Chapter Summaries

After completing the foundation of Arcane Runes, Ian visited Olivia at Briggs Fortress and took her to an artificial resort in his dimension. Their vacation ended with Ian giving Olivia the blueprints for an advanced individual combat system, which she brought back to her military plans.

• Ian created an identical avatar and appeared in Olivia’s office after six months away, then invited her on a date at a water resort.
• Olivia agreed to go, and the next day Ian merged his avatar with another body and showed her holographic swimsuit designs.
• Ian took Olivia to an artificial ocean populated by awakened clones and explained that they were a backup civilization prepared in case of disaster.
• Over the following weeks, Ian arranged resort activities and a movie premiere for Olivia, who gradually enjoyed the vacation despite knowing the crowds were clones.
• Ian showed Olivia a military exercise featuring drones, exoskeletons, and modern firearms, then placed the blueprints for the combat system in her mind.
• Olivia returned to her battlefield with the blueprints, while Ian resumed his magical research.

Ian developed a Composite Forbidden Spell that stopped time without the Gate of Truth, then discovered Microscopic Inscription, which gave ordinary weapons powerful conceptual enchantments. He left off wondering whether he could inscribe concepts such as explosion or fission into atomic nuclei.

• Ian combined numerous magic arrays into a Composite Forbidden Spell and used it to halt a supersonic baseball, but the spell nearly drained his Magic Core.
• Ian accused Morgana of deliberately delaying his magic recovery because he had refused to credit her on the project, then punished her by ordering her to hand-copy a sentence one hundred thousand times.
• Ian inscribed a Flame Rune between the atoms of a steel sword and used a Chain Array to spread miniature runes throughout its lattice, creating an undying fire that burned a dummy to ash.
• Ian inscribed a Wind Blade Rune into another sword, giving it conceptual sharpness that let it slice through tungsten-alloy armor.
• Ian realized Microscopic Inscription could transform artifact forging and wondered whether inscribing explosion or fission into atomic nuclei could make alchemical nuclear weapons commonplace.

Ian developed Core Inscription by embedding a charged micro-Subspace inside a Star Iron sword, giving it immense magical power and concealing its workings. After considering how the technology could create devastating bombs, he turned to upgrading the World Gate before leaving the world.

• Ian tested different metals for Core Inscription, and the first 233 swords broke, melted, or exploded.
• Ian successfully embedded a micro-Subspace in the 234th sword, made from Star Iron, and fired a fireball over a hundred meters wide.
• Ian recognized Core Inscription's power and security, and considered using collapsing Subspaces to make bombs capable of destroying planets or small star systems.
• Ian noted that his attempts to connect Subspace directly to his soul had failed, so he planned to use the technology in equipment instead.
• Ian uploaded his experimental data to Morgana and headed to the World Gate to give it a complete system upgrade.

Ian rebuilt the World Gate’s core systems with Arcane Runes and a three-dimensional matrix, then installed a new Void Curvature Engine that greatly improved travel through the Multiverse. With the upgrade complete, he turned to the long-delayed advancement of his Magic Core.

• Ian entered the Virtual Mirror World and spent three years translating the World Gate’s subsystems into Arcane Runes.
• Ian spent twenty years in the virtual world designing a three-dimensional Arcane Matrix, then recovered from the mental strain with Morgana’s help.
• Ian used Magic Metal and Alchemy to build a ten-meter sphere around the Philosopher’s Stone and activated the new engine.
• Morgana reported that the system had increased spatial stability by 300 percent and energy utilization by 500 percent, reducing the trip to the Harry Potter world from 120 years to one.
• Ian celebrated the engine’s new escape capability and went to another laboratory to work on advancing his Magic Core.

Ian liquefied the mana in his core and advanced to Fourth Tier, then tested whether other wizards could survive the breakthrough. After confirming the advancement’s universal designation and its requirements, he returned to his laboratory determined to reach Fifth Tier before going back to his original universe.

• Ian compressed the mana in his Magic Core into Liquid Mana, which transformed his body and extended his lifespan to thousands of years.
• Ian recognized the soul-engraved designation “[Fourth Tier · Grand Wizard]” and connected it to a universal power-ranking standard.
• Ian’s first two prisoner test subjects died during mana liquefaction because their souls and bodies could not withstand it.
• Ian successfully advanced a genetically modified prisoner with Battle Aura to Fourth Tier and confirmed that the designation appeared in the prisoner’s mind as well.
• Ian returned to his laboratory and considered mana solidification or crystallization as a path to Fifth Tier.

