Chapter Summaries

At the Magic Knights entrance exam, Wizard King Ian helped Asta join the Black Bulls and revealed the truth about his mother. Asta’s connection to Ian broke the chains binding him, and Ian prepared to bring the future into the present to confront Lucius.

• Ian appeared at the entrance exam, addressed the contestants, and focused his attention on Asta’s Five-leaf Clover Grimoire.
• Asta struggled through the early tests but defeated his opponent with the Demon-Slayer Sword, while Yuno impressed the crowd and joined the Golden Dawn.
• When no captain chose Asta, Ian pressured Yami into recruiting him for the Black Bulls and privately told Asta that his mother, Richita, had abandoned him to protect him.
• Golden chains appeared around Ian and shattered as he broke free of the Cosmic Will, then he tested Asta with Gravity Magic until Asta’s Devil Power emerged.
• Ian declared Asta had passed, sent Yami to take the unconscious Asta for training, and used Future Sight to prepare to bring the future to the present and confront Lucius.

Ian tested Asta’s Anti-Magic and willpower, then removed Asta’s natural Limiter to let him access Devil Power. After collecting data on Anti-Magic’s limits, Ian prepared to speak with the demon inside Asta, Liebe.

• Ian reviewed Asta’s exam results and found his willpower nearly high enough for Conceptual Magic.
• Ian examined Asta’s sword and Grimoire, then tested the sword’s ability to negate spells made of mana.
• Ian enhanced Asta’s body and removed his natural Limiter, causing him to awaken Devil Power as the captains watched.
• Asta gained control of his new power well enough to negate a Miniature Sun, but could only deflect Ian’s larger Crystalline Mana spell.
• Ian considered developing Anti-Magic into a new Arcanist profession and decided to speak with Liebe.

Ian questioned Liebe about the origins of Anti-Magic and gave him a device to analyze it, while confirming he could eventually revive Richita. He gave Asta a body-enhancement technique and instructions for Yami to teach him ki perception, then left as the Magic Knights examination concluded and news of its events spread across the kingdom.

• Ian entered Asta's Grimoire space, told Liebe he had preserved a fragment of Richita's soul, and promised he could revive her later.
• Liebe said Anti-Magic had appeared in his body after years of hating Lucifero, and Ian gave him a crystal ball to analyze its source.
• Ian returned to the real world, healed Asta, and gave him a Life-Force Body Enhancement Method scroll.
• Ian told Yami to teach Asta ki perception, while Yuno vowed to surpass Asta and become the Wizard King.
• The examination ended, with successful candidates joining the Magic Knights, some others assigned to the Border Guard Army or research roles, and news of the events spreading through the kingdom.

Ian joined the Black Bulls’ welcome party, discussed their members’ magic and his research, and authorized Zora to arrest Gueldre Poizot. Unable to locate the Demon Zagred, Ian decided to seek the Witch Queen’s help and told Yami to attend a captains’ meeting the next day.

• Yami brought Asta to the Black Bulls’ base, where the squad welcomed him and Magna challenged him before the members held a barbecue party.
• Ian arrived for Charmy’s food, learned she had forgotten his request to research food that purified magic power, and discussed the unfinished research with her.
• Ian told Yami that Asta and Grey were also Arcane Stage mages, and explained to Vanessa that her Destiny attribute would manifest after she resolved her issue with the Witch Queen and reclaimed her Self.
• Zora asked Ian for permission to arrest Purple Orcas captain Gueldre Poizot, and Ian approved the raid on the squad’s headquarters.
• Ian told Yami he had searched the kingdom for Zagred without finding him, then instructed Yami to attend a meeting of the squad captains the following day before leaving to meet the Witch Queen.

Ian failed to locate Zagred but learned that Lucius Zogratis and Morris Libardirt were discussing how to open a gate to the Underworld. He announced that he was taking an indefinite vacation, leaving the captains responsible for the Clover Kingdom’s security.

• Ian asked the Witch Queen to find Zagred, but her divination revealed no trace of the demon.
• The Witch Queen located Lucius Zogratis and Morris Libardirt, who discussed needing more knowledge to create an artificial Gate of the Underworld.
• Ian learned that the Dark Triad had replaced the real Morris and suspected Morris would seek knowledge through the Heart Kingdom.
• A newspaper praised Asta and reported the arrest of the corrupt Purple Orcas captain, while Yami took Finral to the captains’ meeting.
• Ian appointed Kaiser Granvorka as the new Purple Orcas captain and announced that he would leave on an indefinite vacation.
• After discussing the kingdom’s security with the captains, Ian dismissed the meeting and kept Nozel Silva behind.

