Chapter Summaries

After the competition ended, Kroya investigated its champions, recruited them to manage new farms, and awarded their prizes. He agreed to help Sean return to his war-torn hometown with fighters, while the Church’s agents remained under suspicion.

• The tower spirit reported that Church members owned the Azure Pigeon and pure white lavender champions, and Kroya assigned the nine champions farms in the Northern Frontier.
• Kroya awarded Melanie a medal and promised to grant her and her soothing lily’s wish to live in his territory.
• Milisa Oak revealed that he had once served as a Church knight, offered Kroya an interplanar pendant, and asked for protection.
• Kroya recognized Milisa Oak as suspicious and concluded that he had offered the pendant to gain Kroya’s trust.
• Sean asked to return to his hometown in the Nolant Kingdom to help his family and friends in a war between nobles, and Kroya agreed to send fighters with him.
• Kroya formally declared the competition over as spectators and apprentices cheered and volunteered for the mission.

Kroya announced plans to expand the Golden Apple Paradise and develop the Northern Frontier through roads, a census, and local oversight. Jamie reunited with his sister and helped her settle on Reef Island, while the apprentices prepared to carry out Kroya’s plans.

• Kroya confirmed that the Golden Apple Paradise would stay open for a crystal fee, announced its second and third zones, and promised visitors a gift.
• Kroya rewarded Jamie and the apprentices who worked in the Gray Sand Desert by bringing Jamie’s long-lost sister to Reef Island; he also promised to help the other apprentices find their families.
• Kroya assigned Nina to extend roads to every village and domain and conduct a census, then introduced the Golem Willow for regular reports and inspections.
• Jamie reunited with his sister, reassured her that Kroya was his benefactor, and took her to register for housing.
• Elena showed Jamie’s sister several housing options, and she chose Purple Lavender Island and received a Sunflower Pendant as an official Reef Island resident.

Jamie took his sister Sophia on a tour of Reef Island, where a magical examination and Womb Sea treatment healed her long-standing ailments. After exploring the underwater city and enjoying a lavish meal, they rode a train toward a lavender-covered island as the sun set.

• Jamie brought Sophia to the church hospital, where Orwan examined her and issued a permit for the Deep-Sea Hot Spring.
• Sophia learned to control Reef Island’s moving road and traveled with Jamie to the shore, where they boarded box jellyfish to reach the Air Coral Base.
• Sophia explored the lively underwater town with Jamie, who promised to take her to the Paradise Buffet Cafeteria using his free vacation allowance.
• Sophia entered the blue-cube building alone, fell asleep under the enormous eye, and was healed by the Womb Sea before being sent to the cafeteria.
• Jamie brought Sophia a pile of food, and the siblings ate together before boarding a Golem train bound for a lavender-covered island.

Melanie and Foreman led the construction of a Soothing Lily Farm in White Rock Gorge, using Magical Beasts and Magic Plants to clear and transform the valley. After the farm was completed, Kroya checked on Sean, who had gone to mediate a war.

• Melanie arrived at White Rock Gorge with her talking soothing lily and the construction squad, where Foreman took charge of the work.
• Tree Shepherds moved the valley’s plants and animals aside, while earthworms and sandworms cleared stones and made the soil fertile.
• Water Spirit Slimes drew underground springs to the surface, and Foreman told Melanie that farms would compete for Kroya’s resources.
• After a week of land and water preparation, Treants and Burrowing Mice built timber structures throughout the gorge.
• Melanie planted and tended the Soothing Lilies, completing the farm with help from her Flower Sprite.
• Kroya watched the completed farms appear on his map, then turned his attention to Sean’s progress in mediating the war.

Lina and the apprentices reached the Southern Frontier after a long, comfortable journey, where they encountered dragonkin and discovered the region’s unusual plants, beasts, and mana-rich soil. At the Flame Mountain Lord’s territory, they learned that Nora hoped Reef Island would help rescue her siblings from Duke Nall and Duke Olivier’s war, and Lina delivered Kroya’s gift to her.

