Chapter Summaries

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.

Moss investigated Xiris City's wave of killings and disappearances, suspecting a conspiracy inside the City Guard. After learning her followers had found the monster in the sewers and planted a Magic Core Bomb, she ordered an explosion to stir the city and draw the hidden enemy out.

• Umeilu reported that Xiris City had suffered 147 missing-person cases and 326 murders in two months, with many killings attributed to monsters.
• Moss concluded that the missing-person cases and the scar-faced soldier's suspicious actions pointed to a wider conspiracy that had infiltrated the City Guard.
• Moss decided to provoke the enemy into revealing themselves, while Shadow One reported that the Shadow Mice had located the monster in the sewers and deployed a Magic Core Bomb.
• Little Ball, Xi, and Wa confirmed the evacuation was complete, and Moss told them to begin despite the risk of attracting the patrols.
• A tremendous explosion shattered the city's nighttime silence as Moss watched from the clock tower, eager to see who would move.

A monster rampaged through Xiris City, and Elles realized it was his mutated son, Ereia, whose transformation he had hoped to reverse. Moss recognized Ereia’s suffering and prepared to kill him, while Elles attacked her and was struck down by Cerberus.

• Elles woke to explosions and learned that a monster was destroying Xiris City’s residential district.
• Elles recognized the monster as his son Ereia and decided to conceal what had happened and avenge him.
• Moss saw Ereia’s twisted body and sensed his suffering, then drew his attention by releasing magic power.
• Elles arrived, accused Moss of causing the destruction, and thrust his sword at her.
• Moss kicked Elles away and summoned Cerberus, which appeared as Elles crashed through several buildings and lost consciousness.

Elles woke during a battle and watched Moss use a Forbidden Spell to destroy Ereia, while Moss’s dependents carried out their rescue and containment plan. Moss and her group withdrew, leaving Elles alive and vowing revenge for his son.

• Elles awoke in the wreckage and saw Ereia fighting a Three-headed Giant Dog while Moss prepared a Forbidden Spell.
• Umeilu restrained Elles by threatening to crush his heart, preventing him from intervening.
• Moss completed her spell and destroyed the monster as it pinned Ereia beneath it.
• Moss’s dependents reported that they had subdued suspicious people, rescued imprisoned commoners, evacuated civilians, and treated the injured.
• Moss and her dependents departed, while Elles cursed his guards and swore to avenge Ereia.

Moss traveled toward Asiala City while investigating the dangerous creature from Xiris City and the unknown force behind it. She learned that the city had recovered amid a search for her, then continued toward Asiala with Umeilu and Storage Ring reunited with her.

• Moss considered how the creature in Xiris City might be connected to an unknown force and compared its creation to her own fusion experiment that produced Cerberus.
• Little Ball reported that the captured conspirators could not name their backers because of a contract, so Moss ordered them killed and left the investigation to the Shadow Mice and the guild.
• Moss continued alone toward Asiala while Umeilu and Storage Ring stayed behind in Xiris City for training and surveillance.
• Three days later, Storage Ring and Umeilu returned to Moss's carriage, and Umeilu reported that the city lord had suppressed the chaos and issued wanted notices describing Moss without showing her face.
• Moss told Umeilu to avoid being recognized and urged her to speed up as they neared Asiala.

Moss and Umeilu left Xike Village after helping its residents defeat a powerful monster, then continued toward Asiala in disguise. They arrived within sight of the city’s enormous walls, where a group of people approached them.

• The village chief thanked Moss and Umeilu for saving Xike Village from a powerful monster and invited them to lunch.
• The villagers saw Moss and Umeilu off, and Umeilu praised the Horned Boar meat and pumpkin soup on their carriage ride.
• Moss explained that her disguise showed her ordinary appearance from her previous life, and Umeilu said she felt closer to her now.
• Umeilu fell asleep as Moss told her she truly thought of her as a little sister.
• Moss and Umeilu reached the outskirts of Asiala, and Umeilu spotted a group of figures approaching.