Recaps

Saine’s attempt to upgrade his Magic Staff caused an explosion, but he rebuilt the Magic Tower and eventually completed the experiment. He emerged with a radiant new staff and found Tourmaline had befriended the Panda Brewmaster.

• Saine and Lina escaped the Magic Tower after Saine’s experiment exploded, and Eugene’s Half-Orcs checked that they were safe.
• Saine noticed the powerful Rexxar and met Cenarius, while Tourmaline took an interest in the Panda Brewmaster.
• Saine declined Eugene’s offer of help, and the Half-Orcs left without pressing him.
• Two months later, Saine rebuilt the Magic Tower and resumed upgrading his staff with the godheads, Azure Fire Heart, and Undying Meteorite essence.
• After six months, Saine emerged with the completed Magic Staff and saw that Tourmaline had befriended the Panda Brewmaster.

Saine joined Half-Orc Eugene’s campaign to conquer the powerful Low-Level Bewitching Stone World, while his experiments on the Eye of the Devil Mask remained unfinished. As the invasion approached, Eugene asked Saine to help seize the world’s three subordinate Micro Planes first.

• Saine continued experimenting for two years, making progress in other areas but failing to perfect the Eye of the Devil Mask.
• Eugene gathered more than five thousand knights and magicians in No-Man’s Land to prepare for the invasion of the Bewitching Stone World.
• Hilard explained to Saine that Wizard World once required a victorious Plane War before magicians could establish Holy Towers and Knights’ Halls.
• Saine learned that the Bewitching Stone World was a powerful Low-Level Plane ruled by the Rank Five Bewitching Stone King and possessing three subordinate Micro Planes.
• Eugene revealed that he had found a way to shield the Plane Will briefly and open a portal for a surprise assault without a Space Fortress.
• Eugene asked Saine to help the Half-Orcs occupy and conquer the three subordinate Micro Planes before attacking the Bewitching Stone World.

Eugene rallied the Half-Orcs to invade the Bewitching Stone World by calling for their freedom and equality, then led them through the largest teleportation gate. Saine followed with Wizard World reinforcements to attack a subsidiary Micro World, arriving on a dark plain dominated by Earth Elemental creatures.

• Eugene assigned Saine to command an attack on one of the Micro Planes, supported by Wizard World forces and hundreds of thousands of Half-Orcs.
• Eugene delivered a speech about his dream of freedom and equality for Half-Orcs, stirring the gathered warriors and Saine.
• Eugene charged through the largest teleportation gate, followed by millions of Half-Orcs.
• Saine led his knights, magicians, and roughly seven hundred thousand Half-Orcs through a smaller gate to attack a Micro World.
• Saine arrived on a dark plain where Earth Elemental creatures were the dominant native lifeforms.

Saine led the Half-Orc and Wizard World forces into the Bobolu World, an affiliated Micro Plane of the Bewitching Stone World, and ordered them to seize territory before its natives could unite. After two months, the invaders faced a powerful native army led by a Demigod-level Bewitching Stone, and Eugene’s second son stepped forward to begin the battle.

• Saine ordered the invading legions to advance east and south, gather intelligence, and occupy as much territory as possible without building camps.
• Eugene’s children joined the war, including his youngest son as an ordinary foot soldier and his Demigod-level second son among the Half-Orc commanders.
• In the second month, Saine’s forces encountered roughly three hundred thousand native troops, mostly Earth Elemental Creatures and strange Flesh Creatures.
• A Demigod-level Bewitching Stone demanded to know why the invaders had attacked the Bobolu World and declared it an affiliate of the Bewitching Stone World.
• When Saine invited his Demigod-level allies to strike first, Eugene’s second son, a Half-Wolfman, volunteered to lead the opening attack.

Saine’s Half-Orc forces fought the native defenders of the Bobolu World while he prepared a forbidden spell, and the war in the Bewitching Stone World intensified as Eugene and his allies battled its powerful Earth Elementals. In the Orc World, the God of Jackals watched the fighting with visible displeasure as the chapter ended.

