Chapter Summaries

Yousef and Odis fought in Fran Duel Arena over who would take Li Si as a disciple, with Yousef’s defensive equipment letting him withstand Odis’s powerful Arcanes. As their duel intensified, a young man returned to the academy and noticed the arena had been activated.

• Yousef attacked Odis with a fireball, and Odis blocked it with an earthen wall before countering with a powerful Exclusive Arcane.
• Yousef used his enchanted equipment and defensive spells to withstand Odis’s attacks, while Odis urged him to give up Li Si as a disciple.
• Odis claimed that he and Li Si had met long ago, but Yousef accused him of lying and attacked more fiercely.
• A young man appeared on an academy path, cleaned himself with magic, and went to check who had activated the duel arena.

Yousef and Odis fought in the Fran Duel Arena over Li Si, but Fran Stephens returned and stopped the duel. After learning they were competing to mentor Li Si, Fran became curious about the student.

• Yousef and Odis exchanged advanced spells in the arena while students watched and speculated that they were fighting over Li Si.
• The arena's protective barrier vanished, and Fran teleported the students to the plaza outside the academy gates.
• Fran appeared before Yousef and Odis, and both men respectfully greeted the Legendary Mage.
• Fran praised Yousef for becoming an advanced Magic Rune Master and invited him to seek guidance while Fran was at the academy.
• Yousef accused Odis of trying to steal his disciple, and Fran asked what kind of genius Li Si was.

Odis and Yousef learned that Fran considered Li Si his disciple, ending their dispute over him. After returning home to continue his Arcane Research, Li Si was interrupted by an unexpected visitor who warned that his Spell Model would explode.

• Odis revealed that Li Si was a Bronze-level Arcanist, and Fran recognized him as the Li Si Kane Joyce had asked him to take as a disciple.
• Fran claimed Li Si as his disciple, and Odis and Yousef stopped contesting the matter.
• Fran left with Li Si’s identity information card, while Odis flew away disappointed and Yousef headed to the Fifth Magic Workshop to finish Li Si’s combined magic runes.
• Li Si returned home after finalizing cooperation with the Can Guang United Merchant Guild alongside Arsen and Mora, then continued his Arcane Research in the Underground Laboratory.
• Joyce sensed that an old fellow had arrived, and an unseen voice warned Li Si that his Spell Model would explode in less than three seconds.

Fran visited Li Si and accepted him as his disciple, offering him protection and promising to teach him at the academy. After Fran left, Li Si realized the significance of becoming the sole disciple of the Fies Kingdom’s only publicly known Legendary Mage.

• Li Si nearly lost control of his Spell Model when Fran suddenly spoke beside him, then recognized and respectfully greeted the Legendary Mage.
• Fran confirmed that Li Si had become an Arcanist and offered to take him as his disciple, and Li Si immediately accepted.
• Fran told Li Si to call him Teacher, arranged morning lessons at the First Magic Workshop, and advised him to revere knowledge rather than the Gods.
• Fran gave Li Si an ancient Brass Ring and left behind a white identity card before vanishing from the basement.
• Li Si took the ring and considered how his new status could protect him from the Second Prince and other powerful figures.

Li Si examined Stephens' Teleportation Ring, a powerful gift from his teacher that granted him several Space Magic spells and defensive benefits. Although he considered changing his plans now that a Legendary Mage backed him, he decided to keep the Self-Charging magic rune business quiet and felt increasingly confident about facing Ya Tean's assassination threat.

• Li Si reminded himself that becoming Fran Stephens' disciple only gave him a better starting point, not a guaranteed path to becoming a Legendary Mage.
• Li Si activated the ring and discovered it could cast Teleportation Spell three times daily, Greater Teleportation Spell and Dimensional Shield once daily, and improve his magic power recovery and resistance to Space Magic damage.
• Li Si recognized the ring's teleportation spells as powerful protection and a chance to deepen his understanding of spatial energy.
• Li Si decided to keep his civilian enchanted goods business plans unchanged and develop the Self-Charging magic rune slowly because its value could provoke a struggle involving Legendary-level powers and the Church of the Gods.
• Li Si reconsidered his plans concerning the Sacred Festival and Ya Tean, then felt safer from assassination because of the ring, his Shadow Amulet, and Angela's protection.

