Recaps

Anvis learned that the Cylinder was part of a vast system likely designed to enable a breakthrough to Legendary, and his attempt to divine its origins alerted a hidden Ninth Rank faction. While Fiona worked with Spark to investigate the Cylinder, conflict spread across the Gloria Empire until Spark reported a new discovery.

• Anvis failed to divine the Cylinder’s origins and concluded that a Ninth Rank power was involved in a scheme that might enable a breakthrough to Legendary.
• Beihim and other hidden figures discussed Anvis’s interference, but decided not to recruit him and trusted their partners to handle him if necessary.
• Fiona brought the Cylinder to the Spark Organization, where Leo accepted her as the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild’s ambassador and agreed to help investigate it.
• Fiona returned to the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild’s base and researched how she had crossed over and how to return to her original World Line.
• Spark-led resistance and Glory Alliance nobles fueled wars across the Empire, while the royal family’s territories remained peaceful and the Four Great Families suffered heavy losses.
• Several months later, Spark reported that it had made a new discovery about the Cylinder.

Luo Qi’s team uncovered a soul-and-flesh ritual linked to the Bloody Cylinders, but a clash left them injured and brought the Glory Alliance’s crackdown on Spark. Fiona delivered a cylinder and Spark’s request to Anvis, who investigated the clues alongside the disappearance of Gloria III and the looming threats tied to the Federation and the Darkness Apocalypse.

• Luo Qi’s team discovered Spellcasters using a Dark Red Magic Array to extract souls and flesh from captives and channel them through Bloody Cylinders.
• Luo Qi called Spark headquarters for aid after the team was exposed, and Leo rescued the survivors while recovering two intact cylinders.
• The Glory Alliance began purging Spark branches, so Leo asked Anvis to share the pressure under their previous agreement.
• Fiona delivered a Blood-colored Metal Pillar and Spark’s message to Anvis, who began analyzing the cylinder and sent her back.
• Anvis discovered that Gloria III had gone missing while Royal Guardians hid the disappearance behind an imperial double.
• Anvis declined the Federation’s invitation to oppose the Star Gazer, choosing not to provoke him while the Darkness Apocalypse threatened both World Lines.

Anvis uncovered the Bloody Cylinder’s role in a sacrificial ritual tied to the Heretic God Cult and inferred that the Door in the Pupil and Glory Alliance were cooperating with an Outer Existence. He stopped investigating and watched the Empire’s war unfold from Carlas Province, where Fiona’s growing coalition gave the remnants of the Four Great Families a chance to survive.

• Anvis determined that the Bloody Cylinder gathered blood, souls, and negative power to nourish an Outer Existence as part of a sacrificial ritual.
• Anvis traced the Door in the Pupil’s warning letter to a Ninth Rank Professional in the Federation Parliament and inferred that the group and the Glory Alliance were cooperating with an Outer Existence for a path to Legendary.
• Anvis ignored the Door in the Pupil’s demand to stop investigating, passed his findings to Spark, and then ceased his own actions in Carlas Province.
• The Imperial Royal Family’s hidden institutions and Three Royal Guardians repelled incursions into royal territories, then contracted into a defensive posture as fighting elsewhere intensified.
• Fiona expanded her forces with Anvis’s backing, and the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild accepted surviving direct-line members of the Four Great Families, forming a coalition that gave the families a chance to endure.

Fiona and Finnis Enoch led an excavation of Langnuqinco, an Ancient Magic Empire experimental base buried beneath the Pale Plains. The Ruins emerged, but the immense magical phenomenon risked drawing the attention of powerful enemies.

• Finnis Enoch revealed that the Pale Plains concealed Langnuqinco, a secret base holding strategic supplies and the Ninth Rank weapon called the Winter Colossus.
• Fiona said the Mirror Man had entrusted the excavation to her and ordered the Spellcasters to begin the ritual.
• The Spellcasters' ritual melted the frost and opened cracks across the plains as a powerful ice-element phenomenon erupted from underground.
• Langnuqinco rose from beneath the ground, and the group raised their guard as the protective magic circle lifted and the mana fluctuation began to decline.

