Recaps

Richard escaped the Misty Cage curse with help from the Demon Dwarves, defeated Demon Bruno, and returned to find Black Tower Wizard Academy at war with Meteorite Wizard Academy. After leading the counterattack and helping secure victory, he returned to the Wizard World with new honors and divine abilities.

• Richard transferred the Misty Cage curse to a Substitute Doll, then remained motionless for ten years until Pluto Ironfist used a straw effigy to draw the curse away.
• Richard traveled with the Witch Hunting Squad to the Ironfist Tribe, where High Priest Aberich explained that Demon Bruno had spread a flesh plague and would weaken when the Truth Wizard’s seal cut off his connection to its outside body.
• Richard helped the Demon Dwarves prepare for battle by making Flamethrower Magic Armor and Life Drain daggers, then led a team through the mines toward the abyss.
• Richard and the Demon Dwarves fought Demon Bruno and his mutated monsters, then Richard refined Bruno’s invading soul in his Miracle Furnace and gained the Aberration Rule and Soul Rule.
• Richard underwent a twenty-year transformation, confirmed Demon Bruno’s death, and accepted thirty Demon Dwarves as protected vassals to take to the Wizard World.
• After returning from hiding, Richard infiltrated Meteorite Academy’s territory and made his way back to Black Tower Academy, where Gerald contracted him to lead the counterattack.
• Richard and the Witch Hunting Squad broke through Meteorite Academy’s defenses, then fought alongside Black Tower Academy’s Third-Ring Wizards until Chrispin conceded defeat and the academies withdrew.
• Twenty years later, Richard returned to the Wizard World, received a Silver Star Medal, and learned Divine Arts from Ulysses.

Richard returned the Demon Dwarves to their homeland, resolved the Dreamwalker Club’s Nightmare crisis, and raised Munin as his apprentice. After exploring the Nightmare World and advancing to Third-Ring, he attended Vladimir’s funeral and met the wizard Vladimir had asked him to look after.

• Richard claimed the World Lord’s Arm and other rewards, dispelled Kayan’s Curse, and set out with the Demon Dwarves to return them to their ancestral homeland.
• Richard uncovered the Demon Dwarves’ King and a Dragon Egg, then left the dwarves to build their community and searched for the Dreamwalker Club.
• Richard removed the Nightmare Rules afflicting the club, released Farrett from his sealed coffin, and used Ulysses to contain the corrupted creature that emerged.
• Richard restored Farrett’s pure soul in a new body and raised him as Munin, then registered him as an apprentice and prepared his education.
• Richard entered the Nightmare World, helped Bone fight his pursuers, met Pyramid in Graveyard City, and traded a spell for knowledge of becoming a Nightmare Lord.
• After years traveling through the Lawless Lands, Richard returned to the Wizard World, gathered enough strength to break through to Third-Ring, and learned that Vladimir had died.
• Richard explored the secret realm after its expansion and attended Vladimir’s funeral, where he met Toshio and offered to look after him.

Richard advanced his physique research, prepared an expedition force, and joined Kanon Academy’s campaign into Green Forest World. After helping destroy the world’s vine and insect defenses, he traded the captured World Tree Sapling for a Secret Realm Fragment, but the sapling suddenly stirred to life.

• Richard joined Kanon Wizard Academy, established a city in the Far North, and spent decades developing Reinforcement Cells that greatly improved his physique.
• Richard trained at Long Mountain Temple, studied the Myriad Transformation Battle Body, and hatched the Dragon King Egg before forcing Hogg to become his magical pet.
• Ellie developed a Rune Array powered by Yuris Black Crystal, and Richard and the Fire Lizard Artisans created and tested the Artisan armor.
• Richard moved the Alchemy Workshop to Crimson Sun World, prepared an auxiliary army, and cultivated the Myriad Transformation Battle Body using dragon blood treated with Abyss Suppression.
• Richard joined Steo and Jimmy on the expedition to Green Forest World, where the wizards found a peaceful forest filled with dangerous living weapons.
• Richard and the other Third-Ring Wizards fought their way to the Vine Mother Body, and Richard used a World Mushroom tentacle to pull it into the Void as an Insect Tide attacked.
• The White Wizard Legion annihilated the Insect Tide, and Richard traded the captured parent body, identified as a World Tree Sapling, for a Secret Realm Fragment.
• The anesthetized sapling erupted with life force and seemed to call for something.

Richard hunted World Tree Saplings, recruited the Snake King, and became stranded in the Ancient Battlefield, where he recovered Precursor technology and gained control of an armed puppet force. As he discovered the Miracle Furnace could fuse Rules, the wizards’ defenses against the World Tree’s forces neared collapse and the Green Tide advanced on the Floating City.

• Jimmy uprooted World Tree Saplings while Great Wizard Kanon fought the World Tree in its inner world, and Richard set out with Ulysses to find the saplings.
• Richard’s Fire Lizard Regiment helped him capture a World Tree Sapling, which the World Mushroom dragged into the Secret Realm, and Richard forged a powerful World Tree Staff.
• Richard searched for more saplings, explored a Poisonous Swamp, and found a wounded Snake King guarding a dead World Tree Sapling.
• Richard recruited the Snake King, and they defeated the Toad King before Richard recovered a stone containing an incomplete Radiation Rule.
• Richard activated a hidden teleportation array in a Crystal Tower and became stranded in the Ancient Battlefield, where he reached a crashed Precursor spacecraft and recovered its damaged Star Chart.
• Great Wizard Kanon contacted Richard, warned him that the World Tree had reinforced the spatial anchor, and sent him a White Bear puppet to escort to the Floating City.
• Richard discovered more than a thousand Precursor armed puppets in an Astral Fortress, learned to command 932 Arachnid puppets, and used an Information Transmission Crystal to bring the Giant Floating Mother Body QE124 under his control.
• Richard enabled Rule Fusion after the World Mushroom extracted a radioactive fuel ring, while the wizards endured the Insect Tide and then faced treants as the Green Tide advanced on the Floating City.