Chapter Summaries

Xia Yuan was reborn ten days before Mysterious Era’s closed beta and planned to use his foreknowledge to secure a Game Pod and get ahead. A strange reflection sent him a cryptic message about coming to Uniwal after the seventh cycle of light and darkness.

• Xia Yuan woke in his younger body and recalled how Mysterious Era’s launch had reshaped gaming, along with the opportunities he had missed in his past life.
• Xia Yuan remembered how his lore research had earned him the nickname Lucky Silver Hand and the hidden title Novice Ruins Scholar.
• Xia Yuan performed rock-paper-scissors in the mirror and realized he might have lost a round to his reflection.
• The candle went out, and Xia Yuan saw his reflection’s mouth twist and its eyes turn black and white.
• The reflection sent Xia Yuan the message, “When the seventh cycle of light and darkness ends, you will come to Uniwal,” and the information made him convulse in pain.

After a mirror incident convinced Xia Yuan that he would be transported to Uniwal in seven days, he tried to gather advice online and began preparing for several possible forms of transmigration. He left the mirror unbroken and spent the remaining time ordering supplies and memorizing useful knowledge.

• Xia Yuan realized the mirror's message referred to Uniwal, the world of Mysterious Era, and estimated that he would arrive there in seven days.
• Xia Yuan posted about the incident online, but commenters mocked him, so he reposted it as a request for ideas for a novel and received detailed preparation advice.
• Xia Yuan considered smashing the mirror, but his hammer could not damage its surface.
• Xia Yuan decided to prepare for multiple forms of transmigration, ordered supplies for delivery within three days, and began memorizing practical knowledge and downloading reference materials.

Xia Yuan was pulled through a supernatural mirror at midnight, and his consciousness traveled through a strange world before entering a newborn child. His body remained behind on Blue Star, where its reflection typed a bizarre message.

• During the days before midnight, Xia Yuan prepared supplies, hired someone to replace his bathroom door, and scheduled payments to users who had helped him.
• As midnight arrived, Xia Yuan's body moved against his will toward the mirror, whose surface turned black and began transforming the bathroom into a monochrome scene.
• A powerful force pulled Xia Yuan's consciousness through the mirror and into a colorful void, where strange energy seeped into him.
• Xia Yuan's consciousness passed into darkness, heard a heartbeat, and emerged into cold air as a newborn baby.
• At Moonrise Fortress in the Gloria Empire, a statue commemorated Aldrich Lo Olivendi, while Xia Yuan's abandoned body collapsed and its reflection typed a message.

Xia Yuan was reborn as a newborn in the Olyvendi family and discovered that a spiritual fragment could give him memories and a new language. Duke Carlot prepared a bloodline test for the child as another memory began to surface.

• Madam gave birth to a healthy boy, and Xia Yuan realized he had been reborn as a newborn.
• Duke Carlot learned that Madam and the baby were safe, then ordered rewards for the castle servants and guards.
• As the newborn was carried toward the testing room, a spiritual fragment merged into Xia Yuan's consciousness and showed a memory of the child being named Anvis Carlas Carlot Elena Lo Olyvendi.
• Duke Carlot arrived at the testing room and ordered the Ritual Mage to begin the bloodline test.
• The Ritual Mage placed a Magic Crystal in the ritual circle and activated its deep blue light.

The newborn Xia Yuan passed the ritual with Level Nine bloodline concentrations and a one hundred percent Soul Synchronization Rate, prompting the Duke to announce a province-wide celebration. A month later, Xia Yuan reflected on the memories of Little Anvis, a noble heir whose family faced decline, and noticed figures he suspected were Players.

• Erica placed the newborn in the magic array, where the Duke's ritual mage detected Level Nine bloodline concentrations in both rings.
• A mental fragment emerged from the strange energy in Xia Yuan's spiritual space, causing the array's rune to reveal a one hundred percent Soul Synchronization Rate.
• The Duke ordered Butler Leonard to arrange a Naming Ceremony, invite the imperial family and great families, and hold a three-day celebration across Carlas Province.
• News of the Duke's son spread through Carlras City and the Carlas Province, where people celebrated the tax reduction and holiday.
• About a month later, Xia Yuan recalled that Little Anvis belonged to the Olyvendi Family and learned from the memories that it would suffer during the rise of the New Nobles.
• Xia Yuan spotted two figures in a memory who appeared to be Players because they hopped as they walked.

