Chapter Summaries

Ian captured the Novads in Akator and seized their knowledge, learning that they had helped bring about the gods’ downfall and now competed with Jehovah for influence over humanity. He disguised himself as the wounded Novad King and took control of the enormous ship.

• Ian examined a transdimensional creature and learned that its species had powerful Psychic Energy and bodies suited to spacetime technology.
• Ian brought Hermione, Lily, and Snape to Akator, where they sealed the temple spaceship and the Crystal Skull with a Dimensional Lockdown enchantment.
• Ian returned the Crystal Skull to its place, then used the Novads’ attempt to share their knowledge to invade their linked minds and subdue them.
• Ian learned that the Novads had joined the war against the gods, leaving Jehovah and their own species as the surviving powers, and considered interfering with Christianity’s rise.
• Ian copied the Novad King’s DNA and soul fluctuations, transformed himself into its likeness, and gained the ship’s highest authority.

Ian studied Novad technology, explored the Blank Domain, and developed a magical black hole spell before returning to Earth-125. There, he and his companions attempted to summon a god, and an existence finally answered.

• Ian disabled the Novad Ship’s armaments, entrusted its systems to Morgana, and returned the repaired temple and surrounding land to a pocket dimension to protect the Ugha Tribe.
• Ian took the ship into the Blank Domain and learned how Novad Frequency Reading could identify parallel universes, while black hole technology offered new ways to travel, communicate, and gather resources.
• Ian searched the Novad King’s universe coordinates for worlds with magic, then continued researching Novad technology while the group stayed on Earth-125.
• Several years later, Ian used Arcane Rune Magic: Black Hole to devour a Jupiter-sized planet and a star, demonstrating a Seventh-Tier Stellar-Level attack despite being Sixth Tier.
• Ian returned to Earth and planned to study the Novad King’s Life Code and capture more Novads, while considering the king for the role of Imperial Time Auror.
• Hermione activated a summoning array, but repeated attempts were rejected until an existence finally appeared within it.

Ian and his companions coerced Dolos into sharing divine knowledge, then used what they learned to develop Arcane Fire, a method for purifying magic power. After giving Dolos a magically talented but pig-featured body, Ian departed with his companions for a world full of strange powers and gods.

• Ian identified Dolos as the god of lies and deception, then forced him into a contract to provide divine blood, power, and knowledge in exchange for his life and a new body.
• Dolos explained that Divine Flame purified faith by burning away believers' wills and emotions, inspiring Ian to investigate purifying magic power.
• Ian and his companions spent years testing the idea, eventually creating Arcane Fire, which purified magic power and gave Ian hope of reaching the Seventh Tier.
• Ian gave Dolos a body made with pig demon genes, fulfilling the contract despite Dolos's fury at its appearance.
• Ian boarded the spacecraft with his companions and set course for a world of strange bloodlines, powers, and gods.

Ian used Divine Flame to discover that it purified magic power into higher tiers and inferred that Crystallized Magic and the Philosopher’s Stone were forms of Aether. He renamed the flame Arcane Fire, explored its effects on other substances and energies, and began planning how to use purification to strengthen the Empire.

• Ian found that clones at the Fifth Tier or below could not withstand Divine Flame, so he cultivated Sixth Tier clones and tested purification on them and a Zero Tier clone.
• Ian observed magic power change from blue through tier-linked colors to white, and found that purification could advance an Arcanist through the tiers.
• Ian compared his findings with a comic from his previous life and concluded that Crystallized Magic and his Philosopher’s Stone were lower-purity Aether, which he renamed the Aether Stone.
• Ian estimated that purifying the Floating City’s Energy Core would require dozens of Sixth Tier experts and considered using low-tier Arcanists to condense the flame.
• Ian renamed Divine Flame Arcane Fire, purified his own magic power, and shared the discovery with the other three while urging them to reach the Sixth Tier.
• Ian discovered that Arcane Fire could purify Soul Energy, bloodlines, Battle Aura, herbs, and materials, but that it could not purify Void Energy.

Ian learned that Jehovah had expanded his ambitions to the Multiverse and prepared to confront him by other means. He crossed into Earth-234, where Chloe helped him recover enough to recognize her as the protagonist of The Last Witch Hunter.

• Ian learned from Dolos that Jehovah sought to devour divine power, had likely regained most of his strength, and could not be weakened through mortal faith.
• Ian sent a clone to contact Flynn Carson and planned to recruit Emily Davenport before attempting a solo crossing into a parallel universe.
• Ian cast Cross-Dimensional Portal, arrived on Earth-234 severely injured, and lost his magical artifacts in the crossing.
• Chloe found Ian, took him home, and used his white flames as they regenerated his severed limbs.
• Ian read Chloe's herbology and potion books, analyzed her garden plants, and guided her through brewing a potion that restored his clarity.
• Ian recognized Chloe as the female protagonist of The Last Witch Hunter.

