Chapter Summaries

Roy developed the Vanjion Nesting Hormone, and Magus verified that it could rapidly multiply Dragon Dung Beetles for war. Magus met Roy to trade Bug Fighting Association membership and a thousand-year supply contract for the potion’s rights, leaving Roy to learn the association was devoted to wizard-world bug fighting.

• Roy developed the Scorpus Potion, which Psycho took to Magus for testing.
• Magus's experiment showed that the potion greatly increased beetle reproduction and survival, prompting him to order a trial force of Bug Witch Apprentices.
• Magus studied Roy's formula, judged it trustworthy, and decided to buy the potion rather than produce it himself.
• Magus traveled to the Fertile Garden and offered Roy a Bug Fighting Association token and membership in exchange for the potion rights and a thousand-year supply contract for his Kepul Insect Sorcerer Clan.
• Roy recognized the token as a Vanjion artifact and learned that the Bug Fighting Association had been established for bug fighting.

Roy explained the Bug Fighting Association’s contracts and risks, then gave his token to his disciples to explore. Ingenium obtained a powerful Raptor Bug and equipped it with cannons, while Shishar’s weaker battle pet was eaten by it, apparently strengthening the Raptor Bug.

• Magus explained that Bug Fighters had to nurture their contracted bugs and could be drawn into deadly challenges, while Vanjion ultimately claimed the bugs’ souls.
• Roy arranged for Furia to handle a trade and decided to let his disciples use the token to explore the Bug Fighting Association first.
• Roy chose Ingenium to lead the way, and Ingenium used the token to contract a Hero-level Raptor Bug after defeating it.
• Ingenium asked Roy for permission to buy four Cannons, then outfitted the Raptor Bug with weapons and specially made Biological Battle Armor.
• Fiani and Shishar obtained weaker battle pets, but Ingenium’s Raptor Bug killed and ate Shishar’s Thunder Grasshopper Larva, after which the Raptor Bug grew stronger.

Roy developed a Level One Evolution Potion by extracting evolutionary factors from Scarab pupae and refining them with several powerful ingredients. He sent the potion to Wolfe World for testing and, seeking materials to pursue his divine-body plans, learned that another wizard’s discovery had complicated the promised Divine Spark Fragment reward.

• Roy studied the Insect Country’s history and found that its sharp declines coincided with the rise of powerful Bug Masters, suggesting they had taken the fruits of the Vargion race’s development.
• Roy built the Life Spiral Array and used Scarab larvae, Golden Seeds, Witchcraft Energy, and other materials to produce Life Essence from their pupae.
• With Furia’s help, Roy isolated the Scarabs’ evolutionary factors and refined them into a Level One Evolution Potion that could induce mutations and transfer Bloodline Abilities.
• Roy sent Nimledo to test the potion on the Werewolves of Wolfe World, hoping to help them awaken again and advance to Hero Level.
• Roy went to the administrative office to ask about the promised Divine Spark Fragment and learned that Competil’s discovery of the explosive Rigmar insects had made the Archmage uncertain whom to reward.

Roy competed with Competir for a Divine Spark Fragment by developing an improved Dragon Dung Beetle species, eventually creating the Golden Scarab. The Fertile Garden’s leaders proposed a three-year contest to determine whose insects performed best in combat, with the fragment and research secrets at stake.

• Roy watched Competir’s Regma Exploding Bugs destroy a magically protected boulder and recognized the threat they posed.
• Roy asked Archmage Doniru whether his Dragon Dung Beetles would be selected for priority development, then tried unsuccessfully to buy Competir’s claim to the Divine Spark Fragment.
• Roy used the Evolution Potion and explosive materials to create and refine a new Dragon Dung Beetle species with an Earth-eating Trait.
• Roy played a lyre to stimulate the insects’ appetite, and they ate gold before forming golden cocoons that he identified as a new species.
• Roy named the species the Golden Scarab, and Archmage Doniru proposed that Roy and Competir each raise ten thousand insects for a combat contest in three years.

Roy and Wizard Competir spent two years developing insect armies for a private competition, with Roy using black soil and experimental magical and technological traits to strengthen his forces. At the final battle, Roy’s army overwhelmed Competir’s Rigmar alien insects by exploiting their vulnerability to mental control, leaving Roy the apparent victor.

