Recaps

Saine met Mane’s grandfather, a Dominator-class Knight, who explained that the Half-Orcs received support because many carried Wizard World human bloodlines. He then asked Saine to propose classifying all beings from alien planes with Wizard World bloodlines as demi-humans at the next Wizard Alliance Assembly.

• Mane led Saine, Tourmaline, and Lina through the Great Hall to meet his grandfather, a powerful Overlord-level Knight.
• The Knight asked Saine what he thought of the Half-Orc race, and Saine described its population, inherited bloodlines, and potential.
• The Knight explained that Half-Orcs received Wizard Civilization’s support partly because many descended from humans of the Wizard World.
• The Knight asked Saine to propose at the next Wizard Alliance Assembly that alien-plane beings with Wizard World bloodlines be classified as demi-humans.

Saine accepted an invitation to speak at the Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly, where he planned to propose reforms for demi-humans and Black Magicians. The Middle-Aged Knight approved both proposals, warning Saine that others might call him a wild dreamer.

• The Middle-Aged Knight explained that promising Demigod-level creatures could attend the Wizard Alliance Assembly and asked Saine to represent the cause of demi-humans.
• Saine agreed to raise the demi-human proposal, recognizing that it was unlikely to pass but could create an opportunity for change.
• Saine asked to propose that Black Magicians receive legitimate rights and face less prejudice in the Alliance.
• The Middle-Aged Knight agreed to let Saine present both proposals and warned him that many people might label him a wild dreamer.
• Saine said he considered the label a compliment, and the Middle-Aged Knight praised his spirit.

After speaking with a Dominator-class knight, Saine received an invitation to the urgently scheduled Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly and was sent with Lina to explore the Knight Continent again. He arrived as a Demigod-level Magician and found a Level-3 Magician fighting a family of Scorpion Dragons.

• Saine answered the Dominator-class knight’s questions honestly and praised the Magic Empire Ebarute’s Universal Magic Craze.
• The Dominator-class knight gave Saine an invitation to the next Wizard Alliance Assembly and sent him and Lina to the heart of the Knight Continent.
• The Middle-Aged Knight told Tourmaline that her relatives had come to visit, and she happily went to meet them.
• Saine entered the Knight Continent, considered the coming Wizard Alliance Assembly, and noticed a Level-3 Earth Elementalist battling five Scorpion Dragons.
• Saine took out his Magic Staff and offered to help the besieged Magician.

Saine and Lina defeated the Scorpion Dragon family’s resistance and negotiated for samples, then learned from Boke about a Quenching Crystal vein beneath the family’s swamp. Saine assembled a group to begin excavating the valuable deposit.

• Saine and Lina arrived to help the Earth Element magician, forcing the Scorpion Dragon family to retreat and defend itself.
• Saine wounded the male Scorpion Dragon Lord with his Flames of Ash and offered to let the family go in exchange for biological samples.
• The female Scorpion Dragon Lord accepted Saine’s offer, and Saine and Lina collected blood, venom, and a section of the male Lord’s tail armor.
• Saine met Boke, who explained that he had found a Quenching Crystal vein beneath the Scorpion Dragons’ swamp.
• Saine called Yuli and the Little Fox Girl to help excavate, while Lina summoned undead and Dark-Type Beings, including her Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beast.

Saine and his companions excavated the Quenching Crystal vein, then Saine befriended Boke by offering him a share and exchanging collected materials. Little Fox Girl Aijieli summoned the Level-2 Akanasade Jiana as her third magical pet, and Jiana’s parents accepted her decision to leave with Aijieli.

• Saine’s group mined the Quenching Crystal vein, and Saine let the Akanasade family depart after collecting specimens.
• Saine offered Boke a portion of the vein’s output, and the two Magicians exchanged collections and discussed their time on the Knight Continent.
• Aijieli sang her Soulful War Song to a young Cyan Shell Akanasade, and Jiana became her magical pet.
• Saine realized Aijieli now had three magical pets and gave Jiana’s parents potions to support their other children’s growth.
• Jiana’s parents respected her choice to leave and see the outside world with Aijieli.

