Chapter Summaries

Abel reassured himself that Advanced Wizard Dunn’s protection would give him time to grow, then demonstrated his lightning talent to Dunn. The demonstration convinced Dunn that Abel was an exceptional fit for the Lightning Faction, while Wizard Morton kept the extent of Abel’s abilities secret.

• Abel reflected that Dunn’s intervention could shield him from further attacks while he advanced quickly in strength.
• Dunn asked Abel about his talent for lightning spells, and Morton recognized that Abel’s spellcasting ability was extraordinary.
• At Dunn’s request, Abel cast “Telekinesis” effortlessly, impressing Dunn with his speed and control.
• Dunn asked Abel to target him with “Charged Bullet,” and Abel released fifteen powerful arcs of electricity.
• Dunn recognized Abel’s Level 13 “Charged Bullet” and its consistently maximum damage, concluding that Abel was a lightning genius.
• Morton chose not to reveal that all of Abel’s spells had the same exceptional qualities.

High-level Wizard Dunn used the Super Teleportation Array to confront the Ice Wind Faction, then returned three days later having achieved his objective. Abel assigned Batorri to manage his Magic Tower and its Elven garden.

• High-level Wizard Dunn left Liante City using the Super Teleportation Array to deal with the Ice Wind Faction.
• The Guardian Wizards of Liante City discussed Abel’s growing support from Dunn and the Lightning Faction.
• Dunn returned to Liante City three days later, and the Guardian Wizards saw that he had succeeded.
• Batorri visited Abel’s Magic Tower, where Tower Spirit Flavie and a Steel Puppet guided her inside.
• Abel assigned Batorri to manage the Magic Tower and the Elven garden outside it.

Abel showed Batorri the floating War Fortress and learned that its Statue of the Three Goddesses was revered by the Sisterhood for water that could help plants grow. He then learned Wizard Dunn had resolved the Ice Wind Faction dispute, and affirmed that he intended to leave the Holy Continent someday.

• Abel teleported Batorri and himself to the War Fortress, where Batorri recognized the Statue of the Three Goddesses and described its legendary water.
• Abel gave Batorri access to the Magic Tower and assigned her to care for the garden before going to meet Wizard Dunn and Wizard Morton.
• Wizard Dunn told Abel that the Ice Wind Faction would send no more wizards to the Holy Continent, after the Elves and Dwarves helped pressure it.
• Abel thanked Wizard Dunn and learned that Wizard Dunn had not secured a promise against retaliation, only a promise not to send wizards to the Holy Continent.
• Wizard Dunn asked whether Abel planned to leave the Holy Continent, and Abel said he wanted to see the wider world and would help fulfill Wizard Morton's dream of leaving.

Abel agreed to travel to Miracle City in a month for a three-year defensive mission, where he would be barred from using High Priest-level combat power. Bernie arrived with news that the Goff Family had approved exchanging a Floating Fortress Base and other equipment for Premium Master Wine, and Abel arranged to supply more wine.

• Wizard Dunn told Abel he needed to undertake a three-year defensive mission in Miracle City, and Abel agreed to leave in one month.
• High Priest Dunn explained that Miracle City prohibited High Priest-level combat power and warned Abel not to use Johnson there.
• High Priest Dunn left Hari Castle after making arrangements, while Abel remained unaware that Dunn had spent centuries of accumulated points helping him.
• Bernie arrived exhausted and told Abel that the Goff Family wizards had taken the twenty bottles of Premium Master Wine and confirmed its value for meditation.
• Bernie told Abel that the Goff Family had approved trading a Floating Fortress Base and other equipment for Premium Master Wine, and Abel offered another two hundred bottles.

Abel tested whether water from the Statue of the Three Goddesses could improve crop growth by planting wheat, oats, and barley in the Bloody Plains. The experiment revealed that seedlings watered with synthesized fountain water rapidly grew by directly absorbing mana, and Abel began investigating this unexpected ability.

• Bernie and Senior Wizard Cyril left Hari Castle with 205 bottles of Premium Master Wine that Abel had given them.
• Abel collected crop seeds and water from the Statue of the Three Goddesses' fountain, whose water level quickly replenished itself.
• Abel visited the oak in the Bloody Plains, learned that its Blue Howl Rabbit population had outgrown the available grassland, and then chose a plot for his experiment.
• Abel directed eight Ghost Guardian Knights to prepare the land and plant wheat, oats, and barley, watering groups with undiluted, diluted, and synthesized fountain water.
• Abel noticed that the plants watered with synthesized fountain water had already sprouted and discovered that their seedlings absorbed mana directly to fuel their growth.

