Chapter Summaries

The Mayfly King tried to uncover the wizards’ hidden main force while Richard adjusted his campaign plan to draw out and destroy enemy reinforcements. Tara completed elite training and received Alchemy Power Armor as the wizard legions prepared to enter battle.

• The Mayfly King noticed the Mixed-Blood Legions advancing across the front and ordered scouts to find the missing wizard legions.
• Richard ordered the Mixed-Blood Legions to regroup as fortresses were built around Earth Vein Nodes, and he rejected a direct assault on a large node as too risky.
• Richard instructed Abel to send wizard legions to join the Mixed-Blood Legions in feigning attacks and destroying the Star River Mayflies’ reinforcements.
• Tara emerged from the Illusionary System’s training and joined his comrades as they received Alchemy Power Armor.

The Wizard Dimension launched a feigned assault on the Star River Mayflies’ northern Earth Vein Node to draw their forces into position while its legions prepared a larger operation. The Mayfly King reinforced the node, and the chapter ended as an elite wizard legion prepared to engage the advancing Mayflies.

• A goblin commander’s turrets and werewolves destroyed a Star River Mayfly combat group, and the Wizard Legion Commander reported the victory to General Headquarters.
• Abel told Richard that Mixed-Blood Legion Number Ninety-Three would soon reach its rendezvous point, allowing the Earth Vein Plan to begin.
• The Mayfly King suspected the Wizard Dimension would attack the large northern Earth Vein Node and ordered its defenses reinforced.
• Richard ordered the legions to minimize losses while buying time for rear-line defenses, and the Mixed-Blood Legion began its feigned assault.
• The Mayflies reinforced the node after observing the attack, while a ten-thousand-man elite wizard legion formed up to intercept them.

The Wizards used elite legions and Curse Sorcery to destroy Mayfly forces attacking small nodes, prompting the Mayfly King to suspend reinforcements while Richard sought to draw them into battle. Richard then sent an elite legion to attack a large node, where its Controllable Space Flow pierced the Mayfly defenses and struck their general.

• The Wizards' 21st Legion ambushed and wiped out a Mayfly battle group, using Curse Sorcery to prevent its Brood Nest from detonating.
• The Mayfly King suspended reinforcements to fourteen nodes after learning they had come under attack, but concluded that Richard's real target was still a large node.
• Richard ordered an elite legion to attack a large node and told the Heroic Spirit Legion to prepare to intercept Mayfly reinforcements.
• The Wizard elite legion endured the Mayflies' barrage and launched a Controllable Space Flow through their defensive barrier, striking the Mayfly General.

After the Wizard defenses at the large Earth Vein Node collapsed, Richard intercepted the Mayfly King’s long-range strike, but it still annihilated fifty thousand elite Wizard troops. Richard overcame his hesitation and transformed to confront the Mayfly King directly, leaving the two powerful enemies fighting in the sky.

• The Wizard Legion commanders chose to advance through the breached defenses, while Richard warned the troops that the Mayfly King was likely to act.
• The Mayfly King learned that the Expedition Nest had no elite battle groups available and used its weapons to launch a guided long-range attack.
• Richard intercepted the attack’s first blast, but the hidden second blast destroyed the Wizard vanguard and more than a hundred thousand Mayfly beacons.
• Richard accepted the risk of fighting before mastering his new powers, transformed into his True Body, and challenged the Mayfly King.
• The Mayfly King left the Expedition Nest to meet Richard, and the two clashed as each assessed the other’s injuries and strength.

Richard fought the Mayfly King, using Abyss Power and wizard enchantments to unleash a million-Energy-Level punch that wounded him but left Richard weakened. As both recovered and escalated their powers, the battle moved Behind the Curtain, while Abel prepared the Wizard Dimension’s forces for the possibility that Richard would lose.

• The Mayfly King spread the Mayfly Network, created True Illusions, and attacked Richard with Death Light Spears, but Richard shattered them with a casual blow.
• Richard broke free of the Mayfly King’s chains and struck him with a million-Energy-Level punch, destroying his body and wounding his soul, though the attack left Richard weakened.
• The Mayfly King shared his pain through the Mayfly Network, recovered his reason, and prepared to use Mayfly Sacrifice as Richard regained strength.
• The Mayfly King doubled his True Illusions and attacked, while Richard invoked Abyssal Incantations and fought through the clones with overwhelming speed and toughness.
• Richard and the Mayfly King moved their battle Behind the Curtain, giving the mortals below time to recover.
• Abel ordered the elite wizard legions to enter the Teleportation Gates and prepared for the possibility that the Great Wizard would be defeated.

