Chapter Summaries

Justina took up position at the fortress gate as the soldiers and Holy Light Church forces prepared for the Devil assault. When the Devils halted and the attack signal sounded, she spotted only Baimon and his honor guard, leaving the enemy’s plan unclear as she eagerly awaited battle.

• Henry Capet organized the fortress defenses and assigned Justina to guard the city gate without a squad.
• Justina ordered Levis to film from farther away by invoking Holy Light’s guidance, and he retreated to the garrison’s defensive line.
• Levis noticed a frightened young soldier drawing courage from Justina and filmed him looking toward her silhouette.
• Justina used Arcane Eyes to scout the halted Devil forces and found only Baimon with his honor guard.
• Justina wondered whether Baimon’s attack concealed a trap, then focused on fighting and how to transform afterward.

Jia Xiu witnessed the Dwarves activate their unfinished golem computer, Snow White, and tested its ability to draw complex graphs. Justina then reported that Baimon’s forces were barely attacking the fortress, leaving Jia Xiu to suspect Baimon’s ally might not be a Devil.

• Master Dain named the golem computer Snow White and had Ram activate it for its first full operation.
• Snow White drew a trigonometric graph, then calculated Jia Xiu’s more complex functions and produced a heart-shaped image that the Dwarves called a butt graph.
• Justina told Jia Xiu that Baimon had attacked the fortress without any Devil Archduke allies, and his troops were making only weak, intermittent assaults.
• Justina complained that she had not been able to fight or transform for the waiting audience, while Levis filmed the Church’s Knight Order.
• Jia Xiu questioned why Baimon had brought only his own forces and suspected that his ally might not be a Devil.

Jia Xiu discussed Baimon’s attack with Justina, helped Master Dain and the Dwarves plan improvements to their magical computer, and learned that the Association was starting an anti-Devil project early because Devils had attacked the Iris border. Dean Nico brought Jia Xiu, Mia, and Margaret to the Association’s heavily guarded research facility, where Jia Xiu discovered its extensive testing grounds and was promised a private office.

• Jia Xiu and Justina debated whether Baimon had recruited Demons, and Justina explained that Devils and Demons had never cooperated during the previous Devil Race wars.
• Jia Xiu assured Justina that they could make Phantom productions using fake sets and suggested creating a wider Radiant Knight series.
• Jia Xiu advised Master Dain on adjustable graph coordinates, angles, and polar coordinates, then taught him and several Dwarves the required mathematics.
• Jia Xiu returned to Aurelius's Mage Tower, where Dean Nico told him that the Association’s anti-Devil project, codenamed Rooting Out the Chronic Disease, was starting early and included him, Mia, and Margaret.
• Dean Nico explained that Devils had attacked the Iris border, then took Jia Xiu through a guarded teleportation route to the Association’s research facility.
• Jia Xiu saw the facility’s rows of gates to testing grounds and independent planes, and Dean Nico told him he would have a private office.

Jia Xiu toured his new office at the Caster Association and learned about the Association’s unusual spatial-spell team and the resources provided for his research. After requesting the other researchers’ progress reports, he found a study on using the Overhealing Spell against Devils and opened it to read.

• Dean Nico explained that the Caster Association headquarters was maintained by a specialized team of spatial mages who risked their lives testing new spaces.
• Dean Nico showed Jia Xiu his spacious office, its equipment, and the supply request pipe, then gave him two magic rings as key project personnel.
• Dean Nico described a still-unstable magic array that could enhance deductive thinking and said research assignments would begin once the team was assembled.
• Jia Xiu requested reports on the other researchers’ work and read about spells for sampling Devil data and generating Hell scenery.
• Jia Xiu found a study on triggering disorder in Devil self-healing systems with the Overhealing Spell and opened it.

Jia Xiu studied a new Healing Spell that could disrupt Demons’ self-healing and kill them, then realized Baimon might be provoking other Demon leaders into a wider conflict. Justina had repelled another Devil attack at the fortress when Jia Xiu warned her that hostile Demons could soon arrive and attack both sides.

• Jia Xiu read a paper describing how repeated disruption of pain perception could make Demon self-healing cause lethal overgrowth, and he prepared to test the spell.
• Jia Xiu, Margaret, and Mia moved belongings into the new office, and Margaret said she was not worried about her family’s role in the border war.
• Jia Xiu connected the paper’s chain reaction of self-healing to the war and suddenly realized Baimon might be planning something larger.
• Justina fought Devils on the fortress wall, killed several, and celebrated with the soldiers after they retreated.
• Jia Xiu contacted Justina and warned that Baimon might be provoking Demon leaders to pursue it to the fortress, where they could attack both the humans and the Devils.

