Recaps

Lohr reflected on his progress and his goals of becoming an Official Wizard and reaching another continent, while Agular and Gulei debated whether he should be allowed to choose his own magical path. Agular agreed to apply for a laboratory and decided to watch Lohr’s future progress before making a decision.

• Lohr considered his slow path toward becoming an Official Wizard and planned to save Contribution Points and find a Third-Circle Wizard to take him to another continent.
• Agular showed Gulei the Microscope Spell Lohr had created in ten days and wondered whether Lohr should have more freedom to choose his path.
• Gulei warned Agular that talented apprentices who forged their own paths often ruined their futures and insisted he would make Lohr construct his core spell system if Agular gave up on it.
• Agular agreed to apply for a laboratory for Lohr and decided to keep observing his progress before deciding what path he should follow.

Lohr received a permanent laboratory on the Wizard Tower’s fifteenth floor and learned that Agular wanted him to avoid gambling on Fusion Spell. He inspected the laboratory and its equipment, while his own plans remained undisclosed.

• Oakley urged Agular to let Lohr pursue Fusion Spell, and Agular warned that Lohr had only a three-in-a-thousand chance of success and a much greater risk of becoming crippled.
• Lohr told Agular he would follow his mentor’s instructions, though he privately planned to leave for another continent if the Divine Kingdom Exploration Tournament did not begin within eight years.
• Agular brought Lohr to his permanent laboratory, and Lohr named it Lohr's Spell Model Optimization and Creation Laboratory.
• Lohr opened the laboratory and found its rooms, including a specially modified spell-testing chamber equipped with instruments and a magic array.

Lohr settled into his new laboratory, learned how its resources and Contribution Points worked, and used his Charge Points to improve the Consciousness-Sea Microscope to 0.9 Circle. He saw that its enhanced precision could support his planned spell fusion and prepared to strengthen Fireball and Rock Wall next.

• Agular showed Lohr the testing ground, library, and magic array, explaining its connection to Wizard Towers across twelve continents and the laboratory's yearly allocation of 5,000 Contribution Points.
• Lohr decided against submitting papers through the array, fearing the consequences of revealing knowledge from the future.
• Agular left, and Lohr asked Kateya to help move his belongings into the laboratory, clarifying that she would not live there.
• After Kateya helped arrange the bedroom, Lohr recharged his panel with Magic Crystals and spent Charge Points to raise the Consciousness-Sea Microscope from 0.3 to 0.9 Circle.
• Lohr inspected his expanded Sea of Consciousness, judged the microscope precise enough for his planned spell fusion, and decided to add points to Fireball and Rock Wall.

Lohr improved and tested his Fireball and Rock Wall spells, then learned the Wizard Alliance planned an Abyss expedition a century away. Six months later, he was urgently researching a powerful fusion spell ahead of the first Divine Kingdom Exploration Tournament, which would begin in half a month.

• Lohr tested his strengthened Fireball and Rock Wall, finding that the wall could briefly withstand a 0.7-ring attack.
• Lohr read an announcement scheduling the Wizard Alliance’s Abyss expedition for one hundred years later and found no news about the Divine Kingdom Exploration Tournament.
• Lohr spent six months in the Wizard Tower and advanced to a Second-Level Apprentice, then continued researching Fusion Spells with help from apprentices recruited by Kateya.
• Lohr tried to fuse Earthfire Attraction with Fireball Spell into Small Magma Eruption, but his test produced no more than an earthfire eruption with slightly increased heat.
• After the tournament was announced for January of Wizard Calendar Year 2, Lohr pushed himself to develop Small Magma Eruption for protection in the unsupervised competition.

Lohr broke the Consciousness-Sea Microscope’s limits and used it to understand how the Fireball and Earthfire Attraction spells could be fused into a Small Magma Eruption Spell. After preparing a fusion sequence, he brought Xielis into his laboratory to test it.

• Lohr upgraded the Consciousness-Sea Microscope, allowing him to clearly observe the elemental molecules in the Fireball and Earthfire Attraction spell models.
• Lohr identified their molecular intersections and spent the night arranging them into a fusion sequence that he believed could produce the Small Magma Eruption Spell.
• Kateya brought Xielis, a Second-Level Apprentice, to Lohr’s laboratory, where Xielis signed a contract restricting her use and disclosure of the experimental spell.
• Lohr gave Xielis the Fireball and Earthfire Attraction spell models and his fusion sequence, then told her to memorize the latter spell while seated.

