Chapter Summaries

Lilith tried to stop the War Alliance from pursuing Adam, warning that Holy Tower’s mission might be intended to protect the apprentices from the hidden mastermind. Meanwhile, Adam prepared the giant Electromagnetic Cannon and sent the Devil to delay five Alliance members approaching his laboratory.

• Lilith argued that the War Alliance should focus on the Merit Point mission, but four Newly Promoted Mages and one alliance elite broke away to pursue Adam.
• Lilith suggested Holy Tower had issued the mission to protect the Trial Apprentices, and the remaining alliance members reconsidered their situation.
• Adam smelted metal for the Electromagnetic Cannon and ordered the Devil to accelerate the infected bodies’ spread and evolution.
• The Devil sent infected bodies to attack the five pursuers, slowing them as they fought through the horde.
• A humanoid monster formed from infected corpses and warned the five that Adam would let them leave if they turned back.

Adam activated his Super Electromagnetic Cannon to stop five mages who refused to abandon their pursuit. The cannon’s projectile reached them as they tried to flee, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Carl and the other mages destroyed Adam’s virus clone and vowed to tear him apart.
• Adam ordered the infected to hold the mages back, then activated the Magic Array’s Energy Nodes.
• The Magic Array gathered power, suppressed the elements, and generated a Magnetic Field while Adam locked onto the five attackers.
• Carl realized the infected were deliberately keeping them in place, and the mages spotted the cannon’s projectile approaching.
• Carl and three mages fled in different directions as the Elite Apprentice advanced, but Adam’s calculations had accounted for their escape routes.

Adam used the Super Electromagnetic Cannon to kill the five opponents, then spent a week organizing his research and considering whether clones could replace his assistants. On the eighth day, he entered a portal summoned by his Merit Badge as his underground laboratory collapsed.

• Adam fired the third and fourth rounds of the Super Electromagnetic Cannon, annihilating the five opponents and destroying the Magic Array.
• Adam ordered the Devil to accelerate the infected bodies' self-destruction and send complete forms to Holy Fallen Basin, then returned underground.
• The Devil inspected the devastated battlefield and trembled at the destruction Adam had caused.
• Adam spent a week organizing his knowledge of viruses and genes and considered using avatars as intelligent research assistants.
• On the eighth day, Adam entered a portal with the Devil after his Merit Badge summoned it, and the underground laboratory collapsed behind them.

Adam returned from the Xilan Island trial as the only apprentice among thirty-seven survivors, while the others blamed him for the trial’s devastating losses. A mage rejected their accusations, declared their merits legitimate, and brought the group into the Fifth Element Holy Tower.

• Adam and the Devil arrived at the command center and saw that the trial had left Xilan Island devastated and lifeless.
• Thirty-six survivors emerged as Newly Promoted Mages, while Adam remained an apprentice with an Active Seal Crystal.
• Haili tried to approach Adam, but Shelly stopped her, and the War Alliance survivors regarded him with hostility.
• Lilith warned her companions that Adam could become a mage at any time, discouraging them from challenging him.
• A mage silenced the survivors’ accusations, said the Holy Tower had observed the trial and allowed merit trading, and urged them to think with wisdom.
• The mage took the group aboard the airship to the Fifth Element Holy Tower, where they arrived at its spaceport.

Adam met Priscilla Hyperdimensional, who released Aether’s Gift and guided him through his advancement into a transcendent lifeform. In the Magic Net, Adam encountered the World Origin and accepted its contract, linking his knowledge of electricity and magnetism to the network.

• Priscilla Hyperdimensional summoned Adam and began his advancement by breaking his Active Seal Crystal and releasing Aether’s Gift.
• Adam’s Mage’s Armor merged with his soul, and his soul underwent a qualitative change as his knowledge became power.
• Adam’s soul entered a vast mysterious space and saw the Magic Net, its connection to the World Origin, and how knowledge strengthened them.
• The World Origin offered Adam a contract, and he accepted its promise of mutual growth and power.
• The Magic Net connected Adam to its nodes, and Adam completed his transformation into a transcendent lifeform.

