Recaps

Moss and Commander Falan reached the edge of Asiala City's defensive zone and found the nearby forest unnaturally quiet. After Moss's Slimes detected that no monsters were within five kilometers, Falan asked whether there were traces of what had happened, then ordered the group to continue the mission.

• Falan explained why Asiala City's defensive zone was only fifteen kilometers wide as Moss examined its boundary marker.
• Moss and Falan noticed the forest was eerily silent, with no nearby monster presence.
• Moss revealed that her Slimes had found no monsters within five kilometers and thanked them for scouting.
• Falan considered possible reasons the monsters had vanished and asked Moss whether she had found signs such as battle traces or bloodstains.
• Falan ordered the group to set out, and Moss watched as the mission continued toward the forest.

Falan and his teammates investigated several fresh hunting sites in the forest and found evidence of a large monster group, including a crude arrow that suggested Goblins were involved. When a Giant Goblin emerged, Falan charged to meet it.

• Falan and his teammates examined a devastated hunting site, and Shalina identified signs of a recent kill that was likely a Forest Warthog.
• Moss used her Slime to guide the group to more sites, where Falan found matching traces across a ten-kilometer area and feared a monster group was hunting on a massive scale.
• Enrique suggested the monsters might be Ogres, but Falan and Shalina doubted the guess.
• Baiya found a crude arrow, leading the group to suspect Goblins were behind the hunts.
• Moss spotted a monster as a roar and heavy footsteps approached, and Falan identified the attacker as a Giant Goblin and charged with his shield raised.

Falan, Shalina, and Enrique defeated a Giant Goblin in seconds by combining their attacks. After Lizbea warned of more Goblins nearby, Moss concealed the party in mist and led them past the searching monsters.

• The Giant Goblin attacked Falan, who used his shield to absorb and redirect its force while Moss and Shalina retreated.
• Lizbea bound the Giant Goblin with wind chains, allowing Falan and Shalina to sever its leg ligaments and knock it off balance.
• Enrique struck the Giant Goblin with Thunder Slash, killing it, and Falan gave him its magic core.
• Lizbea heard more Goblins nearby, so Falan asked Moss to guide the party around them.
• Moss used Mist Concealment: Lost Path to hide the group in fog and lead them past Goblins that could not see them.

Moss and the adventurers rested in a hidden cave after traveling 57 kilometers while avoiding goblins. Moss revealed her incantationless elemental magic, and Bella reconsidered why Lizbea had chosen to become a Mage.

• Moss said she had lured nearby goblins away, and the exhausted Enrique collapsed as the group settled in to rest.
• Lizbea excitedly questioned Moss about her magic until Shalina dragged her away, and Bella and the others made Lizbea apologize.
• Moss said her magic might be ancient Four Elements Magic from the early Realm Gate War and demonstrated changing a flame into ice without an incantation.
• Lizbea recognized the magic as a possible form of Lost Magic, then hurried to her backpack to record her observations.
• Bella explained that Lizbea had been talented as a Forest Stalker before choosing to become a Mage, and Moss suggested Lizbea had chosen the profession out of love for it.
• Falan called everyone to prepare lunch, while Shalina scolded Enrique for failing to get up.

Moss agreed to exchange knowledge of her magic for Lizbea’s lessons in Elven magic, but Lizbea’s sister stopped their lesson so the group could discuss their reconnaissance. A map revealed a huge concentration of goblins, and Falan’s party warned Moss about the danger of the Goblin March.

• Moss agreed to teach Lizbea her magic in exchange for learning Elven casting techniques.
• Lizbea’s sister stopped Lizbea from taking Moss away for a lesson and redirected the group to planning.
• Shalina activated a Mana Mark Crystal, which showed nearly a thousand goblins gathered near the group’s route.
• Falan and Lizbea concluded that a mutated goblin species and a large settlement were likely in the forest.
• Falan and the others warned Moss that a large goblin gathering could trigger the deadly Goblin March.

Falan explained the danger of a Goblin March as the group continued scouting through the fog, and he recalled the devastating dragon horde that had nearly destroyed his adventuring group. After Silver Rank goblins pursued and surrounded them, the exhausted adventurers reached a cave, where Moss used Slimes and white fog to conceal their camp and guard it overnight.

