Recaps

As Anvis prepared to leave Carlas, he walked alone to Olivenndi Lake and confronted the loneliness and fear he had hidden behind his polished persona. He emerged resolved to survive and lead those he cherished toward a future, then returned to the castle with renewed determination.

• Fiona talked with her kitten Kate on Moonrise Fortress's terrace and asked whether it could take her to the moon.
• Anvis left Moonrise Fortress for a final walk before departing Carlas the next day.
• At Olivenndi Lake, Anvis searched the stars for a familiar blue star and reflected on his isolation and the Olyvendi Family's uncertain future.
• Anvis decided that even a small person could change events from a crucial position and resolved to protect those he cherished.
• Anvis threw the pebble into the lake and headed back to the castle without hesitation.

Anvis prepared to leave for Royal Pamir Academy while the chapter outlined the academy system Emperor Gloria had established and the empire's history. After exchanging gifts with Fiona, Anvis watched the academy's enormous welcoming vessel descend over the square.

• Anvis boarded a vehicle for Carlras City with the Duke and his companions, while new students gathered to depart for their academies.
• The chapter recounted how Emperor Gloria founded the Gloria Empire and established its academy system, making Royal Pamir Academy a center for the empire's upper class.
• Duchess Elena reminded Anvis to care for himself at the academy, and Fiona gave him a farewell gift.
• Anvis gave Fiona a Magic Curio storybook that contained a developing Dream World and could train her Spiritual Power.
• Duke Carlot noticed the light dim over the square as Royal Pamir Academy's enormous dark silver welcoming vessel descended from the clouds.

Anvis left home aboard Pamir Academy’s Floating Ship and settled into his privileged cabin while studying during the journey. At dinner, he entered the dining hall, where the freshmen had begun gathering in distinct groups.

• The Duke introduced Anvis to the academy Guides and entrusted them with his care as the Floating Ship arrived.
• Anvis boarded with the freshmen, and a Reception Mage transported him alongside the lead Guide as the ship departed.
• A Reception Mage explained the ship’s rules and distributed Number Plates to the freshmen.
• Anvis reached his spacious cabin, changed into his academy uniform, and studied the Mercury Prophecy Book.
• Anvis went to dinner and saw the freshmen dining in groups divided by their habits and backgrounds.

Anvis deliberately befriended freshmen Hillyl and Olbins at dinner, charming Hillyl while observing the quiet boy. Back in his room, he confirmed Olbins was one of the academy’s two top-priority recruitment targets because of his exceptional talent for Magic.

• Anvis sat with Hillyl and Olbins in the dining hall and introduced himself as a freshman from Carlras City.
• Anvis chatted warmly with Hillyl about Carlras City while Olbins remained mostly silent.
• Hillyl asked whether she would see Anvis again, and he told her he would dine there every evening.
• After returning to his room, Anvis reviewed the encounter and confirmed he had approached the table to make contact with Olbins.
• Anvis considered Olbins a true Magic genius and one of his highest-priority targets for recruitment.

Anvis used the voyage to Pamir Academy to get closer to the future magical prodigy Olbins and his half-sister Hillyl. By the end of the chapter, the three had grown acquainted through several dinners, though Olbins remained mostly quiet.

• Anvis recalled Olbins's future achievements and decided to recruit him into his own camp while they traveled to the academy.
• Anvis learned that Hillyl and Olbins were half-siblings who shared the same mother.
• At dinner, Anvis told Hillyl and Olbins a joke about Viscount Tune testing his three sons, and Hillyl laughed while Olbins muttered that the winning son's method was hypocrisy.
• Anvis dined with Hillyl and Olbins each evening, sharing information about Pamir Academy and Carlras City as Hillyl recounted stories from her rural life.

Anvis received the caravan leader’s report on tests of the elf guard, the Last Dragonborn, and learned that the player had disappeared after the caravan buried part of its carriage. The Last Dragonborn reappeared alone in the Dawn Forest, traveled toward Bignius Fort, and encountered an unexpected event as he ran.

