Chapter Summaries

After reaching the Sixth Stage, Linsey mastered his upgraded body and unlocked the RPG Module’s Peak Skill, Walkthrough Master, which let him predict the consequences of an action at a heavy Source Material cost. He searched the Law System’s records and, finding no trace of Anville Village, began looking for the legendary wizard’s tomb and its secret of slaying gods.

• Linsey used a sports skill to quickly master his enhanced body, then tested his rapid healing and Source Material Activation by healing a wound and making shoots grow from a dagger.
• Linsey chose the RPG Module for Peak Arena and evolved it into the Peak Skill Walkthrough Master, which could predict an action’s consequences and initiate Story Performance.
• Linsey tested the skill and found that one prediction consumed about one-third of his Life Source Material.
• Linsey searched the Law System’s records, confirmed that Anville Village was absent, and realized he might use the records to locate the legendary wizard’s tomb.

Linsey used Law System deployment records to deduce that an ancient wizard’s tomb was likely near a lake in the south, then went to the Royal City library to investigate. He checked on his allies and learned that Yanafeien had stabilized, leaving him to search the library on his own.

• Linsey found that three Law Knights had converged around a lake in the south, which he suspected was the site of the wizard’s tomb.
• Linsey used the Guide to predict that Yanafeien could help him find information, and he obtained the needed records with her help over two days.
• Linsey checked in with Alvitte, Bai, and Ala Song, learning that Alvitte had defeated her enemy, Bai’s group had reached its destination, and the Seven Seas Alliance had offered aid.
• Linsey arrived at the Royal City library and learned from Meili that Lord Adrian’s token allowed him to enter.
• Linsey told Meili to let Yanafeien rest and entered the library to search on his own.

Linsey searched the City of Law library for records about lakes in the south and discovered that a dormant Mechanical Servant was hidden in an ancient stone cave there. He continued searching alone, finding a record of Kang Song vowing to oppose the deities.

• Linsey found the library’s disorganized collections made searching them one book at a time a massive undertaking, so he began with the seventh archive room.
• Linsey discovered records about a Mechanical Species that had left the Great Rift World, then used his guide to learn that its final Mechanical Servant lay dormant in an ancient stone cave in the south.
• Yanafeien offered to help Linsey search the library, but he encouraged her to rest after using the Thorned Necklace.
• Linsey finished checking the seventh archive room and found a speech in the eighth room where Kang Song vowed to sweep the deities into history’s garbage heap.

Linsey searched the Eighth Archive Room for information about the gods and the tomb, uncovering a record about the Ninth Stage and a lake hiding unexplored caverns. Ala Song then messaged him that a girl had come specifically to see him.

• Linsey read records about Kang Song, the Feathered Serpent God, and the Atmosphere Spirit, and wondered whether Clear Sky was still recovering.
• Linsey learned that some gods had discovered humanity might offer a path to the Ninth Stage, but records of that breakthrough had vanished after the gods' war.
• Linsey found an atlas entry describing Lake Anindaluhut and its unexplored underwater caverns, and suspected a taboo might be concealing the tomb's location.
• Ala Song messaged Linsey that a girl had arrived asking to see him and urged him to come deal with her.

Linsey reunited with Ailini in the City of Law after the city began recovering from the Abyss School’s attack. Ailini explained that she had come both to pursue business opportunities and to help the people there.

• Linsey learned from Ala Song that Yao Xing and an unnamed old acquaintance wanted to see him, then left the library to meet them.
• Linsey jumped from the mountain peak into the city and saw that the Law Knights had rebuilt streets and homes while most refugees had returned.
• Linsey arrived at the Node Hall and recognized Ailini, who had become a powerful merchant, alongside Ala Song and Yao Xing.
• Linsey and Ailini walked near the third city wall and recalled their travels in the Courtyard in the Forest.
• Ailini told Linsey that she had come to the City of Law for business opportunities and to help its people.

Linsey reunited with Ailini in the City of Law and learned she planned to build her merchant capital there while helping people affected by the war. After Yao Xing joined him, Linsey sought help from his powerful connections and asked Bai to contact Red in the City of War.