Li Si officially became Fran Stephens’s disciple and visited the First Magic Workshop to begin receiving instruction from the Legendary Mage. Fran welcomed him on the workshop’s third floor and invited him to eat while they talked.

• Fran Stephens and Joyce discussed the favor Joyce had used to help Li Si, and Joyce urged Fran to teach the talented young mage.
• Li Si returned his identity information card to Dalton Boggs, who discovered that Fran Stephens was listed as his teacher.
• Dalton realized Li Si had become the dean’s disciple and decided to report the news to the king.
• Li Si went to the First Magic Workshop, where its artificial intelligence welcomed him and directed him to the third floor.
• Fran greeted Li Si with tea and pastries and invited him to eat while they talked.

Fran taught Li Si that Arcanists pursued the world’s Foundation Stone Laws through elemental magic, and that Legendary Arcanists could alter those laws. Li Si concluded that their ultimate goal was to create new laws, though Fran said no Arcanist had yet succeeded.

• Fran asked Li Si what arcane arts were, then explained that Arcanists studied and grasped the world laws embodied by Magical Elements.
• Fran demonstrated the difference between an ordinary fireball and one whose Fire Element laws he had altered to behave like Water Elements.
• Fran explained that Legendary Arcanists could change elemental laws according to how well they understood them.
• Li Si answered that an Arcanist’s ultimate goal was to create laws, and Fran confirmed that this was every Arcanist’s dream.
• Fran told Li Si that no one had succeeded in creating laws and that his altered Fire Elements returned to normal once they left his control.

Li Si began studying the Elemental Rules under Fran Stephens, who gave him access to the First Magic Workshop’s laboratory and encouraged him to keep developing his Exclusive Arcane. After Li Si’s appointment as Fran’s disciple reached Can Guang City’s upper circles, the Fies Kingdom’s leaders considered how to respond and the news drew attention to him.

• Fran Stephens explained that altering an existing world law could only be temporary, then told Li Si to master the Elemental Rules and continue developing his Exclusive Arcane.
• Fran took Li Si to the laboratory to begin his morning lesson and encouraged him to keep learning magic patterns from Yousef.
• Morton Fies told Fossis Hardt that the kingdom should not probe Li Si, should show him goodwill, and should keep the news from spreading too widely.
• Ya Tean received an official notice that Li Si had become Fran Stephens’s disciple and stood silently by the window after reading it.
• Ya Er put an identical letter in her Storage Ring without opening it.
• The news spread through Can Guang City’s upper circles over the following days, making Li Si a topic of conversation at banquets.

Li Si questioned Butler Joyce about his family and his teacher’s mysterious benefactor, then suspected Joyce was the Legendary-level Shadow Dancer who had given him an amulet. As Li Si decided to act as though he knew nothing, his system’s forum button became available again.

• Li Si studied magic with Stephens and Bernie, while he and Lisa grew more familiar at the library.
• Li Si invited Joyce to eat and asked whether any Kane family elders remained and whether Joyce had known his father, Brandon.
• Joyce said he had been adopted by the Kane family and raised alongside Brandon, and confirmed that Brandon had adopted the talented mage Lisa.
• Li Si connected Joyce’s answers, the Shadow Amulet, and Stephens accepting him as a disciple, and suspected Joyce was the Legendary-level Shadow Dancer.
• Li Si decided to pretend he knew nothing about Joyce, then received a system notification that the forum button had lit up.

After discovering Divine Revelation, Liu Tai bought a game helmet and tried its highly realistic virtual world, then joined the player forum to learn about the game before its October 7 launch. He registered under the handle Liu Shi Tai Tan and ended the chapter looking for a group to play with.

• Liu Tai saw an advertisement for Divine Revelation and bought a 7,777-yuan game helmet to test its claims.
• Liu Tai tried the game’s class skills and varied environments, became impressed, and learned that the game would not launch until October 7.
• Liu Tai read the forum’s game announcement, including rules about character creation, NPCs, conduct, and resurrection.
• Liu Tai registered as Liu Shi Tai Tan and browsed player posts and theories about the game’s classes and talents.
• Liu Tai posted on the forum asking experienced players to help him learn the ropes.

