Chapter Summaries

Anvis brought the group from the Dream Space into the still-operational Core Control Room of Bohemia and proposed that they try to gain control of the Floating City. As they explored, Xia Ye Ying Huo triggered a mysterious Obelisk, and Senior Claire seemed to recover a buried memory.

• Anvis found a way to leave the Dream Space and brought everyone to safety, despite Xia Ye Ying Huo hugging him before they departed.
• Anvis identified their destination as Bohemia’s Core Control Room and revealed that some of the Sky City’s systems still worked.
• Anvis proposed finding a way to control the Floating City, and he let the others explore as long as they did not damage anything.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo caused a black Obelisk bearing a Diamond Rune to emerge from the floor, but her High Elf knowledge was insufficient to trigger its event.
• Senior Claire clutched her head in pain when she saw the rune, then seemed to remember something that had been sealed away.

Anvis used his authority over Bohemia to secretly take control of the Floating City and evacuate the academy members, while concealing his role from outsiders. As he prepared to confront the invading Ninth Rank Experts, the city’s ancient bell rang and Anvis broke through to become a High-rank Prophet.

• Claire recognized the Obelisk, and her blood activated the Diamond Rune, connecting Anvis to Bohemia as its Controller.
• Anvis tested the city’s authority by staging his Avatar’s death and using a cloaked figure to incapacitate and teleport everyone except Claire and Xia Ye Ying Huo to the academy camp.
• The academy members learned about the Ruins and mistook the cloaked Anvis for a powerful outsider who had rescued them.
• Anvis revealed that the staged attack had concealed his true body’s effort to control the Floating City, and he planned to save the students, feed the Black Cocoon, and trap hostile Ninth Rank Experts.
• Anvis expanded his Spiritual Power across the Ruins, causing the Stone Bell to ring and breaking through his Sixth Rank Limit into a new High-rank Prophet.

Anvis took control of the Floating City and raised it from the seabed, drawing the greed of the Ninth Rank Experts waiting outside. While adapting to his control, he discovered and captured an unidentified intruder, then held back from confronting the factions because the city was damaged and outmatched.

• Anvis activated the Floating City, which rose from the seabed as the Ninth Rank Experts outside recognized it as an intact treasure and resolved not to let another faction claim it.
• Anvis observed the Pamir Academy group from within the city and sent a thread of his will to speak with the descendants of the other great families through his Avatar.
• Anvis noticed a green-haired Nature Elf near the Energy Chamber, but the intruder escaped to another district using a lower-level authority.
• Anvis froze the elf's authority and ordered the Golem Guards to capture him, then had him imprisoned in the city's jail.
• Anvis decided not to attack the Ninth Rank Experts because the Floating City was damaged and he could not unleash its full power.

Anvis sabotaged the Continental Magic Council’s attempt to seize the Floating City and began preparing to evacuate its most valuable components and resources. With Ninth Ranks gathered outside, he turned to rescuing the Pamir Academy students and activated the stone bell to make the Dream World a battlefield separate from reality.

• Anvis manifested an Elf outside the Floating City, where Yorgensen tried to bind him before Orvanni protected and reclaimed him.
• Anvis recognized that the Continental Magic Council’s plan to seize the city had failed and decided to prevent any faction from obtaining it.
• Anvis ordered Bohemia to gather valuable resources at the Teleportation Hall, prepare a Temporary Tower Spirit, and stand ready for evacuation.
• Anvis turned his attention to rescuing the Pamir Academy students before the Ninth Ranks’ impending battle could endanger them.
• Anvis activated the Jet Black Stone Bell, which caused the Dream World to overlay reality and created a separate battlefield.

Anvis used the Floating City’s control systems to unleash its ultimate weapon, the Moon of No Light, against the Ninth Ranks besieging it. The blast killed three Council Ninth Ranks, but the city’s shield vanished afterward, allowing the remaining attackers to rush inside.

• Eller reported to Kelesi that he had been attacked by Golems inside the Floating City after his Rune Stone failed, leading the Ninth Ranks to suspect an unknown figure had gained control of the city.
• Anvis sensed the Star Gazer’s influence over the gathering of factions and Pamir students, and recognized the Star Gazer as a likely enemy.
• Anvis ordered Bohemia to switch the Floating City to attack mode and charge the Moon of No Light at a veteran Ninth Rank.
• The Moon of No Light struck near the Federation and Council forces, devouring Seymour and two other Council Ninth Ranks before vanishing.
• The Floating City’s barrier disappeared, and most of the remaining Ninth Ranks rushed inside to disable its defenses.

Anvis ordered the Floating City to begin its departure while arranging for the Empire's Ninth Ranks to rescue the Pamir students. He transferred control to the Temporary Tower Spirit, sent Claire away, and entered the Dream Layer to pursue his remaining plans.

