Chapter Summaries

Roy prepared an expedition to the Central Starfield, developing Apostle Armors and assembling a force of allies and Fran troops. After reaching Potan Star, his forces swiftly defeated its defenders and won the planet’s surrender, while hidden wizards began to act.

• Roy and Furia assessed Edralil’s new strength, and Roy considered materials to enhance him.
• Roy completed four experimental Apostle Armors, which Athedia, Planje, Nissa, and Beril tested by hunting magical beasts.
• Roy selected expedition members, put Edralil in charge of the Fran Army, and prepared to enter the Central Starfield after the Allen main army deployed its warships to the front.
• Roy led his assembled troops through the Nard Star Gate and arrived on Potan Star, where Auger’s forces began their invasion.
• Auger’s troops captured cities and forced the Potan World Government to surrender, while several hidden wizards began taking action.

Archinila mages summoned the Bone Demon King Ostang and offered him Potan Star, bringing Hell’s forces into the world while Roy’s forces occupied it. After learning of the invasion and capturing Kairos and his fellow mages, Roy realized the two developments were connected and began interrogating them.

• Crouch, Kairos, and three other Archinila mages performed a forbidden ritual with Potan people as sacrifices, summoning Ostang, the Bone Demon King of Hell’s Seventh Layer.
• Kairos signed Kritik’s Covenant with Ostang, and the contract’s power drew more Hell creatures into Potan Star as the mages fled.
• Auger reported Potan Star’s resources to Roy, while Roy inspected the Potan people’s weapons, discovered nuclear weapons, and planned to collect useful materials before leaving the enemy-controlled Central Starfield.
• More than a month later, Roy received reports that devils had appeared near Karrod and that Edralil had captured four mages attempting to escape through a Teleportation Array.
• Roy questioned the captured mages, who blamed Kairos and revealed the events behind the devil invasion.

Roy led the Fran forces in a surprise attack on Ostang’s Bone Demon Army, but the battle turned into a stalemate as both sides revealed powerful spellcasters and defenses. Ostang proposed a pact that would let him remain on Potan Star, and the chapter ended with his projection of Kritik’s Covenant.

• Roy turned the arguing mages into frogs and stone statues, then learned that Ostang had the world’s beacon and ordered a proactive attack.
• Roy’s forces bombarded the Bone Demon stronghold, destroying tens of thousands of troops before Ostang emerged and counterattacked.
• Ostang’s Skeleton Mages used joint casting to unleash an Ice Storm, while Roy and Ostang fought without gaining a decisive advantage.
• Roy and Ostang summoned more forces, but neither side could overcome the other, so Ostang proposed ending the battle.
• Ostang offered to sign a Summoning Contract in exchange for permanent residence on Potan Star and showed Roy a projection of Kritik’s Covenant.

Roy formed a Summoning Combat covenant with Ostang, then prepared to expand his campaign across the Nard Arm while avoiding a direct clash with the Allen people's elite forces. He chose Glastan, the Crystal World, as the next target and launched a broad assault across nearby worlds.

• Roy agreed to Ostang's terms and signed a covenant that let him summon Ostang and his subordinates in exchange for payment and an anchor in the Material Plane.
• Ostang departed to harvest souls on Potan Star, while Roy ordered repairs and rewards after his army suffered heavy casualties.
• Roy met with Athedia, Planje, and Nisha, then chose to target Glastan and pursue nearby worlds while fleeing if they encountered the Allen people's elite forces.
• Roy teleported to Glastan, while his subordinates spread across nearby worlds to carry out the Blooming Tactic.

Roy investigated Glastan, developed weapons tailored to its native races, and enlisted Ostang’s Skeleton Mage Legion in exchange for gems. He launched an assault on the mages’ garrison, drove them from the world, and took control of Auros City before heading for the planet’s valuable mining area.

