Chapter Summaries

Richard confronted Somen and Mu Keni, revealed that he was the dragon Somen had once tried to kill, and launched a surprise attack using his stored spells and items. The chapter ended with Somen transformed into a werewolf and charging at Richard.

• Somen and Mu Keni found Richard and prepared to kill him for seeking Black Spirit Empire books.
• Richard told Somen that he had killed him before and that Richard himself was the dragon Somen had tried to kill.
• Richard activated Ring No.1's magic-pattern spells and inhaled the Blood of the Gods, triggering his Human Body Third Amplification and Earl-level Bloodline Power.
• Richard used the Crystal Skull to unleash Mental Shock on Somen and Mu Keni, disrupting their movements.
• Somen went berserk, transformed into a towering werewolf, and charged at Richard as Richard met him head-on.

Richard endured Mu Keni’s mental spell and killed the werewolf Somen by unleashing the fear he had suppressed for years. With Somen dead, Richard charged toward Mu Keni.

• Mu Keni recovered enough to cast Wail of the Dead at Richard, but he endured the spell and continued toward Somen.
• Richard leaped over Somen’s claws and grabbed his head, struggling to overpower him and force him into the Space Iron Ring.
• When Somen began to break free, Richard released his fear and lost control of his reason as his strength surged.
• Richard twisted off Somen’s head, killing him in an instant and leaving Mu Keni stunned.
• Richard stomped toward Mu Keni.

Richard broke through Mu Keni’s defenses, then retreated once he realized his strength was nearly spent. Mu Keni tried to pursue him, but seven Black-Robed Men blocked her path, and she attacked them with increasingly powerful spells.

• Mu Keni used Storm Prison and Wave Shield to defend herself, but Richard shattered both with his fists.
• Richard realized his body could not sustain the fight and that Mu Keni would recover, so he feigned another attack before retreating into the darkness.
• Mu Keni recognized that Richard had tricked her and moved to chase him, but seven Black-Robed Men appeared and blocked her way.
• Mu Keni attacked the Black-Robed Men with Wail of the Dead, then used Guardian Aura to withstand their fireball, Ice Spear, and acid attacks.
• Mu Keni unleashed Terrifying Behemoth at the Black-Robed Men, furious that Richard had escaped.

Mu Keni fought off seven Black-Robed Men before clashing with Armstrong, a High-Rank Wizard who tried to delay her pursuit of Richard. Richard reached his laboratory in critical condition after overusing the Blood of the Gods, and he recognized that he was developing multiple organ failure.

• Mu Keni killed seven Black-Robed Men and prepared to resume chasing Richard.
• Armstrong confronted Mu Keni and questioned her about the killings, then refused to let her continue her pursuit.
• Mu Keni realized Armstrong was stalling and attacked him with Terrifying Behemoth.
• Armstrong countered Mu Keni’s attack with Dragon Spear Thrust, beginning a battle between the peak Level 1 Wizards.
• Richard staggered into the Main Laboratory, badly injured from the excessive Earl-level Blood of the Gods enhancement.
• Richard assessed that the enhancement had destabilized his body and caused signs of multiple organ failure.

Richard’s condition continued to deteriorate after he took medicine, and Pandora woke to find him collapsing in the laboratory. Outside Frank Tavern, Armstrong and Mu Keni’s battle escalated as Armstrong trapped her inside a crushing stone sphere.

• Richard took two medicines to stabilize his heartbeat and blood pressure, but his condition worsened and the drugs left him too weak to stand.
• Richard fell from the experiment table, and Pandora woke and saw his condition.
• Armstrong and Mu Keni exchanged spells outside Frank Tavern, injuring each other in the fight.
• Armstrong attacked with Earth Tooth, but Mu Keni blocked his stone spears with Holy Light Guard and retaliated with Sam's Ice Claw Snatch.
• Armstrong dodged Mu Keni’s ice claws, then used the stone fragments around her to trap her in a sphere with Corpse Returns to Earth.

