Recaps

The Marquises secretly chose Duke Carlot, known as Winter's Chill, as their target and arranged a three-Ninth-Rank ambush. Duke Carlot was trapped and overwhelmed, with his Twenty-Faced Ice Crystal dimming as he faced the likelihood of becoming the war's first fallen Ninth Rank.

• Marquis Vent reported that the Alfred and Olyvendi families had sent their Ninth Ranks to other battlefields, leaving Silver Star City and Leila City without Ninth-Rank protection.
• The Marquises voted to target Winter's Chill, Duke Carlot, over the Radiant Holy Sword, and Marquis Beihim enlisted Marquis Emeraldscape and Marquis Anlita to help kill him.
• A masked Priest of the Star Praise Sect concealed the three Marquises' fates before they secretly set out to attack Duke Carlot.
• Duke Carlot sensed an approaching attack and confronted Marquis Beihim, but two more Ninth Ranks joined the fight and sealed the battlefield with Alien Divine Power.
• The three attackers overwhelmed Duke Carlot's Rule Domain as his Twenty-Faced Ice Crystal dimmed, leaving him on the verge of defeat.

A mysterious Floating City intervened as three Marquises besieged Duke Carlot, destroying their plan and killing Marquis Emeraldscape and Marquis Beihim. The Floating City escaped into the Deep Dream World, leaving the continent reeling from the Marquises’ deaths.

• A massive unknown Sky City appeared over the battlefield, and Marquis Beihim used a replica of the Dead Sea Lantern to break through Duke Carlot’s Rule Domain.
• The Themis Colossus attacked Marquis Beihim, forcing him to flee and giving Carlot a chance to strengthen his defenses.
• Duke Carlot entangled his Rule Domain with Marquis Anlita’s and Marquis Emeraldscape’s, preventing them from easily disengaging.
• Sky City’s Moon of No Light annihilated Marquis Emeraldscape as he tried to escape.
• Marquis Anlita teleported away, while the Themis Colossus and Sky City’s Magic Array killed Marquis Beihim.
• The Floating City escaped into the Deep Dream World, and news of the two Marquises’ deaths shook the continent.

Anvis escaped into the Deep Dream World after destroying two marquises, while the Floating City hid there to deal with a mysterious spiritual mark. In the Gloria Empire, Gloria III vanished after apparently attempting a Legendary breakthrough, and Ferdinand’s bid to succeed him was unsettled by Oswivia’s rise to the Ninth Rank.

• Anvis shook off his pursuers in the Deep Dream World and concluded that Marquis Emeraldscape and Marquis Beihim had been destroyed, while Marquis Anlita escaped.
• Anvis learned that an ancient force had left a conceptual spiritual mark on the Floating City, so Sky City would remain hidden in the Deep Dream World while he sought a way to remove it.
• After the Floating City withdrew, the Empire’s civil war halted, and the imperial family sent a Ninth Rank to Gloria III’s secluded palace, only to find it empty.
• The imperial Ninth Ranks used the Eye of Destiny but could not locate Gloria III, whose disappearance resembled that of someone who had attempted a Legendary breakthrough.
• Ferdinand contacted imperial retainers and visited the three Royal Guardians to gauge their support for his succession, then heard that Fourth Princess Oswivia had reached the Ninth Rank.

Fourth Princess Oswivia reached the ninth rank, won Guardian of Stars's support, and forced a new power-sharing arrangement with First Prince Ferdinand while Emperor Gloria III remained missing. In Silver Star City, Anvis reviewed the casualties from the Star Praise Sect's attack and learned that Silver Storm Esvelle Olivenndi had died fighting an Apostle.

