Chapter Summaries

As the Teleportation Beacon drew the plane’s retaliation, a gigantic magical beast unleashed repeated tsunamis against Charles’s island base. The waves destroyed the pirate fleet but failed to reach the Outpost Base, leaving Charles to reckon with the force arrayed against him.

• A powerful Merman warrior led a large group of Mermen toward the island where the Teleportation Beacon stood.
• Charles sensed the plane’s will pressing in as a colossal aquatic magical beast approached the island through the storm.
• The beast stirred up a tsunami dozens of meters high, wiping out the beach settlements and smashing ships in the harbor.
• The beast sent repeated waves at the island, destroying the Undertow Pirate Crew’s vessels and the captured Bone Anchor Pirate Crew ships, while the Demonbone Ship narrowly survived.
• The tsunamis stopped short of the Outpost Base, and Charles realized that its position at the foot of the mountain had spared his crew from the worst damage.

After a powerful sea Magic Beast withdrew, Charles kept watch over the Outpost Base while waiting for Anderson's army to arrive. A Merman army of several thousand landed on the island and charged toward the Teleportation Beacon, intending to destroy it.

• A powerful sea Magic Beast attacked the island with a massive column of water, then sank beneath the sea and left.
• Charles told Quake that the beast could not come ashore and continued guarding the Outpost Base through the night.
• A Merman priest led several thousand Mermen toward the light of the Teleportation Beacon, believing it threatened their tribe.
• The Merman chief landed on the beach, sounded his conch horn, and ordered the Mermen to destroy the Beacon and kill everyone inside the Outpost Base.
• The Mermen charged up the mountain toward the Teleportation Beacon.

Charles and the Undertow Pirate Crew prepared to defend the Outpost Base against an overwhelming Merman army, releasing some prisoners to help fight. As the Mermen charged and Charles summoned demons, the Teleportation Beacon began forming a gateway.

• Charles ordered Quake to arm willing prisoners and bring them to the walls, where more than two hundred joined the defense after receiving food.
• Charles saw that four or five thousand Mermen, including numerous first-rank fighters and at least five second-rank Mermen, had come ashore.
• The Merman chieftain identified the Teleportation Beacon as the target and ordered his forces to attack the humans.
• Charles began summoning demons and unleashed waves of Bone Needle Bees, which killed many charging Mermen without slowing the assault.
• The Teleportation Beacon released a powerful beam that began to form a faint gateway on the ground.

Charles held the Outpost Base against the Mermen until reinforcements arrived through the Teleportation Beacon. A Third-Rank Blood Ring Knight charged the attackers and split the Merman chieftain in two.

• Charles urged the defenders to hold the line while the Mermen tested the Outpost Base with ordinary warriors.
• A portal formed beneath the Teleportation Beacon, and a heavily armored Blood Ring Knight emerged on a massive warhorse.
• Charles identified the Mermen as the enemy, and the knight charged over the wall into their ranks.
• The Blood Ring Knight's blood-red mist burst blisters on nearby Mermen and drew their blood into the mist.
• The Merman chieftain and his second-rank warriors charged the knight, who struck the chieftain's trident and split him in two.

Charles watched Anderson's reinforcements overwhelm the Merman attack and secure the Outpost Base. Loran and a team of wizards completed a portal at the Teleportation Beacon, then told Charles to report what he had learned about the plane while their teacher had yet to arrive.

• A third-rank Blood Ring Knight charged through the Mermen, and a second knight joined him in driving them down the mountain road.
• A third Blood Ring Knight stayed to guard the portal as second-rank Blood Ring warriors and knights arrived and formed a defensive line.
• Charles told Quake that the reinforcements were allies and let the Undertow Pirate Crew leave the walls to relax.
• Loran arrived with ten two-ring wizards and began modifying the Teleportation Beacon to assemble a portal.
• Loran told Charles that Anderson had sent his personal guards as soon as he learned the beacon was active.
• Loran asked Charles to return and report intelligence about the plane while their teacher had not yet arrived.

