Chapter Summaries

Cheng Tian chose Seller No. 3’s Black Pearl Shard, which gave him access to the unopened Ys: Origin dungeon, and received the wand auction’s third-slot benefit for Seller No. 3. He saw the powerful Angel’s Clothes set go up for auction but left with his companions because he could not afford it, intent on using the Crimson Chaos Wand.

• Seller No. 3 offered his Black Pearl Shard because Ys: Origin’s unknown hazards, restrictive modifiers, and no-retreat rules made the dungeon too risky for him.
• Cheng Tian chose Seller No. 3’s shard, valuing Ys: Origin’s potential rewards and materials for his equipment over the other auction items.
• The Crimson Chaos Wand’s usage conditions assigned its third slot to Seller No. 3, and Cheng Tian received 190,000 after the auction commission along with the shard.
• The auction’s final featured item was the four-piece Angel’s Clothes set, whose powerful combined bonuses sent players’ bids soaring.
• Cheng Tian left with his companions, unable to afford Angel’s Clothes, and planned to use the Crimson Chaos Wand immediately.

Cheng Tian used the Crimson Chaos Wand to heal and strengthen himself, his allies, and his mounts, then prepared to enter the Ys: Origin dungeon alone. Eileen stayed behind to pursue Elf Bloodline Purification with a living World Tree branch.

• Cheng Tian activated the wand, restoring Bazett’s missing arm and healing injuries throughout the group.
• Cheng Tian allocated his attribute and skill points, enhanced his equipment, and advised Utan, Bazett, and the combat mounts on their upgrades.
• Cheng Tian used the Black Pearl Shard to prepare for the Solo Adventure-exclusive Ys: Origin dungeon, which he could not enter with Eileen.
• Eileen rejected Cheng Tian’s teasing invitation and said she would work on Elf Bloodline Purification using the World Tree branch.

Cheng Tian exploited the Crimson Chaos Wand to enhance Eileen’s equipment and spent his savings on gear before Eileen began her bloodline purification. He then entered the Ys: Origin instance, where his titles triggered a warning that his arrival would terrify the Twin Goddesses.

• The Space allowed Cheng Tian to use the Crimson Chaos Wand to enhance Eileen’s transformed bow set without punishment.
• Eileen’s World Tree branch signaled that she had met the requirements for bloodline purification, and she resolved to undertake the ritual before Cheng Tian could outpace her.
• Cheng Tian upgraded his equipment and bought new gear for himself, Utan, Bazett, the War Elephant Mammoth, and the vehicles.
• Eileen teased Cheng Tian about remembering her human appearance, kicked him, and then used the World Tree branch to teleport away for purification.
• Cheng Tian activated the Black Pearl Shard and entered the Ys: Origin instance, where the Space warned that his titles would make Leya and Fina panic.

Cheng Tian entered the Ys: Origin dungeon as a mercenary of the Clan of Darkness, alongside Bazett and Wutan, and found himself at the top of the Black Tower. As Dares began an operation against the Twin Goddesses, Cheng Tian learned that spatial-transfer spells had been blocked throughout the tower.

• The dungeon briefing assigned Cheng Tian the mission to capture Leya and Fina and seize the Black Pearl, with additional quests to collect three divine artifacts and pursue the Black Pearl.
• Cheng Tian surveyed the Black Tower and realized his titles had placed him in the villain faction, the Clan of Darkness.
• Cheng Tian saw that Bazett and Wutan had accompanied him as fellow mercenaries.
• Saba introduced the Clan of Darkness's Obstructive Transfer Magic as Dares lowered his staff and the spell enveloped the tower.
• Dares's spell prevented spatial-transfer spells from working within the Black Tower's range.

Dares assigned Cheng Tian and the Clan of Darkness to search the Black Tower for the Twin Goddesses and deal with the Temple Knights. When Saba challenged Cheng Tian to prove his strength, he accepted and loaded the Oni-Hunter template.

• Dares tasked his subordinates with finding the Twin Goddesses who had entered the Black Tower with the Black Pearl and singled out Cheng Tian for the mission.
• Cheng Tian drew hostility from Epona, Kishigal, and Thor, while Dares left the remaining assignments to Saba.
• Saba challenged Cheng Tian to fight over who would choose an area of the tower to explore first.
• Cheng Tian accepted Saba's challenge and summoned an energy whip.
• The system loaded the Reinforced Protagonist Template based on Onimusha 3, Oni-Hunter/Jacob Brown, for Cheng Tian.