• Two noble students recognized Anvis aboard the Floating Ship, but he politely declined their invitations to dine with them.
• Anvis received a letter detailing the Last Dragonborn’s rapid combat improvement, compliance with unusual tasks, and repeated disappearances in bursts of White Light.
• The caravan buried the section of carriage where the Last Dragonborn had vanished, and he did not reappear with it.
• The Last Dragonborn logged in alone on a road in the Dawn Forest and found that his caravan quests had failed.
• The Last Dragonborn assigned free Attribute Points to agility and constitution, then leaped along the road toward Bignius Fort.
• After receiving a low-stamina warning, the Last Dragonborn encountered an unexpected event.

The Last Dragonborn killed five gray coyotes and found a bloodstained letter stack on a dead woman, triggering the 'Dead Person' quest. After reading three letters from Wood to Aisha, he learned that Wood’s mercenary group was escorting supplies for the White Rose Legion and had ignored Aisha’s growing fears; the quest remained unfinished.

• The Last Dragonborn used his Guardian Longbow and Manipulate Plants to kill five gray coyotes attacking him.
• He searched the dead woman and found coins, a Black Iron Necklace, and four bloodstained letters.
• The first letter from Wood explained that his mercenary group was escorting supplies for the White Rose Legion from Wind Valley City to Manerqinke Fortress.
• The Last Dragonborn triggered the 'Dead Person' quest, which required him to read all four letters.
• He read two more letters in which Wood dismissed Aisha’s warnings and described the group’s progress toward Manerqinke Fortress.

The Last Dragonborn accepted a quest to find the whereabouts of a missing escort team after discovering a dead woman’s letters and memento. Meanwhile, Anvis spoke with Hillyl and Olbins aboard the Floating Ship about their future studies at Pamir Academy and began asking Hillyl about spellcasting.

• The Last Dragonborn read a diary entry revealing that the dead woman had gone to Manerqinke Fortress to search for her missing lover, triggering the C-rank quest “Tracking.”
• The Last Dragonborn examined the woman’s necklace, inferred that her lover had died on an escort mission, accepted her commission, and set off toward Manerqinke Fortress.
• A Goshawk watched the Last Dragonborn, while Anvis’s plan to separate him from the merchant caravan continued aboard the Floating Ship.
• Anvis told Hillyl and Olbins that the Floating Ship would reach the academy the next morning and asked which schools they planned to join.
• Hillyl said she had talent for the Illusion School, Olbins chose the Change School’s spatial-temporal form transformation faction, and Anvis said he would enter the Mystery School.
• Anvis asked Hillyl whether she thought every spell had a casting model.

Anvis explained the Mystery School to Hillyl and debated Olbins’s belief that every spell had a model. After Anvis left, Olbins warned his sister that Anvis was likely far too highborn for her to pursue.

• Anvis described Mystic-type spells and the Mystery School to Hillyl.
• Olbins argued that every spell had a model, and Anvis replied that magic still held mysteries.
• Anvis said goodbye to Hillyl and Olbins and left.
• Hillyl scolded Olbins for risking Anvis’s displeasure, but Olbins told her Anvis was likely a very high-ranking noble.

Anvis reflected on his plan involving Hillyl and Olbins as the Floating Ship arrived at Pamir Academy. The academy revealed itself beneath a powerful Mystic Lock, and the new students disembarked to find their branch academies.

• Olbins confronted Hillyl with the possibility that Anvis had deliberately befriended them, and Hillyl struggled to accept his suspicions.
• Anvis considered how Olbins might distrust his intentions and wondered what had happened to Hillyl in his previous life.
• Anvis chatted with Pigeon while reflecting on how strange humans were.
• The Floating Ship stopped above a forest, and the Glory Mystic Lock revealed Pamir Academy as it descended.
• The new students disembarked at the Sky Dock and followed guides toward their respective branch academies.

Anvis arrived at Pamir Academy’s Mystery and Ruins Academy, where student guide Pani was surprised to find a genuine new Mystery School student after days of waiting. Pani took Anvis by Floating Disc toward the academy.