Richard defeated the Mayfly King by striking its true body, then discovered the Mayfly fleet had escaped and the Star River Mayflies left behind were committing suicide. He prepared to clear the world and destroy the wormhole, but the Mayflies’ sudden deaths left him facing an unexpected mystery.

• Richard endured the Mayfly King's death-energy attacks while searching for its true body and conserving his dwindling energy.
• Richard used the Eye of Truth to identify the Mayfly King’s real body, then destroyed it with a decisive strike.
• Richard inspected the Mayfly King’s remains and found that extracting its Ghoul Rule would require 255 Soul Power, so he postponed the extraction.
• Richard left Behind the Curtain and found the Expedition Nest abandoned and the Mayfly fleet gone, apparently having fled through a jump device.
• Richard sensed that the Star River Mayflies remaining in the world were committing suicide.

Richard destroyed the wormhole, purged the Star River Mayflies from Wilderness World, and returned with the Mayfly King’s corpse. In the Mystic Realm, he extracted the corpse’s fused Death and Ghost Rules, then planned to consult Shaping Crown’s Rule Codex.

• Richard destroyed the mayfly wormhole and captured or sealed the remaining Star River Mayflies, keeping six specimens and extracting a damaged blueprint from a collapsing hive.
• Richard wiped out the mayflies at the remaining nodes and returned to General Headquarters, where Abel and the other Wizards welcomed him; he told them to arrange for the remaining eggs and left.
• Richard went to the Mystic Realm to extract the Mayfly King’s rules and make his injuries appear more severe, while warning World Mushroom that the body was a corpse.
• Eldridge asked to eat the Mayfly King’s body, but Richard first used the Miracle Furnace to extract its rules, enduring a backlash that clouded his reason.
• Richard obtained a unified form of Death Rule and Ghost Rule, judged it unsuitable for his bodily evolution, and decided to examine Shaping Crown’s Rule Codex.

After returning from the Wilderness World, Richard discussed the flaws in Great Wizards’ unchecked authority and command abilities with Abel, then delivered his war report at the Eternal City of Truth. He left the report by arguing that most Great Wizards lacked the Sword of Victory’s command talent, displeasing the Five-Ring Great Wizard recording his words.

• Richard brought Abel back to the Wizard World and learned from him that Great Wizards often lacked war-command experience and became immature because their authority went unchecked.
• Richard recognized the systemic problem Abel described and appointed him as his secretary, asking him to register with the Physique School.
• Richard went to the Eternal City of Truth to report on the Wilderness World campaign and recommended mixed-blood legions and strategic objectives without detailed command.
• When the recording Great Wizard questioned his approach, Richard said the existence of only one Sword of Victory showed that most Great Wizards lacked comparable command talent.
• Richard sensed that the Five-Ring Great Wizard was displeased with his criticism.

Richard challenged the recording Great Wizard’s defense of Great Wizard Sword of Victory’s command, then traveled to the Curse School headquarters in a life forbidden zone. He entered safely under Curse Crown’s mark and encountered Great Wizard Curse Plague, who suggested Richard was mistaken about his inability to learn Curse Sorcery.

• Richard told the recording Great Wizard that the collapsed front line showed most Great Wizards lacked Sword of Victory’s command talent, and advised the Council to heed the Staff Department and frontline Legion Commanders.
• Richard learned the Curse School’s headquarters was Curse Crown’s Wizard Tower in a black-rated life forbidden zone, then flew there for a week.
• Richard entered the forbidden zone, where his Curse Crown mark seemed to absorb a chilling curse, and the headquarters’ alarm alerted Great Wizard Curse Plague.
• Richard used the Eye of Truth to see the hidden cursed creatures, and one creature that attacked him was compressed into a ball and swallowed by the mouth in his palm.
• Great Wizard Curse Plague appeared amid the mist and told Richard he was mistaken about lacking the ability to learn Curse Sorcery.

Richard arrived at the Curse School to register his name and discovered that its mysteries and greatest treasure reacted strangely to him. After the registration failed, Curse Mark gave him a spellbook and declared that the future of the Curse School rested on him.

• Curse Plague recognized the mark from Curse Crown on Richard’s palm and escorted him to the Curse School’s headquarters in Curse Tower Forest.
• Curse Mark greeted Richard at Curse Crown’s tower and led him along the Path of Truth, noting that its mysterious power had no effect on Richard.
• When Richard wrote his true name in the School of Curses Book, the page burned to ashes; a page with his blood also burned, while a pasted scrap bearing his name only partly scorched.
• Curse Mark gave Richard the spellbook Curse Principles and told him that the future of the Curse School rested on him.