Li Si discovered that Divine Revelation’s player forum had opened and began preparing for the players’ arrival. He concluded that rewards, not force, would be the way to keep the unpredictable players in line.

• Li Si searched the forum for his former player name, found no such user, and checked announcements and gaming guild activity.
• Li Si recalled how players’ strange behavior and resurrection abilities had troubled Gaia World’s factions in his previous life.
• Li Si left the dining hall for his Underground Laboratory to plan how to use the arriving players.
• Li Si wrote down that coercion would fail because players could resurrect and retaliate, while profit and rewards could motivate them.

Li Si planned to recruit players for his merchant association and eventually train them as Magic Rune Masters. At the library, he sparred with Lisa and discovered that she was a level 88 mage with a Legendary-level talent.

• Li Si planned to offer players quests, work, and basic services to draw them away from the Mercenary Guild and support his merchant association.
• Li Si decided to cultivate players as Magic Rune Masters, but postponed training them to make the Self-Charging rune combination while Bernie could handle production.
• Li Si spent the next morning reading in the library with Lisa and asked why she no longer practiced spells outside it.
• Li Si invited Lisa to spar in the courtyard, where she blocked his wind blade with an Elemental Shield.
• Li Si checked Lisa Kane’s challenge information and learned she was a level 88 Elemental Mage with the Legendary-level talent Elemental Torrent Dominator.

Li Si challenged Lisa Kane to a spar after the system offered him a quest to defeat her, and discovered that her Legendary talent made her Evocation spells overwhelmingly powerful. He exploited her inexperience and his own weapon-switching ability to win, leaving Lisa confused by his sudden use of a sword.

• The system triggered a limited challenge quest for Li Si to defeat Silver Mage Lisa Kane, and he began attacking her seriously.
• Lisa unleashed a powerful fifth-circle Ice Cone spell, forcing Li Si to dodge and revealing the strength of her Elemental Torrent Dominator talent.
• Lisa held back her most destructive spells to protect the courtyard, while Li Si noticed her lack of combat experience and closed the distance.
• Li Si combined two Arcane spells to break Lisa's defenses, switched his staff into a sword, and shattered her Elemental Shield with a physical attack.
• Li Si held his sword to Lisa's chest, and Lisa admitted defeat while wondering how he had suddenly produced a longsword.

After defeating Lisa in a training match, Li Si received rewards and realized she was likely the future Legendary Mage Azera, master of Azera Floating City. He suspected the Kane Family’s secret was a Floating City hidden beneath the Eastern Sea.

• Li Si reassured Lisa after their duel, arranged for the courtyard to be cleaned, and told her to practice spells with him at the Magic Academy.
• Li Si checked his mission rewards and gained one million experience points, Advanced Water Element Affinity, and the Fifth Circle Spell Ice Cone.
• Li Si noted Lisa’s poor combat experience and decided to help her improve, while considering that he might gain more of her elemental affinity specialties.
• Li Si connected Lisa to the mysterious future Legendary Mage Azera, whose identity had been concealed from the world and players.
• Li Si recalled Azera Floating City’s rise from the Eastern Sea and the Legendary Shadow Dancer who defended it, then suspected Joyce and Lisa were that city’s protectors.
• Li Si concluded that the Kane Family’s secret might be a Floating City lying submerged in the Eastern Sea.

Li Si realized that the Kane Family’s secret was Azera Floating City and suspected the Fies Kingdom had once paid a heavy price tied to Ya Tean. He planned to pursue his own rise after the Sacred Festival, while vampire Marion approached Can Guang City to search for Angela.

• Li Si recalled Azera Floating City’s clash with the Fies Kingdom’s legendary warriors and suspected the conflict’s settlement had involved Ya Tean’s fate.
• Li Si decided to keep his knowledge of Joyce, Lisa, and the Kane Family’s Floating City secret, then resolved to plan for becoming a Legendary Mage after the Sacred Festival.
• Li Si left his room and headed to the Underground Laboratory to continue his research.
• Marion arrived outside Can Guang City, failed to sense Angela’s aura, and detected several fallen vampires instead.
• Marion decided to search the city for Angela and said he would attack any fallen vampires he encountered along the way.

