Chapter Summaries

Richard bathed and relaxed in the royal palace while Old Hans struggled to understand the design for a rotating turret. After a mysterious note appeared on the scroll and clarified the confusing parts, Old Hans resumed work through the night to meet Richard’s deadline.

• Richard relaxed in a warm bath as the maids massaged and washed him, then helped him dress.
• Old Hans studied Richard’s design scroll and went to inspect the partly assembled rotating turret.
• Old Hans remained puzzled by a section of the design and returned to the scroll in despair.
• Old Hans noticed a nearly invisible note explaining the wing plate, rotating shaft, and gears, and understood the design.
• Old Hans wondered how the note had appeared, then went back to the shed and worked through the night.

King Donas woke from a choking fit and discussed William and Richard with Butler Delong, revealing his favoritism toward William and his refusal to apologize to Richard. Meanwhile, Richard used Astral Projection to observe the palace and absorb ambient energy, ending as a huge, unfamiliar figure swept through the night sky.

• King Donas woke choking on phlegm, and Delong helped him breathe again.
• Donas praised William for cutting palace expenses and criticized Richard for staying away.
• Donas defended his past treatment of Richard and said William would inherit the throne and compensate Richard later.
• An invisible force steadied a candle wick as unseen eyes left Donas's bedroom and returned toward Richard.
• Richard used Astral Projection to absorb scattered energy while a massive, birdlike figure flew past in the distance.

Richard used electricity and magnetism to complete the three Life Reshaping stages needed to become a wizard. A month and a half later, he cast his first spell and resolved to investigate the truth of the world and how he had arrived there.

• Richard used a Lead-Acid Battery to activate his body and spent many days constructing a Mana Source in his chest.
• Richard arranged metal coils around his bed and used their magnetic field to refine the energy in his Mana Source into mana, completing the three Life Reshaping stages.
• A month and a half later, Richard studied the Zero-Ring Spell Phosphorus Candle and cast ghostly blue flames from his fingers.
• Richard threw the flame outside, where it grew large before vanishing; Edward noticed something unusual but saw nothing when he looked.
• Richard examined his unburned hands and decided he wanted to uncover the world's truth and learn how he had come there.

King Donas summoned William and Richard to announce that William would inherit the throne while Richard would become a Grand Duke. After Richard declined William’s invitation to dinner, William ordered the meal prepared anyway, suggesting he expected other guests.

• Donas woke and asked Delong to bring in William and Richard.
• Richard served Donas wine and warned him to drink less, while William defended the wine as relief for their father’s pain.
• Donas declared that William would inherit the throne and Richard would receive a Grand Duchy, and said he planned to move to the Birch Forest and die there.
• Outside the palace, William invited Richard to dinner, but Richard declined and left with his guards.
• William rebuked his Guard Captain for criticizing Richard and ordered the kitchen to continue preparing dinner for possible guests.

At a tense dinner, William told a visitor about Richard’s extraordinary childhood and asked him to carry out a task to protect his younger brother and the kingdom. Meanwhile, Richard studied the Chapter of Munro and resolved to pursue wizardry so he could uncover the laws behind magic and understand how to escape the world he inhabited.

• William invited a nervous figure to dine beside him and asked what he thought of Prince Richard.
• William recounted Richard’s early intelligence, unusual behavior, experiments, and refusal to become King.
• William said he wanted to protect Richard and the country, then ordered the figure to do something for him, and the figure agreed.
• In his bedroom, Richard studied the Chapter of Munro and reflected that he had only just begun learning wizardry.
• Richard resolved to use science to understand spells, his arrival in this world, and how to leave the world’s figurative box.

Richard expanded his understanding of several Zero-Ring spells by studying their scientific principles, making them more flexible and powerful. Three days after King Donas died, Richard learned of the death and joined First Prince William at the palace, where he left the grieving prince with a quiet reminder to dress warmly and promised to attend the burial.

• Richard learned Flame Impact, Water Droplet Condensation, and four Wind Spells, then adapted their effects through scientific research.
• Richard conducted an experiment in his laboratory as news spread through the palace that King Donas had died three days earlier.
• Richard entered the King's bedroom and found King Donas's body while First Prince William grieved beside the bed.
• Richard and William left as attendants prepared the mourning hall and the body for burial.
• Richard told William to wear more clothes, walked into the rain, and promised he would attend the burial.

At King Donas’s funeral, William prepared to become king while Richard quietly packed to leave the palace. As William’s soldiers surrounded Richard’s home, a flashback revealed that William had ordered Edward Angle to kill his younger brother.

• William asked Link whether he would make a good king, and Link assured him that everyone believed he would surpass King Donas.
• Richard told Edward that he planned to leave, then packed his books, scrolls, and experimental supplies into a Wooden Box.
• More than a hundred soldiers surrounded Richard’s palace, and Edward ordered the guards to defend it while offering to help Richard escape.
• In a flashback, William told Edward Angle that he feared Richard’s intelligence and coldness, and asked him to find an opportunity to kill Richard.
• Edward Angle accepted William’s order, and William promised to protect his family and mentioned that Mia sent her regards.

