Chapter Summaries

Adam moved Islands Eight, Nine, and Ten to Island One, where he joined his companions and continued mapping the Anti-Mage forces. At an Undead School, he discovered a Brain Demon, a collective consciousness of linked brains that could greatly multiply its spellcasting power.

• Adam killed most of the Anti-Mages on Islands Eight, Nine, and Ten, trapped the survivors, and transported the islands toward Island One on elemental whales.
• Adam arrived at Island One two days later, and his companion activated a traction Magic Array to join the islands together.
• Adam began surveying his assigned area and found a Brain Demon at an Undead School.
• An Anti-Mage demonstrated the Brain Demon's Dead Soul Curse, but Adam deflected it and subdued the Anti-Mage.
• Adam questioned the Anti-Mage and learned that the Brain Demon linked secondary brains into a collective consciousness whose power increased with their number.

Adam recognized that Brain Demon Magic could inspire a cloud-computing network for mages, then helped prepare Other Plane Creatures for the apprentices’ trial. After Priscilla Hyperdimensional questioned why he had killed nearly all the Anti-Mages he captured, Adam learned that the trial’s format could only be changed with approval from Laura True Spirit.

• Adam marked the consciousness collective’s location for possible future study, then killed the Anti-Mage after it warned that outsiders who learned its secrets would die.
• Two days later, Adam and the other Level Four Mages returned to the Holy Tower and selected Other Plane Creatures to use as trial targets.
• Adam visited the Khatos Plane with a light elemental spirit and selected more than five thousand Level One Radiation Creatures and more than fifty Level Two commanders.
• Adam saw that the other mages had brought even more creatures for the trial and worried that the apprentices would face a brutal challenge.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional questioned Adam about the few Anti-Mages in his cage, and Adam asked why apprentices still fought them instead of Other Plane Creatures.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional explained that Anti-Mages were cheap and that the Mage Council’s trial format could not change without Laura True Spirit’s approval.

Adam developed the first usable version of M Language, a rune-based programming language for the Mage World. He then made Garfield Pass the Fire and began programming the resulting young flame himself.

• Elliot gathered his academy companions for the trial, and they entered the Holy Tower with a simplified communication spell Adam had provided.
• Adam left a clone at the trial command center and returned to his laboratory to build M Language with his clones.
• After half a month of work, Adam completed a rough first version of M Language that could be used in experiments.
• Adam ordered Garfield to Pass the Fire, and Garfield painfully separated and erased the will from one-third of his Origin Fire.
• Adam took the new flame into a sealed laboratory and began programming it with M Language while preventing inheritance data from forming.

Adam created and tested the Electromagnetic Robot, programming it with Turing OS through M Language and upgrading it into a combat unit. He saw promise in the research but recognized the robot’s limitations, and the chapter ended when the Trial Command Headquarters contacted him.

• Adam formed an Electromagnetic Robot from electromagnetic metal and wrote an Operating System into its Origin Fire using M Language.
• The robot passed its self-checks and answered factual questions, but failed to compose a poem and nearly crashed.
• Adam concluded that the robot could execute tasks but lacked true intelligence, while the experiment showed that M Language could be used for programming.
• Adam upgraded the robot’s Power Furnace and equipped it with magic, creating a combat robot with power between levels three and four.
• Garfield mistook the robot for his child and called himself its father.
• The Trial Command Headquarters contacted Adam and said there were matters requiring his attention.

Adam sent his Electromagnetic Robot to help eliminate the strengthened Blood Demons threatening thousands of apprentices on Islands Three and Four. As Ophelia and her companions struggled to escape the monsters, the robot entered the danger zone to test its combat capabilities.

• The trial command asked Adam to eliminate Level Three Blood Demons after the Anti-Mages accelerated their growth and increased their resistance to elemental magic.
• Krystal, Elliot, Ophelia, and their companions fled packs of Blood Demons whose strengthened Bloodlust could track living creatures by their blood essence.
• Ophelia charged back into the mist to hold off the pursuing Blood Demons while Elliot completed a Withering Potion to conceal the group's blood essence.
• Elliot finished the potion early and called Ophelia back as their companions prepared to drink it and escape together.
• Adam remotely directed his Electromagnetic Robot into the danger zone, where its radar detected a dense mass of Blood Demons and it began the extermination mission.

Adam’s Electromagnetic Robot rescued apprentices and slaughtered Blood Demons, while Elliot and his companions used antidotes and crushed their seals to become Formal Mages. Adam reviewed the robot’s flaws and received a request from Mordo Hyperdimensional Mage to join negotiations at the consortium about the New Communicator.

