Chapter Summaries

The Council made calculus compulsory after recognizing its power to advance magical research. In the sealed West Tower, Ace declared the foundations of Mechanics of Magic and transformed his Mindscape as the laws of motion took hold.

• Daina, Eddy, and Bru praised calculus, and Bayern proposed making it a required subject at the Magic School.
• The Council passed a resolution requiring calculus for graduation, while Bayern learned that Ace had sealed West Tower for research.
• Ace used an observatory atop West Tower to declare his assumptions and scope for Mechanics of Magic.
• Ace wrote the first law of motion, and a storm rose as the stars in his Mindscape began moving by inertia.
• Ace stated the second and third laws, and the Great Source transformed his Mindscape into a radiant model of the Inner World.
• Valen watched Ace's manifested Mindscape illuminate the High Tower Territory and wondered whether it revealed the truth of the world.

Ace proclaimed the Law of Universal Gravitation, earning the Great Source’s favor as his Astrological Universe solidified and he approached the legendary realm. Thoth recognized Ace as a possible Child of the World and decided to wager on him, while the chapter ended with Ace’s universe model entering his Mindscape and a blazing sun appearing over the High Tower Territory.

• Bayern watched Ace’s celestial universe take shape, and Thoth appeared to offer to guard the place.
• The witch and Soron witnessed the phenomenon over Nightglow City and discussed allying with the High Tower wizards.
• Ace proclaimed that all objects attract one another according to their masses and the square of the distance between them.
• Thoth sensed the Great Source’s favor and considered Ace a possible Child of the World, deciding it was time to cast the dice of fate.
• Ace’s universe model entered his Mindscape, and a blazing sun rose over the High Tower Territory as his eyes turned white.

Ace became a Level 3 legend and chose to invest the Great Source’s gift in his dream foundation rather than complete a gravity-controlling mystic artifact. He began negotiating with Demigod Thoth over becoming the High Tower Territory’s Guardian God while the West Tower remained sealed.

• Ace reached Level 3 as his body and soul surpassed the Golden Grade limit, and his Mindscape began solidifying.
• Ace abandoned the gravity mystic artifact and used the Great Source’s aura to deduce the Level 3 runes for dreams and manifestation.
• Ace’s dream universe took shape according to the Three Laws of Motion and the Law of Universal Gravitation, and he used the remaining aura to develop its sun and moon into mystic artifacts.
• Demigod Thoth confronted Ace and angrily criticized him for not using the Great Source’s gift to complete the gravity artifact.
• Ace invited Thoth to discuss becoming the Guardian God of the High Tower Territory, and the two entered the sealed West Tower reception hall.
• Bayern announced that no one could approach the West Tower while Ace consolidated his gains, as the territory’s residents speculated about his breakthrough.

Ace reached a covenant with Demigod Thoth, renaming the High Tower Territory Thoth State and securing divine protection for magic and its people. He explained the new political arrangement to the Council, then began investigating the power of status.

• Bayern, Betty, Logan, Arno, Ancesta, and the other Council members entered the West Tower after Ace invited them in, and they found Thoth gone, leaving a statue behind.
• Ace announced Thoth’s protection pact and renamed the High Tower Territory Thoth City-state, then led the Council in moving Thoth’s statue to an open space near City Hall Plaza.
• A temple appeared where the statue had stood, and the witch and Soron decided to leave after condemning the High Tower wizards’ pact with a god.
• Thoth arrived in divine light and declared a covenant with Ace and the people, naming Thoth the state’s Guardian God and recognizing the Magic Council and extraordinary paths.
• Ace told the Council that Thoth State would have a constitutional monarchy, that Thoth and the Lady of Night would protect magic, and that Thoth would receive eighty percent of the power of City-State Status.
• After Bayern asked what the power of status was, Ace used the Eye of Delusion Breaking and saw different colored lights rising from the Council members.

Ace explained how divinity drew power from organized institutions and used a Divinity Ring to strengthen the wizards’ life-bound magic artifacts. In his Mindscape, he developed powerful dream and manifestation spells, resolved to eliminate the Three Sons of Dreams as rivals, and began forging the dream sun and moon into treasures.

• Ace explained that divinity was a resource controlled through Guardian Gods, then asked the wizards to show him their life-bound magic artifacts.
• Ace summoned the Divinity Ring and used its power to solidify the wizards’ artifacts and install safety valves, while Bayern went to notify the Advanced Wizard Apprentices.
• Ace entered his Mindscape and reviewed how Eternal Dream could reduce beings to dream lifeforms and True Projection could manifest dream beings in reality.
• Ace spread the Dream World across Nightglow City, excluding the temples, gaining temporary omniscience and omnipotence before dispelling it as his magic power drained.
• Ace decided he had to defeat the Three Sons of Dreams to secure the Dream Path and began refining the dream sun and moon into stellar treasures.

