Recaps

Li Wen obtained Vantnirgen's Bone, the key to the Emerald Tablet, from the Impurity, which promised to seek the Sky Ladder from the Temple. After the entity vanished, Moria watched the battle in the Sky Dome fade, while Director Jeffrey reviewed the aftermath of the attack on Leicester and asked whether the Wolf Pack Club's leader had been found.

• The Impurity stopped Moria from swearing and told Li Wen that the Emerald Tablet lay in the Abyss of Dito, inside a black spire, and that ancient beings might know the way there.
• The Impurity gave Li Wen Vantnirgen's Bone as the key to opening the spire and said it would demand the Sky Ladder from the Temple on the next Day of the Moon Jaundice.
• The Impurity vanished along with the ruined warehouse, and Li Wen thanked Moria for helping her obtain the key to the Emerald Tablet.
• Moria watched the Sky Dome's radiance fade as the battle above Leicester appeared to reach its end.
• Director Jeffrey reviewed the night's losses, learned that only three official investigators had died, and asked whether the Wolf Pack Club's leader had been found.

Jeffrey investigated the Wolf Pack Club’s destruction and examined a strange scroll, while Li Wen spent her experience upgrading abilities and reached the limit of Supplicant lv10. Li Wen was left needing an advancement ritual to break through to the next stage of the Path of Light Chasing.

• Jeffrey wondered why Wolf Leader had sacrificed the Wolf Pack Club and considered blaming the Sage's Ovum Sheath’s disappearance on him to end the factions’ fighting.
• A subordinate gave Jeffrey an ancient scroll recovered from the Wolf Pack Club’s basement, and he found crude images of wolves killing one another instead of a contract or ritual diagram.
• Li Wen assessed her experience from killing the Agent and chose to upgrade Craving Light, Prayer Incantation, and Divine Prayer.
• Li Wen discovered that Craving Light could not be upgraded past lv3, then spent the rest of her experience to raise Prayer Incantation to lv3 and Divine Prayer by one level.
• Li Wen reached Supplicant lv10 and sensed that she needed an advancement ritual to progress along the Path of Light Chasing.

Li Wen searched Leicester for materials needed to advance to Stage Two of the Path of Light Chasing, but found the Wanderer's Tavern closed and a living dead attacker inside. The encounter left her fighting the unknown assailant after identifying what he seemed to be.

• Li Wen discussed Leicester's chaos and her plans with Moria before they parted ways.
• Li Wen considered how to obtain Dim Candle Blood and the Spirit World light required for her advancement ritual.
• Li Wen found the Wanderer's Tavern shut and entered after discovering its door was unlocked.
• Li Wen used Poem of Paradise and Spell-less Arc Light against a pale attacker dressed as an Investigation Bureau investigator.
• Li Wen realized the attacker was likely one of the living dead, cursed him, and retreated after he caught her dagger.

Li Wen defeated the ghoul in the Tavern and uncovered the hidden attacker as a Stage Three Vengeful Spirit Walker. She used Poem of Paradise to reveal the spirit, then launched a Divine Strike while the woman was still recovering from materializing.

• Li Wen evaded the ghoul in the Tavern hall and avoided a pale gray attack from the second floor, which inflicted severe pain and cost her health.
• Li Wen used Poem of Paradise and Gift of Temperance to dispel the ghoul's frenzy and the strange pain, then killed it with her tenth dagger strike.
• Li Wen restored her health with Divine Prayer as a freezing mist and a bone short sword attacked her from the second floor.
• Li Wen identified the attacker as a Vengeful Spirit Walker and used Poem of Paradise to force her out of her spirit form.
• Li Wen launched a Divine Strike at the revealed woman before she could react.

Li Wen escaped a Vengeful Spirit Walker at Wanderer's Tavern and found the Dim Candle Blood she needed for advancement. After uncovering three hidden items, she was caught in a massive Grayfire explosion and awoke in her safe house.

• Li Wen fought the Vengeful Spirit Walker, who escaped with her reanimated corpse after cloaking the Tavern in darkness.
• Li Wen deduced that the Vengeful Spirit Walker was likely injured from earlier conflicts and searched the Tavern's second floor for advancement materials.
• Li Wen found a magically concealed storeroom and recovered a bottle of high-quality Dim Candle Blood.
• Li Wen cast Gift of Temperance, revealing three hidden items on a shelf, and stored them in her treasure bag.
• A huge Grayfire explosion destroyed the Tavern, and Li Wen awoke in the safe house she had prepared for the battle over Sage's Ovum Sheath.

