Recaps

Lu Yuan used his authority over the Sea of Knowledge to stop the Holy Sovereign’s awakening, free Frey from the Seed’s contamination, and return from the Land of the Dead Silence. Back at the Knight Academy, he developed a plague test and brewed a Dragon Blood Potion while Brunkel and the Blue Knight’s flight ended with the Astrologer Grand Knight Commander escorting them toward the North Campus.

• The Sea of Knowledge poured through the sky and Lu Yuan used its power to oppose the Holy Sovereign, while Oden shattered the High Singer and Lu Yuan condemned the Leader.
• Lu Yuan disrupted the Heretic Grand Leaders’ formation, severed the Leader’s link to the Holy Sovereign, and killed him as Oden destroyed the High Singer and the Bone Controller fled.
• Lu Yuan removed the Seed’s contamination from Frey, then closed the rift and left the Land of the Dead Silence with Frey and Oden.
• Back at the Knight Academy, Lu Yuan found that his gains had carried over, placed bounties for potion ingredients, and worked with Oden on a plague-detection method.
• Lu Yuan tested the Holy Purification Resentment Potion and a treated Deceased’s Wailing Crystal on blood samples, confirming that the crystal could reveal plague infection.
• Lu Yuan secretly brewed and drank a diluted Dragon Blood Potion, which strengthened his body, while Oden judged its effects limited without several more doses.
• Brunkel and the nuns fled pursuers with the mutating Blue Knight until the Astrologer Grand Knight Commander arrived, restrained the heretics, and stabilized her.
• Brunkel reported the Tribal Alliance’s rebellion and its collusion with the Withered Glory Society, and the Astrologer Grand Knight Commander escorted the group toward the North Campus.

Lu Yuan saved the Blue Knight from contamination, earned the Academy’s trust, and accepted a mission to investigate the Withered Glory Society in Watch City. After preparing for departure and joining a squad bound for the Northern Territory, he faced an ambush when a formation triggered an avalanche and unleashed mutated creatures on the convoy.

• Lu Yuan designed an improved bomb inscription and sold the Academy his method for detecting plague contamination.
• When the Blue Knight returned gravely wounded, Lu Yuan treated her with a Refined Hope Potion and the Sea of Knowledge, purifying her Pathway and saving her.
• The Academy approved Lu Yuan’s plague-detection method, and he brewed Dragon Blood Potions as preparations for emergency deployment began.
• The Rock Grand Knight Commander investigated Lu Yuan’s Time Bestower and offered him the pocket watch if he completed a mission in Watch City.
• Lu Yuan accepted the mission, learned to make Tide-Attracting Scent Balm from Oden, and received notes and a rare potion from the String Knight and Frey before leaving.
• Lu Yuan drank a second Dragon Blood Potion, gained the Lesser Dragon Blood Shell, and joined Blanca, Harvey, Leon, and Karin in a Northern Territory squad.
• At a junction, dark red formation patterns triggered an avalanche that split the convoy and unleashed mutated Snow-faced Wolves and Ice Skulls on the stopped vehicles.

Lu Yuan joined the Academy’s effort to uncover a Heretic plot involving memory-eating mushrooms hidden in Watch City’s heating and water systems. As investigators began searching for the cultivation sites, A.M. learned Lu Yuan was in the city and set out to find him.

• Ice Skulls, Frostbound Dead, and a colossal worm attacked the convoy, but the knights led the groups along a branch road and escaped the avalanche and a Withered Glory Society roadblock.
• Lu Yuan parted from Blanca, Harvey, Leon, and Karin, then reached Watch City, where refugees crowded outside the walls and martial law governed the tense streets.
• Lu Yuan found the Academy’s concealed workshop base, joined Lin En’s investigation, and discovered that spores from a leaking chest were consuming two team members’ memories and reason.
• Lu Yuan used a fever-inducing potion to destroy the spores and restore the victims, then followed a gray-black aura to a furnace plant where an Illusion-Reality Boundary Mushroom had been planted.
• Lu Yuan, Lin En, and Baron Hawk burned the mushroom in the furnace chamber, and Lu Yuan preserved its regenerating core after confirming it could grow again.
• Lu Yuan and Lin En traced the plot to Herbert Field’s municipal projects, arrested him, and brought his records back to the workshop for examination.
• After learning that the mushroom threat could affect boiler rooms, water systems, pipes, and tall buildings, Lu Yuan joined Lin En’s squad to inspect suspected sites while City Hall reinforced patrols.
• A.M. learned that Lu Yuan was in Watch City and left with two companions, saying the Empire’s new god and the Forbidden Society’s plan depended on a certain person.