Recaps

Ian and the others recovered the Golden Book of the Sun, learned that Forbidden Witchcraft had been banned by the gods, and set a trap for Imhotep. The chapter ended with Imhotep weakened and unconscious after Lily used the book’s power against him.

• Ian opened the Golden Book of the Sun with a key he transfigured from sand and learned it could let anyone cast spells.
• Ian and Lily decided to capture Imhotep for study, while Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan opposed their plan; Ian knocked the three unconscious.
• Imhotep confronted the four wizards and explained that Forbidden Witchcraft was an innate gift the gods had ordered purged.
• Ian offered Evelyn to Imhotep, but Snape stole the Black Book of the Dead while Lily used the Golden Book of the Sun to weaken him.
• Imhotep realized Evelyn had been transfigured from sand and collapsed unconscious as the book’s power cut him off from Anubis.

Ian and Hermione traveled to China to find the Eye of Shangri-La and seek the Oracle Bone Scripture from Zi Yuan. After Zi Yuan attacked them, Hermione incapacitated Lin and the Yetis while Ian overcame Zi Yuan, leaving her unable to move.

• Ian woke Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan, escaped Hamunaptra with them, and divided the treasure between the two groups, secretly including the Spear of Judgment in Rick’s pouch.
• Ian and Hermione traveled to China, searched for the Eye of Shangri-La, and found it in a wealthy widow’s collection.
• Ian used the diamond to reveal Shangri-La’s location and traveled there with Hermione to meet Zi Yuan and seek her Oracle Bone Scripture.
• Zi Yuan rejected Ian’s offer to exchange knowledge and attacked with flying swords, prompting Hermione and Ian to fight back.
• Hermione stunned Lin and the Yetis, while Ian pierced Zi Yuan’s ice shield and struck her acupoint, immobilizing her.

Ian found the Oracle Bone Scripture and spent a week studying its spells, learning how this world's magic drew on gods, nature, and inner power. He exhausted himself experimenting, while Hermione calmed Zi Yuan and Lin and reached an agreement with them.

• Ian failed to read Zi Yuan's memories because a Sanskrit spell protected her mind, but he found the Oracle Bone Scripture in Lin's memories.
• Ian translated most of the Scripture and studied its spells, identifying several sources of magic, including divine, natural, innate, and Negative Energy.
• Ian realized he could use Gate of Truth Alchemy to channel different energies and make Arcanists more versatile.
• After a week of reading and spellcasting, Ian woke exhausted and asked Hermione what had happened.
• Hermione told Ian she had calmed Zi Yuan and Lin and reached an agreement with them.

Ian and Hermione helped Zi Yuan send the Dragon Emperor’s body into the Void, ending his threat for good. Zi Yuan chose to give up immortality and live as an ordinary person, while Ian and Hermione went to investigate the Fountain of Youth.

• Ian apologized to Zi Yuan and discussed ways to ensure the Dragon Emperor could never threaten them again.
• After Zi Yuan and Lin rejected the risky plan to kill him upon resurrection, Ian offered to send the Dragon Emperor into the Void using the Floating City.
• Ian and Hermione excavated the Dragon Emperor’s tomb in Guizhou Province and brought his body to the Floating City in the Amazon Rainforest.
• Ian threw the Dragon Emperor’s body into the Void, where it disintegrated within seconds.
• Zi Yuan decided to give up immortality and leave with Lin and three Yetis to live as an ordinary person.
• Ian and Hermione went to the Fountain of Youth, where Hermione wanted to learn its secret.

Ian discovered that the pool's water could increase magical power enough to help him, Hermione, Lily, and Snape reach the Sixth Tier, and the group organized their research in the Amazon. They also assigned Snape to monitor Evelyn's reincarnation, leaving him responsible for the long-term task.

• Ian and Hermione detected traces of Authority and exceptionally pure Divine Power in the pool, and Morgana reported that its water could help all four researchers advance to the Sixth Tier.
• Lily reported that Imhotep's indestructible body and bound soul resembled a Horcrux, giving the Empire an alternative method of immortality.
• Ian assigned himself necromancy and soul research, Lily the study of Aguirre and Imhotep, Hermione the translation of the magical system into Gate of Truth Alchemy, and Snape research into Moon's Tears and the Fountain of Youth.
• Ian told the group that Evelyn had reincarnated and might regain her memories, and asked them to monitor her soul without alerting the deity behind her reincarnation.
• After the researchers rejected Rune Carving and rock-paper-scissors to choose who would watch Evelyn, Ian had Morgana select a name at random, and Snape was chosen.

