Chapter Summaries

Ian gave Susan knowledge and guidance for creating card monsters, then began illusory realm training and detected a concealed spatial disturbance on Earth Prime. He traced it to a demiplane owned by James Carter, and Amelia revealed a classified file that suggested why the Seventh Tier Arcanist had caused it.

• Ian shared Servant research with Susan and explained that she could earn coordinates to the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe by exchanging research findings for them through the Akashic Records.
• Ian taught Susan about Word Soul Magic and Yin–Yang Release: Creation of All Things, and Susan proposed using Spirit Realm soul forms and Dream Energy to manifest card creatures.
• Ian returned to his laboratory, scheduled a meeting with the Black Clover Magic Knights, and entered illusory realm training, where he relived the Empire's destruction and took a Tranquilizer Potion.
• Ian detected a hidden Space Law disturbance on Earth Prime and ordered Amelia to deploy Arcane Eyes and Luna to investigate it through Divination, but neither method found the source.
• Ian traced the disturbance to a demiplane belonging to Seventh Tier Arcanist James Carter, and Amelia opened an ultra-classified file explaining why he might have acted.

Ian learned that James Carter had been suspected of treason and confronted him in his sealed demiplane, where he discovered James had been corrupted by the Abyss. After Ian effortlessly defeated James’s attacks, he realized James was only a decoy meant to draw him away while a larger conspiracy unfolded.

• Amelia told Ian that the Intelligence Bureau had flagged James Carter and that the Auror Department had gone to summon him, while Luna warned that a spatial disturbance coincided with the team’s arrival.
• Ian sealed James’s demiplane, ordered the Empire to lift its restrictions on artificial intelligence, and broke into the demiplane himself.
• Ian found the demiplane empty of its tens of thousands of residents and confronted James near his Mage Tower.
• James revealed that he had embraced Abyssal corruption, and Ian concluded that the Abyssal Will had entered the conflict and that Guznader was cooperating with it.
• James unleashed an Eighth Tier attack and then tried to use elemental forces and physical strength, but Ian neutralized his attacks and severed his control.
• Ian realized that James was not a secret weapon but an expendable decoy intended to lure him away and buy time.

Ian subdued James and discovered that Edward Wentworth III was preparing a demonic-flame catastrophe that could destroy the Empire’s core star domain. He stopped time, uncovered Wentworth’s bargain with Guznader, and killed him, leaving the Empire’s threat contained.

• Ian used a gravity curse to pin James down, then ordered Beidou to seal James’s powers and Abyssal aura.
• Ian followed a danger signal into a hidden demiplane and found Wentworth activating arrays that threatened billions of civilians.
• Ian stopped time before the demonic flames could erupt, leaving Wentworth able to speak but unable to move.
• Ian learned that Guznader had promised Wentworth control of a plane, and explained that the contract could doom him to a plane whose Planar Will would destroy him.
• Ian burned Wentworth to ash, extracted and sealed his soul in a magic diamond, and compressed away the frozen demonic flames before restarting time.

Ian captured James and decided to study his Abyss-corrupted body and soul, then briefed the Empire’s leaders on the crisis caused by James and Wentworth. The meeting ended with plans to defend against dream-based infiltration and manage the fallout from Ian’s planet-wide Time Stop, while Ian kept Luna behind for a private conversation.

• Ian returned to the ruined half-plane, where Beidou had defeated the rebels, and imprisoned James’s soul in a sealed Magic Cube.
• Ian rejected James’s attempt to invoke legal protections and chose to use him as a living experimental sample to study the Abyssal Law.
• Ian told Amelia, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Luna, Olivia, and the other officials that James had betrayed the Empire and Wentworth had tried to destroy the star system.
• Ian proposed recruiting prophets from other planes, including the Dark Multiverse, and identified dreams as the likely way Guznader had bypassed the Empire’s defenses.
• The officials approved a Dream Dimension and specialized Dream operatives, with Ian ruling that the system would not target lawful citizens unless treason was suspected.
• Ian ordered officials to blame the Time Stop on a strategic Divine Artifact and planned a closed meeting with the Mage Tower masters, then asked Luna to stay for a private conversation.

