Chapter Summaries

Saine joined Guinness's group, but left the next morning after learning that the female Black Magician he had encountered at Ellen Harbor had been targeted by the Eli Knights Alliance. He flew northeast in search of her, while Guinness and the others watched him go.

• Saine accepted Guinness's invitation to travel together, and the group shared a campfire barbecue while discussing their experiences in the Trial Zone.
• Guinness told Saine that he and his sister had encountered Eli Knights Alliance knights pursuing several Black Magicians, including a woman who resembled the one Saine had met at Ellen Harbor.
• After Guinness confirmed the woman's identity, Saine said he could not travel with the group and kept silent when Guinness asked whether she was his friend.
• Saine bade farewell to Guinness, Hope, Mainz, and Guinia the next morning, then flew northeast with flaming wings to search for the female Black Magician.
• Guinness and Hope remarked that Saine was stronger than they were, while Saine's sense that he was heading in the right direction grew as he crossed the Trial Zone.

A pursued Black Magician fled from three Eli Knights Alliance knights until Saine arrived and attacked her pursuers. Saine clashed with their strongest knight and revealed his powerful Magic Staff.

• Three Level 1 Knights cornered the exhausted Black Magician after months of pursuit and attacked her as she tried to escape southwest.
• The Black Magician used Dark Energy Balls to slow the knights, then took out a Ring with a Gray Crest as her magic power waned.
• Saine appeared in a red-and-green blaze, startling the Black Magician and bringing pressure down on the three knights.
• Saine charged the knights and struck the Black Armor Knight's greatsword with Azure Fire Flame, forcing both fighters back.
• Saine summoned a Magic Staff topped with an enormous Azure Fire Heart Crystal, and the Black Armor Knight reacted with alarm.

Saine and Lina reunited after nearly forty years, embraced, and traveled to a cave to share what they had endured since their separation. They recounted their dangerous pasts together while resting in the Knight Continent’s Trial Zone.

• Saine asked Lina about her changed appearance, and Lina explained that advancing to Level 1 had ended her old growth affliction and changed her hair through Dark Element Body Soak.
• Saine and Lina reaffirmed their feelings, then left the battlefield aboard Saine’s Mechanical Bee to find a place where they could talk.
• Saine and Lina settled in a cave, roasted the former owner, a quasi-ranked bear magic beast, and began recounting their years apart.
• Saine told Lina about his experiences in the Yellow Sand World, becoming the Azure Source Holy Tower master’s disciple, and participating in a Plane War.
• Lina told Saine about fleeing the Underdark with Feilunna, joining the Pale Bone Holy Tower, and surviving its deadly trials, while Saine gripped her hands tightly.

Saine learned about Lina’s dangerous years in the Black Domain, her ties to the Pale Bone Black Tower, and the reasons she could not leave it. After sharing a night together, they set off north through the Knight Continent Trial, with Lina able to shift back into the smaller form Saine knew best.

• Lina described the lethal dangers of Black Wizard Academies, and Saine urged her to come with him to the Azure Source Holy Tower after the trial.
• Lina explained that her mentor, Feilunna, joined the Pale Bone Black Tower after advancing to Rank Two, and Lina followed her there.
• Saine learned Lina had won the joint Trial of Death among apprentices from three Holy Towers, signed a Soul Contract with the Pale Bone Black Tower, and was wanted by major Holy Towers and Knights' Halls.
• Lina returned to her smaller form, explained how her transformations affected her abilities, and told Saine how the Dark Element Body Soak had strengthened her.
• Saine and Lina embraced, then left together to continue their journey north through the Knight Continent Trial.

Saine and Lina traveled north through the Knight Continent Trial Zone for months before encountering a violent dispute between West Coast Bloodline Warlocks over a Dragon Core Fruit. The chapter ended as Saine noticed the lone mage surrounded by three red-scaled Humanoid Creatures had snake-like vertical pupils.

