Vol. 3Relics and Hidden Factions

Li Wei investigated supernatural crimes, rescued Alice, and pursued the Holy Relics tied to a demon sealed beneath the Great Salt Lake. After returning to Fog City, he investigated a murder that led him to Casablanca, where powerful families began seeking him out.

  • Li Wei became a Thistle Knight and helped Ovelia investigate a monastery, where he uncovered a dreamlike murder involving King Solomon and the Disaster Herald.
  • Li Wei investigated an elderly woman’s body with Inspector Lestrade and concluded that she had fallen from the sky.
  • Li Wei stopped an immortality ritual at Seaside Nursing Home and later rescued Alice from a supernatural realm in Silver Valley.
  • Li Wei adopted Alice after returning to Fog City and began arranging her education.
  • Li Wei destroyed dangerous paintings and gang networks before traveling with Katie to investigate Sophia Cront’s troubles at the Great Salt Lake.
  • Li Wei and Katie found one Holy Relic, then Li Wei learned that a left-handed girl had stolen the second and that a Cront ancestor had sealed a demon underground.
  • Li Wei recovered the Stone Disc and helped Harold break the seal on the Outer Fiend so waiting forces could destroy it with incendiary bombs.
  • Li Wei investigated a bloody office in Casablanca, traced a monster to a Pasman Family zoo, and discovered a scaled, emerald-haired girl in an iron tank as powerful families decided to approach him.
Chapters 205–307 Read from ch. 205

Arc 9The Monastery and the Fallen Body

Li Wei became a Thistle Knight, joined Ovelia and Annie to investigate a monster-filled monastery, and uncovered a dreamlike murder tied to King Solomon and the Disaster Herald. Back in Fog City, he arranged a new airship and began investigating an elderly woman’s body that appeared to have fallen from the sky.

  • Li Wei received honors from Queen Victoria II, was knighted as a Thistle Knight, and chose his coat of arms, command airship, and sword cane.
  • Ovelia asked Li Wei and Annie to help investigate a remote monastery after her team vanished, and they found winged monsters inside.
  • Li Wei, Katie, and Joe attacked the monsters through the chapel roof, then the party killed the survivors and burned their bodies.
  • Li Wei and Ovelia connected the monsters to missing Luddites and King Solomon, and Li Wei dreamed of Solomon’s palace and Queen Lulana’s poisoning.
  • Li Wei identified the Princess as the unwitting poisoner and the guard as a Disaster Cultist, then helped King Solomon fight the Disaster Herald.
  • A giant dinosaur destroyed the Herald, and Li Wei awoke with Solomon’s Wisdom before taking the tomb’s sword and armor and returning to Fog City.
  • Li Wei commissioned the Eye of the Sky from Howard Dylan and agreed to help Inspector Lestrade investigate an elderly woman’s body linked to Julia Gabriel.
  • Li Wei examined the place where the body was found, discovered threads on a broken tree branch, and concluded that the corpse had fallen from the sky.
Chapters 205–230 Summaries Read

Arc 10The Valley and the Divine Doll

Li Wei investigated the thefts of life at Seaside Nursing Home, then rescued Alice from a supernatural realm in Death Valley and adopted her. He returned to Fog City with Alice and began arranging her education.

  • Li Wei traced the nursing home murders to Theresia Andres and a wizard conducting immortality experiments, then burned the Book of Dijan and stopped the ritual.
  • Baron Cohen invited Li Wei to join Golden Mead Club, where Li Wei performed “Für Elise” and met its members.
  • East Dune asked Li Wei to find Alice after she vanished from her locked room, and Li Wei discovered that her mother had been found pregnant near Death Valley.
  • Li Wei, Katie, and Old Luo Ge entered Silver Valley, fought its animated Dolls and strange monsters, and reached the silver Church where Alice was trapped in a statue.
  • Li Wei and Katie destroyed the statue’s All-Seeing Eye, rescued Alice, and escaped as the mine collapsed and the fog over Death Valley cleared.
  • Li Wei brought Alice back to town, where the Dune family no longer remembered her, then adopted her and decided to arrange a governess with Katie’s help.
Chapters 231–256 Summaries Read

Arc 11The Great Salt Lake Curse

Li Wei dismantled the Iron Blade Gang and pursued a dangerous painter before setting out to investigate the Cront Family’s troubles at the Great Salt Lake. There, he joined Sophia and Katie in searching for three Holy Relics and discovered that the missing relic was tied to an ancient demon sealed beneath the region.

  • Li Wei destroyed the paintings connected to the Haunter of the Dark, led a crackdown on the gangs protecting the painter, and recovered the remaining dangerous artworks.
  • Li Wei began drawing a picture book for Alice and arranged to publish it, then received Sophia Cront’s letter asking him to investigate the Great Salt Lake.
  • Li Wei traveled to the Great Salt Lake with Katie and learned that Sophia had disappeared into a cursed city where outsiders could not escape.
  • Li Wei and Katie fought their way through the city and met Sophia and Harold Brown, who said Deans Cront had broken an ancient seal and that three Holy Relics were needed to reach the underground chamber.
  • Li Wei, Katie, and Sophia found the first Holy Relic beneath the Fishing Village Church after killing the fishlike monsters guarding it.
  • Li Wei searched the haunted Academy for the second Holy Relic but found its display case empty, then investigated the theft as a school mystery.
  • Li Wei deduced that a left-handed girl had stolen the stone disc and learned from the Academy’s historical records that the Cront ancestor had sealed a demon underground.
Chapters 257–282 Summaries Read

Arc 12The Casablanca Investigation

Li Wei recovered the Holy Relic Stone Disc and helped destroy the fiend beneath Mericia, then returned to Fog City and pursued a mysterious brain and the murderers behind an attack in Casablanca. His investigation led him to a Pasman Family zoo and a meeting where the city’s powerful factions decided to approach him.

  • Li Wei found the Headmistress transformed into a Human-Headed Spider, killed her, and recovered the Holy Relic Stone Disc before confronting Durant beneath the Inner City Church.
  • Li Wei learned from the Book of the Dead that Deans had sealed the Outer Fiend, then helped Harold break the seal and signaled the forces waiting above to destroy the creature with incendiary bombs.
  • Li Wei returned to Fog City, manifested Betty the Puppy from his comic, and gave her soul core to a stray puppy that he presented to Alice.
  • Li Wei investigated the antique-shop murder and discovered that a brain in a jar belonged to Edward Draco, who asked Li Wei and Benjamin to take him to Casablanca.
  • Li Wei found the Casablanca office of The Explorer covered in blood and corpses, killed police officers who attacked him, and coordinated with Military Intelligence Section Seven to target the corrupt authorities.
  • Li Wei traced a monster’s footprints to a zoo tied to the Pasman Family, released its animals against the guards, and found a scaled, emerald-haired girl emerging from an iron tank.
  • The Durut, Beredi, and Pasman Families discussed Li Wei’s investigation and agreed to approach him, while the man in the suit proposed hiring him to find a thief.
Chapters 283–307 Summaries Read
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