Recaps

Claire attended a gathering of powerful nobles, where Sophia introduced her as the logistics officer overseeing supplies sent to the Blazing Flame Plane. Count Pulan and Prince Albert challenged her appointment, but Claire revealed Pulan’s personal grievance over her fights with his son Beck, and Sophia confronted him.

• Sophia told Claire that the king had approved her temporary post managing supplies bound for the Blazing Flame Plane.
• Prince Albert and Count Pulan questioned whether Claire was old enough and qualified to manage the supplies.
• Claire stopped Sophia from responding and apologized to Count Pulan for beating his son Beck, then pointed out that Beck had picked both fights.
• Count Pulan claimed the fights had stalled Beck’s cultivation, and Sophia mocked his son’s talent and Count Pulan’s own slow progress to Archmage.
• Count Pulan became furious as Sophia continued to argue that Claire had beaten Beck at the same level.

Claire faced opposition from Count Pulan and Prince Albert over her appointment as logistics officer, but Count Norton and Archmage Merlin supported her. Merlin took Claire away after she revealed she was only sixteen, leaving Pulan and Albert shaken by her connection to the archmage.

• Sophia berated Prince Albert for withdrawing from their Magic Ore investment, which had cost her five billion Gold Coins.
• Count Pulan argued that Claire was too young to manage wartime supplies, while Count Norton voiced confidence in her and Sophia offered to take responsibility.
• Archmage Merlin arrived, greeted Claire warmly, and invited her to leave with him.
• Claire stopped Merlin to tell the nobles she was only sixteen, then Merlin questioned Count Pulan about his father Karl and led Claire away.

After Sophia drove off Count Pulan and Prince Albert for insulting Claire, Claire discussed magic with Merlin, who praised his talent and then left Edith alone with him. Edith was embarrassed by Merlin’s attempt to encourage a romance between them and asked Claire what he wanted to talk about.

• Sophia mocked Count Pulan and Prince Albert, warning that she would report their actions to the king and invoke Merlin’s dignity.
• Count Pulan and Prince Albert took their leave, and Sophia thanked Count Norton for supporting her.
• Merlin and Claire sat together and discussed magical knowledge, impressing Merlin with Claire’s ideas and talent.
• Merlin ended the discussion and told Edith to keep Claire company, then privately urged her to pursue him.
• Edith protested that she and Claire were only friends and that Princess Irene liked him, but Merlin left her with Claire anyway.
• Edith returned to Claire and asked, “What do you want to talk about?”

Claire spoke with Edith about the Blazing Flame Plane and learned that its valuable Blazing Flame Essence Ore was driving the kingdom toward an all-out war. After Claire left, Merlin asked Edith what she thought of her, and Edith admitted Claire was pretty good.

• Claire avoided Edith’s questions about advanced magic theory and the Astral Realm, then thanked her for helping Merlin return.
• Claire asked Edith about the Blazing Flame Plane, and Edith explained that the king planned to seize it for its Blazing Flame Essence Ore and other resources.
• Claire recognized the ore’s value as a way to improve advancement chances and considered how dangerous the coming war would be for her.
• After Claire left, Merlin pressed Edith for her opinion of Claire, and Edith said Claire was pretty good.
• Merlin teased Edith about liking Claire, and Edith blushed, protested, and ran away.

Claire helped establish the August Family’s supply procedures, then traveled to Hill City as a logistics officer to oversee the transport of valuable goods to the Blazing Flame Plane. During the flight, Yana joined Claire atop the supplies, where Claire teased her after helping her climb up.

• Claire helped Sophia organize magical materials and establish procedures before taking responsibility for overseeing supplies bound for the Blazing Flame Plane.
• Claire arrived at the Royal Capital Magic Academy in Hill City and supervised the loading of supplies onto Light Chasing Birds.
• Yana greeted Claire and confirmed she represented the Guen Family, then arranged for her family’s goods to be unloaded.
• The Light Chasing Birds carrying the supplies took off, with Archmages guarding each bird.
• Yana climbed up the supply pile, and Claire used a Levitation Spell to help her reach the top.
• Yana asked whether Claire had been admiring her, and Claire replied that she had flown up, making Yana suspect Claire was mocking her.

