Chapter Summaries

Linsey headed underground to destroy the Spatial Base Point while Mr. Al and Rota emerged to protect the people and support the Elemental Spirit’s allies. As the battle above the lake spread Corruption Power, Linsey encountered rapidly transforming flesh blocking his way.

• Linsey confirmed that the Eternal Imprint let him pass through the reinforced earth and learned how to destroy the Spatial Base Point.
• Mr. Al went with Rota to help save people by the lake while Linsey dove into the fractured earth.
• The wounded Elemental Spirit fought the Abyss School Awakened, but its waves became blood rain as Corruption Power spread across the world.
• Mr. Al set out to protect ordinary people with a Law Barrier, while Rota found Ke Saiwei Lait and the youth Ju and offered support.
• Linsey traveled underground until the soil around him transformed into writhing flesh and surrounded him.

Linsey used the Thirsting Leaf Lotus to cross the corrupted underground flesh and reach a hidden stone chamber, despite drawing the attention of an Eighth Stage Awakened. As he entered the Wizard's Tomb, he encountered Nolan, a ranger from his past timeline who recognized him.

• Linsey recognized the corruption caused by the Eighth Stage battle and activated Walkthrough Master to assess his escape options.
• Linsey planted a Thirsting Leaf Lotus seed, using Resource Conversion to make it grow rapidly and open a path through the corrupted flesh.
• Linsey sprinted toward a stone chamber as the Awakened above noticed the plant and cast a death curse that the Seven Seas Alliance's blessing helped him resist.
• Linsey reached the chamber, grabbed the half-faced metal round shield, and prepared to enter the Wizard's Tomb.
• Nolan appeared and called Linsey by name as Linsey was pulled into the spatial transition.

Linsey discovered that Nolan had been hidden inside the Wizard’s Tomb, where time did not match the outside world, and learned that Nolan wanted him to destroy the place. After finding a Life Fruit, Linsey synthesized the Resurrection Sword and then forged the Seven-Colored Radiance Sword, leaving him weakened but holding a powerful new weapon.

• Linsey realized Nolan had been trapped in the Wizard’s Tomb and received Nolan’s message asking him to destroy it.
• Linsey found that the tomb’s time differed from the outside and saw that it contained only a coffin and a bamboo stool.
• Linsey recognized the Life Fruit as the ingredient needed to make the Resurrection Sword.
• Linsey spent two-thirds of his Life Source Material to synthesize the Resurrection Sword and then the Seven-Colored Radiance Sword.
• Linsey inspected the Seven-Colored Radiance Sword and learned it had numerous abilities, including transformation, invisibility, and damage that restored his injuries.

Linsey wielded the Seven-Colored Radiance Sword and discovered its immense power, then tried to upgrade it using the Hallucination Orb but lacked enough Source Material. As he considered seeking an opportunity in the battle outside the cemetery, a voice greeted him from the wizard’s coffin.

• Linsey tested the Seven-Colored Radiance Sword and realized its effects could combine, greatly amplifying his attacks.
• Linsey used the Hallucination Orb from Fimbul Theater to attempt synthesizing the Rainbow Light Hallucination Dream Blade.
• Linsey discovered that he lacked the Source Material required to craft the upgraded weapon and consulted his guide for alternatives.
• Linsey considered joining the battle outside the cemetery, performed the School of Death’s ritual, and opened the wizard’s coffin.
• An aged, gentle voice from inside the coffin greeted Linsey.

Linsey received the God-Slaying Skill, Eternal Return, from the dead wizard’s illusion and returned to City of Law. He arrived in time to join Nolan’s battle against the Abyss School’s fighter, but their clash overwhelmed the world and knocked everyone unconscious.

• Linsey confirmed that the old wizard in the coffin was a lingering soul echo, not a living person.
• The wizard learned that the Awakened of the Abyss School had returned and warned Linsey to stay safe and keep the God-Slaying Skill secret.
• The wizard transferred Eternal Return to Linsey as a seed of power before his illusion faded away.
• Linsey left the graveyard and found that the battle outside had transformed the surrounding land into a floating island.
• Linsey saw Nolan fighting a malicious enemy, equipped his weapons, and fired an arrow as their powers collided.
• The battle between the Eighth Stage powerhouses shattered the stability of space, and Linsey and everyone else lost consciousness.