Ian reunited Noelle with Nozel and told her the truth about their mother, then negotiated with Queen Lolopechka for the Heart Kingdom’s inherited knowledge. After exploring its memories, Ian found clues about angels, a civilization-ending war, and Elysia, along with another discovery that could benefit him and the Empire.

• Ian summoned Noelle and urged Nozel to tell her that Megicula had killed their mother, not Noelle’s birth.
• Noelle learned Ian could resurrect Acier if she trained and grew stronger, while Nozel realized his attempt to protect Noelle by keeping her distant had been wrong.
• Ian met Queen Lolopechka and Undine, confirmed their exchange of magical knowledge, and offered to protect the Heart Kingdom and remove Megicula’s curse in return for its inherited knowledge.
• Ian entered the Heart Kingdom’s hall of inherited knowledge and discovered records of a war between demons and angels, civilization beginning anew, and Elysia as the gods’ dwelling place.
• Ian found another fact in the inherited knowledge that could benefit him and the Empire, then looked toward Undine.

Ian studied Undine’s Soul Space and developed a new way to store mana, then restored Morgana’s support and prepared the Heart Kingdom for the Dark Triad’s attack. He finished setting invisible magical traps along likely invasion routes and waited for the enemy.

• Ian discovered that elemental spirits stored mana in their Soul Spaces and used Undine’s knowledge to develop a new mana-storage method for Arcanists.
• Ian summoned Morgana, who shared her memories of the world and helped him locate the World Gate beyond the crystal wall in the Void.
• Ian and Morgana planned to recover the World Gate before it was destroyed, and Ian removed the restrictions on Morgana in this world.
• Ian asked Lolopechka for a map and used it to identify likely routes the Dark Triad could take into the Heart Kingdom.
• Ian planted magical traps along those routes and concealed them with Gueldre Poizot’s Transparency Magic.

Ian captured Vanica and summoned Megicula from the Underworld, defeating and binding her with golden roses. He removed Acier’s soul from Megicula and planned to use the demon to gain resistance to curses.

• Ian sensed the Dark Triad retreating from the Heart Kingdom, projected his soul to the Spade Kingdom, and learned that Lucius’s danger-warning artifact had helped them escape earlier attacks.
• Ian repelled Dante, took Vanica from the Spade Kingdom, and left Lucius and Zenon without their warning necklace.
• Ian brought Vanica to his storage dimension and opened a gate to Megicula’s layer of the Underworld using World Tree Magic and Dark Magic.
• Megicula attacked with a world-ending curse, killing Vanica, but Ian purified the curse and bound Megicula with golden roses.
• Ian explained that he planned to collect curses to develop resistance, then removed Acier’s soul from Megicula.

Ian sealed Megicula, lifted Lolopechka’s curse, and visited the Dryad in Elysion to exchange magic techniques and ask about Elysium. After learning the village’s name held no clues, he opened a gate to a positive-energy dimension he identified as Elysium.

• Ian considered his feelings for Acier and the complications that could arise if she later resurrected her husband, Henry.
• Ian returned to the Heart Kingdom, removed Lolopechka’s curse with a golden rose, and left through a portal.
• Ian visited the Dryad in Elysion and agreed to exchange techniques, but learned she had no information about the legendary Elysium.
• Ian explained the differences between Ultimate Magic and True Magic, then traveled to an area dense with magical power.
• Ian and Morgana prepared a guarded summoning site, and Ian used Light Magic to locate Elysium and crossed into the dimension.

Ian entered Elysium but was expelled by a force he identified as an impure Cosmic Will, prompting him to prepare an ancient rune system before trying again. He revived Richita, showed her Asta, and used bloodline magic that pointed toward the Land of the Sun as a possible clue to Asta’s father, Zure.

• Ian entered Elysium, where the angels tried to capture him after recognizing his Origin Grimoire, but a giant hand shattered his spell and forced him back to the mortal realm.
• Ian sensed an impure Cosmic Will and found that Elysium’s gates had sealed, so he decided to reproduce the Arcane Rune System before attempting to enter again.
• Ian restored Richita’s soul and body, and she asked about Liebe and Asta after waking.
• Ian showed Richita Asta fighting in a Dungeon and explained that both Asta and Liebe were safe and had become partners.
• Richita told Ian that Zure had disappeared after learning she was pregnant, and Ian used Asta’s blood to trace his father’s lineage to the Land of the Sun.