Ian forced his mana reserves to the peak of the Fourth Tier, then fused a Perfect Philosopher's Stone with his heart to become a Fifth Tier Archmage. After purifying the fused souls' resentment, he decided to leave the world and return home with his research.

• Ian used the Dimensional Core to forcibly infuse his body with mana for seventy-two hours, reaching the peak of the Fourth Tier.
• Ian realized that mana needed to fuse with soul energy to become stable crystals, and began a dangerous alchemical fusion with the Perfect Philosopher's Stone.
• Ian endured the destruction and reconstruction of his heart and body, successfully becoming a Fifth Tier Archmage with a crystalline core.
• Ian chanted the Great Sun Tathagata World-Purifying Mantra for seven days and nights, purifying the resentment of the souls within the stone and absorbing their spiritual energy.
• Ian assessed his power as Land-Sinking Rank and decided to return home with his experimental data and magical system.

After stabilizing his Fifth Tier Magic Core, Ian gained Cosmic Awareness, discovered that Truth was an immensely powerful but constrained threat, and tested his destructive magic. He expanded his core’s capacity and prepared to leave the dimensional void and return home.

• Ian tested Cosmic Awareness and learned that Truth was an Eleventh Tier conceptual entity anchored to the Fullmetal Alchemist world and unable to move freely.
• Ian used the Room of Requirement to simulate Earth and destroyed Asia with Crustal Resonance: Continental Collapse.
• Ian cast Stellar Descent, creating a miniature star that penetrated the simulated Earth and caused it to explode, though the spell consumed much of his magic and required a long charge.
• Ian integrated the Undetectable Extension Charm into his Magic Core, creating folded space and greatly expanding its capacity.
• Ian put away his staff and prepared to return home.

Ian spent twenty years overhauling magic and preparing two secret plans, then responded to Olivia’s urgent call as her father neared death. He took Olivia’s family to his world while she chose to remain in Amestris, and returned to find both plans complete, ready to begin his final plunder.

• Ian ordered Morgana to translate the Arcane Empire’s old magic into the Arcane Rune System and complete the Void Shield Interference and Authority Usurpation plans.
• After twenty years of seclusion, Ian received an urgent message from Olivia and sent a clone to the Armstrong estate.
• Olivia asked Ian to save her dying father and decided to remain in Amestris and fulfill her responsibilities as president.
• Ian took Olivia’s parents and unconscious brother to the Dimensional Space and preserved them in a Time Stasis Pod, leaving a clone to accompany Olivia.
• Morgana reported both secret plans complete, and Ian prepared to begin the final plunder.

Ian used a Void-powered shield and a modified Invisibility Cloak to evade Truth’s perception and the world’s causal records. He stole Luck from Amestris’s surviving heroes, drank the resulting Destiny Plunderer, and spread the Meme Virus through the planet’s Dragon Veins to poison Truth.

• Ian surrounded the manor with a Void Shield that blocked Truth’s awareness, then confirmed after three days that Truth had not detected it.
• Ian transformed the Invisibility Cloak to hide him from causality and silently killed inmates in several prisons without drawing Truth’s attention.
• Ian collected blood from Edward Elric, Alphonse, Zhang Mei, President Mustang, Lieutenant Hawkeye, Teacher Izumi, and other surviving heroes, then used it to make and drink the Destiny Plunderer.
• Ian poured the Meme Virus into the manor’s soil, where it spread through the planet’s Dragon Vein network toward Truth.

Ian’s Meme Virus spread across Amestris while Truth ignored it, distracted by a knowledge transaction with the Origin Gate. After confirming that Truth had not detected the virus, Ian began his ultimate confrontation and prepared to attack Truth Space.

• Ian’s clone waited as the Meme Virus spread across Amestris, and after several days without divine retaliation, Ian concluded that Truth had not noticed it.
• Truth connected to the Origin Gate and traded accumulated alchemical knowledge for higher-tier Dimensional Leap technology.
• Truth immersed itself in the knowledge and reduced its monitoring of Ian, while Ian’s stolen destiny made events favor him.
• After the virus infected everyone in Central City, Ian decided the test was over and entered Phase Four: Ultimate Confrontation.
• Ian ordered Morgana to power the Void Engine and target Truth Space, then armed himself for the attack.

