Chapter Summaries

Wang Yi used his professional spellcasting status to settle a dispute over his song, while Big Pineapple grew suspicious that Abyss World connected to reality. The Mage Tower expanded the map into a dangerous forest, where Wen Yu was swallowed by a python and Ali launched a high-profile rescue effort.

• Wang Yi asked Mike to make his Elf Wind piece public, received a Proof Badge, and thanked Beifeng, who promised to spread the song through nearby taverns and towns.
• At the Expeditionary Army Camp, Big Pineapple sensed a connection between the game and a mosquito he had contracted in reality, but kept his discovery secret from PDD.
• The Mage Tower was completed, expanding the Monster Forest map and updating players on resources needed for formal professional ranks.
• Players rushed into the newly accessible forest, where Cannot Be Naughty reported that a python had swallowed him and pleaded for rescue.
• Ali offered one million Credit Points for rescuing Cannot Be Naughty, and Wen Yu publicly thanked Ali and expressed interest in joining its team.
• Players formed search parties while Wen Yu remained trapped inside the python, reading their forum messages and regretting his chosen ID.

Players rescued Cannot Be Naughty from a giant python in the Monster Forest, accelerating the players’ exploration of the area. In Dunno City, Wang Yi accepted an invitation to Count Luke’s banquet and discovered the hidden Great Warlock Weber, whose bloodline conflict he offered to treat before leaving him with a potion formula.

• Zhao Qi used a detection spell to locate the python, and his team shot and drove it into spitting out Cannot Be Naughty before giving him a healing potion.
• The rescue bounty drew more players into the Monster Forest, and their expeditions quickly expanded the explored area.
• Wang Yi accepted Count Luke’s invitation to his daughter’s birthday banquet and took Shateya and Lulu to Weber Tailoring for formalwear.
• Wang Yi recognized the tailor Weber as a Great Warlock suffering from a bloodline conflict, while Shateya sensed the danger when Weber revealed his strength.
• Wang Yi gave Weber a cheap potion formula to ease his condition, paid a deposit for the clothes, and left before Weber could tell his story.
• Weber reconsidered Wang Yi’s formula and realized its ingredients and timing might genuinely alleviate his condition.

Shateya realized that Wang Yi was a Heroic Rank figure, while Lu Yi's squad pushed through the Monster Forest and discovered signs of human activity. Their encounter with Lis and Dali ended with both sides mistaking the other for savages as they tried to communicate.

• Shateya recognized Wang Yi as a Heroic Rank expert and was stunned by his hidden identity.
• Lu Yi's squad camped in the Monster Forest, discussed the shrinking Flame Hound market, and continued clearing a route westward.
• The squad found old human-made markers, shared footage of their discovery, and promoted Abyss Mineral Company's enchanted equipment during a livestream.
• Lu Yi's squad encountered Lis and Dali, who heard their unfamiliar language and suspected they were savages.
• Lu Yi approached with an empty hand, but Lis shot a warning arrow at his feet before Dali told her not to shoot again.

Lu Yi’s squad met Dali’s team, overcame their language barrier, and followed them toward Darnick Town after exchanging a machete for local knowledge. As the players considered trade and communication with the natives, Gu Qianqian discussed whether Language Comprehension could be put into equipment and continued investigating her growing magical abilities.

• Lu Yi used gestures and a few copied words to communicate with Dali’s team, while Dali suspected the players included a mage who knew Language Comprehension.
• Lu Yi gave Dali a machete, and Dali recognized its unusual quality before inviting the squad to Darnick Town.
• Lu Yi showed Dali the group’s poorly processed hides from three Wind Wolves, a Moon Shadow Leopard, and an Earth Bear, leaving Dali astonished by their hunting prowess.
• Dali explained local currency and other basics as he led the players toward town, while both groups considered what they could learn or trade.
• After magic class, Jiang Bo asked Gu Qianqian about enchanting equipment with Language Comprehension, and she said it might be possible with rare materials but was not yet suited to mass production.
• Gu Qianqian reflected on her meditation, her unusual magical sensitivity, and a newly enrolled player whose Spiritual Power seemed exceptionally high.

