Chapter Summaries

Thor discovered that creatures from a magicless world carried dormant Black Tide Pollution Sources and decided to return the beast rather than risk awakening them. Meanwhile, the Judgment Court inspected travelers entering the Land of No Owner, but allowed a mysterious, stunningly beautiful Wizard to pass.

• Thor questioned Camus about the Black Tide Pollution Sources, and the Old Witch warned him that Wizards below Tier 3 were forbidden to learn their origins.
• Thor ordered the beast's dismembered parts reassembled so it could be returned to its small world, and he found that the coins powering his Chaos Domain Compass had grown dull.
• Thor began testing the Magic Storage Pool with the headless body Brando had left behind as the Judgment Court stationed Wizards at the Land of No Owner's entrances to search for the Eternal Night Empire's fugitive.
• At Chuishou Valley, Judgment Court Wizards let two disguised travelers pass after they revealed themselves, then confronted a cloaked rider on a Flying Roar.
• The cloaked rider revealed a breathtaking face that instinctively enchanted the inspecting Wizards, and the Tier 3 Wizard allowed him through.
• The Tier 3 Wizard explained that the rider's effect came from the traits of his vanished people, and a Wizard recognized his pointed ears.

Byron entered the Land of No Owner while searching for Thor, and Noah joined Lord Wind Demon’s dangerous Hunting Squad to pay for his younger brother’s treatment. Sent alone into a forest filled with living trees, Noah fled and emerged in a strange mushroom-covered area.

• Byron entered the Land of No Owner in disguise and wondered where Thor could be.
• Noah joined Lord Wind Demon’s Hunting Squad, hoping to earn money for his sick younger brother and a chance to become a Wizard Apprentice.
• The Hunting Squad sent ordinary people ahead as scouts, and several died or suffered terrible effects from Mental Power potions.
• Noah was ordered to carry instruments into a forest, where the trees opened eyes and reached for him.
• Noah ran blindly, fell onto soft grayish-white mushrooms, and found himself outside the forest beside enormous mushrooms.

Noah learned that he could no longer become a Wizard Apprentice and was sent by Brown to scout Rhine Lake. After Thor briefly rescued him in the Mushroom Forest, Noah returned to Brown, who took the Testing Instruments from his body and moved the Hunting Squad onward.

• Brown told Noah that the medicine he had taken had damaged his spirit body and cost him the chance to become a Wizard Apprentice.
• Brown used pain to force Noah to scout Rhine Lake, and Noah entered the Mushroom Forest alone.
• Noah discovered a frozen lake and a white tower, where Thor recognized him and learned that the Hunting Squad was making ordinary people test dangerous areas.
• Thor saw that Noah was near death and invited him to the island, but Noah declined and returned to Brown with the Testing Instruments still attached.
• Noah collapsed after reporting back, and Brown removed the instruments and ordered the Hunting Squad to continue to the next place.

Thor rescued Noah from the Land of No Owner and considered giving him a choice between staying at the Purification Wizard Tower and training to enter the Chaos Domain. Jiajiagu later returned with Brando, who sought to enter Thor’s Consciousness Space again and emerge alive, but Thor rejected his offer.

• Thor found Noah after the hunting party abandoned him and decided to let him choose whether to stay at the Purification Wizard Tower or train for the Chaos Domain.
• Thor sensed that someone was spying on the hunting party and expected Jiajiagu to bring news about events in the Land of No Owner.
• Jiajiagu returned to Rhine Lake with Brando, alarming Marsh and prompting the Mushroom Forest to surround them until Thor arrived.
• Brando apologized and proposed cooperation, asking Thor to let him enter the Consciousness Space again and come out alive.
• Brando offered Magic Crystals, Witchcraft Items, resources, and Demonic Creatures, but Thor found nothing worth trading for the secrets of his Consciousness Platform.
• Thor refused Brando’s offer and warned him off with black blades, while Brando abandoned his attempt to bargain.

Thor learned that the Tier 3 Wizards were searching the Land of No Owner for an unknown object, then accepted Noah as his apprentice. He introduced Noah to the dangerous Black Magic Powder he would eventually collect and began planning his studies.

• After Brando left, Jiajiagu told Thor that the Tier 3 Wizards were searching dangerous places across the Land of No Owner for something unknown.
• Thor returned to the Wizard Tower and found Noah excited by the Laboratory and eager to become his apprentice.
• Thor warned Noah that apprenticeship could be dangerous, and Noah said he feared dying before seeing the world of knowledge more than death itself.
• Thor accepted Noah as his apprentice, told the Butler to teach him Wizard etiquette, and led him to the top floor of the tower.
• Thor showed Noah the headless corpse and the cube, demonstrated the collection of Black Magic Powder, and assigned Noah to study before gathering it in a sparsely populated area.
• Thor gave Noah a sealed bottle of Black Magic Powder and arranged for Agu to begin teaching him the Wizards' Common Tongue.

