Chapter Summaries

Aivar told Li Si about a vanished island where he had gained strange sea-related abilities, and Li Si considered whether it might hold the legacy of a fallen god who once wielded storm divinity. After agreeing to escort the Mermaid to Dana Port, Li Si joined the crew’s feast and heard Loren ask about making items to resist Siren songs.

• Aivar told Li Si that he had gained unusual abilities on an island that vanished from the sea charts, and that he felt it calling to him whenever he passed nearby.
• Li Si suspected the island might lie in another plane or plane fragment and wondered whether it held the legacy of a god who once wielded storm divinity.
• Aivar agreed to point out the sea area along their route to Dana Port, and Li Si said they might need special conditions to find the island.
• Loren delayed the Mermaid’s departure, and the crew held a feast where Li Si and Helen joined the sailors.
• Loren and Navien offered Li Si one thousand Gold Coins to escort the Mermaid safely to Dana Port, and Li Si accepted the quest.
• Navien gave Li Si a bottle of Ice Wine, and Loren asked whether Li Si could make Magical Items from the Sirens’ materials to resist their songs.

Li Si agreed to craft two siren-material Magical Items for Loren and Navien, then began experimenting with equipment crafting aboard the Mermaid. After carrying a drunken Helen to bed, he set up a workshop and started making an earring to protect against siren songs, but his first rune inscription failed.

• Loren and Navien asked Li Si to make two Magical Items from siren materials, and Li Si agreed for fifteen hundred Gold Coins.
• Helen drank half a cup of ale, became drunk, and Li Si carried her to bed while Charles nervously watched.
• Li Si went to a cleared cargo room and set up his magical tools to begin crafting equipment.
• Li Si shaped refined iron and silver into an earring and began engraving protective runes using powder from the siren vocal cords.
• Li Si's first rune inscription failed, and he decided to keep practicing despite wasting the materials.

Li Si successfully crafted a Silver-ranked Siren Earring and made a stronger one for Helen using Mithril. As Li Si brought Helen her gift, the ship’s lookout spotted an approaching vessel that seemed suspicious.

• Li Si completed a Siren Earring after days of failed attempts, raising his forging level to intermediate.
• Li Si crafted a second Siren Earring for Navien’s order and used Mithril to make a stronger third earring for Helen.
• Helen spent time on deck with the Mermaid’s crew and listened to Charles tell stories about fighting a giant deep-sea octopus.
• A lookout called to the captain, reporting a ship approaching from the east and warning that something seemed off.

The Mermaid spotted an approaching pirate ship, and Loren prepared the crew to fight while Li Si offered support and equipped Loren and Navien with Siren Earrings. As the ships closed in, Loren chose to use the encounter as training for future pirate attacks, while pirate captain Jackson ordered his crew to attack despite Bazel’s growing fear.

• Aivar identified the fast-approaching ship as most likely a pirate vessel, and Loren ordered the Mermaid’s crew to prepare for battle.
• Li Si joined Loren, judged the enemy ship and crew to be manageable, and agreed to protect the Mermaid while leaving the decision to attack to Loren.
• Loren decided the crew should fight the pirates themselves to gain experience, and Li Si gave Siren Earrings to Loren and Navien.
• Li Si detected four Silver-level professionals among the pirates, while Loren counted seven Silver-level fighters aboard the Mermaid and ordered the crew to prepare for boarding combat.
• Aboard the Manatee, Bazel warned Captain Jackson that the Mermaid felt dangerous, but Jackson dismissed his concerns and pressed ahead with the attack.

Li Si helped the Mermaid’s crew defeat a pirate boarding party, then searched for the missing Silver-level assassin Bazel and found him hiding aboard the Mermaid. Recognizing Bazel as a future Gold-level pirate, Li Si confronted him, and their fight began in the storage room.

• Captain Loren rallied the Mermaid’s crew, while Li Si strengthened the ship’s defenses with a Water Element protection spell.
• The pirates boarded the Mermaid, and Li Si cast Spirit Armor on the crew as Loren and Aivar fought the Silver-level pirate captain Jackson.
• Jackson struggled against Loren and Aivar and shouted for Bazel, who had vanished from the battle.
• Li Si realized Bazel could evade his detection spell and searched both ships, finding him concealed in the Mermaid’s storage room.
• Bazel pretended to plead before attacking Li Si with a dagger and hidden weapons, but Li Si dodged and deflected them with Greater Deflection Field.
• Bazel vanished into the cabin’s shadows, and Li Si drew a dagger to continue the fight.

