Recaps

Moss tested her Flame Manipulation talent, discovered it could reproduce Explosive Flame, and went searching for food after realizing how hungry she was. As she ate scavenged vegetables by the waterway, a black snake appeared and prepared to attack.

• Moss used Flame Manipulation to unleash powerful flames and experimented with compressing them into an unstable Explosive Flame.
• Moss realized Dormancy had kept her alive by absorbing Mana Essence during her three-year sleep, then decided to find food.
• Moss squeezed out of the cave and found fresh vegetable scraps caught in branches by the waterway.
• Moss ate a piece of radish, but a black snake appeared and confronted her.
• Moss asked the snake to wait until she finished eating, but it hissed and attacked.

Moss roasted and devoured snake meat, then spent two months expanding her cave and training. After defeating a swarm of Black Spiders and reaching Bronze Level 7, she returned to her cave to rest with Little Ball.

• Moss roasted snake meat and ate the entire skewer, discovering that her body digested food almost instantly.
• Moss set to work widening the cave entrance and expanding the interior.
• Two months later, Moss used Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation to defeat more than a hundred attacking Black Spiders and level up.
• Moss reviewed her status and identified the Black Spider nest, giant lizards, Giant Centipede, and Snake Den as major threats nearby.
• Moss returned to the cave and pounced on Little Ball, settling down to rest.

Moss woke in her cave, checked Little Ball’s progress, and prepared breakfast while reflecting on how their abilities had improved. After Little Ball fetched and purified water, Moss started a vegetable and meat soup, leaving it to boil over flames fueled by her Magic Power.

• Moss woke from her dream training and checked Little Ball’s panel, seeing that it had reached Level 7 alongside her.
• Moss prepared dried snake meat and cleaned herself with her Flame Wrap technique, which she had developed over the past two months.
• Little Ball fetched and purified water for Moss, who praised its rare and useful ability.
• Moss chopped vegetable scraps and asked Little Ball to wash away their dirt and rotten parts.
• Moss used Magic Power to light the stove and began boiling water for vegetable and meat soup.

Moss cooked breakfast, studied the changing creature territories, and hunted mutated frogs and lizards near the eastern pool. After gathering her kills, she dodged a sudden attack and recognized her assailant.

• Moss updated her map and noticed the Black Spiders moving west toward Snake Den, so she decided to avoid the area.
• Moss cooked meat soup with homemade Saltpeter Salt, ate breakfast, and left Little Ball to wash the dishes.
• Moss fought through giant mosquitoes and killed frogs and lizards at the eastern pool, collecting thirteen prey animals.
• A strange attack struck as Moss gathered the meat, but she rolled aside and recognized the attacker.

Moss defeated a Giant Centipede that had recently become a magical creature and sensed that something was happening near the methane pool. As she rushed toward the fighting, the City Guard announced that the World Gate had descended and mobilized its team toward the sewer.

• A Giant Centipede ambushed Moss in the sewer, and she realized the nearby frogs and lizards were surrounding her.
• Moss baited the Giant Centipede into missing with its tail, then burned it and severed its fangs and claws with a flaming sword strike.
• Moss killed the Giant Centipede and found a magic core, which suggested it had only recently become a magical creature.
• Moss sensed chaotic Magic Essence and tremors, then used sonic detection to locate fighting northwest and sprinted toward the cave.
• The City Guard sounded the alarm for the World Gate's descent and assembled a team to head into the sewer.

Sun Lei reunited with Luo Wei and Huo Lian as four City Guard squads assembled to investigate a World Gate. With monsters attacking the city and too few guards available, the captains voted to proceed despite Wang Xian's objections, and Luo Wei led the team into the sewers.

• Sun Lei greeted his former squad leaders Luo Wei and Huo Lian while their squads waited at the chained sewer entrance.
• Sun Lei learned Luo Wei planned to retire after the year, while Huo Lian refused to take over as captain.
• Wang Xian and Li Wen argued over whether four squads should risk handling the World Gate with monsters attacking the city gate.
• Luo Wei proposed a vote, and three captains supported carrying out the mission.
• Luo Wei ordered the chains removed and led the team into the sewers.