Claire and Yana traveled to Hill City while discussing the Blazing Flame Plane and Yana’s uncertain prospects in the Guen Family. After the supply shipment was secured, they explored Hill City’s lively streets and went to browse jewelry.

• Yana explained that the human kingdoms and the united Ivic Tribe were contesting the resource-rich Blazing Flame Plane, while their kingdom prepared to subdue its rival nation first.
• Claire asked why Yana’s family had sent her away, and Yana masked her disappointment by claiming she had been chosen for her ability.
• Yana told Claire they would wait in Hill City for more supplies and suggested they shop for jewelry while they were there.
• Officials inspected the supplies in Hill City and moved them to a secure location before they could be sent through the Planar Teleportation Array.
• Yana took Claire around Hill City, showing her its busy streets, foreign visitors, shops, snacks, and performances.
• Yana spotted a lavish jewelry shop and pulled Claire inside.

Claire accompanied Yana while she browsed jewelry, then recognized the store’s steep markups as a possible business opportunity. As Yana considered her purchases, Claire noticed a turquoise accent on one earring and asked to inspect it.

• Yana browsed the jewelry store and gathered more than thirty pieces, but said she planned to buy only four or five with her allowance.
• Claire examined a mithril necklace and learned it cost three thousand Gold Coins despite its much lower production cost.
• Claire considered whether the jewelry business’s large profit margins made it worth pursuing and questioned the manager about prices as Yana chose her favorites.
• Claire spotted a turquoise-colored accent on an earring in Yana’s hand and asked to see it.

Claire found a damaged Seed of Wisdom hidden in an earring at a jewelry store and bought all the jewelry so he could take it without arousing suspicion. After explaining the seed’s immense value to Yana, he treated her to dinner, and she demanded ten servings of strawberry pudding.

• Claire recognized the green stone in Yana’s earring as a Seed of Wisdom, then pretended to lose interest so the store manager would not suspect its value.
• Claire bought more than thirty pieces of jewelry with his Purple Crystal Card, astonishing the store staff with his account balance of over fifty million Gold Coins.
• Claire retrieved the earring from the jewelry boxes, broke it apart, and kept the Seed of Wisdom, explaining that it could improve a mage’s talent despite being damaged.
• Yana learned that a Seed of Wisdom was worth around one hundred million Gold Coins and wondered why Claire had bought all the jewelry.
• Claire told Yana he had bought the jewelry for her and offered to pay for everything she spent that night, so she asked for ten servings of strawberry pudding.

Claire transported the supplies to the Blazing Flame Plane, where she confronted the First Prince after he demanded supplies assigned to other armies. The chapter left Claire facing the prince and his knights with five Archmages at her side.

• Claire and her convoy used a Planar Teleportation Array to reach the Blazing Flame Plane and set off toward their destination.
• Claire’s scouts spotted a large force ahead, which turned out to be the First Prince’s army.
• Claire learned that the First Prince wanted supplies intended for the Second Prince and other armies, and Yana refused to hand them over.
• The First Prince insulted Claire and threatened her with his greatsword when she refused to give him the supplies.
• Claire feigned fear, then revealed five Archmages behind her and challenged the First Prince to try to kill her.

Claire refused to hand Vito the supplies intended for the Second Prince, and Vito threatened to seize them by force. She warned that doing so would expose him to accusations of attacking allied forces or rebellion, then revealed her powerful connections and challenged him to kill her.

• Vito ordered Claire’s Archmage guards to step aside, but Yana summoned her family’s Archmages, bringing Claire’s side to seven.
• Vito claimed he needed the supplies to protect his soldiers and demanded that Claire hand them over, while more than twenty Archmages appeared with his army.
• Claire refused and warned that taking the supplies by force would make Vito responsible for attacking allied forces or rebelling.
• Vito threatened Claire with his sword, but she explained that killing Yana would provoke the Guen Family and then revealed her own connections, including the Merlin Family.
• Claire stepped toward Vito’s sword and asked whether he still dared to kill her, and Vito trembled and withdrew it.

Claire forced First Prince Vito to withdraw rather than risk a confrontation, then completed her supply duties in a Blazing Flame Orc city. Yana secretly gave Claire a piece of Blazing Flame Essence Ore, leaving Claire to consider how to purify it.