Ian prepared his body and mana for the Sixth Tier, then drank Snape’s mana-enhancing potion and endured a painful transformation as his body and soul were remade. He successfully advanced to the Sixth Tier, known as the Planetary Level.

• Ian trained under extreme gravity and meditated until Morgana confirmed his body could withstand Sixth Tier Crystallized Magic.
• Ian reviewed his magical research and Snape’s discovery that the Fountain of Youth contained Divine Essence, which Snape had used to create a mana-enhancing potion.
• Ian slept until he was in peak condition, then drank the entire bottle of golden potion.
• Ian controlled the surging mana as his core expanded, his Crystallized Magic became starlike Liquid Mana, and his body was destroyed and rebuilt.
• Ian’s mana nourished and strengthened his soul before returning to his core and crystallizing, confirming his advancement to the Sixth Tier.

Ian reached the Sixth Tier, gaining the power to materialize his soul, and tested his new abilities across the Solar System and beyond. After reflecting on the path to godhood and his soul research, he prepared to intervene in the events of The Mummy 2.

• Ian advanced to the Sixth Tier and manifested a soul indistinguishable from his physical body.
• Ian considered the stages of godhood and rejected becoming a faith-based god, though he remained interested in borrowing a god's power through Herpo.
• Ian tested his new abilities by traveling between planets and found that a full-power strike could destroy a Jupiter-sized gas giant but consumed over 90 percent of his magic power.
• Ian separated his soul from his body and used Soulless Body Control Magic to control his physical form independently.
• Ian concluded his tests and decided it was time to intervene in the plot of The Mummy 2.

After advancing, Ian sent Hermione, Lily, and Snape to investigate the Bracelet of Anubis, the Scorpion King’s temple, and the souls of Evelyn and Mira. By tracing the souls of Anubis’s soldiers, he uncovered the god’s plan to regain strength and possess Imhotep, but suspected the scheme had deeper layers.

• Ian told Hermione to study the Bracelet of Anubis after the cultists kidnapped Alex, assigned Lily to investigate the temple emblem, and tasked Snape with monitoring Evelyn and Mira’s souls.
• Hermione followed Alex, Snape used a clone to watch Evelyn while his original body stayed with Mira, and Lily began examining the temple entrance.
• Ian traced the souls of fallen Anubis soldiers to a pocket dimension, where a jackal-headed god spotted him and severed the passage.
• Lily told Ian that Anubis had implanted something in Imhotep that could turn him into a vessel, and Ian concluded that Anubis planned to restore his strength by harvesting mortal souls.
• Ian reasoned that Anubis intended to possess Imhotep and control the undead army, while Osiris had repeatedly used the O’Connell family to thwart him.

Ian investigated the weakened gods and planned to wait until Set possessed Nick before capturing him, while his companions pursued research into souls, nature magic, and rare potions. He also planned to improve the magical potential of this world's population through Dragon Blood Potion and generations of bloodline optimization.

• Ian decided to wait for Set to possess Nick before capturing him and learning more about the gods.
• Hermione reported that she could summon armies from the Underworld by forming contracts through its collective consciousness.
• Snape shared his findings about Evelyn's reincarnation memories, and Ian assigned Morgana to study the Black Book of the Dead and the other soul-related texts.
• Lily proposed developing a Druid class based on people's connection to nature, while Snape continued researching Moon's Tears and the Fountain of Youth.
• Morgana reported that this world's population did not overlap with the Empire's, but had very low magical talent.
• Ian ordered Dragon Blood Potion to be released into water supplies and proposed matching Awakened Ones by talent to improve magical bloodlines over generations.

Ian revealed that he had used Divine Authority and the Eye of Shangri-La to locate connected worlds and observe their gods, learning a technique he named Word Enchantment. He planned to combine it with Arcane Runes to make powerful equipment and turned his attention to finding the mysterious Library.

• Lily and Snape returned early from Alex's birthday dinner after Snape argued with Rick O'Connell.
• Ian showed Lily and Snape a projection of the World Tree, explaining how he used the Eye of Shangri-La and the Moon's Tears to find connected worlds.
• Ian described observing a smithing god and discovering Word Enchantment, which used divine language to alter an item's nature.
• Ian said he had recorded divine languages from several mythologies and planned to combine Word Enchantment with Arcane Runes.
• Ian warned that the multiverse was dangerous and said they needed power to slay gods before a crisis arrived.
• After Lily and Snape left, Ian resumed studying and chose the Library as his next target.