• Falan explained that a Goblin King strengthened and commanded its tribe, causing a Goblin March that could only be stopped by killing the king quickly.
• Falan, Enrique, and Lizbea recalled a dragon horde that had destroyed a city and killed many of their old comrades, and Falan resolved not to let the current disaster repeat that tragedy.
• Moss completed the group's reconnaissance, and the party continued through the fog toward the forest's center.
• At night, Shalina returned to the cave after luring away pursuing goblins, while Lizbea confirmed Enrique's lance wound had healed.
• Moss sent Slimes to spread fog around the forest and guard the cave, reassuring Baiya that the goblins would not find them overnight.

Falan and the team debated how to travel safely through the goblin-filled forest and locate the Goblin King, rejecting several risky plans. Moss finally offered an idea, but the chapter ended before she explained it.

• Shalina proposed using Concussion Bombs as traps to draw goblins away, but Falan warned that the tactic would work only a few times.
• Lizbea suggested sprinting to the central area, then proposed drawing goblins away while Falan searched for the Goblin King; Falan rejected both ideas as too dangerous.
• Enrique suggested approaching from Bogal Valley, but Shalina pointed out that the route was too long.
• Falan realized they might slow the Goblin King by forcing it to search for them, then track it through goblins carrying its mark.
• Lizbea joked about setting the forest on fire, and Falan rejected the idea before the group urged him to choose a plan.
• Moss raised her hand to offer an idea, and the others eagerly agreed to use it before she had explained what it was.

Moss and Falan’s group used Poison Mist Slimes and a staged explosion to lure the goblins into paralyzing fog. After the first trap succeeded, they prepared to begin the Phantom Plan.

• Moss explained that feeding Explosive Thistle Golden Fluffballs to a Poison Mist Slime created paralyzing poison, and the group devised a plan to use it against the goblins.
• Shalina set off an explosion to draw the goblins away while Falan’s group prepared their trap.
• The goblins followed a fleeing group of humans into poisonous fog and collapsed from the Poison Mist Slimes’ toxin.
• Enrique showed Moss the Recording Stone he had used to record the trap, and Moss told the group to deal with the fallen goblins before beginning the Phantom Plan.

Falan’s team used Moss’s Phantom Plan to lure and destroy thousands of goblins with poison mist and Magic Core Bombs. After clearing the area around them, the scouting team entered the outer forest’s central zone, where stronger monsters awaited.

• Falan’s team killed the goblins paralyzed by poisonous mist and collected their magic cores.
• A Goblin Cavalry group charged at a corpse pile and was destroyed by a trap of explosive arrays.
• Moss used Slimes carrying Recording Crystals to show goblins false images of humans, drawing them into white mist and Magic Core Bomb Traps.
• Falan’s team celebrated after the explosions killed or wounded several thousand goblins, and Moss planned another round of traps.
• Falan warned the team about Gold-grade and stronger monsters before leading the scouting team into the central zone.

Moss and Falan’s team pushed into the central area of Hill Forest after a day of devastating attacks on goblins, while Moss’s abilities grew stronger. As they prepared to camp, an unseen attacker struck, and Falan and Enrique moved to meet it.

• A badly injured goblin hunting party returned to the tribal settlement, and its leader shouted that it had seen many humans.
• Falan led his team through the central area and warned them to watch for demonized plants as they looked for a campsite.
• The team praised Moss for handling traps, lures, and Slimes throughout the day, while Moss’s talents advanced and Ability Link gained a four-target limit.
• Moss explained that controlling Slimes did not consume much Mental Force, then urged everyone to find a campsite because she was hungry.
• Falan spotted an incoming attack and raised his glowing shield to block a black shadow, then called for Enrique to charge with his greatsword.

Moss’s party encountered a Mimic Demon Vine that could absorb Magic Power, and Moss stayed behind as the others fled its swarm. She unleashed the enormous Carrying Slime’s Aggregate Cannon Barrage, devastating the beast tide, then went to search for monster cores.

