Chapter Summaries

Gorsa changed the final test, ordering Thor to prepare an improved version of his Delayed Rejection Potion instead of Blue Water Soul. As Thor and the mentors worked on it, Gorsa summoned Ula from the ground’s shadowless surface.

• Thor arrived with the ingredients and Magic Crystals, but Rum told the gathered mentors and Apprentices to wait for Gorsa before beginning.
• Gorsa appeared and announced that the final test would use Thor’s improved Delayed Rejection Potion instead of Blue Water Soul.
• Gorsa gave Thor the revised formula, appointed him in charge, and assigned Rum and Kazi to assist him.
• Gorsa’s Magic Power made the group hurry into action, and Thor began preparing the potion with Rum and Kazi while the others handled their assignments.
• As the sun reached overhead, Gorsa summoned Ula and said she might no longer need to wear her skin after the test.

Ula quietly surveyed the Small Garden as Thor completed the volatile potion for Gorsa’s resurrection ritual. Once the array was sealed from view, Gorsa pulled Kongsha’s head from his body, and a voice pleaded, “Please, kill me.”

• Ula silently walked around the Small Garden and returned to Gorsa’s side as the preparations continued.
• Thor finished the potion, sealed it with Mentor Rum, and carried it to the Witchcraft Array after Gorsa insisted he pour it.
• Gorsa sent everyone else outside the Garden and took his place in the array, while Thor noticed Luokai near the fence and remembered the Suggestion Spell telling him to drop the potion.
• Gorsa’s magic formed a gray barrier around the array, hiding the ritual from the people outside.
• Gorsa opened the bandages on his chest and pulled half of Kongsha’s head from his body.
• Gorsa extinguished the Red Candle on Kongsha’s head, and a voice above her pleaded, “Please, kill me.”

Gorsa extracted a woman resembling Ula from Kongsha’s head and tried to sacrifice Winnie to restore Ula, while Gudo attempted to disrupt the ritual. The Gray Barrier turned transparent, revealing Rum’s transformation as he attacked it and withstood Gorsa’s magic.

• Gorsa pulled a black gelatinous mass from Kongsha’s head, revealing a woman who looked like Ula, and identified her as Ula while Winnie protested that she would not sacrifice herself.
• Gorsa pierced Winnie with a beam and dragged her toward him as Thor heard the command “Shatter it!” and saw Gudo smash his potion vessel.
• Thor realized Gudo had meant for him to break the Spherical Vessel, but the shattered vessel melted before Thor could act, and Gorsa shot Gudo through the chest.
• The Gray Barrier turned transparent, revealing Rum compressing his fat into armor and muscles as he pierced the barrier and attacked it.
• Gorsa blasted Rum with a powerful beam, but it only made a small crater, and Rum met Gorsa’s gaze with a mad grin.

Sol poured the Delayed Rejection Potion into the Magic Array as the Gray Barrier collapsed and Luokai attacked him. Sol revealed that he was a Tier 1 Official Wizard, destroyed Luokai’s Spirit Body, and stunned everyone around him.

• Anze used black worms and the apprentices’ blood to weaken the Gray Barrier while Gorsa struggled to hold Winnie against Ula.
• Anze told Kazi that Kenas had attacked and that Aruba and the injured Wilde were keeping Kira from intervening, then fought Kazi.
• Sol poured the silver potion into the Magic Array while Gudo tried to attack him, but a golden beam killed Gudo first.
• Ula cried out for someone to kill her, and the Gray Barrier crumbled as Luokai reached through it and attacked Sol with purple lightning.
• Sol revealed a gray tentacle, seized Luokai’s Spirit Body, shattered it against the Magic Array, and swallowed its fragments.
• The gathered instructors and apprentices stared in shock as Sol stood revealed as a Tier 1 Official Wizard, while Gorsa chuckled with satisfaction.

Sol discovered that the apprentice he had consumed was Kujin disguised as Luokai, while Gorsa struggled to finish fusing Winnie with Ula as Anze and Rum attacked. After Gorsa completed Ula’s Spirit Body and began the final soul infusion, Anze struck at Kazi, and Sol intervened with Soul Fishing.

• Sol realized Luokai’s corpse was a disguise, and Xiao Zao devoured the black insects that revealed Kujin beneath it.
• Rum broke Gorsa’s defensive barrier while Anze trapped Kazi and led Rum and controlled apprentices in an attack on Gorsa.
• Sol stayed in the Array to support the Resurrection Experiment, and Kazi summoned three Natural Skeletons to drive Anze away from him.
• Gorsa completed Winnie and Ula’s fusion, prepared a female body for Ula, and unleashed Golden Needles that disintegrated Rum’s arm and nearby apprentices.
• Anze disabled Kazi with Threadworms and attacked him with a black cone, but Sol’s Soul Fishing emerged from Xiao Zao and blocked the strike.