• Linsey recognized that Ailini had reached the Seventh Stage, and she explained that she was accumulating capital in the City of Law while aiding people in need.
• Ailini said she could use Linsey's local connections to gain an advantage over other merchants arriving soon, and Linsey offered to help.
• Linsey returned to the Node Hall, where Yao Xing said she wanted to stay and help him while Wala Wala remained asleep inside the painting.
• Yao Xing and Ailini had to stay at a reception center while the Law System processed their visitor information.
• Linsey contacted Bai and asked it to deliver a message to Red in the City of War.
• Bai confirmed Red was an Eighth Stage Awakened under the War King's strict supervision and said contacting her would take time.

Linsey discovered Nolan's ancient travelogue in the City of Law library and learned how the Abyss School rose to power after the Day of Collapse. The chapter ended with Ailini telling him that a Platinum City business delegation had arrived, prompting Linsey to go meet his friends.

• Linsey found Nolan's travelogue and read its account of the universe before and after the Day of Collapse.
• Linsey learned that Bena had broken away from the Seven Stars Federation to found the City of Law, while messengers and explorers emerged to reconnect the worlds.
• Linsey discovered that the Abyss School had developed in the shattered central worlds and planned to reshape every world to suit itself.
• Linsey concluded that the War King might have recognized the Extinction Crown and sent Red for training to check whether the ancient threat was returning.
• Ailini told Linsey that the Platinum City had sent a business delegation after hearing that the City of Law planned to open up, and Linsey went to speak with his friends.

Linsey sought Yanafeien’s help connecting his merchant friend Ailini with the City of Law, and learned why the princess had entrusted him with the Thorned Necklace. Before he could approach Alvitte about Ailini, she reported that corpses were reviving at the cemetery, and Linsey hurried to investigate.

• Linsey contacted Yanafeien, who agreed to meet Ailini if she proved to be a merchant seeking to help the world and its people.
• Yanafeien explained that she gave Linsey the Thorned Necklace because she trusted him to use the royal artifact and protect it from those who might covet it.
• Linsey considered asking Alvitte to help Ailini establish trade connections because of Alvitte’s reputation among the refugees.
• Alvitte contacted Linsey about living corpses and Mutated Ones reviving in the City of Law despite efforts to suppress Corruption Poison.
• Alvitte told Linsey that others opposed her proposal to cremate the dead, and she asked him to use his Player Skill to confirm her suspicions.

Linsey rushed to the City of Law’s public graveyard, where Alvitte argued that even corpses treated with Night-Shining Ramie Mushrooms could revive and should be cremated. As the Law Knights and mourners resisted her warnings, Linsey arrived and saw Liz approaching with a group of monks.

• Linsey hurried from the City of Law toward the public graveyard, thinking about how the Abyss School had overcome the city’s protections against corpse resurrection.
• Linsey used his map and Air Touch to locate Alvitte, who warned the graveyard’s visitors that treated corpses still had a high chance of reviving.
• A mourner pleaded with Alvitte to find another solution rather than cremate his child, while the Law Knights insisted the city’s laws and patrols would keep everyone safe.
• Alvitte argued that the living corpse phenomenon had already returned and that cremation was the best solution, despite her earlier claims about the mushrooms.
• Alvitte noticed Linsey and then looked toward approaching monks, among whom Linsey recognized Liz.

Linsey joined Alvitte at the cemetery, where she argued that the City of Law’s corpses should be destroyed to prevent their revival. After Linsey helped investigate, he and Alvitte discovered that a hidden Calamity of Sloth was corrupting slothful people.

• Alvitte told the School of Death’s scholars and the Law Knights that every corpse in the City of Law should be harmlessly disposed of unless their revival could be stopped.
• Liz mediated between Alvitte and the Law Knights, proposing that they protect the living while searching for the source of the revivals.
• Alvitte explained that she had investigated the phenomenon but could not locate its deeply hidden source.
• Linsey arrived, reassured the tense crowd, and used his Scouting Skill alongside Alvitte to examine the cemetery.
• Linsey and Alvitte identified the Calamity of Sloth as conceptual darkness corrupting slothful people.

Linsey used his skills to locate the Abyss School members and uncover their real objective. He and Alvitte persuaded the Law Knights to act against the threat, and the knights took Linsey’s photographs to begin the search.

