Recaps

Wayne recalled how he had transmigrated to the Sanctuary World and learned about its vast, expanding continent and the Great Expansion Era. As he prepared for the Tower of Truth aptitude test, he reflected on his parents’ deaths and the support he received as the son of talented retainers.

• Wayne finished reading an account of the Great Expansion Era and considered the Sanctuary World’s history.
• Wayne recalled choosing the Infinite Slots cheat before transmigrating and being reborn in the Sanctuary World.
• Wayne considered the size of the Myriad Clans Continent and the Atlantis Empire, where he lived.
• Zoltan reminded Wayne that the Tower of Truth aptitude test was the next day.
• Wayne recalled that his parents had served the Rose Marquis, died during pioneering work, and left him an inheritance.
• Wayne reflected that the Rose Marquis protected descendants of talented retainers because their parents’ abilities made them likely to inherit high talent.

On Awakening Day, Wayne arrived at the Awakening Hall with Butler Zobel and watched Rose Marquis Anne Hathaway begin the ceremony. After the Sanctuary World's Will blessed the twelve-year-old children, Anne called the descendants of meritorious families forward, and Wayne stepped out to awaken.

• Wayne traveled with Butler Zobel to the Awakening Day gathering in Rose City and waited outside the closed Awakening Hall.
• Wayne inspected his golden finger, Infinite Slots, and considered how his talent would awaken and what he would place in its slot.
• Anne Hathaway arrived on her Ice Dragon alongside the Water Dragon and Frost Dragon, and the crowd greeted her.
• Two officials opened the Awakening Hall and called on the Sanctuary World's Will to bless the twelve-year-old children with energy.
• Anne ordered the descendants of meritorious families from Rose Territory to prepare for awakening, and Wayne stepped forward as the crowd watched.

Wayne awakened top-tier mental talent, high-grade physical talent, and top-tier metal elemental affinity, making him the only descendant of Xun Lie to awaken two top-tier talents. After the other descendants completed their tests, the Rose Marquis explained that this year’s results were exceptionally strong compared with the rarity of talent across Rose Territory.

• Wayne entered the Awakening Hall with more than five hundred descendants of Xun Lie and tested his mental and physical talents.
• The test revealed Wayne had top-tier mental talent and high-grade physical talent, qualifying him for the supreme academy in the Imperial Capital.
• Wayne tested his elemental affinity and awakened top-tier metal affinity before the Rose Marquis welcomed him to the academy path.
• The awakenings concluded with seven descendants having top-tier talents and thirty-six having high-grade talents, while Wayne alone possessed two top-tier talents.
• The Rose Marquis told Wayne that more than forty high-talented descendants was a bumper year and explained how few people in Rose Territory awakened talents or qualified for the Imperial Capital Academy.

Wayne watched the Awakening Ceremony conclude and learned how rare high-tier and top-tier talents were. While the other talented youths received knight escorts, the Rose Marquis told Wayne he would return with her on a dragon, making the day a memory to treasure.

• Wayne saw the large number of people with no talent and thanked the Rose Marquis for broadening his horizons.
• The Awakening Ceremony ended, and Wayne noted that sixteen people had top-tier talents and 127 had high-tier talents.
• The Rose Marquis gave those with high-tier talents a knight escort for three days and told them to gather at Rose Manor afterward.
• The Rose Marquis offered each top-tier talent a knight captain and a hundred knights as guards, and the youths rushed to choose them.
• The Rose Marquis told Wayne he was excluded because he would ride back with her on a dragon, and Wayne happily accepted.

Wayne rode a dragon with Rose Marquis, who explained why she was investing in him and described the Lord Wizard Academy and the origins of Lord Wizards. She began to share what he would need to remember before enrolling.

• Rose Marquis took Wayne on a dragon flight over Rose City and urged him to call her Big Sister.
• Rose Marquis explained that she was supporting Wayne because his two top-tier talents matched hers and he would be assigned to the south, near her territory, after graduating.
• Wayne accepted Rose Marquis's offer of future support and asked her for advice about the academy.
• Rose Marquis described the Imperial Central Academy's Knight, Elemental Wizard, and Lord Wizard academies.
• Rose Marquis explained why Lord Wizards were regarded as the era's protagonists, then told Wayne to remember her next advice carefully.

