Chapter Summaries

After returning to the Fortress Main Base, Saine submitted his combat mission and kept the living Nesser Civilization Construct Master he had captured. A Second-Level Magician offered a valuable Energy Crystal for the captive, but Saine refused and the magician did not force him.

• Saine returned to the Fortress Main Base with a dozen Slave Creatures, who eagerly ate Flame Creature remains and welcomed the safety of the base.
• Saine learned that the Slave Creatures came from five planes conquered by his Azure Blaze Grandmaster tens of thousands of years earlier.
• Saine submitted his combat mission at the Mission Hall, adding over two hundred Magic Coins to his count.
• Magicians in the square examined the living Nesser Civilization Construct Master held by the Antelope Horned Monster.
• A Second-Level Magician offered Saine a Second-Level Fire Element Energy Crystal for the captive, but Saine refused to sell her.

Saine refused to sell the captured Nesser Civilization Construct Master Yuli and brought her to his laboratory after revealing his Azure Source Holy Tower affiliation. As he treated his injuries, Yuli realized she feared being dissected, and Saine considered whether his damaged arm made that worthwhile.

• Saine rejected the Second-Level Magician’s offer of two Second-Level Fire Element Energy Crystals for Yuli and identified himself as a magician from the Azure Source Holy Tower.
• Saine flew back to the Space Fortress using Azure Fire Wings, prompting the Azure Flame Holy Tower magicians to recognize his possible connection to their Tower Master and resume fighting on the east side.
• Saine treated his injuries in his laboratory, using supplies purchased from the Fortress Main Base and a Mental Strength Recovery Potion.
• Yuli, a 127-year-old Lan-level Construct Master and graduate of the Haitian Star Construct Academy, surveyed Saine’s laboratory and grew frightened by its preserved specimens.
• Saine wondered whether dissecting Yuli while his left arm healed would waste such a valuable specimen.

Saine secured the captured Construct Master Yuli, tended to his recovery, and learned that the Azure Source Holy Tower had suffered heavy losses in the Poison Fire Green Flame World. He visited the badly injured Irene and asked how he could help.

• Saine knocked Yuli unconscious, bound her, and examined the horn on her forehead while considering the secrets of Nesser Civilization Construct Masters.
• Saine checked on Little Seven, replenished its wind-element Energy Crystals, and went to meditate while recovering from his injuries.
• Half a month later, Saine had mostly healed and learned that Irene was severely injured and dozens of Azure Source Holy Tower mages had died.
• Saine visited Irene in the Space Fortress's medical area and asked whether she needed his help.

Saine visited the badly injured Irene in the medical district, paid her expenses, and stayed when she asked for company after witnessing her friend Marina die. The story then shifted to the Silver-Patterned World, where Saine’s grandmentor, Cuilisi, had joined the assault to seize its vast mithril reserves.

• Irene told Saine that her unit had suffered heavy losses in an ambush, including five Azure Source Holy Tower magicians she had introduced to him.
• Irene asked Saine to lend her Magic Coins to cover her medical expenses, and Saine paid 200 Magic Coins for her treatment and recovery.
• Saine left two Recovery Potions by Irene’s bed and told her she did not need to repay him.
• Irene asked Saine to stay because she kept thinking about Marina dying in front of her, and Saine agreed.
• The story shifted to the Silver-Patterned World, where Level-6 Magician Cuilisi had joined the Flame Conclave’s assault to claim its mithril deposits.

Cuilisi continued fighting in the Silver-Patterned World despite being free to return to the Poison Fire Green Flame World, hoping to finish the campaign and get back to her three disciples. Meanwhile, Saine recovered for a month before receiving a difficult six-month mission to reinforce the northeast of the Flame Continent.

• A red-robed Flame Conclave magician told Cuilisi that Construct Golem Legions had appeared across sixteen planes and that Saneseus had offered her the option to leave the Silver-Patterned World.
• Cuilisi chose to help conquer the Silver-Patterned World's central region before returning to her disciples in the Poison Fire Green Flame World.
• After a month of recuperation, Saine received a mission to join three thousand magicians traveling by War Airship to reinforce the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower.
• The fortress planned to send additional groups, bringing the reinforcements to ten thousand magicians.

Saine left the Space Fortress and traveled with a force of Magicians to the Magma Sea, where he reunited with his Senior Sister Sylph. She explained that the region was threatened by Fire Melt Beasts and a large Nesser Civilization Construct Golem Legion, which might have a strategic base beneath the sea.

