Recaps

Ian helped Chloe complete a month of magical study, then used her Dreamwalker talent to locate a mysterious Dream Dimension. After his Cosmic Perception revealed that an Eleventh-Tier Dream Lord could easily kill him there, Ian shut down the portal and began preparing to leave the universe after one final battle.

• Chloe signed Ian’s contract protecting her memories and began studying magic, languages, and other subjects through Skynet.
• Ian teleported away Kaulder’s special forces unit, imprisoned Kaulder, and attended the Witch Council’s gathering to assess and categorize the witches.
• After a month of study, Chloe used Ian’s Dream Helmet to project herself into the Dream Dimension, where her scream destroyed a lion-like creature.
• Ian used the experiment’s data to find the Dream Dimension’s coordinates, but Cosmic Perception showed him being killed by a massive black palm identified as an Eleventh-Tier Dream Lord.
• Ian shut down the Dimension Gate, decided to conquer the planet and return to Earth-125 before going home, and brought Chloe back from the Dream Dimension.

Ian conquered Earth for the Arcane Empire, taking its population aboard a colossal ship after effortlessly neutralizing humanity’s nuclear attack. He left the emptied world behind and returned to Earth-125.

• Ian asked Chloe whether she wanted her parents resurrected, but she refused, and he placed her brother in a cryogenic pod aboard his ship.
• Ian used Alchemy and Engineering Golems to build a colossal ship capable of carrying billions of people.
• Ian announced that Earth would come under the Arcane Empire’s rule, and governments around the world launched thousands of nuclear missiles at his ship.
• Ian snapped his fingers and made every missile disappear, then explained to Chloe that nuclear weapons were weak by the Empire’s standards.
• The golems took Earth’s population aboard and placed them in cryogenic pods, including Chloe, while Ian planned to alter their memories after their return.
• Ian sent the ship into his pocket dimension, looked back at the deserted Earth, and used Dimensional Teleportation to return to Earth-125.

Ian returned to New York in 2014 after a decades-long absence, reunited with Hermione, and learned how his companions and the Empire had advanced. After discussing their preparations to return to the Prime Universe, he reviewed his collected artifacts and encouraged Flynn Carson and Emily Davenport to pursue archaeology; he left to visit old friends before departing.

• Ian emerged from a spatial rift in Manhattan, erased witnesses' memories and digital traces with Morgana's help, and learned it was 2014.
• Ian reunited with Hermione in the Floating City, and three days later she told him that Severus and Lily had also reached the Sixth Tier and that they had captured a Novad Queen.
• Snape described his potion-making ability, Lily explained her Druid magic and plans for sharing Love Magic, and Hermione reported developing a spell that let her borrow power from Seventh-Tier creatures.
• Ian and his companions agreed to prepare to leave the universe, then Ian inspected blood samples, Hitler's soul, and the Mirror of Shani that Morgana had stored.
• Ian praised Flynn Carson and Emily Davenport for reaching the Fourth Tier and supported their decision to become archaeologists while reminding them to build their strength.
• Ian left Flynn and Emily and set out to visit old friends before leaving the world.

Ian visited Zi Yuan’s grave in China and the graves of his old friends in Britain, reflecting on their choices to accept death while reaffirming his own commitment to immortality. After Alex O'Connell died and Ian arranged his funeral, Ian felt his last emotional bond with this world had ended and began preparing to go home.

• Ian visited Zi Yuan’s grave, left white flowers, and enchanted the cemetery to remain clean and receive flowers each year on the anniversary of her death.
• Ian visited the graves of Frank, Lilith, Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan, remembering that they had refused his offers of immortality.
• Ian met the elderly Alex O'Connell, who led him to the grave of Lin, his late wife and Zi Yuan’s daughter.
• Alex told Ian that Lin had viewed death as another great adventure and said he hoped to join her soon.
• A month later, Alex died peacefully, and Ian arranged his funeral after seeing his soul depart for the afterlife.
• Ian felt his last emotional bond with the world had been severed and began making final preparations for his journey home.

Ian discovered that Nick was descended from Demon-Sealing Priests and possessed a body capable of suppressing gods, so he secretly implanted something in him for future use. He then returned to Earth-234, where his nanorobots dismantled the planet and stored its materials in Subspace.

