Chapter Summaries

Ye Ting learned that Aphrodite had sought him out to ask for help ending her marriage to Hephaestus. He agreed to help her as a friend and potential ally against the Olympian Pantheon, though her request left him wary of provoking Zeus.

• Ye Ting considered why Aphrodite had approached him and concluded that she had personal motives rather than acting for Zeus or the Olympian Pantheon.
• Aphrodite explained that she had wanted to learn about the man who had won Pandora's heart and how he had kept Pandora alive in secret.
• Aphrodite asked Ye Ting to help dissolve her marriage to Hephaestus, and Ye Ting reacted with disbelief at the danger of challenging the gods.
• Aphrodite teased Ye Ting for refusing to act like Romeo, and he denied being in love with her.
• Ye Ting agreed to help Aphrodite as a friend because he respected her and saw her conflict with Zeus as a chance to gain an ally.

Ye Ting accepted Aphrodite’s plea for help and promised to free her from her marriage to Hephaestus, while Aphrodite declared her devotion to him. The pair kissed, and Aphrodite acknowledged Ye Ting’s feelings for Pandora and Artemis before asking him not to disappoint her.

• Aphrodite asked Ye Ting whether he trusted her and said she wanted to place her fate in his hands.
• Aphrodite chose Ye Ting and asked him to grow strong enough to break her marriage to Hephaestus.
• Ye Ting agreed to dissolve the marriage, and Aphrodite swore that her body and heart belonged to him before kissing him.
• Aphrodite told Ye Ting she knew Pandora was in his arms and Artemis had fallen in love with him.
• Aphrodite accepted that Ye Ting loved others and asked him not to let her down, and he promised to love her.

The gods recreated humanity from Gaia’s stones and guided its civilization, which grew across the divine realm and worshipped them. More than a century later, Pandora had reached Legend-level destructive power, while Ye Ting explained that his own delayed breakthrough came from seeking a complete personal magical theory.

• Zeus and Hera followed Gaia’s instructions, throwing stones that transformed into the first men and women of the new humanity.
• The gods taught humans agriculture, crafts, arts, hunting, warfare, trade, family life, and other skills, and humanity spread into villages, cities, and kingdoms.
• As humans multiplied and civilization advanced, they worshipped and offered to the gods, who gradually relaxed and indulged themselves.
• Pandora studied magic under Ye Ting for more than a hundred years and reached Legend-level spell power, favoring overwhelming elemental attacks despite Ye Ting’s criticism.
• Ye Ting explained that reaching Legend required a personal magical theory that could overwrite reality, and compared it to a Reality Marble and an esper’s Personal Reality.

The chapter explained the distinction between legendary power and divine rank, describing how mortals, transcendent beings, demigods, and gods differed across several fictional worlds. It concluded that Ye Ting would need divine power to contend with gods, and noted that the terms for demigods and weak divine powers originated from a translation error.

• The narrator described legends as beings who surpassed mortal physical or intellectual limits while noting that legendary status did not guarantee victory in battle.
• The narrator outlined divine ranks, from demigods with traces of divinity to gods wielding authority over rules.
• The narrator compared gods in Dungeons & Dragons, Type-Moon, and A Certain Magical Index, explaining that their powers and advantages differed across worlds.
• The narrator observed that sufficiently powerful legendary beings could challenge gods, but chief gods remained beyond ordinary legendary powerhouses.
• The narrator concluded that Ye Ting would need divine power to deal with gods and explained that the conventional terms for demigods resulted from a translation error.

Ye Ting and Pandora successfully completed an experiment creating a cat body controlled by a spirit core, bringing Ye Ting closer to the Third Magic of soul materialization. After nearly a century of research and secret visits to the gods, Ye Ting heard that Athena and Poseidon were competing to become the patron deity of a prosperous Phoenician city.

• Ye Ting and Pandora tested their latest soul-materialization attempt, and the cat showed stable movement, senses, and the ability to use Shadow Walk.
• Ye Ting explained that his experiment had nearly reached the Third Magic, though creating a perpetual energy source from the soul remained the final step.
• Ye Ting reflected that his knowledge of the world's creation and the Truth let him study the Five Magics without entering the Swirl of the Root.
• Ye Ting continued his life outside the mage's tower, visiting Artemis, returning to the moon to see Attila, and secretly meeting Aphrodite.
• Aphrodite told Ye Ting that Athena and Poseidon both wanted to become the patron deity of a wealthy Phoenician city on the Attica Peninsula's western coast.

