Recaps

After Alvitte sent Linsey away from the burning Anville Village, he reached the isolated Hidden Borderlands and began learning from its residents. Red Moon, Anrui, Finn, and Dan each introduced him to different skills, and the arc left Linsey on his first hunting lesson with Dan and Ju.

• Linsey remembered his life on Earth, met the imprisoned Alvitte in a mill, and fled Anville Village after Bargett set it ablaze.
• Alvitte fought Bargett, healed Linsey, and used the Law Codex to send him to a snow-covered forest, where he killed an Ice Badger and collapsed outside a church.
• Red Moon rescued Linsey, explained that the Hidden Borderlands had been isolated by a Dragon Beast, and made him her godson in the School of Death.
• Linsey began cultivating his Life Source Material and studying languages while Red Moon arranged for Anrui, Finn, and Dan to teach him different skills.
• Anrui taught Linsey basic swordsmanship, while Linsey helped Anna and Finn preserve the fallen Beech Tree by raising seeds for its second life.
• Dan learned that Linsey had killed an Ice Badger and brought him to the church, where Red Moon approved Linsey joining her for a hunt.
• Dan took Linsey to her home, introduced him to her son Ju, and explained the dangers posed by magical beasts and the Dragon Beast in Black Mountain.
• Dan led Linsey and Ju into the snowy forest for a hunting lesson, where they found the rope of a trap chewed through and continued toward the next one.

Linsey hunted with the townspeople, prepared to cross Black Mountain, and lost Finn, who left him his knowledge and greenhouse. After Finn’s body became a Living Corpse, Linsey traced the cause to unusually changed Ice Badgers and Dan set out to investigate.

• Linsey and Ju encountered Leize’s reanimated corpse, and Red Moon stopped it before Linsey’s task completion upgraded his RPG Module and unlocked Hunting Simulation.
• Linsey learned burial rites from Red Moon, read about Black Mountain, and promised Finn to preserve his knowledge if he reached the Life School scholars.
• Linsey joined the hunters, celebrated Ju’s newly awakened water ability, and told Qiao Er he planned to cross Black Mountain while preparing supplies in his transformed backpack.
• Anrui warned Linsey about the danger of extracting Essence from someone near death, and Linsey found that Finn had died by choice and left him an Essence-infused branch, his library, and his greenhouse.
• Linsey mourned Finn, distributed his belongings, and began planning crops in the Glass Greenhouse before Finn’s body became a Living Corpse.
• Linsey restrained Finn’s reanimated body and brought it to Red Moon, then tracked the Ice Badgers whose external Essence may have caused the change.
• Linsey killed three Ice Badgers, unlocked Simulation Management, and used its Goods ability to confirm their unusual condition.
• Linsey told Dan that the Ice Badgers had animated Finn’s body, and Dan sent him to alert Anrui while she followed the clues into the forest.

Linsey uncovered a treant’s plot, then found that a frozen wasteland and hostile magical beasts threatened the Hidden Borderlands from Black Mountain World. After reporting the danger and discovering his Survival Construction module, he set out with Anrui to inspect the boundary.

• Dan led Linsey, Alan, and Ju to a trapped Ice Badger nest, where they fought a treant that had controlled the beasts and planned to eliminate human Awakened.
• Linsey killed the treant, gained new abilities and materials, and learned that some people in town had unknowingly eaten its seeds.
• Linsey continued exploring alone, found an unnatural snowy wasteland, and discovered that magical beasts from Black Mountain World were climbing toward the Hidden Borderlands before freezing in the cold wind.
• Linsey returned to town, told Anrui about the frozen border and the approaching beasts, and unlocked the Survival Construction Game Module.
• Linsey tested Resource Conversion, learned that it could transform resources and crops, and grew unusually productive wheat seedlings.
• Suo Mu Jin told Linsey that Anrui planned to investigate the growing threat, while Linsey warned that civilians might die if they tried to break through Black Mountain.
• Anrui took Linsey toward the boundary between the worlds and explained the War School’s Defenders and Ravagers branches during their journey.
• Linsey and Anrui resumed their journey after Anrui described the Ravagers’ path and the limits imposed on those who fled Nal Kebandek.

Linsey and Anrui investigated the Black Mountain World’s spreading changes, escaped a spider assault, and returned to find the Hidden Borderlands divided over whether to flee. As Linsey strengthened the town’s supplies and equipment, early snow and agitated beasts signaled that the threat was reaching closer.

• Anrui and Linsey descended into Black Mountain World, fought giant spiders, and escaped through a hidden passage after a Fifth Stage spider poisoned Anrui and cost him his left arm.
• Linsey and Anrui returned to Border Town with a warning that the Dragon Beast was advancing, while spiders attacked the Farmland and threatened the town’s food supply.
• Anrui told the Awakened that the Dragon Beast’s attempt to fuse with the world’s source essence could endanger the Hidden Borderlands, but the Awakened clashed over whether to escape or stay.
• Linsey cultivated crops, built a Firewood Room and cellar, and used his Workbench to craft new items and weapons while trying to help the town prepare.
• Linsey advised Ju about his conflict with Dan over breaking through Black Mountain, then learned from Anrui how Organizers could use authority and fear to control others.
• Linsey gathered ore at the northern mine and crafted weapons, but unusually early snow began falling as Red Dots approached on his map.
• Linsey killed several agitated beasts at the mine, warned Suna to return to town, and met Anrui, who set out to investigate.