• Pani mistook Anvis for someone who had taken the wrong path, then realized he was a new Mystery School student.
• Pani waited for the other new students to arrive and recalled how difficult it was to earn credits, which had left him regretting his guide assignment.
• After no other new Mystic-type students appeared, Pani led Anvis from the dock to the Floating Disc Plaza.
• Pani activated a Large Floating Disc with his academy Nameplate, and it carried him and Anvis toward the Mystic Academy.

Anvis arrived at the Pamir Mystery and Ruins Academy, learned about its credit system, and declined Pani’s offer to buy his credits by spending some on a residence. The chapter left him settled at the academy and newly curious about how the Pigeon communicated with him.

• Pani explained Pamir’s rules and offered to buy Anvis’s first-year credits, but Anvis questioned why he had been given such a thorough explanation.
• Pani recounted how a senior had warned him not to risk future consequences over a small credit transaction, and said he had sold half of his credits.
• Anvis and Pani reached the academy, where Anvis viewed the statue of Emperor Gloria and saluted its motto.
• The Pigeon told Anvis that he sensed its speech rather than hearing it, surprising him before Pani explained the motto’s meaning.
• Anvis toured the academy, collected his Identity Plate, exchanged 1,000 Gold Coins for 100 credits, and spent fifty credits on a year of independent second-level housing.

Pigeon struggled to type in the freezing street after its bag disappeared, growing hungry and numb as snow piled over its feathers. It ended by begging readers for votes so it could buy matches from The Little Match Girl and warm its claws.

• Pigeon dropped its bag and ran when two carriages hurtled toward it.
• Pigeon searched for the bag, but it vanished, forcing Pigeon to type with its claws.
• Pigeon typed alone in the snow as the street emptied, while hunger and cold weakened it.
• Pigeon crouched in a corner and rubbed its swollen claws until its wings froze stiff.
• Pigeon asked readers to cast votes so it could buy matches from The Little Match Girl.

Anvis completed his trade with Pani, learned more about Pamir Academy, and went to the Trading District to look for the Olbins Siblings. While browsing the stalls, he spotted an item that caught his attention.

• Anvis traded fifty Credit Points to Pani for two Magic Crystal Cards and received advice about academy courses and facilities.
• Pani and Anvis exchanged Identity Marks before Pani departed on his Floating Disc.
• Anvis explained to Pigeon that mystery drove Spellcasters’ pursuit of knowledge as they traveled to the Trading District.
• Anvis used the Mercury Eye to locate the Olbins Siblings, found them far apart, and decided to wait before seeking them out.
• Anvis examined the Trading District’s stalls and noticed an item that made him stop.

Anvis recognized a stall's Good Dream Lantern as a replica containing Nightmare Power and sought to connect with its maker, Emily. He learned that the true Nightmare Lantern could guide him through the Dream World and point toward the legendary Dead Sea Lantern.

• Anvis examined a Good Dream Lantern and recognized a trace of Nightmare Power inside it.
• Emily, a First-Rank Alchemist, explained the lantern's effects and declined to sell him its manufacturing method.
• Anvis offered Emily one thousand gold coins as a deposit and exchanged Identity Marks with her.
• Anvis introduced himself to the stall owner, who gave her name as Emily.
• Anvis recalled that the true Nightmare Lantern was a Key pointing toward the Dead Sea Lantern.

Anvis collected supplies and money from the Olivenndi Merchant Guild branch and arranged for spells to be loaded into his Spellbook before heading toward a planned encounter with the Olbins Siblings. Meanwhile, Hillyl told Obin she had traded all her Credit Points.

• Anvis decided that gaining Emily’s future assistance in the Dream World would be more valuable than obtaining the Nightmare Lantern itself.
• Anvis met Valen at the Olivenndi Merchant Guild branch and received the requested materials and 150,000 Imperial gold coins.
• Anvis asked Valen to load a list of spells into his Mithril Codex and send it to his academy residence.
• Anvis left the merchant guild and boarded a floating disc, planning to run into the Olbins Siblings.
• Obin asked Hillyl how many Credit Points she had traded, and Hillyl admitted she had traded them all.

