Recaps

Edward fled Black Raven Port with a cursed black egg inside him, while Li Lin pointed him toward an escape route. A battle between powerful mages erupted over the port, leaving Marymana facing a black-robed figure as the chapter ended.

• Edward escaped through Black Raven Port and discovered a dead man suspended by Lagoven Family Forbidden Magic, Life Inverted.
• Li Lin explained the magic and warned Edward to flee around a warehouse before more powerful figures arrived.
• White Star Yi Shi’s team guarded the port’s exit, hoping to seize a divine artifact from a transforming werewolf NPC and accusing a suspected mole of leaking information.
• Fireballs rained down on Black Raven Port, badly burning White Star Yi Shi and setting warehouses ablaze.
• Li Wen and Moria saw the explosion, and Li Wen identified it as a fight between high-level mages.
• Marymana’s protective shields cracked in the intense heat as she faced a black-robed figure and summoned an ethereal Spellbook.

Marymana battled a masked black-robed mage while Edward fled through Old Town after witnessing the Wolf Pack Club lose to a powerful group of Transcendents. White Star Yi Shi’s team, searching for the thief who took the Sage's Ovum Sheath, finished the fight and considered their next move.

• Marymana and the black-robed man traded powerful spells, and Marymana prepared hundreds of Spellbooks after he refused to reveal his identity.
• Edward recalled how he lost a wager at the Wolf Pack Club and became bound to serve it.
• Edward saw unfamiliar Transcendents rout a group of Wolf Pack Club members and ran, fearing they were hunting him for the stone egg.
• White Star Yi Shi counted his team’s losses after defeating elite-level monsters and found little loot.
• White Star Yi Shi explained that a mage had directed his team toward Old Town in search of the Sage's Ovum Sheath thief, then asked Fang what they should do next.

White Star Fang inferred that the Wolf Pack Club was pursuing a traitor who had taken the Sage’s Ovum Sheath, while Bai Lu’s group headed toward Old Town after hearing the artifact was there. After closing the void rifts, Li Wen saw Wolf Leader’s map marker overlap with an unmarked point, leaving her unsure what the strange position meant.

• White Star Fang told White Star Yi Shi that the attackers were likely hunting a Wolf Pack Club traitor and revealed he had placed a tracking spell on them.
• Bai Lu agreed to guide her school-aged group to Black Raven Port, but an elven girl reported that an NPC had taken the Sage’s Ovum Sheath and was hiding in Old Town.
• Bai Lu led the group toward Old Town, saying she knew the area well.
• Li Wen and Moria closed six player-created void rifts in Old Town, and Li Wen saw many players gathering nearby.
• Li Wen noticed Wolf Leader’s Magic Map marker almost perfectly overlapped with an unmarked point.

Li Wen and Moria were ambushed by Abomination Hunters from the Wolf Pack Club, but Princess Victoria and her knight Lance killed them before they could attack. Victoria explained that the group was a criminal transcendent organization in Leicester, and Moria questioned why the city had gathered so many transcendent beings.

• Li Wen found the Pack Leader on the Magic Map and told Moria that another situation seemed to be unfolding.
• A bloodied man confronted Li Wen and Moria, then summoned the Wolf Pack Club’s Abomination Hunters to kill them.
• Moria prepared to fight the hunters, while Li Wen entered a combat stance and assessed their numbers and abilities.
• Lance killed the hunters before they could reach Li Wen and Moria, and Princess Victoria greeted them.
• Victoria identified the attackers as members of the Wolf Pack Club, and Moria asked why Leicester contained so many illegal transcendent beings.

Moria, Li Wen, and Princess Victoria agreed to help recover Victoria’s stolen item from the Wolf Pack Club and other outsiders in Leicester. Guided by Lance’s legendary sword, they followed its divination through the city and neared a battle site.

• Moria suspected the Wolf Pack Club’s size and operations pointed to an extraordinary organization with unusual means of recruitment.
• Victoria asked Moria and Li Wen to help reclaim an item taken amid the fighting in Leicester, and Moria agreed after Li Wen nodded.
• Lance used the legendary sword of the Fiona Knights to perform Divination by Staff, repeatedly indicating the same direction.
• The four traveled through Leicester’s alleys, following the sword’s guidance without encountering other treasure hunters.
• Li Wen noticed the smell of blood and signs of battle growing stronger as the group approached its target.

