Chapter Summaries

Kroya subdued the ocean’s legendary magical beasts, collected their pearls, and assigned them to help turn the region into a training ground for apprentices. Back at the development base, he offered five special pearls to King Atre and Queen Tiria, who both immediately competed for a time-magic pearl.

• Miya showed Kroya that his tiny tiramisu grew stronger when loved, then gave him the Philosopher’s Stone and left through a portal.
• Seventeen legendary ocean beasts submitted to Kroya, who took their pearls and ordered them to help manage the ocean and train his apprentices.
• Kroya explained that he wanted apprentices to learn caution because Eden might not always save them in time.
• King Atre and Queen Tiria agreed to buy hot springs for their palaces, then invited Kroya to join them at the development base.
• Tiria and Atre both demanded the black pearl that could slow time, turning its sale into a bidding contest.

Atre traded Kroya a cursed seven-luminaries seed for a time pearl on Cassandra’s instructions, and Kroya sold more pearls to the two Elector Kings. Tiraya and Atre then proposed investing in a vacation plane, and Kroya pitched a self-developed territory experience that left them eyeing its card-drawing system with suspicion.

• Atre defeated Tiraya in a bathrobe fight and offered Kroya a seven-luminaries seed in exchange for a time pearl.
• After Kroya questioned the uneven trade, Atre revealed that Cassandra had instructed him to trade the seed with Kroya, and Kroya accepted.
• Kroya sold four more pearls to Atre and Tiraya for Sacred Spring Crystal Cards worth forty million magic crystals.
• During their luxurious spa visit, Tiraya proposed that Kroya establish a vacation business and offered to help connect him with nobles and elven clients.
• Atre insisted on investing too, hoping to send his veterans to recover at the resort, and argued with Tiraya over the opportunity.
• Kroya proposed building a plane where visitors could develop their own territories, earn rewards, and buy resources or draw from card pools.

Kroya showed Tiraya and Atre Eden, where they tested his farming game and its collectible rewards before exploring Eden Mansion and its capsule machine. Atre drew a rare card just as Tiraya realized how much she had spent earning the coins needed to play.

• Tiraya and Atre agreed to sign Contracts with Kroya after recognizing that the game’s draws and achievement rewards would encourage nobles to spend heavily.
• Kroya brought them through a portal into Eden and demonstrated how players could plant Magic Plants, use Growth Accelerator, and earn Eden Coins.
• Tiraya and Atre spent a week farming: Atre cultivated decorative plants and found a mutated Ironbone Bamboo Shoot, while Tiraya grew unusual and weaponized plants.
• Kroya showed Atre how to equip the Unyielding Bamboo title, and Tiraya learned that she could buy a potion to increase mutation chances, though purchases would be limited.
• Kroya led them through the snowy grounds of Eden Mansion and showed them its cottages, recreational facilities, and capsule machine.
• Tiraya saw that she had spent five hundred thousand Magic Crystals to earn one hundred thousand Eden Coins, while Atre opened a multicolored capsule containing a golden chibi Sunflower card.

Kroya agreed with Tiraya and Atre to remodel their medium plane, while declining to sell Golden Candy to the emperor. After qualifying as a level-one Plane Engineer, he explored the guild’s tools and began planning the plane’s renovation, becoming intrigued by a costly Titan firmament that might respond to primordial gold.

• Tiraya drew capsules until Kroya secretly changed the machine’s settings, which produced a rainbow capsule containing a soothing lily card; he explained that the card was limited-time.
• Kroya shared Golden Candy with Atre but refused to sell it to the emperor, then agreed with Atre and Tiraya to remodel their medium plane for a twenty-percent share each.
• Kroya signed the Emperor’s Seal contract and inspected the plane in module 10085 of the Creation Star Ring, estimating that its renovation would take a month.
• Kroya submitted his Sacred Spring Trade Guild assessment and was approved as a level-one Plane Engineer, unlocking the exclusive item catalog.
• Kroya and the tower spirit planned the plane’s natural features and reviewed engineering tools, then found an expensive Titan firmament that prompted Kroya to consider using primordial gold on it.

Kroya bought the Titan Canopy, received the Sun's Lyre, and helped the newly awakened canopy begin taking control of a plane's consciousness. Meanwhile, the emperor prepared to visit the Creation Star Ring with Atre and Tiraya, warning them not to call him emperor there.

