Chapter Summaries

Adam built a Mithril metal body and Power Furnace, then headed toward the surface with new combat abilities. He discovered that more than a hundred Gold Devourers were still waiting for him, and launched himself toward them to fight.

• Adam refined Mithril and constructed a Power Furnace using modified Magic Arrays, then formed an eight-meter silver body around it.
• Adam equipped his body with fire-element and Electromagnetic System arrays that gave him first-level combat strength and the ability to reshape his limbs into weapons.
• Adam traveled upward through the earth, ignoring ores that gathered around him because he planned to improve his body after joining the metal race.
• Adam returned to a point one kilometer beneath the surface and detected more than a hundred Gold Devourers waiting for him.
• The Gold Devourers sensed Adam and attacked through the ground, so Adam charged his Power Furnace and shot toward the surface to kill them.

Adam fought a group of Gold Devourers, using electromagnetic attacks and his metal body to exploit their weak physical defenses. After suffering injuries and killing many of them, he prepared to finish the survivors; the story then introduced Iron Fortress, a border city in the Titans’ century-long conflict with the Gold Devourers.

• Adam evaded the Gold Devourers’ first attack and reflected their corrosive fluid back at them, discovering that they were confident but not very intelligent.
• The Gold Devourers strengthened their force field and pursued Adam with a dense rain of fluid, but he dodged and answered with a barrage of compressed fire rounds.
• Adam became a broadsword and used an electromagnetic launch to split their formation, killing a third of the Gold Devourers while sustaining corrosive injuries himself.
• The surviving Gold Devourers regrouped and charged again, while Adam learned that they communicated through simple infrasound and decided he had learned enough from the encounter.
• The chapter identified Iron Fortress as a major Spark Federation border city beside fallen land occupied by the Titans’ enemies, the Gold Devourers, and noted that local clashes had continued since the two clans’ devastating war a century earlier.

Adam fought the last Gold Devourer, then met the Titan Ranfeng 222, who brought him to Iron Fortress and was ordered to teach him about Titan life and combat. As Adam explored the city, Ranfeng 222 stopped him from buying energy before his fireseed’s first evolution.

• A Titan rescue patrol arrived and destroyed the Gold Devourer leader with a level-three attack, then questioned Adam about Flame 123.
• Ranfeng 222 reported Adam’s unusual Mithril body and powerful fireseed to Iron 27, who confirmed Adam was one of the Titans and assigned Ranfeng 222 to guide him.
• Adam wandered Iron Fortress, studying its immense buildings and unfamiliar Titan services.
• Adam approached a shop selling concentrated energy, and Ranfeng 222 warned him that adding energy before his fireseed’s first evolution could make his body malfunction.

Ranfeng 222 escorted Adam through Iron Fortress, explaining Titan society and helping him collect general-purpose energy. They headed toward the library for Adam to receive basic knowledge, while Ranfeng 222 invited him to join his maintenance appointment.

• Ranfeng 222 explained that Iron 27 led the quasi-royal Iron Fortress and described how Titans attained royal-clan status through evolution.
• As they walked, Ranfeng 222 told Adam that soft metals such as mithril made weak bodies and excitedly suspected Adam might be a Wise One.
• Adam registered at an energy factory and collected half a cubic meter of Energy Blocks made by Conversion Fungi.
• Ranfeng 222 explained that the Conversion Fungi came from other worlds, whose passages had been sealed after the Gold Devourers' rebellion.
• Ranfeng 222 remembered that Adam needed basic knowledge from the library, then hurried off with him and offered to bring him to his maintenance appointment.

Adam learned the Titans’ basic knowledge and military ranks, then received a full maintenance treatment at the Titan Beauty Salon. Settling in the rest area, he considered whether the Titans could become allies of the mages.

• Adam used a receiving pod to download basic knowledge about Titan alloys, weapons, Power Furnace modifications, and ranks.
• Ranfeng 222 explained that Titans earned Battle Merit by killing Gold Devourers and that Newborns had five years to reach Knight Rank.
• Ranfeng 222 told Adam that Wise Ones also had to fight until they reached General Rank.
• Ranfeng 222 took Adam to the Titan Beauty Salon, where machines polished, cleaned, lubricated, and refueled their bodies and maintained their Power Furnaces.
• Ranfeng 222 gave Adam a Seed of Fire Fluctuation receiver that had recorded his fluctuations, then left him at the rest area.
• Adam installed the receiver and considered cooperating with the Titans, while the Devil asked what he planned to do.

