Recaps

Jia Xiu visited the Caster Association’s Treasure plane to claim a replica Primordial Crystal and discovered that Rune Eye could read spell code from certain crystals. He chose a crystal containing the parent class for healing skills, and the staff member said successful research could earn him earlier access to genuine Primordial Crystals.

• Jia Xiu rushed to the Thaldarian branch of the Caster Association with Bubu and insisted on claiming his reward despite feeling dizzy.
• A staff member escorted Jia Xiu through heavy security and an interdimensional gate to the Treasure plane, where the association stored its Primordial Crystals.
• Jia Xiu learned that replica and genuine crystals could be borrowed for research after passing the association’s review.
• Jia Xiu examined the healing-related crystals while Bubu restrained itself from eating one of them.
• Jia Xiu used Rune Eye to see code inside a crystal, compared the healing-related options, and selected one containing several thousand lines of the healing-skills parent class.
• The staff member congratulated Jia Xiu on gaining insight quickly and said successful research could help him qualify to borrow genuine Primordial Crystals sooner.

Jia Xiu learned about the Primordial Crystal application process and was summoned to a meeting with a Holy Light Church bishop. In Nessus, Asmodeus spared Belial after Belial proposed a new scheme, while the continent’s leaders concluded a largely inconclusive meeting just as Jia Xiu arrived.

• Jia Xiu learned that the Healing Source, Primordial Crystal No. 24, was held by the Riel Theocracy’s Falan Theological Research Institute and heard that using a Primordial Crystal required a résumé, research proposal, and defense.
• Jia Xiu completed the paperwork for his replica crystal, was warned that he could not obtain a replacement if it was damaged, and was summoned to the Elf Temple to answer questions from a Holy Light Church bishop.
• Belial blamed the failed invasion of Thaldarian on two fellow Devil nobles, and Asmodeus turned them to ash before threatening to reduce Belial to a Lemure.
• Belial proposed using teleportation traps to send Demons into towns across the continent, and Asmodeus granted him another chance to lead the plan.
• At the Elf Temple, the gathered representatives assigned credit, discussed retaliation and rapid-response forces, and left several major problems unresolved before the secretary-general announced Jia Xiu’s arrival.

Jia Xiu demonstrated that a modified Light Spell could use invisible light to dazzle Devils, earning the approval of the gathered experts and a surge of research experience. He received access to restricted books instead of a Primordial Crystal, then entered seclusion with a replica to pursue the experience needed to level up.

• Jia Xiu explained how he modified Light Spell and demonstrated invisible light by splitting sunlight with a prism and showing that it warmed a thermometer beyond the visible spectrum.
• The gathered casters transformed into Devils and animals, confirmed they could perceive the invisible light, and began testing the spell for use against Devils.
• Jia Xiu described the spell’s uncertain effectiveness against different kinds of invisible light and the risk of eye damage, while the Ukmak Empire offered to test Devils to identify what worked.
• Jia Xiu requested a Primordial Crystal as his reward, but the Holy Light Church and Caster Association instead granted him access to restricted books across major libraries.
• Jia Xiu left the Elf Temple and entered seclusion in Gillianis's laboratory with a Primordial Crystal replica, while the stranded contestants joked about what his next research might do.

Jia Xiu modified the Basic Healing Spell after studying the replica Primordial Crystal, discovering how to intensify pain by increasing sensory nerves. The chapter ended with Gillianis transformed into a toothless crow to escape the agony of his spell.

• Jia Xiu studied the healing-skill code and learned that healing effects ranged from stimulating recovery to restoration and divine creation of life.
• Jia Xiu removed the Basic Healing Spell’s recovery cap, fixed more than a hundred errors, and created a spell that multiplied sensory nerves.
• Margaret and the others returned from sightseeing and shopping, then found Jia Xiu emerging from the laboratory in an alarming, manic state.
• Jia Xiu explained that his spell could amplify pain, but the others doubted its power until Gillianis volunteered to test it.
• Jia Xiu cast the spell on Gillianis, whose teeth and jaw filled with unbearable pain, and she transformed into a crow to escape it.

