Chapter Summaries

Anvis tested the Twisted Seed on the Refugees and arranged for Evan to learn what had happened in the alley. Back in the Royal Capital, the Old Days Secret Scripture absorbed Alien Power from his Avatar, strengthening him and unlocking a new Spell-like Ability.

• Anvis frightened the Refugees into mental breakdowns and planted a Twisted Seed in Scarface Man.
• Anvis's Avatar and Jom arrived, and the City Guard arrested the Refugees while Anvis left a mark in Scarface Man's Sea of Spirit to disrupt any soul search.
• The City Guard escorted the rescued Girl away to look for her family, and Anvis returned to the Royal Capital with his Avatar.
• Anvis connected to the Old Days Secret Scripture, which detected and absorbed Alien Power from his Avatar.
• The Scripture returned pure energy to Anvis, improving his Spiritual Power and physical constitution and unlocking Mirror Realm Traverse while enhancing other Spell-like Abilities.

Anvis tested the Old Days Secret Scripture’s new abilities and planned to use its power to help Evan, but Evan and every living creature in his mansion vanished before the plan could begin. Anvis suspected his actions had accelerated Evan’s disappearance and turned his attention toward Dylas Port in the Iter Kingdom Federation.

• Anvis tested Mirror Realm Traverse and found that he could enter clear physical mirrors and project through some other reflective surfaces.
• Anvis realized he could tell Duke Carlot that the Old Days Secret Scripture might cleanse Evan’s Alien Power, and the duke agreed to visit Evan with him the next day.
• Duke Carlot’s family head informed Anvis that Evan and every living creature in the City Lord’s Mansion had disappeared, while a high-rank Prophet’s attempt to locate them had yielded nothing.
• Anvis suspected that his probing and plans to treat Evan had caused Evan’s disappearance to happen earlier than in his previous memories.
• Anvis studied a map of Yar Continent and focused on Dylas Port, considering opportunities in the Iter Kingdom Federation.

Anvis showed Duke Carlot prophetic passages from the Old Days Secret Scripture and persuaded him to let him investigate Evan’s disappearance. As Anvis prepared to leave for the Itel Federation, his Cursed Plutonium Dragon neared hatching, while a figure in the Royal Capital learned of it and reacted with bitter scorn.

• Anvis showed Duke Carlot three newly revealed passages from the Old Days Secret Scripture and suggested they might point to Evan’s disappearance and an island near Dylas Port.
• Anvis argued that he should investigate personally because he alone could use the Scripture, and Duke Carlot agreed after Anvis suggested a powerful being might have arranged his connection to it.
• Anvis said he planned to leave for the Itel Federation during the New Life Festival, and Duke Carlot asked him to return to Carlras before leaving the empire.
• Anvis’s cultivation notification indicated that the Cursed Plutonium Dragon he had raised for over two months was about to hatch.
• A figure in a dark study read a report about Anvis’s Cursed Plutonium Dragon, mocked the prospect of a new genius emerging in the current era, and repeated that nothing could be accomplished in such a time.

At Pamir Academy, Anvis oversaw the hatching and cultivation of three Cursed Plutonium Dragons in the Mana Conversion Pool. The hatchlings absorbed the cursed fluid, accepted Anvis as familiar, and began eating their eggshells as he ordered Seer Silver to record the process.

• Anvis ordered Seer Silver to activate the Mana Conversion Pool and add the materials needed to cultivate the three dragon eggs.
• The eggs cracked open one after another, and all three hatchlings emerged and eagerly drank the concentrated cursed fluid.
• Anvis activated the Mystic Ritual Array, whose spiritual frequencies kept the hatchlings calm while they absorbed the remaining cursed energy.
• The three hatchlings grew to nearly the size of horses, emerged from the pool, and crowded around Anvis affectionately.
• Anvis placed the eggshells before the hatchlings, who reluctantly ate them, then instructed Seer Silver to record the cultivation process and results in the family's information database.

Olbins showed Anvis his new invention, a pair of rings that opened portals directly through Normal Space-Time. He explained their color-matched exits and current three-meter range, leaving Anvis with the prospect of improving the device with better materials.