Xia Yuan suspected he had arrived in the world of Mysterious Era and was brought to the Olyvendi family's Naming Ceremony in Carlras City. The ceremony began with him placed on a rune-covered dais beneath the Twin Moons, but its outcome was not yet revealed.

• Xia Yuan checked himself for the censorship-enforced Pants of Sighs and found they were absent, then recognized the Silver Moon Sevien and Purple Moon Emis as the carriage arrived.
• Citizens and nobles gathered in Carlras City's Upper District for the Olyvendi family's Naming Ceremony, a ritual that formally recognized a newborn among the Empire's aristocracy.
• Duke Carlot, the Duchess, the imperial Envoy, and the Duke's children arrived at the plaza and ascended the platform.
• Erica carried Xia Yuan to the three-tiered dais and placed him at its center as its star pattern and runes began to glow.
• Isidore announced the start of the Ritual, and the assembled Spellcasters chanted as mana and moonlight spread across the platform.

Xia Yuan realized he had been reborn as Anvis Olyvendi during the Naming Ceremony, then slept for half a year as his memories returned. After waking, he accepted his new identity and resolved to live on as Anvis.

• The Naming Ceremony named the newborn Anvis and celebrated his birth as the Child of Destiny of Carlras.
• Xia Yuan recognized that he had been reborn as Anvis and absorbed the moonlight, which increased his Magic aptitude before he fell asleep.
• As his memories returned, Anvis recalled the Olyvendi Family’s future decline amid the Resistance uprising and the Battle of Anila.
• After half a year, Anvis woke in the Duchess’s arms and saw his infant reflection in a mirror.
• Anvis touched hands with his reflection and silently greeted himself, resolving to live on.

Anvis recalled how the Olyvendi Family’s immense wealth and resources had been used to strengthen him from infancy, while his parents’ union joined two families with Legendary Bloodlines. He left the account recognizing that nobles guarded talent-enhancing resources and knowledge, giving their descendants a decisive advantage.

• Anvis’s family immersed him in Saint Blood Potion every week, raising both his Legendary Bloodline concentrations to the tenth level.
• Anvis’s mother, Elena Lo Alfred, had married Duke Carrot after they fell in love, forming an alliance between the Olyvendi and Alfred Families.
• Anvis learned that all four of Carrot’s children had Dual Legendary Bloodlines, though his three elder brothers had one dominant bloodline each.
• Anvis received Super Magic Crystal every two days, allowing its Source Mana to improve his aptitude, Mana affinity, physique, and Spiritual Power.
• Anvis learned that nobles controlled Super Magic Crystal supplies and kept the secrets of talent enhancement within their own circles.

Anvis, a transmigrator and young Olivenndi noble, began his day with his sister Fiona and their parents, Duke Carlot and Duchess Elena. At breakfast, the family discussed the Empire’s new magic-construct train, while Anvis recognized its launch as a sign of historic change.

• Anvis woke, practiced a spell, and prepared for the day under the strict routine enforced by butler Leonard.
• Anvis met Fiona in the corridor, and they greeted each other before heading to the breakfast hall.
• Duke Carlot and Duchess Elena discussed the Empire’s decision to begin service of the Radiance magic-construct train and the likely growth of civilian constructs.
• Anvis noticed the newspaper headline announcing the Radiance’s launch and realized the Empire was entering a new era.
• The family ate an elaborate breakfast as Leonard supervised Anvis and Fiona’s table manners.

Anvis completed his morning lessons in languages, noble etiquette, and imperial history, then spent his free afternoon exploring Moonrise Fortress’s library. After browsing its eccentric collection of dragon-and-princess stories, he chose an unfamiliar book on basic magic theory and began reading.

• Anvis studied the Manni Language, the Elven language of the Far East Continent, noble etiquette, and the Empire’s secret history.
• Anvis spent his free time playing with Fiona and Peers and visiting the Grand Library of Moonrise Fortress.
• Anvis recalled how Little Anvis had collected and read many unusual stories about princesses, heroes, and dragons.
• Anvis hid one especially strange story from Fiona and moved on to the shelves of magic theory.
• Anvis selected an unfamiliar book on the fundamentals of magic theory and began reading.

At a noble tea party, Anvis delivered an idealistic speech about serving his family and subjects, then explained how industrialists and nobles could benefit one another. The duke and duchess saw his ideas as idealistic but impressive, while Lewis privately dismissed him.

