Chapter Summaries

After advancing to wizardhood, Sunan defeated the Council of Truth members and returned to Dragon Forest, where he discovered that Starlight Continent’s low Energy Particle concentration severely limited his power and cultivation. He planned to unify the continent, gather resources for a Wizard Tower, and prepare for the Gloomy Throne’s eventual arrival.

• Sunan confirmed his advancement to wizardhood, collected the dead Council of Truth members’ Space Rings, and admitted he had emptied the Starry Sky Tower.
• Sunan left a Golem Legion and a secret puppet to guard the Starry Sky Tower, destroyed its Elemental Pool, and returned toward Shining City with Kei.
• Scepter, Rose, and Traveler parted ways with Sunan, who returned to Dragon Forest and reviewed its operational logs with Butler Number 1.
• Sunan tested the Elemental Pool and confirmed that the continent’s scarce Energy Particles limited his ability to mobilize energy to roughly twenty percent of his control limit.
• Sunan planned to improve his cultivation, develop wizard artifacts and experiments, and gather resources to build a Small Wizard Tower by unifying Starlight Continent.
• Sunan considered the Gloomy Throne’s future arrival and decided that the more than seven hundred years before its first outposts appeared would give him time to prepare.

After returning from the Starry Sky Tower as an official wizard, Sunan reviewed the Star Alliance’s stalled growth and ordered preparations to resume expansion toward Spider Demon City. He decided to establish a Wizard Academy using the remaining members of the Dark Forest Lodge as instructors, then reunited with Amy and Hidden Dragon and prepared to refine the dragon’s bloodline.

• Sunan reviewed the Star Alliance’s resources and forces, decided to prioritize producing Magic Tattoo Constructs, and ordered Carlo Lena and Red Widow to assemble two Golem Legions and investigate Spider Demon City.
• Sunan concluded that the growing Star Alliance needed a Wizard Academy and decided to recruit Scepter and the other remaining members of the Dark Forest Lodge as instructors.
• Sunan visited Dragon Forest and saw that Hidden Dragon’s bloodline concentration had climbed to nearly 94 percent while Amy rode on its back.
• Amy recognized that Sunan had become a wizard and told him her master had achieved that rank at sixteen because she was a True Spirit Descendant.
• Sunan reunited with Hidden Dragon and took it to the laboratory to refine its bloodline.

The Azure Gold Empire surrendered after Scepter revealed that Sunan had become a Wizard, while Sunan’s apprentices learned of his advancement and prepared for the changes ahead. Sunan improved his cultivation potion and began planning how to obtain Wizard artifacts.

• The Azure Gold Emperor asked Scepter to save the Empire and help gather Wizard Apprentices against Sunan, but Scepter said Sunan had achieved Wizard Advancement through the Starry Sky Tower.
• Scepter urged the Azure Gold Emperor to surrender, and the Emperor agreed in hopes of preserving the royal bloodline.
• Xie Man learned from Atier and Ke Lei that Sunan had returned and was rumored to be a Wizard after killing fourteen Level Three Wizard Apprentices from the Council of Truth.
• Atier told Xie Man and Ke Lei that the mission hall had issued new missions and raised equipment purchase prices, while Amy-sama had said Sunan planned to establish a Wizard Academy.
• Sunan synthesized a Fourth Tier Crystal Soul Potion, drank it, and calculated that his current cultivation pace would take over three hundred years to reach Level 1 Liquefaction.
• Sunan left the Elemental Pool and went to the Workshop Area to begin working on his plan for Wizard artifacts.

Sunan crafted and tested two wizard artifacts, Forbidden Zone and Black Lightning, while learning why the Starlight Continent had become an Elemental Desert. He planned to recover before attempting a complete Secret Puppet and left with the continent's Plane Barrier expected to recover in roughly two thousand years.

• Sunan synthesized seventy-eight Protection Rings into the first-rank Forbidden Zone, whose force field crushed enemies, restricted their movement, and provided powerful defense.
• Sunan crafted Black Lightning from Lightning Stones and synthesized the strongest offensive wizard artifact he could handle, then noted its charge took around eight months.
• Sunan noted that the Star Alliance had six Golem Legions, with another under construction, and prepared to craft a complete Secret Puppet after resting.
• Sunan read that the Starlight Continent became an Elemental Desert when an accident narrowed the Plane Barrier's openings and reduced incoming elemental energy.
• Sunan learned that the wizards repaired and sealed the Plane Barrier before leaving, preventing beings above a certain Life Level from entering or leaving until it recovered in roughly two thousand years.

