Recaps

Bruce was drawn through Julius's soul into the Castro Family Castle four hundred years in the past, where he witnessed the family prepare a ritual to seal a god. As the ritual summoned a human-shaped figure, golden light began spilling from a crack in Bruce's back.

• Bruce explored the Castro Family Castle and found an open book describing experiments to merge spiritual power with the Power of Magic.
• Madel learned that the three elders had completed the magic circle and declared that the Castro Family would seal a god.
• Bruce watched Elders Rodman, Haxvey, and McGlen begin the ritual as Castro Family members gathered around the circle.
• The attendants threw ritual offerings into the circle, and the family chanted for a god to descend.
• Bruce heard strange sounds and felt a nameless dread as a crack appeared in his back and golden light spread across his body.
• The flames went out, black smoke gathered in the magic circle, and a human-shaped figure appeared.

Bruce witnessed a god recognize him as “Wayne” during a vision of the past, then returned to Walkervis and discovered that his Spirituality had risen enough to unlock a new combat ability. With the White Terror still approaching, he prepared to test Golden Experience on a group heading toward him.

• A god trapped by the Castro Family’s magic circle called Bruce “Wayne,” cursed the family, and stopped resisting as Bruce’s body was enveloped in golden light.
• Bruce awoke in Walkervis, where Fawcett helped him recover from the lightning strike, and found his Spirituality had risen to 97.
• The Character Status Panel reported that Julius’s fate had become connected to Bruce’s and urged him to monitor the Castro Family.
• Bruce developed his Spirituality and gained Golden Experience, an ability that traded all his Spirituality Power for temporary Power of Magic.
• Bruce spotted a group approaching from the northeast and decided to use them to test his new ability.

Bruce used Golden Experience to become a powerful Wizard and charged the five Castro Family Wizards as the White Terror emerged in the Brightlight District. Ernest prepared to face the demon, while another battle-hungry figure asked whether the battle song was ready.

• Julius hid in the shadows after his attempt to possess Bruce failed, then sensed five Castro Family members approaching.
• Anthony and the other gray-robed Wizards attacked Bruce, and Fawcett urged him to retreat.
• Bruce invoked Golden Experience, gaining golden magic and heightened perception, and decided he could defeat the five Wizards.
• The White Terror emerged from the gate, intensifying the darkness in the Brightlight District and strengthening Bruce.
• Bruce charged the gray-robed men as Ernest prepared to confront the Terror, and another Extraordinary asked their teachers if the battle song was ready.

Ernest prepared to fight Terror as Albertus Magnus approached the demon with music-enhanced power, while Bruce battled five Gray-Robed Men. Julius’s hidden soul escaped into one of the Gray-Robed Men, allowing them to retreat with their mission complete.

• Ernest attacked Terror but was struck away, then prepared to join the fight after Albertus Magnus approached the demon.
• Albertus’s music formed blood-red armor and a spear as he declared he would slay Terror, though Ernest judged him too weak to defeat the demon alone.
• Bruce used Golden Experience to wield refined magic against the five Gray-Robed Men, while Julius watched from the shadows.
• Julius’s soul ambushed Bruce and hid inside a Gray-Robed Man after the scepter struck Bruce’s shoulder.
• The Gray-Robed Men retreated with Julius’s soul, and Bruce charged after them to try to stop them.

Albertus and Ernest fought Terror, with Albertus empowered by a new War Song and working with Ernest to force the demon to its knees. Meanwhile, Bruce failed to stop the Castro Family from escaping, and he returned with Fawcett while recovering from the strain of battle.

• Albertus struggled against Terror until Ernest intervened and urged him to retreat, but Albertus refused to leave the fight.
• Albertus asked his teacher to change the War Song, which strengthened and transformed him, and he charged Terror while Ernest restrained its arms with Spirituality Power.
• Albertus struck Terror and drove it to its knees, with Ernest helping hold the demon in place.
• Bruce tried to stop the Castro Family's Teleportation Magic with Divine Might, but his overexertion caused the power to fail.
• Bruce used Magic Touch to send golden tentacles after the five gray-robed men, but they vanished into the shadows before he could catch them.
• Bruce decided to return with Fawcett while Golden Experience remained active and his Spirituality Power was exhausted.

