Chapter Summaries

Wizard Umbraly Light gave up waiting for Ryan Harak and prepared a way to reach the Umbral Expanse, while rumors of his disappearance spread through headquarters. As friends and allies struggled to accept the news, Ryan remained beneath the sea in the Dream World, studying the ruins.

• Wizard Umbraly Light decided Ryan Harak was likely dead, then ordered Purple Nightmare to help establish a protected teleportation route to the Umbral Expanse.
• Machine God Wizard praised Tatakai for returning with technological knowledge and promised the successful apprentices seats on the Heart Council after they passed the Wizard World Will’s assessment.
• Wizard Kelan rejected rumors of Ryan’s death, then agreed to handle Dream School matters at the coming Umbral Supreme Council while Dream Wizard remained lost in the Dream World.
• Wizards at the Night Night Night Tavern discussed Ryan’s disappearance and the approaching council, while Mona admitted she could no longer contact him and resolved to seek a divination.
• Rhine Wizard kept Sol confined and warned her not to get involved with Ryan, while Zack Antun and Hades argued over the rumors and Zack insisted Ryan could not be dead.
• Ryan Harak remained on the seabed in the Dream World and felt he had begun to understand some of the ruins’ mysteries.

Ryan left the Dream World to analyze the Giant Wizard Statue and found it was made entirely of valuable Darksteel Metal, while its six Wizard Puppets were trapped in his Dream Territory. He retrieved the Book of Myriad Phenomena, whose Rule Power resonated with Harak's Rule Power Fragments and the Espers' Super Genes.

• Ryan returned to reality beneath the sea and used the Eye of Truth to identify the statue's Darksteel Metal and the Rule Power in its right hand.
• When the six Wizard Puppets approached, Ryan lured them through the Heart's Dream Mirror into Foam Land, where Seven-colored Trees and the earth trapped them.
• Ryan completed his analysis and confirmed the statue contained no hidden Wizard Array Spells or Rule Power, revealing that its Darksteel Metal could advance his Wizard Artifacts.
• Ryan stored the Book of Myriad Phenomena in the Infinite Black Core, where it resonated with Harak's Rule Power Fragments and caused the imprisoned Espers to react.
• Ryan reached for the Book of Myriad Phenomena and seized it with his Blood Energy-covered right hand.

Ryan exhausted himself trying to escape the Ancient Ruins, but every method failed and his condition deteriorated. After eight days of scanning, he identified the ruins as the dormant Voyage Conquest Laboratory and triggered its energy cycle with a final spark of Fearful Flame.

• Ryan's attempts to escape using his Complete-State Fission Nuclear Body, the Heart's Dream Mirror, the Gate of Another World, and the Golden Pocket Watch all failed.
• Ryan used the Eye of Truth to analyze the Ancient Ruins for seven days and nights, sacrificing his resources and life force until he became an aged, frail man.
• Ryan's Eye of Truth identified the Ancient Ruins as the dormant Voyage Conquest Laboratory and found its weakest energy-transmission point.
• Ryan struggled to the identified location and struck the floor with Fearful Flame, igniting red energy flames that spread throughout the Ancient Ruins.

Ryan awakened inside the War Fortress after its systems restored his body and altered his powers, discovering that he had entered the Ascension State despite never facing the Wizard World Will. He headed toward the fortress's Main Control Intelligence, wondering whether his Perfect Balance theory was possible.

• The War Fortress awakened, cleared seawater from the Ancient Ruins, and rose from the seabed as Ryan was enveloped in light.
• The Biological Intelligent System detected an unknown fluid merging into Ryan's flesh and reported his recovery, rising vitality use, transforming Spiritual Power, and purifying Dream Power.
• Ryan woke in the War Fortress's Main Control Area and used the Eye of Truth to retrace what had happened.
• Ryan discovered that his Spiritual Power had risen to 51, his Physique to 50, and his Active Neurons to 26%, while his Particle Energy and Dream Power had also increased.
• Ryan realized he had entered the Ascension State without taking the Test of the Wizard World Will and wondered whether another path to becoming a Formal Wizard existed.
• Ryan headed toward the Main Control Intelligence, questioning whether his Perfect Balance theory could be achieved.

