Chapter Summaries

Suye faced competing offers from Greece’s magic associations, but chose to focus on Magic Material Enhancement rather than commit to one group. The masters warned him that studying four elements would mean a heavy course load, and Suye realized it would add nineteen courses.

• Achilles, Alex, and other association leaders tried to recruit Suye, while he refused to choose a single magic association and said he could remain at Plato Academy.
• Achilles proposed making Suye a vice president of the Fire Magic Association, prompting the leaders to argue over which association and element should guide his studies.
• Laurence suggested Suye study at Plato Academy while receiving instruction from an association, then asked which branch of Magic Creation he wanted to learn first.
• Suye said he wanted to study Magic Material Enhancement because he had plenty of Golden Eagles, and proposed starting with Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water.
• Laurence and Niedern explained the required courses and study order, and Suye calculated that four elements would add nineteen more courses.

Suye secured a plan to study four elemental systems and receive Magic Creation instruction from the associations, despite student protests over changes to the year group's schedule. He left after teaching the students to weigh short- and long-term costs and benefits, while Hote's parting criticism left the academy stunned.

• Suye agreed to try studying the earth, fire, wind, and water elements, and the associations arranged full-time Magic Creation teachers and a revised timetable for the Third Year.
• Students protested that changing the whole year group's schedule for Suye sacrificed their interests, and Suye challenged them to consider why the academy and associations supported the plan.
• Suye assigned his classmates a table comparing short- and long-term benefits and costs, and Jimmy apologized after realizing Suye's growth could benefit and protect the other students.
• Suye thanked the teachers and masters, then left the Meeting Hall; Achilles and other association mages criticized the academy for failing to share its new teaching methods.
• Hote said the Table Analysis Method alone outweighed the schedule changes, then left as the students and teachers stood in stunned silence.

The Magic Association and Plato Academy agreed to protect and cultivate Suye, while debating his rapid rise and the danger posed by the Witch Hunt Order. At home, Suye inspected Hero Items Gorlo had bought from the Kabel Family and discovered several rich sources of Light Mist.

• Achilles and the Saint Realm experts concluded that Plato's confidence in Suye's identity meant they could focus on cultivating and protecting him.
• Laurence proposed giving Suye the best teachers, improving his Magic Book, and arranging Saint Realm guards whenever he left Athens City.
• Achilles vowed to secure the Fire Magic Association's Vice President position for Suye, even if it meant surrendering the association's Headless Devil Corpse.
• Gorlo brought Suye Hero Items he had bought from the Kabel Family and displayed seven statues, medals, and other possessions.
• Suye used the Altar Eye and found that several statues and medals held substantial Light Mist, including enough for a Five-Ring Talent.
• Gorlo explained that the family's useful Divine Power Equipment had been taken by its fleeing members or claimed by the victorious Pandion Family.

Suye’s business expanded rapidly as the Volcano Plane yielded valuable resources, while his class’s exam results placed Climela first, Pallas second, and Suye third. Just as Suye planned a trip to Flower Town, a message from Neder called him back to the Plato Academy with news about the horse-farm acquisitions.

• Gorlo replaced the counterfeit Repeller Medal with a genuine one, and he and Suye arranged to attend the Noble Collection Trade Fair.
• Wang Dachui finished mining the Volcano Plane’s surface Rich Ore, and Suye counted thirty million in precious metals and gems for the Dragon Slayer Chamber of Commerce.
• Dragon Slayer’s Divine Power Equipment business expanded across Athens and other city-states before the academy’s exams began.
• Niedern announced that Climela had broken Aristotle’s record with forty-three perfect scores, while Suye ranked third and was assigned vacation classes in Magic Creation.
• Suye insisted that Hote stay behind and planned to visit Flower Town with Pallas, but Neder summoned him to hear that Greece’s horse-farm acquisitions were nearly complete and remaining funds would go to Northern Europe, Persia, and Egypt.

Suye oversaw the first successful porcelain production and arranged to secure its materials and improve its quality, while Plato Academy prepared to present its cavalry innovations to the Temple of the Goddess of Wisdom. The next morning, Suye joined Pallas on a trip to Flower Town and learned about her family's Demigod battle system, the Eternal Battlefield.

• Suye inspected the first batch of porcelain, named its clay Porcelain Clay, and ordered Neder to find and purchase a mine while recruiting craftsmen and hiring an academy Golden Alchemist.
• Suye discussed the successful cavalry tests with Neder, ordered custom protective mage saddles and harnesses, and agreed to present the innovations at the Temple of the Goddess of Wisdom the day after tomorrow.
• Suye sent Pallas a Magic Letter asking her to pick him up for a trip to Flower Town.
• Pallas arrived the next morning in a magical carriage, and Suye rode with her after one of her Golden Warrior escorts left at his request.
• Suye teased Pallas during the ride, then asked about her family's battle system; Pallas said it was called the Eternal Battlefield and had five Combat Skills.

