Recaps

Allen left Dalaran for Tirisfal Glades, hoping to find materials for his research into souls and magic while visiting his family. After traveling and testing his strength on the road, he reached Kaldz War Fortress, where a young Warrior stopped him and asked for help.

• Allen prepared for a journey by selling potions, buying the Wave Spell and Wind Riding Spell, purchasing a warhorse, and taking three months of leave from the Academy.
• Khadgar told Allen he would soon become Medivh's apprentice and feared that the assignment would get him killed; Allen comforted him before leaving Dalaran.
• Allen rode through Misty Lake Shore, reviewed the Soul Book's spellcasting benefits, and killed the Gnolls who had ambushed him two years earlier.
• Allen reached Kaldz War Fortress, sold gathered monster materials to the quartermaster for eighteen gold coins, and rested at the inn.
• A young Warrior stopped Allen as he was about to leave and urgently asked for his help; Allen warned that he might not be able to provide it.

Allen investigated the poisoning of soldiers who had entered Death Valley and made a potion that temporarily revived Grete’s friend Jack. He left with Priest Abbat to investigate the poison’s source, still unsure whether Grete and Jack were brothers by blood.

• Grete brought Allen into the military camp despite Max’s objections and asked him to examine the poisoned soldiers.
• Allen found that the soldiers’ symptoms pointed to oxygen deprivation and learned that they had become ill after entering Death Valley.
• Allen prepared a potion using Blood Poison Vine and weathered crystal, explaining that it could delay death but would not cure the poison.
• Allen fashioned a syringe and injected Jack, who soon woke and thanked him with Grete.
• Allen told Grete and Jack to inject the potion if symptoms returned, then asked Priest Abbat whether they were brothers by blood.

Allen met Legion Commander Hannes and gained the legion’s support to treat the poisoned soldiers, then traveled with Hannes, Grete, and Abbat to investigate Death Valley. After hearing Grete’s account at their campsite, Allen asked whether the soldiers had charged into the fog while pursuing the enemy.

• Abbat introduced Allen to Hannes, who entrusted him with treating the poisoned soldiers despite the officers’ doubts about his explanation of their symptoms.
• Allen brewed more than twenty cauldrons of medicine, taught caregivers to administer it with syringes, and warned Hannes that they still needed to make a lasting antidote.
• Hannes volunteered to accompany Allen to Death Valley, and Grete and Abbat joined them.
• Allen and the others surveyed Death Valley from high ground, saw fog in the valley, and made camp there for the night.
• Allen questioned Grete about the soldiers’ pursuit into Death Valley and asked whether they had charged into the fog.

Allen discovered that spores in a valley had poisoned the missing Alterac soldiers and found giant pocket flowers whose pouch fluid could digest the spores. He began developing an antidote, but as the soldiers relapsed, Hannes arranged for priests to stabilize them while Allen helped Mage Rhys prepare the potion.

• Allen suspected the valley's haze was smoke containing a harmful substance, then led the group inside with wet cloths and Ice Shields.
• Allen and his companions found an old animal skeleton and the recent corpses of missing Alterac soldiers, whose bodies were covered in swellings that released white powder.
• Allen identified the powder as spores and used his mental power to locate giant pocket flowers that trapped and dissolved them.
• Allen brought a flower back to Kaltz and concluded that its acidic pouch fluid contained enzymes capable of breaking down spores, then began experimenting on an antidote.
• Hannes introduced Allen to Mage Rhys and High Priest Jels, and warned that the soldiers' condition was worsening as the Mitigating Potion lost effectiveness.
• Allen and Rhys disagreed over how to prepare the antidote, but the group decided that priests would stabilize the soldiers while Allen assisted Rhys in making it.

Allen developed an antidote that could survive in the soldiers’ bodies and began treating the poisoned men, prompting Hannes to honor him with a magic ring and family badge. At Hannes’s banquet, Allen explained his method to Mage Rhys and exchanged alchemical knowledge with him.

