Chapter Summaries

Wizard Ethan believed White Lake Wizard City was doomed after Dark Bat Wizard and Crystal Wizard appeared with the Natural Ring Tower forces and the city’s protective shield failed. The chapter ended as Dark Bat Wizard and Thorn Wizard attacked their own allies, while a hidden black-robed figure struck at Dianna.

• Wizard Ethan and Dianna watched as Dark Bat Wizard and Crystal Wizard emerged from the teleportation, confirming that the expected reinforcements had not arrived.
• Dianna’s five Formal Wizards overwhelmed White Lake Wizard City, and its protective shield vanished as Wizard Ethan gave up hope of defending it.
• Dark Bat Wizard unleashed Withered Wood Particle Energy on the Natural Ring Tower wizards, draining Evil Shadow Wizard and the others of their life force.
• Thorn Wizard’s attack gravely wounded Death Song Wizard, leaving the Natural Ring Tower forces reeling from their allies’ betrayal.
• A pale hand emerged from the void and stabbed toward Dianna’s heart, shocking Wizard Ethan.

Ryan Harak returned during the defense of White Lake Wizard City, defeated the Natural Ring Tower wizards, and helped restore the city’s defenses. After Nature Wizard rescued Dianna and two others, Ryan declared victory, while Wizard Ethan accepted responsibility for his defeat and Lando suspected someone had sabotaged the City Protection Wizard Array.

• Ryan Harak, alongside Thorn Wizard and Withered Wood Wizard, incapacitated the Natural Ring Tower’s Formal Wizards, and Wizard Ethan recognized him as his long-missing rival.
• Nature Wizard intervened as Ryan moved to capture Dianna, rescued her and Evil Shadow Wizard, and withdrew the surviving Natural Ring Tower wizards through a portal.
• Thorn Wizard sent Death Song Wizard’s corpse to Ryan, who stored it in his Wizard Ring before announcing that White Lake Wizard City had won and restoring its City Protection Wizard Array.
• Wizard Ethan acknowledged his defeat and left with Wizard Zephyr to face the consequences, while White Lake Wizard’s residents cheered Ryan.
• Wizard Lando emerged from the underground energy hub and suspected that only one person could have altered the City Protection Wizard Array’s Authority and cut its energy supply.
• Two days later, news of White Lake Wizard City’s survival and Ryan Harak’s return spread through the Umbral Expanse headquarters.

The return of the Umbral Star and the disputed truth of the Battle of White Lake stirred conflict over Wizard Ethan’s bid to establish a new lineage. Ryan returned to Maple Leaf Forest and reunited with the long-absent senior sister.

• Wizards at the Night Night Night Tavern debated the replacement of the Twelve Main Veins and the Umbral Star’s return.
• Teran and other war veterans credited Lord Nightmare Wizard with saving Dragon Tooth Wizard City and turning the Battle of White Lake around, while blaming Wizard Ethan for the losses.
• Wizard Victor left after the veterans challenged his defense of Wizard Ethan, and wizards across headquarters began arguing over conflicting accounts of the battle.
• Wizard Lando anonymously published accusations against Wizard Ethan and revealed that he had helped stir the turmoil, while suspecting Wizard Zephyr had also pushed events forward.
• Ryan walked through Maple Leaf Forest and greeted the haggard figure waiting at the end of the path: “Senior Sister, long time no see.”

Ryan returned to the Dream Garden with Wizard Kelan and discovered that the Dream Wizard's Dream Core had been removed, leaving the territory ruined. By using a Time Trace, he found evidence of a concealed culprit and a living tendril connected to the Dream Wizard, then resolved to attend the Third Umbral Supreme Wizard Council and take the lead.

