Recaps

Mu You inherited Anthony Vivian’s pure black magic Secret Art Crystal and tried to use the Pocket Watch to claim the Witch’s Potionology inheritance as well. After repeatedly refusing him, the Witch offered him a chance to prove his Potionology talent by brewing a fine-grade Spirit-Summoning Potion and summoning her within ten days.

• Mu You chose the black magic inheritance and received memories explaining pure black magic and Vivian’s Secret Art Crystal.
• Mu You rewound time and tried to select the Potionology inheritance, but the Witch recognized that he had already chosen black magic and rejected him.
• Mu You repeatedly rewound time and continued requesting the Potionology inheritance, while the Witch insisted he focus on one path.
• The Witch was moved by Mu You’s persistence and gave him ten days to brew a fine-grade Spirit-Summoning Potion and complete the ritual to summon her to the Otherworld.

Mu You received the Witch of Calamity's quest to brew a Spirit-Summoning Potion and summon her remnant soul within ten days, then tested his newly acquired Black Magic. After his Little Fireball Spell accidentally devastated a park and a nearby building, he rewound time and stopped midway through casting it.

• Mu You obtained an ancient parchment and triggered the Witch of Calamity's Trial quest to brew a Spirit-Summoning Potion and summon the Witch within ten days.
• The Witch's remnant soul ignored Mu You and returned to the crow's eye, and the crow sent him out of the vanished Dark Forest.
• Mu You translated the scroll's complex potion recipe and learned he had to gather the ingredients and brew a Fine-quality potion before the full moon on July 11.
• Mu You sent his donkey back toward Peaceful Village, then went to the park for his Night Watch Duty and meditated to absorb magic power.
• Mu You cast the Little Fireball Spell, which destroyed a tree and engulfed a building under construction in flames.
• Mu You used the Pocket Watch to rewind time and stopped casting halfway through the incantation.

Mu You tested the Black Magic spells Flame Explosion and Rejuvenation, discovering that Rejuvenation healed injuries temporarily as well as changing his age. He then began inscribing Secret Art Cards, using his Pocket Watch to undo mistakes as he worked.

• Mu You realized Flame Explosion had consumed all his stored natural mana and concluded he needed to learn finer control over Black Magic’s power.
• Mu You tested Rejuvenation and found it changed the Night Watchman's age while healing wounds that would return when the spell expired.
• Mu You rewound time to before cutting himself, finished testing the spells, and returned home excited by Flame Explosion’s destructive strength.
• Mu You condensed a blank Secret Art Card and considered using cards to store spells that could be swapped into the Secret Art Crystal’s limited slots.
• Mu You began inscribing a Black Magic circuit onto the card, rewinding whenever he made a mistake.

Mu You stayed awake making Secret Art cards despite his exhaustion, then learned that the ingredients for a Spirit-Summoning Potion were far beyond his means. Before midnight’s Mystic Arts Association gathering, he discovered Mist Mountain as a possible source of potion ingredients and paid Scarecrow for the information.

• Mu You finished his first Secret Art card, a Little Fireball Spell, after engraving through the night.
• Xiao Ya and Lin Xue urged Mu You to sleep, but he could not rest and returned to making cards, completing two more Little Fireball cards and two Rejuvenation cards.
• Mu You’s character returned to Peaceful Village, where he found that the old cat shopkeeper’s potion ingredients were prohibitively expensive.
• Mu You asked Scarecrow about six potion ingredients, but Scarecrow instead charged him one year of lifespan to suggest searching Mist Mountain for wild magic potions.
• Mu You chose not to use the Time Pocket Watch to reclaim the lifespan, and Scarecrow was astonished to have earned a year from him.

Mu You attended his first Mystic Arts Association meeting after encountering the Werewolf and preparing to improve his strength. He found that the gathering was attended by players, and a veteran member began explaining the rules to the newcomers.

• Mu You failed to find the little girl, then passed the Werewolf at the village entrance, where the Werewolf made a throat-slitting gesture but neither attacked.
• Mu You resolved to grow stronger before settling his score with the Werewolf and prepared to use the Aries Ring at midnight.
• The Aries Ring opened a portal and gave Mu You the Mystic Arts Association's four rules, including secrecy, nonviolence during meetings, and concealing members' identities.
• Mu You entered the meeting and found himself seated at the head of a table with six other members, all obscured by black mist and unable to leave their chairs.
• Mu You learned that the attendees spoke Chinese and seemed to be players, then listened as the Taurus member offered to explain the rules to the three newcomers.

