Chapter Summaries

Ian and Morgana deciphered C-137’s equation as a flawed method for opening a gate to the Astral Realm, then considered what made Ian’s timeline unique and whether deeper rules governed variants across different planes. They continued analyzing the mystery while waiting for the council’s allotted time to end.

• The variants voted to return to their private rooms to analyze C-137’s equation, while the nine primary variants stayed in the venue and worked on it there.
• Ian and Morgana determined that the equation combined several magical systems and was designed to forcibly open a gate to the Astral Realm, though it remained defective.
• Ian concluded that he was the only variant who had discovered the Void rift and developed Omniverse Traversal, and Morgana suggested Merlin had protected their unique timeline.
• Ian questioned whether variants of powerful beings could meet across different planes and whether hidden rules or a conspiracy prevented such encounters.
• Ian and Morgana agreed to investigate the nature of the other planes after the council and continued considering possibilities as they waited.

At the Council Election, G-003 exposed C-137’s Astral Realm equation and secrets, then overwhelmed the Variants in the knowledge assessment. He won the section by a wide margin, but C-137 and others insisted that the power test still proceed.

• C-137 presented an equation for opening a gateway to the Astral Realm, and the Variants discussed its unusual spacetime magic.
• G-003 revealed that the equation connected to other planes and warned that travelers from the Cosmic Faith Plane faced pursuit and capture.
• G-003 analyzed C-137’s equation, exposed his connection to Herpo and his research into fusing Divine Power with magic, and offered to help complete the equation in exchange for his research.
• C-137 received 220 points, while G-003 proceeded to dissect the Variants’ presentations and exploit their weakness in divination magic.
• G-003 took first place in the knowledge section with a perfect score, followed by A-001 and C-137.
• Despite the overwhelming results, C-137 and several Variants demanded that the power assessment continue.

Ian defeated C-137 and A-001 in Virtual Reality battles, winning the council election and becoming chairman. He left the council members to accept the result after C-137 reluctantly conceded.

• Ian and C-137 chose a Virtual Reality battle to decide the election, and Ian secretly amplified his magic with karma.
• Ian overwhelmed C-137 with powerful spells, then revealed that unstable space-time energy had made C-137’s attempt to recover control futile.
• Ian defeated C-137 with a final attack, and the AI awarded G-003 a perfect score.
• A-001 challenged Ian and recounted how Herpo had destroyed his Magic Empire and everyone he loved.
• Ian quickly defeated A-001, whose score was thirty points, and the council members agreed to honor the election result.
• C-137 reluctantly accepted Ian’s victory, and Ian declared himself the council chairman.

Ian consolidated his control over the Bones Council by secretly extracting C-137’s knowledge and forcing the members to sign a Soul Contract. After erasing those who refused, he began the council’s next discussion with its members trapped inside the Citadel.

• Ian announced another plenary meeting in three days, and C-137 planned to weaken his authority by gathering supporters.
• Ian confronted C-137, incapacitated his aides, searched his memories, and found that he knew nothing about the secret of the Eleventh Tier.
• Ian altered C-137 and his aides’ memories, returned C-137’s soul to his body, and left a hidden mark in it.
• At the next meeting, Ian revealed that he had sealed the Citadel and required every member to sign a Soul Contract protecting the council’s secrets and prohibiting attacks on fellow members.
• Ian used an Anti-Magic Field to overpower the variants, erased those who refused to sign, and declared the contract mandatory for all future members.

Ian introduced helmets that let variants secretly pool their knowledge to accelerate research, then agreed to a contract restricting his use of the technology. The helmets secretly collected data on each variant’s Self, advancing Ian’s plan to reach the Eleventh Tier.

• Ian dispelled the anti-magic barrier and presented the helmets as a way for the variants to cooperate without revealing their secrets.
• U-765 and five other variants tested the helmets, and U-765 said their shared session had saved him at least a hundred years of research.
• Ian explained that auxiliary users would forget the classified project while their ideas and computing power helped the helmet’s main user.
• G-003 raised concerns about Ian stealing secrets, so the variants drafted a restrictive contract that Ian signed.
• Ian revealed to Morgana that the helmets recorded Self data for his database and would help him assimilate the variants’ Selves as the Main Self.

Ian organized the Council’s departments, rules, and trading system before ending its three-day meeting by seeking intelligence on the Scholar Race and Wizard Race. Afterward, G-334 offered a Wizard Race relic in exchange for Ian removing a deadly curse from a soul.

