Chapter Summaries

Iliphis led the Light Eagle Legion into Irithyll, where they fought through Pontiff Sulyvahn’s forces and reached the cathedral. As its doors opened, Iliphis stepped inside, expecting the boss encounter to begin.

• Princess Serena kept up her act of devotion to Iliphis while worrying about what would happen to her country under his control.
• Iliphis set out for Zane Dungeon with his mercenaries and encountered Minister Aoluo, who said he was entering the dungeon to experience its Kindling Secret Ritual.
• The Light Eagle Legion joined ten mercenaries in Irithyll, crossed the gravestone shortcut, and opened a gate to establish a return route.
• Iliphis had a subordinate collect a purple Sun's Eldest Son Ring, then led the legion into battle against Pontiff Knights, Fire Witches, and a scythe-wielding Pontiff Knight.
• Iliphis and his mercenaries defeated the enemies and approached Irithyll's cathedral, whose doors opened as they arrived.

The adventurers encountered Pontiff Sulyvahn's Phantom in the cathedral, where Iliphis's preparations against magic failed to protect them from Sulyvahn's sudden close-range attack. Elsa fell while shielding the group, and Iliphis calmed and rallied the mercenaries, drawing the phantom's maximum hatred.

• The group entered the cathedral, became trapped by mist, and saw Pontiff Sulyvahn's Phantom emerge amid violet light and scarlet flames.
• Iliphis prepared anti-magic barriers, while the mercenaries readied their weapons and assumed Sulyvahn would attack with magic.
• Sulyvahn feinted a spell, blinked in front of the mercenaries, and struck them with his blazing Profaned Greatsword and violet Punishment Greatsword.
• Elsa rushed forward to block the attack and collapsed, while Iliphis diverted the blow away from himself.
• Iliphis clapped to shift the mercenaries from fear to fighting spirit, and Gong Qiying realized this emotional influence hindered Zane Dungeon's Spirit Power; Sulyvahn's Phantom then focused its hatred on Iliphis.

Iliphis and the Light Eagle Legion fought Sulyvahn’s Phantom, but their coordinated attack failed and Iliphis was overwhelmed by the Phantom’s speed and strength. Elsa woke, rejected the Legion’s behavior, and chose to stay out of the fight before Sulyvahn’s Phantom blasted her away; Iliphis was left trapped in Sin Flame as his hidden ambitions surfaced.

• Iliphis planned to have the captains restrain Sulyvahn’s Phantom while he prepared a powerful attack, but the captains’ assault went awry when Sulyvahn’s Phantom appeared beside Iliphis.
• Sulyvahn’s Phantom raised a wall of Sin Flame that separated the main force from Iliphis, forcing him to fight alone while nearby mercenaries healed him.
• Iliphis struggled to adapt to Sulyvahn’s Phantom’s fierce swordsmanship and was impaled by the Punishment Greatsword before being thrown aside half-dead.
• Elsa woke, realized how the Light Eagle Legion had treated her, and pretended to remain unconscious; Sulyvahn’s Phantom then used his Ultimate Skill to blast her away.
• Iliphis discovered that his Ring of Harvest was at Sulyvahn’s Phantom’s feet and was badly wounded again when the Phantom charged him.
• Sulyvahn’s Phantom enveloped Iliphis in Sin Flame to torment him, causing his buried ambitions and sins to surface and fear to appear on his face.

The Sin Flame forced Iliphis to relive his childhood trauma, producing a flood of Spirit Power for Zane Dungeon. As Iliphis suffered, Elsa considered leaving the Light Eagle Legion, while Gong Qiying tried to stop the mercenaries before putting Iliphis out of his misery.

• Gong Qiying explained that fear and happiness together generated the most Spirit Power, and Zane Dungeon used alternating terror and rewards to harvest it.
• Iliphis relived the torture of his biological parents and the events that led him to awaken his Unique Talent and form the Light Eagle Legion.
• The Sin Flame made Iliphis experience the torture he feared most, and he cried out for Gers to save him.
• Elsa sensed Iliphis calling to her but dismissed it, then considered leaving the Light Eagle Legion after his betrayal.
• Gong Qiying watched Iliphis generate a huge amount of Spirit Power and moved to deal with the attacking mercenaries before ending Iliphis's suffering.

