Recaps

Kro killed his father after years of being treated as a tool, and the blood he used in his final painting caused it to mutate. Covetous Attachment and Sloth escaped the painting, leaving Disease behind, while Kro’s fate remained uncertain.

• The marquis approved of Kro and arranged his match with his youngest daughter, while Kro’s father celebrated the family’s rise to nobility.
• Kro entered his father’s bedroom at night and killed him with a knife.
• The butler found Kro beside the body, concealed the murder, and announced that Kro’s father had died suddenly after drinking too much.
• Kro recognized the scent of human blood and used his father’s blood in the final painting, which mutated.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth sensed Weird energy, found a passage out of the painting, and escaped, leaving Disease behind.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth realized Kro might still be alive or might have become a monster wearing human skin.

Shen Yu entered the dark world inside Kro's painting and found Kro's consciousness trapped there, consumed by guilt over killing his father. Shen Yu urged him to pursue his dream in a different way, and Kro woke outside the painting, ready to join him.

• Shen Yu explored the world inside Eye in the Painting and discovered Kro alone in its darkness.
• Shen Yu introduced himself to Kro, who remembered killing his father and believed he could never paint again.
• Shen Yu told Kro not to destroy himself with guilt and asked him what he wanted from life.
• Kro admitted that he had once dreamed of becoming an artist, and Shen Yu encouraged him to see life itself as a canvas.
• Shen Yu asked Kro to use his talent to help shape the future, and Kro took his hand.
• Shen Yu urged Kro to wake up, and Kro emerged from the painting into the manor corridor.

Covetous Attachment and Sloth escaped the painting and attended Kro’s banquet, where Kro unveiled a lifelike statue made from Xia Bo’s skin. The nobles became obsessed with the statue, and one guest touched it, finding it slick and cold before declaring that it felt like a real person.

• Covetous Attachment and Sloth escaped from the painting and hurried to the banquet hall.
• Kro welcomed his guests and announced that he would reveal a new artwork.
• Kro unveiled a lifelike statue made from Xia Bo’s skin, and the nobles began bidding and offering favors to obtain it.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth suspected that the statue was an Anomaly Artifact with mental abilities and waited to see what it could do.
• A noble touched the statue, felt its slick, cold surface, and became obsessed again, saying it felt like a real person.

At Baron Kro’s banquet, nobles fought over his statue until blood awakened it and it began draining guests. Covetous Attachment attacked the statue as Sloth remained wary of Kro and wondered where Cadre Disease had gone.

• Baron Kro watched as his guests fought over the statue, and blood from an injured noble vanished into it.
• The statue’s eyes glowed red, and it impaled a guest before draining his blood.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth stayed out of the initial brawl, then realized the statue’s danger as it began slaughtering the guests.
• Sloth questioned why Cadre Disease had not appeared and hesitated to act in front of Kro.
• Covetous Attachment donned bone armor, formed a massive axe, and swung at the statue.

Covetous Attachment and Sloth fought Baron Ker Tascenna’s statue while Sloth used the Faceless Anomaly to restrain Ker. Kro appeared and revealed that Ker was his older brother, who had taken Kro’s body and identity; Ker lunged at him, still demanding the body and title.

• Covetous Attachment summoned a skeleton army, and with its help he chopped off one of the statue’s arms.
• Sloth sent the Faceless Anomaly after Baron Ker instead of the statue.
• Ker ordered the old butler to put on a blood-red mask, but Kro appeared and stopped him.
• Kro called Ker his older brother, and Ker confessed that he resented Kro for controlling the body and being recognized as the Tascenna heir.
• Ker lunged at Kro and declared that the body, family, and title belonged to him.

Ker explained that he and Kro were brothers sharing one body, but Kro’s stronger mental power had kept Ker asleep and unseen for most of their lives. The old butler realized he had mistaken Ker for Kro all along, while the battle with the statue continued.

• Ker lunged at Kro but passed through his transparent body as the statue destroyed Covetous Attachment’s skeleton soldiers.
• The statue struck Covetous Attachment through several walls, then turned its attention to Sloth.
• The old butler asked Kro why he had become transparent, and Ker insisted that he was the true young master of the Tascenna Family.
• Ker revealed that he and Kro shared a body, that he was the older and more talented brother, and that Kro’s stronger mental power had kept him in control.
• Kro said he had never wanted to fight Ker for the position, while the old butler realized he had never recognized Ker’s presence.

