Chapter Summaries

Xia Yubing learned from Wen Long that Li Aoz’s reputation had suffered after a player accused him and the Overlord Class of misleading Frostplate players. Li Aoz read the post and dismissed it as brain rot.

• Xia Yubing asked Wen Long about Cumin Powder and learned that she was an accomplished esports competitor who used a virtual avatar.
• Wen Long told Xia Yubing that Li Aoz’s reputation had worsened and sent her a link.
• Li Aoz read a post claiming the Overlord Class was weak, accusing him of misleading players, and recommending switching to a Destruction-type class.
• Li Aoz responded to the post by calling it brain rot.

Li Aoz followed Azure Planet’s political changes and White Candle Star’s struggling goblin campaign, then unlocked the encrypted 55-Pandora Calamity God Incident report. The report opened on a black screen bearing a slogan about opposing narrative hegemony and free ascension.

• Li Aoz read forum reports about Dai Weilin’s reforms, Frostplate’s move underground, and the formation of the Frostplate Federation.
• Li Aoz found that Trustworthy Village had lost its only 25 Dina reserve and that players were slowly advancing against the goblins by building rest camps.
• Li Aoz issued a quest to build a village school that would teach residents Star Trooper Training for free.
• Li Aoz learned from Nikita that Verrazzi Company had withdrawn from Valenkov and that the Autonomous State’s mercenaries would soon return.
• Li Aoz asked Liu E for the report password, entered “Not here. Get lost,” and opened the 55-Pandora Calamity God Incident records report.

After destroying the shocking Calamity God file to protect Star Abyss’s resolve, Li Aoz attended the opening ceremony at White Candle Star Interstellar University and learned that Credits, not wealth or status, determined academic progress. He received a daunting career mission that required passing his first year and mastering spells, leaving him to figure out how to survive the university’s competition.

• Li Aoz destroyed the Calamity God files and decided that strength, influence, and the Path mattered more than debating whether society or Narrative-level Civilizations were crueler.
• Li Aoz met Hobbes and Lucite at the academy, where they discussed Dragon Titan Dia Lan’s reputation and the advantages of bloodline.
• Nastisha Dantine introduced the university’s rules, explaining that students needed Credits for courses and resources and could join workshops regardless of background.
• Li Aoz, Hobbes, and Lucite realized that freshmen faced intense competition for Credits and limited places in the six workshops.
• Li Aoz received the Academic Success mission, which required him to pass every first-year course and offered a further reward for mastering at least three spells.

Li Aoz struggled to follow a history lecture because his Echoer talent kept him from learning new knowledge, then lost a Credit after missing a surprise assessment. He ignored the students who mocked him and noticed that Dia Lan was also attracting malicious attention.

• Professor Ercole Evans lectured the class on the history of magical applications while Li Aoz found that he could understand the words but not absorb the knowledge.
• Ercole gave the students a timed surprise assessment, and Li Aoz missed it while retrieving his fallen pen.
• Ercole called Li Aoz mediocre in front of the class, and Li Aoz learned from Hobbes and Lucite that his inattentiveness had cost him a Credit.
• Other students mocked Li Aoz, and Lucite nearly confronted them before Hobbes urged him to focus on class.
• Li Aoz spotted Dia Lan in the front row and noticed that some students were giving the Dragon Titan malicious looks.

Li Aoz avoided tutoring from Hobbes and Lucite while trying to remember how to learn supernatural knowledge for the Echoer path. On the way to lunch, he encountered wealthy student Andyfa Morodia, whose attempt to belittle him ended with Li Aoz dismissing him and walking away.

• Hobbes and Lucite offered to tutor Li Aoz, but he lied that personal troubles had distracted him and turned them down.
• Li Aoz recalled that a video from his previous life had explained how to use brainless insectoids to learn supernatural knowledge.
• Andyfa Morodia mocked Li Aoz for failing to join a class discussion and losing his special privileges.
• Li Aoz asked who Andyfa was, then casually called the Morodia family's business a lapdog of the Verrazzi Company.
• Hobbes and Lucite apologized to Andyfa before following Li Aoz toward the cafeteria.

Andifa dismissed Lioz as a fraud while planning to use his engagement to Nalia Verrazzi to connect with Andrew Verrazzi. At lunch, Li Aoz listened as Hobbes explained how difficult it was for freshmen to enter the Alchemy Club, then revealed that he already had one of Rachel Jubos’s purple invitation cards.