The Castro Family recovered Julius's soul and recalled Terror after the demon's attack drew the Bishop and other powerful figures to Walkervis. Bruce examined Julius's notebook at home, while Ernest arrived and found him transformed and surrounded by traces of a powerful magical battle.

• Jesus and the other gray-robed Wizards returned Julius's soul to Elder Rodman at the Castro Family's castle.
• Julius said he had been attacked, and Anthony reported that preparations for the Great Fog in Chelberly were ready.
• The Castro Family's Demon Gate dragged Terror away from Walkervis, and Ernest ran to Bruce's home, suspecting the Wizards had obtained Julius's Notes.
• Bruce destroyed the notebook's magical cover and asked Fawcett for a map to Julius's Forest Cottage.
• Ernest inspected the lightning-scorched site of Bruce's battle, then entered Bruce's home and froze at the sight of him.

Bruce reported to Ernest that the Castro Family had taken Julius's soul, then planned to travel to Chelberly to pursue Julius's manuscripts. He intended to leave within a day or two, while Fawcett stayed behind under Church supervision.

• Ernest recognized the golden figure as Bruce and asked him what had happened.
• Bruce told Ernest that the Castro Family had taken Julius's soul after the Gray-Robed Man fought him.
• Ernest accepted Bruce's account and asked him to submit a combat report the next day.
• Bruce's Golden Experience ended after nearly thirty minutes, leaving him without Spirituality Power and with a lingering headache.
• Bruce studied Fawcett's map to the Forest Cottage and invited Fawcett to travel with him to Chelberly, but Fawcett declined.
• Bruce decided to travel alone for Julius's manuscripts and began writing his report before setting off.

After the crisis in Brightlight District, Bruce reported his plans to investigate Julius in Chelberly and learned about the church’s Budani Gates. Ernest approved Bruce’s independent trip, leaving him ready to travel quickly to Chelberly.

• Ernest reviewed the reports from Brightlight District and prepared an account of Bruce’s abilities for the City Center.
• Bruce brought Fawcett to the church, submitted his report about the Castro Family’s Wizard, and told Ernest he planned to investigate in Chelberly.
• Ernest approved Bruce’s independent trip and kept Fawcett under the church’s supervision.
• Ernest offered Bruce a Budani Pass and directed him to the Church of the Night Handbook after learning Bruce had never heard of the Budani Gate.
• Bruce read that church members could travel between city centers through bronze gates and realized he could reach Chelberly quickly.

Bruce traveled through the Budani Gate to Chelberly and rode toward Bartos to find Julius's Forest Cottage. In Bartos, an imprisoned old man warned that Faust had appeared, while Bruce encountered three riders on the road.

• Bruce used his Budani pass to travel from Walkervis to Chelberly, where Budani sensed that Bruce's body was incomplete and connected to mysterious forces.
• Bruce studied a map, borrowed a horse, and set out across the barren land toward Bartos.
• At dusk, Bruce spotted three riders and hurried toward them for company.
• At the Bartos police station, Old Billy warned Nato to prepare for the Constable's return and the prisoner's execution the next day.
• The imprisoned old man insisted that danger had arrived and named Faust as the one who had appeared.

Julius discovered that someone had used his manuscripts to summon an avatar of the corrupted God of Dusk and Dawn, prompting Elder Rodman to send Jesus and four companions to destroy it. On the road to Bartos, Bruce Wayne introduced himself to Constable Ophelia Belunaru, who agreed to travel alongside him with her two captured prisoners.

• At the police station, the old man warned Old Billy that a god and demons would come as an unnatural light appeared in the window.
• Julius recognized the influence on his soul as the result of a corrupted god being summoned with his magic manuscripts.
• Julius told Elder Rodman that the ritual had summoned an avatar of the Fallen Demigod under the God of Light, the God of Dusk and Dawn.
• Elder Rodman sent Jesus and four companions to recover Julius's manuscripts and destroy the avatar.
• Ophelia Belunaru traveled toward Bartos with two captured men and met Bruce Wayne on the road.
• Bruce admitted he was a Nightwalker of the Nightfall Association and asked to accompany Ophelia to Bartos.

Constable Ophelia and Bruce arrived in Bartos to find the town shattered and all its people gone. Bruce’s warning linked the disappearance to magic and gods, and he discovered the streets were covered in bone ash.

