Chapter Summaries

Caroso and Zoltan faced Gabri’s forces while Norman tried to persuade Anduin and Uther to eliminate Kong and Bai. Teresa arrived with reinforcements and attacked the Seraphs, leaving Gabri furious at Zoltan’s dishonorable tactics.

• Zoltan questioned Caroso about Bai’s identity and the power his lord had granted him, but Caroso refused to reveal Bai’s identity and defended his lord.
• Norman contacted Anduin and Uther, calling Kong and Bai enemies and urging them to be eliminated; Anduin refused to follow Norman’s lead, while Uther eventually agreed to consider it.
• Caroso retreated with his demoralized soldiers as Zoltan advanced to fight Gabri, and the two leaders traded insults over the surprise attack.
• Teresa arrived with reinforcements, signaled Caroso, and ordered her ranged troops to kill a Seraph with a concentrated barrage.
• Gabri accused Zoltan of fighting without honor and warned that his disgrace would spread across the continent.

Teresa and Gabri led their forces into battle against Zoltan’s undead army, while Caroso clashed with Varian and quietly set a plan in motion. The battle remained evenly contested, and Caroso obtained the imprint of Gabri’s Communication Card as the chapter ended.

• Teresa advanced with her army after Gabri ordered an attack, and Bai noticed Teresa displaying advanced military techniques.
• Gabri and Zoltan’s forces fought across the plain as their leaders’ abilities, magic, and troops swung the advantage back and forth.
• Gabri deployed powerful explosive ballistae and used Light Magic to shield his soldiers and damage the undead.
• Varian attacked Caroso, then quietly spoke with him and agreed to cooperate after Caroso revealed his plan.
• Caroso secretly transferred Gabri’s Communication Card imprint during his staged duel with Varian.

Caroso and Anduin debated how to unite their forces and protect the humans and elves in the dungeon, while Teresa blocked Uther from reaching Caroso. Teresa’s dragon equipment let her overpower Uther as the battle continued.

• Caroso told Anduin that a mysterious person had helped him gather armies and reveal secrets, then asked what Anduin planned to do.
• Anduin offered to bring Caroso, Bai, and Teresa into Gabri’s faction, but Caroso insisted that Vareesa and Malfurion also needed guaranteed protection.
• Caroso claimed he had a solution that could give them the best of both worlds.
• Teresa blocked Uther’s path and refused to let him pass or join his faction.
• Teresa charged Uther and cracked his shield, using the power of her eight dragon treasures to suppress him.

Vareesa betrayed the elves by killing Messiah and leading her troops to attack Teresa’s undead army, while Malfurion followed her. Anduin believed he had brought the pair into Gabri’s faction, but Vareesa received no joining prompt, and Anduin realized Gabri had deceived him.

• Anduin and Caroso separately urged Malfurion and Vareesa to betray the elves and join their factions.
• Vareesa shot Messiah through the temple while Messiah prepared to use mental magic against Caroso, and both elves received notifications that they had betrayed the Forest of Elves Church.
• Outside the dungeon, Messiah remembered that Dark Elves had betrayed her in the past, leading to the High Elves slaughtering them.
• Vareesa ordered her troops to attack Teresa’s undead army, while Malfurion urged her to spare their opponents.
• Gabri told Anduin that the elves would be peripheral members under his command, but Vareesa told Anduin she had received no prompt to join his faction.

After learning that Vareesa and Malfurion had betrayed the elves, Anwen rallied her army to hunt them down. As Gabri refused to truly shelter the two fugitives, Caroso offered them a chance to join the Church of the God of Wisdom, whose god had arrived in person.

• Anwen learned that Vareesa and Malfurion had defected and ordered the elven army to kill them.
• Gabri told Anduin that the Goddess of Night Church would not shelter the traitors.
• Anduin warned Vareesa that Gabri had only pretended to accept them, leaving her furious and afraid.
• Caroso contacted Vareesa and offered the God of Wisdom's protection in exchange for a price.

Teresa’s sudden assault devastated Uther’s forces, and she defeated him so decisively that his confidence in his future was shattered. Meanwhile, Caroso’s forces joined Teresa’s attack, halting Gabri’s attempted retreat and forcing him into a head-on fight.

