Chapter Summaries

Evan found Kvarina Bach, a wary boy living on a deserted island with a sea monster, but left after the boy refused to come with him. On the journey back, Evan gave Jacob an assignment to study and classify living things, advancing his students’ work toward the Tree of Life.

• Kvarina Bach surfaced on Bock the lamprey with a basket of fish and found Evan and four others waiting by his cabin.
• Kvarina drew an Extraordinary Dagger and told the strangers to leave, so Evan promised to return with treats and departed without forcing him to go.
• As the group entered a Black Cavity, Jacob examined the lamprey and explained its resemblance to ancient armored fish fossils.
• Evan asked Jacob to collect information on organisms and classify their relationships, and Jacob eagerly accepted the assignment.
• Evan, Jacob, Leon, and the others vanished through the Black Cavity on their way back to Georgia Territory.

Olivia kept Georgia’s affairs running while Evan was missing, then welcomed him home. In the Spirit World, Evan revealed that he had created a Sorcery Garden prototype and invited Olivia to build their new home with him.

• Olivia worked late on preparations for spring cotton planting while waiting for news of Evan.
• Evan returned to the Governor’s Office with roses, and Olivia tearfully embraced him before he carried her away to rest.
• Evan took Olivia into the Spirit World and showed her how Lost City Poseidia had become a six-level green city beneath the Tree of Life.
• Evan activated the Tree of Life, enclosing Poseidia in a spherical shell that rose to the edge of the Material World.
• Olivia recognized the enclosed city as a Sorcery Garden prototype, and Evan said they could build their new home there.

Evan and Olivia sealed the lingering Sacrifice Mark on Angie, then helped Master Leon transfer his soul into a cloned younger body. With the Cumberland Defense Line secure for the short term, Evan turned back to his research and planned to reclaim the Mountain Giant for the Sorcery Garden.

• Evan and Olivia used a ritual powered by the Source of Mysticism to conceal Nidhogg’s Sacrifice Mark on Angie, easing her sense of being watched.
• Evan reassured Angie that he would seek a permanent way to remove the mark and that the Sorcery Garden could later isolate it from the underworld.
• Bess completed his transformation into a Human-Faced Owl and gained Mind Reading as his first Innate Spell-Like Ability.
• Olivia purified Leon’s contaminated soul, and Evan’s cloning technique provided a young body for Leon’s soul-transfer ritual.
• Leon successfully awakened in his cloned body and celebrated his rebirth with Evan and the school members.
• After confirming the Cumberland Defense Line remained stable, Evan resumed his wizard research and planned to reclaim the Super Giant Rock Golem, the Mountain Giant, for the Sorcery Garden.

Merchant Nobility leaders revealed their plan to overthrow Iliya’s monarchy and establish a new order under the Ghoul King, Mordigian, while Evan and Olivia crossed the Black Sea to recover the injured Mountain Giant. Evan stored the giant in his Sorcery Garden and discovered it had lost all ten treasures that powered it, just as a warship approached the island.

• Yellen Iliya and the royal court realized the crown prince’s plan to cultivate a new Kingdom Guardian had failed and that Merchant Nobility had gained control over Iliya’s industries and public opinion.
• Viscount Jerome, Earl Wright, and Harkins discussed how drought and the gathering ghoul armies would help them bring down the royal family, while Harkins recalled the Black Wing Order Pope’s prophecy about a New Divine Authority.
• Evan and Olivia used Evan’s spatial travel ability to cross the Black Sea and reach the island that concealed the Mountain Giant.
• Evan tried to repair the giant, briefly making the island rise, then used the Hermit Shell to move the island into his Sorcery Garden.
• Evan discovered that the Mountain Giant was severely injured and had lost all ten treasures in its energy supply system, and Olivia spotted a warship flying a tulip flag approaching.

Evan captured a ghoul-filled Iliya-Tulip battleship and learned that the ghouls had been summoned home to prepare for an imminent merchant-nobility coup. He brought two dominated ghoul leaders to Queen Isabella’s palace, where he revealed that he possessed a Sorcery Garden and was a Great Wizard.

• Evan used Calm to immobilize the wind-powered battleship, killed its ghoul crew, and bound the captain and first mate.
• Evan dominated the two ghoul leaders and learned that an armed coup by Iliya’s rising Merchant Nobility was expected within half a year.
• Evan stored the captured ship and ghouls in his Sorcery Garden, then received Livina’s summons to attend a joint meeting in the royal capital.
• Evan met with Queen Isabella, Livina, and the Queen’s advisers, who praised his earlier prediction about the Merchant Nobility’s growing power.
• Evan snapped his fingers and produced the two bound ghouls, prompting Isabella and Livina to recognize his Sorcery Garden and identify him as a Great Wizard.

