Chapter Summaries

Aaron descended into Zorro’s frail body in a medieval world and learned to survive as the town’s gravedigger. After a Ghoul killed grave robbers in the cemetery, Aaron concealed the evidence, took his own name, and began considering how to explore the world’s supernatural powers.

• Aaron woke with a fever in Zorro’s body, recovered the gravedigger’s memories, and learned that Zorro lived in a cemetery near Yanan Town.
• Aaron gathered willow bark to ease his fever and spotted grave robbers carrying lanterns through the cemetery at night.
• A Ghoul attacked the grave robbers, killed Smith outside Aaron’s hut, and vanished into the darkness while Aaron kept the door shut.
• Aaron cleaned up the blood and restored the grave the robbers had disturbed, then declared that he would go by Aaron from then on.
• Aaron reviewed Zorro’s memories, learned of demon hunters and local monster tales, and decided to explore Yanan Town for ritual materials.

Aaron settled into life as Zorro, tested a ritual to contact his true self, and received a healing drop of nectar from an Immortal Venerable avatar along with a useless status panel. After preparing Ron’s grave and meeting Baron Lancaster, Aaron accepted a tavern invitation with Ivey, while the ghoul’s whereabouts remained uncertain.

• Aaron entered Yanan Town, bought salt, candles, and spices, and saw Lancaster’s soldiers depart to fight a neighboring baron over a deer.
• Aaron’s ritual summoned a vision of an Immortal Venerable avatar, who sent nectar that cured Aaron’s ailments and restored his body to health.
• Aaron checked his new status panel, found it offered little help, and salted the area around his cottage before going to sleep.
• Ivey told Aaron that soldier Ron had died after falling on the battlefield and that Smith had been missing for more than a day.
• Aaron and Ivey buried Ron, and Baron Lancaster rewarded them with silver coins while attending the funeral with his daughter Catherine.
• Aaron gave Ivey his share of the reward and agreed to join him for drinks at the tavern.

Aaron recorded years of life in Yanan Town, developed herbal skills and swordsmanship, and waited for a chance to find supernatural knowledge while avoiding the dangers of the succession crisis. After Baron Lancaster named Catherine Lancaster his heir, Aaron wondered whether the coming war might offer an opportunity.

• Aaron's diary described his work as a gravekeeper, his herbal studies, his renewed sword training, and his decision to wait for disorder at the baron's castle before seeking books.
• Aaron sold Ivey doses of his popular aphrodisiac decoction, and Ivey told him he planned to marry Tracy.
• Aaron attended Ivey and Tracy's wedding and gave them a large jar of medicinal decoction.
• Baron Lancaster named Catherine Lancaster as his heir, leaving the territory tense as war seemed possible.
• Aaron decided the conflict might create an opportunity, though he still lacked a demon hunter who could teach him about supernatural matters.

After Baron Lancaster was assassinated, Aaron watched the barony’s power struggle from the sidelines and became curious about Catherine’s attendant, Kalin. He identified Kalin as a likely injured fugitive, but Kalin approached him to secretly buy herbs, leaving Aaron to consider what the young man was planning.

• Soldiers searched Aaron’s hut and the cemetery for the assassin who had killed Baron Lancaster, but found no one.
• Ivey told Aaron that Lady Lilith had taken charge of the barony, and the nobles later made Catherine’s elder sister her guardian until Catherine came of age.
• Months later, Aaron met Catherine at her father’s grave and noticed that her attendant Kalin killed a snake with unusual sword skill.
• Ivey told Aaron that Kalin had taken Catherine out of the castle, knocked down a knight’s attendant, and refused Lady Lilith’s offer to become a knight’s attendant.
• Aaron investigated Kalin’s purchases and became convinced he was hiding something, then Kalin asked Aaron to secretly supply him with herbs each week.

Aaron completed the Savage Bull Potion, which could strengthen the body up to human limits, while political tension grew around Catherine’s upcoming fourteenth birthday and reports emerged of an antlered monster. The chapter left Aaron waiting to see whether the monster or Kalin’s ambitions would create an opening, as Kalin guarded Catherine at the castle.

• Aaron deduced the missing ingredient in the incomplete Demon Hunter Decoction and secretly gathered materials to test a new formula.
• Aaron brewed the Savage Bull Potion using bovine spinal fluid, confirmed its effects, and named it.
• Aaron learned from Ivey that Catherine’s birthday banquet could force Lilith and her husband to return power or move against Catherine.
• At the tavern, Aaron heard a merchant report that Wolf had seen an upright monster with antlers in an orchard.
• Kalin stood guard outside Catherine’s room, believing he could not overcome the couple behind the threat to her without gaining power like his teacher.