• Enrique countered the Mimic Shadow Leopard branch with his greatsword, and Falan identified it as a branch of a Mimic Demon Vine that absorbed Magic Power.
• Shalina and Lizbea triggered the hidden vines with flash bombs and light, causing a massive beast tide to erupt from the ground.
• Falan’s group fled from the advancing vines, but Moss remained behind and asked Shalina whether Demonized Plants had monster cores.
• Moss summoned the ten-meter-tall Carrying Slime and ordered it to fire an Aggregate Cannon Barrage, carving a deep trench through the beast tide.
• After the attack, Moss bounced toward the crimson earth to search for monster cores while Falan and the others recovered from the shockwave.

Moss was disappointed to learn that the Mimic Demon Vine’s core gave her an ability to absorb Magic Power from living creatures, not the outside Mana Essence she wanted. After she reassured Falan and invited him to keep treating her normally, he suspected she had Divine Favor but held back from saying it aloud.

• Falan approached Moss with food after his teammates pushed him to speak to her.
• Moss discovered that Touch of Absorption could draw Magic Power only from living organisms, so it did not help her absorb Mana Essence.
• Moss decided to use the Mimic Demon Vine as experimental food for her Slimes and accepted the plate Falan offered.
• Falan noticed the Slimes methodically processing the vine and wondered whether Moss could cultivate new monster species.
• Falan suspected Moss had Divine Favor because of her white hair and strength, but Moss shushed him and said she was an ordinary person.
• Moss asked Falan to call her as he had before, and he agreed.

Falan and Moss changed the plan to rapidly search the central region for the goblins’ lair, with Moss claiming the spoils and keeping her strength secret. Moss demolished goblin forces and potential lairs as the expedition pressed onward, but the true lair remained unfound.

• Falan used the Marker Crystal to identify dozens of possible goblin locations and proposed finishing the search quickly with Moss’s help.
• Moss agreed to take the mission’s spoils in exchange for keeping her strength secret, and she and Falan signed a contract.
• At the first location, Moss destroyed a Giant Goblin Legion with Merciless Sun and sent Slimes to collect its monster cores.
• At the second location, Moss obliterated a huge goblin horde and a Jet Dragon Turtle with Heavenly Obstacle: Chibaku Tensei.
• Moss melted a mountain, froze another, and crushed further targets with powerful attacks as Falan’s team moved from location to location.
• The expedition continued searching, while Falan and his teammates grew numb to Moss’s overwhelming displays of power.

Moss annihilated goblins to draw out the newly evolved Goblin King, then confronted its belief that goblins and humans could coexist. After the Goblin King warned her away from human cities and left, Moss recorded its mark and flew out of the central area with Falan and the others.

• Moss killed hundreds of thousands of goblins with powerful attacks until Falan and the others pleaded with her to stop.
• The Goblin King appeared, knocked everyone except Moss unconscious, and revealed its humanlike demonkin form.
• Moss mocked the Goblin King's claim that it wanted only a place for its people and could coexist peacefully with humans.
• The Goblin King detected Moss's demonkin nature, argued that she proved monsters could live alongside humans, then warned her not to approach human cities.
• Moss let the Goblin King leave, recorded its mark with the crystal, and carried Falan and the others out of the central area.

Falan woke in a cave after the group escaped the Goblin King’s encirclement, and learned that Molly’s Slime had helped treat their injuries. As Shalina, Lizbea, and Moss enjoyed a hot bath, Moss realized that incantations wasted Magic Power, leaving Lizbea with a new insight into magic.

• Falan woke and learned from Enrique that a Goblin Hunter had stabbed him while he protected the others from the Goblin King’s tribe.
• Enrique told Falan that Molly’s Slime had helped the injured group escape, and that Falan’s newly regrown organs still needed rest.
• Falan learned that Shalina, Lizbea, and Moss were bathing in a hot-water pool created with magic.
• Shalina asked whether Lizbea could make a pool, and Moss suggested that learning ancient Four Elements Magic might let her create one.
• Moss explained to Lizbea that incantations consumed Magic Power without strengthening magic, and connected the discovery to the long casting time of her ancient light spell.

Moss compared incantation-based magic with ancient Four Elements Magic and concluded that incantations could greatly increase elemental quality despite wasting Magic Power and time. As Lizbea practiced in the bathhouse, she successfully cast a powerful Fireball that damaged a wall and then blasted Falan and Enrique into the air.