• Roy studied the native Glastan, Isern, and Osser races and decided to conquer them rather than relocate them to Alagi World.
• Roy and Furia developed Boiling Devouring Acid and the Sonic Hammer spell to exploit the native races’ weaknesses.
• Roy hired Ostang’s Skeleton Mage Legion by offering thirty-six Level 3 Gems as collateral and gained access to his Bone Demons.
• Roy’s forces attacked Auros City with Bone Demons, acid rain, and artillery, while Ostang’s Skeleton Mages devastated the Glastan sorcerers with sonic attacks.
• The mages’ Magic Battle Armors fled through Otherworld Teleportation, and Roy accepted the surrender of Auros City’s nobles.
• Roy ordered the city cleansed of acid and headed to the mining area that produced Vesel Obsidian Gold.

Roy exploited the Glastan World’s mines and indigenous resources while Furia uncovered the Osser people’s origins and developed an enhancement technique using Osser Mud. As the war shifted in the Alliance’s favor, Roy expanded his campaign to nearby worlds and began collecting their spoils and knowledge.

• Roy seized the Mining Area’s stockpiles, ordered the Allen captives to increase production, and arranged for minerals and Osser people to be transported to the Alagi World.
• Furia discovered that the Osser people were the common ancestors of the Isern and Glastan people, then identified Peros Soil and developed Osser Mud for experiments.
• Furia created the Skeleton Enhancement Technique, which strengthened Bone Demons and showed potential for producing stronger golems.
• Roy weighed the Glastan World’s wealth against the risks and costs of ruling it, then focused on exploiting its resources rather than settling there permanently.
• After the Central Starfield’s victory weakened enemy forces, Roy launched attacks along the route from Potan Star to Glastan and brought more than sixty worlds under control.
• Roy received enough progress toward a new Alchemy Talent and ordered his factions to send him their spoils, knowledge, and valuable indigenous lifeforms for examination.

Roy appraised the spoils from conquered worlds, gained the Sixfold Transformation alchemy talent, and rewarded his army while displaying captured prisoners. He began planning to use young mages from Besal Academy as leverage, then noticed suspicious Purple Aura around an adventurer.

• Roy appraised rare materials among the spoils and unlocked the Bronze-grade Sixfold Transformation talent.
• Roy tested the talent in his alchemy room, refined magic stones, and ordered a meeting to reward his subordinates and treat the army.
• At the late-May ceremony, Roy distributed alchemical equipment and accepted captured Fungus Beasts, Catalan people, and Fial people for the Alagi World.
• Roy learned that several captured Apprentice Mages came from Besal Magic Academy and instructed Auger to investigate their connections for leverage.
• Roy questioned captured adventurers who claimed neutrality, then detected Purple Aura around one and suspected the first-level adventurer was concealing an unusual identity or equipment.

Roy defeated a disguised assassin but discovered her Blade of Time had marked him and was rewinding time to restore her, prompting him to prepare for an incoming attack. Five Archmage projections arrived, and Roy stood ready with Ostang to face them.

• Roy exposed the disguised assassin, trapped her in Nightmare Entanglement, and struck her with Mana Explosive Fist until she collapsed.
• Roy discovered a mark on himself and realized the assassin's Blade of Time could rewind events to restore her, so he ordered a sealed prison built around the hall.
• Five Archmages on Allen Star activated the mark and sent Level Two Projection Incarnations through an Otherworld Teleportation.
• Roy summoned Ostang under false pretenses, sealed the teleportation array, and asked him to help fight the expected enemies.
• Roy and Ostang waited together until five Level 3 Mage Projection Incarnations appeared.

Roy defeated the assassination attempt, captured the Blade of Time, and spent years unlocking and modifying the Demigod Artifact before giving it to Planje and training her as an assassin. As he began researching soul-based class changes, the Alliance warned him that an Angel-class Warship and Legendary reinforcements were heading toward his location.

