Recaps

Roger released Magic Encyclopedia, a shared knowledge platform, despite mages’ resistance to freely sharing knowledge. He told Book to upload the Mana Bomb production method and said he would teach it how to encourage mages to contribute their own knowledge.

• Roger tested Magic Encyclopedia and approved its release after Book uploaded basic knowledge.
• Horace read the announcement and wondered whether people would truly contribute knowledge for free.
• Mages in Magic Space objected to sharing knowledge without compensation, while Horace recalled the lost Floating Rune technique.
• Book warned Roger that public opinion threatened the encyclopedia’s success and proposed uploading more knowledge.
• Roger rejected the idea of giving away all knowledge and ordered Book to obtain the Mana Bomb production method from Doll.
• Roger told Book to find Betty, upload the Mana Bomb method, and return to learn how to persuade mages to share knowledge.

A new Magic Encyclopedia on the Magic Net let the Rune Society’s mages access the principles and manufacturing method of Mana Bombs, shaking their assumptions about keeping magical knowledge secret. President Wilton and the others considered what knowledge sharing could mean as the threat of White Walkers loomed over the northern border.

• An Apprentice rushed to report the Magic Net’s new Magic Encyclopedia, while Wilton doubted that mages would willingly share their knowledge.
• The Apprentice explained that Mr. Duru’s Apprentice had found the principles and manufacturing method of Mana Bombs in the encyclopedia.
• The Rune Society’s mages searched for Mana Bombs and read its complete explanation, including the functions of its runes and the Dragon-Speech Runes used to store mana.
• Duru said that sharing knowledge could help low-level mages advance and let researchers solve problems more quickly.
• The president agreed with Duru that knowledge sharing might be valuable, but warned that the Rune Society should not give away its members’ work for free.

The Rune Society tested the mana bomb method published in the Magic Encyclopedia, while Viscount Rost began preparing to produce bombs for the Dawn Kingdom. Bellion organized production for the Northlands, and Roger explained how the encyclopedia’s experience and levels would encourage people to share knowledge.

• Viscount Rost found the mana bomb instructions in the Magic Encyclopedia and arranged a workshop, materials, and recruited mages to produce them.
• Duru and Wilton made a first mana bomb, but Duru’s shaking triggered its Tremor Rune and caused it to activate before he could throw it.
• The Rune Society adjusted the bomb’s sensitivity and successfully tested a second version before Bellion urged them to train more mages for the Northlands.
• Bellion gathered mages and ordered the experimenters to teach them the mana bomb’s manufacturing method as quickly as possible.
• Roger told the book that displaying levels beside people’s names would motivate them to share knowledge without rewards.

Lucina Herick led House Herick’s defense against a vast White Walker attack, repelling the monsters at great cost. As the fortress reeled from the battle, another unsettling sound from the valley suggested the White Walkers had returned far sooner than expected.

• Lucina Herick checked on the evacuation and learned that Winterhold’s army was heading toward Herick Castle, while she insisted the Northlanders had to face the attack themselves.
• When the White Walkers returned, Lucina ordered catapults and mage towers into action as the monsters charged and their spellcasters began corrupting the castle walls.
• Lucina coordinated a Legion Spell that vaporized White Walkers, helping the defenders break the attack.
• Lucina found the fortress breached, soldiers polluted, and many tower mages drained; she ordered Knight Bruno to compensate the fallen soldiers’ families and check the wounded for pollution.
• A new sound from the valley made Lucina realize the White Walkers had returned much sooner than the family records predicted, raising the possibility that someone was controlling them.

Lucina defended Herick Castle from a massive White Walker attack with Archmage Wilton’s Flame Vortex Mana Bombs. After the bombardment broke the main force, Wilton reported that Watcher’s Wall had been repaired, while cultists argued over their failed breach and the Dawn Kingdom’s new weapons.

• Lucina ordered Herick Castle’s fighters to prepare for battle and its noncombatants to evacuate as the White Walkers approached.
• Archmage Wilton arrived with fifty thousand Flame Vortex Mana Bombs and demonstrated how they worked.
• Lucina organized the castle’s defenders to launch Mana Bombs with trebuchets, arrows, and throwers, devastating the White Walker horde.
• Wilton told Lucina that Watcher’s Wall had repaired itself and that only scattered White Walkers remained, while noting that cultists had likely caused the breach.
• Archbishop Kahn blamed the cultists for the failure and demanded compensation, then wondered how much he had missed while undercover at Watcher’s Wall.

