Recaps

Ruger awakened in the Old Wizard’s decaying home and became caught in the wizard’s repeating experiments, meeting Lady Kailyn and learning of her connection to the Old Wizard. As the cycle changed, Ruger joined two other visitors to confront the Old Wizard’s final experiment, and the laboratory’s collapse revealed a classroom beyond a floating door.

• Ruger woke in the ruined garden and laboratory, then encountered Lady Kailyn and returned to assisting the Old Wizard alongside a new High-Rank Wizard.
• Ruger discovered that the High-Rank Wizard was a Black Wizard seeking the garden’s gate, and Kailyn intervened as a Domain Knight before explaining her past with the Old Wizard.
• The Old Wizard sent Ruger to herd creatures in the Golden Pasture, where their auras helped repair his Mental Power Space.
• Ruger learned that the bird named Kailyn was the Old Wizard’s familiar and that Lady Kailyn had rescued it, while Lady Kailyn said visitors had helped change the Old Wizard’s repeated failures.
• As the Old Wizard’s routine changed, a petite female Wizard urged Ruger to explore the forbidden doors with her and another visitor, and Ruger agreed.
• Erlilines identified himself as an Eight-Ring Wizard and showed Ruger and the two Black Wizards his Yellowwater Giant Mental Seed Implantation experiment.
• The laboratory shook and broke apart while Ruger performed his task, and one visitor opened a floating door that revealed a domed classroom filled with robed Wizards.

Ruger escaped the Small World crisis, reunited with his companions, and planted the Legacy Seed of the Living Library on the Small Island. After Wizard Zorn departed and Ruger developed his Spell Sword, Soldrich’s farewell letter and a conversation with Mona prompted Ruger to leave early for the Underground Caverns.

• Ruger outmaneuvered the Black Wizards in Erlilines’s sealed space, where Barry Danton escaped through a rainbow portal after sacrificing Mary, and Lady Kailyn later told Ruger that the door’s fee had been paid.
• Ruger woke near his tree, learned from Lady Kailyn’s message that she and Erlilines had left on a special journey, and began nurturing the Legacy Seed of the Living Library.
• Ruger reunited with Gubo and Wizard Usman, learned that Usman had merged with the black stone Invader, and escaped the Small World with them and the other Wizards.
• Ruger planted the mature Legacy Seed on the Small Island, where it rapidly grew into the Garden Library, and entrusted Nisote with managing it.
• Wizard Zorn explained how the Inverted Cup spell had helped him advance to Four-Ring Wizard, then shared wine with Ruger and left on his journey.
• Ruger refined and tested his Spell Sword with Freezing Ray, Strength of the Savage Bull, Fireball, Flame Torrent, and Mental Boil, before the mysterious middle-aged man appeared early.
• A Messenger delivered Soldrich’s letter to Ruger, and Soldrich’s farewell said he was already dead and wished Ruger good luck.
• Ruger showed the letter to Mona, discussed their encounters with a mysterious lord, and decided to leave early to explore the Underground Caverns.