Recaps

Richard survived the entrance examination, joined Gerald’s Alchemy School, and took on a mission with Ellie to find materials for his Magic Armor. The arc left them in the Black Stone Mountain Range, where a blood-covered figure approached their camp.

• Richard awakened the Miracle Furnace, passed the Wizard’s test, and boarded the airship with Ellie and the other selected children.
• Richard learned magic, defended Ellie from the Black Bear Gang, and refused Kevin Medici’s offer to join his alliance.
• During the entrance examination, Richard killed Relid, a noblewoman, the Seven-Headed Demonic Sheep, and Saban Chavez before reaching the Academy.
• Richard reunited with Ellie, studied wizard history and alchemy, and began shaping a combat system around Bloodline Alchemy.
• Richard created a Black Iron Beast bloodline seed, gaining strength and protective scales while learning that activating it consumed life energy.
• Richard refined Red Mercury for Anna, who invited him to the Alchemy School, and Gerald accepted him as a student after testing his work.
• Gerald tasked Richard with making Pale Mask Magic Armor, so Richard recruited Ellie for a mission to find a Black Striped Water Python Skull.
• Richard and Ellie hired Old John to guide them through the Black Stone Mountain Range, where a blood-covered figure appeared near their camp.

Richard advanced from crafting an unusual mask to brewing Focus Potions, building a Magic Drive Gun, and killing Joseph after surviving a curse. He moved into the Central Black Tower, strengthened his body with a second bloodline, and prepared for the Academy’s Bloody Exam.

• Richard killed Loken, took his notebook, and learned that its Advanced Apprentice owner had found a dead wizard’s laboratory in the Black Stone Mountain Range.
• Richard crafted a Pale Mask using an Enchanting Alchemical Array, impressing Gerald, who made him his apprentice and gave him the Focus Potion formula.
• Richard learned alchemy, refined and sold Focus Potions, and worked with Ellie on the Ice Cone Spell’s kinetic-energy Rune.
• Richard developed a potion-making machine with Anna and made Kevin his agent, but a Curse Wizard hired by Joseph cursed them both.
• Ellie helped Richard resist the curse, while Kevin sacrificed a Curse Worm to survive, and Richard later paid his hospital expenses.
• Richard built a Magic Drive Gun for Munin and used it to shoot Joseph, whose soul survived in a Miniature Soul Locket despite Gerald warning Richard not to cause more trouble.
• Richard moved into the Central Black Tower, fused a Two-Headed Troll bloodline, and adapted to his stronger body by fighting his Chimera, Blake.
• Richard became an intermediate Wizard Apprentice, began upgrading his equipment, and learned that Anna would take the Wizard Exam with the Bloody Exam only a month away.

Richard rose from the top-ranked apprentice to a researcher and potion entrepreneur while training for the White Wizard Academy exchange tournament. Gerald then sent him to Gale City, where Richard began investigating disappearances tied to the God of Vortex cult and planned to infiltrate it.

• Richard survived the Bloody Exam, defeated Sly and Koguk, and finished first with sixty-two marks while Ellie placed seventh.
• Richard trained the Body of Adaptation, entered the Dean’s Secret Realm, collected rare plants and creatures, and later opened his own Secret Realm Fragment with Pom-pom inside.
• Richard studied the forbidden Water-Fire Annihilation spell, designed Wizard Grenades, and partnered with Gerald to produce Focus Potions using his machine.
• Richard learned that the White Wizard Academy exchange tournament would replace the Bloody Exam and continued training until Gerald assigned him a mission.
• Richard traveled to Gale City, met Lord Spencer Gale, and investigated disappearances with the stationed Wizard.
• Richard found records linking the disappearances to the Lord of Blood Red, and Spencer’s police identified the missing people as believers of the God of Vortex.
• Richard told Spencer to arrange an identity for him so he could infiltrate the cult.

Richard exposed a Blood Red cult, led the Black Tower apprentices through the Apprentice War, and won Wizard qualification. He advanced at the Tower of Truth, bound Ulysses to a Fate Contract, and returned to learn that twelve years had passed.

• Richard uncovered the cult’s planned sacrifice, killed the Mad Wizard, and destroyed the Altar before the World Lord could descend.
• Richard refined the World Lord’s tentacle, enhanced Munin, and joined the Apprentice War as commander of the Black Tower apprentices.
• Richard defeated Eugene and allied with Anderson and Aldo, then helped the Dark Wizard academies survive the White Wizard attacks and counter their forces.
• Richard’s Annihilation Bombs devastated Revel’s advancing White Wizard Legion, and Great Wizard Clear Frost ended the war before the six Deans declared the Black Wizards the winners.
• Richard received Wizard qualification and a Darkwater Rune, then traveled with Gerald to the Tower of Truth to begin his promotion.
• Richard endured the Darkness of the Soul and entered the Sea of Souls, where Ulysses, Lord of Ravens, emerged and offered his service.
• Richard used the Miracle Furnace to make Ulysses sign a ten-thousand-year Fate Contract, then returned to the Steel Hall and learned his advancement had taken twelve years.