Recaps

Saine arrived in Thunderfall World with the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall reinforcements and was swept into a battle near the Rocky Mountains before learning much about the campaign. He witnessed a Gass warrior gain power from the plane's lightning and joined the Blackbeard Knight in confronting it.

• Saine noticed the group had traveled through multiple Space Channels before emerging into the stormy Thunderfall World.
• Blackbeard Knight Ganches urged the new arrivals to reinforce the Rocky Mountains, and Grimman explained that the urgent charge was likely a chance to earn war merits rather than a dangerous major engagement.
• Saine and the reinforcements reached the Rocky Mountains, a contested area near an important supply camp, and clashed with Thunderfall World's native Gass.
• A Gass warrior called down lightning that raised its strength from Level 1 to mid-Level 2, prompting Saine to recognize the possibility of Plane Augmentation Power.
• Blackbeard Knight charged the empowered Gass, and Saine followed with his Azure Fire Heart Magic Staff.

Saine traded for a valuable Gass specimen, gathered battlefield information, and accepted a mission to build a Magic Tower at Thunderfall Marsh. There he found his father, Kelman Grant, unconscious and too fragile to return to Wizard World, and asked who had injured him.

• Saine bought the Blackbeard Knight’s half of the Level-2 Gass corpse for 150 Magic Coins.
• Grimman shared information about the war and told Saine that Jeremy and the others were at Thunderfall Marsh Camp.
• Saine accepted a mission to build a Magic Tower and repair the camp’s magical restrictions.
• At Thunderfall Marsh Camp, Saine found Kelman unconscious and learned that he could not yet survive transport through a Space Channel.
• Jeremy told Saine that Kelman still had a good chance of waking, and Saine asked who had injured him.

Saine left Thunderfall Marsh Camp to investigate the continuing unrest in the marsh’s eastern region, despite warnings from Jeremy about dangerous native counterattacks. After adapting easily to Thunderfall World’s lightning-filled environment, Saine spotted movement beneath the marsh and prepared to attack.

• Saine brewed Alchemy Potions for his injured father, Kelman, before telling Jeremy he planned to investigate eastern Thunderfall Marsh.
• Jeremy warned Saine that the marsh’s unrest involved planned counterattacks and possible Level-2 creatures, then gave him a map and asked him to return early.
• Saine flew east from the camp, and Jeremy wondered at the elemental pressure Saine displayed.
• The chapter described Thunderfall Marsh’s strategic importance, the suspected underground network, and Kelman’s injuries during a native guerrilla attack.
• Saine resisted a lightning strike with little effect, noticed something moving beneath the marsh, and ignited a large fireball on his Azure Fire Heart Magic Staff.

Saine hunted indigenous creatures in Thunderfall Marsh while searching for stronger specimens and venting his anger over Kelman’s unconsciousness. After more than ten days of fighting, he and Yuli encountered a Level 1 Eight-legged Wolf Spider and moved to stop it from escaping.

• Saine captured a fast, three-winged creature resembling a chicken, but it exploded its own brain when he tried to make it his soul slave.
• Saine ordered Yuli and the four Sea Lizards to kill or capture the creatures they found, then gave them the charred creature’s corpse to eat.
• Saine spent more than ten days clearing creatures from eastern Thunderfall Marsh, drawing the attention of nearby Level 1 knights.
• Saine spotted a Level 1 Eight-legged Wolf Spider wrapped in yellow electrical energy and charged after it with Yuli to keep it from escaping.

After slaying an Electric Wolf Spider, Saine returned to Thunderfall Marsh Camp and found Kelman Grant awake and recovering. Saine offered to prepare Giant Stone Potions from rare resources, drawing the attention of Ulysses and the Reverse Feather Lion King, who sealed the room against curious onlookers.

• Saine and Yuli defeated the Electric Wolf Spider, and Saine collected its Heart Core, legs, and fangs before feeding its remains to the Sea Lizards.
• Saine returned to camp and learned that Kelman Grant had awakened and Ulysses had come back from patrol.
• Saine examined Kelman and brought out rare resources to replenish his Blood Qi, offering to make Giant Stone Potions for him and Jeremy Grant.
• The Reverse Feather Lion King noticed the valuable resources, and Ulysses sealed the hospital room with a purple Elemental Barrier.
• Ulysses identified the red plant as Blood Coral and asked whether Saine's mentor had given it to him, but Saine said he had obtained it during his travels.

