Recaps

Li Wen found a lead on the Shattered Crescent Moon through Take and discovered its hidden entrance beneath a burned-out house. She opened the passage with a spell and descended into the darkness with 31 magic power remaining.

• Li Wen gave Take directions to Bard's White Blade Society in the Askant Mountains as her reward for helping fight the Fire Mage.
• Take used her influence to find a carriage marked with a symbol resembling the Shattered Crescent Moon outside a ruined house in Ake Town's slums.
• Li Wen gave Take the Fire Mage's staff and sent Take and her companion away before approaching the carriage alone.
• Li Wen found footprints and a hollow section of floor in the burned house, then opened a hidden door with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword.
• Li Wen checked that she had 31 magic power left and leaped into the secret passage.

Li Wen met an Elder Priest of the Sublime Rite and learned that the Moon Worshippers had lost the Moonlight Potion they were transporting. She requested twelve materials for Dark Dawn’s ritual, and the priest agreed to deliver them after midnight.

• Li Wen survived a sneak attack in the ruined house’s basement and persuaded the bald tattooed man to lead her to his superior.
• Li Wen recognized the blindfolded elder’s followers as members of the Order of the Exalted Gift, who had been transporting Moonlight Potion from Roland into Arthur.
• The elder told Li Wen that the potion had been lost and that the Forgotten Spirit Casket would be handed over later.
• Li Wen asked the elder to obtain twelve materials for a ritual, including Brilliant Darkness, Fallen True Spirit, and Shattered Amber.
• The Elder Priest of the Sublime Rite agreed to have his people deliver the materials during the first quarter-hour after midnight.

Li Wen and Pastor Mog prepared the Ritual of Dawn Dusk Birth in the church, an advancement rite requiring twelve sacrifices from the Great Rite Cult. After the sacrifices arrived, Li Wen and Mog prepared to begin.

• Pastor Mog led the Worship Day service and distributed food and drink to the believers.
• After the congregation left, Li Wen drew the ritual arrays and arranged the Four Sacred Objects and twelve auxiliary arrays.
• Li Wen spoke with Luna, who told her that Mog had saved her after wild beasts killed her parents.
• Mog told Li Wen that the Great Rite Cult had arrived with the sacrifices, and they prepared to begin the ritual.

Li Wen performed an advancement ritual using twelve sacrifices and The Final Codex, then became encased in amber as a transformation began. Priest Mog tried to stop her, setting Candle Sun Church ablaze.

• Li Wen arranged the twelve sacrifices around Radiance church and placed The Final Codex in the central magic circle.
• Li Wen completed the ritual’s symbolic steps, drank from a silver goblet, and saw a vision of a future banquet where a noble had been assassinated.
• Li Wen lit the mistletoe and chanted Grelion's First Admonition from The Final Codex.
• A crack opened in the church ceiling, and a red-and-yellow liquid fell onto Li Wen, solidifying around her like amber as her consciousness froze.
• The sacrifices shattered, and Priest Mog saw the sky turn amber with dusk before projecting scarlet flames that engulfed Candle Sun Church.

Li Wen confronted the demon Tilroggzak, who attacked her with flames and a curse while trying to stop her from disrupting Siswell’s plan. Tilroggzak’s ritual caused Li Wen’s heart to burst, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Mog’s flames failed to reveal Li Wen, who emerged from the fire and struck at him with Spell-less Arc Light.
• Mog revealed himself as the demon Tilroggzak and accused Li Wen of threatening Siswell’s undertaking, then summoned a three-headed fire serpent.
• Li Wen dodged the serpent’s fireballs and cut off two of its heads with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword.
• Tilroggzak stabbed Li Wen’s shadow with a goat horn, inflicting a painful curse that cost her 25% of her health.
• Tilroggzak sacrificed his Demonic Beasts in a ritual that formed crimson, vein-like lines, then caused Li Wen’s heart to burst.

Li Wen fought Tilroggzak, surviving his curses and nearly killing him before he struck her with a devastating attack. As he engulfed her in Hellfire, the Emerald Star Cloak awakened the witch’s power, and Li Wen rose transformed.

