Chapter Summaries

Leo tested the Gravity Domain, a thousand-meter array formed from thirty shadows, and found that its range and gravitational force exceeded the limits of his individual shadows. After pushing its power to two hundred and sixty times gravity, he identified its enormous mana consumption as its main weakness and began considering ways to supply it with stable energy.

• Leo named his enormous shadow Gravity Rune Array the Gravity Domain and confirmed it could move instantly anywhere within 4,800 meters of him.
• Leo endured up to a hundred times gravity in Earth form, then activated his Hunter and Thunderstorm Giant bloodlines to withstand stronger force.
• The Thunderstorm Giant form reached its limit at two hundred and sixty times gravity, while Leo suspected the Gravity Domain itself could go higher.
• Leo reviewed the domain's capabilities and found that it could expand to a thousand meters in diameter and attack individual targets or groups.
• Leo realized that the Gravity Domain consumed thirty times as much mana as before and considered using ambient energy, nuclear fission, or energy absorbed from attacks to sustain it.

Leo combined Yaoyao’s shadow with his Gravity Domain and continued years of research and cultivation in his wizard tower. Gavarci contacted him near the end of his life to discuss Nigel, the son of the former lord of Tiyama City.

• Leo learned that Yaoyao had as many shadows as he did and persuaded him to provide one as a nuclear fission medium and handle the calculations for the Gravity Domain.
• Leo studied wizard knowledge, developed lightning witchcraft, and cultivated Goddess of Darkness receptor blood for the third-generation Gulu Beasts.
• Benji worried about the Gulu Beasts’ low birth rate and ordered them to go home and reproduce.
• Leo received a message from Gavarci and invited him and Lilith to visit, but Gavarci declined because he expected to die soon.
• Gavarci asked Leo whether he remembered Nigel and explained that Nigel was the son of Samatchi, the former lord of Tiyama City.

Leo agreed to honor the promise he had made to Nigel’s father and traveled to Tiyama City after learning that several wizards had died there. He arrived to find Nigel and the remaining mission team close to abandoning their assignment, just as the black-robed wizard began to answer their proposal to retreat.

• Gavarci told Leo that Nigel had asked for his help with a crisis in Tiyama City, where two first-level wizards had already died.
• Leo confirmed his contract with Samatchi and promised to reach Nigel within three months, then left the Tower of Elements with Yaoyao and Benji.
• After two months of travel and a teleportation, Leo reached the Purple Flame Wizard Academy and continued on to Tiyama City.
• At the city lord’s residence, Nigel explained that Leo would arrive in another month while the injured wizards and apprentices struggled to hold the mission together.
• A wizard apprentice urged the group to abandon the mission and return to the academy, and the black-robed wizard began to respond.

Leo arrived to help Nigel and discovered that the wizard who had once sacrificed Earth’s survivors was Abigail, now a first-level wizard. After confronting his hatred and reflecting on his own past, Leo gave Abigail healing potions for the injured wizards and sat down to think, still struggling with his emotions.

• A powerful aura overwhelmed the wizards and apprentices in the hall before Leo entered with a three-tailed fox.
• Leo approached Nigel, then recognized the lone uninjured wizard as Abigail and unleashed his aura, injuring those nearby.
• Benji moved the other wizards outside, while Leo confronted Abigail over their past encounters.
• Abigail bowed to Leo in reverence for his wizard medals, and Leo’s killing intent gradually faded as he reconsidered his hatred.
• Leo gave Abigail two bottles of healing potions for the injured wizards and told him to return afterward, then sat in the hall and wrestled with his emotions.

Leo arrived in Tiyama City and learned that the Black Skull Academy had abducted most of its residents and many apprentices, despite resistance from the five other academies. He promised to protect the city and pressed Abigail for the full account of the conflict, which had already claimed wizard lives.

• The wizards and apprentices learned of Leo's achievements and respectfully greeted him, while Nigel regretted not asking him for more help earlier.
• Leo asked Nigel what had happened to Tiyama City, and Nigel explained that the Black Skull Academy had abducted residents for three years, reducing the city's population from one and a half million to fewer than two hundred thousand.
• Leo promised Nigel that the Black Skull Academy would not harm them while he was there.
• Leo asked Abigail whether the conflict was tied to the apprentice tournament, and Abigail said the tournament had taken place thirty years earlier.
• Abigail told Leo that the Black Skull Academy had abducted residents and apprentices for over a century, and that its latest raids had continued despite resistance from all five other academies.
• Abigail and the other wizards revealed that the latest campaign had killed two Purple Flame Academy wizards, abducted eight apprentices, and taken more than a million residents.