Thor followed the Wind Demon's Hunting Squad to Old Days Manor, hoping to scavenge corpses and gather materials for his Magic Storage Pool. He discovered that the squad members were strange, pixelated remnants, then saw a Shadow Monster behind the manor gates as his Diary warned that the manor wanted a living Tier 1 Wizard.

• Thor brought Herman along and followed the Wind Demon's Hunting Squad, intending to scavenge corpses for his Magic Storage Pool.
• Thor found Wizard Brown and the squad outside Old Days Manor, where they appeared to be waiting at the gates.
• Thor noticed the group had no reflections in the manor windows and that none of them moved their feet, then sent Penny to inspect them.
• Penny confirmed that the squad members were no longer people, and Thor shattered Wizard Brown with a pebble, revealing that his body was made of tiny squares.
• The manor gates slammed shut after Thor saw a Shadow Monster behind them, and his Diary warned that the manor wanted a living Tier 1 Wizard as a gift.

Thor collected the remains of Brown the Wizard and the Block Men, then tested the remains and found they carried the same Corruption as the Black Tide. While Thor processed them as filter media for the Magic Storage Pool, the Wind Demon learned that her own pool was behind schedule and vowed to retrieve Thor’s intact after a month.

• Thor had Xiao Zao collect Brown the Wizard’s remains and scattered the remaining Block Men into a mixed heap before erasing his traces at Old Days Manor.
• Thor cleaned and gathered the fragments, then tested Brown the Wizard’s remains with Soul Fragments and confirmed they carried Corruption like the Black Tide.
• Thor began treating the remains with pure Soul Fragments for use as filter media in the Magic Storage Pool, while Xiao Zao swallowed a small piece of Brown in its Growth Space.
• The Wind Demon told the Firefly Lord that four of her Hunting Squads had gone missing, and the Firefly Lord questioned her exploration progress.
• The Wind Demon learned that her Magic Storage Pool would take six more months and ordered her attendant to have its outer shell ready in one month.
• The Wind Demon vowed to retrieve Thor’s Magic Storage Pool intact after the month was up.

Thor sent Noah to the Chaos Domain after Noah passed a test by mastering the Water Source Rune, and gave him equipment and instructions to survive there. As the two disappeared, the Old Witch returned to find Thor gone, while a strange storm of mushroom spores halted over Rhine Lake, suggesting danger was approaching.

• Noah showed Thor the Water Source Rune he had learned and explained that he chose survival over combat; Thor said he had passed the test.
• Thor equipped Noah with a backpack, weapons, poison, and a spatial necklace, then warned him to stay alive and collect samples in the Chaos Domain.
• Thor took Noah to the fourth floor and used the Compass to transport them both away.
• The Old Witch arrived to tell Thor that her Perfect Body had matured, but learned from Herman that Thor had taken Noah away.
• Camus looked south from his Imprisonment Array, and the Old Witch later saw a storm of mushroom spores stop over Rhine Lake and suspected trouble was coming.

The Old Witch rode the Magic Wolf out to confront three Tier 2 Wizards and their teal-cloaked troops, who attacked Lake Heart Island. As poisoned arrows and Xiao Zao’s Black Tentacles turned the tide, the Old Witch trapped the enemy Witch and struck at her.

• The Old Witch ignored Butler Hope’s warning and rode the Magic Wolf toward three Tier 2 Wizards on Rhine Lake.
• The enemy sent more than a hundred people in teal cloaks toward Lake Heart Island while the Old Witch confronted their Witch.
• The Wizard Tower fired gray-white arrows that knocked down many attackers, but the teal-cloaked troops got back up and continued advancing.
• The attackers began collapsing from poison, and the Old Witch told the Witch that the arrows had been poisoned by a physician.
• The Witch lost focus as the poison spread, and Xiao Zao’s Black Tentacles ensnared her while the Old Witch smashed her with an Air Protection Shield.

The Witch fought the Old Witch near Rhine Lake, but an unseen ally’s magic-suppressing arrow left her wounded and unable to use Witchcraft. As the Witch tried to escape, the Crimson Key she had used began draining her blood and turning black.

