Chapter Summaries

Liz examined Linsey and sensed a Law Knight's presence in him, but she could not identify the curse's effects. She brought him to meet Mr. Prizm, the City of Law's strongest Pious One, while Linsey grew wary of the red-marked area ahead.

• Liz used her enhanced Small Miracle to examine Linsey and confirmed that a Law Knight's presence affected him.
• Liz comforted Linsey and said she could not determine the curse's effects, then decided to take him to Mr. Prizm.
• Liz explained that Lao Xiu was kind despite his angry words, and Linsey saw that the old man had a green friendly marker.
• Liz told Linsey that believers of different faiths gathered in the complex and that Mr. Prizm was a Seventh Stage Awakened who might help him.
• Linsey followed Liz toward the area where several red markers gathered, and they entered a prayer room where a black-robed man was praying.

Linsey confronted Prizm, the Awakened behind the attack, while Liz tried to protect him. Linsey asked Prizm where the Only God was, and Prizm’s surprise revealed that he recognized the name Linsey had mentioned.

• Liz brought Linsey to Prizm, who accused him of being a Law Knight and blamed the Law Knights for extracting information from believers.
• Prizm ordered Liz aside, but she stood between him and Linsey and refused to let him persecute her patient.
• Linsey revealed that he was neither a Law Knight nor a Righteous Walker, and Prizm’s Revelation suggested he was telling the truth.
• Linsey asked whether Prizm worshipped the Only God and demanded to know where it was.
• Prizm asked where Linsey had heard the name, and Linsey noticed that Prizm was curious about his archenemy.

Linsey gained Prizm’s trust after revealing that they shared an enemy, and learned Prizm could remove the Sinner’s Mark if Linsey stayed beside him for a month. Their discussion was interrupted when Ala Song arrived, and Linsey recognized his old companion, though Ala Song did not recognize Linsey’s disguise.

• Linsey told Prizm that he had fought the Only God’s followers, and Prizm’s attitude toward him changed from suspicion to trust.
• Prizm asked Liz to leave, but she insisted on staying to protect Linsey and hear their conversation.
• Linsey explained that he had brought Yanafeien back to the City of Law, while Prizm revealed his suspicions that the Only God’s followers were infiltrating its upper ranks.
• Prizm discovered the Sinner’s Mark inside Linsey and said he could gradually remove it over a month if Linsey remained nearby and avoided Law Knights.
• Ala Song entered the room, and Linsey recognized him and tried to prove his identity with the clothes Ala Song had painted for him years earlier.

Linsey reunited with Ala Song, who had come to the City of Law as an envoy of the Seven Seas Alliance, and learned that his old friend had advanced to the Sixth Stage. After Linsey declined Ala Song’s offer to negotiate over the Law Knight’s mark, Ala Song pointed him toward the Seven Seas Alliance embassy, and Linsey began telling everyone about his adventure in the Moon Weeping Mountain Range.

• Ala Song recognized the tattered robe as the painting he had left as a coordinate and realized the disguised man was Linsey.
• Linsey and Ala Song embraced and caught up, and Linsey recognized that Ala Song’s painted arm showed he had reached the Sixth Stage.
• Ala Song explained that he had come to the City of Law as an envoy and had been welcomed by Prizm and the others.
• Linsey told Ala Song he was trying to remove a Law Knight’s mark, but declined Ala Song’s offer to negotiate on his behalf.
• Ala Song told Linsey that the statues at the Seven Seas Alliance embassy could help him enter, and Linsey decided to tell everyone about his adventure in the Moon Weeping Mountain Range.

Linsey warned Prizm and Liz that the Evil God had revived and that the Abyss School was connected to it. As they arranged to spread the warning, a Seventh Stage Law Knight’s will descended over Dark Street, leaving Linsey preparing to face it.

• Linsey told Prizm and Liz about the Abyss and the revived Evil God, alarming both believers.
• Linsey urged Ala Song to alert the Messenger Hall so the Entire Universe would learn that the old enemies had returned.
• Liz left to warn everyone in Dark Street, while Prizm planned to tell friends in other districts.
• Prizm asked why the Seven Seas Alliance had restored contact with the City of Law first, and Ala Song gave a guarded explanation that concealed Linsey’s role.
• A Seventh Stage Law Knight’s will descended over Dark Street, and Linsey moved away from Ala Song as the street froze.

