Recaps

Saine and Yuli escaped Ferry’s devastating barrage after Saine protected Flynn, Obiye, and the critically wounded Ronaldo. They fled south toward chaotic energy disturbances, while Ferry salvaged Yuli’s discarded magic puppets and watched their escape routes with growing concern.

• Yuli emerged from the ruins in her battered Constructed Magic Puppet, having lost all her auxiliary puppets, as Ferry unleashed energy beams from his Honeycomb Divine Artifact.
• Saine shielded Flynn, Obiye, and Ronaldo through Ferry’s sustained barrage, while Ronaldo took severe injuries protecting the others.
• Saine placed the injured companions in passenger Space Equipment, summoned Yuli, and retreated south with her toward chaotic energy disturbances.
• Ferry arrived at the Crystal Barrier’s breach with two of Yuli’s scrapped auxiliary puppets and watched the directions Saine and Gondor had fled.

Saine fled south after escaping Ferry, only to find the Saint Jose Kingdom engulfed in a larger battle between Justice League and Dark Alliance gods. After locating the badly wounded Gondor, Saine chose to fly toward him with Yuli, unwilling to leave without pursuing his goal.

• Ferry's clash with Gondor ended with Ferry gaining Construct remains and puppet giants, while a Plant Monstrosity rose and attacked him again.
• Hall attacked the wounded Tom in the south, where Lilla and Melofu helped Tom hold him off as Justice League reinforcements arrived.
• Mara joined the fighting, prompting Dinair and Aidas to enter the battle, and Iso's vast water-and-storm Domain intensified the clash between the gods.
• Saine sensed that Ferry was no longer pursuing him, then saw the southern battlefield's enormous Domain and located the badly wounded Gondor.
• Saine flew southeast toward Gondor after asking Yuli whether she could still fight, and Yuli answered that she could.

Saine watched the Justice League gods battle the Dark Alliance gods, then planned to exploit the chaos and strike the wounded God of Crafts. He ordered Yuli to send the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet toward God of Crafts and detonate it.

• Saine observed the gods clash while God of Courage Tom protected Gond from God of Hunting Mara.
• Storm God Iso brought out the Storm Horn as the Dark Alliance gods launched attacks against the Justice League gods.
• Saine decided not to join the main battle and kept God of Crafts as his target.
• Saine asked Yuli to remotely propel the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet toward God of Crafts and activate its self-destruct sequence.
• Saine promised Yuli he would build her a better puppet after they returned to the Wizard World.

Saine used the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet’s self-destruction to kill the God of Spring Water and critically injure the God of Crafts, whom Saine then finished off. As Saine moved to claim the spoils and escape, a mysterious Purple-Skirt Woman appeared behind him.

• Saine ordered Yuli out of the Flame Mark Constructed Magic Puppet and sent the damaged puppet flying toward the God of Crafts to self-destruct.
• The God of Courage withdrew from the God of Storms’ attack, allowing the God of Spring Water to flee as the God of Hunting and the God of Suffering attacked the Goddess of Joy and the God of Literature.
• The God of Storms’ strike drove the God of Spring Water into the puppet’s crimson explosion, killing him, while the blast annihilated the Justice League believers around the God of Crafts.
• Saine recalled Yuli, flew to the wounded God of Crafts, and killed him with the Flames of Ash before preparing to collect his spoils.
• A Purple-Skirt Woman appeared behind Saine, unharmed by the lingering shockwaves and seemingly untouched by any force around her.

Saine encountered Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, on the God's Battlefield, where she questioned him about his Flames of Ash and Flame Demon bloodline. Mystra offered him the God of Spring Water's corpse, divine spark, and Coral Staff in exchange for cooperating in her research, just as more powerful beings arrived.

• Mystra questioned Saine about his Flames of Ash and his Flame Demon bloodline.
• Mystra caught Max, the God of Stealth and Seclusion, attempting to steal the God of Spring Water's corpse and divine spark, and he escaped after abandoning them.
• The gods recognized the Purple-Skirt Woman as Mystra, the Goddess of Magic.
• Mystra returned the God of Spring Water's corpse and divine spark to Saine and asked him to cooperate in her research.
• Mystra revealed that more beings had arrived as two waves of divine power appeared and tore through space.

