Chapter Summaries

After arranging possible cooperation with Luna, Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower and continued his studies under Luluenman as war approached. Luluenman struggled to teach her unusually accomplished disciple, who remained unaware of her frustration and pride.

• Saine concluded his discussion with Luna and left to return to his research.
• Luluenman instructed Saine on Second-Level Magicians’ bodily Elementalization and the energy qualitative transformation required to reach Level 3.
• Luluenman found Saine difficult to teach because his strengths lay in elemental fields she had not deeply studied, so she sought Cuilisi’s help to study Azure Fire Magic and related systems.
• Saine admired Luluenman’s extensive knowledge and used her lessons to develop new lines of inquiry.
• As war drew nearer and Luluenman had little time to teach, Saine accepted that he would need to ponder unanswered questions on his own.

Saine prepared to join the Azure Source Holy Tower’s expedition against Thunderfall World, reconnecting with old friends while planning to watch over Irene and Serena. Meanwhile, Luluenman contacted Cuilisi about Azure Fire Magic, concealing why her interest had recently grown.

• The Azure Source Holy Tower confirmed that 1,579 Formal Magicians would participate in the Thunderfall World War, and Saine prepared to join them under a new mercenary contract.
• Saine learned that Irene and Serena would join the expedition and resolved to keep an eye on Serena during her first Plane War.
• Saine spotted Green among the expeditionary forces and approached him while Xiao Qi and Green’s Swearing Parrot were perched on their shoulders.
• Cuilisi told Luluenman that the Nesser Star Region War had ended and explained why she had delayed returning to the Wizard World with her disciples.
• Cuilisi asked why Luluenman had recently been asking about Azure Fire Magic, and Luluenman claimed that one of her experiments involved it.

Cuilisi ended her frustrating lesson with Luluenman and heard that Saine had been accused of colluding with Black Magicians. Learning of Saine’s connection to Bai Xing’s family, Cuilisi considered its value amid growing tensions between the Wizard World and the Galente Federation.

• Cuilisi stopped teaching Luluenman Azure Fire Magic after struggling to make her understand its deeper laws.
• Luluenman told Cuilisi that an Enforcement Knight from the Darkness Sword Knights' Hall had accused Saine of colluding with Black Magicians.
• Cuilisi learned that Bai Xing’s Demigod-level Dragon Turtle sister remained at the Azure Source Holy Tower and was close to Saine, and she praised the Dragon Turtle Family’s influence.
• Cuilisi reflected on the Galente Federation’s destruction of the Rose Dynasty Civilization and the Wizard World’s growing military standoff with the Federation.
• Cuilisi recalled that remnants of the Rose Dynasty Civilization, including a Dominator-Level Combat Power, had taken refuge in Wizard World territory, while the City of Steel pursued their technology.

Cuilisi reassured Luluenman that she would help Saine shake off the Darkness Sword Knights' Hall's accusations and gave her knowledge to help teach him Azure Fire Magic. After learning of the Eli Knights Alliance's priorities, Cuilisi raised the dispute with Darkness Sword, who ordered his subordinate to investigate and withdraw the arrest if the conflict was minor.

• Cuilisi teased Luluenman about seeking Azure Fire Magic knowledge for Saine, then sent her a ball of teaching knowledge.
• Cuilisi contacted Darkness Sword and learned that the Eli Knights Alliance considered a prophecy from the Eastern Astrology Highlands more important than an approaching war with the Galente Federation.
• Cuilisi told Darkness Sword that one of her disciples had run into trouble, and he asked whether Gagaru or Pinas was involved.
• After their call ended, Darkness Sword ordered a Level-4 subordinate to investigate the conflict with Magicians from the Azure Flame Holy Tower and withdraw the arrest if the matter was not serious.

Saine returned to Thunderfall World with Azure Source Holy Tower’s magicians and chose to join the fierce Thunder Domain Battlefield alongside his friends. After forming a team and reaching Thunder Stone Mountain, he reunited with Good, Nataya, and the others as the Holy Tower’s forces prepared to greatly increase their support for the war.

• Azure Source Holy Tower negotiated employment contracts with the three Knights' Halls while its magicians entered the battlefield before the terms were settled.
• Saine chose the Thunder Domain Battlefield and assembled a nine-member team of familiar magicians, including Green, Irene, Serena, Daniel, and Lan Qi.
• Saine brought his team to Thunder Stone Mountain, where they saw the Space Fortresses and the ongoing fighting across the Thunder Domain.
• Saine reunited with Good, Nataya, and the others, who had recently withdrawn from the front lines.
• Saine told Good and the others that Azure Source Holy Tower had entered the war and that elemental saturation strikes would increase more than tenfold starting that week.
• Nataya scrutinized Irene, Serena, Anna, and Ballena as they stood with Saine's team.