Abel experimented with magically enhanced crops and harvested unusually large grain before receiving a new War Fortress from Bernie and activating its spirit. The spirit recognized Abel as its sole owner, but the fortress warned that it lacked energy, so Abel supplied it with two thousand Top-tier Magic Stones to restore its war functions.

• Abel watched three hundred crops watered with synthesized liquid mature rapidly, then harvested their oversized grains and saved the largest plants for seeds.
• Abel returned to Hari Castle, where Bernie and High Mage Cyril delivered a Floating Fortress Base, two hundred Small War Puppets, two hundred Repeating Strong City Ballistae, and Armor-piercing Crossbow Bolts.
• Abel claimed the new War Fortress, activated its concealed function, and asked Tower Spirit Flavie to awaken its spirit.
• War Fortress No. 03 identified Abel as its sole surviving user and granted him the highest permissions, then warned that it was critically short of energy.
• Abel filled the fortress’s energy cabinet with two thousand Top-tier Magic Stones, and War Fortress No. 03 began restoring its war functions.

Abel repaired War Fortress No. 03, tested its abilities and linked it to two hundred Small War Puppets. He created a Magic Tower on the fortress and discovered that White Cloud could move the fortress by gripping a handle he had generated.

• Abel replaced the fortress’s Top-tier Magic Stones, then learned it had levitation, defense, concealment, and Spatial Lock functions.
• Abel connected two hundred Small War Puppets, equipped them with Repeating Strong City Ballistae, and tested the fortress’s battle mode and levitation.
• Abel generated a seven-story Magic Tower on the fortress and learned that its spirit could not contact the War Command Spirit.
• Abel marked White Cloud as trusted and generated a handle for it to grip.
• White Cloud grabbed the handle and began moving War Fortress No. 03 by flapping its wings.

Abel tested the War Fortress’s mobile mode and learned that ordinary teleportation arrays could not function on a moving platform. He continued making plans for his crops and territory, then examined Lord Marshall after learning he had advanced as a knight.

• Abel switched War Fortress No. 03 to mobile mode, tested its movement with White Cloud, and then restored it to fixed mode.
• Abel asked Lady Cali for an Array Master to install a teleportation array on the moving fortress, but she explained that only a Large Teleportation Array could work there.
• Abel ordered Batorri to have three unusual crops made into separate kinds of bread and keep the crops secret.
• Abel saw new shops opening in Hari Castle as merchants arrived to serve its growing population of apprentice Sorceresses and Wizard Apprentices.
• Lord Marshall invited Abel into his Super Ox Cart, refused Abel’s offer to replace it, and revealed that he had advanced to the late stage of the Intermediate Knight rank.
• Abel asked to check Lord Marshall’s physical condition because rapid advancement through potions could carry hidden dangers.

Abel gave Lord Marshall a secret Full Vitality Potion that purged impurities and restored his body to youthful health. He then gave the same potion to Knight Bennett, who also emerged rejuvenated, as Abel prepared to discuss matters with both elders.

• Abel examined Lord Marshall, found potion impurities in his body, and gave him a Full Vitality Potion to drink.
• Lord Marshall expelled foul-smelling filth, bathed, and emerged feeling as healthy and youthful as a twenty-year-old.
• Lord Marshall brought Knight Bennett to Hari Castle, and Abel concealed them inside an Isolation Array before giving Knight Bennett a Full Vitality Potion.
• Knight Bennett underwent the same purge and returned from bathing with his youthful appearance restored, surprising Lord Marshall.

Abel gave Knight Bennett a Youth Potion, told him and Lord Marshall that he would soon go to Miracle City, and entrusted Bennett with the Elite Knights Brigade. He then tested special bread and discovered that wheat bread could directly increase battle qi.

• Knight Bennett accepted the Youth Potion and agreed to keep its use quiet, while Abel said he would give some to their mother after testing it.
• Abel told Knight Bennett and Lord Marshall that he would soon leave for Miracle City, and they warned him about its dangers and urged him to stay safe.
• Abel asked Knight Bennett to take over the Elite Knights Brigade and gave him a valuable set of magic knight equipment.
• Abel asked Lord Marshall to arrange a residential area outside Hari Castle, preserving the castle and its memories.
• Abel tasted the wheat bread Batorri brought and found that it produced energy that his battle qi absorbed.

