Chapter Summaries

Locke discovered that the Emperor’s Mind Network and Inspectorate System had come from knowledge sent into the world during the Wizarding World’s Enlightenment Era, while his preaching helped stabilize the Emperor’s Magic Pressure against Edgar. Edgar’s vines and the inspectors fought to a stalemate until the Land of Myriad Spirits warned Edgar against using Great Magic, and Smith’s Extraterrestrial Meteor descended.

• Magic Plants spread through the eastern provinces, and the Emperor’s Mind Network attacked Edgar’s Land of Myriad Spirits as the empire mobilized for war.
• Locke found Enlightenment Era records in the Emperor’s library and learned that the Emperor had hidden knowledge intended to be shared freely.
• The competition audience questioned Locke’s inactivity, while Hassan recognized his strategy and Zalan Bailey hoped Locke would fall behind.
• Edgar’s Vine Servants battled inspectors who unlocked Gene Locks and grew stronger, while the inspectors’ courage stirred the World Will against Edgar.
• Edgar halted his planned Great Magic attack after the Land of Myriad Spirits warned him, and Smith’s Extraterrestrial Meteor descended instead.
• Edgar realized that Smith’s arrival would have eliminated him if he had used Great Magic, while Quinn Joel’s companion questioned why Edgar had not sent an assistant into the world.

Smith the Wizard and Edgar the Wizard attacked the Emperor as his Mind Network collapsed, but Locke Augustus’s worship restored the Emperor’s Magic Pressure and changed the balance of power. Smith allied with the Emperor and turned against Edgar, while Locke’s growing influence remained a threat from afar.

• Smith the Wizard descended with the Extraterrestrial Meteor, and a Storm Tower wizard helped him turn more than a million workers into the Astral Spirit Clan.
• Edgar ordered the Land of Myriad Spirits to attack Emperor Hall while Smith prepared to seize the Emperor’s Magic Pressure.
• The Emperor’s Magic Pressure began rising after Locke Augustus’s worship, and the Emperor rewarded Locke by making him the inheritable Duke of Schiller.
• Edgar and Smith agreed to join forces against the restored Emperor, but Smith attacked Edgar from behind and struck a deal with the Emperor.
• Smith chose to eliminate Edgar instead of fighting the Emperor, while Edgar realized Locke had undermined his advantage.

Smith allied with the emperor to attack Edgar, then targeted Georgina by threatening her Charity Association with a meteor shower. Georgina appeared to protect the Western Province, and Smith declared that her intervention meant she had lost.

• Smith used Starlight Projection to meet the emperor, agreed to help eliminate Edgar, and persuaded him to spare Locke Augustine.
• Smith and the emperor struck Edgar together, severely damaging the Land of Myriad Spirits and weakening Edgar’s Magic Pressure.
• Smith left the emperor to deal with Edgar and headed west to force Georgina to reveal herself by attacking her Charity Association’s foundations.
• Smith summoned a meteor shower over the Western Province, drawing anger from the World Will and criticism from rival academies as Storm Tower supporters defended his tactics.
• Georgina appeared with a golden loom and carpet that blocked the meteors, and Smith told her that intervening meant she had lost.

Georgina revealed the Destiny Loom, a Great Magic powered by mortals’ fates, and used it to defeat Smith while announcing Boniface University’s New Weaving as a new school independent of old Textile Studies. Her Magic Pressure rose as the Destiny Loom strengthened the world’s fate network, and the World Will favored her.

• Smith attacked Georgina with meteor magic, but his spells repeatedly broke apart before reaching her despite her low Magic Pressure and lack of Second-Ring magical items.
• A Boniface University Sun-Ring Magic Weaver announced that the academy would split from the Rose Council’s Textile Studies and change history in the Academic Status War.
• Georgina revealed the city-sized Destiny Loom, explaining that she had woven it from rare materials, her Magic Pressure, and mortals’ fates.
• Georgina used the Destiny Loom to produce magical clothes that her charity organization distributed to ordinary people, causing her Magic Pressure to rebound and surpass its former level.
• Georgina declared that Boniface University’s New Weaving would become a new school, using mortals’ fate nodes to form a Destiny Network rather than exploiting them.
• Georgina explained that her control of distribution and understanding of capital let her gather Magic Pressure and defeat Smith, while the World Will became active and favored her.

Locke analyzed the weaknesses of the three Great Magics while advancing the Spirit Cult under the emperor’s watchful control. He exposed the emperor as a thief who had taken over the world’s systems, while the emperor secretly planned to kill Locke and use the Spirit Cult to alter the Mind Network.