Saine traveled through the Knight Continent Trial Zone with Lina, gathering Quenching Crystal and abundant resources while deepening his connections with Master Boke. As they reached the outskirts of a special secret realm in their fifty-sixth year in the Trial Zone, Lina had accumulated enough resources to prepare for her demigod breakthrough.

• Saine studied the Little Fox Girl's unusual success in befriending magical pets and considered investigating her more closely.
• Saine collected Quenching Crystal ore with Master Boke, exchanged contact information with him, and received an offer of help building a Magic Tower.
• Saine offered to help Lina with her studies and discussed leaving the Pale Bone Black Tower, but Lina chose to stay and rely on her own strength.
• Saine released Yuli, the Little Fox Girl, and the others to gather resources in the Trial Zone, allowing them to keep ordinary gains in their private treasuries.
• Saine and Lina encountered several Third-Level Great Magicians and gathered enough wealth that Lina could prepare for her demigod breakthrough.
• In the fifty-sixth year after entering the Trial Zone, Saine and Lina arrived outside a special secret realm.

Saine and Lina entered a hidden inheritance realm and faced a powerful Flame Giant Python in a shrinking magma subspace. They discovered that the realm’s way forward involved special energy nodes, and Saine sent Lina to reach one while he fought the guardian.

• Saine led Lina through a concealed passage into an inheritance secret realm filled with intense Light Elements.
• They emerged in a magma subspace that began shrinking as a nearly thousand-meter Flame Giant Python attacked them.
• Saine fought the python while Lina joined in, but the beast quickly destroyed her five-headed Ghost Crow Synthetic Beast.
• Lina spotted a special energy node in the python’s throat, while Saine discovered a vortex node beneath the magma.
• Saine told Lina to reach the vortex node while he held off the Flame Giant Python.

Saine continued through the Inheritance Secret Realm, overcoming trials of fire, light, and sound while collecting rare materials. Wearing his unfinished Eye of the Devil Mask, he found a concealed route through the sound-wave cavern and entered another Trial Space.

• Saine pierced the Flame Giant Python's jaw and was transported away after Lina activated a vortex node; he found a crimson crystal but not Lina.
• Saine mapped the patterns of the light beams, crossed their apparent barrage, and received an elongated light-element crystal.
• Saine put on the unfinished Eye of the Devil Mask to help detect energy fluctuations and illusions in the trials.
• Saine used the mask's sound-wave perception to locate seven nodes in a cavern, then chose the faintest one hidden in a stalactite.
• Saine broke the stalactite, entered another Trial Space, and obtained a thin needle that he identified as rare Sound Wave Magic material.

Saine advanced through the Faceless Mask’s secret realm, completing trials that tested research, alchemy, and strategic intelligence before reaching a gathering of five Demigod-level magicians. He ranked second among them and waited for the next trial while a gold-robed magician questioned his reliance on his Magic Staff.

• Saine found an ancient underground laboratory with no trial creatures and conducted an experiment on the Flames of Ash, then entered a trial focused on alchemy.
• The White Skirt Woman learned that the Faceless Mask’s inheritance realm had opened again as the Wizard Alliance Assembly and war with the Galente Federation approached.
• Saine spent nearly half a year mastering and winning the ninth trial’s vast black-and-white chessboard, gaining insight into the Way of Balance.
• Saine entered the next Trial Space and found four other Demigod-level magicians on towering platforms, but did not see Lina.
• Saine discovered that his accumulated score placed him second behind a gold-robed magician who appeared close to advancing and criticized Saine’s reliance on equipment.

Saine and the other trial-takers gathered for the final stage, where they were instructed to refine a magical artifact using gains from the previous nine stages. Saine chose to craft a mask and added the Goddess of Music's divine spark and Music Box, shocking the nearby mechanic.

• Demigod-level Magicians arrived one after another, including an arrogant Sound Wave System Mechanic who ranked third.
• Green arrived as the final trial-taker, and Saine and Green recognized each other as old acquaintances.
• With every platform occupied, the final trial began and instructed the magicians to refine magical artifacts from their previous gains.
• Saine chose to make a mask using his Eye of the Devil Mask as its base, while Green also began crafting a mask.
• Saine brought out the Goddess of Music's divine spark and Music Box, and the nearby mechanic cursed in surprise.