• Kroya complained about the Titan Canopy's price and received the Sun's Lyre as compensation, then spoke with the Sept-Terrion of Time about its plans and the aether rift disease.
• Kroya used primordial gold to give the Titan Canopy a soul, comforted it when it could not interface with the plane consciousness, and helped it begin the process with guidance from another mature plane consciousness.
• Kroya questioned the canopy about its origins, and it recalled that it and its companions had emerged from a mistake involving Titans, beautiful-sounding chains, and a gigantic tree.
• Atre and Tiraya waited at the palace to meet the emperor, who joked with Tiraya and told them not to call him emperor once they reached the Creation Star Ring.

The emperor and the Council President visited Eden, where the emperor punished nobles who damaged the natural scenery and eagerly spent money exploring the resort. As Eden’s opening-day revenue soared, Kroya refused to donate to the Astral Benevolence Society without proof that its funds reached those in need.

• The emperor arrived at the Creation Star Ring with Atre, Tiraya, and the invited nobles, then used the Council President’s access to enter Eden.
• The emperor killed several young nobles for tearing up plants along Eden’s path and ordered their elders sent to reclaim land on the frontier.
• At Eden Mansion, the Council President exchanged magical materials for an Admission Crystal Card, while the emperor paid with elemental crystal cores and began exploring.
• The nobles checked in and spent heavily on Eden’s offerings, driving its opening-day revenue to startling heights.
• Ms. Shalia of the Astral Benevolence Society asked Kroya for donations, but Kroya demanded financial records and aid statistics before giving anything.

Kroya agreed to supply ordinary medicine to Lady Shalia, then met the Star Sea Emperor and the Astral Council President, who offered him gifts, opportunities, and a fragment of the Water Supreme Treasure. After declining the emperor’s invitation and escaping the two officials’ argument over a rare card, Kroya decided to visit the Semrio Continent and see his friends.

• Kroya agreed to provide Lady Shalia’s Astral Benevolence Society with ordinary medicine in exchange for accurate distribution records.
• The Star Sea Emperor summoned Kroya and gave him a Sun God’s godhead, while the Council President presented him with the World Tree Fruit: Eye of Wisdom.
• The emperor invited Kroya to join the Star Sea Empire with a sector and title, but Kroya declined.
• The Council President offered Kroya a chance to study at Starlight Ascension and showed him a salt fragment that Kroya and his treasures recognized as part of the Water Supreme Treasure.
• The Council President stopped explaining the fragment’s secrets because he had failed to draw the Platinum Mushroom card, and Kroya fled when the emperor revealed he had obtained one.
• Kroya decided to return to the Semrio Continent, take Snow Dolphin to its ancestral sea, and visit his friends.

Kroya returned to Semrio, freed Aioetes from the Starry Firmament, and went with him to Dragon Island, where he subdued a bone dragon and learned the damaged leylines had spawned a Netherlamp Dragon. After compelling a crystal dragon to ask for his help, Kroya reached the Yavana Sacred Mine and spotted the Pitfall Lord and Aistena, choosing to watch them unseen.

• Kroya temporarily disrupted the Starry Firmament, freed Aioetes from its restraints, and brought him to the Dragonbone Wastes.
• Kroya used the Void God's paintbrush and the Ring of Radiance to shrink and leash a bone dragon attacking Mifein.
• Mifein told Kroya that the Earth Mother Goddess had severed the deep earth's leyline nodes, and Kroya killed the bone dragon after it claimed to serve Lord Netherlamp.
• A crystal dragon explained that the Netherlamp Dragon was drawing on the damaged leylines at the Yavana Sacred Mine, and Kroya forced her to apologize and ask for his help.
• Kroya traveled to the Yavana Sacred Mine, saw the Pitfall Lord and Aistena, and hid to observe how much they had improved.

Kroya used the Void God's power to reunite Aioetes and Aistena with Belle, Aioetes's deceased wife and Aistena's mother. As the family embraced in a garden, Kroya discovered that his paintbrush had transformed into a gray quill.

• Aistena used Aioetes's card-sealing magic to capture monsters, and Kroya learned the spell and sealed the Crystal Dragon into a card.
• Aioetes told Kroya about Belle, the human woman he had married and left behind, and admitted he had never asked where her soul had gone.
• Kroya contacted Lady Kreha, learned Belle's soul was waiting in the Netherworld, and used a painted story to bring her back with her memories.
• Aistena followed Kroya's invitation into a garden, recognized Belle, and embraced her as Aioetes joined them.
• Kroya finished his story titled "A mother for you" and found that his paintbrush had become a quill identified as the Doorway Bird's Narrative Quill.

Kroya learned that aether rift disease threatened nearly all unborn children in his territory and went to the Leyline River to find its source. He accepted the Earth Mother Goddess’s gift of the disease, killed her, and met Miya as the ark fragment began to disintegrate.

