Recaps

A man who believed he had died after drinking beer was reborn as the legitimate son and heir of a wealthy duke in the Holy Chris Empire. He grew up celebrated as a genius, confident his inheritance was secure despite having an older sister.

• The man watched memories of his life from above, then awoke as a newborn among people speaking an unfamiliar language.
• He realized he had been reborn and wept anew when he remembered that he had left his browser history undeleted.
• He noticed priests and period clothing, wondered if the new world had mystical forces, and later found no sign of anything supernatural.
• He learned that his father was a duke of the Holy Chris Empire and that he, as the duchess's legitimate son, was heir to the Norse Duchy.
• He became known as a prodigy after speaking fluently at seven months, impressing mathematicians at three, and advising the duchy's council at five.
• He dismissed the possibility that his older sister could challenge his position as heir.

Eros discovered that the Croatia Continent had once been home to the supernatural Elf Race, though he could not explain why its civilization had advanced so slowly. On his way to the library, he encountered his mother Estelle and then got into a playful confrontation with his sister Wendy.

• Eros read that the Elf Race had left the Croatia Continent tens of thousands of years ago and wondered why the world had advanced only as far as steam engines.
• Estelle asked Eros whether he had seen Wendy, and he said he had not.
• Estelle told Eros that Wendy had skipped lessons again and went to look for her.
• Wendy sprang from a flower bed and accused Eros of telling Estelle she had broken a flower arrangement.
• Eros admitted he had tattled and threatened to tell Estelle that Wendy had lost her necklace if she drew on his face with ink.
• Wendy threw aside the ink and shook Eros in frustration while he enjoyed her helplessness.

Eros went to his family’s library to learn about the supernatural and discovered a book describing the mysterious Sea of Mist. He continued searching for more information, alone in the library with no attendant in sight.

• Estelle caught Wendy bullying Eros, scolded her for skipping lessons, and carried her away by the collar.
• Eros continued to the library, marveling at its size and wealth before entering without finding the attendant.
• Eros searched the shelves for history books but found mostly books about noblewomen and novels about knights instead.
• Eros read Pirate King Sally's Treasure and learned that the Sea of Mist lay five hundred kilometers offshore, trapped ships in constant fog, and rarely let anyone return alive.
• Eros put the book back and searched for more information about the Sea of Mist, still alone in the library.

Eros found the Misty Sea Annals in the Library and read how the deadly fog had appeared after a centuries-long war, swallowed the sea and coastal towns, then retreated. The account explained why the era began and why human exploration stopped at the fog’s five-hundred-kilometer boundary.

• Eros heard voices in the Library and found his father, Duke Renka Orich North, with a woman before they hurried away.
• Eros searched the historical records section and retrieved the Misty Sea Annals from its innermost shelves.
• Eros read that the Elf Race’s departure was followed by war between the two most powerful empires, which lasted three hundred years.
• As bodies stained a river and its waters flowed into the sea, crimson waves spread, and fog rose over the sea before covering it and reaching coastal towns.
• The fog suddenly receded five hundred kilometers offshore, leaving the affected land devoid of life and ending humanity’s exploration beyond that boundary.
• The terrified nations stopped fighting, and the first day the fog reached land marked the end of the Second Era and the beginning of the Fog Sea Era.

Eros asked Duke Renka about the Elf Race and learned that their ancestors had intermarried with elves, leaving the family with traces of elven blood. Duke Renka warned that knowledge of the supernatural was dangerous but promised to tell Eros more once he reached adulthood, leaving Eros anxious and curious about what awaited him.

• Duke Renka introduced Lady Flolica as the mother of Eros's fifth sister and asked what he was reading.
• Eros explained that he had been looking for records about the Elf Race, prompting Duke Renka to reveal that their ancestors had elven blood.
• Eros asked whether elves had supernatural abilities, and Duke Renka joked that their women were exceptionally beautiful.
• Duke Renka warned Eros that even knowing about such matters was dangerous, but promised to explain more after Eros became an adult.
• Duke Renka left to make preparations, while Eros worried briefly about the danger before deciding to wait until he turned eighteen.

