Chapter Summaries

Charles arrived at Isata and was carried by a giant bat to a plaza where new apprentices received their supplies. He kept his Magic Stones hidden and followed a servant to choose a residence.

• Charles climbed the black stone foundation of Isata and reached a platform filled with enormous bats and birds.
• A wizard forced Charles toward a giant bat, which carried him in a spiraling flight around Isata and dropped him into a plaza.
• Charles received two gray robes, a room key, a meditation method, and a newcomer handbook from a senior sister.
• The senior sister offered to sell Charles additional supplies, but he claimed he had spent all his Magic Stones on the ship.
• Charles followed a servant away to choose his residence while keeping his remaining Magic Stones concealed.

Charles settled into Isata’s bleak newcomer housing and learned that survival and study there depended on Magic Stones. After spending several days observing the city, he attended his first free class, where the wizard immediately ordered everyone standing to leave.

• A servant led Charles to a cramped room in a low building, where Charles moved in and read the Newcomer Guidelines.
• Charles learned that newcomers had six months to become apprentices, that nearly everything in Isata cost Magic Stones, and that he had only twenty-one.
• Charles considered changing his Meditation Technique and finding a way to earn money, but decided to learn more about Isata first.
• Charles spent several days observing crowded places while disguising himself as an older resident.
• Charles attended a free class on his fifth day in Isata, and the wizard ordered everyone standing to get out.

Charles attended a day of public lectures, learning about rune studies, soul and pain studies, and Abyssal Grimoire Studies. Wizard Loran ended her lecture by inviting apprentices to study demons and acquire demonic bloodlines through research or paid body modification.

• A rune studies wizard taught Charles about runes and advertised his tutoring class.
• A hooded wizard lectured on turning pain and life essence into energy for magic, crafting, and sacrifices.
• Wizard Loran introduced Abyssal Grimoire Studies and explained how wizards studied demons, their runes, and their bloodlines.
• Loran told the apprentices that demonic bloodlines could improve magic power accumulation and could be integrated through wizardry.
• Loran invited the apprentices to her classroom in Tower No. 6, where her teaching group taught demonic studies and offered paid bloodline modifications.

After finding Isata’s public classes shallow and focused on selling tutoring, Charles listened as Barry explained how wizard apprentices relied on societies for work and guidance. Barry brought Charles to join Fenny’s Hand, where they learned about its services and the work of filling blank Magic Stones.

• Charles and Barry complained that Isata’s public classes mainly promoted paid tutoring.
• Barry told Charles that societies offered apprentices work and cultivation guidance, then invited him to visit Fenny’s Hand.
• Barry and Charles registered to join Fenny’s Hand and were led into its hall by a female apprentice.
• The female apprentice explained that the society offered jobs, lectures, and a way to earn Magic Stones by filling blank ones.
• Charles asked how long filling a blank Magic Stone took, and the female apprentice said it generally took three or four days.

Charles learned how Fenny's Hand helped its members find work and decided to seek a job that could support his cultivation and let him encounter souls. After spending the night with Erika, he returned home with her promise to look for suitable work for him and Barry.

• Charles learned that Fenny's Hand offered jobs, lessons, techniques, and support to its members.
• Charles considered studying the Abyssal Grimoire and finding work that would earn Magic Stones while helping his cultivation.
• Erika offered to look for suitable work for Charles in exchange for his attention.
• Charles told Barry that Erika had asked him to unclog her sewer and had promised to find them an easy job.

Charles secured a position at a magic beast slaughterhouse after showing he could gather a horned sheep’s magic power during an assessment. He began training under Marsil, and a chained, scaled wild boar arrived at their worktable.

• Charles and four other apprentices from Fenny's Hand applied for work at the District Eleven slaughterhouse, where a supervisor selected four to take an assessment.
• The supervisor explained that slaughterers had to gather a magic beast’s power into a portion of its body before killing it, then tested the apprentices on a horned sheep.
• After the first apprentice failed, Charles stimulated the sheep with his magic power and gathered its power in its chest and abdomen.
• The supervisor hired Charles and the two apprentices who followed him, then assigned them to learn from veteran workers.
• Marsil introduced himself to Charles and explained how workers slaughtered and processed magic beasts.
• A chained, scaled wild boar was delivered to Marsil and Charles’s worktable.

Charles endured half a month of menial work before Marsil let him slaughter a magical beast, earning him Soul Coins through the Wu Duo Duo Mall. After buying Marsil’s slaughtering insights, Charles gained methods for handling most low-level magical beasts and prepared to improve at his new job.

