Recaps

Ian uncovered Eve’s plan to use the Original Grimoire and his Underworld authority to break her seal, then fought her across parallel timelines after she escaped. Their battle left worlds devastated, and Eve reappeared after Ian seemingly erased her before launching a colossal water giant at him.

• Eve’s seal began breaking, but Ian recognized her attempt to steal his authority, removed her mental suggestion from his soul, and blasted through Elysium’s fourth layer with Volcanic Doomsday.
• Eve destroyed the remaining layers of Elysium with Destruction Sphere, while the Magic Knights escaped under Ian’s protection; she revealed the Clown Grimoire and used Ian’s own spells against him.
• Ian summoned a meteor, but Eve cubified it, then drew him into a parallel timeline where they exchanged attacks that devastated the world.
• Ian erased Eve with the Sword of Time Erasure, but she revived through Fate Reversal Magic and fled to another parallel timeline.
• Ian realized Eve was draining mana from parallel worlds to fuel her magic, but she summoned the Sea-Covering Titan from the planet’s oceans and attacked him.

Ian fought Eve and her millions of parallel incarnations, ultimately unleashing Void Annihilation Energy to erase them and escape with the original Eve. After recovering, he returned to the Arcane Empire with Eve as a captive and intended experimental subject.

• Ian froze the Sea-Covering Titan, trapped Eve with the Pillars of Heavenly Prison, and attacked her with accelerated pebbles and Conceptual Magic: True Death, but she repeatedly revived.
• Eve revealed that she had united millions of Seventh-Tier selves across parallel timelines, and Ian battled them with the Doom of the End of Elements, Satan, and Seventh-Tier Planet-Destroyer Cannons.
• As his magic ran low, Ian seized the main Eve and crushed five spheres of Void Annihilation Energy, erasing the Eve incarnations and triggering a deadly void nebula that pursued them across universes.
• Ian escaped the nebula after jumping through more than a hundred parallel timelines, confirmed his base was safe, and recovered in a secluded dimension.
• Ian returned to the Arcane Empire with Eve captive, intending to use her as an experimental subject.

After returning from Elysium, Ian Bones told the Magic Knights that he planned to fuse their world with the universe of the Arcane Empire and explained what that change would mean. He began preparing the kingdoms and peoples for the transition, then publicly resigned as Magic Emperor to announce the coming of a new world.

• Ian Bones returned safely, learned that Clone One had restored Elysium and studied its angel-making pool, and entrusted Eve to the clone.
• Ian told the assembled Magic Knights about the Arcane Empire and his plan to move their entire world into his universe, promising open opportunities and a path to advancement for its people.
• Ian revealed that he would resign as Magic Emperor and invited Yuno and the others to aspire to the Arcane Emperor's throne.
• Ian told Yami Sukehiro that his older sister was alive in the Land of the Sun, and Yami resolved to stop avoiding Charlotte's feelings.
• Ian explained the new imperial government to Lolopechka and reassured the Elves and Dwarves about their place in the Empire.
• The next morning, Ian announced his resignation as Magic Emperor in a magical projection over the Clover Kingdom.

Ian completed his preparations to separate the Black Clover World from the multiverse, then used Void Energy and the Original Grimoire to seal it in a crystal ball. He left through the repaired World Gate for KonoSuba, determined to seek harsher trials and grow stronger.

• Ian secretly worked on the World-Stealing Project, and Merlin appeared after Ian summoned him across worlds.
• Merlin repaired the flawed Void-severing spell and warned Ian that he had missed a chance to reach the Eighth Scale by avoiding a direct battle with Eve.
• Ian noticed Merlin seemed unusually hurried and weakened, then resolved to seek dangerous worlds and face life-or-death battles.
• Over five years, Ian developed a Soul Sea and an Arcane Heart, improved his Void Energy knowledge, and prepared Floating City 3.0, while shelving Causality Empowerment research.
• Ian bid farewell to his allies and confirmed that his Eastern Continent clone had prepared the region for the Great Merge of Worlds.
• Ian severed and sealed the Black Clover World inside a crystal ball, reassured its leaders, and entered the World Gate bound for KonoSuba.