Estelle used occult power to suppress Eros’s memories until he turned eighteen, when Duke Renka brought him to learn about the family’s hidden world. Eros entered the Shadow Realm, a special world made from a section of the world’s shadow, and awaited further revelations.

• Estelle worried that Eros’s interest in the occult would expose him to danger, so she used a mysterious force to conceal his memories of the occult.
• Wendy and Eros bickered in the morning, and Eros noticed that Wendy returned from a mysterious absence after turning eighteen.
• On the day after Eros’s eighteenth birthday, a manservant summoned him to meet Duke Renka, and Eros’s suppressed memories returned.
• Duke Renka led Eros to the chapel basement and opened a passage through a wall with a murky gray light.
• Duke Renka explained that their ancestor had cut away part of the world’s shadow and refined it into the Shadow Realm, then continued down the passage.

Duke Renka explained the hidden mystical world to Eros and revealed that their family descended from the Goddess of the Night, whose followers had been betrayed and hunted by the orthodox gods. He led Eros toward his bloodline baptism, explaining that their family possessed a secret advancement pathway and remained concealed within a church.

• Duke Renka showed Eros a room where the bookshelf briefly appeared as writhing tentacles, then explained that forbidden knowledge lay beneath civilization.
• Duke Renka told Eros that the nine orthodox gods had betrayed and killed their ancestor, the Goddess of the Night, and had persecuted her descendants for tens of thousands of years.
• Duke Renka explained that an ancestor had split the family three hundred years earlier, allowing one branch to join a church and hide in plain sight.
• Duke Renka said the family’s bloodline baptism awakened Servant of Secrets, which worked with their ancestor’s divine artifact to conceal their identities.
• Duke Renka explained that Eros would become a Sequence 9 Mystery Seeker after baptism and that their family alone outside the churches possessed a complete advancement pathway.

Eros underwent his family’s bloodline baptism in the ancestral church, while the elders discussed the possibility that his talent could reach mythic heights. The baptism transported him into a mist-filled space, where he searched for the path he was meant to follow.

• Duke Renka told Eros that the family’s strongest members had only reached Sequence 5 and described efforts to preserve and strengthen their bloodline.
• Duke Renka brought Eros to the ancestral church, where the elders prepared the ritual using pieces of milky-white spirit marrow.
• Eros entered bloodline tracing and awoke alone in a mist-filled space, unable to find the path his father had described.
• The elders speculated that Eros might encounter an ancestor’s imprint from five thousand years ago, a Sequence 2 Wanderer, and grew excited about his potential.
• Duke Renka and Estelle watched proudly as the ritual continued and the elders repeatedly replaced the spirit marrow.

Eros wandered through the gray mist during his bloodline baptism and touched a pale green orb, which transported him into a confrontation between a white-haired elf named Cecilia and a grotesque tentacled creature. Cecilia took him away and offered to personally awaken the Elf Race bloodline, calling him Alicia.

• Eros ran through the gray mist until he found a pale green orb that restored his strength.
• Eros touched the orb and appeared above the sea, where a vine rescued him and brought him before Cecilia, a white-haired woman in a pale green dress.
• A grotesque, many-eyed tentacled entity noticed Eros, but Cecilia vanished with him before it could reach them.
• Cecilia told Eros she would personally perform his baptism after he chose to awaken the Elf Race bloodline.
• Eros realized Cecilia was an elf and wondered why she had called him Alicia.

During Eros’s bloodline ritual, Cecilia personally baptized him, drawing the attention of the elders in the Divine Temple and healing their ailments. The ritual continued as Eros discovered a new bloodline spell, Divine Art: Chapter of Life.

