Chapter Summaries

Leo rescued the Diro People from the Cyborgs and learned they believed outsiders would save their world, though none had sent the distress message. The Diro People offered to lead Leo and his companions to a sacred land said to hold a way to defeat the Cyborgs, but they knew only vague legends about its location.

• Leo questioned a frightened Diro person and learned the Diro People had mistaken the Gulu Beasts for legendary world-saving heroes.
• Leo gave the Diro People food and water, then discovered none of them had sent the distress message that brought the expedition to Rota World.
• A Diro person explained that old legends said outsiders should be taken to a sacred land where the Cyborgs could be defeated.
• Leo asked the Diro People to guide him to the sacred land, but they admitted they did not know where it was.
• The Diro People recalled legends describing a beautiful place with a lake, the sea, sunrise, flowers, animals, and abundant food, while Leo listened for clues.

After learning that the Diro People’s sacred land might hold a secret for defeating the cyborgs, Leo risked his military merit to request a massive force and search for it. Twenty days later, his army arrived, but he still had only a long list of possible locations and no further clues.

• Leo concluded that the Diro People’s sacred land was likely a crater lake on a tall mountain near the sea, but the Diro People could not provide its location.
• Leo requested at least fifty thousand wizards, fifty Level Three Great Wizards, and one million slaves, accepting the risk of enormous losses if he failed.
• The command center agreed to provide the forces, and Leo told the Diro People they would search for their sacred land and fight the cyborgs.
• During the twenty-day wait, Leo sent the Gulu Beasts to look for more Diro People and studied possible sites using Rota World’s geography.
• The Gulu Beasts found no more living Diro People, and Leo’s army arrived as he continued to face numerous possible locations.

Leo led the expedition across Rota World to find the Diro People’s sacred land and their method for fighting the cyborgs. After reaching the coast and beginning a systematic search, he personally destroyed metal fortresses at an astonishing pace while Yaoyao’s secret hoarding came to light.

• Leo organized the million-strong slave army and advanced along a route toward the suspected location of the Diro People’s sacred land, crushing metal fortresses along the way.
• After two years, Leo reached the coastline and ordered a search across a band extending inland, using specialist wizards to scan for clues and volcanic regions.
• Leo sent Benji to destroy more fortresses, then teased Yaoyao about who among them was secretly the richest.
• Leo entered a metal fortress alone and used his Gravity Domain to kill every cyborg inside, then recorded the fortress’s location and moved on.
• The command center observed that Leo was destroying fortresses roughly every ten minutes, far faster than ordinary wizard squads.

Leo’s seven-year search for the Diro People’s sacred land continued without success until he learned of a thousand-meter metal fortress occupied by the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard. He went to meet the Stigmata Wizard, while Yaoyao suspected the sacred land might lie beneath the fortress.

• Leo’s forces advanced slowly through the marked areas, and years of searching failed to uncover the sacred land.
• Leo learned that a thousand-meter metal fortress lay ahead and demanded intelligence from central command, which revealed that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard was inside.
• Yaoyao noticed that the fortress’s location matched the Diro People’s clues and suggested the sacred land might be there.
• Leo traveled to the fortress, sensed the Stigmata Wizard’s powerful presence, and entered after being invited in.
• Leo greeted the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard, who discussed Elemental Body Refinement Wizards with Yaoyao.

Leo learned that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had already found the Diro People's sacred land, ending Leo's mission and leaving him with zero merit points and a million-point debt. After studying the remaining murals, Leo traded Yaoyao one of his shadows for a promised treasure, but Yaoyao refused to hand it over.

• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard told Leo that the metal fortress was the Diro People's sacred land, canceled his merit points, and assigned him a million merit points of debt.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard asked Leo whether he planned to join an organization, and Leo said he wanted to remain free and independent.
• Leo and Yaoyao examined the surviving murals, which depicted three stars falling and the rise of the Diro People's metal fortresses.
• Yaoyao vanished to investigate the eerie metal fragment, then offered Leo a rare treasure in exchange for one of his shadows.
• Leo gave Yaoyao a shadow, but Yaoyao postponed delivering the treasure, prompting Leo to threaten him with his blade.

Leo learned that Yaoyao had added another shadow line to the statue anchoring his soul, but Yaoyao refused to explain it until Leo reached Level Four Stigmata Wizard. After the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard completed the hidden mission and Leo's expedition failed, Leo took Benji and the Gulu Beasts to attack metal fortresses and earn the million battle merits he owed.

