Recaps

Feng Chen suffered from a recurring nightmare and, while fighting POH and Red Eye, was poisoned and gravely wounded. After recovering in the Sakura Cycle, he asked Bella to become his maid, and she agreed, leaving their feelings acknowledged but unspoken.

• Feng Chen left the frontline to recover from exhaustion and fought monsters in the Floor 10 Labyrinth Area.
• POH and Red Eye confronted Feng Chen and attacked him after he refused to stop interfering with their crimes.
• Red Eye paralyzed Feng Chen with poison, but Bella appeared as a dragon and attacked the Criminal Players before Feng Chen collapsed from their poisoned knives.
• Honkai brought Feng Chen to the Sakura Cycle, where Higanbana and Bella cared for him as he recovered.
• Feng Chen asked Bella to become his maid, and she agreed to stay by his side for the rest of her life.
• Feng Chen told Bella, “The Moon is Beautiful, isn’t it?” and she agreed.

After news spread that the [White Dragon User] Feng Chen had been killed, Kirito searched for him and found him alive on Floor 10 with Bella in human form. Feng Chen promised to return to the front line before the next day’s boss raid.

• Sasha of the Red Eye claimed that he had killed Feng Chen, leaving [St. Freya] and other players devastated.
• Kirito searched for Feng Chen and asked Argo for information about his whereabouts.
• Argo told Kirito that monsters on Floor 10 had disappeared temporarily and that Feng Chen had owned a house near the Labyrinth Area, but Kirito found the house empty.
• A light-blue-haired girl told Kirito that the [White Dragon User] was dead, then Feng Chen invited him inside.
• Feng Chen introduced the girl as Bella, the human form of his familiar Benarès, and explained that the death rumor did not concern him.
• Feng Chen told Kirito that he would return to the front line before the boss raid began the next day.

As the Strategy Group prepared to raid the Floor 50 Boss, players across the guilds refused to believe Feng Chen was dead and waited for him to arrive. Silica regained her resolve and joined the battle, but the raid began without Feng Chen, leaving the group struggling against the powerful Boss.

• At St. Freya, Kirito learned Silica was missing while the guild prepared to join the Strategy Group.
• Pina encouraged Silica to become someone who could stand on her own, and Silica ran after St. Freya’s forces.
• Heathcliff and the other players waited for Feng Chen, then moved to the Floor 50 Boss room when he did not arrive.
• Heathcliff led the Strategy Group into battle, and the Boss’s strength and agility quickly put the players under pressure.

The Strategy Group fought the 50th Floor Guardian BOSS as it changed its attack pattern and revealed abilities including [Stealth]. The chapter left a player trapped beneath the BOSS's thrown axe, moments from being cut in half.

• The 103 Strategy Group members fought the BOSS for over half an hour, with Heathcliff repeatedly interrupting its attacks.
• The BOSS leaped into the air and used an area attack, prompting Heathcliff to warn the damage dealers to retreat.
• The BOSS threw its axe and vanished with its surroundings, then attacked players from the darkness.
• Kirito dodged the BOSS's fist with [Sonic Leap], while Klein blocked the axe flying toward him.
• Heathcliff identified the BOSS's near-maxed [Stealth] skill as the axe struck another player, who was left moments from being cut in half.

Feng Chen arrived late to the boss fight, saved a player from the giant axe, and let Bella battle the boss. As Bella drove the boss into its yellow HP phase and it changed its attacks, Feng Chen prepared to use his [Eye of Balor].

• Feng Chen used [Time Fracture] and the [Recovery Crystal] to save a player, then had Bella knock away the giant axe as time resumed.
• Bella asked Feng Chen for permission to fight, and he agreed while warning her not to get hurt.
• Bella attacked the BOSS bare-handed, while the Strategy Group recognized Feng Chen as the [White Dragon User] and relaxed at his arrival.
• Feng Chen greeted Heathcliff and told Asuna that Bella was his maid and could be considered his younger sister.
• Bella overwhelmed the BOSS, reducing its HP to the yellow zone, before it roared and changed its attack pattern.
• Feng Chen recalled his [Eye of Balor], a form of [Mystic Eyes] granted to him by the Honkai.

