Chapter Summaries

Richard turned in Magma Algae, spent his contribution points on two spells, and studied the Kanon Physique Sealing Technique and Myriad Transformation Battle Body. After discovering that creating his own battle body required extensive knowledge of bloodlines, he considered using the Academy’s research on dragons as a shortcut.

• Richard delivered Magma Algae to the Central Laboratory, where Anderli verified its quality and asked how he had cultivated it, but Richard refused to reveal his method.
• Richard spent his 120 contribution points on the Kanon Physique Sealing Technique and the Myriad Transformation Battle Body Principles.
• Richard surveyed the growing cities and transport networks around North Extreme City, then flew away from an approaching airship.
• Richard mastered the Kanon Physique Sealing Technique in a month and placed two seals on himself.
• Richard spent two years learning the Myriad Transformation Battle Body Principles and realized he needed extensive knowledge of the creatures whose bloodlines he planned to fuse.
• Richard recalled that wizards had studied dragons thoroughly and that the related knowledge was inexpensive.

Richard sought dragon bloodlines to cultivate the Myriad Transformation Battle Body and focused on hatching the Dragon King Egg he had been nourishing. With Ulysses’s divine spell, the egg hatched, and Richard subdued the arrogant young dragon by reminding it that the age of dragons was over.

• Richard asked Gerald to collect dragon research, and Gerald arranged for Yelena to provide her materials.
• After studying the materials, Richard concluded that a world-lord-level dragon bloodline would be ideal but unattainable, so he turned to the Dragon King Egg.
• Richard summoned Ulysses and asked him to bless the egg with a hatching spell.
• Ulysses cast the divine spell, and the Dragon King Egg cracked and released a young dragon.
• The young dragon called Richard its servant, but Richard’s pressure forced it to the ground as he warned it that the age of dragons was over.

Richard tricked the newborn dragon Hogg into signing a Fate Contract by staging a gruesome dissection, then took her to his secret realm and assigned her to the World Mushroom. After Ellie arrived at the Wizard Tower, she told Richard she had figured out the Yuris Black Crystal.

• Hogg's inherited memories overwhelmed her after Richard frightened her, and she lay unconscious for three hours.
• Richard threatened Hogg with a Fate Contract and staged a dissection of a fake dragon, leading Hogg to agree to become his magical pet.
• Hogg signed the contract, told Richard her name, and realized the dissection had been a trick when Richard revealed the dragon was a prop.
• Richard took Hogg into his secret realm and left her with the World Mushroom, whose avatar promised not to eat her.
• Ellie rang the laboratory doorbell and told Richard she had figured out the Yuris Black Crystal.

Richard and Ellie optimized a Yuris Black Crystal reactor, then Richard refined its design with Anna’s help at the Tower of Truth. He presented Anna with the complete Heart of the Mountain Rune, leaving her astonished.

• Ellie demonstrated her Rune Array platform, which drew stable energy from Yuris Black Crystal and collected its Decay Radiation.
• Ellie gave Richard her Rune Array blueprints, and he spent two months optimizing them before having Fire Lizard Artisans design compatible individual armor.
• Richard visited Anna at the Tower of Truth, where she advised him on reactor and armor problems while he refined his plans.
• Richard completed the first design for the Anna Black Crystal Power Reactor after three months of work.
• Richard showed Anna a Rune in a Crystal Ball, and she recognized it as the complete Heart of the Mountain Rune.

Richard completed the Heart of the Mountain Rune, learned that Anna’s attempt to use it for self-repairing golems had failed, and developed a Black Crystal Power Core. He approved the Fire Lizard Artisans’ mass-production armor design after its first test succeeded, and they named it the Artisan.

• Richard showed Anna the complete Heart of the Mountain Rune and learned her research into self-repairing golems had made no progress because elemental components were inefficient and weak.
• Richard offered Anna the rune, but she declined and suggested Ellie study it instead.
• Richard bought alchemy materials, crafted a Black Crystal Power Core, and ruled it too costly to power his Small Floating City.
• Richard approved the Fire Lizard Artisans’ armor design, which balanced performance with low cost and production difficulty, and gave them the power core to incorporate into a test set.
• The Fire Lizard Artisans produced and tested the armor, which passed its trials and gave its wearer a strong advantage against ordinary First-Ring Wizards.
• The Fire Lizard Artisans named the armor the Artisan, and Richard approved their work.

