Chapter Summaries

Lava General destroyed the God of Foster Iron Mine, a monster summoned by the miners’ prayers, and rejected the mine supervisor’s demand to burn the worshippers. He took responsibility for managing Foster Iron Mine until reforms meant its miners no longer needed to pray to evil gods.

• The mine supervisor urged Lava General to burn the miners for secretly worshipping the God of Foster Iron Mine, but Lava General told him not to dictate how he did his job.
• Lava General combined his Legendary Mage power, Fifth Sequence Tech Combat Divine Arts, and magitech exoskeleton to attack the monster with lava.
• The God of Foster Iron Mine shrank under Lava General’s assault and vanished, leaving the cavern damaged but otherwise back to normal.
• The mine supervisor said the worshippers should be killed but their families spared, and the miners looked at him with faint gratitude.
• Lava General blamed the need for worship on the mine’s management and Muntongs Kingdom’s iron ore industry, then took charge of Foster Iron Mine until its reforms were complete.

The Lava General took control of Foster Iron Mine and began planning sweeping reforms after exposing the God of Foster Iron Mine as a monster. He ordered the managers to modernize mining and prepare roads, transport, factories, and Tube Buildings for the workers.

• The mine district managers agreed to let the Lava General take control, and he told them to send the frightened witnesses home so news of the monster would spread and discourage worship.
• The Lava General left the mine district with the managers and decided he no longer needed to manufacture a larger conflict to force cooperation.
• The Lava General explained plans to improve mining methods, tunnels, safety, ventilation, roof management, and underground transport, leaving the mine manager astonished by the potential gains.
• The Lava General ordered the managers to prepare better roads and an Ultra-High-Speed Hover Train, and to commission the Golden Merchants' Guild to buy cement from Rost Territory.
• The Lava General showed the managers a blueprint for five-story Tube Buildings and ordered them to build housing for the workers.

Delin the Archmage livestreamed his revenge on the people who had ambushed and robbed him, using Forbidden Magic to destroy their strongholds while attracting millions of viewers. After five days of hunting, he continued his campaign and left viewers eager to learn his magic.

• Delin the Archmage explained that his enemies had attacked his magic tower and stolen his savings, then said he would give each of them a Forbidden Magic.
• Viewers praised Delin the Archmage and flooded his livestream with gifts as its audience grew to nearly eight hundred thousand.
• Delin the Archmage showed viewers the burned forest and ruined castle left by his meteor shower, while privately planning how to profit from the spoils and livestream.
• Delin the Archmage used different Forbidden Magics against more enemies, including destroying a City-State Alliance city lord's manor with a meteorite.
• Delin the Archmage continued his revenge livestream for five days, drawing more than five million visitors and reaching one million eight hundred thousand concurrent viewers.

Archmage Delin tracked down the friend who had betrayed him and found him fighting a mysterious mage from the Tulip Kingdom. After killing his former friend, Delin announced that he would teach magic in the livestream instead of investigating the kingdom’s secret.

• Archmage Delin raced north toward the coast, where viewers speculated that he was heading for the sealed Tulip Kingdom.
• Delin found his former friend, a mustached earth mage, losing a battle against a black-clad water mage who claimed to come from the Tulip Kingdom.
• The mustached mage begged Delin for help and warned that the Tulip Kingdom was a scam, but Delin said he did not believe him or intend to visit it.
• At the black-clad mage’s request, Delin agreed to kill his former friend, then struck him with a spell that pierced his chest.
• Delin told the viewers that his revenge was over and offered to teach them magic in the livestream.

Archmage Delin returned to his family territory and promised to teach magic in daily livestreams. He revealed Eternal Flame, a passive spell that enhanced all fire-element magic with persistent, nearly indestructible flames and used no mana once learned, leaving viewers and powerful mages astonished.

• Archmage Delin announced that he would return to his family territory and teach magic during daily livestreams.
• Archmage Delin reached his hometown as the livestream audience grew to 2.4 million viewers.
• Archmage Delin explained that he had mastered 12,000 spells and created nearly 800, including the three-element Forbidden Magic Meteorfall.
• Archmage Delin introduced Eternal Flame as an assistance spell that enhanced fire-element magic with persistent, difficult-to-extinguish flames.
• Archmage Delin explained that Eternal Flame became a passive ability requiring no mana after its Spell Model was constructed, and the livestream viewers erupted with excitement.