At his first Mystic Arts Association meeting, Mu You used the authority of the Aries Ring to stop Taurus and Gemini from recruiting newcomers and abusing their mute privileges. After he expelled them and freed Leo and Sagittarius, Leo began talking so incessantly that Mu You regretted unmuting him.

• Taurus offered Scorpio, Aquarius, and Mu You vice-president positions in the Illuminati and pressed Aquarius to reveal where she lived.
• Mu You challenged Taurus for turning the meeting into a recruitment drive, then muted him when he threatened Mu You.
• Mu You pointed out that Taurus and Gemini had muted Leo and Sagittarius, muted Gemini, and expelled both men from the meeting.
• Mu You unmuted Leo and Sagittarius, and Leo praised Mu You while warning Aquarius that Taurus's recruitment pitch was a scam.
• Leo urged Mu You to ban Taurus and Gemini permanently, but Mu You told him he was too noisy.

Mu You learned more about the Mystic Arts Association’s history and members’ levels, then used his role as overseer to establish rules for trading at its weekly meetings.

• Sagittarius confirmed Leo’s account of the association’s early members and said Capricorn and Libra stopped attending after Gemini and Taurus allegedly wronged them.
• Leo, Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Aquarius revealed their player levels, with Leo claiming he had recently reached level 12.
• When Mu You avoided revealing his level, Leo mistook him for an ancient legend who had surpassed level 15, and the others believed him.
• Mu You redirected the meeting and established rules requiring attendees to bring something tradable, with exceptions for absences and special circumstances.
• Mu You said he would arbitrate trade disputes and permanently expel members found guilty of fraud.

At the Mystic Arts Association meeting, Mu You presented a Rejuvenation spell and heard Leo’s warning that many Astral Spirit Creatures would enter Earth that morning. He began negotiating with Sagittarius and Aquarius for ingredients in exchange for his two copies of the spell.

• Mu You introduced the Rejuvenation spell, which could restore a person’s past appearance and heal injuries, and established the meeting’s speaking rules.
• Leo declined to trade for Rejuvenation and freely shared his prediction that the wall would crack between six and seven that morning, allowing many low-level Astral Spirit Creatures onto Earth.
• Scorpio said he had only become a Secret Art Practitioner the previous day and had nothing ready to offer.
• Sagittarius offered Summon Warhawk and asked to trade for Rejuvenation, while Aquarius offered Shockwave and made the same request.
• Mu You told Sagittarius and Aquarius that he had two Rejuvenation cards and showed them a list of six Spirit-Calling Potion ingredients he needed.
• Sagittarius recognized the ingredients as high-grade and asked whether Mu You was a high-level Potion Maker, and Mu You gave a hesitant answer.

At the society meeting, Mu You traded Rejuvenation to Sagittarius for Resurrection Grass and a Summon Warhawk spell, then agreed to give Aquarius a Rejuvenation card in exchange for a promised drop of red dragon blood. The meeting ended with Mu You returning home, waiting on Aquarius to complete her quest and deliver the rare ingredient next week.

• Sagittarius praised Mu You as a Potion Maker and traded him Resurrection Grass and a Summon Warhawk card for Rejuvenation.
• Aquarius revealed that a quest reward could give her a drop of red dragon blood, and Mu You agreed to trade her Rejuvenation before she completed the quest.
• Aquarius promised to bring the red dragon blood to the next meeting, and Mu You insisted that she complete the quest.
• Leo dominated the conversation after the trades while Mu You listened for useful information.
• The meeting ended, and Mu You returned home.

Mu You tested his new Black Magic spells and used meditation to restore his magic, then learned that the morning’s earthquake marked an outbreak of anomalies across the country. After spotting Qubai Mountain as the likely site of a nearby Spatial Rift, he set out to investigate with Cola.

