Recaps

Moss pieced together the threat posed by the Ingrid Family and concluded that the Chaotic Times were approaching, while planning to keep Regis hidden and prepare for the coming turmoil. After the radioactive Black Rain killed the surviving monsters, she relaxed with Little Ball and celebrated the enormous collection of magic cores.

• Moss inferred that the Ingrid Family had long been controlled by a collective consciousness that had infiltrated the Empire’s upper ranks.
• Moss decided to avoid the center of the political turmoil, prepare for what God Radmia had warned about, and let Regis maintain contact with the Second Prince’s faction.
• Moss reasoned that the Empire would suppress news of its heavy losses and that its attention toward Molly von Nilia would help her plans.
• The radioactive Black Rain killed the surviving monsters, and Moss received a notification that her level had increased.
• Little Ball reported that battlefield collection was nearly complete and helped Moss dress after she rested against it.
• Moss saw nearly a million magic cores in Kin Space and gleefully teleported there to roll around in the pile.

Moss explored her greatly expanded Kin Space and planned to develop it, but Little Ball refused to let her create new companions until she had recovered from using Absolute Domination. After visiting her mouse kin’s festival, Moss approved their plan to devour a Giant Dragon’s arm for power.

• Moss entered Kin Space in the flesh, discovered its vast new expanse, and decided to develop it through self-sufficiency.
• Moss asked Little Ball to have children, but Little Ball insisted she rest until her weakened soul and spirit recovered.
• Moss inspected her condition and found that using Absolute Domination had locked Li’s panel and cost her accumulated strength, with recovery expected to take at least a month.
• Moss counted more than three million magic cores and saw that her teleportation energy had reached 20.07%.
• Moss visited the mice’s festival, where Xi presented a Giant Dragon’s arm for the mice to devour.
• Moss told the mice the arm was theirs to use, and they pledged to devour it for her glory.

After the feast, Moss returned to the Slime ranch and checked on Aaron and Shirley as they recovered from their Alien Organs in the Slime Bathhouse. Aaron then hinted that he knew a place where more children like them might be found.

• Moss led the mice in a feast that generated a brief surge of Power of Faith, then vanished from the high platform before dawn.
• Moss returned to the Slime ranch, where Slimes continued moving magic cores into storage.
• Moss visited Aaron and Shirley in the Slime Bathhouse and learned that the Healing Gel eased their pain and decay.
• Moss explained that Aaron and Shirley needed time to adapt to their Alien Organs and said she planned to bring other rescued children to them.
• Aaron told Moss he might know a place where children like them had been kept, beginning to explain what happened after their escape.

Moss returned to the mountain cave, cared for her weakened familiars, and decided to bring the mindless Koreya Elbana back to her space. She then returned to Hill City and watched its residents celebrate the fleet’s victory and the end of the crisis.

• Moss reunited with Flame Jade and soothed Storage Ring, whose strength and abilities had been weakened by the world’s laws.
• Moss restored Storage Ring with Azure Magic Power, and it fell asleep before becoming a bracelet around her wrist.
• Moss considered Koreya Elbana’s dangerous ability and chose to take her back to the space, leaving her fate uncertain.
• Moss ended her collection of magic cores and used Spatial Teleportation to return to the inn in Hill City.
• Moss checked on the sleeping Umeilu, then watched the city celebrate the returning fleet and the resolution of the crisis.

Umeilu woke in her new body and discovered its unusual strength and lightness, though she accidentally broke the inn's floor. After breakfast, Moss received a letter from Novi, leaving its contents unknown.

• Umeilu woke after several days and tested her new body, then accidentally smashed a hole in the floor while tumbling through the air.
• Moss calmed the excited Umeilu as Celia and Rowan arrived to inspect the commotion, and Moss promised to compensate Rowan for the damage.
• Rowan drank through her hangover while Umeilu enthusiastically ate breakfast at the inn.
• Rowan handed Moss a letter addressed to Molly von Nilia, and Moss recognized it as a letter from Novi.

