Chapter Summaries

Linsey watched the City of Law’s once-in-a-decade oath ceremony with Ian, a Third Stage Law Knight, and learned about the stages of the Law Knight path. As Linsey tried to leave, the Fifth Stage Law Knights guarding the ceremony all turned their attention toward him.

• Ian invited Linsey to watch the oath ceremony and told him about his past as a Law Knight.
• Linsey asked Ian why he had stalled at the Third Stage, and Ian explained the challenges of advancing to the Fourth Stage.
• A procession of young recruits in white robes marched across the bridge toward the castle, accompanied by musicians Linsey recognized as Artists.
• The leader of the Law Knights began the recruits’ oath ceremony at the castle, though the king was absent and the royal artifact remained inactive.
• Linsey began to leave the crowd, but the Fifth Stage Law Knights guarding the ceremony fixed their gazes on him.

During the oath-taking ceremony in the City of Law, Linsey’s Sinner’s Mark activated and identified him as an enemy of the law. He escaped the Law Knights by burrowing underground and began considering how to deal with the mark.

• Angelo and the Law Knights spotted Linsey among the spectators, and Linsey discovered that his Sinner’s Mark had awakened.
• The commander of the Law Knights declared Linsey a criminal, but Linsey burrowed underground and vanished before he could finish.
• The Law Knights were astonished that Linsey had escaped the city’s legal restrictions, and some wondered whether he was above the Eighth Stage.
• Linsey traveled hundreds of kilometers underground, surfaced in the City of Law World, and tried to work out why the mark had activated.
• Linsey failed to find an explanation, prepared dinner, and considered returning home or finding a way to deal with the mark.

Linsey traveled home across the vast City of Law World, examined his recent rewards, and avoided conflicts along the way. After four weeks, he reached the Forbidden Forest Mountain Range, only to find the plain beyond it empty of the village he remembered.

• Linsey learned that the City of Law World was vast and that reaching Bromegrass Plain would take about a month, then recognized the Golden Oat as a crop he had left behind in the past.
• Linsey received no answer from Nolan when he asked whether a Law Knight's Sinner's Mark could be removed.
• Linsey examined the Space-Time Pointer and Living Metal, then stored the Living Metal rather than using it.
• Linsey's Online Game module gained Loot Treasure Chest, and he warned himself not to become absorbed in its rewards.
• Linsey avoided other Righteous Walkers and traveled for four weeks until he reached the Forbidden Forest Mountain Range.
• Linsey flew over the range and found that the familiar river remained, but the village and surrounding plain were empty.

Linsey returned to the site of Anville Village ten years after it had been razed, but found no trace of his home or the mill. The Magical Conch confirmed that Alvitte was no longer in the world of the City of Law, and Linsey then spotted a motionless figure drifting down the river who looked like her.

• Linsey found Bromegrass Plain overgrown and Anville Village erased, and reasoned that someone had deliberately concealed the area.
• Linsey searched the remains of his village and the mill but found no signs of either.
• Linsey asked the Magical Conch about his home, his parents, and Alvitte; it said his parents were not in this world and Alvitte was not in the world of the City of Law.
• Linsey spotted a motionless figure floating downstream and recognized it as Alvitte.

Linsey found Alvitte unconscious and drifting down a river in the City of Law World, her will damaged and her power greatly weakened. After he woke her with an attack that targeted emotions, Alvitte revealed that she had destroyed the White Steel Sword.

• Linsey spotted Alvitte drifting downriver and found that she did not respond to his messages or his calls.
• Linsey pulled the unconscious Alvitte from the river and used his Decryption Game to learn that her will had been damaged and she had fallen into despair.
• Linsey slapped Alvitte without waking her, then used Blade of Emotion to jolt her back to consciousness.
• Linsey realized Alvitte had lost much of her ability to control her source essence power and pressed her to explain what had happened.
• Alvitte told Linsey that she had destroyed the White Steel Sword.

