Chapter Summaries

Linsey and Han Si Ke reached the City of Law, where Seventh Stage Awakened gathered to watch the battle between Lord Adrian and an Eighth Stage deity. As the surrounding Awakened began forming rival factions, Linsey asked Bai to seek records about the tomb of the Godslaying Skill through the Messenger Hall.

• Han Si Ke brought Linsey to meet his friends Ming Ge and Lai Yi Na De, two Law Knights watching the battle.
• Ming Ge and Lai Yi Na De grew wary when Han Si Ke explained that the wizard Ke Saiwei Lait had come to provide support, and Han Si Ke insisted the wizard would not interfere in the City of Law’s internal affairs.
• Linsey asked Bai whether the Wilderness Council or Messenger Hall could help locate information about the tomb of the Godslaying Skill, and Bai agreed to ask the Messenger Hall.
• Linsey gave Bai a Friend Request so they could stay in contact, and Bai promised to keep his ability secret.
• The gathered Awakened began forming groups supporting the deity, supporting the Righteous Walkers, or remaining on the sidelines.

Linsey watched the Law Knights try to protect the bewitched crowd from the deity’s believers as the battle between Heart's Edge Adrian and the deity reached its decisive moment. Adrian struck at the deity, who unleashed the fire of faith and declared that the people’s united hearts would not be defeated.

• Linsey told Bai Lin that he would stay focused on Heart's Edge Adrian rather than seek escape.
• Ordinary people bewitched by the deity’s memories arrived at the battlefield, and the Law Knights began forming a barrier to keep them out.
• The deity’s Seventh Stage believers attacked the Law Knights to open a breach in their defensive line.
• The deity’s distraction let Heart's Edge Adrian close in and hold his steel sword above the deity’s head.
• Cornered by Adrian, the deity released the fire of faith and cried that the people’s united hearts would not be defeated.

Linsey witnessed the Righteous Walker and a deity clash while their battle devastated the Yellowstone Wilderness. Realizing the Mythic Arrow might stop the deity and protect the remaining people, Linsey slipped away from the battlefield with the arrow.

• The deity and the Righteous Walker argued over oppression, justice, and the people's will before their attacks collided.
• White told Linsey through the Friend Channel that both Eighth Stage Awakened were still alive after the clash.
• The shockwaves broke the Law Knights' barrier, swept people away, and collapsed the deity's domain, returning the land to the Yellowstone Wilderness.
• As further clashes carved the plains into a basin, Linsey decided the battle had to end and chose to use his Mythic Arrow against the deity.
• Linsey vanished from the battlefield while the Seventh Stage Awakened resumed fighting.

Linsey and Han Si Ke fought their way through the shockwaves to launch a Mythic Arrow toward the deity, then escaped as the battle reached its climax. A roar and a burst of crimson-white flames followed, before a Sword Light ended the clash between the Eighth Stage Awakened.

• Linsey flew toward the battlefield but struggled against the shockwaves until Han Si Ke caught up and shielded him with his domain.
• Linsey used a potion to strengthen Han Si Ke, who cleared a path through the impacts as they advanced toward the battle’s center.
• With the battlefield obscured, Linsey entered Concentration Mode and fired the Mythic Arrow into the Chaos Abyss.
• Linsey grabbed the exhausted Han Si Ke and fled toward the ground, declaring their mission over.
• A deity roared from the arrow’s destination, crimson-white flames engulfed the world, and a Sword Light brought the battle to an end.

After surviving the battle between Adrian and an unknown deity, Linsey claimed a rare Transformation Stone and crafted the Morphing Sword. He also gained the FPS Module’s Headshot skill and discovered that the sword could transform Source Material into a wide range of attributes.

• Linsey burrowed deeper underground with Han Si Ke as the battle’s final blast shook the earth.
• Adrian contained the aftershock and repaired the surrounding land, but the deity vanished without a trace.
• A Challenge Treasure Chest appeared before Linsey, and he opened it to find a Transformation Stone.
• Linsey crafted the Morphing Sword and received the Headshot skill when his FPS Module advanced to Level 3.
• Linsey tested the Morphing Sword and found that it could reproduce basic and specialized Source Material attributes, including Deathly Stillness and Slaughter.

After helping Adrian subjugate an evil god, Linsey was lifted from underground and cleared of his Sinner’s Mark. Adrian recognized Linsey’s unusual connection to the City of Law across timelines and revealed that he knew of Linsey’s legendary deeds.