Moss escaped her cave after the sewer expanded and realized the World Gate had descended nearby. A massive collapse trapped her underground, and after surviving the falling rocks, she discovered a human lying nearby.

• Moss packed Little Ball into the Pet Space and left the cave as the ground shook.
• Moss found that the sewer had expanded and inferred that the World Gate had descended to the northwest.
• Moss ran south to escape the danger, but the shaking intensified and collapsing rocks blocked the passages.
• Moss used Explosive Flame to blast at a blocked entrance, was struck by rubble, and lost consciousness before surviving between supporting rocks.
• Moss recovered using stored food and wandered through the ruins searching for an exit.
• Moss spotted a creature on the ground and realized it was a human.

Sun Lei and Luo Wei led the City Guard through the sewer toward the World Gate, racing to destroy it before its arrival damaged the underground and the city's defenses. They encountered and defeated a vanguard of thirty Goblins, then prepared to continue deeper.

• Sun Lei warned Luo Wei that the dark, widened sewer passage could conceal an ambush, but Luo Wei explained that they had to hurry to prevent the World Gate from destabilizing the underground and damaging the City Guard Magic Array.
• A scout reported about thirty Goblins ahead, and Luo Wei ordered the team to prepare for battle.
• Sun Lei reassured the frightened Zhao Xiaoqin that the Goblins were manageable and told her to stay with the team.
• The Goblins charged after the City Guard spotted them, and Luo Wei led the main force into battle while Sun Lei's squad and Wang Xian's squad flanked them.
• Sun Lei killed several Goblins with his Battle Qi Slash, and the City Guard quickly defeated the entire group.
• Zhao Xiaoqin praised Sun Lei, and he ordered the team to clean up the Goblin corpses before continuing onward.

Sun Lei recovered from his injuries as the captains argued over whether to continue toward the World Gate. The reconnaissance team’s surviving member returned with news of a massive force of powerful monsters, and the team began to retreat.

• Zhao Xiaoqin healed Sun Lei, who thanked her for protecting him while she was still shaken by the Goblin attack.
• Wang Xian argued that the injured team could not survive another wave, while Li Wen mocked him for being afraid and concerned about money.
• Luo Wei urged the team to find the World Gate before it endangered the City Guard Magic Array, and Sun Lei asked about the missing reconnaissance team.
• Huo Lian fell from space with both arms severed and warned the team to retreat because the reconnaissance team was dead.
• Huo Lian revealed that over a hundred Ogres and Goblin Cavalry were beyond the World Gate, prompting the team to flee.
• A scream announcing an Ogre stopped the team in its tracks.

Luo Wei led the City Guard in a retreat battle against an ogre and more than a hundred Goblin Cavalry riders. As the defenders suffered mounting casualties, he sent Wang Xian away with the Priests and Mages to report the threat while he stayed behind near a prepared trap.

• An ogre and over a hundred Goblin Cavalry riders emerged from the darkness, and Luo Wei ordered the City Guard to form up and retreat.
• Zhao Xiaoqin used Life Burn to empower Sun Lei before she withdrew, and the City Guard unleashed spells as the Goblin Cavalry charged.
• The Goblin Cavalry broke through the shield line, and Sun Lei fought back while the City Guard retreated and lost comrades.
• Luo Wei ordered Wang Xian to withdraw with the Priests and Mages and warn headquarters that the City Guard Magic Array might be damaged.
• Luo Wei watched the ogre following in the distance as a figure quietly told him that the trap was ready.

Luo Wei ordered the survivors to flee as Huo Lian prepared to detonate the sealed area and collapse the World Gate, using the blast to escape the monsters. Li Wen stayed behind to hold off the Goblin Cavalry, and his final strike killed more than a dozen goblins before the detonation erupted.