• Mu You bought equipment and powders for potion-making, then meditated in his Small Wooden House to restore his Mental Power faster.
• Mu You tested Shockwave on a trash can and summoned a level-five Warhawk, discovering that the Warhawk could share its vision and see invisible units.
• Mu You sent his game character toward Mist Mountain and went to sleep, but a violent earthquake woke him and Cola at six in the morning.
• Mu You checked disappearing news reports and learned that the earthquake’s epicenter was near Qubai Mountain, where a Spatial Rift may have appeared.
• Mu You packed his supplies, stuffed Cola and his phone into his backpack, and left to investigate Qubai Mountain.

Mu You traveled toward Qubai Mountain and found a moving, radish-shaped plant that Cola identified as a mandrake. They searched the mountainside for it, and Cola warned that its cry could put nearby creatures to sleep.

• Mu You packed supplies, left a note for Xiao Ya and Lin Xue, and hired a taxi to Qubai County Town.
• Mu You used Warhawk to scout the route and saw soldiers and police blocking the entrance to Qubai Mountain.
• Mu You spotted a white radish-like plant running through the forest, paid the driver, and hurried into the woods to find it.
• Mu You changed into the Night Watchman's Skin, put on the Invisibility Cloak, and searched the grassy area where he had seen the plant.
• Mu You brought Cola out of his backpack and asked him to identify the plant.
• Cola identified it as a mandrake and warned Mu You that its cry could put nearby creatures to sleep.

Mu You and Cola found and safely collected a mandrake after its cries nearly hypnotized them. They then spotted a player fighting an armored brown bear, and Mu You weighed whether to intervene before the player was killed.

• Cola found the buried mandrake and pulled it out, causing its cries to knock Cola unconscious and nearly put Mu You to sleep.
• Mu You rewound time with the Pocket Watch, stopped Cola from pulling the mandrake, and pulled it out himself with his ears plugged.
• Mu You put the mandrake in his backpack, where it stopped crying and escaped to burrow into the grass.
• Two young men arrived at the patch and realized an unaffiliated player had disturbed the ground and taken something.
• Mu You and Cola followed Warhawk to a clearing, where they found a player fighting an armored brown bear.
• Mu You watched the badly injured player struggle to defend himself and considered whether to help.

Mu You saved Duanpu from a Storm Bear and helped him kill it, then learned that players had a forum app with guides and tutorials. The discovery left Mu You wondering who had given him the USB drive containing his game.

• The Storm Bear shattered Duanpu’s shield and nearly killed him before Mu You blasted it away and struck its hind leg with the Bone-Shattering Knife.
• Mu You teleported out of the bear’s attack and peppered it with arrows while Duanpu healed and joined the fight.
• Mu You and Duanpu coordinated their attacks until Mu You landed the final arrows and killed the level 7 Storm Bear.
• Duanpu offered Mu You both valuable bear paws, but Mu You accepted only one and planned to collect the rest of the carcass later.
• Duanpu asked to add Mu You through the player forum, and Mu You learned that the forum app came with the game download.
• Mu You realized his copied game files lacked the forum app and wondered who had left him the USB drive.

Mu You escaped the Abnormal Investigation Bureau and ventured deeper into the mountains to hunt magical creatures. He and Cola entered a strange, web-covered area, and Mu You suspected something had been influencing their minds.

• Duanpu told Mu You about the player forum and invited him to explore together, but the Abnormal Investigation Bureau arrived and ordered them to leave.
• The bureau warned that a newly discovered A-rank anomaly site lay nearby and threatened to arrest anyone who stayed.
• Mu You teleported away with the brown bear's corpse before the bureau could stop him.
• Mu You continued hunting monsters in the forest while Cola complained about the sticky, filthy surroundings.
• Mu You noticed the dense webs, secretions, eggs, and remains around them and wondered whether something had manipulated their minds to lead them there.

Mu You and Cola discovered a deadly spider nest and escaped a vast swarm of newly hatched spiders, but Mu You stopped to search for the Broodmother Spider. As the swarm closed in, the Fool Card began glowing and time slowed around him.

• Mu You found the recently dead skeletons of two enforcers and recovered their equipment, including a warning that the area was a Grade A Anomaly Site and a creature detector.
• Mu You activated the detector, but its red display concealed the danger: countless spiders hatched around him and Cola, who flattened the first spider.
• Mu You teleported away with Cola, but the spiders pursued them, and Cola explained that a Broodmother Spider controlled the swarm.
• Mu You used Apparition and increased his Agility while fleeing, but spiders surged in from both behind and ahead.
• Mu You stopped on a boulder, deciding they had to find and kill the Broodmother Spider before his Magic Power ran out.
• Time slowed around Mu You, and the Fool Card in his pocket began to glow.