After a century of research, Richard developed a sixth-generation Reinforcement Cell and learned that Kanon Wizard Academy would soon join an expedition to a dangerous former Precursor battlefield. He moved his Alchemy Workshop to New World Island to prepare for the coming war and told the Fire Lizards it was time to pay the Blood Tax.

• Richard completed the sixth-generation Reinforcement Cell after nearly seventy years of experiments, raising his physique to 250 points before its latest improvement.
• Steo visited Richard and revealed that the Academy planned an expedition in a few years to a world believed to have been a battlefield in a Civilization War.
• Richard ordered Carrion and Sulina to halt production and move the Alchemy Workshop’s machines to the Crimson Sun World.
• Richard transported the workshop to New World Island and gave the Fire Lizard Artisans three months to train qualified workers and restore production.
• Richard praised Akara and Azuhan for managing New World Island, then reminded the Fire Lizards of their contract and declared that they must pay the Blood Tax.

Richard prepared for an upcoming expedition by selecting Fire Lizard soldiers, arranging supplies, and building an armor production line. After learning that the target world might be ruled by a World Tree, he developed a way to neutralize conflicting bloodlines and began testing how to suppress dragon blood’s corrosion.

• Richard reviewed the Fire Lizard Blood Tax roster and told Azuhan that selected soldiers would serve in his army, with a chance to return and receive new contracts.
• Richard ordered alchemy and physique-evolution materials from Bob and Jimmy, who warned him about the difficulty and corrosive nature of researching dragon blood.
• Richard and the Fire Lizard Artisans built a production line and began preparing at least five hundred suits of Artisan Type I Personal Armor for his auxiliary army.
• Two years later, Kanon Academy warned Richard that the expedition target might be a World Tree world and advised participants to prepare for prolonged combat.
• Richard drew blood from Hogg and successfully created the Myriad Transformation Elixir, then prepared to use the Divine Art Abyss Suppression to counter dragon blood’s corrosion.

Richard cultivated the Myriad Transformation Battle Body, organized his Fire Lizard regiment, and prepared to join an expedition. After leaving instructions with Munin and spending time with Ellie, he entered the Nightmare World to strengthen his spiritual force before departing.

• Richard used dragon blood imbued with Abyss Suppression to cultivate the Myriad Transformation Battle Body, then modified a neural ganglion so Dragon Language commands could no longer control him.
• Richard inspected the Fire Lizard Regiment after Makal had trained it for five years and told Makal he would not join the expedition.
• Richard visited Munin and entrusted him with sealed scrolls containing research and property instructions, including a black scroll to open if Richard went missing.
• Richard returned to his Wizard Tower, spent intimate time with Ellie, and entered the Nightmare World to raise his spiritual force to the limit of a Third-Ring Wizard.

Richard refined his Nightmare Power, left Bone in charge of his territory, and joined the White Wizards’ expedition toward an ancient battlefield. At the pre-expedition meeting, the wizards shared intelligence on Lost Ones weapons, and Richard warned them about the deadly Sacred Armor he had encountered before.

• Richard used four million strands of Nightmare Power to raise his spiritual power to 299.9, then appointed Bone to oversee his territory during his journey.
• Richard joined Steo and Jimmy aboard an airship carrying Third-Ring Wizards for the expedition and learned that their destination was an ancient battlefield where the Lost Ones had fought a Civilization War.
• The wizards shared intelligence about Lost Ones weapons, including tracking polyhedrons, crystal puppets, and other dangerous machines.
• Richard projected an image of Sacred Armor used by the Lost Ones’ servant army and described its strong defenses, Magic-Breaking Chainsaw Sword, and destructive self-destruct capability.
• Richard advised the wizards to flee if they encountered Sacred Armor, revealing that he had faced ten of them during his previous expedition.

Richard joined the Wizard World’s expedition to the Green Forest World after ten years of travel, but the first deployment revealed no enemies outside the Floating City. The airships sortied into the peaceful world, leaving the reason for the unusual order unclear.

• Richard recalled surviving an encounter with ten anti-wizard weapons and settled into his spacious quarters aboard the Floating City.
• Ten years later, Great Wizard Kanon guided the Floating City toward an emerald world and prepared to begin the war.
• Richard brought Ulysses and Hogg out of the secret realm, kept his Fire Lizard Regiment in reserve, and reported to airship Thirty-Five.
• The Floating City broke through the world barrier, and the Command Department designated the destination Green Forest World before ordering all airships to sortie.
• Richard and the other wizards saw that the world outside the Floating City was peaceful and had no visible enemies.

