Recaps

Saine spent four years developing a new Magic Conductor and nurturing Sha’er, the Sand Element he had taken from White Sand World. After White Sand World was invited to the next Wizard Alliance Assembly, Knight Mane invited Saine to join an envoy delegation to Hengsha World.

• Saine promised the Guardian he would help the Sand Element grow and planned to combine it with the White Wing Bird King's wing to create a new Magic Conductor.
• Saine spent four years in his laboratory, nurturing Sha’er and building a prototype Magic Conductor that included a white feather fan made from the Bird King's wing.
• Knight Mane summoned Saine and told him White Sand World had completed its registration and received an exceptional invitation to the Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly.
• Luluenman offered to tell Saine about the assembly because Ash Holy Tower had not received an invitation.
• Knight Mane invited Saine to join a Wizard Alliance envoy delegation to Hengsha World and meet its Level Five World Master.

Saine accepted Knight Mane’s invitation to visit Hengsha World and traveled there with him and Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen. Along the way, Knight Mane described the Void Aphid World and jokingly offered to introduce its male Level-6 Aphid King to the female Sand Worm Queen for breeding.

• Saine accepted Knight Mane’s invitation to travel to Hengsha World, and Giant Stone Sen Sen joined them as an avatar.
• Luluenman’s research into Guardians and Insectoid Slurry led her to develop three unfinished Recovery Potions that could heal powerful lifeforms and slightly increase their Life Source Power.
• Saine and his companions traveled toward Hengsha World with vials of Luluenman’s semi-finished potions, which were already as effective as ordinary finished potions.
• Knight Mane told Saine about the Void Aphid World and its Level-6 Void Aphid King, whose nectar could help restore Dominator-class beings.
• Knight Mane offered to introduce the Void Aphid King to the female Sand Worm Queen for breeding, leaving Saine stunned.

Saine and Knight Mane traveled to the Hengsha World while discussing Mane’s request for Saine to introduce him to Knight Beleka. Along the way, they discovered several uncharted planes, and as they reached Hengsha World, Giant Stone Sen Sen went ahead to negotiate at its Plane Barrier.

• Knight Mane offered to help Saine find a Void Aphid for the Sand Worm Queen to breed with, asking Saine in return to introduce him to Knight Beleka; Saine agreed to pass along the message.
• Saine and his companions traveled from the White Sand World to the Hengsha World aboard Mane’s concealed special-model Space Fortress.
• During the journey, the group discovered two uncharted Low-Level Planes and one uncharted Micro Plane.
• Mane explained that the number of Complete Rule Planes in a Medium Star Region varied greatly, while Giant Stone Sen Sen learned more about the Wizard Alliance from Saine and Mane.
• As the craft reached the Hengsha World’s Plane Barrier, Giant Stone Sen Sen descended to negotiate.

Saine and the Wizard Civilization delegation negotiated Hengsha World’s entry into the Wizard Alliance, with the Hengsha World Master agreeing to most of their demands despite reluctance to gather intelligence on its friends. The chapter ended with Saine asking about Babakulu, a lord of Hengsha World whom he had met in a past cross-plane transaction.

• Giant Stone Sen Sen guided the Hengsha World Master to notice Saine’s aircraft, and the Hengsha World Master welcomed the delegation into Hengsha World.
• The Hengsha World Master agreed to join the Wizard Alliance after Saine and the others proposed it.
• Saine and the Hengsha World Master negotiated the alliance terms, including requests to recruit other planes and gather information on those unwilling or hostile.
• The Hengsha World Master gave Sha’er a strand of Storm Law that helped her grow, and Sha’er transformed into a yellow sand ring to rest.
• Saine asked whether Babakulu, lord of Hengsha World’s Lava Mountain Range, was well, surprising the Hengsha World Master.

Saine and Mane visited Hengsha World, where the Hengsha World Master agreed to join the Wizard Alliance and persuaded eight other planes to follow. As they departed, they learned about Ghost Crow World, a nearby unified region whose soul-devouring inhabitants had long troubled surrounding planes.

