Chapter Summaries

Charles finished consulting the Isata library and returned to his tower, where he reunited with Scorchflame. He ordered Scorchflame to guard the Abyss while he traveled into the void, and Scorchflame began choosing descendants to take with him.

• Charles reached the ninetieth floor of the library, briefly examined its three rule-bearing objects, and teleported away.
• The wizards below the library felt its oppressive pressure disappear after Charles left.
• Charles returned to his tower and found Scorchflame living among his many mates and descendants.
• Charles told Scorchflame he would travel into the void and assigned him to guard the Abyss until his return.
• Charles instructed Scorchflame to select some descendants for an Abyss legion, with Bruce assisting him.

Charles reunited with Scorchflame in Isata, gathered his students, and arranged for them to continue studying while he was away. He then met Dus Augustus, whose exceptional bloodline talent was linked to Charles’s influence on the Augustus family.

• Charles learned that Scorchflame had brought Dus to the tower and asked to meet him.
• Charles gathered his disciples and granddisciples, announced that a puppet would teach them, and offered willing students the chance to study in the Abyss.
• Charles asked several Second Ring Wizards to stay by his side and cultivate.
• Dus arrived at the hall, recognized Charles as the ancestor depicted in his family portrait, and marveled at his power.
• Charles called Dus forward as the gathered wizards and apprentices scrutinized him and envied his noble bloodline talent.

Dus discovered his bloodline connection to Charles Augustus, who welcomed him into the family and arranged for his advancement and training. Charles then returned to the Abyss with Scorchflame, whose reunion with Bruce left Zarlos worrying that yet another powerful figure would outrank him.

• Charles confirmed that Dus was descended from his elder brother Redding and decided to support the Augustus family.
• Charles ordered wizards to help the Augustus family rise from counts to imperial emperors and invited Dus to cultivate in his tower.
• Charles assigned Dus to one of his students and warned him not to misuse the Augustus name.
• Charles brought Scorchflame, his wives, and his descendants through the Abyss Gate into the Abyss World.
• Scorchflame reunited with Bruce at Millstone Fortress, while Zarlos worried that Scorchflame would rise above him too.

Charles left Millstone Fortress under Scorchflame’s authority and traveled through the void to capture elemental planes for his wizard tower. Meanwhile, Archibald called the Wizard Sages of White Mountain Boros together and proposed war against Isata over its recruitment of students in their territory.

• Charles introduced Scorchflame as his soul companion and ordered the Greater Demons to obey its commands.
• Scorchflame defeated Dorkas in a duel, and Dorkas later fled Millstone Fortress to escape its challenges.
• Charles left the Abyss World in his wizard tower and entered a Wind Elemental Plane to capture it.
• A White Wizard reported that Isata had recruited students near White Mountain Boros, and the news reached Archibald.
• Archibald summoned the Wizard Sages and told them to apply to the Wizard Throne to wage war against Isata.

White Mountain Boros declared war on Isata, officially over the recruitment of its students but secretly aiming to stop Isata’s headmaster, Pushton, from becoming a seventh-circle wizard. Archibald explained that Pushton had gathered the origin needed to advance and would return to the wizard plane, where its will could protect him.

• White Mountain Boros declared war on Isata, citing centuries of alleged student recruitment from its territories.
• Archibald told the academy’s wizards that Pushton might soon become a seventh-circle wizard and that White Mountain Boros had to stop him.
• Archibald revealed that he had obtained a secret treasure to use against Pushton and ordered his wizards to kill him if they had the chance.
• Archibald explained that Pushton had seized some of the origin needed for advancement from another being and combined it with what he had gathered over many years.
• Archibald said Pushton had to return to the wizard plane to advance because its will would protect him and improve his chances of success.

Archibald explained why external seventh-rank beings could not enter the Wizard World and how seventh-rank advancement required universe origin. He revealed that Pushton’s death would benefit the Wizard World and warned that origin granted by the Abyss bound its recipients to the Abyss’s will.