Li Wen narrowly avoided triggering a destructive trap beneath the Tavern before being pulled out of the game, where he reunited with his younger sister, Li Xin. He hid his true reasons for playing and left her discussing the Leicester treasure rumors.

• Li Wen realized that removing the hidden magic in the Tavern’s secret chamber could ignite the Grayfire underground and destroy the building, so he retreated from the chamber.
• Li Wen was abruptly pulled out of the game and found Li Xin waiting beside his bed after school.
• Li Wen explained that he had started playing World Tree: Origins for a virtual reality project, concealing his deeper purpose from Li Xin.
• Li Wen told Li Xin that he was in Leicester and dismissed the rumored treasure as a lure to attract players.
• Li Wen prepared dinner for Li Xin, and afterward she shared game information with him.

Li Wen returned to the game and examined the items she had obtained, discovering a legendary potion that could grant Revival and reading a letter about the Cavendish family’s dealings with a mysterious person. The letter left her with the revelation that its writer had joined that person’s group and deeply regretted it.

• Li Wen’s younger sister warned her that their mother was worried about her skipping school, and Li Wen said she understood.
• Li Wen checked her status and saw that her Supplicant level had reached the peak of Stage One.
• Li Wen identified a potion as a legendary True Soul Elixir that granted Revival and carefully set it aside.
• Li Wen examined a magically sealed black box but turned to the letter without opening it.
• Li Wen read that a mysterious visitor had eased Lord Cavendish’s father’s illness in exchange for promises, then invited Lord Cavendish to join their group.
• Lord Cavendish’s letter said he had accepted the invitation without thinking and regretted it deeply.

Li Wen examined Black-headed Kite’s letter and connected its warning about the Cavendish family treasure to Duke William’s mysterious illness and High Prism Tower. She leaned toward handing the items to the Artificer’s Hand Society, but first decided to inspect the sealed box and see what the treasure was.

• Li Wen read Black-headed Kite’s letter, which warned her not to trust the people involved and to beware High Prism Tower.
• Li Wen recalled the Cavendish family’s history and realized the letter’s sick man was Duke William Cavendish.
• Li Wen suspected the mysterious mage and Wandering Soul Walker were connected to the attempt to seize the family treasure, possibly through the Truth Society.
• Li Wen weighed keeping the legendary potion and treasure against giving them to the Artificer’s Hand Society.
• Li Wen decided to open the sealed box before choosing what to do with the items.

Li Wen opened the Cavendish family’s sealed box and used its Enchanting Rune Stone to recharge the Eye of the Transcendent before setting out for the Artificer's Hand Society. Elsewhere, Victoria spoke with Marshall about his new powers and the players, while Li Wen traveled toward the river channel near Bai Lu’s location.

• Li Wen broke the cipher seal, found the Enchanting Rune Stone, and recognized the rune engraved on it as meaning “birch.”
• Li Wen used the stone to restore the Eye of the Transcendent’s charge, then returned it to the box and planned to visit the Artificer's Hand Society before advancing on the Path of Light Chasing.
• Victoria met with Marshall, who revealed that his advancement as an Abomination Hunter had given him the powers of a Frost Giant.
• Victoria told Marshall that she believed her mother’s request to retrieve the Sage's Ovum Sheath had only been an excuse to remove her from the royal palace, and described the players as a chaotic, promising group.
• Li Wen located Bai Lu on the Magic Map, took a public carriage toward the Artificer's Hand Society, and arrived beside a river channel.

Li Wen brought Bai Lu to the Artificer's Hand Society to consult Marymana about a Wandering Soul Walker and the items she had taken. A letter and a rune stone revealed that The Truth Society might be targeting an ancient pact, prompting Marymana to warn Selwyn to check the Lagoven family's rune stone.