Jia Xiu’s Toothache Healing Spell left Gillianis transformed into a crow, but she devised a Reversal Formula and recovered. He then explained his modular Basic Healing Spell, which could be adapted to treat many kinds of injuries without changing how casters controlled mana, and submitted it and his more dangerous healing spells to the Sect Master for experience.

• Jia Xiu told crow-form Gillianis he could not reverse his Toothache Healing Spell yet, so she studied his Magic Grimoire and created a Reversal Formula that restored her to human form.
• Gillianis recognized the ingenuity behind Jia Xiu’s spells, and he described his Allergy Healing Spell, which made targets prone to potentially fatal allergic reactions.
• Jia Xiu revealed his modular Basic Healing Spell, with replaceable runes for different body parts and injuries while preserving the same casting method.
• Margaret and the others agreed that Jia Xiu’s modular spell was genuinely useful, and Jia Xiu decided to submit it to the Caster Association for certification.
• Jia Xiu submitted his modular spell and other Healing Spells to the Sect Master, earning experience and an evaluation that his understanding of Healing Spells had become extraordinary.

After reaching level six, Jia Xiu tested his new Descent spell and summoned an indestructible statue of himself that unleashed a powerful area attack. The spell left him embarrassed when Gillianis, Margaret, and Bubu arrived, while Margaret privately wondered whether the Sect Master had a special relationship with Jia Xiu.

• Jia Xiu reached Warlock level six, gained new abilities and a contract slot, and considered Justina and Siloshak as possible auxiliary Sect Masters.
• Jia Xiu cast Descent in Gillianis's garden and summoned a statue of himself whose radiance blinded, confused, and damaged hostile targets.
• Jia Xiu learned the statue was indestructible and would vanish after three minutes, then decided to save the spell for emergencies because of its embarrassing appearance.
• Gillianis, Margaret, and Bubu arrived, and Gillianis laughed at the statue while Jia Xiu explained that his Sect Master had created it.
• Margaret wondered whether the Sect Master and Jia Xiu had a relationship beyond their contract, then questioned why the thought made her nervous.

Jia Xiu disguised two pain-inducing spells as auxiliary healing magic to avoid having them classified as restricted, then entered Thaldarian’s restricted-loan library. He found a strange leather-bound book titled The Laws of All Races, which began whispering and showing him disturbing visions.

• Jia Xiu used Lesser Illusion to improve his Descent spell and prepared to return to Larven after the teleportation array was repaired.
• A Caster Association staff member warned Jia Xiu that his nerve-amplification healing spell might be restricted, so Jia Xiu withdrew it for revisions.
• Jia Xiu resubmitted the nerve-amplification and allergy spells as auxiliary healing spells and attached documents describing their side effects.
• A drow librarian explained the restricted section’s rules, and Jia Xiu entered to search for damage and protective spells.
• Jia Xiu picked up The Laws of All Races, whose leather cover seemed to pulse as whispers and disturbing visions urged him to open it.

Jia Xiu reported a cursed spellbook to the Drow librarian, learning that it was a restricted illustrated guide whose disturbing contents caused mental contamination. He asked for spells useful against Vampires, and the librarian introduced several unconventional options before showing him a protective barrier that combined offense and defense.

• Jia Xiu resisted The Ten Thousand Races' Guide's seductive voice, shoved it back onto the shelf, and alerted the Drow librarian.
• The Drow librarian explained that the book was restricted for its graphic accounts and illustrations of customs industries across many races, which could cause mental contamination.
• Jia Xiu asked the librarian to recommend direct-damage and protective spells that would work well against Vampires.
• The librarian introduced Weather Forecast Spell, Tree Bark Spell, and Blessing of a Hundred Years, and Jia Xiu decided to copy down the first two while considering the blessing.
• The librarian described an unusually powerful Lightning Arrow whose changing current increased its damage, and Jia Xiu excitedly asked how its current fluctuated.
• The librarian began introducing a special protective barrier that combined offense and defense.