• Archibald explained that seventh-rank beings were too immense to enter the Wizard World, and that only Purgatory, the Heavenly Realm, and the Bottomless Abyss could accommodate them.
• Archibald told his students that many Black and White Wizards, as well as the Wizard World, wanted Pushton dead because his origin could help the world expand and produce more wizards and Wizard Sages.
• Archibald explained that universe origin could be gathered in the void or obtained by destroying planes, and that the Bottomless Abyss granted origin to those who gained an advantage against devils.
• Archibald warned that those who relied on the Abyss’s origin to become seventh-rank would have to obey the Abyss forever.
• Archibald said the Wizard Throne had approved the war against Isata and ordered everyone to prepare for victory.

Noah convened Isata’s wizard sages and summoned their puppets and projections to prepare for White Mountain Boros’s declaration of war. The Tower Master returned to the meeting and discovered that Charles had become an additional Fifth-Ring Wizard.

• Noah awakened the puppets and projections of Isata’s absent wizard sages as White Mountain Boros prepared to attack.
• Webster told the returning sages that Charles Augustus had advanced from Second Ring to Fifth Ring and become an Abyss Overlord.
• Charles’s puppet arrived at the meeting, where the other sages greeted him as Sage Charles.
• The Tower Master appeared in a squirrel doll on his golden seat, and Noah reported Archibald’s declaration of war against Isata.
• The Tower Master called Archibald foolish, then noticed Charles’s extra Fifth-Ring Wizard seat.

Pushton learned that Isata had produced a Fifth Circle wizard and an Abyss Grand Lord in Charles, then ordered the academy to prepare for war with White Mountain Boros. He revealed that he was close to becoming a Seventh Circle wizard and warned Charles that the coming battle could kill at least half of Isata’s sages and followers.

• Pushton’s squirrel puppet discovered Charles seated among the Fifth Circle wizards, and Noah explained Charles’s achievements and Anderson’s advancement to Fourth Circle.
• Pushton praised Charles and learned that White Mountain Boros had declared war because Isata recruited apprentices in its territory, including Charles.
• Pushton ordered Isata’s sages to return, prepare for war, and empty their reserves, promising to compensate them for their losses.
• Pushton revealed that he had gathered enough universal origin to prepare for a Seventh Circle breakthrough and said White Mountain Boros wanted to stop him.
• After the meeting, Pushton asked Charles to help in the war and warned that at least half of Isata’s sages and followers might die; Charles asked why the battle would be so brutal.

Squirrel explained to Charles why White Mountain Boros and other powerful beings would try to seize his origin when he advanced to the seventh circle. He planned to return to the Wizard World to advance under its protection, while Charles realized that advancing in the void could leave him vulnerable at his resurrection point.

• Squirrel told Charles that White Mountain Boros had started the war because Squirrel planned to become a seventh-circle wizard and possessed origin power.
• Squirrel explained that sixth-circle wizards and even seventh-circle wizards might attack him once he began advancing, because origin could be plundered only during that process.
• Squirrel said he would advance in the Wizard World, where its restrictions would constrain seventh-circle wizards and limit the enemies who could reach him.
• Squirrel explained that seventh-circle wizards left an anchor in the Wizard World, allowing them to revive as seventh-circle wizards if their true bodies died in the void.
• Charles concluded that a wizard who advanced in the void could be camped at their resurrection point.

Charles learned how Seventh-Rank beings anchor themselves to worlds and why the Bottomless Abyss is especially dangerous for them. He realized Hachiwote had been one of the Abyss’s Sixth-Rank Overlords who could have advanced to Seventh Rank, but had died before doing so.

• The squirrel explained that enemies could destroy a Seventh-Rank being’s anchor, while the Wizard World was protected by its nineteen Wizard Kings and immense strength.
• Charles recalled hearing that the Third Wizard King had fallen and his head had become a planet, and understood the vast gap between Sixth and Seventh Rank.
• The squirrel explained that the Bottomless Abyss was a world whose plane worlds were branches, allowing Seventh-Rank beings to extend their power into them and making advancement there perilous.
• The squirrel named Spider Queen Ross, Yeenoghu, and other beings who had first reached Seventh Rank elsewhere before becoming Abyssal Overlords.
• The squirrel explained that Abyss-native Seventh-Rank beings had to rise from Sixth-Rank Overlord status through bloody wars, and Charles recognized Hachiwote as one such Overlord who had ultimately died.

