Recaps

Claire stopped a Magic Beast riot and discovered the beasts had been driven mad by a potion, confirming that someone was plotting against Nafu City. Worried that her knights were too weak to protect the city, she learned that York had arrived from the Adventurer's Guild.

• Claire's spatial spell slaughtered hundreds of Magic Beasts, and she discovered that a potion had affected their brains.
• Claire returned to Hant, learned that no one had died, and gave him a Healing Potion after he apologized for throwing away his sword.
• Claire examined the Monster Cores and realized that the potion's formula was needed to make an antidote, while her knights' strength lagged behind Nafu City's growth.
• Claire had Regan relocate villagers to Nafu City for their safety and learned from Yuna that York was waiting in the reception hall.

Claire prepared Nafu City for a monster uprising by ordering quests to clear crazed monsters and protect Nakin Town. After the adventurers fought off the first wave, Claire started a trade with a woman whose world seemed more advanced and possibly science-fictional.

• Claire told York that someone was stirring up the monsters and had him issue quests to clear crazed monsters and protect Nakin Town.
• York asked Claire to autograph a mermaid statue for his son, and Claire engraved it before he left delighted.
• The Adventurer's Guild posted the quests, and Mode, Ellie, and the chubby boy joined the effort to help Claire.
• After several quiet days, crazed monsters appeared around the evacuated villages, and adventurers hunted them across the plains.
• Claire worried the monsters might be a distraction, then used the trading system and matched with a woman who immediately pushed to begin the trade.

Claire discussed a bloodline trade with a woman from another world, learning that people there fused refined Exotic Beast bloodlines to gain abilities. He showed her a powerful Frost Spider corpse, and she reacted with intense interest.

• The woman asked Claire for Exotic Beast bloodlines, and he recognized that her Exotic Beasts were similar to magical beasts in his world.
• Claire learned that the woman fused refined bloodlines for power and wanted strong specimens to help her fight in the Domain of Atonement.
• The woman revealed that she had fused thirteen bloodlines, including combat abilities from the Flame Lizard, Mighty Ant, and Shadow Lurker.
• When Claire asked how she balanced multiple bloodlines, the woman refused to answer and guarded her world's secrets.
• Claire summoned a Frost Spider corpse from his Spatial Ring and explained that his world called such creatures magical beasts, prompting the woman to examine it eagerly.

Claire met Nie Tan, a warrior who had fused thirteen Exotic Beast bloodlines, and learned that a medicine developed by Yuan Chu made the dangerous process safer. Claire offered several magical beast corpses in exchange for the medicine and left Nie Tan irritated by her blunt comments.

• Claire introduced the Frost Spider to Nie Tan and revealed that she had killed it less than three days earlier.
• Claire asked how Nie Tan balanced her bloodlines, and Nie Tan explained the fusion medicine developed by Yuan Chu and the risks that remained for powerful Exotic Beasts.
• Nie Tan said there was a one-in-two chance of dying from a Frost Spider bloodline fusion, but she still intended to undergo it to protect others.
• Claire offered the Frost Spider for fifty doses of medicine, then revealed five Level Four magical beasts and added a Level Three beast to the trade.
• Nie Tan agreed to trade, and Claire said she wanted extra medicine in case Nie Tan died before they could trade again.

Claire returned to Antonio School headquarters and instructed Daren to keep smaller schools divided while recruiting promising wizards. She then began arranging an experiment to test a potion that could improve bloodline fusion, leaving Nicole frightened of her.

• Claire met with Daren and learned that Antonio School had grown to more than fifty Level Five wizards and several thousand lower-ranking wizards.
• Daren told Claire that the school had crushed smaller schools that demanded access to the complete Cultivation Methods, and Claire ordered him to support selected schools and set them against one another.
• Claire gave Daren a white potion that could improve bloodline fusion and asked him to help test its effects.
• Daren agreed to begin the experiment immediately using imprisoned wizards as subjects.
• Nicole arrived, recoiled from Claire, and warned Daren to be careful of her as Claire overheard.

Mode, Ellie, and Danny encountered a massive magic beast tide while hunting outside Nafu City and fled toward the city. As the Black Robe Mage drove the beasts toward Nafu City, Regan organized the city’s defenses while Claire was away.