• Ryan reunited with Wizard Kelan and entered their teacher's decaying Dream Garden, where they found that its Dream Core was missing.
• Ryan used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror and a Time Trace to view the past, revealing an unknown figure removing the Dream Core's roots before the hourglass ran out.
• Ryan gave Wizard Kelan a living Yellow Flower tendril, explaining that their teacher might still be alive somewhere in the Dream World, and entrusted her with restoring Heart Dream Lake.
• Ryan left Maple Leaf Forest for his own path, while Wizard Kelan vowed to restore their teacher's home and help him return.
• Back in the Dream Illusion Tower, Ryan sensed that the culprit was likely an Umbral Expanse insider stronger than a Formal Wizard and decided to attend the Third Umbral Supreme Wizard Council after the Deep Blue Secret Realm.

Ryan Harak considered the hidden presence in the Dream Garden while maple leaves swept across Umbral headquarters, stirring speculation about his plans. As the Third Supreme Council approached, Wizard Ethan accepted a hundred-year period of reflection, Wizard Shaw prepared to advance the Bone Lineage, and Polaris revealed her Nether Sword and resolved to challenge Ryan Harak.

• Ryan Harak weighed the danger of confronting the concealed presence in the Dream Garden and decided he already had the strength to face his chosen target.
• Maple leaves filled Umbral headquarters, prompting Wizard Victor and Bone Wizard to wonder whether Lord Wizard Dream had returned and what Ryan Harak was planning.
• Wizard Ethan accepted a hundred years to reflect and said he would skip the Third Umbral Supreme Council, while Bone Wizard agreed that Zephyr would be punished under the old rules.
• Wizard Shaw told Bone Wizard that the Bone Lineage should fight for a share of the benefits under the new rules and vowed not to let it fall behind at the Third Supreme Council.
• Polaris, now the First Star of Gloom, revealed that she had obtained the Umbral Core Inheritance and passed the Nether Test's Second Stage.
• Polaris summoned the Nether Sword, found she could wield it for only two seconds, and declared that strength would decide the succession of the Dream Lineage.

Ryan defeated the Divine Blood Wizard in a test of strength, secured his support for the coming Umbral Supreme Wizard Council, and brought the Divine Eagle Lineage under his temporary command. He then helped Wizard Kelan prepare to revive the Heart Dream Tree and turned his attention to the council, which was ten days away.

• Ryan clashed with the Divine Blood Wizard atop Sword Mountain and won, impressing him with his strength and apparent progress toward becoming an Energy Life.
• Wizard Umbraly Light considered the changing factions and doubted that Ryan’s growing support would be enough to challenge the stronger side.
• Ryan visited the imprisoned Divine Eagle Wizard, who agreed to attend the council and place the Divine Eagle Lineage under his orders until her release.
• Ryan and Wizard Kelan planned to graft the Heart Dream Tree to the Dream Core, and Ryan gave her the Flower of Hope to aid her effort.
• Ten days before the Umbral Supreme Wizard Council, Ryan returned to his bedroom and began preparing for the meeting.

Ryan attended the Umbral Supreme Wizard Council, where the wizards discussed the coming war, rewards for the Battle of White Lake, and the Twelve Main Veins Replacement Plan. Polaris backed the plan by declaring a new Netherworld lineage, and other wizards followed, joining their pressure against Ryan.

• Ryan prepared for the council meeting, resolved to gather resources from the Deep Blue World, and met Wizard Shaw, who hinted that much had changed during Ryan’s absence.
• Wizard Umbraly Light opened the council and outlined plans for the coming war, the Battle of White Lake’s rewards, and the replacement of the Twelve Main Veins.
• Wizard Umbraly Light praised Ryan’s achievements at White Lake, and Ryan accepted the proposed rewards but refused to hand Dark Bat Wizard and Crystal Wizard over to Headquarters Enforcement Office or the Supervision Department.
• Polaris took charge of the discussion on the Twelve Main Veins Replacement Plan and declared that she would establish the Netherworld lineage.
• Wizard Shaw, Bai Guding, Fox, and other wizards announced new lineages and joined their auras to pressure Ryan.

Polaris used the newly promoted Formal Wizards’ support to push the Twelve Main Vein Replacement Plan, while Ryan objected to the plan and the Dream Lineage’s inclusion. Divine Blood Wizard openly challenged Polaris, and their Bio-fields collided as Ryan rose with the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror in hand.

