Recaps

After founding the Silver Radiance Church and advancing to the sixth order, Sylutia discovered that her radiant moon power had purified the Blood Clan’s curse from her. On her first day as Saintess, she led the church’s secret healing ritual and cured hundreds of plague victims.

• Sylutia celebrated the Silver Radiance Church’s founding by hosting a Honey Fragrant Fruit Feast for its guests.
• After the banquet, Sylutia awoke refreshed and found that her eyes had returned to blue and the curse of true crimson blood had been dispelled.
• Sylutia went to Laurel Hall and prepared to perform the Silver Radiance Relief ritual with the Laurel Staff and blazing sun seed oil.
• Sylutia led the priests in treating more than three hundred patients, guiding them through the ritual’s stages of purification, healing, and recovery.
• The ritual cured nearly all the patients, who sat up in disbelief at their recovery.

Sylutia and three other Masters attacked the underground stronghold beneath Mannonisa’s mausoleum, where Sylutia subdued the ambushers with the Silver Radiance Secret Art. As the entrance collapsed and a colossal Ancient Undying Sandworm burst into the mausoleum, the assault force was trapped underground.

• After the Alliance identified the remaining strongholds, Sylutia arrived at the desert oasis to join Masters Wenersha, Xuyage, and Munin; Master Boles stayed behind to handle unrest in his district.
• Xuyage gave Sylutia an ancient secret-art tablet and explained the tragedy of Mannonisa, whose mausoleum lay beneath the desert stronghold.
• Munin and Wenersha helped stabilize the shifting sand while the force drilled down to the mausoleum.
• Sylutia flew into the mausoleum first and used Evil-Breaking Silver Sword to daze the hidden enemies, allowing the Silver Radiance Church members to bind them.
• An Ancient Undying Sandworm burst through a wall, shattered the underground passage, and caused sand to seal the entrance.

Sylutia fought a giant Sandworm as its sonic attack collapsed the mausoleum, then used an ancient holy sword to wound it and drive it underground. She abandoned the pursuit to prioritize rescuing the trapped team members, most of whom later reached the surface.

• Sylutia dodged the Sandworm and wounded it with Moonlight Flying Feathers, but its sonic attack collapsed much of the mausoleum and buried many people.
• Sylutia slowed time, carried nearby team members to a safer corner, and moved through an open tunnel to confront the Sandworm again.
• Sylutia raised Moon-Branch Flower-Vine Wall to defend against the Sandworm’s red energy blast, but the wall broke and she was forced to dodge the attack.
• Sylutia manifested the ancient holy sword Tuchitika and cut the Sandworm, spreading the Dragon-Devouring Curse through its body.
• The Sandworm burrowed several kilometers underground to suppress the curse, and Sylutia stopped pursuing it to rescue the trapped members.
• Several hours later, Sylutia helped most of the team return to the surface, and members of the underground organization were captured for questioning.

Sylutia and the two masters tracked the fleeing Dark Mages and their Sandworm through the underground tunnels. Sylutia resisted the enemy master’s attacks, awakened the Alien Star power within her Fate Card, and destroyed the fugitives and the Sandworm.

• Master Xuyage explained that the Dark Mages had made a pact with the Sandworm, feeding him failed bloodline experiment subjects in exchange for help excavating the tomb.
• Master Wenersha, Master Xuyage, and Sylutia found the base abandoned and followed the fugitives’ traces north into a tunnel left by the Sandworm.
• A Dark Mage attacked the three masters with Heart-Rending Bone-Peeling, but each resisted the thaumaturgy using a different defense.
• Sylutia charged the enemy master, blocked his demonic eyes with Moon Eggshell, and survived his Fate Card Strangulation as her Secret Speech changed from Radiant Moon to Alien Star.
• Sylutia used Moonlit Divine Wing to tear apart the enemy master, wound the Sandworm, and impale the fleeing Dark Mages against the tunnel walls.

As the World of Shadows encroached across the continent, Sylutia learned that the Mage Alliance was expanding its legions and struggling to contain increasingly dangerous monsters. After a sixth-order monster devastated two legions, she rushed to treat thousands of wounded and ordered the Silver Radiance Church to work at full capacity.