• Saine said farewell to Irene and Johnny, then gave Irene a key and asked her to look after Little Qi and the imprisoned Nesser Civilization Construct Master.
• After preparing his supplies and equipment, Saine departed aboard one of six War Airships with three thousand Magicians and crossed the Flame Continent with little resistance.
• Two weeks later, Saine arrived at the Magma Sea, where the unusually high temperature made survival difficult for ordinary creatures below Level One.
• Saine's arm had mostly healed, and he reunited with Sylph, his Senior Sister from the Azure Blaze Sect.
• Sylph told Saine that Fire Melt Beasts inhabited the Magma Sea and that a large Nesser Civilization Construct Golem Legion had appeared in the region.
• Sylph said the Nesser Civilization might have a strategic base beneath the Magma Sea, near a Green Glaze ore deposit.

Saine reunited briefly with Sylph before reporting to Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower’s Fortress Base and receiving patrol assignments. During two months of patrols toward the Magma Sea, he encountered Fire Melt Beasts and learned about the threat they posed to the Wizard Civilization Legion.

• Sylph told Saine she would remain in the Space Fortress for the coming war and offered to help him as a fellow disciple before they parted.
• Saine joined the newly arrived Magicians at the Fortress Base beneath Pinas’s worn, secondhand Space Fortress, where Magician troops and hundreds of thousands of slave creatures had gathered.
• Saine received routine patrol duty and spent two months leading slave creature cannon fodder eastward to watch the Magma Sea.
• Saine saw Fire Melt Beasts in the shallow Magma Sea and learned they fed on minerals, converted thermal energy into biological energy, and resisted the Wizard Civilization Legion despite their relatively docile temperaments.

Saine studied Fire Melt Beasts before answering the fortress’s compulsory War Summons as the Wizard World army began a full-scale advance into the Magma Sea. The force headed toward the Azure Flame Trench, where a Nesser Civilization base was believed to be hidden, while Saine recalled that Sylph could provide cannon support.

• Saine recorded information about Fire Melt Beasts and reflected on insights from dissecting one he had captured.
• The Space Fortress issued a compulsory War Summons, and Saine joined the mobilized magicians as its cannons extended.
• Pinas led the prepared army into the Magma Sea, while Luluenman and Gagaru advanced with their own legions elsewhere in the world.
• Saine advanced in a ten-thousand-man formation as hundreds of thousands of slave creatures guarded the fortress and entered the hostile sea.
• The Wizard World army headed for the Azure Flame Trench, and Saine remembered Sylph’s offer of long-range fire support from the fortress.

Saine and the Wizard Civilization legions fought their way across the Magma Sea, enduring two months of attacks before reaching the Azure Flame Trench. There, they found fewer Flame Creatures and signs that the Nesser Civilization’s Construct Masters had fortified the ridges and were preparing defenses.

• Saine’s legion advanced through the Magma Sea, where slave creatures handled minor threats and the Space Fortress shielded the magicians from the first major wave of attacks.
• For two months, Flame Creatures attacked continuously as the Wizard Civilization legion steadily pushed deeper into the sea.
• In the first half of the third month, the legion reached the Azure Flame Trench, where command-center magicians noticed that Flame Creatures were becoming less numerous and Construct Golem Legions were appearing around them.
• The Nesser Civilization’s Construct Masters held back behind defensive installations, having recognized that their forces could not subdue the Wizard Civilization’s magicians.
• Saine flew over the trench and spotted Constructed Magic Puppets and metallic fortifications on the exposed ridges, realizing the Nesser Civilization had hollowed them out.

Saine joined the Wizard Civilization’s assault on the Nesser Civilization’s defenses at the Azure Flame Trench, where he suspected a major base lay beneath the Magma Sea. After scattering under heavy enemy fire and gathering under a Second-Level Magician’s temporary command, he spotted a Silver Fortress on a mountain ridge.

• The Space Fortress sounded the attack horn, and the Magician formations and Slave Creatures charged the Nesser Civilization’s defenses.
• Saine cast waves of long-range spells before his formation split to attack the enemy base’s flanks.
• Saine flew with thousands of Magicians and tens of thousands of Slave Creatures toward the mountain ridges, avoiding the central fight in the Magma Sea.
• Heavy energy-ray fire forced the Magicians to scatter, and a Second-Level female Magician summoned Saine and several others to her group.
• The female Magician pointed out an oval Silver Fortress firing Energy Beams from a mountain ridge, surrounded by dozens of Constructed Magic Puppets.

