Recaps

Claire confirmed that Isaac’s glowing object was the Godhead he wanted and learned that Isaac had killed a Behemoth demigod to obtain it. Their conversation revealed that Isaac’s world shared concepts with Claire’s, and Claire offered the Wizard Plane in exchange for the Godhead.

• Claire recognized the Godhead Isaac showed him and cautiously considered the danger of revealing it after the trade.
• Isaac explained that he had killed a Behemoth after its demigod advancement left it weakened, then kept its Godhead because its Laws were uncommon.
• Isaac told Claire that the gods lived in the Astral Realm but had fallen asleep before he was born, and that gods mastered complete authority while demigods mastered only part of it.
• Isaac said he had no particular needs and asked Claire what he could offer for the Godhead.
• Claire offered to trade the Wizard Plane, which contained complete Laws and living creatures, for Isaac’s Godhead.

Claire learned that Isaac’s world was a prison where demigods were hunted for their Godheads, so he traded information about a trader who could conceal a Godhead’s aura. He retrieved the Godhead on a Small Plane, where it suddenly began glowing without causing spatial fluctuations.

• Isaac explained that the Land of the Gods' Abandonment trapped its inhabitants and that newly advanced demigods were hunted for their Godheads and divine corpses.
• Claire offered Isaac information about a trader with a device that could conceal a Godhead’s aura, and Isaac traded him a Godhead.
• Claire went to his basement and used a Spatial Teleportation Array to reach the Small Plane before removing the Godhead from his trading space.
• The Godhead appeared as a rotating white crystal that released wisps of divinity, then erupted in intense white light.
• Claire sensed no spatial fluctuations and recognized that the light resembled what he had seen when he devoured a damaged Godhead.

Claire watched the Demigod's Godhead transform the Small Plane, first spreading plant life and then rooting itself at the plane's core. A vast vine broke through the world barrier to draw in energy, while accelerated cycles of growth and decay produced a more complex, stable ecosystem, though no animals had appeared yet.

• Claire saw white mist from the Demigod's Godhead sink into the earth and cause green plants to spread and evolve.
• The Godhead sank to the Small Plane's core, where an emerald vine burst through the world barrier and extended into the void.
• Claire realized the vine was gathering energy from outside the plane and feeding it back, accelerating the spread of greenery.
• Claire observed the plants wither and regrow through rapid life cycles, creating more varied species, water systems, rocks, and growing mineral deposits.
• Claire searched for signs of animal life but found none, not even insects.

Claire discovered that the Small Plane had become a living world filled with vegetation, rivers, and Magic Plants, with a colossal Magic Vine supplying magic power. After the divine spark transformed into the World Heart and gave her control over the plane’s Laws, Claire sealed it and concealed the Small Plane.

• Claire explored the transformed Small Plane and found low-level Magic Plants growing around the Magic Vine.
• Claire discovered that the divine spark had grown into a polygonal sphere at the Small Plane’s core.
• Claire touched the divine spark, learned it had become the World Heart, and used it to move across the plane instantly.
• Claire used the World Heart to alter grass and strengthen a Whirlwind Spell, confirming that she controlled the Small Plane’s Laws.
• Claire sealed the World Heart and moved the Small Plane to a concealed location protected by Concealment Arrays.

Claire returned to Merlin's Mage Tower to research the Small Plane and its World Heart, but the books offered no answers about how a divine spark had changed it. Merlin explained what little he knew and revealed that some mages believed World Hearts were connected to gods.

• Claire returned to the royal capital and searched the Magic Academy and Merlin's Mage Tower for information about the Small Plane.
• After five days, Merlin emerged from confinement and went to the library to speak with Claire.
• Claire asked Merlin what a World Heart was, and he explained that it was a world's core, allowing its possessor to control that world's Laws.
• Merlin said fewer than ten World Hearts had been discovered and that the known ones were controlled by top Mage Towers.
• Merlin described theories that World Hearts were more likely to exist in smaller planes and might be connected to gods.