Feng Chen defeated the Floor 50 Boss by awakening [Eye of Balor] and using it to erase the monster as his HP fell dangerously low. After the players celebrated, Bella called herself his family, and Silica asked where that left her.

• Feng Chen sent Bella back and faced the Floor 50 Boss after it threw its double-headed axe at him.
• Feng Chen caught the axe and hurled it back, then struck the Boss with [Sonic Leap] before its kick put him into [Knockback].
• Feng Chen awakened [Eye of Balor] and erased the minotaur Boss while its grip threatened to reduce his HP to zero.
• The players celebrated Feng Chen's victory, then accidentally dropped him after noticing how low his HP was.
• Bella supported Feng Chen and clung to his arm as he explained to Silica that Bella was his family.
• Silica asked Feng Chen, “What about me?”

Feng Chen recovered from the backlash that left his eye unusable and learned that Honkai’s curiosity had led her to experiment on humanity. After a nightmare about a giant on a jade throne, he stayed with Bella and approved the fiftieth floor as the location for the official base.

• Feng Chen asked Honkai about his injured eye, and she said he would need to return to the Honkai world for treatment.
• Honkai explained that curiosity about humanity had driven her experiments, and Feng Chen told her not to experiment on him without warning again.
• Feng Chen dreamed of a giant seated on a jade throne, woke frightened, and found Bella holding him.
• Bella asked Feng Chen to sleep beside her, and he stayed with her despite worrying that Sirin would kill him.
• Decade emailed Feng Chen to ask where to build the official base, and Feng Chen agreed to place it on the fiftieth floor.

Feng Chen led the Strategy Group in preparing an operation against [Smiling Coffin], while the [Holy Dragon Union] alone refused to join. After taking Bella for a meal, he discussed how she experienced SAO’s simulated senses and began thinking of someone connected to souls.

• Feng Chen explained that [Smiling Coffin] would likely seek him out and asked players to volunteer for the operation.
• [St. Freya], the [Blood Oath Knights], [Wind Forest Volcano], and other guilds joined, while [Holy Dragon Union] did not.
• Feng Chen took Bella for a stroll and fed her steak at a restaurant before the operation began.
• Honkai explained that he had copied SAO’s data to connect Bella’s senses to the game, and Bella said the system seemed to possess a [soul].
• Feng Chen thought of someone he had nearly forgotten, like Sachi.

Feng Chen and Bella confronted POH, Sasha of the Red Eye, Johnny Black, and a group of Red-named Players in the Labyrinth Area. The attackers launched their ambush, but Bella protected Feng Chen and the fight continued as another swordswoman deflected the poisoned daggers.

• Feng Chen waited at the Labyrinth Area with Bella and prepared for the Smiling Coffin fighters to attack.
• POH, Sasha of the Red Eye, and Johnny Black revealed themselves, and POH summoned more than a dozen Red-named Players.
• Feng Chen recognized the ambush and told the Red-named Players to attack, causing several to lose the ability to move.
• Sasha attacked Feng Chen with her rapier, but Bella punched Sasha away and shielded Feng Chen from the strike.
• A petite swordswoman deflected the poisoned daggers aimed at Bella as the attackers claimed more Red-named Players were lurking nearby.

Bella held off POH and the Red-named Players while Feng Chen appeared paralyzed, until Feng Chen revealed that he had already recovered and sprung a trap. After the Strategy Group captured POH, POH asked Feng Chen to take him to prison, then raised his weapon with a Recovery Crystal in hand.

• Bella blocked the Red-named Players’ attacks and used her skills to make the ground collapse beneath them.
• POH chose to attack Feng Chen, but Feng Chen used The World to immobilize and defeat him without reducing his HP below 1.
• The Strategy Group arrived as the collapsing ground reset, captured POH, and subdued the remaining Red-named Players.
• Feng Chen revealed that Bella had cured his paralysis and that he had lured POH’s group into a trap.
• POH asked Feng Chen to escort him to prison, declared that he would kill no more players, and raised the Friend-Cutting Kitchen Knife with a Recovery Crystal in his left hand.

