Chapter Summaries

Leo and his companions looted Demigod lairs after the God of Dark Night died, then spent five years searching Jeft World for the long-lost corpse of Diana, Goddess of Darkness. They returned to the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, who rewarded Leo with a Third-Class Wizard Medal.

• Leo claimed the crystal heart and energy crystals from a Demigod's lair, then set off with Benji, Alice, and Gru to loot more treasures.
• Red rain announced the God of Dark Night's death, and Alice explained that Diana, Goddess of Darkness, had likely been the previous World Lord and had fallen long ago.
• Benji recalled that red rain had once preceded the Gulu Clan's awakening, leading Alice and Gru to suspect Diana's laws had changed the clan; Leo ordered a search for her corpse near the clan's original territory.
• Leo and the others searched Jeft World for five years but found no trace of Diana's corpse, and they eventually returned to the spatial passage.
• The Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard rewarded Leo for completing his task with his promised share of Jeft World, permission for Benji's race to reproduce, and a Third-Class Wizard Medal.

Leo received a Third-Class Wizard Medal for his role in conquering Jeft World, refused the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard’s offer to teach, and learned he was free to choose his own path. He secured protection and a future for the surviving Gulu Clan, then began testing the Dark Night Temple’s crystal heart as a possible mana reservoir; two years passed before he encountered a difficulty.

• The Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard awarded Leo a Third-Class Wizard Medal, explained its allowance and protective barrier, and invited him to teach at the Purple Flame Academy.
• Leo declined the offer, saying he had arranged to live near Alice at the Tower of Elements and wanted to travel; the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard accepted his decision and left the invitation open.
• Leo found Benji and learned that more than twenty thousand Gulu Beasts had survived, then told Benji that the clan could choose a territory to reproduce under the Wizard Will’s protection.
• Leo told Benji to settle the Gulu Clan and await further instructions, while deciding to leave the remaining work in Jeft World to others.
• Leo requisitioned a starship laboratory using his medal and began investigating whether the crystal heart could store and release energy to replenish his mana.
• Leo spent two years experimenting with the crystal heart before encountering a difficulty.

Leo completed his preparations after advancing to a level one body refinement wizard and traveled with Alice to the Tower of Elements. They entered its dangerous territory, but after several days of flight, they still had not reached the office where Alice said they would be safe.

• Leo discovered that the crystal heart absorbed energy but could not draw any energy from it because his mental power was too weak.
• Leo upgraded his rune arrays and continued using toxins and nuclear radiation to stimulate his physical evolution.
• Alice invited Leo to return with her to the Tower of Elements, and Benji carried them there after a three-month journey.
• Alice explained that the Supreme Lord had contained the Tower of Elements' violent elemental energy and warned Leo that its floating wizard towers and demonized plants were dangerous.
• Benji fled around hostile mountains and other threats as they searched for the office on the edge of the Tower of Elements, which they still had not reached after several days.

Leo and Alice visited the Tower of Elements’ West District Three Outlying Office, where Leo chose a site for his wizard tower and selected a basic tower with a costly laboratory. The chapter ended with the Jerry Clan rat offering Leo an extra package of mechanical slaves.

• Wizards on the road revered Leo’s Third-Class Wizard Medal, which represented the Wizard Will.
• After half a month of travel, Leo and Alice reached the Tower of Elements’ West District Three Outlying Office and were greeted by a level two rat from the Jerry Clan.
• The rat showered Leo with flattery and tried to sell him services, while Alice grew angry at being ignored.
• Leo recognized Earth-inspired technology inside the tower and briefly struggled with memories of Earth before continuing to a private room.
• Alice selected the site of her own wizard tower on the map, and Leo chose it for his tower.
• Leo ordered the cheapest tower and a five-hundred-energy-crystal laboratory package, and the rat offered a discounted total along with mechanical slaves for ten more energy crystals.

Leo explored the Tower of Elements with Alice, buying mechanical servants, collecting supplies, and spending nearly all his wealth on custom equipment and wizard knowledge. They reached Alice’s ice palace by a volcano, where Leo sensed more than a hundred Fire Elemental Spirits in the crater.

• Leo bought mechanical slaves for six hundred and forty energy crystals and confirmed he would follow the Tower of Elements’ rules.
• Leo collected a prepared order at Green Cottage and commissioned more items for seven hundred energy crystals, which the shopkeeper planned to report to headquarters.
• Leo told Alice the custom order was experimental equipment for his advancement, and they toured the tower’s shops and entertainment districts.
• Leo used the knowledge trading platform to buy information about Level One Elemental Wizard advancement and elemental resistance experiments for fifteen hundred energy crystals, leaving him broke.
• Alice brought Leo to her ice palace beside a volcano, where he sensed at least a hundred Fire Elemental Spirits in the crater.

