Recaps

After the fighting in the Poison Fire Green Flame World eased, Sein secured a transfer from the nearby battlefield to the Azure Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress, where he planned to reunite with his mentor and his newly advanced Level One companion, Little Seven. Meanwhile, the world’s elusive Flame Creature guardian remained hidden in a trench beneath the Magma Sea.

• Sein observed that the Nesser Civilization’s forces and fortresses had become much easier to defeat after Pinas returned with the Silver Armor Magic Puppet.
• Sein studied Pinas’s enormous Silver Armor Magic Puppet and considered using soul enslavement magic to keep his captured Nesser Construct Master alive and learn from her.
• Sein’s request to transfer to the Azure Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress was approved, and he joined a group of departing magicians that included Sylph.
• Sein and Sylph explained that they were returning to rejoin their mentors and companions, and Sein promised to introduce Sylph to Little Seven.
• The hidden guardian of the Poison Fire Green Flame World entered a great hall deep in a trench beneath the central Magma Sea.

A guardian confronted the wounded Poison Flame Demon King Anruida in its temple and blamed it for bringing the Nesser Civilization and the Wizard World to the Poison Fire Green Flame World. The chapter ended with the guardian accusing Anruida of trying to flee its Mother Plane.

• The guardian entered Anruida’s temple and asked whether the Silver Armor Magic Puppet had been destroyed.
• The guardian called Anruida the true sinner of the Poison Fire Green Flame World, and Anruida appeared in a badly injured state.
• Anruida challenged the guardian for blaming it for the world’s defeat.
• The guardian accused Anruida of bringing the Nesser Civilization and the Wizard World to the plane and weakening its barrier through decades of importing construct scrap.
• The guardian asked Anruida whether it intended to flee the Mother Plane.

The Guardian planned to use the Poison Fire Green Flame World's remaining Plane Navel energy for one last attempt, while Anruida remained trapped under Gagaru's watch. Months later, Saine returned to the Azure Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress and learned that Irene was at a trade fair.

• Anruida asked the Guardian what it planned to do, and the Guardian said it would activate the Plane Navel's remaining energy for one final attempt.
• Anruida guessed the Guardian would give the Plane Source Power to the Fire Crystal Sea Urchin rather than the Crimson Melt Giant Whale, which Anruida would devour.
• The Guardian left Anruida's temple and headed east through the Magma Sea, accepting that its choice might worsen the world's plight.
• After several months of delays, Saine and his companions returned to the Azure Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress and submitted their resource transport mission.
• Saine contacted Irene but learned she was attending a small trade fair inside the fortress.

Saine attended a small-scale trading meet with Sylph, where they traded goods and discussed their research into Azure Fire Magic. Irene grew visibly displeased with Sylph’s presence, and Saine left the meet unaware of her worsening mood.

• Saine arrived at the trading meet with Sylph and found Irene among the gathered Magicians.
• Sylph greeted Irene and admired Little Seven, but Irene became displeased and snapped at Saine when he asked about the goods.
• Saine traded conventional war spoils for alchemy materials while the meet continued for two more hours.
• Sylph sold a ring that fired Azure Flame Fire Lotuses to a Second-Level Magician.
• Saine and Sylph discussed their different applications of Azure Fire Magic while Irene’s mood continued to worsen.

After the trade fair, Saine returned to his residence with Irene and discovered that she had kept the captured Nesser Civilization Construct Master imprisoned in a magic Slave Cage. The chapter ended with Saine considering how easily he might now enslave the weakened captive.

• Saine bade Sylph farewell after the trade fair, and Irene returned with him to his residence to collect her belongings.
• Saine found his master bedroom in disarray, with Irene's intimate clothing scattered around, and she sent him to his laboratory while she tidied up.
• Saine discovered the captured Construct Master inside a glass enclosure and saw how weak and submissive she had become during her imprisonment.
• Irene explained that she had bought the Slave Cage from the fortress and that it could restrict, hypnotize, and weaken the creature inside.
• Saine examined the cage and considered that the Construct Master's condition might make soul enslavement magic easier to use on her.