Mu You used the Fool card’s time barrier to slaughter the swarm of spiders, then killed the Broodmother Spider and discovered a rare mutated spider egg. He left the battle exhausted but much stronger, with the Gluttonous Demon Spider egg in hand.

• Mu You realized his stats and reckless choice had activated the Fool Barrier, giving him an hour of slowed time to fight.
• Mu You fired more than ten thousand arrows inside the barrier, killing tens of thousands of spiders before the barrier ended.
• Mu You found that the game had disconnected inside the barrier, then used his experience to level up twice and redistribute his stats.
• The Broodmother Spider arrived and Mu You killed it with help from Cola’s illusions.
• Mu You found a pink egg among the Broodmother Spider’s eggs and identified it as a rare Gluttonous Demon Spider that could grow by devouring monsters.

Mu You contracted the Gluttonous Demon Spider, whose Devour ability consumed the remains of the spider nest and raised it to level 1. He then tracked the mind-controlling creature into the forest, while Zhang Yang’s force discovered that the anomaly site had already been cleared.

• Mu You converted the Gluttonous Demon Spider egg into a Familiar and activated its Devour ability.
• The Gluttonous Demon Spider consumed the slime and spider remains, reached level 1, and remained incubating.
• Mu You stored the egg in his backpack and set off with Cola to find the mind-controlling creature detected north of them.
• Zhang Yang briefed his team on the dangers of the Broodmother Spider nest and prepared to lead an assault.
• A scout reported that the spider nest was shrinking, and Zhang Yang sent reconnaissance players into the forest.
• The scouts reported that the spiders, eggs, and nest were gone, and Zhang Yang learned someone had cleared the anomaly site.

Mu You and Cola found and captured a Wicked Mother Bird whose gaze could control people, then discovered that its nest held ten Chocobo eggs. Mu You left thrilled by the valuable find and learned that the bird had stolen the eggs to incubate them.

• Cola alerted Mu You to a purple bird near their location, and Mu You spotted it guarding a nest in a tree.
• Mu You tried to knock the bird from its nest with stones, but it controlled him with its gaze until Cola pounced on it and broke its hold.
• Mu You blindfolded the captured bird and climbed up to retrieve its nest, finding ten unusually large eggs inside.
• Cola identified the eggs as Chocobo eggs, and Mu You realized their potential value.
• Cola explained that the bird was a Wicked Mother Bird that stole other birds’ eggs because it liked incubating them.

Mu You kept the Wicked Mother Bird and its eggs in his backpack space, then followed military helicopters to a large battle in the forest. He discovered that the soldiers and three players were fighting the Werewolf, whose weapons he recognized.

• Mu You moved the tree and nest into his backpack space, released the Wicked Mother Bird, and let it continue incubating its eggs there.
• Mu You tried speaking to the bird and warned it not to use its ability, then left the backpack with Cola.
• Mu You and Cola searched the forest for hours but found almost no magical creatures, so Mu You considered going home.
• Military helicopters flew overhead, and a radio transmission announced that a target had been sighted; Mu You followed the helicopters with the Warhawk.
• Mu You saw soldiers and three trench-coated players fighting a Werewolf, then recognized the Werewolf by his Chain Claw and saber.

Mu You and Cola reached the battlefield and discovered that Werewolf and the military were fighting over a Unicorn whose blood could restore lifespan. Mu You chose to try to steal the Unicorn while also seeking a way to make Werewolf use up his last summon, and prepared a plan with Cola.

• Mu You watched Werewolf summon a Sanctuary Knight with a statue, and the knight held off the ten government players while Werewolf attacked the foal.
• Werewolf wounded the foal with his Chain Claw, causing it to grow into a giant Unicorn and leap above the trees.
• Cola explained that Unicorn blood could restore any creature's lifespan, making the Unicorn effectively priceless.
• Mu You and Cola hid near the battlefield and saw the military players begin to overpower the Sanctuary Knight while Werewolf drove the wounded Unicorn toward collapse.
• Mu You decided to prioritize stealing the Unicorn over helping the military kill Werewolf, then called on Cola to carry out a difficult mission.

