Chapter Summaries

Adam received a major reward of Origin Power for the success of the Personal Chip project and learned that becoming a Hyperdimensional Mage would change how his magic worked. The chapter ended as Her Majesty Croft began demonstrating the difference with an ordinary Fireball.

• Sandy praised the Personal Chip’s functions but complained that Adam’s business had cost her income from Old Communicators.
• Adam offered Sandy five plane coordinates for her final mission, and she chose a signal from a potentially enormous plane or Multi-Plane Cluster despite his warning to prioritize stability.
• Three months later, the Mage Council’s data analysis confirmed the value of the Personal Chip project, and Her Majesty Croft asked Adam what reward he wanted.
• Adam requested Origin Power, and the Mage World’s origin gave him enough to convert most of his soul toward becoming an origin creature.
• Her Majesty Croft explained that Hyperdimensional Mages used origin differently and began showing Adam how their magic differed by forming a Fireball.

Her Majesty Croft demonstrated how Hyperdimensional Mages used their will to control magical power and elements, explaining how their magic differed from ordinary spells and Ancient Magic. She warned Adam to take care before advancing his unprecedented Electromagnetic Magic system and urged him not to rush.

• Her Majesty Croft transformed a Fireball into a far more powerful, shape-shifting spell and guided it around obstacles without constructing a Rune Array.
• Her Majesty Croft explained that Hyperdimensional Mages fused their will with magical power and elements, letting them exert effects that ordinary mages could not.
• Adam asked about Ember and the Fireball's changing forms, and Her Majesty Croft described how Hyperdimensional Mages used their souls to command elements and how modern magic differed from Ancient Magic.
• Her Majesty Croft cited Laura as a mage who rebuilt her foundations and became one of the strongest True Spirit Mages.
• Her Majesty Croft warned Adam not to rush into Hyperdimensionality because no one could help him correct a mistake in his unprecedented Electromagnetic Magic system.
• Her Majesty Croft reassured Adam that he had time and did not need to race against it.

Adam conducted experiments in an Aether Environment to investigate the nature of light, measuring the Planck Constant and confirming light’s wave and particle properties. After completing the experiments, he gained the ability to manipulate visible light.

• Adam decided to study light by conducting blackbody radiation, interference, and photoelectric effect experiments.
• After hundreds of trials, Adam measured the Planck Constant and described energy as being emitted in quanta.
• Adam confirmed light’s wave nature through interference, diffraction, and polarization experiments.
• Adam completed photoelectric effect and Compton effect experiments, confirming light’s particle nature and the Planck Constant.
• Adam released his seal as Aether Radiance descended, slightly increasing his Soul Force and magic power and granting him the ability to manipulate visible light.

Adam refined his control over electromagnetic magic and then answered Priscilla Hyperdimensional’s request to help restart the stalled research into Radioactive Minerals. At the Khatos research institute, he met Yurius Hyperdimensional, a Level Eight mage who believed the minerals held the key to his advancement to True Spirit.

• Adam used a beam of light that changed into heat or electrical energy to destroy a target, confirming his new approach to electromagnetic magic.
• Adam received messages, including Mordo Hyperdimensional’s notice that the Rex Consortium had redeemed his shares for over two million Aether Crystals and wanted to discuss the Personal Chip; Adam rejected further cooperation.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional contacted Adam about the stalled Radioactive Minerals research and asked him to help the research institute.
• Adam teleported to the Khatos Plane and arrived at the radiation-filled institute, where Yurius Hyperdimensional grabbed him and temporarily rendered his abilities unusable.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional freed Adam from Yurius’s grip, and Yurius said he sensed that the Radioactive Minerals could lead him to True Spirit but could not find the missing insight.

Adam met Yurius Hyperdimensional at the abandoned research institute, where Yurius had been studying radioactive ore. After Adam explained the ore’s theoretical energy potential, Yurius became eager to develop it into a weapon and appointed Adam to lead the project, but Adam insisted they needed more researchers.

• Yurius unleashed a surge of magic that threatened Adam and Priscilla, then regained control and gave Adam a pendant for protection.
• Yurius explained that the other researchers had left the institute, and he brought Adam to the underground laboratory to show him his experiments with radioactive ore.
• Adam explained that a kilogram of high-purity radioactive minerals could theoretically release energy equivalent to roughly twenty million Fireballs.
• Yurius realized the ore could be used to make weapons capable of killing beings below Level Five and declared that Adam would lead the research project.
• Adam told Yurius that the project required the knowledge of more people than the two of them.

Adam and Yurius began building an atomic energy research institute, recruiting mages to study uranium enrichment and atomic structure. Their experiments revealed dramatic Alpha Particle deflections, and Adam explained that the results supported the existence of particles within atoms.