• Fourth Princess Oswivia visited the Royal Mausoleum, gained Guardian of Stars's favor, and left Ferdinand's failed attempt to intercept her behind.
• Ferdinand accepted that he could no longer secretly eliminate Oswivia and would have to compete through the strength of their factions and ninth-rank supporters.
• The princes and princesses formed a nine-member Upper House, with Ferdinand and Oswivia holding vetoes and the Guardians settling unresolved disputes.
• The Guardians set a three-year buffer period for Gloria III to return, after which the royal descendant judged to have performed best would become Emperor if he remained missing.
• Annie reported casualties and damage across Silver Star City, Forge Iron City, and Black Rock City to Anvis, who remained calm.
• During the Star Praise Sect's attack, an Apostle's Divine Descent overwhelmed the defenses before collapsing, while Esvelle Olivenndi died from the Apostle's flames.

After the war ended, Anvis learned that Rebel Army members had secretly remained active in the border cities and planned to investigate them himself. The Empire’s civil conflict paused, and Cold Crystal City began recovering as news spread of the Imperial Upper House’s establishment.

• The Star Praise Sect’s Apostles were driven out, while the Floating City escaped into the Deep Dream World and both sides suffered heavy losses.
• Rebel Army members briefly occupied border cities, looted resources, and fled, though some disguised members stayed behind in the cities.
• Anvis learned of unusual Rebel Army activity in the Federation and suspected the Glory Alliance and Holy Radiance Church were preparing moves against the Empire.
• Anvis studied a map of Carlas Province and decided to visit the cities where Rebel Army members were suspected to be operating.
• The Empire’s civil war paused as the royal family tried to mediate, and the Princes and Princesses established the Imperial Upper House.
• In Cold Crystal City, citizens returned to the streets and discussed the emperor’s disappearance and the new Upper House.

Anvis searched Cold Crystal City for the hidden Rebel Army and used a Coin of Destiny, which pointed him toward the City Lord's Mansion. There, Landon revealed that the Book of Yellow Robe had granted him the power to control the city's lord.

• A City Guard captain arrested a player merchant, but the merchant escaped with a smoke bomb, and the guards chased a wanted elf instead.
• Anvis reflected on how powerful Outsiders had taken over dangerous jobs such as guarding, then gave up searching the city by ordinary means.
• Anvis used a Coin of Destiny to locate the Rebel Army leader and received the City Lord's Mansion of Cold Crystal City as his answer.
• Landon recalled how the Book of Yellow Robe had appeared during the Heads of State Meeting and how Dark Raven helped him escape the Ninth Rank experts.
• Landon read the book's strange symbols, awakened a connection to it, and gained the Spell-like Ability Submission, which let him control the Lord of Cold Crystal City.

Landon used the Book of Yellow Robe to secretly control the Lord of Cold Crystal City and infiltrate the city lord’s castle as his personal male servant. When Ailisha and Lani visited, they misunderstood his role as a humiliating sacrifice for the Rebel Army, leaving Landon stunned and Anvis dumbfounded.

• Landon’s Book of Yellow Robe enhanced his cultivation and let him subtly control the Seventh Rank Lord of Cold Crystal City, helping the Rebel Army hide in the Empire.
• Landon posed as the city lord’s personal male servant, while the wealth meant for a bribe ended up with him.
• Ailisha and Lani visited Landon and reported that Lia had recovered, reached Fourth Rank, and learned Crystallization Ray.
• Lani gave Landon an amulet from Xiute and relayed Xiute’s request that he gather intelligence about the Olyvendi Family while staying safe.
• Ailisha and Lani revealed they believed Landon had become the city lord’s servant as a sacrifice for the Rebel Army, and Landon demanded to know what they meant.
• Anvis listened from out of sight and was dumbfounded by the misunderstanding.

Landon tried to dispel rumors about his relationship with the Lord of Cold Crystal City, but his effort led him to control the city lord’s adjutant and draw Anvis’s attention. While reading the Book of Yellow Robe in his protected room, Landon discovered a new page that identified itself as Gloria III.

• Lani and Ailisha questioned Landon about being the Lord of Cold Crystal City’s personal manservant, and he failed to explain the arrangement without revealing his secret.
• Dark Raven persuaded Landon to control the City Lord’s Adjutant and have him explain that Landon’s identity came from a Secret Art.
• Anvis secretly watched Landon control the adjutant, used the Old Days Secret Scripture to glimpse Landon’s Yellow Mark, and became more interested in his hidden abilities.
• Landon sensed an unknown presence, but the Lord of Cold Crystal City found no one, and Anvis changed his observation position.
• Landon returned to his room, opened the Book of Yellow Robe, and found a new page bearing the words “Who am I?” before it identified itself as “Gloria III!!!”

