Chapter Summaries

Anvis and Fiona visited Old Jimmy's Alchemy Shop to buy Oracle Ore for Fia, and Fiona purchased five thousand units at a discount. After completing the sale, Old Jimmy offered to show them newly arrived relics.

• Little Pace brought Anvis and Fiona into Old Jimmy's Alchemy Shop, where the shopkeeper led them to the basement materials shelves.
• Fiona sensed the Oracle Ore and selected a piece while Old Jimmy praised its origins and tried to sell it at a high price.
• Anvis corrected Old Jimmy's claims and quoted the market price for Oracle Ore.
• Fiona ordered five thousand paso of Oracle Ore, and Anvis negotiated a three-thousand-Gold-Coin discount.
• Fiona paid with an Olivenndi Merchant Guild Magic Crystal Card, and Old Jimmy offered to show them newly arrived Unknown Relic Items.

Anvis and Fiona browsed a shopkeeper’s newly acquired Relic Items, while Anvis recognized a glowing coin as a scam and found nothing unusual in Fiona’s chosen fragments. They selected several items, including a lavender stone claimed to have fallen from Purple Moon Emis, and Anvis challenged the shopkeeper’s attempt to inflate its price.

• Anvis agreed to let Fiona browse the Relic Items, and Old Jimmy led them into a warehouse stocked with relics.
• Anvis found a dull gray coin that flashed blue, recognized it as a fake treasure-hunting lure, and returned it to the shelf.
• Fiona showed Anvis a carved Deep Cyan Rock Fragment, but he detected no Mana or unusual properties in it.
• Anvis chose two Relic Crystals, while Fiona gathered several fragments and Kate clutched a piece of Lavender Rock.
• Old Jimmy claimed the Lavender Rock had fallen from Purple Moon Emis, and Anvis questioned whether it should still command a high price.

Anvis and Fiona finished shopping and wandered through Gray Raven Market with Pace guiding them. After Fiona tipped Pace a gold coin, he invented a tale about his family’s hardships and asked her for more money, leaving her to decide what to do.

• Anvis paid 246 Gold Coins for Fiona’s fragments, Little Cat’s Moonstone, and his two Relic Crystals, then left Old Jimmy’s shop with Fiona.
• Anvis and Fiona explored Gray Raven Market as Pace continued guiding them through the crowded streets.
• At the market’s central plaza, Anvis told Pace they were heading back, and Fiona gave the boy a gold coin as a tip.
• Pace claimed his mother was ill, his father gambled, and his younger siblings were hungry, then asked Fiona for more money.
• Fiona looked to Anvis for guidance, but he silently left the decision to her.

Fiona gave Pace a purse of gold coins to help his mother, and Anvis showed her how the gift led to him being robbed in the slums. Anvis arranged for Pace to be healed and his family to be helped, leaving Fiona comforted but shaken by the consequences of her choice.

• Fiona gave Pace her wallet so he could pay for a healer for his mother.
• Anvis secretly instructed his guards to follow Pace, then flew with Fiona to the slums to see what happened.
• They found Pace beaten, injured, and robbed of the purse, and Fiona blamed herself for giving him the money.
• Anvis explained that Pace’s greed had contributed to his fate, then sent someone to heal him and arranged help for his family.
• Anvis told Fiona that Pace’s mother and siblings would be cared for and his father punished, and Fiona buried her face in Anvis’s chest.

Anvis monitored Fia as she ate Oracle Ore and fell into a deep sleep, while the Empire’s factions organized expeditions into both halves of the Fallen Star Remains. On the date arranged with the Duke, Anvis traveled to the Lost Tree Sea, where I Have A Friend stumbled upon an elegant Dragon.

• Fia ate nearly all the Oracle Ore, began to glow faintly, and fell asleep in Anvis's Laboratory as Anvis and Fiona monitored her.
• The Empire’s major factions temporarily joined forces to explore the Fallen Star Remains, while Anvis’s Mysteries Society gained official missions and Anvis’s Prophet level rose.
• Professionals located the larger half of the Remains in the dangerous sea near the Life Forbidden Zone, and news of its location spread.
• Anvis left the Academy for the Oser Kingdom and traveled to the Lost Tree Sea, hoping to find a young Force Dragon.
• I Have A Friend cut his way out of the jungle and found an elegant Dragon in a hidden canyon.

I Have A Friend discovered a Force Dragon in the canyon, died after it attacked him, and posted evidence that drew the attention of major gaming Clubs. Anvis and Duke Carlot arrived to investigate, and the chapter ended with the Duke stopping the Dragon’s breath as I Have A Friend witnessed the display.

