Recaps

Saine crossed the Underdark and the Lisia Alliance, following his bloodline magic to Grant City and his family’s territory. After refusing to stay with the Grants, he tried to escape by air, but Elder Domvol struck him and Qi down.

• Saine traveled to Peterte, attended a magic-apprentice trade fair, and traded for a Magic Coin, a Sound Transmission Spell, and other magical materials.
• After more than half a year on the road, Saine reached Clark City and joined a mercenary group traveling north through the Gloomy Mountain Range to the Lisia Alliance.
• Saine crossed the alliance while practicing alchemy, refused recruitment by several organizations, and followed his bloodline magic to Grant City, where guards mistook him for the Bauhinia Flower Earl.
• Old John recognized Saine as the earl’s son and brought him to Grant Castle, where Saine learned his mother Catherine had died and clashed with Lady Diya and his younger brother Solon.
• Saine left the castle, but Earl Grant confronted him and tried to persuade him to stay before ordering his guards to restrain him.
• Saine fought off three Advanced Squires, then used Moxidu’s staff to cast Song of the Great Wind and escaped into the air with Qi.
• Elder Domvol struck Qi with an Oxygen Deprivation Bullet, sending Saine and the owl falling as Earl Grant pursued them.

After leaving Grant Castle, Saine reached the Azure Source Holy Tower, enrolled, and spent two years studying magic and alien planes. When Mark challenged him, Saine won their duel with Sun’s Eye and a well-judged attack through Mark’s Group Burst Spell.

• Saine revealed his Azure Source Holy Tower badge at the banquet, then spent months researching Sun’s Eye and survived an explosion that destroyed much of his tower and injured Earl Grant.
• After Earl Grant and Solon left for the war, Saine met Ze Lato Ferrell and his grandfather, continued his experiments, and departed for the Azure Source Holy Tower with Old John and Owl Little Qi.
• Saine crossed several territories, boarded a floating ship at Gem Bay, and reached the Holy Tower, where Director Johnny verified Master Midiqi’s recommendation and accepted him into the first-year cohort.
• Saine enrolled, signed the Holy Tower contract, explored its library, and attended foundational classes, including Lan Qi’s course on alien creatures and planes.
• Saine helped Lan Qi dissect a juvenile Sub-Dragon and received lessons about Plane Will, then spent two years strengthening his foundations and mastering more than ten Low-Level spells.
• Mark demanded Saine’s front-row seat and challenged him to a duel after Saine refused to yield, but Irene interrupted their confrontation before class began.
• Saine accepted Mark’s later challenge, blocked his Flame Hand, and used Sun’s Eye to break through Mark’s defenses before Mark’s Group Burst Spell shattered Saine’s Earth Elemental Shield.
• Saine charged through the spell’s brief blind spot and defeated Mark, while Irene revealed that Mark was her grandson and scolded him for underestimating the danger.

Saine advanced his magic and alchemy while investigating a maddened beast in the Giggson Duchy and uncovering a strange Divine Statue fragment. After spending years crafting a powerful Sun’s Eye Mask, he joined preparations for the Regional Holy Tower Academy War and resolved to pursue a top-twenty ranking alone.

• Saine focused on magical study for years, befriended Green, and reached the Quasi-Magician threshold before his cousin Serena came to the academy.
• Saine helped Serena enroll and stay at his residence, then worked with her to perfect Sun’s Eye Magic into a spell nearly four times as powerful as the original.
• Saine tested the improved spell, damaged the Training Ground’s Energy Shield, and later accepted an academy mission to investigate a maddened beast in the Giggson Duchy.
• Saine led soldiers and mercenaries through the mine, where they found a Lion Spider Beast and fought off Black Bats and Underground Subhumans.
• Saine destroyed the evolving Lion Spider Beast with Sun’s Eye Magic and secretly kept a black stone resembling a corroded Divine Statue fragment.
• Saine returned to the academy, studied the construction of apprentice badges, and developed the Crimson Mask before an experiment destroyed his laboratory.
• Saine spent more than three years crafting a golden Sun’s Eye Mask, then attended mobilization training after Director Johnny summoned him.
• Saine learned the rules and dangers of the Regional Holy Tower Academy War and decided to act alone in pursuit of a top-twenty points ranking.

Saine rose to the top of the Regional Holy Tower Academy War rankings by claiming resources and attacking rival apprentices, then struck both Thunder Radiance and Great Earth Academy forces. The arc left Saine fleeing into Great Earth Academy territory with more than a dozen powerful apprentices pursuing him.

• The Guardian of Summer announced that the first-place apprentice would receive the Wizard World Will’s acknowledgment, and Saine entered the Trial Space and began claiming resource points.
• Saine seized the Purple Fir Wood Forest and Water Secret Mine, then crossed into Shadow of Darkness territory and ambushed its apprentices.
• Saine attacked the Lanxi Grass Resource Point with Sun’s Eye, killing several Quasi-Magicians and many other apprentices before escaping with the top ranking.
• Saine concealed his badge’s golden light, repaired his equipment, killed Willis and two Advanced Apprentices, then moved into Thunder Radiance territory.
• Saine attacked Hippocrate Tram and other Thunder Radiance apprentices, forcing them to flee and causing their forces to organize in groups.
• Saine infiltrated the battle between Great Earth Academy and Thunder Radiance, raised his score past one hundred thousand, and fled when both sides turned against him.
• Gade pursued Saine, but Saine’s Sun’s Eye pierced Gade’s stone wall and wounded him before Saine escaped toward Great Earth Academy territory.
• More than a dozen Great Earth Academy Advanced Apprentices and Quasi-Magicians chased Saine as his Golden Light Pillar crossed their territory.