Chapter Summaries

Dream Island students dismissed the fugitive Xuan Ye as a threat until Aide learned that someone resembling Aitiya had been seen at the hotel. Aide went upstairs and found Xuan Ye, who slammed the door in his face and insulted him from inside.

• Students gathered at the Homecoming Hotel and complained that they could not join the manhunt for a lone Professional Rank fugitive.
• Aide warned the students that the fugitive had awakened the Power of Frenzy bloodline and was strong enough that Aide could only protect himself.
• A returning student told Aide that he had seen a beautiful woman resembling Aitiya upstairs, and Aide went to investigate.
• Xuan Ye took Aitiya to their room and discussed Dream Island and Senran Port with her.
• Aide arrived at Xuan Ye's door, and Xuan Ye slammed it shut before calling him an idiot from inside.

Aide reconsidered his plans after realizing Aitiya might be alive, while Xuan Ye suspected Sharu was using himself as bait to draw out powerful pursuers. Aide then chose to investigate the wanted criminal with Uncle Shadow’s protection, planning to bring Dream Island’s mentors along as insurance.

• Aide saw Mad Wind, decided not to confront him, and left to plan how to approach Aitiya.
• Mad Wind reported Sharu’s whereabouts to Xuan Ye, who inferred that Sharu had deliberately made himself a target to draw in powerful factions.
• Xuan Ye suspected Sharu was working with a strong backer and decided to gather more information before pursuing him.
• Aide learned that others were investigating the wanted criminal and considered using the opportunity to clear his name with Aitiya.
• Uncle Shadow warned Aide that the situation seemed suspicious, but Aide proposed bringing Dream Island’s mentors along, and Uncle Shadow agreed to protect him.

Xuan Ye set out with Mad Wind to follow the Dream Island students, expecting to act when the opportunity arose. The students found Sharu Kend in the Demon Forest, where he killed one of them and revealed that Aide’s hidden Thief had already been fighting elsewhere.

• Xuan Ye decided to follow the students after Mad Wind reported that four Dream Island instructors were heading to Senran Port.
• Xuan Ye and Mad Wind tracked the students’ trail into the Demon Forest while keeping their distance.
• A Ranger reported a cave with signs of recent human activity, and Aide concluded it matched the wanted criminal’s trail.
• Sharu Kend appeared and split the team’s Thief in two before the students could react.
• Aide called for Uncle Shadow, but Sharu Kend said the two Thieves had already been fighting for fifteen minutes.

Sharu Kend ambushed Aide and his Academy Faction companions, using poison and a scroll to overwhelm them while Aide struggled to defend himself. The fight remained unresolved when a distant clash signaled that another Professional Rank powerhouse had entered the battle.

• Aide threatened Sharu Kend with the nearby mentors, but Sharu revealed that the group had planned for four Professional Rank experts and that he would face Aide alone.
• Sharu released poison to distract Aide and struck him with a heavy blade and a spinning kick, leaving him badly injured.
• Sharu charged into Aide's inexperienced companions, killing one and injuring three while their formation collapsed.
• Aide used a defensive scroll when Sharu enveloped him in black mist, but the scroll's real target was the weaker students, most of whom were killed or incapacitated.
• Sharu hesitated to press Aide, wary of his magical items and the danger of a core-burning counterattack, while a distant sword strike destroyed nearly a hundred trees.

Xuan Ye and Mad Wind watched Dream Island’s instructors arrive one by one, while Harry Hard rescued Aide and the students from Sharu Kend. Aide then revealed himself as a clone of a dangerous entity, trapping Harry Hard by corrupting his Divine Envoy mark.

• Xuan Ye told Mad Wind that Dream Island’s instructors were appearing separately to test the situation, and noted that another troublemaker had arrived.
• Harry Hard disarmed Sharu Kend and criticized Dream Island for sending its students on a dangerous mission.
• The Thief’s scattered organs attacked Harry Hard, but he shredded the flesh spears with his damaged sword.
• Aide unleashed an ominous aura and struck Harry Hard with gray mist, corrupting his Divine Envoy mark and cutting off his access to Divine Power.
• Harry Hard realized the entity controlled three clones and suspected it had joined forces with a human faction to trap the instructors.

Xuan Ye rescued McLean from a regenerating tentacle monster and destroyed it with a single blast of White Flame Breath. McLean was left stunned by Xuan Ye’s strength as they prepared to regroup with the rescued students.