• Olbins met Anvis at the High Tower Restaurant to show him a new invention before Anvis left Pamir for the West Coast.
• Olbins presented two black-and-white Möbius-shaped metal rings, and Anvis correctly inferred that they transported objects between them.
• Anvis revealed he had seen a similar Teleportation Sub-Array and sketched its design for Olbins.
• Olbins studied Anvis's sketch, acknowledged its Normal Space-Time connection, and explained how it avoided the restrictions of ordinary spatial teleportation.
• Olbins named the invention the Normal Space Teleportation Ring and said its portals matched black and white exits, but its range was limited to three meters by its materials and power supply.

Olbins demonstrated a pair of rings that created a short-range connection through Normal Space-Time and gave Anvis the design as a gift for saving Hillyl and him. Anvis accepted after explaining the research’s value, then asked about Olbins’s unusual helmet.

• Olbins infused one ring with Mana, linking it to the other ring and showing that the connection became unstable beyond three meters.
• Olbins explained how the rings formed and closed a shared spatial pipe, then gave Anvis a crystal ball containing the design and manufacturing details.
• Anvis warned Olbins that the unrestricted spatial connection research was worth far more than the help Anvis had given him.
• Olbins insisted the design was a personal gift, and Anvis accepted it as a friend.
• Anvis asked about Olbins’s helmet, and Olbins explained that it amplified his Spiritual Power and let him work on several tasks remotely at the cost of burning lifespan faster.

Anvis recognized Olbins’s construct armor as the beginning of the work that would become Hive Mind and arranged to help him reach the Fourth Rank in exchange for research. Before leaving the Royal Capital, Anvis searched Dugen Town for someone consumed by despair over the nobility, and flames suddenly rose from the town.

• Olbins demonstrated his modular construct armor to Anvis and explained how he had designed it using ideas from Magic Construct studies.
• Anvis recalled that Olbins had secretly created the core framework of Hive Mind, though historical records credited Olbins’s two students as its creators.
• Anvis offered Olbins treasures to help him reach the Fourth Rank, and Olbins agreed to develop high-end construct projects for Anvis.
• Anvis left the Royal Capital and used Mirror Silver Divination to locate a despairing target in Dugen Town.
• Anvis searched the town at night, then saw flames suddenly shoot into the sky.

Anvis found Matt at the scene of a fire that had destroyed the boy’s family, then offered him a chance to take vengeance on the nobles responsible. Matt accepted and pledged his life, faith, and soul to the figure he believed was the god of vengeance.

• Anvis changed course toward the town fire and received a dossier identifying Matt and recounting the losses his family had suffered under Baron Yogen.
• Matt watched as townsfolk pulled three burned bodies from his family’s destroyed home, where his mother had set the fire.
• The world around Matt froze, and a dark figure approached him through the flames and asked whether he wanted vengeance.
• Matt asked if the figure was the god of vengeance, then knelt and offered his life, faith, and soul in exchange for revenge.
• The figure agreed, and Matt felt something appear deep within his heart.

Anvis manipulated Matt’s hatred of the nobles, posing as the Agent of a divine lord and arranging for Matt to train before entering Royal Pamir Academy. After setting his plan in motion, Anvis returned to Carlras and waited for hidden forces to take the bait.

• Matt accepted the black-cloaked figure as the Agent of the Divine Lord after feeling the Seed of Hatred take root in him.
• The Agent assigned a gray-haired middle-aged man to oversee Matt’s training and arranged for him to enter Royal Pamir Academy as a fallen minor noble’s descendant.
• Matt resisted the plan but agreed to obey after the Agent reminded him that his life belonged to the lord he had promised to serve.
• Anvis revealed that he had staged the divine encounter and planned to use Matt to build a Rebel Army, expose hidden forces, and test whether he could create a Child of Destiny.
• Anvis returned to the Royal Capital branch, traveled by Teleportation Array to Carlras, and waited for his targets to take the bait.

Anvis returned to Moonrise Fortress for the New Life Festival and learned that his family had been studying a mysterious ancient key whose power resisted even Ninth Rank Rule Power. Duke Carlot asked him to reveal the true form of the Old Days Secret Scripture, and the chapter ended as its cover displayed a pitch-black mass.