• Li Wen deduced that Tilroggzak had used Dark Corrosion and Painful Lament, then prepared to test him in close combat.
• Li Wen used Divine Prayer to daze Tilroggzak and severed his head with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword.
• Tilroggzak revived himself, pierced Li Wen’s chest with a curse, and left her near death.
• Tilroggzak tried to burn Li Wen to ashes, but the Emerald Star Cloak’s power weakened his Hellfire and healed her wounds.
• Li Wen floated into the air with ash-white hair and amber-red eyes as the witch’s power awakened within her.

Li Wen tested her newly acquired Witch Disciple ability and Witch Stance against Tilroggzak, using a curse and Divine Art to push the demon toward the flames. She left the fight in Witch State with a ten-minute countdown on the seed of faith planted in Tilroggzak, while her Twilight Erosion stood at about 5%.

• Li Wen completed her advancement to Witch Disciple and gained Poem of Paradise and Witch Stance.
• Li Wen used Poem of Paradise, and Tilroggzak felt an irresistible urge to run.
• Tilroggzak cursed Li Wen with his short sword while she cast Craving Light.
• Li Wen's Divine Art planted a seed of faith in Tilroggzak and made him take a step toward the flames, leaving him with an unhealing wound.
• Li Wen entered Witch State and saw that Tilroggzak had ten minutes before the seed of faith's effect ended, while her Twilight Erosion was about 5%.

Li Wen fought Tilroggzak as his curses and Shadow Beast drove up her Twilight Erosion, but she dispelled the curses and wounded him with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword. Tilroggzak then summoned the Spear of Death Curse, whose chains bound Li Wen as he prepared to strike her.

• Tilroggzak cursed Li Wen with Pain Curse and summoned Azbollo, which tore at her shadow and rapidly increased her erosion.
• Li Wen used Levitation to evade the Shadow Beast and flew toward Tilroggzak, then dispelled her curses with the Passionate Blaze Ring's Flame Heal.
• Li Wen retrieved the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword and pierced Tilroggzak through his Magic Shield, but the Shadow Beast made him intangible before she could press the attack.
• Tilroggzak summoned the Spear of Death Curse from a Blood Contract and hurled it at Li Wen.
• The spear's chains bound Li Wen, causing her Twilight Erosion to surge as Tilroggzak aimed the weapon at her.

Li Wen used Gift of Temperance to escape Tilroggzak’s restraints, but his curses and Death Curse Spear drove her Twilight Erosion to 99%. She activated Twilight’s End to reset the erosion, recovered from her wounds, and prepared to finish the demon as his condition worsened.

• Li Wen used Gift of Temperance to break the chains and remove Tilroggzak’s Magic Shield, then attacked him with her short sword.
• Tilroggzak struck Li Wen with curses, knocked her back, and used a crushed goat horn to prevent her from casting spells.
• Tilroggzak pierced Li Wen with the Death Curse Spear and invoked its curse again, growing a Blood Thorn Tree through her body as her Twilight Erosion climbed to 99%.
• Li Wen activated Twilight’s End, reset her Twilight Erosion to 0%, pulled out the spear, and recovered under Twilight’s Eternal Power.
• Tilroggzak realized Li Wen could become a threat to Dark Dawn and Siswell, while his worsening condition made him fixate on the firelight.

Li Wen defeated Tilroggzak by using Afterglow to strengthen her Arc Light and teleporting away from his deadly attack. Tilroggzak was destroyed in the human world, while the ruined Candle Sun Cathedral continued to burn and Li Wen worried that the Kingdom Investigation Bureau would arrive.

• Tilroggzak sacrificed his body and summoned a terrifying darkness, while Li Wen's attacks failed to interrupt his spell.
• Li Wen used her Afterglow trait to empower her Arc Light as Tilroggzak summoned Hellfire that threatened to kill her.
• Li Wen used the Shattered Eye of the Transcendent to teleport away from the Hellfire, then burned Tilroggzak with brilliant light.
• Li Wen crushed Tilroggzak's remaining head, then surveyed the burning cathedral ruins and worried that the Kingdom Investigation Bureau had noticed the battle.