Ryan reached the War Fortress’s Main Control Room and learned from its Biological Intelligent System, King of Hanging, that the Time Cycle Rule Engine trapped him in the Ancient Ruins. King of Hanging named Ryan its new master, explained the Legendary Era’s fall, and revealed that the Blood of Legend Potion could let a wizard advance beyond ordinary limits.

• A flesh-built door blocked Ryan from entering the Main Control Room until he gained the War Fortress’s Authority, and its Biological Intelligent System offered to make him master if he left a Soul Imprint and Mental Imprint.
• Ryan asked why no one could leave the Ancient Ruins, how he could enter the Ascension State without the Gate of Another World, and what the World Experiment Field and War Fortress were for.
• The system introduced himself as King of Hanging, or Yi, and explained that the Legendary Era ended in a civil war called Cleansing Justice that killed his creator and scattered his components throughout the world.
• Yi said the Time Cycle Rule Engine’s Rule Domain prevented Ryan from leaving and declared Ryan the suitable new master of the War Fortress.
• Yi revealed that he had used the last Blood of Legend Potion to save Ryan, and said the potion could expand and repair a wizard’s path without fixed limits.
• Yi dismissed the Wizard World Will’s test as unnecessary and said the Blood of Legend Potion was an outstanding method for becoming an official wizard.

Ryan uncovered secrets about the Deep Blue World and the Deep Blue Grand Wizard, then became master of the Hanging King War Fortress. King of Hanging revealed that only the Time Cycle Rule Engine and the War Treasury remained, with the Legendary Blood Potion among the treasury’s most valuable resources.

• Ryan pieced together records suggesting that powerful wizards existed in the Inner World and that the Space Layers around the Wizard World were sealed by a powerful wizard array.
• King of Hanging told Ryan that the Deep Blue World already existed before the Deep Blue Grand Wizard used it for human experiments, then left behind a Wizard Statue and a damaged Book of Myriad Phenomena.
• Ryan learned that six Darksteel Metal Wizard Puppets had returned with the statue and book roughly a hundred thousand years later, and that they had used a wizard array to try to repair the book.
• Ryan left his Spiritual Imprint and Soul Imprint in the control system and became master of the Hanging King War Fortress, gaining full Authority.
• King of Hanging told Ryan that it could not leave the Deep Blue World and that only the Time Cycle Rule Engine and War Treasury remained; the treasury held a Legendary Blood Potion that could advance Ryan toward the Limit State.

Ryan retrieved the Fission Fire Cores from the abandoned Black Dragon Research Institute and headed toward the Nuclear Energy Research Center in District 10. The Crimson Dragon Emperor detected him and ordered every available weapon deployed to kill him.

• Ryan learned that the Hanging King Fortress could not leave the Deep Blue World until its scattered components were recovered, and he chose to retrieve the War Treasury supplies first.
• Ryan returned to the Black Dragon Research Institute and absorbed its remaining thirty Fission Fire Cores into his Magnetic Silence Mirror and body.
• Ryan sensed his growing power and vanished toward District 10 and the Nuclear Energy Research Center.
• The great powers detected energy comparable to a strategic Heaven's Wrath Weapon, and the Crimson Dragon Emperor recognized Ryan as the Black Robe Crow Doctor he had hunted for fifteen years.
• The Crimson Dragon Emperor ordered all available forces and weapons, including experimental Super Calamity Weapons, to destroy Ryan, even at the cost of the Nuclear Energy Research Center.

Big Ben and the Crimson Dragon Emperor both moved against Ryan, but Ryan absorbed their attacks to power his attempt to reach the War Treasury and killed the Emperor. He restored the Hanging King War Fortress enough to enter its vaults, where he found supplies that could help him advance.

• Big Ben ordered the Bald Eagle Federation to join the hunt for Ryan and prepare attacks on the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Kingdom.
• Ryan entered the Nuclear Energy Research Center to retrieve a War Treasury part, then absorbed energy from its reactors to power the Sword of Burning Silence.
• The Crimson Dragon Emperor attacked Ryan with Skyfire, Heaven's Wrath, and a Super Calamity Weapon, but Ryan absorbed their power and killed him through the screen.
• Ryan used the incoming Heaven's Wrath weapons to obtain the remaining War Treasury part and restore the Hanging King War Fortress's War Treasury area.
• The Hanging King told Ryan that the vault held three Legendary Heart Potions and other useful supplies, then opened it and let the items fall out.

