Chapter Summaries

Jiru and Martha reported the Star Hunter Society battle to Great Wizard Yude while concealing Lynn’s connection to the mysterious wizard who had rescued them. Lynn arrived with the masked Sonia, with Yude’s suspicion diverted after she revealed a grotesque face and Lynn introduced her as a friend from the twelfth battle line.

• Jiru and Martha received Great Wizard Yude’s message and carefully described how a mysterious wizard had killed the Star Hunter Society members, omitting Lynn’s connection to him.
• Martha asked about battle merits, and Great Wizard Yude awarded them to Lynn, Jiru, and Martha while asking where Lynn and the mysterious wizard had gone.
• Lynn entered with a masked woman as Great Wizard Yude demanded an account, and Lynn described the battle without contradicting Jiru and Martha’s report.
• Great Wizard Yude questioned the woman’s identity and ordered her to remove her mask, so Lynn let her reveal a grotesquely stitched face.
• Lynn introduced the woman as Sonia, his friend from the twelfth battle line, and she greeted the others before replacing her mask.

After concealing Qi’s involvement from Great Wizard Yude, Lynn reunited with Sonia, who had survived as a masked, puppet-like being linked to the Golden Balance. As Lynn planned how to spend his battle merits, Qi contacted him and offered to use the Spirit of the Blue Sky’s energy to help increase his spiritual power.

• Lynn, Martha, and Jiru told Great Wizard Yude that the mysterious wizard had vanished, then divided their 2,100 battle merits so Lynn received 1,050 points.
• Lynn entered his laboratory, summoned Ivgried, and removed Sonia’s mask, recognizing her stitched face and hollow eyes.
• Lynn recalled Sonia’s history and realized she had survived the Furnace War as a Level One Wizard, likely bound to the Golden Balance as an artifact spirit.
• Lynn returned Sonia’s mask and considered his treaty with Qi, his decision not to bring Astrid back, and his plans to spend his battle merits on Frozen Soil, cultivation supplies, and armor repairs.
• Sonia began glowing and relayed Qi’s request to confirm that Lynn was safe; a golden gate then appeared, revealing Qi beside the Golden Balance.
• Qi told Lynn that the contract required him to provide Spirit of the Blue Sky energy and help increase Lynn’s spiritual power, leaving Lynn stunned.

Lynn learned that Qi planned to use faith to strengthen the Spirit of the Blue Sky and raise his spiritual power, then followed Qi through a golden gate into the Temple of Mystra. The temple’s defenders prepared to attack them, while Lynn looked to Qi for what would happen next.

• Qi told Lynn that the contract let him gradually understand its terms and promised to raise his spiritual power while charging the Spirit of the Blue Sky.
• Qi explained that gods ruled divine kingdoms and used believers’ faith as nourishment, and Lynn connected the Spirit of the Blue Sky to the origins of the Nature Wizards.
• Qi clarified that the Spirit of the Blue Sky was not entirely a godhead but could process faith, accumulate power, and increase Lynn’s spiritual power.
• Qi opened a golden gate through the Golden Balance and entered the Temple of Mystra with Lynn.
• The temple’s clerics and mages sensed the intrusion, called them evil wizards and blasphemers, and prepared the temple array as Lynn assessed their strength.

Qi explained the Weave and showed Lynn how the Golden Balance could cut off its power, then destroyed Mystra’s temple clergy. The pair turned to harvesting the temple’s faith to replenish the Spirit of the Blue Sky or strengthen Lynn’s spiritual power.

• Qi explained that Mystra was a chief god who governed the Weave, the foundation through which spellcasters accessed primordial magic.
• Qi used the Golden Balance to replace the temple’s Weave with a power of equality, cutting off the clergy from Mystra and their magic.
• Qi transformed the temple’s clergy into maple leaves and erased them before they could resist.
• Lynn realized the Spirit of the Blue Sky might also sever the Weave, and Qi confirmed that it was a Radiant Moon-tier treasure.
• Qi pointed toward the temple’s central atrium and said they would take its power of faith to replenish the Spirit of the Blue Sky or increase Lynn’s spiritual power.

