Chapter Summaries

Merlin and Maya learned from the Purple Emperor’s projection that the ancient Remnant Clan had fought a devastating war against the civilizations of the Void Realm, and Merlin suspected a link to the Atlan Civilization. With the Purple Clan long gone, the Purple Emperor agreed to pass its Mental Power inheritance to Merlin, while Maya went to claim other benefits.

• The Purple Emperor’s projection appeared and was astonished that Merlin and Maya were not descendants of the Purple Clan.
• The Purple Emperor explained that the Remnant Clan had used warships and puppets to wage a long war against the united civilizations of the Void Realm, and that he had died from injuries inflicted by its strongest warship.
• Merlin connected the Remnant Clan’s technology to the Atlan Civilization, while Maya concluded that the Void Realm’s civilizations had won the ancient war.
• Merlin asked to inherit the Purple Emperor’s legacy, and the Purple Emperor allowed it because the Purple Clan had vanished.
• The Purple Emperor sent Maya with the puppet to collect benefits suited to him, then began explaining the Purple Clan’s innate Mental Power and its lack of a system to cultivate it.

Merlin received nearly ninety percent of the Purple Emperor’s vast mental power legacy before his mental power ran out and the crystal shattered. He discovered the teachings included Mental Suppression and combat techniques that complemented Ditas’s realm-focused system, creating a complete mental power cultivation system.

• The Purple Emperor began transferring his legacy to Merlin, warning that Merlin might not have enough mental power to receive it all.
• Merlin pushed himself to receive the teachings, reaching nearly ninety percent before his mental power was exhausted and the transfer ended.
• Merlin learned that the Purple Emperor’s mental projection had dispersed and the crystal had shattered, making the remaining legacy impossible to receive.
• Merlin examined the teachings and discovered that they included Mental Suppression, a technique that could greatly weaken opponents with comparable mental power.
• Merlin realized the Purple Emperor’s combat methods complemented Ditas’s realm-based teachings and together formed a cultivation system equal to the spellcaster system.

Merlin combined Ditas’s Mental Power System with the Purple Emperor’s inheritance to create a preliminary cultivation framework, filling in its early stages and combat methods. As he organized the system, he felt he had nearly reached the Illusion Heart Realm and expected to become a Ninth-level Mental Power User.

• Merlin examined the Purple Emperor’s inheritance and found that its methods focused on steadily increasing Mental Power and offered powerful combat techniques.
• Merlin called for Ditas, who remained absorbed in developing the next step beyond the Illusory World after witnessing Orumba’s power.
• Merlin began organizing the Mental Power System with the Purple Emperor’s inheritance, gaining new insights into the Illusion Heart Realm.
• Merlin established stages from Level One through the Ninth Level, with the Mental Core, illusions, and Illusion Heart marking successive advances beyond Spellcasters.
• Merlin concluded that the system was preliminarily complete, with a possible Tenth Level based on the Illusory World and an Eleventh Level based on Turning Illusion into Reality.
• Merlin realized he had nearly touched the Illusion Heart Realm and believed he would comprehend it within a hundred years at most.

Merlin left the burning Purple Plane with Maya, who received a defensive Plane for the Golden Light Clan, then spent fifty years studying the minds of Spellcasters inside illusions covering his eight Planes. Just as he neared a breakthrough into the Illusion Heart Realm, Santo summoned the Spellcasters above Legend, and Merlin withdrew his illusions to return to Santo City of Arcane.

• Merlin and Maya left the Purple Plane as it burned and vanished in the Void Realm.
• Maya revealed that the Purple Emperor had given him a bead controlling a powerful defensive Plane for the Golden Light Clan, and he gave Merlin a mark for future contact.
• Merlin returned to his eight Planes and secretly covered them in illusions, observing visitors for fifty years to understand the mind and approach the Illusion Heart Realm.
• Merlin found that Ditas remained unresponsive in the Illusion realm of Turning Illusion into Reality.
• Santo summoned Spellcasters above Legend from Santo City of Arcane, so Merlin removed the illusions and set out to return.