Leo settled into his wizard tower, studied the knowledge he had traded for, and had Benji farm the fertile land around their home. As Leo and Alice discussed expanding their crops, the Supreme Lord’s enormous starry sky mothership appeared overhead, and Jerry’s mouse slave legion flew toward it.

• Leo moved into his four-story wizard tower, assigned Benji and ten mechanical slaves to cultivate the land, and began studying in his laboratory library.
• After a year of study, Leo realized he had forgotten to invite Alice for a meal and hosted her with barbecue at his tower.
• Alice saw Leo’s fire essence flower plantation and asked him to have Benji plant the land around her ice palace, with the earnings split equally.
• A huge starry sky mothership appeared above Leo and Alice, crushing the surrounding elemental energy as Jerry’s mouse slave legion flew toward it.

Leo witnessed the Elemental Esoterica Stigmata Wizard force his way into the Wizard World and lead a massive expedition against Stone Light Small World, prompting Leo to focus on preparing for his own future expedition. Ten years later, Leo collected his equipment and earnings, including his share of Jeft World’s proceeds, and learned that its future profits could be enormous.

• Leo watched hundreds of thousands of rats widen a spatial rift so the Level-Five Elemental Esoterica Stigmata Wizard could squeeze into the Wizard World.
• The Elemental Esoterica Stigmata Wizard declared an expedition against Stone Light Small World, and more than a million wizards and over ten million slaves boarded the star mothership.
• Alice warned Leo that they would face an expedition in a hundred years, so Leo returned to studying how to complete his level-one elemental advancement.
• After nine more years, Leo visited the administrative tower, collected his custom equipment, and sold ten years of medicinal herbs for forty-one energy crystals’ worth.
• Leo received his subsidies and his share of Jeft World’s proceeds, then learned from Dean Alexander that the world’s future output could be more than ten times greater.

Leo used a custom-built accelerator ring to study nuclear fission and found that 0.3 grams of nuclear material could release 10,000 points of attack power if fully fissioned. He left the chapter with over a ton of nuclear material in his Shadow Space and a clearer sense of its destructive potential.

• Leo returned to his wizard tower, entered seclusion, and forgot Benji's promised share of the Fire Essence Flower profits, leaving Benji to explain the delay to Alice.
• Leo installed a massive mana-powered accelerator ring and tried to collide two tiny spheres of nuclear material, but the launch blasts broke them apart.
• Leo reinforced the spheres and successfully triggered fission, observing the reaction through the ring's projection equipment.
• Leo calculated that 0.0003 grams of nuclear material had produced 10 points of attack power, and that 0.3 grams could produce 10,000 points if fully fissioned.
• Leo realized he had over a ton of nuclear material stored in his Shadow Space.

Leo spent forty years trying to improve nuclear fission efficiency, but his experiments stalled because he could not precisely determine particle trajectories. He paused the research, thanked Benji for his years of work, and planned to visit Alice as he began considering other ways to grow stronger.

• Leo learned that the knowledge trading platform would not provide information on particle trajectories because his strength was too low, leaving him trapped in a cycle between mastering fission and advancing.
• Leo conducted hundreds of thousands of experiments, raising fission efficiency to a fleeting peak of 24% but failing to reproduce it.
• After forty years, Leo’s strength had barely increased, so he stopped the fission experiments and rested outside his wizard tower.
• Benji reported that Wizard Alice had sold forty batches of fire essence flowers, earning 61.5 energy crystals, and Leo gave Benji all future herb profits.
• Leo encouraged Benji to return to Jeft World to visit his descendants and asked him to arrange a visit to Alice for the day after tomorrow.

After visiting Alice’s ice palace, Leo returned to his laboratory to improve his strength by studying his Shadow Talent and developing a linked network of elemental resistance rune arrays. He completed the seven-element network and calculated that it could steadily raise his defenses before the mandatory centennial expedition.

• Leo visited Alice’s ice palace, where she served him an extravagant meal that made him feel embarrassed about the coarse buns he had once shared with her.
• Leo returned to his laboratory and began studying his Shadow Talent and designing a complete set of elemental resistance rune arrays.
• Leo spent ten years calculating and linking resistance arrays for metal, wood, water, fire, earth, light, and darkness into a network.
• Leo inscribed the network on his body and spent two more years adjusting its mana settings to find the best balance for simultaneous defense and physical evolution.
• Leo calculated that the network increased his elemental defense by two points per year with nuclear radiation, potentially adding 76 points before his mandatory expedition in thirty-eight years.

