Chapter Summaries

Kroya discovered that Canned Knowledge could teach a magical beast a craft that might be inherited, and he taught the Astral Crystal Turtle to make Sea Demon Turtle shell candy. After receiving new plants and Frost Demon Rabbits from Aistena, he examined one rabbit and found an icy chain sealing its Frost Crown from its Astral Spirit Body.

• Kroya fed the exhausted Astral Crystal Turtle a candy made from Sea Demon Turtle shell and heard its desire to improve its reproductive stamina.
• Kroya used Canned Knowledge to teach the Astral Crystal Turtle how to make shell candy, and the turtle successfully prepared a batch.
• Kroya received three thousand sunflower seeds, five White Cloudmist Sunflowers, three hundred Frost Demon Rabbits, and a narcissus from Aistena.
• Kroya sent the Sunflower Sprite and a Clockwork Golem to plant the sunflower seeds and White Cloudmist Sunflowers.
• Kroya examined a Frost Demon Rabbit and discovered an icy chain sealing its Frost Crown from its Astral Spirit Body.

Kroya studied the sealing chains inside the frost demon rabbits, tamed the surviving rabbits, and built them a snowy island habitat. He bought several ice-type magic plants, including a mysterious Glassy Ice-Soul Lotus collected from another world, and wondered what other plants might correspond to that world's three souls and seven spirits.

• Kroya studied the frost demon rabbits’ magical sealing chains, but his attempts to influence them made two rabbits explode, so he stopped investigating the seal.
• Kroya tamed the remaining 298 frost demon rabbits and created a roughly thirty-kilometer ice island for them.
• The frost demon rabbits spread snow, built an elaborate burrow, and planted the frost clover Kroya gave them.
• Kroya bought Frost Watermelon Vine, Ice Pinwheel Chrysanthemum, Blue Tulip, and Snow Walnut Wood to cultivate on the island.
• Kroya discovered the Glassy Ice-Soul Lotus, a plant from another world connected to its concept of three souls and seven spirits, and purchased it for a thousand magic crystals.

Kroya investigated a modified lotus that suppressed desire, then expanded his Frost Magic Plant Island with new plants and the rabbits’ help. He inscribed True Transfiguration into the Nassos Blue Narcissus, which transformed into Nassos the Beauty-Seeker and leaped from level three to level five.

• Kroya tested the lotus by feeding it a desire from his symphony and confirmed that its magic suppressed the desire, though it had no self-awareness.
• Kroya planted the Magic Field Grape Vine beneath the Frost Clover field, where it spread through the Frost Demon Rabbits’ burrows and formed a mutually beneficial bond with them.
• Kroya planted Frost Watermelon Vines and Blue Tulips with the rabbits, then used Mage’s Hands to plant Snow Walnut Wood and Ice Pinwheel Chrysanthemums.
• Kroya surveyed the completed Frost Magic Plant Island and returned to his castle to inspect the Nassos Blue Narcissus.
• Kroya discovered that the narcissus’s apparent leaves and petals were an illusion and inscribed True Transfiguration into it at its request.
• The narcissus transformed into Nassos the Beauty-Seeker, whose power rose from level three to level five.

Kroya learned how to shape astral crystal with mental power, letting the shark tower spirit play in the Astral Crystal Bottle, and watched the Sunflower Sprite gain the farm servants’ faith. An exploration team discovered a likely magic crystal deposit and a liquid magic vein near Reef Island, and Kroya ordered them to bring back the crystals, white ore, and algae.

• Kroya questioned the transformed narcissus and learned that its mental magic came from a powerful artifact in a small plane belonging to Aistena’s mentor.
• The Astral Crystal Turtle taught Kroya to shape astral crystal with mental power, and he made a pipe so the shark tower spirit could enter the Astral Crystal Bottle and play with the sea creatures.
• Kroya saw the Sunflower Sprite’s healing seeds earn the farm servants’ reverence and faith, while the white cloudmist sunflowers spread golden mist across the island.
• Kroya watched Lina’s team investigate a snowy sea covered in algae and find magic crystals and unusual white ore on the seabed.
• Kroya ordered the team to collect the crystals, white ore, and algae, and Lina led the apprentices into the water to retrieve them.
• The apprentices found more magic crystals beneath the seabed sand and discovered a liquid magic vein gushing pure mana.