• Gabri began rearranging his formation to prepare a retreat while Caroso and Varian waited for the right moment to attack.
• Caroso called Teresa into action, and she used Battle Cry and War Stomp to strengthen her troops and cripple Uther’s army.
• Uther countered with Holy Freeze, Faith, and Zealotry, but Gabri had to lend him more troops before his auras could affect the battle effectively.
• Teresa refused Uther’s demand that she surrender and struck him with two Legendary cards, blasting him aside and severing both his arms.
• Anduin used Regeneration to restore Uther’s arms, but Uther’s confidence was shattered by Teresa’s victory over him.
• Caroso sent Varian flying, and Caroso’s troops joined Teresa’s charge, disrupting Gabri’s retreat and forcing his army to fight head-on.

Gabri, Caroso, and Varian’s forces all turned against the arriving Forest of Elves army, turning the battle into a chaotic multi-sided conflict. Meanwhile, Nimel brought Vareesa and Malfurion into the Church of the God of Wisdom, and the chapter ended with Gabri ordering his troops to attack the elves.

• Gabri contacted Nimel, who ordered Naxxis to make Vareesa and Malfurion permanent members of the Church of the God of Wisdom despite his warning about the Forest of Elves.
• Anwen attacked Vareesa and Malfurion, but Naxxis intercepted her arrow with lightning.
• Varian ordered his troops to attack the Forest of Elves, and Caroso sent his army against them as well.
• Gabri rejected Anduin’s proposal to cooperate with the Church of the Lord of Eternal Life and ordered his rear guard to join Dawn City’s army against the elves.
• Zoltan contacted troops stationed at the graveyard, while Anwen insisted she was purging traitors and Gabri refused to trust her.

Caroso urged Nimel to commit her army as every faction joined the battle against the Forest of Elves. Anwen divided her forces among the enemy armies and led the remainder against Nimel, leaving the battlefield locked in a fierce, multi-sided clash.

• Caroso warned Nimel that staying out of the battle would make her army a target, and Nimel ordered her forces to attack.
• Nimel's sprites fired on the Treants, knights, and Bone Dragons as her golems and gargoyles clashed with the Elves' forces.
• Anwen ordered her Azure Crystal Dragon and Elven troops to counter Nimel's army while the Treants and Sword Dancers fought the golems and gargoyles.
• Naxxis sent mages against the advancing Elves, and Titans and Storm Titans struck their forces with fire and lightning.
• Anwen split her troops to resist Caroso and Varian, Dawn City, Gabri, and Nimel, then ordered the Elven hunters to loose arrows at the giants.

Nimel ordered the captured elven heroes Vareesa and Malfurion to attack the elven army, causing Anwen to redirect her troops and expose them to devastating attacks. After a brutal battle left every faction near exhaustion, Bai noticed red light flowing from dead humans turned into undead toward Caroso.

• Nimel welcomed Malfurion and Vareesa, then ordered them to attack the elven army.
• Vareesa killed a unicorn with an arrow, and Malfurion summoned creatures to attack the elves.
• Anwen redirected the elven troops to kill the two traitors, exposing their flanks and backs to the Goddess of Night Church's forces.
• The factions fought through the night until their armies were nearly depleted and the battle reached a critical point.
• Bai asked Caroso why red light from dead humans turned into undead was flowing toward him.

Caroso discovered that invisible death threads were draining life and set out with Bai to find Nimel, while Nimel defeated Anwen’s assault and Vareesa revealed the elves’ future to her. Anwen accepted Vareesa’s actions and asked to die without hatred.

• Caroso activated his law, saw faint death threads connected to him, and worried that Nimel was in danger, so he ordered Bai to fight toward her.
• Anwen charged through the devastated battlefield, but Nimel slowed her with Ice Arrows and Eternal Ice Prison before Anwen broke through the laws and launched a suicidal attack on Vareesa.
• Nimel restrained Anwen with Eternal Lock, and Vareesa apologized and offered to share her memories.
• Vareesa showed Anwen the elves’ future, including their persecution and diminished status, and explained that her actions had been meant to protect their people.
• Anwen accepted Vareesa’s explanation and asked her to ensure she did not die with hatred.

Caroso’s faction and its allies betrayed their sides and joined the Church of the God of Wisdom, turning the battle into a decisive encirclement. As Gabri charged Anduin, Varian and Uther moved to stop him while Caroso and Nimel felt magic surging into them.