Archmage Delin taught Eternal Flame to millions of livestream viewers, provoking debate among mage factions about the spread of free magic. After earning enough from tips to clear his debts, he began recording lessons he planned to sell as courses.

• Archmage Delin explained Eternal Flame's principles and runes while viewers took notes and considered specializing in fire magic.
• Elders in Black Bone Forest and other mage factions argued over whether Delin's free lessons threatened their system, but hesitated to confront him because of his power.
• Delin ended the livestream and announced he would teach more magical knowledge at nine the next morning.
• Delin checked his tips and discovered he had earned enough to settle his debts, then withdrew the money.
• Delin began recording lessons on magic classifications, attributes, runes, and Spell Models so he could sell his knowledge as courses.

Archmage Delin began selling a basic magic course for ten gold coins through his storefront after noticing gaps in his viewers’ foundational knowledge. His inexpensive lessons drew eager buyers and alarmed magic factions, and the chapter ended with more than fifty thousand purchases already made.

• Archmage Delin announced that he had recorded basic magic courses and listed the first volume, , for ten gold coins.
• Viewers, including low-level mages and ordinary non-mages, rushed to buy the course and praised its price and access to Archmage Delin’s guidance.
• Legendary experts and magic factions worried that Archmage Delin’s cheap lessons would undermine their ability to recruit and charge newcomers.
• Members of Black Bone Forest argued about the course’s low price and its likely effect on their recruitment.
• A speaker in Black Bone Forest revealed that more than fifty thousand people had already bought Archmage Delin’s course within minutes.

Archmage Delin’s ten-gold-coin magic course attracted huge sales, prompting the Black Bone Forest mages to recognize its lasting profits. Corrosion King proposed that Black Bone Forest and its teachers begin selling courses online under rules for sharing income from faction magic.

• Mages of all ranks, including students from major factions, purchased Archmage Delin’s course because it was cheap and promised rare knowledge.
• Black Bone Forest administrators watched sales rise from fifty thousand orders to ninety thousand in minutes and estimated the total might eventually reach five hundred thousand.
• A mage pointed out that the course required almost no ongoing investment and could keep earning money for generations.
• Corrosion King proposed creating online accounts for Black Bone Forest and its teachers, with half the income from faction magic going to Black Bone Forest.
• The mages in the meeting room supported the plan to sell courses online and share revenue.

Archmage Delin’s low-order magic courses sold rapidly, inspiring figures across the continent to consider selling courses of their own. The Elf Great Elder urged Master Ragewind to teach Druid skills to keep pace with mages, while the Alchemy Guild president planned courses of his own.

• Archmage Delin’s courses sold 170,000 copies in their first hour, earning 1.7 million gold coins and prompting Magic Net users to discuss selling courses.
• The Elf Great Elder asked Master Ragewind to create Druid courses and promote them, while also demanding that he repay his gambling debt.
• Master Ragewind decided he could earn money from courses without repaying his debts, then moved to a nearby forest to demonstrate Druid skills.
• The president of the Alchemy Guild realized alchemists could sell courses, including lessons on spotting overpriced magical creations, and planned to release one during the Continental Alchemy Tournament.
• The Magic Goddess’s expression changed within the Divine Kingdom, and Roger asked her what was wrong.

Roger arranged an emergency Magic Net Courses feature after learning that Archmage Delin’s lessons could reach vast numbers of mages. The Magic Goddess then detected an unfamiliar power boosting a mage in the Tulip Kingdom, leading Roger to suspect an invasion from beyond the planet and decide to investigate.

• The Magic Goddess sensed that the Magic Net could greatly increase the number of mortal mages, and Roger explained that Archmage Delin had begun selling courses.
• Roger summoned Book and instructed him to add a Courses channel with paid lesson series, categories, and access for users who had already bought Delin’s videos.
• The Magic Goddess showed Roger a video of a black-robed mage in the Tulip Kingdom and said an unknown power was strengthening his magic.
• The Magic Goddess speculated that power from beyond the planet might be connected to Lady Dream’s death or have infiltrated the Tulip Kingdom afterward.
• Roger decided that he and the Magic Goddess needed to travel to the Tulip Kingdom as soon as possible.

