Chapter Summaries

As Ryan transformed his personal Dream Space into a world for the Warring Wizard Banquet, wizards gathered to honor his return from meditation and prepare for the coming conflict with the Pale Hand. The banquet began with the apprentices assembled before Ryan, while Akesi vowed to become a wizard like him.

• Ryan adjourned the meeting about the war with the Pale Hand, which was scheduled to begin in a year, as wizards gathered on the island for the banquet and Exchange Tournament.
• Akesi greeted Ge Lin and declared that he would challenge Solomon the Divine Child, while Ge Lin avoided him and Akesi reaffirmed his promise to his teacher.
• Ryan’s black-and-white light swallowed the island’s inhabitants and matter, drawing in Akesi, Ge Lin, Green Demon Wizard, Gagarin Moore, and the other guests.
• Green Demon Wizard allowed the light to take him as he remembered the fallen and departed wizards of the Umbral Expanse, while Gagarin Moore hoped to ask Ryan for help saving his family.
• Ryan recognized Gagarin’s predicament and considered giving him a chance to choose how to repay the favor, while the Formal Wizards praised Green Demon Wizard and discussed the promising apprentices Star Color and Arianna.
• Ryan reshaped the Dream Space into a banquet world, where Akesi and the assembled wizards congratulated him on attaining Truth through Meditation, and Ryan announced the Warring Wizard Banquet’s start.

At the Warring Wizard Banquet, Solomon the Divine Child showcased his altered Burning Silence Elemental True Body and fought the Green Demon Wizard, drawing the Grand Nightmare Wizard’s interest. After the tournament, the Green Demon Wizard accepted a deal that could help him advance, while Ryan began taking control of the Illusory Sword.

• Ryan served living Dream Foods that strengthened the Wizards, and several guests suspected he possessed the rare abilities of a Gourmet Wizard.
• Solomon the Divine Child entered the Exchange Tournament first and challenged the Green Demon Wizard, displaying his new Elemental True Body and True Body Secret Techniques.
• The Green Demon Wizard countered with Great Natural Demise Sorcery and Great Annihilation Wizardry, and their battle ended with Solomon eliminated amid a clash of destructive energies.
• Withered Wood Wizard discussed the coming attack on the Pale Hand with the Green Demon Wizard, who recalled accepting Ryan’s offer of a Legendary Blood Potion in exchange for his spells and insights.
• The Green Demon Wizard declared confidence in condensing his True Spirit, while Ryan used Dream Chains to reach into the Sword Nurturing Great Array and bring the Illusory Sword under his control.

Ryan used illusions to conceal his attempt to take the Dream Sword, while Divine Dream Wizard investigated the Sword Realm and became increasingly uneasy. As Ryan waited for the sword to transform, he advanced his ideas for the Illusory Wizard Body and reflected on the Exchange Tournament and Lando’s impending return.

• Ryan used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to make Divine Dream Wizard inspect an untouched replica of the Sword Realm while he secretly nurtured the real Dream Sword.
• Divine Dream Wizard inspected the Sword Realm, found it stable, and told the Pale Hand Star Wizards about his recurring unease.
• Ryan prepared to pull the real Sword Realm into the Foam World once the Dream Sword finished taking shape, then considered using endlessly changing forms for his Illusory Wizard Body.
• Ryan reviewed the Exchange Tournament results, considered involving Solomon the Divine Child in research on his spear, and wondered whether Lando had succeeded in condensing a True Spirit.
• Ryan sent the tournament gifts into the Foam World as quiet footsteps approached his office.

Gagarin chose to sacrifice himself so the Grand Nightmare Wizard would spare his family, and Ryan turned him into a keepsake in the Nightmare Vault. Ryan reunited with Mona and Matthew, who died after agreeing to become the first subject in Ryan’s experiment to create an immortal Dream Creature.

• Gagarin chose his family’s survival over restoring his own body, offering himself to the Grand Nightmare Wizard in exchange for help.
• Ryan placed Gagarin’s transformed body in a display case as keepsake number 314, then went to meet Mona and Matthew.
• Ryan reunited with Mona and Matthew in the Wizard Mansion and told them he was pursuing a breakthrough to become a Star Wizard.
• Ryan offered to turn Matthew into an immortal, self-aware Dream Creature through an experimental rebirth, but Matthew initially refused because of the risks.
• Matthew reconsidered, agreed to let Ryan use his body and soul for the experiment, and died after sharing a final drink with Ryan and Mona.