• McLean struggled against a tentacle monster whose severed parts multiplied and regenerated, and his Second-Tier fire scroll failed to stop it.
• Xuan Ye pulled McLean into the concealed Badminton Sphere, where McLean recognized Aitiya and learned that the students were nearby.
• Xuan Ye left the sphere to confront the monster, and McLean followed despite warning him to wait.
• Xuan Ye used Dragon Language Magic to engulf the monster and its tentacles in White Flame, leaving only molten ground behind.
• McLean stared in disbelief at Xuan Ye’s power while Xuan Ye treated the blisters caused by his magic.

Harry Hard and the Dream Island Academy professionals confronted the corrupted lord of Stanrose City, Kuzuke Rosen, while Xuan Ye revealed that he had destroyed one of the creature’s clones. Xuan Ye’s shadowy double trapped the creature in a Divine Power barrier, leaving the group poised to deal with it.

• Harry Hard fought off the evil creature’s attacks until Aide expelled a mass of flesh from his body and collapsed, suddenly aged.
• A second flesh mass arrived and merged with the first, forming a humanoid figure that Xuan Ye recognized as the lord of Stanrose City, Kuzuke Rosen.
• Laimu and McLean joined Harry Hard and Xuan Ye, and Harry Hard explained that the creature was difficult to kill with conventional power.
• McLean revealed that Xuan Ye had used Divine Power to destroy one of the creature’s clones, and Xuan Ye warned the others that the creature could also use Shadow Divine Art.
• The creature tried to escape, but a shadowy double of Xuan Ye appeared and sealed it inside a Divine Power barrier called the Spirit Coffin.

Xuan Ye stopped the Demon God's Remnant Will from using Kuzuke, but the enemy escaped through a Mind Projection and left Kuzuke dying. The projection reappeared in a woman’s body near the Desert of the Dead, where Gypsy confronted it.

• Xuan Ye trapped 'Kuzuke' and prepared to purify him, but the Demon God's Remnant Will escaped using a Mind Projection.
• Kuzuke regained control of his body, and Xuan Ye gave him half a bottle of Life Potion so he could speak.
• Kuzuke asked Xuan Ye to protect Deliana and the others, then asked him to end his suffering; Xuan Ye granted his final request.
• The Demon God's Remnant Will awakened in a middle-aged woman in a border town near the Desert of the Dead and complained that her body was too weak.
• Gypsy appeared, revealed that he had been waiting for the projection, and reached into the woman's head to seize it.

After Sharu escaped, Xuan Ye prepared to pursue him and took Aitiya along, but Aide and his allies tried to keep her at Dream Island. When Aide accused Xuan Ye of conspiring with a wanted criminal, three Professional-Rank experts intervened, and Xuan Ye left with Aitiya.

• Xuan Ye searched for Sharu and Kend but found they had escaped, then returned to the injured students, four of whom had died.
• Xuan Ye told Aitiya and Mad Wind to wait for him, but agreed to take Aitiya along after she silently insisted.
• Aide, a Dream Island mentor, and Uncle Shadow demanded that Aitiya return to school and stay with Aide, but Xuan Ye rejected them.
• Aide accused Xuan Ye of working with a wanted criminal and ordered Uncle Shadow to kill him.
• McLean, the old mage, and Harry Hard stopped Uncle Shadow, while Harry Hard threatened Aide and caused him to faint.
• Xuan Ye thanked the three experts, told Shovel Officer to care for Big Bear, and left with Aitiya as Mad Wind headed back toward Senran Port.

Xuan Ye searched the Demon Forest for Sharu and instead pulled a nearly drowned Dream Island student from a river. As he tried to revive her, he discovered a shocking secret and screamed in horror.

• Xuan Ye sent Aitiya back to the Contract Space and flew into the clouds to search for Sharu.
• McLean envied Xuan Ye’s Wings of Void, while Aide learned Xuan Ye had reached at least Four-Star and struggled to accept it.
• Xuan Ye searched the Demon Forest from the sky and spotted a human figure beneath a river’s murky water.
• Xuan Ye rescued a nearly drowned Dream Island student, mistook her for a girl, and began trying to revive her.
• Xuan Ye noticed a suspicious bulge beneath the student’s clothes, reached to investigate, and screamed, “My eyes!”

Xuan Ye rescued Sileta, a Thief who had been following the Six-Star bandit Sharu, and escorted him back to Senran Port. At the Homecoming Inn, Xuan Ye left Sileta with Mad Wind while preparing to sweep the trade port.

