Recaps

Kunlan, Sylutia, Buen, and Jegas followed Camilla’s scent into a mountain forest and found signs that she had fought an enemy. Jegas identified the pursuer as a powerful pureblood vampire, and the group continued searching for Camilla and a nearby space-time fissure.

• Kunlan and the others traveled by steam locomotive to a manor near the forest where Camilla had disappeared.
• Kunlan used a Scent-Tracking Bug to follow Camilla’s scent into a secluded valley.
• The group found Camilla’s footprints, traces of blood, and other signs that she had been injured and pursued.
• Jegas identified the claw marks and distinctive footprints as evidence of a Fourth Order or higher pureblood vampire trying to capture Camilla alive.
• Kunlan suspected a space-time fissure had led Camilla to the World of Shadows, so the group continued along her trail.

Sylutia joined Jegas and Kunlan in entering the World of Shadows to search for Camilla, while Buen stayed behind to guard the array. Separated after teleporting, Sylutia began searching a quiet forest, and Jegas found evidence that a powerful vampire was nearby.

• Kunlan revealed that spatial fissures could scatter travelers, and Jegas initially refused to let Sylutia enter until Kunlan arranged for her to carry a tracking bug and a Beacon Magic Orb.
• Buen stayed behind to guard the array as Jegas, Sylutia, and Kunlan entered the World of Shadows through a spatial fissure.
• Sylutia landed alone in a quiet forest, tried unsuccessfully to use the Scent-Tracking Bug, and flew off to search for Camilla.
• Jegas found a drained Fourth Order monster and concluded that a powerful vampire had killed it, putting Camilla and the other team members in danger.

Viscount Norin fought the Dragon Eye wolf-snake in the World of Shadows, then escaped with a Blood Clan Baron after the monster began to recover. The two resumed searching for Princess Camilla, whom the Blood Clan Queen had ordered them to return to Sea Cliff Royal Court.

• Viscount Norin used the Demonic Purple Blood Blade to badly wound the wolf-snake, but it bit him and poisoned him when he tried to drink its blood.
• Norin blasted apart his own arm to escape the wolf-snake's bite, then fled the forest with the Fourth Order Blood Clan Baron as the creature's neck began healing.
• Norin rested and drank blood wine before discussing the wolf-snake's Dragon Eye Aspect Power and the Blood Clan Queen's recent actions.
• Norin and the Baron discussed the Queen's order to bring Princess Camilla back to Sea Cliff Royal Court and their difficulties tracking her.
• Norin and the Baron set off deeper into the World of Shadows to continue searching for Camilla.

Camilla struggled to resist Colevanti’s awakening memories, which threatened to overwhelm her identity. She anchored herself with memories of her friendship with the black-haired girl, then hid in a cave and fell into a cocooned sleep.

• Camilla relived Colevanti’s life and feared that the dead ruler’s memories would replace her own.
• Camilla suspected that Katera had changed into Colevanti and feared being taken to the Royal Court and absorbed.
• Camilla’s memories flooded her mind until she nearly lost consciousness in the cave.
• Camilla held onto her memories of friendship with the black-haired girl and regained her sense of self.
• Camilla found a safe place deeper in the cave, wrapped herself in pale-red blood threads, and went to sleep.

Jegas and Kunlan fought Sea Cliff Blood Clan nobles in the World of Shadows, while Viscount Norin used a Pale Blood Rose to regain strength and nearly killed Jegas. Sylutia intervened with the Key and faced Norin, but the clash ended before its outcome was clear.

• Jegas ambushed Viscount Norin, who regenerated a severed arm, and the two fought fiercely while a Blood Clan baron watched nearby.
• Kunlan used Trace of Time to find and confront the baron, then exchanged spells with him until he wounded her and withdrew after her protective orb inflicted petrification.
• Norin revealed that he sought Camilla and consumed a Pale Blood Rose, restoring his strength enough to overpower the badly wounded Jegas.
• Sylutia struck Norin with Fissure Lightning Ray while he drained Jegas, forcing him to release his victim and charge toward her on the mountainside.
• Sylutia summoned silver birds and three copies of herself, then swung her blade at Norin as their silver and blood-red attacks collided.

