Chapter Summaries

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.

Moss awakened a stronger mastery of fire while battling the Black Spiders and the Great Lizard in the sewer shaft. After escaping the water with a new flame technique, she faced the still-living cocoon as a massive spider-like creature emerged from it.

• Moss unleashed a powerful flame blast that burned the Black Spiders and gave her insight, upgrading Flame Manipulation from VII to IX.
• Moss plunged into the water, where the Great Lizard attacked and swallowed her, but she escaped by cutting open its lower jaw with a concentrated flame sword.
• Moss developed High-Pressure Flame Flow, which let her condense flames into a blade and hover, but the technique consumed nearly all her Magic Power.
• Moss ate dried meat to recover and noticed Mana Essence pouring into the shaft from the direction of the World Gate.
• Moss looked up at the burning cocoon as it survived the flames and revealed a huge creature covered in spindly spider legs.

Moss faced a powerful Spider Monster whose evolution had been interrupted, dodging its relentless attacks in a collapsing shaft. With every exit blocked and the flames above obscuring her view, she realized she had no choice but to fight.

• The Spider Monster crashed into the pool, and Moss survived the wave of water before readying herself in the mist.
• Moss dodged the monster’s rapid spear-like leg strike and saw that it was a Silver Level 10 creature with numerous skills.
• The Spider Monster launched volleys of guided Spider Spears, forcing Moss to climb and sprint through the shaft.
• The attacks triggered a chain collapse, and Moss used High-Pressure Flame Stream: Sky Step to stay airborne and avoid falling.
• Moss found every nearby passage blocked, decided to wait rather than charge blindly through the flames, and prepared to fight.

Moss dodged the Spider Monster’s attacks while conserving her Magic Power and resisting its mental roar. After discovering the Great Lizard had recovered and was approaching, she redirected the Spider Monster’s attention so the two monsters would fight, leaving her watching from safety.

• Moss used High-Pressure Flame Flow to burn through spider silk but worried that the technique was consuming her Magic Power too quickly.
• Moss resisted the Spider Monster’s Intimidating Roar by constructing Mental Attack Resistance and narrowly dodged its spear barrage.
• Moss spotted the Great Lizard with its regenerated jaw approaching the Spider Monster and decided to draw the monster’s attention toward herself.
• Moss changed her flight path and attacked with a fireball, turning the Spider Monster away from the Great Lizard.
• The Great Lizard ambushed the Spider Monster in the pool and attacked it with a death roll while Moss watched from an exposed pipe.

Moss watched the Great Lizard and Spider Monster battle while Little Ball searched underwater, then used a Spider magic core to gain Vibration Sense. As Moss prepared to leave, her new Talent detected an eerie vibration in the distance.

• Moss watched the Great Lizard gain the advantage over the Spider Monster, but the Spider Monster suddenly bit it and injected venom.
• Little Ball returned with seven magic cores from dead Black Spiders, and Moss recalled it before either monster could discover it.
• Moss ate a Spider magic core and chose Vibration Sense from the Talents she could plunder.
• Moss discovered that Vibration Sense continuously revealed nearby vibrations without consuming Magic Power, and considered combining it with Wide Area Exploration.
• Moss began to leave with Little Ball, then sensed an eerie vibration coming from far away.

After a quake collapsed Moss’s route out, she discovered the Spider Monster heading toward the World Gate and concluded that circling past Snake Den was her only way forward. She found the Great Lizard’s magic core but left it with Little Ball, then set out toward the sewer opening after the poisoned water improved her Poison Resistance.

• A distant blast shook the shaft, and Moss escaped to the top as it collapsed, leaving the Great Lizard floating belly-up and the Spider Monster climbing into a sewer opening.
• Moss noticed the mana essence had grown denser and realized the Spider Monster had gone in the direction of the World Gate.
• With the main passage blocked, Moss studied her map and chose the route around the World Gate, through Snake Den, and toward another waterway into the main passage.
• Little Ball brought Moss the Great Lizard’s large magic core, but Moss decided it was unusable until she reached Silver Rank.
• Moss leaped into the water to inspect the Great Lizard, recoiled from its poison, and gained Poison Resistance VI before heading toward the Spider Monster’s exit.

