Chapter Summaries

Sinvira’s leaders debated how to punish Moen for colluding with devils, balancing justice against Grand Mage Dorin’s influence and feelings. They exiled Moen and reassigned Dorin, but the decision sparked outrage in the Western Front as Farn prepared the Eastern Front’s counteroffensive.

• Grand Mage Dorin pleaded for mercy for his nephew Moen, while other leaders argued over whether Moen’s crimes warranted severe punishment.
• Roland considered the political and moral consequences as Sinvira’s leaders weighed the law against Dorin’s strategic value.
• Sinvira’s leaders agreed to dismiss and exile Moen, punish his subordinates and other accomplices, and transfer Dorin to Military Headquarters as an adviser.
• Farn ordered the Eastern Front to prepare a counteroffensive to reclaim lost territory in Leiner.
• News of Moen’s punishment provoked outrage in the western war zone, and public anger began to weaken morale.

After the Sinviran cover-up of Moen’s crimes destroyed morale, devil worshippers exploited the weakened defenses to prepare Bloodthirsty Tyrant Shank’s descent. Shank’s avatar began arriving on the Western Front, and the Investigation Team, Sinviran forces, Roland, and Farn faced the growing crisis.

• Sinviran mages lost faith in their leaders after Moen escaped punishment, and lax patrols allowed devil worshippers to resume their operations.
• A devil worshipper contacted Shank and reported that the summoning preparations were over eighty percent complete and a possession vessel was ready.
• Nearly half a month later, the Investigation Team prepared to leave after destroying several cult sites, but a blood-red cloud shaped like a goat skull appeared over the mountains.
• The Investigation Team leader ordered an attack and called for reinforcements as the team identified Shank’s avatar’s descent; loyal Sinvirans mobilized to confront it.
• Roland warned Nalanerduo, Vian, Pamir, and the Lainer Legion to prepare to retreat, while Farn reacted with disbelief at Sinvira’s dire situation.

Shank’s avatar devastated Sinvira’s western front, prompting urgent pleas for reinforcements as demonic energy spread through the world. Roland explained to Trina why Sinvira’s distant Legendary Mages might not return in time, leaving the Grand Mages to face Shank.

• Shank slaughtered human warriors with his bone club and War Plunder, then organized nearby devils and demons into units.
• Shank’s forces launched repeated assaults that put the fortress and western front in peril, and Sinvira’s leadership mobilized to counter them.
• Roland sensed demonic energy polluting the world and weakening humans’ ability to cast spells.
• Trina asked why Sinvira’s Legendary Mages were not being recalled, and Roland explained that they might be too far away or unable to return in time.
• Roland said the Grand Mages might have to risk their lives to destroy Shank’s avatar and send him back to Hell.

After Blomberg fell and Shank’s avatar led the demon army, Sinvira’s leaders argued over whether to attack the devils’ commanders or submit and seek help. As the crisis deepened, Professor Anglando told Roland that the Academy would go into exile in Shividor and regroup for a counteroffensive.

• News arrived that Blomberg had fallen and Shank was leading the demon army across the Western Front.
• Sinvira’s senior leadership debated the growing threat, and a hawkish Grand Mage urged a costly strike against the devils’ leaders.
• Several Grand Mages objected to the proposed attack, and the meeting ended without agreement.
• Roland secretly reported Sinvira’s division to Atrelin, where Antonia offered support in weapons and equipment for those determined to resist.
• Professor Anglando told Roland that the Academy would retreat to Shividor to regroup and prepare a counteroffensive.

Roland learned that Sinvira’s leaders planned to abandon the country, while Atrelin sought to recruit its mages. Farn chose to return to the front and fight Shank’s avatar, gathering an elite group at fallen Blomberg.

• Antonia asked Roland to gather details about Sinvira’s plans and recruit mages for Atrelin.
• Grand Mage Dorin, Professor Anglando, and other mages considered Atrelin’s offer, while Farn vowed to fight for Sinvira.
• Roland reflected on Farn’s resolve and how a mission beyond oneself shaped Legendary Destiny.
• Farn returned from the Eastern Front War Zone to Blomberg, where Shank’s avatar had established the Demon King’s Castle.
• Halvica, Slanna, Shanae, and other powerful fighters joined Farn, forming an elite party to challenge the demon king.

Farn and his companions attacked Shank inside the fortress while Roland’s divinations predicted defeat and death. Rejecting the prophecy that Farn would die, Roland flew out to support the assault.

