Chapter Summaries

Ron researched bloodline modulation in the School library, where Corinna recognized his rapid advancement and directed him to a book about special talents. He began reading about these rare abilities, leaving him questioning what made his growth unusual.

• Ron met Lia, who reminded him to inspire other apprentices through his teaching, and he worried about the dangers facing weaker students.
• Ron entered the restricted library section and studied bloodline modulation, gaining insights into extracting and recombining Bloodline Factors and recording Supernatural Biology as a new skill.
• Corinna confronted Ron and noted that he had become an Intermediate Apprentice and professional Potion Master far faster than expected.
• Corinna told Ron he possessed a special talent and opened his access to a book about special talents.
• Ron opened Brief Record of Special Talents and read that such abilities were innate, belonged to the soul, and could not be taken away.

Ron studied the tiers of Special Talents and found that Potion-Body Resonance could explain his rapid progress as a Potion Master. After training and reviewing Bloodline Modulation, he began using the Silver Wing Separator to refine the Bloodline Activation Potion.

• Ron learned that Special Talents had three tiers, found Dual Soul and Corona Blessing classified as second-tier talents, and discovered that Potion-Body Resonance matched his Potion Master abilities.
• Ron studied information about the Tree Spirit race, then trained with the Corona Breathing Technique until Breathing Body Tempering reached Introductory 99/100.
• Ron found Basic Swordsmanship still stuck at Master Level 99/100, used his Silver Pocket Watch to reset his fatigue, and went to sleep.
• The next morning, Ron drafted a Bloodline Activation Potion improvement plan based on extracting and recombining Bloodline Factors.
• Ron used the Silver Wing Separator on Fire Salamander scale extract and identified a pale golden layer as the factor closest to the Sunfire Dragon bloodline.

Ron negotiated with a merchant for rare bloodline materials, named the Tree Spirit Ailan, and worked with it on potion experiments. Magnus visited Ron’s new workshop and gifted him the Blood-Qi Potion formula Sunflame Essence, leaving Ron with a valuable new resource for Knight cultivation.

• Ron received nutrient-rich soil from the slave merchant, then arranged to buy embryos for Bloodline Modulation when the merchant’s next shipment arrived.
• Ron improved the Tree Spirit’s environment, learned it could communicate with vines, and named it Ailan.
• Ron studied an unstable Bloodline Activation Potion formula while Ailan monitored his experiments and sensed an approaching elder.
• Ron welcomed Magnus, who congratulated him on his workshop and gave him his private Sunflame Essence formula for Knight cultivation.

Magnus explained the Crystal Spire, Mental Contamination, and why older wizards had retreated to the Black Mist Forest, then invited Ron to a Potion Masters gathering. Inspired by Magnus’s Sunflame Essence formula, Ron devised a way to guide his bloodline research, but his swordsmanship remained one point short of a breakthrough, and Andre said the School lacked swordsmanship masters to train him.

• Magnus told Ron that the Black Fog School was a peripheral branch of the Crystal Spire, where greater magical concentration accelerated Mental Contamination, and explained that he and Mrs. Allen had been marginalized there.
• Magnus invited Ron to a Potion Masters gathering at Cedar Hall and encouraged him to bring improved formulas and potion samples.
• Ron studied the Sunflame Essence formula and planned to use its yang energy to guide activation of Sunfire Dragon bloodline fragments, then wrote Andre asking him to discuss the idea.
• Ron trained with his Ironwood Sword but could not advance Basic Swordsmanship past proficient 99/100, suspecting he needed actual combat experience.
• The next morning, Ron asked Andre for advice, and Andre said there were no swordsmanship masters in their current environment to give him a sparring lesson.

Ron set aside sword practice to study alchemy, then learned about the School’s costly Simulation Battle Device and entered a hard-level fight to seek a breakthrough. The chapter ended as his simulated opponent, the tiger-man weapon master Axar, was introduced.

• Ron asked Andre for Alchemy Basics, and Andre lent him the old book for free.
• Andre told Ron about the Simulation Battle Device, and Ron decided to test whether simulated combat could help his swordsmanship.
• Ron and Andre went to the third underground floor of the School’s Central Tower, where Ron paid thirty Magic Stone Fragments and selected a hard fight against a tiger-man weapon master.
• Ron entered the simulation room, chose a longsword, and found himself in a realistic arena.
• The device announced Ron’s opponent as the Tiger-man Race Weapon Master, Axar.

Ron broke through to Master Level Basic Swordsmanship during a simulation battle with Axar and advanced his Sharpness trait to Sharp Edge. Back at the workshop, he practiced his newly refined swordsmanship, resolved to study alchemy further, and later began preparing materials for the Sunflame Essence formula.

