Chapter Summaries

After escaping Lawrence, Suye and his companions discovered that the fight had earned them a great many achievement points, and Lake explained why the Magic Mark counted Lawrence as a Bronze Beast. The group continued out of the valley with Pallas in Suye’s arms, while chaos erupted in the Hidden Hall of Plato Academy.

• Lake noticed that Suye’s achievement points had risen from 207 to 597, and the others realized they had also gained points from fighting Lawrence.
• Lake reasoned that the Magic Mark had classified Lawrence as an undead-type Bronze Beast, while Rolon noted that Lawrence’s lack of agility had made him easier to defeat.
• Lake, Rolon, and Hote questioned Suye about his ability to cast spells instantly, and Suye said Di Aotian’s Talent Sharing let him use the servant’s talents.
• Suye carried Pallas as the group headed out, and she revealed that unsealing her divine artifact would leave her weak for a few days without worsening her injuries.
• Lake teased Suye for carrying Pallas instead of him, and everyone laughed as they continued toward the exit.
• As Suye and the others made their way out, the Hidden Hall of Plato Academy erupted into chaos.

The Golden Mages questioned Suye’s merit points, while Suye and his classmates regrouped in a Magic Villa after their battle. As they discussed compensation and Spoils of War, Lake and Hote argued that the merit points they had earned were already a sufficient share.

• Golden Mages suspected foul play over Suye and his classmates’ scores, but Laurence confirmed the leaderboard was genuine and they had killed thirteen reviving Bronze-level creatures.
• Suye carried the exhausted Pallas out of Paper Flower Valley and built a Magic Villa for his seven desk mates; noble students watched enviously as Eugene advanced to Bronze and later chased Tanos toward Demon Tiger Forest after stealing a Magic Villa.
• Suye offered his classmates two thousand Golden Eagles each as compensation and hush money, but Hote, Rolon, Lake, and Jimmy refused, saying they had helped him as friends.
• Suye promised Albert two thousand Golden Eagles because he had stayed rather than run away, though Albert had not fought in the battle.
• Lake said the merit points were already Spoils of War and declined a further share, and Hote agreed that the points and resulting rewards were enough.

After the group divided their spoils, they agreed to travel to Giant Tree Peak together. Lake told Suye about his sister Nia, the hardships they had endured, and his fear of leaving her alone, asking Suye to look after her if anything happened to him.

• Pallas declined her share of the spoils, Jimmy requested a Bronze Magic Artifact, and Albert accepted two thousand Golden Eagles.
• Suye and the others decided to rest overnight at the Magic Villa and head for Giant Tree Peak the next day.
• Suye found Lake outside and learned that Lake hoped to earn enough money to heal his injured leg and his blind sister Nia's eyes.
• Lake recounted how Nia cared for him after he was gravely injured, then described killing four thugs who attacked her and being rescued from death row by Master Laurence and Master Plato.
• Lake asked Suye to help protect Nia if something happened to him, and Suye reassured him that he believed nothing bad would happen.

Suye advised Lake to focus on his goals, then led the group to Giant Tree Peak, where Persian students were barring the way to the summit. After the Persians challenged the Greeks and Suye called for a duel, he sent Di Aotian forward to fight in his place.

• Suye told Lake to replace avoidance-based thinking with goal-oriented thinking and explained that true understanding required a practical verification standard.
• Lake asked Suye how he would handle someone who was both an enemy and a friend, and Suye advised him to do what he wanted to achieve.
• Suye packed away the Magic Villa and led the group toward Giant Tree Peak while carrying Pallas, with students from Plato Academy and noble students following.
• At the mountain’s foot, the group learned that Persian students were preventing anyone with fewer than fifty points from ascending unless they earned the Persians’ recognition.
• The Greeks and Persians exchanged insults over the roadblock, and Suye challenged the Persian student guarding the steps to a duel.
• Suye sent Di Aotian forward with a bone-free club and told the Persian that defeating his servant would count as defeating him.

Suye used Di Aotian’s powerful fire magic to secure fifty places for the Plato Academy’s students in the mountain trial. After reaching the summit, he reunited with Harnas and learned that all ten Talent Fruits would mature the next morning.

• Suye warned a Persian student that Di Aotian might possess a flame-related Divine Bloodline, then sent the goblin to fight him.
• Di Aotian used an instant-cast Fireball Technique and mobile casting to force the Persian student to surrender.
• Suye bargained with the Persian representative for fifty places, then assigned forty of them to the Plato Academy students.
• Suye led Pallas and his classmates up the mountain to the summit, where ten ocher Talent Fruits hung from a great tree.
• Suye met Harnas, who told him that all ten Talent Fruits would mature the next morning.
• Pallas and the veiled Persian princess exchanged greetings as they noticed each other at the summit.

