Chapter Summaries

Anvis and Chom prepared a hidden escape route before entering the mountains, where an intense Cursed Force Field threatened their sanity. They reached the cliff bearing the Giant Rock Reliefs, whose mysterious figures came into view through the mist.

• Anvis and Chom crossed ancient ruins near the mountains, and Chom warned that the Cursed Force Field ahead was growing stronger.
• Chom installed and concealed a Portable Fixed-Point Space Teleportation Array as an emergency escape route.
• Anvis replaced his rings with curse-resistant ones, and he and Chom entered the mountains under the powerful Cursed Force Field.
• Anvis used the map to guide them to the cliff, where enormous reliefs depicted faceless humanoids fused with black sea lily Tentacles.

Anvis and Jom entered the Moon Calling Sect’s secret ritual site beneath the relief cliff, where Anvis found a cavern resembling the one from his prophetic Painting. The God Statue was missing, but Anvis detected traces of the Alien Power his Avatar had brought back from Evan.

• Jom froze a mutated Black Grass and escorted Anvis to the cave beneath the Faceless Female statue.
• Jom cast several high-level Protection Spells on Anvis before they entered the cave.
• Anvis and Jom crossed a bottomless abyss and found a cavern with a massive Stone Altar and a long stone Ritual Stone Platform.
• Anvis examined the mark where a heavy object had been moved and used the Old Days Secret Scripture to detect familiar Alien Power gathered there.

Anvis used Bloodline Divination to search for Evan and saw ruins beneath a barren wasteland before Alien Power corrupted the vision and attacked him. He then investigated the hidden seal behind the Altar, but neither he nor Jom could detect anything in the ordinary-looking wall, so Anvis asked Jom to slash it.

• Anvis gathered the dust left by a trace and used it with his blood in a Bloodline Divination to locate Evan.
• The divination showed ruins above an underground labyrinth, but black-green Alien Power obscured the vision and reached toward Anvis before Jom severed the connection.
• Anvis saved an image of the ruins on magical Parchment to ask the Old Explorer about them.
• Anvis searched behind the Altar for the Jet-Black Seal but found only an ordinary-looking stone wall that the Old Days Secret Scripture could not sense.
• Anvis asked Jom to probe the wall, and Jom reported that he found no hidden objects.
• Anvis asked Jom to slash deeply into the wall.

Claire reached the ruins near the mountains and met Anvis and Chom after they teleported out of a dangerous cave. She explained that she had come to remove a misfortune that endangered those around her and warned Anvis to keep his distance.

• Claire reached the forest ruins, made camp, and prepared a meal before entering the Ancient Mountains.
• Anvis and Chom escaped the cave with the Teleportation Beacon after Chom’s strike awakened strange beings and sealed the cave’s space.
• Claire and Anvis recognized each other and shared accounts of their reasons for coming to the island.
• Anvis said he had come to find his missing brother Evan and blamed the Esoteric Order on the island.
• Claire told Anvis that an Ancient Slab described something that could remove her misfortune, then warned him that staying close to her was dangerous.

Anvis reassured Claire that Jom, a Rank 8 powerhouse, was protecting him during their trip to the island. The three shared lunch, and Claire discovered that Anvis’s family’s idea of a simple field meal was an extravagant boxed lunch.

• Anvis introduced Jom Olivenndi as his Rank 8 protector and explained why he felt safe on the island.
• Claire warned Anvis that her unusual trait had once brought serious trouble to her Rank 8 teacher, but Anvis remained confident in Jom’s protection.
• Claire offered Anvis toasted bread, and he accepted while asking Jom to bring out their lunch.
• Jom conjured a stone dining table and chairs, then laid out an array of luxurious dishes from Constant Lunchboxes.
• Anvis added Claire’s rabbit stew to the feast and invited her to sit and eat with him.

Anvis learned that Claire had followed clues from an ancient stone slab to the island, hoping to uncover the source of her Misfortune Trait. A prophecy warned of a coming event, so Anvis resolved to find the Moon Calling Sect, locate the Seal, and investigate Evan’s disappearance before time ran out.

