Chapter Summaries

Evan manipulated the tulip craze in the Lowland Republic by staging a lavish auction purchase, then completed his Insight Magic Eye spell after consolidating northern resources. As he prepared to examine the Purifier's control core, Sera summoned him to the Holy Stone Council on Celebes Island, where Chief Crown Wizard Mennon Watt would make an important announcement.

• Evan and Olivia bought a tulip at auction for five hundred Gold Lions, concealing that Evan had consigned it and paid only the auction fee.
• Evan explained to Olivia that soaring tulip prices had become an investment bubble, fueled by speculation and low-interest loans in the Lowland Republic.
• Evan completed the Insight Magic Eye spell after months of work and prepared to use it on the Purifier's control core.
• Sera told Evan that the Holy Stone Council had issued a highest-order summons and that Mennon Watt would attend with an important announcement.

Evan and Sera traveled aboard the Sea Soul to meet Mennon Watt, the Alchemy School’s Chief Crown Wizard, while discussing Celebes Island’s powerful wizards and the strange Purger core. They reached the Mechanical Realm and entered its vast Sorcery Garden.

• Sera told Evan that Celebes had many Crown Wizards and that Truth Embodiments might outnumber them.
• Evan recalled decoding coordinates from the Purger’s control core that pointed to the Shattered Star Sea, but decided not to investigate yet.
• Evan used his Insight Magic Eye to spot the Necromancy School building a dock with tireless corpses and skeletons.
• Sera sent a signal near the coast, and a mechanical brass gate appeared before the Sea Soul.
• Evan, Sera, and Milan entered the Sorcery Garden - Mechanical Realm of Mennon Watt.

Evan and his companions entered the Mechanical Realm for a Holy Stone Council meeting, where he noticed tension among the Alchemy School and a powerful wizard who seemed connected to the Clock Tower School. The evil god Thousand-Faced Moon Kohor attacked the realm, and the Alchemy School transformed it into a plane fortress and opened fire.

• Evan entered the Mechanical Realm with Garratt and Sera, but found that teleportation passages were shut and visitors had to travel to the central tower on foot.
• Evan used his Insight Magic Eye to observe council members and noticed that the Alchemy School seemed split into rival factions.
• Evan spotted a powerful female wizard with the same spatial-temporal detachment as Milan and suspected she had received an Inheritance Spellbook from the Clock Tower School.
• The Mechanical Realm shook under an attack, and its construct puppets warned the visitors to take shelter.
• Evan saw the evil god Thousand-Faced Moon Kohor battering the Sorcery Garden from the Spirit World.
• The Alchemy School sealed the teleportation portals, shifted the Mechanical Realm into Plane Fortress Mode, and fired its turrets at Kohor.

The Alchemy School’s Mechanical Realm fought off a renewed assault by the Thousand-Faced Moon, while Evan used his Verdict of Truth rockets to destroy a breach and collect the evil god’s bodily fluids. Kohor then revealed its divine core and unleashed a power that began transforming the Mechanical Realm’s steel cannons into entrails.

• Mennon Watt ordered the Mechanical Realm’s turrets and Dora Giant Cannons to bombard the Thousand-Faced Moon as it attacked the Sorcery Garden.
• Kohor sent a wave of monsters that corroded a hole through the barrier, and Alchemy School wizards prepared to repel the slugs pouring inside.
• Evan launched nine hundred Verdict of Truth rockets, annihilating the invaders and sealing the breach before collecting the Thousand-Faced Moon’s bodily fluids.
• The Mechanical Realm detected the rockets as a new Alchemy Weapon and automatically recorded their design, making Evan’s smile stiffen.
• Kohor exposed its mountain-sized heart and unleashed its Mythical Form, causing nearby steel cannons to grow writhing entrails as Evan gripped his sword.

Kingfisher and Mennon Watt joined Evan to repel the Thousand-Faced Moon’s assault on the Mechanical Realm. After the attack, Evan resolved to pursue the path creation needed for his advancement before facing stronger enemies.

• Kingfisher appeared and used her Forbidden Incantation to lull the Thousand-Faced Moon’s heads to sleep, then destroyed them with Resonant Harmonics.
• The enraged Thousand-Faced Moon began forcing three fearsome human faces out of its heart.
• Mennon Watt appeared beside Kingfisher and used the Most Holy Maritime Royal Authority to empower the Mechanical Realm’s cannons.
• Evan sensed the power of the artifact and charged the Thousand-Faced Moon with the Balance Holy Sword as the three faces emerged.
• Evan reflected on Mennon Watt’s limited lifespan and his own need to grow stronger, then committed to completing his path creation.
• Mennon Watt ordered an attack, and the cannons and Evan’s sword struck the Thousand-Faced Moon, whose aura weakened as it fled.