• Ian disguised himself as a commander and examined Nick, discovering his body could weaken a deity and suppress its will.
• Ian traced Nick’s bloodline to the Demon-Sealing Priests and suspected Jehovah had created them as part of a long-term plan.
• Ian used a mandatory vaccination campaign to implant something in Nick, then chose to wait rather than risk changing the story too soon.
• Three months later, Ian returned to Earth-234 and ordered Morgana to deploy the nanorobots, which reclaimed the planet’s technological goods.
• Ian commanded the nanorobots to dismantle Earth layer by layer, and they reduced the planet to raw materials within a month.

Ian plundered populations and technology from numerous Earths, then returned after three years to observe Nick’s battle with Ahmanet and Set. As Ian began evacuating Earth, an unforeseen change disrupted his carefully prepared plan.

• Ian ordered Morgana to deploy plague-type nanobots across the Solar System and plundered populations from twenty-one Earths, adding roughly 170 billion people to the Empire.
• Ian explored future Earths for technology and recruits, then returned after three outside years to address Nick and Set.
• Ian praised Dr. Jekyll’s scientific research into dividing the soul into good and evil, suppressed Jekyll’s evil side, and left him alone in the office.
• Ian and his companions watched Nick become Set’s vessel, suppress Set’s consciousness, and resurrect Jenny before fleeing to protect her.
• Ian opened a portal to take Nick from the Sahara and activated a planetary magic array that began transporting Earth’s population, but an unexpected change occurred.

Ian discovered that Jehovah had been hiding beneath the Pacific Ocean and confronted the severely wounded Tenth Tier god with the Floating City. Jehovah’s Judgment began cracking the city’s shield, leaving both opponents wary as the battle intensified.

• Jehovah emerged from the deep sea and began tearing apart the magical array surrounding Earth.
• Ian redirected the array around Jehovah, learned that the god was a wounded Tenth Tier being who could currently wield Ninth Tier power, and ordered Morgana to prepare for battle.
• Ian brought the Floating City into the air and drew on its immense supply of magic power, using the Mechanical Mind Charm to resist the resulting sense of omnipotence.
• Jehovah cast Divine Art: Judgment, and the attack began cracking the Floating City’s Void Energy shield.
• Jehovah realized his powerful strike had failed to destroy the city and its occupants, making the fight more complicated.

Ian used layered defenses to protect the Floating City from Jehovah’s Ninth Tier attacks and a pseudo-Tenth Tier arrow, but the strain pushed him to his limit. As he held the defensive line, a Lightsaber bypassed every shield and pierced his chest.

• Ian ordered Morgana to monitor Jehovah’s attacks and reserve the Void Shield for a Tenth Tier strike.
• Jehovah sent ten thousand Lightsabers at the Floating City, and Ian used Alchemy to assemble meteorite shields that stopped most of them.
• Jehovah fired a pseudo-Tenth Tier arrow, and Ian’s Triple Rashomon gates weakened it enough to stop it.
• Ian opened the Gate of Truth to ease the strain of controlling the Aether Core and Morgana’s data stream.
• A Lightsaber bypassed the Floating City’s defenses and Ian’s personal shield, piercing his chest before he could react.

Ian survived Jehovah’s causality spell and used a curse powered by Jesus’s blood and Christian faith to drain Jehovah’s Divine Power. As Jehovah summoned an angelic army, Hermione brought the undead warriors of the Heavenly War onto the battlefield, including a resentful figure who called himself Lucifer.

• Ian survived Jehovah’s first Causality Spell with his Soul Shield and ordered Morgana to prepare defenses against similar attacks.
• Ian cursed Jehovah with an Energy-Devouring Curse using Jesus’s blood and a Faith Power orb, while Phoenix Fire restored Ian’s injured body.
• Jehovah failed to sever the curse’s connection to humanity’s faith and summoned an army of angels to weaken its effect.
• Ian assigned Snape to produce potions and cast dark magic, Hermione to command the army, and Lily to defend the city, while warning them to preserve energy for escape.
• Hermione summoned undead warriors from the Heavenly War, and the archangel Michael recognized some of them as former enemies and comrades.
• A fallen angel claiming to be a remnant of Lucifer greeted Michael as his sister and Jehovah as his father.

Jehovah killed Lucifer and attacked Ian, who relied on the Floating City’s defenses and prepared rule-bearing artifacts to resist the god’s Authority. The chapter ended as Jehovah unleashed a devastating barrage of light spears and Ian prepared to meet it with the Death Staff and Time Staff.