• Sileta woke beneath a tree, and Xuan Ye admitted he had rescued him, still shaken to learn Sileta was a man.
• Sileta paid Xuan Ye to guide him after explaining that a Six-Star bandit had robbed the shipment he was escorting and discovered him while he followed using stealth.
• Xuan Ye and Sileta returned to find the students and instructors gone, so Xuan Ye agreed to take Sileta back to Senran Port.
• After hearing that news of the Professional Rank battle had spread, Xuan Ye and Sileta walked to the Homecoming Inn, where Mad Wind greeted Xuan Ye.
• Xuan Ye jokingly assigned Sileta to Mad Wind and began preparing a sweep of the trade port.

Xuan Ye went to the Mage Guild in Senran Port to post missions and trade supplies, but first registered using a powerful token from Roland. He left for the mission area, while Mad Wind received a high-quality Baptismal Potion and was sent to post missions at the Mercenary Guild.

• Xuan Ye met Mad Wind and Sileta at breakfast, then took Mad Wind with him and gave him a high-quality Baptismal Potion.
• Xuan Ye told Mad Wind to post missions at the Mercenary Guild while he planned to post missions at the Mage Guild.
• Xuan Ye reviewed the supplies he could trade and the equipment, books, and materials he wanted to acquire.
• At the Mage Guild, Xuan Ye learned he needed a referrer to register as a Four-Star Mage.
• Xuan Ye used the ring from Roland as a token, and the female apprentice confirmed it was the highest level and waived the remaining registration steps.
• Xuan Ye headed to the Mage Guild’s mission area.

Xuan Ye posted potion quests at the Mage Guild, where Famul recognized Roland’s ring and asked about his senior brother. After learning Roland had escaped the Stanrose Undead Plague using a teleportation array set up by Kip Vico, Famul offered to recommend Xuan Ye for further study on Dream Island.

• Xuan Ye posted quests offering several high-quality potions at the Mage Guild.
• Famul, a Professional Rank fire-element Archmage, recognized the ring Xuan Ye carried and asked about Roland.
• Xuan Ye explained that Roland had activated his Mage Tower and left Stanrose with his apprentices when the Undead Plague erupted.
• Famul revealed that Roland had used a teleportation array arranged by their teacher, Kip Vico.
• Famul offered to recommend Xuan Ye for further study on Dream Island, and Xuan Ye accepted.

Xuan Ye parted ways with Famul and used Senran Port’s trading district to stock up on rare materials and strengthen the Wings of Void. After condensing his fifth star core, he prepared to travel to Dream Island, where he hoped its Library could explain a strange resonance between his Star Palace and Inner Palace.

• Famul offered to guide Xuan Ye on Dream Island, but misunderstood Xuan Ye’s polite efforts to send him off and left without realizing he had been rejected.
• Xuan Ye traded nearly all his potions for Void Ore and Void Crystal, outfitted the Wings of Void with auxiliary nodes, and bought two rare Dragon Language Magic texts, including the Bronze Dragon spell Power of Time Control.
• Xuan Ye put off buying a magical weapon and a Spatial Ring after spending heavily, then condensed his fifth star core, the Water Star Core, despite failing once during the ritual.
• Xuan Ye noticed a strange resonance between his Star Palace and Inner Palace and hoped to find information about it in Dream Island’s Library.
• Xuan Ye told the Shovel Officer that Sileta would pay for her own ticket, but Sileta offered to pay for both tickets and prompted him to summon Aitiya from his Contract Magic Array.

Xuan Ye and his companions arrived at Dream Island after a rough ten-day voyage, during which he suffered from seasickness and was repeatedly drawn into card games. On the island, they began navigating the strict, prestigious academy’s registration system, where an impatient patrol student brushed off a prospective auditor.

• Aitiya appeared under an advanced equal contract with Contract Space, greeted Sileta, and then ignored her.
• Xuan Ye learned that Dream Island welcomed self-funded auditing students, though official students were selected from geniuses and those who showed exceptional perseverance.
• During the voyage, Mad Wind told Xuan Ye that the Sea Race King had reportedly destroyed Ronald’s imperial capital after the royal family harassed the Sea Race Saintess, leaving the kingdom divided into autonomous city-states.
• Xuan Ye spent the ten-day voyage seasick and playing cards with Mad Wind, Sileta, and Aitiya before the group reached Dream Island.
• At the port, a patrol student impatiently dismissed a young prospective auditor, and Sileta explained that ordinary students rarely interacted with elite students like Aitiya.

Xuan Ye, Aitiya, and their companions arrived in Dream Island’s bustling City of Dreams and headed to the Magic Campus to meet Mentor Famul. They were stopped at the gate until Thomson, a Four-Star Formal Mage and student council vice president, offered to guide them, and Xuan Ye enthusiastically thanked him.