Ker prepared to kill Kro while Covetous Attachment and Sloth struggled against the blood-empowered statue. Black substance falling from the ceiling triggered Ker’s memories of sharing Kro’s body and revealed why he resented his brother, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ker shoved the old butler aside, claimed his place as head of the Taskenna family, and prepared to stab Kro with his transformed pendant.
• Covetous Attachment returned badly injured and saw Sloth losing to the statue, while Sloth warned him not to use a dangerous move that could make him lose control.
• Black substance fell onto Ker, awakening memories of when he controlled Kro’s body and of Kro willingly surrendering it to him.
• Ker remembered deciding that he would never hesitate to get rid of Kro, whom he envied and blamed for their father’s death.
• Ker recalled his father criticizing his ordinary painting and insisting that he create shocking works to benefit the Tascenna Family.

Ker reflected on replacing Kro and confronted his father over an arranged marriage, while Disease and the others subdued Skinner and discovered Kro still lingered. As they prepared to take Ker and Kro away, Shen Yu arrived with a swarm of spiders, startling Covetous Attachment and Sloth with his pressure.

• Ker realized that becoming Kro and receiving his father's attention had left him feeling empty and resentful.
• Ker challenged the head of the Taskenna family over his arranged marriage, but his father insisted it was necessary for the family's future.
• Disease explained that Ker was trapped in a hallucination caused by neurotoxin and suspected he was the Dungeon's hidden boss.
• Skinner rushed in to protect Ker, but Disease subdued him, and Kro asked them not to kill Skinner before Ker woke.
• Covetous Attachment proposed taking Ker and Kro for research, but Shen Yu entered with countless spiders and made Covetous Attachment and Sloth tense with fear.

Disease recounted how Disaster and the Anomaly Containment Association became enemies, tracing the conflict to a catastrophe that began on Earth Star. He left Sloth with the revelation that unexplained disappearances and gruesome deaths had marked the start of that calamity.

• Shen Yu arrived at the banquet hall, and Kro respectfully addressed him as Chairman, prompting Disease to take the injured Covetous Attachment and Sloth away.
• Disease directed Sloth and Covetous Attachment to search the manor for more Anomaly Artifacts while warning that the Anomaly Containment Association might claim the world in the Dungeon.
• Sloth found Disease standing alone beside a garden pool and asked why Disaster had become enemies with the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Disease explained that Disaster's original world was Earth Star, where countries used viruses against their enemies and a disease spread across the globe.
• Disease said unexplained disappearances and gruesome deaths began after the disease was treated, revealing that these events marked the beginning of a calamity.

Mr. G examined Ker and Kro’s unusual condition and offered to give Kro a separate body, but Kro chose to stop fighting his brother for their shared body and join the Anomaly Containment Association. Ker began to understand how much Kro had suffered to protect him, though the brothers’ future remained unsettled.

• Shen Yu summoned Mr. G to examine Ker and Kro and explain their condition.
• Mr. G considered several explanations for their shared body and asked whether Kro wanted his consciousness returned to it or given a new body.
• Kro refused to keep fighting Ker for the body and said he had only ever wanted to be an artist.
• Kro chose to join the Anomaly Containment Association, and Mr. G explained what the organization did to Ker.
• Ker reconsidered his resentment after realizing Kro had protected him and endured their father's cruelty alone.

Ker joined the Anomaly Containment Association alongside Kro, while Mr. G began creating a body for Kro and livestreamed the experiment to Yi Gui Company employees. The stream exposed Disaster members and captured Disease recounting how a cursed delivery transformed him, ending with his decision to risk becoming a monster rather than die.

