Chapter Summaries

Leo and his squad survived the Eyeless Spider army by combining their attacks with Leo’s brief God of War state, while the three level three great wizards fought elsewhere for a hidden creature that could command the spiders. After the battle, Leo left the resting squad alone, drawing Alice’s thoughtful attention.

• Leo’s squad broke through the Eyeless Spider army, and Leo collapsed from mana exhaustion before recovering with potions and thanking Benji for helping them survive.
• April and the other wizards promised to report Leo’s actions and secure his battle merits, while the squad counted its many dead and wounded slaves.
• Leo watched Jinnajia and the other level three body-refining great wizard tear through the spiders as Luonaduo deflected their attacks and folded them with his spells.
• Jinnajia became enraged when the creature he sought disappeared, and all three level three great wizards abruptly left the battlefield.
• The surviving wizards realized the mission had been to hunt a living creature that could command the Eyeless Spiders, but April returned without learning the mission’s hidden details.
• Leo left the squad to recover alone, and Alice watched him thoughtfully as he walked away.

Leo learned that his medal gave him access to hidden missions about Black Tomb World, including investigating the creatures that commanded Eyeless Spiders, but chose to focus on ordinary clearing work. Years later, his squad encountered a million-spider army and its mysterious commander, and Leo turned back to cover the others.

• Leo contacted the command center and learned about five hidden missions, the creatures commanding Eyeless Spiders, and a passage to the second underground level.
• Alice revealed that she knew hidden missions existed, and Leo decided not to pursue them because he lacked the strength.
• Leo and Alice rejoined their squad and continued clearing Eyeless Spiders in the caves for years.
• Allison detected more than a million Eyeless Spiders nearby, and April ordered the squad to retreat.
• The squad heard the creature commanding the spiders as the army closed in, and Leo turned back to cover the others.

Leo entered the Eyeless Spider army’s pit to find the mysterious creature, but its soul-rending gaze left him gravely injured and disoriented. Surrounded by millions of spiders, he made a desperate upward Shadow Jump and left a bomb behind as blinding light erupted.

• April led the team toward the surface while Leo stayed behind, and Benji intercepted the pursuing Eyeless Spiders.
• Leo used Shadow Jump to reach the pit, where he heard the mysterious creature and saw its powerful guards.
• After the creature turned toward him, Leo was struck by its gaze, suffered severe injuries, and lost his ability to fight effectively.
• Leo tried to escape through the Eyeless Spider army with repeated Shadow Jumps, but remained trapped and was attacked from all sides.
• Leo forced himself to jump upward and left a bomb at his previous location, which burst with blinding light.

Leo detonated a nuclear bomb that injured the mysterious creature, but he was badly wounded and pursued by Eyeless Spiders until his squad escaped to the mothership. After a month in a nutrient pod, Leo woke with a soul injury, memory gaps, and severe weakness, while Alice and Benji waited for him.

• April and the squad fled the cave, but an explosion erupted nearby and Alice recognized it as a nuclear bomb.
• The blast injured the mysterious creature, and Alice sent Allison and Amanda to find Leo as Benji arrived carrying him, badly wounded.
• Benji carried the nine squad members away while an army of Eyeless Spiders, including ten Level Three pursuers, chased them for five days.
• The mothership sent more than thirty Level Three slaves to intercept the Eyeless Spiders after Benji and the squad reached the surface passage.
• Leo woke after a month in a nutrient pod and learned that his soul was injured and his memories were incomplete.
• Alice welcomed Leo outside the pod, and Benji enlarged himself to keep the weakened Leo from falling.

After his soul was severely injured, Leo discovered that thinking stirred up violent waves in his sea of consciousness and worsened the damage. His shadow-like reflection entered the chasm and triggered a catastrophe, but the sea eventually calmed after shrinking by a tenth, leaving Leo to question what the reflection had done.

• Leo collapsed after telling Alice to take him to a room, and Alice and Benji carried him toward a bed.
• Leo found a chasm draining his sea of consciousness and learned that even thinking too intensely aggravated his soul injury.
• Leo touched his reflection, which rose from the sea and plunged into the chasm, causing the sea of consciousness to split apart.
• The reflection devoured the water in the separated section, and the sea contracted until it became calm again.
• Leo reappeared, found his sea of consciousness had shrunk by a tenth, and asked the reflection what it had done.

Leo recovered after his reflection consumed part of his soul and returned with renewed power, then reunited with Benji and Alice. After asking Benji to guard the room, Leo merged with his shadow and entered the Shadow World.