Sylutia and Jegas fought to survive Viscount Norin’s pursuit while Kunlan prepared a Secret Speech spell. The spell erased Norin’s memory of his limbs, allowing Jegas to defeat him, but Jegas collapsed from exhaustion afterward.

• Sylutia used illusions, a Lightning-Split Evil Eye, and a Black Griffin spell to evade Viscount Norin while Kunlan treated the wounded Jegas.
• Jegas recovered with Kunlan’s healing potion and antidote, then joined Sylutia to confront Norin.
• Kunlan released the Fifth Order Secret Speech scroll spell, History Truncation, while Jegas fought Norin.
• The spell erased Norin’s memory of his severed limbs, preventing him from regenerating as Jegas cut away his legs and wings.
• Jegas killed Norin after pursuing him, then collapsed and passed out from exhaustion.

Sylutia and her companions recovered from their fight with the Blood Clan and resumed searching for Camilla. Sylutia found Camilla asleep inside a blood-red cocoon and entered her dream to try to wake her safely.

• The Lightning-Split Evil Eye consumed Viscount Norin’s remains, drank Sylutia’s White Moon Potions, and gave her a Star-Han Rhinoceros Beetle larva.
• Sylutia, Kunlan, and Jegas rested overnight, then split up to search for Camilla while keeping signal transmitters to call for help.
• Two days later, Sylutia followed the Scent-Tracking Bug into a cave and found Camilla asleep inside a blood-red cocoon.
• Sylutia broke apart the cocoon and cradled Camilla, sensing that she was frightened and having a nightmare.
• Sylutia used the Memory Labyrinth Meditation Technique to form a connection with Camilla and enter her dream.

Colette relived the lonely childhood of a royal outcast before awakening inside a scene from the Blood Dynasty in Camilla’s dream. The emperor chose her alongside Hosha and Eve to receive True Crimson Blood, and the blood began revealing the dynasty’s inherited memories.

• As a child, Colette hid in the hall to cry over being mocked, but an older maid dragged her back to class and made her apologize.
• The maid and palace nobles praised her for serving the late Princess Leanna and raising her daughter, while Colette grew from a pleading child into a silent, indifferent girl.
• Colette awakened in the body of a royal at a Blood Dynasty palace and suspected she was seeing memories in Camilla’s dream.
• At the Crimson Hall, nobles discussed the emperor’s potential heirs without mentioning Colette, and the emperor announced he would grant True Crimson Blood to three of his children.
• The emperor named Hosha, Eve, and Colette, and Colette received the blood, which flooded her mind with inherited knowledge and turned her emerald eyes vivid red.

After Colette was named a royal contender, she remained indifferent to the ceremony and killed the maid who had abused her for years. Months later, the Erosion Witch visited Colette and suggested that her childhood wounds had never healed.

• Colette ignored the nobles who approached her after the ceremony and returned alone to her secluded palace.
• At Prince Hosha and Princess Eve’s celebration, nobles speculated that Colette had been made a contender because she lacked support and could be controlled.
• When Colette’s longtime maid berated and slapped her, Colette killed her by crushing her heart, then ordered the younger maids to remove the body.
• Colette reflected that she barely cared about living, power, wealth, food, or other people, and her new status did not change her indifference.
• Several months later, the Erosion Witch visited Colette and told her that her childhood wounds had never healed.

The Erosion Witch explained how Colette had been shaped by childhood wounds and warned that the imperial succession struggle would draw her in whether she wanted it or not. Over the years, Colette’s influence grew, and the witch finally urged her to pursue the throne by promising to reveal the truth about her mother’s death.

• The Erosion Witch confronted Colette about her painful childhood and predicted that Prince Hosha and Princess Eve would treat her as a rival for the throne.
• The witch admitted she had planned to make Colette a candidate, while Colette insisted she felt no desire for power and said she would end her life rather than suffer humiliation.
• The Erosion Witch deduced that Colette still cared about her dignity and left, while Sylutia regained control of Colette’s body.
• Over the following years, nobles sent gifts and support to Colette, and Grand Duke Russell held a lavish birthday banquet that raised her profile among the nobility.
• As the emperor’s health worsened and factions intensified their struggle, Colette became an increasingly significant candidate in the Royal Court.
• The Erosion Witch offered to reveal how Colette’s mother died if Colette claimed the throne, urging her to show her talent and ambition.