• Mode promised Ellie new clothes and Danny a meal before leading them to hunt a Level 2 Boar King near Nanfeng Village.
• Mode, Ellie, and Danny saw a tide of thousands of magic beasts and ran for Nafu City as other adventurers fled ahead of it.
• The Black Robe Mage released pale gray gas to control the beast tide and send it toward Nafu City, seeking revenge on the Viscount of Griffin Territory.
• Regan saw the approaching beast tide from Nafu City’s wall and worried because Claire was away.
• Regan ordered the city gates closed, had guards throw ropes to late-arriving adventurers, and called Hant, the City Guards, and the adventurers to defend Nafu City.

Regan rallied Nafu City’s defenders against the beast tide, but a Black Robe Mage empowered the beasts and forced the defenders to abandon the wall and fight at the gate. Claire returned from the Wizard World, sensed the city was under attack, and went searching for the source of the turmoil.

• Regan organized the knights, adventurers, and mages to defend Nafu City while waiting for Claire to return.
• Frustrated that the beast tide had not conquered the city, the Black Robe Mage spent his life force to send black mist toward Nafu City and enrage the beasts.
• The beasts’ sudden assault shook the city wall, so Regan ordered everyone to open the gate and hold the beasts back inside the entrance.
• Mode, Ellie, Little Chubby, and the other defenders prepared for battle as the scarlet-eyed beasts poured through the gate.
• Claire emerged from a Space Channel in the Baronial Manor basement, heard roars and screams, and spread her spiritual power to locate their source.

Claire arrived as the city’s defenders struggled against the magic beasts, rescued Mode, Ellie, and Danny, and took control of the fight. Isaac’s Magic Cannon devastated the beasts at the city gate, and Claire ended the chapter by giving the knights potions.

• A Level Two beetle magic beast knocked Mode down, but Danny blocked its attack with his shields as Ellie prepared to fight.
• Claire split the beetle with a spell and blasted a Level Four magic beast with lightning, then ordered Regan to have the adventurers withdraw.
• Isaac brought out his Magic Cannon and fired three shells, wiping out most of the magic beasts that had entered Nafu City.
• Claire handed more than sixty potions to the knights, who drank them at her instruction.

After Claire’s Bloodline Potions helped Nafu City’s knights break through to higher ranks, they led a counterattack against the magic beasts. Claire confronted the Black Robe Mage behind the attack and left him disarmed, demanding to know who had sent him.

• The knights drank Claire’s Bloodline Potions, inherited the Silverback Ape’s Blood Burst ability, and broke through to higher ranks, including Hant reaching Great Knight and Kellan reaching Gold Knight.
• Claire ordered Hant and the knights to attack the magic beasts, while Isaac fired the Magic Cannon and the adventurers joined the counterattack.
• The Black Robe Mage watched the tide turn against the beasts and tried to flee, but Claire used Spatial Teleportation to appear beside him.
• Claire asked who had sent the Black Robe Mage, but he attacked her with dark green gas and lost his right arm to her Spatial Threads.
• Claire blew the gas back toward the Black Robe Mage, sliced his severed arm into pieces, and asked whether he was ready to talk.

Claire captured the Black Robe Mage and learned that several nearby city lords had hired him to cause trouble in Nafu City. After the Magic Beast Tide ended, Claire organized a three-day celebration and arranged repairs, compensation, and plans to relocate villagers to the agricultural town.

• Claire stopped the Black Robe Mage from escaping, forced him to talk, and learned that Count Grein, Count Evan, Count Kairay, Count Vian, and Viscount Harvey had hired him to cause trouble.
• Claire captured the Black Robe Mage alive and flew him through Nafu City's gate so the public would know she had caught him.
• After the Magic Beast Tide ended, Claire funded a three-day celebration and paid compensation to the City Guards and adventurers who had died defending the city.
• Claire sent Regan to oversee construction of the agricultural town and ordered villagers brought into Nafu City for safety.
• Claire planned to move villagers who relied on farming to the agricultural town, where they could grow grain for Nafu City.

