Chapter Summaries

Anvis waited for the ruins’ explorers and watched Landon battle a shadow until Landon’s pendant activated and he vanished from the projection. After the ruins awarded Landon its supreme reward, Anvis tracked him to a disguised girl and turned to the Players, offering a possible alchemy quest.

• Anvis waited for the explorers to emerge, while reports revealed that most had received ordinary or inferior ratings and meager rewards.
• Landon struggled against a shadow until his pendant activated, causing his projection to disappear as Anvis predicted he would win the trial and earn its highest reward.
• Explorers reported that a brown-haired, black-eyed Youth had claimed the ruins’ supreme reward, but the nearby Professionals could not find him.
• Anvis tracked Landon’s necklace to a black-haired, blue-eyed girl who appeared to be trying to slip away, while several mercenaries approached her.
• Anvis changed into expensive-looking Alchemy Robes and attracted several Starlight Players by pretending to be troubled over a vial.
• A Player approached Anvis to offer help, and Anvis said he might share his troubles with someone who had sufficient alchemical knowledge.

Anvis recruited Starlight Guild’s chief alchemist, RainyNightOnlyWithSword, to interpret a coded formula and finish a bloodline potion. After RainyNightOnlyWithSword succeeded, Anvis returned home with the potion and found Lia inspecting Landon’s disguise.

• Anvis tested the Starlight players’ alchemical knowledge, and they took him to their guild headquarters to meet RainyNightOnlyWithSword.
• RainyNightOnlyWithSword answered Anvis’s question about the reaction between Basilisk blood and other ingredients, then accepted a quest to complete the bloodline potion.
• Anvis gave RainyNightOnlyWithSword four bottles of semi-finished potion and a coded formula, and RainyNightOnlyWithSword ruined three bottles before completing one.
• Anvis returned to his residence with the finished potion and found Landon helping in the shop while Lia examined her sister’s changed appearance.
• Anvis noticed that the black accessory that had been around Lia’s neck was gone.

Anvis learned that Landon had returned from the ruins transformed by a Disguise Potion and warned him that his newly active Fate Power might bring another crisis. Anvis activated the Ring of Fidels, while Landon’s awakened mentor revealed that his enemies had sensed his return and were coming.

• Landon told Anvis that the Disguise Potion had turned him into a girl, and Anvis said the effect would fade after fourteen hours before admitting that its transformation was random.
• Landon reported the shop’s orders, and Anvis closed early so he could study what he had found in the ruins.
• Anvis sensed that Landon’s magical aptitude and physique were improving and that his dormant Fate Power was becoming active again.
• Anvis placed the Ring of Fidels in a bottle of purple liquid with Artificial Bloodline, awakening the ring and sensing a treasure somewhere in the Itel Federation.
• Landon discussed payment for Anvis’s potions with the voice in his mind, who said he would become Landon’s disciple and warned that his former enemies were coming.

After learning that Dark Raven’s enemies were searching for him, Landon prepared to flee the Morn Kingdom with Lia, while Anvis made plans to leave as well. Anvis watched them depart, then turned to deal with trouble of his own before following the Ring of Fidels.

• Dark Raven warned Landon that his High-Ranked enemies would send subordinates to search for him and urged him to leave the kingdom at once.
• Dark Raven taught Landon the Nightmare Gaze spell and told him to buy a better sword and hatch his egg.
• Landon asked Anvis for help preparing to travel to the Silver Moon Kingdom, and Anvis warned that traveling by land would be dangerous while providing Lia with treatment potions.
• Landon asked Anvis to look after Lia, but Lia overheard and insisted on staying with him; Anvis gave them supplies and a necklace for Lia.
• The next day, Landon and Lia set out, while Anvis watched Landon’s Fate Line and prepared to leave in the direction indicated by the Ring of Fidels.

Anvis discovered a hostile group searching the Alchemy Shop for the necklace inhabited by Dark Raven and used an illusion domain to turn their search into a deadly trap. After faking his survival from the shop’s destruction, he left for the Silver Moon Kingdom, where the Ring of Fidels pointed.

• Anvis sensed four hostile intruders approaching the Alchemy Shop and realized Dark Raven’s claim that the area was safe had been false.
• The four mercenaries entered the shop invisibly, searched for Dark Raven’s necklace, and concluded that the target had recently left with Landon.
• The captain allowed the group to loot the shop, but Anvis’s illusion domain made them perceive Dark Raven and attack each other.
• The captain unleashed Necromantic Flames that engulfed the building, while Anvis watched from the street and pretended to be shocked by the destruction.
• Anvis told nearby people he had just returned and escaped the blast, then boarded an airship bound for the Silver Moon Kingdom.

