Chapter Summaries

Adam raced to destroy Anti-Mage settlements before their forces could regroup, then made the Devil fight a migrating force while he recovered mana. The Devil transformed into a powerful Despair Fiend and overwhelmed the Anti-Mages, revealing an innate ability tied to its hybrid bloodline.

• Adam bought intelligence about four towns and destroyed them over two days, earning just over two hundred merit points.
• Adam saw signs that the Anti-Mages had begun evacuating settlements and redeploying their forces, so he searched for a new target with the Devil.
• The Devil found nearly sixty Anti-Mage Apprentices fleeing a town, and Adam ordered it to attack while he recovered mana.
• The Anti-Mages attacked the Devil, which initially refused to fight until a Holy Light Bullet struck it.
• The Devil transformed into a Despair Fiend and slaughtered the Anti-Mages, prompting Adam to suspect its power came from its hybrid Abyssal Creature bloodline.

Adam pursued the Devil after it transformed into a regenerating monster, studying its divided consciousness and ability to absorb energy. The chase led him to a Gathering Zone, where the monster interrupted a Blood Sacrifice and attacked four Trial Apprentices.

• The Devil's monstrous body attacked Adam, who learned through their contract that the Devil's consciousness remained fearful and suppressed.
• Adam battered the monster with lightning, observed its regeneration and energy absorption, and chased it through the night.
• Adam arrived at a Gathering Zone where four Trial Apprentices fought more than fifty Anti-Mage Apprentices and the City Lord began a Blood Sacrifice.
• The monster swallowed the sacrifice before the ritual could finish, grew larger, and devoured the City Lord and the Anti-Mage Apprentices.
• The monster attacked the four Trial Apprentices, who regrouped above it and gathered elemental magic to overcome its regeneration.

Adam rescued four Trial Apprentices from a mutated monster and compensated them with Merit Points, then agreed to accompany them to the Command Headquarters. He learned that powerful apprentices there blamed him for disrupting their battle plan and might try to isolate him or exploit him.

• Adam disrupted the four apprentices’ composite magic, trapped the monster in an electric net, and explained that it was his Soul Slave, a Devil.
• Adam burned the monster’s flesh, recalled the weakened Devil, and agreed to compensate the apprentices for the Merit Points they had lost.
• The apprentices accepted ten Merit Points each and recognized Adam as the one who had fired the first shot against the Anti-Mages.
• Adam chose to travel with them to the Command Headquarters to gather intelligence more efficiently.
• An apprentice warned Adam that influential apprentices blamed him for alerting the Anti-Mages and might try to isolate him or put him to heavy use.

Adam arrived at the command headquarters, where its leaders recognized his power and learned he had killed Bill. After Haili and Shelly confirmed his strength, they invited him to help ambush an Om Family Formal Mage named Peter in Molan.

• Adam entered the command headquarters and found no useful intelligence among the apprentices in the hall.
• Five command headquarters leaders watched Adam through a hidden surveillance device and debated whether his city attacks relied on Magic Scrolls.
• Lilith returned with traces of Adam’s magic, warned the leaders not to provoke him, and revealed that Adam had killed Bill from Monte Carlo.
• Haili and Shelly met Adam in the hall and persuaded him to speak with them privately in his room.
• Shelly and Haili confirmed Adam’s strength, then invited him to join their planned ambush on Peter, an Om Family Formal Mage arriving in Molan the next day.

Adam agreed to help Haili and Shelly confront Peter Om in Molan City, then learned that the Devil’s consciousness still contained a living Abyssal creature. Peter headed for the city hoping to regain his strength by consuming its accumulated despair, and demanded the collected resources from the city’s Anti-Mage Apprentice.

• Haili and Shelly told Adam that Peter Om was a Level One Formal Mage sent to protect the Om Family’s resources in Molan City, and Adam agreed to join them.
• The Twins explained that Adam’s destruction of seven cities had hastened the Anti-Mages’ withdrawal and disrupted their intelligence-gathering plan.
• Adam summoned the Devil, fed it Aether Crystals, and learned that a living Abyssal creature remained hidden in its Inheritance Memory and could take over if the Devil lost control.
• Peter Om reflected that the Om Family had abandoned him with only sixty percent of his peak power, and he planned to devour the despair gathered in Molan City to regain strength.
• Peter arrived at the Lord’s Mansion and demanded the collected Despair Crystals and Energy Stones from the City Lord, who refused because he was required to deliver them to the family himself.

Peter Om killed the City Lord and trapped the Anti-Mage Apprentices in Molan City, then Adam and the Twins arrived to find the city consumed by mass slaughter. Adam broke through Peter’s barrier and confronted him, ending the chapter as their magic clashed and Peter began another attack.

