Recaps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ian negotiated a knowledge exchange with the Scholar Race by showing Grand Elder Kori the Arcane Grand Library and arranging for an ambassador to handle the deal. After preparing a Quantum Realm research team and giving the ambassador a Divine Artifact to value knowledge, Ian turned his attention to the approaching Time Game and the Empire’s future.

• Ian showed Grand Elder Kori the Arcane Grand Library and granted him partial access to its advanced books, convincing him that its knowledge was genuine.
• Ian and Kori agreed that the Arcane Empire and Scholar Race would exchange knowledge, and Ian rejected using the Akashic Records directly to mediate the deal.
• Ian told Luna he planned to use his greater access to the Akashic Records to obtain a Divine Artifact that could quantify knowledge and help the ambassador raise prices in negotiations.
• Ian and Luna returned to the Floating City, and Ian contacted his family before assembling a team to research the Quantum Realm.
• After more than a month of preparation, Ian sent off the expedition team, gave the ambassador the Divine Artifact, and began preparing for the Time Game and the Empire’s future.

Ian studied Cosmos and prepared for the coming Time Game while spending centuries mastering the Primordial Rune and pursuing a way past the Soul Limitation. As the Empire marked its centennial and prepared to open its borders to the Astral Realm, Ian learned that an infiltrator had helped a competitor reach the Ninth Tier and ordered the traitor detained.

• Ian sent information about Cosmos and his own secret identity to the Empire's Think Tank, then confirmed that Cosmos belonged to a local branch organization.
• Ian spent twenty years of outside time in seclusion, studying the Primordial Rune, working on the Soul Limitation, and governing the Empire.
• Ian emerged from seclusion and learned that Olivia planned to travel to other worlds to improve her command skills and develop better military training.
• Ian prepared for the Empire's centennial celebration and discussed opening the borders to the Astral Realm to address the Empire's resource shortage.
• Itachi reported that an infiltrator had helped a competitor reach the Ninth Tier, and Ian ordered the traitor detained for questioning.

Ian delivered a speech celebrating the Arcane Empire’s first century, then defended his rule in the Empire’s three-part election and won another hundred-year term. After the celebration, he prepared to meet Itachi about the anomaly discovered beforehand.

• Ian praised the Empire’s achievements and urged its citizens to continue exploring the universe, and the crowd answered, “May the Arcane Truth guide and protect us.”
• The Imperial Family paraded through the Empire, visited a shrine honoring Guznader, and watched performances by artists including Kapoor.
• Ian faced Orochimaru and other Arcanists in the election’s knowledge and crafting rounds, then defeated challengers including Naruto, Sasuke, Asta, Yuno, Kazuma, and Mereoleona in combat.
• Ian won the election and secured another hundred-year term, while citizens accepted that his descendants would have to prove themselves to claim the throne.
• Ian prepared to meet Itachi about the anomaly that had appeared before the celebration.

After the election, Ian and Amelia handled Imperial affairs, including proposed laws and a planned cleanup of Dark Star. Ian then investigated how the gods had breached the Empire’s defenses and learned that a detected energy spike had gone unreported; he was due to visit Chris about his research.

• Ian met with Amelia, who reported proposals to let people offset crimes with Arcane Merit and legalize slavery; they agreed to oppose both measures.
• Ian approved Amelia’s plan to expose supporters of the Merit-for-Crimes Act, outlaw slave-trading advocacy, and clean up Dark Star.
• Ian and Amelia discussed Susan’s journey to the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, and Amelia said she would stay in the Empire to oversee its affairs.
• Itachi told Ian that the gods had used a Divine Grade armament to breach the defenses and contact Chu, who exchanged information for a holy Grace and rose from the Fifth Tier to the Ninth Tier.
• Ian ordered a full investigation into what Chu had revealed and asked Itachi to expand the Empire’s spy network, while they discussed the difficulty of controlling believers tied to Ancient Gods.
• Morgana confirmed that officials had detected the energy spike but failed to report it, and Ian ordered the responsible person fired before learning that Chris had made progress in his research.

Ian reviewed Chris's Will Tempering Method, which used meditation and subconscious control to strengthen willpower, and helped plan its development toward confronting larger collective wills. Chris began work on making the method safer and recreating a Stellar-System Will.

• Ian visited Chris's laboratory, where Chris presented the mixed results of his earlier attempts to temper willpower through illusions, combat, and meditation.
• Chris explained that his new method let people explore and control their subconscious, deepening their understanding of the mind, the Self, and the soul while raising willpower.
• Ian learned that the method could currently raise most users to Level 5, while Chris had reached Level 6, and discussed the Planetary, Galactic, and Cosmic Wills with him.
• Ian confirmed that the Cosmic Will existed and said that Level 8 willpower could suppress it and force it to surrender control over the universe's fundamental laws.
• Ian advised Chris to develop the method in stages and establish safeguards against mental harm from contact with collective consciousness.
• Chris called his wife to say he would return home late, then began gathering research and refining the method.