Adam learned that the Titans had created the Gold Devourers, which had turned against them and seized most of the Titan Plane, and decided to build the Titans’ trust by fighting alongside them. He joined Ranfeng 222’s patrol outside Iron Fortress and learned how to take part in the team’s defensive formation.

• Adam learned from the library that a Titan sage had created the Gold Devourers, whose rebellion had cost the Titans vast casualties and left them defending their territory.
• Adam wondered what dangers might come from the Other Plane where the Gold Devourers’ mother cells originated, while Devil compared its creatures to beasts of the Abyss.
• Ranfeng 222 invited Adam to patrol south of Iron Fortress and clear Gold Devourers with a team of nine other Titans.
• Blue Water 457 offered to protect Adam with a Defensive Force Field, and the Titans explained that Gold Devourer excrement could provide useful ore for his next evolution.
• Adam joined the team’s formation as an Energy Node while Ranfeng 222 warned him not to show off against the level-three Gold Devourers ahead.

Adam joined the Titans’ battle against more than five hundred Gold Devourers and analyzed the force field linking their Seeds of Fire. As the Titans strained to hold off a devastating attack, Adam broke free and demanded control of the Battle Formation.

• Ranfeng 222 and the other Titans warned Adam to stay within the force field and flee if danger arose.
• The Titans encountered more than five hundred Gold Devourers, and Ranfeng 222 led the team into battle with a barrage of energy rounds.
• The two sides fought to a standstill while Adam stayed back and used his computational power to analyze the Titans’ force field.
• The Gold Devourers unleashed coordinated corrosion and energy attacks, forcing Blue Water 457 and the others to overstrain their power furnaces to delay the force field’s collapse.
• With the Titans’ defenses melting and little time left, Adam broke free of Blue Water 457’s chain and demanded control of the Battle Formation.

Adam used the Titans’ Seeds to sustain and amplify a Magnetic Field while the Gold Devourers pressed their attack. He took control of several Titans to build a metal barrier and launched a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, leaving the Gold Devourers disoriented as the battle continued.

• Blue Water 457 retreated to cool his Power Furnace, and Adam transformed his body into the Electromagnetic Conversion Magic Array to keep the Titans’ force field alive.
• Ranfeng 222 and the other Titans authorized Adam to use their Seed energy, letting him connect their Seeds and accelerate their recovery by controlling free electrons.
• The Gold Devourers reorganized and attacked with tracking venom missiles and corrosive strikes, forcing Adam to retreat and the Titans to rush their cooling and recovery.
• Adam took control of three defensive Titans and three melee Titans, using their energy to raise a metal barrier from the ground.
• Adam brought Blue Water 457 beside him as an energy amplifier, then fired a Super Electromagnetic Cannon that blasted metal blocks at the Gold Devourers and disrupted their senses.

Adam used Electromagnetic Magic to shatter the Gold Devourers' Defensive Force Field, helping the Titans defeat a large group with few losses. After the battle, he examined the Gold Devourers' remains and learned the encounter was unusually large, possibly because of their losses near Iron Fortress.

• Adam and the Titans' Seed of Fire energy broke through the Gold Devourers' Defensive Force Field and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Adam weakened and left the fighting to the Titans, while Blue Water 457 promised him military merit and used him as a generator.
• Adam observed that Gold Devourer waste and corpses turned into energy-bearing metal, and wondered how their flesh changed after death.
• The Titans coordinated their attacks for nearly two hours, and Ranfeng 222 destroyed the last Level Three Gold Devourer.
• The Titans praised and patted Adam before gathering spoils, and Ranfeng 222 suggested the Gold Devourers near Iron Fortress might have suffered heavy losses in the previous invasion.

Adam returned to Iron Fortress with the Titans after their successful mission and reflected on their determination to pass their Sparks on, even at the cost of their lives. Back in the fortress, he gave his metal spoils to a struggling Newborn and reassured him that reinforcements would soon arrive.

• Ranfeng 222 explained that the Titans fought the Gold Devourers without support and would sacrifice themselves to pass their Sparks on, while Blue Water 457 gave Adam alloy for his future evolution.
• The group returned to Iron Fortress with spoils, and Adam gave most of his share back to the Titans in exchange for battle merit.
• Adam examined Gold Devourer droppings and body-derived energy alloys, focusing on how the Gold Devourers transformed their cells.
• A nameless Newborn told Adam that he had no battle merit, could not safely mine, and did not want to return inland or work in a factory.
• Adam gave the Newborn his basket of metal and told him that Ranfeng 222 expected more combat strength to arrive from inland.

Adam learned how Titans used Seed of Fire Language to control their bodies and energy, then spent five days rebuilding himself around the Electromagnetic System. He ended the chapter six meters tall, with a denser, stronger body and control over its hardness.

