Chapter Summaries

Ian tested the Supersolid Aether Core and found it could increase the Arcane Empire’s Arcanists’ combat strength three to five times, but its instability risked catastrophic Mana rampages. After ordering safeguards and giving Morgana emergency control of the Second Mana Pool, he created three supersolid cores and sealed one inside a space anchored by Naruto’s Eight Trigrams Sealing Arts.

• Ian tested forbidden spells in a barren star cluster while Morgana recorded the results, and she reported the Supersolid Aether Core could boost Arcanist combat strength three to five times.
• Ian warned that the core’s instability could destroy an Arcanist’s Soul Dimension and cause a starfield-wide Psychic Energy explosion.
• Ian ordered the R&D Department to reinforce the core seals fourfold and install a Sealing Divine Artifact, then gave Morgana emergency control over the Second Mana Pool.
• Ian created two more Supersolid Aether Cores in his Soul Dimension and reinforced his soul with enhancement potions as the strain mounted.
• Ian used a seal inspired by Naruto’s Eight Trigrams Sealing Arts to anchor the final core, completing his fourfold core structure.

Ian developed a new Divine Vessel Arcanist profession and explored Pure Land to study its afterlife and souls. His research did not resolve the Soul Limitation, but he gained the Life and Soul Authority.

• Ian refined the Divine Vessel Arcanist profession, creating summoning rituals with safeguards and rules for contracts or enslavement.
• Ian decided the Empire would supervise Tier 4 and above summonings and designate a plane for the rituals.
• Ian traveled to Pure Land to study it and consider bringing it back to his home territory.
• Ian examined Pure Land's four regions and discovered that the Death God King possessed Tier 8 strength.
• Ian concluded that Pure Land could not solve the Soul Limitation, then integrated his research and gained the Life and Soul Authority.

Ian battled the Death God King in Pure Land, testing their mastery of death and the strength of their Domains. By infusing his own Domain with his will and combining his Authorities, Ian overcame the Death God King's defenses and swallowed him in arcane power.

• The Death God King detected Ian and attacked him with the Hand of the Reaper, but Ian's Arcane Barrier dissolved it.
• Ian tested the Death God King's Death Authority with Banshee's Wail, which the king erased effortlessly before suppressing Ian's control over death.
• Ian opened his Magic Domain, but the Death God King's powerful Pure Land blocked its expansion and his undead army overcame the Domain's attempt to rewrite them.
• Ian infused his will to pursue Truth into his throne and Gate, extinguishing the Death King's deathly influence, though the king damaged over twenty percent of the Domain's spatial structure.
• Ian used the Space-Time Law in his Arcane Staff to restore resonance with his Authorities, then combined them to strengthen and expand his Domain until it swallowed the Death God King.

Ian subdued the Death God King and decided to hunt Guznader for knowledge about Divine Kingdoms, while the Empire expanded its control across the Naruto timelines. Tsunade accepted Ian’s marriage proposal to secure the Shinobi World’s future and took on a leading role in the Empire’s medical system.

• Ian used his law-infused domain to suppress the Death God King and concluded that he needed to kill Guznader and study his soul to advance the False God Project.
• Ian learned that each galaxy in the Naruto Universe had its own Pure Land ruled by a Death God King and added them to his plunder list.
• Ian returned to the Material Plane, received the Sage Clan and Chakra Race envoys, and had the Machine Clan eliminate the remaining resisters while its forces plundered parallel timelines.
• Tsunade told Ian she accepted his proposal because becoming Empress would benefit the shinobi, and Ian agreed to a grand, Empire-wide wedding broadcast.
• Ian appointed Tsunade Supreme Director of the Medical Department, and Tsunade vowed to transform Medical Ninjutsu and the Empire’s medical system.

Ian advised Tsunade on building her position in the Empire, then inspected Itachi’s newly trained Shadow Squad and addressed its personnel shortage and equipment needs. The squad was set to expand with Metamorphmagus recruits and use the Empire’s specialized golem for future missions.

• Ian warned Tsunade that holding a department post would require strong performance and advised her to build a team, train Sakura, and cultivate younger talent.
• Ian met Itachi, who reported that the Shadow Squad’s initial training was complete and that it needed a real mission to test its results.
• Ian watched the roughly ten thousand ninjas train with help from Kakashi and Jiraiya, and identified the squad’s small size as a weakness.
• Ian rejected Itachi’s proposal to recruit multiverse variants, warning that doing so could expose the Empire’s Multiverse Technology.
• Ian decided to merge the Metamorphmagus Bureau into the Shadow Squad and rejected Orochimaru’s golem design in favor of a specialized Imperial model.