• Saine and the others met Babakulu, a Level-4 Lava Monarch and interstellar broker, after the Hengsha World Master summoned him.
• The Hengsha World Master announced that Hengsha World would join the Wizard Alliance, and Babakulu recognized Saine as a former trading partner.
• Babakulu hosted Saine and the others at his Lava Castle, where he gifted Saine White Fat Porpoise Oil and received a Fire Fusion Crystal Stone in return.
• During Saine and Mane's two-year stay, the Hengsha World Master signed contracts and persuaded Level-4 lifeforms from eight other planes to join the Wizard Alliance.
• The Hengsha World Master told Saine and Mane about Ghost Crow World, whose creatures had conquered its star region and repeatedly harassed neighboring planes.

After returning to White Sand World, Saine and Luluenman prepared to leave, but Luluenman’s attempt to matchmake Beleka with Knight Mane provoked Beleka’s anger because she feared losing Pinas. Saine and his companions later returned to Wizard World with their spoils, having arranged a transport passage and gathered further resources and allies along the way.

• Knight Mane parted from Saine near White Sand World, reminded him of his promise, and offered to help him contact Void Aphid World once he returned.
• Saine returned to White Sand World, where Luluenman and Beleka were discussing their departure, and asked Luluenman to raise Knight Mane’s request with Beleka.
• Luluenman tried to matchmake Beleka and Knight Mane, but Beleka rejected the idea, returned to Wizard World in anger, and vowed not to let Luluenman take Pinas from her.
• Saine and Luluenman arranged a transportation passage between White Sand World and Wizard World, then set off with the war’s remaining gains.
• Outside Orc World, Saine asked Tourmaline to obtain more origin panda blood from Panda Brewmaster, and Tourmaline agreed in exchange for time with Sha'er.
• Saine rewarded the Maya Tribe with Sand Worm mucus and about five hundred thousand Magic Coins before he and his companions returned to Wizard World laden with White Sand World’s spoils.

After Ash Holy Tower profited from the White Sand World war, Spider Queen Rose sent Saine a Dark Elf Queen and Goddess of Wealth Wojin to help secure and manage the Land of Ashes. Saine and Rose exchanged flirtatious taunts, with Saine's new Level 4 strength leaving Rose unable to punish him as she wished.

• Luluenman appraised the White Sand World spoils and reported that the war had brought Ash Holy Tower about nine million Magic Coins, while Saine returned with roughly two hundred new Formal-Ranked Magicians.
• Spider Queen Rose sent a peak-demigod Dark Elf Queen and around two thousand Dark Elves to the Land of Ashes to unify its underground forces.
• Rose sent Saine a Divine Power avatar of Wojin, the Goddess of Wealth, whom Rose had subdued and appointed to manage parts of her commercial empire.
• Rose teased Saine about whether he would pursue Wojin, while Wojin knelt bound beneath Rose's foot.
• Saine flirted with Rose instead, and she restrained her anger because Saine's Level 4 strength and World-Class Secret Treasure made him difficult to punish.

Saine received a ten-million-Magic-Coin loan from the Spider Queen and asked the Goddess of Wealth, Wojin, to help grow his fortune. Wojin proposed managing his funds and promised to double his assets within a thousand years, and Saine tentatively agreed to let her try.

• The Spider Queen dismissed her teasing exchange with Saine, then offered him up to ten million Magic Coins as an interest-free loan that he would have to repay.
• Saine accepted the loan after the Spider Queen demanded an IOU and withdrew her Divine Power Phantom.
• Saine examined Wojin and asked how she could help him make money.
• Wojin advised Saine not to rush to repay his Wizard Alliance debt and asked to manage his funds, including the money from the Spider Queen.
• Wojin promised to at least double Saine's assets within a thousand years, and Saine hesitantly agreed to let her try.

