Recaps

Saine used Brilliant Heart Magic to pierce Kanterla’s Hand of Death and kill Di'ersi, the Black Magician responsible for his mentor Moxidu’s death. After collecting Di'ersi’s belongings, Saine was struck by the still-active Hand of Death as it shattered his Energy Shields.

• Saine’s Brilliant Heart Magic and Lina’s Call of Death were revealed as powerful spells developed during their years on the Knight Continent.
• Martin and Jigson recognized that Saine’s Brilliant Heart pillar could threaten even powerful creatures and relied heavily on his Azure Fire Heart Magic Staff.
• Saine’s Brilliant Heart Beam pierced Kanterla’s Hand of Death and the surrounding death clouds.
• The azure flames consumed Di'ersi, avenging Moxidu’s death.
• Saine collected Di'ersi’s charred Magic Staff, her space-power hairpin, and her space pouch.
• The weakened Hand of Death struck Saine and shattered the Energy Shields around him.

Giant Mermaid Bai Xing arrived with a gathering of Sea King Class creatures and rescued Saine from Kanterla’s attack. Tourmaline rushed to Saine, relieved to see him after more than twenty years, while she continued to await her eldest brother’s awakening before visiting the Azure Source Holy Tower.

• Giant Mermaid Bai Xing emerged from a Gate of Elements, and the Sea King Class creatures bowed to her bloodline authority.
• Dragon Turtle Tourmaline followed Bai Xing through the gate and charged toward Saine, while Kanterla remained immobilized under the creatures’ watch.
• Tourmaline looked Saine over and recalled that she had waited for him while awake in Sea God Bay.
• Tourmaline remembered Saine’s invitation to visit the Azure Source Holy Tower and continued waiting for her eldest brother to awaken so she could inform her family.

Tourmaline and Bai Xing arrived with powerful Sea King Class creatures, rescuing Saine from Kanterla. Tourmaline trampled Kanterla to death and left the surrounding sea split with space cracks.

• Lina prepared to fight Kanterla, but Bai Xing and Tourmaline appeared with numerous Sea King Class creatures and let her stand down.
• Tourmaline checked on Saine, then turned her hostile attention toward Kanterla after seeing Saine was injured.
• Kanterla tried to claim the attack was a misunderstanding, but the surrounding creatures’ auras kept him from escaping.
• Tourmaline struck Kanterla with her massive paw and repeatedly stomped his Death Cloud until his aura vanished.
• Jigson recognized the fine cracks in the sea as Space Cracks and realized Tourmaline had wielded immense power with command of the laws.

After Tourmaline killed Kanterla, Bai Xing thanked Saine for surviving and invited him to travel with her and Tourmaline. Saine asked Bai Xing to help Lina and his companions, but she refused and began explaining the two ways to resolve Lina’s wanted status.

• Tourmaline stomped Kanterla, killing the Level-3 Black Magician and ending the battle.
• Bai Xing approached Saine, explained that Tourmaline had insisted on seeing him, and accepted his thanks.
• Bai Xing warned Saine about his ties to the Black Domain and invited him to accompany her and Tourmaline to meet their eldest brother.
• Saine asked Bai Xing to help Lina and his companions, while Martin and Jigson kept quiet and avoided his gaze.
• Bai Xing refused to intervene, explaining that even True Spirit Dominators could not easily change the Wizard World’s rules, and said Lina had only two ways to resolve her wanted status.

Bai Xing explained why Saine could not easily resolve Lina’s wanted status, and described how the Wizard World Will judged those who harmed its creatures. She offered to help Zorro leave the Black Domain, but Fei’er could not go with them, leaving Saine and Lina with little hope of living together soon.

• Bai Xing told Saine that ending the Wizard World’s restrictions on Black Magicians was impossible for him, while lifting Lina’s wanted status would require an immense contribution to Wizard Civilization.
• Bai Xing offered to modify Zorro’s Magic Contract and take him out of the Black Domain, provided it was not a Law Contract.
• Bai Xing refused to take Fei’er, explaining that the Wizard World Will rejected those who brought chaos and slaughter to the Mother Plane.
• Saine realized that Fei’er’s actions had crossed the Wizard World Will’s hidden boundary, while Lina had violated the official rules without committing comparable atrocities.
• Saine looked to Lina and saw that, despite her helplessness, she had already accepted that they might only meet in other worlds.