• Cecilia touched Eros’s brow through their bloodline, and he returned to the gray mist space.
• Eros vanished from the ritual formation, but the Silver-White Moon Wheel blocked the elders from approaching until he reappeared.
• Cecilia’s presence descended on the Shadow Realm, and the Silver-White Moon Wheel shielded the elders as a phantom World Tree appeared behind Eros.
• The elders recognized the World Tree and realized that a great being of the Elf Race had personally baptized Eros.
• Eros found a pale golden orb in the gray mist space and touched it, sending Divine Art: Chapter of Life into his brain.

During his Bloodline Baptism, Eros gained healing, offensive, and passive skills from the Elf and Night bloodlines, then received two mysterious Deep Sea skills. After learning that a god had personally performed the baptism, he discovered the family would use the Book of the Night to conceal his fate.

• Eros received Divine Art: Chapter of Life and Divine Art: Life Judgment, giving him healing, buffing, and offensive skills.
• Eros gained Divine Art: Nature's Protection, Divine Art: Eternal Night Judgment, Servant of Secrets, and Divine Art: Night's Protection.
• As the baptism ended, two milky-white orbs forcibly entered Eros's mind and gave him Divine Art: Deep Sea's Blessing and Divine Art: Deep Sea's Breath.
• The elders crowded around Eros, asked about the Elf Race god and their revered ancestor, and learned that Eros had no news about the ancestor's return.
• Duke Renka told Eros that the family would record his true name in the Book of the Night to conceal his fate from spellcasters.

Eros completed the Night family’s ritual to conceal his fate, but collapsed when the Book of the Night tried to engrave loyalty to the Goddess of the Night into his soul. He awoke in the gray mist and encountered a tentacle from the giant eyeball creature, which seemed curious rather than hostile.

• Eros recorded his true name, Eros Renka Night, in the Book of the Night, and its magic sent a command to remain loyal to his family, bloodline, and the Goddess of the Night.
• A beam of black light from the ancestor statue broke the repeating command in Eros’s mind, and he lost consciousness.
• Estelle carried Eros from the temple while the elders discussed his extraordinary talent and the family’s future.
• Eros woke in the gray mist and fled from a tentacle extending out of thin air, then stopped when he realized it was only a section of the creature’s limb.
• Eros sensed confusion and curiosity from the tentacle and asked whether it had come to kill him; when it showed no murderous intent, he slumped to the ground.

After waking from seven days of sleep, Eros realized he had gained Spirit and tried out a healing skill. His first cast exhausted him and knocked him unconscious, but it relieved Estelle’s fatigue.

• Eros endured the tentacle’s eerie laughter in the Gray Mist Space before falling asleep and waking in Estelle’s room.
• Estelle comforted Eros, who remembered that a streak of black light had shattered the brainwashing voice before he passed out.
• Estelle told Eros he had been asleep for seven days, and he sensed the Spirit he had gained from the baptism.
• Eros cast Divine Art: Prayer of Life, but the spell produced only a tiny green light and drained his Spirit until he fainted.
• The light entered Estelle and removed her exhaustion, and she realized Eros had fainted from using up his Spirit.

Eros woke in his soul world and met a black-haired girl who identified herself as the Eye of Eternal Night, his ancestor’s aide. She explained that she had protected him from a soul curse mark and questioned how he had acquired her master’s aura.

• Eros woke to find a black-haired girl in the Gray Mist Space and mistook her for the tentacle monster.
• The black-haired girl introduced herself as the master of shadows and the Goddess of the Night’s most capable aide, then kicked Eros for his shameless behavior.
• Eros asked where they were, and the black-haired girl told him they were in his soul world.
• The black-haired girl said an Elf Race member had awakened her and that she had intervened when a book tried to put a soul curse mark on Eros.
• The black-haired girl noticed her master’s aura on Eros and asked where he had gotten it; Eros guessed that she was the Eye of Eternal Night.

Eros learned that the black-haired girl’s master was named Alicia and that she mistook him for her lost master because he carried her presence. The girl asked Eros to contract with her so she could draw Spirit from him, remain awake, and search for her master.