Thor was poisoned by Gudo while Anze and Rum revealed their plan to corrupt Gorsa through Ula and Winnie. As Gorsa began to succumb to the Corruption, Anze prepared to intensify it by attacking the Wizard Tower’s Interlayer.

• Thor fought Anze and rescued Kazi, while Gorsa intervened and helped Thor break free of Anze’s black threads.
• Gudo attacked Thor with a tumor growing from his shoulder, but Keli warned Thor to strike Gudo’s stomach and Kazi restrained him with a Natural Skeleton.
• Gudo revealed that Keli had made a Soul Toxin targeting Thor’s Spirit-Devouring Ester, and Thor’s body began to weaken as Keli fled into the Wizard Tower with Jero following her.
• Penny entered Gudo’s abdomen and disrupted him while Anze and Rum fought Gorsa, who was transferring Ula’s soul into a female corpse.
• Ula turned into a corrupted Evil Ghost and joined Winnie in infecting Gorsa, while Anze revealed that the group had planned to make Gorsa devour Winnie’s accumulated malice.
• Anze launched a fireball toward the sky, intending to stir up the Wizard Tower’s Grudge Spirits and hasten Gorsa’s Alienation.

Luokai and another apprentice opened the Bronze Gates, drawing apprentices into the interlayer, while Keli escaped Jero with the Soul Toxin antidote despite Billy’s warning and trap. In the Small Garden, Thor slowed the Soul Toxin’s damage as Anze worsened Gorsa’s corruption and warned that the Wizard Tower itself could become corrupted.

• Luokai used transparent threads to force low-level apprentices toward the opened Bronze Gate, where pale arms dragged them into the interlayer, then left them behind.
• A female Level 3 Apprentice led a similar attack at the East Tower’s first-floor Bronze Gate, while Haywood saw black figures within the interlayer and feared the Grudge Spirits would run amok.
• Keli reached Mentor Gudo’s Laboratory with Jero in pursuit and found Billy guarding the Soul Toxin antidote she had prepared for Thor.
• Jero left after Billy called to him, and Billy warned Keli that Gudo had trapped the antidote with a needle containing Alpha Radiation Toxin.
• Keli shielded her wrist with metal, took the antidote despite the needle, and ran out of the Laboratory, saying she needed to pee.
• Thor used small tentacles to absorb Soul Toxin from his skin, while Gorsa worsened and Anze warned Rum that the Wizard Tower could become corrupted and turn against them.

The Interlayer’s revolt drove Gorsa toward Alienation, so Thor projected his soul and calmed the Grudge Spirits, stabilizing the Wizard Tower and Gorsa. The mentors then turned on Thor, and he found himself cornered near Monica as his poison spread.

• The Wizard Tower erupted in chaos as Grudge Spirits emerged, while Gorsa’s condition worsened and the Diary warned Thor that his host might die.
• Thor projected his soul, confronted the Grudge Spirits, and persuaded them to calm the tower and close the gate.
• Gudo broke free of Penny’s illusion and attacked Thor, while Anze’s and Rum’s assaults on Gorsa failed to finish him.
• Anze realized the tower’s recovery was stabilizing Gorsa and ordered the others to kill Thor first.
• Thor fled Gudo and Rum’s attacks, but backed up near Monica as his poison spread and he considered using Soul Fishing or opening a Consciousness Battlefield.

Thor escaped the Small Garden crisis and brought the badly injured Keli to the Wizard Tower, where she gave him her research notes for an antidote to Radiation Toxin before passing out. Gorsa revealed that he had feigned the threat of Alienation, then trapped Anze and Rum in a Magic Array to fuel his advancement.

• Monica moved to protect Thor, while Gorsa claimed he alone could cure her and Anze attacked him.
• Keli arrived in damaged metal armor and gave Thor a potion that detoxified him, but Gudo's poison attacks left her near death.
• Gorsa teleported Thor and Keli to the Laboratory on the Wizard Tower's 20th Floor, where Keli recited her antidote research before losing consciousness.
• Gorsa recovered, pulled Ula's spirit body from his chest, and revealed that he had tricked Anze into believing he was near Alienation.
• Gorsa explained that Anze had ruined his Resurrection Experiment and transformed its Magic Array to drain Anze and Rum for the Magic Power he needed to advance.

After advancing to Tier 3, Gorsa killed Anze and Rum, then decided to return to the Radiance Family with Monica and leave the Wizard Tower to Thor. The tower began to split apart, but hundreds of white arms held it upright, revealing that the Interlayer’s remaining arms had also sided with Thor.

