Chapter Summaries

As a blizzard struck the northern lands, Kroya’s preparations kept Reef Island’s residents safe in warm, well-stocked homes. Semir, Elena, and the others went out to clear roads and protect Kroya’s Magic Plants, while Kroya watched the island’s efforts and saw the Nightglow Grass transform into Sun Grass.

• Kroya’s planning and the people’s work had prepared Reef Island with homes, supplies, and stored mana before the blizzard arrived.
• Elena watched the sudden storm from her warm home, then joined Semir and their father as they went out to clear snow and check Kroya’s fields.
• Semir and the other residents cleared snow from the Magic Field Grape Vine, which tilted its vines and leaves to help them.
• Elena and three other Children of Harvest used their power to help the fire-type Magic Plants endure the cold, while their mana helped the plants resist the blizzard.
• Kroya watched the island through the Woodstar Curving Vine King and saw Nightglow Grass covering the Energy-Storage Tree, glowing like a sun and appearing to have become Sun Grass.

Kroya imprinted the Thermal Magic Array onto Nightglow Grass, allowing it to produce adaptive, sunlike warmth and light, then brought it to his snow-covered Magic Field to test whether it could help plants survive outside. As he watched the tropical Magic Plants endure the cold, a scorching round pepper began expressing its desire for ice.

• Kroya studied Dardanelles' Basic Everyday Spells and used the Thermal Magic Array with the Energy-Storage Tree's magic to imprint Nightglow Grass.
• Kroya left his castle during the blizzard, restored the workers' stamina with a Stamina Ripple, and sent the exhausted Children of Harvest back to rest.
• Kroya had the Clockwork Golem release the Energy-Storage Tree and Nightglow Grass in the Magic Field, where the grass warmed and illuminated the surrounding plants.
• Kroya reduced the Nightglow Grass's output to expose the plants to the cold and watch for adaptation, while preventing the magic field grape vine from taking over.
• Kroya noticed a scorching round pepper enduring the cold and wishing for ice.

Kroya inscribed Mana Explosion and Mana Storage Pouch on a Scorching Round Pepper, making its fruit store fire and ice magic before detonating in a powerful chain of blasts. He then taught the Magic Field Grape Vine to store different kinds of magic in all its leaves, and four other plants asked for the same spell.

• Kroya inscribed Mana Explosion on a Scorching Round Pepper fruit, then added Mana Storage Pouch so it could hold fire and ice magic.
• When the pepper fruit was about to explode, Kroya threw it into the sky, where it unleashed several blasts that frightened the Farm Servants.
• Kroya discovered the Scorching Round Pepper was willingly absorbing icy magic and used Quiet Little Serenade to calm the kneeling Farm Servants and influence nearby plants.
• The Magic Field Grape Vine asked for two kinds of magic, and Kroya inscribed Mana Storage Pouch across all 1,200 of its leaves through its consciousness.
• The Magic Field Grape Vine began storing icy magic in pouch-shaped leaves, and four other plants asked Kroya for the same spell.

Kroya imprinted Mana Storage Pouches onto several Magic Plants and combined an Impact Pea with a Flame Stump to create Fire Peas that could launch farther. After finishing the other plants, he sensed magical fluctuations overhead and heard a familiar quacking sound.

• Kroya discovered that a Flame Stump wanted to spread its fragrant resin, so he imprinted it with Mana Storage Pouches and then extended the change to a hundred stumps.
• Kroya imprinted an Impact Pea's pods, giving its peas pouches that increased their launch range to three or four kilometers.
• Kroya used Limb Reattachment to fuse an Impact Pea with a Flame Stump, creating Fire Peas wrapped in burning resin and launched when they matured.
• Kroya imprinted Mana Storage Pouches onto the Red Dragon Agave and Red Lavender, which gained extra magic storage without major changes.
• As Kroya prepared to rest, magical fluctuations came from the sky along with a familiar quacking sound.

Kroya welcomed several kinds of birds to his warm farm, including rare Heavenly Windfeather Birds that reveled in the Flame Stumps’ fragrant resin. He then visited his seabed habitat, where Burrowing Mice led him to an ant nest and a gold-colored mineral fragment.

• Kroya let crows and Blue-and-White Sea Swallows shelter among his fire-type plants during the blizzard.
• Three level-three Heavenly Windfeather Birds arrived and joyfully rolled in the fragrant resin from the Flame Stumps.
• Kroya read about the Heavenly Windfeather Birds’ valuable feathers, blood, and eggs, then told his Farm Servants not to disturb them.
• Kroya visited the seabed and greeted his Fish-Tailed Sea Ducks, Sea Duck King, Rock Sheep, and Burrowing Mice.
• The Burrowing Mice led Kroya to the Ore-Finding Ants’ nest, where a Gray Magic Ant carried out a gleaming golden metal fragment.