• Marsil made Charles and the other apprentices handle the dirty processing work without teaching them the real skills.
• After half a month, the supervisor urged Marsil to let Charles slaughter a magical beast, and Charles successfully processed it under Marsil’s guidance.
• Charles earned 0.6 Soul Coins when the beast died, and the supervisor assigned him to process magical beasts independently at Station Seven.
• Marsil warned Charles that inexperience could cost him Magic Stones, but Charles ignored him and continued working.
• After receiving criticism about losses, Charles bought Marsil’s low-level magical beast slaughtering and processing insights from the Wu Duo Duo Mall.
• Charles absorbed the insights and learned methods for handling most low-level magical beasts.

Charles saved Magic Stones from his slaughterhouse job and decided to take a goblin-catching mission to earn more. Erika gave him her savings for protection, and after buying and learning several zero-ring spells, Charles packed his equipment and prepared to leave.

• Charles became an official employee at the Magic Beast slaughterhouse and saved enough to buy Rat Speech and Bone Needle Bee.
• Charles told Erika he planned to catch goblins, and she gave him several dozen Magic Stones to buy more witchcraft spells.
• Charles bought Stone Deflection and Dim Vision, then purchased cultivation insights for his spells from Wuduo shops.
• Charles quickly learned Bone Needle Bee and practiced his other spells before packing his equipment to set out.

Charles joined Beck, Davis, Carter, Cotton, and Leslie on a goblin-catching mission in Isata’s sewers, where mutated goblins could earn them substantial Magic Stones. After preparing their equipment and entering the sewer at night, the group faced its foul stench as the hunt began.

• Charles arrived at Fenny's Hand’s gathering point and joined Beck, Davis, Carter, Cotton, and Leslie for the mission.
• Beck explained that they were to catch knight-level goblins in Isata’s sewers, with mutated goblins bringing especially high prices.
• The team reached a courtyard, gathered cages and equipment, and hired six servants to assist them.
• Beck led the armed group to a sewer entrance, where Carter and Davis unlocked the grate.
• The group entered the sewer with torches and gauze scarves, and Cotton complained about the stench.

Beck led Charles and the others into the sewers to lure and capture goblins. After the ambush began, Charles killed three goblins with Bone Needle Bee and charged into another with his shield.

• Beck found a broad sewer junction marked by goblin footprints and prepared bait to draw them in.
• Charles and the others hid around the bait while rats and insects spread its scent through the sewers.
• A group of more than a dozen goblins arrived, and Beck signaled the party to light torches and attack.
• Charles cast Bone Needle Bee and killed three charging goblins with bone spikes through their heads.
• Charles struck a burly goblin in the face with his iron shield as it tried to flee.

Charles profited from four nights of goblin hunts with Beck’s group, then left the Magic Beast slaughterhouse to hunt goblins independently. After buying the mobility spell Serpentine Glide, he prepared to operate alone in District Twelve.

• Charles and the other wizard apprentices ambushed goblins in the sewers, capturing knight-level goblins and killing others for personal rewards.
• The group continued hunting at night, earning steady returns and eventually capturing a mutated goblin; Charles received eighteen Magic Stones and had killed more than thirty goblins himself.
• Charles decided he could earn more by hunting alone, resigned from the Magic Beast slaughterhouse, and rented a courtyard house in the lower city district.
• Charles bought the zero-ring spell Serpentine Glide to improve his mobility before beginning his independent goblin hunts.

Charles lured goblins into the sewers and ambushed them with Bone Needle Bee, killing six before crippling three stronger goblins. The remaining goblins fell as they charged him, leaving Charles poised to capture survivors.

• Charles brought three servants into the sewers and prepared goblin bait using Beck’s method.
• Charles cast Rat Speech and Dim Vision while waiting for goblins to follow the bait’s scent.
• Eleven goblins arrived, and Charles killed three ordinary goblins with Bone Needle Bee.
• Charles killed three more ordinary goblins, panicking the survivors into fleeing.
• Charles revealed himself, then shot the three knight-level goblins in the knees as they charged, knocking them down.

Charles defeated a group of goblins in the sewer tunnels and captured three alive, but a much larger group arrived before he could continue hunting. He retreated with his servants and spoils, leaving the bait and goblins behind.

• Charles killed or disabled the goblins that attacked him, then used Bone Needle Bee to cripple two fleeing goblins and finished the fight.
• Charles ordered his servants to bind and gag three living goblins, remove the dead goblins' ears, and clean away the blood.
• Charles waited for another wave, but thirty or forty goblins emerged and began eating the bait and retrieving the corpses.
• Charles retreated from the sewer passage, used Serpentine Glide to escape faster, and fled with his servants and spoils.

Charles spent more than a month hunting goblins, earning Magic Stones and Soul Coins that he used to learn new spells and improve his cultivation. With a larger team and stronger magic, he returned to the sewers confident he could handle more goblins.