The Blood War Lord Lev Tolstoy and the God of Radiance arrived with their forces, turning the battlefield into a tense standoff. After Mystra left, the Succubus Queen launched the demons into battle against the Justice League and the weakened defenders.

• The Blood War Lord Lev Tolstoy arrived with the Succubus Queen Anna Karenina and more than a dozen Demon Kings, while the God of Radiance appeared with the Justice League gods.
• Saine proposed an academic exchange with Mystra, the Goddess of Magic, in Purgatory Space, and she agreed to seek him out later.
• Mystra gave Saine the corpse and godhead of the God of Spring Water before leaving the battlefield.
• The God of Radiance tried to capture Saine, but Lev Tolstoy shattered his divine cage with the Blood Demon Sword.
• The Succubus Queen ordered the demons to attack the weakened God of Courage and his allies, while the Demon Kings engaged the Justice League gods.

The Purgatory demons joined the battle, forcing the Dark Alliance gods to retreat while the demons clashed with the Justice League gods. Saine remained trapped on the battlefield until Anna Karenina arrived, as the Blood War Lord continued to hold off the God of Radiance.

• The Purgatory demons charged into the battlefield, and the Storm God Iso and the other Dark Alliance gods withdrew from the fighting.
• The God of Suffering, Hall, flew toward the southwestern horizon, while the God of Hunting, Mara, reluctantly set aside his pursuit of the Goddess of Joy.
• Saine stayed on the battlefield because his weakened condition and the battles around him kept him from leaving.
• Anna Karenina flew to Saine in her true succubus form and took on much of the pressure from the Storm God Iso.
• Saine reflected that he had obtained the divine spark and corpse of the God of Crafts, as well as the corpse and divine spark of the God of Spring Water.
• Lev Tolstoy remained seated on the Blood Throne and blocked the God of Radiance with his Blood Demon Sword.

Saine followed the Succubus Queen through the Blood Throne’s spatial distortion to a position behind the Purgatory demons, while the battle between Lev Tolstoy and the God of Radiance continued. He focused on the throne, leaving the Storm God Iso to watch the high-level clash with growing reverence.

• Saine and the Succubus Queen arrived behind the demon legion using the Blood Throne’s spatial power.
• The Justice League gods failed to stop them, while Iso watched Saine but turned his attention back to the battle.
• Iso observed that Lev Tolstoy and the God of Radiance were holding back, yet their fight still offered him valuable insight.
• Iso’s dissatisfaction with the Purgatory demons shifted toward reverence for their power.
• Saine ignored the surrounding battle and focused on the Blood Throne, while the Succubus Queen grew excited.

The gods’ battle in Saint Jose Kingdom ended after Bane intervened, but the conflict between the Justice League, Purgatory demons, and Dark Alliance escalated into centuries of retaliation. Saine returned to Purgatory and focused on research, taking stock of his seven divine personas and the immense wealth he had gained.

• Bane arrived with Hall and ended the battle, after which the factions withdrew; the Justice League suffered the heaviest losses, and Bane took Dinair’s divinity.
• The Justice League mobilized more than a hundred gods and millions of believers against Purgatory, and clashes with demons and the Dark Alliance devastated kingdoms and caused gods to fall.
• The offshore dragons began withdrawing from Faelun Continent after profiting in the City of Wealth.
• Saine returned to Purgatory without knowing what followed on the Main Continent and devoted himself to experimental research.
• Saine counted seven divine personas in his possession and discovered valuable materials and three unfinished divine-artifact blanks in the God of Crafts’ storage.

Saine continued training Flynn and the other young Arcanists while pursuing experiments during the fading Saint Calamity. Mystra visited to discuss Truth Arcana, and Saine left considering whether exploring every mystery was the Wizard World's mission.

• Saine restored Ronaldo with potions made from materials found in the God of Spring Water's damaged body and taught Flynn some alchemical arcana.
• Saine told Flynn, Ronaldo, and the others about the Wizard World and its war platforms, inspiring Flynn to yearn for a Floating City.
• About 227 years after the chaotic battle, Mystra appeared outside Saine's castle in a Level 4 avatar as the Saint Calamity neared its end.
• Saine discussed Truth Arcana with Mystra and explained that truth could be pursued through fields beyond Element Power.
• Saine and Mystra considered whether exploring every mystery in the Star Realm could be their civilization's mission.