• Li Wen found Bai Lu in the sewers and took her to the Artificer's Hand Society to meet Marymana.
• Li Wen told Marymana she had encountered a Wandering Soul Walker in Leicester and showed her three items taken from the fugitive.
• Selwyn identified a letter as being from Ethan Cavendish and confirmed that the accompanying box contained the Cavendish family's Birch Rune Stone.
• Selwyn explained that the rune stones represented a pact made by seven mages led by Merlin before the Kingdom of Arthur was established.
• Marymana concluded that The Truth Society might be pursuing the pact and warned Selwyn to verify that the Lagoven family's Torch Rune Stone was safe.

Selwyn revealed that The Truth Society had already taken the Lagoven Family’s Rune Stone, while Li Wen proposed protecting the Cavendish Family’s stone. The group identified the potion as a True Soul Elixir, and Li Wen asked Marymana for another favor, prompting Bai Lu to step forward.

• Selwyn revealed that The Truth Society had infiltrated Artificer's Hand, and one intruder escaped after the group stole the Lagoven Family’s Torch Rune Stone.
• Marymana planned to warn her teacher, but Li Wen suggested that the group protect the Cavendish Family’s Rune Stone instead.
• Selwyn identified the Bone Setter as a profit-driven wanderer who had likely sold the potion to a Leicester black-market merchant.
• Marymana offered to have the potion examined, but Li Wen said it was a True Soul Elixir that could restore a person to life.
• Li Wen asked Marymana for another favor and nudged Bai Lu forward, making Bai Lu wonder why she had a role in the plot.

Li Wen revealed that she was not Miranda’s apprentice, and Marymana offered to teach Bai Lu in Miranda’s absence. After gathering the last material needed to advance, Li Wen went to Leicester’s ruined old city, where Moria was praying for the sick and wounded.

• Li Wen admitted to Marymana that she had only pretended to be Miranda’s apprentice and introduced Bai Lu as Miranda’s true apprentice.
• Marymana said she had suspected Li Wen’s identity and offered to teach Bai Lu while Miranda was away preparing to advance to Stage Five.
• Li Wen declined Marymana’s offer to become her apprentice and learned that she still needed Light of the Spirit Realm to advance to Stage Two.
• Selwyn provided Li Wen with a block of ice containing a burning flame, which she accepted as the missing material.
• Li Wen found Moria praying for Leicester’s victims, where he took on the sins and suffering of a young girl with advanced Rust Rot.

Moria healed Lucy but could not promise to find her missing father, then accompanied Li Wen as she prepared to advance along the Path of Light Chasing. He warned that the Temple would suppress her progress and erase her memories if she returned to Canaan, leaving Li Wen to consider the danger as they continued toward the ritual.

• Moria used Radiance to cure Lucy, but he could not tell her whether her missing father would return.
• Li Wen asked Moria to assist with her Stage Two advancement ritual, and he agreed to go with her.
• Moria told Li Wen that Nasha had been killed by Mr. Selwyn while trying to take Halik, who was likely now in The Truth Society's hands.
• Moria questioned whether Li Wen should continue along the Path of Light Chasing, warning that the Temple would not allow her to follow it and would reclaim her power and erase her memories if she returned to Canaan.

Li Wen began her advancement ritual for the Path of Light Chasing at Saint Floran’s monastery, using a fiery rite inspired by Etriel Abra. She swallowed the Light of the Spirit Realm and entered a deadly darkness, where a moth emerged from her eye and led her onward.

• Li Wen and Moria arrived at the monastery, and Li Wen went to the grassland behind it to prepare her advancement ritual.
• Li Wen drew the Twilight Hymn array with Dim Candle Blood and asked Moria to stand inside it.
• Li Wen ignited the array, explained Etriel Abra’s story to Moria, and swallowed the ice containing the Light of the Spirit Realm.
• Li Wen found herself in freezing darkness where her life drained away and Divine Prayer failed.
• A moth wreathed in flames flew from Li Wen’s eye and guided her along a trail of sparks through the darkness.

Li Wen completed her advancement after witnessing the sun fall in a vision, gaining the Candle Holder class ability and the Lost Moth trait. She returned to Moria and examined her new powers, still shaken by the vision’s effects.

• Li Wen followed the flaming moth to an ancient giant temple and watched it strike a massive stone bell thirty-three times.
• Dawn revealed the ruined sun temple, and Li Wen saw the sun descend toward the earth and set the world ablaze.
• Li Wen’s health fell to zero as the moth returned to her pupils, and she completed her Stage Two advancement as a Candle Holder.
• Li Wen regained her senses before Moria and told her the advancement had gone fairly smoothly.
• Li Wen read about Candle of Darkness and Lost Moth in The Final Codex and considered how her new abilities could work with Craving Light.