Edward tried to escape the people hunting him over the cursed stone egg, but a gigantic werewolf caught him and demanded to know where it was. Two powerful Abomination Hunters attacked the werewolf, giving Edward a chance to slip away.

• Edward killed another pursuer, whose body dissolved into motes of light, and realized that the people hunting him kept returning after he killed them.
• Edward fled through the rain toward a ruined warehouse, hoping to hide and recover his strength and magic power.
• A gigantic werewolf caught Edward and crushed him while demanding to know where the stone egg was.
• The werewolf dropped Edward when two Stage Three Abomination Hunters approached and attacked it with a longsword and an iron fist.
• The werewolf fought the two hunters, while Edward slipped away unnoticed.

Li Wen pursued Edward’s fleeing attacker while Bai Lu became caught in a sprawling battle after werewolves tracked her group. The chapter leaves Bai Lu under attack from a dagger she could not dodge.

• Knight Lance wounded the giant wolf, which transformed and fled after casting a spell at Victoria; Moria destroyed the spell and followed Lance while Li Wen pursued Edward’s attacker.
• Li Wen flew after the fleeing man but lost sight of him, then landed and dismissed Witch State before Twilight Erosion reached 1%.
• Bai Lu and several high school students fought successive waves of werewolves, and Bai Lu realized her old tracking spell had drawn them to her group.
• Bai Lu led the students through a chaotic melee where werewolves, other supernatural beings, and players all turned against them.
• After Bai Lu killed a player with Poison Arrow, an attacker’s dagger slipped toward her vital point as she could not react in time.

Bai Lu fought off two ambushers, then faced White Star Yi Shi and his organized group of players while her mana was nearly depleted. She stunned Yi Shi and tried to escape the surrounding attackers, but her Magic Burst produced an apparently useless support spell, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Bai Lu's Reverberation Protection blocked an ambusher's dagger, and she killed him with Flash of Inspiration before using Paralysis Technique to kill a crossbow attacker.
• White Star Yi Shi confronted Bai Lu with several White Star players, and she saw that their formation was prepared to support one another.
• Bai Lu dodged Yi Shi's greatsword, deflected a slash with her staff, and struck back as he attacked with Warrior's Strike.
• Bai Lu used Mental Tremor to immobilize Yi Shi, kicked him away, and jumped onto a rooftop while the other players called for her to be stopped.
• Bai Lu cast White Mist Spell and then Magic Burst, but the spell formed a motionless transparent sphere that did not attack anyone.

Li Wen arrived in time to save Bai Lu from White Star Yi Shi and nearly killed him in the ensuing fight. White Star Fang rescued Yi Shi, leaving Li Wen facing the rest of the Top Bai Xing group.

• White Star Yi Shi chased Bai Lu through a collapsing roof and cornered her in a warehouse with Edward.
• Li Wen attacked White Star Yi Shi from above, interrupting his assault on Bai Lu.
• White Star Yi Shi fought back while blinded by Li Wen’s curse, but failed to find her.
• Li Wen struck from above in Witch State, shattered Yi Shi’s shield, and severed his arm.
• White Star Fang pulled Yi Shi clear of Li Wen’s finishing attack, and Li Wen recognized the arriving group as Top Bai Xing.

Li Wen realized that players’ gaming mindset could limit their power, but a Black Wolf agent interrupted her thoughts by attacking Edward for a hidden item. Moria and a Kingdom Knight arrived as Li Wen intervened, and the knight’s spear pierced Edward and pinned the agent to the ground.

• Li Wen concluded that players’ reliance on game rules restrained them compared with native supernaturals.
• A Black Wolf agent burst into the warehouse, pursued Edward, and demanded the item he had taken from the pack.
• Edward refused to reveal the item and spat blood in the agent’s face, so the agent realized Edward had swallowed it and began cutting into his stomach.
• Li Wen summoned a gray moth with Craving Light, and it landed in the agent’s eye.
• Moria and a Kingdom Knight charged into the warehouse, and the knight hurled a silver spear through Edward, pinning the agent behind him to the ground.

The Pack Leader took control of Edward’s body, revealed the Wolf Pack Contract, and recovered the Sage’s Ovum Sheath. As he threatened Princess Victoria and attacked the group, Li Wen and the others prepared to fight him.

