Chapter Summaries

Locke received Wizard Warwick’s historical records, which raised his Dragon’s Book to the First-Ring Crystallization Stage and let him cast Demon God Summoning. The group flew toward the mausoleum’s center but crashed into a flight-sealing barrier, while rival wizard groups planned to force their way through the maze and claim the treasure.

• Locke’s Dragon Might broke the illusion affecting Wizard Warwick and Wizard McKinley, and Warwick concluded that the Loom Princess was likely the Nameless King’s wife.
• Wizard Warwick copied his historical records into Locke’s Dragon’s Book, raising its Magic Pressure to 9999 and allowing Locke to cast Demon God Summoning.
• Locke summoned a fire-breathing paper dragon and carried Witch Shally, Warwick, and McKinley toward the city, but a sealing spell forced them down into its maze.
• The Thunder Demon Society’s leader ordered his wizards to smash through the maze and find the treasure for Wizard Smith of Storm Tower.
• Kenneth Evans and the Rose Council wizards decided to dig beneath the maze and head directly for the main hall.

Locke and his companions discovered the Loom Princess’s warning about the Black Sun Tower, then triggered a deadly trap when McKinley touched an offering. Locke used Porcelain Moon to destroy the abyss-corrupted plants and uncover a decayed King-Making Artifact, while the princess’s inscription revealed that the Black Sun Tower had destroyed her era.

• Locke, Warwick, and Shally bowed to the Loom Princess’s statue and found hidden lines mentioning the Black Sun Tower, a force Locke knew had hunted his mother.
• McKinley touched a trapped crossbow bolt, lost his right arm to an insect curse, and was saved when Locke’s Life Force Field stopped the insects.
• The ground collapsed, sending the four wizards into an abyssal jungle of carnivorous plants that they could not escape by flying or ordinary attacks.
• Locke summoned Porcelain Moon, whose changing phases caused the Abyss-corrupted plants to wither and explode, while Shally caught an iron ball unearthed by the Second Ring plant.
• The group discovered a decaying crown identified as the King-Making Artifact and recorded its negative-energy particle field before it crumbled.
• Locke read that the Black Sun Tower had destroyed the princess and her husband’s creations, and suggested that the princess had hidden the truth for later generations despite her hatred of tomb intruders.

Locke and his companions translated a princess’s prayer, uncovering the Nameless King’s plan to end the Age of Stars and the princess’s connection to an ambitious necromancer who founded Archaeology. The princess’s instructions offered a way to awaken her Echo and pull the city into the past, and the group prepared to attempt it.

• Locke found that the iron ball absorbed magical energy without revealing anything unusual, then stored it in his Astral Ring.
• Locke, Witch Shally, Warwick, and Wizard McKinley translated the statue’s ancient inscription and learned that the tomb would destroy itself if a Wizard Count tried to enter by force.
• Warwick read the prayer describing how the Nameless King sought to unite the Wizarding World, gather all magic into his hands, and usher in the Age of Mortals, likely provoking the Black Sun Tower and other wizards.
• The group learned that the princess had supported a talented necromancer’s Modo Language project and left a method for later archaeologists to reveal the past despite the Erasure Curse.
• Witch Shally explained that rotating the statue could trigger the city’s Echo, allowing them to use Historical Reenactment to pull the city into the past.
• Warwick, Locke, and Wizard McKinley agreed to try, with Locke giving McKinley Sacred Spring Dew.

Locke and the others were swept 70,000 years into the past by the Origin Wizard of Archaeology’s spell, where the young wizard offered them a wish. Locke asked to study the ancient sun and moon, gaining new insights into Great Magic before the Origin Wizard sent him off with five major problems to solve.

• The Rose Council wizards and the Thunder Demon Society were dragged into the past when an ancient Archaeology Spell Model activated across the city.
• Locke, Witch Shally, Wizard Warwick, and Wizard McKinley met the young Origin Wizard of Archaeology, who explained the Thirteen-Year Calamity and offered each of them one wish.
• Locke asked to observe the sun and moon from 70,000 years ago, and the Origin Wizard created a space where Locke could study their movements and effects over an extended period.
• Locke used his observations to improve Peach Arc Thorn Arrow and develop Porcelain Moon Growth’s energy cycle, identifying dream-energy fragments as a source of replenishment.
• After the Origin Wizard suggested adding more ecological layers, Locke recognized the need for redundancy and an energy-lock structure, leaving him with five major problems to solve for Great Magic.

