Chapter Summaries

Roy collected magical Feathered Serpent venom while his group followed the attack on the Nassar Tribe from a cautious distance. As they discovered thousands of Sacrifice Pits along the mountain road, Roy sensed something inside one and received a new Alchemy Talent.

• Roy harvested the fangs and venom glands of a magically mutated Feathered Serpent, planning to process its venom into stronger poisons or restorative medicines.
• Roy declined to rush ahead with the attacking forces, and Tarem blasted the Feathered Serpents blocking their path.
• Roy and his companions found pits filled with the bones of people and animals sacrificed by the Nassar Tribe to the Feathered Serpent God.
• Athedia spotted more Sacrifice Pits lining the mountain road, and the group realized they numbered in the thousands or more.
• Roy sensed something in one pit, and a Phantom Panel announced that he had acquired the Black Iron Rank Handicrafts talent.

Roy discovered that a recent sacrifice pit had left behind talent source material and suspected that sacrificial rituals transmitted source material through faith. As his group advanced toward the Nassar Tribe’s altar, he found more source material and negotiated equipment sales with Raymond before reaching a stone altar.

• Roy found a Black Iron Rank talent source in a recent sacrifice pit and suspected the offering ritual was connected to a Faith System.
• Roy searched the other pits, then led the group toward the Nassar Tribe’s altar, where he expected to find larger sacrifice pits.
• Roy’s troops fought attacking Feather Serpents as he found bone piles where Alchemy Talent Acquisition began progressing.
• Roy offered Raymond Terra Sets and Sera Sets for sale, and Raymond reserved ten Terra Sets.
• Roy and the others arrived at a stone structure that Roy recognized as an altar.

Roy claimed a Feathered Serpent God Terror Totem, then fought off a powerful blood serpent and a vast swarm of feathered serpents with the others. After Dadaru'er crushed the altar and the hidden serpents, Lord Amifkent's Bone Dragon descended, beginning its battle with the Feathered Serpent God's true form.

• Roy covered the Terror Totem with Artificial Skin to block its fear aura and claimed the statue.
• A winged blood serpent emerged and attacked Roy, while Athedia and the others fought it and drove it back.
• A massive swarm of feathered serpents poured from cracks in the ground, overwhelming the group with attacks and poison.
• Roy had Dadaru'er lead the others into Shatranz Chess and used the Steel Behemoth to crush the swarm and overturn the altar.
• Roy and the others found the hollow stone structure that had sheltered the sleeping serpents, then saw Lord Amifkent's Bone Dragon descend to fight the Feathered Serpent God's true form.

Roy joined Amifkent’s fight against the Feathered Serpent God after Dadaru’er fought through the serpent swarm and helped defeat its guards. Amifkent killed the god, but its curse struck Roy, Amifkent, and Vram before the chapter ended.

• Roy sheltered inside Dadaru’er as the Feathered Serpent swarm attacked the gathered forces, and many wizards suffered heavy casualties.
• Amifkent ordered the forces to charge after the Feathered Serpent God was injured, and Roy drove Dadaru’er through the swarm while spraying it with atomized Blackening Potion.
• Roy reached the valley, freed the Bone Dragon by killing the serpent wrapped around it, and helped the dragon defeat two more giant serpents.
• Amifkent pinned the Feathered Serpent God with a fatal bone spear, but its curse spread across the surrounding lands and struck Roy, Amifkent, and Vram.

After the Feathered Serpent God fell, Amifkent divided its remains among the gathered Wizards, and Roy secured organs and blood essence for his experiments. Amifkent revealed that the tribe’s faith had imbued Salanda with the power of rebirth, then announced that the plant had been found inside the cavern.

• Roy worried that the Feathered Serpent God’s final outburst might have been a curse, while Amifkent and Flam collected its Spirit Body.
• Raymond, Quinsec, Tarem, and the others arrived and helped subdue the leaderless Nassar Tribe and feathered serpents.
• Amifkent divided the Feathered Serpent God’s remains, and Roy received its liver, spleen, lung, scales, and blood essence.
• Roy agreed to refine Bloodline Magic Potions for Amifkent, who asked him to identify the Snake God Bloodline Factor and investigate Salanda’s secrets.
• Amifkent explained that the Nassar Tribe’s faith had granted Salanda power connected to rebirth, then announced that his undead had found the plant.

Roy discovered Salanda flowers with a hint of divinity and accepted Amifkent’s commission to refine a Resurrection Potion. As the campaign against the Feathered Serpents neared its end, Roy arranged to buy mutated snake corpses and considered the value of nearby territory while continuing his bloodline experiments.

