Chapter Summaries

Elliott told Ron that the Crystal Spire would treat him normally and shared details about the Abyss Observatory and its investigation of unusual activity in the Seventh Floor’s Abyss of Souls. Ron then underwent a comprehensive Crystal Spire assessment, impressing the reviewers with his mana, spell control, and multidisciplinary skills before the Special Talent test began.

• Elliott told Ron that Tower Master Cassandra had instructed the Crystal Spire to treat him normally and explained that his future potential had prompted Elliott’s honesty.
• Elliott said Ron’s submitted Seed of the Throne would be sent to the Abyss Observatory, where Professor Uter was overseeing an investigation into unusual energy fluctuations in the Abyss of Souls.
• Ron considered joining the observatory, then prepared to demonstrate his qualifications for the Crystal Spire while keeping his core secrets concealed.
• A receptionist escorted Ron to the New Star Reception Office, where Melissa Albert, William West, and Ivan Petrov began his assessment.
• Ron showed mana quality and capacity beyond expectations, outstanding control, and strong spell expertise, impressing the reviewers with his improved Flowing Barrier.
• Ron demonstrated skill in Potions, Bloodline Modulation, and Alchemy, earning William’s praise before the Special Talent test began.

Ron received a Treasure Grade rating at the Crystal Spire and prepared to establish himself by teaching three courses. His trial classes drew the interest of apprentice Liz and Princess Eve Saint-Manzhi, whose Magic Devour condition might connect to Ron’s research.

• Ron displayed four Special Talents, received a Treasure Grade assessment, and learned that his rating and basic information would be entered into the Wizard Compendium.
• Ron asked about the Crystal Spire’s resources and learned that his rating qualified him for extensive facilities, rare materials, and access to leading experts.
• Liz and Jack learned that Ron Ralph’s three courses would offer free trial classes, and Liz registered for Advanced Potion Theory and Practice.
• Eve Saint-Manzhi decided to attend Ron’s courses in hopes of finding insight into her Magic Devour symptoms, and Franka arranged protection and gave her a new Magic Isolation Device.
• Ron learned that Eve had registered for two of his courses and began preparing lessons and public experiments focused on Potions, bloodline modulation, and Abyssal Creatures.

Ron toured the Abyss Observatory Central Land Branch with Reynolds, examined its dangerous Abyssal Substance collection, and reviewed the benefits and obligations of joining. The tour ended when a portrait spoke after Reynolds mentioned Professor Uter.

• Ron met Reynolds at the Abyss Observatory and entered the concealed facility through its protected corridor.
• Reynolds showed Ron the research hall and the second underground floor's stored Abyssal Substance, including a fragment of an Apostle's limb.
• Ron asked about Abyssal Secret Treasures, and Reynolds explained that the observatory kept several in its restricted third-floor vault.
• Reynolds gave Ron a detailed membership document describing research access, exploration support, and confidentiality requirements.
• The magical field shifted as Reynolds praised Professor Uter, and the portrait on the wall spoke.

Ron met Professor Uter, who praised his potential and offered to teach him techniques in History and Astrology if he joined the Observation Station. After studying the Crystal Spire’s contribution system, Ron prepared for his trial lecture, where Princess Eve arrived among a crowd of eager apprentices.

• Professor Uter appeared in a portrait, recognized Ron, and recalled that Cassandra, Hayek, Allen, and Valen had once been his students.
• Uter praised Ron’s talents, encouraged him to join the Observation Station, and offered to teach him History and Astrology techniques if he met the contribution requirements.
• Uter told Ron he owned Aldrich’s original Abyssal Creature Compendium, which Ron might one day have the chance to read.
• Reynolds urged Ron to consider joining the Observation Station, and Ron returned home to study the Crystal Spire’s contribution point system ahead of his trial lecture.
• The next morning, apprentices crowded outside the Comprehensive Application classroom, and Jack and Liz discussed the interest in Ron’s lecture.
• Princess Eve arrived with her maid Franka and Crown Clan nanny golems as apprentices whispered about her exceptional talents and Magic Devour symptoms.

