Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xu reassured Nan Xiao Wei about the exploitative players in her starting town and promised to take her along if she reached the Northern Alliance. Back in the Palace of Aizhu, he and Vivian entered the Elemental Seal trial and summoned four small elementals, which they had to defeat simultaneously to stop them from multiplying.

• Nan Xiao Wei admired Zhao Xu for entering a divine artifact and complained that veteran players in her starting town were charging newcomers protection fees.
• Zhao Xu comforted Nan Xiao Wei and promised to take her with him if she made it to the Northern Alliance.
• Zhao Xu worried about whether Zheng Xinyun could complete her Cleric training while her divine power signal remained intermittent.
• Zhao Xu and Vivian chose a door in the buried Palace of Aizhu and entered an empty stone chamber containing four objects that triggered the Elemental Seal.
• Zhao Xu touched the secret door, summoning small fire, wind, water, and earth elementals, and ordered Vivian to kill them all within one round before they could revive and multiply.

Zhao Xu and Vivian cleared the first elemental chamber and teleported through an ambush in the next. The opposing party tried to bargain with them, but its captain threw a Golden Orb behind Zhao Xu, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Zhao Xu and Vivian killed the two small elementals before the stone door closed and entered the next chamber.
• Zhao Xu used his Teleportation Boots to evade arrows and an axe swung by a dozen adventurers hiding in the chamber.
• Zhao Xu realized the adventurers had already cleared the chamber’s four Medium Elementals but were trapped behind the door and needed outsiders to activate it again.
• The adventurers lowered their weapons and claimed they had mistaken Zhao Xu and Vivian for monsters, then proposed cooperating to obtain and divide the artifact.
• The captain offered Zhao Xu a Golden Orb as a sign of good faith, then suddenly threw it behind him.

Zhao Xu turned a Fireball Necklace thrown by an enemy squad against its owners, and Vivian killed the surviving Fighter while Zhao recovered from Lesser Haste. They discovered the Fighter had gained fire immunity from elemental trials, while Zhao’s Brass Treasure Chest absorbed runes from the dead; the pair then prepared to loot the corpses.

• Zhao Xu used Lesser Haste to kick the transforming golden ball back toward the enemy squad, where its Fireball blast killed several members without harming their captain.
• While Zhao suffered Lesser Haste’s backlash, Vivian charged the Fighter and killed him with Evil-Breaking Slash.
• Vivian gave Zhao the Fireball Necklace, and he explained its charges, power, and danger if its wearer was struck by magical flames.
• Zhao found fading elemental marks on the Fighter and concluded that defeating elementals granted temporary immunity, which had protected the Fighter from his own Fireball.
• The runes on four corpses flew into Zhao’s Brass Treasure Chest, and he and Vivian began looting the dead adventurers.

Zhao Xu and Vivian continued clearing the Palace of Aizhu while adventurers elsewhere suffered heavy casualties and players on the forum speculated about the divine artifact. At home, Nan Xiao Wei followed Wang Ningwei’s Q&A thread and saw her say that Midsummer had once saved her in the game.

• Zhao Xu and Vivian defeated the four Medium elementals, then entered the next chamber to face a Large elemental and slowed their progress to prepare carefully.
• Across the Palace of Aizhu, adventurers fought over the stone doors, ran short of supplies, and died in large numbers as the entry period ended and the palace disappeared.
• Players on the forum discussed sending a powerful party to the blast zone in five days, anticipating that Midsummer might emerge with the divine artifact six days later.
• Nan Xiao Wei closed a hostile forum thread and watched Zhao Xu clear the palace, then abandoned her research when she learned Wang Ningwei was holding a Q&A.
• Wang Ningwei answered a question about Midsummer, saying that she knew him and that he had saved her in the game.

Nan Xiao Wei reconsidered Zhao Xu’s abilities while Cui Lu’s group rode toward the Palace of Aizhu and debated life in Arthur. Zhao Xu completed the elemental seal trials and prepared to face four Elemental Princes, the lords of Elements.

