Chapter Summaries

Roy investigated the dangers of Kaham’s Sacrificial Art after it caused an Abyssal Snake Demon to appear and kill apprentices, then began developing safer Formation Arrays. He recruited apprentices into the Formation Array Research Society and introduced them to elemental arrays that could mimic combat spells.

• Kaham demonstrated his Sacrificial Art by creating a black snake, but apprentices who imitated the ritual caused a backlash that summoned a Snake Demon and killed several people.
• Matitis traced the accident to synchronized sacrificial arrays resonating with residual energy from Kirik’s Formation Array, while Kaham ordered a cover-up and returned to his research.
• Roy’s apprentices formed the Formation Array Research Society, recruited more than two hundred members, and distributed improved versions of the Black Snake array.
• Furia discussed her limited lifespan and desire to remain useful to Roy, who promised that his developing alchemy could let her continue working through arrays.
• Roy summoned Megalophia, Genier, and Ingenium to a hunting ground and taught them Ephemeral Elemental Body arrays that simulated lightning attacks, shields, mist, and wind.

Roy developed and tested a symbolic Formation Array system for Roy's Alchemy, while securing more than four hundred million in academy research funding at Kaham's expense. In December, Anjali advanced to Level 2, and Roy and Furia turned their attention to whether alchemy could improve a person's Soul Essence and help them advance.

• Roy learned that the academy's research funding could be won through competing projects, so he applied for overlapping research into Sacrificial Art and related fields to claim funding that might otherwise go to Kaham.
• Dief approved Roy's research applications, and the academy later allocated him a little over four hundred million; Kaham discovered his own funding had been reduced.
• Roy gave Megalophia, Genier, and Ingenium different tools to test his ideas, then wrote and verified a Symbol System that used Formation Arrays to express alchemical processes and successfully extracted salt from salt water.
• In December, Roy learned that Anjali had opened her heart chakra and refined heart fire, confirming her advancement to Level 2; he promised her high-level equipment while letting her pursue further advancement step by step.
• Furia asked whether Roy's Alchemy could improve Soul Essence, and Roy proposed researching how alchemical materials might gradually transform the soul, asking Furia to investigate advancement from Level 1 through Level 3.

Roy developed a method for refining the Philosopher’s Stone and presented his alchemical research at a packed academy lecture. He announced that his work unified external creation with self-transformation, leaving the audience stunned by his claim that alchemy’s ultimate achievement was the evolution of the self.

• Roy watched Ingenium, Megalophia, and Genier face Wolf’s gang during their survival exam, and Ingenium summoned a Level 1 Thunder Fish that defeated their attackers.
• Roy discussed Ingenium’s talent with Furia and decided to teach him the secrets of the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Roy summoned Ingenium, shared his fables and Sage’s Proverbs with him, and taught him about the Etil Stone and its attribute-granting properties.
• Ingenium resonated with Sage’s Proverbs and began drawing a Formation Array to refine the corresponding gemstone.
• Roy lectured on his advances in Wishcraft, sacrificial rituals, Roy’s Alchemy, and the Formation Array, earning Kaham’s astonishment and endorsing his apprentices.
• Roy revealed that he had completed a framework for Philosopher’s Stone Alchemical Creation and combined it with advancement systems to create mystical arts focused on self-evolution.

Roy introduced a method for apprentices to build a Philosopher’s Stone as a foundation for alchemy, and Ingenium and Furia successfully used it to strengthen their souls and advance. As Roy’s Alchemy gained disciples and momentum, he acquired the Reddening Alchemy Talent and suspected that teaching Formal Wizards had triggered it.

• Roy explained that apprentices could construct a Philosopher’s Stone Formation Array early in their studies, and Ingenium refined one under Roy’s supervision.
• Ingenium’s Philosopher’s Stone strengthened his Spiritual Power, while Furia later refined her own and advanced to Level 2.
• Roy expanded the new school, recruited apprentices including Ingenium, Tarento, Prodige, Demonio, and Fiani, and revealed his true identity as Roy of Oakmi Witch Tower.
• After formally taking Ingenium and the others as disciples, Roy acquired the Gold Rank Reddening Alchemy Talent and suspected that teaching and passing on knowledge had caused it.