After months in the Naruto World, Ian used the forbidden spell Steal the Timeline to capture its entire timeline and return with Tsunade aboard the Floating City. He reunited with Hermione and reached the Empire’s ruined Ninth-Tier Floating City, where he planned to use resources from the Naruto World to begin the Empire’s recovery.

• Ian abandoned plans to negotiate with the weak Cosmic Will, sealed himself inside his laboratory, and had Morgana prepare Steal the Timeline.
• Four months later, the Floating City appeared above Konohagakure, and Ian reassured Tsunade before taking her aboard to meet Hermione.
• Hermione told Ian that a week had passed in the Empire and that Olivia had ordered full mobilization because the war had worsened.
• Ian recalled his Machine Clan forces and used Steal the Timeline to turn the Naruto Timeline and its inhabitants into a Dimensional Orb before the Floating City escaped into the Void.
• Ian and Hermione reached the wrecked Ninth-Tier Floating City, and Ian said the resources he had brought from the Naruto World could fund its repairs and the Empire’s return.

Ian temporarily restored the Ninth-Tier Floating City with a time clone, buying the Empire seven days to prepare for its final battle. As Hermione set out to explore the Abyss, Ian took Tsunade to witness the war firsthand and prepare her for the Empire’s campaign.

• Hermione urged Ian to repair the Ninth-Tier Floating City quickly as Guznader’s offensive threatened Olivia’s defensive line.
• Ian rejected connecting the city to the Mana Network because he could not safely control its immense energy, then used a Time Clone to overlay the city’s intact past form on the ruins for seven days.
• Hermione volunteered to explore the Abyss and received the coordinates of the Ninth-Tier Plane from Ian.
• Olivia introduced herself to Tsunade and explained that she had to return to handling battle reports.
• Ian told Tsunade to accompany him so she could witness the war and adapt to the Empire’s rules, and the two vanished in a flash of white light.

Klonai, the universe’s will, watched Ian’s efforts to study Space-Time Authority and considered the Arcane Empire’s struggle against the Soul Limitation. Bound by rules that prevented her from directly giving Ian the solution, she hoped he would find a way to break the gods’ curse and lead a fourth race to overcome it.

• Klonai sensed Ian attempting to analyze Space-Time Authority and recognized him as a potential Archmage of Space-Time.
• Klonai recalled supporting the Ancient Gods in the War of the Gods, then being punished and sealed by Magekind.
• Klonai evolved into an Eleventh Tier being after absorbing World Source Force from the planes Magekind had conquered.
• Klonai identified the Soul Limitation as a restriction imposed by the Ancient Gods and concluded she could not directly tell Ian how to break it.
• Klonai watched Ian’s Floating City and hoped the Arcane Empire would discover a way to overcome the Soul Limitation through its own wisdom.

Ian deployed his hidden Tenth Tier Floating City to conquer an Abyssal Ninth Tier plane, using a Time Clone to protect the frontier in his absence. When his attempt to rewind a ruined Ninth Tier city failed, he began to suspect that the artifact itself—and the nature of higher-tier existence—was resisting repair.

• Ian used Time Clone to create a replica of a frontier city, then took his true Tenth Tier Floating City toward the Abyss with the damaged Ninth Tier city enclosed inside it.
• Ian told Tsunade that the Floating City was his life's work and an extension of his will, prompting her to understand his attachment despite finding it strange.
• Ian tried to restore the damaged city with World Source Force and Time Rewind, but the spell had no effect.
• Ian tested other temporal spells and investigated whether Void Energy was interfering, but his experiments ruled out that explanation.
• Ian theorized that the Ninth Tier city itself was refusing to be repaired and realized he had uncovered a secret about higher-tier existences.

Ian discovered that a higher-dimensional creature’s lingering influence had made the Ninth Tier Floating City’s damage irreversible through his current Time Magic, so he switched to a Source Force-powered self-repair plan. As he examined the Beast Tamer world and traced its origins to Wizard Plane experiments, he ordered Hermione to seek the coordinates of the major planes in the Abyssal Plane.

• Ian used enhanced perception and detection spells to discover that the creature that destroyed the Ninth Tier Floating City had left causally irreversible damage merely by passing by.
• Ian classified the discovery as top-secret and built a reinforcement array powered by World Source Force to make the city repair itself.
• Ian and Morgana learned that humans in this world fused with magical beasts using crude techniques inherited from abandoned Wizard Plane experiments.
• Ian considered finding the Wizard Plane’s coordinates through a Causal Spell, but Morgana warned that the plane’s surveillance network could detect it.
• Tsunade suggested asking about the coordinates of the six major powers in the Abyssal Plane, and Ian ordered Hermione to investigate.

Edward conquered and harvested the Ninth-Tier Plane, capturing its rulers and population and extracting its civilization’s knowledge. After discovering a Causal Spell that could expose his presence to the Wizard Plane, he compressed the world into the Floating City and fled into the Void.

