Chapter Summaries

Leo recalled Earth's cataclysm while enduring daily abductions in a basement cell, where he selfishly fought to stay alive. As he remembered the disaster that had nearly killed him, he revealed that mysterious white beams had saved Earth's living things, and he had survived.

• Leo hid behind women in his cell as a creature took several prisoners, then claimed the safest spot after the footsteps left.
• Leo remembered the sky cracking, the earth splitting open, mountains rising, and floods sweeping across the city.
• After the atmosphere vanished, Leo prepared to kill himself, but a white beam enveloped him and shielded him from the deadly conditions.
• Leo watched white beams lift surviving humans, animals, and plants from the ruins, and realized he had survived.

After Earth was destroyed and its survivors were captured, Leo endured life in a basement cell by claiming the safest corner and using others as shields. A mage chose Leo and two women for an unknown purpose, then brought them to an altar where one woman faced a spell.

• Earth was torn apart and pulled into a black hole, and Leo passed out after hearing that its life-forms had been captured.
• Leo woke in a basement cell with other survivors, where a terrifying being killed their strongest men and took people away over the following days.
• As the remaining twelve survivors struggled to stay alive, Leo became the strongest and used women as shields to protect himself.
• A mage arrived at the cell and selected Leo and two women, binding them so they could not resist.
• The mage took them to an altar outdoors and began chanting spells over a blonde reporter who begged for mercy.

Leo was sacrificed on an altar, but a mysterious shadow enveloped him and transformed his body instead of killing him. After other mages sealed his rising energy, one questioned him in Chinese while the others watched.

• The mage sacrificed the foreign reporter and another woman, draining their lives as the altar's shadow slowly grew.
• The mage placed Leo on the altar, where his vitality was drained until the shadow wrapped around him and swallowed him.
• Leo convulsed as the shadow entered him, restoring his body and amplifying his strength while the mage celebrated.
• Several robed figures appeared and used an Energy Sealing Technique to halt Leo's rising energy and convulsions.
• Leo woke with his strength restored and heightened senses, then answered a mage's questions about his name, age, address, and real estate job.

Leo learned that Earth had been torn apart and absorbed into the Wizard World, and that its surviving humans had been granted protected status by the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard. Offered the choice to leave for a new town or stay at the Purple Flame Academy, Leo chose to remain and become a wizard.

• Leo endured the wizards’ questioning and received implanted memories explaining the Wizard World, its language, and Earth’s destruction.
• The wizards explained that Earth’s destruction had been accidental and that they had saved its living beings to preserve the Wizard World’s diversity.
• The questioning wizard told Leo that Earth humans had been granted second-class native rights by the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard and could no longer be casually killed or enslaved.
• The wizards offered Leo the choice of joining the other humans in new towns or staying at the Purple Flame Academy to become a wizard.
• Leo feared the wizard’s reaction if he refused and chose to stay at the academy.

After being assigned to Wizard Gru, Leo endured a brutal combat test before a mysterious voice in his heart revealed his shadow bloodline powers. The voice began teaching him to control those powers, and Leo discovered he could vanish into shadows and reappear elsewhere.

• The academy headmaster told another wizard to keep Leo alive because the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had taken a special interest in him.
• Leo met his new teacher, Wizard Gru, who tested his attributes and identified his Half-Shadow Talent.
• Gru attacked Leo repeatedly to test his combat ability, then gave him a recovery potion and charged him five hundred wizard coins.
• A voice in Leo's heart claimed to be a demigod's projection and offered to teach him how to control his bloodline power.
• Leo awakened his shadow abilities, vanished into the shadows covering his room, and reappeared elsewhere.

After more than half a year at Purple Flame Academy, Leo had learned about wizard civilization and developed his shadow abilities while training under Gru. Gru judged him ready to stabilize his strength, inscribe a Gravity Rune Array, and eventually accompany him on missions.

• Leo learned from the voice in his heart to keep its existence secret and continued studying at Purple Flame Academy, where he learned that finding his family from Earth was likely impossible.
• Leo returned to Gru’s courtyard and used his shadow abilities to ambush him, but Gru repeatedly tracked and attacked him.
• Leo used the shadows cast by debris to launch blades at Gru, who shattered the attack with his aura, broke Leo’s right hand, and injured his internal organs.
• Gru praised Leo for reaching the standard of a low-level wizard apprentice and told him to stabilize his strength before inscribing a Gravity Rune Array.
• Leo activated his Healing Array to recover from his injuries, then retrieved his robe with a shadow tentacle and reflected on his shadow’s ability to manipulate objects and store supplies.

