Chapter Summaries

Anvis stopped intervening in conflicts across the continent and settled in Frostlake City, where he helped the Thirteenth Prince seize control of the city while researching Original Sin Power. Their arrangement remained peaceful until the prince recruited new Outsiders as guest elders.

• Anvis let several conflicts develop, then traveled to the Silver Frost Kingdom and saved Os, the Thirteenth Prince, from a band of disguised assassins.
• Os appointed Anvis Chief Guest Elder, and Anvis helped him bring the City Guard under control, discipline officials, and turn Frostlake City's Dark Side factions against one another.
• Anvis and the City Guard Commander killed two of the Three Giants, while the last signed a hundred-year Master-Subordinate Contract and submitted to Os.
• After Os began strengthening his position in Frostlake City, Anvis secretly researched Original Sin Power and observed the changing balance among the continent's three major powers.
• The peaceful arrangement between Anvis and Os began to change when Os recruited new Outsiders into the guest elder ranks.

Anvis discovered that the Spark faction was secretly placing agents across the continent, while its divided commanders knew little about the operation’s purpose. As the Rebel Army prepared to act within a month, two Player mages serving as Anvis’s students discussed reporting to the Thirteenth Prince to pursue a hidden quest.

• Anvis welcomed fourteen new Spellcaster students and noticed that eight of the Players belonged to Spark.
• Anvis contacted Garot and Matt through their Twisted Seeds, but neither knew more than that Spark was planting agents in their assigned regions.
• Anvis concluded that the infiltration might be a continent-wide operation and found that fate-obscuring forces had concealed its objective.
• Anvis learned that Spark’s rapid expansion had divided its territory among commanders, leaving most of them unaware of the organization’s overall plan.
• Anvis ordered Garot and Matt to maintain their cover and continued monitoring the Construct Network and Prince Lanno.
• After training, Light and Shadow - Yingji Changkong and Light and Shadow - Flying Goldfish discussed whether to report their situation to the Thirteenth Prince in hopes of triggering a hidden quest.

Yingji Changkong persuaded Flying Goldfish to exploit the coming Rebel Army attack by secretly informing one of the Thirteenth Prince’s powerful retainers. After investigating their options, they settled on Yin Mo and planned to demand a reward before revealing specific intelligence.

• Yingji Changkong won a duel against Flying Goldfish and proposed using the impending conflict to pursue hidden quests and seize opportunities.
• Yingji Changkong explained that they should approach a high-ranking retainer rather than the Thirteenth Prince, and Flying Goldfish agreed to investigate Xi Tie · Dragon Hunter and Yin Mo.
• An invisible Magic Eye watched their secret conversation as another half month passed, during which the Rebel Army members behaved normally and the Federation’s Construct Network reopened in a less immersive form.
• Yingji Changkong and Flying Goldfish learned that the Rebel Army would act within days and agreed Yin Mo was the better target because he seemed less loyal to the prince.
• The two planned to offer Yin Mo the Rebel Army intelligence only after he paid them, with the option of reporting him to Xi Tie · Dragon Hunter if he tried to keep the rewards for himself.

Anvis learned that Spark's Rebel Army planned to attack Frost Lake City and decided to conceal the warning from the prince, trusting that the prince's hidden ties to the Glory Alliance would keep him safe. After the Players left, Anvis considered testing how Original Sin Power would affect a Player.

• Flying Goldfish and Ying Ji Chang Kong warned Anvis that Spark's Rebel Army would attack Frost Lake City by the day after tomorrow and demanded an advance reward.
• Anvis pressured the Players, then gave them two Fourth Rank magic accessories in exchange for their intelligence.
• Flying Goldfish claimed they had told no one else and explained they had avoided reporting to the prince because they feared being forced to defend the city as cannon fodder.
• Anvis learned from a planted informant's Magic Construct Headband that Spark's operation would begin the following night at eight o'clock.
• Anvis decided not to warn the prince, reasoning that the Glory Alliance would protect him, and considered experimenting with Original Sin Power on the two Players.