• Saine and Lina explored the Trial Zone together for three months, gathering rare specimens and avoiding traveling with strangers.
• Saine reflected on the power and influence of the West Coast Bloodline Warlock Families, especially the Dragon Vein Warlocks.
• Saine and Lina came upon a battle in a ruined forest between Bloodline Warlocks from the Gula Dun and Farrell Families.
• A Gula Dun Family member claimed the Farrell Family had trespassed on their discovery of a Dragon Core Fruit and ordered them to leave.
• Saine spotted a lone black-gray-robed mage surrounded by three red-scaled Humanoid Creatures and noticed the mage's vertical pupils.

Saine and Lina encountered three Gula Dun Warlocks cornering Angle of the Farrell Family over a thousand-year-old Dragon Core Fruit. After Lina explained the fruit’s value, Saine decided it was worth pursuing, leaving the two families’ confrontation poised to draw him in.

• Saine and Lina stopped to watch three Gula Dun Warlocks surround Angle beside a giant tree bearing a single crimson fruit.
• A Gula Dun Warlock ordered Saine to leave, but Saine refused to be intimidated by the family’s standing.
• Angle offered Saine and Lina equal shares of the Dragon Core Fruit if they helped him.
• Lina told Saine the mature Dragon Core Fruit could awaken bloodline power and temper the body, and Saine judged it worth taking.
• Saine exchanged a glance with Lina and took out his Azure Fire Heart Magic Staff.

Saine and Lina joined Angle’s battle against three Crimson Flame Dragon Lizard Warlocks, striking first and forcing the warlocks into their full combat forms. Angle unleashed his poisonous black mist, and the fight continued as the Dragon Lizard Warlocks countered its effects.

• Saine and Lina attacked the three Crimson Flame Dragon Lizard Warlocks with combined-element spells, injuring them before they could raise their defenses.
• The Dragon Lizard Warlocks transformed into five-meter-tall lizard forms and fired innate Fire Refinement Pearls at Saine and Lina.
• Angle released a self-created spell of darkness and mist that poisoned and disoriented the Dragon Lizard Warlocks.
• The leader of the Dragon Lizard Warlocks surrounded himself with red flames while the other two tried to resist Angle’s mist.
• Angle’s azure snake pupils flashed from within the black mist as his position remained hidden.

Saine, Lina, and Angle fought three Crimson Flame Dragon Lizard Warlocks for a day and night before Babulo called off the spar and withdrew. The two sides parted with mutual respect, leaving Saine and Lina beside Angle and the Dragon Core Fruit he had protected.

• Saine, Lina, Angle, and the three Dragon Lizard Warlocks battled through a day and night, with Saine and Lina holding back some of their strength.
• Babulo conceded that Saine’s magic staff had helped him endure, and Saine replied that he had been a Level 1 for less than twenty years.
• Babulo ended the fight and led the other two Dragon Lizard Warlocks away.
• Saine and Lina left their combat states and approached Angle, who had protected the Dragon Core Fruit throughout the battle.
• Angle dispelled his bloodline reversion and remained with Saine and Lina.

Saine and Lina received two-thirds of the fully matured Dragon Core Fruit from Angle, then settled beside a pool so Saine could turn it into a potion. As Saine worked, Lina treasured the bracelet he had kept for her and told him to drink the potion himself.

• Saine introduced himself and Lina to Angle, then insisted on the even split Angle had promised for the Dragon Core Fruit.
• Angle divided the fruit into three portions, gave two to Saine and Lina, and left the growth arrays intact before departing.
• Saine and Lina chose a quiet spot beside a pool, where Saine began preparing the Dragon Core Fruit as a Magic Potion.
• Lina played with the Owl-Eyed Elk eyeball and admired the Black Crystal Bracelet Saine had kept for her.
• Lina told Saine the Dragon Core Fruit would not benefit her and that he should drink the potion himself.

Saine brewed and drank a potent Dragon Core Fruit Potion that rapidly increased his magic power, Mental Strength, and physique, while causing intense side effects. After spending the night with Lina, he checked his improved values and tended to her as she recovered.

• Saine finished brewing several crimson Dragon Core Fruit Potions with rare ingredients, including Silver Silk Spirit Apricot from Tourmaline.
• Saine warned Lina that the potions were too potent, then drank one and experienced rapidly increasing magic power and physique along with severe stimulation.
• Saine asked Lina to help him, and they spent the entire night together in the metal tent.
• Lina emerged exhausted and complained that Saine had been too strong and had tried bolder behavior.
• Saine admitted fault, used Healing Light on Lina, and soothed her while she recovered.

