Chapter Summaries

Ace gave a public lecture on Mechanics of Magic in the city square, praising the city-state’s people and Wizards before presenting the theory as a revolution in magical knowledge. The crowd embraced his claims that Mechanics of Magic revealed the laws of the world and marked a new era for Wizards.

• Bayern described Luther’s exceptional computational ability and showed Daina records of his battles, prompting her interest in recruiting him.
• Ace announced a lecture on Mechanics of Magic, then moved it to the city’s fountain square after word of the event drew a vast crowd.
• Ace thanked Thoth, Queen Emisha, the citizens, and the city-state’s Wizards, Knights, and Warriors for supporting its magical society.
• Ace recounted the Elemental Revolution, Betty’s phlogiston hypothesis, Valen’s Three Laws, and his own laws of motion and universal gravitation.
• Ace declared Mechanics of Magic the key to truth, and the crowd responded with fervent discussion and admiration.

Ace concluded his lecture on Mechanics of Magic by urging wizards to respect the unknown, then gathered them in his Mindscape to discuss how to improve their computational power. Betty began presenting an approach based on the brain and soul.

• Ace warned the wizards that Mechanics of Magic explained only part of reality and that their knowledge remained limited.
• Ace ended his lecture with a reflection on finding only a few beautiful shells on the vast sea of truth, earning thunderous applause.
• Thoth sensed a possible omen in Ace’s words, then returned to his temple resolved to study Magic more systematically.
• Ace welcomed the advanced apprentices and wizards into his expanded Mindscape, the Dreamscape Starry Sky Universe, and encouraged them to surpass his achievements.
• Ace introduced a discussion on the computational demands created by Mechanics of Magic and invited Betty to speak.
• Betty brought Polina and Caroso onto the platform and proposed examining the brain and soul as sources of thought.

Betty, Polina, and Caroso demonstrated auxiliary brains that boosted wizards’ computational power, while Ace introduced the Magic Computer as another approach. The wizards learned its basic design, though many found its complex patterns and programming daunting.

• Betty explained how avatars could coordinate with auxiliary brains to increase a wizard’s computational power, and she revealed models developed with Polina and Caroso.
• Bru and Eva volunteered to test the auxiliary brains, linking their avatars to the devices after Eva created an avatar with Betty’s help.
• Bru defeated one newly promoted formal wizard but lost when three wizards wore him down, while Eva held off five Advanced Wizard Apprentices.
• Ace praised the auxiliary-brain method and introduced the Magic Computer, explaining its hardware and program instructions.
• Many wizards found the Magic Computer cumbersome because building its patterns and writing programs would require learning a difficult new field.

Ace introduced the idea of magical computers, inspiring the wizards to pursue research, while Bayern and Valen considered how to develop their own projects. With Auli’s condition worsening, Ace began an uncertain treatment to remove the Star of Extreme Evil’s black fluid and repair her damaged soul.

• Ace offered scrolls describing a proposal for magical computers, and more than a thousand wizards took them.
• Bayern resolved to develop a second-level auxiliary brain to strengthen his Little Deterministic Prophecy, while Valen persuaded Sulu to support research into magical computers.
• Ace told Arno that Auli had to be treated soon, despite his inability to guarantee her recovery, and ordered him to guard the sealing chamber.
• Logan brought Ace three bottles of Pure Frost Potion, which he said could repair Auli’s soul.
• Ace summoned two Dream Clones, prepared the Glazed Heart Flame, potions, and Blood-Energy Gems, then opened Auli’s ice coffin to begin treatment.

Ace removed the evil black liquid from Auli and restored her, then began forging a Dream Artifact from Gensokyo and the High Tower wizards’ accumulated dreams. The artifact’s creation began as Ace poured the city-state’s remaining power of rank into it.

• Ace used Glazed Heart Flame, Blood-Energy Gems, and Pure Frost Potions over four days to remove the black liquid from Auli and repair her body and soul.
• Auli embraced Arno after emerging from the sealing chamber, and Ace told them to stay in the West Tower until she dismantled the Soul Secret Treasury Space’s rune structures.
• Ace reshaped the earth core of his Dreamscape into a floating island and built a city upon it.
• Ace realized the dreamlike crystal sphere above the West Tower contained the High Tower wizards’ accumulated memories and dreams, making it suitable for a Dream Artifact.
• Ace called every High Tower wizard into meditation and directed their information into the crystal sphere before placing it on the Dreamscape’s floating island.
• Ace poured the city-state’s remaining power of rank into the sphere as the Dreamscape’s starry sky twisted and surged.