Gong Qiying strengthened Pontiff Sulyvahn's Phantom because of a dungeon-wide event he arranged with Red Fang Dungeon. After the mercenaries escaped Irithyll Cathedral, a Meteor Shower brought Pokémon-like Small Falling Stars and a powerful Falling Star Beast to Zane Dungeon, revealing that multiple dungeons were participating in the event.

• Gong Qiying wrote to Red Fang Dungeon that Zane Dungeon was ready for their surprise event, while the mercenaries fought Pontiff Sulyvahn's Phantom and Iliphis suffered through his injuries.
• Sulyvahn Phantom defeated the mercenaries, and the healing mercenary's tornado kept Iliphis aloft until it vanished and he fell to his death.
• The surviving mercenaries found that Elsa had cleared the Silver Knights and Duo Er Bo, then followed her out of the building with Iliphis, who remained unconscious.
• Sally and the mercenaries saw a Meteor Shower bring Small Falling Stars to Irithyll, and Elsa caught one with a Poké Ball.
• A huge meteor struck near Irithyll Bridge, killing nearby mercenaries and releasing a Falling Star Beast that seemed as powerful as Sulyvahn Phantom.
• Gong Qiying's joint event with Red Fang Dungeon caused Meteor Showers and different monsters to appear across multiple dungeons.

Gong Qiying joined Red Fang’s gathering of City Lords to plan a dungeon transformation for the once-in-a-century Meteor Shower. After proposing a shared boss and more elaborate Meteor Sprite rewards, he left the City Lords eager for even more ideas.

• Gong Qiying accepted Red Fang’s invitation to help organize a Meteor Shower event for connected dungeons.
• Gong Qiying reunited with Rainbow Horn, who said City Lords were copying Gong Qiying’s dungeon design methods and seeking advice through him.
• Red Fang welcomed more than forty City Lords and promised to cover the Spirit Power spent on the event.
• Red Fang proposed releasing Meteor Sprites in every dungeon for adventurers to catch and exchange for rewards.
• Gong Qiying suggested a world-level boss and color-based Meteor Sprite combinations that adventurers could use to discover rewards.
• Gong Qiying offered more ideas, including random encounters, score rankings, and exclusive titles, as the City Lords urged him to continue.

Gong Qiying and the City Lords finalized a continent-wide Meteor Shower event, including cross-dungeon rewards and Astel as its world-level boss. As the transformed dungeons launched their events, Fingel arrived in Irithyll, mistook a Small Falling Star for a creature in danger, and tossed it away before joining the pursuit of the Light Eagle Legion.

• Gong Qiying and the City Lords debated the event’s challenges and agreed on seven features, including rankings, achievement titles, a world-level boss, and cross-dungeon reward exchanges.
• Red Fang urged the City Lords to make the event as large as possible, and they returned to prepare their dungeons for the Meteor Shower.
• Gong Qiying helped select Astel as the world-level boss and worked through the night with the City Lords to finish the event designs.
• The Meteor Shower began across the participating dungeons, bringing Small Falling Stars and varied encounters that astonished adventurers.
• Fingel arrived in Irithyll as an invader, saw the Falling Star Beast defeat the Light Eagle Legion grunts and carry off Iliphis, then tossed a Small Falling Star toward safety before joining the chase.

Anzi III learned that an unknown entity had turned his blood into a contagious Beastification Syndrome and planned to use Iliphis to unleash it on the royal capital during the Meteor Shower. Meanwhile, Fingel avoided intervening in the battle, invited Elsa to explore the Gourmet Area, and set off with his team after learning Tus had stayed home to care for his sick sister.