Ian proposed using Luna’s Multiverse variants to amplify the Prophecy Department, but she rejected the plan, prompting him to consider Professor Trelawney’s variants instead. After Morgana warned him that fear from the recent breach was driving his paranoia, Ian convened the Empire’s high-tier Arcanists and used James Carter and Edward Wentworth III’s betrayal to justify imposing strict controls on private demiplanes.

• Ian told Luna he wanted to capture and mentally link her Dark Multiverse variants as a biological prophecy amplifier, but Luna condemned the plan and refused to agree.
• Ian proposed using Professor Trelawney’s variants instead, and Luna said she would consider it before ending their holographic connection.
• Ian asked Morgana to simulate the consequences of secretly bypassing Luna, and she warned that discovery could lead Luna to cut him off or divorce him.
• Morgana explained that the breach by James and Wentworth had intensified Ian’s fear of losing control, and Ian admitted she was probably right.
• Ian convened thousands of high-tier Arcanists and revealed that James Carter and Edward Wentworth III had betrayed the Empire and nearly destroyed the Solar System.
• Ian announced tighter supervision of private demiplanes and a Dimensional Barrier requiring High Command authorization for travel into Imperial territory, then dismissed the meeting.

After the rebellion exposed the threat posed by private demiplanes, Ian tightened Imperial security and rested before meeting the Black Clover world’s former heroes. He revealed plans to send them on dangerous plane expeditions and use their achievements to raise the standing of combat-type Arcanists, leaving them with a new purpose in the Empire.

• High-risk tower masters returned to Academy City or surrendered their demiplanes after the rebellion and the Private Demiplane Comprehensive Lockdown Act alarmed them.
• Ian reviewed the Empire’s response, sent a clone into the Void to build a barrier around private demiplanes, and then took a rare stretch of uninterrupted sleep.
• Ian met the Black Clover world’s Magic Knights and other leaders at the royal hunting grounds, where they struggled to adjust to life in the Arcane Empire.
• Fuegoleon asked Ian what purpose the former Magic Knights could serve when Imperial forces and technology made their combat skills seem insignificant.
• Ian announced that the Magic Knights would form a secret Plane Expeditionary Legion to infiltrate and seize control of other dimensions.
• Ian explained that their victories would help correct the Empire’s imbalance by raising the status of combat-type Arcanists against scholar-type mages.

Ian planned to use the Origin Grimoire and the Black Clover commanders to raise combat mages’ status across the Arcane Empire, while warning them that scholars were formidable fighters. After forcing Pheobe to rest, he learned that her research had uncovered an Eleventh-Tier Ancestral Dragon and a further discovery hidden in Albion’s genes.

• Ian explained that the Origin Grimoire let combat mages create their own spells and asked the commanders to publicly defeat the Empire’s top scholars as he weakened scholarly privilege through reforms.
• Ian warned the commanders that scholars had mastered combat through virtual battles, and Asta eagerly accepted the prospect of challenging Ian for the Arcane Emperor’s crown in a duel twenty-three years later.
• Ian found Pheobe exhausted in her laboratory and ordered her to sleep before continuing her dangerous research.
• Pheobe showed Ian the Eleventh-Tier Ancestral Dragon that ruled Dragonkind’s Bloodline Source Dimension and explained that she could not penetrate its defenses.
• Pheobe revealed that dissecting Albion’s genes had uncovered a miracle capable of overturning their understanding.

Pheobe revealed her Bloodline Source plan to Ian: she would build a hidden dimension to empower her bloodline descendants, fuse bloodlines from across the Omniverse, and use the connection to her variants to pursue the Eleventh Tier. Ian approved the plan and discussed its dangers and construction, then turned to visit Albion, who was imprisoned in the Void.

• Pheobe explained that her Bloodline Source would store her knowledge and turn the inhabitants of a conquered Tenth Tier plane into bloodline-linked research and power sources.
• Ian warned that enemies could trace the bloodline network back to Pheobe and that an ancient Succubus Bloodline Source in the Abyss might threaten her project.
• Pheobe proposed fusing her Veela and Succubus bloodlines with variants from other universes to sever her ties to the Abyss and create a unique bloodline.
• Pheobe revealed that she intended to use the Bloodline Source to connect with and assimilate her variants across the Multiverse, allowing her to reach the Eleventh Tier.
• Ian suggested concealing the dimension in the Void and using Akashic Records to obtain bloodline samples, and he resolved to help Pheobe ascend before her counterparts.
• Ian ended the discussion and turned toward the screen showing Albion asleep in a Void prison.

