Recaps

After the factions agreed to cooperate with the Envoy, Shute defended their compromises to Ailisha and Luo Qi. Anvis pursued the Envoy to claim the cup’s Desire Power, defeated him and his guard, and began drawing the cup out of the Envoy.

• The Envoy left after collecting the signed agreement, while Ailisha questioned whether cooperating with him was right.
• Shute told Ailisha, Luo Qi, and Matt that history’s great changes had required bloodshed and that Spark could only try to limit it.
• Anvis confronted the Envoy in Dragon Shadow City and asked to borrow his cup, which he believed held the Desire Power he needed.
• The Envoy’s guard attacked Anvis, but Anvis used Illusion Magic to evade the strike and challenge the limits of the Envoy’s borrowed power.
• Anvis’s Illusion Magic domain trapped the Envoy and his guard, and he defeated them after they endured several ninth-rank attack Artifacts.
• Anvis removed the Envoy’s Mask and used Desire Power to begin drawing the cup out of him.

Anvis took the Red Cup from the Envoy, rejected his offer to join the desire-worshipping group, and returned to the castle to investigate the cup’s effects. He suppressed most of its power over the guests, then tested it on Keen and watched Keen’s dream accelerate into a fantasy of rising to power and seizing Dragon Shadow City.

• Anvis examined the Red Cup and the Envoy’s belongings, then rejected the Envoy’s offer and left him alive with his possessions.
• The Envoy returned to the Empire, intending to warn the Apostle Lord and the Marquises that an unknown force had intervened.
• Back at the venue, Anvis found the cup draining the guests’ desires and used the Desire Seed to suppress most of its effect.
• Anvis teleported to the courtyard, isolated Keen, and placed the Red Cup beside him to observe what happened as it drained his desires.
• Keen’s dream continued after his Dream Mist Potion wore off, rapidly advancing until he became Dragon Shadow City’s Lord by killing the incumbent in a rebellion.

Anvis observed Keen’s transformation into a powerful Desire Beast after exposure to the crimson cup, then confronted Shute and his group. He identified himself as a possible member of the Circle of Truth and forced them to leave, while Matt warned that Spark should be wary of the cult behind the cup.

• Anvis watched the red mist mutate Keen into a Desire Beast whose power had risen from the First Order to the Fourth Rank and continued to grow.
• Anvis sealed the crimson cup in the Old Days Secret Scripture and revealed Shute, Luo Qi, Matt, and Ailisha hiding beneath a Golden Oak Tree.
• Shute questioned Anvis about the cup and the ambassador, and Anvis said he had borrowed the cup and showed them a Circle of Truth insignia.
• Anvis ordered Shute’s group to leave or fight him, and Shute teleported away with Luo Qi, Matt, and Ailisha.
• On the way back to Spark’s base, Shute said the group had no reason to risk a fight, and Matt urged caution about cooperating with the Marquises because of the evil cup and its cult.

Anvis investigated the Desire Beast and used the Lord of Dragon Shadow City as a test subject while posing as him through an Avatar. After learning more about the Revelation Sect and its upcoming Ritual, Anvis chose not to approach it because the Crimson Cup seemed connected to a dangerous ancient existence.

• Anvis observed the Desire Beast mutate to the Sixth Rank before it collapsed and exploded, then considered testing the process on the Seventh Rank Lord of Dragon Shadow City.
• Anvis secretly posed as the city lord, recorded the monster’s condition in the underground chamber, and freed the mansion’s captured slaves according to their wishes.
• Anvis informed Duke Carlot that the Marquises were cooperating with a desire-linked Heretic God Cult, while the Man in the Mirror investigated the group through the Glory Alliance.
• Anvis and the Olyvendi Family learned that the Revelation Sect was an obscure cult with noble connections, and the Glory Alliance found a channel to its next Ritual.
• Anvis examined the Old Days Secret Scripture’s description of the Crimson Cup and decided against joining the Ritual because the cup appeared connected to a dangerous ancient existence.

Anvis advanced the Desire Seed into a Desire Ring and continued his research while avoiding a premature Ninth Rank breakthrough. Meanwhile, a dispute between Marquis Delaka and Duke Carlot ignited a civil war in the Gloria Empire, drawing in Anvis’s allies and threatening his businesses.

