Recaps

After the Last Dragonborn logged off, Anvis noticed a small increase in Fate Feedback and investigated objects connected to the Players. The guards could not remember the missing letter, and the chapter ended as Chom Olivenndi proudly recounted how the Olyvendi Family had taken him in.

• Anvis noticed that the Fate Feedback around his Thread of Fate had increased after the Last Dragonborn logged off, and wondered whether helping Players had caused it.
• Anvis recognized that the closed beta had ended and that the global open beta was near, then went to the Underground Lab to examine Player-linked objects.
• Anvis entered the isolation chamber and found that a letter he remembered placing among the objects had vanished.
• Anvis summoned guards who had memorized the objects, but they all said nothing was missing.
• Anvis asked the high-ranking guard his name, and Chom Olivenndi proudly described how the Olyvendi Family had rescued and raised him.

Anvis investigated how Delete Archive erased the Players and rewrote records of their actions, then traveled to Starfall Canyon to examine a necklace that had flickered when the Last Dragonborn buried the lovers. He turned a Jungle Leopard to stone upon arriving, leaving the necklace investigation still ahead.

• Anvis questioned Jom and Dixie and learned that neither remembered the Elf mercenary or his transactions.
• Anvis concluded that Delete Archive changed events involving Players, removed evidence of their existence, and replaced it with plausible alternatives.
• Anvis reread a newspaper whose account of the Imperial Palace attack had changed from the Outsiders' deaths to their escape and a suspected Church connection.
• Anvis traveled to Starfall Canyon to investigate the Black Iron Necklace that had flickered when the Last Dragonborn buried the lovers.
• A Jungle Leopard attacked Anvis, and he turned it into a stone statue with his gaze.

Anvis buried the jungle leopard and used Earth Fist to recover the buried remains and a necklace. He identified the necklace as Obsession Material left by a woman with prophetic talent, whose lover’s soul had already dissipated.

• Anvis used Liquefy Ground to sink the jungle leopard deep underground and seal it away.
• Anvis used Earth Fist to open the mound where the Last Dragonborn had buried the mission target and client.
• Anvis retrieved a Black Iron Necklace and examined its strange Fate and necromantic fluctuations with the Mercury Eye.
• Anvis recognized the necklace as Obsession Material and realized its former owner had possessed an undiscovered talent for prophecy.
• Anvis concluded that the woman had searched for her lover because of warnings about his fate, but the young mercenary’s soul had dissipated during the Secret Art Ritual.

Anvis uncovered how the murdered woman’s obsession had transformed her necklace into rare prophecy material and promised to provide for her three children in exchange for taking it. After her lingering soul departed, he left Stars Valley, reflecting on the mercenary mission payment that had destroyed her family.

• Anvis learned that the woman had been murdered while investigating the Greatsword Mercenary Group and that her obsession had imbued her necklace with prophecy power.
• Anvis promised to support the woman’s three children and declared an exchange for taking the necklace.
• The woman’s lingering soul appeared, thanked Anvis, and embraced the corpse before fading away, further improving the necklace’s material quality.
• Anvis put away the necklace and left as the Hand of the Earth buried the remains.

Anvis completed Element Stripping and tested the resulting Cursed Metals for chain reactions. The experiments identified Star Blue Silver-3 as the first metal to produce an abnormal eruption of Cursed Power when two pieces overlapped.

• Anvis returned to his underground laboratory after class and confirmed that Element Stripping had reached 100%.
• Anvis ordered Seer Silver to package the separated metals and merge them into hemispheres for testing.
• Anvis tested the metal categories in sequence, but the Gray Iron, Black Vein Copper, Blood Silver, and Black Prism Copper samples showed no abnormal reactions.
• When two Star Blue Silver-3 hemispheres overlapped, they emitted a blue glare and triggered a sharp spike in the Cursed Force Field activity index.
• The Activated Metal arm separated the Star Blue Silver-3 hemispheres as Seer Silver sounded an alarm.

Anvis confirmed that Star Blue Silver-3 could trigger a chain reaction, then encountered a dangerous, uncontrollable reaction while testing Lakenserm-5. He used the laboratory’s Time Stop safeguard to halt the reaction and separate the fused metal, leaving the experiment contained.

