Recaps

Frei concluded that the challengers’ professions could be checked against city records and left to reach the city-state by climbing down and around the cliff. His departure gave the remaining challengers a two-day deadline before he returned with the traitors’ identities.

• Frei asked whether anyone wanted to change the profession they had reported, and everyone insisted their accounts were true.
• Frei explained that city-state records should list everyone’s registered profession and announced he would reach the city to check them.
• Frei told Lanchi and Hughberlian to wait two days, then climbed down the cliff and disappeared into the fog.
• The challengers relaxed, believing the traitors would have to complete their missions before Frei returned.
• Students watching at Jella Memorial Square realized the traitors would spend two days and nights living alongside Principal Lan.

With Frei gone for two days, Lanchi eased the challengers’ tension by leading them in taunting the two hidden traitors. Hughberlian suspected Lanchi had another way to pressure them and hoped they could capture the traitors alive for questioning.

• The challengers gathered at the cliffside without anyone taking over from the vanished detective, while the Young Master of the Petras Merchant Guild held back from claiming leadership.
• Lanchi remarked that two people were pretending nothing was wrong, and Hughberlian joined him in mocking the hidden traitors.
• The challengers took turns taunting the traitors, who endured the humiliation while maintaining their performances.
• Lanchi watched the challengers relax, and Hughberlian reasoned that capturing the suspected Resurrection Cultists alive was preferable to summoning the unpredictable Poet of Great Love.
• Lanchi asked why Hughberlian was watching him, and she concluded that he had another way to unsettle the traitors.

The challengers searched Lichtenstein Castle’s library for information about the blood clan and the Honing Empire, then found an ancient book describing a powerful sealing art. The imperial mage could not fully decipher the book’s transitional demon script, leaving the core information awaiting interpretation.

• Lanchi proposed that the challengers search the library for books about the blood clan, while a noble girl from the Krui Di Empire argued that they should burn the books instead.
• The challengers voted to preserve the library’s books, then searched them in groups throughout the morning.
• The Young Master of the Chamber of Commerce opened an ancient book, causing everyone’s Task Objective 2 to note that they had collected one piece of core information awaiting interpretation.
• The Young Master read that an eternal seal could be created with the power of the sun, moon, and stars, and that breaking it required fresh blood of the moon and stars while avoiding the sun.
• The imperial mage examined the book but explained that its transitional script, between Demon Magic Text and human magical script, was difficult for both humans and demonkin to understand.

Lanchi deciphered an ancient magic book, revealing that the challengers had to protect a werewolf and a Witch from the traitors. He realized Hughberlian was the Witch, leaving her in immediate danger as he prepared to act against the traitors.

• Lanchi translated the ancient book, explaining that the sun, moon, and stars represented the sealing conditions and the Blood Race's enemies: werewolves and Witches.
• Task Objective 2 updated, ordering the challengers to protect the werewolf and the Witch, and students watching the broadcast realized Lanchi had genuinely deciphered the text.
• Lanchi reasoned that the traitors were seeking the werewolf and Witch, while the challengers needed to find the Blood Race Kin among their own group.
• The Young Master questioned Lanchi's ancestry, but Lanchi calmly affirmed his human bloodline and declined to explain how he knew Demon Magic Text.
• Lanchi recognized Hughberlian as the Witch and silently reassured her, knowing she was in serious danger.

Lanchi questioned the challengers about the traitors and the Goddess of Fate, then used the church’s fear of her influence to set a trap for any Resurrection Cultists among them. He left the challengers with an oath designed to entangle the traitors in karma and hinder their rise within the Rebirth Church.

• The priest performed a prayer over High Priest Caligula’s grave to grant him peace and protect his remains from necromancy.
• Lanchi asked whether the two traitors were likely Resurrection Cultists, and the Young Master of the Chamber of Commerce said the odds were extremely high.
• Lanchi asked the Northern Continent clerics whether the Goddess of Fate existed, and they explained her power, followers, and reputation for influencing fate.
• Lanchi asked everyone to repeat an oath calling on the Goddess of Fate to guide any cultist or traitor toward the Rebirth Church’s destruction.
• The challengers realized Lanchi was trying to entangle the traitors with the Goddess of Fate and make it harder for them to advance in the Rebirth Church.

