Recaps

Roland helped Rosa defeat Feilie’s rebellion by developing Seris magic, training new fighters, and confronting the Blackfire Legion’s allies. After the victory, Rosa began reshaping Lainer’s government while Seris Academy expanded its influence and industrial work.

• Rosa was crowned Queen of Lainer, introduced reforms, and rallied her subjects after Feilie declared the Northsen Kingdom and rebelled.
• Roland brought Jados and Sakari to Lainer, supported their medical work, and helped develop a method combining battle aura with magic and meridian theory.
• Roland and Rosa equipped the Blood Eagle Warriors with Seris weapons and magic cards, and the unit defeated Feilie’s forces before suffering a devastating loss at Blackstone Keep.
• Roland expanded Seris training and military preparations, then allied with Lie Yi and Blaise to establish a Seris Scroll Association against Kunnis Ding’s Scroll Association.
• Roland used croton seeds to weaken Kunnis Ding’s Purple-Skinned Orcs, then led a force that killed Kunnis Ding and uncovered evidence linking the Deni Orcs to devils and the Abyssal Legion.
• Jonis routed Feilie’s army after the orcs fled, Feilie died by suicide, and Roland invited Vian and Pamir to become his personal disciples.
• The Scroll Association agreed to provide compensation, while Rosa proposed replacing Northsen’s noble fiefs with standardized prefectures and counties.
• Roland met Aisen, Nogin, and Bernal to discuss cooperation, while Carlo joined a new spell scroll workshop and began learning to copy rune patterns.

Roland built the Seris rune system while navigating Rosa’s succession crisis, then won the Arcane Star Award and advanced to the seventh rank. Returning to Whitepine Town, he uncovered an illegal undead operation and confronted its mastermind, Shirem.

• Roland expanded the Seris School’s talisman research as the Scroll Association sued its researchers, while Rosa told him she was pregnant.
• Roland and Rosa weathered political opposition, announced their son Rowan’s birth, and named him Crown Heir as Roland continued compiling Seris runes.
• Roland exposed the Scroll Association’s agents and killed Delanite, then rescued the imprisoned elf Kana and helped her recover through dream magic.
• Roland completed the Seris Runes Compendium, and Rosa gave birth to Rowan Qin Yin Seris, whom she later declared Crown Heir.
• After Rosa ordered a purge of nobles who plotted against her, Roland developed his Rune Controller advancement method and merged World Tree runes into his soul.
• Roland competed against Professor Xiagengsi for the Arcane Star Award, won with 87 votes, and advanced to the seventh rank through Soul Resonance.
• Roland visited his family in Whitepine Town and investigated undead creatures in the mountains after Atali’s brother Sida reported attacks.
• Roland tracked Shirem’s hidden undead base and led an elite force against it, then confronted Shirem as he tried to escape.

Roland and Anna exposed Rain Hurlengar’s role in the Quagmire Plan, advanced Decision Theory, and helped establish Occult Studies. Roland then built the Holy Judgment Knights, rose to lead the Arcane Development Department, and began reshaping its operations while Pennis faced an investigation.

• Roland and Anna revealed that Rain Hurlengar was the Mentor behind the planned Undead Catastrophe, then used Decision Theory to locate his phylactery and uncover further ties to the Quagmire Plan.
• Antonia tasked Roland with gaining Sinvira’s trust and recruiting talent, and Roland met Rain, who described his pursuit of immortality and gave up research on elemental reactors.
• Roland and Anna’s work won support for an Occult Studies program, while Roland helped establish the Holy Judgment Knights and recruited Vivian, Lamb, Xienni, and other allies into its ranks.
• Roland led the knights against demon worshippers and the Kongel Organization, while he and his school created Atali’s Seris-style paladin profession through a holy-light ritual.
• Roland returned to Atrelin and became a full Arcane Committee member, grand arcanist, imperial regent, and head of the Arcane Development Department.
• Roland reorganized the department by promoting allies and giving special working groups authority over school-related approvals, then appointed Bruno as his deputy.
• Roland’s supporters defended his order to include Seris translations in department documents, while an exposé tied Pennis to pollution and unauthorized experiments in the Sigum project.
• Roland formed a new Arcane Discipline Group and kept Pennis on probation pending investigation, while Oksaya publicly criticized Omichidit’s Astrology School and praised Anna’s Occult Studies program.

After reaching Ninth Rank, Roland led the Seris School into the war against the Abyssal Legion and developed battle tattoos, while uncovering devil influence in Sinvira and creating a pact that could threaten a devil duke’s true name. The arc ended with Seris research gaining international support and Master Augut asking Roland to train Fane Neres as a regional preacher.

• Roland advanced to Ninth Rank, then joined the allied expedition to Xinweila World as the Abyssal Legion threatened the planar gates.
• Roland challenged the Stradelta warriors through Tatali’s duel with Barluf, then studied their battle tattoos and developed Seris Rune Tattoos with Beloda.
• During a major demon attack, Roland and Nalanerduo’s forces fought until the plane tide receded, and Roland discovered that killing demons strengthened the tattoos.
• Roland promoted battle-tattoo research and Magic Cards among allied forces, then negotiated Sinvira’s support for the Seris School before capturing the Lust Devil Vanessa.
• Roland and Antonia exposed the scale of devil infiltration in Sinvira and Atrelin, while Roland protected Leilide’s research into a Seris pact for controlling devils.
• Roland summoned Aixipu and signed a framework agreement with Duke North, whose true name the resulting Naming Art nearly replaced.
• Seris researchers published their findings as battle tattoos spread among soldiers and attracted rival schools, while Atrelin and Xinweila World funded further work.
• At the Royal Magic Academy, Master Augut asked Roland to teach Fane Neres and make him the Seris School’s Preacher in the region, offering secret techniques in return.