Moss met Novi to collect her reward, learning that Jahari had added thirty thousand Gold Coins in exchange for her leaving Hill City the next day. As Hill City celebrated the First Prince, Moss said goodbye to Anlia, Winsa, and Lina, then departed with Umeilu as the royal Floating Ship appeared above the city.

• Moss accepted a Gold Deposit Card from Novi showing fifty thousand Gold Coins: twenty thousand from Novi and thirty thousand from Jahari.
• Novi told Moss that Jahari wanted her to leave Hill City the next day, and Moss questioned whether this was the First Prince’s idea.
• Moss bid farewell to Anlia and Winsa as they prepared to travel to a new city.
• Lina gave Moss a copy of her teacher’s magic notes before departing with her teammates.
• Moss left Hill City by carriage with Umeilu while the city celebrated and the royal Floating Ship emerged above it.

Alosia and Fisis lay dying in a cave after escaping captivity, sustained only by hatred and scraps of flesh. As Fisis recalled the murder of his parents and his own capture, both men refused to accept death, and Fisis urged Alosia to become his familiar.

• Fisis crawled over to Alosia and gave him a piece of his own snake tail to eat.
• Alosia remembered his sister Afra and vowed to torment the people who had abused them in hell.
• Fisis reflected that everyone else in the cave had died and that he and Alosia were close to death.
• Fisis remembered hiding as his parents were killed and he was captured by the attackers.
• Fisis awoke from the memory, and he and Alosia clung to their hatred and unwillingness to die.
• Fisis told Alosia to become his familiar.

Moss saved the two surviving Experiment Subjects, Alosia Willwolf and Fisis Eukadruna, with help from her new ability and Little Ball. After reviewing her new profession options, she selected Monster Controller.

• Little Ball reported that Alosia Willwolf and Fisis Eukadruna had survived and would recover within two or three days.
• Moss and Umeilu stopped for lunch after traveling more than fifty kilometers from Hill City, and Umeilu asked where they were headed.
• Moss considered her many plans and decided she needed a new profession to strengthen herself and avoid handling every task personally.
• Moss replaced Bloodline Sorcerer and gained Ability Amplification as the system presented her with new profession choices.
• Moss rejected several professions and selected Monster Controller.

Moss became a Monster Controller and explored her new Mental Force abilities, including controlling Umeilu with Puppet Magic. She selected several new talents, gained stronger spatial control and a special Slime cultivation ability, then prepared to test them.

• Moss changed professions to Monster Controller and gained Monster Affinity, which produced an Aura that Umeilu noticed.
• Moss used Mental Force to control Umeilu's movements and discovered that soul-based Puppet Magic could dominate conscious targets more effectively than Magic Power-based control.
• Moss selected Dominion Imprint, Minion Enhancement, Telepathy, Coordinate Displacement, and Monster Modification from the new talent tree.
• Coordinate Displacement integrated with Space Control, raising it to Level VI, while Monster Modification combined with her Slime talents to create Special Slime: Directed Cultivation.
• Moss absorbed the new abilities, began her warm-up exercises, and prepared to test them.

Moss tested her new Monster Controller talents by placing a Dominion Imprint on her horse and using Telepathy to command and communicate with it. After considering how the imprint could support her Kin Space’s Ranch Zone, she turned her attention to Minion Enhancement and the advanced talent Storage Ring.

• Moss chose Dominion Imprint as the first new talent to test and used it to control her ordinary horse.
• Moss explained that the imprint gave her absolute control while preventing the horse’s soul from developing, making the talent useful for raising monsters in her Ranch Zone.
• Moss used Telepathy to command the horse to circle and confirmed she could communicate with it through thoughts.
• Moss sent the horse away to graze, then opened her panel to examine Minion Enhancement and Storage Ring.

Moss tested Little Ball’s enhanced combat abilities and the talents she had gained, then set off with Umeilu toward Marquis Pompey's Territory. The chapter left them racing west toward their destination as patrols might investigate the battle.