Claire learned from Merlin how World Hearts might relate to the gods’ Divine Kingdoms and how to transform a Small Plane into a balanced, life-bearing world. After gathering Merlin’s data, she reshaped her Small Plane and accelerated time so its ecosystem could develop further.

• Claire suggested to Merlin that planes containing World Hearts might once have been the gods’ Divine Kingdoms, and Merlin judged the idea worthy of research.
• Claire asked Merlin how to make her Small Plane a life-bearing rear base, and he advised her to balance its Laws by using their world as a model.
• Merlin gave Claire the data he had used to design his own Small Plane, and Claire returned to Griffin Territory before entering her plane through a spatial array.
• Claire used the World Heart to reshape the plane’s flat terrain, create lakes and rivers, and add forests, desert, and more complex geological layers.
• After working for four or five days, Claire accelerated time beneath her so the plants could cycle and spread into more suitable habitats.

After Claire accelerated the Small Plane’s transformation, she discovered that the Magic Vine had created a vast lake of liquefied magic power. She and Isaac developed a way for Claire to draw on that power remotely, and she tested the Magic Tool by casting spells continuously without tiring.

• Claire sensed that the Small Plane’s Laws had strengthened and found that the Magic Vine’s magic power had condensed into a lake of magical liquid.
• Claire devised a plan to connect herself to the lake through spatial nodes and asked Isaac to create a Magic Tool for the connection.
• Isaac set aside other Academy of Sciences projects and began drafting blueprints for Claire’s Magic Tool.
• Several days later, Claire tested the device over the sea by casting fifth-circle Archmage-level spells for nearly half an hour without showing any sign of depletion.

Claire tested the Magic Tool that drew power from his Small Plane and decided to build a spell system around an effectively unlimited magic reserve. He went to Sophia to seek one or two Magic Ore mines so he could strengthen the Small Plane.

• Claire used the Magic Tool to unleash spells for half an hour without consuming his own magic power, then returned to his residence as a Sea Beast emerged and decided to leave its nest.
• Claire checked the Small Plane and found that the magic lake had barely lost any power, which the Magic Vine was replenishing.
• Claire chose to make the Small Plane the core of a spell-torrent system, allowing him to cast powerful spells continuously as long as his mental strength could keep up.
• Claire returned to the Mage World and told Regan he was going to the royal capital to find Magic Ore for the Small Plane.
• Claire asked Sophia for connections to one or two Magic Ore mines, and Sophia said she would not provide them for free.

Claire agreed to buy the largest Magic Ore deposits and heard Sophia’s plan to acquire more beneath mines in the Kingdom of Zesilia. Claire proposed using currency exchange and leverage to short the Kingdom of Zesilia’s currency, leaving Sophia shocked.

• Claire told Sophia she could afford the largest Magic Ore deposits with her four or five hundred million Gold Coins.
• After Claire described Mermaid Port’s success, Sophia invited her to invest in buying land in the Kingdom of Zesilia that concealed valuable Magic Ore beneath Iron Ore and a Copper Mine.
• Claire considered the mining deal and learned the Magic Ore could be worth four or five hundred million Gold Coins, but she said a fifty-fifty split would yield too little.
• Claire asked about Sophia’s liquid funds and proposed exchanging their money into Silver Dragon Coins, then using leverage in the Kingdom of Zesilia to short its currency.
• Sophia cried out in disbelief when Claire revealed her plan to short the Kingdom of Zesilia’s currency.

Claire explained to Sophia how they could borrow and leverage funds to manipulate the Kingdom of Zesilia’s currency, then buy it back after a panic-driven crash for a large profit. After agreeing to split their earnings fifty-fifty, they began discussing details, and Claire visited Irene and other acquaintances in the royal capital.

• Claire proposed borrowing money through the Mina Merchant Association and using leveraged loans to gather Zesilian currency.
• Claire explained that they could trigger panic by dumping the currency, then buy it back after it depreciated and use it to repay their loans.
• Sophia agreed to Claire’s demand for an equal share, and they sat down to discuss the plan’s details.
• Claire visited Irene at the royal palace, then spent several days in the capital visiting Yana, Hubert, and other acquaintances.

