Chapter Summaries

Ryan used the Eye of Truth to advance his Iron Claw Steel Skin Wizardry while other freshmen gathered to socialize aboard the ship bound for the Umbral Expanse. The chapter ended with an unknown freshman joining Ryan’s table as Arthur spoke to his circle about elemental particle-energy radiation.

• Ryan fed Harak sea beast meat and checked that her Supernatural Nurturing progress had reached 82%.
• Ryan reflected on his progress in Wizard Knowledge and the challenge of mastering one spell within six months to avoid expulsion.
• At the dining-hall gathering, Arthur offered to share his experience with elemental particle-energy radiation to a select circle that included Anna, Rowena, and Orson.
• A freshman sat across from Ryan, praised the freshmen with higher aptitude, and began eating sea beast meat.

Ryan met Gray, another newcomer who had chosen Supernatural Nurturing, before visiting Wizard Tuta. Tuta revealed that Lusen’s soul remained inside her phalanx bone but could not last much longer, and told Ryan that saving it would require payment under the principle of Equivalent Exchange.

• Gray told Ryan that his Kobik was responding to the Ancient Physique nurturing spell, though it had become more violent.
• Ryan and Gray left the crowd and exchanged farewells on the deck before Ryan went to Wizard Tuta’s quarters.
• Wizard Tuta showed Ryan the phalanx bone containing Lusen’s preserved soul and recalled her sacrifice to save Ryan during the fall of the Kingdom of Harak.
• Wizard Tuta said Lusen’s soul needed a solution and that Ryan owed a price for both her preservation and his intervention.
• Wizard Tuta offered to let Ryan defer the costs for now.

Wizard Tuta unleashed a powerful radiation fluctuation that panicked Ryan’s nurtured creature and stirred monsters in the sea. Half a month later, Ryan completed the Iron Claw Steel Skin Nurturing Wizardry, transforming Harak into a supernatural lifeform and securing his admission ticket to Umbral Wizard Academy.

• Wizard Tuta considered Ryan a backup plan, then released a burst of high-energy radiation from his failing body that frightened creatures around the Wizard ship.
• Ryan noticed Harak’s panic during the radiation event, while Gray reported that Kobik had also gone berserk.
• Arthur tried to court Anna and disparaged Ryan and Gray for their low Wizard aptitude, but Anna declined his invitation to study Wizardry.
• Half a month later, Ryan watched Harak transform after eating Sea Beast meat, with the Eye of Truth confirming that his nurturing Wizardry was complete.

Ryan completed Harak’s Consciousness Imprint and gained control over her, while Wizard Tuta confirmed that a hostile pursuer still followed the Wizard Ship. After attending a Wizard Exchange Meeting, Ryan used the Eye of Truth to examine himself.

• Harak’s sudden attack left deep claw wounds across Ryan’s chest, but he healed the bleeding and finished turning the Seed of Consciousness into a Consciousness Imprint.
• Ryan used the imprint to calm Harak, establish her obedience, and send her out to hunt for food.
• Ryan held the Wooden Box and prepared to try the three methods Wizard Tuta had mentioned as the Wizard Ship continued to face the Dark Tide.
• Wizard Tuta realized the ship remained marked by a hostile pursuer on his level and drew a vial of purple liquid, ready to fight.
• Rowena shared his understanding of the Wizard Meditation Method at the Wizard Exchange Meeting while Ryan listened briefly and then ate.
• Ryan returned to his room after breakfast and used the Eye of Truth to examine his own information.

Ryan practiced the Vast Sea Meditation Method and sensed that an unnatural number of sea beasts had gathered around the Wizard Ship. Gray warned him to stay in his room as their supernatural creatures grew restless, while Arthur and the other freshmen continued to dismiss Ryan and Gray for choosing Supernatural Nurturing sorcery.

• Ryan failed to complete the second Wizard Rune before his Spiritual Power ran out, then checked Harak and found her nurturing sorcery had fully stabilized.
• Through Harak's consciousness, Ryan sensed dense groups of sea beasts gathering within a hundred meters of the Wizard Ship and suspected trouble was coming.
• Gray warned Ryan that Kobik was becoming increasingly irritable and that something external was affecting their supernatural creatures.
• Ryan agreed to take seven days of food and study in his room while the Wizard Exchange Meeting continued in the restaurant.
• Arthur mocked Ryan and Gray for choosing Supernatural Nurturing sorcery, while Rowena and Anna discussed their choice.

