Recaps

Lumian discovered that Sallys had disappeared and suspected she and Julie were using the Mirror World to carry out the Witch Sect’s plan involving “0-01.” After obtaining audio study aids from Heraberg, he entered the Underground Mausoleum blindfolded and sensed that the Abscessed Severed Hand’s head was nearby.

• Lumian found Sallys’s empty room and suspected she had used its mirror to enter the Mirror World.
• Lumian decided to enter the Underground Mausoleum and disrupt the Witch Sect’s operation despite Termiboros warning that it was dangerous.
• Heraberg converted Lumian’s books into audio information on a brass sheet and made him Brass Earpieces.
• Lumian covered his eyes, descended into the Underground Mausoleum, and found that the Underworld Daoist’s mark protected him from the darkness draining his vitality.
• Lumian sensed the Abscessed Severed Hand’s head nearby and set out to find it before confronting Julie and Sallys.

Blindfolded in the Underground Mausoleum, Lumian fought an unseen creature and recovered the Abscessed Severed Hand’s head, then continued toward the Soldier Puppets. A strange rain, watching gazes, ominous drumming, and a chuckle confronted him in a hall deep underground.

• Lumian entered a room by following his mental map and was seized by an unseen creature near the Abscessed Severed Hand’s head.
• Lumian attacked the creature with flames and a burst of force, then tore the head free from a body it had been joined to.
• Lumian realized a headless corpse had likely mistaken the Abscessed Severed Hand’s head for its own and avoided storing the head in his Traveler’s Bag.
• Lumian left the room carrying the head and continued blindfolded toward the mausoleum’s bottom level, using his map and resisting the urge to treat uncertain dangers as real.
• Lumian reached a hall where cold droplets fell around him, and a pounding drumbeat and thin chuckle sounded as he stepped forward.

Lumian's corruption let him pass through the hall's dangers as one of 0-01's own, and his hallucinations revealed that Gei was the Person in the Mirror. After Lumian destroyed a soldier puppet, Albus approached him and proposed an alliance against a Witch carrying a dangerous item.

• Lumian's corruption triggered hallucinations of his past nightmares, but also made the hall's dangers treat him as one of their own as he followed his mental map.
• Lumian saw Gei reflected in the armor of the undead army and realized Gei was likely the Person in the Mirror who had infiltrated Morola.
• Lumian concluded that 0-01 might be treating him as a marionette and that the exam tested how much corruption he could endure.
• A soldier puppet attacked Lumian in the passage, and he used his knowledge of its weak point to destroy it with a fire-infused punch.
• Albus revealed that he could share the soldier puppets' vision and said he had tested Lumian; he proposed working together against a Witch with a dangerous item.

Lumian and Albus agreed to cooperate against Julie and Sallys, though each remained wary and planned to exploit the other. As Lumian explored the Underground Mausoleum, Albus warned him that Vanak was approaching.

• Albus explained that Julie's item could make her a vessel for the Primordial Witch, whose descent would last only three seconds but threaten them both.
• Lumian and Albus agreed to work together against Julie and Sallys while privately considering how to use each other as a shield.
• Lumian told Albus about Gei, a Person in the Mirror, and Albus said the Special Mirror World might have caused the problems in Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Lumian refused Albus's offer to share the soldier puppets' vision because he feared becoming a marionette.
• Lumian entered an uncharted area of the Underground Mausoleum, felt a prickling sensation like approaching lightning, and heard Albus warn that Vanak was a dozen or so meters ahead.

Lumian used his growing corruption to pass Vanak safely through the forest of lightning, then continued toward Corpse Mountain Peak with Albus. Julie attacked him as he entered the area, while Jenna finished digesting her Witch potion in Trier and prepared to advance.