• Kro reaffirmed his loyalty to Shen Yu and the Anomaly Containment Association, and Ker apologized before joining the organization as well.
• Mr. G obtained Ker's blood and worked with the Research Department to create a body for Kro while livestreaming the experiment to company employees.
• The livestream's fifth camera revealed members of Disaster, prompting employees to recognize the organization's history as an adversary.
• Shen Yu used the livestream to promote the Anomaly Containment Association and gained Construction Points as employees watched.
• Disease told Sloth how a cursed package infected him, led the Supervisor Bureau to quarantine him, and caused him to mutate.
• Disease recalled meeting someone who offered him a chance to avoid becoming a mindless monster, and said he chose to gamble rather than die.

Disease recalled how he suppressed Plague Weird and survived a curse that had turned him into a target of the authorities. After Fire Disaster and Wind Disaster rescued him, they recruited him into the Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations, whose future leaders remained uncertain.

• Disease was escaping the Supervisory Bureau while the curse threatened to make him mutate when two masked people found him.
• At their urging, Disease suppressed Plague Weird inside his body and gained control of its ability.
• Disease explained that Plague Weird had caused nearly ten thousand deaths and that the authorities regarded its human hosts as monsters.
• Fire Disaster told Disease that the creature had cursed him and infected over a hundred thousand people, then urged him to withdraw the curse and stop the plague.
• Fire Disaster recruited Disease into the Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations alongside Wind Disaster, and Disease questioned the organization's name.

Disease learned that the powerful Devious inside him could only be suppressed and imprisoned, not killed, and that its power grew as it spread plague and curses. As Fire Disaster and Wind Disaster drove him away from pursuing authorities, they explained their organization’s history and beliefs before a crash interrupted them.

• Fire Disaster explained that the Devious inside Disease could not be killed and that Anomaly Tamers imprisoned such beings in human bodies to contain them.
• Disease lifted the remaining curses, felt his power grow, and learned that the plague had killed more than ten thousand people.
• Fire Disaster told Disease that he and Wind Disaster had survived anomalous incidents and gained their abilities by imprisoning Devious.
• Fire Disaster described how Wind Disaster argued that the Devious were creatures from another dimension rather than ghosts, and explained the organization’s abandoned name, Netherworld Hell.
• Fire Disaster crashed after a man appeared in the road, then called Wind Disaster’s attention to him.

Disease recounted how Calamity began as an organization that fought anomalies, then lost public trust after a member’s anomaly went berserk and destroyed a city. The chapter ended with Thunder Disaster ordering the members to stop fighting and devouring anomalies while the organization faced the danger within its own ranks.

• Fire Disaster avoided a pedestrian who had rushed into the road and drove on, while Disease worried they had hit him.
• The pedestrian reported that Fire Disaster and Disease had not stopped, and officials discussed how anomalous contamination threatened Prosper City and other countries.
• Disease explained that Anomaly Tamers needed to feed their anomalies, but excessive energy could make an anomaly overpower its Tamer.
• Thunder Disaster and Fire Disaster confronted a rampaging anomaly and discovered that it had belonged to a Calamity member, whose backlash had destroyed a city.
• Disease said Wind Disaster blamed himself and wanted to compensate the victims, while Thunder Disaster ordered Calamity’s members to stop fighting and devouring anomalies.

Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations assembled to discuss seven missing members and the possibility that they had defected. The leaders also investigated a member’s loss of control, but Thunder Disaster had found no clear explanation for where he had gone or what he had been doing.

• Anomaly Tamers speculated that the missing members might have joined the authorities, who were offering them high salaries and greater stability.
• Fire Disaster counted sixteen people at the assembly and noted that seven members were missing, while their communicator profiles showed them offline.
• Thunder Disaster said he had found the center of the destroyed city but no clues explaining the member’s loss of control.
• Thunder Disaster reported that none of the missing member’s acquaintances knew why he had gone to the destruction site or had seen him in the days before the incident.
• Wind Disaster noted that members often communicated online, but that online contact offered no guarantees.

Sloth and Disease explained how the organization’s partner rule arose and how Anomaly Tamers managed the energy they drew from suppressed Weirds. As Contract Anomalists watched the leaked conversation, they learned that careless use of a Weird’s abilities could let it grow powerful enough to break free.

