Chapter Summaries

Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei registered as a party and entered a Shadow World, leaving the Student Union’s upcoming academic exchange preparations behind. They arrived at the Blood Moon Ruined World’s “Beginning of the Rite” node as its historical projection initialized.

• Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei walked across Iketerite Academy before dawn, discussing their squad and Student Union duties.
• The three passed security and entered the Void Gate facility, where they worried about missing the upcoming visit from Ya Luolan Academy.
• Frei presented the Civilized Exemplar Squad’s Team-Up Card, and the group registered their Challenger Licenses and recording tools.
• After speaking with the checkpoint employee, Lanchi, Hughberlian, and Frei entered the Void Gate together.
• The three arrived at the Blood Moon Ruined World’s two-fourths node, “Beginning of the Rite,” as its historical projection initialized.

Lanchi, Frei, and Hughberlian entered a Tier 5 Shadow World where twelve Secret Church members had to identify two traitors after High Priest Caligula was murdered. Frei was assigned the detective identity, leaving students at Iketerite Academy alarmed by the choice as the five-day death game began.

• Lanchi, Frei, and Hughberlian arrived in a foggy cliffside castle banquet hall and found Sir Caligula's mutilated corpse.
• The Shadow World prompt revealed that two of the twelve challengers were traitors and set objectives to find them, investigate the castle, and survive for 120 hours.
• The Shadow World assigned Frei the detective identity, while Lanchi became a lawyer and Hughberlian an Actress; all three were confirmed as non-traitors.
• Students watching the recorded scene at Iketerite Academy worried that Frei's strength-focused reputation made him an unlikely detective and feared the Blood Race Earls' intervention.
• A senior student warned that the psychological death game could drive challengers to breakdown, then questioned how the three Student Union members would affect its atmosphere.

Frei began organizing the challengers in Lichtenstein Castle and assessing the four teams for signs of the two traitors. A young man from the Petras Merchant Guild revealed his geographer ability before his guard stopped him, leaving Frei with useful information and a potential new risk to consider.

• Frei silently surveyed the twelve challengers as they waited for him to begin exchanging information.
• Frei introduced himself, Lanchi, and Hughberlian as members of Iketerite Academy, then invited the nearest team to speak.
• A young man identified his team as members of the Petras Merchant Guild and hinted that he was their young master.
• The young man revealed that his geographer identity showed nearby terrain, including the route to Lichtenstein Castle, until his handsome guard stopped him from saying more.
• Lanchi and Hughberlian listened as Frei considered the team's identities and the danger of exposing the geographer's valuable ability.

Frei identified the groups gathered in Lichtenstein Castle and learned that Hughberlian was an Actress. Lanchi revealed his lawyer identity and warned that the challengers were trapped, leaving them to deduce the traitor before the Blood Race Earl arrived.

• Frei questioned the gathered challengers and learned that one group came from the Krui Di Empire and another served the Saintess of the Goddess of Fate Church.
• Hughberlian secretly told Frei and Lanchi that she was an Actress, making it harder to identify the traitor by examining everyone's stated identities.
• Lanchi announced that he was a lawyer and shared information about the Honing Empire's laws and the National Defense Barrier's restrictions on flight.
• Lanchi warned that the bridge to the city-state was probably destroyed and that the challengers were trapped by the terrain and barrier.
• Frei suggested that they had to identify the traitor without killing them before the Blood Race Earl arrived, and Lanchi calmly agreed that they would not escape.

Frei led the challengers through the castle and established that they would need to hide in separate safe bedrooms when night came. After the group confirmed that the bridge was destroyed and they were trapped on the rocky island, Frei walked alone toward the cliff.

• Frei led the challengers through the castle, and they confirmed its rooms were protected by magical formations and that twelve safe bedrooms had Magic Keys.
• Frei gathered portable food and Sweet White Wine, then led the group outside to inspect the geographer's and lawyer's claims.
• The challengers followed Lanchi's directions to the cliff and saw that the bridge to the city-state had been destroyed.
• Frei walked alone toward the cliff as the group stood by the broken bridge.

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.