Chapter Summaries

Arro used the Magic Strike Technique to break through Iron Tower’s Stone Cage and slash Skinny Monkey out of the Earth Element Giant. As the suspended space began to collapse and the exit remained locked, Arro faced Skinny Monkey, who was still determined to capture him.

• Arro evaded the Gravity Spell and Stone Cage, then accelerated with Phoenix Strike to escape the pillars.
• Arro’s flaming longsword cut into the Earth Element Giant’s thigh and wounded Skinny Monkey, forcing him out of the giant.
• The wizard’s suspended space began to fall, and Pipit warned Arro that the spatial exit was locked while Bosk attacked the barrier.
• Skinny Monkey threatened Arro, but Arro mocked him and prepared to fight the Formal Wizard.

Arro fought Skinny Monkey, a Formal Wizard, while the Crystal Scorpions attacked Iron Tower. As Skinny Monkey unleashed a thunderstorm, Pipit used the Magic Array to absorb it and Wizard Bosco protected Arro from the lightning.

• The Crystal Scorpions tore at Iron Tower as he begged the young man in the sky to save him.
• Arro attacked Skinny Monkey with his Flame Longsword, but Skinny Monkey blocked him with a Crystal Barrier and trapped him in a Philius Gravity Field.
• Arro used Phoenix Nirvana to defend himself, then activated the Flying Technique in his pendant to evade Skinny Monkey’s Death Ray.
• Skinny Monkey rose into a black cloud and cast Thunderstorm, while Arro feared he could not escape the coming attack.
• Pipit used Energy Absorption to draw energy from the black cloud, and Wizard Bosco shielded Arro from the lightning.
• Arro thanked his teacher, then collapsed into exhaustion after realizing the overwhelming power of a Formal Wizard.

Arro emerged from the Different Dimension, took Oliver’s apprentice robe, and collected the equipment from the mountain. He asked Bosco what had happened to the mirrors, and Bosco reacted with unusual anger, leaving their meaning unresolved.

• Bosco sent Arro out of the Different Dimension and stayed behind with Skinny Monkey.
• Arro found Oliver unconscious, borrowed his apprentice robe, and built him a wooden bed.
• Arro discovered that the D-shaped Reflective Mirror had vanished, then gathered the remaining mirrors and equipment.
• Bosco returned, told Arro that most of the equipment was ordinary, and urged him to discard it.
• Arro asked Bosco why he had chosen the mirrors and where they had gone, and Bosco darkened and glanced back toward the Different Dimension.

Wizard Bosco told Arro that he had failed to obtain the Further Study Qualification for the City of the Sky, then examined the mirror Arro had chosen and explained why he could not inspect its Reflective Mirror Surface. Bosco also explained the limits of Arro’s Magic Strike Technique against Formal Wizards, leaving Arro considering ways to gain enough power to threaten them in return.

• Bosco told Arro that he had not obtained the Further Study Qualification for the City of the Sky, and Arro thanked his teacher for everything he had already given him.
• Bosco sensed Arro’s Reflective Mirror Surface but could not examine it, and said Arro would need to investigate it after becoming an Advanced Apprentice.
• Arro asked why his Magic Strike Technique could not withstand Skinny Monkey, and Bosco explained that Arro had accumulated Abyss Power without fully channeling its force.
• Bosco said the Magic Strike Technique could rival a Formal Wizard around its third level, but warned that Abyss Power would erode Arro’s body first.
• Arro considered developing tools and defenses that could let him threaten Formal Wizards as well as survive their attacks.

After a wizard invaded the Academy’s Power Core, Arro planned to make a firearm and Black Powder, then learned that the Academy was entering a semi-closed state because enemies had attacked a Resource Area. The chapter left Arro considering the new danger and the missions apprentices were taking to stay away from battles between Formal Wizards.

• Arro questioned how Defense Arrow worked and decided to prepare Black Powder as the basis for a firearm.
• Arro completed his meditation and planned to buy potions to help gather his Magic Power into trick structures.
• Arro left his courtyard and learned that word had spread that Wizard Bosco had taken him as a student.
• An apprentice told Arro that the Academy was entering a semi-closed state after enemies invaded a Resource Area.
• The apprentice explained that apprentices were competing for missions guarding small Resource Areas to avoid fights between Formal Wizards.