Saine learned that Colleena had arranged a marriage for him with a Level-2 Earth Knight from the Ernst Family, though he had no interest in marrying anyone but Lina. After giving his family resources from the Knight Continent trial, he revealed a battle qi cultivation technique that could reach Level-3 Sky Knight.

• The Reverse Feather Lion King, Simpson, traded Saine news for a piece of Devil Beast flesh and announced that Colleena had found him a marriage match.
• Saine was shocked by the news and thought only of Lina, while his father Kelman Grant and the other Grant Family decision-makers approved of the match.
• Kelman explained that Saine's intended bride belonged to the Ernst Family's main line and that Colleena had used her connections to arrange the alliance.
• Saine stayed silent about his objections and gave Kelman and the family's elders special resources from the Knight Continent trial.
• Saine showed them a Crystal Ball containing a battle qi cultivation technique that could be practiced up to Level-3 Sky Knight, startling the Reverse Feather Lion King.

Saine gave Ulysses a battle qi cultivation art that appeared to reach the Demigod-level, astonishing the Grant Family founder and the Reverse Feather Lion King. Ulysses began examining its promise, while the Reverse Feather Lion King predicted the family could soon gain a powerful Knight.

• The chapter explained that Ulysses had created Violet Flame Battle Qi from Flame Battle Qi and other arts, and hoped to perfect it to the late stage of Level-2.
• Ulysses raised a second isolation barrier after Saine produced the cultivation art, and the Reverse Feather Lion King added a third.
• Ulysses hurriedly took Saine's crystal ball and found that its contents appeared to be a genuine Sky Knight cultivation art, more profound than arts he had seen before.
• Ulysses said the art could be cultivated to Level-3 Peak, the Demigod-level, and contained mysterious descriptions about laws.
• The Reverse Feather Lion King told Saine that, if the art was genuine, the Grant Family could soon produce a late-stage or Level-2 Peak Knight.

Saine’s family discussed how to study his battle qi method without abandoning the Grant Family’s Violet Flame Battle Qi, while Ulysses prepared a place for him at Thunderfall Marsh Camp. The Reverse Feather Lion King teased Saine about marrying a powerful knight, and Saine ended the chapter stationed alone in a Magic Tower.

• Ulysses decided to study Saine’s battle qi method and incorporate its useful techniques into Violet Flame Battle Qi rather than switch methods outright.
• The Reverse Feather Lion King and Ulysses escorted Saine from Old Grant’s hospital room, where Koda joked about the family’s marriage arrangements.
• The Reverse Feather Lion King teased Koda about his wife Tracy and later warned Saine that marrying a female knight could make him henpecked.
• Ulysses arranged for Saine to live alone in a five-story Magic Tower at Thunderfall Marsh Camp and gave him access to inspect three nearby towers.

Saine investigated how Gass gained strength beyond its level and began exposing himself to Thunderfall World’s lightning, claiming he was harnessing it to power the fortress. His experiment was still underway when an emergency order summoned the knights to face an enemy.

• Saine dissected the Gass corpse and suspected that its Thunder Infusion might reveal the secrets of Elemental True Body transformation or improve his physique.
• After completing his assigned maintenance and repair work, Saine began flying into the clouds with a metal rod to draw lightning strikes.
• Saine told the Fortress Base that he was channeling lightning to supply energy, and his Magic Towers and Elemental Restriction zones began running on electricity from the sky.
• Recovering knights watched the lightning and discussed Saine’s experiment, while Level-2 Knight Kent recognized signs that Saine resembled a Second-Level Magician.
• An emergency battle order reached Saine and the knights, directing everyone except the severely wounded to gather west of the fortress and prepare to meet the enemy.

Saine joined the assembled forces at Thunderfall Marsh Camp after a nearly hundred-thousand-strong native creature army approached. The Knights' Hall force charged onto the plains to meet the invaders, and Saine prepared to support the battle with long-range magic.