Lanchi led the chapel’s challengers and clergy in a bizarre round of public praise and vicious oaths to expose any Resurrection Cultists, while encouraging everyone to laugh along. Watching the recording, Loren recognized the damage to the Goddess of Fate Church’s reputation and vowed to condemn the three clergy members and warn others to stay away from Lanqi Wilford.

• The challengers repeated Lanchi’s praise of the Goddess of Fate and swore destructive oaths, making it difficult for any Resurrection Cultists to refuse without drawing suspicion.
• The Young Master of the Chamber of Commerce and the three clergy members helped inspect everyone and urged another round using Lawyer’s exact words.
• Lanchi encouraged the challengers to laugh, and Hughberlian joined in as the chapel’s prayers and cruel laughter grew increasingly frenzied.
• At Iketerite Academy, Loren watched the recording and realized Lanchi had made the clergy appear like fallen believers performing a heretical ritual.
• Loren said he had memorized the identities of the three clergy members and would arrange for both continents to condemn them, then warned clergy to stay away from Lanqi Wilford.

After the cathedral’s prayer ritual, Lanqi took charge and began an anti-cult lecture designed to keep the suspected traitors under pressure. The challengers played along as he quizzed them, while the traitors faced more of Lanqi’s torment.

• At the Sage Institute, Loren worried that the three clergymen would be led further astray by Lanqi during their five days together.
• After the ritual ended at Lichtenstein Castle, the priest of the Goddess of Fate Church asked Lanqi what they should do next.
• Lanqi proposed an anti-cult ideological education speech and warned that he would randomly quiz the people gathered there.
• Lanqi lectured on the traits and harms of cults, then tested a guard with a trick question about the Nirvana Bishop.
• The challengers recognized that Lanqi’s lecture was meant to force the suspected traitors to listen and stay alert, and they anticipated that the traitors might try to kill him that night.

Lanchi finished his anti-cult lecture and used a series of fake countdowns and a nonexistent spell to unsettle the Resurrection Cultists. As the group prepared for nightfall, he revealed that he had a real move planned by releasing an Orange Epic card.

• Lanchi concluded his lecture, and the challengers and Northern Continent clerics thanked him for teaching them.
• Lanchi claimed he could expose traitors by making their emotions show plainly, then used two fake countdowns to provoke panic.
• The challengers realized Lanchi had invented the spell as psychological warfare, while the approaching night left them expecting the traitors to target him.
• Lanchi smiled and released an Orange Epic card.

The Poet of Great Love’s appearance drove the cathedral’s occupants into madness, exposing the Saintess of Destruction and another Resurrection Cultist. As the Shadow World advanced to its next phase, the clergymen turned into fanatics and a chaotic battle began.

• The Poet of Great Love appeared in the cathedral and used Mental Magic, making the priestess attack Lanchi and revealing the female knight as the Saintess of Destruction.
• The Saintess of Destruction transformed, displayed Tier 6 strength, and advanced while Hughberlian moved to protect Lanchi.
• The Shadow World objective changed to “Find the traitor 2/2,” and the mage noble girl collapsed in despair while the Young Master of the Chamber of Commerce laughed and his guards protected him.
• The handsome guard focused on the Saintess of Destruction while recognizing Lanchi as the more terrifying threat.
• The three Northern Continent clergymen became fanatics after Lanchi’s lectures and the Poet of Great Love’s influence, then joined the attack on the two exposed Resurrection Cultists.

Students at Iketerite Academy watched the challengers’ battle against the Saintess of Destruction, recognizing how Frei and Lanchi had pressured the traitor and steadied their allies. The Saintess broke through the front line and charged toward Lanchi, who had not yet used a spell.

• Students at Jella Memorial Square discussed how Frei and Lanchi had weakened the traitor and how the Poet of Great Love amplified emotions in allies and enemies alike.
• The Saintess of Destruction battled the Executioner and Holy Knight in Lichtenstein Castle’s sanctuary as the other challengers formed a defensive line behind them.
• The male guard subdued the female cleric and placed her in the rear under watch, while the cleric healed and blessed the front-line fighters.
• The Executioner missed his attack, and the Saintess dodged past him and kicked the Holy Knight aside before charging toward Lanchi.
• Hughberlian realized the Saintess was breaking through because Lanchi in the rear had drawn her hatred without casting a spell.