Sunan learned that the Plane Barrier kept wizards away from the Starlight Continent, then recruited Rose, Scepter, and Traveler as instructors for his planned academy after the Azure Gold Empire surrendered and the Starry Sky Principality became the Starry Sky Empire. In Spider Demon City, Ta Jiana attended a ritual that successfully created a Spider Elf, which the Dark Elf leaders intended to use to unite the Underground World.

• Sunan read that wizards had been unable to reach the Starlight Continent while its Plane Barrier recovered, and he decided to focus on growing stronger there.
• The Azure Gold Empire surrendered, the Starry Sky Principality annexed most of its territory and renamed itself the Starry Sky Empire, and Sunan invited Rose, Scepter, and Traveler to teach at his academy.
• Ta Jiana returned to the Philier Family estate and joined the ritual to receive a Divine Revelation from Mi Xia.
• The ritual's spiders fought until one remained, then the final spider and a Dark Elf woman merged into a Spider Elf.
• Matriarch Feili Er celebrated the ritual's success and saw the Spider Elves as the Dark Elves' means to unite the Underground World.

Sunan finalized plans for his new Wizard Academy, then showed Scepter, Traveler, and Rose the academy and its exchange system, persuading them to join as instructors. With the academy due to open in half a month, Sunan left to dismantle Starry Sky Tower and redeploy its Golem Legion before the Star Alliance resumed expanding.

• Sunan finished designing the academy regulations and an Attribute Crystal Ball for measuring Wizard Apprentices’ physical and mental states.
• Scepter, Traveler, and Rose arrived at Number 1 Base, removed their masks, and followed Sunan to tour Dragon Forest and the vast new academy.
• Sunan told the three that the academy would recruit across the Starlight Continent, then showed them its equivalent-exchange regulations and extensive resource list.
• Sunan said the academy would open in half a month, with base apprentices as its first students and a new Starry Sky Empire Aptitude Test bringing more recruits later.
• Sunan arranged for Butler Number 1 to house and guide the three, then headed to Starry Sky Tower to dismantle it and recall its Golem Legion for the Star Alliance’s coming expansion.

After establishing Starlight Academy, Sunan upgraded his secret puppet and developed Engraved Gems as a combat method that did not depend on charging. With his research complete, he turned back to cultivating and awaited the end of the academy’s new Aptitude Tests.

• Sunan upgraded his secret puppet with stronger materials and eleven Third Circle Spells, giving it combat power comparable to a formal wizard.
• Sunan studied Rune Engravings and devised a way to make them usable without charging by transferring them onto gems as one-use consumables.
• After more than two months of work, Sunan created an Ice Burst Engraved Gem and used the Synthesis Cube to make a version more than three times as powerful as the original Rune Engraving.
• Sunan considered collecting Lightning Stones and forging more Black Lightning witch tools, as well as building Golem Legions to help unify the Underground World.
• Sunan expected the academy’s new Aptitude Tests to end soon, then began cultivating his Spirit Power.

Xie Man’s forces captured Fire Hammer City and discovered that Spider Demon City had expanded its territory using powerful half-spider, half-Dark Elf monsters. Xie Man reported the threat and requested a high-level puppet as reinforcements before his forces advanced toward Spider Demon City.

• Xie Man and Atier led the Wizard Apprentices into Fire Hammer City after the Golem Legion broke through its defenses, then seized the palace’s storehouse and its riches.
• Ke Lun told Xie Man that a rescued gnome reported the Dark Elves had captured city-states within more than three hundred kilometers of Spider Demon City.
• The gnome described the Dark Elves’ new monsters as fast creatures with spider bodies and Dark Elf upper halves that had decapitated his people.
• Xie Man ordered Ke Lun to send more scouts, then rewrote his war report to warn their teacher about the monsters.
• Xie Man agreed to request one of his teacher’s newly refined high-level puppets because the monsters might be Four-Ring Legendaries or stronger.

