Recaps

Saine returned to the Ash Holy Tower and saw its construction progress, while Tourmaline built a home beside the new artificial lake. Tourmaline named the crescent-shaped lake Moon Bay, leaving Saine to continue developing the Holy Tower and its surroundings.

• Saine returned to the Wizard World with Mo Yan, admired the Sea Sky Spectacle, and then parted ways with Mo Yan at the Plane Barrier.
• Master Wenger showed Saine the Ash Holy Tower's towering foundation and plans for future expansion as Tourmaline's artificial lake began filling with underground water.
• Tourmaline dug a rough pit for her home near the Azure Ripple Canal while Luo and Little Qi rested on her dragon horns.
• Saine gave Tourmaline a Sapphire Crown, which she enlarged and wore as a ring on her Dragon Claw.
• Tourmaline named her crescent-shaped artificial lake Moon Bay, and Saine agreed.

Saine arranged support for the planned conquest of White Sand World, gaining Luluenman’s agreement and securing centaur and Half-Orc forces. As several Azure Blaze Sect members declined to join, he turned to Pinas for an answer.

• Saine visited Luluenman at Azure Source Holy Tower, invited her to help conquer White Sand World, and left her gifts.
• Maya and Luna reported that they had gathered forces in Centaur World, including twenty thousand centaurs and one hundred thousand Minotaurs for Saine.
• Saine contacted Eugene and hired Half-Orc legions at a very low price as Eugene showed goodwill toward him.
• Saine invited members of the Azure Blaze Sect to join the campaign, but Cuilisi, Gagaru, and Ailide declined.
• Saine went to ask Pinas whether she would join the war.

Saine secured the Green Grain Knights' Hall's support for the White Sand World conquest and completed the Ash Holy Tower, then turned to building its academy and recruiting magicians. As he worried about finding enough Magic Apprentices, Saine hit on the idea of building a Teleportation Array.

• Saine visited Pinas at the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower, where she declined to join the White Sand World conquest but offered Beleka and the Green Grain Knights' Hall's support.
• Saine and Pinas agreed on an approximate departure time, setting the campaign's forces as Ash Holy Tower, Azure Source Holy Tower, and the Green Grain Knights' Hall.
• After Ash Holy Tower was completed, Master Wenger praised Saine's good fortune in finding a rich Black Chrome Mine beneath its grounds.
• Saine rewarded the Sea King Class creatures who had helped build the tower and invested the remaining Magic Coins in its library and academy buildings.
• Saine began recruiting Formal-Ranked Magicians and Magic Apprentices, but struggled to find enough apprentices for the Holy Tower's long-term needs.
• Saine wondered whether he could build a Teleportation Array to bring apprentices from farther away, then suddenly raised his head at the idea.

Saine planned to use the Davier Region’s rampant Black Magician Activities as cover to bring more apprentices to the Ash Holy Tower. After building teleportation nodes, he returned with two hundred rescued apprentices and declared that he would crack down harder on the black magicians.

• Saine decided that teleporting apprentices within the Wizard World could help supply the Ash Holy Tower, which had only recruited around two hundred students locally.
• Baus received a message, summoned his family, and announced that they would abandon their properties and move to the Land of Ashes.
• Saine left the Ash Holy Tower for two years while Luluenman managed it in his absence.
• Saine built eleven magic array nodes and returned with two hundred apprentices who had been kidnapped by Black Magicians and rescued by him.
• Luluenman welcomed Saine and the apprentices, and Saine said he would increase efforts to crack down on Black Magician Activities.

Saine welcomed more than two hundred Magic Apprentices and inspected Ash Holy Tower’s facilities, resources, and newly recruited magicians. The Holy Tower was beginning to grow, with familiar members from Azure Source Holy Tower among its first recruits.

• Luluenman told Saine to return the kidnapped Magic Apprentices but chose to overlook their arrival because Ash Holy Tower needed apprentices.
• Saine settled the apprentices, then toured the Holy Tower’s Surface World, underground, and magma-layer sections.
• Saine inspected the Elemental Pools and found a nearly formed piece of Crimson-Gold Ore that he considered using to reinforce his Magic Staff.
• Saine collected energy essence and summoned Ash Holy Tower’s registered magicians to meet one another.
• Irene, Serena, Goria, and Faine were among the former Azure Source Holy Tower members who had joined Saine’s Holy Tower.

