Recaps

Leo reviewed intelligence on the technologically advanced Homo Sapiens World and traveled with the expedition fleet, hoping to exploit his status and find valuable knowledge. The fleet reached the planet, where the Nilotites watched its arrival with fear as their aircraft gathered beneath it.

• Leo examined footage of the Homo Sapiens World and learned that its inhabitants relied on advanced technology rather than elemental energy.
• Leo declined command duties and requested hidden missions, then learned the expedition had none and that the starship mothership would depart in two days.
• Leo and Benji entered dormancy during the twelve-year voyage while Yaoyao remained apart from them.
• The mothership reached the Homo Sapiens World, and Leo awakened with Yaoyao and Benji as the fleet prepared to pass through the spatial barrier.
• The Nilotites spotted the enormous spacecraft, panicked briefly, and then watched uniformed responders restore order as hundreds of their aircraft gathered beneath it.

The wizard expedition encountered no immediate resistance as the Homo Sapiens World sought peaceful talks, and Leo was asked to lead negotiations. He accepted the assignment, scheduled to depart in three days.

• The command center ordered the wizards to hold position after the Homo Sapiens World requested communication, but Leo went out to inspect the aircraft with Benji and Yaoyao.
• A First-Level Wizard approached the aircraft, frightening their pilots and sending several craft crashing, while Leo judged the world too weak to pose a serious threat.
• The Homo Sapiens federation said it wanted to avoid war and explore the universe with wizard civilization, then requested a negotiating team visit its headquarters.
• The command center asked Leo to lead the negotiations because of his status and strength, and Leo agreed to leave in three days.

Leo and the wizards arrived in the Homo Sapiens World for negotiations, where their overwhelming power left the hosts terrified and compliant. After Leo demanded every book in the world as compensation for poor hospitality, he wondered why the Homo sapiens showed no resistance.

• Leo told Mashaji to handle the negotiations and security issues while he stayed out of the mission.
• The wizards reached a manor, where the Homo sapiens leader welcomed them and offered food and hospitality.
• Leo noticed that the Homo sapiens guards carried only cold weapons, despite their world's advanced technology.
• Leo ate all the food in the manor, then demanded that the Homo sapiens provide a copy of every book in their world.
• Mashaji threatened the Homo sapiens with his aura until their leader agreed to prepare twelve copies of every book by dawn.
• Leo observed the leader showing no sign of resistance and questioned whether the Homo sapiens valued knowledge or genuinely wanted to join wizard civilization.

Leo and the wizards tested the Homo Sapiens World’s submission before negotiating a passage and trade agreement, but the humans accepted every demand without resistance. With no sign of a hidden threat, Leo reported the agreement to the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard and turned to the books he had collected.

• Leo rejected Yaoyao’s suggestion to kill people and watched the wizards test the Homo Sapiens with minor demands, which they met with complete obedience.
• The Homo Sapiens leader delivered twelve mountains of books, and Leo and the other wizards stored them in their magical spaces and rings.
• For a month, the wizards found faults with meals, noise, and other inconveniences, while the Homo Sapiens resolved each complaint and showed no resentment.
• Mashaji announced terms for a spatial passage, trade, and passage fees, and the Homo Sapiens leader accepted them in hopes of gaining cultivation and a longer lifespan.
• The leader gave the wizards gifts, and Mashaji asked Leo whether the humans were hiding something; Leo found no evidence and told him to report to the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard.
• Leo returned to the mothership and prepared to study the Homo Sapiens’ books, while Benji remained aboard.

While searching the collected books, Leo found that the Homo Sapiens World’s knowledge was strangely primitive despite its advanced technology, and he suspected a hidden power or secret. He refused to warn the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard about the risk at Mount Sayeda and watched the signing ceremony from afar as the Homo sapiens gathered on the summit.

• Leo and Yaoyao searched their books and found no advanced scientific knowledge, prompting Leo to suspect that the Homo Sapiens World concealed a great secret.
• The command center told Leo that the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard would sign a contract on Mount Sayeda the next afternoon, but Leo declined the invitation and chose not to report his suspicions.
• Leo, Yaoyao, and Benji searched the books for information about Mount Sayeda, finding only myths about a god who supposedly lived at its summit.
• Leo wondered whether the god might be a real, undetected World Lord, despite Yaoyao’s insistence that the world had no supernatural forces.
• As the signing approached, Leo left the star mothership with Yaoyao and Benji and used Ice Mirror spells to watch the ship and Mount Sayeda from afar.
• Leo saw many smiling Homo sapiens gathered on Mount Sayeda’s summit, waiting for the wizards to arrive.