Saine entrusted the Goddess of Wealth, Wojin, with managing Ash Holy Tower’s funds and establishing the Wojin Merchant Association. She began developing trade connections while agreeing not to spread faith in Wizard Civilization.

• Saine let Wojin use some of Ash Holy Tower’s funds to manage its commercial development.
• Wojin asked Saine about his trade routes and connections, then acted on his ties with the Half-Orcs, Green-Dyed Forest World, White Sand World, and Black Domain.
• At Wojin’s suggestion, Saine established the Wojin Merchant Association under Ash Holy Tower to pursue interplanar trade.
• Saine warned Wojin that she must not develop believers in Wizard Civilization, and she solemnly agreed.
• Wojin hoped to strengthen her Law power through Wizard Civilization’s economic system while relying on her existing believers on the Faelun Continent.

Saine conducted body-tempering experiments on Yuli until Luluenman interrupted him to deliver the White Sand World profits and take him to the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower. There, she staged a public rebuke of Saine to mend her earlier rift with Knight Beleka, and Pinas eventually brought the scene to an end.

• Saine and Yuli used a specialized chamber and elemental energy to strengthen Yuli's body so she could better pilot the Silver Armor Magic Puppet.
• Luluenman interrupted Saine's experiment and brought him 6.41 million Magic Coins from the Commercial Alliance Capecci.
• Luluenman ordered Saine to accompany her to the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower despite his hesitation.
• At Pinas's Holy Tower, Luluenman delivered Knight Beleka's share of the War Fortune and publicly rebuked Saine as part of their plan to repair her relationship with Beleka.
• Pinas eventually stopped Luluenman's rebuke, and Luluenman urged her to beat Saine up to vent Beleka's anger.

Saine received the Wizard Alliance’s compensation and learned that he might be asked to persuade the Ghost Crow Clan to join the Alliance. He left the assignment open while the Goddess of Wealth sought authority over his new funds.

• Pinas and Beleka reconciled after the incident with Saine, and Saine and his mentor left the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower relieved.
• Knight Mane delivered four million Magic Coins each to Saine, Luluenman, and Beleka, and Saine refused to help Mane contact Beleka.
• Mane told Saine that the recently awakened Void Aphid King offered a chance to send the Sand Worm Queen for Insect King Honey.
• Mane asked Saine to consider persuading Ghost Crow World to join the Wizard Alliance when negotiations with Hidden Wave Azure World reached a later stage, and Saine said he would decide if he had time.
• After Saine received more than ten million Magic Coins in payments, Wojin asked to manage the funds and continued planning Floating Skyport projects in the Land of Ashes.

Saine approved Wojin's plan to develop the Land of Ashes and entrusted her with more funds before returning to his experiments. After fifty-one years, his old friend Meili visited the Ash Holy Tower, and Saine invited her to become Dean of its Academy.

• Wojin persuaded Saine to fund Floating Skyports, buy Floating Ships, and pursue the Ashlands Development Plan, and Saine gave her nearly ten million Magic Coins.
• Saine spent another fifty-one years absorbed in experimental research at the Ash Holy Tower.
• Meili, now a Level 3 magician, arrived with her Junior Sister and told Saine that her mentor had died and she had left the Enlightenment Holy Tower.
• Saine gave Meili two Recovery Potions to help her damaged Life Source Power.
• Saine invited Meili to become Dean of the Ash Holy Tower Academy, and she hesitated because she lacked experience.

Saine reviewed Ash Holy Tower’s growth and the worsening Black Magician attacks in the Land of Ashes. After a Black Magician operation killed a Grant Family knight, Saine ordered a crackdown while considering whether Black Magicians could be offered a chance to reform, and he worried that Wizard Alliance enforcers had dismantled two nodes in his apprentice-smuggling network.