Saine stopped Irene from leaving and pressed her to give him the promised gift. After telling her he had worried about her when she was badly injured, he carried her to the bed.

• Saine noticed Irene had cleaned the master bedroom and was about to leave.
• Saine blocked Irene at the door and demanded the good thing she had promised to give him.
• Saine moved closer to Irene, and she grew flustered as his gaze and touch became more intimate.
• Saine told Irene he had been worried when she was severely injured.
• Irene weakened and leaned into Saine, who carried her toward the bed.

After becoming intimate, Saine and Irene talked about his concern for her and why she had chosen him. Irene explained that his visit after she nearly died made her feel safe, and the two prepared food together, leaving their relationship newly defined.

• Irene asked Saine whether he had truly worried about her, and he earnestly said he had.
• Saine realized Irene had been a virgin, and Irene told him she was not like ordinary noblewomen and had remained unmarried while pursuing magic.
• Saine softened his tone and offered to prepare food, while Irene got out of bed to help him.
• Saine asked why Irene had chosen him, and Irene recalled Marina's advice and her thoughts about desire after facing death in battle.
• Irene said Saine's visit and comforting presence after she returned to the Space Fortress made her see him as handsome and reliable.

Saine and Irene resumed combat missions together before Luluenman summoned Saine and revealed that the Wizard Civilization would soon launch its general offensive. After advising Saine on his research, Luluenman left him to rest and prepare for the coming battle.

• Saine and Irene began carrying out fortress combat missions together, with Owl Little Qi accompanying them.
• After three months of joint missions, Luluenman summoned Saine to meet her in the Space Fortress.
• Luluenman praised Saine's growth and secretly told him that his grandmentor Cuilisi would soon return before the general offensive.
• Luluenman told Saine to keep Cuilisi's return secret and prepare for the coming battle.
• Luluenman discussed Saine's magical research and advised him to explore his Azure Fire patterns as he continued along the path to Truth.

Cuilisi returned to the Poison Fire Green Flame World and ordered her forces to capture Anruida alive, hoping to preserve the weakened plane. As the Nesser Civilization’s defeat became unavoidable, Ande urged its Construct Masters to fight to the end.

• Cuilisi entered the weakened Poison Fire Green Flame World and felt its laws suppressing her Level-6 power.
• Cuilisi ordered her disciples to cancel Anruida’s wanted bounty, stop trying to kill him, and capture him alive.
• The Wizard Civilization legions began slowing their attacks and converging, while Cuilisi’s arrival demoralized the Nesser Civilization forces.
• In a concealed undersea base, Ande regretted not leading his people out earlier, but then urged the Construct Masters to fight to the end.
• The other Construct Masters rallied behind Ande and resolved to resist the Wizard Civilization despite their dwindling forces.

As the Wizard Civilization tightened its control over the Poison Fire Green Flame World, the Guardian prepared to act for its people while Saine and Irene avoided the front lines of the campaign against the Nesser Civilization’s last main force. Saine watched the brutal Azure Sea battle from a fortress, where he witnessed part of the fighting between Level-4 lifeforms.

• The Guardian left the Plane Navel and flew east with a crimson Energy Beam, resolving to act for the forsaken beings of the Poison Fire Green Flame World.
• After Cuilisi returned, the Wizard Civilization accelerated its advance, fought several large battles, and Saine acquired a dead Nesser Civilization Construct Master that he later gave to Irene to handle.
• Two years after Cuilisi’s return, the Wizard Civilization encircled the Nesser Civilization’s remaining main force in the Azure Sea and launched a general offensive.
• Saine and Irene were assigned to control fortress Magic Guided Cannons on the eastern side of the Azure Flame Holy Tower rather than fight at the front.
• The Azure Sea battle lasted more than half a year, and Saine witnessed part of the fierce combat between Level-4 lifeforms as the Nesser Civilization’s puppets sank into the magma.

In his seventh year in the Poison Fire Green Flame World, Saine followed the Wizard Civilization’s army to the Plane Navel, where the surviving Flame Creatures were unexpectedly fighting among themselves. As the army watched the chaos, Luluenman and the other powerful magicians moved to exploit Anruida’s predicament.

