Chapter Summaries

After the mothership’s destruction, the injured Evil Fire Saint watched the Federation and Temple of Light deal with the falling wreckage and enemy craft. Goliath arrived wounded in Xuefeng’s arms, and the chapter ended with Xuefeng teasing him.

• Moli alerted reporters that the Evil Fire Saint was coughing blood, and he blasted the wreckage into smaller pieces while reporters filmed him.
• Pink Grandpa and a group of sorcerers helped deal with the falling fragments as a priest healed the Evil Fire Saint with holy light.
• The High Priest of Light arrived, drawing the reporters’ attention and making Moli swoon over his looks.
• Ms. Crow led the Magitech Corps’ flying force against the enemy’s remaining warships and fighters.
• Xuefeng carried the injured Goliath to the Evil Fire Saint, and Goliath reassured him that he was fine and still on vacation.
• The Priests of Light burned the falling wreckage with sacred flames while Goliath scolded Xuefeng for teasing him.

Xipei learned that Machine Zealots had trapped the Federation’s leaders in the Congress building and threatened a Northern Cross energy node while the Magitech Corps fought the mothership. She rushed to the building, where Mel battled the dragon Xuesang as she sent her undead to attack the Machine Zealots.

• Damala told Xipei that warlocks had taken her staff and were using it to power a magic array, but a dragon blocked Damala from retrieving it.
• Mel and Reynold revealed that Machine Zealots had taken over the Congress building, trapping the Federation’s top officials and threatening an energy node.
• Xipei hurried to the central district and saw Temple Knights riding magitech skateboards as they attacked cyborgs.
• Xipei entered the Congress building as Xuesang burst through a wall and began fighting Mel.
• Xipei released her undead to attack the Machine Zealots inside the building.

The narrator confronted Kelisiting, the Federal Congress speaker who had betrayed the Federation and allied with the Machine Zealots. Kelisiting revealed her plan to provoke a war and use an ancient divine artifact against dark mages, as the fight remained unresolved.

• The narrator discovered that Kelisiting had attacked the lobby and left the old sorcerer in pink badly drained, while Reynold was thrown into a railing and injured.
• The narrator recognized Kelisiting as the Federal Congress speaker and blocked her Abyss-powered fireball with Hellfire to protect Reynold.
• Kelisiting identified the narrator as the Flame of Fury and claimed she had an ancient divine artifact that could suppress dark magic and undead.
• The old sorcerer called Kelisiting out for draining Selina's bloodline power, and Kelisiting admitted she had taken it after Selina led her into dangerous ruins.
• Kelisiting revealed she had colluded with the Machine Zealots to trigger a crisis, gain public support for war, and expand the military industry and the use of magic.
• Reynold condemned Kelisiting for seeking profit through war, but she dismissed his objections and threatened to send him to hell.

Ciprins subdued the sorceress who had tried to use his teacher’s relic, then the staff revealed a magical memory of High Priest Hailianna. The chapter left Ciprins face-to-face with his teacher’s apparition, which smiled at him.

• Ciprins flew into a rage, beat the sorceress with the Hand of Hellfire, and cut off her hand after she threw away his teacher’s staff.
• Ciprins handed the wounded sorceress to the devil and told him to keep her alive for the laboratory.
• Ciprins approached the staff and found himself inside a memory preserved by its magic.
• Ciprins saw High Priest Hailianna holding the staff and struggled to hide his excitement at meeting his teacher.
• Ciprins bowed to Hailianna, who eased his contemptuous expression before giving him a sinister smile.

Ciprins Field faced the memory echo of Hailianna in the staff and fought to earn his teacher’s recognition. Hailianna ended the duel after Ciprins loosened a lock of his hair, then asked him to comb it back as the hall began to disappear.

• Hailianna attacked Ciprins with forbidden spells and offered him the staff if he survived half an hour.
• Ciprins recognized that Hailianna’s teachings had helped him survive and told the phantom that his life belonged to his teacher.
• Hailianna demanded that Ciprins fight him before he would acknowledge him as a student.
• Ciprins used Hellfire, dark spells, a blood-drawn curse rune, and Shadow Dance against Hailianna, who countered his attacks and wounded him.
• Ciprins’s Shadow Dance loosened a lock of Hailianna’s hair, and Hailianna stopped the fight and asked Ciprins to comb it back into place.

