Recaps

Chen Lun and Froy traveled from Jadeite Town toward Amber City, with Chen Lun determined to find a cure for her before time ran out. Six days into the journey, bandits stopped their carriage, and Walsh explained that a fight began after they demanded to inspect it.

• Chen Lun received the rewards for destroying the Red Apple Church's Jadeite Town branch and set out with Froy and Walsh for Amber City.
• Chen Lun learned the journey would take seven days and promised Froy he would take her traveling after her illness was cured.
• Walsh's escort fought dozens of bandits near Amber City while Chen Lun stayed with Froy in the carriage.
• Chen Lun stepped out to ask Walsh why the fight had started, and Walsh said the bandits had insisted on inspecting the carriage.

Chen Lun killed the bandit leader, accepted a quest to pursue the fleeing bandits, and tracked them to their camp. After learning the bandits planned to recover the powerful iron gauntlets called “Mad Hands,” he faced the burly boss leading a pursuit.

• Walsh warned Chen Lun that the bandits might be human traffickers, and the bandit leader gained the upper hand with his iron gauntlets.
• Chen Lun shot and killed the bandit leader, causing the surviving bandits to flee and triggering a quest to pursue them.
• Chen Lun accepted the quest, asked Walsh and the others to keep the gauntlets, and followed the bandits into the forest.
• A crow helped Chen Lun locate a camp where the bandits held several old men and stored stolen goods.
• The bandits’ boss learned that Chen Lun had a firearm, put on a pair of “Mad Hands,” and ordered his men to catch up with him.

Chen Lun confronted a bandit gang alone and used his twin flintlocks to kill them, completing his quest. He took the bandit leader’s Frenzied Hands, but found the mechanical gauntlets offered him little benefit.

• Chen Lun approached the bandit camp alone and asked the leader where he had gotten his iron gauntlets.
• The bandits mocked Chen Lun, then charged after he drew two flintlocks.
• Chen Lun shot down the underlings and killed the leader with a hidden final shot after pretending to run out of ammunition.
• Chen Lun completed the D-rank quest and received 300 experience points and 500 Copper Crowns.
• Chen Lun examined the Frenzied Hands and decided their impact boost and protection were useless to him.

Chen Lun freed a group of kidnapped craftsmen from the bandit camp and met Alexis, a boastful bard who claimed to have forged a divine weapon. Alexis followed Chen Lun and sang him tales of heroic adventures as they continued on their way.

• Chen Lun freed the craftsmen from their cages, and they explained that the bandits had abducted them to forge something.
• Alexis introduced himself as a great bard and claimed he had stayed with the bandits to gather material, but a craftsman said Alexis had been captured after boasting about forging a divine weapon.
• A hotheaded craftsman beat Alexis in a fight, and the freed craftsmen thanked Chen Lun before leaving.
• Alexis recited an elaborate song about a supposedly divine sword and challenged Chen Lun to a duel, but Chen Lun walked away.
• Alexis caught up with Chen Lun and sang more stories about traveling the world, defeating monsters, and becoming a hero.

Chen Lun and Froy arrived in Amber City and settled in the outer district, where Chen Lun began looking for a place to stay. The chapter left them outside a flower shop at 7 Danton Street, with Chen Lun watching its owner.

• Alexis chased Chen Lun's carriage and called him by his alias, leaving Chen Lun wondering how he knew the name.
• Chen Lun told Froy that they would reach Amber City the next day and reflected on his need to grow stronger before the players arrived.
• Chen Lun and Froy entered Amber City, passing the crowded outer district and its poor residents.
• Chen Lun thanked Walsh for the journey and secretly tipped him two Gold Pounds before leaving with Froy.
• Chen Lun and Froy found a room-rental notice at 7 Danton Street, where Chen Lun looked through the flower shop window at an older woman tending flowers.

Chen Lun and Froy settled into an apartment on No. 7 Denton Street after Mrs. Caroline offered them a reduced rent and meals for Froy. Two men watching them planned to report their arrival to a boss who intended to sell them, while Chen Lun and Froy began adjusting to their new home.

