Chapter Summaries

Dago survived the dark-silver Tailless Giant Dragon’s crushing attack by awakening his [Elder Blue Demon Form]. He protected Ewakuai’s Soul Disc and immediately attacked the dragon to test his transformed body.

• The dark-silver Tailless Giant Dragon believed it had crushed Dago and gloated over its plan to seize the vessel it needed.
• The dragon felt Dago’s strength pushing its claw upward, then was knocked off balance by the force beneath him.
• Dago rose in a towering demonic body after the [First-Layer Conch Palace] enhanced his [Blue Demon Physique], and he named the transformation [Elder Blue Demon Form].
• Dago kept Ewakuai’s Soul Disc behind him and declared that he would use the dragon to test his new body.
• Dago vanished and struck the dark-silver Tailless Giant Dragon with a powerful fist, which collided with the dragon’s raised claw and sent pressure waves across the square.

Dago battled a dark silver Tailless Giant Dragon in Statue Square, then forged his black mist into a battle-axe and discovered the dragon was a soul body. With only two more powerful strikes available, Dago prepared to try to slay it.

• Dago fought the Tailless Giant Dragon at close quarters, taking wounds that quickly healed as he matched its attacks.
• Dago condensed his black mist into an enormous battle-axe and advanced on the dragon.
• Dago struck the dragon’s raised claw with the axe, severing its tip and revealing a pitch-black wound where the claw began to reform.
• Dago recognized the Tailless Giant Dragon as a soul body and suspected it was trying to seize his body and escape the Myriad Spirits Space.
• Dago estimated he could afford two more axe strikes and resolved to try to slay the weakened dragon’s soul.

Dago fought the frenzied Tailless Giant Dragon while waiting for Ewakuai to emerge from his trial, but the dragon targeted Ewakuai's Soul Disc and nearly killed him. The collapsing humanoid shaman chief statue released a golden ladybug that drove the dragon away, enveloped Dago in light, and flooded his mind with information before he lost consciousness.

• Dago's attack failed to stop the enraged Tailless Giant Dragon, and he fled behind Bahafus's statue to avoid its charge.
• The Tailless Giant Dragon stopped pursuing Dago and raced toward Ewakuai's Soul Disc, prompting Dago to chase it with [Elder Blue Demon Form].
• Ewakuai began to emerge through a gate of light, but the Tailless Giant Dragon struck Dago and sent him flying with a shattered arm.
• As Dago prepared to use his remaining trump cards, the oldest humanoid shaman chief statue collapsed and released a brilliant golden ladybug.
• The golden ladybug landed on the Tailless Giant Dragon's nose, frightening it into retreat, then enveloped Dago in golden light and caused him to lose consciousness.

Dago learned that the Tailless Giant Dragon Gorini had turned the witch chiefs against Ewakuai and watched Ewakuai be overwhelmed after his protection vanished. Elsewhere, Ewakuai emerged from a spatial fissure, furious at the witch chiefs and bound to them as the Hall of All Spirits faced collapse.

• Dago woke in the jungle, recovered with healing potions, and met the golden ladybug that identified itself as Alazan Dilinfascora Cajingston, a betrayer of Gorini and former guardian of the Hall of All Spirits.
• The golden ladybug showed Dago Ewakuai protected by the wolf witch chief's statue in the Myriad Spirits Space.
• Gorini addressed the remaining witch chief statues, after which the wolf statue's protection vanished and Gorini attacked Ewakuai with black liquid.
• Gorini divided a white sphere of light among six statues, and the image disappeared before Dago could intervene.
• Dago concluded that the ancestral witch chiefs had sacrificed Ewakuai, then changed direction and raced away with the golden ladybug's guidance.
• Ewakuai emerged from a spatial fissure, cursed the witch chiefs, and complained that he was bound to them and would perish with them if he could not free the others before the Hall of All Spirits collapsed.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ewakuai escapes from the primeval forest after being betrayed and sacrificed by the wolf wizard chief. Furious but determined, he plans to recover his strength and locate Alazan, the ancient wizard chief who may know the Hall of All Spirits’ deepest secrets.
• Ewakuai hopes to seize or inherit Alazan’s system and eventually force Bahafus to submit to him. His destructive power is shown when he unleashes a hurricane that wipes out part of the forest before he disappears.
• Seven days after leaving the forest, Dago hides in a cave and finishes absorbing the vast knowledge implanted in his mind. The knowledge forms an ancient soul-cultivation inheritance called Spiritheart Amber.
• Dago realizes the inheritance likely came from Alazan, who had appeared to him as a golden ladybug and rescued him from the spirit space. However, Dago suspects the inheritance may be bait or a trap, especially after witnessing Gorini’s attempt to seize his body and Ewakuai’s betrayal.
• The golden ladybug proposes a Soul Contract, but Dago distrusts it and instead drafts a Master-Servant Pact heavily favoring himself. He threatens to abandon the inheritance unless Alazan accepts.
• While contemplating Ewakuai’s fate, Dago destroys the Communication Stone Ewakuai once gave him, believing Ewakuai has probably disappeared after his body was taken over by the ancient evil dragon.
• Dago condemns the Hall of All Spirits as a deception created by ambitious schemers. Alazan then speaks through the contract, arguing that time caused people to forget their original ideals rather than making the institution inherently false.
• Dago discovers that Alazan has accepted the Master-Servant Pact. Alazan indignantly complains that Dago is the first person ever to demand that he become a servant before accepting his legacy, then falls into an exhausted sleep inside Dago’s Mental Space.