• Shank learned that Farn and the heroes had infiltrated the fortress, then ordered his strongest fighters to protect him.
• Farn and his companions decided to force an opening, used a Maze Spell scroll, and launched their attack.
• Sinvira’s Hunting Squad rushed through the fortress to target devils commanding the demonic army.
• Roland’s divinations and prophecies all foretold calamity, including Farn’s death in battle.
• Roland overturned the Divination Platform, rejected fate, and set out with his guards to support Farn and the others.

Roland arrived at Blomberg and used his magic, Diego’s pact-spirit support, and prophetic calculations to turn the battle against Shank’s avatar. He left Shank wounded and immobilized, while the fight against the demon forces continued.

• Shank’s avatar overwhelmed Farn and wounded Halvica until Roland arrived on Trina and helped the others escape the burning fortress.
• Roland realized that defying Phinedites’s prophecy had changed fate and awakened his understanding of soul resonance.
• Roland summoned Diego as a pact spirit and used the Star of Lainer Mage Staff to protect Trina with a replenishing Magic Shield.
• Roland ordered Farn and the others to fight Shank’s demon support while Tatali tested the avatar’s strength.
• Roland used Diego’s predictions and electromagnetic attacks to anticipate Shank’s movements, strike him repeatedly, and bring him to a halt.

Roland used layered spells and electromagnetic forces to trap Shank’s avatar inside an ever-growing iron mass. Shank abandoned the crushed vessel and returned to Hell, leaving Roland and the others victorious.

• Roland recognized that Shank’s avatar had a law-embodied physique and ordered Diego to prepare a series of spells.
• Roland magnetized Shank and surrounded him with a repulsive force that kept him from closing in.
• Roland combined illusion, rune patterns, and the Magnetized Black Hole spell to draw iron sand and metal scraps around Shank until he was sealed inside an iron ball.
• Shank unleashed his blood energy and attacked Roland, but Roland blocked his strikes while the others and Trina added more iron to the mass.
• Shank’s aura vanished as he abandoned his avatar and returned to Hell, and Roland confirmed the vessel had been crushed.

After Roland drove Shank away, Farn chose to remain in Sinvira and defend it while its leadership prepared to relocate. Roland negotiated aid and recruitment opportunities with Atrelin, then sensed changes in himself that seemed to come from Sinvira’s world will.

• Roland’s allies helped defeat the remaining devils after Shank abandoned his avatar, while Sinvira’s western defensive line remained in ruins.
• Farn told Roland he would stay in Sinvira to hunt demons and hold the line, despite the seemingly endless invasion.
• Antonia supported Farn’s decision and said Atrelin’s committee might approve using Sinvira as a battlefield against the demons.
• Roland sought priority in relocating the Sladelta People’s families and recruiting Sinvira’s demon-research elites to protect its arcane achievements.
• After his discussions with Antonia, Roland sensed subtle changes in his mind and soul that seemed to be a reward from Sinvira’s world will.

After protecting Sinvira, Roland gained the World Will’s favor and discovered that faith in Seris from Blue Star was filling him with divine radiance. Unable to wield all of it himself, he empowered Diego and began considering how to spread his influence before channeling the surplus into forty-two Chinese-style draconic syllables.

• Roland sensed that Sinvira’s World Will had accepted him, making the world feel like a homeland and changing its affinity ranking above Lainer and Atrelin.
• He opened the Book of Wisdom and realized that Seris users across Blue Star were generating vastly more faith than his efforts in other worlds.
• After returning to the Academy, Roland found that the growing divine radiance empowered his Seris-dependent supernatural traits beyond the legendary level, though his mortal body limited his use of it.
• Roland poured some of the excess divinity into the Seris Card Diego, transforming Diego Capel into a Hero who could use level 0–5 spell cards.
• Roland considered spreading worship of Diego in Xinweila to support demon-hunting magic, then directed the remaining divine radiance toward forty-two Chinese-style draconic syllables.

Roland used Seris Runes to deepen his understanding of divine power and the Greater Prophecy Spell, then negotiated research funding and recruited the Demon Domination team for Atrelin. As Leilide began leading development of a new Call-Name Spell, Roland continued receiving visitors amid sweeping changes to Sinvira.