• Polaris and several newly promoted Formal Wizards pressured Ryan and called for the Twelve Main Vein Replacement Plan to proceed.
• Polaris questioned Ryan about whether he wanted to change the rules or remove the Dream Lineage from the replacement targets.
• Divine Blood Wizard broke Polaris’s pressure by objecting to the plan and demanding that it be canceled.
• Polaris argued that the Umbral Expanse could continue without the Dream Wizard, prompting Divine Blood Wizard to flare his Bio-field and reject her authority.
• Divine Blood Wizard and Polaris collided with their Bio-fields, and Ryan stood up with the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror in his hand.

At the Umbral Supreme Council meeting, Divine Blood Wizard unexpectedly attacked Polaris, and their Bio-fields clashed as Ryan realized the fight had disrupted the expected plan. Wizard Umbraly Light stopped them and ordered them to settle their dispute in the Battle Arena.

• Ryan connected Polaris's arrival with the unprecedented opportunity tied to Nether Wizard's inheritance.
• Divine Blood Wizard struck the conference table and released his Bio-field, prompting Polaris to unleash her own.
• The gathered Wizards were stunned that Divine Blood Wizard had attacked Polaris instead of Ryan.
• The two Bio-fields shattered the conference table, while Ryan used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to erase fragments flying toward him.
• Wizard Umbraly Light forced both Bio-fields back into their owners and ordered Divine Blood Wizard and Polaris to fight in the Battle Arena.

After Divine Blood Wizard and Polaris shattered the meeting table, Wizard Umbraly Light moved the disputes to the Battle Arena, where strength would determine who led the Twelve Main Veins Replacement Plan. Ryan Harak entered the first match against Red Frost Wizard, and the fight’s outcome shocked everyone just five seconds after it began.

• Wizard Umbraly Light condemned the fight in the Meeting Space, assigned Divine Blood Wizard and Polaris an A-rank Quota Mission, and set Battle Arena rules for the disputes.
• Ryan Harak and the other opponents of the lineage plan agreed to settle the third issue through combat, with the winning side gaining control of the plan.
• In the Battle Arena, Polaris's side fielded eight Newly Promoted Wizards, while Ryan Harak's side included Divine Blood Wizard, Withered Wood Wizard, and Thorn Wizard.
• Ryan Harak stepped forward as the first combatant, and Polaris's side chose Red Frost Wizard to face him in a two-hundred-thousand-meter primeval forest.
• Five seconds after the Life Battle began, the watching Formal Wizards were stunned, Shaw's expression changed, Polaris clenched her fist, and Wizard Umbraly Light descended in shock.

Ryan Harak defeated Red Frost in the Battle Arena in less than two seconds, shocking the watching Formal Wizards with the speed and power of his attack. Polaris and her allies abandoned their confidence in individual duels and planned to take turns fighting him to create an opening for Polaris.

• Ryan Harak struck Red Frost with a fast, wide-reaching spell as the Battle Arena match began, defeating him before two seconds had passed.
• Bone Wizard and Rhine Wizard recognized Ryan Harak as a Veteran Formal Wizard and admitted they might also lose to his technique.
• Silver Moon, Wizard Shaw, Karen, and Polaris reacted with shock as Ryan Harak’s strength disrupted their plans.
• Polaris challenged Wizard Saiya’s fear, and Wizard Saiya said he had a brief technique that could match or defeat a Veteran Formal Wizard.
• Wizard Shaw proposed that the group take turns fighting Ryan Harak to create an opening for Polaris and force Ryan to reveal his abilities.

Ryan Harak, as Wizard Nightmare, continued fighting alone for Polaris’s side and faced Wizard Saiya in the second Life Battle. Saiya layered powerful defenses around himself, but his sudden terror suggested Ryan had found a way past them.

