Recaps

Velin asked Cecilia to find a way back to the real world, but she needed two months to prepare because the Demiplane’s location kept shifting. World Consciousness’s light clusters revealed O'dor’s direction toward a Legendary path, and after Kyle accepted his cluster, he awakened with a red fireball apparition whose meaning remained unknown.

• Cecilia told Velin that the Demiplane’s entrance was anchored to him and said she needed two months to prepare a safe way out.
• O'dor accepted the purple light cluster, which merged into his soul and revealed a bare tree as the direction of his Legendary path.
• O'dor explained that the cluster pointed toward a path to Legend, where World Consciousness could bestow a Legendary name.
• Velin urged Kyle to accept the red light cluster, then played chess and an army-commanding duel with O'dor while they waited.
• Kyle awakened and formed an image of a blazing red fireball in his palm.

Velin and Kyle finished exploring Cecilia's Demiplane and left with O'dor, while Cecilia stayed behind to restore her strength. Velin and Kyle awoke on an unfamiliar beach without O'dor, and Velin sent his Life Knight to capture the Merman Tribe's chief.

• Velin and Kyle spent two months mapping Cecilia's Demiplane while O'dor studied the Annabelle Time Corridor.
• Cecilia returned exhausted, gave Velin a farewell, and used a Teleportation Array to send Velin, Kyle, and O'dor out of the Demiplane.
• Cecilia planted the Wind Sweet Fruit as a seed and returned to the Demiplane Chaos Consciousness Space to sleep.
• Velin awoke on a beach with Kyle and found that O'dor was missing; Kyle questioned a merman and learned where his tribe was.
• Velin and Kyle flew to the Merman Tribe, where Velin ordered his Life Knight to capture its chief, Raskin.
• The mermen fled as the Life Knight struck Raskin with a club and dragged him toward the center of the tribe.

Velin questioned Raskin about the La Romana Islands and took the map of the region, then offered the merman a chance to seek his master if he reached Soul Intent. Raskin resolved to absorb the knowledge Kyle gave him and build an autonomous territory, while Velin and Kyle left the island.

• Raskin identified the La Romana Islands and told Velin that he had a map hidden in his hut.
• Raskin retrieved the map and his savings, but Velin accepted only the map.
• Raskin pledged loyalty to Velin, who gave him a legendary merman’s life story and a chance to visit Kyle’s master if he reached Soul Intent.
• Kyle gave Raskin a spell to transform his form, then flew away with Velin.
• Raskin destroyed his hut and set out to unite the island and establish an autonomous territory as a gift to Velin.
• Kyle asked Velin why he had encouraged Raskin, and Velin said he wanted to see whether the merman might prosper.

Velin, Kyle, and O'dor traveled to Saker Island to seek an inheritance left by a Legendary Mage, where they encountered a group of Dark Elves. Shira told them that her clan had left the Underground World under the guidance of the Goddess of Life.

• O'dor reunited with Velin and Kyle on an island and revealed that he had found a Legendary Mage's inheritance on Saker Island.
• Velin used a map to locate Saker Island, and the group rested before traveling there aboard the Star Moon Floating Ship.
• Velin reassured the complaining Druid's Book, while Kyle set the ship's course and O'dor continued studying the Annabelle Time Corridor.
• Kyle spotted Dark Elves hiding in the jungle and summoned faceless clones to surround them.
• The Dark Elf Shira led her tribe in surrender and told Velin that Clan Leader Clarissa had brought them to Saker Island to worship the Goddess of Life.

Velin met Shira and her Dark Elf followers, learned that they worshiped the Goddess of Life and traded with the merfolk, and persuaded Shira to guide him to their settlement. The group entered a cave that appeared to be a gathering place rather than the center of the tribe.

• Shira told Velin that her Dark Elves traded with the merfolk, and Kyle explained the connection between the Goddess of Life and the merfolk god.
• Shira refused to reveal her tribe's settlement even when Velin threatened her followers, but Velin assured her they shared the same faith.
• Velin showed Shira his green maple leaf badge, which proved his standing with the Church of Life, and she agreed to lead the group.
• Kyle recalled his Faceless Clone, and the Dark Elves led Velin, Kyle, and O'dor through a hidden cave entrance.
• Kyle relayed that the cave held fewer than three hundred Dark Elves and was likely a gathering place, with a High-Silver priest as its strongest resident.