• Locke observed the Extraterrestrial Meteor, Destiny Loom, and Time-Shadow Fern, judged their energy dissipation and other standards, and concluded Smith could suppress Georgina if he stayed calm.
• The emperor sent inspectors to oversee Locke’s Spirit Cult, and Locke proposed making the emperor its president and enrolling citizens and their descendants.
• Locke told the Gunslinger and the young priestess that the Gene Lock System, Inspectorate System, and Mind Network had been created by a vanished race and stolen by the emperor.
• The emperor, gaining strength with the Spirit Cult’s assistance, ordered his senior inspector to accept Locke’s demands but said he would kill Locke once the cult was established.
• The emperor rejected the presidency because it would weaken his Authority, then decided the Spirit Cult could help him modify the Mind Network system left behind by the vanished race.

Witch Georgina trapped Wizard Smith with her Destiny Loom, but the Emperor weakened her and the other combatants by temporarily replacing the World Will. Locke then drew on the Emperor’s faith and Mind Network to amass spirituality from the past, present, and future, preparing to create a world-spanning Kingdom Domain as the fourth Great Magic descended.

• Witch Georgina used the Destiny Loom and Prisoner's Fate Cloak to burden Wizard Smith with misfortune, sever his connection to the Extraterrestrial Meteor, and force him to flee as she explained New Weaving to the audience.
• The Emperor used the Mind Network and his Light of Mind to replace the World Will temporarily, destabilizing Georgina’s and Edgar’s Great Magic and ordering Smith to kill them.
• A fourth Great Magic descended as a full moon appeared, while Locke began drawing immense spirituality toward the Imperial Capital through the Spirit Cult.
• Edgar realized Locke had redirected the Emperor’s followers’ devotion toward their ideal of a beautiful world, leaving the Emperor furious as his power flowed away from him.
• Locke announced that he would use the borrowed faith, Magic Tide, and world-vein power to establish a Second-Ring Kingdom Domain, drawing on the Emperor’s capital at enormous scale.

Locke created a world-spanning Kingdom Domain that freed the Silent Plane’s World Will from the Emperor’s Mind Network and gave Locke control of the realm’s Magic Pressure. He strengthened the Dharma Realm with the Moon Goddess Blessing and Treants, then returned to the Present World to face the Emperor, Smith Wizard, and Edgar Wizard.

• Locke gathered the world’s Magic Pressure and summoned a Kingdom Domain across the Silent Plane, doubling the world’s Magic Pressure and breaking the Emperor’s hold over the World Will.
• The Emperor declared Duke Schiller a traitor, while Edgar Wizard and Smith Wizard turned on him to seize what remained of his power before realizing Locke had left the Emperor as dangerous bait.
• Georgina Witch entered Locke’s Dharma Realm with her Destiny Loom, accepting that it was her only chance to preserve her Great Magic.
• Locke brought Antoine and Preston Witch into the Dharma Realm, used the Moon Goddess Blessing to awaken Treants across its forests, and granted his allies a Great Blessing.
• Locke left the Dharma Realm and appeared before the Emperor, Smith Wizard, and Edgar Wizard, who each confronted him with anger or suspicion.

Locke confronted the Emperor, Wizard Smith, and Wizard Edgar after they allied against him, then demonstrated how his Moon of Evolution could devastate Edgar’s Land of Myriad Spirits and control the Eight-Buddha Claw Vine. As Smith unleashed an Astral Insect from his Extraterrestrial Meteor, Locke revealed he had been waiting for that move.

• Locke tried to split the alliance by offering to determine the three wizards’ placements, but Edgar refused to settle for second place and Smith chose to wait rather than surrender.
• Edgar summoned the Land of Myriad Spirits and sent its Magic Vines against Locke, who used No. 2 Overlord Element to poison the vines and spread the toxin through the realm.
• Edgar brought out the Eight-Buddha Claw Vine, but Locke’s Moon of Evolution drew the Second-Ring Magic Plant into his ecosystem and its Overlord Element toxicity began destabilizing the Land of Myriad Spirits.
• Smith used one of his hidden trump cards, summoning a huge meteor bearing a Second-Ring Astral Insect from the Astral Plane.
• Locke said Smith had finally used the move he had been waiting for, leaving Smith frightened that Locke had anticipated his ability and prepared a countermeasure.

