Chapter Summaries

Adam trapped the Free Faction Mages who had incited civilians in Academy City and decided to kill them, despite Aisha’s warnings about the political consequences. As Free Faction leaders debated the clash, Adam severed the rebels’ connection to the Magic Net and destroyed them.

• Adam exposed Free Faction Mages hiding among the protesters and challenged their claim to represent ordinary civilians.
• Adam activated a magic-suppression array that trapped the crowd and slowed the Mages’ connection to the Magic Net.
• Aisha warned Adam that killing the rebels could give the Free Faction grounds to attack, but Adam said he needed to show strength and prevent future trouble.
• Free Faction leaders watched the confrontation and rejected the idea of killing Adam, citing the Two Majesties’ authority.
• The trapped Free Mages attempted to self-destruct, but rune chains bound their souls and severed their access to the Magic Net.
• Adam took Aisha’s authority and activated the array’s full power, killing the first batch of rebels.

Adam crushed organized resistance on Academy Continent and used the ensuing uneasy peace to build factories and develop robots for his new system. After testing the Enforcement Robots, he questioned problems in the Basic Academy textbooks, leaving their preparation unresolved.

• Adam killed thousands of Resistors in the Magic Array, seized the belongings left behind by the dead mages, and ordered the remaining protesters to obey and leave.
• The Free Faction stopped organizing collective resistance as Adam developed Academy City, rejecting mortal representatives who sought influence over its administration.
• Adam established factories that produced communicators and simplified teaching and Enforcement Robots using integrated circuits.
• Adam and his assistants tested Enforcement Robots on an Anti-Mage Island, where they proved capable of matching Level One Anti-Mages and defeating Anti-Mage Apprentices.
• Garfield celebrated his role as an enforcement officer, while Adam objected that the Basic Academy textbooks had problems.

Adam redirected the Basic Academy curriculum toward foundational subjects that would prepare ordinary students for mage training or other work, and the new textbooks were completed as admissions opened. Meanwhile, Earl Johnson ordered New Cold Maple City to obey the Free Faction, while two enslaved siblings resolved to escape and seek admission.

• Adam persuaded the Basic Education Department to teach foundational subjects such as mathematics, language, physics, chemistry, biology, and sociology before advanced magic.
• The Basic Education Department completed the new textbooks, loaded them into teaching robots, and announced that Basic Academy admissions had begun.
• Earl Johnson told Knight Commander Wright and the other Great Knights to obey the order and avoid challenging the powerful forces around them.
• Two enslaved siblings learned about Basic Academy admissions and decided to steal a communicator and escape so they could become students.

Two enslaved siblings planned to escape and reach an academy, while the estate owner schemed to hide his slaves rather than release them. Adam discovered the nobles’ plan and ordered Enforcement Robots to act, leaving the estate’s fate in their hands.

• The brother planned for himself and his Younger Sister to steal a communicator and flee, but she offered to distract their guards so he could escape first.
• The estate owner refused to release his slaves and plotted with other knights to claim the slaves had died on the road.
• The brother found workers moving the communicators and shouted that he wanted his communicator and to join the academy, so Duke ordered him seized and beaten.
• Adam monitored the nobles’ messages and learned of their scheme, while confirming the Enforcement Robots were ready to deploy.
• Adam told Garfield to set out and gave him permission to act as he pleased, without giving the nobles another chance.

Adam deployed Enforcement Robots across Academy Continent to seize eligible children and eliminate the nobles who held them, beginning a broad slave liberation. After reviewing the operation’s results, he turned to the challenges of managing the children and preparing the Basic Academies.

• Averil authorized Garfield and his Enforcement Robots to teleport freely across Academy Continent, and ten thousand robots departed on their mission.
• An Enforcement Robot appeared in a manor, eliminated Duke and the other targeted masters, and teleported seventy-three eligible students to safety.
• The purge struck nobles and knights across Academy Continent, freeing oppressed slaves and removing those who detained eligible children.
• Adam learned that the robots had an eighty percent execution accuracy, while Averil and Aisha reported that Free Faction mages had not intervened.
• Adam discussed the Free Faction’s vast population of mage apprentices and asked Averil to assign Guardians and Covenant Race members to temporary management and city roles.

Adam agreed to let the Covenant Races join the academy project after confirming their limitations and asking that their physical forms be accommodated. The first students began registering at the new Basic Academies, and Her Majesty Croft told Adam his appointment as an Honorary World Guardian had been approved.

