Recaps

Ryan survived the Wizard Ship’s sea beast attack, killed Arthur, and acquired a Wizardry inheritance that helped him master new spells. The freshmen reached the Wizard Continent, where they learned they had six months to prove their skill and compete for a fixed number of academy tickets.

• Ryan completed Harak’s nurturing, calmed her with a Consciousness Imprint, and later used her to fight off the mutated Thorn Sea Beasts that attacked the Wizard Ship.
• Wizard Tuta fought a powerful attacker while Ryan and Harak hunted the beasts, and Harak transformed after eating their hearts as Rowena, Orson, and many other freshmen died.
• After the Automated Restaurant was destroyed, Wizard Tuta ordered the freshmen to hunt sea beasts for food, and Ryan gathered Scarlet Scale Bigfin toxin while improving his meditation and physique.
• Arthur followed Ryan underwater to kill him, but Harak paralyzed him with toxin and Ryan stabbed him to death, then took his Red Metal Ring and Wizardry Scroll.
• Ryan opened Arthur’s ring and recovered Hephaestus's Wrath and the Aegis Secret Record, then studied the inheritance and mastered Fearful Flame and the Fire Elemental Particle Energy Shield.
• Ryan trapped an Azure Spirit Thousand-Eyed Jellyfish with a Water Prison of Corruption scroll and stopped joining Sea Beast Hunts so he could focus on his studies.
• The Wizard Ship reached the Wizard Continent, where Wizard Ethan explained the six-month spell assessment, banned deaths on Ancient Forest Mountain, and warned that academy tickets were limited.

Ryan studied supernatural knowledge on Ancient Forest Mountain while Wizard Families orchestrated murders and disappearances among the freshmen. After Wizard Ethan made him Executor, Ryan killed the rule-breakers, and the surviving freshmen were inducted into Umbral Wizard Academy and sent toward the Umbral Expanse.

• Ryan remained on Ancient Forest Mountain to study, refused Moss Bailin’s invitation to the Bailin Mansion feast, and began experimenting on Blue Poison Monkeys.
• As freshmen vanished and a murdered student was found, Ryan developed Green Venom, fortified his residence, and killed Number Two when the Wizard Killer attacked him.
• Wizard Ethan returned, exposed Moss Bailin and the other freshmen behind the murders, and offered Ryan a Wizard Contract to execute those who had broken the rules.
• Ryan signed the contract, received Wizard Ethan’s Sensory Deprivation inheritance, and killed Anna Karina, Moss Bailin, Cardi Purple Gold Flower, and the other freshmen on the list.
• Wizard Ethan destroyed the Bailin Family estate and announced that Ryan had served as Executor, earning free study in one Supernatural Discipline at Umbral Wizard Academy.
• Wizard Ethan formed Wizard Marks for the surviving freshmen, who joined the Academy’s Lower Court and boarded a Wizard Ship bound for an inland Wizard City and its Teleportation Array.

Ryan entered the Umbral Expanse, established himself at the academy, and trained to prepare for its competition and Quota Mission. After advancing and strengthening Harak, he set out to investigate suspected Wraith attacks in the Kingdom of Maya as the Bailin brothers prepared to ambush him.

• Ryan sold Supernatural Materials in Vast Sea Wizard City, tested the Golden Pocket Watch, and passed the Nightmare Flower’s trial of will.
• Ryan arrived at the Umbral Expanse, faced hostility from Wizard Family freshmen, and learned about the academy’s secret realm competition and Umbral Points.
• Ryan sold the Aegis Secret Record, bought a Wizard Residence, and began studying the disciplines and materials he needed to advance.
• Ryan learned from Rosette’s Diary about a cursed ruin and a Rank 2 Wizard’s inheritance, while Monta and the Bailin brothers plotted to attack him during his Quota Mission.
• Ryan studied five disciplines, advanced his Wizard Rune count, dissected a Mountain Bear, and implanted the Shadow Dark Crow Bloodline into Harak, who emerged as a powerful Shadow Feather Dark Crow.
• Gray told Ryan about the Umbral Nurturing Plan and its limited places, prompting Ryan to resolve to surpass the Wizard Family prodigies competing for them.
• Ryan advanced to First-level Wizard Apprentice, tested his improved Fearful Flame, and received a Quota Mission to investigate midnight screams and mutilated bodies in the Kingdom of Maya.
• Ryan traveled toward the Kingdom of Maya with Harak while Barton and Eugene prepared to follow and disguise his death as the work of Wild Wizards.

Ryan uncovered and survived the God of Gendas’s attack in the Kingdom of Maya, then returned to Umbral Expanse with its flesh and Hounds for study. As he prepared for the Secret Realm Competition and experimented on supernatural life, the Antun Family revealed plans to sacrifice Monta and Lev.

• Ryan captured Jones and the wraith, then discovered that King Kenny and the Maya royal family were serving Gendas and feeding people to the Blood Pool.
• Ryan killed Kenny with Harak’s help and took the Mysterious Heart, but Gendas razed the town while pursuing it, forcing Ryan to rewind time and escape to Umbral Expanse.
• Ryan reported the Evil God Incident to the Management Wizards while concealing the Scarlet Heart, and the Dream Wizard raised his Quota Mission to A-rank.
• Wizard families learned Ryan had survived the incident and planned to compete for a place in the Umbral Nurturing Plan, prompting them to prepare their freshmen for the competition.
• Ryan studied the Hounds of Gendas, arranged experiments to investigate their supernatural cores, accepted Wizard Kelan’s rewards, and declined Wizard Ethan’s offer to join the Bone Lineage.
• Ryan watched Wizard Ethan defeat four apprentices in the Battle Arena, then pursued his own research into the balance between illusion and reality and began fusing Harak flesh with Gendas flesh.
• Ryan bought two Night Moon Elves for experiments, increased his Spiritual Power, and continued preparing his supernatural research and wizardry.
• Kaze Antun told Hades and Zack that he had destroyed the Bailin family and that Monta and Lev would likely be sacrificed, while Zack resolved to become himself rather than Yisar’s substitute.