Recaps

Saine spent the night preparing a World Boundary Stone array to contact a creature from another plane. After using four Level-2 Energy Crystals, he finally reached Babakulu, who identified himself as the great Lord of the Lava Mountain Range.

• Saine returned to his residence and set up the World Boundary Stone summoning array in his laboratory.
• Serena called Saine to breakfast, but he stayed in the laboratory and activated the array with a Level-2 Earth Element Energy Crystal.
• The first attempt failed after the crystal was drained, and Saine spent two more Level-2 Energy Crystals without making contact.
• Saine inserted a fourth Level-2 Energy Crystal as the World Boundary Stone shrank to a thumb-sized blue stone.
• A strange Willpower Voice appeared, and Babakulu announced himself as the great Lord of the Lava Mountain Range.

Saine used the World Boundary Stone to contact Babakulu, a Demigod-level lord from the Hengsha World, and both sensed the Wizard World's immense power. They identified their worlds and considered the possibilities of cross-planar trade, leaving their communication channel open.

• Saine established cross-planar communication with Babakulu, who fell silent after sensing the Wizard World's powerful planar rules.
• Babakulu asked Saine what world he came from, and Saine challenged it to introduce its own world first.
• Babakulu revealed that it lived in the Hengsha World and asked Saine to name his world.
• Saine said he was a Quasi-Magician from the Wizard World, and Babakulu briefly considered ending the communication before deciding to keep the channel open.
• Babakulu recalled trading Lava Crystal Stone for Seabed Ice Crystal with the Sawtooth Shark King and recognized that cross-planar trade could benefit both sides.

Saine completed a cross-plane barter with Babakulu of the Hengsha World, trading magic materials for unusual ores and a valuable Lava Crystal Stone. After the communication ended, his mentor Luluenman warned him about revealing his name and told him to prepare to meet his grandmentor in a year.

• Saine exchanged elemental magic materials from the Wizard World with Babakulu for Earth and Fire Element resources and special Hengsha World alloys.
• Babakulu gave Saine a one-kilogram cubic Lava Crystal Stone before the World Boundary Stone shattered and ended their communication.
• Luluenman reprimanded Saine for revealing his name and explained that some alien creatures could use true names for mysterious methods.
• Luluenman told Saine to recuperate and advance to Level One, then promised to take him to meet his grandmentor in a year.

Saine learned about his powerful magical lineage and the Wizard Civilization’s long war against the Nesser Civilization. Four months later, with Luluenman’s support and his Academy War reward potions, he advanced to the level of a Formal Magician.

• Luluenman told Saine about their grandmaster, Azure Blaze, and the formidable magicians in their lineage.
• Saine asked Luluenman about the Nesser Star Region, and she explained that the Wizard Civilization had nearly defeated the powerful Nesser Civilization after a war lasting thirty thousand years.
• Luluenman said her summons from Azure Blaze was likely connected to the impending end of the war in the Nesser Star Region.
• Four months later, Saine used Luluenman’s secret chamber and some of his breakthrough potions to reach the Formal Magician standard.
• Saine stored his unused potions, straightened his Magic Robe, and left the secret chamber.

After breaking through to Level 1, Saine left the Holy Tower to return to the Grant family with Serena. Before they departed, he learned that two family ancestors had returned, including a Level-2 Earth Knight, and were interested in meeting him.

• Saine left a Magic Note for Luluenman and flew from the Holy Tower, planning to visit his family before traveling with his mentor to the Azure Flame Holy Tower.
• Saine met Daniel, who was astonished by Saine's promotion and admitted he expected to need ten to fifteen years before attempting the breakthrough himself.
• Saine returned to his residence, where Serena had prepared for their trip to the Lisia Alliance.
• Serena gave Saine a letter from Earl Grant saying that two Grant family ancestors had returned, one a Level-2 Earth Knight, and wanted to meet Saine.
• Saine finished reading the letter and told Serena they would leave.

Saine returned to the Lisia Alliance with Serena after advancing to Formal Magician, while his mentor Luluenman began preparing to teach him fire-element magic. In Grant Territory and neighboring lands, commoners enjoyed unusually generous benefits, though the chapter left their cause unexplained.