Ryan used the Legendary Blood Potions to prepare for advancing to Formal Wizardhood, then emerged from an eighteen-year transformation in the Dream World with his Growth Artifacts upgraded. He named the fused artifact the Heart's Dream Mirror and discovered its new Fusion and Separation properties.

• Ryan learned that the Legendary Blood Potions could raise his attributes and examined the stronger Heart of Legend Potion and the costly requirements of the Legendary Series recipes.
• Ryan planned to return to the Wizard World after advancing, while keeping his consumption of the Umbral Expanse and his plans for the Deep Blue Secret Realm secret from other Wizard Forces.
• Ryan swallowed a Legendary Blood Potion as the snowbound area around him was overtaken by the Dream World.
• After eighteen years, Ryan returned to the real world and found that his Magnetic Silence Mirror and another Growth Artifact had ascended into Rank 1 Ascended Wizard Artifacts.
• Ryan examined the transformed Magnetic Silence Mirror, called it the Heart's Dream Mirror, and discovered that the fused artifacts had Fusion and Separation properties.

Ryan merged the Magnetic Silence Mirror and Heart's Dream Mirror into the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, then returned to the Umbral Expanse after demonstrating the Nightmare Kingdom in Metropolis. He left the Deep Blue Secret Realm World for later and judged his current resources sufficient for what lay ahead.

• Ryan completed the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, which combined the abilities of both mirrors and could still split into them when needed.
• Ryan arrived in Metropolis and used the Nightmare Kingdom to kill Big Ben, his secretary, and several security guards through their belief that they were dead.
• Ryan decided to postpone making plans for the Deep Blue Secret Realm World while the World Experiment Field remained balanced.
• Ryan declined to take more items from the War Treasury, saying his current resources were enough, and stepped through the Otherworld Gate.

Ryan emerged from a disrupted teleportation in the Apollo Mountain Range and discovered that eighteen years had passed and the Natural Ring Tower had destroyed Skywing Wizard City. After learning that a full-scale war with the Umbral Expanse threatened White Lake Wizard City and its Earth Vein Core, Ryan returned to reality as a formal wizard.

• Ryan survived a dangerous spatial disruption and landed in the Apollo Mountain Range, where he learned that the teleportation had gone wrong.
• Ryan used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to inspect Skywing Wizard City's ruined Dream Corner and saw Saintess of Spirit Dianna lead Natural Ring Tower wizards in destroying the city.
• Ryan learned from a Natural Ring Tower apprentice that the two forces were at full-scale war, many Divine Eagle Prefecture cities had fallen or faced attack, and White Lake Wizard City was the next target.
• Ryan realized the Earth Vein Core in White Lake Wizard City could determine whether Divine Eagle Prefecture retained long-distance teleportation and support from headquarters.
• Ryan entered the Dream World passage and returned to reality as a formal wizard, as Skywing Wizard City's Dream World shattered.

Wizard Ethan entrusted Wizard Zephyr and Wizard Lando with White Lake Wizard City's protection array, suspecting a Formal Wizard among the reinforcements. Ryan returned after eighteen years and seized Wizard Lando's consciousness, drawn to his extraordinary nature.

• Wizard Umbraly Light dismissed Wizard Purple Nightmare's concerns about the war and sensed someone connected to the Dream Illusion Tower.
• Wizard Ethan appointed Wizard Zephyr and Wizard Lando to control White Lake Wizard City's protection array because she suspected a Formal Wizard among the reinforcements.
• Wizard Zephyr accepted the responsibility out of loyalty to Wizard Ethan, while Wizard Lando privately remained committed to Ryan.
• Wizard Lando used his remaining Reincarnated True Immortal Power to divine that Ryan's Purple Qi was overwhelming, then went home and fell asleep.
• Ryan appeared through a passage of Dream Power and used the Heart Locking Kaleidoscope to pull Wizard Lando's Spiritual Body Consciousness into it.

Ryan pulled Wizard Lando’s consciousness into the Dream World and learned that Lando was a reincarnated Primordial Spirit True Immortal. After they signed a contract to cooperate, Ryan turned his attention to the crisis in the Umbral Expanse and resolved to defend White Lake Wizard City and confront the forces undermining the Dream Lineage.