• Gorsa’s Witchcraft Array drained Anze and Rum, and Gorsa killed Rum to collect his body as material for a Vessel.
• Gorsa learned that Gudo had escaped and said he would take Monica to the Radiance Family while leaving the Wizard Tower to Thor.
• Gorsa healed Kazi’s neck and admitted that he had returned his Corruption to Ula, who continued begging him to kill her.
• Cracks spread through the Wizard Tower, and hundreds of white arms emerged to hold the tower together.
• Gorsa realized that the Interlayer’s remaining arms had changed sides and sided with Thor.

Thor gathered assistants on the 20th Floor to prepare an antidote for Keli, while Herman stopped intruders at the Bronze Gate. Luokai arrived to threaten Thor but was trapped as Byron joined the effort, and Thor turned to him for information about Jero.

• Thor summoned four Consciousness Entities and used Vessels to help prepare Keli's treatment while Agu searched for materials.
• Herman killed a Level 3 Apprentice who tried to enter the 20th Floor and drove off the two Apprentices with him.
• Luokai entered the Laboratory and used silken threads to restrain Herman, but Thor ignored his threat and kept working on the potion.
• Agu returned with Byron, reported that the First Warehouse was in disarray, and left to look for materials and pass a message to Billy.
• Byron examined Thor's antidote plan for Keli and agreed that it seemed logical.
• Thor asked Luokai where Jero was while An and Morton kept Luokai from escaping.

Thor took Luokai to search for Jero and found him on the mysterious 21st Floor, where a fight revealed that Jero had likely become an Official Wizard too. The chapter left Thor and Jero facing off beside the Black Iron Pillar, while Luokai lay nearly unconscious from Jero’s lightning.

• Thor restrained Luokai with a Transparent Tentacle and forced him to help search for Jero.
• Thor found signs that Jero had tried to enter the 19th-Floor Library, and Luokai suggested he might have gone to the 21st Floor.
• Thor and Luokai reached the empty 21st Floor and discovered Jero emerging from behind the Black Iron Pillar.
• Thor attacked Jero, who answered with a huge electric net that shocked Luokai but was mostly diverted into the pillar.
• Thor survived the attack with his Spirit Armor Technique and realized Jero might be an Official Wizard who had hoped to seize the Tower’s assets.

Thor defeated Luokai after learning that Luokai had planted a Parasite in Jero and used him as a host for years. He then used the Diary to curse Jero into serving him, leaving Jero defeated and under his control.

• Jero attacked Thor with lightning spheres, but Thor used Twin Fates to place Luokai among them and escape the trap.
• Luokai revealed that he had planted a Parasite in Jero and had secretly controlled him for years, while Jero realized Luokai had been using him.
• Jero lunged at Luokai, but Luokai shattered his kneecap and dragged him away with Silk Threads, threatening to make him explode with Lightning Attribute Magic Power.
• Thor activated the Lingchi Execution, which sliced Luokai apart in an endless Abyss as punishment for the Parasites that had killed Senior Byron and other Apprentices.
• Thor consulted the Diary's fifth Black Page and cursed Jero, making him suffer until he agreed to serve Thor.

Thor began treating Keli with Jero’s help, but the Wizard Tower started collapsing after the Support Core on the 21st Floor was damaged. The Grudge Spirits steadied the tower and sent Thor through the Bronze Gate toward the Core; while the treatment continued, Gorsa arrived carrying an unconscious Haywood and asked where Thor was.

• Thor burned Luokai’s corpse and brought Jero to help treat Keli’s Radiation poisoning.
• The Wizard Tower shook as cracks spread through the Circular Laboratory, and the Mouth Grudge Spirit explained that the Support Core had been damaged.
• The Grudge Spirits braced the tower with their arms, and Thor left Byron and the Consciousness Entities to continue treating Keli.
• The Mouth opened a route through the Bronze Gate, and Thor entered the Seven-Colored World to reach the Support Core.
• Gorsa appeared in the Circular Laboratory carrying an unconscious Haywood and asked where Thor was.

Gorsa repaired the Laboratory long enough for Thor and the others to continue trying to save Keli, then left the Wizard Tower after revealing he had advanced to Third-Rank Official Wizard. Thor led the group out with Keli as the tower collapsed, marking the fall of the Wizard Tower and the end of the chapter’s events.

• Gorsa entered the Phantom Color World, returned with Thor, and revealed that the Interlayer’s Corruption would soon cause the Wizard Tower to collapse.
• Gorsa repaired the Laboratory, told Thor to move Keli to the Underground Laboratory beneath the Small Garden, and departed with Haywood.
• Thor told Morton that Gorsa had advanced to Third-Rank Official Wizard, then ordered the others to resume Keli’s experiment.
• Jero’s shadow failed to return, and his soul crumbled away before his body burned to ash.
• Thor carried Keli out of the Wizard Tower, and the Slender Arms withdrew, causing the tower and the nearby Small Garden to collapse.

