Chapter Summaries

Leo used his shadows to trap and slow the Body Refinement Wizards, then eliminated all fifteen before escaping the Elemental Wizards’ prepared attacks. The battle ended in a standoff, with Charlotte proposing peace and Leo refusing to show that he would accept.

• Leo spread his enlarged shadows beneath the fighters and used their runic arrays to unleash gravity, frost, and spatial confinement.
• The shadows slowed the Body Refinement Wizards and disrupted their formation, allowing Leo to eliminate twelve with savage physical attacks.
• Leo struck down two more Body Refinement Wizards and used Thunderfall to eliminate the last as he fled the sealed area.
• Leo escaped a kilometer away, leaving the Elemental Wizards’ prepared spells to explode harmlessly into the sky.
• Charlotte proposed ending the fight after half his team had been eliminated, but Leo stared at him angrily and gave no sign of accepting.

Leo ignored Charlotte’s offer to end their conflict and attacked his team, eventually breaking through their spatial lockdown and eliminating all of them. Afterward, Leo and Charlotte made peace, and Charlotte sincerely invited him to visit his wizard tower so he could learn the rest of the answer.

• Charlotte told Leo that the answer to his earlier question was “Yes,” but said the rules prevented him from sharing more until later.
• Leo fired Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft at Charlotte, but the attack broke through only fifteen of the many protective barriers before its energy ran out.
• After Charlotte insisted they should stop fighting, Leo declared he would calm down only after eliminating everyone, then teleported into the spatial lockdown formation.
• Leo and Yaoyao attacked the formation’s three spatial casters, eliminating them and breaking the lockdown; Leo then defeated the remaining wizards, leaving all eighty-one eliminated.
• Leo held Charlotte by the head, agreed they were even, and promised to visit his wizard tower; he then eliminated Charlotte and returned him to the Wizard World.

After defeating Charlotte, Leo stopped hunting wizards and spent the rest of the elimination round studying while Amanda and Amy stayed with him. Yaoyao helped them defeat an ambusher and shared his knowledge, and the three were transported back to the office tower when the round ended.

• Leo and Yaoyao used the Shadow World to break through Charlotte’s spatial lockdown, and Leo defeated the remaining wizards until Charlotte surrendered.
• Leo recovered from the battle, allowed Amanda and Amy to stay with him, and built a small room where he could study until the competition ended.
• Yaoyao spotted a wizard approaching to ambush them and used Leo’s shadows to pin the attacker down, allowing Amanda and Amy to eliminate him.
• Leo praised Amanda and Amy and let them handle future attackers, while Yaoyao taught them wizard knowledge and enjoyed their company.
• As the elimination round ended, Leo, Yaoyao, Amanda, and Amy were transported away with the other successful competitors.
• Back in the office tower, Leo realized Yaoyao had likely shared his address with Amanda and Amy, then flicked Yaoyao’s forehead for being so loose-lipped.

Leo entered the championship’s second round and instantly eliminated Lieqi with Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft. Lieqi recognized him as a freak, while the remaining wizards continued waiting for their matches.

• Thirty-five wizards advanced, and a giant rat explained that they would fight one-on-one in demiplanes until eliminated or crowned champion.
• Tuoluoqi returned in under a minute and was eliminated, while Saiensi survived a three-day battle and advanced.
• A month later, Leo’s name appeared, and he entered a small demiplane to face Lieqi, a powerful First-Level Wizard nearing advancement.
• Leo struck before Lieqi could speak, firing a devastating pillar of energy that pierced Lieqi’s three protective barriers and eliminated him instantly.
• Lieqi called his unknown opponent a freak and left the competition, convinced that no one could overcome him.

Leo advanced through the Wizard Championship by instantly defeating his opponents, drawing attention from the remaining contestants and Green Cottage. As Leo entered the fourth round, Charlotte watched closely and considered how his success could benefit the organization, but the teleportation formation lit up again less than ten breaths after Leo departed.

• Leo advanced after instantly eliminating Lieqi, then used the time between matches to work on shortening his nuclear fission calculation.
• Leo instantly defeated another opponent in the next round, leaving only seven contestants and drawing widespread attention.
• Leo released and retracted his aura, frightening off the wizards probing him and making them keep their distance.
• As Leo entered the fourth round, Charlotte and his teammates discussed his potential and the benefits his progress could bring to Green Cottage.
• Charlotte explained that he had distributed updated information on Leo to larger branches to help secure resources for headquarters' development plan.
• Less than ten breaths after Leo entered the teleportation formation, it lit up again, leaving Charlotte unable to speak.