• Allen and Hannes discussed Mage Rhys’s magic-based approach, and Allen argued that magic was not always the best solution.
• After Rhys’s potion proved unable to clear the spores and caused side effects, Allen developed and brewed an antidote using an adapted digestive enzyme.
• Jack volunteered to test the antidote, and his breathing improved; Allen urged Hannes to treat the most severely poisoned soldiers first and burn the dead to prevent the spores from spreading.
• Hannes gave Allen a magic ring and a family badge in gratitude, and Allen gave him his perfect Healing Potion in return.
• At the banquet, Hannes publicly praised Allen as the man who had saved the soldiers, and Allen later told Rhys how he had made the antidote.
• Allen and Rhys discussed alchemy on the balcony, where Allen learned from Rhys’s greater knowledge.

Allen returned to Hill Village and learned that soldiers had taken all its men for forced labor under Lord Andre’s orders. He confronted Andre at the lord’s residence, where he fought the third-rank Warrior Nawei and prepared to strike him with Airburst Spell.

• Allen examined Hannes’s ring, brewed antidotes with Mage Rhys, and advised Hannes to seal off Death Valley rather than disturb its spores.
• After treating the soldiers and leaving Kaltz, Allen traveled home through Darend, Morien Castle, and Shante City before reaching Hill Village.
• Allen learned from Eva that soldiers had taken the village’s men for forced labor, including his father and Old Jack, and showed her Hannes’s Darend Family token to reassure her.
• Allen stormed Andre’s residence, overwhelmed the guards with Whirlwind, and confronted Andre over the forced labor.
• Nawei attacked Allen to repay a favor to Andre, but Allen slowed him with spells and set up an Airburst Spell strike.

Allen forced Andre to free Hill Village’s villagers, then rescued the injured Old Jack and brought him to a church for treatment. He left Andre alive but killed the guards, and Old Jack woke believing the villagers had died.

• Allen defeated Andre’s last fighter, used the Darend Family’s token and the threat of the Noble Tribunal to make Andre release Hill Village’s villagers, and took Andre’s gold notes and hidden magic necklace as payment.
• Allen secretly placed a potent virility pill beneath Andre’s bed before leaving the lord’s residence.
• At the city gate, Allen reunited with the freed villagers and learned from Jason that Old Jack was gravely injured, so he gave him a Healing Potion and took him to Priest Orlando for treatment.
• Jason explained that Andre had ordered guards to beat Old Jack after the villagers resisted capture, strengthening Allen’s resolve to kill Andre.
• Allen returned to the city lord’s residence and killed all of Andre’s guards, then left Andre alive and went back to the church.
• Old Jack woke beside Allen and Jason, still believing that the villagers had died and apologizing for letting Allen leave.

Allen reunited with his parents and Old Jack in Hill Village, then took charge of the village’s recovery by compensating families, helping the injured, and treating Hans’s broken leg. After learning Andre’s soldiers had known about the village before attacking, Allen suspected someone had recently informed them.

• Allen thanked Priest Orlando for saving Old Jack and brought the rescued villagers back to Hill Village, where he reunited with his family and listened to Old Jack celebrate his becoming a mage.
• Allen assumed responsibility for the village, listed the seven villagers who had died, and gave their families compensation from his own money.
• Allen asked Pakin about the villagers’ injuries and went with him to examine Hans, whose leg had been broken by Andre’s guards.
• Allen reset Hans’s displaced bone and gave Mary Healing Potion, then entrusted Pakin with money for the bereaved families and medicine for the injured.
• Allen asked Pakin how Andre’s soldiers had discovered the village, and Pakin recalled that they had arrived knowing about it beforehand.
• Allen suspected that someone, perhaps a noble, had only recently revealed the village’s location to Andre.

Allen joined the caravan bound for Brill, accepted Eland’s mercenary company as his followers, and reorganized the struggling group into guards. When a Shadow Wolf began preying on the caravan at night, Allen killed it at great personal risk and claimed its valuable materials.

• Allen agreed to travel to Brill with the caravan and learned the journey would take up to a week.
• Allen accepted Eland’s allegiance after hearing the mercenary company had suffered heavy losses and was nearly bankrupt.
• Allen paid the company’s shortfall, provided Healing Potions, disbanded it as a knight company, and established new guard squads, pay, and rules.
• People began disappearing from the caravan at night, and Allen identified a Shadow Wolf as the attacker.
• Allen lured the Shadow Wolf into revealing itself and killed it, suffering three claw wounds while Eland helped hold it off.
• Allen claimed the Shadow Wolf’s materials, which he estimated were worth at least eight hundred gold coins.