The Rose Marquis explained how Wayne could build power at the academy by advancing his wizard rank, displaying his talent, and acquiring sprites and dragons. Wayne left for Rose Manor and the Imperial Capital, while Zobel stayed behind with the villa and a generous pension.

• The Rose Marquis told Wayne to make use of the academy’s resources, attract wizard and knight followers with his talent, and seek sprites and dragons as resources for building his territory.
• The Rose Marquis explained that top academy students could earn a sprite, while students could search Dragon Continent during a six-year course for a dragon willing to contract with them.
• The Rose Marquis took Wayne to his villa, where he packed his parents’ sealed spatial rings and his father’s academy keepsake before offering Zobel a choice between accompanying him or retiring at the villa.
• Wayne decided to leave Zobel the villa and most of his monthly pension, keeping only ten purple gold coins for himself.
• As Wayne flew away with the Rose Marquis, he said Zobel’s hesitation had cost him the chance to accompany Wayne, while privately reasoning that Zobel would be difficult to keep unaware of his future secrets.

Wayne received a top-grade magic crystal, a bank card, and the Rose Marquis’s communication number as her investment in his future. Anne Hathaway explained that she had chosen him because of his talent, identity, and future prospects, especially his ties to Rose Territory.

• Wayne eagerly anticipated the resources the Rose Marquis had promised to give him, while she teased him about caring more for her money than her beauty.
• The Rose Marquis placed a top-grade magic crystal, a supplementary Landis Bank card, and her communication number before Wayne.
• Wayne recognized the magic crystal’s immense value and was delighted, though the Rose Marquis joked about his reaction.
• Wayne asked whether the Rose Marquis had invested similarly in another person with dual top-grade talents, and she said she had not invested in the commoner.
• Anne Hathaway explained that she had invested in Wayne because of his talent, identity as Xun Lie’s descendant, and strong ties to Rose Territory.

Wayne prepared to leave Rose Territory for the Imperial Capital and met the other descendants of Xun Lie who would study at Central Academy. He told them to focus on cultivation and warned that their future assignments would send them south to Rose Territory, where he did not want their children to end up as ordinary settlers.

• Wayne stored the attribute-less top-grade magic crystal in Infinite Slots and unlocked an infinite supply of it.
• Wayne learned that the Rose Territory covered about twenty-eight million square kilometers and that the Rose Marquis had left early for the Imperial Capital.
• Wayne packed his parents’ belongings and his father’s keepsake, then went to Rose Garden Square, where the students traveling to the Imperial Capital had gathered.
• Sakat brought Wayne to the gathered descendants of Xun Lie and introduced him as their future leader.
• Wayne explained Central Academy’s three academies and urged the descendants of Xun Lie to improve their cultivation before their assignments twenty-five years later.

Wayne said farewell to the young descendants of Xun Lie and boarded Rose Marquis’s airship bound for the academy. During the journey, he learned how rare dual and triple top-tier talents were, and Rose Marquis explained how those with three talents could eventually cultivate both wizard and knight paths.

• Wayne urged Sakat and the other children to prioritize cultivation and promised he hoped none of them would fall behind.
• Rose Marquis launched her airship, and Wayne watched as 725 students boarded for the journey.
• Wayne asked about other dual-talent holders, and Rose Marquis said only three had appeared in Rose Territory, including Wayne.
• Rose Marquis told Wayne that John Atlantis, founder of the Atlantis Empire, had possessed three top-tier talents and was said to have come from the Sacred Domain Continent.
• After the airship took off, Rose Marquis explained that three-talented people could switch to a second path when they reached a bottleneck in their first.

After a month of travel, Wayne and Rose Marquis arrived at the Imperial Capital, where General Deli asked to have his child become Wayne’s sworn knight. Wayne asked what Deli could offer, and Deli proposed a sprite, leaving Wayne stunned by the value of the offer.