• Saine and Irene hunted routed Nesser Civilization forces during the final months of the Battle of the Azure Sea, while a purple-green beam helped turn the Nesser legions’ defeat into a rout.
• The Wizard Civilization secured the Azure Sea region and sent its main forces east to seize the remaining territory of the Poison Fire Green Flame World.
• Saine arrived with the army near the Plane Navel, where they found six pillars of magma and Flame Creatures fighting a chaotic civil war.
• Saine suspected the pillars of magma were binding something powerful, while Luluenman and the other Rank Four and above magicians headed toward Anruida.
• The Wizard Civilization’s powerful magicians joined the attack on the troubled Poison Flame Demon King Anruida as the rest of the army watched the melee.

After two years of slaughter near the Plane Navel, the Wizard Civilization captured Poison Flame Demon King Anruida and began dispersing to conquer the remaining regions. The Guardian of the Poison Fire Green Flame World accepted the world's submission to Wizard Civilization in exchange for its eventual recommendation as an affiliated plane.

• Saine learned that Poison Flame Demon King Anruida had been captured by several Holy Tower Masters, and the Wizard Civilization army began leaving the Plane Navel battlefield for new targets.
• The Guardian grieved among the fallen flame creatures while Level-5 Magician Gagaru acknowledged its role in Anruida's capture and said most of its requested conditions could be accepted.
• Level-6 Magician Cuilisi promised to recommend the Poison Fire Green Flame World to join the Wizard Alliance as an affiliated plane after one thousand years, while declaring it would remain an Enslaved Plane until then.
• Cuilisi warned that Wizard Civilization's will would be the only will in the Poison Fire Green Flame World, and the Guardian bowed and submitted on behalf of its inhabitants.

After the war near the Plane Navel ended, Saine continued working in the Poison Fire Green Flame World while magicians began returning to the Wizard World. Irene left in the second batch, and Saine remained behind for two more years before preparing to return through the Azure Blaze Sect lineage’s teleportation array.

• Saine was sent east to mark Azure Glaze deposits, while Wizard Civilization continued suppressing Nesser remnants and rebellious flame creatures.
• In Saine’s ninth year in the world, the Space Fortress announced that the first batch of magicians would return to the Wizard World, but Saine stayed to complete resource missions.
• Cuilisi told Saine that his group could use the Space Fortress’s small Interstellar Teleportation Array later, so he did not rush to join the first returning groups.
• Irene left with the second batch after Saine assured her that he would also return to the Wizard World in time, and Saine and Owl Little Qi watched her fortress depart.
• Saine remained in the Poison Fire Green Flame World for another two years, while his mentor Luluenman stayed nearby and Sylph remained far away in the northern Magma Sea.

Saine prepared to leave the Poison Fire Green Flame World for the Wizard World, trading for fire-element materials and saying farewell to his camp companions. At the Space Fortress, he learned Luluenman would stay behind and found Sylph waiting near the Interstellar Teleportation Array.

• Saine told the Magicians at the East Continent camp that he had permission to return to the Wizard World, and they held a farewell trading fair.
• Saine purchased fire-element materials and traded high-quality Magic Conductors he had made with his alchemy skills.
• Saine left the camp for the Space Fortress and reached it early by hitching a ride on a returning War Airship.
• Saine met Luluenman, who said she would remain in the Poison Fire Green Flame World while he traveled to the Interstellar Teleportation Array.
• Saine found Sylph and two other Level-1 Magicians in the Fortress Operation Zone, where Sylph said she had expected him to return soon.

Saine and his companions traveled through an interstellar passage from the Poison Fire Green Flame World to the Wizard World, where they recovered from the journey’s disorienting effects. After arriving at the Azure Blaze Holy Tower, Sylph arranged a commercial floating ship to take Saine toward the Azure Source Holy Tower.