• Claire told Anvis that a mysterious attraction in her dreams had led her to the island and that she hoped to remove her Misfortune Trait there.
• Claire shared her notes and stone slabs, revealing a prophecy about a gate opening on the Black Moon during the nonexistent ninth star hour.
• Claire explained that the event was likely within half a year and that explorer Baige Sen Lohankok had warned people to leave Lavanles before it arrived.
• Anvis concluded that he needed to find the Moon Calling Sect, the Seal, and Evan as soon as possible.
• Anvis remembered that the Players’ open beta had begun and wondered whether his message had reached the Duke.

After Claire departed, Anvis dealt with three Fifth Rank Heretic Cultists and returned to Lavanles with Jom. He asked the Old Explorer Baige Sen to locate the ruins, and Baige Sen revealed that the ruins belonged to the Moon Calling Sect, leaving Anvis’s next move unresolved.

• Claire thanked Anvis for lunch, called him her companion, and left for the castle at the mountain summit.
• Anvis noticed the forest had gone silent and left Jom to fight three Fifth Rank Heretic Cultists.
• Jom captured the cultists, whose minds seemed largely assimilated, but searching them revealed no useful information.
• Anvis and Jom returned to Lavanles before nightfall and visited the Old Explorer Baige Sen.
• Anvis showed Baige Sen a rubbing of the ruins’ layout, and Baige Sen identified the site as the Moon Calling Sect’s target.

Anvis learned that the Moon Calling Sect’s ruins lay in the Mesaigica Wasteland, while outsiders’ strange behavior caused trouble in Carlras. Duke Carlot arrived to address the outsiders, and Xia Ye Ying Huo returned to Lona’s house despite her fear.

• Baige Sen located the ruins in the Mesaigica Wasteland and offered Anvis information about the Moon Calling Sect for a higher price.
• George caught an outsider rummaging through his shop and took him to the City Guard garrison, where other outsiders watched without intervening.
• Duke Carlot questioned his Steward and scholar about the outsiders and said he had come to deal with the matter.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo returned to Lona’s house to avoid losing health, then stopped herself from complaining about the house for fear it was haunted.

Xia Ye Ying Huo learned that Lona could not help her escape the house and suspected the girl was its ghost. At the Sleeping Siren Tavern, Anvis concluded that Lavanles Port’s supposed protective force field was corrosive and connected to Lai, while keeping his focus on finding the Seal and restoring his strength.

• Lona told Xia Ye Ying Huo that it was too late and she could no longer leave the house.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo realized Lona might be trapped there too and wondered whether she was the house’s ghost.
• Anvis studied the Old Days Secret Scripture and concluded that Lavanles Port’s protective force field was actually corrosive and came from Lai Temple.
• Anvis suspected Lai’s Blessing and Emis Dust could be dangerous, and the Scripture was absorbing the force field to shield him from its effects.
• Anvis decided that finding the Seal and restoring his former Seventh Rank strength mattered more than giving Xia Ye Ying Huo another quest.

Anvis investigated the Port City's strange force field and learned that a Wanderer had fled into the wilderness and likely mutated. He and Jom then reached the Moon Calling Sect Ruins, where Jom blasted open a passage through the surface.

• Anvis left the Sleeping Siren with Jom and visited the harbor to ask about the Wanderer.
• An old man said the Wanderer had been an outsider whose consciousness the Cursed Force Field had eroded, and that he had fled into the wilderness and likely mutated.
• Anvis and Jom traveled to the Moon Calling Sect Ruins in the Mesaigica Wasteland and confirmed their location using a map.
• Anvis directed Jom to strike the center of the ruins, and Jom's ice-blue sword aura blasted a circular tunnel through the ground.

Anvis and Chom broke through the Moon Calling Sect’s hidden defenses, uncovered a mysterious Holy Relic, and found Evan imprisoned deep beneath the Ruins. The chapter left Anvis freeing Evan from enormous pink Tentacles, with Evan’s condition still unclear.

• Chom’s attack awakened a sinister priestly projection above the Ruins, which spoke of a missing Holy Relic, the Hound of the False God, and the coming Moment of True Advent before vanishing.
• Anvis sensed Evan’s presence and entered the Ruins with Chom, finding frozen Heretic Cultists and a dangerous Mystic Ritual Array disrupted by their attack.
• Anvis discovered valuable magic items and half of a pale crystalline Stone Eggshell that he judged to be a high-ranking Artifact and possible bait for a Holy Radiance Church bishop.
• Anvis followed the Bloodline Secret Technique to a stone cell, where he found Evan trapped inside enormous pink Tentacles and began freeing him.