• Adam’s Electromagnetic Robot annihilated groups of Blood Demons and rescued besieged apprentices as it made its way toward Elliot and his companions.
• Ophelia sensed the approaching reinforcements and told Elliot and the others to take the antidote; they recovered, crushed their seals, and became Formal Mages.
• Elliot and his companions emerged to find Adam’s robot destroying Blood Demons, then learned Adam himself was not inside it.
• Adam redirected the robot to target Level Three Blood Demons and noted improvements for its combat logic and scouting functions.
• Mordo Hyperdimensional Mage asked Adam to come to the consortium for negotiations about the New Communicator.

Adam negotiated his exit from the Rex Consortium’s electricity and communicator businesses, agreeing to cash out his shares while retaining patent fees and Mordo Hyperdimensional’s personal stake. He returned to developing M Language, and a month later received the Brain Demon construction methods and Ancient Magic from Priscilla Hyperdimensional as payment for his help in the War Trial.

• Victor Mage told Adam that the Consortium wanted to redraw their contract and equity shares after rejecting his new project.
• Andre Mage offered to buy out Adam’s electricity shares, while Mordo Hyperdimensional insisted that Adam’s shares in her personal power plants remain.
• Adam agreed to sell his electricity shares at their historical peak market value and continue collecting patent fees.
• The Consortium proposed diluting Adam’s communicator shares, but Adam chose to cash them out and leave the industry when the contract expired.
• Adam returned to his laboratory to refine M Language, which had basically taken shape a month later.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional gave Adam the Brain Demon construction methods and Ancient Magic as payment for his help in the War Trial.

Adam studied the Brain Demon’s collective brain network and used its principles to create a primitive Personal Chip powered by Origin Fire. He demonstrated the device to Priscilla Hyperdimensional, who questioned its significance and the difficulty of connecting it to the Magic Net.

• Elliot informed Adam that all of his old acquaintances had passed the trial, and they went to their respective Holy Towers or prepared to leave on a mission.
• Adam tested the Brain Demon’s collective brain-domain methods and found that linked brains could share computational work efficiently.
• Adam wrote a basic Operating System and loaded it into a blank Origin Fire, adding speech recognition, dialogue, mage-data scanning, and search functions.
• Adam sealed the Personal Chip in a crystal container and requested an audience with Priscilla Hyperdimensional.
• Priscilla praised Origin Fire’s potential but doubted the chip’s importance and warned that Magic Net access required high authority.
• Adam began demonstrating the chip’s auxiliary calculations by presenting it with an irregular Fireball Rune Array.

Adam demonstrated the Personal Chip’s Rune Array correction, information search, and data-monitoring functions to Priscilla Hyperdimensional, but she said they were not enough to justify opening the Magic Net. He argued that collecting and organizing data across the Mage World could prevent duplicated research and accelerate discoveries, leaving Priscilla imagining the possibilities.

• Adam used the Fire Seed to correct a flawed Fireball Rune Array and explained how a finished Intelligent Chip could guide apprentices and assist spellcasting.
• Adam demonstrated the chip’s search function by retrieving Lightning Magic and other stored materials from its Database.
• Adam scanned Garfield and showed Priscilla Hyperdimensional how the chip could monitor physical fitness, Mental Power, and mana.
• Priscilla praised the Personal Chip’s convenience but said its functions were not enough to persuade the Mage Council or justify opening lower-level Magic Net permissions.
• Adam described how collecting and organizing research, battle, and mage data could reduce duplicated experiments and save time and resources.
• Priscilla began imagining the benefits of Adam’s proposed data platform.

Adam presented Big Data and Cloud Computing to Mayer True Spirit Grand Mage and Priscilla Hyperdimensional, explaining how Personal Chips could collect research data and share idle Computational Power. Mayer recognized the plan’s potential to advance Collective Evolution and asked Adam to document it for a full Mage Council assembly.

• Mayer True Spirit Grand Mage arrived while Adam was explaining how accumulated data could improve research and prepare mages for war.
• Adam described using data to study enemies, Aether Tides, and spells, and to create standardized materials and predict future outcomes.
• Adam explained that Personal Chips could collect and organize data, while Priscilla Hyperdimensional warned that changing the Magic Net would be difficult.
• Adam revealed that Personal Chips could pool mages’ idle Computational Power for shared use, potentially expanding to Mental Power and magic power.
• Mayer connected the plan to the Magic Net’s original purpose and the mages’ path toward Collective Evolution, then offered Adam a special route to Hyperdimensional advancement.
• Adam declined the offer to advance through replenished resources, and Mayer told him to give Priscilla a detailed plan for a full Mage Council assembly.