Zhang Yang’s team struggled to capture the Unicorn while Werewolf overwhelmed them, until a mysterious caller revealed Werewolf’s weakness and a trap beneath a northern tree. The team lured Werewolf into the traps and shot his heart, but he activated a transmitter and shielded the Unicorn as the barrage continued.

• Zhang Yang watched his ten players falter against Werewolf and considered ordering gunfire that could kill the Unicorn.
• A caller claiming to be Goshawk told Zhang Yang that Werewolf’s heart was his weakness and that traps lay beneath the large tree to the north.
• Werewolf defeated the Unicorn, seized it, and stuffed it into a sack as Zhang Yang’s team opened fire.
• Zhang Yang redirected the gunfire to drive Werewolf toward the northern tree, where wooden traps snapped shut around his legs.
• The team fired at Werewolf’s heart, damaging it and weakening his regeneration.
• Werewolf pressed a button on his transmitter instead of using his statue, then shielded the Unicorn with his body.

Mu You rescued the injured Unicorn and escaped the mountain with Cola, while the Black-Robed Man saved the Werewolf and discovered he had been tricked. The Black-Robed Man gave the Werewolf one month to kill a traitor before the Global Open Beta began.

• Mu You used an Air Cannon to free the Unicorn from the military’s encirclement, then chased it through the woods until he knocked it unconscious with a Mandrake and stored it in his backpack.
• Mu You met Cola at the Spider Forest and learned that a Black-Robed Man had rescued the Werewolf with Apparition.
• Mu You decided to leave the mountain quickly, carrying the Unicorn and the Gluttonous Demon Spider in his backpack as the police prepared to search the area.
• The Black-Robed Man gave the Werewolf a healing potion, then revealed that the bundle he had taken contained a Demon Rabbit corpse rather than the Unicorn.
• The Black-Robed Man berated the Werewolf for failing his missions and ordered him to kill a traitor within one month, before the Global Open Beta began.

After escaping Qubai Mountain, Mu You returned to the Pet Shop, where Lin Xue and Xiao Ya had waited up for him. He treated the wounded Unicorn and checked on his other Magical Creatures, then wondered how he would feed the growing menagerie in his backpack.

• Mu You and Cola slipped past the police cordon at Qubai Mountain and made their way back to the Pet Shop.
• Mu You found Lin Xue and Xiao Ya waiting for him; Lin Xue took the sleeping Xiao Ya home and told Mu You his purchases were in the upstairs storeroom.
• Mu You entered his backpack’s interior and cleaned and bandaged the wounded Unicorn, which allowed him to treat it.
• Mu You discovered the Gluttonous Demon Spider had reached level 2 and fed it the stored Bear Corpse to fuel further growth.
• Mu You checked the wary Wicked Mother Bird and wondered what to feed it, the Unicorn, and the future Chocobo.

Mu You reached Mist Mountain in the game and was killed by a powerful Man-Eating Flower. He summoned a stronger Thunder Warhawk, used its lightning attack to defeat the flower, and found its bulb and seeds.

• Mu You arrived at Mist Mountain and encountered a level 11 Man-Eating Flower that killed him and his Warhawk.
• Mu You rewound time and meditated until his crystal overflowed with Magic Power.
• Mu You summoned a level 8 Thunder Warhawk and tested its loud lightning attack on a tree.
• Mu You commanded the Thunder Warhawk to attack the Man-Eating Flower from above until it died.
• Mu You searched the Man-Eating Flower's remains and obtained one bulb and three seeds.

Mu You accepted an old woman’s request to find her missing herb-gatherer grandson and climbed Mist Mountain with the Warhawk, defeating several monsters along the way. Near a cliff, his Pumpkin Lantern revealed signs that an herb gatherer had fallen while picking a plant, possibly uncovering the grandson’s fate.

• Mu You put away the Man-Eating Flower Bulb and Seeds, then accepted the old woman’s quest to find her missing grandson.
• Mu You used the Time Pocket Watch and the Warhawk to defeat mountain monsters, gather materials, and reach level seven.
• Mu You followed a clue revealed by the Pumpkin Lantern to a cliff where an herb gatherer may have fallen while collecting a medicinal herb.
• Mu You wondered whether the fallen herb gatherer was the old woman’s grandson and why he had not returned after a month.