• Chen Lun rented the fourth-floor apartment from Mrs. Caroline and paid twenty Silver Crowns for an initial month.
• Two men across the street recognized Chen Lun and Froy as valuable targets, and one left to alert their boss while the other kept watch.
• Mrs. Caroline introduced Chen Lun to neighbors Connie, Mr. Hood, and the Moriarty siblings as she showed him the apartment.
• Chen Lun accepted Mrs. Caroline's offer to feed Froy breakfast and dinner, agreeing to pay an extra Silver Crown each week.
• Chen Lun told Froy to stay home while he went out to buy supplies, then allowed her to take short walks nearby; Froy agreed to wait for him at home.

Chen Lun was followed by four street thugs, whom he subdued and hypnotized before learning they had no larger scheme. On his way home, he found his neighbor Kent being beaten and plotting to get Connie fired and delivered to the men who had threatened him.

• Chen Lun learned from Mrs. Caroline that his troubled young neighbor was named Kent, then realized he needed legitimate identities for himself and Froy.
• Four thugs followed Chen Lun into a dark alley, where he knocked them down and hypnotized Mack into revealing they had planned to extort him.
• Chen Lun spared the thugs and headed home, warning himself to tell Froy that the neighborhood was unsafe.
• Chen Lun found Kent being beaten by two men who demanded that he bring Connie to the Bird-and-Flower Tavern in exchange for postponing his debt.
• Kent agreed to get Connie fired and force her to go with them, then glared at Chen Lun when he offered help; a passing woman gave Chen Lun a look of disgust.

The Iron Fist Gang targeted Chen Lun and Froy after learning they were outsiders with no connections. As they prepared for breakfast at Mrs. Caroline’s, Chen Lun encountered Connie in the hallway.

• A man from the Iron Fist Gang reported to Boss Gary that Chen Lun and Froy were staying at 7 Danton Street.
• Gary ordered his men to kill Chen Lun and bring Froy to him, warning them not to cause too much trouble.
• Chen Lun checked and packed his Flintlocks and Iron Gauntlets, then gave Froy a Flintlock for protection.
• Chen Lun and Froy met Connie in the hallway after she argued with her father about medicine from the Red Apple Church; she glared at Chen Lun and left.
• Mrs. Caroline welcomed Chen Lun and Froy to breakfast and presented her fish-and-egg rice dish.

Chen Lun spent a quiet day in Amber City, learning about Mrs. Caroline’s losses and observing the Red Apple Church’s sale of fruit nectar. A newspaper reminded him that Councilor Daniel, whom Dolly would eventually kill, was a target protected by a small guild in his past life.

• Mrs. Caroline told Chen Lun and Froy that her husband Henry and son Oliver had died during the empire’s overseas landings, and Froy asked her to teach her to cook to comfort her.
• Chen Lun passed Connie and Kent at a café, while two Iron Fist Gang members discussed whether they could abduct the out-of-town girl and decided to wait.
• Chen Lun watched a Red Apple Church monk preach and sell fruit nectar, which he knew was harmful and addictive despite its healing effects.
• Chen Lun overheard office workers arguing about Councilor Daniel’s tax-cut proposal and remembered that a small guild had protected Daniel in his past life and that Dolly would eventually kill him.

Chen Lun hired Connie to help with the household, while Kent offered Gary a plan to target Froy. The next evening, Chen Lun returned to find Froy missing and encountered Kent on the stairs.

• Chen Lun agreed to hire Connie as a maid for two Silver Crowns a week, and she left grateful for the work.
• Gary confronted Kent over his unpaid debt, and Kent offered to help him get hold of Froy.
• The next evening, Chen Lun returned to No. 7 Denton Street and discovered Froy was missing.
• Chen Lun went outside to ask Mrs. Caroline about Froy and ran into Kent on the stairs.