Li Wen completed her advancement to Candle Holder and assessed the powerful abilities and lasting Primal Fear status she had gained. Moria revealed that Great Blood was lost and planned to seek a diviner in Port Belen, where Li Wen recalled a mystery about a Soul Lord who had reached Stage Eight without an apparent right to ascend.

• Li Wen reviewed her new abilities, including Lost Moth, and considered the persistent Primal Fear status warning her not to stare at the sun.
• Li Wen recognized Moria as the absolute observer who had made her advancement ritual possible, and Moria congratulated her on completing it safely.
• Moria admitted that Great Blood had been lost and said he would travel to Port Belen to consult a magician skilled in divination before meeting Li Wen in Arthur within a month.
• Li Wen considered pursuing her own leads and recalled a rumor that a player had freed a sealed Soul Lord in Port Belen, who later reached Stage Eight.
• Li Wen questioned how the Soul Lord of the Decay Lineage could have advanced to Stage Eight without the Holy Temple's anointing or a king's coronation ritual.

Li Wen decided to travel with Moria to Port Belen to pursue clues about the Original Text of Lineage, then logged off and went to Tianhai First High School to request a long leave. She ran into Fu Qingyan in the elevator and confirmed that she was looking for their homeroom teacher, Teacher Yang.

• Li Wen concluded that the Soul Lord was likely connected to an Original Text and agreed to go with Moria to Port Belen.
• Moria proposed taking a ship from Leicester, and Li Wen left him to arrange the fare by asking Selwyn for help.
• Li Wen logged off, ate breakfast, and headed to school to request an extended leave without telling Li Xin about the apocalypse.
• At Tianhai First High School, Li Wen encountered Fu Qingyan in the elevator and said she had been sick at home.
• Fu Qingyan asked whether Li Wen was going to see Teacher Yang, and Li Wen confirmed that she was.

Li Wen secured an extended leave from school and searched for signs that the Soul Lord’s seal had been broken in Port Belen. In Leicester, she learned that Moria had arranged passage there on a merchant ship departing the next day, though the dangers of the sea remained unknown.

• Li Wen asked Fu Qingyan about World Tree, and she invited him to visit her in Leicester City in the game.
• Teacher Yang approved Li Wen’s leave after he demonstrated that he had mastered the high school curriculum.
• Li Wen searched the World Tree: Origins forum for information about Port Belen but found no sign that anyone had released the Soul Lord.
• Li Wen logged into the game, flew toward Middletown Academy, and encountered Moria leaving the school.
• Moria told Li Wen that Selwyn had arranged passage to Port Belen on a merchant ship departing at noon the following day.

Li Wen boarded the merchant ship Adventurer with Moria to travel to Port Belen, hoping for a quiet voyage while she practiced potion-making. At lunch, Captain Remington arrived with a blonde girl, drawing the attention of both Li Wen and Moria.

• Li Wen agreed with Moria on the ship’s departure arrangements and rented an inn room to practice brewing basic potions.
• Li Wen and Moria met Captain Bartholomew Remington aboard the Adventurer and accepted rooms for the voyage.
• Li Wen began making potions in her cabin, but the ship’s noisy departure ruined one batch before Moria called her to lunch.
• Li Wen and Moria joined the captain, officers, and other passengers for lunch in the upper dining room.
• Captain Remington arrived with a young blonde girl, and Li Wen and Moria both watched her.

Li Wen, Moria, and Princess Victoria sailed aboard the Adventurer as a storm gathered and the princess kept her journey secret. When Old Joey spotted the storm, he cried that the Two-tailed Mermaid had returned, and a sailor recounted how the creature had once vanished an entire crew.

• Captain Remington introduced Victoria as a noble from Leicester City traveling to Port Belen, and Li Wen asked to leave the ship.
• Victoria joined Li Wen and Moria, explained that her journey was confidential, and said their presence reassured her; Li Wen soon left to return to her potions.
• Moria suggested Victoria’s unreadable manner might make Li Wen uncomfortable, while Victoria quietly considered his explanation.
• As a violent storm darkened the sky, Old Joey pointed at the waves and shouted that the Two-tailed Mermaid’s curse had returned.
• A sailor explained that, thirty years earlier, Joey’s fleet had heard a beautiful song during a storm, after which more than thirty crew members disappeared and Joey was found alone aboard the ship.