• Nan Xiao Wei realized Zhao Xu’s act of saving Wang Ningwei suggested his strength might surpass hers and reconsidered her old impression of him.
• Fang Xiyue, Cui Lu, Zhang Qi, and their companions traveled toward the Palace of Aizhu, discussing the lifelike NPCs and the risks of living in Arthur.
• Fang Xiyue argued that Arthur would be harsh for ordinary people, and she dismissed Zhang Qi’s idea that players could thrive there if they transmigrated.
• Cui Lu mentioned Zhao Xu’s work as a Wizard in Mystra, and Zhang Qi wondered whether Zhao Xu was the player Midsummer, but the others rejected the guess.
• Zhao Xu defeated four elder-grade elementals with his golems and reached the final trial on a vast island in the void.
• Zhao Xu summoned his Legendary Golems and prepared to fight four Elemental Princes with Challenge Ratings above 35.

Zhao Xu prepared to face the Elemental Lords after Lux warned him that legendary monsters could be far more dangerous than their known stats suggested. When the portals to the inner elemental planes merged, the Fire Elemental Lord appeared first, and Zhao Xu called on Lux to transform into the Final Scroll.

• Lux warned Zhao Xu that legendary monsters could possess hidden abilities and powers far beyond the information he had found.
• Lux explained that Divine Breath was a world-destroying artifact connected to the Origin of Chaos.
• Lux proposed controlling the Mithril Golem with her consciousness while transforming her body into an artifact, and Zhao Xu briefed Vivian and gave her control of the Adamantine Golem.
• Zhao Xu stepped onto the island’s central platform, causing four portals to the fire, earth, water, and wind planes to form and merge.
• The Fire Elemental Lord emerged as the two golems charged, and Zhao Xu called for Lux’s Final Scroll transformation.

Zhao Xu used the Final Scroll to prepare against the Lord of Elements, but his Chill Touch failed because the creature was immune to attribute damage. He ended the chapter planning to survive its attack and calculating that he was only eight ranks away from physical immunity.

• Zhao Xu cast Time Stop and several spells to recover spell slots, trigger healing, and remove the stunned condition.
• The Fire Elemental Lord transformed into a powerful stone giant and knocked the golems aside.
• Zhao Xu struck the Lord of Elements with Chill Touch, but it continued its attack because it was immune to attribute damage.
• Zhao Xu used Swift Haste and another Time Stop to buy time while Lux explained the creature's immunities.
• Zhao Xu cast Relic Hunter's Fortune and worked out that he needed eight more Reflex Save ranks to achieve physical immunity.

Zhao Xu used the Final Scroll and a series of spells to test the Starfall Cloak against four elemental lords. Although the cloak negated the damage from their attacks, he discovered that their magical strikes could still inflict negative conditions.

• Zhao Xu cast Greater Resistance Enhancement and Eye of the Oracle to raise his Reflex ability before Time Stop ended.
• Zhao Xu resumed time and evaded the Earth Elemental Lord’s punch as Lux and Vivian’s golems grappled it.
• The Earth Elemental Lord released the Wind, Fire, and Water Elemental Lords, whose attacks struck Zhao Xu in rapid succession.
• The Starfall Cloak blocked the attacks’ damage, but the Fire Elemental Lord’s strike briefly set Zhao Xu ablaze before the Water Elemental Lord extinguished the flames.
• Zhao Xu realized the cloak did not prevent conditions from magical attacks and concluded that he still needed to improve his defenses.

Zhao Xu tested his spells against the four Lords of Elements, but the Wind Elemental trapped him in a tornado that disrupted his balance and prevented him from casting. With death close, Lux urged him to use something connected to the elements, and Zhao Xu reached for his copy of Midsummer's Spellbook as an unexpected change began.