• Leo discovered that his reflection had devoured a tenth of his sea of consciousness, but its return restored his strength and healed his soul.
• Benji waited as Leo's aura fluctuated for months, and Leo finally woke after four months away from the mothership.
• Leo confirmed that his body had recovered, thanked Alice for caring for him, and learned that Benji had led their squad away from ten pursuing Level Three Eyeless Spiders.
• Leo learned that April's squad had returned underground and invited Alice to wait for him while he remained on the mothership.
• Leo sent Benji to guard the room, merged with his shadow, and entered the reversed, black Shadow World.

Leo discovered that he could enter the Shadow World through a fragment of his soul and found that he could summon his Shadow Space and a living shadow that emitted energy. After receiving orders and a Stigmata Gift from the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard, he set out with Alice and Benji, while the command center secretly planned to use him to catch Jiayehe.

• Leo entered the Shadow World and found he could see but not otherwise interact with it, then summoned his Shadow Space and discovered a free-standing shadow that gave off energy.
• Kendini delivered the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard's order for Leo to enter the underground world within half a month and gave him a Stigmata Gift.
• Leo reported his encounter with the tentacled mass to Kendini, who said the blasted passage to the second underground level had been sealed off as a restricted zone.
• Leo told Alice about the dangerous mission, but she insisted on joining him, and they left the starship mothership with Benji after he recovered.
• After Leo departed, Kendini told a level-three great wizard that the command center would track Leo because catching Jiayehe depended on him.

Leo and Alice traveled through Black Tomb World while Leo served as bait for the tentacled sarcoma, hoping to draw out the Child of Destiny and locate the World Lord. After sensing hostility, Leo found the sarcoma’s hidden Eyeless Spider army and detonated a nuclear bomb, then carefully analyzed the explosion’s power.

• Leo agreed to lure out the tentacled sarcoma, and he and Alice began touring Black Tomb World while the wizard armies cleared its first underground level.
• Leo spent a year wandering with Alice and Benji, recovering his strength and observing the other Stigmata Wizards’ forces.
• Leo sensed a fleeting trace of hostility and used a shadow to discover an underground chamber nearly five hundred meters below the rock, where the Eyeless Spider army was concealed.
• Leo left Alice and Benji behind, used Shadow Jump to confirm the tentacled sarcoma was in the chamber, and escaped without approaching it.
• Leo dropped a nuclear bomb into the chamber and fled with Alice and Benji as the blast destroyed the hidden army’s surroundings.
• Leo watched the explosion and calculated its peak power, damage, and nuclear-fission efficiency.

Leo used the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard to capture the tentacled sarcoma, Jiayehe, but the World Lord of Black Tomb World appeared and began fighting the wizard. Leo and Alice fled as the battle shook the underground world, heading for a nearby mothership.

• Leo detonated a nuclear bomb to flush Jiayehe and the Eyeless Spiders from the crater, then summoned the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard with the black skull.
• The Black Skull Stigmata Wizard seized Jiayehe, completing Leo’s mission, as the World Lord of Black Tomb World emerged.
• The World Lord and the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard argued over the world’s remaining lives and Jia ye he before their clash erupted into battle.
• Leo urged Benji to flee with Alice as the underground world shook and falling crust threatened those below.
• Alice directed Benji toward the Bloody Battleaxe Stigmata Wizard’s starry sky mothership, three thousand kilometers away.

Leo and Alice followed the expedition into the second underground level after the Bloody Battleaxe Stigmata Wizard blasted open a passage and led the assault. They retreated from a new Stigmata battle, then learned a month later that the Bloody Stigmata Wizard had captured a gigantic Eyeless Spider, likely a World Lord.

• Leo reported the mission to Kendini, who told him to act freely while the results were verified.
• The Bloody Battleaxe Stigmata Wizard arrived, ordered the forces into the second underground level, and used the starship mothership's energy cannon to blast a passage.
• Leo and Alice found that the Eyeless Spiders on the second underground level were withered and weak, and Alice suspected their souls had been damaged.
• After the Bloody Stigmata Wizard encountered another level-four opponent, Leo chose to return to the surface with Alice and avoid the battle.
• A month later, the Bloody Stigmata Wizard returned to the starship mothership with a badly wounded, three-hundred-meter Eyeless Spider that Alice thought was probably a World Lord.