• Anvis left the cup with the Lord of Dragon Shadow City and used the sealed Desire Power to evolve the Desire Seed into a Desire Ring.
• Anvis postponed fusing the Desire Ring with his spiritual core and began researching ways to tailor holy power to counter the Church.
• Marquis Delaka declared war on Carlas Province after Duke Carlot rejected his demand to return a missing farmer and a Space Ring.
• The Olyvendi Family and Alfred Family mobilized against the Marquises’ forces, while Anvis’s merchant guild and Mysteries Society suffered attacks.
• The Carlas Province garrison clashed with the Marquises’ joint army at the Sani Great Plain as Professionals across the empire enlisted for military merits.

Anvis asked Duke Carlot to explain his breakthrough to the Ninth Rank, and Carlot described Rule Power as understanding and using the world’s existing rules that favor oneself. After receiving the duke’s memories of the breakthrough, Anvis left to inspect Bohemia’s successful Pseudo-Eternal Core.

• Anvis returned to Moonrise Fortress and asked Duke Carlot to explain his breakthrough to the Ninth Rank.
• Duke Carlot questioned Anvis’s motives and warned that the process would be beyond anyone below Rank 8, but agreed to help him.
• Duke Carlot explained that nobles gain strength through rules they establish and follow, while Ninth Rank Professionals use rules already present in the world.
• Duke Carlot gave Anvis a memory orb containing his breakthrough process, and Anvis decided not to rely on Desire Power as his path to the Ninth Rank unless necessary.
• Anvis left to inspect the Pseudo-Eternal Core that Bohemia had successfully constructed.

Anvis inspected the overseas island base and discovered a possible abnormality in one of its Construct Soldiers before ordering the reconstructed Floating City to take off. The city rose successfully, but Anvis left the mystery on the island unresolved.

• Anvis arrived at the overseas island base and ordered a report on its projects, personnel, and daily operations.
• The base administrator reported that the Throne of the Sky was mostly complete and that Ogman's Perfect Blood project had begun trial production of Third Generation Magical Construct Soldiers.
• Anvis sensed a malicious gaze from a Construct Soldier, inspected it, and left a hidden Eye of Surveillance behind; after the eye vanished, the soldier revealed a strange black-red eye.
• Anvis decided to investigate the island's abnormality after the Floating City's test flight or when the hidden threat revealed itself.
• Bohemia reported the Floating City's systems and missing components, and Anvis commanded it to take off.
• The reconstructed Floating City rose into the sky, with its compact design concentrating power on combat and defense.

Anvis tested the Floating City's Magic Energy Spire Array and then visited Ogman's Laboratory to check on his condition. Ogman revealed a breakthrough in the Perfect Blood project, but Anvis suspected something unusual was happening at the base.

• Anvis ordered a test of the Magic Energy Spire Array, whose Purification Light struck the seabed with power comparable to a ninth-rank strike.
• Anvis considered the difficulty of repairing the Magic Energy Spires and remembered Claire, who had helped him obtain the Floating City permissions.
• Anvis had Bohemia conceal the Floating City above the island and returned to the base to check on Ogman.
• Anvis found Ogman's Laboratory sealed behind maximum-powered protective Magic Arrays and entered after Ogman opened the door.
• Ogman showed Anvis a tank containing a tentacled sea-lily-like specimen rooted in a faceless humanoid corpse, and said it had enabled him to create ninth-rank Perfect Blood.
• When Anvis asked whether anything unusual had happened at the base, Ogman briefly showed fear before insisting that everything was normal.

Anvis investigated Ogman’s Demonized Soldiers and searched the base’s records for clues to an unexplained problem, then entered the Dream World and encountered a terrifying figure. As the figure approached, Anvis called on Bohemia to descend.

• Anvis inspected Ogman’s Seventh Rank Demonized Soldier test subjects and learned how their Demonized Flesh and Construct Modules worked.
• Anvis reviewed the base’s monitoring logs and noticed that its demand for Purification Dust had nearly vanished since Hearthfire Month of Radiant Era 2462.
• Anvis went to the Gray Granite Dock and entered the Dream World, where he found the island beneath dark clouds and met a strange crewman and a Faceless Man.
• Anvis followed the Faceless Man to a tavern, received a Pale Key from the bartender, and triggered an unknown condition by entering a room.
• A featureless female figure appeared and approached Anvis, who could not escape the dream, so he called for Bohemia to descend in the name of the master.

Anvis used the rebuilt Sky City to attack the Faceless Female, while keeping his true body hidden inside the Old Days Secret Scripture. After trapping her in a Time-Space Prison and firing the Moon of No Light, he was left unsure whether she had died.