Landon used the Book of Yellow Robe to question the entity claiming to be Gloria III, uncovering royal secrets before the book drained his Spiritual Power and knocked him unconscious. Anvis watched and planned to approach the book later, when fate carried it to Prince Auttomo of the Blackfeather Kingdom.

• Landon called out Gloria III's name, and the writing in the book asked who was watching before demanding help from the Gloria Royal Research Institute.
• Landon asked the entity to prove its identity, and it revealed royal secrets, hidden vault locations, and other valuable information.
• Dark Crow prompted Landon to ask about vaults that needed neither keys nor royal blood, but the entity gave no answer and urged him to seek royal help.
• Landon demanded a password-accessible vault or Demiplane known only to Gloria III, and the book's reply consumed his Spiritual Power until he collapsed unconscious.
• Anvis recorded the revealed secrets, avoided touching the dangerous book, and planned to contact it after it passed to Prince Auttomo of the Blackfeather Kingdom.

Anvis judged that the Spark Rebel Army could safely pursue its plans and continued supporting its faction from the shadows. Months later, he read the news while assigning Annie an exhausting pile of territorial work, leaving her questioning how she had ended up as his deputy.

• Anvis decided not to interfere with the Spark Rebel Army's likely raid on the royal Secret Vaults and recognized the rebels as a force he could influence.
• Anvis reflected on the empire's calm after the war and on the Embers Organization members who had become a major faction within Spark.
• Anvis read reports about expanding Overlapping Zones, the Federation Parliament's Construct Network plan, and the Imperial Upper House easing restrictions on Magic Constructs.
• Anvis praised the Federation Parliament's decision to legalize sales of Construct Headbands while continuing to read the Empire Morning News in Silver Star City's City Lord's Mansion.
• Annie delivered her completed work, but Anvis gave her an equally large stack of documents to review and sent her away to keep working.
• Annie left the study carrying the documents and wondered how her effort to protect Lord from Adjutant Boley had made her Anvis's overworked deputy.

Anvis explained that he was overworking Annie to prepare her to become Fiona’s City Lord’s Adjutant, while Fiona worried about his eventual departure. Meanwhile, Landon learned that Princess Paola had been kidnapped and set out to trade the Book of Yellow Robe for her, leaving Dark Raven unable to dissuade him.

• Fiona asked Anvis whether it was right to burden Annie with so much work, and Anvis explained that he was preparing her to take his place as Fiona’s Adjutant.
• Fiona worried that Anvis intended to leave, and he reassured her that he had no immediate plans to go.
• Anvis sensed that the Book of Yellow Robe’s departure from Landon was underway.
• Landon learned that Princess Paola had disappeared and ordered the Rebel Army to investigate, with the clues pointing to Seventeenth Prince Auttomo Blackfeather.
• Auttomo sent Landon a letter demanding the Book of Yellow Robe in exchange for Paola’s safety, and Landon prepared to go to the Blackfeather Kingdom.
• Dark Raven objected to Landon risking the book to save Paola, but Landon insisted he would not abandon someone close to him.

Princess Paola woke in Prince Auttomo’s manor with her Spiritual Power depleted and realized he intended to keep her there, while Landon reached the secret exchange site and found Paola’s earring. Auttomo left to deal with a supposed Rebel Army rival, and Landon’s discovery suggested Paola was in danger.

• Paola woke in Silver Gauze Light Manor, remembered being attacked on her way to meet the Rebel Army, and found her Spiritual Power nearly exhausted.
• Prince Auttomo admitted he had rescued Paola and urged her to stay in his manor, but she tried to leave.
• Auttomo forced Paola back onto the bed and tried to kiss her; she bit his lip and resisted him.
• Auttomo received a signal and left, claiming he was dealing with trouble and that no one from the Rebel Army could take Paola from him.
• Landon followed the Secret Letter to Silver Gauze Lake and opened a hidden platform containing a black box, Parchment, and Paola’s earring.