• Seer Silver reported that Star Blue Silver-3 met the conditions for a chain reaction, and Anvis continued testing other metals.
• During the Lakenserm-5 test, the hemispheres fused as a powerful Cursed Force Field eruption damaged the chamber’s controls and separation systems.
• The laboratory activated its Time Stop safeguard, and Anvis ordered the force field adjusted to end the reaction.
• Anvis manually controlled an Activated Metal arm and used Metal Shaping to separate the Lakenserm-5 sphere into hemispheres.
• Anvis placed one hemisphere in a sealed box and ordered Seer Silver to lift the alarm.

Anvis completed his tests and identified Star Blue Silver-3 and Lakenserm Metal-5 as the elements needed for a magical Mass-Energy Conversion Weapon, renaming them Secret Uranium and Secret Plutonium. The story then shifted to Jiang Heng on Blue Star, where he struggled with the wait for Mysterious Era’s launch and received a provocative message from Xiao Mao.

• Seer Silver reported that the Lakenserm Metal-5 test had produced a violent Mana reaction and that the numbered element tests were complete.
• Anvis recognized Star Blue Silver-3 and Lakenserm Metal-5 as the key elements for a Mass-Energy Conversion Weapon and named them Secret Uranium and Secret Plutonium.
• Anvis ordered Seer Silver to sort and store the test samples, portion the two key metals, and render the damaged test chamber harmless.
• Six days before Mysterious Era’s launch, Jiang Heng browsed game forums and lamented having nothing to play.
• Xiao Mao messaged Jiang Heng, who replied that he had eaten; after Xiao Mao sent a suggestive image, Jiang Heng answered, “No!”

After the closed beta ended, Jiang Heng wrote a guide to Mysterious Era using what he remembered about its attributes, quests, NPCs, and dangers. His post reached the trending section, but readers focused on his recommendation to visit a street known for its Night Butterflies.

• Jiang Heng learned that other closed beta players also had blurred memories of the game, and the developers announced that it was a normal effect of logging out through Deep Dream connections.
• Jiang Heng posted a guide describing how attributes, quests, skills, NPCs, and criminal penalties worked in Mysterious Era.
• Jiang Heng finished his lunch and checked the forum, where his guide had reached the trending section.
• Too Handsome to Type My Name replied that Autumn Dew Rose Street was known for its Night Butterflies and teased Jiang Heng about practicing Eloquence in the Red Light District.

Anvis worried that testing his Mass-Energy Conversion Weapon would draw the attention of powerful factions, while his post’s rising popularity stirred changes unnoticed. After receiving a letter from Leonard, he learned about recent developments in his family and Carlas, including Fiona’s advancement to Third Rank.

• Jiang Heng angrily read comments twisting his strategy post into a claim that he gained Eloquence in the Red Light District, while the post’s popularity continued to grow.
• Anvis accepted a bouquet from an unfamiliar girl, then traded teasing remarks with Harvey Carawen about their popularity and romantic attention.
• Anvis received a sealed letter from Leonard and returned to his residence to break its mana seal and read it.
• Leonard reported that Lady Aranis’s bandit leader remained missing, a mysterious attacker had vanished from Carlras City, and the family had secured cooperation from the White Rose Legion’s Deputy Commander.
• Leonard also reported the expansion of Construct Factories in Carlas Province, Fiona’s breakthrough to Third Rank, and Little Cat’s progress teaching her Noble Etiquette.

Anvis examined the purple Emis Heart gem and breakthrough Harmonizer Evan had brought back, then connected them to his brother’s mysterious journey and disappearance. Suspecting Evan had encountered something related to the Old Days Secret Scripture, Anvis warned Duke Carlot, who set out to investigate him.

• Anvis received information and samples of the Emis Heart and Harmonizer, discovering their unusual effects on high-ranking Professionals.
• Anvis recalled Evan’s growing withdrawal from family and territorial affairs, and connected his changes to clues about the Old Days Secret Scripture.
• Anvis reviewed Evan’s itinerary and noted that he had visited Dylas to investigate the source of the new items.
• Anvis told Duke Carlot that a prophetic vision had shown Evan shrouded in twisted shadow.
• Duke Carlot agreed to travel to Abundant Gold City and investigate Evan’s situation.

Anvis used Flesh Avatar to create a physical double and tested its control range, then prepared to investigate Evan’s territory. He introduced the disguised double to Jom as a Ninth-Rank family guest called Man in the Mirror.

