Recaps

Richard joined Molly’s group in the Ancient Ruins, where they recovered the Energy Furnace and fought a Crystal Man with the help of the Devil Magic-Devouring Vines. After returning, Richard used the Furnace’s blueprints to develop a simplified design, while Molly’s group began preparing the Furnace for fusion and Xize rested.

• Richard killed the Giant Locust and crossed the Devil Magic-Devouring Vines without trouble, while Molly’s group used gray mist to pass through safely.
• Molly discovered that the Energy Furnace was missing from the stone platform, and Richard guessed that the Giant Mouse had swallowed it.
• Xize cursed the Giant Mouse until it collapsed, allowing Molly’s group to cut open its chest and recover the Energy Furnace.
• Richard and Molly divided the expedition’s remaining finds after Molly won the Energy Furnace in a dice game.
• A Crystal Man revived the Giant Mouse, but Richard’s Death Finger killed the mouse and the Devil Magic-Devouring Vines consumed the Crystal Man.
• Richard collected the Crystal Man’s fragments and left Molly’s group, while Xize warned Molly that Richard had likely noticed something about the Energy Furnace.
• Richard deciphered most of the Energy Furnace blueprints with Circe’s help and began testing a simplified design in Eden Garden.
• Molly prepared Hulk for repeated Strengthening Potion doses while keeping watch over the room where Xize was resting.

Richard joined Molly’s expedition into the Ancient Ruins, where his Energy Furnaces helped the group overcome the ant swarm and Water Monster. Beyond the blue door, Richard escaped a memory illusion and discovered Barta, a vast logistics network, while Molly and the others remained motionless in the illusion.

• Richard made four Energy Furnaces and fused them into his body, while Molly’s group tested Hulk’s furnace and discovered its dangerous limits.
• After Xize’s death and a failed expedition, Molly asked Richard for help reaching the ruins, and Richard accepted her terms after identifying her as the Blood Princess.
• Richard and Molly’s group entered the ruins, where he located and destroyed the Control Hubs directing the ant swarm, then killed the White Giant Ant guarding its nest.
• Molly’s group crossed the underground lake aboard a Crystal Ship, and Richard used his four Energy Furnaces to escape the Water Monster and reach the far shore.
• Molly revealed the jewels intended to fund her restoration effort, and Richard opened the blue door into the ruins’ next section, where white light engulfed the group.
• Richard crossed a snowfield of memory houses, witnessed scenes from his past, and escaped the illusion as it fractured, while Molly and the others remained trapped.
• Richard questioned Yogum and learned that the Black Tower was Barta, the first level of a system created by the Ou Di Na De Alliance.
• Richard tested Barta’s transparent cubes and discovered that the million-cube level used Space Items to receive and transport supplies, while higher levels remained inaccessible to him.

Richard destroyed the Super-Breeding Species’ Mother Insect, freed Bi Bi, and learned that Dead Sea had sent her to find him. In Xia Ya, Richard gained access to study royal books and revealed the location of an injured Truth Society Overseer, prompting four armored forces to assemble for a hunt.

• Richard returned to the forest, rescued Tinwood and the traders from the creature invasion, and killed the Golden Beetle Mother Insect.
• Richard bargained with Tinwood for his service and freed Bi Bi, then killed her after she named Dead Sea and the Truth Society as her mission’s source.
• Richard returned to Faro, received Oscar’s invitation to Xia Ya, and brought the captive Bi Bi’s head with him.
• In Xia Ya, Richard met Oscar and the Alliance Emperor Peter Romanov, discussed philosophy with Peter, and won permission to borrow from the Royal Library.
• Richard offered Oscar information about the Truth Society and had Bi Bi reveal the location of her lord, Dead Sea, who was a seriously injured High-Level Overseer.
• Oscar told the Alliance Emperor that Richard had revealed the Overseer’s location, and four armored teams assembled to hunt the sleeping Colored Ring Overseer.

Richard joined the Soma Alliance’s war effort as Command Consultant, helped uncover the Sika Kingdom’s secret passages, and contributed to a major offensive. He later stepped back from directing battles and continued researching his Wind Energy spell as the campaign advanced to Gray Stone City.

• Dragon Tree led the Four Teams on a coordination mission, and they killed Dead Sea as he emerged from the Iron Coffin.
• The Truth Society’s attack destroyed Mos Base, and the Sika Kingdom invaded Alliance territory, prompting the Emperor to declare war.
• Oscar offered Richard books and the post of Command Consultant, and Richard joined Soren Bonaparte at Reef Rock Fortress.
• Richard traced secret passages near White Crow Village, and Alliance troops uncovered six tunnels used by Sika forces and their local spies.
• After the Sika army was routed near Ge Da City, Richard and Soren planned the Alliance’s general offensive, which began across the border.
• The Alliance broke through Sika defenses and forced a retreat, while Richard later declined further battle-planning duties and continued his research.
• At Gray Stone City, Richard tested an exceptionally sturdy barrier spell, which Bi Bi unsuccessfully tried to break.