• Lumian let the corruption bring him into sync with Morola’s dangers and walked past Vanak without being attacked.
• Albus watched Lumian pass Vanak and followed through the forest of lightning and the mirrored passageway.
• Lumian and Albus agreed to approach Corpse Mountain Peak together, though neither fully trusted the other.
• Lumian rushed out of the passageway and Julie attacked him, prompting him to activate the Black Mark and draw out the headless corpse.
• Jenna told Franca she had finished digesting the Witch potion and decided her spiritual intuition favored advancing immediately.

Lumian escaped the meteor strike and let the Abscessed Severed Hand’s corpse reunite, while Julie’s attack killed Vanak only for him to rise as an undead creature. As Julie and Vanak clashed again, the reassembled corpse shook the Underground Mausoleum.

• Julie summoned a meteor that struck near Vanak and blasted Albus and Lumian away.
• Lumian teleported away from the reuniting parts of the Abscessed Severed Hand and left them to join.
• Vanak rose from the blast as an undead creature and extinguished the flames around Corpse Mountain Peak.
• Julie summoned icicles, but Vanak stopped her and sent a tornado sweeping back toward her.
• The Abscessed Severed Hand fitted its head back onto its neck, making the world shake and the void creak.

Lumian realized that Julie’s trap had drawn them into the Mirror World, where Julie and Vanak fought the Abscessed Severed Hand’s reassembling corpse. The corpse restored its complete body and began transforming into a beautiful woman, then opened its scarlet eyes.

• Albus described cracks around the corpse, and Lumian deduced they were inside the Mirror World; he opened his eyes after confirming Julie was not wearing a blindfold.
• The Abscessed Severed Hand broke through the shattered space and reattached itself to its corpse as Julie and Vanak attacked it.
• Julie formed a volcano beneath the corpse, and Vanak and the undead soldiers hurled Flame Spears at it, but it regenerated from the burning fragments.
• The corpse shed its rotten flesh and healed, captivating Julie, Lumian, Albus, and Vanak with its beauty as its body began changing into a woman’s.
• Lumian wondered whether corruption had caused the transformation, and the corpse opened its scarlet eyes.

Lumian, Julie, and Vanak fought the revived Abscessed Severed Hand as 0-01's power broke into the Mirror World and threatened everyone. In Trier, Jenna drank the Pleasure potion and learned that Lady Krismona's father was Alista Tudor.

• The Abscessed Severed Hand targeted Lumian, then seized Julie and choked her before 0-01's flames broke into the Mirror World and forced it to release her.
• Vanak gathered the invading flames and his Undead Army into a fireball, while Julie summoned a meteorite; their attacks blasted the Abscessed Severed Hand apart, but it began regenerating.
• 0-01's influence overwhelmed Julie, who invoked Primordial Witch Descent and turned the wilderness gray-white before looking at Lumian.
• Franca confirmed the area was secure and watched as Jenna drank the Pleasure potion.
• Jenna saw a holy figure who told her to reconcile with her Person in the Mirror, then revealed that her father was Alista Tudor.

Julie’s divine descent destroyed the Mirror World and turned Lumian to stone, but he somehow escaped back to Corpse Mountain Peak without using the Mirror Buckle. Julie then vanished as tainted blood falling toward 0-01’s banner, prompting Albus to intervene while Lumian prepared to exploit the distraction.

• Julie completed her prayer, and the Primordial Witch’s power turned Lumian and the Mirror World to stone as Julie attacked.
• Lumian awoke near the real Corpse Mountain Peak beside Albus, who had escaped through the Mirror World; Lumian discovered his Mirror Buckle still had two uses.
• Julie reappeared above Corpse Mountain Peak and looked toward 0-01’s banner, deepening Lumian’s corruption when he saw it.
• Julie faded into a puddle of tainted blood that fell toward the banner, and Sallys cried out her name.
• Albus transformed into a blazing Flame Spear and shot toward the banner to stop Julie’s blood from staining it, while Lumian took out Hisoka’s Demon's Whisper bone ring.