Fiona’s group explored an ancient Viseram base and encountered Itafus, the Pale Frost Lord, whose power fueled the Winter Colossus. Anvis learned that Itafus had fled into the hidden world to escape a powerful pursuer, while Finnis’s ambitions began to grow again.

• Marquis Delaka confronted Anvis’s avatar over the Pale Plains, then withdrew as Anvis claimed the Ruins for his territory.
• Fiona led her group into the base’s lowest level and found a frost-covered Winter Colossus in the Laboratory.
• The colossus communicated with the group and identified itself as Itafus, the Pale Frost Lord, explaining that Viseram had taken its power and exchanged sacrifices for it.
• Itafus revealed that it had been trapped in the world for thousands of years after fleeing a powerful pursuer in deep space.
• Anvis realized the world was concealed behind an enormous isolating Force Field and noticed Finnis’s Fate Line change as ambition returned to her.

Finis pledged allegiance to Anvis and gave him the key to control the Langnuqinco base and Winter Colossus in exchange for support rebuilding the Enoch Family. Anvis learned Finis had likely made a deal with Itafus, then reunited with Claire, who explained how she had become stranded in this world.

• Fiona's group agreed to provide Itafus with sacrifices in exchange for power, and they divided the recovered supplies between the Hua Luo Tian Xia Guild and Fiona's alliance.
• Finis secretly visited Anvis, offered him an Ancient Magic Empire key and its activation method, and asked for support rebuilding the Enoch Family.
• Anvis accepted Finis's request and told him he could act as he wished regarding Itafus.
• Anvis and Claire concluded that Finis had probably made a deal with the Pale Frost Lord.
• Claire reunited with Anvis and explained that Paramisius had awakened when she fused with her final part, destroying the world's time-travel device and leaving her stranded.

Anvis explained why he supported Finis and the Four Great Families Alliance, while helping Claire suppress her Misfortune Trait. Finis expanded the Alliance through conquest and sacrifices to Itafus, which grew alarmed after Anvis revealed that Dark Beings were approaching the world.

• Anvis told Claire that Finis would become a Child of Destiny and that his alliance with Itafus could help the Four Great Families Alliance establish itself.
• Finis recruited supporters, captured seven cities on the edge of Magna Province, and sacrificed prisoners to Itafus for power.
• Itafus's gifts strengthened Finis but tainted his Spiritual Power, and Finis began capturing and sacrificing more prisoners.
• Major powers questioned Anvis's backing of the Alliance, while Diviners dismissed the idea that he could reverse the fate of the Four Great Families.
• Anvis met with Itafus, which learned that Dark Beings were approaching and realized it needed to escape the world to survive.

Finis expanded his Winter Legion through increasingly reckless campaigns and mass arrests as pressure from rival powers weakened the Four Great Families Alliance. In Moonlight City, Anvis questioned the nature of the starry sky, then learned that Fiona had come to see him.

• Itafus failed to win Anvis's cooperation and continued empowering Finis, whose Winter Legion grew while his territory later came under pressure from rival forces.
• Finis lost territory and sacrifices, then began attacking other provinces and arresting Commoner Professionals to fuel his rise toward the Ninth Rank.
• Finis's increasingly reckless actions created cracks in the Four Great Families Alliance, while Anvis took up residence in Moonlight City's Silver Palace.
• Anvis shut down his Vision of Fate and contemplated whether the starry sky was real as Claire reported that the Alliance would not support Finis's actions.
• Claire told Anvis that Fiona was waiting below, and Anvis invited her to come up.

Fiona visited Anvis and warned him about the Royal Guardians, the Marquises, and their plan to open the Gate of Legend. After she left, Anvis confronted Claire about her identity and asked how the ancient High Elves reached Legendary.

