Chapter Summaries

After the vision of a magitech future shocked mages across Magic Space, the Wild Mage and Viscount Rost found a way to power devices without requiring mages. In Tiele Chiefdom, Lucina considered how the future’s machines could overwhelm even the continent’s mightiest kingdoms.

• Noble lords encouraged support for the Technology God as mages debated how to bring the vision of ascension to godhood into reality.
• In Rost Territory, the Wild Mage told Viscount Rost he was troubled by how to make the magic-producing ore activate without first using magic.
• Viscount Rost proposed using machinery, and the Wild Mage suggested a mechanical trigger that would strike the ore and power a magitech device.
• Viscount Rost set out to recruit the Wild Mage’s clockmaker friend, while the Wild Mage predicted that the Artisans Association would become a major force in the new era.
• In Tiele Chiefdom, Lucina imagined that future cars, trains, and aircraft could let their builders conquer the continent and even the lands of the dragons.

Lucina wore down the retreating Orc legions with relentless Mana Bomb attacks, while their soldiers turned to looting and slaughtering villages. As the Dawn Kingdom rescued traumatized Rabbitfolk and followers of the Technology God offered them aid, Lucina realized the new faith could help stabilize the region, and Roger watched the Technology God Church take shape.

• Lucina pursued the Orc legions for days, denying them rest and supplies until they began raiding villages and killing their own people.
• Lucina found Rabbitfolk survivors hiding in a cellar beneath a burned settlement, and her soldiers discovered six more dead below.
• Lucina claimed the survivors for the Dawn Kingdom and ordered food and water brought to them.
• Lucina's personal guard reassured the frightened Rabbitfolk, sharing their food and water and promising help in the name of the Technology God Church.
• Lucina used the Magic Net to study how to organize a church, and her forces converted many villages to the Technology God while stabilizing the region.
• Roger watched from within the Divine Kingdom in astonishment as the Technology God Church was established.

Roger watched the Technology God Church spread rapidly through the Tiele Chiefdom and learned that his Data Artisan authority might be incomplete, while the Magic Goddess warned that other fragments could threaten his control. After two more days of bombardment, Lucina saw the Orc troops reduced to numb, starving figures who no longer reacted to explosions.

• Roger discussed the Technology God Church's rapid growth with Betty and argued that its converts gained wisdom through his Fire of Enlightenment.
• The Magic Goddess questioned Roger about his priesthood system, and Roger explained that Magitech Devices and increased learning would empower his followers.
• Roger told the Magic Goddess he suspected the Data Artisan authority could not cover every network environment, and she warned that other data fragments might let rival gods take the authority from him.
• Roger tried to sense the missing fragments for half a day, then asked the book to watch the internet for related discussions.
• Two days later, Lucina saw the Orc troops sitting amid another bombardment, too numb and hungry to flee, take cover, or respond.

Lucina saw the Orc legion collapse after five days of relentless pressure, while the Dawn Legion escorted its exhausted soldiers into the Dawn Kingdom. As the Tiele leaders debated their defeat, Bick ordered them to defend Redleaf Forest, invoke the Ancestor Spirit, negotiate with the Dawn Kingdom, and bring the Technology God’s followers and technology into their land; a young Elf then appeared in a southern border town of the Graycastle Empire.

• Lucina watched the Orcs lose their will to fight and become obedient captives escorted toward the Dawn Kingdom.
• The Tiele leaders gathered in Tongwan City and argued over their losses, their missing Golden Warriors, and whether to keep faith in the War God.
• Ape-man Bick ended the dispute and ordered the Orcs to hold Redleaf Forest, invoke the Ancestor Spirit, and negotiate with the Dawn Kingdom.
• Bick also called for unbelievers to become followers of the Technology God and bring Magitech Devices and the Magic Net into Orc territory.
• A young-looking Elf walked through a southern border town in the Graycastle Empire.

Bonnie Sun-Chaser discovered that the Graycastle Empire was recruiting mages to develop Magitech Devices and relayed what she learned to the Elven Council of Elders. She chose to honor her promise and join the project, while the Council decided to begin limited use of the Magic Net as events outside the Elven Kingdom accelerated.

• Bonnie Sun-Chaser visited a Graycastle border town and found a notice recruiting mages skilled in runes and magic arrays.
• Bonnie registered to learn about the project, then used a forest-root communication network to send her findings to the Elven Kingdom.
• Bonnie told the Council of Elders she would travel to the Graycastle capital and join the Magitech Device development team to honor her promise.
• The Council of Elders ended its contact with Bonnie and remained silent as it considered her report.
• The Great Elder proposed limited use of the Magic Net, warning that outside changes were happening too quickly and citing the Tiele Khanate's army of one hundred thousand Orcs.

