold only as finished products.
• Roy listed Frost Blade for 800,000 Magic Stones and put batches of Mimic Mushrooms up for sale.
• Buyers quickly purchased Roy's Mimic Mushrooms, including a new batch of attractive "Mushroom Dolls," while Frost Blade received no offers.
• An Elite Apprentice gathered other apprentices to buy the dolls, and Lunnia sought a meeting with their manufacturer to discuss transferring the technology.
• Roy agreed to meet Lunnia, and they entered a room on the fourth floor of the Witch Tower and saw each other.

Roy traded the Creao Mushroom secrets and other materials with Wizard Lunnia for the Mental Anchor and curse research notes, then studied the sorcery. He tested it in the training room, where his javelin missed the target, and began drawing a new target on the wall.

• Roy met Lunnia and negotiated an exchange involving the Mental Anchor, Mimic Mushroom secrets, and curse research notes.
• Lunnia agreed to provide his apprenticeship notes and a copy of the Mental Anchor in return for the Creao Mushroom secrets.
• Roy studied the Mental Anchor and learned that it needed to mark a target with Mental Strength before it could enable a ranged attack.
• Roy entered the training room and threw a javelin at the target, but it missed and struck the wall.
• Roy pulled out a pen and drew a target on the wall as Athedia watched in astonishment.

Roy tested Mental Anchor, a rune spell that pulled projectiles toward marked targets, then planned his golem army and future mass-produced Angel Legion. He struggled to sell a Level 2 Ice Elemental Gem before beginning to use a venomous snake’s battle soul to complete the Cauliflower Snake Black Mamba’s soul.

• Roy demonstrated that Mental Anchor could draw a javelin toward a marked bull’s-eye, and he explained the spell’s limits to Athedia.
• Roy reviewed his golem plans, including eight Enchanted Marble pawns, Galindis, and a future army of six Hero-level golems and eight Level 1 blank-slate golems.
• Roy considered using a Biological Brain and artificially created Intelligent Bodies for golems, with mass-produced Rose Angels as his long-term goal.
• Roy learned that his Level 2 Ice Elemental Gem might take years to sell and found that the Witch Tower would only buy it at the historical low price of 679,000.
• Roy bound a venomous king snake and began absorbing its soul into a chain spear to supply source essence for the Cauliflower Snake Black Mamba’s incomplete soul.

Roy discovered that the Hair Ghost Witch Body was merging with the Soul-Binding Spirit Rope, developing a new form, and then reviewed how to handle a Level 2 heroic spirit. Frosv later told Roy that the Stonemason's Guild had approved his recommended entry, though he would have to pass a trial to become a Formal Member.

• Roy watched his Hair Ghost Witch Body absorb the Soul-Binding Spirit Rope and take on a spirit-rope form alongside its hair and flame forms.
• Roy considered refining the Level 2 heroic spirit into an Artifact Spirit or Golem Spirit, selling it, or leaving it unused until he had more time and resources.
• Roy set aside the heroic spirit and prioritized dealing with the Shatranz Chess Piece.
• Frosv contacted Roy and told him the Stonemason's Guild had approved his recommended entry, but he would begin as a Candidate Member and need to pass a trial for Formal Member status.
• Frosv explained that Formal Members who passed the trial received a Magic Treasure as their member token and said the opportunity was the best guidance he could still offer Roy.

Roy learned that the organization’s membership trial required him to create and donate his best golem, and he began to grasp how demanding its evaluation would be. Frosv warned that Roy’s Bloodhoof Kailon was considered trash and that impressing the ancient evaluators could mean ranking among the best wizards across several thousand years.

• Roy reflected that joining the organization could earn him a practical, powerful treasure as a Formal Member.
• Aliftia informed Roy that his trial was to create his best golem for the Elder Council to evaluate and then donate to the organization, with up to one hundred years to complete it.
• Roy realized that the trial tested his talent and skill, not simply the rank or combat strength of his creation.
• Frosv explained that the donation requirement was meant to test whether Roy could produce exceptional work without exhausting himself or becoming too attached to it.
• Frosv judged Roy’s Bloodhoof Kailon as trash and said that even a perfected top-tier Level 1 creation might earn only ordinary membership.
• Frosv warned that Roy would be judged against geniuses from many eras, and that impressing the ancient Archmages could place him among the best across several thousand years.

Roy learned that the Renes Family had placed a bounty on him, but Frosv advised him to use his leave to grow stronger rather than confront them immediately. He investigated the bounty and the trade system, then tested new Shatranz Chess Pieces and a powerful alchemical explosive, leaving him with new tools for his future travels.

• Frosv told Roy that the Renes Family had issued a bounty for him and urged him to travel during his leave until he reached Level 2.
• Roy asked Planje about the Renes Family and learned that the bounty would continue because the family wanted to deter attacks on its members.
• Planje explained how trade between worlds used the Planar Tide and how goods entered a circulation system that could keep them listed for a full cycle.
• Roy tested Orc Temple Guard chess pieces, which launched javelins and could be equipped with alchemical weapons.
• Roy threw an Explosive Flame Javelin made with processed Tumor Demon Source and blasted a large crater into the ground.

