Recaps

Anvis found Landon, Princess Paola, and the Last Dragonborn hiding in Landon’s Subspace after a half-burned book summoned a terrifying entity. He took the book to investigate while the Ninth Rank behind the incident believed the witnesses were dead and expected the empires to turn on one another.

• Princess Paola opened a box containing a scorched book, and Landon pulled himself, Paola, and the Last Dragonborn into Zero Point Space when he sensed danger.
• Anvis entered the Subspace, learned that the book’s symbol had glowed, and took the box and book from Landon.
• Paola explained that her father had sent her to deliver the item to White Crow and that her clan uncle had given her the box.
• Anvis told them that the Ninth Ranks of the Three Great Empires were fighting the entity summoned by the book, then left to check on Duke Carlot.
• A hidden Ninth Rank revealed that the crisis was a conspiracy to summon the Nameless King and provoke suspicion among the powers, believing Paola and White Crow had died.

Anvis's avatar investigated the distorted battlefield but could not activate the Fragmented Scroll, so he disguised himself as the Last Dragonborn to escape and return the box to his main body. Touching the book revealed the Web of Fate to Anvis, who saw the box trigger a clash among the Ninth Ranks and a Fate Line leading back to the battlefield's center.

• Anvis's avatar examined the Fragmented Scroll at the battlefield's center but failed to activate it.
• Anvis disguised himself as the Last Dragonborn and escaped the battlefield, alarming Burning Sun Flame, who recognized the box he had given Princess Paola.
• The Last Dragonborn handed the box to Anvis's main body, and touching it awakened his perception of the Web of Fate.
• Anvis saw Fate Lines predict a series of Ninth Ranks seizing the box from one another and fighting over it.
• Anvis noticed that the Fate Line extending from the book led toward the center of the battlefield.

Anvis watched the Yellow-Robed Being approach the viewing area and discover the Fragmented Scroll, which restored itself into a mysterious book. The book vanished beyond the ninth-rankers’ control, and Anvis sensed that it had gone to Landon.

• Anvis saw Fate Threads link the box and a golden-haired youth to the battlefield’s core.
• The Yellow-Robed Being survived the clash with the ninth-rankers and turned toward the viewing area.
• A ninth-ranker threw the box and Fragmented Scroll toward the Yellow-Robed Being, which intercepted them.
• The Fragmented Scroll touched the Yellow-Robed Being and restored itself into a complete tome as the phantom faded.
• The book vanished despite several ninth-rankers trying to stop it, and Anvis sensed Landon at the other end of its Fate Thread.

Anvis altered the Fate Thread of Landon's book, redirecting a branch toward Auttomo Blackfeather and learning about his ties to Paola and hostility toward White Crow. The intervention helped Anvis break through a bottleneck on the Prophet's path, and he foresaw Auttomo eventually obtaining the book.

• Anvis touched the book's Fate Thread, causing it to branch toward Auttomo Blackfeather after Anvis kept its first strand from reaching him.
• Anvis approached Auttomo and learned that Paola Blackfeather was his younger sister and that he resented White Crow, whom he believed relied on a powerful Artifact.
• Anvis saw that Auttomo's fate was unusually entwined with Paola's and that his connection to Landon's book had begun to change.
• Anvis realized that interfering with the book had helped him break through a bottleneck and set foot on the path toward becoming an Eighth-Rank Limit Prophet.
• Anvis foresaw that Auttomo would eventually obtain the book, giving him a chance to borrow it for research.

After the mysterious book triggered a fight among ninth-rankers, Saint Messiah III sought an explanation, but Gloria III and the other empires’ representatives chose to leave. The meeting ended with the Pope disillusioned by their priorities, while rumors of the upheaval spread across the continent.

• Saint Messiah III questioned the hostile ninth-rankers about their fight over the book, and the Federal Speaker apologized for their actions.
• Saint Messiah III demanded to know who had brought the book into the venue, but the ninth-rankers refused to cooperate.
• Grand Duke Fray urged the assembled leaders to leave, and Duke Magna and the other Gloria Empire nobles supported him.
• Gloria III told Saint Messiah III that the Gloria Empire would leave, and the Pope restored everyone’s ability to teleport away.
• The Federation and Gloria Empire representatives departed, leaving the Pope and Archbishop Gormore behind as the Pope resolved to remove remnants of the old era.
• The meeting’s upheaval spread through the continent as Overlapping Zones continued shrinking under the High-Ranked Professionals’ management.