Sophia’s currency short-selling operation drove the Kingdom of Zesilia’s exchange rate into a collapse, earning Claire more than 1.39 billion in profit. A month later, Sophia’s messenger delivered Claire her share, contracts for two Magic Crystal mines, and a deed to a Magic Ore mine in Zesilia.

• Sophia borrowed and gathered most of the Kingdom of Zesilia’s currency, then sold it in massive waves as panic sent the exchange rate tumbling.
• The Kingdom of Zesilia tried to buy back its currency and stabilize the market, but Sophia’s selloffs and the public’s panic overwhelmed its efforts.
• After the market collapsed, Sophia began using Silver Dragon Coins to buy back currency and repay her loans, while Claire left the final profit calculation to her.
• More than a month later, Yuna told Claire that Sophia’s messenger had arrived, and Claire went to meet him.
• Sophia’s messenger gave Claire a Mite Bank black card holding more than 1.39 billion, contracts for two Magic Crystal mines, and a deed to a Magic Ore mine in the Kingdom of Zesilia.

Claire moved two Magic Crystal mines into the Small Plane, completing its basic magic-power cycle and helping its Laws develop. After she guided life force into the ocean and a tiny invertebrate was born, the World Heart began spinning rapidly and time in the Small Plane accelerated.

• Claire used a spatial Rune of God to take the two Magic Crystal mines from Fowler County and bring them into the Small Plane.
• Claire used the World Heart and the Laws of space to place the mines at a location she had calculated.
• The mines caused magic power to spread through the Small Plane, where Magic Plants appeared and a basic cycle between the mines, plants, and other matter formed.
• Claire sensed life gathering on the seabed and guided life force and the Laws of life until a sesame-seed-sized invertebrate appeared.
• The World Heart rose from Claire's hand, began rotating and emitting white light, and made the rapidly passing time around her look like a blur.

Claire watched the Small Plane develop animal life, then discovered that its World Heart resonated with the damaged godhead sealed in her mind. The World Heart restored part of the godhead, which then suddenly flew back into Claire’s head.

• Claire saw insects and aquatic creatures appear in the Small Plane as its time flow returned to normal.
• Claire sensed the World Heart’s resonance shaking the Netherworld Soul-Locking Hook around the damaged godhead in her mind.
• Claire cautiously loosened the Netherworld Soul-Locking Hook and released the godhead near the World Heart.
• The World Heart emitted white mist that the godhead absorbed, repairing some of its damage and strengthening its aura.
• Claire confirmed the World Heart remained unharmed, but the godhead flashed and shot back into her head before she could react.

After Claire gained the Authority of Order from the divine spark, she tested its effects and found it strengthened her spellcasting and prevented backlash. Back in Griffin Territory, she discovered that the white haze surrounding the land was her own Power of Faith, drawn toward the divine spark.

• Claire touched the divine spark in her mind and learned that it granted her authority over Order.
• Claire tested the authority by calming a whirlwind and found that it helped her construct powerful spells while safely dissipating a spell she abandoned.
• Claire concluded that Order could greatly increase her spellcasting speed and help her fight an ordinary Archmage, then returned to the Mage World.
• Claire left her manor and saw white smoke across Nafu City, though Yuna could not see it.
• Claire flew above Nafu City and realized the haze covered Griffin Territory, then watched it drift into her damaged divine spark and recognized it as her Power of Faith.

Claire absorbed the faith of her subjects and broke through the Archmage bottleneck, reaching a state she named Archmage (Pseudo). Realizing that the divine spark could grow stronger through faith, she decided to establish a hidden religion in Griffin Territory.

• Claire saw how Nafu City's residents had benefited from her rule and how many sincerely wished her well.
• The divine spark absorbed the Power of Faith, causing Claire's strength to surge and her Archmage bottleneck to loosen.
• Claire broke through the bottleneck but recognized that her new state was not true Archmage, naming it Archmage (Pseudo).
• Claire examined the half-filled divine spark and guessed that more Power of Faith could lead her to the true Archmage realm.
• Claire planned to establish her own organized religion in Griffin Territory while concealing it from the Church of Light.

