Chapter Summaries

Anvis learned Prince Lanno’s account of the Federation upheaval and the Overlapping Zones, while recognizing that his own past actions had helped trigger the events behind them. After leaving Lanno, the story shifted to a Player-built city near Dusk Song Forest, where Players worked in a Construct Factory.

• Prince Lanno told Anvis that the Overlapping Zones appeared after a terrifying foreign entity nearly descended upon the Federation and affected the Dream World’s rules.
• Anvis privately connected the upheaval and the game’s Ver2.0 update to his influence on events involving the Star Gazer, the Speaker, and Ma'eilimu.
• Anvis played the role of someone newly informed, listened to Lanno’s warning about the Circle of Truth, and said he was unlikely to be their first target.
• Anvis left after lunch, while Lanno watched him depart and wondered about something.
• At a Player-built city beside Dusk Song Forest, Fish Deer Horse Cow complained about working in a factory both in real life and in the game, and Butter Toast Cat teased him about the game’s faster passage of time.

Fish Deer Horse Cow and Butter Toast Cat worked repetitive processing jobs using the game's AFK feature, while Tiramisu and Last Dragonborn dealt with a dangerous Club mission involving three bounty hunters. Last Dragonborn declined to join the planned attack, but Anvis soon gave him a new assignment and temporary access to Mysteries Society resources.

• Butter Toast Cat activated ordinary AFK mode, and Fish Deer Horse Cow chose the more efficient paid advanced mode to impress his superiors.
• Last Dragonborn recovered an inscribed black stone from a corpse and gave it to Tiramisu to pass to Naya.
• Tiramisu prepared to help the Club track and ambush three Sixth Rank bounty hunters, while Last Dragonborn refused to join the siege.
• Anvis sent Last Dragonborn a task to investigate a female actress within three days and granted him temporary access to Mysteries Society resources, including its Teleportation Array.
• Last Dragonborn accepted the new assignment enthusiastically and offered his service to Anvis.

The Last Dragonborn received an anonymous offer to spy on the Mysteries Society and reflected on how an earlier anonymous letter had led him to help Zero Recharge. Anvis focused on the Society’s successful Player-run city-building program and the approaching Class Advancement Quests that would shape the next generation of high-end Players.

• The Last Dragonborn received an anonymous message asking him to pass confidential information from the Mysteries Society and White Light Club, but dismissed the offer.
• The Last Dragonborn reconsidered the earlier letter that had led him to contact Zero Recharge’s father and concluded that Silver Blue Esports or one of Zero Recharge’s rivals had likely sent it.
• Anvis left the investigation into an actress to the Players and concentrated on managing the Mysteries Society, which had drawn the Olyvendi Family’s attention for keeping its Player members orderly.
• Anvis’s Player city-building program gave Players a stable way to gain experience and offered transferable, century-long commercial land operating rights to the top contributors.
• Players reached the Fourth Rank and began facing their first Class Advancement Quests, whose difficulty depended on their characters’ aptitude and past choices.

Anvis accompanied Harvey to the Gloria Grand Theater, where he noticed that the actress Harvey admired carried a Dream Ripple that harmonized with Harvey’s Spiritual Power. He decided to study their unusual compatibility and offered to help Harvey get together with her in exchange for a promise.

• Anvis and Harvey went to the Gloria Grand Theater to watch "Phantom of the Opera," while Harvey rambled about his admiration for the actress.
• Harvey became discouraged when Anvis warned that his reputation might interfere with his introduction to the actress.
• Harvey excitedly watched the actress appear onstage, and Anvis noticed a Dream Ripple surrounding her.
• Anvis observed that the actress’s Dream Ripple harmonized with Harvey’s Spiritual Power and considered studying the connection.
• Anvis offered to help Harvey get together with the actress if Harvey promised him something in return.

Anvis investigated why Harvey had become infatuated with the actress Locina and discovered that her Dream Ripple harmonized with Harvey’s mental frequency. After watching her perform and arranging a private meeting, Anvis collected data and revealed three other objects with similar Dream Ripples, leaving Harvey alarmed.

• Harvey refused to share his girlfriend with Anvis, who explained that he wanted to study how Locina’s Dream Ripple affected Harvey.
• During the opera’s climax, a masked ghost abducted the heroine, then was defeated after letting her reunite with the noble protagonist.
• Anvis brought Harvey backstage to meet Locina, and Harvey introduced himself with a bouquet of Moon Shadow roses.
• Anvis observed that Locina seemed merely nervous and curious around Harvey, recorded her Dream Ripple, and ended their meeting after half an hour.
• On their way back, Anvis showed Harvey a toy doll, a boy’s photograph, and a dog, all emitting Dream Ripples similar to Locina’s.

