Recaps

Anvis received a letter from the Duke warning that a prophecy had appeared ten years earlier than expected, disrupting the Olyvendi Family’s plans and threatening to plunge the Empire’s nobility into turmoil. Suspecting Fiona might be connected to it, Anvis went to find her.

• A tavern owner reflected on the dangerous operation his superiors were preparing and continued serving the Players who visited his tavern.
• Anvis read a specially protected letter from the Duke describing the changed prophecy and warning him to protect himself and Fiona.
• Anvis recalled how the prophecy had once triggered conflict between the Olyvendi Family and other imperial powers, and how the Olyvendis had purged spies while claiming ignorance of its meaning.
• Anvis decided the early prophecy forced him to accelerate his plans and wondered whether the egg he had encountered had caused the change.
• Anvis suspected the prophecy might concern Fiona and went to find her, discovering her reading an illustrated storybook with her Little Cat.

Anvis visited Fiona at Pamir Academy to discuss a prophecy warning of danger and checked her Fate Line, which remained obscured while Kate’s had grown brighter. Fiona assured him that she and Kate could protect themselves and offered to protect Anvis too, unaware that his apparent weakness was partly a matter of keeping his true abilities secret.

• Fiona opened the door to Anvis after waking from a book dream with Kate beside her.
• Anvis warned Fiona that the prophecy could prompt someone to test them and urged her to stay alert.
• Anvis used the Mercury Eye to examine Fiona and Kate’s Fate Lines, finding Fiona’s unchanged and Kate’s much brighter.
• Fiona said she was nearly Fourth Rank and that Kate had reached Second Rank, so both could defend her.
• Fiona asked whether Anvis had awakened his bloodline, and he said he might not do so until Fourth Rank.
• Fiona offered to protect Anvis from enemies, and he warmly accepted her promise.

Anvis attended the Mystery and Ruins Academy’s welcoming ceremony and noticed that his presence had drawn an unusually large freshman class. After the banquet, he received a concealed invitation from the Truth Society, leaving him to consider a new approach from the mysterious group.

• Fiona chose Pamir Summoning Academy, and Anvis escorted her to its welcoming ceremony before returning to his own academy.
• Anvis and Rebecca watched the freshmen attempt the Curiosities Exhibition Room trial, where the green-haired boy reached the exit first.
• Nancy distributed the freshmen’s rewards and announced the academy rules, while the banquet’s conversation repeatedly turned toward Anvis.
• Anvis noted the freshmen’s names and received a sealed letter from a girl in the Defense School on behalf of an unknown upperclassman.
• Anvis opened the letter in his protected Laboratory and found an invitation from the Truth Society.

Anvis entered the Dream World for the Truth Society's newcomer assessment, where candidates had to find the true venue and reach it by any means. He arrived at a forest clearing with two other newcomers, and Safiya guessed that they had been sent there because they were expected to discover their next task.

• Anvis examined the invitation and learned that the assessment would take place in the Dream World at midnight on the fifteenth day of Hearthfire Month.
• Anvis prepared his combat Magic Raiment and used the invitation to enter the Dream World.
• Anvis arrived in a forest clearing beneath a massive Dream White Oak, where Kaxiu and Safiya were already waiting.
• Anvis asked whether the clearing was the venue, and Kaxiu said he did not know and introduced himself.
• Safiya suggested that the newcomers had been sent there specifically because they were newcomers and that something nearby would reveal their next task.

Anvis, Safiya, Kaxiu, and Ailisha learned that they had to find the Truth Society’s true venue during a trial in the Dream Forest. They found a fragment of a guiding array and set out to locate the others, while a masked figure monitored a nearly depleted hourglass beside a large mystic array.

• Anvis identified a force field around the Oak Tree, and Safiya confirmed its range with her Magic Cube.
• A mental message announced a trial assessment and gave the four newcomers twelve Magic Hours to find the true venue.
• Anvis, Safiya, Kaxiu, and Ailisha introduced themselves and agreed to investigate the Oak Tree together.
• The group dispelled an illusion and found a broken Black Stone Slab bearing part of a guiding array.
• Kaxiu transformed a skeleton into a compass that pointed toward another Stone Tablet Fragment northwest of them, and the group set off.
• In a canyon, a masked figure watched a nearly empty Magic Hourglass beside a glowing mystic array.

A Black Robed Man activated a magic array that sent an independent Dream World drifting toward the Trial World. Inside the trial, Anvis and his companions defeated a Fourth Rank Dream Giant Ape, but Anvis sensed an unexplained danger as they continued their assessment.

