Chapter Summaries

Adier and the other participants gathered for the Bloodline Trial, where three powerful elves opened a magical road through the sea of flowers. The old elf announced that the Trial Road was the Bloodline Inheritance Path, and the trial began.

• Adier received a black token after completing his test and left the hall with Ladina and the others.
• Several days later, Adier and the other participants arrived at the trial grounds, where he spotted Andrew among the crowd.
• A Silver Mist Winged Dragon landed, carrying three powerful elves who announced that the trial would begin.
• The old elf placed a purple crystal on the altar, activating a wizard array that formed a silver road through the sea of flowers.
• The elven woman explained that the legendary Trial Road was the Bloodline Inheritance Path.

Arthur and the other participants began the legendary Bloodline Inheritance Path, which promised a meeting with King Kana and the High Priest, with the top three becoming eligible as the High Priest’s students. As the path’s Moon Elf power tested and strengthened their bloodlines, Arthur endured little pressure while Ladina struggled.

• The elf woman announced that those who reached the end would receive a reward from King Kana and the High Priest, and that the top three could become the High Priest’s students.
• Arthur wondered whether the High Priest connected to the trial was related to the High Priest who had left behind Moon God’s Sacrifice in the Elf Emperor Ruins.
• The participants set out along the silver road as the elves watching from the platform doubted that more than three would reach the end.
• Arthur sensed the road’s Moon Elf power resonating with his bloodline, and his Chip detected slight improvements to his body.
• Arthur observed that weaker bloodlines faced greater pressure and noticed that Ladina’s Second-class aptitude left her struggling under the trial’s effects.

Arthur endured the Bloodline Inheritance Path, recorded its wizard array, and reached the end just behind Andrew. As the other trial participants continued to struggle along the path, Arthur and Andrew faced a second test: a short, power-filled route leading to a silver sword embedded in black crystal.

• Arthur sensed the Moon Elf power growing stronger and ordered the Chip to record the wizard array so he could study how to stimulate other bloodlines.
• Arthur observed that Andrew was advancing quickly while Ladina endured the pressure through sheer determination.
• Andrew emerged from the Bloodline Inheritance Path first, surprising the waiting Elves, and Arthur arrived shortly afterward in second place.
• King Cass and the old Elf in blue discussed Andrew and Arthur, while Andra and Lilith were relieved that Arthur had placed near the front.
• Arthur and Andrew stood on the stone platform and saw a silver longsword embedded in black crystal at the end of the next path.

Arthur's bloodline awakened the Moon King's Sword, revealing him as a true pure-blooded Moon Elf. As the sword recognized him, it transferred the Moon God's Sacrifice Meditation Method and other ancient secrets into his mind.

• Arthur sensed a call from the Moon King's Sword and received part of the Moon God's Sacrifice Meditation Method through his bloodline.
• The Moon King's Sword awakened, its power immobilizing the crowd and prompting King Cass and Andrew to wonder why it had activated.
• The sword's power rejected Andrew, while Arthur lifted the Emerald Mark's suppression and walked toward it.
• As Arthur approached, his appearance changed to reveal his pure Moon Elf bloodline, astonishing the gathered Elf Wizards and his sister Ladina.
• The Moon King's Sword resonated with Arthur, completing the Moon God's Sacrifice Meditation Method in his mind and revealing Moon God's Baptism techniques and four Spell Templates.

During the Bloodline Trial, Arthur awakened his pureblood Moon Elf power while Andrew launched a Dark Elf attack and tried to steal his bloodline. Arthur’s moonlight struck Andrew down, but Andrew retaliated with a powerful spell.

• Arthur absorbed the Moon King's Sword's inheritance as his Moon Elf bloodline power awakened and overwhelmed the other Elves.
• Andrew and Lamu set their attack in motion, with Dark Elf Wizards assaulting the Elf Royal Court and a massive fireball threatening King Cass and the gathered nobles.
• King Cass rose to meet the falling fireball, and its collision with his power caused a devastating explosion.
• While Arthur remained absorbed in the inheritance, Andrew stabbed him with a corrupted dagger, but Arthur's heartbeat summoned moonlight and awakened a bright moon above him.
• Arthur's moonlight blasted Andrew backward, but Andrew recovered and sent a massive Distortion Field attack crashing toward Arthur.

