Recaps

Xia Xiu arrived at a gathering of Yarn’s believers, fought briefly with Dorn, and introduced himself to Harry as Mephistopheles. After learning that the escaped creation of Adaposs had not been found, Xia Xiu followed Harry to see something that shocked him.

• Xia Xiu arrived at the hall with three BIO-202 Models, and Dorn attacked him before Harry stopped their fight.
• Harry recognized Xia Xiu’s Mark of Ya’en and welcomed him as a Chain Breaker and fellow believer.
• Xia Xiu gave his name as Mephistopheles and asked about the escaped creation of Adaposs, but Harry said it had been avoiding them.
• Harry led Xia Xiu to the rear courtyard, where Xia Xiu saw an object that made his pupils contract.

Xia Xiu joined Harry and Dorn in tracking an intelligent Adaposs flesh creation that had evaded capture. Harry revealed that he needed Xia Xiu’s help to perform a ritual that could locate it, and offered him a sealed jar containing a white worm in exchange.

• Xia Xiu examined a caged flesh cube and learned from Harry that it was an untamed creation that did not obey Flesh Supremacy Lineage holders.
• Harry explained that the intelligent Adaposs creation had left misleading traces at several locations and was likely hiding from the Clock Tower.
• Dorn mocked Xia Xiu for keeping his field closed, while Xia Xiu silently marked him as a target.
• Harry led Xia Xiu to a ritual circle bearing Nadocks’s Seal and explained that the Eye of All-Seeing ritual required three Flesh Supremacy Lineage holders’ fields.
• Harry begged Xia Xiu to help capture the Adaposs creation and offered him a sealed jar containing a white worm.

Harry performed an overclocked ritual that located March and Lisa at Tilbury Port. He and Xia Xiu set out with Dorn to catch them before they could escape Fog City.

• Xia Xiu recognized the white worm in Harry as BIO-006 and promised to help him find Adaposs's creation.
• Harry performed a ritual using seven rats, triggering the [Overclocking] phase and consuming EVE particles.
• The ritual showed March and Lisa at the Port Authority General Cargo Terminal in Tilbury Port.
• Harry identified the location and left with Xia Xiu and Dorn to pursue March and Lisa.
• At Tilbury Port, March told Lisa they would stow away on a cruise ship and escape Fog City.

At Tilbury Port, Harry and Xia Xiu captured Lisa and killed March after a battle aboard a cruise ship. Xia Xiu took March’s corpse away to deliver to Eden, but first stripped it of valuables, including an experiment diary.

• March and Lisa hid in a shipping container, but Dorn broke in and attacked them.
• Lisa fought Dorn, then tried to escape with March by reaching for the ship’s mast, but Harry struck her with a fireball and brought them down.
• Harry summoned a Suffering Flesh Walker, which severed Lisa’s head; March grabbed her and tried to flee, but Harry shot him.
• Lisa attacked Harry in fury, but the Suffering Flesh Walker cut her body apart and captured her head.
• Harry prepared to turn March’s corpse into a BIO Species, but Xia Xiu stopped him and let Harry leave with Lisa.
• Xia Xiu carried March’s corpse to a secluded place and searched it, finding money and an experiment diary.

Xia Xiu read an experiment diary chronicling how a researcher grew close to Item#4-331, named Lisa, and planned to escape with her. The diary ended with them fleeing the Central Containment Room and setting out to leave Youyang.

• The researcher documented experiments with Item#4-331, an undying lump of flesh that could divide and reshape itself, and taught her Terran writing and human anatomy.
• The researcher named the increasingly human subject Lisa, and Lisa grew affectionate toward the researcher while refusing to cooperate with other experimenters.
• After Lisa kissed the researcher, the researcher decided to rescue her from the project and planned their escape from Orléans and Youyang.
• The researcher and Lisa trained, mapped the Central Containment Room, and prepared to evade the flesh faction by using Lisa's flesh duplicates.
• The researcher lured three Mechanical Golems into a trap, then escaped with Lisa through a sewage tunnel.
• The researcher and Lisa reached freedom and set off to leave Youyang.

