Chapter Summaries

Elena secured major infrastructure contracts from the Nasaya Kingdom and the Gothic Knight Order before visiting Rob’s home. In Orchard Village, Jamie brought Nilanet to meet his former teacher, while jealous apprentices secretly followed them.

• Elena explained that the Gray Sand Ship could not handle the Nasaya Sea’s unpredictable magical conditions, and the Nasaya envoy agreed to pay for an on-site survey with merfolk assistance.
• Monghart invited Elena’s team to build lavish infrastructure on Gothic Holy Mountain for the Goddess’s birthday, offering divine-power crystals as payment.
• Elena took on several more contracts, then left Reef Island to visit Rob and reflected on Lord Kroya’s five years of magical research.
• Jamie and Nilanet inspected Orchard Village’s infrastructure, shared an apple, and headed to Rob’s cottage while resentful apprentices followed them.
• Rob welcomed Jamie and met Nilanet, who nervously greeted him in elaborate Gray Sand Desert clothing, while the apprentices were left outside again.

Jamie brought Nilanet to meet Rob and his friends, then joined a lakeside gathering where Reef Island’s magic and the Northern Frontier’s unusual wildlife amazed her. The gathering was interrupted by the birth of a mermaid-shaped Nature Water Spirit, the result of a project Kroya had overseen before falling asleep.

• Jamie and Nilanet visited Rob in his tree house, where Rob complained that his family had gone on an undersea vacation without him.
• Rob’s friends arrived, warmly welcomed Nilanet, and hurried everyone to a dinner gathering on the lake.
• Elena spread Thirsty Sea Glow Algae across the lake while Semir summoned music and a Block Construction Crew prepared the gathering space.
• Magical Beasts and Magic Plants gathered for food, and Jamie explained to Nilanet how Kroya had helped protect and breed rare species.
• Jamie and the apprentices followed a surge of gentle magic to a mountain hollow, where they found a tiny mermaid-shaped Nature Water Spirit in a pool.

While Kroya remained asleep, Miya led an enchanted musical procession that awakened elves and stirred nature across the Northern Frontier. The Gopherwood Elf was born at dawn, just as powerful divine consciousnesses gathered in the sky.

• Miya identified the Merfolk Elf’s nature aura and explained that it loved the Pure White Sea Spirit Coconut that had nourished it.
• Miya gathered Oak, Semir, and four music-magic apprentices, then used a magical vine and the Gopherwood harp to lead the awakened trees on a musical procession.
• The procession passed through Kroya’s experimental sites, awakening elves from emeralds, plants, earth, water, and air as more creatures joined the rainbow road.
• The Tower Spirit’s loneliness reached the Gopherwood harp through the music, and its consciousness emerged as a tiny gray shark above the angel.
• At dawn, the Gopherwood Elf was born as rainbow light spread across the Northern Frontier, while powerful divine consciousnesses gathered in the clouds.

Miya watched Ilyst’s Mage Tower attack the God of Light’s Divine Kingdom, whose falling fragments were gathered by the Gopherwood Elf and brought to the sleeping Kroya. Kroya woke after five years by compressing his dream and the fragments into a tiny orb, while Miya realized the process had nearly trapped him in a new Divine Kingdom.

• Miya identified the gods watching the Gopherwood Elf’s transformation and sensed Ilyst’s Mage Tower activate beneath the Northern Frontier.
• Ilyst’s Tower Spirit fired an Aether Magic Ray into the God of Light’s Divine Kingdom, and the sleeping god severed part of its crystal wall before the gods withdrew.
• Aioetes concealed the falling fragments and told Ilyst about the attack, prompting her to warn the Church and discuss the interesting young mage in the Northern Frontier.
• The Gopherwood Elf gathered the Divine Kingdom fragments and carried them to Kroya on the Floating Island, where the Rainbow Grass’s power began forming a small Divine Kingdom around him.
• Miya realized Kroya’s sleep could leave him trapped, but Kroya inscribed the Rainbow Grass Angel with a spell that folded the space and preserved his dream in a tiny orb.
• Kroya woke after five years, and an unseen slender hand subdued the burst of magic power he released.