Li Wen investigated an uncanny silence aboard the ship after the storm abruptly vanished, finding Moria missing and signs of an earlier fight. She and Princess Victoria reached the deserted deck, where Li Wen tossed an acorn into the still, dark sea.

• Li Wen finished learning to brew high-quality healing potions, then noticed the storm and waves had fallen silent.
• Li Wen considered whether Two-tailed Mermaids were responsible, but doubted they could control the weather and sea.
• Li Wen found Moria's room empty and saw that its window had recently been opened.
• Princess Victoria approached Li Wen and said she was looking for her and Moria, then followed Li Wen through the ship.
• Li Wen and Victoria found a bloodied glass shard among debris that suggested a fight had happened hours earlier.
• Li Wen stepped onto the deserted deck, studied the unnaturally calm sea, and threw an acorn into it.

Li Wen escaped an eerie alternate space with Victoria and discovered traces of an unknown sea creature aboard the Adventurer. A Kingdom Navy ship arrived, but Victoria was missing, and Li Wen set out to learn what had happened.

• Li Wen found sharp scales and dark, foul-smelling traces on the deck and mast, suggesting a large sea creature had climbed aboard.
• Victoria spotted a brightly lit vessel approaching, and Li Wen was blinded before finding herself back among the ship’s passengers and crew.
• A sailor identified the approaching vessel as a ship of the Kingdom Navy, and Captain Remington sent a signal and promised to explain events the next day.
• Li Wen asked Moria when he had last seen Victoria, then revealed that she could not find the Princess.
• Li Wen headed for the cabin and considered why she and Victoria alone had been drawn into the silent alternate space as Moria began recounting a dispute aboard the ship.

Li Wen found a Sea Calling Curse hidden beneath her cabin floor and realized her growing anxiety came from her Deep Fear reacting to the ocean. After learning Victoria was missing, she turned to Moria for a way to save the Princess.

• Li Wen learned that most passengers and crew had gathered during a fight, while she and Victoria had stayed in their rooms.
• Li Wen found a cursed black seashell pinned beneath a floorboard and identified it as the Sea Calling Curse, which could trap the living in nightmares.
• Moria confirmed that Victoria was missing and sensed darkness and decay within the shell.
• Li Wen traced her anxiety to her Deep Fear and the sound of the ocean, then steadied herself.
• Li Wen asked Moria where Victoria was, and he said he might know a way to save her.

Li Wen returned to the ship and learned that the curse mystery remained unresolved, then secretly overheard Captain Remington speaking with a Kingdom Navy officer about a fugitive pirate believed to be aboard. The officer ordered Remington to assemble everyone on deck for an investigation the next morning.

• Victoria returned safely, and Li Wen, Moria, and Victoria agreed to wait until dawn before searching for whoever cast the Sea Calling Curse.
• Li Wen left her room at night, reached the captain's quarters, and listened through the door using Retrograde in Shadow.
• A Kingdom Navy officer told Remington that a fugitive with powerful disguising abilities might be aboard the Adventurer.
• The officer identified the fugitive as Blood Hook Joseph Willbrard, a former subordinate of Roberts who was believed to be searching for something connected to his dead captain.
• The officer ordered Remington to provide a list of passengers and crew and bring everyone onto the deck the next morning for investigation.

Li Wen learned that Joseph Willbrard was a dangerous pirate and that the Kingdom Navy had encircled the ship to capture him. During the navy’s inspection, she avoided having her belongings searched, while Moria approached Colonel Grant.

• Li Wen overheard a naval officer explain that the Fourth Fleet had surrounded the waters to capture Joseph Willbrard, Roberts’s notorious first mate.
• Li Wen returned to her cabin, where Moria said he was watching for anyone acting strangely and then left without explaining his unusual behavior.
• The next morning, Captain Remington ordered the passengers to submit to inspection, and Colonel Grant announced that a dangerous fugitive was aboard.
• Li Wen noticed Grant watching Victoria and used Prayer Incantation to make the sailors abandon their search of her personal belongings.
• Moria approached Colonel Grant, who tensed and moved his hand toward his sword.