Ciprins shared a final, affectionate farewell with the fading illusion of his teacher, Hailianna, who reassured him that he did not have to become a priest. After Hailianna vanished, Ciprins claimed his teacher’s staff and cast a spell with it for the first time.

• Ciprins combed Hailianna’s hair and told him that Shadow Dance had been invented by his partner.
• Ciprins asked whether he had to become a priest at the Shadow Moon Temple, and Hailianna told him to choose his own path and earn any position he wanted.
• As Hailianna’s image faded, he asked Ciprins to sing; Ciprins sang until his teacher touched his face and vanished.
• Ciprins took Hailianna’s staff, which replaced the imprint of Hailianna’s power with Ciprins’s own magic.
• Ciprins cast Magic Power Extraction with the staff.

After restoring the Magic Power stolen from pink grandpa, the narrator discovered bombs throughout the building and established a working teleportation array to evacuate those trapped inside. The chapter ended with Reynold guarding the array as the narrator and the banshees went to rescue people.

• The narrator returned Madam Christine’s stolen Magic Power to its owner and signaled Damala that the rescue had succeeded.
• Damala warned that more than a hundred timed bombs had been planted, and Reynold insisted they save the people trapped in the building before evacuating him.
• The narrator drew an ancient teleportation array, and Damala explained that the caster had to stand outside it; the array then activated successfully.
• Kelisiting laughed that the extremists’ plan would continue, but Reynold knocked her unconscious and condemned their ideals.
• Reynold agreed to monitor the array while the narrator and the banshees went to rescue the people trapped throughout the building.

Ciprins rescued the officials trapped in the council building while Mel fought a dragon and waited for reinforcements. As Ciprins prepared a teleportation array to evacuate the officials, a magitech bomb exploded and shook the building.

• Mel dodged the dragon Xuesang’s tail and attacked it with wind blades while Ciprins urged him to avoid fighting head-on.
• The Five-Star Old Man caught up with Ciprins and offered to open the underground safe room for the prime minister and other officials.
• Ciprins carried the Five-Star Old Man to the safe room, blasted through walls, and got the door open.
• Ciprins warned the officials not to move because bombs were scattered throughout the building, then began drawing a teleportation array to evacuate them.
• A politician recognized the sound of a magitech bomb, and the explosion shook the building hard enough to knock officials down.

The mage tried to evacuate the politicians from the collapsing Congress building while a warlock’s Void spell threatened the safe room. After Doug stayed behind to hold off the spell, she escaped through the teleportation array and reached the square as the cyborgs fell back.

• The mage activated the teleportation arrays and ordered Damala to send her undead outside to protect the escaping politicians from the cyborgs.
• A warlock’s Void spell opened in the ceiling and pulled two politicians into the Astral Plane as the room began collapsing.
• Doug shoved the mage toward the exit and held a shield against the Void spell while she gave him an energy-restoring potion and left through the array.
• The mage reached the entrance hall, where her banshee sheltered her from falling rubble as Damala’s forces drove the cyborgs back.
• The politicians hurried toward the square, and the mage saw Reynold still seated by the array, using his magic to keep it running.

Ciprins watched Mel battle Xuesang while she and Reynold escaped a collapsing building. The fight took a startling turn when Mel brought their flying mage tower into the sky and challenged Xuesang about serving the Machine Zealots.

• Ciprins watched Mel hold off Xuesang while protecting the city, and stayed back after Mel told her not to join the fight.
• Reynold urged Ciprins to flee the collapsing building, and she reassured him that she held no grudge before leaving for safety.
• Ciprins saw Ms. Crow rush into the building after she and the banshee reached safety.
• Mel looked toward Ciprins, then summoned their mage tower and stood on its side as it flew toward Xuesang.
• Mel asked Xuesang why a descendant protected by the Radiant Dragon had abandoned the pride of the sky and ice to become Machine Zealot cannon fodder.

Xuesang’s attack was stopped by Xuefeng and the launched mage tower, after which Mel proposed to Xipei in front of the crowd. Xipei accepted, and the chapter ended with celebrations and the Federal Congress building collapsing as Lady Crow carried Reynold to safety.

