Recaps

Saine recruited three Wizard Alliance gods and hired the Ghost Crow King to strengthen the war effort in Flame Worm World. In the fifth year of the war, the allied forces hunted Flame Insects as a powerful disturbance in the northeast suggested that a god had fallen.

• Saine failed to contact Bixi and abandoned the idea of bringing in Luluenman and the other Wizard World powerhouses after discussing the war profits with Macas and his companions.
• Macas recruited two Level-4 gods and one Level-5 god from the Wizard Alliance, who agreed to bring large Combat Legions for fixed fees.
• Saine hired the Ghost Crow King, who arrived in Flame Worm World with nearly a million Ghost Crow guards for 5 million Magic Coins.
• A flock of Ghost Crows pursued a wounded Demigod-level Flame Insect until a Three-Headed Chimera intercepted it, prompting the birds to complain but not attack.
• A surge of power from the northeast led the Chimera and Ghost Crows to suspect that a god had fallen, while smaller Ghost Crows stole bites from the Flame Insect and the Chimera roared at them.

Wizard Civilization forces killed Purple Radiance Flame Emperor and continued their assault on Flame Worm World. Saine, Ghost Crow King, and Knight Macas pressed Void Devouring Flame Emperor, whose hope of survival dwindled.

• Fladi, Muge, and Ancient Moon Wolf killed Purple Radiance Flame Emperor after Ancient Moon Wolf briefly restrained it.
• Fladi took Purple Radiance Flame Emperor's eyeball and claw, Muge received its God Blood, and Ancient Moon Wolf devoured part of its hind leg.
• Fladi collected the corpse and headed with the others to aid the nearby battlefields, where the Flame Worm World legions faced a likely collapse.
• Saine fought Void Devouring Flame Emperor alongside Ghost Crow King and Knight Macas while testing his Flame Law and using a Flame Storm to pursue the enemy.
• Void Devouring Flame Emperor sensed Purple Radiance Flame Emperor's death and sank further into despair as its chances of escape faded.

The Wizard Civilization defeated the Flame Worm World's remaining Flame Emperors, though Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor escaped and Void Devouring Flame Emperor endured far longer than Saine expected. After Qing Lian Yan Emperor was captured, Saine and the other victors began dividing the spoils and planning the world's occupation.

• Green and the Chimera King killed Emperor Gui Mie Yan, while Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor later escaped by using a soul technique to jump through space.
• Saine learned that Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor had fled toward the Snowy Plains Plane, and Angle vented his anger over failing to stop it.
• Void Devouring Flame Emperor resisted for fourteen years before Saine, Green, and Fladi witnessed its fall and the black fire rain that followed.
• Saine and the others captured Qing Lian Yan Emperor alive and prepared to subdue the Flame Worm World's kingdoms and affiliated planes.
• Saine proposed taking the Source Law Fire from all four Flame Emperors, receiving Qing Lian Yan Emperor, and claiming thirty percent of the world's slave creature export quota.

After Flame Worm World's war profits were divided, Saine turned from the battlefield to studying its law flames and creatures. Back at Ash Fortress, he found Nataya and Lunna waiting in revealing outfits to seduce him.

• Saine's allies agreed on the distribution of Flame Worm World's spoils, awarding him the Qing Lian Yan Emperor's lotus heart and other valuable materials while Knight Macas received the Void Devouring Flame Emperor's Level 5 Heart Core.
• Saine left the remaining resource accounting and development to others, intending to study Flame Worm World's five law flames and dissect the living Qing Lian Yan Emperor.
• Saine returned to his private room in Ash Fortress and found Nataya and Lunna posing seductively on his Laboratory Table.
• Lunna blushed and asked whether their behavior was really okay, while Nataya teased her and pointed out Saine's reaction.

After a month of passion with Nataya and Lunna, Saine returned to his experiments and developed a new purple-blue flame while forging a Purple Flame Gauntlet. He discussed Yuli’s progress piloting a Level-4 Silver Armor Magic Puppet and learned that she could currently bring out only 53% of its power.

• Saine ended his month-long affair with Nataya and Lunna, gave them Magic Potions, and accepted responsibility for Lunna.
• Nataya arranged Lunna in a position she believed might help her conceive Saine’s heir, while Saine left them and went to another laboratory.
• Saine experimented with a flame made by fusing the Source Fires of the Purple Radiance Flame Emperor and Emperor Gui Mie Yan, then used it to forge a Purple Flame Gauntlet.
• Yuli assisted Saine with the experiment and served him Fire Magma Lotus liquid.
• Saine asked Yuli about piloting the Silver Armor Magic Puppet, and she reported mastering 80% of its functions while drawing out 53% of its power.