After waking from a five-year sleep as a Sixth-Level Mage, Kroya learned how much had changed and created Eden, a Wonder Magic formed from fragments of the God of Light’s Divine Kingdom. Eden began merging with the Hall of Heroes and Divine Envoy Deimos’s Sleeping Prison, leaving Kroya braced for an extraordinary transformation.

• Kroya woke as a Sixth-Level Mage, thanked the Tower Spirit and Miya for their work, and learned that Miya had used a World Tree fruit to form a body.
• Kroya examined the Gopherwood Elf’s new magic, learned that Deities had tried to seize it, and asked Miya which Deities could become allies.
• Kroya named the Rainbow Grass Angel’s beautiful dream Eden and realized it could help restore souls in the Hall of Heroes.
• Kroya brought Rainbow Grass to the Hall of Heroes, where Eden began merging with the hall’s array, Eternal Spring, and Divine Envoy Deimos’s Sleeping Prison.
• Eden’s rainbow light spread through Deimos’s dream and began assimilating the water lily and merging with Deimos’s soul.

Kroya studied the Astral Body Inscription Technique in Eden, recorded part of its runes, and inscribed an Identification Spell onto the Tower Spirit. After shaping Eden around the Voidmoon Divine Tree and containing a newly born Serpent of Greed, he reviewed the Northern Frontier’s progress and began spending its surplus magic crystals.

• Kroya had the Tower Spirit observe Deimos’s dream and saw Deimos living as a sheep in a sunlit pasture, so he created golden Backlight Grass to tempt him.
• Kroya formed the Astral Body Inscription Technique inside Eden, recorded some of its runes before the effort drained Eden’s mana, and learned that they represented an Identification Spell.
• Kroya inscribed the Identification Spell onto the Tower Spirit, granting it the ability to identify most magical beasts and magic plants.
• Kroya used his will to keep the Voidmoon Divine Tree separate from Eden’s assimilation, establishing it as Eden’s Dark side.
• Rainbow light swept through Golden Apple Paradise, carrying away residents’ desires and creating a Serpent of Greed, which Kroya confined within Eden.
• Kroya reviewed the Northern Frontier’s expansion and trade, noted its million-crystal surplus, and began shopping.

Kroya spent over a million magic crystals at the Sacred Spring Trade Guild to buy knowledge and factory blueprints for developing his organization. His purchases made him a level-four member, granting him a Clockwork Golem upgrade, three prize draws, and a powerful support strike.

• Kroya bought two gopherwood saplings for the Gopherwood Elf, then prioritized organizational knowledge over further magical plants and beasts.
• Kroya purchased the meditation method Magic Is Nature's Breath and realized he could use affinity-rich environments to establish specialized magic academies.
• Kroya bought fifteen combat-technique books for his knights and warriors, then selected blueprints for magic metal processing, potion processing, and a spatial transport array.
• Kroya spent a total of one million five hundred and fifty thousand magic crystals, qualifying as a level-four member of the Sacred Spring Trade Guild.
• The Sacred Spring Trade Guild upgraded the Clockwork Golem into a basic spatial-artifact factory and gave Kroya three prize draws and a support strike at faint divine power level.

Kroya gathered the apprentices and announced plans for new magic academies, factories, a group wedding, and a blessing ceremony for children across the Northern Frontier and Reef Island. After the apprentices began preparing the celebrations, the Tower Spirit told him that Mage City in Starry Town had finally sent an invitation, which Kroya chose to answer later.

• Kroya tested a golem orchestra, then sent it outside to play soothing music for Reef Island residents each evening.
• Kroya praised the apprentices’ work, granted them seven days of free access to Undersea Paradise and Golden Apple Paradise, and announced a new meditation method and magic academies.
• Kroya invited the apprentices to form academy construction teams, outlined plans for two new factories and improved spatial transport arrays, and said skilled workers could apply after the holiday.
• Kroya announced a blessing ceremony for children in the Northern Frontier and Reef Island, followed by a group wedding the next day, and praised Jamie while promising him and his wife a wedding gift.
• The apprentices left to prepare the venue, and the Tower Spirit told Kroya that Mage City in Starry Town had sent an invitation; Kroya decided to reply after the ceremonies and preparations.

