Chapter Summaries

Thales received gifts and knowledge from Valen before his teacher departed for the Heavenly Realm, where Valen joined an expedition into shattered world ruins. Meanwhile, Ace returned to the Reflection World to search for Ancesta and discovered Verdant Secret Realms whose trees turned negative energy into life.

• Sulu gave Thales a Wisdom Orb, while Bru and Elena equipped him with a flying carpet and a mithril sword.
• Valen left Thales with sealed Second Ring knowledge and an ancient scroll that summoned the Starry Sky Butterfly, then departed through a Space Gate with Sulu and the others.
• In the Heavenly Realm, Valen led a team focused on deciphering the ruins, while Ace stayed behind to digest Exotic Source Power and later returned to the Kaya World.
• Ace traveled to the Reflection World to find Ancesta and discovered giant trees forming Verdant Secret Realms by converting negative energy into vital energy.
• Ace saw tiny crystalline people inside the fruits hanging from one secret realm’s tree.

Ace found Ancesta in the Reflection World, learned that he had become a Legendary leader of Virtue Skeleton Knights, and invited him to help the wizards in Gensokyo. In the Wizard World, they secretly attended an exhibition on the Caro Vorm civilization, whose history ended with Kortais seeking an Outer God to impose order.

• Ace searched the Reflection World for Ancesta and found him leading fifty-two Virtue Skeleton Knights after advancing to Legend.
• Ace revealed the Astral Sea and his plans for Gensokyo, and Ancesta agreed to join him.
• Ace and Ancesta traveled through the Wizard World Cluster in disguise and entered an archaeological exhibition in Academic City.
• The exhibition recounted how the Mother God of Wisdom was betrayed, how Turuangus rose as the Second Generation God King, and how the Eight Pillar Gods eventually replaced him.
• The exhibition described Kortais's repeated resurrections and his decision to summon a powerful Outer God to end the Caro Vorm world's long era of chaos.

Ace explained how the old world declined and urged the wizards to avoid internal strife and dependence on outsiders by developing their world and scavenging beyond it. After Valen brought him a dangerous astral coordinate, the chapter followed Thales's return to visit Valen and ended with Ace confronting a world-sized Great Worm outside the Wizard World.

• Ancesta recounted how Kortais's summoning of a god began the Decline Era, devastated the world, and led to the Kindling King Era and the rise of the Dark Kings.
• Ace addressed the wizards, using the Carovorm World as an example of destructive involution and calling for internal prosperity, external expansion, and vigilance against other worlds.
• Valen gave Ace a sealed two-way astral coordinate that might connect to the higher realm, and Ace stored it without activating it.
• Thales completed his travelogue after exploring habitable worlds and the Totem Continent, then traveled to the Heavenly Realm to visit Valen, whose Tower Spirit refused him entry while Valen was away.
• Ace and the wizards bound a world-sized transparent Great Worm with the Magic Net, and Ace used Dream Magic and the Wizard World's power when the creature opened its eye.

Ace subdued the World-Devouring Worm and began studying its false world and unusual anatomy, while Thales pursued electrical research in the Heavenly Realm. The chapter left Ace excited by the worm’s potential as a propulsion engine and Thales newly awarded an academic badge.

• Ace and the Legendary wizards restrained the World-Devouring Worm, and Ace used dream illusions to put it to sleep before learning its history and the bleak nature of the false world inside it.
• Ace sent Magic Net tentacles into the worm, where he observed its inhabitants and learned that the dragon Oswald had survived within it for nearly a thousand years.
• Thales studied articles on frictional electrification, experimented with conductors and insulators, and submitted a paper defining voltage and electrical resistance.
• Valen and the other wizards battled Oswald, then made the Bronze Great Dragon sign a contract to serve as an experimental research subject.
• Ace dissected the living World-Devouring Worm and studied its tail, recognizing that its propulsion structure could help the Wizard World Cluster travel much faster.
• Thales received an academic badge and looked forward to advancing as a scholar.