Suye and Pallas spent the day together at an estate in Flower Town, where they tried farm chores and grew closer. Suye led Pallas through a field of sunflowers to a carefully made clearing, leaving her amazed by the sight.

• Pallas described the Eternal Battlefield and explained how she planned to train her first Combat Skill in the Mirror Gate's illusionary realm.
• Suye and Pallas arrived at the estate, where they explored Flower Town's flowers and tried watering fields, making products, and feeding the animals.
• Pallas fumbled with the chicken feed and delighted in handling the chicks, while she and Suye joked and worked together around the farm.
• Suye cooked lunch, and Pallas enjoyed the meal before the two washed dishes and discussed introducing their farmhouse activity to visitors.
• Suye led Pallas through the sunflowers to a circular clearing carpeted with sunflower blossoms, and she stared at it in amazement.

Suye arranged a magical flower-filled outing for Pallas, who delighted in the sunflower grove and the bees’ dance and flower-crown display. After calling it her first and most wonderful date, Pallas harvested honey with Suye, and they left Flower Town carrying jars for her family.

• Suye took Pallas to a magically maintained sunflower grove, where she explored the flowers, relaxed, and fell asleep beside him.
• Suye and Pallas toured Flower Town by Magic Carriage, then visited the Bee Farm together.
• Suye asked the bees to dance for Pallas, and the swarm formed a face, performed patterns, and showered flowers onto her hair.
• Suye told Pallas the bees thought she was the most perfect girl, and she called the outing her first and most wonderful date.
• Pallas and Suye harvested honey under the beekeeper’s guidance, then left with jars of honey for her family.

Suye traveled to the Athena Temple with Laurence and Neder to discuss offering his horse tack invention to the goddess. Chief Priest Medels said Suye should make the offering in person, leaving Laurence and Neder stunned by the extent of Athena’s favor toward him.

• Suye and Pallas shared a warm carriage ride home, agreed they were looking forward to another date, and Suye later returned to his home.
• Suye gave Hote a jar of honey, then traveled with Laurence and Neder to the Athena Temple to discuss the offering and possible divine gifts.
• Laurence explained that an offering would let Suye retain the invention rights to the horse tack, while Suye said he hoped to recover his body and digest his existing divine gifts.
• Laurence revealed that Socrates could have become a god but refused, and that he had failed to create an independent path to godhood for magicians.
• Medels agreed to ask Athena for a gift that would not burden Suye with another ability, then said Suye should make the offering in person.
• Laurence and Neder objected to Suye’s role, but Medels insisted that Athena’s favor toward him made his direct offering appropriate.

Suye offered his horse harnesses, cavalry weapons, and their designs to Athena, who granted the Plato Academy powerful privileges and unexpectedly named him a Secret Priest. He left with the Silver Dove Robe and crown, giving him a hidden authority to mobilize the temple’s forces when needed.

• Laurence gave Suye a Spatial Ring containing horse harnesses, cavalry weapons, and an Image Crystal Ball before Medels led the group to Athena’s altar.
• Suye praised Athena and presented the harnesses and weapons, while Laurence explained that the crystal ball held their designs and the Academy’s cavalry tests.
• Athena swiftly accepted the offering and granted the Plato Academy Temple Special Permission with broad privileges across Greece.
• Athena sent down a Silver Dove Robe and crown, which Medels recognized as the insignia of a Secret Priest who could mobilize the Temple Legion and Religious Inquisition for specific duties.
• Medels handed Suye the permission parchment and the Secret Priest’s robe and crown, and Suye praised Athena again.

Suye and the others secured Medels's support for secretly establishing a cavalry regiment, while Andre accepted the Revenge Temple's offer to help target Suye. At Plato Academy, Suye began guiding Climela in Magic Creation, and someone at the classroom doorway remarked that most people knew only terms and experience, not true knowledge.

• Suye and Neder discussed keeping the cavalry plans secret with Medels, who decided to oversee the regiment's founding.
• Suye, Neder, and Laurence discussed Paper Making and Movable Type Printing on the ride home, and Laurence agreed to oversee printing once paper production advanced.
• A priestess of the Goddess of Revenge told Andre to help find evidence against Suye and kill him; Andre accepted the Marks of Fate and Revenge despite his oath.
• Pallas smiled as she gazed at the stars and held the sunflower pillow Suye had given her.
• Suye met Climela at Plato Academy and agreed to work with her on developing deeper methods of thought for Magic Creation.
• A voice from the classroom doorway said that most people had mastered terms and experience rather than knowledge.