Richard and the wizards discovered that the forest’s hostile vine weapons were branches of a single Giant Lifeform. After Richard located its main body, Third-Ring Wizards converged on his position to investigate or destroy it.

• The Floating City landed without resistance, but the Command Department ordered the White Wizards to bombard the forest, revealing vine tentacles that sprayed corrosive mucus.
• The Black Wizards deployed, and Richard warned his battalion that the vines released poisonous spores before burning one tentacle with powerful fireballs.
• The Command Department announced that the vine weapons belonged to one Giant Lifeform and ordered Third-Ring Wizards to find its main body.
• Richard asked Ulysses to locate the creature; Ulysses found it, and Richard reported its position to the Command Department.
• Steo and the other nearby Third-Ring Wizards cleared the vines in their way and flew toward Richard’s location.

Richard and other Third-Ring Wizards struggled through a forest filled with deadly biological weapons left by the Precursors. After defeating a bizarre spider-like creature with three scorpion tails, Richard discovered that its still-active tails contained a sophisticated energy circulation system and suspected it could be a valuable symbiote.

• Richard followed Ulysses through the forest while fending off swarms of poisonous insects and vines that consumed his fire.
• Steo uprooted a lightning-wielding Old Tree and stored it in a Secret Realm as he tracked a moving target.
• Third-Ring Wizards encountered deadly plants and creatures throughout the forest, while Richard's mental probe was attacked near an emerald lake.
• A bizarre black creature with three scorpion tails attacked Richard, and he used Vajra Body and a mental shock to crush its spider-like body.
• The creature's tails continued attacking after its body was nearly dead, and Richard recognized their energy circulation as a potentially designed system suitable for a symbiote.

Richard and Ulysses reached the Vine Mother Body, where Richard discovered that a whole forest was linked to it and helped a group of Third-Ring Wizards fight their way through its defenses. Just as they reached the mother body, a vast Insect Tide appeared, revealing that it had been waiting for reinforcements too.

• Richard anesthetized the three scorpion tails and stored the creature, then continued with Ulysses.
• Ulysses explained that Green Lake was a Gestalt Organism, and Richard collected a sample of its burning water despite the danger.
• Richard found that the Vine Mother Body was connected to the surrounding forest, and waited for the other Third-Ring Wizards to arrive.
• Robbie, Steo, and a two-faced, four-armed wizard joined Richard; Steo used a metal serpent to clear a path through the trees.
• The wizards fought through the Vine Mother Body's defenses, but a massive Insect Tide emerged just as they reached it.

Richard and the other wizards struggled against an Insect Tide after the vine mother body summoned a frenzy-inducing substance. The World Mushroom removed the mother body, but the battle continued until White Wizard reinforcements arrived and began firing.

• Steo and the others failed to damage the vine mother body, so Richard summoned a World Mushroom tentacle that uprooted it and dragged it into the Void.
• The Insect Tide continued after the mother body vanished, and its offspring spread a substance that drove biological weapons into a Frenzy.
• Steo maintained a Metal Storm while Robbie and the Two-Faced Wizard helped defend against the swarming insects.
• Richard and Ulysses killed Level Three insects that broke into the Storm Eye, while the prolonged battle exhausted the group.
• The Command Department reported that reinforcements were in position, and Richard directed the wizards to prepare for three volleys of incoming Fireballs.

Richard helped the White Wizard Legion defeat the Insect Tide, then negotiated with the Academy to trade the captured vine parent body for a Secret Realm Fragment. The World Mushroom identified the parent body as a World Tree Sapling and asked Richard to find more, but after Richard brought it out, it suddenly awakened and called for something.

• The White Wizard Legion's concentrated Fireball Techniques annihilated the Insect Tide, and Richard and Steo returned to the Floating City.
• Jimmy explained the Academy's past disaster against a World Tree-dominated world and asked Richard to negotiate for the captured parent body.
• The World Mushroom identified the parent body as a World Tree Sapling and said devouring such saplings could help it overcome a barrier to the secret realm's growth.
• Richard traded the parent body for a Secret Realm Fragment supplied by Great Wizard Kanon and brought the sapling out of his secret realm.
• The supposedly anesthetized vine parent body erupted with life force and seemed to call for something.

Richard and Jimmy discovered that the vine beneath the Floating City was part of a World Tree, and Great Wizard Kanon confronted it. Kanon’s apparent attempt to destroy the world with a forbidden spell instead brought him before the World Tree’s true form, where it trapped him among other powerful creatures.