Locke broke Wizard Smith’s Extraterrestrial Meteor and forced the Emperor to open the Mind Network permissions, then entered its authority space with him. Wizard Edgar’s Great Magic continued to collapse, while Smith prepared to use a Worldly Wonder supplied by Witch Medea.

• Wizard Smith attacked Locke with Extraterrestrial Meteor, but Locke used Moon of Evolution to destroy the spell’s passage to the Astral Plane and destabilize Smith’s Great Magic.
• Locke confronted the Emperor and offered him the choice of entering the Dharma Realm or opening all Mind Network permissions to Locke; the Emperor opened the network.
• Wizard Edgar’s plan to make the Emperor Locke’s creditor failed, and Edgar’s Eight-Buddha Claw Vine and Land of Myriad Spirits continued to deteriorate.
• Locke entered the Mind Network’s authority space with the Emperor, leaving Edgar unable to force a direct fight.
• Wizard Smith drew a soul-bound die and thanked Witch Medea for obtaining the Worldly Wonder, while Medea addressed the wizards he had hired.

Witch Georgina and Wizard Edgar each devised desperate plans that depended on Wizard Smith, while judges and spectators praised Locke’s Moon of Evolution for its exceptional structure and performance. Locke entered the Mind Network’s core and realized its chessboard contained nine special pieces equal in size to the emperor, suggesting the network had once been different.

• Witch Georgina wagered her luck against Wizard Smith’s through a judge’s robe woven with Three-Shuttle Fate Weaving, hoping his misfortune would let her escape defeat.
• Wizard Edgar concluded that Smith was his only chance to trigger a hidden move, but Smith lacked enough Magic Pressure.
• The Sun-Ring Wizard judges praised Locke’s Moon of Evolution for its low energy dissipation, strong coordination with Kingdom Domain, and potential to become an excellent Great Magic.
• Spectators and wizards, including Wizard Mike, Witch Camilla, and Wizard Chad Schultz, reacted to Locke’s performance, while the leaders of rival schools grew concerned.
• Locke entered the Mind Network’s special-authority space and found nine special chess pieces as large as the emperor, leading him to question the network’s original design.

Lock uncovered the Mind Network’s true purpose and the Silent Plane’s poisoned sky, then took control of the Star-Forged Great Magic. He confronted Grand Duke Westminster and demanded to know what happened to its original creator.

• Lock discovered that the emperor had hidden the Mind Network’s chess pieces and diverted its authority to himself, then revealed that the emperor was actually Grand Duke Westminster.
• Lock summoned the World Stone and raised the mental chessboard beyond the Mind Network’s canopy, exposing the Silent Plane’s poisonous brown sky and its flow of Nei Element Particles.
• The emperor revealed that a passing Comet Plane had damaged the sky, and Lock realized the Mind Network had created a protective second sky using the Lights of Mind.
• Antoine identified the Mind Network as a Star-Forged Great Magic and explained that the Silent Plane’s Gene Lock served as its power-system currency.
• Lock learned that Grand Duke Westminster had inherited the Great Magic after its original master died, then claimed the emperor’s position and gained control of the Mind Network.
• Lock demanded that Grand Duke Westminster explain who the first emperor was and how he obtained the Mind Network.

Locke questioned Grand Duke Westminster about the Silent Plane’s history while Smith used the Gambling God Dice to stabilize his failing Great Magic and began betting for ever greater stakes. Witch Medea revealed that the dice were an imitation she had used to deceive Smith, then confronted Storm Tower’s wizards as they moved against her.

• Grand Duke Westminster explained that a forgotten leader had united the Silent Plane’s warring countries and inspired the civilization’s creation, after which Westminster erased the traces of everyone who had followed him.
• Smith used the Gambling God Dice to win Magic Pressure from wizards outside the arena, temporarily stabilizing his Extraterrestrial Meteor and prompting spectators to question whether the dice were genuine New Route treasures.
• Smith grew confident, raised the stakes, and gambled his Great Magic and other assets, while Storm Tower’s team leader warned him that something was wrong with the dice.
• Medea admitted that she had deceived Smith into believing the dice were a world’s wondrous item and explained that she had exploited his greed.
• Three Sun-Ring Wizards from Storm Tower threatened Medea, but she defied them and declared she was willing to fight them.

Witch Medea tricked Wizard Smith into being swallowed by the Twin Demon World, then used a World Stone to reach the Second Ring, while Witch Georgina killed Wizard Edgar and gained power from his misfortune. The chapter left Locke learning from the Emperor who had built the Mind Network and why its creator had disappeared.