The chapter recounts how Colevanti overcame her rivals, became Emperor, and learned from the witch why her mother had chosen her as heir. As Sylutia relives Colevanti’s memories, her appearance and personality begin changing, threatening to replace her identity.

• Colette outlasted Prince Hosha and Princess Eve, took control of the dynasty, and ascended the throne as Emperor Colevanti.
• Colevanti questioned the witch about her mother, and the witch revealed that she had chosen Colevanti because she believed her past wounds would make her an ideal Emperor.
• Colevanti threatened the witch and Red; the witch killed herself, and Colevanti ordered her buried and Red removed from the royal records.
• Colevanti ruled the dynasty with an iron fist, but after her death her policies spiraled out of control and no later Emperor matched her achievements.
• Sylutia continued reliving Colevanti’s memories, becoming more like her as Sylutia’s hair began turning gold and her eyes began turning crimson.

Sylutia recovered memories of her childhood and discovered that the Color of Alien Stars had nearly consumed her consciousness, leaving her with new powers and many unanswered questions. She rescued Camilla from Colevanti’s influence, taught her a forbidden bloodline art, and promised to keep her secrets.

• Sylutia’s memories revealed that, as a child, she had been caught in an attack on the way to Heling Port, where the Color of Alien Stars struck her and nearly erased her identity.
• Sylutia’s consciousness preserved the memories of Colevanti and the Color of Alien Stars in two illusory tomes, and she realized the attack had caused her lost memories and separation from her family.
• Sylutia used Colevanti’s knowledge to teach the sleeping Camilla the forbidden art Pulse Counterflow, which could resist bloodline suppression and assimilation.
• Sylutia woke Camilla, explained that she had come looking for her, and comforted her over her concealed Blood Clan identity.
• Camilla asked Sylutia to keep her secrets, and Sylutia promised she would.

Sylutia sealed Camilla’s Blood Clan traits and removed her royal bloodline to keep her identity hidden. Camilla’s True Crimson Blood and lost power were stored in a page of Sylutia’s Seven-Colored Picture Book, where they could later be returned to her or bestowed on someone else.

• Sylutia and Camilla struggled to find a safe explanation for Camilla’s Blood Clan identity before facing the two Origin Hourglass members.
• Camilla suggested claiming she had become a Blood Clan member during her research, while Sylutia considered sealing away her bloodline traits.
• Camilla agreed to Sylutia’s attempt, and Sylutia used the Seven-Colored Picture Book to lull Camilla’s Fate Card and suppress her resistance.
• Sylutia drew Camilla’s royal bloodline out over two hours and sealed the resulting True Crimson Blood and lost power in a page titled Seal Page: Bloodkin Princess Camilla.

Sylutia and Camilla defeated a Blood Clan baron and returned to Glass Academy, where Camilla was cleared of suspicion. Jegas learned that Mentor Kurand had let Camilla go partly because of Hedra’s extraordinary potential, which might lead her to become the Clock School master’s successor.

• Sylutia summoned the Black Griffin to tear apart the Blood Clan baron, then condensed his remains into a Blood Soul Gem.
• Sylutia and Camilla met Kunlan and Jegas, and Camilla explained that she had tried to reverse her transformation into a Blood Clan member.
• The four escaped the Secret Realm with Buen’s help and returned to Glass Academy two days later.
• After ten days of investigation, Camilla was cleared and thanked Teacher Kurand with Sylutia.
• Jegas asked Mentor Kurand why he had protected Camilla, and Kurand cited her lack of malice, her break with the Blood Clan, and Hedra’s exceptional talent.

After spending time with Camilla, Sylutia returned to Thetis Academy and began a new school year, where she was asked to help classmates advance. The year passed peacefully, and at the Silver Bell Festival Sylutia reunited with Aurora, Lovier, and Camilla.

• Camilla told Sylutia about Colevanti's long reign and reflected on Katera's choices and the danger of Colevanti merging with her sister.
• After the holidays, Sylutia returned to Thetis Academy, received Camilla's Red Tear Pendant, and learned that the academy expected students to reach the Third Order and begin practical work in the World of Shadows.
• The academy asked Sylutia to guide classmates who had not yet advanced, and she agreed to do her best.
• Sylutia spent the semester studying advanced Dense Runes and mechanical creations while settling into her school routine.
• At the Silver Bell Festival, Sylutia met senior Mias and reunited with Aurora, Lovier, and Camilla, who said she was doing well at Glass Academy.