• Half-Werewolf Tosk charged the Demigod-level Bewitching Stone, and the clash sparked a full battle between the Half-Orcs and Bobolu’s allied defenders.
• Saine reached the front, deployed his Demigod-level knights to encircle the native army, and unleashed the improved Eye of Penetration forbidden spell.
• Eugene fought the Level-5 Bewitching Stone King while Cenarius and Rexxar engaged the world’s two Level-4 Earth Elementals.
• Panda Brewmaster joined the lower-ranking battle in the Bewitching Stone World and used Fire Cloud Swallowing Mist to reduce Half-Orc casualties.
• Orc God Kampas and more than a hundred Orc gods watched the war, while the God of Jackals reacted with displeasure to Eugene’s declaration against the slave trade.

Kampas supported Eugene’s attempt to ascend despite resistance from the Beast Gods, judging that a new Half-Orc god could benefit the Orc World as war with the Galente Federation approached. The chapter left Kampas watching Rexxar and expecting to share in the Faith Power Eugene’s followers generated.

• The chapter explained how the Wizard World covertly controlled the growth and resources of Alliance civilizations, including the Orc World.
• Kampas recognized the Wizard World’s pressure over Eugene’s ascension and remained loyal to its interests.
• Kampas learned that a Wizard World figure connected to Miss was likely behind the attention surrounding Eugene.
• Kampas considered the approaching Civilization War and the Orc World Plane Will’s demands, and concluded a new Half-Orc god could help.
• Kampas had covertly supported Eugene’s efforts and sent Rexxar to help, while expecting Eugene’s Faith Power to be shared with him.

Saine led the Half-Orc Legion deeper into Bobolu World while keeping the army together to face the natives’ main force. The resistance gathered an even larger army, including at least four Demigod-level Creatures, as Lina and her companions joined the fighting.

• Saine ordered the Half-Orc Legion to advance as a united force and seek a decisive battle against Bobolu World’s assembled army.
• Tosk gave Saine the slain Demigod-level Bewitching Stone’s corpse and Heart Core, but Saine accepted only the corpse and offered to repair Tosk’s damaged scimitar.
• Lina, Yuli, Little Fox Girl, and Luo joined the battlefield, where Little Fox Girl beat great war drums from atop a Thunder Beast to support the Half-Orcs.
• Saine learned that Bobolu World had gathered a larger resistance army with at least four Demigod-level Creatures.

Saine planned to cast a large-scale forbidden spell to devastate Bobolu World's native coalition while weakening its Plane Barrier. He left the world with Lina and Yuli to prepare the spell in the starry sky, and a meteor shower began over Bobolu World.

• Saine told the two Demigod-level Knights and Tosk that he would cast a forbidden spell and assigned the Knights to occupy the world's Demigod-level Creatures.
• Saine explained that he would cast the spell beyond Bobolu World to strike the coalition and damage the Plane Barrier, then answered a Knight's question about his chosen spell.
• Saine passed through Bobolu World's Plane Barrier with Lina and Yuli and returned to the starry sky.
• Yuli sent her magic puppets to move giant meteorites into place, while Saine arranged spellcasting materials and runes.
• Saine used his magic to set a small Meteorite Belt moving toward Bobolu World, creating a meteor shower visible from below.

Saine unleashed his composite fire-element forbidden spell, “Eternal Fire Hell Sea,” devastating the Bobolu Plane’s million-strong native allied army. Nearly drained of magic power, he survived the casting and considered how to improve the spell.

• Saine summoned a meteor shower that pierced Bobolu World’s Plane Barrier and struck the native allied army gathered on the battlefield plain.
• The forbidden spell’s immense area and power overwhelmed Bobolu’s low-level creatures and weakened the Plane Will, while powerful figures on the other battlefields took notice.
• The spell’s flames melted Earth Elemental Creatures into scorched stone and frightened the Half-Orc warriors fighting nearby.
• Saine’s magic power fell by nine-tenths, his Magic Staff was severely depleted, and more than half the energy in the two divine sparks was spent.
• Leaning on Yuli, Saine told Lina that forbidden spells could damage a magician’s life source and shorten their lifespan, then considered turning the flames into Flames of Ash.