• The Black Robed Man entered coordinates into a magic array, causing an independent Dream World to break away from Uniwal's Dream and drift toward the Trial World.
• Safiya directed Anvis, Ailisha, and Kaxiu as they fought the Fourth Rank Dream Giant Ape to retrieve the third Stone Tablet.
• Anvis sensed a prophetic warning but stabilized his spell and pierced the ape's vital mark, killing it.
• Ailisha and Kaxiu found no danger nearby when Anvis told them he sensed something was wrong.
• Anvis suggested they continue exploring and finish the assessment as soon as possible.

Anvis discovered a hidden Player near the Giant Ape Territory and persuaded him to join the group. Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao accepted a quest to follow them as they continued toward the next Stone Tablet.

• Anvis spotted a Player disguised as a rock and threatened him with a fireball until he revealed himself.
• Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao explained that colorful mist had transported him from a cave in the Dream World into the forest.
• Anvis proposed bringing the weak but stealthy Player along, and Safiya and Kaxiu agreed while Ailisha questioned whether he was part of the Assessment.
• Anvis offered to help Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao search for his Crystal Spider, triggering a quest that would make the group hostile if he refused.
• Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao accepted the quest and followed the group on his floating disc.

Anvis and his companions restored the Stone Tablet array and followed its path to the Purple Moon, where it transformed into a gate bearing Hermox’s Riddle. As the group debated whether the gate was safe, Anvis strengthened Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao and sent him to touch it.

• Safiya repaired the Stone Tablet Magic Array, and Anvis activated it to reveal a path toward the Purple Moon.
• Safiya warned the group about Dream Rifts, and Kaxiu sent wraiths ahead as they followed the path through the dangerous sky.
• The Stone Tablet dissolved into light at the Purple Moon, which transformed into a Stone Gate engraved with Hermox’s Riddle.
• Truth Society members watched the trial from another Dream Space, and a gold-emblem member ordered them to observe the unexpected Player.
• Safiya explained that the gate required an answer to the riddle, while Kaxiu warned it might be a cursed trap and Safiya could not distinguish between them.
• Anvis declared that Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao should touch the gate, strengthened him with a protective aura, and sent him forward.

Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao entered the door to the Deep Dream trial, and Anvis found himself in an illusion that vanished when he sensed an overwhelming danger. Anvis activated his Family Amulet for help as the people monitoring the Assessment discussed the danger and its time limit.

• Kaxiu, Safiya, and Ailisha protected Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao before he entered the door using Anvis's answer.
• Safiya detected that Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao had reached the Deep Dream, and Anvis explained the door's riddle and the next trial to Ailisha.
• Anvis appeared in an illusion of his Academy residence, but his premonition of danger caused the illusion to dissipate.
• Anvis used a Detection Ring and the Lai Eggshell for protection, then activated his Crystal Bird pendant to call for help.
• The Black Robed Man learned that the Assessment participants had only about one and a half Magic Hours to complete the trial, while the cloaked figure hinted that the Truth Society's Ninth Rank and Duke Carlras could not simply intervene.
• Duke Carlot sensed Anvis's Family Amulet activate and decided to rescue him, while warning himself that Anvis would pay if he had called for help over a difficult trial.

Anvis escaped the trial illusion and navigated the maze while Duke Carlot was prevented from intervening by Hall Aslaid. Anvis and his teammates reached the final teleportation array, where they learned that one person would have to be left behind as the Trial World faced collapse.

• Hall Aslaid stopped Duke Carlot from opening a spatial passage and warned him that intervening would disqualify Anvis from joining the Truth Society.
• Anvis escaped the illusion, found the maze's three Keys and his temporary teammates, and woke them with a lightning spell.
• Anvis paid Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao to wait, then hurried his teammates toward the maze's central door after sensing danger would arrive within fifteen minutes.
• Anvis opened the central door with the three Keys, and the group entered the final teleportation array, which asked them to choose one person to abandon.
• Anvis and his teammates chose the Outsider because he could revive, leaving Truth Society members unsure how to classify their answer.

A collision between two Dream Worlds shattered the Trial World and disrupted the teleportation array connecting Anvis and his companions to safety. Anvis redirected the unstable array, and the group escaped to a rocky canyon on the Yar Continent.