Character Developments

• Ewakuai becomes more openly ambitious and ruthless. His desire to find Alazan is motivated not only by survival but also by the hope of taking Alazan’s power and surpassing Bahafus.
• Dago grows more cautious and distrustful. His experiences with Gorini and Ewakuai’s betrayal make him unwilling to accept even an ancient inheritance without safeguards.
• Dago also shows emotional complexity: although he believes Ewakuai is likely lost, he feels sorrow for the former believer whose faith ultimately led to his destruction.
• Alazan is revealed to be alive in a weakened spiritual form, represented by the golden ladybug. Despite his ancient authority and former prestige, he is now exhausted and dependent on Dago. His defense of the Hall suggests he still retains some attachment to its original ideals.

Significant Themes

• Betrayal and distrust: Both Ewakuai’s abandonment and Gorini’s attempted possession teach Dago that apparent allies may have hidden motives.
• Ambition corrupting ideals: The Hall of All Spirits may have begun with noble purposes, but its surviving figures are now associated with manipulation, fear, and power struggles.
• The decline of former greatness: Alazan and the wizard chiefs were once revered, but time has reduced them to decaying remnants driven by survival or ambition.
• Control and free will: Dago’s insistence on a Master-Servant Pact reflects his determination to control the terms of his inheritance rather than surrender himself to a powerful ancient entity.
• Faith versus reality: Ewakuai’s devotion has brought him ruin, while Dago questions whether the sacred traditions he encounters are genuine or merely elaborate deceptions.

Character Interactions

• Ewakuai internally plots against Alazan and Bahafus, revealing his increasingly dominant and vengeful ambitions.
• Dago negotiates directly with Alazan through the golden ladybug, refusing to trust him without a binding agreement.
• Their exchange is tense but also humorous: Alazan is offended that Dago demands servitude, while Dago remains cautious and unapologetic.
• After the contract is accepted, Alazan offers a different perspective on the Hall of All Spirits, challenging Dago’s cynical interpretation before retreating into exhaustion.

Chapter Summary: “Black Dandelion Flower”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dago allows the golden ladybug containing Alazan’s soul to draw a small amount of his Soul Force, realizing that Alazan is extremely weak and needs the energy to survive.
• Although Dago intends to benefit from Alazan’s knowledge and experience, he remains wary of the ancient spirit shaman, recognizing that Alazan may possess schemes far beyond his understanding.
• Dago sends a magical blue paper bird to contact the Omnipotent Ring’s wizards and begins preparing to travel toward the Elemental Ring of Law.
• He assesses his recovery after the battle in Myriad Spirits Space and reflects on the potential of the [Conch Palace] system to strengthen his body through increasingly powerful layers.
• His attention is drawn to the black dandelion in his Mental Space, which arrived with Alazan. When Dago touches it, one of its petals falls, pulling his consciousness inside.
• Dago awakens in the body of a frail six- or seven-year-old child, surrounded by poor village children. He immediately suspects that Alazan has manipulated or trapped him through the dandelion.
• The children mock him after he behaves strangely, calling him an idiot. A girl named Gina, apparently his childhood fiancée, cries when she fears she will have to marry someone who has become mentally disabled.
• Dago leaves the scene in frustration, still trying to understand what has happened.

Character Developments

• Dago: Becomes more cautious and calculating regarding his pact with Alazan. He recognizes that Alazan is both a valuable source of knowledge and a potentially dangerous manipulator. His confidence is shaken when he is unexpectedly drawn into the black dandelion and transformed into a child.
• Alazan: Though physically and spiritually weakened, he remains mysterious and threatening. His connection to the black dandelion suggests that he may have hidden plans or tests for Dago.
• Gina: Despite her rough, impoverished appearance, she shows concern for Dago at first. Her concern quickly turns to distress when she believes he has become an “idiot,” revealing her fear of being forced into marriage with him.
• The village children: They behave cruelly and mock Dago, emphasizing the harsh social environment into which he has apparently been placed.

Significant Themes

• Caution amid opportunity: Dago understands that Alazan’s knowledge could greatly benefit him, but he refuses to trust someone who has survived for countless years through unknown schemes.
• Hidden dangers of power and inheritance: The black dandelion appears to be more than a simple soul inheritance, demonstrating that accepting power from Alazan may carry serious risks.
• Loss of control and identity: Dago, previously a powerful cultivator, is suddenly reduced to a weak child’s body, creating a sharp contrast between his former strength and current vulnerability.
• Class and social hardship: The impoverished, unhealthy children and their harsh treatment of Dago suggest a difficult village life and a setting far removed from his former world.
• Humiliation and reversal: The powerful Dago is ridiculed as an idiot, emphasizing the chapter’s dramatic reversal of status.

