Chapter Summaries

Linsey and Alvitte discovered that the Mutated Ones had brought Corruption Poison into the Dust Road World and planned to investigate the threat while searching for a spaceship in Silver City. After sharing a meal of roasted wolf meat, Alvitte agreed to use her art to gather intelligence if doing so was necessary to protect the people of this world.

• Linsey showed Alvitte wounded people afflicted with Corruption Poison, and they suspected the Mutated Ones had contributed to the Silver Witch's defeat.
• Linsey planned to infiltrate the city that night to search for a spaceship while Alvitte gathered information about the Mutated Ones.
• Linsey and Alvitte found the syrup-coated biscuits supplied to workers unbearably sweet, so Linsey cooked them roasted wolf meat at night.
• Linsey prepared to enter the city and asked Alvitte to question the wounded and gather intelligence using her art.
• Alvitte said she would not use her art to change people's thoughts unless it was necessary to protect the world and its inhabitants.

Alvitte gathered information from wounded soldiers while Linsey secretly entered Silver City to investigate the defeated Silver Witch. Linsey received a mission called “Silver's Secret” and followed an arriving supply convoy, hoping it would lead him to her valuable possessions.

• Linsey vanished into stealth, and Alvitte volunteered to help the night crew carry wounded soldiers into camp.
• Alvitte subtly guided people’s thoughts as she questioned injured soldiers about the battles and the dead who had risen and attacked them.
• Linsey used Eternal Imprint to pass beneath Silver City’s wall, triggering the “Silver's Secret” mission.
• Linsey traveled through the sparsely inhabited city toward its central castle and noticed a supply convoy arriving at the gates.
• Linsey decided to follow the convoy in hopes of discovering where the Silver Witch’s valuables were stored.

Linsey followed a supply convoy into Silver City and discovered that a Fifth Stage Awakened was transporting valuable goods to the castle. After narrowly avoiding a patrol, he was confronted by a silver-haired girl with powerful source essence.

• Linsey used Hawk Eye Potion and his Decryption Game skill to identify the injured Fifth Stage Awakened guarding valuable goods on the convoy.
• Linsey tracked the convoy into the inner castle and watched servants hide its crates in a secret chamber while the Awakened reported to the Silver Witch’s subordinates.
• Linsey followed the Awakened’s movements with the Strategic Map and saw him leave the castle for a temporary camp without treating his injury.
• Linsey evaded a patrol by activating Concentrated State, transforming into a child, and hiding behind a rooftop beam.
• A silver-haired girl emerged from a void-like path, spotted Linsey, and demanded to know who he was and why he was there.

Linsey disguised himself as a child and met Ye Haiya, the Silver Witch, who mistook his power for extraordinary inborn talent. She took him to the castle as her little brother and offered to guide his future as an Awakened.

• Linsey decided against attacking Ye Haiya and pretended to be a seven-year-old named Linsey.
• Ye Haiya believed Linsey had awakened with exceptional source material and promised to care for him.
• Ye Haiya led Linsey toward the castle and accepted his explanation that he had hidden from the guards.
• Ye Haiya warned Linsey away from the path of the Formless Ones, saying they vanished upon reaching the Seventh Stage.
• Ye Haiya offered to help Linsey choose an Awakened path and recommended becoming a Righteous Walker in the Dust Road World.

Linsey joined Ye Haiya at Silver Castle after being discovered, while Alvitte helped cover his disappearance. Ye Haiya treated Linsey as her younger brother and new heir, but left him uncertain about why she considered him so precious.

• Linsey told Alvitte through the Friend Channel that the Silver Witch had discovered him, and Alvitte agreed to conceal his absence.
• Ye Haiya returned to Silver Castle with Linsey holding her hand, astonishing her subordinates with her gentle manner toward him.
• Ye Haiya ordered her subordinates to secure the surrounding area, accelerate construction, restore her combat capabilities, and prepare precautions against a rapidly spreading disease.
• Ye Haiya introduced Lizi as Linsey's servant and instructed her to treat him as her master.
• Linsey recognized Ye Haiya's skill as an organizer and asked why she treated him so well, but she said he was too young to understand his identity and value.