Saine and Mystra exchanged knowledge and spell models, widening each other’s understanding of magic. After Mystra had stayed at Saine’s castle for 137 years, the Saint Calamity’s growing turbulence began to appear in the world around them.

• Mystra became interested in alchemy and the idea of a Floating City after hearing Saine discuss new ways to explore and apply Element Power.
• Mystra answered Saine’s questions about elemental laws, including Fire Element and Ashes of Flame, and taught him several Spell Models.
• Saine traded the Spell Model for Eye of Penetration for three Demigod-level fire-element Spell Models to help him design a forbidden spell.
• Mystra stayed at Saine’s castle complex for 137 years while the Saint Calamity continued beyond seven hundred years.
• Saine sensed the calamity’s effects as the laws and environment grew turbulent and the surrounding elemental concentration began to decline.

After the Saint Calamity ended, the Spider Queen revealed her plan to capture and replace Best, the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats, with a god-level avatar. She also intended to use the avatar and Purgatory demons to map Faelun Continent’s law nodes for the Wizard Civilization’s future invasion.

• Mystra left Faelun Continent, and the end of the Saint Calamity began restoring order for its ordinary inhabitants.
• The Spider Queen contacted Saine and showed little interest in the Weak Divine Power gods he had hunted.
• Rose, the Spider Queen, chose Best, the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats, as her target because of Best’s power, believers, and value as a native avatar.
• The Spider Queen planned to capture Best alive, devour her, and use her identity to spread faith and gather Faith Power in Faelun Continent.
• The Spider Queen planned to use Best and the Purgatory demons to locate more Plane Nodes and important law regions for the Wizard Civilization’s future armies.

Saine agreed to help the Spider Queen Rose lure the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats into a prepared confinement array, with the hunt planned for about thirty-seven years later. As Saine prepared to return to the Wizard World, he left powerful potions and knowledge behind for his companions in Faelun Continent.

• Rose told Saine that he would lure the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats to her confinement array, and Saine reluctantly accepted after she threatened not to take him back to the Wizard World.
• Rose promised Saine the Great Strength God Divinity as payment for his help.
• Saine and Rose scheduled the hunt for about thirty-seven years later and planned to use Purgatory demons to track the goddess and her believers.
• Saine left God Elixirs for Ronaldo and the others, advising them to wait until they reached the Epic level before using them.
• Saine gave Flynn Magic Books and a treasury of Truth as he prepared to leave Faelun Continent.

As the gods' battles intensified, Saine and Rose prepared to ambush the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats at her secret lair in Bewildering Forest. Saine began setting up a trigger array for Rose's distant killing formation, while Best's devoted cat-monster followers revealed the target's connection to the forest's creatures.

• Saine noted that the recovering gods had grown dangerous and that the unsealing godheads had made his two divine artifacts difficult to use, though his own strength had increased.
• After another god fell toward God's Graveyard, Rose chose to strike the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats while the other gods were distracted by the battles there.
• Saine flew into Bewildering Forest and asked Rose why she had not chosen the God of White Bone; Rose urged him onward without indulging his questions.
• Two weeks later, Saine found an open area beneath the canopy and, guided by Rose, began assembling a rudimentary magic array that would trigger the true killing formation at an altar in the Wizard World.
• Saine took several dozen cat monsters he had hunted from his Space Equipment and recognized them as the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats' most numerous and devoted followers.

Saine used Spider Queen Rose’s magic array and three divinities to lure out the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats. As the Goddess attacked him, silver threads closed in from every direction.

• Saine killed an Epic-level cat monster and arranged its corpse with the others to complete Rose’s magic array.
• Saine placed the Great Strength God Divinity, Fire Cricket God Divinity, and shattered Biranssen God Divinity in the array as bait.
• The Goddess of Dark Night and Cats emerged from a dark vortex and confronted Saine, recognizing two of the divinities.
• Saine taunted the Goddess and stepped back as silver threads surged toward her from all directions.
• The Goddess transformed into a black Phantom and lunged at Saine instead of fleeing the threads.