Kroya discovered Gold-Eating Worms that produced exceptionally pure gold and learned that the fallen Goddess of Wealth’s curse forced them to seek gold forever. After the worms begged him for help, he devised a way to try to blind the goddess’s inscription using a spell powered by a Void Luminary Crystal Chip.

• Kroya excavated the seabed and found tiny grains of pure gold in a vast bed of igneous rock.
• Kroya shattered the rock and discovered Gold-Eating Worms inside, recognizing them from Wendy’s Travelogue.
• Kroya used the Astral Body Inscription Technique to identify the Goddess of Wealth’s curse, which prevented the worms from forming cocoons and turning into butterflies.
• The Gold-Eating Worms begged Kroya to end their suffering and offered him gold.
• Kroya decided to inscribe a Blinding Spell over the curse and use the Void Luminary Crystal Chip to power it.

Kroya concealed the Goddess of Wealth's mark on a Gold-Eating Worm, which transformed into a tier-four Brilliant Gold Divine Butterfly able to turn stone into gold by spending its own life force. After discovering that transferred life force only fed the curse and drained the butterfly further, Kroya considered combining it with a magic plant to see if the plant could sustain it.

• Kroya used void luminary power to conceal the Goddess of Wealth's mark on the Gold-Eating Worm, suppressing the Blinding Spell's effect.
• The Gold-Eating Worm spun a golden cocoon and emerged as a tier-four Brilliant Gold Divine Butterfly.
• The Brilliant Gold Divine Butterfly turned a rock into gold, and Kroya realized the transformation consumed its life force through the Goddess of Wealth's mark.
• Kroya used Nature Siphoning to draw life force from a fish and give it to the butterfly, but the mark absorbed the offering and drained more of the butterfly's own life force.
• Kroya decided to test whether combining the butterfly with a magic plant could provide life force that counted as its own.

Kroya discovered that the timid Ancient Pasture Fungi could merge with Magical Beasts and offered them protection in exchange for raising his animals. He successfully grafted one onto a Brilliant Gold Divine Butterfly, which recovered and turned the surrounding soil to gold.

• Kroya sensed the Ancient Pasture Fungus’s tiny, frightened consciousness and learned it could grow tall and run.
• The Ancient Pasture Fungi crowded toward Kroya, asking for protection and a chance to leave their pasture.
• Kroya promised to let one fungus leave each month if they helped fatten his Magical Beasts, and the fungi began feeding themselves to the chickens, ducks, and sheep.
• Kroya used Limb Reattachment to graft an Ancient Pasture Fungus onto a Brilliant Gold Divine Butterfly’s severed leg.
• The butterfly recovered, spread golden particles from its wings, and transformed the surrounding soil into gold.

Kroya expanded his gold-producing Brilliant Gold Divine Butterflies and learned they could locate more ore beneath Reef Island. As a blizzard devastated the Northern Region, Baron Andy sent farm servants to Kroya, and the survivors reached Reef Island’s docks, where Ate went to report their arrival.

• Kroya’s Brilliant Gold Divine Butterflies produced about seventeen kilograms of pure gold and showed him that they could find gold and other mineral deposits underground.
• Kroya considered hiring miners to exploit Reef Island’s ore, since the island had too few people for its development.
• A blizzard struck the Northern Region, and Baron Andy ordered Matt to deliver a thousand farm servants to Kroya in exchange for help staying warm.
• Matt selected mostly elderly people and children, but the journey through the snow reduced the group to just over six hundred survivors.
• At Reef Island’s docks, Ate questioned Matt, then rode his Blaze Horse toward the shore to inform Kroya.

Rob negotiated the transfer of Baron Andy’s Farm Servants to Reef Island in exchange for a luxurious magical heater, while a servant’s unusual pearl caught his attention. Matt delivered the heater to the baron, who was delighted by it, as Kroya continued examining Mir’s changing crack.

• Rob recognized that Baron Andy was sending old people and children to Reef Island to avoid deaths during the winter, then challenged Matt over the offer.
• A Farm Servant offered Rob a translucent green pearl containing a tiny clover in exchange for Reef Island taking in his child, and Rob agreed to accept the servants.
• Matt told Rob that Baron Andy wanted a Magic Tool to warm a room, and Kroya agreed to send a heater and a Clockwork Golem.
• Rob demonstrated Kroya’s ornate scented heater and told Matt its Hexagram Flowers would cost one hundred Farm Servants each when replaced.
• Matt rushed the heater back to Baron Andy’s castle, where the baron woke and stared at it with delighted surprise.

Baron Andy tested Kroya’s heater, rewarded Matt with a nominal knighthood, and sent him back to Reef Island to trade for more magical goods and servants. On Reef Island, the new serfs were housed, bathed, fed, and prepared to hear Jamie’s announcement.