Roy refined the Filth-Earth Demonic Hounds, gave his newly advanced disciples alchemical creations, and planned to build a shared stock of hounds for his school. He then projected his soul into the Myriad Beast Garden, where he presented himself to a pack of powerful wolves as Draco Aureus.

• Roy created Filth-Earth Demonic Hounds by combining wandering Hound Spirits with enchanted sludge and tested their control and abilities.
• Roy discovered that using the Reddening Technique raised his Sage's Proverbs attributes, and he learned that Tarento and Fiani had advanced to Formal Wizards.
• Roy gave Ingenium, Tarento, and Fiani alchemical creations as gifts and taught them how to refine Filth-Earth Demonic Hounds for the school's future shared summons.
• Roy's disciples promoted the hounds' Formation Array as an Open Source Project, while Roy prepared to investigate the Myriad Beast Garden using Astral Projection.
• Roy projected his soul into the Myriad Beast Garden and encountered an Emperor-level Great Wolf and its pack, introducing himself as the Golden Holy Dragon, Draco Aureus.

Roy created the demiplane Kennel Kaleni for Filth-Earth Demonic Hounds and negotiated with Ostang to establish bone-demon refining and summoning methods for his school. Over several years, the school and its disciples grew, and Roy began planning knowledge-domain artifacts to record their work, leaving Dief to help him find commissions and Divine Spark Fragments.

• Roy followed Lupus to Limne Marsh, found a natural Plane Rift, and used the Golden Holy Grail to create Kennel Kaleni for the Filth-Earth Demonic Hounds.
• Roy repaired Herland's Harvest—Scythe of Death with Divine Spark Fragments, returned it to Ostang, and negotiated to place Bone Mechs in Ostang's territory in exchange for support and a framework agreement.
• Roy and Ostang's agreement led to new bone-demon refining methods at the academy, while Ingenium began teaching Roy's Alchemy and Kaham decided to seek power from the Abyss.
• Over the following years, Roy's school gained disciples and Formal Wizards, while he assigned some disciples to the Alagi World and considered how to turn his compiled books into knowledge-domain artifacts.
• Roy asked Dief for Knowledge-domain Divine Spark Fragments, and Dief agreed to seek commissions and help exchange fragments for him.

Roy helped Professor Compositum commercialize the Slanu Potion, then grew his faction while pursuing new alchemy research. Five years later, Cindis completed the research on Rose's Appearance, and Roy began investigating stronger beauty potions.

• Roy and Compositum agreed to a three-to-seven profit split for the Slanu Potion, with a future change in shares for whoever became an Archmage.
• Roy tested the potion on Athedia, confirmed it helped her recover, and funded a workshop to produce it.
• Roy gained Aquinas' Spirit after Megalophia unexpectedly advanced to Formal Wizard; he concealed reports that Megalophia had embezzled project funds.
• Five years later, Roy had more than 150 disciples and thirty Formal Wizards, though newer disciples increasingly resisted signing service contracts.
• Cindis showed Roy the effects of Rose's Appearance and explained that her research on Divine Countenance remained incomplete.
• Roy reverse-engineered a diluted Rose's Appearance potion and distributed doses to his followers, while Domi rejected it.

Roy expanded his Mage Mansion, created a Phase Gate connecting it to the Alagi World, and salvaged valuable equipment and materials from the Angelos. After forging Anjali a powerful chain spear, he examined documents linked to the missing Kaham and identified them as a guide to Abyssal sacrificial rituals.

• Roy recruited the mansion’s residents to expand and decorate the grounds, then created Palio Fairies to tend the garden.
• After receiving a Phase Stone, Roy built portals between his Mage Mansion and Sailen’s Underground Base in the Alagi World.
• Roy arranged for the Angelos to land in Mutraken, where Sailen’s forces salvaged its parts and Roy evaluated its treasures.
• Roy negotiated with Compositum to recycle rare metals, then used Metalum and other materials to forge a level-four chain spear for Anjali.
• Dief summoned Roy to inspect documents from Matitis and Kaham’s other subordinates, and Roy identified the diagrams as Kaham’s Sacrificial Art for contacting Abyssal lords.

Roy learned that Ilena, Melina’s older sister, had become an Abyss Lord after killing her former master, and the academy sent him to negotiate for Kaham’s release. Roy secured Kaham’s freedom through a deal with Ilena, then revealed Melina to her.