Leo watched the signing ceremony on the Homo Sapiens World turn into a disaster when Mount Sayeda split open and revealed a colossal World Lord tree. The tree overwhelmed the wizard expeditionary force, captured the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard, and shattered the starry sky mothership’s strongest defensive barrier.

• Leo left the starry sky mothership and watched the signing ceremony at Mount Sayeda through Ice Mirror.
• The Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard brought the wizard army to the summit, where Homo sapiens signed the contract after the display of the wizards’ power.
• Mount Sayeda split apart, and a colossal tree awakened, bound the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard, and suppressed Leo’s strength.
• The wizard army attacked the tree, but it absorbed their spells and grew leaves across its trunk.
• The tree launched deadly leaves into the army and struck the starry sky mothership, shattering its strongest protective barrier.

Leo ordered the Wizard forces to abandon the doomed expedition and went undercover in a Homo sapiens city to investigate the world's unnatural peace. After learning that the population seemed to have no memory of the invasion, he watched a hotel attendant's broken neck trigger a sudden, unexplained surge of power.

• Leo used his First-Class Wizard Medal authority to order reinforcements requested, the mothership teleported away, and surviving wizards hidden, accepting responsibility for abandoning the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard.
• The wizards fled while the slaves kept fighting; the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard was drained to death, and the expedition ended in failure.
• Leo transformed himself into a Homo sapiens, sent Benji to hide in the wilderness, and told Yaoyao to stay in the Shadow World around people.
• Leo entered a city with a forged identity and checked into a luxurious hotel, using his money and knowledge of the language to blend in.
• Leo found that the Homo sapiens knew nothing of the recent invasion and lived as if the world were entirely peaceful, with no crime or weapons.
• When the hotel attendant's neck snapped, his aura suddenly grew until he surpassed rank one, despite taking in no apparent energy.

After Homo sapiens across the city mutated into hostile creatures, Leo fought through the swarming mutants while trying to escape without revealing himself to the force behind the transformation. He remained trapped in the city, battling onward as the mutants continued to overwhelm him.

• Leo killed an attendant who had transformed into a mutant and sensed that Homo sapiens throughout the city had mutated, threatening the hidden wizards.
• When mutants surrounded his building and demanded to know why he had not mutated, Leo used his Gravity Domain and Ice Domain to kill the attackers around him.
• Leo attempted to escape through the shadows, but a level-two mutant ambushed him and forced him into the open.
• Leo transformed into a Hunter, summoned Yaoyao, and fought toward the outskirts while his durability let him withstand the level-one mutants.
• Leo used Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft to destroy a level-two mutant and clear a path, but the mutant army quickly closed in again.
• Yaoyao suggested using atomic bombs, but Leo refused because he suspected the giant tree behind the mutation could detect such a powerful explosion.

Leo fought through millions of mutants while Yaoyao discovered they were controlled by a great tree that could also disrupt Leo’s Shadow Walking. When the tree’s attacks nearly killed Leo, Yaoyao pulled him into the Shadow World to escape.

• Leo transformed into his Thunderstorm Giant form, killed a level-three mutant with Atomic Breath, and then returned to Hunter Form to conserve stamina.
• The great tree repeatedly knocked Leo out of Shadow Walking, and Yaoyao discovered that branches connected the mutants to the tree and carried its control.
• Leo continued fighting toward the city outskirts while Yaoyao watched for attacks from the Shadow World.
• The great tree attacked Leo with branches; one strike broke through his defenses and knocked him back into his Earth human form.
• Yaoyao pulled the injured Leo into the Shadow World just before another branch smashed the building and ground where he had fallen.

After the enormous tree nearly killed Leo, he and Yaoyao traced the mutants’ control threads through the Shadow World to a vast, pitch-black projection of the tree. Leo concluded that the World Lord’s apparent power defied the limits of a micro world, and he left the mystery and the wizards’ fate to the approaching rescue army.

• Leo healed his severe injuries by drawing energy from the Godslaying Staff and accelerating his recovery.
• Yaoyao observed that the mutants were hunting wizards relentlessly, while the enormous tree seemed to target the stronger ones.
• Leo followed the threads controlling the mutants with Yaoyao and discovered that they converged on the tree’s immense projection in the Shadow World.
• Leo rejected Yaoyao’s suggestion that the tree had reached Level Six by consuming the Homo Sapiens World, since a micro world lacked the resources to sustain such a lifeform.
• Yaoyao said he would take Leo somewhere safer before the Shadow World assimilated him, and confirmed that Benji was safe and asleep in a tree hollow.

