Chapter Summaries

Roy, Athedia, and Nissa arrived in the primitive world of Diovis and traveled east from the Kader Desert toward its rainforest. After Roy rescued a tribal huntress from a pack of mutated wolves, she identified herself as Beril of the Sera Tribe.

• The Maiden's Skull explained that Diovis lacked a Governor Wizard and remained divided among primitive tribes.
• Roy flew east with Athedia and Nissa, while the Maiden's Skull guided them toward the Great Forest.
• Roy told Nissa about Diovis's tribal customs, including ritualized funeral consumption and cannibalism.
• Athedia spotted Beril fleeing a pack of mutated wolves, and Roy killed the alpha wolf with his Star Iron Chain Spear.
• Beril knelt before Roy and introduced herself as a member of the Sera Tribe.

Roy brought Beril toward the Sera Tribe and found Terra Tribe warriors attacking it under the command of an old wizard. He incapacitated the wizard with Lailebuli and left both tribes kneeling before him, intending to learn more about their world.

• Roy learned that the Terra Tribe had conquered Beril’s Sera Tribe and forced its people to hunt wolf hearts as tribute.
• Roy ordered Beril to guide him to her tribe and carried her through the forest on his magic carpet.
• Beril spotted Terra Tribe warriors attacking the Sera Tribe and killing its people with witchcraft-enhanced weapons.
• Roy summoned Lailebuli, who breached the old wizard’s Bone Armor and wounded him before Roy recalled the Fog Demon.
• The Native warriors stopped fighting and fell to their knees before Roy and his companions.

Roy interrogated Sanmobi, a Terra Tribe wizard, and learned about primitive witchcraft and the custom of hunting heads. He escorted Sanmobi to his Forest Hut, where he found powerful materials crudely made into charms and discovered that a frog on a skewer was Beril’s father transformed by witchcraft.

• Roy examined Sanmobi’s Voodoo Heads and learned they could store spirituality and grant intelligence to an Intelligent Body.
• Sanmobi explained that his tribe hunted enemies because they resisted and had to be killed.
• Roy brought Sanmobi to his Forest Hut and inspected its Terror Totems, which could frighten living creatures.
• Sanmobi was shocked when Roy described a Jingguan built from thousands of human heads.
• Roy searched Sanmobi’s hut and found meteoric iron and Magical Beast Cores carved into crude witchcraft objects.
• Beril recognized a frog on a bamboo skewer, and Roy realized Sanmobi had transformed Beril’s father with witchcraft.

Roy rescued the Sera Tribe by defeating Sanmobi and took over as its Guardian Wizard, then began studying Malicious Transformation. Three months later, he completed the spell model for the transformation curse.

• Roy questioned Sanmobi about the potion that had transformed the Sera Tribe's Guardian Wizard into a frog and demanded its formula.
• Roy returned to the Sera Tribe with Beril and the frog, and the Clan Members asked him to stay as their protector.
• Nissa accused Roy of engineering events to claim the Guardian Wizard's position, and Roy admitted he planned to establish a foothold in Oudivis.
• Roy settled near the Burqi Great Marsh, appointed Beril Female Chieftain, and began researching witchcraft.
• Roy completed the Spell Model for Malicious Transformation after three months of study.

Roy tested Malicious Transformation on a wild boar, turning it into a sturdy frog, and explained how the spell’s control duration depended on the caster and target. He decided to focus on improving the spell’s penetration against powerful opponents, using stronger witchcraft and modifying Sanmobi’s Staff.

• Roy returned from the Mage Mansion carrying Sanmobi’s bone staff, and Athedia and the others gathered around him.
• Roy cast Malicious Transformation on a wild boar Nisha had caught, turning it into a large green frog.
• Roy explained the spell’s effects, duration, and dependence on the relative strength of the caster and target.
• Roy considered how to make Malicious Transformation penetrate powerful enemies’ resistance, including engraving Level 2 Animate and improving his Spiritual Power.
• Roy decided to modify Sanmobi’s Staff to strengthen the spell’s penetration.

Beril brought Roy a great-horned deer, and he used its head and blood in his alchemy experiments. He improved his bone staff and considered seeking stronger witch bones to enhance it further.