Saine and the Half-Orc legions capitalized on the chaos caused by the Eternal Fire Hell Sea to crush resistance in the Bobolu World, while Saine watched the stronger fighters in the Bewitching Stone Plane gain ground. The early campaigns favored the invaders, though the decisive fighting in the Bewitching Stone Plane remained ongoing.

• Saine and Lina observed that the Eternal Fire Hell Sea weakened the Bobolu World's suppression and created an opening for further conquest.
• Over four months, the Half-Orc legions inflicted at least a million casualties and captured extensive mineral wealth without looting among themselves.
• Knight Hofya killed a demigod-level Earth Elemental by maneuvering around it and detonating Feather Vine Battle Qi within its body.
• Saine continued to monitor the Bewitching Stone Plane, where Eugene held off the Bewitching Stone King and Rexxar confronted the Anaconda Earth Serpent.
• Rexxar summoned Thunder Lizards and other beasts that overwhelmed the Guardian's elemental units and helped secure the Half-Orc legions' frontal advance.

Eugene endured a brutal fight against the Level-5 Bewitching Stone King while the Half-Orc legions pushed the Bewitching Stone Plane defenders back toward the Obsidian Mountain Range. As casualties mounted and the other battlefields favored the invaders, the Bewitching Stone King realized it needed help.

• Eugene repeatedly rose after the Bewitching Stone King smashed him down, preventing it from aiding the other battlefields.
• Rexxar and Misha helped rout the Earth Elemental Creatures, while the Panda Brewmaster inflicted heavy losses on the main battlefield.
• As the war entered its second year, Half-Orc casualties grew on the Bewitching Stone Plane and the other two Micro Plane battlefields.
• The fighting reached the Obsidian Mountain Range, the Obsidian Crystal Spot Giants’ lair and the defenders’ main position.
• The Bewitching Stone King recognized that its forces were in danger and decided it had to seek help.

The Bewitching Stone King sought aid from the Hengsha World Master after the Half-Orc invasion threatened the Bewitching Stone World. It learned that the Half-Orcs served the Orc World, a vassal of the terrifying Wizard Civilization, and its attempt to call in an old debt from the Sea Emperor Shark went unanswered.

• The Bewitching Stone King contacted the Hengsha World Master and asked for help against the invading Half-Orcs.
• The Hengsha World Master investigated the invaders and returned two months later with news that they came from the Orc World.
• The Hengsha World Master warned that the Orc World was a Large World and a vassal of the Wizard Civilization, and advised the Bewitching Stone King to surrender to the Wizard Civilization.
• The Bewitching Stone King refused to surrender, and the Hengsha World Master departed without offering aid.
• The Bewitching Stone King crushed the Sea Emperor Shark's token to request help, but the Hidden Wave Azure World did not respond.

In the fourth year of the war, the Bewitching Stone King decided to seek aid from the Ghost Crow King as the Half-Orc forces advanced and its allies were badly hurt. It offered the untouched Mo Han Plane in exchange for intervention, then contacted the Ghost Crow King, who answered with a mocking laugh.

• The Bewitching Stone King vowed that the Bewitching Stone Clan would never surrender, while the war’s casualties mounted on both sides.
• Saine allowed Half-Werewolf Tosk to take nearly 150,000 Half-Orc warriors from Bobolu Plane to reinforce Bewitching Stone World.
• Misha joined Forest God Cenarius’s battlefield with porcupines and beasts, turning the fight against the Level-4 Bewitching Stone in their favor.
• The Bewitching Stone King visited the wounded Anaconda Earth Serpent and proposed contacting Ghost Crow World for help.
• The Bewitching Stone King offered the Mo Han Plane as payment and used a black feather to contact the Ghost Crow King.
• The Ghost Crow King appeared in the Black Smoke and asked why the Bewitching Stone King had contacted him after ruining his plans 20,000 years earlier.