Kangaroo's Dad discovered that Youyouzi could rapidly form two Fireballs, while Gu Qianqian recognized his unusual potential and planned to report him to their teacher. Wang Yi prepared for Count Luke's banquet, where he and Shateya arrived as guests and Wang Yi agreed to perform Elf Wind music for the count's daughter.

• Youyouzi followed Kangaroo's Dad and asked to join him on an adventure, but Kangaroo's Dad explained that he planned to seek work and learn Magic Pattern inscription without signing a contract.
• Youyouzi formed two Fireballs at once and explained his experiments, stunning Kangaroo's Dad, who decided to team up with him.
• Gu Qianqian dispelled Youyouzi's Fireballs and decided his talent warranted special attention from their teacher.
• Wang Yi allowed Weber to study the savages, then examined the formalwear Weber had delivered and prepared for the banquet with Shateya.
• Wang Yi and Shateya reached Count Luke's castle, presented a gift for Barbara, and Wang Yi agreed to perform Elf Wind music at the birthday banquet.

Wang Yi attended Count Luke’s banquet, where Luke warned the guests about rising grain prices and pressured merchants to stop driving them higher. As the celebration resumed, Wang Yi noticed disguised professionals among the guests and suspected an assassination plot against Luke.

• Shateya explained to Wang Yi how costly the banquet’s magical decorations were, and Mike introduced him to Dunno City’s influential guests.
• Count Luke arrived with Lilith and Barbara, and Wang Yi noticed that Lilith appeared to be a formal mage while Barbara watched him warily.
• Luke warned that grain prices had tripled, and Merchant Guild president Dall agreed that prices should not rise further; the gathering settled into a compromise.
• Mike performed a song about Luke driving back the Flame Bird, while Wang Yi considered how the attack might have served as a political scheme against Luke.
• Wang Yi spotted several disguised, high-ranking professionals among the guests and suspected they were preparing to assassinate Count Luke.

Wang Yi stopped an assassination attempt at Count Luke’s birthday banquet, capturing the attackers and exposing Mage Sente as their accomplice. Count Luke thanked him and invited him to become Dunno City’s Mage Guild President, and Wang Yi accepted on the condition that he remained free to travel.

• Wang Yi performed a new Elf Wind song at Barbara’s birthday banquet while the assassins maneuvered into position.
• The assassins released poisonous smoke and lunged for Barbara, but Wang Yi bound them with chains from the void and protected her.
• Sente restrained Count Luke with prepared spells and magical items, but Countess Lilith helped Luke break free, and Luke struck Sente down.
• Wang Yi released Barbara to her father and explained that the noble knight he had bound was not part of the plot.
• Count Luke thanked Wang Yi, recognized Sente’s betrayal, and offered Wang Yi the post of Dunno City Mage Guild President.
• Wang Yi accepted the position while stating that he was not affiliated with the guild and intended to travel.

Wang Yi exposed the Brotherhood's assassination attempt, then defended Kiki and Lulu when a noble's driver tried to frame them. As Wang Yi prepared to take over Dunno City's Mage Tower, the first player team settled into Darnick Town and discussed their next steps.

• Luke recognized the captured assassins as Faceless Men from the Brotherhood and left them for interrogation while Wang Yi departed with Shateya.
• A carriage driver tried to harass Kiki, and Lulu cut his hand when he reached toward her.
• Wang Yi arrived, severed the driver's hands, and had the guards take him away after the driver tried to accuse the maids.
• Wang Yi discussed the Moonlight Brotherhood with Shateya and considered the Mage Tower and the Brotherhood a new opportunity for players.
• Lu Yi and the five other players agreed to rotate guard duty in Darnick Town and discussed releasing videos and seeking quests from Beifeng.