• Moss tested Fireball spells and found incantations consumed more Magic Power while increasing elemental quality, with their benefits growing as more Magic Power was invested.
• Moss explained that incantations made magic easier and more stable to cast, while longer chants increased power but also caused greater Magic Power loss and took more time.
• Lizbea tried casting a Fireball using movements to strengthen her belief in the magic, but her first attempt produced nothing.
• Lizbea formed a hand seal, cast a Fireball about one and a half meters wide, and blasted the bathhouse's stone wall.
• Falan and Enrique rushed in with weapons raised, and Lizbea, embarrassed by their arrival, fired another Fireball that sent them flying.

After healing Falan and Enrique, Moss joined Lizbea for a nighttime watch and learned more about her feelings for Falan and her magic studies. Lizbea recognized the incantation in Moss’s Magic Book and began teaching her the elven technique called High-Speed Incantation.

• Moss healed Falan and Enrique, put them to sleep, and gave them refined Mana Gel to strengthen their bodies.
• Moss joined Lizbea beside the campfire, where Lizbea explained that she was more worried about Falan pushing himself too hard than angry about what had happened.
• Moss showed Lizbea a crimson lotus-shaped flame, and Lizbea discussed her progress learning the Four Elements Magic.
• Moss gave Lizbea the Scorching Heat Up incantation and the Magic Book Lina had given her; Lizbea recognized its author, Teacher Achilles.
• Lizbea agreed to teach Moss the elven chanting techniques she knew and began with High-Speed Incantation.

While her companions slept, Moss used Lizbea’s dream to learn about High-Speed Incantation and tested the technique herself. Her thoughts turned to the Goblin King’s deal with humans and a possible conspiracy, but Umeilu’s report that Xiris City had been destroyed ended with Moss spotting a dragon amid the flames.

• Moss watched Lizbea’s dream and used a shimmering gel to help her sleep as Lizbea gained talent levels in Mental Force Control and Incantation Chant.
• Moss used the Blood and Flesh Dominator to alter her vocal apparatus and chant an incantation in 4.35 seconds, gaining the High-Speed Incantation talent.
• Moss considered the Goblin King’s deal with humans and suspected the Boundary God Cult might be involved in the empire’s unrest.
• Umeilu contacted Moss and reported that Xiris City had been destroyed.
• Moss borrowed a Shadow Mouse’s eyes and saw a towering figure emerge from the burning ruins, which she identified as a dragon.

Moss protected Umeilu from a dragonkin attacking near the ruins of Xiris City and killed it with a single blow. She then confronted a horde of wyverns, whose leader, Windfellcia, greeted her and asked about her master.

• Moss learned from Umeilu that Xiris City had been destroyed in an earlier attack and that the city lord might have escaped through Spatial Teleportation.
• Moss realized the dragonkin's flames had not caused the city's destruction, then defended herself and Umeilu when it turned on them.
• Moss froze the dragonkin and split its head with an ice sword, killing it instantly.
• Moss called out the dragons watching from the sky and scattered the clouds to reveal a horde of wyverns.
• Windfellcia introduced himself to Moss and asked who her master was.

Moss overwhelmed Wende with her restored, enhanced strength and forced him to surrender before she could kill him. Wende agreed to talk, and Moss gave him five minutes.

• Wende survived Moss's initial attacks and identified her as an Ashwind Dragon, asking where Ainpeist was.
• After Moss said Ainpeist's blood was unqualified, Wende attacked her with a devastating blast of Magic Power.
• Moss crushed Wende with Hundred Thousand Times Gravity Nail and held him down in darkness.
• Moss's soul had been fully restored, making her six times stronger than usual through her enhanced abilities.
• Moss narrowly missed Wende with her enormous axe, and he surrendered before she could strike again.
• Moss changed the axe back into a bracelet and gave Wende five minutes to talk.

Moss questioned Wind Ash Dragon—Windfellcia after defeating the dragons that had attacked the city, and he explained the difference between King-Rank monsters and Demon Kings. He revealed that Demon Kings were monsters who had broken through their racial limits and begun to grasp the laws governing their power, leaving Moss with a new lead about the mysterious aura.