Velin and his companions met the Ilrus Tribe’s leaders after arriving in Augsburg Town, and their shared worship of the Goddess of Life helped them build trust. Clan Leader Clarissa welcomed them and explained that the tribe relied partly on aid from the Halifax Merman Duchy.

• Shira escorted Velin, O'dor, and Kyle to the Life Church, then went to notify Clarissa and find Priest Sarah.
• Velin prayed at the church while O'dor and Kyle waited, and Sarah arrived, frightened by their powerful auras.
• Sarah told Velin that Clan Leader Clarissa would arrive the next morning and invited the three visitors to tour Augsburg Town and attend dinner.
• The next morning, Clarissa met Velin and his companions at the church, where Velin introduced O'dor and Kyle and explained their origins.
• Clarissa welcomed the visitors on behalf of the Ilrus Tribe and said the Halifax Merman Duchy helped support its more than two hundred thousand Dark Elves.

Velin, O'dor, and Kyle discovered that the valley hiding the Legendary Mage's treasure was concealed by an illusion, revealing a lake surrounded by valuable Rainbow Flowers. They began preparing to collect the flowers, with O'dor telling Velin to open his Demiplane and wait.

• Velin and O'dor searched the valley for the lake described in the Legendary Mage's diary, while Kyle questioned whether it could be there.
• O'dor cast Boundless Realm, dispelling the illusion and revealing a tranquil lake surrounded by Rainbow Flowers.
• O'dor identified a thousand-year-old purple Rainbow Flower and explained the flowers' value for brewing Rainbow Magic Potion.
• O'dor concluded the Legendary Mage was unlikely to return, and Velin decided they could take the flowers.
• Velin ordered Kyle to cut trees for timber, and O'dor told Velin to open his Demiplane and stand aside.

O'dor harvested and arranged the Rainbow Flowers from around the lake in Velin's Demiplane, then Kyle discovered a hidden chamber left by a Legendary Mage. While O'dor inspected its library, Velin searched the surrounding area and considered how to fund the Demiplane's development through trade with the Mermaid Kingdom.

• O'dor gathered the Rainbow Flowers into age-grouped beds in the Demiplane and offered them to Velin, who accepted after O'dor refused to split them.
• Kyle told Velin he had found a hidden chamber at the bottom of the lake, and O'dor left with Kyle to inspect it.
• Velin visited the chamber, heard O'dor examining its decaying library, and chose to search outside for other hidden chambers.
• Velin dug in several suspicious spots but found no other ruins, then considered using the Ilrus Tribe chieftain to establish trade with the Mermaid Kingdom.
• Velin weighed the resources needed to develop the Demiplane and decided not to sell his Transcendent Resources or tell his family about it.

Velin discovered an underground ruin beneath the valley and explored it with a Battle Qi avatar, finding Goblin skeletons, Magic Puppets, and a diary. After learning that the Legendary Mage had spent nearly a century researching something in the valley, Velin brought O'dor to the ruin's entrance to investigate further.

• Velin noticed a sunken rock, uncovered a cave, and sent a Battle Qi avatar down to explore it.
• Velin's avatar emerged into a cavern, blocked attacks from Magic Puppets, and destroyed them.
• Velin found three Goblin skeletons and a diary near an ancient bronze door, then brought the diary back to O'dor.
• Kyle told Velin that the Legendary Mage had studied something in the valley for nearly a hundred years and had planted the Illusory Flowers incidentally.
• O'dor read the diary and urgently asked Velin to show him the underground ruin's entrance.
• Velin, O'dor, and Kyle finished moving useful items into the Demiplane and arrived at the cave entrance.

Velin, Kyle, and O'dor opened the Zerzura Kingdom ruins after O'dor solved its gate riddle, and O'dor copied three thousand books during his three-hour visit. After the ruins sealed again, the three returned to the surface, where O'dor began searching the valley for more hidden ruins.

• Velin built a passage through the plants to the ruins, and he and Kyle played board games while O'dor studied the gate for nearly half a month.
• O'dor solved the Aberdovi riddle, and the Spirit of the Ruins opened the entrance and allowed him three hours to copy books.
• O'dor returned with three thousand copied books just before the entrance sealed, then explained that the gate's new riddle would take him fifty years to solve.
• O'dor told Velin to study the copied books, and the three returned to the surface.
• O'dor searched the valley, hoping to discover more ruins.