Allen reached Brill and sought a craftsman to make a Cloak of Shadows, but instead met Kuks, a High Elf researching the dangers of Arcane Addiction. After discussing Kuks’s findings and arranging for him to craft the item, Allen returned to his lodgings and planned to equip his mercenaries.

• Allen arrived in Brill with the caravan, declined the Salen Family’s invitation, and learned that the Mograine Family was recruiting mercenaries after magical beasts attacked nearby estates.
• Allen searched Brill for someone who could make a Cloak of Shadows and followed a shopkeeper’s advice to a High Elf enchanter’s warded home.
• Allen dismantled the ward and met Kuks, who questioned him about Arcane Addiction before explaining his research into mana’s effects on souls and personality.
• Allen discussed Kuks’s findings, agreed with the dangers he described, and secured Kuks’s agreement to craft the magic item.
• Allen returned to his lodgings, asked Ailand about the mercenaries’ equipment needs, and decided to buy them iron swords, chain mail, clothing, and supplies.

Allen arranged a training program for the mercenaries and left Ailand to oversee it while he sought a Moonshadow Flower needed for his Cloak of Shadows. He found Trick and his mentally ill younger brother Therris, calmed Therris with a potion, and asked Trick what had happened to him.

• Allen created a physical and combat training schedule for the mercenaries and persuaded them to follow it by promising they could become Professionals.
• Allen confirmed that Ailand understood the training plan, then went to meet the elf Kuks about his unfinished Cloak of Shadows.
• Kuks told Allen that he needed a Moonshadow Flower and directed him to Trick, who would trade one if his younger brother's strange illness could be cured.
• Allen found Trick restraining the terrified Therris, gave Therris a sleeping potion, and fought Trick off with a Wave Spell and a Freezing Spell when Trick attacked him.
• After Allen explained that Kuks had sent him and that he wanted the Moonshadow Flower, Trick took Allen and the sleeping Therris back to their home.
• Allen asked Trick what had caused Therris's mind to suffer a shock.

Trick told Allen how his brother Therris had been struck by terror in Tirisfal Glades and left mentally impaired, and Allen examined Therris’s wounded soul. Allen found that Therris’s soul still remained but was suffering, and he offered Trick potions to help care for him.

• Trick explained that an unknown force had terrified him and Therris in Tirisfal Glades, after which Therris became severely disturbed and their employer refused to pay them.
• Trick described Therris’s worsening condition and led Allen to examine him after a Soul Return Potion had provided only temporary relief.
• Allen used his Mental Power to enter Therris’s soul and sensed its thin defenses, fear, and pain before withdrawing without attempting to touch it.
• Allen reassured Trick that Therris’s soul had not dissipated, then accepted Trick’s invitation to dinner.
• Allen told Trick to come with him for potions and gave him Calming Potions, explaining that they were ordinary concoctions.

After accepting the Moonshadow Flower from Trick, Allen concluded that his Incantation might repair Therris's injured soul, though he could not use it on the mad boy. The next morning, Allen bought equipment for his mercenaries and went with Ailand to the House of Brill to find him suitable gear.

• Trick gave Allen the Moonshadow Flower as payment in advance, trusting him because of his kindness toward Trick and Therris.
• Allen gave Trick a Calming Potion, reviewed his experiment notes, and reasoned that the Incantation strengthened and might repair the soul, but he had no way to use it on Therris.
• The next morning, Allen found Ailand drilling the mercenaries and praised him for his work as an instructor.
• Allen took Ailand and two squad leaders to a weapon shop, bought twelve sets of weapons and chainmail after bargaining the price down to 150 gold coins, and paid a deposit.
• Allen sent the squad leaders back and accompanied Ailand to the House of Brill to look for his equipment.

Allen obtained the Moonshadow Flower and asked Kuks about ways to restore Therris’s damaged soul, then visited Trick and announced that he would enter Tirisfal Glades in three days to investigate the invisible monsters. He returned to his lodgings to prepare for the dangerous trip.

• Ailand chose silk armor and a two-handed thrusting sword, and Allen paid 150 gold coins for the equipment.
• Allen gave Kuks the Moonshadow Flower and asked him to finish the Cloak of Shadows within three days; Kuks described the Sunwell, the World Tree, and demigods as possible ways to heal a soul.
• Allen and Kuks discussed the nature of souls, with Kuks viewing them as a special form of energy while Allen remained unconvinced.
• Allen visited Trick, learned that Therris’s condition was worsening, and said his proposed treatment required Therris to cooperate while conscious.
• Allen told Trick he would enter Tirisfal Glades in three days to find the invisible monsters, then returned to prepare for the journey.

