Chapter Summaries

Moss used magic cores to power a massive healing spell that saved Wang Xin from the Gold-grade Mage’s lingering magic, then healed other injured team members for more cores. After confirming Wang Xin had fully recovered, Moss stored her growing collection and left.

• Sun Lei realized Moss wanted magic cores and brought her a pouch of Goblin cores.
• Moss ate several cores and used multiple resistance talents and a supermass healing spell to purge the dangerous magic from Wang Xin’s body.
• Wang Xin woke up, while Moss healed injured team members in exchange for magic cores and improved several talents.
• Moss counted twenty-three newly collected cores, stored them with Little Ball, and confirmed Wang Xin was fully healed before leaving.

Li Mengzhang and Lei Yuanyun waited for the captain’s orders after reporting their team’s losses, while Moss treated Yun Yu and investigated Mana Aversion Syndrome. Moss tested a Mana Recovery Potion, discovered that it forcibly restored Magic Power while disrupting the balance between body and spirit, and concluded that this effect caused the syndrome.

• Li Mengzhang told Lei Yuanyun to wait for the captain’s orders after reporting the team’s situation to headquarters, while Moss treated Yun Yu.
• Lei Mengzhang and Lei Yuanyun discussed the monster siege, the World Gate, and the danger facing the city.
• Moss considered why Yun Yu had developed Mana Aversion Syndrome despite Moss’s own extensive Magic Power conversion.
• Moss drank a small sip of the Mana Recovery Potion and felt it rapidly restore Magic Power while depleting her Mental Force and disrupting her balance.
• Moss concluded that the potion’s forced restoration of Magic Power explained why it caused Mana Aversion Syndrome.

Moss discovered that recovery potions forcibly extract Mana Essence from the body, explaining Mana Aversion Syndrome, and gained new insights into how Mana Essence relates to constitution and Magic Power. After Sun Lei interrupted her research, he took Moss to meet Li Mengzhang and get breakfast.

• Moss realized that recovery potions force the body to turn its remaining Mana Essence into Magic Power, risking severe harm if used too much.
• Moss examined Yun Yu, healed the injuries caused by the potion, and concluded that Yun Yu would need time to recover her lost Mana Essence and Mental Force.
• Moss developed new ideas about the body's Mana Essence capacity, the effects of constitution, and why Magic Power recovered on its own.
• Sun Lei found Moss and offered to take her to eat, and Moss eagerly climbed onto his shoulder.
• A team member told Sun Lei that Li Mengzhang wanted to see him, so Sun Lei headed over with Moss.

Li Mengzhang told the squad leaders that they had to continue the mission and destroy the World Gate before it stabilized, despite their heavy losses. Sun Lei agreed to provide most of the combat power, while Moss memorized the map and spotted a route toward the main sewer line.

• Li Mengzhang announced that the squad leader had ordered them to continue the mission and that another team was heading directly for the World Gate.
• Sun Lei joined the squad leaders, who acknowledged his strength and thanked him for his help in the previous battle.
• Moss tasted canned meat, considered the world’s technology, and memorized the map showing a route from the World Gate toward the main sewer line.
• Li Mengzhang explained that the teams had to rendezvous at the World Gate and destroy it before it stabilized, while bringing the unconscious Yun Yu with them.
• Sun Lei accepted Li Mengzhang’s request to provide most of the mission’s combat power and promised to destroy the World Gate.

Sun Lei and the squad captains set out for the World Gate as a great battle approached. Wu Ming led the main team through the sewers with his auras and charge, then emerged into a battle scene that shocked him.

• Sun Lei asked Moss to help him until they passed through the World Gate, and she agreed before the squad set out.
• Li Mengzhang put Wu Ming in charge of the advancing team, while he, Lei Yuanyun, Wang Xin, and Sun Lei rushed ahead.
• Wu Ming used his Paladin auras to boost the team’s stamina, speed, and morale, then led a charge that smashed through a group of goblins.
• Wu Ming followed the advance party’s trail of monster corpses toward the sounds of battle and a distant fire.
• Wu Ming led his team out of the sewer as flames flashed and an explosion erupted, then saw the situation outside and reacted with shock.