• Dief told Roy that Ilena had used Kaham to kill Hakalef and had taken control of Hakalef Territory.
• Roy accepted the academy’s mission to negotiate with Ilena and rescue Kaham, bringing Athedia, Anjali, and Matitis to the Abyss.
• Ilena tried to sway Roy with her succubi, but his Extraordinary Charm overwhelmed them, and she led the delegation to Kaham in the dungeon.
• Roy negotiated an agreement in which the academy would provide treasures and support while Ilena released Kaham and supplied the Alliance with a Dimensional Beacon and World Coordinates.
• After Ilena agreed to the terms and Roy brought Kaham out, he summoned Melina and asked Ilena whether she remembered her younger sister.

Roy returned from the Abyss after confronting Ilena, who wanted Melina’s soul for her witchcraft. He refused her offer of an ancestral secret art and instead demanded Fallen Souls for study, leaving their bargain unresolved while he explored new ways to use faith and soul power.

• Roy exposed Ilena’s plan to use Melina’s soul in a witch beast, and Ilena ordered her forces to attack.
• Athedia and Anjali defeated Ilena’s summoned Hakalef and shielded Roy from the castle’s magic-resonance assault, forcing Ilena to negotiate.
• Roy refused to return Melina and left the Abyss with Kaham and the others after Ilena agreed to consider his terms.
• Back at the Academy, Kaham offered Roy a favor and shared his Sacrifice Ritual Secret Tome; Roy reciprocated with his own ritual knowledge.
• Roy studied the ritual, sensed prayers and Soul Particles across the void, and discovered that the Golden Holy Grail could absorb faith and increase its Wish Power.
• Ilena offered the Sangeris Beastified Evil Spirit Art for Melina, but Roy rejected it and eventually demanded a batch of Fallen Souls for examination.

Roy expanded his soul-crystal research, traded with Ilena, and learned that Domi could transform into a catgirl after drinking a rare potion. He continued developing his dragon magic, then learned that his teacher Frosv had foreseen his imminent death and invited him to attend his funeral.

• Roy negotiated with Professor Cletura to develop improved demonic hounds whose souls would become Filth-Earth Demonic Hounds after death.
• Roy refined a Succubus Offspring’s soul into a Demonic Soul Crystal and used it to make Aesthetic Jewelry that increased his Constellation Fate Disk by five degrees.
• Over the following year, Roy traded Trow Dogs and military aid with Ilena in exchange for Succubus Offspring, while also selling her valuable goods for souls.
• Cindis developed Bay Laurel’s Immortal Visage, and Domi drank the potion and transformed between cat and young-girl forms.
• Roy tested his golden dragon form, awakened Time Stop, and recorded the spell on a Phononic Resonance Stone.
• Maiden’s Skull told Roy that Frosv had foreseen his imminent death and invited him to The Stonecarver’s Nation for his funeral.

Roy traveled to the Stonecarver's Nation for his teacher Frosv's funeral, where Frosv entered a Sleeping Statue and passed into eternal slumber. The ritual helped Roy acquire the Origin-tier Hermes' Seal, and after sharing its principles with the Stonemason's Guild, Roy returned to his Witch Tower to study it.

• Roy learned Frosv's funeral would be held on December 1 and brought Ingenium, Shishar, and other disciples to the Stonecarver's Nation to prepare for it.
• Roy reunited with Frosv's old friends, including Lunnia, Bodeka, Igor, and Tinas, and held a trade fair where he exchanged goods and received the Kingdom of Mogor's Secret Source Mind from Igor.
• Nissa recognized the Secret Source Mind and began studying the technique, which could help her develop her Talin Power and supernatural abilities.
• Frosv entered his Sleeping Statue with his familiar crow, and Roy witnessed the burial ritual before discovering that its activation had triggered his acquisition of the Origin-tier Hermes' Seal.
• Roy shared knowledge of Hermes' Seal with Raleigh, who said it could extend the souls' lifespans in the statues by tens of thousands of years, and Roy returned to the Witch Tower to study the technique.