Kalin went in search of the antlered monster for materials to make a dangerous potion, while Aaron fled after Joan recognized the scent of a demon hunter potion on him. Joan uncovered a Dream Ghoul beneath Aaron’s cemetery, and Kalin and Wolf encountered the disguised monster in the orchard, where it attacked Wolf.

• Kalin heard that Wolf had encountered a monster and hurried to find him, hoping to obtain extraordinary materials for a potion.
• Aaron visited Wolf, heard about the antlered monster, and met Joan, who introduced himself as a monster hunter.
• Joan detected the scent of a demon hunter potion on Aaron, so Aaron fled the cemetery and hid in an abandoned hunter’s cabin.
• Joan found evidence of a Dream Ghoul beneath a disturbed grave and realized sorcerers had likely raised it to guard Wraith Flowers.
• Kalin and Wolf entered the orchard to hunt the antlered monster, which disguised itself as a tree and bit Wolf after seizing him.

Kalin killed an antlered monster but died alongside Wolf, and Aaron learned from the dead witcher's notes before deciding to leave the graveyard. After Catherine became baron and buried her sister Lilith away from the family graves, Aaron warned Ivey that war might follow and departed Yanan Town.

• Kalin used fire oil and a torch to kill the antlered monster, then took supernatural flesh from its body while apologizing to Wolf's corpse.
• Aaron found the dead witcher Joan and Ghoul at the graveyard, buried Joan, and burned the Ghoul after recovering an extraordinary material.
• Aaron read Witcher Notes, learned about the Adersen Continent and witcher ranks, and decided to leave within a month to avoid the sorcerer and Joan's companions.
• Aaron learned that Lilith and her husband had been assassinated, then buried them away from the Lancaster family graves at Catherine's order.
• Catherine celebrated her rise as baron while Lilith was buried, and Aaron warned Ivey that the territory might face war before leaving town.

After nearly sixty years away, immortal Aaron returned to Lancaster Territory and waited for Kalin to grow old and die so he could claim the Demon Hunter Legacy. Kalin revealed the legacy’s hiding place before dying, and Aaron left with the secret still protected.

• Aaron visited Tony’s farm, met the elderly Tor, and learned that Catherine had died and Rude had become viscount.
• Aaron settled in Yanan Town, where he waited for years while keeping an eye on the Lancaster Family.
• Kalin, gravely ill, told Rude that Jager had received the Demon Hunter’s sigil and warned him not to expose or misuse the family’s Demon Hunter Legacy.
• Aaron entered Kalin’s room at night, revealed that he was the gravekeeper Zorro, and asked for the legacy’s location.
• Kalin disclosed the secret chamber holding the third legacy and died; Aaron verified his death and departed.

After studying the Viper School inheritance, Aaron developed a more ambitious demon hunter potion and sought a Bloodthirsty Madbird for its supernatural materials. He witnessed Lancaster cavalry kill a Red Fish demon hunter and realized conflict was brewing, leaving him intent on gaining power.

• At Kalin’s funeral, Aaron left a daisy on his grave and reflected on the questionable origins of Catherine’s children.
• Aaron studied Kalin’s Viper School inheritance and concluded that its potion formula limited demon hunters’ potential.
• After half a month of experiments, Aaron devised a more complex advancement potion and tested his blood to identify compatible supernatural materials.
• Aaron left Yanan Town and poisoned prey along a Bloodthirsty Madbird’s flight path to weaken it and locate its nest.
• Aaron watched concealed Lancaster cavalry pursue and kill Jett of Red Fish with poisoned arrows.
• After the cavalry left, Aaron recognized them as men from Viscount Lancaster’s territory and turned toward Blood High Cliff, determined to gain power.

Aaron killed the Bloodthirsty Madbirds with poison, used their extraordinary material to brew an advancement potion, and survived a painful genetic mutation that granted him Blood Surge. Meanwhile, Jager revealed his ambition to build an army of Demon Hunters and threatened Viscount Rude, leaving the Lancaster family’s conflict unresolved.

• Aaron waited until the poisoned Bloodthirsty Madbirds had died, then searched their cliffside nest and recovered two extraordinary materials.
• Aaron brewed an improved advancement potion with a Bloodthirsty Madbird’s tissue, drank it, and endured a painful genetic mutation that gave him Blood Surge.
• Aaron assessed his new ability and increased strength, then began preparing for the Red Mountain Trial.
• Jager told Viscount Rude that he had deployed cavalry to hunt Demon Hunters and intended to use their power to conquer the kingdom and continent.
• Jager refused Rude’s order to abandon his plans, then revealed that Rude was not his full-blooded brother and warned him not to interfere again.