The Bewitching Stone King negotiated with the Ghost Crow King for aid against the invasion of the Bewitching Stone World, concealing the invaders’ true identity. After extracting generous terms, the Ghost Crow King rallied its forces to join the war.

• The Bewitching Stone King contacted the Ghost Crow King using one of its feathers and asked for help resisting the Half-Orcs.
• The Ghost Crow King mocked the Sea Emperor Shark for refusing aid and demanded two Micro Planes and the removal of the Bewitching Stone Plane’s suppressive force.
• The Bewitching Stone King bargained until it agreed to build teleportation passages in the Bewitching Stone Plane and two Micro Planes, with the Bewitching Stone Plane covering the costs.
• As the Half-Orc Legion’s attacks intensified, the Bewitching Stone King urged the Ghost Crow King to send troops quickly.
• The Ghost Crow King summoned every Level-4-and-above ghost crow in its world, preparing to send its forces to the Bewitching Stone World.

Saine and Tourmaline joined the Half-Orc campaign in the Bewitching Stone World, where the war continued to exact heavy losses. Four months later, a mysterious black vortex appeared above a concealed Energy Crystal hub, and Eugene sent Manjikesi to investigate.

• The Ghost Crow King revealed that he planned to seize the Bewitching Stone World’s teleportation node and use it to attack the Hidden Wave Azure World.
• Saine left the Bobolu Plane for the Bewitching Stone World with part of the Half-Orc legion, accompanied by Tourmaline.
• Saine and Tourmaline arrived in the war-torn Bewitching Stone World, where Eugene’s forces continued fighting despite severe casualties.
• Four months after Saine arrived, a black vortex appeared above a hidden Energy Crystal hub, prompting Half-Orcs to advance toward it.
• Eugene ordered Manjikesi to investigate the black vortex.

Cenarius tried to stop a black vortex, but the Ghost Crow King opened a passage into the Bewitching Stone World and unleashed its Crow Legion against the Half-Orcs. As the Ghost Crows overwhelmed the exhausted Half-Orc Legion, a Level-5 Ghost Crow targeted Tourmaline, who faced it without fear.

• Cenarius attacked the black vortex with emerald energy, but his magic dissipated before reaching it.
• The Ghost Crow King announced the Crow Clan’s invasion and ordered two powerful Ghost Crows to lead the assault.
• Countless Ghost Crows poured into the Bewitching Stone World and tore through the Half-Orc Legion, raising more than a hundred thousand fallen Half-Orcs as undead.
• A Level-5 Ghost Crow charged toward Tourmaline, drawn to her soul, and Tourmaline prepared to confront it with her azure ribbons and dragon claws.

As the Crow Legion overwhelmed the Bewitching Stone Plane, Eugene drew on the faith of Half-Orcs across the Orc World and ascended to Level 5 during his battle with the Bewitching Stone King. The chapter ended with Tourmaline and Cenarius fighting amid surging powers, while Panda Brewmaster Mangix revealed three Level-4 forms.

• Saine left Tourmaline’s turtle shell and took shelter near a Half-Orc position, where he watched the battles unfold.
• A Level-5 Gray Feather Ghost Crow battered the wounded Cenarius, worsening the Half-Orc Legion’s collapse.
• The Bewitching Stone King struck Eugene, but Eugene refused to surrender and drew power from the Heart of God.
• Half-Orcs across the battlefield and the Orc World sent Eugene their faith, helping him ascend to Level 5 in the midst of combat.
• Tourmaline and Cenarius’s battlefields erupted with the power of special laws, while Panda Brewmaster Mangix split into three Level-4 giant pandas.