Li Mengzhang’s team fought through a Goblin guerrilla squad and reached the gigantic cavern containing the World Gate, where they reunited with a City Guard reinforcement troop. As both groups prepared to fight the waiting monsters and concealed enemies, Moss enhanced Sun Lei and spotted attacks incoming beside the World Gate.

• Li Mengzhang, Sun Lei, and Wang Xin defeated the high-level Goblin guerrilla squad while Little Ball collected their magic cores.
• Li Mengzhang’s team reached the passage exit and prepared to face the monsters and Gold-grade necromancers gathered near the World Gate.
• Moss consumed magic cores to strengthen her Mana, then cast multiple enhancements on Sun Lei, who rushed ahead at tremendous speed.
• The team emerged into a gigantic cavern and saw more than three hundred City Guard reinforcements arrive from another passage.
• Li Mengzhang and the reinforcement troop prepared to attack, while Moss admired the World Gate and noticed attacks from monsters and otherworldly humans coming toward them.

Sun Lei and the Awakened fighters confronted a massive monster horde surrounding the World Gate. Li Mengzhang entrusted command to Wu Ming, then the reinforcements charged into battle as Lei Yuanyun struck the monsters with his great hammer.

• Sun Lei destroyed the monsters' first barrage with a rapid Battle Qi Slash, astonishing Li Mengzhang, Wang Xin, and Lei Yuanyun.
• The smoke cleared to reveal thousands of monsters packed around the World Gate, and Li Mengzhang judged the threat to be Special B-class.
• Wu Ming and the reinforcements arrived, and Li Mengzhang put Wu Ming in command before rallying the fighters to face the horde.
• The monsters and reinforcements charged, and Lei Yuanyun crushed the front ranks with Forceful Meteor Strike.

Li Mengzhang broke through to Diamond-grade, and he and Sun Lei charged toward the World Gate while Wu Ming's joined forces fought the monster horde. At the gate, the two swordsmen met five humans from an unknown world and prepared to fight them.

• Li Mengzhang revealed that he had reached Diamond-grade, and he and Sun Lei charged toward the World Gate, cutting through the monsters in their path.
• Wu Ming led his troops and the reinforcements into formation, supporting the two swordsmen and fighting the monster horde.
• Wang Xin battled an otherworld human while the formation faced several more, including a Two-headed Ogre Mage whose attack wounded Wu Ming and the reinforcement commander.
• Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang encountered five black-robed otherworld humans blocking their way to the World Gate.
• The five strangers spoke an unfamiliar language and attacked, so Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang readied their swords to kill the invaders.

Moss observed the Black Robes from another world and realized their words caused Magic Power to fluctuate, but she failed to warn Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang before they were attacked. As the two fought the Black Robes’ powerful Skeleton Soldiers, Moss noticed the speaker’s Magic Power surging ominously.

• Moss examined the Black Robes and inferred that they were much like humans on Blue Star.
• A Black Robe spoke in an unknown language, and Moss noticed that its words made Magic Power fluctuate.
• Four Black Robes attacked Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang with black arrows and ten armored Skeleton Soldiers.
• Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang were surrounded and struggled against the Skeleton Soldiers’ coordinated attacks.
• Sun Lei unleashed Battle Qi Slash at the Black Robes while Li Mengzhang used Cloud Concealment · Accumulated Thunder against the skeletons.
• Moss watched the first speaker as purple Magic Power surged around the Black Robe as though something were forming.

Sun Lei and Moss faced a Black Robe whose transformation revealed a gigantic Bone Dragon, a Special B-class monster capable of destroying a city. With the battlefield paralyzed by fear, Sun Lei asked Moss whether they could win.

• Sun Lei attacked the Black Robes’ Magic Shield, but Moss warned him to retreat as the shield shattered and the central Black Robe prepared a counterattack.
• The Black Robe transformed his arm into a massive bone claw, pierced Sun Lei’s abdomen, and hurled him away.
• Moss used a mana core and Healing Spell to restore Sun Lei, who recovered and faced the Black Robe as its body transformed into a towering skeleton.
• The skeleton grew into a forty-to-fifty-meter Bone Dragon, leaving Wu Ming, the commander, and the battlefield’s fighters stunned and afraid.
• Sun Lei identified the monster as a Special B-class Dragon of the Dead and asked Moss if they could win.