• Sylutia learned that plagues and the spreading World of Shadows had strained the Silver Radiance Church and forced the Mage Alliance to mobilize fourteen legions across five combat zones.
• Cheris told Sylutia that the Alliance planned to expand its twenty-four legions and described how a fifth-order Horned Blood-Devourer Beast had destroyed a city in the Kingdom of Mothles.
• A bloodied soldier asked Sylutia to save his captain, and she hurried with a group from Laurel Hall to the railway square, where thousands of wounded soldiers awaited treatment.
• The soldier's report revealed that a sixth-order, eight-winged pterosaur monster and roughly thirty thousand other monsters had nearly annihilated the Sixteenth Legion and Fifth Legion before masters killed the beast.
• Sylutia ordered the Silver Radiance Church to recall resting members and distribute stored Full Moon Dew as they treated the wounded, then worried over the darkened sky and the Season of Sinking Fog.

The Twin Snake Cult resurrected the ancient Two-Headed Serpent Heikuis, triggering Shadow World incursions and a plague crisis across the Fourth Continent. The Mage Alliance unleashed the power of Gold Steam to confront the serpent, leaving the two forces locked in a stalemate.

• The Twin Snake Cult sacrificed captured mages and poured Blood of the Vanquished into the Abyss during a solar eclipse.
• The Two-Headed Serpent Heikuis emerged from the Abyss, and its presence transformed cultists and raised some of them to higher orders.
• The world's outer wall recorded Heikuis's resurrection, restoring its ancient memories and revealing the paths of Dead Ember and Nightmare.
• Shadow World monsters invaded the Fourth Continent as serpentine markings worsened the plague, draining victims and driving many to madness.
• The Mage Alliance ignited the Cloud Sea with Gold Steam, empowering its mages and drawing the attention of the Hours of the Heavenly Courtyard.
• The giant serpent began devouring the burning Cloud Sea while three fireballs attacked it, and Gold Steam and Nightmare reached a stalemate.

The three Gold Steam Named Ones defeated one of the Two-Headed Serpents, but exhausted their power and fell from the sky. Sylutia protected the injured in the Council District and flew toward a fallen golden sphere as a lingering consciousness called to her.

• The three Gold Steam fireballs bound the Two-Headed Serpent, split it in two, and fought as the serpents regenerated.
• Sylutia treated the wounded in the Mage Alliance's Council District and realized the incomplete Gold Steam path could not sustain the three Named Ones.
• The two serpents tried to escape into the Twilight Sea, but the Gold Steam Named Ones destroyed one with a golden thunderbolt and wounded the other, which fled below.
• The three Gold Steam suns exhausted themselves, and their golden spheres fell to earth as Gold Steam cultivators across the continent felt their power decline.
• Sylutia shielded the people in the square from a fallen sphere's heat, then flew toward it after sensing a lingering consciousness within.

Sylutia received Abelid’s message from a dormant Genesis God-Machine and returned to lead the Silver Radiance Church as the Mage Alliance reorganized after the three Gold Steam Named Ones fell dormant. The chapter ended with new factions and paths rising as the world moved into a new era.

• Sylutia touched a Genesis God-Machine, received Abelid’s message, and sensed a faint connection to the powerless relic.
• A week later, the Mage Alliance established a Sages’ Council of twenty-two survivors to guide it after the Named Ones fell dormant.
• Sylutia returned to the Silver Radiance Church, where increased medicine and purification still treated the lingering plague.
• Nightmare witches grew stronger, Potion-Makers reappeared in the Woodland Alliance, and the Golden Honey Court promoted medicinal venom bees to fight the plague.
• The Gold Steam path declined as more Transcendents turned to the Radiant Moon, Nightmare, and Insect Moth paths.

Sylutia resolved a plague outbreak in the Greater Airo District and spent months helping the Silver Radiance Church contain illnesses caused by remnants of the battle over the Cloud Sea. At the Silver Bell Festival, she reunited with Camilla, Lovier, and Aurora, and Lovier decided to transfer to the church so she could stay by Sylutia's side.

