Chapter Summaries

Hill discovered a hidden Teleportation Gate in the silver mine leading to the sealed Elf Forest and confronted Rose, who had been observing him through an illusion. After Rose agreed to stop interfering, Hill removed the Ocean Goddess-tainted seaweed and sealed the mine, including Ellie's abandoned assimilation formation.

• Hill judged that Ellie's fusion with a Wind Fey had left her on a dangerous path and continued into the silver mine.
• Hill found a hidden Teleportation Gate powered by a small Energy Crystals vein and discovered that it led to the sealed Elf Forest.
• Rose appeared before Hill and proposed making Ellie lose the support of her suitors, while Hill insisted that Ellie's choices did not affect him.
• Hill and Rose discussed Venti and Rose's interest in the power of desire, and Rose agreed to stop interfering after Hill answered her question honestly.
• Hill realized Rose had used an illusion and a hidden creature to observe him, then removed the Ocean Goddess-tainted seaweed and sealed the mine and Ellie's abandoned assimilation formation.

Hill reached the mountain near Stell Castle and drew the attention of its inhabitants, while Ellie worried he might uncover incriminating evidence. Nadia unsettled Ellie by telling her about Cunlü of Black Rose, a beautiful Undead with a special connection to Hill, and Ellie resolved to investigate.

• Hill carried the earth to the mountaintop and saw that someone at Stell Castle had noticed him.
• Ellie learned that Belfran Grand Sage had appeared at the rear mountain and tried to hide her alarm.
• Nadia told Ellie that Cunlü was a celebrated beauty who had a close connection to Hill and would arrive the next day.
• Ellie clenched her fist at Nadia's account, then decided to investigate Cunlü through members of Nishang's family.

Ellie resolved to pursue Hill and eternal youth, then planned to use her new status to pressure Cunlü’s family. Xue Yunfeng and Lu Huayu decoded a message suggesting Ellie might target Cunlü, but learned the Duchess’s piglets were scarce and would not be available as protection.

• Ellie decided to improve her appearance and power to attract Hill, and ordered formal gowns for the banquet honoring Dieter.
• Ellie asked the Undead girls to contact Bai Nishang and considered pushing the Black Rose Family out of the city because Hill valued Cunlü.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Lu Huayu about Liang Xingzhu’s apologetic emails, and Lu said she regretted her actions but would not repay him.
• Lu Huayu and Xue Yunfeng interpreted Zhu Meili’s poem as a warning that Ellie might target Cunlü, who was expected the next day.
• Ball Ball explained that the Duchess gave birth only once every three years and that her piglets took two years to mature, leaving Black Rose short of them.

Xue Yunfeng and the others discussed how Ji Lanyuan was conspiring to make a Black Rose executive falsely confirm that Hill treated Cunlü differently, and Perfect Baldhead agreed that Black Rose would cooperate against her. Xue Yunfeng began planning a response involving Cunlü’s piglets, while the group remained uncertain whether Speckled White Sails was Paintbrush.

• Lu Huayu explained that he had made a child form for Umberlee so she could play on the ship without damaging her goddess image.
• Lu Huayu revealed that Ji Lanyuan planned to use a trap and Ellie’s eavesdropping to produce false evidence about Hill and Cunlü.
• Perfect Baldhead declared that Black Rose would cooperate with Xue Yunfeng, even if uninformed family members were harmed, because Ji Lanyuan had betrayed them.
• The group debated Ji Lanyuan’s loyalty to Paintbrush and whether Speckled White Sails was Paintbrush, and Xue Yunfeng said Black-and-White Road’s managers considered the resemblance sufficient for their plan.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Perfect Baldhead to check when Cunlü’s piglets would be ready and whether Black Rose planned to bring them to market together.

Xue Yunfeng warned that some lines should not be crossed, then discussed how the Heaven-Defying Alliance would retaliate against Ji Lanyuan and how the Black Rose’s animals could join the conflict in Oaises. The chapter ended with Lu Huayu explaining that Young Master Linde was testing whether their views of Ellie would affect their attitude toward the Ster Family and the locals.

