Recaps

Sylutia enjoyed a rare sunny day in the royal city, where the curse made sunlight prick at her skin, and browsed shops for Blood Clan specialties. After buying several curiosities, she continued her walk beneath the clear sky.

• Sylutia left the Crimson Sparrow Tower with a parasol after sunlight caused a faint prickling pain on her arm.
• Sylutia visited a fabric shop and examined Bloodweave Silk, learning that it was woven using blood and silkworm silk.
• Sylutia recognized the silk as excellent Tier 3 fabric and bought a box for 400 gold coins.
• Sylutia browsed the commercial street and purchased a Blood Clan rapier, tea ware, and feather quills for her collection.
• Sylutia admired Blood Knight Armor reminiscent of Irentina's Flower Battle Armor, then walked on and enjoyed the sunlight despite its discomfort.

Sylutia explained the Mage Alliance’s plague-control and administrative systems to Katera and Camilla, then discovered that a mysterious poisoning in Mandrala Territory might be connected to the hidden microorganism she had encountered in the Woodland. She and Camilla set out to investigate and prepare for a possible quarantine.

• Sylutia met Camilla and Katera for tea and described how the Mage Alliance contained the Flesh Plague and monitored regional officials and supplies.
• Katera considered how the Mage Alliance’s centralized records, inspections, and divided authorities differed from the Blood Clan’s feudal system.
• Sylutia showed Camilla Blood-Dropped Roses she had cultivated with her own blood, and Camilla collected a small blood bead from her.
• Camilla told Sylutia that diners in Mandrala Territory had become mysteriously weak after eating cooked Devil Creature flesh.
• Sylutia suspected the illness came from the hidden microorganism she had encountered in the Woodland, and she and Camilla prepared to travel to Mandrala Territory.

Xilutiya confirmed that the Mandrala Territory faced a Grey Mud Plague outbreak and helped contain it while preparing limited doses of medicine. When the infection spread beyond the territory, she agreed to seek more medicine from the Woodland Alliance and set out with Camilla in the Nightmare Carriage.

• Katera ordered Camilla and Xilutiya to respond to the suspected plague, and Camilla sealed off Mandrala Territory while Xilutiya confirmed the patients had Grey Mud Plague.
• Xilutiya used Reveal Powder to identify infected areas, instructed the physicians to isolate patients, and prepared medicine from Purple Jellyfish Mushrooms.
• Xilutiya produced about 1,200 doses, but the infection had spread into surrounding regions, so she proposed obtaining medicine from the Woodland Alliance.
• Katera asked Camilla to accompany Xilutiya in the hidden Nightmare Carriage, and Xilutiya briefly studied the ancient golden oak before they departed.
• Camilla summoned four Ghost Nightmare Horses, and the carriage flew south toward the Woodland Alliance.

Shilutia and Camilla traveled through plague-stricken territory, where Shilutia saw the devastation and remembered the ancient Riot of the Mad Crows. At the Mage Alliance, its leaders warned that the crisis might signal the Abomination Nest Mother’s encroachment and discussed preparing the Genesis Divine Engine as a last resort.

• Shilutia sensed death and sorrow across the plague-stricken cities, and memories of the Riot of the Mad Crows resurfaced.
• Camilla comforted Shilutia and flew with her to the Mage Alliance’s Council District.
• Shilutia reported the plague among the Blood Clan and went to a communications tower to contact The Woodland.
• Sodras warned that spreading calamities could lead to the continent’s collapse and described the brutal measures the Hours might take.
• Valahunt said he had ordered the Genesis Divine Engine’s construction to be accelerated, while Abelid objected to the dangers of noble sacrifice.

Xilutiya warned the Woodland mages about the Blood Clan plague, then told Amelia that the Silver Radiance Church’s legacy might help stop it. She brought Amelia into a dream to pass on the church’s plague-fighting knowledge, beginning with the Riot of the Mad Crows.