• Roy accepted Nimledo’s artificial black soil after learning that true fertile soil originated from the corpse of Nitis, the Earth Mother Goddess.
• Over the next two years, Roy engineered Chimera witch beasts while Competir secretly strengthened his Rigmar alien insects for the competition.
• At the arena, Competir presented an army of enhanced Explosion Bugs, including elemental insects, commanders, and airborne mothership insects.
• Roy unveiled False Godhood Grigori and a diverse insect army combining beast, metallic-warrior, and technological traits, then launched a rapid attack that killed Competir’s commanders.
• Roy’s forces destroyed much of Competir’s army, and their twisted human faces mentally controlled the remaining vulnerable insects and made them self-destruct.
• Archmage Doniru observed that the contest’s victor had been decided as Competir watched his army collapse.

Roy defeated Competir’s insects and revealed that his False Godhood Grigori was a transforming hive, earning the park’s research funding and Belum’s core Divine Spark Fragment in exchange for his findings. Back at his residence, Roy explained to Furia that the fragment’s Law Power could alter natural laws and amplify magic beyond ordinary spellcasting.

• Competir admitted defeat, and Doniru ordered the insect battle to end.
• Roy made his Golden Scarabs merge into a golden sphere that the False Godhood Grigori swallowed, then showed that the giant insect could shrink and function as a mobile hive.
• Roy followed Doniru to discuss the park project, securing annual research support and receiving Belum’s Divine Spark Fragment in exchange for his research materials.
• Roy identified the fragment’s War and Destruction domains and learned that it contained Law Power capable of creating a battlefield environment and awakening heroic spirits’ battle will.
• Roy gave Doniru his Golden Scarab soul recipe and explained how the species could reproduce through activation arts and sustain itself through faith-like functions.
• After returning home, Roy told Furia that the fragment’s Law Power could amplify spells and even alter the laws and operations of nature.

Over three years, Roy forged the Demigod Artifact Festive Feast Lyre from Belum's Divine Spark Fragment and discovered that its music could awaken divine power in insects. After Furia reported that apprentices were exploiting the Insect Country, Roy recalled its token and traveled there through Astral Projection to test a loophole for summoning insects without forming the usual contract.

• Roy completed the Festive Feast Lyre, whose powers included empowering warriors, enhancing insect appetites, and preventing spiritually linked allies from perishing while its music played.
• Furia told Roy that apprentices were obtaining battle-insect familiars beyond their strength, and Roy decided it was time to rein them in.
• Roy had Furia retrieve the Bone Shard Blade Fang and explained his plan to contract with insects inside the divine kingdom, then use Summoning Descent to possess similar insects outside it.
• Roy entered the Insect Country through Astral Projection and flew toward the volcanic region, where he found a mother Iron Beetle and its larvae feeding.
• Roy played the lyre for the insects and later brought them food, but refused the mother beetle's attempt to make a contract.

Roy created summoning amulets that let insect spirits possess animated statues, then contracted the legendary Giant Worm Weil by winning its trust with a meal and an Evolution Potion. He turned his attention to the demigod-level insect Matricale, considering whether False Godhood Grigori could mate with it and produce divine offspring.

• Roy refined Small Summoning Amulets from insect carapace and demonstrated that they could summon insect spirits into prepared hosts.
• Roy summoned an Iron Beetle larva into a gold scarab statue, creating a fast, intelligent animated golem with combat abilities.
• Roy taught his disciples how to make the amulets and searched the Insect Country for a powerful spirit to contract.
• Roy fed Veil Magnus, also called Giant Worm Weil, a meal infused with an Evolution Potion and secured a soul bond with it.
• Roy targeted the demigod-level Mother Body Matricale and considered pairing it with False Godhood Grigori to produce divine offspring.

Roy’s interference in the Insect Country’s battles drew the World Will’s attention, but he gained a Gold Rank evolutionary talent before being barred from the divine kingdom. After Matrikaler died, the egg inside her hatched into a humanlike insect creature that questioned the quality of its incarnation.

• Roy and Gwenita debated whether Matrikaler’s eggs should be born in the Material Plane or raised in the divine kingdom.
• Roy fed Matrikaler and played the lyre, but four demigod insects attacked her, and she won with his support before collapsing as an egg began hatching.
• The World Will focused on the egg, and Roy’s Alchemy Talent acquired the Gold Rank Key of Evolution while recording Mutation as a Seed of Concept.
• Roy escaped the World Will’s notice, then discovered that the divine kingdom had rejected him and Furia, though Ingenium and the others could still enter.
• Matrikaler died in the Insect Country, and a humanlike insect creature emerged from her body and complained that its incarnation was lousy.

Roy used samples from the dried Mare World and theories of natural evolution to pursue a way to recreate Chalk Genesis on his own. After Lia died and Domi grieved, Roy reconsidered the role of natural lifespans, refined his research into creature templates, and began mixing the materials for a new attempt.

• Doniru gave Roy seawater and seabed silt from the dried Mare World, whose ancient ocean had apparently been drained by an unknown force.
• Roy argued that Chalk Genesis should combine the Four Fundamentals with Natural Magic, cloning, and guided evolution, then decided he might be able to carry out the research himself.
• Roy quietly gathered resources over several years and kept his independent Chalk Genesis project secret from the Fertile Garden and the wider alliance.
• Domi discovered that Lia had died of old age, and Roy explained that her death reflected the designed limits of her natural lifespan while recovering her lingering soul remnant.
• Roy and Furia reconsidered Lia's connection to the Rose Angel, and Roy began extracting and combining traits from successive clones to develop a creature template.
• Roy mixed Mare World seawater and seabed silt with Chalk Soil in his Alchemy Room, beginning a new attempt at Chalk Genesis.

Roy developed a Life Nucleus that could encode creature templates, used it to create the naturally soulful and adaptable scarab Grigori II, and then refined gene-chain methods to awaken bloodline abilities in Furia and himself. As his mature dragon instincts urged him to reproduce, Roy received a centuries-old invitation from Draconia that had been sent to him through fate divination.

• Roy used his Life Nucleus and prepared spiritual plants to create Grigori II, whose natural spirituality formed a soul and whose edited genes gave it powerful traits and potential for growth and reproduction.
• Grigori II unlocked dormant gene sequences, developed lightning abilities, and demonstrated the capacity for natural evolutionary mutation.
• Furia confirmed that special gene sequences in Grigori II activated under specific conditions, leading Roy to resume his research into bloodline factors and gene-chain inheritance.
• Roy created a bloodline version of the Alchemy Demon Eye, successfully awakened it in Furia and himself, and later modified his Hair Ghost Witch Body so strands of his hair could become lightning-wielding giant snakes.
• Roy realized that his mature dragon body’s reproductive urges stemmed from Astrid’s bloodline and her final wish that her descendants be carried on.
• Nimledo delivered Roy a letter inviting him to a gathering in Draconia; Roy recognized that it had been sent centuries earlier through the Prophecy of Fate Divination specifically for him.

Roy investigated Dragon Country and Graconia after a letter connected him to a gathering there, then discovered that his dragon bloodline was intensifying and forming a dragon crystal. As his instincts and inherited abilities grew stronger, he tested his new powers and found kobolds instinctively offering him their faith.

• Roy asked Furia to research Dragon Country and Graconia, and she reported that dragon clans ruled the world through the Cloud Cliff Council while Metal Dragons and Chromatic Dragons fought for control.
• Roy suspected the letter was either a plot or an effect of fate, but could not sever his dragon bloodline; he discovered that a dragon crystal was forming inside his body.
• Roy and Furia discussed how his body and soul were shifting toward dragon nature as his bloodline power condensed and strengthened.
• Roy tested his dragon form and instinctively cast several spells, including Spell Nullification Barrier, while discovering that his inherited abilities had become effortless.
• Roy visited a kobold tribe, whose members knelt before his Dragon Might, offered him faith, and worshipped him as he departed.

Roy traveled to Draconia to investigate his Golden Dragon Bloodline, its curse, and his connection to Astrid’s wish, while taking on academy duties and a Fertile Garden audit. The world welcomed him with unusually strong magical affinity, but his arrival in Negom was interrupted by three young red dragons attacking the city.

• Roy decided that the Cloud Cliff Council’s letter called him back to Draconia for a meeting and asked Nimledo about wizard relations with the Dragon Country.
• Roy told Archmage Doniru he planned to visit Draconia, agreed to audit Fertile Garden’s tribute records, and accepted optional academy duties to recruit students and train apprentices.
• Roy received approval to leave Fertile Garden and traveled to Draconia with Athedia, Furia, and the others, where he felt the world’s magic respond warmly to his Golden Dragon Bloodline.
• Roy chose to investigate Negom before heading to the Cloud Cliff Council and arrived in the city with his companions near dusk.
• A warning bell rang in Negom, and three young red dragons flew over the city before one hurled a large fireball down at it.

Roy and his companions defeated three red dragons in Negom City and met the silver dragon Chevalier, then Roy reunited with Amifkent and traded the dragons’ remains for a Dragon Heart Potion. After learning that the complete recipe required an Adult Dragon’s heart, Roy was asked to help hunt one.

• Roy resisted his Golden Dragon instincts to punish the red dragons, but they attacked his group, and his companions incapacitated them.
• Roy killed one red dragon after learning that their powerful mother, the Scarlet Tyrant Tiranin, could not currently protect them, and Chevalier promised to guard Negom City.
• Roy and Chevalier hid the dragons’ corpses, but Roy later caught Raymond trying to take them and learned that Raymond had come with Amifkent.
• Roy reconciled with Amifkent, who exchanged a Dragon Heart Potion for the three red dragon corpses and Roy’s help refining it.
• Roy discovered that Amifkent’s complete potion recipe required an Adult Dragon’s heart, and Amifkent asked him to help hunt one.

Roy investigated how to adapt a longevity potion, tested a vitality-rich insect paste, and accepted a commission to forge a Dragon Slayer Spear for a planned hunt of the Red Dragon Tiranin. After learning that Silver Dragon Chevalier was a princess of the Cloud Cliff Council and nearing her mating period, he was urged to pursue her to fulfill his bloodline mission.

• Amifkent explained how the Dragon Slayer Spear could pierce dragon defenses, and Roy agreed to help with a dragon-slaying plan while seeking the longevity potion formula for himself.
• Roy analyzed a saved potion sample and concluded that dragon-based catalysts were impractical, so he began experimenting with insect-derived vitality and regenerative substances.
• Roy tested his Bug Paste on Gahel, whose old scars began to heal as Roy observed the paste’s regenerative effects.
• Raymond’s Feathered Serpent reported that the group had chosen the injured Red Dragon Tiranin as their target, and Roy accepted a commission to forge the Stefanus Spear.
• Planje reported that Silver Dragon Chevalier was the Cloud Cliff Council elder’s descendant and a princess nearing her mating period, and she suggested that Roy pursue her to fulfill his bloodline mission.

Roy completed a powerful Dragon Slayer Spear and helped prepare an expedition against the Red Dragon Tiranin, while Amifkent recruited Egson and his adventuring companions to lead the attack. The party reached Tiranin’s lair and wounded her with poisoned Dragon Slayer Arrows, just as Roy and Amifkent’s group arrived.

• Roy forged and inspected a Dragon Slayer Spear that could inflict True Damage on dragons, and he recorded the Dragon Slayer concept.
• Roy and Furia discussed the curses and destiny backlash that could follow killing dragons, while Roy investigated Tiranin and prepared for the hunt with Amifkent.
• Amifkent recruited Egson and his adventuring party, and Roy secretly guided them toward Tiranin’s hiding place with Gahel’s help.
• Roy disguised himself as an old wizard, supplied the party with potions and weapons, and directed them through the dangerous lava caves.
• Egson’s party found Tiranin asleep on a lava island, fought her Fire Elementals, and struck her with poisoned Dragon Slayer Arrows.
• Tiranin’s spell engulfed the party, but Gahel’s barrier protected them; as the poison took effect, Roy and Amifkent’s group appeared nearby.

Roy and Amifkent’s forces killed Red Dragon Tiranin, and Roy gained new alchemy talents and claimed her dragon crystal. Afterward, Amifkent explained how Legendary Elements were accumulated and how Egson’s dragon-slaying deed advanced his destiny.

