Chapter Summaries

After his bloodline transformation, Arthur discovered he had become a juvenile Pureblood Moon Elf, gaining extraordinary strength and reaching the peak of a first-level Wizard. He considered how Moon God's Sacrifice might accelerate his growth, while the mysterious Ancient Tree Mark on his forehead remained unexplained.

• Arthur examined his transformed reflection, noting his silver hair, serene aura, and the emerald Ancient Tree Mark on his forehead.
• Arthur sensed his dormant power and checked his status, which showed greatly increased attributes and 91.9% Spirit Purity.
• Arthur realized he had met the requirements to attempt advancement to a Second-level Wizard, though he lacked the necessary knowledge and accumulation.
• Arthur concluded that he remained a juvenile Moon Elf and that adulthood could take nearly a thousand years.
• Arthur reasoned that Moon God's Sacrifice might help pureblood Moon Elves grow faster and suit his newly transformed bloodline.

Arthur discovered that the Ancient Tree Mark could conceal his transformed appearance and power, making him seem like his former self. He also found that the mark contained a stable storage space and began investigating how it worked.

• Arthur worried that his Moon Elf appearance and aura would reveal details of his bloodline transformation.
• The Ancient Tree Mark glowed and changed Arthur’s pointed ears and silver hair back to an ordinary human appearance.
• Arthur learned that the mark could hide his appearance and power, then concealed his strength down to its former level.
• Arthur discovered that the mark held a stable empty space and stored a bottle of red potion inside it.
• Arthur retrieved the potion and asked the Chip to analyze it, finding that it had barely changed.

Arthur investigated the Ancient Tree Mark and learned that legends called it the Emerald Mark, a blessing from the Primordial Tree of Life. After recovering from his bloodline transformation, he discovered his Moon Elf powers had greatly strengthened his defenses, attacks, and vision, then left the laboratory.

• Arthur found that the Ancient Tree Space was a stable vacuum suitable for storing materials but deadly to living creatures.
• Arthur ordered the Chip to investigate his mark and learned it was the Emerald Mark, associated with those blessed by the Primordial Tree of Life.
• Arthur suspected the Primordial Tree of Life had helped his bloodline transformation succeed so smoothly, then drank potions to recover.
• Arthur sensed that his Sea of Consciousness had changed and discovered a moonlight barrier that strengthened his defense several times over.
• Arthur formed a moon-colored arrow with his new Moon Elf power and blasted two holes in the laboratory wall.
• Arthur discovered that his vision now revealed finer details and energy particles, then left the laboratory and admired the vivid garden.

Arthur returned to Sol and Yana’s home, where he found Yana’s curse worsening after she gave birth to a daughter. He named the baby Solana and found that her powerful bloodline kept the curse suppressed, though Arthur’s fear of danger kept him from returning to the Emerald World.

• Arthur found the tavern closed and followed his memories and Sol’s aura to Sol’s home.
• Sol welcomed Arthur and brought out Yana, whose Black Mark curse had begun spreading again after the birth.
• Arthur examined the infant and discovered that her bloodline was far stronger than Sol’s or Yana’s.
• Sol and Yana asked Arthur to name their daughter, and he called her Solana.
• Arthur said Solana’s bloodline and a seal could keep her curse dormant until she was old enough to train as a wizard.
• Arthur recalled that entering the Emerald World now filled him with a warning of mortal danger, so he had decided not to return until he was stronger.

Arthur assessed Sol and Yana’s newborn daughter and discovered she had fifth-class aptitude, then set out with them for Sol’s ancestral homeland in search of World Energy. The caravan reached the edge of the homeland’s strange black soil, where Sol shared a legend about its origin.

• Arthur used a black stone sphere to assess Sol and Yana’s baby and discovered she had fifth-class aptitude.
• Arthur told Yana that her curse would erupt within two months and that he could extend her life by no more than two additional months.
• Arthur prepared a caravan and traveled with Sol, Yana, and the baby toward Sol’s ancestral homeland, hoping to find World Energy.
• Sol guided the caravan through a forest and across the Swamp Kingdom’s territory, describing the desert, its ruins, and its black-skinned natives.
• Arthur and the caravan reached the homeland’s hard, barren black soil, and Sol recounted a legend that two Demon Kings’ battle had scarred the land.