Ian inspected the damaged World Gate and planned how to repair it before checking the Clover Kingdom, where widespread battles and destruction suggested Zagred was behind the chaos. He decided to wait for Zagred to reveal himself before intervening.

• Ian let Richita stay with him and gave her a crystal ball to watch Asta.
• After resting, Ian flew beyond the planet and reached the World Gate through a region of chaotic spacetime energy.
• Ian and Morgana assessed the gate's damage and planned to repair it using purified Underworld Metal and other magical resources.
• Ian stored the gate in his Dimensional Space and used a crystal ball to observe battles across the Clover Kingdom.
• Ian suspected Zagred was causing the chaos and chose to wait for the right moment to act.

The Eye of the Midnight Sun attacked the Clover Kingdom, and the surviving captains discovered the Elves were pursuing magic stones to reach the Shadow Palace. As Ian watched the crisis spread to other locations, he waited for Zagred to appear.

• Patry defeated Yami’s resistance, healed Vetto and Fana, and flew with them toward the royal palace while Yami survived and rejoined the other captains.
• Asta, Yuno, and Secre identified the magic stones as the Elves’ target, and Yami revealed that the Shadow Palace might be their destination.
• Fuegoleon awakened a winged Salamander, recovered from his wounds, and told the captains that Vangeance was the Eye of the Midnight Sun’s leader.
• The captains followed Yami’s plan to recover and subdue the possessed knights, while Fuegoleon contacted Mereoleona for reinforcements.
• Ian observed the invasion from a powerful magic zone, found that the Underwater Temple and Witch’s Forest had also been attacked, and waited for Zagred.

Fuegoleon brought Mereoleona back to help stop the elf attack, but the captains and elves were overwhelmed by Zagred until Ian arrived and defeated the demon. Ian then reversed time across all three realms, restoring the kingdom and those killed, before sending the Knights to comfort the survivors.

• Fuegoleon and Finral found Mereoleona, who returned to the Clover Kingdom and accelerated the effort to free the possessed Knights.
• At the Shadow Palace, Raya revealed that Zagred had manipulated the humans’ betrayal, the elves’ reincarnation, and their attack to obtain the Grimoires.
• Mereoleona, Yami, and the other captains fought Zagred, but he overpowered them and unleashed multiplying tentacle monsters as he tried to escape.
• Ian arrived, learned from Asta and Secre’s Grimoires, trapped Zagred, healed the wounded, and restored Patry to his original form.
• Ian admitted he had allowed the attack to happen to teach the Knights, then used Time Reversal Magic to restore the Clover Kingdom and everyone who had died.
• Ian told the Knights to comfort the civilians, who still remembered dying, and flew back to his castle.

Ian negotiated with the Elves, arranged for their fallen people to be resurrected, and concealed that Licht could be saved so he could retain influence over them. His research into Karma Amplification led him to prepare for an invasion of Elysium, and he finally gained the Wizard King title.

• Ian offered to resurrect the Elves in exchange for their help with his plan for Elysium, but told them Licht could not be saved because his soul was corrupted.
• Ian brought the Elves to Lemiel, where Licht and Lemiel reunited before both passed on, then gave the Elves crystals containing their people's souls and ordered them to leave their human bodies.
• Ian studied the magic stones and negative mana, discovered Karma Amplification, and concluded that Elysium's positive mana used the opposite form of amplification.
• Ian created Mirror Clones and spent two weeks making two Divine Artifacts while his clone handled the war's aftermath in the Clover Kingdom.
• Ian checked the Akashic Records and saw that his new title was Wizard King.

Ian confronted the unresolved feelings behind his obsession with Acier, then revived her after sixteen years and sent her to reunite with her children. He later asked her to attend a serious meeting of the Magic Knights and their captains.

• Morgana helped Ian realize his fixation on Acier stemmed from his old inferiority complex and desire to prove himself to his ex-girlfriend's family.
• Ian infused Acier's soul into her preserved body, told her Megicula was dead, and gave her Henry's soul to restore.
• Ian sent Acier to the Silva Family's royal castle and cautioned Sali against recklessly researching souls.
• Two days later, Ian visited Acier, argued with her about Solid and Nebra, and promised not to insult them in front of her.
• Ian invited Acier to a meeting of all the Magic Knights and their captains, and she agreed to attend.

Ian gathered the Magic Knights and Elves to recruit them for an invasion of Elysium, explaining that he sought answers about Grimoires and warning them of the danger. He led them to machines that would enhance their bodies and magic power before the invasion, while Asta learned that magic and Anti-Magic could be converted into each other.