Anvis joined Hillyl and Olbins in the trading district, revealed his identity as a son of Duke Carlras, and explained that a family prophecy had led him to seek out Olbins. He offered Olbins a retainer position and financial support, leaving the siblings to consider his proposal.

• Hillyl argued that exchanging Credit Points for Gold Coins would make them rich, but Olbins instead gave her fifty Credit Points after exchanging their Identity Marks.
• Anvis met Hillyl and Olbins and accompanied them to the trading district.
• Olbins asked Anvis whether he liked Hillyl, and Anvis said it was too soon to know.
• Anvis revealed that he was Anvis Lo Olivenndi, a direct member of the Olyvendi Family and the Fourth Son of Duke Carlras.
• Anvis said a family prophecy had named Olbins as someone destined for great accomplishments and offered him a retainer position, a monthly allowance, and help with enrollment expenses.

Anvis offered Olbins a nominal position as a Family Guest Elder in exchange for sharing his research, and hinted that every new student at Pamir without noble ties was exceptional. Olbins concluded that he and Hillyl had little choice but to accept, while Anvis returned to the Academy, earned his first Credit Points, and settled into his residence.

• Anvis offered to waive Olbins and Hillyl’s tuition and fund their research in exchange for first access to Olbins’s discoveries, and Olbins asked for time to consider.
• Anvis warned Olbins and Hillyl that no Pamir student admitted without a noble background was ordinary, then gave Hillyl a ring for a discount at the Olivenndi Merchant Guild.
• After Anvis left, Olbins told Hillyl that refusing the offer could have serious consequences and that his request for time was only a matter of decorum.
• Anvis reasoned that supporting Olbins would benefit him regardless, since Olbins’s future research could make Constructs a threat to powerful professionals.
• Anvis returned to the Mission Hall, posted a task to buy Credit Points, completed a task for Dark Stone Hearts, and returned to his new Second-Class Residence.

Anvis’s choice of the Mystery School prompted Duke Carlot’s concern, while a secretive group ordered surveillance of his research. Anvis then secured Olbins as a Family Guest Elder with a powerful contract, complicating Veronica’s plans to make Olbins her disciple.

• Duke Carlot questioned Anvis’s choice to enroll in the Mystery and Ruins Academy’s Mystery School, but Duchess Elena defended him.
• A cloaked figure visited the Moist Cat Tavern, where the owner sent a coded message after the customer left.
• A shadowy leader ordered the Dark Side to watch Anvis’s daily actions and research, then questioned the black-robed messenger’s loyalty to the Empire.
• Anvis studied the Mercury Prophecy Book, practiced prophecy spells, explored the academy, and maintained his daily training routine.
• Anvis met Olbins and his siblings and had Olbins sign a high-level contract granting him Family Guest Elder status in the Olyvendi Family.
• Anvis used the contract to make it harder for Veronica to recruit Olbins as her Direct Disciple without negotiating with him.

Anvis attended Pamir Academy’s enrollment ceremony, then discovered that the Mystery Academy tower had trapped him in a Reality Mirror test. Older students watched his arrival through projections, eager to see how he would handle the challenge.

• Anvis gave Olbins a Low-Rank Space Ring containing two thousand Gold Coins as a meeting gift, and Olbins accepted it for Hillyl to carry.
• Anvis went to Pamir Academy’s enrollment ceremony, where vice principal Hughes Duman officially welcomed the new students.
• After the ceremony, Anvis entered the High Tower of the Mystery and Ruins Academy and sensed that its empty interior was isolated from the outside world.
• Anvis recognized the situation as a Reality Mirror effect and found that the tower gates would not open, so he headed upstairs to investigate.
• Upper Grade Students watched the tower tests through Magic Projections and commented as Anvis appeared in the latest projection.