Saine prepared for the conquest of White Sand World as Wizard Civilization and the Galente Federation maneuvered to gather allies ahead of a looming war. Luluenman told Saine the expeditionary force would depart in three years, leaving him to ready his legions for the voyage aboard her fortress.

• Saine focused on the planned war against White Sand World, while reconnaissance and divination had gathered intelligence about the unfamiliar starfield.
• More than a century earlier, Sea Emperor Shark had declined Wizard Civilization's invitation for Hidden Wave Azure World to join the Wizard Alliance and refused to recruit neighboring worlds.
• Wizard Civilization planned to use the invasion of White Sand World to pressure Hidden Wave Azure World, while the Galente Federation also forcibly absorbed a nearby elemental world.
• Luluenman told Saine that the expeditionary force would tentatively depart in three years and instructed him to prepare his legions.

Saine assembled the Wizard World's forces for the expedition to White Sand World while Ash Holy Tower prepared to depart. He left with his magicians and arrived at the Azure Source Space Fortress, where legions from across the Wizard World were gathering.

• Saine recruited traveling magicians and arranged Centaur, Minotaur, Half-Orc, and Sea Folk legions for the campaign, bringing Ash Holy Tower's forces to about six hundred and fifty thousand.
• Three years passed without Spider Queen Rose delivering her promised Demigod-level Dark Elf Queen, while Old Man Pidon arrived and began studying the Silver Armor Magic Puppet.
• Old Man Pidon could not decipher the puppet in time for the expedition, so Yuli could not use it before the forces departed.
• Saine ordered more than five hundred Formal-Ranked Magicians to leave Ash Holy Tower aboard Floating Ships.
• Saine reached the Azure Source Space Fortress, where Luluenman's magicians, Plant Monstrosities, and other legions from conquered worlds were assembled.

Saine reunited with the creatures of Biranssen Wilderness World and discussed his Holy Tower Academy and apprentice training with Luluenman as the expedition prepared to depart. After Tourmaline and the legions boarded, the Azure Source Space Fortress set sail for the White Sand World War, leaving Tourmaline asleep in Saine's quarters.

• Saine greeted Kingfisher and the Spiked Green Mushroom King, then met Luluenman in the space fortress's command room.
• Saine told Luluenman that he still needed to collect two more low-tier legions from Orc World and Centaur World, and they discussed the growth of Ash Holy Tower Academy and the restrictions on sending apprentices into battle.
• Luluenman explained that Wizard World rules barred knights and magicians below Rank One from entering battle except in special circumstances.
• After Tourmaline and the combat legions were in position, the Azure Source Space Fortress departed from the public Star Harbor as a Green Grain Knights' Hall fortress also set out.
• Tourmaline went to Saine's quarters and fell asleep without greeting him.

Saine and Luluenman gathered Half-Orc, Centaur, and Minotaur legions from Orc World and Centaur World before taking their Space Fortresses into the starry sky. The fortresses weathered a cosmic storm and replenished their energy, while Saine reflected on their immense capabilities and the apparent bottleneck in their main cannon’s offensive power.

• Saine introduced Luluenman and Beleka to Eugene, the God of Half-Orcs, as nearly a hundred thousand Half-Orc Legion soldiers boarded the Space Fortresses.
• Saine learned that Rexxar was away helping another Orc god and that Panda Brewmaster had left to travel through Wizard Alliance territory.
• At Centaur World, Saine and Luluenman met Hekam, who offered two hundred thousand Centaur Legion soldiers, but they declined because they had enough troops.
• The Space Fortresses departed with the Centaur and Minotaur Legions and crossed a medium-scale energy storm, using it to replenish their power.
• Saine and Luluenman discussed how the fortresses could match Level-5 creatures in some respects, while their main cannon upgrades had reached a bottleneck.

After two years of traveling through the Star Realm, Saine and Luluenman arrived with their Space Fortresses at White Sand World, an undiscovered Low-Level Plane. The Wizard World forces prepared to invade its peaceful inhabitants, especially the Sand Worms and their Queen Worm, whose role was vital to the world’s ecosystem.

• Saine admired the Star Realm’s anomalies, and Luluenman advised him to explore the regions within the Wizard Alliance after the war.
• Two years later, Saine and Luluenman reached White Sand World and began surveying the remote region for the Wizard Alliance’s star map.
• The chapter described White Sand World’s Wind Element White Wing Birds and Earth Element Sand Worms, whose mucus fed most of the world’s lifeforms.
• Saine’s forces identified the Sand Worms and their Level-4 Queen Worm as key targets because of their population and ecological importance.
• The White Wing Bird King and the guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen had previously contacted other worlds, but White Sand World had remained mostly peaceful and isolated.
• The Wizard World forces set their sights on White Sand World’s resources, leaving its inhabitants facing an invasion they were not prepared for.