• Xuesang attacked Mel, but Xuefeng intercepted him and kept him from striking the people below.
• The mage tower rammed into Xuesang, badly wounding him, and Mel brought him down to the square.
• Mel knelt before Xipei and proposed, asking him to share their life, scholarship, and future together.
• Xipei accepted Mel’s proposal, and the crowd, reporters, politicians, Moli, Anna, and the child dragons celebrated.
• Mel urged Xipei to register their marriage, explaining that he wanted the law to protect their relationship from the Shadow Moon Temple.
• The Federal Congress building collapsed, and Lady Crow carried the injured Reynold out as he kicked and struggled.

Xipei and Mel survived the crisis, rescued Five-Star Old Man, and received honors from the Federation. The high priest exposed Mel’s hidden love letter to Xipei, and the couple fled the reporters after sharing a kiss.

• Mel held Xipei back as the high priest and the paladins restored order and rescued Five-Star Old Man from the safe house.
• Five-Star Old Man complained to Xipei, and Mel briefly turned him into a slime before changing him back.
• Goliath told Xipei and Mel that his vacation had been extended, but Xuefeng carried him away in a claw.
• Five-Star Old Man tried to claim the dragon’s corpse for the research institute, while the prime minister thanked Xipei and Mel and offered them positions as senior magic advisers.
• The high priest read Mel’s love letter to Xipei aloud, and Mel kissed Xipei as reporters watched.
• Xipei urged Mel to run when the reporters turned their cameras and microphones toward them.

Ciprins Field’s identity as the Great Sage Hailianna’s surviving disciple became public, and the Federation celebrated him as the strongest dark mage of the age. The chapter ended with the public wondering how Hailianna had survived across six thousand years, while academy students dismissed the mystery as a mage’s unexpected trick.

• Federation newspapers announced that Ciprins Field was the Great Sage’s surviving disciple, and the public hailed him as the strongest dark mage of the age.
• Reports of Mephistopheles’s public proposal and love letter turned the old debate over who was stronger into a flood of gossip about the couple.
• A delegation of Shadow Moon priests and dark knights arrived in the capital, drawing attention to Ciprins Field.
• Doug resigned as deputy director of the National Magic Research Institute and offered Ciprins his position, but Ciprins did not respond.
• Shadow Moon historians identified Ciprins’s staff as Hailianna’s, prompting reporters to speculate about how the ancient high priest had returned.
• An academy student told reporters that Hailianna had crossed six thousand years because a mage master always had an unexpected trick.

Mephistopheles tried to stop the Shadow Moon Temple from taking Xipei by showing its high priest Chris their marriage certificate, provoking a public challenge between the mage and the Temple. Ciprins returned to an empty mage tower and found only its undead and other nonhuman residents inside.

• Mephistopheles fretted as the Shadow Moon Temple invited Xipei to become its high priest, while Anna and Moli kept him from destroying more televisions.
• Ciprins and Mephistopheles studied the banshee’s magic and took apart Damala to learn about Hailianna’s methods, while reporters waited outside the tower.
• Chris visited Mephistopheles on behalf of the Shadow Moon Temple, and Mephistopheles showed him their marriage certificate and warned the Temple to give up on Xipei.
• The Shadow Moon priestess challenged Mephistopheles, and the next day’s headline announced that both sides were ready to fight.
• Ciprins read the headline, rushed through the tower, and found that everyone human was gone, leaving its nonhuman residents behind.

Ruiduo tried to make medicine for Kelisiting, hoping to cure the sorceress of her desire to harm people and kidnap children. Ciprins discovered that Ruiduo had based the recipe on his senior sister’s old research and left her to continue under supervision.

• Ciprins found Ruiduo brewing a potion with evil spirits while skeletons dressed as maids brought in Kelisiting.
• Ciprins scolded Ruiduo, then softened when she explained that she wanted to make Kelisiting better so she would stop hurting people and kidnapping children.
• Ciprins recognized the ancient elvish notebook Ruiduo was using as research by his senior sister, with annotations by Teacher Hailianna.
• Ciprins ordered the devil to protect Ruiduo and keep Kelisiting alive, then decided to support Ruiduo’s research.

