Chapter Summaries

Ian worked to recruit Delilah and gain control of the Aether Mana Network while the Empire prepared to defeat Guznader. After the Empire completed its second Tenth-Tier Aether Core and the Mist Array, Ian and Olivia planned the final expedition to unify the Milky Way Galaxy.

• Ian analyzed Delilah’s reasons for refusing to join the Empire and ordered the Imperial Think Tank to profile her while spies gathered intelligence.
• Morgana used data from Delilah’s soul fluctuations to help Ian begin deciphering her imprint on the Aether Mana Network, and Ian completed the enchantment project two weeks later.
• Ian watched the Magic Knights battle the Empire’s scholar-type Arcanists as combat-oriented Arcanists gained social standing.
• Ian learned that the Empire had completed its second Tenth-Tier Aether Core and the Mist Array, then discussed the coming campaign against Guznader with Olivia.
• Olivia told Ian to attend a top-level strategic meeting before the final expedition, which was scheduled to begin the next day.

Ian and Olivia confronted the damage caused by his expanding harem and her secret surveillance of his newer wives, then agreed to seek family counseling after the war. The Arcane Empire announced its final assault on Guznader, and its citizens eagerly awaited victory.

• Ian approved the final battle plan and refused to broadcast the assault live because it could expose Netheril's true power.
• Olivia accused Ian of cheapening his marriages by bringing more women into the family, and Ian recognized that possessiveness and old insecurities had driven his pursuit of them.
• Ian admitted he had mishandled his relationships, while Olivia confessed that she had secretly monitored Wiz and Tsunade out of fear that Ian would abandon her.
• Ian and Olivia agreed that the family would undergo counseling after the war, possibly with an artificial intelligence as their psychologist.
• The Arcane Empire publicized its coming assault on Guznader, and citizens celebrated the prospect of ending the war and defeating the Necromancer Emperor.

The Empire isolated the Milky Way, unleashed its Clone Legion, and used its technological and magical advantages to reclaim most of Guznader’s territory. After more than a year of attrition and the defeat of Guznader’s strongest forces, Ian’s Floating City arrived at the enemy’s last five star systems for the final battle.

• The Empire deployed the Milky Way Mist Array, cutting off Guznader’s access to reinforcements from other planes.
• The Empire unleashed the Clone Legion and reclaimed territory with its superior numbers, fleets, and methods for capturing or rehabilitating undead.
• Guznader countered with Eighth Tier undead, but the Empire deployed Eighth Tier Golems and Hermione’s Karmic Crystals to empower Arcanists.
• The Empire’s Intelligence Bureau and Prophecy Department exposed Guznader’s secret fleet project, and Olivia’s special forces destroyed his research facility.
• Guznader created three Ninth Tier avatars, but Dumbledore, Rowena, and Snape destroyed them with the main guns of three Floating Cities.
• After more than a year, Ian’s Netheril Floating City arrived at Guznader’s final territory as the ultimate battle approached.

Guznader confronted Ian in the Mirror Dimension and unleashed his hidden powers, while Ian countered with advanced spells and runes. After Ian survived Guznader’s lethal attack through a substitute, Guznader concluded that Ian possessed the Death Godhead Spark.

• Guznader rose to meet Ian at the edge of his territory, and they agreed to fight in the Mirror Dimension.
• Guznader opened the duel with Death Requiem, but Ian absorbed the attack with Death Siphon before Guznader rushed him with his scythe.
• Ian evaded Guznader’s strike and countered with Sacred Tribulation Flame, whose Dragon Tongue-inspired runes astonished Guznader.
• Guznader summoned three projections of his own life stages and severed a causal thread aimed at Ian’s soul.
• Ian’s Substitute Scarecrow took the fatal effect, leaving him unharmed, and Guznader accused him of possessing the Death Godhead Spark.

Ian battled Guznader inside the Mirror Dimension, using varied arcane spells and the Domain of Truth to counter the Undead Sovereign’s attacks and Divine Kingdom Projection. Guznader’s Divine Kingdom Projection was left riddled with cracks after Ian detonated a compressed black hole.

• Guznader’s projections attacked Ian, but Ian switched places with one projection and destroyed another with Spatial Cutting.
• Guznader attacked Ian’s soul, but Ian burned away the skeletal hand and cursed Guznader using his source energy and divine blood.
• Ian used Thunder God’s Wrath to fill the battlefield with positive energy, worsening Guznader’s injuries and forcing him to deploy his Divine Kingdom Projection.
• Ian countered the Divine Kingdom’s suppression with his Domain of Truth, restoring his mana and alarming Guznader.
• Ian created and detonated a supermassive black hole, and Guznader barely contained the explosion as it severely cracked his Divine Kingdom Projection.