• Edward rose after appearing mortally wounded, struck Knight Lance away, and the Pack Leader revealed himself to the agent.
• Victoria arrived with Knight Lance, and Li Wen explained that the Wolf Pack Contract let the Pack Leader control his followers and descend into their bodies.
• Li Wen realized the Pack Leader’s real body remained in the Red Oak District and considered joining Moria, Victoria, and Bai Lu against his weakened vessel.
• The Pack Leader pulled the Sage’s Ovum Sheath from the agent’s abdomen and tossed it to the ground.
• The Pack Leader threatened Victoria, then leaped at the group with clawed, fur-covered arms as Knight Lance moved to protect her.

Wolf Leader battled Knight Lance and Moria while the wounded agent and White Star Studio eyed the Sage's Ovum Sheath. As the studio planned to stall for time and call on the Lagoven Family, Li Wen realized the object was not truly the Sage's Ovum Sheath.

• Moria attacked Wolf Leader with a wall of fire, but he tore through it and knocked her away before moving toward Victoria.
• Knight Lance struck Wolf Leader with an invisible blade aura, then fought him alongside Moria as Wolf Leader's wounds began to heal.
• Wolf Leader severed his arm after his claws pierced Knight Lance's armor, and the wound on the armor flashed with strange colors before restoring itself.
• The wounded agent and White Star Studio watched the Sage's Ovum Sheath, and White Star Fang persuaded White Star Yi Shi to stall the battle and seek help from the Lagoven Family.
• Li Wen recognized that the Sage's Ovum Sheath on the ground was not the genuine artifact.

Li Wen fought the White Star Studio agent for control of the black stone egg, using her enchanted dagger and Witch State to overcome his strength. She triggered Blood Collapse on the agent, whose wounds erupted as his healing failed.

• Li Wen concluded that the black stone egg was neither type of Philosopher's Stone and decided to seize it for study of its connection to the Original Text of Lineage.
• Bai Lu supported Li Wen with spells as Li Wen charged the wounded Stage Three Abomination Hunter agent and attacked him with Poem of Paradise and arc light.
• The agent used his wolf howl and transformed claw to injure Li Wen, but she entered Witch State, recovered, and resumed attacking.
• Li Wen stacked Scarlet Blood on the agent while evading his attacks, then triggered Blood Collapse with the Crow Feather Dagger.
• The agent's wounds burst open and his blood rotted, disabling his natural healing.

Li Wen seized the black stone egg but was intercepted by the powerful mage Barty Harrentin, who knocked her from the sky and attacked with a massive Scorching Orb. Marymana stopped the spell, and the chapter ended with the gathered fighters identifying Barty as a notorious mage who had been missing for a century.

• Li Wen wounded the Stage Three Abomination Hunter with her enchanted dagger, then used the Ring of Fiery Passion to remove Basilisk Venom and Slow after White Star Studio intervened.
• Li Wen took the black stone egg and flew from the warehouse, but Barty Harrentin used a spell to stop her flight and summoned a massive Scorching Orb.
• Marymana appeared beside Li Wen and intercepted the Scorching Orb, then deflected its scattered fireballs toward Barty, who absorbed them into a circle.
• The Pack Leader healed his injuries and withdrew from Moria and the others as the fighters regrouped around Barty.
• Li Wen told Marymana that Barty was a powerful mage with a history of bloody crimes who had not appeared publicly for at least a hundred years.

Barty Harrentin attacked Victoria’s group to take the Sage’s Ovum Sheath, forcing Marymana and Pack Leader to fight him while Victoria sent Knight Lance into the fray. Pack Leader reclaimed the relic, but Barty’s controlled White Star Studio members surrounded him as the battle continued.

• Barty Harrentin revealed his history as a disgraced Lagoven mage and attacked the group to keep the Sage’s Ovum Sheath.
• Barty overpowered Pack Leader and countered Marymana’s spells, then began preparing to end the fight.
• Victoria ordered Knight Lance to attack, and he broke Barty’s Forbidden Magic and struck him, but Barty escaped the apparent beheading with a decoy.
• Pack Leader transformed into a rat, bit Barty’s hand, and snatched the Sage’s Ovum Sheath while Marymana distracted him.
• Barty controlled White Star Studio’s members and sent them to surround Pack Leader as he continued dueling Marymana.