Li Wen left Ake Town with her ritual materials and spoils after telling Luna that she had killed Pastor Mog in self-defense. At dawn, Captain Xion and the Kingdom Investigation Bureau investigated the burned church and blamed Dark Dawn for the destruction.

• Li Wen gathered her belongings and left the church before the Kingdom Investigation Bureau arrived.
• Li Wen told Luna that she had not started the fire but had killed Pastor Mog after he attacked her during a ritual.
• Mayor Morgan met Captain Xion and his team outside the church ruins at dawn.
• Pastor Ed told Xion that only one nun had survived the Ake branch church.
• Xion's investigators used spells and an alchemical instrument to examine the scene and concluded that Dark Dawn was responsible.

Xion questioned the surviving nun about the church fire and learned that a second fire had destroyed the town orphanage, prompting him to investigate it. Meanwhile, Li Wen traveled through the forest to evade the Kingdom Investigation Bureau and leave Black Dragon Territory.

• Xion’s team concluded that powers from three lineages had clashed at the church, but Xion remained suspicious and ordered Luna brought in for questioning.
• Xion questioned Luna, who said Pastor Mog had prepared a ritual alone before she went to rest and later awoke to find the church engulfed in flames.
• Old Morgan revealed that the town orphanage had also burned, with most likely no survivors, and Xion decided its destruction might hold clues.
• Li Wen continued through the forest on foot, avoiding roads and crowds as she tried to leave Black Dragon Territory before the Investigation Bureau found her.

After defeating Tilroggzak, Li Wen reflected on the risks of her Witch Disciple advancement and traveled toward Leicester City to leave Black Dragon Territory. She discovered a burned village with no bodies and used a Blood Tracking ritual to follow the attackers’ trail.

• Li Wen considered the danger of failing her Witch Disciple advancement and decided to save the 2,100 experience points she had gained from defeating Tilroggzak.
• Li Wen headed through the forest toward Leicester City, killing hostile creatures along the way and seeking a village where she could rest and restore her magic power.
• Li Wen found a burned village covered in blood but devoid of people, livestock, and corpses.
• Li Wen performed a Blood Tracking ritual with a canine tooth, Yew Leaf and Gray Wolf Fur powder, and a bloodstain near the village entrance.
• Li Wen followed the canine footprints that appeared after the ritual.

Li Wen found Maki, the sole survivor of a massacre in Goldstone Village, and learned that a heavily armed group of mercenaries had slaughtered the villagers. After discovering that the victims included Mr. and Mrs. Regan, Li Wen demanded Maki recount what she had witnessed.

• Li Wen found a badly wounded woman in the forest and encountered Granny Marsha, the Ghost Fairy, watching from a tree.
• Li Wen used Prayer Incantation to stabilize the woman, and Granny Marsha scattered gray powder that woke her.
• The survivor introduced herself as Maki and said armed killers had attacked her village; Granny Marsha told her that her family and the other villagers were dead.
• Li Wen recognized the name Regan and realized the massacre had killed the kind couple she had met earlier.
• Maki recounted seeing the village chief and her father struck down, and Li Wen identified the attackers as mercenaries.

Li Wen escorted Maki to Black Sand Town, then set out to hunt the mercenaries who had massacred Ake Town and taken its corpses. Ghost Fairy Marsha gave Li Wen the Treasure Bag containing the Fey Market and transformed into a raven as they prepared to move on.

• Li Wen suspected a transcendent being was behind the Black Wind Fang Mercenary Group’s massacre and decided to pursue them after getting Maki to safety.
• Li Wen escorted Maki to Black Sand Town and left her enough money to support herself while she looked for work.
• Marsha told Li Wen that Whispers of the Dead could summon wandering souls to guide her to the mercenaries.
• Marsha gave Li Wen her Treasure Bag, explaining that the Fey Market was inside because Moria had burned the ruin down.
• Li Wen reasoned that Marsha had brewed the potions used to lure people into Zotes’s scheme involving Great Blood, which Moria had ultimately destroyed.
• Marsha merged with the darkness and transformed into a black raven resembling the one from Li Wen’s advancement prophecy.