• Edward used the Floating City to capture the seven Beast-Taming Emperors and seal the plane’s Cosmic Will.
• Edward’s magic arrays put the population into hibernation and transported them to the Floating City’s cargo holds.
• Edward summoned the Tree of Knowledge and gave its fruit to Morgana, who uncovered the Beast Tamer civilization’s origins and the limits of the tree’s history.
• Morgana found that a Causal Spell had erased data about the Wizard Plane’s core power system and could reveal Edward’s location to its powerful beings.
• Edward ordered an evacuation, compressed the Ninth-Tier Plane into the Floating City, erased traces of his presence, and fled toward home.

Three Tenth-Tier powerhouses from the Wizard Plane discovered that Ian had taken the Ninth-Tier Plane and erased the traces of his passage. As Ian’s Floating City reached the Arcane Empire, he sensed that an Eleventh-Tier Truth Wizard waited behind the vanguard, and prepared to face the coming threat.

• Aza, Eli, and Myria arrived at the erased coordinates and found that someone had carried away the Ninth-Tier Plane.
• Myria determined that the plane had been taken minutes earlier and that the culprit had nearly severed the causal line of the Wizard Plane’s trap.
• Eli urged the group to report the new variable to the Truth Council, and Myria pondered the possible fate of Magekind as they returned to the Wizard Plane.
• Ian’s Floating City crossed the final Spatial Door into the Arcane Empire, where Cosmic Awareness warned him that three powerful wills had appeared at the coordinates they left behind.
• Morgana told Ian that an even more dangerous presence waited in the deeper dimensions, and Ian identified it as an Eleventh-Tier Truth Wizard before vowing to fight back.

After confronting the threat posed by Eleventh Tier beings, Ian strengthened the Arcane Empire’s contingency plans and advanced its research and preparations. With the Empire’s position in the Abyss stabilized, Olivia identified the Elves and the Sage Clan as its next targets, leaving a new conflict brewing.

• Ian learned that Eleventh Tier powerhouses could draw on countless variants across the Multiverse, and he ordered Soulfire fragments preserved so the royal family and Illuminati elders could be resurrected if the Empire fell.
• Ian assigned Tsunade to oversee the integration of the ninja population and officially named the Empire’s flagship Netheril.
• Ian used World Source Force from the Beast-Taming Plane to repair the Ninth Tier Floating City, then allocated the remaining energy and planned further resource extraction and research.
• Olivia reported that Hermione had seized control of an Abyssal layer and secured demon armies, stabilizing the border against Guznader.
• Olivia told Ian that the Elves and the Sage Clan were the remaining unstable factions, and she suspected the Sage Clan had secretly negotiated interplanar trade with the Wizard Plane.

Ian investigated the Sage Clan’s sudden technological leap and its experiments with Cosmic Energy, infiltrating Green Acid Star to discover the planet had become a ruined laboratory. He identified a monstrous cannibal as a genetically modified human forced to evolve by Cosmic Energy, and began to piece together the Sage Clan’s sinister plan.

• Olivia told Ian that the scattered Sage Clan remnants were reorganizing and secretly using Cosmic Energy to force biological evolution.
• Olivia assigned Ian to investigate Green Acid Star and uncover the force behind the Sage Clan’s transformation.
• Morgana warned Ian that Green Acid Star’s sensing matrix had reached the Ninth Tier, so Ian infiltrated the planet by dispersing himself into dust particles.
• Ian found Green Acid Star devastated and used a damaged smartphone to view a blurry emergency distress video from its former human civilization.
• Ian discovered a deformed human devouring a corpse and determined it was a flesh monster created through genetic modification and Cosmic Energy, not necromancy.

Ian investigated the zombies and Cosmic Energy mutations on Green Acid Star, discovering that the Sage Clan’s experiment had unleashed Dark Cosmic Energy from the Dark Multiverse. He left Raj to develop independently and ended the chapter realizing the experiment had opened a door to a realm of ruined timelines.

• Morgana determined that the zombies had been infused with Cosmic Energy, and Ian deduced the Sage Clan had transformed most of the planet’s people through a mass experiment.
• Ian observed a metallic-skinned man battling a giant bear and learned that five Calamity-Tier ability users and seven Great Demon Beasts ruled the planet’s power hierarchy.
• Ian found Raj, a Third-Tier seeker who had developed an Energy Refinement Method, and secretly gave him Felix Felicis before leaving him on the planet.
• Morgana identified the zombies’ unusual energy as Dark Cosmic Energy, and Ian traced its source to a black singularity that had appeared when the experiment began.
• Ian projected his consciousness into the Void Realm, saw countless ruined timelines leaking into the Multiverse, and recognized them as the Dark Multiverse.