Feng Chen exposed the Holy Dragon Union’s collusion with Red-named Players and helped drive the guild from the Strategy Group. The group recruited new members and began training them, with Feng Chen and Bella joining the outings.

• Feng Chen used Bella to knock POH, Sasha of the Red Eye, and Johnny Black away, then stopped the other players from pursuing them.
• Feng Chen explained how his two emails had exposed a traitor, and Asuna confirmed that only guild masters and vice guild masters had received them.
• Captured Red-named Players confessed, and the next day the Strategy Group expelled the Holy Dragon Union, forcing it to disband.
• The Strategy Group set stricter recruitment rules, while [St. Freya] attracted many newcomers and required them to reach level 60 before joining the front lines.
• Reliable players took the newcomers to train, and Feng Chen brought Bella along as Kirito and the others watched.

Feng Chen attended to Bella and then met Kirito, who revealed that he had unexpectedly acquired the unique Dual Wielding skill. Kirito sought Feng Chen’s advice about finding a second sword, but Feng Chen claimed he struggled with socializing.

• Feng Chen and Asuna continued to clash over risky battle plans at Strategy Meetings, though his proposals kept winning the votes.
• Bella licked sauce from Feng Chen’s face, and the two left their base after Feng Chen received a message from Kirito.
• Kirito showed Feng Chen and Bella the extra Dual Wielding skill slot he had obtained by accident.
• Kirito explained that finding a second sword with attributes comparable to Elucidator was difficult and suggested asking a blacksmith to forge one.
• Feng Chen warned Kirito that he had social anxiety, despite Kirito pointing out that Feng Chen got along with Strategy Group players.

Feng Chen arranged for Kirito to meet Asuna so Kirito could find a blacksmith and obtain a spare weapon. Asuna agreed to help on the condition that they hide their distinctive gear, then prepared to introduce Kirito to a friend.

• Kirito asked Feng Chen to introduce him to players, but Feng Chen suggested that Kirito seek help from Asuna instead.
• Feng Chen arranged a meeting with Asuna and brought Kirito out from behind a tree, where Kirito nervously greeted her.
• Bella explained that Kirito needed a spare weapon and that they did not know any players with the [Blacksmithing] skill.
• Asuna said she knew a friend who could help Kirito, but required him and Feng Chen to put away their distinctive equipment.

Asuna brought Feng Chen and Kirito to Lisbeth's weapon shop in Lindus so Kirito could seek a high-performance sword. Lisbeth recognized Kirito's Elucidator as a fully enhanced Magic Sword and became enthralled by it.

• Asuna led Feng Chen and Kirito to Lisbeth's Weapon Shop in Lindus.
• Lisbeth greeted Asuna, then teased her about bringing two men before learning Kirito needed a weapon.
• Feng Chen sent Kirito to Lisbeth for help finding a sword comparable to his current one.
• Kirito placed his Elucidator on the workbench, and Lisbeth recognized it as a Magic Sword enhanced to +40.
• Lisbeth excitedly identified Elucidator while Asuna rushed over to see what had happened.

Kirito and Feng Chen asked Lisbeth to forge a weapon using Feng Chen’s rare materials, including a Crystal Quartz Ingot. After Feng Chen contacted the person who owned the materials, Bella arrived and surprised everyone by hugging him.

• Lisbeth explained that finding suitable materials, rather than forging, was the main challenge in making a weapon comparable to the Elucidator.
• Feng Chen showed Lisbeth the forging materials he had collected, and she fixated on the rare Crystal Quartz Ingot.
• Lisbeth asked to use the ingot, but Kirito told her to ask Feng Chen, who contacted the materials’ owner for permission.
• Feng Chen told Lisbeth that the owner would come in person, and the group waited for her arrival.
• Bella entered the cottage and hugged Feng Chen, then revealed that Broken had told her to snatch him away from the other women.

Feng Chen and Bella brought a rare Crystal Quartz Ingot to Lisbeth so she could forge a weapon, but the materials heated unevenly and threatened to ruin the attempt. Feng Chen used The World to move the materials to the anvil at the critical moment, leaving the forging ready to begin.