• Ranfeng 222 gave Adam a Battle Merit module and explained that other Titans had transferred some of their merit to him.
• Adam learned that Titan evolution required the Origin Fire, Power Furnace, and body to advance together, and that the Origin Fire needed to understand the metals and Energy Circuits it controlled.
• Adam spent fifty Battle Merit to learn Seed of Fire Language and discovered how it could activate Titan abilities through the Power Furnace.
• Adam used his remaining Battle Merit to obtain Mithril and Energy Blocks, then spent five days replacing his mixed circuits with Electromagnetic System circuits.
• Adam encoded his new knowledge into his Origin Fire, compressed his body from twelve meters to six, and more than doubled his physical strength.

Adam gained recognition in Iron Fortress for his electromagnetic support abilities and received an invitation from commander-in-chief Iron 27 to advance and assist with a dangerous mission. Iron 27 promised the resources Adam needed, while Adam requested Energy Blocks and prepared for the mission seven days later.

• Adam programmed knight combat techniques and Gold Devourer movement data into the Seed of Fire, using it to automate his close-combat responses.
• With Ranfeng 222's help, Adam joined three patrol and extermination missions, earning Battle Merit and a reputation as the strongest support Titan of the Newborn phase.
• Adam calculated that he needed another thirteen percent of the required energy to advance to knight level.
• Iron 27 asked Adam whether he could conceal his body and offered to supply his evolution resources if Adam assisted with a mission in seven days.
• Adam said he could conceal Iron 27 if he shrank to thirty-four meters, then requested two hundred Newborn-limit Energy Blocks from Ranfeng 222.

Adam advanced to level two, rebuilding his Power Furnace and Mithril body, then joined Iron 27 and Lithium 15 for a mission to destroy a Gold Devourer nest. He used his Magnetic Field to shrink his teammates before Lithium 15 entered a semi-dormant state for the journey.

• Adam requested an external armament to protect his Power Furnace, then began his advancement while Ranfeng 222 watched from a distance.
• After three hundred and sixty minutes of feeding energy to his fire seed, Adam reached level two and reconstructed his Power Furnace and Mithril body.
• Three days later, Adam met Iron 27 and Lithium 15, who explained that the mission was to approach and destroy a Gold Devourer nest.
• Adam offered to shrink Iron 27 and Lithium 15, and they opened their control permissions to him.
• Adam used his Magnetic Field to reduce Iron 27 and Lithium 15 to thirty-seven and thirty-nine meters, respectively, before Lithium 15 entered a semi-dormant state.

Adam, Iron 27, and the dormant Lithium 15 crossed into Gold Devourer territory on a secret mission, relying on Adam’s radar and Iron 27’s strength to evade enemy patrols. After Iron 27 drew a large force away, Adam reached a safe hiding place and revealed he could revive through numerous prepared clones.

• Iron 27 led Adam and Lithium 15 toward the border, fighting Gold Devourers along the way and explaining that Lithium 15 would remain dormant until their destination.
• Iron 27 gave Adam a simulator to disguise them from weaker Gold Devourers and warned that the mission route extended deep into enemy territory.
• Adam guided the group through the border region for five days, avoiding patrols until they reached a blockade of thousands of Gold Devourers.
• Iron 27 flew off to attack the blockade while Adam used Mithril shielding, then slipped through the opening with Lithium 15 as enemy patrols converged on the battle.
• The Devil questioned the mission and worried Adam might not return, so Adam revealed that he had left fireseed and body fragments in Iron Fortress and created dozens of clones that could revive him.

Adam used the Origin Fire to give his clones the potential for true life, then reunited with Iron 27 and repaired his battered body. At the Gold Devourers’ border defense nest, Lithium 15 told Adam and Iron 27 to leave while he continued the mission alone.

• Adam dissolved his clones and traveled toward Iron 27 after waiting a day without news.
• Iron 27 reunited with Adam, reported that the Patrol Team had been annihilated, and said they had eleven hours to reach the target area.
• Adam repaired Iron 27 with Mithril, clearing away corrosive fluid and damaged alloys while discovering the fluid was a Titan-specific oxidizer.
• Adam, Iron 27, and Lithium 15 traveled to the Gold Devourers’ hive-like border defense nest and woke Lithium 15.
• Iron 27 praised Adam’s value and regretted recruiting him, so Lithium 15 told Adam and Iron 27 to leave while he handled the rest of the mission alone.