Locke and the other Archaeology Wizards witnessed a fragment of the Age of Stars in which the Lich King defied the Black Sun Tower and turned his kingdom into a Death Law Domain. Trapped inside the domain, Locke recognized its connection to the moon and prepared to use the Porcelain Moon to escape.

• Locke and the other three Archaeology Wizards began a Historical Reenactment of the Nameless King's coronation, but a temporal disorder showed them the Lich King's earlier rise to power.
• The Lich King defied the Black Sun Tower's prophecy, declared that wizards should live forever through Necromancy, and resolved to kill his son and rule without descendants.
• The Lich King unleashed his Death Law Domain, which swallowed the Rose Council, the Thunder Demon Society, Locke, Witch Shally, Warwick, and McKinley.
• Locke realized the domain was a separate magical world that was eroding them, while the Grandmaster warned him to escape before it absorbed them.
• Locke followed the scent of osmanthus to a Golden Flower Little Gui and deduced that the domain's reference point was the moon.
• Locke took out the Porcelain Moon and planned to use its gravitational pull to open a gate out of the domain.

Locke used the Porcelain Moon to resist the Lich King’s control of the Kingdom Domain, drawing on its power until he could contend with the ruler. After Locke and his companions vanished from the domain, they witnessed a memory of young Otto revealing his plan to end the Age of Stars and establish an age ruled by mortals.

• Locke summoned the Porcelain Moon, which absorbed the domain’s thoughts and faith and disrupted the balance between life and death in the Kingdom Domain.
• The Lich King attacked the Porcelain Moon, but it repeatedly recovered by drawing energy from the domain, allowing Locke to seize nearly half its power.
• The Lich King identified Locke’s magic as a power from later generations and tried to destroy him, but Locke and his companions disappeared from the domain.
• Locke and his companions reappeared on a hill where young Otto told Princess Adela that immortal rulers were harming the kingdom and that he intended to end their rule.
• Otto described his plan for mortals to govern themselves and declared that he wanted to become king for thirty years to bring about the Age of Mortals.
• Adela promised to help Otto, even if his enemy was his father.

Locke used the Heliotos Kingdom Domain to turn his Porcelain Moon into a temporary Great Magic, surviving the Dark Sun and pushing his Magic Pressure past 9,999. While the moonlight protected the collapsing Historical Reenactment, he completed the Forest Alliance Spell and identified flaws he would need to fix before making the magic permanent.

• The Black Sun Tower’s Erasure Curse judged Otto Heliotos a failure, erased his record, and began collapsing the Historical Reenactment as the Dark Sun’s heat forced McKinley and Warwick to leave.
• Locke used Porcelain Moon Growth and the Heliotos Kingdom Domain to replace the historical moon, temporarily forming the Moon Magic Mirror and raising his Magic Pressure to 10,000.
• Witch Shally survived the Dark Sun with Guardianship of the Eight Archangels, then recognized that Locke’s Magic Pressure had broken through 9,999.
• Locke used his temporary Second-Ring state and moonlight to connect forests across the world, complete the Forest Alliance Spell, and increase the Magic Pressure of his Forest Sanctuary.
• Locke examined his hastily assembled Great Magic and identified its foreign Witch Porcelain core, weak connection to himself, missing third-level structure, and unresolved offensive magic as problems to solve.

Locke’s temporary Second-Ring state ended, leaving him to plan how to perfect his Great Magic as he and Witch Shally continued through the Historical Reenactment. They witnessed Otto’s Age of Mortals beginning to fracture under the ambitions of the mortals he had empowered.

• Locke lost his pseudo-Second Ring state and resolved to strengthen his Moon-based Great Magic with more research and improved materials.
• Wizard Smith questioned the Thunder Demon Society’s leader about the missing Apocalypse Witchstone, then ordered Zagu to investigate Golden Crown Mountain wizards who had visited the Jadeflower Enclave.
• Suella Sharp rushed to the Rose Council and demanded that Director Lana pursue justice against Golden Crown Mountain.
• Locke and Witch Shally witnessed a mortal king defeat a lich and declare that Otto’s Heliotos Imperial Court would usher in the Age of Mortals.
• Locke and Witch Shally watched another mortal king plot against Otto, and they concluded that Otto had underestimated mortals’ ambitions and their tendency to lose control.