• Saine flew from Azure Source Holy Tower with Serena and Owl Little Qi, and Luluenman discovered the note he had left behind.
• Luluenman recognized that Saine had advanced and decided to study fire-element Magic Books so she could teach him.
• Saine and Serena reached the Lisia Alliance after a two-month journey, during which he encountered Formal-Ranked beings in several kingdoms.
• Residents of Grant Territory celebrated reduced taxes, free farming tools, and expanded guard recruitment, while similar benefits spread across neighboring regions.
• Commoners regarded military service or joining a city guard as their main chance to encounter battle qi and improve their standing.

Saine returned to Grant Castle as a Level-1 Magician and revealed that the Holy Tower Master Luluenman was his mentor. His family welcomed him and introduced him to the Grant ancestors, leaving the family celebrating its three living members above Level 1.

• Saine arrived at Grant Castle, where the Level-2 magical beast Simpson recognized his Grant bloodline and announced his return to Earl Grant.
• Saine entered the castle hall with Serena and Owl Little Qi and reunited with his father, Earl Grant, and brother, Solon.
• Saine explained that he had become a Formal Magician after the Regional Holy Tower Academy War and named Luluenman, Holy Tower Master of Azure Source Holy Tower, as his mentor.
• Simpson and the others reacted with astonishment to Saine's revelation, and the family celebrated having three lifeforms above Level 1.
• Earl Grant introduced Saine to the Grant ancestors Ulysses Grant, a Level-2 Earth Knight, and Jeremy Grant, a Level 1 Knight.

Saine visited the Grant Family, where his great-grandfather urged him to produce an heir, then escorted Serena to the Ferrell Family and learned more about the region’s Knight families and academies. The chapter left Saine’s return well received while the news of his becoming the Azure Source Holy Tower Master’s disciple remained relatively private.

• Earl Grant told Saine that great-grandfather Jeremy wanted him to produce an heir and disapproved of Solon and Xiao Jina’s red hair.
• Saine said he had no plans to have children and defended Solon and Xiao Jina as members of the Grant bloodline.
• After three days at the Grant castle, Saine took Serena to the Ferrell Family on the Reverse Feather Lion King, Simpson.
• The Ferrell Family welcomed Saine and Serena warmly, and Saine learned that the Lisia Alliance’s grand duke had a Demigod-level Knight in his family.
• Great-grandfather Jeremy told Saine that he and Ulysses belonged to the Steel Wall Fist Knights’ Hall and described the spread of Knights’ Academies across nearby nations.

After leaving the Ferrell Family, Saine spent two months with the Grant Family before returning to the Azure Source Holy Tower with Serena. Serena resolved to focus on magic until she became a Formal Magician, and Saine offered to help her move to the tower’s top floor to study.

• Saine left the Ferrell Family with Simpson after three days and learned that his great-grandparents had used the name Stark while traveling.
• Saine spent two months in the Lisia Alliance, and Ulysses and Jeremy gave him the heart of a Level-2 Creature and the Heart Core of a Level-1 Alien Fire Element Creature.
• Saine said farewell to the Grant Family and flew back toward the Azure Source Holy Tower.
• During the return journey, Serena told Saine she planned to stay at the Holy Tower and study magic until she advanced to a Formal Magician.
• Saine offered to ask his Mentor to let Serena move to the Holy Tower’s top floor, where she could use its facilities and private library.

Saine received Green Source Seeds from Luluenman and arranged for Cousin Serena to move into the Azure Source Holy Tower. After a month of recovery and planning, he traveled with Luluenman toward the Azure Flame Holy Tower and learned about the Wizard World's major powers and vast number of Holy Towers.

• Luluenman gave Saine Green Source Seeds that could grow into Plant Creatures, including one capable of reaching Level-3 strength.
• Saine asked Luluenman to let Cousin Serena move into the tower, and Luluenman agreed to make levels 700 through 720 available.
• Saine spent a month recuperating, moved their home with Serena to the top of the tower, and drafted a preliminary plan for his Level-1 studies.
• Luluenman summoned a Green Leaf House and departed with Saine for the distant Azure Flame Holy Tower.
• Luluenman explained that the Eli Knights Alliance and Flame Conclave were major Wizard World powers, described the Gate of Elements, and estimated that the world had over ten thousand Holy Towers.

Luluenman brought Saine to the ancient Azure Flame Holy Tower after a month-long journey, introducing him to the Wizard World’s wonders along the way. At the tower, Saine saw its vast grounds and powerful foundations as Luluenman led him toward its top floor to meet their martial ancestor, Lady Cuilisi.