Baron Darnick learned that Shateya’s bard had helped expose Count Luke’s assassination and might become the Dun Nuo Mage Guild president, while players explored Darnick Town and shared warnings about its powerful nobles. In Monster Forest, Kangaroo's Dad’s team followed the pioneers’ route and reached a ranger’s cabin, where Zhao Qi sensed someone inside.

• Baron Darnick read that Count Luke had been assassinated, and he and Baroness Darnick discussed Shateya’s connection to the formal mage who had helped the count.
• Walker hired the savages outside the Adventurers Guild to hunt, and they gave him two Long-eared Rabbits for two Naxi.
• Lu Yi’s squad posted a map and information about Darnick Town, warning players that attacking Baron Darnick’s private soldiers could bring severe consequences.
• Youyouzi, Kangaroo's Dad, Zhao Qi, An Ji, and An Qi followed the marked route through Monster Forest toward a hunters’ cabin.
• Zhao Qi detected someone inside the cabin, and the group looked to Kangaroo's Dad to communicate with whoever was there.

Kangaroo's Dad's party met Dali's ranger team, traded damaged monster pelts, and began coordinating a shared story about their origins. Meanwhile, Wang Yi approved the players' emerging identity as God-blessed and assessed the Mage Tower he had acquired, planning to rebuild it after the Mage Guild completed its formalities.

• Kangaroo's Dad used Language Comprehension to speak with Dali, and Dali's team bought the players' badly damaged pelts.
• After the spell ended, Kangaroo's Dad's party discussed how to answer the locals' questions, rejected An Ji's extravagant tale, and agreed to start a livestream.
• Zhao Qi streamed their meeting with Dali's party, while players online discussed presenting themselves as God-blessed; Dali warned them not to use that claim carelessly.
• Wang Yi approved the players' emerging background story and considered how their different groups could fit into the Seraphim Realm.
• Wang Yi inspected Mage Sente's poorly equipped Mage Tower, decided it needed a complete overhaul, and planned to wait for the Mage Guild's formal confirmation before opening a gate to the Abyss.
• Shateya, Kiki, and Lulu arranged the Mage Tower's living quarters, and Wang Yi confirmed that Count Luke had gifted him the tower.

Wang Yi took over the Dunno City Mage Guild, offered its staff better terms, and learned that savages had appeared in Darnick Territory under a possible prophecy of divine favor. Count Luke chose not to interfere, while a Galle Federation delegation headed for Dunno to certify the Guild and pursue an undisclosed objective involving Flame Count.

• Wang Yi met the Mage Guild staff, promised guidance and a ten percent pay increase, and assigned Murphy to manage daily affairs.
• Baron Daof told Wang Yi that unusual savages had appeared in Darnick Territory, and Wang Yi said they might have received divine favor according to a prophecy.
• Count Luke decided not to alert the Divine Court or investigate the savages, then learned that a testing team from Galle would arrive by airship to certify the Mage Guild.
• The airship carried William, a high-level mage, and Golden Tiger, a powerful barbarian-blooded fighter, toward Dunno City.
• William told Golden Tiger that his family had promised him Mithril for the trip and that they were going to face Flame Count, though not to fight him.

Wang Yi learned that representatives from the Galle Federation were heading to Dunno City as players gathered in Darnick Town to answer a goblin threat. After goblins ambushed a team and captured Wen Yu, the rescuers tracked him to a cavern packed with more than a thousand goblins.

• Wang Yi heard from Daof that Mage Guild representatives from the distant Galle Federation were coming, and considered what they might want from Dunno City.
• Kangaroo's Dad and other pioneer teams gathered in Darnick Town, where the Adventurers Guild president warned them that goblins had appeared near the Monster Forest.
• The players watched a Galle Federation airship pass overhead, then learned that goblins used traps, ambushes, and raids to threaten nearby settlements.
• Goblins ambushed Ali's pioneer team, killed five members including Fireball Master, and carried the captured Wen Yu toward their nest.
• Zhao Qi and other players set out to rescue Wen Yu while he livestreamed clues about his route and the goblins' behavior.
• Wen Yu reached the goblin cavern and reported that its main hall held more than a thousand goblins.