Anvis found his missing brother Evan transformed into the blue-haired girl Evany and learned that the Moon Calling Sect had stolen his identity through a secret art. After rescuing Evan and looting the sect’s underground labyrinth, Anvis prepared to take the tentacle creature and research materials back for study.

• Anvis used bloodline guidance to locate Evan, then freed the blue-haired girl from the tentacles and gave her clothes.
• Evan explained that the Moon Calling Sect had trapped him in a Mystic Ritual Array and used Fate Parasitism to make him Evany.
• Anvis told Evan that Duke Carlot had sent him to investigate after everyone in the City Lord's Mansion of Abundant Gold City vanished.
• Anvis teased Evan about whether to call him Evan Brother or Sister Evany, and Evan insisted on being called Evan.
• Anvis stored the tentacle creature in a ring and recovered the sect’s Secret Art research materials from the underground labyrinth.

Anvis rescued Evany from the Heretic Cultists, and she agreed to stay with him while they searched for her missing family guard. Evany revealed that the island’s true other side lay in Uniwal’s Dream and identified the eggshell Artifact as the power that had lured her into a trap.

• Evany recovered after drinking a High-Grade Mana Potion and told Anvis she would stay with him until they found her family guard.
• Anvis collected necklaces from frozen cultists, explaining that he hoped to use them to locate the Heretic Cultists’ true ritual site and the black Seal.
• Evany told Anvis that the island’s hidden side lay in Uniwal’s Dream and warned him that entering Lavanles or opening a door to the dream there could trap and transform him.
• Back in the Ruins’ Core Hall, Anvis showed Evany the eggshell-shaped Artifact, and she recognized its aura as the power that had lured her into the cultists’ trap.

Anvis and Evany tested the eggshell Artifact, which Evany believed came from the island deity Rai and could create a powerful shield whose destruction enhanced her abilities. They left the Underground Labyrinth for a hidden shelter, while Anvis acquired a cultist’s necklace that could help guide them into the island’s Dream World.

• Evany identified the eggshell Artifact as possibly belonging to Rai and explained its protective power and connection to the island’s myths.
• Evany used the Artifact to create a shield that withstood Anvis’s attack and was pierced only by Chom’s Starfall technique; its fragments then enhanced Evany’s abilities.
• Anvis, Evany, Chom, and the Seventh Rank Black-robed Priest left the Underground Labyrinth and headed for a hidden shelter near the Border of Wasteland and Forest.
• Evany planned to refine the Black-robed Priest’s body into an undead-like summon, while Anvis took his purple-moon necklace as a potential Dream Realm Guide to the island’s Dream World.

Anvis prepared a Dream Realm Guide in Evany's underground shelter while Evany transformed the Seventh Rank Heretic Cultist's body into a powerful summon. With the guide ready and night approaching, they prepared to enter the island's Dream World, where Evany would lead them.

• Anvis and Evany reached Evany's underground shelter, where the Cursed Force Field was much weaker beneath the rock.
• Evany said she could not remove the Fate Parasitism's gender transformation without dealing with its caster, then began transforming the Seventh Rank Heretic Cultist's body.
• Anvis used a ritual, Luo Man Herb, and the Purple Moon Pendant to create a glowing Dream Key that served as the island's Dream Realm Guide.
• Evany completed a simplified transformation, producing a black-robed summon whose mana approached the Seventh Rank but whose aura remained weaker.
• Anvis proposed that they set out before nightfall, and Evany said she had explored the island's Dream World and could guide him.

Anvis, Evany, and Chom used refined Salt Crystal Keys to enter the island’s Dream Layer in their physical bodies. They sensed an Eighth Rank battle in the mountains and found a Mooncaller Sect High Priest confronting a young bishop of the Holy Radiance Church.