Arro worried that the academy might become a battlefield and asked Bosco whether he should leave on an external assignment. Reassured that the academy could defend itself, Arro showed Bosco his firearm design and learned that Alchemy could protect complex mechanisms from wizards’ environmental magic.

• Arro noticed apprentices selling ordinary materials cheaply on Battle Corner Street and wondered whether they were preparing to leave the academy.
• Arro told Bosco about the notice and the apprentices’ reactions, then asked whether he should take an external assignment.
• Bosco said he knew of no major danger and explained that the academy’s defenses could let him subdue invading Formal Wizards.
• Arro showed Bosco his automatic firearm blueprint, and Bosco praised its simple structure but said it was too weak to threaten even an Intermediate Apprentice.
• Bosco told Arro that Alchemy could turn the weapon’s parts into a magic-pattern structure with an Energy Barrier to resist outside influences.

Arro asked Wizard Bosco whether Fluorescent Powder could preserve the Mental Strength held in his Pendant, and learned that stabilizing its magic power required expertise he could not provide. He decided to keep studying Alchemy and went to Battle Corner Street to ask about potions that could gather his Mental Strength.

• Arro realized Pure Mechanical Structure needed disguises because its workings were easy to understand and counter.
• Arro asked Bosco whether Fluorescent Powder could contain the Pendant’s strand of projected Mental Strength, and Bosco explained that its magic power needed to be stabilized.
• Bosco warned that Fluorescent Powder’s Will Fragments harmed rationality, while Arro realized the souls in the Wooden Ball had become irrational.
• Arro left Bosco’s courtyard, set aside his worries about the souls, and resolved to study Alchemy to grow stronger and eventually find his Mother.
• Arro visited the potion stalls on Battle Corner Street and asked about potions for gathering his own Mental Strength.

Arro prepared to advance to Intermediate Apprentice and stockpiled knowledge and materials before entering seclusion in the Experiment Area. As apprentices fled and rumors unsettled the new students, Intermediate Apprentices began luring them to Mentor Alice’s private space, while a dazed young man knocked on a hut outside Apprentice City No. 3.

• Arro bought Siren's Song, ordinary materials, and access to higher levels of the Library, then gathered Alchemy knowledge and Tricks.
• Arro returned to the Experiment Area to carve Trick structures, revise his weapons and techniques, and develop gunpowder, firearms, and bombs.
• As apprentices left the Academy and classes were canceled, rumors spread among new students that the Academy would abandon anyone who had not sensed mental strength.
• Intermediate Wizard Apprentices invited new students to attend a mental-strength class at Mentor Alice's private space, while others sought out people they knew in nearby villages.
• A dazed young man knocked on a wooden hut outside Apprentice City No. 3.

Desi visited Kaitain and invited him to join Mentor Alice’s two-day task for ten Magic Stones, which required apprentices to provide Magic Power. As Desi explained the application deadline, Dilia returned to the cabin.

• Kaitain welcomed Desi into the cabin and told him that Arro had moved to the Experiment Area and Dilia had joined the Guard Army.
• Desi asked about Arro, then offered Kaitain a chance to join Mentor Alice’s task for ten Magic Stones.
• Kaitain eagerly accepted the task and accidentally spilled hot tea on Desi’s arm.
• Desi briefly struggled against a scarlet influence before hiding his burn and explaining that apprentices needed to apply early.
• Dilia arrived at the cabin and greeted Desi.

Bosco learned that Alice had drawn over a thousand new students and many apprentices into a mission they had not yet begun, and he suspected a serious disappearance crisis. Meanwhile, Arro prepared gunpowder bombs and four magic-patterned Drill Bombs as defenses against hostile wizards, but left their power untested.

• Ruisi told Bosco that students and apprentices had entered Alice’s mission and had not come back out, despite the mission not having started.
• Ruisi said Alice had recruited over a thousand new students and more than five hundred Junior Apprentices, with Intermediate Apprentices possibly joining in secret.
• Bosco asked whether the Dean had been informed, and Ruisi said the Dean had not had time to address the matter.
• Arro considered how bombs might threaten wizards and improved his gunpowder by granulating it.
• Arro abandoned magic-patterned bullets as too time-consuming and used his remaining gunpowder to make bombs.
• Arro crafted four magic-patterned Drill Bombs for attacking sturdy defenses, but did not test them.