Lumian used Demon's Whisper to locate Gei, then infected him with the corruption carried by Avatar of Desire. As Gei lost control and pursued him, Lumian fled toward Sallys and Albus Medici at the summit of Corpse Mountain Peak.

• Lumian put on Demon's Whisper, used its Malice Perception to find Gei hiding in a corpse's mirrored breastplate, and attacked him with Avatar of Desire.
• Gei used Mirror Substitute to evade Lumian's first attack, but the corruption carried by Lumian's illusory black liquid began transforming him.
• Lumian recognized that watching Gei's transformation could corrupt him too, so he left the mirror and ran toward Corpse Mountain Peak.
• Gei pursued Lumian as an indescribable shadow, while Lumian fled by teleporting and transforming into a Flame Spear.
• Lumian reached the summit and saw Sallys and Albus Medici.

Albus broke Sallys’s Mirror Image Maze at Corpse Mountain Peak, but Lumian’s arrival triggered a battle against Albus, Sallys, and a mirror-substituting monster. After Albus destroyed the monster, Lumian and Sallys both rushed toward 0-01.

• Albus realized Sallys had trapped him in a Mirror Image Maze and failed to destroy its hidden mirrors with fireballs.
• Albus invoked the God of War, destroying the Special Mirror World and freeing himself from the maze as Sallys donned a black tear-shaped forehead ornament.
• Lumian appeared near 0-01, and Albus and Sallys attacked him before a monstrous figure emerged from the Iron-Black Cuirass.
• The monster used Mirror Substitute and trapped Albus and Sallys in darkness, while Lumian struck at Albus and discovered his flame form resisted the blow.
• Albus launched a barrage of explosions that exhausted the monster’s Mirror Substitutes, then destroyed it with Fire Ravens.
• Lumian drew a straight sword and teleported toward the summit as Sallys rushed there too.

Lumian and Albus Medici fought atop Corpse Mountain Peak while Sallys attacked from hiding, each using their abilities and prepared counters. After Lumian’s Mirror Buckle was spent and he dropped the Sword of Courage, he abruptly fell ill and escaped, while Albus also began to weaken.

• Lumian saw the lingering flames across the wilderness go out and attacked Albus with ordinary swords, while Albus forged a greatsword from corpses and bones.
• Sallys attacked with ice spears, and Albus used Fog of War and a massive explosion; Lumian escaped through the Mirror World using his Mirror Buckle, exhausting its final use.
• Sallys tried to curse Albus through ice mirrors and her black-flame-covered hair, but Albus melted the mirrors and drove her into hiding.
• Lumian attacked Albus with the Sword of Courage, but Albus anticipated the divine strike, turned to steel, and escaped through a prepared mirror.
• Lumian became black liquid and tried to circle around Albus, but he suddenly grew weak, dropped the Sword of Courage, and vanished using the Black Mark.
• Albus also swayed and grew weaker atop Corpse Mountain Peak.

Lumian and Albus struggled against a mystical disease Sallys had spread through the mirrors, while Albus used the growing corruption around “0-01” to lure Sallys into revealing herself and kill her. Afterward, Lumian and Albus exchanged taunts as “0-01” continued to shake, each concealing what they knew about the coming awakening.

• Sallys explained that pathogens from a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact had spread through the mirrors, rapidly draining Lumian and Albus’s strength and spirituality.
• Lumian removed the Demon's Whisper Bone Ring, used Archbishop Heraberg’s charm and earplug, and teleported to avoid an attack.
• Albus revealed that “0-01” was shaking more violently and claimed it was about to break free, prompting Sallys to look directly at it and suffer further corruption.
• Albus trapped Sallys in a Fog of War and repeatedly bombarded her with blue fire until her body disintegrated.
• Albus burned Julie's tainted blood before it reached “0-01,” then privately recognized that the artifact would need his help and that he had misled Sallys and Lumian.
• Albus challenged Lumian about his remaining strength, and Lumian answered that something else was unusual in the wilderness.