Merlin confronted Dark Legendary Ofras in the Void Realm, where their old grievance over the Dark Eye resurfaced. After revealing that he had condensed a Supreme Law, Merlin attacked Ofras with his Law Chains.

• A powerful Darkness Law ripple heralded Ofras's arrival at Santo City of Arcane, and the Spellcasters identified him as the infamous Dark Legendary who controlled a puppet army.
• Merlin cut through Ofras's Darkness Law with his Law Chains, provoking Ofras to demand to know who had attacked him.
• Merlin revealed himself as another Titled Legend, astonishing the Spellcasters gathered nearby.
• Ofras recognized Merlin and restrained his anger because Merlin was Blackfire Monarch's disciple, but Merlin said he had come to settle their old account.
• Merlin formed a great net of Law Chains and sent it down upon Ofras.

Merlin fought Ofras and proved that his newly condensed Supreme Law made him a Titled Legend, until the Blackfire Monarch intervened. The Blackfire Monarch then revealed that the Rock Clan had allied with the Atlan Civilization, forcing all three Cities of Arcane to mobilize against a grave threat.

• Merlin and Ofras clashed with their Supreme Laws, but neither could overcome the other.
• The Blackfire Monarch separated Merlin and Ofras, then took Merlin to Santo City of Arcane.
• The Blackfire Monarch praised Merlin for becoming a Titled Legend, and Merlin agreed not to seek further conflict with Ofras.
• Merlin asked why Santo the Arcane Mage had summoned the Spellcasters, and the Blackfire Monarch said all three Cities of Arcane had mobilized.
• The Blackfire Monarch explained that the Rock Clan had contacted the Atlan Civilization, renewing a threat that had devastated Merlin's homeland.
• Merlin recognized the danger of the alliance, remembering the power of the Atlan Civilization and his Empire-Class Warship.

The Blackfire Monarch explained that the Atlan Civilization had once nearly defeated the Spellcaster Civilization and remained contained inside its plane under a Supreme Arcane Mage’s watch. With the Rock Clan now seeking an alliance with the Atlans, Merlin learned that a new War of Civilizations was inevitable; a month later, Spellcasters gathered in Santo City of Arcane as a Supreme Arcane Mage arrived.

• The Blackfire Monarch told Merlin that the Atlan Plane was immense and cut off even Supreme Existences from the rules, while Atlan technology had once driven the Spellcaster Civilization back to the Land of Glory.
• The Blackfire Monarch explained that the Spellcaster Civilization had contained the Atlan Civilization inside its plane, but the Rock Clan had contacted it and threatened the balance of power.
• Merlin asked whether the Spellcaster Civilization could concede some territory, but the Blackfire Monarch said an alliance between the Rock Clan and Atlans could cost the Spellcasters half their territory.
• The Blackfire Monarch said Sethis the Arcane Mage was guarding the Atlan Plane, while Merlin concluded that the Rock Clan’s alliance made a vast War of Civilizations inevitable.
• A month later, Great Legendaries and other powerful Spellcasters gathered in Santo City of Arcane, where Merlin reunited with his former teacher Zado, who marveled that Merlin had become a Titled Legend.
• An immense pressure descended on the gathering, signaling the arrival of a Supreme Arcane Mage.

Santo the Arcane Mage revealed that the Rock Clan had allied with the Atlan Civilization, prompting the Spellcaster Civilization to mobilize for another war. Santo City of Arcane arrived at the former battlefield with its full force, while the Atlan Plane remained sealed under Secci City of Arcane’s guard.