Ian used the new Void Core Engine to reach the KonoSuba universe, reunited with Pheobe, Hermione, and Lily, and learned that the gods controlled many other-world dimensions. After Hermione revealed she could not reproduce the higher-tier leveling systems, Ian identified the missing Causality Authority and proposed using captured demons and angels as servers; Pheobe then said she had found the final piece for the Dragon God Project.

• Ian stored the Black Clover world, used the Void Core Engine, and arrived in the KonoSuba universe after a three-day journey.
• Ian reunited with Pheobe, discovered she had reached the Seventh Tier, and found Hermione and Lily exhausted from intense research.
• Pheobe explained that Filius had defeated the local Demon King and visited other dimensions controlled by the gods, prompting Ian to infer how the universe's other worlds were organized.
• Hermione showed Ian her replicated KonoSuba system and explained that it could not exceed the Third Tier, unlike systems in other dimensions.
• Ian identified Causality Authority as the missing component and proposed using captured demons and angels to stabilize Hermione's pocket dimension as its servers.
• Pheobe suggested forging a Divine Artifact to carry the Authority, and Hermione began designing a Causality Staff before Pheobe announced she had found the final piece for the Dragon God Project.

Ian reviewed Pheobe’s New Generation Fire Dragon King research and identified the need for an independent reincarnation system, then helped Lily resolve a major obstacle in her Arcane Spark research. After reconciling with Lily and leaving her to test his new design, Ian went to visit Wiz.

• Pheobe showed Ian her New Generation Fire Dragon King, and Ian pointed out its missing Dragonkind memory link and reincarnation mechanism before proposing an internal reincarnation system.
• Pheobe teased Ian about Wiz and his past relationships, and Ian admitted that one relationship he had cared about had ended in rejection.
• Ian learned that Lily’s emotional breakdown came from guilt over James, and Lily said she planned to resolve her relationship with James and Severus through couples therapy.
• Ian apologized to Lily for manipulating events around James, and they reconciled before she presented her Arcane Spark research and its risks from faith corruption.
• Lily explained that her experiments could not reproduce the gods’ tier-crossing Causality Empowerment, and Ian proposed using the Arcane Spark to synchronize an Arcanist’s soul frequency with otherworldly gods or Demons.
• Ian gave Lily his Black Clover angel and Demon soul research, then left the laboratory and went to see Wiz.

Ian cleared up Visha’s doubts about his existence, invited her on a date, and took her to modern Earth, where she revisited the world Kazuma had left behind. During dinner, Ian began telling Visha about his first life and the woman who rekindled his love of knowledge, leaving her asking whether he missed that woman after reincarnating.

• Visha met Ian in her magic item shop and accepted his invitation to go on a date.
• Ian took Visha through a portal to modern Earth, explained how Aqua, Kazuma, Megumin, and Darkness stayed in contact, and revealed that his forces controlled Heaven and Hell.
• Ian guided Visha around Earth, extending the daylight with the Law of Time before they shared dinner at a skyscraper restaurant.
• Visha asked Ian what first fueled his pursuit of magic and knowledge, and Ian described his childhood curiosity, high-school bullying, and unhappy attempt to fit in.
• Ian told Visha that a woman in college accepted his eccentric interests and helped restore his happiness, and Visha asked whether he missed her after he died and reincarnated.

Ian told Visha how his first life ended, how grief and his pursuit of resurrection led him to found the Arcane Empire, and Visha recounted her own path to becoming a lich. After three months of traveling together, Ian offered her a way to reshape her soul into a dual force of death and holy magic, and Visha agreed to the procedure.

• Ian told Visha that he had ended his first relationship because of class differences, then died and reincarnated into a magical world.
• Ian explained that his parents died in a war, driving him toward despair and forbidden experiments before he eventually resurrected them and founded the Arcane Empire.
• Visha recounted how she became the Ice Witch, transformed into a lich to save her companions, and made a pact with the Demon King to protect civilians.
• Ian and Visha traveled through countless worlds for three months, growing closer as they discussed magic, the universe, and civilizations.
• Ian showed Visha a clone that could restore her human body, but she said she had accepted being a lich, so he proposed reshaping her soul to wield both death and holy magic.
• Visha trusted Ian's assurances about the procedure's safety and agreed to begin the soul transformation.

Ian transformed Visha into a being who wielded both holy and death powers, then tested his Arcane Spark and devised restrictions to prevent its misuse. After extensively plundering the KonoSuba universe and parallel worlds, he traveled through the Void Gate and returned to the Arcane Empire.

