Chapter Summaries

Angel faced the Guman King's daughter, now a powerful half-undead queen, and learned that she had summoned him to question him about the White Light Bullet that struck her. He began explaining Prelude of Reincarnation's function while withholding some details about her condition.

• The Guman King's daughter appeared on Sese Bilas's eyeball throne and suppressed Angel with her undead army.
• Angel recognized her as the half-undead he had inadvertently created and heard her vow revenge on the Guman King and the woman who framed her.
• Angel asked why she had summoned him, and she demanded to know what had happened when the White Light Bullet changed her.
• The Guman King's daughter agreed to let Angel explain in exchange for his honest answers.
• Angel began explaining Prelude of Reincarnation, revealing its function while holding back some limitations of the half-undead state.

Angel confronted the Guman Princess over the Prelude of Reincarnation, but Sese Bilas’s attack forced him to escape through a strange door and catch her off guard. The Guman Princess vanished when Angel tried to shoot her, leaving him surrounded by hostile undead and struggling to find a way out.

• The Guman Princess confirmed she was a half-undead and declared that she would take the Prelude of Reincarnation, refusing to answer Angel’s questions and making clear that she intended to kill him.
• Angel approached Sese Bilas and attacked the Guman Princess, but Sese Bilas neutralized his shots with a web of red rays and forced him to retreat.
• A strange door appeared behind Angel, letting him emerge beside the Guman Princess and press the Prelude of Reincarnation to her head.
• The Guman Princess dismissed Angel’s White Light Bullet, then gradually vanished while Sese Bilas and the other undead attacked.
• Angel left his body with the Soul-Severing Murmur and used the Gravity Veins to flee several hundred meters, but the surrounding negative energy drove him back into his body.

Angel fought through the undead while searching for the hidden Guman Princess, eventually locating her with a green glint in his eye and a door. The Princess escaped by disguising herself as an undead and headed for a cave, but a low, hoarse voice spoke beside her just as she was about to enter.

• Angel dodged the gigantic undead and Sese Bilas's red rays while fighting off the horde and escaping an Undead Aggregate's explosion.
• A red-clothed vengeful spirit trapped Angel in an illusory space made from his memories, but he recognized the illusion and regained control of his body.
• Angel endured the undead's assault because he believed the Guman Princess was still nearby and wanted to find her.
• The Guman Princess taunted Angel from hiding, but he used a green glint in his eye and a door to appear beside her and say, "Found you."
• The Guman Princess changed into an ordinary undead and escaped Angel's shot, then hurried toward a dark cave while Angel pretended to search helplessly.
• As the Guman Princess was about to enter the cave, a low, hoarse voice suddenly sounded beside her ear.

Angel and Sanders captured the Guman Princess after exposing her possession ability, but she triggered the self-destruction of the Corpse Forest’s giant undead. Angel brought her to the surface and warned Black Castle’s wizards, while Sanders stayed behind to try to stop the explosions.

• Sanders revealed that Angel had identified the Guman Princess by spotting a possessed undead, and he trapped her inside a barrier.
• The Guman Princess failed to break out and made the Undead Aggregates throughout the Corpse Forest begin glowing with self-destructive energy.
• Sanders told Angel to take the Guman Princess to the surface and alert Isabella, while he stayed to try to control the explosions.
• Angel opened a door to the surface and carried the Guman Princess through, arriving near Isabella and the other wizards.
• Angel warned the wizards that the Corpse Forest was in danger, and Isabella went underground while Kimberly urged the others to deal with the threat first.

Angel questioned the Guman Princess as her planned explosions threatened Black Castle, but only one blast struck the surface and reduced its buildings to ruins. Sanders explained that Isabella and the others had exiled two Undead Aggregates at great cost, while the giant python’s explosion destroyed the castle’s surface; Isabella survived but was gravely injured.

• Angel asked the Guman Princess whether her actions were worth it and tried to learn her name, but she refused to answer.
• A pillar of white light erupted and a massive explosion destroyed Black Castle’s surface structures, forcing Angel to retreat with the Guman Princess.
• The Guman Princess raged that only one explosion had occurred, while witches nearby wondered what had happened to Isabella.
• Sanders and the others emerged from the crater, and Kimberly supported the badly injured Isabella as Isabella began treating her.
• Sanders told Angel that Isabella had used Exile Space to contain the Peril Mountain Giant and Sese Bilas, but the spell collapsed and severely injured her.
• Isabella had been unable to exile the giant python, so she let it explode while the others tried to keep the blast from reaching the Soul Domain.