• Xue Yunfeng recalled how he had once driven a powerful young master to reform himself after the man tried to force him to give up his family.
• Perfect Baldhead asked to personally make Ji Lanyuan repent, and Xue Yunfeng promised an unforgettable finale for their enemies.
• Xue Yunfeng asked how many pigs the Black Rose could bring into Oaises, and Perfect Baldhead said his family had more than a hundred thousand pigs but was limited by how many people could enter.
• Perfect Baldhead explained that his family controlled the pig herd carefully and that the animals of Hill's family were unusually intelligent.
• Lu Huayu said Young Master Linde had tested their views on the locals and the Moon Clan, especially whether their dissatisfaction with Ellie would change their attitude toward the Ster Family.

The Alliance discussed Ji Lanyuan’s betrayal, the family secrets she could expose, and the growing risks of their dominance in Toril. Xue Yunfeng urged Perfect Baldhead to avoid provoking the Black Rose Family’s enemies, then secretly watched Cunlü and Old School Striking King act warmly toward Ji Lanyuan and fled in alarm.

• Sui Chen explained that Selûne’s moonlight awakened Vhaeraun and Eilistraee and helped animal companions connect with ancestral memories.
• Perfect Baldhead realized Ji Lanyuan could expose the Black Rose Family’s secrets across multiple worlds and asked Old Dog whether Eden’s attention toward Ellie concealed a plot.
• Xue Yunfeng said he was investigating Eden’s motives and explained that the Alliance needed to tolerate internal trouble rather than invite attacks from outsiders.
• Xue Yunfeng warned Perfect Baldhead to keep his temper in check and let Eden take Oaisis, since the Black Rose Family faced resentment over its gains in Toril.
• Lu Huayu said women seeking revenge could act like movie queens, and Xue Yunfeng saw Cunlü and Old School Striking King behave amiably toward Ji Lanyuan before retreating in fear.

Xue Yunfeng and Perfect Baldhead discussed the Moon Clan’s latest attack and worried over the women’s anger at Baldhead’s deception. After learning Ellie was watching Cunlü and Old Age fight, Xue Yunfeng asked Lily to let Hill hear their conversation so Ellie would not imitate Cunlü and provoke him.

• Xue Yunfeng returned to his fortified command platform, where Lily had agreed to stay and monitor events for Hill.
• Perfect Baldhead hid in the command platform after performing normally, then begged Xue Yunfeng to make sure his plan was flawless because Cunlü and Old Age were furious with him.
• Xue Yunfeng and Perfect Baldhead discussed the Moon Clan’s newest group of more than twenty thousand players and speculated that a capable commander had coordinated their delayed entry.
• Lu Huayu reported that Ellie had gone to watch Cunlü and Old Age level up, where Cunlü restrained an opponent with a mana-draining skill and Old Age beat another with precise punches.
• Xue Yunfeng asked Lily to let Hill hear the conversation, fearing Ellie might copy Cunlü’s outfit and provoke Hill.

Xue Yunfeng learned that the Ster Family would stay neutral after Ellie’s transformation, then confirmed with Hill that her merger with the Wind Fey would irreversibly erode her rationality. He realized Ellie’s conflict had gained a new player and found that Old Age had rapidly leveled by killing members of the Moon Clan.

• Lu Huayu told Xue Yunfeng that Linde had complained about Ellie’s choices and that Dieter said her actions did not represent the Ster Family.
• Lu Huayu described how Ellie’s appearance and confidence had changed, and Xue Yunfeng suspected she had merged with the Wind Fey and abandoned her human nature.
• Xue Yunfeng contacted Hill, who explained that Ellie’s transformation was irreversible and would increasingly weaken her rationality.
• Xue Yunfeng concluded that Dieter knew the transformation was dangerous and understood why the Ster Family had chosen neutrality.
• Perfect Baldhead told Xue Yunfeng and Lu Huayu that Old Age had reached level 3 by killing higher-level Moon Clan members, using joint locks and a secret technique.