• Kroya sent Lina and the apprentices south by land to collect information and mediate the war, with local lords promising assistance along the route.
• Dragonkin led the convoy into the Southern Frontier, where the apprentices discovered fertile magical humus and Sean explained the dangers and uses of local plants and beasts.
• Flame Mountain told Nora that Reef Island’s people had arrived to intervene in the war between Duke Nall and Duke Olivier, who were fighting over the Ruby Nest and its dragon eggs.
• Nora agreed to give Reef Island the dragon nest’s key if it helped rescue her younger siblings, who were still in eggs and held by Duke Nall.
• Lina presented Kroya’s gift, a Crimson Heart of Life, and Nora eagerly embraced the gemstone while Flame Mountain prepared to discuss the war with the visitors.

Kroya agreed to help Flame Mountain and Nora seize a hidden plane containing Ruby Dragons, then sent his forces against the armies of Dukes Nall and Olivier. His apprentices routed both camps in under an hour, leaving Flame Mountain stunned by Kroya’s military strength.

• Nora revealed that she was a Ruby Dragon and explained that her siblings and dragon eggs were trapped in a hidden plane contested by Dukes Nall and Olivier; Kroya offered to seize it with a surprise attack.
• Mifein identified the Nall family's powerful berserk beasts and the Olivier family's mage corps, while Kroya planned to counter them with the Golden Bamboo Squad and the Astral Crystal Turtle’s golems.
• Kroya sent Lina and Sean with specially equipped forces, and the apprentices used Moonlight Rays to infiltrate both dukes’ camps at night.
• Lina’s Golden Bamboo Squad overwhelmed the Nall beasts and killed or captured the camp’s soldiers and survivors.
• Sean’s forces subdued the Olivier mages with Dreamshroom mist, while the Astral Crystal Turtle’s golems blocked their spells and the bamboos captured them.
• The apprentices cleared both battlefields and removed their supplies, and Flame Mountain reacted with shock at Kroya’s effortless victory over the two dukes’ elite forces.

Kroya’s apprentices explored a Ruby Dragon secret realm and returned with dragon eggs, Dragon Goblins, and other spoils. When Kroya examined the eggs, he discovered they were dying and triggered a defense that alerted a Primordial Dragon to his presence.

• Nora opened the secret realm, where Lina’s group gathered its resources and met Dragon Goblins who helped them dismantle crystal pillars and find the eggs.
• Nora gave Lina two Ruby Dragon eggs and five Red Dragon eggs, and Lina returned to Kroya with the spoils.
• Kroya gave Lina authority to establish a shop in the Southern Frontier and organize a response if the two dukes attacked.
• The Dragon Goblins told Kroya that their master’s eggs were dying, and he examined them with the Astral Body Inscription Technique.
• Kroya’s examination triggered the Ruby Dragon eggs’ ancestral defense, which summoned a Primordial Dragon’s attention and revealed that it would use the Myriad Worlds Search Spell to locate him.

Kroya studied the Dragon Eggs’ magic and learned how the Dragon Goblins planned to help them hatch, while discovering that their rituals involved powerful Word Spirit Magic and dangerous equivalent exchange. After warning him about the cost, Angel suggested Kroya could use his friendship with the Telai River to claim a reward from the World Consciousness.

• Kroya concealed his magical aura from the Primordial Dragon by blending recorded auras and adding a trace of Zugmoy’s, while the Dragon mistook the trace for a lead and set out to confront Zugmoy.
• Kroya found that the Dragon Egg patterns converted magical power into nutrients, then learned from the Dragon Goblins that Ruby Dragon eggs needed a special environment and life crystals to hatch.
• Kroya built an Azure Crystal Magic Array on a barren island and discovered that its echoes contained Word Spirit Magic, so he inscribed a Sleeping Sea Turtle to translate the language over time.
• Kroya and the Dragon Goblins prepared the Flesh-and-Blood Crystal Transmutation Ritual, but Angel warned that it exchanged the user’s irreplaceable life force with the World Consciousness.
• Angel told Kroya that his Telai River emblem could help him claim a gift from the World Consciousness without sacrificing the emblem, and Kroya eagerly considered asking for a reward.

Kroya learned that the Ark was destroyed by a plot involving several deities, and the angel began teaching him the Ark’s foundational space-folding magic. The world’s gift produced a River Source Prism, which Kroya planned to use to create a magical river for his growing area.