After a failed attempt to reach Earth-234 left Ian badly injured, he recovered in a magically expanded house built in Chloe’s backyard. He offered Chloe wealth or magical knowledge as repayment, and she asked him to teach her, beginning her path as a witch.

• Ian built a small house in Chloe’s backyard with Matter Manipulation, expanded its interior, and brought in supplies from his pocket dimension.
• He treated his injuries over three days and reflected on how turbulence in the Blank Domain had caused his attempt to open a breach to Earth-234 to fail.
• After recovering, Ian studied this world’s witches and warlocks by stealing their books, then welcomed Chloe back four days later.
• Ian offered Chloe a choice between great wealth and extraordinary magical knowledge, but she asked him to teach her.
• Ian agreed to begin teaching Chloe immediately and revealed that she had a unique talent as a Dreamwalker.

Ian explained his origins and the Arcane Empire’s rapid rise to Chloe, then revealed that he planned to conquer her dimension and take its population. Chloe struggled with the revelation, and Ian gave her a few days to decide whether to become his student.

• Ian showed Chloe the multiverse and explained how he had united magic and technology to build the Arcane Empire.
• Ian described how future knowledge, enhanced intelligence, time-accelerated research, and experimentation had sped up the Empire’s development.
• Chloe asked whether she would have to experiment on humans, and Ian said that choice was hers.
• Ian told Chloe he intended to conquer her dimension and transport its magical and ordinary people to his universe without shedding blood.
• Ian gave Chloe a few days to decide whether to continue learning from him and said he would leave The Library to her if she declined.

Chloe agreed to train under Ian, who began preparing her to condense a Magic Core through strenuous physical conditioning. Meanwhile, Ian imprisoned the Witch Council, implanted knowledge of the Empire in its members, and prepared to take the prisoners and Earth’s population to the Empire.

• Chloe told Ian she still wanted him to teach her, and he explained that she first needed to strengthen her body before attempting to condense a Magic Core.
• Ian sent Chloe to begin a 100-kilometer run in a potion-injecting vest under artificial intelligence supervision.
• Ian confined the Witch Council, stopped one member from casting a spell, and searched their minds for information about the Witch Lords.
• Ian took Glasser’s necklace and implanted the Council members with basic knowledge of the Empire and news of his planned conquest of Earth, while hiding his origins.
• Ian examined the prison Golem, then opened the prison and took its prisoners, intending to make them his subjects.

Ian infiltrated an Axe and Cross meeting, took Kaulder’s memories, and uncovered the heart sustaining his immortality. After borrowing the Ancient Runes, Ian resurrected and dissected the Witch Queen, discovering that Witch Lords converted souls into magic and that her bloodline bore an Abyss-like imprint.

• Ian appeared in the Axe and Cross meeting and questioned Kaulder about the other Witch Lords.
• Ian read the memories of Kaulder and the other leaders, then revealed the Witch Queen’s still-beating heart and learned it sustained Kaulder’s immortality.
• Kaulder fired at Ian, but Ian stopped the bullets and knocked him unconscious before leaving.
• Ian borrowed the Ancient Runes, returned home, and told Chloe he planned to resurrect and dissect the Witch Queen.
• Ian resurrected the Witch Queen with magic, planetary vitality, and a summoned soul, then dissected her while Morgana scanned her anatomy.
• Ian discovered that Witch Lords stored magic in their hearts, gained it by converting souls, and carried an imprint resembling the Abyss.

After discovering that Abyssal energy may be the source of this world's magic, Ian entered Chloe's dream and began training her as a Dreamwalker. Chloe spent a month learning in the dream and resolved to endure the demanding preparation Ian set for her.

• Ian searched the Witch Queen's memories and found that drinking water infused with Abyssal aura had caused her transformation into an Immortal.
• Ian entered Chloe's dream and explained that she was a Dreamwalker who could enter and control dreams.
• Ian taught Chloe to build a Mind Palace and use Occlumency to organize knowledge and defend her mind.
• After one night in the real world, Chloe woke from a month of dream training mentally exhausted.
• Ian told Chloe that the Empire's Honors Course demanded extraordinary study and exaggerated the workload to push her harder.
• Chloe decided to persevere through Ian's training so she could compete using her unique talent.

