Recaps

Saine, Lunna, and Nataya arrived at Yaqina Plane, a prosperous world with a history of resisting Wizard Civilization. The chapter recounted how the returning Yaqina Empress led her people to defeat Wizard Civilization’s second invasion.

• Saine spent over a century traveling through more than a dozen Alien Planes in the Eli Knights Alliance.
• Nataya caught up with Saine and Lunna thirty years after they left Azure Source Holy Tower and joined their travels.
• Saine, Lunna, and Nataya arrived at Yaqina Plane, a world dominated by women with a martial culture and distinctive metal weapons.
• The Yaqina Empress left her world after ruling for twenty thousand years and traveled the starfield for a hundred thousand years in pursuit of greater power.
• The Yaqina Empress returned just before Wizard Civilization’s second invasion and led Yaqina Plane to defeat its forces.

Saine, Lunna, and Nataya learned about Yakina World’s history and its alliance with Wizard Civilization, then tested themselves against its warriors. After Saine defeated a Level Three Yakina female warrior, he brought her to his laboratory to conduct experiments under Yakina World’s unusual customs.

• The chapter recounted how the Yaqina Empress accepted Wizard Civilization’s terms after the second war, sparing Yakina World from destruction and securing its place in the Wizard Alliance.
• Lunna defeated two Level Three Yakina Female Warriors, while Nataya lost to another in a challenge.
• Saine failed to hire a Yakina warrior for specimen collection, so he challenged one himself and defeated her using his magic and equipment.
• Yakina customs allowed a defeated warrior to make demands of the victor, and the Level Three warrior offered herself to Saine, hoping they would produce a strong daughter.
• Saine took the Yakina warrior to his laboratory and began his experiments, but found her far from a quiet subject.

Saine and his companions explored Yakina World and several other planes before arriving at the Dark Flame Holy Tower, drawn by its Fire Element resources and knowledge. They discovered that the Holy Tower had been fighting a tense Plane War for twelve years, with no end in sight.

• Saine studied a Level-3 Yakina Female Warrior's passive evolution, refused her unreasonable request, and paid her 500 Magic Coins for cooperating.
• Saine, Lunna, Nataya, and their companions spent seven years exploring Yakina World, saw a statue of the Empress and a Level-4 Yakina Goddess of War, then departed without meeting the Empress.
• Saine's group visited the World of Lost Souls, Black Star Plane, and technological Karst Planet, where Nataya bought a revealing local outfit that Saine found difficult to ignore.
• Saine and his companions reached the Dark Flame Holy Tower, where they learned it was engaged in a twelve-year Plane War that showed no sign of ending.

Saine learned about the resource-rich Gumo Plane, where the Dark Flame Holy Tower had stalled against three powerful native races despite its Level-5 Tower Master’s strength. At the Holy Tower, Saine found that access to its rare resources required signing a war contract, and asked for the shortest term.

• Saine learned that the Dark Flame Holy Tower had fought for twelve years in Gumo Plane without help from a Knights’ Hall, while many unaffiliated knights joined as mercenaries.
• Saine learned that the Gulan Lizardmen and Mokenu People had united against the Wizard Civilization’s invasion, while the Golo Earthworm King and its vast underground forces had disrupted the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s near-victory.
• Saine judged that the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s Level-5 Tower Master was exceptionally powerful for resisting three Level-4 native lifeforms without calling for help.
• A young Black Robe Magician told Saine that the Dark Flame Holy Tower had suspended resource sales and offered rare goods at reduced prices only to contracted war participants.
• Saine asked the young Black Robe Magician for the shortest war contract, and the magician answered that it lasted five years.

Saine, Lunna, and Nataya signed a five-year contract to join the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s war in the Gumo Plane. After arriving at a mountain-wall base, they learned that the main fighting centered on the resource-rich Akale Plain, where the Tower’s forces faced a much larger native coalition.

• Saine agreed to join the war with Lunna and Nataya after learning the plane contained valuable magical metals.
• The three bought supplies, signed a five-year war participation contract, and teleported to the Gumo Plane.
• Saine saw the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s base in the Silas Mountain Range and the knights, magicians, and slave creatures stationed there.
• A Second-Level Magician explained that the main battlefield was the Akale Plain, where nearly two million Tower forces fought a native army of more than five million.
• Saine learned that the numerous Golo Earthworms, which could reproduce through fission, were the Tower’s most troublesome opponents.

