Chapter Summaries

Ron recalled how the Land of Oblivion had erased Corinna and Trish from other people’s memories, then recognized that his soul structure resisted its reality-rewriting effects. In the Flesh Forest, he prepared to divine the team’s next direction using blood and bones, and the bones began arranging themselves in the tray.

• Ron remembered Master Maxim’s distress when he could not recall Corinna, Trish, or the names and faces of his former teammates.
• Ron concluded that the Land of Oblivion erased memories connected to those it consumed and realized his special soul structure offered some protection.
• Ron directed Captain Miller to establish a protected camp before performing divination in the Abyss.
• Miller’s team set up warning runes and barriers, and Miller activated the Silent Casket to reduce mental interference.
• Ron chose combined blood-bone divination, prepared his tools, and used his blood and Abyssal Creature bones to begin the ritual.
• Ron’s consciousness touched memories within the bones, and the bones began moving on their own in the divination tray.

Ron interpreted a divination that foretold an unavoidable encounter with Nari and several threats, then sent Miller Squad away so he could approach her alone. In the Sea of No Light, the Surrogate Puppet revealed its symbiotic link to Ron, and Nari vowed to protect him as her child.

• Ron read the divination as warning of an unavoidable encounter with Nari, a dangerous woman, and deadly conflict for Miller Squad.
• Ron ordered Miller, Blake, Camilla, and the rest of the squad to withdraw to safety and return to the Observation Station if he did not come back within seventy-two hours.
• After Miller Squad left, Ron used his mental link to reach the Surrogate Puppet in the Sea of No Light.
• The Surrogate Puppet told Nari that it and Ron were symbiotic bodies sharing one soul and that Ron was already approaching.
• Nari learned Ron was weak and vulnerable to the other Apostles, then vowed that no one would hurt her child.

Ron persuaded Nari to meet him on the Fourth Floor under the protection of a Chaos Storm, while Chloe’s divination exposed Euphemia as a creation of Blood King Aiden and showed that her involvement could complicate Ron’s fate. Euphemia accepted Professor Uter’s surveillance mark and set out to assist Ron, who spotted her approaching through the Flesh Forest.

• Nari feared the other apostles would take Ron’s other half, offered to shield them with a Chaos Storm, and agreed to meet Ron on the Fourth Floor within six hours.
• Chloe’s divination revealed primordial corruption in Euphemia’s blood, and Professor Uter identified her as Blood King Aiden’s Experiment Subject No. 18.
• Chloe foresaw that Euphemia’s involvement would make Ron’s fate more complicated, but also revealed that her bloodline could interfere with certain Fifth Layer Apostles, especially Asmond.
• Professor Uter allowed Euphemia to join the operation under a Void Shell Mark, and she asked for a position at the Observatory if she proved her worth.
• Ron returned from his link with the puppet, prepared for Nari’s arrival, and noticed Euphemia approaching through the Flesh Forest.

Ron exposed Euphemia as Blood King Aiden’s experimental subject No. 18 and recruited her to disrupt Grand Duke Asmond’s plans on the Fifth Floor. As Nari’s chaos storm closed in on the Fourth Layer, Ron led Euphemia and her newly strengthened blood demon toward a safer route.

• Ron used Extraordinary Identification to inspect Euphemia, then learned from Professor Uter that she was Aiden’s experimental subject No. 18 and might be tied to Asmond’s movements.
• As Nari unleashed a chaos storm across the Fourth Layer, Ron drank his Abyss Adaptation Potion while Euphemia prepared to protect herself and her blood demons.
• Ron confronted Euphemia, revealed he knew her identity and mission, and offered to help her obtain a position at the Observation Station if she caused trouble for Asmond on the Fifth Floor.
• Euphemia accepted Ron’s deal and ordered her two remaining blood demons to fight; the victor devoured the loser and reached the Morning Star Rank.
• With the chaos storm approaching, Ron told Euphemia to follow him along a relatively safe path.

Ron guided Euphemia through the chaotic storm, then reached Nari and admitted that the Surrogate Puppet had never been conscious. He offered Nari a Mana Amplification Crystal to deepen their connection, and the chapter ended as she asked why he had chosen such a complicated path.

• Ron told Euphemia to release her blood demon, then led her through the storm and directed her toward the Fifth Floor to complete her mission.
• Ron left Euphemia and entered the storm’s center to reach the rendezvous point and the Surrogate Puppet inside Nari.
• Nari examined Ron and realized that the Surrogate Puppet had never possessed its own consciousness.
• Ron admitted that he had controlled the puppet but explained that Nari’s care had changed it and that he could feel her emotions through their link.
• Ron offered Nari the Mana Amplification Crystal, saying its fusion with the puppet would bring her double Grace feedback.
• Nari asked why Ron had devoted so much effort to the complicated plan, and Ron fell silent.