Anvis arrived in Silver Moon City under his traveling-mage identity and recognized that the city’s booming construct industry was creating severe hardship for ordinary workers. Meanwhile, hunters intensified their pursuit of Dark Crow, and the city’s gathering fate marked it as the coming focus of a major upheaval.

• Two Spellcasters examined the burned house, traced Dark Crow’s aura toward the Silver Moon Kingdom, and ordered a more intense hunt that would exhaust his remaining strength.
• News of the reward for Dark Crow’s pendant attracted more people to the Moen Kingdom.
• Anvis arrived in Silver Moon City aboard the airship Lucky Flying Dragon and continued posing as the traveling mage Vio.
• Anvis surveyed Silver Moon City and recalled how undead laborers displaced workers, driving families into poverty and selling their children.
• Anvis saw through Fate Perspective that Silver Moon City was becoming the center of an approaching storm, an anomaly other Eighth Rank Prophets could also detect.

Anvis read the Federation Newspaper and saw how the Lyka Kingdom’s policies and the Federation’s expanding Construct Factories were reshaping the region. In Silver Moon City, he posted a huge order for Skeleton Laborers, setting off a scramble for scarce corpses and creating incentives for war.

• Anvis read about the Lyka Kingdom’s support for Magic Constructs and dismissed the newspaper’s praise of the Federation’s growing factory industry as hypocritical.
• Anvis overheard a Half-Elf Player complain about the nobles and recognized that the Players needed a faction to justify causing trouble.
• Anvis entered Silver Moon City’s Black Market and posted a task to buy one hundred thousand third-generation Skeleton Laborers at 120 Gold Coins each.
• Dealers quickly sold Anvis nearly ten thousand Skeleton Laborers before the market’s supply ran low, revealing a shortage of corpses.
• Anvis reasoned that a large-scale war would provide the corpses and labor needed to satisfy the order, which still lacked roughly eighty thousand Skeleton Laborers.

Anvis manipulated the Federation’s Skeleton Laborer market, helping spark wars between small kingdoms while building a construct factory under the Black Ring Merchant Guild. As the guild’s hidden power deterred investigation, another figure argued that the Federation’s unrest offered Players an opportunity to gain experience, influence, and resources.

• Anvis’s lucrative Skeleton Laborer purchases exhausted qualified materials, prompting Necromancers to seek new supplies.
• Several Small Kingdoms launched wars, and Anvis received tens of thousands more Skeleton Laborers from the resulting battles.
• Anvis fabricated the Black Ring Merchant Guild, built a Construct Factory in the Lyka Kingdom, and imported production lines from the Magic Council.
• Investigators failed to uncover the guild’s origins, and a probing force mysteriously disappeared, discouraging further attacks.
• A pale-blue-robed figure told someone through a Crystal Ball that Players should deploy to the Federation to gain military merit, experience, and access to valuable resources.

Zero prepared to leave the Empire for the brewing conflict in the Federation, while White Light Club investigated the Federation’s growing military preparations. Nyarlathotep and his companions gathered evidence of a surge in Skeleton Laborer and weapon orders, then considered cooperating with Silver Blue Club.

• Zero reflected on Silver Blue Club’s difficulties in the Empire and decided to return to the Federation, where he hoped to find excitement in the coming war.
• White Light Club sent several members to investigate the Federation after noticing unusual developments there.
• Jin Yin Tong Lv wasted Luck on outfit draws while Sharp Sword obtained the Frost Happy Set.
• Sharp Sword reported that Skeleton Laborer prices had surged because a mysterious faction needed them for Construct production, possibly in connection with Sky City’s lost treasure.
• Jin Yin Tong Lv reported that Dwarf settlements had received sharply increased orders for weapons, armor, military equipment, and fine-grade Magic Weapons.
• Nyarlathotep planned to report their findings to the club’s plot analysis team and noted that they might cooperate with Silver Blue Club.

Anvis, using the name Raphael, met Lyka Kingdom’s new king, Lycian VI, as the Black Ring Merchant Guild’s representative. He presented the guild’s interest in selling weapons as a way to protect people from the Federation’s coming war, leaving Lycian VI somewhat reassured about its motives.

• Players flocked to the Itel Federation, hoping to profit from hidden quests amid rising tensions over the Skeleton Laborer trade.
• Anvis arrived at the Emerald Crystal Palace to meet Lycian VI as a representative of the Black Ring Merchant Guild.
• Lycian VI asked Anvis what he thought of the Federation and Lyka Kingdom as war threatened to spread.
• Anvis said the guild wanted to supply weapons and equipment to reduce needless deaths and help people defend their homes.
• Lycian VI found Anvis’s explanation strange but felt less wary after concluding the guild was primarily interested in profit.