• Santo the Arcane Mage summoned the Legendary Mages and announced the Rock Clan’s alliance with the Atlan Civilization, prompting Santo, Secci, and Augustus Cities of Arcane to mobilize.
• Merlin told Legend Zado that the Blackfire Monarch had warned him about the alliance, and Zado cautioned him about the Atlan Civilization’s threat.
• Santo the Arcane Mage assured the Monarchs that Sethis the Arcane Mage had sealed the Atlan Plane, while Augustus the Arcane Mage’s presence helped contain the wider danger.
• The Spellcaster forces reached the former Rock Clan battlefield, where Merlin saw Santo City of Arcane deploy six Monarchs, thirty-six Titled Legends, and more than five hundred Legendary Mages.

Santo led the Spellcaster Civilization into a war of extermination against the Rock Clan, destroying its Planes until Ancestor Hanla and Zhen Mo intervened. As Zhen Mo struck at the Spellcaster squads, Mage Augustus appeared and blocked his attack.

• Santo ordered the Spellcasters to destroy every Rock Clan Plane and led thirty-six Legendary squads into Rock Clan territory.
• The squads shattered the Rock Clan’s Ancestral Forms and destroyed its Planes while Hanla and Zhen Mo watched and waited.
• Hanla and Zhen Mo attacked the Spellcaster squads, leaving Santo unable to stop both ancestors on his own.
• Zhen Mo’s Rule Power descended on Merlin and the other Spellcasters, but Mage Augustus appeared and blocked it with a finger.

Augustus and Santo led the Spellcaster Civilization’s war of extermination against the Rock Clan, while Merlin’s squad helped destroy its forces and planes. As Zhen Mo and Hanla waited for the Atlan Civilization to intervene, a holy figure arrived at the Atlan Plane, threatening the seal Sethis guarded.

• Augustus arrived and joined Santo to confront Zhen Mo and Hanla, while their forces launched an assault on the Rock Clan’s planes.
• Augustus and Santo suppressed the two progenitors as the Spellcaster forces destroyed nearly half the Rock Clan’s planes and killed dozens of fighters comparable to Titled Legends.
• Merlin used Mental Suppression and Law Chains to help his squad defeat powerful Rock Clan members, earning the fourteen Legends’ admiration.
• Zhen Mo and Hanla decided to wait one more day for the Atlan Civilization before retreating, sealing their planes, and seeking peace.
• At Secci City of Arcane, Sethis remained on guard over the Atlan Plane’s seal as a holy figure arrived and expressed confidence that the Atlan Civilization would break free.

The Light God Lord attacked the seal over the Atlan Plane, revealing that he had joined the Rock Clan and the Atlan Civilization in exchange for Divine Lord divinity. Sethis the Arcane Mage failed to stop the seal from breaking, and an Atlan warship emerged as the Spellcaster Civilization faced enemies on three fronts.

• The Light God Lord appeared at the Atlan Plane and used divine power to destroy the Titled Legends guarding it.
• The Light God Lord struck the seal, and Sethis the Arcane Mage arrived but found it already loosening.
• The Light God Lord revealed that the Rock Clan Progenitor and a mysterious person had healed him with Divine Lord divinity and recruited him to break the seal.
• Sethis the Arcane Mage tried to reinforce the seal, but the Light God Lord held him back while the Atlan Civilization attacked it from within.
• An enormous beam shattered the seal, and a pitch-black Atlan warship surged out of the plane.

The Atlan Civilization broke through its seal with the Light God Lord’s help, forcing Sethis, Augustus, and Santo to withdraw and unite the Spellcaster Civilization’s remaining forces. As the Atlan Civilization, Rock Clan, and Light Pantheon advanced on the three Cities of Arcane, Augustus prepared to fight and seek allies.

• The Light God Lord helped the Atlan Civilization break through the seal, and Sethis ordered Secci City of Arcane to retreat and join Augustus and Santo.
• Sethis told Augustus and Santo that the Atlan Civilization had escaped and the Light God Lord had awakened, so the three Cities of Arcane needed to unite.
• Augustus ordered the Spellcaster Civilization to abandon nearly two-thirds of its planes and gather around the three Cities of Arcane.
• Merlin and the Spellcaster leaders recognized that the Atlan Civilization’s warships were the central threat, while the Atlan Civilization pursued construction of a legendary Void-Class Warship.
• The Atlan Civilization, Rock Clan, and Light Pantheon approached the Spellcaster heartland, and an Atlan beam destroyed a plane and killed its spellcasters.
• Augustus urged the Spellcaster Civilization to withstand the attack and demonstrate its strength before seeking alliances with the Treefolk Civilization, the Giant Civilization, and the Wing Clan civilization.