Leo learned that Liquid of Origin was extraordinarily expensive and spent much of his remaining money on information and teleportation, then accepted Gru’s arrangement to become Gavarci’s assistant in exchange for a Gravity Rune Array. Gavarci began teaching him experimental basics while preparing to test him until he adapted to triple gravity.

• Leo thanked the old grandpa for helping him cultivate and agreed to search for Liquid of Origin, which Toronto said was scarce and cost a million wizard coins per milligram.
• Leo bought Earth weapons from Green Cottage and paid Toronto five thousand wizard coins for the information and teleportation, leaving himself nearly broke.
• After Gru said Leo was ready for a Gravity Rune Array, Leo admitted he had no money, and Gru arranged for him to work as Gavarci’s assistant.
• Gru brought Leo to Gavarci’s tower and agreed that Gavarci could do anything to him so long as he did not kill him; Gavarci promised to inscribe the array, while Leo’s freedom would remain his until he adapted to triple gravity.
• Gavarci taught Leo basic experimental knowledge as he prepared the Gravity Rune Array, and Leo learned that Gavarci specialized in poison and claimed he could kill an entire small world.

Leo endured Gavarci’s poison experiments while studying wizard advancement, hoping to find a path suited to his outsider origins. Two years after arriving at Gavarci’s tower, Leo’s response to a new potion reached the desired level, and Gavarci said he could leave within three months despite his failure to meet the gravity training requirement.

• Gavarci tested dragon yang grass juice on Leo, who reported its effects while suffering severe pain under the Gravity Rune Array.
• Leo escaped into the toilet, then reflected on how more than a hundred experiments had improved his poison resistance and physical constitution even as Gavarci’s trials kept him gravely ill.
• During his recovery periods, Leo studied Gavarci’s private library but found no clear instructions for how an outsider should advance as a body refinement wizard.
• Leo asked the old grandpa about advancement and learned that his people pursued the ultimate, though the advice left him unsure how to proceed.
• After another year of experiments, Leo reported that fulou fruit suppressed his shadow power by almost 50%, and Gavarci declared the experiment successful and said Leo could leave within three months.

While recovering from a potion’s prolonged side effects, Leo studied Gavarci’s insights and learned that they included many potion formulas. When Skye showed strong interest in buying Leo’s brews, Gavarci allowed Leo to use a laboratory and supplied materials, leaving Leo eager to begin.

• Gavarci changed the experiment’s focus and gave Leo three books of insights to study while he recovered from the potion’s effects.
• Leo read the books, which contained detailed information on animals and plants, Gavarci’s research records, and one hundred potion formulas.
• Skye collected Gavarci’s prepared potions and offered to buy any potions Leo managed to brew.
• Gavarci witnessed Leo’s conversation with Skye, then agreed to let him brew potions in the second-floor laboratory and split the profits with him.
• Gavarci assigned Lilith to help Leo and said he would cover the raw materials; Leo hurried to the laboratory and planned to start with healing potions.

Leo discovered Lilith was an expert potion brewer and struck a deal to learn from her in exchange for bug platters. After selling two hundred healing potions, he began brewing independently and gained confidence that he could support himself in the Wizard World.

• Lilith ate Leo’s prepared Xianlita and ingredients, then revealed her potion-brewing skill by making thirty healing potions while Leo watched.
• Leo offered Lilith ten bug platters for each potion recipe she taught him, and she agreed to train him.
• Gavarci observed Leo’s talent from the tower’s fourth floor while tending to more than a hundred vessels containing masses of blood.
• Leo sold two hundred healing potions to Skye for 82,000 Wizard Coins, earning 23,500 after accounting for costs and his share with Gavarci.
• Leo bought Lilith ten bug platters, then returned to the tower and continued learning potion-making from her.
• Leo eventually brewed some simple potions entirely by himself and realized he could earn a living without relying on others.