Ace abandoned plans to refine artifacts from the sun and moon and traveled to the Calamity Sword Constellation to gather its stars’ primordial fire for a stellar artifact. He began drawing fire from one star through the Glazed Heart Flame, while recognizing that uniting the thirteen stars could amount to a path to godhood.

• Ace decided that artifacts made from the sun’s and moon’s ordinary radiance would be weaker than ones made from stellar essence.
• Ace observed the Calamity Sword Constellation and used repeated long-distance teleportations to reach its thirteen stars.
• Ace sensed the stars’ magic of calamity, ill fortune, and slaughter, and judged that together they might form a god or a path to godhood.
• Ace planned to make a stellar artifact first and later gather resources for a stronger gravity-based quasi-rule artifact.
• Ace used the Glazed Heart Flame to reach into a star’s core and draw out its Primordial Fire.

Ace harvested Star Primordial Flame from the thirteen stars of the Calamity Sword Constellation and used his Eye of True Knowledge to replicate their cores as dream stars and degrade their runes. As Valen observed the stars merging and pondered whether wizards could become gods, Ace finished preparing the thirteen dream stars and held Great Source aura, poised to complete his work.

• Ace extracted Star Primordial Flame from each of the thirteen stars, creating a corresponding dream star for each one.
• Ace used Great Source aura to advance his Eye of Delusion Breaking into the Five-Ring Spell Eye of True Knowledge and absorbed the Level 3 runes from the Hammer of False Vassal.
• Ace merged a dream star with its real counterpart and used the Eye of True Knowledge to copy the star's core runes, degrading them into Level 3 runes.
• Valen observed the companion stars appearing and merging with the stars of the Calamity Sword Constellation, then recorded the anomaly and wondered whether stars could make wizards into gods.
• Ace finished replicating and degrading the runes of all thirteen stars and floated above the constellation with Great Source aura in hand.

Ace forged the thirteen-star Calamity Sword as a perpetual Epic Treasure Tool, then the Thoth City-state crowned Emisha queen while wizards prepared to study his newly published Mechanics of Magic. The chapter ended with Bru opening the journal and realizing it contained calculus-based proofs of the Three Laws of Motion.

• Ace used his remaining Great Source aura to transform the thirteen dream stars into stellar Treasure Tools and combine them into the Calamity Sword.
• Ace returned to Nightglow City and declared that the constellation Treasure Tool could wound demigods and slay legends, while speculating that it might one day ascend further.
• The Magic Council's Review Board approved an issue of Magic containing only Ace's Mechanics of Magic, and Emisha Thoth became queen of the Thoth City-state under the contract with Ace.
• Emisha toured the city with Eddy and wondered whether she could become a bloodline sorcerer and join the Magic Council.
• Eddy explained that the wizards were tense because a new theoretical revolution had appeared.
• Bru opened the issue of Magic and found Ace's calculus-based proofs of the Three Laws of Motion.

After reading Ace’s Mechanics of Magic, Bayern rebuilt his astrological worldview around the Three Laws of Motion and universal gravitation, then developed a new foundation for prophecy. Valen began writing a paper to verify Ace’s theories, while Bayern’s Astrological Prophecy advanced him to Golden Wizard.

• Bru realized the Three Laws of Motion made the world understandable, while Bayern’s old astrological model collapsed under Ace’s theory.
• Bayern studied Ace’s mathematical demonstrations and accepted Mechanics of Magic as a rigorous explanation of motion.
• Valen compared universal gravitation and the Three Laws against his astronomical records, confirmed they matched, and began writing a paper to verify them.
• Bayern constructed an Astrological Universe in his Mindscape and integrated prophecy runes into it.
• Bayern formed a new Three-Ring Astrological Prophecy spell based on determinism and advanced to Golden Wizard.

After studying Ace’s “Mechanics of Magic,” Bru and Lich Vite advanced to Level 1, joining a wave of breakthroughs among the High Tower wizards. Ace welcomed sixteen new quasi-official wizards into the Magic Council, mourned the apprentices who died, and then departed to seek a great existence from another world.

• Bru told Allen and Eva that reading “Mechanics of Magic” had led him to advance to Level 1.
• Vite used the Three Laws and universal gravitation to reconstruct his Life Star’s trajectory and naturally advanced to Level 1.
• Ace welcomed sixteen newly advanced quasi-official wizards to the Magic Council and announced that wizards of Level 2 and above would serve on the Committee Members’ Review Council.
• Ace led the wizards in mourning twenty-one Advanced Wizard Apprentices who had died after “Mechanics of Magic” was released.
• Ace offered to share his Star Level 1 runes and structures, then left an official-wizard-strength incarnation to advise the others.
• Ace’s main body departed beneath the starry sky to seek a great existence from another world.

