Recaps

Murphy built a force of outworlders and joined Femis’s operation against a Plantagenet convoy, while secretly helping the captured Witch Hunters. After the ambush turned into a battle, Murphy killed Jopan and gained new powers, leaving the players to decide whether to help Adele.

• Murphy summoned players to fight the Witch Hunters at Morland Village, then sent Maxim to deliver Salokdar’s sealed letter to the Midnight Hunters.
• Murphy joined Femis’s mission to harass a Plantagenet convoy and recruited the players to help plan the attack.
• Mirian warned Natalie that the Golden Lily Transport Team would be ambushed, and she helped Natalie and Norman escape their restraints.
• The Witch Hunters set their camp ablaze, prompting Femis to launch her attack as the convoy prepared to fight.
• Yang Hen and the players trapped the convoy, but Jopan emerged and killed Mud Truck and Forklift Operator before Maxim held him off.
• Murphy lured Jopan into the swamp, where Adele weakened him and the players arrived with the Automatic Hunter Crossbow and explosive rounds.
• Murphy tore out Jopan’s heart, absorbed his Blood Essence, gained new abilities, and gave the recondensed essence to Maxim.
• Meow Brother announced that the players would help Adele.

Murphy and the players uncovered the convoy’s forbidden psionic technology, then reached Cadman City as an astral rift began consuming it. They organized a rescue effort, gathered survivors and supplies, and prepared to defend the people while the city’s dangers and Murphy’s plans escalated.

• Murphy recovered the commander’s calculating orb and used it to activate the confiscated orbs, giving the players their interfaces and game functions.
• Murphy Embraced Lady Adele as Bella Bernice Adele Lasombra, then led the convoy toward Cadman City with the players and other companions.
• General Loren ordered Plan D, and an astral tear swallowed much of Cadman City as Murphy rode into the storm to find Triss.
• Murphy rescued Triss and brought her to the eastern breach, where the players fought monsters and helped townspeople escape the collapsing city.
• Triss identified the rift as a deliberate attack involving the Tower of Rings and Wolfsbane spies, while Murphy and Maxim searched a hidden warehouse for weapons and manuals.
• Murphy and the players began a citywide rescue, with Lumina saving children and the survivors organizing under Mirian and Maxim as astral creatures threatened the outer districts.
• Murphy killed an astral lynx, reached level 10, and unlocked a Black Iron Body trial that required him to defeat a Black Iron-tier enemy alone.
• Murphy organized the Cadman People's Self-Rescue Army, sent players to reclaim Triss's storehouses, and received psychic dog tags from Triss before summoning twenty-four new players.

Murphy and the players burned the Astral Shadows from Cadman City while dealing with the Witch Hunters and Jade’s Blood Eagle faction. The fighting left Arthur dead, Jade wounded, and Murphy poised to claim the city’s inheritance.

• Murphy recruited new players, organized the survivor camp, and resolved to reclaim Cadman City rather than flee.
• Femis revealed that the Nocturne Psionic Grand Barrier could be restored through its underground cores, while Murphy prepared to burn the outer city and its Astral Shadows.
• Witch Hunters captured Kaqi Tuoni Tai, but he negotiated a warning from Finoc and Meow Brother later advanced his hidden quest by visiting their village.
• Murphy and the players burned the outer-city ruins, uncovered the rift, and faced corrupted survivors and new threats emerging from it.
• Jade offered Murphy the Grand Duke’s Seal fragment and plotted to use Triss against him, while Murphy confronted Femis over her hidden motives and called on her to help defeat Jade’s followers.
• Finoc sent Natalie’s Witch Hunters to protect the survivors, while the players and militia organized an assault on Jade’s vampires.
• The Witch Hunters’ bombs weakened Jade’s vampires, and the players, Femis, Adele, and armed survivors attacked them across the city.
• Maxim killed Arthur in a duel, Triss turned Arthur into stone and gave Maxim his blood essence, and Finoc struck Jade with a psychic arrow before Murphy confronted him.

Murphy faced the threat of the Blood Covenant Knights, recruited players and Witch Hunters, and led an assault into the Blood Eagle Corridor. The operation uncovered a vast civilian refuge, while Finoc warned Murphy that hidden forces stood behind the Ten-Year War.

• Murphy killed Jade, surrendered the Shard of Desire to Phinok to spare himself and Femis, and completed his tutorial quest.
• Murphy accepted a six-month quest to become Transia’s de facto ruler, while Triss urged him to flee before Lord Payne and the Blood Covenant Knights arrived.
• Triss revealed Femis’s fabricated memories and her connection to Salokdar’s experiment, and Murphy ordered Femis and Adele to help clear the Blood Eagle Corridor before the knights arrived.
• Murphy recruited players, advanced to Tomb Swordsman after fighting spirits beneath Cadman City, and prepared his forces for the corridor operation.
• Murphy sent the Witch Hunters and players into the Blood Eagle Corridor, where they fought constructs, gargoyles, and vampires as the players earned dungeon achievements.
• Femis’s group found Kudel guarding more than fifteen hundred civilians, and Femis stopped the players from attacking him when the survivors shielded him and agreed to accept Murphy’s leadership.
• Murphy and Finoc cleared a ghost camp and discussed the ruins beneath the corridor, and Finoc revealed that Natalie was his daughter.
• Finoc rejected Murphy’s offer to settle in Transia and warned him that hidden forces behind the Ten-Year War were at work.