Ian revealed that he had become an Eighth-Tier Law Archgod and had found a route to the Multiverse, then confronted Albion for the High Dragon Language Runes. He left Albion facing his plan to use the runes to mass-produce Law Archgods and overturn the universe’s order.

• Albion sensed Ian’s Law Archgod status and demanded proof, but Ian explained that he could not use Authority beyond the Astral Realm.
• Ian confirmed that he had found a Reality Rift left by the Ancient Magekind and opened a path to the Multiverse.
• Albion called Ian a Child of Destiny, but Ian dismissed its theory and demanded the High Dragon Language Runes.
• Albion refused and offered High Elven Divine Speech instead, but Ian deduced that the dragon’s runes let Dragonkind resonate with cosmic Authorities.
• Ian explained that he intended to reverse-engineer the Thunder Script and teach Law through the Arcane Empire, aiming to build an Absolute Arcane Era.

Ian secured the Thunder and Water Dragon Language Runes from Albion and the Water Dragon King, then returned to Earth Prime to study their Authorities and the Death Wand. Meanwhile, Guznader ordered the Undead Legion to launch an all-out assault on the Arcane Empire after the plan to infiltrate it failed.

• Albion agreed to give Ian the Thunder Dragon Language Runes in exchange for resources, a perfected Life Code, and passage beyond the Astral Realm; Ian blocked the bloodline curse and learned Dragonkind had thirteen Dragon Kings, with two more expected.
• Ian deduced that Dragonkind's temple deliberately cultivated new Dragon Kings, then left Albion's prison and negotiated with the Water Dragon King.
• The Water Dragon King tried to send a distress signal to Father God, but Ian blocked it and forcibly took her Water Dragon Language Rune knowledge through the Soul Contract.
• Ian returned to Earth Prime to master the Thunder and Water Runes and work with Bellatrix to reverse-engineer Herpo's Death Wand.
• In the Iku Galaxy, Guznader learned that his agent inside Earth had been removed and ordered the Undead Legion to attack the Arcane Empire before its defenses could recover.

Queen Misel and the Elves tried to defend Vedant Star when Guznader launched a surprise invasion with undead forces and tens of billions of Abyssal Demons. Their defenses inflicted enormous casualties, but the demon horde broke through several layers as an undead commander prepared to unleash a greater attack.

• Three months after the rebellion, the Arcane Empire pushed Guznader's Undead Calamity back while Queen Misel's Sun Elf bloodline and Holy Tree Valido recovered.
• Misel and King Arion sensed a wave of terror that struck every powerful being on Vedant Star, and Misel ordered an evacuation as Guznader covered the planet with death energy.
• Guznader's demonic hand cracked the planetary shield, but Holy Tree Valido helped Misel hold it long enough for the Elves to attack the invading ghost fleet with their main cannons.
• Five Eighth Tier undead commanders survived the Elves' cannon volley and widened the breach, sending tens of billions of Abyssal Demons onto Vedant Star.
• The demons endured the Elves' purification barrier, artificial sun, and maddening hymn, breaking through three defensive lines despite losing hundreds of millions of their number.
• The Zombie general judged that the Elven defenses were close to collapse, drew his bone greatsword, and declared it was time for the planet to receive death's gift.

Undead commanders unleashed the Abyssal Domain across Vedant Star, forcing Queen Misel to concentrate Holy Tree Valido’s protection around thirteen cities. With ordinary communications sealed, Misel used an ancient plant-root network to send a plea for help to the Arcane Empire, then prepared to defend the capital until reinforcements arrived.

• Five Eighth Tier undead commanders cast the Abyssal Domain, corrupting Vedant Star’s life, magic, and inhabitants.
• Holy Tree Valido struggled against the Abyssal tide, and Queen Misel ordered its protection withdrawn to thirteen core cities.
• Queen Misel and King Arion concluded that the Elves needed aid from the Arcane Empire, but her communication attempts failed because Guznader’s domain blocked the planet’s signals.
• An elder revealed the Pan-Galactic Plant Root Network, and Misel activated it using her Sun Elf bloodline despite the risk to Holy Tree Valido.
• Misel sent a distress message through the ancient network and vowed to defend the royal court until reinforcements arrived.