Charles questioned Pushton about Purgatory, the Nine Hells, and the Celestial Realm, learning how seventh-rank beings secure resurrection anchors and why gods struggle to expand their power. The chapter ended with the squirrel explaining that gods who raise worlds into the Celestial Realm risk losing their foundations and being trapped in the task.

• Charles asked Pushton about Purgatory and learned that it, the Abyss, and the Celestial Realm were supermassive worlds with different structures.
• Pushton explained that seventh-rank devils needed Asmodeus's approval to become dukes and leave resurrection anchors in Purgatory, which could be taken away if they lost his favor.
• Pushton described how seventh-rank gods anchored themselves in the Nine Heavens to avoid becoming targets, while competition for believers limited their growth.
• Charles asked why gods did not bring their worlds into the Celestial Realm, and Pushton explained that lifting and merging a world took enormous power and time.
• Pushton said gods who kept raising their worlds could not leave their true bodies behind, which slowed their growth after reaching seventh-rank.

Squirrel offered Charles cosmic origin to help him become a sixth-circle wizard in exchange for his help during Squirrel’s attempt to become a seventh-circle wizard. Charles understood Squirrel’s reasons for choosing him but had not yet accepted the deal.

• Squirrel asked Charles to protect him while he attempted to become a seventh-circle wizard and offered to raise Charles to the sixth circle and make him Isata’s deputy tower master.
• Squirrel explained that he would give Charles cosmic origin, allowing him to master enough rules to advance quickly.
• Charles asked why Squirrel had chosen him instead of Noah and Berkeley, and Squirrel said Charles could gain more strength from the origin and was a worthwhile gamble.
• Squirrel said Charles would not need to make a contract and could still preserve Isata if Squirrel failed; he asked whether Charles would accept the deal.

Charles traveled through the void to meet Pushton, who gave him a portion of flame origin to help him advance toward becoming a six-ring wizard. The chapter left Charles with the origin power in front of his wizard tower.

• Charles agreed to travel to the coordinates Pushton gave him in exchange for a portion of origin power.
• Charles discussed seventh-tier power with the Book of Causal Paths, which explained that Alasta had only been sixth tier and warned that early access to seventh-tier power could be temporary.
• After compressing and collecting the water elemental plane, Charles teleported through the void for several months to reach Pushton's coordinates.
• Pushton arrived in his six-story wizard tower, examined Charles's tower, and praised Charles's strength.
• Pushton gave Charles a flickering wisp of flame origin and urged him to become a six-ring wizard as soon as possible.

Charles received a wisp of flame origin from Pushton and returned to his territory in the Abyss World, where he absorbed it to replenish himself and prepare to grow stronger.

• Pushton advised Charles to wait until he returned to his Abyss World layer before absorbing the flame origin, and told him to return to Isata after becoming a Six-Ring Wizard.
• The Book of Causal Paths warned Charles that Pushton possessed dormant origin power and could still kill him, so Charles decided not to betray him.
• Charles returned to the Abyss World, where Dorkas and the demons of Millstone Fortress felt the pressure of his wizard tower's arrival.
• Charles entrusted Scorchflame and Bruce with managing the territory while he cultivated.
• Charles drew the flame origin into his body and felt his soul refreshed and his depleted vitality restored.

After experiencing the birth and destruction of countless planes through the flame origin, Charles gained many complete rules and broke through to become a six-ring wizard. The chapter ended with him absorbing a vast torrent of rule power above Millstone Fortress.

• The flame origin showed Charles the creation and destruction of planes and other beings, revealing how their power was drained away.
• Charles emerged with numerous complete rules fused into his soul, and the barriers to becoming both a six-ring wizard and a sixth-rank demon lord disappeared.
• Charles began his advancement and broke through from five rings to six rings.
• The sea of rules poured power into a vast vortex above Millstone Fortress as Dorkas watched.
• Charles absorbed the rule power, overwhelming the demons with his aura before declaring his six-ring breakthrough.

Charles’s Sixth Ring breakthrough continued as he absorbed the Bottomless Abyss’s rules and advanced toward becoming a sixth-rank demon. His growth empowered Millstone Fortress and the entire Abyssal layer, and he ended the chapter displaying control over space and swallowing the remaining Firestorm.

