Recaps

Li Yun and his companions fought off a group of armed humans, though Captain Li was wounded by a thrown knife. After Ning Yu treated him and the group looted the attackers, they headed back to camp without asking why the enemies had called Li Yun a Third Tier.

• Li Yun used his Feather Chain to kill two attackers, and Captain Li’s warning prompted the rest to flee.
• The fleeing attackers hurled weapons at Old Li, who dodged most of them but took a knife in the butt.
• Li Yun killed six or seven fleeing enemies by throwing stones at their heads, then explained that his stronger techniques came at a bodily cost.
• Li Yun removed the knife from Old Li, and Ning Yu used her remaining mana to slow the bleeding.
• The two young women gathered weapons and other spoils from the corpses, and the group prepared to return to camp without questioning the Third Tier warning.

Li Ce monitored a powerful, shadow-shrouded User while struggling to stay awake, using a First Tier Vitality Potion to ease his exhaustion. The target’s growing aggression prompted authorities to prioritize containment and observation, and the chapter ended with them recognizing the threat posed by high-end Users in reality.

• Li Ce received a First Tier Vitality Potion from a colleague and drank it, finding that it eased his fatigue despite its terrible taste.
• Li Ce resumed observing the special target and reported the target’s position, weakening aura, and interrogation of a captive who could neither commit suicide nor faint.
• Li Ce’s reports showed that the target had attacked groups of Users and could move through shadows, prompting authorities to revise their plans and avoid large-scale conflict.
• Li Ce’s colleague recognized that the target represented a new kind of high-end combat power: an extraordinary being who could act in reality.

Li Yun observed Fang Yishu, Ning Yu, and Li Jiye struggling against two undead while considering the dangers and strange rules of the black land. He also watched the powerful Third Tier users and the sole Fourth Tier user roaming the uninhabited zones in search of prey.

• Li Ce reported that a special user had defeated several camps while searching for someone who had spied on him, and that the user's growing menace concerned him.
• A nearby observer sensed a faint, unusual gaze sweep through the area, then noticed that Li Yun showed little concern for his struggling teammates.
• Fang Yishu and Ning Yu fought two rotting corpses with Li Jiye's help, using self-hypnosis and nature energy to endure the stench and attacks.
• Li Yun recalled that corpses and broken bones seemed to sink into the black land, which might itself be alive.
• Li Yun focused on the Third Tier users and the sole Fourth Tier user, who roamed the uninhabited zones hunting prey and stood out sharply to one another.

Eugene Hope and Habakkuk Morton tried to hide from Basim, but he found them and forced them to flee in different directions. Basim pursued Habakkuk as the shadows around the shrubs and earthen mounds came alive.

• Eugene Hope and Habakkuk Morton concealed themselves with water manipulation and psionics while fleeing their pursuer.
• Basim detected their presence and shattered their camouflage with a sudden gust, throwing them into the shrubs.
• Eugene and Habakkuk realized they could not defeat Basim and split up, each running toward a different camp.
• Basim chose to pursue Habakkuk, whose lightning-fast charge gave him a faint sense of threat, and vanished into the shadows.
• The shadows around the shrubs and earthen mounds twisted and came alive.

Habakkuk used his lightning-fast speed and midair leaps to flee, but Basim trapped him with shadow claws and bound him. Before Basim could finish tormenting his captive, a Skeleton Archer appeared in the mist, accompanied by countless Glimmerfires.

• Habakkuk ran across the plains, using his power to move at tremendous speed as Basim attacked him from the shadows.
• Basim forced Habakkuk to change direction with shadow claws, then struck him with weapons until his midair platform collapsed and the shadows captured him.
• Basim examined Habakkuk and revealed his plan to keep him awake with a harmless black flame until dawn, hoping he would choose to quit.
• An arrow passed through Basim's blurred shadow form, and he vanished after spotting a Skeleton Archer in the mist.
• Habakkuk and Basim saw vast clusters of Glimmerfires emerging from the mist.

Basim discovered that the mist concealed vast undead armies and drew the attention of a powerful Corpse Witch. As Death’s presence briefly swept across the Black Wastes, Li Yun remained outside its perception, then returned to his ordinary appearance and urged the others back to camp before the storm.