After Claire captured the Black Robe Mage, the neighboring lords feared he would expose their plot against Nafu City and agreed that their numbers would protect them. Claire sent each of them a polite but demanding letter, and Count Vian urged the lords to unite and wage war against her.

• Count Evan, Count Grein, Count Vian, Count Kairay, and Viscount Harvey worried that the captured Black Robe Mage would reveal their involvement in the Magic Beast Tide unrest.
• Count Vian argued that Claire would not risk fighting several lords at once, and the group agreed to stand together if she retaliated.
• Count Evan received Claire’s letter demanding three iron mines and two coal mines, and the other lords soon received similarly demanding letters.
• Count Evan, Count Harvey, Count Kairay, and Count Vian described Claire’s demands, while Count Grein realized she had nothing left to extort from his territory.
• Count Vian called on the lords to go to war against Claire, claiming their united knights could defeat her forces.

Claire turned public anger over the Black Robe Mage’s confession into a pretext for war, while the opposing lords prepared to seize Griffin Territory’s resources before the battle. The chapter ended with Hant leading Nafu City’s knights out to war amid the residents’ cheers and Claire’s vow that they would win.

• Claire revealed the Black Robe Mage’s confession, stirring resentment toward the neighboring lords and damaging nearby cities’ economies.
• The lords denied knowing the Black Robe Mage and camped their knights outside Griffin Territory as Claire had Hant train Nafu City’s forces.
• Count Evan, Viscount Harvey, and Count Vian divided up the mines, town, and coastline they expected to take, while Count Kairay left them to claim the remaining resources.
• Claire told Hant that the battle would begin the next day.
• Hant led the knights through Nafu City to the gates, where Claire blessed them and rallied the crowd with a promise of victory.

Count Vian’s forces charged the Nafu City knights, but Isaac’s Magic Cannons and Claire’s attack shattered their formation and resolve. Claire ordered the Nafu City knights to attack as the enemy survivors fled.

• Count Vian hurried his knights into formation after learning that Claire’s forces had already set out.
• The lords’ knights charged Hant and the Nafu City knights, who waited without drawing their weapons.
• Isaac fired three Magic Cannons from the Magic Airship, carving bloody paths through the enemy formation.
• Claire killed the High Mages who flew up to attack the airship, frightening the four lords and their knights.
• The surviving enemy knights fled, and Claire ordered the Knights of Nafu City to attack.

Hant and Nafu City’s knights defeated Count Vian’s forces with Claire’s spectral magic, then withdrew once the opposing army had been beaten enough to encourage negotiations. Isaac startled the survivors with another cannon shot, and Claire fined him fifty thousand Gold Coins from his research budget.

• Hant led Nafu City’s knights in pursuit of the fleeing enemy, cutting down many of them until Count Vian and the other lords rallied their forces to turn and fight.
• Hant’s knights formed a defensive formation, then became spectral, allowing enemy weapons to pass through them while their own attacks remained effective.
• The enemy knights abandoned their resistance and fled, and Claire used the Nether Spirit Lamp to signal Hant to withdraw before the lords’ forces were destroyed.
• Claire explained that she had limited the casualties to preserve the possibility of negotiations, then prepared to leave with Isaac.
• Isaac fired another cannon shell into the sky, terrifying the survivors, and Claire deducted its fifty-thousand-Gold-Coin cost from his research budget.

After Nafu City crushed the coalition, Claire used the victory to secure compensation from the defeated lords. He then decided to strengthen the Wolf King and Gale Wolves, leaving the Wolf King to find out how the next day.

• The southern lords learned that Count Vian's coalition had lost nearly a quarter of its knights without injuring any of Nafu City's forces.
• Claire sent reduced compensation demands to four lords, who agreed to negotiate after their defeat.
• Regan finalized the cession terms for Claire, while the defeated lords privately cursed him and Count Grein felt relieved he had not joined the war.
• Claire asked the Wolf King whether it felt weak and threatened to serve wolf meat for dinner until it eagerly agreed to become stronger.
• Claire told the Wolf King he would reveal his training method the next day.

Claire used Green Dragon blood and high-level wind-element magic beast materials to concoct a bloodline potion for the Wolf King. After forcing it to drink the potion, she watched it transform into a level-four magic beast.