• Bella agreed to let Lisbeth forge a weapon from the Crystal Quartz Ingot, and the group followed her into the workshop.
• Lisbeth tested the ingot, heated it with auxiliary materials, and struggled as the materials reached dangerous temperatures at different rates.
• Asuna worried that the auxiliary materials would vaporize before the ingot was ready, while Feng Chen urged Lisbeth to continue and promised to retrieve them.
• Feng Chen activated The World and placed the solid-liquid materials on the forging table just before the auxiliary materials boiled away.

Feng Chen helped Liz forge an exceptionally powerful one-handed sword by striking the rare-material mixture 200 times, then gave it to Kirito, who named it Night Seeker. The group headed to the Floor 55 Labyrinth Area to test the weapon.

• Liz forged a one-handed sword from Feng Chen's rare materials, and Feng Chen used Time Fracture and Death Force: Sky Ripper to raise its total strikes to 200.
• The completed blue-green sword had an enhancement limit of 50, and Liz scolded Feng Chen for taking the dangerous forging process into the red zone.
• Feng Chen handed the sword to Kirito and told him it belonged to him.
• Kirito named the sword Night Seeker.
• The group went to the Floor 55 Labyrinth Area to try out the sword, where Dragonoid monsters had begun appearing.

Kirito tested his new Night Seeker against a Great Raging Boar, then revealed the Dual Wielding skill by fighting with Night Seeker and Dark Repulser together. He defeated the boar, leaving Asuna and Liz as witnesses to the skill’s debut.

• Kirito used Night Seeker to kill monsters, but switched to Dark Repulser when he faced the Great Raging Boar’s high defense.
• Feng Chen told Asuna and Liz to leave, but they persuaded him to let them watch and promised to keep what they saw secret.
• Feng Chen told Kirito to use the skill, and Kirito prepared while Bella sensed that his strength could threaten her.
• Kirito dodged the charging boar and drew both Night Seeker and Dark Repulser, unveiling the Dual Wielding skill.
• Kirito used Dual Fan Slash to sever the boar’s tusks, then finished it with a powerful strike that made it disappear.

Feng Chen and Bella explored Floor 74’s Labyrinth Area as he worked toward level 90 and considered what the MAX level of his [Time] skill might unlock. He pulled Asuna away from her bodyguard, Kratier, and asked why she was avoiding him.

• Feng Chen recalled his mastered skills, the unusual two-level [Time] skill, and his suspicion that its unknown MAX Sword Skill might be [Time Stop].
• Feng Chen hunted the armored beastmen and skeletons in Floor 74’s Labyrinth Area, hoping to reach level 90 before Floor 75.
• Asuna ran from Kratier, her bodyguard, and headed deeper into the Labyrinth Area when she failed to shake him off.
• Feng Chen pulled Asuna into the shadows and caught her wrist when she mistook him for an attacker and threw a punch.
• Feng Chen asked Asuna why she was hiding from Kratier, and she reacted with disgust at the mention of him.

Feng Chen drove Kratier away after he tried to make Asuna return with him, then warned her that Kratier was dangerous. Asuna began to suspect that Kratier might be involved in a plot against the Blood Oath Knights and accepted Feng Chen’s party invitation.

• Kratier found Asuna and ordered her to return, but she refused and canceled his guard duty.
• Kratier insisted on joining Asuna’s party, so Feng Chen challenged him to prove he was stronger and could make Asuna go with him.
• Kratier backed down and left after Feng Chen drew his Black Xuanyuan Sword.
• Feng Chen warned Asuna that Kratier’s negative emotions made him dangerous.
• Asuna considered whether Kratier might be a spy or part of a plot against the Blood Oath Knights, then accepted Feng Chen’s party invitation.

Feng Chen, Bella, and Kirito encountered the Aincrad Liberation Army in the Labyrinth Area as it attempted to return to the front line. Feng Chen and Kirito decided to follow the group led by Kobatz, ready to intervene if they risked their lives.

• Feng Chen teased Kirito about only having kissed Sachi despite the opportunities he had arranged for them.
• Bella defeated a monster while Feng Chen distracted Kirito, and the group continued deeper into the Labyrinth Area.
• Feng Chen recognized the players ahead as members of the Aincrad Liberation Army, which had split into factions over whether to fight on the front line or focus on survival.
• Feng Chen explained that Vice Guildmaster Yao Wang had likely sent Kobatz and the others to attempt a clear without weighing the risks.
• Kirito asked whether they should follow the Army, and Feng Chen agreed so they could intervene if necessary.

