Recaps

Ace transformed the pocket world’s human faith into divine power, became humanity’s god, and reshaped his dream world while pursuing Level 2 runes. As the Lust Witch’s plot and Caro’s corruption unsettled the main material plane, Ace prepared to escape the pocket world’s resistance by becoming an Outer God.

• Zi helped Lu preserve food, and the Lu Tribe grew through trade, cultivation, and faith in The Formless King until Duan became its third warrior.
• After escaping the Kham Tribe, Duan warned Lu of an attack, and the six tribes united as the Luca Alliance to defeat the Kham forces in an ambush.
• Zi’s rituals and Ace’s dream power helped Duan’s people build a human kingdom, but Zi died using Heartfire to save Duan from the Mondo Beasts.
• Ace developed his heart flame and a new meditation method, then entered the pocket world and used its people’s faith to establish a human Divine Position and a divine kingdom.
• Humanity’s wars and shifting rulers strengthened Ace, who absorbed the pocket world’s origin and established the Dream Rite to consolidate his religious authority.
• Ace derived the Dream and Manifestation Divine Positions, combined them into the Dreamscape Manifestation Divine Position, and remade his dream world as the Manifested Dreamscape.
• While Ace spent nearly a century inside the pocket world, Sulu and Valen helped capture Caro after discovering his Shadow Crow transformation, and the Lust Witch recruited Alex for her plans.
• Leon identified and harnessed Misfortune Aura, while Ace resisted the pocket world’s World Consciousness and declared his intention to become an Outer God beyond its reach.

Ace refined the Pocket World, developed new spells, and returned to face the Punishers and Alex’s advancing demons. As the High Tower Territory evacuated and its knights fought at Mount Baal, Arno awakened Courage Holy Light and charged Alex while Ace raced toward the battle.

• Ace created new laws and spells in the Pocket World, established tribulations for Heartfire cultivators, and observed Talon’s rise through the warrior realms.
• Toby fused with the World Consciousness and became a true god, but Ace took control of Talon, devoured Toby, and absorbed the Pocket World’s Heartfire and Source Power.
• Ace followed the Celestial River through visions of possible defeats, then destroyed the Pocket World and returned to the main world with greater strength and new spatial and temporal magic.
• Ace abducted Alesha and learned about the Punishers’ plans, then killed Karim and reshaped Alesha’s memories so she would serve him.
• As Alex’s demons advanced toward Mount Baal, Ancesta and the knights fought them, while Ace arranged the evacuation of the High Tower Territory and pursued the Punishers’ Guardian City.
• Alesha claimed Guardian City using Karim’s blood, and Ace destroyed the Punishers’ camp before killing Ambrio and taking the city into his Mindscape.
• Donna awakened as the Sacrifice Knight and died defending Ancesta, who countercharged Alex as Arno struggled to awaken his own virtue.
• Arno awakened Courage Holy Light, rescued Ancesta and the other knights, and charged Alex as Ace teleported toward the battle.

Ace and the High Tower survived Alex’s assault, though Auli and Ancesta were gravely lost and Arno embraced Abyss power. Ace advanced his magic, rallied the High Tower against the northern states, and began preparing its next generation of wizards.

• Arno’s battle with Alex cost Ancesta and Auli their lives, and Arno absorbed the Black Mud and formed an Abyss-tainted path.
• Ace defeated Alex with Arno’s help, banished Alex and the Demon Lord beyond the world’s edge, and carried the injured survivors toward the High Tower.
• The High Tower celebrated its victory as Arno became an Abyss Knight and Ace began using the Magic Network to advance his rune groups.
• Ace became a fourth-ring Wizard, created True Dream, and reassured Arno that his courage and Abomination Power both came from his wish to protect others.
• Ace reunited Arno with Ancesta in a dream, where Ancesta rejected undeath and condemned Arno’s use of Abyss power.
• Ace warned the High Tower that eight Great Heroes would attack, honored those lost in battle, and urged wizards to investigate the principles behind magic.
• The Northern Five States moved toward war as their leaders learned of Karim’s death, the destroyed expedition, and Milne’s missing Guardian City.
• Ace cultivated the life within the pendant, created the Golden Regeneration Technique from Hercules’s severed finger, and began the advancement ritual for Sulu, Valen, Leon, Lou Xilu, and Logan.

Ace defeated the Great Heroes pursuing him and secured a thirty-year truce between the High Tower and the Northern Five States, then built ties with the Fire Thief Alliance. He advanced his Golden spells but was stranded in the Inner World, where he met Luna and began studying death-element runes.

• Ace killed Bunyan and transformed Helix into the Overgod Ai, then banished Malgan and Helix from the world while escaping King Norton’s attack.
• Ace defeated the Great Heroes who tracked him to the Lar Mountains, destroyed the Monument, and forced five kings to swear a divine truce with the High Tower and the Fire Thief Alliance.
• Ace cooperated with Nicholas and welcomed the Fire Thief Alliance delegation to the High Tower, where Ahmed and Betty began exchanging knowledge and testing their mechanical skills.
• Alesha abandoned her Artisan Bloodline to become a warlock, and Ace advanced the Eye of Delusion Breaking into the Golden Eye of Delusion Breaking.
• Ace began upgrading the Six-Elemental Ring and established the Supernatural Integration Liaison Department under Betty to coordinate with the Fire Thief Alliance.
• Ace searched the Reflection World for Golden Runes, fought a Tier 3 Bone Dragon, and created two Golden spatial spells while drifting through Spatial Turbulence.
• Ace escaped into the Inner World, hid as a stone sculpture on the Green Field Grassland, and killed a Thunder Leopard that threatened Luna.
• Luna carried Ace’s stone-covered head home, and Ace learned that her village lay in the Artemis Region before deciding to recover and study death-element runes.