Li Si exposed Bazel’s attempt to sneak into his cabin and soundly defeated him in a fight. He decided to keep Bazel close because the unusually unlucky assassin would later become valuable to Helen.

• Li Si used Blade Dance to force the stealthy Bazel to appear, then attacked him with Guile.
• Li Si tricked Bazel into blocking a disguised dagger, disarmed him, and asked if he wanted to fight again.
• Bazel charged Li Si in anger, but Li Si beat him using skills from several classes until Bazel surrendered.
• Li Si carried the bruised Bazel toward the deck and reflected that Bazel would later join Helen’s pirate crew and become devoted to her.

After capturing the pirates, Li Si discovered that Bazel’s misfortune aura was countered by Helen’s Intermediate Lucky Aura and made Bazel her attendant. When Helen asked to become a professional, she revealed that she was Helen Bertich, daughter of the king of the Bertich Kingdom.

• Li Si brought the captured Silver-level pirate Bazel aboard and healed the wounded crew after the battle.
• Li Si discovered that Bazel’s specialty spread misfortune to those around him, while Helen possessed an Intermediate Lucky Aura that suppressed it.
• Li Si assigned Bazel to serve as Helen’s attendant, and Bazel accepted after realizing he felt safe near her.
• Helen asked Li Si to teach her how to become a professional so she could grow strong.
• Li Si took Helen out over the sea to talk, and she revealed that her original name was Helen Bertich and that she was King John Bertich’s daughter.

Helen told Li Si about her painful past as the illegitimate daughter of the King of Bertich and asked him to teach her to become strong. Li Si agreed, and Helen chose the warrior profession because her talent for magic was poor.

• Helen explained that the King of Bertich had imprisoned her mother, Mira Evans, after abducting her, and that she was born without status in the palace.
• When Helen was ten, her mother secretly escaped the palace with her, but after they were sold to a slave trader, her mother died of illness.
• Helen recounted being taken aboard a ship, surviving a pirate attack, and reaching Ward City before running away.
• Helen asked Li Si to teach her so she could gain strength and live well in her mother's place, and Li Si agreed.
• Li Si asked Helen what profession she wanted, and she chose to become a warrior because her mage talent was poor and she had heard it was an easier path to transcendence.

Helen chose to become a warrior and became Li Si’s second disciple. He gave her a magical earring and abundant training supplies, and she resolved to work hard under his guidance.

• Li Si warned Helen that the warrior path demanded painful training and carried the risks of battle and death, but she firmly chose to learn from him.
• Li Si accepted Helen as his second disciple and reflected that both she and his first disciple, Fink, were warriors despite his being a mage.
• Li Si gave Helen a custom Siren Earring, whose magic let her experience extraordinary power and refreshed her mind.
• Li Si gave Helen a Storage Ring filled with potions, herbs, weapons, armor, training equipment, and Gold Coins.
• Helen recognized the value of Li Si’s gifts and vowed to train and study diligently.

Helen trained on the Mermaid while Bazel told her about his strict father and decided to visit him after reaching Gold level. Li Si stopped his magical crafting experiments and teleported with Aivar to the sea where Aivar sensed a mysterious island, but they found only open water.

• Helen pushed herself through sword-stance training until Bazel took the longsword away and made her rest.
• Bazel told Helen that his father had trained him harshly, that he had run away from home, and that his bad luck might have caused his father's injuries.
• Helen said Bazel's father must have trusted him to face the outside world, and Bazel resolved to visit his father after reaching Gold level.
• Li Si emerged from his workshop after another failed attempt to craft a magical item and heard that Aivar sensed the island nearby.
• Li Si teleported with Aivar south of the Mermaid until Aivar identified the location, but they saw only open sea.

Li Si searched the strange waters with Aivar and confirmed that their spatial properties were abnormal, but he could not locate the hidden island. Wisdom of Sphinx awakened Xiao Mi, who sensed divine power beneath them, and its newly revealed ability showed it could store divine power and use it to strengthen its effects.