Evan learned that Mennon Watt was nearing death and needed help advancing through the Hephaestus Cube, then negotiated a transfer of the Alchemy School’s Alchemical Light branches in exchange for his assistance. He accepted a mission to find the missing Crown Wizard Paracelsus and recover the unfinished Elixir of Immortality, while preparing for his own Crown Wizard promotion and a possible encounter with the Clock Tower School’s unknown Great Wizard.

• Mennon Watt told Evan that his failing body left the Alchemy School facing an urgent crisis despite the threat of the Thousand-Faced Moon.
• Watt explained that he needed the World's Favor to manifest the Hephaestus Cube, but his body might not survive the transformation, and Evan demanded payment for the Balance Holy Sword and Verdict of Truth.
• Evan and Watt signed an agreement transferring ownership of seventy-six Alchemical Light branches to the Garratt Duchy after Watt advanced.
• Watt revealed that Paracelsus had vanished in the Star Shattering Archipelago and tasked Evan with finding him or recovering the unfinished Elixir of Immortality.
• Evan concluded that he needed to prepare his Crown Wizard promotion ritual and told Milan he could join the mission to the Shattered Star Sea, where they might meet the missing female Great Wizard and contest the Clock Tower Source of Mysticism.

Evan completed a major improvement to the Golden Holy Lance · Longinus and prepared the Tree of Life School for a new creation-focused promotion ritual. He assigned Angie to defend and develop the duchy while he and Olivia prepared to leave for the Star Shattering Archipelago, entrusting government affairs to Olivia’s father and Uncle Gell.

• Angie demonstrated the Golden Holy Lance · Longinus’s ability to form and disperse at will after Evan added biological information gained from Thousand-Faced Moon.
• Evan encouraged Clarissa and Leonora in their research into bioenergy and the Molecular Clock, which could support their advancement to Third-Order Great Wizards.
• Evan ordered Angie to develop a targeted virus from Thousand-Faced Moon’s blood and lead the Crown of Miracles team while he was away.
• Evan concluded that the Tree of Life School’s research had prepared the foundation for the Secondary Creation · Crown of Miracles, whose ritual required creating an unprecedented intelligent race.
• Olivia worried about leaving the duchy’s government unattended during their trip, so Evan proposed appointing her father as Prime Minister and placing Uncle Gell in the cabinet.

Evan, Olivia, Milan, and Jerros entered a hidden secret realm while searching the Shattered Star Sea for traces of Crown Wizard Paracelsus. Evan and Olivia were separated from Milan and Jerros, and they encountered a crowd of eerie Broken Ceramic People.

• Evan and Olivia enjoyed a meal aboard the Sea Soul while their party prepared for the expedition.
• Evan's group reached a secret realm near Hanging Gardens and entered it by walking an infinity symbol across the sea on a New Moon evening.
• The realm suppressed wizardry and separated Evan and Olivia from Milan and Jerros, though Evan and Olivia's connection endured.
• Evan and Olivia spotted a porcelain-skinned woman with a cracked ceramic head, then saw more Broken Ceramic People emerge from the mist.

Evan and Olivia were surrounded by Broken Ceramic People in the Gray Forest until Tom, an orange cat knight, rescued them with explosive arrows. When four powerful Remnant Echoes appeared, Evan unleashed his strength to defeat them, and Tom invited the pair to his home.

• Evan and Olivia were surrounded by silent Broken Ceramic People, whose hunger for human souls they sensed through Evan's Life Magnetic Field.
• Tom, an orange cat Grand Knight, fired explosive arrows to distract the Broken Ceramic People and urged Evan and Olivia to flee quietly.
• Four gold-repaired Remnant Echoes appeared and targeted Evan and Olivia, prompting Tom to offer to hold them off.
• Evan and Olivia combined their Life Magnetic Fields, and Evan struck down all four Remnant Echoes with Outer Scenery Dragon's Roar.
• Tom recognized Evan as a Titled Knight, let Olivia pet him, and invited the pair to visit his home after collecting the gold from the fallen Remnant Echoes.

Evan and Olivia reached Argyle Ancient City in the Mushqinnu Kingdom and learned about its conflict with the Porcelain People, while Evan spotted a possibly familiar woman. Across the Gray Forest, Jerros had arrived in the Avilû Kingdom and was ordered to join its army for the coming full-moon invasion.

• Evan, Olivia, and Tom left the Gray Forest and entered Argyle Ancient City, where the anti-magic effect weakened near the Grand Temple.
• Tom explained that the Mushqinnu Kingdom and the Avilû Kingdom were mortal enemies, and that the Gray Forest's remnants came from defective Porcelain People.
• Evan considered researching the two peoples and their origins, then spotted a vaguely familiar woman in a distant window.
• In Erbil City, the Sun Face King and Moon Face Queen appointed the newly arrived Jerros to the Blue and White Porcelain Knight's order as a bright silver warrior.
• Jerros accepted the assignment and learned that the Porcelain People planned to invade the Mushqinnu Kingdom during the full moon, fifteen days away.