Saine watched the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats struggle against Rose’s divine spider silk on the Faelun Continent, while Rose’s true sealing formation in the Wizard World pulled at the goddess’s soul. The contest remained at a stalemate until Rose called for help from the powerful monsters in the Black Tower.

• The Goddess of Dark Night and Cats fought against Rose’s silver spider silk, and Saine was scratched by force ripples before retreating and recording the battle with a Crystal Ball.
• Rose’s soul-targeting formation in the Black Tower revealed the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats’s phantom, while Rose’s true body pulled against her from the altar.
• Rose and the goddess’s soul remained locked in a stalemate as the formation supplied Rose with power and the goddess resisted across the distance between worlds.
• Rose’s composure gave way, and she shouted for help as the formation’s resources dwindled and failure became unacceptable.
• Level-4-or-higher Undead Creatures, dark creatures, and Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beasts emerged from the Black Tower’s darkness in response to Rose’s call.

Rose used Naige’er's resources and Synthetic Beast monsters to drag the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats toward the altar. Meanwhile, Naige'er watched her progress as he worked on a Level-6 Peak Bone Tomb Pioneer, keeping its divine core beyond her reach.

• More than a dozen of Rose's Synthetic Beast monsters answered her call, including several with power rivaling the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats.
• Rose and the monsters hauled the struggling divine spiderweb toward its designated position atop the altar.
• Naige'er paused his work in the Black Tower to watch Rose and remarked on her drive.
• Naige'er continued examining the Level-6 Peak Bone Tomb Pioneer, whose divine core he would not give Rose without reason.

Five years later, as Saine prepared to leave, the Succubus Queen brought him and Rose to Purgatory, where the demons presented the captured Goddess of Wealth as a gift to Rose and the Wizard World. Rose accepted the offering, affirming the demons’ sincerity as they sought help leaving the Faelun Continent.

• Saine interrupted his lesson on Magic Guided Cannons when the Succubus Queen arrived, leaving Flynn and the other students to examine the cannon.
• The Succubus Queen took Saine to the third layer of Purgatory, where he summoned Rose through the Silver Spider Ring.
• Saine and Rose arrived at the Blood War Hall and saw the Goddess of Wealth, Wojin, bound in demon chains.
• Blood War Lord Lev Tolstoy was revealed as the one who had captured Wojin, whom the Purgatory demons offered to Rose as a gift.
• Rose praised the gift as precious and accepted it.

Rose and Saine considered how to use the captured Goddess of Wealth, Wojin, while she remained bound in the Blood War Hall. Saine weighed the potential returns from entrusting his accumulated wealth to her and considered asking Rose to lend Wojin to him.

• Rose and the demons discussed Wojin as a potential source of Faith Power and divine power crystals, while Wojin listened in despair.
• Rose judged that she could not control Wojin as a second God's Avatar and had no interest in developing wealth-related domains, but considered enslaving her for her yields.
• Saine focused on Wojin's wealth divinity and Law of Money, reflecting on how wealth and Magic Coins shaped the Wizard Alliance.
• Saine considered entrusting his Faelun Continent spoils to Wojin to grow his resources for a future Holy Tower and Space Fortress.
• Saine decided he needed to find a way to ask Rose to lend him Wojin for a while.

Saine learned from Rose that the war between Wizard Civilization and the Galente Federation might begin sooner than expected, making advancement to Level 4 urgent. After the Spider Queen decided how to deal with the imprisoned Goddess of Wealth, Saine prepared to leave Purgatory, with the Succubus Queen and other goddesses promising to support the Arcanists and academies in his absence.

• Saine explored the Spider Queen's temple complex and asked Rose why he had never seen Lady of the Night, who was believed to be imprisoned at Purgatory's lowest level.
• Rose warned Saine that the war with the Galente Federation could begin early and that even Demigod-level Magicians would be like cannon fodder unless they reached Level 4.
• Saine discussed his ideas for using the Goddess of Wealth, but Rose chose to handle her herself and would spare her only if she cooperated.
• The Succubus Queen Anna Karenina, Goddess of Misfortune Benshaba, and Goddess of Luck Timora saw Saine off and agreed to support the Arcanists and academies after his departure.
• Saine and the demons witnessed a grand spectacle that appeared at the end of a Saint Calamity.