• Sylutia flew to the Greater Airo District, identified the plague as an effect of remnants from the battle between gold steam and Nightmare, and treated patients through the night.
• Sylutia returned to headquarters, and the Silver Radiance Church spent the following months responding to similar outbreaks until the year drew to a close.
• Sylutia reunited with Camilla, Lovier, and Aurora at the Silver Bell Festival, where her friends let her sleep while they talked about the plagues and their work.
• Lovier said she would apply to transfer to the Silver Radiance Church after her Academy assessment so she could protect and support Sylutia.
• Aurora asked whether Lovier's family was connected to the Golden Honey Court, and Lovier said they were distant relatives but not descendants of the Golden Honey Dynasty.

After Lovier helped the Silver Radiance Church introduce rest periods, she gave Sylutia a blessed bracelet during a day off together. At Giant Stone Fortress, Anali helped grieving orc families bid farewell to the souls of plague victims, then watched them accept their deaths and bury their loved ones.

• Lovier praised Sylutia for her tireless care of others, helping prompt the Silver Radiance Church to triage patients and schedule regular rest for its members.
• Sylutia and Lovier walked beside the river, where Lovier wove a reed bracelet and blessed it with Second Order Blazing Sun power for Sylutia.
• At Giant Stone Fortress, Anali used her Dead Ember power to gather the souls of deceased tribespeople at Elder Grayfang's request.
• Elder Grayfang spoke to Anali about accepting death, recalling how he had once feared it before learning to focus on the life he had.
• Anali eased the souls' Distortion and watched them disperse into light as the families said farewell, buried the dead, and left for the mountain path.

Rogers recovered from captivity only to learn that the cult’s mutation potion had permanently altered his bloodline. Faced with no clear path to being cured, he considered joining a research project, but the chapter ended with his question about which path his transformation would take unanswered.

• Rogers woke in the hospital and recalled his life, his capture by the Twin Snake Cult, and his rescue by the Mage Alliance.
• A physician told Rogers that the mutation potion had permanently changed his bloodline and that an Hour’s blessing or a Named One might restore it.
• The physician invited Rogers to remain as a volunteer for research into the Twin Snake Cult’s secret arts, offering treatment and resources.
• Rogers asked whether he could ever become normal again, and the physician said he could not promise that outcome.
• Rogers asked whether his altered path was Gold Steam or Nightmare, and the physician said he did not know.

Sylutia and Camilla discussed how creatures survived the Twilight Sea’s corrosion by Distortion and the limits of mutation and resistance. The conversation left Sylutia wondering how the ongoing war against plague and corrosion could be won.

• Sylutia reviewed the latest regional death and plague-control figures and saw that the numbers had begun to stabilize.
• Camilla told Sylutia that she had helped the Inquisition Hall destroy a secret experimental facility in the Delin District and rescue several captives.
• Camilla explained that the facility’s dark wizards had tried to fuse humans with demon bloodlines so they could survive in the Twilight Sea.
• Camilla described how demons and ancient creatures endured Distortion, while explaining that even Heikuis could not resist its corrosion completely.
• Sylutia wondered where the key to breaking the long struggle against plague and corrosion lay.

As the plague eased, the Mage Alliance recruited workers to restart industry and restore supplies. At the Silver Radiance Church, Sylutia met Aseminah, a Sixth Order visitor from the Moon Rabbit Homeland, who examined her with shining silver eyes.

• The Mage Alliance posted high-paying jobs to recruit workers for northern mines, forests, and factories, and a man left his wife and daughter to take one.
• Over the following months, workers traveled north by train, restarting furnaces and other activities across the recovering regions.
• A Priest told Sylutia that a cloaked visitor with distinctive ears wanted to see her, and Sylutia agreed to meet her after learning she was likely from the Moon Rabbit Clan.
• Sylutia and Lovier met the visitor, who revealed her black rabbit ears and her Sixth Order status as Radiant Moon · Beast Fang.
• The visitor introduced herself as Aseminah from the Moon Rabbit Homeland and studied Sylutia with silver-glowing eyes.