Xue Yunfeng arranged to exploit Ellie’s jealousy while Old Age leveled up and prepared to make a dramatic entrance. Dieter and Linde questioned whether Ellie could still be herself, then witnessed Old Age attack a Moon Clan ship from the seawall.

• Xue Yunfeng told Perfect Baldhead to have Cunlü and Nanfeng flaunt their affection so Ellie would lose her excuse to pick a fight, while Old Age continued leveling in the mountains.
• Xue Yunfeng asked for Old Age to receive a grand entrance that would display the Undead’s strength without making her beauty a bargaining chip.
• Dieter and Linde discussed whether Ellie’s transformation could be reversed, and Dieter urged Linde to put the Ster Family’s survival first.
• A horn sounded as the Undead began counterattacking the troop transports near the seawall.
• A tall knight threw Old Age toward a Moon Clan ship, where she smashed its mast and cast blindness, confusion, and fear on its crew.

Dieter watched Old School Striking King fight and learned more about her ties to Hill and the Black Rose Family. He concluded that Ellie’s choices were her own and resolved to speak plainly with his family when he returned.

• Battle Domain Thunder explained that Old School Striking King was a powerful combat Priest, and Sui Chen said gender did not matter on a battlefield.
• Linde apologized to Kemal after his War Cattle glared at him for commenting on Old School Striking King’s cuteness.
• Dieter admired Old School Striking King’s fighting and healing, while Lu Huayu identified her as Cunlü of the Black Rose Family and said she was married to someone she loved.
• Lu Huayu said Hill treated Old School Striking King well and let her visit his Mage Tower, but Sui Chen stopped Battle Domain Thunder from adding more.
• Dieter decided Ellie’s behavior came from her own motives and resolved to explain matters to his parents and Steward Ted and his wife.
• Lu Huayu judged that Linde, rather than Dieter, was more likely to join the Undead against Ellie.

Lu Huayu maneuvered Linde into noticing that Ellie had reached into Dieter’s knight order, hoping to turn the family conflict into a quest for the Undead. After Old School Striking King finished fighting and met the Sterl brothers, she teased Linde about still being a Mage Apprentice.

• Lu Huayu planned to use Linde’s anger over Ellie’s influence on Dieter’s knights to trigger a quest that the Doomsday Family could exploit.
• Lu Huayu drew Linde’s attention to several knights whose expressions suggested they had sided with Ellie, and Linde realized she had meddled in Dieter’s faction.
• Linde asked Battle Domain Thunder to introduce him to Old School Striking King, while Thunder joked that Linde might be courting trouble.
• Sui Chen called Old School Striking King over, and Dieter, Linde, and the knight order greeted her with formal respect after witnessing her combat prowess.
• Old School Striking King asked Linde why he was still a Mage Apprentice and suggested he buy mental-power enhancement potions.

Old School Striking King explained that the Undead’s Focus Potion helped apprentices concentrate and learn spell runes, but Linde learned that Ellie had known about it and never offered to buy him any. Linde sought reassurance from Dieter, who comforted him and resolved to let him remain in the family castle.

• Dieter wondered whether the Undead’s potion could help human apprentices advance, while Old School Striking King silenced Battle Domain Thunder for interrupting.
• Old School Striking King explained the Focus Potion’s effects and revealed that each bottle cost two thousand gold.
• Lu Huayu said Ellie was a major customer who had bought more expensive items for Official Mages, and Linde realized she had known about the potion.
• Linde concluded that he could no longer count on Ellie as a sister and asked Dieter if he would still have him; Dieter embraced him and offered comfort.
• Old School Striking King and Sui Chen exchanged looks about Linde’s behavior, and Lu Huayu bristled at their apparent comparison to him.