Kroya claimed the territory around a newly discovered magic vein and sent his apprentices and knights to occupy the Blackwater Knight’s castle. After reaching the shore and uncovering the vein, he found a huge Frost-Arm Octopus beneath the ground, just as something began shaking beneath his feet.

• Kroya learned that the magic vein lay within the Blackwater Knight’s territory and declared that he was claiming the land.
• Kroya sent his apprentices to seize the Blackwater Knight’s castle and ordered Rob to dispatch Joshua with a spatial magic array.
• Joshua and his team reached the castle, where Lisa reported their easy victory and the group found supplies, magic crystals, and ten black horses.
• Kroya traveled through the new magic array, identified the thirsty sea glow algae, and exposed the magic vein and scattered crystals by pushing the seawater aside.
• Kroya uncovered a rank-three Frost-Arm Octopus beneath the shore and attempted to communicate with it, but the ground began to shake.

Kroya discovered a waterlight crystal vein beneath White Gull Island, subdued the giant octopus, and established an ore extraction site staffed by Farm Servants. After learning the veins and the snow disaster were tied to merfolk magic, he paused ocean expansion; when Ryan returned, Kroya tested his ability to absorb divine power and then went to meet Jit and the Priest.

• Kroya calmed the underground magic vein, found a waterlight crystal vein, and tamed the giant octopus with waterlight essence.
• Kroya left building materials and orders for his apprentices, and Lina organized more than three hundred Farm Servants to build the mining complex on White Gull Island.
• Kroya learned that merfolk magic had likely caused the mineral veins and was connected to the snow covering the Northern Frontier, so he suspended ocean development and focused on gathering resources on land.
• Ryan returned to Reef Island, and Kroya extracted Mammon's Boundless Greed from him before discovering that Ryan could absorb a trace of Earth Mother Goddess divine power, which Kroya's golden magic had to suppress.
• Kroya went to the docks to meet Jit and the Priest, and orange flowers and music appeared around him as he saw Jit's castle.

Kroya absorbed the greed within Jit, completed a chapter of the Song of Orange, and gained the ability to wield demonic magic. After opening a portal to a lost Abyssal realm called Gluttony’s Paradise, he learned that claiming it would require the Salt Stake carried by a priest outside the castle.

• Kroya restrained Jit and the priest, then cleansed the demonic taint from Jit’s Flower Vines and absorbed the pure power of greed.
• Kroya completed the hidden chapter of the Song of Orange and discovered it let him control greed and cast demonic magic.
• Kroya cast Lower Plane Portal and opened a gateway to a desolate layer of the Abyss without alerting the Main Plane’s defenses.
• Kroya sent a Fire Slime through the portal and identified the meat-like plant it retrieved as Gluttonous Meat-Steak Grass.
• Jit recognized the realm as the sealed domain of the Gluttony Demon, and an angel identified it as Gluttony’s Paradise.
• The angel explained that Kreha’s Salt Stake could purge Beelzebub’s power, and Kroya decided the priest would have to hand it over.

Kroya learned that the blizzard was an ancient merfolk ritual and that the Sacred Spring Trade Guild barred trade with the Merfolk Tribe. After obtaining the Salt Stake replica, he used its salt to prepare steak grass and sent Priest Kevin into the Lower Plane to collect specimens, where Kevin encountered a river of honey and milk and a Tyrannosaurus that turned into roasted meat.

• The angel told Kroya that the blizzard would bless newborn merfolk, described the Sacred Spring Trade Guild's reach, and promised to explain the Salt Stake before returning to sleep.
• Kroya used the name Norsamplia to persuade Priest Kevin to hand over the Salt Stake replica, then drew salt from it to season and cook steak grass.
• Kroya asked Kevin to explore the Lower Plane portal and bring back anything he found; Kevin entered armed and searched cautiously.
• Kevin found a river of honey and milk, trapped three sheep, and killed a charging Tyrannosaurus, which split into roasted meat and revealed a smaller creature.
• Kevin collected roasted meat, honey, milk, strange jellyfish-like creatures, and a small tree before returning, while a huge tree's silhouette watched him from deeper within.