Claire considered ways to build a faith-based institution that could gather Power of Faith while keeping her safe from the Church of Light, then went out to seek inspiration and Nafu City's history. At the city gate, she discovered a destitute woman whose family could not afford medical care despite the aid Claire believed Griffin Territory provided, and summoned Regan in fury.

• Claire weighed establishing a Church of the Sea God against creating a heroic spirit, then decided to look for a historical figure she could use.
• Claire told Regan to find folk tales and disguised herself while asking Nafu City's residents about its past.
• Claire found no notable local figures and headed toward Gilded Rose Town to ask its villagers about old rumors.
• At the city gate, Claire met a starving-looking woman selling wild vegetables, who explained that her injured husband and sick child needed money for treatment.
• Claire questioned how the family could be unable to afford care under Griffin Territory's compensation and subsidy programs, then shouted for Regan to come to the city gate.

Claire and Regan uncovered corruption in Nakin Town after a miner’s wife described unpaid wages, missing injury compensation, unaffordable medical care, and threats against anyone who reported the abuses. Claire ordered an investigation with the Knight Squad and apologized to the woman for failing her.

• Regan rushed to the city gate after Claire called for him, and Claire urged a frightened woman to tell the officials what had happened.
• The woman explained that her injured husband had received no wages or compensation, and Regan learned that Nakin Town had falsely claimed workplace injury subsidies.
• Regan gave the woman Silver Coins for her sick children, but she revealed that medical fees had become unaffordable despite the territory’s subsidies.
• The woman said Nakin Town officials had threatened to break the legs of anyone who reported them, and Regan realized why residents feared coming forward.
• Claire ordered Regan to investigate with the Knight Squad, then told the woman, “It was I who failed you.”

After corruption in Nakin Town came to light, Claire struggled with her failure to protect the people and watched the guilty officials and merchants be executed. Seeing how the crowd’s faith gathered in her divine spark gave her an idea for a plan to prevent similar abuses at their root.

• Regan told Claire that Nakin Town’s officials and merchants had exploited miners, controlled clinics, stolen handicrafts, and caused nearly four million Gold Coins in losses.
• Claire learned that the corruption had persisted for nearly four years and that the Steward’s Office had begun anti-corruption investigations in other towns.
• Regan asked whether Claire would attend the executions, and Claire questioned whether she had the nerve to go after failing the town.
• Claire watched the executions from the air using invisibility magic and felt troubled by the crowd’s praise and the Power of Faith flowing into her divine spark.
• Claire realized the divine spark could offer a better approach than heroic spirits and the Sea God, and teleported away to make a plan.

Claire visited Boli, gave him a stone and a Meditation Method, and used the divine spark to connect him to the world's Laws. After beginning to practice, Boli grew hopeful that he could become a wizard.

• Boli pretended to practice magic beneath a tree when a black-cloaked young woman appeared and said she was a wizard.
• Uncle Karen could not see the woman, and she pressed her thumb to Boli's forehead, placed a stone in his hand, and told him they would meet again.
• Claire watched from above the village as the divine spark's Power of Faith flowed into her and threads of the world's Laws connected to Boli.
• That night, Boli studied the knowledge Claire had placed in his mind and practiced with the glowing stone, which gathered energy around him.
• The next day, Boli sat beneath the tree to practice Claire's Meditation Method and began hoping he could become a wizard.

After six years of secret cultivation, Boli met John, a third-rank wizard who offered to take him as a disciple. A familiar voice told Boli to accept, and he left the village with John to begin his wizard training.

• Boli spent years practicing the Meditation Method and secretly learned to cast a fireball.
• John found Boli cultivating beneath the village tree, recognized his wizarding talent, and offered to make him his disciple.
• Boli told John he had found the Meditation Method in a buried treasure chest and learned basic facts about the Wizard World.
• A familiar unseen voice told Boli to promise John, and Boli agreed to become his disciple.
• John told Boli about the conflict between his wizard school and the Antonio School, then took him away after he said goodbye to his parents.