• Luluenman guided Saine across the Wizard World, where they passed numerous Holy Towers and Knights' Halls and witnessed a Rainbow Light Curtain.
• Luluenman told Saine about Sky City and other famous places he could visit in the future.
• Luluenman and Saine arrived at the Azure Flame Holy Tower, built among active volcanoes rich in Fire Element and rare fire-element species.
• Saine saw that the Azure Flame Holy Tower contained varied biological breeding zones, more than a hundred thousand apprentices, and two thousand floors.
• Luluenman recalled her own days as an apprentice and led Saine toward the top floor to meet Lady Cuilisi.

Saine accompanied Luluenman to the Azure Flame Holy Tower and met members of her master Cuilisi’s lineage. After Luluenman went to meet Cuilisi, Saine stood apart from the other magicians until a young woman approached him.

• Luluenman greeted her Fifth Senior Uncle Andres, who told her that Sixth Senior Uncle Hoffs was waiting upstairs.
• Andres and Luluenman discussed Andres’s disciple Ailide, a demigod who could not return from trials in the Violet Brake Flame Soul World for the reunion.
• Saine followed Luluenman to a hall, where he met Hoffs and many disciples and descendants of the lineage, including the Second-Level Magician Maris, who addressed him as Martial Uncle.
• After Luluenman left to speak with Hoffs and meet Cuilisi, Saine kept to himself and considered his Magic Staff production plans.
• A young Level-1 magician in a white dress approached Saine and asked whether he was an alchemist.

Saine met Sylph and other members of Azure Blaze Grandmaster Cuilisi’s lineage, then reunited with Luluenman and saw Cuilisi for the first time. Cuilisi announced that her disciples would join forces to seize a special Low-Level Plane as a shared holding for their lineage.

• Saine introduced himself to Sylph, who revealed that she was a newly accepted disciple of Andres and an alchemist as well.
• Sylph learned that Saine was younger than her despite having advanced to Level-1 later, and helped him become acquainted with other members of the lineage.
• Several days later, Saine saw Luluenman arrive with Azure Blaze Grandmaster Cuilisi, whose presence silenced the gathering.
• Cuilisi announced that Gagaru and Pinas would arrive and that she wanted her disciples to cooperate in seizing a special Low-Level Plane near the Nesser Star Region.

At a sect gathering, the Azure Blaze Grandmaster explained that her lineage would invade and occupy the Poison Fire Green Flame World for its resources and affinity with Azure Fire Magic. Saine remained an inexperienced Level-1 Magician, wondering when Luluenman would teach him the sect’s magic.

• Gagaru and Pinas arrived at the Azure Flame Holy Tower with their descendants, completing the gathering of the Azure Blaze Grandmaster’s lineage.
• Saine stood behind Luluenman as the Grandmaster welcomed the assembled disciples and reflected on changes since their last gathering three thousand years earlier.
• Gagaru recalled that the deceased First Senior Uncle and Third Senior Uncle had been present at the previous gathering, prompting wistful memories among the Grandmaster and her disciples.
• The Azure Blaze Grandmaster announced that the lineage would invade and occupy the Poison Fire Green Flame World rather than allow it to join the Wizard Alliance.
• Saine, who had not yet learned Azure Fire Magic, wondered when Luluenman would teach him its mysteries.

Azure Blaze Grandmaster Cuilisi organized an expedition to the Poison Fire Green Flame World, a world seeking to join the Wizard Alliance, and asked the Azure Blaze descendants to commit forces for a war scheduled to begin in two years. Luluenman agreed to participate despite her young Holy Tower’s limited resources, leaving Saine’s mentor preparing for her first Alien Plane war as a Holy Tower Master.

• Cuilisi explained that the Flame Conclave would tolerate the expedition if the war ended within thirty years, and that the group would have to rely on its own forces and the Conclave’s supply channels.
• Gagaru committed the Flame Sigh Holy Tower to the war, offering twenty to thirty thousand Formal Magicians and stored slave creature legions.
• Pinas agreed to join with just over ten thousand Formal Magicians but warned that she lacked sufficient slave creatures.
• Luluenman said the Azure Source Holy Tower could provide five hundred Formal-Ranked Magicians and roughly two hundred thousand Plant Creatures.
• Saine’s narration explained that Luluenman’s recently established Holy Tower was still in debt and that this would be her first Alien Plane invasion war as a Holy Tower Master.

Luluenman joined the coming Plane War, and Grandmaster Cuilisi provided her forces and explained the Poison Fire Green Flame World. After the gathering, Saine received Azure Fire Magic materials and was urged by Luluenman to perform well in the invasion.