• Ophelia explained that she was a Judge Extraordinary and had been serving as Constable in Bartos, where she had hoped to encounter a Mystery Incident.
• Bruce and Ophelia rode together, shared basic information about their backgrounds, and reached Bartos before sunset.
• Bruce and Ophelia found Bartos broken and deserted, though Ophelia remembered it as a bustling town of more than a thousand people.
• Bruce’s Character Status Panel warned that the town’s sudden disappearance was tied to magic and gods.
• Bruce searched the town with his spiritual power and found no traces of battle, magic, or hidden danger.
• Bruce examined the strange white granules covering the ground and identified them as bone ash.

Bruce and Ophelia searched the ash-covered ruins of Bartos Town, where everyone seemed to have turned to ashes. They found a lone old man who recognized Ophelia from a prophecy and reacted to Bruce with terror, claiming fate and the timeline had changed.

• Bruce concluded that Bartos Town's residents and livestock had turned to ashes and wondered why an evil god had targeted the town.
• Ophelia mourned the townspeople and confronted Bruce, accusing him of knowing what had happened; he said he had come to retrieve something and advised reporting the incident to the Church.
• Bruce showed Ophelia that the white residue was human ashes and insisted that everyone in town was dead.
• Ophelia heard movement beneath the police station rubble and rescued a bloodied old man who declared that she was destined to stand against Faust and spoke of finding the Vessel.
• Bruce questioned the old man, who recoiled in terror and shouted that Bruce should not be there because fate and the timeline had changed.

Dusk Dann revealed that he was the rational remnant of the God of Dusk and Dawn and explained that a ritual threatened to bring the god’s fallen half into the world. He told Ophelia that she could kill the descended god because she had been a Godslayer in a previous life.

• The old man recovered from his apparent death, introduced himself as Dusk Dann, and warned Bruce not to ask about his identity.
• Ophelia chose to investigate Bartos Town’s destruction, and Bruce agreed to stay with Dusk and help her.
• Dusk explained that a ritual would destroy another town at dawn and summon the fallen God of Dusk and Dawn.
• Dusk revealed that he was a remnant of the god inhabiting Philip’s body and was trying to stop his mad half from descending.
• Dusk told Ophelia that she could kill the descended god because she had been a Godslayer in her previous life.

Bruce, Ophelia, and Dusk learned that Ophelia could kill gods because she had been a godslayer in a previous life, and they set out to stop the God of Dusk and Dawn from descending into Faust in Fedoran. In Fedoran, Blaze Fast revealed his newfound speed to the men who had mocked him and called himself Speedster.

• Dusk explained that godslayers retained the ability to slay gods across their reincarnations, and Ophelia accepted the responsibility of confronting the God of Fall.
• Dusk revealed that Faust in Fedoran was the god’s next intended vessel, so he, Ophelia, and Bruce planned to reach him before dawn and kill the god after its descent.
• Bruce joined the journey to Fedoran, while Dusk rode with him because they had no spare horses.
• In a Fedoran bar, Blaze Fast told the men mocking him that he was fast, then used his ability to move while everyone and the clock seemed frozen.
• Blaze Fast announced that he was an Extraordinary and told the astonished men to call him Speedster or Speed.

Blaze showed off his new super speed in Fedoran and discussed his future with his brother Faust, who feared an impending disaster. Meanwhile, Bruce traveled with Dusk, learned that Dusk had a magic manuscript, and was told that his presence would turn fate in their favor as they searched for Faust.

• Blaze impressed the tavern patrons with his super speed, then returned home exhausted from using it.
• Blaze told Faust he wanted to test and master his ability in Fedoran before considering a move to Chelberly, and promised to protect him.
• Faust recalled that Blaze had gained super speed after finding a stone tablet in a nearby valley two days earlier, and warned that he sensed trouble ahead.
• Bruce asked Dusk about the magic manuscript, and Dusk said he would hand it over after they found Faust because its ciphers needed decoding.
• Dusk told Bruce that his existence was extraordinary and that, as long as Bruce accompanied him, fate would favor them.

Bruce considered how fate might influence his abilities before he, Ophelia, and Dusk searched Fedoran for Faust. They found Faust with Blaze, who refused to hand his brother over to Ophelia.