• Jehovah remembered how Faith Power had twisted his plan to unite the gods and reshaped him into the supreme god he had pretended to be.
• Jehovah erased Lucifer with a beam of light, prompting Ian to recognize the power of divine [Authority].
• Ian ordered Morgana to charge the Void Cannon and bring out the Death Staff and Time Staff.
• Jehovah used Time Stop, but the Floating City’s Anti-Time-Stop Barrier broke the spell before he could reach its shield.
• Jehovah unleashed Judgment of Light: World End, and Ian raised the Death Staff and Time Staff to face the attack.

Ian fought Jehovah in the Mirror Dimension, using time magic and a Death Abomination assembled from the dead across history to weaken him. Jehovah unleashed Ultimate Destruction on the Floating City, and Ian screamed Lily’s name as it exploded.

• Ian used Time Erasure against Jehovah, but Jehovah shattered the spell and summoned nine temporal clones to unleash Judgment of Light.
• Ian summoned three clones and shielded four Floating Cities from the combined attack, then called up the dead across time to create the Death Abomination.
• The Death Abomination destroyed Jehovah’s summoned angels and corroded his shields and divine essence, costing him millions of years of life.
• Jehovah seized part of the monster’s control, but its poison weakened his Divine Power and compounded the effects of the Energy-Devouring Curse.
• Jehovah cast Ultimate Destruction at the Floating City, and Ian cried out Lily’s name as the attack exploded.

Ian and his allies survived Jehovah’s universe-erasing attack, but his Divine Kingdom Projection let him wound Ian’s soul and suppress magic throughout the Floating City. Ian and Morgana found a way to keep fighting, and the chapter ended as the city appeared behind Jehovah with its cannons aimed at him.

• Lily used Ancient Magic: Protection of Love to shield the Floating City from Jehovah’s attack, but the spell left her rapidly aging and recovering in cycles.
• Jehovah summoned his Divine Kingdom Projection, replenished his Divine Power, and attacked Ian’s soul with Dark Authority: God’s Gaze.
• Ian used the Gate of Truth to stabilize his Soul Dimension, while Morgana linked his soul to her server to help him withstand the attack.
• Morgana told Ian that the Divine Kingdom Projection had created a Magic Insulation Zone, and they planned to use Cosmic Energy to counter its suppression.
• The Floating City appeared behind Jehovah with its charged cannons aimed at him, and he realized the attack could kill him.

Ian forced Jehovah to retreat after the Floating City’s attack, severing his arm with the Sword of Obscurials before escaping to repair the city. Jehovah rebuilt his plans on Earth, while Merlin and Jehovah discussed Ian’s potential and whether he should be pushed toward the ruthless Golden Generation.

• Jehovah used countless newly created dimensions and multiple Authorities to withstand the Floating City’s Void Cannon, while his Divine Kingdom weakened and mortals in Heaven died.
• Ian ordered the Floating City to withdraw when its energy reached the warning line, then struck Jehovah with the Sword of Obscurials as he dodged the cannon, severing his right arm and consuming part of his Divine Origin.
• Ian and Morgana took the damaged Floating City into another parallel dimension to repair its shattered Void Shield, while Jehovah restored his Divine Kingdom and altered the surviving souls’ memories.
• Jehovah erased modern civilization from Earth, created a new human race, and sent two weakened angels to teach them and spread his name before he submerged himself to heal.
• Merlin and Jehovah discussed Ian’s talent and potential, and Jehovah warned that Ian was too softhearted for the Golden Generation; Merlin chose to preserve Ian’s compassion while teaching him measured ruthlessness.

While recovering from his battle with Jehovah, Ian reviewed the Floating City’s weaknesses and planned upgrades for a second-generation design. He ordered Morgana to save his ideas and begin the redesign, then entered cryogenic hibernation as the city headed home.

• Ian identified repairs and upgrades for the Floating City, including backup Void Energy, adjustable size, and stronger defenses against divine and causal attacks.
• Ian planned an Anti-Divinity Weapon for Arcanists and proposed improving the Void Cannon with anti-divination enchantments and concealment.
• Ian considered linking Arcanists to their Floating Cities through the Gate of Truth to protect their souls and improve control of the Aether Core.
• Ian concluded that Arcanists needed domains to counter Divine Kingdom Projections and resolved to seek the Akashic Records to choose future worlds.
• Ian told Morgana to save his plans in a folder named "Floating City 2.0" and use them to design the next-generation city.
• Ian entered a restorative tube for cryogenic hibernation and instructed Morgana to repair the shields and wake him when they reached home.

After returning from a three-year journey, Ian recovered from his soul injuries and met with Merlin, who warned him about the future conflict over his wives and explained how gods use Authority. The chapter left Ian asking how spellcasters wield Authority.