Ace transformed the Dream Artifact and Illusionary Homeland into the Dreamscape Starry Sky Universe and the Magic Net, giving wizards access to his Mindscape as a vast place to explore and study mechanics. He discovered that the Magic Net had become an artifact that could rapidly regenerate, expand, transmit information, and control magic power.

• Thoth's clone watched the power of divine rank emerge above Nightglow City and worried that Ace's pursuit of the Dream Domain would bring trouble.
• Ace summoned the thirteen stellar artifacts of the Calamity Sword Constellation, raised his power to Perpetual Epic, and forged the Dream Artifact by embedding True Dream in the crystal sphere.
• Wizards across Illusionary Homeland found themselves inside Ace's Mindscape and realized that the Magic Net connected them to his Dreamscape Starry Sky Universe.
• Ace told Auli to keep dismantling her Soul Secret Treasury Space's runic structures, then examined the newly formed artifact in his Mindscape.
• Ace discovered that Illusionary Homeland's transformation had also turned the Magic Net into an artifact whose threads regenerated, spread, carried information, and organized magic power.

Ace transformed the Magic Net into a powerful Domain Artifact and concealed it while expanding Gensokyo across the Thoth City-state. He arranged for a Dream Clone to govern the dream world and established its rules, while Thoth warned that the Sleep God and the Three Sons of Dreams would learn of Ace’s claim when he became a Demigod.

• Ace recognized that the Magic Net controlled the collection, supply, and distribution of Magic within its range, then concealed the artifact and restricted access to its territory in his Mindscape.
• Ace expanded Gensokyo over Nightglow City and created a Dream Clone to govern its illusory world whenever he was away.
• Ace visited Thoth, who urged him to abandon his claim to the Dream Domain and warned that its rivals would discover it when he advanced to Demigod.
• Ace returned to his meditation chamber as Gensokyo spread across the Thoth City-state and synchronized with the Dream Clone.
• Ace decreed that living creatures within Gensokyo would enter its dream world, while those with a Magic Book or Dream Crystal would become dreamwalkers with a dream body, Dream Space, and attribute panel.

Ace established Gensokyo as a dream world where extraordinary people could enter as dreamwalkers and develop their own dream spaces, helping him build his Dream Domain. After Gensokyo advanced into a treasure, Bru and Luther encountered its new entry system and adjustments.

• Ace planned to make Gensokyo function like a virtual reality game, with ordinary beings as background characters and extraordinary dreamwalkers as players.
• The wizards exploring Ace's Mindscape were expelled back into reality, and Bru lamented being pulled out of Gensokyo.
• Bru discovered a Dream Crystal, contract scroll, and scales on his Magic Book's Spiritual Mark page.
• Luther accepted the contract and entered Gensokyo, appearing in a Starry Cosmos before a synthesized voice verified his identity and wizard profession.
• The voice told Luther that extraordinary citizens could enter Gensokyo, with wizards and sorcerers using Magic Books and knights, warriors, and Thoth's divine descendants using Dream Crystals.

Ace opened Illusionary Homeland to supernatural beings as Gensokyo, where Dreamwalkers could restart their professions in a world that ran ten times faster than reality. Luther entered the dream, explored True Knowledge City, and began completing quests while Ace used the world to develop a five-ring Time Spell.

• Luther learned that Gensokyo was open to supernatural beings, imposed profession and information restrictions, and ran ten times faster than reality.
• Auli told Ace she had collapsed the spell models of the Soul Secret Treasury Space, and Ace gave her and Arno Dream Crystals to enter Illusionary Homeland.
• Ace placed the Golden Spell Time Stasis inside a Dream Crystal ball to accelerate time in the dream and help him develop a five-ring Time Spell.
• Luther agreed to enter Gensokyo and appeared in True Knowledge City with a Dreamwalker attribute panel and a set of quests.
• Luther completed Profession Quests and Sudden Quests as he explored the city and learned that he had to practice spells and runes inside the Dream World.

Ace watched transcendents begin exploring the Dream World and set his Dream Magic Computer to evolve alongside its world will. After Bru was killed in the dream and suffered a weakened soul, he enlisted Allen and Eva to help him find the woman responsible.

• Auli and Arno entered the Dream World together, while Ace explained that he wanted its inhabitants to help develop the world and a Dream Computer.
• Ace named the evolving Dream Magic Computer Initial Light, visited his parents, and had Romon establish a Dream Crystal shop selling Gensokyo tickets.
• Bru recovered from his consciousness detachment, drank a Mental Recovery Potion, and realized that a woman in the Dream World had killed him for his Lesser Magic Stone.
• Bru told Allen what had happened, and Allen laughed at him before agreeing to help catch the woman, with Eva's assistance.
• Allen and Eva met in True Knowledge City, where Eva explained that she wanted to explore a melee Wizard's life and try different possibilities in the dream.