• Linsey checked on Han Si Ke, who said he was only exhausted after clearing a path.
• Adrian opened a fissure in the earth and brought Linsey, Han Si Ke, and the parrot back to the surface.
• The parrot explained to Adrian that it had been accompanying its master on a delivery when trouble arose in the Yellowstone Wilderness.
• Adrian recognized Han Si Ke as a Law Knight and praised his advancement to the Seventh Stage.
• Adrian detected Linsey’s Sinner’s Mark, declared his merits enough to offset his sins, and returned the Mythic Arrow to him.
• Adrian sensed that Linsey had crossed timelines and recognized him as the Linsey who aided Bena and guided the King of the Blazing Sun.

Adrian recognized the Human Wisdom Codex within Linsey and promised to find a way to protect both him and the artifact. After Linsey told him that Yanafeien had sealed the Royal City with the Thorned Necklace, Adrian rushed to return, but an Eighth Stage Awakened ambushed him and the battle ended with both fighters disappearing.

• Adrian sent the little parrot and Han Si Ke away so he could speak privately with Linsey.
• Adrian discovered that Linsey carried the Human Wisdom Codex, and Linsey explained how he had obtained it and returned from exile.
• Adrian promised not to forcibly remove the codex and asked Linsey why he had come to the battlefield.
• Linsey recounted rescuing Yanafeien and explained that she had sealed the Royal City with the Thorned Necklace.
• Adrian hurled Linsey away to save him from an ambush by an Eighth Stage Awakened, sacrificing his left arm to block the attack.
• Linsey used Air Touch and found no trace of Adrian or the ambusher, then saw the Platinum Key—Law Hall in his arms.

Linsey received the Platinum Key from Adrian and learned that it could unlock the seal on the City of Law, even if Adrian did not return. He persuaded the Law Knights to return to the Royal City and help defend it, while Feini and Keer went to investigate the battlefield.

• Linsey learned that the Platinum Key could undo the City of Law's seal and put it away as he flew from the battlefield.
• Law Knights and Little Parrot caught Linsey, and he explained that another Eighth Stage Awakened had attacked Adrian before both of them vanished.
• The Law Knights noticed that Linsey's Sinner's Mark was gone and that Adrian's technique had sent him away.
• Linsey showed the Law Knights the Platinum Key and said he would return to the Royal City to help address its crisis.
• The Law Knights ordered Feini and Keer to investigate the battlefield while the others escorted the captives back to the City of Law and protected its residents.

Linsey returned to the City of Law with elite Law Knights and found the Royal City still enclosed by the Thorned Necklace. He met Alvitte at the Refugee Camp and began preparing to break the seal while protecting the refugees and confronting the Abyss School enemies inside.

• Linsey reflected on the Law Knights' obedience, spoke with Alvitte about her past as a Righteous Walker, and declined to pull Ala Song into the City of Law's political crisis.
• Eris told Linsey that Starhorn City hoped he would visit, and Linsey promised to come after the crisis was resolved.
• Linsey and the Law Knights reached the City of Law, reassured the knights about the Thorned Necklace, and headed to the Refugee Camp to unite available forces before lifting the seal.
• Linsey saw refugees praising Alvitte's efforts and noticed the Law Knights' complicated reaction to their complaints about the kingdom.
• Alvitte greeted Linsey, learned Adrian could not come because he was fighting an opponent of the same stage, and saw that Adrian had given Linsey the Platinum Key.
• Linsey told Alvitte to secure the refugees' safety before they broke the seal and dealt with the Abyss School enemies in the city.

Linsey watched Alvitte evacuate the Refugee Camp with remarkable speed and learned from Eris about Walker Luo Rui’s human supremacism. After Heller recognized the Platinum Key as Heart’s Edge’s token, Linsey gathered the Awakened at the City of Law’s eastern gate and prepared to lift the seal for battle.

• Alvitte used the Law Knights to evacuate more than ten thousand refugees in an orderly retreat, and Linsey saw how strongly they trusted her.
• Eris told Linsey that Walker Luo Rui cared for his people but despised nonhuman species, prompting Linsey to conclude that the White Steel Sword recognized all intelligent species as people.
• Heller arrived with organized warriors, learned that Linsey’s Sinner’s Mark had vanished, and recognized the Platinum Key entrusted to Linsey by Lord Adrian of Heart’s Edge.
• Alvitte finished moving the refugees behind safe rocky cover and joined Linsey and the Awakened beneath the City of Law’s eastern gate.
• Linsey warned that their enemies came from an ancient Abyss School with power that could counter the law, then prepared to lift the seal and ordered everyone to draw their swords.