• Basim used his soul perception to see undead covering the hills, including gargoyles, Corpse Witches, Death Knights, and undead dragons.
• A tall Corpse Witch sensed Basim’s gaze and asked whether the living intruder had seen enough.
• Death’s vast spiritual presence stirred across the Black Wastes, causing signs of withering before its influence abruptly vanished.
• Old Li kicked away a skeleton and sensed that something unnatural had happened, while Li Yun said a sleepy presence had opened its eye to look at the ants.
• Fang Yishu suspected Li Yun’s glasses were supernatural, and Li Yun put them back on, resuming his familiar appearance.
• Li Yun noticed the storm clouds and told the others to hurry back to camp and bring in the clothes.

He Qiu and his team treated his Corpse Poison with expensive Holy Water at a shared outpost. A charging horde of Death Knights then swept into the camp, and He Qiu was knocked unconscious in the impact.

• He Qiu cut away the poisoned flesh on his leg, and Lu Yansheng poured Di Wanxin's Holy Water over the wound while Du Qifeng held him still.
• He Qiu's companions discussed the cost and effectiveness of the Holy Water and Di Wanxin's business selling it at outposts.
• Warning gongs sounded as watchtowers spotted an approaching threat, and the camp's users armed themselves and rushed outside.
• He Qiu saw a vast formation of Death Knights charging toward the outpost.
• The Death Knights crashed into the camp, and He Qiu was thrown into the air and lost consciousness.

High-tier undead knights emerged from the mist and swept through the Cemetery District’s camps, destroying everything in their path. Li Ce warned the others and tried to relay the danger, but the charge had already overrun nearly every major outpost.

• Li Ce saw the undead gathering near the bodies of a dead special user and a suspected Shadow Man.
• Li Ce rushed to the decision tent and warned Elder Ning and the others that the forward camps faced an unstoppable attack.
• Li Ce and his colleagues tried to alert personnel and evacuate, while Li Ce sent recorded footage and livestreams to the outside.
• The undead knights charged through nearly every sizable outpost camp, crushing the living and making retreat futile.

After undead heavy cavalry devastated the Cemetery District, officials debated how to deploy the few surviving users. Li Yun and his companions recovered at a camp by a fire, where he explained that spreading out risk mattered as the group considered shifting investment toward the Newcomer Trial area in Tokyo.

• Officials learned that suspected Death Knights had wiped out most outposts and camps, killing seventy to eighty percent of users and newcomers and leaving many survivors unable to reenter missions for days.
• A conference of researchers and officials debated whether the attack was an accident or a recurring event and how many users to send back into the Cemetery District.
• Li Yun used a phoenix-like tail feather to ignite the tough black shrubs and invited his exhausted companions to warm themselves at the fire.
• Survivors gathered at the camp, wary of Li Yun and his companions after seeing them outrun the deadly charge and reach the safe area.
• Li Yun observed necrotic aura leaving the living as they warmed themselves and explained that some might move early investment to the Newcomer Trial area in Tokyo.

Basim recovered from his brush with the Corpse Witch and learned that surviving the Reality Instant-Death Mechanism had cost him his Level-Two privileges and Universal Points. Klud Laval also returned from death and, after venting his rage, decided to meet his father amid a major upheaval among their collaborators.

• Basim emerged from the sand and realized that a mist within his soul had shielded his rationality from the Corpse Witch’s deathly aura.
• Basim received a system notice that he had triggered a Reality Instant-Death Mechanism and lost his Level-Two User Privileges and remaining Universal Points.
• Klud Laval smashed expensive bottles of wine after returning from his second death in the trial world.
• Klud calmed himself despite memories of the ghostly knights and told his butler he needed to see his father.
• Klud said their collaborators had likely suffered grave losses and that they had to seize the upheaval or risk being forced out.

Klud Laval brooded over the losses caused by the death knights’ attack on the camps, while the Main God analyzed Li Yun’s gains and the limits imposed on enhanced users by the material world. The chapter left the Administrator considering enhancements as higher-dimensional anchors whose full source existed beyond ordinary reality.