• Xilutiya contacted the Woodland mages and instructed them to report the Blood Clan’s plight and alert the White Scroll Herb Pot representative.
• Xilutiya found Amelia in the Great Library and asked what she knew about the Silver Radiance Church.
• Xilutiya explained the spreading plague and revealed that she had inherited the church’s records and secret arts for fighting plagues.
• Amelia agreed to help share the knowledge and coordinate with Their Eminences.
• Xilutiya put Amelia to sleep and drew her into a connected dream, where they witnessed the Riot of the Mad Crows.

The chapter recounts how Melancholy founded the Silver Radiance Church, then follows the Golden Honey Dynasty’s attempt to seize the Radiant Moon position and its eventual destruction by Dragon of the Corona. The resulting dragon hunt continued for centuries, bringing the Eighth Era to an end and ushering in the Ninth Covenant Era.

• Melancholy taught plague survivors to purify the disease, and their growing movement became the Silver Radiance Church.
• Melancholy led the Church across the Fourth Continent, built a stronghold in the World of Shadows, and resisted the Golden Honey Dynasty’s invasion until she died.
• The Golden Honey Dynasty erased the Church’s history and tried to claim the Radiant Moon position, but Phantom Black Rabbit stole the fruit through a Nightmare secret method.
• The reborn Blazing Sun Dragon became Dragon of the Corona, claimed the Blazing Sun and Dragon Eye Dao Paths, and destroyed the Golden Honey Dynasty.
• Dragon of the Corona’s destruction of the dynasty weakened Queen of Resonant Music and the Dao Path of Insect Moth, and Queen of Resonant Music died soon afterward.
• The races launched the War of Cataclysm against the dragons, which lasted for centuries until the Ninth Covenant Era began.

Amelia and the Mage Alliance spread the Silver Radiance Church’s plague-fighting knowledge, while Xilutiya led a Woodland relief force to contain the grey mud plague in the Blood Clan’s lands. The Alliance also approved a proposal to establish a new Silver Radiance Church, though it would not announce the decision publicly yet.

• Amelia shared Melancholy’s legacy with the three Named Ones, who authorized her to teach it openly and publicize the Silver Radiance Church’s history.
• Xilutiya and Camilla traveled north with Dorothy and hundreds of Woodland relief workers, bringing potions and supplies to the Blood Clan’s Mandrala Territory.
• Camilla and Xilutiya kept the relief workers outside the sealed city and organized treatment sites, potion production, and plague-control efforts.
• Over three months, Xilutiya and Camilla contained outbreaks in Mandrala Territory and four neighboring territories; about three million people were infected and 600,000 died.
• The Silver Radiance Church’s techniques and history spread across the Mage Alliance as volunteers in white robes traveled to plague-stricken areas to help victims.
• The Alliance Council approved a proposal to form a new Silver Radiance Church from members skilled in Radiant Moon Aspect Power, but deferred a public announcement.

After the Grey Mud Plague ended, Xilutiya and the others were honored by the Blood Clan and prepared to return to the Mage Alliance. Queen Katera gave Xilutiya a ceremonial Crimson Court Dress, while Xilutiya realized her Radiant Moon Aspect Power had grown substantially and was drawing her closer to the sixth order.

• Xilutiya spoke with a recovered child and his parents, who thanked her for saving their lives and described how the plague had inspired people across Mandrala Territory to change their lives.
• Three days later, Katera welcomed Xilutiya, Camilla, Dorothy, and the Blood Rose Knight Order back to the Royal Court and awarded them gratitude medals and True Crimson Blood Brew.
• Dorothy and the other support members drank the brew, while Xilutiya absorbed its power through her Breathing Technique, raising it to Lv.9.
• Katera allowed Xilutiya and the Woodland support personnel to leave and summoned Xilutiya to present her with the Crimson Court Dress, once reserved for crowned princesses.
• Xilutiya sensed that her Radiant Moon Aspect Power had greatly intensified through her rescue experiences, bringing her closer to the sixth-order position.

