Chapter Summaries

Angel organized his long-term goals and took a two-week break, prompting Sanders to threaten to end their master-disciple relationship unless he advanced within a month. Angel let Gude believe he had abandoned the Thirty-Six-Dimensional Spatial Coordinate Positioning Method, while he waited for the Holographic Tablet to finish analyzing it; as he dozed in the courtyard, a faint sound came from the entrance.

• After waking, Angel sorted his ambitions into long-term wizardry, resolving Jon's problem, fulfilling his promise to Moro, and pursuing his immediate advancement and the Wizard Garden of Sky Mechanical City.
• Angel spent two weeks singing, practicing calligraphy, organizing Jon's studies, playing with Toby, and relaxing while the Black Demon Shadow Servant recorded him for Gude and Sanders.
• Sanders learned of Angel's extended holiday and ordered Gude to tell him to advance to the apprentice stage within a month or lose their master-disciple relationship.
• Angel told Gude he would advance within a month, and Gude assumed he had agreed to abandon the Thirty-Six-Dimensional Spatial Coordinate Positioning Method.
• Angel realized Gude had misunderstood his intentions and kept quiet, waiting for the Holographic Tablet's countdown to finish while pretending to study whenever he went outside.
• Angel dozed beneath the mistletoe in his courtyard, then heard a faint sound at the entrance.

Angel agreed to let Toby test David’s redesigned Spiral Flying Machine in exchange for three Echo Flowers, information about Sky Tower, and help buying alchemy materials. David accepted Angel’s conditions, and Angel said he planned to try alchemy after advancing to wizard apprentice.

• David came to Angel’s gate and asked Toby to test his redesigned Spiral Flying Machine, but Toby refused until David offered compensation.
• Angel negotiated three conditions with David: Sky Tower information, three Echo Flowers for Toby, and access to alchemy materials at market value.
• David agreed to give Toby three Echo Flowers and provide Angel with Sky Tower intelligence.
• Angel told David he was preparing to advance to wizard apprentice and wanted to buy alchemy materials through Promi Alchemy Shop.
• David agreed to help and warned Angel that alchemy was difficult, while Angel said he would try it and switch professions if he lacked talent.

Angel let David test the Spiral Flying Machine with Toby, and the successful flight renewed David’s confidence in alchemy. David then explained Sky Tower’s competition and told Angel that reaching its top depended on strength or an impractical fortune in magic-pattern scrolls.

• Angel let David into his courtyard after David agreed to Angel’s three conditions for Toby’s test flight.
• Toby piloted the Spiral Flying Machine successfully, and David celebrated the success of his first alchemical creation.
• Angel congratulated David and listened as David shared what he had learned while building the machine.
• David admired the painting in Angel’s bedroom and explained that artistic study could help alchemists perfect their creations.
• Angel asked David how to reach the top of Sky Tower without too much effort, and David said competitors could use large quantities of magic-pattern scrolls, though doing so would cost more than the reward.

Angel considered how to gain an advantage in Sky Tower, learned Hukedik was trying to shame him publicly, and waited for the Holographic Tablet’s calculation to finish. With the optimized coordinates finally ready, Angel calmed himself with music and began cultivating to open all thirty-six regions.

• Angel wondered whether he could find affordable ways to dominate Sky Tower and sent the three Echo Flowers David delivered to Toby in the attic.
• Serum showed Angel Hukedik’s letter nominating him as the batch’s “Shame of the Apprentices,” and Angel dismissed the rumors while privately growing furious at Hukedik.
• Serum told Angel that Nausicaa had been taking increasingly risky missions, and Angel asked him to bring her by for a conversation.
• After five days, Angel watched the Holographic Tablet’s countdown reach zero and received twelve optimized coordinate points.
• Angel listened to “Castle in the Sky,” calmed down, and entered cultivation to cut open all thirty-six regions.

Angel completed the Myriad Phenomena Axis and used it to restore the lost Thirty-Six-Dimensional Spatial Coordinate Positioning Method. He began constructing the Singularity Scattering Meditation Method’s spiritual power model, confirmed its singularity was genuine, and absorbed an unexpected flood of primal magic power.

• Angel turned the coordinates deduced by the system into stars in his space of thought and formed the Myriad Phenomena Axis, restoring the lost positioning method.
• Angel used the Myriad Phenomena Axis to locate the singularity and construct the first point of the Singularity Scattering Meditation Method’s spiritual power model.
• Angel built the model’s first spiritual power channel, but a vortex opened and poured primal magic power into his space of thought.
• Angel closed the vortex and guided the accumulated primal magic power into the channel and sphere, which absorbed it without changing.
• Angel calculated the operating speeds and matched the figure recorded in the book, confirming the singularity and his model were correct.

Angel formed a magic source with the Singularity Scattering Meditation Method, becoming a wizard apprentice ahead of Sanders' deadline. On his way to Demon Illusion Island, he was stopped by apprentices assigned to guard it, then entered the island without being attacked by its magic array, astonishing the onlookers.

• Angel absorbed primordial magic power until a magic cocoon transformed into a magic source, and he remembered his family as he completed his transformation into a wizard apprentice.
• Angel constructed three mental power channels in five days and found that each one improved the model's purification efficiency.
• Angel left for Demon Illusion Island with Toby and was stopped on the aerial bridge by a group of apprentices led by a man who called Beck and Tutton his companions.
• Toby wounded Beck when he tried to approach Angel, and Nanaji warned Beck against attacking before the leader ordered Beck to stand down.
• Angel showed the leader his bone card and proceeded toward the island, then entered its woods without triggering the magic array, leaving the gathered apprentices astonished.

Angel entered Demon Illusion Island after advancing to wizard apprentice and joined Sanders near the forming Wizard Garden, where powerful wizards had gathered to observe its laws. He hoped Sanders would teach him spells, but Flora’s offer was stopped, leaving Angel without a teacher for his next steps.

• A wizard apprentice failed to enter Demon Illusion Island, while Hoff recognized Angel as Sanders’ new disciple and the apprentices discussed his Golden Mentor Invitation.
• Beck worried that Angel might retaliate against him, but Tutton and their boss reassured him that Angel did not seem narrow-minded.
• Angel questioned why so many apprentices had gathered, and Butler Gude explained that they were seeking the rhythm of the newborn Wizard Garden’s laws.
• Gude led Angel to Sanders, who asked about his next goal; Angel said he wanted to grow stronger and try the Sky Tower.
• Flora offered to teach Angel spells, but Sanders stopped her, and she left after asking Angel to tell a visiting half-blood that she had gone out.

Angel considered what it meant to follow the Path of True Knowledge, then registered as a wizard apprentice and began studying spells from books recorded on his Holographic Tablet. After successfully casting Cleansing Spell, he chose to derive its principles himself, but his first attempt produced only a weak breeze before he used the tablet to speed up further calculations.

• Butler Gude explained that Sanders had withheld spells so Angel could choose his own direction, and told him Wizard Garden would be completed in about a week.
• Angel reflected on the Path of True Knowledge, then registered at Tree Spirit Court and collected a black hooded robe and a communicator.
• Angel studied the books on his Holographic Tablet and successfully cast Cleansing Spell on his first attempt.
• Angel decided to derive Cleansing Spell's elemental formula from scratch, but his first combination produced only a faint breeze.
• Angel used the Holographic Tablet's calculation function, which listed more than thirty possible arrangements in ten minutes.

Angel’s experiments with Cleansing Spell variants ended in spellcasting backlash when he ran out of mana while constructing a complicated model, leaving him unable to meditate as he recovered. After organizing his research, he set out for Demon Illusion Island to await the completion of Sanders’s Wizard Garden and its promised opportunity.

• Angel tested Cleansing Spell variants, recorded their effects and patterns, and found that he could cast about fifteen level 0 cantrips before exhausting his mana.
• After meditating to recover half his mana, Angel attempted a complicated cantrip model, ran out of mana midway, and suffered spellcasting backlash that left him unconscious and bleeding.
• Angel recognized the backlash as the result of mana running out during model construction and learned that his mind space would need ten days to half a month to recover.
• While resting, Angel organized his recorded materials as the system completed its calculations of 630 Cleansing Spell permutations.
• On the third day of early Month of Blossoms, Angel dressed in a black robe, brought Toby along, and left for Demon Illusion Island to await the Wizard Garden’s opportunity.

Angel reunited with Serum and Nausicaa and learned that they were heading to Demon Illusion Island to seek an opportunity tied to Sanders’s Wizard Garden. As they traveled to the Vine Aerial Bus platform, Angel hinted that he had something to tell them but held back in the crowd, and the chapter left the three preparing to board.

• Angel disguised himself in his wizard robe and surprised Serum and Nausicaa outside 8th Apprentice Town, then bickered with Serum about their robes looking like bed sheets.
• Nausicaa asked whether Angel had advanced, and he said he had become an apprentice the previous week.
• Angel agreed to travel with Serum and Nausicaa to Demon Illusion Island, where most apprentices and their mentors had gathered.
• Angel cautiously avoided explaining why he had previously asked them to meet, then reassured Serum that his illness would improve after ten days to half a month of rest.
• On the way to the platform, Angel explained that the opportunity was linked to the completion of Sanders’s Wizard Garden, though he did not know what it would be.

Angel told Nausicaa and Serum about Purification Garden and revealed that he planned to climb Sky Tower to qualify for it. Nausicaa decided to participate too, while Serum stayed out; after they reached Fallen Cloud Leaf Platform, Serum grew nervous at the crowd there.

• Angel, Nausicaa, and Serum discussed visiting the Underground Trading Market together after their business at Demon Illusion Island.
• Angel asked Nausicaa whether she had considered climbing Sky Tower, and she said she wanted to wait until she was stronger; Serum said he was not interested in fighting.
• Angel revealed that he planned to climb Sky Tower within two months and explained that reaching its top could earn an invitation to Purification Garden.
• Angel explained that Purification Garden could cleanse hidden injuries and impurities, and Nausicaa decided to enter Sky Tower as well.
• Angel suggested using alchemy weapons to help climb the tower, then got off with Nausicaa and Serum at Fallen Cloud Leaf Platform.
• Serum said he was nervous because there were so many people at the platform, though he had chosen not to enter Sky Tower.

With Sky Bridge packed and guarded by powerful apprentices, Angel stayed near Fallen Cloud Leaf Platform and sent Toby toward Demon Illusion Island with his pass. After sleeping through the night, Angel shared his self-derived Water Delivery Spell with Serum and Nausicaa.

• Angel and his companions watched a pillar-bearing apprentice and a woman with a wooden staff clear crowds from Sky Bridge, then decided not to risk crossing.
• Angel gave Toby the pouch containing his pass to Demon Illusion Island and settled down to rest while Serum and Nausicaa discussed her plans to enter Sky Tower.
• Angel slept until noon the next day, then ate the dry rations Serum had brought.
• When Serum and Nausicaa had no water, Angel wrote down data for a spell he had derived and asked Serum to construct its model.
• Angel explained that his Water Delivery Spell could summon drinking water, surprising Serum and Nausicaa with his method of deriving spells.

Angel and his companions were caught in a lethal gale as Demon Illusion Island began to change, and Angel nearly fell to his death. Mirror Princess rescued him and brought him to Sanders, where she hinted at a way he could repay her as the Wizard Garden was about to take shape.

• Serum learned Angel's Water Delivery Spell trick model and produced a small amount of water for the group.
• A boom from Demon Illusion Island was followed by crows, dark clouds, lightning, and a violent gale that killed over a hundred apprentices.
• Nausicaa helped Angel cling to a vine, but Angel fainted and was later blown loose as the wind intensified.
• Mirror Princess caught Angel in white mist, demanded a favor in return, and offered to take him where he wanted to go.
• Angel asked Mirror Princess to send him to Sanders, who told him to disregard her request and watch as the Wizard Garden formed.

Sanders completed the Wizard Garden, which manifested as a Gravity Garden, while Angel and the gathered wizards endured the gravity rhythm released as the world infused it with laws. The chapter ended with Toby claiming he had comprehended something, and Sanders asking to see how much he had learned.

• The world’s will infused laws into Sanders’s newly formed Wizard Garden, and a rhythm of gravity spread across Demon Illusion Island, crushing Angel and Toby to the ground.
• The Gravity Garden shrank into a golden light, and Sanders caught it and fixed it to an earring.
• Sanders explained that the garden’s gravity currently reached 3.17 times normal and could eventually reach ninety-three times gravity at its center.
• Angel asked Toby whether he had gained anything from the rhythm, and Toby solemnly nodded.
• Sanders asked Toby to show how many veins of gravity he had comprehended.

Angel returned to Sanders’s manor, where Sanders confirmed that Toby had comprehended a gravity law pattern and noticed Angel’s spell backlash. After Flora bought the scent lingering on Angel for perfume, Sanders asked about Angel’s recent cultivation progress.

• Sanders tested Toby and confirmed that it could alter its own gravity using a low-level gravity law pattern.
• Sanders noticed damage in Angel’s thought space and languid spiritual force, then warned him to know his limits after suffering backlash from rearranging the Cleansing Spell formula.
• Sanders explained that comprehended law patterns functioned like spell slots, granting abilities that could be activated instantly.
• Flora arrived to collect the Demon-Eating Flower King’s Saliva scent from Angel for Liana’s Shulomon Perfume, but Sanders reminded Angel that it was a valuable alchemical material.
• Flora paid Angel one thousand contribution points for the scent and left, and Sanders asked Angel how his cultivation had progressed.

Angel learned from Sanders that understanding a spell’s principles mattered more than repeatedly recombining its models, and Sanders encouraged him to consider creating spells of his own someday. After reuniting with Serum and Nausicaa, Angel recounted the disaster and revealed that Toby had comprehended the gravity pattern.

• Sanders explained that spell principles came before techniques and said that accumulated knowledge could let a wizard create spells; Angel reflected on the lesson as he left.
• Angel remembered that Mirror Princess had invited Sanders for tea, but Sanders declined and suggested Angel visit her instead.
• Angel found Serum and Nausicaa safe, thanked Nausicaa for trying to save him during the gale, and reunited with them.
• As the three headed toward the Underground Trading Market, Serum described the many deaths caused by the gale and the mysterious rhythm that followed the will of the world’s descent.
• Angel told Serum and Nausicaa that Toby had comprehended the pattern of gravity, leaving Serum astonished and jealous.

Angel, Nausicaa, and Serum visited Sky Tower to scout its competitors, but found the first-floor matches filled with weak apprentices and grandiose personas. Realizing Demon Illusion Island had drawn away most of the elite fighters, Nausicaa decided to climb the tower while the competition was poor, and they went to register her.

• Angel, Nausicaa, and Serum watched a first-floor match where Beast King’s kitten lost to Immortal Ice Emperor, whose victory followed a low-level frost spell and a kick.
• The three watched several more matches and noticed that the competitors were far weaker than their extravagant titles suggested.
• Angel explained that most of the stronger apprentices had gone to Demon Illusion Island, leaving weaker fighters at Sky Tower after many elites had died there.
• Nausicaa decided to take advantage of the weak competition and climb as high as she could to save money on magic-pattern hide scrolls.
• Angel agreed that Nausicaa could dominate the first floor, and the three went to the administration office to register her.

Nausicaa registered for Sky Tower under the title King of Blackberries and arranged a match against Immortal Ice Emperor. Angel declined to compete for now and went to Promi Alchemy Shop to collect contestant information and buy materials for alchemy practice.

• Nausicaa registered with Savage Cave as her affiliation and chose the title King of Blackberries after the staff member explained that titles could not be changed.
• Nausicaa scheduled a first-floor match against Immortal Ice Emperor, while Serum and Angel decided they would not watch.
• Angel and Serum left Sky Tower separately, with Angel heading to Promi Alchemy Shop to find David.
• David transferred his gathered information on Sky Tower contestants to Angel's crystal ball.
• Angel asked David to sell him low-grade alchemy materials, and David asked which direction of alchemy Angel planned to study.

Angel chose metallurgy and bought materials for alchemical weapons, while David came to respect his serious preparation. After beginning his study of alchemical theory, Angel planned to adapt Earth weapons with the Wizarding World's alchemy to create a weapon capable of intimidating wizard apprentices.

• David explained potion studies and metallurgy, and Angel confirmed that he had chosen metallurgy.
• Angel selected seventeen materials from David's books and paid 1,300 contribution points for them.
• Angel visited Nausicaa after she defeated the Immortal Ice Emperor without drawing her weapon, then returned home.
• David delivered the materials, and Angel sorted them in his basement before falling asleep.
• Angel studied alchemical theory and concluded that he would use Earth weapons as models for alchemical weapons.

Angel studied metallurgical spells and discovered the unranked Blackening Spell, which could alter a substance’s properties by turning matter into Four Primal Bodies. While waiting for his mind space to recover, he selected control and defensive spells for his tactics and began reading about the Sky Tower’s seeded contestants.

• Angel reviewed the metallurgical cantrips and found the Blackening Spell in the alchemy handbook from the Nightmare Realm.
• Angel learned that the Blackening Spell could transform matter into Four Primal Bodies, with the extent of the change depending on the magic power infused.
• Angel chose control and defensive spells, including Grease Spell, Flash Spell, Ice Wall Spell, and Light and Shadow Interweave, to prepare for climbing the tower.
• Angel declined Nausicaa and Serum’s invitation to take missions because he was ill.
• Angel began reading the information David had sent about the Sky Tower’s seeded contestants.