Locke and Witch Shally investigated the fall of [Heliotos Imperial Court], discovering how the Ancient Flowers and the Mortal Kings’ rebellion helped destroy Otto the Great’s empire. In the final historical scene, Otto revealed his unfinished plan for shared supernatural authority before the Black Sun Tower’s judgment was delivered and the Loom Princess objected.

• Locke recorded the Mortal King’s power and watched mortal soldiers rebel against Otto the Great while liches were paraded through [Heliotos Imperial Court].
• Locke and Witch Shally concluded that the Mortal Era had become untenable before the Black Sun Tower intervened, and Locke investigated the rapidly spreading Ancient Flowers.
• Locke confronted a Mortal King, exposed his soldiers’ contempt for him, and used his power to spread Ancient Flower seeds across the Wizarding World.
• The flowers enriched the land and strengthened magical tides while amplifying desire, and Locke witnessed [Heliotos Imperial Court] split apart as its cities became independent.
• A historical projection brought Locke before Otto the Great, who described his unfinished plan to create shareable [Authority] and separate power from authority.
• The Black Sun Tower’s judgment declared that Otto’s deeds would be erased from history, and the Loom Princess protested.

Locke returned to King Otto’s final memory to obtain the Zero Potion formula, but found that he needed to bridge the distance between himself and the historical king. After Locke showed Otto the King Artifact and broke through the gap with the aid of Otto’s Kingdom Domain, he began combining his powers to reach him.

• King Otto revealed that Necromantic immortality had stripped him of empathy and made liches puppets of death before he died on his Throne.
• The young wizard explained that his remaining spirituality could give Locke one last chance to ask King Otto for the Zero Potion formula, then disappeared.
• At Golden Crown Mountain, Witch Catherine dismissed Wizard Smith’s demand for an explanation and invited the Smith Family’s Third-Ring Wizard to state what they really wanted.
• Locke returned to the golden hall and asked King Otto for the formula, but Otto continued reenacting his conversation with Ezra Clarkson.
• Locke showed Otto the King Artifact, then attacked across the temporal distance with Peach Arc Thorn Arrow and Overlord Fern Spear; Otto caught the latter and lent Locke his damaged Kingdom Domain.
• Locke used Porcelain Moon and his Demon Dragon Bloodline to raise his Magic Pressure to 10000, then formed Moon Fern and cast a celestial-phenomenon-grade Flowing Gold Finger.

Locke broke through the barrier of time and met King Otto, who gave him a growing Bronze Cauldron Artifact and explained the theory behind the Zero Potion. King Otto revealed his Reverse Refinement Method, while Locke recognized its potential and worried it could lead him into serious trouble.

• Locke forced his way through the ancient spacetime barrier, reached King Otto, and learned that the king could provide the Zero Potion formula.
• King Otto fused Locke’s King-Making Artifact with Blank Spirituality and gave him a damaged Bronze Cauldron Artifact capable of growing toward the Third Ring.
• Locke questioned King Otto about the Age of Stars, the Wizarding World, and its Four Great Problems, while King Otto described the era’s scarce and fragmented education.
• King Otto explained how the Love Potion inspired his search for Public Spirituality and the Zero Potion, then revealed his Reverse Refinement Method for creating Blank Spirituality.
• Locke understood the method’s potential and feared that developing it further could land him in wizard prison.

Locke learned King Otto’s Reverse Refinement Method before the Historical Boundary Stele Curse space collapsed, then escaped with Witch Shally as the tomb city was swallowed by the Black Sun Tower’s Erasure Curse. In the princess’s sleeping hall, he found Destruction Flower seeds and a treasure vault filled with ancient Magic Plant seeds and artifacts.

• King Otto gave Locke the Reverse Refinement Method and explained that the Black Sun Tower had created the Destruction Flowers through prophetic magic and human sacrifice.
• The Golden Palace collapsed, and Locke and Witch Shally escaped the falling space with their Sect Master's Books.
• Locke and Witch Shally discovered that the tomb city was being drawn into the Erasure Curse, so they split up to record its contents before it vanished.
• Locke flew to the princess’s sleeping hall and took the Destruction Flower seeds from the princess statue.
• Locke found the treasure vault and collected surviving ancient Magic Plant seeds, magical supplies, artifacts, and Shapeshifting School equipment.