• Roy surrounded and destroyed the five Archmages’ Projection Incarnations, while his Skeleton Mages trapped and killed Marwan each time she revived until they captured her soul and the Blade of Time.
• Roy traded gems to Ostang for future summoning services, then spent three and a half years studying the Blade of Time and finally broke its Time Loop seal with his Seed of Concept of time.
• Roy modified the Blade of Time and gave it to Planje, then used potions made from Marwan’s soul and equipment to help Planje multiclass into an Advanced Assassin.
• Roy studied soul-based class changes and requested high-level souls and experimental resources from Furia as he explored the creation of Class Templates.
• Roy learned that Lord Legatus had conquered a Flosh planet and arranged to purchase millions of the inhabitants’ souls for his research.
• Maiden’s Skull warned Roy that an Angel-class Warship and reinforcements led by Apeli and Bagert were heading toward his location.

Roy armed his followers and accepted Ostang’s commission to repair the Scythe of Death while preparing for an attack by the Allen people and Legendary Mages. After the alliance sent his forces to assault K'tharr, Roy led his troops into Du'un City and confronted its guardian, Archmage Defans.

• Roy gave Athedia, Beril, Anjali, and Nisha powerful equipment, then kept several treasures for himself.
• Ostang commissioned Roy to raise the Scythe of Death’s Authority above 100,000, and Roy warned him that an attack was coming.
• Grand Archmage Marshal and two other Archmages struck K'tharr, opening the way for the alliance’s forces to invade.
• Roy obeyed the alliance’s order to attack K'tharr and led his troops toward Du'un City.
• Roy teleported his elite followers above Du'un City and sent them against its firing bases, forcing Archmage Defans to confront him.

Roy captured Du'un City by breaking Defans’s forces with Fear Frog Golems and coordinated attacks, then discovered how to create and use Star Antimony. The alliance’s foothold was threatened when an Angel-class Warship finally arrived in the K'tharr Star battlefield.

• Roy used Fear Frog Golems to spread terror among the K'tharr and collapse Defans’s defenses, while Planje gravely wounded Defans in an assassination attempt and escaped with Time Rewind.
• Planje and Roy’s forces killed more of Defans’s high-ranking followers, forcing the Mage Legion to retreat and leaving Roy in control of Du'un City.
• While appraising captured equipment, Roy acquired The Last Sage talent and learned to refine and charge Star Antimony, creating Star Antimony of Light.
• Roy embedded Spent Star Antimony into Athedia’s Mithril Shield, upgrading it to a Level Four Legendary Treasure and developing Star Armor.
• Two months later, Roy and his allies spotted an Angel-class Warship arriving in the K'tharr Star battlefield.

Roy defended Du'un City from repeated Lightning Storm attacks by creating lightning-absorbing Klaunos puppets, while other Advanced Wizards suffered heavy losses and retreated to his stronghold. After the Angelos continued to threaten the war, Roy proposed a plan to damage the warship and secured the Alliance’s support and materials.

• Roy watched the Angel-class warship Angelos deploy elemental troops as its forces overwhelmed the wizard factions, and he saw Legatus's army devastated by Lightning Storm attacks.
• After Asthenes withdrew from his failing position, Roy welcomed him into Du'un City and assigned him troops, armor, and fortifications.
• Roy used Star Antimony of Electricity and an array system to create Lightning Protectors that absorbed the storms over Du'un City, then improved them into Klaunos puppets that neutralized the enemy's attacks.
• The enemy failed to capture Du'un City and redirected its forces, but Roy later learned that Gefira had fallen and Legatus also needed rescuing.
• Roy asked Akhenning for a chance to strike Angelos, then requested Divine Power Crystals, antimatter, Star Brilliance Stone, and other materials to build a projectile capable of breaching the warship and detonating inside it.

Roy secretly built the Pinecone Bomb Kukunnari and coordinated with the Seven Towers Alliance to launch it at the Angel-class Warship, while the mages’ attacks drove the wizard forces toward collapse. The bomb pierced the Angelos and detonated inside it, beginning the assault’s decisive strike.