• The Faceless Female looked toward Anvis and began retreating into the fog, so he attacked her with a beam from the Sky City.
• The Faceless Female survived the bombardment with the help of black Tentacles and used her influence to lure Anvis outside.
• Anvis's Avatar burned itself with dark green flames, injuring the Faceless Female, while his true body reappeared in the Sky City's Control Room.
• Anvis ordered Bohemia to trap the Faceless Female in a Time-Space Prison and prepare the Moon of No Light.
• The Moon of No Light swallowed the Faceless Female, and Anvis questioned whether she had died.

Anvis sealed the wounded Faceless Female with the Old Days Secret Scripture, investigated the island and secured his base, then restored the Themis Colossus as a major weapon for the Circle of Truth. He returned to Yar Continent to study Desire Power, but news of Fiona’s return to her family had leaked among the Empire’s high-level figures.

• Anvis used the Old Days Secret Scripture to reveal and seal the injured Faceless Female, gaining enough power feedback to reach around Eighth Rank Mid.
• Anvis found the tavern abandoned and decayed, swept the island for other threats, and confirmed that the Faceless Female had caused the base’s dream abnormalities.
• Anvis left an avatar and the repaired Floating City on the island to monitor its seven enormous statues and other dangers.
• Anvis brought the Themis Colossus back from the Deep Dream World and restored its ability to fight multiple Ninth Rank Professionals, while planning how to conceal the Floating City’s descent and escape.
• Anvis returned to Yar Continent to study Desire Power, but learned that news of Fiona’s return to her family was spreading among the Empire’s high-level figures.

After Fiona’s return became public, the Olyvendi and Alfred Families agreed to an examination and made her a territorial lord, using her as bait to deter attackers. On the eve of Fiona’s appointment, Anvis saw a fateful anomaly heralding the start of a heroic Epic.

• Duke Carlot and the Alfred Family investigated the leak about Fiona’s return but could not identify who had revealed it.
• The Olyvendi and Alfred Families agreed to let the Ninth Ranks of Innoc and the Aslaid Family examine Fiona under strict safeguards.
• Rumors spread across the Gloria Empire that Fiona’s examination had revealed information about breaking through to Legendary.
• Duke Carlot secured Fiona’s graduation from Pamir Academy and granted her a territory in western Carlas Province, while Ninth Rank Limit guardians prepared to protect her and ambush attackers.
• Anvis saw a vortex of destiny around a brilliant star above Moonrise Fortress and recognized it as the beginning of a heroic Epic on the eve of Fiona’s appointment as a lord.

Anvis secretly returned from Pamir Academy and persuaded Duke Carlot to let him serve as Fiona’s deputy, arguing that helping her govern would bring him Fate Feedback. He traveled with Fiona to Silver Gull City under the assumed identity of Leivin Bolley, a Fifth Rank Frost Sorcerer.

• Anvis visited Duke Carlot’s study in secret and revealed that an Avatar remained at Pamir Academy.
• Anvis asked to become Fiona’s deputy, and Duke Carlot questioned his reasons and warned that governing would distract him from cultivation.
• Anvis told Duke Carlot that helping Fiona govern would bring him immense Fate Feedback, and the Duke agreed to his request.
• Duke Carlot told Fiona that Anvis had returned to help her, reassuring her before she took up her post.
• Anvis told Fiona to conceal his identity and introduced himself as Leivin Bolley as they set out for Silver Gull City.

Fiona formally became lord of Star Territory, and Anvis used her growing fame to attract Players and develop the territory. Silver Gull City expanded as Players and Clubs invested, while Fiona left much of the daily governing to Anvis.

• Fiona arrived in Silver Gull City and displayed the Lord's Seal Ring, completing the transfer of authority over Star Territory.
• News of Fiona's appointment spread across the Empire, drawing attention from the public and a growing number of Players.
• Anvis paid Mysteries Society Club representatives to promote Fiona among Players, hoping to build support for her in a future civil war.
• After months of governing, Fiona lost interest in routine work and delegated daily affairs to Anvis while making public appearances and exploring the city with the two little ones.
• Anvis oversaw Silver Gull City's expansion as Players moved in, and Clubs began buying land and shops in hopes that the city would become a major center.

Fiona received a letter from Fourth Princess Oswelia Augustine requesting a meeting in Star Territory, and Anvis advised her to accept. After Fiona approved the preparations, Annie warned Anvis that she was watching his conduct.

• Fiona received Oswelia Augustine’s letter proposing a meeting seven days later to discuss territorial governance.
• Anvis described Oswelia’s influence and strength, and advised Fiona to prepare for the meeting.
• Fiona agreed to meet Oswelia and told Anvis to arrange the visit.
• Annie warned Fiona that Anvis had too much authority, but Fiona insisted he was trustworthy and ordered Annie not to raise the concern again.
• Annie confronted Anvis in the castle corridor and told him to remain vigilant and not make things difficult for Fiona.