The Spark Organization launched the White Night Change across the Iter Kingdom Federation, using the Construct Network to coordinate attacks and briefly project powerful Professionals across battlefields. In Frost Lake City, the Thirteenth Prince’s forces repelled the uprising, and a powerful aura suddenly emerged at the battle’s center.

• At eight that night, Spark agents across the Federation attacked senior personnel and key targets, while allied factions used the chaos to strike their own enemies.
• Spark High-Ranked Professionals exploited a Construct Network loophole to project their power across battlefields, but High-rank Prophets later closed it.
• Many Federation kingdoms fell to the Rebel Army, though some nobles held out and prepared to expand their power.
• In Frost Lake City, Spark members sabotaged buildings and facilities, but the Thirteenth Prince’s City Guard and construct mech soldiers quickly crushed their attack.
• Ying Ji Chang Kong and Flying Goldfish fought the city’s defenders and speculated that other Players had joined the Prince’s side.
• A powerful aura swept out from the center of the Frost Lake City battlefield.

As the Spark Resistance Organization’s uprising plunged Frost Lake City into chaos, Anvis watched from the sidelines while Black Dasta’s undead surrounded the Thirteenth Prince and forced his entourage to surrender. When Black Dasta moved to attack the remaining group, the prince revealed power approaching the peak of the Eighth Rank.

• Ying Ji Chang Kong and Flying Goldfish escaped the City Guard and headed toward a Noble Manor to claim rewards.
• Anvis stayed in a tower to watch the rebellion, while his Avatar remained with the Thirteenth Prince and his black-red eye absorbed the spreading power of desire.
• Spark Organization rebels attacked noble estates and city defenses as thieves and Ruffians looted civilian districts.
• Black Dasta arrived with a Bone Dragon and Skeleton Legion, surrounded the Thirteenth Prince’s group, and offered to spare those who surrendered.
• Several members of the prince’s entourage defected to the undead, but Anvis and the City Guard Commander remained with the prince.
• The Thirteenth Prince unleashed an aura of Mana at the Eighth Rank, nearly reaching its peak, and Black Dasta recognized him.

Xito Demir drove Black Dasta from Frost Lake City, helping the Thirteenth Prince suppress the rebellion and begin the city’s recovery. Anvis took two captured Players to his tower and began an experiment that altered their power.

• Xito Demir attacked Black Dasta, who escaped after losing much of his skeletal army and suffering severe injuries.
• The Thirteenth Prince led the group in crushing the rebellion, and Xito left to help other cities in the Silver Frost Kingdom.
• The Thirteenth Prince ordered the captured rebels executed, but allowed Anvis to take Flying Goldfish and Ying Ji Chang Kong for an experiment.
• Anvis extinguished the remaining fires with a rain cloud, then brought the two Players to his tower’s basement.
• Anvis activated a strange force field, and the Players’ game notifications reported that their primary power nature was being altered.

Anvis forcibly changed Ying Ji Chang Kong and Flying Goldfish into a hidden class tied to Original Sin Power, making Order factions hate them while granting them powers that converted ambient energy into experience. He revealed that the world outside the Laboratory was saturated with Original Sin Power, leaving the Players stunned by the scale of their new source of strength.

• Anvis completed the Players’ class modification, giving them Original Sin-related talents and locking their reputations with major Order factions at Hatred or Mortal Enemy.
• Anvis examined the Players and compared their stable condition with the memory loss and mutations suffered by his previous Original Sin experiments.
• Ying Ji Chang Kong and Flying Goldfish discovered that absorbing stray Original Sin Power granted experience and increased their Sin Value.
• Anvis explained that Evil Gaze let the Players see and absorb Original Sin Power, while they worried that the Laboratory contained too little to help them level quickly.
• Anvis removed the Laboratory’s protective barrier and revealed that black smoke filled the night sky beyond its window.