• Ian used a serum made from a god and Satan to alter Visha's body and soul, giving her both holy purification and undead powers.
• Visha tested her new abilities, and Ian opened the Empire's advanced magical knowledge to her after she stabilized.
• Ian created an Arcane Spark and tested its destructive spells, discovering that Negative Causality amplified them more than Positive Karma.
• Ian planned restricted and complete versions of the Arcane Spark, with strict contracts and reviews to prevent massacres and forced worship for power.
• Ian looted dimensions and Earth in the KonoSuba universe, then raided populations across parallel worlds until the universe's origin will expelled him.
• Ian stored the Floating City, traveled through the Void Gate, and arrived at the Arcane Empire's Cosmic Crystal Wall.

As the Undead Calamity devastated the Milky Way, Naga Queen Aquafina evacuated her people from Blue Sea Star and decided to surrender the Naga Tribe to the Arcane Empire. After she sent the declaration, an Arcane Empire expeditionary fleet arrived at Azure King Star.

• Aquafina led the Naga forces in a costly battle against the undead on Blue Sea Star, then ordered civilians evacuated aboard interstellar Arks.
• Aquafina refused to destroy Blue Sea Star and brought the fleet to Azure King Star, where she learned the Naga Tribe had exhausted its strategic supplies and funds.
• Aquafina rejected a minister’s proposal to make the Naga Tribe a wandering civilization and ordered a declaration of surrender to the Arcane Empire.
• Aquafina sent the surrender declaration through the Universal Web despite fearing that her people would have to serve alongside undead in the Empire.
• An Arcane Empire expeditionary fleet arrived outside Azure King Star, and Aquafina went with her ministers to welcome its leader.

Ariel Mertel secured the Naga Tribe’s submission to the Arcane Empire and led the assault to reclaim Blue Sea Star from the undead. Aquafina witnessed the Empire defeat the Vampire baron, rescue the transformed undead, and purify the planet, while the expeditionary force continued its campaign against the other fallen worlds.

• Aquafina signed the Submission Pact, and Ariel sent it directly to Imperial headquarters before briefing the officers on the three undead-held planets.
• Ariel led the attack on Blue Sea Star, shattered its death shield, and defeated and captured the Vampire baron with a series of powerful spells.
• Ariel explained to Aquafina that the Empire would try to restore the transformed undead and welcome those who recovered their reason as citizens.
• The Empire transported the undead to Soul Awakening Centers and deployed Druids, whose Soul-Purifying Trees began cleansing Blue Sea Star’s poisoned ocean.
• Aquafina confirmed that the seawater was free of death energy as the expeditionary force prepared to continue its work.

Supreme Commander Olivia conscripted Seventh Tier Arcanist John Carter to reinforce the Red Number Star System after detecting a First Divine General-level threat. After securing a soul fragment for possible resurrection, John reached a military base on Saturn’s rings and learned his mission would be a near-suicidal battle.

• Olivia rejected Captain Tanaka’s request for reinforcements after his fleet lost the stronghold star system, then ordered elite forces to the Red Number Star System while leaving the Leaf Tree Galaxy to the Elven Kingdom.
• Olivia invoked forced conscription against John Carter, who abandoned his laboratory and reported to the Mobilization Security Department rather than defy the order.
• The Mobilization Security Department verified John’s identity, extracted a soul fragment for possible resurrection, and explained the risks and costs of the procedure.
• John was transported to a military base on Saturn’s rings, where he met Gom and Abiodun Ngozi, two elite soldiers assigned to the mission.
• Gom warned John that their deployment indicated an overwhelming enemy and a battle with grave odds, and John prepared to depart with them.

John received wartime authority over a starship and its Eighth Tier power before confronting Tuniz, Bleach’s Eighth Tier lich general, outside the sealed Red Number Star System. John trapped Tuniz in Mirror Space, beginning their deathmatch.

