Chapter Summaries

After arriving at his new coastal territory, Kroya assessed the resources left to him and discovered he could inscribe spells into magical plants. He successfully gave a sunflower the Sunflare Ray spell, opening a possible path to developing his territory.

• Kroya reviewed the memories behind his exile and accepted that he would have to develop the barren coastal territory to fulfill the three-year agreement.
• Kroya counted his supplies, including two Blaze Horses, magic crystals, gold coins, crop seeds, four knights, and a steward.
• Kroya examined seeds of Sea God Barley, sunflowers, and olives, then noticed a star symbol on the sunflower’s label.
• Kroya activated Astral Spirit Inscription and found that he could perceive the sunflower seed’s astral spirit body.
• Kroya inscribed the Sunflare Ray spell into the sunflower, which would gather sunlight into stored sunflame power as it grew.

Kroya traveled toward Reef Island while engraving Sunflare Ray into magical sunflower seeds and studying spells. He arrived at the island’s dock, where the previous lord waited to welcome him.

• Kroya asked Rob when they would reach Reef Island and promised the knights a mana bath to reward them for the journey.
• Rob warned Kroya that the poor territory would bring in little tax revenue, but Kroya insisted that the knights receive the reward.
• During the next day of travel, Kroya engraved Sunflare Ray onto the remaining eleven sunflower seeds and discovered that he needed to master a spell before inscribing it.
• Kroya reviewed the original owner’s limited spell knowledge and studied spell models while traveling.
• Kroya reached Reef Island’s dock, where the previous lord respectfully welcomed him.

Kroya arrived at Reef Island and began inspecting his impoverished new territory. At the castle, he discovered a Kaba Beast that could be used for Astral Spirit Inscription.

• Kroya questioned former lord Batos about Reef Island and learned that a baron had taken five hundred residents a year earlier.
• Kroya ordered Rob to keep Batos under watch while he surveyed the island.
• Kroya crossed the island with his party, noticed its coconut palms, and told Batos to stop flattering him.
• Kroya reached the castle and received a message identifying a Kaba Beast suitable for Astral Spirit Inscription.

Kroya examined a Kaba Beast and discovered its organs had distinct desires, inspiring him to try turning it into an iron-ore processor. He settled into the castle, chose a terrace for his sunflowers, and began using the Magic Field Method on three mana crystals.

• Kroya used the Astral Body Inscription Technique on the Kaba Beast and heard its mouth, stomach, and anus express different needs.
• Kroya realized spells that hardened teeth and refined ore might let the Kaba Beast turn iron ore into refined iron in its dung.
• Kroya ordered the Kaba Beast watched and assigned Batos to care for the other Kaba Beasts on the island.
• Kroya entered the castle, decided to plant sunflowers in the terrace garden, and sent the servants and knights to their tasks.
• Kroya drew intricate patterns on three mana crystals with a crystal pen and mana solution, then tossed them onto the ground as they began to change.

Kroya began cultivating sunflowers on Reef Island using mana roots and sandy loam, while arranging to strengthen his control over the territory. After planting twelve seeds inscribed with Sunflare Ray, he turned to finding a meal and exploring the island’s food.

• Kroya spread mana roots across a clearing and explained how the Magic Field Method would enrich and modify the soil.
• Kroya told Rob to replace the servants and recruit local children as mage and knight apprentices, assigning Joshua, Ate, Chris, and Norman to help manage the territory and recruits.
• The knights returned with farm workers, who covered the mana roots with sandy loam, and Kroya rewarded each worker with a copper coin.
• Kroya planted twelve sunflower seeds inscribed with Sunflare Ray and considered his plans for farming and studying on the island.
• Joshua offered Kroya two coconuts, and Kroya asked him to have the cook prepare a meal so he could try Reef Island’s food.

Kroya inspected his new territory, discovered that the island’s coconuts contained mana, and used a Mansion Spell scroll to furnish his quarters. The scroll produced an unexpected blue lamp fueled by oil from a third-tier magic plant, leaving him puzzled by its added enchantment.

