Recaps

Dorothy dressed Sylutia in a luxurious gown and jewelry before bringing her to meet the Woodland Alliance’s young prodigies. Sylutia’s overwhelming impression won their support, forcing the Alliance to publicly claim she would stay while secretly preparing for her departure to the Mage Alliance.

• Dorothy and the maids dressed Sylutia in a rare gown, high heels, and a gemstone necklace for a gathering.
• Dorothy led Sylutia into a hall of talented young Woodland Alliance members, who fell silent at her entrance.
• Sylutia introduced herself and captivated the gathered students, winning their admiration and support.
• The young members protested fiercely when they learned Sylutia planned to leave for the Mage Alliance.
• Sylutia reassured the protesters, and the Woodland Alliance announced she would stay at the Dark Mist Mountains outpost while secretly preparing her departure over the next six months.

Sylutia visited Queen Musa in White Cliff City and helped address New Regas’s economic, security, and corruption problems. Before leaving, she established the Holy Pupil Hall to monitor officials and protect the country’s future.

• Sylutia arrived in White Cliff City and reunited with Musa, who described New Regas’s difficulties with finances, food distribution, and corrupt officials.
• Sylutia promised to help Musa for up to three months and worked with her to identify, try, and dismiss corrupt officials.
• Sylutia reorganized the former cultist-tracking department into the Holy Pupil Hall and selected members to monitor officials.
• Sylutia taught the Holy Pupil Hall members the Eye of Truth ability, which let them find clues, see through disguises, and transmit what they observed.
• Sylutia urged the members to preserve justice and help New Regas develop steadily, and they took their mission to heart.

Sylutia and Karen returned to Scorched Stone City to reunite with old friends, where Ray showed them the greatsword that marked his advancement as a blacksmith. After spending several days there, Sylutia was greeted by Comia’s return, leaving the friends poised to meet again.

• Karen took Sylutia from New Regas to Scorched Stone City, where they settled into their old house without announcing their arrival.
• Sylutia and Karen found Ray working at a blacksmith’s shop, and he told them how his apprenticeship in Stone-Forging City led him to become a Second Tier: Gold Steam blacksmith.
• Ray showed Sylutia and Karen the Hundred-Refined Black Steel Greatsword he had forged, and Sylutia encouraged him to keep making weapons.
• Sylutia spent several more days tending the sunflowers at Lady Falan’s estate.
• Comia arrived at the estate, and Sylutia recognized her through the gate as Comia happily announced she was back.

Mick and his goblin companion traveled south toward Scorched Stone City, where Mick planned to visit his hometown before heading to the Stone Cave Ruins in search of treasure. After enduring the goblin’s nonstop chatter along the way, Mick finally reached the city.

• Mick and the goblin disembarked at Valley City and agreed to visit Mick’s hometown before seeking treasure in the Stone Cave Ruins.
• Mick and the goblin left the city with two donkeys, while the goblin boasted about his supposed descent from Goblin King Kairun and the riches awaiting them.
• The goblin repeatedly complained about the journey and reminisced about his past as Mick ignored most of his chatter.
• After two days of travel through the mountains, Mick arrived at Scorched Stone City and saw his hometown for the first time in years.

Mick returned to Scorched Stone City after five years away and reunited with Ray and his old friends, learning how their lives and Regas had changed. After ten days together, Sylutia gave her friends parting gifts and left the city by carriage.

• Mick learned that Queen Musa ruled a transformed Regas after Anti’s invasion and went looking for Scholar Heide and Ray.
• Mick reunited with Ray, who had become a blacksmith and gifted him a finely made Second Order Black Steel greatsword.
• Ray told Mick that Tia had become a powerful figure close to Queen Musa and that Karen had become a general.
• Mick, Tia, Comia, Karen, and Ray reunited at Lady Falan’s residence and shared stories of their lives over the past five years.
• The five friends spent ten days visiting nearby towns and mountains, then Sylutia gave each of them a gift and departed by carriage.

Sylutia prepared to infiltrate the Mage Alliance as an independent apprentice, learning the Woodland Alliance’s goals and receiving a secret art to alter her appearance. Her bloodline potion changed her silver hair and blue eyes to black, and a reclusive Wizard suspected her father came from the Sixth Continent; Sylutia was left awaiting a new identity and a journey to the Fourth Continent’s central region.