• Anvis gave the young nobles an impassioned declaration about becoming a benevolent ruler and protecting the Olyvendi Family.
• Fiona admired Anvis's speech, while Duke Carlot and Elena wondered whether he had been influenced by too many biographies.
• Anvis noticed Martina, Elen, and Lewis reacting with concealed contempt, and Lewis privately judged Anvis as naive.
• Intis asked Anvis what an industrialist was, and he explained how businesses and workers complemented nobles, territories, and taxes.
• Lewis failed to understand Anvis's explanation but pretended to be thoughtful as the gathering moved on.
• Duke Carlot and Elena discussed Anvis's ideas and agreed that they were idealistic but remarkable.

Anvis used his inherited authority to prepare the family's Construct factories for future military production while keeping his ambitions hidden behind civilian Construct Train manufacturing. As his education advanced and his instructors mistook his distracted brilliance for genius, he reflected in the Library on the approaching changes he knew the Empire could not avoid.

• Duke Carlot gave Anvis control of a merchant association and two Construct Factories, and Anvis converted their planned production lines to Construct Trains.
• Anvis treated the factories as cover for acquiring the materials and equipment he would later need to produce large-scale war Constructs.
• Anvis answered Mr. David's questions about Ancient Manni Language flawlessly despite appearing distracted, reinforcing his instructors' belief that he was a genius.
• Anvis's curriculum expanded to include magical languages, social skills, Archaeology, and several advanced magical subjects as he grew older.
• Anvis used his increased Library privileges to study and considered how the Empire's apparent prosperity concealed the seeds of a new era.

Anvis absorbed the final trace of strange energy and received Little Anvis’s complete memories of a catastrophic future for the Olyvendi Family. He entered the Library the next day, determined to process what he had learned.

• Anvis replaced the lamp’s magic crystal with Super Magic Crystal Ore and meditated using the Carrot Meditation Method.
• The final trace of strange energy merged into Anvis’s consciousness, revealing a complete orb of memories and overwhelming him until he collapsed unconscious.
• An illusory ripple spread from Anvis’s Sea of Spirit, drawing the attention of an old man in a Secret Chamber at Moonrise Fortress, who found nothing after investigating.
• Anvis’s memories showed Raymond captured, Evan missing, Aranis forced to retreat, and Fiona captured as the Olyvendi Family’s enemies overwhelmed them.
• After a radiant enemy attacked Night Wind Fortress, Carlot scattered the surviving family with a chaotic teleportation, and Little Anvis hid under a false identity after stripping away his bloodline.
• Little Anvis later learned that Fiona had reached the Ninth Rank as the Star of the Northern Region, then began carrying out a long-planned scheme.

Anvis recalled how the Olyvendi Family’s wish-granting crystal yīn had disappeared after Odrich wished to become Legendary, and how Lois later established rules for using it. Little Anvis had spent yīn’s renewed power on a vague wish to restore the family’s glory, summoning Anvis from another world; Anvis now had to find a way to change the family’s fate.

• Anvis reviewed how Odrich used yīn to wish for Legendary Rank and vanished, while the crystal turned gray.
• A thousand years later, Lois failed to wish Odrich back, then used yīn to reach Ninth Rank Limit and wrote rules for future wishes.
• After Fiona reappeared, Little Anvis abandoned his plan to use yīn to raise his own rank.
• Little Anvis made the vague wish to restore the Olyvendi Family’s glory, sacrificing everything, including his soul.
• The wish brought Anvis from another world into Little Anvis’s past, where he inherited his memories and faced the task of changing the family’s fate.

Anvis pieced together how the Rebel Army, the Glory Alliance, the Holy Radiance Church, and other powers had conspired against the Olyvendi Family and the Four Great Families, while the Royal Family’s motives remained unclear. Unable to warn his family without revealing his secrets, he turned to the knowledge and foresight he had gained from his past lives as potential advantages.

• Anvis concluded that the Rebel Army was a proxy backed by powerful forces, including the Glory Alliance and possibly the Continental Magic Council and Holy Radiance Church.
• Anvis reasoned that the rising New Nobles and the Royal Family both had reasons to let the Four Great Families weaken, but he could not explain why the Royal Family had allowed the Rebel Army to grow so powerful.
• Anvis realized that the old noble order had become an obstacle to the new era and that the Four Great Families faced a broader threat than their family’s immediate enemies.
• Anvis decided he could not share his information with the Duke or other family leaders because he could not explain its source or risk an inspection of his Sea of Spirit.
• Anvis focused on the advantages of his reincarnation memories, including foreknowledge of rare resources, sealed treasures, and future prominent NPCs.