• Huo Er tried to stop a Gray Mist Dream World from striking the Trial World, but a Time Stop artifact trapped him long enough for the worlds to collide.
• The collision shattered the Trial World's Crystal Wall, tore apart its sky and landscape, and cut off all external feeds.
• Duke Carlot tried to reach Anvis through a spatial passage, but the destruction-driven Space-Time Turbulence erased the coordinates.
• Anvis shielded the teleportation array from a spreading fissure and altered its destination while Safiya struggled to keep it stable.
• Anvis activated the array and teleported himself, Ailisha, Kaxiu, Safiya, and Baiyi Shengxue Yi Piaopiao to a canyon near a Fourth Rank Earth Roaring Tiger's nest.

After Anvis returned to the Yar Continent, he rescued Ailisha from a slime and headed with her toward a nearby city. Meanwhile, Duke Carlot confronted Huo Er over the failed Trial World assessment, and Talina intervened before their argument could become a fight.

• Anvis found Ailisha struggling with a giant Pink Slime, rescued her, and helped her recover.
• Ailisha cut the slime apart, and Anvis collected its Core Gel before they changed clothes and set off for a nearby city.
• Carlot discovered that Anvis had been teleported away but confirmed through the Bloodline Crystal Ball that he was safe.
• Carlot confronted Huo Er, who blamed a high-ranking Prophet and a Time-Stop Hourglass for the incident.
• Talina stopped Carlot and Huo Er from fighting, but Carlot accused Huo Er of being connected to the attack, provoking Huo Er's anger.

Talina mediated a settlement between Huo Er and Duke Carlot over the destroyed trial world, then joined them at a Ninth Rank Truth Society meeting about the force behind the attack. The Truth Society’s investigation uncovered traces of the Door in the Pupil, and a report about the ancient organization reached Carlot.

• Talina acknowledged Huo Er’s oversight failure but argued that the enemy’s preparations had exceeded his ability to stop them.
• Huo Er and Carlot bargained over compensation, clashed their auras without either gaining the advantage, and accepted Talina’s settlement of dragon materials.
• Carlot received Anvis’s message saying he was safe but did not know his exact location.
• Talina, Huo Er, and Carlot joined four other Ninth Rank members at the Truth Society’s Council Hall and focused their meeting on the mysterious force behind the attack.
• The Truth Society and the Olyvendi and Alfred families launched investigations and searches, uprooting hidden organizations across the Gloria Empire.
• A Truth Society document about the Door in the Pupil arrived on Carlot’s desk after investigators detected traces of the ancient organization.

After the Shadowless Ones Covenant attacked Carlras and the Door in the Pupil escaped to the Iter Kingdom Federation, Anvis and Ailisha arrived in Silver Wind City. Anvis intended to find the Door in the Pupil’s secret meeting point, while Ailisha continued traveling with him.

• Duke Carlot learned that the Shadowless Ones Covenant had performed a Blood Sacrifice in Carlras and that the Door in the Pupil might have cooperated with them.
• Carlot ordered his elite knight orders to purge the Shadowless Ones Covenant and other factions, while the Door in the Pupil’s leaders escaped to the Iter Kingdom Federation.
• Anvis and Ailisha reached Silver Wind City in the Silver Moon Kingdom after their cross-world journey and learned they had arrived in the Federation.
• Anvis decided to seek the Door in the Pupil’s secret meeting point in the city, and Ailisha chose to remain by his side.
• Anvis learned that Ailisha’s declining noble family had lost its marquis title and territory after her ancestor died and no later family member reached Ninth Rank.

Anvis brought Ailisha to Silver Wind City's Olivenndi Merchant Guild after passing the hidden meeting place of the Door in the Pupil. He summoned cloaked figures through the guild's Teleportation Array and invited Ailisha to watch a performance.

• Anvis considered Ailisha's rare bloodline and her family's decline, and decided to help her.
• Anvis and Chom passed Villa No. 26, the Door in the Pupil's meeting place, where Anvis noticed two noble carriages parked outside.
• Ailisha wondered why she had chosen to stay beside Anvis and told herself that a mage needed a knight for protection.
• Anvis took Ailisha to the Olivenndi Merchant Guild and presented his Icy Wind Crystal Bird Nameplate.
• Anvis activated a Crystal Ball, and Gray Cloaked figures emerged from the guild's Teleportation Array.
• Anvis asked the bewildered Ailisha whether she wanted to watch a performance.

Anvis confirmed to Duke Carlot that Villa No. 26 was likely the Door in the Pupil’s secret gathering point, and a powerful group moved to raid it. Inside the villa, the Door in the Pupil discussed Anvis’s escape from a Dream World and learned from Lord Gray Mist that a continent-wide upheaval was approaching.