Sylutia and her companions arrived in plague-stricken Anste District, where Master Hulun described the devastating outbreak and asked for help hunting a mutated monster. Sylutia and Camilla killed the Fifth-Order creature and purified the lake and surrounding forest, leaving Anste’s immediate threat resolved.

• Sylutia arrived in Anste with the Woodland support team, and Master Hulun described the plague’s toll and the shortage of Blood Copper Potion and personnel.
• Sylutia, Camilla, and Dorothy organized the support workers to treat infected residents, then Sylutia and Camilla followed the monster’s trail out of the city.
• Camilla summoned the Blood Source Black Lion, which tore apart and burned the Fifth-Order mutated creature beside the lake.
• Sylutia transformed the lake into purifying water, bound the creature with Pupil Lock, and cleansed it of Distortion until it dissolved.
• Sylutia used a silver water bottle to scatter purified water over the forest, cleansing its remaining plague viruses and infected animals.

After helping eradicate the epidemic in Anste District, Sylutia and Camilla investigated the ruined City of Star-Gazing, Blanur, and discovered that almost no residents had survived. Sylutia spotted Anali and Mick fighting with a small squad in the city’s northwest, and she and Camilla went to meet them.

• Master Hulun thanked Sylutia for resolving the Anste District outbreak and gave her three rare Pale Yellow Snow Lemons, which Camilla entrusted to Tia.
• Sylutia, Camilla, and their allies produced enough Blood Copper Potion to bring the epidemic in Anste District under control and eradicate it.
• Sylutia and Camilla agreed to scout Blanur while Dorothy and the others stayed behind to prepare potions.
• In Blanur, Sylutia used silver-thread birds to survey the ruined city and found evidence that residents had died at a medical center and while trying to flee by boat.
• Sylutia searched the city from above and found Anali and Mick fighting alongside a small squad in the northwest.
• Sylutia told Camilla what she had found, and they headed northwest to ask Anali and Mick why they were in Blanur.

Anali and Mick fought their way through the monsters in the City of Star-Gazing before finding Oren and Luke battling a gigantic serpent creature. Luke’s mist giant repeatedly severed its regenerating heads until the monster finally fell still.

• Mick protected Anali as they fought off the roaming Mutated Creatures, and Anali sent her Ghosts to search for Oren and Luke.
• Mick told Anali about his years of dangerous adventures and why he was content with the life he had chosen.
• Anali and Mick found Oren and Luke fighting a huge monster made from corpses, which Oren identified as an artificial creation.
• Oren used Parlance’s Charge to blast a hole through the monster while Luke cut down its attacking Bloodshadow Flying Serpents.
• Luke summoned his Illusory True Body, seized the serpent, and severed its regenerating heads until the thirty-seventh cut finally stopped it.

After Luke and Oren killed a giant monster, a hidden Twin Snake Cultist used its corpse to create the Seven-Headed Serpent, a powerful Dead Ember creature that overwhelmed them. Mick rescued the two men but was nearly killed before a silver-haired woman arrived and attacked the serpent with a crimson spear.

• A hidden figure emerged from an alley, poured blood mist onto the dead monster, and slipped back underground.
• The corpse revived as the Seven-Headed Serpent, and its Nightmare power defeated Luke's secret art and Oren's heroic summons.
• Mick carried Luke and Oren away from the serpent, but Death Wail stopped his heart and left Luke dead while Oren survived.
• The serpent pursued Mick until a crimson spear pinned its head, giving him and Oren a chance to escape.
• A silver-haired woman wielded the Enchanting Blood Spear to pierce the serpent's heads and spread curse marks through its body, while Mick collapsed from exhaustion.

Xilutiya killed the Seven-Headed Serpent and reunited with Anali, Oren, and Mick, revealing that she had once used the alias Hedra while studying in the Alliance. Anali revived Luke with a Resurrection Ritual, leaving the group alive after the battle and confronting the plague crisis.