Lynn absorbed the faith power in a Temple of Mystra through the Spirit of the Blue Sky, raising his spiritual power to 130 points, while Qi spared the temple’s alien believers and left with him. The chapter ended with the Thirteenth War Fortress preparing for the mysterious wizard’s return and the sleeping Goddess of the Weave stirring in her crystal coffin.

• Qi brought Lynn to the temple courtyard, where the Spirit of the Blue Sky absorbed the accumulated faith power and purified it into spiritual power.
• Lynn connected Ivgried to the Spirit of the Blue Sky and raised his spiritual power from 115 to 130 points, reaching the mid-stage threshold for a Level One Wizard.
• Lynn considered seeking faith power from other temples, but recognized that Qi’s help had made this temple’s destruction possible.
• Qi chose to leave the temple’s furious alien believers unharmed, and he and Lynn departed through the Balance space.
• At the Thirteenth War Fortress, Great Wizard Yude and Great Wizard Earl received reinforcements but feared they could not withstand the mysterious wizard; Yude suggested asking the three surviving young wizards for help.
• At the goddess’s central temple, the sleeping Goddess of the Weave murmured “Shang... Ti... Ya...” and her eyelashes trembled.

Lynn reflected on the Spirit of the Blue Sky’s power and its connection to a dead chief god, then spent half a month repairing his armor and stabilizing his mental power. Just as his quiet routine settled in, a messenger crow delivered a letter from his supervising department at War Fortress No. 13.

• Lynn examined the Spirit of the Blue Sky and considered its Radiant Moon power, its divine origins, and the risks of gathering more faith.
• Lynn speculated that Qi’s reluctance to take the Spirit of the Blue Sky might be connected to their location and the danger of attracting the gods’ attention.
• Lynn spent half a month researching the Spirit of the Blue Sky, repairing the Grey Hawk Armor, and training with the Azure Sky Meditation Method.
• Lynn compressed his mental power and stabilized his realm at the mid-stage of a Level One Wizard with 130 points of mental power.
• A black iron-winged messenger crow delivered Lynn a letter from Plane No. 13, Eastern War Zone, War Fortress No. 13.

Lynn arrived at War Fortress No. 13 under a transfer order from Great Wizard Yude, only for the goddess faction to launch a massive assault as soon as he reached the front. As Lynn feared being sent into a losing battle, the fortress commanders prepared to retreat, but the Eastern War Zone ordered them to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

• Lynn arrived at War Fortress No. 13 and learned that Great Wizard Yude had transferred him to serve as a squad captain.
• The fortress sounded an alarm after detecting a large enemy force approaching, trapping Lynn and the other personnel inside.
• Lynn used his Grey Hawk Armor to see an enormous army of the Goddess of the Weave's followers advancing toward the fortress.
• Lynn decided that entering the battlefield would likely mean death and waited for orders with the other stranded wizards.
• Great Wizards Yude and Earl contacted the Eastern War Zone and prepared to retreat as the enemy force threatened to overwhelm the fortress.
• The Eastern War Zone ordered the commanders to resist because reinforcements were on the way.

Great Wizards Yude and Earl prepared War Fortress No. 13 to delay the Goddess army, while Lynn was conscripted into the Seventh Assault Squad. As the enemy advanced, Yude ordered an Otherworld Purification Device to self-destruct, but a legendary mage from the Goddess faction’s Seven Stars shielded the army from the blast.

• Yude and Earl learned that the Goddess of the Weave had awakened and targeted the Thirteenth Front, and they resolved to hold War Fortress No. 13 until reinforcements arrived.
• Earl put the fortress into combat mode, readied its weapons and defenses, and ordered its Otherworld Purification Devices prepared for self-destruction.
• A Level Two wizard assigned Lynn to the Seventh Assault Squad, where the squad captain assessed his skills and led him across the deck.
• The Goddess army surprised the garrison castles around an Otherworld Purification Device as its forces advanced toward the fortress.
• Yude activated the device’s self-destruct sequence, destroying the garrison castles and devastating the Goddess army’s vanguard.
• A legendary mage among the Goddess faction’s Seven Stars raised a blue-white barrier that stopped the explosion’s force.

