Chapter Summaries

Kroya discovered that the Mother Nest’s short-lived, magicless war creations could not be inscribed, but found its nutrient mash useful as feed and trained Flame-Tailed Dogs to detect its creations. After signing a deal to supply the Church with dogs, he learned more about the Yavana Sacred Mine and watched an attack approach the Frontline Base, where a mysterious stringed note sounded.

• Kroya learned that the Mother Nest’s Leapers lacked magical pathways, died within minutes, and could not be inscribed, while the Mother Nest explained that it needed to advance to create longer-lived beings.
• Kroya tested the Mother Nest’s green nutrient mash on magical beasts, found that they eagerly ate it, and had Flame-Tailed Dogs memorize the scent of Mother Nest creations.
• Kroya signed Bevforcelis’s contract to supply five hundred Flame-Tailed Dogs to the Church’s Frontline Base in exchange for a Holy Gopherwood Medal and protection, and Bevforcelis offered him a recommendation to find Children of Harvest.
• Bevforcelis explained that her guardian aura came from nature spirits, while she and Celesty argued over the Pitfall Lord and the Mother Goddess’s seal.
• A warning announced that creatures had emerged from the Yavana Sacred Mine, and Kroya saw winged Wyverns and enormous floating creatures spread acid, slime, and crystal-studded eggs toward the Frontline Base.
• As the Archmage and Knight Commander waited without attacking, a clear note from a stringed instrument sounded within the city.

Kroya investigated reports of magical beasts in the Seagull Fief and uncovered a hidden group of sleeping pink finless porpoises protected by Gray-Toothed Beavers. As the beavers attacked him, the farmer who had brought him the legend lunged at him with a dagger.

• Aili and the Silverwing Knight Order advanced toward the Yavana Sacred Mine while Bevforcelis used the Tears of Semurio to protect the Frontline Base.
• Kroya recognized Aili as a member of the Orpheus Family, then received a report about Gray-Toothed Beavers in the Seagull Fief and set out to investigate.
• At the Telai River, a farmer showed Kroya an old legend about helpful pink river spirits, and Kroya searched the river for them without finding any.
• Kroya discovered neatly arranged finless porpoise bones and pink flowers inside the beavers' lodge, along with a small dimensional space containing sleeping pink finless porpoises and their fading undead guardian.
• The Gray-Toothed Beavers attacked Kroya when he sensed the porpoises, and the farmer suddenly thrust a dagger at him.

Kroya learned why Heilmann and the Gray-Toothed Beavers had tried to stop him: they were protecting the last Pink Finless Porpoises, who had fallen dormant after resisting the Merfolk Tribe’s Bitter Winter. After Kroya helped the beavers transform their dam, the porpoises awakened and restored the river, and one greeted him as the Sun.

• Jamie disarmed and restrained Heilmann when he tried to stab Kroya, while Kroya subdued the attacking beavers without harming them.
• Kroya spoke with the beavers and learned that they and Heilmann had been protecting the dormant Pink Finless Porpoises beneath their dam.
• Kroya engraved the Material Fusion Spell and Magic Plant Vitality Spell onto the Gray-Toothed Beavers after they agreed to let him reach the porpoise nest.
• The beavers used their new magic to rebuild their dam into a vast, plant-covered habitat as Kroya watched nature aid their work.
• The completed dam’s sunlight and natural magic awakened the Pink Finless Porpoises, whose glowing passage revitalized the river and the dam.
• A luminous Pink Finless Porpoise circled Kroya and greeted him with the words, “Hello, Sun.”

Kroya discovered that the Telai River had awakened and blessed the beavers’ dam as a growing wonder structure, then agreed to consider sheltering Rhea Sethen, a former royal and Earth Mother Goddess follower, in exchange for farming spells. Rhea collapsed from blood loss after Kroya assigned him work on another dam and farmland in the Seagull Fief.

• The Telai River told Kroya that its nature-blessed dam could gather mana, and Kroya inspected it and saw it had become the Telai River's Nature Dam with five magical effects.
• The Telai River asked Kroya to have the gray-toothed beavers build dams from its mountain source to the ocean, promised nature’s approval and another gift, and gave Kroya a glowing three-colored flower.
• Kroya learned that the pink finless porpoise no longer remembered the man who had tried to assassinate him, and the man asked to join Kroya’s service.
• The man identified himself as Rhea Sethen, a follower of the Earth Mother Goddess and a surviving member of the Sethen royal family, and offered Kroya three farming spells in exchange for shelter.
• Kroya provisionally accepted Rhea after assigning him to help the beavers build another dam and clear farmland in the Seagull Fief, then healed him after he collapsed from blood loss.

