Chapter Summaries

Richard analyzed the Iron Ring’s storage properties and concluded that it connected to a separate space rather than compressing or recreating objects. He realized its spatial entrance could absorb incoming attacks, leaving him with a hidden defensive trump card.

• Richard recorded that rapid 3D printing could not explain the Iron Ring’s properties because it would consume matter and freeze stored objects in time.
• Richard ruled out space compression because objects inside would make the Iron Ring heavier and remain affected by external forces.
• Richard concluded that the Iron Ring acted as a spatial gate to a separate storage space, explaining the results of his tests.
• Richard reasoned that the Iron Ring could absorb flying attacks into its storage space, where their force would be unleashed without harming him.
• Richard noted that the technique could endanger stored items and required accurate timing, so he reserved it as a last-resort defense.

Richard documented the Iron Ring’s abilities to forcibly cut objects and precisely process matter, then wondered about the dead Mysterious Wizard and the Wizard World. Elsewhere, a corpse in a magically powered chamber began to move.

• Richard recorded that the Iron Ring’s space door could be forcibly closed to sever objects, and considered using it as a close-combat weapon.
• Richard described adjusting the space door to tiny dimensions for precise processing, though nanometer and Planck-length precision remained beyond reach.
• Richard finished his notes at dawn and wondered who the dead Mysterious Wizard had been and why he had pursued Gregory.
• In a secret chamber, magic patterns activated and heated the liquid surrounding a corpse before the chamber fell silent again.
• The corpse’s arm twitched in the pool.

Somen was resurrected in the Soul Calming Pool and learned that he had died after completing his mission to kill the last dragon. Othello told him that Supervisor Thor wanted to discuss his future deployment, possibly involving the Gold Rings or Colored Rings.

• Somen emerged from the Soul Calming Pool, and Othello gave him clothes and a new ring.
• Othello told Somen that he had died, though a Prophecy Spell confirmed that Somen had completed his mission and killed the dragon.
• Othello explained that he had resurrected Somen using his stored soul memories and that Somen's Points only covered a male Level 1 Wizard body.
• Othello told Somen that Supervisor Thor was looking for him and might transfer him to another Mission Zone as part of a higher-up deployment.
• Somen and Othello discussed the possibility that the Gold Rings or Colored Rings were preparing to act, then Somen stopped himself from saying a forbidden name and left to find Supervisor Thor.

Dan Ni Si left the injured Zake and Ke Er behind at the inn, where Pandora frightened Ke Er before leaving with Richard. Richard and Pandora reached Emerald Gold City, the Emerald Kingdom’s royal capital.

• Dan Ni Si apologized to Zake, kissed his forehead, and left with Mula while Zake quietly forgave her.
• Dan Ni Si told Ke Er that he had to recover at the inn, then left as he begged her to take him along.
• Pandora entered Ke Er’s room, terrifying him until Richard arrived and led her away.
• Richard and Pandora traveled for half a day and arrived at Emerald Gold City.
• Richard led Pandora through the city gate despite the capital’s damaged walls and foul moat.

Richard and Pandora arrived in Emerald Gold City, where Richard learned that innkeepers acted as brokers for local work rather than relying on powerful mercenary or thieves’ guilds. He secured the inn’s best room after finding a silver coin accepted in the Emerald Kingdom.

• Richard and Pandora walked through Emerald Gold City and entered an inn.
• Richard recognized the innkeeper as a broker and reflected that taverns and inns filled the role often assigned to guilds in stories.
• Richard asked for the inn’s best room and offered a silver coin from another kingdom.
• The innkeeper explained that foreign currency was not widely accepted in Emerald Gold City, so Richard used coins from his Iron Ring until he found an Emerald Kingdom silver coin.
• Richard asked whether he could pay with gold, and the innkeeper recommended silver because making change for a gold coin would be inconvenient.

Richard learned that the Emerald Kingdom fixed the exchange rate at twenty silver coins per gold coin, while black-market traders offered far more. He considered the risks of exploiting the currency system, then followed Lester upstairs as Pandora carried his unusually heavy suitcase.

• Richard asked the innkeeper about gold and silver exchange rates and learned that gold coins fetched over thirty silver coins on the black market.
• Richard reasoned that the Kingdom's fixed exchange rate encouraged people to melt gold coins for profit, but decided against disrupting the economy for wealth.
• The innkeeper sent Lester to carry Richard's suitcase, but Lester could barely lift it until Pandora picked it up easily.
• Richard paid the innkeeper a silver coin to deliver a letter to an address in Aikin City.
• Richard followed Lester and Pandora upstairs to choose a room.

Gelo received an empty envelope sent from the Old Oak Inn and set out to visit with a large escort. At the inn, Richard tried to read while the noisy neighbors disturbed Pandora, who punched the wall in response.

• Gelo learned that the empty envelope had come from the Old Oak Inn and ordered soldiers to accompany him there.
• Mula told Dan Ni Si that he planned to recruit the disreputable Mike Brothers temporarily because their need for money would make them manageable.
• Mula and Dan Ni Si entered the Old Oak Inn to find the Mike Brothers.
• Richard read Chapter of Munro in his spacious room while Pandora rested on the bed.
• Richard knocked on the wall to quiet the neighbors, but their cursing grew louder.
• Pandora jumped up and hammered her fist into the wall toward the noisy neighboring room.