• Andifa concluded that Lioz was no serious rival and resolved to keep watching the other preselected students.
• Andifa prepared to meet Nalia Verrazzi, hoping the engagement would help him establish a connection with Andrew Verrazzi.
• Li Aoz took Hobbes and Lucite to the cafeteria and dismissed their concerns about offending Morodia.
• Hobbes and Lucite discussed earning Credits and joining clubs, and Hobbes explained the Alchemy Club’s two routes for freshmen to enter.
• Hobbes described Rachel Jubos’s invitation cards as nearly impossible to obtain, and Li Aoz placed a purple card on the table.

After Nefthys Cleopatra left prison, Andrew Verrazzi ordered her to prepare to capture Lioz alive, believing he could become immensely valuable to the Red King’s faction. Andrew also considered a future visit to the Crystal Tower Civilization to investigate a possible fragment of the Eye of Discernment’s corpse.

• Nefthys Cleopatra was released from the Electronic Shackles and joined Andrew Verrazzi aboard his private plane.
• Andrew learned that Nefthys had fought Lioz and told her to capture him alive because Verrazzi Company wanted to recruit him.
• Andrew explained that Lioz’s trail had been obscured and that reconstructing his information would take five years, giving Nefthys time to train for the mission.
• Andrew discussed his sister Nalia’s invitation and decided to delay visiting her in the Crystal Tower Civilization.
• Andrew considered searching for the Eye of Discernment’s corpse fragment on a Crystal Tower planet, though he suspected it might have been destroyed or dispersed.

Li Aoz’s Credits continued to plunge, leading the Ministry of Education to stop monitoring him and focus on other promising students. After classmates mocked him, Dia Lan overwhelmed a group of students and warned Li Aoz not to give up after a setback, while he remained focused on finding help to recover deep memories.

• Li Aoz’s Credits fell to -121, and Ministry of Education officials Barkomon and Atkesz debated his contradictory record before deciding to stop monitoring him.
• Barkomon told Atkesz to train other talents for the Galaxy Eye Campaign and revealed that he planned to lead White Candle Star’s elite students into the Abyssal Realm in five years.
• After class, Li Aoz ignored students mocking his grades and headed to a meeting about excavating deep memories.
• Three students followed Li Aoz and prepared to confront him, but a shockwave revealed that Dia Lan had defeated more than twenty Gamma-rank students.
• Dia Lan advised Li Aoz not to sink after a temporary setback, then left as the three students abandoned their plan to trouble him.

Li Aoz went to the Natural Ecology Academy to meet Senior Melo, but found her treehouse disturbed and encountered Machine Soul Delafis holding a corpse. Delafis attacked him and announced the Machine World Society Mash Gergang would soon descend, leaving Li Aoz fighting back with summoned metal.

• Li Aoz traveled by boat to the Natural Ecology Academy and followed an elf’s directions to Senior Melo’s remote treehouse.
• Li Aoz found the door unlocked, the room ransacked, and signs of a struggle inside.
• Delafis burst into the house carrying a female corpse, copied its face, and identified herself as a member of the Machine World Jury.
• Delafis fired a powerful beam at Li Aoz and declared that the Machine World Society Mash Gergang would soon descend.
• Li Aoz deflected Delafis’s beam with a longsword and used Armed Empire to gather metal into armor.
• Delafis kicked the armor and heated it with steam, while Li Aoz made red-hot metal blades burst from it.

Li Aoz fought Delafis, a machine from the invading Machine World Society Gergang, and used his sword and command over the elements to overpower her. Delafis was swallowed by his elemental assault, while the threat from her Society remained.

• Delafis attacked Li Aoz, but he struck her with his sword and drove her from the cabin into the forest.
• Li Aoz identified Delafis as a Delta-rank Jury of the Predator Society Gergang and prepared to fight her with his blade and armor.
• Delafis overpowered Li Aoz in their direct exchange, so he reinforced his hand and bones and began evading her attacks.
• Li Aoz used his connection to the elements to shake the ground, summon attacking roots, and cut Delafis with compressed wind.
• Li Aoz unleashed Elemental Giants and uprooted trees in a coordinated assault, overwhelming Delafis with the force of nature.