As food ran low aboard the Wizard Ship, Ryan stayed in his room practicing meditation while Harak watched dangerous creatures gather beneath the ship. Panic and food theft spread among the freshmen, and Arthur, Orson, and Rowena raided their peers for supplies before deciding to target two freshmen who had stocked up.

• Ryan doubled his food supplies, practiced the Vast Sea Meditation Method, and kept Harak within the ship's safety zone as she spotted powerful sea creatures below.
• A week passed, food grew scarce, and Wizard Tuta remained in the Captain's Quarters while a freshman who approached was overcome by fear and pressure.
• Arthur and Orson took food from weaker freshmen, with Rowena eventually joining them, and they subdued resistance on the ship's second level.
• After Orson said their supplies would last only a month, Rowena remembered two freshmen who had collected a lot of food, and Arthur decided to go after them.

A supernatural darkness swallowed the Wizard Ship as mutated Thorn Sea Beasts attacked the cabin floors and killed Wizard Freshmen. Ryan prepared to face a creature approaching his room after learning it was not yet a true Supernatural Lifeform.

• Ryan sensed an overwhelming Particle Energy Fluctuation as darkness enveloped the Wizard Ship, then barricaded his room with Harak.
• Arthur, Orson, and Rowena encountered giant mutated Thorn Sea Beasts in the corridor as the creatures broke into cabins and killed freshmen.
• Arthur shoved Rowena and Orson toward the beasts so he could try to escape, while the corridor filled with screams.
• Ryan heard the attacks from his room and hid behind the door with a dagger as a Thorn Sea Beast approached.
• Ryan's detection system identified the approaching creature as a mutated Thorn Sea Beast, and Ryan decided he could handle it.

Wizard Tuta fought a powerful attacker while Ryan and Harak killed a Thorn Sea Beast inside the Wizard Ship. Ryan discovered that the creature’s heart contained Supernatural Matter capable of inducing Benign Metamorphosis.

• Wizard Tuta emerged from his cabin and used a dark lotus to contain an attacker’s Heart of Darkness Sorcery.
• Wizard Tuta confronted the attacker and unleashed sorcery as they fought across the Wizard Ship.
• Ryan used the Eye of Truth to guide a poisoned dagger into the Thorn Sea Beast’s eye, and Harak crushed its spine and head.
• Ryan noticed the beast was unusually large and differently colored, then learned its heart contained Supernatural Matter that could induce Benign Metamorphosis.

Ryan lured Thorn Sea Beasts to his room and fed their hearts to Harak, advancing her Benign Metamorphosis and reshaping her for speed and diving. After Harak ate the fifth heart, Ryan waited in a nearby room for her transformation to finish.

• Ryan let Harak eat the first Thorn Sea Beast's heart and learned her Benign Metamorphosis had reached 20%.
• Ryan cut his palm and used the blood to lure another Thorn Sea Beast into an ambush with Harak.
• Harak ate the second heart, becoming smaller and more streamlined as glossy black markings spread across her feathers.
• Ryan repeated the blood lure and ambush until the fifth Thorn Sea Beast fell, then Harak began eating its heart.
• Ryan moved Harak to an untouched nearby room and waited for her transformation while he washed off the beasts' green blood.

Ryan watched Harak complete her transformation into a smaller, stealthier Low-tier Supernatural Being while Thorn Sea Beasts attacked the Wizard freshmen. Arthur used a scroll from his hidden Storage Wizard Artifact to unleash fire Wizardry on a beast breaking into his room.

• Ryan examined Harak's completed transformation and saw that she had gained three new Supernatural Characteristics, including Basic Invisibility.
• A Thorn Sea Beast killed Rowena and tore apart Orson's corpse.
• Arthur barricaded himself in a room as a Thorn Sea Beast smashed through the door.
• Arthur revealed his Red Metal Ring, retrieved a Parchment Scroll from it, and cast Explosion of Fire at the intruding beast.