Kroya found a fragment of the Void Luminary Ark in a cavern beneath the Air Coral Bubble and helped the Air Coral Sprite turn its parent coral into an independent-space creator. The Air Coral absorbed the fragment’s void luminary power and formed a tiny platinum bubble containing its own space, which it offered to Kroya.

• Kroya met the Air Coral Sprite, which asked him to help with a voice calling from the ocean and leading it to purify an area.
• The Air Coral Sprite guided Kroya into a cavern containing a time luminary ore vein and a fragment of the Void Luminary Ark.
• The Void God's Divine Beast warned Kroya not to touch the fragment and agreed that the cavern belonged to him because the Air Coral had enveloped it.
• Kroya learned the Air Coral Bubble could withstand faint divine power, then inscribed the original Air Coral with the Space Folding Technique.
• The Air Coral covered the Ark fragment, absorbed its void luminary power, and formed a small independent space inside a platinum bubble for Kroya.

Miya watched a fragment of the Void Luminary Ark go dark as his creator was freed, then embraced life outside the Ark. Kroya built factories inside the Air Coral’s bubble and transformed the Wood Luminary Curved Vine network into a near-instant starlight transport system before rushing to the apprentices’ group wedding.

• Miya saw a section of the Void Luminary Ark go dark and said goodbye to the portion of his creator’s soul that Kroya had freed.
• Kroya entered the Air Coral’s specially made bubble, decided to build factories there, and began studying the blueprints produced by a crystal slab.
• Kroya inspected the Clockwork Golem’s automated spatial Magic Artifact factory, made a ten-cubic-meter pouch, and realized he could profit from its products.
• Kroya used spatial starlight to inscribe the Wood Luminary Curved Vines around the factory district, turning them into starlight structures that transported goods with almost no delay.
• After finishing the all-night inscription, Kroya discovered it was already eight and hurried off to attend the apprentices’ group wedding.

Kroya blessed more than five hundred apprentice couples at their Reef Island wedding, where the Goddess of Love’s blessing caused an unexpected spectacle and revealed a connection to his purple Rainbow Poem movement. He then met the merfolk high priestess Toteana, who hosted the Moon God’s blessing for children across the Northern Frontier, before Kroya returned to his tower to sleep.

• Kroya gave the newly married apprentices sunflower rings set with Time Luminary Stone and blessed their marriages at Reef Island.
• The Goddess of Love showered the wedding with rose petals whose divine magic provoked an uninhibited gathering, and Kroya discovered that a blessed petal stirred his purple Rainbow Poem movement.
• Kroya examined the petals’ magic runes, then traveled to a merfolk city to meet the high priestess Toteana and arrange her help in blessing Northern Frontier children.
• Toteana cast the Divine Descent Spell, allowing the Moon God to spread soothing moonlight over children throughout the land and bless them with health, magic, courage, and vitality.
• The Moon God departed after Kroya received a moonlit veil, and he returned to his Mage Tower to sleep before beginning work on a magic academy.

The Tower Spirit organized the apprentices’ proposals for elemental magic academies and assigned Lina to lead construction of the water academy. The water academy took shape on the seabed while Semir’s team raised a fire academy around a transferred undersea volcano, as the earth academy team struggled elsewhere.

• The Tower Spirit rejected ranking the apprentices’ proposals, assigned each academy area its own selected design, and appointed Lina to lead the water academy team.
• Lina and the apprentices built the water academy on the seabed, using blue seaweed, blue sea worms, a proto-jellyfish-inspired force field, and water-aligned magic plants.
• Fiona began assembling living magic-plant sensors to monitor the water academy’s magic power.
• Semir led the fire academy team to transfer an undersea volcano to the surface and stabilize it with platforms and Magical Power Conduits.
• The apprentices built resin foundations around the volcano and planted fire magic plants around a flame-bearing firework tree.
• The chapter ended with the earth academy apprentices struggling at their construction site.

