Recaps

Caroso made three cards, including two copies of Hand of Greed, and discovered that it could draw cards from a reserve deck, a feat unknown in this world. After comforting the exhausted Nimel, he learned from the Netizens that they did not know how the card worked and considered whether to report his discovery to his father.

• Caroso realized that Hand of Greed could draw cards from a reserve deck, expanding his tactical options and deck limit.
• Nimel grew exhausted from helping Caroso, and he praised her, patted her head, and reminded her that she was his little sister rather than a servant.
• Caroso questioned the Netizens about why Hand of Greed could draw cards, while they treated its effect as ordinary and explained that the world had no such cards.
• Caroso traced the card's unusual effect to its materials interacting with the domain of the soul and considered reporting it to his father.
• The Netizens warned Caroso not to reveal the card's creation and urged him to check whether its original researcher was close to developing it.

Caroso decided to keep his new card-drawing card secret and focused on his growing success at the academy. On his first day of class, card-making instructor Bai recognized his exceptional potential, leaving his rank uncertain.

• Caroso chose to use the new card only himself and postponed making other cards until after practical combat class.
• Over the next two days, Caroso became famous at the academy, sold priest cards through a Royal Family partnership, and used his earnings to hire staff and rent a laboratory.
• Caroso entered first-year Class S and greeted Rayne and Elena before class began.
• Bai introduced herself as the class’s card-making instructor and asked the students about card-maker ranks.
• Elena recited the ranks, and Caroso explained that EX-class referred to the Card Gods.
• Bai told Caroso his talent could reach S++ class and asked whether he was still a D-class card maker.

Bai introduced the S-class card makers and the academy’s accelerated study options before bringing her students to a simulated dungeon for combat assessments. Caroso noticed Krumen Hill working in the dungeon facility, and the chapter ended as Bai called him in to fight while the Vice Principal summoned Nimel.

• Bai explained that the academy had two S-class card makers and offered students the chance to graduate early or skip grades by maintaining high scores.
• Bai announced that the first lesson would be a simulated-dungeon assessment, where students would fight her using third-tier decks and thirty points.
• The class entered the dungeon facility, where Caroso spotted Krumen Hill repairing machinery.
• Bai began assessing the Alchemy Academy students, while the Magic Academy students fought in a separate dungeon battle.
• Bai called Caroso into the simulated dungeon, and the Vice Principal called Nimel in at the same time.

Caroso faced Bai in a simulated duel, where Bai countered his follower cards by switching to a deck suited to the matchup. Caroso revealed a legendary flaming sword and charged, but Bai summoned twelve Naga followers to overwhelm him.

• Caroso and Bai entered the simulated dungeon and chose to begin their duel without selecting special terrain.
• Caroso drew four follower cards, but none could be summoned because Bai’s deck countered their required captains.
• Bai explained how backup decks worked and said she had switched to counter Caroso, while Caroso refused to surrender.
• Caroso summoned Bintink’s Flaming Sword and equipped rare armor before charging at Bai.
• Bai summoned four epic Naga followers and then eight Blue Rare Naga followers, spending twenty-eight points to overwhelm Caroso with numbers.

Caroso fought Bai and used Frenzy to turn two of her Naga against her, but Bai sacrificed her Naga to summon a powerful Aged Naga Elder. After Caroso was driven back, he told Bai that she did not understand the spell he had used, leaving the outcome of their battle uncertain.

• Caroso used Frenzy to control two of Bai's Epic Naga, making them attack the fork-wielding Naga.
• Caroso and his summoned Naga broke through Bai's waterweed defenses and charged toward her.
• Bai played the golden Aged Naga Elder card and sacrificed her other Naga to empower the Elder.
• The Naga Elder's attack sent Caroso flying, and his summoned Naga vanished after exhausting their magic.
• Caroso used mental control to make two of Bai's Epic Naga shield him from the Elder's water bullets.
• Caroso laughed and told Bai that she did not know what spell he had used.

Caroso defeated Bai after using his cards and combat instincts to overcome the Naga Elder, though Bai noted he had fought at a disadvantage against her water deck. Their exchange was interrupted when Nimel was thrown near Caroso and the Vice Principal approached, accusing Bai of getting distracted during their fight.

• Caroso charged Bai after his armor ignited and the Epic Nagas regained control.
• Caroso silenced the Naga Elder with a spell, then defeated her with a fiery sword attack.
• Bai admitted defeat and recognized Caroso's skill, while Caroso said her Naga Deck had countered his fire abilities.
• Bai teased Caroso, prompting the Netizens to joke about the two dating.
• Nimel fell near Caroso, and the Vice Principal approached Bai with five lightning spheres, accusing her of losing focus while fighting him.

