Chapter Summaries

Ian returned to the Supreme Council and exposed the conspirators who had undermined the Arcane Empire. He abolished the distinctions between wizards, mages, knights, and mechanically enhanced people, naming them all Arcanists, and ended the chapter preparing to make that ideal law.

• Ian used Spiritual Pressure and a wide-area Legilimency scan to subdue the council and identify more than a dozen conspirators.
• Ian killed an elder who tried to escape with an improved Avada Kedavra that destroyed his soul.
• The Royal Guard removed the councilors marked as conspirators, while Ian offered the innocent compensation and access to new magical knowledge.
• Ian imposed strict taxation and oversight on private conglomerates and threatened asset confiscation and execution for monopolizing knowledge or stealing others' work.
• Ian abolished the terms “wizard” and “mage” and established Arcanist as the shared name for people with different sources of power.
• Ian declared that he would turn his vision of equal status for Arcanists into law.

Ian created his own Gate of Truth, gained mastery over all elements, and discovered cosmic energy beyond Earth. After returning to his laboratory, he enslaved Albion with Higher Magic and learned about the multiverse’s levels of magic, but an ancient bloodline restriction blocked him from accessing the dragon’s higher-level Dragon Language inheritance.

• Ian activated the Arcane Gate of Truth and formed a new Gate of Truth in his soul, making himself the Truth of the Arcane Empire.
• Ian tested his new power, raised an iceberg from the Pacific Ocean, and captured a trace of cosmic energy to send to the Research Department for an S-rank project.
• Ian teleported to his Bermuda Triangle laboratory, where Albion recognized that Ian had reached the Fifth Tier.
• Ian discovered that Albion had been secretly weakening his seal, then used Absolute Enslavement to bind the dragon and Legilimency to read its memories.
• Ian learned that Higher Magic could affect the rules and slay gods, while an ancient bloodline restriction prevented him from reading Albion’s higher-level Dragon Language inheritance.
• Ian told the furious Albion that it would serve as an experimental subject for Higher Magic.

Ian discovered that Albion's bloodline signal could attract the awakened Thunder Dragon King, so he exiled Albion and another dragon to a distant planet and erased Earth's coordinates from them. After confronting Herpo in the Underworld, Ian began planning how to strengthen himself and secure the future of the Arcane Empire.

• Ian used Albion's bloodline to glimpse the Thunder Dragon King, a colossal Stellar Level dragon, and cut off the connection after it noticed him.
• Ian sent Albion and the water-element Dragon King to a primitive planet in a distant galaxy and erased Earth's coordinates from their bodies.
• Ian sensed Herpo watching from the Underworld and confronted him across the Dimensional Barrier.
• Herpo recognized Ian's rapid rise from Third Tier to Fifth Tier but chose not to attack while weakened and sealed.
• Ian asked Morgana for plans to increase his power, then decided to secure the Arcane Empire's foundations before traveling to another world.

Ian tested Luna Lovegood’s new Battle Aura abilities and helped Olivia Armstrong turn her strong vitality into Battle Aura despite her poor magical talent. He planned to use the Water Dragon King’s regenerating heart for Snape’s Dragon Heart Potion, while Olivia began cultivating with striking success.

• Ian warned the enslaved Albion to behave, then tested Luna’s Battle Aura, Automatic Shield, and ability to fly.
• Ian sent Luna to cast Anti-Divination Curse on Albion and the Water Dragon King, whom he had banished to the edge of the universe.
• Hermione reported that Olivia’s magical talent was below First Order, and Ian explained that Olivia’s exceptional vitality made her a natural Battle Aura master.
• Ian described Snape’s Dragon Heart Potion plan, which relied on harvesting half the Water Dragon King’s heart and stimulating it to regrow.
• Ian taught Olivia the Battle Aura method and had Morgana inject mana into her, and Olivia quickly produced a dense white flame of Battle Aura.

Ian assigned Olivia, Rowena, Hermione, Bellatrix, and Luna projects to prepare the Arcane Empire for an interstellar war. He then announced that an expeditionary force would launch in one year to attack the early industrial civilization in Alpha Centauri.

• Olivia completed her first Battle Aura conversion, and Ian explained how she could advance her training.
• Ian asked Rowena to design a Gravity Training Chamber for Olivia.
• Ian gave Hermione and Bellatrix research on Herpo’s ritual and Truth, asking them to find a way to understand and achieve godslaying.
• Ian tasked Luna with finding Battle Souls for a Ghost Fleet of spirit warriors housed in Golems.
• Ian examined the star map and named Alpha Centauri as the target of the Empire’s first expedition, scheduled to launch in one year.

