Chapter Summaries

An Kai used a staged secret realm to lure the orcs while keeping Chris away from it, then hid to train as Chris’s violent doubts intensified in his absence. He returned to the castle at dawn and checked the refreshed side story, which showed the first solo closed beta was still 90 years away.

• Malken staged a fog-covered oasis with clues to the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm], and one terrified orc escaped shouting about Chaos City.
• An Kai left a counterfeit [Spirit Infusion Instance Token] as bait and returned toward Goodness Home with Hanks while Widow Wang followed them.
• Widow Wang reflected on An Kai’s rise from Nameless Town and saw him use Hanks’s home near the gates as a first line of defense for the city.
• An Kai trained in a hidden underground room while Chris struggled with conflicting urges to kill him or cling to him as her hope.
• Chris’s violent aura kept Nurnexius and Wayne silent through the night, then faded when she spotted An Kai returning at dawn.
• An Kai fed Nurnexius, kept Hanks talking until the [Side Story] refreshed, and read that the first solo closed beta was 90 years, 8 months, and 15 days away.

An Kai used the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm to lure Tier Five Orcs while the Twenty-Eighth Prince recognized the danger and planned to draw outsiders into the Desert. The prince moved his army toward Settlement Two and arranged to spread news of the realm, while An Kai killed one Orc and returned to Goodness Home without realizing the prince was changing plans.

• An Kai decided to contact and control the lone closed-beta tester expected in ninety years, then reviewed updates about the Desert and the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm.
• An Kai planned to lure eligible Orcs into the secret realm and have Malken and Widow Wang kill those who could not enter, while he gently encouraged Chris by saying he might let her enter.
• The Twenty-Eighth Prince ordered his Orcs to retreat to Settlement Two and explained that the secret realm was likely a trap connected to the disappearance of Chaos City Inner City.
• The Twenty-Eighth Prince instructed General Strength to tell the Bukelin Duchy's First Prince that the secret realm had a ninety-percent survival rate and that a Tier Five Orc had succeeded in it.
• Malken killed a Tier Five Orc who had entered An Kai's trap, and An Kai praised him before returning to Goodness Home.
• Chris tried to persuade An Kai to let her enter the secret realm, but he refused, and the next day he opened the Side Story again.

An Kai learned that the Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince and Dong Lin were using rumors about the Desert’s [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm] to draw Tier Five experts into the sealed Desert, and he planned to exploit their arrival. As Dong Lin prepared to enter seclusion and An Kai spread embellished rumors of his own, An Kai offered Chris a chance to enter the realm later if she followed him.

• An Kai realized the Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince had spread false information about the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm] and considered how incoming Tier Five experts could benefit him.
• An Kai went with Malken to seek Widow Wang’s help, while Nurnexius worried that he had lost his place as An Kai’s top follower.
• Dong Lin decided to cooperate with the Desert Orcs, spread claims that the realm was safe, and announce that the barrier would open for one day in a month but allow no one to leave.
• Tier Five professionals and their factions gathered at the Desert’s borders, expecting leading associations to open the barrier.
• An Kai spread embellished rumors in Goodness Home and learned Dong Lin planned to enter seclusion for about ten years.
• An Kai told Chris she could enter the realm only after defeating her competitors, or follow him and wait five or ten years for his help.

An Kai sent Chris away, formed an alliance with Hanks and Widow Wang, and withdrew to cultivate for ten years as the Undead Cage opened and Tier Five factions entered the Desert. The newcomers found Chaos City and the Desert Orc Settlement abandoned, then gathered at Goodness Home and were left dumbfounded by what they discovered.

• Chris left for the border to intercept Tier Five professionals, convinced by An Kai’s apparent concern, while An Kai decided he needed to grow stronger rather than rely on schemes.
• An Kai partnered with Hanks and Widow Wang, moved into an underground castle to cultivate, and left Reed’s Four-Man Group and Polpi in charge of Goodness Home’s city lord’s manor and its prisoners.
• The Undead Cage opened, allowing factions from the Seven Kingdoms to enter the Desert in search of the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm], while Dong Lin began his own seclusion and ordered his followers to leave Will-Bukelin alone.
• Tier Five professionals reached the mapped sites of Chaos City and the Desert Orc Settlement but found both empty, then redirected their groups toward Goodness Home.
• The gathered Tier Five professionals arrived at the entrance to Goodness Home and were dumbfounded after investigating.