• Roland inscribed the forty-two-syllable pseudo-draconic into the Book of Wisdom and decided to pursue the Greater Prophecy Spell after condensing divinity into divine power.
• Roland and Professor Anglando agreed in principle to move Anglando's work to Atrelin and continue Greater Prophecy Spell research with funding from Atrelin and Sinvira.
• Roland recruited most of the Demon Domination research team, including every core member, to continue work on related spells.
• Leilide told Roland he had created the Call-Name Spell, which could locate cross-planar demons and devils by calling their names.
• Roland assigned Leilide the research team to develop the Call-Name Spell and promised advancement if the research succeeded.
• Roland met with representatives from Sinvira's alchemy industry, the Sladelta People, and the eastern front as Sinvira's course began to change.

Roland returned to Atrelin, reported on his role in preserving Sinvira, and sought Antonia’s advice on advancing to legendary. Though Antonia believed fate chose who became legendary, Roland remained determined to shape his own destiny and left for Lainer World to study the Greater Prophecy Spell.

• Roland reported to Antonia that Atrelin had gained students, talent, and research opportunities from Sinvira after its defeat without destruction.
• Roland requested funding and projects to support his Seris School, then asked Antonia how to advance to legendary.
• Antonia said becoming a Legendary Mage seemed to depend on fate, recalling that more brilliant peers had died while she had advanced unexpectedly.
• Roland said he believed human effort could resist fate and planned to devote more time to his advancement, despite Antonia’s hope that he would continue governing.
• Antonia wished Roland success and said his becoming legendary could let him succeed her as Atrelin’s guardian, while Roland suspected she wanted a replacement for the garrison system.
• Roland briefly returned to Shansher No. 10, then went to Lainer World to study the Greater Prophecy Spell while his earlier insights and divine radiance lingered.

Roland visited East Lainer to inspect the Mage Tower and advise the royal family on the Church and unifying the Lainer World. Rowan and Manlina announced that they were expecting a child, and Roland named his future grandson the “Dragon of Lainer” and gave them a Coiled Dragon Seal.

• Professor Anglando welcomed Roland to the East Lainer Mage Tower and praised the progress made with its research preparations.
• Roland noted that the Lainer World’s resources, Seris-language education, and technology transfers had helped its magic and education advance.
• Rosa and Rowan welcomed Roland at the palace, where Sister Adeline mistook Luo Guang for the legendary Saint of Light.
• Roland warned Rosa and Rowan to use the Goddess of Light Church without depending on it, then urged them to seek opportunities to unify the Lainer World.
• Rowan told Roland that Manlina was pregnant, and Roland gave them a jade Coiled Dragon Seal for their future son, whom he called the “Dragon of Lainer.”

Roland checked on the East Lainer Mage Tower and urged Lie Yi to take advantage of Leiner’s rapid development. He then worked on the ascension ritual while weighing the Greater Prophecy Spell’s risks and considering apotheosis as a last resort if he could not reach legendary status.

• Roland returned to the East Lainer Mage Tower, where Lie Yi had taken charge after Grand Mage Watson retired.
• Roland praised Lie Yi’s administration and urged him to bring his family to Leiner as the region developed and attracted more mages.
• Roland focused on improving the ascension ritual, knowing the Dream Spell could not carry him from the ninth rank to the tenth.
• Roland considered what he might do if the Greater Prophecy Spell failed, then rejected lich reincarnation because it would destroy his potential and threaten his control over himself.
• Roland considered the Apotheosis Art as a fallback, but decided he would avoid relying on faith and offerings unless he had no other choice.

Roland advanced research on the Greater Prophecy Spell, securing funding and preparing to seek restricted knowledge about the Apotheosis Spell. Before the project could move forward, Antonia received a report that the Abyssal Legion had appeared across the Doran Kingdom.

• Anna joined Professor Anglando’s team to help study the Greater Prophecy Spell, and Roland promised to secure funding.
• Roland arranged investment from the Homir School's Virtual Reality Research Institute, and Anglando agreed to the terms.
• Anglando concluded that the spell depended more on natural-language expression and the caster’s will and soul than on syllable order, so Roland agreed to obtain Grand Mage Watson’s Wish research.
• Anglando told Roland about the forbidden Apotheosis Spell, and Roland said he could seek restricted material on mana resonance and wish models if the project’s security classification increased.
• Antonia received an emergency report that demonic outbreaks had erupted at multiple locations in the Doran Kingdom and the Abyssal Legion had entered its territory.

