Chapter Summaries

Wizard World forces engaged the native legions of Gumo World on the Akale Plain, where the knights’ mounts and superior range gave them an advantage. Lunna, Nataya, and Saine charged toward the enemy, with a deep red Constructed Magic Puppet appearing beside Saine.

• Gumo World’s Gulan Lizardmen, Mokenu People, and Golo Earthworms used their distinct ranged attacks, but Wizard World magicians struck from much farther away.
• The elite slave creature Legion and then the Knight Legion advanced into the open battlefield as the native legions entered effective range.
• Saine observed mounted knights of the Eli Knights Alliance fighting in coordinated formations and considered buying mounts for Nataya and Lunna after the war.
• Lunna charged first, and Nataya followed close beside her as the two Earth Knights fought together.
• Saine ordered five Level-1 Magicians to hold position, then charged after the two women without bringing slave creatures.
• A deep red Constructed Magic Puppet appeared on Saine’s right flank as he advanced.

Saine joined the battle on the Gumo Plane, where Wizard World forces fought the native Golo Earthworms, and learned how valuable their Crystal Hearts were. After his fire attack barely wounded one, he changed his Elemental True Body to light and drove the worms into fearful retreat, pursuing the injured specimen.

• Saine's veteran companions coordinated with the Wizard World forces as knights and magicians engaged the charging Golo Earthworms.
• Saine learned that Golo Earthworm Crystal Hearts were valuable magic materials and attacked one with a powerful Flame Ray, but it survived and fled underground.
• Saine recalled that Golo Earthworms feared the Light Element and transformed his fire-element body into a Light Element True Body.
• Saine's radiance frightened nearby Golo Earthworms, and he pursued the injured one as it tried to escape.

Saine captured a Golo Earthworm and gathered specimens with Yuli while fighting spread across the Gumo Plane battlefield. When a Level-2 Mokenu Man charged at him, Saine unleashed his Sun's Eye spell.

• Saine pinned a Level-1 Golo Earthworm with Light Elemental Rays, preserved its Crystal Heart, and stored it in his ring.
• Yuli subdued or killed charging indigenous creatures and collected them as specimens for Saine.
• Lunna fought a massive Golo Earthworm, while Nataya faced a Colorful Fur Giant Beast.
• A Level-2 Mokenu Man wielding a Silver Thrust charged at Saine as Yuli fired energy rays to cover him.
• Saine conjured more than a hundred Light Element eyes and fired beams at the approaching Mokenu Man.

Saine and his companions overwhelmed Gumo World’s elite forces while fighting on Akale Plain, but the battle’s balance shifted when a Gumo World god unleashed Level-4 power. The chapter ended as an emerald beast claw descended toward a Thousand-Man Magician Formation.

• Saine overwhelmed a Mokenu warrior with repeated Sun's Eye volleys and began harvesting Task Points across Akale Plain.
• Saine, Lunna, Nataya, and Yuli defeated the elite Gumo World creatures who challenged them by fighting together.
• As Gumo World’s larger armies pressed forward, Saine stopped collecting specimens and focused on killing enemies.
• The prolonged fighting caused casualties among the Wizard World’s lower-level Knights and Magicians, and Saine lost contact with those under his command.
• On the fifteenth day, a Gumo World god unleashed power beyond the Demigod level and sent an emerald claw toward one of the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s Thousand-Man Magician Formations.

The Gulan Lizard God and the Mokenu People's Grand Priest attacked the Wizard World's legions from different directions, while the Space Fortress intercepted the Gulan Lizard God's strike. Saine watched the battle from the right flank as the Golo Earthworms nearby grew frenzied.

• The Gulan Lizard God descended over the battlefield and aimed a massive claw at the Wizard World's Magician Legion.
• The Space Fortress fired an Energy Beam that broke the Gulan Lizard God's attack, then continued bombarding it.
• The Mokenu People's Grand Priest struck from another direction with silver meteor attacks, near Saine's position on the right flank.
• Saine watched the Grand Priest's attack from ahead of the Dark Flame Holy Tower's magician formation, outside the strike's reach.
• The nearby Golo Earthworms briefly went berserk under the effects of the Grand Priest's attack.

The Tower Master of the Dark Flame Holy Tower shielded the Magician Legion and attacked the native gods with his powerful Dark Flame. Saine moved closer to collect the remaining flames as the Level-4 battle continued near the ground, leaving him with only a fading specimen.