Ron taught his first Advanced Potion Theory and Practice lecture, demonstrating how understanding energy pathways could improve potions and their effects. Eve was disappointed that the lesson did not solve her problem, but an idea inspired by it led her to ask Ron to join her in an experiment involving his Grace.

• Ron lectured the apprentices on potion principles and demonstrated an improved Mental Stabilizer with greater potency, longer duration, and fewer side effects.
• Ron invited Liz to test the potion, and she found that it greatly improved her focus and meditation.
• Eve judged the lecture insufficient for her needs but decided to attend Ron's upcoming Fundamentals of Bloodline Modulation course after gaining a sudden inspiration.
• Liz asked Ron about an assistant position in exchange for work, and he invited her to discuss it in the teachers' lounge the next day.
• Eve approached Ron after class, praised his lecture, and asked him to accompany her in an experiment involving his unusually pure Grace.

Ron visited Eve at the Emerald Small Building to discuss exchanging knowledge and Grace, hoping the arrangement might help with her Magic Devour symptoms. Their conversation ended with a preliminary plan to teach each other, while Ron gained a new ability after sensing Professor Uter’s Void Shell essence.

• Eve invited Ron to her residence to discuss exchanging Grace through mutual teaching, and Ron agreed to visit.
• Ron discovered that Franka was a powerful Half-Dragon and that Eve’s nanny golems were heavily armed.
• Ron sensed Professor Uter’s Void Shell essence in a corridor portrait, and his Extraordinary Identification advanced to Mastery with the Essence Insight trait.
• Eve explained that Magic Devour prevented her from practicing normally and proposed teaching Ron mental-control techniques, wizard history, and otherworldly knowledge.
• Ron agreed to teach Eve Potions and Bloodline Modulation in exchange for her knowledge, hoping Grace might help her overcome Magic Devour and advance.

Ron and Eve agreed to a teacher-student relationship and a private exchange of knowledge, giving Eve hope of treating her Magic Devour while introducing Ron to her precise mental power control techniques. As Ron’s classes grew popular and he developed the Simulation Battle Device, he began struggling to relearn how to control his mental power.

• Ron and Eve agreed that he would teach her Potions and Bloodline Modulation while she shared permitted knowledge, and Eve would attend his public classes as his student.
• Eve demonstrated her precise mental power control by shaping airborne particles into a crystal flower and a Magic Array, and Ron recognized its potential for spells and his own abilities.
• News of Eve becoming Ron’s student spread through the Crystal Spire, and her attendance helped draw large crowds to Ron’s classes.
• Liz reported that enrollment exceeded the classroom’s capacity, so Ron scheduled a second class and praised her progress under his guidance.
• Ron examined the Simulation Battle Device containing Axar’s Soul Fragment and considered using Eve’s control techniques to stabilize its systems.
• Ron practiced Eve’s techniques to improve Spell Construction and Mind Blast, but he struggled to abandon traditional methods of controlling mental power.

Ron mastered microscopic spell control under Eve’s guidance, improving his magic and learning that magic comes from higher-dimensional energy. Meanwhile, Cassandra plundered a distant world to collect materials and samples for research into Magic Devour.

• Ron used Eve’s fine-control techniques to reconstruct Sonic Oscillation, destroying an alloy target with a precise internal effect and gaining the Micro-Structural Adaptation trait.
• Ron explored how Micro-Structural Adaptation could improve offensive and defensive spells, including Flowing Barrier and Ring of Radiance.
• Eve told Ron that magic was higher-dimensional energy, Grace was a form of higher-dimensional feedback, and wizards who studied that energy too deeply risked becoming Apostles.
• Cassandra transformed into her Void Shell and devastated a crystal-based civilization, collecting its buildings, creatures, and highly efficient crystals.
• Cassandra returned to human form and concluded that the plane’s energy structure resembled the Abyss’s Seventh Floor, potentially offering clues to Magic Devour.

