Recaps

Mulan captured Kingsbia’s capital, brought the war to an end, and received honors before the Forward Legion disbanded. As he traveled with four men whose souls he helped repair, he founded the Silent Knights of Dawn, while Truth and Magic spread and Farolynch investigated a threat near Great Oak Town.

• Mulan and Balu rescued Shire, Xin Erwei, her children, and Farolynch from the Otherworld, then Mulan secured the Book of Dawn and sealed it.
• The Forward Legion marched on Kingsbia’s Royal Capital, defeated its defenders, and captured King Qiersuos, ending the war.
• Mulan helped restore order in Kingsbia and returned to Digo, where Nisheriel honored him and the Forward Legion prepared to disband.
• Mulan distributed flame-shaped badges to the legion’s soldiers, who vowed to return if summoned, as the Book of Dawn reacted to the other holy relics.
• Mulan and Hope repaired Redhead and his three companions’ damaged souls, and Dawn symbols appeared during the procedures.
• Mulan named the four men Solomon, Caesar, Phoenix, and Reno, formed them into the Silent Knights of Dawn, and promised to lead them in saving the world.
• Hope’s work on the soul appeared in the third issue of Truth and Magic, and he helped spread the journal’s reputation among Solota’s wizards.
• Farolynch and Shire found dead draft horses with puncture wounds, protected Xin Erwei and the children, and investigated the danger near Great Oak Town.

Mulan advanced as a Victory Knight, established a secret realm around the Ancient Oak, and helped Balu regain a human body. He then joined the pirates under the name Vincent to search for Leo and the Wish-Granting Pot, earning Raskin’s trust and winning the Storm Arena challenge as Pirate King Bloomfield watched.

• Farolynch lured a blood-draining monster away from a city and, with Mulan’s Sunstone, killed it in the river, while Shire’s followers mistakenly credited Shire with the deed.
• Mulan used the Book of Dawn to help Handel and Jenny advance, then saw four students graduate and himself become a fourth-rank Victory Knight.
• Mulan formed a secret realm around the Ancient Oak with Silias’s help, and Silias explained how its World Tree protected the area around Great Oak Town.
• Leo took custody of Kilga, but pirates attacked Valentine and captured them, after which Kilga died aboard their ship and passed Leo a chart before Mulan set out to rescue his brother.
• Mulan and Matt worked with Alopha to restore Balu’s human body, and Balu chose to join Dawn as Mulan’s companion.
• Mulan boarded the Star of Heaven under the name Vincent, survived pirate raids and Siren encounters, and joined Raskin’s crew while searching for the Wish-Granting Pot with Kilga.
• At Jewel Island, Mulan entered the Storm Arena as Vincent and killed a sea monster, earning cheers from the pirates and Pirate King Bloomfield’s interest.
• After the contest, Mulan gave Kilga an Awakening Potion and decided to take his own, cloudier Storm Fighter reward in front of others.

Mulan infiltrated the Pirate King’s ranks, helped uncover the Sea Chart, and survived the battle over the Wish-Granting Pot while rescuing Leo. Back in Digo, he advanced Dawn’s influence and pursued a way to destroy the Pot before traveling with the Silent Knights to the Kordel People, where the Raven Church’s return loomed.

• Mulan entered the Pirate King’s competition, faked an awakening of magic power, and pledged himself to Bloomfield while studying magic and secretly searching for Leo.
• Mulan helped Newt repair the Sea Chart, leading the Pirate King’s fleet toward the Wish-Granting Pot as Sirens and a summoned sea beast attacked them.
• After the Giant Whale swallowed the fleets, Mulan discovered Kilga aboard a wrecked ship, learned the cost of his family’s undying bodies, and used the Elf’s life force to summon the Wish-Granting Pot with Silias.
• Mulan escaped the whale, rescued Raskin, and turned Walton’s magic against him, but Walton captured the group and continued fighting Bloomfield as the whale’s inner world collapsed.
• Walton took Mulan and the survivors away from the Great Vortex, while Bloomfield returned to ruined Jewel Island and Mulan reunited with Leo and invited Dolly to join Dawn.
• Mulan returned to Black Castle, received recognition from Nisheriel, and worked with Matt on the spread of Truth and Magic and a possible method to destroy the Wish-Granting Pot.
• Mulan purified Chris’s nourishing soup into a potent liquid that he believed could serve as an awakening potion, while the Special Security Department expanded Dierjia’s oversight around Digo.
• The fourth issue of Truth and Magic spread news of precision-controlled Human Transmutation, and Mulan traveled with the Silent Knights to Kordel villages where ravens gathered and the elders awaited them.

Mulan recovered the Second Apostle’s Eye, freed Silindia from her curse, and gathered the Quinas People to build a rune array in Silias. He revived Evan, returned to teaching, and began research with Alopha into giving spirits physical form.

• Mulan investigated the Quinas ruins at Liventemi, corrected the Kordel People’s prophecy, and sought the Raven Church and the Second Apostle’s Eye.
• Mulan entered the Otherworld with Raven Church followers, claimed the Second Apostle’s Eye from Silindia, and used the Book of Dawn to reveal the world’s approaching end.
• Mulan called Silindia by her true name and helped the Quinas People lift her curse, then reported the Book of Dawn’s disappearance and traveled to Kingsbia and Silias.
• Mulan met Shire and Farolynch in Silias, developed Dawn’s network, and planned a rune array that could help revive Evan.
• Mulan and the Quinas People built the array in Silias, and the Raven Queen descended into the physical world as its power awakened.
• Mulan and the Raven Queen performed the resurrection ritual, restoring Evan to life and welcoming him into Dawn as its Bell-Ringer.
• Mulan returned to teaching at Black Castle and encouraged Alopha and Matt to develop research into physical forms for spirits.
• Mulan persuaded Alopha to serialize their research on verifiable psychic fluid in Truth and Magic, prompting letters from alchemists.