• Wayne and Rose Marquis reached the Imperial Capital after a month aboard the Rose Airship.
• General Deli approached Rose Marquis at the eastern gate and asked for his child to become Wayne’s sworn knight.
• Deli explained that his child had low-grade talent and that the Imperial Capital’s Awakening Hall had recorded Wayne’s name and talent.
• Wayne asked Deli what he could bring him, and Deli offered a sprite that could be born within three months to one year.

Wayne parted from the Rose Marquis and arrived at the Lord Wizard Academy recruitment site to begin his enrollment. Senior Wright brought him through a teleportation array and led him toward the Academic Affairs District to receive his academy badge.

• General Deli agreed to bring his descendant’s future sprite to the Rose Marquis and provide a contract witnessed by the Sanctuary Will.
• Wayne explained to the Rose Marquis that he accepted the arrangement because it could help him gain followers, and that he had secured a witnessed contract.
• The Rose Marquis brought the airship to East Gate Square, where Wayne saluted her before setting off alone.
• Wayne entered the Lord Wizard Academy recruitment site after reading its top-tier talent requirement and met third-year student Wright.
• Wright teleported Wayne to the academy and led him toward the Academic Affairs District to receive his badge.

Wright guided Wayne through the Lord Wizard Academy, where Dean Leon registered him and Wayne learned about contribution points and the academy’s special treatment for students with two top-tier talents. Wayne then chose a villa in the dormitory district and received access to Villa No. 66 in Area Seven.

• Wright explained the academy’s vast districts and brought Wayne to the General Academic Affairs Building to register with Dean Leon.
• Dean Leon welcomed Wayne, recognized his two top-tier talents, and gave him a golden academy badge.
• Wright told Wayne that he earned 1,000 contribution points for welcoming each student with two top-tier talents and described the academy’s contribution-point system.
• Wright escorted Wayne to the dormitory district, where Dean Mikaichi offered him a choice between an apartment and a villa.
• Wayne chose a villa, and Dean Mikaichi registered Villa No. 66 in Area Seven to his academy badge.

Wayne settled into Villa No. 66 and learned the academy rules and the basics of Lord Wizard cultivation. After discovering that Lord Wizards advanced by building Wizard Arrays in their sea of consciousness, he began considering how those arrays expanded it.

• Wright left Wayne at Villa No. 66 after explaining that the villa contained everything a freshman needed to know.
• Wayne explored the villa and read the academy guide, learning that he had to complete mandatory courses and pass a minor examination within three years.
• Wayne bound Rose Marquis’s messaging token to his tablet and received a teasing message from her.
• Wayne studied the Basic Meditation manual and learned that Lord Wizards imprinted runes into Wizard Arrays in their sea of consciousness to advance.
• Wayne learned that apprentice Lord Wizards often chose nurturing Wizard Arrays that continuously expanded their sea of consciousness.

Wayne studied Lord Wizard cultivation and learned about its three paths as he weighed which one suited his ambitions. He favored the all-round path, but postponed his choice until he could test his speculation and understand why its practitioners lacked enough sea-of-consciousness space at the highest level.

• Wayne decided to seek records on Lord Wizard cultivation before imprinting an array, then traveled to the Teaching District and spent three days researching at the library.
• Wayne learned that the Elemental Wizard Array Master path focused on powerful offensive arrays, but he felt it was too narrow for him.
• Wayne learned that the functional wizard array master path produced prosperous territories, but he rejected it because he wanted immortality and did not want to depend on others for protection.
• Wayne favored the all-round wizard path, which combined offensive and functional arrays, despite its reputation for becoming weak at the highest level.
• Wayne wondered whether his speculation could overcome the path’s limited sea-of-consciousness space and whether that limitation explained its weakness at Level Seven.

Wayne verified that mastering a witch rune advanced his cultivation and gave Infinite Slots a second slot, then visited Teaching District dean Luna to ask about the all-rounder Lord Wizard path. Luna explained that its initial weakness was temporary and that practitioners of every path eventually developed its broad range of abilities.