The Arcane Empire unlocked advanced knowledge through the Grand Library upgrade, while restricting Fifth-Tier advancement to candidates who passed a symposium in three months. As the Empire prepared for the examination, Harry Potter trained to master flexible spellcasting and his father James Potter resumed his feud with Professor Snape.

• The Arcane Grand Library released Fourth-Tier advancement paths and new arcane fields, prompting citizens and scholars across the Empire to study and share research for Arcane Merit.
• The Empire restricted access to Fifth-Tier advancement until applicants passed the First Arcane Symposium, scheduled for three months later.
• Principal Flitwick praised the competitive selection system and urged his old friends to prepare for the symposium.
• Lily Potter explained to Harry Potter that Soul Inscription had limits and that elite Arcanists needed to construct spells creatively during battle.
• Harry Potter resumed his training as James Potter and Professor Snape argued over an academic paper outside the training hall.

James struggled with his growing distance from Lily and the widening gap between his abilities and Snape’s, while Lily weighed her marriage against her professional bond with Snape. Snape arrived with a research collaboration for Lily, leaving her wondering whether Molly’s suggestion that she could keep both men might be possible.

• James resented the Empire’s modern life and felt isolated from his old friends and from Harry, whom Snape had raised.
• James recalled how Snape had defeated him, Sirius, and Lupin, and how he had advanced only to the Second Tier despite years of effort.
• Lily reviewed secret Akashic Project materials and worried that her work with Snape and a future expedition would widen the divide between her and James.
• Lily remembered Molly’s suggestion that she could remain with James while also pursuing a relationship with Snape under the Empire’s laws.
• Snape arrived and invited Lily to co-author a paper on dragon-blood and soul fusion; when James demanded to join, Snape dismissed him and took Lily to discuss the work.
• Lily watched James’s humiliation and considered that Molly’s suggestion might not be impossible.

Ian Bones presented the path to the Fifth Tier and imposed strict regulations on its practitioners, offering resources and rank-based rewards in exchange for compliance. With the symposium’s power system established, he introduced the First Interstellar Expedition as its next topic.

• Ian Bones explained that Mana Crystallization could shorten advancement to the Fifth Tier to a few years but required a Golden Body, a powerful soul, and a Subspace Cradle.
• Ian showed the devastation a Fifth-Tier Arcanist could cause and announced four laws governing their use of power, registration, psychological evaluation, and conscription.
• A red-robed mage protested the laws, and Ian pressed him to his knees with Spiritual Pressure before offering a duel for the Archon’s position as an alternative.
• Ian introduced five ranks for Fifth-Tier Arcanists, with higher ranks receiving greater authority, resources, and access to Philosopher’s Stones.
• Ian shifted the symposium’s attention to a star map and announced the First Interstellar Expedition.

Ian forced the Fifth-Tier Arcanists to choose between Imperial oversight and losing access to Mana Crystallization, then launched the Pangu Project to reshape Earth into a planetary mage tower. Atlantis obstructed the continents’ convergence, and Ian’s attack nearly destroyed its shield before he confronted King Nedak.

• Ian offered Fifth-Tier Arcanists the choice to remain under Imperial control or leave with their knowledge of Liquid Mana but lose the Empire’s core secrets.
• Ian launched the Pangu Project, mobilizing Arcanists to build Alchemical Temples and a vast underground array that would join Earth’s continents and create a Planetary Level Mage Tower.
• Thousands of Fourth-Order Arcanists activated the array, beginning to draw the continents together.
• Atlantis used antigravity waves to hold its city in place and disrupt the continents’ convergence.
• Ian fired a limited Photon Planet-Buster Cannon at Atlantis’s shield, stopping before destroying it.
• Nedak confronted Ian through a holographic projection, and Ian demanded to know why Atlantis was obstructing the Empire’s will.

After threatening Nedak and Atlantis, Ian completed the Pangaea project and discovered that the newly awakened Leyline Nodes formed part of an ancient ritual linked to Herpo. He descended to Earth’s core to contact the Planetary Will and connect it to his Arcane Network.

• Ian threatened Nedak with the Arcane Empire’s fleet, and Nedak ended their communication rather than risk fighting him.
• Ian oversaw the continents joining into Pangaea, which triggered Leyline Nodes across Earth and other planets in the Solar System to awaken.
• Ian’s clone mapped ancient ruins whose locations formed a rune array, leading Ian to suspect Herpo had prepared a planetary-scale ritual through human history.
• Ian summoned the Gate of Truth at Pangaea’s center and reached Earth’s Planetary Will beneath the core.
• Ian began trying to guide the Planetary Will and connect Earth to his Arcane Network.