Evan met with Queen Isabella after advancing to High-Ranking Wizard, and she granted him a seat in the Upper House and promised military procurement opportunities for Georgia Territory. They agreed to wait as unrest threatened Iliya, but Isabella then asked Evan to help finance arms in exchange for reclaiming the Garratt Family’s ancestral land.

• Queen Isabella ended the Think Tank meeting and ordered its members to keep Evan’s advancement secret.
• Isabella increased the Upper House to fifty-nine seats, offered Evan a seat, and promised Georgia Territory a share of military procurement orders.
• Isabella explained that class tensions and an approaching uprising threatened Iliya, and she and Evan agreed to wait and see how events unfolded.
• Isabella offered Evan the chance to reclaim the Garratt Family’s ancestral land from Earl Wright, but implied he would need to help fund arms procurement.
• Evan and Livina left the study together, while Isabella privately regretted that Evan was engaged.

Evan and Olivia stripped the Frog Croaking Forest for his Sorcery Garden and took the Frog God Golden Crown. Half a month later, Evan gave Gell a potion for his aunt and arranged for Irant to begin his naval career aboard the Glorious.

• Evan and Olivia flew to the Frog Croaking Forest to reclaim the Golden Crown and gather matter for the Sorcery Garden.
• Evan’s Sorcery Garden consumed much of the forest, and Olivia killed the Frog God with her Electromagnetic Cannon 2.0.
• Evan used Castling to move the Golden Crown into the Sorcery Garden before he and Olivia left with their haul.
• Evan gave Gell a Subordinate Elixir of Immortality for his aunt, warning that she would need to stay home during the two-month transformation.
• Evan told Gell to deliver a letter to Rear Admiral Damon Brand, arranging for Irant to join the Glorious for his shipboard internship.

Evan trained with Anita as she tested her new Sea Emperor Dragon Activated Skin, then returned with her to the Sorcery Garden, where his disciples prepared a prophecy ritual to search for the fourth volume of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood. The ritual had not yet begun, but Milan assured Evan there was still time before the Spirituality Tide peaked.

• Anita transformed into a Sea Emperor Dragon and sparred with Evan in the storm, using Frost Dust Breath before tiring and changing back.
• Evan explained that the dragon skin could grant Anita three Spell-like Abilities but that its corrosive bloodline would consume anyone unable to withstand it.
• Evan carried Anita into the Sorcery Garden, where Poseidia had been reshaped into a three-level fortress surrounded by water.
• Milan, Olivia, and Angie worked on a Prophecy School ritual with Calvin's help and the Brass Key's precise projections.
• Evan asked Milan to use the ritual to find the fourth volume of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood, and Milan said the Spirituality Tide would not peak for two more days.

Evan used Milan’s All-Seeing Eye ritual to seek the fourth and fifth volumes of the Animated Ship Spirit Art, but the ritual brought him to the Spirit World instead. There, he found the Turin Grand Library and was welcomed by a woman who introduced herself as its manager from the Turin Witch Society.

• Evan gathered apprentices, books, and school creations to strengthen Milan’s ritual and search for the missing Inheritance Secret Scrolls.
• Evan felt no connection to the volumes until an eye-shaped phantom carried him into the Spirit World.
• Evan passed visions of strange landscapes and arrived in a forest beneath an indigo sky where carved pumpkins drifted overhead.
• Evan found a massive Dark Millennium-style building identified by its plaque as the Turin Grand Library.
• A woman appeared at the library entrance and welcomed Evan as a stranger Wizard on behalf of the Turin Witch Society.

Evan entered the Turin Grand Library with Kingfisher Lady and learned that its vast collection offered knowledge through equivalent exchange. He discovered that the library held the Most Ancient School’s second and fourth volumes, and agreed to trade for them despite learning they had already been borrowed many times.

• Evan introduced himself to Kingfisher Lady as Red Iron Fir, and she recognized Angie’s witch-related aura and pulled him into the library.
• Kingfisher Lady explained the library’s exchange rules, its Library Card system, and its enormous collection of books and manuscripts.
• Evan saw the library’s public collection of natural history books and considered how its knowledge could help Jacob advance his Gene Theory.
• Evan asked whether the library held the inheritance of the Most Ancient School, and Kingfisher Lady confirmed it had the second and fourth volumes.
• Kingfisher Lady said the volumes had already been exchanged eleven and six times, then Evan agreed to trade for the knowledge.

