Chapter Summaries

Si Telan reunited with the elves who had arrived in Bede City and brought them to their temporary manor. After hearing about her work in the Saien dungeon, Wei En Ma asked Si Telan to guide the group there, leaving Si Telan to warn them that hell awaited.

• Li Zinei defeated a bard in a plaza verbal duel with a cruel joke, and Si Telan rushed in to stop her.
• Li Zinei told Si Telan that the elves had arrived to help with the dungeon, then gathered the scattered elves as they bickered with Si Telan.
• Si Telan met Wei En Ma at the elves’ manor, where Wei En Ma scolded her revealing clothes and tried to make her wear leaves.
• Wei En Ma praised Si Telan for her work in the dungeon and gave her greetings from her mother, the Queen.
• Wei En Ma asked Si Telan to guide the elves to Saien, and Si Telan warned them that hell lay ahead.

Si Telan’s elven companions decided to help her return to Zane Dungeon while secretly investigating its magic, and Si Telan used her three days of rest to gather intelligence about Lake Liurnia. She learned that adventurers were advancing through the region and watched a recording of Lu Lu Wo’s team beginning an adventure broadcast.

• Si Telan recounted only the triumphant parts of her Zane Dungeon experiences, but Wei En Ma mistook her frustration for despair and decided to help her reclaim her dignity while investigating Zane’s magic.
• Mei Erjia explained why the professors had come, and Wei En Ma caught Li Zinei eavesdropping before Mei Erjia revealed Li Zinei’s curse and her secret support for Si Telan.
• After resting for three days, Si Telan received intelligence from Dan Ya and learned that adventurers were gaining Transfer Certificates, studying the Caria Knights, and reaching Lake Liurnia through Val City.
• Si Telan noticed that reports described far fewer of the dangerous monsters she and her companions had encountered, suggesting the lake region’s dangers might have changed.
• Si Telan played an Image Stone recording and watched Lu Lu Wo and Bei Er Tuo begin an adventure broadcast.

Si Telan watched the Skyrim Strategy Team’s Lake Liurnia recordings and grew furious at how easily they explored the academy, so she led the elves back to the dungeon. After gaining mentors and visiting a sealed room, Wei En Ma recognized the sleeping Magician Ball as a transformed magician and spotted the heart key fleeing across the floor.

• Si Telan watched Lu Lu Wo’s recordings of Academy Gate Town and the academy, recalling the team’s failed battles against the Crystallized Old Man and becoming enraged by the other group’s easier exploration.
• Si Telan ordered Wei En Ma and eight other elves to depart for the lake region, while Ku Li Pa was left behind during their trip through Firelink Shrine.
• The elves found Transfer Certificates and learned to immobilize Puppet Soldiers with hardened vines; Wei En Ma secretly collected a piece of a Puppet Soldier before teleporting.
• The Sorting Hat assigned mentors to the elves, and Wei En Ma received Sellen and demonstrated Glintstone Pebble before asking to visit the room marked with a spade.
• Wei En Ma put the Magician Ball to sleep with spores, declared that it had been transformed from a magician, and pointed out the fleeing footprints of the heart key.

The elves caught the fast Dung Beetle and obtained a Hearts key, then discovered a portrait of the magician Topus and exchanged a Golden Rune for a Painting Fragment about his life. After defeating Mugram and touching the seal, Si Telan arrived alone in Academy Gate Town while the other elves appeared scattered across the lake district.

• Li Zinei trapped the Dung Beetle with plants, and it died to reveal a Hearts key.
• Li Zinei opened the Hearts Room door after Si Telan, Mei Erjia, and Cool Elf Bro failed to pull it open.
• Wei En Ma saw a powerful spirit honor the portrait of its mentor, and Si Telan exchanged a Golden Rune for the Painting Fragment "Waste Stone," Part One.
• The elves defeated Mugram with help from Si Telan's knowledge of the guides and activated the seal.
• Si Telan appeared alone in Academy Gate Town, while the other elves found themselves scattered across the lake district.