Roger discovered that a battle involving fifty thousand Mana Bombs had earned him more than twenty fanatics, and Magic Space users were praising him as the Technology God. He agreed to let Betty help manage his followers, then examined the two Ray Gun designs she had made.

• Betty brought Roger the completed Ray Gun, but he was distracted by the sudden rise in his fanatics and Faith Power.
• Book told Roger that Magic Space was buzzing about his role in a battle where fifty thousand Mana Bombs had been used against cultists and White Walkers.
• Roger and Betty learned that the battlefield spectacle had inspired many mages to praise the Technology God and convert to his faith.
• Roger gave Betty authority to observe and manage his followers in exchange for her help.
• Betty showed Roger a pistol-shaped Ray Gun and a bulky wrist-mounted version, and Roger asked how to fire the pistol-shaped one.

Roger proposed making Ray Guns modular, with interchangeable Spell Models and Energy-Storage Runes, and named the new class of devices Magitech Devices. He learned that runes still required mages to charge them, then recalled seeing related information in the Magic Net Space.

• Betty demonstrated a Corrosive Ray Gun that dissolved a cup and said its charged Energy-Storage Rune could fire about ten shots.
• Roger suggested separating the gun’s Spell Model and Energy-Storage Rune so users could swap spell types and replace depleted runes.
• Betty recognized the modular design as revolutionary, and Roger named the new devices Magitech Devices.
• Betty explained that only mages could charge Energy-Storage Runes, prompting Roger to worry that scarce mages would limit Magitech Devices.
• Roger suddenly remembered seeing information about the charging problem in the Magic Net Space.

Roger found a mage’s prototype for a Self-Charging Magic Array and realized it could solve the mana supply problem holding back magitech devices. Betty confirmed she could greatly improve it, though the original design risked a deadly explosion, and Roger concluded it supplied the final piece needed for their development.

• Betty returned and reminded Roger to consider establishing a faith or church system, but Roger decided belief would grow naturally as magitech spread.
• Roger searched the Magic Net and found Wild Mage Adrift’s post describing a Self-Charging Magic Array that absorbed ambient mana.
• Roger asked Book to gather Wild Mage Adrift’s research, including his private discussions with Mage's Apprentice, and Book assembled a technical proposal.
• Betty confirmed the array could gather and transmit mana, and said she could strengthen it enough to rival an ordinary Magic Anomaly Zone.
• Betty warned that the design’s flawed Mana-Conducting Rune arrangement could cause a serious explosion if Wild Mage Adrift pursued his proposed improvements.
• Roger concluded that Wild Mage Adrift’s invention supplied the final piece needed for magitech devices.

Roger and Betty learned that the Wild Mage Adrift had invented a Self-Charging Magic Array to survive his severe Mana Rejection Disorder. Betty set out to perfect it, and Roger began considering how to help Adrift without demanding his conversion.

• Betty admitted that the Wild Mage’s Self-Charging Magic Array surpassed her own perspective, and Roger explained why she had never pursued the idea.
• Book revealed that Adrift had severe Mana Rejection Disorder and might not survive another month without a way to gather mana.
• Roger asked Betty to perfect the array, and she estimated it would take two to five days and could eventually charge both devices and mages.
• Roger proposed expanding the array into a mana reservoir that could supply multiple devices through output ports and lines.
• Book asked how Roger would give the improved technology to Adrift, and Roger replied that he had a better idea.

Viscount Rost brought Wild Mage Adrift to Rost Territory, offering to fund his Self-Charging Magic Array and revealing that the Technology God had perfected it. Adrift accepted the god’s changes and arrived at Rost Territory, where he sensed the land was unlike other noble territories.

• Viscount Rost found Wild Mage Adrift and persuaded him to accept funding for his Self-Charging Magic Array.
• Viscount Rost showed Adrift a parchment with an improved array, and Adrift praised its design.
• Viscount Rost explained that the Technology God had revealed the array and identified Adrift as a gifted mage to recruit.
• Adrift welcomed the improvements, realizing the array could directly charge Mana Bombs, and considered converting to the Technology God.
• Viscount Rost brought Adrift to Rost Territory, where Adrift noticed that it seemed different from the rest of the kingdom.

Viscount Rost recruited the Wild Mage to build Self-Charging Magic Arrays and expand Magitech production, while Roger and Betty watched Magic Net Rings spread across two nations. The network had reached about one hundred thousand users, though its growth in the Elven Kingdom and High Collar Kingdom lagged behind.

