Chapter Summaries

Molly explained Rick’s resurrection and helped him and Naliya continue their rescue mission to find their trapped teammates. The shifting labyrinth opened onto a vast battlefield, where Molly revealed her army fighting a horde of goblins.

• Molly explained that resurrection restored the original person in a new, nearly identical body, reassuring Rick and Naliya that Rick was himself.
• Naliya asked Molly to continue the rescue mission because her teammates, including Aize, were trapped on the fifth floor and had the mission records.
• Molly led Naliya and Rick through the changing labyrinth, explaining that its shifts followed a pattern and hinting that her creatures had found the target.
• The labyrinth passage vanished, revealing a battlefield where tens of thousands of goblins fought against a blazing force.
• Molly proudly revealed the fiery fighters as her army.

Molly annihilated tens of thousands of goblins with the Flame Rat Formation, unsettling Naliya and Rick with her battle-mad enthusiasm. Afterward, two surviving formation cores evolved into the Flame Rat Tribe, and the group headed for the labyrinth’s fourth floor.

• Molly used the Flame Rat Formation to burn through the goblin army while Naliya and Rick watched in fear and awe.
• Rick wondered whether Molly was truly divinely favored after seeing her frenzied delight in killing the goblins.
• Molly apologized for getting carried away, and Naliya and Rick reassured themselves that she must have a painful history with monsters.
• Naliya and Rick found that the battlefield held no surviving goblins or magic cores, while Molly praised the results.
• Two Flame Rat formation cores emerged alive from the ashes, evolved into the Flame Rat Tribe, and departed to develop their kin.
• Molly, Naliya, and Rick proceeded toward the fourth floor and found that the situation there looked grim.

Moss, Molly, and Naliya reached the fourth floor, which recreated the surface around the old Uluo Mine, and discovered signs that a large goblin force was preparing to reclaim its territory. When a goblin nearly raised an alarm, Molly silenced and put it to sleep, and the group set out to investigate the goblins.

• Molly and Naliya saw that the fourth floor resembled the surface, and Naliya explained how the World Gate and a palace had drawn the mine underground.
• Naliya warned Molly and Rick that the goblins were counterattacking and that the tens of thousands they had defeated were only a small remnant of a much larger tribe.
• Naliya found signs that goblins were making weapons and told Molly their territory was in the old mining town near the fifth-floor entrance.
• Molly asked Naliya and Rick what had happened when their teammates were separated on the fifth floor, but a goblin emerged from the bushes before Naliya could answer.
• Molly silenced the goblin and made it fall asleep, then suggested that they go investigate the goblins.

Molly, Naliya, and Rick found a million-strong goblin army manufacturing siege ballistae near the former mining town, now covered in Crimson Iron Spider cocoons. As the goblins prepared to fire, Molly declared that the war was about to begin.

• On the fourth day in the labyrinth, Molly, Naliya, and Rick discovered the goblin army and its many enormous siege crossbows.
• Naliya explained that the goblins had learned to make weapons from old technology and warned that goblins were dangerous and adaptable.
• Molly and Naliya spotted Crimson Iron Spider cocoons covering the former mining town, and Naliya said the spiders were likely gathering goblins as food for their eggs.
• Molly reasoned that the spiders might have migrated from the fifth floor because it no longer provided enough food, worrying Naliya about Aize and the others.
• The goblins began turning the ballista winches, and Molly announced that the war was about to begin as the weapons fired.

Molly, Naliya, and Rick watched goblins and Crimson Iron Spiders fight across the route to the fifth floor, but Molly ruled out preparing her Flame Rat Formation because they were short on time. She decided they would cross the battlefield by joining the battle.