After the explosion destroyed Black Castle’s surface buildings, Isabella addressed her apprentice’s recovery and urged the wizards to treat the destruction as a chance to rebuild. Angel asked to take the Guman Princess as an experimental subject, and Isabella agreed in principle but ended the chapter by imposing conditions.

• Isabella told Kimberly that the apprentice’s injuries had stabilized, though her mind space had been badly shaken, and the apprentice accepted that she would need time to recover.
• Isabella reassured the grieving wizards that Black Castle’s destruction could be an opportunity to rebuild the decayed organization from its roots.
• Isabella thanked Angel for his role in limiting the explosion’s damage, then questioned the hostile, unresponsive Guman Princess.
• Angel asked Isabella to give him the Guman Princess so he could study the Prelude of Reincarnation and collect data using the White Light Bullet.
• Sanders privately argued that Angel had a claim to the Guman Princess and reminded Isabella that the White Light Bullet could help her turn the Infant Spirits into souls.
• Isabella agreed to let Angel handle the Guman Princess but said she had conditions.

Angel agreed to help Isabella turn the Guman Princess back into a soul, while Isabella announced plans for friendship between Black Castle and Demon Illusion Island. As the Guman Princess’s unstable half-undead state began collapsing, Angel fired a White Light Bullet at her, but an unforeseen change interrupted the moment.

• Isabella offered the Chaos Source to Angel and announced that Black Castle and Demon Illusion Island intended to form a friendship, while agreeing to let Angel take the Guman Princess.
• Isabella warned that the Guman Princess’s rising disorderly energy could collapse her spirit body, so Angel went to collect the White Light Bullets needed to restore her as a soul.
• Angel gathered his fifth White Light Bullet in the Corpse Forest, then returned when Sanders warned that the Guman Princess’s condition was collapsing.
• With the Guman Princess’s spirit body mostly consumed by disorderly energy, Angel aimed the Prelude of Reincarnation at her and fired a White Light Bullet as the others watched.
• An unforeseen change occurred just as the bullet was shot toward the Guman Princess.

A mysterious black-robed wizard crossed into Black Castle through a spatial rift while the Guman Princess underwent a strange transformation. He recognized the Guman King’s connection to her and said he had come partly to verify something, then asked what had happened to her as everyone looked toward Angel.

• The White Light Bullet struck the Guman Princess, and the black mist surrounding her began flowing into the wound in her brow.
• Spatial energy gathered above Black Castle, and a stable rift opened beneath the storm clouds.
• A tall black-robed man emerged from the rift, and Angel recognized the patterns on his robe as an emblem of an ancient alchemy school.
• The visitor identified Isabella as a powerful soul wizard and said he had come from outside the Southern Region after obtaining a coordinate.
• The black-robed man mentioned meeting the Guman King and admitted that he had come partly because of the Guman Princess to verify something.
• The visitor noticed the Guman Princess's unusual condition and asked what had caused it, while everyone looked toward Angel.

Frost introduced himself as a wandering wizard and asked to observe Angel’s use of Prelude of Reincarnation on the Guman Princess. Angel discovered that the second bullet was pushing her spirit body toward collapse, but fired it anyway as the chapter ended.

• Frost recognized Angel’s unusual potential and identified Prelude of Reincarnation as a Half-Step Mystic work.
• Frost deduced that Prelude of Reincarnation could turn an undead spirit back into a soul, and Angel explained that all six bullets had to strike the same target.
• Isabella allowed Frost to stay temporarily in Black Castle after he revealed his masked face and introduced himself as a wandering wizard.
• Angel studied the Guman Princess’s changing condition and realized the second bullet was causing her spirit body to collapse.
• Angel fired the second shot from Prelude of Reincarnation at the Guman Princess.

Angel used Prelude of Reincarnation to transform the Guman Princess into an ordinary soul, who named herself Mandhaila and retained her memories and special ability. Frost explained that other, more costly methods existed and was stunned when Isabella revealed that the creator of Prelude of Reincarnation stood before him.

• Angel fired White Light Bullets into the Guman Princess until her negative energy vanished and she became a pure soul.
• Mandhaila told Angel she had kept her memories, chose a name from her pet bird, and resented him for ruining her plan.
• Isabella confirmed that Mandhaila had retained her special ability, and Mandhaila offered information in exchange for release, which Angel refused to grant for now.
• Frost praised Prelude of Reincarnation and described a costly ritual he had witnessed that also transformed an undead into a soul.
• Angel explained that each White Light Bullet required the deaths of at least two thousand undead, and Frost lamented that the device had not become a mysterious object.
• Isabella revealed that the creator of Prelude of Reincarnation was present, leaving Frost shocked that the failed alchemist had survived.