Jia Xiu learned a barrier spell that could slash enemies and devised a way to disguise it as a weak shield. To strengthen his plans for the Vampire village, he asked Justina to learn alternating-current magic, then rejected her as a potential assistant Sect Master because her Knight abilities did not fit.

• Jia Xiu learned that Louis XVI's Happy Barrier could close with lethal force and copied it into his Magic Grimoire.
• Jia Xiu modified a weak-looking barrier to conceal the real slashing barrier and planned to combine it with alternating-current shocks and ultraviolet light against Vampires.
• Jia Xiu considered Storm Domain magic as a way to strengthen his alternating current and prayed to Justina for help.
• Justina agreed to try learning alternating current after Jia Xiu suggested it might lead to divine authority over the spell.
• Justina listed her Knight abilities when Jia Xiu asked about her traits, but he cut her off and ruled her out as a candidate for assistant Sect Master.

Jia Xiu returned to Saint Dero after winning the Grand Five-Academy Tournament, discussed plans to research Blood Clan Magic and investigate Vampires during winter break, and was greeted with a ceremony. The celebration ended with Senior Brother Juan promoting their mass-produced magic devices, prompting Jia Xiu to silence him.

• Jia Xiu told Margaret that he was sending the Radiant Knight materials on alternating-current spells and asked Margaret to help analyze higher-level Blood Clan Magic.
• Jia Xiu told Margaret he planned to take a winter-break mission to Csejthe Town, investigate Vampires, and bring Bubu along.
• Jia Xiu and Margaret returned to Saint Dero, where students welcomed Jia Xiu as champion of the 500th Grand Five-Academy Tournament.
• Senior Brother Juan pushed through the reporters and advertised the Happy Rod and Happy Cup as the champion’s choice.
• Jia Xiu cast Silence to stop Juan from continuing his advertisement and demonstrating the devices.

Jia Xiu learned that Juan’s Mage Armor products were barely selling because their advertising and sales channels were poorly chosen, while competitors were spreading rumors about them. He devised plans to recruit bards and publish academic papers to promote the products, then considered enlisting Margaret to help bring competitors into the business.

• Juan told Jia Xiu that the first batch of Mage Armor products had brought in only 8 Kroner, despite his promises to the Alchemy Workshops.
• Juan explained that newspapers and magic-device stores rejected or hid his advertisements, competitors slandered the membrane products, and his former colleagues were selling the toys to clients who preferred real partners.
• Jia Xiu realized the sales approach was wrong and proposed having bards promote the products to ordinary customers.
• Jia Xiu planned to make the products seem refined to wealthy customers by publishing papers on reproductive hygiene in academic journals, including papers by Mia and other scholars.
• Jia Xiu considered employing the competing sellers and looked to Margaret as a powerful supporter, prompting her to ask why he was staring at her.

Jia Xiu sought a powerful backer for the Mage Armor business, and Margaret refused to let him use the Capet family name. She introduced him to Princess Emilia instead, who offered to invest and help expand the business across the continent, while Jia Xiu asked for concrete details about her support.

• Jia Xiu asked Margaret to let the Mage Armor business use the Capet family name, but she refused because her family would not support the venture.
• Margaret recommended her friend Princess Emilia as a backer, and Jia Xiu, Juan, Bubu, and Ram visited Emilia's estate.
• Jia Xiu explained the revised Mage Armor and their business challenges to Emilia, who recognized the venture's commercial potential.
• Emilia offered to invest, provide funds and personnel, and help sell the products across the continent.
• Jia Xiu accepted the possibility of working with Emilia but asked how she would make good on her promise, while Emilia regarded him as shrewd.

Bubu impressed Quido with its swordsmanship, prompting Quido to teach it the baffling Supreme Shadow-Sun Sword. Meanwhile, Emilia agreed to finance and promote Jia Xiu and Juan’s magical products, then proposed features and marketing changes that revealed her own improper streak.

