Chapter Summaries

Ace used Bunyan’s Artisan Bloodline to prepare the Hammer of False Vassal to deconstruct the Legendary Skeletal Dragon’s finger bone, then gave the starving Luna a dose of his blood aura. Luna awakened as a Heartfire Warrior and learned that her new path offered power but also danger.

• Ace tested the Legendary Skeletal Dragon’s finger bone against the Glazed Heart Flame, but it melted only slowly.
• Alesha suggested using the Hammer of False Vassal, and Ace began preparing it with Bunyan’s Artisan Bloodline.
• Ace recovered his magic while Luna, hungry and alone, struggled to find food.
• Ace revealed himself to Luna, told her she lacked the talent and resolve for wizardry, and offered her another path to the extraordinary.
• Ace gave Luna his blood aura, which healed and strengthened her before a nightmare in his Mindscape tested her.
• Ace declared Luna a Heartfire Warrior on the Blood-Aura Heart Flame Path and warned her not to expose herself.

Ace made Luna his disciple and secretly taught her the Warrior’s Path, a method for ordinary people to transcend their limits through blood energy. After awakening from the instruction, Luna practiced the method and condensed her first blood energy.

• Ace sealed knowledge of the Blood Energy Heart Flame Path in a ruby and formed a contract with Luna forbidding her to reveal his name or origins.
• Luna awoke the next day, touched the ruby, and fell back asleep into a dream of Ace.
• Ace identified himself as a Firebearer, warned Luna to keep the Warrior’s Path secret, and explained its foundations in combat skills, training, and blood energy.
• Ace taught Luna the Blood-Food Transport Method and demonstrated its walking, sitting, and lying postures.
• Luna woke at evening, practiced the postures, and gathered blood energy into a small cluster at her chest.

Luna awakened her blood energy, accidentally destroyed her home, and declared herself a warrior before setting out to find food. Ace avoided Byens City after sensing a Legendary Hero and a power tied to dreams, then strengthened his Dream Manifestation and began helping Alesha create a bonded magic artifact.

• Luna learned that her blood-red gem had entered the hollow in her chest and that accumulating blood energy there would eventually let her ignite Heartfire.
• Luna used blood energy to leap, heal her forehead, and punch a beam, causing her wooden home to collapse; she then headed toward the village chief's hens.
• Ace approached Byens City, detected a level 3 Legendary Hero and dream-related power, and decided not to enter until he was stronger.
• Ace hid near Baird and modified his Dream Manifestation with runes from the Level 2 Artisan Bloodline, filling the Dream World's sky with weapon phantoms.
• Alesha resonated with the Dream World as her Artisan Bloodline emerged, and Ace offered to help create a bonded magic artifact; Alesha chose forging over forgery.

Ace forged Alesha a bound magic tool called Wonder Creation and then mastered the Hammer of False Vassal. Using runes extracted from a dragon bone and dragon breath, he rebuilt the Six-Elemental Ring and embedded the completed spell model in his Rune Pyramid.

• Ace forged Alesha a crystal hammer from her bloodline power and their resonance, giving it the ability Wonder Creation.
• Ace sent a clone to tutor Alesha in magic while he prepared to master the Hammer of False Vassal.
• Ace spent five days mastering the Hammer of False Vassal, which enhanced his abilities to the effectiveness of a Level 3 Legend but rapidly drained his magic power.
• Ace used the hammer to break down a Legendary Skeletal Dragon’s severed finger and sealed dragon breath, recording their death, undeath, and negative-energy runes.
• Ace used the captured Golden Runes to reconstruct the Six-Elemental Ring, then embedded the completed spell model at the top of his Rune Pyramid.

Ace scattered Blood-Energy Gems across Bai Ensi and neighboring territories to teach ordinary mortals the Warrior's Path, accepting responsibility for the upheaval that might follow. Luna, already awakened to blood-energy, survived in the wilderness and killed a wolf, while rumors in her former village branded her a devil-touched beast.

• Ace named the Primordial Golden Spell the Golden Element Ring and watched his Mindscape stabilize after its dream world endured catastrophic changes.
• Ace prepared Blood-Energy Gems containing basic Warrior's Path knowledge and designed dream trials to screen those who tried to use them.
• Ace scattered more than three hundred concealed Blood-Energy Gems across Bai Ensi and neighboring territories, where mortals began finding them.
• Luna, driven from her village after stealing a chicken, fought and killed a hungry wolf in the wilderness using her awakened blood-energy.
• Luna drank the wolf's blood as a hunter watched without intervening, and villagers spread rumors the next day that she had become a devil's beast.