Si Telan learned that newcomers teleporting into the area were sent to Academy Gate Town, where the Skyrim Strategy Team had devised a plan to defeat the Crystallized Old Man. Meanwhile, Wei En Ma’s group wandered through the foggy lake region, fought monsters, and found a mysterious house where an unfamiliar voice offered Mei Erjia shrimp.

• Si Telan questioned Lu Lu Wo about the teleporting newcomers and noticed adventurers using Forging Stones as tent weights.
• Lu Lu Wo told Si Telan that the Skyrim Strategy Team’s initial plan to solve the Crystallized Old Man relied on numbers.
• Mei Erjia, Li Zinei, Kunan, and the other elves ate roasted lobster while Wei En Ma scouted through the fog.
• Wei En Ma’s group got lost, fought lake-region monsters, and defeated a Great Lobster and Jyuratodus.
• Wei En Ma bound Jyuratodus with branches after it covered her in mud, and the elves headed toward a nearby house to rest.
• Mei Erjia approached a bubbling pot at the house, where an unfamiliar voice asked whether she wanted to buy shrimp.

Mei Erjia and the elves discovered Rogue selling Cooked Shrimp, whose delicious meat also granted temporary protection from nonmagical attacks. Before they continued west, Rogue gave them a blacksmith's lost hammer and asked them to return it, promising a crab feast if they came back.

• Mei Erjia bought a Cooked Shrimp from Rogue and praised its flavor, prompting the elves to buy up the pot's supply.
• Wei En Ma used Mid Rank Appraisal and discovered that Cooked Shrimp granted temporary damage reduction against attacks other than magic.
• Rogue revealed that he was called Rogue, mentioned grace and his past dream, and refused to explain further.
• Rogue asked the elves to find Andre, a blacksmith from Academy Gate Town, and return his hammer, promising them crab when they came back.
• Mei Erjia accepted the hammer and led the cheerful elves west to search for Andre.

The elves searched Lake Liurnia for Andre while Li Zinei recorded its ecology and the group bickered over food. When Mei Erjia chased a wild boar into the fog, the others found her fighting a grotesque Grafted Noble, and the chapter ended with Andre arriving to confront it.

• The elves sang to attract monsters but found little, so they discussed their search for Andre and their dwindling shrimp supplies.
• Wei En Ma read Li Zinei’s detailed ecosystem notes and learned that Li Zinei hoped to earn enough money to find the Evil God Church that had kidnapped her.
• Mei Erjia chased a Shiitake Pig into the fog, and the elves hurried after her when she screamed.
• The elves found Mei Erjia battling the many-armed Grafted Noble, which attacked them with repeating crossbows, a lobster head, and a Rune Bear head.
• Wei En Ma used magic to rescue the elves and flee, but the Grafted Noble pursued them until an unknown newcomer knocked it down with a flying kick.
• Andre arrived, asked whether anyone had seen his hammer, and took a boxing stance against the Grafted Noble.

Andre arrived at Lake Liurnia, defeated the Grafted Noble with his powerful punches, and recovered his missing hammer from Mei Erjia. He offered to forge the elves’ weapons and headed for Academy Gate Town, giving them a way to follow him there.

• Andre appeared and battered the Grafted Noble while Wei En Ma restrained it with hardened mud.
• A Shiitake Pig charged Mei Erjia and sent her flying toward the fight, but Andre kicked the Grafted Noble aside and Wei En Ma caught her with Mage Hands.
• The Grafted Noble broke free and fled, leaving Andre victorious.
• Mei Erjia returned Andre’s hammer, which Rogue had given her, and told him how she had found it.
• Andre offered to forge the elves’ weapons for free and left for Academy Gate Town, so Mei Erjia and the others planned to follow him.