• Bubu used its invented White Crow Strike against Quido, who secretly downplayed Bubu’s progress before explaining that the technique came from a novel.
• Quido recognized Bubu’s talent for learning swordsmanship from illustrations and decided to teach it the Supreme Shadow-Sun Sword; Bubu began comprehending the advanced technique.
• Emilia offered to fund production and advertising, arrange partnerships with state-run brothels, and connect Jia Xiu and Juan with merchant networks.
• Juan admitted that their sales had been poor, and Jia Xiu outlined a promotional plan involving selectively published research and the royal family’s support.
• Emilia learned that Membrane Mage Armor could help prevent infectious diseases and ordered its promotion and production to begin quickly.
• Emilia suggested adding interchangeable illusions to the magical products and renaming their sizes large, extra-large, and super extra-large.

Paul failed to buy Membrane Mage Armor from a sold-out vending box, while Jia Xiu’s new product became a major success. Jia Xiu then tested defensive magic against Vampire spawn, leaving Margaret embarrassed after she misunderstood the experiment.

• Paul went to buy Membrane Mage Armor after Laila insisted on taking precautions, but he was too embarrassed to enter a Dwarf shop and used its unmanned vending box instead.
• Paul chose an extra-large size, but the vending box reported that the Mage Armor was sold out, and he cried out in frustration.
• Juan told Jia Xiu that the first batch of Mage Armor had sold out, especially through unmanned vending boxes, and reported about 800 Kroner in gross profit.
• Jia Xiu decided to spend some of the earnings on an experiment he had long delayed because of its cost.
• Margaret overheard Vampire spawn speaking suggestively as they entered Jia Xiu’s laboratory and assumed he was arranging an improper gathering.
• Margaret burst in and found Jia Xiu testing defensive counterattacks against charging Vampires in preparation for a winter adventure mission, then awkwardly explained that she had merely been checking on him.

Jia Xiu prepared stronger anti-Vampire weapons and investigated suspicious commissions linked to Csejthe Town. As he arranged to investigate the town, its inhabitants began a ritual to welcome new captives and servants.

• Jia Xiu tested an ultraviolet floodlight, a protective magic array, and Justina’s amplified Alternating-Current Spell against Vampire derivatives, then planned portable ultraviolet flash bombs.
• Jia Xiu commissioned the Fireforge Clan to make at least five hundred flash bombs, and its Dwarf artisans promised delivery within ten days.
• Jia Xiu searched a century of Csejthe Town commissions and found low-paying jobs posted in remote places, some specifically seeking female adventurers, with several new commissions already accepted.
• Jia Xiu contacted Gillianis to request Polymorph scrolls for his upcoming investigation of Csejthe Town.
• In Csejthe Town, a black-robed group with many women gathered in an ancient castle as their leader announced that the time had come to welcome new lambs and servants.

Jia Xiu assembled Mia, Ram, and Bubu for their first adventure in Csejthe Town, tested out of his remaining academy courses, and gathered old commission records for Mia to analyze. After registering their adventure party and taking every unfinished Csejthe commission, they heard Mia warn that her prophecy was not optimistic.

• Jia Xiu earned 96 on his final proficiency exam and challenged the senior student’s deduction of four points.
• Jia Xiu met Mia and Ram after they passed their exams, then gave Mia a century of Csejthe Town commission records to calculate their success rate.
• Jia Xiu, Mia, and Ram collected the excited Bubu and headed to the Adventurer Association with Da Huang and two thousand ultraviolet flash bombs.
• Jia Xiu accepted every unfinished commission in Csejthe Town and registered the party at cast-iron rank under a temporary name.
• Mia told Jia Xiu that her prophecy about the adventure did not look optimistic.

Jia Xiu and his companions traveled to Csejthe Town, where Mia's prophecy suggested the Vampire commission concealed a larger scheme. After nightfall, a Vampire spawn attacked another adventuring party in the woods as Jia Xiu's group arrived at the ominous, heavily barricaded town.