The Elven Council agreed to introduce Magic Nets and establish a Magitech Research Society after the First Elder argued that Magitech could strengthen the kingdom and restore the Primordial Elves’ glory. At the Dawn Kingdom’s peace talks with the Tiele Chiefdom, the king asked Viscount Rost for further demands as strange crimson threads reached toward him, while a rune-covered cube stood in the Goddess of Magic’s Divine Kingdom.

• The First Elder argued that Elves could pray to other gods and should consider Magitech Devices for security and economic growth.
• The First Elder suggested combining Dawn Kingdom production methods with Druid knowledge to mass-produce potions, persuading the elders to support Magic Nets and a Magitech Research Society.
• Nations including the Graycastle Empire, the Elven Kingdom, and the Tiele Chiefdom began researching Magitech Devices after the Twilight War.
• The King of Dawn asked Viscount Rost whether the kingdom should accept the Tiele Chiefdom’s peace offer and what additional demands to make.
• The King of Dawn proposed taking all Tiele lands east of Redleaf Forest, including Eagle's Nest Passage, while crimson threads spread toward Viscount Rost.
• A rune-covered cube with flowing magic power stood before a massive magic tower in the Goddess of Magic’s Divine Kingdom.

The Magic Goddess examined Roger’s Mana Engine as he explained that machine tools could make its components cheap to produce. When Divine Pollution from the War God’s Giant invaded Viscount Rost through the Dawn King, Roger’s Fire of Enlightenment burned it away, and the Dawn King offered Rost the post of Minister of Finance.

• The Magic Goddess and Betty discussed the Mana Engine’s unstable operation and high mana consumption, while the Magic Goddess questioned whether mortals could afford its components.
• Roger explained that machine tools could make ordinary metal parts inexpensive, then sensed that the Fire of Enlightenment he had left in the mortal world was under attack.
• Viscount Rost proposed opening trade ports with the Tiele Chiefdom to obtain minerals and expand the Dawn Kingdom’s Magitech industry.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess saw the Dawn King’s Divine Pollution spreading into Viscount Rost, but Rost’s Fire of Enlightenment began to suppress it.
• Roger sent more Fire of Enlightenment through the faith channel, and it engulfed and burned the gray Giant before the Dawn King offered Viscount Rost the post of Minister of Finance.

King of Dawn appointed Rost as Minister of Finance, while Roger weakened the War God’s corruption inside the king and discussed using magical production to advance industry. Roger agreed to create a Magic Life, but Betty redirected attention to the Mana Engine before the Magic Goddess insisted they study the creature first.

• King of Dawn appointed Rost as Minister of Finance and left Bellion to handle the rest.
• Roger told the Magic Goddess that he had weakened the War God’s corruption in the king and could use the king as a conduit to affect the War God.
• Betty asked Roger to explain machine tools, and Roger described how they could help produce Mana Engines.
• The Magic Goddess proposed creating a Magic Life that could control materials and work continuously, and Roger agreed to make one.
• Betty returned to the problem of quickly resetting the Mana Engine’s piston, but the Magic Goddess said they should first study how to create a Magic Life.

Roger and the Magic Goddess combined mechanical engineering with magic runes to stabilize the Mana Engine, while Roger began designing a Magic Life and learned that Faith Power was no longer needed to maintain the Divine Kingdom’s barrier. The chapter left Roger realizing that his rapidly increasing Faith Power had made the recent surge seem ordinary.

• Roger designed a bizarre form for the Magic Life, and the Magic Goddess sent her avatar to prepare its materials.
• Roger proposed adding a flywheel to stabilize the Mana Engine’s power output.
• The Magic Goddess suggested using runes on refined iron for the flywheel, and she, Roger, and Betty developed a low-cost solution.
• Book admitted that he could not follow the mechanical discussion and flew behind the Magic Goddess when he sensed Betty’s pressure.
• The Magic Goddess told Roger that Faith Power now maintained the Divine Kingdom’s barrier without his divine power.
• Betty explained that Roger’s Faith Power grew so quickly that he had not noticed its recent surge.

Roger, the Magic Goddess, and Betty completed the Mana Engine, which Roger expected to drive rapid industrialization across the mortal world. Meanwhile, Rost and Wild Mage successfully tested a Magic Sword 2.0 that anyone could use, though Wild Mage said one problem remained.