The Saintess of Destruction, Adelise, overwhelmed the challengers with powerful equipment and self-healing while the approaching sunset threatened to let her use a Blood Race authority. As Lanchi prepared to join the battle as a White Mage, the watching students wondered whether his obscure practical combat ability could change the fight.

• The male guard of the Chamber of Commerce tried to ambush Adelise, but she anticipated his strike and clashed with him while fighting the Executioner and Holy Knight.
• At Iketerite Academy, students watched the battle and learned that Adelise was Silver-ranked challenger Adelise of the Krui Di Empire, with an SS threat level and several powerful Magic Cards.
• The students feared that Adelise would gain a Blood Race authority at nightfall and overwhelm the challengers before they could defeat her.
• Hughberlian secured the unconscious goddess priestess and helped restrain the noblewoman mage while Lanchi silenced the female mage and prepared to join the fight.
• The students realized that they had never seen Lanchi fight seriously, recalled the sealed practical test from his entrance examination, and watched him take out healing Magic Cards with a smile.

Lanchi used healing Magic Cards on Adelise, the Saintess of Destruction, and the spells inflicted unbearable pain instead of restoring her. As Adelise entered Berserk State and charged on despite the attacks, the battle grew more dangerous.

• Lanchi asked Hughberlian to protect the unconscious Krui Di Empire fighters and watch over him while he taunted Adelise.
• Adelise unleashed a powerful attack that knocked back the executioner, Holy Knight, and male guard, but their team’s control and traps held her off.
• Lanchi began casting his healing Magic Cards on Adelise, confusing everyone who thought he might be betraying them.
• Lanchi’s healing spells caused Adelise to convulse in pain, giving the male guard an opening to wound her neck before she knocked him away.
• The executioner and Holy Knight renewed their assault after realizing Lanchi’s spells were tormenting Adelise.
• Adelise roared Lanchi and Wilford’s names and entered Berserk State.

Lanchi used Friendly Exchange on Adelise, enraging her until she broke through the defenders and charged the rear. He stopped her with a Magic Card, leaving her kneeling before him as he demanded she bow to the principal.

• Adelise attacked the executioner and Holy Knight with a furious barrage, while the priest healed their wounds.
• Lanchi cast Friendly Exchange on Adelise, preventing her from cursing and intensifying her rage.
• Adelise ignored the male guard, executioner, and Holy Knight as she fought through them and charged toward Lanchi.
• The priest braced behind his barrier as Adelise closed in, but Lanchi calmly stepped forward holding a purple-glowing Magic Card.
• Adelise dropped to her knees before Lanchi, who asked why she was not bowing after seeing the principal.

At Lichtenstein Castle, Lanchi used a card to force Adelise, the Saintess of Destruction, to her knees and humiliate her before the Shadow World audience. As she began to recover and her allies charged, Lanchi revealed two Orange Epics and left her facing a choice between his killing moves.

• Students at Iketerite Academy reacted in shock as they watched Adelise kneel before Lanchi, and they discussed his White Mage abilities and immunity to the Poet of Great Love.
• Lanchi asked Adelise if she knew her mistake while she struggled with humiliation and fury.
• Adelise's executioner, Holy Knight, and male guard charged toward her as she began to regain control of her legs.
• Lanchi revealed an Orange Epic in each hand, one wreathed in sinister mist and the other crackling with electric cocoons, and silently invited Adelise to choose which he would use.

Lanchi frightened Adelise into fleeing the chapel by revealing he had two unused Orange Epics, while the others worried that she would return to attack at night. As Adelise limped through the jungle, a hidden hunter with a heavy hand crossbow emerged behind a tree.

• Lanchi revealed two unused Orange Epics, and the terrified Adelise chose to flee rather than face them.
• Adelise blasted the executioner, Holy Knight, and male guard back with flames, then escaped through the chapel doors into the jungle.
• The male guard stopped the exhausted executioner and Holy Knight from pursuing Adelise, and the people remaining in the chapel feared her return.
• Hughberlian realized Lanchi had avoided using his Epics because their effects would endanger his teammates, while Lanchi calmly went to the kitchen.
• A wounded Adelise moved through the jungle, vowing revenge, as a hidden figure with a Heavy Hand Crossbow watched her from behind a tree.