Saine and Lina traveled north through the Knight Continent, sharing research and learning more about Lina’s ties to the Pale Bone Black Tower. The chapter left them continuing their journey together as Lina borrowed a Magic Book from Saine.

• Saine and Lina spent two days resting by a pond, where Saine fished and his Mental Strength continued to rise.
• Saine and Lina traveled north, exchanged knowledge and Magic Books, and advanced their understanding of magic.
• Saine learned that Lina had received elemental knowledge and a Pale Bone Ring from the Pale Bone Black Tower Tower Master, whose intentions toward her remained unclear.
• Saine grew concerned about Lina’s history of killing Wizard World spellcasters and the wanted notices against her, but kept his worries to himself.
• Lina found Saine’s book on Death Element and Summoning Element compatibility, asked to borrow it, and Saine offered it to her.

After nearly three years in the Trial Zone of the Knight Continent, Saine and Lina continued strengthening their magic and bodies while collecting research materials. They killed a powerful Iron-Backed Black Ape, but Saine sensed intense elemental tremors from the west.

• Saine's physique nearly caught up to his Mental Strength and mana, while Lina continued developing her Dark Element Body.
• Saine's experiment fusing the Necromancy Element with the Fire Element failed but gave Lina new ideas for her research.
• Saine and Lina attacked the Iron-Backed Black Ape with energy spells and Elemental Flames after pursuing it for nearly a week.
• Saine pierced the Iron-Backed Black Ape's brow with a flame blade, killing it despite his injured right arm.
• Saine sensed intense elemental tremors in the western forest and looked toward their source.

After defeating an Iron-Backed Black Ape, Saine and Lina investigated an unusual elemental disturbance and found a Gate of Elements surrounded by knights and magicians. As more people gathered and the gate remained unopened, Saine recognized the arriving Level 1 Komoyin Giant Serpent Warlock Angle.

• Saine and Lina finished off the Iron-Backed Black Ape and harvested its valuable materials, including a still-beating heart that Saine gave to Lina.
• Saine and Lina flew west toward the elemental disturbance and found a green Gate of Elements surrounded by knights and magicians.
• A Blue-Tailed Fishman and a crab left the gathering after Saine and Lina arrived.
• Saine and Lina concealed their auras and waited as more knights and magicians gathered around the unopened gate.
• Saine recognized Angle, a Level 1 Komoyin Giant Serpent Warlock, among the newcomers.

Saine, Lina, and Angle entered an Inheritance Secret Realm through the Gate of Elements after Angle explained what such realms might contain. They arrived in a dimly lit subspace outside an enormous Ancient Manor, where the first entrants gathered at its Great Gate.

• Saine asked Angle what lay beyond the Gate of Elements, and Angle explained that it likely led to a large Inheritance Secret Realm created by powerful beings.
• The Gate of Elements changed color and opened a vortex, prompting the waiting knights and mages to rush inside.
• Angle proposed that he, Saine, and Lina join forces and split any gains equally, and they agreed.
• Saine, Lina, and Angle passed through the vortex and arrived outside an enormous Ancient Manor beneath a starry night sky.
• The knights and mages who entered ahead of them gathered at the manor's Great Gate and considered how to force it open.

Saine and the other trial-takers struggled to open the manor’s magically restricted Vermilion Wooden Door until the magician Ent organized their attacks around its elemental frequencies. After the door shattered, the knights rushed inside ahead of the magicians, and Saine wondered whether the secret realm had tested their ability to cooperate.

• Saine recorded details about the secret realm as he approached the manor and found that the Vermilion Wooden Door resisted the knights’ attacks with a magic restriction.
• A Level 1 Knight transformed into a giant and struck the door, demonstrating a powerful Bloodline Transformation that impressed Saine.
• Saine and Lina held back their strongest abilities, while a slender magician named Ent explained that coordinated attacks could open the door faster than brute force.
• Ent tested the restriction’s elemental frequencies and directed everyone’s attacks at specific positions on the door and nearby wall.
• After Saine launched his sixth Exploding Fireball, the door shattered, and the knights charged into the manor before Saine and the other magicians followed.