• Bruce wondered whether the Wheel of Fate shaped his innate abilities and whether he could influence future abilities through study.
• Dusk sensed Faust in Fedoran, and Ophelia and Dusk broke into his house while Bruce kept watch.
• Blaze used Super Speed to rescue Faust from Ophelia and Dusk, carrying him away before they could capture him.
• Dusk, Ophelia, and Bruce tracked Faust down again, and Ophelia claimed they needed him for a crime in Bartos.
• Blaze called Ophelia's accusation bullshit and shielded Faust from the three pursuers.

Bruce, Ophelia, and Dusk arrested Faust in Fedoran after Bruce subdued Blaze, who had tried to protect his brother with super speed. Dusk warned the townspeople to flee before dawn, while five Gray-Robed Men appeared in the shadows and watched Bruce.

• Dusk agreed to Bruce intervening after recognizing that Blaze carried the aura of a Fate Tablet, and Ophelia charged at Blaze to arrest him.
• Blaze used super speed to attack Ophelia, but Bruce slowed him with a spell and bound him with whips of spirituality power.
• Ophelia and Dusk caught Faust as he fled, while Bruce overwhelmed Blaze and suspended him in midair.
• Fedoran's Constable Ubiloo arrived, and Dusk identified Bruce as an Extraordinary from the Goddess of the Night Church and explained that Faust was expected to host an evil force.
• Dusk told Fedoran's residents to leave until after dawn, while five Gray-Robed Men appeared in the shadows and watched Bruce.

As Fedoran prepared to evacuate, Blaze refused to leave Faust, who was destined to become the God of Fall’s host. The Castro Family’s Wizards offered to seal the descending god in exchange for the magic manuscript and said their method required a strand of Faust’s hair.

• Bruce repeated Dusk’s warning that evil would descend, and most of Fedoran’s residents scattered to prepare to leave.
• Blaze apologized to Faust and refused to abandon his brother, despite Bruce and Dusk warning that he could not save him and would only endanger himself.
• Five Wizards from the Castro Family emerged and offered to seal the God of Fall without sacrificing anyone.
• Jesus asked for the magic manuscript, and Dusk agreed to hand over half of it before the Wizards began their preparations.
• The Castro Family’s Wizards said they needed a strand of Faust’s hair to carry out their method.

Dusk warned Bruce that Wizards should develop their own magical power rather than rely only on runes and incantations, prompting Bruce to consider casting spells directly from magic. The Castro Family prepared a bell as a vessel for the God of Dusk and Dawn, while Dusk guarded Faust and Fedoran emptied ahead of dawn.

• The Gray-Robed Man took a strand of Faust's hair, and the Castro Family used it to prepare their Sealing Magic around a bell.
• Dusk told Bruce that a Wizard's foundation was magical power and knowledge, and Bruce wondered whether he could form spells directly from magic.
• Dusk reflected that he wanted his original self sealed or killed so he could remain free, and he questioned why Fate had intervened in Bruce's destiny.
• Dusk and Ophelia guarded the bound Faust while the Castro Family waited for dawn to draw the God of Dusk and Dawn into the bell.
• Residents fled Fedoran for nearby towns, leaving the town nearly empty before dawn.

Bruce was pulled into the Magic Array when Jesus and the Castro Family Wizards betrayed him, and the God of Fall’s madness threatened to overwhelm his mind. He escaped into his identity as the Dark Lord Eris, while another presence took control of his body, killed the five Wizards, and restored Dusk’s youth.

• Jesus and the Gray-Robed Men drew Bruce’s magical power into the Magic Array, then trapped him inside as Ophelia and Dusk watched helplessly.
• Bruce realized the God of Fall had descended into his body and used Breakthrough to learn that his will had to leave it to survive.
• Bruce assumed the identity of the Dark Lord Eris and escaped to the Throne in Zambesi’s Underground City, leaving his body behind.
• The Bruce inside the Magic Array broke its glyphs, killed Jesus and the other four Gray-Robed Men with golden tentacles, and absorbed their magical energy.
• The presence controlling Bruce rewrote Dusk’s fate, restored his youth, and warned him never to give up his human body.

A mysterious future version of Bruce warned Dusk to choose humanity, then destroyed Dusk’s divine body and set his fate in motion. After returning from Zambesi, Bruce discovered that someone had used his body to kill the Castro Family Wizards, and he met the figure who claimed to be his future self.