The Goddess faction’s army advanced under Mage Linge, one of the Seven Stars, while Great Wizards Yude and Earl prepared War Fortress No. 13 to delay them. Lynn joined an assault squad sent to harass the enemy, then watched the fortress fire a devastating beam at Linge’s forces.

• Great Wizard Yude detonated the Otherworld Purification Device, and Mage Linge shielded the Goddess faction’s army with one of the Goddess of the Weave’s blue-white stars.
• Mage Linge used the star’s divine power to transform the battlefield into a divine domain and led the army forward.
• Great Wizards Yude and Earl ordered War Fortress No. 13 to keep its distance, send out assault and suicide squads, and target Mage Linge with the fortress’s weapons.
• Lynn reluctantly piloted a stealth aircraft with an assault squad tasked with delaying the enemy through long-range attacks.
• The war fortress fired a massive beam toward the Goddess’s army, and Lynn saw its energy readings soar beyond the aircraft’s detection range.

The Goddess of the Weave manifested through the Blue-White Morning Star and effortlessly destroyed War Fortress No. 13’s strongest attack, forcing Yude and Earl to retreat as Linge led the mage army forward. The retreating wizards’ ambushes threw the advancing army into chaos, while Lynn’s cautious squad harassed it from a safe distance until a knight of the Order of the Mystic Fire charged at them.

• Linge used the Blue-White Morning Star to summon the Goddess of the Weave, who calmly erased War Fortress No. 13’s devastating strike.
• Yude and Earl ordered the war fortress to retreat and prepared traps and attack squads to delay the advancing mage army.
• Linge declined to pursue the retreating fortress, ordered his army forward, and spread word that the enemy had fled.
• Hidden Mechanical Puppets and aircraft ambushed the mage army, killing and wounding mages as Linge ignored the lesser attacks and watched for stronger threats.
• Lynn’s squad maintained a safe distance while harassing the mage advance, but a knight of the Order of the Mystic Fire sent a winged warhorse toward them.

Knight Fao destroyed six of the eight aircraft in Lynn’s assault squad, leaving Lynn to flee while Fao pursued him. Lynn escaped his first arrow with the Starfall Shoes and drew Fao away from the Goddess’s army, where he hoped to avoid exposing the Spirit of the Blue Sky.

• The squad captain identified Fao as a near-Seventh Circle knight and ordered the eight aircraft to retreat in separate directions.
• Fao shot down six aircraft with flaming arrows while Cindy and the Order of the Mystic Fire watched and praised his archery.
• Lynn survived by keeping his distance from the enemy army, then fled after realizing he was the assault squad’s last survivor.
• Fao targeted Lynn with another arrow, but Lynn activated the Starfall Shoes and escaped the explosion by leaping from his aircraft.
• Fao pursued Lynn beyond the Goddess’s army’s field of vision.

Lynn used the Spirit of the Blue Sky to trap the pursuing Seven-Ring knight Fao, but divine power protected him from immediate defeat. Maple Tree awakened through the Spirit and stored Fao and his warhorse in separate maple leaves, while Lynn’s danger—and the questions about his arrival in the Civilization of Gods—remained unresolved.

• Lynn exhausted all three bursts of the Starfall Shoes and stopped in the grasslands to use the Spirit of the Blue Sky against his pursuer.
• Fao caught up with Lynn and attacked, but the Spirit’s green light bound Fao and his fifth-tier warhorse with the power of nature.
• Lynn sensed divine power protecting Fao and realized it might take several minutes for the Spirit to overcome it, while reinforcements could arrive.
• Maple Tree awakened inside the Spirit of the Blue Sky and recognized that Lynn was in the Civilization of Gods, then questioned how he had gotten there.
• Maple Tree used the Spirit’s stored energy to seal Fao and his warhorse separately inside two maple leaves.

