Recaps

Charles gained the flame origin from Pushton and advanced to six rings and peak sixth-tier power in the Abyss. While Isata fought White Mountain Boros, Charles rescued Anderson from three White Wizard Sages, and Pushton gave Charles a golden seat beside his own.

• Charles left the library, returned to his tower, and charged Scorchflame with guarding the Abyss and raising a legion with Bruce.
• Charles recognized Dus as a descendant of his elder brother Redding, ordered wizards to support the Augustus family, and brought Scorchflame and his descendants into the Abyss.
• Archibald secured White Mountain Boros’s declaration of war against Isata and revealed that Pushton’s planned seventh-circle advancement made him a target for his origin power.
• Pushton asked Charles to protect him during his advancement and offered him origin power, while Charles agreed to travel to Pushton’s coordinates in exchange for a portion.
• Charles absorbed Pushton’s flame origin, advanced to six rings and became a peak sixth-tier Abyssal Grand Lord with pseudo-seventh-tier strength.
• As the war spread, Charles stayed in the Abyss to cultivate while Anderson was ambushed by three White Wizard Sages and used Charles’s scrolls to hold them off.
• Charles sent part of himself through Anderson’s summoning array, anchored the attackers’ space, and destroyed all three wizard towers, killing their sages and taking their elemental cores.
• Pushton summoned the sleeping Charles to Isata’s meeting and placed his former seat, now golden, beside his own.

Charles formed the Divine Core of Fear, returned to the Wizard World, and witnessed Pushton defy the Wizard Kings and ascend as the First Flame Wizard King. After taking charge of Isata, Charles entered the Shadow Nightmare Realm and learned the origins of the Omniscient Carbuncle.

• Charles formed the Divine Core of Fear, built a divine kingdom at Millstone Fortress, and appointed Bruce Pope of the Church of the God of Fear before returning to the Wizard World.
• Charles met Pushton in Isata, then joined the Wizard King's Court as Pushton sought approval to become a Wizard King.
• After the Wizard Kings rejected Pushton's advancement, Pushton fought and killed several Sixth-Ring Wizards, then survived the Thousand-Faced Wizard King's attack and announced he would ascend.
• Pushton began his ascension ahead of schedule, became the First Flame Wizard King, and appointed Charles tower master of Isata.
• Charles returned to Isata and found that its memories and records of Pushton had vanished, then prepared for the approaching Shadow Nightmare Realm.
• Charles entered the Shadow Nightmare Realm, destroyed its creatures and twisted towers, and freed the trapped musicians in the White Palace.
• Charles met the Omniscient Carbuncle, who explained how a sage's experiment created him and revealed that the sage could revive through an anchor.

Charles uncovered the danger surrounding the Book of Causal Paths and the Omniscient Carbuncle, then ascended in the Shadow Nightmare Realm and became the Fear Wizard King. Demogorgon warned that Charles’s experiments might threaten the multiverse, leaving Charles and the Wizard Kings to consider whether the Carbuncle could alter the past and kill Origin powerhouses before their ascensions.

• Omniscient Carbuncle Charles offered to help Charles ascend in the Shadow Nightmare Realm, while Charles and the Book of Causal Paths each concealed their intentions and disputed who should possess the book.
• Charles returned to Bansler, took the Book of Causal Paths out of his body, sealed it in the tower, and absorbed the Origin power Alasta had gathered.
• Charles ascended in the Shadow Nightmare Realm, condensed his true body, and later returned to the Wizard World, where the Wizard Kings recognized him as a Seven-Ring Wizard King.
• Charles joined the Wizard King's Court as the Fear Wizard King, while Anderson and the other Wizard Sages learned of his ascension.
• Charles gathered more Origin power across the planes, then met Demogorgon, who warned that Charles’s experiments could lead to a catastrophe and offered him the choice of joining the Bottomless Abyss or being hunted.
• Charles told the Wizard Kings that the Shadow Nightmare Realm might contain a danger capable of destroying the multiverse, and suggested the Omniscient Carbuncle might travel through time to kill Origin powerhouses before they ascended.