• Zhao Xu used Greater Arcane Fusion to attack the Lords of Elements with Axiom Hammer and Hellfire, but the hammer was blocked by spell resistance and the fire caused only minor damage.
• Zhao Xu and Lux discussed the limits of Lux's artifact form and the difficulty of overcoming the Lords of Elements' high spell resistance.
• The Wind Elemental swept Zhao Xu into a tornado, where wind blades wounded him and the constant tumbling disrupted his ability to think and cast spells.
• Zhao Xu failed a Reflex Save while trying to cast and lost a prepared Spell Slot, leaving him trapped without a way to escape the tornado.
• Lux urged Zhao Xu to find an item related to the elements, and Zhao Xu pulled Midsummer's Spellbook from his backpack, triggering a sudden change.

Zhao Xu and Vivian faced the four elemental gateways as they merged into a blast capable of annihilating everything within a hundred kilometers. With teleportation blocked and Lux ready to sacrifice herself to protect him, Zhao Xu used Wind Walk and Divine Step to race beyond the blast radius.

• Zhao Xu used the evolved notebook to suppress the four great lords of elements and descended safely to the island as his damaged Legendary Golems returned.
• The four elemental lords dissolved back into their gateways, which connected to the Inner Elemental Planes and began merging under the will of ancient Elemental Deities.
• Lux warned Zhao Xu that the merging gateways would cause destruction across more than a hundred kilometers, while Zhao Xu's Greater Teleportation failed because of Dimensional Lock.
• Lux proposed sacrificing her will to form a divinely empowered Prismatic Sphere, but Zhao Xu refused to let her pay that price.
• Zhao Xu turned himself and Vivian into mist with Wind Walk, then ended Divine Step to gain a burst of speed reaching 100,000 kilometers per hour.

Zhao Xu survived the elemental annihilation explosion after Antinoa rescued him and recovered the elemental key. Antinoa explained that the Brass Treasure Chests were her rejected dowry from Ernest and warned Zhao Xu to escape the Palace of Aizhu before it returned to the sky and drew the attention of those seeking divine artifacts.

• Zhao Xu fled more than a hundred kilometers from the fused Elemental Lords' explosion, but its flash blinded him and its shockwave knocked him and Vivian away.
• Antinoa returned Zhao Xu to the hall, revealed she had recovered the elemental key, and scolded him for risking his life in the palace trials.
• Antinoa explained that the palace's later trials were exceptionally dangerous, since nearly everyone who entered the stone doors had died and Zhao Xu's survival was partly luck.
• Antinoa revealed that Ernest had prepared the Brass Treasure Chests as her dowry, that the chests themselves were the real treasures, and that the runes were their keys.
• Antinoa explained that she had rejected the dowry and Ernest later used the five chests as anchors for the Palace of Aizhu, which would soon return to the sky.

Zhao Xu learned that the Palace of Aizhu would return within ten years, bringing a contest for the Divine Breath, a complete godhead. He realized May had already told him the spell that would trigger its next descent, but concealed that discovery from Antinoa by asking about her treasure chests.

• Antinoa explained that the Palace of Aizhu's two-day visit had been bait to reveal the Divine Breath and draw powerful factions into a future contest for it.
• Antinoa estimated the palace would descend again within ten years and said Zhao Xu's early progress through its stages could give him an advantage if he became a Legendary Powerhouse.
• Antinoa said May knew how to trigger the next descent but had refused to share the secret with her.
• Zhao Xu remembered the spell May had whispered to him on Earth and realized that speaking it in Arthur would bring down the Palace of Aizhu.
• Zhao Xu hid his discovery by asking Antinoa whether he should return her five Brass Treasure Chests, and she told him to get lost.

Zhao Xu learned that the runes needed to open the remaining treasure chest had returned to the Elemental Planes, then received a notebook pointing to an ancient elemental tomb. Antinoa left him to face her final test, but the Palace of Aizhu announced that everyone inside would be stranded in the crater at four in the morning, drawing danger toward Zhao Xu.

