Recaps

Sylutia trained her eye abilities on the Child of the Formless, then fought and defeated the Tier 3 monsters around the Blood Limb tree. She purified the nearly mature Blood Fruit into a Tier 4 Pure Blood Fruit and stored it as her finest cultivation work so far.

• Sylutia raised [Illusion Demon Eye] to Lv.6 by commanding the Child of the Formless, then sealed the obedient creature instead of killing it.
• Sylutia killed the Child of Evil, restrained the Bone-Eating Black Snake, and battled the Lion-Headed Monster until she weakened and sealed it.
• Sylutia tested [Evil Eye Shot] and [Piercing Ray] on the Black Serpent, advanced both abilities to Lv.7, and killed it.
• Sylutia sensed the Blood Fruit's maturation and reached Lv.7 in Gardening Skills.
• Sylutia used Emerald Nectar, [Natural Growth], and Radiant Moon magic to purify the Blood Fruit, raise it to Tier 4, and store it.

Sylutia explored the Wailing Cave, rescued Feiqi from corruption, and defeated a Shadow Beast before reaching the Mausoleum Region. The mausoleum sealed itself into a shifting labyrinth, where the Selection Ritual of Palen Markov began for seven participants.

• Sylutia rested outside the Wailing Cave, then entered and improved her Darkvision while following traces left by other explorers.
• Sylutia found Lando trying to save Feiqi and used purifying spring to reduce Feiqi’s corruption, allowing Lando to carry him back to Firestone Fortress.
• Sylutia accepted Lando’s Wolf Heart Blood Bag and continued deeper into the cave, where she defeated an Undying Shadow with her Radiant Gold Longblade and fire.
• Sylutia entered the Mausoleum Region and watched the entrance vanish as the passages transformed into a moving maze.
• A message announced that all seven participants had arrived and the Selection Ritual had begun, while an ancient mural of Palen Markov began to glow.

Sylutia explored the mausoleum labyrinth, claimed the [Killing Fist] card, and defeated three Stone Statue Wolves. Elsewhere in the labyrinth, a red-haired young man used a strange beetle to overcome a stone lion.

• Sylutia chose the path marked with a book and found the [Killing Fist] card in a small room.
• Sylutia made the Lion-Headed Monster absorb the card, tested its enhanced punches, then resealed the monster and placed the card in her Fate Disk.
• Sylutia gained the [Killing Fist] ability and shattered a brick with her enhanced strength.
• Sylutia defeated three Stone Statue Wolves and collected three Black Bone Crystals from them.
• A red-haired young man released a strange red beetle from a clay jar, then used his broken sword to kill a black stone lion.

Sylutia explored the maze’s card-exchange rooms, gained the Honey Fragrance Breathing Technique, and used her abilities to defeat a powerful Brass Sand Scorpion. She reached the stage rewards, while other explorers discovered ways to exploit the maze’s rules for extra cards.

• Sylutia exchanged Killing Fist at a Two-Headed Stork platform and gained the Honey Fragrance Breathing Technique, which enhanced her agility and perception after she drank nectar.
• A scarf-wearing woman used a fake Distortion card to claim a Red-Tailed Bee Stinger, while other explorers found ways to exploit the maze’s loopholes for extra rewards.
• Sylutia obtained a dark-red serrated saber and entered a large chamber where a Tier Three Brass Sand Scorpion attacked her.
• Unable to penetrate the scorpion’s armor with physical attacks, Sylutia switched to Alien Star, stunned it with Eye of Majesty, destroyed its stinger, and subdued it with her eye technique.
• Sylutia sealed the Brass Sand Scorpion, opened the passage, and approached the stage rewards: a Potion Bottle, a Card, and a Brass Pendant.

Sylutia cleared the maze monsters and gained the [Butterfly Wings] ability, while the survivors faced increasingly dangerous trials. Lusha killed another student and advanced to the Fourth Tier, as Sylutia manifested a pair of star-blue wings.

• Sylutia examined her rewards, tested [Mantis Blade], and entered a passage leading to a new level of the maze.
• Three of the seven explorers died fighting powerful monsters, while four survived and continued to the lower level.
• The red-haired young man swallowed a [Blood Beetle] and used its power to defeat a snake-bodied monster with a human head.
• Lusha killed a two-headed monster with her dagger and [Red-Tailed Bee Stinger], then later killed another student in a maze chamber and advanced to the Fourth Tier.
• Sylutia defeated the monsters in her section of the maze, obtained [Butterfly Wings], and grew a pair of star-blue wings.