Ryan Harak reunited with Mona Antun and tried to make her abandon her fixation on their shared past, but she sacrificed herself to create a Wraith-like source of spiritual power for him. He drew her Soul Body into the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, where she would merge with it over the next six months to a year, and the story then moved forward one year.

• Mona Antun showed Ryan Harak the shop she had kept open in Heart of War and told him she was dying after using her power to preserve her original appearance.
• Ryan offered Mona another chance to form a True Spirit if she closed Harak's General Store, then burned the shop and its ledger to break her attachment to the past.
• Mona embraced Ryan, aged into ash, and left behind a Soul Body that burned itself to boost his Spiritual Power to 179.
• Ryan realized Mona's Soul Body could keep increasing his power but refused to let her sacrifice herself, then used the Black and White Mirror to draw her into the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror.
• The Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror began merging with Mona's Spiritual Consciousness Soul Lifeform, and a year passed.

The Red Lotus Wizard allowed his daughter to leave the Red Lotus Starfield for a trial while preparing for the Starry Wars Assembly. In Frost Snow Land, the Grand Nightmare Wizard launched the Heart of War’s decisive war against the Pale Hand using the Virtual-Real Replacement Wizard Array.

• The Red Lotus Wizard agreed to let the Pale Red Flowing Light leave and rely on herself, and she departed through the Spacetime Anchor Deployment Gate without revealing her destination.
• A female Wizard resembling the Pale Red Flowing Light warned the Red Lotus Wizard not to delay the Starry Wars Assembly, and he sent copies of himself across its network of starfields.
• The Umbral Wizard arrived at the Heart of War’s headquarters as the Blizzard Period neared its end and found the War Fortress concealed as a reserve force.
• The Grand Nightmare Wizard gathered the Heart of War’s Wizards and explained that they had to defend the nodes of the Virtual-Real Replacement Wizard Array.
• The Grand Nightmare Wizard declared war on the Pale Hand and opened Light Gates showing the array’s nodes and the Supernatural Lifeforms they would affect.

The Grand Nightmare Wizard opened the Foam World’s energy reserves to the Calamity Wizards and began a war against the Pale Hand by replacing its reality with the Dream World. Pale Hand wizards and apprentices found themselves trapped in dangerous dream landscapes as the Grand Nightmare Wizard awaited the enemy’s approaching Star-level forces.

• The Grand Nightmare Wizard branded the Calamity Wizards with Fission Path Spell Circuits, letting them draw Nightmare Extinguishing Dream Power in exchange for Calamity Points, and led them through the Dream Gates to begin the war.
• Lei Ke and the apprentices at Pale Wizard Academy No. 321 were pulled into the Dream World, where they discovered that ordinary wizardry and particle energy no longer worked; Lei Ke led them into a forest in search of a way back to reality.
• Macray Avalon found himself alone on a primeval plain without a Reality Anchor, and he prepared to fight a pack of approaching wolves.
• Asunaer and Ze Tian realized they were trapped in the Dream World, then found themselves surrounded by Alligator Dragons in a swamp.
• The Grand Nightmare Wizard observed the Pale Hand’s reality being replaced through the Virtual-Real Replacement Wizard Array and sensed five powerful enemies approaching as the Cross Longsword’s fusion neared completion.

Grand Nightmare Wizard used the Dream Sword to spread a dream invasion across Pale Hand, while Ryan recognized the sword’s value for creating the Illusory Wizard Body. Pale Hand’s Star Wizards discovered that their territory had been replaced by dream selves and that Shen Meng Wizard had lost control of the Sword Nurturing Great Array, then entered the Dream World to hunt down the hidden enemy.

• Grand Nightmare Wizard used the Dream Sword to empower the Nightmare Ancient Tree as dream creatures pulled Pale Hand’s inhabitants into the Dream World.
• Ryan concluded that combining the Dream Sword’s traits with the Infinite Black Core and the Nightmare Ancient Tree could complete the Illusory Wizard Body.
• Blue Shield Wizard and Sky Curtain Wizard discovered that Pale Hand’s reality was being replaced by dream selves, and Blood Moon Wizard and Crimson Blood Wizard joined them.
• Shen Meng Wizard revealed that an Unknown Power was drawing dream selves into deeper Dream World Space and that he had lost control of the Sword Nurturing Great Array.
• Shen Meng Wizard traced the invasion to the array and opened a Dream Portal, leading Pale Hand’s Star Wizards and full-fledged Wizards into the Dream World to confront the enemy.