Leo agreed to protect Tiyama City and Nigel through the crisis, then confronted and killed Tuoluoyin, a Black Skull Academy infiltrator. Tuoluoyin refused to explain why Black Skull Academy was seizing people, leaving the secret unresolved.

• Leo asked whether Nigel wanted protection or help resolving Tiyama City's crisis, and Nigel asked him to protect the city.
• Leo agreed to keep Nigel safe and stay in Tiyama City, but warned Nigel not to ask him for anything beyond their contract.
• After learning Purple Flame Academy had no reinforcements to send, Leo sensed an intruder and identified him as someone from Black Skull Academy.
• Yaoyao brought the hidden Tuoluoyin into the hall, where Leo pinned him down with his Gravity Domain.
• Leo demanded to know why Black Skull Academy was seizing people, but Tuoluoyin refused to answer.
• Leo increased the Gravity Domain to 150 times normal gravity and crushed Tuoluoyin into a bloody mist.

After killing Tuoluoyin, Leo withdrew to consider his unresolved feelings about Abigail while Nigel and Yaoyao hosted a banquet. Abigail later came to Leo with knowledge about the altar to Jeft World as an apology gift, and Leo accepted it after learning Abigail had bought him from Green Cottage.

• Leo told Nigel to prepare a room and promised to act against any Black Skull Academy wizard who entered Tiyama City.
• Yaoyao persuaded Nigel to host a banquet, and he boasted to the gathered wizards about his role in Leo's achievements.
• Leo refused the food Benji offered and continued wrestling with whether to kill Abigail.
• Abigail visited Leo and offered a crystal ball containing his knowledge of the altar that had communicated with Jeft World.
• Leo asked how Abigail had acquired him, learned that Abigail had bought him from Green Cottage, and accepted the crystal ball.

Leo discovered that Nigel had orchestrated Abigail’s apology to secure Leo’s help, then took Nigel on as an assistant while studying in Tiyama City. As Purple Flame Academy secretly moved residents into the city, Leo allowed the migration to continue, and more than twenty Black Skull Academy wizards arrived when the population passed two million.

• Leo learned that Nigel had advised Yaoyao to arrange Abigail’s apology and offered Nigel a place as his experimental assistant.
• Nigel studied first-level spells under Leo while Leo continued his own research in Tiyama City.
• Leo noticed the city’s population had grown by a hundred thousand, and Nigel revealed that Yaoyao had been training wizard apprentices while investigating the newcomers.
• Leo told the wizards secretly moving residents into Tiyama City to stop hiding their actions, and three teleportation arrays brought in large crowds.
• After the population exceeded two million, more than twenty Black Skull Academy wizards appeared above Tiyama City, including three second-level wizards and seventeen first-level wizards.

Black Skull Academy’s wizards confronted Purple Flame Academy in Tiyama City, demanding that they surrender the population. Leo appeared to face them with Benji, and Nox recognized the wizard he had once nearly captured.

• Nox led twenty Black Skull Academy wizards, including three Level Two Wizards, to Tiyama City and demanded that Tuyasi let them take the people.
• Abigail left the outnumbered Purple Flame wizards to seek help from Leo, while Qiwituo stayed behind.
• Leo asked Abigail whether other Black Skull wizards were still nearby, then prepared to confront Nox’s group.
• Leo suddenly appeared before the opposing wizards, and Benji revealed his third-level aura, forcing the First-Level Wizards to retreat.
• The Black Skull wizards recognized Leo’s three wizard medals and felt overwhelmed by his presence.
• Nox recognized Leo as the Wizard Apprentice he had once nearly captured.

Leo confronted Nox and the Black Skull Academy wizards, forcing Nox to acknowledge his status as a Legendary Wizard and refusing to abandon his protection contract for Tiyama City. When Nox and the others prepared to attack, Leo sent the Purple Flame Academy wizards to protect the city and faced the opposing group alone.

• Yaoyao rebuked Nox and the Black Skull Academy wizards for failing to greet Leo respectfully, and the other wizards bowed while Nox resisted.
• Leo made Nox bow before allowing the Black Skull Academy wizards to rise, then rejected Nox’s warning and offer of payment because he was bound by a protection contract.
• Nox and the Black Skull Academy wizards gathered their power to fight Leo, while Tuyasi offered to help him.
• Leo ordered Tuyasi and the other Purple Flame Academy wizards to guard Tiyama City, and Benji flew above the city to shield it from the battle.
• Leo challenged Nox and the others to defeat him and flicked a small black sphere toward them.