Xia Xiu reported March’s death to Eden and received a revised directive to retrieve 4-331 in Fog City. After collecting [BIO-006] from Harry, he asked for a list of the Fog City Qualified so he could recruit more followers.

• Xia Xiu finished reading the Experiment Diary and decided to report the [Central Containment Room]’s anomaly weaponization project to Eden.
• Xia Xiu submitted March’s corpse to the Red Book, completing half of his directive and receiving an order to retrieve 4-331 in Fog City.
• Evan and Ximen realized their Burial Agency team had pursued the wrong target in Manchester and set off for Fog City.
• Harry told Xia Xiu that he had used the [Way of the Whole Flesh] on Adaposs’s creation and gave him the bottle containing [BIO-006].
• Xia Xiu asked Harry for a list of the Fog City Qualified, then left with Dorn while checking that their location sharing remained active.

Xia Xiu met with Evan Lowell and Ximen Fulica, agents of Heaven, and traded intelligence about the Flesh-Eating Cult for powerful Thaumaturgy Imprint Seals. After showing them evidence of the cult’s experiments and revealing that he knew where 4-331 was, he hinted that he had an even greater gift for them.

• Xia Xiu introduced himself to Evan Lowell and Ximen Fulica, who invited him to return to the Sanctum and offered to help him leave Deer College.
• Xia Xiu gave Evan and Ximen a roster of Flesh-Eating Cult practitioners in Fog City and asked for three Thaumaturgy Imprint Seals in exchange.
• Xia Xiu handed them the Experiment Diary, and Evan and Ximen reacted with fury to its account of weaponized anomalies.
• Ximen said Xia Xiu’s information and capture of 09 could earn him enough for an Appointment Letter.
• Evan asked Xia Xiu about 4-331, and Xia Xiu confirmed that he knew its location before offering the two agents an even greater gift.

Xia Xiu sold information about Harry and Dorn to Ximen and Evan, who split up to pursue them. Evan cornered Harry in his basement laboratory and defeated the Suffering Flesh Walker, leaving Harry at his mercy.

• Xia Xiu gave Ximen and Evan intelligence about Harry and Dorn in exchange for a fee, then left them to pay his café bill.
• Evan went to Harry's residence while Ximen headed to the underground tavern Dorn frequented.
• Harry placed a rune-covered lump of flesh in a culture vessel and planned to use it to advance in rank during the next Divine Feast ritual.
• Evan attacked Harry's residence, and Harry tried to escape through a tunnel after a Binding Field blocked his teleportation scroll.
• Evan appeared in powered armor, killed the Suffering Flesh Walker with a Chainsword, and reached for the terrified Harry.

Ximen destroyed the Brent Underground Tavern while fighting its nonhuman patrons, then was arrested by the Clock Tower. Evan told Xia Xiu that Ximen was in jail, and Xia Xiu went with Evan to bail him out.

• Dorn celebrated a windfall from Harry and joked with a green-skinned creature about his new brother, Mephistopheles.
• Duomalen attacked Ximen, but Ximen's guardian spirit, Azazel, appeared and terrified the tavern's patrons.
• Ximen unleashed Azazel's [Flame Aura], burning the tavern and most of the creatures inside, then wounded Dorn and slaughtered the survivors.
• Ximen contacted Evan to complain about reimbursement before Clock Tower mages surrounded him and arrested him for violating the Aether Supervision Protocol.
• Evan visited Xia Xiu at the Fog City National Library, told him Ximen was jailed, and Xia Xiu agreed to come along to bail him out.

Ximen and Evan gave Xia Xiu the promised gemstones, Thaumaturgy Stones, and access to three thaumaturgies after their mission to recover 4-331. Ximen invited Xia Xiu to return to the Sanctum, but Xia Xiu refused and decided to remain at Deer College.

• Ximen signed an eighty-thousand-Youyang-Currency reimbursement form after the Clock Tower charged him for the Brent District cleanup.
• Ximen told Xia Xiu that he and Evan had recovered the item and promised to bring him a present the next day.
• Ximen and Evan brought Xia Xiu gemstones and fifty Thaumaturgy Stones as payment for his help.
• Evan authorized Xia Xiu to obtain the three thaumaturgies he had requested through the Book of Preaching.
• Ximen invited Xia Xiu to return to the Sanctum, but Xia Xiu refused because he planned to stay at Deer College.