• The Tower Master of the Dark Flame Holy Tower protected the Magician Legion with a barrier of Dark and Fire Elements and sent two black dragons toward the native Level-4 gods.
• Saine recognized the Dark Flame’s power and urged Nataya and Lunna to move closer so he could collect its remnants, while Yuli followed to guard him.
• The Gulan Lizard God and Mokenu Grand Priest fought desperately near the ground, inflicting heavy losses on the Golo Earthworms as the Golo Earthworm King writhed under Dark Flame.
• Saine watched the battle and studied a fading cluster of Dark Flame he had collected.

Saine and his group collected Dark Flame Embers on the Akale Plain, then fought their way out as the battlefield grew more dangerous. After joining forces with Lunna to wound a Level-3 Golo Earthworm, they decided to use the passage it dug to retreat underground.

• Saine hoped Dark Flame Embers would help him reach Level Three, though he regretted that he could not obtain the Dark Flame Master's Source Fire.
• Saine led Nataya and the others east to escape the hostile Gumo Plane legions surrounding them.
• The Level-5 Dark Flame Master used his Space Fortress to suppress the Gumo Plane forces while close combat spread across the battlefield.
• Saine and Lunna severely wounded a Level-3 Golo Earthworm, which fled underground and left behind a passage ten meters wide.
• Saine asked whether they should enter the passage, and Nataya agreed so the exhausted group could avoid the encroaching legions.

Saine led Nataya and Lunna through the Gumo Plane’s vast Underground World after losing track of a fleeing Level-3 Golo Earthworm. Over seventeen days he explored and gathered resources, then began researching the underground ecosystem, whose value made the Gumo Plane far more lucrative to conquer than expected.

• Saine and his companions descended after the Level-3 Golo Earthworm, but he lost track of it in the maze of tunnels carved by the Golo Earthworm race.
• Saine explained how the Gumo Plane’s underground differed from the Wizard World’s Underdark, while Nataya stayed close to him and Yuli watched from the Constructed Magic Puppet.
• Saine used detection spells to find traces of low-level life and continued exploring the Underground World for creatures and resources.
• Over the next seventeen days, Saine took Nataya and Lunna through the underground, where they encountered strange lakes, rivers, eyeless humanoids, and unfamiliar magical beasts.
• Saine’s research revealed that Golo Earthworm secretions reinforced the caverns and their feces enriched the underground ecosystem, making the Gumo Plane’s resources far more valuable than expected.
• On the seventeenth day, Saine began experimental research in an underground Stone Cave, while the plane’s hidden wealth made Dark Flame’s determination to claim it understandable.

Saine spent nearly half a year researching Dark Flame Embers underground, deepening his understanding of Fire Elements and nearing Level 3. Nataya and Lunna interrupted his experiments to bring him to a place they had discovered, one they said was more serious and mysterious than another Golo Earthworm egg base.

• Saine relied on Yuli's battles and the destruction of Golo Earthworm egg-piling sites to earn combat merit while secretly spending time on research.
• Saine's uninterrupted study of Dark Flame Embers changed the Fire Elements within his body, causing flames of tangible magic power to manifest as he approached Level 3.
• Nataya and Lunna interrupted Saine's experiment and told him they had found a serious, mysterious place.
• Saine put away his Ice-Soul Laboratory Table and agreed to go with Nataya and Lunna to investigate.

Saine, Nataya, and Lunna investigated a hidden Demigod-level Golo Earthworm in an underground Magma River and discovered an immense formation of Silver Runes made with the blood of a Level-4 lifeform. They realized the formation pointed to a long-planned conspiracy and prepared to report it to the Dark Flame Holy Tower Combat Command.

• Nataya and Lunna led Saine east through the underground caverns to a Magma River nearly twenty thousand meters below the surface.
• The group watched a colossal Demigod-level Golo Earthworm emerge from the river and realized it was hiding rather than joining the war.
• Saine, Nataya, and Lunna entered the Magma River under a Fire Element Energy Shield while Yuli stayed behind to support them.
• The three discovered a vast network of mercury-silver runes across the riverbed and Saine judged they had been inscribed with the blood of a Level-4 lifeform.
• Saine and the others decided to return to the Surface World and report the apparent long-planned conspiracy to the Dark Flame Holy Tower Combat Command.

Saine and his companions discovered a river of Silver Runes in the underground Magma River, then were pursued by a Demigod-level earth dragon. Nataya escaped to report the discovery while Saine and Lunna stayed behind to hold off the dragon and prepare their retreat.