Cassandra spoke with Professor Uter about Ron Ralph’s unusually powerful Grace and its apparent effect on Eve’s Magic Devour symptoms, while considering her research into the Bloodline Lock. At the Crystal Spire, Ron then attended Frederick Levin’s introductory enchanter lecture.

• Cassandra inspected samples from her planar conquest as Professor Uter contacted her about changes at the Crystal Spire.
• Professor Uter told Cassandra that Ron Ralph’s Grace was exceptionally pure and that Eve’s Magic Devour symptoms had eased slightly under its influence.
• Cassandra and Professor Uter agreed to observe Ron and Eve without intervening, while discussing the Bloodline Lock and the limits imposed on The Great One’s descendants.
• Cassandra resumed examining the captured creatures, hoping their energy structures would help her find a way to break the Bloodline Lock.
• Ron entered the Enchanting Department’s beginner lecture hall and sat among the apprentices, who whispered about his identity and connections.
• Frederick Levin began the first lecture of Introduction to Enchanters.

Ron attended Frederick’s Enchanting Studies lecture, gained foundational Runic Studies and Enchanting skills, and received a Rune Memory Bead to support his pursuit of Tri-Phase Unity. He later continued stabilizing the Simulation Battle Device, which reached 78% stability, and began considering its next stage.

• Frederick taught the apprentices about rune theory and basic enchantment arrays, while Ron learned Runic Studies and Enchanting through the Career Panel.
• Ron practiced drawing Stability runes and gained experience in both new skills during Frederick’s class.
• Frederick recognized Ron’s interest in the Ancient Alchemist inheritance and gave him a Rune Memory Bead containing his early research insights.
• Ron studied the bead at home, and the Career Panel reported that his Potion Master and Alchemist professions slightly increased his experience gain in Runic Studies and Enchanting Studies.
• Ron checked the Simulation Battle Device with Ailan, learned that Axar’s Soul Fragment had merged into its core and Dail’s water-control abilities were improving, and raised the device’s stability to 78%.
• After finishing the night’s adjustments, Ron told Ailan they needed to prepare a plan for the next stage.

Ron performed a Sunlight Essence ritual that completed and advanced his Sunlight Blessing talent into Sunlight Avatar, while Ailan gained greater light and heat resistance and the ability to convert sunlight into magic power. By dawn, both had adapted to their changes, and Ron prepared to return the borrowed Silent Furnace to Eve.

• Ron explained the ritual’s risks and possible benefits to Ailan, and she agreed to participate.
• Ron extracted Sunlight Essence from the Ancestral Effigy and prepared a protected ritual array with Ailan positioned to absorb some of the energy.
• Ron endured the painful infusion with help from his Pocket Watch and completed his talent, gaining Sunlight Avatar and a trace of solar divinity.
• Ailan withstood the sunlight energy and gained increased light and heat resistance, along with the ability to turn sunlight into magic power.
• Ron tested his improved light-and-heat magic at dawn, then prepared to return the Silent Furnace to Eve after breakfast with Ailan and Dail.

Ron learned about the Central Land’s festivals and its calendar of Twelve Sages and Four Cornerstones before meeting Eve for their exchange. Eve began teaching him dangerous core knowledge about astrology and warned him not to look directly at the starry sky’s dark regions.

• Franka explained that the Central Land was preparing for Lance Memorial Day, honoring the sage Lance Hewitt and his invention of the Autophagic Slime.
• Franka described how the Twelve Sages marked the months and the Four Cornerstones—Progenitor, Creator, Apocalypse, and End of Death—led the seasons.
• Franka told Ron about the upcoming Rainbow Ring competition, and Eve believed he should participate.
• Ron returned the Silent Furnace to Eve, who then revealed that she planned to teach him the mysteries of the Historian and the Astrologer.
• Eve warned Ron that astrological knowledge could cause mental pressure and Contamination, then gave him a booklet of stargazing techniques inherited from Professor Uter.
• Ron read that hidden ancient existences might lie between the stars, and the booklet warned him never to look directly at the dark regions.