Lock and Witch Shally discovered that the Loom Princess’s mausoleum had been altered and that she may have been targeted by a powerful Erasure Curse tied to the Black Sun Tower. As they escaped the Dark Sun, Lock planted a Glorious Fern Spear and Porcelain Moon in the vanishing city, creating an Abyssal ecosystem that might let him find it again.

• Lock and Witch Shally opened the princess’s sarcophagus and found it empty, with a message and a pig’s head carved by someone named Wizard Maxwell.
• Lock deduced that the Loom Princess had been hidden by an Erasure Curse stronger than the one targeting King Otto, and that the Black Sun Tower had concealed her importance.
• Lock destroyed the statue and sarcophagus, uncovering a message warning future magical kingdoms not to trust the Black Sun Tower before the page burned away.
• Lock and Witch Shally tried to escape as the Dark Sun pulled them back, and Lock used Porcelain Moon Growth and the plants in the city to propel them outward.
• Lock sent a mountain-sized Glorious Fern Spear and his Porcelain Moon into the disappearing city, where they formed a small Abyssal ecosystem that could preserve a link to it.

Locke and Witch Shally returned from the ruins and agreed with Warwick and Wizard McKinley to publish a joint archaeology paper, while keeping their deductions about the Loom Princess secret. Examining their finds, Locke realized that the Resin Balls might conceal a message and that the Ancient Flower that destroyed King Otto’s Imperial Court was a manufactured fake.

• Locke and Witch Shally concluded that the Black Sun Tower had altered the Loom Princess’s history and possibly her Echo, but agreed not to share their unverified deductions because revealing them could bring deadly misfortune.
• Locke used his Super Intuition to sense that disclosing information about the princess would cause their deaths, then blocked the intuition with the Angel’s Tear Bracelet.
• Locke, Witch Shally, Warwick, and Wizard McKinley met on the Abyssal River and agreed to write a joint paper about the ruins, dividing its research sections among themselves.
• Locke examined the Resin Balls and suspected that one might be a message left by the princess, so he decided to consult Witch Catherine before tracing its source.
• Locke inspected the Ancient Flower seeds and determined that the flower was a fabricated, plastic-like imitation rather than a true Magic Plant.

Locke and Witch Shally returned with Warwick’s team to the Ashen Esoteric Sect, where Baroque scrutinized Locke before Warwick arranged for them to help prepare a major paper. In Group 2, Zalan Bailey proposed a resource-intensive plan to produce water and transform the Dune Plane, while Sith weighed his options and learned that the Rose Council’s blockade stemmed from a lucrative magical wedding-ring project.

• Locke confirmed that the Magic Plant seeds were artificial and decided to cultivate them with his blood after returning to Group 2.
• Baroque greeted Warwick’s party at the Ashen Esoteric Sect dock, examined Locke with a Necromancy spell, and warned him to enjoy his stay in the Jadeflower Enclave.
• Warwick arranged a secluded castle for Locke and Witch Shally, then gathered students to help the team plan their major paper.
• Zalan Bailey asked Sith for sixty percent of Group 2’s resources to extract water from sand and natural gas, but Sith offered only ten percent and priority access to laboratory facilities.
• Sith learned that the Rose Council was enforcing the blockade to secure a Desert Rose supply chain for its magical wedding-ring project, then considered waiting for another solution to Group 2’s water shortage.

Locke and his colleagues completed a draft archaeology paper while Locke investigated the strange Ancient Flower and nearly followed his Super Intuition into activating its seed. Witch Catherine warned him that the seed could take his life, and Locke left with his Full Moon Growth praised but still unfinished.

• Locke, Witch Shally, Wizard Warwick, and Wizard McKinley completed a paper draft and planned to submit it to First Ring History and apply for the Istoria Archaeology Award.
• Locke advised the First-Class Wizard Apprentice Black Wizard to use Kurumos Obsidian Snail powder to ease his Face-Cutting Curse, then refused the apprentice’s offer of Magic Stones.
• Locke studied the Ancient Flower’s unnatural patterns and noticed that its spiral resembled a Mandelbrot Spiral and might be an Energy-Locking Structure.
• Locke considered dripping his blood onto the Ancient Flower’s seed after his Super Intuition urged him to do so, but called Witch Catherine for advice.
• Witch Catherine identified the seed as an artificial object marked by Sacrificial Magic and warned Locke that activating it could cost him his life.
• Witch Catherine examined Locke’s Full Moon Growth and praised the high potential of its foundation.