Anvis tested the effects of Ma'eilimu’s Dream Ripple on Harvey and objects, then checked his fragment analysis and followed a lead on the King Selection Sword. He entered the ruins where the sword was reportedly hidden as other powerful figures began arriving.

• Anvis attached Dream Ripple to a dog, a doll, and a photograph, and Harvey became fixated on the dog until the spell wore off.
• Harvey agreed to a physical examination in exchange for Anvis’s help winning the actress’s heart, and Anvis kept the dog for further research.
• Anvis found that analysis of the pale blue fragment had reached about seventy percent and identified several high-grade metals among its components.
• Anvis’s avatars continued expanding the Black Ring Merchant Guild, regaining control of Rockhelm Kingdom, and searching for the King Selection Sword.
• Anvis discovered fresh excavation marks at ruins in Paravani Province, used Mercury Divination to confirm the sword was likely inside, and entered the ruins.
• Other figures of at least the Seventh Rank arrived near the ruins as Anvis’s main body remained at the Academy managing the Mysteries Society.

Anvis was regarded as the weakest and least ambitious of the Four Great Families’ descendants, while Kolen Aslaide and Hill Lynn Innoc discussed the newly discovered King Selection Sword in Paravani Province. Kolen dismissed Anvis’s Mysteries Society as unreliable, though Hill Lynn warned that it had grown too influential to ignore.

• The outside world ranked Kolen Aslaide first among the Four Great Families’ descendants, with Hill Lynn Innoc second, Rasul Alfred third, and Anvis last.
• Hill Lynn told Kolen that the King Selection Sword had been located in mysterious Ruins in Paravani Province, and Kolen revealed that his family had already sent his fifth brother to investigate.
• Kolen said he had people watching the Ruins and expected rival families to compete for the Sword, possibly giving him a chance to intercept it.
• Hill Lynn asked whether they should approach the other families, while Kolen insisted she act for herself and treated her as his only worthy opponent.
• Hill Lynn cautioned Kolen not to underestimate Anvis’s growing Mysteries Society, but Kolen dismissed its Outsider members as disloyal and ineffective.

Anvis discovered the King Selection Sword in a sealed ruin but triggered a deadly warning when he tried to take it. He left the chamber as Yaxila Aslaide and his guards arrived and attacked the device powering its barrier.

• Anvis found the stone sword inside a barrier in the ruins and recognized it as the King Selection Sword.
• Daos concealed himself nearby, and Anvis passed through the barrier before retreating when touching the sword filled him with a sense of mortal danger.
• Anvis confirmed that the chamber held a deadly defense system and left, while Daos fled after realizing Anvis had noticed him.
• Yaxila Aslaide arrived with Simus and Morag, recognized the treasure, and ordered his guards to break the barrier by attacking its power device.
• Anvis's spiritual senses warned him as Simus and Morag launched their spells at the device.

Anvis and Yaxila’s party fled a Secret Chamber after discovering its deadly self-destruct trap, but Skasa Innoc blocked their escape and confronted them over what they had found. Yaxila’s attempt to break through failed, and dispelling the delayed spell did not end the looming danger.

• Yaxila and his guards discovered that the Secret Chamber was protected by a self-destruct trap they could not safely disable.
• Yaxila decided to set a delayed spell and leave, confident that the sword inside would survive the explosion if it was genuine.
• Anvis fled toward the Ruins’ entrance as the sense of impending death continued to grow.
• Skasa Innoc blocked Yaxila and his guards with a barrier and demanded to know what they had found.
• Yaxila attacked Skasa, but Skasa weakened the blow and held the group back with his barrier and Arcane Golems.
• Yaxila dispelled the delayed spell, then realized the sense of impending danger had not gone away.

A cloaked figure and his subordinate manipulated events around Ruins Canyon, killing Daos and recording altered fates for those inside the ruins. Anvis escaped the ruins’ destruction, but the figure assigned him a fabricated fate that Anvis’s Fate Feedback repelled.

• Yashira unleashed his Bloodline True Form and Wild Berserk after Skasa Innoc deduced that he had dispelled a Delayed Spell.
• A cloaked figure ordered Shadow to prepare a record of the selected targets’ fates and killed Daos with golden flames as he fled the ruins.
• The figure revised his account when Anvis appeared to escape the ruins, then activated an Amulet that destroyed the Subspace Entrance and brought three injured figures out nearby.
• The figure dictated fabricated events in which Skasa Enoch took the King Selection Sword, killed Yaxila Aslaide, and caused Aiteno Alfred’s death, while a witness escaped to inform Anvis Olyvendi.
• The figure branded the recorded fates with his spiritual imprint, but Anvis’s Fate Feedback repelled the power that descended on him.

