Chapter Summaries

Ian fought Jehovah in the Mirror Dimension, using time magic and a Death Abomination assembled from the dead across history to weaken him. Jehovah unleashed Ultimate Destruction on the Floating City, and Ian screamed Lily’s name as it exploded.

• Ian used Time Erasure against Jehovah, but Jehovah shattered the spell and summoned nine temporal clones to unleash Judgment of Light.
• Ian summoned three clones and shielded four Floating Cities from the combined attack, then called up the dead across time to create the Death Abomination.
• The Death Abomination destroyed Jehovah’s summoned angels and corroded his shields and divine essence, costing him millions of years of life.
• Jehovah seized part of the monster’s control, but its poison weakened his Divine Power and compounded the effects of the Energy-Devouring Curse.
• Jehovah cast Ultimate Destruction at the Floating City, and Ian cried out Lily’s name as the attack exploded.

Ian and his allies survived Jehovah’s universe-erasing attack, but his Divine Kingdom Projection let him wound Ian’s soul and suppress magic throughout the Floating City. Ian and Morgana found a way to keep fighting, and the chapter ended as the city appeared behind Jehovah with its cannons aimed at him.

• Lily used Ancient Magic: Protection of Love to shield the Floating City from Jehovah’s attack, but the spell left her rapidly aging and recovering in cycles.
• Jehovah summoned his Divine Kingdom Projection, replenished his Divine Power, and attacked Ian’s soul with Dark Authority: God’s Gaze.
• Ian used the Gate of Truth to stabilize his Soul Dimension, while Morgana linked his soul to her server to help him withstand the attack.
• Morgana told Ian that the Divine Kingdom Projection had created a Magic Insulation Zone, and they planned to use Cosmic Energy to counter its suppression.
• The Floating City appeared behind Jehovah with its charged cannons aimed at him, and he realized the attack could kill him.

Ian forced Jehovah to retreat after the Floating City’s attack, severing his arm with the Sword of Obscurials before escaping to repair the city. Jehovah rebuilt his plans on Earth, while Merlin and Jehovah discussed Ian’s potential and whether he should be pushed toward the ruthless Golden Generation.

• Jehovah used countless newly created dimensions and multiple Authorities to withstand the Floating City’s Void Cannon, while his Divine Kingdom weakened and mortals in Heaven died.
• Ian ordered the Floating City to withdraw when its energy reached the warning line, then struck Jehovah with the Sword of Obscurials as he dodged the cannon, severing his right arm and consuming part of his Divine Origin.
• Ian and Morgana took the damaged Floating City into another parallel dimension to repair its shattered Void Shield, while Jehovah restored his Divine Kingdom and altered the surviving souls’ memories.
• Jehovah erased modern civilization from Earth, created a new human race, and sent two weakened angels to teach them and spread his name before he submerged himself to heal.
• Merlin and Jehovah discussed Ian’s talent and potential, and Jehovah warned that Ian was too softhearted for the Golden Generation; Merlin chose to preserve Ian’s compassion while teaching him measured ruthlessness.

While recovering from his battle with Jehovah, Ian reviewed the Floating City’s weaknesses and planned upgrades for a second-generation design. He ordered Morgana to save his ideas and begin the redesign, then entered cryogenic hibernation as the city headed home.

• Ian identified repairs and upgrades for the Floating City, including backup Void Energy, adjustable size, and stronger defenses against divine and causal attacks.
• Ian planned an Anti-Divinity Weapon for Arcanists and proposed improving the Void Cannon with anti-divination enchantments and concealment.
• Ian considered linking Arcanists to their Floating Cities through the Gate of Truth to protect their souls and improve control of the Aether Core.
• Ian concluded that Arcanists needed domains to counter Divine Kingdom Projections and resolved to seek the Akashic Records to choose future worlds.
• Ian told Morgana to save his plans in a folder named "Floating City 2.0" and use them to design the next-generation city.
• Ian entered a restorative tube for cryogenic hibernation and instructed Morgana to repair the shields and wake him when they reached home.

After returning from a three-year journey, Ian recovered from his soul injuries and met with Merlin, who warned him about the future conflict over his wives and explained how gods use Authority. The chapter left Ian asking how spellcasters wield Authority.