• Jimmy let the vine mother body engulf him, then emerged unharmed after using a Sealing Technique to stop its energy circulation.
• The World Tree lifted the Floating City, prompting wizards to flee while Great Wizard Kanon arrived and shattered the enormous vine with a single blow.
• Great Wizard Kanon caught the Floating City in one hand and began casting the Thirteen-Ring Forbidden Spell Singularity Summon to draw out the World Tree’s true body.
• As the singularity neared completion, Great Wizard Kanon was transported to a scorched wasteland before a colossal black tree bearing more than a dozen trapped creatures.
• The World Tree told Kanon to stay and keep it company.

After Great Wizard Kanon was trapped in the inner world, Jimmy organized the expedition to uproot the World Tree Saplings in the outer world. Richard learned that the outer world had no World Tree master and decided to send the Fire Lizard Regiment after the saplings himself.

• Jimmy learned that the Floating City had fallen, its power furnace was damaged, and Great Wizard Kanon had vanished, then received Kanon's message that he was trapped in the inner world and ordered the World Tree Saplings uprooted.
• Great Wizard Kanon explained the dangers of the inner and outer worlds as he fought the World Tree, and warned that uprooting its outer-world saplings could weaken it.
• Jimmy told the Third-Ring Wizards that Seeding Eagles made air travel too dangerous and assigned Black Wizards to search for saplings while White Wizards cleared the Floating City's surroundings.
• Richard received a tracking Crystal Ball, then returned to the secret realm and told Ulysses that Kanon was trapped and the Floating City could not retreat.
• Ulysses said the outer world was likely without a world master while the World Tree was trapped, and Richard summoned Carrion and Sulina to prepare the Fire Lizard Regiment to claim the saplings.

Richard prepared the Fire Lizard Regiment to fight World Tree Saplings and searched the forest with Ulysses. After finding a sapling, he deployed the upgraded regiment and ordered the Fire Lizards to attack its guardian forest.

• Richard assigned Carrion and Sulina to modify the Fire Lizard Regiment with Fireball Guns, Flamethrower Guns, and air purifiers, then completed the Flamethrower Gun blueprint.
• Richard left the secret realm with Ulysses and Hogg to search for World Tree Saplings and recorded how a Hanging Tree could be defeated with fire and physical attacks.
• Ulysses found a World Tree Sapling about fifty kilometers away and led Richard to it.
• Richard summoned the Fire Lizard Regiment, which had received Fireball Guns and air purifiers, and ordered them to blast the forest.

Richard led the Fire Lizard Regiment in bombarding a forest to draw out the World Tree Sapling, then entered the inferno with Ulysses to confront it. Great Wizard Kanon blocked the World Tree from answering the sapling’s summons, allowing the World Mushroom to uproot it and drag it into the Secret Realm just as the Insect Tide arrived.

• Richard ordered the Fire Lizard Regiment to bombard the forest, where hidden vines rose and attacked the soldiers.
• The Fire Lizard Regiment activated its armor and fought off the vines while Richard and Ulysses prepared to enter the forest.
• After learning that the World Tree Sapling had begun summoning the Insect Tide, Richard and Ulysses entered the forest and battled through its burning guardian treants.
• Richard reached the World Tree Sapling, but it summoned its main body while Great Wizard Kanon prevented the World Tree from responding.
• The World Mushroom severed the sapling’s roots, pulled it from the ground, and dragged it into the Secret Realm.
• Richard warned Ulysses that the Insect Tide had arrived and fled into the Secret Realm.

Richard studied the captured World Tree Sapling, then used its tree core and other materials to forge and enchant the World Tree Staff. After testing its spell and melee power, he left the secret realm with the upgraded Fire Lizard Regiment ready for war.

• The World Mushroom controlled the World Tree Sapling with mycelium, while it and the Sacred Tree Elves treated the injured Fire Lizards.
• Richard examined the World Tree Sapling and discovered its valuable materials, including a tree core suited to making a Staff.
• Richard extracted materials from his Mithril Staff and Adamantine armor, then forged and enchanted the World Tree Staff.
• Richard tested the Staff and found that it amplified a Fireball to 3,500 Energy Level and struck with equal physical force.
• Richard opened a Secret Realm Rift, saw the fully upgraded Fire Lizard Regiment training, and declared that it was time for war.