Moss hurried toward the World Gate, found unclaimed magic cores, and left Little Ball to collect them. Meanwhile, Li Mengzhang’s force retreated from an undead assault, but a mysterious monster emerged and overwhelmed them with its presence.

• Moss found Spider Monster tracks and reasoned that it had headed toward the World Gate, then continued toward the gate herself.
• Moss discovered goblin corpses with intact magic cores, summoned Little Ball, and instructed it to collect the cores while she went ahead.
• Li Mengzhang, Lei Yuanyun, and the City Guard squad leaders fought a large undead force but decided to retreat as their fighters weakened.
• Wang Xin returned wounded and reported that Gold-grade undead mages from another world had attacked her; Yun Yu could not heal her wound.
• A terrifying, unidentifiable monster emerged from a sewer passage, causing the retreating force to scream and clutch their heads.

Sun Lei and the retreating guards were overwhelmed by a monstrous Spider Monster and pursuing undead, and he watched his squad members get devoured. After Sun Lei broke through to Gold-grade too late to save them, Moss arrived and lent him her power so they could fight together again.

• Sun Lei and Wang Yang retreated from the undead, but a massive Spider Monster appeared in the sewer and its influence left them weakened.
• Lei Yuanyun and Li Mengzhang fought the Spider Monster as a shock wave knocked down the guards, while undead caught up and devoured the fallen squad members, including Wang Yang.
• Grieving over the deaths, Sun Lei attacked the undead and broke through to Gold-grade, but he regretted that the breakthrough had come too late.
• Moss joined Sun Lei, struck him out of his grief, and lent him her Magic Power as he blocked an undead monster's cleaver and prepared to fight with her.

Yun Yu exhausted herself and risked Mana Aversion Syndrome to protect the retreating City Guard, but her powerful attack failed to stop the undead. As a much larger horde surged from the sewer, Wu Ming saw a flash of fire and heard an enraged roar.

• Li Mengzhang ordered Yun Yu and Wu Ming to evacuate the troops while Lei Yuanyun fought the Spider Monster.
• Yun Yu used holy magic to burn the undead and revive weakened team members, then collapsed from depleted Magic Power.
• Wu Ming prepared to fight, but Yun Yu drank a second recovery potion and unleashed Divine Light Burst into the sewer.
• The attack briefly cleared the passage, but Yun Yu sensed danger and fell unconscious as an even larger undead army erupted from the entrance.
• Wu Ming despaired at the overwhelming horde, then saw firelight spread across his vision as an unknown voice roared, “Die!”

Sun Lei and Little Moss repelled the undead horde with a combined flaming sword strike, allowing Wu Ming’s survivors to retreat and regroup. Sun Lei mourned the emptiness left by revenge while Moss weighed whether to spend her Job Points to pursue human form.

• Sun Lei and Little Moss unleashed a combined attack that split the undead horde and engulfed it in platinum flames.
• Wu Ming realized Sun Lei had reached Gold-grade and credited Little Moss’s power for the overwhelming strike.
• Sun Lei’s sword shattered after the battle, and he thanked Little Moss while she examined her status and debated spending four Job Points.
• Wu Ming praised Sun Lei for saving most of the team and ordered the survivors to retreat two kilometers and regroup.
• Li Mengzhang and Lei Yuanyun killed the Spider Monster, and Sun Lei followed the surviving team as they withdrew.

After the retreat, Sun Lei learned that Wang Xin was close to death because Yun Yu could no longer suppress the dark magic eroding her body. He asked Moss to examine her, and Moss found a possible treatment but demanded magic cores before trying it.

• The team regrouped two kilometers from the battlefield, where Wu Ming counted the dead and wounded and the surviving squad leaders were exhausted or gravely injured.
• Priests argued over whether to keep spending their Magic Power on Wang Xin, whose wound worsened without Yun Yu's Healing Spell.
• Sun Lei learned from Li Li that Gold-grade dark magic was spreading through Wang Xin's body and would kill her once it reached her heart.
• Sun Lei asked Moss to examine Wang Xin, and Moss sensed that her organs were nearly failing despite another force keeping her alive.
• Moss thought of a difficult treatment that would require a great deal of Magic Power, then asked Sun Lei for magic cores as payment.