• Saine left his experiments and reported to the assembly area, where thousands of knights and tens of thousands of slave creatures gathered.
• Jeremy Grant told Saine to stay close to him and explained that Ulysses and the Reverse Feather Lion King were defending the marsh east of camp.
• A Sky Knight announced that the native army was approaching and ordered the force to stop and destroy it.
• The knights and slave creatures advanced west and clashed with the Thunderfall World army on the plains.
• Saine stayed behind the charging knights, ready to attack the enemy from a distance with spells.

Saine observed the fierce resistance of Thunderfall World’s forces and the Wizard World’s battlefield advantages as the armies clashed. After testing the results of his Thunder Infusion became possible, he released a Cloud of Flames spell and flew toward the front lines.

• Saine compared Thunderfall World’s united resistance with Poison Fire Green Flame World’s weak resistance and noted the disparity between the planes’ forces.
• Thunderfall World’s behemoths called down a massive lightning strike that battered slave creatures near the center of the battlefield.
• Foreign Aid Magicians began casting wide-area spells from behind the slave and knight legions while the armies advanced.
• Saine released a Cloud of Flames spell, covered himself in Azure Fire Power, and flew toward the center of the battlefield.

Saine fought through the Thunderfall World forces on the plains, aided by Construct Master Yuli and four Sea Lizards, and killed hundreds of enemies with his fire magic. A Level-2 Green-skinned Gas confronted him, and Saine charged in to meet it.

• Saine flew toward the battlefield near Level 1 Knight Jeremy, avoiding the fiercest central fighting.
• Saine released four Sea Lizards and advanced with them and Construct Master Yuli, burning and clearing hostile creatures.
• Saine's attacks killed or wounded hundreds of Thunderfall World creatures, with his combat medal recording his kills.
• A Level-2 Green-skinned Gas challenged Saine after displaying its strength by killing a powerful slave creature.
• Saine flew toward the Green-skinned Gas as it used its Lightning Chain to kill a slave and leapt at him.

Saine and Yuli engaged a Thunder-Infused Green-skinned Gas on the battlefield, and Saine tested his newly developed Partial Elementalization in close combat. His devastating punch shattered the creature’s electric defense, but its lightning struck back as the fight continued.

• Saine charged toward the Green-skinned Gas, while Jeremy Grant followed to protect him from nearby enemies.
• Yuli confronted the Green-skinned Gas with her upgraded Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet as the creature used Thunder Infusion to approach peak Level 2.
• Saine ignored Jeremy’s warning to retreat and ordered Yuli out of the way before attacking the Gas himself.
• Saine used a partially elementalized punch to break through the Gas’s electric net and wound it.
• The wounded Gas unleashed a surge of lightning against Saine, whose constitution and increased resistance to thunder helped him withstand the counterattack.

Saine survived a dangerous clash with a Level-2 Gass, then used his Azure Fire Eye Magic and Yuli’s cannon to help defeat Thunderfall World’s forces. After the three-day battle ended with the enemy retreating, Saine approached a dying Thunder Giant Beast.

• Saine’s strike and the Level-2 Gass’s lightning counterattack left both badly wounded, but Yuli, Jeremy, and Owl Little Qi helped protect and extract Saine.
• Saine drank a potion, escaped into the sky on Owl Little Qi, and unleashed more than a hundred Azure Fire Eyes against the Gass and nearby creatures.
• Saine began casting Brilliant Heart Beam as Yuli’s magic puppet fired its main cannon into the blasted battlefield.
• The battle on the plains west of Thunderfall Marsh lasted three days and ended with Thunderfall World’s remaining forces retreating after more than seventy thousand casualties.
• Saine helped Knights finish off wounded Gass before walking toward a still-breathing Thunder Giant Beast.

After distinguishing himself in battle, Saine gained the Thunder Giant Beast as his spoil and earned the goodwill of the knights at Thunderfall Marsh Camp. He traded with them and built new connections, then contacted Lina through a Magic Tower screen.

