Chapter Summaries

Roy advanced to Level 2 in the Mage Mansion, gaining a greatly enhanced physique and combat strength. As Nisha attacked his apprentices again, Roy sent reinforcements and rushed to confront her after Planje reported her location.

• Roy completed his advancement, and Winsbell, Planje, Sailen, and Domi sensed his transformation.
• Roy assessed his new Level 2 Talin Witch Body and estimated that his close-combat strength could reach around 1,140 degrees.
• Sinde and the other apprentices were ambushed by soulless attackers while patrolling the capital of the Kingdom of Gemid.
• Gacia told Roy that Nisha's repeated attacks were disrupting their operations, and Roy sent Winsbell and Planje eight Level 1 Mechanical Guards.
• Planje reported that Nisha had appeared, and Roy left his hiding place to rush toward the battlefield.

Roy used his newly advanced Level 2 strength to defeat and capture Nisha, a powerful Mindless princess, without killing her. He suspected that her evasive ability activated passively when she faced mortal danger, leaving her bound and at his mercy.

• Gacia and the apprentices sensed Roy's immense Spiritual Power and rushed toward the battle in disbelief.
• Roy swept Nisha off her feet with his chain spear, interrupted her Psionic Blade, and pinned her beneath him.
• Nisha's Super Regeneration healed her wounds, but Roy threatened her chest cavity and stopped her from breaking free.
• When Nisha tried to escape again, Roy pierced and bound her with his chain spear and hair while deliberately keeping her alive.
• Roy claimed that Nisha's evasive ability was passive, and Gacia wondered how Roy had deduced its weakness.
• Roy privately recalled that Nisha had escaped even when the Kirik Magic Ring interfered with her self-awareness, leading him to suspect that Tairin triggered the ability instinctively.

Roy secured Nisha as a prisoner after correctly identifying her Death Substitute ability, then used a potion to make her sign a contract as his follower. The next day, Nisha regretted signing it, but Roy told her the agreement could not be undone.

• Nisha threatened Roy with retaliation from the Kingdom of Salé, while Gacia warned him that Guardian General Benedict was a Level 3 Heartless.
• Roy and Gacia reported the battle to Uller, who promised protection from Level 3 enemies and let Roy keep Nisha as his prisoner.
• Gacia handled the aftermath and the Kingdom of Gemid's affairs while Roy returned to the Mage Mansion.
• Roy brewed the potion One Night of Indulgence and forced Nisha to drink it, then persuaded her to sign a contract making her his follower.
• After the potion wore off, Nisha confronted Roy about the contract, and he told her it could not be undone.

Roy imprisoned Nissa after she refused to willingly become his follower, then planned his next steps after advancing to Level 2. He began modifying the Phantom Beast Ring as a possible dwelling for Melina’s soul.

• Nissa demanded that Roy agree to several conditions, but Roy rejected her attempt to negotiate and left her imprisoned without torture.
• Winsbell worried about forcing Nissa, while Planje, Domi, and Melina suggested harsher ways to make her submit; Roy warned that pressuring her too much could provoke an extreme response.
• Roy decided to remain in the world and pursue resources, including valuable jewelry, Talin, Golden Shells, and Black Talin Magic Potion, while planning to create Athedia’s body and consider a Radiant Gold Golem.
• Roy took out the Phantom Beast Ring and considered using it as a dwelling for Melina’s soul, then began modifying it with his stronger Level 2 Spiritual Power.

Roy upgraded his Phantom Beast Ring and built a larger Space Ring before meeting Benedict, Salé’s Guardian General, to negotiate Nissa’s ransom. Benedict agreed to Roy’s demand of thirty million magic stones, leaving Roy surprised by how readily he accepted.

• Roy modified the Phantom Beast Ring, and Melina entered its spirit-filled space to recuperate.
• Roy used his Aether Stones to create an 888 Space Ring with a Rune Array for intelligent storage management.
• The Kingdom of Salé contacted Roy, and he agreed to meet two Level 1 Heartless envoys carrying a Communication Crystal for Benedict.
• Benedict appeared through the crystal, revealed that he knew Nissa was Roy’s prisoner, and asked to see her.
• Roy brought Nissa to the meeting, and Benedict offered to ransom her.
• Roy named a price of thirty million magic stones, and Benedict accepted immediately.