Saine and his companions learned that the Gumo Plane’s natives had blacked out the sky by detonating its volcanoes, pushing both sides toward a decisive battle. Sent to the Akale Plain, they received command over slave creatures and a small group of magicians and knights as they awaited the final clash.

• A Second-Level Magician explained that volcanic ash had blocked the Gumo Plane’s sunlight for seven years after its natives detonated the world’s volcanoes to aid the Golo Earthworms.
• Saine received an assignment to take part in the final battle at the Akale Plain, as both the Dark Flame Holy Tower and the Gumo Plane’s natives neared their limits.
• Saine’s group flew toward the Wizard World’s main legion and saw a devastated plain riddled with ravines, holes, and carcasses.
• The Dark Flame Holy Tower assigned Saine’s group two thousand slave creature cannon fodder, five Level-1 Magicians, and thirty-eight Level 1 Knights to command and protect.

Saine arrived at the Akale Plain, organized the knights, magicians, and slave troops under his command, and studied the Golo Earthworms that fought for the Gumo Plane. As he identified light magic as their likely weakness, an alarm signaled that the war had begun.

• Saine observed that volcanic ash covered only part of the sky and learned from Nolan that the ash layer had thinned in recent years.
• Saine assessed the forces assigned to him, divided the two thousand slave soldiers among the troops, and placed the five Level-1 Magicians under protection while Lunna and Nataya led the knights.
• Five days after Saine arrived at the Akale Plain, large-scale clashes began to emerge.
• Saine dissected a Golo Earthworm and concluded that light magic would be more effective against the creatures than fire magic.
• A rumbling tremor and elemental alarm sounded near Saine's alchemy tent, announcing the start of the war.

Saine took his assigned position in the Dark Flame Holy Tower's army as its magicians unleashed devastating linked spells against the Gumo Plane's native creatures. He obeyed orders to continue long-range attacks even as the enemy tide reached the legion's outskirts.

• Golo Earthworms caused ground tremors across the Gumo Plane, and Saine reported to his combat position alongside Nataya, Lunna, and their forces.
• The Dark Flame Holy Tower's three Thousand-Man Magician Formations attacked with linked area spells, devastating the advancing native creatures.
• Saine cast three long-range spells using the elemental powers the Dark Flame Holy Tower had prioritized.
• The Combat Command ordered magicians to continue high-powered attacks and shift their target coordinates inward, risking hits on their own slave creature cannon fodder.
• Saine followed orders and saw the Gumo Plane's native creature legions reach the outskirts of the main army's position.

Wizard World forces engaged the native legions of Gumo World on the Akale Plain, where the knights’ mounts and superior range gave them an advantage. Lunna, Nataya, and Saine charged toward the enemy, with a deep red Constructed Magic Puppet appearing beside Saine.

• Gumo World’s Gulan Lizardmen, Mokenu People, and Golo Earthworms used their distinct ranged attacks, but Wizard World magicians struck from much farther away.
• The elite slave creature Legion and then the Knight Legion advanced into the open battlefield as the native legions entered effective range.
• Saine observed mounted knights of the Eli Knights Alliance fighting in coordinated formations and considered buying mounts for Nataya and Lunna after the war.
• Lunna charged first, and Nataya followed close beside her as the two Earth Knights fought together.
• Saine ordered five Level-1 Magicians to hold position, then charged after the two women without bringing slave creatures.
• A deep red Constructed Magic Puppet appeared on Saine’s right flank as he advanced.

Saine joined the battle on the Gumo Plane, where Wizard World forces fought the native Golo Earthworms, and learned how valuable their Crystal Hearts were. After his fire attack barely wounded one, he changed his Elemental True Body to light and drove the worms into fearful retreat, pursuing the injured specimen.

• Saine's veteran companions coordinated with the Wizard World forces as knights and magicians engaged the charging Golo Earthworms.
• Saine learned that Golo Earthworm Crystal Hearts were valuable magic materials and attacked one with a powerful Flame Ray, but it survived and fled underground.
• Saine recalled that Golo Earthworms feared the Light Element and transformed his fire-element body into a Light Element True Body.
• Saine's radiance frightened nearby Golo Earthworms, and he pursued the injured one as it tried to escape.

Saine captured a Golo Earthworm and gathered specimens with Yuli while fighting spread across the Gumo Plane battlefield. When a Level-2 Mokenu Man charged at him, Saine unleashed his Sun's Eye spell.