The Mage Alliance consolidated its control of the Fourth Continent’s western region and prepared to develop it. Sylutia and her second-year classmates learned they would train there, and Sylutia agreed to shop for supplies with Perin and Imei.

• The Mage Alliance finished conquering the western region and began planning its development and exploration of the World of Shadows.
• A teacher at Thetis Academy announced that Sylutia’s second-year class would travel west for combat training and expeditions.
• The teacher listed the supplies students needed to prepare before their journey.
• After finishing a sketch of an alchemical mechanism, Sylutia agreed to go shopping with Perin and Imei.

Sylutia and her friends prepared for a mountain trip, and Sylutia crafted a Fourth Order · Perfect mechanical crossbow with an automatic bolt magazine. She finished satisfied with the weapon and considered seeking rare materials in the World of Shadows to make a Fifth Order construct.

• Sylutia, Perin, and Imei discussed their classmates' progress and bought practical outfits, with Sylutia choosing a black-and-red dress.
• Sylutia exchanged academic credits and spent gold coins to obtain materials for her mechanical crossbow.
• Sylutia forged and inscribed the Star-Piercing Mechanical Crossbow, which reached Fourth Order · Perfect quality with five enchantments and focused-shot capability.
• Sylutia crafted a bolt magazine and twenty enchanted Xi Gold bolts, then attached the magazine to the crossbow for automatic loading and cocking.
• Sylutia tested the weapon, put it away with satisfaction, and considered searching the World of Shadows for materials to craft a Fifth Order construct.

Sylutia and Imei traveled by airship to a monster-hunting expedition, where third-years invited them to dinner with Professor Vekos. Their teacher explained how mages could advance their schools through research, leaving Sylutia with the Alliance’s dream of forging a paradise through their own achievements.

• Sylutia and Imei discussed the coming monster expedition and their limited experience fighting monsters as their airship crossed the ridged landscape.
• Three Fourth-Order students from the third-years’ airship flew over and invited Sylutia and the others to dinner on behalf of Professor Vekos.
• Sylutia’s teacher accepted the invitation and explained that Fourth-Order students could study inherited spells from professors, including Vekos’s time magic.
• Sylutia’s teacher described how a Sun Furnace scholar’s power furnace transformed the Alchemy Aspect into Gold Steam and earned its inventor Eighth-Order status.
• Sylutia’s teacher told her that mages sought recognition by advancing Gold Steam, Secret Speech, or Alien Star, and that the Alliance relied on itself to build a paradise.

At the airship party, Sylutia enjoyed the feast with the students and learned that Senior Fenden hoped to court her. She politely declined his romantic overture, then returned to the lively gathering and joined Marg’s card game.

• Professor Vekos welcomed the students and began the feast, where Reginson sat with Sylutia and brought her extra pudding.
• Imei told Sylutia that Senior Fenden wanted to meet her and might be interested in courting her.
• Sylutia went to the upper deck, thanked Fenden for the party, and explained that she did not want to commit to a relationship.
• Sylutia returned to the banquet hall and agreed to join Marg’s card game after asking to learn the rules.

Sylutia learned card battles and discovered her strengths with Alien Star and Fairy decks before arriving with her classmates at the Owl Mountain Range. After a professor rebuked a student for complaining about the food, the students prepared to begin a weeks-long monster-clearing trial.

• Marg taught Sylutia the rules of card battles, and Sylutia barely won their first match after summoning a Steel Furnace Knight and other powerful cards.
• Sylutia tried different decks over several days, never losing with Alien Star decks and finding Fairy decks suited her better than expected.
• Sylutia and the other students arrived at a Mage Alliance base in the Owl Mountain Range, where their teacher arranged lodging and dinner.
• When a student complained about the meal, Vekos questioned him about the cost of feeding the group, regional development, and what students owed the Academy.
• Vekos told the students they would study local creatures the next day and spend the following weeks clearing monsters from the mountains.