• Sylutia reflected on growing distant from her old friends as her life and abilities set her apart.
• Sylutia handed over the Blazing Sun Garden and met Aelofis at the Phantom Color Woodland, where he explained the Woodland Alliance’s four groups entering the Mage Alliance and her two missions there.
• Aelofis told Sylutia to study freely, influence the Mage Alliance’s leaders to delay war, and learn its advanced system and secret arts.
• Aelofis brought Sylutia to a reclusive Sixth Order Wizard, who taught her a bloodline secret art for revealing hidden inherited traits.
• Sylutia drank the Dominant Bloodline Suppression Potion, and her silver-white hair and blue eyes turned black; the Wizard guessed her father was from the Sixth Continent.
• Sylutia memorized the potion recipe and learned she would receive a new identity before traveling to the central region of the Fourth Continent.

Sylutia helped Aelofis persuade Hedra to accept treatment and leave for the Woodland, while Sylutia learned Hedra’s life and prepared to take her place. She arrived in Quebes as Alanford Griffin’s niece and was introduced to his family, though Haye and Eliel seemed wary of her.

• Alanford told Sylutia and Aelofis how he had met Vanessa, left town, and later discovered that Hedra was his daughter, now gravely ill and estranged from him.
• Aelofis promised to treat Hedra and find her a safe home in exchange for using her identity; he comforted her with magic, and she agreed to go with him.
• Sylutia spent a month learning Hedra’s history and habits, including her close friendship with Jenny, while Hedra’s health improved with medicine.
• Hedra left for the Woodland with Aelofis, while Sylutia traveled with Alanford to Quebes, where she would attend the Mage Alliance under Hedra’s identity.
• Alanford introduced Sylutia as his niece to his wife Haye and children Eliel and Ecol, and the family’s first dinner together passed with subdued tension.

Sylutia settled into the Griffin household as Hedra, learned about the approaching Sea Breeze Festival, and went with Margo to the market after accepting a gold coin from Mrs. Haye. Mrs. Haye then praised Eliel’s purchase of a Conch Flower and urged her to cultivate a connection with the noble Tumbleweed family through Young Master Weiss.

• Sylutia settled into the Griffin home as Hedra, where Margo became her maid and explained the family’s recent circumstances.
• Margo told Sylutia that the Sea Breeze Festival would begin in three months, and Sylutia asked to visit the harbor market the next day.
• Sylutia adjusted her appearance and received a gold coin from Mrs. Haye before going shopping with Margo.
• Eliel showed Mrs. Haye a Conch Flower she had bought for eight gold coins, and Mrs. Haye rewarded her with twenty gold coins.
• Eliel asked whether Hedra was Alanfude’s illegitimate daughter, and Mrs. Haye told her not to worry about it while she investigated.
• Mrs. Haye told Eliel to build a relationship with Lady Tumbleweed and dress well for Young Master Weiss, and Eliel claimed she could make him fall for her.

Sylutia browsed Quebes’s market with Margo, learning that the Griffin family’s status required expensive purchases even as she tried to live within Hedra’s means. At dinner, Eliel challenged Hedra’s education and mocked her lack of Transcendent abilities, while Sylutia recognized that Eliel’s own advancement had left her with a weak foundation.

• Sylutia asked Margo about a wooden comb’s price, and Margo explained that an ivory comb better suited the Griffin family’s status.
• Sylutia visited an upscale furniture shop, balked at the cost of a dressing-table set, and bought an ivory comb and fruit instead.
• Sylutia ate dinner with Ecol and Eliel while Alanfude and Madam Haye were away.
• Eliel questioned Hedra about her hometown and education, then asked her to recite the Oriole Poet’s “The Crab Lady.”
• Sylutia pretended she had forgotten the poem, and Eliel bragged about her early Transcendent advancement while displaying her water control.
• Sylutia thanked Eliel for her advice and privately judged that Eliel’s Aspect Power was weak and poorly balanced.

Sylutia asked Alanfude to introduce her to someone who could explain the Mage Alliance, and he brought her to Lady Medisa’s perfume shop. After Alanfude bought a bottle of Orchid Angelica, Lady Medisa invited Sylutia upstairs to talk.