Moss rallied Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang to attack the Bone Dragon, while Wu Ming led the team toward the World Gate. The Bone Dragon finally began moving after a clash with four Black Robes halted the team’s charge.

• Moss boosted Sun Lei’s sword with flames, restored Li Mengzhang’s severed arm, and urged them to attack the still Bone Dragon.
• Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang struck the Bone Dragon with flaming and lightning-wreathed sword attacks, driving it back and igniting the battle.
• Wu Ming led the team in a charge toward the World Gate, while Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang stayed behind to hold off the Bone Dragon.
• Four people in Black Robes attacked the charging team with dark arrows, and the resulting clash of spells sent both sides flying.
• Wu Ming recovered from the blast’s shock wave and heard the Bone Dragon roar as it finally moved.

Sun Lei, Li Mengzhang, and Moss fought the Bone Dragon, whose powerful attacks and roar made clear that it had finally awakened. As the two men engaged it, Moss suddenly left Sun Lei and ran toward an unknown destination.

• Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang decided to restrain the Bone Dragon and attacked its wing and legs, but it turned and struck them with its tail and body.
• The Bone Dragon began moving, unfolded its wings, and overwhelmed the pair with a mental attack until Moss gained stronger resistance and used magic cores to protect them.
• The Bone Dragon charged through Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang, then skidded hundreds of meters and crushed monsters in its path.
• While the team remained occupied fighting monsters and four Black Robes, Li Mengzhang charged the Bone Dragon and Sun Lei prepared to follow.
• Moss leaped from Sun Lei's shoulder and ran through the air, telling him to look after himself as he called after her.

Moss overcame the Bone Dragon’s pressure and searched for a way to turn the monsters against one another, finding a nearby Snake Den that could provide reinforcements. As she headed there, she helped Wang Xin defeat a Black Robe, while a tide of Giant Snakes surged toward the battlefield.

• Moss raised Mental Attack Resistance to level V, protected Sun Lei and Li Mengzhang, and decided to seek reinforcements rather than flee the Bone Dragon.
• Moss used her enhanced senses to locate a Snake Den three kilometers away and told Sun Lei to hold off the Bone Dragon while she went to draw the snakes toward the fight.
• Moss flew toward the rock wall, dodged attacks, and briefly aided Wang Xin by striking her Black Robe opponent with a Blazing Explosion and healing Wang Xin.
• Wang Xin seized the opening, impaled the Black Robe, and cut off his head before disappearing as monsters closed in.
• A black tide of Giant Snakes surged toward the monsters and the battling group.

Moss blasted open the Snake Den’s cliff wall with a Magic Core Bomb, drawing its venomous snakes into the cavern battle and giving her a chance to search inside. After a colossal Diamond-grade Giant Snake emerged, Moss fled as it unleashed a venomous mana attack toward her.

• Moss recalled Little Ball, counted the 279 magic cores it had collected, and embedded ten Silver Rank cores in the cliff wall to make a bomb.
• Moss’s Magic Core Bomb shattered the cliff wall, and thousands of Bronze Rank venomous snakes poured out to attack the monsters fighting the humans.
• Moss used Stealth to enter the Snake Den, found it empty of living snakes, and dug a magic core out of a dead one.
• A colossal Giant Snake burst out of the den, and Moss estimated it was nearly several hundred meters long and Diamond-grade.
• Moss sensed the Giant Snake aiming at her and fled as it blasted concentrated venomous mana in her direction.

Moss fought the Snake Den’s Giant Snake leader after its poisonous attack injured her fur, and she defeated it with a powerful concentrated flame blast. The battle raised her to Bronze Level 9 and awakened two new talents, Limitless Physique and Limit Break.

• The Giant Snake leader’s poisonous rain killed many monsters and corroded Moss’s arm, which she healed before charging into battle.
• Moss crushed a mana core and struck the Giant Snake leader with her enlarged Flame Claws, badly wounding its head and blinding its right eye.
• Moss swallowed a Silver Rank mana core, then had Little Ball anchor her in Turret Mode as she unleashed a concentrated jet of flame.
• The flames overwhelmed and killed the Giant Snake leader, along with several thousand monsters and poisonous snakes caught in the blast.
• Moss reached Bronze Level 9 and discovered that she had constructed the Limitless Physique and Limit Break talents.