Richard dealt with two drunk brothers who harassed him at the inn, then met Prince Gelo as soldiers arrived to escort him. Dan Ni Si and Mula reconsidered recruiting the brothers and left to seek other mercenaries.

• Pandora punched through the wall and injured one of the drunken Mike Brothers after they kept shouting next door.
• The Mike Brothers confronted Richard and demanded wine and money as compensation, then argued over what they wanted.
• Dan Ni Si and Mula arrived, and Mula decided to watch rather than approach Richard after seeing Dan Ni Si's reaction.
• Prince Gelo arrived with armed soldiers, who beat the Mike Brothers after they threatened Richard.
• Richard invited Gelo into his room to talk, while Mula abandoned plans to recruit the Mike Brothers and left with Dan Ni Si to consult Cripple.

Richard settled in Emerald Gold City to wait for Wizards who might take him to the continent, while Gelo revealed that he had lost his drive to become a Wizard. Richard discussed meaning and personal interest with him, but ended by bluntly questioning whether pursuing Wizardry suited Gelo.

• Richard learned from Gelo that Wizards visited Emerald Gold City at irregular intervals, and that the last visit had been nine months earlier.
• Richard asked Gelo to alert him to news of the Wizards and gave him another bottle of Ether in exchange for help gathering information.
• Richard noticed Gelo lacked his former enthusiasm, and Gelo explained that his older brother planned to exile him, his Wizard talent was poor, and his teacher had persuaded him that his life lacked meaning.
• Gelo asked Richard whether his teacher was right, and Richard agreed that most people lived without achieving anything meaningful.
• Richard told Gelo that life could still be interesting through personal choices, but warned that becoming a Wizard was not his only option and might make his life bitter.

Richard projected his consciousness over Emerald Gold City and discovered Gelo struggling to leave his body during meditation. Richard forcibly pulled Gelo’s consciousness free, but it showed no response, leaving him unsure whether Gelo was alive.

• Richard reviewed his first week in Emerald Gold City while observing the city from above.
• Richard went to the royal palace to check on Gelo, who was attempting to leave his body through meditation.
• Richard saw that Gelo repeatedly failed and was becoming exhausted, confirming his weak talent as a Wizard.
• Richard reached into Gelo’s body and pulled out his consciousness with Mental Strength.
• Gelo’s consciousness floated unresponsive, and Richard wondered if something had gone wrong.

Richard investigated Gelo’s consciousness entity, then rose above Emerald Gold City to study Wandering Energy Elements and the nature of mana. After absorbing a large quantity, he noticed the elements gradually replenishing and wondered whether their appearance was connected to the stars.

• Richard found Gelo’s consciousness entity drifting near his body, absorbing Wandering Energy Elements while unable to perceive the outside world.
• Richard left Gelo’s bedroom and flew nearly a thousand meters above Emerald Gold City to research mana.
• Richard absorbed many Wandering Energy Elements into his body and mana source while observing how they changed and moved.
• Richard noticed the depleted elements were replenished by distant motes and occasional new lights, and thought the stars might be involved.
• Richard returned to his body, found Pandora quietly sitting in the courtyard bedroom, and entered the study.

Richard considered whether Wandering Energy Elements were undiscovered superheavy chemical elements and wrote that spells might be reactions between them. He began developing this hypothesis further, but the chapter ended before he finished.

• Richard read his earlier notes questioning the nature of mana and Wandering Energy Elements.
• Richard reviewed how Modern Earth had discovered chemical elements and why superheavy elements were difficult to observe.
• Richard considered theories about relativistic effects and a stability island that could let superheavy elements persist longer.
• Richard wrote that Wandering Energy Elements might be undiscovered superheavy elements and that spells could be reactions between them.

Richard developed a theory that spells drew their energy from radiation projected by stars, which continually transformed ordinary elements into Wandering Energy Elements and back. He then wondered whether a lost wizard civilization and his own arrival in this world were tied to a hidden point in Earth's vast history, and returned indoors determined to investigate.

• Richard reasoned that Wandering Energy Elements formed when lower-order elements absorbed radiation, then released energy as spells made them decay back into ordinary elements.
• Richard concluded that the energy behind magic came from Astral Projection by stars, and that magic would eventually disappear when those stars ceased projecting energy.
• Richard looked at the night sky and considered that this world might correspond to a different point in Earth's history because of the North Star's 25,800-year cycle.
• Richard imagined that an ancient wizard civilization might have existed and vanished without leaving traces before human civilization began.
• Richard decided to study the world's principles to learn why he had transmigrated, then went back into the house.

Richard planned experiments to prove that mana and Wandering Energy Element existed, while preparing to make Cobalt Blue Glass for a flame-color test. Gelo visited with news of a dramatic improvement in meditation, leaving Richard unsure whether to tell him what had caused it.