• Viscount Rost explained that his workshops kept Rost Territory’s citizens from freezing during the Chilly Moon and invited the Wild Mage to join his research team.
• The Wild Mage agreed to join Viscount Rost, kept his name as Wild Mage, and said he wanted to research magitech.
• Viscount Rost showed the Wild Mage how Mage Apprentices each handled one rune to produce Mana Bombs through an assembly-line process.
• The Wild Mage began building large-scale Self-Charging Magic Arrays throughout Rost Territory.
• Roger and Betty examined a map showing Magic Net Rings spreading across Dawn Kingdom and Graycastle Empire, with around one hundred thousand users activated.
• Roger noted that Magic Net adoption was progressing much more slowly in the Elven Kingdom and High Collar Kingdom.

Roger and Betty discussed expanding the Magic Net, organizing its growing Magic Space, and exploring image and video transmission through enhanced Self-Charging Magic Arrays. Their plans advanced while the Elven Kingdom remained an obstacle, and the chapter ended as a small banquet began in Dawn Capital’s nobles’ district.

• Betty complained that the Druid Sect and the High Collar Kingdom treated life magic as sorcery and resisted the Magic Net, while Roger learned the Church of Light was already using it.
• Roger welcomed the Church of Light’s adoption of the Magic Net and hoped its influence would help spread the network across human kingdoms.
• Betty raised the problem of cluttered posts in the Magic Space, and Roger proposed topic forums that users could create themselves.
• Roger and Betty considered transmitting images and videos through enhanced Self-Charging Magic Arrays, and Roger grew excited about developing a broader network.
• A special small-scale banquet began in the nobles’ district of Dawn Capital.

Viscount Rost presented his workshop’s cheaper, refined Mana Bombs to the nobles and invited them to join a large-scale enterprise devoted to their production. Count Wells and Rost hoped the investment would expand their business and spread the Technology God’s influence, leaving the nobles to consider the offer.

• Count Vilan Wells welcomed Viscount Rost to a banquet and unveiled a box of Mana Bombs.
• A noble noticed the bombs differed from those sold by the Coffin Bearer and made by the kingdom, and Count Wells credited the Rost Viscountcy’s workshop.
• The nobles visited Rost’s workshop the next day and saw Mage Apprentices and magic arrays produce Mana Bombs continuously, with arrays charging them automatically.
• Viscount Rost attributed the workshop’s devices and production method to the Technology God and invited the nobles to invest in his undertaking.
• Count Wells and Rost discussed using the nobles’ combined funds and influence to expand production and compete for a share of the Mana Bomb market.

Magic Net’s new forum categories and Magic Encyclopedia’s points and leveling system encouraged mages to share knowledge and gather in interest-based bars. As faith surged and the Blank Divine Core neared fullness, the wandering mage in Rost Territory decided to create a Mana Bomb Bar.

• Magic Space introduced user-created topic bars, and mages discovered that Magic Encyclopedia now awarded points and levels for contributions.
• Master Ragewind complained about his gray name and planned to share accumulated magical knowledge to raise his level, while his Apprentice recalled his master’s infamous card games.
• Mages began adding knowledge to Magic Encyclopedia, and Book told Roger that the new features had prompted an unprecedented burst of activity.
• Roger explained that social hierarchies drove people to compare levels and felt the rising torrent of faith as the Blank Divine Core filled beyond two-thirds.
• The wandering mage in Rost Territory decided to create a Mana Bomb Bar and announce that mana bombs were a type of Magitech Device.

Wild Mage promoted the Self-Charging Magic Array on the Mana Bomb Forum, drawing disbelief but gaining at least one interested recruit. Meanwhile, Destructive Fist Eddie’s party prepared to buy Mana Bombs before a dangerous expedition, and Eddie met Hedy at her shop.

• Wild Mage and Viscount Rost watched the Mana Bomb Forum grow as users discussed Mana Bombs and their connection to the Technology God.
• Wild Mage posted incomplete information about the Self-Charging Magic Array and recruited mages, prompting widespread ridicule from forum users.
• Wild Mage reassured Viscount Rost that one believer was enough and pointed out that someone had privately contacted him; Rost asked him to keep the array secret for now and said she would meet the Hand of the Kingdom with Mana Bombs the next day.
• Destructive Fist Eddie’s adventuring party discussed buying a ship after their mission, and Eddie insisted they buy Mana Bombs before setting out for their treasure.
• Eddie entered Hedy’s Magic Net Service Hall and found Hedy wiping down a coffin; Hedy questioned whether the heavily armed adventurer was there to buy a Magic Net Ring.