Ace waited for the Legendary Hero to leave Byens City, then infiltrated the city under a stolen identity to investigate its people and ruling family. After surveying the city, he chose O'Neal Byens, a young nobleman from a distant branch of the city lord’s family, as his next identity.

• Ace decided to wait briefly for a change in Byens City before continuing his journey, while planning to use the Warrior's Path to challenge the divine descendants.
• Betty, Daina, and Arno worried about Ace’s disappearance at the High Tower Territory and agreed to keep the news from spreading.
• A pale golden figure left Byens City, and Ace entered the city by hiding in a farmer’s shadow as the Dream Mist receded.
• Ace took over a passerby’s identity as Lurxi, a general-store helper, and used the disguise to explore Byens City.
• Ace learned about O'Neal Byens, the sole survivor of a distant branch of the city lord’s family, and decided to take his identity.

Ace learned that the Three Sons of Dreams could threaten his path, so he left Byens and traveled east to Tidal Port. There, he began placing blood energy gems with carefully chosen adolescent citizens while seeking his next opportunity.

• Ace used O'Neil's identity to learn about Alsop and the Three Sons of Dreams, then erased O'Neil's recent memories and left Byens for Tidal Port.
• Alsop returned to Byens after Ace departed and searched unsuccessfully for the dream creature he had sensed.
• Ace reached Tidal Port, disguised himself as a local, and chose to stay rather than immediately cross the Sea of Mist.
• Ace searched for adolescent citizens suited to the Warrior's Path and scattered a little over twenty blood energy gems.

Ace discovered that Bayern had returned as a one-ring wizard and was treating the sick in Tidal Port with his disciples under the name of Demigod Thoth's chosen one. After Ace revealed himself, Bayern immediately attacked him with a curse.

• Ace heard that Bayern had arrived in Tidal Port as Demigod Thoth's chosen one and followed the crowds to the harbor in disguise.
• Ace recognized Bayern as a Level 1 life and observed that his disciples were wizard apprentices using spells and New Medicine to treat patients for free.
• Ace joined the treatment line, used magic to make Miseon postpone treating him, and watched Bayern and his disciples care for the sick.
• After the patients left, Bayern questioned Miseon about Ace, and Ace revealed himself as a one-ring wizard.
• Bayern recognized Ace and launched a curse at him.

Ace subdued Bayern and his apprentices, then verified Bayern’s loyalty to the High Tower and welcomed them into his Dream World. He began rewarding them with magic essence, while taking Bayern to the Lake of Magic Power to stabilize his Level 1 life state and plan his path to becoming a Second Ring Wizard.

• Ace used Eye of Fear, Dream Mist, a Teleportation Gate, shadow restraints, and sealing runes to capture Bayern and his apprentices.
• At an inn in Tidal Port, Ace questioned Bayern and confirmed through an oath that he had not betrayed the High Tower or the wizard collective.
• Ace removed Bayern’s seals, apologized, and invited him and his apprentices into his Mindscape dream world.
• Ace showed Bayern’s group the palace and flooded its hall with refined liquefied magic power for the apprentices to absorb.
• Ace brought Bayern to the Lake of Magic Power and offered to stabilize his Level 1 life state and help him find a path to becoming a Second Ring Wizard.

Bayern stabilized his life state with Ace’s help and recounted his years abroad, including his encounter with Demigod Thoth. The chapter ended with Thoth offering Bayern his favor and promising to make him one of his followers.

• Ace told Bayern his life state had stabilized, then gave him spatial solute to expand his Soul Secret Treasury Space.
• Bayern absorbed the spatial solute, thanked Ace, and began recounting the six or seven years since leaving the High Tower Territory.
• Bayern described sailing to the Old Continent, rejecting lichdom, and working as a physician to gather materials and search for a way to advance.
• A mysterious patient appeared before Bayern, disabled his magic, and transported him to a temple.
• Bayern and the man discussed logic, mathematics, and medicine for nearly three days, until the man revealed he was Demigod Thoth and offered Bayern his favor.

Bayern recounted how Thoth granted him a special favor that raised him to Level 1 without making him abandon the Wizard's Path, then discussed with Ace the possibility of an alliance. Bayern and his disciples left Tidal Port with Ace and continued their journey toward the High Tower Territory.