Arthur defeated Andrew with the Moon Elf’s power, met the Elf High Priest Kuraldo, and pulled the Moon King’s Sword from the crystal. After accepting Kuraldo as his teacher, Arthur was taken to a hall, where Kuraldo asked him to hand over the ring Gloria had given him.

• Arthur’s Moon Elf power destroyed Andrew’s attack, and Kuraldo appeared and crushed Andrew with his spiritual force.
• A black necklace escaped with Andrew’s bloodline imprint after Kuraldo failed to seize it.
• Kuraldo introduced himself as the High Priest and persuaded Arthur to pull the Moon King’s Sword from the crystal.
• The sword restored and strengthened Arthur’s Moon Elf power, and Kuraldo offered to take him as a student.
• Arthur accepted Kuraldo’s offer, and Kuraldo brought him to a hall and asked for the ring Gloria had given him.

Kuraldo negotiated with Natasha and Gloria to take Arthur as his student, offering aid and potion-brewing help in exchange. After Natasha removed Arthur’s Serpent Woman mark, Kuraldo led him to an altar.

• Arthur removed his black ring, allowing Kuraldo to summon Gloria and Natasha through it.
• Kuraldo asked to take Arthur as his student and explained that Arthur was a pure-blooded Moon Elf who had drawn the Moon King’s Sword.
• Natasha and Gloria resisted giving Arthur up, but agreed after Kuraldo offered to aid them three times and let Arthur help brew Deep Blue Breath Potions.
• Natasha removed the Serpent Woman mark from Arthur, and Kuraldo explained that it had protected and monitored him.
• Kuraldo led Arthur through several corridors to a silver altar before a statue holding a sword.

Arthur became Kuraldo's student and the chosen successor to the High Priest, then attended a banquet where Kuraldo publicly confirmed his position. The chapter ended with Arthur receiving the High Priests' heirloom ring as nobles watched.

• Kuraldo told Arthur that he was the strongest candidate to inherit the High Priest's position, made him his student, and gave him access to his library.
• Arthur reunited with Andra, Curtis, Lilith, and the others, assured them he was unharmed, and said they would stay in the Elf lands.
• News of Arthur drawing the Moon King's Sword and Kuraldo taking him as a student spread through the Silver Mist Forest, prompting Elf nobles to travel to the capital.
• At the banquet, Arthur arrived beside Princess Edith while nobles speculated about her and his Moon Elf bloodline.
• Kuraldo gave Arthur a jade-green protective ring, the High Priests' heirloom, publicly signaling Arthur's succession.

Arthur and Edith became engaged in a ceremony arranged by the Elf Royal Court, securing the court’s support and plans for Moon Elf succession. Months later, Arthur completed his preparations and decided to advance to Second-level Wizard.

• Kuraldo named Arthur his heir, and King Cass presided as Arthur and Edith received silver flowers and exchanged emerald necklaces, becoming engaged.
• The nobles recognized that the marriage tied Arthur to the Elf Royal Court, while Curtis and Ladina learned that King Cass had once considered Edith as his successor.
• Arthur and Edith sat together during the celebration and talked as the festivities continued into the evening.
• Over the following months, Arthur studied under Kuraldo and gathered materials to improve his chances of advancing.
• Arthur checked his status and learned that the Chip estimated a 97.8% chance of success, so he decided to advance to Second-level Wizard.

Arthur advanced toward becoming a Second-level Wizard by condensing a new spell crystal and inscribing Nature Sense. During the ritual, the Emerald Mark led him to a graveyard of legendary figures and the tomb of the Ancient Elf Progenitor, before he returned to his Sea of Consciousness with the advancement complete.

• Arthur drank a golden potion and began the Second-level Wizard advancement ritual, burning his mental energy to condense a second spell crystal.
• Arthur inscribed the Nature Sense Spell Template onto the new crystal, choosing the spell to improve his ability to perceive danger.
• The Emerald Mark drew Arthur's consciousness into a sea of stars and then to a blood-red plain filled with altars and tombstones belonging to powerful figures.
• Arthur found the glowing tombstone of the Ancient Elf Progenitor, Tree of Life, King of the Emerald World, but black mist and despair forced the World Tree's presence to send him away.
• Arthur returned to his Sea of Consciousness with half his mental energy remaining, now transformed, and two spell crystals standing above it.