Sylutia concluded that the Moon Rabbit Clan’s aloofness reflected the Phantom Black Rabbit’s lack of commitment to saving the plague-stricken continent. She resolved to accelerate the Silver Radiance Church’s growth by sharing knowledge, founding schools, and rewarding discoveries, even if that meant bypassing the Mage Alliance’s usual procedures.

• Aseminah admitted that Sylutia’s resemblance to Melancholy had made her suspect Sylutia was Her Eminence reborn, then accepted Sylutia’s invitation to stay at the Silver Radiance Church Headquarters.
• Rachel reported that Aseminah was exploring the church and that White-Cloaked rabbit-eared people were traveling the regions, killing monsters but avoiding human contact.
• Sylutia reasoned that the Phantom Black Rabbit and Moon Rabbit Clan might not help humans and Orcs against the plague, and she told Rachel they would have to rely on themselves.
• Sylutia said the church needed to strengthen itself faster and proposed opening most secret techniques, establishing free schools, and rewarding new discoveries and potions.
• Sylutia acknowledged that her reforms would bypass the Mage Alliance’s customary authority, since Alliance Council procedures and factional rivalries would delay them.

The Silver Radiance Church expanded its relief, construction, and education efforts while securing grain through Sylutia’s Woodland Alliance connections. As Sylutia considered her growing strength and influence, she wondered whether she could overcome the plague and survive the looming Hour Contest.

• The Silver Radiance Church used food aid to recruit help for medical camps, construction, and schools, easing its members’ workload and allowing them to save more people.
• Sylutia told Lovier that the Church bought grain from the Woodland Alliance at far lower prices than the Mage Alliance’s authorities paid.
• Rachel explained that Sylutia’s ties to Woodland factions and railway staff made grain purchases and shipping easier for the Church.
• Lovier called Sylutia remarkably resourceful, and Sylutia reflected on her influence, power, and rapid rise to the Sixth Order.
• Sylutia considered whether she could repeat Melancholy’s success against the plague as the Fourth Continent’s approaching conflicts grew more dangerous.

Sylutia appointed new Chief Priests for the Silver Radiance Church, then learned from Aseminah how covenants constrained the Hours and shaped relations among the continents. As she weighed the implications for the Mage Alliance, the Radiant Moon, and the Gold Steam path, she felt an ominous premonition that she had little time left.

• Sylutia awarded ritual staffs and Chief Priest badges to ten Fifth Order members, freeing her to delegate much of her church work.
• Aseminah told Sylutia, Amisha, and Camilla about the Moon Rabbit Clan’s Eastern origins and its descent from the Primal Beast Aspects.
• Aseminah explained that covenants constrained the Hours’ powers and that a Mountain-Bearing Cloud Camel in the Woodland likely served under a covenant with the Woodland Alliance.
• Sylutia concluded that covenants and the Radiant Moon Hour’s authority could determine whether the Hours supported or opposed the Gold Steam path and the Phantom Black Rabbit.
• Sylutia decided to focus first on resolving the plague, then felt a troubling premonition that she did not have much time left.

Rogers learned that ordinary people accepted dangerous bloodline experiments for food and wages, then watched Erik transform into a monster after demanding to remain in the facility. A Mage Alliance researcher explained that the experiments aimed to make humans resistant to plague by incorporating the Abomination Nest Mother's power, revealing that some mages were turning away from the Hours in the heavens.

• Rogers befriended Erik, a former shepherd who had joined the facility for its generous meals and pay despite knowing the experiments were dangerous.
• Erik told Rogers that a roommate had mutated into a powerful second-order subject and been moved to a more secure level.
• When the facility planned to dismiss Erik, he insisted on staying and received a high dose of potion that made him lose control and become a second-order monster.
• Rogers visited Erik in a cage and learned that his Beast Fang, Blood Law, and Distortion powers had reached a balance that stabilized his life matrix.
• A Mage Alliance researcher told Rogers that the experiments sought to use the Abomination Nest Mother's offspring to protect humanity from plague.
• The researcher argued that humans might need to embrace the Hours beneath the sea if the Hours in the heavens would not protect them.