Li Wen infiltrated a Mercenary camp and slaughtered its members after discovering they had massacred a village. A survivor revealed that Sir Wilson had arranged for the bodies to be taken away.

• Ghost Fairy Marsha guided Li Wen to the Mercenaries’ forest camp, where Li Wen restored her mana with a Clarity Potion.
• Li Wen killed the sentry with her bow and entered the camp, finding the Mercenaries drunk and unprepared.
• Li Wen attacked the camp and used Poem of Paradise to kill many Mercenaries as the others panicked and begged for mercy.
• Li Wen killed the captain after he shot at her with a Hand Crossbow, then questioned a bald survivor about the village massacre and the missing bodies.
• The bald survivor confessed that Sir Wilson had made a deal with the captain to take the bodies away.

Li Wen discovered that Baron Wilson had ordered the village massacre and set out to confront him, while Xion’s investigation uncovered a missing Duwei suspect and Pastor Ed’s secret allegiance to Lord Siswell. Xion decided to pursue the Duwei, warning his team that Pastor Ed and the nun could not be trusted.

• Li Wen used the Living Forest ritual to kill the mercenaries who had slaughtered the village, then decided to confront Wilson.
• Xion’s team determined that Grayfire had caused the orphanage fire and that a missing Duwei was likely the arsonist.
• The astrologer told Xion the Duwei had headed toward Leicester City and could be caught by the following afternoon.
• Pastor Ed secretly confessed to Lord Siswell that he had tampered with the crime scene and that Wilson would handle the Investigation Bureau.
• Xion chose to capture the Duwei first and told his teammates that Pastor Ed and the nun could not be trusted.

Li Wen entered Wilson Town to investigate Lord Wilson's corpse collecting and found the townspeople preparing for a strange harvest celebration. She obtained a black dagger from Granny Marsha as a temporary weapon, while Moria and two Wild Mages arrived in town.

• Li Wen recovered her mana after defeating the mercenaries and entered Wilson Town to gather intelligence before approaching Lord Wilson.
• A middle-aged woman told Li Wen that the town was preparing for a harvest celebration and recommended she ask at the Tavern about finding someone.
• Li Wen sensed a faint, elusive malice from the woman despite her apparent sincerity and continued deeper into town.
• Moria arrived with two Wild Mages and asked the same woman about the mistletoe festival, prompting his expression to harden.
• Li Wen examined the Blood Contract that summoned the Spear of Death Curse, but it could not be used by anyone except its living owner, Tilroggzak.
• Granny Marsha gave Li Wen a black dagger that could serve as a weapon if Li Wen imbued it with magic.

Li Wen joined Take’s group for a difficult mission in Wilson Town, only to discover that Take was leading it. Take recognized Li Wen as her carry and froze in surprise.

• Li Wen approached a group of players in Wilson Town and asked to join their mission.
• The players explained that they were waiting for Take, an internal beta veteran and streamer, to arrive.
• Take led her companions to the Tavern, where they reunited with the waiting players.
• Take spotted Li Wen, recognized her as her carry, and stood stunned.

Li Wen joined Li Lin and Take’s group for a quest to assassinate Viscount Wilson. After Li Lin outlined the castle’s defenses, he told the players to wait at the Tavern until night, while Li Wen went to explore Wilson Town.

• Take realized Li Wen was a player and decided she was still worth treating as a powerful backer.
• Li Lin arrived, introduced himself as the quest organizer from High Prism Tower, and announced the target was Viscount Wilson.
• The players introduced their game names, levels, and classes; Li Wen called herself Mephisto, a level-five Supplicant, while Li Lin revealed he was a level-ten Deception Mage.
• Li Lin rejected Take’s plan to storm the castle and told the group to wait at the Tavern until he contacted them about infiltrating after dark.
• Li Wen left the Tavern and walked through Wilson Town, where she heard townspeople sincerely praising Lord Wilson.

Li Wen discovered that Wilson’s followers were conducting a forbidden human-sacrifice ritual, then joined the players’ nighttime approach to Wilson Castle. Li Lin’s spells helped them slip past the Guards and reach the closed gates, where he prepared another method of entry.