• Duke Carlot privately questioned Anvis about the suspected gathering point, and Anvis said he was more than ninety percent certain it was the Door in the Pupil’s hideout.
• Duke Carlot gave Anvis and Ailisha Gray Cloaks, and Anvis led the concealed group toward Villa No. 26.
• At a basement gathering, a Black Robed Man reported that Anvis had escaped the Dream World before it collapsed and had not triggered Guardian of Fate.
• The Door in the Pupil members debated whether Anvis was the Star of Prophecy, then Lord Gray Mist ended the discussion.
• Lord Gray Mist said the Web of Fate had reached a critical point and that a tremendous change would soon sweep across the continent.

Gray Mist recruited powerful figures from the Gloria Empire and the Iter Kingdom Federation to help exploit the rise of constructs and reshape the Empire’s ruling order. Before he could explain his request to the Federation representatives, an unknown force breached the secret chamber and trapped the conspirators inside a spatial seal.

• Gray Mist revealed that the Continental Magic Council had found Tarkeshia, the ancient Goblin capital, and used its stored construct knowledge to advance its plans.
• Gray Mist explained that the Gloria Empire’s stagnant hierarchy and growing dispute over constructs would trigger the Web of Fate’s second turning point.
• Gray Mist promised the Empire’s conspirators support from High-rank Prophets, Ninth Rank Limit powerhouses, and a Construct Legion in exchange for helping remove entrenched nobles.
• The masked leader of the Empire’s conspirators agreed to cooperate, and Gray Mist said someone would contact them with instructions after they returned home.
• Gray Mist turned to the Federation representatives and asked about the Lyka Kingdom’s Sixth Prince, but a crash split the earth above the chamber before he could finish.
• A silver tower-insignia figure froze the Crystal Ball’s fragments, while the seven Black Robed Men attacked and tried to escape; a powerful spatial seal blocked them.

Duke Carlot and the Gray Cloaks captured the Black Robed Men after a fierce battle, but the key figure behind them escaped. Anvis watched the battle with Ailisha and treated it as a fireworks display.

• When teleportation failed, the Black Robed Men fled, but Gray Cloaks blocked their escape and revealed themselves as Eighth Rank Experts.
• Two Black Robed Men used desperate escape tactics, including a self-destruction that drew Players toward the battle in hopes of quests or valuable loot.
• Gou Qie Tou Sheng spotted two Gray Cloaks in an alley and watched them cautiously instead of approaching.
• The remaining Black Robed Men unleashed their trump cards, but Duke Carlot and the Gray Cloaks contained the battle and prevented its shockwaves from devastating Silver Wind City.
• Duke Carlot captured the two Black Robed Men who had escaped, learned that someone had erased the key figure's trail, and ordered an announcement blaming the Door in the Pupil.
• Anvis turned from the settled battle to Ailisha and called it a splendid fireworks display.

After the attack on the Trial World, Anvis explained the enemy’s defeat and received praise from Duke Carlot. He then recruited a Player to help establish an organization for Outsiders, leaving the group curious about his plan.

• Anvis told Ailisha that enemies had attacked them by using a small world to smash the Trial World, and that he had reported their stronghold to Duke Carlras.
• Duke Carlot told Anvis that the captured enemies appeared connected to the attack and promised that the Truth Society would discuss his reward.
• Duke Carlot seized Gou Qie Tou Sheng, an Outsider spying nearby, and a Gray Robe prepared to kill him.
• Anvis stopped the Gray Robe and offered Gou Qie Tou Sheng a chance to join his organization if he recruited one hundred Outsiders.
• Gou Qie Tou Sheng accepted the quest to recruit one hundred Players, and Anvis explained that he wanted to establish an organization composed mostly of Outsiders.

Anvis explained that he wanted to use an Outlander organization to disrupt divination and then founded the Mysteries Society to recruit players. After the raid, he stayed behind with Ailisha and gave her an invitation to the Gloria Royal Opera House, where they planned to talk in three days.

• Anvis told Duke Carlot that he wanted to try recruiting Outlanders, intending to use their chaotic, anti-divination nature to counter a High-rank Prophet's interference.
• After the raid, the duke sent the captured High-Ranked Professionals back to the Gloria Empire while Anvis and Ailisha stayed behind; the duke and another Ninth Rank expert secretly waited near the ruins for possible enemies.
• Anvis gave Ailisha a golden VIP Admission Ticket to the Gloria Royal Opera House for the evening three days later, and she accepted it.
• Gou Qie Tou Sheng returned with one hundred prospective recruits, and Anvis awarded him Silver Rank membership in the newly founded Mysteries Society.
• Anvis had the other recruits leave spiritual imprints and sent them on recruitment quests, establishing contribution rewards and a shop through the Olivenndi Merchant Guild.