Arthur, Sol, and Yana reached a wasteland market town where Kuma was made from rare black grass, and Arthur discovered an unusual local elder whose power resembled a lost branch of Wizardry. After the group left the tavern, Elder Lar identified Sol and Yana as Krasu people and plotted to capture their baby for the Snake God.

• Arthur learned from Sol that the town survived by producing addictive Kuma from black grass that grew in the wasteland.
• Sol drove off a native who tried to approach Arthur, and Yana explained that people could use force as long as they did not kill anyone.
• Arthur noticed a gaunt old man named Lar in the snake-decorated tavern, sensed his unfamiliar power, and secretly marked him with spiritual energy.
• After Arthur, Sol, and Yana went upstairs, Lar identified Sol and Yana as Krasu people and warned that Arthur would be difficult to capture.
• Lar revealed that the baby's bloodline was unusually powerful and proposed raising her to serve as a vessel for the Snake God's descent.

Arthur treated Yana’s worsening curse as the group traveled toward its source, where Sol’s Krasu bloodline awakened in a fight with the Snake Witch’s people. Sol reunited with his kin, and Sil revealed that their curses came from the Demon King’s leaked power and that elders had taken Divine Stone fragments from an altar.

• Arthur gave Yana potions that suppressed her spreading Black Mark, then warned Sol that his own curse was nearing an eruption.
• Sol told Arthur that Yana had refused to return home and that they hoped their daughter would survive; Arthur promised to care for her.
• Arthur’s party set out by carriage and later encountered Krasu being pursued by the Snake Witch’s people.
• Sol used his bloodline power and the Silver Longsword to defeat several pursuers, while a one-eyed man and his bandaged companion withdrew to wait for Lar.
• The pursued Krasu recognized Sol, and their leader Sil knelt before him and identified him as the next heir to their clan.
• Sil told Sol that the curse was leaked power from the Demon King and that elders had taken Divine Stone fragments from the altar when it erupted.

Sol learned that the natives had helped release the curse and traveled with Arthur to the Krasu village, where Elder McDo refused to use the Divine Stone fragment protecting the village to save Yana. Arthur sensed that the barrier was unstable and leaking power.

• Sil told Sol that the natives had opened the temple seal during the curse’s eruption, possibly driven by the curse’s power.
• Sol told Arthur about the Divine Stone fragments and said he wanted to find some to suppress the curse inside Yana.
• Arthur and Sol traveled with the Krasu people to their village, where Sil introduced Sol as the family’s next heir.
• Elder McDo explained that a Divine Stone fragment powered the village’s protective barrier and could not be spared to cure Yana.
• Sol argued that he needed enough power to save his wife, while Yana urged him to stop; Arthur sensed that the barrier was crude and losing energy.

Arthur investigated a strange spiritual scream in the village and suspected the barrier and its Divine Stone were connected to a hidden danger. The next morning, Sil was missing, but the villagers showed no signs of alarm.

• Arthur identified a tall black-wood tower as the likely location of the Divine Stone fragment and went to his room for the night.
• A black-clad figure entered the village through the weakening barrier and approached Sil’s house as a spreading black mark transformed Sil into a similar monster.
• Sil screamed after discovering his arm had become a claw, and Sol woke to the sound while comforting the crying Solana.
• Arthur used the Chip to replay the scream and concluded it had been a spiritual and soul fluctuation that ordinary people could not hear.
• The next morning, Arthur noticed the villagers were not acting as though anyone had disappeared, then found Sol practicing swordsmanship.

Arthur noticed that Sil and a young boy appeared corpse-like through his Moon Elf Eyes, while black-clad villagers gathered for a welcoming party. As the celebration continued, Elder McDo compelled Yana to follow him toward a wooden tower while her curse began breaking through Arthur’s seal.

• Sol asked Arthur whether he had heard anything strange during the night, and Arthur warned him to stay cautious.
• Arthur saw through his Moon Elf Eyes that Sil had corpse-like features and black energy, while Sol’s curse remained suppressed by his bloodline.
• Arthur noticed a pale, scarlet-eyed boy at breakfast and pointed out how many people in the village wore black.
• At the nighttime party, Sol learned that villagers had dressed in black without being told, then joined Sil and the others while Yana watched with their child.
• Elder McDo approached Yana and made her follow him against her will as her curse surged, leading her toward a wooden tower.