Kroya learned that crops were withering across the continent and agreed to supply food to the Norant Mage Association as a famine threatened. After warning his allies, Mifein revealed that his pendant might explain the crisis.

• The Earth Academy apprentices found that the land rejected construction until Mifein offered it wheat, after which the earth accepted.
• Kroya watched the academies and factories develop, but a prophecy warned him of hunger and an angel cautioned that a disaster worse than the last snowstorm was coming.
• Aistena showed Kroya a recording of ruined crops in the Norant Plains and explained that plants rooted in the earth were withering across several countries, including the Gait Kingdom.
• Kroya agreed to provide food to stabilize the Mage Association's territory, and Aistena left to consider how to manage the crisis.
• Kroya gathered Oak, Jamie, Mifein, Elena, and the other apprentices and warned that the continent might face famine.
• Mifein said he might know the cause and offered his pendant, so Kroya took it to inspect what was inside.

Kroya prepared the Northern Frontier for a prophesied famine by revealing his immense food reserves in a transformed Lower Plane territory and arranging village granaries. The villages filled their granaries with their own stores, while Kroya began investigating the coming locust plague and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

• Kroya shared Mifein’s prophecy of a black-horse rider and winged insects, and Mifein explained that Earth Mother Goddess power had concealed signs of the impending famine.
• Kroya ordered granaries built in all 130 Northern Frontier villages and revealed his vast fields and food stores in a transformed territory of the Lower Plane.
• Kroya explained that magic field grape vines were suppressing the lingering consciousness of the Gluttony Demon and sustaining crops, including strange plants that grew cooked food.
• The village leaders and residents refused Kroya’s offer of grain, instead agreeing to contribute their own food, and they built and filled the granaries together.
• After seeing the completed village granaries, Kroya realized he truly wanted to protect the people under his rule, while the Tower Spirit worked to decrypt information about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Kroya investigated why the earth had become barren and began working with Mifein to find a way to restore its vitality. After learning a spell called Tuning, Kroya heard a sealed divine being plead for help and reveal information about the Void Luminary Ark's sails.

• In the Gait Kingdom, the Cardinals of the Earth Mother Goddess Church found the land barren and planned to search for the heart of the earth with the Thorn Inquisition Army.
• Mifein told Kroya that the heart of the earth lay beneath the Earth Academy, and Kroya revealed that he intended to use its power to restore the land.
• Kroya used an Eden Tree to detect the earth's heartbeat, then gave Mifein the task of monitoring the Northern Frontier's pulse.
• Mifein shared the Church's Tuning spell with Kroya, who studied it and discovered it could sever dissonant notes.
• Kroya heard a voice from deep within the earth claiming the earth was false and its divine throne had been usurped.
• The voice offered information about the Void Luminary Ark's sails and the Ring of Radiance, making Kroya take its plea seriously.

Kroya negotiated with an imprisoned Ancient God for the complete Tuning of Suppressed Reverie, then empowered the Thicksoil Potato Elf to perform the spell without risking conflict with his Rainbow Poem. The elves began traveling across the Northern Frontier to restore the land’s melody, despite sensing opposing divine powers.

• Kroya used Eden’s light to bargain with an imprisoned deity and obtained the complete Tuning of Suppressed Reverie, which he decided not to learn himself.
• Miya confirmed that the passage belonged to the earth’s poetry and advised Kroya to follow the earth’s wishes rather than the deity’s instructions.
• Kroya inscribed an incomplete Tuning spell onto the Thicksoil Potato, supplied it with spiritual fluid, and caused it to produce a group of potato elves.
• The Thicksoil Potato Elf learned the complete spell, and Kroya sent it and its children to spread a melody suited to the earth.
• The Gopherwood Elf led the Northern Frontier’s elves, including Tredan, on a land-restoring procession that revived the ground and created new elemental terrain.
• The Gopherwood Elf sensed that two similar divine powers were resisting the elves’ music, but continued leading the orchestra across the Northern Frontier.