Li Aoz and Jannia fought the Machine World Society Citizens in the forest, and Li Aoz killed Delafis while concealing his Architecting talent and identity. He found a Saint Core and planned to hunt more Machine World Citizens for experience and valuable materials.

• Li Aoz refused Jannia's suggestion to leave survivors for interrogation and ordered the attackers killed to keep his Architecting talent secret.
• Delafis defeated the elemental giants, but Li Aoz attacked from above and destroyed her with a heated, lightning-charged sword strike.
• Li Aoz received experience and hunting-list progress for killing Delafis, then left the wreckage behind to avoid exposing his augmented body and infiltration.
• Li Aoz found Delafis's Saint Core and considered consigning it, trading it for an architect's inheritance, or collecting more from Machine World Citizens at the school.

The Student Union's Enforcement Department investigated a catastrophic disturbance in the Natural Ecology Academy's dormitory woods and found intense elemental radiation and destruction. Modote Huseel suspected a powerful source but ruled out an Aoneng attack; the investigation paused when freshman Lioz emerged from the woods.

• Modote Huseel examined Delafis's mechanical skullcap and scanned the mechanical skeleton while the fire brigade fought fires and dangerous elemental creatures and plants ran wild.
• Silia Ruth feared an Aoneng attack, but Modote explained that the Higgs Field remained unchanged and recalled the deadly Waning Moon attack two years earlier.
• Modote reassured Silia that the Waning Moon could not return to campus and that Minister Barkomon's presence protected White Candle Star.
• Modote's magical coffin warned him of an approaching figure, and the Enforcement Team aimed their riot rifles into the woods.
• Lioz emerged with his hands raised, identified himself as a first-year student, and offered his Information Rune for inspection.

Li Aoz passed the Enforcement Team’s investigation into Melo’s death by using his reputation and alibi to deflect suspicion. As he left, Mordoctor Husserl introduced him to Wendy Destis as a possible source of help with the memory potion.

• The Enforcement Team verified Li Aoz’s identity, records, and alibi, then cleared him of suspicion in the Elemental Riot.
• Sylvia insisted Li Aoz was still suspicious, but other students pointed to his poor academic record and lack of practical training as evidence he could not be responsible.
• The Enforcement Team found Melo’s body and checked her Information Rune, which supported Li Aoz’s account of why he had come to see her.
• Sylvia tried to raise one last suspicion about augmentation, but Mordoctor Husserl stopped her and apologized to Li Aoz.
• Li Aoz asked the seniors to search Melo’s room for the potion they had discussed, and Mordoctor Husserl gave him Wendy Destis’s user card as a possible lead.

After Li Aoz left the Enforcement Team, Mordot discovered that a test had identified a Social Citizen at the school and hurried to gather the Student Union’s leaders. Back in his dormitory, Li Aoz reflected on the day’s gains and decided to pursue Sequence 56, Crescent Moon.

• Mordot slapped Sylvia for mentioning implant equipment and warned her that the subject reopened painful memories for the students and Guild Leader Koreina.
• Mordot checked a test report and found that its Source Matter concentration exceeded 0.618%, identifying someone as a Social Citizen.
• Mordot decided to avoid alerting the military and rushed to gather the Student Union’s upper ranks to discuss the infiltration discreetly.
• Li Aoz returned to his dormitory, pretended to take anti-radiation medicine, and removed his implant equipment for a bath.
• Li Aoz concluded that his next goal was to obtain Sequence 56, Crescent Moon.

Li Aoz used the experience from his recent kills to reach the level cap, then evolved Physical Enhancement into Sequence 82 · Bloodline. After completing his promotion task, he advanced to Delta-rank.

• Li Aoz spent his experience to raise Astral Echoer to level 80 and received a promotion task requiring him to synthesize an Omega-rank Aoneng.
• Li Aoz crushed several Aonengs for gene fragments and invested them into Physical Enhancement until it sublimated into Sequence 82 · Bloodline.
• Li Aoz received a message from Sorao Piarinus, who called him a Child of the Source Abyss and urged him to reclaim his legacy.
• Li Aoz completed his promotion task, underwent individual sublimation, and advanced to Delta-rank.

Li Aoz concealed his Delta-rank breakthrough while hunting Machine World Society infiltrators and training to master his Sequence Aura bloodline. After a month, he had gained precise control over its destructive power and set out to claim the Crescent Moon.