• Ian established the Enforcement Department, and C-137 won the minister’s position through combat.
• The variants agreed on Council rules, strict laboratory safety regulations, and a trading system overseen by an AI they named Red Queen.
• Ian finalized the Council’s departments and announced that he would trade valuable knowledge or technology for any intelligence about the Scholar Race or Wizard Race.
• After the meeting, Ian met with the Core Council, whose members would serve limited terms, while the chairman’s term was capped at one hundred years.
• Morgana connected Ian with G-334, who offered a Wizard Race relic for help removing a severe curse from a soul.
• Ian examined the relic and cursed soul, agreed to help, and said the curse would take a few hours to remove.

Ian cleansed G-334’s beloved Hermione’s cursed soul, resurrected her in exchange for a star chart, and acquired a mysterious cube containing a Primordial Rune. Before returning to the Prime Universe, he traded a defective Faith Power formula to L-123 for a bronze token linked to the Scholar Race and the Astral Realm Library.

• Ian secretly drew the curse out of G-334’s soul and stored the blackened potion, then offered to resurrect Hermione in exchange for the cube’s origin.
• Ian resurrected Hermione, and G-334 gave him a star chart and promised to follow the Council’s confidentiality rules.
• Ian examined the cube, discovered a Primordial Rune behind its anti-theft mechanism, and continued upgrading the Citadel while waiting for other trades.
• Ian agreed to trade L-123 an experimental Faith Power purification formula for a bronze token connected to the Astral Realm Library and the Scholar Race.
• Ian sent L-123 the defective formula in wand-casting format and received the bronze token before preparing to return to the Prime Universe.

Ian used an ancient token to investigate the Astral Realm Library, then traveled to Charles Wentworth’s timeline to find a missing Time-Space Auror agent. He discovered a wizarding society abusing Muggles and recovered the agent’s intelligence files, hoping the agent was still alive.

• Ian translated the token as [Astral Realm Library], and Luna traced its faint connection to another plane and located an identical token in a nearby galaxy.
• Ian learned that the Time-Space Auror monitoring Charles Wentworth had gone missing, so he left with C-137 to investigate Charles’s timeline.
• Ian reached London and saw wizards mistreating Muggles, then overheard Edison and a young wizard arranging to buy Muggles for live experimentation.
• Ian tracked the missing agent’s hidden base to Peru and entered its pocket dimension without triggering the self-destruct program.
• Ian uncovered the intelligence seed containing the agent’s files about Charles and began reading them.

Charles secretly built his magical power through stolen knowledge, controlled scientists, and dangerous bloodline experiments, then rose to prominence by helping defeat Voldemort and save Lily. Afterward, he used a staged emotional collapse to lay the groundwork for radical reforms in the Wizarding World.

• Charles stole money and magical books, then secretly copied libraries across Hogwarts, magical schools, and pure-blood families to research bloodline modification.
• Charles controlled Muggle scientists and forced brutal experiments, eventually merging a Basilisk bloodline into himself and becoming a wizard.
• Charles trained for years to break through the second Limiter, reached Second Tier, and joined the Order of the Phoenix to get close to Lily and James.
• Charles hid during Voldemort's attack on the Potters' house, then fought Voldemort and used dark magic to save Lily after Voldemort died.
• Charles denounced the Wizarding World's failing system at an Order of the Phoenix meeting, apologized after provoking criticism, and prepared the way for future reforms.

Charles rose from Minister of Magic to Magic Emperor, reshaping the Wizarding World before waging a brutal war against the Muggles and ruling the planet. Years later, Ian learned Charles was planning a dangerous experiment with the Ministry of Magic's Time Room and decided to confront him.

• After Voldemort's death, Charles won Britain's Minister of Magic election and introduced sweeping reforms to education and magical research.
• Over the next decade, Charles strengthened Britain and reached the Third Tier, then secretly caused Dumbledore's death by intensifying the curse on the Gaunt Family ring.
• Charles established a unified Magic Council and spent another decade expanding his influence across the Wizarding World.
• Charles's expansion into the Muggle world triggered a five-year war, which he won after reaching the Fourth Tier and ruling the planet.
• More than fifteen years later, Ian learned that Charles was preparing a dangerous experiment in the Ministry of Magic's Time Room and decided to meet him.