• Saine recorded the Silver Runes river with his Crystal Ball as the earth dragon sensed the intruders and began pursuing them.
• Saine ordered Nataya to take the recording to the Holy Tower Combat Command while he and Lunna delayed the earth dragon.
• Nataya accepted the Crystal Ball and flew toward the surface, where Construct Master Yuli waited to receive her.
• Saine transformed into his Light Element True Body and attacked the earth dragon alongside Lunna, whose hammer blows barely wounded it.
• Saine urged Lunna to use the body-tempering move he had developed for her as they tried to escape the strange river.

Saine explained the Fat Burning Secret Skill he developed for Lunna, which traded her stored fat for a tremendous burst of strength at the cost of intense pain and temporary weakness. As the Silver Runes in the Magma River stirred with a power Saine recognized as laws wielded by Level Four beings, Lunna agreed to use the skill and Saine ignited it.

• Saine recalled how mages and knights sacrificed their power or vitality for short-lived strength, then explained that Lunna’s energy-rich fat could serve as safer fuel for an explosive technique.
• Saine described the Fat Burning Secret Skill’s painful effects and its ability to strengthen the body afterward, while Lunna remembered avoiding it even when facing defeat.
• Saine and Lunna recognized that the trembling Silver Runes and the Magma River’s growing disturbance posed a danger beyond the Demigod-level Earth Dragon.
• Lunna resolved to use the skill, and Saine pressed a scarlet-orange flame against her back to accelerate its activation.
• Lunna roared as the Fat Burning Secret Skill took hold, while underground boulders fell and the Magma River and Silver Runes grew more violent.

Dark Flame Master realized that the Gumo Plane’s gods had prepared a massive Silver Array to imprison him, with the Mokenu People's Grand Priest sacrificing his life to activate it. As the Grand Priest began the ritual, Dark Flame laughed and the chapter ended with the order to make their move.

• A massive Silver Array emerged across the Akale Plain, surrounding the Wizard World's main Magician Legion and revealing the Gumo gods’ plan to imprison Dark Flame Master.
• Dark Flame learned through the Space Fortress’s Combat Command that the Array had been prepared to trap him, aided by Gumo’s new Guardian.
• Dark Flame taunted the Mokenu People's Grand Priest and the Gulan Lizard God, pointing out the Grand Priest’s weakened Blood Qi and dwindling lifespan.
• The Mokenu People's Grand Priest prepared to sacrifice his life to activate the Array, while the Golo Earthworm King remained underground to assist him.
• Dark Flame laughed as the Grand Priest smashed his Silver Scepter into the ground and plunged his skeletal hand into his heart, then ordered the others to make their move.

The Mokenu Grand Priest sacrificed his life to trap Dark Flame and several thousand magicians in a massive Silver Array, hoping to avenge his people and protect the Gumo Plane. Dark Flame unleashed devastating black flames but struggled to destroy the array’s underground source points before it activated.

• The Mokenu Grand Priest tore out his own heart to power a Law Contract and a sealing trap, having secured promises from the Gumo Plane’s other two Level-4 gods to support his people after the war.
• Dark Flame laughed at the Grand Priest’s sacrifice but remained calm, transformed into a Black Sun, and rained destructive black flames across the battlefield.
• Dark Flame’s flames burned at least a hundred thousand Mokenu People troops, and the Grand Priest shed silver tears as he focused his hatred on Dark Flame.
• The Grand Priest’s heart beat faster and intensified the enormous Silver Array, trapping Dark Flame and four or five thousand magicians, including many core magicians of the Dark Flame Holy Tower.
• Dark Flame attacked the array but could not quickly reach its source points twenty thousand meters underground, while two native Level-4 gods obstructed him and the array neared activation.

The Mokenu Grand Priest died after activating the Silver Array to imprison Dark Flame, but Saine and Lunna disrupted a crucial Law node from below. Lunna broke through to Level 3, and Saine emerged into a battlefield where the enraged Gumo forces surged toward him.

• Nataya emerged from the Underground World, learned of the Silver Array, and rushed with Yuli toward its radiance.
• The Mokenu Grand Priest used his heart as the formation core to activate the imperfect Law Matrix, then died believing it would protect the Gumo Plane for thousands of years.
• Saine and Lunna fought the Demigod-level earth dragon at a crucial node, and Lunna advanced to Level 3 during the battle.
• Saine helped trigger a volcano, whose eruption destabilized the Silver Array and gave Dark Flame a chance to attack its boundaries.
• Dark Flame charged eastward as the Gumo Plane's other two native gods moved to stop him.
• Saine emerged atop a magma pillar, where enraged Gumo armies surrounded him, and Lunna burst from the magma river still fighting the wounded earth dragon.