• York delivered Claire’s ordered materials and recorded that she would use the beast corpses and Green Dragon blood for experiments.
• Claire prepared a bloodline potion in her underground laboratory, selecting compatible bloodlines to enhance the Gale Wolf King.
• After two days and nights, Claire emerged with the finished potion and forced the reluctant Wolf King to drink it.
• The Wolf King shed and regrew its fur as its body grew larger and stronger.
• Claire confirmed that the Wolf King had become a level-four magic beast and that the Green Dragon blood had been put to good use.

Claire’s territories and the Antonio School continued to prosper while she traveled between the Wizard World and the Mage World. When the Space Channel shattered, a giant hand seized her and carried her into the void, but she escaped with a random teleportation spell as an old man tracked where his Void Grasp collapsed.

• Claire returned to Griffin Territory on the fourth-tier Wolf King, brewed Bloodline Potions that advanced the Gale Wolves, received her compensation, and named the nearly completed agricultural town Flower Town.
• Claire reviewed the Wizard World’s progress, where Daren created a new Bloodline Balance Potion and the Antonio School established a Bloodline Wizard branch under Claire’s control.
• Claire entered the Space Channel to return to the Mage World, but the passage began shaking and broke apart.
• A massive illusory hand caught Claire, shattered her defensive shields, and carried her through the void.
• When the hand collapsed, Claire cast a random Spatial Teleportation spell and vanished.
• Several light-years away, an old man realized his Void Grasp had collapsed but noted that he knew roughly where it had happened.

Claire fled through the void using the Space Runes, but a powerful Long-bearded Old Man relentlessly pursued her and finally caught her after sealing the space and striking her with a giant palm. Injured and pinned down, Claire was asked whether she was a mage from the Yggdrasil Plane.

• Claire used the Space Runes to flee from the Long-bearded Old Man and hid among floating rubble in the void.
• The Long-bearded Old Man tracked Claire through repeated Spatial Teleportation, forcing her to keep fleeing until her magic power nearly ran out.
• The Long-bearded Old Man sealed the space and swept a giant palm through the rubble region, sending Claire flying and badly injuring her.
• The Long-bearded Old Man caught Claire, drove her into a boulder, and threatened to kill her if she lied.
• The Long-bearded Old Man asked Claire whether she was a mage from the Yggdrasil Plane.

Claire was seized in the Astral Realm by the Long-bearded Old Man, who demanded to know how she had acquired the aura of the Yggdrasil Plane. As he nearly killed her, she recognized the patterns on his clothes and gambled that he was Archmage Merlin, Edith’s missing grandfather.

• The Long-bearded Old Man pulled Claire from her Space Channel and demanded to know whether she knew the Yggdrasil Plane.
• The old man sensed the Yggdrasil Plane’s aura on Claire and attacked her when she could not explain where it came from.
• Claire showed him the Space Rune, but he dismissed it as the Rune of God and continued crushing her head for answers.
• Near death, Claire recognized the magical patterns on the old man’s clothes and shouted that she knew his granddaughter, Edith.
• Claire identified the old man as Archmage Merlin, and he regained his reason and excitedly demanded to know what she had said.

After Merlin injured Claire while mistaking her for an enemy, he healed her and learned she was friends with his granddaughter Edith. Claire explained that she could locate the way home with her Magic Artifact, and Merlin opened a stable Space Channel back to the Yggdrasil Plane.

• Merlin healed Claire with a grandmaster-grade potion and apologized for attacking her after drifting alone in the void for fifty or sixty years.
• Claire told Merlin that Edith was doing well and had become a High Mage, and Merlin asked why Claire did not know their plane was called Yggdrasil.
• Claire explained that she had no teacher and was only a sixteen-year-old Archmage who traveled between planes using a Magic Artifact.
• Merlin learned Claire's Magic Artifact could locate the route back to the Yggdrasil Plane, and Claire handed it to him because she lacked enough magic power to open a Space Channel.
• Merlin used the Magic Artifact to create a stable Space Channel, and he and Claire prepared to return together.