Thales developed an electric-force torsion balance and derived a law describing the force between stationary charges, prompting a powerful response from the Great Source. Ace brought the wizards to honor him, then transformed Thales from a mage into an Advanced Wizard Apprentice with magical aptitude, leaving him poised to announce his discovery.

• Thales studied Leyden’s experiments on capacitors and mechanics, then summarized recent electric-force research in a review paper.
• Inspired by Valen and Sulu’s torsion balance and Bru’s Elastic Torsion Law, Thales built an apparatus and derived a formula for the force between stationary point charges.
• The Great Source reacted to Thales’s discovery, and Ace brought Valen and the other wizards to the City of Academia to celebrate it.
• Ace offered Thales a choice between advancing to a powerful Level 2 Mage and gaining magical aptitude as an Advanced Wizard Apprentice, and Thales chose to become a wizard.
• Ace transformed Thales with the source power and presented him to the gathered wizards, who waited as Thales prepared to announce his discovery.

Thales discovered that an electric current deflected a magnetic needle, revealing a rotational force that seemed to challenge Mechanics of Magic, and advanced to Level 1 life after publishing his findings. Meanwhile, Ace planted a Tree of Life in the World-Devouring Worm’s pseudo-world and began building world-scale structures, while Leyden’s experiments produced a continuous-current Bru Electric Pile.

• Thales presented the Law of Electrostatic Interaction and foundational electrical concepts, and his paper launched widespread electrical research.
• Bru invented the Electrophorus, investigated twitching frog legs, and discovered that electric eels could charge a Leighton Bottle.
• Bru’s animal electricity experiments led to a dispute with Leyden, whose metal tests produced the Leighton Metal Sequence and the Bru Electric Pile.
• Ace planted a transformed Tree of Life in the World-Devouring Worm’s pseudo-world and began constructing the World's Tail and the World's Blade.
• Thales found that a current-carrying wire deflected a parallel magnetic needle, then published his Magnetic Needle's Current Impact Experiment and advanced to Level 1 life.

The chapter followed the development of electromagnetism as Leyton, Bru, Allen, and Thales made discoveries that advanced wizard research and earned world feedback. Thales built the first generator, while Ace and the Supreme Council established seven academic awards and named Thales their first disciplinary recipient.

• Leyton measured the forces between parallel current-carrying wires, published his findings, and became known alongside Thales as one of the Electromagnetic Double Blades.
• Bru and Allen proposed that molecular currents explained magnetism, then observed a brief copper-ring movement when a circuit was switched and published their experiment.
• Thales identified the five circumstances that produced induced current, explained magnetic field lines, and advanced to Level 2 life after completing his paper.
• Thales confirmed the relationship between magnetic flux and induced current, built a hand-cranked copper-disk generator, and developed a generator Spell.
• Ace proposed seven academic awards, and the Supreme Council established them before naming Thales the first recipient of the Bayern Astrology Award.

Thales received the first Bayern Astrology Award for his electromagnetic discoveries, while Bru and Allen proved Conservation of Charge and Bru became a Legendary wizard. Building on new links between electromagnetism, Elements, and light, Thales investigated the Magneto-Optical Effect and ended by conjecturing that the world was fundamentally composed of waves.

• Bayern awarded Thales the first Bayern Astrology Award and later presented him with a Warning Copper Ring and a protective Star Robe.
• Bru and Allen conducted the Bru-Allen Ice Bucket Experiment, proved Conservation of Charge, and Bru advanced to the Legendary Realm.
• Leyton studied electric currents in water, discovered electrolysis and electrolytes, and reached peak Gold.
• Thales demonstrated that a magnetic field could rotate polarized light and wrote his paper on the Magneto-Optical Effect.
• Thales wrote his thoughts on transverse and longitudinal waves and conjectured that the world's most microscopic substance was waves.

Thales's speculative essay on waves sparked a public dispute over whether the world was made of waves or particles, while he continued researching magnetic field lines. After completing the Eye of the World and returning to the Wizard World, Ace approved the first Ace Magic Award for Thales and summoned him to the Supreme Council.