Li Si sought Fran Stephens’s guidance for Lisa, whose talent and combat skills he wanted to develop under a capable teacher. Fran agreed to meet her and teleported with Li Si to the Kane residence, where they arrived at the library.

• Li Si continued his studies with Fran Stephens and asked him questions about controlling Fire Element Burst in spells.
• Li Si told Fran that Lisa was a talented girl in his household and asked him to give her guidance.
• Fran agreed to meet Lisa and teleported with Li Si to the Kane residence.
• Joyce watched them head toward the library and realized Li Si was finding Lisa a teacher.
• Li Si opened the library door and introduced it to Fran.

Fran recognized Lisa’s extraordinary connection to four Elemental Planes and accepted her as his disciple, then took her away for further instruction. Days later, Li Si discussed preparations for the players’ arrival with Mora, who was overworked managing the Golden Vine Merchant Guild’s affairs.

• Fran saw four Space Channels connecting Lisa to the Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth Elemental Planes and judged her talent exceptional.
• Li Si introduced Fran as his teacher and explained that Fran wanted to take Lisa as a disciple; Lisa agreed.
• Fran teleported away with Lisa, while Li Si returned to studying Fran’s magic books.
• Fran told Joyce that taking Li Si and Lisa as disciples was a favor to him, and Joyce dismissed the claim.
• Mora arrived at Kane Manor exhausted from managing inspections, suppliers, and other guild business.
• Li Si described plans for the players’ arrival, and Mora agreed to arrange basic food and lodging.

Li Si reviewed intelligence about Can Guang City and learned that the western district was seeing deaths, disappearances, and vampire violence. He decided to visit Old Jack, while the source of the growing unrest and Angela’s secrets remained unresolved.

• Mora told Li Si that the Can Guang United Merchant Guild had offered another fifty thousand Gold Coins, and Li Si suspected the money came from the King after learning about his apprenticeship to Lord Flame of Judgement.
• Li Si told Mora to keep his apprenticeship secret and read reports of deaths, missing people, and Dawn Church patrols in Can Guang City’s western district.
• Mora described a covered-up fight in Golden Lily Lane that left several people injured and Gold-level vampire corpses behind.
• Li Si wondered whether Angela was truly a vampire, noted how different she was from the vampires he remembered, and decided to visit Old Jack.

Li Si bought rare materials from Old Jack and proposed a partnership to help supply his research and attract players, but Old Jack refused. After Li Si left, Old Jack found intelligence stating that Li Si might be the disciple of the Legendary Mage Fran Stephens.

• Li Si visited Old Jack's shop and selected rare materials, then paid one thousand Gold Coins for them.
• Li Si noticed Ashley's more focused aura and worried aloud about her safety amid the unrest on Lan Gai Street.
• Old Jack reacted angrily when Li Si hinted that he was getting old, but backed down after Li Si warned him not to attack.
• Li Si proposed cooperating with Old Jack, who rejected the offer, so Li Si left his address and told Ashley to seek him if she needed help.
• After Li Si left, Old Jack checked his intelligence notes and found a report linking Li Si to the Legendary Mage Fran Stephens.

Li Si witnessed the Gold-level vampires Marion and Kutner fighting on Ge Duo Street, then attacked Kutner when the wounded vampire charged toward his hiding place. Kutner was left facing Li Si’s spell as he tried to escape Marion.

• Li Si and Angela reached Ge Duo Street and saw two crimson mist forms smash through a building while fighting.
• Marion revealed that he had tracked Kutner and demanded his heart, then attacked him with a crimson blade.
• Kutner detonated his severed arm to knock Marion back and fled toward an alley where Li Si was standing.
• Li Si cast Greater Protective Field and launched a Fifth Circle Ice Cone at the wounded Kutner, who was startled to find a Silver Mage blocking his escape.