After learning that the dispute over Athens signaled the coming Heroic Age, Ye Ting planned to found a secret academy to train mages and spread magic. He chose Colchis for its immense ley line, but found a dragon sleeping at the intended site.

• Aphrodite mentioned Athena and Poseidon's dispute over Athens, and Ye Ting realized the Heroic Age was approaching.
• Ye Ting decided to establish a concealed mage academy, recruiting gifted students through divination and combining the management styles of the Clock Tower and Hogwarts.
• After months of searching, Aphrodite told Ye Ting that Perseis had found a powerful ley line on the remote island of Colchis.
• Ye Ting recognized Colchis as Medea's homeland and chose it as the academy's location.
• Ye Ting and Pandora traveled to Colchis and found a dragon asleep in a forest above the ley line.

Ye Ting approached the Dragon guarding the spiritual vein and transformed into a Time-Space Dragon, revealing his newly awakened control over time and space. He began testing his abilities by attacking the dark green Dragon, which dodged his pounce but was struck by his breath.

• Ye Ting decided to defeat and tame the Dragon guarding the spiritual vein as the magic academy’s guardian beast, and told Pandora to wait.
• The dark green Dragon sensed Ye Ting’s superior Dragon aura and retreated warily as he approached.
• Ye Ting transformed into his adult Dragon form, which he named the Time-Space Dragon, and described its new powers over time and space.
• Ye Ting charged the dark green Dragon, which dodged his physical attack but failed to evade his Dragon breath.

Ye Ting tested his Time-Space Dragon abilities against a dark green dragon, discovering that his Plundering Breath had little effect on an effectively immortal opponent but that spatial manipulation could block attacks and unleash powerful repulsion. As the injured dragon began recovering, Ye Ting prepared to test a spatial attraction technique on it.

• Ye Ting's Plundering Breath withered nearby plants but barely affected the dark green dragon, and he realized that time theft was ineffective against creatures with nearly infinite lifespans.
• The dark green dragon attacked with fire, but Ye Ting stretched the space around himself so the breath could not reach him.
• When the dragon dove at him, Ye Ting sent out a spatial repulsion wave that flattened the landscape and slammed the dragon into the ground, seriously injuring it.
• Ye Ting watched the dragon recover and prepared to try Banshō Ten'in next.

Ye Ting and Pandora built a castle academy with earth-element workers, automated defenses, and spirit maids. They left the academy prepared for its future students, while naming the head maid Sakuya Izayoi unknowingly set a larger plot in motion.

• Ye Ting and Pandora created more than a hundred earth-element workers and used Helena Ravenclaw to coordinate their construction of a vast castle academy.
• The workers completed the castle and its furnishings, while Ye Ting and Pandora added magical staircases, lighting, hidden passages, teleportation gates, and defenses.
• Ye Ting created dormant gargoyles, animated armor, and Mage's Eye surveillance to protect the academy.
• Ye Ting made around fifty intelligent spirit maids with a shared psychic network and designed a time-manipulating head maid called Last Order.
• Ye Ting named the head maid Sakuya Izayoi, and the world changed imperceptibly.

Ye Ting’s new magic academy astonished the Ancient Greek students with its magnificent castle and magical creations. Daedalus saw it as a place to study life and creation, while Sisyphus believed magic could help humanity escape dependence on the gods; both arrived eager to learn.

• The students marveled at the castle’s enormous size, flawless stonework, enchanted facilities, and lavish decorations.
• Daedalus admired the castle’s artistry and became fascinated by Ye Ting’s animated armor, gargoyles, spirit maids, and especially Sakuya Izayoi.
• Daedalus resolved to learn how Ye Ting created lifelike beings and to pursue new ways of creating life and changing the human body.
• Sisyphus saw the academy as a path for humanity to become independent from the gods and believed magic could protect people from disasters and magical beasts.
• Sisyphus imagined that magical cultivation could one day prevent hunger and help humanity solve its own problems.