Ian launched Phase Four by using invisible Bio-Puppets to provoke Human Transmutation incidents around the world, causing Truth to withdraw and delegate enforcement to an automated program. Ian planned to exploit the program after the Meme Virus had spread widely enough to help him seize Divine Authority.

• Ian sent more than a hundred Bio-Puppets, cloaked from the world's surveillance, to spread shattered seeds across the world.
• A Bio-Puppet manipulated the grieving alchemist Thomas into attempting Human Transmutation, and Truth's clone took one of Thomas's legs as punishment.
• Human Transmutation incidents began erupting across multiple countries, including Amestris, Drachma, Creta, Xing, and Ishval.
• Truth failed to recognize the incidents as an organized conspiracy and created an automated program to handle Gate of Truth violations before shutting off his senses.
• Ian watched Truth's withdrawal and decided to wait for the Meme Virus to mature before attempting to seize Divine Authority.

After fifty years of preparation in the Dimensional Void, Ian brought the aging Olivia Armstrong into hibernation and prepared to confront Truth. With his ties to the mortal world severed, he declared that the final showdown was beginning.

• Ian reflected on fifty years of reforming the Arcane Empire’s magic and strengthening his power, while noting that his body remained a weakness.
• Olivia Armstrong told Ian she was ready to die and confronted him about waiting for her death before carrying out a dangerous plan.
• Ian admitted he had kept his true plan from Olivia, and she accepted their years together before asking him to take her away.
• Ian teleported Olivia to Dimensional Space, restored her youth with potions, and placed her in a hibernation pod.
• Ian returned to the control room, declared all ties severed, and turned his attention to Truth for the final showdown.

Ian activated the Meme Virus to link billions of infected minds into a Hive Mind and use their collective denial to weaken Truth. He dragged the god into the mortal world, but Truth still overwhelmed him until Ian threatened to detonate five Void Cores, leaving their confrontation at a standstill.

• Ian awakened the infected creatures across the planet and linked their minds into a Hive Mind, with Morgana diverting the mental data overload.
• Ian commanded the Hive Mind to deny Truth's existence and divine authority, weakening the god through Concept Erasure.
• The Planetary Will emerged through Earth's Gate, broke open the Sky Gate, and dragged Truth into the mortal world.
• Truth's power fell to the Ninth Tier, and Ian accused It of manipulating him through a mental suggestion to make him spread knowledge.
• Truth attacked Ian with Dimensional Erasure, but Ian's Void Shield held long enough for him to threaten Truth with five Void Cores.

Ian used the Void Cores and hidden Space Bombs to weaken Truth and force it to divide its attention, then prepared to seize its Divine Authority. The chapter ended with Ian activating the Authority Usurpation Program as Truth struggled to protect both the material world and its Knowledge Dimension.

• Ian threatened Truth with five Void Cores, then detonated them to make it suppress the spreading Void Energy.
• Ian ordered Morgana to scan Truth, which she identified as a Pure Energy Lifeform with an Energy Dimension in its Life Code.
• Ian detonated Space Bombs hidden in Truth's Knowledge Dimension, collapsing its structure and destroying its knowledge spheres.
• Truth divided its consciousness to contain the damage in both the Knowledge Dimension and the material world, while Ian summoned three Divine Artifacts.
• Ian activated the Authority Usurpation Program and demanded that Truth hand over its Divine Authority.

Ian’s clone stole Truth’s Authorities while the main body secured coordinates to the Akashic Gate. Ian then set the World Gate on course for the Arcane Empire, leaving the Fullmetal World behind.

• Ian sacrificed millions of Gates of Truth to break Truth’s hold on the world’s laws and steal the Authorities of Death, Space-Time, and Wisdom.
• Ian’s clone sent the three Authorities, Morgana’s backup data, and pure Soul Energy to his main body through the World Gate projection.
• Truth unleashed divine punishment, erasing Ian’s clone and the tower ruins.
• Ian’s main body revealed that a probe had recorded the Akashic Gate’s energy coordinates and sealed them inside the Magic Core.
• Ian ordered Morgana to take the World Gate toward the universe of the Arcane Empire, with an estimated travel time of one year.