Sylutia treated Mage Nandes’s lingering demonic bee venom in the Perika District and recovered a broken sword linked to the Pine-Branch Knight. After leaving for her next destination, she received a request from the Evil-Burning Hall to develop a potion that could preserve the sanity of people afflicted by flesh mutation or experiments.

• Sylutia arrived in the Perika District, where Brie told her that plague and an old chest wound had left Mage Nandes in poor health.
• Sylutia examined Nandes’s wound, identified the venom as coming from a mutated Blood-Sweet Bee, and developed a Cold-Precipitation Potion to remove it.
• Sylutia treated Nandes with the potion, and Brie gave her a broken sword said to have belonged to the Pine-Branch Knight.
• Sylutia helped locals address the lingering plague, compiled her findings into a handbook, and departed the district two weeks later.
• Cheris delivered a letter from the Evil-Burning Hall asking Sylutia to develop a potion that would keep people afflicted by flesh mutation or experiments lucid, and Sylutia agreed to work on it.

Sylutia traveled through plague-stricken regions of the Mage Alliance, reflecting on the changes the crisis had forced upon society and the Silver Radiance Church. As she arrived at Flandre District Station, she learned that a delegation from the Forest of Incantations, led by the chief witch of the Crescent Moon Council, wanted to meet her.

• Sylutia observed the gray cities and strained industries as plague spread across the Mage Alliance and changed how people lived and dressed.
• Sylutia considered how the Silver Radiance Church’s healing arts had shifted from careful individual treatments to large-scale rituals to keep pace with the plague.
• A knight told Sylutia that a delegation from the Forest of Incantations, led by the chief witch of the Crescent Moon Council, had requested a meeting.
• Sylutia reflected on her work guiding Silver Radiance Church members and on her developing path toward the Seventh Order and a possible miracle.
• Sylutia arrived at Flandre District Station and stepped off the train with an elite group of Silver Radiance Church members.

Sylutia met Caiqilie of the Crescent Moon Forest in Flandre, where the Silver Radiance Church and the witches exchanged plague treatments and potions. Caiqilie invited Sylutia to the Woodland Alliance’s Harvest Celebration meeting, where she would meet secluded senior figures, and the two groups parted after three days of sharing knowledge.

• Caiqilie introduced herself to Sylutia and led the Crescent Moon Forest witches and Silver Radiance Church members into Flandre.
• At a hotel, the witches presented potions for the Flesh Plague, Grey Mud Plague, and Lung-Poison Plague, and Sylutia’s group shared its own treatments.
• Caiqilie invited Sylutia to the Harvest Celebration meeting and said Melusina wanted to speak with her.
• Caiqilie told Sylutia that at least eleven other witches and more than ten Eternal Ones lived in seclusion, but she refused to reveal the Woodland Alliance’s current Named One.
• The witches and church members exchanged knowledge in Flandre District for three days, then parted until the Harvest Celebration four months later.

Sylutia and the Silver Radiance Church traveled through the Western Mountains, helping local cities contain the plague, and reached Giant Stone Fortress, where the residents celebrated their recovery. As Sylutia joined the bonfire gathering, Anali approached the fortress after performing soul-calming rites and reflected on how her work had shaped her path as a shaman.

• Sylutia reunited with Imei on the train and learned how their former classmates had built careers after graduating from Thetis Academy.
• Sylutia and the Silver Radiance Church visited roughly ten cities in the Western Mountains over a month, supporting local branches and treating plague victims.
• At Giant Stone Fortress, Sylutia met the city lord and resident mage Admandu, who told her that her book about the Western Mountains had remained in use as a textbook for local orc children.
• Sylutia supplied medicine and personnel that helped bring the plague under control, and the fortress residents celebrated with a bonfire banquet.
• Anali climbed toward Giant Stone Fortress with companions after performing soul-calming rites for plague victims, reflecting on her grief, her growing Dead Ember power, and her title as the Solitary Purple Soul-Calming Shaman.

