Chapter Summaries

Taylor returned from the zombie plane with a strange crystal and began planning how to gather resources in the White Tower Alliance. He partnered with Taifas for a three-month patrol of the Monster Forest, but Taifas’s incessant chatter quickly wore on him.

• Taylor killed the obese zombie, recovered a transparent crystal from its remains, and returned to his laboratory through the planar mirror.
• Taylor examined the crystal, learned that his planar-transfer ability would recharge in about three months, and hid the crystals and some notebooks in his laboratory wall.
• Taylor decided to earn points through apprentice tasks and sought the unclaimed patrol assignment for the southern Monster Forest, which required a second-level apprentice partner.
• The manager of the Miscellaneous Affairs Office recommended Taifas, and Taylor agreed to partner with him for the patrol task.
• On the way to the Monster Forest, Taifas talked nonstop and pointed out a Swamp Mop Witch, leaving Taylor already regretting his choice.

Taylor and Taifas investigated signs of a fight in the forest, where brick-shaped clumps of earth, fur, and mixed blood suggested an encounter between intelligent magical beasts. Taifas began examining the evidence, but Taylor left him still distracted by his rambling.

• Taifas chattered to Taylor about magical beasts as they walked through the forest.
• Taylor spotted brick-shaped clumps of earth, blood, fur, and claw marks on a nearby tree, then brought Taifas over to investigate.
• Taifas used tentacles to examine the traces and identified the fur as likely belonging to a green monkey-like magical beast.
• Taifas theorized that intelligent beasts had fought using bricks, then digressed into imagining them battling Wizards with bricks.
• Taylor threatened Taifas, who backed down when Taylor prepared a fireball.

Taylor and Taifas discussed the risks and benefits of bloodlines as they patrolled the more dangerous southern region of Monster Forest. Taylor considered seeking powerful bloodlines on other planes, while the patrol led them into foggy woods to inspect hidden sorcery data-collection tools.

• Taifas tried to recruit Taylor into the Flesh Wizard modification school, but Taylor rejected the idea.
• Taifas explained how bloodline implantation worked, why it made Level 1 advancement more dangerous, and why bloodlines did not limit a Wizard’s potential.
• Taylor decided that powerful bloodlines might help him grow stronger if he could find suitable targets on other planes.
• Taylor and Taifas entered the dangerous part of Monster Forest to inspect disguised sorcery tools that collected environmental and Magical Beast data.
• Taifas used his transformed body and enhanced sense of smell to lead the way, while Taylor prepared Fireballs and Wind Blades for a possible attack.

Taylor and Taifas were ambushed by nine magical beasts in the southern Monster Forest and fought back. Taifas battled two Saltwater Giant Crocodiles while Taylor subdued or killed several beasts, but an enormous python approached him at the end.

• Taifas warned Taylor that seven magical beasts surrounded them and two Saltwater Crocodiles waited in the swamp ahead.
• Taylor borrowed Taifas's round badge, killed a Black Demon Snake, and used spider silk and badges to restrain a gorilla and a three-eyed tiger.
• Taifas transformed and fought the two Saltwater Giant Crocodiles in the swamp.
• Taylor used his barrier, Black Fog, Spider's Eye, and wind blades to counter the fire-breathing fox, four-horned buffalo, and green-furred monkey.
• The giant python crushed the buffalo, and Taylor killed the two-headed fox before the python crawled toward him.

Taylor and Taifas completed their patrol mission after fighting magical beasts in Monster Forest. Before they parted, Taifas gave Taylor a bird egg that could help him with large-scale sensing.

• Taylor used fireballs, webbing, and wind blades to kill the giant python after blinding it and blasting its head apart.
• Taifas emerged from the mud with two Saltwater Giant Crocodiles, and Taylor retrieved round badges from the gorilla and three-eyed tiger before they fled.
• Taylor and Taifas continued along the patrol route and finished their mission.
• Taifas gave Taylor a bird's nest and egg, explaining that the bird could serve as his eyes for large-scale sensing magic.
• Taylor thanked Taifas and headed to the Apprentice Library.