Sylutia tested the powers granted by her Butterfly Wings and encountered Gallas, a student whose attention was overwhelmed by her unconscious allure. After finding a way to open the maze room without fighting him, she left Gallas to rest and continued exploring, promising to return for him.

• Sylutia found that her Butterfly Wings enhanced her mental abilities and improved her flight as she advanced through the maze.
• Sylutia met Gallas, who mistook her for a Fairy and struggled to resist her captivating presence.
• Sylutia gave the dazed Gallas a blanket and used her powers to discover and activate the room's mechanism.
• Sylutia told Gallas she would return for him after exploring the maze, then flew through the passage while he fell asleep.

Lusha touched a mural in Palen Markov’s mausoleum and was drawn into a dream that made her believe she was the dead Named One. Sylutia recognized the mural’s danger, bypassed it, and reached the final chamber, where she and Lusha were forced into a deadly selection ritual.

• Lusha touched the strange mural and dreamed she was Palen Markov, a powerful Named One of conspiracy and deceit.
• Lusha woke with her identity confused, and the mural wall descended to reveal the path forward.
• Sylutia recognized Palen Markov’s history and detected that touching the mural would mean agreeing to something.
• Sylutia changed her Fate Disk cards, bypassed the mural by crossing through space, and continued through the maze.
• Sylutia arrived in the final hall as Lusha tried to take the ancient flute, and the ritual began, driving the two women to fight.

Sylutia fought Lusha in the Mausoleum’s ritual hall, improving her skills until she defeated the assassin. When the ritual tried to transfer Lusha’s stolen power to Sylutia, she resisted, and a monstrous worm emerged and cocooned itself.

• Lusha accused Sylutia of seeking the Mausoleum’s treasures and attacked her with a dagger.
• Sylutia evaded Lusha’s strikes and wounded her with purple beams, while Lusha drank potions to regenerate and enhance her abilities.
• Sylutia and Lusha clashed repeatedly as Sylutia honed her swordsmanship and raised her Moonlight Breathing Technique to Lv.6.
• Sylutia trapped Lusha’s path and cut her in two, but the ritual drained Lusha and turned her into a dried-up corpse.
• Sylutia resisted the ritual’s attempt to infuse her with Lusha’s Aspect Power, causing a monstrous worm to emerge, absorb the power, and form a cocoon.

Sylutia destroyed the creature gestating in the ritual, then discovered the labyrinth was inside a colossal monster and escaped by cutting through its flesh. The awakened beast pursued her with swarms of blood-born mosquitoes as she tried to determine why it had targeted her.

• Sylutia used the Sword of Amos and her Castle Aspect Power to destroy the humanoid creature emerging from the flesh cocoon.
• Sylutia realized the Ritual Array was still active and discovered that the labyrinth's halls were inside a colossal creature.
• Sylutia cut through the monster's flesh and escaped the underground ruins to the open sky.
• Sylutia identified the awakened creature as a likely vessel used by Palen Markov and faced its attack of hatching blood-red eggs.
• Sylutia fought off the mosquito swarm while wondering why the monster was fixated on her.

Unable to escape or defeat the deteriorating Flesh Lizard, Sylutia used Luna’s Seven-Colored Picture Book to obtain Witch School: Pupil Vision of the Sun Flower. The card transformed her and unleashed sunlike flames that consumed the monster and began reshaping the Abyss.

• Sylutia’s sword attack barely wounded the enormous Flesh Lizard, and a ritual force prevented her from escaping.
• Sylutia realized the Flesh Lizard was seeking her pure, powerful body because its own body was falling apart.
• The Flesh Lizard’s maggots devoured Sylutia’s Emerald Nectar plants, prompting her to seek help through the Seven-Colored Picture Book.
• Sylutia spent her accumulated colors to exchange for Witch School: Pupil Vision of the Sun Flower and merged the card into herself.
• Sylutia’s transformed gaze engulfed the Flesh Lizard in flaming flowers that spread across the Abyss and began changing its laws and environment.

Sylutia burned Palen Markov’s grimoire and transformed the corrupted land in the Abyss into fertile meadows of Bright Flame Cornflowers. As she let the flowers grow according to their own needs, she gained new insight and advanced to the Fourth Order.

