Recaps

Anvis told Madam Mandel that the Heros' Infinite Grimoire would surface in the Mivila Basin and sent Landon and Freya to retrieve it, prompting Madam Mandel to suspect a trap and plan to follow them. Landon returned to Spark headquarters with Freya and reported the mission to Xiute Jialuo, who questioned him about the captive and Anvis's involvement.

• Madam Mandel questioned Anvis about the reliability of his information, and he claimed only a few High-rank Prophets might know of the coming ruins.
• Madam Mandel recalled the Heros' Infinite Grimoire's origins and powers, then suspected Anvis had sent Landon and Freya to face danger for his own benefit.
• Anvis joked about buying the Grimoire for one gold coin before leaving, and Madam Mandel decided she might follow Landon and Freya to the ruins.
• Madam Mandel discovered Anvis had eaten all her Crystal Nuts and turned to her Youth pet for a role-playing game.
• Landon and Freya returned to Spark headquarters, where Landon told Xiute Jialuo what had happened.
• Xiute Jialuo frowned and asked whether Landon's companion's younger brother was in the poisonous snake's hands and whether Man in the Mirror had been there.

Landon reported that Madam Mandel had sent him to retrieve a strange book from the Ruins, and Leo identified it as Heros' Infinite Grimoire. As Anvis watched the Mivila Basin, he reflected on how his secret control of kingdom leaders had helped the Rebel Army bring more than thirty percent of the kingdoms under its influence.

• Landon told Garo that Madam Mandel had changed her mind after receiving a message and ordered him to retrieve a skin-covered book with an eyeball embedded in it.
• Dark Raven identified the book as Heros' Infinite Grimoire and urged Landon to obtain it, then offered to teach him the Power of Wither to strengthen him.
• Garo reported Landon's account to Leo, who identified the Grimoire and said he would personally prevent it from falling into another organization's hands.
• Garo warned Leo that the Man in the Mirror's side might be problematic, but Leo said he had already prepared for any choice the man made.
• Anvis surveyed the Mivila Basin and considered how his Master-Subordinate Contracts secretly placed kingdom leaders under his control, bringing the Rebel Army's influence over kingdoms past thirty percent.

Anvis prepared to use the Ruins as a trap for the people drawn to Heros' Infinite Grimoire, then watched the black pyramid emerge in the Mivila Basin. As the Ruins stabilized, Landon chose to enter despite warnings, and Leo offered to lead anyone who wished to go inside safely.

• Anvis explained that the Ruins had formed from the remains of the entity that fought Heros and planned to use them to lure his targets.
• Anvis released Mana bearing Landon's power signature into the ground, and the Mivila Basin began to shake beneath a spiraling storm.
• A massive black pyramid rose from the basin, absorbing and corroding the Spiritual Power of those who tried to probe it.
• Leo and Freya warned Landon not to enter, but Dark Raven urged him to investigate, and Landon decided to go in.
• After the pyramid's activity settled, Leo invited those who wished to enter to accompany him.

Leo led eager Rebel Army members into the Black Pyramid, while Madam Mandel brought Spirit Princess Bovalis to seek Heros' Infinite Grimoire. From a nearby hill, Anvis used Abyss Blood to awaken the Ruins' core, turning the pyramid dark red and tempting the Professionals watching it.

• Leo noticed a same-rank arrival, then led his team into the Black Pyramid.
• Madam Mandel told Spirit Princess Bovalis that Heros' Infinite Grimoire was hidden deep inside the pyramid, and Bovalis warned that the Ruins were dangerous before entering with her.
• Bovalis's soul attack shattered Anvis's Magic Telescope and killed two Professionals watching from nearby.
• Anvis observed that three Ninth Rank Experts had arrived, then poured Abyss Blood onto the pyramid to awaken the Ruins' core.
• The pyramid turned dark red, and every Professional looking at it felt a strange temptation.

Anvis realized that using the necklace himself could entangle him in the Federation’s fate, so he planned to have Landon activate it and transfer some of the consequences through a ritual. Meanwhile, Landon’s party reached the ruins’ Core Hall, where a blood-red barrier concealed the chamber’s center.

• Anvis sensed that pouring blood onto the pyramid had made him a villain in Landon’s fate, and reconsidered his plan to use the necklace himself.
• Anvis decided to find a durable, lower-ranked Rebel Army member to activate the necklace, then chose Landon as his target.
• After waiting a day or two, Anvis observed Landon, Leo, and their group venture deep into the ruins while Landon’s sense of the Alien Power helped them avoid dangers.
• Landon’s group reached the Core Hall and found a dark-red spherical Force Field, a dead mage with a Staff, and a turning blood-red eye on a magic book.
• With the Dark Crow silent, Landon asked his black dog, Little Black, what it thought of the scene.