• Thales wrote and submitted “Thoughts on Waves,” proposing that electromagnetism, light, and possibly the whole world were waves, and Bayern recommended publishing it despite condemning its unsupported claims.
• Wizards publicly argued over Thales's wave conjecture and the Atomic Hypothesis, but the debate ended without resolution; Thales then spent three years researching magnetic field lines.
• Ace completed the Eye of the World's upgrade, giving it long-range detection, star-charting, world-searching, and projection functions, and announced plans to explore and colonize other worlds.
• Bayern reported that Bru and Leyden had become Legendary wizards and that the Supreme Council had selected Thales for the first Ace Magic Award; Ace approved the award and planned to craft him a Legendary magic item.
• Valen told Thales that Ace had returned and that the Supreme Council had opened membership to Level 3 Arcane Scholars, making Thales eligible to attend its meeting.

Thales attended his first Supreme Council meeting, where the council approved rules for using the Eye of the World to invade other worlds. Later, his research on magnetic lines and fields earned Great Source feedback, advanced him to Legendary, and prompted a dispute over whether his controversial theory should be made public.

• Thales attended the Supreme Council meeting as its newest member, and Bayern announced that wizards would use the upgraded Eye of the World to travel to and invade worlds according to their power levels.
• Ace explained that Kaya World was the wizards’ Level 4 origin world and a necessary passage for reaching worlds at higher levels.
• Blainia became Thales’s secretary, and a month later she watched as he wrote a paper proposing that electric and magnetic fields filled space through a medium called Aether.
• The Great Source responded to Thales’s research, and he advanced from peak Gold to Legendary as the Electromagnetic Force Field Spell Model formed in his Mindscape.
• Thales tested his new spell by striking the ground with lightning, then Bayern and Valen read his paper and warned that its claims challenged established ideas about action at a distance.
• Ace praised Thales’s theory and supported wider discussion of fields, while Bayern warned that publishing it could provoke a dangerous backlash.

Thales’s new theory of magnetic lines and force fields faced skepticism because it lacked mathematical proof, prompting Blainia to set out to establish it. Meanwhile, experiments by Betty and her assistant Donna connected wave theory, heat, and mechanics, and Donna and Blainia began deriving a mathematical account of work and kinetic energy.

• Ace argued that Mechanics of Magic was a relative truth and that Thales’s theory should be discussed and mathematically tested.
• Thales’s paper, “On the Physical Lines of Magnetism,” appeared in Magic and drew rejection from many wizards, while rising electromagnetism researchers supported it.
• Blainia confronted wizards who mocked Thales’s theory, then vowed to prove it with mathematics and began studying at the Central High Tower.
• Betty repeated the double-slit experiment, considered whether light and electromagnetism were waves, and used a Thought Imprint Spell to stabilize her thoughts while meditating.
• Donna experimented with melting ice and read about living force and dead force while researching at the Central High Tower.
• Donna realized that work could describe living force, and she and Blainia used calculus and planned experiments to derive the relation between work and kinetic energy.

Blainia developed a fluid-mechanics model that gave mathematical support to Thales’s lines of force, and the Great Source feedback transformed her into a powerful Three-ring Wizard with top-tier aptitude. After she and Thales awkwardly confronted her having emerged naked from the transformation, both mistakenly believed the other had formed a bad impression of them.

• Donna offered to publish her paper with Blainia, but Blainia refused credit and Betty praised Donna for having such an honorable friend.
• Inspired by Mayer’s law of heat conduction and Thales’s ideas, Blainia wrote a paper modeling lines of force as flow lines in an ideal incompressible fluid.
• Thales appeared and read Blainia’s work, recognizing that her analogy provided rigorous mathematical support for his theories.
• Blainia applied her model to electromagnetic phenomena, completed the paper, and triggered a surge of Great Source power that raised her to Level 2 and made her a Three-ring Wizard.
• Blainia awoke naked before Thales, who conjured a cloak and awkwardly told her to be careful absorbing Great Source power; both privately worried that the other now disliked them.