Cindy raced to find Fao but turned back after Lord Linge warned that the wizard army was nearby. Reinforcements from the Eastern War Zone arrived as both armies fortified their positions, while Lynn returned as the sole survivor of the Seventh Assault Squad.

• Cindy sensed that Fao had vanished and rushed toward him, but Lord Linge warned him of the approaching wizard army, so Cindy reluctantly turned back toward the Goddess's army.
• War Fortress No. 13 detected nine arriving reinforcements, bringing the wizard side's total to ten war fortresses and nearly twenty Level 3 Great Wizards.
• Great Wizard Yude told the other commanders that Linge was leading the Goddess's army and carried the Goddess of the Weave's weapon, while the commanders could not provide details about the Morning Star Wizards' plans.
• Linge halted the Goddess's army and ordered it to establish strongholds, castles, and trenches rather than immediately engage the reinforced wizard army.
• Lynn returned to War Fortress No. 13 as the only survivor of the Seventh Assault Squad, completed his report, and headed inside the fortress.

Lynn explored the War Fortress and considered using his Research Institute membership token to avoid being sent back to the battlefield. Maple Tree explained that [Scenery] were fragments of civilizations destroyed by the Civilization of Gods, then revealed that Qi had awakened inside one after Maple Tree sought the Golden Balance there, costing him his body.

• Lynn reflected on the heavy casualties from his assault squad and considered using the membership token Lori had given him for protection.
• Maple Tree reestablished contact, and Lynn told him about Qi, the Golden Balance, and the Civilization of Gods.
• Maple Tree explained that the Civilization of Gods compressed civilizations it could not fully absorb into [Scenery] and used those fragments to attack other worlds.
• Maple Tree recounted how [Scenery] had spread through Wizard World during its ancient war with the Civilization of Gods, forcing White Wizards and Dark Wizards to unite against them.
• Maple Tree revealed that Spirit of the Blue Sky contained part of the hunted High God's divine spark and that the Golden Balance was inside the [Scenery] he had searched for.
• Maple Tree said that his attempt to locate the Golden Balance caused a reaction in the [Scenery], awakening Qi and leaving Maple Tree without his body.

Maple Tree explained how Qi had seized his body and offered Lynn a theory that Qi might be part of [scenery] and face eventual dissipation, prompting Lynn to suspect Qi was pursuing revenge against the Civilization of Gods. Lynn then sought a way to use his research institute token, but encountered two Level 2 mechanical engineers arguing over the War Fortress’s armament strategy.

• Maple Tree told Lynn that Qi had ambushed him after he found the Golden Balance, leaving him trapped within the Spirit of the Blue Sky.
• Lynn described Qi’s contract and assistance, and Maple Tree speculated that Qi might be part of [scenery] and vanish when it dissipated.
• Lynn suspected Qi was racing against time to avenge the destroyed civilization and concealed from Maple Tree how he had learned its language and writing.
• Lynn decided to use Maple Tree’s help to grow stronger while the Spirit of the Blue Sky charged, then considered whom to approach with his City of Machinery Research Institute Membership Token.
• Lynn followed an argument and found two Level 2 mechanical engineers disputing whether the War Fortress should prioritize powerful individual machines or coordinated mechanical legions.

Lynn used his City of Machinery Research Institute membership to gain the attention of War Fortress No. 13’s mechanical leaders, Milly and Vincent, and offered his view on their competing military strategies. He revealed that the Goddess of the Weave’s Weave could be completely covered, then presented an azure-glimmering stone fragment as evidence.