Ye Ting and Pandora showed the new students how magic shaped daily life during a tour of the academy castle, then the students attended a magical welcome party. In the corridor, Ye Ting’s companions teased him over his past and his attachment to the head maid, Sakuya Izayoi, leaving him embarrassed by her offer of total devotion.

• Ye Ting and Pandora led the students through the castle, helping them see magic as a way to understand and transform the world.
• The students gathered for a welcome party in the great hall, where spirit maids served food beneath floating candles and enchanted instruments played music.
• Ye Ting’s companions reminisced about their early days and teased him about pursuing girls when he was young.
• Ye Ting explained that he created maids instead of house-elves because he found them more pleasing and wanted them to look distinct.
• Ye Ting’s companions confronted him about the special care he had taken in creating Sakuya Izayoi, and Sakuya appeared to declare that she belonged to him and would obey any command.

Ye Ting brought his former Harry Potter students to the Type-Moon world to teach at his new academy, where they could continue their magical studies. After the banquet, he welcomed the Greek students and demonstrated the power of magic, urging them to remember that knowledge was power.

• Ye Ting brought Hermione Granger, Cho Chang, Ginny Weasley, Fleur, Gabrielle Delacour, Penelope Clearwater, and Luna Lovegood to the Type-Moon world to help teach at his academy.
• Ye Ting led the professors to the high table, and the banquet began with food that amazed the Greek guests.
• After the meal, Ye Ting used Sonorus to address the students gathered at the castle on Colchis Island.
• Ye Ting demonstrated magic by conjuring and controlling spheres of fire, frost, lightning, and sand.
• Ye Ting told the students that magic could accomplish feats once attributed to gods and urged them to work hard, saying, "knowledge is power."

Ye Ting introduced Mystra Academy’s professors and staff, explained the students’ six-year course and annual assessments, and sent the new students to their dormitories. The opening meeting ended with the academy’s name established as a symbol of magic and new power.

• Ye Ting named himself headmaster and introduced Pandora as vice headmistress and Hermione Granger as dean of students and professor of Logic.
• Ye Ting introduced Fleur Delacour and Gabrielle Delacour as professors of Soul Studies and Astronomy, Penelope Clearwater as professor of Alchemy and librarian, and Cho Chang as professor of Botany.
• Ye Ting introduced Ginny Weasley as professor of Mineralogy and Luna Lovegood as professor of Zoology, warning students about dangerous creatures in the forest and directing them to seek the unicorn Larey if they needed help.
• Ye Ting explained that Sakuya Izayoi oversaw the maids and helped evaluate student conduct, then announced the academy’s six-year program and yearly assessments.
• Ye Ting named the academy Mystra and ended the meeting, after which the maids led the students to their dormitories.

Ye Ting planned Mystra Academy’s curriculum and considered how Larey and Orianna could benefit from the Type-Moon world’s magic and technology. He expected not to teach the students himself, but the chapter ended as an exception emerged.

• Larey became a high-ranking Phantasmal Species upon entering the Type-Moon world, and Ye Ting made her ruler of the forest near the castle.
• Ye Ting planned to improve Orianna using the Mooncell and Shang Dynasty magitech.
• Ye Ting set Mystra Academy’s curriculum, beginning with mathematics and gradually advancing students through spells and magical ranks.
• Ye Ting expected his students to reach the seventh circle only after Hermione and the others had become powerful enough to teach them.
• Ye Ting soon encountered an exception to his plan not to teach students himself.

The chapter described the talents and specialties of the academy’s earliest students, especially Daedalus, Tiresias, and Sisyphus, and explained Ye Ting’s preference for magical specialization. It outlined how students who remained at the academy would conduct independent research and take on teaching duties, eventually freeing Hermione and the other professors to focus on their own work.

• Daedalus proved to be the first batch’s greatest talent, reaching sixth-circle magic by graduation, while Tiresias excelled in divination and Sisyphus became a versatile combat mage.
• Ye Ting valued Tiresias’s specialized talent for research more than Sisyphus’s broad magical abilities, believing mages needed to focus their limited effort on one field.
• Students who reached the first circle became mage apprentices and assisted professors with research until graduation.
• Mages who remained at the academy after graduation gained private rooms and laboratories, conducted independent research, and took on teaching duties.
• As more mages stayed to teach, Hermione and the other professors were expected to have fewer classes and more time for their own pursuits.