Richard confronted Edward over his betrayal and revealed that Edward had agreed to kill him for William. After Edward attacked him, Richard used wind spells to kill him and left the bedroom.

• Richard told Edward that he knew he had met William and agreed to kill Richard in exchange for protecting his family's interests.
• Richard explained that Edward's family had doomed itself by backing both sides in the Crown Prince struggle and said he planned to leave Blue Lion City and the Blue Lion Kingdom.
• After Richard left, Edward drew his sword, but returned to the bedroom when Richard came back and spoke about the betrayal he could not let go.
• Edward blamed Richard for his betrayal and attacked him with his longsword.
• Richard stopped Edward with Wind Repulsion and Wind Barrier, then killed him with Wind Brute Force and left the bedroom.

Richard ordered Bill to lead the guards through a hidden tunnel while he faced King William outside the palace. He accused William of spreading the rumor that led to the massacre three years earlier and explained that he planned to leave the kingdom, but William refused to let him go.

• Richard told the guards that Edward had betrayed him and appointed Bill as their new captain.
• Richard ordered Bill to take the guards through a tunnel and escape, insisting that living was more valuable than making a pointless sacrifice.
• Richard walked out of the palace and called for William, identifying him as the king behind the soldiers surrounding the palace.
• Richard accused William of spreading the rumor three years earlier that he had cursed King Donas, leading to a palace massacre and Richard's imprisonment.
• Richard told William he had never wanted the throne and intended to leave the palace, Blue Lion City, and the Blue Lion Kingdom.
• William said he would not allow Richard to leave.

Richard confronted William over poisoning their father, King Donas, and explained why he had not tried to save him. When William ordered the archers to kill him, Richard revealed his magic and turned the soldiers against William, while a black Four-Wheeled Carriage raced toward them.

• Richard accused William of poisoning King Donas with contaminated realgar and explained that he had felt no affection for their father after the massacre three years earlier.
• William declared Richard an evil Wizard and ordered the archers to shoot him.
• Richard stopped the arrows in midair with Maximized Wind Shield and revealed that he was a Wizard Apprentice.
• William ordered the archers to fire from above, but Richard's spell halted those arrows too.
• Richard conjured green and blood-red flames, set William alight, and sent the soldiers recoiling as a black Four-Wheeled Carriage approached the palace.

A dragon attacked the royal palace, seized Richard, and carried him into the sky. Richard inspected his supplies and tried to understand how the dragon flew, while his men followed their contingency plan.

• A dragon swept over the palace, breathed fire across it, and sent the crowd fleeing.
• The dragon dove down and snatched Richard away as the palace burned and William fainted.
• Bill watched the palace flames from an abandoned village, while the KGB men decided to execute Plan Number Four after seeing Richard on the dragon's back.
• Richard checked the items in his suitcase as the dragon, Gregory, carried him higher into the cold sky.
• Richard reasoned about the dragon's flight and walked along its back to look beneath its tail.

Richard questioned Gregory about his fire and flight while Gregory flew him to a Black Castle, but their journey was dominated by Richard frustrating the dragon with endless questions. After landing, Gregory transformed into a man and went into a nearby cave, while a petite figure approached the mountain.

• Richard asked Gregory whether his fire and flight came from magic, then deliberately frustrated Gregory by turning his attempts to ask questions into a counting game.
• Gregory threatened Richard, but Richard continued correcting his wording and reasoning through the threat until Gregory roared to drown him out.
• As Gregory flew over a forest at sunset, Richard estimated they had traveled about a thousand miles from the Blue Lion Kingdom.
• Gregory landed on a mountain beside a Black Castle, shook Richard off, and watched him land safely with Wind Agility.
• Gregory transformed into a muscular man, failed to silence Richard, and entered a cave beside the castle.
• Richard sensed someone behind him and turned to see a petite figure walking up the mountain.

Richard met Gregory’s daughter Pandora, a cold, purple-haired dragon girl who appeared as a small child. At dusk, he tried to communicate with her by testing languages from his world and his own, but she did not respond.

• Richard saw Pandora approach the Black Castle and was surprised by her childlike human appearance and aloof manner.
• Richard wondered whether Pandora and Gregory lived separately, then returned his attention to researching the world.
• At dusk, Pandora came out of the Black Castle and watched Richard roast a rabbit over a bonfire.
• Richard offered Pandora food and asked whether she was hungry, but she did not answer.
• Richard tested numerous languages from the continent and Modern Earth, but Pandora showed no reaction.

Richard failed to communicate with Pandora using spoken languages or sign language, then chose to sleep in the Black Castle and meditate. Pandora later sensed something below her room and turned her dangerous gaze toward it.