After ten years studying and conducting experiments with Gavarci, Leo left the tower with new ideas about potioneering and a promise to repay his master's kindness. He reunited with Gru, who granted him more freedom and set his next training goal while Leo focused on recovering from the damage caused by years of poison tests.

• Leo contemplated how deeper study of Xianlita might reveal ways to increase strength while reducing the side effects, but Lilith finished preparing his potion when he froze.
• After ten years at Gavarci Tower, Gavarci told Leo he could leave, and Leo thanked him and promised to help him in the future.
• Leo left prepared bug platters for Lilith, who ate them immediately, and said he would bring her tasty bugs if he found any.
• Leo returned to Gru, who praised his understanding of the wizard's path and gave him greater freedom to pursue his goals.
• Gru told Leo to train with him until he could exert his strength normally under triple gravity, while Leo began recovering from the lasting damage caused by the poisons.

Leo discovered that the toxins poisoning his body were too potent for his healing rune array to remove, while Benji revealed his fear of the Wizard World and tried to withdraw from Leo. After Leo used a hidden seal and the threat of the wizards’ larger scheme to force Benji to reconsider, they reached a tentative agreement, and Benji began helping Leo find a way to purge the toxins.

• Leo tried to heal his poisoned body, but his rune array removed only a negligible amount of the toxins.
• Benji admitted that learning about the Wizard World’s history had left him despairing, and he said he intended to dissipate his avatar.
• Leo challenged Benji to test whether he could escape, and rune chains suddenly sealed Benji’s consciousness and froze Leo’s mana.
• Leo told Benji that the wizards’ plan had already trapped him and that relying on Leo was his only chance of survival.
• The next day, Benji agreed to help Leo grow stronger but said he would not yet give up on finding other options.
• Benji explained that Leo’s healing rune array could not cleanse the toxins within ten years and began considering alternatives.

Leo used Benji’s blood-drawn secret technique to awaken his shadow and merge it with his body, gaining a new ability while learning that his Shadow Origin Bloodline came from the collision of two worlds. The toxins in his body shifted into his shadow until they were divided evenly, leaving Leo to consider the process like osmosis.

• Leo asked Benji to teach him how to turn the toxins in his body into something useful, and Benji described the shadow power within his bloodline.
• Leo drew a formation in his own blood across his shadow, which boiled, darkened, and became a semi-living clone that could move away from the ground.
• Leo expanded the paper-thin shadow into a copy of himself, then merged it with his flesh and gained a new ability to become hazy and illusory.
• Benji explained that the collision of two worlds had changed Leo’s bloodline, giving him Shadow Origin Power that Benji had hoped to exploit.
• Leo transferred the toxins from his flesh into his shadow until they were split evenly between the two.

Leo developed his shadow ability to transfer toxins, reduce side effects, and potentially attack through an enemy’s shadow, then used the recovered strength to return to his physical peak. Gru measured Leo’s combat power and imposed an intense training plan under triple gravity to help him improve.

• Leo transferred toxins from his body into Gru’s shadow, but Gru sensed the attempt and warned that he would give Leo special attention during training.
• Leo used the Healing Rune Array to remove most of his toxins, kept enough to stimulate his cells, and began planning experiments to develop his shadow ability.
• After three months, Leo’s strength reached 50 points, but Gru found that he could only turn his strength into five times as much attack power as before.
• Gru activated triple gravity on Leo and had him strike again, reducing his attack power from 250 to 160 points.
• Gru assigned Leo a two-year regimen of sparring, training, mana absorption, meditation, and rest, while Leo wondered whether to make the plan even harder.

Leo endured Gru’s two-year training while conducting toxin and shadow-power experiments, then learned that Gru had accepted a twenty-year guard mission in Tiyama. He began gathering equipment and supplies for the assignment and asked Toronto whether he had found the materials and people Leo requested.

• Leo tested his shadow power during Gru’s daily sparring, but Gru noticed and ordered him to stop using it.
• Leo spent his scarce rest time refining toxin experiments and researching shadow power while adapting to triple gravity.
• After two years, Leo completed a single-toxin protocol with an error margin of about five percent and reliably delivered 200 points of attack power under triple gravity.
• Gru announced that he had accepted a twenty-year mission to guard Tiyama, a newly built city, and refused to explain why the assignment might be complicated.
• Leo prepared to spend his savings on experimental equipment and supplies, then visited Green Cottage and asked Toronto if he had found the materials and people Leo wanted.