Allen and Eva hunted Elena for Bru’s mission, but Elena revealed a monstrous form when Allen tried to capture her. Meanwhile, Caroso and Polina began searching for Blood Crows to study their blood-related abilities and test whether Dream World discoveries could become real.

• Allen and Eva accepted Bru’s mission to capture Elena and investigated her background as a thief and gang member on Black Street.
• Allen and Eva followed Elena, but she led them into an ambush by Vigor Organization members, whom Eva stayed behind to fight.
• Allen pursued Elena into a deserted area and knocked her unconscious, but she transformed and attacked him with fangs and claws.
• Caroso and Polina advanced to Intermediate Wizard Apprentices and chose a mission to clear Blood Crows from the Dyson Jungle.
• Caroso explained the Blood Crows’ blood-manipulation abilities and persuaded Polina to help him find them and investigate their potential.

Caroso and Polina captured a Blood Crow in Gensokyo and Caroso studied it, creating a serum that enhanced human physical abilities. The Blood Source Reagent entered True Knowledge City’s black market, where Elena traded a Lesser Magic Stone for a bottle.

• Caroso and Polina entered the Dyson Jungle and set a Demonic Vine Binding Array to capture a Blood Crow.
• Polina lured a Blood Crow toward the trap, but its Blood Wings wounded her and caused her to faint.
• Caroso activated the trap, captured the Blood Crow, and caught Polina as she fell.
• Caroso studied the Blood Crow in a borrowed laboratory and formulated the Blood Source Reagent.
• Elena traded a Lesser Magic Stone for a bottle of Blood Source Reagent on the black market.

Elena used a mysterious Blood Source to gain the power to transform, then attacked Allen and nearly killed him before Eva drove her off. After Allen received medical treatment, Eva wondered whether the people in the Dream World were truly illusory.

• Elena drank the Blood Source and discovered that it gave her a powerful bat-winged form, though transforming left her craving fresh blood.
• When Allen and Eva pursued her, Elena pretended to be unconscious, then transformed, bit Allen’s artery, and wounded him with a Lesser Magic Missile.
• Elena healed herself by drawing in Allen’s blood and approached him with a dagger, but Eva struck her with a Magic Crystal Gauntlet.
• Elena fled into the sky, and Eva stayed behind to save Allen rather than pursue her.
• At the Magic Council’s medical department, Eva paid an Intermediate Wizard Apprentice three Lesser Magic Stones for Allen’s treatment.
• Eva questioned whether the people she had met in the Dream World were truly illusory.

Caroso and Polina studied Blood Crow blood in their True Knowledge City laboratory as Ace watched the Dream World develop and relocated the Star Magic Lake. Ace then received Crystal Dragon Palalanda’s Astral Compass and learned the essentials and dangers of Astral Travel.

• Caroso and Polina tested diluted Blood Crow blood and discussed the Magic Council, the Dream World, and their plans to advance as wizard apprentices.
• Ace observed True Knowledge City’s inhabitants contributing to the Dream World and considered how dream-born lives differed from those with real True Spirits.
• Ace moved the Star Magic Lake to a habitable planet, named it Magic Lake Star, and isolated it from Gensokyo.
• Ace studied Astral Travel as Crystal Dragon Palalanda explained the Astral Compass and gave him its Level 4 mysterious core.
• Ace learned to mark his home world, locate other worlds, and guard against the emptiness and Astral Predators of the Astral Realm.

Ace studied and began deconstructing Guardian City to improve his defenses for a possible journey across the Astral Realm. Meanwhile, Bru returned to the Dream World as a baby, and Caroso and Polina deciphered a mutated Blood Crow’s runes to construct a Level 0 blood Magic Spell model.

• Ace retrieved the thirteen Calamity Swords and used the Glazed Heart Flame and his Eye of True Knowledge to analyze Guardian City.
• Bru told Allen and Eva that he had to reincarnate as a baby in the Dream World, and he gave them two Pure Frost Potions after hearing their report about Elena’s escape and Allen’s injury.
• Eva explained that Polina and Caroso had created the Blood Source Reagent, which granted blood-based power but caused severe side effects.
• Caroso and Polina captured a flock of Blood Crows and brought three mutated ones to their manor laboratory to study their Soul Runes.
• Caroso and Polina deciphered the runes and constructed a basic Level 0 blood Magic Spell model, but Caroso found its effects weaker than the mutated Blood Crow’s abilities.