• The black-haired girl told Eros that none of his other ancestors carried her master’s presence and reacted with delight when he guessed his ancestor’s name was Alicia.
• Eros recalled the Elf Race goddess calling him Alicia and wondered why she had mistaken him for his ancestor.
• The black-haired girl rejected the idea that Eros could be her master, then asked him to make a contract with her.
• The girl explained that she had spent her power searching for her master, had received no spirit marrow from Eros’s forebears, and was too weak to stay awake without a contract.
• The black-haired girl said she wanted to observe Eros and hoped that staying with him would help her find her master.

Eros formed a contract with the Black-Haired Girl, briefly changing his left eye before she fell asleep. Still exhausted and shaken by his encounter with the Tentacle Monster, he found comfort with Estelle and fell asleep beside her.

• Eros agreed to enter a contract with the Black-Haired Girl, who touched his hand and said her body would serve as his eye.
• Eros woke with pain in his left eye as it turned completely black, then watched it return to its usual sapphire-blue color while the Black-Haired Girl said she would sleep.
• Eros stayed in bed, too drained to move, until Estelle arrived with two maids carrying dinner.
• Eros told Estelle that he had dreamed he would leave his family forever, remembering how the Tentacle Monster had frightened him.
• Estelle reassured Eros and patted his hand until he fell asleep.

Eros realized the Gray Mist Space encounters he had shared with a tentacle for a month were not dreams when a Black-Haired Girl appeared and recognized the creature. He explained that the tentacle had first appeared during the Bloodline Baptism, while the girl remained wary of it.

• Eros repeatedly dreamed of the Gray Mist Space and encountered a tentacle with an eyeball, eventually growing accustomed to its presence.
• A Black-Haired Girl appeared beside Eros, and he teased her before touching her skirt and calf.
• The Black-Haired Girl spotted the tentacle and hurriedly carried Eros away from it.
• Eros realized he was not dreaming, and the Black-Haired Girl cautiously stopped when the tentacle made no move to attack.
• Eros told the Black-Haired Girl that he had seen the tentacle facing the Elf Race's deity during the Bloodline Baptism and that it had appeared ever since.

Barbara told Eros that the tentacle was the oldest life in the world and could not be defeated yet, though he might be able to overcome it in the future. After Eros asked her name and questioned why her conjured clothes felt solid, Barbara explained that spirit could condense into physical matter.

• The Black-Haired Girl said Eros was strange because he had looked at a deity, hosted an avatar, and suffered no corruption.
• Barbara identified the tentacle as the world's oldest life and greatest horror, the beginning and possible end of all life.
• Eros asked if he could get rid of the tentacle, and Barbara said he could not yet but might manage it in the future.
• Eros asked the Black-Haired Girl what to call her, and she said her name was Barbara, the name her Master had given her.
• Eros touched Barbara's skirt and asked why it felt solid, so Barbara explained that spirit could condense into physical matter.

Eros spent two months studying occult knowledge under the family elders by day and Barbara by night while enjoying Estelle’s lullabies. One night, Wendy came to his room pale and trembling, and Eros realized she was suffering corruption from an eldritch entity.

• Eros began studying occult knowledge under Barbara at night to help restore his family’s fortunes.
• Eros listened to Estelle’s lullabies before going to his soul world to tease Barbara.
• Two months passed in Eros’s daily routine of lessons and study.
• Wendy entered Eros’s room late at night, pale and trembling.
• Eros recognized that Wendy had been corrupted by an eldritch entity.

Wendy sought comfort beside Eros during a supernatural encroachment, then tried to wake him the next morning after he had exhausted himself sparring with Barbara. Eros remained confused after Wendy kicked him out of bed.

• Wendy rushed to Eros for protection when a supernatural horror approached, and he soothed her until she fell asleep beside him.
• Wendy reminded Eros that she was the older sister, then cuddled closer and closed her eyes.
• The next morning, Wendy found Eros's leg draped over her and told him to get up.
• Eros, worn out from Barbara's punishing soul-world sparring, refused to wake, so Wendy kicked him off the bed.
• Eros hit the floor and looked toward Wendy in bewilderment.