Roger and the Magic Goddess decided to finish the mech before investigating the signal connected to the Tulip Kingdom. Meanwhile, the Magic Net introduced paid courses, prompting Mage factions to see course-selling as a major opportunity.

• Roger delayed investigating the Tulip Kingdom until the mech was complete, and he and the Magic Goddess continued strengthening it.
• The Magic Net launched a course service with payment options, teacher credentials, student services, and study plans.
• Users debated the update and compared online courses with the dangerous demands Mage Apprentices faced from their teachers.
• Major Mage factions recognized course-selling as a path to influence, while the Corrosion King ordered Black Bone Forest teachers to publish courses within three days.

As Magic Net Video classrooms spread, the lord of Epic City gathered leading Writing Church believers to develop standards for works that could awaken divine arts and teach them for a fee. The Corrosion King watched Black Bone Forest’s 320 courses get buried among thousands of offerings and was bewildered when the Hunting God Church pope’s donkey-hoof course drew buyers.

• Magical powers, churches, guilds, and other groups began producing Magic Net Video courses after recognizing their potential.
• The lord of Epic City proposed that Writing Church believers establish standards for works that could make writers believers and unlock divine arts.
• The lord of Epic City saw paid classrooms as a way to teach those standards without violating the churches’ unspoken rules against freely promoting their power systems.
• The Corrosion King found that Black Bone Forest’s more than 320 courses were dwarfed by over 8,000 courses on Magic Net Video, including more than 5,000 magic-related ones.
• The Corrosion King was stunned to see that the Hunting God Church pope had released a donkey-hoof care course that more than a hundred people had bought.

The Corrosion King discovered that courses were becoming a lucrative trend, but his expensive Corrosion Magic course had sold only three copies. Meanwhile, Viscount Rost met with the Agriculture Goddess and Nature God in the Technology Laboratory and asked why they had summoned him.

• The Corrosion King saw extraordinary individuals on the Magic Net celebrating their course sales and realized the trend would keep growing.
• The Corrosion King checked his own sales and found that his ten-thousand-gold-coin Corrosion Magic course had sold only three copies.
• Black Bone Forest's second-in-command advised the Corrosion King to divide his course into stages and lower the entry price.
• Viscount Rost went to the Technology Laboratory after the Agriculture Goddess and Nature God summoned him.
• After discussing the progress of their seeds and Druid Potion in the Southlands, Viscount Rost asked the gods why they had called him.

The Agriculture Goddess showed Viscount Rost a fast-growing pig breed with four extra ribs and proposed that the Agriculture Church invest breeding pigs in his farms. The Nature God revealed a low-cost animal potion to improve newborn animals’ survival, giving Rost another product to introduce to the mortal world.

• The Agriculture Goddess told Viscount Rost that the new pigs reached over 200 jin in 180 days, ate little feed, and had no obvious drawback beyond four extra ribs.
• The Agriculture Goddess said she had cultivated one thousand breeding pigs and wanted the Agriculture Church to invest them in Rost’s farms.
• Viscount Rost proposed establishing ten large farms through the Dawn Southlands Development Company to supply meat and breed pigs for export.
• The Agriculture Goddess asked Rost to publicize that the pigs came from her, and Rost agreed.
• The Nature God revealed Nature Animal One, a potion that reduced newborn animals’ mortality and supported their growth for three to five copper coins per bottle.

Nature God promised Animal One would sharply reduce livestock disease deaths, while Agriculture Goddess asked Rost for ideas on crops and livestock to develop. Rost then assessed his tight budget and decided to seek funding from the Agricultural Divine Society for the breeding farms.

• Nature God told Rost that Animal One could reduce livestock and poultry mortality to 3%–5%, and Rost promised to make the treatment known.
• Rost advised Agriculture Goddess to focus on high-producing laying hens and dairy cows, and to develop high-yield grain suitable for livestock feed.
• Agriculture Goddess left to redirect her experiments, while Nature God promised the Elven Kingdom would continue supporting Rost.
• Rost considered the progress of the other gods at the Institute of the Gods, then returned to reviewing the costs of his projects.
• Rost worried that his funds might not cover the Super-High-Speed Train, factories, and farms, and decided to seek investment from the Agricultural Divine Society.