• Sylutia memorized the knowledge she needed from Palen Markov’s grimoire, then burned it, erasing most of his remaining traces.
• Sylutia scattered Cornflower seeds across the purified soil and used her Butterfly Wings to spread them over the hills, valleys, and mountains.
• The Cornflowers bloomed into Bright Flame Cornflowers, whose blazing energy burned away distortion carried by the wind and preserved the land’s vitality.
• Sylutia realized she could discover new possibilities by supporting the flowers’ different needs instead of forcing them to follow a perfect design.
• Sylutia nurtured the flowers according to their surroundings, received their Aspect Power, and advanced from the Maiden in the Courtyard to the Maiden of the Sun Flower at the Fourth Order.

Sylutia worried that her rapid advancement to the Fourth Order would cause trouble and considered how to explain it to the Woodland Alliance. After examining her new abilities and the Fire Persimmon trees in her garden, she accepted that her peaceful life might change but looked toward the future with growing anticipation.

• Sylutia worried that advancing so quickly from the Third Order would create hidden problems and make her stand out, so she decided to claim she had gained power from a special inheritance.
• Sylutia reviewed her status and discovered that her Fate Card abilities had improved, including the new Sun Flower effect that let her give flowers and flower-based spells flame properties.
• Sylutia found that her garden could now grow Fire Persimmon trees whose rare fruit would ripen in about three months.
• Sylutia resolved to pay closer attention to her Emerald Nectar Aspect Power and worried that the Woodland Alliance might assign her new duties now that she had reached the Fourth Order.
• Sylutia admired the Bright Flame Cornflowers covering the mountainside, felt calmer, and grew faintly hopeful about the future.

Sylutia rescued Gallas after defeating the monster behind the trial and explained how its soul-stealing contract had worked. After the Woodland Alliance investigated the flower field and uncovered the history of Palen Markov’s cult, it appointed Sylutia to lead a new base called the Blazing Sun Garden.

• Sylutia found Gallas asleep in a broken cocoon, revived him, and explained that the trial had been a ritual designed to bind its participants and let the monster claim the final victor’s soul.
• Gallas learned that Sylutia had killed the monster and returned with her to Firestone Fortress to report what had happened to the Woodland Guild.
• The Woodland Alliance investigated the Bright Flame Cornflower field, protected it, and established research stations around the unusual region.
• Scholars traced Palen Markov to a false identity created by a Twin Snake Cult branch, whose stronghold had been cast into the Twilight Sea by an enraged Named One.
• The Woodland Alliance established the Blazing Sun Garden and appointed Sylutia as its manager and leader.

Gallas spread embellished stories inspired by Sylutia around the Blazing Sun Garden outpost, prompting Rachel to warn him to stop troubling Sylutia with rumors. The outpost continued to grow into a busy center of study, while Sylutia gained recognition as a representative of the Woodland Alliance’s new generation.

• Gallas entertained students with a tale about a princess in a White Tower until Rachel and her patrol stopped him and questioned him about the rumors.
• Gallas explained that he wrote stories praising Sylutia to spread her name and advance as a Bard, and that he had become a permanent fixture at the outpost after surviving the Trial Labyrinth.
• Rachel warned Gallas that his stories were troubling Sylutia and threatened to punish him if he kept making them too outlandish.
• Gallas promised to avoid strange romances in his stories and preserve Sylutia’s pure image, and Rachel eventually let him go.
• The Blazing Sun Garden outpost filled with Woodland Alliance members, scholars, and Wizards, and Sylutia became known as a representative of the new generation.

Sylutia rested after meeting with visitors and reflected on how the Trial Labyrinth discovery had made her an indispensable administrator and a target for Woodland Alliance organizations. With a special status allowing her to join several organizations and access their inheritances, she planned her fourth-rank advancement but recognized that she first needed to learn the spell abilities expected of a third-rank Emerald Nectar.

• Sylutia finished a meeting, took a short nap, and woke to her companions discussing the organizations seeking to recruit her.
• Sylutia recalled explaining the Trial Labyrinth and the flesh monster with a story about a single-use treasure, which high-ranking Transcendents accepted after finding traces of ninth-rank power.
• The Woodland Alliance built a protected research base around the flower field and appointed Sylutia its administrator.
• The Woodland Alliance granted Sylutia a rare status that let her join multiple organizations, receive their inheritances, and use their resources in exchange for contributions.
• Sylutia considered upgrading her Autumn Garden and decided she first needed to learn the spell abilities of a third-rank Emerald Nectar.

After reuniting with Professor Serophi, Sylutia asked him to explain the differences between the three major spell systems. Serophi taught her the history and strengths of Wizards, Mages, and Scholars, then began instructing her in the Scholar spell False Bouquet.