Andre guided the elves to Academy Gate Town after Rogue’s seafood feast unexpectedly gave them lasting boosts, then found that the New Strategy Team had taken over his blacksmith shop. A day later, Andre was reinforcing weapons while the team worked as laborers in the shop.

• Rogue served Andre and the elves a seafood feast, and the meal gave each elf a different lasting boost.
• Andre led the elves toward Academy Gate Town, driving off monsters and helping them realize they had been walking the wrong way.
• The elves reached Academy Gate Town and found adventurers camping and sleeping throughout the ruined settlement.
• Andre found the New Strategy Team had turned his blacksmith shop into a kitchen, and he knocked them down when they resisted.
• The New Strategy Team ended up working as laborers in Andre’s shop, while news spread that Andre could reinforce weapons with Forging Stones.

Si Telan finished her punishment cleaning at Andre’s blacksmith shop, where adventurers flocked to have their weapons infused and reinforced. She then led the elves to Raya Lucaria Magic Academy, where they encountered Wei En Ma’s rival Set and his group, and Tu Erqi proposed a race to clear the academy.

• Si Telan swept outside Andre’s shop as adventurers discussed the elemental infusions and weapon reinforcement he offered without requiring mana.
• Si Telan left with Mei Erjia, Wei En Ma, and the other elves to explore Raya Lucaria Magic Academy, while Xi Wa stayed behind to watch Andre work.
• At the academy checkpoint, Wei En Ma and another caster each fired Glintstone Pebble at a Caria Soldier, and the elves faced the soldiers advancing on them.
• Wei En Ma’s group met Set, He De Si, Tu Erqi, and Luo Jieer, and Wei En Ma and Set exchanged hostile remarks about the academy and their competing theories.
• Tu Erqi proposed that the two groups compete to see who could clear the academy first.

Tu Erqi and Wei En Ma agreed to compete in clearing the academy, then split their teams between its left and right routes based on conflicting tips from Lu Lu Wo. The professors’ team was chased back by a gigantic Warrior Pot, and Tu Erqi steered it toward the elves.

• Wei En Ma accepted Tu Erqi’s challenge to compete immediately, and both teams entered the academy after Si Telan and Mei Erjia produced Academy Glintstone Keys.
• The teams fought the Glintstone Magicians at the entrance and tied in their kill count before entering the academy hall.
• Tu Erqi and Wei En Ma each chose a different route after receiving incomplete, conflicting advice from Lu Lu Wo of the Skyrim Strategy Team.
• The professors entered the left route but fled when a massive Warrior Pot chased them through the corridor.
• Tu Erqi ran toward the laughing elves with the Warrior Pot behind her, forcing Si Telan and the others to flee as they argued over who should face it.

Tu Erqi and the professors struggled through the magic academy’s monster defenses, using invisibility to bypass waves of enemies before encountering a disorienting illusion caused by a flute. They found the flute player in the mist, and Set launched a surprise attack as its music briefly stopped.

• Tu Erqi and the professors battled swarms of monsters after Great Warrior Pot chased Si Telan and the others, and Tu Erqi was killed when a Stupefy spell left her helpless at the front.
• Tu Erqi respawned, then led the group in using Mass Invisibility, Mass Silence, and Mass Aura Concealment to sneak past monsters while carefully renewing their spells.
• When their invisibility failed, scouts alerted a horde of monsters, forcing Luo Jieer and the others to flee; they learned that discovered adventurers triggered the academy’s main monster force.
• A mournful flute surrounded the professors with shifting visions of the academy and a foggy ruined village, where monsters attacked them from unpredictable directions.
• Tu Erqi’s invisibility helped the group reach the flute’s source, where they spotted a tall, thin figure playing in a pavilion and prepared Set for a decapitation strike.
• Set leaped toward the flute player with a silent attack, and the music stopped for an instant.