Chen Lun questioned Kent about Froy and Connie, while Connie took Froy out for drinks and invited her to the opera. The two girls headed toward the Dolphin Opera House by a shortcut, unaware of Kent’s hostile thoughts about them and Chen Lun.

• Chen Lun asked Kent whether he had seen Froy or Connie, and Kent angrily denied seeing either of them.
• Kent blamed Chen Lun for disrupting his efforts with Connie and thought the Iron Fist Gang had already dealt with the two girls.
• Connie and Froy walked through the Outer District with drinks, and Connie reflected on Froy’s wealth and kindness.
• Connie offered Froy two tickets Kent had given her for a performance at the Dolphin Opera House, and Froy agreed to go.
• Connie suggested a shortcut to the opera house, and Froy chose to walk there.

Chen Lun forced Kent to reveal the Iron Fist Gang’s scheme and found a memoir among Kent’s family heirlooms. Meanwhile, Froy fought off the gang’s ambush with her Flintlock, but the attackers armed themselves with Iron Gauntlets and strange firearms.

• Connie and Froy were surrounded by Iron Fist Gang members in a secluded alley, and one man grabbed Connie.
• Chen Lun threatened Kent with a Flintlock, then used the Seashell Necklace to make him reveal that Gary and the Iron Fist Gang had orchestrated a vile scheme.
• Kent offered Chen Lun his family heirloom, a book titled “Record-Keeper Kemberney's Memoirs,” and Chen Lun recognized a possible significance in it.
• Froy shot three gang members as they attacked Connie and her, prompting the remaining men to put on Iron Gauntlets and aim strange firearms at the women.

Chen Lun used his Snake Kiss ability to kill Kent and two Iron Fist Gang members, then accepted a quest to destroy or subdue the gang. As Connie and Froy were taken toward Sewage Flats, a scarlet crossbow bolt struck one of their captors, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Kent fled his home and collapsed into the arms of two Iron Fist Gang members, dead from Snake Kiss wounds on his neck.
• Chen Lun killed Kent's two companions with Snake Kiss and accepted the King of Sewage Flats quest.
• Chen Lun headed toward the Dolphin Opera House and vowed to confront the Iron Fist Gang.
• Iron Fist Gang members escorted Connie and Froy toward Sewage Flats while mocking them and discussing Froy's stolen Flintlock.
• A scarlet crossbow bolt struck one of the gang members, and his wound began widening as if something were devouring him.

Chen Lun attacked the Iron Fist Gang to rescue Connie and Froy, killing several members before they fired a barrage of blunderbusses at him. The dust cleared to reveal him unharmed, while he sent the stray dog that had guided him away.

• A starving man attacked another Iron Fist Gang member, and Chen Lun approached with a Hand Crossbow and shot a leather-jacketed man.
• Chen Lun caught an Iron Fist Gang member’s Mad Hands punch and smashed the man’s face with a single blow.
• Connie and Froy watched from hiding as Chen Lun fought the gang, and Connie cheered him on.
• An Iron Fist Gang member fired a blunderbuss at Chen Lun, and the others joined in with a barrage that shredded his clothes.
• Chen Lun emerged from the dust unharmed and waved the stray dog away after thanking it.

Chen Lun defeated the Iron Fist Gang and sent Connie and Froy home with a stray dog and a crowd of cats. After they left, he examined one of the gang’s homemade flintlocks and wondered if its protective gauntlet had been designed to pair with it.

• Chen Lun survived the gang’s gunfire and killed its members, testing the Tongue of Gluttony’s crimson bolts in the fight.
• Connie checked on Chen Lun, while Froy quietly recovered her Flintlock and hid it behind her back.
• Chen Lun summoned stray cats and had them escort Connie and Froy home with the stray dog.
• After the two girls left, Chen Lun picked up a homemade flintlock and speculated that the Iron Fist Gauntlet was made for using it.