• Roy received Divine Power Crystals and Star Brilliance Stones, then used a ritual to retrieve more supplies that Grand Archmage Adekenasi sent through the planar blockade.
• A magical meteor shower devastated parts of K'tharr Star, and the mages later intensified attacks that cost the wizard forces several units and left Du'un City in danger.
• Roy emerged from seclusion and learned that the Alliance expected him to lead an operation, while he secretly prepared a launch well and the Pinecone Bomb Kukunnari beneath Du'un City.
• Roy completed the bomb using Star Antimony, Star Brilliance Stones, stored electrical energy, and an Abomination Golem Core, then coordinated the plan with Akhenning and the three Archmages.
• On September 11, Marshal, Adekenasi, and Stratigos attacked the Angelos, distracting its defenders as Roy launched Kukunnari from K'tharr Star.
• Kukunnari pierced the Angelos’s hull and detonated near its middle, unleashing a massive destructive blast inside the warship.

Roy’s antimatter Pinecone Bomb crippled the Angelos and helped Grand Archmage Marshal kill Legendary Mage Apeli, while Bagert fled. Roy gathered allies to seize the advantage, and the opposing Archmages surrendered as the battle’s survivors began to regroup.

• Roy’s Pinecone Bomb pierced the Angelos’s defenses and detonated inside, causing widespread destruction and disabling the warship.
• Grand Archmage Marshal invaded the damaged Angelos, killed Apeli, and drove Bagert to flee into the void.
• Roy contacted Ostang and rallied Asthenes, Legatus, and their forces to attack the weakened enemy.
• The three Archmages near Du'un City surrendered when Roy’s Mage Legion confronted them, and other Archmages across Ketapodi followed suit.

After the victory at Ketapodi, Roy helped secure and appraise the spoils, discovering a talent that let him restore damaged materials. He arranged to acquire the ruined Angelos and accepted a commission to make another Kukunnari, then learned the Alliance was transferring him to Academia as a professor.

• The six remaining Archmages in the Ketapodi War Zone surrendered, and Marshal ordered Roy and his allies to secure the world's resources and prepare logistical support for the coming offensive against Allen Star.
• Roy used Hermes' Eye to expose the Archmages' attempts to misrepresent their supplies and gained the Four-Liquid Balance alchemy talent, which he used to restore damaged Level 3 Magic Gold from the Angelos.
• Roy, Asthenes, and Legatus assessed the spoils of war, and Roy proposed buying the scrapped Angelos while yielding his share of other spoils; the others agreed.
• Roy agreed to forge another Kukunnari for the Seven Towers Alliance after its researchers failed to reproduce the bomb from his blueprints.
• Akhenning told Roy that the Alliance had finalized his transfer to Academia in the Academy World, where he would become a professor.

Roy returned to Oakmi Witch Tower, managed his growing wealth and correspondence, and developed plans for a Bone Demon army while repairing divine artifacts that granted him new powers. Akhenning appointed him head of the Alchemy Department and an Alchemy Professor in Academia, and Roy set out for the Academy World before the new school year.

• Roy explained to Athedia and Furia how Academia tested wizard education, then reviewed his war profits and answered messages from other wizards.
• Manant told Roy that Dilwoz had gone to guard Fran while Manant remained in the Faded Desert, and Roy arranged an exchange for Bone Forest samples and research materials.
• Roy and Furia discussed creating a cost-effective Bone Demon army, including alternatives such as Bone Mechs and Petrified Golems.
• Roy repaired the Scythe of Death, gained the Deadly Poison and Death concepts, and used a Divine Spark Fragment to add death effects and Authority to his Corrupt Black Diamond Greatsword.
• Akhenning offered Roy a post as head of the Alchemy Department and professor at Academia, with leave and travel support, and Roy departed for the Academy World.

Roy settled into his new post as an alchemy professor at Academia, where his inventions and knowledge impressed fellow faculty and drew potential collaborators. As the semester began, he prepared to teach his first public course while facing the department’s challenge of graduating enough Formal Rank Wizards.