Anvis located Emperor Fidels’s Secret Vault with the Ring of Fidels and entered after deceiving its guardian’s bloodline test. Meanwhile, his arrangements in the Gloria Empire took effect, leaving powerful figures searching for the missing Fiona while accepting that the real Anvis had returned.

• Anvis left Lycian VI after seeing that several High-rank Prophets were contesting his Fate Line.
• Anvis followed the Ring of Fidels to ancient village ruins, uncovered Emperor Fidels’s stone guardian, and passed its entry trial using a Flesh Avatar.
• Anvis entered the Secret Vault, began connecting the ring to the subspace, and went through the right-hand door to face its trials.
• Duke Carlot used Anvis’s prepared crystal-ball recording to answer Prince Lanno and sent prepared replies to other Descendants of the Four Great Families.
• The Gloria Empire’s high-level figures confirmed that the real Anvis had returned and sent Ninth Rank Professionals to search for Fiona.
• Underground guilds across the Empire posted enormous bounties for valid clues about Fiona’s whereabouts.

Anvis left his family a message explaining why he and Fiona had disappeared, then completed the final trial in Emperor Fidels's Secret Vault and claimed its immense resources. With his preparations in place, he planned to bring the Circle of Truth into the Federation.

• Anvis left his family a prepared message and four Heartlink Crystals that would identify which faction had taken him and Fiona.
• Duke Carlot used Anvis's message to identify the enemy, reassured the Alfred Family that Fiona was safe, and kept up the public search for the pair.
• Anvis's Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild entered the Federation and began buying land and building Construct Factories in the Lyka Kingdom.
• Anvis answered Emperor Fidels's final question about a king's most important quality, and the statue opened the Treasure Vault despite rejecting his answer.
• Anvis collected the vault's high-grade equipment, materials, and Limit Breaking items, then returned to the valley and prepared to reveal the Circle of Truth.

Two merchant guilds’ price war reshaped the Federation’s Construct industry as the Circle of Truth reappeared and the Construct Network spread among the public. After escaping the Morn Kingdom, Landon arrived in the Silver Moon Kingdom with Lia and an elf girl, where he declined an offer to use a Construct Headband.

• The Black Ring Merchant Guild and the Eternal Gold Crown Merchant Guild started a price war that drove down Construct prices, and they delivered over one hundred thousand military Constructs to the Small Kingdoms.
• The Circle of Truth raided Frenos Valley for Super Magic Crystal Ore, declared its intention to restore the Ancient Magic Empire, and vanished before Ninth Rank forces arrived.
• Anvis planted Twisted Seeds in several High-Ranked Professionals and used Circle of Truth disguises and a Limit Breaking scroll to frighten a Ninth Rank Expert into fleeing.
• The Construct Network spread through special headbands that let sleeping users enter immersive dreamscapes, while investigators abandoned attempts to find its backers.
• Landon reached the Silver Moon Kingdom with Lia and an elf girl, refused a peddler’s Construct Headband, and wondered why High-Ranked Professionals allowed the network to spread.

Landon and his companions were ambushed on the road to Silver Moon City, but Anvis intervened and rescued them. Anvis explained that his shop had burned down and asked about Lia’s illness and the Elf traveling with Landon.

• Dark Raven warned Landon not to investigate the Construct Network and urged him to grow stronger and deal with the trouble accompanying Freya.
• Landon recalled buying Freya at a Black Market auction and prepared to answer her when he sensed an attack.
• A group of Black-Clothed Men ambushed Landon, Lia, and Freya, demanding their money and threatening to sell the girls.
• Landon fought off the attackers but was overwhelmed until a spell transformed several of them into Mandula Snow Sheep.
• Anvis appeared and greeted Landon, then said his shop had been burned down and that he had come to Silver Moon City for the Alchemy Exchange Meeting.
• Anvis asked whether Lia’s Crystallization Disease had been cured and who Freya was.

Anvis took Landon, Lia, and Freya to his alchemy shop, while Landon planned to settle down and live quietly with Lia. That night, Freya warned Landon that her uncle had been assassinated and that pursuers suspected Landon of helping the killer.

• Landon thanked Vio for helping Lia recover and introduced Freya, whom he had met at a Black Market auction.
• Anvis invited the group to his shop and arranged for the polymorphed sheep to be taken to Construct Factories.
• Dark Crow urged Landon to use a soul-consuming Secret Art to grow stronger, but Landon resisted the offer.
• Anvis hired Lia as his assistant, while Landon bought a house elsewhere and took Freya to meet her uncle, a Silver Moon Kingdom Count.
• Freya returned to Landon's room that night and warned him that her uncle had been assassinated by someone disguised as her, and that pursuers were coming for Landon.