• John, Gom, and Abiodun discussed the Floating City and speculated that Ian might eventually build an even more powerful one.
• John completed the starship’s wartime registration and gained temporary access to its Eighth Tier magic power, despite the strain it would place on his soul.
• Gom and Abiodun warned John that he had to defeat Tuniz quickly or hold him off until the Empire could retake the star system and send reinforcements.
• John’s starship jumped to the outer orbit of the Red Number Star System, where he faced Tuniz, Bleach’s First Divine General.
• Tuniz attacked John with a Death Ray, but it passed through an illusion as John dragged Tuniz into Mirror Space.

Gom and the Viking War Camp attacked undead forces on a planet while Abiodun led his dragon riders against two hidden Seventh Tier undead lords in space. Outnumbered by the enemy, Abiodun fused the riders’ and dragons’ power into a colossal silver-white Patronus dragon to hold them off.

• Gom broke the Red Number Star System’s death shield, then teleported to an undead-occupied planet and unleashed holy light against its defenders.
• A Sixth Tier zombie lord blocked Gom’s purification magic with a Curse Pillar, and Gom’s Viking War Camp joined the battle and fought the lord alongside him.
• Abiodun’s knights listened to Aishwarya Kapoor’s recorded singing for a powerful enhancement before mounting their dragons and entering space.
• Abiodun confronted a Seventh Tier banshee, but a second Seventh Tier ghost appeared, so he sent a danger warning to Gom and John Carter.
• Abiodun synchronized the souls and magic of the 108 dragon riders and their dragons, transforming their combined power into a giant Patronus dragon that charged the undead lords.

John Carter defeated Tuniz and captured two more undead, but the strain of using power beyond his tier triggered Kailos's Poison and left him under medical care. Meanwhile, Olivia learned that the Omegon Galaxy had fallen and ordered the Empire's leaders to destroy approaching undead avatars before the Undead Legion could establish a base near the Empire.

• John Carter used Illusory World to trick Tuniz into exhausting his magic, then bound him and sealed his soul with an Empire-made Divine Artifact.
• John returned to the starship, captured two Seventh Tier undead with its cannons, and collapsed as Kailos's Poison rapidly drained his life.
• Gom and Abiodun confirmed that John's vital signs had stabilized, reported victory to the Supreme Command Hub, and waited for a mining fleet to arrive.
• Luna warned Olivia that five star systems were under simultaneous undead invasion and revealed that the Omegon Galaxy had fallen.
• Olivia told Rowena Ravenclaw and Dumbledore to destroy the Ninth Tier avatars approaching their defensive zones and ordered the Omegon Galaxy erased to prevent it becoming an undead forward base.

Dumbledore and Rowena fought Guznader’s avatars while the Arcane Empire struggled to break the death shield around the Omegon Galaxy. Rowena trapped her opponent in a void-filled dimension, then her Floating City joined Dumbledore’s to destroy the galaxy and purify the region, though she collapsed after issuing the Annihilation Order.

• Dumbledore entered Mirror Space with Guznader and attacked his avatar with Fawkes, the Floating City’s weapons, golems, and stellar golems, while Guznader used undead to stall him.
• Olivia watched the battle and the Empire’s fleet fail to crack the shield around the Omegon Galaxy, while Rowena faced another of Guznader’s avatars in Mirror Space.
• Rowena lured Guznader’s avatar into following her through a passage and redirected it into the Alpha-V Dimension, where Void Energy annihilated it.
• Rowena collapsed from her illness and ordered Raven to take the Floating City to the Omegon Galaxy and execute the Annihilation Order.
• Rowena’s and Dumbledore’s Floating Cities broke the death shield and fired their main cannons, erasing the Omegon Galaxy and purifying the remnants of the Law of Death.

Bleach Guznader remained trapped maintaining the Absolute Boundary Array Disk while planning to seize the Arcane Empire’s Divine Flame and pursue the Eleventh Tier. As the undead threatened their worlds, the Elven King urged Miseer to submit, while Queen Katula chose to wait for Ian and bargain for the Star-Skin Tribe’s place in the Empire.

• Bleach Guznader told his lich servant that Tenth Tier gods were attacking the cosmic barrier and that he could not leave the Absolute Boundary Array Disk, then ordered him to keep the Arcane Empire as the main target.
• Guznader resolved to conquer the Arcane Empire for its supposed Divine Flame and Earth’s Wizard Bloodline, believing they could help him reach the Eleventh Tier.
• Arion Kashgar urged Miseer Tyrania to submit to the Arcane Empire as the undead advanced and the elves’ defenses collapsed, but Miseer resisted out of pride.
• Arion warned Miseer that the Elder Council had already agreed to surrender and might remove her from power, then left her to consider the choice.
• Queen Katula acknowledged that the Star-Skin Tribe would eventually need to join the Arcane Empire but ordered her ministers to demonstrate their divination value before surrendering.
• Katula decided the Star-Skin Tribe would wait for Ian to appear and pledge loyalty directly to him, hoping he could also help them find their homeland.