Leo’s effortless victories and remarkable record made the wizards at the championship see him as a future contender for the top three. Just as he advanced to the sixth round, Alice told him that his teacher Gru had died, and Leo left the competition to go to the academy.

• After Leo advanced to the fifth round in only nine breaths, the wizards learned from Green Cottage intelligence that he had earned a Third-Class Wizard Medal on his first expedition and defeated a 157-member team alone.
• The wizards began to regard Leo as a likely top-three contender and a future stigmata wizard.
• Leo won his fifth-round match in less than a minute and advanced to the top 2,500 contestants.
• Alice contacted Leo and told him that Gru had died and had left a will for him at the academy.
• Leo immediately left for the academy, then failed to appear when his name was called for the sixth round, causing an uproar.

Leo withdrew from the competition after learning that Gru had died, then examined the body and investigated the place where Gru was killed. He suspected the academy was hiding the truth and vowed to uncover what happened, despite lacking the strength to confront it.

• Leo withdrew from the competition and rushed to the Purple Flame Wizard Academy, where Alice showed him Gru's body and explained that the headmaster suspected a soul attack.
• Leo accepted Gru's wizard ring and grieved alone, while Yaoyao told Alice that Leo had passed the fifth round before withdrawing.
• Alice explained that a strong competition ranking could bring Leo powerful sponsors, but Leo said he would not pledge himself to anyone and asked to visit the place where Gru died.
• Leo and Alice found no clues at the scene near Mijia City, and Leo took Gru's body to bury beside his wizard tower.
• On the journey back, Leo told Yaoyao he suspected the academy had concealed information about Gru's death and vowed to find out what happened.

Leo refused recruitment offers after his elemental body refinement status became known, then examined the stronger second-generation Gulu Beast cubs and considered his growing power and plans to study lightning witchcraft. He buried Wizard Gru beside the tower and left the grave undisturbed.

• Leo rejected the Dawn Daybreak Association vice president's offer and ordered Benji to turn away future recruiters.
• Yaoyao suspected Charlotte and her allies had leaked Leo's information, while Leo ruled out Amanda and Amy.
• Leo stopped Yaoyao from disturbing the Gulu Beast cubs, examined them, and concluded that their racial evolution had largely succeeded.
• Leo reviewed his defenses, tournament reward, and plans to spend 10,000 energy crystals on elemental knowledge for lightning witchcraft.
• Leo decided against dissecting Wizard Gru and buried him in an inconspicuous grave beside the wizard tower.

Leo continued his Gulu Beast bloodline experiments, confirmed that the Goddess of Darkness’s Bloodline Power passed to later generations without weakening, and began strengthening the second generation. With fewer than ten years until his next mandatory expedition, he wondered which world he would be sent to conquer.

• Leo made Yaoyao agree to perform ten nuclear fission calculations each day in exchange for using the crystal ball.
• Leo found that second-generation Gulu Beasts matured more slowly but were far stronger, with eight of the twenty-three reaching the first level.
• After testing nine third-generation cubs, Leo confirmed that the Bloodline Power had not weakened through inheritance and declared the racial modification project a success.
• Leo began injecting the second-generation Gulu Beasts with cultivated blood of the Goddess of Darkness, raising their life-force potential and level ceiling.
• Benji and the others ushered the treated Gulu Beasts away to reproduce, while Leo noted that fewer than ten years remained until the next mandatory expedition.

Leo watched a Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard force open a passage into the Wizard World, revealing that the expedition would target the large Giant World. The Purple-Gold Vine Wizard announced a punitive expedition and called on the wizards to march.

• A colossal star mothership teleported into the sky as Jerry Clan slaves gathered to steady it.
• Leo realized the immense wizard tearing open a spatial passage was a Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard and feared the danger of the expedition.
• Leo recalled that Alice had been transferred to another expedition world and wondered whether the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had moved her to keep her safe.
• The Level-Six wizard expanded the passage over two days, entered the Wizard World, and gathered the vines into a bracelet.
• The Purple-Gold Vine Level-Six Stigmata Wizard declared that the large Giant World had defied the Wizard Will and called the wizards to join a punitive expedition.