Moss discovered that Limitless Physique let her absorb an additional Silver Rank magic core and that Limit Break temporarily stacked power based on how much Magic Power she spent. After the wounded Giant Snake leader struck the Bone Dragon, the two giant beasts began fighting, with the snake coiling around the dragon as Moss watched.

• Moss tested Limit Break at 25% and found it boosted her strength to about 1.25 times its usual level for roughly ten minutes.
• Moss returned Little Ball to her spatial storage, healed herself, and sensed that the Giant Snake leader had survived her attack.
• The Giant Snake leader lashed the Bone Dragon, and Li Mengzhang and Sun Lei retreated while trying not to laugh.
• The enraged Bone Dragon struck the Giant Snake leader with Dark Blast, and the snake retaliated with venom before coiling around it.
• The Giant Snake leader tightened its coils around the Bone Dragon, while Moss doubted the hold would be enough to restrain it.

The Bone Dragon defeated the Giant Snake’s leader while Sun Lei, Li Mengzhang, and the City Guard destroyed the four Black Robes. The Bone Dragon then turned its venomous breath on the City Guard, and Moss prepared to act after reaching 100% Limit Break.

• The Bone Dragon pinned the Giant Snake’s leader and battered it with Destructive Claws before charging it into the ground.
• Li Mengzhang and Sun Lei returned to the group and joined the City Guard’s attack on the four Black Robes.
• Lu Wan, Lu Ya, and Lu Qian cast Hellfire Thunderstorm while Li Mengzhang and Sun Lei struck the Black Robes’ defenses.
• Wang Xin used Shadow Binding to immobilize the Black Robes, and the combined attack reduced them to ashes.
• The Bone Dragon appeared beside the group after severing the Giant Snake’s leader, then engulfed the City Guard in Venomous Breath.
• Moss swallowed a Silver Rank magic core and reached 100% Limit Break as the City Guard struggled against the Bone Dragon’s breath.

Moss fought the Bone Dragon while Sun Lei struggled to rise and continue the battle. Moss cut the Bone Dragon in half and damaged the World Gate, stopping the flow of Mana Essence and leaving the monsters frozen.

• Moss activated her enhanced speed and senses, then slew the surrounding monsters with Magic Slash.
• Moss struck the Bone Dragon with a High-Pressure Flame Flow Flame Cannon, breaking its bones and blowing away much of its head.
• Sun Lei forced himself to stand despite his injuries and watched Moss battle the Bone Dragon as a Priest began healing him.
• Moss countered the Bone Dragon’s Dark Blast with high-pressure flames, then sliced the charging creature in half with Super Convergence.
• Moss’s laser cut a corner from the World Gate, halting the Mana Essence pouring from it and freezing the monsters.

Moss damaged the World Gate, weakening the invading monsters and triggering the Gate’s recovery, then escaped through the sewer to the main route. Sun Lei accepted her departure, gained the Flame Warrior class, and joined Li Mengzhang’s group to destroy the World Gate.

• Moss accidentally cut a corner off the World Gate, then destroyed the Bone Dragon’s soul flame and took its magic core with Little Ball.
• Moss tried to escape as the World Gate absorbed Mana Essence from the monsters, weakening them and killing some while its damaged corner restored itself.
• Sun Lei watched Moss leave, accepted that she was gone, and saw that he had gained the Flame Warrior class.
• Li Mengzhang called Sun Lei back to help destroy the World Gate, and Sun Lei’s longsword began to burn with crimson flame.
• Moss ran through the sewer passage and reached the intact main route beyond the cavern entrance.

Moss emerged from the sewer into a new world, found a cave to use as a temporary home, and spotted a fishman on the beach. She decided to make the creature her next subject of Monster Research.

• Moss left the sewer and marveled at the sea, the unfamiliar sky, and the world beyond Earth.
• Moss reassured herself that she had Little Ball as family, then swam to shore and used Stealth to explore.
• Moss discovered a spacious cave and surveyed the rocky coast, forest, and distant World Gate.
• Moss spotted a fishman carrying a stone spear and a large fish, then vanished to approach it as her next research subject.