Blainia’s mathematical paper helped wizards develop electrostatic shielding and Allen’s Electromagnetic Coil Cannon, prompting the Supreme Council to regulate cannon research and Ace to begin a warship armament project. Thales and Blainia grew closer as collaborators and headed to the Central High Tower together for Ace’s award ceremony, both anxious about their feelings for each other.

• Thales credited Blainia with the Great Source feedback and presented her mathematical work on lines of force to the wizards.
• Luther demonstrated an active-mithril Electrostatic Shielding Cage, and Allen pierced it with an electromagnetically accelerated metal projectile.
• Allen developed the Electromagnetic Coil Cannon, and the Supreme Council required registration for research into electromagnetic cannon weapons and related equipment.
• Ace assigned Allen and Valen to develop electromagnetic warship weapons and hulls.
• Thales and Blainia accepted each other as research collaborators, and Blainia agreed to accompany him to the award ceremony.
• Thales and Blainia walked uneasily to the Central High Tower while onlookers teased them about being a perfect match.

Thales received the Ace Magic Award for his foundational work on electromagnetism, reunited with his family, and studied the powerful spells and time-controlling artifact he was given. Two years later, he and Blainia proposed molecular vortices and displacement current, developed the electromagnetic field equations, and their work triggered Leyton’s breakthrough.

• Ace presented Thales with the Magic Award Medal, a thousand Level 3 magic stones, and an epic-grade time-controlling Treasure-like Artifact.
• Thales thanked his family, Ace, Valen, his fellow electromagnetism researchers, and Blainia during his award speech, then reunited with his family through Ace’s Space Gate.
• Thales examined the medal’s protective and offensive spells and discovered that the pocket watch could control time within a spherical area around its holder.
• Two years later, Blainia and Thales proposed the hypotheses of molecular vortices and displacement current, then published their work on electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic waves.
• Blainia established the electromagnetic field equations, and Leyton’s study of them caused his aura and Mindscape to surge as he advanced.

Ace discovered a new Level 2 world and began preparing the Wizard World for a possible invasion while the Blainia-Thales equations transformed magical theory. After helping Bayern survive the upheaval and embrace field theory, Ace planned new pseudo-demigod authorities and chose Bayern as a likely scout; the chapter ended with the wizards celebrating the dawn of a new era.

• Ace detected a powerful new world through the Eye of the World and decided to investigate it by projecting through Kaya World before sending wizards in force.
• Leyton explained the Blainia-Thales equations, and their new theory caused some wizards to break through while Bayern’s Mindscape began collapsing under the change.
• Ace repaired Bayern’s Mindscape and rebuilt the Dream Realm using field theory, then planned three Authority Treasure Tools to create additional pseudo-demigod defenders.
• Bayern derived that light might be an electromagnetic wave, and Ace judged him a suitable candidate to investigate the newly discovered world.
• Blainia and Thales created electromagnetic Treasure Tools, and Ace publicly praised the wizards for surpassing Mechanics of Magic and welcoming the Dawn of Magic.

Ace created three authority treasure tools, made Augustus King of the Underworld, and offered the Scepter of Heaven and World Tree Sapling to the Legendary wizards as temporary sources of Demigod power. The wizards gathered to discuss who would wield them and prepare for the possibility of encountering another world.

• Ace forged the Throne of Guixu and Scepter of Heaven, then combined the fate Memes of all three authority treasure tools into the Destiny Clay Tablet.
• Ace went to Planet Bernard, healed Augustus’s immediate affliction, and explained that Augustus’s mortal body could not be saved because he had turned back during the River Styx trial.
• Ace led Augustus and Yamila to the Underworld, where Augustus reunited with the half of his Soul Spirit left behind and sat upon the Throne of Guixu as King of the Underworld.
• Augustus appointed Yamila the Underworld King’s First Divine Envoy, and Ace departed.
• Ace presented the Scepter of Heaven and World Tree Sapling to the Legendary wizards, explaining that their acting holders would gain Pseudo-Demigod power without being bound to the world.

Ming Yan learned that the hexagram that had drained his Qi belonged to Ace, who offered to grant him a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method in exchange for a destination and an oath that would sever their Destiny Chain. After the oath left Ming Yan unconscious, Ace went to Tianlan Sect, intending to eliminate its powerful experts and take a cultivation method for him.