Linde accepted that his family had reduced him to collateral-branch status, and Dieter offered to help him buy several shops so he could build some independence. Linde planned to join the Undead at their command platform the next day, while the others discussed Old Dog’s hidden talents and ended with Old School Striking King attacking Battle Domain Thunder.

• Linde told Dieter he needed to prepare for life as a collateral branch member, and Dieter offered to sell him several shops near Grand Sage Belfran’s safe house at an internal price.
• Lu Huayu suggested renting the shops to the Undead, and Linde agreed to meet him the next day at the command platform in the camp.
• Lu Huayu promised that Doomsday would protect Linde, and Dieter agreed to bring him along and entrust his safety to them.
• After Dieter and Linde left, Battle Domain Thunder questioned Lu Huayu about selling goods, and Lu Huayu told him to ask Old Dog.
• Old School Striking King explained that Old Dog’s buffs from Dark Night and Silver Moon suited a rogue-like fighter better than a Mage, and Lu Huayu realized this explained Old Dog’s improved eavesdropping.
• Old School Striking King kicked Battle Domain Thunder and challenged him to spar.

Lu Huayu reflected on his bargain with Old Dog concerning Linde’s future and resolved not to interfere unless Linde asked for help. At Stell Castle, Dieter transferred properties to Linde while Ted prepared for Dieter to inherit the earldom and worried about Ellie’s estrangement from the family.

• Lu Huayu realized that he and Old Dog had agreed to exchange Linde and his future territory for the Doomsday Family’s economic ties with Linde, and he decided to follow Xue Yunfeng’s instruction not to solve Linde’s problems for him.
• Dieter swiftly brought Linde back to Stell Castle and arranged for several properties to be transferred into Linde’s name.
• Ted approved the transfer and continued training Dieter’s personal servants, knowing that Earl Ster had requested the title be transferred to Dieter.
• Ted reflected on Ellie’s betrayal and on Countess Ster planting roses in the garden, which he felt might be a way of mourning her daughter.
• Ted hoped Ellie might still treat the family kindly, while accepting that Linde’s future might lie beyond Stell Castle.

Dieter brought Linde to the Undead camp, while the Heaven-Defying Alliance prepared for a confrontation with Eden and debated Ellie’s motives. Cunlü stayed at Hill’s Mage Tower with Nanfeng, then set out to pick Crystal Fruit as Dieter and his knights passed by.

• Dieter secured Linde’s private assets at the Rune Lord Temple and agreed to take him to the Undead camp before separating to carry out their plans.
• Lu Huayu reported the brothers’ arrival, while Xue Yunfeng and the others prepared the command platform for the coming battle.
• Mo Bi Chenxin explained why he distrusted Ellie and said Cunlü had helped him avoid being seen by her.
• Xue Yunfeng ordered the Heaven-Defying Alliance to prepare for a decisive victory, warning that Hill would not fight his own kind.
• Cunlü and Nanfeng ate breakfast at Hill’s Mage Tower, then headed toward his private Magic Garden to pick Crystal Fruit.
• Dieter and his Knight Order passed Cunlü and Nanfeng in the strong wind and stared at Cunlü before the storm snapped them back to their senses.

As the wind intensified, Battle Domain Thunder led Dieter’s forces toward the embankment while the allied players fought to hold their defensive lines. Hill prepared to redirect the dangerous wind toward the sea, where it could drive the Moon Clan back toward the island.

• Battle Domain Thunder welcomed Dieter and Linde, then assigned Linde to accompany Old Doomsday’s armored men to the command platform.
• Sui Chen arranged Dieter’s men in the center of a protective formation and identified signs that someone in their ranks might be unreliable.
• Battle Domain Thunder led the knights in a charge toward the embankment as the Heaven-Defying Alliance became the main force resisting the attackers.
• Old School Striking King helped secure Black Rose’s defensive line, then returned to the command platform and traded barbs with Cunlü.
• Nanfeng reported that the wind was nearing level ten, and Hill said he would suppress it at level eleven and could blow it toward the sea.