Character Interactions

• Dago silently permits Alazan to recover through the Master-Servant Pact but keeps his true distrust hidden.
• He sends a message to the Omnipotent Ring, continuing his preparations despite his uncertain alliance with Alazan.
• After entering the black dandelion, Dago encounters a group of village children who laugh at his confusion and insult him.
• Gina initially checks on Dago and worries about his condition, but she panics when he avoids her and appears mentally impaired.
• Dago attempts to calm Gina, but her crying intensifies, so he abandons the interaction and walks away alone.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dago lies in a filthy pigsty after awakening in the body of a poor pig keeper’s son. His adoptive parents worry that he has become mentally disabled, but they cannot afford the veterinarian’s payment.
• He realizes that he has lost all access to wizardry: meditation produces no results, he cannot sense energy particles, and his familiar system panel has disappeared.
• Dago begins doubting his entire past, wondering whether his life as a Peak Third Circle wizard was only a dream and whether he has always been merely a peasant’s son.
• Overwhelmed by despair, he spends the night harming himself and questioning reality. At dawn, however, the sunlight reignites his determination.
• He leaves the village barefoot and begins a completely new life. The villagers assume the pig keeper’s son disappeared after striking his head; Gina, a six-year-old girl who considered herself his “wife,” mourns his disappearance.
• Over the following decades, Dago survives as a thief, becomes a wandering bard, joins an adventuring party, trains as a mercenary, and eventually becomes a legendary but controversial swordsman.
• Despite lacking wizardly talent in his new body, he never abandons his pursuit of magical knowledge. He dies beside a campfire after one final failed attempt at meditation.
• At the moment of death, he sees a golden ladybug and awakens in a cave, restored to his original body and identity.
• Dago learns from Alazan that he spent seventy-two years inside a “Reincarnation Dreamscape,” while only seventy-two days passed in reality.
• The dream was part of the Spiritheart Amber inheritance, intended to strengthen a wizard’s will through prolonged hardship. The accumulated experiences of his dream life merge into his soul, creating his eleventh Soul Crystal.

Character Developments

• Dago: Begins as terrified, disoriented, and nearly broken by the loss of his powers and identity. His despair gives way to stubborn determination, leading him to endure seventy-two years of poverty, danger, failure, and repeated reinvention. His return leaves him mentally exhausted but far more resilient and spiritually strengthened.
• Dago’s parents: Their concern is genuine but limited by poverty and practicality. His father treats his apparent mental decline as an inconvenience so long as he can still work, while his mother is more emotionally distressed.
• Gina: Though only six, she regards Dago as her husband and cries over his disappearance, adding a tragic and absurd detail to the village’s reaction.
• Alazan: Acts as Dago’s guide and explains the nature of the trial. His surprise at Dago’s survival emphasizes how exceptional Dago’s mental endurance was.
• Dago’s dream-life companions and enemies: Though only briefly mentioned, they reflect the varied identities Dago adopts—thief, bard, mercenary, legend, and outcast—across his long struggle.

Significant Themes

• Identity and reality: Dago questions whether his former wizard life was real, forcing him to confront the fragility of memory and selfhood.
• Despair versus perseverance: The chapter emphasizes that resilience is not the absence of despair but the decision to continue after reaching one’s lowest point.
• Loss and rebirth: Dago loses his powers, status, body, and previous life, then rebuilds himself from nothing before spiritually “returning” to his original existence.
• The value of experience: His seventy-two-year dream is not meaningless despite its artificial nature; every hardship becomes part of his soul and contributes directly to his advancement.
• The price of power: Spiritheart cultivation requires extraordinary psychological suffering. Advancement depends not only on talent or knowledge but also on the ability to endure.
• Time and perspective: Seventy-two years in the dream pass as only seventy-two days in reality, highlighting the difference between physical time and lived experience.

Character Interactions

• Dago overhears his parents arguing over whether to seek treatment, revealing both their poverty and their conflicting attitudes toward him.
• His imagined relationship with Gina contrasts the harshness of his new life with the naïve expectations of childhood.
• Alazan evaluates Dago’s performance, explaining that most spirit wizards collapse within a few years, while Dago survives far beyond the previous record.
• Dago initially dismisses the dream’s benefit as merely a stronger will, but Alazan reveals that the experiences have produced a new Soul Crystal, proving that his suffering has yielded a major advancement.