• Luluenman agreed to participate in the Plane War, and Grandmaster Cuilisi assigned her and Pinas command over Formal Magicians and slave creature legions.
• Grandmaster Cuilisi described the Poison Fire Green Flame World and its level-5 ruler, Poison Flame Demon King Anruida, who wielded the Laws of Fire and Virulent Poison.
• The Holy Tower Masters spent more than half a month planning troop deployments and strategies, with Cuilisi's war assets compensating for Azure Source Holy Tower's lack of a Space Fortress.
• After the gathering, Saine traveled back with Luluenman and received a Crystal Ball containing the Azure Fire Magic knowledge system and a Magic Book of Cuilisi's recent insights.
• Luluenman told Saine that Cuilisi knew of his first-place finish in the Regional Holy Tower Academy War and urged him to perform well in the coming Plane War.

In the two years before the expedition to the Poison Fire Green Flame World, Saine and the Azure Source Holy Tower prepared for war while his mentor Luluenman remained busy with the World Laboratory. With one month left before departure, Saine had studied Azure Fire Magic and repaired three Metal Discs, but regretted that time had limited his preparations.

• Luluenman and the Formal-Ranked Magicians grew tense after learning they would set out for the Poison Fire Green Flame World in two years.
• Saine learned that the Azure Source Holy Tower had nearly a thousand registered Formal Magicians, though only five hundred were called to fight because many were Academy Mages focused on research.
• Saine spent the two years studying Azure Fire Magic alongside light- and fire-element magic, and learned two new Spell Models.
• Saine prepared for the war using Moxidu's Magic Staff and repaired two damaged Metal Discs, giving him three in total.
• With one month remaining before departure, Saine sighed in his laboratory that he could have prepared more thoroughly if he had had more time.

Saine told Serena he would leave next month with the Azure Source Holy Tower Formal Magicians to wage war in an Alien Plane that might last nearly thirty years. He arranged support for Serena while he was away, then reflected on the Poison Fire Green Flame World before someone opened his bedroom door.

• Saine asked Serena about her studies, and she said she had hit a bottleneck while constructing the Scorching Eye Spell Model and planned to visit the library.
• Saine told Serena he would depart next month for a war in an Alien Plane and hoped she would advance to Quasi-Magician or Formal Magician before he returned.
• Serena dropped her spoon and struggled with the news that she might not see Saine for nearly thirty years.
• Saine told Serena that the 701st and 702nd floors would remain open to her, promised to leave her Energy Crystals and Magic Coins, and named Green, Daniel, and Anna as people who could help her.
• After a day of experiments, Saine wondered whether the Poison Fire Green Flame World resembled Yellow Sand World and thought about its billion-plus native intelligent beings.
• The bedroom door creaked open as Saine lay on his bed.

Serena approached Saine in a romantic gown and confessed her feelings, but Saine refused to begin a relationship while she was still a Magic Apprentice. He promised to accept her if she advanced to Formal Magician, leaving Serena determined to pursue magic and Truth.

• Serena entered Saine's room dressed elegantly and approached him with the intention of expressing her feelings.
• Saine recognized that becoming intimate with Serena would mean taking responsibility for their relationship, and he told her she did not need to make such a bold choice.
• Saine explained that he valued the pursuit of Truth and that a relationship between a long-lived Magician and a short-lived apprentice could end in lasting pain.
• Serena said she was willing to wait for Saine during his nearly thirty-year absence, but Saine urged her to advance to Formal Magician before they began a relationship.
• Serena resolved to become a Formal Magician and asked Saine to wait for her; Saine promised he would accept her feelings if they remained unchanged after her advancement.

After Saine and Serena shared their feelings, Saine prepared to leave with Azure Source Holy Tower for the war in the Poison Fire Green Flame World. The expedition departed the Wizard World aboard Luluenman's Green Leaf, and Saine saw the true scale and spherical shape of his world for the first time.

• Serena left Saine's room delighted after they had opened their hearts to each other, and Saine reviewed Azure Fire Magic before joining her for breakfast.
• During the month before the war, Luluenman told Saine about the cost of preparing her World Laboratory's plant forces and organized the participating Magicians.
• Saine learned that Director Johnny, Irene, and Green would join the expedition, which included 543 Formal-Ranked Magicians from Azure Source Holy Tower.
• Luluenman led the Magicians aboard a gigantic Green Leaf as Archimedes, Serena, Daniel, Anna, and Mark bade them farewell.
• As the Green Leaf flew beyond the Wizard World, Saine saw the world from above and realized it was spherical and vastly larger than he had imagined.