Arro prepared and drank the Siren's Song, enduring its oceanic visions and painful transformation while condensing his scattered Magic Power into a foundation. After purifying the potion's effects, he began meditating to stabilize his new core structure and advance toward becoming an Intermediate Wizard Apprentice.

• Arro prepared a saltwater bath, soaked until his skin shriveled, and drank the Siren's Song.
• Arro entered a vision of the deep sea, where the potion's song drew his scattered Magic Power together.
• Arro used the three cores of his Meditation Technique to condense his Magic Power as the potion's effects faded and a white phantom appeared.
• Arro drank the Purification Potion to remove the fish scales, cold, and pain, while a mournful merman face emerged and dissipated.
• Arro recovered, then meditated in the Quiet Room to stabilize his condensed Magic Power before it dispersed.

Arro began imprinting the Trip Spell in his Sea of Consciousness while Wizard Bosco tried to enter Alice’s Mist Different Dimension and discovered she had barred Formal Wizards. As Alice prepared more sacrifices, Bosco used his gear-based magic to reach the academy’s mechanical realm, where someone addressed him.

• Arro shaped Fire Element Magic Power in his Sea of Consciousness to construct the Trip Spell, relying on his familiarity with the trick.
• Wizard Bosco reached the Corner Path and found that Alice’s judgment Magic Array rejected him despite his attempts to disguise his status as a Formal Wizard.
• Bosco called out to Alice, and his voice shook the mist as vacant apprentices continued filing into Mist Island.
• Amy told Alice that they had prepared twenty percent more sacrifices than planned, and Alice ordered her to have the Mental Puppets gather more.
• Bosco decided he could not wait and used Hand Seals to transform the Corner Path into an ocean of interlocking gears.
• A man greeted Bosco in the mechanical realm beneath the Xingchen that marked the academy’s important different dimensions.

After becoming an Intermediate Wizard Apprentice, Arro planned to improve his combat gear instead of strengthening Magic Strike Technique, which his body could not withstand at full power. He designed shock-absorbing armor and upgrades for his Blazing Longsword, while daily meditation revealed how slowly his poor aptitude let him train Mental Strength.

• Arro decided that increasing his physique or relying on the Pendant's Magic Power would not solve the danger of Magic Strike Technique's reaction force, so he planned to make energy-absorbing armor.
• Arro designed a Merman Glue honeycomb buffer filled with high-pressure gas, with bursting cells as a final safeguard, and began testing materials for an outer layer resistant to Abyss Power.
• Arro identified problems with the Blazing Longsword: its Melting Stone burned too quickly, its Silver Core melted from the heat, and its Steel Blade Body was too brittle.
• Arro planned to retain the sword's cooling mechanism but replace its steam release with Air Currents powered by magic patterns from the Airship Power Core, preserving the Blazing Sword Technique's moves.
• Arro kept meditating each day and discovered that his poor aptitude let him sense and gather only a few drops of elemental power at a time.

Bosco confronted his former student Anthony over his plan to gain control of Owl Wizard Academy, but Anthony defended his actions as necessary to acquire the prestige and power the academy lacked. Their argument ended as Bosco prepared to fight him.

• Bosco confronted Anthony about abandoning his former principles, and Anthony revealed that he had removed the Mist Different Dimension's connection point.
• Anthony said he acted for power and argued that defeating Bosco would let him inherit the prestige needed to change the academy.
• Bosco rejected Anthony's reasoning, while Anthony claimed the academy's Mentors feared Bosco rather than respecting him.
• Anthony explained that he had spent decades preparing to defeat Bosco and take the Dean's seat by gaining the wizards' obedience.
• Bosco rejected Anthony's methods and challenged him to reveal what he had prepared.

Arro sheltered as the Academy shook while Anthony gained the upper hand over Bosco and promised to rescue the innocent students. Desi awoke in a prison-like place with unfamiliar memories flooding back, including the names Kaitain and Dilia.

• Arro heard Pipit's announcement that the Academy was adjusting its structure, saw vines reinforce the buildings, and returned to his room for shelter.
• Anthony dismantled Bosco's spells and urged his mentor to surrender, while Bosco reflected on his past and asked Anthony to rescue the innocent students.
• Anthony assured Bosco that Alice had become useless and proposed that Bosco live in the Academy with his cabin rather than die.
• Desi woke in a damp, foul-smelling cell, and a Formal Wizard reported that Desi could cast normally after being controlled for a short time.
• After Desi was taken outside, sunlight triggered unfamiliar memories and pain, and he recognized the names Kaitain and Dilia.