Jamie and Rhea began renovating the Seagull Fief under Kroya’s instructions, building public toilets and testing soil-enrichment methods as farmers and apprentices cultivated crops along the Telai River. After the fields were established, a travel-worn party led by a golden-haired boy arrived.

• Jamie challenged Rhea’s plan to manage the farmers without involving them and explained Kroya’s goal of improving the soil with manure and soil-enriching crops.
• Rhea learned about public toilets and agreed to teach the residents of the Seagull Fief, while Jamie and the apprentices oversaw the work.
• Kroya’s apprentices built public toilets, and farmers tried them for the first time.
• Rhea, Jamie, and the apprentices planted nodule beans, corn, and potatoes in experimental fields beside the Telai River, using manure and river water to improve the soil.
• The farmland expanded to a hundred mu, with golems, magical beasts, and people working together to protect and tend the crops.
• A travel-worn party arrived at the fields, led by a golden-haired boy.

Mifein Norant, a prince and Child of Harvest, visited Kroya’s estate and discovered the mage’s experimental seed cultivation room. When Mifein’s power threatened to summon a divine presence, Angel blocked it and created a nightmare for the Earth Mother Goddess; Angel then tried to reveal what that nightmare contained.

• Jamie stopped Mifein Norant from casting his harvest aura on experimental crops and welcomed him and his six companions.
• Jamie explained Kroya’s crop experiments, and Mifein eagerly followed him to the seed cultivation room.
• Mifein and the other Children of Harvest admired the seeds’ vitality and asked Kroya what kind of plant produced the nourishing liquid.
• As Mifein greeted Kroya, Angel used divine words and platinum light to block a power descending through Mifein and turn it into a nightmare.
• Angel wondered about the Earth Mother Goddess and used platinum light to try to reveal the nightmare they had created.

Kroya learned that the kingdom had abandoned the Northern Frontier, but Mifein declined to explain why and instead pledged to help Kroya cultivate the land. After discussing crop research and receiving a wheat-growing sacred artifact, Kroya considered how wheat might earn nature’s favor and become his second Wonder Magic.

• Mifein showed Kroya a vision of abundant farmland and swore to help transform the Northern Frontier, while refusing to explain why the kingdom had abandoned it.
• Kroya showed Mifein his Green Sap Vine nutrient soup and seed-soaking methods, and asked him to help research how they worked.
• Mifein gave Kroya peanut seeds and explained that peanut oil was restricted to nobles and certain royal and ducal families because peanuts were considered children of the Earth Mother Goddess.
• Mifein volunteered to monitor Kroya’s crops and gave him a sacred golden sphere that could help them encounter nature’s consciousness.
• Kroya described how the Gray-Toothed Beavers’ dam had earned nature’s favor, and Mifein suggested that wheat would need to become integrated with nature.
• Kroya realized that he might have found a way to create his second Wonder Magic.

Kroya planned to use magical Sea God Barley and Sea God Wheat to help regulate the Northern Frontier’s surging magic, and he tested a Rice-Creation Spell that turned their grains into magical rice. After buying a Nature Divination Crystal Ball, he became a Level-Three Member of the Sacred Spring Trade Guild and saw the benefits appear on a screen of light.

• Kroya discussed his plan to guide the Northern Frontier’s excess magic with Mifein, who praised the idea, offered him a place in the Church, and shared a meal with him before they parted.
• Kroya and the Shark Tower Spirit chose the rapidly changing Wheat Valley Fief as a site for testing the magical crops.
• Kroya inscribed the Rice-Creation Spell on Sea God Barley and Sea God Wheat, which ripened into rice-bearing plants and produced magical rice when paired with the Deer of Tranquility spell.
• Kroya told the Shark Tower Spirit to feed the rice to magical beasts and observe whether it calmed those disturbed by excess magic.
• Kroya bought the Nature Divination Crystal Ball for twenty thousand magic crystals, crossed the spending threshold for Level-Three membership, and received a Plane Shopping prize-draw chance.

Kroya traded his uniquely brewed grape wine to the Sacred Spring Trade Guild to upgrade his Nature Divination Crystal Ball and earn three prize draws. After receiving an Astral Demon Sunflower, a Walking Little Treant, and midday sun iron, he opened the upgraded crystal ball and activated it, but something unexpected happened.

