Chapter Summaries

Nari continued raising the Surrogate Puppet as her child, while Ron studied Cassandra’s altered writings and a secret paper on virtual environments. The puppet’s growth strengthened their link, and Ron ended the night preparing for a visit to the Observatory’s dangerous ancient Master Swords.

• Nari fed the puppet Corrosion Sea Snake and watched its runes absorb the creature’s essence, stabilizing her consciousness through its Grace.
• Ron found that Cassandra’s early papers had concealed colder original passages and used an Introspection Mirror to examine his own growing indifference.
• Ron recovered a classified draft on virtual environment construction left in a Consciousness Tomography Device and recognized the King of Illusions’ hidden message.
• Nari fed the puppet a Silent Spider, planned to train it for the upcoming gladiatorial match, and felt its growing Grace calm her thoughts.
• Ron sensed the puppet’s powerful growth through the Bidirectional Link and recorded its benefits to his resistance and understanding of abyssal energy.
• Assistant researcher Alvin told Ron that Professor Uter expected him to inspect ancient Master Swords the next afternoon and warned him about their dangerous lingering wills.

Ron completed the preliminary design for an adaptive chaos simulation device that could help explorers train for the Abyss, then visited Professor Uter’s Master Sword collection at the Abyss Observatory. He examined two swords with powerful wills and histories, leaving the collection tour underway after learning the dangers of the Blood Oath.

• Ron combined Cassandra’s technology, the King of Illusions’ theories, and his own research into a design for a self-evolving simulation device with safeguards and real-time calibration from the Surrogate Puppet.
• Ron finished the preliminary plans by morning and planned to seek Professor Uter’s feedback and test the device at the Abyss Observatory.
• Professor Uter led Ron through the observatory’s ancient corridors and opened the collection room using his Void Shell.
• Ron touched Frostbite, which accepted his strength and showed him Edric’s battle memories and the sword’s life-like traits.
• Professor Uter explained that Blood Oath recorded Morgan’s vengeance and warned Ron that its hatred could consume a wielder.

Ron learned the dangers and histories behind several Master Swords before using Historical Research to experience Edric’s final battle with the Corrosion army. As Ron returned to the collection room, Nari prepared an unusually powerful meal for her child in the depths of the Fifth Layer of the Abyss.

• Ron examined Blood Oath, Evilbane, and Blooddrinker as Professor Uter explained how their former owners had been consumed by hatred, shattered faith, and chaotic bloodlines.
• Professor Uter showed Ron a chained sword from the deepest layer of the abyss and warned him not to approach its incomprehensible power.
• Ron entered a protected Magic Array, touched Frostbite, and used Historical Research to relive Edric’s last battle.
• Edric fought the Corrosion army for hours, then used Eternal Ice Seal to freeze the Wraith Dragon Seradin and the entire battlefield.
• Ron returned to the collection room and gained experience in Historical Research, Bloodline Shaping, and Cold Weapon Combat.
• Nari retrieved powerful ingredients from storage to prepare a special feast for her child.

Nari’s growing intelligence made her recognize that Chaye wanted her puppet, though she used his promised resources to strengthen it. Meanwhile, Ron recalled Morgan’s memories through Blood Oath, analyzed how Master Swords were made, and presented Professor Uter with his simulation device improvement plans.

• Nari fed the puppet rare materials, and its Grace strengthened her intelligence and steadied her thoughts.
• Chaye questioned Nari about the puppet, ordered regular reports, and promised expanded hunting privileges while warning her to destroy it if it showed danger.
• Nari realized Chaye was tempted to take the puppet and resolved to use his resources to make it stronger, even if she had to unleash her primordial chaos to protect it.
• Ron experienced Morgan’s memories through Blood Oath, witnessed how revenge and the sword’s bloodlust left Morgan empty and dependent on violence, and gained combat experience.
• Ron analyzed the materials, bloodline essence, mental guidance, and soul fragment involved in crafting Master Swords before Professor Uter ended the session.
• Ron showed Professor Uter the technical plans he had prepared for improving the mobile simulation device.

