Chapter Summaries

Ace awoke in an unfamiliar forest after a turbulent spatial transit, then cautiously followed a river in search of civilization. He discovered a Punisher Organization squad led by Karim, but after Karim destroyed Ace’s scouting Mirror Image, both sides withdrew without finding each other.

• Ace woke while being carried by a flying Demonic Beast, killed and ate it, and concluded that an unstable Spatial Extension Rune array had disrupted his transmission.
• Ace summoned his Shadow Crows and cautiously followed a river through the forest, avoiding rapid flight that might expose him.
• Four days later, Ace detected a group of divine descendants and sent a concealed Mirror Image to investigate them.
• Ace recognized the group as the Punisher Organization, and Karim spotted and destroyed the Mirror Image with his scythe.
• Karim suspected the Fire Thief Alliance was spying on his squad and ordered Rune and the other Punishers to relocate.
• Ace stayed hidden until the Punishers departed, then fled in the opposite direction.

Ace learned that the Fire Thief Alliance had returned and killed Urianas Milne, then warned nearby wizards before settling back into Salia Forest. There, he witnessed white wolves absorbing magical light from the full moon and recognized them as Moon-worshipping Wolves.

• Ace investigated a ruined demon hunter camp and learned he was near Milne, where the Fire Thief Alliance had survived and become active again.
• Ace read a notice describing the blasphemers and learned that the Fire Thief Alliance had killed Urianas Milne in an ambush, prompting a manhunt across the Northern states.
• Ace placed a Magic signal transmitter near Milne City to warn wizard apprentices, then returned to Salia Forest.
• Ace hunted and cooked a fire-attributed tiger Demonic Beast while practicing Shadow Crow Flash and spatial leaps.
• Ace followed wolf howls to a hill and watched more than thirty white wolves gather silver magical light from the full moon.
• Ace recognized the wolves from an old travelogue as Moon-worshipping Wolves.

Ace befriended the Moon-worshipping Wolves by altering their shared dreams, then spent a year studying their Silver Moon Ritual. Unable to uncover its secret by watching, he transformed a Shapeshifter into a wolf so he could experience the ritual firsthand as the next full moon reached midnight.

• Ace used Dream Force Field and a fabricated shared dream to alter the wolves’ memories, making them believe he had raised the pack.
• Ace lived with the wolves and observed their monthly Silver Moon Ritual, but gained no insight from watching it.
• Ace created the first-ring spell Demonic Beast Tongue to communicate with the wolves and suspected their ritual drew on Silver Moon power scattered throughout the world.
• Ace synchronized with his clone in the High Tower Territory and summoned four Shapeshifters through a magic array.
• Ace erased one Shapeshifter’s soul, used an improved Transcendent Transformation Method to turn it into a Moon-worshipping Wolf, and joined the next ritual through his clone projection.

After more than a year of studying the Bright Moon, Ace constructed and tested the first one-ring meditation method, which drew lunar magic into his Soul Secret Treasury Space and restarted the growth of his spiritual power. He named it the Bright Moon Meditation Method and planned to test and refine it further.

• Ace recorded his Beneficial State Star Body Projection Hypothesis in the Magic Book, describing how magical radiation could alter living things and their surroundings.
• Ace assembled Level 0 runes and auxiliary structures into a one-ring meditation spell model, designed to purify his mind, attune his magical radiation, and draw traits from a Primary Star.
• Ace activated the spell on the first day after the new moon and used the Bright Moon Rune to draw the moon’s scattered power into his Soul Secret Treasury Space.
• The Soul Secret Treasury Space transformed the Bright Moon’s trait magic, strengthening Ace’s soul and raising his spiritual scale after two years of stagnation.
• Ace declared the method successful, named it the Stable Bright Moon Projection Meditation Method, and planned further testing and revisions.

Ace improved the Soul Secret Treasury Space’s conversion of Bright Moon magical power and increased his mental strength to 15 scales. He encountered Tal Calimans, a Hero-class descendant of the God of Secrecy, and defeated him after Tal’s attempted assassination.

• Ace used his True Spirit to nearly double the conversion speed of Bright Moon magical power, but found the method exhausting and requiring a safe place to use.
• Ace left the Moon-worshipping Wolf pack and, about a month later, reached 15 scales of mental strength as his vitality magical power took on a lunar quality.
• Ace met Tal Calimans, who claimed to be a Hero-class descendant of the God of Secrecy, and used the Astrology Foresight Technique to assess him.
• Tal pretended to approach peacefully, then attacked Ace with a concealed dagger, but stabbed a false body made from Bright Moon magical power.
• Ace trapped Tal with the Lava Lake spell and attacks from Lava Hands, then struck him into the magma, where Tal died.