Ian countered Guznader’s sacrifice of trillions of believers with a curse, then battered him with Destruction Violet Jade and Energy Drain until Guznader sacrificed his Fury Authority to empower an ancient shield. Just as Ian neared victory, Morgana warned him of a catastrophe on Earth Prime, and Ian saw the danger and confronted Guznader, who claimed he had set a trap for Ian’s homeworld.

• Guznader sacrificed his believers’ souls to repair and empower his Divine Kingdom, then turned their resentment against Ian.
• Ian absorbed the resentment into a Karmic Crystal and reflected it back as a curse that ravaged Guznader’s soul, revealing Ian as a Legendary Arcanist wielding Curse Authority.
• Ian destroyed Guznader’s Divine Kingdom Projection with Destruction Violet Jade, but Guznader escaped and survived the next strike using an Ancient Magekind Divine Artifact.
• Ian used Energy Drain against the artifact’s shield, and Guznader sacrificed his Fury Authority to restore its energy.
• Ian stacked hundreds and thousands of Energy Drain spells until cracks spread across the shield, but Morgana appeared and warned him of a threat on Earth Prime.
• Ian saw a terrifying scene on Earth Prime and erupted in fury as Guznader claimed he had set a trap for Ian’s homeworld.

Guznader revealed the Bloodline Curse’s origins and devastated Earth’s Brazil Region, prompting Ian to destroy him and reverse time to save most of the victims. After learning that millions remained dead and that his time reversal had alerted the plane’s Eleventh Tier Guardians, Ian was left with roughly fifty years to find the Sage Clan and discover how to survive.

• Guznader claimed that Magekind had spread its Bloodline Curse through experiments on countless races, including humanity, while his attack destroyed Earth’s Space Elevator in the Brazil Region.
• Morgana reported that the Empire had captured the other infiltrators, and Ian ordered the Planet-Killer Cannon to annihilate Guznader and his remaining star systems.
• Ian overloaded the Empire’s energy systems and reversed time across the Brazil Region, restoring the space elevator and most victims, but more than three million people remained dead.
• Ian’s attempt to revive the remaining victims failed, and Morgana extracted an unknown object from Guznader’s remains.
• Klonai warned Ian that his actions had broken the Fundamental Law of Spacetime Continuity and alerted the plane’s Eleventh Tier Guardians.
• Klonai bought Ian roughly fifty years to find the Sage Clan before the Guardians came to erase him.

After a catastrophic curse killed three million people, Ian apologized to the Empire, mourned the dead, and comforted Luna as she blamed herself for failing to foresee the attack. An emergency alert then summoned him to the Time-Space Aurors’ headquarters, where he saw a prisoner whose identity shocked him.

• Ian ordered imperial officials to handle reconstruction and accountability, then delivered a public Edict of Self-Condemnation and led the Empire in mourning its dead.
• Ian and Rowena visited victims’ families, and a monumental crystal memorial was built with the victims’ names and memories.
• At dinner, Ian learned Luna was overwhelmed with guilt and comforted her, telling her that her moral resolve mattered to their family.
• After Ian lulled Luna to sleep, an emergency alert sent him to the Time-Space Aurors’ headquarters.
• The commander told Ian that a high-value prisoner was held in the EX7 Classified Isolation Cell, and Ian was shocked when he saw them.

Ian learned that the Bones Council had invited him to its first full assembly in a month, deciphered its encrypted meeting coordinates, and uncovered F-234’s tragic history and role in the organization. He planned to attend, seize control of the Council, and strengthen the Arcane Empire’s defenses against interdimensional visitors.

• Ian questioned F-234, learned the Bones Council had assigned his dimension the designation G-003, and accepted an invitation to its meeting in a month.
• Ian cracked the encrypted coordinates on the Council admission card, impressed F-234, and released him from the energy barrier.
• F-234 fled through a violent dimensional breach, and Ian ordered the Empire’s Research Department to study the Council’s navigation technology.
• Ian read a memory crystal and learned that F-234 had lost his family, fought Voldemort, traveled across the Multiverse, and joined the Bones Council.
• Ian decided to infiltrate the Council and claim its authority, then left to deploy an anti-interdimensional anchoring system around Earth or the Milky Way Galaxy.

After learning that the Sage Clan was hidden behind Akashic Records access restrictions, Ian sought ancient knowledge from Queen Katula while preparing the Empire for war. With Luna’s help, he located Guznader’s Divine Kingdom and launched an assault, promising the weakened god a brutal public punishment and eventual erasure.

• Ian told his family about Klonai’s warning and learned the Sage Clan was registered with the Akashic Records, leaving him unable to access its secrets through his authority.
• Queen Katula told Ian that the Sage Clan was an ancient race obsessed with knowledge that had vanished after a conflict with Magekind.
• Luna completed her prophetic search and locked onto the coordinates of Guznader’s Divine Kingdom after the national mourning period ended.
• Ian led the Netheril Floating City into the Outer Realm and ordered its cannons to attack Guznader’s Divine Kingdom.
• Guznader’s shield blocked the opening barrage, and Ian threatened to imprison, dissect, and ultimately erase the weakened god and his followers.