Cheng Tian loaded the Oni-Hunter template, gaining new armaments and skills, while Bazett stepped forward to fight Kishigal with her enhanced strength. Their clash began before Dares ordered the Clan of Darkness to seek the goddess and the Black Pearl.

• Cheng Tian loaded the Oni-Hunter template and received the Ghost Gauntlet, Demon Whip, and Oni-ification-related abilities.
• Bazett moved in front of Cheng Tian and claimed the fight against Kishigal as her bodyguard’s duty.
• Cheng Tian’s equipment had raised Bazett’s Strength to 44, with Ogre’s Wrath able to boost it to 50.
• Bazett challenged Kishigal, who questioned whether Cheng Tian was hiding behind a woman, and she rebuked him.
• Bazett struck Kishigal’s axe haft with a punch, forcing him back and earning his recognition as an opponent.
• Dares ordered the Clan of Darkness to find the goddess and the Black Pearl.

Cheng Tian's group was assigned to search the Black Tower's lowest floor, where the Ys Kingdom's rescuers might also be searching for the goddess. After learning that the Black Crystal could activate teleportation anchors but reveal recent activity, Cheng Tian left the nearby Evil God Statue untouched and entered the tower.

• Dares stopped the conflict between his subordinates and assigned Cheng Tian's group to explore the lowest floor of the Black Tower.
• Saba gave Bazett a Black Crystal that could corrupt Goddess Statues, activate Evil God Statues, and enable spatial transfer between them.
• Cheng Tian learned that Ys Kingdom forces could purify the statues and use them as teleportation anchors, making control of the statues contested.
• Saba urged Cheng Tian to fight for Dares, then teleported away after he said he knew how to use the Black Crystal.
• Cheng Tian took the Black Crystal and entered the Black Tower without activating the nearby Evil God Statue.
• Saba returned briefly, studied the unactivated statue, and vanished again.

Cheng Tian and Bazett entered the Black Tower’s Azure Cry Domain, where Bazett fought Skeleton Soldiers while Cheng Tian studied how the tower recycled monsters’ remains. Cheng Tian used the Ghost Gauntlet to absorb the returning magical energy, revealing its ability to collect souls and strengthen its wearer.

• Cheng Tian explained to Bazett that they were traitors within the Clan of Darkness and told her not to worry about the organization’s leader.
• Cheng Tian’s group entered the Black Tower’s first floor, the Azure Cry Domain, and encountered a squad of Skeleton Soldiers.
• Bazett smashed the Skeleton Soldiers while Cheng Tian assisted and observed their bodies and equipment returning to magical energy after death.
• Cheng Tian realized that the tower recycled the monsters’ magical energy, allowing them to be reborn.
• Cheng Tian summoned the Ghost Gauntlet, which absorbed the magical energy and revealed its soul-absorbing abilities and potential benefits.

Cheng Tian used the Ghost Gauntlet to sustain and strengthen his equipment while his group fought through the Black Tower. After they broke the barrier around an altar, the Ys Divine Artifact Wings of the Azure Sky resonated with his gauntlet and transformed his weapon into the Gale Blade, partially unsealing Fire Moth Wings.

• Cheng Tian absorbed Red Souls from defeated monsters and summoned a Skeleton Kicker with Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
• Bazett studied the Skeleton Kicker's Rider Kicks, and Cheng Tian gave her the Shock-absorbing Boots as the group fought through more skeleton units.
• Cheng Tian and his group defeated the Boss-level Skeleton Soldiers powering an altar's barrier and removed it.
• The altar's Wings of the Azure Sky resonated with Cheng Tian's Ghost Gauntlet, transforming it into the Gale Blade and granting him Tactical Shell.
• Cheng Tian's Fire Moth Wings were partially unsealed, allowing him to glide briefly while hovering in the air.

Cheng Tian used the Gale Blade and Fire Moth Wings to help his party cross obstacles, then blasted through a sealed door and a hidden wall with bombs. The person hiding beyond the wall recognized Cheng Tian’s Crystal Moluo Eye as Fakt’s Eye and asked if he belonged to the Fakt Family.

• Cheng Tian tested the Gale Blade’s cyclone barrier and gave the Fire Moth Wings to Bazett to help her glide and fight.
• Cheng Tian used a Seven Treasures Bomb to blast open a sealed Bronze Door that normally required a key.
• Cheng Tian sensed a person concealed behind a wall while Bazett and Skeleton Kicker fought the bats nearby.
• Cheng Tian planted another bomb and exposed the hidden room and its occupant, a gray-blue-haired young man resembling Shinpachi.
• The young man recognized Cheng Tian’s Crystal Moluo Eye as Fakt’s Eye and asked whether Cheng Tian was a member of the Fakt Family.