Ace killed Tal but was marked by Tal’s vengeance, leaving him unable to return safely to the High Tower Territory. As Bayern prepared to risk a formal wizard advancement, Ace sent him guidance through his avatar, while a pursuer arrived in Salia Forest.

• Ace discovered Tal’s secret mist marking him and fled after killing him.
• Karim learned Tal had died and ordered revenge against the enemy Tal had marked.
• Daina drank a Youth Potion and Sulu’s Youth-Preserving Potion to retain her youthful appearance.
• Bayern decided to undergo a formal wizard advancement experiment because his age left him little time to wait.
• Ace told Bayern that he could not return, then sent his avatar insights on advancement and the zero-ring Bright Moon Meditation Method.
• A pursuit reached northern Salia Forest as Bayern prepared to make his advancement preparations.

Ace escaped Karim and the Divine Descendant Heroes by entering the Reflection World, where he recovered from his injuries and discovered a realm filled with skeletons. He began observing a clever skeleton that absorbed other skeletons’ gray flames and named it Skeleton Subject No.1.

• Ace used the Reflection World to escape Karim’s encirclement, even as the Divine Descendant Heroes wounded him.
• Karim found that the tracking mark had vanished from the compass and ordered his people to guard the area and summon Ashley.
• Ace recovered in the Reflection World and found that groups of fragile skeletons had replaced the shadow creatures he expected.
• Ace watched a crippled humanoid skeleton absorb a rabbit skeleton’s gray flame and use it to regrow a leg bone.
• Ace observed the skeleton consciously hunting weaker creatures and strengthening its bones, then named it Skeleton Subject No.1.

Ace studied negative energy and the Reflection World while developing an open-ended second-ring Dream spell model. Meanwhile, Bayern failed to become an official wizard, and Ace’s first second-ring spell concept took shape.

• Ace built a bone castle in the Reflection World, set up a Negative Energy Conversion Pool, and researched the heart of a hidden divine descendant after eliminating the Stealth Mark.
• Ace’s rational duplicate published the Beneficial State Star Body Projection Hypothesis, and Advanced Wizard Apprentices began studying meditation methods based on it.
• Bayern’s mental strength reached 9.5 marks with the Bright Moon Meditation Method, while Betty’s Dawn Meditation Method brought her to 9.9 marks.
• Seventy-one Advanced Wizard Apprentices joined Bayern’s promotion ritual, but his mental strength stalled at 9.9 marks, and repeated attempts failed.
• Ace deciphered runes from the heart and the Mask of Suffering, then devised an open-ended second-ring Dream spell model using thirty Fusion Runes as interfaces.

Ace combined dream, soul-illusion, and simulation spell models, then returned to the main material plane to capture a Heroic-level descendant for an experiment. After defeating Shaser and escaping approaching Heroes, he continued gathering elemental runes in the jungle and completed his collection of the four elements.

• Ace linked the dream, soul-illusion, and simulated spell models, then decided to seek runes for positive energy and the four elements.
• Ace returned to the Salia Jungle and found Tus fleeing Shaser, a descendant of Erik.
• Ace protected Tus with a stone wall, then fought Shaser using the Four-Element Ring and repeated Touch of Frost spells.
• Ace detonated the Ice Soul damage with life wraith powder, extracted Shaser's frozen soul, and fled with his corpse as three Heroes approached.
• Ace returned to the jungle on later nights, killed a Mud Swamp Giant Rhinoceros, and gathered Level 1 runes for earth, fire, wind, and water.

Ace refined his theories about life, death, and magic, then entered Milne City in disguise to locate members of the Magic Council branch. He found Councilor Valen and revealed himself, leaving their meeting about to begin.

• Ace recorded his observations that positive energy sustained life while negative energy increased as creatures declined, but he could not explain how undead existed.
• Ace built a composite spell model from four second-ring spells, then spent a week correcting flaws before deciding not to copy it into the Soul Secret Treasury Space.
• Ace left the Reflection World and entered Milne City under a false identity, using altered memories to secure a home and legal status.
• Ace used his contract threads to locate Advanced Wizard Apprentice Valen without risking detection through perception magic.
• Valen activated his residence's magical defenses, but Ace dispelled them and greeted him as Councilor Valen.