• Saine finalized Ping Ke Man’s appointment as vice dean after offering him a chance to research Silver Armor Magic Puppets with Piton.
• Saine reviewed the Land of Ashes’ expansion, including Wojin’s Floating Skyports and trade routes, the Dark Elf Queen’s growing control underground, and Ash Holy Tower’s stable enrollment of four thousand apprentices.
• Saine learned that Ash Holy Tower had suffered twenty-seven Black Magician attacks in thirty years and that a Black Magician hunting operation had killed a Grant Family knight.
• Saine ordered Meili to summon Knights and Magicians to strike at Black Magician Activities throughout the Land of Ashes.
• Saine reconsidered his plans for addressing Black Magicians and discovered that two Teleportation Array nodes in his apprentice-smuggling network had been removed, likely by Wizard Alliance enforcers.

Saine continued researching bloodlines and body tempering, helping Xia Ya and Red Scales improve their strength while his own experiments kept him occupied. After receiving rare materials from the White Sand World, he sent most of them to Luluenman, who prepared to travel to the Amethyst Crystal Great World.

• Saine's Body Tempering Experiments rapidly improved Red Scales' strength, and Xia Ya joined after Nataya persuaded her.
• The Sand Worm Queen mated with the Level-6 Void Aphid King and became pregnant with over a hundred eggs; Saine reserved several for research or sale.
• Saine gave Luluenman five vials of Amethyst Crystal Insect Royal Jelly from the Void Aphid King, keeping only a small portion for his research into Void Dissociation.
• Luluenman told Saine that Mane had invited her to a Wizard Alliance mission and revealed that Saine's Senior Uncle had beaten Mane up.
• Luluenman planned to travel to the Amethyst Crystal Great World after Element Monarchs showed interest in her Earth Elemental Life Aggregation Potion, while Saine stayed behind for his experiments and the coming Ash Holy Tower Academy War.

Cohen, an apprentice at Ash Holy Tower, reunited with his senior sister Verite after she returned from a dangerous mission tracking a Black Magician hideout. Verite said she might have to leave again soon, but promised to help Cohen with his studies when she returned.

• Cohen reflected on how Ash Holy Tower had rescued him and other apprentices from Black Magicians, and how dangerous the tower's trial missions were.
• Cohen recalled failing his anatomy exam after Verite had shown him disturbing images from a Black Magician's laboratory.
• Cohen spotted Verite outside the academy's Teaching Building and hurried over to greet her.
• Verite scolded Cohen for failing anatomy and explained that she and her companions had tracked down a Black Magician hideout with Master Dodge.
• Verite told Cohen she might have to leave on another mission soon, but promised to help him with the Wind Element Basic Matrix when she returned.
• Cohen said goodbye to Verite and hurried into the Teaching Building for class.

Polak, a cruel and cowardly Rank Two Black Magician, prepared to flee his tower as an alarm signaled approaching intruders. He ordered his apprentices to confront them and activate the tower’s defenses, leaving the threat to the imprisoned specimens unresolved.

• Polak reflected on the Ash Holy Tower’s growing power and his own fear of challenging it, while preparing to move his residence again.
• Polak tortured his apprentices and dissolved the Skinny Tall Guy in corrosive acid to feed Green Corpse Algae.
• A young female apprentice fainted when Polak looked at her, and he nearly killed her before an alarm announced approaching intruders.
• Polak sent several Advanced Black Wizard Apprentices to face the intruders and ordered the others to activate every magic array on the bottom level.
• Polak’s favored apprentice questioned what would happen to the imprisoned specimens, but Polak’s glare silenced him and the apprentices obeyed.

Polak escaped the destruction of his black magic tower after sacrificing its apprentices and unleashing an explosion that killed several Holy Tower Magicians. Furious over Ash Holy Tower’s losses, Saine ordered Ping Ke Man to hunt Polak down, setting the stage for a wider black magician suppression campaign.