Reed and Polpi used An Kai’s reputation to make newly arrived Tier Five Professionals accept Goodness Home’s rules and wait for the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm selection a year later. As the city settled into an uneasy peace, Wayne completed an analyzed Haste Spell scroll and began researching Contract.

• Tier Five Professionals learned that only one person would enter the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm selection in a year and that Goodness Home’s City Lord might be connected to its controller.
• Reed and Polpi intimidated the Tier Five visitors with a Tier Five orc’s corpse, then persuaded them to fill out forms by presenting An Kai as a self-sacrificing human powerhouse.
• The Tier Five Professionals settled in Goodness Home and opened nearly a hundred shops, while Reed and Polpi arranged favorable locations and tax terms.
• Malken reported the encounter to An Kai, who explained that the visitors’ belief depended on whether the secret realm appeared a year later.
• Wayne presented An Kai with an analyzed Haste Spell scroll, became a Scholar, and agreed to research the Contract spell.

After a year in seclusion, An Kai emerged with greatly increased attributes and spells as Goodness Home’s Tier Five professionals grew restless over the missing Spirit Infusion Secret Realm. When the professionals began fighting at the castle, An Kai went to raid the unguarded factions’ properties, leaving Reed and Polpi bound and facing execution.

• An Kai reviewed his upgraded attributes and spells, then emerged from seclusion and learned that the city’s Tier Five professionals were gathering at the City Lord’s Manor.
• An Kai collected Hanks’s overdue mid-grade magic stone, checked the ledger, and learned that Chris was still missing.
• An Kai found a Side Story entry saying the Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince had hidden his Tier Four and Tier Five Orcs underground to avoid him.
• Explosions erupted at the castle as the twenty-six Tier Five professionals started fighting, and An Kai led Malken and Widow Wang to raid the unguarded factions’ properties for unpaid taxes.
• After nightfall, the Tier Five professionals stopped fighting and ordered Reed and Polpi killed, while vines bound them and a professional approached Reed with a blade.

An Kai looted Goodness Home’s factions, rescued Reed and Polpi, and used a fabricated Spirit Infusion opportunity to send ten powerful, dying Tier Five professionals into the secret realm under Contracts he secretly altered to bind them to him. Afterward, he punished a Tier Five Mage for evading taxes and improved his Haste Spell, then frowned when Widow Wang arrived with Hanks.

• An Kai ordered Malken and Widow Wang to loot Goodness Home while Reed and Polpi endured torture at the hands of Tier Five professionals.
• An Kai arrived at the castle, killed one torturer with a Wind Blade Spell, and had Malken kill the other before announcing ten places in the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm.
• An Kai selected ten Tier Five professionals nearing the ends of their lives and secretly revised their signed Contracts to make them his bound subordinates before sending them into the secret realm.
• An Kai and his companions captured a Tier Five, fourth-level Elemental Mage for evading taxes, and An Kai spared him after he revealed his expertise in the Haste Spell.
• The Elemental Mage helped An Kai upgrade Haste Spell to Superior, nearly doubling its speed, and Malken noticed An Kai had grown stronger again.
• Widow Wang arrived with Hanks, and An Kai frowned at Hanks.

An Kai counted the loot from the raids and learned that the tier five factions owed him over two hundred thousand gold coins in taxes, but he had no way to exchange most of it for the Lower-grade Magic Stones he needed. After one contracted professional died in the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm, An Kai went after the remaining factions and ended the chapter confronting eight captives beneath Goodness Home’s castle.

• An Kai noticed Hanks’s twilight aura, but respected Widow Wang’s wish not to tell Hanks that he was nearing the end of his life.
• Wayne joined Malken and Widow Wang in tallying the raids’ loot and the taxes owed by twenty-one tier five factions, while the factions discovered their compounds had been stripped and planned to leave Goodness Home.
• Wayne reported that the factions owed over two hundred thousand gold coins, but Hanks told An Kai he had no Lower-grade Magic Stones left to exchange for them.
• An Kai realized he needed a reliable source of Lower-grade Magic Stones, then learned that one of his contracted tier five professionals had died in the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm.
• An Kai went with Malken and Widow Wang to seize the remaining tax debt, and by the next night eight tier five professionals were bound and suspended in a secret chamber beneath the castle.