Saine and the Azure Source Holy Tower magicians joined the Thunder Domain Battlefield, where a week-long elemental bombardment devastated the Gass Legion before the Wizard World forces advanced. The Gass continued resisting, and Saine later witnessed a famed demigod slave creature fighting for the land promised to it after the war.

• The Combat Command assigned more than eleven hundred Azure Source Holy Tower magicians to the Thunder Domain Battlefield and sent a smaller group to Thunderfall Pool.
• Saine led Green and the others in the seven-day area-covering elemental bombardment of the Thunder Domain.
• On the eighth day, more than one hundred thousand knights and over one million slave creatures advanced into the Thunder Domain as its battered natives emerged from underground shelters.
• The Gass Legion suffered grievous losses but retained its fighting spirit because the Gas King still lived.
• During the third week, Saine saw a wounded Demigod-level Giant Toothed Arrow Hog fighting fiercely after Level 5 knight Lei Ming promised it land in southern Thunderfall World for its clan.

Saine and the Wizard World Legion pressed their assault through the Thunder Domain, devastating the Gasses’ last stronghold while the Level-4 battle raged above. Three and a half years after Azure Source Holy Tower joined the campaign, a deep blue meteor fell, marking the end of the old era in Thunderfall World.

• Saine led his magicians, knights, and Alien Creatures in the campaign to exterminate the Gasses and establish Wizard Civilization’s rule over Thunderfall World.
• A Level-2 magician from Azure Source Holy Tower proposed firing inert materials into the clouds to weaken the Gasses, and the Holy Tower approved the tactic.
• After the Wizard World Legion conquered most of the Thunder Domain, its final territory resisted for two more years as lightning strikes and elemental upheavals devastated the battlefield.
• Saine and other magicians reached the Gas King’s temple, collected pieces of its blue-gold metal, and gathered research remnants from a crater left by Level-4 combat.
• Luluenman and the other Level-4 fighters battled near the Plane Barrier while Qinglan Feng watched the wounded Purple Lightning Guardian.
• Three and a half years after Azure Source Holy Tower joined the war, a deep blue meteor fell across Thunderfall World.

Luluenman helped Lei Ming capture Gas King while preserving the Level-4 creature’s heart for Lei Ming’s plan to forge a World-Class Secret Treasure. After securing payment for her aid, she asked for more compensation and a period of rest before assisting with another capture.

• Luluenman explained that she had spent three and a half years helping Lei Ming preserve Gas King as a living source of materials for his planned World-Class Secret Treasure.
• Lei Ming thanked Luluenman and agreed to pay the Azure Source Holy Tower several million Magic Coins within thirty years.
• Luluenman asked whether Lei Ming had also captured the Guardian of the Four Seasons alive, and Lei Ming confirmed that it was being held for its valuable Element Heart Core.
• Lei Ming asked Luluenman to preserve the Guardian’s vitality in the coming battle, and she agreed while requesting half a year to recover and a revision to their contract.
• Luluenman argued that her specialized assistance deserved extra payment, and Lei Ming was left stunned by her request.

Luluenman renegotiated her employment fee with Thunder Knight Lei Ming because she had not signed a contract, and Lei Ming agreed to pay her 2.8 million Magic Coins. He asked for fifty years to raise the funds, while Luluenman accepted installment payments.

• Luluenman reasoned that she had not signed a Rule Contract with Lei Ming and could ask for a higher fee in accordance with equivalent exchange.
• Lei Ming asked Luluenman to name her price, and she requested 2.8 million Magic Coins.
• Lei Ming calculated that the battle would cost him at least 4 million Magic Coins, while he was already paying to forge a World-Class Secret Treasure with help from a Titan God.
• Lei Ming agreed to Luluenman's price but asked for fifty years to gather the Magic Coins.
• Luluenman said she would accept installment payments, and Lei Ming considered selling his Space Fortress if necessary.

After signing a Rule Contract with the Thunder Knight, Luluenman summoned Saine to discuss his wartime experiences and teach him Azure Fire Magic Mysteries. The chapter ended with Luluenman telling Saine that his marriage alliance with the Ernst Family should be held soon.