• Anvis assessed the Ninth Ranks' positions and sent the Empire detailed images, a map of the Ruins, and the Pamir students' locations.
• Anvis ordered the Moon of No Light components dismantled and the Floating City to begin its departure under the Temporary Tower Spirit.
• Anvis told Claire that the Empire's Ninth Ranks would soon reach the students and sent her back to the hall for protection.
• Anvis told Claire he would stay to control the city's defenses, and she asked to borrow the Floating City's Tower Spirit after they escaped.
• Anvis gave Xia Ye Ying Huo a quest to wait ten minutes for one copper coin, then entered the Dream Layer.

Duke Carlot received Anvis’s message and led the Ninth Ranks toward the Pamir group’s location in the Floating City. Meanwhile, Anvis began sealing the Black Cocoon, but discovered that immense Dream Tentacles surrounded the city and that a gigantic Bloody Single Eye had opened at their core.

• Duke Carlot and four other Ninth Ranks searched the distorted Dream Space and encountered an amoeba-like creature, which Carlot froze and shattered.
• Carlot received Anvis’s message directing him to the Pamir group and shared the marked route with the other Ninth Ranks.
• Carlot and a Ninth Rank from the Alfred Family went ahead together while the other three followed behind.
• Anvis returned to the cave, used the Old Days Secret Scripture to seal the Black Cocoon, and sensed an unknown presence watching him.
• Anvis cut down several tentacles but found the gaze growing stronger, then used the Temporary Tower Spirit to view the Floating City from the Dream Layer.
• Anvis saw countless Dream Tentacles wrapped around the city as they gathered toward its core, where a gigantic Bloody Single Eye opened.

Anvis sealed the Black Giant Cocoon and realized it was part of a gigantic creature beyond the Ninth Rank that had entered Uniwal's Dream World. The sealing power drove his Spiritual Synchronization Rate to ninety-nine percent, and he sent Duke Carlot and the Alfred Family's Ninth Rankers back to the Floating City in the real world.

• Anvis recognized the Bloody Single Eye's aura as the same presence he had encountered beneath the sea and connected it to the Old Days Secret Scripture's prophecies.
• Anvis realized that the Black Cocoon was part of a sleeping monster and that sealing it had exposed him to the creature's notice.
• The Old Days Secret Scripture absorbed the Black Giant Cocoon and increased Anvis's Spiritual Synchronization Rate to ninety-nine percent.
• Anvis stored the remaining power instead of beginning an irreversible breakthrough from Sixth Rank to Seventh Rank.
• Anvis used the Temporary Tower Spirit to locate Duke Carlot and the other Ninth Rankers, then returned Duke Carlot and the Alfred Family's Ninth Rankers to the Floating City in the real world.

Duke Carlot and another Ninth Rank Expert gathered the Pamir students and prepared to evacuate the Floating City, while Anvis manipulated the city’s corridors to delay the hostile forces. Anvis reached the Eternal Core’s chamber, but stopped just before taking the core.

• A Pamir mage reported that 4,106 students had gathered, with 117 confirmed dead and 145 missing, and Duke Carlot declared the remaining students presumed dead.
• Anvis’s Avatar warned Duke Carlot of imminent danger, and the two Ninth Rank Experts decided to escort the students out before attempting anything else.
• Anvis twisted the Floating City’s spatial corridors to keep Church Ninth Rank Experts from finding the dukes’ route, then headed for the core Energy Chamber.
• Anvis opened the chamber’s massive gate and saw the Eternal Core, a radiant white octahedron, but stopped before taking it.

Anvis discovered that a hidden entity had been siphoning energy from the Eternal Core and that the core was leaking the Crystallization Wind, a future catastrophe. Recognizing his new power as a High-rank Prophet, he chose to disrupt the Star Gazer’s plans by appearing before every Ninth Rank in the Dream World Layer.

• Anvis saw hidden black Tentacles siphoning the Eternal Core and used the Old Days Secret Scripture to approach it, but the book could not Seal the core.
• Anvis identified crystal dust leaking from the unstable core as the Crystallization Wind, a disaster that would later devastate much of the Yar Continent.
• Anvis saw that the Ninth Ranks from the major powers were converging near the core and considered detonating it to eliminate their teams.
• Anvis sensed that his choices could influence the Web of Fate and recognized his High-rank Prophet’s Fate Manipulation.
• Anvis commanded the Tower Spirit to show a hooded phantom of him to every Ninth Rank in the Dream World Layer.