Aaron subdued Little John to keep watch over the Lancaster family cemetery while planning to pursue the Red Mountain Trial. Seven years later, Jager revealed that he had infiltrated the witchers as Aragorn and ambushed their gathering, slaughtering most of them and killing the master witcher Skar.

• Aaron poisoned Little John and ordered him to report anything unusual at the cemetery, where Aaron hoped to find the Wraith Flower.
• Aaron practiced with his Cross Sword and considered attempting the Red Mountain Trial, while investigating Jager's efforts to gather witcher inheritances.
• Seven years later, Aragorn assembled the witchers at an abandoned castle and revealed that he was the enemy hunting them.
• Jager and his Viper School followers attacked the gathered witchers, aided by soldiers and poison, and killed many of them.
• Skar of the Shadow Dragon School ambushed Jager, but Jager blocked his attack, defeated him, and cut off his head as the remaining witchers fled.

Aaron advanced his demon hunter research under Jager while secretly preparing to leave before the new king turned on him. Jager conquered the Rogge Kingdom and founded the Lancaster Kingdom, and Aaron was placed under guard at the royal research institute as Stryker announced his plans to study sorcerers.

• Jager gave Aaron captured demon hunters and school secrets as research subjects, while Aaron and Stryker competed for access to them.
• Aaron developed a balanced Black Iron potion with a higher success rate, earning Jager's promise to make him Chief Scholar.
• After Fred III died and his young son inherited the throne, Jager rebelled, defeated the kingdom's forces, and established the Lancaster Kingdom.
• Jager ordered Aaron to live at the research institute under the protection of two demon hunters, while Aaron considered faking his death and escaping.
• Stryker told Aaron that Jager had turned his attention to sorcerers and declared that he would claim the first sorcerer test subject.

After discovering the continent’s recurring upheavals, Aaron advanced to a second genetic mutation and escaped the Great Library by faking his death. Two years later, Sorcerer Masca arrived on Adersen Island and attacked Yeger I, leaving the king bound and confronting the hidden power behind the continent’s order.

• Aaron traced the noble bloodlines and concluded that another widespread cleansing would happen within one to five years, so he drank his Red Mountain Potion and advanced to a second mutation.
• Aaron discovered that he could manipulate one person’s blood, killed the two demon hunter guards, burned the Great Library, and disappeared into the night.
• After Aaron’s apparent death, Stryker became Yeger I’s chief scholar, while the neighboring nations continued to isolate the Lancaster Kingdom.
• A hundred years after the previous selection, Sorcerer Masca arrived on Aderson Island, and Penelope asked him to intervene against Yeger I and the Rogge rebels.
• Masca attacked the Lancaster palace from his airship, killed Yeger I’s demon hunter guards with beams of light, and bound Yeger I with Darkness Shackles.

Masca crushed Yeger I’s rebellion, interrogated him, and began purging the Lancaster Family while searching for people with Chaos Bloodline talent. Aaron rescued the fugitive Ximo, renamed him Quasimodo, and sent him to guard the cemetery as Aaron reconsidered how to seek knowledge of sorcerers.

• Masca killed the demon hunter guards, compelled Yeger I to answer questions, and ordered his public execution three days later.
• Masca rejected Stryker after testing his bloodline, and Penelope took him as her slave before ordering the Lancaster Family killed.
• Sorcerer apprentices and knights ravaged Lancaster Territory, killed the castle’s defenders, and issued a wanted notice for Yeger’s son Ximo.
• Aaron returned to the ruined cemetery, found that the Wraithflower had not grown, and left to consider the resentment gathered there.
• Aaron told the wounded Ximo he had poisoned him and offered him a choice; Ximo accepted herbs that would disguise him and became Quasimodo.
• Aaron ordered Quasimodo to become the cemetery’s gravekeeper and planned to travel the continent for information about sorcerers.

Aaron spent time with Iris and learned he had finally sensed chaotic power after three years, despite his exceptionally weak talent. After Iris died, Aaron promised to care for Ellie and received Iris’s letter entrusting her inheritance to her.

• Disguised as Zorro, Aaron visited Iris and shared a meal with him, while Iris warned that Aaron lacked sorcerous talent and asked him to look after Ellie when he was gone.
• Aaron practiced with Iris’s star chart and sensed chaotic power for the first time, unlocking the Sorcerer Apprentice Visualization Method despite taking three years to begin.
• Aaron realized he needed a genuine sorcerer meditation method to draw in chaotic power and resolved to pursue sorcery with the time he had.
• Ellie came to Aaron the next morning and told him Iris had died peacefully.
• Aaron read Iris’s letter, learned Iris had secretly watched him for ten years and left his inheritance to Ellie, then promised to care for her as she mourned her teacher.