• Anvis returned to Moonrise Fortress and reunited with Fiona, Duke Carlot, and Duchess Elena.
• Duke Carlot summoned Anvis to his study, where Leonard activated its highest-level protective Magic Arrays.
• Duke Carlot explained that the family’s Ninth Rank Limits had found no definite purpose for the ancient key, though its essence contained immense power.
• The key shed its dull surface and revealed a brilliant silvery-white sheen, making Anvis sense an infinitely vast world within it.
• Duke Carlot instructed Anvis to use his Spiritual Power to reveal the Old Days Secret Scripture’s true form, and a pitch-black mass appeared on its cover.

Duke Carlot used the silver key to explain how it could reveal hidden possibilities and choices in Anvis’s fate. After celebrating the New Life Festival with his family, Anvis traveled to the Itel Federation’s Lolan Kingdom to seek the creator of an important treasure.

• Duke Carlot demonstrated the key’s power and explained how it could reveal possibilities hidden by an arranged fate.
• Anvis understood that the key could give him more choices and thanked Duke Carlot, who told him to prepare for his departure and use the Family Amulet if he faced overwhelming danger.
• Anvis spent the New Life Festival at Moonrise Fortress with Duke Carlot, the duchess, and Fiona, while Raymond and Aranis were absent.
• The next day, Anvis left his family and took the ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array to the Lolan Kingdom in the Itel Federation.
• Anvis traveled to the Lolan Kingdom because the creator of a treasure from his previous-life memories was living there in seclusion.

Anvis traveled in disguise to Violet City to seek the Old Mage whose research concerned the evolving artificial bloodline Perfect Blood. He found the mage’s house, but the owner was away, leaving Anvis waiting at the living elderberry gate.

• Anvis and Chom reached Violet City in disguise after concealing their tracks and leaving the Gloria Empire.
• Anvis recalled how Perfect Blood could absorb other bloodlines and envisioned combining it with Magic Construct Technology to produce powerful synthetic soldiers.
• Anvis found the Old Mage’s vine-covered house and touched a black elderberry that rang a faint chime inside.
• Anvis waited, but the elderberry gate did not open because the Old Mage was away.

Ougeman Weilujin, a fugitive ancient biologist, discovered that a pheromone from an ancient creature could overcome reproductive isolation, but his experiments stalled when he ran out of Black Domain Orchid Pollen. Returning home, he found two strangers waiting at his door and wondered how they knew about his hidden entrance.

• Ougeman fled the Holy Radiance Church and settled in Violet City to continue researching ancient biology.
• Ougeman bought a giant Chalk Fossil and extracted an unusual enchanted pheromone from the ancient creature preserved inside it.
• Ougeman tested the pheromone on experimental subjects and found that it enabled modern creatures to produce offspring bearing traits from ancient species.
• Ougeman tried to synthesize the pheromone, but his supply of Black Domain Orchid Pollen ran out and his remaining reaction solution began to deteriorate.
• Ougeman searched Violet City's Alchemy Shops for more pollen but learned that enough would not be available for a month.
• Ougeman returned home and found two cloaked strangers waiting outside, though only a few close colleagues knew the elderberry at his door concealed a Magic Gate bell.

Anvis offered to fund Ogman’s research into Perfect Blood Source Blood and promised to supply the materials Ogman needed. The deal gave Anvis hope that the research might help reconcile the conflict between his two Legendary Bloodlines.

• Ogman welcomed Anvis and Chom into his residence, then grew uneasy when they crossed his courtyard traps without triggering them.
• Anvis revealed that he knew the details of Ogman’s research and proposed financing it.
• Anvis explained that he could provide the experimental materials Ogman needed, prompting Ogman to request Fifth-Rank experimental magical beasts and high-grade bloodlines.
• Anvis agreed to supply the materials and recalled how Perfect Blood Source Blood had improved his bloodline in his previous life.
• Anvis considered using his two Legendary Bloodlines as a foundation for Perfect Blood Source Blood that might resolve their conflict.

Anvis left Ogman with several High-Ranked bloodlines and traveled with Chom to buy tickets for a construct airship to Dylas Port. While waiting to board, Anvis read that the King of Lyka Kingdom had died, stirring his memories of a coup there that would trigger the second outbreak of the construct revolution.