Ian connected Gaia to Morgana to monitor the planet and regulate dangerous Alchemy, then completed climate defenses on Earth and fortified the Solar System. After finding Mars’s Planetary Will barely conscious due to its lack of intelligent life, he returned to Earth to address the Arcane Symposium’s final unresolved issue.

• Ian named the Planetary Will Gaia and linked it to Morgana so they could monitor global conditions and unauthorized Alchemy.
• Ian activated the Holy Sanctuary System, creating a global network to regulate the climate and suppress unauthorized Fifth Tier energy reactions.
• Ian led an engineering team in transforming the Moon, Mars, and the other planets of the Solar System.
• Ian sensed that Mars’s Planetary Will was barely awake and noted that people would need to be moved there.
• Ian returned to Earth, where the First Arcane Symposium still had its most ambitious issue to resolve.

Ian assigned the Weasley twins to build a stellar energy array that would convert the sun’s fusion energy into Liquid Mana, and ordered another team to develop a way to move Earth through space. With the projects underway, he turned his attention to Alpha Centauri and choosing an opponent.

• Ian confronted Fred and George Weasley with their illegal experiments and offered them a pardon if they took on a major project.
• Fred and George accepted Ian’s assignment to design a magical Dyson Sphere that would convert the sun’s energy into Liquid Mana.
• Ian ordered a second team to find a way to move Earth beyond its orbit and make it an interstellar vessel.
• Ian concluded the meeting and focused on Alpha Centauri as the place to find an opponent.

Ian and Amelia Bones selected the Steel-Skin Folk as the target for the Empire’s first interstellar war, planning to exploit their world and turn them into a powerful shield army. Ian delayed the attack until Olivia was established in the navy and his ultimate weapon was ready, ordering the fleet to rehearse for a war of extermination.

• Amelia Bones described the Steel-Skin Folk, a brutal civilization with powerful magic-resistant skin and technology limited to its own star system.
• Ian chose them as a suitable target for fleet training and coveted their skin as material for warship armor and an enhanced army.
• Amelia reported that the Steel-Skin Folk had massacred other sapient species and that mana could increase their defensive power.
• Ian planned to frame the invasion as interstellar peacekeeping and to enslave and modify the Steel-Skin Folk into a Titan Legion.
• Ian postponed the attack until Olivia had established herself in the navy and his ultimate weapon was ready, and ordered the fleet to rehearse for a war of extermination.

Ian took Pheobe to Arcadia Bar, a vast mercenary guild and black-market hub in the Epsilon Star Cluster, to investigate whether anyone was secretly supporting the Steel-Skin Folk. He asked the bartender for intelligence about buyers of their skins and possible suppliers of faster-than-light technology.

• Ian interrupted Pheobe's research and persuaded her to take a trip with him aboard the Voidwalker.
• The Voidwalker reached Arcadia Bar, where Ian paid the docking fee using his Cosmic Central Bank account.
• Ian explained that he funded his interstellar wealth by selling alchemical metals and high-purity magic crystals through black-market channels.
• Ian and Pheobe entered the crowded bar, where Pheobe marveled at its alien patrons and Ian assessed the powerful figures present.
• Ian ordered drinks and asked the bartender whether anyone had been buying Steel-Skin Folk skins or secretly funding their expansion with faster-than-light engine technology.

Ian and Pheobe entered Arcadia’s VIP lounge, where Pheobe frightened leering mercenaries with her Enchantment Aura. Ian’s enchanted ring drew the attention of a dwarf and sparked an argument with an elf, which Ian ended by revealing the secret of the elf’s spirit-filled bow and proposing a deal.

• Ian showed his Supreme Black Card and led Pheobe into Arcadia’s VIP lounge.
• Pheobe used her Enchantment Aura to make leering mercenaries nearly turn their weapons on themselves, then released them before anyone was hurt.
• A dwarf examined Ian’s spatial ring and praised its craftsmanship, prompting an angry elf to defend elven enchantment.
• Ian intervened and identified himself as the ring’s maker, earning the dwarf’s admiration while the elf remained skeptical.
• Ian used Summoning Charm to take the elf’s longbow, analyzed its enchantment, and recognized that it had a spirit.
• Ian asked the wary elf if they could make a deal.