Cheng Tian tricked Liger Jema into believing he was a Fakt Family descendant, then learned that the goddesses were inside the Black Tower. After Liger gave him Klelia Ore to enhance his equipment, Cheng Tian asked Bazett whether it could be used to make the Counter-Light Sword.

• Cheng Tian passed off his Crystal Moluo Eye as Fakt's Eye and convinced Liger Jema that he was a Fakt Family descendant.
• Liger told Cheng Tian that he belonged to the goddess search party and explained that its members had been scattered by Obstructive Transfer Magic.
• Cheng Tian revealed that the goddesses had entered the Black Tower, prompting Liger to hurry off to report their whereabouts to the High Priest.
• Liger offered Cheng Tian a piece of Klelia Ore and promised to enhance his equipment when they met again.
• Cheng Tian gave the ore to Bazett and asked whether it could be used to make the Counter-Light Sword.

Cheng Tian secured Klelia Ore for Bazett’s Counter-Light Sword and gained another piece from Sacred Beast Ruto, which enhanced his Prince’s Sword to +7. He then confronted Yug Fakt, the heir who carried the true Fakt’s Eye, and their matching eye-based magic began to clash.

• Bazett confirmed that Klelia Ore was ideal for crafting a Counter-Light Sword, and Cheng Tian gave it to her to begin a twenty-four-hour conversion.
• Cheng Tian’s group looted Azure Cry Domain ahead of the goddess exploration team and befriended the hungry Sacred Beast Ruto by feeding him a Roda Fruit.
• Ruto repaid Cheng Tian with Klelia Ore and used it to enhance Cheng Tian’s Prince’s Sword from +6 to +7.
• Cheng Tian waited for a persistent pursuer and discovered that the newcomer was Yug Fakt, the legitimate heir and holder of Fakt’s Eye.
• Yug accused Cheng Tian of impersonating the Fakt family’s divine artifact, and both men prepared their eye-based magic for battle.

Cheng Tian fought Yug Fakt, whose Magic Burst enhanced his attacks, and defeated him by binding and overpowering him. Cheng Tian held Yug at his mercy and received the choice to kill or release him.

• Cheng Tian and Yug traded magical barrages, with Cheng Tian’s Golden Feather Arrows piercing Yug’s attacks before Yug blocked them with a Magic Shield.
• Yug realized Cheng Tian might wield Fakt’s Eye and became distracted, suspecting that his father had a child with a mistress.
• Cheng Tian exploited Yug’s hesitation, pulled himself toward him with a wind chain, and charged through Yug’s Magic Burst barrage using Primal Shell.
• Yug leaped backward to gain distance, but Cheng Tian bound him with the Demon Binding Technique and slammed him to the ground.
• Cheng Tian threatened to gouge out Yug’s eye, and Yug dismissed his Fakt’s Eye; the system then offered Cheng Tian a choice to kill or release him.

Cheng Tian defeated and restrained Yug Fakt, then lied that he was Cain Fakt’s illegitimate son and claimed he would take over the Fakt Family by defeating Cain. Yug accepted Cheng Tian’s identity and ideals, triggering a personal reputation unlock and a class advancement quest.

• Cheng Tian forced Yug to dispel Fakt's Eye while he was bound, leaving Yug unable to resist.
• Cheng Tian weighed killing Yug for a chance at valuable loot against releasing him and preserving the possibility of future encounters.
• Yug questioned Cheng Tian’s identity, and Cheng Tian claimed to be Cain Fakt’s illegitimate son.
• Cheng Tian declared that he would defeat Cain and become the Heart Shrine Priest, shocking Yug with his ambition.
• Yug acknowledged Cheng Tian’s identity and ideals, unlocking his personal reputation and triggering the quest “Old Bastard! Time to Give Up Your Seat!”

Cheng Tian accidentally triggered a hidden class advancement quest by convincing Yug Fakt that he was Cain Fakt’s illegitimate son who would challenge Cain. After gaining Yug’s trust and learning new techniques for using Fakt’s Eye, Cheng Tian told him that his older brother Thor Fakt was still alive.

• Cheng Tian received a quest to defeat Cain Fakt with the Crystal Moluo Eye and advance to Heart Shrine Priest, with an additional class slot as a reward.
• Yug believed Cheng Tian’s claim that he was Cain’s illegitimate son and accepted his challenge to their father.
• Cheng Tian introduced Bazett and Uhtan to Yug, then asked Yug to teach him techniques for using Fakt’s Eye.
• Yug’s guidance let Cheng Tian split up to four Crystal Moluo Eyes after transforming without spending additional MP on spell replication.
• Cheng Tian told Yug that Thor Fakt was still alive, shocking him.