Anvis allowed an enemy to abduct and hypnotize his Avatar so he could discover the plot against the Four Great Families. He resisted the manipulation in secret, and the encounter left a new Twisted Seed connection point in his mental space.

• Anvis recognized that an enemy had concealed and overwritten Fate Lines, then let a Black-Clothed Man knock out and abduct his Avatar.
• Anvis's true body used Flesh Control and Soul Shadowing to keep the Avatar hidden and monitor it from Pamir Academy.
• After waking in a dim room, Anvis's Avatar was hypnotized into believing Skasa Innoc had killed Yashira Aslaide and destroyed the scene with Super-Rank Magic.
• The hypnotist gave Anvis's Avatar a Crystal Ball and ordered him to leave through a Teleportation Array, whereupon the Avatar departed.
• Anvis's true body discovered a new Twisted Seed connection point and realized he had countered the hypnosis.

Anvis searched Shadow’s memories and learned that Marquis Delaka had arranged for an expedition to uncover clues to the King Selection Sword Ruins, then planned to eliminate its members. Delaka also explained that he intended to exploit turmoil in the Empire’s Four Great Provinces, while Anvis realized that the Prophets were seeking a breakthrough beyond the Federation.

• Anvis touched the Twisted Seed and searched the memories of Shadow, an Eighth-Rank Spellcaster serving Marquis Delaka.
• Shadow reported that an expedition had set out for the King Selection Sword Ruins and that her agents had infiltrated its ranks.
• Marquis Delaka ordered Shadow to kill the expedition members after they returned with the clues, to keep the Four Great Families from using them for prophecy.
• Delaka explained that he meant to use the Resistance Organization Spark, the Glory Alliance, and small and medium-sized nobles to destabilize the Four Great Provinces.
• Anvis realized the conflict was connected to Prophets seeking a new breakthrough after the Federation’s great war ended.

Anvis learned that Marquis Delaka had used a fake King Selection Sword and a staged catastrophe to provoke conflict among the great families. While Anvis kept Shadow concealed as a pawn, Yashira’s death and Skasa’s return with the imitation sword sparked a confrontation between the Aslaide and Enoch Families.

• Anvis discovered that Marquis Delaka had found the real King Selection Sword in ancient Ruins but used an imitation as bait in a plot to stir chaos and advance his title.
• Anvis realized that Shadow’s identity gave him a secret advantage, so he chose to stay hidden and have his Avatar follow the hypnosis script.
• After Yashira’s death, Sid Aslaide investigated the destroyed battlefield and used prophecy to conclude that Skasa Innoc had killed her over the King Selection Sword.
• Sid confronted the Enoch Family and demanded the sword and Skasa, while Talina Enoch insisted that they had only obtained a fake.
• The Enoch Family confirmed that Skasa had returned gravely wounded with an imitation sword and fallen into spiritual slumber.

Talina and Sid nearly fought over Skasa, the King Selection Sword, and the truth behind the incident, but both recognized the danger of a full clash and reached a temporary compromise. After Sid departed with half of the Broken Sword, Talina ordered an investigation into the other families involved.

• Sid demanded that Talina hand over Skasa and the King Selection Sword or face war, while Talina disputed his claims and said Skasa was spiritually asleep and the sword was an imitation.
• Sid attacked Talina with a rule-based slash, but the Thousand Towers Forest empowered her barriers enough to stop it.
• Sid merged his aura with Fontis as storm clouds gathered, while Talina prepared the Mage Tower’s defenses and warned him against being used as a pawn.
• Talina proposed a ceasefire and investigation, and Sid agreed to leave in exchange for the sword, so Talina gave him half of the Broken Sword.
• After Sid left, Talina ordered personnel to investigate the circumstances of people from the other two families who had been drawn into the matter.

After the Aslaid and Enoch families investigated the Broken Sword incident, they suspected Anvis Olyvendi and Aiteno Alfred and sent envoys to their families. Anvis learned that his enemies planned to frame the Alfred Family with the real King Selection Sword and prepared to intercept it.

• Talina investigated the suspicious battle and identified Aiteno Alfred and Anvis Olyvendi as the families’ primary suspects.
• Talina learned that Aiteno’s Life Crystal Ball had not shattered, suggesting he was still alive despite the report of his death.
• Anvis returned to Moonrise Fortress and told Duke Carlot what his hypnotized avatar had supposedly witnessed.
• Anvis used the planted seed in a dark professional to learn that Aiteno had been captured and brainwashed.
• Anvis discovered that the enemy planned to give Aiteno the real King Selection Sword and frame the Alfred Family, so he resolved to intercept the sword.

Marquis Delaka sent Aitno Alfred toward the Alfred Family with the King Selection Sword, believing his hypnosis was intact and planning for other families to discover the sword. Anvis, disguised as Viller, took control of Aitno and swapped the real sword for a replica, leaving Delaka unaware of the deception.