• Li Si used the Dream World and a Space Rift to investigate the waters, finding no alternate plane but discovering that the region’s space was unusually stable.
• Li Si and Aivar searched the roughly ten-kilometer-wide area, but Aivar felt the same pull throughout and neither of them found the island.
• Wisdom of Sphinx grew warm, and Xiao Mi awakened after several months of dormancy because she sensed nearby divine power.
• Xiao Mi sensed the divine power directly beneath them but could not explain how to enter the hidden place.
• Li Si checked Wisdom of Sphinx’s system panel and discovered that it could store divine power and spend it to enhance a designated equipment effect.

Li Si discovered that Aivar’s azure spearhead was a damaged artifact called the Storm Trident, whose stored energy could open the God Spirit Island. He took it and planned to spend several months at sea charging it while considering the island’s dangers and his next steps.

• Li Si searched the sea for the island’s entrance and asked Aivar to recall what he had noticed during his previous visit.
• Aivar admitted he had concealed an azure spearhead and gave it to Li Si, hoping it would help them return to the island.
• Li Si identified the spearhead as the damaged Storm Trident, an artifact left by the fallen God of Storms and Thunder Ansiel, and learned it was charged to 85%.
• Li Si suspected Aivar’s survival and discoveries might involve a hidden cause, but decided to keep exploring the island cautiously.
• Li Si returned to the Mermaid with Aivar, learned Dana Port was three or four days away, and considered acquiring a pirate ship.

Li Si arrived at Dana Port with Helen and Bazel, encouraged Helen to begin the Hundred Refinements Body Tempering Method, and planned to build a crew and acquire a ship for hunting pirates in the Pearl Sea. He headed for the Mercenary Guild to arrange help, while nearing the experience needed for his Silver-level advancement and wondering what quest awaited him.

• Li Si disembarked at Dana Port with Helen and Bazel after thanking Captain Loren for his help.
• Helen chose to continue training, and Li Si gave her permission to begin the Hundred Refinements Body Tempering Method while asking Bazel to watch over her.
• Li Si considered his plans around the Pearl Sea and decided to acquire an oceangoing ship and reliable sailors so he could hunt pirates and prepare for the region's future.
• Li Si bought a grilled fish and headed to the Mercenary Guild to find a broker who could arrange a ship and crew.
• Li Si reflected that he was close to the experience needed to reach Level 100 and wondered what advancement quest he would receive.

Li Si arranged for a ship and supplies in Dana Port, then encountered Charles being hunted by members of the Church of All Beasts. When the cultists recognized Li Si as a target of their god, they tried to capture him, and he answered with a powerful instant spell.

• Li Si hired a local fixer to prepare an oceangoing merchant ship, recruit sailors, and load supplies for a large reward.
• While searching Dana Port for food, Li Si heard a fight and saw Charles being attacked by three Silver-level members of the Church of All Beasts.
• Charles was badly injured but escaped into an alley without asking Li Si for help, while the attackers turned their attention to Li Si.
• Marquis recognized Li Si as someone remembered by the Lord of All Beasts and tried to capture him for divine favor.
• Li Si revealed his Emerald Staff and cast a sapphire-blue fireball without incantation, making Marquis realize Li Si might be a Gold Mage.

Li Si defeated three Church of All Beasts believers who had attacked Charles, captured Marquis, and learned that Blood Shark Patrick was the Church’s leader on Bertich’s East Coast. The chapter left Patrick roaming the Pearl Sea while Li Si remained unaware of the worsening disorder across the kingdom.

• Marquis and two warriors attacked Li Si, who blocked their strikes with Greater Protective Field and blasted them back with Ring of Resistance.
• Marquis drank a strength potion and charged Li Si, but Li Si dodged their attacks and used Dominate Human to stun the two warriors before burning them with Blue Ball Spell.
• Marquis tried to escape, but Li Si struck him with spells, and Rockfall knocked him unconscious as he reached a rooftop.
• Li Si spotted Charles hiding nearby, ordered him to carry the two wounded warriors, and left with Marquis before the City Guard Army arrived.
• Li Si questioned the three captives and learned that Blood Shark Patrick, a high-ranking priest and Gold-level druid, led the Church of All Beasts on Bertich’s East Coast.