Oak and the elves discovered that all unmodified Sea God Barley had withered, while Kroya’s modified crop remained healthy. After Mifein revealed the Earth Mother Goddess’s role in spreading the crops, the earth restored his lost power and made him a Deathshade Walker, and he left to atone for the land’s suffering.

• Oak led the apprentices in monitoring magical landforms and harvesting resources until they learned that the Sea God Barley fields had withered.
• Oak and the Gopherwood Elf found that only the unmodified Sea God Barley had died, and Mifein explained that the Earth Mother Goddess had spread more than thirty hardy crops.
• Mifein lost the Earth Mother Goddess’s favor, but Kroya and the elves helped the earth restore his vitality and power.
• Mifein began receiving death magic, and the earth gave him a Deaththorn Staff that made him a Deathshade Walker.
• Mifein used the staff to revive the dead barley by absorbing its death, then refused Kroya’s offer to change faith again.
• Kroya gave Mifein a ticket to Paradise, and Mifein departed the Northern Frontier to walk the earth and atone.

Kroya responded to the locust plague by ordering the evacuation of people and wildlife from the Southern Frontier to the Northern Frontier. After Semir brought back two hundred thousand people, they were disinfected, registered, and assigned work, while some were sent to help build a Southern Garden.

• Mifein left the Northern Frontier after restoring withered crops and fruit trees, while Kroya used Breichina's eyes to analyze a complex prophecy spell.
• Ryan sent Kroya footage of locusts devouring plants, animals, and even their roots along the border of Norant's Southern Frontier.
• Kroya ordered the Tower Spirit to make Southern Frontier nobles surrender at least half their people and to bring back magical beasts and magic plants.
• Semir led an expedition that gathered two hundred thousand people and collected wildlife from the Southern Frontier, then brought them to the Northern Frontier without a battle.
• Semir oversaw the newcomers' bathing, registration, and assignment to local lords, while Kroya prepared an Ecological Garden for Southern Frontier species.
• Jacob traveled by magic-powered boat to the island where the unfinished Southern Garden was being built.

Lina helped the first Southern Frontier residents settle into the Southern Garden, where Jacob’s knowledge and gratitude impressed her. After Jacob moved into a tree house beneath an ancient Rain Banyan, nature gathered around him, and Oak suspected he had become a Storm Druid.

• Lina adjusted the garden’s rainfall and humidity after Jacob noticed that it felt drier than the Southern Frontier.
• Lina encouraged Jacob to attend the Basic Training School, and he wept with gratitude to Lord Kroya before the residents began building homes around a Rain Banyan.
• After half a month, Jacob moved into his tree house and fell asleep thinking about a Meditation Method while touching the banyan’s aerial root.
• Emerald lights spread through the banyan as moisture and dark clouds gathered, and apprentices summoned Oak after detecting unstable magical readings.
• Oak recognized an aura of nature and suspected Jacob was a newly emerging Storm Druid, but the banyan stood up as Oak prepared to enter.

The Orpheus Oak calmed the powerful Rain Banyan with a Sunlight Potion and discovered it had blessed four young people with Druid powers. Kroya and the Oak then tested a new Fountain of Life Array, where the Druids gathered nature aura and the stream began to glow.

• The Orpheus Oak confronted the Rain Banyan, whose magic detector had underestimated its power, and learned it resisted because it viewed people as users of nature rather than its friends.
• The Oak gave the Rain Banyan a Sunlight Potion, persuading it to release the boy it had sheltered and later bless several young people as Druids.
• One day later, Kroya welcomed four Druids, including Jacob, and brought them to help test the Fountain of Life Array.
• Kroya and the Oak watched as the Druids' power stirred nature, while the flowers, plants, wind, and rain rejected them and gathered around the array's stream.
• Petals, rain, dew, grass, and the Elves' nature aura flowed into the stream, where a streak of light appeared.