Chapter Summaries

Saine rejected White Sand World's offer to surrender and join the Wizard Alliance, preferring to exploit the plane's resources. After the Guardian escaped his attack, Luluenman advised him to report White Sand World's request to the Alliance.

• The White Wing Bird King opposed surrender, while Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen and the Sand Worm Queen sought terms to protect White Sand World's inhabitants.
• Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen offered to surrender and join the Wizard Alliance, but Saine refused to negotiate on those terms.
• The Guardian fled underground when Saine's threats and the Faceless Mask made clear he would not compromise.
• Saine pursued the Guardian and attacked White Sand World's frontline, then returned to the Space Fortress.
• Luluenman agreed that White Sand World should not join the Alliance but told Saine to report its request.

Saine joined Knight Beleka in driving the injured White Wing Bird King from White Sand World’s Northern Battlefield, then sent the northern legion deeper into enemy territory. While waiting to see what fortune the war might bring him, Saine discovered that White Sand World had valuable energy crystal deposits and another major resource export.

• Saine sent Wizard World his assessment and recommendation about whether White Sand World qualified to join the Wizard Alliance.
• Knight Beleka went alone to challenge White Wing Bird King, so Saine hurried north to help her.
• Saine and Beleka wounded White Wing Bird King and forced it to flee north again.
• Saine ordered the northern legion to advance while Beleka withdrew to rest.
• Saine reviewed the war’s potential rewards and found that White Sand World had extensive energy crystal reserves and another major resource export.

Saine learned that White Sand World's Sand Worms and resources could provide lasting value, but he lacked time to develop them sustainably. The Wizard Alliance accepted the world's application to join, and Knight Mane arrived to negotiate its admission and the compensation owed to Saine's forces.

• Saine reviewed reports on Sand Worm mucus and learned that its medicinal value could be changed by altering the creatures' feed and exposure to light.
• Saine said White Sand World could be developed sustainably through the Wizard Alliance, but he did not have enough time.
• Luluenman told Saine that the Wizard Alliance had approved White Sand World's application and would send representatives to discuss its admission.
• Saine asked how his war gains would be handled, and Luluenman said the alliance should compensate his forces.
• Knight Mane arrived as the Wizard Alliance's envoy, surprised to find Saine there, and promised not to let him suffer a loss in the negotiations.

Wizard Civilization negotiated peace with White Sand World, offering generous aid and alliance membership in exchange for the Guardian's signature. The talks also brought Hengsha World and its Master to Wizard Civilization's attention, and Knight Mane asked the Guardian to arrange an introduction.

• Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen chose the Dun River Basin as the site for the second peace talks, where Knight Mane, Saine, and Wizard Civilization's negotiation team met with it.
• Knight Mane offered White Sand World five million Magic Coins in aid, trade access, and the immediate withdrawal of Wizard Civilization's Legions after the Guardian signed the alliance contract.
• Knight Mane learned from the Guardian that Hengsha World and its Master had influenced White Sand World's knowledge of Wizard Civilization.
• Saine recognized Hengsha World as the place where he had once traded with Babakulu, a Lava Lord, during his apprentice days.
• Knight Mane asked the Guardian to introduce Wizard Civilization to the Hengsha World Master and warned that the Alliance would not wait forever for worlds to join.

Saine demanded that the White Wing Bird King be punished for its attacks on Wizard Civilization, and the Guardian failed to persuade the bird king to surrender. The White Wing Bird King chose to flee White Sand World with its followers and seek refuge in Hidden Wave Azure World.

• Saine demanded the White Wing Bird King's right wing as compensation for its attacks, and the Guardian agreed to try to persuade it.
• Saine introduced Luluenman and Beleka to Knight Mane, who became captivated by Beleka and reacted with interest when he learned the White Wing Bird King had injured her.
• The Guardian's attempt to persuade the White Wing Bird King failed, and the bird king refused to submit to Wizard Civilization.
• The White Wing Bird King led more than a hundred thousand Winged Race creatures south to break out of White Sand World and defect to the Sea Emperor Shark in Hidden Wave Azure World.
• The White Wing Bird King's followers faced a dangerous journey through the Star Realm, where many of the weaker creatures could die before reaching their destination.

Saine and the Wizard World fighters pursued the fleeing White Wing Bird King after it broke through the Northern Battlefield. Their combined attacks badly wounded it near White Sand World’s Plane Barrier, where Beleka continued to chase it down.