• Beril offered Roy a great-horned deer, and he kept its head and blood while telling her to bring better materials in the future.
• Roy enchanted the deer head into a Level Zero Head of Preservation that granted Majesty +2, then hung it in the living-room corridor.
• Roy refined the deer blood into hair-care salve and used it to strengthen his Hair Ghost Witch Body.
• Roy inspected his cultivation projects and completed a Treasure Sacrifice Ritual that upgraded Sanmobi's Staff to Level One.
• Roy found that the staff enhanced Malicious Transformation and weakened Will-type resistance, then considered obtaining a stronger Hero-level Demon Hag or the Witch Queen's bone to improve it.

Roy researched the materials needed to create a Reinforced Bone Staff and learned that a powerful Demon Hag or Witch Queen would be required. He recruited Beril as his follower and planned to train her through Tenecha Engraving, with Beril choosing the leopard as her totem.

• Roy found that a Reinforced Bone Staff required materials from a Demon Hag or Witch Queen with the ability of Specialized Curse.
• Beril told Roy she was fifteen, had little combat training, and had seen a Demon Hag only once as a child.
• Roy asked Beril to become his follower, and she agreed; he drafted a Wizard Contract with lenient terms for her to sign.
• Roy told Beril he would later grant her a wizard's blessing through Tenecha Engraving.
• Beril chose the leopard as her source of power, and Roy supported her choice despite Nisha's disdain.

Roy gave Beril a leopard-themed Tenecha Engraving, then refined and injected a Magic Leopard Bloodline Potion that let her transform into a powerful magic leopard. After testing her new abilities, he ordered her to guide the group to the Great Swamp to hunt the hag.

• Roy had Beril hunt a leopard, then made its hide into a jacket and its flesh into engraving pigment.
• Roy engraved Beril with Tenecha patterns, gained basic Alchemy Knowledge, and learned the Magic Leopard Form technique.
• Beril said she felt stronger, while Nissa and Planje doubted the idea of a leopard spirit.
• Roy obtained a magic leopard with Planje's help, refined its blood into a potion, and injected it into Beril.
• Beril controlled her Magic Leopard Form, demonstrated powerful beast abilities, and was ordered to guide the group to the Great Swamp to hunt the hag.

Roy and Beril searched the Burqi Great Marsh for a powerful Demon Hag, and Roy eventually killed one with help from Nisa. After harvesting its materials, they were confronted by a native wizard who accused them of stealing his prey.

• Roy traveled to the Great Marsh with Beril, while Planje and Princess Nisa accompanied them on the flying carpet.
• After searching for three days, Roy found a powerful Demon Hag and transformed it into a frog with his magic.
• Nisa struck the Demon Hag with Psionic Blade, severing its limbs and head before it returned to its original form.
• Roy harvested the Demon Hag's Witchcraft Materials to improve a witchcraft artifact.
• Beril warned the group as a native wizard and several hunters arrived, and the wizard angrily accused Roy of stealing his prey.

Roy and his companions defeated a Feathered Serpent Divine Emissary, but the Serpent Spirit escaped. They found a map suggesting another group was hunting Demon Hags in the Great Swamp, then encountered that group as they prepared to leave.

• A Feathered Serpent Divine Emissary attacked Roy, who sent Black Mamba to fight him while casting a spell that transformed the emissary into a frog.
• Nisha and Beril killed the transformed emissary, and the Serpent Spirit fled before Roy could catch it.
• Roy examined the corpse and found snake venom, feathered serpent remains, a blade wound, and a map marked with a quest to hunt a Demon Hag.
• Roy realized the map and scattered items were likely stolen from a group of wizards and decided not to get involved.
• Another group emerged from the swamp, and Roy and his companions recognized one another.

Roy encountered Raymond and several Necromancers while traveling in a foreign land, learned they were clearing the Great Swamp under Advanced Wizard Amifkent’s orders, and left after exchanging contact information. Raymond later invited Roy to meet his teacher, leaving Roy facing a new request despite wanting to avoid their affairs.