• Anzi III recalled how the unknown entity had manipulated him into spreading Beastification Syndrome and planned to use Iliphis to ignite the royal capital on the Meteor Shower’s final day.
• Fingel watched Iliphis being carried by Falling Star NiuNiu but chose to leave the battle, despite his complicated feelings toward Iliphis.
• Elsa caught a Small Falling Star, and Fingel gave her another before inviting her to join his team on an expedition to the Gourmet Area.
• The next day, Fingel met Elsa at Academy Gate Town with Matilda and Aleya, then waited for the Guzha Squad to arrive.
• The Guzha Squad told Fingel that Tus had stayed home because his older sister was sick, and Fingel suggested bringing Tus gifts before leading the group toward the bonfire.

Fingel and the Hasawi Squad were drawn into the Black Hole that appeared over Firelink Shrine and were instantly killed by the alien boss Astel. After they respawned, an altar and a Glory Stone Tablet appeared, offering clues that a new meteor-related challenge was beginning.

• Fingel and the Hasawi Squad traveled to Firelink Shrine after hearing that something frightening had appeared there, and discovered a Black Hole in the night sky.
• After staring at the Black Hole for too long, Fingel and his companions were pulled into a dark universe, where Dark Astel emerged and killed them all with a single magical attack.
• Fingel and the others respawned at the bonfire and noticed an altar bearing the message “Offer meteors”; Elsa suggested offering Small Falling Stars.
• A Glory Stone Tablet emerged from the ground, displayed adventurers’ names and rankings, and revealed a list of dungeons alongside instructions to choose starting supplies before chasing meteors.

Adventurers explored the joint anomaly linking more than forty dungeons, claimed repeatable supplies, and hunted Small Falling Stars in Zane Dungeon. Their encounters revealed that monsters from other dungeons could appear as obstacles, while Te Pi Bask faced a Falling Star Beast inside Boulder Dungeon.

• Fingel chose Zane Dungeon's supplies and received Poké Balls, a boiled Happiny, and Lure Skulls, prompting adventurers to compare rewards from the other dungeons.
• Adventurers discovered they could revive and claim supplies again, and more than half ultimately chose Zane's rewards.
• Elsa captured a Small Falling Star and helped Matilda catch one, while Hell March reacted to Elsa as a more suitable owner and tried to leave Matilda.
• The adventurers struggled to capture Small Falling Stars, then defeated a Bronze Gladiator from Glory Dungeon that appeared as a random obstacle.
• Matilda realized Zane's monsters were unusually powerful and wondered whether adventurers from other dungeons could now fight them.
• Te Pi Bask encountered a Falling Star Beast inside Boulder Dungeon and wondered where the dungeon's usual stone men had gone.

Te Pi tried to exploit the dungeon changes to climb the Glory Stone Tablet rankings while preparing to confront Leon. A Super Vision Mirror unexpectedly brought father and son face to face, with both carrying Poké Balls and competing to catch Small Falling Stars.

• Sain-type monsters ambushed adventurers across several dungeons, while the Falling Star Beast rampaged through Boulder Dungeon and sent successive Silver Rank challengers flying.
• Te Pi escaped the Falling Star Beast, then used Red Fang Dungeon supplies to recover and saw that he ranked third on the Glory Stone Tablet.
• Te Pi bought Zane Dungeon supplies, hired adventurers, and spent hours catching Small Falling Stars in Black Quarry, managing to catch only eight.
• On his way back to resupply, Te Pi saw Leon through a Super Vision Mirror, and both father and son noticed the Poké Balls they were carrying.

Te Pi recruited a large Capture Team to collect Small Falling Stars and beat Leon on the Glory Stone Tablet, but his team was devastated by a Falling Star Beast. Leon’s allies helped him gather enough captures to take first place when the dungeons closed at midnight.

