Recaps

Calamity returned to the Organization's Headquarters and summoned its elite members, including all five cadres, for an important matter. The members gathered, and Years asked what had prompted the meeting.

• Calamity vanished from his meeting with Shen Yu, who left after finishing his tea.
• Calamity returned to Headquarters, where Old Age greeted him and asked if he had been well.
• Calamity told Old Age to summon everyone for a discussion, and Old Age complied.
• An hour later, the Organization's elite members gathered, including all five cadres.
• Years asked Calamity what important matter had prompted the gathering.

Nine Calamities’ elites and the five cadres gathered after the Chief Leader summoned them, though no one knew what had happened. As the cadres bickered about which of the Five Sufferings was worst, they reflected on the unavoidable cost of being Anomaly Tamers.

• Deception and the other elites wondered why the Chief Leader had summoned them and noted that only elites and cadres were present.
• Death complimented Birth on growing stronger, and Birth said he had gained new insight.
• Disease worried that something had changed or that the Chief Leader could no longer suppress the anomalies, then warned the others to guard their health.
• Poverty argued that poverty was worse than death or disease, while Death and Disease each insisted their own suffering was the most terrifying.
• Birth reflected that the cadres endured constant anomaly erosion and faced an inevitable death from its backlash, but had no choice.

Natural Disaster gathered the leaders and cadres of Natural Disasters and Human Calamities to discuss the grim future of Anomaly Tamers. After they reaffirmed their resolve to keep fighting the Weird, he began explaining what made their path so dangerous.

• Suffering Disaster arrived at the meeting and asked whether Evil Disaster and the Grand Leader were still absent.
• Natural Disaster appeared with Evil Disaster, tossed him into his seat, and ordered him to stay put.
• Natural Disaster said the meeting concerned the future of Anomaly Tamers and their organization, warning that their path had no way out.
• Evil Disaster, Disease Cadre, Death Cadre, Life Cadre, and Poverty Cadre each spoke about their resolve and the hardships of fighting the Weird.
• Natural Disaster praised the gathered leaders and cadres for their convictions, then explained that stronger Weird exerted greater influence and that Anomaly Tamers had to devour other Weird to grow stronger.

Natural Disaster urged the cadres to abandon their identities as Anomaly Tamers and seek another path, arguing that their current lives led only to death. Evil Disaster rejected the idea, while the Life and Poverty Cadres showed tentative interest.

• Natural Disaster warned that the path of an Anomaly Tamer was a dead end and said he wanted the group to try another path.
• Evil Disaster insisted they had chosen to become disasters and refused to consider changing their lives.
• Natural Disaster punched Evil Disaster and sent him crashing into a wall.
• The old man realized Natural Disaster meant abandoning their identities as Anomaly Tamers, a choice no one had managed before.
• Evil Disaster called Natural Disaster insane and protested against dragging the organization into his plan.
• The Life Cadre said she would accept losing her power if the Weird inside her could be dealt with, and the Poverty Cadre wondered if removal would end his poverty.

Natural Disaster explained that Anomaly Tamers risked backlash and mutation if they tried to remove the Weirds they suppressed. He revealed that he had joined the Anomaly Containment Association and become a Contract Anomalist, leaving the others stunned.

• Poor Cadre described how his suppressed Weird caused constant bad luck and ruined his money and possessions.
• Disease Cadre questioned whether Anomaly Tamers could survive the contamination and backlash if they became ordinary people.
• The members of Nine Calamities worried that removing their Weirds would cause severe backlash and leave them vulnerable.
• Suffering Disaster quieted the others so Natural Disaster could continue speaking.
• Natural Disaster revealed that he had joined the Anomaly Containment Association and become a Contract Anomalist.
• Evil Disaster recognized the Anomaly Containment Association as the organization founded by the person who had discovered another path.