Tourmaline and Panda Brewmaster held off powerful Ghost Crows while the invading Crow Legions drove the Half-Orcs back across the Bewitching Stone World. As Saine began casting a forbidden spell to stem the rout, the Level-6 Ghost Crow King's claw and a massive golden hand appeared above the battlefield.

• Tourmaline used her shell, Cyan Ribbon, and Dragon Claws to suppress a Level-5 Ghost Crow.
• Panda Brewmaster split into three giant pandas, and they fought the Level-5 Gray Feather Ghost Crow together.
• The Ghost Crow Army overwhelmed the Half-Orc front and other Micro Plane battlefields as the Ghost Crow King forced his way through the space-time channel.
• Saine began summoning a forbidden spell, while Yuli, Lina, and Half-Orcs rushed to protect him from Demigod-level Ghost Crows.
• The Ghost Crow King's claw emerged from the black vortex as a massive golden hand crossed space-time barriers and appeared above the Bewitching Stone Plane.

Kampas, the Orc God, intervened with a Golden Hand, crushing a Ghost Crow and driving the Level-6 Ghost Crow King back through the Space-Time Channel. As Saine continued casting his forbidden spell, Orc forces poured into the Bewitching Stone Plane to eliminate the remaining resistance.

• Kampas's Golden Hand crushed the Ghost Crow fighting Tourmaline and slapped the Ghost Crow King back into the Space-Time Channel.
• The Ghost Crow King fled without helping the Ghost Crows already inside the Bewitching Stone World, and the black vortex began to dissolve.
• The Golden Hand withdrew, leaving severe wounds in the Bewitching Stone Plane's barrier and damage to its origin.
• Saine sped up his forbidden-spell chant while frightened Ghost Crows fled and the Half-Orcs charged, shouting Kampas's name.
• Lina and Yuli stayed beside Saine as a voice called for all resistance to be eliminated and Orc troops and several Orc Gods surged through the hole in the sky.

After Eugene passed his trial and secured his divine seat, the Beast Gods joined the battle in the Bewitching Stone Plane. Tourmaline and the God of Jackals fought a wounded Level 5 ghost crow while Saine prepared a forbidden spell, and the Lionman God moved to stop another ghost crow from escaping.

• The God of Jackals recognized that Kampas had intervened because of Tourmaline and joined her fight against the wounded Level 5 Black Feather Ghost Crow.
• Tourmaline suspected the God of Jackals wanted a share of her spoils, but tolerated his help after he promised to fight without charge and called her a lady.
• Saine continued chanting the Eternal Fire Hell Sea forbidden spell as red fire clouds and meteors appeared above the battlefield.
• The Lionman God attacked the fleeing Level 5 Gray Feather Ghost Crow after Panda Brewmaster could not hold it back.

The Beast Gods and Orc Legion turned the battle in the Bewitching Stone World decisively in their favor, while Saine unleashed a forbidden spell. In the Orc World, Level-4 Knight Mane discussed the Wizard Civilization’s plans for a less aggressive approach toward neighboring worlds with Orc God Kampas.

• The stag-headed Beast God arrived to help Cenarius, but Cenarius sent his father to aid the endangered Eugene instead.
• The stag-headed Beast God flew toward Eugene as Saine completed his forbidden spell and filled the battlefield skies with fire and meteors.
• Mane met with Orc God Kampas and conveyed his grandfather’s congratulations on Kampas’s new Dominator-level status.
• Mane explained that the Wizard Civilization wanted to avoid unnecessary conflicts with neighboring civilizations and planned to seek their submission through other means.
• Kampas learned that the Bewitching Stone World would remain under his command while other planes in its star region would be approached separately, and he agreed.

After four more years of war, the Orc Legion defeated the Bewitching Stone World, and Eugene secured a place for himself and the Half-Orcs among its rulers. As Saine focused on studying a Ghost Crow’s black flame, the surviving Obsidian Crystal Spot Giant was left with a chance to serve the Wizard Alliance.