Anali reunited with Sylutia at the Giant Stone Fortress and reflected on how funeral rites helped the living face death. Months later, Sylutia attended a witches’ gathering, where Caiqilie traced witches’ origins to human dream guides serving the Silver Moon Dragon and explained their ancient ties to the Four Seasons and the dragons.

• Anali reunited with Sylutia at the Giant Stone Fortress, then told her and the city lord how her work laying souls to rest had shaped her understanding of grief and funerals.
• Four months later, Sylutia returned to Phantom Color Woodland with Rachel, Dorothy, and the others for the Harvest Celebration.
• A young witch delivered Sylutia an invitation from Lady Caiqilie, and Sylutia crossed Rainbow Gem Lake to attend a private gathering with Caiqilie, Meko, and Eve-en.
• Caiqilie explained that the Four Seasons Alliance had witch origins and that Melancholy had founded the Silver Radiance Church after following the Radiant Moon path.
• Caiqilie described how human women became witches serving the Silver Moon Dragon, later assisting the dragons in overseeing the seasons as the first Four Seasons Witches.

Eve-en explained that the Phantom Black Rabbit had never fully secured the Hour of the Radiant Moon, and Sylutia’s existence proved it. Sylutia realized she was likely to become the deity’s enemy, while Eve-en said Lady Melusina would explain why the Witches had summoned her.

• Eve-en told Sylutia that the Witches hoped to find the Silver Moon Dragon’s remains and uncover secrets about the Hour of the Radiant Moon.
• Eve-en argued that the Phantom Black Rabbit’s limited blessings and Sylutia’s unrecognized Radiant Moon favor showed that the deity did not fully control its Hour’s authority.
• Sylutia considered how the Phantom Black Rabbit’s hidden weakness explained its past inaction and why her rise as a Named One could make her a threat.
• Eve-en warned Sylutia that she would eventually confront the Phantom Black Rabbit, then said Lady Melusina would explain the deeper reason for the invitation.
• Meko briefly woke after the discussion ended, then went back to sleep as Eve-en explained her habit of slacking off after years of overwork.

Sylutia met Melusina, who explained the witches’ dream-based immortality and offered her a choice between becoming a witch or pursuing the Silver Radiance Church path toward the Silver Moon Dragon’s legacy. Sylutia chose to accept the challenge of facing the Phantom Black Rabbit and vowed not to implicate the witches before proving she could win their support.

• Comia watched Sylutia at the gathering but left without approaching her, feeling the gulf between their ranks had grown too wide.
• Melusina met Sylutia beside a forest pool and explained that witches survived by anchoring their fates in dreams and recreating bodies in reality.
• Melusina offered Sylutia the safer path of becoming a Seventh Order witch or the dangerous path of becoming the Silver Radiance Church’s Saintess and confronting the Phantom Black Rabbit.
• Sylutia learned the witches would support her if she found the Silver Moon Dragon’s burial place and obtained His legacy.
• Sylutia accepted the challenge and promised not to implicate any witch faction or witch until then.

Sylutia delivered the Evil-Devouring Potion to the Evil-Burning Hall, where it restored the awareness of mutated test subjects and offered hope for controlling Distortion. She then researched the Silver Moon Dragon’s history at Glass Academy, learning how his death led to the fall of Dragon rule and the wars that reshaped the Fourth Continent before a silver-haired Witch appeared as a possible Radiant Moon Hour.

• Sylutia named her new potion the Evil-Devouring Potion and sent it to the Evil-Burning Hall with its formula.
• Mages at the Evil-Burning Hall found that the potion restored the consciousness of mutated subjects, and later confirmed it could preserve lucidity through advancement to the third order with regular injections.
• The Mages awakened Erik with the potion, confirmed that he could understand them and speak, and discussed recruiting Rogers to help with further experiments.
• Sylutia visited Glass Academy, where Luanse directed her to records on the Silver Moon Dragon and advised her to proceed carefully and in secret.
• Sylutia read that after the Silver Moon Dragon’s death, the Fourth Continent descended into war, the Dragons and Lizardmen lost their rule, and a plague later spread across the land.
• A silver-haired Witch in white robes appeared in the records as a savior whom the Hours considered worthy of succeeding to the position of Radiant Moon Hour.