Chapter Summaries

Anvis, Lanno, and Olbins prepared for the dangers in the Tower of Oblivion while Xia Ye Ying Huo, the Last Dragonborn, and one of Lanno’s attendants entered its hidden dungeon. As Anvis and Lanno made plans to resist the Star Praise Sect, an enemy appeared in the Rock Temple and accused Lanno of being despised by the gods.

• Anvis explained the Tower of Oblivion’s effects to Xia Ye Ying Huo and the Last Dragonborn, and Olbins gave them Arcane Artifacts to study the Force Field.
• Prince Lanno equipped a young attendant with a special Hexahedron Shield from the Magic Council, and the attendant entered the stone pillars with the two Players.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo and the Last Dragonborn discovered the Oblivion status in a gray, misty wilderness and began exploring the Blackstone Path while Lanno’s attendant went ahead alone.
• Anvis and Lanno prepared defenses in the Tower of Oblivion and discussed the Star Praise Sect’s likely attack and how to alert the Empire’s high-ranking officials.
• A dark green hooded figure appeared above the Rock Temple, addressed Prince Lanno, and accused him of taking part in something the gods despised.

Anvis repeatedly destroyed the Priest’s fragile spatial projections while the enemy deciphered their location, then prepared to move his group elsewhere and protect Lanno. Meanwhile, the Priest’s cultists completed their ritual, and explorers entering the city argued over whether to attack the High Tower or defend a stronghold.

• Anvis shattered the Priest’s Space Mirage projections, and Olbins warned that each one still advanced the enemy’s deciphering of their coordinates.
• Anvis told Lanno that he had protected him during their earlier predicament and added a sustained barrier using half an eggshell.
• The Priest and the Star-Praising Cultists saw Lanno’s pale light and declared him the Godblasphemer named in their Oracle.
• Anvis and his companions vanished from the Priest’s spatial image, while the Heretic Cultists completed their citywide ritual.
• The explorers’ temporary alliance entered the city, hunted several cultists, and debated whether to attack the High Tower or defend a building for seven days.

Veller and Starlight Augustine settled the alliance’s dispute by sending Brownso to investigate the Central High Tower while the others prepared a defensive base. Aranis infiltrated the tower searching for Anvis, unaware that he and Lanno had already reached its core through Mirror Realm Traverse.

• Brownso urged the alliance to attack the enemy, but Veller argued they should avoid unnecessary risks and warned that Conservatives might have been deliberately targeted by collaborators.
• Starlight proposed that Brownso lead volunteers to scout the Central High Tower while the remaining alliance members established a base in a nearby clock tower.
• Aranis followed the Bloodline Pointer into the city and used the distraction of Brownso’s attack to slip into the tower, where she found its first floor transformed into a nest of flesh and blood.
• Aranis pressed on toward the tower’s top, determined to rescue Anvis, while cultists fought the attackers outside.
• Anvis and Lanno arrived at the Tower of Oblivion’s core through Mirror Realm Traverse, leaving Lanno, Olbins, and two attendants nauseated.

Anvis, Lanno, and Olbins entered a storm-wracked secret realm atop the Tower of Oblivion and reached the former residence of the Legendary Titan. There, a projection named Hill appeared and revealed that he had left the obelisk after seeing Anvis in the distant past.

• Anvis explained that the Mirror World was an uncertain space reached through a Mystic-type Spell-like Ability.
• Lanno and Olbins surveyed the rocky secret realm, where Silver-White Thunder battered a stone house atop a mountain.
• Anvis gave Lanno a Key that lowered the danger of the ascent, and the group reached the summit and entered the house.
• Anvis noticed a silver obelisk, and everyone around him froze as a silver-haired High Elf projection appeared.
• The projection identified himself as Hill and said he had seen Anvis in the distant past, left the obelisk for their meeting, and been discovered by the Silver Titan Kassenos.

Anvis met Hill’s projection, learned that the silver Obelisk held Transcendent Essence, and received it before time resumed. While Lanno’s group searched the Legendary Titan’s stone house and uncovered a trove of rare materials, Anvis unexpectedly gave the Last Dragonborn a brilliant gemstone.

• Hill explained to Anvis that his projection was prearranged and that their meeting was a spacetime anchor point.
• Hill warned Anvis that others were after the Obelisk, then gifted it to him; it dissolved into silver particles and merged with Anvis.
• Lanno and the other explorers saw a flash of silver light but found nothing, then searched the stone house for valuables.
• Lanno’s group opened a cabinet filled with rare materials, astonishing the Last Dragonborn’s livestream viewers with its orange-grade items.
• The Last Dragonborn told Lanno and the others that the cabinet’s contents were Plot Items and could not be obtained through his quest reward.
• Anvis placed a brilliant Starlight-like gemstone in the Last Dragonborn’s palm, leaving the elf stunned.