Anvis returned to academy life after learning to influence the Web of Fate more precisely, and he used the Heros' Infinite Grimoire to help launch the Black Ring Construct Terminal. The terminals became a popular new way to browse and order goods, though Anvis still had to solve how to keep their network secure.

• Anvis read about the meeting in the Empire Morning News and realized its coverage had increased his influence over the Continental Web of Fate.
• Anvis decided to make use of the Heros' Infinite Grimoire's power as he began laying plans for the continent.
• The Black Ring Merchant Guild introduced its portable Construct Terminal, offering remote orders and item teleportation at different membership tiers.
• Anvis connected Heros' Infinite Grimoire with Bohemia to create a primitive online shopping platform, and the terminals sold well.
• Anvis considered how to protect the terminals from people who might trace their connection and capture them.

Anvis protected the Black Ring Terminal from divination and popularized it throughout the Federation, drawing attacks that his defenses repelled. The Eighth Prince then invited Anvis to join the Eternal Gold Club, but revealed that they wanted control of the Mysteries Society as the price.

• Anvis linked the Black Ring Terminal's Fate Line to the Old Days Secret Scripture so divinations targeting the terminal would be diverted.
• Anvis promoted the Black Ring Terminal through customer rewards, Construct bundles, Player commissions, discounts, and daily giveaways, rapidly spreading it across the Federation.
• Unknown attackers tried to use the Web of Fate against the Black Ring Terminal, but Anvis's defenses stopped them and made the guild seem more mysterious to the Federation's kingdoms.
• Prince Lanno warned Anvis that the Eternal Gold Club was targeting him because the Mysteries Society had affected the development of their outlander forces.
• The Eighth Prince visited Anvis and offered him an invitation to join the Eternal Gold Club in exchange for opening the Mysteries Society to become its public intelligence agency.

The Eighth Prince tried to pressure Anvis into joining the Eternal Gold Club and sharing control of the Mysteries Society, but Anvis refused. The prince returned to the Club and organized attacks on Anvis’s forces to test his confidence.

• The Eighth Prince offered Anvis protection for his forces and merchant caravans if he joined the Eternal Gold Club, but Anvis rejected the invitation.
• The Eighth Prince said the invitation would remain open for half a month and advised Anvis to stay away from Lanno before leaving.
• The Eighth Prince replayed his meeting with Anvis for the Eternal Gold Club’s core members, who debated whether Anvis had understood the threat.
• The Eighth Prince assigned Ivanna, Bandi, and other members to target the Mysteries Society, while Luo Lin, Richard, and others would attack the Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild and its caravans.

Anvis’s organizations came under coordinated pressure from the Eternal Gold Club and its allies, but he judged those groups to be expendable compared with his true core forces. He sent out a list of hostile forces and began a counterattack that left his enemies suffering mysterious disasters.

• Anvis received reports that bandits, price wars, rumors, and official fines were damaging the Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild.
• Players learned that rival factions, including the Whisperers and the Dawn Council, were offering rewards for hunting Mysteries Society members, driving the Society into a defensive struggle.
• Anvis considered the sanctions and concluded that the Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild and the Mysteries Society were not his core strength.
• Anvis recorded the forces that had opposed him, placed the list in a magic envelope, and sent it out.
• The hostile forces began suffering ambushes, internal conflicts, and deaths in Overlapping Zones, though investigators found no clear evidence of fate interference.

The Eternal Gold Club reeled from the collapse of its private forces after its attempt to sanction Anvis failed. Harken and Laximan debated whether Anvis had a powerful Prophet or a mysterious relic behind him, and the club decided to wait for the Empire’s great lords to investigate before acting again.

• The Eternal Gold Club members gathered after their forces suffered severe trouble, and their Player organizations were destroyed by allied Mysteries Society guilds.
• Harken admitted that they had underestimated Anvis and called for a new plan toward him.
• Laximan argued that other forces, rather than Anvis himself, had caused the troubles and suggested a hidden power was supporting him.
• Ivanna and the others considered whether a high-rank Prophet stood behind Anvis, while Harken proposed that Anvis might possess an ancient Magic Curio.
• Harken urged the club to observe and wait for the Marquis Lords and the Empire’s Ninth-Rank Lords to investigate Anvis’s hidden power.

