Recaps

Ace built a magical fleet, reunited with Romon and Marina, and brought his family and manor’s people to safety. Back in High Tower Territory, he and its defenders survived a Demonic Tide before the story moved ahead a year, with Polina awakening and contracting a Stone Golem as Ace began a new experiment.

• Ace equipped the territory with rifled muskets and cannons, organized a trained battalion, and developed new life and wood-animation magic while the harbor and shipyard were built.
• Ace and eleven apprentices awakened the magical ship Knowledge Seeker, which could create wooden lifeforms, and he sailed south with the fleet.
• Ace rescued Romon and Marina from the political struggle at his manor, killed Dean Media, and traveled to Medimuss Royal City to bring Daina’s family and Bayern’s grandson to safety.
• Ace sent Daina and Borg to investigate Tsimari while the rest of the fleet returned to High Tower Territory, where the Mirror clone prepared defenses against the Demonic Tide.
• Ace and the territory’s forces defended Nightglow City from waves of Demonic Beasts with muskets, cannons, wizard magic, and a protective array, while the Rational Mirror Clone helped kill a powerful beast.
• Daina and Borg returned from Tsimari with news of their trading plans, and Ace approved researching a spell to conceal the harbor district.
• A year later, Polina awakened a Stone Golem and formed a familiar contract with it, while Ace began an experiment using sacrificed Low-level Demonic Beasts.

Ace reached the Hero level, reorganized the Magic Council, and restarted the magic network while developing a new path for his research. An attack in the Northern Mining Area killed Bent, but Ace captured an intruder and Caroso and Polina identified the curse transforming the Strange Demonic Beasts.

• Ace’s summoning ritual exposed him to a Divine Noble’s morning-light authority, so he added an interrupt array and later brought a Shadow Crow from a Reflection World into the West Tower.
• Eddy encountered Spells and became absorbed in Polina’s work on animated golems, while Caro retired from the militia and later achieved Mental Overclocking.
• Ace connected the apprentices’ Spiritual Marks through a consciousness network, reached Heroic level, and then used a crystalline being’s food-for-blessing exchange to restore his body and advance it to the Hero level.
• Ace studied the being’s knowledge about supernatural advancement, while Bayern found that Divine Noble descendants could use Magic and helped Ace establish the Kindling Plan through the Magic Council.
• Ace rebuilt Gensokyo and restarted the magic network as Ancesta led Eddy and other apprentices to clear Strange Demonic Beasts from the Northern Mining Area.
• Three masked members of Touch of Suffering infiltrated Mining Town, killed a family, and fought Bent, who died after killing two attackers and passing vital intelligence to Ancesta.
• Ancesta captured the surviving attacker, and Ace discovered that Bent’s consciousness remained trapped inside the Mask of Suffering as the captive’s Magic began to revive.
• Ace learned that Touch of Suffering sought Strange Demonic Beasts for sacrifices, while Caroso and Polina identified and tested the beasts’ transformation curse, naming it the Invisible Assimilation Curse.

Ace advanced his spell research, escaped the Punishers, and developed a two-ring spell model that transformed his Soul Secret Treasury Space into a dream world. He investigated undead and true spirits, then proposed recruiting Unawakened Divine Inspired to challenge Divine Noble rule.

• Caroso published his research on Strange Demonic Beasts, developed the Shapeshifter, and created the Transformation Primordial Stone, while Ace learned Dragon Language and devised new spells.
• Ace united with his True Spirit, explored the Reflection World, created True Spirit’s Shadows, and developed spells for remote communication and Shadow Crow travel.
• Ace escaped the Reflection World after Shadow Crow Flash failed, evaded Karim’s pursuit, and used Dream Force Field to deceive a Moon-worshipping Wolf pack.
• Ace devised the Stable Bright Moon Projection Meditation Method, increased his spiritual scale, and killed Tal Calimans after Tal ambushed him.
• Ace studied undead in the Reflection World, developed the Negative Energy Zone and Contract Art spells, and transformed a Hero-class subject into an intelligent undead that remembered its life.
• Ace created a Skeleton Life Casket that bound and controlled a Skeleton Warrior, then told Valen and Caroso that Unawakened Divine Inspired could be recruited to undermine Divine Noble rule.

Vite lost Misha and Mr. Dove, then became a lich and joined Ace’s cause as Ace built the Magic Council and explored new paths to power. In a fast-flowing, seemingly Magicless world, Ace guided Zi’s tribe toward Blood Energy, leaving them to negotiate over a hunted boar with Wu’s tribe.

• Vite refused to abandon Misha after the Punishers arrested her family, but he found Misha and her parents dead in the Punishment Hall ruins and sensed her soul in her seashell.
• Misha’s longing awakened Vite’s Soul Secret Treasury Space, and Vite advanced to an Advanced Wizard Apprentice before Karim killed Mr. Dove while Vite helped him escape.
• Ace took the near-dead Vite aboard the Knowledge Seeker, explained the persecution behind Misha’s death, and later transformed Vite into a lich with a phylactery that could restore him.
• Ace advanced five apprentices to quasi-formal wizards, helped Ancesta and Arno become Formal Knights, and established the Magic Council while researching ways for ordinary people to gain power.
• Ace developed Dream Form and Reverse Dream Transformation, sent an avatar into a Magicless space, and made an equal contract with Zi after witnessing giant beasts hunt humans.
• Ace hid in Zi’s dream and taught her the Blood-Food Transport Method, while Zi led her tribe through hardship and announced Blood Energy as The Formless King’s gift.
• Zi trained Lu and other hunters, joined their hunt, and helped bring down a wild boar, then offered Wu’s tribe a hind leg and a pheasant while warning that her women were strong.