Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xu learned that Zhang Qi had lost his forum coins betting against his reaching ninth level, while keeping his own breakthrough secret from his roommates. After stabilizing his ninth-level abilities in the Goddess’s Divine Kingdom, Zhao Xu prepared to return to Starfall Town as a Wizard with extraordinary spell endurance and wondered which legendary monster to face first.

• Zhang Qi lamented losing his forum coins after betting that Midsummer would not reach ninth level that month, and Chen Sinan explained how he had gambled them away.
• Zhao Xu read the forum post announcing that Midsummer had reached ninth level and realized he had caused Zhang Qi’s losses.
• Zhang Qi asked why Zhao Xu was still in Mystra, and Chen Sinan defended him while Zhao Xu avoided revealing his recent journey to the Goddess’s Divine Kingdom.
• Zhao Xu reflected on his stabilized ninth-level advancements, his new Character Card, and Spell Guardian’s Supernatural Spell ability.
• Zhao Xu planned to return to Starfall Town after completing the handover procedures, where he would use his restored spell slots and abundant buffs to prepare for a first battle against a legendary monster.

After returning from the Divine Kingdom, Zhao Xu gained an ability that generated Potential Points and explained their uses to Zheng Xinyun. He spent one to restore a spell slot, stacked powerful buffs that raised his HP to 258, and prepared to seek blueprints for a portal.

• Zhao Xu woke in Mystra's Sacred Heart Cathedral, prepared spells, and used Unruly Heroic Aura to gain a Potential Point each round.
• Zhao Xu explained Potential Points and their uses to Zheng Xinyun, then spent one to recover a First-ring Spell Slot.
• Zhao Xu stacked Divine Spell Caster Level buffs and used Field of Decay to gain Strength and temporary HP.
• Zhao Xu cast additional spells and raised his total HP to 258.
• Zhao Xu told Zheng Xinyun they needed to obtain blueprints for building a portal, while holding Sisylvina's radiant note.

Zhao Xu arranged for the Mage Association to build a portal in Starfall Town using the authority of the Goddess’s Seal. He revealed to Wang Ningwei that his trip to the Goddess’s Divine Kingdom had uncovered another way to obtain Potential Points, even for someone with none.

• Players and townspeople crowded around the Mage Association headquarters after learning Starfall Town would receive a portal, drawing attention from wealthy elites, major cities, and powerful guilds.
• Wang Ningwei asked why the Association was building a portal in a town that did not meet its usual requirements, and Zhao Xu explained that the Goddess’s Seal let him request an exception and choose destinations across the Association’s network.
• Wang Ningwei noted that constructing a portal required specialized Feats and spells, while Zhao Xu said he had brought the necessary craftsmen from Mystra using his long-range Teleportation Spell.
• Zhao Xu told Wang Ningwei that he planned to learn from the craftsmen and build a portal between Starfall Town and the Place of Descent where they had crossed over.
• Zhao Xu revealed that he had discovered a second way to gain Potential Points, including for people who had none, and asked Wang Ningwei if she wanted to hear it.

Zhao Xu revealed to Wang Ningwei how the Dragon Prophet and Prophecy Hero feats could generate a temporary Potential Point, then gave her a scroll containing two Eight-Ring Spells as a birthday gift. On Earth, researchers observed another bright lunar impact as Zhao Xu watched the moon, knowing his time there was running out.

• Zhao Xu explained that Dragon Prophet granted Prophecy's Blessing and demonstrated awakening the feat on himself.
• Zhao Xu simulated Prophecy Hero while blessed, gaining one temporary Potential Point, and explained how the feats could help activate spells and abilities.
• Zhao Xu gave Wang Ningwei a scroll containing Abjure Chaos and Adhere Chaos, telling her that spells made Wizards cheaters of the world.
• Researchers at an observatory discussed the frequent lunar flashes, then saw another bright impact on the moon.
• Zhao Xu watched the moon from his dormitory rooftop and realized his days on Earth were numbered.

Zhao Xu secretly inspected Mage Karl’s portal communication device and memorized its key so he could create a concealed route between the Place of Descent and Starfall Town. He left with the information and faced Wang Ningwei’s question about who would make the first crossing.

• Mage Karl guarded the communication device while Zhao Xu discussed the portal’s destinations and rejected a dangerous fallback destination.
• Zhao Xu used Quickened Burst to freeze time briefly, opened Karl’s box, and memorized the device’s contents without being noticed.
• Zhao Xu left the worksite and gave Wang Ningwei the copied key information.
• Wang Ningwei asked Zhao Xu who should be the first to travel through the portal to Starfall Town.

