Recaps

Heiserana’s strange dreams led Hao Ren and Vivian to examine her, but the tests found nothing wrong. During her visit, the little weakling briefly glowed and fell silent, prompting Hao Ren to keep a closer watch on her.

• Vivian suspected Heiserana had inherited memories from her and ruled out an illusion after examining their spiritual connection.
• Hao Ren took Heiserana home and examined her in a medical pod, which showed that she was healthy.
• The little weakling emerged from a mouse hole and attacked Heiserana and Izax with Shadow Arrows before Heiserana learned she was an Evil Spirit split from Vivian.
• The little weakling suddenly became quiet and glowed briefly, then returned to her usual babbling.
• Hao Ren decided to monitor the little weakling more closely and consult Raven 12345 if anything more serious happened.

Three years after the Beinz incident, Hao Ren, Lily, and Vivian returned to Horleta and heard how the events had become popular bardic tales. They went to visit Becky, but learned she had joined the Royal Knights' Order and was away on an escort mission until the next day.

• Hao Ren, Lily, and Vivian listened to a bard perform a version of the Beinz battle and discussed how Becky had become its celebrated heroine.
• Hao Ren and his companions left the tavern to surprise Becky at her manor outside the capital.
• The manor steward told them Becky was away in the Dark Mountain Range on a royal escort mission, serving as a high-ranking officer of the Royal Knights' Order.
• Hao Ren and his companions decided to stay at the manor and wait for Becky to return the next day.

Hao Ren and his companions reunited with Becky at her estate and learned about her new life as a Royal Knight commander. He explained that he needed her and Marshal Ofra’s help to secure Horleta’s cooperation in moving Dream Plane refugees through the Wall of Reality.

• Hao Ren asked Becky's butler about the Dark Mountain Range and the magical energy burst that had drawn royal mages there.
• Becky returned to her estate with the Royal Knights and greeted Hao Ren, Lily, and Vivian as old friends.
• Becky explained that she had joined the knight order to pursue a fief and because noble social life bored her, while admitting she admired Marshal Ofra.
• Hao Ren told Becky that he needed her and Marshal Ofra’s help with a plan to move Dream Plane refugees through the Wall of Reality.
• Hao Ren said the plan required cooperation from Horleta at the national level.

Hao Ren arranged for Horleta to receive a delegation of survivors from Earth and asked Marshal Ofra to help prepare for their visit and gather the Ancient Species. Becky then described strange disturbances in the Dark Mountain Range, and Hao Ren connected their first energy eruption to the day Lockmadon was destroyed and the Kolo World returned to the Material Universe.

• Hao Ren explained the survivors’ situation to Marshal Ofra, who asked how their possible return would affect Horleta.
• Hao Ren promised that any future return would be controlled and agreed upon, then outlined plans for Horleta to host a delegation and share its history and cultures.
• Marshal Ofra agreed to report the expedition to His Majesty Moron and gather her Ancient Species clansmen for Hao Ren.
• Becky described energy fluctuations and strange sightings in the Dark Mountain Range, where a Royal Mage Association team and guards were investigating.
• Hao Ren ruled out the Firstborn and realized the first eruption had occurred on the day Lockmadon was destroyed and the Kolo World returned to the Material Universe.

Hao Ren's group traveled to the Dark Mountain Range to investigate a surge of energy that had occurred on the day they opened Kolo Prison. They reached the Ancient Magic Empire's dangerous testing grounds, where the Data Terminal detected numerous active and dormant energy sources and Becky explained what remained of the old legends.

• Hao Ren connected the energy pulse in the Dark Mountain Range to the day they opened Kolo Prison, while Vivian warned that the coincidence might matter as they prepared to bring survivors through the Wall of Reality.
• Ofra approved Hao Ren's request to investigate the range, and Becky joined the expedition despite complaining that she wanted time to relax.
• Two days later, Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily, and Becky arrived at the Dark Mountain Range in Horleta's southeast.
• The Data Terminal detected more than thirty active energy points, hundreds of dormant reactions, and signs that the range's three peaks had been artificially modified.
• Becky explained that the range had been an Ancient Magic Empire testing ground and that the Wall of Lorisa had isolated its three peaks for ten thousand years.

Hao Ren and his companions crossed the Dark Mountain Range and reached the Horleta Royal Family’s observation camp near an ancient ruin. There, Archmage Haimo welcomed Hao Ren and began explaining his discoveries beneath the ruins.