Roland and the imperial consuls discussed how to respond to a demon threat in Atrelin, agreeing to share costs but struggling to fund a strong military response. The consuls proposed using Rain’s undead army, and Roland firmly opposed the plan as they moved toward a vote.

• Roland received Antonia’s urgent message, privately summoned Anna to conduct a national divination, and joined the consuls’ secret discussion.
• Roland urged the consuls to suppress the Abyss demon threat early, citing the disaster in Sinvira, and they agreed it should be addressed immediately.
• The consuls decided that Nevis and the Doran Kingdom would share the military costs, but reduced funding left them short of forces.
• A consul proposed using Rain’s undead army against the demons, and several others supported the idea as a cost-saving measure.
• Roland opposed relying on Rain, warning that his phylactery could not guarantee lasting control, but the other consuls suggested settling the matter by vote.

Anna used Atrelin’s Stargazing Chamber to divine the nation’s fortunes and again found signs that an internal threat could endanger Atrelin. Antonia approved precautions against Rain while sending high mages to aid the Doran Kingdom, and Gallo was conscripted for the campaign against demons.

• Atrelin officials welcomed Anna to Nevis City, where she requested changes to the Stargazing Chamber so she could use Seris School theories.
• Anna observed the stars and divined that a guest star again invaded the emperor’s throne, warning that turmoil might arise from within Atrelin.
• Antonia and the governors discussed Anna’s warning, agreed to sound out Rain, and ordered high mages dispatched to the Doran Kingdom.
• An official informed Gallo that the Arcane Committee had conscripted him to fight demons in the Doran Kingdom, offering the possibility of restoring his former privileges through meritorious service.
• Gallo learned that Xinweila’s Fall may have corrupted the surrounding Star Sea and felt relieved that he would leave the island for the Material Plane.

Roland reviewed the Apotheosis Spell research and prepared Luo Guang for school in Lainer World, where she quickly surpassed the Church’s teachers at divine magic. Her extraordinary aptitude deepened the Goddess of Light’s claim on her, leaving Roland determined to reach the legendary realm to protect his family.

• Roland approved Professor Anglando’s reorganization of the research team, and the researchers began studying the Apotheosis Spell materials from Atrelin.
• The research groups produced preliminary findings that Roland assessed for their relevance to reconstructing the Greater Prophecy Spell with Seris runes.
• Roland agreed to enroll Luo Guang in a Church school in Lainer World, despite the Church’s interest in guiding her toward a religious role.
• After only a few months, Luo Guang had learned and reshaped the Church’s divine spells so well that its priests and nuns could no longer teach her.
• Roland considered the Goddess of Light’s possible plans for Luo Guang and resolved to reach the legendary realm to protect his daughter and family.

Roland struggled to teach Luo Guang to control her immense strength and eventually let Trina become her playmate, while his research team made progress on condensing divine power from divine radiance. As the chapter ended, Roland learned that the Undead Legion had earned an official place in the Doran Kingdom’s military after helping quell the Magic Calamity.

• Luo Guang repeatedly injured classmates because she could not judge their fragility, and Roland asked Trina to look after her.
• Trina took Luo Guang to catch monsters, and Luo Guang brought a Wind Demon Tiger to school as her pet.
• Professor Anglando reported a breakthrough in condensing divine power from divine radiance, and Roland planned to fund seven or eight research groups.
• Roland received Nevis's report that the Doran Kingdom's Magic Calamity had been quelled, though demonization pollution and Abyssal rifts remained.
• Roland learned that Lich Rain and his Undead Legion had distinguished themselves in Doran and that the legion had been formally incorporated into the military.

Roland oversaw the expansion of the Greater Prophecy Spell Project Team and recruited apprentice and newly graduated mages, while Queen Rosa helped attract talent to the Lainer World with noble status and other benefits. After failing to join the project, Carniel received an offer to visit the Lainer World and interview for jobs there, and he considered taking it.

• Roland reviewed the needs of his research teams and expanded the Project Team, assigning members to suitable roles.
• Roland opened recruitment to apprentice and lower-tier mages, offering opportunities for graduation, tower placements, and research recognition.
• Queen Rosa coordinated with Roland to offer incoming mages noble status and benefits in the Lainer World, drawing large numbers of applicants.
• After selecting candidates for seven or eight project groups, Roland arranged for other unsuccessful applicants to be recruited by additional organizations.
• Carniel failed to secure a place in the recruitment drive but received an offer of a free trip to the Lainer World and preferential job interviews, which tempted him.