• Ron fought Axar in the Simulation Battle Device and struggled against the tiger-man Weapon Master's superior strength and skill.
• As Axar launched a strike at his throat, Ron grasped the sword's killing essence, broke through Basic Swordsmanship to Master Level, and advanced Sharpness to Sharp Edge.
• Axar praised Ron's decisive counterstrike, and the simulation ended with Ron having gained a deeper understanding of swordsmanship.
• Ron left the Central Tower with Andre, discussed the simulation device's potential, and decided to train there regularly and study alchemy.
• Ron tested his improved swordsmanship at the workshop, told Ailan about his breakthrough, and several days later began preparing materials for the Sunflame Essence formula.

Ron successfully brewed Sunflame Essence and observed Ailan’s transformation toward its Forest Nymph ancestors. The next morning, he went to enroll in courses, where Holt helped him register for Alchemy Practice and assigned him to Instructor Thompson’s class.

• Ron brewed Sunflame Essence with slightly improved effects and gave Ailan the nutrient-rich residue to absorb.
• Ron noticed Ailan’s appearance and emotions changing, and suspected the Tree Spirit was undergoing a transformation toward its Forest Nymph ancestors.
• Ron decided to enroll in Alchemy Practice and Elemental Affinity to broaden his knowledge.
• Ron met Holt at the teaching district, and Holt confirmed that Ron’s Potion Master status made them equals within the School’s system.
• Ron enrolled in Alchemy Practice, and Holt arranged for him to join Instructor Thompson’s class.

Holt explained how advanced courses could grant access to unfinished Spell Models and how studying related wizarding arts could reinforce one another. Ron began Thompson’s Alchemy Practice course, quickly learned material purification, and earned an offer of extra instruction; Thompson then showed him a violet-glowing crystal.

• Holt told Ron that advanced courses could provide apprentices with unfinished Spell Models as a form of Grace, and that academic work could generate more Grace.
• Holt explained that wizarding arts shared basic principles, so Ron’s Potion Master experience could help him learn Alchemy.
• Ron attended Thompson’s first Alchemy Practice class and learned to use mental power to separate elemental components from a stone.
• Thompson praised Ron’s precise control, explained that Alchemy involved decomposition and recombination, and said an Ancient Alchemist fused three mainstream wizarding arts.
• Ron advanced his Alchemy skill to Beginner 13/50, and Thompson invited him to stay for extra practice.
• After the other students left, Thompson showed Ron a small metal box containing a faintly glowing violet crystal.

Ron studied alchemy, elemental affinity, and extraordinary bloodlines, then drank his improved Sunfire Essence and used the Corona Breathing Technique to push his body tempering to a breakthrough. As his progress reached the limit of Beginner, he sensed an ancient force awakening in his blood.

• Thompson taught Ron to control an energy crystal and introduced the dangerous mysteries surrounding the Philosopher's Stone.
• Laila's Elemental Affinity lesson revealed Ron's strong affinities for Light Element and Fire Element, which he connected to his incomplete Blessing of the Sun and the Sunfire Dragon.
• Ron researched other races' professions and bloodline tiers, learning about Dragonkind, bloodline regression, and the broad potential of the wizard's path.
• Ron returned to the workshop and found that Ailan had become more lucid and coherent.
• Ron drank his improved Sunfire Essence and combined its activated positive energy with the Corona Breathing Technique.
• Ron reached the limit of Beginner Breathing Body Tempering and sensed an ancient power beginning to awaken within his blood.

After reaching proficient Breathing Body Tempering, Ron gained the Source Tracing trait and learned how the Magma Droplet helped Bloodline Knights control newly awakened power. He and Andre arranged Andre’s Bloodline Activation Ritual for three mornings later, while Ron continued refining the potion.

• Ron’s constitution rose to 2.0, and he acquired Source Tracing, which could trace bloodlines back to purer forms.
• Ron reviewed Andre’s letter and continued developing a Bloodline Activation Potion intended to guide awakening toward a Sunfire Dragon-related bloodline.
• Ailan told Ron that its thoughts and memories were growing clearer and that it had begun dreaming of a sunlit forest and beings like itself.
• Andre brought Ron a Magma Droplet and explained that it stabilized awakened bloodline power during the dangerous six-month growth period, reducing the risk of Aberration.
• Andre revealed that the final stage of the Corona Breathing Technique was restricted to the King and Crown Prince, and that only two Knights had reportedly become Corona Knights.
• Ron and Andre scheduled Andre’s Bloodline Activation Ritual for three mornings later, and Ron returned to refining the potion.