• Xuan Ye admired the hopeful atmosphere of the City of Dreams and encouraged the timid aspiring auditing students to embrace it.
• Sileta guided Xuan Ye, Mad Wind, and Aitiya across the city toward the Magic Campus, explaining Mentor Famul’s reputation.
• Patrol students stopped the group at the Magic Campus entrance and refused entry to outsiders.
• Thomson arrived, welcomed Aitiya, and offered to guide the group inside.
• Xuan Ye grabbed Thomson’s hand and vigorously shook it while thanking him.

Xuan Ye entered Dream Island to find Famul, but Pusang arrived and tried to trade for Roland’s ring token and its opportunity to meet the Island Lord. Xuan Ye refused, and Pusang left while hinting that trouble might come from other instructors.

• Thomson questioned Xuan Ye’s group at the academy entrance, but Xuan Ye revealed his Five-Star Mage strength and asked for Mr. Famul.
• Thomson led Xuan Ye, Aitiya, and Sileta to a reception room, where Sileta warned that Thomson’s behavior seemed suspicious.
• Pusang arrived, spoke with Aitiya and Sileta, then confirmed that Xuan Ye possessed Roland’s token ring.
• Pusang offered payment and a year of personal guidance in exchange for the opportunity to receive the Island Lord’s guidance, but Xuan Ye refused.
• Pusang said Famul was away and warned Xuan Ye to be careful of ill-tempered old instructors before leaving with his offer still open.

Xuan Ye went to Dream Island’s Library with Sileta, but while waiting to gain entry, he encountered Beryl Amay and Sally. Sally’s inconsistent story about the Kend Family’s second son made Xuan Ye recognize her as a terrifying threat, and he retreated toward the Library while Sally watched him with interest.

• Xuan Ye declined Aitiya’s company, and Sileta offered to take him into Dream Island’s Library.
• Sileta left Xuan Ye waiting outside the Library while he went to arrange entry.
• Beryl Amay recognized Xuan Ye and confronted him, while Sally restrained her and greeted him as an old acquaintance.
• Sally claimed she had always been devoted to Xuan Ye and explained that the Kend Family’s second son had died at the hands of Undead.
• Xuan Ye noticed a flaw in Sally’s account and sensed that his fear came from an instinctive warning, not merely his memories.
• Sally dropped her tearful act and revealed a more unsettling demeanor, so Xuan Ye left for the Library as she watched him with a red gleam in her eyes.

Xuan Ye entered the academy library after Sileta gave him a temporary borrowing pass, still shaken by his encounter with the woman he suspected was behind the Undead Plague in Stanrose. In the library’s debate area, he exposed a mage’s harmful spell modification, subdued the mage and his Guardian, and carried off Andrew Rosen.

• Xuan Ye climbed to the pavilion and watched the two women depart, suspecting one of them was the mastermind behind the Undead Plague in Stanrose.
• Sileta gave Xuan Ye a temporary library borrowing pass, and he decided to focus on learning and growing stronger before meeting the Island Lord.
• Xuan Ye entered the library and discovered its interior had been expanded with Space Extension.
• Xuan Ye saw a mage prepare Chains of Binding against Andrew and recognized that the spell modification could cause fatal internal injuries.
• Xuan Ye slapped the mage against a wall, immobilized the Guardian, and took Andrew Rosen away, claiming he was friends with Andrew’s stepmother.

Xuan Ye rescued Andrew from Pusang’s disciple and learned that Andrew’s younger sister had disappeared after accepting a task during a trial on Dream Island. As Xuan Ye headed toward Deliana’s home, he found Mad Wind and Big Bear surrounded by students demanding that he give up a spot.

• Xuan Ye dismissed Andrew’s concern about attacking Pusang’s disciple and learned that rumors about the Rosen Family’s inheritance had drawn trouble to Andrew.
• Andrew explained that his family heirloom artifact was recovering and that his younger sister had gone missing after her Bloodline awakened and she reached professional rank.
• Andrew told Xuan Ye that his sister had accepted a high-paying task during a trial, and Xuan Ye suspected someone had arranged her disappearance.
• Xuan Ye left the Library with Andrew and went to find the Shovel Officer and Big Bear before heading to Deliana’s residence and tavern.
• Xuan Ye found Mad Wind and Big Bear in a fight with students who demanded that his young master hand over a spot, and he recognized that Pusang had likely mobilized them.