Chapter Summaries

Abel explained his theory that spells were the world’s underlying laws and had no origin, prompting Richard to consider whether reality was an artificial construct governed by spells. Richard concluded that spells might be the world’s programming code, and spell incantations its preset functions.

• Abel extinguished his fireball and told Richard that the Ultimate Spell was the iron law governing the world.
• Abel argued that spells worked because the world was made of spells, and said spells had no origin and might be the language of the Creator.
• Richard reflected that Abel’s theory raised the possibility that his world was illusory and meaningless.
• Richard compared the world to a computer program, reasoning that spells could be its code and incantations its preset functions.

Abel explained that he had summoned people to Aotai to help Otai's Brain find the Ultimate Spell, then described the mysterious disaster that devastated the Otai Plane and killed nearly everyone there. He asked Richard whether he agreed with his theory and would stay to help.

• Richard asked Abel why he had placed beacons across many planes, and Abel said he needed help screening and testing spell combinations generated by Otai's Brain.
• Richard asked what had happened to Abel's former assistants and the Otai Plane, and Abel described a spell test that triggered an invisible force that rapidly destroyed the plane.
• Abel said that days after the destruction began, people started dying without warning, their bodies missing organs or other parts, until he was the only survivor.
• Abel briefly toppled over while describing his fear of dying, then straightened up and joked that he was still lucky.
• Richard asked whether Abel had discovered the cause or replicated the disaster, and Abel said repeated tests had yielded no answers.
• Abel asked Richard whether he agreed with his theory and was willing to stay and help him.

Richard helped Abel test spells and repair Otai's Brain for a year while developing his own ideas about the world's truth. When Richard found a hidden scroll inside a damaged crystal, its five spells and notes describing destructive effects left him and Abel shocked and unsettled.

• Richard agreed with Abel's Spell Theory but warned that testing spells could cause disastrous consequences, and said he would eventually seek a safer path.
• Richard spent half a year helping Abel clear a huge backlog of untested spells and dangerous malfunctions in Otai's Brain.
• Richard continued working with Abel for another half year, deepening his ideas about the world's truth.
• Richard found a tiny scroll hidden inside a cracked crystal while repairing Area 138 of Otai's Brain.
• Richard and Abel read five spells on the scroll; notes beneath three crossed-out spells described destructive effects, while the last two had no notes.
• Abel stared at the scroll, then sat down in confusion and fear.

Richard questioned Abel’s role in the search for the Ultimate Spell and warned him that the Five Spells could explain the disasters that struck the Ancient Wizard Civilization. After Abel left to process the revelations, Richard resisted testing the remaining spells, but Otai's Brain began suffering catastrophic failures that seemed linked to something outside.

• Richard suggested that someone had secretly used Otai's Brain to discover and test the Five Spells before Abel began his own search.
• Abel recalled an administrator who may have used Otai's Brain first and left feeling bitter about his own efforts.
• Richard argued that Abel’s work had still helped uncover the scroll and proposed analyzing the spell language instead of testing dangerous combinations.
• Abel asked to be alone and walked out of Otai's Brain, while Richard chose not to recite the two remaining spells.
• Otai's Brain began sparking, smoking, and exploding, and Richard suspected that something outside was squeezing it after Abel had just left.

After Abel recited the Fourth Spell, a colossal tidal wave engulfed the mountain and swept Richard underwater. Richard froze the surrounding seawater to escape, but a gigantic creature seized him and plunged the world into darkness.

• Abel confessed that he had recited the Fourth Spell because he could not accept the truth about his life's work, and said he would stay to face the consequences.
• Richard saw a tidal wave tens of thousands of meters high approaching through the wasteland as the spell compressed the air and sealed off space.
• Abel struck the wave with a punch of Purple Light, briefly creating a massive depression before the following waves swallowed him.
• The tidal wave engulfed Richard and the mountain, and soul-harming seawater dragged him downward.
• Richard froze the seawater into an ice ball that began rising, but a gigantic black creature attacked, slowed him with green light, and swallowed him.

Richard woke in an endless desert after dreaming of a flood that swallowed the world and universe. Unable to escape, he studied the God of Creation’s language by writing every spell incantation he knew, eventually finding a new insight.

• Richard dreamed that children flooded an ant kingdom, then a cataclysmic flood destroyed Atlantis and submerged the entire universe.
• Richard regained consciousness in an endless desert and realized he had left the Otai Plane, though he did not know where he was or what had happened to Abel.
• Richard concluded that the Five Spells could affect the world and decided to study the God of Creation’s language while trapped in the desert.
• Richard copied the Five Spells, known true incantations, and ordinary spells from memory onto the sand, organizing them by category and element.
• Richard wrote down the incantations he had created himself, studied the vast collection for what felt like years, and finally emerged from his thoughts with a faint smile.

Richard tested his first three self-created spells, then used the Guide Spell to travel toward the source of the Source. At the mountain’s summit, he cast the World Breaking Spell and became part of the glowing digits, leaving for an entirely new world.

• Richard created golden lightning, multiplied it with the Replication Spell, and erased it with the Disappearance Spell.
• Richard summoned Guide Gold with the Guide Spell and learned that he stood at the Source, the origin of all existence.
• Richard asked Guide Gold to take him to the source of the Source and traveled across strange landscapes with a series of guides.
• A large yellow dog led Richard to a mountain, where he reached the summit and saw glowing auroras.
• Richard cast the World Breaking Spell, transformed into glowing digits, and disappeared into another world.