Ron studied the dangerous disciplines of Historical Research and Astrology with Eve, learning about Mystics and the rare beings who held that class. After Eve described her improved condition and invited him to the Lance Festival, Ron agreed to enter the Rainbow Ring competition for a chance to win Lance's Experimental Notes.

• Eve taught Ron that Historians contacted historical nodes in the River of Time, risking the attention of Time Hounds, and introduced him to basic historical sensing and Astrological observation.
• Ron’s panel recorded beginner skills in Historical Research and Astrology and listed the conditions for becoming a Historian or Astrologer.
• Eve explained that Professor Uter and the Eye of Observation were the world’s only two Mystics, and connected the Eye to Elder Calix and the Elder Beholder bloodline.
• Eve thanked Ron for helping ease her Magic Devour symptoms and asked him to attend the Lance Festival with her.
• Eve described the Rainbow Ring competition and its prize, Lance's Experimental Notes, and Ron agreed to participate.
• After spending the day studying with Eve, Ron returned home to review his lessons and prepare for the competition.

Ron cautiously combined astrology with his Star Projection trait, gaining insight into the Hermit Star and advancing his skills. He also used Historical Research to uncover fragments of the Surrogate Puppet’s violent past, then slowed his research to manage its mental effects and focused on his academic paper and the Rainbow Ring competition.

• Ron connected to the Hermit Star, glimpsed it as the remnant of an ancient entity, and advanced Astrology and Whispers of the Star Eater.
• Ron tested whether Historical Research could reveal the origins of Rare Relics and sensed the Surrogate Puppet’s creation by a dying old man using dark magic.
• Ron found that the Phantom of Thousand Changes resisted his perception and that the Time Guardian's Pocket Watch was beyond his current ability to analyze.
• A skill synergy between Historical Research and Extraordinary Identification improved his ability to study relics.
• Ron uncovered more of the Surrogate Puppet’s history, including its violent succession of owners, but suffered mental strain and contamination.
• Ron limited his astrology and historical sensing practice and turned his attention to writing his academic paper and preparing for the Rainbow Ring competition.

Ron completed a paper proposing a portable Simulation Battle Device and submitted it to the Crystal Spire's academic review office. He left awaiting a decision expected within seven to ten days.

• Ron used the Void Gem, the Heart-Devouring Stone, and a multilayered energy circulation design to develop the portable Simulation Battle Device while continuing construction of his mobile workshop.
• Ron drafted a paper describing the device's principles and applications while withholding sensitive details about Abyss materials.
• Ron prepared the paper and brought it to the Crystal Spire's academic review office the next morning.
• Ron spoke with Associate Professor William West, who expressed interest in his research.
• The review office registered Ron's paper on mobile Simulation Battle Device alchemy and Soul Fragment stabilization and told him results would arrive in seven to ten days.

Ron reviewed his progress and future plans after speaking with Mrs. Allen, then realized his relentless workload was unsustainable and chose to focus on Enchanting Studies and Runic Studies. He ended the chapter determined to place in the top three of the Rainbow Ring competition to promote his workshop and earn money.

• Ron spoke with Mrs. Allen, who reported that Lillia was progressing in potion-making and that Hayek said the Black Fog School was doing well, while Trish and Corinna remained missing after an Abyss mission.
• Ron reviewed his half-year of development and assessed his wizard, knight, and specialized skill paths, recognizing that his many ambitions were competing for limited time.
• Ailan brought Ron elm heartbark extract and urged him to rest and plan his goals more reasonably.
• Ron decided to prioritize Enchanting Studies and Runic Studies, aiming to advance them and qualify as an Enchanter while relying on the Career Panel to preserve his other skills.
• After learning that Dail had improved her water-flow control, Ron resolved to place in the top three at the Rainbow Ring competition to promote his workshop and improve his finances.

