Chapter Summaries

Witch Sophia defended her decision to trust Locke with sensitive knowledge, while Locke learned more about the Academic Lineage’s research and arranged for Wizard Mike to explore the Venom Great World in equipment he would make. The chapter left Locke preparing a new Spell-Model Jungle project and considering a response to attacks on his Wizard Shoes.

• Witch Sophia assured William Hook that she trusted her student and would claim the Starfield Sea’s fruit, then rejected his offer to join a Magic Plant classification project.
• Fiona, Rien, and Henry questioned Locke about his Jungle research and explained the Academic Lineage’s dispute with the Rose School Lineage over whether wizards or Rose Magic Plants should control their shared magic.
• Fiona refused to let Locke join the discussion about Wizard Damon’s death and told him to continue his projects, while warning that her Black-and-White World would collapse in one month.
• Locke received a suspicious order for seven thousand pairs of Black Giant Hummingbird Air Pineapple shoes, then met Wizard Mike to negotiate a modest Augustus headquarters building in exchange for an exploration set.
• Locke agreed to equip Mike for a deeper expedition into the Venom Great World, asked him to reach the Magic Poison Spring and explore toward L4, and arranged to receive a live view through a True Sight Crystal Ball.
• Locke decided to test a Spell-Model Jungle with Mike’s gear and noticed a new article about a fungus that threatened Silver-Eyed Witch Black’s air pineapples, prompting him to consider striking back.

Locke tested the powerful Heavenly Wolf Rose, introduced Wizard Wood to the Little Lobster Prince for their mushroom-robe research, and weighed a risky bulk order against his need for Magic Stones. As Wizard Chaos discovered the true entrance to the Venom Great World, Locke received a Zodiac Challenge worth fifty million Magic Stones and took it up.

• Locke tested the Heavenly Wolf Rose and considered using it to strengthen his demon dragon rose, while telling Wizard Wood to use the Little Lobster Prince in their mycelial fusion research and wizard-robe project.
• Wizard Wood told Locke that Wizard West had hidden potential and might eventually commit fully to the research team, and Locke said the team was a place for everyone to use their talents.
• Wizard Chaos realized the Venom Great World’s sky and land had been inverted, found its true territory, and learned that the five-headed snake’s people called themselves the remnant Wizarding World, Pruodimor.
• Queen Ayla warned Locke that the offer to buy seven thousand pairs of Wizard’s Shoes might be a trap, even though accepting it could bring over three hundred million Magic Stones in profit.
• Locke patiently answered Wizard Julian’s questions about a Lanmaoa Mushroom design, then considered how to handle the suspicious order while short of funds.
• Tiger offered Locke a Zodiac Challenge from Ox with a fifty-million-Magic-Stone reward, and Locke accepted it.

Locke entered a Zodiac Challenge in a toy-like world ruled by the Ending Witch and discovered that she embodied its Constancy. He used the Ending Demon King transformation and the Indestructible Potion to withstand the world’s destructive Third-Ring power, break Pseudo Forging: Destruction, and restore the world before the potion’s three seconds expired.

• Locke entered the Garden Box World, confronted the Ending Witch, and fought her as she grew stronger through her destructive Pseudo Forging.
• Locke realized the Ending Witch was the reincarnation of the world’s Constancy and used her attacks to gather the plane principle and complete the Ending Demon King Transformation Potion.
• The world’s Destruction Tribulation emerged, and the Ending Witch recovered her memories and warned Locke that the Third-Ring power would destroy them and the world.
• Locke drank the Indestructible Potion, merged with Pseudo Forging: Destruction, and used Restoration Replication and Supreme Evil Path to break the destructive power and restore the world.
• The Ending Witch thanked Locke Augustine as she faded away, while Rat of the Zodiac and Tiger discussed Locke’s success and Rat concealed his goals from the other Zodiac members.

Argos analyzed Locke Augustine’s character and prepared a plan to undermine Augustus while avoiding direct confrontation. Locke gained control of the destructive lightning in his soul, helped Douglas and the Lagma Mammon Witch King secure Green Dragon Lightning, and returned to his research, where he completed his first Star-Ring Air Pineapple Wizard Shoes.