• Roy found the Salanda nursery, identified the flowers as Level 3 items, and collected ten while planning to obtain whole plants for experiments.
• Amifkent examined Athedia, commissioned Roy to refine a Resurrection Potion, and offered extra Salandas for experimentation.
• After the Wizards continued hunting the remaining Feathered Serpents, Athedia told Roy that Necromancer Wizards were buying their corpses, and Roy ordered her to acquire some.
• Roy discussed the possibility of meritorious tribes receiving nearby lands with Raymond and the others, then entered his Mage Mansion to check on his Feathered Serpent bloodline puppet.

Roy studied the Snake God Bloodline, considered using sacrificial rituals to create artificial magical organs, and investigated the Feathered Serpent God’s curses. After nearly half a month of trade and research, Athedia warned him that an epidemic called Snake Scale Disease had broken out nearby.

• Roy left Sailen to watch the Serpent Woman Puppet and began planning how to use the Feathered Serpent God’s organs in a sacrificial ritual to create enhanced artificial organs.
• Roy studied the Feathered Serpent God’s dying words and concluded that its curses targeted wizards, possibly turning people into snakes and making them unable to resist their desires.
• Over nearly half a month, the Nassar Tribe’s territory and population were divided up, while Roy researched the Snake God Bloodline and traded his goods and expertise.
• A native wizard exchanged a Gem Bird for blood mercury, and Roy examined the bird after the wizard left.
• Athedia told Roy that an epidemic had broken out nearby, with symptoms resembling Snake Scale Disease.

Roy learned that Snake Scale Disease and a curse affecting negative emotions had spread among the rainforest tribes, so he isolated himself and his subordinates. Despite his precautions, a mysterious influence activated his suppressed desires, leaving him struggling to control his arousal.

• Athedia told Roy that an epidemic causing snake-scale-like spots had affected people and wizards across the rainforest tribes, so Roy warned her to stay inside and summoned Planje and Nisha back.
• Amifkent told Roy that wizards had developed Snake Scale Disease and that he had felt a sudden, unnatural impulse of greed, then urged everyone to isolate themselves.
• Roy stayed indoors as Amifkent suppressed conflicts and the disease and curse symptoms came under control among affected wizards with strong Spirit Wills.
• Roy noticed Athedia seemed unusually alluring, and Sailen identified his symptoms as his body entering heat under a mysterious influence.
• Roy checked that his mind and will remained intact, but he still struggled to calm his arousal when statues around the Mage Mansion stirred his desire.

Roy struggled against Phoenix Muta Lilith, a succubus who invaded his dreams and drained his Spiritual Power while the Feathered Serpent God’s curse weakened his will. He devised a plan to counter the curse by fulfilling it through a ritual, then began refining the Feathered Serpent God’s organs.

• Roy hid his animated sculptures, petrified Domi and himself, and entered a lucid dream where Phoenix Muta Lilith tried to seduce and drain him.
• Roy recognized Phoenix as Muwis’s sister and used the Soul-Binding Spirit Rope and Kirik Magic Ring to break her first dream attack.
• Roy found records explaining how Phoenix could invade through memories and thoughts, but she returned repeatedly and reduced his Spiritual Power.
• Roy discovered that ordinary dream remedies failed and reasoned that removing the Feathered Serpent God’s curse or countering it with another curse could stop Phoenix.
• Roy prepared a Treasure Sacrifice Ritual and refined the Feathered Serpent God’s liver, spleen, and lungs into three objects.

Roy completed a Four Roots Set from organs of the Feathered Serpent God and created a Level 3 bloodline body to help suppress the god’s curse and strengthen his foundation. After replacing the new body’s brain with his own, he saw the Feathered Serpent God Soul Shadow begin to form and planned to prepare a Level 2 Animate talent witchcraft after attending Fram’s enthronement ceremony.

• Roy inspected the golden liver, spleen, and lungs and combined them with his Golden Shell to activate the Four Roots Set’s effects.
• Roy tested the organs in his body, then planned to create a Feathered Serpent God bloodline incarnation to fulfill the serpent curse on his own terms.
• After more than two months, Roy suppressed the lust curse, received Raymond’s invitation to Fram’s enthronement ceremony, and secluded himself to complete his body replacement plan.
• Roy grew a Level 3 Feathered Serpent God bloodline body in a Nutrient Pod and began replacing its brain with his own.
• During the transfer, Roy saw the Feathered Serpent God Soul Shadow take shape and resolved to prepare a Level 2 Animate talent witchcraft after the ceremony.

Roy attended Wizard King Fram’s coronation, where the ceremony helped him acquire the Expand Production alchemy talent and he received a Divine Wood Mask as a reward for his service in the Nassar War. After modifying the mask, Roy discovered it had gained divine authority and a daily quota of divine spell activations, prompting him to study it.

