Recaps

Charles survived Delis’s summoning and used Wu Duo Duo Mall to gain a succubus bloodline, then advanced his cultivation during the dangerous voyage to the Wizard Continent. After arriving at Isata and learning its costly rules, he joined Fenny’s Hand to find work and support his studies.

• Charles performed a forbidden ritual that killed him, but he revived as Delis absorbed his soul and the Wu Duo Duo Mall appeared.
• Charles bought Delis’s diluted Abyssal Succubus Bloodline through the mall, then used Qiaosuo’s ambition to lure him into repeating the ritual, which killed Qiaosuo.
• Charles cultivated on the ship, survived a Merman attack with Molly, and spent the Soul Coins he earned to buy Wood’s cultivation insights.
• Charles reached Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice, learned Acid Missile, and survived a Sea-Raiding Giant Squid attack before the fleet reached the Wizard Continent.
• Charles and Molly traveled to Isata, where Charles’s aptitude test revealed second-rank soul talent, a thin Demonic Beast bloodline, and suitability for three fields of study.
• Charles explored Isata’s classes and learned that demonic studies could lead to bloodline modifications, then registered with Barry at Fenny’s Hand.
• Erika offered to find Charles suitable work in exchange for his attention, and Charles told Barry she had promised them an easy job after asking him to unclog her sewer.

Charles advanced as a wizard apprentice by hunting goblins and studying under Loran, then joined her team as the Shadow Nightmare Realm approached. The arc left him trapped in a ruined manor castle as a pale arm emerged from the fireplace.

• Charles joined the District Eleven slaughterhouse, learned to process magical beasts, and later left the job to hunt goblins for profit.
• Charles built an independent goblin-hunting team, mastered more spells, and captured a valuable mutated goblin that he traded to Lady Loran for Magic Stones and class cards.
• Charles attended Loran’s classes, discovered his faint demon bloodline, chose the Gloomy Eye Meditation Technique, and advanced to Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice.
• Loran announced that the Shadow Nightmare Realm was approaching and invited Charles to join her assistant team with promises of resources and instruction.
• Charles traveled with Loran’s group to a manor, where Loran ordered local families to provide knights and warned them about Nightmare Beasts and infected people.
• Loran assigned apprentices to patrol and explained the dangers of the Shadow Nightmare Realm before Charles was suddenly surrounded by a hazy veil.
• Charles found himself in a ruined manor castle, searched for an exit, and saw a pale human forearm burst from the fireplace.

Charles escaped the Shadow Nightmare Realm, then used its dangers to grow stronger while studying demon summoning and bloodlines under Loran. After signing contracts with demons, he led them in an attack on a Goblin settlement and filled his crystal ball with soul power.

• Charles killed the monster in the manor fireplace, searched for a way back to reality, and escaped the Shadow Nightmare Realm through a passage revealed when the Angry Giant toppled a bell tower.
• Charles reported his experience to Loran, learned three spells, and began secretly returning to the Shadow Nightmare Realm, where killing monsters increased his mental power and magic.
• Charles explored a white palace, followed invisible footprints into a theater, and praised its strange performance before vanishing with a shadow.
• Charles returned with increased spiritual power, broke through to become a first-class wizard apprentice, and agreed to study under Loran as her master's student.
• Charles studied Abyssal magic, helped Loran make a Demon Bloodline Potion, and learned summoning spells before signing contracts with thirty demons using the soul power of ten Goblins.
• Charles trained his rats and gathered soul power while preparing to attack a Goblin settlement with two Quasits and a Mezzoloth.
• Charles directed the demons and used Bone Needle Bee against the Goblins, then rode into the settlement and collected enough soul power to fill his crystal ball.

Charles built a life around demon contracts, experiments, patrols, training Jody, and selling spell scrolls while preparing for the Trial Plane. When the Shadow Nightmare Realm trapped them, Charles and Jody faced the Omniscient Carbuncle’s riddles and won a passage back to the Wizard World.

• Charles summoned Delis, negotiated a contract with her, and bought her diluted Succubus Bloodline, which helped him advance to Great Knight.
• Charles modified a rat with Demon Worm essence, named the survivor Bruce, and later trained Jody while learning she would need a Mind-Focusing Potion to become a wizard.
• Charles made scrolls from Demon Worm skin and ink, then sold them through Jody’s father’s caravan to earn Magic Stones and buy wizard equipment.
• A final surge trapped Charles and Jody inside the Shadow Nightmare Realm, where they followed a looping passage toward a fleshy gate and the Omniscient Carbuncle.
• The Carbuncle tested Charles and Jody with riddles, punishing wrong answers until Charles correctly guessed that the answer to one riddle was “me.”
• Charles challenged the Carbuncle with riddles about putting an elephant in a box and identifying the animal absent from a gathering, and the Carbuncle accepted his answers.
• The Carbuncle removed their negative effects, freed Jody, and opened a passage to the Wizard World, while Charles asked it another question and signaled Jody toward the passage.