• The angel explained that Kroya should develop personal spatial magic to protect himself and revealed that deities helped destroy the Ark before it could depart for the Astral Plane.
• After Kroya insisted on learning the truth, the angel described the Ark’s origins and gave him a book on its Space Folding Array, written in primordial Elvish.
• The angel blessed Kroya so he could read primordial Elvish, and Kroya learned that the array stabilized, compressed, and joined spatial power to create folded space.
• The angel told Kroya he could study Mage City’s knowledge remotely after applying through the Norant Mage Association.
• The magic array produced a small River Source Prism, which the angel identified as a crystal that could release a permanent, magic-filled river stretching dozens of kilometers.
• Kroya eagerly planned to use the river as the heart of an expansive growing area and wondered whether he could earn more gifts from the world.

Kroya studied the Dragon Nest’s spatial magic, learned Dragon Language Magic from a living grimoire, and fused Shared Space with True Transfiguration to create a new Pocket Beast species. After failing to reproduce the transformation with other creatures, he began making Pocket Beasts for his apprentices, unaware that two dukes planned to punish him for taking the Dragon Egg.

• Kroya examined the ruby Dragon Nest and copied its runes that suppressed spatial mana, then learned that the Dragon Goblins shared a living space through pockets bound to their bodies.
• Kroya signed a Master-Servant Contract with the Flesh Grimoire in exchange for caring for the Dragon Eggs, gaining access to Dragon Language Magic and potion formulas that required a hatched Ruby Dragon’s breath and mana.
• Kroya fused Shared Space with simplified True Transfiguration and transformed a Cattail Spirit Cat into a Pocket Beast whose space could be shared by other creatures inscribed with the same spell.
• Kroya and the Angel could not explain why the transformation created a new species, though the Angel suspected the Void Luminary Crystal’s power was involved.
• Kroya failed to create other new species and decided to make more Pocket Beasts for his apprentices, while two dukes prepared to teach him a lesson for taking the Dragon Egg.

Duke Olivier and Duke Nall prepared to attack the Northern Frontier, while Ian Olivier secretly offered to betray his father in exchange for shelter for his mother. Kroya ordered his forces to meet the invasion, and as the armies approached, Rob was told that Ian had arrived with his mother.

• Duke Olivier and Duke Nall concluded that Kroya had found the Ruby Dragon Egg and planned a war against the Northern Frontier.
• Ian Olivier overheard his father’s plans, then asked his mother to flee with him and offered to betray the Olivier Family; she revealed that her surname was Sethen.
• Ten days later, Kroya received the dukes’ declaration of war and ordered Count Kermoyer to capture both dukes and bring them to Noble Island.
• Mifein supported Kroya’s claim to the Northern Frontier, while Aistena advised him to capture the dukes and ransom them.
• Kermoyer, Lina, and Rob prepared the Northern Frontier’s forces as the dukes’ armies advanced toward the border.
• Rob learned that Ian Olivier had arrived at the front with his mother and wondered whether their visit was a trap.

Rob accepted Ian’s offer to trade the Anti-Magic Iron Chain formula and the Olivier Family’s plans for a safe home for Moira. On the battlefield, Kroya’s forces routed Duke Nall’s beasts and repelled the Battle Mage Corps, driving the furious dukes to order their entire armies forward.

• Moira gave Rob the Anti-Magic Iron Chain and its formula, while Ian promised to expose the Olivier Family’s plan and ensure Duke Olivier died in exchange for Moira’s safety.
• Three days later, Count Kermoyer led Kroya’s knights against five hundred Nall Magical Beasts, and Rob ordered the Cloudmist Demon Sunflowers to burn the beasts with beams of light.
• Duke Nall demanded that Duke Olivier deploy his Battle Mage Corps, whose mages used Spatial Blink to attack the retreating knights with Chain Lightning.
• Lina confirmed that the Prism Grass was ready, and its silver mirror wall reflected the Chain Lightning back into the mage corps, forcing the mages to retreat while the knights escaped.
• Duke Nall and Duke Olivier smashed their wineglasses and ordered all their forces to advance against Kroya.