Abel discovered that bread made from magically grown grain could increase fighting qi and arranged to test it with Knight's Squires. After harvesting crops grown with the Statue of the Three Goddesses' spring water in the Dark World, he began an experiment to test their cultivation on the Holy Continent.

• Abel asked Lord Marshall to select trustworthy Knight's Squires to test the bread, and Lord Marshall and Knight Bennett discussed how it could help train family knights.
• Knight Bennett and Lord Marshall pressed Abel to expand production, and Abel agreed to find a way to plant more if testing showed the bread was safe and effective.
• Abel harvested six hundred wheat, oat, and barley plants from his Dark World fields, where spring-watered crops had matured in less than thirty days.
• Abel asked Steward Linsey to find a loyal farming household and gave him six hundred plants for trials comparing ordinary water with the secret water Abel would supply.

Abel established a wheat-growing experiment inside the Hexagram Magic Array, using synthetic spring water and Tower Spirit Flavie to produce a daily harvest. The wheat and its byproducts began strengthening the earldom’s knights and warhorses, while Steward Linsey anticipated that the method could transform Harvest City into a granary.

• Abel chose a three-mu plot, enclosed it with a medium-grade Isolation Array, and ordered Tower Spirit Flavie to plant his selected wheat seeds despite the unsuitable season.
• Abel instructed three Steel Puppets to sow and tend the wheat, irrigating it with synthetic spring water diluted at a ratio of one to one hundred.
• Abel taught Tower Spirit Flavie to select seeds, then let her manage the daily growing and harvesting process with help from Steward Linsey and Batorri.
• Lord Marshall found that wheat bran, husks, and stalks strengthened the family’s warhorses, while the wheat bread was distributed to knights and squires.
• Knight Bennett began taking over Harvest City’s Elite Knights Brigade, which distributed cultivation resources to official knights and rewarded its best trainees.
• Steward Linsey recognized that the wheat experiment could eventually make Harvest City the Holy Continent’s granary.

Abel entered the fourth floor of the Catacombs and battled the Hell Creatures there with his Ghost Guardian Knights. After burning the corpses and zombies, he prepared himself for the fierce battles ahead.

• Abel found four barrels, and an explosion revealed a sapphire ring that gave him 25% poison resistance.
• Abel and the Ghost Guardian Knights cleared the first room of zombies and opened a door to a room filled with Dark Demons and Dark Wizards.
• The Ghost Guardian Knights eliminated the Dark Wizards while Abel attacked the Dark Demons with Fireball.
• Abel burned the corpses in a blood-filled pit and reduced each zombie he killed to ashes.
• Abel replenished Fire Enhancement on his Ghost Guardian Knights, arranged his potions, and used a Level 20 Shattered Ice Armor Spell Scroll before activating his battle aura armor.

Abel fought through the Hell Creatures in the hall and found Demon Queen Andariel waiting on a bone throne. Andariel revealed her command of Space Power, trapping Abel and Black Wind with a single word.

• Abel overcame the world’s suppression after speaking Andariel’s name and ordered the Ghost Guardian Knights to break open the gate.
• Abel and the Ghost Guardian Knights defeated the Hell Creatures in the hall, but Andariel did not appear among them.
• Abel equipped Tandu’s Jade and the Crescent Shield, raising his Poison Resistance to 120%, then advanced deeper into the hall.
• Abel found Andariel seated on a bone chair and watched her awaken as the Ghost Guardian Knight Captain approached.
• Andariel attacked Abel with Space Power, but Black Wind evaded the rift she opened beneath him.
• Andariel said “Bind,” sealing the space around Abel and Black Wind and leaving them unable to move.

Andariel revealed a lethal Space Rift attack that required her to keep her gaze on a target, forcing Abel to flee while his summons tried to distract her. She killed one of Abel’s longtime Ghost Guardian Knights, marking his first casualty in the Dark World.

• The Ghost Guardian Knight Captain attacked Andariel, but she dodged its strikes and knocked it into the Undying Hellfire.
• Andariel focused on Abel and nearly killed him with a Space Rift as he and Black Wind used Teleport to escape.
• Abel rode Black Wind at full speed and released five Undead Crows to disrupt Andariel’s gaze, but she easily swatted away the four ordinary crows.
• Andariel shifted her attention to a Ghost Guardian Knight and killed it with a Space Rift despite the captain’s order to blink away.
• Abel realized that the Ghost Guardian Knight was his first summoned-creature casualty in the Dark World.