Olivia managed the Empire’s escalating crisis, refused to let its leaders rely on Ian, and arranged rescue plans for the weakening Arcanists and Draco Malfoy. After hours of command, she sensed Ian’s return through their soul bond.

• Bellatrix complained that the Undead Rehabilitation Department was overwhelmed, and Olivia ordered her to expand staffing and store excess undead until they could be rehabilitated.
• Rowena, Dumbledore, and Luna reported that Kailos’s Poison was corroding Rowena and Dumbledore’s souls, while Olivia rejected using the Time Chamber to avoid exposing the Divine Flame to watching True Gods.
• Olivia rebuked the Illuminati for wanting to summon Ian, and the group resolved to stand independently and transferred control of Rowena and Dumbledore’s Floating Cities to Gellert Grindelwald and Nikolai Flamel.
• Olivia sent a cyborg and mech fleet to destroy pirates raiding Imperial outposts, then ordered Bellatrix to use the Death Staff to place Draco in Death Stasis after his curse fused with Kailos’s Poison.
• Olivia sensed a familiar soul resonance several hours later and realized that Ian had returned.

Ian returned to the Arcane Empire after a fifty-year journey, suppressed the Kailos's Poison afflicting Olivia and the others, and created a potion that cured it. As Olivia reported the Empire’s expansion and the Milky Way’s war against Guznader, Luna revealed his connection to the Ancient Wizard Race and his pursuit of the Primordial Divine Flame; the chapter ended with Rowena asking Ian to recount his travels.

• Ian reached Earth and discovered that the Empire’s defenses were on high alert, while his citizens’ accumulated magic power now let him contend with the Eighth Tier.
• Olivia reunited with Ian and explained that the war against Guznader had forced the Empire to use the Time Acceleration Chamber, infecting her and other Arcanists with Kailos's Poison.
• Ian used Time Magic to suppress the poison in Olivia, Rowena, Luna, and Bellatrix, then learned Rowena and Luna had completed their secret mission to obtain the pocket watch.
• Olivia reported that Guznader had devastated the Milky Way, killed 2.7 billion Imperial citizens, and driven the Empire to expand through the construction of a second Floating City and the annexation of star systems.
• Luna revealed that Guznader was connected to the Ancient Wizard Race and sought the Empire’s Primordial Divine Flame and its Arcanists, while a Divine Artifact blocked her attempts to divine his identity.
• Ian brewed and tested a potion that expelled the poison and repaired his clone, then gave it to the women; after they drank it, Rowena asked him to tell them about his fifty-year voyage.

Ian reunited with his family, learned that Guznader’s cult had infiltrated the Empire and leaked intelligence through the Universal Web, then paid most of the Empire’s knowledge reserves to discover the network’s origin. He identified it as the Magic Network and planned to use it to jam and infiltrate the Universal Web before introducing Visha to his parents.

• Ian shared his adventures with his family, and they welcomed Visha without rejecting her.
• Luna and Olivia told Ian that Guznader’s cult had recruited traitors and that the Empire’s secrets were leaking through the Universal Web.
• Ian traded 80% of the Empire’s knowledge reserves to the Akashic Records and learned that the Universal Web was built on the Magic Network, the source of magic.
• Ian planned to use the Floating Cities and intelligent brain rooms to jam the Universal Web and have Morgana infiltrate it.
• Ian had dinner with his parents and formally introduced Visha, while Susan mocked him for being a womanizer.

Ian introduced the Grimoire system to his wives and Aunt Amelia, then learned of a new fate node and reviewed the Empire’s growing political and social problems. The chapter ended with Olivia insisting that Ian personally meet someone whose situation required his decision.