Anvis concealed his role in defeating the Eternal Gold Club’s attacks by crediting the Black Ring Merchant Guild, which had supplied the Mysteries Society with civilian Magic Constructs and secretly arranged the attackers’ deaths. Duke Carlot accepted his explanation, while two hidden observers discussed suspicions that a High-rank Prophet controlled the merchant guild.

• Nyarlathotep thanked the Black Ring Merchant Guild’s Envoy as the Mysteries Society received civilian Magic Constructs, and Anvis watched the deal conclude.
• Anvis recalled how he had used Contactees to locate Overlapping Zones and assigned former Trial-takers to kill the Eternal Gold Club’s faction leaders and their allies.
• Duke Carlot contacted Anvis, praised his success, and promised the Olyvendi Family’s support if the other side broke the rules.
• Anvis claimed Raphael of the Black Ring Merchant Guild had arranged the counterattack after Anvis gave him a list of the hostile factions.
• Duke Carlot accepted Anvis’s explanation, while two figures eavesdropping outside his residence discussed whether a High-rank Prophet secretly controlled the Black Ring Merchant Guild.

Anvis was questioned by Hughes Duman and Marquis Delaka about the Prophet behind the Black Ring Merchant Guild, but used a Fifth-Rank Avatar to conceal his true strength. Meanwhile, demand for Construct Network Headgear surged across the Itel Federation, creating a lucrative black market that Player guilds moved to exploit.

• Hughes Duman and Marquis Delaka appeared in Anvis's room and questioned him about the mysterious Prophet behind the Black Ring Merchant Guild.
• Anvis denied knowing the Prophet, and Marquis Delaka tested him with his Ninth-Rank aura before Hughes stopped him.
• After the two departed, Anvis relied on his prepared Fifth-Rank Avatar to keep his true strength hidden and resolved to stay low-profile.
• Anvis learned that commoners and Low-Rank Professionals were searching for Construct Network Headgear in hopes of improving their talent.
• Unlawful merchants began selling counterfeit headgear, while Player guilds persuaded city officials to let them sell collected headgear for a share of the profits.

Anvis’s suspicion that someone was trying to revive the Construct Network 2.0 grew as unrest spread among the Federation’s people. Meanwhile, Duke Carlot’s demand that Marquis Delaka answer for testing Anvis exposed a united front among several marquises, and Gloria III left the Empire’s affairs to a Steward while he recuperated.

• Anvis suspected that ambitious figures were stirring public support for the Construct Network to restart the Construct Network 2.0 project.
• Anvis reported Marquis Delaka’s attempt to test him to Duke Carlot, who raised the incident at the noble assembly and demanded an explanation.
• Marquis Delaka denied attacking Anvis, and Marquis Beihim, Marquis Vent, and Marquis Anlita backed him.
• Duke Carlot realized the other nobles were not supporting the Olyvendi Family, while the Head of Alfred Family called for Delaka to apologize.
• Gloria III declined to judge the dispute, announced that a Steward would handle routine affairs while he recuperated, and vanished.

With Gloria III absent, the Olyvendi and Alfred Families clashed with a coalition of Marquises, plunging the Empire into unrest. Anvis, watching from the Itel Federation, received an unexpected request from Olbins to meet in the Empire’s Royal Capital.

• Gloria III remained out of sight, and rumors spread among the nobles about his condition and motives.
• Duke Carlot found that the other ducal families would support the Olyvendi Family only if it revealed the secret of the “Star,” leaving him without their help.
• Clashes between the Olyvendi and Alfred Families and the Marquises spread across the Empire, disrupting underground organizations and prompting nobles and academy students to expand their influence.
• Anvis reflected on how his actions had shifted the Empire’s turmoil and concluded that the conflict could become prolonged.
• Olbins contacted Anvis and asked to meet him at the Magic Light Hotel in the Empire’s Royal Capital.

Anvis met Olbins at the Magic Light Hotel, where Olbins described his project to calculate the future by monitoring every variable. Olbins wondered whether the Continental Web of Fate might have begun as a similar invention, leaving Anvis to consider the possibility.

• Anvis used an avatar to meet Olbins, who deduced it through calculations and his armor’s readings.
• O lbins explained his plan to use the Eternal Core and a network of observations to calculate future events.
• O lbins described how his instrument learned to predict the short-term lives of animals in a confined forest.
• Anvis warned that a similar experiment in the Olyvendi Family’s records had failed as its calculations overwhelmed the core.
• O lbins insisted the approach could work and proposed that the Continental Web of Fate might have evolved from an invention like his.