Saine prepared to leave the Black Domain, while Lina and Fei'er stayed behind and Zorro chose to return to Thousand Leaf Coral Island. Saine departed with Lina and Fei'er for the Ice Ocean, leaving Martin and Jigson to consider how his powerful connections could affect those who remained.

• Lina and Fei'er declined to return to the Wizard Continent, and Zorro chose to stay in the Black Domain to support Fei'er and continue Moxidu's work.
• Saine accepted Bixi and Bai Xing's invitation to visit the Ice Ocean, and Lina and Fei'er joined him while Zorro returned to Thousand Leaf Coral Island to pay respects to their mentor.
• Saine told Martin that Zorro would fulfill the revised ten-year contract, and Martin agreed to look after Zorro and Fei'er.
• Jigson questioned Lina about Saine and worried that she might leave the Pale Bone Black Tower with him.
• Saine departed with Lina, Fei'er, Bixi, and Bai Xing toward the Ice Ocean, while Martin and Jigson watched them go.

Saine traveled with Lina and Fei'er toward the Northern Ice Ocean with Tourmaline and Bai Xing, where they gathered rare ice-element specimens and encountered powerful local creatures. A Black Magician watching from an icy tower recognized Bai Xing’s arrival as a sign that a great being might awaken and flew south to visit Lord Naige'er and other old acquaintances.

• Lina chose to walk toward Saine after speaking with Jigson, and Saine departed with Lina and Fei'er alongside Tourmaline and Bai Xing for the Black Domain Northern Part.
• Fei'er entered Saine’s metal tent during the journey, while Bai Xing told Tourmaline that they were doing warm-up exercises against the cold.
• As the travelers approached the Northern Ice Ocean, Saine, Lina, and Fei'er collected rare ice-element specimens.
• A Level-4 ice whale emerged to welcome Bai Xing and the others, and Bai Xing stroked its horn as it cried happily.
• A Black Magician in a concealed tower saw Bai Xing and the Sea King Class creatures, guessed that a powerful being might awaken, and flew south to visit Lord Naige'er and other old friends.

Saine and his companions waited beside a frozen sea while Bai Xing and Tourmaline went underwater, and Saine collected a sample from a sleeping Unicorn Ice Whale. After studying the whale oil, Saine became excited by its properties and looked back toward the whale.

• Bai Xing and Tourmaline left Saine's group at the ice sheet, while Saine set up a metal tent and the other Sea King Class creatures rested nearby.
• Saine, Lina, and Fei'er set up experimental equipment beside a sleeping Unicorn Ice Whale and tried to collect blood and scale tissue.
• The whale rolled over and flooded the shore with icy seawater, but Saine managed to extract a jar of viscous white tissue fluid.
• The Unicorn Ice Whale recognized Saine and let the group go, then returned to sleep as Fei'er shivered from the cold.
• After studying the whale oil for two hours, Saine became excited and stared toward the sleeping Unicorn Ice Whale, leaving Fei'er alarmed by what he might do next.

Saine stored four barrels of Whale Oil and helped Fei'er secure valuable materials and resources while she prepared for life in the Black Domain. Days later, an enormous ice peak shattered, and a colossal Giant Turtle emerged from the Glacier Depths.

• After the Unicorn Ice Whale returned to the seabed, Saine collected four barrels of Whale Oil while Lina and Fei'er gathered surface tissue.
• Lina warned Fei'er to keep her resources hidden and offered to provide magic materials, while Saine supplied Fei'er with resources and potionology books.
• Several days later, violent tremors spread across the ice sheet as a towering ice peak cracked apart and triggered a vast avalanche.
• Saine, Lina, and Fei'er took shelter among the protrusions of Bai Xing's giant clam while surrounding Sea King Class creatures braced against the waves.
• A jet-black Giant Turtle, identified as Tourmaline's eldest brother, emerged from the Glacier Depths, and Saine stared in astonishment at its immense size.

Saine met Tourmaline’s newly awakened eldest brother, Zong Ba, in the Northern Ice Ocean before preparing to leave the Western Islands. He set out on foot for the Azure Source Holy Tower by a new route through several Wizard World powers, hoping to explore more of the world along the way.