Rob used a fortified magic-plant wall to stop the dukes’ invading soldiers, while Kroya successfully activated the Hall of Heroes to preserve the battlefield dead’s souls. Kroya sent the Tower Spirit with two unfinished flesh golems to test whether souls could inhabit them, then prepared to enter the Hall of Heroes himself.

• Rob received Ian’s report, ordered the Iron Nut Wall built, and deployed combat magic plants to defend the Northern Frontier.
• The dukes’ peasant soldiers entered the only open route and were killed by the magic plants; a sunflower collected their souls.
• Kroya activated the Hall of Heroes array and successfully sent the sunflower’s golden oil droplets, containing souls, into it.
• Kroya explained that his unfinished Bedrock Note could give flesh golems life and potentially let them house souls, though their mana circulation remained unstable.
• The Tower Spirit persuaded Kroya to let it take two cat-shaped flesh golems to the front lines for testing.
• Kroya watched the Tower Spirit leave and prepared to enter the Hall of Heroes.

Kroya welcomed the fallen knights into the Hall of Heroes, where he showed them how to shape homes and other creations from the Eternal Spring. He then watched the Tower Spirit, two cats, a squirrel, and a snake carry out a strange operation in the dukes’ military camp, where a magic array made the soldiers and dukes ravenously hungry.

• Kroya told the dead knights that they could live in his Hall of Heroes and promised support for their families.
• Kroya demonstrated the Eternal Spring’s Fantasy Manifestation Technique, and the knights began shaping homes, weapons, and other creations from its golden water.
• Kroya found the Tower Spirit, two cats, a squirrel, and a snake hiding in the dukes’ camp, intending to capture the dukes.
• A Grain Deer spread rice across the camp to draw Magic Runes, then sacrificed itself to activate a vast altar.
• The camp’s soldiers and dukes were overcome by intense hunger and began gorging themselves, while Kroya recognized spores from the Myconid Bitter Feast Mushroom in the runes.

The dukes sent Ian and Yasos to seek peace with Kroya, but the two sons proposed killing their fathers and received potions to carry out the plan. Kroya then learned that the God of Order had been buried in the World Tree and traded a necklace tied to the Thorns of Justice for a way to leave the Semrio Continent, receiving the Star of Astraeus.

• Duke Olivier and Duke Nall met after their armies’ hunger and failed attacks made continuing the war untenable, and they agreed to offer Kroya a dukedom to end it.
• Ian and Yasos arrived at the Frontline Base with gifts, where Yasos proposed that they kill each other’s fathers and Ian confirmed he was serious about killing Duke Olivier.
• Rob gave Ian and Yasos potions from Kroya and learned that his wife and younger son were still alive, while Kroya said the potions could capture the dukes’ souls.
• Moira showed Kroya a necklace after the Thorns of Justice reacted to her presence, and Kroya asked her to record what she knew about the relics.
• The Solon Sacred Spring identified the necklace as a relic of the Semrio Continent Branch President, revealed that he was the God of Order buried within the World Tree, and offered Kroya a way to leave the continent in exchange for it.
• Kroya traded the necklace to the Solon Sacred Spring, learned how the World Tree’s laws controlled users of Order Temple contracts, and received the Star of Astraeus.

Ian and Yasos poisoned the dukes’ forces, then helped Rob’s allies burn the military camp and capture its survivors. While Kroya experimented with the Star of Astraeus, Aistena negotiated royal recognition of Kroya’s rule over the Northern Frontier and received Princess Mibeca’s request for his help.

• Ian and Yasos poisoned the personal retainers of Dukes Nall and Olivier, then planted golden cherries throughout the camp.
• Golden Holy Fire erupted across the camp as Rob, Lina, Kermoyer, and their forces arrived to capture the dukes’ soldiers and beasts.
• Kroya discovered that the Star of Astraeus enabled Astral Walking and set it up to test its starlight on Void Luminary Tulips.
• Kroya messaged Aistena to secure his war spoils and title, then built enclosed experimental rooms for ten tulips beneath the Star of Astraeus.
• Aistena negotiated with Count Sangabu for Kroya’s ducal privileges and a substantial Sky Island, including a miniature void luminary vein.
• Princess Mibeca agreed to the terms and asked Kroya to arrange a merfolk Soul-Burial Song for her dying mother, offering a map of Gopherwood Paradise in return.