• Ian returned with Morgana and learned that more than three years had passed, while she reported repairs to the Void Shield, an eighty-percent-charged Aether Core, and possible life in the void.
• Merlin gave Ian a smoke-filled potion that healed his lingering injuries and handed him four more doses to distribute and study.
• Merlin warned Ian that Rowena and Hermione could become rivals in the future struggle for which version of his wives would become the original Multiverse Entity.
• Merlin told Ian to avoid becoming a god of faith and explained how gods formed pacts with a universe's laws to wield Authority.
• Ian connected Merlin's explanation to his research on Soul Imprints and asked how spellcasters used Authority.

Ian learned the four methods of accessing [Authority] and discovered that his soul strength qualified him for Conceptual Magic, though his willpower did not. After studying with Merlin, Ian returned to Earth and announced his arrival to powerful Arcanists with a wave of Spiritual Pressure.

• Merlin explained the four ways spellcasters could access [Authority], including bargaining with, stealing from, or overpowering the Cosmic Will.
• Ian connected Herpo’s access to the Authority of Death and his own actions in the Fullmetal Alchemist world to dangerous violations of the Cosmic Will.
• Merlin measured Ian’s soul strength at 6 and his willpower at 3, then gave him a booklet on forcing a contract with the Cosmic Will.
• Ian discussed magic and Arthur with Merlin, then left for home aboard the Floating City.
• Ian bypassed the Solar System’s teleportation defenses and appeared above Earth, where his Spiritual Pressure alerted Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier Arcanists that the Archon had returned.

Chris Tiu lived in an advanced Empire where magic and technology were widely available, but he struggled with his poor magical talent and worked to improve his Battle Aura and transmutation skills. He remained hopeful that buying a Dragon Potion would help him overcome his limitations.

• Chris Tiu watched a news report about a Fifth Tier Arcanist who called himself a god and was arrested after the Earth Defense Barrier stopped his destructive spell.
• Chris ate dinner prepared by Angela and thought about rare food from the newly discovered Food Dimension.
• Chris trained in his gym, circulating the Battle Aura Cultivation Method to strengthen his body and increase his Battle Aura.
• Chris used a Transmutation Circle to turn the floor into a mud bird, taking one minute and fifteen seconds.
• Chris told Angela he hoped to save enough money to buy a Dragon Potion and improve his talent.

Chris continued practicing alchemy through the night, then followed his routine and headed to work. On the train, he remained composed about the social changes around him, including the growing popularity of catgirl modifications.

• Chris spent several hours drawing and correcting transmutation circles before sleeping in his virtual-network pod.
• Chris woke at six, ate breakfast, dressed in his black suit, and left for work.
• Chris passed a cat-eared neighbor who regarded him as a famously stingy resident.
• Chris reflected on the spread of biological modifications and the resistance of people attached to the old era.
• Chris paid his fare and boarded the train to his designated area.

Chris traveled from the Philippines to his workplace in South Africa, reflecting on the Empire’s widespread cultivation of Battle Aura and its enchanted public services. After arriving early, he ate breakfast and trained at the company before heading to a morning meeting.

• Chris watched a news video of two Battle Aura cultivators fighting in public until Aurors separated them, issued a citation, and repaired the damage.
• Chris discussed public transportation and a rumor that Third Tier Arcanists guarded passengers with Abu on the way into the company.
• Chris used the building’s enchantments to teleport to the cafeteria and ate a magic-rich second breakfast served by a Chinese chef.
• Chris trained in the company’s training room with the aid of its Wisdom Blessing Enchantment, then teleported to the main office for a meeting with his manager.

Chris proposed using biological methods to control the giant monsters guarding a valuable mineral deposit and earned 500 Imperial Points. The Arcane Library then announced a major upgrade, leading citizens to believe Ian had returned more powerful than ever.

• Chris attended a meeting where the goblin manager explained that giant monsters made mining Gadanium Alloy on planet X-789 too costly.
• Chris suggested developing pheromones or a biological potion to calm or control the monsters and make them mine the ore.
• The goblin manager praised Chris's proposal, promised to report it to the board, and awarded him 500 Imperial Points.
• Skynet announced that the Arcane Library had completed a major upgrade, prompting citizens across the Empire to log in.
• Citizens at the top of the Empire concluded that Ian, the supreme Arcane Archon, had returned more powerful than ever.

After returning to Earth, Ian discovered that the Magic Activation Ritual had released thousands of years of accumulated mana, transforming the environment and producing high-magic regions and Awakened Ones. He identified the Awakened Ones’ soul runes as potentially primordial and teleported away to investigate one final place before visiting his family.