An Kai collected taxes, forced surviving Tier Five professionals into contracts, and organized them into teams to serve Goodness Home. A year later, someone emerged from the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm], and An Kai prepared to meet them with force if necessary.

• An Kai killed a defiant Tier Five, Seventh Level professional and recruited eight others by making them sign slave contracts.
• An Kai appointed a team to search the Desert for magic stone veins and the Orc Settlement, formed the Goodness Home Mage Association, and assigned warriors to defend the city and hunt magical beasts.
• The Goodness Home Mage Association improved [Contract] to [Superior], allowing An Kai to see the final moments of contract holders; he learned that only six of ten Tier Five, Tenth Level professionals remained in the [Spirit Infusion Secret Realm].
• The Orcs' Twenty-Eighth Prince ordered rumors about Dong Lin's blood sacrifices and alleged complete [Spirit Infusion] method spread to test whether the human Top Association would investigate.
• Dong Lin learned the rumors had spread and threw the King of the Shak Kingdom away when he asked whether Dong Lin possessed the complete [Spirit Infusion] method.
• A year later, An Kai surrounded the [Spirit Infusion Instance Token] with armed Tier Five professionals as someone emerged, laughing that they had survived and experienced Spirit Infusion.

Milton returned from the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm as the first Spirit-infused powerhouse in Goodness Home, but An Kai’s Contract still kept him under control. Milton explained that Spirit Infusion meant communicating with the god who created a profession, then demonstrated his new armor before An Kai tested its defense with a powerful strike; Wayne asked whether Milton had surpassed Tier Five.

• Milton emerged with 2102 Endurance, but An Kai confirmed that their Contract still bound him and placed a green Crown on his head after Milton pledged loyalty.
• An Kai gathered Goodness Home’s Tier Five professionals to hear Milton’s account of the Spirit Infusion Secret Realm, while Wayne recorded the details and asked questions.
• Milton said Spirit Infusion granted a profession spirituality through communication with its creator god, and he summoned his Heavy Armor Warrior Spirit, armor, hammer, and shield.
• An Kai attacked Milton’s armored form with the Brute Force Staff and sent him flying, though Milton’s armor remained intact.
• Wayne asked whether Spirit Infusion had raised Milton above Tier Five.

Milton’s successful Spirit Infusion raised questions about the Shak Kingdom ancestor’s claim that its path was wrong, while An Kai focused on his dwindling magic-stone supply and tried to break through Dong Lin’s Undead Cage. Milton failed, and An Kai realized Dong Lin was pursuing a different path before mobilizing Goodness Home to secure resources.

• Milton explained that Spirit Infusion was a level between Tier Five and Tier Six, and Wayne revealed that the Shak Kingdom’s ancestor had called its path wrong before disappearing with the kingdom’s records.
• An Kai considered the competing accounts of Spirit Infusion and, short on Skill Points and Lower-grade Magic Stones, decided to use Milton’s success to seek a way through the Undead Cage.
• An Kai traveled with Milton and eight Tier Five professionals to the blockade, but Milton’s Spirit Infusion armor could not break through it.
• Dong Lin sensed the attack from his seclusion and declared that his own path was right, revealing that he had not made his preparations merely for Spirit Infusion.
• Three days later, An Kai summoned Goodness Home’s Tier Five professionals and strongest Tier Four members, then set the whole settlement to work on his orders.

An Kai and Wayne established the Demon-Slaying Tower and Spirit Infusion Tower, using points, guidance, and residency privileges to organize Goodness Home and draw resources from its residents. An Kai disguised himself as a Tier One resident and walked toward the Demon-Slaying Tower, seeing the new hierarchy and the residents’ drive firsthand.

• An Kai’s plan created the Demon-Slaying Tower, where residents exchanged magical beast materials for gold coins or points, and the Spirit Infusion Tower, where they spent points on guidance, skills, and other privileges.
• Wayne and the others organized the towers’ rules and staffing, while Tier Five professionals and trusted Tier Four instructors supplied services under An Kai’s contracts.
• Goodness Home assigned inner-city residency and plaque colors by rank, and residents could use points to obtain advancement information and pursue greater privileges.
• An Kai’s Mage Association moved into the Spirit Infusion Tower and used [Lazell's Mage Tower] to research spells more efficiently.
• An Kai disguised himself as a Tier One resident and walked through the outer city toward the Demon-Slaying Tower, observing residents defer to higher-ranked professionals.