• Richard reasoned that mana might be a stable form of Wandering Energy Element and wrote that experiments were needed to prove both existed.
• Richard planned to make Cobalt Blue Glass for a flame-color experiment and rejected the idea of asking Pandora to help.
• Gelo arrived early and told Richard that his meditation had suddenly become far more effective the previous night.
• Richard suspected he had helped cause Gelo's change and hesitated over whether to explain the truth.

Richard told Gelo that his successful soul projection was probably caused by unusual circumstances, then offered him three doses of deionized water as a supposed meditation potion in exchange for help gathering materials. Gelo agreed and accompanied Richard to a mine outside Emerald Gold City, where the chapter ended with miners being driven to work beside piles of iron ore and discarded rock.

• Richard explained that Gelo’s improved meditation was likely temporary and caused by the surrounding conditions.
• Richard gave Gelo a bottle of deionized water, claiming it could guarantee successful soul projection, and secretly planned to help him project his soul in exchange for a favor.
• Gelo agreed to help Richard gather raw materials at several locations, and the two set off toward the first destination outside the city.
• Gelo arranged for a guard to give Richard a horse, then rode with him to an open-pit iron mine outside Emerald Gold City.
• Mine overseers whipped and shouted at the miners until they got up and went to work sorting ore.

Richard and Prince Gelo arrived at Aurick’s mine, where Gelo used his authority to make the mine owner agree to fulfill Richard’s requests. Richard prepared to seek the raw materials needed to make Cobalt Blue Glass.

• Ross spotted Prince Gelo’s cavalry arriving and hurried to fetch mine owner Aurick.
• Aurick mistakenly told Ross to send the visitors away, then apologized to Gelo when he learned the visitor was the prince.
• Gelo reminded Aurick that the royal family could revoke his purchased knighthood and ordered him to satisfy Richard’s requests.
• Richard dismounted with Wind Agility and approached Aurick, intending to find materials for making Cobalt Blue Glass.

The author announced that “Technological Wizard” would go on sale at midnight on March 1, 2018, earlier than expected, and worried about its prospects. The author explained the book’s creative aims, set out an update plan, thanked readers, and prepared to meet them in the first VIP chapter.

• The author received notice that “Technological Wizard” would go on sale at midnight on March 1, 2018, and found the sudden timing unsettling.
• The author checked that the book had 4,608 bookmarks and worried about how many readers would subscribe on its first day.
• The author planned to upload the first VIP chapter at 12:05 a.m. and promised at least 4,000 words daily, while trying to write more when possible.
• The author defended the book’s science-based approach to magic and said the goal was to write a distinctive, idea-driven novel.
• The author said authors and readers should be equals, thanked readers who had supported the book, and ended by inviting them to meet at midnight.

Richard searched Aurick's iron mine for Cobalt Ore, which the miners considered toxic waste, and Old Malun eventually showed him where it had been discarded. Richard confirmed the ore was what he wanted, while a strange light appeared in Old Malun's eyes.

• Richard told Aurick he wanted Cobalt Ore rather than iron, and Aurick ordered the overseers to search the waste piles.
• The overseers failed to find any matching ore, and Aurick threatened to withhold their wages if they did not keep looking.
• Old Malun approached Richard and said he knew where the mine discarded the ore, which miners called Devil Stone.
• Old Malun led Richard to a remote corner and presented several pieces of ore.
• Richard confirmed the ore was Cobalt Ore, relieving Aurick, Ross, and Gelo, while a strange light gleamed in Old Malun's eyes.

Richard and Gelo left the mine with the Cobalt Ore, and Old Malun used his reward and years of savings to break a curse tied to a bottomless boot. Restored to youth, Malun vanished after vowing revenge on the White Stone Tower.

• Gelo ordered Aurick to reward Old Malun with ten gold coins for helping Richard, then left the mine with Richard and the guards.
• Old Malun demanded his reward from Aurick and quit the mine, leaving the miners and Aurick surprised by how long he had worked there.
• Aurick ordered the remaining miners to work an extra half hour each day to make up for Old Malun's departure.
• Old Malun poured gold coins into a worn boot until it swallowed them, burst into blood-red flames, and transformed him into a man in his thirties.
• Malun declared that he would recover his strength and take revenge on the White Stone Tower, then vanished as the boot burned to ash.

Richard and Gelo bought a large ruby in Emerald Gold City to obtain Aluminum Oxide for making cobalt blue. After they left, a Black-Robed Man secretly took gemstones from the shop and paid the owner with energy that extended his life by two years, while making him forget the encounter.

• Richard and Gelo went to a jewelry shop and inspected its largest ruby, which Richard approved as a source of Aluminum Oxide.
• Gelo paid the owner one hundred gold coins for the ruby and left with Richard and their companions.
• A Black-Robed Man appeared in the VIP room and ordered the owner to bring him the shop's gemstones, selecting several as Spellcasting Materials.
• The Black-Robed Man gave the immobilized owner energy that extended his life by two years and compelled him to forget their contact.
• The Black-Robed Man vanished, and the confused owner discovered a reddish-brown strand of hair among his graying hair.