• Sun Lei and Li Wen continued retreating with the thirteen surviving melee fighters as the Goblin Cavalry closed in.
• Luo Wei ordered everyone to fall back, explaining that Huo Lian would detonate the sealed area to trigger a collapse and shake off the monsters.
• Li Wen stopped to face the Goblin Cavalry, and Luo Wei pulled Sun Lei away, saying Li Wen had no strength left to survive.
• Li Wen unleashed Battle Qi Slash, cutting down more than a dozen goblins before a lance pierced him.
• A tremendous explosion echoed through the sewer.

Sun Lei and the survivors escaped the collapsing passage, but the ogre caught up with them and massacred the group. Sun Lei lost consciousness as Huo Lian and Luo Wei faced the monster in a desperate final stand.

• Luo Wei led the exhausted group out of the collapsing passage, and Sun Lei realized several more teammates had died.
• Huo Lian said she had used a Healing Potion after placing the magic-core bomb, and Luo Wei urged everyone to return to the surface before the World Gate solidified.
• The ogre burst through the rubble and struck the group with its club, scattering Sun Lei and killing the others.
• Sun Lei saw Luo Wei and Huo Lian facing the ogre; the monster killed one of them, and the other charged it and triggered an explosion that knocked Sun Lei unconscious.

Moss healed Sun Lei and realized she could consciously control the balance between her body and talents, allowing her to alter Minor Injury Recovery into Healing Spell. She stayed until Sun Lei woke, then startled him by appearing as a mouse.

• Moss used nearly half her magic power to heal the unconscious Sun Lei and gained the Healing Spell talent by adapting Minor Injury Recovery.
• Moss reasoned that her mind could control the balance between her body and talents, letting her deliberately influence how talents changed within her limits.
• Moss replenished her magic power with jerky and water collected by Little Ball, then decided to wait until Sun Lei woke before leaving.
• Sun Lei woke from a nightmare, discovered his injuries had healed, and called out for help.
• Moss revealed herself to Sun Lei, who shouted, "Monster!!!"

After Moss healed Sun Lei, he asked her to help him find his teammates and offered twelve Bronze Rank magic cores as payment. Moss accepted despite the danger, and the two formed a temporary alliance, with Sun Lei calling her Little Mo.

• Sun Lei awoke, discovered Moss had healed him, and realized she was an intelligent Spirit Beast.
• Sun Lei asked Moss to help him find his teammates and offered her twelve Bronze Rank magic cores.
• Moss weighed the tempting payment against the danger posed by powerful monsters and agreed to help Sun Lei.
• Sun Lei and Moss joined hands in agreement, and Moss accepted the name Little Mo.

Sun Lei and Moss traveled through the sewers after Moss stored their magic cores using Little Ball’s spatial ability. They continued toward the surface, and Moss reassured Sun Lei that she could guide him despite being unsure how much the Realm Gate had changed the routes.

• Moss summoned Little Ball, which swallowed the magic cores and vanished, revealing its spatial ability to Sun Lei.
• Moss guided Sun Lei through the sewers while lighting the way with her flames.
• Sun Lei found a dead City Guard, closed the guard’s eyes, took his tag, and claimed his damaged longsword.
• After nearly two hours of walking, Sun Lei rested and ate an energy bar, then drank water from a flask Moss gave him.
• Sun Lei asked how much farther they had to go, and Moss confidently promised to lead him to the surface before they continued.

Sun Lei and Moss fought their way through a group of goblins in the sewer, then fled along the wall to escape the pursuit. They found a collapsed passage that appeared to lead up, leaving them a possible route out.

• Sun Lei chose to break through the goblins on his right while Moss used a fire attack to distract those behind him.
• Sun Lei killed the three goblins blocking his path with his longsword and Battle Qi.
• Sun Lei and Moss ran along the rock wall as Moss scattered fireballs to confuse the pursuing goblins.
• Moss guided Sun Lei through a fork, and their pursuers' cries faded behind them.
• Moss stopped Sun Lei and pointed out rubble connecting the lower sewer to an upper passage, which Sun Lei recognized as a way up.