Taylor studied mental power links and beginner Elemental Golems to prepare for dangerous patrols, then used his new skills to support himself in the Monster Forest. The chapter ended with Taylor summoning two earth golems as six magical beasts surrounded him and Taifas.

• Taylor borrowed books on mental power links and beginner Elemental Golems, then exchanged points for three Earth Element Magic Cores.
• Taylor copied the books’ techniques and golem instructions, and placed Taifas’s bird’s nest and egg in a heated incubator.
• Taylor raised Dom, a Fire Bird whose mental link let it scout the area during patrols.
• Taylor and Taifas grew accustomed to facing magical beasts during their patrol missions.
• After Dom detected six beasts surrounding them, Taylor summoned a Mud Giant Wolf and a Mud Armor Warrior from two Elemental Golem Cores.

Taylor and Taifas fought six magical beasts during their patrol, using Elemental Golems to defeat the tigers while they handled the other creatures. After collecting the beasts’ Magic Cores, Taylor gave Dom the fire-attributed core it wanted.

• Taylor and Taifas calmly faced six magical beasts and agreed to handle them as usual.
• Taylor sent his Earth Element Golems after two tigers while he killed two snakes with magic, and Taifas fought an Earth Armor Bear.
• Taylor’s Earth Element Dire Wolf tore apart a two-tailed tiger, while Taylor watched and retrieved the Golem Core.
• The Mud Armor Warrior killed a crippled three-eyed tiger, and Taylor collected its Magic Core.
• Taylor had the Mud Armor Warrior collect the snakes’ venom sacs and Magic Cores, discovering one core was ice-attributed.
• Dom begged for the fire-attributed snake Magic Core, and Taylor let the little bird eat it.

Taylor returned to the Zombie Plane to explore it, study its writing, and learn more about its magical technology. After setting out for a major city in an elemental carriage, he encountered a vast zombie horde and sent Earth Element wolves to attack it.

• Taylor spent several months patrolling Monster Forest with Taifas and completing apprentice tasks, earning enough Apprentice Points to acquire a Spatial Storage Ring and advanced wizard knowledge.
• Taylor's ability indicated that he could return to the Zombie Plane but lacked the energy to open a new plane, so he chose to return.
• Taylor arrived to find the area overrun with decay and collected a map before heading toward a large city.
• Taylor summoned an Earth Element carriage and set off while studying children's books to learn the plane's writing.
• Taylor's carriage encountered a huge zombie horde, and he summoned Earth Element wolves while using Wind Blades to open gaps in the advancing zombies.

Taylor studied Zombie Crystals and entered a ruined city, where he learned of a conflict between the mechanical genius Lunna and an unnamed flesh-manipulating genius. He suspected their rivalry had caused the world’s collapse and left the city’s fate unresolved.

• During the journey, Taylor mastered the plane’s language and script and gathered Zombie Crystals, which he tested on Dom while avoiding using them himself.
• Taylor entered a ruined city guarded by Earth Element giant wolves and read a sign praising Lunna’s Magic Mech.
• At a newsstand, Taylor read that an unnamed magical genius was experimenting with reanimating corpses and combining the living with the dead.
• Taylor connected Lunna’s mechanical magic and the rival’s flesh experiments to the old conflict between Mechanical Wizards and Flesh Wizards.
• Taylor guessed that the rival genius had won and that the struggle between the two geniuses had plunged the plane into chaos.

Taylor studied the history and magical technology of the plane, learning how Mr. Lunna had transformed its society and warfare through Magic Mechs. He continued exploring the city’s systems and considered combining its magic runes with sorcery runes to create his own system.

• Taylor learned from the city library that people relied on Magic Mechs for security and warfare instead of individual weapons.
• Taylor admired Mr. Lunna’s influence on the world and decided to seek out his knowledge, along with that of Lunna’s evil genius rival.
• Taylor rode through the city in his Granite Carriage while four Earth Element wolves hunted zombies around him.
• Taylor explored the city’s hospitals and studied how their magic rune systems powered medical care and other technologies.
• Taylor imagined combining the plane’s magic runes with sorcery runes to develop his own Taylor Rune System.