Chapter Summary: The Eleventh Soul Crystal

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dago discovers that he has condensed an unprecedented eleventh Soul Crystal, surpassing the established limit of ten for a Formal Tier wizard and breaking through the Wizarding Forbidden Zone.
• He realizes that this breakthrough resulted from the Spiritheart Amber inheritance and his seventy-two-year Reincarnation Dream, during which he experienced an entire lifetime.
• Alazan explains that the inheritance does not alter the fundamental essence of Dago’s soul. Instead, it increases the soul’s “thickness” by excavating and consolidating potential buried within it.
• The Reincarnation Dream functions as a tool for soul refinement, using the experiences and insights of other lives to strengthen and deepen Dago’s own soul.
• Alazan reveals that the dreams are based on the genuine memories of powerful souls. Each petal of the black dandelion contains a carefully refined life experience prepared by generations of Spiritheart lineage wizards.
• Despite the enormous potential of the inheritance, Alazan warns Dago not to enter another dream soon. Unprocessed memories could accumulate, destabilize his will, and drive him insane.
• Exhausted by communicating across dimensions, Alazan returns to Dago’s soul in the form of a golden ladybug and falls into slumber, promising to teach Dago how to eliminate the dream’s aftereffects later.

Character Developments

• Dago achieves a major advancement, proving that his soul has surpassed the normal limits of Formal Tier wizards.
• He gains a deeper understanding of the Spiritheart Amber inheritance and begins to grasp its ultimate goal: transforming the soul into something as enduring and resilient as eternal amber.
• His seventy-two-year dream has expanded his maturity and spiritual depth, but it has also left him carrying potentially dangerous memories that must be carefully processed.
• Alazan acts as Dago’s mentor and interpreter, explaining the nature of the breakthrough while revealing his own physical and spiritual frailty. His diminished condition is emphasized by his need to sleep after the conversation.

Significant Themes

• The limitless potential of the soul: The chapter challenges the accepted ten-crystal limit and suggests that ordinary boundaries reflect incomplete understanding rather than true impossibility.
• Experience as transformation: Time, suffering, memory, and lived experience are portrayed as forces that refine and enrich the soul.
• The soul as amber: The ideal wizard’s soul is imagined as golden, durable, and imperishable—growing more profound rather than deteriorating with age.
• The danger of knowledge and power: The Reincarnation Dream offers extraordinary advancement, but excessive use risks memory contamination, loss of identity, and madness.
• Identity and integration: Dago’s growth comes from absorbing other lives while retaining his own self, raising questions about how much foreign experience a person can contain without changing fundamentally.

Character Interactions

• Dago and Alazan engage in a philosophical discussion about the nature of the soul, with Dago asking questions and gradually arriving at the metaphor of amber.
• Their exchange shows mutual trust: Alazan shares the inheritance’s deepest secrets, while Dago responds with curiosity, reverence, and growing comprehension.
• Alazan’s warning establishes a protective mentor-student dynamic, urging Dago to restrain his ambition and prioritize stabilizing his mind.
• The chapter ends with Alazan retreating into Dago’s soul, leaving Dago alone in the cave to contemplate his breakthrough and the vast, dangerous potential of the black dandelion.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After more than two months of fasting and secluded cultivation, Dago completes the stabilization of his eleventh Soul Crystal using Spiritheart Amber.
• The breakthrough revitalizes his stagnant mental-power progression and pushes him beyond the normal limits of the Mist rank. His strength now vastly exceeds that of ordinary Third-Ring Wizards, placing him near the “core” of the forbidden zone.
• Dago recognizes several long-term benefits:
  • His combat power has increased dramatically.
  • His future True Spirit, once he advances to the Miracle rank, should be exceptionally powerful.
  • The additional Soul Crystal gives him more inscription slots, allowing him to continue dismantling and reconstructing Isidore’s [Law Command] runes without worrying about space limitations.
• Dago retrieves and activates a delayed communication spell from the Omnipotent Ring. Its reply had arrived a month and a half earlier, meaning its representatives have been waiting for him.
• After restoring his physical strength and dismantling his cultivation array, Dago leaves his cave and travels rapidly to the designated meeting place in the Blazing Flame Realm.
• The Blazing Flame Realm is portrayed as a volcanic wasteland filled with lava, ash, mutated vegetation, monstrous birds, and elemental creatures. It is the remnant of an ancient battle between two powerful wizards whose taboo spells permanently altered the region’s elemental laws.
• Dago records the area with his Phantom Dream Glass Orb before approaching a colossal magical aircraft: the Silversteel Giant Bird. The vessel combines advanced alchemy, magical arrays, elemental power, defensive barriers, levitation technology, and even a protected aerial garden.
• Two Miracle Wizards emerge from the aircraft and exert overwhelming pressure. They introduce themselves as Kuber Eldrick and Lumian Malcolm Bell, representatives of the Omnipotent Ring.
• Kuber greets Dago ceremonially, praises the Omnipotent, and warmly welcomes him as the Ring’s future pride.

Character Development

• Dago demonstrates extraordinary growth by condensing an eleventh Soul Crystal, surpassing even the exceptional standards represented by Michael’s tenth crystal. His confidence and ambition increase, but he remains disciplined and practical, immediately considering how to use his new capacity to perfect his rune system.
• His prolonged fasting and secluded training emphasize his endurance and dedication. Despite his immense power, he remains methodical, replenishing his strength, recording his surroundings, and preparing carefully before entering the meeting.
• Dago’s relationship with the Omnipotent Ring begins to move from distant communication toward direct involvement. His reception suggests that he is viewed as an important future figure rather than an ordinary member or ally.
• Kuber Eldrick appears sociable, elegant, and enthusiastic, immediately treating Dago with respect and warmth.
• Lumian Malcolm Bell is introduced as a stern, fire-focused Miracle Wizard whose cold scrutiny contrasts with Kuber’s welcoming demeanor.

