Chapter Summaries

City Lord Claude gathered the nobles and two Saint Domain Experts to condemn Tina Garcia’s actions and led a procession to Unicorn Town to call her to account. Tina had learned of their plans from Su Yu and prepared a response, then greeted the arriving delegation.

• Nobles accused Tina Garcia of overstepping her authority and harming civilians, while Franken and Gracie agreed that her actions violated Imperial Military Law.
• Claude persuaded the nobles to travel to Unicorn Town, and Gracie arranged for her brother Kelton Windsor to go in her place.
• Sky Dragon sent a report of the meeting to Su Yu, then asked whether his promise to be her boyfriend four years later still stood; he said it did.
• The next morning, Claude led the nobles in a large convoy to Unicorn Town, where Tina greeted him, Franken, and the other hovering experts.

Tina avoided a confrontation with Claude by promising not to deploy troops without orders, then advanced her reforms through public revelations of wealth inequality in Unicorn Town and Oran City. The protests intensified class conflict, and nobles retaliated with a smear campaign as the Saintess of Oran City route reached Ring 50.

• Claude confronted Tina over mobilizing troops without authorization, but she agreed to follow military regulations and returned to the military camp.
• Claude had Ovi confirm that magical footage of the confrontation had been recorded, and the nobles went home without further action.
• Tina used Su Yu's investigation to expose the Windsor Family's, the Hots Family's, and other major families' accounts in Unicorn Town, prompting residents to protest the unequal distribution of income.
• Tina distributed 64 million Psionic Coins to Oran City's residents and publicized noble accounts, leading commoners to demand higher taxes on the rich and educational reform.
• Oran City's nobles suppressed the protests and spread accusations and false rumors about Tina, while public opinion turned chaotic.
• The mission reached Ring 50, the Final Ring of the Saintess of Oran City route.

City Lord Claude gathered Gracie Windsor and Franken Jean to discuss Tina Garcia’s role in Oran City’s unrest and proposed killing her to protect the nobles’ interests. Su Yu learned of the plot through Sky Dragon’s private messages and suspected it was the mission for the Final Ring of the second stage, but he did not know who Claude’s outside ally was.

• Claude summoned Sky Dragon, who explained that Tina was stirring unrest to help the Princess win public support when she arrived in Oran City.
• Claude urged Gracie and Franken to join him in killing Tina, offering them the return of the Unicorn Knight Order and a seventh-rank Eye of the Demonic Flame Dragon as incentives.
• Gracie hesitated, while Franken asked whether they could prevent Tina from escaping; Claude claimed an outside ally would ensure she could not get away.
• Claude ordered Sky Dragon to watch Tina and report her whereabouts, promising her a reward.
• At the Unicorn military camp, Su Yu read Sky Dragon’s private messages and identified Claude’s plan as a likely mission for the Final Ring of the second stage.

Tina and Su Yu faced an attack by City Lord Claude and his allies after Antonidas sealed teleportation magic around them. Princess Alijeh arrived with overwhelming power and blocked the assault, leaving Claude’s group in serious danger.

• Tina escorted a supply convoy toward Oran City with Su Yu, Fiona, and the Unicorn Knights when Claude and his force approached.
• Tina prepared her teleportation ring, but Antonidas appeared and used Space Lockdown to disable teleportation magic within five kilometers.
• Claude revealed his intent to capture Tina and ordered Gracie, Franken, and Antonidas to attack her and Su Yu.
• Gracie and Franken chose to fight alongside Claude, while Antonidas targeted Su Yu with a control spell.
• Princess Alijeh arrived and raised a Giant Ice Wall that shattered Franken’s spell and stopped Claude and Gracie’s charge.

Princess Alijeh arrived in Oran City and defeated the city’s conspirators, binding Antonidas, Gracie Windsor, and Franken Jean to Soul Slave Contracts. Tina killed Claude, ending the Strafe family’s rule over Oran City.

• Alijeh arrived and found Su Yu holding hands with Tina before confronting Claude and his allies.
• Alijeh overwhelmed the four men, then offered Antonidas a three-year Soul Slave Contract in exchange for sparing his life and promising not to make him attack Rhine Empire civilians.
• Antonidas signed the contract, and Gracie Windsor and Franken Jean accepted contracts as well.
• Alijeh rejected Claude’s plea for mercy and let Tina attack him.
• Tina killed Claude after a fierce battle, and nine Tier 5 experts pledged loyalty to Alijeh.