• Fiona reported that Finis's agents were abducting Commoner Professionals and that she had cooperated more closely with the Spark Organization.
• Fiona relayed Lady Hilders's warning that the Royal Guardians and nine Marquises were allied, the Four Great Families were being sacrificed, and the conspirators aimed to open the Gate of Legend.
• Anvis deduced that Lady Hilders of Silent Country had given Fiona the information, then let Fiona leave without revealing his own identity.
• Claire asked why Anvis had not told Fiona the truth, and Anvis said he wanted her to keep growing independently.
• Anvis addressed Claire as Claire Liddell and asked about her true body and how the ancient High Elves broke through to Legendary.

Claire explained that she began as a High Elf experiment, was scattered across time and space, and eventually reunited in the present as an Outer Existence. She revealed that incomplete world rules had shaped the rise and destruction of past civilizations, and that humanity had survived the Ancient Magic Empire’s collapse only by delaying a mysterious assimilating entity until it fell dormant.

• Claire told Anvis that she had been created as Experiment Body 24, named by the last High Elf Empress, and scattered across time and space in the Great Rift before her fragments reunited.
• Claire explained that ninth-rank High Elves naturally reached full rule synchronization because the world’s rules were incomplete, though the process of becoming Rule Beings risked erasing their identities.
• Claire said that a mysterious entity had assimilated all of Goblin Civilization because its people lacked ninth-rank beings capable of mastering Rule Power.
• Claire revealed that the entity later appeared during the fall of the Ancient Magic Empire, and a mad Alchemist’s incomplete god fought it after a world-ending catastrophe completed the god-creating ritual.
• Claire said humanity’s strongest beings used the Floating Cities and the god to hold off the entity until it became dormant again, but most of those defenders died and the survivors divided into kingdoms and factions.

Claire revealed that the Dream World was a seal built from torn world rules to exile ancient Dark Beings, trapping the world below the Ninth Rank Limit. Since Anvis’s breakthrough beacon had drawn those beings back toward the world, Claire offered him a chance to abandon his body and send his consciousness into a future era.

• Claire explained that God had exhausted His power protecting humanity during the ancient battle and had fallen into a deep slumber.
• Anvis connected the Ceiling Wall, the Life Forbidden Zones, and the Great Rift to the world’s incomplete rules.
• Claire revealed that the High Elf Race had created Uniwal's Dream from part of the world’s fundamental rules to seal away the Dark Beings and limit the world’s power.
• Claire told Anvis that breaking through to Legendary Rank would require destroying the Dream World and releasing the Dark Beings, including the being behind the Ancient Magic Empire’s destruction.
• Claire said Anvis’s Ninth Rank breakthrough beacon had drawn the Dark Beings toward the world again and offered to send his consciousness into a future era using the last intact Time Orb.

Anvis learned that saving others would shorten the Time Orb’s reach, leaving him to observe the coming apocalypse and return alone if necessary. As the Imperial Marquises activated blood-fueled arrays across the Empire, Anvis suspected they had pledged themselves to a Dark Being, and their plan began producing Overlapping Zones.

• Claire told Anvis that everyone he cherished would die and that bringing his sister into the future would sharply reduce how far he could travel.
• Anvis accepted that he had no choice but to witness the Darkness Apocalypse and record what happened so he could prepare a better resistance in the original timeline.
• Anvis and Claire discussed the Marquises’ planned Breakthrough to Legendary, and Anvis suggested they might have pledged allegiance to a Dark Being.
• Vast scarlet arrays activated across the Empire at former battlefields and massacre sites, drawing in blood and souls while creating expanding Overlapping Zones.
• Blood Armor Guardians killed Professionals who tried to destroy the arrays, while Imperial Marquises gathered before a pulsing Dark Pyramid in an underground cavern near the capital.

The Marquises and the Door in the Pupil prepared to awaken a sealed Sub-body of a Dark Being, hoping to use its power to open a route out of Uniwal. The ritual began with Lani Garo, a descendant of Emperor Phineus, as its sacrifice.