Ron considered the two supernatural bloodlines in his body and prepared to use Source Tracing and a Bloodline Activation Potion to investigate them. Before his weekly assessment, he advanced Mental Interference and Spell Construction, then heard the Living Stars whisper “...come...back...” during meditation.

• Ron reflected on his Ralph Family bloodline and the Sunfire Dragon subspecies bloodline awakened by the Corona Breathing Technique, and planned to investigate them with Source Tracing and a Bloodline Activation Potion.
• Ron confirmed that Basic Swordsmanship had reached its maximum and decided to focus on spells while awaiting advancement to Magic Swordsman.
• Ron practiced Mental Interference on a laboratory mouse and advanced to Proficient, gaining the Lag Circle trait.
• Ron completed a Triple Superposition Configuration in a Crystal Ball and advanced Spell Construction to Proficient, gaining the Stable State trait.
• Ron meditated with Whispers of the Star Eater and heard the Living Stars whisper, “...come...back...”

Ron passed his weekly tests in magic circuit optimization and mental power stabilization with exceptional results, earning permission to skip the second course and enter the third. The chapter left him looking forward to advanced study with an official Wizard-level mentor while remaining concerned about his growing mental contamination.

• Ron reset his moderate mental contamination with the Pocket Watch, which consumed six energy, and decided to investigate the watch's origins after advancing with Andre to Bloodline Knights.
• Ron arrived at the teaching area and began the weekly test, completing the theory paper quickly and including techniques he had discovered through practice.
• Ron constructed a stable Triple Ring Magic Circuit and controlled a metal ball through the Chaos Cube's interference without deviation.
• Ron passed the comprehensive test by maintaining a magic circuit, resisting interference, and casting a steady light-element spell.
• Eric and Lia told Ron he could skip the second course and proceed to the third, where outstanding students could study under an official Wizard-level mentor.

Ron prepared a Bloodline Activation ritual for Andre while Ailan’s transformation stalled for lack of energy. After Andre returned late from helping contain the contaminated corpse of Karl, Ron began the ritual, which ended as Andre asked him to care for someone if it failed.

• Ron gave Ailan residue from Sunflame Essence, which warmed her but did not resolve her stalled transformation.
• Andre worried about the risks of the Bloodline Activation ritual and cut his finger while sorting wood samples.
• The Enforcement Squad summoned Andre and Norris to handle Karl’s contaminated corpse after an Aberrant killed him near the School’s boundary.
• Ron prepared the final Bloodline Activation Potion and waited for Andre, who arrived late and explained that Karl had died.
• Ron and Andre began the ritual with a Magic Array, Energy Crystals, and runes drawn on Andre’s body.
• Andre took the potion bottle and began asking Ron to look after someone if the ritual failed.

Andre survived Bloodline Activation and awakened the Crimson Blood Wyvern bloodline, while Ron used what he learned to prepare his own ritual. Ron drank his potion and confronted the Swamp Hydra in his mental world, where Source Tracing activated.

• Ron reassured Andre as he drank the Bloodline Activation Potion, and Andre resisted the Crimson Blood Wyvern’s attempt to overwhelm him.
• Andre fused with the wyvern bloodline, awakened as a Bloodline Knight, and demonstrated his enhanced strength, senses, and fire affinity.
• Ron and Andre discussed the flaws in the ritual, then Andre left after agreeing to meet Ron again to study his new abilities.
• Ron refined his ritual plans, completed his potion orders, and began his own Bloodline Activation with Ailan watching from a distance.
• Ron entered a fog-covered swamp in his mental world and faced the Ralph Family’s Swamp Hydra.
• Source Tracing activated as the Hydra approached Ron.

Ron chose the Chimera bloodline, defeated it in the Will Battlefield after eight attempts, and advanced to Bloodline Knight, gaining Bloodline Replication and four Consciousness Cores. After awakening, he tested his new strength and Andre sensed that Ron’s bloodline suppressed his own.

• Ron selected the Chimera bloodline and fought it repeatedly in the Will Battlefield, learning its attack patterns and exploiting openings.
• On his eighth attempt, Ron restrained the Chimera and struck its heart, passing the trial and absorbing its bloodline power.
• Ron’s ritual succeeded, advancing him to Bloodline Knight and granting him Bloodline Replication, four Consciousness Cores, and improved attributes and class synergies.
• Ron tested his increased strength, activated his bloodline with the Corona Breathing Technique, and found his senses and physical power greatly enhanced.
• Andre told Ron that Ron’s presence suppressed his draconic bloodline, and Ron responded that everyone had their own secrets.