Ian finished studying Divine Artifacts and went to The Library in New York to seek access to its books and H. G. Wells's Time Machine. After Judson refused because a Divine Artifact revealed Ian’s terrible crimes despite his great Merit, Ian prepared to use force.

• Ian completed a replica Book of the Dead using Word Enchantment and discussed how his research could improve the Floating City.
• Morgana told Ian that twelve years had passed and identified The Library and the Serpent Brotherhood as rival organizations fighting over magical Divine Artifacts.
• Ian decided to seek out Flynn Carson, whom he considered a potential Arcanist, and ordered the Divine Artifacts recycled for their Divine Power.
• Ian entered the Metropolitan Public Library and asked Judson, Charlene, the Librarian, and the Guardian to let him read The Library’s books and study the Time Machine.
• Judson refused after a Divine Artifact showed that Ian had accumulated great Merit but also committed horrifying crimes, and Ian transformed his cane into a wand.

Ian defeated the Library’s defenders, seized control of the Library, and studied its books and Divine Artifacts, uncovering records of the War in Heaven and finding the Book of Solomon. After months of studying the book, he contacted King Solomon across time and space to ask about the gods’ fall, magic’s decline, and Solomon’s power.

• The Librarian attacked Ian with Excalibur, but Ian survived and trapped The Librarian and his Guardian in a sphere of sand.
• Judson revealed that he and Charlene had severed the Library’s connection to the current space, but Ian used coordinates calculated by Morgana to teleport everyone into the Library.
• Morgana took control of the Library’s artificial intelligence, and Ian imprisoned the defenders before reading the Library’s books and learning about the War in Heaven.
• Ian found the Book of Solomon, along with the Spear of Longinus and Judas’s Holy Grail, and spent months studying the book’s power over time and space.
• Ian used the Book of Solomon to contact its creator and asked King Solomon why the gods fell, magic nearly vanished, and Solomon became so powerful.

Solomon told Ian that the War of the Gods shattered and reshaped the laws of heaven and earth, causing magic to decline, and explained how he gained power by enslaving the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons. He gave Ian memories of Earth’s future popular culture, while a later conversation with Merlin revealed that both regarded Ian as chosen by fate and that Merlin’s plans were reaching a critical point.

• Solomon explained that Jehovah’s war against the other pantheons led to the gods’ fall or slumber and the decline of magic.
• Solomon said he gained power by forming contracts with the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons and enslaving them through his wisdom and willpower.
• Solomon recognized that Ian had used the book to find him and had sought the ultimate secrets of the world.
• Solomon gave Ian memories of movies, comics, anime, and other popular culture from Earth after Ian’s death in 2019.
• Ian thanked Solomon and ended their spacetime connection.
• Merlin appeared before Solomon, and they discussed Ian’s fate, Solomon’s gift, and Merlin’s plans reaching a critical juncture.

Solomon confronted Merlin over warning Ian about a future war, then visited his elf disciple in the Warcraft Universe and sealed most of the system he relied on. The elf accepted the challenge to develop his own abilities, and Solomon left him to continue growing.

• Merlin rebuked Solomon for interfering with Ian’s training, refused to erase Ian’s memories, and said he would block others from interfering with his disciples in the future.
• Solomon reflected that the young people had little time to grow before leaving his incarnation and traveling to the Warcraft Universe.
• Solomon told his elf disciple that he would seal most of the system’s functions and gave him ten years to reproduce its universe-travel ability.
• The elf recognized how dependent he had become on the system and resolved to prove he could achieve great things without it.
• Solomon sealed the system’s functions and departed, leaving his disciple to develop on his own.

After reviewing Solomon’s records, Ian turned to researching Time Magic and discovered how costly it was to accelerate time. He then examined a cross-dimensional alien and prepared to travel to Peru to investigate its origins and the secrets of dimensional travel.

• Ian spent a month studying Solomon’s information, including recent movies, anime, and comics, before returning to magical research.
• Ian tested a Time Acceleration Spell on an isolated area of the Floating City and drained all his mana while accelerating time by thirty years.
• Ian decided to visit a world with ready-made time technology to learn advanced applications of Time Magic.
• Ian examined a Crystal Skull alien and concluded that its species came from a parallel dimension and possessed unusual psychic abilities and magnetic crystal bones.
• Ian identified Akator as the location of the aliens’ mothership and remains, then told Morgana to prepare a spaceship for a trip to Peru.