• Sylutia welcomed Professor Serophi after more than two years apart and discussed her studies and plans with him.
• Serophi recalled his promise to teach Sylutia False Bouquet once she reached the third tier.
• Serophi explained how Wizard spells developed from creature abilities and runes, and how different approaches created the Wizard, Mage, and Scholar systems.
• Serophi contrasted the systems' power and flexibility with examples, including Sylutia's Vine Overgrowth and the Core Secret Arts of each system.
• Sylutia understood the distinctions, and Serophi began teaching her False Bouquet, a Scholar spell whose effects could change with the flowers used.

Sylutia spent the year expanding her magical knowledge and cultivating the Blazing Sun Garden, becoming more composed and respected. After her fourth year in the Woodland passed, she asked Dorothy to make more glass for a secret project.

• Sylutia tested False Bouquet, whose Bright Flame Cornflower flames turned the intended curse-support spell into a powerful direct attack.
• Serophi offered Sylutia the complete Memory Labyrinth Meditation Technique in exchange for twenty batches of Grade Three Bright Flame Cornflowers and warned her about the Black Dream Meditation Technique’s risks.
• Sylutia learned the Four Seasons Alliance’s Wind Summoning Technique (Vaulted Sky) and planned to combine it with Branch Combing Technique after raising it to Lv. 3.
• Sylutia spent the following year studying, tending the Blazing Sun Garden, and cultivating crops, while her growing strength eased her pressures and earned her greater respect.
• After Sylutia’s fourth year in the Woodland passed, Dorothy teased her about becoming more reserved, and Sylutia asked her to make more glass without revealing why.

Sylutia reviewed Lantern Town’s growth and learned how many of her companions had advanced to the third tier while she focused on her studies and gardening. In Blazing Sun Garden, she cultivated Bright Flame Cornflowers and made bracelets to give her companions as gifts.

• Sylutia reviewed Lantern Town’s production report and learned that Elton had managed its affairs well as the town prepared for another expansion and a possible new name.
• Rachel reported that 203 members would join a sweep of Secret Realm danger zones, including 65 third-tier fighters, and explained how Lantern Town’s resources had helped its early apprentices advance.
• Sylutia decided to ask Dorothy whether she needed help reaching the next tier.
• Sylutia cultivated the Bright Flame Cornflowers and shaped their petals into third-tier bracelets that could resist the curse of Distortion.
• Sylutia planned to give the bracelets to her companions as gifts for reaching the third tier.

Sylutia’s expedition pushed into the Abyss while the Woodland Alliance investigated signs of a powerful monster beyond the Dark Mist Mountains. Sylutia found and escaped the two-headed serpent Heikuis Larva, confirming that a terrifying Sixth Order threat lurked ahead.

• The Rhino Horn Mountain City force and teams from the outposts began clearing monster sites and building Lighthouse nodes toward the Dark Mist Mountains’ depths.
• Taos explained that scholars suspected a powerful Nightmare creature beyond the mountains was altering the World of Shadows, and linked the signs to the Twin Snake Cult and Palen Markov.
• Sylutia’s team fought through dangerous territory, encountered a Fifth Order Corpse-Stitcher Monster, and continued scouting after reporting their progress to the rear.
• When the Purification Curtains could go no farther, Sylutia ventured alone into the corrosive darkness and used Mist-Piercing Eye to spot an enormous two-headed serpent.
• Sylutia teleported back just before the serpent swallowed her location, and the creature was identified as Heikuis Larva, a Sixth Order Nightmare that suppressed beings with human blood.

Sylutia stayed behind to draw the Heikuis Larva away from her retreating team, but the Two-Headed Serpent attacked and cursed her. As the curse began to spread, her dormant Fairy’s Blessing awakened and opposed it.

• Sylutia recognized the danger posed by the Heikuis Larva and used the Lighthouse to warn the command post before ordering her group to retreat.
• Sylutia remained behind under the Lighthouse, transformed into the Alien Star Aspect Power, and released five Beholders to watch for the serpent.
• The Two-Headed Serpent found Sylutia and attacked, but the seven-colored Picture Book teleported her out of its jaws.
• The serpent sent out the Heikuis Curse: Serpent of Devouring, spreading Man-Snake Patterns across Sylutia’s body.
• Fairy’s Blessing awakened within Sylutia and its pale pink petal patterns began opposing the curse.

Sylutia suppressed the Serpent of Devouring curse and found her bearings, then witnessed Commander Taos and three other Sixth Order warriors battle the Two-Headed Serpent. Taos unsealed the Steel-Breaking Sword and severed the serpent’s head with its radiant strike.