Chen Lun entered the Sewage Flats and forced his way into the Iron Fist Gang’s base, killing two gang members in the courtyard before confronting Gary. Gary ordered his men to attack, but Chen Lun shot down the first two, leaving the rest stunned as Gary suspected he was from the Containment Bureau.

• Chen Lun entered the Bird-and-Flower Tavern and ignored the proprietress’s attempt to deny it was the Iron Fist Gang’s base.
• The proprietress tried to alert the gang, but several rats bit her and carried off her walkie-talkie.
• Chen Lun threatened a drunk with his Flintlock, passed through the kitchen, and entered the inner courtyard.
• Chen Lun killed two Iron Fist Gang members with a kitchen knife and entered the building, where he found Gary and several gang members.
• Gary ordered his men to kill Chen Lun, but Chen Lun shot down two attackers, prompting Gary to wonder whether Chen Lun was an investigator from the Containment Bureau.

Chen Lun defeated Gary Bent and the Iron Fist Gang, then claimed control of the Sewage Flats. Gary had surrendered to save his life, but he was shocked when Chen Lun declared that he would take over.

• Gary ordered the Iron Fist Gang to shoot Chen Lun, who used one of the attackers as a shield and returned fire.
• Chen Lun fought off the gang members and blocked Gary's powerful kicks with one hand.
• Gary recognized Chen Lun as a Transcendent and, realizing he was the outsider his men had targeted, knelt and begged for mercy.
• Chen Lun asked if Gary would pay any price, then announced that he would call the shots in the Sewage Flats.
• Gary raised his head in shock and asked what Chen Lun meant.

Chen Lun confronted Gary about the kidnapped craftsmen and learned that Butler Feldman, acting for Councilor Daniel, had ordered them to build mechanical gloves. After enslaving Gary and taking his money, Chen Lun sent him to investigate Viscount Pompey and watch for Dolly.

• Chen Lun confronted Gary with the Mad Hands and Blunderbuss, and Gary killed his remaining subordinates to keep the night's events secret.
• Gary revealed that Butler Feldman had ordered him to kidnap craftsmen and make mechanical gloves, then showed Chen Lun where to find a flawed blueprint copy.
• Gary said Feldman had taken most of the gang's income, and Chen Lun ordered Gary to give him forty-five Gold Pounds and have the craftsmen make Lead Bullets.
• Chen Lun used [Siren's Song] to deepen his control over Gary, who handed over his personal savings and pledged to obey.
• Chen Lun ordered Gary to find news and the home address of Viscount Pompey and report any information about Dolly; the King of Sewage Flats quest was completed and its rewards were granted.

After returning home, Chen Lun let a stray border collie stay and acquired the Record-Keeper secondary class from Kemberney’s memoirs. He mastered Transcription, which could reproduce low-sequence Transcendent knowledge, and planned to use it to sell knowledge to future players.

• Chen Lun returned to No. 7 Denton Street, where Froy had waited for him, and allowed the stray border collie to stay.
• Chen Lun claimed the quest reward and obtained the Mad Hands prototype drawing, then read Record-Keeper Kemberney’s memoirs.
• Chen Lun acquired the Record-Keeper secondary class and learned Transcription, which copied Transcendent knowledge using mystical materials.
• Chen Lun decided he could provide copied Transcendent knowledge to future players for a price.
• Chen Lun spent experience and skill points to max out Record-Keeper and Transcription, gaining a memory function and improved attributes.

After reaching level 30, Chen Lun spent the morning with Froy and Connie before going to a bookstore to search for books that might contain extraordinary knowledge. He left the bookstore browsing its shelves, hoping to find a path toward Sequence 8.

• Chen Lun checked his level and attributes, noting that he still needed extraordinary knowledge to advance to Sequence 8.
• Froy brought Chen Lun a breakfast she had prepared with Mrs. Caroline, and he praised her cooking.
• Chen Lun gave Connie mechanical gloves and a blunderbuss from the previous night's attackers to study.
• Chen Lun went to the Old Cripple Bookshop to look for books that might teach him extraordinary knowledge.
• Chen Lun browsed the bookstore while its elderly owner continued reading behind the counter.