• Klud Laval considered how the death knights had ruined the camps and wasted the conglomerates’ investments, leaving someone to answer for the failed assessment.
• The Main God reported that Li Yun had stabilized above the mid-Fourth Tier after hunting spirit entities and forming a spirit-type domination system.
• The Main God estimated that Li Yun could likely reach Peak Fourth Tier and might only briefly touch Early Fifth Tier because the real-world environment could not sustain greater energy levels.
• The Administrator asked whether enhancements were unstable material-energy structures, and the Main God explained them as higher-dimensional anchoring whose visible abilities were only shadows of a greater source.

Li Yun and Main God discussed how the real-world environment limited ordinary supernaturals to roughly the peak Fourth Tier or early Fifth Tier. After using Basim as a test subject to confirm the limit, Li Yun told Main God to prepare a plan for changing the conditions that constrained supernatural growth.

• Li Yun and Main God concluded that severe energy loss and a lack of environmental resources kept ordinary supernaturals near the peak of the Fourth Tier or the edge of the Fifth Tier.
• Li Yun explained that he had guided Basim toward a resource-rich mission world so he could strengthen his foundation and help test the limits of supernatural advancement.
• Basim advanced to the Mid-to-Late Fourth Tier, attracted the attention of a Tenth-Tier death-domain Demigod, and Main God rescued him using Level-Two Main God User privileges and several hundred points.
• Li Yun compared supernatural advancement to taking resources from heaven and earth, then told Main God to prepare a plan while giving people time to develop.
• Li Yun questioned the point of gaining power if its users still had to submit to the external environment.

Li Yun reflected on the hardships of pursuing transcendence while waiting for the Main God’s resources to grow. Meanwhile, Director Shen Taiguang learned that a university student’s desperate rooftop livestream had been stopped, but the incident raised concerns about the consequences of the selection system.

• Li Yun considered how change and hardship made the pursuit of eternal existence difficult and decided to wait before acting on his special ideas.
• A college student who had lost his team and opportunity in the [Cemetery] trial streamed from his dormitory rooftop and threatened to jump.
• The livestream spread widely, drawing crowds and cruel comments as university staff and police worked to calm the student and reach his family.
• After speaking with his mother and receiving promises of a graduate-school recommendation and scholarship, the student climbed down safely.
• Director Shen Taiguang heard the report and worried that the incident might be an exception that pointed to a broader problem.

After the Death Knight disaster sparked public anger and official efforts to control the fallout, Wu Shaoyou avoided the worst of it by going to Tokyo. He woke as Shocker Combatant No. 3714 and hid from two organization agents who were closing in on him.

• The disaster left many newcomers grieving lost opportunities, while officials suppressed information and arrested people accused of inciting unrest.
• Wu Shaoyou had earned user status after completing the Newcomer Trial and traveled to Tokyo to seek his fortune.
• Wu Shaoyou awakened with a Shocker Combatant's greatly enhanced body but retained nearly all of his original appearance.
• Two Shocker agents found Wu Shaoyou hiding in an alley and ordered him to return for secondary processing.

Wu Shaoyou discovered that his body had been modified into a Shocker combatant and fought off two agents sent to capture him. After they transformed and attacked in earnest, he realized his ordinary thoughts were slowing the combat instincts his body had been given.

• Wu Shaoyou recognized that his vague memories came from Shocker's combatant modification and feared being returned to the Doctor for repairs.
• Two Shocker agents tried to seize Wu Shaoyou, but a survival response let him knock their hands aside.
• The agents authorized lethal force and transformed into black-suited fighters before launching a coordinated attack.
• Wu Shaoyou blocked the low attack but took a heavy blow to the head, and he realized his hesitation was holding back his modified body's abilities.

Wu Shaoyou was nearly killed by two Shocker combatants until a scarred stranger arrived and transformed into a powerful armored figure. After effortlessly defeating the attackers, the figure examined their blood and discovered that Wu Shaoyou was human.