During Tina and Claude’s battle, Su Yu warned Sky Dragon that Flandre would be important in the next expansion’s main storyline. After Tina killed Claude, Alijeh recruited her as Empire Vice Marshal and rewarded Su Yu with rare materials, which he used to create Zhonya’s Hourglass.

• Alijeh watched Tina and Claude fight while her favorability toward Su Yu fluctuated, and an invisible barrier kept him from approaching her.
• Su Yu told Sky Dragon that Flandre would be important to the next expansion’s main storyline and urged her to keep an eye on her.
• Tina killed Claude and reported the mission’s success to Alijeh.
• Alijeh appointed Tina Empire Vice Marshal, then gave Su Yu three high-tier Monster Materials from Xifan’s treasury.
• Su Yu completed the Saintess of Oran City storyline and combined Stopwatch, Explorer's Bracer, and Demon Codex into Zhonya’s Hourglass.

After Alijeh departed for Forest City, Su Yu learned that his two Main Storylines had merged into the Ultimate Main Storyline. Meanwhile, Snowflake delivered Su Yu’s letter to Anduin Wrynn, asking for help improving the Magic Pool in Su Yu’s territory.

• Alijeh flew toward Forest City with Tina, her star-controlled companions, and the City Lord’s Manor experts following her.
• Su Yu received notice that the Oran City and Broom Empire Main Storylines had merged into the Ultimate Main Storyline—Golden Flower Empire.
• Su Yu told Sky Dragon he planned to return to his territory and activate the Magic Pool.
• Snowflake presented Su Yu’s letter to Anduin Wrynn outside the Imperial Council building in Palomia City.
• Anduin read Su Yu’s request for Lord Thor to enchant his Magic Pool with a top-tier Thunderforged Blessing.

Su Yu’s offer of Xifan’s Soul Fragment persuaded Anduin to arrange for Lord Thor to enchant Su Yu’s Magic Pool. At Su Yu’s Mage Tower, he inspected the newly completed rare-quality Magic Pool and waited for the distinguished guest as lightning flashed outside.

• Anduin accepted Su Yu’s terms after learning he could exchange Xifan’s Soul Fragment for an enchantment, and promised Lord Thor would arrive in Oran City that afternoon.
• Snowflake told Su Yu that Anduin had agreed and offered to move in and cook for him, but Su Yu declined and redirected her to a Hidden Quest in Truffle Town.
• Su Yu arrived at his Mage Tower, where Kacie showed him its unfinished interior and the Magic Pool built by Grand Mage Li York and his apprentices.
• Su Yu inspected the Magic Pool’s attributes and found it had reached the upper limit for rare quality.
• Su Yu told Kacie they were waiting for a distinguished guest, and a forked lightning bolt flashed beyond the window.

Lord Thor came to enchant Su Yu’s Magic Pool, and they agreed to use the Heart of the Blazing Thunder Dragon for a stronger upgrade in exchange for four of Xifan’s Soul Fragments. After six hours of work, the enchantment was complete, and Su Yu hurried to inspect the Magic Pool.

• Lord Thor arrived in Apuxi City, ignored Alex and Camilla, and entered Su Yu’s Mage Tower to inspect the Magic Pool.
• Lord Thor offered a 30% performance increase, then proposed using the Heart of the Blazing Thunder Dragon to raise it to 70% in exchange for ten Soul Fragments; he and Su Yu bargained down to four.
• Su Yu bought four Soul Fragments from the Princess for 80 million Psionic Coins and returned to the Mage Tower, where Lord Thor was waiting with the dragon’s heart.
• Lord Thor began enchanting the Magic Pool as Su Yu, Alex, and the others watched lightning envelop the Mage Tower for six hours.
• Lord Thor announced that the enchantment was complete, and Su Yu rushed to the third floor to see the Magic Pool.

Lord Thor enchanted Su Yu’s magic pool, raising its quality to Legendary and greatly improving its efficiency. Su Yu activated and bound the pool, began refining monster materials, and leveled up to 36 as players across the game and Xue Wenli watched.

• Lord Thor transformed the magic pool with the Heart of the Blazing Thunder Dragon, boosting its stats to Legendary quality, then accepted Xifan’s Soul Fragment and departed.
• Su Yu restricted access to the Mage Tower and had Kacie sort the monster materials delivered by guild players.
• Su Yu instructed Kacie to add specific materials to the pool, then activated and bound it to himself for fivefold magic absorption efficiency.
• Su Yu absorbed the refined magic, gained experience rapidly, and reached Level 36.
• Players celebrated Kexing’s level-up and debated how soon he would reach Level 50, while Xue Wenli smiled at the illuminated level display in her office.