• Marchioness Anlita questioned the plan to borrow the power of a Dark Being, but Marquis Delaka, Marquis Anderson, and Marquis Vent insisted it was their only escape from the coming apocalypse.
• Marquis Anderson explained that the Sub-body's reconnection with its main body could pierce the Ceiling Wall and open a gate to the Nether Sea.
• The Marquises planned to disguise themselves as the Dark Being's Vassal Race and had stored knowledge and living specimens to preserve Human Civilization after fleeing Uniwal.
• Gray Mist announced that the magic array had gathered enough soul Fragments and ordered the sacrifice to begin.
• Marquis Vent placed the sleeping Lani Garo on the altar, and Gray Mist activated the magic array and began chanting the sacrificial prayer.

Gray Mist began using Lani's blood to lift the Seal on the Dark Pyramid, but Landon and the Royal Guardians interrupted the ritual. Landon rescued Lani while Gray Mist let him escape, and the Seal continued to weaken.

• Gray Mist stabbed Lani with a ritual dagger and used her blood to break the Dark Purple Runes sealing the Dark Pyramid.
• Landon and the Spark Rebel Army elites broke into the cavern, followed by the Royal Guardians and other Ninth Rank experts.
• The gray declared that the Marquises had lost their Imperial titles, and the Royal Guardians attacked the Marquises and their allies.
• Landon and his companions combined their power to shatter the barrier, and Landon rescued Lani from the altar.
• Gray Mist allowed Landon to escape because Lani's blood had already provided what the ritual needed, and the Seal continued to vanish.

As the Marquises and Royal Guardians fought around the Dark Pyramid, Lani revealed that her royal bloodline had been used to lift the Seal holding the destroyer of the Ancient Magic Empire. The pyramid collapsed, and the sealed entity, Veil of Truth Oni Chaos, appeared as Lani feared that the world’s doom had begun.

• Gray Mist said the Seal needed about ten more minutes to lift as the Marquises and Royal Guardians battled around the Dark Pyramid.
• Landon’s group hid in Lord Dark Raven’s Folded Space, where the wounded Lani regained consciousness and warned that breaking the Seal would bring doomsday.
• Lani revealed that she was descended from Emperor Phineus and had been captured because her bloodline could lift the Seal; she identified the sealed being as the destroyer of the Ancient Magic Empire.
• The Dark Pyramid’s remaining Runes vanished, its bricks crumbled to sand, and the Ninth Ranks paused their battle as a rhythmic heartbeat echoed across the field.
• Gray Mist invoked Veil of Truth Oni Chaos, and the pyramid disappeared, revealing a sphere of dark red mist made of twisted geometric forms.
• Landon sensed the sphere’s terrifying aura, while Lani despaired that the Seal had been completely lifted.

The Royal Guardians summoned the King of Annihilation to fight the newly unsealed Oni Chaos, while the Marquises’ disguised forces faced the threat of becoming sacrifices. Oni Chaos demanded offerings to restore itself, and those without sacrifices were assimilated.

• Marquis Vent and the other Marquises transformed into their disguised Dark Minion forms as Oni Chaos broke free of the Seal.
• The Royal Guardians invoked their pact with the Emperor, and Gloria III was sacrificed to summon the King of Annihilation.
• The King of Annihilation and Oni Chaos clashed, each trying to dissolve and assimilate the other.
• Oni Chaos demanded sacrifices, and Gray Mist offered a sealed Ninth Rank Golden Dragon while Marquis Delaka and two Ninth Ranks from the Door in the Pupil also provided prepared sacrifices.
• Oni Chaos trapped the Dark Minions who could not provide sacrifices and assimilated them, while one marquis abandoned his Avatar to escape.

As Oni Chaos and the King of Annihilation summoned their true wills and fought through the Abyssal Sea, Gray Mist used the Golden Scales and a fate-powered array to seal the breach. With both deities weakened and the barrier reinforced, Gray Mist revealed his ambition to seize the opportunity.