• After Duke Carlot assured Anvis that Evan was safe and his Artifact posed no immediate danger, Anvis decided to investigate Evan’s territory himself.
• Anvis used Flesh Avatar to grow a physical copy of himself, replenishing the intense hunger caused by its creation with Demonized Fruits and a Vigorous Life Potion.
• Anvis tested the Avatar’s control, finding that its connection weakened after about ten kilometers and that it could not move beyond a twenty-kilometer radius.
• The next day, Anvis summoned Jom to the Olivenndi Branch and introduced the featureless, shadow-cloaked Avatar as a Ninth-Rank Lord named Man in the Mirror.

Anvis traveled to Abundant Gold City with Jom and a supposed Ninth-Rank retainer to visit his brother Evan. After the group arrived, the retainer secretly split off, revealing that it was Anvis’s incarnation and had headed toward the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Anvis summoned Jom and said he planned to visit Evan in Abundant Gold City with the black-robed Mirror Man.
• Anvis opened a Portal through a bookshelf, and he, Jom, and Mirror Man emerged from the Teleportation Array in Abundant Gold City.
• Jom identified Anvis to the guards as Evan’s blood brother and introduced Mirror Man as a Ninth-Rank Lord from the Olyvendi Family.
• A guard led the three toward the City Lord’s Mansion while a concealed Arcane Eye recorded their arrival.
• Evan watched the group on a Magic Crystal Ball and relaxed when he saw the black-robed retainer leave them.
• The supposed Ninth-Rank retainer transformed into a shadow and reappeared in a secluded alley, where the narration revealed it was Anvis’s incarnation.

Anvis visited Evan to welcome him back and hear about his travels, while quietly assessing whether Evan was truly his brother. Evan described how a foreign caravan introduced him to unrecorded Magic Gems and Harmonizer, and began explaining the journey that led him to acquire them.

• Anvis used his Flesh Avatar to meet Evan, and Chom sensed the familiar pressure created by Old Days Majesty.
• Anvis and Evan exchanged warm greetings, and Anvis found no abnormality in Evan’s aura or bloodline.
• Evan served Anvis rare Radiance Grade Spore Coffee and asked about his life at Pamir Academy.
• Anvis asked Evan about his travels, and Evan showed him the new Magic Gems and Harmonizer he had brought back.
• Evan explained that a caravan’s unrecorded goods had prompted him to buy them and learn where the gems and Harmonizer came from.

Evan told Anvis how an overseas merchant caravan brought Emis Heart gemstones and Emis Dust Harmonizers to the Yar Continent after passing through a strange fog. He explained that divination confirmed the merchants’ story and that he had traveled to Dylas himself, leaving Anvis to question the risk as the brothers laughed over their differing parents’ advice.

• Evan showed Anvis how the gemstones amplified the effects of coffee on Spiritual Power, and Anvis agreed the effect was remarkable.
• Evan explained that reports of the new gemstones and Harmonizers had not spread through the Itel Federation, despite the caravan’s long journey.
• Evan recounted how the merchants passed through a sudden fog and emerged in unfamiliar mountains and forests before reaching Abundant Gold City.
• Evan said a High-rank Prophet confirmed the merchants’ account and foresaw minor setbacks but no major danger or conspiracy.
• Evan told Anvis he had traveled to Dylas himself, and Anvis reminded him of their father’s warning against putting himself in danger.
• Evan countered with their mother’s advice to keep moving forward, and the brothers exchanged a glance and laughed.

Evan recounted how he followed a Black Sailing Ship to the island of Lavanles and discovered the source of the Emis Heart and Emis Dust. He showed Anvis an ancient statue of a God Servant, whose strange power stirred the Old Days Secret Scripture carried by Anvis’s true body.

• Evan said he waited in Dylas for two and a half months until the Black Sailing Ship returned to port.
• Evan and his family guards disguised themselves as merchants and persuaded the ship's captain to take them to the island.
• Evan learned that the islanders of Lavanles mined Emis Heart and Emis Dust in the Ancient Mountains beyond their settlement.
• Evan described an ancient sacrificial site beneath a carved cliff and revealed that he had found a statue there.
• Anvis sensed strange power in the statue, and the Old Days Secret Scripture in his true body responded with a faint ripple.
• Evan showed Anvis the protected statue in his Magic Laboratory and explained that it was likely a God Servant statue.