Quasimodo found Wraith Flowers growing in the abandoned Lancaster burial grounds and earned Aaron’s promise to protect his descendants. Aaron settled Ellie near Yanan Town and began revising his third witcher mutation formula to improve his sorcerer talent, while secretly staying near the flowers to study them.

• Quasimodo showed Aaron the strange Wraith Flowers he had found in the cemetery, and Aaron promised to care for Quasimodo’s descendants in exchange for his service.
• Aaron decided to guard the flowers and told Quasimodo to pass off the watchers as distant relatives.
• Aaron settled Ellie in a village near Yanan Town and urged her to keep working toward becoming a sorcerer apprentice.
• Aaron concluded that the Wraith Flowers and a transplanted supernatural bloodline might help improve his sorcerer talent during his third genetic mutation.
• Aaron took a new identity and moved in with Quasimodo so he could watch the Wraith Flowers and study them closely.

Aaron developed and drank the Blood Prison Potion, surviving a terrifying vision and completing his third genetic mutation as a Grandmaster Demon Hunter with a trace of warlock talent. He decided to keep the potion’s talent-enhancing formula secret, while Ellie had married and started a family.

• After Quasimodo died, Aaron secured the gravedigger position and continued experimenting with a Wraith Flower to develop the Blood Prison Potion.
• Ellie became a first-rank sorcerer apprentice, and Aaron tested her strength before advising her to practice control and combat.
• Ellie married little Jack two years later, and Aaron finally perfected the Blood Prison Potion after finding inspiration at their wedding.
• Aaron drank the potion, saw a vision of the Snake Mother and a crimson flood, then escaped by grabbing a distorted bird’s talons.
• Aaron awoke as a Grandmaster Demon Hunter with Blood Domain and ninth-grade warlock talent, and resolved to conceal the potion formula.

Aaron investigated snake legends, completed his ninth bloodline rune, and reunited with Ellie before continuing his sorcerer studies. More than ten years later, he learned that bandits had devastated Menny Village, killed Ellie, and taken her grandchildren hostage, so he set out to find them.

• Aaron completed his ninth bloodline rune, formed a bloodline seed, and became a novice sorcerer apprentice.
• Aaron visited Ellie, who gave him Iris's sorcery materials and said she wanted to live as an ordinary woman.
• Aaron studied Iris's spell models but could not yet cast level-zero spells because his willpower was too low.
• More than ten years later, Gu Yin told Aaron that bandits had attacked Menny Village and defeated the baron's guards.
• Aaron found Menny Village devastated and learned that Ellie had died after surrendering to save her grandchildren, who had been taken hostage.
• Aaron demanded to know where the bandits had gone and vanished before the informant could finish answering.

Aaron rescued two children from bandits who had captured them after Ellie’s defeat, then arranged for Alexander, Ellie’s descendant, to pursue sorcery on the Sorcerer Continent. Aaron continued preparing to learn about sorcery through his descendants and investigated a serpent monster on Aderson Island.

• Aaron killed the bandits who had captured the children, freed them, and discovered the leader was still alive before finishing him off.
• Years later, Gu Yin told Alexander that Ellie was his ancestor and helped him set out for the Sorcerer Continent in exchange for a promise to aid Gu Yin’s descendants.
• Aaron revealed that he had secretly cultivated Alexander’s interest in adventure and planned to use his descendants’ diaries to learn about the Sorcerer Continent.
• Aaron examined his status and reflected that his poor sorcerer aptitude had left him only an Intermediate Apprentice despite his long training.
• Aaron used a Flash spell and his Cross Sword to kill Son of Vasuki, then collected its blood to study.

Aaron investigated the connection between the Son of Vasuki and the vision that had disrupted his demon hunter experiments, then spent a century advancing to a high-level sorcerer apprentice. He watched Master Minnie return to her family’s homeland and learned that the Meni Family faced a threat from sorcerer families seeking a marriage alliance as Minnie neared death.

• Aaron’s attempt to study the purple blood failed, but he confirmed its slight connection to his vision and received word that the airship had departed without news of Alexander.
• Over the next century, Aaron perfected Blood of the Unshadowed, reached high-level apprentice rank, and returned to the ruins of Dick Territory.
• Royal knights renamed Dick Territory Meni Territory and elevated the Meni Family after Master Minnie returned to her father’s hometown and asked to visit the cemetery.
• Aaron inferred that Minnie was Alexander’s daughter and decided to wait for her death before seeking Alexander’s diary.
• Count Meni visited Minnie at the cemetery and told her that the Rog Royal Family had proposed a marriage alliance; Minnie warned him of the danger and urged the family to raise its own sorcerer apprentice.