Mu Keni broke free of Armstrong’s Stone Ball after advancing to a Level 2 Wizard and overwhelmed his strongest defense with her ice spell. Macbeth arrived in time to save Armstrong, while Richard, exhausted in the laboratory, tried to get Pandora to bring him a potion and stopped her from giving him concentrated sulfuric acid.

• Armstrong crushed the Stone Ball around Mu Keni, but she shattered it after completing her advancement to a Level 2 Wizard.
• Mu Keni attacked Armstrong with seven ice shuttles, breaking through his Earth's Eternal Shield and leaving two shuttles rushing toward him.
• Macbeth appeared and destroyed the final two shuttles, then told Armstrong he had been delayed by a late-night tavern that sold Orange Jam.
• Mu Keni dismissed Armstrong and Macbeth as two Level 1 High-Rank Wizards and launched another attack.
• In the Main Laboratory, Richard collapsed from exhaustion and asked Pandora to bring him a potion.
• Pandora picked a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid, but Richard stopped her before she poured it into his mouth.

Pandora struggled to identify the potion Richard needed, while Mu Keni overwhelmed Armstrong and Macbeth outside Frank Tavern. The two wizards unleashed their trump cards, but Mu Keni answered with Tear All Lands.

• Pandora repeatedly brought Richard the wrong transparent acids until she found the potion he had requested and helped him drink it.
• Mu Keni attacked Armstrong and Macbeth with wind blades, pushing their earth and ice Spell Shields close to breaking.
• Macbeth and Armstrong agreed to use their trump cards, despite the danger of Macbeth losing control of his spell.
• Armstrong summoned a huge meteor with Ancient Spell Meteor Fall, while Macbeth launched ice shards fused with white flames using Hot Ice Cold Flame Storm.
• Mu Keni countered both attacks with her Second-Ring Mid-Rank spell, Tear All Lands, unleashing a destructive black wind.

Richard suffered a life-threatening laryngeal obstruction in the Institute’s main laboratory, cut open his trachea to breathe, and administered treatment before waiting to see whether he would recover. Meanwhile, Meifeilisi arrived at the ruined street where Macbeth and Armstrong had fought their opponent and demanded to know how she escaped.

• Richard’s throat swelled shut, leaving him unable to breathe as Pandora watched anxiously.
• Richard cut into his trachea and inserted a tube to restore breathing and clear mucus from his airway.
• Richard injected medicines, including a Life Potion, then lay still while Pandora stayed beside him.
• At the ruined street near Frank Tavern, Macbeth and Armstrong sat among the wreckage as Wizards from White Stone Tower arrived.
• Meifeilisi questioned Macbeth and Armstrong, learned their opponent had escaped, and called them useless.

After Meifeilisi questioned Macbeth and Armstrong about Mu Keni’s escape, they parted ways, with Macbeth heading to a tavern. Richard recovered in the Main Laboratory and discovered that Pandora’s long sleep had ended, though her growth was hard to measure.

• Meifeilisi questioned Macbeth about letting Mu Keni escape and called a meeting for him and Armstrong.
• Macbeth invited Armstrong to a tavern in West City, then went there alone while Armstrong went to treat his injuries.
• Richard woke in the Main Laboratory, used the Accelerated Recovery spell, and removed the tube from his neck.
• Richard realized Pandora had not slept and learned that she felt stronger after her hibernation.
• Pandora said she had grown taller, but Richard noticed she seemed shorter relative to him because he was growing too.

Richard explained perspective and growth to Pandora, then examined his condition and the spoils from the battle. He recovered Somen's corpse and discovered that Space Iron Rings could be nested inside one another because each ring was only an entrance to its storage space.

• Richard tried to explain to Pandora that she had grown taller, but more slowly than he had, and she insisted she had gotten shorter.
• Richard calmed Pandora and left to examine his physical condition, confirming that he needed a long recovery but had no other problem.
• Richard removed Somen's headless corpse from his Space Iron Ring and found that Somen had little equipment besides a Space Iron Ring.
• Richard took Somen's ring and concluded that one Space Iron Ring could be stored inside another because the ring itself was only an entrance to a separate storage space.