Kroya examined the magical creatures and Gray Smoke Tree Father Kevin brought back, then learned that milk-and-honey water could attract Fallen Angels to contracts. He began a major renovation of Reef Island and worked on creating a Demon Magic Field ahead of Stein and his mentor’s arrival.

• Father Kevin explained that his knight order had come to the Northern Frontier to hunt a Greed Demon and recover salt, and Kroya agreed to help in exchange for Mammon’s Flower Vines.
• Kroya rewarded Ryan with custom magical equipment, a house, and gold, and offered the other apprentices their choice of a Magic Tool before sending them to rest for their next mission.
• Kroya identified and sampled the Gray Smoke Tree’s magical wine, the Milk-Cream Jellyfish, the Butter Sheep, and the Reward Tyrannosaurus.
• Jit told Kroya that Gluttony’s milk-and-honey water could entice Fallen Angels to accept contracts, and Kroya kept him confined while he learned how to contact them.
• Kroya ordered Rob to begin renovating Reef Island, where workers cleared and transplanted vegetation, built roads, and expanded residential and growing districts.
• Kroya began preparing a Demon Magic Field as a surprise for Stein and his mentor.

Kroya awakened the Glassy Ice-Soul Lotus into a sentient Karmic Flame Lotus and discovered its flames connected to the final movement of Song of Orange. He then tested new defenses and transformed Impact Peas and Flame Stumps into a weapon that unexpectedly launched pea-shaped rockets off Reef Island.

• Kroya used Light of the Mind and Flame of the Mind to awaken the Glassy Ice-Soul Lotus, which became the sentient Karmic Flame Lotus and gave him a lotus seed that released its flames.
• The Karmic Flame Lotus blessed a Gray Smoke Tree, causing its products to erase the lingering aftertaste of pleasure, and agreed to help Kroya tend his Magic Field.
• Kroya recalled his blood pasture fungus trade with the Flame Mountain Lord and imprinted Kroya's Eternal Magic Power onto Hotwind Thorns, which attacked a test fish with Red Dragon flames.
• Kroya gave an Impact Pea and Flame Stump Canned Knowledge of a Magic Pistol, transforming them into a flaming-resin machine gun that fired peas as rockets.
• The Woodstar Curving Vine King tracked the pea rockets as they flew more than three hundred kilometers toward the mainland, leaving Kroya amazed at the unexpected result.

Kroya finished developing Reef Island’s defenses and facilities, then inspected the underground construction and began preparing a Sea Spirit Lingzhi Potion production line. The Woodstar Curving Vine King sensed others of its kind arriving at the docks with Semir, giving Kroya a chance to expand his vines.

• Aistena found that a magical explosion of peas and resin had knocked Stein and Zell unconscious, suspected Kroya was responsible, and continued toward Reef Island with them.
• Kroya built up Reef Island’s defenses and wildlife patrols while thirsty sea glow algae became a roaming surveillance system around the island.
• Kroya toured the new Oceanarium, then inspected tunnels the Burrowing Mice and wind-eroded sandworms were digging beneath the island for laboratories and propulsion devices.
• Kroya watched a Magic-Storing Hanging Flask Grass produce a Sea Spirit Lingzhi Potion and gave it a drop of the Fountain of Life to help it develop spiritual awareness.
• The Woodstar Curving Vine King told Kroya that others of its kind had arrived at the Reef Island docks with Semir, and Kroya welcomed the prospect of expanding his vines.

Semir returned with Baron Kermoyer’s spoils, and Kroya began turning the Wood Luminary Curved Vines into a surveillance network across the Northern Frontier. After the Woodstar Curving Vine King split his Mental Power among the vines, Kroya finished preparing them and turned to the undead magic plant.

• Semir delivered magical beasts, plants, and an undead magic plant from Baron Kermoyer’s territory, and reported that the baron expected to resolve his dispute with the viscount within a week.
• Kroya recognized that Baron Kermoyer had sent Semir back partly out of fear that Semir might replace him, but chose not to dwell on the baron’s motives.
• Kroya proposed that the Woodstar Curving Vine King share his sentience with more than a hundred Wood Luminary Curved Vines through the Mushroom People’s mycelium, creating a network to watch the Northern Frontier.
• The Woodstar Curving Vine King agreed and split his Mental Power into 130 portions, enduring intense pain before falling asleep with only a small fraction of his original strength.
• Kroya used mycelium, inscriptions, music, and magic to prepare the Wood Luminary Curved Vines for transplantation, then turned his attention to the undead magic plant.