• Moss and Little Ball sparred, and Little Ball used water barrages, splitting, and teleportation before Moss defeated it with Spatial Displacement.
• Moss examined Little Ball’s status and explained how Ability Amplification and Minion Enhancement strengthened her minions and her own abilities.
• Moss transformed Storage Ring into a variety of weapons while Little Ball recorded her performance, then relented when Little Ball objected to her teasing.
• Moss and Umeilu left in the carriage, with Moss telling Umeilu they were heading west toward Marquis Pompey's Territory.

Moss explained to Umeilu that the Gold Deposit Card was bait designed to lead them west and reveal their route to the First Prince. The chapter ended with Moss realizing Novi had been recruited by the First Prince and reflecting that their dealings had been only a transaction.

• Moss showed Umeilu the Gold Deposit Card and explained that their route toward Ponsgal would take them west through Xiris and Asiala.
• Umeilu sensed that someone was watching them and concluded that the money was bait intended to force them west.
• Moss used a water map to show how the Earth Disaster had cut off Refield Territory, leaving the west as the safest route out.
• Moss explained that the First Prince could track the card's transactions and infer their location unless they withdrew all the money at once.
• Moss deduced that the First Prince expected her to withdraw the money in Ponsgal and had used Novi to deliver the card as bait.
• Moss recalled Novi's claim that it had been only a transaction and reflected that the First Prince had recruited him.

Moss sent the Storage Ring to investigate the ruined underground base, where they found evidence of bloody experiments and escaped prisoners. In a cavern below, a hidden attacker ambushed the Storage Ring, and Moss ordered it to capture him alive.

• Moss wondered why the Boundary God Cult had experimented on Beastification Warriors and sent the recovering children to the baths.
• The Storage Ring found the underground base buried beneath ruins and helped Moss identify the blood-soaked experimental grounds and damaged prison where the children had escaped.
• The Storage Ring entered the base and discovered a cavern that appeared to have been used as a temporary resting place.
• Moss and the Storage Ring noticed fresh footprints, but an attacker emerged from the darkness and struck the Storage Ring.
• Moss judged the attacker to be Gold-grade and ordered the Storage Ring to keep him alive as it rushed to subdue him.

Moss defeated Leysis and his team after they entered the abandoned Boundary God Cult base, then questioned Leysis about their mission to find a Catfolk child. Leysis revealed the Cult might use World Gates to travel anywhere, and Moss left the story searching the base while attempting to erase his memories.

• Leysis fought a white, blade-tentacled Slime in the dark and used a flashbang to retreat toward the passage.
• Leysis's teammates arrived, but Moss took control from the Storage Ring and froze the entire team except Leysis.
• Moss threatened Leysis until he identified himself as a captain in the Gale Adventurer Group's Xindevila Empire branch and said he was ordered to investigate the base.
• Leysis admitted his team had been sent by headquarters to find a Catfolk child, and mentioned a rumor that the Boundary God Cult could control World Gates to reach anywhere.
• Moss questioned Leysis further, knocked him unconscious, summoned Shadow Mice to search the base, and tried to place a Dominion Imprint on him before deciding to erase his memory.

Moss traveled toward Count Pompey's territory and found a potion recipe that could help track the Boundary God Cult through its supply chain. When Fire Coyotes approached the carriage, she sent Umeilu to deal with them and asked her to keep three alive.

• Moss continued her journey across the grasslands while Regis handled Leysis and his group and the search of the underground base continued.
• Moss pieced together a damaged recipe for a potion that suppressed rejection reactions and considered how its ingredients could expose the Boundary God Cult's networks.
• Moss reflected on the cult's influence across the empire and considered meeting the First Prince once she arrived.
• Moss detected a burnt smell, and Umeilu reported about thirty Fire Coyotes approaching from roughly four hundred and fifty meters away.
• Moss praised Umeilu's perception and sent her to fight the Fire Coyotes, telling her to keep three alive.

Moss trained Umeilu to control her stealth attacks and cut through flesh and bone while studying the Fire Coyotes’ heat-raising ability to recreate an ancient magic spell. The training continued as Umeilu worked through another corpse and the three Fire Coyotes practiced raising their heat.