Zhao Xu agreed to let Wang Ningwei draft eligibility requirements for Earthlings to teleport to Starfall Town, which he planned to expand into Starfall City and keep as an Earth outpost. He then used his abilities to overcome Permanency’s casting-time restriction and prepared to make spells permanent on himself.

• Zhao Xu told Wang Ningwei to decide who qualified for teleportation, and explained that Starfall Town would grow into Starfall City rather than be absorbed into the Northern Alliance.
• Wang Ningwei asked whether Zhao Xu could use Permanency without its costly Life Energy, noting that its two-round casting time prevented his Supernatural Spell ability from working.
• Zhao Xu explained that Uncanny Foresight could reduce spells selected through Spell Familiarity to standard-action casts, then refreshed the feat by casting Abjure Chaos after Adhere Chaos.
• Zhao Xu concluded that his abilities could cover the costs and requirements of Permanency, and began preparing to make spells from its first two categories permanent on himself.

Zhao Xu permanently enhanced himself and his hideout with spells before teleporting away on a remote Spell Guard assignment. He found a thousand-strong Orc army preparing for war and began casting Cloudkill Spell to wipe it out.

• Zhao Xu cast several spells on himself and made their effects permanent, then restored his spell slot and supernatural ability with Potential Points.
• Zhao Xu chose Mage's Private Sanctum and several mark spells to protect his prefab house, where Vivian and Cerus took turns keeping watch.
• Zhao Xu told Wang Ningwei to manage the town while he left for half a day, then teleported away.
• Zhao Xu flew invisibly over an Orc army, observed its chieftain and shaman rallying the soldiers, and prepared to attack.
• Zhao Xu cast Cloudkill Spell over the densest concentration of Orcs.

Zhao Xu annihilated an orc army and tribe after learning they had killed a Wizard and a Goddess Priest, then claimed the bounty for completing the mission. The chapter ended with a Rogue and the tavern’s patrons reacting in disbelief to the destruction and Zhao Xu’s proof of completion.

• Zhao Xu killed more than a thousand orc soldiers with Cloudkill and an empowered Sacred Storm, then used another Sacred Storm to destroy the survivors fleeing toward the gorge.
• Zhao Xu questioned the order to leave no one alive and consulted Sisylvina, who told him the tribe had killed a core Wizard of Mystra and a Goddess Priest traveling with a caravan.
• Zhao Xu flew toward the orc tribe and burned every member alive, leaving no survivors.
• A Rogue told the tavern’s bartender and patrons that over a thousand orcs and the nearby tribe had been killed within half a day.
• Zhao Xu entered the tavern disguised beneath a cloak and black veil, presented a Mage Association certificate confirming he had annihilated the Basarru orc tribe, and urged the bartender to pay the bounty quickly.

Zhao Xu accumulated grain, supplies, and equipment while preparing for an approaching upheaval, then clashed with Shining Gold Coins over when a major grain shipment would arrive. He left Angel with a warning that a transformation involving both of them was less than a month away.

• Zhao Xu used teleportation and his growing resources to gather assets across the Northern Lands while quietly empowering his friends and preparing Starfall Town.
• Angel of Shining Gold Coins offered to supply grain after the autumn harvest, but Zhao Xu insisted on delivery before July.
• Zhao Xu challenged Angel's demand for Magic Items as advance payment and rejected her offer of a discount when she revealed that her guild had learned about his equipment reserves.
• Zhao Xu prepared to leave, and Angel asked whether he expected an Orc Empire invasion across the Icefield Mountains.
• Zhao Xu denied that an invasion was the reason and told Angel that a transformation of the era involving them both was coming.

As Starfall Town prepared for the coming crossing, Zhao Xu expanded his supplies and influence while using magic to earn gold and share lessons from the Demon Sealing War. Back in reality, his classmates urged him to protect his academic future, and Zhao Xu promised to explain himself in July.

• Zhao Xu used War Magic: Call Mount and Spell Haste to supply Starfall Town with more than a thousand temporary horses, and Divine Craftsmanship provided him with a limited daily source of gold.
• Zhao Xu grew his following, shared strategic lessons through his forum accounts, and watched Wang Ningwei attract more supporters as Starfall Town's construction proceeded.
• Zheng Xinyun logged off to study for her college entrance examination, while Wang Ningwei prepared to stay in the game around the clock.
• Zhang Qi and Chen Sinan urged Zhao Xu to pause the game and prepare for exams, explaining that his failing grades could hurt his job prospects.
• Zhao Xu thanked his classmates for intervening with his professors and promised to give them an explanation when July arrived.