• Zhao Xu asked Antinoa about the chest-unlocking runes, and she explained that he could seek them in the Elemental Planes after learning Planar Travel.
• Antinoa revealed that she had checked Mage Association records and knew Zhao Xu had bought a Passage Staff, then offered him a Dragon Pearl as compensation before giving him a notebook May had found.
• Antinoa told Zhao Xu to assemble an adventuring party to explore the ancient elemental tomb referenced by the notebooks and said she would wait for him in Starfall Town.
• Antinoa vanished, and Zhao Xu told Vivian to wait for the Palace of Aizhu to rise at dawn so they could flee the battlefield under cover of night.
• The Palace of Aizhu announced that it would return to the celestial heavens at four in the morning, prompting Zhao Xu to realize that adventurers would converge on him in the crater.
• Zhao Xu ordered Vivian to prepare to kill.

Zhao Xu prepared for the Palace of Aizhu to take off while players and adventurers converged on Twilight Forest, hoping to seize the spoils. The palace rose from the meteor crater and cast down the corpses of powerful figures, leaving Midsummer hovering above the crowd.

• Players across the Northern Alliance heard that the Palace of Aizhu would take off, and they debated whether to rush to Twilight Forest for the divine artifact or battle loot.
• Nan Xiao Wei saw the rumors about Midsummer and went to check on Zhao Xu, then returned to prepare her own virtual helmet when she found him still in the game.
• Zhao Xu declined Vivian's suggestion to release the two Legendary Golems and waited as the Palace of Aizhu began to shake.
• A bell rang through the palace, and the Palace of Aizhu rose from underground as Zhao Xu and Vivian struggled to keep their balance.
• The palace emerged from the meteor crater and its pale light cast down the corpses of powerful adventurers, including Captain Taya and Archmage Mulin.
• Midsummer descended last, hovering above the crowd with the Scepter of Supreme Magic and Legendary Necromancy Staff in hand.

Zhao Xu faced the adventurers who attacked him in the crater, using Fireball and the Necromancy Staff’s Magic Array of Death to slaughter the advancing crowds. As Vivian fought off powerful attackers and the organized forces pressed forward, Zhao Xu cast Greater Raise Dead.

• After Zhao Xu’s flight revealed that the Anti-magic Field had vanished, he warned the crowd that anyone coming within a hundred meters would die.
• Zhao Xu used his Eternal Wand of Fireball to burn adventurers flying toward him.
• As Zhao Xu descended, he cast Magic Array of Death and instantly killed dozens of charging adventurers.
• Organized forces showered Zhao Xu and Vivian with arrows, injuring Vivian, and Zhao Xu answered with repeated Magic Array of Death spells that devastated their ranks.
• While Vivian fought the strongest attackers and the remaining forces kept advancing, Zhao Xu cast Greater Raise Dead.

After the Northern Alliance investigators concluded that Midsummer had used an enhanced Magic Array of Death and Greater Raise Dead to survive the battle, Zhao Xu arrived at Starfall Town with an assignment from the Mage Association. The chapter ended with him introducing himself to the startled gate guards as Wizard Midsummer.

• Archmage Klay and the investigators examined the crater and identified the slaughter as the work of a Level 27 Magic Array of Death enhanced by the Legendary Feat Enhance Spell.
• Klay concluded that Midsummer had used a wand and the eighth-ring Greater Raise Dead to summon the Soul Prisoner Demons among the dead.
• Anze connected the investigators’ findings to Midsummer’s escape after killing most of the adventurers who had besieged him.
• Zhao Xu arrived at Starfall Town and presented a letter assigning third-ring Wizard Midsummer to the town.
• The guards recognized Midsummer’s name, and Zhao Xu introduced himself as a Wizard.