• Peter Om killed the City Lord, consumed his soul, and trapped the fleeing Anti-Mage Apprentices inside the Lord's Mansion.
• Adam and the Twins reached Molan City and found its people caught in a silent massacre driven by Negative Energy.
• Adam broke Peter Om's barrier with Ember Magic and entered the city while Shelly hesitated over the fate of its Ordinary People.
• Adam unleashed lightning and iron sand across the city, while Garfield devoured the souls of those Adam killed.
• Adam confronted Peter Om and blocked his Soul Tear with an Electromagnetic Barrier, forcing Peter to launch another spell.

Adam fought Peter Om, countering his Negative Energy spells with his Magnetic Field, lightning, and Plasma Cannon, and repeatedly struck him down. Just as Adam found the badly injured Peter and tried to prevent him from self-destructing, an unknown figure intervened and shielded him.

• Peter Om's Fear Roar broke through Adam's Electromagnetic Barrier, but Adam used a Magnetic Field to move at great speed and attack Peter with his Elemental Sword.
• Adam countered Peter's Mind Plague and other Negative Energy spells, steadily overpowering him with lightning, Iron Swords, and Electromagnetic Cannons.
• Adam fired a Plasma Cannon that struck Peter Om, but Peter dispersed into mist to survive, and Adam searched for him with his Magnetic Field.
• Adam found Peter at the edge of the field and struck him with lightning as Peter prepared to self-destruct.
• A black energy shield blocked Adam's lightning, and an unknown figure appeared beyond the Magnetic Field and sent its shadow toward Peter Om.

Adam defeated the War Alliance apprentice Ignas after Ignas tried to steal the Merit Points, but Shelly stopped Adam from killing him by warning that the War Alliance's influence could affect their trial. Ignas remained barely alive in the crater as the chapter ended.

• Ignas attacked Peter Om to steal the Merit Points, but Adam blocked his shadow blades and destroyed Peter Om as he self-destructed.
• Adam used repeated small spells to prevent Ignas from escaping, and the two exchanged Shadow Serpents, Thunder Serpents, Shadow Swords, and Iron Sand Swords.
• Shelly warned Adam to watch for Ignas's shadow-based sneak attacks while Adam restored his magic power with an Aether Crystal.
• Adam fired a Super Electromagnetic Cannon at Ignas after exposing him as he emerged from the shadows, leaving him barely alive in a crater.
• Adam raised his Elemental Sword to kill Ignas, but Shelly blocked the blow with an Ice Crystal shield and warned him about the War Alliance's power.

Adam killed Ignas despite the Twins’ warning, then learned more about the War Alliance and planned to target three neighboring factions for materials to study abyssal flesh. Meanwhile, the Om Family learned that Peter had died and began hastening its withdrawal of people and Despair Energy.

• Adam killed Ignas, losing fifty Merit Points, and offered the Twins forty points each, but they refused.
• The Twins told Adam that the War Alliance had thirty members and that its top ten wore Active Seal Crystals; they then left for headquarters.
• Adam took a map from the Devil and planned to target the Hill Family, the Lance Family, and the Eternal Life Faction for research materials.
• An Anti-Mage Apprentice reported Peter’s death to Cook and Quinn, and Cook ordered the Om Family to withdraw its forces and gather family members and Despair Energy.

Lilith deduced that Adam had killed Ignas, and the War Alliance issued a bounty for him. Meanwhile, Adam attacked a city in Hill Family territory to obtain experimental equipment, where he encountered a powerful Mutated Creature and began testing his thunder magic against it.

• Lilith confronted Shelly and Haili about Ignas’s disappearance and concluded that Adam had killed him after they killed an Anti-Mage in Molan City.
• The War Alliance barred Trial Apprentices from helping Adam and offered thirty Merit Points for information on his whereabouts and one hundred for killing him.
• Adam sent the Devil to kill apprentices in a Hill Family city while avoiding buildings that resembled laboratories.
• A Formal Mage-level Mutated Creature emerged from a fissure, and Adam recognized it as resembling the Parasitic Demon Quilina had summoned.
• Adam struck the creature with repeated thunder dragons, seeking to study how the Hill Family synthesized such beasts, while the battle devastated the city.

Adam destroyed a demonic monster, discovered that his rusted knife could draw out the Devil’s abyss personality, and raided six cities for experimental supplies. He began building an underground laboratory and imprisoned the Devil to test a new experiment involving its abyss body.