• Wayne meditated on the Gold Rune, inscribed it in his sea of consciousness, and passed out from exhaustion.
• After waking, Wayne found that Infinite Slots had gained a second slot and confirmed that his advancement from mortal to extraordinary had increased its capacity.
• Wayne traveled to the Teaching District Central Building and went to the dean’s office on the twenty-sixth floor.
• Wayne introduced himself to Dean Luna and asked why all-rounder Lord Wizards lacked enough space in their sea of consciousness even at Level Seven.
• Luna told Wayne that the all-rounder path was initially weaker but later became comprehensive as its practitioners expanded their sea of consciousness, and that the other paths eventually developed the same abilities.

Wayne learned the three foundations of lord wizards and used his Infinite Slots ability to build up mental power before imprinting and arranging the runes for a Golden Nurturing Array. He officially advanced to a novice lord wizard apprentice, with the array strengthening his body and expanding his sea of consciousness.

• Luna explained to Wayne that lord wizards relied on resources, expanded their seas of consciousness, and imprinted heaven-and-earth runes.
• Wayne completed his Infinite Mental Power achievement and accumulated a deep pool of mental power in his sea of consciousness.
• Wayne learned that his sea of consciousness had a one-kilometer radius and began imprinting the twelve runes needed for the Golden Nurturing Array.
• After finishing the twelve runes, Wayne arranged them into the array, which drew in magic energy and strengthened his body.
• Wayne officially advanced to a novice lord wizard apprentice as the Golden Nurturing Array began expanding his sea of consciousness.

Wayne explored how his Golden Nurturing Array affected his body and mind sea, then spent half a month advancing to a high-level Lord Wizard apprentice and forming three more arrays. He paused his rapid cultivation to study the academy’s mandatory courses and chose Basic Sprite Information as his first class.

• Wayne found that his body had strengthened and that the Golden Nurturing Array expanded his mind sea while replenishing his mental power.
• Wayne calculated the time needed to advance through the wizard levels and concluded that the academy’s first three years had hidden cultivation thresholds.
• Over half a month, Wayne advanced to a high-level Lord Wizard apprentice and completed the Ten Blades Array, Golden Radiance Formation, and Flight Array.
• Wayne went to the teaching district to review the academy’s mandatory and elective courses.
• Wayne chose the upcoming Basic Sprite Information course because he expected to obtain a sprite soon.

Wayne attended a lesson on little sprites, learning how they originated, cultivated magical plants, and advanced through nine levels. He asked how sprites could be created, leveled up, and contracted, and the teacher explained the basics while pointing him toward further information in the library.

• Wayne met Hart, a shy freshman from Rose Territory, before class began.
• A wizard teacher explained that little sprites originated from Sanctuary World's will and could be born from magical plants.
• The teacher said a Level One wheat sprite could cultivate one million mu of wheat and produce two harvests annually, exciting Wayne with its potential to feed millions.
• The teacher described the sprites' levels, from little sprites through greater sprites and dragon sprites to sprite queens.
• Wayne asked whether sprites could be artificially nurtured, how they leveled up, and how to partner with them; the teacher answered that magic crystals could nurture and empower them, while contracts could bind them.

After learning about the value of investing in long-lived elves, Wayne visited the library to obtain a level-one wizard formation diagram. He chose the Hundred-Blade Formation and left wondering why the academy was so eager for students to advance quickly.

• Wayne decided that investing in a little elf was worthwhile because elves could live for a thousand years and he had unlimited top-grade magic crystals.
• After class, Wayne went to the library and asked a senior sister how to obtain a level-one wizard formation diagram.
• The senior sister explained that Wayne could choose one formation catalog entry for free but could not enter the second floor to study its full details before becoming a level-one formal wizard.
• Wayne selected the Hundred-Blade Formation, and the senior sister registered it to him and warned him not to spread it.
• On the elevator, Wayne suspected the academy encouraged rapid advancement for a reason he had not yet discovered.

Wayne learned how the Miracle Array could cultivate sprites and exchanged a top-grade magic crystal for its formation diagram and plates. Linus quickly created one hundred plates for him, leaving Wayne ready to use the array.

• Wayne entered the ninth-floor library and read three booklets about sprites and their artificial cultivation.
• Wayne learned that the Miracle Array used a magical plant, one thousand suitable top-grade magic crystals, and three years to cultivate a sprite.
• Wayne asked Linus to exchange a top-grade magic crystal for the Miracle Array diagram and ninety-nine formation plates.
• Linus made one hundred Miracle Array plates and explained that Wayne could imprint them with his mental power to control and use them.