• A Black Armor Knight gave Saine the wounded Thunder Giant Beast, and Saine treated its fatal wound with a potion.
• Saine's support on the front line during the battle earned him recognition and favors from the knights at Thunderfall Marsh Camp.
• Saine welcomed the knights' friendship and traded Magic Potions and alchemical Magic Conductors for Alien Plane materials and specimens.
• Saine traded for two Gas corpses with Thunderfall Infusion abilities and became more accepted among the camp's knights.
• Saine reflected that reuniting with Lina had helped change his solitary outlook, then greeted her through an Elemental Light Screen.

Saine used the Netherworld to communicate with Lina across planes, sharing his Thunderfall World research and preparing to attempt a breakthrough to Level 2 within half a year. After their two-hour conversation ended, he returned to his experiments, leaving Lina unaware of the Grant Family’s proposed marriage alliance.

• Saine connected his Magic Tower to the lightning in Thunderfall World to power his cross-plane communication with Lina.
• Saine told Lina about his Elementalized body, his research, and his expected Level 2 breakthrough, while Lina’s questions gave him new insights.
• Saine sent Lina Thunderfall World specimens and resources, highlighting Specimen Number Three’s Thunderfall Infusion ability.
• Saine and Lina discussed her situation at the Pale Bone Black Tower and the Tower Master’s apparent silence about taking her as a disciple.
• Saine told Lina that the four Sea Lizards survived the battle and that Xiao San was badly injured; Lina advised feeding them energy-rich flesh and blood.
• After ending the communication, Saine resumed his experiments without mentioning the Grant Family’s marriage alliance proposal.

As the war in Thunderfall World intensified, Saine secured a year and a half to advance before he had to report to the Western Front. He completed his transformation into a Level Two Magician in seclusion and remained meditating in the underground room.

• Thunderfall Marsh Camp received reinforcements and wounded knights as Fortress Headquarters prepared to send most magicians to the Western Front.
• Saine obtained a year-and-a-half extension to focus on advancing, then prepared the Magic Tower’s underground Meditation Room and assigned Yuli and the other slaves to guard it.
• Saine began his breakthrough and, by the third month, had transformed half his body into Azure Fire Element.
• By the fifth month, Azure Fire had replaced the cells and skin across Saine’s entire body, and by the seventh month his Elementalization was complete.
• Saine reached the genuine standard of a Level Two Magician but remained standing in meditation at the center of the room.

After ten months of seclusion, Saine successfully advanced to the second level and emerged with greatly increased attributes and an Elemental True Body. As the Western Front battle drew near, he reunited with the Grant Family at Thunderfall Marsh Camp, where they planned to travel to the main battlefield.

• Saine emerged from meditation as a Second-Level Magician, with Mental Strength of 1317, Magic Power of 1764, and Constitution of 1899.
• Saine realized his excessive use of Magic Potions had increased his Mental Strength more than he intended, and he burned the empty bottles and clutter in his Meditation Room.
• Saine returned from his Elemental True Body to his human form and left his Meditation Room after ten months of seclusion.
• Saine learned that most Knights and Magicians had been transferred from Thunderfall Marsh Camp as the fighting on the Western Front escalated.
• Jeremy Grant told Saine that Ulysses and the other Knights were patrolling the east side, Kelman had recovered to light injuries, and the family planned to take him to the Western Front Main Battlefield.

Saine renegotiated his war contract after advancing to Level 2 and learned that his fiancée from the Ernst Family had come to find him. The chapter ended as a woman dropped a massive greatsword in front of Saine and asked if he was Saine.

• Jeremy told Saine that his fiancée had been at Thunderfall Marsh Camp for nearly two months and had argued with Colleena.
• Jeremy warned Saine that rumors claimed his fiancée had been involved with another woman, and Saine reacted with surprise.
• Saine reported his advancement to the Fortress Headquarters and agreed to extend his war service from ten years to fifteen.
• After signing the revised contract, Saine prepared to visit Kelman and the Fortress Trade Market.
• A woman hurled a massive greatsword into the ground before Saine and asked if he was Saine.

Saine met Nataya Ernst, the Level-2 Female Knight sent to break off their arranged engagement. He agreed that he did not approve of the marriage either, and the two began discussing their shared objections.