• Thoth warned Bayern not to speculate about a demigod's path, then agreed to help him advance while he remained a wizard.
• Bayern removed Thoth's favor as a crystalline bead, retaining a permanent boost to his body and soul while stabilizing at Level 1.
• Ace and Bayern discussed seeking Thoth's support, since the wizards needed a god's protection to join the world's existing order.
• Bayern's disciples awakened with improved wizard-apprentice ranks, and Bayern agreed to return with Ace after offering free consultations in Tidal Port.
• Bayern and his disciples sailed away with Ace, who brought them into the Mindscape and left the sailors unconscious with no memories.
• Bayern taught Magic knowledge in the Mindscape while Alesha ignored the lesson to play with her crystal hammer.

Ace returned to High Tower Territory with Bayern, who had become an official wizard after seven years away. Arno and the nine official wizards welcomed them, while Ace explained to Daina that a legendary Bone Dragon had left him stranded in the Artemis Kingdom.

• Arno watched the autumn harvest near Nightglow City before spotting an approaching object that the warning barrier had failed to detect.
• Polina ordered the defensive barrier lowered after learning that Ace and Bayern were returning.
• Ace arrived with Bayern, and Arno introduced himself as the territory’s only Level 2 life besides Ace.
• Bayern apologized to Arno for probing him with Perception Technique and introduced himself to the nine official wizards.
• Logan asked Bayern about his advancement, while Sulu and the others marveled that Bayern had become an official wizard.
• Ace avoided Daina’s worried gaze and told her that a legendary Bone Dragon had reduced him to a head before he escaped to the Old Continent.

Ace prepared to transform Ancesta into an undead Knight while reinforcing Auli's ice coffin to preserve her until he could remove the legendary corruption. After successfully activating the ritual array, he prepared to test it and brought out more than a hundred Level 2 Star Magic Stones.

• Ace offered an exclusive body-regeneration spell to whoever among his companions became a Golden Wizard first, then welcomed Bayern at a banquet and arranged for Alesha and Bayern's disciples to study at the Junior Magic School.
• Ace reinforced Auli's ice coffin with frost and runes, estimating that it would preserve her for at least fifty years.
• Ace moved Ancesta's coffin to the laboratory and spent about half a month constructing and calibrating an undead Knight transformation array until it activated successfully.
• Ace asked Arno to hunt three to five Advanced Demonic Beasts to test the ritual, and Arno flew north toward the Lar Mountains.
• Ace refined more than a hundred Level 2 Star Magic Stones in the Mindscape dream world and brought them through its Space Gate into the laboratory.

Ace perfected the Undead Knight Conversion Array and created three Level 2 undead Demonic Beasts for the High Tower Territory. He then summoned Ancesta into the Dream World to confirm whether he still agreed to become an undead Knight.

• Ace meditated for three days, producing more than three hundred Star Magic Stones as wizard apprentices and official wizards gathered to benefit from his starry sky.
• Arno returned with three unconscious Advanced Demonic Beasts, and Ace began testing the Undead Knight Conversion Array on them.
• Ace’s first conversion failed when the array tore apart a true spirit, and his second failed because it did not preserve the Demonic Beast’s power core.
• Ace adjusted the array, successfully converted one Advanced Demonic Beast, and contracted it through Gensokyo so Council members could summon it to fight.
• Arno brought back two more Advanced Demonic Beasts, and Ace converted both, giving the High Tower Territory three Level 2 undead Demonic Beasts.
• Ace sent Arno to gather the official wizards, then met Ancesta in the Dream World, where Ancesta knelt and asked if the ritual was about to begin.

Ace transformed Ancesta’s remains, hoping to preserve his virtue while making him an undead Knight. Holy light transformed the Soul Fire and true spirit, and Ancesta began to rise as a burning skeleton while Arno embraced the abyss.

• Ace confirmed that Ancesta chose to become an undead Knight so he could fulfill his remaining duties.
• Ace used the Golden Element Ring, magic arrays, and Glazed Heart Flame to restore Ancesta’s heart and remove the utmost evil from his body.
• When Ancesta’s true spirit met his Soul Fire, Virtue Holy Light erupted and transformed both into pure-white forms.
• Arno recited the knights’ vows as black Abomination enveloped him, and he declared that he would use the abyss to crush the abyss.
• The holy light destroyed the magic array, and Ancesta rose as a burning skeleton with the heart of Sacrifice flying beneath his ribs.