Leo hid inside a pregnant mutant’s body to evade the World Lord’s surveillance, and survived as the mutants searched for him. When the mutants returned to normal Homo sapiens, rescuers found Leo and took him to a hospital, where he was born and mistaken for Maria’s child.

• Leo rejected hiding in remote places and asked Yaoyao to find a pregnant female mutant.
• Leo killed the mutant, replaced her unborn baby, and hid inside her uterus while Yaoyao healed the wound.
• The arriving mutants searched the area but left the corpse untouched, allowing Leo to escape detection.
• After ten days, the mutants reverted to normal Homo sapiens, and people took the dead woman, Maria, to a hospital.
• Doctors delivered Leo, and he cried like a newborn as they prepared to send him to an orphanage.

Leo lived undercover as Lucas in the Homo Sapiens World, studying its people and searching for information about the enormous tree that controlled them. On reaching adulthood, he prepared to observe how the students’ Life-Bound Trees affected them before deciding whether to plant one himself.

• Leo was taken to an orphanage after the city’s destruction was blamed on an earthquake, and he grew up concealing his identity as a wizard.
• As Lucas, Leo acted like an ordinary, quiet child, attended school, and earned a reputation for reading extensively while keeping his grades average.
• Leo noticed that buildings destroyed in battle had later returned intact, making him more cautious about revealing anything unusual.
• Over fifteen years, Leo studied wizard knowledge and Homo sapiens books, but found little useful information about the enormous tree.
• As the students prepared to plant their Life-Bound Trees upon coming of age, Leo recognized them as devices for the tree to control Homo sapiens and decided to watch others before choosing what to do.

Leo planted his Life-Bound Tree and found that its branch could not drain his sea of consciousness. He then built a career as a doctor and bought a hovercar to investigate Homo sapiens energy sources, realizing that the world’s inhabitants had been made incapable of understanding natural science.

• Leo let the Life-Bound Tree’s thread pierce him and saw its branch fail to draw water from his sea of consciousness.
• After graduating, Leo became a hospital worker, advanced to doctor, and secretly recorded detailed data about his patients.
• Leo bought a hovercar and repeatedly took it for repairs so he could study its energy source.
• Leo concluded that the great tree had made Homo sapiens forget the knowledge needed to develop natural science.
• Leo decided he could not dismantle the car or show interest in science without breaking his disguise as a normal Homo sapiens.

After thirty-two years undercover, Leo sensed the Wizard World’s rescue fleet arriving and watched four starry sky motherships force their way into the Homo Sapiens World. He contacted the command center, revealed his identity, and delivered intelligence about the great tree and the dangers facing the rescue mission.

• Leo covered Dr. Bike’s surgeries and reflected that he might need to marry a female Homo sapiens to maintain his disguise if rescue did not arrive soon.
• A month later, four blazing masses joined in the sky, causing panic as security personnel directed traffic and the city descended into confusion.
• Leo watched the motherships breach the atmosphere, released his Matter Sealing Technique, and recovered his strength to 80%.
• Leo recognized four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards aboard the motherships, including the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard.
• Leo contacted the command center, identified himself as a First-Class Wizard Medal holder, and thanked the Stigmata Great Wizards for coming to rescue them.
• Leo warned the command center that the great tree controlled the Homo sapiens and their life-bound trees, might be an invading level-six being, and could have supplied their technology; he also sent his accumulated intelligence about the world and surviving wizards.

Leo revealed his identity and stayed in Homo Sapiens World to investigate how its inhabitants transformed into mutants, while the wizard invasion began and the great tree’s consciousness appeared to confront him. The chapter ended with a mutant speaking directly to Leo as the planet shook and transformations spread.

• Leo submitted his gathered intelligence to the Stigmata Great Wizards, then revealed himself to the Homo sapiens and changed back into his human form.
• Leo summoned Benji to hold off the Homo sapiens while he put on the Godslaying Set and headed for the operating room.
• Leo learned from Yaoyao that the Life-Bound Tree’s branch had tried to extract part of his soul, and suspected the tree controlled Homo sapiens through their souls.
• Leo examined dozens of Homo sapiens’ brains, found no trace of the black substance he had discovered in Tiger Beastmen, and prepared to study their transformation.
• The four starship motherships released armies of slaves and wizards as the planet shook and Homo sapiens transformed into mutants.
• A mutant threatened to kill Leo, and Yaoyao realized that the great tree’s consciousness had descended.