Anvis used the Last Dragonborn’s livestream to warn players that the Star Praise Sect had infiltrated the Glory Secret Realm and to offer rewards for notifying the Empire’s high-level forces. Players rushed to pursue the quest while Anvis returned to dividing resources with Lanno and the others.

• Elf bound the Legendary gemstone he had received and introduced Anvis to the livestream audience as his generous Boss.
• Anvis confirmed that viewers could hear him and revealed that disguised Star Praise Sect enemies had infiltrated the Glory Secret Realm, where nearly half the Explorers had fallen victim to them.
• Anvis asked viewers to alert the Empire’s high-level forces and promised Gold Coins, high-tier Magic Equipment, and Ninth Rank Materials as rewards.
• The system issued viewers an A-rank temporary quest to report the enemy activity, prompting players and major guilds to contact powerful Natives.
• Anvis resumed discussing the division of resources with Lanno and the others, having offered the rewards partly to cultivate his reputation among players.

Anvis and the others alerted the Gloria Empire that the Glory Secret Realm was in crisis, prompting a rescue effort while a hidden faction accelerated its plan to welcome the gods' return. Inside the realm, Anvis and Lanno finished dividing the stone house’s treasures and found a way to make the house fall from the cliff.

• Outlanders reported Anvis Olyvendi’s warning to the Empire, and the Eye of Destiny revealed that one-third of the Explorers were in critical condition, most of them Conservatives.
• Gloria III ended the nobles’ argument, and several Ninth Rank Peak Professionals began locating the Glory Secret Realm, a process expected to take at least six Magic Hours.
• Marquis Vent learned that the secret realm’s location had been exposed and told the Green-Robed Priest, who insisted the plan would continue on an accelerated schedule.
• Anvis and Lanno divided the stone house’s collection, Silver Thunder pillars, and floor tiles, leaving the house itself as the last prize.
• Anvis used Mystic Art to make the stone house jump off the cliff and shatter, while Xia Ye Ying Huo wondered why the sight seemed familiar.

After the stone house shattered, Anvis learned from Pigeon that the Silver Obelisk in his Sea of Spirit could serve as a fulcrum for reversing time, making it a likely part of the enemy's ritual. With help from outside still delayed and the enemy potentially closing in, the group prepared to use the mountain's Silver Lightning against them.

• Anvis and Lanno salvaged the valuable remains of the stone house while their companions collected the smaller fragments.
• Anvis concluded that the Heretic Cultists were targeting the Silver Obelisk and could not be trusted to stay away from the Miniature Secret Realm.
• Anvis summoned Pigeon, who explained that the Obelisk was a point independent of space and time that could enable time reversal at a price.
• Olbins proposed using the black stone's Force Field to build a Magic Array that would attract Silver Lightning and strike the enemy.
• Anvis noted that the enemy could learn about his livestream plea for help in roughly three Magic Hours.

Aranis was trapped inside the Tower of Oblivion until Landon, Luo Qi, and Ailisha agreed to help her after learning she was Anvis’s sister. Outside, Spellcasters unleashed the Eighth Rank spell Meteor Burst against the tower, threatening everyone inside.

• Aranis infiltrated the Tower of Oblivion to find Anvis but was discovered and chased by high-rank Heretic Cultists.
• A concealed ally guided Aranis to a protected corridor where the cultists could not see her.
• Landon rejected Aranis’s offer of a Seventh Rank Magic Curio, but Luo Qi and Ailisha recognized her as the sister of their friends and persuaded him to meet her.
• The Tower of Oblivion shook as the black flying dragon was hurled against its outer wall.
• Several Spellcasters cast Meteor Burst, sending a massive fiery meteor crashing toward the tower.

The Temporary Alliance learned that a Chaos Fusion Monster could overwhelm their strongest spells, while Reginald Simms’s prophecy revealed that taking the High Tower was their only chance to survive. As three Magic Hours passed, Anvis watched Olbins strike an apparently empty location with Silver Thunder.

• A Chaos Fusion Monster emerged from the High Tower, spiritually contaminated the attackers, and swallowed two warriors and a spellcaster before the remaining spellcasters escaped.
• The survivors told Stars Princess that the monster resisted their Seventh Rank spells, and Third Princess Starlight sent them to help prepare defenses while she sought Reginald Simms.
• Starlight found Simms amid the wreckage of a failed divination, and he warned that his visions showed only death approaching within a day.
• A green glow appeared in Simms’s divination basin, and he saw that the Alliance had to attack the High Tower because it was their sole path to survival.
• Anvis watched Olbins’s Silver Thunder strike an apparently empty location as three Magic Hours passed.