• Xilutiya used the Blood Rose Spear to curse and kill the Seven-Headed Serpent, then refined the Blood Condensation Crystal extracted from its remains.
• Xilutiya gave recovery potions to Oren and Mick, and Anali recognized her as Hedra after Xilutiya confirmed Hedra had been her Alliance alias.
• Anali began a Resurrection Ritual to revive Luke, whose body and soul she had protected after Oren's Death Wail stopped his heart.
• Xilutiya reunited with Mick, who recognized her as Tia from their time in Scorched Stone City.
• Xilutiya confirmed to Oren that she was both Xilutiya and Hedra and explained that the Woodland and Mage Alliance were cooperating against the plague.
• Anali completed the ritual and revived Luke, who got to his feet and vowed never to adventure with Oren again.

Around the campfire in the abandoned City of Star-Gazing, Oren and Anali explained the origins of the snake-mutated plague and the secret organization behind it. The group learned that the Roaring Star Beasts had been a decoy for a deeper underground stronghold, and they settled in to sleep as they considered what they had uncovered.

• Mick cooked meat for the group, and Oren announced that the monster they had fought and a Northern Snowfield stronghold belonged to the same organization, which he nicknamed the Multi-Headed Worm.
• Oren explained that the organization united secretive factions that experimented with forbidden bloodline arts, prompting Luke to object to his unflattering name for them.
• Anali described how snake-mutated plague victims attacked the medical station, drove survivors toward the river, and helped bring about the city's annihilation.
• Oren explained that he and Luke had destroyed a Roaring Star Beasts stronghold before a giant serpent forced them to retreat, and he suspected a deeper secret laboratory remained underground.
• Anali explained that the Roaring Star Beasts had served as a cover for the hidden organization, then spread the plague in retaliation against their enemies; Sylutia recognized the Dusty Gale as a group she had encountered before.
• The group prepared to sleep in a relatively intact house among the ruins.

Sylutia found an old report suggesting the Multi-Headed Worm organization’s base might lie within the sealed underground palaces of the City of Star-Gazing. She reported the danger to Abelid, who summoned Alliance aid and began showing her Blanur at the height of the Star-Gazer School’s glory.

• Oren, Luke, Sylutia, Camilla, Anali, and Mick split up to search the City of Star-Gazing for the organization’s underground base.
• Sylutia and Camilla found a 140-year-old report stating that the City of Star-Gazing’s underground palaces had been sealed and filled with earth-and-stone cement.
• Camilla reminded Sylutia that her standing in the Mage Alliance let her summon its specialists and report the crisis directly.
• Sylutia used a special key to travel to the Hall and reported Oren’s findings and their suspicions to Abelid.
• Abelid sent word for Alliance personnel to prepare, then showed Sylutia scenes of Blanur during the Star-Gazer School’s heyday.

Abelid showed Sylutia Blanur as it was six hundred years earlier and explained the Star-Gazer School’s open scholarship, its reliance on the Astral Realm, and the danger of that power. He revealed that the school secretly drew power from twelve Star Palace Arrays beneath the city, leaving Sylutia with a glimpse of a radically different age.

• Abelid led Sylutia through prosperous, cosmopolitan Blanur and explained how the Star-Gazer School shared research and drew advancement resources from the Astral Realm.
• Abelid’s friend showed him a pearl from the Alien Star that he hoped to use to reach the Fifth Order.
• Abelid visited his imprisoned friend and saw that an Astral Realm creature had taken root in him, transforming his body and mind.
• Abelid explained that Astral Realm power often corrupted Mages and recalled helping suppress incidents caused by those who lost control.
• Abelid showed Sylutia Blanur’s notable structures and revealed the twelve hidden Star Palace Arrays beneath the city, which the Star-Gazer School used to draw power from the Star Palaces.

Sylutia was assigned to lead a large Alliance team to Blanur to investigate the Underground Palace and learn the Star Palace Arrays. After receiving advice and a one-use Magic Orb from two sages, she addressed the assembled mages and departed by train for Blanur.