Kroya discovered that the Emerald Skeleton Tree could reconstruct living beings as tiny, intelligent bodies, then investigated its powers and value. After five days of experiments, he learned that carriages from the Royal Capital had arrived at Reef Island, and he looked forward to testing the tree on the newcomers.

• Kroya fed Aether Plane magic power into the Emerald Skeleton Tree's fruit, which burst and released a tiny version of one of the Baron's guards with his memories intact.
• Kroya questioned the tiny man, housed him in a small enclosure, and asked the Sacred Spring Trade Guild about the tree; Master Puppet offered a valuable trade for a branch.
• Kroya read that Mage Ilyst had created the tree with an Orpheus Family Archmage, and he agreed to consider Puppet's offer after studying whether the tree could be propagated.
• Kroya supplied the tree with magic power and discovered it could convert that power into undead magic power and create tiny magical beasts that could use magic and reproduce.
• The Woodstar Curving Vine King woke and told Kroya that two carriages from the Royal Capital had reached Reef Island's docks; Kroya realized five days had passed and prepared to experiment on the arrivals.

Aistena, Zell, and Stein reached Reef Island, where Kroya ambushed them and killed Zell while capturing Stein. After welcoming Aistena, Kroya received the wager’s prize, a legendary elven Magic Plant called Moonlight Dewgrass.

• Semir led Aistena, Zell, and Stein through an undersea passage to Reef Island after Stein’s attempt to force his way through its protective bubble failed.
• Kroya’s magic plants restrained Zell, disrupted his control of mana, and killed him with scarlet beams and flame resin peas.
• Stein tried to flee using a magical pair of wings, but Titan-Made Bamboo disabled the device and knocked him unconscious.
• Kroya greeted Aistena and took him to the castle for a meal while Rob arranged to collect Zell’s body.
• Aistena certified Kroya as the winner of his wager with Stein, and the contract yielded the legendary Magic Plant Moonlight Dewgrass.

Kroya discovered that the Moonlight Dewgrass and Zell’s robe were connected to the Orpheus Family, while learning that demonic incidents had shaken the Mage Association. After extracting Stein’s confession and killing him, Kroya found an Elven Mansion Spell bearing the same family’s mark and decided to visit the oak tree.

• Kroya wondered whether Zell had used demonic power and a hidden treasure to manipulate the original owner into signing a fatal contract, then learned from Aistena that Moonlight Dewgrass produced potent moonlight spirit dew.
• Aistena told Kroya that the Pit Lord had sided with cultists and the Gray Sand Lord had summoned Leviathan, prompting the Mage Association to reconsider its treatment of mage lords.
• Kroya cleansed Zell’s robe, Phoebus Bathed in Light, and put it on, gaining easier mana control and learning that the blue and purple movements of the Rainbow Poem were tied to the Astral Plane and Aether Plane.
• Stein blamed Zell for the plot and confessed that Zell had used demonic power, but Kroya found his knowledge limited and fed him to the Emerald Skeleton Tree, whose fruit absorbed his soul.
• Kroya searched Zell’s belongings and found an Elven Mansion Spell marked with the Orpheus Family’s lettering, strengthening his resolve to visit the oak tree.

Kroya visited the Orpheus Oak, learned more about the merfolk’s ritual, and received a Moonlight Dewgrass array diagram, an Orpheus Oak sapling, and a Music Magic spell. The next day, he planned to imprint mansion runes on the sapling so it could grow around his castle.

• Kroya visited the Orpheus Oak, which revealed that it had absorbed the remaining Water of Life and wanted to leave the seabed for its homeland.
• The Orpheus Oak showed Kroya Wendy’s poem about the merfolk’s weather-controlling Magic Artifact and warned him to be cautious of the tribe.
• Kroya placed Moonlight Dewgrass before the oak, which produced moonlight dew and gave him a diagram combining it with Sea Spirit Lingzhi in a Magic Array.
• The Orpheus Oak gave Kroya its sapling to raise and a parchment describing the Music Magic spell “Melody of Gently Flowing Springs,” written in the handwriting of Kroya’s grandfather.
• The Orpheus Oak gave Kroya a magical birdcage that let elves leave their bodies briefly, and Kroya returned to his castle with his gifts.
• The next day, Kroya left Rob to show Aistena around the Island and planned to imprint mansion runes on the Orpheus Oak sapling so it could grow around his castle.