• Saine pinned a Level-1 Golo Earthworm with Light Elemental Rays, preserved its Crystal Heart, and stored it in his ring.
• Yuli subdued or killed charging indigenous creatures and collected them as specimens for Saine.
• Lunna fought a massive Golo Earthworm, while Nataya faced a Colorful Fur Giant Beast.
• A Level-2 Mokenu Man wielding a Silver Thrust charged at Saine as Yuli fired energy rays to cover him.
• Saine conjured more than a hundred Light Element eyes and fired beams at the approaching Mokenu Man.

Saine and his companions overwhelmed Gumo World’s elite forces while fighting on Akale Plain, but the battle’s balance shifted when a Gumo World god unleashed Level-4 power. The chapter ended as an emerald beast claw descended toward a Thousand-Man Magician Formation.

• Saine overwhelmed a Mokenu warrior with repeated Sun's Eye volleys and began harvesting Task Points across Akale Plain.
• Saine, Lunna, Nataya, and Yuli defeated the elite Gumo World creatures who challenged them by fighting together.
• As Gumo World’s larger armies pressed forward, Saine stopped collecting specimens and focused on killing enemies.
• The prolonged fighting caused casualties among the Wizard World’s lower-level Knights and Magicians, and Saine lost contact with those under his command.
• On the fifteenth day, a Gumo World god unleashed power beyond the Demigod level and sent an emerald claw toward one of the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s Thousand-Man Magician Formations.

The Gulan Lizard God and the Mokenu People's Grand Priest attacked the Wizard World's legions from different directions, while the Space Fortress intercepted the Gulan Lizard God's strike. Saine watched the battle from the right flank as the Golo Earthworms nearby grew frenzied.

• The Gulan Lizard God descended over the battlefield and aimed a massive claw at the Wizard World's Magician Legion.
• The Space Fortress fired an Energy Beam that broke the Gulan Lizard God's attack, then continued bombarding it.
• The Mokenu People's Grand Priest struck from another direction with silver meteor attacks, near Saine's position on the right flank.
• Saine watched the Grand Priest's attack from ahead of the Dark Flame Holy Tower's magician formation, outside the strike's reach.
• The nearby Golo Earthworms briefly went berserk under the effects of the Grand Priest's attack.

The Tower Master of the Dark Flame Holy Tower shielded the Magician Legion and attacked the native gods with his powerful Dark Flame. Saine moved closer to collect the remaining flames as the Level-4 battle continued near the ground, leaving him with only a fading specimen.

• The Tower Master of the Dark Flame Holy Tower protected the Magician Legion with a barrier of Dark and Fire Elements and sent two black dragons toward the native Level-4 gods.
• Saine recognized the Dark Flame’s power and urged Nataya and Lunna to move closer so he could collect its remnants, while Yuli followed to guard him.
• The Gulan Lizard God and Mokenu Grand Priest fought desperately near the ground, inflicting heavy losses on the Golo Earthworms as the Golo Earthworm King writhed under Dark Flame.
• Saine watched the battle and studied a fading cluster of Dark Flame he had collected.

Saine and his group collected Dark Flame Embers on the Akale Plain, then fought their way out as the battlefield grew more dangerous. After joining forces with Lunna to wound a Level-3 Golo Earthworm, they decided to use the passage it dug to retreat underground.

• Saine hoped Dark Flame Embers would help him reach Level Three, though he regretted that he could not obtain the Dark Flame Master's Source Fire.
• Saine led Nataya and the others east to escape the hostile Gumo Plane legions surrounding them.
• The Level-5 Dark Flame Master used his Space Fortress to suppress the Gumo Plane forces while close combat spread across the battlefield.
• Saine and Lunna severely wounded a Level-3 Golo Earthworm, which fled underground and left behind a passage ten meters wide.
• Saine asked whether they should enter the passage, and Nataya agreed so the exhausted group could avoid the encroaching legions.

Saine led Nataya and Lunna through the Gumo Plane’s vast Underground World after losing track of a fleeing Level-3 Golo Earthworm. Over seventeen days he explored and gathered resources, then began researching the underground ecosystem, whose value made the Gumo Plane far more lucrative to conquer than expected.