Seth and the professors escaped the Mist Hidden Noble, then found a protected portrait of Moon Princess Ranni at the end of the academy’s main route. While searching the side paths, they encountered Lu Lu Wo and her adventurers, who offered to lead them into a battle against the boss; the chapter left the professors considering whether to cooperate.

• Seth wounded the Mist Hidden Noble, and he and the professors escaped as the fog and its monsters vanished.
• The professors reached a dead end marked by Ranni’s portrait, whose shield revealed the words, “You granted the world a moment of peace.”
• Seth and the others explored side paths, encountering dead ends, monsters, trapped corridors, and fake treasure chests.
• Luo Jieer met Lu Lu Wo and was killed when a Royal Wraith charged through Tu Erqi’s shield before Lu Lu Wo’s adventurers defeated it.
• Lu Lu Wo warned Tu Erqi that the boss was too powerful to defeat and proposed cooperating, saying she had already found a strategy.

Lu Lu Wo led Tu Erqi’s group into the Crystallized Old Man’s arena, where they unexpectedly arrived during the laser-heavy second phase. After the adventurers struggled to keep Bubble Shields active, Lu Lu Wo concluded they needed more companions to maintain the spell cycle and defeat the boss.

• Lu Lu Wo explained the boss’s mechanics and led the group to a shortcut that would let them enter the arena behind him.
• Tu Erqi’s group found Si Telan’s elves already fighting the Crystallized Old Man, who was in his second phase and charging a magical orb as Laser Bugs prepared to attack.
• Lu Lu Wo told everyone to stand in unshadowed gaps to avoid the first laser volley, then ordered the mages to cast Bubble Shields against the continuing fire.
• The adventurers chased the Crystallized Old Man as he teleported around the arena, while lasers intercepted their attacks and repeatedly broke their shields.
• Tu Erqi realized the party lacked enough mages and mana to keep the Bubble Shield cycle going, and Lu Lu Wo proposed recruiting more companions before trying again.

Lu Lu Wo recruited a large force of adventurers to defeat the Crystallized Old Man, and Si Telan won the second Painting Fragment of Topus. After the group headed to the academy’s second floor, Magic Professor Miriam locked onto them.

• Lu Lu Wo gathered more than a hundred recruits, taught them Bubble Shield, and led a selected group of fifty against the Crystallized Old Man.
• The adventurers overwhelmed the Crystallized Old Man in a chaotic group battle and defeated him before he could finish his second phase.
• The adventurers rolled for rewards, and Si Telan received Painting Fragment "Waste Stone," Part Two.
• Si Telan and other adventurers went to the academy’s second floor, where Magic Professor Miriam appeared and locked onto them.

Miriam ambushed the adventurers across the second floor, vanishing and reappearing to attack them before setting off a devastating trap in the classrooms. After Tu Erqi healed the wounded, Wei En Ma chased Miriam, while Si Telan was left exhausted and longing to go home.

• Miriam attacked the adventurers with Loretta's Greatbow, but Si Telan wounded her with a Windwalk-enchanted arrow before Miriam teleported away.
• Miriam reappeared at different positions to fire more magic arrows, then vanished completely and left the adventurers furious.
• Si Telan and the others opened classroom doors on the second floor, triggering Miriam's hidden magic-arrow ambush and a Druids' force that knocked Mei Erjia unconscious.
• Tu Erqi arrived with Set, He De Si, and Luo Jieer, healed the wounded, and treated Si Telan despite their enmity.
• Wei En Ma gave Tu Erqi a bundle of potions and gold before charging after Miriam, while Si Telan sighed that she wanted to go home.

Lu Lu Wo and the adventurers defeated the Crystallized Old Man more efficiently and discovered that boss fights could brighten the magic stars on their Student IDs. Meanwhile, Si Telan watched Miriam being chased by Wei En Ma, then learned that Ku Li Pa had found a mysterious kitchen knife and started a cooking rivalry in the Gourmet Area.

