Chapter Summaries

After Anvis returned to the Yar Continent, he rescued Ailisha from a slime and headed with her toward a nearby city. Meanwhile, Duke Carlot confronted Huo Er over the failed Trial World assessment, and Talina intervened before their argument could become a fight.

• Anvis found Ailisha struggling with a giant Pink Slime, rescued her, and helped her recover.
• Ailisha cut the slime apart, and Anvis collected its Core Gel before they changed clothes and set off for a nearby city.
• Carlot discovered that Anvis had been teleported away but confirmed through the Bloodline Crystal Ball that he was safe.
• Carlot confronted Huo Er, who blamed a high-ranking Prophet and a Time-Stop Hourglass for the incident.
• Talina stopped Carlot and Huo Er from fighting, but Carlot accused Huo Er of being connected to the attack, provoking Huo Er's anger.

Talina mediated a settlement between Huo Er and Duke Carlot over the destroyed trial world, then joined them at a Ninth Rank Truth Society meeting about the force behind the attack. The Truth Society’s investigation uncovered traces of the Door in the Pupil, and a report about the ancient organization reached Carlot.

• Talina acknowledged Huo Er’s oversight failure but argued that the enemy’s preparations had exceeded his ability to stop them.
• Huo Er and Carlot bargained over compensation, clashed their auras without either gaining the advantage, and accepted Talina’s settlement of dragon materials.
• Carlot received Anvis’s message saying he was safe but did not know his exact location.
• Talina, Huo Er, and Carlot joined four other Ninth Rank members at the Truth Society’s Council Hall and focused their meeting on the mysterious force behind the attack.
• The Truth Society and the Olyvendi and Alfred families launched investigations and searches, uprooting hidden organizations across the Gloria Empire.
• A Truth Society document about the Door in the Pupil arrived on Carlot’s desk after investigators detected traces of the ancient organization.

After the Shadowless Ones Covenant attacked Carlras and the Door in the Pupil escaped to the Iter Kingdom Federation, Anvis and Ailisha arrived in Silver Wind City. Anvis intended to find the Door in the Pupil’s secret meeting point, while Ailisha continued traveling with him.

• Duke Carlot learned that the Shadowless Ones Covenant had performed a Blood Sacrifice in Carlras and that the Door in the Pupil might have cooperated with them.
• Carlot ordered his elite knight orders to purge the Shadowless Ones Covenant and other factions, while the Door in the Pupil’s leaders escaped to the Iter Kingdom Federation.
• Anvis and Ailisha reached Silver Wind City in the Silver Moon Kingdom after their cross-world journey and learned they had arrived in the Federation.
• Anvis decided to seek the Door in the Pupil’s secret meeting point in the city, and Ailisha chose to remain by his side.
• Anvis learned that Ailisha’s declining noble family had lost its marquis title and territory after her ancestor died and no later family member reached Ninth Rank.

Anvis brought Ailisha to Silver Wind City's Olivenndi Merchant Guild after passing the hidden meeting place of the Door in the Pupil. He summoned cloaked figures through the guild's Teleportation Array and invited Ailisha to watch a performance.

• Anvis considered Ailisha's rare bloodline and her family's decline, and decided to help her.
• Anvis and Chom passed Villa No. 26, the Door in the Pupil's meeting place, where Anvis noticed two noble carriages parked outside.
• Ailisha wondered why she had chosen to stay beside Anvis and told herself that a mage needed a knight for protection.
• Anvis took Ailisha to the Olivenndi Merchant Guild and presented his Icy Wind Crystal Bird Nameplate.
• Anvis activated a Crystal Ball, and Gray Cloaked figures emerged from the guild's Teleportation Array.
• Anvis asked the bewildered Ailisha whether she wanted to watch a performance.

Anvis confirmed to Duke Carlot that Villa No. 26 was likely the Door in the Pupil’s secret gathering point, and a powerful group moved to raid it. Inside the villa, the Door in the Pupil discussed Anvis’s escape from a Dream World and learned from Lord Gray Mist that a continent-wide upheaval was approaching.

• Duke Carlot privately questioned Anvis about the suspected gathering point, and Anvis said he was more than ninety percent certain it was the Door in the Pupil’s hideout.
• Duke Carlot gave Anvis and Ailisha Gray Cloaks, and Anvis led the concealed group toward Villa No. 26.
• At a basement gathering, a Black Robed Man reported that Anvis had escaped the Dream World before it collapsed and had not triggered Guardian of Fate.
• The Door in the Pupil members debated whether Anvis was the Star of Prophecy, then Lord Gray Mist ended the discussion.
• Lord Gray Mist said the Web of Fate had reached a critical point and that a tremendous change would soon sweep across the continent.