Arthur became a Second-level Wizard and realized the curse in his Moon Elf bloodline might force him to leave the Elves before it overwhelms him. Kuraldo then tasked him with patrolling the regions and stopping the growing Demon Disaster.

• Arthur recalled the vision of the Elven progenitor’s tombstone and sensed the curse dormant within him, suppressed by the Emerald Mark.
• Arthur resolved that he could no longer rely on slow advancement in the Silver Mist Forest and needed to plan a journey to other worlds.
• Arthur examined his new Second-level Wizard stats, tested his solidified Natural Perception, and sensed the emotions of two Elf guards.
• Kuraldo welcomed Arthur after his successful advancement and explained that underground creatures and suspected Metamorphosis Stage Wizards had caused deadly unrest across the regions.
• Kuraldo asked Arthur to patrol the regions and resolve the unrest because King Cass and Kuraldo could not leave the Royal Court and capital.

Arthur traveled to Morning Wind City to investigate strange incidents and found a spreading corrosive aura and ghouls among the region's troubles. Their presence suggested the underground entrance near the city was unusually easy to breach.

• Kuraldo asked Arthur to inspect the regions and resolve the chaos, warning him that underground creatures could reach the surface only at great cost.
• Arthur led a grand procession toward Morning Wind City, where Farral reported a corrosive aura that had been draining life from the surrounding plants for two months.
• Farral told Arthur that Dark Elf Wizards were hiding in the nearby forest and ghouls had been entering local graveyards and killing civilians.
• Arthur restrained several ghouls near the city, and a scholar identified their clothing as belonging to nobles who had died at least five hundred years earlier.
• Arthur concluded that the underground entrance near Morning Wind City was likely easier to breach than the others.

Arthur and Farral hunted black beasts hidden among Morning Wind City’s residents, and Arthur exposed a parasite concealed in an Elf family. Later, Arthur received news that Charld and the others had discovered something extraordinary, leaving the nature of their discovery unknown.

• Arthur, Farral, and Andra dealt with a third black beast found in the DC district and discussed how many more might be hiding in the city’s commoners’ districts.
• Arthur detected a black beast inside a middle-aged Elf and used his Distortion Field and mental power to subdue it before guards captured the worm.
• Several days later, an Elf guard delivered Arthur a letter about Charld and the others.
• Arthur told Farral that Charld and his companions seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.

Arthur and the Elves investigated a newly discovered passage to the underground world and found evidence that a completed Blood Sacrifice was weakening the barrier between worlds. After Charld led a scouting party into the passage, a crystal ball revealed an enormous army of underground creatures gathered beyond it.

• Arthur followed Charld to a new passage and sensed Andrew’s aura, confirming that the Dark Elf assassins had likely used it.
• Arthur and the others found the remains of a Blood Sacrifice, and Charld warned that the passage could be fully breached within two or three years.
• The group fought off the corrupted corpse ghouls and reached an altar bearing a dangerous statue of the Mother of Darkness.
• Arthur approved Charld’s plan to investigate the passage, and Charld returned with a crystal ball showing vast ranks of underground creatures surrounding the far side.

Arthur learned that the underground world was sacrificing powerful creatures to breach the seal and concluded Silver Mist Forest might not withstand a full invasion. After securing the new passage and eliminating nearby infiltrators, he returned to the royal capital, where he devoted himself to strengthening Solana through daily Moon God’s Baptisms.

• Charld showed Arthur and the others recordings of underground creatures dying in large numbers as they forced their way through a sealed entrance, and Arthur realized the Elf forces might be unable to stop a full invasion.
• Arthur ordered the Mother of Darkness statue removed, returned to Morning Wind City, and told Kuraldo about the newly discovered passage; Kuraldo sent wizards to fortify it.
• Arthur investigated reports of hidden ghouls, warned Andra to consider moving his clan to the royal capital, and spent the following weeks killing underground creatures around Morning Wind City.
• Arthur returned to the royal capital after the new entrance was fortified, while Andrew remained missing and was believed to be recovering or waiting for the seal to weaken.
• Arthur gave Solana a daily Moon God’s Baptism to improve her body and magical potential before she grew too old for its strongest effects.