• Roy met Kuniseck and the other Necromancers, and Raymond recognized him from their encounter twenty-six years earlier.
• Raymond explained that their group was clearing the Great Swamp and helping unite nearby forces to establish the kingdom of King Fram.
• Roy exchanged contact information with Raymond and left, while the Necromancers discussed his Level 2 strength and planned to report his arrival to Amifkent.
• Roy suspected Amifkent and King Fram were stirring up trouble among the natives and decided to stay out of it.
• The next day, Raymond transmitted a request for Roy to meet Advanced Wizard Amifkent.

Roy traveled to Mount Tinir to meet Amifkent, who was helping Lord Flam establish a Wizard Kingdom, and agreed to join the project. Roy also asked Amifkent about the boundary between life and death, and Amifkent said that the living were awake while the dead slept forever.

• Roy traveled by magic carpet to Mount Tinir and followed a Bone Dragon to Amifkent’s dwelling.
• Amifkent introduced himself as Raymond’s teacher and explained that he was helping Lord Flam establish a Wizard Kingdom.
• Amifkent showed Roy the project’s marks and invited him to join, and Roy agreed.
• Roy asked Amifkent about the difference between life and death, and Amifkent said that the living remained awake while the dead slept forever.

Roy forged a stronger Sanmobi's Staff using a Demon Hag's palm bone and sought the Witch Queen's remains. He traded goods and food supplies with Raymond for techniques and obtained the Witch Queen's palm bone, leaving him poised to strengthen his staff further.

• Roy replaced the old bone staff's palm bone with the Demon Hag's palm bone and used a Treasure Sacrifice Ritual to create a staff that strengthened Malicious Transformation.
• Sanmobi reported that he had found no trace of the Witch Queen, and Roy rewarded him with Blackening Potion.
• Raymond invited Roy to support plans to clear the Great Swamp, open a mine, repair roads, and develop farmland; Roy offered Creao Mushroom spores and other goods.
• Roy and Raymond made a deal worth more than a million, with Roy receiving the complete basic model of the Curse Technique.
• Roy asked Raymond to obtain the Witch Queen's palm bone and brain matter, and Raymond produced the Witch Queen's Palm.

Roy used Witch Queen materials to upgrade Sanmobi's Staff and develop a transformation potion, then tested his first gray wolf transfiguration. The experiment ended when Feathered Serpents attacked, apparently confirming the Feathered Serpent God's revenge.

• Roy traded for the Witch Queen's palm and brain marrow, upgraded Sanmobi's Staff to Level 2, and made a potion that turned mortals into frogs.
• Roy had Athedia give the potion to captured animals and observed that it transformed them into frogs.
• Roy refined a gray wolf's soul into a Transformation Seed and combined it with an Animate Potion to create a gray wolf transfiguration potion.
• Roy drank the potion, transformed into a gray wolf, and explained how the form could conceal his Life Aura and spiritual essence.
• Feathered Serpents attacked Roy's companions, and Athedia cut them down before Roy returned to his original form.

Roy and Beril returned to the Sera Tribe and found that Feathered Serpents had attacked its settlement, leaving several people dead and others poisoned. Roy developed a new potion that cured the gravely ill elder, then contacted Raymond and the others to ask about tribes that controlled Feathered Serpents.

• Roy warned Beril that the Feathered Serpent Divine Emissaries might target the Sera Tribe, and they hurried back with the hunters.
• Beril and the hunters killed the snakes attacking the settlement, but several tribe members had already died or been poisoned.
• Roy treated the injured with Antidote Potions and tried to save an elder whose poison was worsened by a strand of Witchcraft Energy.
• Roy studied Potionology and created Body Purifying Spirit Liquid using the principle of the Vitalization Spell.
• Roy gave the new potion to the elder, who recovered after a night of fever, and then asked Raymond and the others about nearby tribes that controlled Feathered Serpents.

Roy learned that Raymond’s forces planned to eliminate the Nassar Tribe and eventually kill the Feathered Serpent God, and he considered joining them for access to territory and Salanda, the Key of Rebirth. He decided to mobilize the Sera and Terra Tribes, while Beril warned him of the Feathered Serpent God’s power and pledged to follow his orders.