Queen Misel and the Elves were annihilated by Guznader while waiting for Arcane Empire reinforcements, and Misel summoned Ian’s soul to confront him before she died. Ian admitted he had planned to rebuild the Elves from collected bloodline samples as loyal clones, and an unfamiliar voice appeared after Misel vanished.

• The Elven elders realized Guznader was using their cities as bait for an ambush on the Arcane Empire, while King Arion hoped Ian’s forces were preparing a counterattack.
• Guznader destroyed twelve cities with a deathly scythe, and Queen Misel, King Arion, the elders, and generations of Elves sacrificed themselves to keep Kleimno’s shield standing.
• After Holy Tree Valido withered and nearly all the Elves died, Misel pleaded with Ian to save the remaining children, then summoned him into a white space as she died.
• Misel accused Ian of abandoning her people, and he revealed that he had collected bloodline samples from most Elves so the Empire could clone them later.
• Ian explained that he had judged the Elves too likely to rebel against the Empire, and Misel disappeared after acknowledging his reasoning.
• An unfamiliar voice spoke behind Ian after he called out to the vanished Misel.

Ian learned from Klonai that Queen Misel had used an ancient High Elf bond to summon him, and that Klonai backed the Arcane Empire to overturn a decaying cosmic order. After Ian returned to his laboratory and spoke with Itachi Uchiha, Necromancer Emperor Guznader discovered the Empire had collected elven blood samples and decided to force Ian into war with Plan B.

• Klonai explained that an ancient contract let qualified High Elves invoke her power, and that Queen Misel had used her awakened bloodline and dying will to summon Ian.
• Klonai revealed that she supported Ian and the Arcane Empire because the universe was stagnant and decaying, though hidden rules limited the power she could grant him.
• Ian returned to his laboratory, praised Itachi Uchiha for completing his infiltration mission, and warned that the galactic calamity was approaching its bloodiest phase.
• Guznader learned from soul fragments that the Arcane Empire had secretly collected blood samples from most of Vedant Star's elves and concluded Ian planned to use their genes for cloning.
• Guznader abandoned his failed ambush and ordered Plan B to drag Ian into a devastating war.

Dumbledore delivered Guznader’s communication sphere to Ian, who learned that Guznader’s seal isolating the Milky Way was failing and agreed to provide a solution. Guznader used the Energy Source Stone Ian sent to sustain the seal, then led his fleet toward the deepest reaches of the star sea while planning a new attack.

• Dumbledore stopped the Arcane Empire’s defenses from firing on the undead diplomatic ship and secured its communication sphere for Ian.
• Ian and Guznader spoke through the sphere, and Guznader warned that his isolation barrier was nearing its limit and demanded that Ian help maintain it.
• Ian identified the Ancient Magekind Divine Artifact behind the barrier and promised to send Guznader a solution within two hours.
• Guznader received an Energy Source Stone from the Arcane Empire and used it as the formation’s power source, while warning his attendant that Ian might have tampered with it.
• Guznader ordered the undead fleet to sail toward the deepest reaches of the star sea and began planning a new offensive against Ian.

Ian accelerated the Arcane Empire’s preparations to defend the Milky Way and sought a way to seize unlimited energy from the Aether Mana Network, but his first attempt was blocked. Hermione then reported discoveries from her Abyss infiltration, including a method for Arcanists to study and control Authorities, leaving Ian eager to pursue the path to creating Law Archgods.

• Ian ordered the Empire to raid parallel timelines where the Arcane Empire did not exist for resources, while he pursued control of the Aether Mana Network and sent a team to search for a pure Mana Network timeline.
• Ian developed an array to siphon energy from the Mana Network, but a powerful backlash prevented him from extracting energy.
• Hermione told Ian that Abyssal Demons could evolve by consuming nearly anything, and that the Abyss had become an interdimensional trade center hostile to beings from their plane.
• Hermione revealed that she had obtained the complete Abyssal Soul Language during her undercover trip.
• Hermione explained that an Abyssal lord’s mark allowed her to use and dissect Authorities, giving Arcanists a shortcut to studying them; Ian concluded that increasing Arcanists’ willpower was the remaining obstacle to creating Law Archgods.