Roy confirmed that Hermes' Seal could preserve materials by halting their internal time, then accepted a mission to help the Academy restore its influence in Temple World Eglis. He prepared to travel there alone and crossed through a planar teleportation array on February 16.

• Roy and Furia tested Hermes' Seal, finding that one unit of divine power could preserve a standard portion for about a year.
• Roy explored the technique's uses for preserving alchemical materials and products, and devised ways to seal batches and protect components.
• Dief told Roy that the Academy's wizards in Eglis were in danger as the Temple suppressed witchcraft, and asked him to rekindle the local movement.
• Roy accepted the mission after learning that Archinila would cooperate, and secured a Divine Spark Fragment related to the Knowledge Domain as a reward.
• Roy prepared in his Witch Tower and crossed to Eglis through a Cross-Plane Teleportation Array on February 16.

Roy reached Kaipan City to help preserve Academia’s Seed Plan and joined forces with the undercover mage Sumaco. After securing a position at the Tijaran court and choosing Princess Seraphina as his student, he encountered the Temple’s growing influence and learned the Queen had arrived.

• Roy entered Kaipan City with Furia and Planje, gathered information about the Temple’s influence, and met Sumaco, an undercover Level 3 Mage working as a royal advisor.
• Sumaco described his covert network in Tijara and introduced Roy to King Kaipan, who appointed Roy a Court Earl, Royal Advisor, and tutor to the royal children.
• Missionary Kerrigan confronted Roy at court, asserted that the Temple would spread through Tijara, and later warned Roy and Sumaco that they could not stop it.
• Roy moved next door to Sumaco and officially began his court duties on March 10.
• Roy used Will Appraisal to select Fourth Princess Seraphina as his student, and a guard announced the Queen’s arrival.

Roy joined Sumaco’s secret Truth Seekers gathering as the disguised Professor, then devised a way to spread practical knowledge—and hidden magical teachings—through books the Temple could not easily ban. He published the works through Sumaco’s network and ended the chapter arriving with Furia at a wizard-run underground learning organization in Kaipan City.

• Queen Vasilisa visited Roy and gave Seraphina mithril and jewels as apprenticeship gifts, and Roy began teaching Seraphina wizardry.
• Roy attended a Truth Seekers gathering with Sumaco, observed how their wizard and mage training systems had converged, and offered the Apprentices affordable resources and study materials.
• Sumaco explained how secret study groups operated and how the Temple monitored magical communications, prompting Roy to seek a safer way to circulate knowledge.
• Roy wrote practical books such as “How to Get Rich,” embedding concealed magical knowledge, and Sumaco arranged for them to be distributed under various names.
• The Truth Seekers collected Roy’s books, while Roy continued overseeing Seraphina’s lessons and gave her a new set of difficult exercises.
• Roy and Furia traveled to a warehouse in Kaipan City, where Tager welcomed Roy as Professor to the Academia wizards’ underground learning organization.

Roy rebuilt the Hermetic Society across Tijara and Lux Kingdom while using the Book of Formations to spread alchemical knowledge and communicate with apprentices. After Kerrigan’s Temple Knights arrested Tager, Roy rescued him in a brief clash, and the kingdom moved to expel Kerrigan, leaving him shocked by the order to dismiss him.

• Roy introduced Furia to Tager, took charge of the society’s contacts and supplies, and lectured Tijaran apprentices, whose beliefs in knowledge and wealth began to reach him as faith.
• Roy fused Giana’s Divine Spark Fragment and Wish Divine Power into the Book of Formations, then used it to send Zaif a secret formula for refining True Gold.
• Roy agreed with Sumaco to reduce gatherings in Tijara and rebuild the organization in Lux Kingdom, where Wolde told him Temple Knights had killed many wizards and apprentices.
• Roy returned to Tijara and attacked Kerrigan’s stronghold after the Temple Knights arrested Tager; Anjali and Roy’s followers defeated the knights, and Furia freed Tager.
• Roy and Sumaco turned the clash into a political liability for Kerrigan, and King Kaipan ordered him and his knights expelled from the kingdom.
• Tager and the nobles denounced Kerrigan, prompting the Holy Army to consider recalling him, and Kerrigan learned he was about to be dismissed.