Gray Mist recruited powerful figures from the Gloria Empire and the Iter Kingdom Federation to help exploit the rise of constructs and reshape the Empire’s ruling order. Before he could explain his request to the Federation representatives, an unknown force breached the secret chamber and trapped the conspirators inside a spatial seal.

• Gray Mist revealed that the Continental Magic Council had found Tarkeshia, the ancient Goblin capital, and used its stored construct knowledge to advance its plans.
• Gray Mist explained that the Gloria Empire’s stagnant hierarchy and growing dispute over constructs would trigger the Web of Fate’s second turning point.
• Gray Mist promised the Empire’s conspirators support from High-rank Prophets, Ninth Rank Limit powerhouses, and a Construct Legion in exchange for helping remove entrenched nobles.
• The masked leader of the Empire’s conspirators agreed to cooperate, and Gray Mist said someone would contact them with instructions after they returned home.
• Gray Mist turned to the Federation representatives and asked about the Lyka Kingdom’s Sixth Prince, but a crash split the earth above the chamber before he could finish.
• A silver tower-insignia figure froze the Crystal Ball’s fragments, while the seven Black Robed Men attacked and tried to escape; a powerful spatial seal blocked them.

Duke Carlot and the Gray Cloaks captured the Black Robed Men after a fierce battle, but the key figure behind them escaped. Anvis watched the battle with Ailisha and treated it as a fireworks display.

• When teleportation failed, the Black Robed Men fled, but Gray Cloaks blocked their escape and revealed themselves as Eighth Rank Experts.
• Two Black Robed Men used desperate escape tactics, including a self-destruction that drew Players toward the battle in hopes of quests or valuable loot.
• Gou Qie Tou Sheng spotted two Gray Cloaks in an alley and watched them cautiously instead of approaching.
• The remaining Black Robed Men unleashed their trump cards, but Duke Carlot and the Gray Cloaks contained the battle and prevented its shockwaves from devastating Silver Wind City.
• Duke Carlot captured the two Black Robed Men who had escaped, learned that someone had erased the key figure's trail, and ordered an announcement blaming the Door in the Pupil.
• Anvis turned from the settled battle to Ailisha and called it a splendid fireworks display.

After the attack on the Trial World, Anvis explained the enemy’s defeat and received praise from Duke Carlot. He then recruited a Player to help establish an organization for Outsiders, leaving the group curious about his plan.

• Anvis told Ailisha that enemies had attacked them by using a small world to smash the Trial World, and that he had reported their stronghold to Duke Carlras.
• Duke Carlot told Anvis that the captured enemies appeared connected to the attack and promised that the Truth Society would discuss his reward.
• Duke Carlot seized Gou Qie Tou Sheng, an Outsider spying nearby, and a Gray Robe prepared to kill him.
• Anvis stopped the Gray Robe and offered Gou Qie Tou Sheng a chance to join his organization if he recruited one hundred Outsiders.
• Gou Qie Tou Sheng accepted the quest to recruit one hundred Players, and Anvis explained that he wanted to establish an organization composed mostly of Outsiders.

Anvis explained that he wanted to use an Outlander organization to disrupt divination and then founded the Mysteries Society to recruit players. After the raid, he stayed behind with Ailisha and gave her an invitation to the Gloria Royal Opera House, where they planned to talk in three days.

• Anvis told Duke Carlot that he wanted to try recruiting Outlanders, intending to use their chaotic, anti-divination nature to counter a High-rank Prophet's interference.
• After the raid, the duke sent the captured High-Ranked Professionals back to the Gloria Empire while Anvis and Ailisha stayed behind; the duke and another Ninth Rank expert secretly waited near the ruins for possible enemies.
• Anvis gave Ailisha a golden VIP Admission Ticket to the Gloria Royal Opera House for the evening three days later, and she accepted it.
• Gou Qie Tou Sheng returned with one hundred prospective recruits, and Anvis awarded him Silver Rank membership in the newly founded Mysteries Society.
• Anvis had the other recruits leave spiritual imprints and sent them on recruitment quests, establishing contribution rewards and a shop through the Olivenndi Merchant Guild.