• Luluenman agreed to reopen the war against the Thunderfall Pool in half a year and signed a Rule Contract with the Thunder Knight.
• Luluenman rested aboard Thunder Fortress, then summoned Saine to ask about his recent experiences.
• Saine left a mine in the Thunder Domain and flew to Thunder Fortress after receiving Luluenman's message.
• Luluenman praised Saine for leading a mixed force in the war and taught him Azure Fire Magic Mysteries for over a week.
• Luluenman told Saine to study the new knowledge and begin his own experiments, then raised his marriage alliance with the Ernst Family.

Saine confessed to Luluenman that he had gone to the Western Islands to find Lina, his wife and a Black Magician, and Luluenman warned him that the relationship could put him in danger. Saine refused to abandon Lina but agreed to meet with his mentor, who invited him to bring Lina to the Azure Source Holy Tower.

• Luluenman confronted Saine about his trip to the Black Domain in the Western Islands, and Saine admitted she was right.
• Luluenman asked about the black-robed magician in the Element Engraving, and Saine said Lina was his wife.
• Luluenman warned Saine that the Eli Knights Alliance's Enforcement Knights could make his relationship with a Black Magician dangerous and suggested a marriage alliance with the Ernst Family as cover.
• Saine understood Luluenman's advice but did not agree to give up Lina, then bowed to thank his mentor for her care.
• Luluenman feared Saine might leave the Azure Source Holy Tower for the Black Domain, but Saine reassured her and asked to bring Lina to meet her.

After learning that Lina had entered seclusion to advance to Second-Level Magician, Saine traveled with his companions to the Thunderfall Pool Battlefield, still troubled by news he did not know how to share with her. Nataya told him that the Enforcement Knights who had hunted him were drawn into the war, and her support helped lift his spirits.

• Saine returned to the Thunder Domain Battlefield, found Lina's year-old message saying she had begun attempting to advance to Second-Level Magician, and left her words of encouragement.
• Four months after the Thunder Domain War ended, Saine and his companions deployed to the Thunderfall Pool Battlefield as the fifth batch of reinforcements.
• Nataya told Saine that the Darkness Sword Knights' Hall Enforcement Knights who had hunted him were drawn into the war and eventually left Thunderfall World after their pursuit failed.
• Saine asked Nataya why she did not hate him, and she said she did hate him but still valued his help and had joined Good, Lunna, and the others in supporting him.

After the Thunderfall World War ended, Saine left the plane with Luluenman while Nataya remained behind with the knight legions. Nataya’s mother encouraged her to keep pursuing Saine, who had begun to feel differently about her.

• Saine reflected on his feelings for Lina and Nataya, deciding to wait until Lina reached Level 2 before confessing everything to her.
• After two years of fighting at Thunderfall Pool, Saine learned that Luluenman and the others had defeated the Purple Lightning Guardian, ending the war.
• Saine left Thunderfall World with Luluenman, while Nataya, Good, and the others stayed behind under their Knights’ Hall orders.
• Nataya watched Saine depart, then told her mother Xia Ya that his attitude toward her had changed.
• Xia Ya encouraged Nataya to keep pursuing Saine, drawing on her own experience of pursuing Nataya’s father, Wilson.

After returning from Thunderfall World, Saine resumed his research at the Azure Source Holy Tower and learned that Lina had advanced to level two. When Lina visited him, Saine shared the dilemma his mentor had posed, and Lina reassured him that she understood his feelings and cared little for appearances.

• Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower with Luluenman and promised Tourmaline that he would take her to an Alien Plane next time.
• Saine settled back into research, organizing the rare materials and specimens he had collected during his travels and the war.
• Lina contacted Saine after advancing to level two and consolidating her realm, then traveled to the Azure Source Holy Tower through their Netherworld transit Space Channel.
• Saine showed Lina his laboratory and told her about the predicament and demands from Luluenman that had been troubling him.
• Lina told Saine she understood his feelings and that their long relationship mattered more to her than appearances.

Saine introduced Lina to his mentor Luluenman at the Azure Source Holy Tower, where Luluenman quickly grew fond of her. Luluenman gave Lina a Holy Tower Badge, and Saine and Lina left with Lina reflecting on how kindly Saine’s mentor treated her.