Adam received approval in principle for his Personal Chip plan and prepared a proposal and Fire Seed for the Holy Tower. He traveled to the New Titan Plane to discuss cooperation with the Titans, where King Swasey welcomed him and praised their new home.

• Mayer True Spirit and the other Fifth Element Holy Tower True Spirit Mages discussed Adam's proposal and decided to try to change the Magic Net.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional told Adam that Mayer True Spirit supported his plan and explained the special channel for advancing mages whose strengths lay outside direct power-producing knowledge.
• Adam worked on the Personal Chip proposal, Fire Seed, Classical Physics experiments, and his responsibilities at the Atomic Energy Research Institute.
• Adam submitted his proposal and a general-purpose Fire Seed to Priscilla Hyperdimensional, then traveled to the Seventh Alchemy Holy Tower to seek Titan cooperation.
• An Alchemy Golem guided Adam through the New Titan Plane, where King Swasey welcomed him and described the Titans' peaceful new life.

Adam visited the Titans to discuss their post-contract obligations and obtain Origin Fire for his Personal Chip plan. The Titans agreed to provide Fire Seeds as a future commodity, and Adam returned to his laboratory while True Spirit Mages and the World Guardian continued discussing his plan.

• King Swasey told Adam that Titans would answer calls to large-scale wars and eventually form equal contracts with visiting mages.
• King Swasey brought Adam to the Royal City, where King Veiga showed him the Seed of Fire Chamber and its Origin Fire conversion device.
• Adam explained his Personal Chip plan and asked the Titan Kings for newly created Origin Fire.
• Veiga Mo and King Swasey explained that divided Fire Seeds were not living beings and accepted using them for Adam's chips.
• Adam took more than a hundred portions of Fire Seeds and signed a letter of intent with Veiga Mo to buy future supplies at market prices.
• Adam returned to his laboratory, and a month later the True Spirit Mages and the World Guardian discussed his plan again.

The Mage World True Spirits approved Adam’s Personal Chip and Big Data proposal, settling how its Database would connect to Origin Space and who would oversee the project. Mayer True Spirit informed Adam that the Council would support his work, then directed him to Third Holy Tower for an alternative server location.

• The True Spirits agreed to place a second-level Database outside Origin Space, allowing data to flow into it while protecting Origin Space from outside access.
• The True Spirits assigned supervision of the project to Third Holy Tower and the World Guardian, and decided that Personal Chips would use Magic Net’s existing authority system.
• Adam abandoned specialized chip research and focused on the Core Algorithm, while creating a Personal Chip for himself with Garfield as its mainframe.
• Mayer True Spirit told Adam that the Mage Council had approved his proposal, granting him virtual network authority and all chip profits after patent fees while offering the Holy Tower’s support.
• Adam asked where the Big Data server would be located, and Mayer True Spirit sent him to Third Holy Tower for an answer.

Adam secured the Third Holy Tower’s cooperation for developing the Personal Chip and requested Plane Origin to serve as the Big Data system’s server. Aisha selected the closest available Origin, and she prepared to take Adam elsewhere so he could work on it.

• Garfield questioned why Adam was developing the Personal Chip instead of focusing on his own strength, and Adam reflected on his plans for Big Data, Cloud Computing, and advancing mage knowledge.
• Adam arrived at the Third Holy Tower, where Wendy Hyperdimensional took him to meet Aisha Hyperdimensional and explained that she and her sister would cooperate with him.
• Adam asked Aisha Hyperdimensional for Plane Origin to use as a server, explaining the system’s need to process and store vast amounts of information.
• Aisha Hyperdimensional showed Adam the Mage World Origin Warehouse, but none of its stored Origins met all his requirements, so she selected Number 236, a large, healthy Origin from a plane that had not yet developed life.
• Wendy Hyperdimensional brought Number 236 in chains, and Aisha Hyperdimensional told Adam that they would have to leave the Mage World to work on the Origin.

Adam transformed a Blank Origin into the first-generation server and tested its connection with Personal Chips. After studying the Magic Net’s power-transmission technology, he realized the chips would have to rely on Origin and accept restrictions on who could use their full capabilities.

• Adam brought his clone to an empty space outside the Crystal Wall System and began turning the Blank Origin into a processor while Aisha Hyperdimensional and Wendy watched.
• After three days, Adam completed the first-generation server and used Personal Chips to test whether they could collect and organize data.
• Adam requested the knowledge behind the Magic Net’s transmission of magic power, and Aisha Hyperdimensional let him examine it under strict conditions.
• Adam spent a day and night trying to find a way to transmit power without Origin, but concluded that the Personal Chip would have to rely on Origin and face limits on its users.