Leo prepared to join an expedition to the Giant World, a dangerous large world filled with powerful giants, and studied the available intelligence aboard the starship mothership. After discovering the scale of the threat, he used his Third-Class Wizard Medal to request hidden mission details, and the revelation left him shocked.

• Leo told the Gulu Beasts what to do if he failed to return, while Yaoyao and Benji joked to lift his spirits before Benji carried them to the starship mothership.
• Leo settled into a room on the third level and read that the Giant World held one level-six lifeform, two level-five lifeforms, four level-four lifeforms, and more than a billion lesser giants.
• Leo watched recordings of giants hunting enormous birds and living in a primitive tribe, and concluded that their strength and elemental resistance made them formidable potential slaves.
• The mothership announced it would depart in three days, make fifty-three stellar leapfrogs, and arrive in an estimated seventeen years.
• Leo asked the command hub for hidden missions and detailed expedition numbers, then reacted with shock when he received the information.

Leo learned that the wizard expedition to the Giant World aimed to capture giants alive, then went into a seventeen-year sleep as the mothership departed. In the Giant World, Kampas warned a tribe of giants of an approaching enemy, and their response grew into a vast army gathering across the plains.

• Leo reviewed the expedition’s public mission and forces, noting that two level-six and three level-five Stigmata Wizards would lead more than thirty million wizards and two billion slaves.
• Three days later, Leo fell asleep with Benji as the mothership vanished from the Wizard World, leaving the Jerry Clan’s giant rats behind.
• Wakeda saw five fiery objects falling toward the Giant World and urged his companion to warn their tribe’s priest.
• The priest received an oracle from Kampas, God of Giants, warning that evil was coming and ordering the giants to defend their world.
• Wakeda led more than seven hundred giants from his tribe toward the falling stars, and they joined other tribes on the way.
• Ten days later, the gathering had grown from hundreds to more than ten thousand giants, while an immense army stretched across the plains beyond them.

Wakeda and the giant army gathered to resist the approaching wizard invasion, but hunger drove them to slaughter the creatures summoned to help defend the Giant World. As the starry sky mothership broke through the world’s barrier, an enormous six-armed figure appeared and ordered the giants to stop.

• Wakeda followed the giant army across the plains while its starving members waited for the evil approaching from the sky.
• Leo awoke after seventeen years of travel as the starry sky mothership began forcing its way through the Giant World’s spatial barrier.
• The Giant World’s consciousness awakened and called on all living creatures to resist the invasion, drawing vast numbers of beasts and birds toward the giants.
• Wakeda and the hungry giants mistook the gathered creatures for food and began slaughtering them before the wizards had descended.
• An enormous six-armed figure with a savage wolf’s head appeared and told the giants that the creatures were companions in resisting evil, not prey.

Kampas, the God of Giants, ordered his giants to feast on the beasts gathered to resist the invasion, while the God of Beasts fled. Leo’s wizard forces overwhelmed the Giant World’s small defending army, and Leo set out with Benji and Yaoyao to map the world and locate the giant tribes.

• Kampas appeared, struck the God of Beasts, and ordered the giants to eat their fill of the beast army.
• The God of Beasts warned Kampas about the world’s will, then fled after Kampas threatened to eat him.
• Leo learned that the invasion faced a level-six God of Giants, a level-five lifeform, three million giants, and five million other beings.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard suppressed Kampas as the slave army and wizard forces poured into the Giant World.
• Leo, Yaoyao, and Benji found the battlefield already cleared and saw two powerful fights raging near the horizon and the world barrier.
• Leo ordered the group to begin mapping the Giant World and marking the giant tribes.

Leo was appointed to lead a fortress defense squad in the Giant World, where his record won the wizards’ respect and he established a polyhedral fortress. When a vast native beast army approached, Leo let the experienced Wizard Kaba take charge of the defense.

• The command center ordered Leo to lead three hundred wizards and thirty thousand slaves to build a polyhedral fortress at West-A748.
• Leo’s squad deployed the fortress and positioned the Ancients of War and other slaves according to Wizard Kaba’s advice.
• The wizards recognized Leo’s tournament record and Third-Class Wizard Medal, and stopped questioning his authority.
• The command center warned that a native beast army of more than 100,000 was approaching, including three Level Three creatures and twenty-five Level Two creatures.
• Leo passed the aerial footage to Wizard Kaba, who took command of the coming battle while Leo watched and learned.