After the End Law left Linsey helpless and nearly dead, a tiny trace of Source Material from Vivian’s Warm Stone Necklace let him open his inventory and release Wala Wala. Wala Wala awakened beside him as Linsey’s remaining vitality began to collapse.

• Linsey recalled that the End Law had exhausted his Life Source Material, while his remaining Willpower Source Material barely kept him alive.
• Linsey realized the scroll containing Wala Wala was changing in his inventory, but he could not move or open it.
• Rain activated Vivian’s Warm Stone Necklace and supplied Linsey with a tiny amount of Source Material.
• Linsey used that trace of power to open his inventory and release the scroll containing Wala Wala.
• Wala Wala awakened and greeted Linsey as his Source Material balance began collapsing.

Linsey reunited with Wala Wala on a broken ship plank in the Sea of Wandering, where they resolved to find a way back to their world. Wala Wala had survived and escaped fate’s shackles, but her true strength remained uncertain.

• Linsey and Wala Wala embraced as his Life Source Material and life force began to recover.
• Wala Wala recognized the lifeless ocean as the Sea of Wandering, and Linsey vowed they would escape and return home.
• Linsey recalled Alvitte’s legend about the Dust Road World and connected it to how he may have reached the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey and Wala Wala remembered Mr. Seth’s poem about crossing the Sea of Wandering and realized it had foretold their situation.
• Wala Wala told Linsey she felt wonderful after escaping fate’s shackles, then said she appeared to be at the Seventh Stage but her true strength was hard to judge.

Wala Wala explained the Distant Shore Stars path and the unusual power she had awakened, while Linsey learned how its attacks could bypass the Source Material System. Linsey then spent nearly all his experience mastering Eternal Return, whose final description revealed its power to return all things to primordial chaos.

• Linsey sensed a new presence in Wala Wala's Source Material and identified it as Distant Shore · Star.
• Wala Wala explained that Distant Shore Stars required Awakened to abandon their Source Material at the Fifth Stage and complete a human trial before ascending.
• Wala Wala described her Whisper of Stars and her future Boundless World ability, then revealed that her power could operate beyond the Source Material System.
• Linsey used his stored experience to raise Eternal Return from Beginner to Instinct, nearly exhausting his reserves.
• Eternal Return's final description identified it as Origin Power that guided all things toward primordial chaos.

Linsey reunited with Wala Wala and shared the journey that had brought him to her, but his quest panel revealed that the entire world had fallen into the Sea of Wandering. He and Wala Wala began preparing to fish for anything that could help them escape.

• Linsey told Wala Wala about his journey, and she comforted him by promising they would face whatever came next together.
• Linsey discovered a new quest, Conquer Death, whose description said the entire world had fallen into the Endlands.
• Linsey explained that the City of Law might have fallen into the Sea of Wandering, and Wala Wala reacted with alarm at the consequences.
• Linsey gave Wala Wala the Module Seed of Hunting Simulation and a Flower Fishing Rod so they could try fishing in the Sea of Wandering.

Linsey and Wala Wala fished in the Sea of Wandering, where their rods initially brought up only rocks. After Linsey caught a treasure chest containing a Tide Stone, he found he had the final material needed to synthesize the Ecosystem Radar.

• Wala Wala and Linsey fished from their raft, but repeatedly caught identical rocks.
• Linsey replaced his ordinary fishing rod with the transforming Seven-Colored Radiance Sword, which turned into a fishing rod and still caught a rock.
• Wala Wala wondered whether a Fish King in the Sea of Wandering could be Soroya, the Abyssal Evil Beast they had fought before.
• Linsey caught and opened a gray wooden treasure chest containing seaweed and a Tide Stone.
• Linsey checked his synthesis formula and realized the Tide Stone completed the recipe for the Ecosystem Radar.