Leo used Gravity Domain to crush the invading wizards in an instant, leaving seventeen First-Level Wizards wounded and facing the three Level Two Wizards. After Nox’s sonic attack failed to harm him, Leo offered to spare the survivors if they never returned to plunder or trouble Tiyama City.

• Nox ordered an attack, but Leo’s Gravity Domain pulled the spells into the ground and sent seventeen First-Level Wizards crashing down.
• Nox and the other two Level Two Wizards were forced low by the eightyfold gravity, while their barriers barely held.
• Nox’s ultrasonic attack struck Leo’s robe without injuring him, and Leo identified the spell as a sonic attack.
• Leo dismissed Nox’s question about his level and said killing the three Level Two Wizards would be effortless.
• Leo withdrew Gravity Domain and offered to let Nox and the other two leave if they promised not to return to Tiyama City or trouble its people.

Leo restrained Nox and his companions, but Nox opened a spatial rift to summon a Stigmata Wizard’s level three slaves. Leo prepared to fight them himself as a giant crab-like claw reached through the expanding rift.

• Leo offered to spare Nox and the two level two wizards if they left Tiyama City alone, but Nox rejected the offer and activated a Stigmata Gift.
• A spatial rift opened above the group, exposing a slave army and a level three aura that threatened the city’s residents.
• Leo sent Tuyasi to protect Tiyama City, then used his Gravity Domain and lightning to incapacitate Nox and the two level two wizards; Yaoyao pinned them with shadow needles.
• Leo told Benji to stand by as his bodyguard while the spatial rift widened and the slaves began forcing their way through.
• A giant crab-like pincer reached through the rift, and Leo agreed with Yaoyao to make steamed crab before transforming into his four-meter Hunter Form.

Hunter transformed into an eight-meter Thunderstorm Giant and used his Gravity Domain to crush the slave army pouring through a spatial rift. After removing the wizard medals that had made the slaves hesitate, Leo faced their renewed charge as his mana drained.

• Hunter activated his Second Layer Thunderstorm Giant Bloodline, exposed his Wizard Will, and approached the spatial rift.
• Leo used a two-hundred-times Gravity Domain to pin down a giant crab’s pincer and smashed it off with the Godslaying Staff; Yaoyao stored the severed claw in Shadow Space.
• The giant crab fled, while the slaves widened the rift and then hesitated at the sight of Leo’s wizard medals and Wizard Will.
• Leo removed the three medals, causing the slaves to charge, and Yaoyao expanded the Gravity Domain over the rift while using nuclear fission to replenish its energy.
• The Gravity Domain crushed the level-one and level-two slaves who crossed the rift, while the level-three slaves endured the pressure and howled in pain.

Leo, as the Thunderstorm Giant, slaughtered the slave army pouring through the spatial rift with his Gravity Domain and Godslaying Staff. When the domain’s mana ran dangerously low, he ended the attack and threw an atomic bomb through the rift as the slaves surged out.

• Leo used his 200-times gravity domain to crush weaker slaves and suppress third-level slaves, then killed the survivors with the Godslaying Staff and lightning attacks.
• Leo stood at the spatial rift and swung the Godslaying Staff through the packed army, killing slaves while enduring their attacks.
• The slave army tore at the rift and surged forward, but Leo blocked the entrance and killed nearly every slave that tried to emerge.
• Yaoyao warned Leo that their mana was nearly depleted, and Leo confirmed he could no longer sustain the Gravity Domain.
• Leo moved away from the rift, drew an atomic bomb from Shadow Space, and hurled it through the opening at high speed.

Leo destroyed the slave army pouring through the spatial rift, then watched the rift close and returned to Tiyama City. After the victory, he reflected on the Gravity Domain’s enormous energy demands while the wizards of Purple Flame Academy celebrated him.

• Leo faced a nuclear explosion that Yaoyao had triggered inside the spatial rift, killing tens of thousands of slaves and allowing the rift to heal completely.
• Leo dismissed the Thunderstorm Giant transformation, treated his injuries, and returned to Tiyama City, where Yaoyao and Benji went to collect valuable remains.
• Leo told the wizards of Purple Flame Academy to deal with surviving Black Skull Academy wizards, then used Shadow Walking to return to his lodgings.
• Leo concluded that the Gravity Domain had decided the battle but consumed energy too quickly, and he resolved to find a more reliable power source.
• The wizards invited Leo to the city lord's hall to celebrate their victory, while Leo remained calm and uninterested in their praise.