Evil Disaster remembered an old conversation about finding a brighter path for Anomaly Tamers as Disaster raised the possibility of joining the Anomaly Containment Association. Suffering Disaster supported the idea, but Evil Disaster rejected it and questioned whether the Association would even accept them.

• Evil Disaster recalled a past argument with someone who wanted Anomaly Tamers to find a hopeful path instead of suppressing and devouring anomalies.
• Evil Disaster struggled to remember the person's final warning, while Suffering Disaster noticed his distress.
• Suffering Disaster reflected that the two organizations' old hostility had stayed limited and that their leaders understood its origins.
• Disaster proposed joining the Anomaly Containment Association, and Suffering Disaster suspected someone had changed the chief leader's attitude.
• Evil Disaster stood up and objected, pointing out that they were hostile forces and that they could not join merely by asking.

Calamity asked the Nine Calamities whether they would join the Anomaly Containment Association, despite its principles opposing everything the Calamity Organization stood for. The group agreed, and Evil Disaster reluctantly accepted the decision, leaving to confront the situation.

• Evil Disaster and the Nine Calamities discussed their history with the Anomaly Containment Association and worried that past grudges would make joining difficult.
• Scant Clothes asked whether the Association would make trouble for former enemies who joined.
• Evil Disaster insisted that the Association would not deliberately mistreat them, and the Nine Calamities accepted the Supreme Leader’s decision.
• Calamity called a vote, and Suffering Disaster, the old man, several cadres, and the other members raised their hands in agreement.
• Evil Disaster demanded to know why the Association’s founder had approached Calamity instead of him, then declared that he would go and vanished as smoke.

Shen Yu discussed whether the Anomaly Containment Association should admit the hostile Calamity Organization, and the elders debated the risks and conditions. The elders recognized the Calamity High Chief’s strength, leaving temporary supervision in doubt.

• Canna Lily, Yuan Wu, and Yu Santai warned that the Calamity Organization’s hostility and the instability of Anomaly Tamers could threaten the Association.
• Cang Guxiao said the elders would support Shen Yu’s decision, while Wu Ying backed admitting the organization under temporary supervision.
• Blue Lamp argued that the Calamity High Chief was too powerful to monitor and would not compromise if he had ulterior motives.
• Wu Ying fell silent after realizing that his suggestion of supervision was inappropriate.

Shen Yu decided that the newcomers from Natural Disasters and Human Calamities would join the Anomaly Containment Association in a separate Action Department, while its people and resources continued to grow. The Research Department remained overwhelmed by its expanding technology program, where Mr. G and Mr. Tan’s experiments pushed Ker to question their methods.

• Shen Yu told the seven elders to merge Natural Disasters and Human Calamities into the Anomaly Containment Association as a new Action Department, and they reluctantly agreed.
• After the meeting, Shen Yu noticed that Bei Mu’s Wealth Reaches the Gods Character Card had advanced from Fierce Fiend Class to Calamity Class.
• Shen Yu observed that many Character Cards and associated characters were advancing as the Association’s resources and Construction Points increased.
• Shen Yu recognized that Mr. G and Mr. Tan could not handle the Association’s vast technology tree alone, even with Ker and Kro helping them research special weapons.
• Ker questioned whether Mr. G’s experiments were immoral, and Mr. G dismissed morality as irrelevant to scientific research.

Ker and Kro explained that their former method of making Anomaly Artifacts relied on blood, resentment, and anomaly energy, while Mr. G clarified how Weird Crystals differed from contaminating anomaly energy. The group began testing ways to create artifacts and chose a small mirror for their first experiment.

• Ker questioned whether Kro believed that success justified their approach, fearing the consequences of another mistake.
• Ker explained that he had made C-rank Anomaly Artifacts by soaking objects in blood, resentment, and anomaly energy, but could no longer use that method while atoning for his past crimes.
• Mr. G said Weird Crystals contained stable, concentrated energy whose crystalline shells blocked most contamination, and demonstrated how their powder could make a replenishing energy potion.
• Mr. Tan proposed using blood, resentment from captured enemies, and anomaly energy supplied by their contracted anomalies to make Anomaly Artifacts.
• The group gathered contaminated everyday objects for experiments and selected a small round mirror as their first test subject.