Niedern taught Suye and Climela how connections, distinctions, principles, and systems guided Magic Creation and deeper learning. After Niedern pressed him to explain why he studied it, Suye described turning its principles into a way of thinking, and Niedern asked him to demonstrate with an example.

• Niedern began a lesson on Magic Creation, explaining that mages needed to understand connections, distinctions, principles, and systems.
• Niedern described how students progressed from learning what things were to finding relationships, distinctions, origins, and ways to build and refine systems.
• Niedern asked Suye why he studied Magic Creation, and Suye explained that he wanted to make its principles part of his thinking and use them to solve problems.
• Niedern praised Suye’s answer and asked him to give an example, while Climela listened in admiration.

Suye explained how the Mind Map had reshaped his thinking and introduced the Principle Learning Method, which used fundamental principles as a way to think and act. Niedern acknowledged Suye’s insight and offered to help him submit an article to the Magic Council, but left the class doubting his ability to teach.

• Suye explained that repeated use of Mind Maps had trained him to organize knowledge and connections instinctively.
• Suye described the Principle Learning Method, using the thinking behind ideas such as Pythagoras’s Everything is Number and Democritus’s atomism to approach new problems.
• Climela admired Suye’s explanation, while Niedern recorded it and recognized that Suye’s ideas went beyond his own understanding.
• Niedern asked Suye to write an article about the principle and offered to review it and help submit it to the Magic Council.
• Climela said she would share the lesson notes with Sister Pallas and use the Principle Learning Method across subjects; Suye called this Transferable Knowledge.
• Niedern dismissed the class and announced that the next lesson would be self-study, while Climela began asking Suye questions as her teacher.

Suye and Climela challenged Niedern to reconsider how students were taught, arguing that schools should teach learning principles and ways of thinking directly. After holiday lessons ended, Suye reviewed Magic Creation and received Hote’s news that he had advanced to Warrior Apprentice.

• Suye and Climela urged Niedern to teach foundational principles in greater depth and argued that learning should be taught as a subject.
• Niedern said the academy lacked time for educational reform but promised to submit their ideas to the Teaching Affairs Office and ask the masters to study them.
• Niedern began the Magic Creation lesson, while Archimedes, Aristotle, and Euclid separately reflected on the ideas they had encountered.
• Pallas joined Suye and Climela’s holiday class, and the three began discussing learning and Positive Sequence Logic outside class.
• After the final holiday lesson, Suye made a Mind Map for Magic Creation and reviewed the parts he had forgotten.
• Suye received a Magic Letter from Hote announcing that Hote had advanced to Warrior Apprentice.

Suye and Hote set out to punish the iron bars and find those who harmed Nia. After rescuing an old man from five thugs, they interrogated the iron bars for information about Nia’s attackers.

• Hote thanked Suye after becoming a Warrior Apprentice, and agreed to help him deal with the iron bars.
• Suye explained that he would use Detect Evil to identify habitual criminals and said he still intended to find Nia’s killer.
• Suye, Hote, and Di Aotian left for Lake’s home, then followed screams to an alley where five iron bars were beating an old man.
• Hote defeated the five thugs and tore off their arms while Suye healed the old man and confirmed the men’s evil with Detect Evil.
• Suye warned the iron bars not to retaliate against the old man and demanded information about the survivors who had harmed Nia, threatening to use magic if they refused.

Suye and Hote hunted down the men involved in the blind girl Nia’s case, confronting the White Wolf Bandit Gang and forcing Putel to name the surviving participants. After sending Hote home, Suye invited Pallas on an outing, but she declined because of family matters and promised, “Next time, definitely.”

• Suye used Detect Lies and Memory Erasure on five men, then learned from them where Putel lived.
• Suye and Hote attacked Black Tree Inn, captured Putel, and faced Kant and the White Wolf Bandit Gang.
• Di Aotian killed Kant, and Hote and Di Aotian massacred the bandits while Suye took Putel away for questioning.
• Suye made Putel name the surviving participants in Nia’s case, then ordered Di Aotian to blind and mutilate him while keeping him alive.
• After searching until dawn, Suye watched Hote leave, then invited Pallas on an outing and received her reply, “Next time, definitely.”

Suye learned that Death Spirit power had killed people in Athens and feared it could lead to a plague, so he arranged for medicinal herbs and potions to be prepared. At the start of Third Year, he reunited with his classmates, celebrated Hote’s breakthrough as a Warrior Apprentice, and attended Dean Laurence’s opening speech.