Arthur rescued Yana and Solana from Mikedo, who had been corrupted by the curse and tried to make Solana its vessel. After killing Mikedo, Arthur discovered the village’s barrier was failing, took the World Stone shard from the tower altar, and began confronting the curse within it.

• Mikedo revealed that he planned to transfer the village’s curses into Solana and seal her as their vessel, but Arthur appeared and stopped him from reaching her.
• Arthur forced Mikedo to see his monstrous state, then killed him when the curse transformed him completely.
• Arthur freed Yana and explained that the curse had possessed the villagers, many of whom were likely already dead.
• Arthur entered the wooden tower with Yana and found a World Stone shard on an altar, contaminated by the curse and another ancient power.
• Arthur destroyed the altar’s defenses and took the shard, gaining World Energy before its surface darkened and revealed a black serpent.
• Arthur sensed the curse leaking from the shard and poured his Moon Elf power into it.

Arthur suppressed the curse in the World Stone fragment with his Moon Elf power and left Yana in a protected room while he went to rescue Sol. At the village bonfire, the barrier's loss triggered the curse, turning Sil and hundreds of villagers into black-cloaked monsters as Arthur arrived to face them.

• Arthur infused the World Stone fragment with Moon Elf power, suppressed its curse, and stored it in his Emerald Mark.
• Arthur told Yana to remain in the room, where the barrier would keep her safe, and went to help Sol.
• At the village celebration, Sol noticed Sil and the other villagers decaying and tried to leave, but the curse erupted in Sil.
• Sil attacked Sol, whose silver barrier protected him, while hundreds of villagers transformed into black-cloaked monsters.
• Arthur arrived and blasted several monsters with fireballs as Sol warned him that the curse had completely erupted.

Arthur destroyed the black-clad monsters threatening the survivors by unleashing the power of his Moon Elf bloodline, then explored the Krasu clan’s preserved relics. He discovered sealed black boxes whose complex wizard arrays were beyond his ability to break, and the Chip began analyzing them.

• Sol tried to reach Arthur, but Arthur rescued him from a black-clad monster and attacked several others with fireballs.
• Arthur transformed through his Moon Elf bloodline and used silver moonlight to dissolve more than a hundred black-clad monsters.
• Sol reunited with Yana and her daughter, while Arthur spoke with the survivors and received permission to examine Elder McDo’s former residence.
• Arthur searched the residence, collected several useful books, and found black wooden boxes bearing the Krasu clan crest.
• Arthur ordered the Chip to analyze the boxes’ wizard arrays, and learned that their powerful seals had been made by a wizard at least at the Second-level.

Arthur opened three Krasu bloodline-locked boxes, finding a broken Magic Artifact, an empty memory crystal, and scales that stirred his Moon Elf bloodline. He then went to Sol’s home, where Yana lay near death as a black snake mark spread across her body and a slit appeared on her forehead.

• Arthur used the World Stone fragment to open a black box and found a broken red-bladed Cross Sword that responded to his mana and strengthened him.
• Arthur opened the other boxes, finding an empty high-grade memory crystal and black scales that triggered his Moon Elf bloodline.
• Arthur stored the scales and boxes, searched the room, and left as dawn broke over the devastated village.
• Arthur met the exhausted Sol and followed him into his home to examine Yana.
• Arthur saw that Yana was near death beneath a spreading black snake mark, and a slit had appeared at the center of her forehead.

Arthur used the purple bloodline power in a World Stone fragment to suppress Yana’s curse, leaving her safe for about two months. Outside the hut, Sol told Arthur that his people wanted to travel with them and return to their homeland.

• Arthur examined Yana and found that the curse had erupted early after resonating with the black-cloaked monsters’ power.
• Arthur transferred the World Stone fragment’s purple bloodline power into Yana, forming a Bloodline Mark that suppressed the spreading Black Mark.
• Arthur confirmed Yana’s curse was temporarily suppressed and told Sol she should be safe for the next two months.
• Sol told Arthur that the carriage was waiting outside the village and his people wanted to travel with them to their homeland.