Linsey and Dark Street were trapped under the Law Knights’ Sovereign Territory after Prizm took responsibility for the night’s attack. A Law Knight recognized Linsey as the heinous criminal who had disrupted the oath-taking ceremony, leaving him exposed to arrest.

• Linsey realized the Law Knights had sealed off the street with their Sovereign Territory Law and refused Ala Song’s offer of protection.
• Prizm gathered four trusted subordinates and sent them to escape through a modified Teleportation Array while he stayed behind to face the crisis.
• Liz calmed Dark Street’s residents and urged them to stay indoors as the Law Knights imposed martial control.
• Prizm surrendered to the Law Knights and admitted he had been behind the attack, but they demanded to know who had backed him.
• A Law Knight sensed another sinner near the believers’ headquarters and recognized Linsey as the criminal who had disrupted the oath-taking ceremony.

Linsey emerged in disguise and used Brutal Domination to unleash its Fear Declaration Domain across the City of Law. The Law Knights were overwhelmed by its oppressive force as Linsey challenged the Law Knight in the sky.

• Prizm recognized Linsey as the man who had humiliated the City of Law and began resisting the Law Knights to protect him.
• Linsey interrupted the arrest and urged Prizm to explain his situation to Yanafeien.
• Linsey concealed his identity with the Black Cloud Mask, changed his appearance, and accused a Law Knight of burning his homeland and family.
• Linsey equipped Brutal Domination and spread its Fear Declaration Domain over the street and nearby districts.
• The Law Knights struggled to resist the fear, and Linsey challenged the Law Knight in the sky.

Linsey escaped the Law Knights by using the Aid Army Flag to transfer himself to Alvitte, who had just entered the City of Law. After learning about the danger, Alvitte proposed searching the city’s archives for clues to the evil god’s identity, while Linsey decided he should leave the city.

• Linsey vanished from the Law Knights’ encirclement, and their search of Dark Street and its hidden passages found no trace of him.
• Ala Song watched the search from the believers’ stronghold and marveled at Linsey’s new ability.
• Linsey used the Aid Army Flag to transfer himself to Alvitte near the city walls, then explained the events at Dark Street.
• Alvitte concluded that the evil god might have a reason for targeting the City of Law and suggested searching its archives for clues to its identity.
• Linsey agreed that the archives might help but decided to leave the city while the Law Knights were still searching for him.

Yanafeien left the Palace with Meili to learn what was happening in the City of Law and heard Linsey’s account of the attack. When Guilt Determiner and the other Law Knights disappeared, Yanafeien resolved to act despite her powerlessness.

• Yanafeien asked Meili to take her outside, and Meili agreed to protect her.
• Yanafeien saw Guilt Determiner’s golden light and used the Friend Channel to hear Linsey describe the attack.
• The golden light vanished, and Meili told Yanafeien that Guilt Determiner had lost consciousness and she could no longer sense the other Law Knights.
• Yanafeien refused to retreat and turned toward the tower as a question about her desires and the price she would pay echoed in her heart.

Linsey and Alvitte returned toward the City of Law after sensing that the Guilt Determiner had died, while an unknown attack disrupted the city. Yanafeien sent Linsey a final message telling him to find Adrian, and Thorn’s power then spread through the city, stopping everything in its reach.

• Linsey told Alvitte that a high-ranking contact in the city was helping identify the evil god and that he had reunited with his old friend Ala Song.
• Linsey and Alvitte sensed that the Guilt Determiner had died and decided to return to the city to investigate.
• Linsey learned from Ala Song that the Seven Seas Alliance delegation had escaped to a safe area through Impression Channels, while strange attackers targeted the Law Knights.
• Linsey and Alvitte detected a power adjusted to counter the City of Law’s protections, and Yanafeien sent Linsey a broken message telling him to find Adrian.
• White light from the central tower transformed into red thorns that brought everything in the city to a standstill, and Alvitte recognized Thorn’s power.

Linsey and Alvitte discovered that the Thorned Necklace had engulfed the City of Law and frozen everyone it pierced, apparently because its user could not control its power. They left the city to help the fleeing refugees while considering how to reach the user and stop the catastrophe.