Cheng Tian revealed the origin of the Black Pearl’s evil and explained that Thor had joined the Clan of Darkness to destroy it from within. He then exposed Thor’s feelings for Leya and began reciting the goddesses’ measurements before Fina appeared and hurled him away.

• Cheng Tian told Yug that the Black Pearl gathered humanity’s negative emotions, which formed The Evil of This World and spawned monsters.
• Cheng Tian explained that the Twin Goddesses could seal the Black Pearl, or someone sharing its origin could try to destroy it from within.
• Cheng Tian revealed that Thor had survived, accepted the Demon Factor, and joined the Clan of Darkness as part of his plan to destroy The Evil of This World.
• Yug learned that Thor had feelings for Leya, and Cheng Tian criticized Thor and the Twin Goddesses for their secrecy and self-sacrifice.
• Cheng Tian started listing the goddesses’ measurements, and Fina appeared and flung him through the air.

Cheng Tian exposed the Twin Goddesses’ secrets and accused them of arrogance for hiding their plans instead of trusting humanity to help. He left Yug asking who the traitor was after Cheng Tian suggested Cain was involved.

• Fina heard Cheng Tian’s revelations, teleported to him, and struck him for exposing the goddesses’ private affairs.
• Yug asked Fina whether Cheng Tian’s claims were true, and Fina’s silence confirmed them.
• Cheng Tian argued that Fina and Leya had kept their secret sacrifices out of arrogance and urged them to let humanity help solve the crisis.
• Yug asked Cheng Tian to identify the traitor, and Cheng Tian linked his plan to take down Cain to the answer.

Fina admitted that Cain Fakt and the other Shrine Priests were suspected of betraying Ys, while the goddesses found themselves trapped in the Black Tower after the Scorching Flame Domain’s Goddess Statue was corrupted. Cheng Tian agreed to help Fina climb back up the tower, and their powers resonated, granting him her blessing and triggering an exclusive quest.

• Fina confirmed that the Twin Goddesses suspected the Six Shrine Priests of leaking information about the monster invasion, and Yug ran off to confront his father, Cain Fakt.
• Fina realized that bringing the Black Pearl into the Black Tower had placed the goddesses in danger, then discovered she could no longer teleport because the Goddess Statue in the Scorching Flame Domain had been corrupted.
• Cheng Tian found that a Black Crystal could reach the Scorching Flame Domain but could not teleport Fina with him, so he proposed that they fight their way back up the tower.
• Fina questioned Cheng Tian about his identity and purpose, and he told her that he was a player whose objective was to clear the tower.
• Fina challenged Cheng Tian to take on her trouble, and their powers resonated, granting him Goddess’s Grace (Red Moon) and triggering the exclusive side quest Sun and Moon Shine Together.

Cheng Tian’s Sun God power increased Fina’s magic and changed her view of him, opening a possible alternative to sacrificing the Twin Goddesses to seal the Black Pearl. He received a new quest to work with Fina to find Leya in the Black Tower, then asked Fina for rope.

• Cheng Tian’s Solar Blessing boosted Fina’s magical power by 15%, and she realized he wielded the Sun God’s authority.
• Fina’s reputation toward Cheng Tian rose to Friendly, and his main quest changed to Sun and Moon Shine Together.
• Cheng Tian considered whether stronger Sun God power could let the Twin Goddesses seal the Black Pearl without sacrificing themselves or destroy The Evil of This World.
• Cheng Tian discovered that Goddess’s Favor had given Purifying Light an extra charge and considered using it against the Black Pearl’s evil.
• Cheng Tian asked Fina to get some rope, and she understood what he intended.

Cheng Tian led his group through the Black Tower at speed, flying Fina like a kite before summoning two giant beasts to overwhelm the first floor’s guardian. They defeated Iron Arm Beast Bellagonda, clearing the way to the second floor.

• Cheng Tian had Bazett tow Fina through the Black Tower like a kite while he led the group past ordinary monsters.
• Cheng Tian reached the Beast Demon Gate and summoned the War Elephant Mammoth and Crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex in the arena.
• Iron Arm Beast Bellagonda appeared as the guardian of the Azure Cry Domain and roared at the group.
• Cheng Tian ordered the two beasts to attack Bellagonda, and they knocked it down and pinned it.
• Bazett activated Ogre's Wrath and pried open Bellagonda's metal skull, killing it with repeated strikes.