• Oni Chaos assimilated its followers and strengthened its struggle against the King of Annihilation, while Landon and the Spark Rebel Squad recognized the book used by the Royal Guardians.
• Dark Raven recalled that both deities might draw the attention of their original bodies, and Oni Chaos’s core began shining silver as it tore open a breach to the Abyssal Sea.
• The King of Annihilation projected its primary will into the world, and the two original bodies clashed, weakening both and expanding the Abyssal Sea void.
• Gray Mist activated the Golden Scales and a complex fate-powered array at the Altar, drawing on the Continental Web of Fate to restore the Dream World and seal the breach.
• Gray Mist watched the weakened Oni Chaos and revealed his burning desire and ambition.

Gray Mist’s Fate Seal Magic Array trapped the Spark Squad with Oni Chaos after the King of Annihilation’s projection was destroyed. Gray Mist revealed that he planned to use Landon to invoke the Continental Web of Fate against Oni Chaos and claim its remains to break through to Legendary.

• The Royal Guardians entered the Fate Seal Magic Array and used their power to stabilize it as Gray Mist warned that it was close to failing.
• Oni Chaos defeated the King of Annihilation’s projection and assimilated the Book of Yellow Robe.
• Gray Mist raised the Golden Scales and used the array to pull the Spark Squad out of their pocket space and trap them in its central region with Oni Chaos.
• Gray Mist revealed that he had deliberately put Landon, the Child of Destiny, in danger to trigger the Continental Web of Fate’s retaliation against Oni Chaos.
• Gray Mist hoped to obtain Oni Chaos’s remains, break through to Legendary, and escape the consequences by leaving the Uniwal world for the Abyssal Sea.

Landon used the Book of Yellow Robe to draw Oni Chaos away from the Spark Squad, then killed its weakened sub-body with a fate-charged Nirvana strike. Anvis claimed the resulting crystal and confronted Gray Mist, asking if it was what he wanted.

• Landon refused Dark Raven's advice to escape and used the Book of Yellow Robe to attract Oni Chaos's attention.
• The King of Annihilation's projection appeared and fought Oni Chaos, but Oni Chaos destroyed it and absorbed the Book of Yellow Robe.
• Gray Mist directed the Fate Seal Magic Circle as Oni Chaos attacked the barrier and Landon entered a mysterious state.
• Landon struck Oni Chaos with a gray-white Nirvana blade, piercing its core and causing its body to disintegrate into silver Stardust.
• Anvis took the fissured crystal that fell from Oni Chaos and asked Gray Mist whether it was what he had been after.

Anvis revealed himself as the Man in the Mirror and used Oni Chaos's Crystal Core to expose Gray Mist's plan to escape the world with it. From Moonlight City, Anvis explained that he had created a decoy and intended to learn how Gray Mist would use the core and leave this world.

• Anvis ignored the Royal Guardians, and Gray Mist identified him as the Man in the Mirror after he took Oni Chaos's Crystal Core.
• Anvis posed as Timmy to Landon, while Dark Crow warned Landon that Anvis was a Ninth Rank Diviner and that they could not defeat him.
• Gray Mist saw through Anvis's weak Avatar as the Royal Guardians activated the Seal Magic Array against him.
• Anvis accused Gray Mist of planning to use the Magic Array and Web of Fate to sever the core's link to the Veil of Truth and escape this world with it.
• Anvis's Avatar collapsed into the core, and Gray Mist seized it before an invisible Rule Attack shattered his giant hand and sent the core to the ground.
• In Moonlight City, Anvis told Claire that the core was a decoy and that he wanted to discover how Gray Mist would use it and escape the world.

After Gray Mist stole the Crystal Core, the backlash from the Web of Fate left him unable to manipulate fate, forcing him to seek a way to escape before his enemies found him. Meanwhile, the Gloria Empire descended into turmoil, and Fiona managed Carlas Province as the chapter ended with Mirror Man teasing her about Saint Messiah III.

• Gray Mist escaped with Oni Chaos's Sub-body Crystal Core, but the destroyed ritual and fate backlash severed his connection to the Web of Fate and left him unable to use the core safely.
• The Gloria Empire's leaders vanished, unrest and war spread, and the Royal Guardians focused their efforts on finding Gray Mist and recovering the Crystal Core.
• Finnis Enoch split from the Four Great Families Alliance, formed the Avengers Alliance, and expanded his territory with the strength of his Winter Legion.
• Fiona quelled the fighting in Carlas Province and earned renewed acclaim, though her bloodline bottleneck prevented her from advancing beyond the Eighth Rank Limit.
• Fiona reviewed provincial intelligence in Carlras City, then asked Mirror Man whether he had been idle after he reported Saint Messiah III's church-building campaign.