Landon used the false book exchange to trace Paola to Silver Gauze Light Manor and infiltrated the manor to rescue her. He confronted Prince Auttomo Blackfeather in Paola’s bedroom, where Auttomo held her hostage and demanded the book.

• Landon activated the Crystal Ball and agreed to hand over the book in exchange for Paola’s release.
• Prince Auttomo ordered Morilis to seize Landon at the Royal Capital exchange site, while Dark Raven secretly traced Auttomo’s location and disrupted the teleportation array.
• Landon bypassed the exchange and infiltrated Silver Gauze Light Manor, where he eliminated the guards and reached Paola.
• Auttomo discovered Landon in the manor, raised the alarm, and rushed to Paola’s room while ordering his knights to capture him.
• Landon confronted Auttomo in Paola’s bedroom as Auttomo restrained Paola and threatened her unless Landon handed over the book.

Prince Auttomo trapped Landon, seized the Book of Yellow Robe, and nearly killed him, but Paola’s intervention let Landon escape by random teleportation. Anvis then headed toward another Prophet who was also pursuing the book.

• Prince Auttomo lured Landon into a chained magic trap and escaped with Paola, believing the blast had killed Landon.
• Auttomo explained that he had acted to protect Paola and eliminate Landon, but Landon reappeared with a black-armored form and his Two-headed Hellhound.
• Knight Commander Morilis attacked Landon while Landon waited for Lord Dark Raven to finish a teleportation spell.
• Auttomo’s Spellbreaker Amulet struck Landon, leaving him helpless as Auttomo took the Book of Yellow Robe.
• Paola shielded Landon from Auttomo’s killing spell, giving Landon time to escape by random teleportation.
• Anvis set out to seize the book from another Prophet and met the Black Robed Man at his destination.

Anvis confronted a mysterious young man about his interference in Prince Auttomo’s fate and their competing interest in the Book of Yellow Robe. They clashed through fate manipulation, and the chapter ended with the young man’s attempt to control the outcome being thwarted by a chain of events around two hares and a Gray Feathered Eagle.

• Anvis explained how the young man’s interference changed the fated confrontation between Landon, Prince Auttomo, Paola, and Morilis, then asked what the young man intended to do with Prince Auttomo.
• The young man acknowledged Anvis’s discovery of the Book of Yellow Robe, and both realized that the Star Gazer’s absence left them competing for exclusive access to the secret.
• Anvis and the young man contested control of fate using the Mercury Dice, a Silver Scale, and Silver Weights, until Anvis’s die stopped on twenty points.
• The young man burned a White Butterfly and nearby flowers after he and Anvis noticed the butterfly, but Anvis’s fate power had already passed to two fleeing gray hares.
• Gray-feathered eagles seized the hares, and a brown viper petrified one hare, which fell toward a stream before an updraft redirected it into a rocky cliff, where it shattered.

Anvis defeated the Hermit in a contest of fate and forced him to reveal his identity and purpose. The Hermit explained how his Secret School manipulated conflicts around Children of Destiny, and Anvis considered recruiting him.

• A chain of natural and magical disasters destroyed the Hermit's hidden Magic Tower and exposed his true body.
• The Hermit admitted that Anvis had outmatched him as a prophet and revealed the location of his true body.
• Anvis asked the Hermit about his origins and purpose, and the Hermit identified himself as the Hermit.
• The Hermit explained that his Secret School helped villains defeat Children of Destiny so he could siphon Fate's Favor and gain Fate Feedback.
• The Hermit said he had approached Prince Auttomo for Fate Power and had discovered the dangerous book by accident.
• Anvis considered whether he could bring the Hermit over to his side.

Anvis bound the defeated Hermit to serve as a backer for one of his subordinates, then disguised himself as the Hermit to approach Prince Auttomo. He persuaded Auttomo to question an entity attached to the Book of Yellow Robe, while the real Hermit realized Anvis was impersonating him.