Saine refined the Eye of the Devil Mask during the Final Trial, where completing a Magic Conductor sent each trial-taker away and the colored bands ranked their work. Five years later, Saine remained in second place behind the Gold Robe Magician, with only six participants still in the secret realm.

• Saine chose to improve the unfinished Eye of the Devil Mask, applying insights from his earlier trials and years of growth.
• After about three months, a Demigod-level Magician completed a light-element Magic Conductor shaped like a cross, saw his score rise, and was sent out of the Trial Space.
• More magicians completed their creations and left, while Saine continued his experiment and the Gold Robe Magician held first place ahead of Saine and the Sound Wave System Mechanic.
• Five years passed, and six trial-takers remained; Saine stayed in second place as the gap between him and the Gold Robe Magician narrowed, while the Mechanic fell farther behind.

Green overtook Haywood to claim third place in the trial, while Saine and his companions continued their experiments for years. Belode eventually relinquished first place to Saine after Saine integrated the Succubus Queen’s blood essence into the Eye of the Devil Mask, and the secret realm sent Belode away.

• Green’s score surpassed Haywood’s, putting Green in third place and provoking Haywood to tear out his mechanical eye and continue his experiment.
• Two years later, Haywood accepted fourth place, introduced himself, and left the Trial Space; the other remaining Demigod-level Magicians departed afterward.
• In the ninth year, Belode stopped refining his nearly perfected Magic Staff and told Saine that he expected Saine to win the trial.
• Saine continued improving the Eye of the Devil Mask, embedding the Goddess of Music’s divine spark and integrating the Music Box into it.
• Saine began integrating the Succubus Queen’s Level-5 blood essence into the Eye of the Devil Mask, and his score soon overtook Belode’s before the secret realm sent Belode away.

After two more years in the secret realm, Saine and Green brought their alchemy trials to a close, with Saine narrowly ahead. Green left after declaring his direction for the future, while Saine continued his experiment and reflected on his friend’s extraordinary potential.

• After Belode left, Saine and Green spent two years working alone in the secret realm, and their white bands of light grew nearly equal in length.
• Green completed his Truth Arcana Mask, described how the trial’s knowledge had shaped it, and admitted that Saine had achieved a better result.
• Saine finished his current adjustment and exchanged a quiet, admiring look with Green rather than offering empty comfort.
• Green said he had found his future path and would not lose to Saine in alchemy, then left the secret realm in a flash of white light.
• Saine recognized that Green’s alchemical potential surpassed his own and continued his experiment as his band of light kept growing.

A year and a half later, Saine completed the Eye of the Devil Mask and gained the ability to contend with a true Level-4 lifeform for a short time. He passed through the final gate and met the Light Shadow, who confirmed that Saine had earned the inheritance through his own abilities.

• Saine finished refining the Eye of the Devil Mask, combining the Goddess of Music's divinity with the Succubus Queen's blood essence.
• Saine put on the mask and found that, together with his Magic Staff and Magic Robe, he could briefly fight a true Level-4 lifeform.
• Saine entered an unfamiliar gate of light and arrived in an endless white space.
• Saine met a Light Shadow wearing a Formless Mask, who said Saine had passed the trial and become its inheritor.
• Saine considered whether his divinities and artifacts should count toward the trial, then concluded that he had earned the ultimate inheritance through his own efforts.

Saine received Master Joss’s vast inheritance of magical knowledge and spent five hundred years absorbing it in the secret realm, growing much stronger. He left with the Faceless Mask, which stored the remaining inheritance and could guide his future research.

• Master Joss explained the secret realm’s origin and sent Saine two beams of Knowledge Light containing his insights and Truth Arcana knowledge.
• Saine immersed himself in the inheritance, studying for five hundred years and gradually exploring knowledge about Level 4 and higher.
• Saine emerged with Mental Strength and magic power above ninety thousand and sensed that he had reached a Critical Point.
• The Faceless Mask flew into Saine’s hand, carrying the unabsorbed knowledge and earning Master Joss recognition as Saine’s third mentor.

Saine emerged from Master Joss’s inheritance secret realm with the Faceless Mask, a Mid-Grade World-Class Secret Treasure that concealed his true strength. When other trial-takers demanded the mask, Saine faced them and asked whether they wanted it.