Allen fought and killed an Evil Spirit, then discovered that it had left behind a transparent core containing negative emotions. Believing it could be soul material, he began searching for more Evil Spirits and prepared to lure a second one into a secluded place.

• Allen found that his Wind Blades passed through the Evil Spirit, but his Scorching Wind hurt it and it attacked his Mental Power.
• Allen learned to defend against the Evil Spirit’s mental attacks, concentrated his Mental Power, and wore it down until it died.
• The Evil Spirit unleashed a soul-shaking final attack, but Allen’s Soul Space protected him.
• Allen found a transparent object left by the Evil Spirit and sensed its negative emotions, concluding that it might be the soul material he had been seeking.
• After three days of searching, Allen found a smaller Evil Spirit, chose a secluded place, and began luring it over.

Allen explored whether souls could resonate through mental power and failed to make a magic array channel it like mana. He then visited Trick and found Therris's madness worsening, with the man endlessly shouting about killing, bugs, and thieves.

• Allen connected his ideas about souls to Archmage Modera's mana resonance theory and tried to influence a crystal with his mental power.
• Allen made a drawing mixture and inscribed a mana gathering array on wolf hide, but discovered that mental power could not flow through the crystal like mana.
• Allen left his failed experiment and went to visit Trick, whom he had not seen since returning.
• Allen saw Therris screaming and moving about in a maddened state, and Trick said Therris's condition had grown worse.
• Allen told Trick he had returned about ten days earlier and offered to give him more potions when needed.

Allen developed a more efficient magic array on the Soul Book’s cover and used it to begin repairing Therris’s damaged soul. Therris remained unconscious afterward, and Allen told Trick that he expected him to recover in about a week.

• A crystal’s soul fluctuations helped Allen repair his Soul Space, but the wolf-hide array burned through the crystal too quickly.
• Allen spent several weeks designing a soul-burning array and a conducting solution for the Soul Book’s Deadman’s Tree cover.
• Trick arrived with Therris after they had been thrown out for lack of money, and Allen offered them a place to stay and promised he could cure Therris.
• Allen engraved and activated the revised array on the Soul Book cover, slowing the crystal’s burning rate to less than a tenth of its previous speed.
• Allen used the array to guide Therris’s soul while practicing the Incantation, then told Trick that Therris would need about a week to recover.

Allen returned to Kuks's residence and learned from a letter that Kuks had gone to Silvermoon City, then heard that Trick and Therris were leaving Brill to settle an unresolved matter. After the Mograine Family's investigation found nothing unusual in the glades, Allen prepared to return to Little Hill Village and then Dalaran.

• Allen found Kuks's home deserted, read his letter about the summons to Silvermoon City, and left a reply saying he had returned.
• Trick and Therris told Allen they would leave Brill the next day, and Trick explained that they needed to settle a matter so it would not cause Allen trouble.
• Allen watched the brothers leave, then delayed his own departure after hearing the Mograine Family would investigate the hauntings in the glades.
• The Mograine Family's investigation teams returned in less than a week without finding Evil Spirits or anything unusual, and Allen decided not to enter the glades again.
• Allen gathered his supplies and followers and rode out of Brill, planning to stop at Little Hill Village before returning to Dalaran.

Allen spent time with his family in Little Hill Village, learned of Andre’s death, and remembered his promise to Joey’s son George. After discovering a disguised intruder casting a communication spell at the village entrance, Allen captured and began interrogating him.

• Allen introduced Ailand to Jason, and the family shared dinner together before Ailand left to attend to the followers outside the village.
• Jason told Allen that Andre, the lord of Shante City, had died, and refused Allen’s request to take Old Jack along on the journey.
• Allen found Joey’s badge and resolved to deliver the ten gold coins he owed Joey’s son, George, in Poplar Village.
• Allen spotted a disguised man casting a communication spell at the village entrance and restrained him with Wave Spells and Freezing Spells.
• Allen used a crystal’s negative emotions to torment the captive, who began to speak.