• Abelid sent Sylutia and her team to seal off the City of Star-Gazing, investigate Blanur's Underground Palace, and study its preserved Star Palace Arrays.
• Fields and Akxio advised Sylutia on leading the diverse team, and Akxio gave her a Magic Orb containing a one-use Gold-Turning Spell.
• Sylutia introduced herself to the twelve hundred gathered mages and explained the mission as they discussed her identity and past achievements.
• Sylutia and the team boarded a train bound for Blanur.

Sylutia led the Alliance forces to Blanur, where they located the underground palace and blasted a shaft into it. She and the Mithril Clock overwhelmed the black Wizards and their monsters, and the chapter ended with the battle over as the forces searched for survivors and escapees.

• Three War Rhino-class war machines carried Alliance forces to Blanur, where they surveyed the ruins and found a large hollow beneath the city.
• Sylutia learned that a cautious black Wizard had likely resurrected the giant serpent and assigned Blake to track him down.
• The Sun Furnace and other schools drilled a shaft toward the underground palace, then used a War Rhino-class Crystal-Splitting Cannon to break through.
• The Inquisition Hall's advance team entered the palace and fought black Wizards, a Six-Armed Blood Demon, and a spell formation that caused mental interference.
• Sylutia and the Mithril Clock arrived, killed 129 members of the underground organization, and destroyed the Six-Armed Blood Demon.
• Oren and Luke arrived after the battle had ended, and the Alliance forces began clearing the battlefield and pursuing escapees.

Sylutia uncovered the history of the Star-Gazing School and its Blood Salamander Palace array beneath Blanur, while growing suspicious that the three Named Ones had concealed their reasons for sending her there. She resolved to investigate the sealed secrets and found the palace canon’s seven Blood Law arts.

• Vincent and his team summoned a Star-Mystic Flying Fish to track a fugitive through Blanur’s tunnels, but he escaped through passages too narrow for them to follow.
• The team returned to the underground palace and reported their failure to Sylutia, who told them to rest.
• Sylutia read records describing how the Star-Gazing School used links between earthly nations and Star Palaces to draw Alien Star power into the world before the Hours’ war destroyed the school.
• Sylutia connected the records to the three Named Ones’ unexplained actions and decided to uncover as many sealed secrets as she could.
• Sylutia examined the Star-Drawing array for Blood Salamander Palace and discovered its seven core secret arts.

Sylutia oversaw the recording of the Blood Salamander Palace’s Ritual Arrays and considered the growing threat of calamities and Mage Alliance expansion. After two months of excavation, she learned the Inquisition Hall had failed to catch an escaped dark wizard and began studying Star Ladybug Palace secret arts that could help her pursue him.

• Sylutia reflected on the Fourth Continent’s instability and the possibility that the Mage Alliance’s deeper conflicts could eventually lead to war.
• Sylutia directed Mr. Vincent and the mages as they recorded the palace’s arrays, then spent two months exploring the underground complex with Camilla, Oren, Mick, Anali, and Luke.
• An Inquisition Hall captain told Sylutia that the dark wizard had repeatedly misled the pursuit team and escaped into the underground labyrinth.
• Sylutia realized that the Star Ladybug Palace’s Transparent Body and Firefly Shuttle arts could help her catch the fugitive.
• Sylutia performed a Star-Drawing ritual through the Season of Sinking Fog and learned Transparent Body to Lv.1 before returning to camp and falling asleep.

After mastering Transparent Body and Firefly Shuttle, Sylutia led the Inspection Department in hunting down the escaped dark wizard and captured him with the help of a Plesiosaur blessing. She returned to the Blanur camp and handed the prisoner over to Captain Mairga, revealing her authority over him.