Lohr gave Xielis an optimized Fireball Spell model, which she fused with the Earthfire Attraction Spell to create a powerful apprentice-level Magma Eruption Spell. After seeing her test it, Lohr began fusing the spell himself and completed the process in two minutes.

• Lohr gave Xielis his optimized Fireball Spell model and rested while she memorized and fused it.
• Xielis tested the resulting Magma Eruption Spell, which reached first-circle power while consuming only one-fifth of her magical elements.
• Lohr told Xielis to dispel the spell and instructed Kateya to take her to collect her 400 Contribution Points.
• Xielis accepted the reward after Lohr insisted she follow the Wizard Tower's rules, then left with Kateya.
• Lohr fused the Fireball Spell and Earthfire Attraction Spell models into his own Small Magma Eruption Spell.

Lohr asked Agular for permission to enter the Divine Kingdom Exploration Tournament, and Agular reconsidered after seeing Lohr's powerful new fusion spell. Agular agreed to support Lohr's preparation with borrowed Divine Power Crystals, leaving Lohr to accept them despite preferring to raise his mental strength another way.

• Lohr contacted Agular and said he wanted to enter the Divine Kingdom Exploration Tournament.
• Lohr demonstrated the Small Magma Eruption Spell, and Agular realized it rivaled a first-circle spell.
• Lohr explained that he had fused the spell from two 0.7-circle spells, stunning Agular.
• Lohr told Agular he wanted Divine Power Crystals, Special Potions, and possibly spatial equipment from the Divine Kingdom.
• Agular agreed to lend Lohr Divine Power Crystals and brought him five crystals worth fifty grams.
• Lohr accepted the crystals with a forced smile after Agular told him to repay the loan when he returned.

Lohr used Divine Power Crystals from Agular to strengthen himself and spent most of his remaining research funding developing a defensive spell before the Divine Kingdom Exploration Tournament. When the tournament began, Fray arrived to escort him and more than a hundred Earth-Fire School apprentices to Lord Nelson.

• Lohr decided to develop a defensive barrier by combining Rock Wall with Adaptive Spell Fusion, then began absorbing a Divine Power Crystal.
• First-Circle Wizards learned that Agular had supplied Lohr with Divine Power Crystals for the tournament; Tolaf secretly sent a message to his student, hoping to hinder the Earth-Fire School.
• Randolph heard that Lohr had received the crystals and grew jealous, seeing the tournament as his chance to regain his standing.
• Saul was chosen to enter the Dark Godland, while an eight-year-old child persuaded his grandfather to let him participate in the tournament.
• Thirteen days later, Lohr completed his defensive rune model after four failed experiments and spending 2,900 Contribution Points.
• Fray arrived with more than a hundred Third-Level Apprentices, including Lus and Tia, and told Lohr that Lord Nelson would send them into the Divine Kingdom.

Lohr joined the Third-Level Apprentices heading to the Dark God's Divine Kingdom and was dropped into a pitch-black forest. After raising his Meditation Talent to Level 7 and his Mental Power to 99.9, he prepared to improve his spells before deciding when to advance his meditation model.

• Lohr joined the apprentices as Fray led them to the top of the Wizard Tower, where tens of thousands gathered in silence.
• A five-meter-tall figure used earth elements to force the apprentices through the Divine Kingdom's barrier and drop them into the forest.
• Lohr climbed a tree, checked his game panel, and spent Charge Points to raise his Meditation Talent from Level 5 to Level 7.
• Lohr increased his Mental Power from 46.2 to 99.9, the peak of Third-Level Apprentice.
• Lohr decided to delay advancing his meditation model so he could spend the first few days gathering items, then turned to his spells.

Lohr upgraded his skills, broke the limit of Small Lava Eruption Spell, and entered the chaotic Divine Kingdom Trial to seek Divine Power Crystals. After wiping out a thorn-covered group with a devastating eruption, he found the apprentices had fled and realized he could collect the crystals they had abandoned.

• Lohr raised his skills to 0.9 rings and broke the limit of Small Lava Eruption Spell, leaving him short on Charge Points for another limit break.
• As spells and screams filled the forest, Lohr headed west toward the strongest Divine Power Crystal fluctuations while protected by Adaptive Rock Barrier.
• A Thorn Spell ensnared Lohr and dozens of other apprentices, so he unleashed Small Lava Eruption Spell and burned them all to ash.
• Apprentices across the surrounding area fled from the towering magma, leaving Lohr alone amid the lava rain.
• Lohr collected a tiny three-gram Divine Power Crystal and discovered the other nearby crystals had been left behind by the fleeing apprentices.