Leo studied Jeft World’s records on Shadow Talent but found no clear way to control or improve his shadows. With his first mandatory expedition mission fifteen years away, he left the library to prepare and learned that the Gulu Clan had grown to two hundred thousand members.

• Leo reviewed Jeft World’s accounts of Shadow Talent and wondered about its connection to laws, nuclear material, and the planetary core.
• Leo reflected that his shadows reacted only to his blood, nuclear material, and the planetary core, leaving him without a clear experimental direction.
• Benji reminded Leo that his first mandatory expedition mission was fifteen years away, so Leo decided to prepare by commissioning new armor.
• Leo considered his expected energy crystal income and decided he would ask Alice for money if he could not afford the armor.
• Leo emerged from his tower and learned from Benji that the Gulu Clan numbered two hundred thousand, including three level two members and thirty level one members.
• Leo judged the clan’s growth disappointing but told Benji to keep working hard.

Leo used his Jeft World income to order custom Body Refinement Wizard armor and prepared for a mandatory expedition to a medium-sized world with Alice. Five years later, the expedition began with a spatial rift opening and a giant made of black skulls appearing beyond it.

• Leo received 4,200 energy crystals from the Purple Flame Wizard Academy and ordered custom armor from the Green Cottage shopkeeper.
• Leo learned that Alice had returned to the Purple Flame Wizard Academy, then spent the following years studying and training while waiting for his equipment.
• Alice told Leo that they would join a dangerous mandatory expedition to a medium-sized world in five years, and they agreed to form a team.
• Leo and Alice received their mission notice and gathered as a starry sky mothership arrived to begin the expedition.
• A spatial rift opened, and swarms of black skulls widened it until Leo glimpsed a five-hundred-meter giant formed from countless skulls.

The Black Skull Stigmata Wizard led a vast expeditionary force toward Black Tomb World, and Leo and Alice boarded the starship mothership. They encountered Nox, an old adversary who recognized them and offered help, then received information about the voyage and their target world.

• The Black Skull Stigmata Wizard opened a rift and gathered wizards and slaves aboard the starship mothership for an expedition to Black Tomb World.
• Leo and Alice joined the expedition with Benji and ten Level Two Fire Elemental Spirits, and Leo used his Third-Class Wizard Medal to enter the mothership's third level early.
• Leo and Alice encountered Nox, who recognized them from their apprentice days and offered assistance during the expedition.
• Leo and Alice chose a room aboard the mothership, learned its deck assignments, and received a crystal ball containing information about Black Tomb World.

Leo and Alice arrived at the Black Tomb World after fifteen years of hibernation and prepared for battle as the Wizard forces bombarded the planet. When the army deployed, countless apparently desiccated Eyeless Spiders surged from the cannon-blasted holes in the sand.

• Leo and Alice examined the crystal ball’s view of the buried world, which showed yellow sand and heaps of dried Eyeless Spider-like corpses.
• The starry sky mothership teleported toward the Black Tomb World, and Leo and Alice entered hibernation for the journey.
• After waking from fifteen years of sleep, Leo and Alice felt the mothership enter the Black Tomb World, where its laws suppressed their strength.
• Leo equipped his black tsuba metal armor and lightning spear, while Alice readied her staff and the ten Fire Elemental Spirits guarded her.
• The mothership fired hundreds of energy-cannon volleys, then deployed the slave army and three thousand starry sky warships.
• Leo and Alice emerged from the mothership and saw Eyeless Spiders erupting from enormous holes in the sand and charging the Wizard army.

Leo and Alice joined the edge of the wizard army’s assault on Black Tomb World, where the wizards’ coordinated formations devastated the Eyeless Spiders despite heavy casualties. Leo tested a level-one Eyeless Spider’s resilience and then gathered its remains to study its racial traits for the battles underground.

• Leo and Alice watched the wizard army destroy waves of Eyeless Spiders with star battleships, slave forces, and massive combined spells before finding a quiet position on the battlefield’s distant flank.
• The Eyeless Spiders converged on one point, killing over twenty thousand wizards and bringing down three star battleships, but the wizard army annihilated at least five hundred thousand spiders in a retaliatory barrage.
• About an hour later, Leo encountered a level-one Eyeless Spider and had Benji guard it so other wizards would not take it away.
• Leo struck the Eyeless Spider with his spear, observed that it endured the blow and kept attacking even after being pierced, then destroyed it with lightning.
• Leo collected and pieced together the spider’s remains so he could examine its racial traits.