Richard registered with the Curse and Necromancy Schools, then exchanged battle merits for the Rule Codex and returned to North Extreme City. With one month to study the Codex, he summoned Ulysses for specific guidance on choosing rules.

• Great Wizard Curse Mark explained that Curse Principles was Curse Crown’s personal inheritance and suggested Richard might be the Curse School’s successor, but Richard argued he lacked the Spirituality to use Curse Sorcery and failed to cast a simple spell.
• Richard registered his name at the Necromancy School headquarters and completed the assignments given to him by the Crowns.
• Richard applied to exchange his battle merits for the Rule Codex, received Shaping Crown’s approval after seven days, and was warned that opening it would start a three-day reading period.
• Richard returned to North Extreme City, reunited with Ellie, and went to his laboratory to begin studying the Rule Codex.
• Richard summoned Ulysses and asked which rules could aid his body or improve sorcery research, but Ulysses only advised him to choose between short-term combat strength and future research.

Richard learned that rule fragments could be fused into complex abilities and sought the Physique Crown’s advice on how to build his rules for the future. After choosing long-term advancement, he revealed his extraordinary physical evolution, and the Physique Crown ended by urging him to have a child or take a student.

• Ulysses explained how he fused fragments of multiple rules into his Dark Annihilation Flame, giving Richard a new idea for using Rule Smelting.
• Richard traveled with Jimmy to the Physique Crown’s Evolution Path Research Institute to ask the Dean for advice about advancement.
• Richard chose to focus on the future after learning the institute had a semi-finished potion that could accelerate human growth.
• Richard showed the Physique Crown his evolved bone scales, and the Crown recognized that his physical evolution was nearly perfect.
• The Physique Crown suspected Richard had mastered Life Editing but kept the discovery to himself, then advised Richard to have a child or take on a student.

Physique Crown advised Richard to pursue the Transformation and Death Rules, and Richard spent three days studying the Rule Codex, learning that Fragment Rules could be fused into complete Rules. He began considering ways to turn his remaining Rules into combat power, but Ulysses interrupted him with news that the werewolves’ Dao Script Machine had succeeded.

• Physique Crown explained that the Transformation Rule could strengthen sorcery and that fusing the Death and Life Rules could make Richard nearly impossible to kill beneath sovereign level.
• Richard returned to his Wizard Tower and studied the Rule Codex, suppressing the savage backlash from his Abyssal War Body as he read.
• After his three days of access ended, Richard confirmed that Fragment Rules could be fused and reviewed which Rules he had left.
• Richard realized he could use the Alchemy School’s contract processing to strengthen his weapon-release Dao artifacts with Rune amplification.
• Ulysses told Richard that the werewolves’ research institute had completed the Dao Script Machine, and Richard set out to see it.

Richard inspected the Dao-Script Machinery researchers’ new method of turning oversized machines into Cursed Creatures, rewarded the team, and returned to the Wizard World. At the Alchemy School’s headquarters, he found a promising technology for using Rules called Rule Implant.

• Miss Zhen showed Richard the researchers’ proposal to overcome Dao-Script Machinery’s scale limits by turning machines into Cursed Creatures.
• Richard examined the furnace, approved of the work, and promised the researchers divine emissary and Saint investitures for their achievements.
• Richard gathered the research materials, held an investiture ceremony for the project team, and returned to the Wizard World.
• Richard traveled to the Alchemy School’s headquarters, where a new wizard asked to take a picture with him.
• Richard searched the Alchemy School’s services and technologies and found Rule Implant.

Richard sought to trade Dao Script technology for the Alchemy School’s Rule Implant technology, then asked to include several other alchemy techniques as extras. The Alchemy Crown agreed to give Richard all of them in exchange for his original and research materials, including any physical items he had.

• Richard asked to meet Great Wizard Mithril Hand and presented a Dao Artifact to introduce his proposed transaction.
• Mithril Hand examined Richard’s Dao Artifact Flying Sword and acknowledged that its Artifact Refining Technique surpassed alchemy, though Richard warned that studying it brought interference from Mysterious Power.
• Richard offered a Dao Script flying sword in exchange for Rule Implant technology and asked for Refined Rule Magic Equipment, Phased Magic Equipment, and Rule Prosthetic Bodies as extras.
• Mithril Hand told Richard that Rule Implant technology belonged to his teacher, the Alchemy Crown, and went to ask for permission.
• The Alchemy Crown approved giving Richard Rule Implant technology and the other requested techniques, provided Richard brought all his original materials, research materials, and physical items.