• The Shocker combatants cornered the injured Wu Shaoyou and waited as he struggled to stay conscious.
• A scarred stranger entered the alley, insulted the combatants, and activated a damaged belt after identifying them as artificial rejects.
• The stranger's transformation unleashed a blast that hurled both combatants away and left them motionless.
• The transformed figure examined one combatant's blood and determined that he was neither human nor Amazon, but ordinary low-grade meat.
• The figure sniffed Wu Shaoyou and remarked with surprise that he was human.

Wu Shaoyou treated Jin Takayama to ramen after the drifter saved him, and watched him devour meat and drink raw eggs. A suited man named Shinji Kaminaga joined them and introduced himself to Wu Shaoyou.

• Wu Shaoyou nervously ate ramen with Jin Takayama, who took the meat and eggs from Wu Shaoyou’s bowls.
• Wu Shaoyou used his amnesia and lack of a place to go as excuses to stay with Jin Takayama, whom he suspected was a character from a Kamen Rider or Super Sentai series.
• Wu Shaoyou ordered more ramen, chashu, and fresh eggs for them after Jin Takayama kept taking the food from his bowls.
• Jin Takayama cracked a dozen raw eggs against his battered belt and drank them before returning to his chashu.
• Shinji Kaminaga sat down beside them, ordered ramen, and introduced himself to Wu Shaoyou.

Alien Mephilas joined Shinji Kaminaga, Dr. Takayama, and Wu Shaoyou for ramen, then warned Kaminaga not to interfere with a child carrying a Beta Capsule or investigate Tomie Kawakami. The chapter ended with Mephilas hinting that the device came from a higher-up and that Kaminaga was no longer equipped to face the dangers involved.

• Alien Mephilas arrived at the izakaya, took two oranges from Wu Shaoyou, and sat down with the others.
• Shinji Kaminaga questioned Dr. Takayama about his absence, and Takayama said he had been clearing out the “bears” in Aokigahara Jukai.
• Kaminaga showed his Metropolitan Police Department Section Chief ID and ordered Mephilas to state his purpose or leave.
• Mephilas warned Kaminaga not to interfere with the child carrying the Beta Capsule, noting that Worms and Natives could pass as humans and that Kaminaga's own ranks were not clean.
• Mephilas suggested the Beta device might have come from a higher-up and warned Kaminaga to stop investigating Tomie Kawakami.

Mephilas met Wu Shaoyou and hinted that he had noticed something unusual about him, while Shinji Kaminaga recruited Wu Shaoyou and Jin Takayama to help investigate the Watch Faces. Shinji described a Tokyo where supernatural threats and Parasites had made the streets dangerous after dark, leaving the story as he welcomed them to the city’s “Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.”

• Mephilas gave Wu Shaoyou his business card and asked whether he knew Zoffy, leaving Wu confused by the question.
• After Mephilas left, Shinji Kaminaga stopped Wu Shaoyou and Fukuzawa Yukichi and explained that Shocker could be counted among humanity’s allies against worse threats.
• Shinji told Wu Shaoyou that Watch Faces had appeared in Tokyo and that some bore traces of Wu’s seniors.
• When Shinji mentioned Watch Faces linked to Amazon, Jin Takayama reacted with a fierce, predatory aura.
• Shinji asked Wu Shaoyou and Jin Takayama to join his understaffed team and help investigate the Watch Faces and Parasites.
• Shinji described Tokyo’s abandoned, darkening streets and warned that the city was becoming a Night Parade of One Hundred Demons after nightfall.

Jin Takayama, Shinji Kaminaga, and Wu Shaoyou discovered a mutilated corpse and a bloodstained note connecting the murder to an artifact from the Kurodake Ruins. The note led them to a research institute, where Wu Shaoyou recognized a damaged fragment of Daguva’s belt as a special story item.

• Jin Takayama followed the scent of blood to a corpse with Shinji Kaminaga and Wu Shaoyou.
• Takayama determined that several creatures had surrounded and quickly killed the victim, rather than hunting for food.
• Takayama found a blood-soaked note directing someone to retrieve a belt fragment from Building C, locker H36, and deliver it to a research institute.
• Shinji Kaminaga connected the note to deaths among the excavation staff at the Kurodake Ruins, while Wu Shaoyou asked whether a strange hunting game had begun.
• Shinji Kaminaga took Takayama and Wu Shaoyou to a research institute, where Wu saw the damaged Daguva Belt Fragment identified as a special story item.