Significant Themes

• Transcending limits: Dago’s eleventh Soul Crystal symbolizes his movement beyond conventional wizarding boundaries and toward a higher, almost forbidden level of power.
• Preparation and discipline: Even after a major breakthrough, Dago focuses on restoring his body, organizing his tools, and gathering information before acting.
• Power and future potential: The chapter stresses not only Dago’s current strength but also the terrifying level of True Spirit and magical development he may achieve later.
• Ancient legacies and modern innovation: The Blazing Flame Realm reflects the destructive legacy of ancient wizards, while the Silversteel Giant Bird represents the Omnipotent Ring’s mastery of advanced magical engineering.
• Belonging and recognition: Dago’s arrival marks a turning point in which a powerful organization openly acknowledges his talent and begins positioning him as one of its future leaders.

Character Interactions

• Dago activates the delayed blue-paper-bird message to reconnect with the Omnipotent Ring.
• Upon reaching the Silversteel Giant Bird, he encounters Kuber and Lumian, both of whom are powerful Miracle Wizards.
• Kuber performs a formal greeting and receives Dago’s respectful return salute, establishing mutual recognition and ceremonial respect.
• Kuber introduces himself and Lumian, warmly declaring that the Ring has been eagerly anticipating Dago and considers him its destined future pride.
• Lumian’s silent, scrutinizing presence provides a more cautious and intimidating counterpoint to Kuber’s enthusiastic welcome.

Chapter Summary: “The Times Had Changed”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wizard Kubo informs Dago that the journey back to the Omnipotent Ring will take three months because the Middle Continent is vastly larger than Dago realized.
• Dago is left at a luxurious garden villa, complete with a communication array and ten diverse female attendants, including a young centaur maid.
• After inspecting the villa, Dago uses the Eye of Truth to uncover more than thirty surveillance arrays hidden throughout the room. He also discovers that the villa’s outer protective barriers cannot be opened from inside.
• Dago suspects that the excessive courtesy shown by Kubo and Lumian conceals ulterior motives. Although he has an important magical inheritance they desire, he believes their treatment of him is inconsistent with the principle of Equivalent Exchange supposedly valued by their influential leader.
• Dago asks Alazan to monitor Kubo and the other Fourth-Circle Wizards. Despite the weakened state of Alazan’s soul, Alazan agrees and sends a golden ladybug manifestation into the void to spy on them.
• The chapter ends with Dago receiving images through Alazan’s monitoring: Kubo is seated in a high-backed chair, studying a wizard’s book while handling a blue crystal ball.

Character Developments

• Dago becomes increasingly cautious and distrustful. Rather than accepting the luxurious villa and courteous treatment at face value, he immediately investigates its magical defenses and surveillance systems.
• He demonstrates growing confidence and strategic maturity, recognizing that his inheritance gives him bargaining power but may also make him vulnerable.
• Alazan reveals both concern for Dago and frustration at being asked to act despite his damaged soul. Their relationship becomes more explicitly transactional, though Alazan still shows the attachment and protectiveness of an older mentor.
• Kubo and Lumian remain outwardly gracious but are presented as potentially manipulative figures whose true intentions are still unclear.

Significant Themes

• Suspicion beneath hospitality: Luxury, politeness, and generosity may conceal surveillance and control.
• Power and bargaining: Dago’s magical inheritance is valuable enough to secure special treatment, but its value also creates the danger of exploitation.
• Changing eras: Alazan repeatedly acknowledges that the current age differs from his own, emphasizing cultural and political shifts in the wizarding world.
• Trust versus self-preservation: Dago values Alazan’s counsel but refuses to rely on trust alone, choosing observation and preparation instead.
• Equivalent Exchange: The principle is questioned as Dago wonders whether the apparent generosity of the Omnipotent Ring is setting him up for an unfavorable deal.

Character Interactions

• Kubo and Lumian courteously leave Dago at the villa, preventing him from objecting to the arrangement.
• Dago and Alazan debate whether the wizards’ courtesy is genuine and whether Dago is underestimating them.
• Dago asks Alazan to spy on the Fourth-Circle Wizards, and Alazan reluctantly agrees despite his weakened condition.
• Their conversation exposes a shifting relationship: Alazan once expected a different bond, but both recognize that the changed times require pragmatism and mutual exchange.