• Averil told Adam that the Covenant Races and some Holy Tower Mages wanted to join the academy project, and Aisha explained that the races could not master magic power or magic.
• Adam approved the Covenant Races' participation but insisted that their physical forms be accommodated to prevent accidental deaths.
• Aiden and his younger sister received consecutive student numbers and, three days later, joined other children traveling to the First Basic Academy to register.
• Mages monitored registration and academy operations across the Academy Continent while Adam and the others watched from Academy City.
• Her Majesty Croft praised Adam's academy plan and told him his appointment as an Honorary World Guardian had been approved, granting him unlimited Origin Power.

Adam received the Honorary World Guardian title and learned that his Mage Tower was nearly ready, but Senior Hyperdimensional Mage Neham would soon arrive as Second Deputy Minister. His Excellency asked Adam to discover why Neham had changed or bring him back, and Adam remained curious about the enigmatic mage.

• His Excellency congratulated Adam on becoming an Honorary World Guardian and promised unlimited support for his advancement once he reached the Critical Point.
• His Excellency told Adam that his Mage Tower was complete and would be delivered after restrictions were entered into the Origin.
• His Excellency announced that Neham, a powerful Level Eight mage of the Free Faction, would become Second Deputy Minister and asked Adam to investigate his change or bring him back.
• Aisha warned Adam not to defy Neham, though she said the four of them could stop him if necessary.
• Adam told Aisha that Neham's intentions might be easy to guess, then reopened the spatial isolation and urged the others to continue their work.

Adam argued that Neham may have returned to the Mage World out of curiosity about its changes and about Adam himself, while suspecting Her Majesty Croft was hiding the reason Neham left the Holy Tower Faction. Neham arrived in Origin Space and insisted he had come only to return home, leaving Croft without an explanation.

• Adam told Aisha, Averil, and the others that Neham may have come to the Mage World because he was curious about Adam and Academy Continent.
• Adam suspected that Her Majesty Croft had concealed the real reason Neham left the Holy Tower Faction.
• Neham entered Origin Space and praised the Mage World's Origin before greeting Her Majesty Croft theatrically.
• Neham shaped a Level Eight dragon into a chair and dismissed Croft's warning that his return was poorly timed.
• Neham activated a Personal Chip, found his permissions sealed, and complained that people had forgotten him.
• Neham told Croft he had returned simply because the Mage World was his home, then strode into the void.

Laura True Spirit revealed that Neham had left gifts for Her Majesty Croft, including a Hypervoid Life’s location, a broader-void map, and a Second Epoch plane, while Croft remained frustrated with their disagreement. Adam then reviewed the Intermediate Academy’s textbooks and ordered revisions and a faster construction schedule.

• Laura True Spirit admitted that Neham had prepared gifts for her and Her Majesty Croft, including the location of a Hypervoid Life, a map of a broader void, and a Second Epoch plane where death had not occurred.
• Her Majesty Croft told Laura True Spirit to stop discussing the matter and hurry Adam’s Mage Tower, while Laura revealed that it had already been completed and delivered.
• Adam’s assistant reported that the foundational textbooks had reached the Intermediate Teaching Department and that Adam’s Mage Tower had arrived.
• The Intermediate Teaching Department’s mages told Adam that the textbooks were too difficult for apprentices and included material they could not understand or use.
• Adam ordered the textbooks split into editions, made the foundational material clearer, and gave Intermediate Academy students more freedom to choose what they studied.
• Adam accelerated Intermediate Academy construction, directing the Planning Department to count stranded former apprentices and coordinate admissions with the Towers without concessions.

Adam’s plan to transfer apprentices into the Intermediate Academy advanced despite resistance from the Free Faction, while the faction’s leaders became occupied with guarding a newly discovered Void Zone. Adam returned to his Mage Tower, where Neham Augustus introduced himself and offered to trade for it.

• A guardian told a Mage Academy headmaster that the Council would transfer its apprentices to the Intermediate Academy, compensate the academy, and allow its teachers to apply for teaching positions.
• The headmaster objected, but the guardian warned that the Council would lift the magic restrictions in three days, making the continent deadly to apprentices who remained there.
• Free Towers across the Mage World resisted the transfer, while the Free Faction’s leaders argued over who would guard a Void Zone containing Hypervoid Life.
• Adam welcomed the discovery of new Hypervoid Life as an advantage for his next stage of work and returned to his Mage Tower.
• Garfield criticized the tower’s small appearance, and Neham Augustus introduced himself and offered his Nine-Headed Dragon and other compensation to buy it.

Neham arrived uninvited at the headquarters Tower and tried to trade his Nine-Headed Dragon for Adam’s newly activated Mage Tower, but Adam refused. After Neham left, Adam learned more about the Hyperdimensional Mage’s unusual power and the Free Faction’s strength, then prepared for Neham’s upcoming inspection.