Abel and his Ghost Guardian Knights fought Andariel, whose poison, spatial seals, and uncanny evasion overwhelmed their attacks. Abel joined the assault directly, charging through her poison orb to strike with Shield Bash.

• Abel ordered the Ghost Guardian Knights to keep moving and fire bone arrows, but Andariel dodged every shot and dispelled the arrows' frost.
• Andariel poisoned two Ghost Guardian Knights, sealed them in place, and killed them with a Space Rift and Poison Mist despite Abel's potions.
• Andariel filled the hall with poisonous air, gradually draining Abel and the remaining Ghost Guardian Knights.
• Abel sent five Ghost Guardian Knights and Black Wind to attack Andariel at close range, but she evaded their strikes and knocked two knights away.
• Abel charged through Andariel's green poison orb and attacked her with Shield Bash.

Abel exploited Andariel’s brief stun to strike the fissure between her eyes, but the world’s rejection left him gravely injured before a potion healed him. As the fight resumed, Andariel trapped two Ghost Guardian Knights in poison mist, and the Ghost Guardian Knight Captain grappled with her to survive.

• Abel endured Andariel’s poison orb and stunned her with Shield Bash.
• Abel accelerated beyond his limits and struck the fissure between Andariel’s eyes with Tandu’s Jade, interrupting its crystalline light before the world’s rejection hurled him away and broke his body.
• Abel reset his broken bones, drank a Full Vitality Potion, and charged Andariel alongside the five Ghost Guardian Knights.
• Andariel dodged their attacks, knocked Abel and three Ghost Guardian Knights away, and trapped the captain and another knight in Poison Mist.
• Abel gave the Ghost Guardian Knight Captain an Antidote Potion and a Full Vitality Potion, but another Ghost Guardian Knight died as the captain seized Andariel’s hand and struggled against her strength.

Abel used Shield Bash to stun Andariel and beheaded her with Space Power, then struggled to keep her head and body apart as she fought back. As Andariel's head began returning to her body, an Undead Crow swooped in to peck her eye.

• Andariel battered the Ghost Guardian Knight Captain while evading Abel's attacks until Abel stunned her with Shield Bash.
• Abel channeled Space Power through Tandu's Jade and sliced off Andariel's head.
• The Ghost Guardian Knights pinned Andariel's body while Abel held down her head and repeatedly struck it as poison threatened the knights.
• Andariel regained consciousness, said "Retreat," and forced Abel backward while her head flew toward her body.
• An Undead Crow landed on Andariel's head and pecked at her with its status-inflicting attack.

Abel and his allies defeated Andariel in a costly battle, and the freed souls thanked him before fading away. After finding no loot or soul in Andariel’s corpse, Abel revived a strange skeleton as Naga and rebuilt his Ghost Guardian Knight force.

• The Undead Crow blinded Andariel, allowing Abel to attack her head while the Ghost Guardian Knights pinned down her body.
• Andariel’s scorpion tails released a dense Poison Mist that killed three Ghost Guardian Knights, but the Ghost Guardian Knight Captain survived and continued suppressing her.
• Andariel’s body transformed into light and shadows of countless souls, which bowed to Abel before disappearing in a Song of Life.
• Abel found no soul or equipment on Andariel’s ruined corpse, then used it to summon a strange skeleton with four scorpion tails and named it Naga.
• Abel revived six more skeletons and equipped them with the surviving gear, restoring his force to eight Ghost Guardian Knights.

Abel discovered that the crystal hidden inside Andariel’s head was a fragment of the World Stone and accidentally activated it by touching it to his forehead. Its power nearly destroyed his body, but the dragon crystal healed him, and he learned the World Stone’s history as the chapter ended.

• Naga demonstrated its poison-element attack by creating a cloud of Poison Mist.
• Abel examined Andariel’s dried head, split its skull open with Tandu’s Jade, and found a damaged blue crystal inside.
• The crystal showed Abel a vision of Rogue Encampment and gave him a strong sense of its importance.
• Abel touched the crystal to the skin between his eyes, and it pierced his forehead and entered his head.
• The crystal’s energy tore apart Abel’s muscles and bones, but the dragon crystal restored his body and made it stronger.
• Abel learned that the crystal was a fragment of the World Stone, which Hell had split into five pieces and used to control the bodies of powerful demons.