Lumian deduced a hidden taboo governing the Underground Mausoleum’s darkness and warned Albus Medici that his persistent firelight could trigger a catastrophe. As “0-01” shook more violently, the sky suddenly turned the color of flames.

• Lumian explained that “0-01” had been altered by its past owners and that the Morola seal differed from the seal in Fourth Epoch Trier.
• Lumian returned the Sword of Courage to the Traveler’s Bag and then removed the black Teardrop-shaped Forehead Ornament from Sallys’s remains, reducing the source of the mystical pathogens.
• Lumian identified hidden problems in the taboos about experimental subjects carrying hurricane lanterns and Beyonders above Sequence 5 approaching “0-01.”
• Lumian concluded that the mausoleum required eternal darkness and that the remnant flames and Albus’s continuing firelight risked triggering a concealed taboo.
• Albus realized the danger as “0-01” trembled increasingly violently, and the sky abruptly took on the color of burning flames.

Albus Medici failed to change the awakening of “0-01” and escaped into a special Mirror World as Morola descended into catastrophe. Lumian survived the anomaly by relying on his knowledge and the Church of Knowledge’s intervention, while Jenna and Franca uncovered a new clue about who created the special Mirror World.

• Albus Medici reached “0-01” and smeared Medici blood on its scorched flag, but the gesture caused no immediate change and the artifact began trying to assimilate him.
• Lumian refused to stop Albus, then vanished when Albus tried to attack him; Albus escaped into a special Mirror World using his crystal necklace.
• “0-01” unleashed chaos across Morola, while Heraberg sensed the Knowledge Church was being affected and raised his hand.
• Lumian became a marionette of “0-01” but stayed lucid by listening to knowledge from the Brass Charm; the Church of Knowledge eventually suppressed the abnormality, and Lumian returned to rest.
• Jenna told Franca that Lady Krismona had urged her to reconcile with her Person in the Mirror and said the Blood Emperor was Her father.
• Franca concluded that Alista Tudor and the Primordial Witch may have jointly created the special Mirror World.

Franca and Jenna speculated about the Tamara Family, Mr. Door, and the origins of the Special Mirror World before deciding to report what they had learned. Lumian completed his studies, became 0-01’s proxy while resisting the Blood Emperor’s influence, and encountered the Abscessed Severed Hand, which spoke the name “Ombella.”

• Franca and Jenna discussed whether the Tamara Family and Mr. Door had helped the Blood Emperor and the Primordial Witch create or control the Special Mirror World.
• Jenna said they needed to report their information, and Franca urged her to rest and adjust to her potion’s effects.
• At six in the morning, Lumian recovered from his illness and continued studying until he sensed the corruption reaching a critical point.
• Lumian recognized that the Underworld Daoist’s seal and the Blood Emperor’s residual aura made him mystically similar to 0-01, then teleported to the artifact and became its proxy.
• Lumian returned to the wilderness and saw the Abscessed Severed Hand leading undead soldiers and Steel Soldier Puppets on patrol.
• The Abscessed Severed Hand stopped before Lumian and said, “Ombella...”

Lumian left Morola after investigating the Abscessed Severed Hand’s strange recognition of him as Ombella, then returned to Trier exhausted. His sudden appearance startled Ludwig, who dropped his fork.

• The Abscessed Severed Hand called Lumian “Ombella,” and Lumian wondered whether the hand had known the former Giant Queen or sensed his bloodline as the Great Mother’s Divine Child.
• Lumian collected Sallys’s Witch of Pain Beyonder characteristic and corpse fragments, then used his status as 0-01’s proxy to return Morola’s flying heads to their bodies.
• At the Knowledge Church, Lumian returned his borrowed books, learned they and his belongings had been infected with disease, and asked Heraberg how to leave Morola.
• Heraberg explained that residents were free to leave and gave Lumian church vestments; Lumian walked through the underground passage, opened the brass doors, and left.
• Lumian teleported back to his Trier apartment, where Ludwig dropped his fork in surprise at seeing him.