• Richard tested languages and several forms of sign language, but Pandora showed no understanding or response.
• After Pandora entered the Black Castle, Richard chose a room, cleared away the dust with a Wind Spell, and meditated on a bare wooden bed.
• Gregory listened from the Dragon Cave and was disappointed that Pandora had not thrown Richard out.
• Pandora sat curled up in a second-floor room until she sensed something below and sharply turned her dangerous gaze toward it.

Richard struggled to leave his body in the old castle, discovered a strange Soul Body interfering with him, and drove it away before continuing to cultivate. Pandora sensed the unwanted presence had left, though she did not know why.

• Richard found an invisible force repeatedly pushing his consciousness back into his body, but he broke through it and entered the room where Pandora was hiding.
• Richard realized Pandora could not see him and discovered a separate, mist-like Soul Body in his room.
• The Soul Body tried to reach the cord linking Richard’s consciousness to his body, so Richard struck it away with his Mental Strength.
• After recovering, the frightened Soul Body fled the old castle, and Richard absorbed Astral Projection energy to strengthen his spell source.
• Pandora sensed that the presence she disliked had left and looked down toward Richard’s room.

Richard found a pool where a leopard and a black bear were drinking, but Pandora arrived and overpowered both beasts. After she chased them through a series of confusing water tests, they fled, and Richard heard many animals approaching from the forest.

• Richard found a pool where a leopard and a black bear cautiously drank side by side.
• Pandora charged in, drove the beasts into the forest, and returned riding the leopard while pursuing the black bear.
• Pandora dragged the leopard and black bear to the pool and tested whether they would drink, striking them when they failed or disobeyed.
• Pandora released the chastened beasts, and Richard watched them flee into the forest.
• Pandora turned toward the forest as Richard heard many animals approaching.

Richard studied the principles behind spells and explained to Gregory how understanding their mechanisms could let him strengthen or counter them. He demonstrated the connection between combustion and flame color, while his research remained in its early stages.

• Richard watched Pandora knock a line-cutting wild boar back to the end of the queue, then concluded that the animals followed rules enforced by her violence.
• Richard returned to the hill, used Water Droplet Condensation to make water, and began researching spells with the Chapter of Munro and experimental materials.
• Gregory emerged from the Dragon Cave to complain about Richard’s experiments, and Richard explained that he wanted to understand the fundamental principles behind spells.
• Richard told Gregory that spell research could eventually allow him to enhance or counter magical effects, unsettling Gregory with the possibility of disrupting flight.
• Richard demonstrated Phosphorus Candle and Flame Impact, explaining that both involved combustion and that flame color depended on burning elements and temperature.

Richard demonstrated that combining basic spells could produce power beyond his rank, then introduced Gregory to Magic Rune Spells. After Gregory warned that he would eventually send Richard away to protect Pandora, Richard began carving a jade shard into a magical tool and made it produce a dark blue flame.

• Richard explained how he had used spells to liquefy oxygen and demonstrated its explosive power to Gregory.
• Gregory objected that the preparation took too long for combat, and Richard said Magic Rune Spells could solve the problem.
• Gregory worried Richard might someday threaten Pandora and said he would eventually send him away, but Richard chose to stay at the castle for now.
• At dusk, Richard studied the Chapter of Munro and carved intricate grooves into a White Jade Shard.
• Richard infused the shard with mana, causing it to vibrate, crack, and produce a cluster of dark blue flame.

Richard studied the history and classification of the incomplete Wizard Spell System, then successfully used a magic rune to cast Phosphorus Candle. He continued making White Jade Shards for further experiments as he pursued his goal of letting a First Level Apprentice briefly contend with stronger opponents.

• The Chapter of Munro described how the Spell System originated in the Ancient Wizard Civilization, was devastated by a catastrophe, and was only partially restored by later Wizards.
• The account outlined the nine restored Spell Categories and their branches, including the dangers and lost knowledge associated with several types of spells.
• Richard compared Magic Rune Spells to circuits and computer languages, reasoning that runes could reproduce other spells if inscribed and combined precisely.
• Richard split a White Jade Shard and produced dark blue flames, successfully casting Phosphorus Candle through a magic rune.
• Richard extinguished the flame and began making more magic rune White Jade Shards for further experiments through the night.

Richard continued preparing materials and building crude structures while living with Pandora and Gregory. Pandora finally spoke to warn him of danger, as beasts grew restless beneath a blood-red moon.

• Richard made lime, potash, soda ash, acids, and other substances, and built a windmill, kiln, and pool in the clearing.
• Richard noticed that Gregory sometimes left the Dragon Cave for days, while Pandora continued communicating only with gestures and glances.
• Pandora dragged several huge trees to the clearing, stripped them into trunks, and tested them as enormous clubs.
• Pandora told Richard not to wander at night because it was dangerous, revealing that she could speak.
• Richard heard beasts roaring and hissing throughout the forest and saw an enormous moon that seemed stained red.