• I Have A Friend scanned and photographed the Force Dragon before its breath killed him, then resurrected at a distant point.
• I Have A Friend posted his screenshots and scan results, prompting several major Clubs to offer payment for the Dragon’s location.
• Anvis and Duke Carlot arrived above the canyon and confirmed that the young Dragon appeared to have no adult nearby.
• The Force Dragon attacked Anvis and Duke Carlot with its breath, but the Duke halted it before it reached them.
• I Have A Friend witnessed the Duke stop the attack and agreed to the Clubs’ offers for his information.

Anvis explained that he learned about the Force Dragon through Outsider intelligence and helped Duke Carlot capture it. He revealed that he wanted to erase its consciousness and raise it as a special Avatar for its force field control.

• Duke Carlot asked Anvis how he learned about the Force Dragon, and Anvis credited the Outsiders' intelligence channels.
• The juvenile Force Dragon gathered mana and tried to trap the pair with a force field wall before teleporting away.
• Duke Carlot used Ice Rule Power to freeze the Force Dragon and stored it in a magic pet Space Ring for Anvis.
• Duke Carlot warned Anvis that contracting the Seventh Rank Dragon would be difficult, but Anvis said he wanted its consciousness erased so he could raise it as a special Avatar.

Anvis persuaded Duke Carlot to help make the captured Force Dragon his avatar, despite the danger of provoking Dragon Island and the Aslaid Family. After the duke and Anvis left, I Have A Friend rushed into the unguarded valley to search for treasure.

• Duke Carlot questioned whether Anvis had mastered the Soul Split Secret Technique, and Anvis confirmed that he had.
• Duke Carlot agreed to help Anvis make the Force Dragon his avatar, warning that the process would take at least half a month and could make Dragon Island his enemy.
• Anvis considered the risks from Dragon Island and the Aslaid Family and decided they would not pose much trouble in the short term.
• After Anvis and Duke Carlot vanished, I Have A Friend hurried to the valley, hoping to loot the dragon's treasure.

After learning that Yanile would undergo a secret Saint Plan ritual, Anvis tried to monitor the Twisted Seed while going about his day at the academy. Near the summoning tower, a student confronted him over his supposed interest in Cleo, and Anvis reflected on how unlike his peers his life had become.

• I Have A Friend found gold nuggets and Low-Rank Magic Gems in the Dragon Nest, along with a fissure leading to ancient ruins that the Force Dragon had likely already scavenged.
• Anvis returned to the academy while the Empire's exploration of the Fallen Star Remains neared its core areas.
• Yanile told Anvis that he and other church members would undergo a secret Saint Plan ritual at the Holy Hymn Cathedral, so Anvis ordered his Twisted Seed to remain silent.
• Anvis monitored Yanile's Seed during class, then headed to the Summoning Academy to pick up Fiona for lunch and keep Prince Lanno at a distance.
• A blond student blocked Anvis near the summoning tower and threatened him to stay away from Cleo, whom Anvis had only met twice and once declined to dine with.
• Anvis considered how little he cared about campus romance and realized that his packed schedule and ambitions had set him apart from his peers.

Anvis dealt with Dani, a student sent by a Fifth-Year Senior from the Eighth Prince’s faction to keep him away from Cleo. Recognizing that the encounter was being observed, Anvis decided to respond at the Eternal Gold Club gathering two days later, then dismissed Dani to Fiona as a clown.

• Anvis rejected Dani’s attempt to confront him, and Dani challenged him to a duel.
• Anvis used the Twisted Seed to inspect Dani’s memories and learned that a Fifth-Year Senior had promised him an invitation to the Eternal Gold Club for confronting Anvis.
• Anvis realized the Eighth Prince’s people had likely recorded the encounter and decided he needed to respond without overreacting.
• Anvis settled on the Eternal Gold Club gathering on the twenty-ninth of Icy Moon Month as the occasion to make his move.
• Fiona joined Anvis after leaving the High Tower and asked who Dani was, and Anvis called him a clown.

Anvis learned that seven people had survived the Holy Radiance Church's ritual and secretly planned to travel to the Gloria Empire, then viewed Yanile's memories of the rite and the Church's next steps. The story left off as Dani arrived at the Eternal Gold Club outside Palosia.

• Yanile told Anvis that seven people had succeeded in the ritual and would secretly leave for the Gloria Empire at midnight.
• Anvis used the Old Days Secret Scripture to view Yanile's memories, and the Scripture reacted intensely to the ritual's apparent connection to Faith Power.
• Yanile's memories showed ten participants' lamps going out one by one, with only seven bishops appearing at the ritual's end.
• Saint Arbiter Yorgensen told the seven survivors that they would go to Gloria to recover the evil Foreign Objects within the Ancient God Ruins, then teleported them away.
• On the evening of the twenty-ninth, Dani arrived at the Eternal Gold Club outside Palosia.