• Sixth Senior Uncle Hoffs warned Saine, Sylph, and their companions about the physical effects of using the interstellar transmission passage.
• Saine entered the passage first and emerged at Lake Heart Island behind the Azure Blaze Holy Tower, followed by Sylph and the others.
• Saine caught Sylph when she nearly fell, and the group recovered from dizziness and weightlessness.
• Saine and Sylph discussed how Azure Fire Body Tempering could help magicians survive the dangers of plane wars.
• Sylph invited Saine to visit the Azure Blaze Holy Tower and arranged a commercial floating ship for his journey toward the Azure Source Holy Tower.
• Saine savored the Wizard World’s air, saying it felt sweeter than the air elsewhere.

After spending three days at the Azure Flame Holy Tower, Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower and reflected on the people he had left behind. As senior magicians approached to greet him, he recognized Mark, an apprentice from his past, below the Mission Hall.

• Saine left the Azure Flame Holy Tower aboard a floating ship and learned that the first magicians departing the Poison Fire Green Flame World would reach the Wizard World in two months.
• During the voyage, Saine reflected on his age, his years in the Poison Fire Green Flame World, and wondered how Serena and his father, Earl Grant, were faring.
• Saine arrived at the Azure Source Holy Tower’s commercial district and flew toward its center, observing the bustling trade and the peaceful academy.
• A Third-Level Great Magician and several Formal Magicians flew toward Saine, but he noticed Mark, a Quasi-Magician he had once clashed with, outside the Mission Hall.

Saine returned to Azure Source Holy Tower Academy, gave Mark a bracelet on Irene’s behalf, and spoke with Dean Archimedes about the war and the Magicians’ return. He left the academy preparing for the first returning group while Irene was expected back in about half a year.

• Saine recognized Mark and gave him a Flame Bracelet, saying Irene had asked him to deliver it.
• Mark asked when Irene would return, and Saine said she would probably be back in half a year.
• Saine met Dean Archimedes and explained the Magicians’ return schedule, while noting that Luluenman’s return date was uncertain.
• Saine told Archimedes that Azure Source Holy Tower had lost nearly thirty percent of its participating Magicians in the Poison Fire Green Flame World War.
• Saine reflected that he preferred continuing Plane Wars over becoming an Academy Mage because war offered resources, exploration, and faster growth.

After returning to the Azure Source Holy Tower, Saine checked on the floors and equipment he had left for Serena before organizing his war spoils. Serena found him in the warehouse, and they reunited, with Saine learning she had advanced to the Quasi-Magician level.

• Dean Archimedes asked Saine whether he had heard anything about Green, but Saine said he had not encountered him during the war.
• Saine visited the 701st floor, which he had left for Serena, and saw signs that she had studied alchemy in his absence.
• Saine began recording and sorting his gains from the Poison Fire Green Flame World in the warehouse on the 706th floor.
• Serena arrived at the warehouse, recognized Saine, and rushed into his arms after more than a decade apart.
• Saine asked Serena to make him her meals and fruit juice again, and learned that she had reached the Quasi-Magician level.

Saine reunited with Serena over a lavish dinner and gave her gifts from the Poison Fire Green Flame World. After hearing about Serena’s stalled progress as a Quasi-Magician, he advised her to pause her spell research and study foundational knowledge, leaving her reassured by his guidance.

• Serena prepared Saine’s first meal since his return, and Saine joined her for dinner on the 702nd floor of the Holy Tower.
• Saine gave Serena a golden Space Ring filled with resource ores and alien-plane creature specimens from the Poison Fire Green Flame World.
• Serena told Saine she had become a Quasi-Magician two years earlier but had made little progress studying High-Temperature Scorching Ray.
• Saine advised Serena to focus on foundational knowledge and promised to give her a list of useful Magic Books.
• Serena accepted Saine’s study plan and felt at ease with him arranging her future learning.

Serena offered herself to Saine because she feared she might never advance to Level 1 and would lose her beauty with age. Saine restrained himself at first, but finally agreed to her request.

• Serena changed into a finer dress and deliberately helped Saine sort his spoils while seducing him.
• Saine recognized Serena's intentions and tried to restrain his desire, telling her she did not have to do this.
• Serena explained that she feared her beauty would fade before she had the chance to give herself to him.
• Saine embraced Serena as she cried, and she asked him if he would have her.
• Saine nodded, and Serena smiled with relief.