Leo and Landon’s groups were caught in the ruins’ blood-red magic array, which trapped them in visions and drained their power. Landon woke with Dark Raven’s help and secretly took the corpse and book before three Ninth Rank Experts attacked the barrier, triggering the pyramid’s defenses.

• Leo entered the hall, activating the magic patterns and a force that pulled everyone into a strange space.
• Leo found himself alone beneath a dark starry sky as bizarre music drained his Spiritual Power.
• Landon experienced an idealized life until Dark Raven’s warning woke him from the illusion.
• Dark Raven told Landon to collect the corpse and book, and Landon secretly stored both in his Space Ring.
• Three Ninth Rank Experts awoke and attacked the Blood-colored Barrier while Leo dispelled his subordinates’ abnormal states.
• The Ruins Pyramid shook as pitch-black magic Tentacles burst from the walls and attacked everyone.

Landon escaped the collapsing Ruins after a monstrous figure began emerging from a dark vortex, but a Ninth-Rank Spellcaster trapped him on the way out. Dark Crow told Landon to stall and prepare to release the corpse when signaled.

• The three Ninth-Rank Lords shattered the barrier, but Dubit noticed that the corpse had vanished, and Bovalis suspected the mist concealed the true location of the relics.
• The red mist formed a vortex that absorbed the black Mana mist as a massive figure began emerging, prompting Leo and the other Lords to order their forces to flee.
• Landon followed Dark Crow through a hidden passage from the ninety-ninth level to the eighteenth level, avoiding traps and falling debris.
• A Ninth-Rank Spellcaster trapped Landon in a Force Field, and Dark Crow warned him to stall until he was told to release the corpse.

Landon used the corpse’s Death Finger to drive off Ocean Vortex Bloom, but Anvis returned disguised as Bloom and took Heros' Infinite Grimoire from him. After sending Landon to safety, Anvis went back into the Ruins Pyramid to investigate whether the Old Days Secret Scripture needed the remains of the ancient being at its core.

• Ocean Vortex Bloom trapped Landon and demanded his storage items, so Landon pretended to surrender while releasing the corpse at Dark Raven’s signal.
• The corpse’s Death Finger struck Bloom, but a life-saving Amulet let him escape before Landon could retrieve his belongings.
• Anvis returned disguised as Bloom in an Isolation Cloak and threatened Landon, while Dark Raven found he could not make the corpse attack again.
• Anvis took Heros' Infinite Grimoire from Landon, returned his other items, and sent him to the Ruins Surface; Dark Raven fell asleep after urging Landon to report to the Spark Organization.
• Anvis returned to the Ruins Pyramid to consider whether the Old Days Secret Scripture required the remains of the ancient being at its core.

Anvis explored the Ruins after the Ninth Rank Professionals left and used the Old Days Secret Scripture to seal their remains. Back in Silver Moon City, he visited Landon and Lia, then offered Landon power.

• Anvis waited until the weakened Ninth Rank Professionals had left the Ruins, then descended to its destroyed core.
• Anvis discovered the Old Days Secret Scripture could absorb power from across the Ruins, despite complaining that the remains were impure and stale.
• Anvis used the tome’s final page to seal the entire Ruins.
• Anvis visited Landon under his Vio identity, explaining that a patient had told him how to find Landon and that he wanted to check Lia for aftereffects.
• Landon told Anvis that a powerful person had taken something important he found in the Ruins, and Anvis produced an amulet and asked whether Landon craved power.

Anvis used a magical amulet as a hypothetical to persuade Landon that gaining power was necessary to protect himself and those he cherished. Landon activated it, fulfilling the prerequisite for Anvis's Ritual as fireworks bloomed and the Continental Web of Fate rippled.

• Anvis asked Landon whether he would activate an amulet that promised power at the cost of plunging the Federation into war, and Landon initially refused.
• Anvis changed the hypothetical to put Lia and Freya in danger, arguing that kindness without strength left Landon unable to protect them.
• Landon admitted he might choose power despite feeling guilty, and Anvis encouraged him to seek strength rather than leave his fate in others' hands.
• Anvis gave Landon another chance to choose, and Landon accepted and activated the amulet.
• The amulet released a rainbow beam that burst into a vast Silver Leaf Rose firework, and Anvis observed that the prerequisite for the Ritual had been fulfilled.