• Kroya sold Dionysus's grape wine, brewed with light, and chose to upgrade his Nature Divination Crystal Ball instead of taking magic crystals or custom-made artifacts.
• Kroya used his three prize draws to obtain an Astral Demon Sunflower, a Walking Little Treant, and a piece of midday sun iron.
• Kroya examined the sun iron, purged the Sacred Spring Plane's sunlight from it, and began shaping it into a magic artifact.
• Kroya opened the Nature Prophecy Crystal Ball and learned it was a Level Seven Magic Artifact that could divine the future and communicate with nature's consciousness.
• Kroya channeled his mana into the crystal ball, and after images of the surrounding terrain began to form, something unexpected happened.

Kroya opened a Sacred Spring Trade Guild shop offering diagnoses for magical beasts and magic plants, then used the Nature Prophecy Crystal Ball in Wheat Valley Fief and found a nature-favored squirrel whose dream world began pressing against him. The chapter ended as Kroya’s flames filled the dream with real-world sounds and the awakened dreamscape pushed back.

• Kroya confirmed that ocean magic was suppressing nature’s consciousness and learned that he could not use the Nature Prophecy Crystal Ball at sea.
• Kroya bought a Sacred Spring business license, rented a Deep Blue space, and listed diagnoses for magical beasts and magic plants under “Astral Spirit Master.”
• The Sacred Spring Trade Guild returned the upgraded Clockwork Golem, whose storage capacity had doubled and whose interior now held a ten-square-meter farmland plot.
• Kroya traveled to Wheat Valley Fief and used the Nature Prophecy Crystal Ball to identify a small squirrel as the creature favored by nature’s consciousness.
• Kroya found the squirrel sleeping among stored wheat and entered its vast dream with Dream Manipulation.
• Kroya filled the empty dream with orange flames and recorded sounds, but the dream came alive and pressed against him.

Kroya subdued the dream surrounding the Gray-Tailed Squirrel, met the Jadeite Magic Serpent it had raised, and recruited both beasts to help create a wonder in Wheat Valley Fief. The Blood-Magic Wheat Field took shape with nature consciousness's approval, and the chapter ended as the serpent and squirrel were carried underground and nature consciousness showed Kroya an unexpected scene.

• Kroya unleashed destructive sunlight to break apart the dream and force its hidden consciousness to surrender.
• The dream shattered, revealing the Jadeite Magic Serpent, and the Gray-Tailed Squirrel showed Kroya how it had raised the snake through a winter blizzard.
• Kroya won the squirrel's help with magic-filled pinecones and tempted the Jadeite Magic Serpent with fruit from vast sea magic que algae.
• Kroya used Mifein's stone to ask nature consciousness for permission to create a wonder, and it agreed.
• The Jadeite Magic Serpent and Gray-Tailed Squirrel planted the wheat, while magical beasts followed four deer and gave their blood to the field.
• The Blood-Magic Wheat Field was inscribed with its new abilities and blessings, then gentle winds carried the Jadeite Magic Serpent and Gray-Tailed Squirrel underground as nature consciousness returned to Kroya with a surprising scene.

Kroya learned how the force of nature altered his spells and gained the Wheat Valley Fief’s Nature Emblem, then received a secret farming manual from Mifein. Mifein hurried away after Knight Commander Bevforcelis reported that everyone entering the Yavana Sacred Mine had vanished, leaving Kroya to consider the Orpheus Family’s involvement an opportunity.

• The Jadeite Magic Serpent transferred its strength to the Gray-Tailed Squirrel, and the nature consciousness confirmed its affection for the serpent as it granted Kroya the Wheat Valley Fief’s Nature Emblem.
• Kroya built the squirrel a tree home, studied how nature modified the Rice-Creation Spell and Deer of Tranquility, and concluded he could use the Eternal Blood Pact to develop controllable magic.
• Kroya accompanied Mifein to the village, where grateful residents welcomed him with gifts, and Mifein gave him the Earth Mother Goddess Church’s secret farming manual, “Earth Miracle: The Power of Harvest.”
• Knight Commander Bevforcelis reported through Mifein’s Magic Tool that all the Knights and Orpheus Family members who entered the Yavana Sacred Mine had disappeared, and that the Church of Light had summoned her to a meeting.
• Mifein rushed away to handle the crisis, while Kroya considered the Orpheus Family’s predicament a possible opportunity.

Kroya studied the Earth Mother Goddess Church’s farming spells and used them to create a golem and modify Netroot Black Bamboo. He sent the golem to his apprentices and planted modified bamboo across Reef Island and nearby bases, expecting it to form a fresh-water network.