After refusing Alexander’s request to fight the Black Skull Academy, Leo was tempted by an offer of one thousand kilograms of planetary core. Alexander asked him to enter the Tiger World and rescue Alice and the Purple Flame Academy teachers who disappeared there twenty years earlier.

• Leo shared a giant level-three creature’s claw with the banquet guests, then returned to his work while Tuyasi and the others prepared to leave for their assigned towns.
• A few quiet days later, Alexander arrived at Leo’s lodgings and asked him for help, but Leo refused to join the struggle between the Purple Flame Academy and the Black Skull Academy.
• Alexander asked whether Leo had heard from Alice, and Leo said he had not been in touch with her and was not worried about her.
• Alexander offered Leo one thousand kilograms of planetary core for a mission, and Leo’s interest overcame his reluctance when he learned it would not involve fighting the Black Skull Academy.
• Alexander explained that Alice and several Purple Flame Academy teachers had entered the troubled Tiger World twenty years earlier and asked Leo to investigate and rescue them.

Leo learned that the Tiger World rebellion had trapped Alice and a large force of Purple Flame Academy wizards, and that Alice’s message linked the crisis to the same soul-dissipation that killed Wizard Gru. He agreed to help Alexander by resolving his contract obligation to protect Tiyama City, but learned that the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had vanished.

• Leo read Alexander’s intelligence and learned that a rebellion in the Tiger World had killed the stationed wizards and trapped the reinforcements, including Alice.
• Alice’s final messages said she had found corpses with souls dissipated like Wizard Gru’s and asked that her ice palace be given to Leo if she died.
• Leo said he could not leave Tiyama City because of his contract with Samatchi, then agreed to help after Alexander proposed exchanging seven captured Black Skull wizards for a promise not to invade.
• Leo asked why the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had not intervened, and Alexander admitted he had received no response and could find no trace of the wizard in the demiplane.

Leo studied the reports from Tiger World and agreed to go, though he planned to ensure he could return safely and focused chiefly on rescuing Alice. He set two conditions for Dean Alexander, who accepted despite the Purple Flame Academy’s worsening conflict with the Black Skull Academy.

• Leo reviewed half a month of reports and found no signs explaining how the Tiger Beastmen had suddenly become strong enough to trap hundreds of wizards.
• After discussing Alice’s warning and the risks of entering Tiger World, Leo remembered Abigail’s Altar Summoning Technique and began studying it as a way to secure his return.
• While Leo studied, the Black Skull Academy seized Purple Flame Academy towns, and Dean Alexander repeatedly pressed him for an answer.
• Leo agreed to go to Tiger World on the conditions that Abigail help build an altar at the academy and that he receive the planetary core even if he returned without rescuing anyone or quelling the rebellion.
• Alexander accepted both conditions, while Leo privately resolved that rescuing Alice alone would be enough.

Leo prepared to enter Tiger World to rescue Purple Flame Academy’s trapped wizards, secured Black Skull Academy’s agreement to leave Tiyama City alone, and brought a restricted weapon of mass destruction. He arrived amid a vast Tiger Beastmen army and began slaughtering its charging ranks with his Gravity Domain.

• Leo gave Nigel his experiment notes and assured him that Alexander was negotiating for Tiyama City’s safety.
• Leo tasked Abigail with building an altar that could help him and the trapped wizards escape Tiger World, then gave him the required materials.
• Leo persuaded Charlotte to send one restricted weapon of mass destruction to the Purple Flame Wizard Academy branch.
• Alexander showed Leo the contract with Black Skull Academy, which required Purple Flame Academy to release seven captive wizards in exchange for Tiyama City’s protection.
• Leo collected the weapon, met Alexander and Abigail at the passage to Tiger World, and entered with Benji.
• Leo emerged before hundreds of thousands of Tiger Beastmen and activated his Gravity Domain, killing the beasts that charged into it.

Leo discovered that Tiger World’s Tiger Beastmen had become unnaturally strong and disciplined, and that the spatial passage was one-way. After contacting Alice, he learned she was nearby and promised to reach her within an hour.

• Leo and Yaoyao escaped the Tiger Beastmen after Leo found the army far stronger and more organized than expected.
• Leo suspected an outside force had rapidly transformed Tiger civilization and possibly altered the Tiger Beastmen’s minds.
• Leo tried to use the spatial passage, but it sounded an alarm and exposed him to the charging Tiger Beastmen.
• Leo confirmed the passage only allowed one-way travel and contacted Alice with a crystal ball.
• Alice gave Leo her location, and he promised to meet her within an hour.