Ace witnessed Ancesta’s transformation into a Golden Grade Skeleton Knight infused with Virtue Holy Light and helped him learn to speak. Ancesta remained mentally stable, while Ace began developing a spell that mimicked the Eight Virtues; a notice at the end said the chapter’s content had been replaced and its title was temporarily locked.

• Ace watched the Skeleton Knight Ancesta unite the Eight Virtue Runes into a golden composite rune, transforming an ordinary longsword into a Golden Grade Mystery Item.
• Ancesta’s call summoned a Skeletal Pegasus from Mount Baal, and it flew north toward him at tremendous speed.
• Betty, Bayern, and Polina waited outside the sealed second floor and discussed the strange appearance of Virtue Holy Light amid negative energy.
• Ace taught Ancesta to control the Sound Rune, and Ancesta said the Mercy Creed in his heart kept his mind stable and free of madness.
• Ace formed a ring of mimicked Eight Virtues in his Mindscape as the group’s understanding of Ancesta’s condition remained incomplete.
• A site notice said the chapter’s wrong content had been replaced and its title could not yet be changed.

Ace learned how Ancesta formed the Loyalty Rune before a sudden attack brought Ancesta and Arno into conflict. After their overnight battle, the High Tower Territory’s knights divided into two orders, and Ace forged golden armor for Ancesta.

• Ancesta explained that understanding Loyalty as faithfulness to one’s path had strengthened his Virtue Rune and might help him break through his current realm.
• Ace and Ancesta reminisced until a fireball struck Nightglow City’s defensive barrier, and Ancesta charged into the sky to meet a Skeletal Pegasus.
• Ace opened the barrier, and Ancesta mounted the Pegasus as holy flames erupted and affected the people of Nightglow City.
• Arno struggled against his Abomination Claws, and Ancesta challenged him to settle their conflict in the southern mountains; Ace told the wizards not to follow.
• Ancesta and Arno returned at sunrise, after which the High Tower Territory’s knights split into the Virtue Knights Order and the Abyss Knights Order.
• At Ancesta’s request, Ace forged him a set of Golden Grade Full Body Armor.

Ace returned to his parents’ villa after years away and slept while Marina and Romon quietly cared for him. He woke to a warm family reunion and shared wine with his father.

• Ancesta thanked Ace for the armor and asked to travel across the New Continent after another year of training; Ace agreed and gave him half of the Dream Emblem.
• Ace realized he had not visited his parents for years, went to their villa at night, and fell asleep on the living-room sofa.
• Marina found Ace the next morning, woke Romon, and the two covered their sleeping son with a blanket before preparing breakfast quietly.
• Ace woke at noon to the familiar smells of Marina’s cooking, and Romon invited him to drink wine.
• Ace asked why Romon had not taken the Lesser youth potion, but Romon waved off the concern and handed him a can of grape wine.

Ace visited his parents, Romon and Marina, and realized how much he had neglected them while pursuing his research. He used Blood-Energy Gems to restore their vitality and help them begin the Warrior’s Path, but the conversation ended with his parents urging him to have descendants.

• Ace shared a meal and wine with Romon and Marina, who had missed him but avoided burdening him.
• Ace apologized for neglecting his parents and offered to help them live longer by cultivating the Warrior’s Path.
• Ace infused Romon and Marina with Blood-Energy Gems and guided them as they absorbed the blood energy and formed a reserve in their bodies.
• Romon and Marina admired their rejuvenated appearances, then explained that they wanted Ace to consider leaving behind descendants.

Ace left home after his parents urged him to consider having a child with Daina, then encountered her by the Runlight River. After an awkward first approach, he asked her to wait while he sorted out his feelings, and the two spent the evening walking hand in hand before he escorted her home.

• Romon and Marina urged Ace to leave them a grandchild and suggested he consider Daina, but Ace blushed and asked them not to act rashly.
• Ace met Daina by the Runlight River, where she tried to fall into his arms but landed in his Hand of Magic.
• When Daina tried to leave, Ace flashed in front of her and they bumped heads; he then stroked her cheek and asked her to wait while he figured things out.
• Daina asked Ace to take a walk with her, and the two held hands under the Formless Concealment Technique as they wandered through the city.
• Ace escorted Daina to her residence and left before she could ask him to stay.