• A priestess ordered the town's followers to awaken the hounds and use an adventuring team to test them once the final adventurers arrived.
• A novice party searching the woods encountered an unusually powerful Vampire spawn, and their blessed garlic had no effect.
• Jia Xiu traveled toward Csejthe Town by ox cart while Mia calculated that the commission was likely bait for low-level adventurers.
• Jia Xiu secretly planted a Teleportation Anchor on the road as an escape precaution before reaching town after dark.
• Jia Xiu inspected the gloomy town and its reinforced houses, then heard someone cry that the Vampires had arrived.

Jia Xiu watched a staged Vampire attack in a remote town and suspected the black-robed Cult of the Moon Mother Goddess was behind it. After Julia, the group’s leader, drove off the spawn and treated the adventurers, Jia Xiu was left questioning why she planned to send them away instead of recruiting them.

• Jia Xiu held Bubu back and watched an unusually muscular Vampire spawn chase adventurers into town, concluding that someone was controlling it and making it hold back.
• The spawn knocked down the adventurers and nearly bit Mia’s Druid companion, but a bell from the ruined castle caused it to convulse in pain.
• Julia and a group of black-robed people arrived, chanted in an unfamiliar language, and drove the spawn away; Jia Xiu suspected Julia was a Vampire controlling it.
• Julia introduced herself as a priestess of the Cult of the Moon Mother Goddess and healed the adventurers, claiming her power could repel but not kill Vampires.
• The adventurers urged Julia to post a higher-paying commission, and Julia agreed to send them away the next day, puzzling Jia Xiu.

Jia Xiu and his squad investigated the Moon Mother Goddess Cult’s Vampire scheme after Mia calculated that the cult might be feeding a powerful sleeping Vampire. Ram tracked a spawn into the forest, where the squad discovered a black-robed cultist preparing to bury it and offering the adventurers as a fresh sacrifice.

• Jia Xiu questioned why Julia had not recruited believers after her fake miracle, while Mia calculated that the adventurer commissions were a cult trap connected to Vampires.
• Mia proposed that the cult might be feeding a Vampire, and warned that a tiny chance remained that they were slowly awakening an ancient, overwhelmingly powerful one.
• Ram offered to track the escaped spawn by scent, so Jia Xiu led the squad into the forest that night.
• Ram sensed the spawn and another person nearby, and Jia Xiu had Bubu cast Invisibility so they could approach unseen.
• The squad found a black-robed cultist placing the spawn in a coffin and praying over it, and Jia Xiu realized the cult intended to sacrifice the adventurers.
• Jia Xiu planned to silence and interrogate the cultist, then use Gillianis's transformation scroll to infiltrate the cult.

Jia Xiu and his companions uncovered a monstrous Derivative and discovered that a cultist could survive lethal injuries through the Moon Mother Goddess’s blessing. The cultist revealed the cult’s plan to make sacrifices for the Goddess’s awakening, then summoned two living hand axes as Bubu prepared to fight.

• Jia Xiu examined the praying cultist, then attacked her from behind with a powerful lightning spell and burned her leg with a Flame Arrow after she appeared dead.
• Jia Xiu and Ram opened the coffin while Mia studied the sleeping Derivative and Bubu cast Speak with the Dead on the cultist.
• The cultist revived, healed her wound, and twisted her body back into shape; Jia Xiu’s flashbang failed to harm her.
• The cultist boasted that the Moon Mother Goddess would awaken soon and that adventurers would become sacrifices, but she offered little information about the Goddess’s blessing.
• The cultist summoned two grotesque hand axes, and Jia Xiu stepped back and called on Bubu to act.

Jia Xiu subdued cultist Samantha, used her as a test subject, and questioned her corpse to learn about the Moon Mother Goddess’s awakening and the cult’s plans. He transformed into Samantha to infiltrate the cult before its morning meeting, while Bubu and the others prepared to pose as adventurers and seek help for the ritual in ten days.