Arthur's Fire Explosion badly wounded a Thorn Sea Beast but failed to kill it, and the beast attacked him as Anna waited out the crisis in hiding. At dawn, Ryan finished hunting the beasts aboard the ship and collected eight Thorn Hearts, then considered how to preserve them.

• Arthur used Fire Explosion against a Thorn Sea Beast, but its scales shielded it enough to survive the blast.
• The wounded Thorn Sea Beast lunged at Arthur, whose screams echoed through the Wizard Ship.
• Anna stayed in her room, having masked her scent with Thorn Sea Beast excrement, and waited for daylight.
• Ryan and Harak hunted Thorn Sea Beasts throughout the night, and Ryan collected eight Thorn Hearts.
• Ryan confirmed that Harak could not consume more Thorn Hearts and planned to use ice from the Automated Restaurant to preserve them.
• Dawn broke, and Ryan watched the sunlight from his window.

After surviving the night attack by Thorn Sea Beasts, Ryan found Wizard Tuta gravely wounded and wondered what had attacked the ship. The surviving freshmen emerged, while Arthur returned badly injured and faced Anna’s cold rejection; Ryan was left watching the Captain’s Quarters for Wizard Tuta.

• Ryan saw that the danger had passed and used the Eye of Truth to learn that Wizard Tuta had lost much of his Life Energy and particle energy.
• The surviving Wizard Freshmen came onto the deck and mourned their dead, vented their fear, and complained about Wizard Tuta.
• Arthur appeared with severe wounds and a missing left arm, then smiled at Anna, who turned away from him in disgust.
• Arthur blamed the other freshmen’s stares and grew more resentful when he saw Ryan looking calm and uninjured.
• Ryan dismissed Arthur as no concern of his and wondered what had happened to Wizard Tuta.

Wizard Tuta survived the attack but suffered severe injuries and learned that the Wizard Ship’s food facilities had been destroyed. He ordered the Wizard Freshmen to hunt Sea Beasts for food as Ryan and Gray prepared to face the new rule.

• Wizard Tuta endured the Supernatural Potion’s damaging side effects, assessed the ship’s damage, and decided to change the rules because the Automated Restaurant had been destroyed.
• Ryan reunited with Gray, who told him that Arthur had abandoned Rowena and Orson during the attack.
• Wizard Tuta announced that the Wizard Ship would stop and require every Wizard Freshman to hunt a quota of Sea Beasts for food.
• The Wizard Freshmen complained about the danger and hardship, while one guessed that the ship’s food production had been damaged.
• Gray worried that the hunting rule would be especially difficult for members of the Supernatural Nurturing Department, while Ryan realized Harak could help him meet his quota.

Ryan explored the Endless Sea after the Wizard Ship began requiring freshmen to catch food, and discovered a fish whose teeth carried Supernatural Toxin. The chapter left him considering how he might use the Scarlet Scale Bigfin.

• Arthur pleaded with Anna to speak with him, and she agreed to meet him on deck the night after tomorrow.
• Harak brought Ryan several live White Scale Fish, which he grilled in a vacant room while thinking about his wooden box.
• The Wizard Ship stopped under the new rules, and the Wizard Freshmen entered the sea to catch food.
• Ryan dove beneath the surface to observe marine life while Gray worried about finding enough food for himself and Kobik.
• At eighty meters deep, Ryan spotted Scarlet Scale Bigfins and learned that their teeth contained Supernatural Toxin dangerous to low-level Wizards.

Ryan extracted Scarlet Scale Toxin from a Scarlet Scale Bigfin and later witnessed Arthur and Anna arguing about their relationship on the Wizard Ship. Their confrontation was interrupted when Harak returned with another fish, drawing both their attention to Ryan.

• Ryan deposited a sea beast in the Automated Restaurant's storage compartment, where the scanner recorded his face and the beast's weight.
• Ryan dissected a Scarlet Scale Bigfin and extracted its venom sac, learning that toxin from ten sacs was needed to prepare a dose that could affect a low-level Wizard.
• Ryan relied on Harak to catch the remaining Scarlet Scale Bigfins while he waited on the deck at night.
• Arthur pleaded with Anna to admit she loved him, but Anna told him she had only ever regarded him as a friend.
• Harak returned with a Scarlet Scale Bigfin, and Arthur and Anna turned toward the sound.