Anvis ignored the tower’s mental suggestion and headed for the Mystery Great Library, where he hoped to find rumored mysterious items. He detected a dream-based trap blocking the library corridor and began casting a spell to counter it.

• Students watching the welcome ceremony debated how long Anvis would take to escape the High Tower, and Yani wagered that he would need two Magic Hours.
• Anvis noticed the tower’s mental suggestion guiding new students upward, resisted it, and changed course toward the Mystery Great Library.
• The other two new students headed toward the top floor and wasted time in corridors with traps that sent them back to their starting points.
• Anvis reached the corridor to the library, examined its trap with his Mercury Eye, and identified it as dream magic.
• Anvis began casting Reality Stabilization Art to counter the trap, drawing the students’ attention and teasing remarks toward Yani.

Anvis opened the Great Library’s doors and faced a Lesser Nightmare, which he quickly identified and banished with dream Magic. His success impressed the students watching from the tower, who began to regard him as an equal.

• Anvis dispelled the corridor trap and paused before the library doors, sensing an unknown presence behind them.
• Anvis asked the Pigeon to scout through the doors, and it reported a strange black mass inside.
• Anvis opened the doors and found a writhing Nightmare, while students watching through a Crystal Ball speculated about the creature.
• Anvis recognized the Lesser Nightmare and cast Nightmare Banishing, driving it back into the Dream World.
• The watching students praised Anvis’s strength, knowledge, and judgment, and some began considering befriending him.

Anvis explored the Mystery Great Library in the Mirror Space, found two hidden books, and uncovered extra trial rewards inside them. The trial recognized his keen eyes and prepared to return him to the outside world with a higher reading permission level.

• Anvis avoided the obvious rewards and searched the library, discovering a black Stone Book and a bone book whose auras differed from the other displays.
• Anvis opened both books and found a metal plate and a paper slip hidden inside each, with the slips together spelling “keen eyes.”
• Older students watching Anvis’s projection debated his choices, and one explained that the Mirror Space’s fake books helped him identify objects with real mysterious power.
• Anvis returned the books to their shelves, memorized their locations, and went to inspect the rewards on the table.
• The trial announced that Anvis could raise his Mystery Great Library reading permission by placing a metal plate on his Identity Plate, then revealed an extra congratulatory message for finding the two books.

Anvis passed the Mystic-type welcome Ritual quickly and received a perfect evaluation from his mentor, Nancy Campbell. After she announced the new students’ rewards, Anvis got first choice from a collection of magical items and began inspecting them.

• Anvis used the three Nameplates to raise his Mystery Great Library access to Level Four, then appeared at the tower’s summit as the first student to pass the welcome Ritual.
• Anvis introduced himself to the older students and watched the Magic Shadow Crystal Ball show other new students making their way through the tower trial.
• Val, Pekala, and Lona eventually joined Anvis at the summit, where Nancy Campbell introduced herself as their Seventh Rank Mystic Scholar mentor.
• Nancy praised Anvis’s performance and commended Lona for choosing another path after failing the Curiosities Exhibition Room trial.
• Nancy rated Anvis’s evaluation perfect, Lona’s excellent, and Waka and Pekala’s average, then offered the four students their choice of a magical item from the ruins.
• Anvis received first pick and began examining the items hovering before him.

Anvis chose a Hess Crystal ball during the welcoming ceremony, then learned the academy’s rules, graduation requirements, and tuition agreements. After Lona signed a service contract and the ceremony ended, class leader Gallup invited the new students to lunch.

• Anvis selected a crystal ball made from Hess Crystal, and Lona and the other new students chose their own items.
• Nancy explained that students could graduate after five years by passing an assessment and earning enough Credit Points, then offered a paid tuition option or a tuition-free contract requiring one hundred years of service.
• Lona chose the tuition-free option and signed the academy contract, while Anvis and the other two students chose to pay their own tuition.
• Nancy announced that classes would begin at 8 a.m. the next day, declared the ceremony over, and vanished.
• Gallup introduced himself as the class leader and invited the four new students to lunch, while a blue-haired girl revealed that the academy would cover the cost.