Lumian returned from Morola, gave Ludwig a pathogen-infected stomach pouch, and rested before reading Madam Magician’s detailed reply. He learned more about the dangers surrounding 0-01, Albus Medici, and the Sealed Artifact Black Tear, then inspected the Traveler’s Bag and approached the mirror.

• Lumian gave Ludwig the Depriver’s stomach pouch, warning him about its mystical pathogens, and Ludwig ate it before thanking his godfather.
• Lumian wrote a report about his trip to Morola, sent it to Madam Magician through the Doll messenger, and slept soundly until morning.
• Lumian read Madam Magician’s warning that becoming 0-01’s proxy had drawn him into the contest for the Red Priest’s throne and could make the Witch Sect and Red Angel consider killing him.
• Madam Magician explained that the Abscessed Severed Hand might have been an Angel-level Vampire, though the Sanguine had no record of such a member, and that Albus Medici was still alive.
• Lumian learned that Black Tear granted Mirror Magic and strengthened his Harvest but spread mystical pathogens and caused other dangerous effects; Madam Magician had isolated it in the Traveler’s Bag and provided a way to burn away the pathogens.
• Lumian checked the Traveler’s Bag, found Sallys’s Witch of Pain characteristic inside Black Tear’s isolated space, and walked toward the full-length mirror.

After becoming 0-01’s proxy, Lumian discovered changes to his abilities and body, then visited Franca and Jenna in Trier. Jenna’s advancement revealed that Krismona was Blood Emperor Alista Tudor’s daughter, prompting Lumian to connect the revelation to his survival in Morola and the Primordial Witch’s possible plans for the Blood Emperor’s resurrection.

• Lumian tested the Mirror Image Mark, sensed his connection to Banishment City, and assessed the powers and physical changes he had gained as 0-01’s proxy.
• Lumian learned that Ludwig had eaten the entire Depriver’s stomach pouch, reprimanded him, and asked about his advancement.
• Lumian visited Franca and Jenna, noticed Jenna’s new charm after she advanced to Pleasure, and learned that Krismona’s father was Blood Emperor Alista Tudor.
• Lumian recounted his Morola struggles and explained that he was now 0-01’s proxy, though its authority worked only in Morola.
• Lumian wondered why he had survived Julie’s Divine Descent, and Franca suggested that the Primordial Witch had saved him to preserve the Blood Emperor’s chance of resurrection.

Lumian and Franca discussed their discoveries and plans, while Jenna prepared to move out to avoid the Black Witch’s scrutiny. Franca concealed Lumian’s condition from Clarisse, then received a letter from Madam Judgement about Mr. Stars’s request.

• Lumian proposed investigating the Special Mirror World with the Corpse Oil Candle after he became a Half-God, and Franca told him to arrange protection.
• Lumian made Jenna an official team member and said he would reward her with the Witch pathway Beyonder Characteristics she needed; Jenna decided to move out so the Black Witch would not discover her secret.
• Franca returned Lumian’s Lie ear clip and agreed to stay alert for the Black Witch, while Lumian said he would take Amandina to the Samaritan Woman Spring once his condition stabilized.
• Clarisse appeared in Franca’s mirror and questioned her about Lumian; Franca acted bashful and said he had become more vigorous, while implying he seemed unfamiliar and possibly corrupted.
• Madam Judgement’s messenger Ongla delivered Franca a letter saying Mr. Stars’s first request for help had been decided.

Franca received a request from Mr. Stars to decipher ancient pictographic writing and planned to seek help from the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society. Meanwhile, Lumian assigned Ludwig a food-report task before Jenna approached him with a proposal to help digest her Pleasure potion.