• Yaoyao brought Leo to the Shadow World and showed him a second shadow line attached to the statue protecting his soul, but said he would explain it only when Leo reached Level Four Stigmata Wizard.
• Leo learned that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had completed the mission, so he recalled his wizard legion and learned the sacred-ground murals had already been submitted for battle merits.
• Leo met Benji and the thirty thousand remaining Gulu Beasts, told them the mission had failed, and said they would earn the million battle merits by taking metal fortresses.
• Leo reported to the command hub and led the Gulu Beasts into battle, clearing metal fortresses as they made their way back.

Leo finished repaying his battle-merit debt, then returned to the mothership when the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard recalled the expeditionary forces. As three billion transformed Cyborg metal figures approached, the wizard revealed a vast animated metal ocean and began throwing slaves into it.

• After a year of fighting with thirty thousand Gulu Beasts, Leo earned one million battle merits and paid off his debt, then sharply reduced his pace.
• Leo noticed that warships were hauling captured fortress wreckage to the mothership, but he did not understand why the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard was collecting it.
• Five months later, the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard recalled the wizards and slave armies for an all-out offensive, and Leo returned with his Gulu Beasts.
• During Leo's return, the silent metal fortresses across Rota World transformed into metal figures, and the mothership assessed that more than three billion were advancing toward it.
• Leo found the wizard army waiting beside a vast animated metal ocean while the Cyborg army drew near, and the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard finally appeared.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard declared that he would give the wizard army metal defenses, then swept unsuspecting slaves into the metal ocean.

The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard used animated metal to enhance the expeditionary army, giving its members powerful defenses and stronger attacks as they prepared to conquer Rota World. Leo tested how the metal worked on his army and himself, while Yaoyao hinted that he might gain the ability someday and then denied saying it.

• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard forced the slaves into the metal ocean, and they emerged covered in animated metal that greatly increased their defense and attack power.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard ordered the army to conquer all of Rota World within ten years, and Leo and the Gulu Beasts entered the ocean to receive the enhancement.
• Leo found that the metal did not cling to Yaoyao's semi-illusory body, while the Gulu Beasts retained the same amount of metal when they activated their true forms.
• Leo concluded that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had acquired the animated metal from a fallen World Lord and used it to enhance the expeditionary army.
• Yaoyao muttered that he would have animated metal someday, then denied saying it when Leo questioned him.
• Leo shaped his metal coating into a giant form with a sword and tested its defense, finding that it could withstand attacks of 5,000 points.

Leo joined the battle against the Metal Legion, first trying out a showy flying-sword attack before using his Gravity Domain to crush the cyborgs’ vulnerable flesh-and-blood bodies. After ten minutes, his mana ran low, and he prepared to use a nuclear bomb to replenish it.

• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard ordered the enhanced slaves and wizards to charge the approaching Metal Legion, while Leo held back with Yaoyao and the Gulu Beasts.
• Leo shaped animated metal into a fan of flying swords and attacked from the air, but struggled to kill the cyborgs because their weak points were small.
• Benji rampaged through the enemy army in his seventy-meter true form, killing more metal figures than Leo’s swords did.
• Leo transformed the swords into a giant staff, then used his Two-hundredfold Gravity Domain to kill cyborgs across a wide area by crushing their flesh-and-blood bodies.
• The star mothership and warships bombarded the level-three metal figures, while Leo stopped using the Gravity Domain after his mana ran low.
• Yaoyao suggested that Leo return to recover, but he pulled a nuclear bomb from the Shadow Space.

Leo used a nuclear bomb to save Benji’s Gulu Beasts and help them reinforce their defensive line, then faced a force of more than a hundred Level Three metal combatants despite his depleted mana. He activated his Thunderstorm Giant bloodline and charged into the Metal Legion, meeting its cannon barrage head-on.

• Leo detonated a nuclear bomb that killed and froze nearby metal men, giving Benji’s endangered Gulu Beasts time to shorten and thicken their defensive line.
• Yaoyao reported that the bomb’s lethal range had shrunk to two kilometers and that it had killed no more than twenty thousand metal soldiers.
• The Metal Legion’s commander sent more than a hundred Level Three combatants after Leo, who stood alone beyond the battle line.
• Leo activated his Second Layer Thunderstorm Giant bloodline and told Yaoyao to replenish his mana through nuclear fission.
• Leo charged into the Metal Legion with his animated-metal club and ran straight into the opening barrage from a thirty-meter metal giant.