• Saine saw Tourmaline and her siblings reunite after Zong Ba awakened and emerged from the glaciers, causing the ice peak to collapse and the regional sea level to rise.
• Tourmaline introduced Saine to her eldest brother, Zong Ba, and Saine spoke briefly with Bai Xing, whose support could help Lina, Fei'er, and the others establish themselves in the Black Domain.
• Saine decided not to take Tourmaline back to the Azure Source Holy Tower because she wanted to spend time with her newly awakened brother.
• Saine said farewell to Lina and left the Western Islands, choosing to travel on foot rather than take a floating ship or use a Space Teleportation Array.
• Saine planned to travel east through the East Coast, the Magic Empire, the Eli Knights Alliance, and the Flame Conclave, and hoped to visit Sky City before returning to the Azure Source Holy Tower.

Before leaving the Western Islands, Saine advised Fei'er to free her slaves and gave her a Metal Puppet, then departed for the East Coast after saying goodbye to Lina and the others. During the sea voyage, he resumed his body-tempering research with Yuli, while Lina made clear that she would not accept Irene as Saine’s partner.

• Saine advised Fei'er to release the Slave Creatures in her laboratory, and gave her a Metal Puppet to help with daily tasks.
• Fei'er decided to give the Metal Puppet to their Senior Brother, and Saine agreed.
• Saine left the Western Islands for the East Coast aboard a giant ocean crab after parting from Lina and the others.
• Saine set up laboratories on the crab’s shell and prepared for another Burning Ice Body Tempering experiment with Yuli.
• Lina gave gifts for Serena and Meili, but chose to ignore Irene because she would not yield on the matter of Saine’s partner.

After the thirteenth Burning Ice Body Tempering Experiment, Saine’s constitution reached Level-2 Creature standards, while his Mental Strength and magic power remained stalled near the Level-1 peak. He arrived at the Mauritius Islands on the East Coast and headed inland, recalling a knight he had met there.

• Saine recorded a constitution value of 1,009 after his successful experiment and considered the factors behind his rapid physical growth.
• Saine reflected that he needed to understand Second-Level Magicians’ Elemental True Bodies before advancing, and decided to keep researching cellular Elementalization and continue his Body Tempering Experiments.
• Saine completed his voyage from the Western Islands to the East Coast aboard the Azure Clawed Giant Crab, which had helped him avoid trouble at sea.
• Saine parted ways with the Azure Clawed Giant Crab on the Mauritius Islands and flew toward the East Coast hinterlands, trying to remember the Jobs Family he associated with the knight Guer.

Saine traveled across the Mauritius Islands to the East Coast and reached the Jobs Family while returning from the Western Islands. He reunited with Guer, who had advanced to the late stage of Level 1 and eagerly welcomed him to the family estate.

• Saine crossed the Mauritius Islands by Alchemy Powered Ship and continued through the East Coast, where he encountered practitioners of Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts.
• Saine judged that his own strength could match or surpass the practitioners he had met, despite not cultivating battle qi.
• Seven months after arriving on the East Coast, Saine located the Jobs Family in the Yemison Kingdom.
• Saine contacted Guer, who quickly appeared and greeted his old friend enthusiastically.
• Guer invited Saine to visit his estate and offered him a gift, while Saine asked how Guer had known he was coming.

Saine learned that the Jobs Family’s warm welcome was a calculated investment and traded Knight Continent resources for generous gifts. Among the gifts was a foxkin slave who was also an Orc World priest, revealing the family’s involvement in the slave trade.

• Guer explained that the Jobs Family had invested in Saine because of his potential and asked him to sell the family resources from the Knight Continent.
• Saine agreed to sell the resources, and the Jobs Family gave him a large selection of East Coast and Alien Plane materials.
• Saine discovered that one of the gifts was a foxkin girl, and Guer explained that she was a virgin Wind Whisper Priest from the Orc World.
• Guer revealed that the Jobs Family maintained extensive slave-creature trade connections with the Orc World.

Saine accepted a tamed Fox Girl Priestess from Guer and visited Freedome Dungeon, the East Coast’s largest slave trading center. While touring the Jobs Family’s businesses, he declined a giant wolf and noticed a striking centaur slave owner whose identity and purpose remained unknown.

• Saine accepted the Fox Girl Priestess Aijieli after Guer presented her as a gift from the Jobs Family.
• Saine asked Guer to show him a slave creature market, and Guer took him to Freedome Dungeon.
• Guer explained the scale of the dungeon’s slave trade and showed Saine the Jobs Family’s shops, which sold creatures from four Alliance Planes.
• Guer offered Saine a Level 1 gray giant wolf for two hundred Magic Coins, but Saine declined after examining it.
• Saine spotted a beautiful silver-haired centaur lady accompanied by centaur retainers, and Guer whistled at her.

