Chapter Summaries

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.