Adam completed his advancement and learned how the Magic Net united mages, supported their magic, and could restore their souls. Priscilla explained the Mage World’s goal of transcending through plane conquest and offered Adam a choice of War Mage role, leaving him asking about the Exploration Type.

• Adam’s advancement transformed the Magic Net and strengthened his body, while he grasped how it connected mages to the World Origin and enabled their resurrection.
• Priscilla Hyperdimensional congratulated Adam, then explained that mages sought transcendence by advancing the Origin through knowledge and energy.
• Priscilla showed Adam the Mage World and explained how War Mages discovered, occupied, and sacrificed other planes to feed the Origin.
• Priscilla offered Adam a choice among four War Mage roles because of his performance in the War Trial.
• Adam dismissed the Command Type and Combat Type, considered the risks and rewards of Infiltration Type, and asked Priscilla what Exploration Type involved.

Priscilla Hyperdimensional explained the dangers and purpose of Exploration Type missions, and Adam chose that path before spending his Merit Points on a laboratory and clone-construction knowledge. Back in Meyer City, Adam visited Victor Mage to say goodbye, and Victor invited him upstairs to recount his War Trial.

• Priscilla Hyperdimensional explained that Explorer Mages verified Other Plane coordinates, gathered intelligence alone, and faced the highest death rate.
• Adam chose Exploration Type and exchanged Merit Points for a Holy Tower laboratory and knowledge of clone construction.
• Adam returned to Meyer City with the advanced Devil, now better suited to the name Changeling, and gave it Mordo Tower's identity token.
• Adam flew to the Rex Mage Club to visit Victor Mage, who welcomed him and asked to hear about the War Trial.

Adam learned that the Third Holy Tower’s Reincarnation Technique let a mage evade an Other Plane’s origin by reincarnating as an embryo, though it killed the host mother. After a strange mage gave him a week to master it, Adam cast the technique in half a day and vanished into a wondrous state.

• Victor Mage warned Adam that Explorer Mages faced the highest death rate and explained that the Reincarnation Technique came from Archmage Laura True Spirit of the Third Holy Tower.
• Victor Mage told Adam the technique let a mage parasitize a native mother from an Other Plane, who would certainly die, and that compatible hosts were rare.
• A gloomy mage contacted Adam and summoned him to a room filled with one hundred female slaves from Other Planes, where he gave Adam instructions for testing the technique.
• Adam learned the thirty-three-syllable incantation but initially failed to cast it, then rejected the mage’s invitation to join the Third Holy Tower.
• The mage explained that Adam had to utter all thirty-three syllables at once, and Adam immediately cast the technique and disappeared.

Adam completed the Reincarnation Technique test but wondered why the World Origin had accepted him despite his own arrival as a stowaway. He received a private laboratory on the Holy Tower’s fourth floor and began examining knowledge about clone construction.

• Adam used the Reincarnation Technique to pass through a hundred dying Other Plane Creatures before being born from the final test subject, then dispelled the newborn form.
• The Third Holy Tower mage praised Adam’s ability to resist primitive wills and urged him to join the tower, but Adam remained absorbed in questions about his origins.
• The mage warned Adam that real exploration missions would make finding suitable hosts difficult and left after mistaking Adam’s silence for a refusal.
• Adam learned that his laboratory application had been approved and traveled to his assigned space on the Holy Tower’s fourth floor.
• The Holy Tower Spirit registered Adam’s soul fluctuations, granting him exclusive access to the laboratory, and Adam took out knowledge about clone construction.

After advancing to Level One Mage, Adam spent six months refining his electromagnetic magic and developing a method to create clones, greatly increasing his strength. With his experiments progressing and his magic rebuilt, he turned to his soul servant, Devil, and asked whether it knew about Magic Staves.