• Umeilu used Boundary Stealth to kill the remaining Fire Coyotes without being detected.
• Moss praised Umeilu’s precise attacks, then warned her that her killing intent was too obvious and demonstrated how to appear cold and emotionless.
• Umeilu began dismembering Fire Coyote corpses as training, but her knife struck bone and bent at the tip.
• Moss recorded observations as three Fire Coyotes used their abilities to heat their bodies, developing the magic incantation “Scorching Heat Up.”

Moss studied the history of magic and began researching incantation-adapted Ancient-style Magic, inspired by the work of Lina’s teacher, Achilles Montgracier Flobel. Her Magic Script talent reached Rank III, and Umeilu returned to camp with a monster and the plants Moss had asked her to collect.

• Moss compared her notes with the Magic Book and reviewed how magic developed from prayer-based divine arts to incantations and modern Multi-Element Magic.
• Moss reflected on how her own approach to magic resembled Middle Ages Four Elements Magic while also drawing on modern elemental principles.
• Moss decided to study incantations, especially their use in adapting powerful ancient prayers into modern magic.
• Moss’s Magic Script talent advanced to Rank III, and she studied Achilles Montgracier Flobel’s experiments, including his completed Ancient Flame Magic - Illumination.
• Umeilu returned with a dead pig-shaped monster and the plants Moss had asked her to gather, and Moss praised her.

Moss discovered an unfamiliar herb in Umeilu’s package and searched the Adventurer’s Guide while Little Ball prepared boar legs for cooking. Moss found the herb’s name, “Xiliel’s Starlight,” and excitedly showed the guide to Little Ball.

• Moss sorted through Umeilu’s collected plants and recognized a rosemary-like branch as a new spice.
• Moss examined an unfamiliar Mana-infused plant with star-shaped holes in its leaves and searched the Adventurer’s Guide to identify it.
• Umeilu removed four hind legs from the enormous boar while Little Ball prepared spiced brine and cleaned the meat with controlled water and fire.
• Little Ball began teaching Umeilu to make Thyme Garlic Pan-fried Pork, but Moss’s sudden shriek interrupted them.
• Moss rushed over with the Adventurer’s Guide, and Little Ball read the herb’s name: Xiliel’s Starlight.

Moss restored and planted a rare Cyril Starlight, then explained that its Star Drop nectar could create powerful mages and was therefore suppressed by rulers. She revealed that she sought the plant to make Root Reshaping, a forbidden potion that could remove the limits on her King of Infinity ability.

• Moss restored the Cyril Starlight with Magic Power, watched it bloom, and planted it on a mountain in her space.
• While sharing a meal with Little Ball, Moss explained that Cyril Starlight was hunted for its beauty and nearly vanished because rulers wanted to control it.
• Moss revealed that the flower produced Star Drop during a total lunar eclipse, a potion that could greatly increase Magic Power aptitude and reserves.
• Moss recalled that she wanted Star Drop as an ingredient for Root Reshaping, a lost potion that could let the soul repair and grow without limit.
• Moss considered how power might have corrupted her, then interrupted the thought to ask Little Ball whether the pork knuckle was ready.

Umeilu returned from reconnaissance training after killing a Thorn Crown Deer, while Little Ball organized camp work and prepared the deer for a whole roast. Flame Jade arrived to provide fire, then spotted Moss chanting with three Flame Wolves as heat swept across the camp.

• Umeilu and Storage Ring finished reconnaissance training near Xiris, and Umeilu killed a Thorn Crown Deer using Killing Intent Concealment.
• Umeilu dragged the deer back to camp, where Little Ball agreed to roast it whole and assigned Umeilu and Storage Ring to prepare.
• Little Ball surveyed the Kin Space's expanding farms, livestock, ratfolk village, and trained Dragon Horn Ratfolk and Shadow Ratfolk.
• Little Ball summoned Flame Jade from the Underground Great Furnace to provide controlled fire for roasting the deer.
• Flame Jade saw Moss chanting with three Flame Wolves, and intense heat swept across the camp.