• Baron Andy enjoyed the heater’s warmth, granted Matt the title of knight, and ordered him to obtain more six-pointed star magic crystal flowers and investigate buying more Magic Tools.
• Baron Andy ordered his subordinate to invite the Blackwater Knight and Blackrock Baron to a banquet.
• Matt returned to Reef Island with another group of farm servants, and Rob delivered them to Jamie and the apprentices at Jianzi Building.
• A female apprentice corrected the serfs for calling Reef Island heaven, while a male apprentice welcomed them and led them to bathe.
• The apprentices disinfected the serfs, gave them clean clothes and food, and Jamie rang a magical bell to announce that he had something to tell them.

Jamie organized the 630 newly arrived serfs into random teams to shovel snow, while Kroya investigated Mir’s unusual mana and proposed a way to help him become a mage. Mir agreed to undergo the painful procedure, and Kroya prepared to guide a magic field grape vine into his body.

• Jamie ordered the serfs to shovel snow for their water supplies and warned that shirkers could cost their whole team its provisions and a chance to remain on Reef Island.
• Jamie refused to be called “lord mage,” rejected the serfs’ request to choose teammates, and sent guards to assign them randomly.
• Kroya observed that unusual points in Mir’s mana seemed to be approaching and asked whether Seliu might be bringing Mir’s friends.
• Kroya asked Mir to supervise his apprentices outside Reef Island and offered to help him use the mana trapped in his scars.
• Kroya explained that a magic field grape vine might convert Mir’s mana into a usable supply, potentially allowing him to become a mage, and Mir agreed to the procedure.
• Kroya prepared a spell-inscribed vine offshoot and began planning how to guide it through Mir’s body to his magic vortex.

Kroya used the Thicksoil Potato and Angel’s new spell to ease Mir’s rejection as the Magic Crystal Grape Vine connected to his magic vortex. The surgery reached its final stage, leaving Kroya to find out whether Mir could channel the mana the vine supplied.

• Kroya implanted the Magic Field Grape Vine into Mir’s scar, and Mir suffered a severe rejection reaction.
• Kroya shared Mir’s pain through the Orpheus Swan Recorder Tree’s music, while the Thicksoil Potato accepted the pain and used the Earth Mother Goddess’s power to soothe Mir.
• Angel revealed that the Earth Mother Goddess had fallen asleep, gave Kroya the Void Luminary divine art Acceptance, and admitted that they were Ark, who approved of Kroya’s path of progress.
• Kroya inscribed Acceptance onto the Thicksoil Potato, transforming its spell into Fruit of the Mind, which could contain painful emotions in its fruit.
• With the Thicksoil Potato absorbing Mir’s pain, the Magic Crystal Grape Vine reached Mir’s magic vortex and began supplying him with mana; Kroya awaited proof that Mir could channel it.

Kroya confirmed that Mir could cast magic smoothly after his modification and gave him illusion spells to study. After discovering that the thicksoil potato’s black fruit contained a painful, rotten substance, Kroya tested it on cheerful Magic Crystal White Mice and wondered whether one could be inscribed with a spell to absorb negative emotions.

• Mir cast the Ring of Fire without pain, then produced illusion magic that Kroya shaped into a phoenix.
• Kroya gave Mir first- and second-level illusion spells and told him to learn them so he could protect his friends.
• Kroya harvested and dissected the thicksoil potato’s black fruit, finding rotten liquid inside that bore Mir’s painful face.
• Kroya bought ten Magic Crystal White Mice from the Sacred Spring Trade Guild and found that their astral spirit bodies radiated joy.
• Kroya fed a mouse a drop of the black liquid, and it became happier despite feeling pain, prompting Kroya to consider inscribing a spell on it.

Kroya inscribed Light of the Mind onto ten magic crystal white mice, whose golden aura transformed an olive branch into an Evergreen Olive Tree spirit. When the spirit merged with one mouse and carried Kroya’s mental power away, he found himself looking toward Reef Island’s harbor.

• Kroya added Light of the Mind to a magic crystal white mouse and learned that continued use could advance its Poem of Rainbow Light inscription.
• The mouse’s golden aura awakened the Ghost Owl, whose olive wreath evolved as gray fragments fell from its soul and its olive branch turned blue-green.
• Kroya inscribed the same spell on the other nine mice, and their combined light transformed a single leaf on the Evergreen Olive Tree into a spirit.
• The new spirit expressed happiness, merged with a magic crystal white mouse, and vanished from the laboratory with Kroya’s mental power attached.
• Kroya’s mental power followed the mouse across the frozen sea to Reef Island’s harbor, where soldiers and Knight Ate stood near Seliu’s carriage.

Seliu brought seventeen former convicts to Reef Island, where five were overwhelmed by the magic in their scars. Kroya’s companions eased their suffering, and after welcoming them with soothing tea, Kroya declined their offer of allegiance and sent them to lodgings while he assessed them.