• Anvis asked the Hermit about the risks of opposing Children of Destiny, and the Hermit explained his divination method and why he no longer used it.
• Anvis required the Hermit to sign a Fate Contract and publicly serve as the backer of the Man in the Mirror for fifty years.
• Anvis transformed himself to look and feel like the Hermit, intending to redirect fate-related consequences onto him.
• Anvis found Prince Auttomo studying the Book of Yellow Robe and learned that Auttomo struggled to read it; Princess Paola had been freed and was resting nearby.
• Anvis, posing as the Hermit, asked Auttomo to question an entity attached to a blank page and handed him a prepared Special Magic Letter.
• The real Hermit sensed the impersonation and, after divining briefly, accepted that he could not stop Anvis.

Anvis used Prince Auttomo to question the consciousness of Gloria III and learned the Royal Family’s plans against the Four Great Families and the Marquises. After reflecting on the approaching return of Dragon Island, Anvis walked through Black Feather Royal City and celebrated the Harvest Festival.

• Anvis gave Prince Auttomo a letter explaining how to question the page, and Auttomo agreed to help.
• Over two days, Auttomo questioned Gloria III, revealing the Royal Family’s plans to weaken the Four Great Families and balance them against the Marquises.
• Anvis learned that the Aslaid Family might summon Dragon Island back within the year and suspected the Four Great Families were involved in Gloria III’s condition.
• Anvis decided not to pursue the Royal Family’s secret treasures and left them for the Rebel Army.
• During the Harvest Festival, Anvis accepted a cup of ale from a girl and drank it.

Anvis explored the Federation’s Harvest Festival and learned that residents believed counterfeit Construct Network Headgear could make them Professionals, while the real network remained offline amid political disputes. After returning to Pamir Academy, he received Prince Lanno, who asked what he thought of Fourth Princess Oswivia’s close relationship with Anvis’s sister Fiona.

• Anvis questioned a festival girl about her black headband, and she praised Lord’s efforts to sell Construct Network Headgear and condemned the Rebel Army for taking them away.
• Anvis recognized that the girl’s headband was a counterfeit and that the original headgear’s effects had come from leaked Outer God power during Ma'eilimu’s descent.
• Anvis observed that Natives and Players were celebrating together while the Federation’s leaders worked to restore the Construct Network, then disappeared into the city streets.
• Prince Lanno visited Anvis at Pamir Academy and said that Fourth Princess Oswivia had reached the ninth rank after meeting Fiona in Star Territory.
• Prince Lanno told Anvis that Oswivia and Fiona had grown closer and asked what Anvis thought of their relationship as Olyvendi descendants.

Lanno probed Anvis about the Olyvendi succession and offered him invitations to rival royal banquets, but Anvis said he would attend neither. Afterward, Lanno agreed with a blurred Gray Robe figure to support relaxing restrictions on Magic Constructs in exchange for more backing.

• Lanno warned Anvis that Fiona’s growing strength and influence could put her on course to become the next Head of the Olyvendi Family, and urged him to prepare for himself.
• Anvis said he had no interest in leading the Olyvendi Family and would support Fiona if she took the position.
• Lanno asked whether Anvis favored the First Prince or the Fourth Princess, then gave him invitations to their simultaneous banquets five days later.
• Anvis said he would attend neither banquet, and Lanno left without believing his claim that he wanted only to live quietly as a scholar.
• Lanno contacted a blurred Gray Robe figure and agreed to propose relaxing restrictions on Magic Constructs in exchange for more support.
• The Gray Robe figure asked about Anvis, and Lanno said Anvis seemed genuinely uninterested in the struggle between the First Prince and the Fourth Princess.

Lanno prepared to enter the imperial succession struggle, while Anvis inferred that Gray Mist had joined his faction. In Dragon Shadow City, Anvis’s experiment reached its culmination as a colossal Desire-born creature emerged from its cocoon, leaving him intrigued by its form.