Linsey and Wala Wala combined their Life Source Material to synthesize the powerful Ecosystem Radar, which pointed Linsey toward their next destination in the Sea of Wandering. They prepared to transform their broken plank into something suitable for the journey.

• Linsey stopped synthesizing the Ecosystem Radar when he realized the process might consume enough Life Source Material to kill him, so Wala Wala shared hers with him.
• Linsey used the Sky Compass, Forest Brooch, and Magical Conch to synthesize the Ecosystem Radar, draining more than half of Wala Wala's strength.
• Linsey showed Wala Wala the radar's abilities and explained how his equipment worked together with his skills.
• Linsey opened the radar and found that its Adventure Pointer indicated a direction across the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey told Wala Wala they needed to leave the broken plank and suggested they work together to transform it.

Linsey and Wala Wala traveled across the Sea of Wandering on a player-built floating residence, searching for a way out and news of the City of Law. They spotted an island ahead and recognized it as the domain of Ocean Nightmare—Soroya.

• Linsey and Wala Wala turned their wooden platform into a large floating residence and used Linsey’s Extreme Racing skill to steer it across the sea.
• Linsey fished for supplies, examined items that resisted the power of the end, and wondered what had happened to the people of the City of Law.
• Linsey messaged Alvitte, Ala Song, Nolan, and White, but received no replies and suspected the Sea of Wandering blocked communication.
• Two days later, Wala Wala spotted an island ahead, and Linsey confirmed it was associated with Ocean Nightmare—Soroya.

Linsey and Wala Wala discovered that Soroya, the island-like Abyssal Evil Beast they had encountered before, was actually dead. After landing on its corpse, they spotted artificial ruins at the island’s center and went to investigate.

• Linsey found that the Ecosystem Radar pointed toward Soroya, so he stopped the ship to investigate.
• Linsey sent two summoned bats to scout Soroya, but the corpse neither attacked them nor appeared hostile on the Strategic Map.
• Linsey and Wala Wala approached Soroya and used his Scouting Skill to identify it as a Behemoth Corpse.
• Linsey and Wala Wala landed on the corpse, saw petrified creatures and unusual plants, and Linsey collected plant specimens.
• Linsey spotted artificial-looking ruins in the island’s center and set off with Wala Wala to examine them.

Linsey and Wala Wala explored ancient ruins on the back of an Abyssal Evil Beast and uncovered evidence of an ancient Great Expedition. The inscription raised the question of why an expedition had ventured into the seemingly lifeless Sea of Wandering.

• As they explored, Wala Wala recounted the legend of Augustine, a hero who entered the Sea of Wandering after dying and eventually returned to the Real World.
• Linsey and Wala Wala concluded that the old story could not be trusted in every detail, though it suggested someone had once returned from the Sea of Wandering.
• They reached the island’s ruined structures and found a weathered Stone Tablet covered in unfamiliar writing.
• Linsey used experience points to become proficient in Kailan Language and read that an exhausted expedition team had run out of supplies after subduing an evil beast.
• Linsey realized that the Great Expedition had begun much earlier than he had believed and wondered why its explorers had come to the Dead Sea.

Linsey and Wala Wala searched Soroya’s corpse for the missing expeditioners and discovered their stone statues and an ancient monument inside its heart. The monument revealed the Sea of Silent Death’s connection to the real universe and source essence, and warned travelers never to descend to the bottom of the sea.

• Linsey and Wala Wala preserved the ruins and searched the island for the expeditioners’ bodies but found no statues.
• Linsey recalled how the hero in Dead Sea Rafting Notes killed Soroya and decided to explore the beast’s heart with Wala Wala.
• Linsey and Wala Wala descended into Soroya’s corpse and followed its lungs to the heart chamber.
• Linsey and Wala Wala found Human Stone Statues and an Ancient Language monument inside the heart.
• Linsey read the monument, which described the Sea of Silent Death’s relation to the real universe, identified the heart as a source of source essence, and warned readers never to go to the bottom of the sea.

Linsey and Wala Wala awakened the soul of an explorer preserved in a stone statue and learned that the Sea of Wandering’s seabed might hold the power to save a world from oblivion. Linsey asked whether the explorer would return to the Real World if given the chance.