After defeating the duke’s forces, Kroya sorted through their captured knowledge and arranged for Rob’s retirement. Aistena and Mibeca reached Reef Island, where Mibeca delivered Kroya’s ducal scepter and the promised Floating Island Key before Kroya left with Aistena to handle the Merfolk Tribe’s affairs.

• Kroya ordered the prisoners separated and their knowledge collected, then planned a lavish retirement for Rob.
• The Tower Spirit brought Kroya the prisoners’ magical loot, and Kroya found spellbooks containing unusual spells and complete Battle Mage formations.
• Kroya told the apprentices they could leave the Northern Frontier to gain experience if they carried supplies and a way to enter the Hall of Heroes after death.
• Aistena and Mibeca traveled under guard along the Cloud Road, and Mifein explained that the route kept the royal visitor from seeing the Northern Frontier.
• Mifein told Semir that Rob was retiring and offered to teach him Rob’s duties.
• Mibeca gave Kroya the scepter naming him Reef Duke and the Floating Island Key, and Kroya left with Aistena to handle the Merfolk Tribe’s affairs.

Kroya reached Archmage Eurydice’s Floating Island and discovered that a Clearsea Sky Whale beneath it could move the island through the Outer Astral Region. After it carried him to unknown airspace, he found Golden Sheep grazing beyond the island’s barrier and encountered a Titan in the clouds.

• Aistena opened a gateway to the Floating Island, and Kroya crossed through after giving him a restorative potion.
• Kroya explored the island, found a Clearsea Sky Whale bound beneath its rocks, and plucked one of the strings attached to it.
• The whale’s cry sent the island racing through unstable space, and Kroya used the altar to track its unknown coordinates.
• The angel spotted Kroya’s journey and argued with the Spirit Intelligence Grass, which warned that Kroya needed to capture Golden Sheep and Angel Sheep to finish the sails.
• After the island stopped, Kroya brought Reef Island apprentices over to begin construction and discovered Golden Sheep beyond the barrier.
• Kroya saw a figure made of clouds cradling the Golden Sheep’s home and recognized the figure as a Titan.

Kroya encountered Athamas, shepherd of the Golden Sheep, who gave him golden fleece and asked for vital dragonblood fruit to feed his flock. After discovering that the fleece converted gold into high-quality adamantine, Kroya upgraded his laboratory, began studying a Void Luminary vein, and entered a prolonged meditation beneath the Rainbow Grass Angel’s watch.

• Kroya examined the motionless Cloudmist Titan and discovered that its body was undead, then met Athamas, who explained that the Golden Fleece Expanse was hidden by the Titan’s power.
• Athamas asked Kroya to obtain vital dragonblood fruit for his lambs and gave him golden fleece, warning him about the dangers of charm magic.
• Kroya spun the fleece into gauze and found that it converted gold into adamantine at a one-to-ten ratio before losing its power.
• Kroya ordered the tower spirit to use the adamantine to upgrade the laboratory, monitor the dragon egg, and ask the Flame Mountain Lord about trading dragon blood.
• Kroya sent enchanted earthworms into the Void Luminary vein to map its mana field, then decided to rest and meditate.
• As Kroya meditated for a long time, rainbow grass grew around him and the Rainbow Grass Angel guarded his peaceful sanctuary.

After five years of work in the Gray Sand Desert, Jamie secured the Gray Sand Lord’s agreement to begin the oasis plan’s second stage and prepared to take Nilanet to Reef Island. Meanwhile, Elena guided foreign buyers through the Northern Frontier’s crops and products before revealing a hall of special services to the remaining royal merchants.

• Jamie and the Gray Sand Lord agreed to begin the second stage of the Gray Sand Desert Oasis Plan, and the lord gave Jamie permission to take Nilanet home for a visit.
• Jamie showed Nilanet the Gray Sand ship’s living metal and compartments, then took her through a teleportation array to Reef Island.
• Elena led foreign visitors through Golden Apple Paradise, where merchants competed for wheat and bought Northern Frontier goods.
• Elena showed the elf from the Orpheus Family the Morning Dew Trees and Evening Glow Trees, and he claimed them for purchase.
• Elena led the last three royal merchants into a hall and revealed special services that excited them.