After Landon activated the amulet, nobles across several Small Kingdoms sensed it, triggering a wave of high-ranking noble rebellions and plunging the Federation into war. As the Three Great Kingdoms expanded their territories and Prophets investigated Landon, the Rebel Army’s rapid advance stalled under powerful resistance.

• Anvis examined Lia, gave her a more concealed and reliable teleportation pendant, and said farewell to the Landon siblings.
• Marquis Kamanta killed Norton XVI during a secret security meeting, then left to raid the Royal Family's Secret Vault as fighting erupted outside.
• Kamanta explained that the Guardian Ninth Rank had not intervened and warned the nobles that a storm was coming.
• High-ranking nobles rebelled across multiple Small Kingdoms, driving the Rebel Army’s occupation past thirty percent and prompting the Three Great Kingdoms to seize nearby territories.
• Prophets investigated Landon and debated whether Traveler had orchestrated the upheaval, but reached no firm conclusion.
• Over the following month, the Rebel Army met strong resistance, shifted to defense, and began struggling to hold its front line.

Anvis learned that traitors within Embers planned to attack their allies during the joint counteroffensive, but he concealed his knowledge and let the operation proceed. When the attack began, Spark and loyal Embers forces thwarted the betrayal, and Embers was disbanded as its troops changed sides.

• Mitchell warned Anvis that several Embers leaders planned to betray the Resistance during the next day's counteroffensive.
• Anvis thanked Mitchell, said he would verify the intelligence, and decided the organization would no longer be needed after the war.
• Spark, Embers, and Pride of the Sun launched their coordinated assault against the kingdom allied forces.
• Leo watched as Embers units feigned retreat and then attacked their allies, but Spark professionals shielded most of the targets.
• Loyal Embers legions killed the Players who had accepted the secret mission, changed to Spark insignia, and received notice that Embers had been disbanded.

Anvis left the Federation for the Gloria Empire after confirming that his plans had eased the threat to his family, while the Embers Organization collapsed and its members joined Spark. At Patikala Grand Theater, the Speaker prepared to activate a hidden backdoor in the Construct Network before its coverage reached the threshold he secretly needed.

• Anvis’s orders led to the defeat of the Embers Organization’s senior attackers, and the Kingdom Allied Forces broke through the encirclement at heavy cost.
• Former Embers leaders blamed the Man in the Mirror for betraying the organization, and most remaining members joined Spark in exchange for compensation.
• The Resistance Organization jointly wanted the Man in the Mirror, while Leo publicly vowed to deal with him if found.
• After the Patikala Agreement’s early end loosened his Prophet-rank bottleneck, Anvis prepared to return to the Gloria Empire, believing his family’s crisis was half resolved.
• The Speaker arrived at the Patikala Grand Theater and prepared to use his antique Key to activate a backdoor in the Construct Network, which had reached about fifty percent coverage.

The Speaker planned to activate the Construct Network’s hidden program, which would trap connected users’ consciousness and provoke intense emotions to boost their Spiritual Power. After noticing Anvis at the opera, he invited him to his private box, where they met under the names Fal and Zasite as the second act began.

• The Speaker considered the Construct Network’s hidden backdoor and decided to activate it that night before rival factions could gain an advantage.
• As the opera began, the Speaker observed the audience and noticed Anvis in a private box, sensing that he was at least a High-rank Prophet.
• The Speaker ordered the Chief Officer to invite Anvis to his box after the first act.
• Anvis switched to an Avatar using a secret technique and followed the Chief Officer to the top-floor box.
• The Speaker introduced himself as Fal, and Anvis gave the name Zasite; they exchanged a toast as the second act began.

Anvis discussed whether serving the majority could justify sacrificing authenticity and fairness to a minority while watching an opera with Lord Fal. Lord Fal revealed a mysterious key that could change the world, but Anvis refused to activate it.

• Anvis argued that performers and theater owners could reasonably favor audience enjoyment and majority benefit over authenticity, while fairness depended on whose interests were considered.
• Lord Fal realized Anvis was meeting him through a clone, and Anvis admitted he used it because he feared dangers beyond his abilities.
• The opera’s protagonist Theo Siss defeated the Black Water Mysterious Snake and discovered a damaged secret door glowing with treasure before the curtain fell.
• During intermission, Lord Fal showed Anvis a dark golden key and claimed it could change the world, then invited him to activate it.
• Anvis declined to use the key and pushed it back toward Lord Fal.

Anvis and Lord Fal watched the opera’s third and fourth acts, which showed Theo uncovering the plot against his father and taking revenge on the conspirators. As the fifth act began, the two discussed whether Theo’s actions were just before parting.