Connie brought Chen Lun plans for improving Mad Hands and Fierce Flame, revealing her talent for machinery, and he gave her money to buy materials and use workshop tools. Chen Lun declined Froy’s invitation to dine at Mrs. Caroline’s, still wary of questions about Kent and his life in the Outer District.

• Connie visited Chen Lun and presented her plans to reinforce Fierce Flame and refine the Mechanical Glove.
• Chen Lun praised Connie’s mechanical talent and encouraged her to try her modifications.
• Chen Lun gave Connie two Gold Pounds for materials and workshop access, and she left to begin her work.
• Froy asked whether Chen Lun would dine at Mrs. Caroline’s, but he declined, remembering Mrs. Caroline’s questions about Kent and his work.

Chen Lun searched Taut’s bookstore for transcendent knowledge and discovered that the old man’s book contained a complete Earth Faction Sequence 9 pathway. Taut refused to sell it, but Chen Lun brought Mrs. Caroline to offer him afternoon tea, leaving the old man accepting her leftover cookies.

• Chen Lun returned to Taut’s bookstore and searched through its books for mystical knowledge, but found nothing on the shelves.
• Chen Lun noticed the tome Taut was reading and paid a Gold Pound to inspect it, discovering it contained the Earth Faction Sequence 9: Tomb Raider pathway.
• Chen Lun asked Taut to sell him the book, but Taut refused and suggested he might reconsider if he could try Mrs. Caroline’s cooking.
• Chen Lun left and returned with Mrs. Caroline, who offered Taut a plate of leftover cookies, and Taut accepted it with a refined smile.

Feldman arrived at the Bird-and-Flower Tavern to meet Gary, but found Chen Lun waiting for him instead. Chen Lun had gone to the Sewage Flats to gain information about Councilor Daniel and Dolly, the Big Eater.

• Chen Lun gave Connie money for her father's medicine, but she refused because she would not give him more of the Red Apple Church's drugs.
• Chen Lun received Gary's letter saying Feldman would visit that night, then headed to the Bird-and-Flower Tavern.
• The proprietress directed Chen Lun to the inner courtyard, where he hinted that there would be no trouble this time.
• Feldman arrived with two bodyguards, passed through the tavern, and entered the building expecting to meet Gary.
• Feldman found Chen Lun waiting on the sofa instead of Gary.

Chen Lun confronted Feldman at the Iron Fist Gang’s gathering, killed Feldman’s two bodyguards, and forced Feldman to reveal a supernatural oil painting. Feldman used the painting to summon spirits and attack Chen Lun, who quickly overpowered him.

• Chen Lun questioned Feldman, then shot and killed his two bodyguards in a brief fight.
• Feldman tried to flee, but Gary and the Iron Fist Gang members blocked the exit.
• Chen Lun tried to hypnotize Feldman with the [Siren's Song], but a black light from Feldman’s jacket resisted the influence.
• An oil painting flew from Feldman’s waistcoat and released spirits that transformed him into a shadow-covered fighter.
• Feldman attacked Chen Lun, but Chen Lun dodged his blows and sent him crashing to the floor.

Chen Lun killed Feldman after learning Councilor Daniel was involved, then finished reading a mystical book. He found Connie grieving her father’s death and asked Froy to look after her, leaving Connie’s future recruitment unspoken.

• Feldman lost control and attacked Chen Lun, but Chen Lun disabled him and ordered the Iron Fist Gang to shoot him dead.
• Chen Lun ordered Gary to have Feldman’s body sealed and buried, then told him to finish the assigned tasks and report any trouble.
• Chen Lun finished reading Collection of Tomb Art Appreciation and gained a skill point and an attribute point.
• Chen Lun found neighbors comforting Connie after her father, Mr. Hood, died from withdrawal from Fruit Honey.
• Chen Lun asked Froy to give Connie extra care over the next few days, then apologized when he realized his tone had hurt her.