Moss tested a devastating heat spell and discovered how combining elemental structures could create light, adding a new branch to her magical theory. She recorded the insight and left Flame Jade eager to learn the technique, though Moss said it was not perfected yet.

• Moss chanted in the ancient Radmian Language and cast “Scorching Heat Up,” vaporizing a vast swath of land and piercing a distant mountain.
• Moss realized the spell had revealed that fire elements could be structured as light through a second elemental conversion.
• Moss reconsidered her earlier belief that elemental structures could not be applied to other elements and concluded that stacked structures could combine their properties.
• Moss recorded Branch Four as the Principle of Mana Movement—Stacked Elemental Structure.
• Flame Jade rushed to Moss, begged to learn the technique, and was told to wait until it had been perfected.

Moss reflected on the long casting time of her newly completed Scorching Heat Up incantation and used Job Points to improve Incantation Chant. Its upgrade revealed a promising way to make the spell more practical.

• Little Ball scolded Flame Jade for acting recklessly, but Moss defended her and called her family.
• Moss teased Little Ball about their relationship before going to the carriage, where she helped Umeilu find her knife.
• Moss reviewed the Scorching Heat Up incantation and concluded that its powerful magic took too long to cast.
• Moss noticed that chanting had created the Incantation Chant talent and considered combining it with Rapid Casting to speed up spellcasting.
• Moss spent three Job Points raising Incantation Chant to level three and realized the talent could work in an unexpected way.

Moss studied Chant Segment Chorus, a technique that could compress long incantations, and tested it successfully. As the group neared Xiris City, she offered the three exhausted Fire Coyotes a chance to become her followers if they survived.

• Moss compared Chant Segment Chorus with Achilles's magic-array method and decided that faster chanting suited her better.
• Moss struggled to divide spells into chant segments, then paused her research when Umeilu called her to eat.
• Little Ball, Umeilu, Storage Ring, and Flame Jade congratulated Moss on her successful incantation experiment over a meal of roast venison.
• Moss agreed to pause her research for a few days because the group was nearing Xiris City.
• Umeilu asked what Moss would do with the three Fire Coyotes, and Moss offered to make them her blades if they could survive.

Moss and Umeilu traveled slowly toward Xiris City while Moss deliberately delayed meeting First Prince Fatro Le Zetlestia Shindvila. As they reached the city, they disguised themselves as merchants from Count Horn's Territory and prepared to pass through the gate inspection.

• Moss reflected that her group had spent more than twenty days traveling and collected a reward for clearing monsters that had damaged a village's farmland.
• Moss revealed that she had delayed the journey because she suspected First Prince Fatro Le Zetlestia Shindvila wanted to meet her and she wanted to make him wait.
• Umeilu showed Moss a huge pumpkin from Granny Margery and eagerly asked for pumpkin dishes, so Moss promised she could eat them later.
• Moss and Umeilu spotted Xiris City's small, unimpressive walls as they approached around noon.
• Moss and Umeilu disguised themselves as merchants from Count Horn's Territory, filled the carriage with goods, and presented a Merchant Certificate at the city gate.
• A guard stopped the carriage for inspection and asked what it contained.

Moss and Umeilu entered Xiris City disguised as traveling merchants and found the streets tense and nearly empty. After learning that a man-eating creature had been killing people at night, including the city lord’s son, Moss headed for the Adventurer’s Guild.

• Moss bribed a scar-faced soldier at the city gate, who let her and Umeilu enter while secretly signaling another soldier to follow them.
• Moss noticed that Xiris City’s marketplace was deserted despite sensing that many people were sheltering inside.
• Moss asked an inn landlady for a room and used Mental Force Manipulation IX to encourage her to speak freely.
• The landlady told Moss that rumors of a humanlike man-eating monster had spread a month earlier and that killings increased after refugees arrived from Hill City.
• Moss left the inn wondering whether the monster was real and drove toward the Adventurer’s Guild.