Recaps

Lanchi earned a provisional Platinum Tier Card Maker rating after creating Radiant Virtue, then joined Frei and Hughberlian in a new Shadow World challenge. The trio entered a castle death game, where they investigated a murder and discovered that the bridge out had been destroyed.

• Lanchi used unfinished explosive Magic Cards to destroy the Soul of a Fighter Team’s clubroom, then fled with Frei and Hughberlian under the protection of their treaty.
• Lanchi promised Hughberlian he would help find Duke Migaiya and began planning a mission to seek out Nirvana Bishop Askesang and infiltrate the Rebirth Church.
• Lanchi took the Card Maker examination and created Radiant Virtue, an Orange Epic Tier 3 Light/Seal Summoning Card, earning a provisional Platinum Tier rating.
• Lawrence explained that Lanchi’s Platinum Tier certification required a lengthy headquarters review, while Professor Bora Ao invited him to help develop magical engineering devices.
• Lanchi, Frei, and Hughberlian entered the Blood Moon Ruined World and arrived at a castle where Sir Caligula’s mutilated corpse lay in a banquet hall.
• The Shadow World assigned Frei as a detective, Lanchi as a lawyer, and Hughberlian as an actress, and tasked the challengers with finding two traitors and surviving for 120 hours.
• Frei questioned the challengers as Lanchi shared information about the local laws and restrictions, and they concluded that the Blood Race Earl could arrive before they escaped.
• Frei led the group to inspect the destroyed bridge, confirming that the challengers were trapped on the castle’s cliffside.

Lanchi exposed the Resurrection Cultists, helped defeat Adelise, and uncovered the Blood Race’s infiltration of the Krui Di Empire. As Earl Parocas arrived at Lichtenstein Castle, Lanchi greeted him without fear and prepared to face the next threat.

• Lanchi deciphered the library’s ancient text and led the challengers to protect the Witch and werewolf while searching for the Blood Race Kin among themselves.
• Lanchi used oaths, prayers, and anti-cult lectures to unsettle the suspected traitors, then summoned the Poet of Great Love, exposing Adelise and the Goddess Priest as Resurrection Cultists.
• The challengers fought Adelise, and Lanchi tormented her with healing magic and forced her to flee by revealing his Orange Epics.
• Frei killed Adelise in a forest trap, while Lanchi’s group captured the Goddess Priest and learned that Earl Parocas would arrive within six hours.
• Lanchi questioned Alexia, who revealed herself as a princess and recognized three Blood Race Progenitors among the Krui Di Empire’s leaders, including Duke Raschal.
• Lanchi challenged Alexia to resist despair, promised to hunt the Blood Race Earl, and told her the sun would rise the next day.
• Earl Parocas entered the castle and found Lanchi and the others dining, while Lanchi greeted him as “Little Pa.”

Lanchi subdued Earl Parocas, uncovered the Rebirth Church’s plans, and turned Viscount Augustine into part of an elaborate merit scheme before earning an SSS evaluation in the Shadow World. Back at Iketerite Academy, he prepared to catch an assassin in the Yarolan delegation and accepted Adams’s challenge, while learning that his father had fallen ill.

• At the banquet, Lanchi weakened Earl Parocas with Radiant Virtue, and the clergy beat him before draining his blood and sealing him in a coffin for four days.
• Lanchi interrogated Sticella, who revealed her ties to the Rebirth Church, her ability to disguise herself as people she had touched, and a threat against Hughberlian from an infiltrator in the Yarolan delegation.
• Lanchi used Frei’s and Hughberlian’s blood to open Viscount Augustine’s coffin, then brought Augustine upstairs and had the clergy restrain and drain him alongside Parocas.
• Lanchi turned the two vampires into the Solar Merit Accumulation Machine, while Noe Wilford watched the livestream, read about Lanchi’s exploits, and fainted from shock.
• Before the Shadow World ended, Alexia warned Lanchi how to recognize her if she became a bloodkin puppet and asked him to wait for her in the Krui Di Empire.
• The team earned an SSS evaluation, advanced in rank, and received rewards, while Lanchi traded his reward to Frei for Wolf King's Pride and planned to protect Hughberlian while using her as bait for the hidden assassin.
• After returning to Iketerite Academy, Lanchi learned his father was recovering in the hospital and that Adams had challenged him to an exhibition derby, and Lanchi accepted and resolved to help Loren and Juliana marry.

Lanchi arranged a duel with Adams over Juliana’s visit, while Phoenix’s attempt to seize Hughberlian failed and Lanchi turned him toward cooperation. As Lanchi and Hughberlian prepared for a trip north amid warnings of war, Loren learned of rumors about his love life and went looking for Adams.

• Lanchi introduced Hughberlian to his father Noe, who was impressed by her kindness and Lanchi’s Quasi-Platinum card-maker rating.
• Lanchi asked Talia to shelter Hughberlian from an assassin, and Cat Boss later followed Lanchi back to his dormitory.
• Lanchi and Adams agreed to a Shadow World survival challenge over whether Juliana would visit Loren, and Lanchi escaped by making Adams believe he had surrendered.
• Phoenix tried to kill Hughberlian at Cat Boss Restaurant, but Talia subdued him and Lanchi questioned him about the Resurrection Church.
• Lanchi pressured Phoenix by revealing the danger to his sister Filis, then promised her protection and gained Phoenix’s loyalty.
• Lanchi gave Hughberlian the Certificate of Rebirth - Destruction and warned her that the Resurrection Church and vampires could destabilize the Southern Continent.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian prepared to travel to the Northern Continent as war threatened the south.
• Asina told Loren that students had nicknamed him the Saint of Love, and Loren hurried to find Adams after Juliana called about the duel.