• Ian checked Skynet and learned that the Magic Activation Ritual had released mana accumulated in dormant Leyline Nodes, increasing magical births and enabling Arcane Warlocks to draw on ambient mana.
• Ian inspected Mount Everest and found rock-like creatures gestating inside the enlarged mountain, then saw a Chilean volcanic region filled with Lava Monsters guarding a Fifth Tier Lava Lord’s egg.
• Ian confirmed that high-magic regions around the world had become dangerous forbidden zones, though their strongest known creatures were only Fifth Tier.
• Ian secretly observed an Awakened young man in Canada and found strange runes in his Soul Dimension that enabled him to draw on ambient mana.
• Ian concluded that the runes might be the universe’s Primordial Runes and teleported away to confirm one final place before seeing his family.

Ian visited the Dimension Research Institute on Ceres, reviewed its discoveries, and warned its tower masters that their dimensional research lacked adequate safety measures. He ordered them to relocate their work to a protected pocket of Subspace and arranged for an Eighth Tier weapon to serve as a safeguard.

• Ian arrived at the institute, where Tower Master Aivoro showed him the Food Dimension research led by Tower Master Gordon.
• Tower Master Kim Ji-hoon introduced the Inert Region, and Ian gave him a new magical system to help investigate its unique energy.
• Ian considered placing the Empire’s Quantum Prison inside the Inert Region, then viewed the Flame Dimension and its fire elementals with Aivoro.
• Ian summoned the institute’s tower masters and criticized their failure to consider that dangerous creatures might invade through dimensional passages.
• Ian ordered the researchers to move their work into a self-destructing pocket of Subspace and assigned an Eighth Tier weapon as an additional safeguard.

Ian returned to the Floating City and reunited with his family, recounting his recent journey and revealing secrets about his reincarnation and Primordial Earth. The family learned that future wars might involve them, while Susan resolved to reach the Twelfth Tier so she could visit Primordial Earth.

• Ian returned to the Floating City, where Morgana told him the others had recovered, and he brought Hermione back to the imperial palace.
• Ian and Hermione reunited with his parents and family, then described their adventures, including the battle with Jehovah; Ian denied bringing back a new woman.
• Ian learned that the Empire had bought enslaved people from the troubled Milky Way Galaxy and that his aunt had granted them freedom and full rights.
• After Olivier questioned Ian about his calmness toward death, Ian revealed his death and reincarnation, Primordial Earth, and the wars that might come.
• Susan was shaken by the possibility that their lives came from a book, but Ian said he could take her to Primordial Earth if she reached the Twelfth Tier.
• Joanna asked about Ian's original parents, and Ian said Merlin had sent a clone of his original body to care for them.

At dinner, Luna and Rowena recounted their encounters with dark alternate versions of themselves and Voldemort, then Luna foresaw a highest-level Cornerstone for the Arcane Empire. Ian identified the gifted student Havika Keinaru and arranged secret protection and support for his Rune Mathematics research.

• Luna, Hermione, and Olivier accused Ian of using spoilers to predict the future, and Ian jokingly accepted the charge while changing the subject.
• Luna described an alternate Luna who became a Dark Lord after losing her parents, and Rowena recounted a Sixth Tier Voldemort who enslaved Earth before being killed.
• Luna reported discovering the Empire's first highest-level Cornerstone, and she revealed that the boy was named Havika Keinaru.
• Morgana showed that fifteen-year-old Havika was a gifted Rune Mathematics student at Kanaloa Magic School.
• Ian ordered the Ghost Squad to protect Havika and arranged a school competition that would grant him computing resources and relevant Library knowledge.

After discussing the Eleventh-Tier threat and the Empire’s priorities with Amelia, Ian updated the Arcane Library and went to meet Juliette Lumière. Juliette recognized the Divine Potion’s soul examination as coercive and gathered nine hidden figures to discuss the update.

• Amelia asked Ian about the Eleventh-Tier threat, and he described plans to sever the family’s ties to their Multiverse variants or reincarnate them with their memories intact.
• Ian assigned Amelia tasks to resettle magical newcomers, secure the Novad people, distribute Jehovah’s arm, and handle Set’s body.
• Ian updated the Arcane Library’s database with the gains from his recent journey and set out to meet an irritable Dragon.
• Juliette Lumière read the Divine Potion’s requirements and realized that refusing it could leave her behind while accepting it meant submitting to a soul examination.
• Juliette logged into a private server and asked nine masked figures what they thought of the update.