The Spellcaster Civilization and its allies faced the Atlan Civilization, the Rock Clan, and the Light Pantheon in a decisive battle in the Void Realm. As warships and armies assembled, both sides recognized that defeat could determine the fate of their civilizations, and the Atlan warships began firing.

• The Atlan Civilization deployed Martial Arts Robots from its warships, including powerful robots comparable to Titled Legends, alarming the Spellcasters with memories of the earlier war.
• Merlin studied the Atlan fleet and judged that his own Empire-Class Warship would be ineffective against the Atlan Civilization’s far larger force.
• The Spellcaster Civilization gathered its forces, including Mentor Zado, marauders, and the Blood River Monarch, while the Rock Clan sent its two Progenitors and a small contingent.
• The Rock Clan’s Progenitors mocked the Spellcaster Civilization’s brief history, and Augustus vowed to destroy the Rock Tribe Civilization if the Spellcasters survived.
• The Atlan warships began shining with beams of light, and the battle erupted.

The Atlan Civilization opened the war by annihilating a Legendary squad, and its warships pushed the Spellcaster forces into a disadvantage. Merlin discovered he could incapacitate Empire-Class Warships with Illusion, but after saving Mentor Zado, he and both squads were caught in the path of a devastating Plane-Class Warship blast.

• The Atlan Civilization destroyed a Spellcaster squad with a single beam, prompting Augustus and the other Supreme Arcane Mages to launch the battle against the Rock Clan, Light Believers, and Atlan forces.
• Merlin led his squad against an Empire-Class Warship and used Illusion to incapacitate its crew, disrupting the warship while its automatic defenses withstood his attack.
• Merlin used Illusion to stop an Empire-Class Warship from firing on Mentor Zado's squad, then discovered that two more warships had locked onto him.
• Merlin extended his Illusion across all three Empire-Class Warships, but a hidden Plane-Class Warship fired a massive beam at Merlin's and Zado's squads, leaving Merlin certain they could not survive it.

A Plane-Class Warship killed the Blackfire Monarch during the battle, and Merlin’s grief and anger triggered his breakthrough into the Illusion Heart Realm. He unleashed Mind Control across the battlefield, leaving the warships and fighters under his influence.

• The Blackfire Monarch tried to stop the Plane-Class Warship’s attack, but a second beam pierced his Laws and reduced him to ashes.
• Merlin grieved for the Blackfire Monarch and remembered how old Aita, Mage Leo, and Blackfire had shaped his life.
• Merlin recognized the Illusion Heart Realm as he gained control over his own emotions and his Mind Power surged.
• Merlin’s Mind Power expanded across the battlefield and enveloped Rock Clan members, Light Believers, and Atlan warships.
• Merlin reached the Illusion Heart Realm and used Mind Control to seize command of the minds within his range.

Merlin used his Illusion Heart Realm Mind Control to turn the battlefield into chaos and shield himself from an attack by an Atlan Civilization Plane-Class Warship. As Fear Monarch, Blood River Monarch, and Fuwell Monarch destroyed the warship, Merlin remained in control of the battlefield.

• Merlin controlled the minds of the Atlan Civilization warship crews, Rock Clan powerhouses, and Light Believers, making them attack one another.
• A hidden Plane-Class Warship targeted Merlin with a beam, but controlled forces shielded him until the attack ran out of energy.
• Merlin turned five Empire-Class Warships and thirteen City-Class Warships against the hidden Plane-Class Warship, revealing its position.
• Fear Monarch, Blood River Monarch, and Fuwell Monarch joined forces and tore the Plane-Class Warship apart with their laws.

