Chapter Summaries

Gong Qiying learned investigation advice from Yanhuo and planned to adapt Zane Dungeon’s familiar regions for Scamellon. Meanwhile, Jia Paer and Leon’s group began exploring Limgrave’s Land of Falling Stars, with Jia Paer fearing it might lead to the Frenzied Flame.

• Yanhuo revealed that he belonged to the Astar Alliance, accepted that Gong Qiying could not disclose his investigation, and offered to help.
• Yanhuo advised Gong Qiying to study dungeons by observing how they operated and suggested bringing Zane Dungeon’s well-known old regions to Scamellon.
• After Explosive Flame Dungeon separated, Gong Qiying decided to adapt the old regions for local conditions and began working in the dungeon design module.
• Jia Paer, Leon, Malu, and the Strategy Team reached the Land of Falling Stars in Limgrave, where Jia Paer worried the pit might lead to Valley Bottom Forest.
• Jia Paer gritted his teeth and jumped into the pit.

Leon and his companions reached the massive crater in the Land of Falling Stars, where Jia Paer warned them that jumping in was a trap. Gravity dragged Leon into the abyss, where he glimpsed the Eternal City Nokron before crashing to his death.

• Leon and his companions discussed the crater and their growing strength as they prepared to explore it.
• Leon wondered why Jia Paer had not sent the agreed signal and decided to descend with Delu's Flight Spell and Levitation Spell.
• Jia Paer ran over and shouted for Leon not to jump, but the crater's Gravity Magic seized Leon and pulled him down.
• Leon saw strange visions beneath the crater, including an ancient city identified as Eternal City Nokron.
• Leon crashed into the ruins and died beside the marks of another disastrous landing.

Leon and the Strategy Team reached the ruins of Eternal City Nokron by repeatedly testing the giant pit’s lethal drops, then fought their way through its Living Dead guardians. As they approached the gate to the city, five silver Mimic Tears appeared and transformed to match the group.

• Leon returned to the giant pit, and Delu explained how platforms and gaps in the Gravity Magic could help them descend safely.
• Leon and his companions repeatedly died while testing the descent, but eventually reached the bottom and found ruins that appeared to belong to Eternal City Nokron.
• Malu caught a blue-flamed arrow, and Leon, Malu, Delu, Te Er, and the others defeated the Living Dead that attacked them.
• The group advanced through the ruins and reached a gate beyond a large open area.
• Malu identified five silver creatures as Mimic Tears, and they erupted in smoke and began changing shape.

Leon and the Strategy Team defeated five Mimic Tears by exploiting their lack of equipment and switching opponents, then entered Eternal City Nokron. The group found a badly wounded person on the bridge as a wolf howled from deep within the city.

• Five Mimic Tears copied Malu, Leon, Delu, Te Er, and Jia Paer, forcing the Strategy Team to fight them inside a sealed ruin.
• Leon discovered that the Mimic Tears were physically fragile without equipment and had the group switch opponents to use their strongest fighters against the enemies they could defeat most easily.
• Jia Paer defeated Malu's Mimic Tear while the others battled their assigned opponents; Malu fell in combat but revived, and the team defeated the final Mimic Tear together.
• The Mimic Tears vanished and left behind Mimic Tear Remains, which could mimic the user's form for one use.
• Leon opened the Stone Gate, revealing the starry underground landscape and the city of Eternal City Nokron, and Jia Paer led the group onto the bridge.
• The group found a person pierced by long arrows who was still breathing, then heard a wolf howl from deep within Nokron.

Leon and his companions explored Nokron, where they found the bodies of Two Fingers emissaries and collected their equipment and an Incantation Book. Their apparent windfall soon gave way to danger as Ancestral Spirit People archers chased them in a frantic retreat.

• Leon heard a wolf howl and identified the approaching figure as Blaidd, the half-wolf from the Battle Festival.
• Delu tried to heal a dying emissary, who declared that the Two Fingers’ blade-bearing order had to be recovered and that Erdtree traitors must be eradicated.
• The emissary vanished, leaving behind his hood, which Leon recognized as valuable evidence for the Zane Scholars.
• Leon and his companions searched the bridge and collected equipment and an Assassin's Incantation Book from seven or eight dead emissaries.
• Groups of Ancestral Spirit People archers attacked, forcing Leon and his companions to flee as he shouted that he had known a trap was waiting.

Leon and his companions explored Nokron, fighting black and silver tears while finding stone tablets that revealed the Nox’s hopes for a night king and the tears’ attempts to imitate his other half. After following a wolf’s increasingly frenzied howls out of the Eternal City, they reached Night's Domain, where Leon was invaded by the Calamity Shadow.