Linsey settled into Ye Haiya’s castle and learned from Alvitte that the Silver Witch had retreated after a battle between Seventh Stage powerhouses, while monster attacks and spreading plagues caused her army’s injuries. He agreed to search the castle for an airship and escape if necessary, then waited as Lizi returned with food.

• Ye Haiya left the castle to coordinate plans and inspect the city, while Lizi led Linsey to a room beside Ye Haiya’s residence.
• Linsey acted like a hungry homeless child when Lizi offered to bring him food, then avoided complaining aloud because Ye Haiya might be watching him.
• Alvitte told Linsey that the Silver Witch had retreated from the core region after a battle among Seventh Stage powerhouses, and that monster attacks and plagues had injured her people.
• Alvitte told Linsey to find the airship in the castle or escape while she waited outside to support him, and Linsey said he did not intend to become Ye Haiya’s heir.
• Linsey watched the castle’s craftsmen working through the night, and Lizi returned with sweet biscuits that restored stamina.

Linsey searched Ye Haiya’s castle for an airship while hiding his true intentions and questioned her about the City of Law and her Organizer ability. Ye Haiya revealed that she had become an Awakened to avenge her parents, hometown, and homeland, completing the Silver's Secret quest.

• Linsey searched the castle for hidden rooms and narrowed down where an airship might be concealed.
• Ye Haiya visited Linsey and explained that he would have to abolish his existing abilities before choosing new ones.
• Linsey steered their conversation toward the City of Law and learned that its floating islands had been heavily damaged.
• Ye Haiya explained that her Organizer ability depended on the people she controlled and that she sought to advance to the Eighth Stage by ruling a world.
• Ye Haiya revealed that she had become an Awakened to avenge her parents, hometown, and homeland, and Linsey's Silver's Secret quest was completed.

Linsey used the Thief's Trap Installation Guide to uncover the castle’s hidden rooms and passages, then explored them while secretly using the Decryption Game to identify their contents. He learned more about Ye Haiya from Lizi and ended the walk by asking about a craftsman’s ability to change an object’s size.

• Ye Haiya left the castle to oversee the city’s construction after explaining Awakened paths to Linsey.
• Linsey equipped the Thief's Trap Installation Guide and discovered numerous basements, hidden rooms, and secret tunnels, including two escape passages.
• Linsey questioned Lizi about Ye Haiya and learned that she valued him more than any Awakened in history.
• Linsey obtained permission to explore the castle and used the Decryption Game to investigate its hidden spaces without Lizi noticing.
• Linsey spotted a craftsman whose object seemed to shrink, and Lizi explained that the craftsman could change the size of objects.

While touring Ye Haiya's castle, Linsey received valuable equipment and materials from its artisans, guards, and Awakened followers, then discovered new crafting formulas. He ended the chapter focused on the Cloud Sea Fishing Rod recipe and messaged Alvitte.

• Linsey reconsidered whether an artisan might have made a spacecraft compact by giving it a shrinking function.
• Lizi introduced Linsey to the artisan Heize, who gave him an Artisan's Baggage as a gift.
• Linsey converted the baggage into Personal Baggage, increasing his pouch slots from seventy-two to two hundred and twenty-five, and found a recipe for a larger Twisted Baggage.
• During the castle tour, Linsey received Miniature Armor, Cloud Silk, Long Sky Gray Bird Heart, and Albino Burrowing Worm's Mutated Muscle.
• Back in his room, Linsey examined crafting recipes and became captivated by the Cloud Sea Fishing Rod formula.
• Linsey messaged Alvitte, who replied that she was working and asked what he meant.

Linsey sought a way to obtain High-Grade Wood while arranging a one-week limit for finding an airship with Alvitte. After overhearing Ye Haiya order her forces to conquer resisting natives, he learned that a strange epidemic was spreading through the Middle Ring World.