Suye learned about the Talent Fruits and Plane Seeds while preparing for the fruits to mature in Giant Hills. Harnas suggested a warrior among them might carry a Plane Seed, leaving Suye to consider who the Plane Heart favored.

• Harnas explained that a large Talent Fruit might produce an Earth or Giant Bloodline Crown, and he offered to arrange challenges to boost Suye’s score, but Suye refused.
• Harnas described how Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, and Alexander had dominated past trials with their talents and abilities.
• Suye meditated and studied in his Magic Villa, finding that the Divine Power Plane greatly enhanced his meditation and Magic Array practice.
• The next morning, Suye and his companions joined Harnas near the ten Talent Fruits as crowds from different factions gathered around the tree.
• Harnas said Plane Seeds could be planted in people and were difficult to hatch, then pointed to a large warrior as someone likely carrying one.

As the Talent Fruits ripened, the trial takers ranked the highest by score won the right to pick them. Suye chose the first fruit and began absorbing its power beneath the giant tree.

• Harnas announced that eight Talent Fruits would be distributed by score, while the Agala Family kept two and Pallas had already received one.
• Nineteen trial takers with scores above one hundred gathered, and Suye revealed his score of 617 as Plato Academy’s students celebrated Hote.
• Suye, Hote, Lake, and Rolon secured four of the eight places, alongside two Magic Academy students, Sigurd, and Eugene.
• Pallas yielded her first pick to Suye, who chose the largest Talent Fruit and agreed to leave its core in exchange for a Mana Ring.
• Suye placed the fruit on his altar, then drank its transformed liquid as Harnas advised him to meditate and offered protection.

Suye gained the Giant Bloodline from the first Talent Fruit and learned from Pallas that pairing it with an Earth Element Bloodline could evolve his earth magic. Pallas then chose a second Talent Fruit and fed it to Suye in front of the gathered crowd, leaving everyone stunned as he began absorbing its power.

• Suye absorbed the first Talent Fruit, gaining a Giant General Bloodline with enhanced physical strength and immunity to ordinary weapons.
• Pallas explained that compatible bloodlines could trigger Magic Evolution, and Suye decided to seek an Earth Element Bloodline.
• Harnas yielded the right to choose the second Talent Fruit to Pallas, who could not reach it, so Suye picked the largest fruit for her.
• Pallas instead pressed the Talent Fruit to Suye's lips and fed it to him, shocking the crowd and prompting Rolon, Jimmy, Lake, and others to surrender.
• Pallas returned to her classmates while Suye closed his eyes and began absorbing the second Talent Fruit's power.

Suye found his third Earth Talent Spirit, Slow, then met the Persian Princess Yixinna to discuss business for the Supernova Chamber of Commerce. He rejected her offer to buy permanent exclusive sales rights and began negotiating a three-year deal, leaving its terms unfinished.

• Suye discovered that Pallas had received the Earth Talent Spirit Slow, and he and his deskmates joked about the rumors surrounding him and Pallas.
• Harnas distributed Mana Rings to the trial participants and announced that the Talent Fruit distribution was over.
• Harnas invited Suye to meet Yixinna, who was interested in the Supernova Chamber of Commerce and its new cutlery.
• Yixinna offered Suye two hundred thousand Golden Eagles for permanent exclusive sales rights in Persia, but Suye refused and proposed a three-year agreement in exchange for two conditions.

Suye and Persian Princess Yixinna negotiated a tableware partnership and signed a letter of intent, but Yixinna then used Suye’s classmates as leverage to demand his score points. Suye surrendered twice to protect them, leaving Yixinna with 542 points and his own score reduced to 179.

• Suye offered Yixinna limited Persian sales and production rights for tableware if she helped prevent counterfeits, and they signed a letter of intent.
• Yixinna revealed her complicated imperial parentage and said she needed to return to Persia soon to finalize the agreement.
• Suye and Harnas found Pallas, Lake, Rolon, Hote, Jimmy, and Albert surrounded by armed Persians, while Yixinna waited with more Persian students and elite soldiers.
• Yixinna demanded Suye’s score points in exchange for letting his classmates leave safely, and Suye chose to protect his friends rather than preserve his lead.
• Suye surrendered to Yixinna’s challenge twice, dropping his score from 717 to 179 as hers rose to 542, then asked for a piece of cloth.