• Caroso and Nimel discussed how the dungeon’s divine descent ritual might awaken the God of Wisdom through Nimel’s godhead fragment.
• Caroso set off fireworks, prompting Anduin, Varian, Caroso, and Teresa to abandon their factions and join the Church of the God of Wisdom.
• Nimel accepted their allegiance, and the two opposing factions lost half their remaining troops as the defectors shifted the balance of the battle.
• Teresa gave Uther the choice to join or die, and he agreed, bringing his troops over to the Church of the God of Wisdom.
• Gabri charged Anduin, while Varian descended on a griffin and used his imitation Laevateinn to block him with Uther’s card enhancement.
• Caroso and Nimel felt a powerful tide of magic flow into their bodies.

Varian and his allies fought Gabri and the graveyard heroes while Norman tried to defect, but Gabri turned on him and left him isolated. Bai’s card suppressed everyone’s attributes except his and Caroso’s, revealing their shared Divine Purification card, and Nimel discovered that her hair had turned green.

• Teresa led the soldiers in a charge that drove the enemy troops into retreat while Varian and the heroes fought Gabri and the graveyard heroes.
• Norman begged Nimel and the others to accept him, but Varian let Gabri break through and Gabri attacked Norman as a traitor.
• Anduin and Uther refused to save Norman, who tried and failed to persuade Gabri to join forces with him.
• Bai used a card that weakened everyone except Bai and Caroso, and Caroso countered Zoltan’s dark magic with Divine Purification.
• Norman recognized Caroso Kolia and realized why he was there, while Nimel wondered how Bai and her brother had made their shared card.
• Naxxis told Nimel that her hair had turned green, and Nimel panicked that she had been greened.

Caroso fought Zoltan and used a soul-cutting technique to erase him. As the battle continued, Gabri was weakened and beheaded by Varian.

• Caroso charged Zoltan, pierced his chest with Guanshi Zhengzong, and was rescued from Zoltan’s tentacles by Teresa.
• Caroso used the Ancient Dust Revolver to destroy Zoltan’s Death Knight phantom and badly wound him.
• Caroso used Dark Sky Wave Eye to erase Zoltan’s soul.
• Gabri stabbed Norman, but Naxxis restrained Gabri with a giant hand of light.
• Anduin cast Weaken on Gabri, allowing Varian to decapitate him with his flaming sword.

After clearing the Eighth-tier Dawn City dungeon, Caroso revealed his identity and explained how his group had entered and taken control of the mission. Nimel then discovered she could not exit, leaving Caroso, Bai, and Teresa with her as the others returned to the outside world.

• Caroso revealed his true appearance and told the other challengers that Gabri, Anwen, Zoltan, and their forces had been destroyed.
• Caroso explained that he, Bai, and Teresa had entered after meeting Tom at a tavern, where Bai's card victories had triggered the mission.
• Nimel told Caroso that she had no option to exit, and Bai noticed their connecting threads had grown thicker.
• The others speculated that Nimel did not count toward the dungeon's eleven-person entry limit, but they could not explain why she was trapped.
• Anduin, Varian, Vareesa, Malfurion, Uther, and Jaina left the dungeon, leaving Caroso, Bai, Teresa, and Nimel behind.

Nimel feared the God of Wisdom would take over her body, while Caroso, Teresa, and Bai argued over who should stay behind to protect her. Caroso and Bai resolved to remain, but a voice announced that none of them would be allowed to leave.

• Nimel clutched Caroso's hand and admitted through her fear that she did not want the God of Wisdom to overwrite her consciousness or harm Caroso.
• Caroso asked Bai whether they still had the same number of lines, and Teresa insisted on helping him face the threat.
• Caroso argued that Teresa should leave because the people and causes waiting outside needed her, but Teresa offered to stay in his place.
• Caroso told Teresa that if he died, she should use his identity and his notebook to carry on his work, and Teresa eventually agreed to leave.
• Nimel urged Caroso to go, but he refused, and Teresa's figure faded as she departed.
• Bai chose to stay behind with Caroso, but a voice suddenly declared that none of them would be leaving.

The God of Wisdom descended in human form, absorbed her hidden incarnations from Nimel, and rose to the tenth rank. Caroso tried to stop her but was badly injured, then began drawing on Nimel’s divine power before risking everything with a card.