• Beleka caught up with the White Wing Bird King and fought it while Saine, Luluenman, and Mane arrived to help.
• The White Wing Bird King shook its Winged Race subjects from its wings and tried to flee beyond the plane.
• Luluenman’s spore rain ensnared the birds and wounded the White Wing Bird King, while Mane’s black longsword and Saine’s elemental shuttles struck it.
• Beleka pursued the badly wounded White Wing Bird King toward the Plane Barrier as it continued fleeing and fired feathers to hold her back.
• An enormous dragon claw came crashing down on the White Wing Bird King from ahead.

Tourmaline defeated the White Wing Bird King, and Saine’s forces enslaved the White Sand World’s Winged Race and divided the spoils. As Saine arranged the world’s future under the Sand Worm clan, he discovered a rare living law material in the Plane Navel.

• Tourmaline struck the White Wing Bird King back into the White Sand World and ended the battle.
• Saine took the bird king’s right wing, Beleka took its left, and Luluenman received the captured creature as a living specimen.
• Knight Mane departed with the guardian’s Law Contract, while Saine told Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen that the Zerg and Sand Worm clan would become the world’s dominant race.
• Saine summoned the guardian and the Sand Worm Queen to the Space Fortress for examination and counted the war’s profits and expected compensation.
• Saine found a living wisp of fine sand in the White Sand World’s Plane Navel, a valuable sand-element lifeform and law material.

Saine spent four years developing a new Magic Conductor and nurturing Sha’er, the Sand Element he had taken from White Sand World. After White Sand World was invited to the next Wizard Alliance Assembly, Knight Mane invited Saine to join an envoy delegation to Hengsha World.

• Saine promised the Guardian he would help the Sand Element grow and planned to combine it with the White Wing Bird King's wing to create a new Magic Conductor.
• Saine spent four years in his laboratory, nurturing Sha’er and building a prototype Magic Conductor that included a white feather fan made from the Bird King's wing.
• Knight Mane summoned Saine and told him White Sand World had completed its registration and received an exceptional invitation to the Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly.
• Luluenman offered to tell Saine about the assembly because Ash Holy Tower had not received an invitation.
• Knight Mane invited Saine to join a Wizard Alliance envoy delegation to Hengsha World and meet its Level Five World Master.

Saine accepted Knight Mane’s invitation to visit Hengsha World and traveled there with him and Guardian Giant Stone Sen Sen. Along the way, Knight Mane described the Void Aphid World and jokingly offered to introduce its male Level-6 Aphid King to the female Sand Worm Queen for breeding.

• Saine accepted Knight Mane’s invitation to travel to Hengsha World, and Giant Stone Sen Sen joined them as an avatar.
• Luluenman’s research into Guardians and Insectoid Slurry led her to develop three unfinished Recovery Potions that could heal powerful lifeforms and slightly increase their Life Source Power.
• Saine and his companions traveled toward Hengsha World with vials of Luluenman’s semi-finished potions, which were already as effective as ordinary finished potions.
• Knight Mane told Saine about the Void Aphid World and its Level-6 Void Aphid King, whose nectar could help restore Dominator-class beings.
• Knight Mane offered to introduce the Void Aphid King to the female Sand Worm Queen for breeding, leaving Saine stunned.

Saine and Knight Mane traveled to the Hengsha World while discussing Mane’s request for Saine to introduce him to Knight Beleka. Along the way, they discovered several uncharted planes, and as they reached Hengsha World, Giant Stone Sen Sen went ahead to negotiate at its Plane Barrier.

• Knight Mane offered to help Saine find a Void Aphid for the Sand Worm Queen to breed with, asking Saine in return to introduce him to Knight Beleka; Saine agreed to pass along the message.
• Saine and his companions traveled from the White Sand World to the Hengsha World aboard Mane’s concealed special-model Space Fortress.
• During the journey, the group discovered two uncharted Low-Level Planes and one uncharted Micro Plane.
• Mane explained that the number of Complete Rule Planes in a Medium Star Region varied greatly, while Giant Stone Sen Sen learned more about the Wizard Alliance from Saine and Mane.
• As the craft reached the Hengsha World’s Plane Barrier, Giant Stone Sen Sen descended to negotiate.

Saine and the Wizard Civilization delegation negotiated Hengsha World’s entry into the Wizard Alliance, with the Hengsha World Master agreeing to most of their demands despite reluctance to gather intelligence on its friends. The chapter ended with Saine asking about Babakulu, a lord of Hengsha World whom he had met in a past cross-plane transaction.