Ron gained Professor Uter’s approval for a cautious pilot of his adaptive training system and developed plans to turn the growing Surrogate Puppet into an Activated Magic Sword. His Career Panel revealed a three-and-a-half-star fusion career with demanding requirements, leaving him to prepare for its rituals and obtain Contamination Separation technology.

• Ron presented his adaptive training system to Professor Uter, who warned him about reality-manipulation technology and the fate of the Dreamweavers before approving a small-scale pilot at the Observation Station.
• Professor Uter praised Ron’s safeguards, contrasted his approach with Cassandra’s destructive conquest, and promised that Selna’s Void Shell Remnant Structure, the key to the World of Chaotic Blood, and the Seed of the Throne would aid him if he stayed true to his path.
• Ron returned to his private laboratory, where Ailan celebrated the project’s approval and prepared abyssal dishes while Ron planned to use the developing Surrogate Puppet as the basis for an Activated Magic Sword.
• Ron checked on Dail during her Transformation and predicted that she would wake with a surprise, then outlined the materials and timing needed to forge the sword.
• Ron’s Career Panel revealed an unnamed three-and-a-half-star fusion career requiring a fully charged Surrogate Puppet, a Phantom of Thousand Changes, three awakening trials, and mastery of Contamination Separation.
• Ron considered learning Contamination Separation through the Phantom of Thousand Changes and resolved to prepare carefully for the career change.

Dail awoke after three months of bloodline transformation with new Siren abilities, and Ron prepared to demonstrate his Adaptive Chaos Simulation Device at the Abyss Observatory. The first training simulation ended successfully, while the gathered researchers and explorers watched its results.

• Ron found Dail awake in the crystal pool and learned that her transformation had brought her to adulthood and near the Quasi-Star Ring bloodline level.
• Dail demonstrated her ability to communicate with aquatic creatures, shape water, fly, elementalize, and travel through a storm form.
• Ailan greeted Dail, and Ron explained that he would use her Elemental Perception to help monitor a trial of the Adaptive Chaos Simulation Device.
• Ron presented the device to the Abyss Observatory, addressed concerns from Miller and Supervisor Wayne, and began the test with Rex as the volunteer.
• Rex entered a simulated region of the Second Layer, fought increasingly dangerous Corrosion Worms as the system adjusted the challenge, and completed an hour of training with his performance evaluated.

Ron’s realistic neural training demonstration impressed explorers but worried researchers, establishing his authority at the Observation Station. Meanwhile, Nari sought more hunting territory to feed the rapidly growing Surrogate Puppet, and Chaye negotiated access with other Apostles, drawing their attention to Nari and its mysterious baby.

• Rex emerged from Ron’s neural training simulation unharmed and said the realistic battle had sharpened his focus and reactions.
• Professor Uter warned Ron that the simulation approached dangerous boundaries, while explorers, researchers, and management reacted to its potential and risks.
• Nari, worried that her dwindling supplies could not feed the growing Surrogate Puppet, asked Chaye to expand her hunting privileges.
• Chaye agreed to help Nari and negotiated access to parts of Asmond’s, Moglon’s, and Selena’s territories in exchange for conditions and oversight.
• Asmond, Moglon, and Selena each agreed to grant access but became interested in Nari’s unusual baby and sought ways to observe or benefit from it.
• Nari celebrated the new hunting grounds and promised to protect and nourish the Surrogate Puppet as its runes glowed brighter.

Ron completed a stargazing ritual, witnessed how Abnormality Catchers destroyed civilizations that followed supposedly deviant paths, and advanced to Astrologer (Three-Star). He told Professor Uter that their civilization might also be under observation, leaving them facing the need to find a different path from Cassandra’s conquest plan.

• Ron began the stargazing ritual with Professor Uter’s protection and connected with the Hermit Star, the Scholar Star, and the Observer Star.
• Ron was pulled into an information dimension, where he saw Abnormality Catchers subtly destroy civilizations that had pursued mechanization, virtual existence, assimilation, and other paths judged to have no future.
• Ron witnessed a failed Wizard civilization consumed by Abyss assimilation and learned that timelines could be reset, then escaped the information torrents with the three stars’ help.
• Ron met the requirements for advancement and changed class to Astrologer (Three-Star), gaining increased attributes, new abilities, and synergies with his other classes.
• Ron told Professor Uter that he had seen Wizard civilizations destroyed across other timelines and suspected their civilization was being watched because of Cassandra’s conquest plan.
• Professor Uter confirmed the threat and agreed to help Ron learn more, while warning that such knowledge was dangerous and that Cassandra would resist changing course.

