Chapter Summaries

Ron learned the Acting Method from Idrila, allowing him to digest Potion power by acting out his Sequence’s role, and the knowledge was extracted by his manual as a setting. Idrila told him the Truth Society’s secret gathering would take place the next night, where he might find a way to advance.

• Idrila warned Ron to keep supernatural matters secret, then brought him into the Truth Society’s bookstore and introduced him to Charles.
• Idrila opened a concealed passage behind a bookshelf and led Ron underground, where they found Chairman Elvis’s office locked and empty.
• Idrila used the Society Codex to obtain a Rodlandic Proficiency Potion and taught Ron the Acting Method in Old Rodlandic.
• Ron understood that he needed to act as a Gravekeeper and Corpse Collector to digest his Death Sequence Potions, and his manual extracted the Acting Method as a setting.
• Idrila explained that the War Sequence required military service, then told Ron the Society’s next Academic Salon would serve as a secret gathering for Beyonders and might offer Potion formulas or trading opportunities.

Ron used Idrila’s belief that he was favored by a hidden existence to persuade her to accept the Minotaur’s Heart and War Sequence 7 formula, and she agreed to help him obtain the Death Sequence 7 Potion. At the Society’s Academic Salon, a man from the Lost Church offered Ron the formula in exchange for an investigative commission.

• Idrila explained the Academic Salon’s rules, and Ron pretended that the Minotaur’s Heart and War Overseer formula were gifts from a hidden existence to persuade her to accept them.
• Idrila promised to seek the Death Sequence 7 Potion formula and main ingredient for Ron at the salon, but President Elvis remained away, so she let Ron stay in her room at the Society.
• Ron and Idrila attended the Academic Salon in disguise, where Idrila posted their request for the Death Sequence 7 Potion formula or potion.
• A tall, pale man in black robes approached Ron and Idrila, offered the Death Sequence 7 Potion formula, and asked Ron to undertake an investigative commission for the Lost Church.

Ron accepted Father Harvey’s suspicious tomb-investigation commission and helped Idrila prepare to advance to [War Overseer]. As Idrila successfully became Sequence 7, the gray mist returned and attacked her, but Ron dispersed it with [Fantasy Dissolution].

• Father Harvey commissioned Idrila to investigate a death-tainted tomb, and Ron accepted while delaying their departure to prepare.
• Ron suspected Father Harvey’s hostility toward Idrila and considered how they might obtain his [Death] Sequence 7 Potion formula if they became enemies.
• Ron urged Idrila to advance, and she used the Society Codex to acquire the ingredients for a [War Overseer] Potion.
• Idrila brewed the Potion from the Minotaur’s Heart, Night Shadow Grass, and her blood, then drank it and endured wounds as she advanced.
• A gray-mist arrow shot toward Idrila, but Ron used [Fantasy Dissolution] to disperse it.
• A distant voice confirmed that Idrila had overcome the pollution and become a [War Overseer], prompting an aged voice to curse in frustration.

Idrila advanced to Sequence 7, but a gray mist arrow nearly made her lose control before Ron destroyed it. After returning to the Superpowered Era, Ron tried to find a safe job to digest his [Death] Potion and seized on Xia Zhi’s call about the Patrol Bureau’s morgue.

• Idrila endured the [War Overseer] Potion’s corruption and advanced to Sequence 7, but a gray mist arrow disrupted her mind until Ron crushed it with the power of a blessing.
• Idrila explained the Fire-Chasing Ritual to Ron, who suspected Father Suul planned to sacrifice people to obtain [War]’s blessing.
• President Elvis returned, learned about the demigod’s mask and Suul’s suspected Contained Artifact, and decided to report the danger while protecting Ron and Idrila.
• Ron returned to the Superpowered Era and searched for Gravekeeper or Corpse Person work so he could digest his [Death] Potion, but Noah Pharmaceuticals controlled the available jobs.
• Xia Zhi called Ron after working with the forensic department and offered to bring him into the Patrol Bureau, prompting him to ask whether they needed a Gravekeeper.

Ron joined the District D Central Patrol Bureau and secured a temporary job guarding its underground morgue, where his Gravekeeper Acting Method began reducing his loss of control. After waking that night, he overheard two intruders planning to steal corpses and prepared to stop them.

• Ron persuaded Xia Zhi to bring him to the Patrol Bureau, where the director accepted him as a C-112 agent and issued his work ID and equipment.
• Xia Zhi introduced Ron to the bureau, and Doctor Lin refused to let him handle corpses without certification but agreed to let him guard the morgue as a Gravekeeper.
• Ron began guarding the underground morgue, and his loss-of-control level decreased by 0.01%.
• Ron fell asleep in the guard room and woke at night when two men entered the morgue to steal corpses.
• Ron decided to confront the corpse thieves as a way to deepen his Gravekeeper role.