Caroso and Polina refined Blood Magic in the Dream World and learned from Ace that their Bloodkin might become the foundation of a new Transcendent race and a possible divine path. Caroso then created the Blood Source Technique, which could transform ordinary people into Bloodkin and let them absorb a Demonic Beast bloodline.

• Caroso combined Transcendent Transformation with Blood Magic, sealing a spell powered by mutated Blood Crow blood and a Transformation Primordial Stone into his right arm.
• Caroso found that the spell strengthened his Blood Magic and let him briefly merge with other Demonic Beast bloodlines.
• Ace revealed that he had traced the Bloodkin in True Knowledge City to Caroso and Polina, and urged them to continue developing and guiding the new race.
• Ace explained that a Bloodkin god might one day emerge and offered to help the Wizards pursue the divine road, though only one person could potentially ascend.
• Caroso continued improving Blood Magic and created the Blood Source Technique, which could analyze and absorb Demonic Beast bloodlines and grant ordinary people the ability to become Bloodkin through First Embrace.

After completing his work on Guardian City, Ace tried to strengthen his body by constructing tiny extradimensional spaces and limited how long people could spend in Gensokyo each day. He then traveled to the Sea of Reality and Illusion to find a suitable place to practice building extradimensional space.

• Bru came of age and discovered that eighty percent of the accumulations from his previous life had returned to him.
• Ace deciphered Guardian City’s defensive runes and incorporated them into Dimensional Grasp, but struggled to construct tiny extradimensional spaces around his body.
• Ace wrote a new Gensokyo rule limiting Dreamwalkers to twelve hours per real-world day, and Dreamwalkers across the world were forcibly expelled when the rule took effect.
• Ace decided to seek a location with abundant magical power, void creatures, and extradimensional spaces, away from the domains of gods and the convergence of Hell, the Underworld, and the Abyss.

Ace traveled through the Outer World, met the demigod Alsodin, and learned about advancing to demigodhood and the Dream Domain. After leaving Alsodin’s territory, he found a suitable region where he considered building a refuge for the High Tower wizards.

• Ace hunted dream creatures in the Sea of Reality and Illusion before Alsodin’s Dream Mist led him into the demigod’s territory.
• Ace introduced himself as a being born from the star at the tip of the Calamity Sword Constellation and concealed his true identity from Alsodin.
• Alsodin invited Ace into his half-plane and explained how a Treasure Tool could become permanent and be elevated into a demigod artifact.
• After three days, Ace left Alsodin’s territory and resolved to spare his life if they competed over the Dream Domain in the future.
• Ace explored a region of the Outer World rich in magic and small other-dimensional spaces, and considered establishing a refuge for the High Tower wizards.

Ace spent months turning the void into a fortified refuge and then built the High Tower Sanctuary, a vast extradimensional home for wizards. He entered the newly opened sanctuary, whose young spatial will welcomed him as its father.

• Ace failed to create an extradimensional space and instead formed a dangerous Spatial Rift Turbulence Zone, then learned to create more zones as a defensive barrier.
• Ace constructed thousands of varied extradimensional spaces and began work on the High Tower Sanctuary’s main living area.
• Ace used the thirteen stellar artifacts to kill a legendary Void Worm and obtained a massive quantity of level-three Spatial Solute.
• Ace combined the Spatial Solute with magic power, Star Magic Stones, and rune structures to form the sanctuary’s spatial core.
• Ace entered the newly created sanctuary, which was larger than the Thoth City-state, and its spatial will celebrated his arrival.

Ace completed the main structure of an extradimensional shelter and returned to Thoth City-state after nearly a year away. In True Knowledge City, Luther became a Formal Member of the Magic Council, then joined Allen and Eva to help Bru after vampires ambushed him.

• Ace replaced the immature spatial will with a copy of the Dream Computer Initial Light and shaped the extradimensional space into a world with an earth core, water, air, sun, moon, and layered crystal walls.
• Ace declared the shelter's main body complete and planned to add a teleportation array before leaving its further development to the High Tower's wizards.
• Luther was promoted to Formal Member of the Magic Council after five years in Gensokyo and privately reflected on advancing as a wizard there.
• Bru arrived at the Magic Council headquarters severely injured and told Luther that a woman and two vampire barons had ambushed him in the Kingdom of Delat.
• Luther contacted Allen and Eva, and the group restored Bru at the Dream Temple before Allen opened a Space Gate to his dream space.