After the conquest of Flame Worm World and its subordinate planes ended, Saine and his allies departed, and Saine returned to Wizard World. There, Mane appeared before him, close to advancing to Level 5, and remarked on Saine’s Space Fortress.

• Saine inspected Snowy Plains World, where Angle was still pursuing the escaped Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor, and promised him a larger share of the war profits.
• The Ghost Crow King departed Flame Worm World with its nearly million-strong Crow Legion after the twenty-year campaign ended.
• Saine returned to Wizard World aboard Ash Fortress with nearly ten million Magic Coins, magical materials, and a supply base for Slave Creatures.
• Mane appeared outside Wizard World and told Saine that he had been busy since the Wizard Alliance Assembly, despite nearing a breakthrough to Level 5.

Saine learned that the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor had been captured and was offered a dangerous, confidential mission that could earn him a Golden Apple. He returned to the Ash Holy Tower to sort his spoils and spoke with Luluenman, while he still had twenty years to decide whether to accept the mission.

• Knight Mane told Saine that Notoze, a Level-5 Creature from the Bexar Star Region, had captured the escaped Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor and brought it to Wizard Civilization territory.
• Mane relayed that his grandfather wanted Saine to undertake a highly confidential mission through the Bexar Star Region, with great risks and potentially a Golden Apple as a reward.
• Saine asked for time to consider the offer, and Mane gave him twenty years to decide before another candidate would be assigned.
• Mane promised to send the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor to Saine, who then left for the Wizard World.
• At the Ash Holy Tower, Saine spoke with Luluenman and told her he had brought a gift from the Flame Worm World.

Saine told Luluenman he had captured Qing Lian Yan Emperor, a Level-4 fire-element Plant Creature, for her research and discussed her work on Golden Apple Potions. After their warm conversation, Saine arranged to send Qing Lian Yan Emperor to the Azure Source Holy Tower and contacted Lina in the Black Domain.

• Saine showed Luluenman the captured Qing Lian Yan Emperor as a gift for her research.
• Luluenman lamented that her Golden Apple experiments had wasted some of the Golden Apple's Life Force, while Saine reassured her that producing raw liquid for eleven potions and gaining experience were valuable results.
• Luluenman told Saine that the Golden Apple seed had not sprouted, but it still held strong Life Force and had increased her World Laboratory's vitality.
• Saine and Luluenman spoke warmly as mentor and disciple before ending their magical communication.
• Saine began arranging to send Qing Lian Yan Emperor to the Azure Source Holy Tower, then contacted Lina in the Black Domain.

Saine could not reach Lina and learned from Rose that Lina was attempting to advance to Rank Four in a Black Volcano. Rose discussed Lina’s prospects for establishing a Black Tower and reassured Saine that powerful Black Domain figures would protect him from trouble.

• Saine failed to contact Lina and suspected she had entered seclusion for an experiment or breakthrough.
• Saine contacted Rose, who told him Lina had advanced to Demigod and was trying to reach Rank Four in a Black Volcano she had lent her.
• Saine asked whether Lina could establish a Black Tower, and Rose said she might help if Saine performed well.
• Saine hinted that the Land of Ashes’ growing trade might attract the Wizard Alliance’s attention, and Rose assured him that powerful figures would shield him.
• Saine sent Lina rare materials from the Flame Worm World through Rose, who said his proposal at the Alliance Assembly had earned him goodwill from some Black Domain powerhouses.

Saine toured the thriving Ash Holy Tower and reflected on the exchange student partnership he had established with the Ebarute Empire. Seeing the Tower’s growth clarified his choice: he decided to pursue the Hidden Mission Mane had mentioned.

• Saine learned that the captured Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor had been redeemed for less than two million Magic Coins and asked Angle to receive it.
• Saine reconsidered Mane’s high-risk, high-reward Hidden Mission without consulting anyone else.
• Saine walked through the Ash Holy Tower as it welcomed new apprentices and drew magicians eager to explore its connected Alien Planes.
• Saine reflected on the exchange student collaboration Meili had arranged with Ebarute Empire public academies, which gave apprentices a chance to visit home.
• Saine recognized that the Tower’s growth had required major investments and profitable ventures, and he decided to accept the direction offered by Mane’s Hidden Mission.

Saine accepted the Hidden Mission and received orders from Klopp Knight to infiltrate Cybertron Planet in the Galente Federation, recruit Decepticons and possibly Optimus Prime, and investigate the robots’ self-awareness. He left the meeting with a mysterious blue orb intended to help free the robots from their control directives, with a Golden Apple or equivalent World-Class Secret Treasure promised if he succeeded.