• Li Wen questioned the townspeople and found them fanatically praising Wilson, then saw a wicker-effigy sacrifice ritual tied to the town’s prosperity.
• Li Wen returned to the Tavern to recover mana before the planned battle, unaware that the townspeople watched her leave with vacant eyes.
• Li Lin proposed entering Wilson Castle through its front gate because most Guards had been sent to the town’s celebration, and the players agreed.
• The Ghost Fairy Marsha called the celebration a bloody feast and flew into the darkness as Li Wen and the other players set out for the castle.
• Li Lin used Existence Erasure and Fleeting Shadow, Traceless to lead the players past the Guards and up to the closed castle gates.
• Li Lin raised his hand to use another method to get the players inside the castle.

Li Wen and her companions entered Lord Wilson’s castle, where strange magic separated them and drew them toward the lord’s residence. Li Wen entered alone and found herself in a portrait-lined corridor after killing a corpse-like butler, while Moria and the Wild Mages went inside through another entrance.

• Li Lin used a hypnosis light sphere to make a guard lower the castle gate, and the group entered without waking him.
• Li Wen noticed that her companions had vanished as she approached the lord’s residence, then continued forward with Marsha in raven form on her shoulder.
• Moria asked to see Lord Wilson, but an elderly gentleman invited him and the Wild Mages inside for dinner; Nasha divined words of blood, bathing, dinner, murder, and ritual.
• Li Wen failed to force open the residence door, knocked as Marsha advised, and killed the corpse-like butler who answered.
• Li Wen entered the residence, where the door slammed shut and the butler’s corpse and blood disappeared from the portrait-lined corridor.

Li Wen discovered that the manor corridor trapped her in a 134-step loop and prepared explosives to break it. Take and Li Lin realized they had entered Wilson’s Crimson Feast ritual as invited guests, and Take found a white envelope in her pouch.

• Li Wen inspected the Crow Feather Dagger and destroyed the portraits as she searched the corridor.
• Li Wen recognized that the corridor repeated after 134 steps and decided to blast through the looping spell with supplies from the Ghost Fairy's treasure pouch.
• Take found that her teammates had disappeared and asked Li Lin what was happening.
• Li Lin explained that Wilson was conducting the Crimson Feast, a ritual meant to reenact Fermod’s bloody banquet and ascension.
• Li Lin told Take that Wilson had designated them as guests for the ritual, and Take found a pure white envelope in her pouch.

Li Lin and Take entered Wilson’s banquet hall through the kitchen, where the noble host welcomed them as guests. Outside the manor, Li Wen blasted open a corridor, fought off the servants, and followed Granny Marsha’s directions to jump into a well.

• Li Lin explained that the cards marked their roles and that entering the banquet through the front door would bind them to the inviter’s rules.
• Li Lin led Take through the kitchen and manor to a side hall, and Take pushed open the door to the banquet hall.
• A fat-bellied noble welcomed Li Lin and Take as two more guests, while three people were already seated at the table.
• Li Wen refined Grayfire and detonated it to escape the looping corridor, but the manor rejected her because she had not been invited.
• Li Wen cut through the manor’s servants, then used a Levitation Spell scroll to outrun them and leap into a well at Granny Marsha’s direction.

Li Wen fell into the manor cellar and found a chained prisoner who revealed Young Wilson’s crimes and the Wilson Family’s connection to the Blood Desire Church. The old man began explaining the family’s secret ritual, but his account was cut off before he finished.

• Li Wen escaped the corpse-like pursuers by falling into a dry well and broke through a sealed cellar door with her Crow Feather Dagger.
• Li Wen encountered a chained old man, who identified himself as an adjutant to Sir Wilson and accused Young Wilson of murdering his father, Petrie Wilson.
• The old man recounted how Young Wilson disgraced his father’s legacy in the Hedge Wood Battle and later killed Petrie after being denied the family title.
• The old man said Young Wilson had murdered manor servants and arranged massacres across Black Dragon Territory to gather corpses for a ritual.
• The old man explained that the Wilson Family served the Blood Desire Church and used a secret rite to awaken divine blood in its offspring, then began describing how he found Petrie’s will.