Velin, O'dor, and Kyle arrived at Ilus City to meet Clarissa and explore the Dark Elf settlement. Velin and Isidor recognized an unexplained kinship, and Velin arranged to speak with him alone.

• O'dor agreed that Velin could reveal the discovered ruin to the Dark Elves, and the group traveled to Ilus City on Saker Island.
• O'dor assessed Ilus City's defenses as Clarissa came out to welcome Velin, Kyle, and O'dor.
• Clarissa led the visitors through the Life Barrier and showed them the Shadow Hall, where Velin noticed names carved into its wall.
• Clarissa introduced her husband Isidor, the tribe's Soul Intent Master Assassin, and Isidor and Velin immediately felt they had something in common.
• Velin asked Kyle and O'dor to tour the city with Clarissa while he spoke with Isidor alone.

Velin and Isidor relaxed together as Isidor recalled how he raised and protected Clarissa and how the Dark Elves settled on Saker Island. Before they parted, Isidor gave Velin a Memory Crystal for Klarins and a Shadow Assassin training method as payment.

• Velin and Isidor discovered they shared a taste for lounging and wine, then realized Isidor had once been saved by Klarins, one of Velin's grandfather's Shadow Mage students.
• Isidor recalled returning to the Underground World to avenge his father, finding Clarissa as a child, and protecting her as she became a Life Priest and leader of the Dark Elves.
• Isidor told Velin that Clarissa and the Goddess of Life helped him survive the Dark Elves' migration to Saker Island, where fewer than ten thousand of them settled.
• Isidor gave Velin a Memory Crystal to deliver to Klarins and insisted that Velin accept a blue crystal containing the Shadow Assassin training method.
• Velin stored both crystals in his Spatial Ring and followed a Dark Elf assassin toward the Life Church.

Velin attended Clarissa’s welcome banquet in Ilus City, where he met Mage Academy headmaster Meredith and discussed a trade with Clarissa. Clarissa agreed to arrange a meeting between Velin and the Grand Duke of the Halifax Merman Duchy, and Velin spent the next half month exploring the city while he waited.

• Clarissa welcomed Velin and his companions at a banquet, and Velin asked to conduct a trade with her afterward.
• Velin found Kyle surrounded by young Dark Elf women, then joined his uncle O'dor and met Meredith, the male headmaster of Ilus City’s Mage Academy.
• Velin sampled the banquet food and secretly finished all the deep-sea fish sashimi.
• After the banquet, Velin told Clarissa about the Gate of the Ruins beneath a valley on Saker Island and asked her to arrange a meeting with the Grand Duke of the Halifax Merman Duchy.
• Clarissa agreed to help, and Velin explored Ilus City for half a month while waiting.

After leaving the Ilrus Tribe, Velin traveled with Kyle and O'dor to Silver Sea City to meet Grand Duke Halifax and seek contact with the Mermaid Kingdom. The Welcoming Fleet reached the duchy’s capital, where Velin approached the palace along an avenue lined with thousands of mermaid soldiers.

• Clarissa gave Velin three invitations to meet Grand Duke Halifax and told him the Welcoming Fleet would arrive in seven days.
• Shandora Xilarien welcomed Velin, Kyle, and O'dor at Ilus Harbor, and Velin parted from Clarissa after promising to deliver a letter to Lord Isidore.
• The Welcoming Fleet submerged and traveled underwater for three days, while Velin considered how to earn the grand duke’s trust.
• The fleet arrived at Silver Sea City, where Shandora guided the three guests from the harbor toward the palace.
• Velin noticed three thousand Silver-grade mermaid soldiers lining the crystal avenue and walked toward the palace with Kyle and O'dor.

Velin met Grand Duke Halifax and sought his friendship to open trade with the Mermaid Kingdoms near the Sinapsis Subcontinent. Halifax gave him three months to either teach Princess Lydia humility or make Halifax’s mother smile, and Velin set out to meet Lydia.

• Velin, Kyle, and O'dor paid their respects to Grand Duke Halifax, and Velin frankly explained that he wanted friendship and trade.
• Grand Duke Halifax offered Velin a chance to earn his friendship by solving either of his two problems within three months.
• Halifax assigned Sandora to guide the three humans and allow their reasonable requests.
• Velin chose to visit Princess Lydia, while Halifax told his guards that he might send her to a border military camp if she failed to change.
• Sandora explained that Lydia’s arrogant behavior stemmed from growing up during the war without her parents, and Velin suspected she stayed just within the limits that would avoid punishment.