• Sylutia mastered Transparent Body Lv.3 and Firefly Shuttle Lv.3, then decided to pursue the dark wizard after Captain Mairga failed to catch him again.
• Sylutia led the Inspection Department team to track the fugitive, while Cheris stayed behind as Sylutia pursued his trail through a narrow cave passage.
• Sylutia called on the Plesiosaur for a blessing and swam through the underground river, then used Transparent Body to approach the dark wizard unnoticed.
• Sylutia stopped the dark wizard with Time Slowdown and bound him with an enchanted silver chain, identifying his Twin Snake Cult secret art despite his protests.
• Sylutia's team sealed and captured both the dark wizard and his flesh-and-blood double, then returned to the Blanur camp.
• Captain Mairga thanked Sylutia for the capture, and she left the interrogation to him, frightening the prisoner when he realized she outranked Mairga.

Sylutia learned the history and structure of the organization behind the Blanur base, Seven Snake, from an interrogation report. With the base leader already dead, she chose to meet the captured dark wizard, who claimed to know the approximate location of Five Snake.

• Cheris gave Sylutia a report identifying the captured dark wizard, Sandhorn, and describing how he joined the organization.
• Sylutia learned that the nameless organization used snake codenames for its bases and that Master Arms had led Seven Snake beneath Blanur.
• Cheris explained that Sylutia had killed Master Arms, a sixth-order master, with a Star Shuttle during the battle underground.
• Cheris told Sylutia that Sandhorn knew the approximate location of Five Snake but demanded a guarantee that he would survive without being tortured.
• Sylutia decided to meet Sandhorn because the organization was likely responsible for the Flesh Plague and needed to be stopped.

Sylutia interrogated the imprisoned black wizard Sandhorn about the Twin Snake Cult’s other hideouts. After overwhelming him with her golden demonic eye, she made him reveal everything he knew before returning him to his cell.

• Sylutia examined Sandhorn’s abilities and asked him what he knew about the other hideouts.
• Sandhorn offered to share what he knew in exchange for Sylutia’s forgiveness.
• Sylutia revealed her golden eye and used the Hundred-Eye Cult’s Deterrent Pupil to terrify Sandhorn.
• After recovering, Sandhorn spent nearly an hour divulging every secret he knew about the hideouts.
• Sylutia left with the Inspection Department members, and the guards shackled Sandhorn and locked him back in the prison.

Sylutia learned that the Mage Alliance and Woodland Alliance planned to revive the Silver Radiance Church and appoint her its Saintess. After reflecting on the trust and kindness she had received, she accepted the responsibility and led the newly established church, where she met its gifted member Hettina.

• Sylutia discussed the four still-undiscovered bases of the Snake organization and submitted her findings from the City of Star-Gazing.
• Da Vinci told Sylutia that the council had chosen her to lead the revived Silver Radiance Church as its first Saintess, and that Oren and Luke had joined Nores's expedition to a reported base.
• Sylutia reflected on her life, the support she had received, and her wish for the people she cared about to live well, then resolved to accept the church's mission.
• The Mage Alliance and Woodland Alliance jointly announced the Silver Radiance Church's revival, and Sylutia officially became its Saintess.
• Sylutia met the church's first members, including Hettina, who warned her that she would only work when she felt like it.

Sylutia organized the newly established Silver Radiance Church and presided over its founding ceremony, where the public’s hopes triggered her advancement to Sixth Order. She chose to create a new Core Secret Art and advanced into the Dawn Angel class, emerging with transparent wings and a moonlight mark.

• Sylutia agreed to Hettina’s work conditions and discussed compensation, including rare materials for Hettina’s advancement.
• Sylutia organized the Silver Radiance Church into four courts, appointed Rachel, Amisha, Dorothy, Jasmine, and Hettina to lead them, and tallied its growing membership.
• Sylutia delivered a speech at the Silver Radiance Church’s founding ceremony, and the crowd’s fervor forced her advancement to begin.
• Sylutia studied three Saintess advancement paths, broke apart their Core Secret Arts, and combined knowledge from other schools to develop a new path.
• Sylutia derived the Dawn Angel class, accepted it, and manifested transparent wings and a sacred moonlight mark.