• Saine studied Master Joss’s inheritance and put on the Faceless Mask, whose power remained sealed until he advanced to higher levels.
• Saine left the secret realm, where Lina, Green, Haywood, Belode, and many other trial-takers had waited for decades.
• Saine learned from Lina that about fifty-one years had passed outside while he had spent over five hundred years in the secret realm.
• A late-stage Third-Level Undead Element magician demanded that Saine hand over the mask, and many gathered magicians showed interest in taking it.
• Lina and Green flew to Saine’s side as he moved to face the gathered trial-takers and asked whether they wanted his mask.

Saine used the Faceless Mask to overwhelm the hostile magicians in the Knight Continent Trial Zone, then prepared to leave with Lina and Green. A powerful giant beast intercepted them, mistaking Saine for a Level-4 lifeform and ordering him to come along.

• Saine unleashed six powerful beams and a torrent of Light Element magic, devastating the hostile magicians without killing them.
• Haywood and the surviving magicians were stunned by Saine's strength, while Saine's attack left him low on magical power.
• Saine called for Lina and Green to leave with him after intimidating the crowd.
• A powerful two-winged giant beast with a red nose intercepted Saine and declared that Level-4 lifeforms were forbidden in the Trial Zone.
• Saine denied being a Level-4 lifeform, leaving the giant beast wide-eyed.

After Saine explained away the power he had unleashed, the Big Nose Giant Beast warned him not to cause trouble in the Trial Zone. Saine then left with Lina and Green, and the three traveled together while Saine strengthened his magical foundation through experiments.

• The Big Nose Giant Beast questioned Saine about the power he had used, and Saine claimed it came from applying knowledge of Truth to wield stronger magic.
• The Big Nose Giant Beast accepted Saine's explanation, warned him against using dangerous magic again, and flew away.
• Saine called Lina and Green to leave the trial area, and Green told Saine that Master Archimedes had died after helping him enter the trial.
• Green accepted Saine's invitation to travel together and join a future invasion, while Saine promised to invite Green to invade a plane he knew.
• Saine spent their travels repeating experiments from his earlier magical studies to verify old questions and strengthen his foundation.

Saine continued helping Green and Lina advance while using the Faceless Mask to resolve most of his own pre-Demigod research questions. After twenty years, he remained reluctant to attempt Level 4 until he had solved several key problems in his Ash Law and body refinement, which he planned to discuss with his grandmentor Cuilisi.

• Saine shared elemental knowledge and Master Joss's inherited research with Green, helping Green break through to Demigod-level in his third year of travel.
• Saine gave Lina the Eye of the Devil Mask and a Magic Robe made from the Spider Queen's Divine Power Spider Silk, and planned to ask the Spider Queen to protect her.
• Over twenty years, Saine used the Faceless Mask to verify most of his difficult questions, though its ancient knowledge did not address several problems in the Ash Domain.
• Saine delayed challenging Level 4 because he wanted to resolve his remaining profound truths and avoid hidden dangers in his body and Truth Arcana.
• Saine planned to return to the Azure Source Holy Tower and seek Cuilisi's guidance on forging his Ash Power into a Law Body.

Saine reunited with Angle in the Knight Continent Trial Zone and shared rare magic materials with Angle and Green, strengthening his friendships with both. After several more years, the trial ended, and the magicians left through a pink Space-Time Vortex.

• Saine reunited with Angle, introduced him to Green, and learned that Angle was purifying the Komoyin Serpent Emperor Bloodline.
• Saine gave Angle and Green magic materials from Faelun Continent, while Angle returned rare bloodline treasures and Green accepted a Space Ring as a favor owed.
• Saine reflected on his friendships with Angle and Green and on how exchanging resources brought them closer.
• A pink Space-Time Vortex appeared above the secret realm after several more years, signaling the end of the Knight Continent Trial Zone.
• Saine and the other magicians passed through the vortex and left Knight Continent.

At the Imperial Council, Wizard World’s top leaders discussed the Galente Federation and the threat posed by the distant Minghe Empire. Claire revealed that Wizard infiltrators had persuaded Cybertron Planet’s Rank Six Decepticons to defect, giving Wizard Civilization a potential ally in the coming war.