• Adam lured the uncontrolled demonic monster away from the city and killed it with the rusted knife, which consumed its body.
• Adam discovered that the knife provoked the Devil’s abyss personality and decided it would be useful for future research.
• Adam plundered equipment and resources from six cities across three regions before traveling into the wilderness with the Devil.
• Adam built an underground laboratory and explained that he expected his experiment to produce results within a few months.
• Adam trapped the Devil in an electrified magnetic cage with Aether Crystals and creature remains, saying he needed its abyss body for his experiment.

Adam developed and tested a virus made from Abyssal flesh and blood to create powerful servants, but his first living experiment mutated and died. After recording the failure, he questioned the Devil about its ability to transform.

• Adam planned to use a rapidly spreading virus to alter Ordinary People and make them loyal sources of intelligence.
• Over three months, Adam used Abyssal samples and other gathered knowledge to create a first-generation virus and begin living experiments.
• The virus drove a test subject through extreme physical changes and briefly raised its strength to the Transcendent Level, but it suffered cellular and genetic collapse and died.
• Adam ice-sealed the failed experiment’s remains, saved the records and footage, and went to see the Devil.
• Adam asked why the Devil avoided the biological flesh, and the Devil explained that it could choose to transform but could not return to normal afterward.

Adam developed a virus that could replace a test subject’s cells and keep its body active, then prepared to use the Devil’s separated Abyssal personality as the virus’s control server. He separated the Devil’s will from its Abyssal body and began converting the creature into a viral organism.

• Adam killed the Devil’s Abyssal Form after the Devil agreed to transform itself.
• Over two months, Adam’s experiments produced a stable virus that replaced a test subject’s cells, though the subject’s soul was destroyed.
• Adam learned that the Devil’s will was replaced rather than suppressed when it transformed, making the Abyssal personality suitable as a server.
• Adam changed the virus to spread through the air and planned to infect every creature on the island once he resolved the server issue.
• Adam used Negative Energy and a spell to separate the Devil’s will from the Abyssal Creature, then placed the weakened Devil in an aether Culture Dish.
• Adam began replacing the Abyssal Creature’s tissue with the developed virus so he could extract its cells and create a new viral agent.

Adam used Devil and a modified Abyssal Virus to spread infections across Xilan Island, giving Devil control over infected bodies and access to their observations. As the towns descended into chaos, Lilith’s alliance ordered its apprentices to abandon them and feared the outbreak might not have been caused by the Anti-Mages.

• Adam gave Devil a modified virus body that let him control infected creatures and gather information through them.
• Adam allowed Devil to keep the virus body and gave him a small knife that could store soulless creatures.
• Devil reported that infected bodies had entered the towns, where the virus quickly killed many people and turned survivors, animals, and insects into violent mutants.
• Lilith proposed that the War Alliance join the other divisions and advance its Frontline deeper into Xilan Island.
• A Trial Apprentice brought footage of infected Ordinary People to the command center, and Lilith ordered the alliance to abandon the towns and kill the infected if necessary.
• Lilith warned that she feared the outbreak had not been caused by the Anti-Mages.

Adam used the virus to overrun Xilan Island while gathering merit points, then ordered the infected to withdraw from the Trial Apprentices. He planned to enlist their strength against the fifteen Forces' Formal Mages, leaving the War Alliance to investigate the outbreak and prepare for what came next.

• In Cass, infected overwhelmed the Lord's Mansion and destroyed the town, while similar attacks spread across Xilan Island.
• Adam watched the virus's spread from his laboratory as the Devil seized towns, and he gained more than six hundred merit points in three days.
• Lilith told the War Alliance that the outbreak was a virus and suspected a Trial Apprentice had caused it, since the Holy Tower had issued no mission about it.
• The infected suddenly retreated from the Trial Apprentices' gathering place, and Adam ordered the Devil to monitor them with insect-type infected.
• Adam explained that he needed the Trial Apprentices' help to defeat the Formal Mages of all fifteen Forces, and told the Devil to let them learn some information.

Adam completed a mutation to the virus that gave infected bodies the innate gifts of the four ordinary elements, then ordered the Devil to spread it. Meanwhile, Trial Apprentices prepared ambushes against the fleeing Ohm, Hill, and Lance families, but Lilith remained uneasy as monsters crossed the Gravel Plains.

• Adam discovered that Magic Beasts' innate abilities came from genes arranged as Rune Arrays, and he used their gene fragments to mutate the virus.
• The Devil used infected bodies to drive the Ohm, Hill, and Lance families from nearly all their towns and exposed their retreat routes to Trial Apprentices.
• Adam promised the Devil one thousand units of Complete Aether Crystals and injected the mutated virus into Garfield.
• Garfield's body changed as the virus fused successfully and encoded the four ordinary elements into its genes.
• Adam ordered the Devil to fuse with Garfield and spread the mutation among the infected bodies.
• Three teams of Trial Apprentices set ambushes for the fleeing families, while Lilith worried that the monsters had not attacked them again.