Leo’s force used the Polyhedral Fortress, wizards, and living-plant slaves to devastate the native army as it charged. The fortress held firm, and the battle footage was sent to the command center for battle merit verification.

• The Polyhedral Fortress killed the native army’s level-three and level-two lifeforms with energy rays, then Leo ordered the wizards to attack the remaining level-one troops.
• Leo observed the Level Two Wizards’ superior spellcasting and mana control while the wizards and slave army inflicted heavy casualties.
• The Ancients of War hurled magically charged rocks that shattered over the native army, causing widespread damage and leaving many troops unconscious for capture.
• The native army’s counterattacks damaged some Ancients of War but failed to penetrate the fortress’s defenses or harm the slave army behind it.
• As the surviving natives advanced within one kilometer, they were steadily destroyed, and the first native to reach the fortress was blasted apart.
• The battle footage was verified and submitted to the command center for battle merit verification.

Leo commanded the Polyhedral Fortress to prepare for the arriving giant armies and prioritize capturing them alive. As a force of nearly ten thousand giants charged, the fortress wounded its Level Three leader with an energy beam, leaving Leo’s battle companion to capture him.

• Kaba ordered the battlefield cleared and living natives sealed for transport, while Leo monitored the area and reviewed intelligence reports.
• Leo read reports describing divisions among Giant World's gods and learned that Waves and Tides had badly wounded the God of Beasts.
• An army of 9,785 giants approached the Polyhedral Fortress, led by one Level Three giant and five Level Two giants.
• Leo ordered the wizards to use restraint and disabling spells, directed the energy beam to wound the stronger giants, and assigned his battle companion to capture the Level Three giant.
• The Polyhedral Fortress fired an energy beam that struck the Level Three giant in the head and severely weakened him.

Leo’s forces overwhelmed and captured a ten-thousand-strong giant army, then Leo went to inspect the prisoners. The battle showed how difficult larger giant forces would be to capture alive.

• The Polyhedral Fortress’s energy rays wounded the level three giant and killed five level two giants, and the wizards and slaves launched a massive assault.
• The giants pressed forward through the attacks, but Leo ordered the barrage intensified until almost all the level one giants were knocked unconscious.
• Benji and eight level two wizards moved out to capture the survivors, with Yaoyao’s shadows helping Benji subdue the level three giant.
• The wizards sealed the unconscious giants’ souls, and Kaba warned Leo that larger armies might need to be partly killed rather than captured alive.
• Leo took a scalpel and buckets to examine the captured giants and collected several buckets of their blood.

Leo’s forces defended the Polyhedral Fortress against successive waves of beasts while conserving its energy for the approaching Giant World army. Benji defeated a Level Three beast with wizard buffs, but Leo realized the fortress might be vulnerable without a true Level Three Great Wizard.

• Kaba reported that the wizards had captured 8,625 giants alive, and Leo secretly kept giant tissue samples for research.
• The fortress destroyed successive beast attacks, and Leo ordered its energy reserved for Level Three enemies while lower-level forces handled Level Two creatures.
• Leo sent Benji to fight a Level Three beast with support spells; Benji killed it and brought back its corpse.
• Leo asked Kaba how much power the fortress could channel into him, and Kaba explained that it had only let him reach the peak of Level Two strength.
• Leo watched the Giant World army approach and worried that the forward fortress could be breached without a true Level Three Great Wizard.

With reinforcements denied, Leo connected to the Polyhedral Fortress’s command hub to find a way to unleash Level Three combat power against the Giant World’s army. The power amplified his mental strength and gave him control of the fortress, but Yaoyao passed out and Leo’s shadow abilities reached only pseudo-Level Two.

• Leo handed command of the battle to Kaba and went to connect with the Polyhedral Fortress’s central hub.
• Leo revealed that the command hub had rejected his request for a Level Three Great Wizard, leaving his fortress to face a vast native army alone.
• Leo and Yaoyao planned to use nuclear bombs and their combined calculations to attack the enemy’s Level Three creatures.
• Leo inserted the Godslaying Staff into the hub and raised his mental power to 156 while gaining control over the Polyhedral Fortress’s energy.
• Yaoyao fainted from the sudden power surge, and Leo discovered he could create thirty shadows, the limit of pseudo-Level Two.