Evan used his new Data Vision function, linked to the Turin Grand Library’s public knowledge, to study polar plants while his students sparred and gathered specimens. He then brought them to Hatlafa Port, where he and Angie began the ritual to forge a Legendary Battleship from magically stimulated treasure trees.

• Evan explained that trading his research and Ancient One's Cipher to Kingfisher had earned him a beacon, a Library Card, and real-time access to the library’s first-floor knowledge, which enhanced Data Vision.
• Evan’s students collected plant specimens on the polar island while Calvin sparred with Kvarina Bach, whose swordsmanship had rapidly improved.
• Evan gathered the students and returned with them to Hatlafa Port, leaving Bach behind on the island.
• Evan and Angie prepared the ritual array as the Animation School’s wizards watched over the treasure trees that Active Stimulation had made suitable for a Legendary Battleship.
• Evan and Angie chanted to connect with the Tree of Life, then channeled its power into the array and bathed the treasure trees in emerald light, beginning the battleship forging.

Evan used sorcery to build a futuristic, heavily armored warship in Hatlafa Port in just three hours. After teleporting it into the Sorcery Garden lake, he brought everyone to its bridge to begin fitting out the ship and awakening its ship spirit.

• Evan used the Animated Aura to shape extraordinary tree materials into a 132-meter warship with a V-shaped hull, reinforced structure, and watertight compartments.
• After three hours, Evan completed the sleek, mastless warship, whose armor and design surpassed the conventional ships of the era.
• Evan installed two extraordinary shafts and golden propellers at the stern, completing the warship's main body.
• Evan teleported the warship into the lake at the edge of the Sorcery Garden without making a ripple.
• Evan led the onlookers to the bridge and prepared to fit out the ship and awaken its ship spirit.

Evan tested his extraordinarily fast warship in the Black Sea and explained how its propellers, power core, hull, and sonar worked. When sonar and scouts found a huge Gun Spine Fish, Olivia launched the warship’s first Hurricane Missiles, leaving the crew watching to see whether the strike would succeed.

• Evan and the crew continued the warship’s third day of sea trials, with Evan explaining its design and capabilities to Olivia, Nymph, Milan, Angie, and the students.
• The ship’s sonar detected a massive creature, and the seagulls of the Mind Network identified it as a 320-meter Gun Spine Fish charging toward the surface.
• Evan handed Olivia the warship’s key and assigned her to launch the first Hurricane Missile.
• Olivia activated the missile system, and two Hurricane Missiles launched toward the Gun Spine Fish as the crew watched through the Mind Network.

Evan tested the Crown of Miracles’ weapons, completed the battleship’s transformation, and guided it to awaken the Legendary Battleship Skill Dreamscape Cruise. The ritual also produced a female knight ship spirit who appeared before Evan and called him her Master, just as he sensed killing intent behind him.

• Evan’s Hurricane Missiles killed a Gun Spine Fish, and he ordered the crew to search for another target.
• Evan and the crew tested the battleship’s systems through dangerous encounters in the Black Sea, then Evan named it the Crown of Miracles.
• Evan brought the battleship into his Sorcery Garden to guide its transformation and awaken a Legendary Battleship Skill.
• Nymph used her Natal Gemstone ability, Dreamscape Cruise, to help Evan’s Animated Ship Spirit Art complete the battleship’s transformation.
• The Crown of Miracles awakened Dreamscape Cruise, which let material forms travel between dreams and the Material World and teleport through the spirit world.
• A translucent female knight appeared before Evan, asked if he was her Master, and left him sensing killing intent behind him.

Evan, Anita, and Olivia traveled aboard the Crown of Miracles to the unexplored North Pole, seeking gains that could strengthen Evan amid rising threats in the Iliya Kingdom. They reached the frozen Eternal White Land, where their exploration was about to begin.

• Evan and Anita shared tea in the Sorcery Garden as Olivia joined them for breakfast with May, the Crown of Miracles’ ship spirit.
• May reported that the ship had reached its designated location, and Evan, Anita, and Olivia prepared for the journey.
• The Crown of Miracles carried the group through dreams to the Eternal White Land and returned to the Sorcery Garden under May’s control.
• Evan brought Anita and Olivia, the other possessors of Adventurer's Blood, to explore the unvisited North Pole on Rogers's advice.
• Evan chose the expedition to seek greater strength as intelligence suggested the Iliya Kingdom faced a conspiracy backed by powerful ghouls and the fourth-rank Outlaw Octopus Ghost Harkins.