• Malu mapped their route through Nokron as the group crossed the ruined bridge and reached a Site of Grace.
• Black tears burst from the buildings and attacked Malu, but Jia Paer identified them as a weaker species than Mimic Tears, and the group defeated them.
• Leon found a tablet beside an Envoy’s corpse and read a riddle about a king’s other half; later tablets described the Nox’s hopes for a night king and the tears imitating his other half.
• The group followed Blaidd’s howls through Nokron, battling silver tears that transformed into Rune Bears and other beasts, but repeatedly failed to find him.
• The increasingly frenzied howl led the group out of Nokron and into Night's Domain, where Leon was invaded by the Calamity Shadow.

Leon and his companions were ambushed by a powerful Calamity Shadow resembling Half-Wolf Blaidd, and the fight drew a huge group of Ancestral Spirit People into the battle. The Calamity Shadow and the arrow-studded Te Er ran back toward the others with the Ancestral Spirit People charging behind them.

• The Calamity Shadow struck Leon with a freezing greatsword blow, and he escaped the worst of the cold by rolling toward Malu's fireball.
• The Calamity Shadow attacked Malu and redirected its greatsword toward Delu, but Jia Paer blocked the strike while Malu pulled Delu clear.
• Te Er rammed the Calamity Shadow into the forest as Delu treated Leon's frostbite with Healing Magic and medicine.
• Jia Paer prepared to follow Te Er, but the Calamity Shadow and Te Er came running back, with Te Er covered in arrows.
• Jia Paer spotted a huge group of Ancestral Spirit People charging toward them.

Te Er’s accidental killing of a fawn drew the Ancestral Spirit People into the fight, scattering the group as they pursued the warriors with arrows and spirit animals. Jia Paer defeated the Calamity Shadow, while Leon fled into a hidden Eternal City and found a temple fused with the night.

• Te Er accidentally crushed a fawn, provoking the Ancestral Spirit People to surround him, and he ran for his life.
• Malu fled with Leon and Delu while Jia Paer attacked the charging Ancestral Spirit People and fought the Calamity Shadow.
• Jia Paer combined Moonveil, the Stars Linked Sword, and the Night and Flame Sword to unleash Slash Domain, causing the Calamity Shadow to vanish.
• Jia Paer discovered that the Ancestral Spirit People were directing a torrent of spirit animals and realized Leon and the others had become separated.
• Leon ran from the Ancestral Spirit People, found a gap in the rocks, and spotted a Nokron-like city with a temple fused with the night.

Leon revived near the bridge and fought through the Ancestral Spirit People while the Calamity Shadow ambushed him, then fled and turned the forest into a drawn-out ordeal for the separated adventurers. Jia Paer reached the newly revealed Night's Domain and faced two Silver Tears transforming into copies of himself.

• Leon fell into the Bottomless Abyss after Ancestral Spirit People shot him from the cliff, then revived at the Site of Grace near the bridge.
• Leon fought off Ancestral Spirit People and confronted the Calamity Shadow, who escaped when Leon nearly defeated him.
• Leon continued fighting the forest's monsters as the Calamity Shadow ambushed him again and kept him trapped in a war of attrition.
• Malu ran from the Calamity Shadow as he repeatedly vanished into groups of monsters and reappeared after she fought them.
• Delu defended himself against the Calamity Shadow while Te Er lay badly wounded nearby.
• Jia Paer reached Night's Domain and watched two Silver Tears transform into copies of himself.

Jia Paer fought his way through Night's Domain, repeatedly using powerful skills to destroy Silver Tears that copied him and exhausted him with their numbers. He concluded that the Eternal King was likely the region's boss, then continued toward the temple and encountered a Silver Tear copying someone unfamiliar.

• Jia Paer killed two Silver Tears that copied his appearance, abilities, and weapons, then questioned how they could match his increased strength.
• He repeatedly used Slash Domain to kill groups of Silver Tears before they could finish transforming, depleting his battle aura.
• Jia Paer realized the Silver Tears could learn his unusual combat tactics and decided that bringing weaker adventurers would make them easier to defeat.
• He collected runes, Mimic Tear remains, Tear Husks, and a tablet fragment that named the Eternal King, whom he suspected was Night's Domain's boss.
• Jia Paer resumed his journey toward the temple, where the next Silver Tear transformed into someone he had never seen before.