• Saine told Mane he would accept the Hidden Mission and prepared to leave the Wizard World for a time.
• Mane brought Saine to Sky City, where Klopp Knight explained that Saine would infiltrate Cybertron Planet and contact Decepticons, the leader of a self-aware Level Six robot legion.
• Klopp Knight described Optimus Prime as a possible recruit, warned Saine to avoid the Unconscious Robot Legion, and assigned him a secondary task to investigate how robots gained self-awareness.
• Klopp Knight said other Level-4 lifeforms would also undertake the mission by separate routes and promised Saine a Golden Apple or an equivalent World-Class Secret Treasure if he returned successfully.
• Saine examined a blue orb of light made by a True Spirit Magician, which was tied to freeing robots such as Decepticons from the Galente Federation’s control directives.

Saine prepared for a covert mission to Cybertron Planet, scheduled to begin in 27 years and expected to take 200 to 300 years. Before leaving, he equipped his companions and allies with weapons, supplies, and training plans, then asked Luluenman for a Golden Apple Potion.

• Saine received the mission details from Klopp Knight, signed a confidentiality contract, and left Sky City for Ash Holy Tower.
• Saine chose Yuli as his likely companion for the mission and kept his departure secret, though Dean Meili and Lunna sensed something was unusual.
• Saine recast the Axe of Power into a divinity-imbued hammer for Lunna and forged two merging greatswords for Nataya.
• Saine made magical items and potions for his circle, strengthened the Grant Family's training and resources, and gave Red Phosphorus armor made from the Fire Cricket God's scales.
• Saine visited Azure Source Holy Tower and asked his mentor Luluenman for one of the nearly finished Golden Apple Potions.

Saine received recovery and body-tempering potions from Luluenman before leaving the Wizard World on a dangerous mission into the depths of space. He departed alone for the Bexar Star Region, beyond Wizard Civilization’s borders.

• Luluenman gave Saine two Golden Apple Potions and explained their healing and physique-enhancing effects.
• Luluenman realized Saine was preparing for a dangerous mission and supplied him with Amethyst Potions and five Body Tempering Potions.
• Saine embraced Luluenman, promised to return safely, and left instructions and cultivation resources for his allies.
• Saine boarded a small spatial-jump aircraft and departed the Wizard World without a send-off.
• Saine set course for the Bexar Star Region, a friendly region beyond Wizard Civilization’s controlled territory.

After fifty years of travel, Saine reached the Bexar Star Region and met Notoze, who was tasked with secretly guiding him toward the Voskel Civilization. Once his damaged craft was repaired, Saine set out for the next leg of his hidden journey and thanked Notoze for capturing the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor.

• Saine arrived in the Bexar Star Region aboard a badly damaged craft after avoiding the Wizard Civilization’s teleportation arrays.
• Notoze greeted Saine and agreed to help him repair his craft, though the Wizard Alliance had not assigned him that task.
• Notoze guided Saine to a remote armory, where a Bexar satellite repaired the craft during Saine’s two-month stay.
• As Saine prepared to leave for the Voskel Civilization, he asked Notoze about capturing the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor.
• Saine thanked Notoze on behalf of his friends from the Wizard World, and Notoze returned his salute.

Saine traveled with a small Bexar merchant convoy to the Voskel Star Region, learning how weaker civilizations survived the dangers of interstellar trade. After parting ways with the convoy, he arrived among the technologically advanced Voskeil People and was reminded of the powerful Namekian Piccolo.

• Saine joined a small Bexar Civilization merchant convoy bound for the Voskel Civilization, concealing his Level-4 strength from its members.
• Five years later, a cosmic storm destroyed two vessels and damaged the convoy, which had already lost nearly half its members during the journey.
• The convoy had paid off a small band of space pirates rather than risk a fight, and its leader hoped to make several more trading journeys to gather resources for advancement.
• After reaching the relatively secure Voskel Star Region, Saine parted ways with the convoy and continued on in his aircraft.
• Saine learned that the technological Voskeil People controlled 136 Ecological Planets and 267 Mineral Planets, and their appearance reminded him of the Namekians.
• Saine recalled that Piccolo, a Level-6 Namekian he had seen at the Wizard Alliance Assembly, appeared to be a peak Level-6 lifeform stronger than the Spider Queen.

Saine traveled through the Voskel Star Region and onward toward the Galente Federation, keeping his identity and strength concealed. After a divination warned that trouble was coming, his craft was suddenly attacked in a gray dwarf meteorite belt.