Lohr collected Divine Power Crystals across the secret realm while Randolph hunted him, then confronted a large group of wizard apprentices guarding another battlefield. Randolph arrived just as Lohr threatened them, and a blond apprentice attacked, prompting Lohr to unleash magma that killed Randolph and engulfed the battlefield.

• Lohr collected two Divine Power Crystals, lamented that someone had taken the Aptitude Enhancement Potions, and continued gathering crystals.
• Randolph tracked Lohr through the forest, intent on killing him to preserve his standing in the Earth-Fire School.
• Lohr amassed 126 grams of Divine Power Crystals, drove off apprentices who approached him, and headed toward another area of intense fluctuations.
• Lohr arrived at a chaotic battlefield, where the apprentices stopped fighting and demanded that he leave; he threatened them instead.
• Randolph reached the battlefield and recognized Lohr by his scent just as the blond apprentice hurled a Fireball at him.
• Lohr cast a magma spell that killed Randolph and flooded the battlefield with magma rain.

Lohr annihilated rival apprentices with Magma Eruption and plundered Divine Power Crystals and Potions, accumulating 427 grams of crystals. After clearing the area with four eruptions, he built a temporary magic array and settled inside its barrier to restore his elemental energy and assess his gains.

• Lohr killed nearly all the apprentices fighting near the battlefield, then collected their Divine Power Crystals, Potions, and bloodline materials.
• Lohr gathered two more Divine Power Crystals and three Potions at the battlefield's center before pursuing further crystal fluctuations.
• During three hours of plundering, Lohr killed more than fifty apprentices who attacked him and amassed 427 grams of Divine Power Crystals.
• Lohr used four full Magma Eruption Spells to burn away apprentices hiding nearby, then traced a temporary magic array and collected the crystals they left behind.
• Lohr activated the Adaptive Rock Barrier, sat on a piece of beast hide, and began restoring his elemental energy.

Lohr recovered his elemental energy, counted his spoils, and drank Special Potions in an effort to improve his talent. When a Dark Faith Apprentice attacked him, Lohr killed him with amplified magma and discovered more Divine Power Crystals nearby.

• Lohr used his Seventh-Level Meditation Talent to restore most of his elemental energy without Magic Crystals.
• Lohr counted 462 grams of Divine Power Crystals and 37 Special Potions, then set aside 50 grams to return to his mentor.
• Lohr drank 23 Special Potions, but his Meditation Talent remained at Level 7.
• A Dark Faith Apprentice triggered Lohr's Lava Eruption Spell and escaped its first eruption.
• Lohr trapped the apprentice in a larger magma eruption, amplified its heat, and killed him.
• Lohr sensed dense divine power fluctuations nearby and realized the dead apprentice had left him more spoils.

Lohr collected Divine Power Crystals and Special Potions from a defeated Faith Apprentice, improved his meditation talent, and prepared the area around his shelter so he could advance his Meditation Method uninterrupted. Two days later, a large group heading toward his location encountered Jiaolang, who recognized their leader and warned him that Lohr’s territory was a forbidden zone.

• Lohr recovered a hidden bundle containing 276 grams of Divine Power Crystals and 62 bottles of Special Potion, then raised his Meditation Talent from level seven to level eight after drinking ninety-nine bottles.
• Lohr began advancing his Fire-Earth Meditation Method, but repeated attacks by poor apprentices disrupted his practice.
• Lohr covered the area around his barrier with seventy Lava Eruption Magic Arrays to keep intruders occupied while he cultivated.
• Two days later, a wolf-shaped Bloodline Wizard apprentice led more than a hundred Bloodline Wizard apprentices and over three hundred Elemental Wizard apprentices toward Lohr’s location.
• Jiaolang met the group’s leader, Yajieding, recognized him as an old friend, and warned him not to approach because the area was a forbidden zone.

Lohr continued synchronizing his meditation rune and Small Lava Eruption Spell models while replenishing his magic arrays. Yajieding led a large group of apprentices to the forbidden zone, where Marek’s death proved that Lohr’s arrays possessed first-ring power.

• Jiaolang warned Yajieding that a freak’s magic arrays could burn intruders to ashes, but Yajieding dismissed him and led apprentices toward the forbidden zone.
• Lohr confirmed that his meditation rune and Small Lava Eruption Spell models had achieved initial compatibility and set up a fresh group of seventy Lava Eruption Magic Arrays.
• Yajieding arrived at the array group with more than a hundred Bloodline Wizard apprentices and over three hundred Elemental Wizard apprentices, and they mocked its size.
• Marek charged into the array group, where a burst of blazing magma burned through his fur and consumed him.
• Yajieding realized Jiaolang had told the truth about the arrays’ first-ring power, and the apprentices fell silent.