• Wizard Smith rolled a losing die and was swallowed with Witch Medea by the Twin Siphon Organ, which returned Medea with a World Stone and Smith’s competition qualification.
• The Silent Grail recognized Medea as Storm Tower’s contestant, while the Smith Family accepted that Smith had been trafficked and would need to be bought back.
• Witch Medea used the World Stone to construct her Great Magic and become a Second-Ring Wizard, then learned the Thief-Saint Wizard had abandoned her but might help if she survived and found the real World Stone.
• Witch Georgina used Wizard Smith’s misfortune to strengthen her Destiny Loom, then killed Wizard Edgar and fled into the Dharma Realm to hide.
• Locke learned from the Emperor who had built the Mind Network and why that person had disappeared, and Antoine reacted furiously.

Locke acquired the Land of Myriad Spirits and the Time-Shadow Fern, then learned why the former emperor, Zuo Luo Rick, had died. The Grand Duke of Westminster admitted that he had killed Zuo Luo Rick after the revolutionary leader refused to keep power for himself and his followers.

• Witch Georgina hid the Destiny Loom in the Dharma Realm and began studying the Moon of Evolution’s pattern to find its weaknesses.
• Locke’s Dharma Realm devoured the Land of Myriad Spirits, and the Time-Shadow Fern entered his Moon of Evolution after Edgar’s fate was severed.
• Locke grafted Sea Golden Sand onto the Time-Shadow Fern, hoping to use its Imaginary Root to cultivate Second-Ring Magic Plants.
• The Grand Duke of Westminster told Locke that Zuo Luo Rick had organized resistance against the old rulers and led them to overthrow the nobles with knowledge from the Other Shore Great World.
• The Grand Duke of Westminster confessed that he killed Zuo Luo Rick because Zuo Luo Rick wanted to surrender power and share their collected knowledge with everyone.

Locke exposed Grand Duke Westminster’s fabricated account of the Silent Plane’s history and learned that the Grand Duke had ruled from grief and distrust, while the plane’s disaster remained unexplained. After sealing the Dharma Realm away from the Present World, Locke visited Gaikexi Grand Prison to examine the mad cultists and wondered whether their visions involved the Disc.

• Locke deduced that Grand Duke Westminster had been a royalist elevated by Zuo Luo Rick after the nine Grand Dukes rebelled, and Westminster admitted he had distorted the story to justify his rule.
• Grand Duke Westminster revealed that Zuo Luo Rick had used the meteorite to build the Mind Network’s heavenly canopy and that mysterious cultists became monsters whose appearance lowered other people’s intelligence.
• Locke learned that Wizard Smith had disappeared after seeking help through the Demon World Dice, while Witch Georgina had killed Wizard Edgar and Witch Medea had entered the competition with the outdated Great Magic [Slate Sanctuary].
• Locke sealed the gate between the Dharma Realm and the Present World, trapping Witch Georgina and Witch Medea inside the Dharma Realm.
• Locke and Grand Duke Westminster went to [Gaikexi Grand Prison], where Locke saw inmates drawing circles and heard a man speak of a higher mystery before Locke wondered if it was the Disc.

Locke faced a disc creature whose blue light caused illusions and influenced the Grand Duke Westminster, even though such powers seemed to contradict the principles of Soul Studies. After the Grand Duke attacked people he only imagined, Locke suspected the creature was lying about assimilating souls and avoided using Great Magic directly against it.

• A blue Ω-shaped disc creature appeared, and the Silent Grail spectators explained that disc creatures grew stronger as worlds declined and disasters increased.
• Locke discovered that the blue light made the Grand Duke Westminster see an illusion of Zuo Luo and attack it, then used Golden Eye Grass and Photosynthesis to repel the disc creature's light.
• Locke reasoned that the earlier battles and deaths had helped the disc creature grow, but its influence over the Grand Duke and the Silent Plane exceeded what he expected.
• The disc creature claimed it could assimilate anyone whose retina showed its presence, while the Grand Duke slaughtered prisoners he believed were marked by blue rings.
• Locke stopped the Grand Duke after he mistook Locke for an illusory prisoner, then doubted the creature's claims and wondered why it could affect both him and the Grand Duke.

Edgar unveiled his true Great Magic, the Tree of All Things, by returning from death as a Second-Ring Life Ancient Tree and interrupting the Disc Creature Omega’s descent. Locke understood how Edgar had abandoned the Time-Shadow Fern to complete his plan, while the Moon-Ring Witch realized Edgar had never intended to accept it.