Linsey refused Alvitte’s demand that he kill her and learned that an unknown being had shattered the White Steel Sword across different timelines. He challenged Alvitte to reconsider what she truly wanted to establish, leaving her to reflect on whether the City of Law’s legitimacy or a peaceful life for its people mattered more.

• Alvitte asked Linsey to kill her because she blamed herself for destroying the White Steel Sword and betraying his trust, but Linsey refused.
• Alvitte explained that an unknown being had shattered the White Steel Sword while it protected her in a Space-Time Rift, scattering its fragments across different eras.
• Alvitte said the sword’s loss meant the City of Law could no longer choose a new king, and Linsey questioned why she treated that as an unforgivable failure.
• Linsey reminded Alvitte that Bena had founded the City of Law with an ordinary sword and argued that people, not artifacts, built nations.
• Linsey asked Alvitte whether she truly wanted to preserve the City of Law’s legitimate rule or create a peaceful world where people could live contentedly.

Linsey helped Alvitte break free of her self-blame, transforming her will and revealing her affection for him. He then searched the Galgame’s records for clues about the invisible creature that had approached him in the Great Rift World.

• Linsey challenged Alvitte’s self-blame and asked what they should do to protect the people around them.
• Alvitte’s will changed through six stages, transforming her abilities as she embraced her desires while keeping her beliefs.
• Alvitte thanked Linsey, and he saw that her affection for him had reached 90 out of 100.
• Alvitte began telling Linsey the story of Edmund, a Righteous Walker who lost everything and was falsely accused.
• Linsey opened Text Record and found entries suggesting an unseen presence had discovered him and regarded him as its hope.

Linsey discovered through the Text Record that Hua Zhi, a Formless One who had followed him for much of his journey, had become unable to affect reality after reaching the Seventh Stage. After finding Alvitte in the wilderness, he realized his hometown should be on the plain where they stood, though she could see no sign of the settlement he remembered.

• Linsey read Hua Zhi's record and learned that she had slaughtered the thieves in the Teleportation Courtyard before becoming a Seventh Stage Formless One who could no longer interact with reality.
• Linsey realized Hua Zhi had followed him and might now be somewhere in the City of Law's world, able to find him again.
• Alvitte asked how Linsey had found her, explaining that she had fallen into a river after leaving the gap in space-time and drifted downstream.
• Linsey showed Alvitte the Forbidden Forest Mountain Range and explained that his hometown was the plain where they stood.
• Alvitte saw no settlement, so Linsey asked whether the City of Law had a place called Bromegrass Plain that served as a food-producing region.

Linsey and Alvitte investigated the vanished plain beneath the Forbidden Forest Mountain Range, but they lacked enough information to explain its past. Alvitte then revealed a way to remove Linsey’s Law Mark: find a high-ranking Law Knight willing to baptize him, and she offered to contact someone from her faction.

• Linsey recognized the plain as the site of his former hometown, Anville Village, and recalled that it had once been a newly opened cultivation area.
• Linsey told Alvitte that she had been the Righteous Walker who gave him the Human Wisdom Codex, but Alvitte said she knew nothing about the White Steel Sword before gaining its recognition at the Tomb of Kings.
• Linsey stopped their inconclusive speculation and asked Alvitte how to remove the Law Mark placed on him by a Law Knight.
• Alvitte warned Linsey that Law Knights across different factions shared information and advised him to change his appearance, so he used Face Sculpting Skill to take on his former-life appearance.
• Alvitte explained that a sufficiently high-ranking Law Knight could remove the mark by baptizing Linsey, and offered to find someone from her affiliated faction.

After completing the Schrödinger's Cat quest, Linsey and Alvitte continued north, and Alvitte explained her teacher's efforts to protect ordinary people and her connection to judge Bargett. That night, Linsey discovered Wala Wala's affection had reached 100/100 and found an option to claim her Affection Reward.