Li Si learned that the Church of All Beasts wanted Charles because of his ties to the Oak Council, then recruited him to help target Blood Shark Patrick. The next day, Li Si bought a small sailboat in Dana Port and began planning its magical modifications for the voyage.

• Li Si questioned Charles and learned that the Church of All Beasts had sent Marquis and two others to capture him and obtain information about the Oak Council.
• Charles explained that Oak Council councilor Isidore had directed him south to seek an opportunity, and Li Si recalled meeting Isidore in the Corea Hills.
• Li Si told Charles he planned to make trouble for the Church of All Beasts and target Blood Shark Patrick, and Charles agreed to help him.
• The next day, Charles joined Li Si's group and helped Bazel supervise Helen's training.
• Li Si inspected a small, sturdy sailboat in Dana Port, agreed to buy it, and asked the fixer to arrange the sailors and supplies.

Li Si and his crew hunted down a pirate ship pursuing a Mode Chamber of Commerce merchant vessel. The Eagle rammed the pirates’ ship without taking damage, beginning another battle as Helen prepared to fight for the first time.

• Captain Hoel ordered his crew to flee from Lord Hett’s pirate ship, then signaled the approaching Eagle for help.
• Li Si explained that he had spent the past month hunting pirates and sent the magically reinforced Eagle after the pursuers.
• Aivar, Bazel, Charles, and the sailors prepared for battle while Helen joined the fight with Li Si’s permission.
• Li Si steered the Eagle past Hoel’s merchant ship and charged straight at the pirate vessel.
• The Eagle smashed into the pirate ship and nearly broke it in half, while magical light left the Eagle’s prow undamaged.

Li Si and his companions ambushed Hett’s pirate ship, defeated its crew, and killed Hett after he tried to escape. With the surviving pirates subdued, Li Si let Helen practice against two captives before using his lightning domain to finish off the pirates in the sea.

• Hett ordered his pirates to board the Eagle after their ship collided with it, while Li Si assigned Aivar, Charles, and Bazel to handle the Silver-level professionals.
• Li Si cast Ring of Resistance and sent most of the boarding pirates flying into the sea, leaving two captives for Helen to fight.
• Bazel poisoned Hett with a thrown dagger, Aivar lifted him to the surface, and Charles killed him with a heavy-bow shot.
• Helen fought the two pirates Li Si had spared, while Charles and the others subdued the remaining Silver-level professionals.
• Li Si cast Li Si's Thunder Domain and electrocuted the pirates struggling in the sea as his crew gathered the spoils.

Li Si gained regional renown for hunting pirates, collected protection money from a merchant ship, and watched Helen gain experience in her first battles. After discovering that the Storm Trident had fully recharged, he ordered Aivar to prepare the ship to head for the God Spirit Island.

• Li Si received the Pirate Hunter - Eagle milestone, while the White Dove Merchant Guild continued expanding and attracting players.
• Helen fought first an ordinary pirate and then a Bronze-level warrior, gradually adapting to real combat under Li Si's watch.
• Li Si ordered Aivar to demand protection money from Hoel's merchant ship, and Hoel paid before fleeing.
• Li Si discovered that the Storm Trident had reached 100% stored energy and considered why it had recharged so quickly.
• Li Si told Aivar to prepare for the voyage to the God Spirit Island, sank the stripped pirate ship, and began preparing for the expedition.

Li Si used the Storm Trident fragment to break the barrier concealing Ansiel's Resting Place, a dangerous Secret Realm formed from a God Kingdom fragment. After cautiously entering with Aivar, Li Si reached for a tempting fruit, and shadows suddenly attacked him.

• Li Si discovered that the Storm Trident fragment could pierce a hidden barrier and used it to reveal the island.
• Aivar recognized the island he had visited before and tried to rush toward it, but Li Si stopped him and inspected the surroundings.
• Li Si identified the island as a God Kingdom fragment, received the quest Ansiel's Grudge, and suspected the dangers were tied to the dead God of Storms and Thunder Ansiel.
• Li Si tested the island's perimeter, confirmed that Teleportation Spell still worked, and led Aivar onto the beach and into the forest.
• Aivar ate a mango, and Li Si reached for a banana before shadows suddenly lunged at him from a nearby fruit tree.