• Kroya used sacred power from mushrooms to cast the Church’s beast-taming spell and discovered a technique for dividing magic that he hoped to adapt for his apprentices.
• Kroya studied a Magic-Powered Seeder blueprint and built a tiger-shaped seeder golem that unexpectedly gained life and consciousness, though he could not reproduce the result.
• Kroya reviewed familiar farming spells and studied the Clear Spring Flowing Art, which could draw water from the air and keep channels flowing.
• Kroya inscribed the Clear Spring Flowing Art and Magic Root Extension into Netroot Black Bamboo, causing its roots to collect clean water and grow longer.
• Kroya modified more Netroot Black Bamboo and sent the Woodstar Curving Vine King to plant it across Reef Island and the Air Coral Bases to establish a water-pipe network.
• Kroya returned to the book and turned to a page illustrated with a sunflower.

Kroya modified Red Sunflower so it could turn spirituality into blessing oil, then helped Little Sunflower share its spirituality with other sunflowers in exchange for faith. With the angel’s help, Kroya opened a portal to the Gospel Garden and stole a Star of Bethlehem, whose light brought the warmth of early morning into the terrace garden.

• Kroya found a Church spell for making Solar Oil and decided to use its oil-extraction method on Red Sunflower.
• Kroya inscribed the method into Red Sunflower, and Little Sunflower turned its spirituality into oil that awakened the surrounding sunflowers and strengthened their faith.
• The inscription changed into Red Sunflower’s Orange Blessing Oil, which enhanced spirituality and linked recipients, while Red Sunflower gained the Sunbathing ability.
• The angel warned Kroya that sacred oil was needed for a ritual, then taught him a spell to open the Gospel Garden and offered to help steal a Star of Bethlehem.
• Kroya built an altar from sunflower oil-saturated soil and reached through its gateway to grab the flower as the angel’s Ring plunged into the portal and the altar shattered.
• Kroya examined the Star of Bethlehem as its light made the garden bright and warm with the sunlight of early morning.

Kroya used the Star of Bethlehem to accelerate Red Sunflower’s evolution, discovering that it could produce a joyful sunflower symphony and ease mental strain. After several days experimenting with spells from Mifein’s book, Kroya successfully inscribed them into various plants and creatures and set off to visit the Orpheus Oak.

• Kroya and the angel discovered that Mifein’s book concealed its true title and contained spells that drew on the Earth Mother Goddess’s powers, including a Wish Spell based on accelerated ripening and spatial transfer.
• The angel replenished Kroya’s magic, and Kroya played his gopherwood harp before the angel returned to the Lake behind the mountain to sleep.
• Kroya infused the Star of Bethlehem with magic, rapidly completing Red Sunflower’s evolution while leaving it full of vitality, though the flower became exhausted and needed to rest.
• Red Sunflower and the other sunflower sprites surrounded Kroya with golden light that lifted his spirits, and Kroya learned that Red Sunflower could develop its own music and gather its believers’ power into a symphony.
• Over several days, Kroya successfully inscribed spells into magical plants and beasts, including Mother Goddess’s Hand and the Wish Spell, and then headed to the Orpheus Oak to show them something special.

Kroya learned that the Orpheus Oak could part the sea and discovered that the merfolk were keeping it beneath the waves until the right time. At the Yavana Sacred Mine, Icarus confronted Bevforcelis over the missing Aili and revealed that the elves wanted their submerged Divine Vessel to help suppress the wounds in the earth.

• Kroya visited the Orpheus Oak, shared wine with it, and watched it part the sea around the Elf Great Ship to let sunlight reach the seabed.
• Alia told the Orpheus Oak that it had to remain submerged until the time came, and the Orpheus Oak demanded to see the merfolk king before the sea closed again.
• Kroya gave the Orpheus Oak a walking tree from the Elemental Plane, which comforted it, then asked for a token to prove its identity to the Orpheus Family.
• At the Yavana Sacred Mine, Icarus demanded that Bevforcelis return Aili and accused the Church of Light of entering the mine recklessly.
• Icarus revealed a wounded convict and accused the Church of tearing open the Mother Goddess's body, then offered to help if the elves could recover their submerged Divine Vessel and its crystallization of nature consciousness.

Icarus and the Cardinal set plans in motion around the Tears of Semurio and the Atlantis Sea, while Celesty and Mifein joined forces to reach the depths of the Yavana Sacred Mine and find Aili. The Cardinal entered merfolk waters to retrieve the sunken elven Divine Vessel, as a colossal ship prepared to rise from the seabed.