Leo, as the Thunderstorm Giant, battled the Metal Legion and discovered that the animated metal giants could only be killed by destroying the cyborg flesh inside them. He annihilated the troops surrounding him with his Two-hundredfold Gravity Domain, then began restoring his mana as the command center asked how long he could maintain the ability.

• The Thunderstorm Giant charged the Metal Legion, smashing large and small metal giants while their bodies repeatedly repaired themselves.
• He focused on beating one level-three metal giant, then tore open its chest and destroyed the cyborg's lone flesh hand with lightning.
• The Thunderstorm Giant activated his Two-hundredfold Gravity Domain, crushing the cyborgs inside every metal soldier within its range.
• After thirty seconds, the Metal Legion within 6,400 meters had solidified into statues, and Leo withdrew the domain with only 30% of his mana remaining.
• Leo used Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft to replenish his mana, and someone at the command center asked whether he could maintain the ability for long.

Leo arranged for the command center to supply his Gravity Domain with a steady stream of energy so he could attack the Metal Legion without exhausting his mana. From a protected warship, he unleashed 250-fold gravity across the battlefield and rapidly slaughtered hundreds of thousands of metal soldiers with every breath.

• Leo told the command center that his Gravity Domain consumed too much mana to sustain for more than half a minute without an external energy source.
• The command center dispatched ten warships, including one equipped with an Energy Absorption Magic Array and three hundred Elemental Wizards to replenish Leo's mana.
• Leo entered the warship and used the array to keep his mana reserves full as the fleet carried him above the battlefield.
• Leo activated a 250-fold Gravity Domain behind the fighting, crushing more than a thousand members of the Metal Legion at once.
• Gawass increased the warship's speed as Leo's attacks kept pace, and the live feed showed hundreds of thousands of Metal Legion soldiers dying with every breath.

Leo used the warship’s energy pool and the Energy Absorption Magic Array to sustain his Gravity Domain, then transformed into a Thunderstorm Giant and pushed its strength to the limit. At 380 times normal gravity, he finally killed the seventy-meter level three metal giants.

• Leo asked Gawass to obtain energy crystals, but central command instead ordered the warship’s energy pool connected to the Energy Absorption Magic Array.
• Leo secretly used the supplied energy to replenish the Godslaying Staff while his Gravity Domain slaughtered the weaker Metal Legion troops.
• Gawass calculated that Leo was killing an average of five hundred thousand enemies per minute, while Leo said he could not kill the strongest metal giants at his current gravity multiplier.
• Leo increased the Gravity Domain’s multiplier, draining the array and energy pool until he activated his Second Layer Thunderstorm Giant Bloodline to withstand the energy flow.
• Leo raised the Gravity Domain to 380 times normal gravity, crushing the seventy-meter metal giants into solidified statues.

Leo’s Gravity Domain turned the battle against the Metal Legion, but the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard restricted his attacks to one hour each month to limit expenses and preserve the enemy’s forces. Leo accepted the order, unaware that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard planned to contact him personally, while the Metal Legion’s main forces remained years away.

• The commander judged that Leo’s battlefield performance earned him a Second-Class Wizard Medal, but the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard resisted paying for it.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard ordered Leo’s overclocked attacks limited to one hour per month, and the commander reluctantly agreed to relay the restriction.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard watched the battlefield display as Leo’s Gravity Domain killed Metal Legion troops, including seventy-meter metal giants, and decided to help Leo once.
• Inside the warship, Leo used his second-stage bloodline power to channel immense energy through his body and sustain his Gravity Domain while three hundred elemental wizards served as energy-absorption nodes.
• The command center told Leo to end his attack in ten minutes and announced that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard would contact him personally; Leo agreed to stop.
• The command center’s footage showed that the Metal Legion’s rear forces would take ten years to reach the battlefield.

Leo ended his battlefield assault after greatly weakening the Metal Legion, then rested while the wizard army refined its tactics and the Godslaying Staff finished charging. The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard offered him a choice between a medal and battle merits or a chance to experience Level Three power and study his notes, and Leo asked what else the second offer required.