The Saintess of Destruction fled through the forest, expecting to recover and return for revenge, but Frei caught her in a trapped pit and attacked her with a crossbow. Back in the chapel, an awakened Resurrection Cultist mistook the Saintess’s escape for victory and believed the blood sacrifice would happen that night.

• The Saintess of Destruction planned to use the Blood Lord’s power to kill Lanchi’s allies and take revenge on Lanchi.
• The Saintess of Destruction fell into Frei’s pit trap, filled with poison spikes and bear traps.
• Frei appeared above the pit and shot the Saintess of Destruction with his Heavy Hand Crossbow.
• The Saintess of Destruction realized Frei had waited in the forest to hunt stragglers, then pulled out the bolt and prepared to fight him to the death.
• In the chapel, the other Resurrection Cultist awoke, saw the wounded challengers, and assumed Adelise had escaped successfully.

The challengers in Lichtenstein Castle believed Lawyer had no plan left and prepared themselves for imminent deaths, while Hughberlian recognized that Lanchi remained calm because he still had a way out. After Lanchi returned from the kitchen and dismissed the Rebirth Church’s Goddess Priest’s threats, an explosion sounded in the jungle.

• The awakened Rebirth Church Goddess Priest mocked the bound challengers, while the deceived Imperial noble mage girl sank into despair.
• The challengers accepted their desperate situation and tried to comfort one another as sunset approached, while Hughberlian concealed her confidence in Lanchi.
• Lanchi came from the kitchen with iced grape juice and calmly told the Goddess Priest that she had potential but had chosen the wrong path.
• The Goddess Priest threatened that Adelise would kill everyone over the next five nights, and Lanchi mildly questioned her certainty.
• A deafening explosion sounded in the jungle, and everyone in the chapel turned to look through the windows.

The challengers learned that Adelise’s death would summon Blood Lord Palocas Earl to Lichtenstein Castle in six hours, leaving them convinced they were doomed. Lanchi remained calm and proposed hunting the Earl, while the students watching at Iketerite Academy feared the worst.

• The Resurrection Church priestess realized Frei had been missing and saw a Shadow World message announcing Adelise’s death and Palocas Earl’s arrival in six hours.
• The priestess warned that Palocas Earl would massacre everyone, and the bound noble mage girl and the other challengers resigned themselves to death.
• The challengers noticed Lanchi calmly drinking, and he told them to eat before suggesting that they could hunt the Earl.
• Students watching at Jella Memorial Square reacted with disbelief and despair at the prospect of a Tier 7 Earl arriving in six hours.

Before Earl Parocas arrived, the group prepared to interrogate a captured priestess of the Rebirth Church. The Poet of Great Love trained three clerics in her coercive methods, leaving Hughberlian worried about what they had learned.

• Lanchi said he was unsuited to interrogating the prisoner, so he asked the Poet of Great Love to train the three clerics.
• The Poet of Great Love instructed the clerics to torture the prisoner without questioning her, arguing that fear would break her resistance.
• The Poet of Great Love persuaded the conflicted clerics that cruelty could serve their faith, and they accepted her lesson with renewed fervor.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian watched the training, then left; Hughberlian feared they might later encounter the transformed clerics in the Northern Continent.

Lanchi and the Poet of Great Love tortured the captured priestess of the Rebirth Church while preparing to interrogate the noble mage from the Krui Di Empire. The mage remained resigned, believing the Blood Clan would kill everyone within five hours.

• The Holy Knight doused the bound Little Priest with cold water to wake her.
• The executioner laid out medical instruments and warned the Little Priest that she would lose a lot of blood.
• The Poet of Great Love proudly told Lanchi she had completed her task, while Hughberlian recoiled from the priestess's screams.
• Lanchi praised the Poet of Great Love and turned with Hughberlian to question the noble mage.
• The noble mage stayed silent, convinced that the Blood Clan would kill them all in five hours.

Lanchi questioned Princess Alexia about her identity and her companions’ ties to the Resurrection Cult, then released her restraints after she denied knowing they were cultists. He provoked her into revealing that she had sensed a hidden danger within the Krui Di Empire, though she believed no one would believe her.