Ker and Kro worked to make a mirror absorb blood and resentment, while the Anomaly Containment Association delivered a former Evil Deity cultist to serve as a source of resentment. The chapter left Prisoner 0155 bound and terrified as Kro learned about his past.

• Ker explained that the mirror needed to soak in blood and be tainted with resentment and weird energy.
• Kro summoned the Undecaying Corpse and separated resentment from its stored negative emotions, injecting it into the mirror.
• Robots delivered the bound Prisoner 0155, whose fear and resentment became apparent to Mr. G and Mr. Tan.
• Mr. G said Prisoner 0155 could replenish the resentment supply, and Mr. Tan revealed he had been an Evil Deity cultist who conducted living sacrifices.

Ker reflected on the people he had killed and accepted that his sins could never be erased, while Kro reminded him that he, too, considered himself a heinous sinner. The mirror began to respond to Ker’s emotions, and he stabilized it as Mr. G recorded the process.

• Kro drained the negative emotions from the Evil Deity cultist 0155, leaving him unconscious.
• Ker thought about the people he had killed and resolved to carry his guilt while creating Anomaly Artifacts and protecting others.
• Ker’s emotions made the mirror tremble as it drew in blood, and Kro told him to compose himself.
• Ker used his mental power to stabilize the mirror while Mr. G recorded the process.
• Ker admitted that his past actions had been heinous, and Kro said he was also a sinner because he had killed his father.

Ker and Kro argued over their past sins as the mirror absorbed the blood and activated. The mirror attacked Ker, and Kro released his Ghost Domain to protect him.

• Ker insisted that killing was a sin and urged Kro to atone with him.
• The brothers' emotions stirred the mirror, which absorbed the blood and floated out of its container.
• The mirror struck Ker with a beam of light before he could dodge.
• Kro rushed to Ker's aid while Mr. G sounded the alarm and Mr. Tan activated the protective measures.
• Mr. G and Mr. Tan released their Weirds, and Kro unleashed the Nether Painting Realm.

Kro released a Ghost Domain inside the sealed laboratory to protect Mr. G and Mr. Tan from the mirror’s red light after Ker was pulled into it. Outside, Fu Zeyu arrived but hesitated to break into the laboratory without knowing what danger awaited.

• Ye Feng found the laboratory sealed after researchers reported an incident involving the department heads and two Contract Anomalists.
• Ye Feng sensed powerful energy inside and recognized that someone had released a Ghost Domain.
• Fu Zeyu arrived with other Contract Anomalists and considered forcing open the laboratory door, but held back because he did not know what was happening inside.
• Ker was drawn into the mirror as Kro’s Ghost Domain protected Mr. G and Mr. Tan from its unusual red glow.
• Kro sensed that being struck by the mirror’s light would cause harm and kept the others inside the Ghost Domain.

Kro and the researchers escaped the laboratory, but the Anomaly Mirror sucked in Fu Zhang when he tried to seize it. The mirror remained a threat as Kro and the others regrouped outside.

• Kro maintained the Ghost Domain while Mr. G and Mr. Tan waited for reinforcements at Headquarters.
• Fu Zhang arrived, broke into the laboratory, and learned that the experiment had created a dangerous Anomaly Mirror.
• Fu Zhang tried to grab the mirror, but its red light passed through his defenses and pulled him inside.
• Kro escorted Mr. G and Mr. Tan out of the mirror’s attack range, then retracted the Ghost Domain.
• Fu Zeyu asked whether Fu Zhang had solved the problem, and Kro explained that Fu Zhang had also been sucked into the mirror.