Saine, Luluenman, and Beleka identified Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen as a third Level-4 combat force protecting White Sand World. Saine began casting a forbidden spell alongside the two space fortresses’ main cannons to break through the world’s thick Plane Barrier.

• Luluenman told Saine that White Sand World had a Guardian capable of fighting at Level 4, and the Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen tried to drive the invaders away.
• Luluenman proposed capturing Sen Sen and studying it to create profitable life potions for Amethyst Crystal World.
• Beleka contacted Saine and Luluenman to ask whether they were ready to attack White Sand World’s thick Plane Barrier.
• Saine decided to cast a forbidden spell while the two space fortresses fired their main cannons, and Luluenman agreed to guard him.
• Saine began casting the spell as Beleka took position to protect him, while the fortresses’ cannons gathered energy and terrified the creatures below.

White Sand World's Guardian, White Wing Bird King, and Sand Worm Queen faced an invading Wizard World legion as Saine prepared a forbidden spell. The White Sand World natives launched a desperate counterattack, and the two Space Fortresses prepared to fire.

• Giant Stone Sen Sen, the White Wing Bird King, and the Sand Worm Queen gathered at the Plane Navel as the Guardian judged the approaching Wizard World force too dangerous to confront lightly.
• The White Wing Bird King led several hundred thousand birds toward Saine and the Space Fortresses, while the Sand Worm Queen rallied flying insects and Giant Stone Sen Sen led elemental creatures into battle.
• Beleka struck the White Wing Bird King’s right wing with a fire arrow, then attacked it with her sword as Luluenman cast protective shields and offensive spells.
• The Wizard World legion welcomed the natives’ charge, and weapon armor plating opened along the two Space Fortresses as their mages prepared for battle.

White Sand World's native army charged out of the Plane Barrier and suffered devastating losses from the Wizard World’s Space Fortresses, but the Guardian and Queen Worm reorganized the survivors behind Earth-element defenses. As the army pressed forward toward the Wizard World legions and its Mother Plane, Luluenman asked Saine if his spell was ready, and Saine prepared to unleash it.

• White Sand World's creatures charged out of the Plane Barrier as Saine, Luluenman, and Beleka fought the world’s Level-4 defenders.
• The Wizard World’s Space Fortresses and Magician Legion unleashed saturated firepower, killing large numbers of White Sand World’s advancing troops.
• The Guardian and Queen Worm organized the Earth-element creatures and Zerg into formations that shielded the army with armored Little Zerg and pale-yellow energy mist.
• The Winged Race birds retreated into the Zerg Swarm for shelter as the protected native army continued advancing toward the Wizard World legions.
• Luluenman asked Saine if his spell was ready, and Saine aimed his Magic Staff at the advancing army.

Saine pierced White Sand World's Plane Barrier with his Eye of Penetration, striking the Sand Worm Queen and opening the way for the Wizard World legion's assault. As the Space Fortresses advanced and slave troops poured out, Saine transformed into a Flame Demon Giant and reached toward the breach.

• Saine's Eye of Penetration tore through White Sand World's Plane Barrier and struck the Sand Worm Queen, throwing the Zerg Swarm into chaos.
• The two Space Fortresses fired their main cannons into the breach and inflicted further damage on White Sand World's forces.
• Saine and Luluenman ordered the full army to attack and conquer the Low-Level World.
• The Space Fortresses advanced, opened their lower-deck hatches, and unleashed hundreds of thousands of slave creature troops.
• Saine flew to the breach, struck his chest with his Magic Staff, transformed into a Flame Demon Giant, and reached toward the Plane Barrier.

Saine and the Wizard World forces breached White Sand World’s Plane Barrier and routed its defenders, opening the way for an invasion. Tourmaline awoke and arrived as the first cannon fodder troops entered the plane.

• Saine’s forbidden spell and the two Space Fortress cannons struck White Sand World, shaking the plane and breaching its barrier.
• Tourmaline woke in the Space Fortress, drank the Vermillion Fruit juice Saine had prepared, and hurried to join the battle.
• Saine and the Wizard World forces drove White Sand World’s defenders into retreat; the White Wing Bird King escaped while the Sand Worm Queen remained outside.
• Saine examined the breach, then ordered Luluenman to send the legions into White Sand World.
• More than a hundred thousand cannon fodder troops entered the plane, and Tourmaline reached Saine’s side and offered to help.