• The third act revealed that Earls Hans and Sibil had framed Earl Siss, and Theo began planning his revenge.
• Theo’s schemes helped provoke war, and leaked intelligence led to ambushes that badly weakened the two Earls’ forces.
• Theo defeated Earls Hans and Sibil in a duel, then led their remaining troops to victory over the enemy army.
• Lord Fal said Theo’s just goal could make him stand on the side of Justice despite his unjust methods, and Anvis asked whether Fal would be an audience member or an actor in the next act.
• Anvis declined Lord Fal’s invitation, and they parted as the fifth act’s opening bell rang.

Anvis discovered that the Construct Network was rapidly gaining influence over the Web of Fate, pushing the Federation toward a final battle over a prophet’s imminent Ninth Rank breakthrough. He flew to the Ceiling Wall and saw countless points of starlight illuminate the land below.

• Anvis secretly sent the Old Days Secret Canon to an Avatar in the Silver Moon Kingdom, then destroyed the traces of his presence and dismissed his Avatar.
• The Construct Network’s influence over the Web of Fate surged, and High-rank Prophets recognized that the final battle had begun.
• Anvis traced the surge to the Federation’s Construct Network users and the Speaker, while prophets debated whether to destroy the network or eliminate its Ninth Rank supporters.
• Prophets discovered that destroying network users did not sever their Fate Threads because the Construct Network could preserve their consciousnesses after their bodies died.
• Anvis urged the prophets to act quickly, then flew to an altitude of 29,999 meters and stopped at the Ceiling Wall.
• Anvis looked down through his Fate Perspective and saw countless points of starlight appear across the dark land.

Anvis watched the Magic Council prepare a vast ritual to use the Construct Network’s collective power to break the Ceiling Wall, while Gray Mist neared his breakthrough. Orvanni disrupted the ritual from Sky City, but the battle was still unfolding.

• Anvis saw Ninth Ranks converge on the diviners’ ritual and sent a Ninth Rank Limit avatar toward the battle while preparing his Rune Arrays in the Magic Crystal Mining Area.
• The Speaker explained that the Construct Network had gathered the Pan-Consciousness power of nearly a hundred million users and that the council planned to use it in a single spell to break the invisible dome.
• The Speaker said the ritual’s completion would coincide with Gray Mist breaking through the Ninth Rank Diviner and wondered how Star Gazer would respond.
• Orvanni sensed the upheaval in the Web of Fate and used the Star of Destiny Star Gazer had left him, causing a rune in the Speaker’s array to collapse.
• Orvanni activated the Star of Destiny twice more after the Speaker stabilized the array, further interfering with the ritual.

Gray Mist used a prepared ritual array to counter the Star Gazer’s Ripple of Fate, while the ripple spread across the Federation and blessed those opposing Speaker’s side. Anvis waited for the prophets to be occupied before activating arrays intended to seize control of the Construct Network, as Ninth Rank Experts gathered to attack Speaker’s nearly completed array.

• The Star Gazer told Orvanni that his former student was close to reaching Ninth Rank but that fate said it was not yet time.
• Gray Mist used his ritual array and Fate Artifacts to battle the Star Gazer’s second Ripple of Fate, gradually gaining the advantage.
• The ripple escaped Gray Mist’s interference and spread across the Federation, blessing Anvis, Landon, and others who might oppose Speaker’s side.
• Anvis connected his main body to arrays hidden in Magic Crystal mines, preparing to interfere with and seize control of the Construct Network while Gray Mist was occupied.
• Ninth Rank Experts from the other two great kingdoms arrived and agreed to use Limit Breaking attacks to destroy Speaker’s nearly completed array.

The Ninth Ranks attacked the Speaker’s Defense Magic Array, but he used the power of civilization to repel even their strongest strikes and ordered the Ritual to continue. In the Web of Fate, Anvis prepared to join forces with the other prophets to seize the Construct Network, while Landon supported Leo’s side from a distance.

• Bayer began the final stage of the Ritual as the Ninth Ranks prepared their attacks against the Speaker’s faction.
• Veronica used the Star of Destiny to anchor the Defense Magic Array and reveal its weakest spell nodes.
• The Speaker raised a dark golden key and unleashed a domain of white light that consumed the attacks, including the three Limit Breaking strikes, before dimming slightly.
• The Speaker declared that civilization’s collective will could contend with the world and ordered his allies to continue the Ritual.
• Anvis asked the other High-rank Prophets to help him seize control of the Construct Network, explaining that he would open its underlying permissions.
• Landon arrived with Leo’s forces and, after receiving Secret Treasure potions from Anvis’s subordinate in Spark, provided support from a distant position.