• Polaris prepared to fight Wizard Nightmare, while Wizard Umbraly Light recognized Ryan Harak’s formidable strength and regretted missing her chance with him.
• After Wizard Nightmare won the first Life Battle, he chose to fight again, and Polaris’s side selected Wizard Saiya as his next opponent.
• The Spirit of Battle set the arena in a vast reef ocean, where Wizard Saiya faced Ryan and worried about countering his Magnetic Silence Lightning.
• Wizard Saiya invoked Sea God State, compressed the seawater into layers of shields, and activated the Azure Heart’s Azure Resonance Sea Heart Cover.
• Just after Wizard Saiya believed his defenses made him safe, his expression twisted with fear, while Bai Guding and Wizard Shaw reacted with alarm.

Ryan Harak defeated Wizard Saiya in five seconds, destroying the Azure Heart and revealing the power of his modified Spear of the Underworld. Polaris overcame her fear and chose to enter the third Life Battle herself, setting up her confrontation with Ryan in the Magnetic Field Airspace.

• Ryan Harak pierced Wizard Saiya's defenses with the Spear of the Underworld, and the Spirit of Battle declared him the winner before teleporting Saiya away.
• The watching Wizards recognized Ryan's strength and considered whether Polaris should continue the Rotation Battle, while Polaris struggled with her fear and resentment.
• Polaris steadied herself, renewed her resolve to defeat Ryan, and stepped forward to fight despite the plan for her to enter later.
• The Spirit of Battle confirmed Polaris and Ryan as combatants and selected the Magnetic Field Airspace as their battlefield.

Polaris challenged Ryan Harak in the Battle Arena, wielding the Nether Inheritance and building an enormous Umbral True Body from the Sky Domain’s chaotic magnetic energy. As she struck with a punch powerful enough to destroy a mountain, Ryan finally moved, and Polaris saw a beam of light.

• Polaris replaced Karen and entered the Battle Arena, while Bone Wizard and Rhine Wizard suspected she had mastered the Nether Inheritance and could wield the Nether Sword.
• Polaris and Ryan were separated across a magnetic-field Sky Domain, where Wizard Umbraly Light explained that its clouds would disrupt Ryan’s fast attacks and favor Polaris.
• Polaris formed her Umbral True Body and absorbed foreign energy, growing it from three hundred meters to twelve hundred meters while Ryan remained motionless.
• As Polaris approached within five thousand meters, Ryan looked up with a flash of Black Arc Light, triggering her sense of mortal danger.
• Polaris swung an enormous punch that scattered the gray clouds, but her fear intensified as she saw a beam of light.

Ryan Harak overwhelmed Polaris with the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, but she invoked a strange blood-marking technique that filled him with dread. As Polaris prepared to unleash it, Ryan braced himself and considered seeking help from Wizard Umbraly Light.

• Ryan Harak used the Light of Nightmare Extinguishing to slice Polaris's Umbral True Body in half, but Polaris survived and attacked him with Heart of Darkness Sorcery.
• Ryan countered Polaris's singularity with Burning Fire Tide Sky Wizardry, then used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to absorb her Heavy Water Light and drain her energy.
• Polaris charged Ryan with a metallic Nether Sword, but the mirror reflected the attack and blasted her ten thousand meters away.
• Polaris emerged from her Elemental True Body, marked herself with blood, and triggered a terrifying sense of dread in Ryan.
• Ryan entered his Fission Nuclear Body state and used Dream Manifestation, but the dread intensified, so he turned his attention to his Wizard Ring and thought of Wizard Umbraly Light.

Polaris unleashed the Nether Sword and swept the Battle Arena with a devastating attack, believing she had defeated Ryan. A golden radiance then survived the destruction, revealing that Ryan possessed a Rank 3 Ascended Wizard Artifact too, and Polaris launched another attack in disbelief.

• Polaris drew the Nether Sword, shocking the official wizards with the power of the Rank 3 Ascended Wizard Artifact.
• Polaris slashed across the arena, sending a vast Nether Sword Wave toward Ryan and tearing through the Magnetic Field Airspace.
• Polaris declared victory and claimed she had fulfilled her teacher’s trust after the sword wave engulfed Ryan’s location.
• Wizard Ethan noticed a radiant aura in the arena, where a patch of golden light had survived the Nether Sword’s destruction.
• Bone Wizard and Rhine Wizard recognized the golden light as another Rank 3 Ascended Wizard Artifact, while Wizard Umbraly Light realized Ryan had inherited a Grand Wizard’s legacy.
• Polaris refused to accept the revelation and unleashed another Nether Sword Wave against Ryan’s golden radiance.