The Pale Hand launched an assault on the Heart of War’s Dream nodes and the Sword Realm, while Grand Nightmare Wizard’s forces fought back with powerful defenders and reckless Limit Wizard Apprentices. Blue Shield Wizard tore into the Sword Realm and reached for Ryan as the Nightmare Ancient Tree stirred behind him.

• Shen Meng Wizard discovered that the Nightmare Ancient Tree’s roots had seized the Sword Realm and ordered the Pale Hand to attack its nodes and source.
• Umbral Wizard and Nether Wizard ambushed Pale Hand forces at separate Dream nodes, killing Formal Wizards while Star Color watched Nether Wizard fight.
• Solomon the Divine Child rallied the Limit Wizard Apprentices, who used the Wizard Array and their ability to be revived to join the battle.
• Wang Ya deployed the Nether Puppet to defend two important Dream nodes, while Grand Nightmare Wizard recognized that the Pale Hand had underestimated his forces.
• Blue Shield Wizard ripped open the Sword Realm and reached toward Ryan as the Nightmare Ancient Tree rose behind Grand Nightmare Wizard.

Blue Shield Wizard used the Heavenly Fiend Giant’s overwhelming power to destroy Grand Nightmare Wizard’s defenses and free the Dream Sword. After apparently killing his opponent, Blue Shield Wizard felt a sudden premonition of death and turned around.

• Blue Shield Wizard transformed into the Heavenly Fiend Giant and smashed through the Nightmare Ancient Tree, damaging the Sword Realm and forcing part of the Dream Sword back out.
• Blue Shield Wizard taunted Grand Nightmare Wizard and unleashed the Giant’s Bloodline Power, withering the tree and killing Dream Creatures throughout the realm.
• Blue Shield Wizard broke the tree apart, freed the Dream Sword, and called it “Teacher.”
• Blue Shield Wizard struck the black-robed figure, scattering its body, Mental Body, Soul Body, and consciousness into the Dream Void.
• Blue Shield Wizard prepared to annihilate the fleeing enemy, but a sudden sense of imminent death made him whip around.

Grand Nightmare Wizard used a dream illusion to make Blue Shield Wizard believe he had defeated his enemy, causing him to destroy his own body and True Spirit. After Blue Shield Wizard died, Ryan taunted Shen Meng Wizard and challenged him to enter the Sword Realm for the Dream Sword.

• Blue Shield Wizard realized too late that Shen Meng Wizard had warned him to run, and found himself trapped as a powerless consciousness inside a Black and White Bubble.
• Blue Shield Wizard understood that the battle in the Sword Realm had been an illusion and that he had killed his own body and phantom forms.
• Grand Nightmare Wizard kept Blue Shield Wizard's remains and phantom bodies in Black and White Bubble Fruits to nourish the Nightmare Ancient Tree and aid his Dream Sword.
• Ryan taunted Shen Meng Wizard and invited him to try to enter the Sword Realm and take the sword before time ran out.
• Shen Meng Wizard and the wizards with him saw that Blue Shield Wizard was dead and remained at a distance, leaving Shen Meng Wizard to face Ryan.

The Pale Hand’s wizards attacked the Sword Realm despite Sky Curtain Wizard’s warning to deal with other nodes first, and the Grand Nightmare Wizard answered with the Heart Locking Realm. As Sky Curtain Wizard prepared a spatial attack, Shen Meng Wizard privately revealed that he was not the Pale Hand’s final trump card.

• Sky Curtain Wizard proposed attacking the other Dreamscape Nodes before returning to the Sword Realm, but Shen Meng Wizard chose to lead the assault directly.
• Shen Meng Wizard piloted the Pale Hand’s Dream Territory fortress toward the Sword Realm, while the other Star Wizards trusted him to expose any traps.
• The Grand Nightmare Wizard used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to send yellow chains toward Shen Meng Fortress, and Kalan Wizard warned the defenders as they fought back.
• Shen Meng Wizard asked one of the Star Wizards to test the Grand Nightmare Wizard, and Sky Curtain Wizard volunteered to attack with spatial cuts.
• Shen Meng Wizard privately thought that he was not the Pale Hand’s trump card as the Grand Nightmare Wizard sensed danger and looked upward.