Xia Xiu returned to Three Portlands, where Camille greeted him and walked him back to Deer College. After settling into Anderson Dormitory, he reviewed the thaumaturgic techniques he had learned and considered which ones to convert into traits.

• Camille and Ushas waited near the Portal, and Camille hurried to greet Xia Xiu when he returned.
• Camille walked Xia Xiu through the rain toward Deer College while Ushas went ahead to her dorm.
• Camille and Xia Xiu parted at the Douglas Fir boundary, agreeing to see each other the next day.
• Xia Xiu unpacked in Anderson Dormitory, then reviewed three thaumaturgic techniques in the Red Book.
• Xia Xiu considered how thaumaturgists converted techniques into traits and combined traits into modules.

After receiving 300 Gospel Points for completing a containment directive, Xia Xiu spent some to connect to Heaven’s Wisdom Tree and acquire a Light Attendant Class. He reached the guarded tree and selected a silver model with a Meta Domain Module, leaving the purchase awaiting payment.

• Eden awarded Xia Xiu 300 Gospel Points for completing Mission 4-331 with the Burial Agency’s White Gloves.
• Xia Xiu reviewed the functions of Heaven’s Three Sacred Trees and paid the fees to connect to the Wisdom Tree.
• Xia Xiu crossed the Rainbow Bridge into the ether sea, where Cherub Type I Guardian Spirit Number Two ordered him to maintain solemnity.
• Xia Xiu requested a Light Attendant Wisdom Fruit and chose the silver model with a Meta Domain Module.
• Number Two demanded a 10-point search fee, which Xia Xiu paid before the chapter ended.

Xia Xiu ate the Light Attendant Wisdom Fruit and gained three thaumaturgy circuits that enhanced his light magic, speed, and strength. He stayed in the Wisdom Tree to test his new powers until Number Two forcibly sent him back to the physical world.

• Number Two gave Xia Xiu the Light Attendant Wisdom Fruit, and Xia Xiu ate it as instructed.
• Xia Xiu’s lineage scanned the fruit and formed Light Attendant thaumaturgy circuits on his spirit body.
• Xia Xiu inspected the circuits, which included three Light Body Transformation forms and a locked Meta Field circuit.
• Xia Xiu refused Number Two’s order to leave and practiced flying with his circuits in the Wisdom Tree.
• Xia Xiu used the Type II Speed form and threw two Octant Light Wheels, prompting Number Two to open the Rainbow Bridge and eject him from the Ether Sea.
• Xia Xiu returned to Anderson Dormitory, Room 404, and complained after falling off the sofa.

Three Portlands traveled toward the Youyang mainland as Deer College's first-year students completed their monthly written exam and began their practical assessment. Camille performed well, Ushas failed, and the assessment paused with Muji, Lifenel, and Xiu Abraham still to be tested.

• Three Portlands set off toward the Youyang mainland after spending a month in the Fog City region.
• Xia Xiu finished Professor Dylan's difficult mathematics exam early, while Ushas complained that the questions were too hard.
• Professor Laugen began the practical assessment, and Billy Porter barely grazed the target with his fireball spell.
• Camille Siffney struck and shattered the target with a water spell, earning a good-plus rating, while Ushas failed with her Sand and Soil Spell.
• Laugen saw that Muji, Lifenel, and Xiu Abraham remained on the roster, then called Muji forward.

Muji, Lifenel, and Xia Xiu completed their thaumaturgy assessments, with Xia Xiu earning an exceptional A+ across all four elements. Professor Laugen announced that students would begin specialist courses and have more time for experiments and club activities, and Xia Xiu left with Camille and Ushas to find somewhere quieter to talk.

• Muji earned an A- for Water Bullet and received lower results for his other three elements.
• Lifenel cast all four elemental spells, earning B+ grades across the board.
• Xia Xiu used a finger-gun gesture to cast four spells with excellent accuracy and earned an A+ overall.
• Professor Laugen announced the end of the monthly assessment and introduced specialist courses and reduced hours for the other required subjects.
• Camille and Ushas approached Xia Xiu, and the three agreed to move somewhere else to talk.