• Polak activated the tower’s defenses and self-destruction protocol, releasing two powerful Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beasts as he prepared to flee.
• Polak escaped the explosion with two apprentices, while a severely injured Second-Level Holy Tower Magician survived and cursed him from the ruins.
• Saine questioned Ping Ke Man about the deaths of seven apprentices and two Level-1 Magicians during the mission against Polak.
• Meili accepted part of the blame as Saine ordered Ping Ke Man to kill Polak and limit the damage to Ash Holy Tower’s reputation.
• Ping Ke Man left to lead a renewed campaign against black magicians across the Land of Ashes.

Saine and Meili discussed Ash Holy Tower’s preparations for its first Regional Holy Tower Academy War, while a rescued Black Wizard Apprentice and an apprentice named Cohen began their own paths at the academy. Twenty years later, Saine completed the White Sand Fan and prepared to send Ash Holy Tower’s apprentices into the war.

• Meili told Saine that Flack had returned with an eight-year-old Black Wizard Apprentice whose right arm had been crippled, and Saine asked whether she was confident about the academy war.
• The injured girl entered Holy Tower Academy and vowed not to be afraid again, while Cohen vowed to avenge a mutilated corpse in the academy morgue.
• Over twenty years, Saine completed the White Sand Fan, a Magic Conductor made with the White Wing Bird King's wings and the elemental lifeform Sha'er.
• Saine chose to hold Ash Holy Tower’s first Regional Academy War alongside five Bairen Empire Holy Towers, all led by Level-4 Magicians.
• The six Holy Towers prepared for the trial at Blackwood Plain, and a colossal teleportation gate was erected at the center of the Holy Tower Academy.

Saine learned about two promising Ash Holy Tower apprentices before joining the other Holy Tower Masters above the trial secret realm for the Regional Holy Tower Academy War. He left the gathering having revealed his Ash Power, drawing the other Level-4 Magicians’ attention and an invitation to discuss magic after the war.

• Meili told Saine that Cohen and a one-armed female apprentice were Ash Holy Tower’s most promising seeds for the Academy War.
• Meili explained that Cohen had survived dangerous missions against Black Magicians, while Flack had taken the female apprentice as his disciple.
• Saine arrived above the trial secret realm, where the five Bairen Empire Holy Tower Masters had already gathered.
• Saine spoke with the master of Bauhinia Flower Holy Tower about their academies’ first Academy War and explained that Ash Power had inspired his Holy Tower’s name.
• Saine displayed gray flames of Ash Power, and the master of Lava Volcano Holy Tower invited him to discuss the Fire Element after the war.

Saine met the other five Bairen Empire Holy Tower Masters, learned about Tidal Moon’s gravity-based combat methods, and established a preliminary trade partnership. As the Regional Holy Tower Academy War began, the masters watched their apprentices compete and gathered to talk, until uninvited guests arrived looking for Saine.

• The Holy Tower Masters discussed the origins of their towers’ names, and the Lava Volcano Holy Tower Master described Tidal Moon’s experience and gravity powers in Plane Wars.
• Saine spoke with the other masters and finalized a preliminary cooperation between the Purple Calyx Family and the Wojin Merchant Association in the Land of Ashes.
• The six masters sent their apprentices through Teleportation Light Gates into the varied trial secret realm, where the Regional Holy Tower Academy War began.
• Saine and the other masters soon grew bored of the apprentices’ battles and chatted about their Holy Towers and experiments.
• A group of uninvited guests arrived above the secret realm to find Saine.

Ebarute Empire inspector Chris questioned Saine about apprentice smuggling and sought a Second-Level Magician named Baus. Saine denied knowing Baus, and Meili said no magician by that name was registered at Ash Holy Tower, though she recalled a Level-1 magician named Boris.

• Chris arrived at Ash Holy Tower with roughly two hundred attendants to investigate apprentice smuggling and said evidence pointed toward the Land of Ashes.
• Saine agreed to cooperate, then spoke privately with Chris while the nearby Holy Tower Masters remained behind.
• Chris questioned Saine about Ash Holy Tower’s apprentices and asked whether he knew Baus, an Ebarute Empire magician.
• Saine claimed not to know Baus and summoned academy dean Meili to check the records.
• Meili said Ash Holy Tower had no registered Second-Level Magician named Baus, but she had interviewed a Level-1 magician named Boris.