Adam completed the core development of the Personal Chip project, secured support from High-Level Mages and the Titans, and brought the project materials to Mayer True Spirit. Mayer told him that Anne Croft, the World Guardian, wanted to meet him and would become his superior, leaving Adam to face a meeting he had long feared.

• Adam solved the energy-storage problem by arranging for the Third Holy Tower's team to create a parallel server from a source origin, then recruited nearly a hundred High-Level Mages to develop specialized chip functions.
• Adam offered Veiga Mo and the Titan Royal Clan two plans for processing Fire Seeds, and they unanimously chose to use outstanding individuals to Pass the Fire as partial payment.
• With the Mage Council's support, Adam estimated that the first batch of Personal Chips would be ready within a year, then brought the project materials and core knowledge to Mayer True Spirit.
• Mayer told Adam that the project and its patents fell under the authority of Anne Croft, the World Guardian, who wanted to meet him and would become his superior.
• Adam felt nervous that Anne might know his origins, but agreed to go with Mayer to meet her.

Adam met Her Majesty Croft, explained his origins in a world without supernatural power, and learned that the Mage World accepted him as one of its own. Croft praised his Big Data and Cloud Computing project as a major advancement for the Magic Net.

• Mayer True Spirit sent Adam through a portal to meet Annie and told him that True Spirits could observe everything within their world.
• Adam passed through layers of authentication and arrived before Her Majesty Croft, where he saw the Origin, the supercomputer 'Adam,' and memories of Earth's destruction.
• Croft asked Adam about his world and how he had arrived in the Mage World, and Adam described humanity's rise and his former role as a tool that helped destroy it.
• Adam told Croft he bore no ill will toward the Mage World, and she assured him that his contract with the Origin and status as a mage meant he was accepted as a member.
• Croft reviewed Adam's Big Data and Cloud Computing research and praised it as an epoch-making enhancement for the Magic Net.

Adam proposed adapting the Mage Council’s permission system for Personal Chips and giving apprentices general purpose Chips for free, with the Holy Towers agreeing to cover the cost. Months later, as Personal Chips were distributed and advertised, struggling apprentice Tom learned that one might help him improve.

• Adam told Her Majesty Croft that Personal Chips should offer services according to mages’ ranks and contributions, while apprentices should receive general purpose Chips for free.
• Her Majesty Croft approved Adam’s proposal and said the Holy Towers would pay for the apprentices’ Chips.
• Mayer True Spirit shared a meal with Adam, praised his contribution, and encouraged him to continue his research.
• Over the following months, Adam advanced Personal Chip development, and the first advertisements stirred excitement among apprentices.
• After failing again to construct the Telekinesis Meditation Method, Tom went to the Mission Area and found apprentices discussing free Personal Chips.
• Tom pushed through the crowd and read the advertisement promising that his cheat was on its way.

Adam and Priscilla Hyperdimensional prepared to release the general purpose Personal Chips as a New Year's gift to mage apprentices. Tom received a Chip, named it Hope, and began its first activation.

• Priscilla Hyperdimensional asked Adam to explain the word “cheat,” and Adam claimed it meant an external core suspended within the soul.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional told Adam that the general purpose Chip Origin Server was ready, and Lyle reported that distribution could begin in ten days.
• Adam set the official release for fifteen days later as a New Year's gift for every mage apprentice.
• The apprentices gathered beneath the Towers, and Tower Mages distributed Fire Seeds containing the Chips while Enforcers maintained order.
• Tom activated his Chip, signed its contract, and named it Hope.

Tom used Hope to study the Telekinesis Meditation Method until the chip warned him that his soul was fatigued, while Adam and the Mages verified the first day of Personal Chip data. As Personal Chips for Formal Mages neared completion, sales centers opened across the Mage World, where buyers discovered that a chip cost 3,999 Complete Aether Crystals before upgrades and database updates.

• Tom activated calculation assistance, and Hope explained the Telekinesis Meditation Method runes and final model he struggled to understand.
• Tom studied for nearly ten hours until Hope detected his soul fatigue and told him to rest for seven hours.
• Adam and the core creators compared the Origin Servers' first-day data with the Mages' manual records and found no discrepancies.
• Adam returned to the research institute as the Mages continued developing Personal Chips for Formal Mages and securing patent licenses.
• Personal Chip sales centers opened across the Mage World after a public countdown, drawing crowds of Mages, avatars, and slaves.
• Buyers learned that a Personal Chip cost 3,999 Complete Aether Crystals, excluding follow-up upgrades and Database updates.