• Olivier gave Seliu the seventeen remaining convicts and their belongings in exchange for Kroya’s sunflower seeds.
• Five convicts convulsed at Reef Island’s docks as the magic in their scars surged, but the Olive Elf and Magic Crystal White Mouse calmed them with their light.
• The Cloud Snake reunited with Oona and led the group to Kroya’s castle, where the sleeping convicts received care.
• Kroya welcomed the group with soothing lily flower tea sweetened with sunflower honey, easing their fear and exhaustion.
• Ottar knelt and offered the group’s allegiance, but Kroya questioned their sincerity and had Jamie arrange their lodging instead.

Ottar led the Convicts from the Stardust Circus to accept a place in Reef Town, where Jamie gave them ordinary rooms and work like everyone else. As they began to imagine a new life, Kroya prepared protections for his apprentices and considered investigating events beyond the island.

• A circus boy suggested that the Convicts escape, but Ottar warned that the Mage Association would capture them and urged them to trust Kroya.
• Ottar asked the Phantom-Feather Cloud Snake to tell Mir about the group, and the snake hurried back to Kroya instead.
• Jamie brought the Convicts to a busy building, where the workers welcomed him and looked at the newcomers with only mild curiosity.
• Jamie gave the Convicts room cards numbered 701 to 717, told them to collect supplies, and said they would start work the next day.
• The Convicts felt hopeful about living and working without special treatment, while Kroya planned for Mir to visit and explain how his wounds had healed.
• Kroya investigated the Olive Elf’s power of peace and worked on gold cat-shaped golems to protect his apprentices on expeditions.

Kroya created twelve blue Cat Golems using discounted soul solution, then met Pitfall and Gray Sand in the Deep Blue Illusion. Pitfall explained that miners near the Yavana Sacred Mine had been corrupted by fungi from Abyssal Sindakra and offered grade-A soul solution if Kroya could help save the infected people.

• Kroya used artificial magic tree bark, emerald gems, and soul solution to create twelve intelligent blue Cat Golems.
• Kroya met Pitfall and Gray Sand in a snowy mountain cabin decorated with demon heads.
• Pitfall revealed that his territory lay near the Yavana Sacred Mine and that cultists had sacrificed miners to Abyssal Sindakra.
• Pitfall showed Kroya a fungus-covered miner's head and explained that infected miners spread the fungi and became trapped in painful dreams.
• Pitfall asked Kroya to help awaken infected people with merfolk mental magic and promised him grade-A soul solution in return.

Kroya obtained a dangerous mushroom from the Pitfall Lord and discovered a trapped Mushroom Person inside it. The Mushroom Person warned him that a rift in the Yavana Sacred Mine could let Zugmoy invade the Main Plane, and Kroya prepared to record its explanation.

• Kroya asked the Pitfall Lord for an infected mushroom, claiming he could consult the Astral Spirit Master, and the Pitfall Lord agreed to send him one.
• After Kroya left, the Pitfall Lord revealed his demon form to the Gray Sand Lord and urged him to seek Leviathan's help with the Gray Sand Sea's curse.
• Kroya received a sealed crystal bottle containing a gray mushroom and identified it as a Myconid Bitter Feast Mushroom.
• Kroya discovered that the mushroom held a pale green Mushroom Person's astral spirit body, bound by gray threads and connected to a vast fungal world.
• The Mushroom Person warned Kroya that the Yavana Sacred Mine's Aether Plane rift would become a passage for Zugmoy to invade the Main Plane, and Kroya began recording its account.

Kroya learned that the Abyss lord Zugmoy planned to invade the Main Plane through the Yavana Sacred Mine, then helped a Mushroom Person escape into an Ancient Pasture Fungus. The new symbiotic Mushroom Person revealed abilities that could wake dream-trapped people and enable long-distance communication.

• The Mushroom Person told Kroya that Zugmoy trapped humans in their dreams and used their deaths to build a passage through a temporary Aether Plane rift.
• The Mushroom Person explained that Zugmoy sought to spread fungi through the Yavana Sacred Mine, where the Earth Mother Goddess’s blessing could let her endure the Main Plane.
• The Mushroom Person recognized the Ancient Pasture Fungus and asked Kroya to let them live in symbiosis with it; Kroya confirmed the fungus agreed.
• The Mushroom Person Bitter Feast Fungus destroyed its own body to escape its prison, and its spore merged with the Ancient Pasture Fungus without consuming its consciousness.
• Kroya supplied mana, helping the Mushroom Person grow into a new body and demonstrate how to wake dream-trapped people by having them breathe in spore-filled air.
• The Mushroom Person offered to tend fungi, learn alchemy, and create dreams that could let Kroya communicate with people wherever its spores reached.