Anvis named the Players’ new profession Apostle of Original Sin and watched Flying Goldfish transform into a Seventh-Rank Desire Beast after touching the power cloud. As war and Overlapping Zones spread across the continent, researchers discovered that the zones marked a merging of the Deep Dream World and the Main Material World, threatening human civilization.

• Anvis warned Ying Ji Chang Kong and Flying Goldfish that absorbing too much Original Sin Power could make them mutate, then allowed only one Player to approach the clouds at a time.
• Flying Goldfish won their magically assisted rock-paper-scissors match, and Anvis named their profession Apostle of Original Sin.
• Flying Goldfish touched the Original Sin Power cloud, was overwhelmed, and transformed into a Seventh-Rank Desire Beast before dying and reviving.
• Anvis captured the Desire Beast and arranged for the Players to stay with him while he studied the effects of Original Sin Power.
• The Federation’s war escalated as the Rebel Army attacked neighboring Kingdoms, evil god churches spread, and Overlapping Zones expanded faster than the Holy Radiance Church could contain them.
• Grand magisters concluded that Overlapping Zones were sites where the Deep Dream World and Main Material World merged, allowing deadly beings to appear and threatening Human Civilization.

Anvis watched the Spark Organization become a convenient banner for ambitious powers as the war spread across the Federation and into the Silver Frost Kingdom. While the Thirteenth Prince expanded his army and territory, Anvis continued researching Original Sin Power and drew the White Light Club’s interest.

• Newspapers credited the Spark Organization with sweeping victories, while Anvis recognized that kingdoms and alliances were using its name to pursue their own wars.
• Landon captured Black Feather Royal City, rescued Princess Paola, and took half of the Book of Yellow Robe after it tore during a struggle with Prince Auttomo.
• Anvis observed that both halves of the Book of Yellow Robe had gained a blank page, while Prince Auttomo’s Fate’s Favor rose to the level of Landon’s destined nemesis.
• With covert support from the Glory Alliance, the Thirteenth Prince’s forces defended Frost Lake City, expanded far beyond their permitted size, and seized nearby cities.
• Anvis continued studying Original Sin Power after two Players reached above level fifty, and the White Light Club approached him to request the modification for more Players.

Anvis completed his research into the Apostles of Original Sin and left Frost Lake City to avoid disrupting the Thirteenth Prince’s fate. After Yin Mo disappeared, the prince ordered a search while White Light Club’s newly transformed players rapidly gained power.

• Anvis found that a player's Original Sin Beast lost its special qualities when the player's consciousness vanished, and that reaching a hidden Sin Value limit triggered irreversible mutation.
• Anvis learned that Flying Goldfish's mutation began at level seventy-one and Ying Ji Chang Kong's at level seventy-three, while the fully transformed beasts had poor growth potential.
• The Guards reported Yin Mo missing after discovering untouched supplies, and the Thirteenth Prince inspected the stone tower and found no signs of a struggle.
• The Thirteenth Prince ordered Frost Lake City's defenses to investigate Yin Mo's whereabouts and warned that a powerful enemy might threaten them all.
• White Light Club's transformed players eagerly signed up despite the risks, and dozens quickly rose above level sixty.
• Anvis left Frost Lake City because the growing group of Apostles of Original Sin risked attracting major powers and altering the Thirteenth Prince's fate.

Lord Hisri warned Kappelan VII that war and the deaths it caused made the Overlapping Zones expand, threatening the Yar Continent. Kappelan VII chose to continue the campaign, and the Kappelan Kingdom seized the Night Moon Kingdom under the pretext of fighting rebels.