Landon and Freya were framed as assassins and forced to flee, while Anvis began teaching Lia magic and expanded his influence through a new group, a noble title, and an alliance. Landon and Freya remained unable to return, and Anvis continued building his power.

• Freya teleported Landon away before the City Guard raided his empty house, where they found planted weapons and declared Landon and Freya wanted assassins.
• The Circle of Truth attacked a Magic Crystal mine, but Federation Ninth Ranks killed the attackers and discovered most had been avatars or Battle Golems; Anvis's avatar used the distraction to infiltrate the mine.
• Lia asked Anvis to help clear Landon's name, but he refused and reassured her that Landon would not face mortal danger.
• Anvis offered to teach Lia magic, and she agreed to become his student.
• Anvis created a Gray Forces group, bought the title of Viscount under his Black Ring Merchant Guild identity, and cultivated an alliance with small and medium-sized nobles.

As the Federation’s wars and political chaos intensified, Anvis followed Landon’s escape and gave Lia a golden crystal to help her grow stronger. The chapter ended with Lia bewildered to learn that Anvis sometimes used the precious crystal to feed a cat.

• Anvis observed how his cheap military constructs and the Players’ interference had fueled conflicts across the Federation.
• Lia read Anvis newspaper reports that Landon had escaped the Guards again, reached Fourth Rank, and gained help from the Spark Resistance Organization.
• Anvis considered Landon’s dangerous flight, Spark’s recovery in the Federation, and the Truth Society’s devastating attack on the Door in the Pupil.
• Anvis gave Lia a golden crystal that could strengthen her Spiritual Power and advised her to use it while meditating.
• Anvis told Lia that he sometimes fed the crystal to a cat, leaving her stunned.

Fiona’s music awakened the Stellar Disk fragment, which teleported her from the protected Family Secret Realm to an unknown location in the northwestern Iter Free Federation. The family learned she was truly missing and prepared to search for her without alerting the outside world.

• Fiona reflected on her separation from Anvis while practicing music with Kate and Fia in the Family Secret Realm.
• After Fiona played Star Fantasy, the Stellar Disk fragment in her possession began emitting strange fluctuations.
• The fragment activated a teleportation field that swept Fiona away before the Family Guardian could stop it.
• The Guardian tracked the destination to the northwestern region of the Iter Free Federation and reported Fiona’s disappearance to the family.
• Duke Carlot ordered the Ninth Rank members to depart and search for Fiona while keeping their departure secret.

The empire searched for Fiona and uncovered evidence linking her disappearance to the Door in the Pupil, while the Truth Society’s attack on the organization sparked political conflict with the federation. Duke Carlot prepared to search for Fiona himself, and Anvis removed Lia’s Follower Contract after receiving Veronica’s request.

• Two Ninth Ranks searching for Fiona discovered her in the memories of a Door in the Pupil researcher being led through a misty corridor by a Black Robed Man, then continued hunting for her and the organization’s bases.
• The Leader of the Door in the Pupil concluded that the Circle of Truth had taken Fiona and blamed his organization, but the empire dismissed his claim and intensified its attacks.
• The Truth Society told the federation that its attacks targeted Door in the Pupil members, and the two sides agreed that the attacks must stop or be treated as a declaration of war.
• Duke Carlot received Veronica’s letter asking Anvis to remove a Follower Contract from one of her students, followed Anvis’s arrangements, and sent the letter back.
• In Silver Moon City, Anvis’s pendant shattered as Lia accidentally set Dragon Breath Grass alight, and Anvis burned the contract that appeared in the air.

Anvis anticipated Veronica’s request to release Olbins from their contract and chose to dissolve it without accepting her offered favor, while Veronica accepted his refusal and sent Olbins a record of their exchange. Meanwhile, the Council’s intervention halted the Federation’s wars, leaving small kingdoms burdened with costly constructs and scrambling to cover maintenance expenses.

• Anvis reasoned that Veronica would ask him to dissolve Olbins’s Guest Elder Contract, but he did not want to accept her goodwill.
• Veronica read Anvis’s reply, in which he agreed to dissolve the contract as a gift to Olbins but declined to address her request to clear Olbins’s debt of gratitude.
• Veronica recorded what had happened and sent the account to Olbins.
• Council members intervened to temporarily stop the Federation’s wars, leaving small kingdoms with purchased constructs they could not profitably sell.
• The small kingdoms faced steep construct maintenance costs and began seeking income through resource gathering and higher taxes.