• Anvis refined the Dream Key with cyan salt and made three glowing Salt Crystal Keys, giving one each to Evany and Chom.
• The three lay in the guiding magic array, placed the keys beneath their tongues, and entered the Dream World in their physical bodies.
• Evany recognized the underground chamber as the island’s Dream Layer and released her summoned creatures before the group headed aboveground.
• The group sensed an Eighth Rank battle in the mountains and identified one combatant as a Heretic Cultist and the other as someone from the Holy Radiance Church.
• Anvis and the others found the Mooncaller Sect High Priest facing a young blond bishop, who declared the heretic’s plan doomed while the High Priest condemned the bishop’s faith.

The High Priest summoned overwhelming darkness against the Golden-Haired Young Bishop, who answered with a burst of holy radiance that began to overcome it. Anvis watched with Evany and Chom, considering whether the bishop might be useful to the family, while the battle remained unresolved.

• The Golden-Haired Young Bishop attacked the High Priest with the eighth-rank divine spell Judgment: Holy Verdict Spear, but the ink-green sun endured.
• The High Priest invoked the Primal Moon and covered Dreamland's sky in darkness, drawing the bishop toward the collapsing center.
• The bishop recited from the Holy Book and released powerful holy light that tore through the darkness and illuminated half the sky.
• Anvis watched the clash with Evany and Chom, considered aiding the bishop, then decided to wait rather than help either side.
• The bishop's radiance overwhelmed the weakening darkness and began enveloping the High Priest's ink-green sun.

After the Golden-Haired Young Bishop defeated the High Priest, Anvis and his companions followed the bishop to the Moon Calling Sect’s ritual cave. The bishop entered and confronted the cultists as their ritual began, while a formless barrier sealed the cave against Anvis, Evany, and Chom.

• The Golden-Haired Young Bishop purified the High Priest’s dark power but suffered injuries, then flew toward the sealed cave after using holy light to suppress the damage.
• Anvis recognized that the bishop’s near-Ninth-Rank strength came from a God-Given Crystal and led Evany and Chom toward the Moon Calling Sect’s ritual site.
• Anvis and his companions reached the cave and found the bishop’s aura inside, where cultists had gathered around an altar, a Golden Chalice, and the Gem God Statue.
• The Golden-Haired Young Bishop blasted into the ritual cave, and the silent cultists began the ritual as their priest raised his Scepter.
• A formless darkness sealed the cave entrance, and Chom attacked it with a powerful ice-blue Magic Sword Light.

Anvis, Jom, and Evany destroyed a Dream Anomaly outside a cave and found a heretical ritual underway inside, with the Golden-Haired Young Bishop lying on an altar. The Black-robed Priest revealed himself as Evan and taunted Evany and her companions, while Anvis asked to see the Holy Relic.

• Anvis identified the darkness blocking the cave as a Dream Anomaly and told Jom to cut it into pieces no larger than eight centimeters.
• Jom used the Secret Sword Technique—Shattered Mirror to split the anomaly, which devoured its own fragments and left Dream Black Sand behind.
• Anvis, Jom, and Evany entered the cave and found Heretic Cultists gathered around an altar where the Golden-Haired Young Bishop lay unconscious.
• Anvis joked about the bishop looking near death, easing Evany's tension before the Black-robed Priest addressed them.
• The Black-robed Priest removed his hood and revealed Evan, who mocked Evany and her companions and claimed the Holy Relic belonged to him.
• Anvis asked Evan if he could borrow the Holy Relic, and Evan angrily called him an ignorant insect.

Anvis used the Old Days Secret Scripture to absorb the Holy Relic’s dark radiance, then helped Chom kill “Evan.” After the Heretic Cultists died and the bishop was teleported away, Evany began transforming, while a High Priest at a concealed Altar discovered that the Moonshadow Seal had vanished.

• “Evan” unleashed the Holy Relic’s dark radiance, which overwhelmed Chom and the others but left Anvis unaffected.
• Anvis used the Old Days Secret Scripture to absorb the radiance and counter the Holy Relic’s power.
• “Evan” attacked Anvis, but Chom seized him while Anvis immobilized him with a Force Field and froze him to death.
• The Heretic Cultists collapsed after “Evan” died, and the Altar teleported the unconscious bishop away.
• Anvis asked Chom to take Evany out of the cave as her body began to transform.
• At a concealed Altar in the real world, the High Priest sensed that the Moonshadow Seal had vanished.