Jia Paer fought his way through Night's Domain, defeating Silver Tears that imitated legendary phantoms and collecting remnants and stone tablets. The tablets revealed that the Eternal King had imitated heroes and that another king had once come to find it, as Jia Paer opened the temple gates.

• Jia Paer defeated a Silver Tear imitating Inquisitor Kisa and obtained a Silver Tear Remnant and a fragment of a stone tablet.
• Jia Paer continued toward the temple, reasoning that the Silver Tears became stronger because they imitated fixed targets.
• Jia Paer defeated Silver Tears imitating Yuno Hoslow, Dolores, and Eleonora, and collected another remnant and several stone tablets.
• Jia Paer read a tablet explaining that the Tears copied the Eternal King and that another king had come to find it before leaving on a long journey.
• Jia Paer reached the temple and opened its heavy gates.

Jia Paer explored a dusty temple filled with weapons collected as trophies of the Elden Lord’s conquests, then faced a Mimic Tear that transformed into legendary warriors. The chapter left Jia Paer badly overwhelmed as the Tear prepared another Ancient Dragon Lightning Spear.

• Jia Paer opened the temple and found its weapons and armor miraculously cleaned by a gust of wind.
• Jia Paer recognized the displays as trophies, including the White Wolf War Ghost armor, and approached the throne to investigate.
• A powerful Silver Tear appeared and transformed into Great-Horned Tragoth, attacking Jia Paer with two Giant Crushers.
• After the Tear’s blows crushed Jia Paer, it transformed into Knight of the Roundtable Vike and hurled an Ancient Dragon Lightning Spear at him.
• Jia Paer realized he was facing a host of heroic warriors within one Mimic Tear, while the Tear began preparing another lightning spear.

Jia Paer fought the Mimic Tear through several copied forms, trading heavy injuries with it before it transformed into the Elden Lord. He realized he would have to give everything he had to face its latest form.

• Jia Paer rushed the Mimic Tear and struck it while it charged Ancient Dragon Lightning Spear, but the spell exploded and burned him.
• The Mimic Tear copied Mi Li An, but Jia Paer pierced it with Phantom Spears and struck it with Heimo Hammer, damaging its true body.
• The Mimic Tear transformed into Millicent and attacked with Waterfowl Dance, forcing Jia Paer into a fierce exchange that shook the temple.
• Jia Paer and the Mimic Tear withdrew with nearly equal injuries, and Jia Paer recognized his progress in fighting it alone.
• The Mimic Tear took on the form of the Elden Lord, leaving Jia Paer determined to fight at full strength.

Jia Paer fought the Mimic Tear after it transformed into the Tarnished and wielded weapons from the temple wall. The duel escalated as the Mimic Tear revealed an arsenal of powerful weapons, leaving Jia Paer terrified of what it would use next.

• The Mimic Tear transformed into the Tarnished, took the Golden Order Greatsword and a sacred seal from the wall, and prepared to attack Jia Paer.
• Calamity Shadow invaded and ambushed Jia Paer, but the Mimic Tear beheaded it with a Golden Order Greatsword sword wave.
• The Mimic Tear attacked Jia Paer with Rings of Light, sword waves, Radagon's Halo, and Golden Fury as Jia Paer used his wolf blood and fought back with Moonveil.
• The Mimic Tear cast Erdtree's Blessing and Erdtree's Blessing, then switched to Mohg's weapon and filled the temple with blood that threatened to cause massive bleeding.
• More weapons disappeared from the display wall, and Jia Paer recognized an intimidating range of arms and equipment, imagining the Mimic Tear in a wheelchair capable of extreme speed and force.

Jia Paer fought the Mimic Tear through a succession of weapons and spells, but the copy’s defenses, speed, and stamina steadily overwhelmed him. After a final charge, Comet Azur swallowed Jia Paer, and the Mimic Tear sat on the throne beneath the moonlight.

• Jia Paer attacked the Mimic Tear with Moonveil, but it blocked his strikes with a Fingerprint Stone Shield and countered with a poisonous rapier.
• Jia Paer tried illusions, Slash Domain, and a direct thrust, but the Mimic Tear blocked his attacks and changed from a shield to dual Corpse Peeling Curved Swords.
• The Mimic Tear’s relentless dual-sword assault exhausted Jia Paer and inflicted severe wounds, forcing him to use a recovery potion.
• The Mimic Tear switched to Lusat's Glintstone Staff and used sorcery to repel Jia Paer as he rushed in, while Jia Paer’s wolf-blood enhancement began to fade.
• Jia Paer crossed falling roof debris to reach the Mimic Tear, but it unleashed Comet Azur and swallowed him in its torrent.
• The Mimic Tear remained alive and sat on the spotless throne beneath the moonlight.