Eros explained his slow Spirit growth by revealing that the family’s divine artifact had chosen him and absorbed most of the Spirit he gathered. By the time Barbara recovered enough to stay awake for a long time, Eros reached Sequence 9’s limit and advanced to Sequence 8-Listener in a ritual held in the Shadow Realm.

• Eros told the family elders that the divine artifact had contracted with him and was absorbing most of his Spirit, delighting them.
• Eros declined to use the family’s remaining spirit marrow for himself and decided to help Barbara recover gradually with his own supplies.
• When Eros was nineteen, Barbara said she had recovered enough to remain awake for a long time.
• Eros’s Spirit quickly reached the Sequence 9 limit, and he advanced to Sequence 8-Listener in the Shadow Realm.

After advancing to Sequence 8, Eros felt safe from the horrors thanks to Tentacle Big Brother, but Barbara told him it was time to see the world. When Eros asked to travel, his family and the elders tried to keep him at home.

• Eros considered how dangerous Sequence 8 was for sorcerers who attracted horrors, while Tentacle Big Brother quietly watched over him each night.
• Barbara told Eros that it was time for him to see the world because no saint had emerged from a life of comfort.
• Eros asked Duke Renka and Estelle for permission to venture outside and gain experience, and Duke Renka said he would consult the elders.
• Wendy eagerly announced that she wanted to go with Eros, while Estelle watched her children and sighed.
• Duke Renka returned with the elders, who urged Eros to stay home because of his rare bloodline and exceptional importance.
• Eros repeated Barbara's words about becoming a saint, leaving some elders flustered and the others confused.

The Night Clan discussed the artifact spirit’s belief that Eros could become a Saint and eventually a Great One. They decided to send him to the Imperial Capital First Holy Academy, relying on his awakened elven bloodline and magical protections to conceal his connection to the Night Clan.

• The Night Clan members marveled at the possibility that Eros could become a Saint and raise a Divine Throne with their ancestor’s artifacts and Shattered Divine Kingdom fragments.
• A family member suggested enrolling Eros at the Imperial Capital First Holy Academy, and others agreed that it would help him adapt to the world.
• Several members worried that the academy, jointly run by the Three Great Churches, would put Eros under their scrutiny.
• A member argued that Eros’s elven bloodline, the Servant of Secrets, and the Book of the Night would hide his Night Clan identity.
• The family agreed to send Eros to the academy and hoped that his elven bloodline might make their situation safer.

Estelle agreed to travel to the imperial capital with Eros, and the family elders arranged for her to take companions and search for useful sealed artifacts. As Estelle reflected on visiting her family after many years, she told Eros and Wendy that she missed her parents and mentioned her lost necklace, making Wendy look uneasy.

• Estelle offered to accompany Eros to the imperial capital, citing her Sequence 6-Fire Thief abilities and family connections there.
• The elders approved Estelle’s offer and said she should take companions and check the storeroom for useful sealed artifacts.
• After the elders and Duke Renka left, Eros noticed Estelle’s subdued mood and asked whether she missed her parents.
• Estelle said she missed both her parents, and Wendy hugged her and said she had never met them.
• Estelle recalled that portraits of her parents had been inside a pendant on her missing necklace, and Wendy’s expression froze as her gaze darted about.

Eros made Wendy call him “big brother” in exchange for keeping her secret and helping her join the trip. A few days later, they were told they could depart and followed a servant to the Duke's Mansion backyard.

• Wendy threatened Eros to keep him from telling Estelle that her necklace was missing, and Eros agreed in exchange for her calling him big brother.
• Estelle went to pack her belongings while Wendy and Eros remained in the hall, where Eros told Wendy she could not come unless he spoke up for her.
• Wendy pleaded with Eros and promised to thank him that night, then reluctantly called out, “Thank you, big brother!”
• Eros entered the soul space to study with Barbara, and a few days later, he and Wendy followed a servant to the backyard after being told they could depart.