• Linsey considered asking Silver City's craftsmen for High-Grade Wood rather than using his remaining supplies of it.
• Linsey and Alvitte agreed to search for an airship for a week before sneaking away, and planned to meet so he could extend her Module Seed's duration.
• Linsey heard Ye Haiya order her subordinates to kill resisting natives after their forces encountered a powerful Sixth Stage Awakened on another floating island.
• Linsey reflected on how different Organizers responded to power and danger, contrasting Ye Haiya's expansion with Mu Le Na Hu En's sacrifice of his subjects.
• Lizi warned Linsey that a strange epidemic was spreading through the inner regions of the Middle Ring World and advised him to avoid contact with outsiders.

Linsey synthesized a Cloud Sea Fishing Rod and a powerful Sun Blaze Shooter, whose discovery unlocked a formula for the legendary Sky Splitter. With Ye Haiya away and Lizi asleep, Linsey prepared to use the castle's Secret Passage to meet Alvitte and update her module.

• Linsey crafted a Cloud Sea Fishing Rod and considered using it to fish for materials in the sea of clouds.
• Linsey arranged for Alvitte to enter the castle through a Secret Passage so they could update her module.
• Linsey synthesized a Sun Blaze Shooter with sunfire, explosive, and heat-tracking abilities.
• Linsey unlocked the Sky Splitter synthesis formula and realized he already had a Jungle Archer and clues to other required bows.
• After Lizi fell asleep, Linsey messaged Alvitte that the opportunity to meet had arrived.

Linsey and Alvitte met in the secret tunnel beneath Silver City after failing to find Ye Haiya’s airship. When a powerful Dragon Beast approached the floating island, they abandoned their search and rushed to the surface, where they saw a blazing giant figure speeding toward them.

• Linsey secretly dug through the castle foundation to enter the underground passage without making noise.
• Linsey met Alvitte in the tunnel, and they renewed her Survival Building Module and agreed to leave Silver City in four days if they found no airship.
• Linsey and Alvitte mistook each other for strangers because Linsey was disguised as a child and Alvitte wore a Catfish Headgear.
• Linsey sensed a powerful Seventh Stage aura approaching the floating island and called Alvitte to regroup.
• Linsey and Alvitte dug out of the passage and saw a gigantic, sunlike figure racing toward them as the island grew scorching hot.

A Seventh Stage Dragon Beast threatened Silver City, and Alvitte resolved to defend its residents despite the danger. Linsey joined her with a Law Steel Sword, and they went to face the beast as he asked what she meant by walking the correct path.

• Linsey recognized the approaching creature as a Seventh Stage Dragon Beast and suspected it was connected to Ye Haiya’s battle at the center of the world.
• Alvitte decided to fight the beast to protect Silver City’s residents and used her skill to shield the island and strengthen the Awakened.
• Awakened in Silver City gathered as the Dragon Beast approached, preparing to defend the floating island.
• Linsey gave Alvitte a Law Steel Sword and said they would join the battle together.
• Linsey and Alvitte advanced toward the fight, and Linsey asked Alvitte what the correct path she walked was.

Linsey and Alvitte reached the eastern camp as a Seventh Stage Dragon Beast approached, and Alvitte took command of the defenses. Silver City’s crafted weapon resisted the beast’s first fire attack, but its next, more concentrated beam pierced the defense and began melting the castle.

• Alvitte told Linsey she intended to end the prolonged conflict and restore peace as they traveled east together.
• At the eastern camp, Alvitte established her authority and ordered the craftsmen to reinforce the defenses against the Dragon Beast.
• The Dragon Beast unleashed a powerful fire pillar, which collided with a beam from a crafted weapon atop Silver City’s castle.
• Alvitte identified the Dragon Beast’s brain and heart as potential weaknesses, while Linsey prepared possible attacks.
• The Dragon Beast fired a concentrated beam that pierced Silver City’s resistance and melted the castle from the top down.

As the Dragon Beast attacked Silver City, Ye Haiya’s sky-island defenses stalled its charge while Alvitte protected the city’s people. Linsey and Alvitte climbed above the beast and prepared to strike, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• A dragon-slaying melody provoked the Dragon Beast, and it charged into Ye Haiya’s defensive formation of sky islands.
• The Dragon Beast rebounded from the islands and sent flame Elemental Lifeforms to batter the defenses, while Alvitte shielded the people from the heat and source essence tremors.
• The believers gathered under the Righteous Walker’s protection and began building a bridge of faith to flee west.
• Linsey and Alvitte climbed the sky islands to reach the summit above the Dragon Beast.
• Alvitte gathered her power into a phantom blade, while Linsey equipped his weapons and activated his skills as dragon-slaying music played.