Ron won Nari’s trust by enduring her Abyssal Contamination, and she healed him with a precious Life Fruit that strengthened his body and granted him Medium Contamination Resistance. Nari prepared a protected space for Ron’s fusion Ritual, while he planned to turn the Surrogate Puppet into a Living Magic Sword.

• Ron confessed that he longed for a mother’s care, and Nari asked how he would treat their relationship.
• Nari tested Ron by touching him with a tentacle covered in Abyssal Contamination, and Ron accepted it despite the severe pain and mutations.
• Nari pulled back in horror and gave Ron a Life Fruit, which healed him, raised his Constitution from 3.9 to 4.3, and granted him Medium Contamination Resistance.
• Ron thanked Nari and explained the requirements for the fusion Ritual, and she created a stable barrier to protect it from interference.
• Ron prepared to begin the Ritual while planning to transform the Surrogate Puppet into a Living Magic Sword under his control.

Euphemia confronted Asmond over his delayed Blood Dew deliveries, and Aiden intervened to punish him and force the delivery. After massacring Asmond’s Vampires and binding him to obey Euphemia, Aiden noticed Professor Uter’s mark on her.

• Euphemia entered Asmond’s territory and demanded that he explain the delayed Blood Dew deliveries.
• Asmond offered excuses, so Euphemia cut her palm and summoned Aiden through their bloodline connection.
• Aiden reclaimed part of Asmond’s bloodline power and forced the Vampires in the palace to slaughter one another, turning the survivors into Blood Dew.
• Aiden gave Euphemia the Blood Dew and cursed Asmond so he could not disobey Aiden or his bloodline descendants, including Euphemia.
• Aiden sensed Professor Uter’s mark on Euphemia and asked if it belonged to the suspicious old turtle.

Euphemia convinced Aiden to leave Professor Uter’s surveillance mark in place and received the Blood Bride Blood Rose as her guard before returning to the Third Floor. Meanwhile, Ron began transforming his Surrogate Puppet with Nari’s help, and the Soul Steel preserved the puppet’s existing abilities while suggesting new possibilities.

• Euphemia persuaded Aiden that keeping the surveillance mark would help her infiltrate the Observation Station, and he agreed to postpone removing it.
• Aiden made four Blood Brides fight until one with long crimson hair won, then Euphemia used Blood Dew to elevate her and named her Blood Rose.
• After other Apostles investigated Aiden’s disturbance, Euphemia ordered Asmond to send her to the Third Floor and rebuild his territory.
• At the Fifth Floor–Fourth Floor border, Nari prepared a stable space for Ron’s Transformation while the chaos storm continued to rage.
• Ron began integrating Soul Steel into the Surrogate Puppet, preserving its abilities from the Echo Whale’s heart, the Time Vine’s tender shoot, and the Dream Crystal.

Ron completed his Magic Sword, changed class to Magic Swordsman (Two and a Half Stars), and discovered that the sword could shift between a sword and a staff. The sword’s creation strengthened Nari and clarified her power over chaos, but two powerful beings approached, and Nari prepared to face them while Professor Uter warned Ron to flee.

• Nari found and modified two Newborn Beasts to produce purer tears, then repaired and enhanced the golem Explorer One.
• Ron fused his bloodline and a Soul Fragment with the Mana Amplification Crystal, completing a living Magic Sword and changing class to Magic Swordsman (Two and a Half Stars).
• Ron learned that the Magic Sword could transform between a sword and a staff, though its other forms and true name remained sealed.
• Energy feedback from Ron stabilized Nari’s mind and revealed her ability to redefine the properties of matter and create new order through chaos.
• Nari sensed two powerful beings approaching and prepared to fight, while Professor Uter warned Ron to leave before he was caught in a war between Apostles.

Ron used his newly forged Magic Sword to inscribe an enhancement rune on Nari’s Pollution Touch, strengthening its corrosive power as Moglon and Selena’s scouts approached. Nari placed Ron inside a protected bubble near her Energy Core before the coming battle.

• Nari sensed Moglon and Selena nearby and warned Ron that their subordinates were scouting the Chaos Storm.
• Ron’s carving knife corroded when he tried to enchant Nari, so he used the Magic Sword as a medium instead.
• The Magic Sword transformed into its Inscription Form, allowing Ron to inscribe an enhancement rune on Nari’s Pollution Touch.
• Ron completed the enchantment, greatly increasing the tentacle’s corrosive power, but exhausted nearly all his mana.
• Two flesh demons and three Dream Spiders arrived as Moglon and Selena’s pathfinders, and Nari sheltered Ron in a bubble connected to her Energy Core.