At the North Pole, Evan discovered that the World Will had granted him its favor, apparently because he was advancing the Age of Exploration. He decided that he, Anita, and Olivia would have to become adventurers and help drive the tide of discovery.

• In Faletis, Isabella sparred with Livina before Marquis Hansa reported worsening unrest in Iliya and the kingdom’s preparations against Sirius.
• Evan, Anita, and Olivia reached the North Pole, where Evan marked the site with a monument and a stone sphere bearing their names.
• Evan sensed an ethereal power linked to the World Origin and recognized it as the World Will’s favor.
• Evan connected this favor to the Age of Exploration and reasoned that historical Titled Knights and Sirius’s rise had benefited from driving major human tides.
• Evan told Anita and Olivia that they would have to become adventurers.

Merchant Nobility and the ghoul Pikeman used an armed uprising to breach Viana’s inner city and attack the royal palace, believing the Kingdom Guardian was dead. There they found Enrique II with an unknown white-haired old man, who confronted Pikeman and prepared to fight.

• Farmers and urban commoners rose against royal rule, while Merchant Nobility and Pikeman secretly organized and armed the uprising.
• Pikeman unleashed his Fourth-Order aura against the Guard Army, and the Uprising Army eventually broke through the inner city wall.
• Jerome brought in two hundred Moss Skin Corpse Hunters, while the rebels flooded the inner city and began looting, killing, and setting fires.
• Pikeman, Wright, and Jerome led their forces to the royal palace, where they found Enrique II and an unfamiliar old man waiting in the main hall.
• The old man identified Pikeman as the uprising’s hidden backer, declared he would deal with him, and crushed the warding talisman around his neck.

Raging Tide revealed himself as the still-living Kingdom Guardian and fought the rebels’ Fourth-Order leaders, while Harkins joined the battle and both sides invoked their gods. At Waterfall Hill Wizard Tower, Evan used inspiration from World's Favor to develop a tool for detecting Gene Sequences and pushed forward his Gene Theory research.

• Enrique II revealed that he had stayed behind as bait while the royal family and powerful nobles withdrew, and Raging Tide shed his aged appearance to confront the rebellion.
• Raging Tide struck Pikeman with his giant axe, hurling him into the palace square and killing several merchant nobles in the blast.
• Harkins arrived and blocked Raging Tide’s next attack, while Pikeman invoked the Ghoul King, Icy Monarch Mordigian, and Harkins called on the Black Wing God, Cesi.
• At Waterfall Hill Wizard Tower, Evan and Angie observed DNA Replication through Evan’s Observation Tool, which he had created with inspiration from World's Favor.
• Evan developed a tool to identify Gene Sequences and continued researching bloodline transplantation, while recognizing how World's Favor could accelerate exploration, scholarship, and extraordinary advancement.

Royal Naval Academy graduates received their ship assignments, and Irant was assigned to the Quasi-Legendary Battleship Glorious. Evan reviewed his growing territory and received Livina’s alarming report that the Kingdom Guardian had been killed and King Enrique II had been decapitated.

• The Ministry of Military Affairs assigned the graduating cadets to warships, and Irant was the only one sent to the Glorious.
• Evan emerged from Mountain Giant and directed his apprentices to work in exchange for points, knowledge, and resources.
• Evan reviewed the territory’s expanding industries, including the cotton trade, Sekhmet Biomedical Company, Vulcan Metal Company, and Hephaestus Ceramics Company.
• May delivered Evan a letter from Hawkins and a Spirit World Communication from Livina.
• Livina reported that the Kingdom Guardian, Raging Tide, had been killed and that the Uprising Army had decapitated King Enrique II on charges of treason.

The uprising in Iliya replaced the monarchy with rule by the Bourgeoisie Class, while the Black Wing God’s faith spread through the revolution. Saint Angel Bellerus confronted Sariel, who claimed capital’s rise was inevitable, and Bellerus wondered whether mortals must decide the fate of monarchy.

• The Constituent Assembly abolished the monarchy and nobility as uprisings, executions, and attacks on the Black Iron Cross Church spread across Iliya.
• The Black Wing Order took over churches and introduced worship of the God of Capital and Wealth.
• Bellerus recognized the revolution as an effort to replace monarchy and the Goddess Hecate’s faith with the Black Wing God’s authority.
• Sariel, the Slaughter Angel, appeared before Bellerus and argued that capital and the Bourgeoisie Class would inevitably replace monarchs.
• Sariel departed, and Bellerus questioned whether mortals themselves had to resolve the future of secular monarchy.