Ron struggled under the weight of learning that civilizations were monitored and destroyed, and Dail and Ailan helped him rest before the King of Illusions contacted him in a dream. The King urged him to publish his virtual-world research and offered Lance Hewitt’s Bloodline Studies inheritance and its own secret arts, leaving Ron facing an opportunity to gain power through scholarship.

• Ron returned to his workshop burdened by visions of civilizations being corrected, and Dail and Ailan recognized his exhaustion.
• Dail sang a Siren lullaby while Ailan prepared calming incense and an elven spell, helping Ron fall asleep.
• Professor Uter detected a high-dimensional disturbance around Ron, received a mysterious message, and chose not to intervene.
• The King of Illusions contacted Ron through a distorted dream and praised his progress on virtual-world research.
• The King of Illusions advised Ron to publish in a core journal, explaining that widely accepted knowledge could become a source of power.
• The King of Illusions offered Ron Lance Hewitt’s true Bloodline Studies inheritance and its own secret arts, including Illusion-Reality Conversion and Contract Reversal.

Ron learned from the King of Illusions about the possible rise of a King of the Era and the responsibility such a role carried, then woke and decided to rely on divination for his bloodline choices. Elliott later warned him that the Nova Project’s intense competition and rewards had drawn out powerful rivals, including Euphemia Pele, while Ron remained in second place.

• The King of Illusions offered Ron rare techniques and bloodline samples in exchange for following a sustainable path, then revealed that the four Kings of the Era had become cornerstones of the universe.
• The King of Illusions told Ron that a future King of the Era would need to spread, exchange, and pass on knowledge, but would lose the freedom to belong only to himself.
• Ron woke at the Abyss Observatory, thanked Ailan and Dail for caring for him, and decided to use his Astrologer abilities to divine answers about his bloodline.
• Elliott contacted Ron to explain the Nova Project’s hundred seats, scoring rules, and rewards, including a Crown Clan treasure and a resource plane for long-term top rankings.
• Elliott told Ron that he remained second as hidden candidates emerged, and described third-ranked Euphemia Pele’s near-six-unit spiritual power and Bloodline Domination talent.

Elliott warned Ron that rising competitors and upheaval in the School Alliance could threaten his Nova Project ranking, but Ron said he would unveil a major research breakthrough next month. In the Abyss of Souls, Chaye attacked the other Supreme Apostles and overwhelmed Agsha, Malaki, and Bradsh before Megs restrained him.

• Elliott showed Ron the abilities and records of Euphemia, Oscar, Eugene, and Chloe, then warned him that competitors were catching up and that political upheaval could change the Nova Project's scoring.
• Ron thanked Elliott, said a research result was nearing a breakthrough, and planned to announce it when he returned to the Central Land next month.
• Dail watched Ron ponder the abyss and felt both pride in his rise and unease at the growing distance between them.
• Chaye arrived at the Abyss of Souls gathering, mocked the Supreme Apostles for hiding from the Wizards, and attacked Agsha, Malaki, and Bradsh.
• Chaye gained the upper hand despite his injuries, tearing apart his opponents until Megs restrained him with black threads and urged him to stop the civil war.

After Chaye’s attack on his fellow Supreme Apostles, Megs proposed using Aiden’s Bloodline Isolation Method to create a stable Abyssal proxy who could infiltrate the Wizard world. The Apostles approved the plan and began a year-long ritual to fuse their origin powers, while Chaye privately anticipated Nari’s puppet reaching maturity.