Milan arrived at the Mushqinnu Kingdom’s royal palace, gained King Rhine’s help finding his companions, and got drunk before waking with an embarrassing memory of the night. Evan and Olivia explored Argyle Ancient City without finding clues or detecting their companions, while a mysterious woman used the Time Portal and disappeared.

• Milan impressed King Rhine with his claim that his Creature Modification specialist companion could solve the kingdom’s predicament, and Rhine promised to help locate his companions.
• After Milan passed out from Lion's Milk, King Rhine ordered two bunny girls to take him to rest; Milan later woke in the palace and remembered what had happened.
• A silver-haired woman invoked the Sorcery Item · Time Portal, watched the city gate, and vanished from a window.
• Evan and Olivia entered Argyle Ancient City with Tom the orange cat, then explored the city while their Positioning Amulet remained inactive.
• Evan and Olivia found no valuable intelligence during their search and returned to the hotel, while Milan woke from his day-long hangover.

Milan recognized that the timeline around Argyle Ancient City had been manipulated and confronted Kong Yu, who demanded he sign a contract. Evan and Olivia detected the temporal partition and broke into Milan’s timeline, arriving as Evan’s Four-Headed Demon Dragon.

• Milan noticed inconsistencies in the night sky, used Observe Timeline, and found that only one future remained.
• Kong Yu appeared and revealed that she controlled a closed loop of timelines, then demanded Milan sign a contract with her.
• Milan activated Quicksand Scales and unleashed the power of the Clock Tower, while Kong Yu insisted that nobody could reach them.
• Evan and Olivia detected the temporal partition, tracked Milan with his Positioning Amulet, and prepared to intervene.
• Evan transformed into a Four-Headed Demon Dragon and used Aging Breath to shatter the boundary between timelines.
• Evan and Olivia entered Milan’s timeline, and Evan teased Milan about being on a date with Kong Yu.

Milan fought Kong Yu for control of the Clock Tower until Evan and Olivia arrived and pursued her through her mirror spaces. Though they cornered her after breaking her escape route, Kong Yu forced her way through the secret realm barrier and escaped as the Lion King approached.

• Milan and Kong Yu exchanged time-based attacks and spatial summons in the royal palace, with neither gaining a decisive advantage.
• Evan arrived with Olivia, urged Kong Yu to withdraw from the Clock Tower contest, and chased her after she escaped into a Mirror Gap.
• Evan and Olivia destroyed Kong Yu's overlapping mirror spaces, forcing the group back onto the normal Time Line and leaving her trapped in a Magic Prohibition Area.
• Kong Yu admitted she had skipped the Clock Tower's previous opening because she foresaw danger, then threatened Milan and prepared to continue their contest.
• Kong Yu escaped through cracks in the secret realm barrier as the enraged Lion King approached the palace.

Evan and his companions learned how the Animal Kingdom’s Primal Soup produced its people and saw that worsening bloodline mutations threatened their survival. Evan recognized a Purger of the Muria Civilization depicted on the chamber’s ceiling.

• Milan apologized to Lion King Rhine for the wizards’ dispute, and Rhine asked Milan about the two Miss Rabbits before requesting Evan’s help for the Animal Kingdom.
• Rhine told Evan’s group that Wizard Paracelsus had once improved the Animal Kingdom’s advancement potions but had not returned to solve its deeper crisis.
• Rhine and Priest Masum led the group into the temple’s guarded cultivation chamber to inspect the Primal Soup.
• Evan saw the Primal Soup rapidly produce malformed creatures and learned that the rate of bloodline degeneration was nearing half of all births.
• Olivia pointed out a mural on the chamber ceiling, and Evan recognized a Purger of the Muria Civilization.

Evan deciphered the mural as evidence that the Muria people had slain the gods Lahamu and Lahmu, and that the secret realm had been built from the remnants of their power and Muria technology. After repairing the Eternal Primordial Essence and sharpening his swordsmanship, Evan proposed a major undertaking to Lion King Rhine as he prepared to help the Animal Kingdom and search for Jerros.

• Evan studied the mural and inferred that the Muria people had killed Lahamu, while the secret realm had formed from the fallen gods' power and Muria technology.
• Lion King Rhine explained that Wizard Paracelsus had found a possible solution after seeing the mural but had never returned from his search.
• Evan repaired the Eternal Primordial Essence, ending the mutations, and took a small sample with the king and High Priest's permission.
• Evan trained with Lion King Rhine, advancing his swordsmanship while assessing the Animal Kingdom's military disadvantage against the Porcelain People.
• Evan used electromagnetic-message seabirds to survey the secret realm and concluded that Jerros had likely entered Porcelain People territory.
• Evan asked Lion King Rhine whether he wanted to undertake something big.