• Bubu defeated the blessed cultist repeatedly, and Jia Xiu studied its limited recovery before conducting experiments on it.
• Mia warned that the original spawned body might be discovered missing, so Jia Xiu fed it the cultist’s blood and restored it enough to hide in the coffin.
• Bubu used Speak with Dead, and Jia Xiu learned that the Moon Mother Goddess would awaken in ten days after the cult sacrificed heretics and faithless believers.
• The corpse identified itself as Samantha, a priest tasked with retrieving the spawned body and reporting to the High Priest at the morning meeting; Jia Xiu questioned it about her identity and the cult’s practices.
• Jia Xiu transformed into Samantha, left an illusion of himself with Bubu, and told his companions to pose as rookie adventurers while he went to the cult’s morning meeting.

Jia Xiu learned that the Moon Mother Goddess Church had deliberately trapped the departing adventurers so they would return desperate for shelter, while the adventurers’ escape attempt failed at a magical barrier. During scripture study, Jia Xiu discovered that the church’s beliefs centered on a strange prophecy about Female Heaven and women’s liberation, leaving him deeply shocked.

• The adventurers found the mountain road collapsed and argued over how to escape Csejthe Town.
• A warrior used the lone Flight spell scroll to cross the gap, but a blood-draining magical barrier struck him and blocked the way.
• The adventurers turned back toward town, hoping the Moon Mother Goddess Church would shelter them from the Vampires.
• At the church’s morning meeting, Jia Xiu learned that the priests had arranged the road collapse and planned to frighten the returning adventurers into joining.
• Jia Xiu read the Mother Goddess Bible and was stunned by its prophecy of Female Heaven and liberation from childbirth.

Jia Xiu studied the Cult of the Moon Mother Goddess’s scripture to learn how to advance during his trial, while suspecting its goddess might not exist and that the High Priestess possessed a divine artifact. At a town tribunal, he saw Cleric Geli issue an extreme ruling against a husband who asked his unfaithful wife to apologize, and decided he would need to imitate the cult’s radical interpreters.

• Jia Xiu read the cult’s scripture and considered whether its miracles came from a divine artifact rather than an actual goddess.
• Jia Xiu learned that the High Priestess likely held the artifact and continued studying the cult’s doctrines to prepare for his trial.
• Cleric Geli summoned Jia Xiu, while posing as Cleric Samantha, to serve at the town tribunal.
• A husband told Cleric Geli that his wife had been intimate with another man and asked her to apologize.
• Cleric Geli ruled that the husband was at fault, ordered him to apologize and pay compensation, and Jia Xiu endorsed the judgment.
• Jia Xiu concluded that he needed to follow the cult’s most radical interpreters to advance within the organization.

The adventurers returned to Csejthe Town and sought help from the Moon Mother Goddess Church, where the High Priestess demanded their complete devotion in exchange for power. As Vampire spawn attacked the church, the desperate adventurers faced imminent death—until the Mother Goddess's statue burst into dazzling light.

• The battered adventurers returned to Csejthe Town and went to the church for help against the Vampires.
• The church guards brought the adventurers before the High Priestess, who told them they had to devote their faith, lives, and futures to the Mother Goddess to gain power.
• The adventurers argued over whether to join the church, while Jia Xiu and Mia stayed concealed among them.
• Several Vampire spawn broke through the church doors, and the High Priestess refused to help because the adventurers had rejected their supposed destiny.
• As a desperate adventurer finally agreed to join the faith, the Mother Goddess's sacred statue erupted with dazzling light.

Jia Xiu watched the Cult of the Moon Mother Goddess stage a vampire attack and discovered that its blessing came from underground rather than from the statue or the high priestess. As the high priestess began a trial to select worthy believers, Jia Xiu realized the scales were rigged and decided to win by undermining his competitors.

• Vampire spawn attacked the castle church, and the Mother Goddess statue’s light empowered a female rogue to kill one with a dagger.
• Jia Xiu determined that the blessing came from a source underground and resolved to investigate the cult’s hidden chamber and artifact.
• The rogue collapsed after using the blessing, and the high priestess urged the adventurers to serve and obey women chosen by the Mother Goddess.
• The high priestess announced a trial in which women would learn doctrine and men would obey, with the altar scales judging their worthiness.
• Jia Xiu recognized Blood Clan runes on the scales as a means of controlling their tilt and planned to disqualify his rivals through accusations and rumors.