Chapter Summaries

Anvis and Claire explored the Ruins and found murals depicting an ancient war between High Elves and strange creatures. After a mural seemed to watch them, they concluded that something dangerous had noticed them and stopped before a Spacetime Ripple Isolation Layer.

• Anvis performed a luck ritual and taught it to Claire as they searched the passage.
• The passage widened, revealing murals of High Elf mages battling strange creatures and Floating Cities fighting a vast enemy.
• A mural's scarlet-eyed mage appeared to glare at Anvis and Claire, but their spells found no target and the image returned to normal.
• Claire concluded that the murals recorded the city's history and that something terrifying had set its sights on them.
• Anvis identified a dangerous barrier ahead as a Spacetime Ripple Isolation Layer.

Claire and Anvis found a sealed spatial barrier in the corridor and discovered that the passage was a Mirror Space, then turned back when the mural behind them vanished. Outside the Ruins, experts located the one true Stone Gate and realized the students inside the mirrored corridors were only images, before opening a blood-red gate in the Platinum High Tower.

• Claire tested the sealed passage with an empty Alchemy Flask, and Anvis determined that the corridor walls were Space Mirror Images that could not be broken through.
• Claire and Anvis searched for a Magic Array to disable the barrier but found nothing, so they turned back and saw that the sixth mural had vanished from the wall.
• Ninth-rank experts and Royal Magic Research Institute mages studied the newly appeared Stone Gates and concluded they were Mirror Spaces, then calculated the location of the single true gate.
• The mages located the true Stone Gate in the Platinum High Tower's fourth underground-floor area, near the Underground Lab, and Hughes discovered the students in the mirrored corridors were Space Mirror Images.
• An Old Mage drew a High Elf royal symbol on the wall and recited an incantation, causing a vivid blood-red Stone Gate to appear and open.

Ailisha’s team became trapped in a passage that stretched unnaturally, and Luo Qi suspected a magical effect was keeping them from reaching the exit. When the true gate opened, their surroundings changed and an advancing absolute darkness drove the survivors toward the newly accessible exit.

• Luo Qi noticed that the team had walked far beyond the expected distance without finding the Stone Gate exit and warned that they might be caught in a magical effect.
• Peizi mocked Luo Qi’s judgment, while Matt defended him and Luo Qi explained that they needed to identify the type of magic affecting the passage.
• The passage trembled, and Mihawu, Ge Wu, and Kasai silently vanished from the team.
• Absolute darkness spread through the passage, swallowing everything in its path as the students fled toward the paintings.
• The Space-Time barrier disappeared, and Ailisha’s team hurried toward a circular exit while the darkness pursued them.

Ailisha’s group escaped the dark passage and joined Claire, Anvis, Chom, and other students in a hidden cavern containing a massive altar and stone bell. After Hughes offered the students a choice to leave or explore, they began searching the cavern, while Anvis noticed Raine among them.

• Ailisha and the remaining members of her team escaped the advancing darkness, though three teammates were missing.
• Students emerged from other pillars into the cavern, where they found Hughes on an altar beside a huge black stone bell.
• Hughes explained that the students had reached an undiscovered area, awarded each team five hundred points, and offered them a choice between leaving and exploring.
• Most students chose to explore, while Claire, Anvis, and Chom searched the surroundings instead of investigating the altar.
• Anvis sensed that the Old Days Secret Scripture had recognized the unknown presence from the passage, then spotted Raine, whose strength was around Second Rank.

Anvis and Claire discovered and excavated a valuable Midnight Crystal pillar in the Ruins while Raine and Xia Ye Ying Huo examined the altar. The Stone Bell then activated, teleporting the entire Ruins—and the students inside—to the Endless Sea.

• Anvis identified Midnight Crystal inside a stone pillar and warned Claire that extracting it would take considerable Mana.
• Claire and Anvis excavated the crystal together, and Anvis bought Claire’s half for four hundred and ten thousand Gold Coins.
• Anvis noticed Xia Ye Ying Huo receive the special story quest “The Fall of Bohemia” as she spoke with Raine beside the altar.
• The Stone Bell began glowing, freezing Anvis in place as white light spread through the underground hall and the Ruins.
• The Ruins vanished in a flash, and the mages outside discovered they had been transported to the Endless Sea.