Saine and the Azure Source Holy Tower magicians arrived at the latest-generation Space Fortress belonging to Azure Blaze Cuilisi, where they prepared to join the invasion of the Poison Fire Green Flame World. Saine told Irene that the Azure Flame Holy Tower had probably assembled several million slave creatures for the war.

• Saine saw the Wizard World's dense defensive fields and enormous Space Fortresses as his group traveled through the Star Realm.
• Luluenman led the Azure Source Holy Tower magicians to Azure Blaze Cuilisi's vast Space Fortress, and Saine noticed her envy of its scale and sophistication.
• Saine and the others entered the fortress and saw Azure Flame Holy Tower magicians moving through it in an orderly fashion.
• Irene asked Saine how many slave creature legions the Azure Flame Holy Tower had prepared for the invasion war.
• Saine estimated that the Azure Flame Holy Tower had prepared several million slave creatures.

Saine settled into his luxurious quarters aboard the Space Fortress and observed the Wizard World from space. After Magician Irene invited him to eat, he agreed to meet her and make connections before the coming war on the Poison Fire Green Flame World.

• Saine explored his spacious top-floor quarters and recorded his observations of the Wizard World in a Crystal Ball.
• Magician Irene contacted Saine, invited him to eat, and asked him to come down to her residence.
• Saine agreed, recognizing that he would need allies during the dangerous Alien Plane war.
• Saine flew down to Irene's residential area, where she welcomed him and offered to introduce him to friends.

Saine met Magician Irene’s friends and explored the Space Fortress, where he learned about the enslaved creatures used as war fodder. After a month, the fortress departed with two others and entered the Gates of Space-Time on its way to the Nesser Star Region and the Poison Fire Green Flame World.

• Saine met more than ten of Magician Irene’s friends, exchanged Crystal Ball Communication methods with them, and remained wary of trusting outsiders.
• Saine toured the slave legion area and met fellow senior brother Toke Lu, who managed about ten thousand Slave Creatures.
• Toke Lu showed Saine the Level 3 Ironclad Rhino King and explained that it had been sold to Wizard Civilization by a Level-4 lifeform from the Rhino Barbarian Plane.
• About a month after Saine arrived, his Space Fortress departed alongside fortresses from Flame Sigh Holy Tower and Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower.
• The three Space Fortresses reached the Gates of Space-Time, where Saine learned that they would pass through to the Nesser Star Region and head for the Poison Fire Green Flame World.

Saine traveled with the Azure Flame Holy Tower’s Space Fortress through a space-time channel and arrived at the outskirts of the Nesser Star Region, where Wizard Civilization was closing in on its last resistance. Three Space Fortresses then reached Poison Fire Green Flame World, where the Level-5 Poison Flame Demon King Anruida felt their overwhelming pressure.

• Saine traveled through the space-time channel aboard the Space Fortress and learned that a year had passed in the Material Star Realm.
• Andres announced that the fortress was nearing Number Two War Zone, and Saine saw signs of fierce fighting and wrecked Wizard alchemical craft in the Nesser Star Region.
• Saine considered the conflict and wondered about Nesser Civilization’s Construct Golem Legion, but the three fortresses reached Poison Fire Green Flame World without encountering a nearby battle.
• Saine observed Poison Fire Green Flame World’s two continents and magma sea, while the three Space Fortresses assembled outside it.
• Poison Flame Demon King Anruida sensed the fortresses’ arrival and felt nearly suffocated by their immense pressure.

As the Wizard Civilization’s forces gathered outside the Poison Fire Green Flame World, Gagaru rejected its ruler’s plea to join the Wizard Alliance and began attacking its Plane Barrier. Saine watched from the Space Fortress as his Second Senior Uncle turned into a flaming meteor and charged the world.

• Cuilisi offered to break the Poison Fire Green Flame World’s Plane Barrier, but Gagaru insisted that he would handle the weak plane himself.
• Saine joined nearly two hundred Formal Magicians in the Space Fortress and saw Gagaru approach the world in his Elemental True Body.
• Poison Flame Demon King Anruida asked why the Wizard Civilization’s legion had arrived despite the world’s application to join the Wizard Alliance.
• Gagaru declared that the application had been rejected and that four Holy Towers would suppress and purge the world.
• Gagaru struck the Plane Barrier with his enlarged Magic Staff, then transformed into a green-flamed meteor and hurtled toward the world.