Boli rose through Dickens School after Claire gave him powerful cultivation books and repeatedly encouraged him. Years later, as a Level Four Wizard poised to lead the school, he had stopped expecting to see her again, but events were about to disrupt his peaceful life.

• Boli entered Dickens School, advanced to a Level One Wizard, and received the school's secret manuals from John.
• Claire visited Boli, replaced the manuals with hundreds of books, and promised they would meet again.
• After Boli reached Level Two, Claire returned with potions, explained that the books came from Antonio School, and urged him to confess his feelings to a witch.
• Boli's confession succeeded, and he later advanced to Level Three, astonishing John.
• Boli reached Level Four and became the expected next leader of Dickens School, while years passed without another meeting with Claire.

After the Antonio School destroyed Boli’s village and school, he escaped with Claire and learned that he was the world’s Child of Destiny, destined to overthrow the Antonio School. Claire left him with that mission, promising they would meet again.

• Boli returned to his village and found his parents, brothers, and the villagers dead, then discovered that wizards had attacked it.
• Boli reached his school and saw it burning; John rescued him from pursuing wizards but died so Boli could escape.
• Claire found Boli hiding in a cave and told him that the Antonio School had destroyed his school and killed everyone else there.
• Claire showed Boli the Threads of Fate and told him that he was the Child of Destiny and Incarnation of the God of Order.
• Claire said Boli was destined to overthrow the Antonio School, then left and promised they would meet again.

After the Antonio School destroyed the Dickens School, Boli built a resistance with Claire’s guidance but struggled to train his growing forces. Claire gave him the Magic Swordmaster cultivation method, and Boli’s increasingly successful campaigns helped his revolutionary organization become a rival to the Antonio School, leading to a new world war.

• Boli learned that the Antonio School had killed everyone at the Dickens School except him, then began recruiting other schools and wizards to oppose it.
• As his organization grew, Boli’s forces suffered a major defeat because his self-taught wizards lacked systematic training.
• Claire visited Boli, reassured him that he would win, and gave him a book containing the Magic Swordmaster cultivation method.
• Boli established a religious organization and used the new path and a perfect Meditation Method to attract followers and defectors from the Antonio School.
• After Boli reached the level of an Epic Wizard, his forces began a full-scale revolutionary war as many Antonio School wizards defected, and fighting swept across the Wizard World.

As Boli’s revolution brought the Antonio School to the brink of defeat, Claire restored her damaged godhead and deepened her mastery of the Laws of order. Boli reached the school’s headquarters expecting to kill Antonio, but Claire revealed that she had always been Antonio and challenged him to fight.

• Boli’s revolutionary army seized Antonio School strongholds while Claire absorbed the changing Laws of order and nearly restored her godhead.
• Boli led the assault on Antonio Academy’s headquarters and charged alone into its core to find Antonio.
• Boli confronted Daren and several other epic wizards, then learned from them that Daren was not Antonio.
• Claire emerged from the shadows and told Boli that she was Antonio, shattering his confidence in his destiny.
• Claire explained that she had arranged Boli’s victories and advancement, but Boli rejected her claims and prepared to fight.
• Claire drew her greatsword and challenged Boli to prove that he was the Child of Destiny.

After the revolution toppled the Antonio School, the Wizard Association and Church of Order took control of the Wizard World. Boli learned that Claire had secretly orchestrated the revolution to gain faith and preserve her influence, then left her with a final question about whether an arranged life was worth living.

• The revolutionaries took over the Antonio School’s assets, established the Wizard Association, and spread the Church of Order throughout the Wizard World.
• Boli asked Claire whether she had planted people in the revolutionary army, and Claire admitted that at least half its high-ranking wizards had been hers.
• Boli asked why Claire had engineered a rebellion against her own rule, and she claimed she had acted on a whim.
• Claire privately reflected that the revolution had built her Church of Order, gathered Power of Faith, concealed her identity, and kept wizards under her control.
• Boli said he was going to visit his wife, then turned back at the doorway and asked Claire whether a life arranged by someone else was worth living.