Saine watched the God of the Firebird ascend as a Level-4 deity on Faelun Continent, then departed for the Wizard World with a gift from the Succubus Queen. During his return journey through the Space-Time Channel, he reflected on the passage of time and the wonders of Truth Arcana.

• Saine heard the prayers of the Firebird Clan and watched the newly ascended God of the Firebird establish its divine kingdom in the southeastern skies.
• The Succubus Queen gave Saine a drop of her God's Blood containing Bewitchment System law power before he left through a spatial vortex.
• Goddess of Luck Timora warned that Gods' Calamity and the Flames of Ash would shatter the old order, unsettling Goddess of Misfortune Benshaba.
• Protected by the Spider Queen and a prepared summoning array, Saine traveled through the Space-Time Channel toward the Wizard World, expecting the journey to take about fifty years.
• Saine reflected on how the channel's time affected his age and marveled at the multicolored streams of light as he traveled.

Saine returned to the Wizard World with the Spider Queen Rose and learned that she intended to replace, rather than kill, the Goddess of Dark Night and Cats. Rose brought Saine to her laboratory to extract divine portfolios and Faith Power from six Divinities, promising him the resources she had prepared.

• Saine regained consciousness on a Time-Space Altar and noticed lingering anomalies from his journey through the Space-Time Channel.
• Saine saw a silver spider cocoon containing the still-living Goddess of Dark Night and Cats, and Rose explained that she planned to replace her.
• Rose led Saine through the Black Domain, where he saw Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beasts and learned that the domain had an Evil Dragon Legion.
• Saine handed Rose six Divinities, while keeping the Biranssen God's Divinity fragment because it contained only Plant Element Life Force.
• Rose activated a magic array to extract the divine portfolios and Faith Power, which she planned to give to her Level-4 servants.

Saine traded the six godheads’ divine offices and Faith Power to Rose for two Space Rings full of valuable resources. After Rose returned the godheads with some divinity left inside, Saine considered building a long-term smuggling route with the Black Domain under Rose’s protection.

• Rose collected the Faith Power from the six godheads and praised its purity.
• Rose gave Saine two Space Rings packed with Black Domain and Elf World resources in exchange for the divine offices and Faith Power.
• Saine considered maintaining long-term trade with the Black Domain and using a proxy to take the fall if his smuggling violated Alliance law.
• Rose returned the six godheads to Saine with some divinity remaining and explained that Faelun’s planar rules benefited its Level-4 lifeforms.

After Spider Queen Rose sent Saine out of the Black Tower, he flew south through the perilous Black Domain. The chapter then introduced Stephen Black Tower’s legendary master, Andy Dufresne, who discovered two Demigod-level Magicians fighting outside.

• Spider Queen Rose told Saine that the Guardians valued him and sent him out of the Black Tower.
• Saine landed safely outside, recognized the tower’s immense danger, and flew south to leave the Black Domain.
• The chapter described how Andy Dufresne escaped the Interstellar Prison with fellow prisoners, returned to the Wizard World, and was brought to the Black Domain by Naige'er.
• Andy finished an experiment, heard a fierce battle, and saw two Demigod-level Magicians fighting outside Stephen Black Tower.

Saine was attacked by the renowned Demigod-level Black Magician Hanbali while flying through the Black Domain, and the two clashed in a fierce battle. Saine held his own against Hanbali and his Synthetic Beasts, while both fighters struggled to understand the other's strength.

• The chapter established that the Wizard World's rules prohibited creatures above Level 4 from fighting, while Demigod-level battles remained permitted.
• Rank Five Black Magician Andy noticed Hanbali fighting someone outside Stephen Black Tower.
• Saine fought Hanbali and three Synthetic Beasts, relying on Demon Transformation and his extraordinary equipment to withstand their attacks.
• Saine regretted that his Green Source Seeds were nearly depleted, Yuli's Constructed Magic Puppet had been destroyed, and his divine artifacts needed repairs.
• Hanbali wondered where the powerful demon-type Bloodline Warlock Black Magician had come from and recognized that Saine surpassed any opponent he had faced below Level 4.