Ian captured the Novads in Akator and seized their knowledge, learning that they had helped bring about the gods’ downfall and now competed with Jehovah for influence over humanity. He disguised himself as the wounded Novad King and took control of the enormous ship.

• Ian examined a transdimensional creature and learned that its species had powerful Psychic Energy and bodies suited to spacetime technology.
• Ian brought Hermione, Lily, and Snape to Akator, where they sealed the temple spaceship and the Crystal Skull with a Dimensional Lockdown enchantment.
• Ian returned the Crystal Skull to its place, then used the Novads’ attempt to share their knowledge to invade their linked minds and subdue them.
• Ian learned that the Novads had joined the war against the gods, leaving Jehovah and their own species as the surviving powers, and considered interfering with Christianity’s rise.
• Ian copied the Novad King’s DNA and soul fluctuations, transformed himself into its likeness, and gained the ship’s highest authority.

Ian studied Novad technology, explored the Blank Domain, and developed a magical black hole spell before returning to Earth-125. There, he and his companions attempted to summon a god, and an existence finally answered.

• Ian disabled the Novad Ship’s armaments, entrusted its systems to Morgana, and returned the repaired temple and surrounding land to a pocket dimension to protect the Ugha Tribe.
• Ian took the ship into the Blank Domain and learned how Novad Frequency Reading could identify parallel universes, while black hole technology offered new ways to travel, communicate, and gather resources.
• Ian searched the Novad King’s universe coordinates for worlds with magic, then continued researching Novad technology while the group stayed on Earth-125.
• Several years later, Ian used Arcane Rune Magic: Black Hole to devour a Jupiter-sized planet and a star, demonstrating a Seventh-Tier Stellar-Level attack despite being Sixth Tier.
• Ian returned to Earth and planned to study the Novad King’s Life Code and capture more Novads, while considering the king for the role of Imperial Time Auror.
• Hermione activated a summoning array, but repeated attempts were rejected until an existence finally appeared within it.

Ian and his companions coerced Dolos into sharing divine knowledge, then used what they learned to develop Arcane Fire, a method for purifying magic power. After giving Dolos a magically talented but pig-featured body, Ian departed with his companions for a world full of strange powers and gods.

• Ian identified Dolos as the god of lies and deception, then forced him into a contract to provide divine blood, power, and knowledge in exchange for his life and a new body.
• Dolos explained that Divine Flame purified faith by burning away believers' wills and emotions, inspiring Ian to investigate purifying magic power.
• Ian and his companions spent years testing the idea, eventually creating Arcane Fire, which purified magic power and gave Ian hope of reaching the Seventh Tier.
• Ian gave Dolos a body made with pig demon genes, fulfilling the contract despite Dolos's fury at its appearance.
• Ian boarded the spacecraft with his companions and set course for a world of strange bloodlines, powers, and gods.

Ian used Divine Flame to discover that it purified magic power into higher tiers and inferred that Crystallized Magic and the Philosopher’s Stone were forms of Aether. He renamed the flame Arcane Fire, explored its effects on other substances and energies, and began planning how to use purification to strengthen the Empire.

• Ian found that clones at the Fifth Tier or below could not withstand Divine Flame, so he cultivated Sixth Tier clones and tested purification on them and a Zero Tier clone.
• Ian observed magic power change from blue through tier-linked colors to white, and found that purification could advance an Arcanist through the tiers.
• Ian compared his findings with a comic from his previous life and concluded that Crystallized Magic and his Philosopher’s Stone were lower-purity Aether, which he renamed the Aether Stone.
• Ian estimated that purifying the Floating City’s Energy Core would require dozens of Sixth Tier experts and considered using low-tier Arcanists to condense the flame.
• Ian renamed Divine Flame Arcane Fire, purified his own magic power, and shared the discovery with the other three while urging them to reach the Sixth Tier.
• Ian discovered that Arcane Fire could purify Soul Energy, bloodlines, Battle Aura, herbs, and materials, but that it could not purify Void Energy.

Ian learned that Jehovah had expanded his ambitions to the Multiverse and prepared to confront him by other means. He crossed into Earth-234, where Chloe helped him recover enough to recognize her as the protagonist of The Last Witch Hunter.

• Ian learned from Dolos that Jehovah sought to devour divine power, had likely regained most of his strength, and could not be weakened through mortal faith.
• Ian sent a clone to contact Flynn Carson and planned to recruit Emily Davenport before attempting a solo crossing into a parallel universe.
• Ian cast Cross-Dimensional Portal, arrived on Earth-234 severely injured, and lost his magical artifacts in the crossing.
• Chloe found Ian, took him home, and used his white flames as they regenerated his severed limbs.
• Ian read Chloe's herbology and potion books, analyzed her garden plants, and guided her through brewing a potion that restored his clarity.
• Ian recognized Chloe as the female protagonist of The Last Witch Hunter.

