Chapter Summaries

Leo used the Polyhedral Fortress to boost his mental power and shadow talent, but failed to advance his body-refinement bloodline. He and Yaoyao calculated nuclear fission attacks to prepare for the approaching beast army, which then launched its assault.

• Leo activated his first-layer hunter bloodline but could not advance his body refinement, even after trying twice.
• Yaoyao woke and suggested the Polyhedral Fortress might only enhance elemental wizards; Leo then joined her in calculating fission formulas.
• Leo and Yaoyao increased the nuclear material mass in their simulations until 0.6 grams produced 9,280 attack power, nearing the 10,000 needed to injure level-three creatures.
• With the native army expected within hours, Leo urged Yaoyao to refine their calculations and prepare to test them.
• The beast army attacked with two level-three, thirty-two level-two, and 134,584 level-one energy signatures, and the wizards began directing their attacks.

Kaba’s forces struggled to hold off a large beast army as a third level three creature disrupted the battle and threatened the Polyhedral Fortress. Leo unleashed his unfinished Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft, killed the airborne creature, and left Kaba to keep commanding while he mastered his new power.

• Kaba ordered the wizards and slaves to attack the beast army, while Benji went out to fight one level three creature and the wizards held off another.
• An invisible level three creature approached the fortress, broke through the slave army’s attacks, and killed more than a thousand slaves as the beasts advanced.
• With the beast army nearing the fortress and Benji still fighting, Kaba headed to Leo’s chamber to ask for help.
• Leo cast Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft and destroyed the airborne level three creature with a pillar of energy.
• Leo told Kaba to continue commanding while he familiarized himself with his new state, and Kaba came to admire him.

Leo helped defeat the beast army’s Level Three creatures, then prepared the Polyhedral Fortress for the Giant World’s enormous counterattack. As the native army reached the fortress, Leo ordered everyone to hold fire and let it pass toward the defenses behind them.

• Kaba forced the exhausted slave army to attack, while Benji and the wizards killed the remaining Level Three creatures.
• Leo stayed linked to the Polyhedral Fortress, handed command of the other forces to Kaba, and prepared for the native army’s arrival.
• The Giant World’s vast flying and ground forces appeared, prompting Kaba to order the fortress and its defenders to focus entirely on defense.
• Leo watched reports of other fortresses falling and learned from Yaoyao that all thirty-seven atomic bombs were in place.
• As the native army entered attack range, Leo ordered everyone not to attack and let the forces pass toward the defensive lines behind them.

The native army overwhelmed the Polyhedral Fortress, forcing Leo and the wizards to endure a devastating assault. Leo detonated three atomic bombs to disrupt the horde, then prepared nuclear material as the third-level threats remained.

• The native army swallowed the fortress’s defending slave army and battered its defenses, draining 20% of its energy before a third-level beast halted the mass advance.
• The native troops surrounded the Polyhedral Fortress and launched a coordinated assault that hit it with over ten thousand attacks, leaving only 15% of its energy and forcing the wizards to channel their mana into it.
• Leo activated three distant magic arrays, triggering atomic explosions that devastated nearby beasts, disrupted the horde’s advance, and tore open the flying army.
• Leo calculated the bombs’ damage as Yaoyao warned that he still had to face the third-level lifeforms himself.
• Leo took a kilogram of nuclear material from Shadow Space and placed it in the shadow beneath his feet.

Leo killed the level-three huge lion with a nuclear-fission beam after using Gravity Shadows to pin it down, then replenished his mana and the fortress's energy. The blasts cleared the native army near the fortress temporarily, but the beasts resumed advancing, and Leo prepared another attack while waiting for enough of them to gather.

• Leo used forty Gravity Shadows to suppress the level-three huge lion and struck it with a nuclear-fission beam, killing it and carving through the native army behind it.
• Leo recovered his mana using energy from nuclear fission and the Godslaying Staff, while also replenishing the fortress's energy.
• The explosions of three atomic bombs and Leo's attack cleared the native army within five kilometers, leaving a brief respite as distant beasts avoided the area.
• Hungry beasts following behind entered the cleared ground and began approaching the fortress, while Leo and Yaoyao calculated another 0.6-gram fission attack in eighty-nine seconds.
• Kaba ordered the fortress to attack, and Leo decided to wait until more beasts gathered before detonating another atomic bomb.