• Giant Stone Sen Sen guided the Hengsha World Master to notice Saine’s aircraft, and the Hengsha World Master welcomed the delegation into Hengsha World.
• The Hengsha World Master agreed to join the Wizard Alliance after Saine and the others proposed it.
• Saine and the Hengsha World Master negotiated the alliance terms, including requests to recruit other planes and gather information on those unwilling or hostile.
• The Hengsha World Master gave Sha’er a strand of Storm Law that helped her grow, and Sha’er transformed into a yellow sand ring to rest.
• Saine asked whether Babakulu, lord of Hengsha World’s Lava Mountain Range, was well, surprising the Hengsha World Master.

Saine and Mane visited Hengsha World, where the Hengsha World Master agreed to join the Wizard Alliance and persuaded eight other planes to follow. As they departed, they learned about Ghost Crow World, a nearby unified region whose soul-devouring inhabitants had long troubled surrounding planes.

• Saine and the others met Babakulu, a Level-4 Lava Monarch and interstellar broker, after the Hengsha World Master summoned him.
• The Hengsha World Master announced that Hengsha World would join the Wizard Alliance, and Babakulu recognized Saine as a former trading partner.
• Babakulu hosted Saine and the others at his Lava Castle, where he gifted Saine White Fat Porpoise Oil and received a Fire Fusion Crystal Stone in return.
• During Saine and Mane's two-year stay, the Hengsha World Master signed contracts and persuaded Level-4 lifeforms from eight other planes to join the Wizard Alliance.
• The Hengsha World Master told Saine and Mane about Ghost Crow World, whose creatures had conquered its star region and repeatedly harassed neighboring planes.

After returning to White Sand World, Saine and Luluenman prepared to leave, but Luluenman’s attempt to matchmake Beleka with Knight Mane provoked Beleka’s anger because she feared losing Pinas. Saine and his companions later returned to Wizard World with their spoils, having arranged a transport passage and gathered further resources and allies along the way.

• Knight Mane parted from Saine near White Sand World, reminded him of his promise, and offered to help him contact Void Aphid World once he returned.
• Saine returned to White Sand World, where Luluenman and Beleka were discussing their departure, and asked Luluenman to raise Knight Mane’s request with Beleka.
• Luluenman tried to matchmake Beleka and Knight Mane, but Beleka rejected the idea, returned to Wizard World in anger, and vowed not to let Luluenman take Pinas from her.
• Saine and Luluenman arranged a transportation passage between White Sand World and Wizard World, then set off with the war’s remaining gains.
• Outside Orc World, Saine asked Tourmaline to obtain more origin panda blood from Panda Brewmaster, and Tourmaline agreed in exchange for time with Sha'er.
• Saine rewarded the Maya Tribe with Sand Worm mucus and about five hundred thousand Magic Coins before he and his companions returned to Wizard World laden with White Sand World’s spoils.

After Ash Holy Tower profited from the White Sand World war, Spider Queen Rose sent Saine a Dark Elf Queen and Goddess of Wealth Wojin to help secure and manage the Land of Ashes. Saine and Rose exchanged flirtatious taunts, with Saine's new Level 4 strength leaving Rose unable to punish him as she wished.

• Luluenman appraised the White Sand World spoils and reported that the war had brought Ash Holy Tower about nine million Magic Coins, while Saine returned with roughly two hundred new Formal-Ranked Magicians.
• Spider Queen Rose sent a peak-demigod Dark Elf Queen and around two thousand Dark Elves to the Land of Ashes to unify its underground forces.
• Rose sent Saine a Divine Power avatar of Wojin, the Goddess of Wealth, whom Rose had subdued and appointed to manage parts of her commercial empire.
• Rose teased Saine about whether he would pursue Wojin, while Wojin knelt bound beneath Rose's foot.
• Saine flirted with Rose instead, and she restrained her anger because Saine's Level 4 strength and World-Class Secret Treasure made him difficult to punish.

Saine received a ten-million-Magic-Coin loan from the Spider Queen and asked the Goddess of Wealth, Wojin, to help grow his fortune. Wojin proposed managing his funds and promised to double his assets within a thousand years, and Saine tentatively agreed to let her try.

• The Spider Queen dismissed her teasing exchange with Saine, then offered him up to ten million Magic Coins as an interest-free loan that he would have to repay.
• Saine accepted the loan after the Spider Queen demanded an IOU and withdrew her Divine Power Phantom.
• Saine examined Wojin and asked how she could help him make money.
• Wojin advised Saine not to rush to repay his Wizard Alliance debt and asked to manage his funds, including the money from the Spider Queen.
• Wojin promised to at least double Saine's assets within a thousand years, and Saine hesitantly agreed to let her try.