Leo discovered that the mutants’ nerve-linked fibers carried energy and control from the great tree, and he joined the expedition’s command center to learn about the rescue force. Vasily revealed that the mission might end with the planet’s complete destruction, leaving Leo and Yaoyao shocked.

• Leo concluded that the great tree’s consciousness had investigated him because it could not control his transformation, then killed a mutant and dissected others to study their energy-bearing fibers.
• Leo preserved samples of the fibers and learned that burning the Homo sapiens’ Life-Bound Trees caused mutants to revert to their original forms.
• Tuotuo Yatai introduced himself as a Level Two Body Refinement Wizard sent to protect Leo, and Leo left him to handle the battle before flying to a starry sky mothership.
• Vasily briefed Leo on the previous expedition’s losses and the arrival of four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards with more than twenty million wizards and over three hundred million slaves.
• Vasily asked whether the miniature world would need to exist after the Stigmata Great Wizards won, then told Leo that the planet might be destroyed, shocking Leo and Yaoyao.

Leo watched footage of four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards battling the enormous tree, then went to retrieve his Life-Bound Tree as plants across the planet awakened and attacked. He discovered that Homo sapiens mutants could merge with their Life-Bound Trees to become stronger plant people, and found his own unusually large tree intact.

• Leo watched the Stigmata Great Wizards confront the enormous tree, but could see only a small part of their battle.
• Plants across the planet awakened, and Vasily warned that the enormous tree was preparing to fight back.
• Leo flew with Benji and Yaoyao to retrieve his Life-Bound Tree while animated trees charged toward the city.
• Leo and Yaoyao saw mutants merge with their Life-Bound Trees, transforming into plant people with increased strength.
• Leo reached his Life-Bound Tree and found it nearly thirty meters tall, about three times the height of the others.

Leo realized that the immense Tree of Life had unintentionally poured its energy into his own tree, which he had Benji carry to the starry sky mothership for safekeeping. He reunited with his former student Tao Mia, now a First-Level Wizard, and confronted Dean Roderick, who recognized that Leo had fused with the Stone of Indestructibility.

• Leo explained that the huge tree's energy had nourished his unusually large Tree of Life, then asked Benji to uproot it and carry it to the mothership.
• Leo soothed the frightened Tree of Life as Benji protected its roots with soil and flew away with it; Yaoyao suggested grafting it to grow fruit, and Leo scolded him.
• Tao Mia arrived with a giant force, revealed herself to Leo, and said she had advanced to First-Level Wizard thirty years after he left, aided by his lessons and the wizard ring he had given her.
• Yaoyao questioned why Tao Mia had joined the expedition before her hundred-year rest period ended, and Tao Mia said she had volunteered for battlefield experience.
• Leo noticed the academy teachers were protecting Tao Mia and recognized Dean Roderick among them; Roderick greeted Leo awkwardly after sensing the Stone of Indestructibility in him.

Leo reunited with Tao Mia and joined her academy’s mission to clear mutants, active plants, and fused plant-humans from the city. As the wizards fought, Leo’s overwhelming strength drew attention, and Tao Mia began casting fire witchcraft.

• Leo rebuked Roderick over their past dealings, while Yaoyao tried to claw the dean before Leo stopped and silenced him.
• Tao Mia invited Leo to join the clearing mission, and Roderick reluctantly welcomed him.
• The wizards activated their giant bloodlines, and Leo suspected Tao Mia had become an Elemental Body Refinement Wizard.
• Leo charged into the enemy ranks, slaughtering mutants and active plants while collecting fused plant-humans as specimens.
• Leo unleashed Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft down a street, killing over a thousand mutants in one strike.
• Tao Mia drew a staff, gathered heat into it, and cast Fireball Scatter Lesser Witchcraft.

Leo watched Tao Mia demonstrate her powerful elemental body tempering spell and learned how she had discovered her wizard path through research. During the ongoing extermination campaign, he uncovered evidence that the Homo Sapiens World was connected to another world, leaving him anticipating substantial battle merits for the intelligence he had provided.

• Tao Mia demonstrated a fireball spell that multiplied as it struck enemies, and the Thunderstorm Giant analyzed its power and praised her.
• Tao Mia explained that she had found her path by studying how to raise bodily-fluid temperatures to increase physical strength, impressing Leo and the nearby wizards.
• Leo learned from an analysis report that the Homo sapiens used an energy-rich metal with no known deposits in their world, confirming his theory that their technology came from elsewhere.
• Leo concluded that the metal could help locate the connected technological world and anticipated a large reward for his intelligence.
• By the seventh year of the extermination missions, the wizard army had reduced the mutants, active plants, and fused plant people by half and was sweeping through the remaining enemies.