• Servants spread rumors that Sylutia was ignorant and had not condensed her Aspect Power, and Alanfude apologized to her for the dinner incident.
• Sylutia asked Alanfude to introduce her to someone familiar with the Mage Alliance, so he suggested Lady Medisa, a perfume shop owner from Gevrata.
• Alanfude and Lady Haye took Sylutia into town, bought her clothes, and brought her to Grandifen.
• Lady Haye objected to the shop’s high prices and went outside while Alanfude asked to speak with Lady Medisa.
• Lady Medisa teased Alanfude, sold him Orchid Angelica for fifty gold coins, and invited Sylutia upstairs to talk.

Sylutia asked Lady Medisa about studying magic in the Mage Alliance and learned about its entrance routes and schools. Medisa offered to take her to meet a potential teacher, then stayed behind remembering her own student days.

• Sylutia told Lady Medisa she wanted to study magic, and Medisa described the Mage Alliance’s requirements, schools, and academy system.
• Medisa recommended that Sylutia study the curriculum on her own and attempt the more difficult examination directly.
• Medisa offered to take Sylutia to visit a quiet, knowledgeable man who lived in a Lighthouse and might teach her.
• Sylutia thanked Medisa, then left with Alanfude and Lady Haye to go to lunch.
• After Sylutia left, Medisa recalled studying in the Academy District thirty years earlier and reflected on how distant those memories felt.

Sylutia began studying under Von Knox in his lighthouse tower, where she quickly finished his book about birds. Knox told her about his work and his lifelong effort to understand the legendary Eternal Day White Bird, leaving her to carry his dream forward as he prepared to teach her about the Mage Alliance.

• Lady Medisa brought Sylutia to Von Knox, who tested her knowledge and agreed to become her teacher.
• Knox gave Sylutia Atlas of a Thousand Birds and told her to finish it in three days; she read half of it the first day and completed it the next afternoon.
• Knox revealed that he had written the book and explained how he left the White Bird School to pursue practical inventions at the Mage Alliance.
• Knox recounted his failed attempts to develop bird-shaped flying machines and mechanical Golems, then described his search for the Eternal Day White Bird's secrets.
• Knox asked Sylutia to carry his dream forward, and she promised to do so; he said he would teach her about entering the Mage Alliance the next day.

Sylutia continued studying toward condensing the Secret Speech Aspect while settling into life at Alanfude's estate. On Eliel's gathering day, Eliel tried to keep Sylutia out of sight as guests from Quebes's upper circles began arriving.

• Sylutia estimated that she would be able to condense First Order Secret Speech in about three days.
• Margo told Sylutia that Eliel was hosting a gathering, and Sylutia looked around the decorated courtyard before returning to her room.
• Eliel's friends discussed Sea Spun Yarn and mocked Hedra, while Eliel said Hedra was taking extra lessons.
• After learning Sylutia was home for the day, Eliel ordered the servants to keep her in her room so guests would not meet her.
• Eliel worried that Sylutia might embarrass her and complicate her plans involving Young Master Weiss as carriages brought guests to the estate.

Eliel hosted a party where Vierluna’s beauty drew attention and Weiss arrived with his mother, Madam Mosa. Eliel and Weiss flirted in the garden while Vierluna dismissed the idea of competing for him.

• Guests mocked the Griffin family’s wealth and shallow roots as they arrived at Eliel’s party.
• Eliel welcomed Vierluna, whose striking appearance drew the guests’ attention away from the hostess.
• Madam Mosa arrived with Weiss and reminded him to behave respectably before leaving him at the party.
• Weiss dropped his refined manner with his friends, then admired Eliel as she spoke with him privately in the garden.
• Vierluna told her friend she disliked Weiss even more than Eliel and had no intention of competing for him.

Rosalie arrived at the Griffin Family party and confronted Eliel after learning Eliel had not greeted her as an invited guest. Rosalie’s connection to the city lord left Eliel humiliated, and Vierluna eventually led her away from the crowd.

• Rosalie arrived at the party with her maid Puri and searched for Eliel.
• Rosalie found Eliel in the garden and challenged her for failing to greet an invited guest.
• Puri explained that Rosalie was the city lord’s niece, and Eliel realized the importance of her guest.
• Weiss distanced himself from Eliel and turned his attention to Rosalie, leaving Eliel alone under the guests’ stares.
• Vierluna took Eliel by the arm and led her away, asking to see her Conch Flower.