Saine faced a deadly rush of Gumo Plane creatures as the Gulan Lizard God sacrificed itself to strengthen the Law Matrix sealing the Dark Flame Master. With no faith that anyone in the Wizard World would rescue him, Dark Flame ordered his war platform to bombard the Akale Plain, even though its own forces were there.

• Saine prepared to defend himself against a furious crowd of Gumo Plane creatures, including powerful fighters and two Demigod-level beings.
• The Gulan Lizard God sacrificed itself to fill the gap in the Law Matrix and reinforce the seal on the Dark Flame Master.
• Dark Flame concluded that his enemies and lack of allies meant he could not count on rescue if the seal imprisoned him.
• Dark Flame ordered the war platform to fire three volleys of “World-Ending Death” at the center of the Akale Plain and sink the continent.
• A Demigod-level Magician in the command center protested that the bombardment would kill the knights and magicians, including Dark Flame Holy Tower’s registered magicians.

Dark Flame ordered his Space Fortress to bombard Akale Plain, sacrificing Wizard World’s own forces to survive the crisis. As the deadly barrage began, Saine grabbed Lunna and fled toward the depths of the volcano, hoping to escape it.

• Dark Flame invoked a rule allowing powerful figures to prioritize their survival and activated the Space Fortress’s weapons when his confidant hesitated.
• The Space Fortress unleashed a massive barrage across the central region of Akale Plain, striking both Alien Plane forces and Wizard World’s legions.
• Saine sensed the fortress gathering energy and rushed to pull Lunna away from her fight with the Demigod-level earth dragon.
• Saine showed Lunna the bombardment and carried her toward the Volcano Crater, urging her to dive underground for a chance to survive.

Dark Flame Master broke free of the Silver Runes matrix as the Space Fortress devastated the Akale Plain and killed the Gulan Lizard God. He halted the third volley, shielded the surviving forces, and captured part of the Golo Earthworm King while the wounded creature fled underground.

• Saine and Lunna dove into the volcano crater, followed by the enraged earth dragon, as the Space Fortress began firing.
• The Space Fortress's first volleys devastated the central Akale Plain, killing large numbers of Gumo Plane creatures and Wizard World troops.
• The second main-cannon blast destroyed half of the Gulan Lizard God's body, killing it and ending its hold on Dark Flame Master.
• The Golo Earthworm King fled underground, but the beam severed the rear half of its body, which Dark Flame Master captured with Dark Fire Element.
• Dark Flame Master halted the Space Fortress's third volley and raised a vast magic barrier to shield the surviving forces from the energy in the sky.

Saine and Lunna struggled to survive the continent-wide upheavals caused by the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s bombardment of the Gumo Plane. Trapped deep underground, they endured the magma and earth-vein forces while growing stronger and gaining a chance to encounter the plane’s laws.

• Saine and Lunna descended into the magma as the space fortress’s attacks and the earth dragon’s protection kept them alive.
• Dark Flame’s bombardment triggered another continent-wide volcanic eruption, threatening the Gumo Plane with decades of darkness and devastation.
• Saine recalled Marylian’s prophecy that a crisis could contain an opportunity as geological pressure and magma battered them underground.
• Lunna used her Earth Element battle qi to create a small refuge and shield Saine from the earth-vein turbulence.
• Lunna experienced the Gumo Plane’s earth-vein laws firsthand, while Saine was tempered by the Fire Element essence in the magma.

After the native legions collapsed and the battle on the Gumo Plane ended, Saine and Lunna returned from underground after three months missing. Saine received a new Holy Tower Badge and learned that Dark Flame Master had personally approved his exceptional Task Points and wanted to meet him.

• After the two native gods died, the Gumo Plane’s legions broke and fled, and Wizard Civilization forces spent two more months hunting down the routed troops.
• Dark Flame’s Space Fortress had caused heavy losses among the Dark Flame Holy Tower’s magicians, leaving him likely to face an inquiry and damage to his reputation.
• Saine and Lunna emerged through a cooled Volcano Crater after roughly three months, with Saine’s Dim Star Magic Robe and temporary Holy Tower badge destroyed.
• Saine reported to the Fortress Main Base, where he received a new badge showing Task Points worth at least twenty thousand Magic Coins.
• A young Level-1 Magician told Saine that Dark Flame Master had approved his Task Points as a special exception and wanted to meet him after the war.
• Saine accepted that Dark Flame’s decision to fire the Space Fortress had been correct, believing he would have made the same choice.