Anvis tested Annie’s suspicions and warned her to consider her safety before acting against him. After Annie told Fiona about their conversation, Fiona gave her a powerful ring that could summon help or carry her into the Dream World.

• Anvis isolated Annie in the corridor and suggested he might have an agenda involving Fiona, while Annie secretly tried to send a distress signal.
• Annie prepared to defend herself, but Anvis ended the isolation spell and told her to think about how Fiona would feel if she died needlessly.
• Annie returned to Fiona and repeated what Anvis had said during their meeting.
• Fiona gave Annie a Silver Magic Ring that could summon an Eighth Rank being from the Dream World or help Annie escape into it.
• Fiona reassured Annie that she had several such rings and told her to protect herself.

Oswivia secretly investigated Silver Gull City before her scheduled meeting with Fiona, examining its public transport, diverse residents, and rapid development. Impressed by what she found, she arrived at the day of the meeting increasingly eager to speak with Fiona.

• Annie began secretly watching Anvis because she feared that Leivin Bolley's authority and Fiona's trust in him could endanger the territory, while Anvis used her surveillance to teach her how to manage it.
• Oswivia disguised herself and entered Silver Gull City ahead of her announced visit to see the territory as an ordinary traveler.
• Oswivia observed the city's clean streets, Construct Vehicles, diverse population, and signs of hope among its residents.
• Oswivia learned from residents that Fiona's rule had brought expansion, jobs, and reliable access to resources, and she recognized the Pigeon emblem on the city's Constructs as Anvis Olyvendi's trademark.
• Oswivia investigated the city for several days and grew more eager to meet Fiona when the scheduled meeting date arrived.

The Fourth Princess Oswivia arrived at the City Lord's Mansion to meet Fiona, and the two began speaking privately. Oswivia asked about Duke Carlot and whether Fiona needed help, but Fiona said her father was well and that she knew nothing about his intentions.

• Anvis and Annie welcomed Oswivia and her Rose Knights Order at the City Lord's Mansion.
• Anvis escorted Oswivia to the reception room, where Fiona greeted her formally.
• Oswivia and Fiona discussed their shared experience at Royal Pamir Academy and the Platinum High Tower.
• Oswivia asked Fiona about Duke Carlot and offered her assistance, but Fiona said her father was well and she could not guess at his will.

Oswivia questioned Fiona about the Star Territory’s governance and learned how Anvis was letting the Outsiders develop financial systems as part of a larger experiment. Fiona then offered Oswivia access to the territory’s rare resources, and the list revealed a crucial ingredient for Oswivia’s planned Ninth Rank breakthrough ritual.

• Oswivia asked Fiona about the unusual Magic Constructs and Outsiders in her territory, and Fiona credited Anvis and the Outsiders for them.
• At Fiona’s request, Anvis explained stocks and futures, prompting Oswivia to recognize their potential and warn about fraud and unrest.
• Anvis defended the Outsiders’ freedom and privately regarded their financial activity as an experiment that could transform the empire’s outdated economy.
• Fiona offered Oswivia discounted access to rare resources from the Deep Dream World, reserving the most precious items for the Star Territory’s allies.
• Oswivia saw a Time-Reversing Crystal Egg at the top of Fiona’s resource list and recognized it as a material she needed for her Ninth Rank breakthrough ritual.

After Fiona gifted resources to Fourth Princess Oswivia, Anvis explained how the rare Time-Reversing Crystal Egg and Oswivia’s acceptance signaled political support. He then tasked Annie with drafting a bill governing Outsiders’ rights, leaving her to complete it within seven days.

• Oswivia accepted Fiona’s offer to buy the listed resources, including the Time-Reversing Crystal Egg, and Anvis explained that the gift tested whether she would openly support Fiona.
• Fiona asked Anvis whether the egg was rare and whether she had negotiated well, and he praised her performance and said Oswivia had repaid part of the price with a favor.
• Fiona gave Anvis a writ to mobilize the City Guard, then left with Annie watching.
• Annie questioned why Anvis needed the writ, but he refused to explain his plans.
• Annie suggested creating laws to regulate Outsiders, so Anvis ordered her to draft a bill on their rights within seven days.

After the Star Praise Sect threatened to send three Apostles to seize Fiona, the Olyvendi and Alfred Families secretly recalled Ninth Ranks to protect her, weakening their forces at the front. Anvis arrived at the front line and asked Duke Carlot what secret Fiona was hiding.