• Li Aoz kept a low profile at school, killed two newly infiltrated Machine World Society citizens, and gained three Saint Cores as Constan transferred him 5.6 million Ammonium Gold.
• The Student Union’s Enforcement Team surveilled Dia Lan and questioned other students, while Li Aoz’s poor grades kept suspicion away from him; Sylvia later apologized for suspecting him.
• Li Aoz trained in combat and swordsmanship, deepening his connection with Jannia and learning to merge his Aoneng with his body.
• After a month of training, Li Aoz demonstrated his bloodline’s power by snapping down a forest and restoring the landscape with Element Architecture.
• Li Aoz left on Sunday, confident in his strength and ready to take the Crescent Moon that belonged to him.

Li Aoz returned to his true body in Water Moon Fort and secretly followed an ascetic monk who was recruiting children through charitable handouts. He discovered that the monk was a powerful mutant serving Lord Mo Zilan, and learned that seven Elite Seeds had been selected.

• Li Aoz changed into his silver Future Primitive outfit, arrived at Water Moon Fort, and began searching for a way to obtain Crescent Moon without fighting a Zeta-rank Ability User.
• Li Aoz secretly followed a bandaged ascetic monk who meditated in public and collected donations.
• The monk distributed food to poor children and required them to perform a hooked-finger salute; Awa Duo performed it to receive food for himself and a little girl.
• Li Aoz followed the monk to an abandoned factory, where the man transformed into a peak Gamma-rank Overlord Class Mutant.
• The mutant identified himself as Romulus and reported to Lord Mo Zilan that he had selected seven Elite Seeds.

Li Aoz overheard Mo Zilan and Romulus discussing the Crescent Moon gang’s plan to turn seven children into Implant Equipment Vanguards and learned why Crescent Moon had attacked White Candle Star. He ambushed Mo Zilan, defeated him, and extracted his Crescent Moon Aoneng.

• Mo Zilan complained that his inherited Crescent Moon Aoneng harmed him, while Romulus reassured him that his father would soon return and launch a surprise attack.
• Li Aoz learned that Crescent Moon had attacked Trivella three years earlier to steal research and a relic that might cure Mo Zilan, and had caused the deaths of civilians and students.
• Li Aoz decided to lure Crescent Moon out and ambushed Mo Zilan as he was leaving.
• Li Aoz cut off Mo Zilan’s Aoneng, trapped him in spacetime, and crushed his spine.
• Li Aoz pierced Mo Zilan’s neck with neural tentacles and extracted the Omega Sequence 56: Crescent Moon.

Li Aoz defeated Mo Zilan, extracted the Crescent Moon Aoneng, and returned to Trustworthy Village. He found the settlement flourishing as players prepared inventive weapons and supplies for their campaign against the Goblin Nest.

• Li Aoz extracted Mo Zilan’s Crescent Moon Aoneng and racial talent, then left after Mo Zilan threatened him with his father’s revenge.
• Li Aoz used a Space-time Ripple to return to Trustworthy Village and found Ya Wen absent.
• Li Aoz inspected the village and saw that players had reclaimed farmland, built workshops, and established guild strongholds.
• Li Aoz observed players making weapons, ammunition, and supplies from local materials, including crystal explosives for their assault on the Goblin Nest.

Li Aoz planned to introduce magic and new equipment to the Yanxia Zone players as they advanced against the goblins, while building up his territory and designing a steady stream of game content. He decided that he would recruit more players from Agincourt District, whose nearby Valkyrie Fortress offered a chance to trade.

• Li Aoz learned that the players had reached the goblin cave entrance but were being worn down by the goblins’ tunnels and guerrilla tactics, so he promised them more powerful new equipment.
• Li Aoz improved the terrain around his territory, including creating a lava pool, and reflected on how the settlement had become his home.
• Li Aoz planned a progression of levels, dungeons, equipment, and other activities to keep players engaged and eventually draw them toward Valenkov's Winter.
• Li Aoz considered recruiting players from nearby servers, rejected Hastings Colony because he disliked its players, and chose Agincourt District as his target.
• Li Aoz decided to travel to Agincourt District and recruit players, hoping to use their proximity to Valkyrie Fortress for trade.