Ian helped Chloe complete a month of magical study, then used her Dreamwalker talent to locate a mysterious Dream Dimension. After his Cosmic Perception revealed that an Eleventh-Tier Dream Lord could easily kill him there, Ian shut down the portal and began preparing to leave the universe after one final battle.

• Chloe signed Ian’s contract protecting her memories and began studying magic, languages, and other subjects through Skynet.
• Ian teleported away Kaulder’s special forces unit, imprisoned Kaulder, and attended the Witch Council’s gathering to assess and categorize the witches.
• After a month of study, Chloe used Ian’s Dream Helmet to project herself into the Dream Dimension, where her scream destroyed a lion-like creature.
• Ian used the experiment’s data to find the Dream Dimension’s coordinates, but Cosmic Perception showed him being killed by a massive black palm identified as an Eleventh-Tier Dream Lord.
• Ian shut down the Dimension Gate, decided to conquer the planet and return to Earth-125 before going home, and brought Chloe back from the Dream Dimension.

Ian conquered Earth for the Arcane Empire, taking its population aboard a colossal ship after effortlessly neutralizing humanity’s nuclear attack. He left the emptied world behind and returned to Earth-125.

• Ian asked Chloe whether she wanted her parents resurrected, but she refused, and he placed her brother in a cryogenic pod aboard his ship.
• Ian used Alchemy and Engineering Golems to build a colossal ship capable of carrying billions of people.
• Ian announced that Earth would come under the Arcane Empire’s rule, and governments around the world launched thousands of nuclear missiles at his ship.
• Ian snapped his fingers and made every missile disappear, then explained to Chloe that nuclear weapons were weak by the Empire’s standards.
• The golems took Earth’s population aboard and placed them in cryogenic pods, including Chloe, while Ian planned to alter their memories after their return.
• Ian sent the ship into his pocket dimension, looked back at the deserted Earth, and used Dimensional Teleportation to return to Earth-125.

Ian returned to New York in 2014 after a decades-long absence, reunited with Hermione, and learned how his companions and the Empire had advanced. After discussing their preparations to return to the Prime Universe, he reviewed his collected artifacts and encouraged Flynn Carson and Emily Davenport to pursue archaeology; he left to visit old friends before departing.

• Ian emerged from a spatial rift in Manhattan, erased witnesses' memories and digital traces with Morgana's help, and learned it was 2014.
• Ian reunited with Hermione in the Floating City, and three days later she told him that Severus and Lily had also reached the Sixth Tier and that they had captured a Novad Queen.
• Snape described his potion-making ability, Lily explained her Druid magic and plans for sharing Love Magic, and Hermione reported developing a spell that let her borrow power from Seventh-Tier creatures.
• Ian and his companions agreed to prepare to leave the universe, then Ian inspected blood samples, Hitler's soul, and the Mirror of Shani that Morgana had stored.
• Ian praised Flynn Carson and Emily Davenport for reaching the Fourth Tier and supported their decision to become archaeologists while reminding them to build their strength.
• Ian left Flynn and Emily and set out to visit old friends before leaving the world.

Ian visited Zi Yuan’s grave in China and the graves of his old friends in Britain, reflecting on their choices to accept death while reaffirming his own commitment to immortality. After Alex O'Connell died and Ian arranged his funeral, Ian felt his last emotional bond with this world had ended and began preparing to go home.

• Ian visited Zi Yuan’s grave, left white flowers, and enchanted the cemetery to remain clean and receive flowers each year on the anniversary of her death.
• Ian visited the graves of Frank, Lilith, Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan, remembering that they had refused his offers of immortality.
• Ian met the elderly Alex O'Connell, who led him to the grave of Lin, his late wife and Zi Yuan’s daughter.
• Alex told Ian that Lin had viewed death as another great adventure and said he hoped to join her soon.
• A month later, Alex died peacefully, and Ian arranged his funeral after seeing his soul depart for the afterlife.
• Ian felt his last emotional bond with the world had been severed and began making final preparations for his journey home.

Ian discovered that Nick was descended from Demon-Sealing Priests and possessed a body capable of suppressing gods, so he secretly implanted something in him for future use. He then returned to Earth-234, where his nanorobots dismantled the planet and stored its materials in Subspace.

• Ian disguised himself as a commander and examined Nick, discovering his body could weaken a deity and suppress its will.
• Ian traced Nick’s bloodline to the Demon-Sealing Priests and suspected Jehovah had created them as part of a long-term plan.
• Ian used a mandatory vaccination campaign to implant something in Nick, then chose to wait rather than risk changing the story too soon.
• Three months later, Ian returned to Earth-234 and ordered Morgana to deploy the nanorobots, which reclaimed the planet’s technological goods.
• Ian commanded the nanorobots to dismantle Earth layer by layer, and they reduced the planet to raw materials within a month.