Ian demonstrated his power by analyzing and upgrading an elf’s living longbow, then offered the elf and a mysterious dwarf ways to contact him. He revealed to Pheobe that he hoped to study the bow’s wood for a soul vessel and recruit the dwarf, whom he suspected was descended from the Rune Smith lineage, for major engineering projects.

• Ian suppressed the longbow’s consciousness, identified its enchantments and unusual growth-type wood, and explained how its abilities worked.
• Ian used Arcane Runes to optimize the bow’s mana circuits, reducing mana consumption and increasing its transmutation efficiency and Law of Thunder damage.
• The elf, Garchion Kunya, and the dwarf, Huji Ironflame, introduced themselves respectfully, and Ian gave each a business card.
• Ian told the elf he could contact him about equipment and told Huji he could seek help with forging or a place to settle.
• In the VIP booth, Ian told Pheobe he wanted to study the bow’s wood as a possible soul vessel for the Citadel’s central intelligence and recruit Huji for the Uranus and Dyson Sphere projects.

Ian explained to Pheobe that powerful races and gods kept knowledge from ordinary people, and said the Arcane Empire would eventually oppose them. He reunited with Dumbledore, restored his missing arm, and asked whether he had found anything about the investigation.

• Ian told Pheobe that technological knowledge was guarded by powerful races because knowledge could empower mortals and threaten the gods.
• Pheobe realized the Arcane Empire could become the gods' enemy, and Ian reassured her that the gods had not reached the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Ian explained that Soul Contracts and bloodline restrictions had blocked his attempts to read the memories of the two people they had met.
• Ian and Pheobe entered a private booth and found Dumbledore, who said a Blade Mantis had severed his arm the previous day.
• Ian used Alchemy to regenerate Dumbledore's arm, then asked whether he had uncovered anything about the investigation.

Ian gave Dumbledore the resources and orders to expand the Empire’s influence across the Milky Way through espionage and arms dealing. After several days with Pheobe, Ian departed aboard the Voidwalker for Earth, leaving the new trade and intelligence network to take shape.

• Ian gave Dumbledore access to the Arcane Grand Library’s interstellar server, and Dumbledore signed its soul-bound confidentiality agreement.
• Ian warned Dumbledore that the library’s pocket dimension would self-destruct if Dumbledore’s soul was controlled or outsiders tried to breach its coordinates.
• Ian showed Dumbledore and Pheobe the Mimics, explaining their infiltration abilities and that Tonks would train recruits instead of joining the first field missions.
• Ian gave Dumbledore a war fleet and ordered him to establish a mercenary group as cover for selling low-tier magical weapons across the galaxy.
• Ian directed Dumbledore to counter goblin control of trade routes and use the arms business to contact human civilizations and recruit people for the Empire.
• Ian spent several days with Pheobe before departing aboard the Voidwalker for Earth.

Ian and Pheobe were ambushed by Kilrogg the pirate, who wanted to force Ian to serve as the pirates’ chief Alchemist. Ian revealed his power as a Fifth Tier Arcanist and subdued Kilrogg, then recognized the orc’s potential for training.

• Ian and Pheobe discussed inviting a renowned siren singer to the Empire’s centennial celebration and cultivating their own superstar.
• The Voidwalker detected an unknown spacecraft locking onto it, and Ian traced the signal to the Kilrogg Pirates before allowing them to catch up.
• Kilrogg’s pirates captured the Voidwalker and summoned Ian and Pheobe to their landing deck.
• Kilrogg offered Ian the position of chief Alchemist in his mercenary corps, while Ian used a Mind Induction Technique to make Kilrogg reveal his ambition to become a god.
• Kilrogg attacked Ian, but Ian pinned him with gravity magic and engulfed him in blue flames; Kilrogg survived, impressing Ian with his elemental resistance.

Ian defeated the pirate captain Kilrogg despite the Anti-Magic Disk, then enslaved him and took control of his crew. Two weeks later, Ian and Pheobe returned to Earth with a new private force, ready to launch the Uranus Project.

• Kilrogg used Berserk, Blood Armor, and his enchanted greatsword to attack Ian, but Ian countered with several spells and trapped him with Spatial Anchor.
• Pheobe incapacitated Kilrogg’s elite subordinates while Kilrogg activated an Anti-Magic Disk to suppress Ian’s magic.
• Ian retained enough power to defeat Kilrogg with a physical strike, then used Blissful Illusion to overcome Kilrogg’s resistance and enslave him.
• Ian ordered Kilrogg to take control of the rest of the pirate crew and wait for further instructions.
• Two weeks later, Ian and Pheobe returned to Earth, where the Uranus Project was set to begin.