Linsey broke the Thorn seal around the City of Law and led Alvitte and Heller’s Law Knights to Black Street, where the Abyss School Awakened awaited them. Their techniques countered the knights’ Law Gold Light, but Alvitte and Linsey struck back as the battle began.

• Linsey used the Platinum Key to shatter the Thorn binding and free the City of Law.
• Linsey led Alvitte and Heller’s Law Knights through the city to Black Street, warning them to watch for ambushes.
• An Abyss School girl taunted Linsey, who claimed he had defeated the Extinction Crown and another Abyss School Awakened.
• The Abyss School Awakened attacked with black mist that corroded the Law Knights’ Law Gold Light.
• Linsey adjusted his technique to counter the enemy, while Alvitte charged and scattered the mist with her Hedonist sword energy.
• The Law Knights surged into battle against the Abyss School Awakened.

Alvitte led the Law Knights into the Black Mist on Black Street, where the Hedonist’s power suppressed their law skills and threatened to overwhelm them. Alvitte exposed the mist as the source of the suppression and pushed it back, but the Hedonist remained a dangerous Seventh Stage opponent.

• Linsey used his Map Skill to survey Black Street and identified the believers’ stronghold while Alvitte led the Law Knights into the Black Mist.
• The Black Mist suppressed the Law Knights’ weapons and skills, slowing their advance as Alvitte kept the formation moving.
• The Hedonist attacked Alvitte with a black lash and waves of mist, but Alvitte dodged and recognized that the mist—not the enemy’s own skills—was suppressing law.
• Alvitte drove her sword into the ground and used her skill to push back the Black Mist, defeating weaker Abyss School Awakened caught within it.
• The Hedonist unleashed a mind-bewitching skill, but the Law Knights lent Alvitte their power and raised their radiance to shield her.

At the entrance to Black Street, Alvitte and Heller fought the Abyss School’s Hedonists while Linsey and Han Si Ke headed into the Black Mist to rescue survivors. Alvitte pressed her opponent with a new combination of powers and rejected the Hedonist’s attempt to sway her.

• A colorful-robed Awakened from the Abyss School attacked Alvitte with a corrosive skill, but Heller blocked it with a golden barrier.
• Heller charged the enemy, whose green gemstone devoured his power and strengthened its wielder, forcing him to dodge.
• Alvitte told the Law Knights to hold their position and charged into the Black Mist to fight the Hedonist herself, hoping to advance to the Seventh Stage.
• Linsey put away his bow and went with Han Si Ke into the Black Mist to rescue living people who might help them.
• Alvitte’s spiraling white-and-gold Platinum Slash wounded the Hedonist, and she resisted the enemy’s bewitching command before striking again.

Linsey and Han Si Ke reached the believers’ base in Black Street just as the Arrogant was about to destroy its defenses. Linsey’s attack saved the trapped defenders, and he and Han Si Ke fought the Arrogant as the chapter ended with Linsey exposing his hidden position.

• Linsey and Han Si Ke traveled underground toward the believers’ base while discussing Ka Ji and the girl Han Si Ke had sent to train as a Defender.
• Prizm struggled to maintain the base’s faith-powered barrier as Liz treated the wounded and encouraged the terrified survivors.
• The Arrogant attacked the base with the Black Mist and shattered much of its defenses with a powerful strike.
• Linsey shot the Arrogant from underground, allowing Han Si Ke to charge in and engage him.
• Prizm urged the Law Knights to remain inside, while Liz recognized Linsey as the person foretold by Prizm’s Revelation.
• The Arrogant hid in the Black Mist and attacked Han Si Ke, but Linsey’s arrow exposed his position, and Linsey challenged him to ask the Formless Ones how he had been found.

Linsey and Han Si Ke fought Arrogant as Linsey repeatedly exposed him inside the Black Mist. With help from Prizm and the Law Knights, they weakened Arrogant’s attack and struck him with a Frost Poison Arrow, leaving Han Si Ke to deliver the final blow.

• Linsey used his arrows to reveal Arrogant’s location and burn away the Black Mist, while Han Si Ke attacked but could not break through Arrogant’s defenses.
• Arrogant vanished into the mist again and unleashed black blades, forcing Han Si Ke to shield Linsey as Linsey retreated to a nearby rooftop.
• Arrogant formed a massive Light Blade and crushed Linsey’s arrows, but Prizm led the Law Knights out of the Believer Base to attack him.
• Linsey fired three Frost Poison Arrows as Han Si Ke confronted the Light Blade, and the final arrow pierced Arrogant’s chest and slowed him.
• Han Si Ke raised his longsword and brought it down on Arrogant.