Leo and Yaoyao used a shadow-based attack to kill more than ten thousand beasts and giants around the Polyhedral Fortress, easing the strain on its dwindling energy. Leo planned to use the corpses as bait to draw in more native troops, and the chapter ended as a force of one hundred thousand giants arrived and five magic arrays activated.

• As the Polyhedral Fortress’s energy fell under the native army’s assault, Leo told Yaoyao to help reduce the pressure.
• Leo and Yaoyao unleashed black needles that pierced the eyes of more than ten thousand beasts and giants, killing them almost instantly.
• Benji identified the attack as Leo’s Shadow Talent and warned the wizards that Leo could sustain it for only thirty seconds.
• Leo ordered the wizards to smash the corpses and throw them farther away to attract more native troops.
• More than one hundred thousand giants arrived and drove away the beasts feeding on the corpses.
• Leo activated five small magic arrays outside the fortress as he and Yaoyao prepared to attack the giant army.

Yilaien led more than a hundred wizards disguised as giants toward the only intact Polyhedral Fortress, where a Level Three Great Wizard had supposedly survived on the front line. They arrived to find the fortress surrounded by a vast crater filled with rotting corpses, and a wizard beckoned them closer while native armies ignored him.

• Yilaien's disguised wizard squad defied the native armies' expectations by retreating toward a fortress on the front line.
• Yilaien learned from the command center that the fortress was the only one of fifty-seven nearby still intact and that its wizards had survived.
• Yilaien stopped the squad at the edge of the fortress's attack range after they smelled a powerful stench, then got permission from the command center to approach.
• The squad saw a huge sinkhole packed with rotting corpses and a fortress standing on a pillar at its center.
• A wizard emerged from the fortress and called the disguised squad over, while the native armies nearby acted as though they could neither see nor hear him.

Yilaien’s squad reached the Polyhedral Fortress expecting a powerful level three wizard, but learned its captain was the first-level wizard Leo. After more than a year of holding the fortress alone, Leo warned that the wizard army’s counterattack would begin soon.

• Yilaien warned his squad not to offend the supposedly powerful wizard at the fortress, and they asked Kaba to arrange an audience with him.
• Kaba explained that Leo was only a first-level wizard, welcomed the 134 arrivals, and told them not to disturb the central secret chamber.
• Kaba reported the new arrivals to Leo, who said the wizard army’s counterattack would begin soon.
• Yaoyao urged Leo to rest after a month without native attacks, but Leo said the counterattack was expected in half a month.
• Leo reflected that the fortress had survived because his atomic bombs and the displayed heads of twenty-seven level three creatures had made the native army fear and avoid it.

Leo recognized that the native armies had been lured into an encirclement and waited to protect his fortress and secure another Third-Class Wizard Medal. When the Great Annihilation Plan began, he ordered the wizards under his command to stay and defend the fortress until the counterattack arrived, leaving the newcomers tense and silent.

• Leo watched the native armies enter wizard territory and reasoned that the wizard command had sacrificed front-line forces to draw them into a trap.
• Leo decided to remain out of the coming counterattack and focus on keeping his fortress intact to earn another Third-Class Wizard Medal.
• Central command announced that the Great Annihilation Plan had succeeded and ordered the wizard army to counterattack and exterminate the native forces.
• Leo ordered all wizards to remain in the fortress until the counterattack arrived, threatening to execute anyone who resisted.
• Benji, Kaba, and the original wizards backed Leo as Yilaien and the newcomers silently weighed the danger of refusing his orders.

Leo watched the wizard army’s counteroffensive trigger chaos among the native forces, which turned on one another and then besieged his fortress. He helped hold the fortress until a concealed Level Three creature approached, then killed it with Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft.

• Leo put Kaba in charge of the fortress defenses and promised to vouch for his battle merits.
• The wizard army launched its counteroffensive, rapidly killing natives and causing panic and infighting across their ranks.
• The frenzied natives attacked the fortress, while over a thousand wizards defended it and Leo supplied energy to keep its defenses above half power.
• Leo rejected Yaoyao’s offer to join the fight, choosing to conserve his strength while they watched for Level Three creatures.
• Leo and Yaoyao restrained a concealed Level Three creature with gravity and black needles, and Leo finished it with Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft.