Anvis returned to the academy and learned that the Azure Crystal Egg in his laboratory was nearing its hatching, while a cloaked Prophet investigated the exposed Silver Wind City stronghold and found that a more powerful Prophet had erased all traces. The cloaked Prophet summoned the Door in the Pupil group to report the discovery.

• Anvis escorted Ailisha back to Pamir Knight Academy, exchanged Identity Marks with her, and noticed Seer Silver's alert about the Azure Crystal Egg.
• Anvis checked the egg's incubation records and found that its inner vortex had expanded as it absorbed vast amounts of magic power, then left Seer Silver to keep monitoring it.
• Duke Carlot and the Alfred Family's Ninth Rank expert left Silver Wind City after waiting for results.
• A cloaked Prophet entered the guarded ruins, searched for traces of the magic that exposed the stronghold, and found that all signs had vanished.
• The Prophet returned to an Underground Base and summoned the Door in the Pupil members, reporting that a Prophet far stronger than he had intervened.

The Truth Society’s allies debated how their concealment had been breached, and Zero suggested there was a mole within their organization. As they prepared to investigate and accelerate unrest in the Gloria Empire, Zero proposed spreading rumors that nobles were behind the recent attacks, but Dark Abyss challenged his plan.

• Gray Mist explained that a diviner’s actions could seem incomprehensible because they saw dangers others did not.
• Zero proposed that a mole inside the organization had revealed Gray Mist’s concealment, prompting the leader to assign Star the investigation.
• Gray Mist said he was developing Fate Grafting techniques to create false Fate Mirror Images that could warn of divination attempts.
• The leader ordered members to avoid meeting in person and asked for ideas to stir chaos in the Gloria Empire.
• Zero proposed spreading rumors that high-level nobles had staged the attacks and blamed them on the Shadowless Ones Covenant.
• Dark Abyss criticized Zero’s plan, arguing that the Lower Class could not stand against high-ranked Professionals.

Zero persuaded the Gate of Justice to spread rumors about attacks on civilians and encourage conflict between the Empire’s social classes. After the meeting, the Leader approved the plan and ordered an investigation into whether Zero was a mole; the story then shifted to Palosia two evenings later.

• Zero argued that widespread rumors could help the Resistance Organization exploit the coming upheaval and spark infighting within the Empire.
• The Leader assigned Zero’s proposal to Voice of the Dead, Moon Shadow, and Web Weaver, while Voice of the Dead reported a disturbance in the Underworld.
• After the meeting ended, the Leader reconvened with six members to discuss Zero, and several voiced concerns about trusting an Outsider.
• The Leader recounted how Zero had earned a special seat after surviving repeated deaths and producing analysis that aligned with the organization’s prophecies at over eighty percent accuracy.
• The Leader ordered Lord Dark Abyss and Traveler to assist Star in investigating the mole, before the story moved to Palosia two evenings later.

Anvis invited Ailisha to the Royal Opera House and asked her to join the Hidden Knowledge Society as his return gift. He explained that its small group of Pamir students met through a Magic Ring in an exclusive Dream Space.

• Ailisha arrived at the Royal Opera House and was escorted to Box 19, where Anvis greeted her.
• Anvis delayed discussing her return gift until after the first act of the opera, and Ailisha agreed while warning him not to put her off again.
• Ailisha watched the first act of the revenge opera "Theo Siss" with Anvis.
• After the act ended, Anvis offered Ailisha a Magic Ring and invited her to join the Hidden Knowledge Society.
• Anvis described the Society as a small group for mutual exchange and assistance whose members met in a private Dream Space through the ring.

Anvis recruited Ailisha into the Hidden Knowledge Society and explained how to use its dream-gathering Ring. After they watched an opera together, Harvey warned Anvis that certain people were preparing to test him.

• Anvis explained the Hidden Knowledge Society and offered Ailisha a Ring, and she agreed to join.
• Anvis taught Ailisha how to use the Ring and described the Society’s dream space, trade zone, and mission board.
• Anvis and Ailisha watched the opera’s second act and discussed a story about a theater that filled its seats with disguised skeletons.
• After the opera, Harvey teased Anvis about being with Ailisha and formally introduced himself to her.
• Harvey secretly warned Anvis that certain people were preparing to test him.

Anvis returned to the academy, heard about a magical accident involving Gellerka and Bob, and learned that the royal Ninth Prince was enrolling. Later, the Crystal Egg in his laboratory hatched into a pale-azure creature.