• Neham entered the headquarters Tower unnoticed, and Adam greeted him while Aisha and the others stood at his side.
• Neham offered to trade his Nine-Headed Dragon for Adam’s Mage Tower, but Adam activated the tower and refused the deal.
• Neham admired the Mage Tower and asked about buying its technology or having his vessel modified, then agreed to return in a few days to inspect the plan.
• Aisha told Adam that Neham could enter the Main World in his true body and that the Free Faction had ten True Spirit Grand Mages, with Neham potentially making eleven.
• Adam ordered his assistant to speed up construction of the Intermediate Academy and prepare the plans for Neham’s next visit.

Neham told Adam that the Mage World’s founders had compromised their ideals by choosing an overly idealistic council instead of a system backed by absolute power. He left Adam questioning why Neham had never become a True Spirit.

• Neham praised Adam’s handling of the Academy Continent’s reception duties and recalled joining Annie and the others in a revolution against the old Mage Empire.
• Neham said the Holy Tower Faction had repeatedly compromised with the Free Faction, allowing it to grow powerful and weakening the Mage World.
• Neham explained that the original Magic Net plan had been to impose compulsory contracts on mages and establish a magical empire.
• Neham blamed Prometheus’s idealism, his own delayed advancement, and the revolutionaries’ rejection of the imperial system for the Mage Council’s creation.
• Neham told Adam that he joined the Free Faction to keep his friendship with the original revolutionaries from breaking apart, despite despising the Free Faction’s leaders.
• Adam asked Neham why he had never advanced to become a True Spirit.

Neham explained why the Free Faction’s True Spirits tolerated Adam’s reforms and agreed to help him build the Academy Continent. With his support, the Intermediate Academies began operating, and the Mage Council announced seven Higher Academies for future War Mages, alarming Free Faction consortium leaders.

• Neham told Adam that the Free Faction’s True Spirits feared their growing gains could provoke a Holy Tower backlash, so they welcomed a chance to retreat to a safer balance.
• Neham promised not to oppose Adam and left an avatar to assist him with the academies.
• The Free Hyperdimensionals agreed to Adam’s demands, sent their chosen teachers to qualification examinations, and took the failures back to the Main Continent.
• Old apprentices entered the Intermediate Academies, whose operations quickly stabilized as students began their new studies.
• Two months later, the Mage Council announced seven Higher Academies for apprentices eligible for the War Trial, with War Mage graduation requirements.
• Free Faction consortium leaders gathered in alarm and called for the Excellencies to intervene, while a newly advanced Hyperdimensional Mage questioned Neham’s support for the order.

Adam secured the Free True Spirits’ cooperation with the High Academies and prepared to leave Academy Continent’s remaining work to others. Neham asked Adam to help transform his Nine-Headed Dragon into a versatile Mage Tower, and Adam asked whether Neham knew about the Root of Life.

• The Free True Spirits ordered their members to cooperate fully with Adam’s plans, frustrating ordinary Hyperdimensionals who had benefited from cheap labor.
• Adam met with Holy Tower True Spirit Grand Mages, including Croft, and learned they supported establishing the High Academies rather than continuing to compromise.
• Neham explained that the Free True Spirits had yielded because the decision mainly affected ordinary Free Hyperdimensionals, and he urged Adam to turn his attention to other projects.
• Neham admired Adam’s Mage Tower modifications but wanted to make his Nine-Headed Dragon starship more versatile without replacing it.
• Adam offered to use a second method to transform the Nine-Headed Dragon and asked Neham whether he knew the Root of Life.

Adam recruited Neham to help develop the Virtual World engine, then returned to his Inner World research team to inspect their crude backup engine. Neham proposed connecting the engine to the Magic Net, leaving Adam with a way to address the challenge of making the Virtual World support real magical power.

• Adam explained his idea of copying the Void Dragons' Root of Life into Molecular Robots, and Neham agreed to join the research team and help with the Virtual World engine.
• Adam left a clone on Academy Continent and returned to his true body in the Inner World to resume research.
• Wendy showed Adam and Aisha the program that let researchers enter the backup server, and Adam, Aisha, and Averil explored its ten-square-kilometer simulation.
• Adam found that the Virtual World represented matter and people as crude data models that could not reproduce real-world properties or provide training.
• Aisha warned Adam that building a fully realistic world would require far more expertise, and Neham suggested connecting the World Engine to the Magic Net's data.

Adam secured the Majesties’ support, personnel, and resources to build the Virtual World, then organized a larger, highly secretive project team. The team’s first major breakthrough came when mages used quantum entanglement to transmit information instantly across vast distances in the Aether Void.