Brennan visited Knox in his lighthouse and questioned why Knox had taken on an apprentice and hoped to pass on his long-held dream. They discussed the Mage Alliance’s rapid growth and the dangers of its ideals, and Knox ended the visit expressing hope for future generations.

• Brennan asked Knox about his health and his new apprentice, wondering whether Knox was passing his unfulfilled wish on to her.
• Knox explained that he had taken on the apprentice to pass on his knowledge and make one final effort, while accepting that an unknown genius might someday solve the ancient problem.
• Brennan recalled Knox’s youthful ambition to let people fly freely, and how Knox had returned decades later, disheartened, to build the lighthouse.
• Brennan described the Mage Alliance’s growth and warned that its pursuit of truth and efficiency could disregard human needs and emotions.
• Knox acknowledged that conflict between truth and human nature might cause future division, but said he still had hope for the children of the future.

Rosalie sought out Hedra at the Griffin estate’s party and found her calmly welcoming the visitors. Eliel watched from the crowd, distressed by how the encounter unfolded, and walked away in despair.

• Rosalie asked about Hedra and persuaded a servant to lead her and the other guests to Hedra’s room.
• Eliel had been crying beneath a parasol with Vierluna when a servant warned that guests were going to see Hedra.
• Sylutia heard the visitors approaching, went to the balcony, and introduced herself to Rosalie as Hedra.
• Rosalie and Hedra chatted together while the gathered guests watched.
• Eliel arrived, saw Hedra talking easily with Rosalie, and left after feeling disappointed in Weiss and despairing over her situation.

After the gathering, the Haye family worried that Eliel’s mistake could lead to social ostracism, but the City Lord’s Wife sent a reassuring reply and invited Hedra to the next banquet. Sylutia decided that attending social events could help establish Hedra’s identity in Quebes.

• Sylutia recovered from the gathering by taking a bath and sleeping through the night.
• Mrs. Haye explained to Alanfude that the Haye family needed the City Lord’s family’s public forgiveness to avoid being ostracized.
• Mrs. Haye decided to send the City Lord’s Wife a visiting card and take Eliel to apologize.
• Sylutia completed the 76 Basic Runes at the Lighthouse and returned home at dusk.
• Ecol told Sylutia that the City Lord’s Wife had invited her to the next banquet and asked whether she wanted a more suitable dress.
• Sylutia declined another dress and decided she should attend social events to make Hedra’s identity better known.

Sylutia completed her First Order Secret Speech advancement and learned how its abilities could support her studies. Knox taught her to prioritize practical safety and efficient use of resources, leaving her to consider whether a Mage’s data-driven way of life could make room for human needs.

• Sylutia condensed her Secret Speech Aspect, gaining Inspiration and a memory-enhancing ability while keeping her former Emerald Nectar power sealed in the Picture Book.
• The Woodland Alliance gave Sylutia four Fourth Order Rare gemstones and reserved a Fifth Order Perfect gemstone for her return.
• Knox explained that Secret Speech offered little combat strength at lower ranks and described abilities she could learn at higher orders to conceal herself.
• Sylutia suggested earning money for protection, using her looks to deter threats, and choosing safe homes and routes; Knox approved her plans.
• Knox urged Sylutia to calculate costs and optimize her schedule, and she decided to try his approach while leaving herself time to adjust.

After condensing her Aspect Power, Sylutia attended a seaside villa banquet with the Griffin family, where Lady Sara welcomed her warmly and introduced her to Rosalie. Sylutia spent the evening talking with Rosalie and left with a gift from Lady Sara, while learning more about the city lord’s past and a possible future for herself.

• After Sylutia condensed her Aspect Power, Alanfude celebrated her advancement and increased her allowance, while Eliel doubted her achievement.
• Lady Haye received an invitation to Lady Sara’s banquet and hoped to improve her standing in Quebes society.
• At the banquet, Lady Sara warmly welcomed Sylutia, served her expensive cakes, and arranged for more to be sent to the Griffin household.
• Lady Sara introduced Sylutia to Rosalie, who took her to the terrace, where they talked about their lives and Sylutia’s studies under Knox.
• Sylutia learned that City Lord Brennan was a Transcendent from the Woodland Alliance and considered what kind of future she might have.
• As the Griffin family prepared to leave, a servant delivered Lady Sara’s gift to Sylutia, and they rode home.