• "Bruce" offered Dusk the choice to reclaim his identity as a god or live as a human, and Dusk chose to be human.
• "Bruce" destroyed Dusk’s true body, causing golden gears to appear behind Dusk as his fate began to turn.
• "Bruce" praised Bruce’s progress and left to speak with him face-to-face, while Bruce waited on the throne in Zambesi.
• Bruce returned to Fedoran and saw that the five Castro Family Wizards had been killed and their magical power absorbed into his body.
• Bruce’s unease drew him into a pale, empty space, where a mature figure with his face appeared and identified himself as Bruce’s future self.

Bruce learned from his future self that he was Bruce Wayne, not Chu Lingfeng, and that the Wheel of Fate had been created to steer him away from serving the ancient gods. His future self began answering Bruce’s remaining questions, while warning that Bruce’s next challenges included the reincarnated Dark Lord Eris.

• Bruce’s future self explained that he had once served the ancient gods after discovering the Prayer Scripture through Jessica, then used fate to alter the timeline and guide Bruce away from the same path.
• The future Bruce revealed that Chu Lingfeng’s memories had been woven into Bruce’s mind and that the Character Status Panel was the Wheel of Fate, which could change Bruce’s fate and grant talents from alternate possibilities.
• The future Bruce said he would hand the Wheel of Fate over to Bruce and explained that demigods such as the Primordial Witch and the God of Communication sensed his presence, but would not dare challenge fate.
• Bruce asked about the Dark Lord Eris, and his future self said Bruce would inevitably fight the reincarnated Dark Lord and could claim the title if he won.
• Bruce asked whether the pale space blocked divine listeners, and the future Bruce confirmed it did and agreed to answer what he could.

Bruce mastered the abilities of the Wheel of Fate after meeting his future self, then recovered Julius's magic manuscript after the God of Fall's descent. Dusk and Ophelia asked to join him, and Bruce agreed to work with them in Walkervis.

• Bruce learned that the Ancient Gods belonged to two generations and eight categories, then absorbed the Character Status Panel and mastered its five innate abilities.
• Bruce reshaped the panel into the Wheel of Fate and realized he would need to encounter mystery incidents or deaths to gain fate power.
• Bruce withdrew his golden tentacles from the Castro Family's Wizards, searched their corpses, and took Julius's magic manuscript.
• Dusk handed Bruce the other half of the manuscript and asked to travel with him.
• Ophelia offered to join Bruce after handling the follow-up in Bartos, and Bruce gave her the address of his lodgings in Walkervis.

Bruce agreed to take Dusk and Ophelia to Chelberly, then accepted Blaze and Faust as companions on the journey to Metropolis. Meanwhile, Julius recovered from the influence affecting his soul, but Elder Rodman revealed that Jesus and his group of five had been killed.

• Bruce packed Julius's manuscripts and set out with Dusk and Ophelia, while Ophelia planned to await the kingdom's response in Chelberly and considered resigning as Constable.
• Blaze asked Bruce to take him and Faust along, and Bruce agreed to let the brothers join him.
• Bruce introduced himself to the Fast Brothers and told them they could leave immediately because they had nothing to pack.
• At the Castro Family Castle, Julius's soul steadied as the influence faded, and he resolved to improve his safeguards before continuing his attempts to summon ancient gods.
• Elder Rodman stood and told Julius that Jesus and his group of five were dead.

Rodman learned that Jesus and his companions had been killed by a golden figure linked to the Goddess of the Night Church, while the God of Communication explained how polluted gray fog threatened demigods with madness. Bruce and his companions left Chelberly on horseback for Walkervis, and the Castro Family’s operation there was assigned to Angliuen.

• Rodman and Julius watched a magical replay of Jesus and his four companions dying to golden tentacles, and Julius recognized the attacker from Walkervis.
• Rodman sent Angliuen to carry out the Castro Family’s operation in Chelberly, then visited the imprisoned God of Communication and tortured him for answers.
• The God of Communication reflected on how dead demons had polluted the world’s gray fog, causing gods and demigod-level Extraordinaries to risk corruption and loss of control.
• Bruce, Ophelia, Dusk, and the Fast Brothers reported to the district church in Chelberly, but Bruce chose not to leave Dusk and the brothers behind.
• Bruce and his three companions rode toward Walkervis because Dusk and the Fast Brothers could not use the Budani Gate.