Ryan realized Arthur wanted him dead and prepared for a future chance to eliminate him, while also refining Scarlet Scale Toxin. He completed the second Vast Sea Rune, which restored and strengthened his Spiritual Power.

• Arthur confronted Ryan after finding him near his conversation with Anna, and Anna returned to the cabin.
• Ryan sensed Arthur's killing intent and decided they would have to settle their conflict away from the Wizard Ship, where Wizard Tuta could not enforce its rules.
• Ryan fed two Scarlet Scale Bigfin to Harak and extracted the Supernatural Toxin from the remaining fish.
• Ryan practiced the Vast Sea Meditation Method and traced a second Vast Sea Rune beside the first in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The two runes resonated, restoring Ryan's Spiritual Power to its peak and increasing its strength.

Ryan increased his Spiritual Power and strengthened his physique by drawing in Natural Particle Energy. Arthur, consumed by paranoia and murderous intent, decided to kill Ryan when he went out to sea.

• Ryan discovered that his second Wizard Rune had raised his Spiritual Power to 6.6 and considered how stronger Meditation Methods could improve it further.
• Ryan drew Natural Particle Energy into his body, raising his physique from 5.2 to 5.5.
• Ryan ate in the Automated Restaurant and noticed Arthur watching him with concealed malice.
• Arthur resolved to use his Wizard Legacy and a Particle Energy Wizardry scroll to kill Ryan at sea.
• Arthur shouted that he would always be the strongest, then blamed Ryan for the freshmen whispering about him.
• Back in his room, Arthur clutched the Red Metal Ring and again vowed that Ryan deserved to die.

Ryan killed Arthur in the sea with Harak’s surprise attack and Scarlet Scale Toxin. He recovered Arthur’s Wizardry Scroll and discovered a Storage Wizard Artifact, then headed back to the Wizard Ship to investigate its contents.

• Arthur followed Ryan into the sea and prepared to attack him with a Water Prison of Corruption Wizardry Scroll.
• Harak struck Arthur with Scarlet Scale Toxin, paralyzing him and interrupting his scroll’s activation.
• Ryan stabbed Arthur in the heart with a toxin-coated dagger, killing him.
• Harak lifted Arthur’s corpse to the surface while Ryan searched it and found a Red Metal Ring identified as a Storage Wizard Artifact.
• Ryan pried the Wizardry Scroll from Arthur’s hand, let the corpse sink, and swam toward the Wizard Ship.

Ryan examined the Red Metal Ring and discovered it held a complete High-grade Wizardry Inheritance, Hephaestus's Wrath. He then took out an ancient-looking book, but the chapter ended before he could learn what it contained.

• Ryan returned to the Wizard Ship with Shellfish Sea Beasts, and Anna Karina noticed he had kept their encounter to himself.
• Ryan examined the Red Metal Ring and found that opening it required more Spiritual Power and particle energy than he could easily spare.
• Ryan retrieved the Wizardry Inheritance Hephaestus's Wrath, a complete progression to High-grade Wizardry.
• Ryan checked on Lusen's weakened, sleeping soul and considered becoming a full-fledged Wizard so he could give her a body.
• Ryan used the last of his strength to retrieve another, larger book from the ring and examined it with the Eye of Truth.

Ryan found an ancient Battle Body Wizard record but decided to focus on mastering Hephaestus's Wrath first. After Anna urged him to abandon Supernatural Nurturing, he ignored her advice and began studying the heavily annotated Wizardry Inheritance.

• Ryan learned that the Aegis Secret Record contained the foundations for forging a Thunder Emperor battle body, but postponed studying it until he mastered Hephaestus's Wrath.
• Ryan slept with the two books, and a long-green-haired figure appeared beside his bed before vanishing in the morning light.
• Ryan woke, let Harak fly outside, and went to eat at the Automated Restaurant.
• Anna advised Ryan to give up Supernatural Nurturing and switch to Particle Energy Wizardry, inviting him to her Wizard Exchange Meeting.
• Ryan ignored the attention Anna's remarks drew and returned to his room to study Hephaestus's Wrath.
• Ryan discovered that a Third-level Wizard Apprentice had filled the Wizardry Inheritance with extensive drafts, insights, and annotations.