• The Magic Goddess showed Roger and Betty that the Magic Net had spread throughout the Elven Kingdom, increasing their Faith Power.
• The book reported that Elves were studying Magitech Devices and that the chief Druid was pestering Viscount Rost to learn industrial production techniques.
• Roger learned that the Magic Net had over three hundred thousand users, including more than ten thousand converts to the Technology God and over five hundred fanatics.
• Roger, the Magic Goddess, and Betty built and improved the Mana Engine, and Roger predicted it would transform manufacturing and transportation.
• Viscount Rost pressed a button to activate the Magic Sword 2.0, and Wild Mage said the weapon could now be used directly by anyone but still had one unresolved problem.

Viscount Rost discussed with the Wild Mage how to make the Magitech Sword easier to switch off, and agreed to fund further experiments through the nobles invested in Rost Territory’s Magitech industry. Exhausted from managing both the territory and the kingdom’s finances, Rost fell into a strange vision of a Divine Kingdom and wondered whether he had died from overwork.

• The Wild Mage told Viscount Rost that he and Horace were trying to create a way to cut off the Magitech Sword’s mana supply without removing its Energy Storage Module.
• The Wild Mage explained that Horace had proposed a mechanical rune-switching mechanism, but worried it would wear down the runes and cost too much to manufacture.
• Viscount Rost urged the Wild Mage to test his ideas using the nobles’ money, saying the investors would fund technology that could equip every soldier.
• After the Wild Mage left, Viscount Rost admitted to himself that he was exhausted from managing Rost Territory and the kingdom’s finances.
• Viscount Rost drifted into a strange darkness where points of light and darkness formed a world and a majestic temple surrounded by prayer-like lights.
• Viscount Rost wondered whether he had died from overwork and arrived in a Divine Kingdom, then worried about his family, businesses, and the god’s expectations.

Roger summoned Viscount Rost’s consciousness to the Void Divine Kingdom, where he discovered that his power could absorb memories and knowledge from people with Magic Net Rings. Rost awoke determined to put the knowledge from his encounter with the Technology God to use and set out to visit the Wild Mage.

• Roger welcomed Viscount Rost to the Void Divine Kingdom and explained that he had not died, but that his consciousness had followed his faith there.
• Roger discovered that he could read Rost’s memories and add his knowledge to the Divine Kingdom’s store of information.
• Roger praised Rost’s plans and warned him that changing the world would mean standing against the old era.
• Rost told Roger that he believed the world could change under the Technology God’s guidance.
• Rost woke beside Lady Rost, declared that the real war was only beginning, and left to visit the Wild Mage.

Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage discovered that the Mana Engine could power widespread mechanized production, but they could not manufacture its advanced components. They summoned the Technology God’s help through a ritual, and the divine messenger arrived and introduced itself as Magneto.

• The Wild Mage studied Viscount Rost’s Mana Engine plans and realized they could greatly improve production and power machinery.
• Viscount Rost described using Mana Engines for factories, tools, weapons, and other forms of mass production.
• Rost and the mages and artisans failed to produce the necessary materials and components, so Viscount Rost organized a ritual to seek divine help.
• The Technology God answered the ritual by sending a strange floating, spherical divine messenger to the altar.
• Viscount Rost greeted the messenger, which introduced itself as Magneto.

Magnemite demonstrated its metalworking ability to Viscount Rost and the believers, impressing them and promising to help build magitech industry. In the Divine Kingdom, Roger explained that his wider plan was already underway, while Book arrived to announce a completed Magic Net feature.

• Magnemite forged tiny, lifelike statues for the gathered believers and showed Viscount Rost how precise its metalworking could be.
• Viscount Rost praised Magnemite's ability and said its help would make their Magitech Devices spread across the continent.
• Magnemite said it had been trained to build magitech industry and could consult its master through the Magic Net.
• Betty asked Roger whether Magnemite's arrival would soon set his plan in motion, and Roger said the plan had begun when he met Rost.
• Book told Roger that the new Magic Net feature was complete and had been installed for him and the goddess to test.

Roger launched Magic Knows, a user-powered Q&A app for sharing questions and answers on the Magic Net. Meanwhile, Master Ragewind investigated a mysterious crystal mirror that had left Gaoldes City's leaders gravely weakened, and turned to the Magic Net for help.

• Roger unveiled Magic Knows and added Soybean Emotes and emoticons to the Magic Net.
• In Gaoldes City, the Golden Princess told Master Ragewind that her father and the city officials had begun praying to an ancient crystal mirror and had fallen ill.
• Master Ragewind used a Druid spell to restore some of the city lord's strength, but could not repair his mind.
• The Golden Princess offered Ragewind a reward and asked him to stay; he declined the money but agreed to investigate the mirror.
• After finding no abnormalities in the manor, Ragewind returned to his room and opened the Magic Net to ask his old friends for advice.