• Saine brought Lina to meet Luluenman in her laboratory at the top of the Holy Tower.
• Lina explained that an experiment had stunted her growth, then transformed from a little girl into her adult form.
• Luluenman chatted warmly with Lina and did not object to her relationship with Saine.
• After leaving, Lina told Saine she envied him for having such a good mentor, and Saine said Luluenman was her mentor too.
• At Saine’s request, Luluenman gave Lina a Holy Tower Badge that granted her access to most of the Azure Source Holy Tower.

Saine showed Lina around the Azure Source Holy Tower and visited the Grant Family, where he saw how time had changed his relatives. He ended by asking Lina to marry him at his mother’s grave.

• Saine took Lina to the Holy Tower Library, where she explored its vast collection and lamented the difference between its resources and the Black Domain’s.
• Saine introduced Lina to Tourmaline, then brought her to the Grant Family in the Lisia Alliance while Kelman and Ulysses remained away in Thunderfall World.
• Saine saw his elderly brother Solon and learned how the Grant family had changed across the decades, including that Tiya had died sixteen years earlier.
• Saine took Lina to his mother’s grave and proposed that they hold their wedding there with only the two of them.

After marrying Lina, Saine traveled with her to revisit the ruins of the City of Mozhsuobula, where they reminisced about their early days together. Lina revealed that the Pale Bone Black Tower’s Rank Five Tower Master was preparing to take her as a disciple, leaving Saine concerned about the risks their relationship could pose.

• Saine married Lina at the Grant Family estate, gave Solon potions to extend his life, and arranged study recommendations for Grant Family descendants.
• Saine and Lina concealed their appearances and flew south to the former site of the City of Mozhsuobula in the Underdark.
• Saine and Lina explored the lava-scarred ruins, collected several powerful Dark Beings as specimens, and recalled their time as apprentices.
• Lina told Saine that her mentor Feilunna and Vice Dean Master Jigson had discussed her becoming the disciple of the Pale Bone Black Tower’s Rank Five Tower Master.
• Saine suspected the Tower Master’s interest in Lina was partly connected to her ties to the Bai Xing Family, and hoped the powerful Black Magician would treat her as a valuable investment.

Saine and Lina used a Flesh Altar to help Hai Xi break through to Level 1, while his three siblings remained too weak for the procedure. Years later, Saine agreed to resume his marriage alliance with Nataya, then received a letter from Meili saying she had become a Level-1 Magician but could not leave the Dawn Holy Tower.

• Lina explained that Hai Xi and the other Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beasts needed a Flesh Altar and external energy to evolve.
• Saine and Lina activated the altar, and Hai Xi entered a red cocoon that Lina predicted would open within a month.
• After thirty-one days, Hai Xi emerged as a Level 1 lifeform with reddish scales and thin flesh wings.
• Four years after Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower, Kelman came back to the Wizard World, and Saine agreed to proceed with his marriage alliance with Nataya.
• Meili wrote to Saine that she had advanced to Level 1 but could not leave the Dawn Holy Tower because of an unfolding situation there.

Seven years after his experiments and his mentor Luluenman’s preparations for a Plane War, Saine attended his engagement ceremony to Nataya in the Lisia Alliance. The banquet left him uneasy about his feelings for Lina, and he unexpectedly spotted Red Scales, now Nataya’s Level 1 grandniece.

• Saine considered Luluenman’s preparations to conquer a Low-Level Plant Element Plane and her reliance on Plant Creatures.
• Seven years later, Saine returned to the Lisia Alliance with Owl Little Qi and Cousin Serena for his engagement ceremony to Nataya.
• Nataya noticed Saine’s subdued mood and promised that she and the Ernst Family would support him in the coming war.
• Saine saw a young red-haired knight at the banquet and recognized her as Red Scales, the woman he had slept with during his apprentice days.
• Nataya explained that the knight was her grandniece, an adventurer who had recently advanced to Level 1.

Saine attended his engagement banquet with Nataya, learned more about the Ernst Family and Red Scales, and returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower. His mentor Luluenman then told him that the tower planned to conquer Green Leaf World in three years.

• Saine learned that Red Scales was Lena Ernst, his distant relative, and decided not to acknowledge their past in front of the family.
• Saine and Nataya's two-day engagement banquet ended with the Grant and Ernst Families handling the guests and gifts.
• Saine stayed in the Lisia Alliance for nearly a month, where his cousin Serena visited the Ferrell Family and oversaw its recent growth.
• Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower while Nataya went back to the Steel Wall Fist Knights' Hall with her mother.
• Luluenman told Saine that the Azure Source Holy Tower planned to launch a war against Green Leaf World in three years.