Recaps

Ace rose from a freefolk student to a scholar, built a manor to pursue medical and magical research, and discovered how to use runes and spells. After killing Gaul during an escape attempt, Ace kept the mysterious blood-red eyeball and saw it react to his mental power.

• Ace passed the literacy examination, became Peter’s disciple, and earned recognition for his book-classification system and Common Tongue Dictionary.
• Ace discovered a diary describing a Wisdom Potion, developed a working formula from demon-beast materials, and awakened telekinetic powers.
• Ace received Scholar status and a villa, launched a printing business, and began meditating before setting out to study medicine and build an experimental estate.
• Ace rejected Tailos’s crude medical practices and planned a new medical community, but the king’s banquet led him to present his ideas on logic to the scholars.
• Ace founded a riverside manor, experimented on Corrosive Jackals, and discovered runes that let him cast Acid Splash and strengthen his mental power.
• Ace organized the manor’s administration and planned its development, but funding ran short as Gaul prepared to escape with a sacred relic.
• Gaul used the relic to trap Ace in an illusion, but Ace broke free, killed Gaul with Acid Splash, and took his blood-red eyeball.
• Ace sent Maren’s veterans back to the city-state, returned to Marina for treatment, and found that the eyeball absorbed his mental power and flashed.

Ace expanded his magical research through rune analysis, medicine, art, and encounters with divine blessings, while uncovering the transformation plot at Tsimari. He returned to Medimoth City with new Soul Runes and medical books, and began studying Athena’s Pact Scroll.

• Ace developed new rune formulas, spells, and a stronger meditation method before returning to Medimoth City to lecture on logic and meet Athena, who revealed her curse and asked him to keep her identity secret.
• After surviving a Lar Bat swarm, Ace expanded his manor’s farming and brewing, studied medicine with Hicks, and traveled across the Salia Peninsula, where he captured sea raiders and defeated their leader Sharp.
• At Tsimari’s Bonfire Festival, Ace intercepted a blessing from Pontos and investigated the Blessed Ones, discovering that the light spheres changed their hosts into devoted believers.
• Ace’s festival mural formed a Soul Rune and led him to discover the Soul Secret Treasury, where he stored runes and developed new Soul Spells.
• Ace examined Locke’s transformation and infiltrated Pontos’s temple as Moor, learning that the priests planned a mass transformation with the Merfolk before he secretly left Tsimari.
• Disguised as Iron Masked Fire Fist, Ace hunted Demonic Beasts in the wilderness, developed new spells, and then traveled to Medimoth City to visit Peter and Athena.
• Ace reunited with his family and friends, compiled four books on New Medicine, shared them with scholars and Athena, and proposed testing his medical methods at his estate.
• Athena lent Ace the Pact Scroll for study in the palace, where he spent nearly a month analyzing magical artifacts and their Soul Runes.

Ace established the Book of Magic, recruited Daina and Bayern as apprentices, and traveled north with Daina while developing her magical skills. After they escaped a demonic ritual that devastated a village, they reached Northern Territory Fortress, while Bayern postponed his journey to meet Ace and headed for Tsimari Port.

• Ace bound the Book Spirit to himself for ten years, named it Fuwa, and created the Spellbook to record magical knowledge and connect its owners to the Flamebearers.
• Ace made Daina his apprentice through the Book of Magic, and she learned meditation and spells while investigating the Demon Hunter Camp and surviving Old Parker’s trap.
• Ace exposed the Hungry Wolf Mutual Aid Society, addressed the public about farming and economics, and formed a contract with Bayern, who began studying magic.
• Ace accepted Daina as his disciple and fellow traveler, then guided her training and magical research as they journeyed north and helped villagers at a free clinic.
• Daina developed Magic Crystal weapons and spells, then fought alongside Ace when monsters attacked them in the wilderness.
• Ace and Daina investigated a village consumed by a demonic ritual, escaped its demons, and left Dickens Rona’s patrol forces facing a massacre and the arrival of a Great Demon.
• Ace and Daina reached Northern Territory Fortress as Daina developed Magic Crystal Shaping spells, while Bayern postponed traveling north after learning of the destruction and headed for Tsimari Port.

Ace built his reputation, developed his projection and blessing rituals, and uncovered the history of Nicholas and the scholars who studied extraordinary power. He and Mirror Ace entered the hidden underground city, where Ace found evidence of another explorer and the Agustin Empire’s technological legacy.

• Ace established himself in Northern Territory Fortress as a celebrated painter, earned the First-Class Honor Medal, and began building his hospital and underground laboratory.
• Ace perfected a Projection Ritual that created an obedient copy of himself, then recruited young apprentices and helped Ancesta train Arno in the Heart Intent Flow.
• Ace’s experiments with spiritual blessings expanded his Secret Treasury Space, allowing him to replicate more Soul Runes and prepare for further research.
• Ace and Mirror Ace investigated a mist-covered canyon, destroyed the Transparent Winged Snake, and discovered a concealed settlement containing the diary of Nicholas.
• Nicholas’s diary recounted how he used mathematics to strengthen his Origin Force Pattern, rescued Hibbs, formed the Nicholas School, and fled the Punishers toward underground ruins.
• Ace and Mirror Ace opened the ruins’ hidden entrance, solved Nicholas’s mathematical warning, and entered the underground city.
• Ace found fresh soil in a performance hall and explored an abandoned library, where its books revealed the Agustin Empire’s steam-powered technology.