• Alvitte used Linsey’s Unveiling the Mystery skill and discovered that the Abyss School had deeply researched the world’s rules.
• Linsey used Information Combination to see the Melancholy One speaking with an Awakened man who embodied Sloth in a range of hills.
• Linsey used Unveiling the Mystery to learn that the Abyss School planned to distract the world with an attack on the Royal City while concealing a secret elsewhere.
• Linsey told Alvitte that the enemies were near the Royal City and drew and photographed the hills where he had seen them.
• Alvitte reminded the Law Knights that their fallen companions could become undead, and the knights accepted Linsey’s photographs to help find the enemies.

Linsey and Liz learned that Prizm’s Revelation about a brewing crisis of faith might point to a sealed Ancient Graveyard managed by the School of Death. Linsey suspected it could be connected to the Abyss War and declared that, as a member of the School of Death, he would help investigate.

• Alvitte took the photograph to East City to use her reputation to help locate the enemy.
• Liz told Linsey that Prizm’s Revelation warned of a crisis involving the Power of Faith, but the School of Death could not identify its specifics.
• A School of Death Awakened revealed that an ancient ruin called the Ancient Graveyard was sealed away and managed by their academy.
• The Awakened said the graveyard dated to the era of the second or third kings, and Linsey wondered whether it was connected to the Abyss War.
• Linsey offered to help Liz investigate, and he told the School of Death that he had joined under Red Moon’s care and would not stand aside.

Linsey learned that the School of Death revered his godmother, Red Moon, and believed she might have survived death and advanced to the Sixth Stage. He gained the Awakened’s trust and learned that the Ancient Graveyard lay at Quiet River, though entering it required both School of Death and Law System authorization.

• Linsey told the School of Death Awakened that Red Moon had adopted him as her godson in a border town at the End of the Universe.
• The Awakened explained that Red Moon was a respected elder who had left the bustling world to care for a graveyard, and they wondered whether she had reached the Sixth Stage.
• Linsey realized Red Moon might have turned death into life and advanced, lifting his spirits.
• Linsey persuaded the Awakened to explain that the Ancient Graveyard was a Subsidiary Concept requiring School of Death and Law System authorization to enter.
• The Awakened told Linsey that the Ancient Graveyard was outside the city at Quiet River.

Linsey used the Law Seal to open a passage from the Quiet River into the Ancient Graveyard, a crimson Small World centered on a towering mountain. As Linsey prepared to investigate a mutation of faith with Liz, Bai Lin warned him that the graveyard was unsafe and said he was coming.

• Linsey used the Law Seal to activate the L-shaped rock and entered the Ancient Graveyard through the passage in the Quiet River.
• Linsey recognized that the graveyard was a small world dominated by a mountain at least ten thousand meters tall and found he could reopen the passage for others.
• Linsey opened the passage, allowing Liz and some School of Death Awakened to enter the graveyard.
• Linsey told the School of Death to alert the city while he investigated the small world with Liz.
• Bai Lin messaged Linsey, warned that the Ancient Graveyard was unsafe, and said he would arrive soon.

Linsey, Liz, and White traveled into the War Graveyard, where White revealed the history of an Awakened rebel who exposed the Divine Court’s secrets and died there. The group learned that Revelation had warned of a faith-related mutation in the graveyard, and White suggested the rebel’s faith might be connected.

• Linsey brought White along to the War Graveyard and told the School of Death Awakened to guard the entrance and flee if danger arose.
• White explained that skill branches had once been guarded secrets and that an Awakened rebel had revealed them to oppose the Divine Court’s monopoly and rule.
• White recounted how the Divine Court pursued the rebel across worlds until she ended her own life on the mountain, creating the War Graveyard with rampaging laws.
• White said the War Graveyard later became part of the City of Law after the Divine Court and Seven Stars Federation collapsed following the Abyss War.
• Liz told White that Revelation had warned of a faith-related mutation at the War Graveyard, and White connected the warning to the rebel’s faith.

Linsey led Liz and the Little Parrot through Lone Mountain’s War Graveyard, using his scouting abilities to avoid danger and uncover visions of the Awakened who betrayed the Divine Court. They reached the Crimson Storm at the summit, where a figure stood amid the chaos and a tablet honored Madam Muli Danny.