Ian destroyed Guznader’s Divine Kingdom, captured him, and publicly sentenced him for his crimes before turning to the secrets of the Ancient Magekind’s artifacts. Studying a Living Primordial Rune, Ian developed a theory that Primordial Runes were universe-specific manifestations of the Void Runes and began investigating the ultimate language of magic.

• Ian ordered Netheril’s Floating City to bombard Guznader’s Divine Kingdom until three thousand Ninth-Tier cannons shattered its barrier and devastated its interior.
• Ian’s sealing arrays severed Guznader from the Divine Kingdom’s laws and powers, and Netheril’s Floating City swallowed the captured domain before Ian returned to Earth.
• Ian chained Guznader before the Crystal Memorial Monument to Victims and sentenced him to kneel there for three years, while the spectacle stirred the Empire and inspired calls for a God-Extermination Holy War.
• Ian resumed governing the annexed Milky Way Galaxy, then secretly searched the Akashic Records and bought coordinates to a world rather than paying the immense price for advanced technology.
• Ian examined Guznader’s disk and Magic Power orb, discovered a living Primordial Rune within the disk, and theorized that such runes were manifestations of the Void Runes across different universes.

Ian and Morgana tested the Primordial Rune, discovering that it converted more than 330 kinds of energy with perfect efficiency and appeared linked to the World Origin. They developed a hypothesis connecting the rune to Authority, Planar Will, and power systems in other universes, but Ian resolved to understand this rune fully before pursuing his larger ambitions.

• Ian subjected the Divine Artifacts to extensive tests and confirmed they contained no hidden backdoors.
• Ian activated the Primordial Rune with Aether magic, Soul Energy, Battle Aura, and more than 330 other energies, finding that it converted them with perfect efficiency.
• Ian and Morgana deduced that the Primordial Rune was linked to the World Origin and discussed its relationship to Authority and Planar Will.
• Ian proposed that Dragon Tongue Magic imitated the Primordial Rune and that Naruto-world Divine Arts might rely on the World Origin, Cosmic Will, and Authority.
• Ian theorized that certain Dojutsu and Kekkei Genkai could contain dormant links to specific Authorities, potentially letting their users control those laws.
• Ian restrained his ambitions to use other universes' power systems and decided to focus on understanding the Primordial Rune in this universe.

Ian deciphered the Primordial Runes and learned to animate one with his own willpower, then mastered the Absolute Defense Rune. Old Merlin witnessed Ian’s breakthrough from afar and recognized that he had reached a level the Ancient Magekind once took millions of years to achieve.

• Morgana discovered that the Divine Artifact drew on Mythic Power and that Primordial Runes carried a form of microscopic self-awareness.
• Ian copied a Primordial Rune and ordered the Empire to make mana microcontrol and Magic Sage Mode compulsory subjects in magical education.
• Ian’s rune experiments failed until Morgana identified willpower as the missing ingredient, allowing him to create a living rune.
• Ian mastered Authority Resonance and Planar Will’s Blessing, then gained absolute control of the Absolute Defense Rune.
• Merlin sensed Ian’s progress, compared it with the Ancient Magekind’s history, and chose not to approach him because doing so could endanger the Arcane Empire.

Ian advanced his Arcane Rune System by creating Living Runes, studying Primordial Runes, and organizing a new hierarchy of rune types. He then planned to transform Netheril into a living rune-powered city capable of challenging top-tier Tenth-Tier Ancient Gods, though he still lacked a path to Eleventh Tier.

• Ian created a Shadow Clone to dismantle the clone-making Divine Artifact while he developed Living Arcane Runes, which greatly improved mana efficiency but were impractical to cast during combat.
• Ian failed to make his Arcane Runes directly access the World Origin, and he ordered the Empire to search ruins for an encyclopedia of Primordial Runes and restore incomplete runes in its database.
• Ian ordered Orochimaru to join the Chakra System project and asked Tsunade whether she would resume chakra research.
• Ian classified the reformed Arcane Rune System into regular, Three-Dimensional, Sub-Law, Law, Will, and Perfect Runes.
• Ian planned to replace Netheril’s power sources with Primordial and Perfect Runes, link its runes into a hive network, and raise its combat power toward Eleventh Tier, though he had not discovered how to reach that tier.
• Ian looked over Netheril’s design as his commander told him it was almost time to depart.

After seventy-two years of research, Ian returned to the Empire, then traveled to another world to capture Rick Sanchez variants and study their biology and portal technology. He and Morgana disguised themselves as Rick and Morty and headed for the Citadel to obtain technology that could isolate Ian’s timeline from his variants.