• Milly argued for building mechanical legions to overwhelm the Goddess’s army, while Vincent insisted resources should strengthen individual wizards and elite fighters.
• Lynn approached the second-rank wizards despite being ordered to disperse and showed them his Research Institute membership token.
• Milly verified Lynn’s published paper and learned that he had been the sole survivor of his assault squad, earning him the group’s attention and respect.
• Vincent asked Lynn to share his opinion on the war fortress’s strategy, and Lynn recounted his battlefield experiences before saying neither side was wrong.
• Lynn claimed he had discovered how to completely cover the Goddess of the Weave’s Weave, which would prevent its mages from casting spells, and showed the group a fragment of glowing stone.

Lynn settled into a safer technical role at War Fortress No. 13 and learned more about the wizard realms while helping Vincent and Milly develop the Titan Giant. When the fortress went on high alert for an approaching enemy, Qi secretly approached Lynn and told him to be ready that night.

• Lynn reflected on how his information about the special substance had earned him a transfer from battlefield duty to the technical department.
• Maple Tree explained that Morning Star Wizards had three realms and that major realm breakthroughs brought far greater transformations than minor advancements.
• Over the following month, Lynn worked with Vincent and Milly, whose research into the substance and the Titan Giant benefited from his insights.
• War Fortress No. 13 chose Vincent's Titan Giant strategy as the core of its coming deployment because the special substance could enhance it.
• An urgent alert announced enemy movement, and Vincent and Milly hurried to the command room as the fortress prepared for battle.
• Qi disguised as a robed wizard pressed into Lynn's arms and told him to be ready that night.

Lynn traveled with Qi to Bede’s Seven-Star Temple as war erupted across the expedition front. The chapter revealed that Bede was secretly on the battlefield without his divine artifact, while Lynn arrived at the temple of one of the Seven Stars.

• Lynn recognized the masked Astrid, reflected on wizard ranks and spell power, and waited for Qi to open a passage.
• Lynn entered the gate of light and left the war fortress as it shifted into full battle readiness.
• Angus told the fortress commanders that both Linge and Bede, members of the Seven Stars, were present, and that Bede had not brought his divine artifact.
• Lynn and Qi emerged at Bede’s Seven-Star Temple, where Qi explained that each of the Seven Stars had built a temple after the Goddess of the Weave descended.

Qi took Lynn to Mage Bede’s temple to seize the faith sustaining its still-awakening divine artifact, while the wizard and Goddess armies began their first direct battle. As the wizard front faltered, Grand Wizard Earl deployed the Titan Giant, which Vincent and Milly drove into the Goddess army.

• Qi explained that Mage Bede was away fighting alongside Mage Linge, then led Lynn into the temple to take its faith before the divine artifact awakened.
• Qi’s crimson maple leaves swallowed the temple guards, leaving them trapped within the leaves as he advanced with Lynn.
• The wizard and Goddess armies clashed across ten war zones, and Grand Wizard Yude and Grand Wizard Earl watched Fortress No. 13’s front line begin to collapse.
• Grand Wizard Earl ordered the Titan Giant deployed ahead of schedule, and Vincent and Milly took control of the towering war machine.
• The Goddess army prepared spells and Sea Giants to restrain the Titan, but Vincent and Milly activated its Bluestone Core and charged into the enemy formation.

The Titan Giant annihilated the Goddess army on War Fortress No. 13’s battlefield, but Mage Bede’s arrival threatened the wizard forces until news of trouble with the Goddess’s divine artifact made him withdraw. Elsewhere, Lynn’s spiritual power reached the peak of the first-rank realm and continued pushing him toward the second rank.

• Vincent and Milly activated the Titan Giant’s Zero-Degree Ring Blade, whose green shockwave suppressed the magic net and whose purple blades wiped out the Goddess army in ten seconds.
• Archwizard Yude and Archwizard Earl celebrated the victory, then learned that a powerful enemy was approaching and identified Mage Bede as the likely threat.
• Mage Bede unleashed Starfall Annihilation, but abruptly stopped and vanished after sensing trouble at his temple and with the Goddess’s divine artifact.
• Lynn’s spiritual domain filled with external spiritual power, raising him to 175 points and the peak of the first-rank wizard realm as the influx continued toward the second rank.