• Becky explained how the Wall of Lorisa affected visitors and creatures inside the Dark Mountain Range as she guided the group into the mountains.
• Lily detected magical beasts, but her growl scared off a shadow in the trees, and she hid behind Hao Ren when Becky mentioned stronger creatures deeper inside.
• Hao Ren and his companions traveled through the outer region without being attacked and reached the investigation team’s camp among ancient ruins.
• The camp guards recognized Becky, opened the gates, and told the group that Archmage Haimo was waiting for them.
• Haimo greeted Hao Ren and revealed that he had helped with earlier work involving the Firstborn, Hodius Fortress, and Hao Ren’s crystal mine.
• At Becky’s request, Haimo explained that new energy fluctuations had appeared and that he was close to unlocking the second gate, behind which he had found perfectly preserved ancient facilities.

Hao Ren and Archmage Haimo explored an ancient Magic Empire ruin that appeared to have been preserved for ten thousand years. The Data Terminal confirmed that time had once been frozen there but had recently begun flowing again, possibly because an energy explosion damaged the structure.

• Archmage Haimo led Hao Ren and the others through the cave entrance the investigation team had uncovered.
• Haimo explained that an earthquake had opened a passage into the otherwise sealed ruins, and Vivian sent bats ahead to check that the area was safe.
• Hao Ren entered the ruins and examined the vast hall, its ancient doors, and a ceiling depicting a detailed star map.
• Haimo described signs that the laboratories had been active and their owners had left only moments before the team arrived.
• The Data Terminal measured a ten-thousand-year age difference between the hall and the outer cave, and concluded that time had recently resumed after an energy explosion damaged a Spacetime Structure.

Hao Ren and the others investigated the time-frozen ruin and discovered that its laboratories were prototypes for creating Perfect Creatures. A surviving note suggested that divine cells found after an explosion became the key to the project that created the Demon Hunters.

• Hao Ren confirmed with the Data Terminal that time inside the ruin had once stopped, and he and the others began searching for clues.
• Hao Ren found the ruin remarkably clean and saw equipment that had only recently stopped working, further supporting the theory that time had been frozen.
• Hao Ren and Vivian recognized the laboratory devices as prototypes resembling the Origin Holy Artifact, and Haimo described similar equipment in four other laboratories.
• Hao Ren concluded that the ruin was the Ancient Magic Empire's original testing ground for creating Perfect Creatures and the birthplace of the Demon Hunters.
• Hao Ren read a laboratory note describing failed experiments, an explosive subject, and the discovery of compatible divine cells that could advance the project.

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the Creation Goddess may have ordered the Ancient Magic Empire to create the Demon Hunters, and concluded that the ruin was only an early experimental site. They opened the sealed second door, where Hao Ren sensed immediate danger.

• Hao Ren read notes suggesting the Demon Hunters were developed using divine cells under a revelation from the Creation Goddess.
• Lily reasoned that the ruin was an early experimental base and that the researchers had moved elsewhere to finish creating the first-generation Demon Hunters.
• Hao Ren and Haimo considered why the researchers had evacuated abruptly, and Lily suspected the cause lay behind the base’s second door.
• The Data Terminal decrypted the heavily sealed door after Haimo and his apprentices had failed to open it.
• Hao Ren had everyone step back as the door slid open, then felt an intense sense of danger.

Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily fought a powerful Sacred Flame Incarnation that escaped from the experimental base, while Haimo’s barrier failed to contain her. The enemy vanished from sight, and Lily sensed that she was still inside the hall.

• Hao Ren dodged the Sacred Flame Incarnation’s opening blast, which injured one Spellcaster apprentice, and clashed with her using his spears and swords.
• Hao Ren recognized that the flame-wreathed woman resembled Bai Huo’s Sacred Flame Incarnation, then joined Vivian and Lily in attacking her.
• The Sacred Flame Incarnation teleported beside the apprentices, but Haimo trapped her in an elemental barrier until she broke free.
• Hao Ren warned that the enemy resisted binding magic and ordered Becky to guard the exit while the Incarnation disappeared from view.
• The god-slaying sword speculated that the Incarnation had escaped, but Lily declared that she could still feel her in the hall.

Hao Ren and the others fought the resilient Sacred Flame Incarnation in the ruined hall, while Lily tried to use water for a powerful attack. After she accidentally drank strong liquor instead, she coughed out a blast that pierced through the mountain and into the sky.