• After the Grand Duke slaughtered the prisoners, the Silent Plane was plunged into darkness as the Disc Creature Omega unleashed the hundred-thousand-year Omega Rain and announced it would descend in seven days.
• Locke used his Goldflow Fern Spear to destroy a water monster and questioned how Omega could affect the Dharma Realm and descend so quickly.
• Edgar’s Magic Pressure erupted from the Land of Myriad Spirits, where his Life Ancient Tree grew into the Tree of Perfection and interrupted Omega’s declaration.
• Edgar’s Tree of All Things seized Omega’s blue light, absorbed part of its power, and weakened its hold on the Present World.
• Locke realized Edgar had died and returned as a plant spirit after severing his former Great Magic, allowing him to construct Tree of All Things instead of accepting the Time-Shadow Fern.
• The Moon-Ring Witch concluded that Edgar had planned all along to die and return through the Silent Grail so he could complete the Tree of Perfection.

Locke and Edgar clashed with their Great Magic, but Locke turned Edgar’s Life Spear into a Treant with the Moon Goddess Blessing Spell, forcing Edgar to reconsider the fight. When Omega began its invasion of the Silent Plane and Locke’s Dharma Realm, the rivals agreed to investigate how it had bypassed the realm’s defenses, leaving the competition unresolved.

• Edgar used Tree of All Things to convert deathly spirit energy into Life Energy and attack Locke with his Perfect Treant’s Great Magic.
• Locke’s Moon of Evolution and Moon Goddess Blessing Spell awakened Edgar’s Life Spear into a Treant, which broke free of Edgar’s control and attacked him.
• Edgar destroyed the Treant with Life Spear Array, then stopped his attack after realizing Locke could turn his Botanical Magic against him.
• Omega began descending on the Silent Plane, unleashing rain, mortals under its influence, and legions of Rain Mantises and other affiliated creatures.
• Locke and Edgar called a temporary truce to investigate Omega’s invasion, while Locke focused on how it had bypassed the gates of his Dharma Realm.

Locke discovered that the Disc Creatures were flooding his Dharma Realm with Rain Mantises and reasoned that the Silent Plane’s lack of spiritually diverse biomass made it easy to invade. He fulfilled Zuo Luo’s final wish by turning the Mind Network’s Emperor Chess Piece into a shared system, received Zuo Luo’s hidden Light of Mind, and prepared to reveal how his Moon of Evolution would defeat Edgar.

• Locke found that Rain Mantises were pouring into the Dharma Realm, where they threatened its inhabitants and resources despite his ability to destroy individual attackers easily.
• Locke and Antoine concluded that the Silent Plane’s biomass was dominated by humans and lacked spiritually rich plants, making it vulnerable to Omega’s invasion.
• Locke withdrew from the Mind Network and connected the spirituality of the Silent Plane’s inhabitants to the Emperor Chess Piece, fulfilling Zuo Luo’s final wish that everyone become their own master.
• The shared Emperor Chess Piece delivered Zuo Luo’s hidden Light of Mind to Locke, while the Grand Duke Westminster realized Locke had uncovered Zuo Luo’s arrangements.
• Locke revealed that he was a Breeder and Potion Master who had been saving those abilities for the competition, then reached down and seized the moon to show Edgar the power of his Moon of Evolution.

Locke used King Otto’s Reverse Refinement Method to turn a Black Wizard’s Magic Pressure into Blank Spirituality, drawing attention from the Silent Grail Competition judges and spectators. As the battle at Golden Crown Mountain continued, Locke’s preparations foiled Ellen Fox’s attempt to use stolen magic against his Wizard Shoes, and Locke prepared to demonstrate his own Moon Cultivation Method.

• Locke crushed Rain Mantises with King Otto’s Bronze Cauldron and used their spirituality to begin the Reverse Refinement Method.
• Ellen Fox stole and destroyed a Snow-Capped Pineapple Wizard Shoe, identified Locke as its designer, and used Locke’s stolen Full Moon Growth to threaten Golden Crown Mountain’s forces.
• Locke’s prepared Spell Models let the Moon of Evolution hijack and drain the Full Moon Growth, leaving Ellen Fox’s plan thwarted.
• Locke refined a Black Wizard’s Magic Pressure into Blank Spirituality inside the Bronze Cauldron while competition viewers saw only parts of the process.
• The judges and spectators discussed Locke’s Reverse Refinement Method, and Wizard Chad Schultz claimed Locke was Golden Crown Mountain’s trump card.
• Locke prepared to use the Moon Cultivation Method, which he considered his own creation in Botany and Breeding Science.