Ian sent a projection into a Dark Multiverse timeline where Voldemort had conquered the world and found Harry and Ron living among the remnants of humanity. After learning that they were hunting Voldemort’s last Horcrux, Ian decided to secretly help them locate it.

• Ian used Astral Projection to enter the ruined timeline and found survivors hiding in an underground shelter.
• Ian saw Ron with a mechanical arm and learned that Hermione had died while Voldemort won the Battle of Hogwarts.
• Harry returned to the shelter and told Ron that their search for Voldemort’s last Horcrux had made no progress.
• Morgana read Harry and Ron’s memories and revealed that Voldemort had enslaved the Muggles and purged the wizarding world’s Muggle-born population.
• Ian ordered Morgana to use Causal Tracing to find Nagini and arrange for Harry and Ron to discover her location.

Ian and Morgana searched the Dark Multiverse for extreme timelines, uncovering Dumbledore’s soul-harvesting scheme and a future where Ian’s corruption plunged the Arcane Empire into civil war. Ian returned to the Prime Universe with research data and a renewed resolve to avoid that fate.

• Morgana located Nagini and left Harry Potter coordinates and instructions that rekindled his determination to fight Voldemort.
• Ian and Morgana entered a 2007 timeline where more than half of humanity had been consumed, then discovered Dumbledore draining civilians’ souls to sustain Ariana’s empty shell under Herpo’s influence.
• Ian ordered Morgana to record the Soul-Draining Formation and judged Dumbledore beyond saving.
• Using Causal Tracing, Ian found a timeline where a Fifth Tier experiment corrupted him and led him to dismantle much of the Empire’s population for soul research.
• Ian watched Hermione, Olivia, and the Illuminati wage a ten-year civil war against his alternate self, then returned to the Prime Universe with data on negative timelines and soul collapse.

Ian investigated the Dark Multiverse and planned to exploit its resources and Mana Network while avoiding higher beings’ attention. At Drog Star, he discovered that outsider deities were using dreams to feed technology to Albert Schwartz, and he and Olivia decided to monitor the Sage Clan and exploit their research rather than destroy them outright.

• Ian and Morgana planned to harvest the Dark Multiverse’s resources, investigate its Mana Network, capture divine variants, and guard the Empire against incursions.
• Ian traveled to Drog Star, where Morgana found a highly advanced restricted zone beneath the North Pole and identified Albert Schwartz as the Sage Clan’s Savior.
• Ian infiltrated Albert’s laboratory and recognized a higher-dimensional Authority imprint in Albert’s mental sea.
• After Albert woke from a dream and sketched a complex Dark Matter energy structure, Ian concluded that Tenth Tier deities were sending him technology through Dream Revelation.
• Ian told Olivia that the outsider deities were cultivating Albert as a puppet to interfere in the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Ian and Olivia decided to monitor the Sage Clan, take advantage of Albert’s research, and grant the sages citizenship or exile them depending on whether they submitted.

Ian and Olivia planned defenses against the threat of Guznader’s barrier and prepared to infiltrate the Sun Elves to steal their civilization’s knowledge. As the Milky Way war approached its end, Ian turned his attention to Chris’s research and went to visit Susan.

• Ian warned Olivia that Guznader’s barrier could expose the Milky Way to powerful deities if it were withdrawn or lost, and proposed concealing the galaxy with principles inspired by the Black Clover plane’s Void mist.
• Olivia identified the Sun Elves and the Sage Clan as unresolved threats, and Ian ordered an infiltration to acquire the Elves’ core knowledge, especially the Sun Elves’ bloodline-memory inheritance.
• Ian decided to send the Shinobi World experts, led by Itachi Uchiha, to infiltrate the Elves’ forbidden ground using Genjutsu and concealment.
• Morgana told Ian that Chris had reached the Fourth Tier, and Ian ordered her to grant Chris the highest database access when he began researching the Fusion of Haki and mental power.
• Ian reflected that the Milky Way war was nearing its end, then vanished from the laboratory to visit Susan and her new project.

Ian visited Susan’s laboratory and learned that she had revived her passion for Arcane research by developing magic that brought Yu-Gi-Oh! characters into reality. He praised her plan to create independent card spirits and began sharing secret research that might accelerate her experiments.

• Ian visited Susan’s laboratory after she agreed to show him her new research.
• Susan summoned a physical Dark Magician with a specially made Yu-Gi-Oh! card and explained that her Drawing Magic could give fictional characters limited existence.
• Susan described her plan to combine Drawing Magic with the Spirit Realm, collective belief, and ancestral spirit techniques to create independent card spirits.
• Ian and Susan reconciled over the pressure his mentorship had placed on her, and he acknowledged that she needed to follow her own path to Truth.
• Ian praised Susan’s research and offered information about Soul Coding and Authority Fragments from his expeditions to help advance her experiments.