Lu Yi and the other players charged a goblin nest to rescue Cannot Be Naughty, using Youyouzi’s fireballs and heavy guns to hold off the goblins. As they prepared to enter the cave, the Marquis of Victories arrived on a giant eagle.

• Lu Yi and the other players learned that more than a thousand goblins occupied the nest and decided to rescue Cannot Be Naughty by sealing the cave entrance and exploiting their weapons and the terrain.
• Cannot Be Naughty was captured by goblins, turned off his senses, and waited for the players to rescue him while livestream viewers watched.
• Youyouzi demonstrated that he could guide and cast two fireballs at once, and Lu Yi’s group used the explosions to draw goblins toward them.
• Lu Yi’s team and their allies blocked the cave entrance, killed nearly a hundred goblins with heavy fire guns, and drove the survivors back inside.
• As the players prepared to enter the cave, the Marquis of Victories descended from a giant eagle and landed before them.

The Marquis of Victories led the players into the goblin cave, where his powerful arrows cleared the way and revealed a vast array of suspended light arrows. Meanwhile, Galai councilor William and Golden Tiger arrived in Dunno City to assess its Mage Guild, but the acting president, Wang Yi, refused to meet them, leaving their plans off balance.

• The Marquis of Victories praised Lu Yi and the other players for rescuing Cannot Be Naughty, then led them into the cave to confront a corrupted Heroic Spirit.
• The Marquis of Victories fired powerful arrows into the darkness, explained how physical fighters could draw on Magic Power, and cleared the goblins without resistance.
• Zhao Qi spotted more than ten meters of the cavern ceiling filled with circling arrows of light as the group reached the central hall.
• Wang Yi watched the rescue from the Mage Tower and learned that a magic airship from Galai was approaching Dunno City.
• Baron Daof welcomed William and Golden Tiger after their airship landed, while Wang Yi declined to attend the reception.
• Golden Tiger shoved Daof back during a tense exchange, and Daof escorted the two visitors to a guesthouse as William reconsidered how to pressure Wang Yi.

Count Luke suspected that Galle was maneuvering against Kiddon and chose to accompany Daof as they went to observe William’s visit to the Mage Tower. William arrived to claim the tower for the Mage Guild, turning its ownership into a dispute as Murphy defended the acting president’s claim and another apprentice sided with William.

• Count Luke considered Galle a possible threat and decided to see what William’s delegation wanted, while avoiding leaving Master Yi to face them alone.
• William reviewed information about Master Yi and the missing Blood Magic Warlock as he traveled to the Mage Tower.
• William demanded to see Wang Yi, then used his absence to declare the assessment failed and claim the Mage Tower as Mage Guild property.
• Murphy disputed William’s claim, explaining that the count’s estate had gifted the tower to the acting president, but William produced a dated transfer contract from Mage Sente.
• William offered Murphy a Crystal of Sea Monster’s Blood, but Murphy continued to defend the count’s gift until another apprentice supported William’s claim.

William and his allies tried to take control of the Mage Tower and install a new branch president, but Wang Yi exposed their maneuver and froze Feyang when he claimed the tower. Count Luke arrived and forcefully confronted the Galle delegation, leaving William facing accusations and a display of Luke’s overwhelming strength.

• Feyang accused the former acting president Sente of coercing Nia, while William recorded the allegation and Golden Tiger prepared to remove Sente from the tower.
• Baron Dov challenged William over forcing a branch president on Dunno, as nobles arrived to support the airship terminal and argue over ownership of the Mage Tower.
• Wang Yi came downstairs, rejected the transfer of the tower, and froze Feyang with a spell from the tower after Feyang challenged his claim.
• Count Luke arrived, mocked the nobles, and sent Golden Tiger crashing through a window with a wave of force.
• Luke accused William’s party of involvement in the assassination attempt and threatened to seek the Mother Goddess’s arbitration, while William struggled to answer him.