Saine and a group of magicians attacked a Nesser Civilization Silver Fortress under the guidance of an experienced Level-2 Female Magician. Her three-element spell split the fortress open, and the group charged toward the breach.

• The Level-2 Female Magician led Saine and the other magicians toward a Silver Fortress positioned apart from the other strongholds on the ridge.
• The fortress unleashed a powerful volley that destroyed a third of the approaching Slave Creatures and knocked two magicians toward the Magma Sea.
• The Level-2 Female Magician summoned a Bright Yellow Lotus formed from fire, earth, and light magic.
• The Bright Yellow Lotus struck the fortress and opened a massive fissure in its silver structure.
• The Level-2 Female Magician led the charge toward the breach, followed by Saine and the other magicians with their Slave Creatures.

Saine and the other Magicians failed to advance against the Silver Fortress’s overwhelming firepower, so they prepared to withdraw. Saine proposed calling on the Space Fortress for fire support, while Sylph received orders to ready its cannons.

• The Silver Fortress’s Energy Beams devastated the advancing Slave Creatures and pinned Saine and the Magicians near the ridge.
• The Level-2 Female Magician proposed withdrawing after the group failed to break through the fortress defenses.
• Saine suggested another attempt, saying he could contact the Space Fortress for fire support to help the female magician use her Elemental Fire Lotus.
• The fortress command center ordered the Space Fortress to gather energy and open fire as the Wizard Civilization prepared to commit its final reserve formation.
• Sylph received a magical message from Saine while overseeing fifteen Magic Guided Cannons on the Space Fortress.

Saine secured support from Sylph’s Space Fortress cannons and helped the Level-2 Female Magician destroy the Silver Fortress. After the bombardment, they entered the ruins and found a passage that might lead to better spoils.

• Sylph redirected fifteen Magic Guided Cannons toward Saine’s position and told him when they would fire.
• Saine informed the Level-2 Female Magician that the fortress cannons would fire three volleys in three sandglasses.
• As the bombardment began, the Level-2 Female Magician unleashed her Bright Yellow Lotus while Saine and the other magicians added their attacks.
• The Space Fortress cannons and the magicians’ attacks reduced the Silver Fortress to ruins, and Saine and the Level-2 Female Magician charged inside after the third volley.
• The Level-2 Female Magician melted open a breach and led Saine into a pale white passage, saying the best gains were likely within.

Saine explored the Nesser Civilization’s vast underground construct base and examined its injured inhabitants, hoping to learn about the civilization and its Construct Masters. He collected living creatures and corpses for research, then allowed a Crocodile Man working for him to feed on the dead.

• As the Wizard Civilization’s forces steadily broke through the Nesser Civilization’s defenses, Saine flew down the passage beneath the Silver Fortress, recording observations and collecting samples along the way.
• Saine reached a vast Magma Sea Bottom Construct Base, where he found injured Nesser Civilization Creatures and signs of the Level-2 Female Magician’s earlier attack.
• Saine examined a terrified male Nesser Civilization Creature and found no trace of power, concluding that it was an ordinary individual rather than a Construct Master.
• Saine had Slave Creatures collect intact corpses and carry several living Nesser Civilization Creatures for future research.
• A Level-1 Crocodile Man asked Saine for permission to eat, and Saine allowed it to feed on the corpses.

Saine explored the Nesser Civilization base, where he found a concealed warehouse filled with unfamiliar equipment and Energy Crystal Blocks. He reached a hall beneath the Magma Sea, glimpsed a powerful Wizard World magician fighting above, and spotted Green Glaze Mine flowing through a pipeline.

• A Crocodile Man ate the corpses of Nesser Civilization Creatures while Saine watched the other slave creatures gather.
• Saine explored the base and discovered a concealed warehouse, storing its unfamiliar equipment in a Space Ring and claiming the Energy Crystal Blocks inside.
• Saine disabled two Energy Beam Guns and continued through the base to a vast hall with a transparent ceiling beneath the Magma Sea.
• A damaged Constructed Magic Puppet fell onto the ceiling as Saine watched a powerful Wizard World magician destroy it above.
• Saine exchanged a look with the magician and spotted Green Glaze Mine flowing from a pipeline beneath the base complex.