Leo used the Polyhedral Fortress to unleash a devastating attack on a level three creature, then watched as an advancing wizard force wiped out hundreds of thousands of native troops with a sword-light barrage. The attack came from a mobile Level Amplification Magic Array rather than a Stigmata Wizard, and the surviving native army fled deeper into wizard-occupied territory.

• Leo used Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft to kill a level three creature and thousands of native troops, prompting the wizards to resume their attacks.
• As native troops began fleeing, the pressure on the Polyhedral Fortress eased, and no level three creature approached it during the next 25 minutes.
• A distant sword light swept through the native army, killing an estimated 300,000 creatures and leaving the wizards stunned by its apparent Stigmata-level power.
• Leo and Yaoyao realized that the attack came from a mobile Level Amplification Magic Array formed by tens of thousands of wizards.
• The surviving native troops panicked and fled deeper into wizard-occupied territory as the array continued striking them.

After the wizards’ counteroffensive drove the native troops away from the multifaceted fortress, Leo emerged from more than a year in the sealed chamber and collapsed from exhaustion. He woke a month later, learned the war was nearing its end, and began recovering while the fortress remained on guard.

• Leo announced that the danger to the multifaceted fortress had passed, and Kaba helped him leave the sealed chamber.
• Yaoyao joyfully reunited with Leo and Benji after the fortress’s defense ended.
• Leo collapsed into bed and slept for a month before waking to Yaoyao’s teasing.
• Kaba told Leo the counteroffensive should end in about a month and that the visiting wizards had left after thanking him.
• Leo assessed his depleted condition, used potions and the Healing Array to recover, and checked the Third-Class Wizard Medal’s information platform.

Leo learned that Yaoyao had secretly imprisoned a rank-one giant named Wakeda and confronted him after overhearing his interrogation. Wakeda revealed that his tribe lived in the Left Bank Dense Forest, and Leo warned Yaoyao to tell him before taking such risks again.

• Benji told Leo that Yaoyao had captured a rank-one giant and was holding him in the fortress basement.
• Leo went to the basement unseen and overheard Yaoyao pressuring Wakeda for information about his tribe.
• Wakeda revealed that his tribe lived in the Left Bank Dense Forest after Yaoyao convinced him to disclose its location.
• Yaoyao tried to flee when he found Leo waiting outside the basement, but Leo caught him and demanded an explanation.
• Yaoyao said he wanted to help find giant tribes and earn military merit, and Leo told him to inform him before acting again.

Leo learned that Yaoyao had imprisoned Wakeda because he carried a peculiar scent, and decided to study him after recovering. After earning a Third-Class Wizard Medal, Leo gradually won Wakeda over with food and began explaining why the giants were rulers in name only.

• Yaoyao admitted that Wakeda had a peculiar scent unlike any other native creature, and Leo decided to study him later.
• Leo submitted his fortress defense report and received a Third-Class Wizard Medal after many wizards testified to his contributions.
• Leo offered the chained Wakeda food, and Wakeda eventually ate it despite his hatred of wizards.
• Over the following days, Leo kept bringing Wakeda food until Wakeda agreed to talk and promised to repay the kindness.
• Leo challenged Wakeda's assumptions about the giants' rule and began to explain the laws governing their world and the universe.

Leo explained the universe and the wizards’ contact with other worlds to Wakeda, then offered food for the giants in exchange for something they could provide. Wakeda agreed to take Leo to his tribe’s priest and allowed him to draw blood to study the giants’ strength.

• Leo showed Wakeda a model of the universe and explained that the Giant World was one small world among many.
• Leo served food and flaming liquor from other worlds; Wakeda drank the liquor and felt his old injuries heal.
• Leo asked what the giants needed most, and Wakeda said they lacked enough food to eat their fill.
• Leo offered to supply food in exchange for something the giants could provide, and Wakeda suggested asking his tribe’s priest.
• Leo asked why giants grew so large and strong, then proposed studying Wakeda’s blood; Wakeda agreed and held out his arm.