Sky Curtain Wizard and the other three Star Wizards of the Pale Hand attacked Grand Nightmare Wizard in the Sword Realm, combining spatial cuts, curses, flames, and Shen Meng Wizard’s fortress cannon. Grand Nightmare Wizard remained composed and drew the Magnetic Silence Lightning Sword, preparing to face the four veteran Star Wizards.

• Sky Curtain Wizard used the Blade of Nothingness Dagger to strike Grand Nightmare Wizard, but the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror blocked the spatial attack and reflected further blades back toward Sky Curtain Wizard.
• Sky Curtain Wizard dodged a reflected attack that destroyed part of Shen Meng Fortress, while Shen Meng Wizard explained how Dream Power could distort and replicate techniques.
• Blood Moon Wizard cursed Grand Nightmare Wizard, and Crimson Blood Wizard sent Twilight Flames after him as Sky Curtain Wizard prepared another attack.
• Shen Meng Wizard locked onto the Sword Realm and fired the fortress’s main cannon, while the four Star Wizards coordinated their assault.
• Grand Nightmare Wizard said there was no need to escape when he controlled the situation, then drew the Magnetic Silence Lightning Sword.

Ryan fought off the four Star Wizards’ attacks in the Sword Realm while protecting the Nightmare Ancient Tree and the devouring of the Dream Sword. The Star Wizards launched a full-scale assault with the Shen Meng Fortress, and Ryan prepared to meet them.

• Ryan unleashed Nightmare Devour Grand Wizardry and shattered the blood moon, while his Fission Nuclear Body resisted the curse and the Twilight Flames failed to burn through the Black and White Giant Tree’s trunk.
• Ryan’s Magnetic Silence Lightning Sword struck the four Star Wizards, scorching them and forcing them to retreat after they repelled the attack with Rank 2 Ascension Wizardry.
• Ryan hurled the Great Spear of the Underworld toward the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror’s Yellow Passage and fired Nightmare Spherical Lightning at the Dream Power Main Cannon, creating a destructive clash across the Dream Void.
• An Unknown Dream Creature from the Second Layer joined the clash with a powerful energy sphere, and Ryan absorbed its attack into the Bottle of Departing Fire while storing the Sky Curtain Wizard’s Blades of Nothingness.
• The Shen Meng Wizard ordered the Shen Meng Fortress to crash into the Sword Realm, and Ryan welcomed the incoming full-scale assault.

The four Star Wizards entered the Sword Realm, where Grand Nightmare Wizard’s darkness trapped them and disrupted their senses, powers, and supply of energy. As Shen Meng Wizard defended the fortress and Sky Curtain Wizard used two Blades of Nothingness, stranded Pale Hand Wizards struggled to survive, while Ze Tian considered the chance to uncover the Pale Hand’s greatest secret.

• The Sword Realm’s barrier shattered, and Grand Nightmare Wizard’s darkness spread through the realm, freezing space and disrupting the Star Wizards’ abilities.
• Shen Meng Wizard ordered the Star Wizards to fight from Shen Meng Fortress and powered its cannons and defenses, but the darkness destroyed part of the fortress and swallowed a True Spirit Wizard.
• Sky Curtain Wizard drew a second Blade of Nothingness and struck it against the first, sending an eerie sound throughout the Sword Realm.
• McCree survived a fight with wolves but remained trapped in the Dream World, while Ze Tian and Asunaer recovered from their injuries and waited for events to change.
• Ze Tian suspected the Pale Hand hid a secret that could let it endure even if its five Star Wizards died, and he hoped to discover it.
• Grand Nightmare Wizard heard the sound of Sky Curtain Wizard’s blades and turned toward Shen Meng Fortress.

Ryan fought four Star Wizards in the Sword Realm while Polaris and the other Wizards watched, and the chapter left the war's outcome seemingly in the Pale Hand's favor. Wizard Lando chose the Immortal path, then received a frightening result from his divination.

• Ryan endured the Star Wizards' combined attacks, then countered with Mahakala Sorcery and Nightmare Freeze as Shen Meng Wizard's Dream Arrow pierced his heart.
• Polaris tracked down and killed the last invading official Wizard, confirming that the node had survived and the enemy forces were wiped out.
• Polaris, Star Color, Umbral Wizard, and Divine Blood Wizard watched Ryan face the four Star Wizards, and Divine Blood Wizard resolved to ask him for help.
• Wizard Lando chose the Immortal path over becoming an official Wizard because it offered him more value and independence.
• Wizard Lando used his Tortoise Shell Wizard Artifact to divine, and the result made his expression change dramatically.