Ian confronted Charles at the Imperial Palace after discovering that his monitoring agent had disappeared. Charles revealed that a failed attempt to open a space-time gate had unleashed a catastrophe and left him sensing an unknown danger; the story left Ian investigating what had threatened Charles.

• Ian teleported from Peru to the Imperial Palace and reviewed how Charles’s Magic Empire advanced its wizards through mana cultivation and bloodline fusion.
• Charles joined his family for dinner, where they discussed Harry’s dangerous research into Resurrection magic and Charles’s frustration at failing to match the Arcane Empire’s progress.
• Ian appeared during dinner, and Charles asked him to spare his family before denying any knowledge of Ian’s missing monitoring agent.
• Ian questioned Charles about recent unusual events, and Charles recounted how a space-time gate experiment had threatened the Solar System and triggered an unexplained sense of approaching death.
• Charles said he had used his time ability to return to the previous day when the unknown danger appeared.

Ian used a Floating City projection to uncover how the Time Guardians had captured his agent, then learned they had mistaken Charles for a criminal. He told Charles he needed his help against the Time Custodians and promised Phoebe that Charles would return after leaving a clone to manage his Empire.

• Ian used the Floating City's power to replay the past and saw the Time Guardians arrest his agent after falsely accusing him of violating the Law of Time.
• Ian learned that the agent had erased his memories and that the Time Guardians had taken him away; he vowed to make them pay.
• Ian concluded that Charles had escaped detection because he was a Time Lord and said he needed Charles to help him deal with the Time Custodians.
• Phoebe begged Ian not to take her father away, and Ian promised that Charles would return once the task was finished.
• Ian gave Charles time to leave a clone in charge of his Empire and warned him that helping would come at a cost.

Ian warned Charles that Herpo the Foul threatened his world and that Charles had little choice but to leave with him. After arranging a clone to protect his family and continue their plans, Charles departed with Ian, who returned to the Prime Universe and set several investigations in motion.

• Ian told Charles that Herpo the Foul had become an Eighth-Tier threat and might have prolonged the war to escape the Underworld.
• Charles told Bellatrix and Hermione that resistance against Ian's Empire would likely bring the destruction of their world, and he prepared a clone with twelve hours of temporal rewind ability.
• Charles left the clone in charge of his family and plans, then boarded Ian's spacecraft and departed.
• Back in the Prime Universe, Ian sent Charles to the Time-Space Aurors for research into the Time Lord and sent C-137 to a laboratory for study.
• Ian asked Luna about her divination, then resumed deciphering the Wizard Tribe Cube while awaiting the task force's return.

Ian studied the black cube, mastered its first Primordial Rune, and gained access to its inheritance. After a second cube fused with the first and advanced him to the next layer, he found an Akashic Records Token inside.

• Ian failed to bypass the cube’s anti-theft technology but mastered its Magic Missile rune and passed the first trial.
• Ian entered the cube’s first-layer library and learned he would need to master its knowledge to face an assessment.
• Luna told Ian she had traced the token’s source to the Myriad Laws Codex but could not divine its location, and that Hermione was gathering intelligence in the Abyss.
• Luna sent Ian a second cube, which fused with the first and canceled the first-layer assessment because Ian could traverse the Multiverse.
• Ian entered the second-layer library and found an Akashic Records Token in a metal container.

Ian investigated the hidden mark in his Soul Flame and learned that researching the gray matter found in Time Lords would take longer than the fifty years he had. After waiting for Hermione’s coordinates and for the second Floating City to reach the Tenth Tier, he boarded Ravenclaw and set off for the Myriad Laws Codex Plane.

• Ian examined the local access token, then went to the Time-Space Aurors’ headquarters to ask Marisol about Charles.
• Marisol explained that gray matter in Time Lords’ Soul Flames caused their mutations and that it formed a ring around Charles’s Soul Flame.
• Ian discovered a concealed aura in his own Soul Flame but could neither remove nor seal it, and Marisol said replicating Charles’s ring would take more than fifty years.
• Ian appeared at public events, gave a nationwide postwar restoration speech, and spent time with his family.
• Ian considered asking Delilah about the Myriad Laws Codex Plane but decided against contacting her.
• Hermione sent Ian the plane’s coordinates, and after waiting until Ravenclaw reached the Tenth Tier, Ian boarded it and departed.

Ian entered the Myriad Laws Codex Plane and used the Astral Realm Library to search for the Scholar Race. He learned that the library might be affiliated with them and left with a cryptic prophecy about their whereabouts.