• Neham offered to help Adam model the Virtual World on the Second Epoch Ruin Planes and advised him to consult Prometheus about runes.
• Adam ordered his institute to suspend work on the Backup Engine and focus on upgrading M Language.
• Laura True Spirit, Croft, and Prometheus approved access to Magic Net data and Original Runes, and Prometheus assigned a team to help with M Language.
• Adam asked the Seven Holy Towers to contribute experts, and the Virtual World Project Team was established as a larger, highly secretive institute.
• Mages developed entangled photon sources that worked across increasingly vast distances and successfully transmitted information in perfect synchronization across the Aether Void.

Adam and the researchers integrated Quantum Entanglement into the Mage World’s communication systems, while breakthroughs in Void Dragon research made it possible to build the Virtual World on the Magic Net and the world’s origin. Adam outlined the Virtual World’s planned uses, and a True Spirit Grand Mage asked what its NPCs would be.

• Adam and the researchers used Quantum Entanglement to upgrade Big Data Cloud Computing, Personal Chips, the Magic Net, and secure long-distance communication.
• Neham told Adam that the Void Dragon’s Root of Life had been deciphered and that Second Epoch planes were creatures whose illusions came from bloodline abilities.
• Adam realized the Magic Net could serve as a conceptual carrier for the Virtual World, resolving key concerns about its implementation and safety.
• Adam presented the Virtual World plan to the Majesties, including a community, trial spaces, accelerated research, laboratories, and combat arenas.
• A True Spirit Grand Mage said primordial energy’s application was mature and asked Adam what NPCs in the Virtual World would be.

Adam proposed using microscopic robots to replace Hyperdimensional Explorer Mages on dangerous scouting missions, and the True Spirits considered the research needed to make the plan work. Laura True Spirit then brought Adam to the Third Holy Tower’s Isolation Zone, where he saw ongoing research into God Realm Creatures and Spiritual Energy.

• Neham dismissed Bridges’s question about whether the Virtual World was real or an illusion, and Adam said their work should continue regardless.
• Adam proposed sending microscopic robots into the Aether Void to scout in place of Hyperdimensional Explorer Mages, using atomic-scale designs, quantum control, and self-destruction safeguards.
• After the meeting, Neham became interested in helping with the Root of Life research, but Her Majesty Croft stopped him.
• Laura True Spirit took Adam to the Third Holy Tower and suggested he join it as a True Spirit if he did not establish the Eighth Holy Tower.
• At the Isolation Zone, Laura True Spirit showed Adam the God Realm Creature research and said Fourth Epoch energy could already be converted into Third Epoch energy.

Adam explored the Third Epoch Remnant samples with Laura True Spirit and proposed using the Reincarnation Technique to protect players from cognitive contamination in his virtual instance. In Origin Space, Prometheus planned to use the newly discovered civilization and New Void Zone map to pressure the Free Faction and establish a new balance led by the Holy Tower Faction.

• Laura True Spirit showed Adam six types of energy from Third Epoch Remnants and explained how they could alter users’ self-perception.
• Adam proposed adding core knowledge of the Reincarnation Technique to the Virtual World Login Device and charging players a protection fee.
• Croft asked Neham to keep Adam under his protection because the Exploration Robot threatened the Free Faction’s interests.
• Prometheus said he would open up the New Void Zone map gradually to lure the Free Faction into pursuing profitable discoveries and make them feel the cost.
• Prometheus intended the new civilization to help establish a balance led by the Holy Tower Faction rather than destroy the Free Faction completely.

Neham reported discovering the Immortal Civilization, prompting the True Spirits to prepare for war while Adam accelerated the Virtual World project. Neham completed a stable structure from the Root of Life, leaving Adam ready to merge it into the Magic Net.

• Neham described the Immortal Civilization's Heaven and Man Unity and said its members had attacked him as an Outsider Demon, so Prometheus chose it as Mage World's target for war.
• Adam recognized the civilization's Immortals from his memories of Earth, and Neham explained that Adam would help command the invasion of its outer planes.
• Neham told Adam to prepare personnel and finish the Virtual World and Exploration Robot projects before the war began.
• Adam's avatars helped the institute overcome technical problems, rapidly improving the Virtual World for Mages below the Hyperdimensional level.
• Wendy and Aisha explained how the war could weaken the Free Faction through resurrection costs, while Neham warned that the Immortals could target souls.
• Neham stabilized the structure formed from the Second Epoch's Root of Life, and Adam prepared to merge it into the Magic Net.