Taylor spent years improving his sorcery and building a powerful Construct Puppet, then developed Mild Mechanized Mind, whose side effects created two secondary personalities. After another all-night study session, he went outside and bantered with one of them as his story continued.

• Taylor studied and modified Fire Serpent Sorcery, increasing its range, burning effect, power, and temperature.
• Taylor combined basic Construct Puppet knowledge with Zombie Plane magical machinery to create an Apprentice Beggar-Version Construct Puppet that could overpower Elemental Golems and powerful magical beasts.
• Taylor developed Mild Mechanized Mind and added runes to strengthen its effects and ease its mental pressure, but the sorcery caused two secondary personalities to emerge from his emotions.
• Taylor accepted the secondary personalities, reasoning that they could aid his studies and experiments and could be dismissed if they became disobedient.
• Two months later, Taylor ended another all-night study session, decided to go outside, and argued with a lazy secondary personality who mocked his sudden desire to enjoy himself.

Taylor argued with his alternate personalities Kano and Bobby, then learned that Wizard Krite was selecting an apprentice to assist with puppet research. Oak had already recommended Taylor to Krite, leaving Taylor with a strong chance at the position.

• Kano urged Taylor to pursue domination and experimentation, while Taylor dismissed his ambitions and planned to put Kano and Bobby to work on separate tasks.
• Taylor met Taifas at the Miscellaneous Affairs Office and agreed to accompany him to collect Sleeping Spores at a Wizard's Botanical Garden.
• Taifas told Taylor that Wizard Krite was seeking an apprentice to assist with Elemental Golem and Construct Puppet research.
• Taylor visited Oak at the Apprentice Library to ask about Krite's selection, and Oak revealed that he had recommended Taylor to Krite.
• Taylor thanked Oak for his support and promised to repay him once he became a Wizard.

Taylor entered Wizard Krite’s tower to take an apprentice assessment focused on puppet and Construct research. He began answering five questions with help from Kano and Bobby, leaving the outcome of the test unknown.

• Taylor arrived early at Wizard Krite’s tower and waited among apprentices seeking to become Krite’s apprentice.
• Taylor and his inner personalities Kano and Bobby discussed the test and resolved to work together on its questions.
• Taylor observed Krite’s sophisticated butler puppets and was transported into an empty examination room upon entering the tower.
• Two butler puppets explained that Taylor could answer any of the five questions to demonstrate his suitability as an apprentice.
• Taylor reviewed questions about golems, energy patterns, and simplifying Construct Puppets, then began writing answers with Kano’s and Bobby’s help.

Taylor waited anxiously for Wizard Krite’s apprentice selection results, while Krite reviewed the candidates’ answers and found Taylor’s ideas about constructs and puppets exceptionally inspiring. Krite chose Taylor as his apprentice, and the butler arrived to move him into the Wizard Tower.

• Taylor returned to his dormitory and worried that without a powerful mentor, becoming a first-rank Wizard would take much longer.
• Wizard Krite examined the apprentices’ answers, became frustrated by most of them, and then grew delighted by the novel ideas in one set.
• Krite recognized the answers as Taylor’s and ordered his butler to bring Taylor and his luggage to the Wizard Tower.
• The butler told Taylor that Krite had accepted him as an apprentice and offered to move his belongings.
• Taylor asked the butler to wait outside while he packed his messy room himself.

Taylor began apprenticing under Wizard Krite, helping with Construct Puppet work while learning from Krite’s vast knowledge. Their weekly lessons and discussions continued, with Taylor offering ideas backed by the Zombie Plane while Krite guided him in puppet and construct studies.

• Krite put Taylor to work gathering materials, connecting mana channels, and studying magical metals after he moved into the Wizard Tower.
• Krite praised Taylor’s mana-channel work on a Construct Puppet and demonstrated how he used Abyssal Iron to enchant its right arm.
• Taylor explained what he had learned, and Krite valued his ability and his ideas for simplified Construct Puppets called Magic Mechs.
• After completing construct assembly and Elemental Golem work, Taylor followed Krite to a book-filled room to discuss puppet studies, magical conduction, elemental resonance, and Magic Mechs.
• Krite began holding weekly lessons with Taylor, using his conjectures and knowledge from the Zombie Plane to guide his own research.