Leo and Alice watched the wizard army fight the Eyeless Spiders for six months while recording observations and earning a small number of battle merits. After the spiders retreated underground, the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard deployed more than a hundred million mechanical slaves, and the wizard army began its advance into the illuminated underground world.

• Leo dissected an Eyeless Spider and recorded its traits while Alice studied another, and they concluded the undead creatures retained much of their former combat strength.
• Leo and Alice spent half a month watching the distant battle and killing fewer than a hundred Eyeless Spiders as the wizard army fought on.
• The fighting continued for six months, and the wizards used precisely targeted attacks to collapse the crust and bury millions of Eyeless Spiders.
• The Eyeless Spider army retreated underground, and the starship mothership released more than a hundred million mechanical slaves into the underground world.
• After the mechanical slaves fought ahead, Leo, Alice, and the other wizards entered the brightly lit underground world, where the first obstacles had already been cleared.

Leo and Alice joined a wizard squad tasked with clearing Eyeless Spiders from the Black Tomb World, where the underground landscape was rich in energy metal ore. When the squad entered a cave and faced a Level Two Eyeless Spider, Leo killed it in one lightning-charged strike, but its sudden sluggishness puzzled the wizards.

• Leo found No. 78 energy metal ore beneath the Black Tomb World’s barren surface and collected samples while following the expedition force.
• After months of advancing with the main force, Leo and Alice joined a ten-wizard squad commanded by April to clear the East-D-45 District.
• Allison and Amanda detected hidden Eyeless Spiders beneath the ground, and Amanda found a cave entrance for the squad.
• Leo led the squad through the cave as the slaves fought the Eyeless Spiders, and Allison detected ten thousand enemies within three kilometers.
• Leo activated his Hunter Bloodline, used Shadow Jump to reach a Level Two Eyeless Spider, and destroyed its head with a lightning spear, leaving the squad wondering why it had moved so slowly.

Leo’s squad cleared its assigned cavern region and was sent to join a major battle against millions of Eyeless Spiders. On arrival, Leo saw thousands of body refinement wizards fighting, including towering level three fighters, and eagerly searched for a stigmata body refinement wizard.

• Leo used three Gravity Shadows to pin down a level two Eyeless Spider, then killed it with the Hunter’s full strength and led the slave army into battle.
• April changed the squad’s tactics, placing Leo and the other defenders at the front while the wizards attacked the spiders from behind with spells.
• The squad spent three years clearing its assigned region, losing about half its slaves before returning to the surface of the second layer.
• April reported that command had ordered the squad to join other units attacking a main Eyeless Spider force numbering in the millions, and Benji carried the wizards two thousand kilometers to the battlefield.
• Leo saw more than twenty thousand body refinement wizards rampaging through the Eyeless Spider army and grew excited at the prospect of seeing a stigmata-level body refinement wizard.

Leo and his squad plugged a breach in the encirclement, then faced an elite Eyeless Spider breakout force. A powerful Level Three Body Refinement Wizard crashed into the attackers and revealed that he had been hunting a target among them.

• April led Leo and the squad to block a breach where Eyeless Spiders were escaping through the slave army’s weakened line.
• Leo transformed into a Hunter and crushed over a thousand Level One Eyeless Spiders with his Gravity Shadows while Tao Rhys replenished his mana.
• Leo and Benji held the breach until the remaining slaves arrived, and the encirclement was restored.
• The Eyeless Spiders launched a coordinated breakout toward Leo’s squad with over a thousand Level Two spiders and ten Level Three spiders.
• A three-layer Body Refinement Wizard landed among the breakout force, killed several spiders, and attacked a Level Three Eyeless Spider while calling it his little darling.

Leo and his squad were caught in the Eyeless Spider army’s desperate charge as the creature commanding it tried to escape capture. Leo boosted the Hunter with Tao Rhys’s support magic and twenty Black Pearl Potions, creating a brief opening that let the squad retreat thirty meters before the spiders closed in again.

• A level three elemental great wizard named Luonaduo joined Jinnajia and another level three great wizard in surrounding the fleeing elite squad, but a shriek sent the Eyeless Spider army charging toward Leo’s forces.
• Leo’s squad retreated as the hundreds of thousands of spiders overwhelmed their defenses, killing wizards, slaves, and four of Alice’s Fire Elemental Spirits.
• Benji exhausted himself defending the squad, while Leo saw Alice and the other first-level wizards’ barriers nearing their limits.
• Leo told Tao Rhys to cast all his support magic on him, drank twenty bottles of Black Pearl Potion, and unleashed his shadows to slow the spiders for five seconds.
• Alice and the others struck the slowed spiders with area attacks, clearing a path and retreating thirty meters before the army filled the route again.