After escaping Truth, Ian returned to the Harry Potter world and called on Merlin for protection. Merlin agreed to shield him and prepared to explain the truth about Ian’s transmigration and what lay ahead.

• Truth tried to locate Ian through the Origin Gate, but Merlin’s Mark blocked the search.
• Ian feared Truth might discover his home universe’s coordinates, so he ordered Morgana to direct full power to the Void Engine.
• A month later, Ian reached the Harry Potter universe and used his soul mark to summon Merlin.
• Merlin welcomed Ian and laughed when Ian admitted he had taken Authority and made an enemy of Truth.
• Merlin promised that Truth would not leave the universe and said he would explain Ian’s transmigration and future path.

Ian asked Merlin about the dangers left by his encounter with Truth and learned the origin of his transmigration and Earth’s role in the Multiverse. Merlin sent Ian home, warning him that the wider world was far more dangerous than he knew.

• Ian asked Merlin to check whether Truth had tampered with the Authorities and the knowledge he stole from the Eye of God.
• Merlin confirmed the Authorities were clean, then removed a backdoor Truth had placed in Ian’s stolen knowledge.
• Merlin explained that Ian’s home Earth, called Primordial Earth, received information from the Multiverse and anchored worlds through its stories.
• Merlin told Ian that his transmigration had been random and that he could not return to Primordial Earth until he reached the Multiverse’s peak.
• Merlin urged Ian to remain cautious and keep exploring, and Ian stepped through the World Gate to go home.

Ian returned to Earth in Arcane Calendar Year 40 and found that abundant magic had transformed the world but intensified social divisions. After seeing discrimination against artificial mages at Hogwarts, he planned to use his new techniques to strengthen them and address the growing crisis.

• Ian arrived in Africa, sensed the planet’s magic and Leyline Energy, and confirmed the foundation for his Arcane Rune System.
• Ian visited Cairo’s No-Magic Zone and learned that people with Magic Rejection Syndrome were refusing an available cure in hopes of awakening magical talent.
• At Hogwarts, Ian watched a Slytherin student defeat three Hufflepuff students and insult them as artificial mages.
• Ian discovered that artificial Magic Cores were failing in the wilder natural magic, leaving artificial mages weaker than wizards and fueling a hierarchy of discrimination.
• Ian considered using Core Inscription, Arcane Runes, the Undetectable Extension Charm, and Battle Aura to help artificial mages, then headed for the Governor’s residence.

After returning from a five-year absence, Ian heard accounts of a rebellion and Grindelwald’s massacre of the rebels, then judged the officials responsible and reunited his divided cabinet around the Empire’s mission. He ended the council by asking Hermione and Rowena to stay for new assignments.

• At a family dinner, Hermione told Ian that rebels had risen after the truth about the fabricated Dementor Invasion leaked, and Grindelwald had massacred them on a live broadcast.
• Ian convened a royal council and told Grindelwald that his actions had been justified but his methods had damaged the Empire’s image.
• Ian removed Grindelwald as commander of the Ghost Legion, ordered Umbridge to take public responsibility and resign, and stripped Lucius Malfoy of half his military authority while demoting him.
• Ian urged his cabinet to prioritize order and the Empire’s expansion toward the stars, and everyone pledged their agreement.
• Ian adjourned the council and asked Hermione and Rowena to remain for new assignments.

Ian shared knowledge from the otherworld with the Arcane Empire’s core members and set three major projects in motion, including a risky effort to access the Akashic Records. After unifying the cabinet behind the Empire’s technological path, he prepared to confront the nobles and conglomerates who had betrayed it.

• Ian uploaded his memories to Skynet, and the core members learned about alchemy, Truth, Divine Authority, and Arcane Runes.
• Ian announced the Pangu Project to give every citizen a Gate connected to Morgana, while Amelia Bones warned that the system would monitor and limit them.
• Ian launched the Uranus Project, and Nikolai Flamel said the new runes could let him build a Floating City in as little as six months.
• Ian proposed the dangerous Akashic Project, and Rowena Ravenclaw and other core members agreed to pursue a connection to the Akashic Records.
• Ian ordered the core members to train in Battle Aura before attempting higher-tier advancement.
• Ian turned his attention to the betraying conglomerates and nobles, and the parliamentary building was set to face a bloody storm three days later.