Xia Xiu met two prospective recruits for the Mysterious Animal Research Club at the Three Portlands Observatory Cafe. Muji questioned why Camille, rather than Xia Xiu, was the club president.

• Xia Xiu teased Camille and Ushas by biting the heads off their cat-shaped pastries, then asked Camille about the club’s preparations.
• Camille said her recruitment post had drawn interest but talks often failed over grade-point allocation, and she had arranged to meet two prospective members.
• Muji and Lifenel arrived at the Cafe, ordered drinks, and joined Xia Xiu, Camille, and Ushas.
• Camille outlined the club’s plans, including activities centered on the House of Languages, and Muji and Lifenel expressed interest.
• Muji asked whether Xia Xiu was the club president, then learned Camille held the position and privately wondered why she had been chosen.

Camille proved her qualification to lead the Mysterious Animal Research Club by using her synesthesia to reveal Muji’s thoughts, and the members signed up. After the meeting, Xia Xiu considered the troubled factions behind Muji and Lifenel, who grew uneasy because they knew he belonged to the Heaven lineage.

• Camille secretly used synesthesia to repeat Muji’s unspoken doubts, startling him and Lifenel.
• Muji accepted Camille as the club leader, and he and Lifenel signed the membership list.
• Camille and Ushas discussed club plans with the others before ending the meeting and leaving Xia Xiu, Muji, and Lifenel alone.
• Xia Xiu reflected on the struggles of [Dimension Express] and [Haunted Spirit Street], whose members Muji and Lifenel faced him across the table.
• Xia Xiu tapped the table while Muji and Lifenel grew uneasy, knowing he belonged to the Heaven lineage.

Xia Xiu befriended Muji and Lifenel after recognizing that Muji wanted information about the Sanctum’s political future. He used the [Abnormal Community Life Guide] and [Dimension Express]’s financial troubles to pressure Muji into offering help, leaving Muji uneasy about their new friendship.

• Muji explained that Xia Xiu’s study abroad might signal a coming change in the Sanctum’s Resolution Assembly, and Xia Xiu guessed that he wanted inside information.
• Xia Xiu said he would be friends with Muji and Lifenel regardless of their motives, then brought up [Dimension Express]’s supernatural-item sales channels.
• Xia Xiu showed Muji the [Abnormal Community Life Guide] and hinted that the Inquisition could fine [Dimension Express] and impound its shipments.
• Muji prostrated himself and promised to pass Xia Xiu’s requests to his superiors, while Xia Xiu cheerfully called him a warm and hospitable friend.

Xia Xiu manipulated Muji and Lifenel into helping him obtain the Heavenly Lock Wheel breathing technique and pay his cafe bill, then met Camille to collect their club members and visit their new clubroom. The chapter left Ushas waiting at the observatory cafe with Muji and Lifenel while Xia Xiu and Camille headed there.

• Xia Xiu persuaded Muji to find him the Heavenly Lock Wheel breathing technique through [Dimension Express].
• Xia Xiu unnerved Lifenel by suggesting they spend more time together, then left the cafe and made Muji and Lifenel split his bill.
• Muji and Lifenel bought old Philip's golden retriever pastries after noticing their familiar smiles.
• On the day off, Camille met Xia Xiu beneath an umbrella and told him the club's application had been approved and they had been assigned a clubroom.
• Xia Xiu and Camille headed to the observatory to meet their club members, while Ushas waited there with Muji and Lifenel.

Camille and the newly formed club went to the Wonderful Science District to find their assigned clubroom. The clubroom’s key revealed a hidden dimensional interlayer, and Camille began opening the way inside.

• Xia Xiu, Camille, Ushas, Muji, and Lifenel met at the Cafe, where Camille revealed that their club had been approved and assigned a clubroom.
• Camille led the club members into the Wonderful Science District, where Xia Xiu connected to its community app after passing a contamination scan.
• Camille used the district’s navigation service to locate the clubroom, while Xia Xiu explained the Wand People’s role in providing maps and navigation.
• The group found a dead end, and Lifenel recognized it as a dimensional interlayer that required a token to open.
• Camille took out the clubroom key, which glowed and allowed her to reach through the rippling space.