• Lily sensed the Sacred Flame Incarnation appearing near the entrance and struck it with her plasma air blades before it could launch a sneak attack.
• Vivian hit the creature with a Lightning Storm, but it survived, weakened, and re-formed from the molten metal.
• Hao Ren ordered everyone to focus their attacks and wear down the Sacred Flame Incarnation as the knights and apprentices joined the fight.
• Lily asked the others for water, and Becky threw her a canteen without realizing it contained liquor.
• Lily choked on the liquor and unleashed a blast that pierced through the hall, the mountain, and the sky, leaving her nauseated.

Hao Ren and his companions defeated the Sacred Flame Incarnation, which transformed into an unconscious silver-haired elf woman. They explored the devastated area behind the Second Gate and discovered unfamiliar divine runes that Hao Ren recognized from the traitors’ armor at Sulun's Gate.

• Lily's Dog Cannon blasted the Sacred Flame Incarnation, but it re-formed before its energy finally ran out.
• The weakened Sacred Flame Incarnation transformed into an unconscious elf woman, whom Hao Ren restrained and placed under medical care.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, Becky, Haimo, and Lily passed through the Second Gate and found a hall devastated by magical energy and heat.
• Hao Ren found unfamiliar runes carved into the intact walls and recognized them from the traitors’ vehicle armor at Sulun's Gate.

Hao Ren and his companions uncovered evidence that Horleta’s ancient Magic Emperors had used God-slayer runes in their experiments, but the scale of the technology and the civilization’s motives remained unexplained. As they searched the ruined laboratory for the source of its divine power, the awakened elf identified herself as Lorisa.

• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily examined the runes and debated how the Magic Emperors could have obtained such advanced God-slayer technology while remaining devoted to the Goddess.
• Hao Ren and the Data Terminal concluded that an explosion in the central laboratory had destroyed the facility and likely caused the Sacred Flame Incarnation’s rampage, while the survivors sealed the base and continued their research elsewhere.
• Hao Ren found an elven-style bracelet among the wreckage and another on the unconscious elf, linking her to the laboratory’s central test site.
• Vivian questioned why time had stopped in the ruin, and Hao Ren and the Data Terminal proposed that the runes or the explosion had distorted spacetime.
• Hao Ren ordered everyone to search the central laboratory for the divine-power source used to create the first divine cells.
• A knight reported that the Sacred Flame Incarnation had awakened and said her name was Lorisa.

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the elf woman from the ancient ruin was Lorisa, the Elf Queen sealed for ten thousand years. After learning that the conspiracy she had tried to stop had succeeded and the world had changed, Lorisa accepted that the old era was gone.

• A knight identified the awakened elf as Lorisa, prompting Hao Ren and the others to investigate.
• Lorisa insisted she was Lorisa, resisted the restraints, and became confused as her sealed memories returned.
• Lorisa remembered that the divine oracle and divine power were fake and urgently warned that someone was stealing the Goddess's authority by fusing oracle cells with mortals.
• Hao Ren and Becky told Lorisa that ten thousand years had passed and explained the God-slaying War and the changes to Horleta.
• Lorisa doubted their account until Hao Ren offered to show her the transformed world, but she said she had expected the oracle to be false and had not expected matters to end so badly.

Hao Ren’s group discovered a True Word Stone Slab in the ruins and concluded that it had caused the laboratory’s time-stop, while the oracle it conveyed may have been falsified. They returned to Horleta’s royal capital with Lorisa, where Hao Ren questioned whether she truly was the Elf Queen from ten thousand years ago.

• Lily dug a True Word Stone Slab out from beneath the laboratory wreckage, and Hao Ren identified it as a record of the Creation Goddess’s words.
• Hao Ren determined that the slab had caused the ruins’ time-stop but that its oracle might have been altered or misinterpreted.
• Vivian pointed out that the slab was a suspicious way for the Creation Goddess to communicate with mortals, and Hao Ren stored it for later study.
• Hao Ren’s group left the ruins with Lorisa and traveled to the royal capital after sending their findings to the city.
• Lorisa saw the modern capital and murmured about the ten thousand years that had passed.
• Hao Ren asked Lorisa whether she really was Lorisa, the Elf Queen.

Hao Ren questioned Lorisa’s identity, and she revealed that she was a clone of the Elf Magic Emperor with only part of the original’s memories. She recounted how the Magic Emperors believed the Creation Goddess had instructed them to study the creation of life, but a dark shadow hidden in the divine revelation drove her mind and the experiment into chaos.