• Roy arrived at the mountain city with Athedia in his Snake God Bloodline body, and Raymond explained the coronation plans and Weizel’s cultural-colonization strategy.
• During Wizard King Fram’s coronation, Roy’s Alchemy Talent finished condensing as Expand Production, which let him coordinate multiple Apprentice-level alchemy operations.
• Wizard King Fram rewarded Roy for his service in the Nassar War with a Divine Wood Mask, ten beauties, a mine, slaves, and fertile land.
• Roy tested the mask’s intimidation effect with the Kirik Magic Ring and Hypnosis Glasses, but found that it blocked the outward effects of Narcissus Love.
• Roy modified the Divine Wood Mask with his crafting talents, raising its intimidation and revealing that it had authority, a self-deploying divine spell, and a daily quota of 25 divine spell activations.

Roy established his territory in Nasanar, organized its mining and farming, and later completed Amifkent’s commissions for a Resurrection Potion and a Bloodline Factor chart. As Roy explored his perception talents and refined the Feathered Serpent God’s flesh into a blood jade, he swallowed it to strengthen his snake-type bloodline.

• Roy inspected Nasanar, assigned Beril to manage the mine with Dadaru’er, and redirected most of the slaves to clear and cultivate land.
• Roy gave the local people craft assignments and sent Sanmobi books on practical skills to study.
• More than a year later, Roy agreed to King Fram’s campaign against the bugbear tribes and appointed Sanmobi to accompany the army.
• Roy delivered the Resurrection Potion and Bloodline Factor chart to Amifkent, received Feathered Serpent God flesh as his reward, and accepted further refining commissions.
• Roy studied his Bloodline Factor and discovered that his Elemental Imaging and Soul Shadow’s Energy Imaging improved his perception.
• Roy refined the Feathered Serpent God’s flesh into a Tier Three Snake God Blood Jade and swallowed it to enhance his bloodline.

Roy advanced his Level 2 Animate talent, gained a human-serpent form, and used his Feathered Serpent God bloodline to grow stronger while remaining behind the scenes in the war. He completed and equipped a powerful Serpent Woman Puppet, then demonstrated the six-armed technique he had developed from his research.

• Roy raised his Life Energy above 500 degrees and completed the inscription of Level 2 Animate, transforming temporarily into a flexible human-serpent form.
• Roy tested his improved agility and strength against Nissa, then declined an order for his tribesmen's uniforms from Osman City.
• As war resumed, Roy supported the effort from behind the scenes, sent Planje to seek information about sacrifices and treasures, and considered how to obtain source quality.
• Roy completed the maturation of the Serpent Woman Puppet, awakened her, and outfitted her with armor, energy supplies, combat knowledge, and two additional pairs of arms.
• Roy used Level 2 Animate and serpent bloodline techniques to grow four extra arms and wield multiple weapons and summoned demon eyes.

Roy developed Three Heads Six Arms with combat-focused auxiliary brains, then studied how Soul Talents could survive body replacement through compatibility and fusion. He began a Feathered Serpent God body modification and successfully mastered Gene Recombination and the Shedding Skin Technique, leaving Evil Tentacle as his next planned enhancement.

• Roy summoned a snake woman to test Three Heads Six Arms, discovered his extra limbs were difficult to control, and built cobra-shaped auxiliary brains to coordinate them.
• Roy tested his completed witchcraft against Planje and Nisha, whose combined attacks he repelled using his extra arms and close-combat skills.
• Roy studied Soul Talents and concluded that compatibility between bodies and souls determined whether abilities could transfer after body replacement.
• Roy researched Chimera creation and Mage Body Modification, drawing on his knowledge of flesh fusion, the Feathered Serpent, and existing alchemical constructs.
• Roy injected Bloodline Enhancement Potion (Feathered Serpent God) and shed his old skin, mastering Gene Recombination and the Shedding Skin Technique.
• Roy decided that installing Evil Tentacle would be a natural next step in modifying his body.

Roy advanced his alchemical production and learned that Amifkent had begun a secret Witchcraft Experiment. After discovering he was molting, Roy used the Salanda Rebirth Technique to shed his old skin and emerge with a more powerful body.

• Roy expanded his territory through trade and campaigns while Furia taught Native Apprentices potion theory and healing-potion practice.
• Roy oversaw the production of more than 3,500 magic stones and received a secret report that Amifkent had begun a Witchcraft Experiment.
• Roy refined flesh-and-blood broth with Whitening Potion, producing Life Energy solutions and Artificial Flesh and Blood, including Snake God Meat for himself and his test subjects.
• Roy realized he was molting, activated the Salanda Rebirth Technique, and emerged from his old skin with Life Energy far beyond his previous 650-plus degrees.