Li Wen seized the black stone egg and discovered that holding it rapidly increased her Twilight Erosion, leading her to suspect it was a living, life-draining egg. Meanwhile, Jeffrey joined the battle against Barty, who summoned a powerful griffin to attack him.

• Wolf Leader threw a false magical lure to escape, but Moria blocked his path and forced him into a sword fight.
• Li Wen snatched the black stone egg, noticed her Twilight Erosion rising, and found that releasing the egg stopped its rapid increase.
• Li Wen suspected the egg was alive and kicked it toward the pursuing Platinum Studio members and agents to test whether it would drain them.
• Victoria pressed Jeffrey to fulfill his duties, and he charged Barty with a greatsword of light.
• Barty summoned a legendary griffin from a magical array, and it swooped toward Jeffrey with fire, poison, and its claws.

Li Wen and White Star Studio fought Pack Leader and his former agent over the Sage's Ovum Sheath. Li Wen killed the wounded agent, while Moria survived being switched into the path of Jeffrey and the griffin's attacks, and the remaining fights continued.

• A White Star Studio agent seized the Sage's Ovum Sheath, but Yi Shi and the others wounded and surrounded him.
• Pack Leader switched places with Moria, sending Moria into Jeffrey and the griffin's attack, then bit off the agent's arm to take the egg.
• Batty struck Pack Leader and the surrounding players with lightning, while the injured agent's aberrant blood burned his spirituality to keep him alive.
• Li Wen used Poem of Paradise to immobilize the agent and severed his head with the Crow Feather Dagger, then repeatedly slashed his corpse to confirm the kill.
• Li Wen surveyed the battlefield and saw Marymana and Batty still trading magic while Moria endured Jeffrey and the griffin's combined attacks.

The black stone egg escaped White Star Fang’s grasp and began pouring out a strange black liquid after Moria cracked it. As the liquid spread through the warehouse and drained color from objects, Jeffrey and Marymana realized that neither knew what the top-secret alchemical object was.

• White Star Fang broke free of Batty’s control, seized the black stone egg, and was killed by Bai Lu’s illusory whip when he tried to flee.
• Bai Lu reached for the egg, but Batty, Wolf Leader, and Li Wen stopped her as its patterns brightened and its pulses intensified.
• Pack Leader rushed for the egg, but Moria struck it with sword light, cracking its shell and releasing black liquid across the warehouse.
• Li Wen noticed that the liquid stripped color from metal, fabric, equipment, and the agent’s corpse, while leaving sand, gravel, and mud unchanged.
• Jeffrey killed the griffin summon and asked Marymana what was happening; she revealed that she did not know what the object was.
• Jeffrey explained that his superiors had only told him a Royal Warship was transporting a top-secret object related to alchemy through Black Raven Port.

A black being named Impurities emerged from the stone egg in Leicester and revealed its connection to the Sage’s Ovum Sheath and the ancient origins of alchemy. After Victoria identified the age, Impurities recognized that destruction was approaching.

• Victoria explained that a fourth object or existence could be called the Sage’s Ovum Sheath as the stone egg crumbled.
• A giant humanoid covered in living black liquid emerged, and the liquid began falling over Leicester like rain.
• Li Wen recognized the being’s divine influence, while Victoria told it that the world was in the Black Iron Age.
• The being identified itself as Impurities, born in the Creator’s Furnace as its residue and embodiment of imperfection.
• Impurities declared that it had been awakened because destruction was approaching.

The awakened ancient being warned Li Wen and the others that the Twilight of the Apocalypse was near and that destruction could not be avoided. When it identified its awakeners only as blurred, chaotic figures, the Taranis Sky Continent came under attack, and Marymana hurried to return to the Circle of White Birds Society.

• The black being described an ancient prophecy in which the world and all existence would meet their end.
• Barty realized the struggle over the Sage's Ovum Sheath had been a ritual that drained his spirituality and sought the identity of the mastermind.
• Marymana asked who had awakened the being, which said the figures behind it were indistinct and disordered.
• Marymana connected the description to the Truth Society as the Taranis Sky Continent lit up with its defenses activated.
• The black being remarked that the attackers had their own objective, and Marymana teleported away after the Society rejected her targeted teleportation.
• Barty concluded his mission was over and vanished.

Nasha found Halik at Artificer's Hand and tried to recruit him into The Truth Society, warning him that the world faced destruction. Selwyn Lagoven confronted her, and Nasha began offering Halik a choice as the chapter ended.