• Hao Ren asked Lorisa whether she was truly the Elf Queen and connected her to the failed Life Tree Plan.
• Lorisa explained that she was a clone of the Magic Emperor Lorisa, carrying some of the original’s memories and personality but knowing nothing about events after the laboratory accident.
• Lorisa said the Magic Emperors had created her because ordinary people could not withstand divine grace, and that she had been unable to endure the deeper information in the revelation.
• Lorisa told Hao Ren that the four Magic Emperors had believed the Creation Goddess’s revelation that mortals were ready to learn the secrets of creating life.
• Lorisa recalled finding a mad, dark shadow hidden within the Goddess’s power, then losing contact with the outside world as she fought its restraint and caused the energy to run wild.

Lorisa explained how the Horleta Magic Emperors were deceived into experimenting with the True Word Stone Slab and how she became its first successful vessel. She revealed that the power she encountered was a dark consciousness impersonating the Creation Goddess, leaving Hao Ren and his companions with proof that the ancient divine oracle had been a fraud.

• Lorisa reconstructed the history of the experiment from her inherited memories and the years she had personally lived as the Elf Queen’s shadow.
• She explained that the Creation Goddess had supposedly promised Horleta’s Magic Emperors the secret of life, after which Drian obtained the True Word Stone Slab and organized a joint research effort.
• The Magic Emperors discovered that mortals could not withstand the slab’s power, so they created Lorisa as a vessel rather than risking themselves.
• Lorisa described the plan to combine artificial divine cells with power transformed from the slab, and said she had lost herself during the implantation experiment.
• Lorisa demonstrated that her body could transform divine power into sacred flame and told Hao Ren and Vivian that the consciousness she encountered was dark, evil, and not the true Goddess.

Hao Ren and his companions exposed the false oracle that had led Lorisa’s ancient Magic Empire into creating the Demon Hunters, then helped Lorisa prepare to meet King Moron. After the king accepted that she was a clone, Ofra confronted Lorisa about creating the Ancient Species and left without pursuing her accusation.

• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily concluded that the oracle Lorisa had received was fake and questioned who had used it to manipulate the Magic Empire.
• Lorisa explained that the oracle had also given her the runes used in the central laboratory, and Hao Ren recognized them as God-slaying runes.
• Hao Ren advised Lorisa to present herself to King Moron as an ordinary elf clone, and she agreed to follow his plan.
• Hao Ren and the others explained Lorisa’s circumstances to King Moron and his advisers, easing the king’s wariness.
• Ofra stayed behind after the meeting, asked Lorisa about creating the Ancient Species, then left after saying she was glad to have met her race’s creators.

After returning to Becky’s manor, Hao Ren asked Lorisa to help investigate how divine power transformed mortal cells, and she agreed to join him despite her suspicions. Three days later, the Homecoming Group prepared to depart for the Dream Plane, and light gates opened for the invited travelers.

• Hao Ren explained that Lorisa was an ideal sample for studying the transformation between mortal cells and divine power, and she agreed to cooperate and travel with him.
• Hao Ren arranged for Lorisa to stay at Becky’s manor while he prepared the Homecoming Group’s return to Earth.
• Three days later, Bai Huo, Hassu, and other Demon Hunters waited at the Arctic fortress as the departure time arrived.
• Heiserana, Jean Lucas, Hesperis, and other supernatural leaders gathered at the Athens Sanctuary, while Casa Eben and Euen Eben waited in their werewolf clan’s realm.
• Light gates opened before the invited travelers gathered across the world.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 opened teleportation gates around Earth to gather the chosen supernatural representatives for a journey beyond the world. The travelers arrived at Kuiper Station, where Hao Ren welcomed them and prepared to lead them aboard.

• Light gates appeared in sanctuaries and secluded places worldwide, and representatives including Hassu, Jean Lucas, Heiserana, and Katerina set out through them.
• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 confirmed that the travelers had been gathered safely and discussed bringing a perfect specimen and the Dream Plane's Ancient Species for testing.
• Bai Huo arrived at a futuristic silver-white station and followed a guiding beam through the hall.
• The chosen representatives gathered tensely at Kuiper Station, keeping their distance from rival groups, especially the Demon Hunters.
• Hao Ren arrived with Lady Vivian, Lily, Izax, and Erem Royal Guards, welcomed everyone to Kuiper Station, and offered to take them aboard.

Hao Ren led the chosen otherworldly beings through an imperial space station, explaining that their homeland lay in the Dream Plane and that their journey would begin with a spaceship. The group was overwhelmed by the vast, unfamiliar world beyond Earth as they approached their first departure point.