An Kai confirmed that the Demon-Slaying Tower and Spirit Infusion Tower gave Goodness Home’s residents a path to grow stronger, then began his seclusion after learning that investigators were heading to the Desert to pursue Dong Lin. When he later tracked the Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince’s forces, they had already fled their settlement; An Kai returned to Goodness Home and opened the towers’ first monthly meeting.

• An Kai saw crowds gathering at the Demon-Slaying Tower and concluded the two towers were exactly what Goodness Home needed.
• An Kai read that the Wasteland Development Management Association planned to investigate Dong Lin, then began seclusion in his Mage Tower.
• The Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince learned that Orcs in the Bukelin Duchy had been slaughtered and ordered his forces to flee after hearing about Goodness Home’s towers.
• An Kai and five companions reached an abandoned Orc oasis, marked it as supply point 952, and returned to Goodness Home.
• At the first monthly meeting of the two towers, Hanks teased Nurnexius until An Kai arrived and called the meeting to order.

An Kai reviewed Goodness Home’s monthly figures, welcomed the gains from the Demon-Slaying Tower and Spirit Infusion Tower, and strengthened his [Brute Force Staff] to [+5]. As he resumed meditation, two members of the Wasteland Development Management Association arrived in the Shak Kingdom to investigate Dong Lin’s blood sacrifice and seek his complete Spirit Infusion method.

• Malken reported Goodness Home’s population and professional ranks, while Wayne presented rising tax revenue, tower activity, missing residents, and new arrivals.
• An Kai received the Magic Cores collected by the Demon-Slaying Tower and considered how to use them for skill points and equipment enhancement.
• An Kai spent 108 tier four magic cores strengthening his [Brute Force Staff] to [+5], then abandoned plans to enhance [Lazell's Mage Tower] and began [Meditation].
• Two Wasteland Development Management Association members crossed the Secluded Forest on Tier Five [Earthshaker Lizards] and reached the Shak Kingdom to investigate Dong Lin’s blood sacrifice and obtain his complete Spirit Infusion method.

The Town of the Dead ambushed and killed two members of the Wasteland Development Management Association, while An Kai used the deaths to try to draw the orcs’ Twenty-Eighth Prince into conflict. Over two and a half years, Goodness Home became the Desert’s dominant power, and the chapter ended with An Daun presenting An Kai with a working energy-detecting, attribute-converting Detector.

• The King of the Shak Kingdom and his companions ambushed two Wasteland Development Management Association members and killed them before riding toward the Town of the Dead.
• Will-Bukelin found a damaged map to the Secluded Forest at the battlefield and vowed to stop the group from the Town of the Dead.
• An Kai learned of the killings through the [Side Story], then told Malken to spread word that Dong Lin had killed the two men in hopes of attracting the orcs’ Twenty-Eighth Prince.
• A year and a half later, a surge of pressure from the Castle suppressed the residents of Goodness Home, including Milton, while An Kai’s watchdog also grew more powerful.
• Over two and a half years, Goodness Home became the Desert’s leading power as refugees flocked to join and its residents advanced through the professional tiers.
• An Daun demonstrated his new Detector to An Kai, confirming it could detect the Undead Cage, and An Kai rewarded him with access to Tier Four Blacksmith profession information.

After two and a half years of growth, An Kai had become Goodness Home’s strongest professional, with powerful upgraded spells and influence over the city’s mages. As Hanks struggled to decide on his final request, An Kai removed his disguise, leaving Hanks speechless at his youthful face.

• An Kai’s attributes, spells, and forging skill rose dramatically over two and a half years, while Goodness Home grew into a powerful city with sixteen Tier Five Professionals.
• An Kai’s mage’s body and Meditation upgrades strengthened his spells and helped three members of the Goodness Home Mage Association advance from Tier Four to Tier Five.
• An Kai reviewed how his upgraded Fireball, Wind Blade Spell, Freezing Spell, Mage Armor, and Haste Spell made him overwhelming in combat.
• An Kai noted that Contract now displayed loyalty and that Nurnexius had grown alongside Summoning, while he waited for Hanks to choose a request.
• Hanks admitted he had not decided what to ask for and asked An Kai to stop wearing his dead father’s face.
• An Kai removed his Disguise Mask +6, and Hanks stared at his young, unchanged appearance in silence.