• Franca read Madam Judgement's letter, learned more about the being worshipped in the Special Mirror World, and was tasked with investigating Jasmine and the Black Witch alongside the Seven of Cups.
• Franca recognized that the attached writing resembled ancient scripts from her former world and decided to ask the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society for help deciphering it.
• Lumian assigned Ludwig to research Trier's meat pies and prepare a tasting route for the next day, then reviewed ingredients and books in his bedroom.
• Jenna asked Lumian to help digest her Pleasure potion, arguing that his reluctance would accelerate her progress and benefit the team.
• Lumian questioned Jenna about Franca and the consequences, while Jenna insisted the arrangement would be practical and ordinary rather than romantic.

Jenna persuaded Lumian to accept her desire to be with him while she remained a Pleasure Witch, and the two spent the night together. The next day, Franca investigated Mineralogist Jasmine's trail and learned that someone she was seeking had appeared near the same locations.

• Jenna explained why she wanted to be with Lumian and said she did not want them to part with regrets, and Lumian agreed on the condition that she was still a Pleasure Witch.
• Jenna kissed Lumian, and they spent the night together; she later teased him about his nervousness while he prepared to follow Ludwig through Trier.
• Franca received Madam Hella's agreement to convene a gathering of the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society and decided to visit Anthony before Lumian.
• Anthony showed Franca sketches of a person seen near the places where Mineralogist Jasmine had appeared, and Franca recognized him as Harrison, the suspected visitor from Resurrection Island.

Franca learned that Harrison was still in Trier and suspected he was working with the People in the Mirror. She and Jenna planned to use convergence to lure him to the Samaritan Woman Spring, while Lumian began fishing for Devouring Whirlpool believers through Ludwig.

• Franca discussed Harrison's presence in Trier with Anthony, who connected his likely interest in the Samaritan Woman Spring to the People in the Mirror and their Broker allies.
• Franca summoned Chazot Rabbit, sending him a letter and Fors Wall's Great Adventurer 6, then summoned Bainfel.
• Jenna told Franca that Lumian had given Ludwig food-related homework so he would go out, while Lumian followed to protect him and lure Devouring Whirlpool believers.
• Jenna reasoned that catching a high-ranking believer could reveal more about the Whirlpool Plan, and Franca proposed using the Underworld Daoist's powers, Amandina, and the Samaritan Woman Spring to draw Harrison out.
• Lumian watched Ludwig sample a Redfish Hot Beef Pie on Rue Richelieu after feeling emotionally unsettled by the previous night's events.

Lumian returned to Trier and joined Franca and Jenna to bring Amandina from Port Pylos through the Mirror World. After Amandina arrived, Lumian set off with her alone to investigate where a mysterious figure might appear.

• Lumian followed Ludwig through the streets but found no suspected believers in the Devouring Whirlpool, and he used flames to strip a naked man of his top hat.
• Lumian met Franca and Jenna at Apartment 702, 9 Orosei Street, and agreed to ask Amandina what she thought about going to the Samaritan Woman Spring area.
• Franca used Black Tear to send a message through Amandina's mirror and told her to press her hand against it.
• Amandina passed through the Mirror World from Port Pylos to Franca's living room in Trier.
• Lumian explained that Amandina had traveled through the Mirror World, then left with her to investigate the possible appearance of the figure.

Lumian brought Amandina through the Catacombs to the Samaritan Woman Spring, taking the slow route so the convergence of Beyonder characteristics could draw Harrison there. Franca, Jenna, and Anthony waited nearby to ambush him as Lumian and Amandina entered the spring’s fog.

• Lumian explained that he was delaying their journey to give the convergence law time to act, then took Amandina through the Catacombs while warning her about its taboos.
• Lumian sent Amandina through a mirror into the burial chamber concealing the Samaritan Woman Spring and led her down the slope toward it.
• Franca and Jenna hid near the burial chamber, while Anthony used Psychological Invisibility to stay unnoticed despite holding a candle.
• Lumian and Amandina endured the spring’s chilling effects and walked into its grayish-white fog.