• Kroya rejected the island’s unappetizing meal and discovered that its coconuts contained mana and could potentially be cultivated into magic plants.
• Kroya told Rob to let Batos count the coconut trees and to secretly check Batos’s tally before deciding whether to hire him.
• Kroya inspected his quarters in the castle and decided to use the Mansion Spell scroll left by his grandfather.
• Kroya activated the scroll with a mana crystal, transforming the room’s furnishings and revealing a blue lamp that burned azure lavender oil.
• Kroya was stunned that the supposedly first-level Mansion Spell scroll included an unexpected magical lamp.

Kroya deciphered the first section of the Poem of Rainbow Light and discovered that its meditation method gathered red magical particles far faster than his old method. After meditating until sunset, he left his room when Joshua reported a mysterious danger at the shore.

• Kroya extracted hidden writing from the Mansion Spell scroll and identified it as the Poem of Rainbow Light, a poem whose word arrangement formed a magical meditation method.
• Kroya began practicing the first section, Song of Red, and found that it gathered magical particles at least twenty times faster than his previous meditation method.
• Kroya meditated in the sunlight until sunset, greatly increasing the red magic in his magic vortex and restoring his mental energy.
• Kroya emerged from his room and asked Joshua what had happened at the shore.
• Joshua told Kroya that Batos had called the phenomenon the Sea God's Wrath and that it was swallowing everything along the shore, so Kroya went to investigate.

Kroya investigated the glowing algae that were devouring the shore and discovered they were a magical plant called Thirsty Sea Glow Algae. He inscribed the Song of Red into their astral bodies, and the algae swarmed him joyfully as the inscription was completed.

• Kroya arrived at the shore and learned from Batos that the algae had devoured a farm servant.
• Kroya used Eagle Eye and identified the glow as tiny algae, then tested them with a fireball that they engulfed without exploding.
• The Astral Body Inscription Technique identified the Thirsty Sea Glow Algae as a suitable magic plant, so Kroya entered the water and activated it.
• Kroya heard the algae's many voices and inscribed the meditation method from the Song of Red into their joined astral bodies.
• The algae abandoned the fireball and swarmed over Kroya, feeding him mental energy as he completed the inscription after half an hour.

After engraving the Thirsty Sea Glow Algae, Kroya discovered they could boost meditation and followed their attraction to a buried giant clam. Inside its shell, he found a Magic Spring Pearl that could turn an ordinary spring into a mana-infused water vein.

• Kroya successfully engraved the Thirsty Sea Glow Algae, allowing them to leave the sea and improve meditation when gathered together.
• Suspecting the algae had been drawn to something buried beneath the beach, Kroya ordered soldiers to dig and uncover a giant clam shell.
• Batos told Kroya a local tale that giant clams blessed by the Moonlight Goddess produced pearls like water that never decayed.
• Kroya had the clam transported to the castle, where Joshua and the other knights opened it to reveal a head-sized bead of water.
• Kroya consulted Wendy's Travelogue and identified the bead as a Magic Spring Pearl that could transform a spring into a mana-infused water vein.

Kroya discovered a Magic Spring Pearl could turn a castle spring into a source of magic-rich water and used it to give his trusted staff a magic power bath. While he focused on magical study and delegated island work to Rob, the sunflower finally matured.

• Kroya found a freshwater spring in the castle and placed the Magic Spring Pearl in it, infusing the water with pure water magic power.
• Kroya prepared a magic power bath, and Rob, Joshua, Ate, Chris, and Norman bathed in it, strengthening themselves and deepening their loyalty to him.
• Kroya spent the following days meditating and studying Steel Hardening and Magic Power Forging while Rob and the knights surveyed the island.
• Kroya had the servants water the island’s fifteen coconut trees with pearl-infused spring water, learned that the island held only a White Ironstone mine, and entrusted Rob with planting half the olive and Sea God Barley seeds.
• Kroya used potions and magic power to nurture the sunflower until it matured.

Kroya inspected the mature sunflowers and discovered their seeds held edible sunflame magic power. He tested one sunflower’s Sunflame Impact, examined its spell inscription, and then left to experiment on the waiting Kaba Beast.