• Te Pi and Leon argued through the Super Vision Mirror and agreed to settle their rivalry through their rankings on the Glory Stone Tablet.
• Te Pi recruited over a hundred adventurers, taught them to use Poké Balls, and led them to capture Small Falling Stars for the altar.
• Te Pi’s coordinated captures lifted him to first place, but a Falling Star Beast used magic to wipe out most of his team during their next expedition.
• Te Pi returned with the Poké Balls he had saved and discovered that Leon had overtaken him in the rankings.
• Da Er, Lu Lu Wo, Wei En Ma, and Fingel helped Leon’s Strategy Team gather captures, and Leon Bask finished first when the dungeons closed at midnight.

Red Fang discovered that Zane Dungeon had taken first place in the dungeon supplies and rewards competition, while Leon led the Glory Stone Tablet rankings. Gong Qiying learned Zane was first as letters from other City Lords flooded his altar.

• Red Fang reviewed the redemption rankings and froze when he saw Zane Dungeon in first place.
• The Gladiator King eagerly opened Red Fang’s results letter and shattered his wineglass in shock.
• Gong Qiying noted that Leon had taken first place on the Glory Stone Tablet with help from Zane Dungeon’s allied groups.
• Gong Qiying received a flood of letters, read Red Fang’s rankings, and confirmed that Zane was first.

After answering Dungeon Lords and receiving Red Fang’s praise for the bonfire, Gong Qiying slept while adventurers celebrated and prepared for another day in Zane Dungeon. Fingel visited Tus’s recovered sister, agreed to bring her into the dungeon, and then watched as she and Tus were sucked into a Black Hole at Firelink Shrine.

• Gong Qiying read letters from Dungeon Lords, remembered his earlier dealings with Lin Weier, and replied to Red Fang’s question about the bonfire.
• Red Fang sent Gong Qiying a photo of his raised thumb and called the bonfire impressive.
• Leon hosted a banquet for the adventurers, and Fingel left with food and beer to visit Tus and his sick sister.
• Fingel found Tus’s sister recovered after eating Life Perch and agreed to take her along on the next dungeon exploration.
• At Firelink Shrine, Matilda reminded Fingel that their plan was to fight Pontiff Sulyvahn’s Phantom, but Tus and his sister were suddenly sucked into the Black Hole.

Tus and his sister were drawn into the Black Hole and attacked by Astel, whose stellar aura sent them into a frenzy. After Fingel used a Kindling ritual to calm Tus, the squad sought Humanity to treat his sister, and Fingel invaded Te Pi’s dungeon, where he found himself in an unfamiliar place.

• Fingel refused to enter the Black Hole, and Tus and his sister were drawn inside by their infection and charged at Astel, which killed them before fading away.
• Tus and his sister returned at the bonfire in a distressed state, so Matilda covered their eyes and Aleya used a Kindling ritual to calm Tus.
• The Guzha Squad killed the Three-Person Corpse Magician to obtain another ritual, but realized they lacked Humanity to use it on Tus’s sister.
• Fingel chose to invade another adventurer to obtain Humanity and was sent to Boulder Dungeon, where Te Pi was transporting Poké Balls.
• Fingel appeared before Te Pi as a Dark Blue Spirit and wondered whether he was still in Zane.

Fingel invaded Boulder Dungeon, defeated Te Pi, and helped Tus and his sister recover from Dark Meteor Astel’s mental attack. As the Meteor Shower event ended, Gong Qiying learned that the City Lords had reported Zane for disrupting exploration in other dungeons.

• Fingel identified Te Pi as his invasion target and killed him with a Glintstone Pebble, while similar invasions appeared in more than forty dungeons.
• Fingel and the Guzha Squad revived Tus and his sister after the Kindling Secret Ritual, and discovered that Astel’s mental attack had left them with amnesia.
• Tus and his sister ate Happiny, which ended Tus’s longing to enter the Black Hole and dulled his interest in Meteor Showers.
• Adventurers pursued Small Falling Stars and reward exchanges as the event continued, while Leon settled into fifth place on the Glory Stone Tablet rankings.
• Gong Qiying received Chiya’s report that the City Lords had jointly accused him of manipulating adventurers and disrupting exploration in other dungeons.