• Claire told the Imperial Council that the Galente Federation had been trying to sway Wizard Alliance member civilizations and showed the council a powerful Federation Mechanical Planet.
• The council recognized that the Minghe Empire remained a grave potential threat, though Wizard Civilization was currently more focused on confronting the nearer Galente Federation.
• Claire explained that Wizard World had countered the Federation’s schemes through actions in Wild Gorilla World and the Bone Tomb Star Region and by monitoring Alliance members.
• Claire identified the Mechanical Planet as Cybertron Planet, a major Federation industrial and military-production hub.
• Claire revealed that Wizard infiltrators had persuaded the Rank Six Decepticons to defect five hundred years earlier, and that they had promised to side with Wizard Civilization if it supported their race’s freedom and independence.

At an Imperial Council, Claire won approval to support the self-aware Decepticons on Cybertron Planet, while the Wizard Civilization considered whom to send as a negotiator. Meanwhile, Befu sensed Saine’s Faceless Mask enter the world and wondered if her uncle’s inheritor had appeared.

• Claire explained that some Cybertron robots had awakened self-awareness, with the Decepticons seeking rebellion and Optimus Prime’s faction pursuing equal rights through negotiation.
• Claire argued that the Wizard Civilization could turn a small part of the Galente Federation’s robot forces and gain access to valuable facilities on Cybertron Planet.
• The Imperial Council approved Claire’s proposal and discussed sending a representative to negotiate after the Wizard Alliance Assembly.
• Klopp recommended a candidate, but Claire said a Level-4 lifeform would be more suitable for the mission.
• Claire said a laboratory research project on Cybertron Planet might have caused the robots’ intelligence to awaken.
• Befu sensed Saine’s Faceless Mask enter the world and wondered whether her uncle’s inheritor had appeared.

Saine and Lina attended an auction in the Western Islands while traveling toward the Black Domain, hoping to spend more time together before parting. Saine froze when he spotted a female centaur slave listed for sale.

• Befu assured the Wizard World leaders that Nair Wen Yinke and the Underworld could be trusted, and the Imperial Council continued its policy discussions.
• Saine parted ways with Green and Angle after leaving the Knight Continent Trial area; Green returned to the Crimson Flame Holy Tower, while Angle headed to his family to pursue becoming a Demigod-level Bloodline Warlock.
• Saine and Lina traveled north together and attended a Knights' Hall auction, where they were welcomed into a private room as Third-Level Great Magicians.
• Saine examined the auction booklet and noticed a female centaur slave for sale, leaving him momentarily stunned.

Saine recognized Luna, his old acquaintance, being auctioned as a Comfort Slave and bought her for 8,000 Magic Coins. After rescuing her, he learned that the Maya Tribe’s troubles began when Hephaestus died in a Plane War, leaving the story at the mystery of his death.

• Saine watched Luna, a Level-2 centaur and descendant of the Level-4 Centaur God, go up for auction as a slave.
• Saine outbid a Sky Knight and purchased Luna for 8,000 Magic Coins.
• Saine removed Luna’s shackles, and Luna recognized his voice and rushed into his arms.
• Luna told Saine that Hephaestus had died while fighting in a Plane War launched by two Knights’ Halls of the Western Islands.
• Saine learned that Hephaestus was the only lifeform above Level 4 to fall in the assault, though it was unclear whether bad luck or unfair treatment had caused his death.

Saine learned that Luna's grandmother Maya had been seized for auction and arranged to negotiate for her release. He offered Knight Thomas rare demon blood essence in exchange for Maya, and Thomas agreed.

• Luna begged Saine to save her grandmother Maya, who had been separated from her at the auction.
• Saine decided to help Luna and the Maya Tribe, partly because he wanted to build a trusted centaur force for future wars.
• Saine asked the auction staff about Maya and learned that Thomas the Holy Knight had reserved her.
• Saine met Thomas in a private room, where Maya was bound in an indoor hot spring.
• Saine offered Thomas blood essence from a Steel-Melting Demon Lord to improve his Demon Bloodline in exchange for Maya, and Thomas agreed.