Hill’s hurricane revealed that Ellie and the Wind Goddess were involved in the conflict, while Triton urged the Scarlets to drive Ellie into the desert and warned of a threat in the sea. At the Undead camp, Cunlü and Nanfeng joined the battlefield, where the knights under Dieter’s command suddenly exploded.

• Hill carved a vortex from the clouds and sent a hurricane toward Scarlet’s great ship, while Prince Scarlet recognized the wind as the work of the Wind Goddess beside Aoskar.
• Triton told Prince Scarlet to kill Ellie if possible or drive her into the desert, and warned that Lady of Pain might bring old debts and enemies with her.
• Raymond revealed that he had prepared ships carrying Crystal Energy Bombs to test the Endless Vines, and said Triton was more concerned about enemies in the sea.
• Sui Chen told Battle Domain Thunder to let the mounts rest as the wind began rising again, while Cunlü and Nanfeng appeared near Dieter’s knights.
• Nanfeng shielded himself and Cunlü and shouted that the knights were under attack, as the deputy commander was bound and dragged away and the knights exploded.

Nanfeng and Cunlü fought the monsters attacking the Cloud Platform while Old Age arrived to heal the Knights. Cunlü changed clothes and took to the air to cast group healing, leaving the battle ongoing as the Undead cheered.

• Nanfeng shielded Cunlü from the monsters’ blood and warned her not to cross the barrier.
• Old Age reported that blood had entered through a small opening at the Cloud Platform’s edge and ordered Cunlü to heal the Knights.
• Old Age gave Cunlü a golden mushroom umbrella so she could change clothes out of sight.
• Old Age blessed the Knights and withdrew while Cunlü prepared to take over the healing.
• Cunlü rode a Pea Vine into the air and cast a healing spell over the Knights as the Undead cheered.

Cunlü danced to draw Dieter’s praise, triggering Ellie’s attack and a massive blast that overturned the command platform. As the battle lines broke and the Undead factions turned on one another, Cunlü stayed safe and Xue Yunfeng asked whether she was the one who pulled mobs for Old Age’s group.

• Dieter declared Cunlü the most beautiful woman in Oaises, and the wind around Bacia surged past Oaises’s power limit.
• Ellie’s incarnation attacked Cunlü and Hill, but Hill froze the battlefield while Oaises urged him to leave Ellie’s soul intact.
• Ellie plunged into the sea and collided with a giant sea monster, causing a blast that overturned the Cloud Platform as Battle Domain knights shielded Dieter and the others.
• Undead leaped onto Endless Vines and disrupted its defenses, opening gaps for the sea monsters while the Moon Clan charged toward the seawall.
• Cunlü survived the crash, healed the knights, and taunted distant enemies who had logged on too far away to reach her.
• Xue Yunfeng emerged from the wreckage and asked Old Age whether Cunlü was the one who pulled mobs for his group.

Xue Yunfeng and the others discussed their enemies and the danger to Dieter’s knights while Cloud Platform held against attack. Hill revealed that Ellie’s soul was suppressed rather than destroyed, and Xue Yunfeng identified Lucia, the Damboro Pearl, as a possible lead.

• Lu Huayu explained to Linde that Dieter’s knights were in danger because they had not stayed neutral in Ellie’s conflict, while Dieter himself was not yet at risk.
• Ball Ball and Old School Striking King questioned Xue Yunfeng for hiding under a sofa instead of using a spell when Cloud Platform overturned.
• Hill reported that Ellie’s soul was still alive but suppressed by a fragment of Oaisis’s soul, who wanted to find the culprit and could not contact Xue Yunfeng directly.
• Xue Yunfeng said his lead was Lucia, the Damboro Pearl, and Linde insisted that she had no abilities and would have used them if she had any.
• Xue Yunfeng pointed out that people’s descriptions of Lucia’s beauty seemed suspicious because they never compared her favorably against the woman they loved.