The Priest wore down the Silver Thunder guarding the Glory Secret Realm while Anvis and the others realized their defenses would soon fail. After outside attacks and the arrival of Ninth Rank Limit experts threatened his plans, the Priest exposed Landon and his companions, who forced their way through the portal toward the Key of Revelation.

• The Priest sent Green Flame Masses into the Secret Realm, sacrificing them to deplete the Silver Thunder that Olbins had amplified.
• Olbins and Anvis noticed the lightning was running out, and both sides continued fighting until the thunderstorm clouds nearly dispersed.
• The Priest learned that Ninth Rank Limit experts were coming and that noble youths outside were attacking the cultists, leaving him less than six Magic Hours to act.
• The Priest's Divine Flame exposed Landon and his companions as infiltrators, and Dark Crow destroyed the foreign divine power concealing them.
• Aranis threw a Silver Rune Stone that unleashed Duke Carlot's power at the Priest, distracting him as Landon and the others charged into the portal with divine flames clinging to them.

Anvis recognized the familiar power shielding four newcomers in the secret realm and reunited with his sister Aranis, who told him that Evan had died protecting her. As the group learned that a Silver Obelisk could provide a way out, the Priest's servants continued entering the realm while Silver Thunder attacked a Green Flame Mass.

• Anvis stopped the secret realm's lightning from striking the newcomers after sensing a familiar force among them.
• Anvis sent a magic signal to Aranis, who rushed to reunite with him and told him Evan had died protecting her.
• Aranis explained that the secret realm's sky was shrinking and that she had been pursued by cultists after entering the High Tower with Ailisha, Luo Qi, and Landon.
• Anvis thanked the three companions with Ninth Rank Materials, while Landon asked about a Silver Obelisk that Dark Crow could use to teleport them out.
• Pigeon told Anvis that the obelisk could serve as a higher-dimensional means of escape, and Anvis suggested Titan's residence might be connected to it.
• Luo Qi spotted a Green Flame Mass entering the realm, whereupon Silver Thunder struck and destroyed it as the Priest continued sending servants inside.

The Priest responded to the Temporary Alliance’s advances by sacrificing noble descendants to create powerful vassal races, while Anvis and the others fought the Heretic Cultists inside the Core Secret Realm. Prince Lanno proposed luring the Priest into the realm so they could strike him with its remaining Silver-White Thunder.

• The Priest sensed that Anvis and his companions had entered the Core Secret Realm, then ordered Heretic Cultists to pursue them and considered how to counter the Temporary Alliance’s surviving nobles.
• The Priest sacrificed a red-haired noble descendant to the Dark Green Flame, and Earl Glimmer learned that the descendant’s Life Crystal Ball had shattered.
• The Priest transformed three more unwilling sacrifices into near-ninth-rank vassal races and sent them beneath the tower to capture the Explorers.
• Anvis and his companions fought the Heretic Cultists, using Prince Lanno’s giant Magic Construct, Anvis’s Cursed Plutonium Dragons, and two Mithril Golems.
• After hearing Landon and the others describe the situation outside, Prince Lanno proposed pretending the Silver-White Thunder was exhausted to lure the Priest into the secret realm.

Anvis learned that the Priest planned to exhaust the Thunder sustaining the Miniature Secret Realm and capture the Silver Obelisk when the realm collapsed. As the group fought the Star-Praising Cultists, the Thunderclouds began to vanish, signaling the secret realm's final days.

• Dark Crow explained that the Miniature Secret Realm depended on Thunder and would collapse once its energy was exhausted.
• Anvis deduced that the Priest intended to let the Core Secret Realm collapse so the Silver Obelisk would reappear within the city, and he considered how to stop the plan.
• Anvis’s companions, Dragons, Golems, and constructs fought the Star-Praising Cultists while the Last Dragonborn livestreamed the battle.
• Xia Ye Ying Huo and Lona worked together to target stronger cultists, but the numerous foes continued draining the secret realm’s core power with their divine energy.
• The Thunderclouds silently dissipated, and Anvis realized the secret realm had entered its final days.

As the Glory Secret Realm began to collapse, Anvis chose to let it fall and organized a way for his group to survive. He left with the others in a heavily fortified Safe House, while Landon escaped separately with Luo Qi and Ailisha.