Anvis read Iverios Silver Moon's Ode, the experimental notes Olbins believed had drawn the Olyvendi Family's prophet to him. The notes revealed how Iverios discovered the Gate of Radiance and created the Eternal Core, leaving Anvis with the connection between Olbins and the ancient experiment.

• Olbins told Anvis that the Olyvendi Family's prophet might have foreseen him because of Iverios Silver Moon's Ode.
• Anvis examined the silver-covered notes and found Iverios's records of experiments involving the laws of nature and time.
• Iverios documented discovering the Starry Sky Devourer and realizing it was a gate to the Deep World, which she named the Gate of Radiance.
• Iverios planned a dangerous experiment to summon the Gate of Radiance using a Singularity Point and the Deep World as a carrier.
• Iverios recorded that she had succeeded in creating an almost inexhaustible Mana source, which she named the Eternal Core.

Anvis read the hidden history of the Eternal Core and uncovered the encrypted magic array in the notebook Olbins had shared with him. Olbins offered the discovery as a gift, and their conversation ended with Anvis making a crude counterproposal about his sister.

• Anvis read the notes describing the Eternal Core experiment, its catastrophic mana surges, and the High Elves' decision to use a constrained version of the core.
• Anvis noticed an unusual vine pattern on the notebook's cover and connected it to a magic circuit, revealing a hidden page with a complex Three-Dimensional Magic Array.
• Anvis asked Olbins why he had shared the notebook, and Olbins said it was a gift between friends.
• Anvis joked about marrying Hillyl, but Olbins seriously offered to share his future research if Anvis treated her sincerely.
• Anvis said his family obligations prevented him from freely choosing a spouse, then crudely proposed sleeping with Hillyl in exchange for Olbins's Eternal Core research results.

Anvis deciphered the Eternal Core’s structure and set Bohemia to prepare a Pseudo-Eternal Core, while a public feud between the Olyvendi and Alfred Families and Marquis Delaka pushed the Empire toward open conflict. As the unrest spread, Anvis saw the Web of Fate grow clearer, with countless lives’ destinies now connected to him.

• Anvis spent three days deciphering the Three-Dimensional Magic Array and obtained the Eternal Core’s structure and an unrealizable space-time coordinate.
• Anvis assigned Bohemia to construct a Singularity Point and arranged a backup Elemental Pool to help create a Pseudo-Eternal Core.
• Duke Carlot and Sams Alfred demanded that Marquis Delaka apologize and compensate the Olyvendi Family, threatening to cut off trade and bar his allies from their provinces.
• Marquis Delaka denied attacking Anvis and called on nobles to resist the Olyvendi and Alfred Families; six marquises backed him.
• Carlas Province and Paravani Province entered Level 3 Combat Readiness as the Empire’s conflict spilled into the open.
• Anvis sensed that countless Fate Lines now connected to him because his actions had changed people’s original fates.

Prince Harken received Anvis's mocking letter of thanks and decided not to confront him yet. Meanwhile, Anvis traveled to Dragon Shadow City to strengthen his Desire Seed and used the Mercury Dice to guide his search for the city's center of desire.

• Prince Harken read Anvis's mithril letter, grew angry at its taunts, and chose to focus on building his power rather than risk a confrontation.
• Prince Harken tried to burn the letter, but its protective Magic Array deflected the flames and scorched his desk.
• Anvis walked through Dragon Shadow City, where crime and lawlessness gathered the Desire Power his seed needed to grow.
• Anvis decided the Desire Seed was growing too slowly and planned to reach the city's center of desire.
• Anvis used the Mercury Dice to guide fate toward his goal, and the die rolled.

Anvis tested the Mercury Dice, which cracked after showing twenty points, then waited to see how its interference with fate would affect events. In Dragon Shadow City, Keen noticed Anvis’s valuable ring and approached him under the pretense of offering directions, planning to rob him.

• Anvis rolled the Mercury Dice, and it stopped at twenty before a crack appeared in it.
• Keen finished intimidating a debtor, got bird droppings on his face, and spotted Anvis near an alley entrance.
• Keen recognized Anvis’s ring as potentially valuable and decided to seize him for the City Lord’s Mansion.
• After checking for dangerous Outsiders, Keen approached Anvis and offered to guide him.
• Anvis pretended to be wary but told Keen he was looking for a nearby tavern.

