Chapter Summaries

White Star Fang reflected on Top Studio’s risky commitment to World Tree: Origins and recognized that the Guild Leader had been drawn into the Lagoven Family’s scheme. As White Star Fang completed a ritual at the Security Bureau, Yan Zhuofeng and a large group of players arrived, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• White Star Fang recalled how the Guild Leader had redirected Top Studio toward World Tree: Origins and worried that the game’s lack of competitive systems made the decision dangerous.
• White Star Fang realized the Investigation Bureau had come after the studio following its contact with the Lagoven Family.
• White Star Potato Chips and White Star Little Jiu attacked the investigators while White Star Fang completed a blood ritual using barely living NPCs as sacrifices.
• A creature’s tentacles dragged the sacrifices through a void rift, and the ritual ended just as an explosion breached the Security Bureau wall.
• Yan Zhuofeng arrived with at least twenty players and demanded that White Star Fang kneel, while the investigators slipped away.

Yellow Hair and his hidden teammate attacked White Star Studio at the Security Bureau, then rallied onlookers into a mass assault. As White Star Little Jiu fell, White Star Potato Chips activated a parchment that filled the bureau with thick fog.

• Yellow Hair ambushed White Star Fang, but White Star Potato Chips wounded him in a duel before an arrow from outside killed White Star Fang.
• Yellow Hair urged the onlooking players to attack White Star Studio, while Brother Shang and Traitorous Minister promised rewards and protection from retaliation.
• The players stormed the Security Bureau, forcing White Star Little Jiu to hold them back as White Star Potato Chips searched for and found a piece of parchment.
• White Star Little Jiu died after his health ran out, and White Star Potato Chips infused the parchment with magic, spreading thick fog through the Security Bureau.

Li Wen and Moria confronted Traitorous Minister and his companion outside the Security Bureau as White Star Studio’s fog killed players inside. White Star Potato Chips unleashed the Gray Mist’s hidden threat, and Moria recognized the attacker as a user of the Umbral Lineage’s Shadow Path.

• Players inside the Security Bureau died mysteriously in the thick fog while Shang Ning and Traitorous Minister watched from outside.
• Li Wen used a Divine Strike to stop Traitorous Minister and his companion, and Moria identified Traitorous Minister as belonging to the Umbral Lineage.
• White Star Fang returned and attacked Moria with a mana projectile, but Moria shattered it with his sword.
• White Star Potato Chips emerged from the fog and expanded it until visibility and Moria’s senses were severely weakened.
• An unseen enemy attacked Moria, who recognized its ability as melding into shadows through the Umbral Lineage’s Shadow Path.

Moria and Li Wen defeated the Void Creatures at the Security Bureau, and Li Wen sealed the rifts. As they left to search for other ritual sites, Li Wen questioned Moria about his curse, which he said had resisted every attempt to identify or remove it.

• Li Wen explained that the attackers had summoned Void Creatures with a Void Ticket, and Moria burned them with a Blazing Enchantment.
• Li Wen sealed the Void rifts in the Security Bureau while Moria arranged and prayed over the dead gendarmes.
• Li Wen warned Moria that the group had likely opened rifts at several sites, and Moria resolved not to let them escape.
• Moria identified himself and Li Wen to investigators as followers of the Holy Church, and Li Wen used Prayer Incantation to prove their identities.
• Li Wen asked whether Moria's curse remained, and Moria explained that it had spread into his soul and might require help from his instructor in Canaan.

Li Wen tracked the Pack Leader as the White Star studio abandoned its rituals to support its Guild Leader at Black Raven Port. In Leicester, Victoria learned that investigators sent there had died under strange circumstances, as the city faced attacks on multiple fronts.

• Li Wen agreed with Moria that they could not ignore the superhumans pursuing the Sage's Ovum Sheath, then noticed the Pack Leader had left Red Oak District.
• White Star Fang and White Star Potato Chips revived after losing equipment, and White Star Little Jiu told them their Guild Leader had run into trouble.
• White Star Little Jiu relayed the Guild Leader's order to abandon the studio's six rituals and send everyone to support him.
• Victoria met with Marshall and Jeffrey at the Investigation Bureau, where Jeffrey reported that the team sent to Black Raven Port had lost contact and been found dead, suspended by ropes around their feet.
• Victoria ordered the dead investigators to be properly buried and their pensions paid, and said their sacrifice would be remembered.

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.