Merlin turned the battle by controlling enemy forces, forcing the Rock Clan and Light Pantheon to retreat, and revealing the mental power system as a formidable new force. He announced the system’s initial completion to the Spellcaster Civilization, where Augustus invited the assembled Legendary Mages to choose Merlin a title.

• Merlin used mind control to turn Rock Clan powerhouses and Light Believers against their own forces, while the Light God Lord and two Rock Clan Progenitors withdrew.
• Merlin drove the controlled Rock Clan members and Light Believers to kill themselves, then stopped advancing when Monarchs and Martial Arts Robots countered his power.
• The Spellcaster forces saw the enemy retreat, mourned Blackfire Monarch and their other losses, and withdrew as the battle settled into a temporary calm.
• Merlin announced that he had brought the mental power system to an initial state of completion and made it public to the gathered Spellcaster leaders.
• Augustus praised Merlin and asked the Legendary Mages to choose a title for him, recognizing his new standing in the Spellcaster Civilization.

Merlin was named Glory Legendary after the Spellcaster leaders celebrated the Mental Power System he had founded. As the leaders considered the continuing war and the Atlan Civilization’s growing threat, Merlin warned that his mind control had limits, while the Arcane Mages appeared to have a plan.

• The Legendary Mages chose Glory as Merlin’s title, and Merlin accepted it as a tribute to the Land of Glory and the Spellcaster Civilization.
• Merlin revealed the Mental Power System’s cultivation levels through the Tenth Level, while keeping his offensive techniques and higher realms secret.
• The Legendary Mages and Monarchs left to study the new system, while the three Arcane Mages and twenty-seven Great Monarchs stayed to discuss the war.
• Merlin warned that mind control could not affect the Atlan Civilization’s Martial Arts Robots and might be blocked by their technology.
• Augustus said the Spellcasters still had an advantage but needed to prepare for the possibility of Atlan Void Realm warships, and Merlin suspected the Arcane Mages already had a plan.

The Spellcaster Civilization decided to seek allies against the Atlan Civilization, the Rock Clan, and the Light Pantheon after learning that the Atlan People might build a Void-Class Warship. The Arcane Mages sent Merlin to prepare for a mission with Santo's incarnation, viewing him as their last hope if the threat worsened.

• Augustus proposed seeking help from powerful civilizations, and the Monarchs agreed that Santo's darkness incarnation should lead the effort because the Arcane Mages and four-law Monarchs could not leave the battlefield.
• After the others left, Merlin revealed three Mind-Controlled Atlan captives, who reported that the Atlan Civilization was pursuing a project to build a Void Realm Warship.
• Merlin confirmed the captives' account and explained that they were high-ranking captains, prompting the Arcane Mages to recognize the potential danger of a Void-Class Warship.
• Santo told Merlin to form a Law Incarnation and join his darkness incarnation in seeking help from alien civilizations in three days.
• The Arcane Mages resolved that Merlin must be protected because they considered him the Spellcaster Civilization's last hope against the Atlan Civilization's new weapon.

Merlin learned that the three great Arcane Mages wanted him removed from the battlefield to protect the Spellcaster Civilization’s hope for a future Supreme Existence. After Ditas awakened and taught him to create a Mental Avatar, Merlin formed one to guard against an Atlan attack.

• Merlin realized the three great Arcane Mages had arranged his departure to protect him as a potential future Supreme Existence.
• Ditas emerged from the Illusion Pearl and told Merlin that the eleventh level of the mental power system had no fixed method.
• Ditas explained that Merlin could create a Mental Avatar with the Illusion Heart Realm and mind-control ability by separating part of his emotions.
• Merlin decided to form a Mental Avatar so it could deter the Atlan Civilization while he remained on the battlefield.
• After three days, Merlin created a Mental Avatar that radiated an intense aura of anger.