Caroso urged Nimel to continue fighting instead of relying on him, and his encouragement reignited her determination. The Vice Principal then revealed that he was retaliating against Caroso for defeating the principal and restrained him with a shocking chain.

• Caroso refused to intervene in Nimel's battle, saying she needed to learn to stand on her own.
• Caroso told Nimel that her fight was not over and urged her to win, making her resolve to keep fighting.
• The Vice Principal noticed Nimel's renewed magic and offered to face her and Caroso together with increased power.
• The Vice Principal switched to his backup deck and accused Caroso of bearing responsibility for Nimel's weakness.
• The Vice Principal bound Caroso with a silver chain and shocked him, prompting Nimel to accuse him of retaliating for Caroso's victory over the principal.
• The Vice Principal admitted that he was retaliating.

Nimel and Caroso fought the Vice Principal in a simulated battle, and both revealed extraordinary strength as God's Chosen. Caroso defeated the Vice Principal before collapsing, and the instructors discussed the pair's potential.

• Nimel tried to free Caroso, but the Vice Principal struck her card and wounded Caroso.
• Nimel awakened as a God's Chosen and attacked the Vice Principal with lightning, water, and Arcane Missiles.
• Caroso broke free of his magical chains, and the Vice Principal realized that Caroso was also a God's Chosen.
• Nimel helped Caroso attack, and Caroso broke through the Vice Principal's defenses and stopped his sword at the Vice Principal's forehead.
• Caroso and Nimel both fainted, and the Vice Principal and Bai discussed their abilities and the limits they had reached.

Caroso and Nimel recovered in the school infirmary after exhausting their magic in a battle with their teacher. Caroso criticized Nimel’s fighting before praising her teamwork, and Krumen arrived with food and a bill for the care he had arranged.

• Caroso woke in the infirmary and checked his injuries while Nimel slept beside him.
• Nimel woke, and Caroso scolded her for getting distracted by worry before acknowledging that she had fought well alongside him.
• Caroso and Nimel decided to ask what had happened after their battle, but Krumen arrived with food first.
• Krumen explained that he had arranged their treatment and beds, collected Caroso’s compensation potions, and presented him with a bill.

Caroso learned about the academy’s card-making assignments and decided to enter a newly appeared third-tier dungeon, despite Rayne and Elena warning him about the danger. He called Nimel to join him and went to his laboratory to prepare for the challenge.

• Caroso and Nimel discussed her assessment and agreed to keep working hard together.
• Rayne told Caroso that he had earned an S++ rating and explained the academy’s lessons and custom placement tests.
• Elena explained that students had to create an original card, while Caroso was assigned to work alone.
• An announcement called third-tier students to gather for a newly appeared dungeon, and Caroso decided to enter it.
• After the comments suggested making Communication Cards and forming a strategy guide, Caroso called Nimel and took her to his laboratory.

Caroso gave Nimel six unusual Zero-Star cards that could strengthen her magic and help her counter priests, then prepared to make more cards overnight. The next morning, he demanded to join a randomly appearing dungeon conquest, and stunned Bai by revealing his extensive dungeon experience.

• Caroso gave Nimel six Zero-Star cards, and she realized they could improve her magic while requiring no mana or deck space.
• Caroso told Nimel to keep the cards secret, then hired card-making assistants to work overtime as he prepared for the dungeon.
• Caroso arrived at class without doing his homework and told Bai he wanted to sign up for the dungeon conquest.
• Bai warned Caroso that freshmen were not allowed to enter dungeons in theory and that the random dungeon could be deadly.
• Caroso insisted that Kolia did not fear challenges and revealed that he had conquered dungeons across three tiers, beginning at age eight.

Caroso signed up to raid a third-tier dungeon, drawing the attention of people who wanted him dead or feared his future power. The Prince began arranging opposition to Caroso while encouraging Karei to help undermine him.

• Caroso told Bai that he had raided dungeons since age eight and accepted the dangers of entering the third-tier dungeon.
• After learning Caroso had signed up, Karei hired someone to cripple him inside the dungeon.
• The Prince recalled that Caroso had been chosen by the War God and saw him as a threat because he might inherit Azure Wolf Province and its army.
• The Prince told Karei that the Royal Family was considering Caroso for Elena, then hinted that Caroso need not remain so outstanding; Karei resolved to make him pay.
• The Prince contacted Harvey Colin and other people hostile to the Kolia family, setting more threats against Caroso in motion.

Caroso and Nimel entered the random third-rank dungeon, Fallen Laboratory, and learned that they had to stop the dean from completing a ritual for a god. Caroso contacted Nimel from his locked room, but a black-robed man burst in and ordered him to follow.