Saine and Beleka prepared to break into the White Sand World, but Saine took the lead because Beleka was more injured than she let on. As the Guardian tried to keep him out, Saine fought it with overwhelming force while the Wizard World legions clashed with the defenders below.

• Tourmaline went to find a place to sleep while Saine, Luluenman, and the others continued invading the White Sand World.
• Beleka tried to force her way through the Plane Barrier, but Saine pulled her back and said he would go first.
• Luluenman gave Beleka recovery potions and told Saine to handle the dangerous work, so Saine charged toward the breach.
• The Guardian rallied the White Sand World’s creatures to stop Saine, while the Wizard World legions met them in battle and a Third-Level Great Magician fired two short-range magic conductor cannons.
• Saine pushed one-third of his Law Body through the breach and exchanged blows with the Guardian, blasting it back repeatedly as it kept charging at him.
• Beleka watched Saine’s powerful attacks in surprise, and Luluenman worried that his reckless disciple might kill the Guardian before he could study its longevity.

Saine drove back White Sand World’s defenders and forced his way into the plane, while the wounded guardian sought help from the Hengsha World Master. The Level-5 monarch warned that resistance was futile and urged the guardian to surrender, leaving White Sand World’s fate uncertain.

• Saine used sound-wave vibrations to weaken Giant Stone Sen Sen, frightened the Sand Worm Queen into retreating underground, and destroyed the insects that charged him.
• Saine pressed farther into White Sand World as the Wizard World Legion continued its invasion.
• At the Plane Navel, the guardian checked on the unborn life it called Sha'er and contacted its old friend, the Hengsha World Master.
• The guardian described the invasion and asked the Hengsha World Master for help.
• The Hengsha World Master advised the guardian to surrender, explaining that the Wizard Civilization was too powerful to oppose and citing the destruction of Bewitching Stone World after its king had refused the same advice.

Saine’s Wizard Civilization forces advanced smoothly through White Sand World, with Maya’s Centaurs and Eugene’s Half-Orcs proving effective under Beleka’s war plans. After six months, Saine met the world’s Guardian to hear surrender terms, while the native Level-4 beings remained unaccounted for.

• Beleka organized the invasion with eight plans and four principles, assigning Saine’s Sea Folk to occupy seas, guard fortresses, and transport resources.
• Maya led her Centaur Legion into battle with Saine’s silver longbow, killing a demigod-level insect and several Level-3 natives.
• Lamos led Eugene’s Half-Orc Legion, while Beleka’s modified Hellfire Legion fought effectively alongside the other Wizard Civilization forces.
• After six months of advances into the northern Dago Long Great Prairie and southern Blue Language Flower Basin, Saine received a request for negotiations.
• Saine, Luluenman, and Beleka discussed the possibility of surrender and the danger of White Sand World’s Level-4 beings escaping.
• Saine met the Guardian in the Ye Ni Xun River Basin, where it explained that the natives had come to discuss surrender.

Saine rejected White Sand World's offer to surrender and join the Wizard Alliance, preferring to exploit the plane's resources. After the Guardian escaped his attack, Luluenman advised him to report White Sand World's request to the Alliance.

• The White Wing Bird King opposed surrender, while Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen and the Sand Worm Queen sought terms to protect White Sand World's inhabitants.
• Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen offered to surrender and join the Wizard Alliance, but Saine refused to negotiate on those terms.
• The Guardian fled underground when Saine's threats and the Faceless Mask made clear he would not compromise.
• Saine pursued the Guardian and attacked White Sand World's frontline, then returned to the Space Fortress.
• Luluenman agreed that White Sand World should not join the Alliance but told Saine to report its request.

Saine joined Knight Beleka in driving the injured White Wing Bird King from White Sand World’s Northern Battlefield, then sent the northern legion deeper into enemy territory. While waiting to see what fortune the war might bring him, Saine discovered that White Sand World had valuable energy crystal deposits and another major resource export.

• Saine sent Wizard World his assessment and recommendation about whether White Sand World qualified to join the Wizard Alliance.
• Knight Beleka went alone to challenge White Wing Bird King, so Saine hurried north to help her.
• Saine and Beleka wounded White Wing Bird King and forced it to flee north again.
• Saine ordered the northern legion to advance while Beleka withdrew to rest.
• Saine reviewed the war’s potential rewards and found that White Sand World had extensive energy crystal reserves and another major resource export.