Allen forced Crick to accept a poison bluff in exchange for reporting on the Hunting Organization, then left for Darrowshire to search for George. He found George’s aunt’s house in Poplar Village, but the chapter ended before he reached her.

• Allen bluffed Crick with Duskweed powder and threatened him into reporting the Hunting Organization’s activities every six months.
• Allen left Ailand and the others to travel to Dalaran while he rode toward Darrowshire.
• Allen reached Darrowshire, learned where Poplar Village was, and bought a map.
• Allen asked villagers and the village chief about George, then went to George’s aunt’s house on the outskirts of Poplar Village.

Allen attended Captain Joseph and Mary's wedding banquet to find the human trafficker connected to George, and Nightingale directed him to a noble in red. Allen followed the noble to Kenelst and captured the trafficker, who began to remember George after Allen described him.

• Allen accepted an invitation to Captain Joseph and Mary's wedding banquet, hoping to find Kenelst.
• Allen asked the nobles about the trafficker, and Nightingale told him to follow a noble dressed in red.
• After the banquet, Allen followed the noble to a manor and overheard him discussing Kenelst's human-trafficking business.
• Allen restrained Kenelst and demanded information about George, whom Alina had sold to him.
• After Allen said George was under nine and from Poplar Village, Kenelst remembered him and began to answer.

Allen told George that his father Joey had died, then agreed to take Rivis with him and teach him magic. Rivis’s training path remained undecided as the chapter ended.

• Allen learned that Rivis had been trafficked as a child and Baze had been separated from his family and lost his memories.
• Allen told George that Joey had died and gave him Joey’s badge, leaving George in tears.
• Nightingale denied killing Kenelst to an old woman, who warned him that the organization’s mission had to be completed.
• Rivis asked to follow Allen and learn magic, and Allen agreed to take him along and teach him.
• Allen considered whether Rivis should follow his unusual magical path, which required long practice before he could form a Soul Space.

Allen began teaching Rivis, George, and Baze the Chinese characters in the Incantation while training them during their journey. After destroying a Gnoll outpost, he asked the boys what they thought about killing the Gnolls and was left to respond to their differing views.

• Allen tested Rivis's Mental Power, then agreed to let George and Baze learn alongside him.
• Allen explained that he could not teach the boys ordinary magic and began teaching them the Incantation's Chinese characters, while also instructing them in Common and combat.
• When the group encountered a Gnoll outpost, George described how to assess an enemy, and Rivis explained the weaknesses of different Gnoll types.
• Allen sent the boys to hide, then destroyed the outpost's tents with Scorching Wind and killed the Gnolls with Whirlwind.
• Baze questioned whether killing the Gnolls was wrong, George said there was nothing wrong with killing monsters, and Rivis said the weak had nothing to complain about when killed.

Allen learned that orcs had invaded Azeroth and considered how they might attack Stormwind, then returned to Dalaran and spent all his money on the third-tier spell Hurricane. A week later, he had learned the spell, and the chapter ended as he was about to do something else.

• Allen asked Hannes about Stormwind City and reasoned that the orcs might attack through Deadwind Pass or expand by striking nearby towns.
• Allen returned to the inn, where George and Rivis excitedly asked how he knew the legion commander, and he told them about saving poisoned soldiers in Kaltz.
• Grete and Jack visited Allen, and Grete said he had become a captain; they discussed the king’s conflict with the nobles over breakfast.
• Allen traveled back to Dalaran after three days, left the three children with Ailand, and went to the Association to sell materials and buy a spell.
• Allen spent all his money on the third-tier spell Hurricane and learned it after a week.

Allen read Khadgar’s letters about meeting Medivh, organizing his magical Library, and becoming Medivh’s apprentice. Khadgar’s latest letter described a dangerous mission in the Blasted Lands and ended as he began explaining the captured half-orc’s request.

• Khadgar wrote that Medivh identified him as a Dalaran spy through Magic Tracing but chose to trust him and put him in charge of the Library.
• Khadgar described sorting the magical books and told Allen that Medivh had offered to take him as an apprentice.
• Khadgar wrote that Medivh sent him to investigate powerful green-skinned monsters in the Blasted Lands, where he nearly died before Medivh rescued him.
• Khadgar reported that he and Medivh captured a female half-orc who spoke Common and claimed to be a Horde envoy seeking an audience with her king.