Wayne returned home with the Miracle Array diagram and discovered he could not read its runes, though he could still copy and assemble them. He learned that a Golden Nurturing Array disk could raise a little fairy in a flowerpot, and planned to do so in his private courtyard.

• Wayne took control of the array disks, stored them in his spatial ring, and received the Miracle Array diagram from Linus.
• Wayne returned to Villa No. 66 and remembered the belongings and photographs left by his deceased parents.
• Wayne read the Miracle Array booklet but found that he could not recognize any of its 1,300 runes, which he suspected was because the Sanctuary Will had created it.
• Wayne activated a Golden Nurturing Array disk and learned that it could raise a little fairy in a flowerpot using 1,000 top-grade magic crystals.
• Wayne planned to obtain a magic plant guide and plants, then raise little fairies in his courtyard, protected from view by the villa's array.

Wayne organized his plans for studying the Hundred-Blade Formation and selected magical plants to cultivate for himself, future followers, trade, and his future territory. He finished planting ten types in the Miracle Array and looked ahead to the three years of growth before his minor examination.

• Wayne put away the Miracle Array diagram and began studying the Level One Hundred-Blade Formation.
• Wayne used the Encyclopedia of Magical Plants to choose ten types of plants based on his needs, those of future followers, their popularity, and his personal interest in tulips.
• Wayne decided to cultivate ten of each type, including plants for extraordinary followers, wheat for ordinary people, and tulips as a future symbol for his territory and family.
• Wayne spent three days planting the last tulip in the Miracle Array and moved it into a flowerpot.
• Wayne expected the one hundred little sprites to finish growing in three years, around the time he entered his free-study phase.

Wayne found Deli Aurora waiting for him at the academy after she spent three days searching for him with a missing-person sign. Over lunch, Aurora explained why she wanted to become his woman and described the Empire’s hierarchy of wizard nobles and knightly vassals.

• Wayne found Deli Aurora surrounded by students in the central plaza beside a notice naming him as her master, then revealed himself.
• Aurora told Wayne she had waited three days for him, and he flew with her to the dining hall district.
• Wayne asked why Aurora had staged the search, and she said she wanted to become his woman because of his talent and her own wishes.
• Aurora explained that her family lacked resources to support her cultivation because her parents already struggled to provide for her three older brothers.
• Aurora described the difference between lord wizards and titled knights, explaining that knightly families depended on resources distributed by those they served.

Wayne rejected Aurora’s offer because he would not let calculation or profit influence his feelings, then asked her about the cost of training knights. After learning the expenses and discussing the little fairy, he left with Aurora still pressing him for a reaction.

• Wayne told Aurora he would not accept her offer because he wanted his feelings to remain free of calculation and profit.
• Aurora explained that trainee knights needed resources costing about fifteen to twenty-five violet gold coins a day, while a level-one Black Iron Knight cost roughly five hundred to five hundred twenty-five.
• Wayne considered the high costs of knight training and reflected on the wealth behind Rose Marquis’s army of three thousand level-three Silver Knights.
• Wayne and Aurora ate together, and he asked whether General Deli could afford the initial resources and whether Aurora feared angering him by visiting.
• After leaving the restaurant, Aurora asked whether Wayne wanted to know about the little fairy, and Wayne asked when it would be born.

Wayne and Aurora agreed to meet again in three months, after he declined her offer because he would not let self-interest influence his feelings. Aurora returned home and told her family about Wayne, leaving them impressed by his sincerity and her belief that she still had a chance.

• Wayne thanked Aurora for explaining the little sprite’s value, then told her where he lived and agreed to meet her in three months.
• Aurora watched Wayne leave the teleportation plaza and carried away the sign he had returned.
• At home, Aurora’s mother worried about her, while her three brothers joked about their lack of brains and General Deli teased them.
• Aurora told her family that Wayne had rejected her because he would not allow calculation or self-interest into his feelings.
• Aurora said Wayne’s reason made her think she still had a chance, and her mother praised her good fortune.