After the Wizard Tower collapsed, Thor and Mentor Kazi helped the surviving apprentices salvage its ruins and discussed their plans to leave. Thor hurried away when Penny told him Keli had woken, finding her trapped inside a metal shell and struggling to breathe.

• Kazi warned Thor that Gorsa still wanted to resurrect Ula and might target him again if he failed.
• Kazi gathered the surviving apprentices, scolded George for growing a dangerous Human-Face Tumor, and began teaching them discipline.
• Thor joined Kazi and the others in clearing the ruins, recovered some First Warehouse materials, and let Kazi take the remaining supplies from the Second Warehouse.
• Thor admitted he had taken the Grudge Spirit Fragments, while Kazi said he planned to lead willing apprentices to the Kema Principality and establish the Necro Garden.
• Penny told Thor that Keli had awakened, and Thor found her trapped in a metal shell asking him to make holes so she could breathe.

Thor helped Keli use the remaining radiation toxin as she prepared to advance to Level Three, then learned how Byron had recovered by turning the Elf King's Head into a new Locator. Byron kept secret Tower Master Gorsa's warning about the Elves and chose to accept the risk of continuing his transformation.

• Thor set up a Metal Attribute refinement Witchcraft Array and Heart Guardians for Keli, who insisted on using the remaining radiation toxin to prepare for her advancement.
• Byron gave Thor Companion Flower seeds, burned their credit ledger, and explained that Mentor Kazi had given him a book about Elves.
• Byron told Thor that the Elf King's Head had let him restore his body and form a new Locator far more quickly than his previous skin.
• Thor and Byron discussed the properties of Byron's new skin before Agu arrived looking uneasy and asked to see Thor.
• Byron recalled Tower Master Gorsa's warning that the Elves might come after anyone who took from them, but decided to keep transforming the Elf King's Head into his Locator.

Thor learned that Gorsa had given him the Wizard Tower’s core, the Black Iron Coffin, which held the Tower’s Grudge Spirits and the Library’s Spirit Bodies. Gorsa advised Thor to plant the core in the Land of No Owner to build his own Wizard Tower, and Thor returned to the Underground Laboratory after promising Agu he would reunite his split souls.

• Agu asked Thor what had happened to his two other Spirit Bodies, and Thor told him they were inside the Black Iron Coffin.
• Gorsa explained that the cracked Black Iron Coffin was the Wizard Tower’s core and gave it to Thor as the seed of a new Wizard Tower.
• The core absorbed black matter from the shifting world, then shrank and repaired itself in Thor’s hand.
• Gorsa told Thor to plant the core in a suitable place and recommended the Land of No Owner for building his Wizard Tower.
• Thor promised Agu he would reunite him with his other Spirit Bodies, then returned to the Underground Laboratory, where Keli’s condition had stabilized.

Thor left the ruins of the Wizard Tower to travel to the Land of No Owner and pursue greater strength, while Byron stayed behind to care for Keli and the others. Thor set out at dawn with Xiao Zao and his companions crowded into a carriage.

• Thor gave Byron the Phantom Sound Pupil and left a notebook for Keli about radioactive metals.
• Byron agreed to watch over Keli and planned to advance toward becoming an Official Wizard before finding Thor.
• Thor decided to leave for the Land of No Owner, and Xiao Zao chose to accompany him.
• Thor left Hayden with Mentor Kazi because Hayden was unfit to travel.
• Thor departed the next morning with An, Herman, Morton, Agu, a silver butterfly, and Xiao Zao, whose tentacle snatched an unripe fruit as the carriage entered the forest.

Sol and his companions set out on a long journey, taking the Mushroom Coachman along after An explained his unusual bond with a parasitic mushroom. At the Lakeside Cottage, Xiao Zao brought Sol a letter and a notebook, prompting the group to plan lessons to teach it to read and write.

• A Wizard Apprentice caught up with Sol’s carriage to report the Kenas Principality’s invasion of the Kema Principality, but learned the Tower Master had already gone to help.
• The Mushroom Coachman asked to join Sol’s journey, and An explained that his weak, tenacious mushroom parasite made him exceptionally good at escaping notice.
• An gave the Apprentice Phili a Fire-Fierce Owl egg, and he realized with alarm that she had pulled it from her own body.
• Sol’s group passed the town and reached the Lakeside Cottage to collect his belongings, while Xiao Zao retrieved its scattered clones.
• Xiao Zao brought Sol a crumpled letter and a damp notebook, and Agu suggested teaching it to read and write for better surveillance reports.
• An, Morton, and Agu each offered to help teach Xiao Zao, and the group agreed on a plan to improve its literacy.