Ron remained protected inside Nari as her chaotic power destroyed the scouts sent to investigate her storm. When Moglon and Selena confronted her, Nari fought them off and drove them away, keeping Ron’s existence secret.

• Nari sealed Ron inside a protective sac, while five scouts sent by Moglon and Selena approached her storm to investigate its power.
• The expanding Chaos Storm trapped the scouts, erased the two flesh demons, and left the three Dream Spiders barely able to maintain their forms.
• Moglon and Selena were caught by the storm, and Nari accused them of spying before Moglon attacked her and Selena tried to invade her mind.
• Nari overpowered Moglon and nullified Selena’s nightmares, then pierced Moglon with her enhanced Tentacle of Contamination and spread Ron-strengthened corruption through his body.
• Selena opened a dream portal and escaped with the badly injured Moglon, while Nari let them flee and praised Ron’s contribution to her power.

Ron left the Abyss after promising Nari he would return, giving her a Surrogate Puppet linked to his Magic Sword and accepting Abyss Crystals as a gift. He reunited with Miller, Blake, and Camilla, passed their contamination and identity checks, and began the return journey while keeping the details of his meeting with Nari confidential.

• Ron told Nari he needed to return to the surface, and she reluctantly agreed after he promised to visit when he could.
• Ron split off a Surrogate Puppet to stay with Nari while keeping the Magic Sword and their mental connection with him.
• Nari gave Ron Abyss Crystals and sent him upward in a bubble sac, which carried him safely to the second layer of the Abyss.
• Miller, Blake, and Camilla waited anxiously for Ron until they spotted him descending in the bubble and confirmed he was unharmed.
• Blake and Camilla tested Ron, and his contamination and mental-state readings were exceptionally clean.
• Ron showed the team the Eye of Time and Professor Uter's emergency communication Emblem, then declined to discuss his encounter before leading them toward the Observation Station.

Ron completed an isolation examination at the Abyss Observatory and used his confinement to study the Abyss, train, and speak with Nari. A dream meeting with the King of Illusions revealed that Euphemia’s creation was part of a conspiracy involving the King of Illusions and Hector, and Ron learned that a larger game awaited him.

• The examiners found that Ron carried an Apostle Rank abyssal mark but had exceptionally stable consciousness and low abyssal contamination, so Supervisor Wayne placed him in isolation for three days.
• Ron studied Inborn Apostles, meditated on the three stars, and planned how to advance his skills toward Monday-Level Wizard requirements.
• Nari contacted Ron, offered to break him out, and calmed down after he explained that her appearance would endanger his place in Wizard society.
• Ron attempted to reshape the Magic Sword into a shield, then rested and experienced another lucid dream in Fairy Land.
• The King of Illusions told Ron that Euphemia Pele’s creation was part of a conspiracy and revealed that he and Hector had joined forces against Aiden.

The King of Illusions revealed how she and her allies had arranged Aiden’s rise and offered Ron knowledge and guidance in exchange for helping Euphemia break free of Aiden. After using divination to weigh his options, Ron chose to pursue active involvement and planned to verify the information before acting.

• The King of Illusions told Ron that Aiden had murdered his ancestor Selna and that she had secretly guided events, including Cassandra’s involvement and Euphemia’s creation.
• The King of Illusions offered Ron instruction in Cursed Technique Reversal, future mentorship, and access to secret resources if he built trust with Euphemia and taught her the technique.
• Ron questioned the technique’s risks and Euphemia’s fate, then said he would consider the proposal and verify the King of Illusions’s claims.
• After waking, Ron resolved to investigate Selna and Aiden’s history, study the technique’s foundations, and observe Euphemia before deciding how to proceed.
• Ron used Deep Reflection divination to compare active involvement, passive observation, and withdrawal, and concluded that active involvement offered the only path to meaningful gains.
• Ron planned to report to Professor Uter after his isolation ended, then apply to return to the Central Land and begin pursuing his plan.

Ron learned that the Abyss was deliberately created as a training ground and offered the extreme environments and time dilation needed for advancement, then arranged a return trip to the Central Land. After meeting Ron, Chloe divined her possible futures and found that her sole path to hope depended on him.

• Professor Uter told Ron that the Abyss was created by beings above the Wizard King and explained how its layers and time dilation helped Wizards condense Void Shells and advance, despite the risks.
• Professor Uter reported that Euphemia Pele had returned with the aura of Grand Duke of Blood Tears Asmond, had passed quarantine, and was being treated as a Copper Ring explorer.
• Ron asked to return to the Central Land with experimental equipment, materials, and two assistants, and Professor Uter arranged passage on an airship.
• Ron met Chloe, whose prophetic instincts reacted strongly to him; Professor Uter advised her to perform a divination about her future.
• Chloe used the Fate Loom to witness many disastrous futures and one protected path, learning that Ron was the key to escaping her prophetic curse.