• Linsey guided Liz and the Little Parrot up Lone Mountain’s southern slope after confirming their mission concerned a hidden danger left by an Awakened who betrayed the Divine Court.
• Linsey used his Scouting Skill to steer them around dangerous areas and saw visions of an exhausted Organizer reaching the mountaintop, followed by a girl whose defiance of the Divine Court brought thirteen warriors after her.
• Linsey’s vision ended when violent source essence tore it apart, and the group safely reached the summit.
• Bai identified the figure in the Crimson Storm as the sage known as the Fire Thief, who had revealed the secret of dividing crafts.
• Linsey stopped at the edge of the crater, where the Law of Chaos overwhelmed the Righteous Walker and the Organizer’s power, and read a tablet honoring Madam Muli Danny.

Linsey used his Walkthrough Master skill to learn that the Fire Thief’s lingering will would respond peacefully to someone bearing an identity opposed to the Divine Court, so he equipped the Peace Seven Stars Medal and approached the Crimson Storm alone. The storm quieted near him, but its will recognized the Seven Stars Federation and another voice called him humanity’s enemy.

• Linsey learned that contacting the Fire Thief’s lingering will without a friendly identity could get him killed or expelled from the War Graveyard.
• Linsey equipped the Peace Seven Stars Medal to present himself as a Friend of the Seven Stars Federation.
• Linsey sent White to protect Liz while he approached the Crimson Storm alone.
• Linsey endured the storm’s powerful winds as he neared its center and heard the Fire Thief’s angry will.
• The storm fell still, and two voices reacted to Linsey, one recognizing the Seven Stars Federation and the other demanding that he be killed as humanity’s enemy.

Linsey encountered an ancient woman and an Evil God within the Crimson Storm, then explained why he had entered the War Graveyard and described events in the City of Law. The Evil God questioned his motives and claimed it might not be the same kind of Evil God Linsey knew from the Dust Road World.

• Linsey recognized the hostile voice as belonging to the Eighth Stage deity he had encountered on the Plain Battlefield, but noticed the figure before him showed goodwill rather than hostility.
• The woman asked Linsey for his name, purpose, and an account of the situation outside, and Linsey explained that he had entered the War Graveyard to protect lives.
• Liz worried about Linsey at the edge of the storm, while Bai tried to reassure her despite its own concern.
• After listening to Linsey's account, the Evil God asked why he would help the Righteous Walkers and Law Knights, and Linsey refused to debate the Evil Gods' actions in the Dust Road World.
• The Evil God said it had remained in the City of Law and might not be the same kind of Evil God Linsey meant.

Linsey learned that the god in the Crimson Storm was once an Awakened who had been transformed through a scheme involving the Old Gods, and a new quest directed him to find and kill the mastermind. He also discovered that the War Graveyard held preparations that could help the City of Law, but the storm had to be suppressed first, and he considered whether an item in his pack could do it.

• Linsey checked the favorability of Muli Danny and God's Shadow, then recounted his experiences in the Dust Road World and the Barren Land World.
• God's Shadow explained that he had become a god through Willpower Source Material and suspected that a mastermind had trapped him.
• Linsey received the quest God's Etching, which tasked him with finding and killing the mastermind behind the creation of new Divine Offspring.
• God's Shadow agreed that protecting ordinary people in the City of Law mattered, while Linsey declined to get involved in his conflict with the Righteous Walkers and Law Knights.
• Muli Danny explained that the War Graveyard could activate contingency preparations to aid the City of Law, but only after the storm was suppressed.
• Linsey recalled an item in his pack and wondered whether it could change the situation.

Linsey planted the Eternal Night Iris and used its power to turn the War Graveyard into Polar Night, shaking its World Law and causing the sealed realm to appear in the Quiet River outside the City of Law. The mountain’s sudden arrival drew the attention of refugees and people across the city.

• Linsey dismissed Muli Danny’s warnings and planted the Eternal Night Iris with her consent.
• The Iris bloomed, and its power dyed the War Graveyard’s crimson sky dark, forcing the small world into Polar Night and shaking the World Law.
• Liz and the Little Parrot witnessed the sky change, while the Nun sensed something wrong around them.
• A mountain appeared in the Quiet River, revealing the War Graveyard to refugees, who rushed to alert Miss Alvitte and the city.
• Righteous Walkers, Law Knights, merchants, messengers, artists, and Awakened in the City of Law noticed the mountain and anticipated a major opportunity.