Evan infiltrated the Porcelain People’s central temple and discovered that the Genesis Fire gave life to porcelain bodies. He stole much of the fire and its Life Code, then faced the furious Black Pottery General.

• Evan entered Erbil City as an invisible breeze and overheard Porcelain People planning to slaughter flesh-and-blood creatures.
• Evan followed Jerros’s intelligence into the central temple and found the Genesis Fire creating new Porcelain People.
• Evan concluded that the Genesis Fire contained Life Code and used Pseudo Authority · Usurper to seize about a third of it.
• The Black Pottery General arrived and interrupted Evan, who stored the stolen flame in the Sorcery Garden and taunted him.
• The enraged Black Pottery General drew his sword and attacked Evan.

Evan lured the Porcelain People into an ambush in the Gray Forest, where he and the Animal Kingdom launched a coordinated attack. After paralyzing the Tin Man with an Electric Field, Evan cut him in half and seized control of his divine artifact.

• Evan escaped Erbil City while the Black Pottery General, the Blue and White Porcelain Knight, and the Tin Man pursued him to the Gray Forest.
• Evan revealed that the Animal Kingdom had been lying in ambush, and Olivia, Lily, Rhine, and other allies attacked the pursuing Porcelain People.
• Lion King Rhine engaged the Tin Man while Evan used a powerful Electric Field to overheat and immobilize him.
• Evan cut the Tin Man in half with his sword and suppressed the divine artifact as the battle continued around them.

The Evil God's Retinue arrived on Muria to hunt descendants for the gods’ Mythical Warship, while Evan departed the secret realm after helping the Animal Kingdom defeat its Porcelain enemies. A Black Wizard studying Muria’s civilization saw the Tower of Babel under construction and resolved to uncover its secrets.

• Petrich and Baba Yaga led the united Evil God's Retinue to Muria and warned their forces to finish their mission and withdraw before November 24th.
• Evan and his allies killed Giant Shield Myriad Walls and two other Fourth-Order Extraordinary people, and Evan claimed the divine artifact Iron Wall.
• The Balance Holy Sword offered to absorb Iron Wall and extract its divinity, but Evan kept the artifact for possible future use.
• Evan boarded the Gemstone River with Olivia, Milan, and Jerros and departed for the Hanging Gardens.
• A Black Wizard recorded his study of Muria and its biological weapons after accepting Nebuchadnezzar’s invitation to become a sage.
• The Black Wizard looked toward the nearly completed Tower of Babel and declared that mortal power could make gods tremble.

King Nebuchadnezzar rebelled against the gods during a drought-relief sacrifice, wounded Marduk with a Cross Halberd, and triggered the gods’ destruction of Uruk. Evan and his companions arrived on East No. 2 Archipelago as a war of the gods unfolded overhead.

• Nebuchadnezzar pleaded with the gods to relieve the Muria people’s suffering, but Marduk demanded three times as many sacrifices at the next full moon.
• Nebuchadnezzar rejected the ultimatum, declared that gods must serve humanity, and hurled a black Cross Halberd into the sky, wounding Marduk.
• Enlil split the Tower of Babel with a lightning spear, while a divine voice pronounced Uruk doomed and high-ranking Espers teleported its citizens to safety.
• Flagellates carrying black Cross Halberds surged from the ruined Tower of Babel as Evan and his companions arrived on East No. 2 Archipelago.
• A nearly ten-meter figure crashed down before Jerros, and Evan and the others looked up at the battle raging in the sky.

Evan and his companions watched a war between humanity and the Muria gods, where humans used black tin made from hatred and white lead made from blessings to fight divine power. After Olivia uncovered how the metals worked, Evan located Paracelsus in Uruk City and prepared to leave, but Baba Yaga sensed their hiding place.

• Olivia hid the group with a false mirror image as the battle between Muria's gods and humanity spread toward the beach.
• Jerros identified Inanna, Ninurta, and the fallen Water God Adad, confirming that the conflict was an all-out war against the gods.
• Evan recognized that the Time Prison's treasures could not be taken beyond its timeline and studied the human soldiers fighting alongside the gods' retainers.
• Olivia analyzed the Armored People's black tin weapons and white lead armor, revealing how hatred and blessings let humans resist and wound gods.
• Evan saw that the Muria gods' rule was near collapse, located Paracelsus in Uruk City, and decided to leave before Baba Yaga detected their group.
• Baba Yaga caught the scent of the hidden companions and called out to them.