Yajieding led a group of apprentices into Lohr’s Lava Eruption Magic Array Group, hoping to kill him for Contribution Points. Lohr emerged and vaporized their defensive teams with an amplified lava eruption.

• Yajieding persuaded the remaining apprentices to attack Lohr for the promised Contribution Points, while others withdrew from the battle.
• The elemental apprentices formed three rune-linked teams behind defensive barriers and advanced through the magic arrays.
• Lohr sensed that the array connections had been disrupted, ended his attunement, and saw the teams approaching.
• Lohr strengthened his Lava Eruption Sorcery and destroyed all three barriers and the apprentices inside them.

Lohr massacred the apprentices who attacked him, then forced a surviving brown-haired apprentice to lead him to a base in the hills. There, he learned the base belonged to the young grandson of Chairman Yasen Dempsey and let his guide go, deciding the boy might be useful to keep alive.

• Lohr killed more than a hundred and thirty fleeing apprentices with a magma eruption and trapped a brown-haired fire-and-wood apprentice with four more torrents.
• Lohr spared the brown-haired apprentice in exchange for directions to his base, then used an enhanced Levitation Spell to speed their journey.
• After three hours, Lohr and the apprentice reached a dark region of hills, where a huge fire marked the base.
• The apprentice explained that his former boss was an eight- or nine-year-old grandson of a powerful fire-element Wizard Tower figure.
• Lohr recognized the figure as Chairman Yasen Dempsey, realized the boy's grandfather was a Fifth-Circle Wizard, and let the apprentice leave unharmed.
• Lohr considered recruiting the boy as a future protective talisman.

Lohr approached the camp by the Flame Hills while waiting to see how its leader would respond to news of his strength. Levan chose to negotiate rather than flee, and the camp sent a signal seeking contact with Lohr.

• Sten returned to the base and told Annel and Ihano that Yajieding and many others had died to an apprentice wielding a 1.4-circle spell.
• Annel reported the danger to Levan and advised him to withdraw separately with the others.
• Levan refused to abandon the others and ordered Annel to find Lohr and negotiate, offering to use his share of the Divine Power Crystals to protect them.
• Lohr waited outside the camp, puzzled that no one had yet approached him, while passing apprentices avoided attacking him after sensing his Divine Power Crystals.
• The camp launched Fireballs in widening directions, and Lohr recognized the display as a negotiation signal.

Lohr confronted Levan Dempsey and negotiated with him, but turned the discussion toward Chairman Yasen instead. Yasen recognized Lohr’s talent and made him Levan’s mentor, leaving Lohr to wonder whether he had passed up a chance to request something valuable.

• Lohr used powerful sorcery to draw Levan and more than a hundred Fire Element Wizards away from their camp, then demanded compensation from Levan.
• Levan offered his ten-percent share of the Divine Crystals and agreed to let Lohr speak with his grandfather, Chairman Yasen.
• Yasen researched Lor Rokes, recognized his potential to become a Fourth Circle Wizard, and decided to make him Levan’s mentor.
• Yasen took control of Levan’s body, sent the Fire Element apprentices back to camp, and asked Lohr what he wanted.
• Lohr asked for opportunities to seek Yasen’s guidance, and Yasen appointed him Levan’s mentor and promised to provide his contact information.
• After Yasen left Levan’s body, Lohr regretted not requesting a valuable item but suspected that doing so would have cost him the mentorship.

Lohr became Levan’s mentor and ordered him to raise the camp’s Divine Power Crystal share to thirty percent. Levan announced the change, while Lohr settled into the camp and continued his meditation.

• Lohr assigned Levan to raise the camp’s Divine Power Crystal share to thirty percent within three days, threatening to raise it to fifty percent if he did not.
• Levan brought Lohr to the camp and told the apprentices that Lohr was his mentor and the camp would take thirty percent of their crystals.
• The apprentices objected to the higher share, but Levan told them they could settle their previous shares and leave if they disagreed.
• Levan offered Lohr the full thirty percent, and Lohr said he would take fifteen percent for lending his name to the increase.
• Levan showed Lohr a spacious hall, brought him two Silvermoon Wolf pelts, and left to handle the apprentices’ response.
• Lohr made a stone bed, set up an Adaptive Rock Barrier magic array, and resumed advancing his Meditation Method.