Ron caught two Lv.1 Superpowered men attempting to steal bodies from the underground morgue and discovered that one of them could use an Ability Formula. The gaunt thug escaped while his secret offered Ron a possible lead on constructing Formulas.

• The fat man and the gaunt thug entered the underground morgue to remove bodies, and the fat man glimpsed strange, star-filled eyes in the darkness.
• Ron stepped out of the guard room, knocked the fat man unconscious, and ordered the gaunt thug to surrender.
• The gaunt thug refused, then chanted and made ritual-like gestures before the fat man's corpse ignited with green flames and attacked Ron.
• Ron recognized the ritual as an Ability Formula, and the gaunt thug fled while Ron realized the man's secret might help him construct Formulas.

Ron stopped a gang member fleeing the Patrol Bureau morgue and learned that the Ark had sent the gang to recover corpses as experimental materials. As the thug finally revealed that he was rushing back to take an Ability Needle, he transformed into a Void Monster before Ron’s eyes.

• Ron caught the skinny thug after he killed Fathead and tried to escape, then destroyed his law enforcement recorder to interrogate him outside normal procedures.
• The thug said the Ark had ordered them to steal corpses and promised an Ability Enhancement Experiment in return for recovering the experimental materials.
• The thug explained that the Ark sold Ability Awakening Experiment qualifications for five thousand Credit Points and that its boss had taught him a technique that temporarily enhanced his ability.
• Ron grew suspicious when the thug insisted on being arrested quickly and refused to explain why he had tried so desperately to escape.
• After Ron pressed him for about an hour, the thug admitted he was afraid he would not get back in time to take an Ability Needle.
• The thug suddenly developed bone spurs and grotesque features and transformed into a mindless Void Monster in front of Ron.

Ron discovered that Noah Pharmaceuticals and Ark’s Ability Awakening experiments caused participants to become Void Monsters unless they kept using Ability Needles, and he resolved to stop the experiments. After Heavenly Hearing Media’s Irina offered intelligence and nonmilitary support, Ron gathered Patrol Bureau equipment and prepared to return to the Potion Era to advance to Lv.3.

• Ron killed the mutated man with a punch, recognized that his symptoms matched those of the transformed high school students, and burned both bodies so they would not be used as experimental materials.
• Ron’s Gravekeeper Potion digested significantly after he chose to protect the dead, and [Death] approved of his actions.
• Ron told Irina about Noah Pharmaceuticals and Ark’s illegal experiments, and she promised Heavenly Hearing Media’s intelligence support while arranging to keep senior ability users away from District D.
• Ron called Xia Zhi to obtain permission to collect Patrol Bureau equipment, then picked up Flashbang Grenades and Nanomedical Spray.
• Ron prepared to return to the Potion Era and visit Father Harvey, determined to use Idrila and President Elvis’s help to reach Lv.3.

Ron and Idrila accompanied Father Harvey to the Lost Church, where he revealed that his supposed catacombs investigation was a ruse. After showing them a corpse buried there, Harvey asked Idrila why she was still among the living when Father Suul had already buried her.

• Ron and Idrila left the society hall with Father Harvey and traveled along the Way of the Undertaker to the Lost Church.
• At the church, Ron refused to enter with Harvey and waited until he returned with an unlit lantern.
• Harvey led Ron and Idrila through the cemetery to a dark pit containing a corpse suffused with [War] magic power.
• Harvey used a ghost to lift the corpse from the pit and revealed its face to Ron and Idrila.
• Harvey told Idrila that Father Suul had buried her and demanded to know why she was appearing among the living despite being dead.

Ron recognized that Idrila was alive and rescued her from Father Harvey’s attempt to kill her by passing her off as an undead soul. After Elvis intervened and fought Harvey, Ron saved the badly wounded Elvis, collected Harvey’s supernatural characteristic, and learned the potion formula for [Death] Sequence 7, “Spirit Channeling.”

• Ron recognized that Idrila’s apparent death was an illusion, pulled her away from Father Harvey, and used a flashbang to escape his attack.
• Ron used [Fantasy Dissolution] to bring Idrila back to her senses, and she empowered them both before charging Father Harvey.
• Idrila fought Harvey while Ron supported her with stones, but Harvey used his lantern to summon spirits and weaken her.
• Elvis arrived, disrupted Harvey’s fog and ghosts, and tried to take Idrila away, but Harvey attacked again and Elvis fought back.
• Ron found Harvey dead and Elvis gravely wounded, then used Nanomedical Spray to heal Elvis.
• Ron collected Harvey’s supernatural characteristic, and his magic book revealed the potion formula for [Death] Sequence 7, “Spirit Channeling,” leaving only a Holy Shroud to obtain.