After Yixinna forced Suye into a business deal, he concealed what had happened from his classmates and returned to camp. There, he absorbed the Earth Element Bloodline Crown and assessed his growing power and accumulated spoils, leaving the Black Iron Trial’s next stage looming.

• Suye told Yixinna she had made him unhappy, then ordered Harnas to keep their dispute secret as he returned to his classmates.
• Suye told his classmates the negotiation had been a misunderstanding, and they later suspected the Persian Princess had taken his score by threatening them.
• Albert left to hunt magical beasts with another friend, prompting his classmates to discuss his broken promise to advance and retreat with them.
• Suye sorted his spoils, absorbed the Earth Element Bloodline Crown, and gained an Earth Element General Bloodline and the Guardian Earth domain magic.
• Suye examined the changed Magic Tree and the connection between the Earth Crown and Giant King Crown, then catalogued his many artifacts, equipment, and other spoils.

Suye sacrificed damaged and intact artifacts, an IOU, and other valuables on the altar to gain a large collection of talents, including a Mana Source that created a Mana Well in his Magic Tower. He continued testing the altar’s rules and ended the chapter with three coveted elemental talents offered by the Egyptian Painted Coffin.

• Suye sacrificed damaged artifacts and selected talents including four Mana Roots, combat abilities, and several elemental talents, then chose the Third Ring Silver Body despite being a mage.
• Suye sacrificed a 10,000-Golden-Eagle IOU and obtained a Mana Source, which entered his body and created a Mana Well in his Magic Tower.
• Suye sacrificed more artifacts for a Third Ring Cutting talent and several Second Ring talents, then sacrificed the Magic Villa and selected Animal Affinity from the new Third Ring options.
• Suye sacrificed the Gray-robed Mage's snake-headed staff and chose Earth Talent: Steady Stance, bringing his Earth Magic talents to seven.
• Suye sacrificed the damaged Golden Compass and chose High-Speed Self-Healing, then sacrificed the Egyptian Painted Coffin and received Water Talent: Choking Water, Wind Talent: Separation, and Wood Talent: Growth.

Suye gained the rare Stripping talent and a Magic Avatar from the first soul-book page, then chose the Dehydration talent after using Transcendent Thinking. He left his friends to pursue what he believed he should do, while they worried about the danger and questioned his plan.

• Suye chose Stripping as his new talent and sacrificed the first soul-book page, gaining a Black Iron Magic Avatar modeled after himself.
• Suye sacrificed the second soul-book page and received the Super Speed Sprint, Weapon Expert, and Dehydration talents as choices.
• After questioning his goals and instincts, Suye chose the Water Talent Dehydration and reflected that this painful process was Transcendent Thinking.
• Suye returned the spoils to their original places, then told Pallas, Lake, Rolon, Hote, and Jimmy to stay put while he went out.
• His friends recognized that Suye intended to confront the people behind the conflict and offered help, but he asked them to trust him.
• Suye asked his friends whether events differed because of the events themselves, the people involved, or what each person could see.

Suye returned to Giant Tree Peak and confronted Yixinna, demanding back what belonged to him. He challenged the forty-seven people guarding the Magic Palace to one-on-one fights, and sent Di Aotian to begin.

• Suye explained his view of obstacles as steps toward becoming legendary, then left the Magic Villa for the forest.
• At Giant Tree Peak, Suye threatened the Persian guards until they contacted Yixinna, who allowed him to climb.
• Harnas revealed his family’s agreement with Yixinna, lent Suye the Magic Beard, and blocked the Persian students from following him.
• Suye confronted Yixinna outside the Magic Palace and declared a one-on-one challenge against the forty-seven people before him.
• Yixinna chose ten fighters, and Suye ordered Di Aotian to break their legs, adding limbs if they resisted or insulted him.

Suye and Di Aotian defeated the Persian warriors and Immortal Army Elite, revealing the overwhelming power of Suye’s evolved Rock Spike. Yixinna surrendered, but Suye kept challenging her until her score reached zero, then challenged every Persian student to another round.

• Di Aotian defeated ten Persian opponents in succession, while his fireball wounded the sixth mage with an explosive blast.
• Yixinna sent four Immortal Army Elite to attack Suye, and Suye’s Rock Cone Flower killed two from over forty meters away.
• Suye used another Rock Cone Flower to trap Yixinna at her throne and explained that his Earth Element Bloodline had evolved his magic.
• Yixinna ordered the Persians to surrender, and Suye repeatedly challenged her until the number on her Left Hand reached zero.
• Suye challenged every Persian student, saying he wanted them to remember the consequences of their choice.