Saine resumed his life with Serena, gave her a study plan, and learned how his friends and the Grant Family had fared while he was away. The family’s letters revealed that his father, Earl Grant, still had not advanced to Level 1, leaving Saine concerned about his age and prospects.

• After Serena recovered, she prepared lunch for Saine, who gave her a study plan and offered to answer her questions.
• Saine and Serena discussed the Azure Source Holy Tower, including Daniel’s advancement to Level 1 and Anna’s failed breakthrough.
• Serena told Saine that the Grant Family had continued sending letters and that Ulysses had returned to the Knights’ Hall with the Reverse Feather Lion King three years earlier.
• Saine learned that his Younger Brother Solon had gained two sons and a daughter.
• Saine noticed that none of the Grant Family’s letters mentioned Earl Grant advancing to Level 1 and worried that his father was nearing the end of his chance to break through.

Saine planned to help the Ferrell and Grant families send promising young apprentices to the Azure Source Holy Tower, while Serena chose to remain behind and pursue her studies. He later traveled to Grant Territory, where Jeremy and the Grant Family welcomed him.

• Saine told Serena that the Plane War had taught him the importance of collective strength and offered to recommend suitable young members of the Ferrell and Grant families to the Azure Source Holy Tower.
• Serena declined to return to the Lisia Alliance with Saine, choosing to stay and work toward becoming a Level-1 Magician.
• Saine spent nearly a month at the Azure Source Holy Tower planning his research and a future journey to the Western Islands to find Lina.
• Saine flew to Grant Territory on Little Seven and arrived after about twenty days.
• Jeremy and the Grant Family welcomed Saine, and Jeremy pointed out that Solon's six-year-old blond son resembled Saine's father.

Saine reunited with Earl Grant and gave him resources and potions to aid his next attempt at becoming a Level 1 Knight. Before leaving, Saine supported the Ferrell Family and tested the Grant Family’s children for magical aptitude, finding few candidates.

• Earl Grant told Saine that his attempt to break through to Level 1 had failed four years earlier, but he planned to try again in about a year.
• Saine gave Earl Grant Level 1-and-above Flame Creature remains, fire-element resources, and two potions to help prepare for his breakthrough.
• Earl Grant said he planned to pass the earl’s title to Solon, who had already been managing Grant Territory.
• Saine sent word to Serena that he would support the Ferrell Family’s younger generation, and the family decided to send three descendants to Azure Source Holy Tower in two years.
• Saine tested the Mental Strength of Grant Family members under sixteen and found that only two qualified, including his little niece.

After returning to Azure Source Holy Tower, Saine caught up with Serena and visited Daniel and Dean Enpei Li, giving away specimens from the Poison Fire Green Flame World and encouraging Anna. The chapter left Saine back at the Holy Tower with his relationships renewed and Anna determined to try again for Level 1.

• Saine heard Serena describe flame creature cubs for sale in the Apprentice Trading District and promised to give her one of his living specimens when they arrived.
• Saine visited Daniel, exchanged flame creature specimens for two bottles of Lolan's Water Potion, and agreed to keep in touch.
• Saine visited Dean Enpei Li and spoke with Anna, encouraging her after her failed attempt to become a Formal Magician.
• Anna told Saine she would prepare herself and catch up to him and Daniel by advancing to Level 1.

Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower with the second batch of magicians after the Plane War, bringing back valuable spoils and living specimens. He reunited with Irene, gave Serena a quasi-rank Fire Lizard, and left the story with Irene planning to visit his residence that night.

• A second batch of magicians returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower aboard a space fortress, and two Floating Ships were provided to transport them.
• Irene flew into Saine's arms when she arrived, leaving Serena quiet and heartbroken as she watched them together.
• Saine gave Serena a palm-sized quasi-rank Fire Lizard among the Living Specimens he had brought back.
• Archimedes admired Saine's captured female Construct Master, and Saine offered to give the dean several ordinary Nesser Civilization creatures instead.
• Saine returned to the top floor of the Holy Tower while Irene prepared to visit his Tower Master Area that night.