• Ian explained that he wanted to invade Elysium to uncover the mysteries of Grimoires, and the gathered Magic Knights chose to join despite his warning of high casualties.
• Ian revealed that he could not enter Elysium alone because something had banished him, and he planned to have the Elves summon him through the Tree of Life Stele.
• Ian brought the group to machines designed to strengthen their bodies and give them an artificial second reserve of magic power through painful procedures.
• Asta learned that he would not gain magic power without losing access to Anti-Magic, but Ian said the two could be converted with enough knowledge and training.
• Asta vowed to master the conversion technique and beat Yuno, while Richita watched her sons compete and Ian led everyone toward the second room.

Ian placed the Magic Knights in a tailored virtual reality training program that would strengthen their Grimoires while preserving their combat experience and magical insights. He arranged spirit contracts for several trainees, then began preparing his own final trump card.

• Ian explained that the training pods would give the Magic Knights years of tailored virtual experiences and mentors while only a short time passed outside.
• The Magic Knights and Elves entered the pods, and Ian summoned Salamander to arrange temporary contracts for Mereoleona, Fuegoleon, and Magna.
• When Salamander refused to contract with Magna because of his low mana, Ian bet that Magna could defeat the spirit in a contest of willpower during the dream trial.
• Ian arranged for Noelle to train with Undine and for Vangeance and Charlotte to train with Dryad.
• Ian sent Noelle and Acier to the Heart Kingdom and Vangeance and Charlotte to Elysion, then went to his private laboratory to prepare his final trump card.

Ian assigned his Mirror Clones research and administrative tasks before rejecting Damnatio’s demand for a scapegoat and confronting the Magic Council chairman over noble crimes and political authority. After preparing for his absence and reassuring Marx, Ian left Clover Kingdom for the Land of the Sun, unable to portal there because of spatial interference.

• Ian assigned his nine Mirror Clones projects including studying Zagred’s magic, repairing the World Gate, monitoring the Spade Kingdom, and handling Wizard King duties.
• Damnatio asked Ian to blame a demon host for the Magic Knights’ failures and objected to Zora Ideale arresting nobles, but Ian refused to shield them from accountability.
• Ian threatened to remove Damnatio, the Magic Council nobles, and the king, warning that he could overthrow the kingdom without using force.
• Ian told Marx the Magic Council remained in place mainly to reduce his workload and said a Mirror Clone could protect the kingdom while he was away.
• Ian flew east over the sea in disguise and tried to open a portal to the Land of the Sun, but spatial interference forced him to continue by flying.

Ian encountered a hidden community of Dwarves and learned their legends about the Wizard Sage, whose message pointed him toward Elysium and the Source. After replenishing the Dwarves’ island, Ian continued toward the Land of the Sun to prepare for his journey to Elysium.

• Ian crossed the mana-rich eastern sea and landed on an isolated island, where he discovered Dwarves living underground.
• Ian introduced himself as the Wizard King of the Clover Kingdom and questioned the Dwarves about their history and the Ancient Magical Civilization.
• The Dwarf leader told Ian of the Wizard Sage, who had unified magic before sacrificing himself in a great war.
• Ian saw a World Tree symbol on the sage’s statue and read a message warning him not to trust the gods and directing him to Elysium for the sage’s true legacy and the key to the Source.
• Ian used Fertility Charms and Resource Regeneration Charms to improve the Dwarves’ island, then flew onward toward the Land of the Sun.

Ian obtained the Wizard Sage’s Grimoire and learned that the remaining Grimoires were in the Diamond Kingdom and the Land of the Sun. After recruiting the dwarves to forge equipment for his planned invasion of Elysium, he continued east toward the Land of the Sun.

• Ian activated the statue’s Grimoire and watched the Wizard Sage warn that a failing seal threatened the world.
• Ian merged the Queen of Hearts Grimoire with his own and sensed the locations of two remaining Grimoires.
• Ian suspected the Wizard Sage’s unnamed enemy was tied to the rulers of Elysium and the Underworld, and resolved to seek answers from Zure.
• Duriel and the other dwarf leaders offered to join Ian, so he assigned them to forge equipment for his coming invasion of Elysium.
• Ian learned the dwarves’ Word Magic Enchantment and made a magical hammer that only a few dozen dwarves could lift after he changed its requirement to forging skill.
• Ian tasked the dwarves with making the invasion equipment and continued east toward the Land of the Sun.