Roy developed a method to create Puppet Cores from brain tissue, taking a first step toward building the Rose Angel Legion. As the month ended, Maiden's Skull told him that Lord Frosv had recommended Astor, a low-magic world on the brink of the Industrial Revolution, as a destination for cross-plane teleportation.

• Roy tested an explosive and decided to use the Creao Mushroom as a raw material and biological factory for mass production.
• Roy built Sailen a powerful jade vessel called Maiden's Skull and tested wireless communication between the main brain and auxiliary brains.
• Roy used the Whitening Technique to refine brain tissue into six Puppet Cores, marking an initial step toward the Rose Angel Legion.
• Aliftia, Lord Frosv, and others sent Roy messages as the month drew to a close.
• Maiden's Skull told Roy that Astor had been recommended for cross-plane teleportation and that the Archmage, the Arcane World, Hell, and Demon God-level beings were interested in it.

Roy learned that the Aster World was a neutral territory whose civilization had arisen from the remains of the Demon God Asnite, and that rival factions secretly competed there by impersonating gods. He prepared to travel there under an approved identity for his organization assessment and received a Letters of Marque granting him temporary authority to develop and prey upon worlds.

• Sailen explained that Asnite’s Remnant Soul had become the Aster World’s World Will, prompting the alliance and other factions to seek its Origin Power while honoring a Sacred Covenant of noninterference.
• Roy learned that representatives of Weizel, Archinila, Hell, and Mount Heaven impersonated local gods, and that Outer Gods were powerful chaotic beings opposed to Order.
• Roy considered the Aster World’s upheaval a possible opportunity and began arranging his trip with an identity secured by Frosv and Aliftia.
• Roy contacted the Aster World through the Witch Tower’s magic array and received approval to visit as an Alliance Special Envoy and Steward Wizard.
• By the end of the month, Roy received Letters of Marque authorizing him and his followers to develop and prey upon worlds, subject to local authority and Seven Towers Alliance operations.

Roy arrived in Aster World under a ten-year wizard license and learned that the low-magic plane was racing toward a Starfaring Era. As Shelby showed him the city, they spotted the Evil God U'ar feeding on something above it, and the carriage turned away.

• Roy followed the Red Skirt Ghost to the Aster Plane with Athedia and Planje carrying Sailen's protected vessel.
• Roy met Shelby, who explained the Alliance's temporary lodging arrangements and the ten-year limit on Roy's license.
• Shelby took Roy and his companions through the air in a reindeer-drawn carriage, where Roy saw an industrial city and heard about its occult technology.
• Shelby spotted the Evil God U'ar above the city, and the apprentice turned the carriage away to avoid it.
• The author noted that one more chapter would arrive later, perhaps in half an hour.

Roy learned that followers of Evil God U'ar could summon Forbidden Power and were to be killed without mercy before Shelby brought him to Snow Castle. There, Roy dismissed most of the assembled maids but ordered a pregnant woman and a noblewoman to stay.

• Shelby explained that Evil God U'ar manifested like a natural phenomenon and warned Roy to kill anyone attempting to control an evil god's power.
• Shelby said wizards could use any means necessary against such followers, with others covering up the consequences afterward.
• Shelby brought Roy to Snow Castle, where Spalding welcomed him and showed him his bedroom.
• Spalding presented Roy with a group of maids, including a pregnant woman and a noblewoman.
• Roy sent the other maids away and ordered the pregnant woman and the noblewoman to stay.

Roy learned that many people in his castle had been trapped there by Plutos’s predatory debts and contracts, then turned the Alchemy Room into a restricted workspace to prepare for his organization’s test. He connected Maiden’s Skull to equipment and planned to upgrade his Shatranz Chess Piece while advancing his other projects.

• A noblewoman and a pregnant woman told Roy how debt and failed investments had brought them to serve the Mysterious Persons.
• Roy questioned Spalding and learned that many residents had entered service through financial contracts arranged by Plutos.
• Shelby confirmed that Plutos’s owners included servants of Ombas, Weizel, and Archinila, and explained how the contracts made the workers’ debts impossible to repay.
• Roy ordered Athedia and Planje to guard the Alchemy Room as a restricted area.
• Roy connected Maiden’s Skull to a cable and nutrient tube, then planned to upgrade his Shatranz Chess Piece and prepare for the organization’s test.

Roy developed his snowbound castle, tested Creao Mushroom cultivation, and began selecting servants to teach. After making more activating potion, he reflected that the castle was a temporary base, still far inferior to his mansion in the Witch Tower.

• Roy inspected the castle nursery and gave Yolanda a Spore Sac and instructions for growing Creao Mushroom with geothermal heat.
• Ofelina selected ores from the castle warehouse for Roy to examine with Hermes' Eye.
• Roy found that Creao Mushroom had stopped growing in the cold and decided to develop a cold-resistant variety.
• Roy began giving materials and lessons to promising servants while postponing the use of Knowledge Potion to assess their aptitude.
• Roy made more activating potion with the Animate Spell, ordered Athedia to divide it into portions, and had her feed the remainder to Sailen.