Ron returned to his laboratory, shared his plans to travel to the Central Land, and wrote to his family while reassuring Ailan and Dail that they were family. In the Central Land, Chester Black reviewed Ron’s new abyssal training research and was stunned by its originality and detailed disclosures.

• Ron told Ailan and Dail about his encounter with an ancient Abyssal being, then said he would bring them and research equipment to the Central Land.
• Ron wrote a letter to his father and eldest brother, updating them on his work and sending Magic Stone Fragments for the family.
• Ron assured Dail and Ailan that they were his family, and both were deeply moved.
• Chester Black resented how the conquest policy had benefited Frederick Levin and sidelined Conservative Faction scholars, and suspected Cassandra was punishing him for criticizing her policy.
• Chester reviewed Ron Ralph’s paper on a chaos-adaptive abyssal exploration training system and was astonished by its results, innovative approach, and detailed technical appendix.

Chester approved Ron’s research paper and considered using the Black Family’s heirloom amulet to approach him, while Ron attended a Storm Clan gathering where Cassius and his relatives assessed his value. The gathering ended with the clan’s young women and allied wizards probing Ron about his Abyss research and abilities.

• Chester rejected the idea of giving Ron’s paper a dishonest negative review and strongly recommended it for publication.
• Chester decided to seek contact with Ron through the Storm Clan and prepared the Black Family’s Eye of True Knowledge Amulet.
• Cassius welcomed Ron to the Storm Clan estate, showed him its wind-powered defenses, and warned him about Abyssal contamination.
• Frederick thanked Ron for helping him gain research opportunities, while Ron noticed that other guests were monitoring their exchange.
• Liana, Camela, and Laphne questioned Ron about Abyss exploration, and Ron shared advice about recognizing danger signs.
• Cassius introduced Ron to allied clan members Victor and Gareth, who scrutinized his experience and research as the Storm Clan’s guests continued testing his value.

At a Storm Clan banquet, Ron agreed to discuss cooperation with the family and then met Chester Black privately. Chester apologized for doubting Ron’s research and asked him to appeal to Tower Master Cassandra, explaining that his opposition to the conquest policy had led to his projects and resources being blocked.

• Liana and Laphne tried to seduce Ron, but he remained unmoved and discussed Abyss spell structures and Living Metal research with the guests.
• Cassius offered Ron a residence in Dawn Port, and Ron agreed to discuss the Storm Clan’s proposed cooperation on rare materials and Bloodline Modulation.
• Chester Black called and requested permission to join the gathering; Ron welcomed him, and Chester arrived later that evening.
• After the banquet ended, Chester apologized for doubting Ron’s research and presented a highly favorable review of Ron’s Chaos Adaptive Training System.
• Chester asked Ron to put in a good word for him with Tower Master Cassandra, saying his research projects and resource supplies had suffered since he publicly questioned the conquest policy.

Chester Black sought Ron’s help in reconciling with Tower Master Cassandra, offering a family heirloom and fifty Magic Stones in exchange. After Ron agreed only to pass along the apology without promising an outcome, Camela tried to approach him the next morning and was overwhelmed by the otherworldly power in his gaze.

• Chester told Ron that his relationships and family were under pressure, then offered the Eye of True Knowledge Amulet as an apology gift for Cassandra.
• Ron explained that he had little influence with Cassandra, but agreed to pass on Chester’s apology and amulet without guaranteeing her reaction.
• Chester gave Ron fifty Magic Stones and discussed living mechanical fusion, recommending that Ron begin research with the circulatory system.
• After Chester left, Ron stayed in the Storm Clan mansion and meditated while Ailan and Dail enjoyed the guest suite.
• The next morning, Camela decided to seek Ron’s favor despite Liana and Laphne’s doubts, and used a charm-enhancing necklace before visiting his room.
• Ron opened the door after meditation, and Camela trembled with fear at the strange blue light in his eyes before asking whether he had been training.

Ron spent the morning with Camela and the Storm Clan, learning about their declining prospects and Cassius’s hopes for a partnership amid the new conquest policy. After settling into a research house in Dawn Port, Ron reviewed his skills and prepared for his upcoming academic review and eventual career advancement.

• Ron introduced Ailan and Dail as his family, leaving Camela intimidated by their closeness and charm.
• At breakfast, Ron assessed the Storm Clan’s weak younger generation and stagnant older members while Cassius described their financial and strength-related problems.
• Cassius explained that he wanted to join the conquest plan but could not leave his family, and he sought a long-term partnership with Ron.
• Cassius took Ron, Ailan, and Dail to a quiet research house in northern Dawn Port and gave Ron its key.
• After settling in, Ron reviewed his progress in potionology, alchemy, and enchanting and considered the requirements for becoming a Potion Professor.