• The Vice Principal warned the challengers about the dungeon’s dangers, collected traces of their magic in soul stones, and sent them inside.
• The principal panicked when he learned Caroso had volunteered, while the prince and Bai said they had been unable to stop him.
• The dungeon’s introduction revealed that the dean had uncovered a ritual beneath the laboratory and that the challengers had to stop him from pledging loyalty to a god.
• Caroso woke in a locked room and used a Communication Snail card to contact Nimel, who said she was in a separate room.
• A black-robed man forced Caroso’s door open and ordered him to come along.

Caroso entered a laboratory dungeon shared by four regions, where the principal feared its deadly rules and worried about the students inside. Guided by the netizens, Caroso used Guessing Cards on a black-robed man, won a rare card, and learned that the game could reveal a hidden route.

• The principal discovered that 120 people had entered a dungeon shared by four regions, and he and the Vice Principal discussed its high mortality rate and Osiris's orders concerning Caroso.
• Caroso encountered a black-robed man in a laboratory and, following the netizens' advice, challenged him to Guessing Cards.
• Caroso played two rounds with three Zero-Star cards and received the man's three-star Evil Spirit Summon card as his prize.
• The netizens explained the game's limits and how skipping the first encounter could reveal a hidden route, while Caroso wondered what to do if Guessing Cards failed.

Caroso disguised himself as a cultist and descended through a mind-affecting dungeon where cultists and outsiders were being dragged toward the lower floors. When an outsider’s attack revealed that dead cultists strengthened the dungeon’s evil spirits, the outsiders launched a broad assault to push onward.

• Caroso killed a black-robed man, swapped clothes with him, and slipped out of the room carrying the body.
• Caroso learned that the dungeon was a War Dungeon where killing other participants could yield greater rewards than defeating the dungeon lord, then followed cultists toward the lower floors.
• As the faces on the walls gave Caroso a headache, an outsider attacked a cultist and was seized by evil spirit arms that emerged from the walls.
• A paladin burned the spirits with holy light and beheaded the cultist, but Caroso realized the cultist’s death strengthened the dungeon’s field spell and its spirits.
• Other outsiders joined the fight, summoning totems, beasts, and vegetation as they battled the cultists and pushed through the corridor.

Caroso resisted the dungeon’s mental magic, disguised himself as a cultist, and followed the captives to a room where he woke two outsiders before slipping away. He reached the first floor and found a diary identifying the Underworld Flower as a gift to the cultists’ Lord, while the other outsiders remained in danger.

• Caroso noticed the missing bullet comments and used a card to break free of the illusion, then bound an unconscious cultist to pass as one of the captors.
• The cultists sorted their captives into rooms, and Caroso followed the Third-tier group into a chamber where outsiders were chained to bronze chairs.
• Caroso slapped two classmates awake and left the room; Number One and Number Two broke free and prepared to fight black figures emerging from the ground.
• Caroso blended in with the cultists, rode an elevator to the first floor, and entered an empty room.
• Caroso read a diary that named the Underworld Flower as the finest gift for the cultists’ Lord, prompting the bullet commenters to recognize it.

Caroso read a diary that explained how the Underworld Flower fed on hope and despair, then burned it to reveal a second account about a doctor’s obsession with Macy. The newly revealed entries showed him becoming a missionary and repeatedly postponing his promise to save her.

• Caroso read the diary and learned that the cult planned to nourish the Underworld Flower by giving people hope before crushing it with despair.
• Caroso explained that mental spells could not keep people trapped in nightmares because they would struggle to wake themselves.
• After a commenter noticed the diary’s torn corner, Caroso burned it and uncovered hidden entries describing a doctor’s life.
• The doctor wrote that he fell in love with the nun Macy and discovered that she took part in a ritual with missionaries.
• The doctor joined the missionaries, but his diary showed him repeatedly delaying his plan to save Macy.

Caroso read a diary that revealed the church’s horrific past and exposed a trap linked to the Underworld Flower. After destroying the diary, he gained a follower card that could locate and consume Underworld Flowers, and decided to pursue the flower despite the danger.

• Caroso read the diary entries describing Macy’s influence, the murdered children, and the writer’s growing fear and confusion.
• Caroso found a card tucked into the diary, and the diary shrieked as cultists began opening doors throughout the church.
• Caroso burned the diary with Bintink’s Flaming Sword and explained that its human-skin cover had concealed information about the Underworld Flower.
• Caroso retrieved the Underworld Guide card, whose follower could seek out and eat Underworld Flowers.
• Caroso decided to go after the Underworld Flower and said he was ninety-eight percent certain he could defeat it with the new card.

Caroso fought through the cultists surrounding his room and used Guess the Card to stall them at the elevator. After winning a rare card, he destroyed the elevator doors, leaving a way forward as fighting continued upstairs.