Zhao Xu told Wang Ningwei that Arthur’s Energy Channel could carry at most one percent of Earth’s population, then prepared to warn the world about the coming crossing. He posted on the forum that Arthur truly existed and that humanity would cross over after meteors struck Earth in twenty-four hours.

• Wang Ningwei and Zhao Xu discussed the association compound and Zhao Xu’s plan to urge people to register for Arthur.
• Zhao Xu revealed that the Energy Channel could carry only about sixty million people and planned to announce a prophecy to prompt a rush of registrations.
• Zhao Xu told Wang Ningwei that the crossing would begin at midnight on July 1st, and they agreed they would succeed.
• After returning to his dormitory, Zhao Xu logged on to the forum under the account Dongcheng Ling.
• Zhao Xu posted that Arthur truly existed and that meteors would fall on Earth in twenty-four hours, sending humanity into the Arthurian World.

Zhao Xu tried to convince Earth’s players that they would soon transmigrate to Arthur, but his prophecy was garbled and TC announced that the game would be shut down indefinitely. The chapter ended with Zhao Xu facing the loss of the game just as he sought to fill its limited player slots.

• Zhao Xu posted that Earth’s people would transmigrate to Arthur at midnight and spent his accumulated forum coins rewarding replies, sparking widespread disbelief and debate.
• Zhao Xu urged his family and friends to register game accounts while the rumor spread through forums and social media, though many people dismissed it.
• TC announced that the game was an AI training project and denied any knowledge of a transmigration event, further undermining Zhao Xu’s warning.
• Zhao Xu posted a prophecy about fiery meteors and Arthur welcoming billions of new citizens, but the written words appeared as gibberish.
• Zhang Qi told Zhao Xu that TC had apologized for the unrest, would refund all registered accounts, and would shut Arthur down indefinitely.

After Arthur shut down and players gathered to mourn the game, Zhao Xu waited for the promised meteor that would signal transmigration. He revealed his identity as Midsummer to Cui Lu just before midnight, but the sky remained empty and still.

• Chen Sinan failed to log in to Arthur as the game went offline, and players across the world reacted with confusion and anger.
• Zhao Xu realized that publishing his prophetic post had triggered the restriction, but he kept his explanation to himself and waited for midnight.
• Zhang Qi invited Zhao Xu to join students gathering on the football field to count down and say farewell to Arthur.
• Players shared their game identities and memories while Zhao Xu prepared spells and waited for the meteor he believed would bring transmigration.
• Cui Lu introduced herself as a Level 5 Ranger, and Zhao Xu told her he was Midsummer, a ninth-level Wizard from Starfall Town.
• Midnight arrived, but no meteor appeared and the night sky remained unchanged.

After Arthur shut down and the expected crossing failed to happen, Zhao Xu took a year of medical leave and traveled to Shanghai, where he reunited with Wang Ningwei and Zheng Xinyun. On the last night of July, the three realized the meteor shower had finally begun, marking the start of the crossing.

• Zhang Qi defended Zhao Xu after classmates gossiped that he had left school following Arthur's shutdown.
• Zhao Xu took a year of medical leave and traveled by train to see the world while reviewing the spells he remembered from Arthur.
• Wang Ningwei and Zheng Xinyun met Zhao Xu at the station and took him sightseeing around Shanghai.
• Over late-night snacks, Zhao Xu, Wang Ningwei, and Zheng Xinyun discussed the failed crossing and considered whether the lack of divine power during July had caused the delay.
• After Zheng Xinyun noted that it was the last day of July, countless meteors streaked across the sky above them.

As a massive meteor shower opened the passage to Arthur, Zhao Xu, Wang Ningwei, and Zheng Xinyun prepared for the crossing in a bar. A divine announcement named the highest-level adventurer Midsummer before everyone vanished, leaving people wondering who Midsummer was.

• Zhao Xu reassured Wang Ningwei and Zheng Xinyun as meteors filled the sky and communications across Earth failed.
• Zhao Xu cast Elastic Sphere around the three and used Suggestion to send a curious bar patron back to his seat.
• Arthur’s gods announced that all Earth citizens would be transferred to Arthur’s Place of Descent.
• A divine announcement said former Arthur players would retain their last game state, named Midsummer as the highest-level adventurer, and reclaimed all remaining Resurrection Stones.
• A mysterious female voice teased Midsummer, then everyone’s souls and bodies vanished.