• Argos told Wizard Lex and the witch to target other Pure Magic Plant Wizard Shoes alliances and claimed Locke would not act against Solas Barefoot until it openly threatened him.
• Locke entered the Three-Cave World seeking help with the destructive lightning, where Douglas and the Lagma Mammon Witch King summoned a Green Dragon’s Claw through the Sea Realm vortex.
• A wizard from another era tried to seize the claw, but Locke drove him away and caught it before the Lagma Mammon Witch King helped him channel the destructive lightning into it.
• Locke mastered the remaining lightning and formed the Thirty-Eight Thousand Forms Annihilating Thunderfire Sword; the Lagma Mammon Witch King then announced that he would take Douglas into the void to help him become a Second-Ring Wizard.
• Douglas gave Locke five Lightning Studies spell scrolls, and Locke returned to his laboratory and completed his first Star-Ring Air Pineapple Wizard Shoes, which he named The King's New Shoes, Air Pineapple.

Locke pursued funding for his mycelium-fusion wizard robe research while Augustus’s Air Pineapple shoes won a major procurement deal at Kunguding Academy, humiliating Wizard Lex’s competing designs. Argos reassured Lex that his faction’s broader campaign against pure magic plant wizard shoes was still underway, while Locke prepared to seek more money and research data.

• Locke sent Wizard Lix to submit Augustus’s Air Pineapple shoes to Kunguding Academy and asked Wizard Gordon to help apply for a second-ring fund and bank loans.
• Wizard Trajan offered to speed up Locke’s fund application and told him about Golden Crown Mountain’s magic plant competitions and research fund, which Locke considered applying for.
• At Kunguding Academy, Wizard Lex presented six Solas Barefoot shoe designs, but Director Hack revealed that Augustus’s invisible Air Pineapple shoes had escaped the Sagittarius Golems in twenty-seven seconds and earned an order for fifty pairs.
• Wizard Lex told Argos about his defeat, and Argos urged him to enter the Solas Faction’s Wizard Robe Design Competition while promising that his trap against pure magic plant shoes was taking shape.
• Wizard Lix reported that Augustus had made a net profit of one hundred million Magic Stones, and Locke prepared to submit his funding application and gather more mycelium-fusion research data.

Locke secured three hundred million Magic Stones and developed adaptive fused mycelium, gaining new ideas for his Moon of Evolution while planning ways to fund further research. Meanwhile, Witch Annie persuaded Wizard Lex to secretly join her effort to destroy Augustus, and Lex resolved to challenge Locke again with rare materials from the Azure Fairy Wilderness.

• Locke borrowed one hundred million Magic Stones from the Red Dragon Bank, then received another generous one-hundred-million loan from Wizard Fubangge after refusing to sell shares in his Shop Alliances.
• Locke learned that the Elder Council had chosen Dragonfall Land's Anbo Grid Magic Pearls for its Ancient Planet project, and he used his new funding to resume research into Mycelium Fusion.
• Witch Annie told Wizard Lex that Locke had killed Damon and urged Lex to avenge him by attacking Augustus commercially, but Lex initially refused to defy Argos's instructions.
• Locke tested fused mycelium that adapted to his spells, reconsidered how scale and collective spirituality affected evolution, and brought the culture to Witch Fiona's Queen's Chessboard for further study.
• Witch Fiona explained that she had fought Solas in the Blazing Sun Greater World and settled the conflict over his son's death without surrendering their interests.
• After seeing a report that Augustus was hiring former Wizard Shoes Shop Alliance workers, Lex agreed to Annie's plan, and they decided to obtain secret materials from her teacher's warehouse and fund a new challenge against Augustus.

Karl was detained by Northern Sector Wizard Investigators after someone reported doubts about his identity, while Locke investigated spiritual fusion in magic plants and refined the Moon of Evolution. A month later, Locke returned from the Black-and-White World, and Argos prepared to bring their conflict over the wizard shoe market into the open.

• Karl reunited with seven Black Earth Region wizards after securing trade agreements in a Greater World, then was taken by Northern Sector Wizard Investigators for questioning about how he entered the Wizarding World.
• Sera defeated Baibars, drained his form, and left for the Venom Great World as Baibars collapsed; Locke learned that Karl's competition place was under review and that Sera had become much stronger.
• Locke used the Queen's Chessboard, the Sunlight Divine Mirror Monocle, and the Moon of Evolution to study fused mycelium, concluding that spiritual fusion could drive magic-plant evolution and developing a new research framework.
• Locke instructed Planknia to reject applicants for Augustus except Michael, who offered to train novice wizards; Argos later read Locke's Ten-King Bottle article and continued plotting to monopolize the wizard shoe market.
• After spending ninety years in the Black-and-White World, Locke returned to Golden Crown Mountain and summoned Wizard Mike; Argos took this as his chance and assembled allies, reporters, and officials for a decisive confrontation between Solas Barefoot and Augustus.