Ye Ting established Mystra Academy’s advancement, faculty, and contribution systems to combine Hogwarts’ structured education with Dalaran’s emphasis on exchange. The academy also kept its doors open to alumni, whose growing demand for resources became an unexpectedly large source of income.

• Ye Ting set advanced-study rules, allowing mages who reached the sixth circle within fifteen years to graduate and potentially join the academy as professors.
• Ye Ting created the Academy Supervisory Committee, placing Hermione and the others in the academy’s highest law enforcement body.
• Ye Ting designed Mystra Academy to provide free, systematic basic education while gradually introducing students to service and equivalent exchange.
• Ye Ting made advanced study and professorships depend on teaching, research, and contributions in return for academy resources, and he created Contribution Points to track that exchange.
• Mystra Academy let alumni buy access to its resources or earn it through academy missions, and income from them grew beyond expectations as more graduates sought to advance.

Ye Ting recognized Daedalus's exceptional talent in logic, anatomy, and spirit studies and accepted her as his third personal disciple. Daedalus later became the first student to break through the seventh circle and joined Ye Ting's research into energy-materialized lifeforms and magitech.

• Daedalus nearly caught up to her instructors in logic, anatomy, and spirit studies through self-study, prompting Ye Ting to decide to guide her personally.
• Ye Ting considered whether Daedalus might be connected to the inventor from Heaven's Lost Property and saw her as a potential partner in creating artificial lifeforms.
• Ye Ting announced that Daedalus would become his third personal disciple, and the other students envied her opportunity.
• Daedalus became the first student to break through the seventh circle and assisted Ye Ting with research into energy-materialized lifeforms.
• Ye Ting developed magical runes and programming principles to combine computer logic with magic, and Daedalus became the only person both willing and able to learn them.

Mystra Academy had spread magic across Greece while remaining hidden from the gods, but Ye Ting worried that Zeus might target it after Sisyphus angered him. Ye Ting resolved to strengthen the academy and its mages, while pursuing a longer-term plan to master divine power.

• Mystra Academy graduated thousands of mages who carried magical knowledge throughout Greece, though many others failed to master it.
• Ye Ting protected Colchis Island and the academy with spells, a demiplane, and secrecy contracts, keeping outsiders from finding it.
• Ye Ting learned that the gods had noticed magic but had so far considered it insignificant.
• Sisyphus completed his studies, founded Corinth, and angered Zeus by revealing that Zeus had abducted Aegina.
• Ye Ting worried Zeus might suppress magic and planned to build the academy's strength through soul materialization, magical constructs, and eventually divine power.

Ye Ting investigated the outbreak of undead in Thebes and learned that Sisyphus had trapped Thanatos, leaving death unable to pass into the underworld. He recognized the crisis as an opportunity to begin a plan he had long wanted to carry out.

• Sisyphus tricked Thanatos into binding himself with his own chains, trapping the god of death and preventing souls from reaching the underworld.
• Ye Ting discovered that creatures he had used in experiments had become undead and left Colchis Island to investigate.
• Ye Ting arrived at Thebes, where zombies attacked both sides of the civil war.
• Ye Ting used True Seeing and identified his student Sisyphus as the cause of the undead outbreak.
• Ye Ting considered why the Olympian gods had not intervened and saw an opportunity to put his plan into action.

Tepiaoxius, a fourth-circle diviner in Mycenae and former Mystra Academy student, received a secret mission from the academy that offered him five years of further study. He accepted the contract and prepared to hide a magical item in Mycenae’s spirit vein.

• Tepiaoxius recalled how he had studied at Mystra Academy before graduating because he failed to master a fourth-circle spell in time.
• A purple-glowing raven from Mystra Academy arrived at Tepiaoxius’s home and delivered a letter-contract.
• Tepiaoxius signed the contract, agreeing to secretly bury a magical item in Mycenae’s spirit vein and keep the mission confidential.
• The contract promised Tepiaoxius five years of further study at Mystra Academy, or an equivalent reward, if he completed the task.
• Tepiaoxius decided the mission would be easy and celebrated the chance to return to Mystra Academy.