Ciprins turned the reporters outside his tower into colorful sheep after they questioned whether he and Mephistopheles would divorce, then brought the flock to the Temple of Light. There, he found Mephistopheles already fighting a priest from the Shadow Moon Temple.

• Ciprins saw reports claiming Mephistopheles had declared war on the Shadow Moon Temple and that Ciprins might become its high priest.
• Ciprins turned the reporters outside his tower into multicolored sheep and set off with them to find Mephistopheles.
• Ciprins reflected that he did not want to become the Shadow Moon Temple's high priest and had refused Five-Star Old Man's offer to take over the research institute.
• A reporter briefly changed back into human form and took photographs before Ciprins turned him into a sheep again.
• Ciprins arrived at the Temple of Light and saw Mephistopheles fighting a female priest while other Shadow Moon priests watched nearby.

Ciprins refused the Shadow Moon Temple’s offer to become high priest and reaffirmed his bond with Mephistopheles after stopping their fight. The story then turned to preparations for Mephistopheles’s 333rd birthday and described the mage tower’s teachers and their antics.

• Ciprins ended Mephistopheles and the priestess’s fight by raining sheep onto the battlefield.
• Mephistopheles clung to Ciprins, and Ciprins reassured him that he would not leave.
• Ciprins declined the high priest position, while Mephistopheles publicly recounted how he had pursued Ciprins.
• The chapter introduced Mephistopheles’s 333rd birthday and described Teacher Nova’s quarrels with Mephistopheles and Teacher Yamier.

The narrator reminisced about Reynold and Crow’s wedding and described their own elven-style wedding to Mel, which revealed that Mel had planned his proposal for a long time. As preparations for Mel’s birthday continued, Moli worried that the Dragon Emperor might challenge her, and the narrator gave Kelisiting a curse-breaking potion after seeing her pink skin.

• Leilei fell in love with Reynold, who later married Crow in a wedding where he wore a dress and Goliath served as his bridesmaid.
• The narrator and Mel held an elven-style wedding, and the narrator realized Mel had secretly crafted his ring as part of his plan to win them over.
• After seeing Ruiduo in the wedding coverage, the elves recognized her as the missing eldest princess and sent gifts and magical materials to the tower.
• The Dragon Emperor sent Mel two mage robes, and Moli told the narrator that her imperial mother might challenge her if she could not apply for a sperm donation soon.
• As the banshees prepared for Mel’s birthday, the narrator saw that Ruiduo’s potion had turned Kelisiting’s skin pink and tossed her a curse-breaking potion.

On Mel's birthday, Ruiduo delighted Mel and the narrator with her pink-potion success and a rare black lamb sent by Reynold and Crow. The celebration was interrupted when the narrator's assistants arrived in armor to complain about the education reforms, and Mel asked which of them had failed to reach level six.

• Ruiduo explained that she had made Kelisiting's skin pink because she thought it would be cuter, and the narrator ordered a pink dress for her.
• Reynold and Crow sent Ruiduo a rare black lamb, and Mel agreed that she could take care of it.
• Anna complained that Mel and the narrator had torn up her Commander Goliath fan comic, and Mel smacked her into the ceiling.
• The narrator and Mel opened the tower entrance to find Keweite and the other assistants trapped in heavy armor outside.
• Keweite explained that apprentices across the academies were protesting because the education reforms kept them from graduating on time.
• Mel asked the assistants which of them had not reached level six.

Ciprins and Mel faced a worldwide student protest over Ciprins’s demanding magic reforms, but the visitors turned out to be devoted admirers eager to challenge him. Ciprins fought them, then had the battered students sent to hotels while he and Mel dealt with the reporters.

• Ciprins ordered the underqualified students at his tower to return to university and study at the Royal Magic Academy.
• Mel praised Ciprins’s reforms, while Damala remarked that Hailianna would enjoy his fearsome reputation.
• Keweite warned Ciprins that a delegation of mages had arrived to protest his teaching policies, and students showered him with gifts and applications.
• Ciprins and Mel teleported above the crowd as students shouted for compensation, admired Ciprins, and argued over his attention.
• Ciprins summoned Damala, skeletons, and banshees, then fought the visiting students after challenging them to face him.
• Ciprins and Mel turned the reporters into sheep, while Damala arranged buses and hotel rooms for the students.