Leo prepared for a twenty-year garrison mission, received gifts from Gavarci, and left Purple Flame Wizard Academy with Gru. After Gru abandoned him to reach Tiyama City within five days, Leo ran through the wilderness and was soon fleeing a fire-breathing beast, relying on Benji and Shadow Jump to evade its attacks.

• Leo learned Toronto had no news about his missing family, then bought twenty years' worth of materials and a portable miniature laboratory, leaving himself with 30,000 Wizard Coins.
• Leo visited Gavarci before departing; Lilith's insect platters delighted the frog, and Gavarci gave Leo two wizard books and a Black Pearl Potion.
• Leo and Gru passed the academy gates under the watch of its Fire Elemental Spirit guardians and traveled into the Wizard World's wilderness.
• Gru suddenly left Leo to reach Tiyama City within five days, forcing Leo to continue alone on foot.
• Leo used Shadow Jump and Benji's warnings to dodge a pursuing beast's fireballs, which repeatedly struck close to him.

Leo fled the Blazing Yu Beast’s territory, only to encounter a swarm of carnivorous beasts that trapped him with little mana left. He used ten Gatlings from Earth to fight through them, but after five minutes the swarm still surrounded him and the barrels were glowing red.

• Leo escaped the Blazing Yu Beast’s fireball barrage with repeated Shadow Jumps until his mana dropped to 20%.
• Leo ran into a huge swarm of carnivorous beasts and realized he could not flee in any direction.
• Leo summoned ten Gatlings from his Shadow Space and used them to tear through the attacking swarm.
• Leo charged into the swarm as the Gatlings fired, killing tens of thousands of beasts but failing to break through after five minutes.
• Leo continued fighting with two short blades while the Gatlings’ barrels glowed red and the swarm kept attacking.

Leo fought through a vast swarm of creatures, then was frozen for a day by an unseen wizard apprentice who spared his life. He resumed his journey and reached Tiyama City on the fifth day, where he learned about its founder, Samatchi.

• Leo used fifteen Gatlings and his short blades to break through the swarm, then fired at a hidden presence after the creatures retreated.
• An unseen wizard apprentice cast Ice Age Grand Witchcraft and trapped Leo in ice; Leo broke free the next day and continued toward Tiyama City.
• Leo and Benji noticed that the fierce beasts along the route had recently been cleared out, apparently by the same wizard apprentice.
• Leo traveled smoothly to Tiyama City and recalled that its founder, the wizard apprentice Samatchi, had built and developed the city under the Purple Flame Wizard Academy.

Leo arrived in Tiyama City and learned that his garrison assignment involved investigating disappearances, beast tides, and intruding wizards from other academies. Gru revealed that the city’s harsh surroundings would also serve as Leo’s training ground, and required him to raise his physical defense to withstand a 100-point attack.

• Leo arrived at the city lord’s manor, met Samatchi and eight elemental wizard apprentices, and joined them for dinner.
• Gru gave Leo documents outlining Tiyama City’s conditions, its mission tasks, and a demanding training schedule.
• Leo learned that young people had been disappearing, beast tides had been damaging the area, and wizards from other academies had been spotted nearby.
• Gru explained that the region’s deserts, cold zones, volcanoes, swamps, and poisonous miasma would help train Leo’s body.
• Gru ordered Leo to develop enough physical defense to withstand a 100-point attack during the assignment.

Leo entered a desert to push his body to its limits, while Gru prepared Tiyama City for a possible confrontation with the Black Skull Wizard Academy. After Leo collapsed and was buried beneath the sand, a faint voice began questioning whether it was alive.

• Leo told Gru about his recent experiences, and Gru sent him away to train while warning him not to concern himself with the eight elemental wizard apprentices.
• Samir reported that Black Skull Wizard Academy apprentices were in the area, so Gru ordered the apprentices to investigate cautiously, reduced Tiyama’s outside trade, and sent a message to the academy.
• Leo traveled to the desert with Benji’s warning that the challenge could kill him, then entered it barefoot and without clothes.
• Leo walked for an unknown number of days without food or water, grew emaciated and exhausted, and finally collapsed in the sand.
• A faint voice in a dark world repeatedly questioned whether it was dead or alive before beginning to think about cells and consciousness.