Richard deciphered the message hidden in the complete set of Black Spirit Empire books and found that it stirred an uncanny sense of familiarity. He repeated the message to Pandora, who reacted with confusion.

• Richard examined Somen’s second Space Iron Ring, removed its identity verification, and sorted its contents, finding mostly supplies and a large amount of crystal coins.
• Richard brought out Empire Roar and assembled all the Black Spirit Empire books to extract their hidden characters.
• Richard combined the characters into the sentence “Ke Guo Li Ling Gu, Du Li Er Meng Wu.”
• Richard felt an increasingly strong, inexplicable familiarity as he repeated the sentence and sensed a strange melody in his mind.
• Richard recited the sentence to Pandora, who responded, “Huh?!”

After the Council’s search team died and their trail went cold, Su La Di decided to gather more power by bringing retired strategist Ya Duo De back and awakening Bo Tu La. The Council members gave their blood to Bo Tu La, and the chapter ended as it flowed through the hall’s patterns toward his coffin.

• Su La Di accepted responsibility for the deaths of Luo Er and six others, then vowed to uncover who opposed the Council and strengthen its forces.
• Su La Di led Council members to Ya Duo De’s home in White Stone City and persuaded him to return by challenging him to name the smallest Lychrel Number.
• Su La Di told Ya Duo De that he also planned to awaken Bo Tu La, and Ya Duo De asked whether Su La Di had brought the blood needed.
• Ya Duo De revealed a hidden passage beneath his bookshelf and led Su La Di and the Council members to Bo Tu La’s metal coffin.
• Su La Di ordered the Black-Robed Men to offer their blood, then cut their wrists with a wind blade so the blood could flow toward the coffin.

Bo Tu La was awakened from his coffin to help the Black Spirit Council address a threat, while Meifeilisi convened a White Stone Tower Wizard Conference about people disrupting White Stone City. The meeting revealed that two High-Rank Wizards had been badly injured by one of the intruders, leaving the Wizards alarmed.

• Su La Di and Ya Duo De revived Bo Tu La with blood, and he complained about being awakened before agreeing to help the Council.
• Bo Tu La learned that someone was targeting the Council and vowed to destroy them.
• Meifeilisi opened a Wizard Conference at the Six-Tooth Tower and explained that White Stone City’s disorder posed a serious threat to White Stone Tower.
• Meifeilisi revealed that Macbeth and Armstrong had been severely injured while fighting one of the intruders, and the gathered Wizards reacted with shock.

Meifeilisi persuaded the Wizard Association to mobilize one-sixth of its strength to investigate and deal with the powerful enemies threatening White Stone City. After the meeting, she was left with an unexplained sense of worry as night fell.

• Meifeilisi asked Macbeth and Armstrong to describe their encounters with enemies capable of Level 2 Wizard strength and Two-Ring Spells.
• The Wizards approved Meifeilisi's proposal to mobilize forces, and she announced that one-sixth of the Wizard Association's strength would be assigned to the operation.
• Steven objected that the planned mobilization was excessive, but Meifeilisi challenged him to take responsibility if a smaller force failed, and he sat down without further protest.
• After the meeting, Macbeth told Meifeilisi that he supported her decision, but she interrupted him and told him to get lost.
• Meifeilisi watched the sunset from the hall window, feeling more wary and worried than she showed.

Somen was resurrected in a new body and recovered Mu Keni’s memories, learning that an accident had caused his death. Supervisor Ji Bo Lun ordered Somen and Mu Keni to accelerate their missions at White Stone Tower, while Gold Ring personally appeared and demanded they eliminate everyone obstructing the organization.