• Anvis spent three days at Ogman's home while Ogman used materials from Chom for his experiments.
• Anvis left Ogman several High-Ranked bloodlines, including the Cursed Plutonium Dragon bloodline, then departed with Chom.
• Anvis and Chom bought second-class tickets for the Silver Spotted Flower airship to Dylas Port.
• While waiting at the giant aviation branch office, Anvis read that the King of Lyka Kingdom had died and the Second Prince might enter the Emerald Crystal Palace.
• Anvis recalled that a coup in Lyka Kingdom would lead to the second outbreak of the construct revolution.

Anvis recalled how the Lyka Coup would end as he traveled aboard the Silver Spotted Flower to Violet City. In his cabin, he divined that the journey would bring minor setbacks and began making a Coin of Destiny.

• Anvis read about the Lyka Coup and recalled that the Sixth Prince would use Magic Constructs to overthrow both sides and take the throne.
• The Silver Spotted Flower arrived at Violet City, and Anvis boarded with Chom; an unseen golden-haired Half-Elf Girl he knew appeared in the corridor after they left.
• Anvis and Chom settled into their small second-class cabin aboard the airship.
• Anvis used Mirror Silver Divination to predict his journey and saw possible obstacles but no great danger.
• Anvis placed a Platinum Coin in Moonlight Mercury and began creating a Coin of Destiny.

Anvis refined a Coin of Destiny aboard the Silver Spotted Flower, but a violent jolt interrupted the process as Iron Feather Ravens attacked the airship. The crew struggled to repel the flock while the Captain reassured the passengers that the situation was under control.

• Anvis used Fate Feedback and Moonlight Mercury to refine both sides of a Platinum Coin into a Coin of Destiny.
• The airship shook during the second infusion, but Anvis completed the refinement and confirmed the coin had accepted his Fate Feedback.
• Anvis noticed shadows passing the porthole and learned that a flock of Iron Feather Ravens was attacking the airship.
• The crew reported damage to the air sacs and found that the defenses and bird-repelling arrays were failing to stop the ravens.
• The Captain tried to steer the Silver Spotted Flower away from the flock and announced that passengers should remain calm.

Anvis ordered Chom to drive off the gray wing terror birds threatening the airship, while the captain prepared for an emergency landing. The ravens and terror birds suddenly fled, allowing the airship to continue its journey, and Anvis noticed his Fate Feedback had increased.

• The captain learned the airship had only ten minutes of Mana and heard that something was driving the Iron Feather Ravens ahead of them.
• Chom told Anvis that a flock of gray wing terror birds had appeared, and Anvis ordered him to drive them away quietly and reassure the captain.
• The crew detected the approaching terror birds, and the captain began preparing an emergency landing despite the dangers below.
• A mysterious voice told the captain to remain calm, after which the ravens fell away and the terror birds fled from the airship.
• The captain ordered the airship to continue, and Anvis later noticed his Fate Feedback had increased by about one and a half units.

Anvis and Chom went to Dylas Port to ask about a black ship connected to their search. An intelligence merchant said it would arrive in two days and revealed that many others had been asking about it.

• Anvis and Chom reached Dylas Port and visited the Corner Girl tavern to seek information about a black three-masted ship.
• Anvis paid an intelligence merchant one gold coin to learn whether the ship had returned.
• The merchant said the Black Ship would arrive in two days and remain for three days.
• The merchant added that dozens of people had asked about the ship over the past several months.
• Anvis and Chom left the tavern and checked into an ordinary inn.

Anvis experienced a prophetic vision of Evan in danger and a sealed power connected to the Old Days Secret Scripture, then resolved to seek the seal. He and Chom boarded the Black Strange Three-Masted Sailing Ship to investigate the island, and the ship departed Dylas Port.

• Anvis foresaw Evan wrapped in Tentacles and witnessed a ritual beside a Jet-Black Seal, but the seal's corruption was erased by familiar icy mana.
• Anvis realized the Old Days Secret Scripture had caused the vision and suspected it sought the power sealed in the cave.
• Anvis decided the intact seal could be exploited and hoped the Scripture would absorb the restrained Alien Power.
• At Dylas Port, Anvis confirmed that the ship's islanders traded the same gems and Harmonizers Evan had brought out.
• Anvis and Chom persuaded the captain to let them board the Black Strange Three-Masted Sailing Ship, alongside dozens of other island investigators.
• Three days later, the Black Ship sailed from Dylas Port into the Sea of Mist.