Hedy sold Destructive Fist Eddie a Bracer Ray Gun and a collection of modules and Mana Bombs, while Bellion and two Legendary Mages studied the device’s modular design. Their discussion was interrupted by news that Viscount Rost had brought Mana Bombs made in his territory, leaving Bellion and the mages stunned.

• Hedy persuaded Destructive Fist Eddie to buy a Bracer Ray Gun, spell modules, energy-storage modules, and Mana Bombs, prompting him to say his team would need another job.
• An attendant showed Bellion the Ray Guns and explained how their interchangeable modules controlled the spells and stored energy.
• Bellion recognized the Ray Gun’s military potential and summoned two Legendary Mages to study how it could be recreated.
• After Bellion and the mages spent the night examining the device, an attendant announced Viscount Rost’s arrival and asked whether his Mana Bomb samples should be secured.
• The attendant revealed that Viscount Rost had brought Mana Bombs produced in his territory, and Bellion and the two Legendary Mages reacted with surprise.

Bellion negotiated with Viscount Rost for a massive supply of Mana Bombs and learned Rost might also consider producing Ray Guns. That night, Destructive Fist Eddie’s group encountered a monstrous figure in the mountains, while two hooded men watched their plan unfold.

• Bellion inspected Viscount Rost’s standardized Mana Bombs and learned his workshop could produce seven hundred a day, with plans to increase output to five thousand.
• Bellion agreed that the kingdom would buy Mana Bombs in bulk and asked Rost to consider manufacturing Ray Guns.
• Rost said he would visit Lady Hedy’s shop before deciding whether to produce Ray Guns.
• Destructive Fist Eddie led his group through the mountains at night while two hooded men, including Old Ghost, prepared to capture him for his giant bloodline.
• A stitched, ten-meter-tall monster appeared before Destructive Fist Eddie’s group and knocked down trees with a swing of its arm.

Destructive Fist Eddie and his team fought a giant monster surrounded by poison mist and discovered it had been assembled from spirits with Giant Bloodline. After defeating it, Eddie confronted the cultists behind the attack and wondered whether the mission would earn them a reward.

• The monster charged Destructive Fist Eddie and his team through poison mist, and Eddie held it off while the others attacked.
• Eddie used his Ray Gun to blast holes in the monster, revealing spirits inside its body and recognizing their Giant Bloodline.
• Eddie ordered the team to throw Mana Bombs into the monster and used Corrosive Rays to help destroy it.
• A black-robed cultist appeared and threatened to use Eddie to create a perfect Corpse Puppet, but Eddie revealed he still had ammunition and fired back.
• Eddie and his team defeated the cultists and monster, and Eddie questioned whether they would receive a reward for their losses.

Destructive Fist Eddie publicized his victory with a Ray Gun, drawing widespread attention to Magitech Devices. In Rost Viscountcy, Wild Mage considered an invitation from the Graycastle Empire but became inspired by the possibilities of Magitech Devices and began discussing a Ray Gun workshop with Viscount Rost.

• Destructive Fist Eddie posted about killing a monster and two priests, using different stories on different forums to promote the Ray Gun.
• A prince of the Graycastle Empire invited Wild Mage to move to Gray Fortress with promises of high rank, resources, and royal knowledge.
• Viscount Rost showed Wild Mage two Ray Guns and explained how Magitech Devices combined a main body, magic storage, and a Spell Model.
• Wild Mage and Viscount Rost imagined connecting Magitech Devices to large or miniature Self-Charging Magic Arrays to transform magic and society.
• Wild Mage questioned whether the Graycastle Empire would let him popularize the Self-Charging Magic Array, then agreed with Viscount Rost that their god was extraordinary and asked about starting a Ray Gun workshop.

Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage planned workshops to produce Ray Guns and charge their energy-storage units, while the Graycastle Emperor considered the Wild Mage’s refusal to join him. Berlion Rogers uncovered a Tiele Chiefdom plot as the Dawn Kingdom faced a possible war and royal crisis, and Roger decided to focus on civilian magitech rather than cannon development for now.

• Viscount Rost proposed workshops for Ray Gun parts and Energy-Storage Rune charging, and he and the Wild Mage finalized their initial plans.
• The Graycastle Emperor asked Prince Wilson to summon Archmage Andrew and military leaders after the Wild Mage rejected recruitment, then worried about the Dawn Kingdom’s survival.
• Berlion Rogers learned that the black-robed attackers came from the Tiele Chiefdom and planned to disrupt supplies to the Westlands and possibly assault the capital.
• Betty asked Roger about developing a super cannon, but Roger said he lacked the followers to spread mana cannons and chose to pursue civilian magitech instead.
• Roger explained that civilian magitech could affect more people and help gather faith, though people without mana still could not use the devices.