• Kroya found that the scarlet sunflowers had matured quickly and that their crystal-like seeds contained substantial sunflame magic power.
• Kroya ate a seed and found that its gentle magic power tasted pleasantly warm and creamy.
• Kroya commanded a sunflower to fire, and it automatically targeted and killed a seagull with a Sunflame Impact.
• Kroya used the Astral Body Inscription Technique to inspect the sunflower’s spell model and found it was absorbing and fusing with the plant’s astral spirit body.
• Kroya confirmed the magic crystals beneath the Magic Field still held enough power, then left to experiment on the Kaba Beast.

Kroya imprinted Steel Hardening and Magic Power Forging onto all eleven Kaba Beasts, enabling them to eat and refine iron ore. After confirming they produced usable refined ore, he took them toward the warehouse to process his stockpile.

• Kroya successfully imprinted Steel Hardening onto a Kaba Beast’s teeth and Magic Power Forging onto its stomach.
• The Kaba Beast eagerly ate a head-sized piece of white ironstone ore and later expelled refined white lumps.
• The other Kaba Beasts gathered around Kroya, so he imprinted both spells on all eleven.
• Kroya checked their refined ore, judged it comparable to his own, and took the Kaba Beasts to the warehouse to process more ore.

Kroya sent the Kaba Beasts to consume the stored ore and hired the warehouse keeper to record their output. Rob then told him that a Sea Folk merchant had arrived under an Ancient Contract, and the mermaid merchant pulled Kroya into the sea, leaving the others waiting on shore.

• Kroya examined the ore ledger and offered the middle-aged warehouse keeper a job recording the Kaba Beasts' ore consumption and production.
• Kroya ordered the Kaba Beasts to eat the stored ore and left the warehouse keeper in charge of recording their work.
• Rob informed Kroya that a Sea Folk merchant had arrived to fulfill the Ancient Contract requiring trade with mages on Reef Island.
• Kroya met the powerful mermaid merchant by the shore, and she transformed her tail into legs before seizing his hand and pulling him underwater.
• Rob ordered everyone to remain on shore and keep Kroya's disappearance secret while they waited for his return.

Kroya followed a mermaid into an underwater cave, where she revealed a Water Luminary Crystal vein and an ancient contract requiring him to stabilize its power. He claimed he lacked the materials to build the required array, and the mermaid offered supplies while warning him not to ask for more than he needed.

• The mermaid used Merfolk's Breath of the Sea to let Kroya breathe underwater and led him through the ocean to a coral cave.
• Kroya discovered volatile Water Luminary Crystals embedded in the cave wall, and the mermaid explained that they were one of the Seven Luminary Crystals.
• The mermaid showed Kroya an ancient Mage Association contract requiring him to use the Seven Luminaries Divine Law Array to stabilize the crystals' power.
• Kroya found instructions for the array and powerful Water Luminary spells in the contract, along with a hidden note suggesting the Merfolk could be asked for extra payment.
• Kroya claimed he lacked the materials to build the array, prompting the mermaid to offer magical materials and threaten him against asking for too much.
• The mermaid promised protection from Sea Folk incursions and access to deeper-water resources for Kroya's territory if he fulfilled the contract.

Kroya used the Sacred Spring Trade Guild to exchange Sea Folk materials for supplies and gained Level One membership. Among his purchases, he discovered that Magic-Storing Hanging Flask Grass could be inscribed with a spell.

• Kroya returned to the castle with six Sea-Swallowing Clam pearls, waterlight crystals, and payment from the Merfolk Archmage.
• Kroya summoned a sacred spring outlet with parchment and magic crystals, then sent his materials list and pearls through it.
• The Sacred Spring Trade Guild sent back the requested materials and a crystal card granting Kroya Level One membership.
• Kroya inspected the Magic-Storing Hanging Flask Grass seed and received a notification that it was suitable for Astral Spirit Inscription.