• Adam decided to cultivate clones himself and began adapting Soul Split so the clones could share threads of his soul without splitting it.
• Adam spent six months at home studying clone magic and reorganizing his electromagnetic spells.
• Adam strengthened his Magnetic Field-based Mage's Armor, created Static Storm, and developed a way to electrify his body for immense speed and power.
• Devil spent its Aether Crystals lavishly in Meyer City and enjoyed its status as Adam's soul companion.
• Adam brought Devil back to the laboratory and asked whether it knew about Magic Staves.

Adam transformed the Devil into an electric magic staff by renewing its virus cells with extraordinary energy and arranging them into Magic Arrays. The completed staff could boost Adam’s spells beyond the first-level boundary, while the Devil remained its Spirit of the Artifact.

• Adam asked the Devil to become a magic staff and explained that he could inscribe Magic Arrays into its body.
• Adam spent nearly two months exposing the Devil to concentrated Aether and repeatedly cutting away tissue while testing virus cells.
• Adam used high-level Magic Beasts to help the Devil’s viruses retain Supernatural Power, and the renewal process eventually completed.
• Adam refined the Devil’s viruses into an electric-type creature, then arranged them into Magic Arrays and gave them fixed shape-changing information.
• Adam transformed the Devil into an azure staff whose energy cycle with his Mage’s Armor could raise his spell power to the second level.

Adam abandoned his failed attempt to transfer information by modifying Soul-Splitting magic and instead connected his clones through a Magic Net Local Area Network, completing the All Adam Laboratory plan. His research was interrupted when the Holy Tower assigned him his first plane exploration mission, leaving him preparing to depart in three days.

• Adam’s modified Soul-Splitting magic repeatedly caused his clones’ heads to explode, and he realized it transferred Mental Power and magic power that their bodies could not withstand.
• Adam devised a tree-structured Local Area Network, obtained Tower-use Magic Net technology from Victor Mage, and connected his clones so they could think and research within the network.
• Adam assigned the clones research on Gauss's Law and Gauss's Law for Magnetism after successfully establishing the All Adam Laboratory.
• Three months into his second year as a mage, Adam received a Magic Net message ordering him to report to the extraworld mission handover point.
• Adam met the Holy Tower Spirit, received exploration equipment and mission details, and was told to use the fuzzy Teleportation Array in three days.

Adam prepared for his first exploration mission, then traveled through the void for ten years before finding the Dragon Plane. He entered the plane and used the Reincarnation Technique, leaving his fate inside it unknown.

• Adam learned that the mission plane was called the Dragon Plane and reviewed the limited information available about it.
• Adam mastered basic Teleportation, gathered Aether Crystals, and went to the Teleportation Hall to begin his mission.
• Adam used the Space Anchor and Mage's Armor to survive the void, then spent ten years searching for the Dragon Plane.
• Adam spotted a continent in the void, observed it for a month, and confirmed that no native Extraordinary Creatures flew beyond its Crystal Wall System.
• Adam opened the Rift Magic Scroll, entered the Dragon Plane, and transformed into a stream of information with the Reincarnation Technique.

Adam’s Reincarnation Technique invaded Octavia, a pregnant Frost Dragon, and fought through her powerful body to obtain her genetic information. It reached her Dragon Egg, then left Octavia dead and flew toward another female dragon.

• Octavia returned alone to the Nesario Mountains, marked her territory with Dragon’s Might, and fell asleep in her cave.
• Adam’s Reincarnation Technique invaded Octavia and battled her immune defenses as it absorbed her energy and genetic information.
• The spell entered Octavia’s womb and carried Adam into her Dragon Egg to collect more complete genetic information.
• Octavia felt growing pain and fear but dismissed it as a nightmare and tried to sleep through it.
• The Reincarnation Technique emerged from Octavia, whose body vanished except for her head, and flew toward the nearest female dragon.

Adam’s Reincarnation Technique stole information from Frost Giant Dragon mothers, allowing him to take over the final mother’s egg and be born as a dragon. When the dragon souls inside the egg drew the attention of hundreds of enraged dragons, Adam suppressed their signal and hid, leaving the surviving egg in the hands of two arguing Frost Dragons.