Fei Laming and the other new students arrived at Starlight Academy, where they learned about its facilities, rules, and the Star Ring Meditation deadline. Fei discovered he had high fire-element affinity, while Rose, Scepter, and Traveler reflected on how Sunan and the academy had ushered in a new era for wizards.

• Xie Qin and Du Weini guided the new students around Starlight Academy and explained its library, teaching building, task hall, and Attribute Crystal Ball.
• Fei Laming's test revealed high fire-element affinity, and Xie Qin explained that this rare trait made it easier to cultivate fire spells.
• Xie Qin led the students to their dormitory and warned them that they would be expelled if they failed to begin the Star Ring Meditation within three months.
• Rose, Scepter, and Traveler observed the 243 new students and discussed how Sunan's academy had made wizard training more accessible and accelerated apprentices' progress.
• Rose prepared to teach more basic courses, pleased that the extra classes would help her earn Contribution Points for valuable resources.

Fei Laming settled into life at Starlight Academy and began studying Star Ring Meditation, while Kei considered royal marriage alliances with Wizard Apprentices and prepared the Starry Sky Empire for war. The chapter ended as an envoy from the Thorn Flower Principality requested an audience with Kei.

• Du Weini and Xie Qin showed the new students the Second Cafeteria, where Du Weini explained the costly magical dishes and introduced the Water Sprites who served them.
• Fei Laming and Duo Nuo Han agreed to enroll in every basic course, and Fei Laming began studying Star Ring Meditation in his dormitory.
• Kei discussed the failed aptitude tests of Wesley Arnester and A Dai La Yanist, then considered using royal marriage alliances to attract Wizard Apprentices and strengthen the royal family.
• Kei learned that supplies for a large-scale war had been assembled and that neighboring countries had reinforced their border towns.
• An internal affairs official announced that an envoy from the Thorn Flower Principality had requested an audience, and Kei ordered that the envoy be brought to the reception hall.

Sunan learned that the Dark Elves had Spider Elves empowered by the Spider Goddess and ordered secret puppets to deal with them, while also planning to develop Dragon Forest Area 2 into a breeding ground for high-bloodline Sub-dragons. Meanwhile, Ta Jiana reported that the Star Alliance had captured Tallen City, and Wei Niya set the Dark Elf army marching to attack it.

• Sunan suspected the Spider Elves came from the Spider Goddess and ordered Carlo Lena to send secret puppets to Fire Hammer City and recover any Spider Elf corpses.
• Sunan reviewed Starlight Academy's growth and drafted a plan to move high-bloodline Sub-dragons into Dragon Forest Area 2 and enhance their bloodlines.
• Sunan inspected his status panel, noting slow Gasification progress but a breakthrough in Potion Making to level 5.
• Ta Jiana told Wei Niya that the Star Alliance had captured Tallen City and placed golems on its walls.
• Wei Niya dismissed Ta Jiana's concerns about fighting the Star Alliance, citing the Spider Elves, then ordered the Dark Elf forces to march on Tallen City.

Xie Man and the Star Alliance defended Tallen City against a Dark Elf invasion, relying on a powerful secret puppet to defeat the Spider Elf and rout the enemy army. Xie Man prepared to send the captured Spider Elf to Dragon Forest as his teacher had instructed.

• Xie Man and Atier reached Tallen City's walls as Dark Elf forces attacked, and Xie Man sent Golems out to confront the Minotaur charge.
• Dark Elf Lizard Cavalry joined the battle and destroyed Golems before a Spider Elf ambushed the defenders and shattered more than ten Golems, including an Elite Steel Golem.
• Xie Man sent the Gray-robed Person into battle, and the secret puppet revealed herself as a spellcasting girl who struck the Spider Elf with lightning.
• The Dark Elf commanders committed more troops after mistaking the girl for the Star Alliance's controller, but she defeated the Spider Elf and killed her with an enchanted longsword.
• Xie Man signaled the hidden Dragon Antelope Knights and Magic Rune Knight Order to attack, turning the Dark Elf retreat into a rout.
• Xie Man gathered his people to send the Spider Elf to Dragon Forest as his teacher had instructed.

