Recaps

Lu Yuan survived Grim Port’s destruction and woke near Sandworm Town, where he recovered while investigating a polluted sandworm and treating an infected townsman. The town’s danger was still unfolding as Lu Yuan warned that others might also be contaminated.

• The Archbishop sealed Grim Port’s Anchor Point, but missing doctors and the Deep Sea Church’s surviving influence led to an outbreak that transformed residents into Flesh Trees and trapped the city behind a barrier.
• Lu Yuan and the defenders failed to escape Grim Port as the Deep Sea overwhelmed them, and a red vessel restored Lu Yuan’s clarity before he was forced away while the city sank beneath the sea.
• Lu Yuan woke near Sandworm Town with a badly burned hand, accepted Herman’s help, and learned that the town used Sandworm Oil and music to manage the creatures.
• Lu Yuan learned Song of the Sandworm from Karl, then saw the mayor and townspeople kill a polluted sandworm whose pus had contaminated its body.
• Morris, Heller, and Vincent identified themselves as Pathfinders investigating the town’s unusual sandworms, and Morris gave Lu Yuan a map and recovery potion in exchange for possible help.
• Herman warned Lu Yuan about the mayor’s dangerous extra hunt and the dead drawn to the town after hunts, then asked him to examine Martin, whose arm was infested with sandworm parasites.
• Lu Yuan burned the parasites from Martin’s arm and helped amputate it, then warned Herman that anyone who had touched the sandworm might be contaminated.

Lu Yuan uncovered Grego’s parasitic experiments in Sandworm Town, then traveled to Bronze City and became entangled in the disappearances and contamination at the Tower of Erudition. He escaped the compromised Tower with Laurina and reached Night Watcher Headquarters, where they were assigned to the Alchemy Workshop.

• Lu Yuan treated infected residents in Sandworm Town, discovered that the mayor and Grego had pursued parasite-based symbiosis, and killed Grego and the Parasitic Broodmother with Deprivation.
• Lu Yuan recovered, received a Pathfinder Consultant Badge, learned flute music from Karl, and left with Herman’s caravan for Bronze City.
• Lu Yuan reported to the Night Watchers, whose investigation linked missing Alchemy Department students to attacks and mental contamination around the Tower of Erudition.
• Lu Yuan found Laurina at the Tower, warned her about the disappearances, and learned that her mentor might have resumed experiments with Knowledge-Derived Worms.
• The principal warned Lu Yuan and Laurina that the Tower was compromised, gave them a silver medal, and arranged for them to leave under Night Watcher protection.
• Lu Yuan and Laurina prepared to escape as officials began clearing students and potential witnesses, but an Eerie-contaminated instructor confronted them at the exit.
• Laurina suppressed the instructor with her improved Eerie Suppressant, and Lu Yuan killed him with Deprivation before they fled the Tower by carriage.
• Lu Yuan and Laurina reached Night Watcher Headquarters and were assigned to the Alchemy Workshop, where Laurina began reviewing potion orders.

Lu Yuan protected Laurina from the Tower of Erudition, then investigated disappearances tied to Andre Morris, a living Eerie, and the Sea of Knowledge. The investigation uncovered a strange shell badge and coordinates hidden in Grego’s copper badge, while Lu Yuan remained troubled by changes in his reflection.

• Lu Yuan learned alchemy from Laurina, obtained professional equipment, and invoked an ancient oath contract to protect her from the Tower of Erudition.
• Lu Yuan joined Raymond’s investigation into three missing Tower students, found traces linking one disappearance to the Sea of Knowledge, and advanced after being drawn into it by an Abyssal Relic.
• Lu Yuan and the Night Watchers discovered a woodenized Source of Pollution and fought a Gray-robed Man and a black-robed man who escaped through a hidden door.
• Lu Yuan met Andre Morris, who offered him a badge and warned that activating the shell had disturbed the city’s seals, then reported Morris’s connection to the disappearances to Raymond.
• Klaus assigned Lu Yuan to watch the Morris lead as the Night Watchers investigated the disappearances and suspected activity by the Ascension Society.
• Lu Yuan received letters and supplies from Sandworm Town, and Laurina identified the rare materials and explained how they could be used.
• Lu Yuan searched the Archive Room and found an expedition record describing an island, underground caves, and missing sailors, including fragments linking two alchemists to the Tower of Erudition.
• Lu Yuan and Laurina opened Grego’s copper badge and found a metal foil with Empire surveying coordinates and a ripple symbol resembling the design on Lu Yuan’s Shell badge, while Laurina offered to take him with her if danger came.

Lu Yuan led Ninth Squad through Bronze City’s Ghoul outbreak, survived the defense of the North Spinning District, and explored the broken Conduction Network beneath the city. He returned with evidence of a vast underground Hive and withheld what he had learned about the Copper Pillar’s direction.

• Lu Yuan discovered the 1107 North Sea expedition records had been sealed, then joined Klaus to investigate Allen’s corpse and recognized the remnant in its hand from the Viscount's Residence.
• Morris recruited Lu Yuan into his group, explained that Western District records and memories had vanished, and assigned him to investigate Bronze City.
• Lu Yuan took command of Ninth Squad during the breach and led the Night Watchers through the North Spinning District, where Carrion Fungus, Carrion Ghosts, and Ghouls overwhelmed the defenses.
• After the Guardian’s power drove back the Ghouls, Lu Yuan and Ninth Squad cleared the district and later defended the Collapse Point alongside the Born and the Nuns.
• Lu Yuan noticed that the Nuns’ Angel’s Blessing was rejected by his attributes, then found human teeth and palm prints on Great Ghoul corpses and concluded they had once been human.
• Lu Yuan led a team underground with Agnes and Bolen, discovered the damaged Copper Pillar and the vast Hive beneath the inner city, and fought through Ghouls to escape.
• Lu Yuan reported the Hive’s passages and its potentially tens of thousands of Ghouls to Glock, but withheld the Copper Pillar’s direction toward the inner city and the Inscription device.