Recaps

Linsey uncovered the Mutated Ones’ underground breeding sites, fought their leaders, and began organizing the rescue of their captives. After learning of a larger northern base, he prepared to rally Forest City and the arriving factions against the threat while guarding against Green Swamp.

• Vivian led survivors through the mines until Linsey rescued them, discovered captive humans being raised as livestock, and sent Vivian to organize a rescue while he pursued the Mutated Ones.
• Linsey confronted and killed a powerful aberrant controller, used the Withered Overlord Flower to purify a cave, and continued hunting through the underground settlement.
• Linsey found more captive humans and realized the vast underground could not be cleared alone, so he began planning a base and recruiting forces to bring it under control.
• Vivian and the Insectfolk rescued Sand Dune from a Fourth Stage vulture, and Linsey treated his injuries in an Enhanced Healing Pod before sending him back to Banyan Forest.
• Linsey prepared Vivian to manage the territory after he left, learned from Hilude that the world-repairing connection likely lay in Green Swamp and that the City of Law was perilous, and arranged for more Forest Academies.
• Linsey welcomed five escapees from the underground, learned from Levi that the Mutated Ones’ main base lay in the north, and agreed to address the threat at the Sports Meet.
• Linsey asked the five escapees to pledge loyalty and train for the Sports Meet, then assigned trusted allies to prepare an expedition, supplies, medical care, and a southern guard against Green Swamp.

Linsey defeated Green Swamp’s attackers, expanded the Insect Nest, and empowered Lamenter and Hilude as Heroes. As Linsey marched north to resume the campaign, multiple Fifth Stage Mutated Ones attacked the expedition’s defenses.

• Linsey announced that his army would march north, then led the expedition underground to clear Mutated Ones and rescue captive humans.
• Lania and other Wasteland tribes joined Linsey, while Levi reached the Fifth Stage after confronting the Mutated Ones and learning of his friends’ sacrifices.
• Linsey left Vivian and the commanders to secure the Underground Fortress, then hurried back to Forest City after detecting seven Green Swamp Awakened approaching.
• Linsey killed Stone Fist and other attackers, while Sand Dune and the hunters defeated Gray Rhino at the cost of two lives, and Linsey took the survivors prisoner.
• The Insect Nest upgraded, and Lamenter became its first Hero, and Linsey later built a Hero Altar in Forest City, where Hilude regained her strength and reached the Fifth Stage.
• Hilude revealed Stone Fist’s plans and explained that Green Swamp, ruled by the Seventh Stage Invader Snake King, would need at least six months to respond to its defeat.
• Linsey marched north with the new insect army, while Vivian prepared the expedition for an attack by multiple Fifth Stage Mutated Ones that breached the maze with Flesh Bombs.

Linsey defeated the Mutated Ones threatening the Underground Fortress, rescued Alvitte, and prepared the city for a renewed campaign. As Alvitte led the army against Green Swamp, Linsey entered Green Island City undercover to retrieve a treasure and found Vivian’s father, Yarrowen, among the slaves.

• Linsey rescued the Fourteenth Legion, cleared the Maze of Mutated Ones, and upgraded the Underground Fortress into an Underground City.
• Linsey built a Hero Altar, where Vivian and Levi accepted its power, then prepared to lead insectfolk reinforcements north while leaving the city as a base.
• Linsey found a Flesh Lake in an abandoned underground city and rescued a golden-haired woman from a cocoon after draining the lake’s power.
• The woman, Alvitte, awoke and told Linsey she was a Sixth Stage Righteous Walker from City of Law who had been unconscious for eight years.
• Linsey brought Alvitte to his city, where she learned about the collapsed world and agreed with Linsey on their goal of returning to City of Law.
• Alvitte led Vivian and the army against the Mutated Ones and Green Swamp’s slave legions, while Linsey set out separately to retrieve a treasure in Green Island City.
• Linsey and Hilude entered Green Island City under assumed status, and Linsey recognized Yarrowen among the slaves being led into the district.
• Linsey broke into an Awakened’s residence, killed its owner, took his identity tag, and went to the basement, where Yarrowen recognized him.

Linsey freed Bruno and confronted the Great Merchant while Yarrowen and Hilude helped break the slave contracts. After repairing a path between worlds and traveling with Alvitte, Linsey reached a city under attack by faith-maddened humans.

• Linsey found Bruno beneath the Snake King’s Palace and learned from his journal that he and Bevermeni had contained the Corruption Poison.
• Linsey took the Tear of the Moon, freeing Bruno and unleashing the poison, then fought the Corruption Mixed Body embryo as Yarrowen and Hilude battled Kingfisher.
• Hilude rewrote fate to break Kingfisher’s slave contracts, and Linsey destroyed the merchant’s Source Material Core before a God's Will began to revive in the Death Core.
• Linsey left Vivian a farewell letter, traveled with Alvitte, and repaired the Sky Stone Steps with the Purple Leaf Vine Branch and Tear of the Moon.
• Linsey and Alvitte crossed into the Dust Road World, killed a corrupted Fire Bird, and found that the Mutated Ones had destroyed the roads between floating islands.
• Linsey and Alvitte built a bridge, reached Sky Island City, and discovered its residents were preparing for war despite the city’s intact defenses and water supply.
• Linsey and Alvitte went to the city gate, where Linsey learned the attackers had been irreversibly turned into fanatical believers by the power of faith.
• Alvitte drew her longsword and asked Linsey to help subdue the attackers.