• Linsey claimed the Schrödinger's Cat quest reward, upgrading Decryption Game to Level 4 and unlocking Unveiling the Mystery.
• Alvitte asked Linsey to cook dinner, and he warned her that her growing willingness to express her desires could make her reveal secrets.
• Alvitte told Linsey that her Seventh Stage Law Knight teacher focused on protecting ordinary people rather than taking a political stance.
• Alvitte identified Bargett as an honest Sixth Stage judge but knew nothing about the fight involving the White Steel Sword and the Human Rule Codex.
• Linsey checked the Sleeping Maiden Painting and saw that Wala Wala's affection had reached 100/100, along with an option to claim her Affection Reward.

Linsey and Alvitte traveled toward her hometown while discussing Linsey’s fused Human Wisdom Codex and the changes to his skill. After a high-level battle’s stray attack tore across the sky, they reached Alvitte’s peaceful hometown, where she hesitated to go home.

• Linsey considered whether Alvitte’s affection reaching 95 would let him claim a reward, but refused her offer to examine his changed skill.
• Alvitte asked about the Human Wisdom Codex, and Linsey explained how it had fused with his skill after the events of his childhood.
• Alvitte sensed a powerful attack and pulled Linsey aside as its force streaked across the sky.
• Linsey and Alvitte continued their journey for a month and a half, then arrived at Alvitte’s hometown beside a stream in the Serpentine Mountain Range.
• Alvitte looked down at her hometown and said she had finally returned, but could not bring herself to take the next step.

Linsey accompanied Alvitte to the mountain town where she had grown up, and the townspeople welcomed her as a beloved former protector. Alvitte learned that her teacher had not returned since leaving with her ten years earlier.

• Linsey saw that Alvitte's mountain town was protected by a Royal Soil Sealed Domain and had more plentiful resources than the City of Law.
• The townspeople recognized Alvitte and warmly welcomed her, including children she had taught and protected ten years before.
• Alvitte asked Linsey to wait while she explained his situation to the town's Law Knights, who accepted him as her companion.
• Alvitte asked where her teacher was, and the townspeople revealed that he had never returned since leaving with her ten years earlier.

Alvitte told the townsfolk that her missing teacher would return, though she knew he had permanently embedded his protective power in the mountains. She learned that Linsey’s Great Enemy Mark could only be removed through the Law System, leaving him to weigh a dangerous journey to the City of Law against seeking another powerful Law Knight.

• Alvitte reassured the townsfolk that her teacher was likely displaced to another world, while concealing that he had fixed his King's Land Skill in the mountains permanently.
• Xiao Bei warned Alvitte that Linsey’s Great Enemy Mark could only have been placed by a Seventh Stage Law Knight or above and could not result from a mistake.
• Alvitte persuaded Xiao Bei to trust that Linsey was a good person, then asked him how the mark could be removed.
• Xiao Bei said he could erase the mark only by connecting deeply to the Law System at the Hall of Judgment or Hall of Punishment in the City of Law, or a Seventh Stage Law Knight could do it.
• Linsey asked whether a friendly Law Knight elsewhere could remove the mark, and Alvitte warned that pursuing that option could be even more dangerous than going to the City of Law.

Linsey and Alvitte weighed the danger of seeking help from an Eighth Stage Righteous Walker and decided to travel to the City of Law instead. After returning to Alvitte’s childhood home, she admitted she feared for her teacher and vowed to find and punish whoever caused the Sword-Snatching War’s chaos.

• Alvitte explained that the village’s nominal lord was Walker, an Eighth Stage Righteous Walker, while Linsey worried that Walker might detect the Human Wisdom Codex.
• Xiao Bei said the City of Law’s conflict had worsened since the White Steel Sword disappeared ten years earlier, and Linsey and Alvitte decided to go to the City of Law to remove Linsey’s mark.
• Alvitte told Xiao Bei to prepare lodging for her and Linsey, then firmly said they would stay together, prompting jealous looks from the townsmen.
• Linsey and Alvitte spent the night in the house where Alvitte had once lived and recalled their former adventures.
• Alvitte told Linsey she feared for her teacher and vowed to find the culprit behind the Sword-Snatching War’s chaos and take revenge herself.

Linsey and Alvitte planned to escort newly Awakened villagers to the City of Law, with Linsey posing as a prisoner to hide the danger of his mark. They set out with the group, and Linsey and Alvitte reflected on how a World Main City affected the chances of Awakening.