• Adam told Yurius that the project needed substantial funding and many assistants, and Yurius agreed to provide both.
• Adam considered how nuclear research might reveal knowledge tied to becoming a True Spirit and how fission or fusion could improve the use of magic power.
• Yurius recruited a group of reluctant acquaintances to assist at the institute, and Adam began assigning them research tasks.
• Adam asked Hyperdimensional Mages from the Fifth Element Holy Tower to use magic to enrich uranium through the Gas Diffusion Method.
• Adam and several mages conducted the Gold Foil experiment, observing that most Alpha particles passed through the foil while a small number underwent large-angle deflections.
• Adam explained that the scattering results showed particles smaller than atoms existed and identified the electron as a particle within atoms.

Adam explained that large-angle alpha-particle scattering suggested atoms contained a tiny, massive, positively charged Atomic Nucleus, then presented a preliminary model. The Atomic Energy Research Institute was established and funded, and its researchers began developing and testing atomic models.

• Adam used alpha-particle scattering to propose that an atom’s positive charge and nearly all its mass were concentrated in an Atomic Nucleus.
• The mages gathered around Adam, studied his previously overlooked Cathode Ray Experiment paper, and recognized the significance of his discovery of electrons.
• Adam presented a preliminary atomic structure model and invited the mages to help refine it through further calculations and experiments.
• The high-level mages joined Adam’s project, which he officially named the Atomic Energy Research Institute, and the institute announced that Hyperdimensional Mage was its minimum recruitment rank.
• The Mage Council funded the institute, and Adam organized his earlier research into projects that mages expanded with new experiments and breakthroughs.
• Within a month, mages derived dozens of atomic structure models based on Adam’s Rutherford Model, then rejected most of them through further research.

Adam and the Atomic Energy Research Institute developed a more stable nuclear model and established the Periodic Table of Elements, transforming research across the Mage World. As Yurius pressed him to return to their original goal, Adam proposed using accelerated neutrons to bombard uranium atoms, but said they first needed precision equipment.

• Adam used the research data and Planck's Quantum Hypothesis to build a more stable nuclear model, and told the mages to treat their findings as provisional.
• Yurius asked whether Adam's knowledge came from another universe, and Adam credited the work to collective research by mages.
• Over the following year, the institute discovered atomic properties and new particles, then established the Periodic Table of Elements.
• The institute's achievements drew attention throughout the Mage World, brought Adam rewards and resources, and made Electromagnetic Magic popular among apprentices.
• Yurius asked Adam when they would work on enriched uranium, and Adam explained that they needed to accelerate neutrons to bombard uranium atoms.
• Adam said they first needed precision equipment to carry out the neutron bombardment.

Adam and Yurius proved that neutron bombardment could split uranium, then led a world-scale effort to harness fission energy. The research team built the Mage World's first Atomic Bomb, with a yield of two million tons.

• Adam and Yurius began bombarding uranium with neutrons, but tens of thousands of experiments failed over several days.
• After five days, Yurius and Adam detected a uranium nucleus splitting and releasing energy and two neutrons.
• Adam explained that a fission chain reaction could produce vast energy and potentially increase magic power reserves and output.
• The Mage Council poured resources into the Atomic Energy Research Institute, and the first-generation accelerator was completed within a month.
• Half a year later, Adam and the mages created the Mage World's first Atomic Bomb, with a yield of two million tons.

Adam and the mages successfully tested an atomic bomb, then began turning nuclear fission into magic and researching nuclear fusion. When Adam sought more funding and a better particle accelerator, his call connected him to Prometheus, whom the mages greeted as His Majesty.

• Adam warned the mage igniting the atomic bomb to construct strong defenses, and the mages watched its explosion from thirty kilometers away.
• The bomb vaporized and destroyed everything near the blast site, while the ignition mage survived and enthusiastically praised the experience.
• Mages began converting chain nuclear fission into runes for a new category of magic called Nuclear Explosion Magic.
• Adam and the other researchers moved on to thermonuclear fusion, but their work required greater funding and a more advanced particle accelerator.
• Adam's request for funding connected him to a private individual, and the Hyperdimensional Mages greeted the visitor as His Majesty Prometheus.

Prometheus True Spirit toured Adam’s Atomic Energy Research Institute, praised his achievements, and offered the resources to fund his advancement and Hyperdimensional Mage Tower. After joining the research, Prometheus rejected fission of magic power and proposed that fission could instead convert aether into magic power, prompting Adam to reconsider the nature of aether.