Charles returned to the Wizard World after confirming the portal worked, leaving Bruce and his warriors under Loran’s command. He briefed Anderson and the other wizards on the secondary plane, whose human inhabitants and valuable resources excited the leaders of the coming conquest.

• Loran tested the portal by sending a Blood Ring Warrior through it, and he returned safely.
• Charles instructed Bruce and his men to follow Loran’s orders at the Outpost Base, then stepped through the portal to Isata.
• Charles returned to the Wizard World, where wizards and soldiers gathered to welcome him as the Shadow Spy Wizard who had established the beacon.
• Anderson praised Charles for activating the Teleportation Beacon in less than a year and introduced him to his Senior Brother, Aiden.
• Charles presented a nautical chart showing the plane’s lands, islands, humans, Mermen, and supernatural cultivation systems.
• Charles displayed water-element Magic Stones, pearls, and gemstones, while Anderson and Aiden reacted with excitement to the plane’s human population and resources.

Charles briefed Anderson, Aiden, and the officers on the ocean-dominated plane, and they weighed the costs and opportunities of developing it. Anderson approved Charles’s proposal to begin their expansion by taking Bloodsail Ship Island and using it to absorb other pirate crews.

• Charles finished presenting the intelligence he had gathered about the plane, and Anderson, Aiden, the officers, and the wizards discussed its prospects.
• Anderson explained that transporting people through the small cross-plane gate cost at least thirty thousand Magic Stones per person, and that the initial force had cost nearly 2.2 million Magic Stones.
• Anderson and Aiden agreed to limit additional troops from the Wizard World and develop local forces, including Tide Warriors and people trained in the Knight Breathing Technique.
• Anderson proposed using piracy as cover, and Charles recommended taking Bloodsail Ship Island to recruit its pirates and expand into other pirate crews.
• Anderson praised Charles’s strategy and approved his proposal.

Anderson brought a small wizard-led force through the Teleportation Beacon to Charles’s plane, inspected the Outpost Base, and judged the plane valuable but dangerous because it held fourth-rank existences. He began reinforcing the base and set out with Charles and Aiden to take Bloodsail Ship Island.

• Anderson transported fewer than a hundred people, including wizards and Blood Ring Knights, explaining that interplanar travel was too costly to bring a large army.
• Charles showed Anderson the Outpost Base, where workers burned the Merman corpses left after the Blood Ring Knights defeated the invasion.
• Anderson reviewed Charles’s information and concluded that the plane’s resources and powerful fourth-rank beings made it valuable, while also posing a serious threat.
• Anderson promised to fund Charles’s cultivation and to support Aiden’s advancement after he became a Sage.
• Anderson assigned wizards to strengthen the Outpost Base’s defenses and prepare equipment using Charles’s stored materials.
• Anderson inspected the Bone Anchor Pirate Crew’s Demonbone Ship and set off with Charles and Aiden to take Bloodsail Ship Island.

Anderson and Charles sailed the Black Pearl to Bloodsail Ship Island during Storm Month, intending to take control of its Tide Warriors and recruit them as Blood Ring Knights. Anderson bewitched a Bloodsail officer and confronted Keith, the island’s leader, as he cultivated.

• Anderson modified the Demonbone Ship into the Black Pearl III, and Charles joined him on the voyage to Bloodsail Ship Island.
• Keith detected the approaching ship and sent a second-tier Tide Warrior to find out why it had arrived during Storm Month.
• Charles told the Tide Warrior that the Bone Anchor Pirate Crew had become the Undertow Pirate Crew and claimed they had a major deal for Keith.
• Anderson bewitched the Tide Warrior, who led Anderson and Charles through Bloodsail Ship Island to where Keith was cultivating.
• Keith sensed the intruders behind him and reached for his weapon, while Anderson called himself Keith’s master.

Anderson subdued Keith and used a Slave Scroll to make the third-tier Tide Warrior his slave. Once Keith became obedient, he led Anderson and Charles to the Bloodsail Raiders’ treasure storehouse, where they found wealth worth several hundred thousand Magic Stones.