Anvis let Keen lure him into an alley and pretended to fall unconscious, then watched as Keen captured him and brought him to the City Lord's Mansion. Keen was rewarded with a promotion, but the hooded man discovered the Space Ring was missing and sent him back to search for it.

• Keen offered to guide Anvis to the Good Place Tavern for a Silver Coin, and Anvis paid him a Gold Coin while acting like a haughty young noble.
• As Keen led Anvis through an alley filled with paralyzing gas, Anvis pretended to collapse unconscious.
• Keen used a Paralysis Touch on Anvis, stripped him of his equipment, and carried him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• A hooded man praised Keen and offered him a deputy captain position and a residence in the Iron Sword District.
• The hooded man demanded Anvis's Space Ring, then sent Keen back to search for it after Keen pretended not to know where it was.

The City Lord of Dragon Shadow City captured Anvis and planned to use him as entertainment at a secret banquet. Meanwhile, Shute brought Spark members to the gathering to pursue an alliance with the Gloria Empire's Marquises.

• The butler ordered a guard to watch Keen and arranged for Anvis to be fitted with an anti-magic collar.
• The butler reported that Anvis's identity was unknown, and the City Lord ordered preparations for a secret banquet attended by Federation and Empire figures.
• The City Lord inspected Anvis, refused to remove his collar, and demanded that he entertain the banquet guests in exchange for a chance at freedom.
• Masked guests arrived at the City Lord's Mansion for the lavish gathering.
• Shute told Luo Qi, Matt, and Ailisha that Spark intended to negotiate with the Gloria Empire's Marquises against the Four Great Duke Families.

Shute brought Luo Qi, Matt, and Ailisha to the City Lord’s Mansion banquet, where he explained how the mansion used Dream Mist Potion to control desperate Low-Rank Professionals. After sensing a powerful presence probing him, Shute continued toward the ambassador to pursue cooperation, while Anvis recognized him and his companions.

• Shute led Luo Qi, Matt, and Ailisha into the carnival banquet and explained that the Dream Mist Potion left users dependent on its escape from their harsh reality.
• Matt and Shute explained that the City Lord’s Mansion controlled Professionals by supplying potions in exchange for their loyalty and labor.
• Shute entered the main banquet hall and sensed a concealed spiritual probe from an expert at least as powerful as himself.
• Shute suspected the Lord of Dragon Shadow City had a powerful ally and continued toward the ambassador to discuss cooperation.
• Anvis withdrew his Spiritual Power, recognized Shute, Luo Qi, Matt, and Ailisha, and concluded that Ailisha had chosen the Rebel Army’s path.

Anvis observed the City Lord's Mansion banquet and watched the Desire Seed grow as guests indulged in increasingly potent pleasures. At the dance's climax, the Marquises' Envoy finally revealed that a special power had secretly allied with the Marquises, giving them confidence to confront the Empire's two great families.

• Anvis used his Illusion System domain to fool the Seventh Rank city lord while he surveyed the mansion and observed the guests.
• The revelry and Dream Mist Potion filled the mansion with Desire Power, stimulating Anvis's Desire Seed.
• Anvis noticed nobles and representatives secretly probing the Envoy, who stayed evasive until Shute of the Spark Organization arrived.
• The city lord ended the banquet and began the dance, where guests drank stronger potions and plunged into wild revelry.
• The Envoy told the gathered guests that a special power had secretly agreed to support the Marquises against the two great families.

A marquis Envoy revealed the Crimson Cup, whose power drew in Desire and drove the banquet hall into a frenzy, then used it to convince factions that the Marquises had a true God backing them. Several representatives and Shute signed the Scarlet Magic Contract, while Anvis resisted the cup’s influence and watched the Envoy’s strange transformation.

• The Envoy removed his mask and pulled the illusory Crimson Cup from his face, unleashing its influence on the banquet hall.
• Shute used a Mind Shield to protect Ailisha, Luo Qi, and Matt, while Anvis sensed the cup absorbing Desire and resisted its attempt to amplify his desires.
• The mask returned to the Envoy’s face, restoring his clarity, and the hall’s feverish atmosphere subsided as he put the cup away.
• The Envoy claimed a true God supported the Marquises and offered factions rewards for joining their camp through a Scarlet Magic Contract.
• Several small and medium-sized Kingdom representatives and minor Glory Alliance nobles signed, followed by Shute after he reviewed the contract’s terms.