Master Ragewind used Magic Knows to ask about the strange events in the Golden City, and an online answer identified the Mirror of the Fallen as a dangerous divine artifact. After a breeze pulled him into a dark illusion, he found himself in an empty replica of the Elven Capital.

• Master Ragewind posted a question about the events in the Golden City and invited knowledgeable Magic Net users to answer.
• A user claimed that the Mirror of the Fallen could trap even Legendary beings, while other users mocked the claim.
• The user insisted the Mirror was a supreme divine artifact stolen from the Wine God's Divine Kingdom, and Master Ragewind questioned why Archbishop Rachelnah Herrera had never mentioned it.
• A breeze passed through the castle hall, and Master Ragewind's consciousness blurred as he was drawn into darkness.
• Master Ragewind explored the unreal darkness and then found himself in an empty version of the Elven Capital.

Master Ragewind was drawn into the Fallen’s illusion, where a drunk warned him not to interfere with their plans for the Golden City and revealed that Rachelnah was alive and among the Fallen. After escaping, Ragewind disguised himself as a Legendary Mage on the Magic Net, while Roger learned of the encounter in the Divine Kingdom.

• A drunk drew Master Ragewind into a recreated version of his secluded residence and admitted he had used the Mirror of the Fallen.
• The drunk warned Master Ragewind to stay out of the Fallen’s plans for the Golden City and said Rachelnah had sent her regards.
• Master Ragewind realized Rachelnah was still alive and asked what the Fallen were trying to do; the drunk claimed they were saving the world and sought to create a True Illusion.
• A gentle breeze woke Master Ragewind, who found that less than three minutes had passed and that he was back where he had started.
• Master Ragewind edited his anonymous Magic Net post to claim he was the Flame Storm Wielder, a Legendary Mage who had returned from overseas.
• In the Divine Kingdom, Roger heard that Legendary Druid Ragewind had encountered something resembling Roger’s Void Divine Kingdom in the Golden City.

Roger discovered that the Fallen possessed a Data World Fragment connected to the Mirror of the Fallen, and he decided to travel to the mortal realm to investigate and reclaim part of his Data Artisan authority. With Betty accompanying him, he used a Magic Net Ring to transmit them as data.

• Roger used his Data Artisan authority to observe Ragewind through a Magic Net Ring, then concealed his divine aura when Ragewind sensed he was being watched.
• Roger sensed a Data World Fragment beyond his control and told Betty he planned to seize it to strengthen the Magic Net and his authority.
• Betty warned Roger about the dangers of the mortal realm, but Roger remained determined to investigate the Fallen and their possible connection to the God of Wine.
• The Magic Goddess gave Roger a ring that could shield him from three attacks and recover one use each day, and she instructed Betty to accompany him.
• Roger activated the Data Artisan and sent himself and Betty into the Magic Net Ring as black-and-white motes of light.

Roger and Betty entered the Golden City through the book’s data world and met the Golden Princess and the city’s lord. When Roger touched the Mirror of the Fallen, they entered a True Illusion connected to his incomplete Data Artisan authority.

• Roger and Betty used the Data Artisan to travel through the book’s data world and arrive at the Golden City lord’s manor.
• Betty silenced the Golden Princess when she tried to call the guards, and Roger calmly told her they had come to solve the lord’s problem.
• Roger and Betty entered the lord’s bedroom, where the lord had recovered enough to hold the Mirror of the Fallen.
• Roger touched the Mirror of the Fallen, and the bedroom transformed into the entrance of the lord’s manor, where the city lord greeted him as Prince Roger.
• Roger recognized the transformed setting as a True Illusion that could affect reality and suspected that polluting it could complete his Data Artisan authority.

Roger and Betty discovered that the Mirror of the Fallen had drawn them into a dreamlike virtual world that altered Betty’s memories, while Roger could still use his authority within it. A drunken stranger recognized Roger as a prince and warned him that the Golden City could not solve the War God’s corruption.

• The Golden City Lord welcomed Roger to a banquet, where Roger recognized that the Lord’s dead wife and the Golden Princess were part of the Mirror’s dream.
• After they reached their guest rooms, Roger explained to Betty that touching the Mirror had pulled them into a virtual world and altered her memories.
• Roger used his authority to create a lighthouse-like island beyond the city, but the Mirror began erasing it.
• A drunken middle-aged man told Roger that the king of the Dawn Kingdom was badly corrupted and urged him to leave the Golden City.