• Keith attacked Anderson, but Anderson froze him with spells and decided to enslave him instead of killing him.
• Anderson used a Slave Scroll to plant a slave mark in Keith’s soul, then tortured him when he tried to attack again.
• Anderson warned Charles to stay nearby while Keith adjusted to his new status, and Keith eventually became obedient after several days of punishment.
• Keith led Anderson and Charles to the Bloodsail Raiders’ storehouse aboard the third-tier Demonbone Ship.
• Anderson estimated the storehouse’s contents were worth several hundred thousand Magic Stones and suspected more supplies were kept at the Raiders’ island lair.

After the Bloodsail Raiders fell, Anderson led Charles to their hidden treasury and uncovered a vast hoard of valuable materials. Anderson explained that the haul was worth several million Magic Stones and could yield even greater profits through trade, leaving Charles excited about the invasion’s prospects.

• Anderson had Keith lead him to the Bloodsail Raiders’ hidden treasury on a trapped island, then broke through its concealments without needing directions.
• Charles entered the cavernous warehouse and found mountains of Golden Shells and Water Magic Stones, along with crates of valuable materials and magic-infused pearls.
• Charles spotted a giant elemental coral that produced water-element essences, and Anderson valued it at at least a million Magic Stones because of its beauty and magical properties.
• Anderson estimated that the treasury could repay the invasion’s teleportation costs and was worth several million Magic Stones.
• Anderson explained to Charles that trading the plane’s undervalued water-element goods for materials of other elements could at least double their gains.

Charles oversaw the creation of a new Blood Ring Knight at the Outpost Base as the invaders built up their forces for a planar conquest. By the end, nearly twenty modified knights served under Charles, while more than a hundred others had already undergone modification.

• Charles and the wizards modified a Great Knight, whose new runes drew in Magic Beast blood as he trained with the Knight Breathing Technique.
• Charles saw that the Outpost Base had become a center for modifying and training Blood Ring Knights, with ordinary pirates moved to Bloodsail Ship Island.
• Anderson had spread the Knight Breathing Technique among the Bloodsail Raiders, allowing Tide Warriors and qualified pirates to advance toward becoming Blood Ring Knights.
• Aiden commanded the force at the Outpost Base as dozens of modified knights trained there, and more than a hundred pirates had undergone modification.
• Charles watched his dismounted Blood Ring Knights finish training and learned that nearly twenty of them now served under his command.

Charles returned to Ship Island with newly trained Blood Ring Knights and learned that the Yaz Kingdom wanted to issue letters of marque to the Bloodsail Raiders. He and Anderson agreed to cooperate, leaving the Raiders as pirates under Yaz protection while they built their strength and prepared for future land operations.

• After Freezing Month ended, Charles returned to Ship Island with the first-rank Blood Ring Knights he had trained.
• Charles saw that wizards were upgrading the Bloodsail Raiders' ships with stronger hulls and Water Magic Stone propulsion.
• Anderson told Charles that the Yaz Kingdom had offered the Bloodsail Raiders letters of marque in exchange for their service.
• Charles supported accepting the offer, arguing that cooperation would help the Raiders profit and gather supplies while avoiding unnecessary enemies.
• Anderson accepted the Yaz Kingdom's offer and traded materials, Golden Shells, and Water Magic Stones for supplies and mounts.

Charles reorganized the Bloodsail Raiders and learned that Scorchflame was nearing its advancement to a first-rank soul companion. He returned to Isata through the teleportation gate, carrying a massive Demon-Sealing Box under a barrage of enhancement spells.

• Charles helped reorganize the Bloodsail Raiders, and Anderson selected two thousand elites to train as an army while the pirates raided ships using intelligence from the Yaz Kingdom.
• Charles felt agitation in his soul, and Anderson explained that Scorchflame was about to awaken as a first-rank soul companion.
• Anderson sent Charles back to Isata to make use of Scorchflame’s advancement and promised to assign him work after he returned.
• At the Outpost Base, Aiden ordered Charles to carry a Demon-Sealing Box to Isata because interplanar transportation was costly and supplies had to be moved by hand.
• Charles activated his Succubus Bloodline, received numerous enhancement spells from Aiden, and struggled into the teleportation gate carrying the box.