Sunan harvested Divine Energy from a Spider Elf and ordered his forces to pressure the Dark Elves without capturing Spider Demon City, while the war shifted toward the Northwest Region. Nearly twenty years of refinement paid off when Hidden Dragon evolved into a true Giant Dragon, as Sunan also considered the growing continental war and the next delivery of Spider Elf corpses.

• Sunan extracted eight standard units of Divine Energy from the Spider Elf corpse, absorbed them, and ordered Carlo Lena to preserve Spider Elf corpses while leaving Spider Demon City uncaptured.
• Carlo Lena reported that the Fallen Star Alliance had formed in the Northwest Region, and Sunan shifted the war's focus there.
• Xie Man and Atier planned to seize the city-states surrounding Spider Demon City and send reinforcements to Ke Lei.
• After nearly twenty years of refinement, Hidden Dragon evolved into a true Giant Dragon, gaining Spell Sharing and Flame Dominion.
• Sunan considered the Starry Sky Empire's invasion of the Snow Lion Principality and suspected Rose had persuaded the Thorn Flower Principality to submit.
• Hidden Dragon celebrated its new strength above the academy, then returned to Sunan as he teleported to his laboratory to await more Spider Elf corpses.

While Sunan’s war against Spider Demon City advanced, its matriarchs sought a way to fulfill the Goddess Queen’s Divine Revelation and survive the Star Alliance’s encirclement. The Goddess Queen issued new instructions, leaving Spider Demon City’s leaders to prepare what they understood would be their last chance.

• By Starlight Calendar 1275, the Starry Sky Empire had destroyed more than half the nations that had opposed it, while Sunan’s spiritual condensation reached 22.62% after he extracted Divine Energy from Spider Elf corpses.
• As Spider Demon City lost territory and troops, Ta Jiana and Wei Niya discussed the Star Alliance’s strength and questioned whether the Dark Elves could win.
• The twelve matriarchs debated the Star Alliance’s advance, clashed over past failures, and considered holding a larger ritual to create more Spider Elves.
• The Goddess Queen appeared as a spider phantom and delivered a Divine Revelation that shocked the matriarchs.
• Matriarch Leisita declared that Spider Demon City must make amends, and the matriarchs pledged warriors and left to prepare for their last chance.

Wei Niya joined a ritual that Dark Elf matriarchs believed would summon a Divine Envoy, while Xie Man followed orders to surround Spider Demon City and faced its army at Bank City. The Half-Spider Monster overwhelmed a secret puppet, but another girl intervened before she could finish it off.

• Wei Niya told Ta Jiana that she would join the ritual and become part of the Divine Envoy, while Ta Jiana watched her leave for the Central Temple in alarm.
• Xie Man read his teacher's order to surround Spider Demon City without attacking, then learned that its army was marching toward Bank City.
• The Half-Spider Monster appeared above the battlefield, destroyed several golems, and attacked the secret puppet girl as the Dark Elf army fought the Star Alliance.
• The Half-Spider Monster's violet Demon Fire overwhelmed the secret puppet girl and left her injured in a crater, prompting the Dark Elf matriarchs to celebrate.
• As the Half-Spider Monster descended to deliver a finishing blow, another girl blocked her attack, leaving Matriarch Feili Er stunned.

Sunan arrived on the battlefield and defeated the Half-Spider Divine Kin, even after the Spider Goddess intervened to protect it. As the Dark Elf matrons realized Spider Demon City had lost, golems and mounted knights surged out to attack their army.

• A second puppet appeared, and the Dark Elf matrons realized the identical girls were likely puppets; the injured one regenerated her severed arm.
• Sunan arrived, identified the Half-Spider Divine Kin as a rich source of Divine Energy, and struck it down with his Silver Giant form.
• Sunan trapped the Divine Kin and engulfed it in lightning from an Engraved Gem, but it broke free and fled toward the Dark Elves.
• Sunan pursued the Divine Kin with Black Lightning; the Spider Goddess intervened, but her phantom hand shattered and the spear pierced the creature's heart.
• Sunan stored the Divine Kin's corpse and flew toward Bank City as the Dark Elf matrons recognized their defeat.
• Bank City's gates opened, and golems and mounted knights charged toward the Dark Elf army from the front and both flanks.

After conquering Spider Demon City, Sunan purified the Divine Energy he had collected and learned that the Black Key could open the Black Forest, a Wizard Inheritance. He discovered that Ta Jiana, the Dark Elf who revealed the clue, was immune to faith contamination and had wizard aptitude, so he accepted her as a student at Starlight Academy.