• The God of Wisdom appeared above Caroso and the others, destroyed the surviving Church members and constructs, and absorbed the energy from her former headquarters.
• The God of Wisdom pulled her shadows from Nimel and reached the tenth rank, leaving Nimel fading and helpless.
• Caroso charged the God of Wisdom with Guanshi Zhengzong, but her laws of time and space stopped his blade, and she smashed him into White Desert.
• Caroso began absorbing Nimel’s divine power, which helped him withstand the God of Wisdom’s attack.
• Caroso told Bai they could only risk everything and threw out a card.

Caroso and Bai faced the God of Wisdom, whose power overwhelmed them despite Caroso's attack with Obelisk the Tormentor. The Lord of Eternal Life revealed that Caroso could absorb the dead's power, and Caroso began drawing in souls, blood, and magic to gain a chance against the god.

• Caroso summoned Obelisk the Tormentor, but the God of Wisdom froze the giant and erased its cracks with another wave of his staff.
• Caroso attacked the God of Wisdom from behind, but his strike failed and an Ice Arrow pierced his abdomen.
• The God of Wisdom unleashed a barrage of Ice Arrows, blasting holes through Obelisk the Tormentor as Caroso took cover behind it.
• The Lord of Eternal Life explained that Caroso could absorb life force, souls, and magic power, urging him to use the dead's power against the God of Wisdom.
• Caroso raised Guanshi Zhengzong and absorbed the souls, blood, and lingering magic from the battlefield, prompting the God of Wisdom to accuse the Lord of Eternal Life.

Caroso absorbed the souls and magic around him, but he could not convert the power fast enough and began to die. The Lord of Eternal Life gave Bai forbidden knowledge so she could make a card to purify the magic, while it held off the God of Wisdom; Bai began crafting the card as the Lord’s presence faded.

• Caroso absorbed Nimel’s power and numerous souls, but the mixed magic overwhelmed his ability to convert it, leaving his body covered in conflicting colors.
• The God of Wisdom attacked Caroso, but the Lord of Eternal Life’s stone intervened and was frozen before falling silent.
• Bai learned from the Lord of Eternal Life that Caroso would die unless she used its knowledge to purify his power and make it his own.
• The Lord of Eternal Life explained that Caroso could advance without a bottleneck if he had enough power, but could not survive absorbing it without purification.
• Bai accepted the forbidden power and began gathering elements to make a card from nothing, while the God of Wisdom weakened the Lord of Eternal Life’s stone until its soul aura vanished.

Messiah entered the dungeon to stop the God of Wisdom from resurrecting while Bai created cards to stabilize Caroso and help him save Nimel. Caroso absorbed the shattered souls of his allies, but Gabri resisted conversion and tried to take over his body.

• Messiah confronted the God of Wisdom, using her spiritual power to keep him from completing his resurrection.
• Messiah told Bai and Caroso to act, and Bai used the Lord of Eternal Life’s relics to make the God Cards Conversion and Sea of Stars.
• Tom sent Bai a card from beyond the dungeon barrier, and Bai discovered its message had answered her complaint about his card-playing.
• Bai used Conversion to ease Caroso’s pain as Zoltan’s, Anwen’s, and Gabri’s soul fragments entered his body.
• Gabri resisted Conversion and declared that he would seize Caroso’s body, marks, and other secrets.

Caroso let Gabri’s soul fragments enter his mental sea and discovered that the bullet comments prevented anyone from replacing him. He gained power from Bai Xiao’s card and summoned Merlin, who appeared in a wedding dress as the God of Wisdom remained a threat.

• Gabri’s soul exploded into fragments, and Caroso realized that anyone trying to take over his body would have to withstand the bullet comments.
• Caroso let the soul fragments invade his mental sea while Messiah struggled to hold back the God of Wisdom, who was absorbing the space’s power.
• Bai Xiao gave Caroso her remaining magic power in a pseudo-god card, and he used it to form a deep-blue starlight sword.
• Caroso selected Merlin through the reset Support option and summoned her through a Teleport portal.
• Merlin appeared in a wedding dress with a ring inscribed with a message for her and Can We Eat First, while the bullet comments revealed that her deck specialized in support.