Ryan Harak defeated Polaris with the Lamp of the Sun and secured victory for his Wizard Squad. He gained control of the Twelve Main Vein Replacement Plan and faced the choice of which lineages to replace.

• Polaris unleashed two Nether Sword Waves, but Ryan's Lamp of the Sun overwhelmed her and forced her teleportation from the battlefield.
• The Spirit of Battle declared Ryan the winner, and the opposing Wizard Squad conceded.
• Wizard Umbraly Light told Ryan that he could choose whom to replace under the Twelve Main Vein Replacement Plan, provided the target consented or faced him in the Battle Arena.
• The Formal Wizards gathered in the Council Space and anxiously awaited Ryan's decision, while the Water Marsh Lineage feared being targeted.
• Wizard Umbraly Light asked Ryan which lineage he would choose.

Ryan led the Umbral Council to replace the Twelve Main Vein Replacement Plan with an expansion plan that rewarded battlefield merit and proposed a coalition against Natural Ring Tower. After the meeting, Wizard Umbraly Light privately asked about his years in the Deep Blue Secret Realm and began a deal that left Ryan stunned.

• Ryan rejected replacing existing lineages and proposed adding new main veins for Formal Wizards who earned merit defending the Umbral Expanse.
• Wizard Umbraly Light backed Ryan's authority, and the Council approved his expansion plan and discussed defenses against Natural Ring Tower and a Mountain Sea Alliance meeting.
• Ryan assigned Formal Wizards to guard strategic Wizard Cities and left the Council with invitations and plans to advance his Wizardry, Dream Wizard path, and knowledge.
• Wizard Umbraly Light contacted Ryan and asked how he had been trapped in the Deep Blue Secret Realm; Ryan gave her an account of colliding worlds and an unstable space passage.
• At the foot of the Umbral Tower, Ryan asked Wizard Umbraly Light what deal she wanted, and her silent reply made his pupils contract.

Ryan accepted Wizard Umbraly Light’s offer to exchange the Nether Wizard’s inheritance for Dark Bat Wizard and Crystal Wizard. After signing a contract, he prepared to enter the Nether Secret Realm, while Polaris felt sidelined and Ace took note of Ryan.

• Wizard Umbraly Light offered Ryan the Nether Wizard’s inheritance in exchange for Dark Bat Wizard and Crystal Wizard, and Ryan agreed to the deal.
• Wizard Umbraly Light explained that she wanted the two wizards to help Polaris and negotiate with Natural Ring Tower.
• Polaris overheard fragments of their conversation and felt that Wizard Umbraly Light considered Ryan more worthy of the Nether Inheritance than her.
• Polaris left with her apprentice Ace, who recognized Ryan as the Nightmare Wizard and reflected on his rise to official-wizard status.
• Wizard Umbraly Light brought Ryan to a transfer station in the Umbral Forest, where they signed a Wizard Contract requiring him to hand over the two captives after his return.
• Wizard Umbraly Light explained the Nether Secret Realm’s restrictions and trials, and Nether Fire began forming a portal.

Ryan passed the Nether Secret Realm’s Wizard’s Heart and strength tests, gaining Dawn’s First Light and an Origin Grass. He entered the combat-experience test and began fighting a mirror image of himself.

• Ryan recognized the endless Umbral Tree path as the Wizard’s Heart test, stayed calm, and reached the portal at its end.
• The Tower Spirit awarded Ryan Dawn’s First Light, which increased his Spiritual Power Value to 65.6.
• Ryan defeated the Wizard Puppet in the strength test and chose an Origin Grass as his reward over the Seven-colored Flowers.
• Ryan entered the combat-experience test, where the Roaming Immortal Mirror created a near-perfect copy of him.
• Ryan and his mirrored opponent drew their Magnetic Silence Lightning Swords and began a fierce battle as two motes of Nether Fire watched.