• Ian explained that the Grimoires used the Cosmic Will-powered magical device to generate spells tailored to their users, and Rowena tested hers by casting Time Magic and Void Annihilation Energy.
• Ian’s family members received Grimoires with different magical attributes, while Luna divined that Chris Qiu was another key node connected to the Grimoire system.
• Olivia told Ian that Havika Keinaru had made a strategically important discovery, and Ian planned to meet him after handling urgent affairs.
• Olivia and Aunt Amelia briefed Ian on the Empire’s integration challenges, rising crime and protests, and the fates of the Atlanteans and Martians.
• Ian learned that representatives seeking restored noble titles were likely backed by Seventh Tier Arcanists linked to the Death Cult, and he ordered Luna to investigate them after the Floating City’s system upgrade.
• After Ian reviewed the Empire’s reports, Olivia told him that someone required his personal attention and decision, leaving the group solemn.

Two years before Ian's descent, Charles Smith transmigrated into the body of Charles Wentworth, a First Tier Arcanist in the Arcane Empire, and discovered that the Harry Potter universe had become a vast magical civilization under Ian Bones. After deciding to hide his origins and quietly grow stronger, Charles awakened a mysterious cheat within his Sea of Consciousness.

• Charles Smith awoke in Charles Wentworth's body at Valiant Knight Magic University and recovered the body's memories, including its owner's difficult path from a frontier world to Earth.
• Charles realized that modern Earth's knowledge was useless in the Empire's advanced magical civilization and discovered that this was the Harry Potter universe.
• Charles searched the Universal Web and learned that Harry Potter served as Auror Governor, Hermione Granger was one of the Imperial Archon's wives, and Ron Weasley was an interstellar marine general.
• Charles identified Ian Bones as the force behind the transformed universe and suspected that Ian was also a transmigrator.
• Charles rejected fleeing the Empire, resolved to conceal his identity and develop his strength, then sensed a mysterious power awaken in his Sea of Consciousness.

Charles used [24-Hour Future Rewind] to master magic books and strengthen himself, then was detained after his dormitory security system rejected his mana, Battle Aura, and soul data. Intelligence agents began questioning him, leaving his true identity under suspicion.

• Charles discovered that spending mana instead of mental and soul power let him use [24-Hour Future Rewind] repeatedly, though he became exhausted and needed to meditate to recover.
• Charles spent two weeks studying in The Library, mastered much of the first-year university curriculum, and left for the cafeteria after going hungry for a week.
• Charles returned to his dormitory, where its security system rejected his mana, Battle Aura, and soul fluctuations and summoned campus police.
• Officer Kevin Pretz brought Charles in for testing, and a supervisor decided to report him to the intelligence department despite Dean Peryn's objections.
• Agents Amir and Naya detained Charles, and Amir deprived him of his senses before starting the interrogation.

Charles was interrogated by Agent Amir, who used surveillance and test results to persuade an artificial intelligence that Charles was a foreign spy. Facing arrest and torture, Charles activated his ability and returned to The Library, apparently traveling back in time to before the investigation began.

• Charles denied being a spy and claimed his unusual abilities came from awakening during the Magic Revival.
• Agent Amir and Agent Naya reviewed Charles's surveillance footage and test results, finding signs they associated with soul possession.
• An artificial intelligence approved the evidence, and Amir arrested Charles on suspicion of espionage.
• As Amir threatened him with torture, Charles tried to use his ability to travel twenty-four hours into the past.
• Charles found himself back in The Library after finishing a book and realized his attempt had worked.

Charles was arrested by the Time Aurors after they detected his temporal powers and identified him as a Time Lord capable of rewriting the past. Their investigation revealed that he had reincarnated from elsewhere, and the Empire’s highest authorities sent an Archon’s wife to take over his case.

• Charles planned to hide his mutated soul, gather knowledge in The Library, and seek the black market as a way to escape the Empire.
• Six Time Aurors appeared in The Library and arrested Charles for suspected timeline tampering.
• The Time Aurors imprisoned Charles in a cell that sealed his temporal powers, then used machines to read the residual energy in his body.
• A white-haired Arcanist explained that Charles was the thirteenth Time Lord captured by the department and that his power could rewrite reality within their universe.
• The department’s recordings revealed Charles’s reincarnation and his earlier use of Time Rewind, prompting the researchers to report his case to Commander Olivia.
• The highest authorities replied that an Archon’s wife would arrive to take over Charles’s case.