Jia Xiu’s warning proved correct when multiple Demon legions arrived behind Baimon’s Devils, forcing Henry to order a retreat. Justina stayed behind to delay the advancing armies, and as the fortress defenses began to collapse, Jia Xiu contacted her with a plan.

• Justina accepted Jia Xiu’s theory that Baimon had provoked the Demons as part of its revenge, and she set out to warn Henry.
• Demon war drums sounded from several directions, confirming that multiple legions were approaching behind Baimon’s charging Devils.
• Justina ordered Henry to retreat and took control of the fortress golems and self-destruction runes; Henry organized the evacuation.
• Justina opened a portal for the retreating troops and kicked Levis through another rift when he refused to leave.
• Justina used the golems and then opened the gates and activated the first self-destruction level, charging into the Devils and Demons to hold them back.
• Jia Xiu contacted Justina through prayer and said he had a plan, asking whether Baimon was still there.

Jia Xiu recruited Larven to help Justina repel the Devil Race at the fortress while its civilians evacuated. With Baimon still alive on the battlefield, Jia Xiu planned to approach it and use a spell to learn the Devil Race’s self-healing parameters, hoping to make the Devil Archduke die permanently.

• Jia Xiu asked the Sect Master to locate Larven, then found a paper about rapidly sampling the Devil Race’s self-healing parameters.
• Justina struggled to hold back the Demons until Jia Xiu told her to raise a fire-resistant shield and Larven unleashed a massive barrage of Fireball Spells.
• Larven’s attack devastated the surrounding battlefield, giving the fortress’s remaining people time to evacuate through the teleportation array and rift.
• Jia Xiu explained that Larven could not keep casting at that scale and that the Demons would soon target his mechanical bodies.
• Justina found Baimon alive among the Demons, and Jia Xiu asked her to open a portal so he could approach within fifteen meters and obtain its healing parameters.

Jia Xiu and Larven launched a plan to collect Baimon’s self-healing data and later kill the Devil Archduke, using the attack to rally researchers across the continent. Justina confronted Baimon at the border, and Jia Xiu’s spell reached it through a Spatial Rift; the chapter ended with Jia Xiu provoking Baimon by mentioning its family until it charged after him.

• Larven agreed to Jia Xiu’s plan to test a new method on Baimon and use a recorded killing to encourage continent-wide research cooperation.
• Jia Xiu explained the plan: Justina would approach Baimon, he would sample its healing data through a Spatial Rift, and they would calculate the results before launching a filmed attack.
• The fortress defenses self-destructed as Baimon crossed the border, and Justina rode her Holy Light warhorse forward to strike at it.
• Baimon retreated toward the border, but Jia Xiu cast his sampling spell through a Spatial Rift, and the spell passed through Baimon’s defenses without causing visible harm.
• Baimon sensed danger and tried to withdraw, but Jia Xiu taunted it with details about Becky and its child, driving Baimon into a furious pursuit.

Jia Xiu provoked Baimon to collect data for a plan to kill him, and Master Larven’s newly formed calculation team began working toward a solution expected within two days. With the calculations underway, Jia Xiu sought a way to improve the plan by investigating the Devil Race’s unusually powerful self-healing, suspecting it might be something other than healing.

• Jia Xiu provoked Baimon into a rage, collected two matching sets of data, and closed the rift before Baimon could reach him.
• Jia Xiu told Master Larven that the data was ready, while Larven revealed that his constructs had killed several Greater Demons by accident.
• Master Larven took Jia Xiu to the Association’s calculation team, where young researchers had taught themselves partial differential equations and begun simulations for killing Devils.
• Jia Xiu learned that the team expected to produce Baimon’s numerical solution within forty to sixty hours and arranged for Justina and Levis to prepare.
• Jia Xiu, unable to contribute further to the calculations, gathered research on Devil Race self-healing and considered whether it was actually a different process that only looked like healing.

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Jia Xiu searched for research explaining the nature of Devil Race self-healing and received an obscure paper by a rogue mage who believed the process was time reversal. The rogue mage's experiments caught Jia Xiu's attention, and he began examining the observation spell behind the claim.