• Adam’s Reincarnation Technique recorded information from another mother dragon and realized its external manifestation worked through deception.
• Frost Giant Dragon mothers across the Neltharion Mountains died in nightmares, prompting male dragons to gather and unleash an early winter.
• Adam entered the final mother dragon’s egg and emerged as the cave was buried by avalanches.
• Adam suppressed the dragon souls’ signal, strengthened them, and hid while they fought for survival.
• Hundreds of Frost Giant Dragons reached the cave and found Adam’s egg intact; Angles tried to seize it, but Okov claimed it as his child and fought him.

After Okov returned to his cave with the last surviving Dragon Egg, he ordered Lina to hatch it or face death. Five years later, Adam remained hidden inside the egg as the dragon souls fought, and Lina’s boiling-water method finally made the shell crack.

• The Frost Dragons fought over the last intact egg, and Okov protected it from Angles.
• Okov returned to his cave and gave Lina the egg, promising freedom if she hatched it and death if she failed.
• Adam remained concealed inside the egg while the dragon souls fought until only ten remained.
• Lina tried many ways to hatch the egg over five years, then placed it in boiling water while Okov slept.
• The Dragon Egg cracked as Lina watched, and she wept with relief.

Adam hatched as a Frost Dragon after killing the dragon souls inside the egg, and Okov named him Chris Frost. Three years later, Chris prepared to leave the Dragon Lair despite Lina warning him about the dangers outside.

• Lina waited anxiously as Adam used Telekinesis to kill the remaining dragon souls and crack the egg.
• Chris hatched into boiling water, froze it and himself, and was freed by Lina.
• Okov sensed the hatchling, examined him, and put him to sleep without speaking to him.
• Three years later, Okov had granted Lina and her tribe freedom, but Lina stayed in the Dragon Lair to care for Chris Frost.
• Chris flew through the mountain cliffs while Lina followed and warned him against leaving before he came of age.

Adam left Okov’s Dragon Lair to gather intelligence about the Dragon Plane, taking Lina with him and binding her through a contract. He ordered her to lead him to her tribe so he could use her people as sources of information.

• Adam decided to leave the Makalu Mountain Range and use local conflicts to gather intelligence about the Dragon Plane.
• Adam carried Lina away from Okov’s territory and asked why she was following him.
• Lina explained that she considered herself Okov’s slave, so Adam used the Devil to form a binding Master-Servant Contract with her.
• Adam ordered Lina to take him to her tribe.

Adam and Lina traveled to the Forest Elf Tribe, where Adam planned to use the tribe to test his ideas. A dragon-slaying team tracked Adam’s Dragon’s Might and followed them, then a wall of fire blocked Adam’s path as he approached the forest.

• Lina told Adam that her Forest Elf Tribe had offered her to Okov at birth and rejected her when she returned after being freed.
• Adam reasoned that the tribe would still be in the Makalu Mountain Range, and Lina continued leading him there.
• Carter, Ral, Jace, and Jessie detected Adam’s Dragon’s Might and decided to hunt what they believed was a young dragon.
• Lina asked Adam to spare her tribe if they did not offend him, and Adam agreed.
• Adam noticed the four dragon slayers following them and descended toward the forest, but a blazing wall of fire rose in front of him.

Adam defeated a party of hunters who ambushed him, using his Dragon Breath to freeze Carter and Ral and extinguish Jace’s fireball. He captured the four attackers and ordered Lina to take them along as she continued leading him.

• Jace’s fire wall failed to trap Adam, who welcomed the ambushers as useful subjects for research.
• Carter charged under Jessie’s enhancement spells while Ral and Jace prepared to attack, and Adam studied their energy.
• Adam unleashed Dragon Breath, freezing Carter and Ral and extinguishing Jace’s fireball.
• Jessie fled with Jace, but Adam intercepted them and froze them along with the other two attackers.
• Adam told Lina to take the captured party and keep leading the way.