Frost discovered that Angel had refined the Prelude of Reincarnation and questioned how he survived the dangers of refining a mysterious object. After warning Angel about the Time Thief, Frost arranged to stay at Black Castle so Angel could explain the refinement process.

• Frost ruled out Isabella, Sanders, and Kimberly as the refiner before Angel admitted that he had made the Prelude of Reincarnation.
• Frost noticed Angel's Blood Night's Shelter cloak and learned that Angel had encountered Cassini, the Time Thief, while refining it.
• Frost warned Angel that the Time Thief could take away his choices, and Sanders took the warning as further reason to distrust him.
• Frost explained that failed attempts to refine mysterious objects could lead to disaster or death, leaving Angel shocked that he had faced such danger.
• Angel agreed to describe how he refined the Prelude of Reincarnation, and Frost asked Isabella to let him remain at Black Castle in exchange for fair trades.
• Isabella agreed, and Frost invited Angel to continue their conversation in a Magic Cottage.

Frost gave Angel natural Kou Wind as repayment for his alchemical process, then questioned him about surviving a failed refinement. After hearing that a Mystic Spirit had appeared, Frost concluded Angel had actually succeeded in refining Prelude of Reincarnation and asked what had gone wrong at the final step.

• Frost presented natural Kou Wind, and Kimberly explained its ability to strengthen and purify a wizard's magic source.
• Frost said the Kou Wind was repayment for Angel explaining his alchemical process, then revealed that his Mystic alchemist mentor had vanished into an Anomaly Space after a failed refinement.
• Frost asked Angel why his own failed refinement had not caused a disaster, and Angel described his spiritual inspiration and the appearance of a powerful Mystic Spirit.
• Frost concluded that Angel's refinement had succeeded because the Mystic Spirit appeared, despite Angel surviving the alchemical omen's Anomaly Space.
• Frost questioned why the result had become the Half-Step Mystic Prelude of Reincarnation and asked Angel what had happened at the final step.

Frost learned that Isabella had taken half the Mystic Spirit from Angel’s Prelude of Reincarnation, preventing him from becoming a Mystic Alchemist, and condemned her for destroying such a rare opportunity. Angel accepted that the past could not be changed and said he would find a way to enter the Mystic realm again, leaving Frost newly hopeful about his potential.

• Angel explained that Isabella had taken half the Mystic Spirit because it had been made from the accumulated souls of Black Castle, and that she had later given him Soul-Severing Murmur as compensation.
• Frost angrily accused Isabella of preventing Angel from becoming a Mystic Alchemist, while Isabella argued that Angel’s success had been luck and he lacked the skill to use the Mystic realm.
• Frost told Angel that Mystic Alchemists were exceptionally rare and received treatment comparable to Miracle Wizards, making the lost opportunity far more valuable than a Mystic item.
• Angel acknowledged that he had missed something extraordinary but said he would find a way to enter the Mystic realm again.
• Angel said he no longer resented what had happened and preferred to look ahead, and Frost told him he would look forward to his return to the Mystic realm.

Angel confirmed that Frost had made a transaction with the Guman King concerning the Scarlet Sovereignty, then refused Frost’s offer to take him to the Source World. Frost agreed to honor his repayment in another way, and Angel asked him to explain what it meant for a mysterious object to lose control.

• Frost dismissed Isabella, Kimberly, Isabella, and Sanders from the hall so he could speak with Angel privately.
• Angel told Frost that Rolando had revealed the transaction with the Guman King, and Frost confirmed that he had used it to investigate whether the Scarlet Sovereignty might lose control.
• Frost offered to take Angel to the Source World, but Angel refused because he still had unfinished matters in the Southern Region.
• Frost accepted Angel’s decision and offered another form of repayment.
• Angel asked Frost what it meant for a mysterious object to lose control, and Frost began to explain.

Frost explained how mysterious objects were classified by their stability and showed Angel the semi-uncontrolled Dark Canticle, which recognized Frost as its master. He then gave Angel a mysterious water that Angel drank against his will, before beginning to explain uncontrolled objects.

• Frost described the Order Guild and distinguished controllable, semi-uncontrolled, and uncontrolled mysterious objects.
• Frost used Crownstar Cathedral's Mystery of the Starry Sky as an example of a stable, controllable object.
• Frost demonstrated the Dark Canticle, whose music stirred an evil personality in Angel, and explained that it obeyed only Frost.
• Frost said Angel's mentor had a dark shadow that might be an evil personality, prompting Angel to wonder whether it was Sanders's other personality.
• Frost offered Angel mysterious water, and Angel drank it involuntarily before checking that it appeared harmless.
• Frost began introducing uncontrolled mysterious objects as the next topic.

Frost explained how mysterious objects that lose control invade people and described his ordeal inside the Casket of the Undead's Reincarnation. He had survived twenty increasingly dangerous reincarnations but failed to find the object's core, leaving him needing to enter it again to attempt its recovery.

• Frost explained that uncontrolled mysterious objects spread disorder when people meet their invasion conditions, and that the Casket of the Undead's Reincarnation affected anyone who entered the small world containing it.
• Frost said he entered the small world to recover the Casket and was pulled into its disorder, which deprived him of the ability to sense illusory spaces and their energy.
• Frost recounted how he traveled through successive settings haunted by undead, from Horror Monastery to Wraith Orphanage and Ghost City, facing unpredictable threats in each reincarnation.
• Frost described surviving the eighth reincarnation's Twilight Demon Palace, where he encountered a special undead comparable to a half-step Legend.
• Frost said his twentieth reincarnation ended in Ancient God Cemetery, where he defeated a fallen god undead comparable to a Legend but lost his right arm.
• Frost explained that he had received a reward and been expelled from the Casket, but had not found its core and would have to enter again to seek it.

Angel learned from Frost about out-of-control mysterious objects and discovered that the Reincarnation Box had led Frost to Mandhaila. After Frost left Angel to rest, Angel suddenly collapsed in pain, and Sanders arrived to examine him.

• Frost explained that out-of-control mysterious objects could trap people in endless cycles, and that unsolvable ones had annihilated miracles.
• Frost revealed that surviving twenty cycles in the Reincarnation Box had given him the coordinates of a special undead, Mandhaila, but he did not want her.
• Frost explained the stability classifications of mysterious objects, urged Angel to reconsider traveling to the Source World, and left to rest at Black Castle.
• Angel recorded Frost's explanations and planned to check on Bobota and Sparrow Sparrow, meet his mentor, and visit Mandhaila.
• Angel suddenly doubled over as surging mental fluctuations and pain spread through his body, and Sanders arrived to examine him.

Kou Wind pushed Angel’s magic source and spirit sea to the threshold of breakthrough, and Sanders helped him regain clarity. Angel chose to attempt the breakthrough to become an official wizard despite lacking the Ancient Silver Flower, while Sanders agreed to stand guard.

• Sanders sensed Angel’s spirit sea expanding and realized Kou Wind had triggered signs of a breakthrough.
• Sanders used the Spirit-Gathering Parchment to steady Angel’s thoughts as his mind space and magic source changed.
• Angel recognized that his magic source was nearing transformation and understood that Kou Wind had accelerated his breakthrough.
• Angel told Sanders he had prepared the Agility Potion but lacked the Ancient Silver Flower, and Sanders said his Guidance Method could compensate.
• Angel chose to proceed without mentioning the Snow Orchid Potion, and Sanders prepared to guard him through the breakthrough.

Angel began his breakthrough in the Middle World after Sanders moved him away from Black Castle’s unstable Inner World. He drank an Agility Potion to shield his thoughts from the chaos of his expanding spiritual sea, leaving his success uncertain.

• Sanders brought Angel to the Middle World, where the primal magic power was stable enough for a breakthrough.
• At Black Castle, Isabella confronted Kimberly over Sanders tearing a spatial rift into the Soul Domain, but Kimberly and her mentor explained Angel was preparing to break through.
• Isabella reacted to the news with jealousy and resentment as the others wondered whether Angel would succeed.
• Angel sensed the Spirit-Gathering Parchment weakening, drank the Agility Potion, and entered the breakthrough stage.
• The Agility Potion separated Angel’s thoughts from the turmoil of his spiritual sea, allowing him to focus on breaking through.

Angel began the irreversible vortexing of his enormous magic source as the first major stage of his breakthrough into a formal wizard. After forming a plan and starting to shape the vortex, he faced the imminent eruption of conflicts across all four battlefields.

• Angel waited as his magic source continued expanding for nearly forty-five minutes, far beyond the usual time apprentices needed to reach their limit.
• Sanders watched from afar and worried that Angel's unusually large magic source would make vortexing dangerous without an Ancient Silver Flower.
• When cracks appeared in the magic source, Angel used the mental model and the "Singularity Scattering Meditation Method" to shatter its shell and release the refined energy.
• Angel studied the still-aggregated energy mass and determined how to form a magic vortex seed before the energy began to scatter.
• Angel began shaping the vortex, while the Soul Land and physical body were about to join the conflicts already underway in the space of thought and sea of spirit.