Ron taught his students about multiphase potions, reviewed the progress of his Elite Group, and discussed Liz’s advances before heading home. A formal notice from the Academic Review Office arrived just as he was settling in.

• Ron taught a lesson on multiphase potion systems and assigned students to analyze failed conversion cases.
• Six members of Ron’s Elite Group shared their research and progress, and Ron gave them feedback and new guidance.
• Liz reported improved meditation and progress making an enhanced Lucidity Potion, then told Ron that the students planned to cheer for him at the Rainbow Ring competition.
• Ron returned to his residence, where a crystal golem delivered him a sealed review notice from the Academic Review Office.

Ron received a strong preliminary evaluation for his research paper, which advanced to the second-stage review and earned him 1,260 provisional contribution points. He then joined Eve, Ailan, and Dail for a private festival-eve dinner, where Professor Uter shared memories of his former students and welcomed the younger generation’s future.

• Ron read that his paper had passed preliminary review, entered the second stage, and earned 1,260 provisional contribution points.
• Franka invited Ron, Ailan, and Dail to dine with Eve and Professor Uter at the Emerald Small Building on the eve of the Lance Festival.
• Eve prepared an elaborate dinner herself, and Ron and Ailan praised her precise mental control and cooking.
• Professor Uter arrived in a false body made from a Void Shell fragment and congratulated Ron on his paper’s preliminary success.
• Over dinner, Professor Uter recalled his former students Allen, Valen, Cassandra, Ankadi, and Simon, then expressed joy at seeing the younger generation gather and grow.

Professor Uter told Ron and Eve the hidden history of the Blood King, explaining how Aiden Bradley inherited part of Blood Lady Selna’s Void Shell and became a Wizard King through ruthless ambition. The account ended with the Blood King remembered as the weakest and most despised Wizard King.

• Professor Uter praised Ron’s research and teaching, while Eve said Ron’s Grace had eased her Magic Devour symptoms.
• After the others left, Professor Uter shielded the room and began telling Ron and Eve the secret history of the Blood King.
• Professor Uter explained that Aiden Bradley used a forbidden Ritual to inherit part of his ancestor Blood Lady Selna’s Void Shell, damaging his soul in the process.
• Professor Uter described the Bloodline Lock, which restricted descendants from surpassing their most powerful ancestor until that ancestor died.
• Professor Uter revealed that Aiden slaughtered his entire clan to prevent a bloodline curse from targeting his descendants, then tried and failed to erase Selna’s role in his rise.
• Professor Uter said the Blood King conquered the Land of Chaotic Blood using Selna’s research, yet remained isolated and was regarded as the weakest Wizard King.

Professor Uter explained how Aiden’s misuse of Archwizard Selna’s Void Shell led Calix to defeat him, then revealed the cruel fate of preserved Archwizards and shared his plans for passing on his own Void Shell. Ron prepared for the Rainbow Ring competition, which began amid a crowded festival in Dawn Port.

• Professor Uter told Ron and Eve that Aiden had inherited Selna’s Void Shell fragments and that Calix later severed their connection, defeated Aiden, and reclaimed the fragments at great personal cost.
• Professor Uter explained that the Court of Truth’s Specimen Repository trapped preserved Archwizards between life and death, while an heir’s Void Shell could protect fragments and call back some of a predecessor’s consciousness.
• Professor Uter said he was nearing the end of his life and planned to leave parts of his Void Shell to Cassandra and Eve, including support for Eve’s Magic Devour symptoms.
• After Professor Uter departed, Ron reviewed the knowledge he had learned, gained Historical Research experience, and made final preparations for the competition.
• The Rainbow Ring competition began as crowds gathered in Dawn Port beneath the festival’s rainbow lights.