Recaps

Fran developed her potion business, combat skills, and runework while navigating threats from Richter and trouble within the Pharmacist Association. After mastering her Breathing Technique and gaining the Rune Warrior trait, she proved her strength to John and prepared for the assessment.

• Fran learned the Swift Wind Breathing Technique, gained Star Gazing Art, and saw a future vision of herself killing Richter and another Apprentice.
• Fran mastered potion-making, joined the Pharmacist Association, and began selling Energy Potions to Elan as the Association faced financial and supply problems.
• Fran bought Wind Blade Art, defeated a drunken Apprentice, and agreed to supply Elan with potions while asking him for a Combat Technique.
• Fran defeated Bela in a swordsmanship match, then killed Mars and two modified beastmen after Mars arranged an attack on her.
• Fran joined Hall’s Enchantment Art club, learned Runology, and began ordering large numbers of daggers and weapons to practice engraving runes.
• An inspector ordered half the Association’s Energy Potion stock packed up and its price doubled, while Richter arranged plans involving the wasteland south of Cuilan Academy for after the examination.
• Fran mastered Swift Wind Breathing Technique, gained the Rune Warrior trait Mental Power, and defeated John in their assessment spar without using it.

Fran refused to commit to the Sword Chant School, explored other schools and skills, and killed Richter after he accused her of possessing another person’s body. She completed a Spirit Realm trial, returned with a Trial Key, and ended the stretch by defeating modified humans who attacked her outside the Emerald Heart Tavern.

• John recommended Fran, Bela, and Lit to the Swordsman Society, but Fran declined to join the Sword Chant School and Mason received her recommendation instead.
• Fran used Divination Art to envision herself burying Richter and later found his note, confronted him in the wasteland, and killed him and his apprentice before burying them.
• Fran studied Richter’s Notebook, learned about Transmutation, and accepted potion orders from Antir nobles with Elan’s help.
• Fran completed Elven Swordsmanship during a duel with Aboyue, defeated him, and saw him expelled after Ren exposed his scheme.
• Fran entered a Spirit Realm trial, killed Roger for red jade, learned Light Prayer in the darkness, and obtained blue jade after defeating a Gloom Lizard.
• Fran teamed up with Velint to defeat the Vine Giant, collected the divided green jade, and received a Trial Key and the Hardened Scale Rock spell before returning to the Material Realm.
• Fran delivered Healing Potions to Elan, then killed five modified humans who attacked her outside the Emerald Heart Tavern.

Fran built a Steam Engine, joined Harbos’s Forge School, and killed Belori after Belori recognized her [Plunder] trait. As Fran pursued Mage advancement and began selling Spell Rings, Ka'erfu investigated Belori’s disappearance and Richter’s murder.

• Fran learned that powerful apprentices targeted rivals before assessments and disguised herself for trips to the Apprentice Market.
• Harbos recruited Fran into the Forge School after she learned Tool Enchantment and used her Steam Engine to demonstrate its power.
• Fran joined Harbos’s school, but Belori recognized her [Plunder] trait and attacked her, so Fran killed Belori with Harbos’s ring and took her body home.
• Fran mastered Belori’s organ-cultivation and transplantation method, then learned that the Forge School’s incomplete Promotion Method required her to meet three trials to become a one-star Mage.
• Fran joined the Magic Artisan guild’s Spell Ring work, successfully made an Ignition Spell Ring, and began selling rings at prices below the guild’s estimate.
• Ka'erfu investigated Belori’s disappearance and Richter’s murder, identified the Transmutation School and Sword Chant School as leads, and ordered his squad to continue searching while awaiting a warrant.

Fran advanced to Formal Mage, evaded suspicion over Belori’s murder, and entered a Spirit Realm trial to save Monsa before the eighth-day calamity. In the city, she and Velint began investigating the Divine Water while Priest Tors prepared to face the outsiders alone.

• Laibo commissioned Spell Rings from Fran, then used their improved Fireballs to defeat Jielin in a rematch.
• Fran developed her physics textbook and new spells, advanced to Formal Mage, and gained the Steam Engine and Sword Song Mage Specialties.
• Fran attacked Ka'erfu while disguised at a corpse-delivery site, but Lucy later concealed Belori’s body and suspected Luosiqi of the murder.
• Fran learned that Formal Mages could attempt Spirit Realm trials and entered one with the objective of saving Monsa before the calamity on the eighth day.
• Fran refused to join Ailante’s group, then fought off guards and reunited with Velint after Luka overwhelmed them and other Travelers.
• Fran and Velint suspected Monsa’s residents had been transformed by Dragon-Transformation Potion and questioned Una about the Divine Water and its distribution.
• Fran decided to investigate the Divine Revelation Hall, while Luka reported to Priest Tors that some Travelers had escaped and Tors dismissed the guard unit from the hall.