• Mu Keni told the resurrected Somen that his original body had been killed and that she had helped pay for his replacement body.
• Ji Bo Lun used a Crystal Ball to transfer Mu Keni’s memories into Somen, allowing him to understand how he had died.
• Ji Bo Lun ordered Somen and Mu Keni to speed up their missions and disrupt order at White Stone Tower because the East Coast plan had to be completed early.
• Somen warned that moving faster risked exposing them and noted that other Wizard organizations operated in White Stone Tower.
• Ji Bo Lun said he would lead a team to assist them, and revealed that Long Mei Er would take over East Coast affairs.
• Gold Ring appeared in the office and instructed Somen to remove everyone standing in the organization’s way.

Richard was plagued by an earworm connected to the deciphered Black Spirit Empire phrase “Kegorilingu, Duriermengwu” while Pandora grew bored and asked to help in the laboratory. He began teaching her to wash test tubes, but her nervous attempts kept breaking them.

• Richard tapped a repeating melody as he researched the Black Spirit Empire phrase that had triggered his earworm.
• Pandora repeatedly watched Richard until she asked to learn something and help him.
• Richard agreed and demonstrated how to wash and rack test tubes.
• Pandora broke her first test tube while shaking it, and Richard reassured her and gave her another.
• Pandora continued breaking test tubes, including several before she even began washing them.

Richard left Pandora washing test tubes in the laboratory and paid Alex to obtain more, then avoided returning when he heard Pandora considering washing other equipment. At White Stone Tower Academy, he learned that Wizards were searching for an Evil Force and that the academy was on edge.

• Richard left Pandora washing test tubes and commissioned Alex to get him a large supply of replacements.
• Richard overheard Pandora considering washing other laboratory equipment, so he left the laboratory and headed to White Stone Tower Academy.
• Richard noticed students at the academy acting vigilant and saw An Qi'er, who avoided acknowledging him as they had agreed.
• Richard met Gelo and asked why the academy felt abnormal.
• Gelo told Richard that Wizards from White Stone Tower were searching for an Evil Force, disrupting the city and academy and forcing some courses to close.

Richard and Gelo ate at the Salt and Fire tavern, where a staged brawl and a singer’s ancient ballad helped Richard recognize a tune connected to the Black Spirit Empire books. When the brawlers threatened them, Richard struck the bald man and prepared to face the others.

• Richard learned that Gelo had completed three life reshapings and offered to help with any difficulties.
• A familiar group staged a violent fight in the tavern, and Gelo reminded Richard of their previous encounter with them.
• As the singer performed an ancient-language ballad, Richard’s tapping and memories of Black Spirit Empire book phrases seemed to match the song.
• A bald fighter ordered Richard and Gelo to leave, but Richard sent him flying with a blow.
• The bald man’s companions charged Richard, and Richard narrowed his eyes and prepared to strike.

Richard recognized a tavern song as the melody linked to the secret of the White Stone Tower and the Black Spirit King. Unable to understand its ancient lyrics, he decided to seek help from Ruth.

• Richard defeated the tavern patrons who charged at him and ordered their bald leader to stay put.
• Richard paid the female performer to repeat her song until he confirmed it matched the earworm triggered by the Black Spirit Empire book.
• Richard learned that the song had been passed down through the performer's family for two or three hundred years, though she did not know what its lyrics meant.
• Richard considered asking Great Scholar Su La Di about the ancient language but decided he did not trust him enough with the secret.
• Richard recalled Baji's description of Ruth's imperial ancestry and wealth, then chose to seek her out.

Richard intimidated Boss Mu Duo into accepting a gold coin after their tavern confrontation, then returned to his dormitory at White Stone Tower Academy. That night, Ruth encountered Richard in the room next to hers, and he dragged her inside.

• Richard offered Boss Mu Duo a gold coin to settle their conflict and warned him not to seek further trouble.
• Boss Mu Duo recognized Richard as someone from White Stone Tower Academy and led his men out of the tavern.
• Richard told Gelo he planned to stay overnight at the academy and headed to the dormitories.
• Ruth returned to her room and was startled when Richard emerged from the previously vacant room beside hers.
• Richard approached Ruth, dragged her into his room, and shut the door.