After recounting his dangerous return from the island, Evan parted from Anvis, whose Avatar left Abundant Gold City while his true body searched for subjects to test new spells on. Anvis lured a fleeing Girl into a Lower District alley, where he prepared to experiment on the Refugees pursuing her.

• Evan told Anvis that breaking through the island's Force Field and escaping its Mutated Magical Beasts had taken until nightfall.
• Evan ended his visit and offered his butler to show Anvis around Abundant Gold City, but Anvis said he had to return to Pamir Academy and leave.
• Anvis controlled his Avatar and guard Chom as they left the City Lord's Mansion, while his true body searched for Lab Rats nearby.
• Anvis guided a fleeing Girl into his alley, where several Refugees cornered her.
• Anvis ignored the Scarface Man's threat, examined the Refugees, and prepared to test new Twisted Seed spells on them.

Anvis tested the Twisted Seed on the Refugees and arranged for Evan to learn what had happened in the alley. Back in the Royal Capital, the Old Days Secret Scripture absorbed Alien Power from his Avatar, strengthening him and unlocking a new Spell-like Ability.

• Anvis frightened the Refugees into mental breakdowns and planted a Twisted Seed in Scarface Man.
• Anvis's Avatar and Jom arrived, and the City Guard arrested the Refugees while Anvis left a mark in Scarface Man's Sea of Spirit to disrupt any soul search.
• The City Guard escorted the rescued Girl away to look for her family, and Anvis returned to the Royal Capital with his Avatar.
• Anvis connected to the Old Days Secret Scripture, which detected and absorbed Alien Power from his Avatar.
• The Scripture returned pure energy to Anvis, improving his Spiritual Power and physical constitution and unlocking Mirror Realm Traverse while enhancing other Spell-like Abilities.

Anvis tested the Old Days Secret Scripture’s new abilities and planned to use its power to help Evan, but Evan and every living creature in his mansion vanished before the plan could begin. Anvis suspected his actions had accelerated Evan’s disappearance and turned his attention toward Dylas Port in the Iter Kingdom Federation.

• Anvis tested Mirror Realm Traverse and found that he could enter clear physical mirrors and project through some other reflective surfaces.
• Anvis realized he could tell Duke Carlot that the Old Days Secret Scripture might cleanse Evan’s Alien Power, and the duke agreed to visit Evan with him the next day.
• Duke Carlot’s family head informed Anvis that Evan and every living creature in the City Lord’s Mansion had disappeared, while a high-rank Prophet’s attempt to locate them had yielded nothing.
• Anvis suspected that his probing and plans to treat Evan had caused Evan’s disappearance to happen earlier than in his previous memories.
• Anvis studied a map of Yar Continent and focused on Dylas Port, considering opportunities in the Iter Kingdom Federation.

Anvis showed Duke Carlot prophetic passages from the Old Days Secret Scripture and persuaded him to let him investigate Evan’s disappearance. As Anvis prepared to leave for the Itel Federation, his Cursed Plutonium Dragon neared hatching, while a figure in the Royal Capital learned of it and reacted with bitter scorn.

• Anvis showed Duke Carlot three newly revealed passages from the Old Days Secret Scripture and suggested they might point to Evan’s disappearance and an island near Dylas Port.
• Anvis argued that he should investigate personally because he alone could use the Scripture, and Duke Carlot agreed after Anvis suggested a powerful being might have arranged his connection to it.
• Anvis said he planned to leave for the Itel Federation during the New Life Festival, and Duke Carlot asked him to return to Carlras before leaving the empire.
• Anvis’s cultivation notification indicated that the Cursed Plutonium Dragon he had raised for over two months was about to hatch.
• A figure in a dark study read a report about Anvis’s Cursed Plutonium Dragon, mocked the prospect of a new genius emerging in the current era, and repeated that nothing could be accomplished in such a time.

At Pamir Academy, Anvis oversaw the hatching and cultivation of three Cursed Plutonium Dragons in the Mana Conversion Pool. The hatchlings absorbed the cursed fluid, accepted Anvis as familiar, and began eating their eggshells as he ordered Seer Silver to record the process.

• Anvis ordered Seer Silver to activate the Mana Conversion Pool and add the materials needed to cultivate the three dragon eggs.
• The eggs cracked open one after another, and all three hatchlings emerged and eagerly drank the concentrated cursed fluid.
• Anvis activated the Mystic Ritual Array, whose spiritual frequencies kept the hatchlings calm while they absorbed the remaining cursed energy.
• The three hatchlings grew to nearly the size of horses, emerged from the pool, and crowded around Anvis affectionately.
• Anvis placed the eggshells before the hatchlings, who reluctantly ate them, then instructed Seer Silver to record the cultivation process and results in the family's information database.