The King of Dawn received Bellion’s report and ordered the kingdom to prepare for war with the Tiele Chiefdom, while secretly revealing his hostility toward the Technology God. At the western border, Tiele forces continued gathering toward an army of one hundred thousand under the War God’s command.

• Bellion reported the Orc threat and border intelligence to the King of Dawn, who appeared lucid and calm.
• The Tiele Chiefdom sent a list of protests and threatened to use force, and the King of Dawn told Bellion to prepare weapons and troops for war.
• After Bellion left, the King of Dawn spoke to his reflection and vowed that the Technology God’s possessions would become part of the war.
• Ragehorn surveyed the Tiele encampment, where troops from more than a hundred tribes had gathered and were approaching one hundred thousand.
• A hunched Orc reminded the assembled chieftains that the War God had ordered them to wage a great war against the Dawn Kingdom.

The Tiele Chiefdom's enormous army marched toward the Dawn Kingdom, while Lucina Herick took command of Twilight City's defenses and assessed its weapons and troops. Roger watched the approaching war, which he hoped would replenish the last five percent of his Divinity and let him become a god.

• The Tiele Chiefdom's High Priest sent an army of more than one hundred thousand toward the Dawn Kingdom, expecting the troops to become sacrifices for the War God's Miracle.
• Ragehorn led the Minotaur vanguard as the loosely organized army marched toward the border.
• Lucina Herick arrived in Twilight City and insisted that the Western Border Guard Army commander address her as Wolf General.
• Lucina took charge of Twilight City's Technology Legion and asked about its Mana Bombs, Ray Guns, energy modules, magic apprentices, and conventional weapons.
• Roger asked Book about the delayed Group Chat feature and noted that the war might replenish the final five percent of his Divinity.

Book launched the Group Chat feature after Roger ordered it to be released immediately, and users quickly found ways to use it. In Twilight City, Lucina tested a Ray Gun and joined the Western War Command Group, where she learned how scopes and other supplies would reach the front.

• Roger ordered Book to release Group Chat at once, despite Book's wish to polish the feature further.
• Magic Net users discovered Group Chat's advantages and began creating groups with friends and colleagues.
• Lucina tested a Ray Gun at the Twilight City training grounds, finding that it had a long range, good accuracy, and low magic power consumption.
• Lucina asked about the aiming scopes Viscount Rost had mentioned, and a guard official said he had not heard where they were.
• After learning about Group Chat, Lucina accepted several invitations, including the Western War Command Group, and learned that scopes and other supplies would be transported by ground forces.

Lucina and the defense army commander prepared their forces against the Tiele Chiefdom, relying on Magitech weapons and the Magic Net while considering the Graycastle Empire’s likely response. As the commander struggled to accept how warfare had changed, he proposed burying Mana Bombs, and Lucina questioned how they could be detonated.

• Lucina learned the army’s deployments and logistics through the Group Chat, where Bellion judged that Graycastle would wait unless the war against the Tiele Chiefdom became difficult.
• Lucina questioned why the defenses used only Electric Shock Wave spells, and the commander explained that lightning could paralyze the tough Orcs.
• Lucina arranged catapults, Ray Gun teams, archers, and throwers to maximize the army’s Mana Bomb bombardments.
• The defense army commander lamented that Magitech weapons and new tactics had made his knight training and battle formations outdated, while Lucina urged him to adapt to changing warfare.
• The commander asked about burying Mana Bombs to detonate beneath the enemy, and Lucina pointed out that they needed magic power and questioned whether he meant to use mages as suicide troops.

Lucina and the Defense Army discovered that unusual stones from Eagle Nest Mountain could trigger Mana Bombs, and they prepared a trap at Eagle Nest Pass for the approaching Tiele Chiefdom army. As Ragehorn neared the pass, a bird summoned him to the High Priest to hear about a miracle of the War God.

• The Defense Army commander showed Lucina a strange stone that activated magic power when struck.
• The commander explained that scouts had discovered the stones could detonate Mana Bombs, and Lucina proposed using them as traps against the War Giant Bulls.
• Lucina arranged for traps made from the stones and Mana Bombs to be laid at Eagle Nest Pass, the route to Twilight City.
• Ragehorn watched the Tiele Chiefdom army approach the pass and anticipated capturing Twilight City.
• A small bird summoned Ragehorn to the High Priest regarding a miracle of the War God.