Arro studied the Hexagram Meditation Technique and other spells while staying secluded in his courtyard. Desi arrived in a desperate state and revealed that Mentor Alice had taken Kaitain and Dilia into her Mist Space for a blood sacrifice, begging Arro to ask Wizard Bosco to save them.

• After the Academy's tremors ended, Arro began studying the Hexagram Meditation Technique and exchanged for numerous spells.
• Arro spent more than two months secluded in his courtyard, practicing tricks and studying.
• Desi arrived at Arro's gate looking exhausted and disheveled, and Arro helped him inside.
• Desi fell to his knees and begged Arro to save Kaitain and Dilia.
• Desi revealed that Mentor Alice had bewitched students and was preparing a blood sacrifice, and that he had taken Kaitain and Dilia into her Mist Space while under her control.
• Desi urged Arro to ask Wizard Bosco for help, insisting that Bosco could save them.

After Desi told Arro that Alice had taken Kaitain and Dilia for a blood sacrifice, Arro struggled with guilt over having avoided his friends and decided to seek Bosco’s help. He hurried toward Corner Path amid signs of widespread chaos across the Academy.

• Desi told Arro that Kaitain and Dilia had been taken the previous day for a blood sacrifice and begged him to save his sister, Dilia.
• Arro brought Desi into the courtyard, asked when the sacrifice would begin, and sent him to rest while he went to find Bosco.
• Arro hurried toward Corner Path, wondering whether the Academy had already responded to Alice’s actions.
• Law Enforcement Officers and Guard Army soldiers rushed through Corner Path as apprentices were carried away, searched for, or restrained amid the turmoil.

Arrow arrived at Battle Corner Street, found the academy in turmoil, and went to the Mysterious Great Hall seeking Wizard Bosco. Dean Anthony then ordered Arrow brought to the Council Hall, where he claimed Arrow’s Senior Brother was waiting, leaving Arrow confused about who that could be.

• Arrow saw wounded apprentices, furious prisoners, and hurried Enforcers and Guard Army members, then entered the Mysterious Great Hall to find Wizard Bosco.
• Enforcers verified Arrow’s identity with his Personal Name Tag and sent a messenger to report his arrival.
• At the Council Hall, Anthony considered how Bosco’s supposed defeat could strengthen his own standing and ordered Arrow brought to him.
• The freckled youth told Arrow that his Senior Brother was waiting in the Council Hall, but Arrow did not know who the Senior Brother was.

Arro was escorted to the Council Hall and used Abyss Power to form formal black armor before entering. At the gates, he recognized the Beast of Justice as Pipit and wondered whether Bosco was nearby.

• Arro realized the Enforcers had surrounded him and asked to change clothes before meeting the wizards in the Council Hall.
• The freckled youth refused to let Arro return to change, so Arro formed black armor with the Magic Strike Technique: Phoenix's First Cry.
• Arro's Abyss Power corroded the ground and air, frightening the Enforcers into opening the Council Hall gates.
• Arro recognized the Beast of Justice as Pipit when it winked at him, then wondered whether Bosco was nearby.
• Arro strode into the Council Hall with the Black Flame Fire Phoenix rising behind him.

Anthony announced that he had defeated Wizard Bosco, prompting the wizards of Owl Academy to debate whether to trust him and what Bosco’s absence meant for the academy. Arro arrived in powerful black armor with a Black Flame Phoenix Bird, and his presence stirred the Council Hall’s wizards into a show of force.

• Anthony told the Council Hall that he had defeated Bosco, while Dora and other wizards challenged his claim and questioned how he would manage the academy.
• Dora urged Crosh to leave Owl Academy and form a hunting squad, but Crosh argued that staying at the academy was safer and that wizards should focus on improving their strength.
• Ambitious wizards questioned Anthony’s right to become Dean, while Anthony stated that he had imprisoned Bosco rather than killed him.
• The freckled youth announced Arro’s arrival, and Anthony’s attempt to welcome his junior apprentice brother faltered when Arro appeared in black armor with a Black Flame Phoenix Bird.
• The wizards in the Council Hall stirred their Magic Power, thickening the air with clashing energy, as Arro’s phoenix grew to four meters and Arro walked toward the center of the hall.