Ten powerful Arcanists discussed Ian’s growing power and the Empire’s Eighth-Tier weapon, weighing their ambitions against their loyalty to the Empire. They agreed to sign the contract for the Divine Potion and Arcane Fire training so they could advance to Sixth Tier before their rivals surpassed them.

• Ten Arcanists learned that the Archon had sent an Eighth-Tier weapon to the Dimension Research Institute and feared living under Ian’s shadow.
• One Arcanist blamed Ian’s strength on his secret method for advancing to Diamond Rank, but another pointed out how difficult that method would be to reproduce.
• The group acknowledged that Ian’s generous sharing of magical knowledge had helped them and that their circle existed to protect their interests, not oppose the Empire.
• The Arcanists agreed to sign the contract to obtain the Divine Potion and the method for training in Arcane Fire.
• The meeting ended, and the attendees returned to their demiplanes determined to advance to Sixth Tier quickly.

Ian visited Albion at the World Gate and discovered the dragon’s Magic Heart cultivation method while secretly monitoring his recovery. After realizing Albion and the Frost Dragon Queen were both trying to escape his control, Ian turned to investigate the turmoil in the Milky Way Galaxy with Dumbledore.

• Ian met Albion and asked whether any Eleventh-Tier gods or other individuals existed, and Albion said none had appeared since the Magus Race.
• Albion offered Dragon Tongue Magic and his cultivation insights in exchange for Ian’s magical power, then began rebuilding his strength.
• Ian observed Albion shatter his Magic Core and channel magical power into his heart, learning how Dragonkind used DNA and cells to store power.
• Ian noticed Soul Energy eroding the Soul Enslavement restriction but chose to wait, calculating that it would take at least fifty-seven years to break.
• Ian discovered that the Frost Dragon Queen was also trying to escape his control and decided to speak with Dumbledore about the Milky Way Galaxy’s turmoil.

Ian, Olivia, and Dumbledore investigated vanished star systems and discovered that a Death Knight was turning their inhabitants into undead for a campaign tied to a possible god of death. They traced the threat to a likely Undead Calamity and watched the Knight’s army set out for another planet, leaving Ian to ask Olivia what she thought.

• Dumbledore told Ian that inhabited systems were vanishing and that several civilizations were secretly acquiring materials related to undead and souls.
• Ian, Olivia, and Dumbledore visited a vanished system, drove off scavengers, and used Time Magic to view the planet’s past.
• They saw a Fifth Tier Death Knight emerge from a meteor, slaughter the insectoid inhabitants, and turn them into undead in service of Lord Gaznard.
• Ian identified the events as a possible Undead Calamity and found traces of Divine Power at the Death Knight’s arrival site.
• The Death Knight devoured most of the planet’s undead to reach the Sixth Tier, then led the survivors away in a bone battleship to attack another planet.
• After watching the undead campaign spread, Ian asked Olivia what she thought.

Ian, Olivia, and Dumbledore planned to use the undead crisis to expand the Empire through wealth, reputation, population, and eventual victory over Bleach. After the Empire announced accelerated training and discounted advancement resources, Chris Tiu applied for a merit loan and asked acquaintances to lend him merit.

• Olivia proposed exploiting the undead crisis to conquer the Milky Way Galaxy, and Dumbledore agreed that the Empire could use the turmoil to expand and bring order.
• Olivia outlined a plan to sell anti-undead magic, build the Empire’s reputation, absorb more people, and eventually defeat Bleach; Ian proposed opening the Time Acceleration Chamber to Arcanists.
• Ian returned to the Empire and convened a meeting to discuss expansion and governing new territories, while Dumbledore reunited with his old friends and Grindelwald on Earth.
• The Empire announced the Time Acceleration Chamber and discounted advancement resources to citizens across its three inhabited galaxies, amid the growth of new magical professions.
• Chris Tiu saw the announcement, applied for a merit loan, and contacted acquaintances to ask for a loan so he could advance his tier.

Lily told James that she loved Snape and had decided to let him join their family, leaving James needing time to accept her choice. Harry heard the news from Lily and was not surprised, while he had already been dealing with concerns about his son Little James.

• Lily returned home with Snape and told James she had decided to let Snape join their family because she loved him.
• James objected, then left to process Lily's decision and asked her to tell Harry.
• Harry discussed Little James's repeated arrests and his family with Ron at a bar on Mars.
• Lily contacted Harry, and he returned home through the Warp Gates to hear her decision.
• Harry was not surprised by Lily's choice, since he believed Snape had been more present for him than James.