• Anvis took Ailisha back to the academy with him, letting onlookers see them together.
• Anvis returned to class after arranging more details for the player organization and reassuring Fiona.
• Skyla told Anvis that Gellerka had been partly turned to stone and Bob had been turned into a frog during a lab accident, and that the royal Ninth Prince was enrolling.
• Seer Silver alerted Anvis that the Crystal Egg was close to hatching, so Anvis returned to his laboratory and increased its magic supply.
• The Crystal Egg cracked and revealed a semi-transparent, winged creature surrounded by energy tentacles and orbiting crystal fragments.

Anvis studied the newly hatched elemental dragon, testing its responses and leaving Seer Silver to care for it. He then attended a banquet hosted by the Seventh Prince, Viller Augustine, where he anticipated a test and soon encountered trouble.

• Anvis scanned the hatchling and learned it was an incorporeal Fifth-Order creature composed mostly of wind elements and an unknown power.
• Anvis tested the dragon with different elemental magic and ores, discovering that it could absorb varied magic safely and favored Green Glow Crystal.
• Anvis left Seer Silver in charge of feeding and observing the dragon, then accepted an invitation to a banquet hosted by the Augustine family.
• Anvis traveled to Badro Manor two days later and mingled with noble youths while watching for possible tests.
• Something soon approached Anvis at the banquet.

Anvis deflected two attempts to provoke him at the Seventh Prince’s banquet, displaying his strength and turning one challenger’s behavior against him. After Prince Veller greeted him and questioned him about his Outlander Organization, Anvis dismissed it as an experiment.

• Anvis froze a guest and his spilled wine, restored both, and warned him not to stumble again.
• A gaudily dressed young man tried to provoke Anvis, who rebuked him for causing trouble at the Seventh Prince’s banquet.
• Prince Veller arrived and greeted Anvis, allowing the young man to slip away into the crowd.
• Veller listed Anvis’s accomplishments and asked about his recently founded Outlander Organization.
• Anvis called the organization an experiment and said he had wanted to test how difficult it was to establish one.

Prince Veller questioned Anvis about his escape from the destroyed trial world and his views on Magic Constructs. Anvis concealed how he altered the teleportation array, while Veller argued that Magic Constructs threatened the established order but could never challenge Ninth Rank Limit Professionals.

• Veller asked Anvis to recount the attack that destroyed the trial world, and Anvis described his escape with Ailisha to the Iter Free Federation.
• Veller asked whether Anvis had altered the teleportation array, and Anvis blamed the feat on a protective Amulet from the Duke.
• Veller asked Anvis what he thought of the Federation’s Magic Construct development, and Anvis dismissed it compared with the Empire.
• Veller claimed Magic Constructs disrupted the rules of power and said their armies could never threaten a Ninth Rank Limit Professional.

At The Banquet, Anvis agreed with Prince Veller’s conservative views on Magic Constructs, prompting Veller to advise him about choosing influential friends. Back at Pamir Academy, Anvis reflected on Veller’s attempt to recruit him and the princes’ long wait for the throne.

• Anvis privately recalled how powerful high-ranking experts could be, but told Prince Veller that Magic Constructs were only a fragile lifeline for the Kingdom Federation.
• Veller praised Anvis’s view, then advised him to make friends whose status and influence could help him.
• The Banquet began as the hall’s music changed to Tibuli’s “Forest Dream.”
• After returning to Pamir Academy, Anvis reviewed the evening and concluded that Veller had been trying to win him over.
• Anvis reflected that the royal princes had already waited over six hundred years as crown princes and needed allies to strengthen their bids for the throne.

After reading reports of rumors blaming the Olyvendi Family for the attack on Carlras City, Anvis recalled how similar rumors had once helped spark unrest across the Empire. He sent the Mysteries Society instructions to counter them with competing rumors, and Players debated the new quests and the faction’s ties to the family.

• Anvis read Leonard’s letter, which reported unrest in Raymond’s territory, an attack at Olivenndi Academy, and rumors in Carlras City blaming the Olyvendi Family for the city attack.
• Anvis recalled that rumors had once spread across the Empire before Resistance Organizations emerged, and decided to fight them by spreading competing rumors through the Mysteries Society’s Players.
• Anvis sent instructions for his plan, and the Mysteries Society’s Mission Hall posted quests to spread rumors that another force had framed the Olyvendi Family and to eliminate those spreading hostile rumors.
• Yingji Changkong and Flying Goldfish discussed the quests, concluded that the Mysteries Society was connected to the Olyvendi Family, and noted that White Light Club had encouraged its members to earn faction contribution.