Olbins showed Anvis his new invention, a pair of rings that opened portals directly through Normal Space-Time. He explained their color-matched exits and current three-meter range, leaving Anvis with the prospect of improving the device with better materials.

• Olbins met Anvis at the High Tower Restaurant to show him a new invention before Anvis left Pamir for the West Coast.
• Olbins presented two black-and-white Möbius-shaped metal rings, and Anvis correctly inferred that they transported objects between them.
• Anvis revealed he had seen a similar Teleportation Sub-Array and sketched its design for Olbins.
• Olbins studied Anvis's sketch, acknowledged its Normal Space-Time connection, and explained how it avoided the restrictions of ordinary spatial teleportation.
• Olbins named the invention the Normal Space Teleportation Ring and said its portals matched black and white exits, but its range was limited to three meters by its materials and power supply.

Olbins demonstrated a pair of rings that created a short-range connection through Normal Space-Time and gave Anvis the design as a gift for saving Hillyl and him. Anvis accepted after explaining the research’s value, then asked about Olbins’s unusual helmet.

• Olbins infused one ring with Mana, linking it to the other ring and showing that the connection became unstable beyond three meters.
• Olbins explained how the rings formed and closed a shared spatial pipe, then gave Anvis a crystal ball containing the design and manufacturing details.
• Anvis warned Olbins that the unrestricted spatial connection research was worth far more than the help Anvis had given him.
• Olbins insisted the design was a personal gift, and Anvis accepted it as a friend.
• Anvis asked about Olbins’s helmet, and Olbins explained that it amplified his Spiritual Power and let him work on several tasks remotely at the cost of burning lifespan faster.

Anvis recognized Olbins’s construct armor as the beginning of the work that would become Hive Mind and arranged to help him reach the Fourth Rank in exchange for research. Before leaving the Royal Capital, Anvis searched Dugen Town for someone consumed by despair over the nobility, and flames suddenly rose from the town.

• Olbins demonstrated his modular construct armor to Anvis and explained how he had designed it using ideas from Magic Construct studies.
• Anvis recalled that Olbins had secretly created the core framework of Hive Mind, though historical records credited Olbins’s two students as its creators.
• Anvis offered Olbins treasures to help him reach the Fourth Rank, and Olbins agreed to develop high-end construct projects for Anvis.
• Anvis left the Royal Capital and used Mirror Silver Divination to locate a despairing target in Dugen Town.
• Anvis searched the town at night, then saw flames suddenly shoot into the sky.

Anvis found Matt at the scene of a fire that had destroyed the boy’s family, then offered him a chance to take vengeance on the nobles responsible. Matt accepted and pledged his life, faith, and soul to the figure he believed was the god of vengeance.

• Anvis changed course toward the town fire and received a dossier identifying Matt and recounting the losses his family had suffered under Baron Yogen.
• Matt watched as townsfolk pulled three burned bodies from his family’s destroyed home, where his mother had set the fire.
• The world around Matt froze, and a dark figure approached him through the flames and asked whether he wanted vengeance.
• Matt asked if the figure was the god of vengeance, then knelt and offered his life, faith, and soul in exchange for revenge.
• The figure agreed, and Matt felt something appear deep within his heart.

Anvis manipulated Matt’s hatred of the nobles, posing as the Agent of a divine lord and arranging for Matt to train before entering Royal Pamir Academy. After setting his plan in motion, Anvis returned to Carlras and waited for hidden forces to take the bait.

• Matt accepted the black-cloaked figure as the Agent of the Divine Lord after feeling the Seed of Hatred take root in him.
• The Agent assigned a gray-haired middle-aged man to oversee Matt’s training and arranged for him to enter Royal Pamir Academy as a fallen minor noble’s descendant.
• Matt resisted the plan but agreed to obey after the Agent reminded him that his life belonged to the lord he had promised to serve.
• Anvis revealed that he had staged the divine encounter and planned to use Matt to build a Rebel Army, expose hidden forces, and test whether he could create a Child of Destiny.
• Anvis returned to the Royal Capital branch, traveled by Teleportation Array to Carlras, and waited for his targets to take the bait.