Sun Lei and Moss climbed through the ruined sewer to find Luo Wei and Huo Lian’s bodies, and Sun Lei recovered their identity badges and Luo Wei’s photograph of his adopted daughter, Luo Ya. Hearing a battle ahead, Sun Lei and Moss set off to help the City Guard and avenge the two fallen seniors, suspecting the ogre was still alive.

• Sun Lei tested the rubble, climbed to the upper sewer, and followed the route where he and his companions had retreated.
• Sun Lei and Moss reached the site of Huo Lian’s explosion, and Moss paused to gaze at the night sky for the first time since her rebirth.
• Sun Lei found Luo Wei and Huo Lian’s corpses, gathered them, and took their identity badges and a photograph of Luo Wei with Luo Ya.
• Sun Lei arranged the two bodies while Moss comforted him, and he apologized to the fallen seniors.
• Sun Lei heard the City Guard fighting nearby and concluded the surviving ogre might be attacking them.
• Moss agreed to help Sun Lei avenge Luo Wei and Huo Lian, and they rushed toward the battle.

Wu Ming and the City Guard fought goblins while Li Mengzhang's unit restrained five Gold-grade ogres with ropes and poison. After Lei Yuanyun killed one ogre, the other four stopped struggling, and Li Mengzhang warned that something was wrong.

• Wu Ming directed the City Guard's defense against waves of goblins, keeping them from breaking through the line.
• Lei Yuanyun, Wang Xin, Yun Yu, and Li Mengzhang argued while their unit restrained the ogres and attacked them with poisoned arrows.
• Li Mengzhang warned that the rear guards were likely in grave danger because their squads could not match the Gold-grade ogres.
• Wang Xin noticed that the poison had weakened one ogre, and Lei Yuanyun charged in and killed it with two hammer blows.
• Li Mengzhang saw the other four ogres stop struggling and shouted for everyone to be careful.

Li Mengzhang recognized that the ogres had been driven berserk by the Curse of the Corpse Demon, and the team scrambled to survive their enhanced attacks. Li Mengzhang, Wang Xin, and Lei Yuanyun split up to fight the four ogres while the rest of the team followed orders to support them.

• Li Mengzhang recognized the Curse of the Corpse Demon as the cause of the ogres' sudden strength and warned the team too late to prevent their attack.
• An ogre struck Lei Yuanyun and blasted him away, while the other ogres lifted Warriors into the air; Yun Yu used Holy Spirit's Guidance to pull them to safety.
• Wang Xin released Poison Gas to corrode the ogres temporarily, and Li Mengzhang ordered the team to use guerrilla tactics, traps, and ranged attacks.
• After Yun Yu healed Lei Yuanyun, he joined Li Mengzhang and Wang Xin in dividing the four ogres between them and the team.
• Lei Yuanyun knocked one ogre flying with his hammer, while Wang Xin used Curse: Sensory Deprivation on an injured ogre and Li Mengzhang drew two others toward himself with Cloud Concealment Thunderclap.

Moss ate a Goblin magic core and gained the Learning talent, then used the surplus Magic Power to enhance Sun Lei as he charged into the City Guard’s battle against the Goblins. Sun Lei’s empowered Battle Qi Slash cut down dozens of Goblins, leaving him stunned by his own strength.

• Moss realized the nearby battle was close to Snake Den and the World Gate, then considered using one of the Goblin magic cores.
• Moss ate a Goblin magic core, quickly absorbed its Mana Essence, and gained the Learning talent.
• Sun Lei spotted the City Guard fighting the Goblins and drew his sword to rush into the battle.
• Moss poured several enhancement talents into Sun Lei, greatly increasing his strength and other abilities.
• Sun Lei unleashed a Battle Qi Slash that felled dozens of Goblins, and he stared in shock at the result.

Sun Lei returned to the City Guard after surviving the goblin attack and rushed toward the battlefield to fight the ogres. Meanwhile, the City Guard’s leaders struggled to hold off the ogres, and Li Mengzhang noticed a sudden roar from the one being delayed.