Earth’s people awoke scattered across the Barbaric Dead Land, where Negative Energy turned the unconscious into Undead and survivors struggled to establish order. A mysterious player reached Zhao Xu’s parents and told them he would take them somewhere safe, then rejected the authorities’ attempt to recruit him.

• A Fighter and Ranger realized that hundreds of people had transmigrated into the dangerous forest and warned that the unconscious could become zombies or skeletons.
• Survivors and Arthur players organized into groups, fought emerging zombies and animals, and began registering people under new leadership.
• Xiao Qi enforced discipline in his group, warning former celebrities and elites that their past status would not protect them in Arthur.
• Earth transmigrators discovered that they had all arrived in the same vast region, while Zhao Xu’s parents worried that he was away from them.
• A mysterious player in a starry cloak approached Zhao Xu’s parents, identified himself as their son, and offered to take them to safety.
• When a leader asked him to join the Arthur Player Guard Corps, the mysterious man ordered him to move.

Zhao Xu reached Starfall Town, freed his parents from a local dispute, and used magic to control and then charm the administrators before giving out supplies. He teleported away with his parents to find other relatives after revealing that he was Midsummer.

• Zhao Xu arrived in Starfall Town and confronted administrators who had detained his parents over their property.
• Zhao Xu revealed his face, reunited with Father Zhao and Mother Zhao, and used Dominate Person before ending the spell and casting Mass Charm Person.
• Zhao Xu spoke warmly with the administrators, then created three thousand days’ worth of food and water packages and ordered them to distribute two thousand among other groups.
• A little girl asked Zhao Xu for food, and he reassured her before summoning the rations.
• Father Zhao and Mother Zhao asked about Midsummer, and Zhao Xu told them, “Mom, that's me,” before teleporting away with them.

After losing his lordship, Zhao Xu decided to abandon Starfall Town as a base and use a Wish Spell to move the Mage Association complex and nearby resources to the Barbaric Dead Land. The spell removed them from town, and Zhao Xu turned to confront the officials who had misappropriated food.

• The Northern Alliance repossessed Zhao Xu's lordship, and he reconsidered the plan to develop Starfall Town as a safe base.
• Zhao Xu revealed a Wish Spell scroll written by the Goddess of Magic Sislvina and wished to move the Mage Association base, Falling Star Lake, a silver mine, and grain warehouses to the Barbaric Dead Land.
• The Wish Spell made several areas of Starfall Town vanish, including the base, mine, and their foundations.
• Zhao Xu confronted the town's officials and demanded they return the food they had taken, then dropped two Legendary Golems onto the ground.

After discovering that Starfall Town’s residents had betrayed him and stolen his grain, Zhao Xu destroyed much of the town and punished the people responsible. He returned to the Barbaric Dead Land, named it Yharnam, and saw it blessed by the Goddess of Magic Sislvina as a sacred abode.

• Zhao Xu used golems and Stone to Mud to demolish manors belonging to Starfall Town residents who had betrayed him.
• Zhao Xu cursed Tick, reduced an adviser to an idiot with Feeblemind, and transformed a grain merchant’s contact into a rat.
• Zhao Xu bombarded the town hall with Fireball beads, killed the mayor and other leaders, and used Speak with Dead to question their corpses.
• Zhao Xu returned to the Barbaric Dead Land and told Wang Ningwei and Acevishi that Starfall Town would be no more.
• Zhao Xu named the land Yharnam, and the Goddess of Magic Sislvina declared that wherever he walked there would be blessed as a sacred abode.

After Midsummer received the Goddess of Magic’s blessing and established Yanan as a refuge, Zhao Xu used powerful spells to create food, water, and millions of horses for aid and transport. As he traveled between districts to organize relief, a familiar voice asked why he had not come looking for the treasury.

• The Goddess of Magic blessed Midsummer and named Zhao Xu’s transformed land Yanan, prompting people across the Barbaric Dead Land to see it as a safe haven.
• Zhao Xu opened his granaries, distributed emergency rations, and arranged for nearby residents to cultivate transformed land while Wang Ningwei coordinated relief.
• Zhao Xu used Royal Caravan and stacked spellcasting abilities to summon vast numbers of horses, then dispatched them with food and water to districts throughout Yanan.
• Zhao Xu teleported between major districts to establish contact and provide supplies and transportation.
• After another teleportation, Zhao Xu heard a familiar voice ask why he had not come looking for the treasury.