• Goblins charged through the smoke as Crimson Iron Spiders emerged and tore into them.
• Goblins used thick ropes to restrain the spiders, and a second barrage of giant pillars crushed both sides.
• Molly judged that the fighting could last too long, while Naliya and Rick realized the battlefield blocked their way to the fifth floor.
• Naliya asked Molly to use her Flame Rat Formation, but Molly said preparing it would take one or two days they did not have.
• Molly told Rick they would join the battle and cross the battlefield.

Molly, Naliya, and Rick crossed the battlefield using slimes as a rapid but terrifying way to travel. They landed in the middle of a standoff between the goblins and the Crimson Iron Spider Queen, and Molly asked to join the fight.

• Molly explained that the trio would cut through the battlefield under cover of smoke to reach the fifth-floor entrance quickly.
• Naliya prepared to leave with Rick and Molly, while Rick worried that his weakness would make him a burden.
• Molly used slime ropes to launch herself, Naliya, and Rick across the battlefield, terrifying Rick as they flew.
• An aged goblin ordered his Gold-grade goblin unit to kill the humans flying overhead.
• The Crimson Iron Spider Queen emerged and faced the goblin forces as the battle paused.
• Molly and the others crashed into the center of the standoff, and Molly asked to join the battle.

Molly fought off the Goblin army’s elite attackers while the Crimson Iron Spider Queen watched from afar. When the goblins wounded Rick and threatened Naliya, Molly prepared to use Puppet Magic.

• A Heavy Goblin charged Molly and was thrown back with a footprint crushed into its armor.
• The Goblin army attacked the crimson worms and sent waves of coordinated strikes at Molly, who blocked the Goblin Hunters and countered the Heavy Goblins.
• Molly noticed the Goblin Sorcerers and suspected the Crimson Iron Spider Queen was waiting to profit from the battle.
• Goblin attacks wounded Rick and left him near death, prompting Molly to raise her hand and reveal that she was about to use Puppet Magic.

Rick froze as Molly fought her way through the goblin army, then realized Goblin Monks were secretly healing her fallen opponents. When a goblin wounded Rick, Molly’s prayer triggered him to recite a divine spell that halted his fall and seemed to grant him new life.

• Rick watched Molly overwhelm the goblins with her fighting skill and use Aster's Twin Spear Technique to attack their rear ranks.
• Rick spotted Goblin Monks secretly healing the goblins Molly had defeated and tried to warn her.
• Molly discarded her broken spear shafts and began to retreat, planning to draw the enemies away with Rick and Naliya.
• A goblin struck Rick in the chest as Naliya fought nearby, and Rick believed he was dying again.
• Molly recited a prayer, and Rick’s body stopped falling as he began chanting the familiar spell, ending with a plea for new life.

Molly’s attempt to study Naliya and Rick’s revival ended when the Dominion Imprint overrode her changes and transformed them into powerful fighters. As the goblin forces gathered, Molly turned her anger toward them.

• Molly used a temporary Dominion-derived Imprint on Naliya and Rick as a last resort to prevent them from revealing her revival ability.
• Rick healed his chest wound and calmly chanted while Naliya slaughtered goblins with an enhanced Meteor Barrage.
• A Heavy Goblin attacked Naliya, but she effortlessly deflected its strike as more goblins joined the battle.
• Rick cast Sacred Blazing Sun, and its radiance destroyed the goblins surrounding him and Naliya.
• Molly confirmed that the Dominion had overridden her experiment and faced the approaching goblin forces with murderous intent.

Molly used the labyrinth’s magic to overpower the Crimson Iron Spider Queen, then amplified her ability and buried it and the other monsters beneath a vast forest. She left the captured monsters to become her nourishment.

• The Crimson Iron Spider Queen attacked Molly, but Molly used threads to activate a Labyrinth Trap and drew on the labyrinth’s Magic Power to hold it back.
• Naliya and Rick joined Molly, and Naliya explained that the Spider Queen was fighting to prove itself as the leader who could help the monsters survive.
• Molly ended the contest by severing the Spider Queen’s leg and launching it into the air.
• Molly requested a 90% Ability Amplification and used Plant Manipulation with Touch of Absorption to create a vast forest that swallowed the battlefield.
• Molly approached a giant tree and left the monsters trapped in the forest to become her nourishment.