• Saine and his companions descended after the Level-3 Golo Earthworm, but he lost track of it in the maze of tunnels carved by the Golo Earthworm race.
• Saine explained how the Gumo Plane’s underground differed from the Wizard World’s Underdark, while Nataya stayed close to him and Yuli watched from the Constructed Magic Puppet.
• Saine used detection spells to find traces of low-level life and continued exploring the Underground World for creatures and resources.
• Over the next seventeen days, Saine took Nataya and Lunna through the underground, where they encountered strange lakes, rivers, eyeless humanoids, and unfamiliar magical beasts.
• Saine’s research revealed that Golo Earthworm secretions reinforced the caverns and their feces enriched the underground ecosystem, making the Gumo Plane’s resources far more valuable than expected.
• On the seventeenth day, Saine began experimental research in an underground Stone Cave, while the plane’s hidden wealth made Dark Flame’s determination to claim it understandable.

Saine spent nearly half a year researching Dark Flame Embers underground, deepening his understanding of Fire Elements and nearing Level 3. Nataya and Lunna interrupted his experiments to bring him to a place they had discovered, one they said was more serious and mysterious than another Golo Earthworm egg base.

• Saine relied on Yuli's battles and the destruction of Golo Earthworm egg-piling sites to earn combat merit while secretly spending time on research.
• Saine's uninterrupted study of Dark Flame Embers changed the Fire Elements within his body, causing flames of tangible magic power to manifest as he approached Level 3.
• Nataya and Lunna interrupted Saine's experiment and told him they had found a serious, mysterious place.
• Saine put away his Ice-Soul Laboratory Table and agreed to go with Nataya and Lunna to investigate.

Saine, Nataya, and Lunna investigated a hidden Demigod-level Golo Earthworm in an underground Magma River and discovered an immense formation of Silver Runes made with the blood of a Level-4 lifeform. They realized the formation pointed to a long-planned conspiracy and prepared to report it to the Dark Flame Holy Tower Combat Command.

• Nataya and Lunna led Saine east through the underground caverns to a Magma River nearly twenty thousand meters below the surface.
• The group watched a colossal Demigod-level Golo Earthworm emerge from the river and realized it was hiding rather than joining the war.
• Saine, Nataya, and Lunna entered the Magma River under a Fire Element Energy Shield while Yuli stayed behind to support them.
• The three discovered a vast network of mercury-silver runes across the riverbed and Saine judged they had been inscribed with the blood of a Level-4 lifeform.
• Saine and the others decided to return to the Surface World and report the apparent long-planned conspiracy to the Dark Flame Holy Tower Combat Command.

Saine and his companions discovered a river of Silver Runes in the underground Magma River, then were pursued by a Demigod-level earth dragon. Nataya escaped to report the discovery while Saine and Lunna stayed behind to hold off the dragon and prepare their retreat.

• Saine recorded the Silver Runes river with his Crystal Ball as the earth dragon sensed the intruders and began pursuing them.
• Saine ordered Nataya to take the recording to the Holy Tower Combat Command while he and Lunna delayed the earth dragon.
• Nataya accepted the Crystal Ball and flew toward the surface, where Construct Master Yuli waited to receive her.
• Saine transformed into his Light Element True Body and attacked the earth dragon alongside Lunna, whose hammer blows barely wounded it.
• Saine urged Lunna to use the body-tempering move he had developed for her as they tried to escape the strange river.

Saine explained the Fat Burning Secret Skill he developed for Lunna, which traded her stored fat for a tremendous burst of strength at the cost of intense pain and temporary weakness. As the Silver Runes in the Magma River stirred with a power Saine recognized as laws wielded by Level Four beings, Lunna agreed to use the skill and Saine ignited it.

• Saine recalled how mages and knights sacrificed their power or vitality for short-lived strength, then explained that Lunna’s energy-rich fat could serve as safer fuel for an explosive technique.
• Saine described the Fat Burning Secret Skill’s painful effects and its ability to strengthen the body afterward, while Lunna remembered avoiding it even when facing defeat.
• Saine and Lunna recognized that the trembling Silver Runes and the Magma River’s growing disturbance posed a danger beyond the Demigod-level Earth Dragon.
• Lunna resolved to use the skill, and Saine pressed a scarlet-orange flame against her back to accelerate its activation.
• Lunna roared as the Fat Burning Secret Skill took hold, while underground boulders fell and the Magma River and Silver Runes grew more violent.

Dark Flame Master realized that the Gumo Plane’s gods had prepared a massive Silver Array to imprison him, with the Mokenu People's Grand Priest sacrificing his life to activate it. As the Grand Priest began the ritual, Dark Flame laughed and the chapter ended with the order to make their move.