Saine, Lina, and Angle entered the vast manor and chose a quiet side path to avoid competing with the crowds on the main route. They found pools and unusual plants protected by restrictions, and Saine suspected the manor’s design reflected influences from other worlds.

• Saine noticed that Space Power had expanded the manor far beyond its exterior dimensions as he and Lina entered behind the knights.
• Saine chose a western side path instead of following the crowded main road, and asked Angle to join him and Lina.
• Angle agreed to explore with Saine and Lina because he doubted he could win many resources alone among the stronger groups.
• The three flew down the secluded path, where they found pools and strange trees and flowers surrounded by restrictions.
• Saine remarked that the manor’s layout seemed unlike the Wizard World and suggested its creator had borrowed styles from other civilizations.

Saine, Lina, and Angle explored the manor, collected valuable specimens and an Ice Soul Stone, and continued deeper into the secret realm. They reached a graveyard filled with undead, where their attacks thinned the mist and revealed an immense horde ahead.

• Saine, Lina, and Angle broke through the manor's restrictions and gathered resources, including an exceptionally pure Ice Soul Stone and valuable plant specimens.
• Saine gave most of the Ice Soul Stone to Angle, and the three continued exploring the manor's western side.
• Saine, Lina, and Angle entered a graveyard where dense deathly mist blocked their sight and Mental Strength probing.
• Saine attacked the undead with Azure Flame Wall while Lina used fire magic and Angle unleashed subsonic Sound Wave Magic.
• Saine, Lina, and Angle saw the mist fade and discovered thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of undead gathered before them.

Saine, Lina, and Angle fought the awakened undead in a vast graveyard, harvesting souls and valuable materials as they battled. More undead kept emerging, and several Level-1 undead at the rear of the tide roared in anger as the fight escalated.

• The gray mist dispersed and awakened a vast number of undead, while more creatures began crawling out of the graveyard soil.
• Lina explained that the undead could yield Soul Crystals and Soul Essence, persuading Angle to help explore the graveyard.
• Angle activated his bloodline atavism, and Saine, Lina, and Angle launched a barrage of magical attacks against the advancing undead.
• Lina flew above the graveyard and used a gray crystal ball to collect souls released by the slain undead.
• Saine, Lina, and Angle harvested numerous Soul Crystals and Soul Essence as the undead continued to emerge.
• Several Level-1 undead in the rear of the tide roared as they reacted to the slaughter.

Saine and Lina faced a surge of powerful undead emerging from the Undead Graveyard, including a Death Knight and three other rank-one creatures. Saine transformed into a Fire Element giant to fight the Death Knight, while unseen undead attackers continued to bombard the group.

• A Death Knight riding a White Bone Warhorse charged toward Lina, angered by her collecting undead souls.
• Three more rank-one undead—a mummy, a Purple Eyeball, and a Black Carapace Rot Worm—emerged and directed the undead tide to surround Saine and his companions.
• The Death Knight and White Bone Warhorse attacked Saine together, breaking several layers of his Magic Shields with their spear and hooves.
• Saine dispelled his outer shields, caught the Death Knight's spear with his hands, and transformed into a giant of Azure Fire Flame.
• Azure fire spread from Saine onto the Death Knight and frightened the White Bone Warhorse, while fern-like Undead Creatures launched Death Gas Bombs at the group's shields.

Saine, Lina, and Angle fought the Undead Creatures in the graveyard while gathering souls and materials, but the growing horde made retreat increasingly urgent. The battle changed when a Level-2 Bone Dragon emerged from underground.

• Saine, Lina, and Angle fought the Death Knight, mummy, Eye Demon, and Black Rot Beetle while battling waves of low-level undead.
• Angle asked whether they should retreat, but Saine chose to keep fighting in hopes of killing a Level-1 Undead Creature and collecting more spoils.
• Lina attacked the Eye Demon and struck the Black Rot Beetle underground while Saine and Angle held off their opponents.
• At around the seventh sandglass, the ground shook and a powerful Level-2 undead began emerging from the graveyard.
• A Bone Dragon rose from underground, and Angle recognized it as an undead creature that retained draconic power and Dragon Might.