Arthur left Edith to research the underground creatures, then used the purple World Coordinate to travel to an unfamiliar world where time passed seven or eight times faster than in the Wizard World. He found signs of a possible civilization and followed a path, while elsewhere Aso and Uncle Bola jumped from a cliff to escape a giant tiger.

• Arthur told Edith he would focus on his research, and she agreed to wait for him while Solana played nearby.
• Arthur entered the purple-coordinate world, spending more than 150 World Energy and discovering that its time flowed seven or eight times faster than the Wizard World's.
• Arthur explored the new world's forest, catalogued unfamiliar plants, and followed faint footprints along an overgrown path that suggested people lived there.
• Aso and a group of ragged people fled through the forest from a huge, bloodied tiger.
• Aso and Uncle Bola found a cliff blocking their escape, and Uncle Bola grabbed Aso and leaped over the edge.

Aso woke in an abandoned hut after Arthur saved him and his uncle, Bora, from a deadly fall. As Arthur left to gather herbs, Bora suspected he had rescued them to learn about their Knight Breathing Technique and saw a chance to gain an advantage through their connection to him.

• Aso woke badly injured in a hut and met Arthur, who said he had found and treated him and Bora.
• Arthur claimed to be a physician from a distant place and explained that he had brought them inside for safety.
• Aso learned that Arthur was going to gather herbs, while Bora revealed he had awakened earlier and had secretly watched him.
• Aso lamented that A-la and the others had died, but Bora told him not to mourn a woman who had only valued his strength and noble background.
• Bora guessed Arthur had saved them because they practiced a Knight Breathing Technique and suggested that befriending him could open a door for them.

Arthur treated Aso and Bora’s injuries and agreed to accompany them to their family, where he hoped to gain access to the world’s Knight Breathing Technique. He learned that Bora wanted his medical skills to cure the clan leader’s child and secure protection for them after a likely ambush arranged by their rivals.

• Arthur used healing herbs and a Healing Potion to help Aso and Bora recover enough to walk within half a month.
• Bora and Aso persuaded Arthur to visit their family by offering a guide and possible access to a basic knight training method.
• After Arthur agreed to go, Aso asked Bora why he was so determined to bring the physician back.
• Bora told Aso that Baral and his allies had likely arranged the caravan attack and that they needed support within the family.
• Arthur overheard their plan and decided to cure the clan leader’s child in exchange for a chance to learn the Knight Breathing Technique.

Arthur returned with Bora and Aso to the Airlan Family estate, where they discovered that more than half the family had been killed. He examined the young lord's unusually mutilated corpse and prepared to investigate how he had died.

• Arthur reached the city with Bora and Aso, and Karl waived the gate inspection after recognizing them while explaining that nobles had been murdered.
• Bora led Arthur and Aso into the Airlan Family estate, where red cloth and an eerie silence signaled a death ceremony.
• They found more than fifty Airlan Family members lying in red coffins, including the young lord and people Bora recognized.
• Arthur observed that most corpses had their hearts removed, while the young lord's body had been drained of blood and stripped of nearly all its organs.
• Arthur reached toward the young lord's corpse to determine how he had died.

Arthur used a spell to inspect a corpse’s final memories but could not identify its killer, then clashed with Kalam after the old man caught him examining another body. Arthur explained why he had come to the Airlan Family, and Dirus asked what he had learned about the deaths.

• Arthur relived the final moments of a murdered young man, but the corpse’s fading memories revealed only the killer’s bloodied arm.
• Arthur began examining another corpse, but Kalam confronted him and attacked with a sword; Arthur blocked the strike without injury.
• Bora and Aso recognized Kalam, and Dirus entered the hall, where Arthur’s status panel showed the family head had surpassed a Great Knight’s physical limits despite his failing health.
• Arthur identified himself as Arthur Falkus and explained that Bora and Aso had invited him to collect a reward after he rescued them.
• Kalam accused Arthur of desecrating the corpses, but Arthur said he had been examining them as a doctor to determine how they died.
• Dirus asked Arthur what he had discovered about the deaths.