Gong Qiying learned that his adventurers were invading other dungeons and terrorizing their adventurers, but he chose not to stop them. He sent the City Lords Cracked Blood-Red Eyeball Orbs and suggested they join in, leaving the Meteor Shower event poised to become even more chaotic.

• Gong Qiying watched recordings showing his adventurers tormenting people in other dungeons and learned they were venting their anger over Dark Moon Blade by invading unfamiliar places.
• Gong Qiying ignored most of the City Lords’ complaints and slept instead of reining in his adventurers.
• On the third day of the Meteor Shower event, Zane Dungeon’s invaders returned in greater numbers, turning other dungeons into scenes of chaos.
• Red Fang let the invasions continue because Gong Qiying had added Valstrax and other monsters to Red Fang Dungeon’s Encounter Battle pool.
• Gong Qiying apologized to the City Lords, claimed he could not prohibit invasions, and sent each of them boxes of Cracked Blood-Red Eyeball Orbs with a suggestion to join in.

Gong Qiying persuaded the city lords to embrace invasions, while Anzi III and Princess Serena faced the dangers surrounding the royal city. The chapter ended as a Zane adventurer was invaded by Te Pi of Boulder Dungeon.

• Gong Qiying distributed Cracked Blood-Red Eyeball Orbs and persuaded most city lords to support invasions, then Red Fang established new rules and rewarded the top dungeons.
• Anzi III watched Princess Serena sneak out of the Royal Palace and suffered another bout of beastification after feeling pride in his daughter.
• Serena used leveling items to raise her strength, enjoyed the city’s hospitality, and wandered into the residential district to investigate its Meteor Shower legend.
• Fingel accidentally frightened Serena in the dark, but he left without recognizing her, and she went home relieved.
• A new Glory Stone Tablet ranked adventurers by invasion kills, and a Zane adventurer received notice that Te Pi of Boulder Dungeon had invaded him.

On the fourth day of the Meteor Shower event, adventurers across more than forty dungeons began invading one another, and Te Pi’s attempt to climb the new Glory Stone Tablet ended with Lu Lu Wo tying him up in Irithyll. Meanwhile, Tus helped royal-city residents recover from madness caused by seeing Astel, then fled when a crowd gathered outside his home seeking his help.

• Adventurers from many dungeons used Cracked Blood-Red Eyeball Orbs to invade others, starting a chaotic wave of mutual invasions.
• Te Pi used an Eyeball Orb to invade Lu Lu Wo’s world, but Lu Lu Wo defeated him and hung him from a rooftop in Irithyll; another invader met the same fate.
• Adventurers began invading preemptively to avoid being invaded, while weaker ordinary people and groups traveling with them were less likely to be targeted.
• Tus and the Guzha Squad used the Kindling Secret Ritual and Humanity to help royal-city residents recover after they went mad from looking at Astel.
• After the residents left, Tus returned home and found a crowd waiting for him, so he tried to flee before someone spotted him and shouted that he was there.

Da Er investigated the vanished threat in the residential district, then joined Leon and other Zane Dungeon adventurers as they planned a final push for the Glory Stone Tablet rankings. As the Meteor Shower neared its end, Gong Qiying observed that Zane, Glory, and Boulder were preparing to compete fiercely, while he trusted his adventurers to win without extra advantages.

• Da Er found that the strange scents and threat he had sensed in the residential district had disappeared, and he sent Klan to report the anomaly to the city defense soldiers.
• Wesker brought Da Er to Zane Dungeon, where he saw the Glory Stone Tablet rankings and discovered that Si Telan, Luo Jieer, and other Zane adventurers had earned high invasion rankings.
• Leon gathered Da Er, Si Telan, Elsa, Lu Lu Wo, and Fingel to plan how to raise Zane adventurers' rankings during the event's final days.
• Gong Qiying reviewed declarations of war and reports of Glory and Boulder giving their leading adventurers powerful equipment and support.
• Gong Qiying decided not to give Zane's adventurers extra advantages because he believed they were already cheats themselves.