Leo learned that the wizards had captured or killed all three World Lords and captured seven of the eight Jiayehe, bringing the Black Tomb World expedition into its final stage. After earning over a million battle merits and exchanging some for planetary core, he returned to Wizard World as mining operations began and dreamed of owning a world someday.

• Leo learned that the hidden missions were complete except for capturing the last Jiayehe, and that all three World Lords had been captured or killed.
• Leo and Alice searched the second underground level for two years, found valuable ores but no energy crystals or signs of life, and returned to the mothership.
• Leo redeemed 1,074,586 battle merits and exchanged some for ten kilograms of planetary core.
• Leo reviewed the expedition, watched wizards construct a spatial passage, and returned to Wizard World.
• Leo saw mining slaves arrive to exploit Black Tomb World's mineral veins and imagined buying a world to make his home.

Leo offered Tao Rhys 1,200 energy crystals and a hundred potions in exchange for her Multiplied Mana Absorption Great Witchcraft, but Tao Rhys also required Leo and Alice to help capture the last Jia ye he. They agreed after learning the Eyeless Spider threat was limited and signing a contract, leaving the group committed to the dangerous mission.

• Leo and Alice met Tao Rhys, April, and Allison to discuss trading for Tao Rhys's Multiplied Mana Absorption Great Witchcraft.
• Leo offered Tao Rhys 1,200 energy crystals and a hundred First-Level Wizard potions, but Tao Rhys demanded that Leo and Alice also help with a mission.
• April revealed that the group wanted to capture the last Jia ye he alive to earn a Third-Class Wizard Medal.
• Tao Rhys explained that Jia ye he had only one level-three Eyeless Spider, four level-two spiders, and no more than twenty thousand level-one spiders protecting him.
• Alice agreed to help after April said she and Leo would only need to handle the Eyeless Spiders, and Leo and Tao Rhys signed a contract requiring the trade to proceed whether or not the mission succeeded.

Leo joined April, Allison, and Tao Rhys to capture a Jia ye he hidden in an underground city on Black Tomb World’s second level. Benji and Alice’s Fire Elemental Spirits overwhelmed the weakened Eyeless Spiders, and April captured the Jia ye he without resistance.

• April explained that Allison had recognized the Jia ye he’s aura during a cleanup mission and that she had chosen to pursue the hidden mission with Leo’s help.
• After reaching the cavern, Leo found an underground city with a weakened Eyeless Spider army and a Jia ye he standing atop a mound.
• The Jia ye he woke the Eyeless Spiders as Benji and four Fire Elemental Spirits entered the city and began slaughtering them.
• Leo watched as the battle ended in three hours, while the Jia ye he showed no response to the slaughter.
• April sucked the Jia ye he into a bottle with ease, leaving Leo surprised that the capture had been so simple.

Leo and Alice searched the Black Tomb World’s underground shelter and discovered stone tablets containing the Eyeless Spiders’ writing. Leo used his soul to read their remnants, but most of the records were lost or unintelligible, leaving the tablets destroyed and their greatest secret unresolved.

• Leo declined April’s invitation to return and told Alice they still had something to do.
• Leo recognized the underground city as an apocalypse shelter, and he, Alice, and Benji searched it for remnants of its civilization.
• Leo found 3,125 stone tablets beneath a mound, but none of them could read the writing.
• Leo entered the Shadow World and used his soul to hear fragments suggesting that mad World Lords, eight warriors, and the shelter were connected.
• Leo read a final garbled passage before the tablets’ remaining souls vanished and the stones crumbled to powder.
• Leo told Alice the tablets’ contents were gibberish, and Alice reacted with clenched fists and bared teeth.

Leo returned to the Wizard World after the Black Tomb World expedition, bringing back mysterious garbled information and planning a century of research and growth. He reached his wizard tower, rewarded Benji and the Gulu Beasts, and fell asleep after finally relaxing.

• Leo told Alice what he had learned from the stone tablet, and Alice accepted his account but asked for compensation; Leo gave her ten nuclear bombs.
• Leo gave Benji three nuclear bombs and waited aboard the star mothership for the expedition to end.
• After the Black Tomb World expedition ended, Leo used his Third-Class Wizard Medal to cut the return queue with Alice and April.
• Leo and Alice teleported back to the Wizard World, passed the required inspections, and flew to their wizard towers.
• Leo gave Benji five hundred energy crystals to buy potions for the young Gulu Beasts, then went to sleep in his lounge chair.