• Sun Lei cut through hundreds of goblins and reached Wu Ming’s unit.
• Sun Lei told Wu Ming that Luo Wei, Li Wen, and the others who covered their retreat had died, then asked to join the fight against the ogres.
• Wu Ming let Sun Lei pass to find Li Mengzhang, and Sun Lei sprinted toward the battlefield.
• Lei Yuanyun failed to overpower his ogre, while Li Mengzhang and Wang Xin struggled to defend themselves and ran out of options and poisons.
• Li Mengzhang heard a roar from the ogre Yun Yu’s subordinates were holding back and turned to look.

Sun Lei killed an ogre with a single sword strike, astonishing Li Mengzhang and the City Guards, then helped Lei Yuanyun defeat another ogre. After witnessing how quickly a disarmed ogre could be killed, Sun Lei resolved to grow stronger.

• Li Mengzhang arrived to find Sun Lei had severed an ogre’s arm and watched him kill it with a Battle Qi Slash.
• Li Mengzhang learned Sun Lei was the Silver Rank captain of Lei Yuanyun’s Fourth Squad, then sent him to assist Lei Yuanyun as more ogres emerged from the poisonous fog.
• Sun Lei rushed in while Lei Yuanyun engaged an ogre and cut off its arm, leaving it vulnerable.
• Lei Yuanyun crushed the ogre’s head with his hammer, and Sun Lei resolved to become stronger.

After Sun Lei’s enhanced power faded, Lei Yuanyun comforted him and went to help finish the fight while Moss watched Li Mengzhang and Wang Xin battle an ogre. The squad defeated the remaining ogres, but Li Mengzhang looked toward the World Gate, wary of stronger monsters ahead.

• Lei Yuanyun slapped Sun Lei by accident, and Moss hopped off his shoulder as he fell face-first to the ground.
• Sun Lei told Lei Yuanyun that Moss was a Spirit Beast who had helped him, and Lei Yuanyun mourned the squad members who had stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• Lei Yuanyun left to deal with the ogre near Yun Yu while Moss watched Li Mengzhang and Wang Xin fight.
• Li Mengzhang wounded an ogre with lightning sword strikes, and Wang Xin used Shadow Cut: Soul Kill to incapacitate it so Li Mengzhang could kill it.
• Lei Yuanyun defeated the last ogre, and Li Mengzhang looked toward the World Gate, anticipating stronger monsters.

Moss left Sun Lei and the group after saving him and helping avenge Luo Wei and Huo Lian, intending to search for a way out. As the team prepared to advance toward the World Gate, Moss heard them arguing from the darkness and disappeared again.

• Yun Yu tried to pet Moss, but Moss dodged her and remained wary of being touched.
• Wu Ming returned with bloodstained magic cores, and Li Mengzhang decided the group would advance in thirty minutes.
• Yun Yu and the others discussed Moss's unusual abilities, including boosting Sun Lei's combat power, healing fatal injuries, and controlling flames.
• Moss told Sun Lei she was leaving, and they parted with the hope that they might meet again.
• Li Mengzhang ordered the team to continue toward the World Gate while Moss listened to their distant argument, then slipped into the darkness.

Moss searched the sewers for a route to the wilderness, but a Black Spider swarm drove her into their nest. She unleashed powerful fire attacks as she descended toward the pulsing cocoon chamber, leaving the nest engulfed in flames.

• Moss used Wide Area Exploration to follow the wastewater toward a vertical reservoir near the Black Spiders' lair.
• A swarm of Black Spiders emerged behind Moss, and she fled toward the vertical shaft.
• Moss used Great Flame Explosion to scorch the pursuing spiders, then sprinted onward as the swarm smothered the flames.
• Moss leaped into the shaft and saw it covered in spider silk, with a huge pulsing cocoon chamber above her.
• As Black Spiders rushed toward her, Moss bit down on a magic core and unleashed Flame Envelopment, Explosive Flames, and Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation.