Chapter Summaries

Lecter failed to become a god and mutated into a Twisted Monster, drawing attacks from the Dark Evil God and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Tang Qi used the Lake Island Secret Realm’s Green Dragon’s Breath to destroy Lecter, then withdrew Diana’s Corpse and concealed the realm as the supernatural factions pursued the scattered remains.

• Lecter’s failed ascension left him a divinity-filled monster, and the Dark Evil God and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tried to seize him.
• Lecter broke free from their restraints, attacked Diana’s Corpse, and spread contamination as the Church and officials gathered to stop him.
• Tang Qi used the Lake Island Secret Realm’s Green Dragon’s Breath to strike Lecter as the three powers pulled him apart, triggering an explosion that reduced him to ashes.
• The evil god projections seized some of the scattered lights and withdrew, while the Church, officials, and other supernatural organizations pursued the rest.
• Tang Qi recalled Diana’s Corpse and activated Secret Realm Inversion to conceal the Lake Island Secret Realm.

Tang Qi reflected on Lecter’s defeat, examined the mysterious Angel Fruit, and weighed the costs of revealing his abilities. The Federation edition of the Mysterious Daily then reported his role in the crisis and announced that he had challenged William O'Neill in the Strongest Transcendentalist vote.

• Tang Qi considered how Lecter had nearly ascended to godhood and wondered why Lecter had failed to account for him.
• Tang Qi reviewed the limits of Green Dragon's Breath and examined the Angel Fruit, whose uses his ability could not analyze.
• Tang Qi concluded that defeating Lecter had exposed Diana and Green Dragon's Breath, while his new reputation threatened to bring unwanted attention.
• Professor Eva delivered newspapers and letters to Tang Qi, who found that the Mysterious Daily was carrying its Federation edition.
• The Mysterious Daily reported that Tang Qi had ended Lecter's attempt to seize the Lord of Light's faith and had challenged William O'Neill in the Strongest Transcendentalist vote.

Tang Qi dealt with the consequences of killing Lecter, signed consulting contracts with three organizations, and watched Melada Special Education School flourish. He then visited Selma in the forest, where a shameless Big Mouth Pitcher Plant offered him Old Liang's secret remedy.

• Tang Qi read reports about Lecter's death, the purges of the Shepherd's Cult and Doomsday Cult, and Mihuang City's ranking that named him its strongest supernatural being.
• Tang Qi signed consultant contracts with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Manor Bureau, and Phoenix Branch, and read Jensen's letter challenging him after Jensen's upcoming Professional Level trial.
• Tang Qi saw the students thriving at Melada Special Education School, then used a doorway to find Selma in a forest.
• The Big Mouth Pitcher Plant chased Psychedelic Mushroom People for their spores and offered Tang Qi a secret remedy, embarrassing Selma and her other plant puppets.
• Gluttony joined the Pitcher Plant, and the two shameless Supernatural Creatures communicated in their special language.

Tang Qi gave Selma the Progenitor Fruit to study, then explored the underwater region of the Lake Island Secret Realm. He encountered the Gold Mine Devil, a ghost pirate ship crewed by foolish skeletons, and accepted their invitation to ride aboard.

• Tang Qi handed Selma the purified Progenitor Fruit and suggested she experiment with its pulp and try to cultivate a new Progenitor Flower.
• Tang Qi left Selma, traveled to the lake, and used the Melada badge's Water Spirit Spell to explore underwater with several curious Rainbow Fish.
• Tang Qi found the Gold Mine Devil, where a group of Skeleton Pirates had tied up the Navy Corporal Leonard during his fight with a one-eyed pirate.
• Leonard invited Tang Qi aboard, and the pirates scolded him before agreeing that his idea to lure a stranger aboard made sense.
• Tang Qi appeared on the deck and accepted the pirates' offer of a ride, leaving them startled by his ominous smile.

Tang Qi inspected the Flame Goddess array beneath Green Dragon Ridge Lake and arranged for the ghosts aboard the Gold Mine Devil to guard it in exchange for Supernatural rum. Back at the Library Tower, he began adapting Blood Python No. 1 using a legendary firearm blueprint and a gemstone containing ancient red dragon blood.

• Tang Qi listened as Leonard told how the Gold Mine Devil’s crew had been cursed to sail underwater and remain bound within the Lake Island Secret Realm.
• Tang Qi inspected the Flame Goddess array in the volcanic trench and found that only a few of its many runes were drawing energy.
• Tang Qi made a deal with the ghosts aboard the Gold Mine Devil to guard Flame Goddess in return for regular supplies of Supernatural rum.
• Tang Qi considered raising controllable Sea Monsters in Green Dragon Ridge Lake, then gathered books and materials to improve Blood Python No. 1.
• Tang Qi studied Nick Ryan’s legendary firearm blueprint and identified the Stone of Valarta’s ancient red dragon blood as a potential ingredient for a weaker imitation.

At a hidden tower on Gasde Island, a black-robed informant reported that Target Number Four had killed Lecter and was rapidly growing stronger, prompting the entity in the tower to raise his Threat Level while reducing attention on him. Meanwhile, Tang Qi abandoned another attempt to recreate Blood Python No. 1 after a Stone of Valarta failed, then discovered that Mysterious Daily had advertised him as one of the Eastern Federation’s Six New Stars.

• At the Gasde Island tower, a black-robed figure reported that Target Number Four had killed Lecter and was gaining power without obtaining the inheritance.
• The unseen presence ordered the informant to raise Target Number Four’s Threat Level but reduce attention on him, and learned that thirty other targets remained unconfirmed.
• Tang Qi’s seventh Stone of Valarta cracked while he tried to imitate Blood Python No. 1, so he decided he needed stronger Red Dragon Power and stopped experimenting.
• Tang Qi considered visiting the Old Tavern for materials and reflected on his recent help for McAuley and his interview with Mysterious Daily.
• Tang Qi received the latest Mysterious Daily and saw that its special interview called him one of the Six New Stars of the Eastern Federation’s Mystic Side.

Tang Qi reopened the Lake Island Secret Realm and visited the Old Tavern’s trading center to search for Curios containing Red Dragon Power. After failing to find any, he posted a bounty for them.

• Tang Qi read the Mysterious Daily, saw that he had fallen to third place among Mihuang City's strongest Transcendentalists, and weighed the benefits of being Headmaster against his lost free time.
• Tang Qi announced that the Lake Island Secret Realm would reopen on September 5th as Melada Special Education School resumed operations under Professor Eva’s management.
• Tang Qi visited the Old Tavern, greeted Savoy, and left with Lei for the trading center on the fifth floor.
• Tang Qi browsed the trading center, bought a few bargains, and found no Curios containing Red Dragon Power.
• Tang Qi posted a bounty seeking Curios related to Red Dragon Power, offering Divine Eagle Gold Coins, barter, or other payment.

Tang Qi met Tom Holland, a wealthy man cursed to wear a maid outfit, and agreed to trade a cure for two curios. After examining them at Tom’s villa, Tang Qi recognized the Dragon Blood Flint as potentially useful and confirmed the deal, leaving Tom hopeful that the curse would soon be lifted.

• Lei led Tang Qi to a private transaction room, where Tom Holland arrived wearing a maid outfit and explained that a woman had cursed him after he rejected her marriage proposal.
• Tang Qi’s information fragments revealed that Tom was a Spirit Medium suffering from a Mind Curse that could be lifted by its caster, by killing the caster, or through mind purification.
• Tom offered Tang Qi an ancient gold coin and a red flint if Tang Qi could remove the curse, and Tang Qi agreed to inspect the items at Tom’s villa with a notary present.
• At the villa, Tang Qi identified the gold coin as an ordinary supernatural curio and the red flint as a Dragon Blood Flint tainted by an Aztec Poison Dragon.
• Tang Qi recognized a possible use for the flint and told Tom that the deal was made.

Tang Qi captured Macarine Hilde and used his power to make her lift Tom Holland’s curse, then returned to Dragonheart Castle with two Curios and an idea for the Dragon Blood Flint.

• Tang Qi captured Macarine Hilde after she tried to flee and learned she had cursed Tom Holland into wearing a Maid Outfit.
• Macarine refused to lift the curse, so Tang Qi controlled her and compelled her to agree.
• Tom Holland’s curse lifted, and he ran home after stripping off his Maid Outfit.
• Macarine vanished, the notary collected Tang Qi’s payment, and Tang Qi invited Lei to work at the Outer Annex.
• Tang Qi sent Lei away through a portal and returned to Dragonheart Castle to test an idea involving the Dragon Blood Flint.

Tang Qi forged the Dragon Blood Flint into a violent pistol, Dragon's Roar, whose evil dragon spirits attacked him and threatened the school. He subdued it before it could harm the students and revealed its name.

• Tang Qi used his Mental Power to witness the Dragon Blood Flint's history and learned of the Aztec Poison Dragon's death and lingering malice.
• Tang Qi practiced Item Forging Technique until his progress reached twenty percent, then began forging with the Dragon Blood Flint.
• The forging unleashed a clash between the flint's Aztec Poison Dragon malice and the demon dragon blood in Blood Python No. 1, blasting a breach through the Library Tower's fourth floor.
• Dragon's Roar transformed and fired magic bullets at Tang Qi, then turned its muzzle toward the students.
• Tang Qi released his Furnace Magic Power, seized Dragon's Roar, and battered it until its evil dragon roars stopped.
• Tang Qi reassured the teachers and students, showed them the subdued pistol, and named it Dragon's Roar.

Tang Qi visited Colson Manor to discuss buying a Steel Behemoth for the school and showed Jennifer his newly forged firearm, Dragon's Roar. Raphael brought Tang Qi documents about available models, leaving him poised to choose one.

• Tang Qi told Eva and Selma that he would pay for a Steel Behemoth himself because the school needed safer, faster transportation beyond Mihuang City.
• Tang Qi showed Jennifer Dragon's Roar and warned her not to put magic power into it.
• Jennifer recognized Dragon's Roar as a weakened replica of Nick Ryan's legendary firearm, and Tang Qi explained that it could grow stronger but might backlash against users.
• Tang Qi reclaimed Dragon's Roar from Jennifer and followed her to the work area at Colson Manor.
• Raphael arrived with Old Colson and gave Tang Qi documents about Steel Behemoths, including models within his budget.

Tang Qi reviewed aircraft brochures to choose an official aircraft for Melada Special Education School, but the most fitting candidate, Queen Serrana, was considered unable to fly. Intrigued by its creator Hansel and the aircraft’s potential, Tang Qi decided to inspect it in person at the foundation in Mihuang City.

• Tang Qi compared aircraft within his three-hundred-thousand-Divine-Grace budget, including the Black Locust, Silver Falcon, and Red Viscount.
• Jennifer showed Tang Qi, Raphael, and Old Colson a magazine feature about Queen Serrana, a formidable dragon-inspired aircraft priced at one hundred thousand Divine Grace.
• The group learned Queen Serrana’s design was strikingly suited to the school, but its inadequate power kept it from flying for more than ten minutes.
• Tang Qi considered Hansel’s Mystic Side background and suspected Queen Serrana might be a product of his transition into aircraft design.
• Tang Qi decided to visit Queen Serrana at the Hansel Estate Management Foundation in Mihuang City.

Tang Qi bought Queen Serrana and its seven Clarkwo Airships, then discovered how to restore the aircraft’s magical power and flew with Raphael and the others toward Dragonheart Castle. Their arrival interrupted Selma’s first Transcendental Botany lesson as the giant mechanical dragon descended over the castle.

• Tang Qi inspected Queen Serrana and recognized that its dormant magical design could function again after the Spirit Tide’s return.
• Tang Qi bought Queen Serrana and the seven Clarkwo Airships from Nicholas for one hundred thousand Divine Grace, with an extra payment for preparing them for takeoff.
• Raphael took the controls, and Tang Qi found the operation guide and inserted a Stone of Valarta, stabilizing Queen Serrana and sending it speeding toward Green Dragon Ridge Lake.
• Selma led students to begin her first Transcendental Botany lesson outside Dragonheart Castle when Queen Serrana appeared overhead and descended toward them.

Tang Qi reviewed Queen Serrana’s unfinished design and Melada Special Education School’s growing needs, then chose a Church bounty as his next task. He left the Library Tower to hunt the Man-Eating House, a rental home blamed for at least ten deaths.

• Tang Qi read Hansel’s guide and considered the cost of completing Queen Serrana’s modifications.
• Tang Qi decided to send Gold Mine Devils to salvage cursed gold from the bottom of Green Dragon Ridge Lake in exchange for Transcendental Rum.
• Tang Qi reviewed Professor Eva’s course schedule and realized the Witch School needed more teachers.
• Tang Qi selected the Church’s bounty for the Man-Eating House, a mutated rental house suspected of killing at least ten people.
• Tang Qi opened a doorway and left the Library Tower, declaring that hunting time had begun.

Tang Qi investigated a room where an evil spirit lured tenants into bliss before devouring them. He killed the spirit, and a gaunt young man emerged from the bathroom as Tang Qi left.

• Tang Qi entered Black Sweater Street Number Twenty-One and discovered that the top-floor room was a Man-Eating House fused with an evil spirit.
• Tang Qi used an Illusion Incantation to enter the room and found its obese tenant indulging in fantasies created by the house.
• The room turned its illusions on Tang Qi, but he dismissed them and let the evil spirit consume the crimson fire from the box he carried.
• Tang Qi killed the evil spirit and prevented it from spreading its contamination to other rooms.
• A gaunt young man emerged from the bathroom, and Tang Qi warned him not to eat too much before leaving.

Tang Qi completed church bounty tasks to assess their dangers and consider how Melada Special Education School could train more supernatural beings. He decided to investigate the tasks himself before establishing a Mystery Event Database and Bounty Task List for the school.

• Tang Qi marked the Man-Eating House task complete and assessed its mental illusions as a danger that Noah and the other students could handle with preparation.
• Tang Qi visited Donald Shelley on Dallas Street and confronted the cursed Oil Painting of a woman in a wedding dress.
• The painting's spirit attacked Tang Qi with sonic shrieks and made Donald charge him with a kitchen knife, but Tang Qi burned the spirit and dispersed its cursed smoke.
• Tang Qi marked the Oil Painting task complete and judged its low-level curse manageable for Noah and the others.
• Tang Qi considered how the school's students could take on tasks from supernatural organizations and how the school might create its own Mystery Event Database and bounty list.
• Tang Qi decided to investigate task types and danger assessments himself, then vanished to continue working that night.

Tang Qi completed several tasks, including containing a cursed spoon and killing a fiend that had abducted women. He then reviewed the few Level Five and Level Six tasks available, weighing their danger against the school’s limited ability to offer comparable work.

• Tang Qi identified the cursed spoon that had caused four serious injuries and three deaths, then used his Mental Power and flames to fix its curse and add it to his collection.
• Tang Qi killed a worm-like fiend in a Main City District villa with Dragon's Roar and freed the surviving women from their cocoons.
• Tang Qi marked the Level Four fiend task as resolved, prompting Manor Bureau personnel to speculate about why he was taking tasks across different levels.
• Tang Qi examined the Level Five and Level Six tasks and concluded that Melada Special Education School could not yet issue bounties of comparable difficulty.

Tang Qi accepted a World Tree Foundation task to help capture the escaped Containment Object YDF-066 in Mihuang City. He joined a bald giant and Foundation agents preparing a three-minute ambush, then urged the Foundation to destroy the bait Containment Object YDF-099 after learning it had killed 103 civilians.

• A riot at the World Tree Foundation’s Eastern Base released 183 Containment Objects, prompting the Foundation to request help from supernatural organizations across the Federation.
• Tang Qi accepted a Level Six task to help retrieve YDF-066, which was heading toward Mihuang City and could be trapped by exploiting Weakness Number One.
• Tang Qi arrived at a rooftop and met a bald giant and Foundation agents, who explained that they had to severely injure YDF-066 within three minutes before it escaped.
• The Foundation deployed YDF-099 in an ice cream truck because YDF-066 could not resist its human-flesh Surprise Flavor, despite YDF-099’s history of killing civilians.
• Tang Qi told the agent in the single-eye-patterned mask that YDF-099 should be added to the expedited destruction list, and the agent agreed.

Tang Qi and the agents confronted YDF-066, a powerful otherworldly creature drawn to Surprise Flavor Ice Cream. Tang Qi severely injured it with Dragon’s Roar, and Agent Stone Eye’s team recontained it in a sealed coffin.

• Stone Eye warned Tang Qi and Andy that YDF-066 was approaching, and the creature landed beside the Ice Cream Truck for Surprise Flavor Ice Cream.
• Tang Qi identified the creature’s abilities and discovered that the ice cream left YDF-066 mindless and vulnerable to passive counterattacks.
• Andy transformed into a Giant Rock Warrior and fought YDF-066, but the creature overwhelmed him and severely injured him.
• Tang Qi attacked the Ice Cream Truck to make YDF-066 defend it, then fired Dragon’s Roar into the creature’s chest until its muscles broke and it collapsed severely injured.
• Stone Eye treated Andy’s injuries while his agents assembled a coffin and placed YDF-066 inside, completing its recontainment.

After completing a dangerous mission, Tang Qi reviewed the Federation’s supernatural danger rankings, stored his rewards, and resumed forging the Queen Serrana. Meanwhile, the World Tree Foundation reviewed his abilities and nominated him as a Level Seven Pre-selection candidate.

• Tang Qi returned to Melada Special Education School with Gluttony and documents about the Federation’s danger levels, then learned that Level Seven was reserved for Legends and Demigods.
• Tang Qi meditated, considered the possibility of abandoning his Furnace Witch profession, and brought his mission rewards to Esmeralda’s material warehouse.
• Tang Qi had Gluttony and the warehouse fairies sort and store his rewards, then headed to the Queen Serrana to continue forging it with help from the Night Beast and the little fairy.
• A Stone Eye agent delivered YDF-066 to the World Tree Foundation’s underground facility and recorded his encounter with Tang Qi.
• The Stone Eye agent recommended Tang Qi as a Level Seven Pre-selection candidate, assessed him as neutral, and reported that a cooperative relationship could be established.