Count Luke reclaimed the Mage Tower deed from William, while Wang Yi captured Golden Tiger and let William leave to report back to the Calais Federation. In Darnick Town, Lu Yi and the other adventurers returned with over a thousand Goblin heads, shocking the town’s defenders when they learned Cannot Be Naughty had survived being captured by Goblins.

• Luke destroyed William’s recording crystal, reclaimed the Mage Tower deed, and granted it to Wang Yi.
• Wang Yi captured the wounded Golden Tiger for experiments, and Luke declared the barbarian an intruder who had been lawfully subdued.
• Wang Yi allowed William to leave, and William decided to report the incident and search for the Blood Magic Warlock.
• Lu Yi and the adventurers returned to Darnick Town with more than a thousand Goblin heads, revealing that they had wiped out the Goblin nest.
• The constable and Captain Gong mistook Cannot Be Naughty for a powerful expert before learning he had been captured by Goblins and survived with a healing potion.

The players celebrated wiping out the goblins while Baron Darnick’s scouts confirmed the nest had been cleared and reported the wildmen’s strength. Abyss Mineral Company began planning an airship, while William found Weber and offered him a place in the Galle Federation in exchange for help with his troubles; Weber agreed to hear him out.

• The players returned to Darnick Town to cheers, received Baron Darnick’s welcome and banquet, and Cannot Be Naughty felt socially abandoned after turning off his senses.
• Captain Gong and Dali inspected the goblin cave, found the goblins dead and beasts feeding on them, and concluded that a powerful Heroic Rank figure had likely helped the wildmen.
• Chong Tian launched the Drifting Balloon Project using Abyss resources, while he persuaded Qin Xiang to keep developing a ground caravan alongside the airship plan.
• William sent intelligence about the wildmen to the Galle Federation, then tracked down Weber and offered him a council seat and a Blood Melting Stone.
• Weber accepted William’s proposal in principle and offered to resolve the trouble William had encountered in Dunno City.

Wang Yi and Weber defeated William’s attempt to rescue Golden Tiger, while Count Luke used the incident to move against Dunno’s nobles. After learning that the Zerg had launched egg sacs toward Earth, Wang Yi left the Mage Tower to respond, drawing the World Will’s attention as he tore through space.

• Golden Tiger reported that William had found the Blood Magic Warlock, and Wang Yi prepared to send Golden Tiger’s spirit to the Abyss while using his body as a corpse puppet.
• William and Weber entered Wang Yi’s Mage Tower, where Weber revealed himself as Wang Yi’s ally, pulled out William’s soul, and handed it to Golden Tiger; Weber also harvested the souls of the noble butlers.
• Count Luke arrived, learned that the Blood Magic Warlock had killed William, and took the butlers’ corpses as grounds for action against the nobles.
• Lin Shiqin alerted Wang Yi that the Zerg on Mars were launching egg sacs toward Earth, so Wang Yi decided to leave the other world and intervene.
• Wang Yi gave Shateya a bracelet that could summon Heroic Spirits, then tore open space and returned to Earth as storms gathered and the World Will briefly searched for him.

Wang Yi returned to South Heaven Gate and learned that the Zerg had launched eggs toward Earth, so he prepared to travel to Mars and eliminate their leaders. As the Umbrella Corporation announced a secret decapitation operation, the Brain worm sought help from Abyss Lord Sailu to devour the civilization on Mars.

• Wang Yi learned from Lin Shiqin that the Zerg's launched eggs were changing course and decided to go to Mars himself before any reached Earth.
• Lin Shiqin revealed that Old Morgan and his allies had secretly communicated with the Zerg, and Wang Yi told her to record their actions.
• Old Morgan and the others publicly asked the Umbrella Corporation whether the Zerg had counterattacked, prompting the company to announce a secret operation targeting the Brain worm and Queen worm.
• The Brain worm heard about the Umbrella Corporation's planned decapitation strike and summoned Abyss Lord Sailu for help.
• The Brain worm offered Sailu the chance to devour the civilization on Mars, and Sailu said the Abyss's Magic Power could claim the planet if they established a connection.