Zhao Xu arrived in Starfall Town expecting to report to its Mage Association, only to learn he had been assigned to establish the nonexistent branch himself. After the town guards mistook him for a fraud and attacked, he used Retaliatory Strike to knock them down and continued into town, where Antinoa told him she was waiting at the association’s future site.

• Zhao Xu entered Starfall Town ahead of schedule, concerned about the Godhead of Death fragment’s growing influence and nearing level 7.
• The gate guards accused Zhao Xu of impersonating a Mage Association official and threatened to imprison him.
• Zhao Xu read his assignment letter and discovered that he had to collect supplies from the Northern Alliance branch and establish Starfall Town’s Mage Association from scratch.
• When the guards tried to detain him and attacked, Zhao Xu’s Retaliatory Strike knocked several of them unconscious while his cloak stopped the crossbow bolts.
• Zhao Xu walked into Starfall Town, and Antinoa told him she was waiting at the future site of the Mage Association.

Zhao Xu met Antinoa at the rundown house that would become the local Mage Association’s entrance, where she ordered him to advance to level 7 and explained how the Death God’s Godhead affected his growth. Antinoa prepared to let him use her memories to learn a Fourth Circle Spell and break through, warning him not to look at anything else.

• Zhao Xu used the Counterattack Spell to get past the crowd and found Antinoa waiting inside the old house with its gate open.
• Antinoa revealed that Zhao Xu was expected to become president of a regional association branch and ordered him to reach level 7.
• Antinoa explained that leveling up would weaken the Death God Naraka’s lingering will within the Godhead, and that its power had accelerated Zhao Xu’s accumulation of Life Energy.
• Antinoa said Zhao Xu could break through by learning a Fourth Circle Spell in a memory space connected to the Final Scroll, using traces of its aura he still carried.
• Antinoa prepared to open her memories to Zhao Xu and threatened to use Transform All Things on him if he peeked at anything beyond the spell-learning space.

Zhao Xu entered Antinoa’s memory palace and opened the door holding the mysteries of magic, while a childhood memory hinted at her connection to Moonlight Island and Ernest. Outside, forum users debated whether Midsummer had obtained an artifact, and news that a player would soon reach Level 5 gave way to the sudden appearance of the keyword “7th level.”

• Antinoa warned Zhao Xu that she could transform him into a woman, then cast a Legendary Spell to bring him into a simulated space where time barely passed outside.
• Zhao Xu explored Antinoa’s stored memories and spoke with her childhood self, who said dragons had killed her mother and that she was trying to reach her father on Moonlight Island.
• The child’s memory was filed under “First Meeting with Teacher,” leading Zhao Xu to connect Antinoa’s past with Ernest and the destruction of Moonlight Island.
• Zhao Xu opened the barred door and entered a vast space filled with magical runes, becoming absorbed in the mysteries of magic.
• Forum users discussed the devastation at the Twilight Forest meteor crater and speculated that Midsummer possessed a necromancy-oriented Legendary Staff or artifact.
• Zhang Qi saw news that Warrior’s Glory would soon become the second Level 5 player, then noticed the new forum keyword “7th level.”

The Genesis Temple’s level-jump bulletin revealed Midsummer as Arthur’s first level 7 player, igniting debate over his identity and the vanished Starry Reflection account. As players assigned the accounts distinct reputations, the chapter left Zhao Xu holding all three identities and anticipating the impact of information he would share before the end of the world.

• The Genesis Temple posted a list naming Midsummer as the only level 7 player and showed no level 5 or level 6 players.
• Forum users renewed their theory that Starry Reflection was a powerful NPC, citing his unusual Ghost Strike and battle plan.
• Players connected Midsummer’s level jump and recent battles to his identity, while discussions about him overtook interest in Dongcheng Ling.
• Zhang Qi and his classmates debated whether Midsummer and Starry Reflection were the same person and compared their reputations.
• Zhao Xu reflected that he controlled the Midsummer, Starry Reflection, and Dongcheng Ling accounts and considered the effect of his future announcement.