• Ian learned that the Empire had completed its postwar restoration and that the Bones Council meeting was two weeks away, while the search for the Sage Clan continued without a firm lead.
• Ian traveled through the Void to a technology-based world and captured ten Rick Sanchez variants for analysis.
• Ian studied the captured Ricks’ memories, brain structures, and Life Codes, then used a Portal Gun to test travel across dimensions and timelines.
• Ian saw potential in Rick’s portal technology for replacing the Empire’s costly curvature portals and advancing his Omniverse Gateway Project.
• Ian and Morgana disguised themselves as Rick and Morty and traveled to the Citadel to acquire technology for isolating Ian’s timeline from his variants.

Ian and Morgana seized the Citadel of Ricks Fortress, scanned C-137’s memories, and gathered technology and magical knowledge before leaving the universe. After a close encounter with a Void behemoth, they returned safely to the Arcane Empire and began preparing for their next plan.

• Ian and Morgana infiltrated the Citadel of Ricks Fortress, took control of its systems, and obtained C-137’s memories by scanning his brainwaves and Life Code during dinners with Beth’s family.
• Ian packed the Citadel into the Floating City but left the Rick variants behind, then collected improved Portal Gun technology, magical knowledge from Dregon, and the Hive Mind organism Unity.
• Ian and Morgana traveled home through the Void, where Morgana detected a Void behemoth that noticed them but did not attack.
• Ian and his companions returned safely to the Empire and began preparing for their next plan.

Ian activated the fortress and used its technology to shield the Empire’s timeline, but Klonai warned that the wall would only delay the Guardians and that relocating the Empire would not keep them from tracking its citizens. Ian resolved to stay and prepare for the Bones Council, determined to confront the Guardians once he had enough power.

• Ian activated the fortress and, with Muratu Amin, confirmed that it had built an absolute spatial wall around the Empire’s Prime timeline.
• Ian ordered Muratu Amin to minimize field missions to the Multiverse and then consulted Klonai about whether the wall could resolve his crisis.
• Klonai explained that the wall would buy about ten years, while relocating the Empire would let the Guardians track its citizens through their Soul Imprints.
• Klonai revealed that she could not erase the imprints or revoke the Guardians’ authority, and told Ian that the Sage Clan might hold the answer.
• Ian rejected fleeing to another plane and began making final preparations for the Bones Council.

Ian traveled to the Bones Council conference, where his Eighth Tier strength and highest-tier warship marked him as a potential rival for the chairman’s throne. During five days of networking, he mapped the Council’s factions and prepared to seize power at the coming assembly.

• Ian arrived at the Bones Council’s orbital fortress and discovered that its tier test secretly scanned his magical and higher-dimensional energies.
• Ian’s test showed that he was Eighth Tier, and registrar A-765 also learned that his warship had the highest vehicle technology rating.
• Ian entered the main venue, met the gathered variants, and spent five days building an intelligence network.
• Ian identified six major factions: the Arcane Empire, Dark Lord, Principal, Divinity, Alchemists’ Alliance, and Magitech factions.
• Ian planned to claim the Council chairman’s seat, lead the Alchemists’ Alliance, and place informants in other factions before heading to the general assembly.

Nine powerful Ian variants assembled as candidates for the Citadel Council chairmanship, and C-137 tried to dominate the gathering with his Ninth Tier pressure. G-003 countered him with equal force, revealing himself as a major threat to C-137’s bid.

• The Citadel’s communications system explained why nine high-tier variants with exceptional technology, magic, and influence had been seated onstage.
• Ian Bones variants from several dimensions introduced themselves, including A-001, who warned the crowd, and M-616, whose designation drew attention.
• L-123 faced jeers for his divine affiliation, while G-003 introduced himself and announced his intention to become Council Chairman.
• C-137 appeared in the central seat and released Ninth Tier pressure over the venue.
• G-003 suppressed C-137’s pressure without using a Divine Artifact, and C-137 recognized him as the greatest threat to his chairmanship.

C-137 introduced a knowledge-based election test for Council Chairman, but Ian exposed hidden scoring bias in the AI before the assessment began. After the code was corrected, C-137 opened the test by displaying a complex magical equation.

• C-137 explained that the council would help variants share resources and pursue travel between universes, then proposed a chairman election with strength and knowledge assessments.
• Ian and Morgana discovered that the AI source code contained hidden commands favoring higher-tier candidates, which Morgana linked to Herpo's divine runes.
• After three hours of code analysis, Ian revealed the bias commands, and C-137 ordered his subordinates to remove them.
• The variants approved a test in which candidates displayed magical achievements for others to analyze, and C-137 began with a complicated magical equation.