Dani attended a lavish club gathering hoping to impress Prince Harken and gain a powerful patron, but an inexplicable impulse made him threaten the prince over Marian. Harken ordered guards to remove Dani after he collapsed in terror.

• Dani entered the manor's club with an invitation from a fifth-year senior and hoped to use the connection to join the Eighth Prince's faction.
• Dani spotted Prince Harken surrounded by guests and approached, believing he could make a strong first impression.
• Dani accused Harken of pursuing Marian and warned him to stay away from her, threatening the prince with his Mana.
• Harken angrily called Dani's behavior an absurd farce, and Dani collapsed in fear.
• Harken summoned the guards, who dragged the unconscious Dani out of the club.

At the Eternal Gold Club, Prince Harken recognized Dani’s bizarre performance as Anvis’s calculated response to a test and explained the incident to the gathered nobles. Marquis Delaka then raised Anvis’s official attention level from Third Rank to Second Rank, while Anvis withdrew the Twisted Seed he had used to influence Dani.

• A Fifth Rank Upper Grade Student apologized to Prince Harken for inviting Dani, but Harken dismissed the apology and said Anvis would have found another way to reach him.
• Prince Harken told the gathered nobles that Dani’s performance was Anvis’s answer to his test, demonstrating Anvis’s intelligence gathering and ability to control Dani without detectable magic.
• Yashira Aslaide and the third daughter of Marquis Delaka shared intelligence about Anvis’s talent, the Cursed Wyvern Egg, and his Mysteries Society faction.
• Marquis Delaka watched the incident with a hooded figure and ordered Anvis’s official attention level raised from Third Rank to Second Rank.
• Anvis confirmed Dani’s performance had gone as planned and withdrew the Twisted Seed he had used to alter Dani’s instincts.

Anvis discovered that Yanile was at the Fallen Star Remains and witnessed a midnight ritual turn seven bishops into light, triggering a beam of sacred radiance and a crisis between the Gloria Empire and the Holy Radiance Church. As the empires faced off, the Spark Organization seized two cities and found their defenses had been weakened by corruption.

• Anvis sensed Yanile near the Fallen Star Remains, warned Duke Carlot, and connected to the Twisted Seed on Yanile.
• Anvis witnessed seven bishops and three red-robed Archbishops gathered for a ritual as the year ended; when the hourglass ran out, the ritual transformed the bishops into dazzling light and severed his vision.
• At midnight on New Life Month 1st, a pillar of white light rose from the Fallen Star Remains, prompting the Gloria Empire to enter Level Two war readiness.
• Gloria III demanded an explanation from the Holy Radiance Church, and Saint Messiah III called the incident a regrettable accident without offering an explanation.
• Gloria III and the Holy Radiance Church sent powerful forces to their shared border, escalating tensions between the two empires.
• The Spark Organization captured Moon Reflection City and Fallen Dragon City, then discovered that neglected maintenance had left their defensive arrays in poor condition.

A massive Dark Tide of Beasts swept across the Gloria Empire, forcing its nobles and the Spark Organization to focus on defending cities rather than fighting each other. At Pamir Academy, Anvis received Duke Carlot’s account of a devastating attack on the Ruins exploration command center and learned his warning had helped save the Duke.

• The Rebel Army captured a city after its failing defensive array collapsed, and the fleeing city defense official was caught by the rebels’ encirclement.
• A huge Dark Tide of Beasts erupted across the Empire and surged toward Falling Star’s landing site in Magna Province and the Endless Sea, destroying several undefended cities.
• The Empire dispatched High-Ranked Professionals to protect major cities, while the Aslaid Family set aside its pursuit of the Rebel Army to face the beast tide.
• The Spark Leader ordered repairs to the captured cities’ arrays despite their cost and had the former city defense officials killed, their souls given to Necromancers and their corpses left for Dark Creatures.
• Duke Carlot told Anvis that a holy pillar of light had struck the Ruins exploration command center with power near the Ninth Rank Limit, injuring three Imperial Ninth Rankers.
• Duke Carlot explained that he and a Ninth Ranker from the Alfred Family had left to investigate after Anvis’s prophecy, narrowly avoiding the attack.

Anvis prepared and performed the Soul Splitting Ritual using a Force Dragon, successfully creating a second body he could control and store in his Summoning Space. The Dark Tide of Beasts was advancing faster than expected, but Anvis proceeded with his ritual while the Duke went to deal with the attack.

