Recaps

Qin Xiaoxia and the Dawn Association uncovered and crushed the Underworld Cult while saving Duobaili and Zhou Zhigang. The new academy opened its admissions, and Gao Lun began his journey to a school hidden in the Abyssal Wilderness.

• Duobaili and Zhou Zhigang fled a demon who wanted her to join his Cult, while Qin Xiaoxia traced the demon’s business card to the Underworld Cult.
• The Dawn Association and governments launched operations against the Cult, and Yan Tong’s battle with Duo'er'an left the demon alive but badly injured.
• Duo'er'an attacked Zhou Zhigang and Duobaili, and Qin Xiaoxia used a Dream Drifter to let Zhou’s soul save Duobaili before killing Duo'er'an and restoring Zhou to life.
• Zhou Zhigang and Duobaili joined the Dawn Association, while forces around the world destroyed Cult bases and Hilbert defeated Guman in France.
• Duobaili joined the work of revising Dawn’s materials on Hell’s magic script, and Cyclopes rapidly built the mirrored academy with crystal pillars.
• Qin Xiaoxia opened Similson Plains Academy to applicants, and Gao Lun received an acceptance letter after listing it as his third choice.
• Gao Lun traveled toward school and followed Lin and Lin Xing through an apparent wall into a sanctuary that Lin identified as a Dawn Association transit center for students heading to the Forest of Origin.

Gao Lun began his studies at Forest Origin Academy as Riva met Youyi, a fallen star who healed him and marked him with the Dawn Seal. Riva protected refugees from Giant Monsters and marauders, and stories of his deeds spread as the Black-Clad Ranger.

• Gao Lun arrived at Similson Plains Academy, found his class, and heard Baye-nozuofu introduce the academy and its promise of supernatural knowledge.
• The Archive Management Office failed to recover the missing Kasluopa Summary Section, while Xivier watched a meteor fall and Riva left home to search for it.
• Goys’s party brought Riva to the forest, where Xivier stabbed him and abandoned him before Youyi appeared and healed him.
• Youyi chose her name, traveled with Riva, and branded a Dawn symbol on his palm as Qin Xiaoxia discovered their connection to Dawn.
• When Giant Monsters threatened refugees, Riva faced them, awakened the Dawn Seal, and killed their leader while Youyi helped protect the group.
• Youyi explained that the Dawn Seal answered Riva’s courage, and the pair escorted refugees, rescued survivors, and fought marauders as Riva’s skills grew.
• At the Organ Tavern, refugees recounted how Riva had defeated the Giant Monsters, and Buck linked their account to a scouting report about a slain monster.
• Riva and Youyi realized that his reputation as the Black-Clad Ranger was growing, and Youyi wanted to spread it further.

Riva and his allies unite the kingdoms and long-lived peoples against the Corrupted Savage Beastmen, turning the tide through floods, guerrilla warfare, and a royal-court campaign. After the Savage Beastmen retreat to Rusbella, Riva’s army prepares to take the city with help from a mutiny inside its walls.

• Riva rallied fleeing Kingdom Army soldiers and mercenaries, while Gurian joined the group and identified the Savage Beastmen’s invasion as a threat to the Sogian Kingdom and beyond.
• Gurian devised a plan to bring down Junobit II’s statue and destroy the Gulot Reservoir Dam, and Riva’s group triggered a flood that swept away more than twenty thousand Savage Beastmen.
• Riva and Gurian’s followers spread a prophecy to warn civilians and leaders, helping drive an evacuation as Savage Beastmen forces crossed into Bia and Sogian.
• Xivier brought the Faeries to Riva after linking him to the Savior prophecy, and Faeries and other long-lived peoples joined the growing Guerrilla Army.
• Gurian led Sogian forces and Riva’s allies in a surprise assault that routed the Savage Beastmen, after which Riva urged the assembled fighters never to retreat.
• Riva’s Guerrilla Army disrupted the enemy’s command and targeted Corrupted Savage Beastmen, while allied armies advanced on the royal court and forced widespread desertions.
• Riva killed a Savage Beastmen royal in the second capital and spared those who had not succumbed to corruption, driving the remaining enemy forces back to Rusbella.
• Riva’s allies prepared to attack Rusbella as Savage Beastmen inside the city mutinied, killed their commanders, and opened the western and southern gates.