• Ryan used the Yellow Chain to draw Wizard Lando’s Spiritual Body Consciousness into Foam Land, where Lando awoke and revealed his past as a failed Primordial Spirit True Immortal who had reincarnated as Lando Audi.
• Ryan agreed not to act against Lando as long as he remained Lando Audi, and Lando proposed becoming Ryan’s Inheritance Disciple in exchange for sharing immortal knowledge and the coordinates of his former world.
• Lando explained that the rise of new formal Wizards had intensified conflict in the Umbral Expanse, that Wizard Dream had been attacked by Natural Ring Tower Wizards, and that rumors claimed Wizard Dream might be dying.
• Ryan and Lando signed a Wizard Contract, then discussed the Judgment Immortal Lord, the Eye of Judgment, and the uncertain nature of powerful beings and civilizations.
• Ryan learned that the Dream Lineage had lost influence and that the Dream Garden had been opened to the public; he resolved to defend White Lake Wizard City and use the war to restore the Dream Lineage’s standing.

Wizard Ethan prepared to confront the Natural Ring Tower’s advancing forces while Ryan investigated the war and planned to intervene. The chapter ended with Ryan heading toward the doomed Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard, as Wizard Lando’s divination left him drained and confirmed the danger.

• Wizard Ethan told Wizard Zephyr that the Bone Lineage needed a greater share of resources and explained the unresolved tensions between the Umbral Expanse’s older and newly promoted Formal Wizards.
• Ryan observed the Natural Ring Tower’s forces converging on White Lake Wizard City and questioned both their motives and the Umbral Expanse’s restrained response.
• Wizard Ethan and Wizard Zephyr planned to take the initiative against the enemy, relying on Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard to hold the left flank.
• Wizard Lando warned Ryan that Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard faced likely death and discussed Ryan’s plan to intervene, while Wizard Zephyr gave Lando a disk that could draw him back into the city.
• Ryan declared that he could handle the enemy alone, and Wizard Lando’s costly divination left him exhausted but showed that Ryan’s journey would be unobstructed.

Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard prepared six short-lived Rank 1 beasts to ambush the enemy, while Wizard Ethan’s plan to defend White Lake Wizard City unraveled after the Natural Ring Tower attacked unexpectedly. Withered Wood Wizard learned the plan had been leaked and turned back toward White Lake, but a hostile force locked onto her and Thorn Wizard.

• Withered Wood Wizard recalled Dream Wizard’s request for help and arrived at Dragon Tooth Wizard City with Thorn Wizard and the apprentice reinforcements.
• Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard used Flower Bloom Instant Wizardry to raise six cultivated Beast Kings to Rank 1, while an unseen presence infected them through their eyes.
• Crystal Wizard, Dark Bat Wizard, and Black Smoke Wizard planned to attack Dragon Tooth Wizard City, but the Natural Ring Tower instead launched a surprise assault on White Lake Wizard City.
• Wizard Ethan realized the battle plan had failed and suspected one of the reinforcements, then ordered Withered Wood Wizard to abandon Dragon Tooth and return to defend White Lake.
• Withered Wood Wizard received the warning and turned back with Thorn Wizard, but a terrifying particle-energy fluctuation targeted them and they scattered.

Ryan emerged as a mysterious Formal Wizard and destroyed the Natural Ring Tower forces attacking Dragon Tooth Wizard City with a single breath. He then used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to enter the Dream World and found the Withered Wood Wizard, Thorn Wizard, and their ambushers.

• The Black Smoke Wizard, Dark Bat Wizard, and Crystal Wizard ambushed the Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard, trapped them in a crystal-reflection barrier, and slaughtered the Umbral Expanse apprentices around them.
• The Thorn Wizard and Withered Wood Wizard escaped the ambush, but the Crystal Wizard prepared a backup plan to teleport them back into danger while the Dark Bat Wizard set out to deal with six Rank 1 Supernatural Creatures.
• Ryan reviewed the battles through the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, studied the Crystal Wizard's methods, and stepped out of the Dream World above Dragon Tooth Wizard City.
• Ryan breathed once and used Annihilate Heart Fire to kill every Natural Ring Tower wizard in the city while sparing its defenders, leaving Teran stunned by the unknown wizard's power.
• Ryan returned to the Dream World, followed the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror's light through its twisted layers, and found the Withered Wood Wizard, Thorn Wizard, Dark Bat Wizard, and the others.