• Icarus explained that the elves had deliberately sunk an Orpheus Oak to create a crystal that could heal the earth, and the Cardinal put Bevforcelis to sleep and took the Tears of Semurio.
• Icarus gave the Cardinal a small ship's wheel, then left after secretly thrusting a vine into Bevforcelis's Light Cocoon.
• Mifein told Celesty that the Tears of Semurio had been taken and asked her to contact the Pitfall Lord; Celesty agreed to cooperate after learning that the cultists, not the Pitfall Lord, had opened the rift.
• Celesty and Mifein met the Pitfall Lord, who agreed to help locate Aili in exchange for the ancient sacrificial objects, and Mifein used a divine artifact to send the group toward the mine's deepest level.
• The Cardinal used the ship's wheel to enter merfolk waters, where Prince Tredan handed it over and tried to stall him while awaiting his teacher.
• A colossal ship began to set sail beneath the sea.

Kroya completed a powerful friendship inscription with the Orpheus Oak, evolving his Astral Body Inscription Technique as the oak’s Divine Vessel set sail for the Yavana Sacred Mine. The vessel devastated the fungal forces on its way inside, while Icarus revealed that the mission was a trap intended to test the Earth Mother Goddess and tear the land apart.

• Kroya inscribed a Friendship Pact on the Orpheus Oak, allowing them to share power, perceptions, and a means of retrieving the oak’s soul.
• The inscription advanced Kroya to the fifth level and evolved his Astral Body Inscription Technique, allowing him to inscribe distant targets within his Mental Power’s range.
• The Orpheus Oak launched the Divine Vessel, and the Cardinal ordered it to teleport to the Yavana Sacred Mine.
• The Divine Vessel bombarded fungal growths and monsters as it forced its way into the mine, while other creatures surged toward nearby bases.
• Icarus reported the vessel’s arrival to a woman who revealed the mission was a test of the Earth Mother Goddess and ordered him to destroy the land if necessary.
• Icarus concealed his report to the woman and casually told Ms. Beo Riel that she had fallen for the deception.

Kroya discovered that the Cardinal planned to sacrifice the Orpheus Oak in the Yavana Sacred Mine, so he used the burrowing mouse to locate Aili and rescue her group. As Kroya led them toward the Pitfall Lord and Archmage Celesty, Aili suspected Councilor Beo Riel’s experiment could summon the Supreme God of Light, and Kroya realized the attackers at the frontline bases might be intended as sacrifices.

• Kroya connected the Voidmoon Divine Tree to the Orpheus Oak’s vision and overheard the Cardinal ordering the oak to disintegrate at the bottom of the Yavana Sacred Mine.
• Kroya used the Astral Body Inscription Technique to locate the burrowing mouse with Aili, then sent it instructions to draw a summoning array using a living sword and the wounded Silverwing Knights’ blood.
• Kroya appeared through the array disguised as a tiny angel, healed Aili’s group, and led them through the mine toward the Pitfall Lord and Archmage Celesty.
• Aili recognized that Kroya was not an angel and suggested Councilor Beo Riel planned to use the Orpheus Oak’s nature consciousness to close the passage to the Lower Plane.
• Kroya realized the plan might require the Supreme God of Light to descend and suspected the besieged frontline bases were the intended source of sacrificial blood.

Kroya and Mifein joined forces to defend the city and the magic nodes from the gray tide, deploying Kroya’s war plants alongside the paladins. The plants stopped the swarm on land, underground, and in the air, while healing jellyfish put the wounded to sleep; the hidden elf Icarus watched in fascination.

• Kroya told Mifein what he had learned about the plan involving the Orpheus Oak, and Mifein explained that the Church would be slow to intervene and that rescuing Aili could remove the Orpheus Family’s reason to attack.
• Kroya and Mifein agreed that innocent beings should not be sacrificed to repair the Mother Goddess’s wound, and Kroya sent magic plants and shop staff to defend Mifein’s spell nodes at the city gates.
• Flame-tailed dogs blasted a breach in the gray tide as Mir deployed magic plants that formed a fortified battle line and attacked the swarm across the ground, sky, and underground.
• Spiritglow jellyfish flowers healed the exhausted knights and dogs, then lulled them to sleep while the magic plants held the front.
• The hidden elf Icarus watched the plants’ performance and wondered who had cultivated them, thinking Lady Beo Riel would be delighted.