• Saine noticed that Nataya resembled Red Scales, the only Female Knight he had previously been intimate with.
• Nataya introduced herself and declared that she would not marry a man weaker than herself, especially a frail-bodied Magician.
• Nataya saw Saine's face but remained determined to reject the family alliance arranged by her father.
• Saine identified himself and said he wanted to clear up misunderstandings.
• Saine told Nataya that he also disapproved of the marriage.

Saine agreed to end his engagement with Nataya, but her anger led her to attack him. Their clash became the first battle after Saine advanced to Level 2, drawing a crowd of wounded knights at Thunderfall Marsh Camp.

• Saine coldly ended his engagement with Nataya and left, angering the proud female knight.
• Nataya hurled her greatsword at Saine, who activated his Elemental True Body and avoided the strike.
• Nataya realized Saine had advanced to Level 2, and Saine warned her that she would pay for attacking him.
• Saine and Nataya fought with Azure Fire Flame and fire-attribute battle qi, while knights at the camp gathered to watch and place bets.

Saine and Nataya fought a fierce duel at Fortress Camp, drawing a large crowd of betting knights. After Nataya transformed using her Demon bloodline and charged at him, Saine blocked her greatsword and fired a weakened Brilliant Heart Beam, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Saine and Nataya began their duel at Fortress Camp while the knights wagered heavily on the fight.
• Saine displayed his Level-2 Azure Fire Power and physical strength, drawing the crowd’s favor as the battle remained close.
• Nataya grew furious and activated her Bloodline Transformation, revealing a powerful Demon form.
• Nataya charged Saine with her greatsword, and Saine blocked the strike with his Azure Fire Heart Magic Staff.
• Saine declared Nataya finished and fired a Brilliant Heart Beam at thirty percent of its peak power.

Saine defeated Nataya in a fight at Thunderfall Marsh Camp, then bound and spanked her before Lord Alfies intervened. Afterward, Ulysses reprimanded Saine while Colleena comforted Nataya and defended the marriage arrangement, and Colleena complained to Alfies about the chaos.

• Saine pierced Nataya's shoulder with a Brilliant Heart Beam, then restrained her with Azure Fire Ropes.
• Saine spanked Nataya as the knights watched, and Lord Alfies eventually ordered him to stop.
• Ulysses reprimanded Saine for humiliating his fiancée, while Colleena comforted Nataya.
• Nataya complained that Colleena took Saine's side, but Colleena reminded her that she had provoked the fight.
• Colleena criticized Alfies for failing to intervene sooner, and he replied that he had seen worse arguments between knight couples.

Saine rejected the elders’ marriage alliance with Nataya, but she misunderstood his refusal as an insult to her worth. The marriage remained unresolved, and Saine and Nataya were assigned to the same combat zone on the western Thunderfall Plain as a massive battle approached.

• Saine told the elders that he did not approve of marrying Nataya and assumed she agreed with him.
• Nataya challenged Saine, asking whether he thought she was not good enough for him.
• Alfies left, and the family discussion ended without resolving Saine and Nataya’s marriage alliance.
• Saine learned that Luluenman had apparently tacitly approved the alliance, making it harder to avoid.
• Saine and Nataya were transferred to the western Thunderfall Plain and assigned to the same combat zone ahead of a battle involving armies numbering in the millions.

Saine prepared his creatures and equipment before accepting the fortress’s assignment to travel to the Western Front Battlefield. He set out on the Thunder Giant Beast with his recovering father, while Ulysses, Colleena, and Nataya traveled nearby.

• Saine packed his laboratory equipment and supplies, then checked on Hai Xi and the other sea lizards, the Thunder Giant Beast, Yuli, Owl Little Qi, the Mermaid, and the Little Fox Girl.
• Saine decided to bring the Thunder Giant Beast to the Western Front Battlefield and considered how to transport its enormous body.
• Three months later, Saine accepted the fortress’s assignment and set out for the Western Front Battlefield atop the Thunder Giant Beast.
• Saine brought Kelman Grant, whose injuries had nearly healed, and Owl Little Qi with him.
• Ulysses and Colleena traveled nearby on the Reverse Feather Lion King, while Nataya watched Saine from its back.