• Moss questioned Wind, who explained that he had come to investigate the Dragon Realm aura after his World Gate was destroyed and his soul was left incomplete.
• Moss suspected Dragon Abuse Realm used resurrected Dragon Kings as expendable scouts to open worlds for invasion, though she could not confirm the theory.
• Wind told Moss that he had sensed a complicated aura combining the Dragon Realm with other magic power, including a feeling like a Demon King's.
• Wind explained that King-Rank monsters were not the same as Demon Kings, describing how monsters who surpassed their racial limits became Demonfolk and gained the ability to create and empower blood kin.
• Wind said Demonfolk who advanced further began to understand the laws governing their power, and monsters called such beings Demon Kings.

Moss learned that the threat Wind sensed was not a true Demon King, but a group seeking to become one, and forced Wind to sign a contract before he departed. With the organization behind the fused monsters still unidentified and her lead dead, Moss sent Umeilu and Storage Ring to Ponsgal to confront the First Prince.

• Wind explained that only five beings in the Dragon Realm had ever been called Demon Kings, and said the western presence was likely a group of monsters aspiring to become one.
• Moss stopped Wind from leaving and made him reveal his next destination and sign a contract under threat of death.
• Moss watched Wind and the dragons depart, then reflected that the organization’s members, plans, and motives remained unknown and that the suspected slave trader was dead.
• Umeilu reported that her team had found the suspected city lord, but he was dead and headless; Moss dismissed the chances of finding traces.
• Moss ordered Umeilu to take the Shadow Mouse troops and Storage Ring to Ponsgal, where they would wait for the organization and make the First Prince repay his debt.

Falan and his teammates discovered that they had all advanced in rank overnight, while Moss reflected on how Magic Power affected living creatures and wondered about her own limits. The group ate breakfast and prepared to continue their reconnaissance mission, with Moss adding questions about her level cap to her growing list of concerns.

• Falan woke feeling refreshed, discovered he had reached Diamond Rank, and was knocked into a rock wall by Bella's water sphere when he emerged from the cave.
• Falan learned that Shalina, Lizbea, Enrique, and Bella had also advanced, with Bella reaching Diamond Rank 9 and gaining a much larger Magic Power reserve.
• Moss observed the team's different improvements and considered how Magic Power could raise a creature's level and level cap.
• Moss concluded that humans likely reached their level cap at Orichalcum Rank and wondered whether her own rat body had begun at its limit.
• Moss's teammates called her to breakfast and urged her to prepare for the next leg of their reconnaissance mission.

The group raced through Bogal Valley while Bella taught Moss Silent Chant and Preparation Chant, helping Moss improve her magic and prepare a stronger combat technique. Their journey stopped when a Thorny Earth Dragon charged at them, and Falan halted it head-on with Heavy Shield Charge.

• The group sped through the forest as Bella and Moss practiced magical techniques while traveling.
• Bella taught Moss Preparation Chant, and Moss's Incantation Chant talent advanced from V to VI.
• Bella sensed a threat ahead, and Shalina returned from scouting to identify an approaching Thorny Earth Dragon.
• Falan recalled the monster's strengths and weaknesses, then charged forward instead of evading it.
• Falan's Heavy Shield Charge stopped the Thorny Earth Dragon and drove its head into the ground.

Moss and the team defeated a Thorny Earth Dragon with a coordinated barrage of magic and attacks, then realized their recent battle against the goblins had helped them break through in strength. They claimed the rare magic core and prepared to continue onward and confirm the situation.

• Baiya struck the Thorny Earth Dragon with a powerful Shocking Shot, but it cocooned itself in roots and began recovering while unleashing waves of earth.
• Bella countered its earth and plant magic with Flowing Water Magic, Vortex Gale, and Flame Magic, forcing it out of the burning cocoon.
• Moss blinded the Thorny Earth Dragon with a Magic Item Bomb, and Enrique charged in and severed its neck with a finishing sword strike.
• Falan and Baiya realized the team had grown far stronger after fighting the goblins and agreed they had broken through.
• Shalina found a rare deep-green magic core and tossed it to Moss, who accepted it under the mission contract and stored the dragon's body with a Slime.
• Falan told the team to continue onward and confirm the situation.