• Roy asked Raymond about the Feathered Serpent Tribe, and Raymond explained their past conflict with the Nassar Tribe and its worshiped Feathered Serpent God.
• Raymond offered Roy land, resources, and a chance to share Salanda, the Key of Rebirth, if he joined the campaign against the Nassar Tribe and Feathered Serpent God.
• Raymond said the assault was planned for before the end of the year after next, when the Feathered Serpent God would shed its skin, and that the forces would first clear surrounding tribes and consolidate their power.
• Roy decided to use his influence over Beril’s Sera Tribe and Sanmobi’s Terra Tribe to support the campaign.
• Beril feared entering the Feathered Serpent God’s territory because it had once slaughtered an entire tribe, but she pledged to obey Roy, who promised not to waste her people’s lives.

Roy chose to learn the Stone Man Technique so he could hide his aura and protect himself from the Feathered Serpent God. Nearly half a year later, he successfully concealed himself as an ordinary stone statue, though recovering left his body stiff.

• Roy considered strengthening members of the tribe with blood mercury and decided they would mainly oversee holdings and secure a share of the spoils from the coming attack on the Nassar Tribe.
• Roy chose aura concealment over relying on teleportation and learned about the Stone Man Technique from Maiden's Skull.
• Roy studied the technique for nearly half a year and successfully cast it outside the Forest Hut in the Sera Tribe.
• Athedia, Winsbell, Planje, and Nisha could not distinguish Roy from an ordinary stone statue, while Black Cat Domi still sensed him.
• Roy dispelled the technique, nearly stumbled from the lingering stiffness, and recorded his experience in his room.

Over the months, Roy continued developing his skills and supporting the Sera Tribe before attending a gathering with Amifkent, who explained how divinity arose from the world’s essence. The chapter left Roy considering the divine core as the most primordial Philosopher’s Stone.

• Beril presented Roy with a rare Rainbow Bird, and Roy later made her a Feather Crown that improved her charisma and accuracy.
• Roy continued studying the Stone Man Technique and found that he had passed the halfway point toward his goal.
• Roy examined the Codex of Elements and judged the spellcasting implement too impractical for regular use, though it might prove useful in an emergency or after modification.
• Roy received a summons from Amifkent and traveled to Mount Tinir to attend a gathering.
• Amifkent explained that gods were powerful magical beasts and that divinity formed when source qualities converged, describing a divine core as a primordial Philosopher’s Stone.

Roy joined Amifkent’s preparations to seize a world’s faith and undeveloped godhood, hoping to gain knowledge and rewards in return. As the planned battle approached, Roy built up his forces with a Level 2 Mechanical Guard and Elemental Life created by the High-grade Elemental Matrix.

• Amifkent explained how faith, Legendary Destiny, and godhood related to primordial substance and the World Will, then asked Roy to help him become an Archmage.
• Raymond, Kuniseck, Tarem, and other wizards gathered to trade resources and prepare for the battle planned for the following year.
• Roy met Tarem but chose not to ask him to charge the Codex of Elements, then bought Elemental Essence for his preparations.
• Roy completed a simplified Level 2 Golden Shell and installed it in a mage-shaped Mechanical Guard.
• Roy examined his Level 1 Elemental Puppets and considered how the High-grade Elemental Matrix could imitate the Elemental Sea by summoning swarms of elemental servants.

Roy developed plans to use his Elemental Matrices as a force-multiplying army, then joined the assault on the Nassar Tribe with a technologically outfitted force. The battle gave Roy access to valuable Feathered Serpent materials, and he discovered that their venom was a Level 1 Treasure.

• Roy watched the Elemental Matrices summon hundreds of elemental servants and planned to use the matrices as legion units and production cores.
• Over half a year later, Raymond and the others attacked the Nassar Tribe, while the Feathered Serpents retaliated and the necromancers turned the dead into zombies.
• Roy answered Amifkent’s Conscription Order with more than thirty Sera and Terra Tribe members equipped with artificial armor, enchanted spears, and other advanced weapons.
• On October 6, the assembled forces launched their general assault and killed several Feathered Serpent Divine Emissaries and their contracted Serpent Spirits.
• Roy examined the slain Feathered Serpents’ remains and discovered that the venom from their fangs was a Level 1 Treasure.