Anvis revealed that he had recognized Fiona as his sister and told her she would soon be able to return to her own World Line, though she first needed to help him. After an emotional reunion, Anvis took Fiona on a walk through recovering Carlras City, where she reflected on her responsibility to its people.

• Anvis told Fiona that she might soon return to her own World Line and asked her to do something for him first.
• Fiona guessed that Anvis had known her identity, and Anvis explained how he had recognized her as his sister.
• Fiona embraced Anvis, admitted she feared losing him, and accepted his reassurance and praise for her growth.
• Anvis gave Fiona a magic cloak, and they left the City Lord's Mansion to walk through Carlras City unnoticed.
• Fiona credited the city's recovery to everyone's efforts and said she could still help the world despite her limited personal strength.

Anvis asked Fiona to unify the Gloria Empire within a year by claiming the throne herself and reaching the Ninth Rank. Over the following half year, Fiona allied with Lanno, won the civil war, and became the Duke of Calvani, known as the White Princess.

• Fiona explained that Carlras's memorial statue honored fallen warriors and Outsiders, while Anvis noted that her popularity among the Players had soared.
• Anvis told Fiona he needed her help to unify the Gloria Empire before they returned to their timeline, and revealed that she would have to take the throne herself.
• Anvis said Fiona would need to reach the Ninth Rank, and that the Web of Fate could help her break through as the Child of Destiny.
• Fiona allied with Lanno, led his forces against the rival factions, and unveiled the Unifier, a legion of powerful Magic Constructs.
• During the final battle before the Royal Capital, Fiona broke through to the Ninth Rank and drove off an attacking Ninth Rank with her Domain of Winter.
• Fiona and Lanno divided the Empire's territories, with Lanno becoming Imperial Regent and Fiona invested as Duke of Calvani and named the White Princess.

Anvis visited his fugitive counterpart in Savass, where the fallen heir had hidden after the Olyvendi Family was overrun. The counterpart opened a secret box containing a shifting Crystal, and Anvis sensed it as well.

• As the empire's war subsided, Ninth Rank beings hunted Gray Mist after rumors claimed he held a path to escape the world and reach Legendary rank.
• Anvis followed fate to Savass and waited outside a secluded house for his counterpart to arrive.
• Anvis's counterpart, living under a false identity after extracting his bloodline, had lost hope of restoring his family until news of Fiona's rise revived his spirit.
• He revealed an Oil Painting of Moonrise Fortress and his family, then drew an ancient black stone box from within the canvas.
• The counterpart opened the box to reveal a shifting Crystal, which Anvis sensed from the roof.

Anvis witnessed a Wishing Orb ritual that erased this timeline’s Anvis after he wished to restore the Olyvendi Family’s glory. Claire absorbed the orb and revealed a message from High Elf Prophet Hill, who gave Anvis a possible way to destroy the Outer Deities and warned him about the limits of power beyond Uniwal.

• Anvis recognized the aura of yīn, the Wishing Orb, and watched this world’s Anvis wish to restore the Olyvendi Family’s glory.
• The wish unleashed a vast power that rewrote fate and caused this world’s Anvis to vanish with the light.
• Anvis collected the powerless Crystal Ball, and Claire appeared and recognized it as something that had once been part of her.
• Claire absorbed the orb and projected a message from Hill, who explained that he had obtained a method to destroy the dark beings by making a wish at the cost of his life.
• Hill revealed that someone who reunited the orb with its Sub-body could wield power to eliminate the Outer Deities, and that shutting down Uniwal’s Dream at its core nexus would expose them at their weakest.
• Hill warned that only Legendary Rank beings with complete Rule Power could retain some of their strength in the Endless Underworld Sea.