• An Olyvendi guardian killed Spirit World Anthem, a Federation Ninth Rank, and destroyed the traced contingencies that could have allowed him to return.
• Duke Carlot accused Marquis Delaka and the other Marquises of conspiring with the Federation, while they denied the charge.
• The seven Marquises appeared on battlefields, forcing the Ninth Ranks of the two great families to confront them and escalating the Empire's war.
• The Star Praise Sect announced that three Apostles would come to Star Territory in seven days to take Fiona.
• The two great families secretly recalled one Ninth Rank each to protect Fiona, leaving their battlefield forces weaker as the Marquises paused their offensive.
• Anvis met Duke Carlot at the front-line command tent and asked what secret Fiona was hiding.

Duke Carlot revealed to Anvis the secret history of the Olyvendi and Alfred Families’ forbidden experiments to create a Legendary being. He explained that Fiona was their only successful subject, while Anvis’s balanced dual bloodlines had first given them hope that the experiment could work.

• Duke Carlot verified Anvis’s identity, isolated them within his Rule Domain, and warned him that learning Fiona’s secret would expose him to danger.
• Anvis convinced Duke Carlot that, as Fiona’s adjutant and an Olyvendi descendant, he needed to know the truth.
• Duke Carlot explained that the Olyvendi and Alfred founders had discovered two Legendary Bloodlines in an ancient High Elf research facility.
• After failing to reach Legendary, the families began the forbidden Create a Legend experiment, first using single bloodlines and then attempting to combine two.
• Duke Carlot said that Anvis’s balanced bloodlines had renewed the families’ hopes, and Fiona was the only successful subject created from the remaining Legendary blood.

Anvis learned that Fiona was created through a bloodline experiment intended to reach Legendary, and Duke Carlot explained the family’s competing plans for her and the Silver Key. When Carlot asked how Anvis would help the family’s predicament, Anvis revealed that he had joined the Circle of Truth.

• Duke Carlot confirmed that Fiona was the only successful subject of the Create a Legend project and explained that theories about reaching Legendary remained unproven.
• Carlot recounted how the Former Federal Speaker had tried to break through the world's Ceiling Wall and summon an Outer Deity, before the Circle of Truth stopped him.
• Carlot revealed that some family members, led by Pomona of Zero-Degree Ice Crystal, wanted to sacrifice Fiona using the Silver Key to summon a Great Existence and open a path to Legendary.
• Carlot asked Anvis how he would resolve the family's predicament, and Anvis said he had joined the Circle of Truth.
• Anvis explained that he had met the Circle of Truth's Mysterious Expert during the Construct Network disaster and had been accepted into the organization.

Anvis persuaded Duke Carlot to consider cooperating with the Circle of Truth against the marquises, and Carlot agreed to consult the Alfred Family. As Star Territory prepared for the Star Praise Sect’s attack on Fiona, the royal faction’s Ninth Ranks planned to delay their response and let the two families face the danger first.

• Anvis proposed using the Circle of Truth as an ally against the marquises, and Duke Carlot warned that the Circle would eventually oppose the Empire’s nobles.
• Anvis explained the Circle of Truth Leader’s plan to attack the marquises while their forces were occupied, and offered to negotiate on behalf of the Olyvendi Family.
• Duke Carlot agreed to discuss the proposed cooperation with the Alfred Family before giving Anvis an answer.
• Fiona anxiously awaited the Star Praise Sect’s attack, and Anvis reassured her that its Apostles might be weaker than ordinary Ninth Rank Experts.
• The royal faction’s Ninth Rank retainers chose to delay intervening, expecting the Olyvendi and Alfred Families to deal with the attackers themselves.

A Star Praise Sect Apostle attacked Silver Gull City with Green Flame, forcing the Olyvendi Family’s Ninth Rank defenders to confront an Outer Deity’s will through their Magic Array. As the battle began, Anvis reassured Fiona and spread the attacker’s identity among the Players, while the outcome remained unknown.

• Green flames struck toward the Lord’s Manor, killing several thousand citizens before the manor’s domain sealed off the city and resisted the attack.
• Alfred and the Olyvendi Family’s Family Guardian identified Green Flame’s power and adjusted the Magic Array to meet the Ninth Rank Apostle.
• The green flames collided with the domain, and the distorted sky enclosed them as the clash between the Rule Domain and the Outer Deity’s will began.
• Fiona worried about the defenders, but Anvis comforted her and predicted that the attack would fail; he had left only an Avatar at the manor while his true body returned to Pamir Academy.
• Anvis revealed through the Mysteries Society that the attacker was a Star Praise Sect Apostle, prompting shocked Players to discuss the battle and add the sect to their enemies.