Ian, Olivia, and Hermione discussed the risks of lending out Hermione’s Abyssal Mark and the Empire’s need to hide its plans from the Abyssal Will. Olivia then reported that the war against Guznader was nearing its final stage, but Ian said the Empire could not defeat him until the Mist Array was complete, leaving the confrontation in a dangerous stalemate.

• Ian proposed lending Hermione’s Abyssal Mark to Arcanists for research, but Hermione warned that the Abyssal Will might detect the repeated loans and explained that it had tried to brand her Soulfire.
• Olivia suggested finding a way to deceive the Abyssal Will, but Ian said the Empire lacked the necessary technology and that he wanted to avoid entanglement with the Ancient Magekind.
• Olivia reported that the Empire had subdued the other major powers in the Milky Way and was successfully integrating irreversible undead, while the Clearance Plan progressed toward victory over Guznader.
• Olivia argued that the Empire should keep Guznader alive for now to consolidate its new territories and avoid raising suspicions about its strength.
• Ian revealed that the Tenth-Tier Aether Core powering the Mist Array needed about nine more months to finish, and warned that Guznader might unleash the gods or an Abyssal Prince if cornered before then.
• Ian said the Empire would tolerate Guznader’s demands for resources until the Mist Array was ready, then asked Olivia to report her second matter.

Ian ordered a strike to seize the Sage Clan’s Ninth Tier Dark Matter technology, monitored a planet’s Cosmic Energy experiment, and checked on Tsunade’s safety at the front. After tracing a divine firewall in the Aether Mana Network, he contacted Delilah Magister, Goddess of Magic, and began assessing her power over tea.

• Olivia reported that the Sage Clan had developed a Ninth Tier Dark Matter weapon, and Ian ordered the military to seize the clan and its technology before the gods could use them.
• Ian told Olivia to leave the planet’s Cosmic Energy experiment alone until someone reached the Sixth Tier, then asked how Tsunade was adapting to the empire and learned she was a field medic near the edge of the Sixth Tier.
• Ian reviewed Tsunade’s protections with Morgana and accepted the Soulfire backup as sufficient security for her frontline service.
• After two months of work, Ian traced a divine mark blocking access to the Aether Mana Network and used it to establish contact with the god behind it.
• Ian met Delilah Magister in the Void, introduced himself as the Arcane Emperor, and transformed their meeting place into a grassland where they shared tea.

Ian met Delilah, the Goddess of Magic, and exposed the gods’ plan to destroy the Arcane Empire as well as the restrictions imposed on her authority. After condemning the gods as parasites, he said he had come to discuss the future, and Delilah demanded that he state his purpose.

• Delilah explained that Ian’s rapid rise to power convinced her he had obtained Ancient Magekind inheritance and used it to build the Arcane Empire.
• Delilah warned that the gods would purge the empire once Guznader could no longer protect it, and offered to spare Ian if he submitted and surrendered the empire’s knowledge and technology.
• Ian saw through Delilah’s offer and argued that the gods had shackled her Authority of Magic to prevent her from creating new spells.
• Delilah’s teacup vaporized and the virtual space cracked as Ian’s theory provoked her, though she concealed how she had actually risen through the Authority of Knowledge and the Aether Mana Network.
• Ian called the gods parasites, admitted that he despised them, and said he had come to discuss the future, prompting Delilah to demand his purpose.

Ian confronted Delilah with the history of her rise from mortal mage to Goddess of Magic and invited her to abandon divinity and join the Arcane Empire, promising a chance at the Eleventh Tier. Delilah rejected him and returned to the gods attacking the Milky Way, but she concealed their conversation and could not dismiss his accusations.

• Ian recounted Delilah's rise from a Sixth Tier mage to a Tenth Tier goddess and invited her to return to pure magic with the Arcane Empire.
• Ian claimed Delilah could reach the Eleventh Tier using the empire's knowledge and accused faith of corrupting her love of truth.
• Ian charged that Delilah had slaughtered mages and believers who threatened to uncover the nature of divinity, recalling her destruction of a Magic Empire.
• Delilah's divine fury subsided after Ian asked whether her former self would recognize who she had become, and she left the virtual space without accepting his proposal.
• Delilah told Morticia that she had merely repaired a flaw in the Cosmic Network, then resumed attacking the Milky Way's barrier while privately dwelling on Ian's words.