Recaps

Lanchi avoided his expected conflict with Talia, learned to make powerful Magic Cards, and traveled with her to Ikelite for the academy entrance exam. After an unusual legal solution to the second round, he teamed up with Hughberlian and used a card to silence Ferrat, leaving the pair fighting a poisoned but still formidable examiner.

• Lanchi recognized Talia’s familiar Dark Dove in the roasted pigeon at breakfast, then arranged for his portrait of Talia to be kept inside the estate.
• Lanchi hired Talia to protect him, studied the Hutton Kingdom Code, and sought funds from Noe to research Magic Cards and prepare for the academy.
• Lanchi rented a Card Making Workshop, created the Purple Rare Basic Etiquette card, and persuaded Talia to teach him up to Tier 2 and travel with him to the royal capital.
• Lanchi and Talia reached Ikelite, where Lanchi applied to the Sage Institute and received an assessment showing exceptional mental growth potential but little talent in Mana or strength.
• In the second-round Shadow World, Lanchi had a family detained under the law and their daughter placed in the church’s care, completing the mission through an interpretation that shocked the examiners.
• The examiners ranked Lanchi first, and he joined Hughberlian for the third round after her other teammate withdrew, and Lanchi proposed gathering evidence against those interfering with her exam.
• In Infinite Phantom Canyon, Lanchi cited the rules when Ferrat ordered him to withdraw, then used a Spell Card to inflict Mute and interrupt Ferrat’s spell.
• Hughberlian ambushed Ferrat with an invisible decoy and poisoned his cheek with her dagger, while Lanchi’s Silence effect kept Ferrat from purifying himself.

Lanchi and Hughberlian passed the entrance examination, enrolled at Iketerite Academy, and teamed up to challenge a Shadow World. Inside a dangerous Tier 4 demon academy, Lanchi manipulated the examiners into turning on each other while the students faced deadly rules.

• Lanchi defeated Ferrat in the entrance examination with the Flower Fairy’s emotion-amplifying hymn, and he and Hughberlian passed.
• Lanchi agreed to repay Talia for Poet of Great Love and returned to the examination hall, where Hughberlian suspected his innocent manner concealed malice.
• Lanchi enrolled at Iketerite Academy with Vivian’s help and learned that first-year students could not challenge Shadow Worlds alone.
• Mo Dan taunted Hughberlian in class, but Lanchi defended her by pointing out that Mo Dan had admitted to personally attacking her.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian agreed to team up and immediately entered the Void Gate, arriving at a demon academy where failing an exam or cheating meant death.
• Lanchi reported cheating demon students, and the Dragon Demon and Owl Demon killed the culprits while Hughberlian struggled with her exposed demonic form.
• Lanchi used Basic Etiquette to make an examinee appear to cheat, then planted a Friendship Bug on the Dragon Demon that insulted the Owl Demon and drove the examiners toward a fight.

Lanchi turned Purgatory Corridor Academy’s deadly classes to his advantage, won influence at the school, and uncovered a looming search for a hidden human. As Baron Sanchez began his inspection, Lanchi and Poet of Great Love worked together to keep the challengers out of sight.

• Lanchi and Hughberlian survived the Demon Examination Hall, questioned Bachelle, and learned how students earned Credit Coins and navigated the academy.
• Lanchi passed the Music Classroom by winning all four Music Mentors’ approval, then received a teaching appointment and learned the principal was away after a high-level meeting.
• At the restaurant, Lanchi used the Silver-haired Demon’s wasteful behavior to secure food and Credit Coins, then discovered the demon carried a Demon King City ID and Black Jade Seal.
• Lanchi passed Professor Mogut’s Painting Classroom and learned that a Blood Race Envoy was coming to search for a hidden human, while the academy’s leaders feared a crisis that could threaten the North-South Treaty.
• Lanchi presented the Black Jade Seal to Mogut and took charge at the academy, announcing reforms before the Blood Race Envoy and Demon Realm inspectors arrived.
• The disguised Poet of Great Love posed as Acting Principal Lanfu and passed Baron Sanchez’s initial inspection, while Lanchi gathered students in the Principal’s Office to keep challengers out of the Inspectorate’s search.

Lanchi and Hughberlian survived a Shadow World attack, learned more about each other, and returned to Iketerite Academy with new ranks and a hidden mission. As Lanchi trained for the Card Maker Examination and joined the Student Union with Hughberlian, he took on a dispute over a dangerous clubhouse and stepped in to duel its leader, Cerveny.

• Baron Sanchez entered Lanchi’s looping theater in Corridor 24 with his officers, and the Poet of Great Love revealed that they were trapped unless they had exceptional Musical Magic Resistance.
• After the Shadow World objectives were complete, Hughberlian and the Poet of Great Love were caught in Lilette’s attack, but Lanchi and the demon teachers defeated the Silver Aberrant Form and captured Lilette.
• When Lilette exposed Hughberlian as a Half-Demon and daughter of Duke Aransal, Hughberlian explained her heritage to Lanchi, who reassured her and proposed a company under the Aransal Family name.
• The Shadow World gave Lanchi and Hughberlian an SSS evaluation, raised their tiers, and revealed a secret series mission linked to the Blood Moon Ruined World, which they agreed to keep concealed.
• Lanchi visited Talia for magic training and an affinity test, and she found that he had strong compatibility with mental, healing, and especially sealing magic.
• After vacation, Lanchi and Hughberlian joined the Student Union, where President Monast assigned them and Frei to clear the former Soul of a Fighter clubhouse.
• Frei knocked out Cerveny’s chosen fighter with a Light Bomb, so Lanchi proposed a rule-bound rematch after the martial artists objected to the tactic.
• Lanchi agreed to replace Hughberlian in the duel against Cerveny, and the referee began their match.