Ace used the Life Source Essence to locate the Crystal Dragon and won its attention by offering food. After three days of feasting, the Crystal Dragon asked whether Ace was interested in becoming a God of Gourmet Food.

• Demigod Thoth created an avatar named Hooke Thoth and obtained permission from Queen Emisha for him to enroll in Magic School.
• Ace manifested his Dreamscape Starry Sky in the Lar Mountains and used the Life Source Essence to seek its owner, draining nearly all his Magic Power.
• Ace glimpsed the Crystal Dragon in the Sea of Reality and Illusion, and their meeting caused his constellation artifacts to fuse with him and raise his strength to Perpetual Epic.
• The Crystal Dragon recognized Ace as food from their previous encounter, shrank to meet him, and asked for more to eat.
• Logan gathered food from across Nightglow City for Ace’s mission, and the Crystal Dragon ate for three days before declaring itself eighty percent full.
• The Crystal Dragon explained that the God of Gourmet Food controlled the domain of food and asked Ace whether he was interested.

Ace negotiated with the Crystal Dragon Pararanda to exchange the prototype of the Transcendent Culinary domain for the secret art of Astral Travel. They formed a contract witnessed by the Great Source, with Pararanda agreeing to give Ace Level 3 Space Knowledge first.

• Ace asked Pararanda to teach him the method of traversing worlds, and she demanded the prototype of the Transcendent Culinary domain in exchange.
• Ace questioned whether the proposed trade was fair and tried to negotiate better terms without revealing that he did not know what the domain was.
• When Ace mentioned consulting Thoth, Pararanda offered the complete Astral Travel knowledge and Level 3 Space Knowledge to keep their deal private.
• Pararanda and Ace traveled to the Outer World and formed a Great Source-witnessed contract requiring Ace to help her obtain the domain prototype in return for Astral Travel knowledge.
• Pararanda promised to give Ace Level 3 Space Knowledge as an advance, and the Great Source recorded the contract.

Ace recovered his Magic Power by resonating with the stars, while the apprentices watched and learned to meditate. He then gathered Nightglow City’s supernatural delicacy practitioners for Palalanda, who drew out their Gourmet Magic Power and produced a sphere of pale azure light.

• Ace used the Dreamscape Starry Sky Universe to resonate with celestial bodies and rapidly restore his Magic Power.
• Hooke Thoth and the new apprentices watched Ace’s meditation as Teacher Sigrid encouraged them to meditate and seek their destiny stars.
• At Ace’s instruction, Logan gathered more than twelve hundred Magic delicacy practitioners at the military camp and welcomed them with a feast.
• Ace joined the practitioners and helped Palalanda bring the gathering’s culinary activity to a peak.
• Palalanda drew Gourmet Magic Power from the practitioners, swallowed the resulting food phantoms, and spat out a sphere of pale azure light.

Ace watched as the Crystal Dragon Palalanda gathered the Hearts of Gourmet Food of Nightglow City’s residents and established the foundation of a true god through the Transcendent Gourmet Domain. Palalanda thanked Ace and gave him the knowledge of Astral Travel, while warning him that the technique was dangerous for a Level 3 being.

• Palalanda called upon the Hearts of Gourmet Food in Nightglow City, but the gathered power initially lacked enough resources to transform into a true domain.
• Ace explained to Thoth that he had chosen to help Palalanda because wizards needed greater power, and Thoth urged him to consult him in the future.
• Palalanda declared that its own Heart of Gourmet Food would rule the domain and merged its power with the gathered light, gaining the foundation of a true god.
• Palalanda privately spoke with Thoth, then gave Ace the knowledge of Astral Travel and warned him that using it as a Level 3 being would be extremely dangerous.

Ace realized that laws and domains offered distinct paths for wizards, and prophesied that wizards could advance through either domains or reproducible law artifacts. He chose to pursue both paths, then began writing a treatise on subjectivity, objectivity, and laws.

• Ace studied his thirteen stellar artifacts and concluded that laws could be understood and used without being changed.
• Ace prophesied that wizards would follow either a domain path or a law-based vocational path, with fourth-level wizards becoming Legendary wizards.
• The Great Source blessed Ace, raising his physical and spiritual strength to 2,000 units.
• Ace decided to pursue the domain path through Dream Manifestation and the law path through the Law of Universal Gravitation.
• Ace returned to his study and began writing “Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Laws,” laying out four shared understandings about laws.