Saine and Guer met Luna Christine Maya, a Rank Two centaur noblewoman and slave trader from Centaur World, in Freedome Dungeon. Luna welcomed them into her crowded, low-cost slave market, where her explanations revealed both her aristocratic views and the brutal trade in defeated centaurs.

• Luna Christine Maya introduced herself to Saine and Guer, and Guer greeted her with flirtatious courtesy.
• Guer told Saine that Luna was the daughter and heir of a powerful centaur tribe's chieftain.
• Luna invited Saine and Guer into her tribe's business district, whose inexpensive slave stalls drew large crowds.
• Saine and Guer saw that Luna's traders sold Minotaurs, Jungle Musk Deer, and captured centaurs from rival tribes.
• Luna described the Minotaurs as an inferior vassal race and spoke with clear enthusiasm toward Saine, while disliking Guer's vulgar manner.

Saine suggested that Luna’s centaur tribe and the Jobs Family contact the Azure Source Holy Tower about a possible slave-trade partnership, without making any commitments. He continued exploring Freedome Dungeon and rejected Guer’s offer to visit a secret market selling prohibited slaves.

• Saine asked Luna whether her tribe planned to expand its discounted slave trade to other Holy Towers, and she eagerly asked whether he knew potential buyers.
• Guer recognized Saine’s interest in bulk purchases, but Saine explained that he could not negotiate on behalf of the Azure Source Holy Tower.
• Saine gave Luna and the Jobs Family the Azure Source Holy Tower’s location and coordinates, and both groups said they would try to make contact.
• Saine explored Freedome Dungeon, where Guer explained that elf and mermaid slaves were unavailable in its legal markets.
• Guer offered to take Saine to a secret East Coast slave market where elves, mermaids, and other forbidden slaves had appeared, but Saine refused.

After growing his fortune through trade with the Jobs Family, Saine traveled east for five years and arrived at the Summoning Alliance. He began studying its summoning knowledge to help open a connection to the Netherworld with Lina, while discovering the Alliance also encompassed the Wizard World's largest demi-human settlement and vast Underground Space.

• Saine traded rare materials to the Jobs Family, which agreed to send a floating ship to inspect Azure Source Holy Tower before deciding on commercial cooperation.
• Saine left the Yemison Kingdom with Aijieli, a Little Fox Girl given to him by the Jobs Family, and placed a Soul Imprint on her.
• Saine spent five years traveling through thirty-one East Coast regions before crossing the Jeklo Grand Canyon and reaching the Summoning Alliance.
• Saine learned that the Summoning Alliance housed the Twin Stars Holy Tower, many other Holy Towers and Knights' Halls, and a major community of Summoners known for forming equal relationships with creatures from Alien Planes.
• Saine bought summoning Magic Books and sought knowledge that could help him and Lina open a connection channel to the Netherworld.
• Saine discovered that the Summoning Alliance was also the Wizard World's largest demi-human settlement, with canyons and ravines leading into its immense Underground Space.

Saine continued experimenting in the Summoning Alliance to open a passage to the Netherworld and finally summoned a Level-1 Skeleton General. Lina used it as a medium to contact him, allowing them to communicate despite being unable to reunite.

• Saine rented a well-equipped Magic Tower from Deep Blue Summoning Holy Tower and spent heavily on facilities and books for his experiments.
• With Yuli's help, Saine began his 213th attempt to create a void summoning passage using Bone Dragon Sanchez's bone finger.
• The passage stabilized, but Saine summoned a Level-1 Skeleton General instead of Sanchez, suggesting Sanchez's forces had grown.
• A red light appeared in the Skeleton General's eyes, and Lina contacted Saine through a wisp of her consciousness.
• Saine realized that he and Lina could communicate across the Netherworld passage even while they remained apart.

Bone Dragon Sanchez awakened and prepared to expand his territory, while Saine and Lina finished three days of research-focused communication. After Saine fell asleep in his laboratory, Yuli stayed behind and moved closer to him.

• Bone Dragon Sanchez absorbed the Soul Fires gathered by his subordinates and told a Death Knight that they would visit their neighbors before expanding further.
• Sanchez summoned nearly a hundred thousand undead and led them out of Death Valley on a campaign.
• Saine and Lina spoke for three days, sharing research progress and summoning knowledge about the Cross-Realm Summoning Array.
• Exhausted after the call, Saine rested in his laboratory while Yuli finished the experiment and Aijieli massaged his shoulders.
• After Saine fell asleep, Yuli sent Aijieli away and slowly moved closer to him.