Saine learned that White Sand World's Sand Worms and resources could provide lasting value, but he lacked time to develop them sustainably. The Wizard Alliance accepted the world's application to join, and Knight Mane arrived to negotiate its admission and the compensation owed to Saine's forces.

• Saine reviewed reports on Sand Worm mucus and learned that its medicinal value could be changed by altering the creatures' feed and exposure to light.
• Saine said White Sand World could be developed sustainably through the Wizard Alliance, but he did not have enough time.
• Luluenman told Saine that the Wizard Alliance had approved White Sand World's application and would send representatives to discuss its admission.
• Saine asked how his war gains would be handled, and Luluenman said the alliance should compensate his forces.
• Knight Mane arrived as the Wizard Alliance's envoy, surprised to find Saine there, and promised not to let him suffer a loss in the negotiations.

Wizard Civilization negotiated peace with White Sand World, offering generous aid and alliance membership in exchange for the Guardian's signature. The talks also brought Hengsha World and its Master to Wizard Civilization's attention, and Knight Mane asked the Guardian to arrange an introduction.

• Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen chose the Dun River Basin as the site for the second peace talks, where Knight Mane, Saine, and Wizard Civilization's negotiation team met with it.
• Knight Mane offered White Sand World five million Magic Coins in aid, trade access, and the immediate withdrawal of Wizard Civilization's Legions after the Guardian signed the alliance contract.
• Knight Mane learned from the Guardian that Hengsha World and its Master had influenced White Sand World's knowledge of Wizard Civilization.
• Saine recognized Hengsha World as the place where he had once traded with Babakulu, a Lava Lord, during his apprentice days.
• Knight Mane asked the Guardian to introduce Wizard Civilization to the Hengsha World Master and warned that the Alliance would not wait forever for worlds to join.

Saine demanded that the White Wing Bird King be punished for its attacks on Wizard Civilization, and the Guardian failed to persuade the bird king to surrender. The White Wing Bird King chose to flee White Sand World with its followers and seek refuge in Hidden Wave Azure World.

• Saine demanded the White Wing Bird King's right wing as compensation for its attacks, and the Guardian agreed to try to persuade it.
• Saine introduced Luluenman and Beleka to Knight Mane, who became captivated by Beleka and reacted with interest when he learned the White Wing Bird King had injured her.
• The Guardian's attempt to persuade the White Wing Bird King failed, and the bird king refused to submit to Wizard Civilization.
• The White Wing Bird King led more than a hundred thousand Winged Race creatures south to break out of White Sand World and defect to the Sea Emperor Shark in Hidden Wave Azure World.
• The White Wing Bird King's followers faced a dangerous journey through the Star Realm, where many of the weaker creatures could die before reaching their destination.

Saine and the Wizard World fighters pursued the fleeing White Wing Bird King after it broke through the Northern Battlefield. Their combined attacks badly wounded it near White Sand World’s Plane Barrier, where Beleka continued to chase it down.

• Beleka caught up with the White Wing Bird King and fought it while Saine, Luluenman, and Mane arrived to help.
• The White Wing Bird King shook its Winged Race subjects from its wings and tried to flee beyond the plane.
• Luluenman’s spore rain ensnared the birds and wounded the White Wing Bird King, while Mane’s black longsword and Saine’s elemental shuttles struck it.
• Beleka pursued the badly wounded White Wing Bird King toward the Plane Barrier as it continued fleeing and fired feathers to hold her back.
• An enormous dragon claw came crashing down on the White Wing Bird King from ahead.

Tourmaline defeated the White Wing Bird King, and Saine’s forces enslaved the White Sand World’s Winged Race and divided the spoils. As Saine arranged the world’s future under the Sand Worm clan, he discovered a rare living law material in the Plane Navel.

• Tourmaline struck the White Wing Bird King back into the White Sand World and ended the battle.
• Saine took the bird king’s right wing, Beleka took its left, and Luluenman received the captured creature as a living specimen.
• Knight Mane departed with the guardian’s Law Contract, while Saine told Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen that the Zerg and Sand Worm clan would become the world’s dominant race.
• Saine summoned the guardian and the Sand Worm Queen to the Space Fortress for examination and counted the war’s profits and expected compensation.
• Saine found a living wisp of fine sand in the White Sand World’s Plane Navel, a valuable sand-element lifeform and law material.