• The White Light Club stopped prioritizing Anvis's disappearance and told its members to watch for Yin Mo.
• Lord Hisri showed Kappelan VII evidence that battles and the souls of the dead stimulated Overlapping Zone expansion.
• Lord Hisri warned that collecting battlefield souls would not address deaths caused by bandits and refugees fleeing the war.
• Kappelan VII dismissed Lord Hisri and accepted Duke Ruperta's proposal to send more troops against the rebels.
• The next day, the Kappelan Kingdom's army captured the Night Moon Kingdom's capital and annexed its territory.

As the Spark Resistance Organization’s war spread across the Iter Kingdom Federation, expanding Overlapping Zones strengthened Contactees and boosted the Black Ring Merchant Guild. The chapter ended with three figures in a White-Gold Palace discussing whether these changes threatened their plan, while Gray Mist admitted they did not know whether Contactees’ powers would last if the zones were cleared.

• The Spark rebels seized garrisons and attacked neighboring cities, while kingdom forces rallied to resist and upgraded their Magic Constructs.
• The expanding Overlapping Zones drew warnings from Dream spellcasters, but most people ignored them as the war continued.
• Contactees’ dream-related abilities grew stronger as the Overlapping Zones expanded, including the powers of a girl once recruited by the Black Ring Merchant Guild.
• Anvis’s decision to support Contactees paid off as the Black Ring Merchant Guild gained powerful new recruits and attracted the attention of high-level forces.
• In a mysterious White-Gold Palace, the crowned Speaker asked Gray Mist whether the changes threatened their plan and whether Contactees’ powers would fade if the Overlapping Zones were cleared; Gray Mist said they did not know.

Gray Mist discussed fate, the Contactees, and the threat posed by Mirror and the Circle of Truth with the Speaker, then departed with Starlight. The Speaker opened the Federation Conference with an agenda concerning the Black Ring Merchant Guild, while Gray Mist told Starlight he planned to spread free thought through Construct Headbands.

• Gray Mist declined the Speaker’s offer to help him approach the Contactees, saying he would let other prophets compete for their Fate Nodes.
• Gray Mist said prophet Mirror had caused his loss of authority over the Construct Network and might be connected to the Circle of Truth.
• Gray Mist predicted the Gloria Empire’s civil war would reignite within a year, then left the meeting with the cloaked Starlight.
• The Speaker transformed the hall and began the fourth Federation Conference of Federation Calendar 2465, announcing a special agenda concerning the Black Ring Merchant Guild.
• Starlight questioned Gray Mist about spreading free thought through Construct Headbands, and he said his prophecy showed it would change the continent’s fate.

Anvis managed the kingdoms’ crackdown on the Black Ring Merchant Guild by negotiating with officials and striking at factions that demanded too much. After receiving Claire’s letter, he met her outside the Royal Capital and learned she had traveled with several companions.

• Gray Mist confirmed that Star would not interfere with his plans, and he chose not to pry into her secrets.
• Gaffman reported that kingdoms had sealed Black Ring Merchant Guild branches over alleged ties to the Circle of Truth, halting most of its business.
• Anvis negotiated with officials, paid off some kingdoms, handed over Contactees to others, and punished factions that tried to seize the guild.
• Anvis received a letter from Claire asking him to meet, and he went to the agreed wilderness outside the Empire's Royal Capital.
• Claire introduced Anvis to the travelers who had accompanied her, and Anvis privately questioned her choice of low-ranked companions.

Anvis and Claire encountered a Nightmare Feather Raven Swarm while traveling with a caravan, but Anvis sent the caravan safely to the Royal Capital with magic. After giving a grateful traveler a ring, Anvis sat with Claire and asked her to recount her journey.

• Anvis and Claire spotted a Nightmare Feather Raven Swarm approaching, and the caravan leader urged everyone to flee into the forest.
• Claire explained that she traveled with the caravan while restraining her misfortune, and the Leather Armor Youth returned to help her escape.
• Anvis immobilized the caravan members and transported them to the Royal Capital, while he and Claire stayed behind.
• The caravan members realized Claire and Anvis were powerful, and the leader warned them not to discuss important figures.
• Anvis left the Leather Armor Youth a ring as thanks for the Light Body Arts, then asked Claire to tell him about her journey.