• Hao Ren arrived with Erem Royal Guards, unsettling the chosen ones and establishing control over the group before their journey home.
• Hao Ren explained that the Day of Return prophecy had been false, but the Supernatural Race did have a distant homeland beyond Earth and their universe.
• Hao Ren told the group that their homeland was the Dream Plane and that they would travel by spaceship from the Kuiper Belt to a gate deep in the universe.
• The chosen ones crossed a transparent bridge and saw the space station’s immense interior, starry surroundings, and a formation of Hokel Mercenaries heading to a warship.
• Hao Ren explained that the mercenaries had been hired for a war in the Kansala-Ikan Nebula, while the Sirens took photos of the spectacle.

Hao Ren took a hundred Dream Plane survivors aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform on their first journey back to their homeland, guiding them through the Rift Nebula toward the Universe Gate. After revealing Purgatory and Yggdrasil to the passengers, he prepared the ship to enter the Dream Plane and ordered the drone swarm to monitor its cosmic parameters.

• Hao Ren led the Chosen Ones aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform and departed Kuiper Station under the temporary flight name “Sunset Homecoming Group.”
• Adeni surveyed the uneasy mix of supernatural races and Demon Hunters aboard the ship as they traveled through warped space.
• The spacecraft exited hyperspace, revealing the Rift Nebula, the Universe Gate, Purgatory, and Yggdrasil to the astonished passengers.
• Hao Ren explained that Purgatory and Yggdrasil lay beside the gate and urged the passengers to consult their travel dossiers.
• Hao Ren ordered the drone swarm to monitor the Dream Plane as the Giant Turtle Rock Platform entered the Universe Gate.

Hao Ren brought the one hundred chosen candidates through the Universe Gate into the Dream Plane, where the immense information impact from their ancestral ties remained within safe limits. The group began its homecoming tour at Horleta, as the first divine power fluctuation was detected.

• Jean Lucas and the other passengers experienced the dazzling journey through the Rift Nebula and the crossing of the Wall of Reality.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform emerged safely at the Koro Monitoring Station, where Hao Ren reviewed data showing that the passengers’ causal entanglement had caused a major but manageable information fluctuation.
• Hao Ren told the passengers that the Dream Plane was a separate universe and outlined their planned visits to Horleta, the lost planetary ruins, and the Siren homeland of Io.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform traveled to Horleta, where Jean Lucas recognized the planet as his people’s homeland and Marshal Ofra, Becky, and the others watched the ship arrive.
• Hao Ren received a report that the Bloodkin, Werewolf, and Thunder Giant bloodlines had reconnected with Horleta’s ecosystem and that the first divine power fluctuation had been detected.

Hao Ren brought the Earth Others to Horleta, where they met the kingdom’s welcoming party and discovered a surviving Eben Werewolf. The reunion eased the visitors’ alienation, while the drone swarm continued investigating divine power echoes across space.

• The drone swarm detected a divine power fluctuation and other signals, and Hao Ren ordered it to investigate significant sources and map every reacting region.
• Giant Turtle Rock Platform landed in Horleta, and Hao Ren led the Earth Others to meet Marshal Ofra and the welcoming party.
• Elson Eben recognized Casa Eben and Ewan Eben as descendants of the Eben family and thanked Hao Ren for bringing them together.
• Hao Ren explained that Elson was the last surviving Eben Werewolf in Horleta, and Casa reassured him that the family still existed on Earth.
• The Earth Others discussed finding their ancestral families and lost traditions, while the Sirens continued taking photographs.

Hao Ren brought Earth’s alien races to Horleta to experience the Dream Plane’s culture and legacy, and the Rune Dwarves recovered a copy of their ancestral writing. As the visit continued, growing divine power fluctuations revealed that a hidden network was emerging across the Dream Plane.

• Hao Ren watched Horleta’s guides introduce the Earth visitors to the Bloodkin’s myths and the Werewolves’ history and traditions.
• The Rune Dwarves discovered 122 stone tablets bearing their ancestors’ writing in the Horleta Royal Family’s vault and wept over the recovery of their lost legacy.
• Hesperis explained to Hao Ren that the Rune Dwarves had preserved fragments of their writing by carving them into their bodies after their memories faded on Earth.
• The Rune Dwarves received permission to make rubbings of the tablets, while Hesperis explained that other Earth races had lacked the strength to focus on cultural legacy.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that the visit’s greatest significance lay elsewhere, as drone swarms detected rising divine power fluctuations and a hidden network emerging across the Dream Plane.