Locke discovered that an Ancient Flower’s spiral pattern formed an Energy-Locking Structure that greatly increased Magic Plants’ Magic Tide absorption, then used it to improve his Snow-Capped Pineapple Wizard Shoes. After confirming the shoes’ speed and commercial potential, he decided to establish a wizard shoe brand and possibly a shop alliance to fund his research and advancement to the Second Ring.

• Witch Catherine identified the Ancient Flower’s spiral pattern as a possible special Energy-Locking Structure and guided Locke in testing it with a Black Diamond Pineapple.
• The Black Diamond Pineapple mimicked the Ancient Flower and developed a Magic Tide vortex, prompting Witch Catherine to give Locke research materials and direct him to test the plant further.
• Locke completed a fifteen-equation model for the spiral structure and used it to create Snow-Capped Pineapple Wizard Shoes that let him glide at speeds comparable to Witch Diana’s.
• Locke concluded that the improved shoes could compete with the magic weavers’ monopolized wizard shoe market and planned to launch the Augustus Series and establish a breeder workshop or shop alliance.
• Locke named his formula system the Pixiu-Horn Fractal Spiral Constraint Equation System and decided to contact Witch Scarlett about the profits from his two shoe designs.

Locke learned from the Scarlett Witch that Magic Weavers used a Service Fee Alliance to enforce hidden rules that made Wizard Shoes costly to maintain and restricted competitors. Instead of backing away from the Golden Crown Mountain procurement, Locke saw an opening for his new Wizard Shoes and planned to challenge the Magic Weavers’ monopoly.

• Locke spoke with the Scarlett Witch, who explained Arthas’s investments in developing magical civilizations and reported that Locke’s Wizard Shoes had earned three million Magic Stones.
• Locke told the Scarlett Witch he intended to build the best Wizard Shoes brand and asked about the Golden Crown Mountain procurement deadline, which was one month away.
• The Scarlett Witch warned Locke that Magic Weavers enforced secret service-fee standards, planned systematic malfunctions, charged high maintenance fees, and controlled the recycling of discarded Wizard Shoes.
• The Scarlett Witch said Magic Weavers could collude to block Locke from winning the procurement and apologized for encouraging him to participate.
• Locke concluded that the Magic Weavers’ rules did not bind him as a Breeder and believed his new Wizard Shoes could beat them in the procurement.

Locke and his collaborators submitted their Abyssal Ruins research to First Ring History, and Locke spent the journey back to the Cloud Marsh Wetland refining a wizard shoe for the Demon World War. As the airship neared its destination, the Demon World Storm began sweeping buildings into the Second Sky, where Black Wizards from the Twin Demon World attacked and plundered them.

• Locke, Witch Scarlett, Wizard Warwick, Wizard McKinley, Witch Shally, and their collaborators submitted their paper to First Ring History for 80,000 magic stones.
• Wizard Warwick told Locke and Witch Shally that their archaeological discoveries had also been submitted to First Ring History and the Istoria Archaeology Award, then saw them off aboard the wizard airship.
• During the twenty-eight-day journey, Locke cultivated and refined a Snow-Capped Pineapple wizard shoe with high Magic Pressure to resist theft and concealed leaves to protect its design.
• Locke and Witch Shally arrived near the Cloud Marsh Wetland as the airship announced their early arrival, and Locke reflected on the value of the region's special webways.
• The airship shook as a Demon World Storm opened a black hole in the Second Sky and swept buildings into the void, where Twin Demon World aircraft swarmed to attack and loot them.

Locke used his magical moon to capture a Black Wizard and gather data on Twin Siphon Organs during the Demon World War. A Second-Ring Black Wizard stole the moon, then warned Locke they would meet again in the war.

• A Formal Wizard from Ares Academy begged the wizards aboard Locke’s Void Battleship to let him in, but a Black Wizard pierced and killed him before anyone could help.
• Locke trapped the Black Wizard with Moon Gravity and watched as the Twin Demon World’s World Power destroyed him and his aircraft.
• Locke cast magical moons across the battlefield, drawing in Black Wizards and measuring how much Magic Pressure their Twin Siphon Organs could steal.
• A Second-Ring Black Wizard appeared, stole Locke’s magical moon, and warned that they would meet again during the Demon World War.
• Locke let the Black Wizard keep the moon, saying he had something better, while remaining satisfied with the data he had collected.