Wizard Lando read a dire divination about Ryan and prepared to intervene, merging with his Inner Demon to draw on his hidden power. As Shen Meng Wizard’s unavoidable Dream Arrow threatened to destroy the Sword Realm, Ryan countered it with the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror’s Great Material Stacking Wizardry, reversing the battle’s course.

• Wizard Lando divined that Ryan faced a situation of Nine Deaths, One Life, and considered the War Fortress’s strength and the possibility of a hidden threat.
• Wizard Lando summoned Ancient Lando, his Inner Demon, and merged with him so he could use their combined power if the battle turned critical.
• Shen Meng Wizard fired a Dream Arrow that locked onto Ryan, overcame his defenses, and began draining the Sword Realm’s Dream Power.
• Ryan used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror and its Great Material Stacking Wizardry to distort the Dream Arrow by stacking illusion and reality.
• The Sword Realm’s situation reversed as the Grand Nightmare Wizard’s Wizardry began to overwhelm Shen Meng Wizard’s attack.

Ryan’s Black and White Collapse Domain overwhelmed the Shen Meng Fortress and captured the Pale Hand’s first three self-burning Star Wizards. Shen Meng Wizard then revealed that he had entered Ryan’s consciousness, and Ryan entered a final battle with him in a special world as the Dream Sword shimmered.

• The Black and White Sun collapsed the Sword Realm and began destroying the Shen Meng Fortress, trapping the Four Star Wizards and the fortress’s defenders.
• Shen Meng Wizard told the other Star Wizards they had one last chance, and the four burned their True Spirit Forms to attack Ryan.
• Ryan’s Collapse Domain froze Blood Moon Wizard, Crimson Blood Wizard, and Sky Curtain Wizard, and he sealed them in the Foam World.
• Ryan sensed Shen Meng Wizard inside his consciousness and prepared to fight him in the Nightmare Pagoda World, where their wizardries merged.
• As Ryan closed his eyes, the Dream Sword embedded in the Nightmare Ancient Tree shimmered with white ripples.

Ryan and Shen Meng Wizard fought inside the Nightmare Pagoda World as Shen Meng Wizard’s Dream Core and True Spirit abilities threatened to overwhelm Ryan’s defenses. Shen Meng Wizard revealed his Eye of Shen Meng and called on the Dream Sword’s wielder to use the Power of Ultimate Annihilation, leaving Ryan facing a targeted killing strike.

• The Dream Sword tore free of the Nightmare Ancient Tree and stabbed Ryan, while Wizard Umbraly Light held back from intervening after the Nightmare Mark stirred.
• Inside the Nightmare Pagoda World, Ryan and Shen Meng Wizard clashed with their Consciousness Souls, as Shen Meng Wizard’s Dream Flower and four petals helped counter the Nightmare Grand Calamity.
• Shen Meng Wizard spread his True Spirit Domain through the Futuo Realm, forcing Ryan to use his second layer of Nightmare True Spirit Power to alter it.
• Shen Meng Wizard revealed Eye of Shen Meng, locked onto Ryan’s essence, and told the sword’s master to use the Power of Ultimate Annihilation.

Ryan defeated the Pale Hand by turning the Rainbow Trout Sword and the hatred of millions of Supernatural Lifeforms against its wielders, but a Crimson Academy Wizard appeared afterward and invited him to join. The chapter left Ryan considering the invitation as the Red Robed Wizard hinted that the Academy needed him for a special purpose.

• Shen Meng Wizard triggered Grand Nightmare Wizard’s memory trap and was overwhelmed by the hatred of more than ten million Supernatural Lifeforms.
• Grand Wizard Rainbow Trout realized the Sword Realm had been turned against him, and the phantom consciousnesses destroyed him and returned to the Rainbow Trout Sword.
• Ryan claimed the Rainbow Trout Sword and learned that the Pale Hand’s headquarters had been devastated by a battle involving Radiant Moon-level beings.
• Ryan sensed a threat from the hidden White Wizard, but a powerful Crimson Academy Wizard killed him before he could strike.
• The Red Robed Wizard met Ryan in a study, explained that the Crimson Academy needed a candidate, and invited him to join.