Recaps

Lin En escaped the black mist and arrived in Seven Nights during a Red Moon, where he met Hana Ye and learned that a bounty had made her a target for spirits. After discovering he had taken over the body of academy student Link Lucifer, Lin En was recognized by Shakira, while Hana Ye left believing she had been divorced.

• Lin En bound Shinsen Saya in the black mist, learned that she had become Seven Nights’ sun, and left to explore the world.
• The system dragged Lin En through a rift during the Red Moon, and he encountered the blind Glass Lamp before reaching Hana Ye’s home by mistake.
• Lin En defeated the Heart-Burrowing Demon and learned that a bounty in the Spirit Realm had marked Hana Ye for death.
• Lin En agreed to escort Hana Ye home, met Jones and the Exorcists, and was mistaken for the ultra-ancient great demon they sought.
• Lin En stayed at the Youzhi family castle, learned about Origin Substances, and showed Hana Ye that his body lacked a source essence.
• Lin En and Hana Ye traced his blood to a Spirit Realm Overlay and found a student ID identifying him as Link Lucifer.
• Shakira recognized Lin En as Lin Ke, embraced and kissed him, and said they had celebrated their third anniversary.
• Hana Ye left for the noble academy and told a classmate that she had gotten divorced.

Lin En uncovered Shakira’s role in Lin Ke’s death, killed her, and recovered the stolen Origin Substance. His second-stage advancement then tore open reality and left him in the Warp, where Salgon became his guide as Lin En explored his new powers.

• Shakira tried to kill Lin En, but he survived her attack, confronted her about her abuse of Lin Ke, and killed her when she stabbed him again.
• Lin En learned that Hana Ye had followed him to Shakira’s home, comforted her, and promised to protect her as they went to recover his Origin Substance.
• Lin En and Hana Ye ambushed Shakira’s Secret Cult accomplices, and Lin En killed Nox before confronting Skeleton Lord Salgon over the stolen Origin Substance.
• Lin En advanced into a monstrous tentacled form, terrified Salgon, and forced him to reveal that Shakira and the others had killed Lin Ke for the Crimson Secret Cult.
• Lin En’s power shattered the surrounding reality and pulled him, Hana Ye, and Salgon through the layers of the Spirit Realm into the Warp.
• Lin En completed his advancement in a cocoon, and Salgon pledged to serve as his guide, spokesman, and spymaster.
• Lin En reviewed his new abilities and used satiety to create and merge Origin Substances while Salgon explained how Origin Substance and Sequences worked.

Lin En rescued Hana Ye from the Crimson Secret Cult’s bounty hunters, then used the Valkyrie’s name and authority to win Ophiel’s trust and gain influence in the Church. As Lin En and Hana Ye traveled with Salgon toward a rift, a strange fortune-telling skeleton predicted that Lin En would become a star and bring calamity.

• Lin En discovered that his newly synthesized Origin Substance contained two [Flesh] sequences and [Feminization], then persuaded Shinsen Saya to nurture it with her Holy Flame in exchange for maintaining the blazing sun.
• Lin En descended to the Seven Nights World and found that bounty hunters had kidnapped Hana Ye, and he and Salgon tracked her to the Grand Graveyard and confronted the hunters and their client, Headless Knight · Mordred.
• Lin En defeated Mordred and learned the Crimson Secret Cult had targeted Hana Ye as a possible [Vessel], but an unseen force killed Mordred before he could reveal more.
• Lin En reassured Hana Ye that he would not abandon her, then authorized Salgon to establish a Divine Cult and recruit the Evil Spirit Wizard and the Lich to serve his faction.
• Ophiel, the Armored Angel, found Lin En and Hana Ye, and Lin En convinced her that he was Shinsen Saya’s chosen by reciting the Valkyrie’s secret true name.
• Lin En encouraged Ophiel to confess her failures and repentance, then persuaded her that the Valkyrie understood, and Ophiel appointed Lin En to oversee investigations into the Church.
• Lin En, Hana Ye, and Salgon traveled toward Salgon’s territory and a rift, where a strange skeleton read Hana Ye’s fortune as “Loneliness” and refused to read Lin En’s.
• After the skeleton vanished, a ninth-tier Origin Substance with the [Omen] sequence appeared, and Salgon recalled its prediction that Lin En would become a star a thousand years in the future.

Lin En recruited White Rose and Lilith, purified the spirits under White Rose’s care, and organized his growing gang to gather emotional fragments. Back at the Arcane Academy, he faced accusations over Shakira’s death and openly declared himself the Great Demon.

• Salgon led Lin En to White Rose, and after defeating her, Lin En learned she had protected the vengeful spirits of children and offered to free them if she joined him.
• Lin En purified the children’s resentment with Holy Flame, healed White Rose, and accepted her and the spirits into his gang.
• Lin En and Salgon confronted Lilith, and Lin En defeated her before removing the corruption in her soul, after which she eagerly pledged herself to him.
• Lin En appointed Mirror and Lilith as his servants and ordered them and Salgon to build up the gang and prepare ways to gather Emotional Fragments.
• Lin En returned to the Grand Graveyard with Salgon, then headed to the Arcane Academy with Hana Ye as the Sun continued to shrink.
• The Exorcists surrounded Lin En at the academy and brought him before Anthony, who presented evidence tying him to Shakira’s death and other incidents.
• Lin En dismissed the accusations, then admitted that he had killed Shakira and declared himself the Great Demon.