• Jia Xiu submitted a detailed request to the Association's paper-indexing department for research into the nature of Devil Race self-healing.
• Association staff sent Jia Xiu an obscure paper by a deceased rogue mage, along with a crystal recording of the mage explaining his research.
• The rogue mage argued that Devil Race regeneration was time reversal and demonstrated how a primal demon's internal organ healed in the direction it had been cut.
• Jia Xiu noticed that the experiment raised unanswered questions about why internal organs healed differently from surface wounds.
• Jia Xiu read the paper to find the rogue mage's observation spell and finally located it.

Jia Xiu tested a wild mage’s error-ridden spell on Devil Race hearts and discovered that their internal regeneration produced flashes of code rather than ordinary healing. After using a painful enhancement method to observe the flashes more clearly, he concluded they described a process of production and manufacture, not time reversal.

• Jia Xiu studied the wild mage’s detection spell and found that correcting its errors made it stop working.
• Jia Xiu tested the spell on hearts from more than twenty Devil Race species and observed that their wounds regenerated in the order they had been inflicted, but saw no flashes at first.
• Jia Xiu stacked perception-enhancing aids and spotted faint, rapid flashes containing fragments of code as a Pit Fiend’s heart regenerated.
• Jia Xiu activated the dean’s experimental enhancement method, endured severe brain pain, and memorized clearer fragments of the code.
• Jia Xiu organized the fragments and determined that they showed a production process rather than time reversal.

Jia Xiu decoded the Devil Race’s recovery process and concluded that internal organs were restored through a standardized, printing-like system, then tried to simplify the calculations for simulating their healing. After struggling to derive the surface recovery equation, he enlisted Mia, who recognized that his attempt was close to the correct result.

• Jia Xiu deciphered the Devil Race heart’s recovery code and determined that damaged body parts were shaped elsewhere and teleported back, while the code was identical across his experimental hearts.
• Jia Xiu recorded his theories about the Devil Race in his Magic Grimoire and focused on separating internal recovery from genuine surface healing to improve his simulation method.
• Jia Xiu reasoned that internal recovery depended mainly on a Devil’s maximum magic throughput, but he needed to combine its results with a separate surface-recovery calculation to verify the model against the Lust Demon experiment.
• Jia Xiu requested more Devil Race limbs and spent hours trying to derive the surface-recovery equation, but his calculations stalled after his buffs wore off.
• Mia arrived, heard Jia Xiu’s explanation, and said his attempted surface-recovery derivation was not far from being correct.

Jia Xiu and Mia confirmed that their new method for calculating the Devil Race’s recovery matched the Lust Demon’s data, suggesting its internal recovery might follow a production-like process. After Jia Xiu presented the method to the Association, he found that its calculations for Baimon disagreed with theirs, and Mia stood by their results.

• Mia gave Jia Xiu her simplified equation for the Devil Race’s surface recovery and recalled the Lust Demon data she had calculated with it.
• Jia Xiu and Mia combined her surface data with his internal data, and the results matched the Lust Demon’s complete recovery data.
• Jia Xiu asked Mia to calculate Baimon’s data, then slept before joining Margaret and Mia at the Association meeting.
• At the meeting, Jia Xiu compared the Association’s Baimon calculations with his own team’s results and found discrepancies.
• When the calculation team’s leader questioned the discrepancy, Mia insisted their calculations were correct and needed verification.

Jia Xiu challenged the Caster Association’s calculations for killing Baimon, and the calculation team agreed to verify its results before the operation. After the Association reviewed its contingency plans, Jia Xiu explained his method for observing how Devils recovered, then demonstrated it for Master Larven and the other advisers.

• Jia Xiu defended Mia’s conflicting calculations and urged the Association to delay action until the data was checked.
• The calculation team leader accepted the possibility of an error, proposed comparing results with the Second Calculation Group, and asked Mia to help inspect the work.
• The association president postponed the specific operation until the figures were verified and assigned Mia to assist the calculation team.
• Jia Xiu synchronized the meeting with Justina and heard the Association’s detailed plans for tracking, filming, and killing Baimon with backup teams and layered contingencies.
• Jia Xiu explained that Devils restored missing body parts by creating and teleporting replacements, then demonstrated the process on a Devil heart.
• Master Larven layered spells over the Devil heart and asked Jia Xiu to demonstrate the process again.

Jia Xiu demonstrated how he observed the Devil Race heart’s recovery, and Larven helped him uncover new possibilities for interfering with the process through magical signals. The chapter left Jia Xiu with research materials to study and an invitation to ask Larven for help.