• Roy registered at the academy, chose a castle residence, and received a red robe and professor’s badge that granted him authority over the academy’s guards and magic arrays.
• Akhenning told Roy that Hofgi was a Level 5 Archmage whose true body guarded the academy while trying to consume the World Will and take its place.
• At the welcome gathering, Roy demonstrated his Metal Recovery Fluid to Compositum and discussed beauty potions with Cindis, who sought knowledge of Lady Gumoze’s research.
• Roy assigned Furia to teach in his place and asked her to identify promising students, while he studied the department’s goal of graduating at least thirty Formal Rank Wizards from nearly a thousand students.
• After the entrance examinations ended, Roy arrived to teach Introduction to Alchemy as Dief, Compositum, Cindis, and a crowded class observed him.

Roy introduced his Formation Array-based alchemy theory to the apprentices and began settling into his teaching role. He later visited Cindis, exchanged research on Lady Gumoze, and accepted a rare mummy as a gift, leaving him considering how to expand his storage and use the unusual material.

• Roy outlined four historical periods of alchemy and presented Roy's Alchemy as a grand-unification project based on Formation Arrays and Equivalent Exchange.
• Roy finished his first lecture, then told Dief and the other professors that his theory aimed to simplify alchemy into reliable processes like an Alchemy Magic Box.
• Roy asked Furia to take over many of his classes and later brought Furia and Winsbell to visit Cindis's potion workshop.
• Roy and Cindis exchanged information about Lady Gumoze and agreed to cooperate on charm-related formulas and witchcraft; Cindis gave Roy a Tier One mummy as a gift.
• Roy explained the mummy's uses as a symbolic alchemical material, stopped Big Black Cat Domi from licking it, and considered expanding his mansion's storage space.
• Roy suggested washing the mummy in Healing Potion to produce medicinal water, prompting Winsbell to suggest grinding it into powder instead.

Roy successfully used the Life Synthesis Array to create Litos, an Alchemical Life made from a Gem Fish corpse and a wandering soul, then oversaw its magical modifications. After learning that Professor Kaham planned to criticize his Formation Array doctrine in a lecture on life sacrifice and Alchemical Life, Roy prepared to hear his arguments.

• Roy and Furia summoned a Fish Spirit into a hollowed-out Gem Fish corpse, creating the Bronze-grade Alchemical Life Litos and recording its Soul Recipe.
• Roy explained that Litos’s soul came from a wandering spirit, and Furia later modified its body to grant it powerful defenses, water magic, illusions, and a ten-meter storage space.
• Roy learned that Professor Kaham opposed Formation Arrays while supporting Equivalent Exchange through directed sacrifice, and he contacted Kaham to discuss their disagreement.
• Kaham invited Roy to hear his upcoming lecture, where he planned to critique Formation Arrays, and Roy discovered the lecture would concern life sacrifice and Alchemical Life.

Roy attended Kaham’s lecture on Kaham’s Sacrificial Art, but Kaham challenged Roy’s Alchemy as a flawed path and invited him to debate. Roy demonstrated that his open-source Formation Array system could let apprentices create Alchemical Lifeforms, leaving Kaham scrambling to prove his own method could do the same.

• Roy arrived at the crowded lecture and listened as Kaham presented Kaham’s Sacrificial Art as a low-cost path toward a unified alchemy and a pantheon led by Gods of Alchemy.
• Kaham criticized Roy’s Alchemy and the Formation Array route, so Roy took the stage to defend his system as standardized, expandable, and open source.
• Roy displayed a Life Synthesis Array and created a Black Snake, after which several apprentices copied the array and successfully made their own.
• Roy revealed that Litos was an Alchemical Lifeform containing the mysteries of resurrection and creation, and explained that advanced creations such as Litos would be paid content.
• Kaham, recognizing the challenge, claimed that Kaham’s Sacrificial Art could create life just as easily and called for a formation and sacrifices.