• The Duke assured Anvis that the family could defend Carlas Province, but a blast from the Dark Tide of Beasts struck his residence during their conversation.
• The Duke told Anvis that his Force Dragon was ready, then ended the call to address the attack.
• Anvis received the Force Dragon in a Space Ring and brought it to his Underground Lab during Pamir Academy's holiday.
• Anvis collected the Dragon's blood and prepared the Magic Ink, then inscribed the improved Soul Splitting Ritual across the Dragon's scales.
• Anvis activated the ritual and transferred his consciousness into the Force Dragon, learning to control its body.
• Anvis discovered that he could merge the Dragon into himself through a Summoning Space and summon it again when needed.

Anvis tested the Force Dragon Avatar’s ability to manipulate force fields and discovered he could access its personal space. He sorted the Dragon’s collected treasures and found several valuable ancient items, including a mysterious black cloak.

• Anvis controlled the Force Dragon Avatar and tested its force-field abilities, including flight, concealment, and a powerful breath attack that reached high Seventh Rank damage.
• Anvis returned to his human body and found that soul synchronization had let him retain some force-field control.
• Anvis opened the Force Dragon’s personal space and brought its stored items onto the testing-ground floor.
• Anvis determined that most of the collection had come from ancient Ruins and that the Dragon had packed its treasures before seeking a new territory.
• Anvis identified four intact ancient magically altered plant Seeds and a high-level black cloak among the most valuable finds.
• Anvis draped the cloak over himself, and the world around him seemed to become cut off.

After completing the Soul Splitting Ritual, Anvis reassured Fiona about the Dark Tide of Beasts while privately anticipating the danger ahead. The ruins’ defenses fell on the ninth day, and although the ruins were explored, no Eternal Core was found there.

• Anvis completed the Soul Splitting Ritual, stored the valuable resources, and had Seer Silver clean the Laboratory.
• Fiona told Anvis about the terrifying Dark Creatures, and he reassured her that Pamir Academy was safe and the beast tide would not last long.
• Millions of Dark Creatures were killed, but the survivors devoured one another, grew stronger, and launched a frenzied attack on the ruins.
• The ruins’ defensive line was breached on the ninth day, allowing Dark Creatures and High-Ranked Professionals to enter amid deadly traps.
• The Ninth Ranks explored the ruins but found no Eternal Core, and several Ninth Rank Limit Dark Creatures vanished inside a sealed pitch-black hall.
• The Empire suffered fewer losses than expected as the Radiant Knight Order and foreign Professionals, including Players taking suicide missions, helped fight the Dark Creatures.

The Empire and other powers expanded their defenses against the beast tide by distributing discounted Magic Constructs, while players gained levels fighting Dark Creatures. Anvis let Mysteries Society members acquire Constructs on installment despite mounting losses, pursuing a struggle for Fate Feedback against the Itel Federation’s High-rank Prophets.

• The Itel Federation and Continental Magic Council offered White Knight and Blazing Fire Dragon Magic Constructs at cost price to forces across Yar Continent.
• As the Constructs spread, players used them to kill Dark Creatures and rapidly raised their levels during the nearly half-month beast tide.
• Anvis added Dark Creature kills as a requirement for Mysteries Society membership and let members with over five hundred contribution points obtain Constructs on installment.
• After thirteen days, Anvis had recovered materials worth less than sixty percent of the Constructs he distributed, leaving him with losses exceeding a million gold coins.
• Anvis continued the program because he saw it as a battle for Fate Feedback between the Itel Federation’s High-rank Prophets and the Ninth Rank Diviner atop the Star Gazing High Tower.

The Federation and the Magic Council fought a hidden struggle through their White Knight and Flame Burst Flying Dragon constructs, using Fate Lines to influence the beast-tide battlefields and gain favor from the Web of Fate. Anvis recognized the conflict but chose not to interfere because the diviners involved could easily destroy him.

• The Federation's diviners favored mobile, long-range Flame Burst Flying Dragons to compete with the Council's more balanced White Knights for influence over the greater tide of fate.
• White Knight soldiers held defensive formations while Flame Burst Flying Dragon units bombarded the beast tide with powerful flame spells.
• The Federation's diviners plucked silver-white Fate Lines, disrupting White Knight constructs and allowing Dark Creatures to kill many soldiers.
• Brentz the Star Gazer countered by plucking dark-red Fate Lines, causing Dark Creatures to erupt beside Flame Burst Flying Dragon units and sabotage their jets.
• Anvis confirmed the hidden battle through the Web of Fate and decided not to intervene.