Anvis returned to the academy and learned that the Azure Crystal Egg in his laboratory was nearing its hatching, while a cloaked Prophet investigated the exposed Silver Wind City stronghold and found that a more powerful Prophet had erased all traces. The cloaked Prophet summoned the Door in the Pupil group to report the discovery.

• Anvis escorted Ailisha back to Pamir Knight Academy, exchanged Identity Marks with her, and noticed Seer Silver's alert about the Azure Crystal Egg.
• Anvis checked the egg's incubation records and found that its inner vortex had expanded as it absorbed vast amounts of magic power, then left Seer Silver to keep monitoring it.
• Duke Carlot and the Alfred Family's Ninth Rank expert left Silver Wind City after waiting for results.
• A cloaked Prophet entered the guarded ruins, searched for traces of the magic that exposed the stronghold, and found that all signs had vanished.
• The Prophet returned to an Underground Base and summoned the Door in the Pupil members, reporting that a Prophet far stronger than he had intervened.

The Truth Society’s allies debated how their concealment had been breached, and Zero suggested there was a mole within their organization. As they prepared to investigate and accelerate unrest in the Gloria Empire, Zero proposed spreading rumors that nobles were behind the recent attacks, but Dark Abyss challenged his plan.

• Gray Mist explained that a diviner’s actions could seem incomprehensible because they saw dangers others did not.
• Zero proposed that a mole inside the organization had revealed Gray Mist’s concealment, prompting the leader to assign Star the investigation.
• Gray Mist said he was developing Fate Grafting techniques to create false Fate Mirror Images that could warn of divination attempts.
• The leader ordered members to avoid meeting in person and asked for ideas to stir chaos in the Gloria Empire.
• Zero proposed spreading rumors that high-level nobles had staged the attacks and blamed them on the Shadowless Ones Covenant.
• Dark Abyss criticized Zero’s plan, arguing that the Lower Class could not stand against high-ranked Professionals.

Zero persuaded the Gate of Justice to spread rumors about attacks on civilians and encourage conflict between the Empire’s social classes. After the meeting, the Leader approved the plan and ordered an investigation into whether Zero was a mole; the story then shifted to Palosia two evenings later.

• Zero argued that widespread rumors could help the Resistance Organization exploit the coming upheaval and spark infighting within the Empire.
• The Leader assigned Zero’s proposal to Voice of the Dead, Moon Shadow, and Web Weaver, while Voice of the Dead reported a disturbance in the Underworld.
• After the meeting ended, the Leader reconvened with six members to discuss Zero, and several voiced concerns about trusting an Outsider.
• The Leader recounted how Zero had earned a special seat after surviving repeated deaths and producing analysis that aligned with the organization’s prophecies at over eighty percent accuracy.
• The Leader ordered Lord Dark Abyss and Traveler to assist Star in investigating the mole, before the story moved to Palosia two evenings later.

Anvis invited Ailisha to the Royal Opera House and asked her to join the Hidden Knowledge Society as his return gift. He explained that its small group of Pamir students met through a Magic Ring in an exclusive Dream Space.

• Ailisha arrived at the Royal Opera House and was escorted to Box 19, where Anvis greeted her.
• Anvis delayed discussing her return gift until after the first act of the opera, and Ailisha agreed while warning him not to put her off again.
• Ailisha watched the first act of the revenge opera "Theo Siss" with Anvis.
• After the act ended, Anvis offered Ailisha a Magic Ring and invited her to join the Hidden Knowledge Society.
• Anvis described the Society as a small group for mutual exchange and assistance whose members met in a private Dream Space through the ring.

Anvis recruited Ailisha into the Hidden Knowledge Society and explained how to use its dream-gathering Ring. After they watched an opera together, Harvey warned Anvis that certain people were preparing to test him.

• Anvis explained the Hidden Knowledge Society and offered Ailisha a Ring, and she agreed to join.
• Anvis taught Ailisha how to use the Ring and described the Society’s dream space, trade zone, and mission board.
• Anvis and Ailisha watched the opera’s second act and discussed a story about a theater that filled its seats with disguised skeletons.
• After the opera, Harvey teased Anvis about being with Ailisha and formally introduced himself to her.
• Harvey secretly warned Anvis that certain people were preparing to test him.