Chapter Summaries

Andrew told the Graycastle Emperor that the Magic Goddess had tasked him with a ritual to bring forth the Magic Net, prompting the emperor to mobilize the capital’s mages and believers. As preparations continued, Roger watched the scene and urged the rapid distribution of Magic Net Rings, while Betty discovered that Mana Bombs could not reproduce spells requiring mental control.

• Andrew declared that the Goddess had tasked him with conducting a ritual for the Magic Net, and the Graycastle Emperor pledged the empire’s support.
• The emperor gathered spellcasters, who built an altar and a road outside the capital while believers and piles of refined iron assembled there.
• Roger watched the preparations through a projection and told the puppet to distribute the Magic Net Rings quickly so they would not be hoarded.
• Roger warned that officials or the king might keep rings for themselves, so the puppet proposed announcing when a second miracle would arrive.
• Betty realized that Mana Bombs could not replicate spells requiring mental control, and Roger explained why they could not perform such magic.

Archmage Andrew and the Magic Goddess’s followers held a prayer gathering that drew the goddess’s attention and produced a hill of Magic Net Rings. In the Divine Kingdom, Roger received a flood of Faith Power and considered the cost of repeating such gatherings as the mages began examining the rings.

• Archmage Andrew led more than a hundred followers in prayers to the Magic Goddess and the Technology God, causing magic particles to gather around the altar.
• The goddess watched over the gathering, and the final prayer prompted a miracle that replaced a pile of refined iron with rings matching those Shadow had found.
• Roger received a surge of Faith Power and Faith Essence, while Betty explained that such religious events carried a cost that could grow more dangerous with greater divine contact.
• Roger worried that repeated gatherings could harm Andrew, but Betty assured him that the cost of this gathering was negligible and that the goddess would not allow an excessive price.
• After the altar’s magic settled, the mages eagerly asked whether the Magic Net Rings could communicate across long distances.

Archmage Andrew distributed the Magic Net Rings in Graycastle, while Viscount Rost used Mana Bombs to repel a force attacking his territory. The assault was crushed, but Rost stopped his soldiers when he realized how many costly bombs they had thrown.

• Archmage Andrew distributed Magic Net Rings to the mages and reported the god's decree to the Graycastle Emperor, who reserved rings for the Mage Legions and knightly nobles.
• Viscount Rost refused to abandon his territory and prepared to defend it with Mana Bombs bought from Hedy the Coffin Bearer.
• Viscount Rost spotted more than a hundred transcendent attackers approaching and ordered his soldiers and Mage Apprentices to throw Mana Bombs from the wall.
• Viscount Rost demonstrated how to activate and throw a Mana Bomb, and his troops bombarded the attackers with spells until none appeared to be moving.
• Viscount Rost ordered his soldiers to stop throwing Mana Bombs and warned them about their cost.

Viscount Rost’s forces searched the battlefield after Mana Bombs annihilated the invading army, while Roger received an unusually large amount of faith from a single believer. The chapter left Betty trying to explain the strange faith as Roger asked her what might have caused it.

• Viscount Rost ordered his forces to search the battlefield and praised the Mana Bombs as the work of the Technology God.
• Viscount Rost’s guardian knight led a cautious search and found that the bombardment had killed the invading soldiers, mages, and knights.
• Viscount Rost’s forces gathered the corpses but found no travel permits or other clues identifying the invaders.
• Roger sensed that one believer had generated faith equivalent to hundreds of ordinary prayers and called for help.
• Book congratulated Roger but directed him to Betty, who appeared and asked why he had interrupted her experiment.
• Roger told Betty about the believer’s extraordinary faith and asked her what could explain it.

Roger discovered that Viscount Rost had become a fanatic believer in the Technology God after using Mana Bombs to defeat invading enemies, and Betty explained how the weapons could spread faith in both the Technology God and the Magic Goddess. Roger proposed developing magical firearms, while Rost’s wife learned that her husband had begun to revere a god.

• Betty told Roger that a fanatic believer devoted to the Technology God had appeared, and Roger used Faith Power to locate the believer in Rost Territory.
• Roger saw that Viscount Rost had freed serfs and slaves, trained them as craftsmen, and used Mana Bombs to repel invading enemies before becoming a fanatic believer.
• Betty said that battles featuring Mana Bombs could inspire mortals to believe in the Technology God and the Magic Goddess, potentially increasing their followers.
• Roger ordered Book to finish the Magic Encyclopedia and proposed developing magical firearms that could trigger spells such as Scorching Ray and Corrosive Light.
• After Rost Territory’s forces won without casualties, Lady Rost asked whether her husband planned to convert, and Rost praised their God’s ideas.

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.