Noya sent the second-year students into a month-long solo trial to slay 100 Tier Three or higher Devil Creatures. Afterward, Professor Vekos warned that the Mage Alliance’s chance to shape the future was narrowing and told Noya he would sacrifice himself to protect its cause; she promised she would do well.

• Noya announced that each student had to fight alone and kill 100 Tier Three or higher Devil Creatures within a month.
• Noya unleashed a tornado that carried the students high into the sky and scattered them across the savage mountains.
• Professor Vekos told Noya that the Mage Alliance was aging and decaying while rival factions grew stronger and pursued major reforms and alliances.
• Vekos said he would give his life to clear obstacles from the Alliance’s path and urged Noya not to feel she had to follow his example.
• Noya told Vekos not to worry and promised she would do well.

Sylutia hunted monsters in the Western Mountains while investigating why the trial’s targets seemed impossible for most students to meet. She discovered that the World of Shadows was eroding the region and sending monsters into the Surface Continent.

• Sylutia reasoned that the Western Mountains likely held far too few Third-Order monsters for most of the seventy-six students to reach their targets.
• Sylutia killed a Roaring Beast with her mechanical crossbow and fed its corpse to her Evil Eye.
• Sylutia hunted four qualifying monsters on the first day, then kept killing five or six each day while using the Evil Eye to search for targets.
• Sylutia sent Flying Birds to observe students and saw that they were capable fighters but spent most of their time searching for monsters.
• After defeating another monster, Sylutia noticed areas distorted by the World of Shadows and realized that monsters were crossing into the Surface Continent through overlapping regions.

Azhelin led a Black Steel Giant Ape to the Wolf Fang Tribe, where it transformed into a Blood-Faced Giant Ape and devastated the settlement. As the ape pursued Azhelin, a mysterious woman arrived and killed it with a lightning beam and a giant silver sword, leaving the surviving tribe members safe.

• Azhelin fled the Black Steel Giant Ape to the Wolf Fang Tribe, where the chieftain and Shaman joined the fight.
• The chieftain knocked the ape down, but it transformed into a third-order Blood-Faced Giant Ape, struck him unconscious, and attacked the tribe.
• The ape devoured warriors and other residents, while Azhelin and his companion escaped through the burning settlement.
• Azhelin drew the ape away from his companion, but it caught up with him near the mountain peak.
• A mysterious woman struck the ape with a blue-lightning beam and cut it in half with a giant silver sword, saving Azhelin and the surviving tribe members.

Sylutia investigated the Ape Monster that had attacked the Pale Horn Tribe and concluded that a Dark Mage had likely created it. Before leaving, she gave Azhelin a Griffin totem made from the monster’s blood, helping him advance to the Third Order.

• Sylutia learned from Azhelin and the tribe’s Shaman about the monster’s attack and the tribe’s isolation under no overlord.
• Sylutia examined the Ape Monster and suspected that a Dark Mage had secretly modified and raised it.
• Sylutia gave the Shaman a Magic Orb and presented Azhelin with a Black Steel feather as a token.
• Sylutia taught Azhelin and the Shaman about runic totems, then engraved a Blood-Red Griffin totem on Azhelin using the Ape Monster’s vital blood.
• Azhelin linked with the totem, integrated it into his Fate Card, and advanced to the Third Order as a Pale Horn Tribe Warrior.

Sylutia cleansed the World of Shadows incursion near the Pale Horn Clan, but an Abdominal Eater emerged from a rift, revealing a connection between the Blood Law Aspect and Distortion through the Hour, the Abomination Nest Mother. The chapter left Sylutia facing a Fourth Order monster while the Pale Horn Clan prepared to rebuild under Azhelin’s leadership.

• Sylutia flew away after helping the Pale Horn Clan, and the Shaman appointed Azhelin to protect the clan and entrusted him with the Barbarian God Horn Hammer.
• The Shaman warned Azhelin about the dangers beyond the mountains and described the route to Halagulong, leaving him curious but resolved to wait until he grew stronger.
• Sylutia returned to the World of Shadows incursion and used White Moon Potion to cleanse the affected land.
• An Abdominal Eater emerged from a rift in the World of Shadows while Sylutia was cleansing the area.
• Sylutia learned that the Abdominal Eater was a child of the Hour, the Abomination Nest Mother, whose existence connected the Blood Law Aspect to Distortion.