• The Orcs and Half-Orcs ended the war by killing the level-five Bewitching Stone King, two level-five Ghost Crows, and a level-four Bewitching Stone, while nearly hunting the Ghost Crow population to extinction.
• The Bewitching Stone World’s new crab-like guardian called on its low-level creatures to stop resisting, and Rexxar persuaded the Orcs to spare the Obsidian Crystal Spot Giant in line with Kampas and the Wizard Alliance’s plans.
• Eugene became one of the Bewitching Stone World’s rulers, and the surviving giant might eventually lead the world into the Wizard Alliance if it proved obedient and contributed to the alliance.
• Saine spent the war’s final years on research, studying a section of a level-five Black Feather Ghost Crow’s wing that Tourmaline had given him.
• Saine declined Tourmaline’s offer of the whole Ghost Crow corpse and requested only its natal flame, then discovered that Tourmaline stored the corpse inside her turtle shell.

Saine studied blood from the Panda Brewmaster and its three clones while receiving research materials and spoils from the plane war. He learned that Eugene’s Half-Orcs had suffered devastating losses, including Tosk and seven of Eugene’s children, and learned the name of Eugene’s daughter Montana.

• Tourmaline asked Saine when they would leave, then went to play with the Panda Brewmaster after Saine asked her to bring back blood from its three clones.
• Saine examined the golden blood of the Panda Brewmaster and the distinct fire, storm, and earth blood of its clones, discovering that the three kinds combined back into gold.
• Eugene sent Saine fragments of the Bewitching Stone King and Obsidian Crystal Spot Giant along with war spoils worth more than two hundred thousand Magic Coins.
• Eugene’s daughter told Saine that her father wanted to see him after his experiment, and Saine learned that Tosk and seven of Eugene’s children had died in the war.
• Saine told Eugene’s daughter he had promised to reforge Tosk’s scimitar, causing her to weep, and learned that her name was Montana.

Saine met Eugene and Mane after the Plane War, where Eugene mourned his fallen children and sought ties with Saine’s mentor and the Sea Clan. Saine agreed to introduce Eugene to Luluenman, while Tourmaline accepted Eugene’s proposed trade and diplomatic connections on behalf of the Sea Clan.

• Saine reunited with Mane, who praised his strength and invited him to visit the Knights' Hall after his travels in the Orc World.
• Eugene grieved for the Half-Orc losses and his children, and Saine honored Tosk and the others for their sacrifices.
• Eugene asked Saine to help establish friendly relations with Luluenman’s Azure Source Holy Tower and acquire food crop seeds, and Saine agreed to introduce them.
• Eugene asked Saine to maintain ties with the Half-Orc Clan after establishing a Holy Tower, and Saine accepted his request.
• Eugene sought trade relations with the Sea Clan, so Saine brought Tourmaline to meet him, and Tourmaline agreed to the proposals.

After leaving the Bewitching Stone World, Saine and his companions spent thirty years traveling through the Orc World, where Little Fox Girl Aijieli recruited a Level-3 Komodo War Behemoth and learned from shamanic texts. Back in the Wizard World, Saine accepted Level-4 Knight Mane’s invitation and was taken to meet Mane’s grandfather, who was interested in Saine, his deeds, or Tourmaline.

• Saine left the Bewitching Stone World with Tourmaline, Lina, and the others, then traveled east across the Orc World with Panda Brewmaster as their guide.
• Saine learned that the Pandaren homeland stood on the back of a colossal sea turtle and examined Panda Brewmaster’s extraordinary red gourd.
• Little Fox Girl Aijieli’s war song attracted a Level-3 Komodo War Behemoth, while Eugene sent her shamanic books and bronze classics, including knowledge from Rexxar.
• After thirty years of travel, Saine bid farewell to Panda Brewmaster and returned to the Wizard World with Tourmaline and Lina.
• Saine visited Level-4 Knight Mane, who took him through a Teleportation Array to meet his grandfather and said the older man might be interested in Saine, his deeds, or Tourmaline.