The Stone Bell’s activation teleported the entire ruins and everyone inside to the High Seas, prompting Hughes to suspend the Academy Tournament and organize a rescue. Inside the ruins, Anvis realized he and his companions had triggered an unprecedented mechanism as the outside sky turned black.

• The ruins vanished, and Hughes and the other Ninth Rank Experts were expelled into Surface Space after being banished into Deep Space.
• Yag told Hughes that the ruins had been located near the Life Forbidden Zone, and Hughes ordered the tournament suspended and requested royal aid and Limit Breaking power.
• Three imperial Ninth Ranks rushed toward the Endless Sea as the experts feared the rescue would draw in the other empires and become a major conflict.
• Anvis told Claire that the Stone Bell had caused the changes, that Hughes had disappeared, and that the sky outside the ruins had turned pitch-black.
• Anvis realized that Raine and their group had triggered a mechanism that had transported the entire ruins, unlike the smaller teleportation he remembered from his previous life.

After the ruins were transported into the High Seas, Anvis learned from Duke Carlot that enemy powers might attack and was warned to hide with Fiona in the explored underground section. As students gathered to seek shelter, the Saint Messiah Empire and Itel Federation mobilized forces to the ruins.

• Anvis used his Secret Method Crystal Ball to contact Duke Carlot after ordinary communication crystal balls failed.
• Duke Carlot told Anvis that the ruins had joined with another half in the High Seas and were protected by a barrier, then warned him to take Fiona underground and avoid the unexplored ruins.
• The connection failed before Duke Carlot could finish, and Anvis explained the danger to Claire before heading with her to examine the Altar.
• On the Ruins Surface, Academy mages suspended the competition and organized the students to gather and move underground under Seventh Rank protection.
• The Saint Messiah Empire deployed senior religious and military forces to explore the ruins, while the Itel Federation authorized its Ninth Ranks to go there and approved Doomsday-Class Weapons.

Anvis announced that the ruins had merged in the High Seas and organized students to reunite with Academy teams, while some chose to stay behind. Outside, the Empire’s Ninth Rank experts failed to breach the city’s barrier with ordinary attacks and prepared to use an ancient High Elf spell scroll.

• Anvis inspected the Blackstone Bell, then told the students the ruins had moved into the High Seas and that the tournament was suspended.
• Anvis offered to guide anyone willing to join him; most students followed, while Claire, Luo Qi, Ailisha, Xia Ye Ying Huo, and others stayed behind.
• Ninth Rank experts gathered above the sunken ruins and found the restored city enclosed by a barrier resistant to their attacks.
• The experts decided to use Limit Breaking power, and a Royal Family retainer opened a sealed box containing a Wind Element Crystal and the Dimensional Cut scroll.
• A Ninth Rank expert activated the scroll, sending its crescent-shaped spatial distortion into the city’s barrier.

Anvis and the others remained trapped beneath the ruins as the surface group failed to break through the barrier and the Church arrived. Anvis returned as an Avatar and continued exploring with Claire and Xia Ye Ying Huo.

• Dimensional Cut pierced the protective barrier, but the barrier began repairing itself, and the ruins’ defensive array injured Vice Principal Hughes and another Ninth Rank Professional.
• Hughes explained that teleportation could not work inside the stable ruins, while Duke Carlot revealed that both of his children were trapped within.
• Kilan warned Carlot that he should not have allowed their intended participant to join the competition, and Carlot admitted that the accident had been unforeseen.
• Saint Arbiter Yorgensen and Church figures arrived with a crystal, while recalling the Pope’s order to leave as many people as possible at the bottom of the sea.
• Anvis returned to the cavern hall as an Avatar and said he was guiding students toward the Academy group while continuing to investigate the ruins.
• Anvis beckoned Xia Ye Ying Huo to assist him, and she accepted because she still owed him seventeen thousand gold coins.

Anvis and his companions discovered that the Black Bell was producing a deadly seven-colored substance that turned students into liquid and formed a mirror beneath the Altar. Raine entered the mirror first, and Anvis, Claire, and Xia Ye Ying Huo followed into the Dream World as the mirror began to vanish.