After completing the Great Annihilation Plan, Leo stayed in the fortress for a year to study Wakeda’s samples and uncovered a reason to investigate the giant’s tribe. He sent Wakeda there with Benji, then secretly followed them through the shadows.

• Leo collected tissue samples from Wakeda and decided to extend his fortress assignment by a year to research giants.
• Leo received approval to remain at the fortress and spent nearly a year studying Wakeda and the giant samples.
• Leo offered to send Wakeda back to his tribe with a level-three combat companion, while promising to visit later.
• Leo arranged for Benji to escort Wakeda and kept the other wizards out of sight as they left the fortress.
• Leo used Shadow Walking to secretly follow Wakeda and Benji toward the tribe, despite Yaoyao criticizing his distrust.

Leo discovered that Wakeda’s lightning power might connect him to the hidden World Lord Kampas, and he followed Wakeda to his tribe to investigate. The tribe had survived in the forest, and Leo began searching for clues while Wakeda introduced Benji and shared food with his people.

• Leo concluded that Wakeda’s lightning aura might come from Kampas and hoped the lead could earn him a Wizard Medal.
• Leo and Yaoyao learned that Wakeda’s forest held many giant tribes and that wizards planned to capture the remaining giants soon.
• Wakeda led Benji back to his tribe, while Leo and Yaoyao secretly followed through the shadows.
• Wakeda reunited with his tribesmen, explained that wizards had captured the other adults, and shared food Leo had given him.
• Leo searched the tribe for signs of Kampas, while Yaoyao suggested testing a young giant’s blood; Leo chose to keep investigating first.

Leo’s attempt to recruit Wakeda’s tribe through extravagant promises led the priest to summon Kampas, the God of Giants. Kampas seized Leo, Yaoyao, and Benji and brought them to his lightning-filled demiplane, where he accused Leo of deceiving his children.

• Wakeda’s tribe gathered offerings, and the priest began a ceremony to ask Kampas whether to accept the wizards’ proposal.
• Leo realized Kampas might discover his lies and told Benji to flee with him and Yaoyao.
• Kampas’s pressure knocked Benji into the forest and immobilized all three companions.
• Kampas formed an elemental hand, sealed their powers, and carried them through a spatial rift.
• Leo arrived in Kampas’s lightning-filled demiplane, where Kampas angrily confronted him for deceiving the giants.

Leo and Benji endured the lightning-filled demiplane of Kampas, the God of Giants, and began advancing toward the distant mountains where his voice had come from. As the lightning grew stronger and Benji struggled under attacks tailored to their strength, Leo realized reaching Kampas would consume more of his limited defenses.

• Kampas’s roar injured Leo and Benji, while Yaoyao escaped through the Shadow World.
• Leo activated his First Layer Hunter Bloodline, allowing him to withstand the demiplane’s lightning and absorb some of it.
• Leo warned Benji not to raise an elemental barrier, then led him toward the mountains where Kampas waited.
• Leo calculated that his shadows could absorb the lightning damage for about 150 minutes at its current intensity.
• The lightning attacks grew 10 percent stronger, and Leo noticed they hit Benji harder than they hit him.

Hunter reached the God of Giants’ true body, endured its crushing power, and offered Kampas the head of Diana, Goddess of Darkness, as a gift. Kampas accepted it and asked whether Hunter could fulfill the promise he had made to Wakeda, leaving Hunter to realize that the God of Giants had been watching him all along.

• As Benji reached his limit under the lightning, Hunter sent him back and continued toward the mountain range, where the damage grew far more severe.
• Hunter reached the foot of the mountain and confronted the God of Giants, arguing that Kampas had brought him there because he wanted something from him.
• Kampas stopped the lightning and revealed that his true body was the mountain range; his gaze nearly forced Hunter out of Hunter Form.
• Hunter healed himself and inferred that Kampas wanted a gift, so he presented the head of Diana, Goddess of Darkness.
• Kampas ate Diana’s head and asked Hunter whether he could fulfill the promise he had made to Wakeda.
• Hunter realized Kampas had already been watching him and felt the pressure of the vast gulf between them.