• Linsey and Wala Wala realized the monument described the Sea of Wandering as a vast realm intertwined with the real universe, and noticed that Augustine had met explorers from a later era.
• Linsey used his Scouting Skill on the statue, and Wala Wala awakened the weak human soul within it.
• The explorer explained that the expedition had ended there, that the others pursued their own futures, and that he had chosen to remain and help Lost Souls who arrived later.
• Linsey asked what happened when a world fell into the Sea of Wandering, and the explorer said it sank toward oblivion but might be awakened by a power at the seabed.
• Linsey asked the explorer whether he would want to return to the Real World if he had the chance.

Linsey used a Flesh Reconstitution Potion to restore an ancient expedition member who had been petrified for tens of thousands of years. After receiving his warning to descend to the seabed, Linsey and Wala Wala set out to explore the Sea of Wandering, equipped to withstand its waters.

• Linsey offered the petrified man a Flesh Reconstitution Potion, which restored his body and reunited him with his soul.
• Linsey left the man supplies, and the man gave him an Expedition Token and told him to keep descending at the end of the sea.
• Linsey and Wala Wala left the heart chamber, and Wala Wala said she would spread the story of the expedition member's sacrifice.
• Linsey and Wala Wala returned to shore and decided to enter the Sea of Wandering to find a way to solve the City of Law's problem.
• Linsey equipped Wala Wala with the water-element Source Mark and planned to use Ecosystem Radar so they could move freely through the sea.

Linsey and Wala Wala descended into the Sea of Wandering, using protective equipment and lights to explore its freezing depths. When a hostile Seventh Stage squid attacked, Linsey killed it with one strike, and they approached its corpse to collect loot while preparing to watch for further threats.

• Linsey and Wala Wala dove into the Sea of Wandering, relying on the Ecosystem Radar and Source Mark to shield them from its corrupting force.
• Linsey equipped his Multifunctional Survival Gear and gave Wala Wala a Jellyfish Lamp to light the dark water.
• Wala Wala spotted a massive creature approaching and sensed that it was hostile.
• Linsey cut the creature, a gigantic Seventh Stage squid, in two with his Seven-Colored Radiance Sword.
• Wala Wala sensed that the lights had attracted the squid, but Linsey kept them on and activated warning mode as they went to collect its loot.

Linsey and Wala Wala hunted through the Sea of Wandering, and Linsey crafted a Deep Sea Trident from materials they collected. As they descended toward the seabed, Linsey recognized the structure below as the City of Law.

• Linsey explained that his equipment came from monster drops, gathered materials, and quest rewards.
• Wala Wala gave Linsey a Deep Sea Core, which let him craft the Deep Sea Trident and share its attributes in the Friend Channel.
• Linsey and Wala Wala discussed the trident’s power and possible upgrades while continuing to hunt marine creatures.
• After two hours, the surrounding sea grew quiet, and Linsey and Wala Wala cautiously searched farther below.
• Wala Wala spotted a structure on the map, and Linsey recognized it as the City of Law rather than an undersea mountain peak.

Linsey and Wala Wala reached the City of Law on the seabed and found its residents succumbing to the Sea of Wandering. After surviving a sweep of Eighth Stage malice, Linsey detected a hidden space and led Wala Wala toward it.

• Linsey and Wala Wala descended toward the City of Law, where its Law Radiance illuminated the city but could not prevent its residents from being claimed by the power of the end.
• Linsey and Wala Wala found Law Knights unconscious along the mountainside and learned that ordinary people might survive for only two days.
• Linsey realized Critic's Approval and Lucky Star had kept him from arriving with the City of Law and had led him to a wooden plank in the Sea of Wandering.
• Linsey noticed that the Law Knights had been focused on the city's north, near the Quiet River and the War Graveyard where Nia was located.
• Linsey sensed Eighth Stage malice sweeping over them, and he and Wala Wala used stealth to avoid being mistaken for awake targets.
• Linsey detected a Hidden Space with Omniscient Scouting and followed Adventure Pointer's direction, telling Wala Wala to go straight ahead.