Ace introduced the Magic Council members to a framework for building vocational paths from objective laws, then studied spatial knowledge and integrated a new spell into his Dream Domain. He resolved to use domains as his foundation and laws as their extension, aiming to become both a demigod and a legend.

• Ace shared his ideas about subjectivity, objectivity, and laws with Bayern, Logan, and Betty, and warned them to respect the scope of laws and keep his article restricted to Level Two wizards.
• Betty asked whether she could use the Phlogiston Theory to create a law-based magical artifact and open a legendary vocation, and Ace explained that theories could change.
• Bayern read the article and privately committed to developing a prophetic artifact based on gravity and the distribution of objects.
• Ace studied Level Three spatial knowledge and constructed the Five-Ring Spell, Dimensional Grasp, after optimizing its rune structure.
• Ace embedded Dimensional Grasp into True Dream, spatializing part of his Mindscape and strengthening its dream starry-sky world.
• Ace declared that he would build on the Dream Domain with the path of laws and, after accumulating resources, seek to become both a demigod and a legend.

Ace resolved to unite the divine and wizard paths through the Dream Domain, while Valen pursued a way to measure the universal gravitation constant. Valen spotted a possible solution in the sunlight reflected by children’s mirrors and hurried back to his villa to work on it.

• Ace compared the advantages and dangers of the divine and wizard paths, then declared that his own path would combine their strengths through the Dream Domain.
• Valen continued building an instrument to measure Earth’s mass, but struggled to detect the tiny movement caused by universal gravitation.
• Sulu admitted he could not help with Valen’s research, complained about calculus and Bayern, and fell asleep as Valen covered him with a blanket.
• Valen left his journal and walked beside the Runlight River, reflecting on the peace and prosperity of Thoth City-state and the children’s lives.
• Valen watched children use mirrors to reflect sunlight at kittens, realized the light might help with his experiment, and flew back toward his villa.

Valen and Sulu built a torsion balance and used it to calculate the gravitational constant, triggering powerful Great Source feedback. As wizards gathered outside Valen’s villa, Thoth considered pursuing godhood as the God of Mathematics, while Valen continued working to calculate the mass of the Earth's core.

• Valen woke Sulu and directed him to help set up a torsion balance in a sealed room.
• Sulu held a narrow beam of Bright Light on the mirror while Valen measured the reflected beam’s movement as nearby copper balls twisted the suspension wire.
• Valen recorded the experiment and calculated the gravitational constant, causing thunder, lightning, and Great Source feedback.
• Thoth sensed the feedback and resolved to establish a mathematics domain and become the God of Mathematics.
• Ace, Bayern, Daina, and other formal wizards gathered outside Valen’s villa to await the discovery.
• Valen continued writing inside, aiming to calculate the mass of the Earth's core.

Valen calculated the Earth's core's radius and mass, and the Great Source's feedback transformed him into a Golden Wizard with a unique torsion-balance Spell Model. Ace derived the model's Level 3 runes and incorporated them into Universal Gravitation, while Thoth praised the wizards' discovery.

• Valen used solar Direct Shot observations from Northern Milne City-State and High Tower Territory to calculate the Earth's core's radius and mass.
• The Great Source's feedback advanced Valen to Level 2 and transformed his torsion balance into a Golden Spell Model, making him a Golden Wizard.
• Ace received Valen's Spell Model through the wizards' Subconscious Sea and derived its Level 3 runes.
• Ace fused the runes into Universal Gravitation and named the resulting artifact phantom Constant Torsion Balance.
• Valen told the wizards they had weighed the Earth's core, and Thoth praised their discovery before departing.

After the latest issue of “Magic” demonstrated the practical power of mechanics, Ace proposed creating a Magic Computer to help wizards perform complex calculations. The wizards debated computer tools and rational auxiliary brains, and Ace encouraged them to pursue different approaches.

• Bru, Allen, and Eva discussed how the new findings in mechanics had improved magic, flight, and combat.
• Eva precisely coordinated more than a hundred Magic Missiles, and Allen suggested making a mass-producible artifact to assist with calculations.
• Ace told the wizards that their limited computing power called for magical calculation tools and introduced his Magic Computer concept.
• Ace explained the computer’s software and five hardware components: a controller, arithmetic unit, memory unit, input device, and output device.
• Valen asked whether the design could automate complex calculations, while Betty demonstrated a crude Magic Computer and argued for developing a rational auxiliary brain through animation magic.
• Ace proposed that wizards experiment with computers, auxiliary brains, tool clones, and other ways to increase their computing power.