• Alvitte explained that the Thorned Necklace could create piercing thorns and control people, while Linsey suspected an ordinary person had used it.
• Linsey and Alvitte reached the hills and saw the thorns cover the city's inner districts, freezing everyone and everything they struck.
• Linsey learned that stopping the disaster meant finding the user in the City Center and removing the necklace, but the thorns blocked their way.
• As refugees fled through the opened gates, Alvitte asked Linsey to lend her his Survival Building Module so she could help them.
• Linsey lent Alvitte the module and said his varied powers might give them a way to deal with the Thorned Necklace.

Linsey and Alvitte arrived at the sealed City of Law, where Alvitte rallied the refugees and an old man backed her plan to lead them to the Yi River. Linsey slipped underground to investigate the Thorns, rejected using Strange Matter because it could destroy the world, and set out to discover what had happened inside the city.

• Linsey saw newly Awakened youths trying to encourage the refugees and found that the escaped Law Knights had no leader to organize them.
• Alvitte proposed leading the crowd to the Yi River to establish a temporary camp, but the refugees doubted her authority.
• An old man stepped forward, supported Alvitte, and persuaded the refugees to head for the river.
• Linsey used Earth Escape to approach the city’s center underground and considered using Strange Matter to destroy the Thorns.
• Linsey rejected the dangerous gamble and left to investigate what had killed a Seventh Stage Law Knight and forced Princess to use the Thorned Necklace.

Linsey investigated the Thorned Necklace and discovered evidence that the Abyss School was attacking the City of Law with the To Dark Skill. He offered Alvitte help for the refugees, but she warned that revealing his powers would bring immense danger, and he asked her about nearby mechanical races.

• Linsey tried to touch the Thorned Necklace but found its power too strong, so he used his treant form to grow through gaps in the thorns and reach the street.
• Linsey sensed the source essence of the To Dark Skill and concluded that the Abyss School had infiltrated the City of Law to test its ability to overcome the power of law.
• Linsey saw that the refugees were being moved toward Quiet River and offered Alvitte help, then realized his base slots had increased by one thanks to Rota’s work at the Out of Control Machine.
• Alvitte warned Linsey that exposing the Human Wisdom Codex and his Sinner's Mark would bring enormous danger, while Linsey insisted he would help if the refugees faced a survival crisis.
• Linsey asked Alvitte whether any mechanical races lived near the City of Law and how to contact them, but she had never heard of any.

Linsey searched for the missing Mechanical Species and headed toward the City of Law to ask Xiao Bei for help removing his Sinner's Mark. When Eris’s parrot recognized him as a fugitive, Linsey revealed himself and warned the Law Knights that the City of Law had become a dead zone.

• Linsey asked Alvitte to search among the City of Law’s residents for clues about the Mechanical Species, and Alvitte agreed to ask around.
• Linsey found that the Out of Control Machine’s base in the Great Rift World had vanished, though the species still occupied a city slot on his panel.
• Linsey traveled toward the city outskirts to find Xiao Bei and seek a way to remove his Sinner’s Mark.
• Eris’s parrot recognized Linsey by his scent and identified him as the fugitive, prompting Eris to urge the Law Knights to kill him.
• Linsey admitted who he was and warned the Law Knights that the City of Law had become a dead zone that no one could enter.

Linsey joined Xiao Bei and Eris on their journey after the Messenger’s parrot confirmed that the Thorned Necklace had sealed the City of Law. The group reached the city, and Xiao Bei and Eris divided their efforts to investigate the crisis and find Alvitte.

• Linsey claimed he wanted the Law Knight and Messenger to shelter him, and Xiao Bei urged Eris to hear him out before attacking.
• The parrot confirmed that the Thorned Necklace had sealed the City of Law and warned that survivors had fled east.
• Xiao Bei chose to continue toward the City of Law to help the young people and find Miss Alvitte, and Eris agreed to stay with him despite the danger.
• At dawn, the group reached a hill overlooking the city, whose walls and towers were covered in thorns.
• Xiao Bei set out to investigate the city while Eris headed east to find Alvitte, warning Linsey to signal him if anything went wrong.

Linsey could not remove his Sinner's Mark because the Thorned Necklace had sealed the City of Law, so he set out to find Heart's Edge Adrian and enlist help. After Ala Song joined him, a surge of source essence from the refugee camp at Quiet River revealed that Seventh Stage Awakened were fighting.