• Saine paid a Voskeil engineer with biological Heart Cores to refuel and modify his craft, then warned him to keep their meeting secret.
• Saine left the Voskel Star Region and spent eighty-six years passing through seven star regions and thirteen civilized worlds while continuing toward the Galente Federation.
• Saine acquired a Six-Prism Treasure Box from the Huya people and discovered that its patterns carried some divinatory significance.
• Saine used the Six-Prism Treasure Box to divine that he would soon encounter trouble as he traveled through a belt of gray dwarf meteorites.
• An explosion struck beside Saine’s craft, and he came under attack.

Saine’s damaged aircraft was caught between a fleeing Green Luo World creature and a Huya fighter, the Pink Girl. He helped the Pink Girl wound the creature, but when it began to self-destruct and more powerful arrivals approached, Saine abandoned his plan to deal with her himself.

• A Huya swallow-tailed aircraft accidentally damaged Saine’s ship while pursuing a wounded, winged toad through the Meteorite Belt.
• The toad feinted toward Saine, attacked the pursuing aircraft, and then tried to reach Saine’s ship as prey.
• The Pink Girl emerged from the explosions and resumed fighting the toad, which was stronger but increasingly wounded.
• Saine used magic to harden nearby meteors and block the toad, giving the Pink Girl an opening to stab its spine with her Light Sword.
• The toad began swelling toward self-destruction, so Saine raised an elemental barrier around the area.
• Saine sensed several approaching figures, including a Level-4 lifeform, and put away his Magic Staff.

Saine saved Gemora from a giant toad’s explosion, then accepted the Huya people’s offer to repair his aircraft and travel with them toward the Shi’a Empire. He introduced himself as Baus, a Boke person, and boarded their ship as their fleet prepared to head for the Bester Nebula.

• Saine diverted the giant toad’s self-destruction and pulled Gemora to safety, though she accidentally stabbed him and damaged his aircraft.
• Gemora’s Huya warriors arrived, and she offered to have Saine’s aircraft repaired at the nearby Planetary Fortress.
• Saine agreed to travel with Gemora’s people after learning they were also bound for the Shi’a Empire, but asked that his aircraft be repaired within two weeks.
• Gemora introduced herself, and Saine gave his assumed name, Baus, and claimed to be from the Charda Star Region.
• The Huya soldiers towed Saine’s aircraft into their Cosmic Spaceship, where an elderly Level-4 Huya man came out to meet them.

Saine traveled with Gemora and the Huya people after they took him aboard their Planetary Fortress, where he secretly used soul magic to gather information. He learned that Gemora believed a divination had marked him as her destined love, and suspected the Huya people’s contract with the Shi'a Empire could draw them into the coming war against Wizard Civilization.

• Grandfather Jida reunited with Gemora and said the war on Green Luo World had ended, though the Riskman people still disputed the mercenary payment.
• Gemora brought Saine aboard the Huya Planetary Fortress while his damaged craft was taken for repairs.
• Saine used Mirage Soul Shackles to influence Gemora and coax confidential information from her.
• Saine learned Gemora had secretly used her clan’s Six-Prism Treasure Box and believed its prophecy identified him as the love of her life.
• Saine inferred that the Shi'a Empire had hired the Huya people for the coming war, potentially setting them against Wizard Civilization.

Saine learned the strength and history of the Huya faction while traveling with Gemora toward the Shi'a Empire. As his fleet neared Galente Federation territory, Galente envoys secretly met with the Lord of the Underworld, Blood River Grand Warlord Nair Wen Yinke.

• Saine concealed his Level-4 aura as more Huya warships and powerful lifeforms gathered around the Planetary Fortress, then met Gemora's Level-5 father.
• Saine learned that Gemora's father led a loose alliance of Huya tribes, including six Level-4 lifeforms, and that the Huya people had agreed to fight for the Shi'a Empire in exchange for help reclaiming their lost homeworld.
• Gemora told Saine that her people had been driven from their red-earth homeworld and that only her father and the elder priests knew its location.
• Saine described the Boke people's world to Gemora as their fleet traveled toward the Galente Federation's sphere of influence.
• Galente Federation envoys secretly met the Lord of the Underworld, Blood River Grand Warlord Nair Wen Yinke, in a demiplane in the Underworld Star Region.

A Galente Federation envoy tried to recruit Nair Wen Yinke by appealing to his grudge against Wizard Civilization and promising the Federation would win the coming war. Nair remained unconvinced, but the envoy’s detailed map of troop positions revealed how deeply Federation agents had infiltrated Wizard territory.