• The Witch’s gale was redirected by the Old Witch, and the Witch’s explosive powder ignited when she tried to clean it off.
• The Witch drove a Crimson Key into her chest, gained metallic wings, and shattered the Old Witch’s air barrier with a piercing shriek.
• The Old Witch ordered Ke Wo to flee, while an unseen attacker shot the Witch with an ice arrow that suppressed her Magic Power.
• The Witch pulled out the arrow, recognized it as a magic-suppressing weapon, and began looking for a way to retreat.
• The Crimson Key turned blackish red and began sucking the Witch’s blood, leaving her horrified as she tried to pull it free.

The Old Witch saw the Pollution Source accelerate a Witch’s Key Alienation while the blue-cloaked attackers stormed Rhine Lake and targeted the Wizard Tower. As Baron attacked the tower, Marsh shot him with a secret black-powder bolt, causing the Second Rank Wizard to plummet.

• The Old Witch recognized that Thor had mixed black powder from the Pollution Source into the Magic-Suppressing Arrow and left the dangerous Key for Thor to retrieve.
• The blue-cloaked men reached Lake Heart Island, where Herman, An, and the Wizard Tower’s Slender Arms killed many of them.
• Baron attacked Herman and An, but the two spirits escaped into the Wizard Tower without the Butler opening its door.
• Baron tested the Wizard Tower’s defenses, then flew toward its Round Platform to investigate.
• Marsh fired a black arrow that pierced Baron’s lightning barrier and Electrostatic Field Armor, sending him plunging downward.

Baron discovered the Magic Storage Pool after defeating Marsh, but the arrival of Wind Demon Pearl and her Giant Bird forced the Wizard Tower's defenders to confront a Tier 3 threat. As the people inside feared for Thor's safety, Baron and the attackers began moving the Tower Master's Magic Storage Pool.

• Baron pulled himself onto the platform, struck Marsh, and found that the bolt had sealed his Magic Power and provoked his Corruption.
• Baron identified the Magic Storage Pool and fired a red flare, while Marsh escaped into the mushrooms and the Old Witch hid nearby.
• Wind Demon Pearl arrived on a pale yellow Giant Bird, and the Old Witch chose to hide rather than flee or return to help.
• Thor and Camus's giant crossbow bolts failed to hit the Giant Bird after its feelers caught and flung them back at the Wizard Tower.
• Agu, Herman, Hope, and An discussed Wind Demon Pearl's motives and worried that Thor might return to face her.
• Hope saw Baron and the others moving the Tower Master's Magic Storage Pool, and he and An condemned the theft.

The Wind Demon raided Thor’s Wizard Tower and stole the Magic Storage Pool, but left without attacking. After Baron’s companions were killed or driven off, Thor suspected the Wind Demon had lost some of her strength, and the Old Witch revealed she had taken a severed finger from the Wind Demon’s lair.

• The Wind Demon arrived while Thor was away and carried off the Magic Storage Pool with Baron’s help, then left the Wizard Tower untouched.
• Baron reconsidered attacking the tower alone, but the Old Witch emerged with Maqi’s dried corpse while Brando appeared carrying their wounded companion on his spear.
• Baron fled after seeing the Old Witch and Brando had killed two of his companions.
• Thor returned from the Chaos Domain and, after learning the Wind Demon had never entered the tower, suspected her strength might have fallen below Tier 3.
• The Old Witch said the Wind Demon had failed to notice her earlier theft for a long time, then revealed the severed finger she had taken belonged to her.

Thor persuaded Brando to help him strike back at the Wind Demon by offering him another visit to the Consciousness Space. Thor revealed that the Wind Demon had lost her Third Rank strength, and Brando was left weighing the danger of joining Thor.

• Thor returned to the Wizard Tower and learned that Brando had waited outside for seventeen hours.
• Thor thanked Brando for helping defend the tower and offered to work with him in exchange for a visit to the Consciousness Space.
• Brando agreed to enter Thor's Consciousness Space once before deciding whether to risk further visits.
• Thor asked Brando to help invade the Wind Demon's lair, and Brando questioned how they could find her among the caves of the Broken Cliff.
• Thor revealed that one of his patients had confirmed the Wind Demon's location and that she had lost her Third Rank strength, leaving Brando startled by Thor's boldness.

Thor assembled the Old Witch and Brando to attack the Wind Demon at the Broken Cliff while he prepared to advance to Second Rank. Penny confirmed the Wind Demon's location, and Thor handed the next step to Brando.