Leo read Tao Rhys’s experimental notes and learned how her failed attempt to make slaves evolve led her to create the Multiplied Mana Absorption Great Witchcraft. The spell was powerful but required more mental power than Leo had, leaving him to confront his stalled progress toward becoming a Level One Elemental Wizard.

• Leo studied Tao Rhys’s research on the Many-Toothed Beast and learned how she extracted a substance that could trigger a leap in physical strength.
• Tao Rhys tested her theory on 370,000 species of slaves, but rejection and failure ended her hopes of rapidly creating stronger slave armies.
• After 150 years of experiments and financial hardship, Tao Rhys changed her goal and developed a spell that temporarily accelerated wizards’ mana absorption.
• Leo found that the spell required more than 95 points of mental power, while he had only 50, and realized his other new abilities also depended on advancing.
• Leo reflected on his own failed experiments and read Tao Rhys’s final note about lacking the insight to discover life’s instincts.

Leo struggled to identify patterns in nuclear fission until he observed the collision in the Shadow World and saw individual particle trajectories. He realized he could change the apparent size of the particles by moving the collision relative to the light source, bringing controlled nuclear fission and advancement to a Level One Elemental Wizard within reach.

• Leo conducted hundreds of thousands of nuclear fission experiments but could not find consistent particle trajectories.
• After seeing his shadow, Leo moved a collision experiment into the Shadow World and observed individual particles scattering and colliding.
• Leo recorded equations for several particles' trajectories and realized the Shadow World let him see particles without the interference of real-world observation equipment.
• Leo moved the nuclear material spheres farther from their original collision point and confirmed that the particle shadows appeared smaller.
• Leo deduced that particle shadows grew larger nearer the light source, giving him a way to adjust their apparent size and make the experiments easier to observe.

Leo discovered a way to predict some particle trajectories, giving him control over the initial stages of uranium-235 fission. He began investigating whether his Nuclear Shadow could contain a controlled reaction, but its sudden connection to his soul revealed that the Shadow World followed unfamiliar rules.

• Leo reduced the experimental uranium-235 mass and repeatedly tested particle trajectories until he could predict a small portion of them and control neutron bombardment during the first stages of fission.
• Leo chose the Nuclear Shadow as a potential vessel for nuclear energy because it had accelerated his body's evolution while containing harmful radiation.
• Leo entered the Shadow World and saw nuclear material and radiation inside the Nuclear Shadow, then considered how to control the material and trigger fission.
• A ray of light suddenly left Leo's body and struck the Nuclear Shadow, giving Leo complete control over it and the nuclear material inside.
• Leo questioned how his soul had entered the shadow so easily and recognized that the Shadow World operated by rules unlike those of the Main World.

Leo achieved controlled nuclear fission by manipulating nuclear material through his shadow, then absorbed the resulting energy and advanced from an elemental wizard apprentice to a level one elemental wizard. Alice and Benji watched the elemental tide and realized Leo had become a rare level-one elemental body refinement wizard.

• Leo used his shadow to conduct repeated nuclear fission experiments, reaching 30% efficiency and an attack power of 1003 with 0.1 grams of nuclear material.
• Leo returned to his main body and guided the energy stored in his shadow into himself.
• Leo's mental power surpassed fifty, and he advanced to a level one elemental wizard as his body and magical abilities transformed.
• Benji and ten level-one Gulu Beasts watched the elemental tide above the wizard tower and recognized that Leo had advanced.
• Alice arrived and told Benji the phenomenon had lasted an hour, then recognized that Leo had become a level-one elemental body refinement wizard.

After advancing to a Level One Elemental Wizard, Leo introduced his new soul companion, Yaoyao, to Benji and made plans for a trip to the Jeft World. Leo then reflected on how his breakthrough had unexpectedly unlocked the garbled soul code from the Black Tomb World, revealing a secret art for tearing the soul.

• The pressure around Leo's wizard tower vanished, and he welcomed Alice and Benji inside after completing his advancement.
• Alice congratulated Leo on his progress, then left so he could adjust to his new abilities.
• Leo introduced Yaoyao, his soul companion, to Benji, who recognized that Yaoyao outranked him despite his weak appearance.
• Leo told Benji to prepare for a trip to the Jeft World in three to five years, collect his dividends, buy ingredients for a meal with Alice, and reserve nuclear raw materials worth a thousand energy crystals.
• After Benji left, Leo explained that his body's feedback had raised his spiritual power to eighty points, triggering the garbled soul code from the Black Tomb World to decode into a secret art for tearing the soul.