Richard exchanged Alchemy Crown’s techniques for the Kunpeng Boat, then spent three years mastering Rule Implants and successfully implanted a gland that fused the Life Rule and death rule. Just as he left the laboratory, Jimmy summoned him to the Fourth-Ring Tower of Truth because Munin was in trouble.

• Richard gave Grand Wizard Mithril Hand the Kunpeng Boat as research material for Alchemy Crown, and Mithril Hand arranged to bring it to the Wizard World.
• Richard studied Rule Implant techniques, used Nightmare Power and Soul Dimension hunts to advance his research, and finally created an implant after three years of experiments.
• Richard implanted the gland in his abdomen, gained the Mayfly King’s phasing ability, and discovered that the fused Life Rule and death rule could help him recover from bodily destruction.
• Jimmy contacted Richard and told him to come to the Fourth-Ring Tower of Truth because Munin was in trouble.

Richard learned that Munin had been grievously wounded by two Mayfly Kings and was trapped in a Stasis Coffin by a Curse that hindered his shattered soul from recovering. He left Munin in Great Wizard Curse Mark’s care, obtained Curse School study materials, and prepared to study the Curse Principles given to him by the Curse Crown.

• Richard brought Munin’s fifth-ring Stasis Coffin to Jimmy, who explained that Munin’s soul was nearly shattered and entangled with a Curse.
• Jimmy found that Munin had fought two Mayfly Kings in World 5421, while the wizards’ Prophecy Sorcery had failed to warn them of the newly appeared enemy.
• Richard took Munin to the Curse School, where Great Wizard Curse Mark said that two other people had been affected by the same kind of Curse and agreed to research Munin’s condition.
• Richard gave Great Wizard Curse Mark a Dao artifact from the Supreme Sect’s treasury, and Curse Mark promised that Munin would receive treatment first if they found a way to remove the Curse.
• Richard asked for foundational Curse School materials, received them, and took out the Curse Principles book to begin studying it.

Richard struggled to understand Mysticism until Ellie explained that its conflicting theories described different Mysticism Worlds. The Curse Crown’s notes revealed that belief made Mysticism effective, and Richard realized he might create his own Curse Sorcery.

• Richard asked Ellie to help him understand why Mysticism theories assigned contradictory meanings to the same Fluorescent Stone.
• Ellie explained that each theory corresponded to a different Mysticism World, helping Richard make sense of the contradictions.
• Richard opened the Curse Crown’s notes, drawing Cursed Creatures into the laboratory and terrifying Ellie, who fled rather than read them.
• Richard followed the Curse Crown’s instruction to seal his memories before reading that Mysticism’s theories worked because people believed in them.
• Richard released the memory seal, understood the Crown’s message, and produced Holy Light as he considered creating his own Curse Sorcery.

Richard tried to use Curse Sorcery despite lacking Spirituality, so Ulysses arranged for him to discover a fabricated theory about recreating Divine Arts through Faith Power. After Richard imitated his past battle with an Abyss Lord and produced a powerful spell, Ulysses realized Divine Art Studies had been surpassed.

• Richard decided to test whether Curse Sorcery could use Faith Power and asked Ulysses to arrange a convincing false discovery.
• Ulysses fabricated a theory with priests from the Divine Art Research Institute, and Richard sealed his memories and left himself a misleading note.
• Martin showed Richard a staff that imitated Sun's Gaze, and Ulysses claimed believers could recreate pseudo-Divine Arts by imitating Richard's deeds.
• Richard followed Ulysses's instructions in the Mystic Realm and recreated his battle actions, opening a rift to the Fire Element Domain and melting a mountain with a Holy Light version of Sun's Gaze.
• Ulysses stared in shock at Richard's success and muttered that Divine Art Studies no longer existed.

Richard lifted the seal on his memories and named the faith-based divine art he had created a Miracle, then was called back to the front as the Star River Mayfly neared the Wizard Dimension. At the Fourth-Ring Tower of Truth, he reunited with Master Clear Frost and faced Great Wizards who knew his reputation.

• Richard realized he had sealed his own memories, restored them, and named his unconventional divine art system a Miracle.
• Richard studied Curse Principles to develop a faith-based branch of Curse School sorcery, but a call from the Fourth-Ring Tower of Truth ordered him back to duty after the Star River Mayfly breached the Ironclad Defense Line.
• Richard learned Ellie had also been conscripted, brought her with him, and asked Old Abel to assist her on the battlefield.
• Great Wizards at the Fourth-Ring Tower discussed the failing front line and reports of Mayfly Kings using curses without prophetic warning.
• Richard arrived at the operations hall, greeted his former mentor Master Clear Frost, and addressed the other Great Wizards' assumptions about his arrogance.