• Sylutia used the Radiant Moon and Fairy’s Blessing to suppress and seal the Serpent of Devouring curse after a six-hour struggle.
• Sylutia recovered overnight, used Dorothy’s Astrolabe to locate herself, and prepared to leave the area.
• Sylutia saw four powerful beings descend on the Two-Headed Serpent and moved closer to observe their fight.
• The Demon Dragon Berserker, Firefly-Stained Poet, Witch of the Forest Charm, and Commander Taos attacked the serpent together.
• Commander Taos swore his oath, unsealed the Steel-Breaking Sword, and cut off the Two-Headed Serpent’s head.

The Heikuis Larva overwhelmed Taos and the other fighters, leaving the holy sword's light close to being extinguished. Iron Wall Crown Furnace knights burned their Aspect Power to reach Taos, while Sylutia distracted the serpent and helped him land a third sword strike that severed both heads.

• Taos's holy sword severed one head of the Heikuis Larva, but its remaining head poisoned the Demon Dragon Berserker and swallowed the Bard, who escaped only to be weakened by a curse.
• The Heikuis Larva devoured its severed head, regenerated, and consumed the Witch's emerald flames; the Witch fled with the unconscious Bard, and the serpent swallowed the blood-red giant.
• The Heikuis Larva trapped Taos and poured black sludge over the holy sword, while Sylutia realized she lacked the power to rescue him alone.
• Hundreds of Iron Wall High Cliff knights charged to Taos, enduring the serpent's poisonous assault as their vows ignited their Aspect Power in the dissipation of divinity.
• The knights renewed the holy sword's radiance, and Sylutia distracted the Heikuis Larva with her abilities so Taos could strike a third time and sever both of its heads.

After Sylutia helped defeat the Two-Headed Serpent: Heikuis Larva, she treated the wounded at Blazing Sun Garden as the region began to recover from the Distortion. Months later, Taos visited to thank her for saving his knights, and Sylutia reflected on their courage.

• Sylutia purified the area after the battle, treated injured knights, and helped them recover at Blazing Sun Garden.
• Furi worked alongside Sylutia at the infirmary and grew to admire her skill and knowledge.
• The Woodland Alliance began purifying the Dark Mist Mountains, and Sylutia agreed to Blazing Sun Garden becoming a treatment and research base.
• Four months later, Taos thanked Sylutia for helping hold back the serpent and caring for his knights.
• Sylutia recalled how the Iron Knights' fearless charge had moved her and changed how she viewed the deeds of history and legend.

After earning recognition from the Woodland Alliance for creating Bright Flame Flower Dew, Sylutia was briefed on the Mage Alliance’s growing influence and its internal dispute over the Gold Steam Aspect. The Alliance planned to send her and other promising young people to study there and help steer the debate toward peace.

• Sylutia created Bright Flame Flower Dew, a purification potion whose quality earned recognition from the Woodland Alliance and formal acknowledgment from major factions.
• The Woodland Alliance awarded Sylutia a Bright Flame Cornflower Badge, and she spoke at an assembly for its promising young members.
• Sylutia met the Bard and Bam, survivors of the battle against the Two-Headed Serpent, and Bam gave her a Demon Dragon Scale.
• Captain Cassius told Sylutia that the Mage Alliance’s expansion threatened the Woodland Alliance and that its internal factions disagreed over how to bring about the Hour of the Gold Steam Path.
• Cassius explained that the Woodland Alliance planned to send Sylutia and other outstanding members to the Mage Alliance to influence its debate toward a peaceful resolution.

The Woodland Alliance explained why Sylutia needed to go to the Mage Alliance: they trusted her to study its strengths and influence its internal struggle. Sylutia accepted the mission and received promises of help with her memories, New Regas, and her research interests before the elders sent her off with gifts.

• Sylutia mistakenly thought the Woodland Alliance was sending her away, so Taos and the others explained that they wanted her to study the Mage Alliance and help protect their traditions.
• An elderly scholar told Sylutia that her youth, talent, and supporters made her the best person to enter the Mage Alliance and understand its factions.
• Sylutia accepted the decision and asked how she would carry out the mission, but the group said someone would explain the plan later.
• The Elf Bard asked Sylutia what she wanted, and she named recovering her memories, learning about New Regas's future, and researching the Star-Gazing School and unusual cornflowers.
• The Woodland Alliance promised Sylutia a Time Dream Recall potion and meditation technique, protection for New Regas, and help with her research.
• The elders gave Sylutia small gifts, spoke with her, and reluctantly let her leave.