• Claire warned First Prince Vito that taking the Second Prince’s equipment could backfire, and Vito led his troops away.
• Claire explained to Yana why the First Prince’s plan was risky and advised her family against supporting him.
• Claire and the convoy reached a captured Blazing Flame Orc city, where Claire helped distribute supplies and gather information for several weeks.
• Yana slipped into Claire’s room and gave her a piece of Blazing Flame Essence Ore she had traded for during the equipment handover.
• Claire accepted the ore and said she would ask Lady Sophia about purification, while Yana called her ungrateful for doubting the gift.

Claire returned to the royal capital, learned that Blazing Flame Essence Ore was needed in large quantities to make advancement potions, and discovered Yana’s tiny piece was nearly worthless. Back on the Blazing Flame Plane, he learned that their enemy nation had been defeated and was withdrawing, leaving the allied forces to focus on the Blazing Flame Orcs.

• Claire checked with Shane and learned that Regan had managed Nafu City well during his absence.
• Claire asked Sophia about potions made from Blazing Flame Essence Ore, and Sophia explained that the ore helped lower-level mages and warriors advance but had sharply reduced effects at higher levels.
• Sophia told Claire that his pigeon-egg-sized piece of ore could not produce even one drop of potion, so Claire abandoned his plan to make potions for the wizards.
• Claire told Yana that the officer had deceived her about the ore, and Yana angrily vowed to withhold her army’s equipment if she met him again.
• After three weeks back on the Blazing Flame Plane, Claire learned that the enemy nation had been defeated and was withdrawing.

After the battle, Claire met Hubert and learned that Sirian had become a powerful Great Knight who combined magic with Battle Aura. Claire agreed to attend the victory banquet, and Yana later dragged him out to watch the preparations.

• Hubert invited Claire to the victory banquet and promised to bring him a Blazing Flame Potion to examine.
• Hubert told Claire that Sirian had advanced to Great Knight after drinking a Blazing Flame Potion and now commanded several hundred soldiers.
• Hubert explained that Sirian combined magic with Battle Aura in battle and had kept the core of the Magic Swordmaster method secret from interested soldiers.
• Claire agreed to attend the banquet after learning Sirian would be there.
• Yana arrived before the banquet and pulled Claire out to watch preparations in the square.

Claire and Yana joined the soldiers’ celebration banquet, where Vito confronted them and tried to have them seized. Sirian and Hubert intervened, and Vito claimed Claire did not deserve to attend before Hubert could stop him.

• Claire and Yana left the parapet to join the soldiers celebrating around the bonfires.
• Vito confronted Claire and Yana near Hubert’s tent and ordered his guards to seize them.
• Claire fired her Magic Handgun to stop the guards from dragging them away in front of the soldiers.
• Sirian heard the gunshot and rushed out of the tent to protect Claire, prompting Hubert and Prince Klee to follow.
• Hubert ordered the guards to stop, but Vito accused Claire of disrupting the banquet and declared that logistics personnel did not deserve to attend.
• Hubert told Vito to stop talking, his expression growing increasingly cold.

Claire defended the logistics personnel and met Sirian again at the victory banquet, where Klee tried to recruit him and asked Claire to persuade him. Claire refused to treat Sirian as something to be handed over and told Klee that following him might hold Sirian back.

• Hubert defended Claire and the logistics personnel, forcing Vito to apologize before he left with his guards.
• Yana recognized Sirian and demanded that Claire help her get even for the equipment he had tricked her out of, and Claire promised he would buy her a gift.
• Klee introduced himself to Claire and asked Sirian again to follow him, but Sirian refused.
• Klee asked Claire to persuade Sirian to join him, offering her any reward she wanted, but Claire refused and said Sirian should choose for himself.
• Klee argued that Sirian would have a better future under him, while Claire replied that following Klee could hold Sirian back.

Claire rejected Keli’s offer to serve under him and later confronted officers who accused her of supplying defective potions. She exposed the weakness in their accusation and sent them away, though she suspected someone had arranged the dispute to target her.

