Chapter Summaries

Roy refined Lailebuli’s soul into the Fire Copper Magic Lamp, creating a powerful Level 1 combatant, and considered investing further in mutated alchemical products to develop a weapon for killing powerful enemies. After receiving materials for a Space Ring, he learned from Frosv that Netherland’s situation was worsening and that his teacher needed help purchasing an Advanced Golem.

• Roy completed the Fire Copper Magic Lamp, bound Lailebuli’s soul to it as an Artifact Spirit, and tested its Level 1 combat power.
• Roy considered using his growing resources to experiment with further mutations and decided he needed a weapon capable of killing powerful enemies more than additional low-level combatants.
• More than a month later, Roy received custom Aether Stone and Space Ring materials and began work to improve his spatial-alchemy skills.
• Frosv contacted Roy after hearing he had become a Formal Member, and Roy revealed he was a senior member.
• Frosv explained that Netherland’s situation was becoming critical and admitted he was only an intermediate member, asking Roy for help obtaining an Advanced Golem.

Roy learned that Frosv’s forces were losing ground in Netherland as Fenli’s reforms strengthened the orcs, and Frosv asked Roy to help restore the balance. Roy agreed to investigate buying golems through the organization and discovered an exchange meeting was coming soon.

• Roy learned that Frosv was an Advanced Wizard but only a mid-level member of the organization, and Frosv described the worsening war in Netherland.
• Frosv explained that Fenli had united the orcs, improved their military and agriculture, and built support by marrying Durul; Roy realized his earlier experiments had helped uncover her talents.
• Frosv warned that the mages and devils were helping open a passage, while the orcs prepared to invade the Southern Border Icefield within a year or two.
• Frosv asked Roy to serve as a personal shopper and buy golems from organization members to replenish Netherland’s military supplies.
• Roy finished the communication, investigated the organization’s exchange meetings, and found that one was happening soon.

Roy attended a gathering of the Stonecarver's Nation under the code name Kirik and proposed using Soul Pigment to power a Giant Soldier. The other Wizards mistook his knowledge and recent experiments for the work of a master, and Nuchimok asked to exchange contact information with him.

• Roy used the Kirik Magic Ring and a magic array to enter a concealed gathering with eleven other participants.
• Roy introduced himself as Kirik, and the gathered Wizards welcomed him as a new member.
• Nuchimok presented an unfinished Giant Soldier and asked the group how to solve its power-source problem.
• Roy suggested using Soul Pigment and emotions as a power source, explaining why conventional energy struggled to power large golems.
• The Wizards praised Roy's knowledge of Soulology and divine materials, and Nuchimok asked to exchange contact information with him.

Roy used his knowledge of Soul Pigment - Black to contribute to an exchange meeting and gained valuable advanced insights from the gathered wizards. He arranged a ten-billion-magic-stone deal with Nuchimok for Golems to support the Low Magic World’s Plane wars, then rejected Nuchimok’s proposal to collaborate on Giant Soldiers.

• Roy avoided private questioning by explaining Soul Pigment - Black during the public exchange meeting, and Nuchimok reacted with intense interest in the Soul Domain knowledge.
• Roy listened to the wizards discuss gigantic Stone Monsters and their trading needs, gaining useful guidance and market information.
• Roy purchased Sulfur Stone from Kirik and provided Aliftia’s delivery address for the transaction.
• Roy requested large quantities of practical Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Golems for the Low Magic World’s Plane wars, and Nuchimok offered four Giant Soldier Experiments and Hellfire Golems.
• Roy and Nuchimok agreed on a roughly ten-billion-magic-stone deal, with delivery from the Netherland World within eight years.
• Nuchimok proposed sharing Soul Pigment formulas to develop demigod puppets together, but Roy refused because he had no time.

Roy returned from Aster World to Netherland after Frosv arranged a major golem transaction and summoned him for new duties. He arrived to find Erland scarred and Frosv overseeing preparations around a detailed map of the Knight Kingdom.

• Roy endured Nuchimok's repeated messages and planned to exchange new information for progress on the Giant Soldier.
• Frosv told Roy that the transaction terms were nearly settled and that he had secured funds to bring to the Witch Tower as collateral.
• Roy recognized that he still had to serve Frosv and guard Netherland, despite wanting greater freedom to explore.
• Roy traveled through the Teleportation Array with his companions and arrived safely in Netherland, where Furia's armor protected her from fainting.
• Erland greeted Roy with a deep scar across his face and led him to Frosv, who was studying a sand table of the Knight Kingdom amid preparations for battle.

Roy returned to Frosv’s side as the kingdom struggled against mage attacks, Adventurer raids, and other threats, and Frosv assigned him to oversee alchemical production rather than fight. At the southern workshop, Roy unexpectedly reunited with Norwich, who thanked him for helping him get there.

• Roy reported to Frosv, who explained that Kundis and others had died in battle and offered Roy a role guarding the region or supporting alchemical production.
• Eland told Roy that mages and Adventurers had attacked the royal capital, while Frosv explained that the Renes Family still had a bounty on him.
• Roy learned that Valentina’s forces were searching for him and that orcs and devils posed an even greater threat to their side.
• Frosv assigned Roy to inspect the city’s Alchemy Workshop and activate suitable semi-finished products for the battlefield.
• A messenger reported that the bridge south of the city had been destroyed again and a shipment of cloudstone had been seized by Adventurers.
• Roy inspected the southern workshop, where Norwich recognized him and thanked him for arranging his entry there.

Roy reunited with former apprentices Norwich and Stowson, reflecting on how time had changed the people around him. He arranged to run an independent gem-synthesis operation, while Valentina learned that the Wizard she sought had appeared.

• Norwich told Roy that his life had been peaceful and prosperous while many of their former classmates had suffered or died.
• Roy found Stowson working at the Alchemy Workshop and revealed himself, leaving Stowson stunned.
• Roy reflected on the passage of time and the changes in Athedia, Winsbell, and Furia.
• Roy proposed setting up an independent gem-synthesis operation, and Frosv agreed to allocate him a batch of Level 1 Golems.
• Valentina opened her eyes when a Ghastly Green Fireball told her that the Wizard she had been seeking had appeared.

Roy inspected the Gem Workshop and began devising ways to improve its low-yield, hazardous processing methods, asking Sailen to help optimize a plan using Gem Mushrooms and waste to produce Flesh Fossils. He discovered a valley of elemental-contaminated soil suitable for making Flesh Fossils, but Sky Patrolers suddenly flew toward the city and explosions sounded.

• Roy toured the Gem Workshop and learned how workers screened ore, processed Gem Dust, and dealt with dangerous waste.
• Roy examined raw Gem Dust and asked Sailen to optimize a plan involving Gem Mushrooms, Blackening Potion, and Flesh Fossils for the Golem Legion.
• Roy learned that years of discarded waste soil had accumulated in a valley outside the city and found that it could be used to make Flesh Fossils.
• Roy saw silver-white Sky Patrolers rush toward the city, and a rumbling explosion followed.

Roy investigated the Gem Lenses, which could focus ray attacks against the wizards’ aerial forces, and used Sailen’s deductions to refine their production. By late June, he had successfully crafted a Level 1 Gem Lens.

• During an air raid, Wynn and the others told Roy about the ineffective Gem Lenses developed to defend against aerial attackers.
• Roy examined the oversized lenses and recognized that their magic formations could focus high-energy rays.
• Roy moved into the workshop and used Sailen to improve the Gem Lens polishing plan with Blackening Potion and Whitening Technique.
• Roy began developing Whitening Potion to control etching and improve the safety and precision of Blackening Potion.
• In late June, Roy finished processing a lens and Hermes' Eye identified it as a Level 1 Gem Lens.

Roy adapted an old energy module to his Gem Lens and successfully built a Flame Ray Generator, drawing Frosv’s attention to his work. After Frosv gave him an alchemy scroll about Magic Cannons, Roy began crafting the device’s components and discovered that the lenses could use Aesthetic Value.

• Roy tested his Gem Lens with the workshop’s long-stored energy module and created a Ray Generator that fired a powerful Flame Ray.
• Frosv summoned Roy, approved producing more Gem Lenses, and assigned him to make Ray Generators for defense against the Sky Patrol Warships.
• Frosv gave Roy an alchemy scroll describing a Magic Cannon and explained his own unsuccessful attempts to develop it.
• Roy recognized the Magic Cannon as an unfinished version of his Ray Generator and began making its components.
• Roy spent a month studying the Magic Cannon and processing its parts, and Aesthetic Value appeared in the lenses.

Roy discovered that the Death Ray Demon Eye could complement his Mental Anchor, so he decided to keep it. He shared his lens-etching process with the workshop, then discussed with Frosv the risks and limits of spreading the technique as Netherland faced war.

• Roy examined the Death Ray Demon Eye and found that its targeting rune could work with his Mental Anchor, so he decided to keep it and pay the difference with his gemstones.
• Roy summoned the workshop craftsmen and apprentices and shared instructions for etching and processing gemstone lenses to help ease the capital's shortages.
• Frosv questioned Roy about sharing the technique, but explained that its requirements limited its spread and that improved Netherland could benefit him.
• Frosv warned Roy that mages had advantages in research and reproducible production, and noted that Roy's alchemy seemed to follow concepts closer to arcane arts.

Roy unexpectedly created a living sapphire called Gem Life while refining gemstones, then learned that his team had improved their lens production and defenses. As the workshop alarm sounded, Mages’ Warships appeared over the city, leaving Roy and the others facing another attack.

• Roy’s failed Gem Synthesis unexpectedly transformed a cracked sapphire into a living creature he identified as Gem Life.
• Roy kept the quiet Gem Life on his desk, where Domi repeatedly toyed with it while Roy pretended not to notice.
• Wynn and the others reported that their new methods had greatly improved lens production and might enable them to polish higher-level lenses.
• Roy’s team reported that more than thirty Ray Generator firepower positions were ready after their Energy Cores were replaced.
• The alarm bell rang, and Roy used a Crystal Ball to see Mages’ Warships approaching the city.

Roy directed the defense of Knight Royal City as its new Magic Cannons shot down attacking Mages' Warships. Afterward, Frosv approved Roy's proposal for mobile Demon Eye Apostles and revealed that Nuchimok's Golem Legion was expected within about five years.

• Roy ordered the combat-ready teams to test the city's anti-aircraft weapons as the Mages' Warships attacked.
• The Magic Cannons fired Flame Ray spells and destroyed several warships.
• Frosv praised the cannons' success and proposed funding the production of more than a hundred.
• Roy suggested developing mobile golems called Demon Eye Apostles, and Frosv agreed to fund the research as a strategic deception.
• Frosv told Roy that Nuchimok had accelerated the Golem Legion shipments, which had already been underway for six months, and that the decisive battle might come in about five years.

Archmage Gem learned that the mages’ battle shuttles had been destroyed and prepared to send adventurers to investigate. Roy responded to news of a possible attack on Oleg by developing mass-produced Flesh Fossil golems, and he demonstrated a successful miniaturized Death Ray Demon Eye fitted into a voluptuous female giant.

• Archmage Gem learned that a ray-type attack had wiped out the battle shuttles and ordered a mission to investigate, noting that Roy might have brought reinforcements.
• Roy received a warning that the mages might attack Oleg, a southern city deep in the heartland, and returned to his alchemy research.
• More than a month later, Roy showed Norwich, Stowson, and the others how his workshop mass-produced Flesh Fossil statues for use as golems.
• Roy explained that he was developing Animate Potions to make the golems easier to bring to life than casting Animate on each one individually.
• Roy demonstrated a completed one-eyed giant fitted with a miniaturized Death Ray Demon Eye, which struck its target with a measured power of five degrees.
• Stowson and Norwich praised Roy’s design after he explained that the giant’s voluptuous form made room for modules that otherwise had nowhere to go.

Roy developed the Magic Cannon into a productive source of ranged combat units while the Demon Eye Apostles were refined by his recruited sculptors. When Roy inspected his Gem Mushroom nursery at the suburban waste ground, adventurers ambushed him, but he killed or subdued them with his hair, flames, and Death Ray Demon Eye.

• Roy recruited two sculptors to work for him and taught them about the Flesh Fossil.
• Roy’s teams refined one-eyed golems into Demon Eye Apostles while Roy improved his teacher’s Magic Cannon blueprints.
• Roy advanced the Magic Cannon so it could reliably produce high-quality Apprentice-level witchcraft artifacts for mass production.
• Roy found his Gem Mushroom nursery burned out at the suburban waste ground, then was ambushed by adventurers using poisoned arrows and a magic-enhanced greatsword.
• Roy’s Hair Ghost Witch Body restrained and burned the attackers, and he killed the fleeing spellcaster with Flame Ray.
• The half-orc warrior dropped his weapon and collapsed after witnessing Roy’s attack.

Roy learned that the adventurers who attacked him had been lured by the Mage Legion’s bounty and used as expendable scouts. He released the surviving half-orc, Mills, with a hidden tracking rune and patch, then extracted memories from a Mage apprentice and discovered a Locating Spell.

• Roy questioned the surviving adventurers and learned that the Mage Legion had summoned them with a bounty to attack him.
• Roy concluded that the party had been sent as pawns to scout the way, and Planje recalled her own time as an adventurer.
• Roy offered to spare Mills if he provided valuable information, then released him with a concealed tracking rune and patch.
• Roy watched Mills head south toward Oleg through a Crystal Ball and asked Domi to keep watch.
• Roy used Memory Alchemy on a Mage apprentice’s knowledge and memories, producing crystals that Hermes’ Eye identified as a Locating Spell.

Roy discovered from a Memory Stone that Valentina was leading a search for him and planned to use his teacher’s authority to strike first. He went to Frosv to propose hunting her down.

• Roy studied a Secret Rune from the Memory Stone and found memories of Valentina giving orders to adventurers inside the Otherworldly Mansion.
• Roy realized Valentina had not abandoned her grudge and might be using location spells to track him for a fatal attack.
• Black Cat Domi reported that Mills had been captured by a group of mages led by Valentina.
• Roy decided to hunt Valentina first and went to Frosv to connect his personal grudge with the ongoing war.

Roy investigated Valentina’s family and allies while preparing to act against her, then focused on improving his magical weapons. He successfully tested a miniaturized Magic Cannon and learned that the power within him was called Divine Fire.

• Roy learned that Valentina came from the powerful Viken Family and had allies among her former classmates and the Adventurer's Guild.
• Roy kept his plans from Athedia, Winsbell, and Planje while continuing his work at the Gem Workshop.
• Roy and his craftsmen tested a miniaturized Magic Cannon whose smaller lenses preserved its power and lowered its production cost.
• Roy ordered the new designs distributed for mass production using Netherland's low-quality gemstones.
• Winsbell told Roy that the mysterious power in his chest was Divine Fire.

Roy investigated the candle-like object from the Aster World and learned that it was a portion of Asnite's Divine Fire, which he planned to use in crafting a powerful artificial heart. He used the flame to refine Holy Relic Residue into Divine Metal and created a conceptual weapon called Hypnosis Glasses, though its charm-based properties surprised him.

• Winsbell told Roy that Divine Fire refined souls into divinity but could weaken a mortal spirit and shorten its lifespan.
• Roy decided Divine Fire was unsuitable as a path to godhood and planned to use it to improve his artificial heart.
• Roy removed his Sanctification Heart and used Asnite's Flesh and Blood Crystal to cultivate Divine Fire and process Holy Relic Residue.
• Roy refined the residue into Divine Metal, a spiritual material that could be used to create a Conceptual Weapon.
• Roy shaped the Divine Metal into Hypnosis Glasses, which could cast a powerful charm effect on intelligent living and non-living creatures.

Roy discovered that his Hypnosis Glasses spread his charisma through his Spiritual Power, making even Elite Apprentices struggle to resist, and continued his research on equipment and sanctifying a heart. In early March, Frosv summoned the wizards to discuss an attack on Oleg and assigned Roy and Doni to support Tinas.

• Roy tested his Hypnosis Glasses in the workshop and found that their charisma effect captivated the workers around him.
• Roy continued crafting equipment, studying charisma’s possible influence over swarms, and raising the heart’s degree of sanctification.
• Frosv summoned Roy, Erlandt, Besian, Doni, and Blyde as the mages launched an assault on Oleg with at least five Combat Legions.
• Frosv assigned Blyde and Besian to reclaim the eastern Magic Crystal Ore mine and sent Roy and Doni to support Tinas in Oleg.