Sylutia used the Memory Labyrinth to revisit childhood violin lessons with her mother, then played a piece she had once struggled to learn. She continued her studies with Knox, who explained how runes reenacted natural phenomena and assigned her to create a Missile Shot ability card.

• Sylutia recalled learning violin from Xuelin as a child and remembered how her frustration and self-doubt had kept her from practicing.
• Sylutia played the piece she had abandoned in childhood and reflected on how Elysia had gradually become her close friend.
• Knox explained that runes were reenactments of natural patterns and abilities, using wings as an example.
• Knox taught Sylutia that Triangle, Sharpness, Sturdiness, Speed, and Flight formed the basic Missile Shot spell and assigned her to make its novice ability card.

Sylutia practiced and improved her Rotating Missile spell before rushing to the Racecourse, where Ecol had been accused of assaulting Vierluna. She uncovered that Hosea and his servant had framed Ecol to force a marriage with Vierluna, and the city authorities took over the investigation.

• Sylutia refined her weak missile spell by adding a Rotation rune and named the stronger attack Rotating Missile.
• After learning that Ecol was suspected of attacking Vierluna, Sylutia went to the Racecourse and confronted the people accusing him.
• Sylutia questioned Vierluna and inspected the changing room, noticing that the scene and the timing of the discovery seemed suspicious.
• The witnesses identified Hosea's blue-clad servant as the person who had raised the alarm, and Sylutia suggested going to Hosea's home to find him.
• Hosea and his servant were caught; the servant confessed to knocking Vierluna unconscious and hiding her with an invisibility potion.
• Rosalie revealed that Hosea had framed Vierluna to pressure her family into agreeing to their marriage, and the city's security force began investigating.

Sylutia learned about Advanced Runes and avian spell techniques from Knox as she prepared to study at the Mage Alliance in two months. She made Meditation Night Tea with Rosalie’s help and ended the chapter with the finished tea in the Lighthouse laboratory.

• Sylutia demonstrated Light Casting and Flash Casting, and Knox praised her grasp of basic spell models.
• Knox explained Advanced Runes, Composite Runes, and the avian runes he specialized in, then told Sylutia he would teach her during the two months before she left for the Mage Alliance.
• Sylutia told Rosalie she planned to study at the Mage Alliance and asked her to gather herbs for Meditation Night Tea.
• Rosalie brought the herbs to Sylutia and asked to watch her prepare the tea.
• With Knox’s permission, Sylutia made Meditation Night Tea in the Lighthouse laboratory while Rosalie watched.

Sylutia spent a month studying Avian Runes before taking a day off and joining Ecol at a seaside gathering in Quebes. As she enjoyed the company and the night breeze, she considered staying another month before leaving for a distant destination.

• Sylutia used Secret Speech memorization techniques to study Knox's lessons, and Knox gave her a day off after a month of work.
• Sylutia used the Flying Bird Technique to knock pears from a tree, then Ecol helped her collect them and invited her to a seaside gathering.
• On the carriage ride, Ecol told Sylutia that the servant had been punished, Hosea had paid compensation and been sent away, and the Sandra family had shared a shop with the Griffin family.
• Ecol introduced Sylutia to his friends at the restaurant, where the group ate local dishes and chatted with her.
• The group walked along the beach, and Sylutia reflected that she had grown used to Quebes and might stay another month before leaving.

Sylutia completed her studies with Knox and prepared to leave for the Mage Alliance, where she would take its entrance examination and choose a college. At a farewell banquet, friends and patrons gave her gifts and support before her departure.

• Knox told Sylutia that an old acquaintance would escort her to the Mage Alliance in six days, explained the entrance process, and advised her to choose a strong college without revealing his secret arts before the Third Order.
• Sylutia told the Griffin Family she was leaving, and Alanfude promised to prepare what she needed for the journey and her studies.
• Rosalie visited Sylutia, showed her around Quebes for three days, and bought her travel supplies and self-defense weapons.
• At the Griffin Family's farewell banquet, Vierluna gave Sylutia a valuable Frant Rose, and the two danced before Rosalie joined them.
• The lord of Quebes encouraged Sylutia to focus on her studies and promised to send her thirty gold coins every six months for living expenses.