• Prometheus True Spirit asked Adam to show him around the institute and praised the changes Adam’s research had brought to the Mage World.
• Adam told Prometheus that his Electromagnetic Magic research was progressing and nearing a breakthrough.
• Prometheus offered Adam unlimited Origin Power for his advancement and promised the Mage Council would fund his Hyperdimensional Mage Tower.
• Prometheus asked to leave a Will Projection at the institute and take part in its research.
• Prometheus rejected Adam’s plan to apply fission to magic power, explaining that it would produce lower-energy ordinary energy.
• Prometheus proposed that fission could convert aether into large amounts of magic power, and Adam realized that aether and magic power were fundamentally different.

Adam and Prometheus researched how to integrate Aether chain fission into Mage’s Armor, enabling powerful mages to store and use the energy safely. Their work culminated in the Chain Fission Rune Array, whose activation unleashed a world-spanning mana surge called World Breathing.

• Yurius explained that Prometheus’s First Aether Holy Tower produced every Aether Crystal and that Prometheus’s energy innovations enabled modern mages to fight in the void.
• Prometheus said mages below the ultra-dimensional level could not benefit directly from Aether fission, and proposed storing its excess mana in Mage’s Armor.
• Over three months, Prometheus led the research and explained that his Mage’s Armor was connected to the Mage World’s Crystal Wall System.
• Prometheus asked Adam to sign the research results, but Adam credited the Atomic Energy Research Institute instead.
• Prometheus completed the Chain Fission Rune Array and fused it into Mage’s Armor, causing a mana storm across Khatos and bringing Adam and the others to the main Material World.
• The Crystal Wall System released immense Aether Tides across the world as Prometheus’s magic, World Breathing, began.

His Majesty Prometheus demonstrated Mage World’s World Breathing, which increased its energy output but harmed ordinary life, and Adam tested using Aether Chain Fission to boost his combat power. Half a year later, the laboratory successfully produced and detonated its first Hydrogen Bomb.

• A Hyperdimensional Mage explained that Mage World’s Crystal Wall System could draw energy from the void through World Breathing, and His Majesty Prometheus reported that the process had greatly increased energy output.
• After the central data server reported harmful reactions among ordinary life, His Majesty stopped World Breathing and ordered a survey to plan a new continent for ordinary people.
• His Majesty invited Adam to test the Aether Chain Fission rune modules, and Adam used a one-third Aether Crystal’s output to strengthen his attacks without overwhelming his Mage’s Armor.
• Half a year later, a Level Eight Hyperdimensional Mage from the Fifth Element Holy Tower ignited the laboratory’s first Hydrogen Bomb while True Spirits watched.

After the hydrogen bomb’s immense power stunned the mages, Pierce survived the blast and immediately began researching Fusion Magic. Adam and the True Spirits helped turn Nuclear Explosion Magic into a usable Rune Array, and the chapter ended with its creators announcing the completed magic and warning that it could kill careless casters.

• The mages witnessed the hydrogen bomb’s forty-billion-Fireball explosion and realized its power surpassed what even high-ranking mages could achieve.
• Pierce emerged from the blast gravely injured, and Mayer restored his body before Pierce began researching Fusion Magic.
• Mayer joined Adam’s research institute, where he, Prometheus, and Yurius organized thermonuclear formulas and sought Randolph’s help with controllable Nuclear Fusion runes.
• While the others worked on the Rune Array, Adam focused on the particle accelerator, electron transitions, the Electron Cloud, and confirming photons.
• Two months later, Yurius announced that Nuclear Explosion Magic had been successfully converted into a Rune Array through the efforts of the researchers and the three True Spirits.
• Mayer explained that Nuclear Explosion Magic required extensive skill and mana, warned that it could kill its caster, and announced that the developers would receive rewards and a vacation.

After the institute’s move, Adam and the mages tested Nuclear Explosion Magic and studied atomic phenomena, bringing Adam closer to his most important experiment. His Majesty Prometheus approved Adam’s Double-Slit Experiment, which Adam hoped would open a new path through the barrier between thought and matter.

• The Mage Council banned Nuclear Explosion Magic above Ten Billion Fireballs in the Mage World after mages injured one another and damaged infrastructure, while Khatos Plane became a testing ground for increasingly powerful explosions.
• Adam tested Nuclear Explosion Magic and Magnetic Confinement Nuclear Fusion on Khatos, finding that the explosions had little conceptual power and that his control over magnetic fields remained insufficient.
• The mages returned to the institute and studied hydrogen atoms and their spectra after experiments to split protons and neutrons made little progress.
• Adam repeated the Photoelectric Effect Experiment, observed photons directly, and felt his soul begin to evolve as he prepared to test the Double-Slit Experiment.
• Adam explained his plan to His Majesty Prometheus, who approved the equipment request after Adam warned that the experiment might cause a conceptual conflict.