The Mysterious Animal Research Club settled into its new room and discussed how to earn credits by taking missions. Xia Xiu requested Camille’s approval to feed a dangerous Black Demon Hound, leaving Camille alarmed and mistaking his claim that he had no family for a tragic past.

• Ushas admired the club’s new room, and Camille explained that adding equipment would cost credits.
• Xia Xiu checked the Academy Bulletin while the club discussed getting an Animal Communication Certificate to access missions in the House of Languages.
• Camille explained that she could take the certificate exam using her Synesthesia, and Muji noted that extra credits could be exchanged for resources.
• Xia Xiu asked Camille to approve a mission to feed the Black Demon Hound for a week, and Camille read its deadly abilities and guidelines.
• Camille objected that the mission could kill Xia Xiu and his family, but Xia Xiu said he had no family, prompting Camille to imagine a tragic past.

After accepting the Black Demon Hound mission, Xia Xiu met Muji for a drink and introduced him to the hidden music organization Vortex Music. Xia Xiu explained why Heaven had expelled the group from the Terra Main Plane and hinted that he was willing to deal with its members, leaving Muji alarmed and free to report their conversation to his elders.

• Xia Xiu accepted the Black Demon Hound mission after Camille warned him about its ability.
• Camille established a communal club fund, ended the meeting, and told members they could enter the dimensional interlayer without a token.
• Xia Xiu invited Muji to a restaurant, where they met Quinn, a member of Vortex Music.
• Xia Xiu explained Vortex Music's sensory-resonance music and its expulsion after a disastrous festival caused demonic-fall mutations.
• Xia Xiu told Muji he supported Heaven's decision but preferred to preserve Vortex Music in Three Portlands, then invited Muji to share their conversation with his elders.

Xia Xiu outwitted Muji during their meeting, secured a promise that the Heavenly Lock Wheel breathing method would arrive soon, and took a recorder and a promised Constantine-style trench coat. The story then shifted to Deer College, where Professor Tom Humphrey explained the history of dimensional formalwear before class ended.

• Xia Xiu tricked Muji into revealing that he had recorded their conversation, then deleted the recording and kept the device.
• Muji told Xia Xiu that the Heavenly Lock Wheel breathing method was being negotiated for purchase in Farlan and would likely reach Three Portlands within the week.
• Xia Xiu got Muji to agree to send him a Constantine-style exorcist trench coat, paid the restaurant bill, and left Muji lamenting his losses.
• At Deer College, Professor Tom Humphrey taught his students about dimensional formalwear, its shrinking pockets, and its association with the Heaven Lineage.
• The class bell rang, and Professor Tom dismissed the students.

Xia Xiu entered Deer College’s medium-security control area to feed the Black Demon Hound, whose fear-based contamination made it difficult to feed safely. When the Hound tried to intimidate him, Xia Xiu resisted and pinned it down, leaving it subdued in its cage.

• Xia Xiu reached the Black Demon Hound’s chamber and read the forced-reading liability waiver before entering.
• Xia Xiu inspected the Hound’s containment equipment and approached it with the food from the Think Tank.
• The Black Demon Hound unleashed a giant form of black smoke and used fear intimidation against Xia Xiu.
• Xia Xiu activated his Type III Light Attendant Circuit, seized the real Hound through the cage, and pinned it to the floor.

Xia Xiu completed his first feeding of Deer College’s Black Demon Hound after provoking it and discovering a mind-corruption seed. Back at his dorm, he received a Constantine Exorcist Trench Coat and turned to unpack the Heavenly Lock Wheel.

• Xia Xiu stroked the Black Demon Hound and recalled Deer College’s interest in the Gevaudan Beast and the coming disaster in Farlan.
• Xia Xiu crushed the mind-corruption seed that had formed over the Mark of Ya'en, causing the Black Demon Hound to snarl at him.
• Xia Xiu taunted the Black Demon Hound while it ate, then left after completing the day’s feeding task.
• Xia Xiu returned to Anderson Dormitory and found two parcels from Muji in Storage Locker 404.
• Xia Xiu unpacked the Constantine Exorcist Trench Coat and then turned to the Heavenly Lock Wheel.