Taylor spent a month studying construct puppetry under Krite, developing an ambitious Elemental Golem design and learning about rare materials. Krite reassured him that he would become a wizard and explained how the White Tower Alliance gained wealth by conquering and trading with other planes.

• Taylor refined his Elemental Golem design and studied Krite's guide to magical ores from the Abyss, Hell, and Heaven.
• Krite summoned Taylor to help enchant a Construct Puppet, and they worked on it until dinner.
• Taylor admired the valuable materials in Krite's collection, and Krite assured him that curiosity about materials was a wizardly quality.
• Krite told Taylor that his talent would make him a wizard and that he would become wealthy as well.
• Krite explained that White Wizards gained abundant resources through planar conquest and trade, revealing the source of his wealth.

Taylor studied magic and constructed a more powerful Magic Mech while learning from Krite, and Dom grew into a formidable Fire Bird. The chapter ended with Krite telling Taylor that a planar invasion war was about to begin.

• Taylor reflected on the Wizard Civilization’s practice of plundering other planes and continued developing the resources he had gathered from the Zombie Plane.
• Taylor divided his work among experiments, Construct Puppets, enchanting, and study, while Kano researched Flame Sorcery and Bobby worked on Elemental Golems.
• Dom grew into a large Fire Bird capable of spitting fireballs as powerful as Level 2 Wizard Apprentice sorcery.
• Taylor built an upgraded Magic Mech using sorcery runes and continued studying under Krite.
• Butler summoned Taylor to Krite, who announced that a planar war was about to begin and described the wizards and puppet forces that would invade the plane.

Krite brought Taylor to a Floating City preparing for a planar invasion, where Taylor learned how the city and its forces would wage war. Taylor planned to place part of his mental power—and Kano—inside a Magic Mech so Kano could use his talents during the coming conflict.

• Krite explained that the White Tower Alliance brought promising apprentices to invasion wars to gain experience, resources, and knowledge.
• Taylor, Krite, and Butler teleported to a Floating City, and the teleportation array mysteriously consumed far more energy than usual as Taylor's ability trembled in his Mental Space.
• Krite showed Taylor the Floating City's quarters and explained how it carried wizards, Stitched Beasts, and Puppet Legions through planar invasions.
• Taylor learned that Krite had brought seven Construct Puppets, including Butler, and maintained a large Puppet Legion beneath their tower.
• Taylor told Kano he would attach part of his mental power to a Magic Mech, and Kano welcomed the chance to carry out sabotage and other covert tasks.

The Floating City arrived in the Merfolk Plane, where the Sea Giant awoke and set out to defend the world from the invaders. Taylor assessed the plane and transferred Kano’s consciousness into a Magic Mech, confirming that the separation had worked.

• The Sea Giant sensed the Floating City’s arrival and rushed toward it, determined to protect the merfolk and their world.
• Taylor noticed the plane’s dense water-element magic and surveyed its seas, reefs, and islands from the Floating City.
• Bobby imagined retiring in the scenic plane, while Kano urged Taylor to consider its resources.
• Taylor placed the part of his Mental Space connected to Kano into a transparent crystal inside a red-robed Magic Mech.
• The Magic Mech opened its eyes, and Taylor recognized Kano’s familiar dark emotions, relieved that the transfer had succeeded.

Kano awakened in a Magic Mech body, gaining independent senses and the ability to use its enchanted magic. As Taylor prepared for an approaching battle, Kano resolved to handle the cruel acts and hidden threats that Taylor’s principles prevented him from facing himself.

• Kano examined his new Magic Mech body and tested its magic channels, runes, and enchanted abilities.
• Taylor asked how Kano felt, and Kano confirmed that the body worked well and thanked him.
• Bobby expressed envy and longing for a body of his own, and Taylor promised to build him a Magic Mech and seek flesh-and-blood bodies for them both.
• Kano and Bobby felt grateful for Taylor’s equal treatment and decided to devote themselves to helping him become a powerful, learned wizard.
• Taylor packed his supplies for the coming battle while Kano resolved to protect Taylor’s convictions by handling threats and cruel tasks in secret.