• Chaye stopped attacking when Megs intervened, and the Supreme Apostles discussed their confinement to the Abyss and their failed attempts to use agents in the Main World.
• Megs revealed that Aiden’s Bloodline Isolation Method could suppress the chaos in Abyssal power and said Aiden had already used it to create Blood Tears Grand Duke Asmond.
• Megs explained that the Apostles’ new agent had entered Cassandra’s Nova Project and would carry a Seed of the Throne made from the origin powers of all thirteen Supreme Apostles.
• Malaki, Agsha, and the other Apostles supported the plan, agreeing to fuse their powers in a ritual that would take at least a year.
• Chaye welcomed the long preparation period because it would give Nari time to mature the mysterious puppet, whom Chaye intended to use and discard.

Ron used astrology to divine three possible paths: a dangerous bloodline evolution in the Land of Quicksand, construction of the Chimera’s second head, and obtaining the Contamination Isolation Method from the Phantom of Thousand Changes. He planned to pursue the isolation technique first, then prepare for an Abyss expedition and the bloodline evolution, but ended the chapter beginning work on a Mana Amplification Crystal despite his exhaustion.

• Ron performed a divination using the astrolabe, star crystals, and his blood while Dail and Ailan warned him about the ritual’s danger.
• Ron foresaw a painful bloodline evolution in the Land of Quicksand during the Apocalypse Season and resolved to prepare with help from the Sand Sea School mentors.
• Ron foresaw the materials and risks required to construct the Chimera’s second head, including a blood sample from an Apostle Rank being obtained through Nari.
• Ron saw that the Contamination Isolation Method was hidden in the Phantom of Thousand Changes’ painful memories and decided that acquiring it was a necessary risk.
• Ron prioritized obtaining the isolation technique, then planning an Abyss expedition and his bloodline evolution, while also outlining upgrades to the Surrogate Puppet.
• Ron ignored Ailan’s suggestion to rest and began inspecting Abyss materials for the Mana Amplification Crystal.

Ron crafted a Mana Amplification Crystal, broke through to Mastery in Alchemy, and gained the Extraordinary Conception trait. After planning to seek Newborn Beast Tears in the Fourth Layer of the Abyss, he visited Professor Uter and learned that a Supreme Apostle threatened an archaeological team in the Twisted Jungle.

• Ron combined an Abyss Crystal Core, Tears of the Stars, and stabilizing gas to craft a Mana Amplification Crystal that could convert between different energy sources.
• The crafting breakthrough raised Ron’s Alchemy to Mastery and changed his Conception trait to Extraordinary Conception.
• Ron identified Newborn Beast Tears as a possible substitute for Spirit Infant Tears and added collecting them to his next Abyss exploration plans.
• Ron arrived at Professor Uter’s study and saw that Uter’s Void Shell projection was badly damaged and unstable.
• Professor Uter showed Ron a star chart indicating that a Supreme Apostle had been drawn to an archaeological team’s excavation in the Fourth Layer’s Twisted Jungle.

Professor Uter let Ron experience his battle with Chaye through a memory crystal to teach him Historical Projection before his dangerous Abyss exploration. In the projection, Uter faced Chaye and summoned Cassandra’s projection to help counter the Supreme Apostle’s attack.

• Professor Uter gave Ron a memory crystal containing his battle with Chaye and warned that Ron might encounter an Apostle Rank being during his next Abyss exploration.
• Ron connected the crystal to the adaptive Chaos Simulation Device and entered Professor Uter’s memories of the Fourth Layer’s Twisted Jungle.
• Chaye arrived at the archaeological camp, and Professor Uter used time-based avatars and powerful spells to defend himself against the Dragon-Headed Fiend.
• Chaye unleashed Tri-Phase Annihilation, and Professor Uter used Historical Projection to summon Cassandra, who redirected the attack and prepared to fight.

Ron experienced a simulated battle in which four Archwizards fused their Void Shells to banish Chaye, then learned the basics of Historical Projection and prepared for his Abyss exploration. Meanwhile, Chloe foresaw a crisis at the Abyss Observatory tied to Ron Ralph, but an unknown force obstructed her prophecy.