Ace reunited with Valen in Milne City, then developed a Light and Dark Meditation Method and advanced it into a Two-Ring Spell Model. After reaching a spiritual scale of 51, he guided the new model into his Soul Secret Treasury Space, triggering a violent reaction.

• Ace confirmed his identity to Valen and learned that the Punishers had defeated the Fire Thief Alliance, while the organization’s hidden apprentices had mostly remained undercover.
• Ace read current research on Meditation Methods and created a First Ring Light and Dark Meditation Method that converted characteristic Magic Power more efficiently.
• Ace left Milne City and spent a year observing dawn and the full moon before completing the Two-Ring Light and Dark Meditation Method.
• Living in seclusion near Norton, Ace reached a spiritual scale of 51 and assembled a complete Two-Ring Spell Model built around dreams, illusions, simulated transcendent language, and six elemental crystals.
• Ace guided the Two-Ring Spell Model into his Soul Secret Treasury Space, which shook violently as a strange phenomenon began.

Ace created the Level 2 spell model True Illusion Dreamscape, transforming his Soul Secret Treasury Space and accidentally drawing an entire town into its dream. Back in the Reflection World, he investigated undead and discovered how Remnant Souls could become Soul Fire and animate skeletons.

• Ace used the composite spell model to transform his Soul Secret Treasury Space into a dream world and named the Level 2 spell model True Illusion Dreamscape.
• The spell’s Magic Reactions pulled the townsfolk into Ace’s dream, and he left before the Norton city-state sent a hero to investigate.
• Ace found that Experimental Subject No. 1 had become a skeletal heavy infantryman commanding twenty-three skeletal light infantrymen through a master-servant undead relationship.
• Ace studied captured undead and concluded that Soul Fire powered them, while stronger Soul Fire brought greater intelligence and could restore a skeletal body.
• Ace observed an undead grow stronger by drawing Remnant Souls from slain Demonic Beasts, then tested how Demonic Beasts died and their Remnant Souls became Soul Fire.
• In the Reflection World’s negative-energy environment, Demonic Beast corpses decayed to bones as their Remnant Souls became Soul Fire, raising new undead.

Ace developed spells to create undead and form contracts with them, then linked Contract Art to True Illusion Dreamscape and discovered that spell models could become rules within its dream world. He continued studying undead as a possible path to immortality, wondering whether preserving a True Spirit could keep an undead person’s identity intact.

• Ace tested how humans, Divine Descendant Heroes, and Demonic Beast Remnant Souls transformed into undead in negative energy.
• Ace created the Level 2 Negative Energy Zone spell and used Sunflare to destroy the undead it raised.
• Ace derived master-servant and mutually beneficial contracts, then completed the Level 2 Contract Art spell after three months of work.
• Ace linked Contract Art with True Illusion Dreamscape, causing the dream world to develop order and revealing how spells could become its rules.
• Ace recorded questions about preserving the True Spirit in undead and whether undeath could offer an alternative form of immortality.

Ace experimented with creating undead that retained their true spirits and memories, but found that these beings could not grow stronger. He began testing whether preserving a Hero-class subject’s heart before death could give the undead a way to advance.

• Ace found that extracting an Earth Ape’s true spirit directly shattered its soul, then discovered he could capture the spirit as the dying soul became a Remnant Soul and bind it to Soul Fire.
• Ace created an undead with a true spirit and confirmed that it acted intelligently, though he could not tell whether it retained memories from life.
• The Punisher Organization blamed the Dark Crow Devil for attacks on its members and ordered an investigation, unaware that Ace was seeking experimental subjects.
• Ace transformed a Godborn Hero-class individual into undead and confirmed through its dreams that it remembered its former life and the Dark Crow Devil.
• Ace found that his special undead could not increase their strength, so he removed a Hero-class subject’s heart before death and placed the processed true spirit inside it after transforming the subject.

Ace developed a method for creating Skeleton Life Caskets that could preserve and control Skeleton Warriors, while Bayern’s research showed that some Divine Descendants could become wizards. Ace argued that wizard associations should recruit Unawakened Divine Inspired, and the chapter left Valen and Caroso waiting for the High Tower’s approval to act.