• Kroya questioned the Doorway Bird’s Narrative Quill, learned that Arcadia wanted his help with the Rainbow Poem, and bound the quill to himself.
• Kroya discovered that nearly ninety percent of the unborn children in his territory suffered from aether rift disease, and the world consciousness told him to repair the leylines and slay the Earth Mother Goddess.
• Kroya entered the Leyline River, told Bevforcelis and the other Legendary fighters to subdue the Netherlamp Dragon without killing it, and continued toward the Earth Mother Goddess’s Divine Kingdom.
• Kroya found the dying Earth Mother Goddess beside a fragment of the Void Luminary Ark, accepted her blue halo, and experienced the pain of aether rift disease.
• Kroya used the Rainbow Poem to carry the Earth Mother Goddess away beyond the rainbow’s end, killing her, and then met Miya as the ark fragment disintegrated.

Sage Miya revealed the Ark’s history, Ilyst’s role in its fall, and the truth about Kroya’s origins before the collapsing Divine Kingdom brought her near death. The Ring of Radiance anchored the Divine Kingdom, and Ilyst reunited with her mother.

• Sage Miya explained that the Void Luminary Ark amplified the Ring of Radiance and showed Kroya the magic array needed to free her from her restraints.
• Sage Miya described how invading deities destroyed the Ark while she was trapped, leaving the Ring of Radiance unable to act until Miya removed her restraint system.
• Sage Miya revealed that Ilyst had escaped her culture flask and broken her lover’s flask, exposing Miya’s weakness and prompting the attack on the Ark.
• Sage Miya explained that Arcadia was imprisoned by the last surviving Astral Spirit elder and that Kroya could not return to his former world; she also told him Arcadia had made his body to imitate an Astral Spirit.
• As the Earth Mother Goddess’s Divine Kingdom began collapsing, the Ring of Radiance anchored it and replaced its divine power with void luminary power.
• Ilyst emerged from the portal, embraced Sage Miya, and told her, “I found you, Mother.”

Sage Miya explained that aether rift disease was tied to the leylines and revealed the Sacred Spring Trade Guild’s likely plan to seize the Earth Sept-Terrion’s authority. After giving Ilyst knowledge about homunculi in bottles, Sage Miya was taken by the Astral Spirit, leaving Ilyst behind.

• Ilyst bound herself to Sage Miya, while the Ring of Radiance’s Miya noticed Kroya’s aether rift disease and Sage Miya claimed responsibility for it.
• Kroya brought out his Void Luminary Ark, and Sage Miya explained that aether rift disease was a flaw in the Aether chapter of the Poem of the First Source.
• Sage Miya revealed that leylines were another kind of aether rift and that the Earth Mother Goddess bore the disease’s burden for living beings.
• Kroya and Ilyst inferred that the Sacred Spring Trade Guild intended to use the Earth Sept-Terrion to obtain earth luminary authority and foster an Astral Spirit.
• Sage Miya apologized to Ilyst and offered to restore the person she loved, but Ilyst rejected the plan and asked for Sage Miya’s knowledge of homunculi in bottles.
• Ilyst sent Kroya and the Ring of Radiance’s Miya away, and an Astral Spirit seized Sage Miya while Ilyst watched.

Kroya learned that the Homunculus in a Bottle required Aether Rift Disease and suspected someone was producing homunculi, while Ilyst sought time to save Sage Miya from the Astral Spirit’s prison. On the Semrio Continent, Kroya repaired fractured leylines, freed trapped souls, and set off to seek Ark fragments from the Goddess of Wisdom.

• Ilyst explained that Sage Miya’s imprisonment by the Astral Spirit would keep her alive and give Ilyst time to find a way to save her, while Miya warned Kroya that she needed to complete her transformation.
• Kroya read the Homunculus in a Bottle knowledge and learned it required the Aether Plane’s life stream, connecting its creation to Aether Rift Disease; he asked Ilyst to investigate as he continued collecting Ark fragments.
• Kroya told Miya that the alchemy could potentially create a being approaching greatness, then decided to visit deities for more Ark fragments.
• With the Rainbowlight Divine Sword, Bevforcelis subdued the Netherlamp Dragon, and Kroya captured it in a sphere before revealing that Miya, the Ring of Radiance, was his teacher.
• Kroya used the Netherlamp Dragon to repair the leylines and released souls trapped by the Earth Mother Goddess, promising them protection and time to bid farewell to their families.
• Kroya departed with the World Consciousness for the Goddess of Wisdom’s Divine Blessing to seek Ark fragments, leaving the Yavana Sacred Mine’s cleanup behind.