Adam gathered the Atomic Energy Research Institute’s mages to demonstrate that light had both wave and particle properties, warning them that the results could shake their understanding. The experiments convinced them of light’s Wave-Particle Duality, but a Level Seven Hyperdimensional Mage demanded proof that the same principle applied to Microscopic Particles.

• Adam asked Prometheus to limit the experiment’s observers to mages within the Atomic Energy Research Institute, and Prometheus, Croft, and Mayer agreed.
• Adam prepared a series of experiments to show Wave-Particle Duality and assembled nearly a hundred high level Hyperdimensional Mages in the institute’s Dark Room.
• Adam warned the observers to leave if their Cognitive Worlds became unstable, and Prometheus protected them with Mage’s Armor.
• Adam explained his Wave-Particle Duality theory and conducted experiments on Light Interference, the Photoelectric Effect, and the Compton Effect.
• The mages accepted that light possessed both Wave Nature and Particulate Nature, but a Level Seven Hyperdimensional Mage challenged Adam to prove that the result applied to Microscopic Particles.

Adam presented evidence for light’s Wave-Particle Duality and used demonstrations with balls, water waves, and electrons to explain how waves and particles behave. After electrons appeared particle-like through a single slit, the double-slit results stunned the mages, who demanded to inspect his equipment.

• Mages challenged Adam’s claim that microscopic particles also possessed wave nature, and Her Majesty Croft silenced them.
• Adam presented his electromagnetic spectrum and explained that photons were particles associated with light and electron energy transitions.
• Adam demonstrated how colored balls and water waves behaved after passing through single and double slits.
• Electrons passing through a single slit formed a particle-like pattern, prompting mages to declare Adam’s theory disproven.
• Adam continued with the double-slit electron experiment, whose results shocked the crowd and led some mages to demand an equipment inspection.

Adam demonstrated that electrons changed from interference patterns to particle-like stripes when their paths were observed, even when the observation occurred after they had passed through the slits. The experiment devastated the mages, was classified as highly restricted, and ended with Adam demanding an enormous amount of origin as his soul transformed.

• Adam repeated the double-slit experiment with individual electrons and showed that they still produced interference fringes.
• Adam activated Observation Magic at the slits, causing electrons to form two stripes; blocking the array's reaction restored the interference fringes.
• Adam moved the Observation Magic behind the barrier and showed that observing an electron's path after it had passed through the slits produced the same particle-like result.
• The experiment overwhelmed the mages, and several souls shattered before the True Spirits suppressed the disturbance.
• Prometheus classified the experiments as restricted, while Croft reported that the dead mages could not yet be reconstructed because they were in a state of self-denial.
• Adam involuntarily floated into the air and told the Your Majesties that he needed an enormous amount of origin.

Adam completed his advancement in the Origin Space, transforming his soul and gaining control over electrons and photons. Her Majesty Croft revealed that the mages faced threats from earlier epochs of the Aether Void, including Hypervoid Life, which had completely devoured two True Spirits.

• Her Majesty Croft teleported Adam into the Origin Space, where Origin Power supported his soul’s transformation and his accumulated experiments became hazy runes.
• Adam’s Electron True Body and magic power changed as he advanced, and he opened a new kind of magical opening shaped by principles including uncertainty and wave dynamics.
• After two days, Adam completed his advancement and returned to the ground, where Her Majesty Croft congratulated him and said it was time to reveal the mages’ true enemy.
• Her Majesty Croft explained that the Aether Void had undergone earlier epochs and that the Third Epoch posed a major threat to the current Mage Civilization.
• Her Majesty Croft showed Adam regions marked as dangerous and revealed that Hypervoid Life had devoured two True Spirits when they approached its territory.

Her Majesty and Prometheus True Spirit Grandmaster explained the threat posed by Hypervoid Life and the Mage World’s opposing path to transcendence. Afterward, Adam received notice of a Hyperdimensional exploration mission and began formalizing his research into runes and magic.

• Her Majesty told Adam that Hypervoid Life had unconsciously devoured two True Spirits and that Explorer Mages searched the void for such threats.
• Prometheus True Spirit Grandmaster explained that Hypervoid Life were individuals from the Third Epoch whose evolutionary path directly opposed the Mage World’s collective transcendence.
• Her Majesty described the Third Holy Tower’s role in preserving the Mage World’s knowledge and Fire Seed if transcendence failed.
• Her Majesty told Adam to pause other research and prepare for a Hyperdimensional handover mission to investigate a suspected remnant of the Third Epoch’s power system.
• Adam left Origin Space, stopped the Double Slit Experiment, and began turning his research into theory, runes, and magic, gaining fine control over waves and microscopic particles.