Recaps

Mulan returned to Valentine, where a storm, a Siren, and the Mad Killer drew him into the hidden world of supernatural forces. After Sir Walton introduced him to the Otherworld and left him with captured cultists and personal errands, Mulan began making connections among the city’s prominent residents.

• Li Xiu awakened in Mulan Jonester’s body, learned the Third Battalion’s defeat had been pinned on him, and went to court to defend his soldiers’ honor.
• Mulan showed the tribunal that his wounds proved he had faced the enemy, and the court disbanded the Third Battalion, demoted him, and granted his discharge.
• A Siren appeared aboard the Princess Niseriel, and Mulan shot her before leaving the ship and reuniting with Leo and Old Buck in Valentine.
• Priest Evan explained that the Siren had been created by an evil ritual and warned Mulan that the Otherworld and its dangers were growing closer.
• After Leo was wounded investigating the dismembered children, Mulan fought a knife-wielding attacker and later tracked down and killed the Mad Killer during the storm.
• Sir Walton introduced Mulan to the Otherworld, killed a Siren at an old watermill, and revealed that he was a Wraith Mage.
• Walton gave Mulan the Heart of Deep Blue in a sealed box, seven animated cultists, and personal errands before leaving for his train.
• Mulan delivered Mr. Wolfe’s declarations to Hémile and accepted an invitation to a ball at Manor No. 6.

Mulan defeated an Ancient Fiend at the Count's Estate, was made an Imperial Knight, and began investigating supernatural cases in Digo. As Sea Soul awakened and visions of the Wyrd Moon surfaced, Mulan and Evan examined the dangers of seeking power from chaos and Evil Gods, while Mulan supported the families of his soldiers and faced a new difficult case.

• Mulan attended Lily Blanclin's birthday ball, challenged Sir Bess after Bess insulted his family, and defeated him, but sensed the estate had fallen under the Otherworld's influence.
• Mulan rode to Evan for help, and they returned to the estate, rescued the survivors, and fought the Ancient Fiend until Evan's Purification wounded it and they escaped back to reality.
• Mulan received praise for saving the estate, was invited to study in the Royal Capital, and learned Queen Nisheriel planned to commend and ennoble him.
• Nisheriel invested Mulan as an Imperial Knight, and Owen brought Mulan, Dolly, Guy, and Jenny to live at the Black Castle.
• Mulan joined the York District Police Station as a temporary special police official and enlisted Evan's help to expel an Evil Spirit from a sick man in Ladder Street.
• Mulan wrote to the families of his soldiers, while Walton gave him Sea Soul, whose apparition appeared during a Black Castle disturbance before Walton reclaimed the saber.
• Mulan and Evan researched mystical history and concluded that demands made of chaos and Evil Gods invited uncontrollable danger.
• Mulan sent money to 237 households connected to his soldiers, considered possible paths of power, and learned Evan might become a bishop in Valentine before a difficult case arrived.

Mulan investigated a workers’ uprising, fought a demon, and began teaching at the Black Castle while building influence through Moor’s books and a military corruption scandal. After Evan’s death shattered his faith in the Holy Temple, Mulan founded the Light of Dawn, reached the Radiant Knight stage, and sensed that Taylor was still alive.

• Mulan helped Moor escape the supernatural force pursuing him, then returned home as a storm brought Otherworld monsters into Digo.
• Dolly attacked the Black Castle library, and Mulan survived the Warata Demon’s assault until Menggeli sealed the creature.
• Mulan became a Black Castle professor, taught students about the three worlds and Resonance, and helped Moor publish Capital and The Poverty of the People.
• Mulan won Nisheriel’s support for investigating unpaid military benefits, and his staged case with Guy and Jenny helped expose the corruption in the newspapers.
• During Nisheriel’s hunt, Mulan fought a monster that had taken Evan’s form and killed him after hearing his warning about the Holy Temple.
• Moor helped Mulan overcome his grief, and Mulan completed his knighthood investiture while privately vowing to protect humanity and oppose the Evil Gods.
• After learning that Evan had died on the Sacred Mountain, Mulan resolved to create an organization and named it the Light of Dawn, while the Book of Dawn recognized him as its master.
• Mulan reached the Radiant Knight stage, proposed a new Black Castle training system, and later woke from a nightmare convinced that Taylor was still alive.

Mulan investigated sunstone and encountered vampires and werewolves aboard a train, leading him to uncover Baron Shire’s transformation and the creatures’ mine lair. After killing Silver Mane, Mulan formed an alliance with Shire and marked him with the Book of Dawn to help him resist the vampire blood within him.

• Mulan read the Holy Temple’s registers, sensed that Taylor was listed as a blasphemous heretic, and reached Taylor through a dream of the Holy Baptism.
• Mulan discussed workers’ protests and Moor’s writing, then became a full member of the Magic Department and met Queen Nisheriel, who appointed him a magic adviser.
• Mulan reorganized the Black Castle and took Handel on a mission to investigate sunstone, but their train journey was interrupted by a vampire and pursuing werewolves.
• Mulan killed a vampire at Shire Station and traveled with Handel to Shire, where he realized the townspeople and Baron Shire were connected to the creatures.
• Mulan discovered that Baron Shire was a newly turned vampire and enlisted him to help destroy the werewolves hiding in the mine tunnels.
• Mulan and his companions planted explosives in the mine, then Mulan fought and killed Silver Mane after the werewolf escaped the collapsed tunnels.
• Mulan sent reports about the vampires and werewolves, encountered Owen in Shire, and agreed to help Shire while keeping his condition secret.
• Mulan branded the Dawn Mark onto Shire’s palm to help him resist the vampire blood and discussed how he could remain undercover among the vampires.