Roy developed a Rune Magic Stone method that let apprentices combine meditation practice with productive alchemy, while Prince Nobilis gained influence for the Temple through public miracles and charitable work. Roy countered the Temple’s appeal with fables and fairy tales that turned knowledge into a source of faith, then prepared to show his apprentices the alchemical creation of Thumbelina.

• Kerrigan was driven from Kaipan City, and a staged public accusation of abandoning his family humiliated him as he departed.
• Roy made Black Cat Domi study, then developed a method for apprentices to practice Will Rune Manifestation while refining Rune Magic Stones; Domi successfully produced them.
• Nobilis arrived in Kaipan City, healed a blind woman before the crowd, and offered Roy and Sumaco a peaceful coexistence while establishing churches and promoting Divine Arts.
• Roy began publishing fables and fairy tales under different names, presenting them as lessons in knowledge and supernatural possibilities to counter the Temple’s influence.
• Zaif and the other apprentices eagerly questioned Roy about the magic in the new stories, and their desire to learn strengthened the faith gathering around him.
• Roy agreed to show the apprentices what Advanced Stage alchemy could create and announced the ultimate achievement of the Old Era: Thumbelina.

Roy created Maya, a living Homunculus, and demonstrated advanced life-making alchemy to the Truth Seekers, while the Temple prepared a miracle to expand its influence. After Sumaco’s attack on Luxis triggered a devastating retaliation, Roy completed an Amulet of Light that could receive Holy Light faith and produce divine arts.

• Roy used an alchemy array and his blood to create Maya, a thumb-sized intelligent being, and named her his daughter.
• Roy explained that artificial life could be created through alchemy, while Maya revealed her talent for growing mushrooms and later befriended Domi and Litos.
• Sumaco warned Roy that the Temple planned to stage a miracle in Kaipan City, then proposed attacking Luxis to test the Holy Light Envoy’s resources.
• Sumaco’s forces attacked the Luxis Grand Cathedral with Meteor Fire Rain, forcing the Temple to use its planned miracle to heal the wounded, but Temple Knights then destroyed his remaining forces in Luxis.
• Roy completed an Amulet of Light, a wondrous item capable of receiving Holy Light faith and producing the Illumination Spell and Holy Light Spell.

Roy developed a way to gather and refine divine power through hidden faith anchors, then used the power to create a Divine Item and renovate the Goddess of Wealth’s temple. At the Golden Festival, his Golden Tree gathered a large harvest of divine power, and he gained the Gold Rank talent Primitive Alchemy.

• Roy refined an amulet that gathered light-related Faith Power, then worked with Furia and Winsbell to secretly establish faith anchors in remote villages.
• Winsbell gathered power through the anchors, which Roy refined into Divine Power Crystals and used to develop the talent Material Purification.
• Roy created a Level Three Divine Item, the Staff of Light Energy Regeneration, and confirmed that its embedded Faith Anchor Point powered its divine spells.
• At King Kaipan’s banquet, Roy accepted a commission to renovate the Goddess of Wealth’s temple and build a Golden Tree, while Sumaco told him the goddess had likely perished.
• At the Golden Festival, the Golden Tree gathered enough faith for Athedia to produce nine standard Divine Power Crystals for Roy.
• Roy gained the Gold Rank talent Primitive Alchemy after the festival.

Roy created Proulis’s Golden Basin and developed the Midas Touch spell while the Hermetic Society strengthened its ties and prepared to oppose the temple. After Zaif became a Formal Wizard, Roy assigned him to develop the Lux Kingdom, beginning the society’s reconstruction there.

• Roy studied the Golden Tree’s connection to alchemy, then designed a Golden Basin with Furia using Divine Power Crystals.
• Zaif pursued blood mercury and a Wizard’s Maxim tied to wealth as the Hermetic Society considered securing supplies through noble allies.
• Roy condensed Proulis’s Divine Spark Fragment and completed the Legendary Golden Basin, which could create gold, attract wealth, and produce alchemical potions.
• Roy mastered Midas Touch and later helped Seraphina develop golden serpent hair, then acquired the Bronze-grade Treasure Sense talent.
• Roy discovered that Zaif had advanced to become a Formal Wizard and explained the rights and obligations available to him.
• Zaif chose the hardest mission, and Roy sent him to develop the Lux Kingdom with the aim of rebuilding the Hermetic Society there.