• Charles hunted goblins every three days for over a month, earning more than 180 Magic Stones and accumulating over 400 Soul Coins.
• Charles bought cultivation insights from three First-Ring Wizards and learned Greased Ground, Web Bomb, Foxfire Spell, Stunning Spell, and Leech Therapy.
• Charles’s magic power and mental strength grew, and he became confident facing groups of more than twenty goblins.
• Charles expanded his team to five people, with the original servants training the newcomers and one servant nearing the Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice level.
• Charles led the five-person team into the sewers at night and used Foxfire Spell to light their way as they searched for goblins.

Charles used trained sewer rats to scout for goblins, then ambushed a group of seventeen with a rapid sequence of spells. He trapped and stunned the five survivors without approaching them.

• Charles released trained rats to scout the passages and alert him when goblins appeared.
• A rat reported that sixteen or seventeen goblins were approaching, and Charles prepared as they split up around his scattered bait.
• Charles killed the goblins in several rapid rounds of Bone Needle Bee, leaving five alive.
• The five goblins fled down one passage, but Charles used Greased Ground to make them fall and Web Bombs to bind them.
• Charles cast Stunning Spell from a distance and stunned all five goblins.

Charles encountered a powerful subterranean mutant goblin and fought to capture it. After his usual attacks failed, he used the sewers and Acid Missile to injure it, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Charles had his servants bind the ordinary goblins, dispose of their corpses, and take the qualified goblins away while he restored his magic power.
• A black-skinned rat alerted Charles to a mutant goblin covered in mushrooms, which he recognized as a valuable source of Magic Stones.
• The mutant goblin charged Charles, but Greased Ground made it slip, while Bone Needle Bee and Web Bomb failed to stop it.
• Charles cast Serpentine Glide and fled the goblin's attack, then lured it onto another Greased Ground spell and sent it plunging into the sewer.
• Charles struck the mutant goblin's knee with Acid Missile as it climbed out of the sewer.

Charles captured a valuable mutated goblin after blinding and stunning it in the sewers, then took it to Isata for appraisal. A first-rank wizard apprentice examined the goblin and told Charles he had struck it rich.

• Charles weakened the mutated goblin with Acid Missiles and used Greased Ground and Stunning Spells to stop it from escaping.
• Charles blinded the goblin with Bone Needle Bee, knocked it unconscious, and had his servants secure it with chains.
• Charles led his servants and the captured goblins out of the sewers, then took the mutated goblin by carriage to Isata the next morning.
• Charles brought the goblin to Fenny's Hand for an appraisal, and a first-rank wizard apprentice examined it and said Charles had struck it rich.

Charles sought a buyer for a rare mutated goblin and negotiated with Lady Loran, a wizard who wanted it for her research. He accepted her offer of five hundred Magic Stones and two tutoring-class slots after she pressured the Fenny's Hand apprentice.

• A Fenny's Hand apprentice appraised Charles' mutated goblin at over six hundred Magic Stones and offered to find a buyer for an eight-percent fee.
• The apprentice summoned wealthy wizard lords, and Lady Loran arrived to inspect the goblin.
• Loran approved of the goblin, rejected Charles' asking price of one thousand Magic Stones, and offered five hundred instead.
• Loran intimidated the apprentice when he objected and offered Charles two tutoring-class slots alongside the five hundred Magic Stones.
• Charles agreed to Loran's offer, seeing value in the tutoring slots.

Charles traded Magic Stones for classroom cards and decided to study the Abyssal Grimoire, then returned to Erika with a card for her. Erika was thrilled to learn that both of them could attend a wizard lord’s class.

• Loran gave Charles three classroom cards after trading for his Magic Stones, and Charles agreed with another apprentice to value the cards at two hundred Magic Stones each.
• Charles decided to attend Loran’s class because she studied the Abyssal Grimoire, which related to his Succubus bloodline.
• Erika’s sister urged her to give up on Charles and criticized her for lending him the Magic Stones she had saved for classes.
• Charles arrived and comforted Erika, then gave her one classroom card and revealed that he had another for himself.
• Erika celebrated that she could attend a wizard lord’s class and showed her sister the card.

Charles and Erika used their saved Magic Stones to enroll in classes, with Charles beginning Abyssal Grimoire Studies under Loran. After class, Loran took Charles to her laboratory, where he heard the roar of the mutated goblin.

• Erika quit her job at Fenny's Hand so she could attend classes with Charles.
• Charles and Erika enrolled at Loran's learning institution, choosing Rune Studies and Abyssal Grimoire Studies respectively.
• Charles attended his first Abyssal Grimoire Studies lesson and learned he had to catch up on two months of material.
• Loran offered to make up for Charles's missed lessons and led him to her laboratory.
• Charles heard the mutated goblin roar inside Loran's laboratory.