• A massive Silver Array emerged across the Akale Plain, surrounding the Wizard World's main Magician Legion and revealing the Gumo gods’ plan to imprison Dark Flame Master.
• Dark Flame learned through the Space Fortress’s Combat Command that the Array had been prepared to trap him, aided by Gumo’s new Guardian.
• Dark Flame taunted the Mokenu People's Grand Priest and the Gulan Lizard God, pointing out the Grand Priest’s weakened Blood Qi and dwindling lifespan.
• The Mokenu People's Grand Priest prepared to sacrifice his life to activate the Array, while the Golo Earthworm King remained underground to assist him.
• Dark Flame laughed as the Grand Priest smashed his Silver Scepter into the ground and plunged his skeletal hand into his heart, then ordered the others to make their move.

The Mokenu Grand Priest sacrificed his life to trap Dark Flame and several thousand magicians in a massive Silver Array, hoping to avenge his people and protect the Gumo Plane. Dark Flame unleashed devastating black flames but struggled to destroy the array’s underground source points before it activated.

• The Mokenu Grand Priest tore out his own heart to power a Law Contract and a sealing trap, having secured promises from the Gumo Plane’s other two Level-4 gods to support his people after the war.
• Dark Flame laughed at the Grand Priest’s sacrifice but remained calm, transformed into a Black Sun, and rained destructive black flames across the battlefield.
• Dark Flame’s flames burned at least a hundred thousand Mokenu People troops, and the Grand Priest shed silver tears as he focused his hatred on Dark Flame.
• The Grand Priest’s heart beat faster and intensified the enormous Silver Array, trapping Dark Flame and four or five thousand magicians, including many core magicians of the Dark Flame Holy Tower.
• Dark Flame attacked the array but could not quickly reach its source points twenty thousand meters underground, while two native Level-4 gods obstructed him and the array neared activation.

The Mokenu Grand Priest died after activating the Silver Array to imprison Dark Flame, but Saine and Lunna disrupted a crucial Law node from below. Lunna broke through to Level 3, and Saine emerged into a battlefield where the enraged Gumo forces surged toward him.

• Nataya emerged from the Underground World, learned of the Silver Array, and rushed with Yuli toward its radiance.
• The Mokenu Grand Priest used his heart as the formation core to activate the imperfect Law Matrix, then died believing it would protect the Gumo Plane for thousands of years.
• Saine and Lunna fought the Demigod-level earth dragon at a crucial node, and Lunna advanced to Level 3 during the battle.
• Saine helped trigger a volcano, whose eruption destabilized the Silver Array and gave Dark Flame a chance to attack its boundaries.
• Dark Flame charged eastward as the Gumo Plane's other two native gods moved to stop him.
• Saine emerged atop a magma pillar, where enraged Gumo armies surrounded him, and Lunna burst from the magma river still fighting the wounded earth dragon.

Saine faced a deadly rush of Gumo Plane creatures as the Gulan Lizard God sacrificed itself to strengthen the Law Matrix sealing the Dark Flame Master. With no faith that anyone in the Wizard World would rescue him, Dark Flame ordered his war platform to bombard the Akale Plain, even though its own forces were there.

• Saine prepared to defend himself against a furious crowd of Gumo Plane creatures, including powerful fighters and two Demigod-level beings.
• The Gulan Lizard God sacrificed itself to fill the gap in the Law Matrix and reinforce the seal on the Dark Flame Master.
• Dark Flame concluded that his enemies and lack of allies meant he could not count on rescue if the seal imprisoned him.
• Dark Flame ordered the war platform to fire three volleys of “World-Ending Death” at the center of the Akale Plain and sink the continent.
• A Demigod-level Magician in the command center protested that the bombardment would kill the knights and magicians, including Dark Flame Holy Tower’s registered magicians.

Dark Flame ordered his Space Fortress to bombard Akale Plain, sacrificing Wizard World’s own forces to survive the crisis. As the deadly barrage began, Saine grabbed Lunna and fled toward the depths of the volcano, hoping to escape it.

• Dark Flame invoked a rule allowing powerful figures to prioritize their survival and activated the Space Fortress’s weapons when his confidant hesitated.
• The Space Fortress unleashed a massive barrage across the central region of Akale Plain, striking both Alien Plane forces and Wizard World’s legions.
• Saine sensed the fortress gathering energy and rushed to pull Lunna away from her fight with the Demigod-level earth dragon.
• Saine showed Lunna the bombardment and carried her toward the Volcano Crater, urging her to dive underground for a chance to survive.