• Caroso charged through the black-clad cultists, using Purification cards to break through their restraints and reach the elevator.
• Caroso invoked Guess the Card, trapping himself and the cultists in its domain and forcing him to choose one opponent.
• Caroso heard fighting upstairs and used the game to stall the cultists, who could not reach the other floors without the elevator.
• Caroso won three rounds and received an Evil Spirit Chains card, ending the Guess the Card domain.
• Caroso demanded the elevator be opened, then stabbed his sword through the doors and blasted a hole in them.

Caroso escaped the elevator shaft and rejoined the Outsiders, then unleashed Blade Storm to slaughter the cultists and seize control of the battle. After Nimel joined him, Caroso ordered the Outsiders to attack the elevator as more black-clad enemies emerged.

• Caroso escaped the rising elevator by breaking through its door and entering the corridor where the Outsiders fought the cultists.
• Caroso disguised himself among the gray-robed cultists, then revealed himself and used Blade Storm to kill more than twenty of them.
• Nimel ran to Caroso and told him that she had killed three cultists.
• Caroso took Nimel's hand, retreated, and ordered the Outsiders to focus their attacks on the elevator entrance.
• More black-clad figures emerged from the elevator and were struck by vines, chain lightning, and holy-light spells.

Caroso and Teresa Alekseyevna led their group in a coordinated assault on the cultists emerging from the elevator, quickly overwhelming them. As the battle turned in their favor, two Mal Magic Academy members considered attacking Caroso, and a warrior’s blade suddenly continued toward him.

• Teresa Alekseyevna introduced herself to Caroso and rallied the group to attack the cultists in the elevator.
• Caroso and Teresa fought side by side, protecting each other and cutting down the cultists.
• Two Mal Magic Academy members considered attacking Caroso but held back when Teresa’s subordinates watched them.
• A warrior cut down a cultist behind Caroso, but his sweeping blade kept moving toward Caroso.

Teresa killed a warrior who attacked Caroso, then joined him in defeating the cultists. After Caroso shared what he had learned about the living Underworld Flower, he prepared to seek it out alone, but a warning announced that the laboratory’s master had been alarmed and would now unleash its true power.

• Teresa killed a warrior who had attacked Caroso and continued fighting despite a serious shoulder injury.
• Teresa’s group and Caroso defeated the cultists, and priests restored some of Caroso’s mana.
• Caroso told Teresa and Nimel about infiltrating the cultists and warned them that the Underworld Flower was alive, controlled poison men, and used mental attacks.
• Caroso said he would search for the Underworld Flower alone, while Teresa urged him to stay with her team.
• A warning appeared that someone had alarmed the laboratory’s master, and the cultists’ corpses sank into the ground.

Caroso and Nimel searched the laboratory for a route to the Underworld Flower, where Caroso discovered a card-making workbench and materials that could be used to create a card. The chapter ended with the barrage identifying a replacement recipe for a cursed card and urging Caroso to print it.

• Teresa calmed the panicking group, defended Caroso, and assigned him and Nimel to handle the Underworld Flower while she dealt with the director.
• Teresa gave Caroso a map, and he and Nimel entered the elevator to reach the laboratory above.
• Caroso broke through a reinforced wall and found poison people stored in jars, along with a card-making workbench.
• Caroso named the workbench's materials aloud, prompting the barrage to identify a Death Knight card recipe.
• After Caroso found he lacked the cards for that recipe, a viewer suggested replacing a Vengeful Spirit Stone with a copper block to make another cursed card.

Caroso and Nimel opened a machine containing a Poisoned One, and Caroso prepared to make two cards from its mechanical arm. Meanwhile, Teresa held the first floor against the cultists and barred anyone from going up to support Caroso.

• Caroso explained that Elemental Mages’ strength depended on knowing ancient languages and communicating with elemental spirits, while Nimel deciphered the machine’s writing.
• Nimel opened the tank, and Caroso shielded her from the poisonous mist with his flaming sword until the Poisoned One evaporated, leaving a mechanical arm.
• Caroso asked Nimel to stand guard while he made two cards on the spot.
• Teresa led the fight against the cultists on the first floor, organizing the group and sending a ten-person squad to guard the elevator.
• When warriors asked to help Caroso, Teresa ordered them to fight, leave, or die, and insisted that Caroso had said he needed only Nimel.

Caroso crafted cards while Nimel held back the poisoned men, honoring their promise to keep the monsters from reaching the lower floors. After the cards were completed, Caroso grabbed the Sword of Flames and rushed to help Nimel.

• The poisoned men broke out of their glass tanks, and Caroso ordered Nimel to guard the elevator while he finished crafting a card.
• Nimel fought off the poisoned men with spells and staff strikes as more monsters overwhelmed the area.
• Caroso continued crafting while the Sword of Flames defended him and Nimel used area attacks to ease the pressure on him.
• Two cards were completed, and Caroso stored one, grabbed the Sword of Flames, and charged toward Nimel.