• Leo stopped using his Gravity Domain, returned to the battlefield, and later withdrew to rest with his fully charged Godslaying Staff.
• Benji scolded his Gulu Beast descendants for careless fighting, while Leo noted that his attacks had cut the first Metal Legion wave by more than half.
• The wizard army changed its defenses and researched ways to locate the living parts of Cyborgs as Leo relaxed in the rear.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard told Leo he would not have to repay the remaining mission compensation and offered him a Second-Class Wizard Medal after the war.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard offered Leo a choice between the medal and his battle merits or an opportunity to experience Level Three power and study his notes.
• Leo recognized the second offer’s exceptional value but asked whether the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had other requirements.

Leo received the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard’s notes and a chance to experience Level Three power, then spent two years using his Gravity Domain to devastate the Metal Legion. As the two remaining World Lords appeared and prepared to fuse, Leo was ordered to join a magic array meant to help eliminate them.

• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard offered Leo his Elemental Body Refinement notes and a chance to experience a Level Three Great Wizard’s power, and Leo chose that reward over battle merits.
• Overcome with excitement, Leo unleashed his Thunderstorm Giant Bloodline on the battlefield, then returned each month to crush the Metal Legion with his Gravity Domain.
• After two years of fighting, the two remaining World Lords appeared, and the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard confronted them as the Metal Legion’s forces dwindled.
• The Level-Four World Lord offered to submit, but the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard rejected the surrender, prompting the two World Lords to fuse.
• The command center told Leo to prepare a Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Array aboard the mothership and join the effort to surround and eliminate the World Lords, despite Leo being only Level Two.

Leo was amplified to level three through a magic array linked to ten thousand Elemental Wizards, and he realized the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had brought him there to test his courage and control. As the World Lord battle erupted and disrupted the energy around him, Leo continued trying to master the turbulent elemental energy and reach the control required of a Level Three Wizard.

• Leo accepted the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard's opportunity and went to the mothership, where Gawass prepared him to use a Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Array.
• Ten thousand Elemental Wizards linked their mental power and mana to Leo, letting him perceive elemental energy in intricate detail and manipulate it outside his body.
• Leo concluded that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had intended to test his courage and ability to control energy, rather than send him into the World Lord battle.
• The World Lord and the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard began fighting, while the mothership and three amplification arrays drew in and churned the surrounding energy.
• Leo struggled to control the violent elemental energy, calculating its future changes and repeatedly trying again despite his failures.

Leo struggled to stabilize energy and construct witchcraft modules while observing the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard dominate the fused World Lords of Rota World. After nearly two hours, the Wizard had reduced the metal giant World Lord’s height from 750 meters to 740 meters.

• Leo repeatedly tried to stabilize energy and calculate witchcraft nodes, but the World Lords’ battle kept disrupting his work.
• Leo observed the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard overwhelm the fused World Lords with precisely controlled attacks that broke through their energy surges.
• Leo judged that the three Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Arrays and the mothership’s energy cannon could only offer limited support against the metal giant World Lord.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard’s blows tore away the metal giant’s body, and the World Lord’s height fell from 750 meters to 740 meters in about two hours.

Leo watched the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard batter the World Lord, who revealed a cosmic treasure that let him absorb the Metal Legion and metal from across Rota World. The World Lord grew to ten thousand meters and launched a devastating punch, while the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard remained defiant.

• Leo suspected the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard’s elemental body-refinement path involved the spatial system as the Wizard wore down the World Lord.
• The World Lord summoned silver particles from the Metal Legion and Rota World to form a small, rotating metal object that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard recognized as a cosmic treasure.
• The World Lord merged the treasure into his chest, drawing in metal streams and growing until he reached ten thousand meters tall.
• Leo and the other wizards felt the giant’s overwhelming pressure, but the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard dismissed his size as no proof of strength.
• The World Lord hurled a punch toward his enemies, triggering danger alarms aboard the mothership from more than ten kilometers away.

The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard and the armies attacked Rota World's ten-thousand-meter metal giant, whose immense strength and regeneration made him difficult to harm. As the battle continued, Leo focused on learning to create nuclear explosions outside his body, while the wizard gave him ten days before he had to join the fight.

• The metal giant struck the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard with a punch that shattered space, but the wizard later appeared unharmed.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard told Leo he had ten days to prepare before joining the battle, then attacked the giant with Space Rending Great Witchcraft.
• The armies concentrated their attacks on the giant, whose limited, seemingly mindless attacks and rapid regeneration kept the fight going.
• Leo suspected that merging with the universe-grade metal body had robbed the World Lord of his reason.
• Leo stopped watching the battle and began practicing how to create nuclear explosions outside his body.