Saine passed Ebarute inspector Chris’s investigation without being identified as a Black Magician, and the Regional Holy Tower Academy War ended with Ash Holy Tower’s apprentices achieving an unexpected success. Ash ranked second in total points and first in average points, while Emilia and Cohen took second and third place in individual points.

• Saine let Chris’s inspection force investigate the Land of Ashes and asked them to help suppress local Black Magicians.
• Chris left with his force to investigate the apprentice-smuggling network and pursue Baus, while other Holy Tower Masters criticized Ebarute’s interference.
• Saine reassured the Holy Tower Masters and returned to watching the Academy War with Meili.
• The three-year-and-four-month war ended without any Despairer Apprentices emerging, but Ash Holy Tower ranked second in total points and first in average points per apprentice.
• An apprentice from Flowing Light Waterfalls Holy Tower won first place in individual points, while Ash Holy Tower’s Cohen and Emilia took second and third; one-armed Emilia defeated dozens of Quasi-Magician-level apprentices.

After the Academy War, Saine rewarded Cohen and Emilia for their performances and heard their wishes. He then secretly negotiated a resource and trade arrangement with two Level-4 Magicians from the Bairen Empire, hoping to profit from smuggling.

• Saine told Ruikesi that the Ash Holy Tower’s apprentices had been tempered by harsh conditions and praised Xiao En’s Ice Storm.
• Saine granted Cohen and Emilia benefits, but could not fulfill Cohen’s wish to resurrect someone; Cohen then vowed to purge Black Magicians from the Land of Ashes.
• Emilia declined Saine’s offer of a replacement Mechanical Arm, explaining that Flak had promised to forge her an Elemental Arm.
• Saine met the Holy Tower Masters of the Scarlet Gold Dragon Holy Tower and the Lava Volcano Holy Tower in the underground Ash Holy Tower.
• Saine secretly discussed resource exchanges and commercial trade with the two Level-4 Magicians, focusing on the profits he could skim from smuggling.

Saine maintained Ash Holy Tower’s cooperation with the Bairen Empire and declined help against Chris’s inspection team. After eleven years of violence and heavy losses, Chris left the Land of Ashes and offered compensation, while Saine instead sought ties with the Ebarute Empire’s Public Magic Academies.

• Saine finalized a contract with the Bairen Empire’s Level-4 Magicians and declined the Scarlet Gold Dragon Holy Tower Master’s offer to drive Chris’s inspection team away.
• Saine summoned Wojin, the Dark Elf Queen, and Meili, then gave Meili instructions while Ash Holy Tower continued operating and apprentices discussed the Academy War.
• After eleven years and six months in the Land of Ashes, Chris’s inspection team departed with only 130 of its more than 200 members remaining after attacks by Black Magicians and Dark Beings.
• Saine’s Ash Holy Tower suffered major losses, including the destruction of a Floating Skyport, during the unrest.
• Chris apologized to Saine and offered to seek compensation, but Saine declined and asked Chris to introduce him to Public Magic Academies of the Ebarute Empire.

After settling matters with Wojin and returning to his research, Saine learned that Bone Dragon Sanchez had fallen into a deep slumber and might be close to advancing. Mane then arrived with a request for Saine to travel to the Ghost Crow World.

• Saine accepted the loss of a Floating Skyport after Wojin explained that its destruction had driven away an inspection team and protected Black Domain shipments.
• Saine resumed his experiments, expanded Ash Holy Tower Academy, visited Master Midiqi, and met Lina near the Black Domain.
• Lina told Saine that Sanchez had been unreachable for decades and had entered deep dormancy, possibly in preparation for advancing to Level Four.
• Saine offered Lina Dragon Crystals and dragon bones to give Sanchez if she could contact it again.
• Mane visited Saine and asked him to travel to the Ghost Crow World, saying he was more suitable than the other candidates.