• After spending two days at Lion Harbor, Suye returned to Plato Academy and read a notice about a second Death Spirit power incident involving four connected households.
• Suye worried that Death Spirit power could trigger a plague in Athens and learned that Pericles was a middle-aged reformist who had accused Kemos of colluding with Sparta and Macedon.
• Suye asked Niedern to use half the Hooke Potion Merchant’s funds to buy medicinal herbs and prepare potions against Death Spirit power, promising to distribute them for free if a plague struck.
• Suye arrived in class, where his classmates celebrated Hote’s advancement to Warrior Apprentice and learned that Pallas had kept a complete collection of Suye’s sayings.
• Suye teased Pallas about her admiration for him, drawing laughter from the class, before the students gathered to hear Dean Laurence’s new-term speech.

Suye studied Magic Creation, encouraged his classmates with a lesson about humanity’s progress, and helped the Dwarf Workshop refine porcelain production. The workshop produced porcelain that met his standards, and Suye set plans to expand production and prepare it for sale.

• Laurence warned that the Persians and Egyptians posed growing threats, while Niedern urged students to treat future upheavals as challenges and assigned Suye another lawn lesson.
• Suye began afternoon lessons in Magic Material Enhancement with teachers from the four elements and a Fire Magic Association Saint Realm Master.
• Suye taught that humanity had continually advanced and that temporary difficulties could not stop its progress, inspiring the students.
• At the Dwarf Workshop, Suye redirected craftsmen to develop Rough Porcelain and found that Paper Making still needed improvement.
• Craftsmen showed Suye a much-improved batch of porcelain, and he approved the best pieces after inspecting them.
• Suye agreed to expand the kilns, develop high-, mid-, and low-end brands, and prepare porcelain for sale while Neder recruited and trained craftsmen.

Suye’s porcelain launch caused a citywide buying frenzy and brought Dragon’s Fine Things widespread attention. In Andre’s room, he warned two Revenge Priests that Suye’s growing wealth and influence made him a threat, and they discussed killing him before he could win Pallas.

• Before the sale, crowds of servants, slaves, and nobles lined up outside Dragon’s Fine Things and Dolphin River Restaurant after hearing about the new porcelain and dishes.
• On the day porcelain went on sale, people crowded the sales points, and the City Guard restored order as many visitors came only to look before deciding whether to buy.
• Athenians across Greece debated porcelain, while Dragon’s Fine Things’ courteous service and the crowd of onlookers helped make buyers feel their purchases were worthwhile.
• Andre broke a porcelain plate to illustrate how the product could drive repeated purchases, then warned two Revenge Priests that Suye’s brand, income, and influence could grow into a threat to them.
• Andre admitted that he feared and respected Suye and wanted him dead, and a Revenge Priest offered the temple’s help on the condition that Suye remained alive until the Pandion Family allowed Pallas to marry.

Suye built his wealth and influence as porcelain, Dragon Slayer weapons, and other ventures flourished, but the chapter ended with the Dual Kings' Expedition bringing Persia’s forces to Greece amid signs of an impending war between Pantheons. Niedern warned Suye that Greece’s crisis was tied to conflict among the gods and could plunge the world into a new Dark Age.

• Andre told the Revenge Priests that his plan could cost Suye his title as Senior General and possibly his medal.
• Suye accepted Neder’s porcelain deal, earning the Supernova Chamber of Commerce ten million Golden Eagles and ongoing commissions.
• Suye’s businesses and investments flourished as porcelain spread worldwide, while he used his wealth with Gorlo to buy Hero Items.
• Gilgamesh and Xerxes launched the Dual Kings' Expedition against Greece with a vast Persian army, prompting panic and a Greek conscription order.
• Suye questioned Niedern about the war, and Niedern said a conflict between divine kings could spark a war between Pantheons.

Suye discussed the value of diversity and independent thought with Niedern, then learned that a major nobles' trade fair would feature a Godblood Statue. He arrived at the Athens arena for the fair, where the chapter left him recognizing the place where he had once fought.

• Niedern explained the Magic Council's belief that humanity needed to preserve diverse paths of development, and Suye expanded on why exploration and cultural exchange mattered.
• Suye asked Niedern about the coming pantheon war, and Niedern said he would follow Master Plato and Plato Academy.
• Gorlo told Suye that the North Wind Family's trade fair would include a Godblood Statue and advised him to bring plenty of money for bargain purchases.
• Suye attended his courses the next day, disguised himself as a Persian, and went with Gorlo to the trade fair.
• Suye arrived at the Athens arena and froze when he recognized the place where he had once fought.