Chapter Summary: “Preparing to Make a Move”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dago uses his mental power to check on Kubo and Lumian through surveillance images, confirming that both are behaving normally. Alazan agrees to continue monitoring them and warns Dago only if anything unusual occurs.
• Dago reflects on his restored soul lifespan after cultivating Spiritheart Amber. The cultivation has increased his soul density and may eventually give him an exceptionally long life.
• Despite Alazan’s assistance, Dago remains concerned about being confined within the garden’s protective Rune Magic Array. He begins considering how he might escape if the situation turns against him.
• While traveling aboard the Silver Falcon, Dago observes the terrifying Storm Realm: a vast region of lightning, tornadoes, and elemental power. Kubo explains that the area contains ancient wind- and lightning-elemental beings and may be ruled by the powerful Storm Lord, or Stormweaver. Even a Sixth Circle Miracle Wizard reportedly died there.
• Kubo reassures Dago that the Rune Magic Array is intended to protect him rather than imprison him. The Middle Continent contains dangers far beyond Dago’s current understanding.
• Dago shows Kubo the glazed arm ring obtained during Isidore’s Prodigy Battle—the artifact containing Isidore’s Law Wielder Legacy. Kubo is visibly fascinated but urgently warns Dago never to display it casually, since many powerful people covet it.
• After leaving Dago, Kubo’s friendly demeanor disappears. He contacts someone through a horn-like communication device and announces that it is time to “make a move,” hinting at an imminent operation or hidden plan.

Character Developments

• Dago: Becomes more cautious and strategic. He accepts that Alazan’s surveillance and the Rune Magic Array may genuinely protect him, but he continues preparing mentally for possible betrayal or confinement. His cultivation also suggests growing spiritual strength and longevity.
• Kubo: Maintains a warm, reassuring attitude toward Dago, presenting himself as a protector and trusted ally. However, his final scene reveals a calculating and authoritative side, suggesting that he has motives or plans he has not disclosed.
• Alazan: Continues supporting Dago through surveillance, though doing so consumes Soul Force. His long lifespan and cultivation history are briefly emphasized.
• Lumian: Remains under observation but is presented by Kubo as someone Dago can trust.
• The maids: Their fear of the storm highlights the overwhelming danger surrounding the airship and the vulnerability of ordinary beings.

Significant Themes

• Protection versus imprisonment: Dago struggles to determine whether the garden’s barrier is a benevolent safeguard or an elaborate cage.
• Hidden motives and mistrust: Friendly behavior may conceal ulterior intentions, especially as Kubo’s demeanor changes after speaking with Dago.
• Power and danger: The Storm Realm and the rumored Stormweaver emphasize the vast supernatural forces beyond Dago’s current abilities.
• The burden of valuable power: Isidore’s legacy is both a great advantage and a dangerous secret, making secrecy essential for Dago’s survival.
• Preparation and foresight: Dago’s cultivation, surveillance, and escape planning reflect the need to prepare before an inevitable conflict or political maneuver.

Important Character Interactions

• Dago and Alazan: Their relationship is based on practical cooperation; Alazan provides surveillance while Dago understands and accepts its energetic cost.
• Dago and Kubo: Kubo treats Dago with warmth and apparent concern, explains the danger of the Storm Realm, and warns him to conceal the arm ring. Dago responds respectfully and gratefully.
• Dago and Lumian: They do not interact directly in the chapter, but Kubo identifies Lumian as a trustworthy ally.
• Kubo and the unseen associate: Kubo’s final command reveals that he is coordinating an impending action, shifting the chapter’s tone from reassurance to suspense.

Dago’s first Bloodline Deduction failed, reducing his Despair Winter Dragon bloodline concentration to five percent, while he continued his cultivation and investigated a potion to ease his dream memories. During meditation, he witnessed two Fourth Circle wizards discussing a plan to poison him and claim an inheritance.

• Dago completed his first Bloodline Deduction, which purified his human bloodline but did not produce the Despair Winter Dragon bloodline he wanted.
• Dago calculated that he had at most five more deductions before losing his remaining Despair Winter Dragon bloodline concentration.
• Dago advanced his [Primordial Stellar Meditation Method] and began inscribing the [Law Command] rune onto a mental power crystal.
• Dago learned that an Awakening Potion could help with his reincarnation-dream aftereffects, but he could not obtain the required awakening snake venom.
• Dago saw a vision of two Fourth Circle wizards, one named Lumian, discussing purple mist flower juice and Fumingge’s plan to deal with him and claim an inheritance.

Dago tried to escape the airship after Kubo poisoned him, but Lumian and Kubo tracked him down and cornered him beside the eye of the storm. Dago revealed a powerful golden Mental Force Field and warned them that he did not want to kill members of the Ring of Law.