• Alvitte returned from town and told Linsey they would receive supplies and a carriage in exchange for protecting the group.
• Linsey and Alvitte discussed the risks of encountering Law Knights and decided that Xiao Bei would escort Linsey as a prisoner.
• Linsey, Alvitte, Xiao Bei, and the other travelers departed for the City of Law in three freight wagons.
• As they left the mountain town, Linsey and Alvitte discussed how living near a World Main City raised the odds of Awakening.

A man and his parrot traveled across the White Earth Plain, struggling to navigate and discussing the City of Law’s vacant throne. They headed toward a group escorting young Awakened to the City of Law for training.

• The man scolded Bai Mao for forgetting the map and complained that the bird was not helping deliver letters to villages.
• Bai Mao suggested following the sun or heading straight to the City of Law, but the man explained that they needed current local maps to travel safely.
• The man speculated that a problem with the City of Law’s royal artifact had prevented anyone from claiming the throne, while Bai Mao hinted at wanting to pursue it.
• Bai Mao spotted a group escorting young Awakened to the City of Law for legal training and urged the man to join them.

Linsey and Alvitte met Eris, a messenger who had lost his map and asked to ride with their convoy to the next town. After spotting Alvitte, Eris recognized her from the Sword-Snatching War.

• Linsey and Alvitte spotted a white parrot and sensed that its human companion was approaching to hitch a ride.
• Linsey used his new Extreme Racing skill to control the carriage while pretending to be restrained by shackles.
• Alvitte warned the convoy to stop and wait for the messenger, who introduced himself as Eris from the City of Law.
• Alvitte and Linsey privately confirmed Eris’s identity and reputation while Xiao Bei greeted him.
• Eris explained that he had lost his map and asked to ride to the next town, then recognized Alvitte from the Sword-Snatching War.

Alvitte reunited with messenger Eris and exchanged news about threats spreading across other worlds. Eris revealed that the Seven Seas Alliance had applied three years ago to restore the City of Law’s teleportation system, though negotiations had not yet been resolved.

• Alvitte recognized Eris, explained that she had been stranded in another world, and invited him to travel with her convoy.
• Eris asked about Linsey, but Alvitte refused to disclose why his Source Material Skill was restricted.
• Alvitte traded news of the Dust Road World and the ruined Moon Weeping Mountain Range World for information from Eris.
• After hearing about the Mutated Ones, evil gods, and the Abyss School, Eris said he needed to warn their allies beyond the City of Law.
• Eris told Alvitte that the Seven Seas Alliance had applied three years earlier to restore the teleportation system, and that the Law Knights supported restoring contact for supplies.

Linsey and Alvitte discovered that the village ahead was hostile and that some people there were being held captive. After approaching and smelling blood, Alvitte raised her sword and ordered everyone in the village to come out within half an hour.

• Linsey realized that the Seven Seas Alliance's renewed contact with the City of Law had begun around the time he left for the Barren Land World.
• Alvitte stopped the convoy after sensing malice in the village, and Linsey's Map Skill showed most residents as hostile while a few were being held captive.
• A parrot scouting the village declared it safe, but Alvitte and the messenger chose to investigate despite Linsey's warning.
• Alvitte and the messenger approached the village while the Law Knight stayed behind to guard the convoy.
• Alvitte and the messenger smelled blood from the village, and Alvitte drew her sword and ordered everyone to come out within half an hour.

Alvitte destroyed the bandits who had attacked the village and freed the surviving women, children, and elderly people. After learning that the robbers were part of a growing group with standardized weapons, she left with a few captives to interrogate.

• Alvitte confronted the bandits and unleashed a powerful attack that killed many and left a few alive for questioning.
• Alvitte tore open the houses, freed the villagers from their restraints, and covered them with clothing.
• Alvitte asked a wounded middle-aged woman about the bandits, and the woman explained that they belonged to a rising group whose leader and strength she did not know.
• Alvitte apologized that she could not stay, then carried the surviving captives back toward the carriage convoy.