• Lanno argued that Anvis was powerful and could become a useful ally, then asked for the personnel they had agreed upon.
• Anvis noticed Lanno’s Fate Line becoming active and guessed that he was preparing to compete for the throne.
• Anvis divined that Gray Mist had joined Lanno’s struggle, despite being expected to be in the Federation.
• Anvis returned to his basement laboratory in Dragon Shadow City to continue his Desire Beast experiment for the Holy Radiance Church’s Saint Plan.
• The Giant Cocoon opened, revealing a monstrous creature whose gaze stirred criminal thoughts in Anvis, who smiled at its appearance.

Anvis created the Original Sin Angel in Dragon Shadow City, prompting an Oracle that alerted the Holy Radiance Church to a future threat. Archbishop Yanile set out with elite Holy Knights to investigate, then secretly warned Anvis, who began planning how to use the mission to his advantage.

• Anvis transformed a trace of Holy Power with Desire Power and named the resulting creature the Original Sin Angel.
• Anvis assessed the Angel as near the Eighth Rank Limit and expected it to grow rapidly by absorbing Original Sin Power.
• The Holy Grail flickered, and Saint Messiah III received an Oracle warning him of a dangerous new existence in Dragon Shadow City.
• Saint Messiah III assigned newly advanced Ninth Rank Archbishop Yanile to lead elite Holy Knights to investigate and authorized him to use the first-generation Saint's power.
• Yanile secretly warned Anvis through the Twisted Seed, and Anvis contacted him to discuss how to turn the investigation to their advantage.

Yanile and the Holy Knights entered Dragon Shadow City to investigate the evil from the oracle, but their search was interrupted when Bargan encountered a powerful enemy. Yanile rushed toward the battle, leaving a Holy Knight to guard the disguised Anvis.

• Yanile's scouts detected no threat in Dragon Shadow City, though they found many evil beings concealed within it.
• Yanile split the Holy Knights into groups to investigate the city and question its disguised lord, Anvis.
• Yanile subdued Anvis and questioned him while a divine spell tested whether he was lying.
• An explosion in the western city signaled that Bargan was fighting a far stronger evil presence, and his aura rapidly weakened.
• Yanile ordered a Holy Knight to guard Anvis and led the others toward the battle.

Yanile confronted the Original Sin Angel while Bargan, corrupted by its power, fought his former companions. Yanile unleashed the Saint Mark and destroyed the angel, but the blast also shattered a blood-red cup and released an ominous aura.

• The holy clerics found Bargan corrupted by evil power, and he rejected Lila’s attempts to awaken him.
• Yanile ordered the clerics to subdue Bargan while he attacked the Original Sin Angel with spears of holy light.
• Bargan fought his former companions with increased strength, while the Original Sin Angel drew out Yanile’s Dark Side.
• Yanile released the Saint Mark’s power and engulfed his Dark Side and the Original Sin Angel in light.
• The light destroyed a blood-red cup within the Original Sin Angel, and an indescribable aura spread across the area.

Anvis corrupted the Shadow Priestess with the Original Sin Angel’s surviving eyeball and escaped while Yanile Bishop’s Holy Knights searched for him. After Yanile reported the mission’s losses and evidence to Saint Messiah III, the pope ordered the Saint Radiance Church to declare all-out war on the Revelation Sect.

• Anvis tried to join Yanile Bishop’s group, then used the Original Sin Angel’s eyeball to corrupt the Shadow Priestess when she rejected him.
• Anvis left the castle, and the Holy Knights later found that he and the Shadow Priestess had vanished along with the original Lord of Dragon Shadow City.
• Yanile Bishop accepted responsibility for the team’s losses and led the surviving Holy Knights back to the City of Sacred Chants.
• Yanile showed Saint Messiah III the target’s flesh and the fragments of the red cup, and the pope identified them as evidence of an ancient god’s Divine Envoy.
• Saint Messiah III sent Yanile to Mark of the Crown of Thorns for help with his hand and ordered the Holy Arbiter Decree to declare all-out war on the Revelation Sect.