• Keli offered Claire a place under him and threatened her when she refused to commit, but Claire dismissed him and returned to Sirian and Yana.
• After the victory banquet, Yana grew bored and often visited Claire to hear her retelling of Legends of the Water Margin.
• Yana told Claire that officers were accusing her potions of causing soldiers’ deaths, so Claire went with her to the warehouse.
• An officer threw potion tubes at Claire and claimed she had approved defective supplies, but Claire identified the potions as inferior and said they might have been swapped during transport.
• Claire reminded the officer that August Family Archmages and men appointed by Norris had overseen transport, warned him to think before accusing them, and had the warehouse manager disperse the watching soldiers.

After rumors that Claire had replaced the army’s Healing Potions with inferior ones spread through the city, she received an order dismissing her from her post. Claire explained to Yana that the kingdom was sacrificing her to protect morale before the decisive battle, leaving her promised title and royal capital position in doubt.

• Claire ignored the soldiers’ gossip and Yana’s attempts to defend her as rumors about inferior Healing Potions spread through the city.
• Claire received a Blazing Flame Potion from Sword Saint Hubert and stored it as a future reward for her territory’s knights.
• Claire read a letter ordering her dismissal, and news of her departure prompted soldiers to celebrate.
• Yana confronted Claire while she packed, and Claire explained that the kingdom wanted to prevent suspicion from undermining morale before the decisive battle against the Blazing Flame Orcs.
• Claire worried that leaving her post could jeopardize the title and position Sophia had promised to help her obtain.

After learning that political troubles might force Claire to leave, Yana hesitated when he invited her to come with him. Claire then proposed that she help him rob the Guen Family’s supply convoy, and she agreed.

• Claire explained that soldiers’ suspicions and political opposition had made it difficult for Sophia to protect his position, and Yana blamed Vito and Keli for stirring up trouble.
• Claire invited Yana to leave with him, then made her promise secrecy before revealing his plan to rob the Guen Family’s transported equipment.
• Claire argued that Yana had little chance of becoming head of the Guen Family and offered to split the profits with her, giving her at least fifty million Gold Coins.
• Yana agreed to join Claire, and they discussed the Guen Family’s independent supply convoy scheduled for next Thursday, which would have two Archmages guarding it.
• Claire gave Yana a black cone-shaped device to report the convoy’s route and his Magic Handgun, instructing her to kill the two Archmages when he signaled.

Claire returned to the royal capital, secretly prepared an Anti-Magic Domain plan with Yana, and helped stage a convoy massacre blamed on the Blazing Flame Orcs. Yana was transferred away from the Blazing Flame Plane, while she and Claire waited for the stolen equipment to be sold and their share of the proceeds to arrive.

• Claire left the Blazing Flame Plane and returned to the royal capital, where Sophia apologized and renewed their agreement about Claire's desired authority or alternative compensation.
• Claire asked Shane to gather materials for an Anti-Magic Domain and secretly purchased restricted materials herself.
• When Yana returned to the capital, Claire gave her a potion to interfere with detection spells, then departed for the Wizard World before the convoy attack.
• The convoy was reported to have been raided by the Blazing Flame Orcs, with Yana escaping by Spatial Teleportation Scroll and the rest of the convoy killed.
• Yana was transferred from the Blazing Flame Plane and reprimanded by her family, but she looked forward to receiving her share of the stolen equipment's value.

Claire negotiated with Del, the leader of the Blazing Flame Orcs, to trade human weapons and equipment for Blazing Flame Essence Ore. Del agreed to continue discussing the deal after Claire revealed she had thirty thousand equipment sets available.

• Claire used Mental Connection to speak with a Blazing Flame Orc leader and asked to negotiate with someone authorized to make decisions.
• Del arrived, and Claire established Mental Connection with him before showing him the weapons and equipment she had taken from humans.
• Del recognized the human-made weapons, and Claire explained that her group came from another plane to trade rather than plunder.
• Del considered taking the goods by force, but Claire warned him that her group had more resources and allies than the dozen people present.
• Claire offered to exchange the equipment for Blazing Flame Essence Ore, and Del agreed to continue negotiating after learning she had thirty thousand sets.
• Claire explained that she could not readily obtain more equipment because manufacturing it required scarce materials, skilled labor, and enchantments.