• The Star Alliance defeated the Dark Elf army, captured Spider Demon City, and took control of the Southeast Region.
• Sunan extracted and purified Divine Energy from the Half-Spider Divine Kin and Spider Goddess statues, then absorbed it to increase his spirit condensation.
• Xie Man reported that Ta Jiana, the daughter of Matriarch Feili Er, had revealed the Philier Family's clue to the Black Forest and its Black Key.
• Sunan examined Ta Jiana and found that her high Spirit Power had made her immune to the Spider Goddess's faith contamination.
• Ta Jiana explained that she had revealed the clue out of hatred for the Spider Goddess, and Sunan promised to spare her people if they worked in the mines.
• Sunan recognized Ta Jiana's wizard aptitude and accepted her as a student of Starlight Academy.

Sunan planned to strengthen his Secret Puppets and prepare for the Black Forest’s next opening, while also deciding to seek Lightning Stones in the Lightning Elemental Plane. In the Aurora Kingdom, Triff Janji urged the nobles to consider surrendering to the Starry Sky Empire or uniting against it, declaring that Sunan was the key to their chances.

• Sunan reviewed reports of the Star Alliance’s advances and considered how the Underground World’s resources would support his future Wizard Tower.
• Sunan decided to research upgrading Secret Puppets with Magic Rune Cores after recognizing their defensive weakness.
• Sunan estimated that the Black Key would take three years to charge and began planning preparations for the Black Forest, including more Secret Puppets, Engraved Gems, and Black Lightning.
• Sunan resolved to explore the Lightning Elemental Plane to obtain Lightning Stones for making more Black Lightning.
• Triff Janji told the Aurora King that the Starry Sky Empire would eventually target the Northwest Region and suggested surrender as one option.
• When the Aurora King asked for another strategy, Triff proposed uniting the Northwest Region’s nations and said Sunan was their key.

Trieve persuaded the Aurora King to rally the Northwest Region’s Level Three Wizard Apprentices against Sunan, while Starlight Academy students welcomed Xie Man and Atier back from the Underground World. Sunan entered the Lightning Elemental Plane to explore it, but its constant lightning quickly wore down his protection.

• Trieve told the Aurora King that the Russell Family could unite the Northwest Region’s Level Three Wizard Apprentices against Sunan, and the king agreed to contact Facardo Russell.
• Duo Nuo Han and Fei Laming hurried to the cafeteria for Thers Fruit, then went to the academy gate after learning Xie Man and Atier had returned.
• Fei Laming watched Xie Man receive praise for his progress and left for the meditation room to cultivate.
• Xie Man told Atier that he planned to focus on cultivation and advance as soon as possible, and she agreed to do the same.
• Sunan decided to expand Dragon Bone Tower’s Elemental Pool after returning from the Lightning Elemental Plane, then used it to enter the plane.
• Sunan explored the scorched wilderness under frequent lightning strikes, and the damage to his Extreme Protection Ring made him worry that its defenses might not last.

Sunan gathered Lightning Stones in the Lightning Elemental Plane, crafted more Black Lightnings, and upgraded a secret puppet with a Level 6 Magic Rune Core. Meanwhile, Ke Lei and Yi Sang captured Mushroom Forest City, leaving the Star Alliance close to controlling the Underground World as they looked toward conquering the Starlight Continent and perhaps other planes.

• Sunan ventured deeper into the Lightning Elemental Plane, collected more than two hundred Lightning Stones, and avoided fighting an Elemental Giant Spirit.
• Sunan crafted three Black Lightnings and spent nearly two years improving the Magic Rune Core, raising a secret puppet's strength at a cost of 480,000 Gold Coins.
• Sunan reflected that resources, rather than Gold Coins, limited the Star Alliance's growth, then began crafting more secret puppets.
• Ke Lei and Yi Sang captured Mushroom Forest City after a fierce battle, and they estimated that the Star Alliance could finish conquering the Northwest Region within two months.
• Ke Lei and Yi Sang discussed the Star Alliance's rise and imagined future expeditions to other planes, while Yi Sang resolved to advance to a Level Two Wizard Apprentice.