Lilith’s forces ambushed the Om Family’s fleeing team with a powerful Magic Array, while the Devil secretly delayed the second-generation virus’s evolution. As the Trial Apprentices gained the upper hand, the Devil triggered the mutation, leaving infected bodies across Xilan Island evolving into a new threat.

• Larry reported that the infected bodies were linked by an advanced virus and could not develop Supernatural Power in their current state.
• Lilith prepared an ambush for the approaching Om Family team, and her Magic Array wiped out its apprentices and battered its Formal Anti-Mages.
• The Devil watched the battle with Garfield and withheld Adam’s order to spread the second-generation virus, intending to time its evolution for the fight’s climax.
• After five waves of attacks, Lilith’s forces surrounded the surviving Om Family Anti-Mages, and three Trial Apprentices unlocked their Active Seal Crystals.
• The Devil released the virus’s new genetic fragments, and infected bodies across Xilan Island began mutating, with many collapsing as the survivors developed secondary elemental auras.

Adam learned that Devil had used the Second Generation infected to wipe out the Om Family’s Anti-Mages and other elites, earning him thousands of Merit Points but making him a target for the Trial Apprentices. He ordered Devil to gather the remaining Anti-Mage Apprentices and the other twelve Forces while collecting metal and building a large Magic Array, and returned to the laboratory to prioritize the Third Generation virus.

• Devil ordered the infected to attack the Om Family’s Anti-Mages, whose escape ended in a massive elemental explosion that killed them.
• The three newly advanced Formal Mages and the Trial Apprentices slaughtered the remaining infected while searching for the one who had controlled them.
• Adam saw his Merit Points surge and learned from Devil that the Second Generation infected had wiped out the elites of the three families.
• Adam questioned why the newly advanced mages’ magic seemed weaker than expected and concluded that Mainstream mages must have another source of power.
• Adam ordered Devil to eliminate the remaining wild Anti-Mage Apprentices, gather the other twelve Forces, and collect metal for a Magnetic Field-electric current conversion array and a high-temperature Smelting array.
• Adam returned to the laboratory and made researching the Third Generation virus his top priority.

Adam planned to develop a third-generation virus that let infected bodies devour one another, while the Fifth Element Holy Tower mages realized his infected bodies were disrupting the trial and suspected he was preparing a Super Electromagnetic Cannon. Meanwhile, Lilith and the War Alliance traced the infected bodies to a wilderness where they believed the mastermind was hiding, and resolved to deal with him before the decisive battle against the Anti-Mages.

• Adam planned to create a third-generation virus that enabled infected bodies to replenish themselves by consuming other infected bodies, knowing their uncontrolled evolution would eventually lead to self-destruction.
• After discovering the virus had reached its limit on Xilan Island, Adam continued his plans without concern that infected-body numbers would decline.
• Fifth Element Holy Tower mages discussed how Adam’s infected bodies had overwhelmed dangerous trial locations and disrupted the War Trial, then connected his preparations to the Super Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Lilith identified Holy Fallen Basin as the likely destination toward which the infected bodies were guiding the apprentices.
• Reinhardt reported that infected bodies were collecting metal and converging on a wilderness where the Hill Family, Lance Family, and Eternal Life Faction met.
• Lilith concluded the mastermind was likely hiding in that wilderness and said the War Alliance needed to deal with him before the decisive battle against the Anti-Mages.

Adam tested the Third Generation virus, injected it into Garfield, and learned that the Trial Apprentices had discovered his location. The Holy Tower issued a Final Battle mission, and Adam ordered Devil to spread the virus and activate the central Smelting Magic Array as the trial neared its end.

• Adam tested the Third Generation virus and confirmed that its infected offspring grew stronger by devouring others before self-destructing.
• Adam injected the virus into Garfield and explained that it would not harm the parent, then Devil warned him that the Trial Apprentices had found their location.
• Kreidi and the other mages discussed the danger Adam posed, and Priscilla Hyperdimensional ordered the apprentices to eliminate the remaining Anti-Mages at Holy Fallen Basin for doubled Merit Points.
• Devil reported that the Trial Apprentices had split up and only five were heading toward Adam.
• Adam recognized the Final Battle mission as protection under the trial's rules and ordered Devil to spread the Third Generation virus and activate the central Smelting Magic Array.