• Sloth said his partner, Covetous Attachment, had been reckless and combative, but their contrasting personalities made them effective together.
• Contract Anomalists watched the livestream and speculated about Disaster’s cadres, while some tried to identify who was clearing the S-rank Dungeon.
• Disease said the leader of Wind Disaster had gone alone to seek a better way to prevent Anomaly Tamers from losing control.
• Sloth explained that Anomaly Tamers could restore Weird energy by devouring Weirds or spreading their abilities, but the latter also fed the Weird itself.
• Sloth said a Weird could outgrow its tamer and unleash a vicious backlash if the tamer failed to manage their energy and suppress its growth.

Cadre Disease recounted how the Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations became a wanted organization after Thunder Disaster uncovered that authorities had caused an Anomaly Tamer to lose control through experiments. Wind Disaster returned with a safer method of suppressing Weirds, and the leaders ended the story reflecting that perhaps none of them had been wrong.

• Sloth learned that Wind Disaster's former leader had developed methods to prevent and remedy Anomaly Tamers losing control.
• Cadre Disease explained how public fear and pressure led authorities to recruit Anomaly Tamers into the Anomaly Investigation Division while suppressing the Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations.
• Thunder Disaster followed a member's plea for help and discovered that a research institute had captured and experimented on Anomaly Tamers, causing the member to lose control.
• Thunder Disaster destroyed the laboratory and the country behind it, prompting nations to join forces against the Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations.
• Wind Disaster returned with an improved method of suppressing Weirds as the organization fought its pursuers.
• Thunder Disaster demanded revenge, Fire Disaster protested their blame, and Wind Disaster concluded that perhaps none of them had been wrong.

Wind Disaster revealed that human experiments had caused Anomaly Tamers to lose control, but public opinion remained divided and those demanding accountability disappeared. A censored laboratory data chart then spread online, portraying Anomaly Tamers as increasingly anomalous and likely to lose control, fueling fears that they were no longer human.

• Wind Disaster returned, protected the remaining members, and exposed experiments on Anomaly Tamers as a cause of their loss of control.
• Relatives of victims and other supporters demanded answers from the factions and countries behind the research institute, but the people who spoke out soon disappeared.
• An online post shared a laboratory data chart that was rapidly censored, prompting users to save and circulate copies.
• People debated whether Anomaly Tamers or their countrymen were responsible for past disasters and whether revenge against civilians was justified.
• An explanation of the chart claimed that Anomaly Tamers grew more powerful and more like anomalies over time, while experiments accelerated their loss of control.
• Discussion across multiple websites cast Anomaly Tamers as dangerous, unstable beings and questioned whether they were human or anomalies.

Disease told Sloth how the Three Disasters and Ten Tribulations split after the Chief rejected cooperation with the major powers and became increasingly extreme. The story left Sloth still wondering how their organization became enemies with the Anomaly Containment Association.

• Thunder Disaster ordered the members to suspend external activities while Wind Disaster questioned whether suppressing anomalies was their only path.
• After the Anomaly Tamers stopped responding to incidents, anomalies overran regions and countries, prompting the major powers to seek cooperation with the Chief, who refused.
• Thunder Disaster’s organization became a third major force, and he took the title Natural Disaster while Fire Disaster became Evil Disaster.
• Wind Disaster later returned, opposed Natural Disaster’s extremism, changed his title to Human Disaster, and eventually fought Natural Disaster before leaving the organization.
• Disease told Sloth that Natural Disaster established the Disaster and Human Calamity Organization, but Sloth was left asking how they became enemies with the Anomaly Containment Association.

Contract Anomalists reflected on the Calamity Organization’s origins and the Humanity Code while Mr. G tried to transfer Kro into a custom body. Shen Yu offered to try after Kro failed, and Mr. G asked the Chairman what he thought.

• Contract Anomalists discussed how the Calamity Organization arose from persecution and how the Humanity Code’s rules could prevent similar tragedies.
• Mr. G had Kro attempt to enter a custom body made from Ker’s blood, but Kro could not transfer into it.
• Ker suggested that Kro share his body again, but Kro declined and chose to remain in the painting.
• Shen Yu offered to try entering the body, prompting viewers to worry that his identity could be exposed on the livestream.
• Mr. G asked the Chairman what he thought.