The Council and Church Ninth Ranks discovered a dangerous black aura inside the Floating City's core Energy Chamber, whereupon Anvis appeared and announced the Circle of Truth. He awakened an ancient Golden Age forbidden weapon from beneath the sea, unveiling the new organization to the gathered factions.

• Orvanni sensed great danger inside the Energy Chamber and warned the Council mages not to open its door, but it opened by itself and released an ominous black aura.
• Yorgensen and the Church team arrived, and both the Council and Church Ninth Ranks tried unsuccessfully to dispel the aura.
• Anvis's projection appeared before the Ninth Ranks as the Floating City displayed the explorers' progress to forces outside.
• Anvis introduced the Circle of Truth as a new Resistance Organization and promised a grand gift.
• Anvis used the Scepter to awaken a colossal Blue-Gold metal giant from beneath the sea, revealing the ancient forbidden weapon to the Ninth Ranks.

Anvis used the Themis Colossus to break the spatial blockade around the Floating City, allowing the Eternal Core to teleport its contents across Yar Continent. In the Dream Layer, a Church Holy Knight melted into dark aura, and Yogson and the Federation prepared their weapons against the gate’s darkness.

• Anvis ordered the Themis Colossus to destroy a Federation sealing Artifact with an annihilation ripple, severely injuring the other Spellcasters guarding the blockade.
• The Colossus resisted Yogson’s God’s Punishment and prepared a second attack, prompting the remaining groups guarding the spatial blockade to flee.
• With the blockade shattered, the Eternal Core sent the Floating City’s supplies across Yar Continent, while Duke Carlot and Duke Alfred escaped in the teleportation surge.
• In the Dream Layer, a Church Holy Knight became contaminated by the gate’s dark aura and melted into the river of darkness despite his companions’ efforts to save him.
• Yogson unleashed another God’s Punishment against the gate’s darkness, while the Federation’s Ninth Rank Professionals activated a cabinet-like Limit Breaking weapon.

Anvis used the Floating City’s defenses to ambush the ninth-rankers, then prepared to escape with the Eternal Core and valuable supplies while arranging Fate Feedback. He finally took Xia Ye Ying Huo to a primeval jungle, where the night sky suddenly lit up.

• Anvis’s attacks triggered a counterattack from the black aura, which engulfed the ninth-rankers and killed two members of the Magic Council’s team.
• Orvanni tried to escape the Dream World, Yogson destroyed Anvis’s projection, and several Imperial marquises reconsidered pursuing the Eternal Core.
• Anvis explained that he had named his organization the Circle of Truth to influence the factions and create obstacles for the true Rebel Army.
• Anvis arranged to teleport golems carrying supplies across the Yar Continent to gain Fate Feedback and preserve a future reserve stockpile.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo waited in the Central Control Room until a cloaked Anvis appeared, grabbed her hand, and teleported them to a primeval jungle beneath a starry sky.
• The jungle’s pitch-black night sky suddenly lit up.

The Floating City sank beneath the sea after its Eternal Core exploded, while Star Gazer Brentz suffered severe backlash from Fate and withdrew from the world. Anvis returned to Pamir Academy with his role in the disaster concealed, aware that Brentz had caused the upheaval and intended to find the hidden variable.

• The Floating City disintegrated and sank into the Endless Sea, and the Themis Colossus vanished through a spatial rift.
• Brentz was struck by Fate's backlash, concluded that the mysterious man from the Circle of Truth was likely the variable, and sealed the Star Gazing High Tower for fifty years.
• Brentz left Orvanni and Veronica two Stars of Destiny before disappearing from the tower.
• Anvis used a place-swapping Secret Art to escape the Floating City, then had Xia Ye Ying Huo destroy the Avatar's remaining dust.
• Anvis returned to Pamir Academy, received Credit Points for helping students escape, and concluded that Brentz's Fate manipulation had caused the disaster.

Anvis reflected on detonating the Eternal Core and prepared to break through to the Seventh Rank. Duke Carlot warned him about the mysterious man behind the Floating City disaster, while the Empire began investigating Resistance Organizations and the Circle of Truth.

• Anvis concluded that detonating the Eternal Core had badly injured Brentz and likely destroyed the recovering Dark Being, though some crystal dust escaped and the Crystallization Disaster remained possible.
• Anvis decided to formally break through to the Seventh Rank using the power stored in the Old Days Secret Scripture.
• Duke Carlot warned Anvis that the cloaked man who detonated the Floating City's core was likely a Ninth Rank or Ninth Rank Limit and urged him to seek help if they ever met.
• Carlot said the Empire suspected the mysterious man had ties to Pamir Academy and was investigating former students, while warning Anvis and Fiona to be careful.
• Rumors spread that the Circle of Truth had killed Ninth Ranks and inherited the Ancient Magic Empire's legacy.
• Gloria III ordered an investigation into civilian Resistance Organizations and appointed Crystal Door Bayer to lead their extermination.