Su Yu reached Level 50 and advanced to the third tier after two and a half days of cultivating with the Magic Pool. Chancellor Cao visited to congratulate him, discuss his plans, and offer to help stabilize his realm with a medicinal bath.

• Su Yu refined monster materials in the Mage Tower and reached Level 50, becoming a third-tier mage in two and a half days.
• Su Yu logged out and found that the magical surge from his breakthrough had destroyed his bed and furniture.
• Chancellor Cao visited Su Yu to congratulate him on advancing and remarked on how quickly the game had increased his strength.
• Su Yu told Chancellor Cao that he planned to keep cultivating until he reached the fourth tier before taking on the next Main Storyline quests.
• Chancellor Cao offered to prepare a medicinal bath to stabilize Su Yu's unsteady new realm, and Su Yu accepted gratefully.

Su Yu agreed to travel to Skrull Star with Chancellor Cao and Old Zhu in two months, once they had recovered to the sixth tier. Over the next five days, he continued strengthening himself while Chancellor Cao’s guild began building its territory.

• Chancellor Cao asked Su Yu to take him and Old Zhu to Skrull Star, then transformed into a little fox to show he could disguise himself.
• Su Yu agreed to go with them in two months, after they recovered to the sixth tier, and warned them that returning alive would still be uncertain.
• Su Yu spent the next five days training in the game and consolidating his foundation with Chancellor Cao’s medicinal baths.
• Snowflake Leopard used Su Yu’s accessory to obtain a coastal territory for the Relevant Department guild and began construction.
• Players followed Su Yu’s level on the game’s ranking board and commented on his progress.

Su Yu reached Level 60 and advanced to Tier 4, then decided to focus on the third stage of the Main Storyline instead of burning more materials to level. After thanking Kacie and arranging payment for her work, he rode Tima to the teleportation array and headed for Oran City.

• Players across the leveling zones watched Su Yu's ranking, and at 2:06 p.m. he reached Level 60 to cheers from the players.
• Su Yu's breakthrough shredded his clothes and disabled most of his equipment, so he quickly put on a spare robe.
• Su Yu checked his status panel and calculated that his stored resources could raise him close to Peak Tier 6, but he chose to tackle the third-stage quests instead.
• Kacie asked whether Su Yu would continue cultivating, and he thanked her for her work before joking that they should burn materials for another month.
• Su Yu told Kacie to collect 100,000 Psionic Coins from Winged God Dragon, then said goodbye and rode Tima toward the teleportation array.
• Su Yu traveled through Apuxi City as players greeted him, then boarded the array bound for Oran City.

Su Yu arrived in Oran City as the Callet rebels closed in and prepared to meet Princess Alijeh and Tina Garcia for a strategy meeting. On the way, he discovered his Experience Crystal Stone held over fifty million Experience Points and hastily stopped Kelderon from touching it.

• The Callet rebels advanced on Oran City with 700,000 troops after taking most of the empire, while Princess Alijeh's forces prepared to defend the city.
• Su Yu reviewed his plans to strengthen his foundation, obtain fourth-tier equipment, and collect third- and fourth-tier mage Skill Books.
• Su Yu reached the palace, where Kelderon welcomed him and led him toward Princess Alijeh and Tina Garcia.
• Su Yu's Main Storyline updated with a mission to attend the pre-battle strategy meeting, and he realized his Experience Crystal Stone had stored 50.246 million Experience Points.
• Su Yu summoned the crystal, then quickly put it away when Kelderon reached to touch it, and urged Kelderon to continue leading him through the palace.

Su Yu returned to the palace and reunited with Tina and Princess Alijeh, who both noticed his rapid rise to Tier 4. Alijeh offered him a Root-Strengthening Potion in exchange for infiltrating the rebels, while the war remained grim despite Tina's recent victories.

• Su Yu arrived during a military meeting, then Tina embraced him after the ministers and officers began leaving.
• Alijeh reprimanded Tina for neglecting their agreement to put affairs of state first, and both women noticed Su Yu had reached Tier 4.
• Tina offered Su Yu access to the Advanced Secret Realm to strengthen his foundation, while Alijeh offered him a Root-Strengthening Potion for intelligence gathered from rebel headquarters.
• Su Yu accepted Alijeh's infiltration quest, which promised one Root-Strengthening Potion as its reward.
• Su Yu asked about the war, and Alijeh said Tina's command had helped the empire win several battles, though the situation remained grim.

Kexing gathered intelligence in the rebel camp for Princess Alijeh, earning a Root-Strengthening Potion and a new mission to secure supplies from Pearl City. He set out to deliver Alijeh’s letter to Michel Delanc and bring back supplies for the army.