G revealed that the Chairman might appear in the livestream, causing viewers across the Anomaly Containment Association and Yi Gui Company to flood in. As the stream approached ten thousand viewers, the logistics staff worried that the Chairman’s classified identity might be exposed and contacted Mr. G for help.

• G hinted that the Chairman would appear in the livestream, sending viewers’ numbers surging as Association members, martial artists, sea demons, and Yi Gui Company employees tuned in.
• Yi Gui Company employees shared the news and rushed to watch, eager for a rare chance to see the Chairman.
• The logistics staff member worried that the drone might reveal the Chairman’s classified appearance and considered pausing or manually controlling the stream.
• The logistics staff member contacted network technicians, who struggled to manage the rapidly growing crowd and feared they could not prevent information leaks.
• The logistics staff member urgently contacted Mr. G, who read the message and its urgent emoji.

Shen Yu helped Kro enter a newly created body by carving out a consciousness space and placing Kro’s spiritual body inside it. Kro regained control of the body, and the chapter ended with Shen Yu confirming their compatibility as Mr. G removed the life-support equipment.

• Shen Yu said the livestream did not need to be shut down, and Mr. G continued the experiment with Kro.
• Kro could not enter the artificial body until Shen Yu used his mental force to create a consciousness space and move Kro’s spiritual body into it.
• Kro gained control of the body and tried opening his eyes, but the light hurt them.
• Shen Yu covered Kro’s eyes with his warm palm, checked that his spirit and body were compatible, and told Mr. G the experiment had succeeded.
• Mr. G removed the tubes from Kro’s body as viewers reacted to the Chairman appearing on camera.

After the livestream ended, Shen Yu left the Dungeon with Ker and Kro, while Disease and Sloth stayed behind and the Dungeon was soon conquered. The Eagle Kingdom’s announcement in support of the Calamity Organization stirred international tensions, and Disease prepared a way back to the unusually energy-rich world.

• Mr. G ended the livestream after showing the Chairman, and the new Contract Anomalists praised Shen Yu and wondered whether he had a partner.
• Shen Yu gave Mr. G ten of Kro’s artworks and told him to leave the Dungeon, then teleported away with Ker and Kro.
• Disease and Sloth left the Dungeon, triggering a system notification that it had been completely conquered.
• The Eagle Kingdom announced goodwill toward the Calamity Organization, confusing Xia Kingdom before its intelligence agencies identified the group as a rival of the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Disease established a teleportation array in the manor so they could return to the Dungeon even if it was permanently closed.

Sloth and Covetous Attachment returned to Blue Star injured after the Anomaly Containment Association withdrew and left them an S-rank Dungeon. While reviewing Evil Mouth’s intelligence on the Association, Sloth realized the Chairman had tampered with his memories and feared how powerful he was.

• Disease finished setting up a teleportation array, and Sloth and Covetous Attachment returned to Blue Star with their injuries.
• Covetous Attachment showed Love Resentment and Evil Mouth the diary Anomaly Artifact that had harmed them, and Love Resentment identified its Weird backlash condition.
• Sloth asked Evil Mouth about the Anomaly Containment Association, and Evil Mouth sent him a file of gathered intelligence and speculation.
• Sloth read that viewers of a livestream had forgotten the Association Chairman’s appearance except for his red eyes, and he connected the white-haired bird member to Skywing A.
• Sloth realized he could no longer recall the Chairman’s appearance and understood that the Chairman had secretly tampered with his memories.

Sloth realized that his memories of the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association had been altered, and discovered that Covetous Attachment had the same problem. Suffering Disaster removed the remaining invading power but could not restore their memories, leaving them wondering who the Chairman really was.

• Sloth woke Covetous Attachment and asked whether he could remember the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Covetous Attachment found that he could not recall the Chairman’s appearance or mannerisms, and realized his memories had been affected too.
• Sloth explained that he suspected the Chairman was responsible, and Covetous Attachment recognized that only his memories of the Chairman were strangely inaccessible.
• Sloth and Covetous Attachment went to Suffering Disaster after failing to work out what had happened themselves.
• Suffering Disaster examined their spiritual seas, removed the lingering power, and confirmed that the altered memories could not be restored.