Richard appeared on a frozen plain and entered a strange tavern where patrons repeatedly played an enchanted card game. After witnessing the same match hundreds of times, he realized something about the tavern and agreed to play, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Richard crossed the snowy plain and entered a roadside tavern, where he found that the stove could barely ease the supernatural chill.
• He watched a father defeat his son with a Nuclear Bomb and a Doomsday Mecha, then repeatedly declined invitations to join the card game.
• Richard observed hundreds of matches and noticed the father and son replaying the exact same game and outcome.
• Richard tested the stove by putting his hand into its flames without being burned, then accepted the father's invitation to play.

Richard won a series of card games at a tavern and was taken by the tavern owner to meet the City Lord, but the carriage plunged into an icy river. He revived in a metal laboratory and met a man identical to him, who welcomed him to the Real World.

• Richard defeated the tavern patrons and owner at cards, then asked to meet the person behind the test.
• The tavern owner offered to take Richard to the City Lord and drove him in a carriage through the snow.
• The tavern owner drove the carriage into a river, and Richard was submerged in icy water as a voice announced his body's revival.
• Richard awoke in a capsule, dressed in clothes from a nearby rack, and walked into a laboratory.
• Richard met a man who looked exactly like him, and the man welcomed him to the Real World.

Richard met Ke Rui Te in the Real World and learned that many versions of Richard existed, though he was the first to awaken and meet his creator. Ke Rui Te showed him the virtual worlds and began explaining the three civilizations that had existed in Richard’s world before its present design.

• Richard learned that Ke Rui Te was another name for the Creator and that many place names in the virtual world came from Ke Rui Te’s casual naming.
• Ke Rui Te named several other Richards and explained that Richard Austin was the first to leave the virtual world and merge with the Real World.
• Richard suggested that flaws in Ke Rui Te’s card game had let him awaken early, and Ke Rui Te admitted he had designed it casually.
• Ke Rui Te led Richard to a hall containing five enormous Crystal Balls and identified one as Richard’s virtual world.
• Ke Rui Te explained that Richard’s world had been destroyed and redesigned three times, with the prehistoric civilizations named Nixmans, Zao Se Ruo, and Wei Zhe De.

Ke Rui Te explained the six versions of the Wizard Universe and revealed that Richard had been transferred from Earth to Wei Zhe De 2.0. He said he had created virtual civilizations to test whether their inhabitants could escape into the Real World, then admitted he suspected his own world was a box.

• Ke Rui Te described the Nixmans and Zao Se Ruo civilizations, which were destroyed by rampant suicide and rebellion against brutal rule.
• Ke Rui Te explained the planned Yin Chan Te and Mo Zhen Sen civilizations, where strict rankings stifled imagination and supernatural power declined as modern technology advanced.
• Ke Rui Te described E Si, or Earth, as the sixth civilization, where both supernatural pursuits and technological progress eventually met insurmountable limits.
• Ke Rui Te revealed that the six civilizations were stages of the Wizard Universe and said Earth was also the final stage of another universe whose earlier versions included Hong Huang, Si Zhou, Eden Garden, and Atlantis.
• Richard asked why Ke Rui Te had built and entered virtual civilizations, and Ke Rui Te said he wanted to see whether their inhabitants could reach the Real World.
• Ke Rui Te told Richard that he suspected the world he currently lived in was itself a box.

Richard learned that Ke Rui Te’s world was also a box and agreed to accompany him beyond it. As their ship was pulled into the enormous machine’s jump, a Milky White Light swallowed everything, leaving Richard wondering whether it was connected to the destruction of the Ancient Wizard Civilization.

• Ke Rui Te told Richard that his world had no extraordinary powers and that he had built a machine to escape the box after Richard proved escape was possible.
• Richard agreed to join Ke Rui Te, and Ke Rui Te led him to Safety Cockpits aboard the spaceship Only One.
• Ke Rui Te revealed that the spaceship’s destination was an enormous machine, nearly black-hole-like in mass, and said he was the only person left in his world because everyone else had suddenly disappeared.
• Richard entered a Safety Cockpit with Ke Rui Te, and the ship traveled to the machine’s location.
• The machine activated, dragged the spaceship into darkness, and released a Milky White Light that swallowed everything.
• Richard recognized that the light resembled the one that had destroyed the Ancient Wizard Civilization and wondered what lay outside the box.

Richard and Ke Rui Te woke in a modern city and discovered that it was the real Earth, another box layered beyond Ke Rui Te’s virtual world. Richard explained that creating deeper boxes could weaken the outermost box’s influence, and they began making a world of their own.

• Richard pulled Ke Rui Te out of the path of a speeding car after they woke beside a city street.
• Richard showed Ke Rui Te an affectionate stray cat named Manny and explained that this was the real Earth, another box beyond Ke Rui Te’s world.
• Richard told Ke Rui Te that they had both created each other across layers and that adding nested boxes could free inner beings from outer control.
• Richard summoned a Purple Thunderball, and Ke Rui Te proved he could control it by crushing it and dispersing the clouds.
• Richard and Ke Rui Te decided to create an ideal world, and Richard began with light.

As Richard gathered suggestions for the new world, people across the world wrote down their wishes, argued, and clashed over what should change. Richard told Ke Rui Te that his world was nearly ready, promising they would meet again there.

• Pandora rejected Eight-Armed Skeleton A Nan's bone-filled world design and struck Bi Bi for proposing edible monsters.
• Nancy changed Gelo's wish to exclude her, while Sherlock, Circe, Nellide, and Hai Di considered their own suggestions.
• Bobobo Wei Qi wished for a world without men's hair, then Abel dragged him away to discuss something.
• Gao Ge demanded that the Truth Society remain unchanged, but Burning Wind attacked him and demanded a chance to become True God.
• People across the world wrote personal wishes and fought over their competing visions for the new world.
• Ke Rui Te asked Richard about his progress, and Richard said his new world would soon be ready for their next meeting.