• Lanchi questioned the restrained Alexia, who identified herself as the Third Imperial Princess of the Krui Di Empire, Alexia Gamedia Julius.
• Alexia said her two companions had been classmates at the Krui Di Royal Academy and that she had not known they were Resurrection Cultists.
• Lanchi believed the Rebirth Church had not infiltrated the imperial family and signaled for Hughberlian to remove Alexia’s restraints.
• Lanchi remarked that the Krui Di Empire had been infiltrated, prompting Alexia to insist that the empire had not been infiltrated by the Rebirth Church.
• Alexia silently acknowledged that she had sensed a terrifying blood race corroding the empire, but believed she could tell no one without being dismissed or killed.

Lanchi pressed Princess Alexia about the Krui Di Empire’s hidden crisis and revealed that vampires would bring the empire to ruin within a year and a half. Alexia was shaken by how much he seemed to know, while Lanchi continued planning to find Hughberlian’s missing father, Duke Migaiya.

• Alexia firmly denied that the Krui Di Empire had been corrupted, while Hughberlian listened for clues about her missing father, Duke Migaiya.
• Lanchi reassured Hughberlian that detaining Alexia would be lawful if she proved to be connected to the Rebirth Church, though he privately knew more about the danger surrounding the empire.
• Lanchi reasoned that Duke Migaiya might still be alive and planned to search for him with Hughberlian after preparing to enter the vampires’ lair.
• Lanchi suggested that a creature more dangerous than heretics had put Alexia in fear and asked whether someone in the palace had frightened her or controlled the Nation Protecting Twelve Generals.
• Lanchi warned Alexia that the Blood Moon would engulf the Krui Di Empire and destroy it within a year and a half.
• Alexia rose in alarm, began crying, and demanded to know what Lanchi knew.

Lanchi revealed that Blood Race Progenitors were behind the Krui Di Empire’s corruption and showed Princess Alexia portraits of the three hidden figures. Alexia recognized them and was left terrified by the revelation that Duke Raschal was secretly living among humans as a student.

• Lanchi asked whether Duke Raschal, Marquis Heliti'er, or Marquis Somerset controlled the Krui Di Empire, but Alexia did not recognize their real names.
• Lanchi went to the library and drew portraits of three Blood Race Progenitors he remembered.
• Lanchi showed the portraits to Alexia and identified the figures as culprits behind the empire’s corruption.
• Alexia recognized Marquis Somerset as the Minister of Defense and recalled seeing Marquis Heliti'er at the imperial palace.
• Alexia realized that Duke Raschal, who appeared to be a friendly freshman at Krui Di Royal Academy, was the hidden mastermind, and she nearly collapsed in terror.
• Lanchi had the Poet of Great Love dispel his summoned state and apologized for the drawings’ effect on Alexia.

Lanchi told Princess Alexia that he would prove his relationship with the Blood Race by hunting the Tier 7 Blood Race Earl that had doomed the challengers. He left Alexia with renewed hope for the sunrise, while keeping her uninvolved so the Blood Race would not suspect her.

• Alexia questioned Lanchi about who he was and his relationship with the Blood Race, and he said she would learn the answer tomorrow.
• Lanchi challenged Alexia's despair by insulting her resolve and the Krui Di Empire, prompting her to defend her country and agree to his wager.
• Lanchi promised to hunt the Blood Race Earl and told Alexia to rest, saying the sun would rise tomorrow.
• After Lanchi and Hughberlian left, Alexia prayed that he would save her and bring her the dawn.

Earl Parocas entered Lichtenstein Castle expecting a trap, only to find Lanchi and the others holding a banquet. As students watched the live broadcast and feared the group had given up, Lanchi calmly greeted the Earl as “Little Pa.”

• Earl Parocas flew to Lichtenstein Castle, convinced its occupants were lying in wait for him, and entered the castle without hesitation.
• Earl Parocas found the group dining together in the lavish hall and stopped in confusion as they turned to look at him.
• Students gathered at Iketerite Academy’s square watched the broadcast and worried that Lanchi was making no plans to survive the Earl’s arrival.
• Mo Dan Gasigas mocked Lanchi and hoped the Earl would kill him and Hughberlian.
• Lanchi swirled his wine, remained unruffled, and greeted Earl Parocas as “Little Pa.”