Chapter Summaries

Lohr learned that obtaining a personal laboratory would require major contributions, so he decided to create the Microscope Spell rather than wait years for a school slot. He began studying its rune models and ended the night meditating with a Magic Crystal.

• Lohr asked Kateya about applying for a personal laboratory, and she explained that Randolph occupied the Earth-Fire School’s slot and would likely become a First-Circle Wizard within seven years.
• Lohr asked Kateya to find an apprentice who had abandoned the wizard’s path but still had unused spell slots so he could create the Microscope Spell.
• Kateya agreed to find an apprentice within a month after Lohr asked whether she trusted him and promised to reimburse her Contribution Points.
• Lohr studied earth-element runes and copied nine basic rune models needed to construct the Microscope Spell.
• Lohr finished constructing the Levitation Spell model and began meditating with a Magic Crystal.

Lohr gained Biggs Agular as his mentor, then discussed his planned Microscope Spell with Kateya and showed her its spell models. He began making a physical model to demonstrate how the spell might work.

• Lohr woke to find Biggs Agular at his door, and Agular accepted him as a student and gave him a communication orb.
• Lohr considered how to earn Agular’s help and possible apprentice spell slot allocations while continuing his meditation.
• Kateya brought Lohr breakfast, and he told her Agular had become his mentor before inviting her to review his spell research.
• Kateya identified Lohr’s planned spell as an unusual support spell that acted within the Sea of Consciousness, and Lohr confirmed her guess.
• Lohr formed earth elements in his palm and began firing them with fire elements to make a physical model for Kateya.

Lohr and Kateya brought his newly made microscope to the Magic Artifact Crafting District to have it evaluated for Contribution Points. Lohr planned to turn it into a spell model and make Kateya his laboratory assistant.

• Lohr showed Kateya bacteria on a leaf through the microscope and asked whether it could earn Contribution Points for the Wizard Tower.
• Kateya said the microscope would need an evaluation and agreed that completing its spell model could earn Lohr a personal laboratory.
• Kateya led Lohr through the busy Magic Artifact Crafting District and explained how apprentices took crafting jobs to earn Contribution Points.
• At the registration desk, Tia teased Kateya about supposedly attaching herself to a genius, and Kateya insisted she was only Lohr's assistant.
• Lohr placed the microscope before Tia and asked her to evaluate its worth in Contribution Points.

Lohr completed the Consciousness-Sea Microscope spell model and arranged for an apprentice to test it. The chapter left him waiting nervously to learn whether Berk could successfully construct it.

• Tia examined Lohr's microscope, praised its usefulness, and submitted it to the Council Magical Artifact Data Center for evaluation.
• Wizard Fray told Lohr that his optimized Wall of Flame model earned him 700 Contribution Points.
• Lohr spent ten days constructing the Consciousness-Sea Microscope model with Kateya's help and received 500 Contribution Points for the microscope artifact.
• Kateya brought Berk to Lohr, who paid him 300 Contribution Points to cultivate the Microscope Spell Model.
• Berk began memorizing the spell model while Lohr waited anxiously for the test.

Lohr completed the Microscope Spell and secured Agular’s support for a personal laboratory, naming Kateya as his assistant. After constructing the spell model himself, he used it to magnify his Sea of Consciousness roughly three thousand times.

• Berk successfully constructed the Microscope Spell, which magnified the Sea of Consciousness but seemed to have no other effect.
• Lohr told Agular that the spell was complete, prompting Agular to travel to Lohr’s dormitory and inspect its rune model.
• Agular approved of the auxiliary spell model and agreed to handle Lohr’s laboratory application, with Kateya as his assistant.
• Lohr advised Kateya to save her Contribution Points before sending her away.
• Lohr constructed the Microscope Spell Model and saw his Sea of Consciousness magnified roughly three thousand times.

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.