• Ming Yan was ranked at Qi Power Stage Three and left the test square after recalling how his Qi Vortex had vanished three years earlier.
• Ming Yan confronted the hexagram, and Ace appeared and offered him another kind of power that could overcome the oath preventing him from speaking about it.
• Ming Yan asked for a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method, and Ace agreed to retrieve one from either of the Maka Empire’s holy lands in exchange for ending their Destiny Chain.
• Ace and Ming Yan established an oath promising Ming Yan a Heaven Grade Cultivation Method in three days, and Ming Yan lost consciousness.
• Ace traveled to Tianlan Sect, followed an old man inside, and prepared to destroy the sect’s powerful experts and take its cultivation method.

Ace infiltrated the Tianlan Sect, seized its cultivation and battle technique overviews, and destroyed the sect. In Radiant Peak City, Ming Yan faced Tuoba Yanran, who confronted him over the letter annulling their engagement.

• Ace manipulated Elder Longming into taking a dangerous Soul Strengthening Pill, then killed him after the failed alchemy left him dying.
• Ace impersonated Elder Longming, used Dream Mist to extract Feng Huayu’s knowledge, and killed her before destroying most of the Tianlan Sect with a Stellar Treasure Projection.
• Ace restrained Situ Xiu, obtained the overviews of the Arrogant Heart Imperial Heaven Art and Divine Arrogance Battle Technique, then burned the Tianlan Sect to ruins.
• Ming Yan advanced to Stage Seven Qi Power in a month and focused on cultivation while Ming Zhu planned to build their reputation.
• Ming Zhan summoned Ming Yan to meet Tuoba Yanran, who angrily demanded to know why he had sent her a letter annulling their engagement.

Ming Yan and Tuoba Yanran’s engagement collapsed after she demanded his help avenging the Tianlan Sect, while Ace defeated the Ghost Nether Hall and pursued its fleeing sect master. As rumors of Ace’s power spread, two suns appeared over Radiant Peak City, leaving its experts terrified.

• Ming Yan admitted he had carved a drunken rejection of his engagement into a table, accepted one hundred heavy blows, and was nursed by Tuoba Yanran, who insisted they remain engaged.
• After the Tianlan Sect was destroyed, Tuoba Yanran asked Ming Yan to help avenge her master, but he refused to risk his family; she spent the night with him, then left him a letter ending their engagement.
• Ace defeated Minghuo Suoming’s attacks at the Ghost Nether Hall, but Minghuo transformed his battle qi into a horse and fled at incredible speed.
• Ace used a spatial passage to capture Minghuo, tortured the Fundamental Method from him in a dream, and destroyed him and the Ghost Nether Hall.
• Ming Yan feared Ace might have created the Hexagram Pattern attached to him as reports of the Ghost Nether Hall’s destruction spread across the northern Continent of Qi.
• Two suns appeared above Radiant Peak City, and the city’s experts grew deathly pale.

Ace fulfilled his agreement with Ming Yan, then joined Bayern to establish a hidden wizard foothold in the World of Qi and plan a campaign to seize the world's Power of Fate. Six months later, Great Sun Venerable had become notorious across the Continent of Qi, as a storyteller recounted his attacks on the holy lands and Qi Sect Masters.

• Ace gathered Radiant Peak City's people, identified Ming Yan, and placed Cultivation Methods and Battle Techniques inside a hexagram mark on his forehead before departing.
• Ming Yan named Ace his master, Great Sun Venerable, and the people of Radiant Peak City began treating him with awe.
• Bayern completed an altar at Magic Gate in the Yunqi Empire and activated a passage connecting the World of Qi to Kaya World.
• Ace concealed the altar from the world's lightning, relocated it with Bayern, and ordered him to help seize the chosen ones' Power of Fate while Ace drew the Supremes' attention.
• Six months later, a storyteller described Great Sun Venerable's rise and claimed he had defeated the Six Great Qi Sects of the north; a young man in white tossed a Gold Coin into the storyteller's bowl.