Velin visited Princess Lydia’s palace, then went to the temple to meet Pope Shirley. After worshipping the God of Mermen and Songstresses, he received the title “Merman’s Favored” and continued toward Shirley’s quarters.

• Velin and his companions arrived at Princess Lydia’s palace, where Lydia demanded they bow and Velin refused; he then chose to visit the Grand Duke’s mother instead.
• Grand Duke Halifax ordered Lydia’s allowance, maids, and guards cut in half, while his wife Neldiss demanded custody of Lydia to discipline her.
• Sandora explained that Princess Shirley was the temple’s Pope and had not smiled since her husband died five hundred years earlier.
• Velin prayed before the statue of the God of Mermen and Songstresses, and a blue crystal appeared in its hand, marking him as the “Merman’s Favored.”
• Velin declined to rely on the title as a shortcut to the Grand Duke’s friendship and followed Sandora toward Pope Shirley.

Velin and Kyle accompanied O'dor to meet Mermaid Pontiff Shirley, where she recognized him as Dalsi, her childhood love from two thousand years earlier. O'dor explained why he had disappeared and began telling Shirley about the teacher who had named him, while Velin and Kyle privately imagined different versions of their past.

• Velin, Kyle, and O'dor entered Shirley's residence and found keepsakes from Shirley's life with Dalsi.
• Shirley dismissed Sandora and the priest, then greeted O'dor by his old name, Dalsi.
• O'dor and Shirley recalled their childhood, his disappearance, and her later marriage and family.
• O'dor explained that he had spent a thousand years trapped in a mysterious space and returned too late to disturb Shirley's married life.
• Shirley asked about O'dor's current name and his teacher, and O'dor began to tell her about his teacher and wife.
• Velin and Kyle silently imagined different stories about O'dor and Shirley's history.

Velin, Kyle, and O'dor visited the Mermaid Pontiff, who gave O'dor a bell as proof of his agreement with Halifax. O'dor's memories of his previous life began to return, and Velin decided to stay with him for two months before meeting Halifax again.

• The Mermaid Pontiff accused O'dor of neglecting her, but he remained calm and accepted the bell she offered as proof of his agreement with Halifax.
• Halifax learned that the God of Mermaids and Songstresses had bestowed a Mermaid Crystal on Velin and arranged for Lydia to be summoned the next day.
• O'dor listened to the bell at the Red Coral Palace as memories of his previous life resurfaced, including that he had gone to land to fulfill a promise.
• Velin told O'dor he would stay for two months before visiting Halifax again, and Kyle agreed to follow Velin's decision.
• Over the next two months, Velin and Kyle traveled around Halifax's mermaid principality with Sandora and received hospitality from its mermaid lords.

After returning to Silver Sea City, Velin met Grand Duke Halifax, who honored him as a friend of the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom and presented him with three valuable gifts. Velin accepted the gifts and promised to remember the merfolk’s friendship, leaving with a debt of gratitude to Halifax.

• Velin returned to the Red Coral Palace with Kyle and gave O'dor a wooden carving from Yarota.
• O'dor told Velin that matters with the Mermaid Pontiff had ended, then said they would visit Grand Duke Halifax.
• Grand Duke Halifax gave Velin the Red Heart Scale and declared the Halifax Merman Duchy would welcome him as an honored friend.
• Halifax presented Velin with twelve top-grade Purple Mermaid Pearls and a Hainas Dharma Core on behalf of the duchy and his mother.
• Halifax revealed three Seeds of the Tree of Life, and Velin recognized their value and promised to remember the merfolk’s friendship.

After leaving Silver Sea City, Velin gave O'dor the Arcane Core and shared six Top-grade Purple Mermaid Pearls with Kyle before the Star Moon Floating Ship entered spatial transit. A massive thunderstorm forced the ship back into the real world, where O'dor explained that the World Consciousness had likely unleashed the disaster to destroy an Outer God's foothold.