Saine entrusted the Goddess of Wealth, Wojin, with managing Ash Holy Tower’s funds and establishing the Wojin Merchant Association. She began developing trade connections while agreeing not to spread faith in Wizard Civilization.

• Saine let Wojin use some of Ash Holy Tower’s funds to manage its commercial development.
• Wojin asked Saine about his trade routes and connections, then acted on his ties with the Half-Orcs, Green-Dyed Forest World, White Sand World, and Black Domain.
• At Wojin’s suggestion, Saine established the Wojin Merchant Association under Ash Holy Tower to pursue interplanar trade.
• Saine warned Wojin that she must not develop believers in Wizard Civilization, and she solemnly agreed.
• Wojin hoped to strengthen her Law power through Wizard Civilization’s economic system while relying on her existing believers on the Faelun Continent.

Saine conducted body-tempering experiments on Yuli until Luluenman interrupted him to deliver the White Sand World profits and take him to the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower. There, she staged a public rebuke of Saine to mend her earlier rift with Knight Beleka, and Pinas eventually brought the scene to an end.

• Saine and Yuli used a specialized chamber and elemental energy to strengthen Yuli's body so she could better pilot the Silver Armor Magic Puppet.
• Luluenman interrupted Saine's experiment and brought him 6.41 million Magic Coins from the Commercial Alliance Capecci.
• Luluenman ordered Saine to accompany her to the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower despite his hesitation.
• At Pinas's Holy Tower, Luluenman delivered Knight Beleka's share of the War Fortune and publicly rebuked Saine as part of their plan to repair her relationship with Beleka.
• Pinas eventually stopped Luluenman's rebuke, and Luluenman urged her to beat Saine up to vent Beleka's anger.

Saine received the Wizard Alliance’s compensation and learned that he might be asked to persuade the Ghost Crow Clan to join the Alliance. He left the assignment open while the Goddess of Wealth sought authority over his new funds.

• Pinas and Beleka reconciled after the incident with Saine, and Saine and his mentor left the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower relieved.
• Knight Mane delivered four million Magic Coins each to Saine, Luluenman, and Beleka, and Saine refused to help Mane contact Beleka.
• Mane told Saine that the recently awakened Void Aphid King offered a chance to send the Sand Worm Queen for Insect King Honey.
• Mane asked Saine to consider persuading Ghost Crow World to join the Wizard Alliance when negotiations with Hidden Wave Azure World reached a later stage, and Saine said he would decide if he had time.
• After Saine received more than ten million Magic Coins in payments, Wojin asked to manage the funds and continued planning Floating Skyport projects in the Land of Ashes.

Saine approved Wojin's plan to develop the Land of Ashes and entrusted her with more funds before returning to his experiments. After fifty-one years, his old friend Meili visited the Ash Holy Tower, and Saine invited her to become Dean of its Academy.

• Wojin persuaded Saine to fund Floating Skyports, buy Floating Ships, and pursue the Ashlands Development Plan, and Saine gave her nearly ten million Magic Coins.
• Saine spent another fifty-one years absorbed in experimental research at the Ash Holy Tower.
• Meili, now a Level 3 magician, arrived with her Junior Sister and told Saine that her mentor had died and she had left the Enlightenment Holy Tower.
• Saine gave Meili two Recovery Potions to help her damaged Life Source Power.
• Saine invited Meili to become Dean of the Ash Holy Tower Academy, and she hesitated because she lacked experience.

Saine reviewed Ash Holy Tower’s growth and the worsening Black Magician attacks in the Land of Ashes. After a Black Magician operation killed a Grant Family knight, Saine ordered a crackdown while considering whether Black Magicians could be offered a chance to reform, and he worried that Wizard Alliance enforcers had dismantled two nodes in his apprentice-smuggling network.

• Saine finalized Ping Ke Man’s appointment as vice dean after offering him a chance to research Silver Armor Magic Puppets with Piton.
• Saine reviewed the Land of Ashes’ expansion, including Wojin’s Floating Skyports and trade routes, the Dark Elf Queen’s growing control underground, and Ash Holy Tower’s stable enrollment of four thousand apprentices.
• Saine learned that Ash Holy Tower had suffered twenty-seven Black Magician attacks in thirty years and that a Black Magician hunting operation had killed a Grant Family knight.
• Saine ordered Meili to summon Knights and Magicians to strike at Black Magician Activities throughout the Land of Ashes.
• Saine reconsidered his plans for addressing Black Magicians and discovered that two Teleportation Array nodes in his apprentice-smuggling network had been removed, likely by Wizard Alliance enforcers.