• Nair Wen Yinke confronted the Galente Federation envoy about daring to contact him while Wizard Alliance forces gathered in the Underworld Star Region.
• The envoy invoked the deaths of Nair’s brothers and claimed that the Federation was offering oppressed worlds a chance to oppose Wizard Civilization.
• Nair asked who else the Federation had recruited, but the envoy said he did not know and claimed his own assignment was limited to recruiting Nair.
• Nair rejected the offer as insufficient and argued that Wizard Civilization had greater territory and resources, making victory more likely.
• The Federation envoys displayed a detailed border star map with both civilizations’ military deployments, revealing that the Federation had access to sensitive Wizard Alliance information.
• The envoy claimed the Federation’s technology and military buildup made it at least equal to Wizard Civilization and urged Nair to consider the Underworld Star Region’s inhabitants.

The Blood River Grand Warlord agreed to coordinate with the Galente Federation against Wizard Civilization, while Saine crossed Bester Nebula and entered Shi'a Empire territory. There, he observed the Federation’s elite Rainbow Feather Army and reflected on the blending of cultivation and technology.

• The Galente Federation envoy shared intelligence about Wizard Civilization’s war proposals, gave Nair Wen Yinke an encrypted communicator, and agreed on a timetable for coordinated warfare.
• After the envoys left, the Blood River Grand Warlord confirmed to a Rank Six Cockroach Viper that he would defect to the Galente Federation.
• Saine traveled with the Huya people’s fleet through Bester Nebula and entered the Shi'a Empire, a Galente Federation vassal.
• The Shi'a Empire’s Rainbow Feather Army received the Huya fleet and escorted it toward a prepared rest area in the Empire’s territory.
• Saine observed Shi'a warriors using technological equipment alongside their cultivation and considered how technology and arcane energy both rested on the laws of the Star Realm.

Saine reflected on the damage the Galente Federation’s resource extraction had done to Water Orchid Star, known to its inhabitants as the Sky Water World, and considered the competing civilizations’ exploitation of weaker worlds. As Gemora grew closer to him, Saine remained focused on his secret mission and prepared to leave her behind.

• Saine observed the drilling wells and pipelines draining the Sky Water World and considered how long its fragile environment would need to recover.
• Saine contrasted the Galente Federation’s exploitation with the Wizard World’s, concluding that both were exploiters in a universe governed by the strong preying on the weak.
• Gemora invited Saine to visit Water Orchid Star, but he declined and said he needed to inspect his aircraft.
• Gemora remembered that Saine would soon leave and that he had repeatedly brushed aside her affection.
• Saine avoided entering Water Orchid Star because its Plane Will might expose his Level-4 lifeform identity, then performed Boke bathing customs to maintain his disguise as Baus.
• Saine found Gemora asleep on his bed, watched her briefly, and headed to the aircraft parking area.

After traveling with the Huya fleet for twenty-two years, Saine parted ways with the Huya sisters in the Crimson Sea and continued his journey alone. He revealed his real name to Gemora and left her with a gift, while sensing they might meet again.

• Saine reached the Crimson Sea with the Huya fleet and decided to leave there because its laws made it harder for others to divine or prophesy about him.
• Gemora and Kamora came to see Saine off, and Gemora asked to speak with him privately.
• Gemora revealed that the Six-Prism Treasure Box had shown her that Baus was not Saine’s real name, and Saine told her his name.
• Saine noticed that Gemora’s hair showed signs of withering, suspecting that she had sacrificed some of her lifespan to divine information about him.
• Saine gave Gemora a Green Bubble, said farewell to the sisters, and departed in his aircraft while sensing he would meet them again.

Saine observed the Galente Federation’s economic strength and technological development, including its artificial Life Planets and Federation Credits. He realized that powerful corporations and financial conglomerates, rather than individual rulers, were the Wizard Civilization’s true opponents.

• Saine saw how the Galente Federation developed Broken Planes and void meteors using its demand for ordinary metals and advanced technology.
• In the Munster Star Region, Saine examined artificial Life Planets and identified their layered energy shields as a key part of the Federation’s transformation technology.
• Saine compared the Life Planet project with Luluenman’s World Laboratory and considered how Federation technology could advance her work.
• Saine learned that Federation Credits dominated the Federation’s economy and that it sold outdated military equipment and planetary transformation services to its Vassal Civilizations.
• Saine discovered that the Federation’s largest corporations controlled much of its economy and recognized them as the Wizard World’s true opponents.