Ker was trapped inside the Anomaly Mirror and forced to face the memories and resentment that had driven him to madness. Outside, Fu Zeyu and the researchers discussed the artifact’s dangers while Kro struggled with what was happening to his brother.

• Fu Zeyu recognized the Anomaly Mirror’s effect as a rule-based ability, and Kro nearly turned back to save his only family.
• Mr. G and Mr. Tan discussed the artifacts’ instability and the need to conduct future experiments in a separate space.
• Ker fell through a void filled with memories of his jealousy toward Kro, his anger at his family, and his killings and creation of Anomaly Artifacts.
• Ker wondered whether the artifacts had twisted him or whether he had always been destined to destroy everything.
• Ker imagined that Kro would have been the Tascenna Family’s pride if Ker had never been born.

Ker was overwhelmed by memories before a vast display of lightning revealed Fu Zhang’s immense power. A memory of Fu Zhang’s mother being killed ended with a lightning-wreathed figure saving him as a child.

• Ker struggled with painful memories until thunder shook him and he looked up at the lightning above.
• Fu Zhang stood amid purple-blue lightning, with his Character Perfection above 70% and his contracted Weird already at the Weird God level.
• A memory showed Fu Zhang’s mother urging him to run before a monster tore her apart.
• Young Fu Zhang charged the monster in grief and rage, but it struck him down.
• A blue lightning bolt incinerated the monster, and a crimson-eyed figure wrapped in lightning looked down at Fu Zhang.

Ker escaped the Anomaly Mirror after confronting memories of his past and resolving to share his sins with Kro by helping save people and worlds. Kro rushed into the laboratory to retrieve him, but Fu Zeyu asked where Lord Fu Zhang was.

• Ker worried that the growing lightning inside the Anomaly Artifact would kill him and wondered whether someone was inside it.
• Ker accepted responsibility for his and Kro's past sins and resolved that the brothers would repay them together by saving people and worlds.
• A crisp sound rang out, and Ker vanished from the seawater before reappearing in the laboratory beside the Anomaly Mirror.
• Kro entered his Ghost Domain and rushed into the laboratory, then enveloped Ker and carried him back out.
• Kro had exhausted his Weird energy when Fu Zeyu asked Ker whether he had seen Lord Fu Zhang.

Fu Zhang’s buried childhood memories resurfaced in the Anomaly Mirror, allowing him to overcome the knot in his heart and reach a breakthrough. Shen Yu sensed Fu Zhang’s consciousness beginning to awaken as his Character Perfection rose to 80%.

• Fu Zhang’s forgotten memories of his mother’s death and the Chairman rescuing him resurfaced while he floated underwater.
• Fu Zhang let go of his inner conflict and unlocked a breakthrough with Thunder God Sovereign.
• A system notification announced that Fu Zhang’s Character Perfection had reached 80% and generated the special scene Divine Court (sss).
• Shen Yu sensed a new world rift near Headquarters and realized that Fu Zhang’s consciousness was beginning to awaken.
• Shen Yu reflected that other powerful Contract Anomalists, including Wu, Disaster, Bai Zuo, and Skywing A, had also awakened before reaching full Character Perfection.

Shen Yu activated an SSS-rank special scenario, drawing Fu Zhang into it as his consciousness began to awaken. Outside the Anomaly Mirror, Ker explained how it trapped people in painful memories, while Fu Zeyu considered how a different version of himself might fare inside it.

• Shen Yu activated the SSS-rank special scenario after considering the gathered fragments of the space and time divine artifacts.
• The special scenario drew Fu Zhang from the Anomaly Mirror inside it.
• Ker told the others that the Anomaly Mirror forced people to relive memories and magnified their emotions, making it dangerous for Contract Anomalists who struggled with their pasts.
• Kro recalled that the Chairman had saved him when he had given up on himself and was falling into self-destruction.
• Fu Zeyu reflected that his own life had not filled him with unbearable regret, but the Fu Zeyu from the parallel world or a possible future had lost everything.