Claire recounted her voyage to a lost continent and asked Anvis to help find the Key to the City of Origin, which she had been unable to enter. After examining Anvis’s Stellar Disk, she said it was not the Key and shared her memory of the door’s power with him.

• Claire described surviving a storm at sea and following the Phantom Ocean Current through a hurricane belt to a lost continent beyond a vast arch of Basalt Pillars.
• Claire told Anvis about the ancient ruins on the continent and suggested he investigate them for clues about powerful ancient beings.
• Anvis drove off an approaching Nightmare Feather Raven Swarm with the power of his Ring, and Claire teased him about relying on equipment.
• Claire declined Anvis’s offer of payment but asked him to help find the Key that would open the City of Origin.
• Anvis showed Claire his restored Stellar Disk, but she said it was not the Key and synchronized her memory of the door’s power with him.

Anvis learned that Claire needed the Silver Key to reunite with part of herself in the City of Origin Yaina, but the key belonged to the Olyvendi Family. After Duke Carlot refused to lend it, he deduced that Claire had told Anvis about a related door and threatened to question her directly.

• Claire told Anvis that she needed to find the key and travel to the City of Origin Yaina, where part of her had been stored in a research institute.
• Anvis identified the key as the Silver Key held by his father, and Claire agreed to investigate Yaina while waiting for news.
• Anvis contacted Duke Carlot to request the Silver Key, but Carlot refused, calling it a foundation of the Olyvendi Family.
• Anvis claimed the key might lead to a door, then withheld its location to persuade Carlot to lend it.
• Duke Carlot deduced that Claire had told Anvis about the door and threatened to send someone to question her.

Anvis defied Duke Carlot’s plan to seize Claire and erase her memories, revealing that she had been taken to the Circle of Truth and was already its member. The duke brought the dispute over the Silver Key and the door before the Family Council, where the ninth-rank members disagreed over whether to cooperate.

• Duke Carlot told Anvis that the Olyvendi Family would pursue the door’s coordinates and offered to spare Claire if she cooperated, but Anvis refused to let him take her.
• Anvis revealed that he had contacted the Circle of Truth, which had taken Claire away for protection, and Duke Carlot learned she had vanished from Royal Pamir Academy.
• Anvis told Duke Carlot that Claire was a Circle of Truth member who had found the door but never shared its coordinates, and the duke halved Anvis’s resources for ten years before taking the matter to the Family Council.
• Anvis appointed Claire the Circle of Truth’s chief Explorer aboard the Floating City, but Bohemia’s alarm and a jolt interrupted their conversation as Anvis ordered full firepower.
• Duke Carlot convened an emergency meeting, and the family’s ninth-rank members split over whether to retain control of the Silver Key without compromise or allow limited cooperation.

After the Olyvendi Family’s leaders deadlocked over negotiating with the Circle of Truth, Pomona rejected the idea and a mysterious Amulet offered him a way to pursue his own plan for reaching Legendary. Pomona gave in to the offer and asked the Star Praise Sect to explain its plan.

• Duke Carlot and one Ninth Rank Limit Guardian favored talks with the Circle of Truth, while Pomona and another Guardian opposed letting it near the Silver Key.
• Pomona returned to his laboratory, froze his equipment in anger, and condemned Carlot for treating Fiona like a daughter.
• A black crystal Amulet contacted Pomona, but he initially refused its proposal.
• The Amulet claimed that Pomona could use the Silver Key to summon a foreign god and reach Legendary, with Fiona serving as the sacrifice.
• The Amulet argued that the royal family was distracted by Gloria III’s disappearance and that cooperation would strengthen the Olyvendi Family.
• Pomona decided to cooperate with the Star Praise Sect and asked to hear its plan.