On their way back to the Mage World, Merlin explained the void, the Astral Realm, and Claire’s Rune of God, then confirmed that gods existed. Merlin returned to his granddaughter, while Claire considered the political consequences of his return and admired the power of a Mage Saint.

• Merlin told Claire that the void lay between material planes and the Astral Realm, and described how mages used the Astral Realm to find planes and their coordinates.
• Merlin apologized for pulling Claire from the Space Channel and explained that her Rune of God was a rare space-related symbol that could influence rules.
• Merlin said gods existed, citing the Church of Light’s summoned angels and the gods worshipped across different planes as evidence.
• Claire said the existence of gods made the road ahead clear, and Merlin praised her way of thinking.
• Merlin opened a Spatial Teleportation and left to see his granddaughter, while Claire reflected that his return could upset the royal capital’s balance.
• Claire admired Merlin’s spells and wondered when she would reach the level of a Mage Saint.

Sophia visited Claire in Nafu City to recruit her for a major military supply contract tied to a potential full-scale war in the Blazing Flame Plane. Claire declined Sophia’s offer of one hundred million, leaving Sophia without her help.

• Claire refused Sophia’s repeated invitations to visit the Royal Capital and explained she had been busy with the aftermath of a war against neighboring lords.
• Sophia visited Claire and told her that Archmage Merlin had returned after being lost in the Astral Realm for five years.
• Sophia said Merlin’s return could prompt the kingdom to launch a full-scale offensive in the Blazing Flame Plane.
• Sophia explained that she had volunteered to take a fifty-percent share of the war’s potion supply contracts and needed Claire’s help managing the large operation.
• Sophia offered Claire one hundred million as compensation, but Claire refused, saying she was not interested in money.

Sophia tried to recruit Claire by offering money, a noble title, and access to the royal capital’s power and business networks. Claire rejected the cash and title but became interested in Sophia’s proposal to provide channels for magical materials and skilled mages, and she asked whether there was more.

• Sophia offered Claire two hundred million, then raised the offer to five hundred million, but Claire refused because she already had more money than she could spend.
• Sophia offered to help Claire become Countess and secure a position in the royal capital, but Claire politely declined the title.
• Sophia proposed that Claire join Temi Bank, become a partner of the August Family, and gain access to its magic shops and auction houses.
• Sophia explained that those channels could help Claire recruit enchantment and inscription mages and build a profitable equipment production chain in Nafu City.
• Claire recognized the value of Sophia’s offer and leaned toward her, asking if there was more.

Claire negotiated with Sophia for access to graduates of the Royal Capital Magic Academy and entry into Hill City's Magic Academy bidding, then prepared to travel to the royal capital. She left Nafu City in Regan’s care and arrived at the capital later that day.

• Claire asked Sophia for ten annual graduate slots from the Royal Capital Magic Academy, then negotiated a deal for two slots at five million Gold Coins per year.
• Sophia offered Claire free entry to the annual bidding for graduate slots from Hill City's Magic Academy.
• Claire and Sophia agreed to cooperate and planned to travel to the royal capital the next day.
• After Sophia left, Claire instructed Regan to manage Nafu City and write to her if problems arose.
• Claire rode the Wolf King out of Nafu City and reached the royal capital in less than half a day.

Claire visited Shane in the royal capital and learned that his family and other factions were dividing shares in the Blazing Flame Plane. At a nobles’ gathering, Sophia presented Claire as an important future partner of the August Family and began introducing her to the kingdom’s top-ranking nobles.

• Claire told Shane that she had come to the capital at Lady Sophia’s request, and Shane explained how his family and Prince Albert had divided their shares in the Blazing Flame Plane.
• Shane told Claire about a banquet for the factions involved in the Blazing Flame Plane, and Sophia later arranged to introduce Claire to the nobles there.
• Sophia brought Claire into the gathering and presented her to affiliated nobles as Viscount Claire of Griffin Territory and an important future partner of the August Family.
• Claire exchanged greetings and contact information with nobles, including an official in the natural resources department who could help her obtain Magic Ore.
• Sophia led Claire toward the salon reserved for the kingdom’s top nobles, and Count Norton stopped his conversation and headed there as well.