• Velin gave O'dor the Arcane Core and handed Kyle six Top-grade Purple Mermaid Pearls, explaining that Kyle's retainers would become a source of strength.
• Velin and O'dor relaxed on deck while the Star Moon Floating Ship entered a Space Rift.
• Velin saw strange visions in the gaps between space, then the ship exited transit when violent lightning blocked its path.
• O'dor identified the storm as one of the Four Great Natural Disasters and explained that it was likely targeting an Outer God's believers and influence.
• Velin and O'dor watched the storm, and Kyle joined them on deck.

Velin and O'dor encountered two female necromancers among the victims of a distant thunderstorm and spared them after discovering their neutral alignments. As O'dor prepared to send them away, the gray-haired woman asked to join them.

• Velin ordered Kyle to bury the merfolk, burn the bodies of other intelligent sea races, and collect the sea beasts for the Demiplane.
• O'dor brought two female necromancers aboard, and Velin learned that his uncle planned to turn them into Dusk Swordsmen.
• Velin offered the women a choice, then tested their alignments when the gray-haired woman chose to bargain for their freedom.
• O'dor found that the women were Absolute Neutrality and Lawful Neutral, so Velin let them go and gave them each an Intermediate Magic Crystal as an apology.
• As O'dor prepared to send them away, the gray-haired woman asked if they could follow Velin and his companions.

Velin agreed to take Yala and Rita as retainers after Kyle offered to help them change their Professional Path. In the airship’s cabin, Yala recounted the hardships that had led the sisters to become wandering necromancers, while Kyle began guiding them.

• Kyle persuaded Velin that Yala and Rita could correct their Professional Path and become his retainers.
• Kyle took the sisters to a secret room aboard the Floating Airship and asked Yala to tell their story.
• Yala explained that her parents abandoned her and Rita on Lagus Island, where a necromancer later took them away for training.
• Yala recounted how pirates killed their teacher, a merman army destroyed their next refuge, and the sisters survived by chance.
• Yala described how a thunderstorm wrecked the fleet carrying them toward the Mistery Islands before Velin's companion found them at sea.
• Kyle comforted Yala as Rita watched her sister closely and hid her own feelings.

Kyle removed the undead aura and magic cores from Yala and Rita, then used a transformation ritual to turn them into Silver Intermediate angels. Yala awoke with new wings and a strange feeling toward Kyle, while Rita remained asleep.

• Yala gave Kyle two Intermediate Magic Crystals to keep, and he put Yala and Rita to sleep before healing their scars.
• Kyle prepared a ritual, removed the girls’ black magic cores, and purified the undead aura from their bodies.
• After waiting for them to regress to ordinary mortals, Kyle activated the ritual with his clones, twelve High-Grade Magic Crystals, and two drops of his blood.
• The ritual transformed Yala and Rita into Silver Intermediate angels, and Kyle replenished his mana while the girls slept in light cocoons.
• Yala awoke, tested her new wings, and looked at Kyle with a faint blush, so he wrapped her in a silk scarf.

Kyle gave Yala and Rita the code names Light and Wind, made them retainers in service to Velin, and brought them aboard the Star Moon Floating Ship. As the ship headed southwest, Velin wondered whether the sisters were Children of Destiny and asked O'dor for advice.

• Kyle assigned Yala the code name Light and Rita the code name Wind, then refused Rita's request to sleep with him and told Yala to supervise her training.
• Yala and Rita made clothes, donned armor, and followed Kyle to meet Velin on the deck.
• Kyle relayed the sisters' experiences to Velin, who wondered whether their repeated escapes from danger meant they were Children of Destiny.
• Velin told Kyle to teach the sisters to operate the ship, while O'dor reassured him and joked that Kyle could marry them if necessary.
• The Star Moon Floating Ship started up and flew southwest as Velin began a chess game with O'dor.

Kyle, Velin, and O'dor returned from their journey to Star Moon Fort, where Velin negotiated with O'dor to build more Floating Ships. O'dor reunited with Flora, who was training the fort's soldiers.

• After the Floating Airship reached the Kingdom of Isia, Velin persuaded O'dor to build two thousand-meter-class Floating Ships by threatening to reveal O'dor's mermaid first love.
• The group used spatial traversal to return to the hill where they had entered the Shadow World, and Velin sent Yara and Rita's airship into his Demiplane.
• O'dor teleported Velin and Kyle to Star Moon Fort, where Flora was rigorously training eight hundred warriors.
• O'dor appeared behind Flora and embraced her, while Velin watched and remarked that his uncle was more impatient than he was.