• Charles’s Balor body grew beyond thirty meters as complete fire rules strengthened his body and scales.
• Demons throughout Millstone Fortress absorbed scattered rule power and advanced, including a Flame Ratman on the verge of becoming a fourth-rank Great Demon.
• The rule outpouring spread across the Abyssal layer, restoring power it had lost in the war against Purgatory.
• Charles opened his eyes, demonstrated that he could tear open space and burn through it with a flame.
• Charles appeared outside the wizard tower and swallowed the colossal Firestorm into his belly.

Charles completed his breakthrough, becoming a peak sixth-tier Abyssal Grand Lord with pseudo-seventh-tier power through the Abyss World’s authority. He assessed the limits of that power and the boost his advancement had given Millstone Fortress, then questioned what the academies’ war concealed.

• Charles’s breakthrough made him a peak sixth-tier Abyssal Grand Lord whose strength, combined with planar authority, reached pseudo-seventh tier.
• Dorkas knelt in awe, while Zarlos prostrated himself and declared his loyalty to Charles.
• Charles considered how pseudo-seventh-tier power differed from the power of Origin and wondered whether Pushton could defeat his enemies, including seven-ring wizards.
• Charles returned to his wizard tower and found that his breakthrough had helped demons throughout Millstone Fortress advance, including many Flame Ratmen.
• Charles reflected on the worlds he had seen destroyed within the Fire Origin and concluded that the war between the two academies was only a surface excuse.

After becoming a six-ring wizard, Charles recognized how far he remained from the true powerhouses and decided to return to the Wizard World to observe Pushton’s campaign, though he first continued building his wizard tower. Pushton returned to Isata, where the other wizards gathered to seek his favor, while Charles’s puppet was notably absent.

• Charles reconsidered his power after learning how much stronger Pushton was and traced his post-breakthrough arrogance to the Abyss World’s authority.
• Charles asked the Book of Causal Paths whether to return to the Wizard World, and it urged him to go soon to witness Pushton’s battle and learn from it.
• Charles decided to help Pushton but stayed to finish constructing his wizard tower and prepare himself.
• Pushton returned to Isata through an ultra-long-distance spatial portal, bringing a void storm that cleared the clouds above the academy.
• Noah and Berkeley schemed to win Pushton’s resources, while the gathered wizards noticed that Charles’s puppet had not come.

Pushton emerged from the wizard tower and walked through Isata with the Wizard Sages following behind him. After revisiting the baked beans that reminded him of his past, he granted the shop owner's wish by turning his grandson Chrisman into a Third Ring wizard and arranging for Sage Charles to teach him.

• Pushton left the wizard tower, and every Wizard Sage bowed to him and followed as he inspected Isata.
• Pushton ate baked beans in the lower levels and recalled how the dish had helped him make important decisions in the past.
• Pushton offered the shop owner a wish in payment for the meal, and the owner asked him to help his grandson become a wizard apprentice.
• Pushton tapped Chrisman's forehead, making him a Third Ring wizard, and said Sage Charles would take him as a student.

Pushton turned a peddler’s young grandson into a third-ring wizard and ordered Isata’s wizards to prepare for war against White Mountain Boros. Meanwhile, Charles stayed in the Abyss to grow stronger, seeking enough power to reach the seventh ring and discussing whether his efforts could help the Book of Causal Paths form a Causal Origin.

• Pushton made the peddler’s grandson a third-ring wizard and said the boy had earned his good fortune; Berkeley arranged for the boy and his grandfather to be escorted toward Charles’s tower.
• Pushton declared that Isata would fight White Mountain Boros and ordered the wizards to recruit armies and march to the front lines.
• Pushton told Noah and Berkeley to leave Isata and pressure the white wizards, while Noah wondered whether the order was a test of their military merit.
• Charles remained in the Abyss for years, and he told the Book of Causal Paths that becoming a seventh-ring wizard mattered more than joining Isata’s war.
• Charles and the Book of Causal Paths discussed whether changing many lives’ destinies could help it condense a Causal Origin, and Charles continued buying complete rules through Wu Duo Duo Mall.