Landon’s awakened Lord Dark Raven seized control of his body and flew toward the battlefield, where the Ninth-Rank Lords struggled to damage the sun. Anvis proposed severing the sun’s connection to the Construct Network so the Lords could destroy it before the Ritual finished.

• Lord Dark Raven awoke early, recovered some power and memories, and sensed his mortal enemy inside the sun.
• Lord Dark Raven took control of Landon’s body, manifested a shadow cloak and crow, and flew toward the battlefield.
• Crystal Door Bayer and the other Ninth-Rank Lords realized their attacks barely affected the sun because it had an enormous supply of Mana from the Construct Network.
• Anvis arrived and offered to sever the Construct Network’s connection to the sun so the Lords could attack it together.
• Crystal Door Bayer and the other Lords accepted Anvis’s plan, and Archbishop Mark reluctantly agreed to cooperate.

The Speaker’s Ritual faced a sudden strike that disabled most Construct Network connection headbands and destabilized the network. Although the Speaker deployed spare Construct Prosthetic Bodies, the Ninth Rankers attacked again while the Ritual’s power and controls were failing.

• Starlight reported that the Construct Network’s devices were already being cleared, while the Speaker insisted the Ritual would finish in less than ten minutes.
• The diviners launched a coordinated fate attack on Gray Mist, who blocked it without suffering serious harm.
• Blue light surged outward from Magic Crystal Mining Areas across the Federation, overloading ordinary connection headbands and reducing the Construct Network’s devices to about 20 percent.
• The Speaker activated millions of spare Construct Prosthetic Bodies, easing the network’s burden and restoring it to around 60 percent.
• The blue light destabilized the network’s power transmission and caused the Speaker’s control key to malfunction as the Ninth Rankers launched another attack, including an Arrow of God’s Punishment.

The Speaker learned that an unknown attack had crippled the Construct Network while Gray Mist fought to recover its permissions. Anvis and the other Prophets seized control of the network, but Gray Mist counterattacked, and the battle turned in the Star Gazer’s side’s favor.

• Star reported that an unknown attack had disrupted the Construct Network and that Gray Mist could recover only part of its permissions within one magic hour.
• The Speaker suspected the Star Gazer had left a contingency in place and told the others to continue the Ritual while he and Gray Mist handled the situation.
• Anvis explained that a dream had prompted him to prepare for the network’s danger as the Prophets seized its permissions and gained enormous power.
• Gray Mist overcame the Prophets’ earlier attack and the Star Gazer’s Ripple of Fate, then began reclaiming the permissions and counterattacking.
• The Prophets fought Gray Mist to keep their power, and the battle began to tilt toward the Star Gazer’s side.

The Speaker trapped the Ninth Ranks inside the ritual and used their captured power to restore the Defense Magic Array while Star helped him reclaim the Construct Network permissions. Anvis seized half of the network’s foundational permissions, and the Speaker answered by sacrificing the dreams of the trapped Rule Power wielders and a million people to summon Maerim Sakartis.

• The Speaker revealed a final safeguard and bound every Ninth Rank in the ritual except Star, suppressing their attempts to escape.
• The Speaker asked Star to contact Gray Mist and request the transfer of all the network permissions he had reclaimed.
• Star questioned whether the plan was truly best for the Speaker, then contacted Gray Mist, and the network’s power restored the Defense Magic Array.
• Anvis rewrote half of the Construct Network’s foundational permissions, turning the Fate Threads of half its connected users icy blue.
• The Speaker cut his hand, stained the dark golden key with blood, and summoned Maerim Sakartis using the dreams of fourteen Rule Power wielders and a million living beings as a sacrifice.

The Speaker summoned the Dream Lord Maerim, spreading a sleep-inducing anomaly that incapacitated nearly all Ninth Ranks and millions of network users. Anvis resisted the dream through the Old Days Secret Scripture and revealed himself to the Speaker as the ritual continued.

• The Speaker chanted an ancient prayer, causing Maerim's aura and eerie melody to spread across the battlefield and the Construct Network.
• Crown of Thorns Mark recognized the foreign god's power, but most Ninth Ranks fell asleep, while a few escaped using Secret Arts.
• Mark invoked the Holy Book and Divine Favor, then charged the Speaker, but the Defense Magic Array drained his power and he collapsed into slumber.
• The Old Days Secret Scripture protected Anvis from Maerim's dream, though it struggled to contain the dark yellow contamination.
• Anvis rose in his Avatar, removed his Mask, and greeted the Speaker, who recognized the power of the Old Days Secret Scripture.