Linsey helped the Believer Base recover after killing the Arrogant, while Alvitte and Heller defeated their opponents elsewhere on Black Street. The Hedonist survived to be questioned, and the group prepared to regroup with Linsey.

• After the Black Mist began to disperse, Linsey returned to the Believer Base with Prizm and told Han Si Ke to get treatment.
• Linsey treated the wounded with healing potions, learned that at least thirty people had died, and reassured Prizm that the danger had passed.
• Alvitte defeated the Hedonist but spared her for questioning about the Abyss School.
• Heller crushed the Greedy One's skull, and Alvitte joined him after the Law Knights gained the upper hand over the Abyss School's Awakened.
• Alvitte and Heller decided to help clear the battlefield before heading to Linsey's side.

After the Law Knights helped secure Black Street, Linsey and Alvitte discovered signs of Corruption Poison and realized the Abyss School had a larger plan. A powerful Angry One summoned other Awakened and unleashed Black Mist across the City of Law, leaving Linsey and Alvitte preparing for another battle.

• Alvitte and Heller discussed why the Abyss School had seized the Royal City and suspected it had a larger goal.
• Linsey treated the wounded at the Believer Base, where Alvitte arrived with a captured Hedonist and reported their victory over the attackers.
• Linsey and Alvitte cleared the remaining Abyss School Awakened, restraining desperate civilians instead of killing them.
• Linsey found a corpse affected by Corruption Poison among the ruins, raising the possibility that the Abyss School was planning to revive the dead.
• An Angry One appeared on the inner ring wall, summoned other Awakened, and spread Black Mist across the City of Law.
• Linsey and Alvitte prepared to fight as the city faced a new attack.

As the Black Mist returned to the City of Law, Linsey and Alvitte sought help while planning to uncover the enemy's objective. Linsey identified a source-material wielder whose power spread despair and who was heading for the refugee camp beyond the city.

• Linsey looted enemy corpses and found Arrogance Poison and a Despiser's Ring, which Alvitte examined.
• Heller warned Linsey and Alvitte that the Black Mist had brought evil source materials into the city, and they agreed they had to target the enemy's key objective.
• Eris said the Seven Seas Alliance had activated teleportation arrays and offered outside assistance, so Heller escorted him to the Messenger Hall.
• Linsey contacted Ala Song, who agreed to report the crisis to the Seven Seas Alliance and seek support.
• Linsey used the Strategic Map to locate a despair-wielding enemy moving toward the refugee camp beyond the Quiet River ravine.

Alvitte left Black Street to stop the Awakened of the Abyss School from attacking people outside the city, while Linsey realized the Angry One was heading toward the Messenger Hall. Heller stayed behind to hold him off, and Eris hurried onward before invoking the Highest-Priority Clause with Bai.

• Alvitte ordered the Believer Base to protect Black Street, tend to the wounded, and question the captured Hedonist, then left with two Night-Shining Ramie Mushrooms from Linsey.
• Linsey realized the Angry One’s destruction was moving west toward the Messenger Hall, where Eris and Heller were headed.
• Heller chose to hold off the Angry One so Eris could reach the Messenger Hall, and Eris continued on alone.
• Eris reflected on his past as a detached observer and resented Starhorn City’s rules for withholding the Wilderness Council’s cross-world communication abilities.
• Eris asked the Little Parrot, Bai, to act under the Highest-Priority Clause in their contract.

Heller fought the Angry One through the ruined streets of the City of Law, struggling against his opponent’s growing strength and rapid healing. Just as the Angry One’s domain threatened to turn the battle against him, a sudden white attack halted the foe long enough for Heller to strike at his head.

• Heller confronted the Angry One and discovered that his sword could wound the giant, but the injuries healed almost immediately.
• The Angry One battered Heller through the city, and Heller realized that his age and the foe’s rising anger made a prolonged fight increasingly dangerous.
• After their battle lasted a quarter-hour, the Angry One pulled Heller into a domain of fire that eroded his will while restoring the Angry One’s combat awareness.
• Heller prepared to sacrifice himself in a final attack as the Angry One neared full sanity.
• A streak of white light pierced the domain and briefly halted the Angry One’s power and recovery.
• Heller seized the opening, attacked the Angry One’s head, and forced him down as the domain receded.