Fu Zeyu feared that the Anomaly Mirror might drive Fu Zhang out of control and warned the others to retreat. Absolute Boundary arrived as the danger appeared to be growing, and Fu Zeyu explained the situation to him.

• Fu Zeyu worried that the Anomaly Mirror could force Fu Zhang to relive a painful past and make him lose control.
• Fu Zeyu considered who could stop Fu Zhang and concluded that only the elusive Chairman might be available at Headquarters.
• Fu Zeyu called for a Level One alert and urged everyone to retreat.
• Mr. G led Kro, Mr. Tan, and the others out of the room.
• Absolute Boundary arrived after the alarm woke him, and Fu Zeyu warned him that Fu Zhang might lose control.

Fu Zhang lost control in the laboratory, causing a violent outbreak that drew the Supervision Department’s attention. A world rift suddenly opened and pulled Shattered Soul, another Sanctioner, and Fu Zeyu into an unfamiliar world.

• Fu Zeyu warned Absolute Boundary that Fu Zhang had lost control, and Absolute Boundary prepared to use Otherworld Summoning.
• A burst of electricity and explosions tore through the laboratory, forcing Fu Zeyu, Absolute Boundary, and the other Contract Anomalists to flee.
• The commotion alerted Holy Sanction and Blade of Verdict, and Shattered Soul arrived to assess Fu Zhang’s violent Weird aura.
• Shattered Soul sensed a world rift open, then it sucked him, another Sanctioner, and Fu Zeyu into an unfamiliar world.
• Shattered Soul steadied himself in the new world and cautiously examined its violent energy.

Calamity brought the Nine Calamities and other members of the Calamity Organization to the Source World to join the Anomaly Containment Association, but they could not enter Headquarters without an association member escorting them. Shen Yu waited near an unstable world rift, unaware that the newcomers were looking for him.

• Calamity and the others arrived at the Source World and sensed its powerful rules restricting outsiders.
• The group discussed the Source World and the Calamity Organization's decision to join the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Suffering Disaster asked how they could enter Headquarters, and Calamity realized they needed an Anomaly Containment Association member to lead them in.
• Shen Yu sneezed while waiting for the world rift to stabilize, then planned to investigate it.

Shen Yu returned to Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters to meet the arriving Calamity Organization, explaining that a new world rift had drawn him away. He led them through the gates, where a blaring alarm suggested something had gone wrong inside.

• Shen Yu realized the Calamity Organization might be arriving and returned to Headquarters after sensing a fluctuation of power.
• Evil Disaster grew furious when the Calamity Organization found the Headquarters gates shut and no Contract Anomalists there to welcome them, while Suffering Disaster held him back.
• Shen Yu appeared before the gates, apologized for the delay, and said he had set up a barrier around a newly appeared world rift.
• Shen Yu opened the gates and invited the Calamity Organization inside, but a piercing alarm blared as they entered.

Calamity and the Nine Calamities entered the Anomaly Containment Association’s Headquarters with Shen Yu after the incident there. Evil Mouth reflected on how the Association had repeatedly allowed Calamity’s members to escape while crushing their other enemies, and he wondered whether the Association’s dominance would invite even more covert attacks if Calamity did not exist.

• Calamity decided against asking Shen Yu how he managed the Anomaly Containment Association and told him to deal with the trouble inside Headquarters.
• Shen Yu led Calamity and the others into the building, while Evil Mouth watched him and Love Resentment asked whether his teeth hurt.
• Evil Mouth worried that the Anomaly Containment Association might punish the Nine Calamities for their past attacks on its Contract Anomalists.
• Evil Mouth recalled that Calamity’s members had withdrawn after using their allies, while the Anomaly Containment Association had repeatedly let them escape without pursuing them.
• Evil Mouth concluded that the Anomaly Containment Association had eliminated other hostile factions and that, without Calamity, it might face endless covert schemes from its enemies.