• Xia Ye Ying Huo told Anvis that Lona sensed something wrong with the Black Bell and warned that something was about to emerge.
• Anvis and the others fled the Altar as seven-colored liquid poured from the bell, consuming students who could not escape.
• The colored liquid formed a mirror, and Raine rushed through it; Anvis sensed the Dream World beyond.
• Anvis gave Claire his Space Ring and asked her to deliver it to him if she entered the mirror.
• Anvis, Claire, and Xia Ye Ying Huo entered the mirror as the cavern shook, and other students rushed in before it disappeared.

Anvis and his companions entered a strange space resembling an overlap of the Dream World and reality, where he found a gate linked to the vanished Dark Creatures and felt fate pulling him toward it. Meanwhile, his other Avatar safely led a group of students back to the main force, but the Ruins shook again.

• Anvis, Claire, and Xia Ye Ying Huo entered the mirror space and found traces of Dark Creatures covered in black mist.
• Anvis discovered a massive Stone Gate behind the Altar and sensed that Raine had gone in its direction.
• Nine more students emerged before the mirror vanished, and most chose to explore elsewhere while Anvis, Claire, and Xia Ye Ying Huo went toward the gate.
• Anvis's other Avatar guided several dozen students around dangerous passages and reunited them with the main group.
• A Pamir Academy mage thanked Anvis for saving the students, and the Ruins trembled again.

Anvis reassured Fiona that the Ruins’ barrier would protect them until the Empire could rescue them, while Hillen questioned whether he was truly present in person. Outside, Saint Arbiter Yorgensen attacked the barrier with a God's Punishment Crystal Stone, drawing an angry response from the Imperial side as the Ruins began to regenerate.

• The lead mages camped with the gathered students in an underground hall, unable to contact the Academy’s officials, while keeping the students unaware of the danger.
• Anvis comforted Fiona and said the barrier kept enemies out and that their father would rescue them once it fell.
• Hillen asked whether Anvis was an avatar, but he insisted he was his true body and said he trusted the Empire.
• The Ruins trembled more violently, and its simulated ceiling light dimmed before stabilizing.
• Saint Arbiter Yorgensen used a God's Punishment Crystal Stone against the Ruins’ barrier, creating a huge gap that deep-blue Mana crystals rapidly repaired.
• The Imperial side condemned Yorgensen’s attack and demanded to know whether he intended to start a war.

Yogson, Bayer, and Orvanni agreed that the Church, Empire, Council, and Federation would work together to decipher the Ruins’ defenses. Underground, Anvis used the Golden Scepter to open a sealed gate, where he and the others found a massive black cocoon that stirred the Old Days Secret Scripture.

• Orvanni proposed that the factions cooperate, and representatives agreed to avoid attacking one another until they entered the Ruins.
• Anvis, Claire, and Xia Ye Ying Huo followed the passage to a sealed Stone Gate, where they found Raine waiting.
• Anvis produced the Golden Scepter, and the eye symbol on the gate opened the doors.
• Raine rushed through the gate, and Anvis followed with Claire and Xia Ye Ying Huo.
• Anvis felt powerful pressure from a Giant Cocoon and sensed that the Old Days Secret Scripture intensely desired it.

Anvis and his companions entered a hall containing a Black Cocoon and an Altar, where Raine claimed a mysterious Stone Egg that had drawn him there. Anvis let Raine keep it, collected the rare gems from the Altar, and then found Xia Ye Ying Huo beside an Obelisk.

• Anvis examined the Black Cocoon and sensed that it was stable, then noticed Raine rushing toward an Altar behind it.
• Raine took the Stone Egg from the Altar despite Claire's warning, triggering a tremor through the hall.
• Anvis questioned Raine and asked to inspect the egg, but allowed him to keep it when Raine insisted.
• Anvis collected the five Dragon Blood Crystal Diamonds from the Altar and decided against taking the Stone Egg by force.
• Anvis spotted Xia Ye Ying Huo beside a silver-white Obelisk.