Roy strengthened his body with Salanda while finding that his Spiritual Power barely advanced, and Amifkent explained how raising one’s status could overcome limits on lifespan and level. After Amifkent’s experiments worsened his aging, he asked Roy to refine one final Resurrection Potion before resorting to becoming a lich.

• Roy used Salanda to raise his physical constitution toward 1,000 degrees but found that his Spiritual Power remained near 105.
• Amifkent summoned Roy and commissioned a Resurrection Potion, offering a Feathered Serpent God’s poison gland when Roy asked for Salanda.
• After Roy delivered the potion, Amifkent revealed that his attempt to reverse aging had failed to stop his brain and soul from aging.
• Amifkent told Roy that raising one’s status could unlock higher levels and longer life, a path he called the Ladder to Divinity.
• Roy later reached 110 degrees of Spiritual Power and returned to Amifkent, who gave him another Salanda and requested one final Resurrection Potion before becoming a lich.

Roy completed King Fram’s enormous statue, which gained a trace of divinity through public worship and became the focus of a ritual that Amifkent had taught the king. Amifkent explained that the ritual could lead to godhood by seizing divinity, but admitted he had no time left to pursue it.

• Roy discussed the limits of extending a soul’s lifespan with the aging Amifkent, who considered becoming a Lich or seeking a deity’s afterlife.
• King Fram commissioned Roy to build a statue over two hundred meters tall, and Roy designed it as a monumental wonder.
• Roy completed the gilded statue, and people began praying to it, giving the mundane monument a degree of divinity.
• At the statue’s celebration, Roy sensed divine power gathering around King Fram and asked Amifkent whether the king was trying to create a god.
• Amifkent confirmed that he had taught King Fram the ritual and explained how Wizards could seize divinity and ascend to godhood.
• Amifkent said that the process required decades or centuries of widespread worship and lamented that he had no chance left.

Roy investigated the growing worship of King Fram and realized a strange force was feeding on sacrificial blood as Fram’s plans accelerated. When Amifkent summoned him to stop Fram’s massacre, Roy suspected a trap and tried to flee the world, but Amifkent intercepted him at the teleportation array.

• At King Fram’s celebration, Roy watched Belay Tribe prisoners be sacrificed and found no source quality in their blood, though the golden light around Fram’s statue had grown.
• After returning to Osman, Roy saw golden light and elusive souls gather at the statue, then witnessed a serpent-like presence descend to drink the spiritual matter in sacrificial blood.
• Roy learned that Fram’s envoys were ordering tribes to establish sacrifices and worship him as the Sun King, but he suspected Fram was rushing a plan he did not understand.
• Amifkent told Roy that Fram was slaughtering people in Osman City and asked him to help stop the massacre, but Roy chose to flee instead.
• Roy left with Beril and his companions for the Kader Desert teleportation array, where Amifkent’s Bone Dragon attacked and his projected avatar demanded to know why Roy had disobeyed.

Roy refused Amifkent’s offer to return and help with his sacrificial plans, fought his projection and Bone Dragon, and escaped back to the Witch Tower. He sold the dangerous dragon crystal, received a spell notebook from Frosv, and resolved to avoid visiting worlds ruled by higher beings.

• Roy rejected Amifkent’s offer to refine potions and help gather tribes for sacrifices, then attacked Amifkent’s projection and Bone Dragon with Nisha and his companions.
• Roy defeated the Bone Dragon with his followers, dismantled its remains, and recovered its dragon crystal before returning to the Witch Tower.
• Roy explained Amifkent’s likely plans to Nisha and decided to sell the modified Level 3 dragon crystal rather than risk using it.
• Roy told Frosv about his conflict with Amifkent, and Frosv sent him private notes on the Diamond Skin spell.
• Roy gave Nuchimok only vague advice about creating a Giant Soldier and decided future travels should take him to worlds without higher beings above him.

Roy traded his Red Dragon crystal to Una for Golden Dragon Heart Blood and learned that it could grant a true Dragonkin bloodline through a special ritual. The heart blood’s history revealed a Dragon Slayer’s Curse and a prophecy that Astrid’s bloodline would survive, leaving Roy to consider whether Una’s detailed account was trustworthy.

• Roy decided to pursue Elemental Magic and Uranium Essence while seeking resources to strengthen his abilities.
• Una met Roy to appraise his dragon crystal and offered Golden Dragon Heart Blood in exchange.
• Roy agreed to trade the crystal for the heart blood after Una promised information on becoming Dragonkin.
• Roy read Andisto’s notes and learned that he had taken Astrid Goth Goldwing’s heart blood after she was wounded by a black dragon.
• Roy learned that Astrid’s blood carried an inheritance capable of transforming someone into true Dragonkin, but questioned whether the account was fabricated.