• Anvis decided not to stop the Priest from destroying the Core Secret Realm, believing its collapse would weaken their enemy and help his group return safely.
• The Last Dragonborn realized the secret realm was collapsing, and Olbins warned that teleportation through the unstable space could be fatal.
• Landon claimed he could carry only three people to safety, but no one mentioned the Obelisk Dark Crow hoped to find.
• Anvis promised to get everyone out and had Olbins set a spatial device to channel the collapse's turbulence toward the Priest's passage.
• Anvis revealed his Eternal Gold Safe House, and the group entered it while Landon left with Luo Qi and Ailisha; Aranis chose to stay with Anvis.

Anvis guided the Last Dragonborn to livestream the collapse of the Core Secret Realm, which overwhelmed the Priest and brought the group back to the Glory Secret Realm. After they escaped safely, Aranis warned Anvis not to rely too heavily on external power, but he argued that their dangerous situation demanded it.

• The Priest prepared to find the Key of Revelation and summon the Lord, but an unexpectedly endless wave of Space Turbulence swallowed him and the Altar.
• Anvis helped the Last Dragonborn use the livestream camera to record the collapsing realm, and Players gained new abilities and proficiency from witnessing it.
• The Safety Pod emerged above the city ruins, and Anvis confirmed the group had returned to the Glory Secret Realm before inspecting the damaged hull.
• Aranis suspected Anvis had acquired powerful equipment through a secret discovery and advised him to build his own strength instead of relying on external objects.
• Anvis agreed that personal strength mattered but said their dangerous circumstances required them to use every source of power available.

Anvis reflected on his lack of a personal path as a diviner while he and his companions investigated the Glory Secret Realm. After joining the assault on the Central High Tower, they learned that the Third Princess’s forces were locked in a stalemate with powerful enemies above.

• Aranis warned Anvis not to rely too heavily on summons or Alchemy Golems, and he agreed while privately considering his lack of a path as a diviner.
• Prince Lanno proposed searching for the others, and he temporarily led the group as they explored the Ruins.
• Anvis, Aranis, Lanno, and their companions reunited with Landon and decided to support the Third Princess’s assault on the Central High Tower.
• The group entered the tower and learned from two guards that three powerful Foreign Objects had blocked the advance, leaving both sides in a wary stalemate.
• The group learned that the Third Princess and her forces were based on the third floor and fighting enemies on the upper floors.

Anvis and his group joined the battle on the High Tower’s third floor, where their powerful summons tipped the fight against the Foreign Objects. Princess Starlight stopped the green-flame Familiars from escaping, and the survivors prepared to advance toward the top floor.

• Anvis and his group climbed to the third floor and found Professionals fighting Faceless Cultists and other Foreign Objects in the corrupted Magic Garden.
• Anvis released three Cursed Plutonium Dragons and two Eighth Rank Mithril Golems, helping turn the battle in the Professionals’ favor.
• The three green-flame Familiars forced back their opponents and tried to flee through the passage to the upper levels.
• Princess Starlight used a powerful spell to destroy the strongest Familiar, then struggled to recover from the magic she had spent.
• Anvis saluted Princess Starlight and withdrew most of his summons, and she ordered the group to continue toward the top floor.

Anvis’s team fought through the High Tower to reach the sixth floor, where powerful Green Flame Familiars stalled their advance. Anvis secretly infiltrated the seventh floor and discovered the Priest draining fate from captives, including Evan, to help an Outer God return.

• The Tower Assault Team broke through the fourth and fifth floors, but swarms of aberrant creatures delayed them for an hour and a half.
• On the sixth floor, five Green Flame Familiars and the Flesh Nest’s defenses forced the princes, princesses, and family descendants into a stalemate.
• Anvis used an independent Avatar to replace himself, then concealed his true body with Dark Side of the Moon and slipped toward the seventh floor.
• Anvis disguised himself before entering the seventh floor, where he found the Priest conducting a ritual around a green flame.
• Anvis recognized that the ritual was stripping fate from the kneeling captives, including Evan, to help an Outer God return, and he decided to disrupt it.

Anvis disrupted the Priest’s ritual by rescuing many captives, then fought the Priest and his Minions while waiting for reinforcements. Third Princess Starlight arrived with the teams from the sixth floor, turning the battle toward a new phase.

• Anvis shrank and sealed more than half the captives, disrupting the Altar’s ritual.
• The Priest attacked Anvis with Divine Flame, but Anvis blocked it with Lai Eggshell’s crystalline shield.
• The Priest recalled his three strongest Minions, and Anvis fought them while protecting the remaining captives and using powerful single-use artifacts.
• The Priest realized Anvis had been concealing his strength as the Minions suffered injuries.
• Third Princess Starlight arrived with the teams that had fought through the sixth floor.