• Ian returned with Morgana and learned that more than three years had passed, while she reported repairs to the Void Shield, an eighty-percent-charged Aether Core, and possible life in the void.
• Merlin gave Ian a smoke-filled potion that healed his lingering injuries and handed him four more doses to distribute and study.
• Merlin warned Ian that Rowena and Hermione could become rivals in the future struggle for which version of his wives would become the original Multiverse Entity.
• Merlin told Ian to avoid becoming a god of faith and explained how gods formed pacts with a universe's laws to wield Authority.
• Ian connected Merlin's explanation to his research on Soul Imprints and asked how spellcasters used Authority.

Ian learned the four methods of accessing [Authority] and discovered that his soul strength qualified him for Conceptual Magic, though his willpower did not. After studying with Merlin, Ian returned to Earth and announced his arrival to powerful Arcanists with a wave of Spiritual Pressure.

• Merlin explained the four ways spellcasters could access [Authority], including bargaining with, stealing from, or overpowering the Cosmic Will.
• Ian connected Herpo’s access to the Authority of Death and his own actions in the Fullmetal Alchemist world to dangerous violations of the Cosmic Will.
• Merlin measured Ian’s soul strength at 6 and his willpower at 3, then gave him a booklet on forcing a contract with the Cosmic Will.
• Ian discussed magic and Arthur with Merlin, then left for home aboard the Floating City.
• Ian bypassed the Solar System’s teleportation defenses and appeared above Earth, where his Spiritual Pressure alerted Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier Arcanists that the Archon had returned.

Chris Tiu lived in an advanced Empire where magic and technology were widely available, but he struggled with his poor magical talent and worked to improve his Battle Aura and transmutation skills. He remained hopeful that buying a Dragon Potion would help him overcome his limitations.

• Chris Tiu watched a news report about a Fifth Tier Arcanist who called himself a god and was arrested after the Earth Defense Barrier stopped his destructive spell.
• Chris ate dinner prepared by Angela and thought about rare food from the newly discovered Food Dimension.
• Chris trained in his gym, circulating the Battle Aura Cultivation Method to strengthen his body and increase his Battle Aura.
• Chris used a Transmutation Circle to turn the floor into a mud bird, taking one minute and fifteen seconds.
• Chris told Angela he hoped to save enough money to buy a Dragon Potion and improve his talent.

Chris continued practicing alchemy through the night, then followed his routine and headed to work. On the train, he remained composed about the social changes around him, including the growing popularity of catgirl modifications.

• Chris spent several hours drawing and correcting transmutation circles before sleeping in his virtual-network pod.
• Chris woke at six, ate breakfast, dressed in his black suit, and left for work.
• Chris passed a cat-eared neighbor who regarded him as a famously stingy resident.
• Chris reflected on the spread of biological modifications and the resistance of people attached to the old era.
• Chris paid his fare and boarded the train to his designated area.

Chris traveled from the Philippines to his workplace in South Africa, reflecting on the Empire’s widespread cultivation of Battle Aura and its enchanted public services. After arriving early, he ate breakfast and trained at the company before heading to a morning meeting.

• Chris watched a news video of two Battle Aura cultivators fighting in public until Aurors separated them, issued a citation, and repaired the damage.
• Chris discussed public transportation and a rumor that Third Tier Arcanists guarded passengers with Abu on the way into the company.
• Chris used the building’s enchantments to teleport to the cafeteria and ate a magic-rich second breakfast served by a Chinese chef.
• Chris trained in the company’s training room with the aid of its Wisdom Blessing Enchantment, then teleported to the main office for a meeting with his manager.

Chris proposed using biological methods to control the giant monsters guarding a valuable mineral deposit and earned 500 Imperial Points. The Arcane Library then announced a major upgrade, leading citizens to believe Ian had returned more powerful than ever.

• Chris attended a meeting where the goblin manager explained that giant monsters made mining Gadanium Alloy on planet X-789 too costly.
• Chris suggested developing pheromones or a biological potion to calm or control the monsters and make them mine the ore.
• The goblin manager praised Chris's proposal, promised to report it to the board, and awarded him 500 Imperial Points.
• Skynet announced that the Arcane Library had completed a major upgrade, prompting citizens across the Empire to log in.
• Citizens at the top of the Empire concluded that Ian, the supreme Arcane Archon, had returned more powerful than ever.

After returning to Earth, Ian discovered that the Magic Activation Ritual had released thousands of years of accumulated mana, transforming the environment and producing high-magic regions and Awakened Ones. He identified the Awakened Ones’ soul runes as potentially primordial and teleported away to investigate one final place before visiting his family.