• Jeffrey left to organize investigators and notify Artificer's Hand and Count Lagoven about the danger in Leicester.
• Halik remained in his room, feeling uneasy despite the books and opportunities Artificer's Hand had given him.
• Nasha arrived in combat gear, took Halik with her, and urged him to join The Truth Society to escape the coming apocalypse.
• Selwyn Lagoven confronted Nasha and revealed that he had collected the black badges of the Society members who had left.
• Nasha told Halik he had two choices, but the chapter ended before she explained them.

After the Pack Leader fled, the ancient being formed a temple and revealed that it planned to escape the Twilight of the Apocalypse by leaving the world. Victoria departed to search royal records, while Li Wen doubted the being’s claims and turned her attention to its cocoon and the more immediate threat of The Truth Society.

• The Pack Leader transformed into a rat and escaped through the sewers as the black entity spread liquid across the ruined warehouse and raised stone pillars.
• Victoria asked what the ancient being was building, and it answered that it was a temple to replace the hall lost in Babylon's old ruins.
• The ancient being said it could not resist the Twilight of the Apocalypse and intended to flee to a world beyond the void; it then sealed itself inside a black cocoon to rebuild its temple.
• Victoria left with Knight Lance, planning to search the royal house’s records for information about the apocalypse.
• Bai Lu slipped away to look for her friend’s cousin and the classmates she had been watching over.
• Moria asked whether Li Wen would return, but she ignored him and questioned the ancient being’s claims about escaping the apocalypse.

Li Wen tried to learn the whereabouts of the Original Text of Lineage from the ancient being inside the stone cocoon, but first had to convince it that she knew the truth about the Twilight of the Apocalypse. It mistook her for a Chosen Apostle, and Li Wen considered what that might mean as their conversation continued.

• Li Wen told the being in the stone cocoon that fleeing to the Void Realm could not save it from the apocalypse and that even the Pillar Deities could not stop the Twilight.
• The being opened a crack in the cocoon, froze everything around it for an instant, and asked whether Li Wen belonged to the Calamity Cult.
• Li Wen denied being a cultist and said she had personally witnessed the Twilight; the being's attempt to examine her thoughts failed.
• The being asked who Li Wen was, then concluded that she was a Chosen Apostle destined to see a world hidden from ordinary people.
• Li Wen rejected that explanation inwardly, recalling that she knew the Twilight because she carried the Strategy Group's mission and had used Urd's Thorn to send her memories into the past.

Li Wen tried to persuade an ancient being to give her the Original Text of Creation, claiming it was necessary for the Twilight Witch’s return and could help stop the Twilight of the Apocalypse. The being remained suspicious, and the chapter ended before it decided whether to spare Li Wen and Moria or reveal the text’s whereabouts.

• The ancient being threatened Li Wen after mistaking her for a Chosen Apostle, but Moria warned that killing her would make it an enemy of the Holy Church and Radiance.
• The ancient being withdrew its malice, choosing not to kill Li Wen and Moria because it feared the consequences of provoking a powerful deity.
• Li Wen urged the being to give her the Original Text of Creation instead of pursuing Illusory Void as the apocalypse approached.
• Li Wen argued that the Twilight Witch’s return could give the world a way to resist the Twilight of the Apocalypse, and claimed the Original Text was necessary for that return.
• The ancient being questioned Li Wen’s motives and dismissed her claim as one-sided, leaving its decision unresolved.

Li Wen swore to pursue the Twilight Witch and restore the vacant Twilight Pillar, but the ancient being refused to reveal the original scripture of creation. Moria offered the Holy Church’s Stairway to Heaven as a way to help it reach the void realm, and began proposing a deal.

• Li Wen swore to the Radiant Crown, the Daughter of the End, and the Holy Spirit that she would restore the Twilight Witch and the vacant Twilight Pillar.
• The ancient being said it knew where the original scripture of creation was and how to obtain it, but refused to help Li Wen.
• Moria offered the being assistance from the Holy Church if it wanted to travel beyond the Mortal World.
• Moria explained that the Church might lend the Stairway to Heaven, a sacred relic that could help the being reach the void realm.
• Moria began proposing an exchange: the being would reveal the scripture’s location and means of acquisition, and he would provide assistance.