Anvis assessed his advantages and began considering how to preserve the Olyvendi Family despite powerful enemies and a threat beyond the Ninth Rank. A strange Mana summons led him to an ominous ancient book in the Library, which he identified as Hill's Poem.

• Anvis weighed his knowledge, family identity, and decades of preparation as advantages in protecting the Olyvendi Family.
• Anvis considered ways to counter the enemy beyond the Ninth Rank, but found that teleportation and the lack of suitable materials thwarted his ideas.
• Anvis sensed a strange, familiar Mana aura in the Library and ruled out newly added books as its source.
• Anvis followed the summons to a dark green ancient tome in the poetry section and drew it from the shelf with Mana.
• Anvis examined the sealed book and read the title, Hill's Poem.

Anvis brought the strange book Hill's Poem to Duke Carlot for examination, and the duke found no abnormalities until Anvis linked it with his Spiritual Power. The book transformed into a dark, ominous object bearing the title “Old Days Secret Scripture,” while its whispers and distortions affected the study.

• Anvis examined Hill's Poem and discovered that its cover was made from an unknown material.
• Anvis told Duke Carlot about the book and asked him to check it for danger.
• Duke Carlot inspected the book, found no unusual mana or feedback, and asked Anvis to connect his Spiritual Power to it.
• Anvis linked with the book, causing black shadows, a blazing sun symbol, and eerie whispers to emerge as the study's surroundings distorted.
• Anvis saw the book's title change to “Old Days Secret Scripture.”

Anvis gained a mysterious high-rank book from Duke Carlot after discovering his Spiritual Power could not withstand its contents. After Anvis left, Carlot recognized the book’s aura and retrieved an ancient Key from a hidden compartment.

• Anvis opened the aged book, found a strange symbol, and lost track of three hours and thirty-two minutes while trying to read it.
• Duke Carlot severed Anvis’s connection to the book and explained the Lakana Effect and the importance of building a strong foundation before advancing.
• Anvis asked for the book, and Duke Carlot agreed to lend it to him in exchange for Anvis adding at least three similar books to the Library in the future.
• White flames removed the runes from the book, and Anvis gained its recognition as it shrank to palm size; Duke Carlot gave him a note to collect book-chain materials at Moonrise Fortress.
• After Anvis left, Duke Carlot identified the book as the Old Days Secret Scripture and retrieved an ancient dark-silver Key from a hidden compartment.

Anvis used Void Sinking Silver to make a chain for the Old Days Secret Scripture, while Blue Star resident Jiang Heng won a closed-beta slot for Mysterious Era and began creating his character. Jiang Heng chose the nickname Last Dragonborn and started the game as a Nature Elf.

• Anvis had Leonard craft a chain for the Old Days Secret Scripture from several dozen grams of Void Sinking Silver, then used Spell Trick to change the book's cover to silver-white.
• Jiang Heng learned he had won one of 250 closed-beta slots for Mysterious Era and ordered an exclusive Game Pod.
• Jiang Heng shared his qualification with most of his friends, then entered the Game Pod and began creating his identity.
• Jiang Heng registered the nickname Last Dragonborn and chose the Elf race, then selected Nature Elf for its Charisma bonus.
• The character-creation system transformed Jiang Heng's avatar into a pale, green-eyed Elf with long, light-green hair.

Jiang Heng entered Mysterious Era as an elf in the Gloria Empire and explored the game’s realistic medieval city while inspecting his character panel and the developer’s rules. After testing the game’s pain system, he heard a child ask whether he was fleeing from disaster.

• Jiang Heng created an Elf Youth, named his character Laboratory Dragonborn, and chose the Gloria Empire as his starting region.
• Last Dragonborn appeared beside a city road, marveled at the lifelike surroundings, and touched and licked a building’s brick wall.
• Last Dragonborn opened his character panel and reviewed his level, attributes, traits, skills, and beginner’s gift pack.
• Last Dragonborn read the developers’ notice about NPC intelligence, carrier-pigeon messaging, limited resurrections, and costly character reincarnation, then accepted the terms.
• Last Dragonborn struck his forearm to test the pain settings and watched his health fall by one point.
• A child nearby called Last Dragonborn a pitiful big brother and asked if he was fleeing from disaster.