• Ian checked Skynet and learned that the Magic Activation Ritual had released mana accumulated in dormant Leyline Nodes, increasing magical births and enabling Arcane Warlocks to draw on ambient mana.
• Ian inspected Mount Everest and found rock-like creatures gestating inside the enlarged mountain, then saw a Chilean volcanic region filled with Lava Monsters guarding a Fifth Tier Lava Lord’s egg.
• Ian confirmed that high-magic regions around the world had become dangerous forbidden zones, though their strongest known creatures were only Fifth Tier.
• Ian secretly observed an Awakened young man in Canada and found strange runes in his Soul Dimension that enabled him to draw on ambient mana.
• Ian concluded that the runes might be the universe’s Primordial Runes and teleported away to confirm one final place before seeing his family.

Ian visited the Dimension Research Institute on Ceres, reviewed its discoveries, and warned its tower masters that their dimensional research lacked adequate safety measures. He ordered them to relocate their work to a protected pocket of Subspace and arranged for an Eighth Tier weapon to serve as a safeguard.

• Ian arrived at the institute, where Tower Master Aivoro showed him the Food Dimension research led by Tower Master Gordon.
• Tower Master Kim Ji-hoon introduced the Inert Region, and Ian gave him a new magical system to help investigate its unique energy.
• Ian considered placing the Empire’s Quantum Prison inside the Inert Region, then viewed the Flame Dimension and its fire elementals with Aivoro.
• Ian summoned the institute’s tower masters and criticized their failure to consider that dangerous creatures might invade through dimensional passages.
• Ian ordered the researchers to move their work into a self-destructing pocket of Subspace and assigned an Eighth Tier weapon as an additional safeguard.

Ian returned to the Floating City and reunited with his family, recounting his recent journey and revealing secrets about his reincarnation and Primordial Earth. The family learned that future wars might involve them, while Susan resolved to reach the Twelfth Tier so she could visit Primordial Earth.

• Ian returned to the Floating City, where Morgana told him the others had recovered, and he brought Hermione back to the imperial palace.
• Ian and Hermione reunited with his parents and family, then described their adventures, including the battle with Jehovah; Ian denied bringing back a new woman.
• Ian learned that the Empire had bought enslaved people from the troubled Milky Way Galaxy and that his aunt had granted them freedom and full rights.
• After Olivier questioned Ian about his calmness toward death, Ian revealed his death and reincarnation, Primordial Earth, and the wars that might come.
• Susan was shaken by the possibility that their lives came from a book, but Ian said he could take her to Primordial Earth if she reached the Twelfth Tier.
• Joanna asked about Ian's original parents, and Ian said Merlin had sent a clone of his original body to care for them.

At dinner, Luna and Rowena recounted their encounters with dark alternate versions of themselves and Voldemort, then Luna foresaw a highest-level Cornerstone for the Arcane Empire. Ian identified the gifted student Havika Keinaru and arranged secret protection and support for his Rune Mathematics research.

• Luna, Hermione, and Olivier accused Ian of using spoilers to predict the future, and Ian jokingly accepted the charge while changing the subject.
• Luna described an alternate Luna who became a Dark Lord after losing her parents, and Rowena recounted a Sixth Tier Voldemort who enslaved Earth before being killed.
• Luna reported discovering the Empire's first highest-level Cornerstone, and she revealed that the boy was named Havika Keinaru.
• Morgana showed that fifteen-year-old Havika was a gifted Rune Mathematics student at Kanaloa Magic School.
• Ian ordered the Ghost Squad to protect Havika and arranged a school competition that would grant him computing resources and relevant Library knowledge.

After discussing the Eleventh-Tier threat and the Empire’s priorities with Amelia, Ian updated the Arcane Library and went to meet Juliette Lumière. Juliette recognized the Divine Potion’s soul examination as coercive and gathered nine hidden figures to discuss the update.

• Amelia asked Ian about the Eleventh-Tier threat, and he described plans to sever the family’s ties to their Multiverse variants or reincarnate them with their memories intact.
• Ian assigned Amelia tasks to resettle magical newcomers, secure the Novad people, distribute Jehovah’s arm, and handle Set’s body.
• Ian updated the Arcane Library’s database with the gains from his recent journey and set out to meet an irritable Dragon.
• Juliette Lumière read the Divine Potion’s requirements and realized that refusing it could leave her behind while accepting it meant submitting to a soul examination.
• Juliette logged into a private server and asked nine masked figures what they thought of the update.