Suye secured Yixinna’s surrender and a valuable Miracle Stone, then failed to claim the Plane Heart after it escaped. He declared that he would block the way down the mountain and challenge every Persian student, while Harnas remembered Eugene’s earlier trial.

• Yixinna and the Persian students surrendered, and Yixinna gave Suye a Miracle Stone as a Suye-style Apology.
• Yixinna agreed to continue working with Suye, who asked for the third-choice right to the Plane Heart and set off with her and Harnas to find it.
• Harnas and Yixinna excavated the marked site, but found the pit empty and concluded that the Plane Heart had escaped as a Plane Seed.
• Suye announced that anyone descending the mountain would have to defeat him in a duel, then walked down with Di Aotian and three Flame Goblins.
• Harnas compared Suye to Alexander and recalled how Eugene had accepted challenges from noble students during an earlier Black Iron Trial.

Noble students pressured Eugene to fight them for the nobility’s honor, while Suye and Pallas shared a distant greeting as the Black Iron Trial neared its end. A miraculous World of Flying Flowers swept across Giant Hills, empowering meditation and leaving Pallas holding a glowing pink petal.

• Noble students argued that Suye’s victory would disgrace the nobility, knelt before Eugene, and persuaded him to accept their challenges.
• Suye descended the mountain, recalled the trial, and exchanged smiles and nods with Pallas across the distance.
• The sky brightened, flowers bloomed across Giant Hills, and petals filled the air in a vast World of Flying Flowers.
• Pallas and Suye began meditating, and the surge of power helped many apprentices advance to Black Iron and some Black Iron Warriors advance to Bronze.
• A flower tornado formed around Giant Tree Peak and contracted as Pallas reached out and caught a glowing pink petal.

Suye became the Plane Master of the World of Flying Flowers after defeating and sealing the Persian, and the plane’s flowers merged into him as it celebrated its new master. After crushing the nobles’ hopes with his score, Suye returned to his classmates and blocked the path down Giant Tree Peak to punish the Persian.

• Pallas realized Suye had given her the final flower petal as the flower tornado collapsed into him, and Harnas explained that Suye’s fearless spirit may have won him the Plane Heart.
• Suye saw that his Magic Mark showed a score of 6246 and learned from Harnas that the Earth Magic Association might invite him to become a councilor.
• Eugene announced Suye’s score, prompting most noble students to despair, while Eugene, Gerna, and five other nobles left for the Demon Tiger Forest.
• Suye returned to the Magic Villa, told his classmates he did not know how he had become Plane Master, and led them to Giant Tree Peak.
• Suye placed the Magic Villa across the mountain path and announced that the Persian could not descend unless he defeated Suye in a duel.

After the Plane Heart chose Suye as its master, the Black Iron Trial was set to end within an hour. As the students prepared to return, Rolon asked Suye to help his family win the City-state Tournament, and Suye agreed.

• The Persian students cursed Suye but refused to descend from Giant Tree Peak, and an announcement confirmed the trial was ending because the Plane Heart had found its master.
• Rolon invited Suye to fight for his family in the City-state Tournament, explaining that his family needed the honor to fend off pressure from rivals at the Aristocratic Academy.
• Suye agreed to help Rolon, and Rolon described the tournament's stages and the final match, where nobles were expected to defeat commoners.
• Suye said he would bet ten thousand Golden Eagles on Rolon's team, while his deskmates planned to bet on them too.
• Suye promised his deskmates a feast at Dragon's Fine Things and a set of Silver Cutlery for each of them.

Suye returned from the Black Iron Trial as its champion and became the Plane Master after claiming the Plane Heart. At Plato Academy, he received an enthusiastic welcome and a slate of rewards, while students teased him about his growing closeness with Pallas.

• Suye spoke with Sigurd, agreed to join him in preparing to hunt Fafnir once Suye reached Gold, and discussed making money together.
• Suye and the other trial participants left the Giant Hills and returned to Plato Academy, where Dean Laurence welcomed them.
• Laurence announced the top ten scores, revealing Hote had scored 135 and Suye had scored 6,246 by obtaining the Plane Heart.
• Laurence named Suye the champion and Plane Master, then announced his rewards, including daily Magic Meals, a bust, and a Plane Exploration invitation.
• Students celebrated Suye and teased him about Pallas feeding him a Talent Fruit, while Pallas silently imagined stomping them into the ground.