Kroya inscribed Fire Spirit Purification and Water Restoration Art on the three-flask Magic-Storing Hanging Flask Grass, discovering that the plant could preserve liquids and that Water Luminary power would affect its flasks. He planted the grass and continued researching the Seven Luminaries Divine Law Array, while wondering what the spell’s “Sage” rank meant.

• Kroya examined the Magic-Storing Hanging Flask Grass and learned that its three flasks preferred fire, water, and mixing.
• Kroya inscribed Fire Spirit Purification on one flask and discovered that absorbed magic power could subtly affect the liquid stored inside.
• Kroya studied the waterlight crystal spells and learned Water Restoration Art after a day of practice.
• Kroya successfully inscribed Water Restoration Art on a second flask, which required Water Luminary power and gentle water magic power to grow.
• Kroya planted the Magic-Storing Hanging Flask Grass and resumed his research into the Seven Luminaries Divine Law Array.

Kroya paused his work on the Seven Luminaries Divine Law Array because he lacked the magic power to complete it, then discovered that his sunflowers stored Sunflame Magic Power. After feeding one his own magic power, he watched it burn away and leave behind a mutated seed, just as a carriage approached the castle.

• Kroya gave up on activating the array until he advanced to Second-Level Mage and decided to take a walk.
• Kroya used Magic Drain on a sunflower and nearly drained all its Sunflame Magic Power before realizing how addictive the spell was.
• Kroya poured his scarlet magic power into another sunflower, causing it to burst into flames.
• Kroya found a ruby-like seed among the ashes, sensed that it carried magic power like his own, and planted it.
• Kroya noticed a carriage approaching the castle and headed downstairs.

Rob negotiated the sale of Kroya’s white iron ingots to Sai Liu, who then offered a high price for Kroya’s sunflower seeds and an Elven magical artifact. Kroya, listening in, became interested in the artifact.

• Rob showed Sai Liu 231 white iron ingots, and Sai Liu offered six silver coins per ingot.
• Rob refused the low offer, negotiated a price of seven silver coins per ingot, and agreed to let Sai Liu exchange the proceeds for gold coins.
• Ate arrived with Kroya’s permission for Rob to make the decisions and presented twelve sunflower seeds Kroya wanted to sell.
• Sai Liu offered one hundred silver coins per seed and added an Elven magical artifact as a gift in exchange for the seeds and future supplies.
• Kroya, who had been eavesdropping, became interested when Sai Liu offered the artifact.

Rob and Sai Liu arranged a trade for Kroya’s sunflower seeds and supplies, while Kroya examined an elven pendant that granted limited flight. Kroya then decided to focus on advancing to a Second-Level Mage before cultivating the Pure White Sea Spirit Coconut.

• Sai Liu agreed to buy Kroya’s magical sunflower seeds for twelve gold coins and promised to deliver Rob’s requested supplies in three days.
• Ate relayed Kroya’s request for magical beasts with unusual temperaments, and Sai Liu agreed to look for them.
• Kroya examined the Wind Sprite Feather Pendant and discovered it could create wings for flight, but had only ten charges remaining.
• Kroya considered expanding his income through magical plants and chose the Pure White Sea Spirit Coconut as his next project.
• Kroya returned to his room to meditate and resolve to advance to a Second-Level Mage.

After becoming a second-level mage, Kroya learned and tested the Crimson Rondo spell, then discovered that a shattered piece of coral was a magical beast suitable for Astral Spirit Inscription. He activated the technique and began considering what spell to inscribe for the air-producing Air Coral.

• Kroya broke through to become a second-level mage and decided to keep his advancement secret while building his strength.
• Kroya studied the second movement of the Song of Red and learned Crimson Rondo and its offensive spell, Crimson Light Chant.
• Kroya tested Crimson Light Chant in his laboratory and then on a rock face, where its attack shattered the stone and drained his mana.
• Kroya noticed a fragment of crystal coral in the rubble and received a notification identifying it as Air Coral, a magical beast suitable for Astral Spirit Inscription.
• Kroya activated the inscription technique, heard the Air Coral’s spirits say they wanted to give off air, and began considering a suitable spell.