Leo and the wizard forces fled to the starship mothership as the tree unleashed roots that devastated the planet and killed millions. Leo learned that the tree was a branch of a Cosmic World Tree awakened when the Stigmata Great Wizards’ sealing plan failed.

• The mothership urgently ordered all wizard forces back to their starships as the planet began to shake violently.
• Leo, Tao Mia, Benji, and the other wizards escaped as enormous roots burst from the ground and destroyed a city and the surrounding landscape.
• The roots turned on the forces in the sky, killing millions of slaves and destroying starships while Leo and the survivors raced toward the mothership.
• The mothership fired an energy cannon at the roots, and the surviving slaves counterattacked as Leo sent Tao Mia away and returned to his room.
• Leo checked the information exchange platform and learned that the tree was a branch of a Cosmic World Tree awakened by the failed sealing attempt of the Soul-Devouring Seal Stigmata Great Wizard and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard.

Leo learned that the World Tree was a universe-class Level Seven organism and feared that it remembered his earlier mockery. As the awakened World Tree’s branch rampaged across the Homo Sapiens World, the wizards retreated into their starship motherships and prepared to attack from above.

• Leo searched the information platform and discovered that the World Tree’s main body was a universe-class Level Seven life-form.
• Yaoyao reminded Leo that he had mocked the World Tree, and Leo tried to reassure himself that the four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards could defeat its branch.
• Leo read reports that the Soul-Devouring Seal Stigmata Great Wizard and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard had failed to seal the tree, while the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard and the Heaven-Supporting Pillar Stigmata Great Wizard fought its branch.
• The awakened World Tree replenished its branch with energy, sending its roots into a rampage that slaughtered slave troops and threatened the wizards.
• The motherships recalled the wizards, withdrew beyond the atmosphere, and began charging their main and secondary cannons while requesting more energy.

Leo and Yaoyao supplied energy to the starry sky motherships as they bombarded the World Tree’s roots, but the main cannons could barely harm its branch. The four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards remained on the defensive, and the ongoing battle was devastating the Homo Sapiens World.

• Leo and Yaoyao used nuclear fission to boost the mothership’s power, while Leo kept Benji’s mana in reserve as an escape precaution.
• The four motherships’ secondary cannons struck the roots, destroying 1,780 and damaging 3,644 before their coordinated bombardment continued.
• All four motherships fired their fully charged main cannons at the World Tree branch, but the shots only broke four twigs and were judged unable to inflict effective damage.
• Leo saw that the four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards were struggling against the immense World Tree branch and feared they would lose.
• The motherships continued firing as new roots emerged, while the bombardment and roots churned the planet into a devastated, flooding world with a damaged atmosphere and falling temperatures.

Leo watched the motherships’ bombardment exhaust their energy without reducing the World Tree branch’s roots, while the four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizards remained locked in battle. The Supreme Lord’s Sword of Winter was revealed as their trump card, and its sword qi pierced the Homo Sapiens planet as the battle’s outcome hung in the balance.

• Leo saw the roots multiply despite a month of bombardment and realized that destroying them would not defeat the World Tree branch.
• Yaoyao suggested fleeing, but Leo said they were too far from the Wizard World and could not abandon Benji.
• After three more months, the motherships’ energy was nearly depleted, until a message ordered them to retreat from an impending energy shock.
• Leo learned that the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard had activated the Supreme Lord’s Sword of Winter.
• The sword qi cut into the Homo Sapiens planet and emerged from its opposite side.

After the Stigmata Great Wizards defeated the Tree of Life by cutting the Homo Sapiens planet apart, Leo joined the resource-gathering mission to obtain Planetary Core. He reached a rich deposit with Yaoyao and sent the wizards to collect it while Yaoyao secretly set about stealing some.

• The information platform announced that the Tree of Life’s main-body consciousness had departed and the four Stigmata Great Wizards had won, then ordered starships to gather resources before the planet broke apart.
• Yaoyao told Leo that the planet’s exposed Planetary Core could expand his Shadow Space, so Leo asked Vasily for a starship and joined the gathering mission.
• Leo watched the planet break into fragments over a hundred days, then led two hundred wizards and several thousand mechanical slaves into the meteor belt.
• Yaoyao guided Leo past other deposits to a massive fragment rich in Planetary Core, then vanished to steal some while Leo ordered the wizards to begin gathering.