• The four Archwizards fused their Void Shells, bound Chaye by severing his causal links, and exiled him through a spacetime rift.
• Ron completed the simulation, gained a basic understanding of Historical Projection, and received Professor Uter's summoning runestone.
• Professor Uter offered to recommend Ron's simulation technology to Deconstruction if he wrote a strong academic paper, and Ron prepared to explore the Abyss.
• Chloe used her astrolabe to foresee danger in the Abyss and repeatedly encountered Ron Ralph in her visions, but an unseen force blocked her attempts to learn more.
• Astraea Nightsong entered Chloe's divination room, and Chloe told her the crisis at the Abyss Observatory involved Ron Ralph.

Chloe received Astraea’s Celestial Sphere and set out on Night Mist for the Abyss Observatory, where she encountered Euphemia and her Blood Demons. Meanwhile, Ron began building a golem to serve as his proxy in dangerous contact with abyssal beings.

• Astraea warned Chloe that divinations concerning Ron revealed ominous visions and gave her the Celestial Sphere to help protect and guide her.
• Astraea sent Chloe toward the Abyss Observatory with Night Mist, spell crystals, and a plan to meet Professor Uter.
• Euphemia staged a Blood Demon attack on Chloe’s flight, and Chloe injured the creature with First-Ring Starfall before Euphemia called it off.
• Euphemia offered Chloe compensation and proposed traveling together, but Chloe refused and flew on with Night Mist.
• Ron began forging a black-gold golem designed to act as his proxy and self-destruct if threatened.

Ron completed Explorer One, a golem intended to scout the Abyss, while Euphemia received orders from the Blood King to advance his plans and approach Ron. The chapter revealed that Aiden planned to use Euphemia’s Bloodline Curse Mark to control Ron and seize influence over the coming era.

• Ron installed the magic amplification crystal, initialized Explorer One, and ordered it to scout the Abyss cautiously.
• Euphemia received the Blood King’s orders to evolve her blood demons through combat, confront Asmond over his disobedience, and approach Ron.
• The Blood King told Euphemia to use her beauty to win Ron over and resort to the curse mark if necessary, while Euphemia planned to enter the Observation Station in her own way.
• In the World of Chaotic Blood, Aiden told Megs that the Bloodline Curse Mark would let him control Ron through Euphemia after intimate contact.
• Aiden explained that he believed Ron could become the catalyst for a new era and planned to use him to challenge the Great Ones and the Court of Truth.

Ron joined Miller Squad on a descent into the Abyss, where he met Maxim and learned that Maxim hoped to control his contamination and break through with help from a dangerous environment. After leaving the platform on the third layer, Ron used his perception to guide the team across the black desert.

• Miller confirmed that the explorers' protective equipment was ready, and Professor Uter warned them against interfering during the descent.
• Ron inspected the platform's rune network and recognized that the souls of thousands of Rune Artisans powered it.
• During the descent, Ron encountered Maxim, whose Abyssal contamination had worsened and who planned to fuse with it to pursue a breakthrough.
• Ron and the other explorers passed through the first and second layers, where the Crimson Shallows and the Abyssal Curse threatened them.
• At the third layer, Maxim headed toward the sixth layer while Ron joined Miller Squad on the black desert.
• Ron identified a safer route around dense bone sand, and Miller Squad followed it through the main danger zone.

Ron sent the Explorer One golem into the Fourth Layer’s Flesh Forest to search for Newborn Beast Tears and scout the Abyss Apostle’s activity. At the observatory, Professor Uter and Chloe learned that Nari was approaching Ron’s route, while Euphemia offered help in exchange for joining Ron’s team.

• Miller warned Ron’s team that the Fourth Layer held high-density Apostle Rank activity, and the team entered the Flesh Forest, where its hallucinogenic fluids affected several members.
• Ron dispatched Explorer One to collect Newborn Beast Tears, map the Abyss Apostle’s activity, and avoid direct contact with any Apostle Rank being.
• Chloe arrived at the observatory and warned Professor Uter that Euphemia’s fate was dangerously entangled with Ron’s.
• Professor Uter received an alert that Nari was moving toward Ron’s route, and Chloe prophesied flames, death, and a terrible outcome.
• Euphemia returned and offered to rescue Ron in exchange for joining his exploration team, while Chloe began an urgent divination to seek another solution.