Arthur led Sol, Yana, their child Solana, and the other survivors to their ancestral palace, where they encountered the Snake Witch and the curse’s power. After Arthur searched the elder’s memories and survived a psychic trap with the Emerald Mark’s help, he gained a clearer understanding of the force inside the ruin.

• Sol told Arthur the survivors had chosen to return to their ancestral shrine, and Arthur accepted their decision.
• On the journey, Arthur sensed the spiritual mark he had placed on a native elder and realized they were nearing him.
• Arthur’s group reached the dilapidated palace, and Sol and Yana chose to bring Solana inside so she could inherit their ancestors’ legacy.
• At the village outside the ruin, Sol confronted the Snake Witch, who ordered the group to become sacrifices for the Snake God.
• Arthur subdued the Snake Witch and searched his memories, triggering a curse that manifested as a gigantic black snake.
• The Emerald Mark shielded Arthur from the curse’s backlash; the Snake Witch died, and Arthur turned toward the ruin with new insight into the curse.

Arthur identified the spreading corruption as the power of a Calamity Lord and led Sol, Yana, and the others into the ruins to find the altar where the Krasu clan had suppressed the curse. After enduring the corrupting aura and defeating several monsters, they reached their destination deep within the ruins.

• Arthur recognized the black corruption on his hand as the power of a Calamity Lord.
• Arthur and his companions rode to the ruins and entered through a damaged door that Sol explained the Krasu clan had left unsealed.
• As the party traveled deeper, the corruption stirred violent impulses in Sol and the others, so Arthur gave them potions to protect their minds.
• Arthur and his companions encountered a group of powerful black-robed monsters, which Arthur defeated easily.
• After traveling for most of the day, Arthur reached the altar where the Krasu clan had suppressed the curse.

Arthur and his companions reached an altar where a World Stone and more than a thousand witch formations sealed a three-headed black serpent. The serpent recognized Arthur as a Moon Elf, and Arthur's transformation led him to identify it as a Calamity Lord.

• Arthur examined the altar's powerful seal and concluded that neither taking the World Stone nor breaking a formation node was feasible.
• Sol offered to enter the seal, but Arthur stayed silent and then called for the hidden presence to reveal itself.
• A gigantic black serpent manifested and attacked with spiritual power, but the altar's formations and World Stone contained it.
• Arthur saw the chained three-headed serpent and heard it call him a Moon Elf wizard.
• Arthur transformed into his Moon Elf form as his bloodline reacted, then identified the serpent as a Calamity Lord.

Arthur learned from Heraldos that his pure-blooded Moon Elf lineage carried a Calamity Mark, temporarily suppressed by the Emerald Mark. After Heraldos vanished back into the seal, Solana’s powerful bloodline awakened the ancient wizard array around the altar.

• Heraldos revealed that the Calamity Mark was a curse placed on pure-blooded Elves by the Calamity King, and that Arthur’s Emerald Mark only suppressed it temporarily.
• Heraldos told Arthur that he could endure the curse or become a Calamity Lord, then the seal suppressed Heraldos and ended his manifestation.
• Sol and the others regained their freedom when Heraldos’s mental influence disappeared.
• Yana’s Bloodline Mark and the others’ bloodlines began to glow, with Solana’s radiance shining brightest.
• A purple pillar rose before the altar, and Sol recognized it as their ancestor’s altar as the wizard array began to awaken.

Arthur watched Sol and Yana sacrifice their lives to empower their daughter, Solana, through the Ancestor Altar. He left the ruin with Solana and the surviving Krasu people, then noticed the altar’s blessing had changed the baby and left a purple crystal in her forehead.

• Arthur and the Krasu people placed Solana on the Ancestor Altar, which drew power from the World Stone and their bloodlines to strengthen her.
• Sol and Yana were drained by the ritual, and Arthur warned them that continuing would kill them, but the altar held them in place.
• Sol died as the ritual ended, and Yana carried Solana to Arthur before her Bloodline Mark faded and she also turned to dust.
• Arthur took Solana and led the surviving Krasu people out, offering to suppress their curse if they traveled with him.
• The Krasu people accepted Arthur’s offer, and the group set out south toward the Dark Wizard Alliance.
• On the journey, Arthur observed that Solana had changed after the altar’s blessing and sensed strange power inside the purple crystal on her forehead.