Viscount Rost secured the Agricultural Divine Society’s investment and priests for ten planned pig farms, then considered how to bring more shareholders into Southlands Development Company. At Foster Iron Mine in Muntongs Kingdom, the Lava General questioned a subordinate about a strange monster they had captured.

• Viscount Rost told the Archbishop of the Dawn Agricultural Divine Society that the Agriculture Goddess had directed them to cooperate on breeding pigs.
• Viscount Rost proposed keeping the breeding pigs in the Divine Kingdom temporarily and explained the scale and cost of the planned pig farms.
• Viscount Rost and the archbishop agreed on a forty-percent share for the Agriculture Church in exchange for thirteen million gold coins and the permanent deployment of priests to the farms.
• Viscount Rost reviewed the farm locations and wondered whether a place to trade shares could help bring more shareholders into Southlands Development Company.
• At Foster Iron Mine, the Lava General asked whether a monster had also been captured from the mine, and a subordinate confirmed it had been found during patrol.

Lava General discovered that numerous Worm Monsters inhabited Foster Iron Mine and questioned whether the God of Foster Iron Mine had truly been destroyed. When their mucus appeared to be a promising tire material, the Technology God Church researchers asked him to send some over and capture the creatures alive.

• Lava General ordered Battle Priests to search the mine tunnels, kill Worm Monsters, and protect the miners while remaining alert for the God of Foster Iron Mine.
• Lava General posted photos of a Worm Monster in the Technology God Church Group Chat, where the researchers said they had never seen one.
• Lava General described the Worm Monster's stretchy, lightweight mucus and suggested it might work as tire material for Magitech Devices.
• Wild Mage and Apprentice recognized the mucus's potential and asked Lava General to send some by Great Dragon Express and capture Worm Monsters alive.
• Lava General reconsidered his plans for the mine after the researchers suggested they might eventually need to breed the creatures.

The Lava General inspected the ironworks supporting the Continent's First Iron Mine and found its production far below what he considered necessary. He planned sweeping reforms and set an ambitious target, leaving the local lord stunned by the scale of his demands.

• The Lava General decided the mine's monsters should be captured if possible and drafted a plan to develop the mine and breed the monsters for their useful slime.
• The Lava General traveled to the ironworks and asked the local lord about new housing and annual iron production.
• The lord proudly reported that three thousand workers produced over two million pounds of iron a year, more than the surrounding nations combined.
• The Lava General compared their output unfavorably with Viscount Rost's territory and said he would bring in a senior metallurgical manager to reform the ironworks.
• The Lava General set a target of three hundred thousand tons of iron annually, and the lord questioned whether he had made a mistake.

The Lava General persuaded the mine officials that steel demand would grow dramatically and secured their cooperation with Rost Territory’s planned reforms. He proposed paid work, a path to freedom for slaves, and linking mine employment to New-Style Housing, but had not yet explained how the housing would be tied to jobs.

• The Lava General argued that the age of magitech and steel would create far more demand than heavy cavalry, and the mine official agreed to cooperate with the reforms.
• He said experts from Rost Territory would inspect the mine and prepare a plan, with particular attention to the Magic Blast Furnace.
• The Lava General asked who had worked on the projects and who had funded the reforms and New-Style Housing, learning that the kingdom and local shareholders had contributed.
• He proposed allowing slaves to earn freedom through points and paying wages to farmers and miners, then offered a recruitment plan for the expanding steelworks.
• The Lava General suggested tying employment opportunities to New-Style Housing, leaving the mine officials puzzled as they awaited his explanation.

The Lava General persuaded the mining area supervisor to consider selling workers houses through long-term mortgages, then proposed schools to educate miners’ descendants. As technology combat priests began clearing the mine, the Wild Mage and his apprentice discussed how a newly discovered species could make suitable tires and complete Magitech Vehicles.

• The Lava General explained a housing plan that would give miners down payments and mortgages repaid from their factory wages over twenty years.
• The mining area supervisor praised the plan and said he would report it to the king, while the Lava General suggested building schools for miners’ descendants.
• Technology combat priests guarded the mine entrance as they began exploring and clearing the area, and miners watched them warily.
• In Rost Territory, the Wild Mage and his apprentice discussed how a newly appeared species could enable the production of qualified tires for Magitech Vehicles.
• The apprentice said Magitech Vehicles and Super-High-Speed Trains together would transform transportation across the world.