Charles returned to Anderson Tower with valuable supplies and recovered before watching Scorchflame complete his advancement to Tier One. Scorchflame grew larger and stronger, then woke and greeted Charles.

• Charles delivered a Demon-Sealing Box worth at least six to seven hundred thousand Magic Stones, helping Anderson Tower profit from its conquered plane.
• Charles handed over Aiden's requested supplies and went to check on Scorchflame at his residence.
• Charles replenished the fire-element Magic Stones and essence as Scorchflame gathered energy and began advancing.
• Scorchflame reached Tier One, shed his old scales, and grew to at least four meters long.
• Scorchflame opened his eyes, spotted Charles, and flew toward him, calling him Boss.

Charles strengthened his magic through Scorchflame’s advancement and his own training, while Delis evolved into an Intermediate Demon. After summoning Delis and buying her stronger bloodline, Charles completed his transformation into a male succubus.

• Scorchflame returned to Charles after advancing, and his growth enhanced Charles’s soul power during meditation.
• Charles trained in Isata with cultivation potions as he prepared to become a second-ring wizard.
• Delis advanced into an Intermediate Demon and contacted Charles to request a summoning.
• Charles summoned Delis and used their encounter to help his cultivation before purchasing her Intermediate Succubus Bloodline.
• The bloodline power transformed Charles, completing his Succubus Bloodline and making him a fully developed male succubus.

Charles completed his transformation into a male Succubus, gaining a powerful demonic body and inheriting several spell-like abilities. He reached the rank of Intermediate Demon and tried to send a Summon Demon contract into the void, but nothing happened.

• Charles's body transformed into a towering male Succubus with horns, scales, claws, a tail, and wings.
• Charles absorbed Abyssal bloodline knowledge and learned spell-like abilities, including Abyssal Fury, Fel Blast, Life Siphon, and Teleportation.
• Charles completed his Succubus Bloodline and reached the strength of an Intermediate Demon.
• Charles inscribed a Summon Demon contract on demon hide and tried to send it into the void, but sensed no result.

Charles tested his transformation magic by changing into several humanoid forms, then returned home and reunited with Erika. After seeing her successful rat experiments and spending time with her, he considered looking for Molly but left that plan for later.

• Charles used transformation magic to change from a Succubus into a human, then an Astral Elf and a Goblin, before returning to human form.
• Charles let Scorchflame out and returned to his residence, where Erika greeted him excitedly.
• Erika showed Charles the enhanced rats she had bred and explained that she was working to strengthen their skin.
• Charles praised Erika's research, then took her to the bedroom.
• Afterward, Charles thought about finding Molly, but he made an excuse when Erika asked what was on his mind.

Charles studied the knowledge in his Succubus bloodline and prepared for a wizard advancement. He successfully liquefied his mental power and became a second-ring wizard.

• Charles researched the Succubus bloodline's inherited spell-like arts and used local contacts in Isata's districts to search for Molly.
• Charles learned that his completed demon bloodline and status as an Intermediate Demon supported his advancement to a second-ring wizard.
• Charles gathered Magic Stones, elemental essences, and potions in his meditation chamber before beginning the breakthrough.
• Charles refined his mental power until it condensed into liquid droplets.
• Charles passed the knowledge assessment and absorbed surrounding elemental power as his mental and magic power transformed.
• Charles completed the breakthrough and became a second-ring wizard.

After becoming a Second-Ring Wizard, Charles stabilized his cultivation, registered his advancement, and learned that the person he had asked the associations to find was in District 3. He went to her residence and found Molly brewing a medicinal liquid.

• Charles placed the sleeping Scorchflame in his meditation chamber with Fire-element Magic Stones and essences to aid his growth.
• Charles registered as a Second-Ring Wizard and surprised Erika, who had watched him advance from a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice.
• After spending time with Erika, Charles asked what she had wanted to tell him, and she said the person he had asked the associations to find had been located.
• Charles went to District 3 in Isata's lower level and entered the residence identified by the association.
• Charles found Molly stirring an unknown medicinal liquid, and she cursed him for picking her locked door.