Ian reviewed seven methods he had developed to overcome the Soul Limitation, with the Knowledge Ring offering a slow but genuine breakthrough. After testing Chris's Will Tempering Method, he concluded it could eventually raise his willpower to Level 9.

• Ian dismissed Divine Power, Soul Energy, Soul Essence Orbs, and Dream Nether Energy as impractical ways to break the Soul Limitation.
• Ian's experiments fusing purified souls from alternate universes and forcibly achieving Soul Apotheosis failed to provide a solution.
• Ian used the Wisdom Authority to create the Knowledge Ring, which nourished the Soul Flame and broke the Soul Limitation, but did so too slowly.
• Ian told Morgana to send Chris's research to the History Committee and confirmed his upcoming duties before departure.
• Ian used Chris's Will Tempering Method to confront his subconscious and concluded that it could eventually raise his willpower to Level 9.

After the Empire announced astral expansion, it established rules for exploration, contact with other planes, and taxation, while providing Arcanists with training and Astral Towers. The explorers signed contracts and set out, advancing the Empire’s effort to rule the universe.

• Ian announced that Sixth Tier Arcanists could purchase or rent Astral Towers to explore the Astral Realm.
• The Empire issued exploration guidelines, using the Arcane Plane as a fabricated origin to conceal the Arcanists’ true identities.
• The Empire outlined rules for contacting other civilizations, banning slavery in general and setting limits on dealings with dangerous species.
• The Empire set taxes for peaceful and violent exploration and offered rescue, resurrection, and other assistance in exchange for higher rates.
• A workshop taught Arcanists how to assess planes, handle Planar Wills, and conduct war and diplomacy.
• The Arcanists signed contracts, received Astral Towers, and began exploring other worlds.

Ian checked on the Empire’s projects and the infiltration of the Purple-Robed Daoist’s homeworld before setting out on his fourth voyage with Albion. He reached a universe where magic was suppressed, drew the Doctor to a restored Floating City, and came face to face with him.

• Ian confirmed that research, the Bones Council, and the spies infiltrating the Purple-Robed Daoist’s homeworld were progressing smoothly.
• Ian spent a night with Olivia, then entered [Netheril] with Morgana and brought Albion along, keeping the Dragon locked away.
• The Floating City was shaken by an impact in the Void but reached its destination: a universe with a Modern Earth where a powerful force repelled magic.
• Ian sent a signal across space-time, and a blue police box arrived less than a week later with the Doctor and a woman dressed in black.
• Ian restored the ruined Floating City, took the Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver, and introduced himself.

Ian captured the Doctor and Clara to use Clara as a guide to Gallifrey and obtain its temporal technology. The Doctor learned that Gallifrey had survived in a frozen pocket dimension, then agreed to help Ian while remaining wary of his motives.

• The Doctor and Clara confronted Ian, who took a blood sample from the Doctor and revealed that temporal energy was bound to his DNA and soul.
• Ian explained that Clara’s future echoes would guide him to Gallifrey, and the Doctor realized why he had encountered other versions of her across time.
• Ian told the Doctor that all twelve incarnations had saved Gallifrey by exiling it to a pocket dimension, relieving the Doctor of his guilt over the Time War.
• Ian said he needed Gallifrey’s temporal technology to save countless people, and the Doctor agreed to cooperate after Ian promised Clara would be safe.
• Ian returned the Sonic Screwdriver and entered the TARDIS with the Doctor while privately coordinating with Morgana, who had implanted spyware in the device.

Ian traveled in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Clara to study the Time Vortex and prepare a device to find Gallifrey. After the Doctor improved the device, Clara accepted Ian’s nanomachines for protection before the plan began.

• The Doctor took Ian and his city through the Time Vortex toward Ancient Greece, and Ian analyzed the Vortex’s structure and time energy.
• Ian asked the Doctor for a few days to study the Vortex, while the Doctor and Clara discussed whether they could trust him.
• Ian showed the Doctor a device that would use Clara as a medium to search her timeline for Gallifrey, and the Doctor improved its design.
• Ian insisted on precautions to protect Clara’s mind and body, offering nanomachines that the Doctor confirmed could make her nearly immortal.
• Clara agreed to receive the nanomachines so she could keep traveling with the Doctor, and he injected them before beginning to build the device.