After losing to the Mimic Tear, Jia Paer lamented that the fight had not given him the heroic duel he wanted, then discovered Leon and the Strategy Team had witnessed and recorded his outburst. The group shared what they had found in the forest, and Jia Paer joined them to search for more monuments about the Eternal City.

• Jia Paer recovered at the grace and complained that the Mimic Tear had defeated him with Comet Azur before he could deliver a final sword strike.
• Jia Paer tried to check the monster booklet for the Mimic Tear’s name, then noticed Leon and the Strategy Team watching him.
• Malu revealed that she had recorded Jia Paer’s outburst, and the group destroyed the Image Stone after he confronted them.
• Leon, Malu, Te Er, and Delu told Jia Paer they had found a giant deer-like corpse worshipped by the forest’s horned inhabitants and a monument with a fire brazier.
• Jia Paer read the monument’s account of the Greater Will sending a dark meteor against the prosperous Eternal City and agreed to help find the remaining monuments.

Leon and his companions explored the Ancestral Forest, uncovering stone tablets that linked the Eternal City and ancestral spirits in a failed struggle against the Greater Will. After Jia Paer discovered that his opponent had been recorded as the Mimic Tear of the Eternal King, the group was left with his shocked reaction.

• Leon realized the Ancestral Spirit People’s rampage had been stirred up by the scattered adventurers and regrouped with everyone at a Site of Grace.
• An Ancestral Spirit Person shot Jia Paer in the forehead, but Jia Paer continued walking with the arrow stuck in his head.
• Leon and his companions found a stone tablet describing ancestral spirits as former allies who had fought the Greater Will, then recorded its images.
• The group found more tablets revealing that the Eternal City had fallen, its people had gone underground, and they still awaited a king while resisting the Greater Will and Erdtree.
• After the group rested, Jia Paer checked his hunter’s handbook and discovered that his opponent had been listed as the Mimic Tear of the Eternal King.

Jia Paer brought Leon and the others to fight the Eternal King's Mimic Tear, forcing them to face its terrifying forms after he battled it himself. The battered group returned from Zane Dungeon and shared their discoveries of Eternal City Nokron, renewing adventurers’ interest in the dungeon.

• Jia Paer reconsidered the Eternal King's Mimic Tear and decided to take Leon and the others to see it.
• Jia Paer fought through the Mimic Tear’s changing forms while Leon and the others watched and cheered him on.
• When the Mimic Tear transformed into the Tarnished, Jia Paer stepped aside and made Leon and the others fight it.
• Leon, Malu, Delu, and Te Er each suffered brutal defeats during their battle with the Mimic Tear.
• Leon and the others returned in tattered clothes and shared their discoveries of Eternal City Nokron, making Zane Dungeon a trending topic among adventurers.

Taverns buzzed with reports about Eternal City Nokron, the Eternal King's Mimic Tear, and discoveries revealing the Golden Order’s persecution of other beliefs. After adventurers flocked to the new area and planned Battle Festivals, Gong Qiying announced that his newest dungeon was finished.

• People in taverns discussed the Mimic Tear Remains and the Eternal King's Mimic Tear, whose recordings drew eager buyers despite no challengers winning.
• Adventurers copied the Tarnished's and other afterimages' equipment, while the Adventurers' Guild and Strategy Teams planned regular Battle Festivals for those who had not unlocked Eternal City.
• Stone tablets revealed that the Golden Order had persecuted people who rejected the Erdtree, prompting discussion of new faiths based on Eternal City and the Ancestral Spirit.
• Gong Qiying, exhausted after days of overtime, activated his completed Fanatic Dungeon.

Todd had established a makeshift Church of Frenzy Flame in war-torn Hypha Town to keep Dorian from discovering that no real organization existed, while feeding the town’s abandoned residents. As an armed squad approached, Todd ordered everyone to hide in the cellar and prepared to face them.

• Todd cooked three rabbits and fed the elderly, sick, disabled, and two children who had become the Church of Frenzy Flame’s first believers.
• Todd recalled that he had tricked Dorian into believing a church had been destroyed and that the two children were its surviving members, buying time and saving himself.
• Todd admitted he hoped Dorian would disappear so he could flee, but Dorian kept returning safely from his daily search for believers.
• Todd spotted an armored squad on horseback approaching Hypha Town and told everyone to hide in the cellar while he handled the newcomers.