• Lu Lu Wo's group beat the Crystallized Old Man in half the time by coordinating their Bubble Shields and spreading across the arena.
• Lu Lu Wo discovered that her Servant of Blood star had brightened, and Da Er explained that his own magic was called Normal Attack Magic.
• Adventurers gathered to watch Wei En Ma chase Miriam while some elves organized bets and sold snacks and beer.
• Si Telan stayed in Academy Gate Town for two days rather than explore Raya Lucaria, enjoying the comforts of the dungeon.
• Si Telan heard that Ku Li Pa had found the Eternal Spirit Blade and led the Gourmet Area supporters into a cooking competition against the Chef Union.

Ku Li Pa prepared to defend the Gourmet Area against Ba Xi in a cooking contest by seeking an undiscovered ingredient deep inside it. After returning to Bede City, he showed Gong Qiying his Eternal Spirit Blade, and Gong Qiying offered him another taste of Century Soup if he won.

• Ku Li Pa argued with a Bede Weekly editor that bone-in roasted meat and coffee were vegetarian, then said he would defeat Ba Xi in the upcoming contest.
• The editor recalled how Ba Xi’s criticism of the Gourmet Area led to a clash between his apprentices and the area’s supporters, after which both sides agreed to hold a cooking contest judged by three-star chefs.
• Ku Li Pa said he would venture deeper into the Gourmet Area for an undiscovered ingredient, though he was not seeking Rainbow Fruit.
• Ku Li Pa visited Ma Lei Da Magic Item Shop and showed Gong Qiying his Eternal Spirit Blade, which he believed could aid his cooking.
• Gong Qiying showed Ku Li Pa a powder and a liquid and promised him another taste of Century Soup if he won.

Gong Qiying helped Ku Li Pa prepare for the Gourmet Competition, and Ku Li Pa’s team unveiled dazzling ingredients from the Gourmet Area in the opening round. The judges tasted the elf team’s glowing fried rice, leaving the competition’s outcome unresolved.

• Gong Qiying gave Ku Li Pa Century Soup and Bitter Seasoning, then advised him to search for salty and spicy seasonings in the Gourmet Area.
• Ba Xi brought expensive ingredients to Bede City while Ku Li Pa hired the Exploration Team and gathered unusual ingredients with Gong Qiying’s guidance.
• Earl Ka Rong opened the competition between Ba Xi’s challengers and Ku Li Pa’s Gourmet Area Guard Team, with four rounds planned.
• Men De Lie presented Golden Meat steak, while Ku Li Pa’s young apprentice revealed Jewel Meat and other unfamiliar ingredients for his fried rice.
• The judges and audience watched golden light and stardust burst from the elf’s fried rice, and the judges’ expressions changed when they tasted it.

Ku Li Pa defeated Ba Xi in a four-round cooking contest with fantastical ingredients and Century Soup, whose taste overwhelmed Ba Xi’s corrupting powder and destroyed his Fallen Devil Egg. The Gourmet Area flourished afterward, while humanity’s exploration of Raya Lucaria Magic Academy advanced to its final boss.

• Ku Li Pa’s fried rice and raw-sliced Puffer Whale won the first two rounds, and his BB Corn popcorn won the third.
• Ba Xi used powder from a Fallen Devil Egg in his final soup, but Ku Li Pa served the judges Century Soup, making them laugh uncontrollably.
• Ku Li Pa and his apprentices shared drops of Century Soup with the crowd, and Ba Xi tasted a remaining drop after his own soup failed to impress the judges.
• Ba Xi broke into tears and laughter as Century Soup erased his negative emotions and killed the Fallen Devil Egg.
• Bede City embraced the Gourmet Area, Ba Xi stayed to develop recipes, and Ku Li Pa continued exploring its food without claiming the title of God of Cookery.
• Humanity completed its exploration of Raya Lucaria Magic Academy, and the Strategy Team prepared to challenge the Mimic Tear of the "Full Moon Queen."