Recaps

Tang Zheng defeated Zesshi Zetsumei and recruited her into Crown, while the Evil Tree’s revival drew adventurers, the Kingdom, the Empire, and the Slane Theocracy into danger. The arc ended with the tree’s pollen driving soldiers berserk as Crusch Lulu’s rain began to clear it and the Black Scripture mobilized.

• Tang Zheng used a Golem clone to fight the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord, discovered its scales could advance his classes, and escaped after the Dragon Lord killed the witnesses at the battle site.
• Tang Zheng defeated Zesshi Zetsumei, recruited her as Crown’s seventh-tier member, and ordered her to lead the Slane Theocracy’s war against the Elf Empire and investigate the Six Great Gods’ Legacy.
• Enri and Blue Roses investigated the Great Forest of Tob, where parasitic plants and pollen-controlled monsters revealed a growing threat.
• Tang Zheng entered the Slane Theocracy’s Guild sanctuary with Zesshi Zetsumei and learned the names and class legacies of the Six Great Gods.
• The Kingdom and Empire clashed at the Katze Plains while Blue Roses and Enri fought through the Great Forest of Tob, where Treants rose and the Evil Tree began to revive.
• Enri blocked the Evil Tree’s attack with the Sword of Law after Tang Zheng warned the adventurers to flee.
• Tang Zheng saw the Evil Tree’s roots and pollen spreading across the Katze Plains, then contacted Crusch Lulu, whose rain began dispersing the pollen.
• Thousand Miles Astrologer announced the Evil Tree’s revival, and the God-kin Captain sent the Black Scripture and Lady Kaire to respond as the Four Imperial Knights attacked Lainas and Gazef’s forces.

Tang Zheng and his allies concealed their role in the Black Scripture’s destruction, strengthened Evileye, and moved against the Slane Theocracy and Elf Kingdom. Zesshi Zetsumei killed the Elf King after a brutal battle, and Tang Zheng took his unconscious body for his own purposes.

• Lainas broke through her bottleneck as Gazef witnessed the Four Imperial Knights fall, while E-Rantel celebrated the Kingdom’s victory and the Black Scripture departed for the Great Forest of Tob.
• Platinum Dragon Lord attacked the Black Scripture at the Evil Tree, but Zesshi Zetsumei destroyed his Platinum Armor after it trapped her group, and Tang Zheng secretly collected the awakened Evil Tree and a Tree Spirit.
• Tang Zheng recruited the God-kin Captain as Honor, killed Kerry after taking the World Item, and arranged for the survivors to blame an unknown enemy for the Black Scripture’s deaths.
• Tang Zheng empowered Evileye with Negative Energy until her racial classes reached their limit, then Renner proposed using a threat to bring the Slane Theocracy and Council State into cooperation and gained control of Eight Fingers.
• Imina entered the Great Forest of Evasha, encountered Gacien Ho and the Flower-Crowned Monarch Butterfly, and later rescued an elf girl while the Theocracy’s advance stalled before Elf King City.
• The Elf King arrived with Behemot, captured Imina, and fought Zesshi Zetsumei, who revealed that she was his daughter and rejected his offer to help him conquer the world.
• Zesshi Zetsumei used her innate talent to destroy Behemot, beat the Elf King, and stabbed his heart, but he resurrected and fled before Tang Zheng intercepted him and brought him back unconscious.

Tang Zheng investigated the Elf Kingdom’s fall and the hidden Floating City while training Zesshi Zetsumei and securing immortality. The Blue Sky Dragon Lord forced the Kingdom into war with the Empire, and the arc ended with the Kingdom’s army taking heavy losses as Tang Zheng questioned Renner’s reading of the conflict.

• Tang Zheng installed Imina as ruler of the Elf Kingdom, took its treasury, and used Nfirea and [Downfall of Castle and Country] to capture the Elf King and send him to investigate Sky Castle Eryuentiu.
• The Elf King was captured in Eryuentiu, while Tang Zheng investigated Plum’s murder and concluded that an imitator was gathering intelligence for the Slane Theocracy.
• Tang Zheng brought Zesshi Zetsumei to Lainas for training, then subjected her to Curse Power until she awakened [Valkyrie] and began rebuilding her classes.
• Tang Zheng learned Fluder Paradyne’s Immortality Ritual and gained an Immortality passive, while the Elf King’s reports revealed the Floating City’s Guardians, divisions, and reliance on Mercenary Monsters.
• The Blue Sky Dragon Lord coerced Ramposa III into declaring war on the Empire, and nearly one hundred thousand Kingdom troops marched toward E-Rantel.
• Tang Zheng fought Zesshi Zetsumei in a rematch and defeated her after she revealed her trump card, which he identified as Forced Dismissal.
• Marquis Raeven ordered the Kingdom’s army to attack the Empire, whose archers and magic units inflicted heavy losses, while Renner told Tang Zheng that the war tested the Council State and the Slane Theocracy.

Tang Zheng and his allies captured Zesshi Zetsumei, seized the Guild Weapon, and launched an invasion of Floating City. They fought through its defenses and districts, ending at the Mercenary Hall as Silver Olive turned its mercenaries against them.

• Renner warned Tang Zheng that the Council State’s war might conceal tests or operations against unknown forces, while Marquis Raeven sent Gazef and Lainas against the Empire’s Guardian God and sought the Blue Sky Dragon Lord’s help.
• Fluder and the Blue Sky Dragon Lord joined the battlefield, where two Principalities wounded the dragon and held it at bay, leaving the war stalled.
• Tang Zheng’s Doppelgänger captured Zesshi Zetsumei, but Tang Zheng pursued the Monster Hanzos and later joined the Platinum Dragon Lord in confronting them near the Dolor Desert.
• Tang Zheng and the Platinum Dragon Lord attacked Floating City, where Tang Zheng entered the palace, stole the Guild Weapon Twelve Trials: Proverbs, and captured Gelos Hornfury with Downfall of Castle and Country.
• Tang Zheng brought Zesshi Zetsumei and the God-kin Captain to Floating City, led them through its traps and Ring Maze, and broke through the Glory Colosseum and Black Crevice Alley.
• Tang Zheng’s group followed the maze’s redirected path to the Mercenary Hall, where Silver Olive confronted them and ordered the mercenaries to attack after Tang Zheng and the God-kin Captain summoned Cerberus.
• Rescue Cloud Warriors and six Hanzos attacked the group, Zesshi Zetsumei was struck down, and Cerberus protected her as Tang Zheng explained the Mercenary Hall’s power to summon level-80 mercenaries.