• Xiao Bei told Linsey he could not remove the mark without entering the Hall of Judgment, and Linsey asked him to choose between helping Alvitte's refugees and escorting the village's young Awakened home.
• Linsey urged Xiao Bei to follow his heart, and Xiao Bei decided to help Alvitte until the situation stabilized before escorting the young people back to the village.
• Ala Song arrived near the city gates to investigate the disaster, recognized Linsey after he revealed himself, and assessed that Wala Wala would emerge from the painting within three years.
• Linsey accepted Ala Song's offer to help find Heart's Edge Adrian and remove the Thorn around the City of Law.
• Linsey and Ala Song sensed a powerful surge of source essence from Quiet River and realized Seventh Stage Awakened were fighting there.

Linsey reached the battle above Quiet River, where the merchant Bohrwa was overpowering Alvitte and an old Righteous Walker while using civilians as leverage. After slipping past the Law Knights who tried to stop him, Linsey summoned Ice Wolf Theater and prepared to intervene.

• Angered by the fighting near the refugees’ new shelter, Linsey disguised himself with the Black Cloud Mask and rushed toward the battle with Ala Song.
• Ala Song identified the Seventh Stage Awakened as Bohrwa, a merchant from Platinum City, and Linsey guessed Bohrwa intended to seize the leaderless City of Law.
• Linsey recognized that Alvitte and the old Righteous Walker were being suppressed by Bohrwa’s Double Serpent Coins, which he used to threaten civilians.
• Fifth Stage Law Knights tried to stop Linsey, but he dodged past them too quickly for them to catch him.
• Linsey activated the Mind Image Extreme Domain, Ice Wolf Theater, and called on the weary people around him to follow him into a new heaven and earth.

Linsey used his Ice Wolf Theater domain to separate the Awakened combatants from the civilians and confronted the Platinum City merchant. After resisting the merchant’s attempts to bewitch him, Linsey launched a second, stronger arrow that caught the merchant off guard.

• Linsey pulled the fighting Awakened into his Ice Wolf Theater domain, leaving the civilians and Law Knights outside.
• Alvitte recognized Linsey and warned him to be careful as he faced the merchant, while the elderly man learned that Linsey was her companion.
• Linsey resisted the merchant’s temptation and used an arrow to test his defenses.
• The merchant judged Linsey’s strength and offered to work together, but Linsey fired a faster, blazing arrow that struck before the merchant could react.

Linsey destroyed the Ice Wolf Theater with a Sun Shard arrow and nearly killed the Seventh Stage merchant, who survived only by spending his resurrection coins. The Suffering Walker stopped the Law Knights from arresting Linsey, and Linsey’s nuclear fission quest was completed.

• Linsey fired a Sun Shard arrow at the merchant, destroying the Ice Wolf Theater and ejecting himself, Alvitte, and the elderly Righteous Walker into the sky above Quiet River.
• The merchant survived the blast through resurrection coins but fell to the ground gravely injured, where Law Knights caught him.
• The Law Knights tried to restrain Linsey as a sinner, but the Suffering Walker intervened and questioned what crime Linsey was wanted for.
• The Law Knights found no official record of Linsey’s crime, and the Suffering Walker argued that they needed Linsey’s help to protect the refugees.
• Linsey landed without fleeing and saw that his “Brilliant Radiation” quest had been completed.

After defeating the Seventh Stage merchant, Linsey discovered that his Online Game skill could loot the merchant for valuable rewards and found a way to craft a Source Material Circulation System. Linsey planned to seek Heart's Edge while Alvitte stayed behind to help rebuild the city.

• Linsey used Loot Treasure Chest on the merchant and gained rare equipment and 2,000 Merchant Gold Coins.
• Linsey found that a Source Material Circuit and Source Material Crystal could be combined into a Source Material Circulation System.
• Linsey gave Alvitte a seed of the Online Game module, but she could not open treasure chests because she had not taken part in the battle.
• Linsey told Alvitte he planned to find Heart's Edge, lift the seal on the city beyond, and expose the Abyss School's Awakened.
• Alvitte chose to stay and support the people rebuilding their home, while Linsey continued his search despite the Sinner's Mark.