Kroya inscribed Mansion Spell runes into the Orpheus Oak, which transformed his laboratory and activated a Dimensional Portal. He learned the portal led to a plane Zell had won in the Sacred Spring Trade Guild’s lottery, then entered the wetland world and discovered its unusual crystal slime ground.

• Kroya recorded the elven mansion’s runes and inscribed the Orpheus Oak with a plan to grow into a mage tower.
• The Orpheus Oak grew into the laboratory’s walls and pipes, and its runes resonated with the Orpheus Swan Recorder Tree’s magic.
• The resonating runes opened the Dimensional Portal, and the Sacred Spring Trade Guild revealed that Zell had won the connected minuscule plane in a lottery.
• Kroya bound access to the plane and entered its wood-and-water landscape, where he discovered that crystal slime formed the ground beneath the wetland grass.

Kroya explored his newly acquired Small Plane, discovered that its crystal clay could conduct and hold many kinds of magic, and found a lake whose water could float when infused with its special magic. He built a floating platform and placed the Elven Mansion on it, then opened a Dimensional Gate linking its laboratory to his castle and sent the Woodstar Curving Vine King inside.

• Kroya tested the crystal clay, found that it held and conducted many kinds of magic, and successfully shaped it into a lotus.
• Kroya followed streams to a vast lake and discovered that its water stayed suspended in the air when infused with the plane's magic.
• Kroya used the lake water to build a floating platform and expanded the treehouse into a large Elven Mansion on it.
• Kroya inspected the mostly empty mansion, activated its Dimensional Gate, and confirmed that it connected to the laboratory in his Reef Island castle.
• Kroya ordered the Woodstar Curving Vine King to enter the Small Plane and began preparing to build the Sea-Moon Tempering Magic Array there.

Kroya built a nursery and inscribed a Sea-Moon Tempering Magic Array into fifty-six Sea Spirit Lingzhi and a Moonlight Dewgrass, producing a Sea-Moon Potion whose moonlight magic he could not absorb. He then discovered Cattail Spirit Cats and learned their toxin could kill powerful magical beasts, leaving him eager to explore its uses.

• Kroya constructed an oceanlike nursery from crystal bricks, planted Ancient Pasture Fungus, and inscribed the Sea-Moon Tempering Magic Array into the Sea Spirit Lingzhi and Moonlight Dewgrass.
• The array produced a Sea-Moon Potion, but Kroya expelled its moonlight power after sensing it alter his magic.
• Kroya searched the Small Plane and found Cattail Spirit Cats carrying tiny astral spirit bodies that were about to be born.
• Kroya brought the Astral Crystal Turtle to communicate with the Cattail Spirit Cats, which attacked the turtle with poisonous water spikes before befriending it.
• The Astral Crystal Turtle explained that the Cattail Spirit Cats' toxin could kill fourth- or fifth-level Magical Beasts, and Kroya confirmed its potency through tests.

Kroya learned from Aistena that his carefully tended sea god barley needed a harsher, more natural environment to preserve its adaptability, and began considering whether it could be transformed into magic grain. He also tested his new Sea-Moon Potion on Aistena, whose strong response suggested it could outperform the Sea Spirit Lingzhi Potion.

• Kroya left the Cattail Spirit Cats in their crystal cat house and sent the Woodstar Curving Vine King to record their birth while he went to meet Aistena.
• Aistena inspected Kroya’s hundred-mu sea god barley field and advised replacing its inland soil with shore sand and restoring the ocean’s magical organisms to keep the barley adaptable.
• Kroya proposed developing sea god barley that would become magically enriched in magic-rich seas, and Aistena explained the difficulties of creating widely grown magic grain.
• Aistena mentioned that extremely pure magic might catalyze ordinary grain into a magic plant, prompting Kroya to consider experimenting with Aether Plane magic and his Water Luminary Vein.
• Kroya gave Aistena his new Sea-Moon Potion, and Aistena found that it sharpened his mind, let him control lunar mana, and still affected him as a Third-Level Mage.