The Black Robe Wizard rescued the Thorn Wizard and the Withered Wood Wizard from the Crystal Heart Array, then defeated the Crystal Wizard and captured his soul. The women watched in Foam Land as he turned his attention to the Black Smoke Wizard, while the Withered Wood Wizard suspected the mysterious wizard looked familiar.

• The Thorn Wizard and the Withered Wood Wizard realized the Crystal Bodies had returned them to the ambush site and were trapping them in the Crystal Heart Array.
• The Crystal Wizard directed the Black Smoke Wizard and the Dark Bat Wizard to attack the trapped women, but the Crystal Heart cracked and Black Smoke Fire erupted from within.
• The Dark Bat Wizard was severely wounded, and the Black Smoke Wizard swallowed the Crystal Heart while the Crystal Wizard confronted the Black Robe Wizard.
• The Black Robe Wizard crushed the Crystal Wizard's heart, but the Crystal Wizard revealed himself to be a decoy; the wizard then captured the real Crystal Wizard's soul in the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror.
• Ryan formed the Magnetic Silence Lightning Sword and swung it at the Black Smoke Wizard, while the Thorn Wizard and the Withered Wood Wizard watched from Foam Land.

Ryan defeated the Dark Bat Wizard and badly wounded the Black Smoke Wizard, then entered Foam Land after the Withered Wood Wizard recognized him. He removed his Black Lotus Mask, leaving his identity about to be revealed.

• Ryan's Magnetic Silence Lightning Sword dispersed the Black Smoke Dragon and gravely injured the Black Smoke Wizard.
• Harak's Black Souls overwhelmed the Bone Corroding Demon while the Spear of the Underworld pinned the Dark Bat Wizard.
• Ryan dragged the Dark Bat Wizard's soul into the Heart Locking Realm, took his body, and Harak devoured the Bone Corroding Demon's heart.
• The Thorn Wizard marveled at Ryan's power, while the Withered Wood Wizard recognized him as the person from her memories and mentioned the Dream Wizard and Kelan.
• Ryan stepped out of the Foam Land scene, and the Withered Wood Wizard greeted him before he removed his Black Lotus Mask.

Ryan Harak revealed himself as the long-missing Nightmare Wizard and rescued the Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard. He agreed to lead the effort to save White Lake Wizard City and gave the Withered Wood Wizard Stone Worm Essence that might counter her failing life force.

• Ryan Harak removed his mask, and the Withered Wood Wizard and Thorn Wizard recognized him as the apprentice who had vanished eighteen years earlier.
• The Thorn Wizard thanked Ryan for saving them, and Ryan said he had secured Dragon Tooth Wizard City and dealt with most of the Natural Ring Tower forces.
• The Thorn Wizard suspected their battle plan had been leaked and urged Ryan to lead them toward White Lake Wizard City, while the Withered Wood Wizard agreed despite her weakened condition.
• Ryan said they would need to fight their way out of a dire situation at White Lake Wizard City and first address the Withered Wood Wizard's illness.
• Ryan gave the Withered Wood Wizard Stone Worm Essence, which he believed could counter the harm caused by her Withered Wood Particle Energy, and she pledged to support his plan.

Ryan explained a plan to exploit Natural Ring Tower’s losses while battles raged around White Lake Wizard City. Wizard Ethan began calling for reinforcements, but the chapter ended as a group of Formal Wizards arrived from Dragon Tooth Wizard City and Dianna anticipated a reversal.

• Ryan told Thorn Wizard and Withered Wood Wizard that he had captured Dark Bat Wizard and Crystal Wizard while Black Smoke Wizard was too injured to warn the others.
• Dianna attacked White Lake Wizard City’s defenses while Wizard Ethan and Green Tapir Wizard fought Death Song Wizard, and Explosive Flame Wizard battled Evil Shadow Wizard.
• Wizard Ethan concluded that his side could not turn the battle around and began charging the Gloom Token to summon reinforcements.
• Dianna alerted the infiltrator to stop Wizard Ethan, but he cut off the token’s power before the message was sent.
• A Spatial Fluctuation opened outside White Lake Wizard City as Formal Wizards arrived from Dragon Tooth Wizard City, and Dianna smiled as she recognized the turning point.