An Kai tested An Daun’s Energy Detector and used overwhelming magic to shatter the Undead Cage, revealing his strength to Dong Lin. Dong Lin lost his composure when he realized the barrier had been destroyed.

• Hanks reminisced with An Kai, praised how he had changed, and left the Castle in good spirits.
• An Kai took Wayne, An Daun, and Milton outside Goodness Home to test the Energy Detector, which showed his casual spell had greater power than Milton’s all-out strike.
• An Kai led the group to the Undead Cage, where the detector registered energy beyond the expected Spirit Infusion threshold.
• An Kai unleashed enormous Fireballs and Wind Blade Spells until the Undead Cage shattered, leaving Milton, An Daun, Malken, and Wayne stunned.
• Dong Lin sensed the Undead Cage’s destruction from the Town of the Dead and shouted in disbelief, startling the undead around him.

An Kai blasted open the Undead Cage, creating a passage between the Desert and the Seven Kingdoms and setting plans in motion to find Dong Lin. The orc Twenty-Eighth Prince arranged for a powerful escort to help the desert orcs leave, while Polpi took charge of the new checkpoint city.

• Dong Lin panicked after the Undead Cage was broken and sealed off the Town of the Dead while gambling that he could reach Spirit Infusion before anyone found him.
• An Kai opened a thirty-meter-high hole in the Undead Cage, allowing Milton, Malken, Wayne, and An Daun to leave the Desert; he then sent Malken’s assassin association to search for Dong Lin.
• An Kai established Goodness Home No. 2 at the passage, left Milton in charge, and spread word of the opening to the desert orcs.
• The orc Twenty-Eighth Prince gave General Strength Dong Lin’s nameplate as evidence that a peak Spirit Infusion expert was in the Desert, prompting the royal family to send a powerful escort.
• Polpi became the public City Lord of Goodness Home No. 2 and rode to the checkpoint with fighters under his command.

An Kai prepared Goodness Home No. 2 City for the arrival of a powerful Spirit-Infused Orc, who was hunting Will-Bukelin over the forbidden spell [Beast Taming]. As An Kai waited with Milton to ambush the Orc, a Seven-Colored Heart appeared in his hand, signaling Will-Bukelin's arrival.

• Polpi and the other managers reported Goodness Home's increased earnings as more than fifty thousand newcomers entered the Desert and most joined Goodness Home.
• The Spirit-Infused Orc hunted Will-Bukelin after discovering that he possessed the forbidden unranked spell [Beast Taming].
• Dong Lin rejected Sally Bukelin's plea to save Will-Bukelin and stripped Will of his Immortality Town membership.
• The Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince traveled toward Goodness Home No. 2 City with his guards while Widow Wang watched him and Malken reported his movements to An Kai.
• An Kai rushed to Goodness Home No. 2 City, cleared it, and prepared an ambush with Milton for the Spirit-Infused Orc.
• As An Kai waited for the Orc, a Seven-Colored Heart appeared in his right hand, and he realized Will-Bukelin had arrived.

An Kai and his allies ambushed and killed the Spirit-Infused Orc, then captured the remaining Orcs. Will-Bukelin survived in a deep coma, and An Kai learned [Beast Taming] from the scroll Will gave him.

• Will-Bukelin fled into the Desert, where An Kai and the Goodness Home mages attacked the pursuing Spirit-Infused Orc.
• The Spirit-Infused Orc broke through the barrage and tried to kill An Kai, but An Kai trapped him with [Freezing Spell] and survived his self-detonation with [Mage Armor].
• Widow Wang took the Orc Twenty-Eighth Prince into custody while Goodness Home forces bound the other Orcs and brought them into the city.
• Will-Bukelin gave An Kai the Bukelin Duchy's [Beast Taming] scroll before falling into a deep coma, and An Kai arranged for Malken to care for him.
• An Kai activated the scroll, learned [Beast Taming], and received the system notification [Beast Taming Lv0 "0/0"].