• Ace discovered that a true-spirit heart could sustain a Skeleton Warrior even after its Soul Fire was extinguished, and that destroying the heart would kill it.
• Ace combined Bone-melting Water, a Spirit-trấn Fruit, and the remains of a heart to create a Skeleton Life Casket that could bind and control a Skeleton Warrior.
• Ace read Bayern’s research, which concluded that Unawakened Divine Inspired could follow the wizard’s path, while awakened Divine Descendants were barred from it.
• Ace told Valen and Caroso that Unawakened Divine Inspired made up most Divine Nobles and could be won over to undermine their rule.
• Valen and Caroso agreed that recruitment was worth pursuing but waited for orders from the High Tower.

Ace proposed testing the distribution of Magic Books in Milne, and Vite received a new Magic Book that could help him pursue citizenship and marry Misha. Though Dove urged him to leave for the High Tower, Vite stayed in Milne and secretly watched Misha, who confessed that she missed him.

• Ace suggested using Milne as a testing ground to undermine the divine descendants’ rule, and Valen proposed distributing Magic Books through one isolated network.
• Dove urged Vite to leave for the High Tower, but Vite refused because he wanted to stay with Misha and become a citizen so he could marry her.
• Dove showed Vite a message in his Magic Book and guided him through an Equivalent Exchange ritual for a new Magic Book.
• Dove warned Vite to conceal his identity, choose a codename, and learn transformation spells before the district’s underground gathering.
• Vite learned Lesser Facial Transformation and Lesser Body Transformation, disguised himself, and secretly visited Misha’s home.
• Vite watched Misha from outside her window as she told a seashell that she missed him and wanted him to become a citizen so they could marry.

Misha became Vite’s Magic apprentice and began studying, while Vite received an invitation to a secret Magic salon. He went to the designated statue in search of contact, but the chapter ended before he discovered the salon’s secret.

• Misha completed a contract with the gray cat, Mister 'Talle,' and later pounced on Vite, believing she was still dreaming.
• Misha accepted her new closeness with Vite, began learning Magic from Mister 'Talle,' and struggled with logic and Elementary Mathematics.
• Three young nobles resented Misha’s relationship with Vite and discussed a plan to separate them.
• Vite received an invitation from Red Hemp to attend a Magic salon and knock on Rudolph's full-body statue three times.
• Vite watched people approach and interact with the statue, but found no sign of anyone contacting him.

Vite followed a magical invitation to a hidden salon, where he attended a discussion on elemental meditation and found a paper about practical negative-energy curses. The salon meeting began, leaving Vite focused on the paper by Caroso.

• Vite received instructions in his palm and used six elemental Lesser Runes to open a concealed door.
• Vite met Mrs. Fornis and Guard Dog, who brought him to the salon under the code name Talle.
• A wizard apprentice in a crying-face mask began a discussion about applications of the Beneficial State Star Body Projection Hypothesis.
• Vite read the latest issue of Magic and became interested in Caroso's paper on three practical negative-energy curses.

Vite received an incomplete astrology prophecy warning of a calamity and jealousy, while Ace began testing lich transformation on one of his avatars. The chapter left Ace observing the avatar’s body and soul deteriorate as its Soul Secret Treasury Space neared collapse.

• Vite studied curse runes at the Magic Salon and accepted a free astrology reading from Fornis.
• Fornis prophesied that a calamity star was descending and warned Vite to be careful, but the Guard Dog interrupted before she could finish.
• Vite returned home unsettled by the prophecy and wondered what its missing words had been.
• Ace reviewed his immortality research and decided to use one of his True Spirit's Shadows to conduct the lich transformation experiment.
• Ace created an avatar with a first-ring dreamscape, gave it a Level 1 body, and exposed it to Undead Transmutation.
• Ace sensed the avatar weakening as its perceptions blurred and its Soul Secret Treasury Space began to collapse.

Ace created an unusual living phylactery for his clone, while Misha was arrested and tortured by Punishers seeking to frame Vite. As Vite headed to help her family, someone pulled him into the crowd.

• Ace preserved the Soul Secret Treasury Space, roasted the True Spirit's Shadow, and sealed them with part of his own soul in a black octahedral phylactery.
• The clone's Soul Fire went out, shattering the phylactery's balance and unleashing the power of life.
• Hel and Gaul's Uncle seized Misha from her home, accusing her of ties to the blasphemer Vite.
• Gaul's Uncle and two Punishers decided to brand Misha and her family blasphemers to meet their arrest quota, while Misha refused to betray Vite under torture.
• Vite woke with inspiration for toxin runes, then saw Misha's parents being taken to the Punishment Hall and was pulled into the crowd by an unknown person.