Nakata Kaito found a Kuuga Control Watchhead in a Tokyo-themed instance dungeon, but taking it out required a Rare Grade Exchange Card. Kujo Duoyanmu agreed to seek the resources while preparing to leave in his disguised older appearance.

• Nakata Kaito showed Kujo Duoyanmu the Kuuga Control Watchhead and its extraction cost of 2,000 Universal Points and a Rare Grade Exchange Card.
• Kujo Duoyanmu recognized that the nontransferable card would make acquiring the item difficult, but told Kaito to hold onto it while he contacted acquaintances for help.
• Kujo Duoyanmu's assistants transformed his youthful appearance into that of an old man using makeup and his Rainmaking Little Monk ability.
• Kujo Duoyanmu inspected his restored older appearance and prepared to go out to visit someone.

Kujo Duoyanmu encountered protests against the Main God Website’s slot draws and ordered his staff to investigate the growing unrest later. Meanwhile, a Main God Forum user reported finding an extraordinary item in a trash can in Ikebukuro.

• Kujo Duoyanmu’s convoy stopped near a protest in Tokyo, where crowds criticized the slot draws and the government’s inaction.
• Kujo Duoyanmu learned that the white-orb symbol belonged to the Church of the Main God, whose followers believed devotion could improve their chances of selection.
• Kujo Duoyanmu sensed that the protests reflected growing public anger and told his secretary to gather more information before continuing to Mufan Residence.
• A user posted on the Main God Forum that they had found a Watch Face on an unconscious person inside a trash pile near an Ikebukuro convenience store.

Shinji Kaminaga investigated a mysterious figure that stole electricity from a Kawasaki District substation and transformed into Kamen Rider Kuuga. The chubby young man recognized the transformation and suspected that Kuuga’s wearer was an outsider or a Main God User.

• Shinji Kaminaga received a report that a substation in the Kawasaki District had been attacked and asked his colleagues to investigate.
• Footage showed a white, stag-beetle-like figure disabling safety equipment and absorbing high-voltage electricity as its body transformed.
• The figure’s shell turned red and black, its crest grew, and golden patterns spread across its body.
• The chubby young man recognized the figure as Kamen Rider Kuuga and realized electricity was powering its evolution.
• The chubby young man suspected the wearer was an outsider or a Main God User who had learned about Kuuga’s ability to absorb energy.

After surviving a high-voltage transformation and fleeing from monsters feeding on a corpse, Luo Chuanyi ventured out at night to find food and gather information. Tomie Kawakami caught up with him, leaving him confronting the dangerous girl he had been trying to avoid.

• Luo Chuanyi examined the belt fused to his body and decided not to deactivate the broken Ridewatch.
• He recalled fleeing after finding three monsters feeding on a corpse in an alley.
• Luo Chuanyi left his shed after nightfall to seek food and investigate the city.
• Tomie Kawakami appeared behind Luo Chuanyi and said he had run away from her the night before last.
• Luo Chuanyi recognized Tomie and cursed at her.

Luo Chuanyi encountered Tomie Kawakami and fled, but discovered she had surrounded him with a horde of obsessed, mutated puppets. When he fought back, his untransformed punches obliterated several of them, revealing his newfound strength.

• Tomie Kawakami confronted Luo Chuanyi and tried to claim him as one of her prey.
• Luo Chuanyi ran from Tomie, then realized she had gathered a group of mutated, mind-controlled figures around him.
• A puppet speaking with Tomie's voice told Luo Chuanyi that he could not escape and would become hers.
• Luo Chuanyi punched the nearest puppet and blasted it apart, destroying its body before it could fully attack.
• Tomie's puppets questioned what Luo Chuanyi was, and he struck again, reducing several figures to airborne ash.
• Luo Chuanyi confirmed his punches were genuinely powerful and became excited by his newfound strength.