After the Azure Flame Trench war ended, Saine returned to the Space Fortress exhausted and visited Senior Sister Sylph, whose help had enabled him to plunder the Nesser base early in the battle. The chapter ended with Sylph welcoming him into her room to rest and talk.

• Saine followed an Azure Glaze deposit into the Construct Fortress while Wizard Civilization forces overwhelmed the Nesser Civilization base beneath the Magma Sea.
• Pinas fought the badly damaged Silver Armor Magic Puppet, which fled southeast alongside more than one hundred thousand surviving Constructed Magic Puppets.
• After nearly three months of fighting, the Azure Flame Trench battle ended, and Saine returned to the Surface World instead of joining the pursuit of the retreating Nesser forces.
• Saine entered the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress after waiting two days for permission and received a room there.
• Saine visited Senior Sister Sylph to thank her for helping him secure an early share of the Nesser base’s spoils.
• Sylph, exhausted from controlling the Space Fortress’s Magic Guided Cannons, welcomed Saine into her room.

Saine visited Sylph, reflected on how much he missed the Wizard World and Lina, and repaid Sylph for her help with war spoils from a Nesser Civilization construct base. Their discussion of Azure Glaze and Azure Fire Magic left Saine with new insights, though he still felt indebted to Sylph.

• Saine and Sylph talked about their nearly three years in the Poison Fire Green Flame World and how they missed the Mother Plane.
• Saine gave Sylph four boxes of Energy Crystal Blocks as her share of the spoils from the Magma Sea Bottom Construct Base.
• Saine showed Sylph a barrel of highly pure Concentrated Green Glaze and explained its apparent connection to the Nesser Civilization.
• Saine and Sylph spent half a day discussing the Azure Glaze and exchanging ideas about Azure Fire Magic.
• Saine left Sylph's residence feeling that he still owed her a favor he could not refuse to repay.

After years of war in the Poison Fire Green Flame World, Saine had gained allies and resources while continuing to fight across the Magma Sea. He reconnected with Irene and learned that Qi, whom she called Little Seven, had transformed and advanced to Level 1.

• Saine advanced with the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower forces before being sent south to reinforce another battlefield.
• Saine received a magical message from Irene, whose injuries had mostly healed after more than a year apart.
• Saine recognized the gray owl on Irene’s shoulder as Qi and learned it had transformed and advanced to Level 1 more than half a year earlier.
• Saine thanked Irene for looking after Little Seven, and Irene said it had helped her in battle and joked about using Saine’s luxurious room and Little Seven’s help.
• Saine warned Irene to stay cautious in the war, and she assured him she was being careful.

Saine learned that Pinas had defeated the Nesser Civilization’s Silver Armor Magic Puppet, then watched her return with the badly damaged machine. The captured puppet was brought into the Space Fortress as a major spoil of war, boosting the Wizard Civilization Legion’s morale.

• Saine continued serving in the war while Pinas’s battles against the Silver Armor Magic Puppet remained beyond the reach of low-ranking magicians.
• More than half a year later, word spread that Pinas had felled the Silver Armor Magic Puppet at Red Sea Peak.
• Three days after hearing the news, Saine saw Pinas return above the Magma Sea beside the battered puppet.
• Saine noticed Pinas had lost two of her Metal Rings and observed extensive damage to the puppet, including a huge dent in its chest.
• Pinas used her power to bring the Silver Armor Magic Puppet into the Space Fortress, where magicians regarded it as a valuable spoil of war.

After the fighting in the Poison Fire Green Flame World eased, Sein secured a transfer from the nearby battlefield to the Azure Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress, where he planned to reunite with his mentor and his newly advanced Level One companion, Little Seven. Meanwhile, the world’s elusive Flame Creature guardian remained hidden in a trench beneath the Magma Sea.

• Sein observed that the Nesser Civilization’s forces and fortresses had become much easier to defeat after Pinas returned with the Silver Armor Magic Puppet.
• Sein studied Pinas’s enormous Silver Armor Magic Puppet and considered using soul enslavement magic to keep his captured Nesser Construct Master alive and learn from her.
• Sein’s request to transfer to the Azure Flame Holy Tower Space Fortress was approved, and he joined a group of departing magicians that included Sylph.
• Sein and Sylph explained that they were returning to rejoin their mentors and companions, and Sein promised to introduce Sylph to Little Seven.
• The hidden guardian of the Poison Fire Green Flame World entered a great hall deep in a trench beneath the central Magma Sea.