• Dago told Alazan that they needed to leave early and asked for his help avoiding notice.
• Kubo secretly poisoned the soup meant for Dago with purple mist flower juice.
• Three days later, Kubo and Lumian found a duplicate of Dago in the villa and realized the real Dago had escaped.
• Kubo used the duplicate’s remains to summon a headless moth that tracked Dago through the storm outside the airship.
• Lumian and Kubo caught up with Dago beside the eye of the storm and blocked his path.
• Dago unleashed a vast golden Mental Force Field and said he did not want to kill people from the Ring of Law.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dago unleashes his full mental power, violently shattering the combined force field of flames and shadows created by Kubo and Lumian.
• Although he remains a Third-Circle Wizard with no elemental traits, his Mental Force Field is so overwhelming that Kubo and Lumian mistake him for a Fourth-Circle expert.
• Dago’s eleventh Soul Crystal and the amplification of his [Voidmind Focus] state give him mental power far beyond that of an ordinary Early Fourth-Circle Miracle Wizard, nearly approaching the Mid-Fourth Circle.
• Kubo and Lumian abandon their previous restraint and launch simultaneous killing attacks:
  • Lumian summons a massive Moltenfire Cyclone capable of devastating a city.
  • Kubo calls forth terrifying Amethyst Spider Spears from a mass of dark energy.
• Dago counters by forming enormous golden eagle wings from liquid metal and blocks both attacks at once. The collision creates a devastating explosion that leaves the surrounding void as a vacuum, yet Dago remains unharmed.
• While Kubo and Lumian assess the clash, Dago activates and destroys the Soul Contract he made with the Thorn Ring. The contract had forbidden him from harming the Ring of Law or its official members.
• Because Kubo and Lumian have now made lethal attacks against him, the contract’s conditions are fulfilled, allowing Dago to break free from its restrictions.

Character Developments

• Dago reveals the true extent of his strength. His advancement in soul power, eleventh Soul Crystal, and Voidmind Focus make him vastly stronger than a normal Third-Circle Wizard.
• Dago demonstrates extraordinary composure, standing unharmed while facing two Fourth-Circle opponents and calmly breaking the contract that once restrained him.
• Kubo and Lumian are shocked by Dago’s power and realize they have severely underestimated him.
• Their surprise turns into fear and murderous resolve, causing them to discard the dignity expected of senior wizards and attack him together.

Significant Themes

• Power beyond conventional limits: Dago’s strength challenges the established distinction between the Third and Fourth Circles.
• Breaking free from restraint: The destruction of the Soul Contract symbolizes Dago’s liberation from an old obligation and the chains imposed by institutional authority.
• Hidden potential and reversal of expectations: The supposedly weaker junior becomes the dominant force, overturning Kubo and Lumian’s assumptions.
• Rules and conditions: The contract can only be broken once its specific condition—an attempted lethal attack by the opposing side—is fulfilled.

Character Interactions

• Kubo and Lumian initially react with disbelief to Dago’s power, debating whether he has secretly advanced to the Fourth Circle.
• Once they recognize the threat he poses, they cooperate instinctively, attacking him simultaneously with fire and darkness-based spells.
• Dago withstands their combined assault without injury, establishing a clear power imbalance.
• Their lethal attack inadvertently fulfills the condition that frees Dago from his Soul Contract, turning their attempt to eliminate him into the act that removes his final restriction.

Dago fought Kubo and Lumian after they saw through his deception, using his ice and golden tentacles to overwhelm the two Fourth-Circle Wizards. He froze Lumian’s Crystalfire Matrix and blocked Kubo’s hidden mental attacks, leaving both opponents facing his formidable defenses.

• Dago revealed his killing intent and unleashed his domains and twenty-nine Golden Chainsaw Tentacles against Kubo and Lumian.
• Lumian cast Crystalfire Matrix, but Dago condensed his ice domain into a sphere and used it to freeze Lumian’s flame crystals.
• Lumian recoiled from Dago’s overwhelming ice magic and questioned how a Third-Ring Wizard could be so powerful.
• Kubo attacked Dago with Amethyst Spider Spears, which Dago’s golden tentacles blocked.
• Kubo’s spells concealed mental elemental attacks, but Dago’s Golden Heart shield stopped them from reaching his mind.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Lumian and Kubo, both Fourth-Circle Wizards, unleash their full power against Dago, attacking him from opposite sides with flames, darkness, frost, storms, and numerous complex spells.
• Dago counters effortlessly with Winter Star in the Palm, detonating its ice sphere and breaking through both opponents’ magical defenses.
• The battlefield becomes a catastrophic convergence of elemental and magical forces. The conflict escalates beyond ordinary wizardry when deep-blue lightning descends like divine punishment, accompanied by the phantom of an Ancient Winter Dragon.
• Amid the destruction, an enormous, black-veined iceberg erupts from the ground. Lumian is revealed to be frozen inside it, impaled through the chest by Dago’s golden chainsaw-like tentacles.
• Lumian, despite being a Fourth-Circle Wizard and aided by Kubo, is killed brutally by the supposedly “mere Third-Circle” opponent.
• Kubo survives at the edge of the battlefield but is left psychologically shattered. He questions how a Third-Circle Wizard could possess a Miracle Domain and mental strength comparable to a mid-stage Fourth-Circle Wizard.
• Kubo realizes that the person before him may not be the real Dago and demands to know the stranger’s true identity and the whereabouts of the real Dago.
• The chapter ends with Dago—or the person impersonating him—calmly approaching Kubo and criticizing his weak will to fight.

2. Character Developments

• Lumian: His desperation drives him to expend all his remaining power, but his overwhelming assault fails. His death demonstrates the enormous gap between ordinary Fourth-Circle power and the mysterious figure’s abilities.
• Kubo: He shifts from a composed, aristocratic veteran to a terrified and mentally shaken survivor. Lumian’s death destroys his confidence and forces him to reconsider the opponent’s identity.
• Dago/the mysterious white-haired figure: He is revealed to possess extraordinary power far beyond what a Third-Circle Wizard should have. His mastery of a Miracle Domain, immense mental strength, divine-like attacks, and unnatural golden tentacles suggest that he is concealing his true nature or identity. His calmness contrasts sharply with Kubo’s panic.