After spending four years with the Summoning Alliance, Saine headed east toward Azure Source Holy Tower, having advanced his spatial research with Lina and purchased Death Element materials. At Windsor Fortress, he sent letters to Azure Source Holy Tower and the Grant Family, which a Level-2 Earth Knight promised to deliver within half a year.

• Yuli woke beside Saine, blushing after leaning against him, and obediently prepared to continue their experiment.
• Saine spent over two years at Deep Blue Summoning Holy Tower and extended his stay, spending nearly two thousand Magic Coins on research.
• Saine and Lina improved their spatial studies through costly long-distance communications and preliminarily developed a way to exchange items through magic arrays.
• After four years in the Summoning Alliance, Saine abandoned his plan to visit its Underground World and traveled east toward Azure Source Holy Tower.
• Saine bought Death Element materials while crossing Pale Bone Clock Tower territory and reached Windsor Fortress.
• Saine paid a Level-2 Earth Knight fifty Magic Coins to deliver letters to Azure Source Holy Tower and the Grant Family, and the knight promised they would arrive within half a year.

Saine left Windsor Fortress and traveled north through the Magic Empire Ebarute, studying how its widespread access to magic worked. He gradually discovered that public magical education mainly served commoners, while scarce resources and costly advancement had driven the empire into an intense pursuit of money.

• Saine planned to visit the Magic Empire, Capecci, Sky City, and the Northern Witches Organization before returning to the Azure Source Holy Tower.
• After stopping at Windsor Fortress, Saine rode a Colorful Feather Hawk-Crane north and reached the Ebarute Empire two months later.
• Saine observed that the Ebarute Empire had spread magical conveniences throughout its cities and offered low-cost public magic education to children with sufficient Mental Strength.
• Saine wondered how the empire funded its widespread magical education and whether its many spellcasters threatened its rule, so he continued toward the capital to investigate.
• After half a year of travel, Saine learned that public academies largely served unsupported commoners, while nobles and Magic Families used private academies and ordinary apprentices struggled to afford advancement.
• Saine concluded that the empire's scarce resources and costly potions had fueled a widespread pursuit of Magic Coins, which he regarded as a distraction from knowledge and intellect.

Saine learned more about the Ebarute Empire’s spellcaster society while conducting cross-realm communication experiments in France City. A letter from the Grant Family reported that his father was missing after suffering grievous injuries in a Plane War, so Saine decided to return to the Green Source Land.

• Saine considered the Ebarute Empire a possible place to establish a Holy Tower, despite its costly and war-driven system for supporting magicians.
• Saine and Lina completed their first long-distance exchange of goods through their cross-realm communication experiment.
• A magic apprentice delivered Saine a letter from the Grant Family in the Green Source Land.
• Saine learned that Kelman Grant had been grievously injured in a Plane War and that his fate was unknown.
• Saine told Yuli they needed to leave France City and return to the Green Source Land.

Saine traveled from France City to the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall to investigate its war against Thunderfall World. A Knight who recognized him began pursuing an investigation into his ties with Black Magicians, while Saine arrived at the Hall and learned that his father, Kelman Grant, was not among the injured Knights there.

• Saine left France City and used Teleportation Arrays to travel through the Eli Knights Alliance toward the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall.
• A Knight who had fought Saine and Lina recognized Saine at Nimitz and reported his suspected ties to Black Magicians to a peak Level-1 Knight.
• The peak Level-1 Knight decided to seek an investigation warrant for Saine.
• Saine reached the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall's main hall and learned that it was fighting a prolonged war in Thunderfall World alongside two other Knights' Halls.
• A young Female Knight asked Saine to join the war, and he noticed many wounded Knights but did not find his father, Kelman Grant.

Saine sought news of his father and great-grandfather at the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall, where Grimman offered to help him find them in Thunderfall World. Saine signed a favorable contract as a Foreign Aid Magician and was scheduled to travel with the next reinforcement corps in three days.

• Saine met Grimman, who recognized him and said he knew little about the battlefield but offered to help find Saine's family in Thunderfall World.
• Grimman helped Saine secure favorable terms for joining the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall's war effort.
• Saine reviewed and signed the combat contract, becoming a Foreign Aid Magician with the right to refuse extremely dangerous missions.
• The Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall scheduled Saine to travel to Thunderfall World with its next reinforcement corps in three days.