• Alijeh gave Kexing a map of the rebel camp and asked him to investigate the locations marked on it; Tina gave him a badge to use with Fiona to access the Advanced Secret Realm.
• After Kexing left, Alijeh and Tina agreed to focus on the war before competing fairly for his attention, and Tina described the firearms and cannons shipped from Kexing’s territory.
• Kexing infiltrated the rebel camp, collected the Sixth Legion Operation Directive, the “Night Owl Plan” battle plan, and the Atlant Command Room Strategic Operation Essentials, then returned to Oran City.
• Alijeh praised Kexing and rewarded him with a Root-Strengthening Potion, which could permanently increase his base attributes.
• Alijeh assigned Kexing to deliver her letter to Pearl City’s lord, Michel Delanc, recruit 20,000 players, and return with the supplies Michel had prepared.

Su Yu met Pearl City Lord Michelle Delanc and learned that Princess was preparing a decisive battle against the rebels with help from the elven regent. Michelle led Su Yu and the players to a warehouse filled with supplies for Oran City, though Su Yu remained suspicious of how freely she had revealed the secret.

• Su Yu gathered twenty thousand players, placed Range is Truth and Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon in charge, and took them to Pearl City.
• Su Yu gave Michelle Delanc the Princess's letter, and Michelle agreed to hand supplies over to the players for transport to Oran City.
• Michelle revealed that the Princess planned a decisive battle against the rebels and had asked her to recruit the elven regent by offering to return the Eternal Crown.
• Su Yu questioned why Michelle had disclosed such a sensitive plan, but he could not determine what was wrong.
• Michelle led Su Yu and the players to a southern warehouse containing twenty thousand crates of supplies for Oran City.

Su Yu led the players out of Pearl City with military supply crates they had to carry overland, while growing suspicious of City Lord Michelle. Recalling that Pearl City later came under royal rule and was led by Ralfa Gorse Flower, Su Yu suspected Michelle might betray the Princess and resolved to tell Alijeh.

• Old Li discovered that each player could carry only one supply crate and that carrying it prevented teleportation, so the players would have to travel overland to Oran City.
• Su Yu led 20,000 players carrying crates out of Pearl City after saying farewell to Michelle.
• Su Yu told Old Li that Michelle had not discussed payment or checked the goods, which seemed unlike Pearl City's merchants.
• Old Li suggested using Su Yu's ability to foresee the future to assess whether Michelle would remain city lord after the first Expansion Pack.
• Su Yu recalled that Ralfa Gorse Flower had become Pearl City's city lord in his previous life, leading him to suspect Michelle was a traitor and decide to tell Alijeh.

Su Yu rejected Old Li’s plan to split up and revealed that he could bring fifteen Tier 4 talents from his territory to support the mission. With the power imbalance now in their favor, he led the players west to confront the rebels.

• Old Li proposed splitting up to transport supplies because the rebels had 30,000 players and regular troops, but Su Yu insisted on advancing together to secure a higher mission completion rate.
• Su Yu contacted Winged God Dragon, and Kacie, Merk, and thirteen other Tier 4 talents arrived through a portal outside Pearl City's west gate.
• Old Li and the players were stunned by Su Yu’s fifteen Tier 4 powerhouses, and Su Yu explained that his territory’s talents could participate in the mission.
• Old Li agreed that the group could confront the rebels head-on, and Su Yu led the players west.

Su Yu led the Imperial-side players and fifteen fourth-tier experts to overwhelm the rebels, earning an SSS rating and rewards after reaching Oran City. He collected the players’ quest turn-ins, then reported to Princess Alijeh, who rewarded him with four Root-Strengthening Potions for bringing back 18,000 crates of supplies.

• News of Su Yu’s fifteen fourth-tier fighters spread across the Official Forum, and rebel-side players feared they could not win.
• Su Yu’s Imperial-side force crushed the rebels’ defenses and advanced to Oran City with a 90% survival rate.
• The campaign earned an SSS rating, granting Su Yu four Root-Strengthening Potions and giving players bonus rewards and equipment.
• Su Yu collected the players’ quest turn-ins, increasing his Experience Crystal Stones from 50.25 million to 52.05 million, and decided to save the points.
• Su Yu sent Kacie and the fifteen experts back to the territory, then met Princess Alijeh and Tina at the palace.
• Alijeh and Tina praised Su Yu for bringing back 18,000 crates of supplies, and Alijeh handed him four Root-Strengthening Potions.