• Ian concealed his Floating City, registered as a Wizard Plane visitor, and paid Soulstones for professional library privileges.
• Ian searched the Level Two Library for the Scholar Race, then exchanged knowledge of Qi for a VIP pass to enter the Central Library.
• Ian found records saying the Scholar Race had survived a war with the Wizard Race, vanished from public view, and might be connected to the Astral Realm Library.
• Ian asked the administrator for more information, and she told him the prophecy: "The formless world lies hidden beneath the smallest things."
• Ian asked which language the prophecy had originally been recorded in, then returned to his reading area with the information.

Ian deciphered the prophecy and concluded that the Scholar Race was hidden in the Quantum Realm. He and Luna entered it with the Floating City, but their power was restricted and the city could not adapt, so they left its protection to explore.

• Ian downloaded the diviner's language records and returned to the Empire after sensing that someone was watching him.
• Ian translated the prophecy as describing a world hidden beneath the smallest particles and identified the Quantum Realm as the Scholar Race's hiding place.
• Ian built a Composite Enchanting Array, tested it with clones, and brought Luna and the Floating City into the Quantum Realm.
• The Quantum Realm disabled the Floating City's systems and weakened Ian and Luna, while their power recovery stopped at the Fourth Tier.
• Ian and Luna left the Floating City to explore the unknown surroundings.

Ian and Luna explored the Quantum Realm, where unfamiliar laws weakened their abilities and blocked Ian from reading intelligent beings’ minds. After Luna posed as a stranded mind mage and questioned caravan leader Krovick, Ian learned that the City of Enlightenment was ruled by the Scholar Race, the people he had been seeking.

• Ian and Luna found that Luna could not make sense of the Quantum Realm’s overwhelming information, while Ian used a giant creature’s memories to map a route toward intelligent life.
• Ian and Luna discovered that their flight was slower and more costly in magic power, and Ian could not read the caravan members’ memories, though he could read their pack beast’s.
• Luna disguised herself as Jessica Kana, a mind mage who had fallen from the Material World, and approached the caravan for help.
• Krovick confirmed that they were in the Quantum Realm and told Luna that the world was controlled by the Sun God Church, the Tatar Empire, and the City of Enlightenment.
• Ian learned from Krovick that the Scholar Race ruled the City of Enlightenment and felt relieved to have found them.

Ian repaired the Floating City and met Grand Elder Kori of the Scholar Race to learn how to deal with the Time Custodians. Kori revealed the origins and power of the Custodians, then told Ian he had to survive the Time Game.

• Ian and Luna verified Krovick's information and learned that the Quantum Realm's first layer restricted living beings to the Fourth Tier and technology to the Sixth Tier.
• Ian bought Sixth Tier equipment and Divine Artifacts on the black market, repaired the Floating City, and left it hidden while creating a Divine Artifact that could draw on its power remotely.
• Ian and Luna entered the City of Enlightenment by answering questions, then reached the Central Library after solving its challenges.
• Grand Elder Kori explained that the Quantum Realm had deeper layers with fewer restrictions and that the Scholar Race stayed on the first layer for protection.
• Kori told Ian that the Spatial Ancient God had killed the Time Ancient God, taken his Authority, and become the most powerful being on the plane with Klonai's support.
• Ian asked how he could escape becoming a time criminal, and Kori said he had to survive the Time Game.

Kori explained that the Time Custodians used the Time Game to harvest knowledge from time criminals, and Ian realized he would have to win it to avoid being hunted or overwhelmed. Kori revealed that his people aided Ian because he belonged to the Akashic Records and seemed destined for greatness, hoping to invest in his future.

• Kori told Ian that the Spatial Ancient God created the Time Game to extract unique knowledge from time criminals, and that surviving it had become nearly impossible.
• Ian considered offering knowledge of time from other universes and planned to use the game to get close to the Time Custodians and capture him.
• Kori warned Ian that the Time Custodians had powerful clones across the Astral Realm and could track his soul, while hiding in the Quantum Realm would leave him facing an overwhelming war of resources.
• Ian concluded that he had to win the Time Game, then learned from Kori that the taboo name of the Time Custodians was Cosmos.
• Kori explained that the Scholar Race had shown Ian goodwill because he was a member of the Akashic Records and appeared blessed with great karmic luck and destined for major accomplishments.