Linsey and Alvitte attacked the Dragon Beast, with Alvitte cutting through its scales and Linsey using Dragon Mead to distract it. Linsey reached the beast’s exposed chest and prepared to strike its heart with a Dragon Hunting Black Arrow.

• Alvitte plunged toward the Dragon Beast and used her White Steel Sword to tear open a wound from its neck to its chest.
• The Dragon Beast flung Alvitte away and gathered a devastating ring of fire for a counterattack.
• Linsey smeared Dragon Mead across the Dragon Beast’s face, distracting it with the liquor’s allure and intoxicating effect.
• Linsey used the wound Alvitte had opened to reach the Dragon Beast’s chest and expose its heart.
• Linsey entered the Concentrated State and replaced his light sword with a Dragon Hunting Black Arrow.

Linsey and Alvitte killed the Dragon Beast but fell toward the Sea of Void with its corpse. As they neared the void, Linsey gave Alvitte a Random Teleportation Potion and urged her to drink it.

• Linsey retrieved the Dragon Hunting Black Arrow and materials from the Dragon Beast's corpse before gliding after the falling Alvitte.
• Linsey caught Alvitte and continued toward the Dragon Beast's falling corpse instead of turning back to safety.
• Linsey gave Alvitte a Hunting Simulation Module Seed, and they collected more materials while standing on the corpse.
• Alvitte spotted fragments of floating islands sinking into the void and warned Linsey they were close to impact.
• Linsey handed Alvitte a Random Teleportation Potion and said, "Come on, cheers!"

After the Dragon Beast fell, Ye Haiya discovered that Linsey was missing. Linsey and Alvitte survived their random teleportation but landed in different places, promising to find each other on the way to the City of Law.

• The warriors in Silver City saw the Dragon Beast fall, and its disappearance confirmed that the Seventh Stage enemy was dead.
• Ye Haiya returned to Silver City, learned that two unknown Awakened had driven off the Dragon Beast, and discovered that Linsey was missing.
• Linsey regained consciousness at a random safe landing point and found that the teleportation had separated him from Alvitte.
• Linsey contacted Alvitte through the Friend List and learned that she was trapped underground in the center of a floating island.
• Linsey identified the thick fog around him as Rich Nurturing Mist and agreed with Alvitte to meet on the road or in the City of Law.

Linsey examined the new Online Game Module skill and used materials from the Dragon Beast to craft new equipment and a Metal Crest. After testing the crest, he ventured into the fog ahead.

• Linsey discovered that the Online Game Module had leveled up, granting him experience points when he killed enemies or allied units.
• Linsey decided to treat the skill as a bonus for defeating enemies rather than pursuing power through indiscriminate killing.
• Linsey reviewed Dragon Tendon crafting recipes and chose the Dragon Hunting Great Bow and Circle of Heaven as equipment to pursue once he found the rare materials.
• Linsey crafted Dragon Scale Boots from a Bloodstained Dragon Scale, gaining a piece of the Dragon King Divine Power Set.
• Linsey crafted and equipped a Metal Crest, then opened the map and explored into the dense fog.

Linsey explored a mist-covered sky island and discovered that a bridge led to an isolated ring of islands surrounding the world's central Guiding Stone Pillar. Unable to fly out, he contacted Alvitte for help, but she was busy fighting an enemy.

• Linsey searched the uninhabited sky island and found a natural Sky Bridge at its southwestern corner.
• Linsey crossed the bridge through the mist and discovered a massive stone pillar standing alone beneath the night sky.
• Linsey inspected the Guiding Stone Pillar and learned it anchored the world and gathered resources on the sky islands.
• Linsey explored the nearby islands and realized they formed an isolated ring with no route out for someone unable to fly.
• Linsey messaged Alvitte for help, and she told him to wait while she finished off an enemy.