Feng Chen led a raid party deeper into the Floor 74 Labyrinth Area with Kobatz and the [Army], despite the danger to its underleveled members. As the party approached the Floor Guardian room, Asuna joined them, and her tense encounter with Bella left Feng Chen caught between the two.

• Feng Chen reflected that Kobatz was pushing the [Army] deeper into the Labyrinth Area despite its members' exhaustion and the risk to their lives.
• Feng Chen and his companions recalled that Yao Wang had once tried to buy the Black Xuanyuan Sword for two hundred thousand col.
• Kobatz led the [Army] toward the Floor Guardian room, while Feng Chen knew the room's Crystal Nullification effect made BOSS intelligence personnel useless.
• Asuna joined Feng Chen's party after he invited her to help her out of trouble, surprising him and Kirito.
• Bella and Asuna traded hostile looks, and Bella sat down after a loud bang, leaving Feng Chen uneasy about the confrontation.

Feng Chen, Bella, Asuna, and Kirito caught up with the Army players as they opened the Floor 74 Guardian BOSS room. Feng Chen let them enter despite their exhaustion, then prepared to lead the raid, warning that the unknown BOSS might be extremely powerful.

• Feng Chen, Bella, and Asuna rushed to the Guardian room after hearing its massive door open and found Kobatz leading the exhausted Army players.
• Feng Chen identified himself and warned Kobatz that dying in SAO would burn out their brains, while Bella, Asuna, and Kirito backed him up.
• Kobatz accused Feng Chen and the others of trying to monopolize the raid, but Feng Chen told the Army they could join only if they were capable of fighting the BOSS.
• Feng Chen threatened Kobatz, then opened the door and told the Army players to go in and face the danger on their own.
• Feng Chen assigned Bella and Asuna to one side of the door and himself and Kirito to the other, then warned that the BOSS might force them to use their trump cards.

Feng Chen led Asuna, Bella, and Kirito into the dark Floor Guardian room and fought the powerful dual-wielding [Shining Magic Eye]. The party survived its Dragon Breath, but the BOSS had barely lost any health, so Feng Chen began planning how to give Kirito an opening to use [Starburst Stream].

• Feng Chen used [Snow Step] and [Time Fracture] to throw the [Army] players out of the BOSS room, then guided Asuna, Bella, and Kirito through its darkness.
• Feng Chen assigned positions and roles, telling Kirito to equip [Night Seeker] and attack the BOSS from behind while he took its first assault.
• A slender man outside shut the BOSS room door, and Feng Chen confronted the giant orc holding two greatswords when the torches lit.
• Feng Chen attacked with alternating [Time Fracture] strikes, while Asuna interrupted the BOSS's counterattack and Bella added elemental damage.
• Kirito wounded the BOSS's arm with [Death Strength: Waning Moon], but the [Shining Magic Eye] retaliated with blue Dragon Breath that Feng Chen narrowly stopped.
• Feng Chen saw that the party had barely damaged the BOSS and planned to create an opening for Kirito to use [Starburst Stream].

Feng Chen fought Shining Magic Eye, using the Black Xuanyuan Sword to damage it and split its Dragon Breath while the Herrscher Core’s forced awakening left him stunned. As the BOSS trapped him between its greatswords and another Dragon Breath, he ran along one blade and switched to Jizou Mitama +60.

• Feng Chen battered Shining Magic Eye with punches and a Fatal Blow that struck its heart, reducing its HP by one segment.
• Feng Chen used his ability to destroy part of the Dragon Breath, but the Herrscher Core’s discomfort left him temporarily unable to move.
• Bella sensed that Feng Chen was in danger and prepared to fight alongside him.
• Shining Magic Eye attacked with outward-slashing greatswords and Dragon Breath, restricting Feng Chen’s escape routes.
• Feng Chen ran along the BOSS’s raised sword toward its arm and switched from the Black Xuanyuan Sword to Jizou Mitama +60 as the flames approached.