Claire traded equipment to the Blazing Flame Orcs for Blazing Flame Essence Ore, using it to strengthen the Wizard World's wizards and expand her influence. After returning to the Mage World, she learned the Orcs had used the equipment to halt the human army, and Yana burst into her room in anger.

• Claire gave Daren the ore and potion formula, instructing him to make advancing wizards sign contracts before receiving potions.
• Over five days, eight level-five wizards became Epic Wizards and more than two hundred level-four wizards advanced, giving Claire ten Archmage-level subordinates and over three hundred High Mages.
• Claire returned to the Mage World and went to the royal capital to monitor news from the Blazing Flame Plane.
• The Guen Family's stolen supplies were blamed on the Blazing Flame Orcs, so transport convoys began requiring more guards and families.
• The Blazing Flame Orcs used their new equipment to defeat the human army and force the campaign into a stalemate.
• Yana angrily shoved open the door to Claire's room.

Claire reassured Yana that their crime was already punishable by death and promised her a share of the money from selling the stolen equipment to the Blazing Flame Orcs. Claire then asked Sophia about the war and learned that Archmage Merlin was preparing to act.

• Yana confronted Claire for selling the Guen Family's stolen equipment to the Blazing Flame Orcs, who had used it to win a battle.
• Claire told Yana that exposing their robbery would have brought the same punishment, and promised to send her five million through legitimate channels.
• Claire assured Yana that she had hidden the evidence and that people believed the Blazing Flame Orcs had killed the two Archmages.
• Claire visited Sophia to ask about the Blazing Flame Plane, and Sophia said the equipment had brought the war to a stalemate.
• Sophia told Claire that Archmage Merlin was going to make a move, so the stalemate would not last long.

Claire learned that Archmage Merlin had attacked the Blazing Flame Orcs’ Ancestral Spirit, severely wounding him but suffering injuries himself. Seeing a chance to profit from the Orcs’ desperation, Claire went to the Blazing Flame Plane to trade equipment and considered whether she could sell them a soul-repairing potion without fully undoing Merlin’s work.

• Sophia told Claire that Merlin planned to defeat the Blazing Flame Orcs by targeting their high-level forces, with the Six Archmages restraining one enemy Archmage while Merlin fought the other.
• Claire learned that Archmage Ivan would not leave his seclusion unless the kingdom faced destruction, then helped Sophia organize documents and gathered news about the war.
• Five days later, Claire heard that Merlin had severely wounded the Orcs’ Ancestral Spirit, so she returned to the Wizard Plane and hurried to trade her remaining equipment before the war ended.
• The Blazing Flame Orcs accepted Claire’s higher price and asked whether she could provide treasures to repair souls, offering as much Blazing Flame Essence Ore as necessary.
• Claire decided to visit the Orcs herself to assess the injury and possible profit, but resolved not to heal the Ancestral Spirit completely.

Claire examined the Blazing Flame Orcs’ dying Ancestral Spirit and learned that a Godhead Fragment had once revived it. She left promising to ask her superiors about divine treasures, excited by the possibility of finding the fragment.

• Claire met Del and said she needed to examine the Ancestral Spirit before judging whether she could help.
• Del led Claire to the palace, where priests chanted over the weakened spirit on an altar.
• Claire told Del that soul-healing potions might help but could not guarantee success.
• Del revealed that a fragment of divine power had merged with the Ancestral Spirit a thousand years earlier and identified it as a Godhead Fragment from a fallen god.
• Claire promised to ask her superiors about items related to divinity and left the camp excited by the discovery.

After learning that the Blazing Flame Orcs' Ancestral Spirit carried a shattered godhead, Claire researched godheads and searched the free trade market for a way to secure it. She chose a soul-locking hook and opened a temporary communication interface, where a young man appeared and greeted her.

• Claire researched godheads and learned that a shattered one could help her gain divine power and authority, but recognized the danger of confronting the Magic Saint-level Ancestral Spirit.
• Claire found a Demigod's Godhead in the free trade market but decided not to spend a Trade Point trying to contact its seller.
• Claire compared three trade offers and chose the Netherworld Soul-Locking Hook to improve her chances of restraining the Ancestral Spirit.
• Claire spent one Trade Point to open a temporary communication interface, and a young man appeared and apologized for the delay.