Moss researched the New Moon Church and connected its history to the Boundary God Cult, the recent monster incidents, and the Second Prince. She suspected the Church had caused an Experiment Subject to lose control for a hidden purpose involving the Second Prince, but could not explain why it had acted in Pompeii Territory.

• Moss reviewed records of the Resurrection Experiment and learned that Little Ball's human form had stabilized.
• Little Ball served Moss iced tea and asked whether she had found the information she sought.
• Moss discovered that the New Moon Church had researched bloodlines and monsters before its destruction in a World Gate catastrophe.
• Moss doubted that all New Moon believers had died and suspected the Church had conducted human experiments linked to the Boundary God Cult.
• Moss inferred that the New Moon Church had deliberately caused a Boundary God Cult Experiment Subject to lose control and considered whether the Second Prince was its real target.
• Moss wondered why the New Moon Church had arranged its operation in Pompeii Territory while the Second Prince commanded the floating fleet at the front lines.

Moss disguised herself as a traveling merchant and set up a stall at the evening market to sell unusually potent Healing Potions. After hours without customers, two young adventurers approached to ask the price.

• Moss left the library, changed her appearance, and headed to the evening market.
• Moss set up her stall and offered her Healing Potions for 30 silver coins each, far above the market price.
• Passersby avoided the stall, while Moss calmly read her Magic Book and waited.
• Lars and Lack discussed their struggles as rookies and decided to buy Healing Potions before going home.
• Lars approached Moss's stall and asked how much the potions cost.

Lass and Lack visited Moss’s market stall, where Lass complained about her expensive Healing Potion before Moss gave him a bottle for free. The next day, Moss studied the Demon Person Ritual incantation and wondered what medium had made the spell work.

• Lass challenged Moss over the price of her Healing Potion, while Lack tried to lead his angry brother away.
• Moss gave Lass a potion as a perk for being her first customer, and the brothers left with it.
• On August 1, Moss closed her book after selling one potion and returned home.
• The next day, Moss studied the Demon Person Ritual incantation in the library and questioned whether it could be activated as written.
• Little Ball suggested that the ritual’s medium might explain its activation, and Moss considered special blood, a strange stone, monsters, or the enormous Mimic Demon Vine.

After defeating a powerful monster, Ras rushed to save his critically wounded younger brother and remembered Moss’s potion. Moss opened her stall and met Lily Loren and her brother Res, then waited as Ras arrived desperate to buy medicine.

• Ras found his potions gone and remembered the potion he had received earlier as his younger brother lay near death.
• Moss used magic to set up her stall and met Lily Loren, who recognized the unusual ingredients in Moss’s Healing Potions and asked for versions without Twist Grass juice.
• Lily’s brother Res Loren arrived, introduced himself as leader of the Loren Adventurer Group, and asked to buy several potions.
• Res balked at Moss’s price of thirty silver per bottle, but Moss predicted that a customer would pay it.
• Ras staggered to Moss’s stall, fell to his knees, and begged to buy medicine.

Moss woke to a peaceful morning, spent time with Little Ball and the three little creatures, and recalled the Silver Rank adventurer who had bought potions from her on credit. After breakfast, she wondered how Molly's efforts were going.

• Tian Lan, Shuilian, and Amber played in the sunlight until Little Ball asked them to quiet down while Moss rested.
• Little Ball tidied Moss's room with help from the three little creatures, then woke Moss and held her as she got out of bed.
• Little Ball braided Moss's hair and helped her dress, while Moss recalled agreeing to sell a young Silver Rank adventurer thirty potion bottles on credit, due within three days.
• Little Ball prepared breakfast for Moss, who enjoyed the meal and wondered how things were progressing on Molly's end.