Roy negotiated Nisha’s ransom with Benedict, using a Devil Contract’s loopholes to deny that she had been placed under a Wizard Contract or curse. At the border exchange, Roy found that the Kingdom of Salé’s apparent ransom was an illusion created by Psionic Ability.

• Roy demanded materials, Tairin from Heartless corpses, and information about Psionic Ability in exchange for returning Nisha, and assured Benedict that she was unharmed and had no Wizard Contracts or curses on her.
• After Benedict ended the communication, Nisha realized Roy had used careful wording to deny a Devil Contract without actually breaking it.
• More than half a month later, Roy arranged a border meeting with the Kingdom of Salé and prepared his Level 2 Wizard forces while Nisha waited in shackles.
• The Salé envoy arrived with goods that appeared to meet Roy’s thirty-million ransom demand, and Roy began appraising them.
• Hermes' Eye revealed that the supposed ransom was an illusion of greed produced by a Psionic Ability illusion spell.

Roy discovered that the Kingdom of Salé’s supposed treasure payment was an illusion created by a flask of Talin, leaving the envoy empty-handed and Nissa captive. Suspecting sabotage and wary of everyone involved, Roy stayed at Valentina’s mansion to investigate and began preparing to refine an Ability Seed for his Golden Shell.

• Roy used Hermes' Eye to discover that the treasures were illusions, while one flask of Talin was genuine and appeared to be the source of the Greedy Illusion.
• Roy took the Talin flask and dispelled its remaining magic, causing the fake treasures to vanish or turn into scrap.
• Roy accused the Kingdom of Salé of having a mole, kept Nissa prisoner, and demanded three million for the flask or a new batch of payment.
• Roy returned to Valentina’s mansion and speculated that Uller and the other Wizards might be involved, then decided to treat everyone as a suspect.
• Roy stayed at the mansion and began preparing to refine an Ability Seed that could grant his Golden Shell a new ability.

After failing for months to guide his Psionic Ability, Roy shifted his attention to his Sun-Avoiding Spiders and discussed their development with Gacia. Their conversation led Roy to propose researching a path of gigantification together.

• Roy gave up refining his Psionic Ability and checked on the Sun-Avoiding Spiders he had cloned and modified.
• Roy fed the smaller spider, whose venom had become potent enough to threaten even an Elite Level Great Knight.
• Roy fed the larger spider and considered whether its development toward toxicity had reached a dead end.
• Gacia delivered demon beast meat and Roy thanked him for providing the Spirit Marrow Potion that had helped Roy advance.
• Roy and Gacia discussed poison and concluded that toxicity alone might not make the Sun-Avoiding Spider stronger.
• Roy suggested researching gigantification with Gacia, hoping the spiders could develop Petrified Skin or a metal carapace.

Roy visited Gacia to check on his research into enlarging Sun-Avoiding Spiders and learned that Gacia was exploring crossbreeding and ways to increase their reproductive capacity. With help from his Magical Alchemical Items, Roy found a possible potion method for breeding magical spiders.

• Roy handed Gacia the Demonic Pattern Giant Spider and spider eggs, then learned that fighting had resumed along the eastern front and received congratulations from his teacher about his promotion.
• After another half month, Roy visited Gacia and found his park filled with giant spiders, potions, and strange experimental materials.
• Gacia explained that he had traded for giant spider-like creatures and hoped to use them to research the gigantification of Sun-Avoiding Spiders.
• Roy reviewed Gacia's notes and used his Bloodline Expert ability to identify selective breeding and low egg counts as key research challenges.
• Roy asked his Magical Alchemical Items for a potion to help magical creatures breed, and they suggested combining the True Love Potion, creature bodily fluids, and the Blessing of the Goddess of Abundance.

Roy studied alchemy and successfully refined the first-level Reproduction Potion, “Blessing of the Goddess of Abundance.” After discovering that Gacia’s giant spider was an Arachne Descendant with a Demigod-level bloodline, he prepared to combine its Bloodline Factors with a True Love potion and asked Sailen to compare possible formulas.

• Roy researched alchemical materials in Valentina’s library and decided his Bloodline Expert bonuses could help him refine the Reproduction Potion.
• Roy used his remaining materials to brew and seal the first-level “Blessing of the Goddess of Abundance,” which greatly increased reproductive capacity but could cause mutations.
• Roy extracted Bloodline Factors from the giant spider Gacia had provided and identified it as a Demigod-level Being with an Arachne Descendant Bloodline at level one.
• Roy recalled that Arachne Descendants inherited their bloodline from the Spider Goddess Arachne and learned how their female-only species reproduced.
• Roy preserved the sample and considered using a True Love potion or one of Lady Gumoze’s pleasure-domain potions as a substitute.
• Roy asked Sailen to establish an inference task to determine which potion combination would work best.

Roy experimented with his Alchemy Talent and used Hermes' Eye to identify the effects of his potions, eventually creating an Arachne Bloodline Potion. He summoned Planje to ask about the Dark Elves' worship of the Spider Queen, and she confirmed it while explaining that she had abandoned her homeland and faith.

• Roy appraised his experimental potions and discovered one that could pass a parent's Bloodline Factors through generations by parthenogenesis, then stored it away.
• On April 3, Roy refined more potions, including a sex-change potion and one that created false illusions of offspring.
• Roy discovered that a new second-tier Arachne Bloodline Potion could grant recipients Arachne bloodline and reproductive abilities.
• Roy considered the Arachne descendants' abilities and violent reproductive practices, then summoned Planje to ask about her people's worship of the Spider Queen.
• Planje confirmed that Dark Elves worshiped the Spider Queen but said she had fled the Underground City and abandoned her faith.

Roy refined a Level 2 Arachne Reproduction Potion and traded with Gacia to continue their research. After Planje underwent a transformation for more than half a month, Roy entered her room and found her in a half-human, half-spider form.

• Roy gave Planje an Arachne Bloodline Potion, which she drank.
• Roy refined a Level 2 Arachne's Reproduction Potion, designed to use an Arachne Descendant as its mother template and bring out the Sun-Avoiding Spider bloodline.
• Roy told Gacia about the successful potion and traded materials for Gacia's Necromantic Witchcraft, while asking him to collect other potions.
• Roy returned to the Mage Mansion and heard a beastlike roar from Planje's room.
• Roy sent Furia away, then entered Planje's room and found her transformed into a naked half-human, half-spider monster.

Planje awakened a powerful spider transformation, and Roy made her adaptive biological armor before testing her abilities. Roy then attended a border gathering where Liam announced a new offensive and assigned Roy and Gacia to oversee logging camps and gem pits.

• Planje gained control of her spider transformation, reaching over three hundred degrees of physical strength.
• Roy forged Planje a biological battle armor that could adapt to her transformed body, and she tested her new abilities on the Training Ground.
• Gacia told Roy that Liam had called a gathering at the Western Front border, and Roy traveled with her to Gesto.
• Liam announced a new offensive against the natives and ordered the witches to prepare to take the Great Forest and the Ves Mountains.
• Liam assigned Roy and Gacia to manage ten Logging Camps and two Gem Pits as a Guard Duty Mission.

Roy and Gacia were transferred to forest resource sites as tensions with the native powerhouses grew. After Roy secretly began mining underground gem deposits, Igor warned him that Lord Uller had been ambushed and the situation might soon change drastically.

• Gacia complained about the transfer, while Roy learned that the alliance was preparing for a possible conflict with the native powerhouses.
• Roy and Gacia arrived at the forest's Logging Camps and Fire Elemental Gem Pits, where an Elite Apprentice gave Roy fifty cracked gems.
• Roy surveyed his new post and reflected on the wizards' exploitation of the local workers.
• Roy used the Secret Rune to direct the Steel Behemoth to excavate gem-rich soil deep beneath the forest.
• Igor covertly warned Roy that Lord Uller had been ambushed and urged him to leave before the situation worsened.

Roy tried to escape his dangerous assignment by arranging a transfer to Netherland, but before the order arrived, devils and their legions invaded alongside the local inhabitants. As Roy and Gacia fled toward the castle, an unseen devil caught up with them.

• Roy asked Igor how to leave his assignment, and Igor advised him to have his teacher recall him to Netherland under the pretext of emergency reinforcements.
• Roy learned that Gacia had no plan to leave, so he contacted his teacher, Frosv, who requested Roy's recall from the Alliance.
• A rift opened in the forest, and Roy glimpsed powerful devils before his Wizard's Eye exploded from the immense Mental Shock.
• Gacia received news that the Hell Devils had attacked, Lord Uller had been ambushed, and local inhabitants were building arrays to summon the Abyss Legion.
• Roy ordered Gacia to flee with him, but a devil followed them and spoke into Roy's mind.

Roy and Gacia lured a Horned Demon into the barren mountains and fought off the devils it summoned. Roy revealed his Level 2 Wizard strength and killed the Horned Demon with a blow from his awakened, transformed arm.

• Roy identified the pursuing devil as a Horned Demon and planned to draw it away from other enemies before turning to fight it.
• Roy and Gacia reached the barren mountains, where Roy attacked a portal and destroyed the horde of monsters sent ahead by the Horned Demon.
• Roy seized the Horned Demon's spiked chain, dragged the invisible devil into view, and wounded it with his spear and Blackening Potion.
• The Horned Demon summoned Lemures, Barb Devils, and Spike Devils, but Roy's Hair Ghost Witch Body and Star Iron Chain Spear defeated them.
• The Horned Demon realized Roy was a Level 2 Wizard and charged him; Roy used Bloodline Awakening and Ferocious Transformation to smash its head with his Petrifying Fist.

Roy and Gacia escaped the demon-infested region and suspected the Abyssal outbreak was tied to the Aberrant Demon God that was the source of Talin. Roy parted ways with Gacia and tried to return to Fortuna City, but found it surrounded by a vast Demon Army and prepared to tunnel beneath it instead.

• Roy defeated the horned demon with a single punch, and Gacia was awed by his strength.
• Roy and Gacia discussed how demons had appeared across the land and considered whether their invasion was connected to the Aberrant Demon God and the wounded Uller.
• Gacia proposed hiding and waiting, but Roy chose to leave him and travel back alone.
• Roy summoned Winsbell, Planje, Dadaru'er, and two Mechanical Guards, and gave Melina supplements while considering how to subdue her and Nissa.
• Roy avoided demons along the way and discovered that the Demon Army had surrounded Fortuna City.
• Roy hid in a mountain hollow and had Dadaru'er dig underground so they could try to pass beneath the siege.

Roy returned to the city to request reinforcements, but Igor warned him that Witch Tower approval could take months and the Teleportation Array might soon be shut down. As demons attacked again, Roy learned that Uller’s State of False Death came from the Nikmanxia Undying Art: Uller had been killed and was waiting to be resurrected.

• Roy emerged from the Steel Behemoth and told Igor that he had encountered a large Demon Army and needed reinforcements.
• Igor explained that Witch Tower approval was still pending and the Teleportation Array could be shut down, leaving Roy uncertain whether he could depart in time.
• A few days later, Roy returned through a Light Gate with Winsbell and Planje as another horde of demons appeared over the city.
• Roy destroyed a nearby Corrupting Pouch, then asked the apprentices about the delayed approval and learned that Uller’s injuries and State of False Death were the main obstacle.
• Roy learned that Uller had used the Nikmanxia Undying Art and was not merely unconscious: he had been killed and was awaiting resurrection.

Roy learned about resurrection methods while waiting for Uller to revive, then began planning to resurrect Athedia as a Corpse Princess while preserving her strength. As the war intensified, he devised a way to separate her horse body and turn it into an Enchanted Metal golem mount linked to her through One Soul, Two Bodies.

• Roy learned that Uller's resurrection could take years and studied the different methods of immortality and resurrection.
• Roy decided to attempt an undying technique to bring Athedia back to life while preserving her Combat Power.
• As demons intensified their attacks in mid-June, Roy studied his notes during a lull in the fighting.
• Roy identified the Corpse Princess technique as a way to create a Pseudo-resurrection for Athedia using a potion.
• Roy planned to replace Athedia's horse body with a human Creature Template and turn the horse body into an Enchanted Metal golem mount linked to her soul.

Roy began constructing a golden lower body for Athedia, whose original corpse he planned to restore through alchemy. He completed a gold statue, joined it to her upper body, and left her as a powerful-looking Corpse Princess wearing enchanted golden stockings.

• Roy calculated that Goldshine would make Athedia's lower body prohibitively heavy and expensive, so he chose to begin with a gold statue that he could gradually refine.
• Roy carved intricate rune patterns into the statue's golden legs, creating enchanted stockings with aesthetic and combat-related attributes.
• Roy separated Athedia's human upper body from her horse half and joined it to the golden legs.
• Roy used the Animation spell to weld the join and conceal the seam beneath the high-waisted stocking design.
• Roy examined the finished Corpse Princess through Hermes' Eye and found that the patterns on her stockings carried stacked attributes.