The Aslaid Family and the royal faction cracked down on resistance groups while investigating Circle of Truth, uncovering Spark’s ties to Door in the Pupil. Meanwhile, Anvis resumed his advancement in a sealed chamber, and his Spirit Flame began burning with support from the Old Days Secret Scripture.

• Crystal Door Bayer and the Aslaid Family agreed to investigate Circle of Truth through Spark, and Ninth Ranks swiftly recaptured Spark-held cities.
• An Aslaid Family Ninth Rank encountered a mysterious Ninth Rank at a Spark stronghold, but the stranger escaped through a dream leap using a Magic Curio.
• Investigators extracted evidence that Spark had ties to Door in the Pupil and had received supplies and support from unidentified High-Ranked Professionals.
• Gloria III reinforced the investigation, the other great families searched their territories, and the Empire’s crackdown drove underground groups into hiding.
• Anvis completed an Isolation Magic Array in the Underground Lab and resumed his interrupted breakthrough with the Old Days Secret Scripture’s power.
• Anvis’s Spiritual Synchronization Rate reached one hundred percent, igniting his Spirit Flame as the Scripture’s power appeared to sustain his burning Spiritual Power.

Anvis used the Old Days Secret Scripture’s replenishing power to attempt the rare simultaneous tempering of his spirit and body, successfully reaching the Seventh Rank. He explored his new High Rank abilities as the Force Dragon Avatar fell into slumber.

• Anvis realized the Old Days Secret Scripture could replenish his Sea of Spirit and let him temper both spirit and body during his advancement.
• Anvis doubled the Spirit Flame’s intensity, and the surrounding Magic Array struggled to contain the growing spiritual fluctuations.
• Anvis broke through to the Seventh Rank, gaining High Rank Spiritual Power and a transformed body as his Legendary Bloodlines awakened.
• Anvis tested his new ability to finely control the elemental particles in spells.
• The Force Dragon Avatar fell into slumber during Anvis’s breakthrough.

After reaching the Seventh Rank, Anvis discovered that his transformed body exerted an extraordinary charm and tested the power of his Bloodline True Form. Meanwhile, the fall of Sky City left its secrets lost and sparked a continent-wide hunt for the resources scattered by its final teleportations.

• Anvis sensed his true body's supernatural charm affecting his will and asked Bohemia whether anything unusual had happened during his breakthrough.
• Anvis transformed into his pale-gold Crystal Bird Bloodline True Form and tested its strength, whose attacks approached and then exceeded the power of an Eighth Rank spell.
• The exploration of Sky City’s wreckage confirmed that its Eternal Core had vanished, most Ninth Rank explorers had died, and no valuable discoveries or answers about Beyond Ninth Rank remained.
• People across Yar Continent began searching for Floating City treasures after several adventurers found supplies randomly teleported into the wilderness.

Anvis’s actions changed the Empire’s response to the Rebel Army, while the threat from Door in the Pupil and the Holy Radiance Church remained. After his family questioned him about the Floating City, the unexplained origins of the Golden Scepter drew new attention to him.

• The Empire crushed Spark Organization and related Rebel Army groups after investigating their connection to Door in the Pupil.
• Anvis explained to his family that the scepter had led his Avatar to the Fallen Star Remains, where it guided him to the Control Room before the Avatar died.
• Anvis concluded that the crisis had bought the family time, but he still needed to prepare for the Holy Radiance Church’s Limit Breaking powerhouse.
• The family’s upper echelons questioned Anvis about controlling the Floating City and the mysterious man who took the Golden Scepter.
• Investigators discovered that none of the ninth-ranks who explored ruins claimed to have found the scepter, leaving its appearance among the Mystic Academy’s relic items unexplained.

Anvis investigated the Moon of No Light, the Eternal Core, and a High Elf Secret Art while the lead about the Star Gazer went cold. Claire arrived to borrow Bohemia, as they had agreed.

• The Empire's investigators found traces pointing to the Continental Magic Council but suspected Brentz had led them there, and they declared the Star Gazer lead cut off.
• Anvis studied the Web of Fate and Bohemia's records while arranging to move the Moon of No Light's components to his overseas island.
• Anvis considered relying on Olbins to reconstruct an Eternal Core model and worried that his interference might prevent Olbins from meeting Veronica.
• Anvis tested the Parallel Shadows Secret Art, summoning three projections to research and cultivate independently.
• Bohemia alerted Anvis that Claire was approaching, and he welcomed her into the living room.
• Claire told Anvis she had come to borrow Bohemia as they had agreed.