Ron asked Andre whether he wanted to become king, then offered to support his claim in exchange for a sample of his Crimson Blood Wyvern Essence Blood. After discovering that his Chimera bloodline could copy traits through an ancient Ritual, Ron began the process of combining his blood with Andre’s.

• Ron pressed Andre to admit whether he wanted the throne, and Andre confessed that his newly awakened power had made him willing to pursue it.
• Ron promised to support Andre’s bid for kingship, citing the protection it would give the Ralph Family and access to the Farouk Royal Family’s inheritance and treasures.
• Ron asked Andre for Essence Blood to study his Crimson Blood Wyvern bloodline, and Andre readily provided a sample.
• Ron tested ways to copy the bloodline but found that contact alone had no effect.
• Ron searched his Chimera bloodline’s ancient memories and learned that copying required a Ritual to extract and integrate another creature’s bloodline information.
• Ron cut his finger and let his blood drip into Andre’s Essence Blood to begin the Ritual.

Ron successfully copied Andre’s Crimson Blood Wyvern bloodline and discovered that it resonated with his Corona Breathing Technique. He organized his plans in the Memory Library, addressed the lingering threat of Mental Contamination, and prepared to leave Ailan in charge of the workshop while he pursued Intermediate Apprentice certification.

• Ron drank the fused blood and gained the Crimson Blood Wyvern bloodline, increasing his Constitution and Magic Power and acquiring Light-Heat Affinity and Scale Armor Protection.
• Ron tested his new scales and flames, found his Fire Element control surpassed Andre’s, and discovered that the Corona Breathing Technique strengthened his scales and allowed them to rebound some physical attacks.
• Ron reviewed his abilities in the Memory Library and planned his certification, Potion Master gathering, workshop improvements, studies, and future bloodline research.
• Ron identified Mental Contamination as a continuing danger and resolved to seek ways to advance the Silver Pocket Watch and improve his access to Grace and purification methods.
• Ron taught Ailan bookkeeping and inventory basics, then entrusted her with managing the workshop while he went to the Central Hall for Intermediate Apprentice certification.

Ron visited the Central Tower to seek Intermediate Apprentice certification and entry into the Candidate Wizard Sequence. After explaining his rapid progress through his Potion-Body Resonance talent and passing tests of Spirit and Spell Construction, he was accepted into both.

• Ailan gave Ron a leaf-shaped brooch as a good-luck gift before he left the workshop.
• Ron went to the Central Tower with his documents and recommendation letter from Eric and Lia to apply for Intermediate Apprentice status and the Candidate Wizard Sequence.
• The duty officer sent Ron to meet Solon Griffith, who questioned how Ron had advanced so quickly and heard his explanation about Potion-Body Resonance.
• Ron demonstrated a Spirit strength of 3.6 on the Star Mirror and constructed a stable threefold overlapping Spell Model.
• Solon Griffith certified Ron as an Intermediate Apprentice of the Black Fog School and a member of the Candidate Wizard Sequence, giving him a light-blue Apprentice Badge.

After joining the Candidate Wizard Sequence, Ron used his new library privileges to study the Witch Hunter and Magic Swordsman class-change paths. He learned about the dangers of Demonic Beast organ transplantation and the soul-bound Master Sword, preparing for a future class change.

• Solon explained the Candidate Wizard Sequence’s privileges, obligations, and points system before certifying Ron as a member.
• Ron noticed that his new badge caused an energy fluctuation and decided to keep it in a containment box except when needed.
• Ron entered the library’s newly accessible Second and Third Floors and used the Guide Stone and Crystal Pillar to find research on Witch Hunters and Magic Swordsmen.
• Ron read that Witch Hunter organ transplantation carried serious rejection risks, though his Constitution and completed Bloodline Activation could lower his risk.
• Ron studied Magic Sword creation and learned that a Magic Swordsman bound part of their mental force to a unique Master Sword.

After advancing to Intermediate Apprentice, Ron planned an intense study schedule and prepared improved potions to present at the upcoming Potion Masters' Gathering. He began studying the third-phase courses and aimed to master a defensive spell, with five days remaining before the gathering.

• Ron returned to the workshop, where Ailan congratulated him and revealed she could sense the magic fluctuations from his new badge.
• Ron chose to bring his improved Amber Thought Fluid and Gray Scale Protective Paste formulas and samples to the Potion Masters' Gathering.
• Ron planned to prioritize third-phase Mental Power Control and Spell Construction while keeping up with Alchemy, Elemental Affinity, bloodline training, and potion work.
• Ron studied the challenges of coordinating multiple Spell Models and considered learning Repelling Fire Ring or Radiant Shield as his third spell.
• Ailan reminded Ron that dinner time had passed, and he asked her to watch the workshop while he attended the gathering next Wednesday.