Adam joined Iron 27 and Lithium 15 on a mission to reach and destroy a Gold Devourer brood mother before it ascended to the royal race. As they forced their way through the enemy blockade, Iron 27 charged in to rescue Adam and Lithium 15 from two attacking Gold Devourer teams.

• Iron 27 explained that the Gold Devourers had filled the route to the brood nest, and that Lithium 15 could not complete the mission alone.
• Adam chose to accompany Iron 27 and Lithium 15, and they equipped him with External Armor and gave him Energy Blocks.
• Iron 27 and Lithium 15 launched their attack, while Adam coated Lithium 15 and used his electric and magnetic powers to fight the Gold Devourers.
• Two high-level Gold Devourer teams bypassed Iron 27 and attacked Adam and Lithium 15, overwhelming Adam's defenses.
• Iron 27 unleashed a devastating attack and charged toward Adam, while Adam's magnetic interference held the Gold Devourer teams still long enough for Iron 27 to crash into them.

Adam, Iron 27, and Lithium 15 fought through the Gold Devourers’ defenses to reach the advancing mother nest. Lithium 15 prepared to self-destruct beside the nearly shattered nest defense, while Gold Devourers swarmed them.

• Iron 27 smashed through the first Gold Devourers, and Adam followed as Lithium 15 supplied energy and warned that more enemies were coming.
• After the mother nest called out, the Gold Devourers poured out to stop them, while Lithium 15 overloaded his Power Furnace and Iron 27 struggled through the encirclement.
• Lithium 15 transformed into a cannon and fired a Magma Cannon that cleared a path, melting Adam before Iron 27 carried them toward the nest.
• Adam used his ability to help Iron 27 and Lithium 15 reach the mother nest with a second Magma Cannon, and their impact nearly shattered its force field.
• The mother called for the Titans to be killed, and Lithium 15 announced that he would self-destruct as Gold Devourers rushed the trio.

Lithium 15 sacrificed himself to destroy the Mother Body and the surrounding Gold Devourers, leaving a faint Seed that might have Passed the Fire. Adam and Iron 27 learned more about the Gold Devourers’ origins and waited for the blast zone to cool as Iron 27 guarded the tiny flame.

• Iron 27 carried Adam away while Lithium 15 broke through the Mother Body’s defensive field and trapped it.
• Lithium 15 transformed and detonated himself, destroying the Mother Body, hundreds of nests, and hundreds of thousands of Gold Devourers.
• Adam sensed that Lithium 15’s Seed had not completely dispersed, and Iron 27 rushed toward the blast’s center.
• Adam stopped Iron 27 from entering the dangerous energy storm, and Iron 27 explained how the Gold Devourers were created by the Wise Ones and gained the ability to Pass the Fire.
• After three days and nights, Adam returned from clearing out Gold Devourers and found Iron 27 protecting the tiny flame within the cooled blast zone.

Adam returned Lithium 15's Seed of Fire to Titan territory and traveled from Iron Fortress to York City to place it in the Seed of Fire Chamber. After delivering it, he considered Iron 27's advice to avoid the dangerous frontline and explore research and other opportunities inland.

• Adam preserved Lithium 15's Seed of Fire and returned with Iron 27 to Iron Fortress.
• Iron 27 entrusted Adam with taking the Seed of Fire to York City, and Adam received over ten thousand Battle Merit points and a higher authority rank.
• Iron 27 advised Adam to stay away from the frontline, and Adam planned to use his time inland to advance his abilities and investigate the Gold Devourers.
• After waiting several days for Ranfeng 222's squad, Adam set off alone and flew past automated Floating Fortresses on his way inland.
• Adam arrived in York City and was escorted underground to the Seed of Fire Chamber.
• Adam placed Lithium 15's Seed of Fire in an empty container, where it began to merge with the metal and surrounding energy, and the Titan Qi 31 introduced himself.

After registering as a permanent Titan in York City, Adam decided to build a small workshop and manufacture alloy components to gain influence and access to Titan knowledge. He completed his first product, a powerful Kinetic Arm, but the Devil doubted anyone could afford or want it.

• Qi 31 invited Adam to join his university, but Adam declined and learned about York City's universities and permissions.
• Adam registered at the Seed of Fire Records Office and decided to open a factory rather than establish a university.
• Adam explained that manufacturing alloys could earn him fame, raise his permissions, and provide access to Titan knowledge.
• Adam secured land, mined various ores, and learned that the Titan Plane's Ore Mother continuously generated mineral resources.
• Adam built a workshop and used Mode Mage's Mechanical Body designs to produce a five-meter Kinetic Arm from chromium, titanium, and gold.
• The Devil questioned whether low-level Titans would want or be able to afford Adam's Kinetic Arm.