• Amifkent’s followers restrained Tiranin with a Bone Cage Spell and attacks while Roy’s shadowy hair helped keep her trapped.
• Egson and the others struck Tiranin with the Dragon Slaying Weapon and finished her off, but her death burst killed several companions and badly burned Egson and the bard.
• Roy acquired the Dragon Soul Weapon and Golden Spirit alchemy talents, then collected dragon materials and took Tiranin’s dragon crystal.
• Amifkent explained that dragon blood could grant natural armor and that Tiranin had lost most of her wealth while fleeing an enemy and treating her injuries.
• Egson thanked Amifkent for helping him achieve his dream of becoming a Dragon Slayer Hero, and Roy learned that Amifkent had invested in him decades earlier because of his Legendary Destiny.
• Amifkent told Roy that deeds and reputation could generate Legendary Elements, and that dragon-slaying was one way to gain them.

After Roy refined a Longevity Potion that gave Amifkent 135 additional years, Amifkent rewarded him with a token to the Time Hostel, a secret gathering of longevity seekers. Roy examined the token and a strange coin called the Value of Time, leaving him with a possible path into the organization.

• Roy heard that Egson had slain the Scarlet Tyrant, Red Dragon Tiraning, and learned that Egson had fallen out with the bard over his conduct during their adventures.
• Roy experimented with Dragon Crystal and contacted Amifkent to arrange the refinement of a Longevity Potion.
• At the end of February, Roy refined a Dragon Heart Longevity Potion that could add 135 years to a living person's lifespan.
• Amifkent drank the potion and found that his remaining lifespan had risen to more than 230 years.
• Amifkent gave Roy a damaged pocket-watch token for the Time Hostel and explained how its Legend Lore spell could locate the secret gathering.
• Roy examined the token and a gold coin marked as a Value of Time, which represented one year.

Roy investigated ways to extend life, discovered that dragon bloodline and dragon crystals were essential to a powerful new potion, and suspected their inherited power might explain his Golden Dragon instincts. Meanwhile, he avoided Chevalier’s planned hunt for Sharil and prepared to test the potion on Gahel.

• Amifkent gave Roy a Hostel Gold coin and explained the Time Hostel’s origins; Roy later produced a Dragon Heart Longevity Potion that added only 1.2 years of life.
• Roy experimented with insect-based ingredients and made a weak Life Force Supplement Potion, then explained to Furia why physical longevity did not preserve the soul.
• Sharil killed Egson and burned his hometown, while Roy warned Raymond against pursuing the red dragon and hid after Amifkent vanished.
• Chevalier recruited Roy to hunt Sharil, but Roy blocked her communications and withdrew to a remote laboratory instead of joining the hunt.
• Roy found that dragon bloodline and dragon crystals could produce a powerful Dragon Power Potion, then ordered Furia to have Gahel test it as he investigated its connection to his instincts.

Roy tested his Dragon Power Potion on Gahel, then used his research into Primal Dragon Blood to create an artificial dragon and uncover a trace of the Dragon God's bloodline inheritance. The chapter ended as Roy learned that the Black Dragon Princess Melas Delakon had arrived to help Sharil take revenge on Silver Dragon Chevalier, leaving him unsure whether to investigate.

• Roy gave Gahel the Dragon Power Potion, which rapidly strengthened him and awakened dragon-like traits before Roy's preparations halted the transformation; Gahel later demonstrated dragon roars and fire breath.
• Roy studied Pseudragons and other dragon-blooded creatures, concluding that Primal Dragon Blood carried a high-level Soul Imprint and could reveal the source of his troubling instincts.
• Roy used Chalk Genesis and his own imprint to shape a living artificial dragon, capturing a trace of the Dragon God's bloodline inheritance and beginning to gestate the creature as a daughter.
• Roy discussed the unknown dragon's identity and purpose with Furia, while Athedia reported that a huge flight of dragons was heading east.
• Amifkent told Roy that Melas Delakon, the Black Dragon Princess, had come to support Sharil and seek revenge on Chevalier, and Roy wondered whether to go watch.