• Thor persuaded Brando to join the attack and told the Old Witch she would have to face the Wind Demon, her sworn enemy.
• The Old Witch agreed to fight, and Thor planned to advance to Second Rank using the Magic Storage Pool while having her remove the last trace of Corruption from him.
• Thor, the Old Witch, and Brando traveled to the Broken Cliff, where Penny secretly searched the Wind Demon's lair for the Magic Storage Pool and tracked the Wind Demon outside and back to her room.
• After Penny confirmed the Wind Demon's location, Thor turned to Brando and left the next part of the plan to him.

Wind Demon ordered Johnny to kill Brando while she secretly entered the Magic Storage Pool chamber. Thor and the Old Witch infiltrated Broken Cliff and found the hidden passage, where something reached out from the soil as they entered.

• Wind Demon learned that Brando had killed Brent and sent Johnny to deal with him rather than face him herself.
• Wind Demon used a sigil to reveal a hidden passage and disappeared inside, while Penny lost track of her.
• Thor and the Old Witch concluded Wind Demon had gone to the Magic Storage Pool and entered Broken Cliff with Penny's directions.
• The Old Witch revealed the secret passage after an initial sigil failed, and Thor followed her inside.
• Two arms suddenly shot out of the soil and nearly knocked the distracted Old Witch over.

Thor and the Old Witch fought their way deeper into the Wind Demons’ cave, leaving Herman and then Xiao Zao and An to hold off the creatures behind them. A Tier 3 Wizard’s mental pressure shook them in the cave, and Thor insisted the unseen Wind Demon was nearly finished.

• A concealed Wolf-Headed Statue attacked the Old Witch, but Herman fought it while Thor and the Old Witch continued into the cave.
• Thor and the Old Witch found a swarm of poisonous white spiders blocking the passage and flew over them behind the Old Witch’s Wind Shield.
• Thor summoned Xiao Zao to turn the cave walls and floor into a swamp, then released An to help hold off the spiders.
• A powerful wave of mental pressure from a Tier 3 Wizard staggered Thor and the Old Witch, and Thor checked the Diary before claiming the unseen Wind Demon was almost defeated.

Thor escaped the Wind Demon’s dream illusion and followed a newly dug passage toward the Magic Storage Pool, while suspecting a connection between the Wind Demon and the Dream Maker, Clark. At a dream-powered barrier, Penny claimed she could open the way.

• The Wind Demon lured the Old Witch into a dark passage, and the darkness swallowed Thor, trapping him in a vivid dream of a bustling city.
• Thor recognized the illusion as a dream, used his silver wings to break free, and found that the Old Witch and the Wind Demon had vanished.
• Thor reached a fork where the Diary warned that the right passage led to death, so he chose the left passage and followed it uphill.
• Thor found a light screen containing dream power near the Magic Storage Pool and suspected the Wind Demon was connected to Clark, the Dream Maker.
• Penny announced that she could easily crack the light screen.

Thor broke into the chamber containing the Magic Storage Pool and began using it to prepare for advancement, while the Old Witch chased the Wind Demon into a room that exposed the Old Witch’s disguise and revealed a mysterious woman with a face like her own. The Wind Demon prepared to use the woman’s body, leaving the Old Witch stunned and in danger.

• Thor used the Nightmare Butterfly to break the barrier and found the Magic Storage Pool, with Wizard Baron and other Wizards embedded in its sides.
• Thor replaced two of the bodies, adjusted the pool, and entered it as Agu activated the Magic Array.
• The Old Witch chased the Wind Demon into a room where a Witchcraft Array dispelled her disguise and revealed the Severed Finger behind her head.
• The Wind Demon summoned a woman whose face the Old Witch recognized from the Baiseke Magic Mirror and whose left hand was missing its little finger.
• The Wind Demon dropped blood onto the Broken Woman’s brow and said she would borrow the body again.

The Old Witch faced the Wind Demon’s cracked, sleepwalking woman while struggling to understand the truth about the Magic Mirror. Meanwhile, Thor used the Magic Storage Pool and the Death Wizard Diary to advance to Tier 2, glimpsing a possible future of himself diving into a black sea.

• The Wind Demon sent the cracked woman toward the Old Witch, but the Old Witch’s Severed Finger shielded her from the woman’s Third Rank pressure.
• Thor entered the Magic Storage Pool and absorbed the concentrated Magic Power supplied by four Tier 2 Wizards.
• Thor awakened the Death Wizard Diary and seized a line in his dream that revealed images of his past and possible future.
• Thor saw a vision of himself diving from a Giant Bird into towering black waves as White Pages rose from the seabed.
• Thor broke through his restraints and reached Tier 2.