Lohr completed his Meditation Method advancement, then returned to the forest to gather Divine Power Crystals while waiting for the spatial equipment to appear. When three blazing suns fell toward the Godland’s regions, he raced toward the one landing in the forest.

• Lohr gave Levan a bundle of Divine Power Crystals and refused his offer to retrieve spatial equipment, calling his refusal a lesson for Levan to consider.
• Lohr entered the forest and searched for Divine Power Crystals, where a group of 135 apprentices recognized him and hurried back toward camp.
• Lohr realized the Alliance higher-ups were using the Godland trial to toughen promising apprentices, even at the cost of those they considered expendable.
• After three days, Lohr had gathered 197 grams of Divine Power Crystals, but found the crystals increasingly difficult to track as they fled from him.
• Three fireballs appeared in the sky and fell toward the forest, hills, and plains, and Lohr raced toward the one headed for the forest.

Lohr reached the Great Sunfall Site, where wizard apprentices were fighting over a spatial ring, and drove them away with overwhelming lava sorcery. With the area around the ring cleared, he was poised to claim it.

• Lohr watched apprentices attack a goshawk-like wizard apprentice who tried to reach the spatial ring, then turned down Miriya Bell’s offer to join her team and warned her to leave.
• Lohr approached the massive pit and sensed the strongest Divine Power Crystal fluctuations among the apprentices guarding it.
• Lohr took five steps and unleashed five streams of lava, killing hundreds of apprentices and forcing the survivors to retreat.
• When two apprentices tried to retaliate, Lohr took two more steps and killed them with another pair of strengthened lava eruptions.
• Lohr ordered everyone to leave, and the apprentices fled; Miriya Bell watched from more than twenty miles away, stunned by his power.

Lohr secured a space ring, collected 4,237 grams of Divine Power Crystals, and returned to Levan’s camp after recovering his elemental energy. There, he learned that Levan had given up his fifteen-percent share and contributed 1 million Contribution Points, and asked him to explain.

• Miriya signaled the apprentices to retreat after Lohr’s display drove them away.
• Lohr collected Divine Power Crystals from the crater and calculated that his total, including crystals stored with Levan and his share, should reach about 8,000 grams.
• Lohr recovered his elemental energy near the hills and traveled to Levan’s camp.
• Levan offered Lohr his space bracelet, but Lohr showed that he had already obtained a space ring.
• Lohr asked Levan why he had given up his fifteen-percent share and contributed 1 million Contribution Points.

After the Divine Kingdom trial, Yasen arranged for Lohr and Levan to return with Nelson, and Lohr asked Nelson for permission to travel to Betula Continent after becoming a First-Circle Wizard. Nelson was surprised by Lohr’s destination, and the chapter ended before he answered.

• Levan worried that accepting the spatial bracelet for free was inappropriate, but Lohr reassured him and went to sleep.
• Three days later, Yasen and the other Wizards retrieved the surviving apprentices from the Dark Godland, and Yasen gave Levan another bracelet while instructing Nelson to bring them back.
• Lohr reflected that the elemental barrier around him had grown much larger, crediting Yasen’s influence while resolving not to depend on it.
• Nelson praised Lohr’s performance in the trial and invited him to request a reward.
• Lohr asked permission to visit another continent after becoming a First-Circle Wizard, then clarified that he wanted to go to Betula Continent rather than Milton Continent.
• Nelson questioned why Lohr wanted to travel to Betula Continent.

Lohr convinced Nelson to let him leave the Murphy Continent to study a volcanic range, then met his mentor Agular and Gulei in the Wizard Tower. He revealed that his student Levan Dempsey was Chairman Yasen's grandson, leaving the two wizards stunned.

• Lohr persuaded Nelson to let him leave the Murphy Continent to improve his Lava Eruption Sorcery, and Nelson reluctantly agreed.
• Lohr led Levan to the twenty-seventh floor, where Agular and Gulei confronted him about his gains in the Divine Kingdom.
• Lohr admitted he had obtained over eight thousand grams of Divine Power Crystals and a ten-cubic-meter spatial ring, drawing Gulei's greedy attention.
• Lohr repaid Agular with one hundred grams of Divine Power Crystals, which Agular accepted as interest on his earlier loan.
• Lohr introduced Levan Dempsey as his student and revealed that Levan was Chairman Yasen's grandson, shocking Agular and Gulei.