Roy read the local newspaper and learned about the world’s industrial development, a possible high-grade Magic Crystal deposit, and a potion that transformed a man into a woman. Shelby explained that the potion came from Archmage Pris and circulated through a secret wizard marketplace, leaving Roy curious about how the noble had acquired it.

• Roy learned from the newspaper that high-grade Magic Crystal Ore had been found in the Western Wasteland and asked Sailen to report relevant intelligence.
• Roy heard about a painter who had been transformed into a woman with a potion and sold to a brothel after an affair with a noblewoman.
• Roy and Sailen discussed the potion’s level and how it related to Bloodline Wizard research.
• Roy messaged Shelby, who said the potion came from Archmage Pris and had reached the noble through a secret marketplace established by wizards.

Roy learned about an upcoming black-market auction and made progress cultivating Mimic Mushrooms and researching cold resistance, creating a strain that could absorb Ice Elemental and condense Tumor Demon Source. By the end of November, he traveled through Snow Country under the alias Yilor and met the local Night Watchmen.

• Roy heard from Shelby that a grand black-market auction would be held on December 20 in Applaney City and asked Sailen to remind him.
• Roy created a Cold-Resistant Flesh Mushroom strain that could absorb Ice Elemental and condense Tumor Demon Source, then began considering how to cultivate other Elemental Mushrooms.
• Roy rode Athedia through Snow Country to meet Planje and the Night Watchmen, who cleaned up supernatural incidents caused by foreign Mysterious Persons.
• The Night Watchmen's leader mistook Roy, disguised as Yilor, for a headquarters official and was struck by his beauty.

Roy arrived in Applaney City with Athedia and met the Night Watchmen who escorted him to the Andora Opera House, where a secret marketplace was to be held. More than half a month later, disguised as the noble Yilor, Roy attended the marketplace’s year-end auction as it began.

• Roy observed a Night Watchman’s powered armor and considered the future threat posed by Aster’s technological development.
• Roy followed the Night Watchmen into Applaney City with Athedia disguised as a horse.
• The Night Watchmen brought Roy to the Andora Opera House and arranged a hotel suite for him.
• More than half a month later, Roy entered the city as Yilor with two maids and went to the opera house for the auction.
• Roy entered the hidden marketplace, where a host explained that goods would be sold through blind bids and that accepted payment included treasures from the Mysterious World.

Roy bought a seemingly worthless living oil painting at the auction after spotting a golden radiance within it. Back at the inn, he discovered that its pigment contained pure divine essence and began dissolving the painting, triggering an inspiration about a soul base color and pigment formula.

• Roy watched the auction and dismissed the early lots as weak or expired magical items.
• Roy noticed golden radiance in a living oil painting and bought it for a little over a hundred gold coins.
• Roy paid for the painting with an aluminum block, which the auction staff valued as Supreme White Aluminum, and exchanged it for ordinary gold coins.
• Back at the inn, Roy used Hermes' Eye and his Mental Strength to identify divine essence hidden in the painting's blue pigment.
• Roy soaked the painting in water to dissolve it, triggering an inspiration about a soul base color and pigment formula.

After learning a Soul Base Color pigment technique, Roy gathered materials in Applaney City and began the White Rose project to create a Rose Angel Artificial Soul. He prepared a white pigment mixture with Chalk Soil and added Condensed Milk and sugar, aiming to make the soul sweeter and more obedient.

• Roy realized the pigment formulas could guide an Intelligent Body’s emotions and traits, and concluded he had the means to create an Artificial Soul.
• Roy settled in a noble’s villa in Applaney City and hired an intermediary to buy pigments and alchemical materials.
• Roy connected the Soul Base Color technique to Narcissus Love and chose to begin with white pigment for his Rose Angel project.
• On January 1, 13031, Roy officially launched the White Rose, Angel Prototype Zero project and calculated the divinity, humanity, and bestiality needed for the soul foundation.
• Roy prepared Chalk Soil and other materials in an Alchemy Room, then poured Condensed Milk and granulated sugar into the mixture to make the Artificial Soul sweeter and more obedient.

Roy refined the divine soul pigment and used a familiar ritual to turn the black cat Domi into his familiar, collecting its animality for his alchemy. A few days later, an evil god’s followers summoned the Lord of the Black Fog, which descended on Applaney and killed more than a thousand residents.

• Roy extracted the divinity from the oil painting and used a familiar-refinement ritual to make Domi his familiar, collecting the cat’s animality as a soul material.
• Domi’s intelligence increased, and Athedia fed and cared for it at Roy’s temporary residence.
• Roy read reports about abnormal fog in Applaney and received a warning from Shelby that the Lord of the Black Fog’s followers were preparing a summoning ritual.
• Newspapers first blamed the fog on cold weather and coal burning, then reported that the Lord of the Black Fog had descended on Prime Minister Street and killed more than a thousand residents.