• Larven layered observation spells onto the Devil Race heart, and Jia Xiu explained that his method had been inspired by a wild caster’s research.
• The president revealed that the amplification magic array came from the Church of the God of Pain, an Association partner, and warned Jia Xiu that its members might try to recruit him.
• With Larven’s spells assisting him, Jia Xiu repeated the recovery experiment nearly ten times and recorded clearer magical fluctuations and changing codes.
• Larven questioned Jia Xiu about what the signals might reveal, and Jia Xiu proposed disrupting recovery, triggering excessive healing, and using detection signals to learn more about teleportation.
• Larven offered to give Jia Xiu papers and reference materials on similar magical spells so he could continue studying signals.

Jia Xiu practiced a detection-and-return spell under Margaret’s intensive instruction while preparing to study the Devil Race’s recovery process. After Mia helped correct the Calculation Group’s errors and verify all of Baimon’s data, the Association prepared to begin a practical operation at dawn.

• Jia Xiu practiced sending and retrieving detection signals as Margaret coached him through the spell and pushed him to repeat it.
• Jia Xiu asked Margaret about her teaching style, and she admitted she had learned from the three teachers who taught her at home from age four until she entered the Mage Tower.
• Mia returned with the person in charge of the calculation team, who reported that Mia had helped identify workflow errors and correct the calculations.
• Mia confirmed that all of Baimon’s data had been recalculated using the new method and matched the corrected results within the acceptable margin of error.
• The person in charge told Jia Xiu that the combat personnel were deploying and that the operation would begin at dawn the next day.

Jia Xiu attended the Caster Association’s heavily publicized operation to kill Baimon, confident that the verified plan would work but wary of the rushed preparations. As Baimon approached a human camp, the Association’s teams stood ready to spring their trap.

• Jia Xiu learned that the calculation teams’ results matched his optimized plan closely enough for the Association to begin the operation before dawn.
• Jia Xiu joined invited representatives, researchers, Association leaders, and the command team in the observation room as the operation was broadcast through illusions.
• Mia was overwhelmed by the calculation team’s admiration, while Levis remained calm because he believed the mission guided by Holy Light was destined to succeed.
• The command team tracked Baimon as it raced through the Iris Kingdom’s northwestern mountains toward a human camp surrounded by hidden operatives.
• Baimon reached the camp, prepared to attack the humans it blamed for Becky’s death, and saw a golden radiance appear before its eyes.

The Caster Association ambushed Baimon and successfully killed the Devil Archduke on their plane, while Jia Xiu captured the operation for his film and submitted his research to the Sect Master. The Sect Master awarded him a record influence score and enough experience to raise him to Warlock LV.10, and Jia Xiu began examining the many new changes that came with leveling up.

• The Caster Association surrounded Baimon with teleportation rifts and Justina split the Devil Archduke apart with a single sword strike.
• The Association's teams healed and stabilized Baimon under an illusion, then presented its limp body to the gathered witnesses as proof that the Devil had been killed on their plane.
• Jia Xiu worried that the swift battle would leave too little usable footage, then recognized how effectively the Association had stirred the witnesses' emotions.
• Jia Xiu submitted his successful Devil-killing research to the Sect Master, who awarded him 3,200 influence points and praised his work.
• The Sect Master granted Jia Xiu 38,200 experience points, raising him from Warlock LV.7 to LV.10, and Jia Xiu examined his new level-up changes.

Jia Xiu examined the abilities granted by his latest upgrade, including improved learning, Rune Eye functions, and a dangerous way to summon the Sect Master's power. He postponed choosing between three mutually exclusive magic traits until a future problem gave him a reason to decide.

• Jia Xiu studied the upgraded Teleportation Anchors and Ring Ascension spells, and learned that Descent could no longer conceal its statue-shaped casting focal point.
• Jia Xiu reviewed new abilities that let him function without sleep, learn skills quickly in the Little Black Room, and transcribe speech and lip-reading through Rune Eye.
• Jia Xiu discovered that Contact the Sect Master had been copied incorrectly from Warlock abilities, and the Sect Master revised it into a spell that could bring its power down with potentially devastating effects.
• Jia Xiu asked about the dangers of the Sect Master's Descent, and the Sect Master warned him that it could not protect nearby allies or control the harm it caused.
• Jia Xiu considered three incompatible traits for mana control, amplification, or detailed magical perception, then agreed he could wait for a specific problem before choosing.