Anvis and Claire read the history of Bohemia from an Obelisk, and Anvis jokingly offered Vivian a dangerous quest to destroy a black cocoon. As unfamiliar auras approached, the story shifted to Luo Qi’s team excavating ore and discussing the Spark Organization.

• Anvis and Claire explained that the Obelisk recorded Bohemia’s history as a High Elf floating city that fought in the Purple Moon War before its evacuation.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo’s quest progress for The Fall of Bohemia rose to twenty percent after Claire translated the inscription.
• Anvis offered Xia Ye Ying Huo a Supreme Dragon Blood Crystal Diamond to destroy the black cocoon, triggering an SSS-rank quest with a recommended challenge rating of 96 or higher.
• Anvis dismissed the quest as a joke, then sensed unusual sounds and auras approaching the hall entrance.
• Luo Qi’s team excavated high-tier Magic ore from a stone pillar, and Ailisha called the Spark Organization’s goal unrealistic.

Mengduoluo revealed that he belonged to the Spark Organization and invited Luo Qi and Matt to join, then explained why he fought against the Empire’s nobles. He left Ailisha confronting the harsh realities behind his rebellion.

• Mengduoluo disclosed his Spark membership and personally invited Luo Qi and Matt to join the organization.
• Mengduoluo reassured Matt that their conversation was private and said Spark would leave them alone until graduation.
• Mengduoluo explained that nobles’ oppression had driven him to join the Rebel Army, then recounted how Baron Maier ruined Ken En’s caravan and forced Beixi into prostitution.
• Ailisha questioned how such abuse could persist, and Mengduoluo said the distant nobles ignored suffering that weighed like a mountain on ordinary people.

Mengduoluo tried to persuade Ailisha to join the resistance, but an enormous Amoeba forced the group to flee through the black Stone Gate. As Anvis began closing the gate to hold the creature back, Peizi aimed a ring at Luo Qi, seemingly preparing to stop him from escaping.

• Mengduoluo urged Ailisha to set aside her noble status and fight the Empire, shaking her belief in her former loyalties.
• Peizi fled into the cavern as an enormous Amoeba pursued him, and he said that it had swallowed Ax.
• Ailisha's Half-Moon Slash barely affected the creature, so she and the others escaped through the black Stone Gate.
• Peizi grew jealous of Luo Qi as the group ran, then fell behind and remembered that the creature had paused after swallowing Ax.
• Anvis used the Scepter to begin closing the gate while Claire warned that the hall had no other exits.
• Fearing he would be left behind, Peizi aimed the ring on his left hand at Luo Qi's back.

Anvis rescued Ailisha, Peizi, Matt, Luo Qi, and Mengduoluo from the pursuing wall of flesh by pulling them through a gate, where Claire severed a tentacle and the group shut the doors. They remained trapped in the Ruins, with both the monster and external enemies blocking their escape.

• Peizi used a Paralysis Ring to incapacitate Luo Qi, but Luo Qi was freed as the group fled the advancing wall of flesh.
• Anvis pulled Ailisha, Peizi, and Matt through the gate, then used his force-field control to rescue Luo Qi and Mengduoluo.
• A tentacle seized Mengduoluo, and Claire used the Mirror Severing Art to cut it apart so Anvis could pull them inside.
• The group shut the gate as the wall of flesh struck from outside, then checked the hall for an exit.
• Luo Qi thanked Anvis for his help, and Anvis realized that the ring he had given Luo Qi had contributed to his Fate Feedback.

Anvis stopped Peizi from attacking the Black Cocoon and discovered that the Golden Scepter resonated with a hidden location in the cave. He entered the Core Control Room of Bohemia, the former Silver Moon Class Floating City.

• Luo Qi confronted Peizi with a black needle and accused him of sabotaging him in the cave.
• Anvis explained that the Academy Tournament had ended and let Luo Qi and the others deal with Peizi.
• Peizi unleashed a Fourth Rank Flame Burst toward the Black Cocoon, but Anvis halted and dispelled it.
• Luo Qi and the others crippled Peizi's Sea of Spirit and decided to take him back to the academy.
• Anvis followed the Golden Scepter's resonance and entered Bohemia's Core Control Room, where he saw a projection of the damaged Floating City.

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.