• Marquis Delaka grew suspicious that Aitno Alfred might have faked his hypnosis and inspected him in the sealed Secret Chamber.
• After confirming Aitno remained hypnotized, Marquis Delaka ordered Shadow to teleport him and the King Selection Sword near the Alfred Family.
• Shadow watched Aitno through a Magic Mirror as he arrived at Silver Moon Lake and encountered Viller, whose gaze shattered the mirror.
• Anvis, disguised as Viller and aided by Shadow, took control of Aitno and replaced the real King Selection Sword with a replica.

Anvis used the Old Days Secret Scripture to seal the King Selection Sword while sending Aiteno to delay the approaching Ninth Rank experts. The experts arrived after Anvis had escaped and suspected the Circle of Truth had taken the sword, prompting them to plan an arrest warrant and notify the Royal Family.

• Anvis began sealing the King Selection Sword with the Old Days Secret Scripture, but realized the process would take several minutes.
• Anvis sent Aiteno toward the other families’ Alchemy Flying Shuttles to contact the Alfred Family’s Ninth Rank expert and delay the pursuers.
• Anvis finished sealing the sword, teleported away with the Old Days Secret Scripture, and dispersed his avatar before the Ninth Rank experts arrived.
• Veil of Night Kureia identified the gray residue as evidence of the Circle of Truth Leader’s avatar, while Aurora Erui wondered why the leader had appeared there.
• Golden Knight Sid sensed that the King Selection Sword had been present and questioned Aiteno, but Aurora Erui shielded him.
• Veil of Night Kureia proposed issuing an Arrest Warrant against the Circle of Truth and reporting to the Royal Family that it had likely taken the King Selection Sword.

After sealing the King Selection Sword in the Old Days Secret Scripture, Anvis discovered that it steadily radiated power that improved his attunement to the world's laws. Marquis Delaka's plans to provoke conflict among the great families faltered, while Anvis returned to his academy routine with the sword still sealed.

• Anvis sensed warm, unusual power flowing from the sealed King Selection Sword and decided to study it rather than release the sword.
• Marquis Delaka blamed the Circle of Truth for disrupting his plan to spark conflict among the great families, and ordered Shadow to investigate possible spies among his subordinates.
• Anvis learned from Duke Carlot that the sword might require the Ancient Magic Empire's royal bloodline to unseal, but his Artificial Bloodline had no effect.
• Anvis found that the sword's power gradually improved his Spiritual Power's attunement to the laws of the world.
• Harvey met Anvis after class and explained that he had stopped flirting with others for the sake of his actress girlfriend.

Anvis told Harvey that Players were eagerly building up his territory, while Harvey recounted how his own Outsider alchemy apprentices had fled with his supplies. Harvey warned Anvis about the Players and revealed that Lanno was quietly recruiting them for intelligence work, leaving Anvis to suspect that Lanno was courting major Clubs to conceal a deeper plan.

• Harvey asked Anvis how his Outsider work program was going, and Anvis described Players paying to work around the clock and compete for construction rewards.
• Harvey explained that his Outsider alchemy apprentices had performed poorly, abandoned the workshop, and stolen materials worth more than ten thousand Gold Coins.
• Harvey warned Anvis not to trust the Outsiders, and Anvis reminded him to bring his girlfriend to the Royal Capital Laboratory for an examination that night.
• Harvey revealed that Lanno and others were privately trying to establish intelligence agencies with Outsiders.
• Anvis recalled Lanno's past popularity with Players and suspected he had deliberately leaked the intelligence-agency news while secretly contacting major Clubs.

Anvis cautiously connected with Yanile and learned that the bishop had survived the Church’s ritual, reached the ninth rank, and gained access to the secrets of the Saint Plan. Yanile revealed that the plan concealed the Pope’s attempt to become a Legendary-rank Holy Knight, leaving Anvis with the ritual’s materials and intent on disrupting the Church’s research.

• Anvis sensed Yanile activating the Twisted Seed and prepared the Old Days Secret Scripture before answering the contact.
• Anvis witnessed fragments of Yanile’s memories, including the Angels in the Sea of Origin and the ritual that killed six bishops while leaving Yanile anchored by the Twisted Seed.
• Yanile told Anvis that he had become a ninth-rank Four Archbishop and would still obey Anvis unless his orders gravely conflicted with Church doctrine.
• Yanile revealed that the Saint Plan’s public goal was to create a powerful Saint, while Pope Saint Messiah III secretly sought to use Faith Power to reach Legendary rank.
• Yanile sent Anvis the Saint Transformation Ritual materials, and Anvis resolved to prevent the Church from pursuing its research undisturbed.