After a failed attempt to reach Earth-234 left Ian badly injured, he recovered in a magically expanded house built in Chloe’s backyard. He offered Chloe wealth or magical knowledge as repayment, and she asked him to teach her, beginning her path as a witch.

• Ian built a small house in Chloe’s backyard with Matter Manipulation, expanded its interior, and brought in supplies from his pocket dimension.
• He treated his injuries over three days and reflected on how turbulence in the Blank Domain had caused his attempt to open a breach to Earth-234 to fail.
• After recovering, Ian studied this world’s witches and warlocks by stealing their books, then welcomed Chloe back four days later.
• Ian offered Chloe a choice between great wealth and extraordinary magical knowledge, but she asked him to teach her.
• Ian agreed to begin teaching Chloe immediately and revealed that she had a unique talent as a Dreamwalker.

Ian explained his origins and the Arcane Empire’s rapid rise to Chloe, then revealed that he planned to conquer her dimension and take its population. Chloe struggled with the revelation, and Ian gave her a few days to decide whether to become his student.

• Ian showed Chloe the multiverse and explained how he had united magic and technology to build the Arcane Empire.
• Ian described how future knowledge, enhanced intelligence, time-accelerated research, and experimentation had sped up the Empire’s development.
• Chloe asked whether she would have to experiment on humans, and Ian said that choice was hers.
• Ian told Chloe he intended to conquer her dimension and transport its magical and ordinary people to his universe without shedding blood.
• Ian gave Chloe a few days to decide whether to continue learning from him and said he would leave The Library to her if she declined.

Chloe agreed to train under Ian, who began preparing her to condense a Magic Core through strenuous physical conditioning. Meanwhile, Ian imprisoned the Witch Council, implanted knowledge of the Empire in its members, and prepared to take the prisoners and Earth’s population to the Empire.

• Chloe told Ian she still wanted him to teach her, and he explained that she first needed to strengthen her body before attempting to condense a Magic Core.
• Ian sent Chloe to begin a 100-kilometer run in a potion-injecting vest under artificial intelligence supervision.
• Ian confined the Witch Council, stopped one member from casting a spell, and searched their minds for information about the Witch Lords.
• Ian took Glasser’s necklace and implanted the Council members with basic knowledge of the Empire and news of his planned conquest of Earth, while hiding his origins.
• Ian examined the prison Golem, then opened the prison and took its prisoners, intending to make them his subjects.

Ian infiltrated an Axe and Cross meeting, took Kaulder’s memories, and uncovered the heart sustaining his immortality. After borrowing the Ancient Runes, Ian resurrected and dissected the Witch Queen, discovering that Witch Lords converted souls into magic and that her bloodline bore an Abyss-like imprint.

• Ian appeared in the Axe and Cross meeting and questioned Kaulder about the other Witch Lords.
• Ian read the memories of Kaulder and the other leaders, then revealed the Witch Queen’s still-beating heart and learned it sustained Kaulder’s immortality.
• Kaulder fired at Ian, but Ian stopped the bullets and knocked him unconscious before leaving.
• Ian borrowed the Ancient Runes, returned home, and told Chloe he planned to resurrect and dissect the Witch Queen.
• Ian resurrected the Witch Queen with magic, planetary vitality, and a summoned soul, then dissected her while Morgana scanned her anatomy.
• Ian discovered that Witch Lords stored magic in their hearts, gained it by converting souls, and carried an imprint resembling the Abyss.

After discovering that Abyssal energy may be the source of this world's magic, Ian entered Chloe's dream and began training her as a Dreamwalker. Chloe spent a month learning in the dream and resolved to endure the demanding preparation Ian set for her.

• Ian searched the Witch Queen's memories and found that drinking water infused with Abyssal aura had caused her transformation into an Immortal.
• Ian entered Chloe's dream and explained that she was a Dreamwalker who could enter and control dreams.
• Ian taught Chloe to build a Mind Palace and use Occlumency to organize knowledge and defend her mind.
• After one night in the real world, Chloe woke from a month of dream training mentally exhausted.
• Ian told Chloe that the Empire's Honors Course demanded extraordinary study and exaggerated the workload to push her harder.
• Chloe decided to persevere through Ian's training so she could compete using her unique talent.