3. Significant Themes

• The disparity between appearances and true power: The title’s question—how a mere Third-Circle Wizard could achieve such feats—is answered by implying that the opponent is not an ordinary Third-Circle Wizard, or perhaps not Dago at all.
• The collapse of arrogance: Kubo and Lumian attack with the confidence of veteran Fourth-Circle Wizards, yet their combined strength is overwhelmed. Their status and experience offer no protection against a higher, hidden power.
• Identity and deception: Kubo’s realization that “Dago” may be an impostor introduces a major mystery surrounding the real Dago and the figure’s true origin.
• Psychological strength and willpower: The final exchange emphasizes that even powerful magic is useless when a wizard’s fighting spirit collapses. Dago judges Kubo less for his injuries than for his loss of resolve.
• Divine and forbidden power: The battlefield imagery—divine lightning, an Ancient Winter Dragon, and ancient frost—suggests that the conflict has surpassed mortal spellcasting and touched on terrifying supernatural forces.

4. Character Interactions

• Lumian and Kubo cooperate in a desperate pincer attack, temporarily fighting as allies despite their individual strength and status.
• Their combined assault is directly opposed by Dago, who breaks through their defenses and dominates the battle.
• Kubo witnesses Lumian’s death from a distance, and the sight shatters his composure.
• Kubo confronts Dago about his identity, accusing him of being someone other than the real Dago.
• Dago responds not with an explanation, but with a calm rebuke of Kubo’s weak will, reinforcing his complete psychological and physical dominance.

Dago exposed Kubo’s escape as a trap linked to the Silver Falcon, where a Long-Range Projection Array began summoning a powerful wizard’s true spirit avatar. As Dago fled the array’s crushing pressure, Lumian attacked him, and an unseen mortal danger struck at the chapter’s end.

• Dago revealed that Kubo’s poison had been sealed in ice and attacked him with golden tentacles, but Kubo dissolved into black smoke.
• Dago pursued Kubo toward the Silver Falcon, then realized Kubo had been luring him into a trap.
• The Silver Falcon transformed into a Long-Range Projection Array, and Alazan warned that a Fifth-Circle Wizard was forcing a true spirit avatar through it.
• Dago fled the array as Lumian, badly wounded but alive, attacked him with a torrent of flame.
• The array formed a huge hexagram that drained the surrounding energy, and Dago tried to escape before Alazan shouted a warning of imminent danger.

Dago survived the Fifth Circle Execution Array, unleashed his Elder Blue Demon Form, and killed Lumian by turning him into a shield against its attack before capturing his soul. As the array’s energy began rushing toward the smoke where Dago had stood, Kubo realized something horrifying had happened.

• Dago evaded the Execution Array’s spatially locked black pillars while Alazan helped correct his position.
• Dago opened the First-Layer Conch Palace and unleashed his Elder Blue Demon Form as the array began firing again.
• Dago seized Lumian with Death God's Touch and used him as a shield, then took his rings and captured his fleeing Soul Body in the Square-Horned Cowbell.
• Dago formed a conch-shaped defensive barrier and endured the array’s bombardment while Kubo watched in fear.
• Kubo noticed the sky’s energy rushing toward the explosion’s smoke and was struck by terror at what he saw.

Dago escaped Fumingge by plunging into the deadly Storm Realm, while Fumingge declared him executed and sent word south that he had betrayed the Ring of Law. In the south, Undine received a message that burned away and set out for the Central Continent to confront her mentor about Dago.

• Dago used the Storm Realm as a refuge from Fumingge, then leaped into its deadly storm vortex while vowing to return.
• Fumingge ordered Kubo to announce that Dago Heka had murdered fellow members, betrayed the Ring of Law, and been executed.
• Undine received a blue messenger bird from the Central Continent, but its message burned away in black flames.
• Undine left for the Central Continent to demand answers from her mentor, insisting that Dago could not die without explanation.

Dago survived the brutal crossing into the Storm Realm and entered a deadly domain watched by an ancient elemental spirit nearing Seven-Ring. He transformed into Elder Blue Demon Form and revealed that he had a trump card to help him cross the domain and escape.

• Spatial turbulence and lightning tore Dago apart before he crashed into the Storm Realm.
• Alazan condemned Dago for leading them into an elemental deathtrap and warned that the hostile conditions would prevent his spells from working.
• Dago drank healing potions, activated Elder Blue Demon Form, and used his physical strength to smash incoming lightning.
• Alazan warned that an ancient elemental spirit nearing Seven-Ring guarded the region, but Dago accepted the danger and explained that Fumingge’s pursuit had left him no safer option outside.
• Dago drew an object with strange fluctuations from his Spatial Ring and declared that it would help him break through the Seven-Ring domain.