Ian plundered populations and technology from numerous Earths, then returned after three years to observe Nick’s battle with Ahmanet and Set. As Ian began evacuating Earth, an unforeseen change disrupted his carefully prepared plan.

• Ian ordered Morgana to deploy plague-type nanobots across the Solar System and plundered populations from twenty-one Earths, adding roughly 170 billion people to the Empire.
• Ian explored future Earths for technology and recruits, then returned after three outside years to address Nick and Set.
• Ian praised Dr. Jekyll’s scientific research into dividing the soul into good and evil, suppressed Jekyll’s evil side, and left him alone in the office.
• Ian and his companions watched Nick become Set’s vessel, suppress Set’s consciousness, and resurrect Jenny before fleeing to protect her.
• Ian opened a portal to take Nick from the Sahara and activated a planetary magic array that began transporting Earth’s population, but an unexpected change occurred.

Ian discovered that Jehovah had been hiding beneath the Pacific Ocean and confronted the severely wounded Tenth Tier god with the Floating City. Jehovah’s Judgment began cracking the city’s shield, leaving both opponents wary as the battle intensified.

• Jehovah emerged from the deep sea and began tearing apart the magical array surrounding Earth.
• Ian redirected the array around Jehovah, learned that the god was a wounded Tenth Tier being who could currently wield Ninth Tier power, and ordered Morgana to prepare for battle.
• Ian brought the Floating City into the air and drew on its immense supply of magic power, using the Mechanical Mind Charm to resist the resulting sense of omnipotence.
• Jehovah cast Divine Art: Judgment, and the attack began cracking the Floating City’s Void Energy shield.
• Jehovah realized his powerful strike had failed to destroy the city and its occupants, making the fight more complicated.

Ian used layered defenses to protect the Floating City from Jehovah’s Ninth Tier attacks and a pseudo-Tenth Tier arrow, but the strain pushed him to his limit. As he held the defensive line, a Lightsaber bypassed every shield and pierced his chest.

• Ian ordered Morgana to monitor Jehovah’s attacks and reserve the Void Shield for a Tenth Tier strike.
• Jehovah sent ten thousand Lightsabers at the Floating City, and Ian used Alchemy to assemble meteorite shields that stopped most of them.
• Jehovah fired a pseudo-Tenth Tier arrow, and Ian’s Triple Rashomon gates weakened it enough to stop it.
• Ian opened the Gate of Truth to ease the strain of controlling the Aether Core and Morgana’s data stream.
• A Lightsaber bypassed the Floating City’s defenses and Ian’s personal shield, piercing his chest before he could react.

Ian survived Jehovah’s causality spell and used a curse powered by Jesus’s blood and Christian faith to drain Jehovah’s Divine Power. As Jehovah summoned an angelic army, Hermione brought the undead warriors of the Heavenly War onto the battlefield, including a resentful figure who called himself Lucifer.

• Ian survived Jehovah’s first Causality Spell with his Soul Shield and ordered Morgana to prepare defenses against similar attacks.
• Ian cursed Jehovah with an Energy-Devouring Curse using Jesus’s blood and a Faith Power orb, while Phoenix Fire restored Ian’s injured body.
• Jehovah failed to sever the curse’s connection to humanity’s faith and summoned an army of angels to weaken its effect.
• Ian assigned Snape to produce potions and cast dark magic, Hermione to command the army, and Lily to defend the city, while warning them to preserve energy for escape.
• Hermione summoned undead warriors from the Heavenly War, and the archangel Michael recognized some of them as former enemies and comrades.
• A fallen angel claiming to be a remnant of Lucifer greeted Michael as his sister and Jehovah as his father.

Jehovah killed Lucifer and attacked Ian, who relied on the Floating City’s defenses and prepared rule-bearing artifacts to resist the god’s Authority. The chapter ended as Jehovah unleashed a devastating barrage of light spears and Ian prepared to meet it with the Death Staff and Time Staff.

• Jehovah remembered how Faith Power had twisted his plan to unite the gods and reshaped him into the supreme god he had pretended to be.
• Jehovah erased Lucifer with a beam of light, prompting Ian to recognize the power of divine [Authority].
• Ian ordered Morgana to charge the Void Cannon and bring out the Death Staff and Time Staff.
• Jehovah used Time Stop, but the Floating City’s Anti-Time-Stop Barrier broke the spell before he could reach its shield.
• Jehovah unleashed Judgment of Light: World End, and Ian raised the Death Staff and Time Staff to face the attack.