Recaps

Lin Yuan planned the Bedrock hull upgrade and looked for ways to trade his surplus Keys for materials and Blueprint Boxes. Lilia left the Library and Scarface proposed organizing a larger trading meetup with the Hunters.

• Lin Yuan gave Little Black the Bedrock Blueprint, and Little Black estimated that adapting the Land Travel Modification would take another twenty-four hours.
• Lin Yuan planned to trade for high-quality steel and Blueprint Boxes, while considering where to search for materials and what metal could advance in rank.
• Lilia emerged from the secret passage and learned from Scarface that most Hunters had left after the Party and the Librarian's attack.
• Scarface explained that Hunters traded with Rats for Blueprint Boxes and asked Lilia to trade her spare Keys with him.
• Lin Yuan had Lilia ask Scarface to gather more trading partners, and Scarface agreed to organize a trading meetup.

Lilia attended Scarface’s trading meeting, where players bid Blueprint Boxes for her Keys, while Rock Bear learned that she had been mistaken for a powerful player. The bidding began, and Rock Bear took an interest in Lilia after hearing she seemed to match his strength.

• Lilia arrived at Scarface’s trading meeting, where his subordinates turned away Rock Bear’s team and welcomed her.
• Scarface explained that Rock Bear, Poisonous Snake, and Rose were powerful players, and that rumors credited Lilia with soloing the Library boss.
• Scarface announced that players could bid Blueprint Boxes for Lilia’s Keys, and Lilia would choose her trading partners.
• Rock Bear vented his frustration at poor Gacha Tower results, then asked his subordinate how Lilia’s strength compared with his.
• The subordinate estimated that Lilia was about as strong as Rock Bear, who wondered whether she could match his 5,000 health.

Rock Bear, Rose, and Poisonous Snake learned that Lilia had reportedly soloed a boss, and each considered how to deal with her. Meanwhile, Lilia traded all her keys for a huge stock of Blueprint Boxes, but the gathering ended with news that the Principal's Office Building had collapsed.

• A subordinate told Rock Bear that Lilia had soloed a boss, and Rock Bear decided she would be worth fighting.
• Rose listened through a charmed subordinate's conch and planned to bring Lilia under her command.
• Poisonous Snake heard about Lilia and hoped to profit if she fought Rock Bear and Rose.
• At Scarface's trading event, Lilia exchanged all her keys for nearly several hundred gold, over a thousand silver, and more than ten thousand bronze Blueprint Boxes.
• A subordinate rushed into the restaurant and announced that the Principal's Office Building at the academy's center had collapsed.

After the Principal's Office Building collapsed and revealed a hidden area, players rushed to investigate as the supply of Assessment Pass Badges became uncertain. On the way, Lilia received a Gemstone Blueprint Box and Key from Jerry, and Lin Yuan opened it to obtain a blueprint for a Lookout Platform.

• Scarface's subordinate reported that the Principal's Office Building had collapsed, exposing a vast tunnel filled with unfamiliar Special Puppets.
• Players headed toward the former building site to search for Badges, treasures, and the newly discovered hidden area.
• Lin Yuan sent Lilia to investigate with the crowd.
• Jerry gave Lilia a Gemstone Blueprint Box and its Key as thanks for her help at the Library.
• Lin Yuan opened the box and obtained the Lookout Platform blueprint, which required specific materials and could not be built on an Iron Ship.

Lin Yuan considered the valuable but impractical Lookout Platform Blueprint before Lilia brought him to the ruined Principal’s Office Building, where players were exploring a shifting underground maze. He recognized the maze as the tomb where the academy’s last Artisans had been laid to rest.

• Lin Yuan concluded that the Lookout Platform Blueprint required a crew member with more Inspiration and rare material from the stars, and wondered whether his predecessors had hidden knowledge about it.
• Lin Yuan reflected on the convenience of having Lilia and Little Black as crew members, then reminded himself that he still intended to recruit humans.
• Lilia guided Lin Yuan to the collapsed Principal’s Office Building, where an enormous underground opening had appeared.
• Yang Pangzi led a team through an Artisan-built tunnel into a metal room, which shifted after the team entered and left them out of sight.
• Lin Yuan learned that the underground rooms moved and presented different trials, then recognized the maze as the final resting place of the academy’s last Artisans.

Lin Yuan and Lilia entered the Underground Mausoleum, where Lilia faced a guardian golem modeled after Professor Fangta. As the fight began, Lin Yuan realized the golem was using its turret fire to keep Lilia at a distance, and then a second turret appeared.

• Lin Yuan decided to explore the mausoleum with Lilia as powerful player teams gathered to enter it.
• Lilia entered the shifting room alone and found a coffin bearing an inscription about Professor Fangta, who had become the academy's eternal guardian.
• The coffin opened, and a golem resembling Fangta emerged and declared Lilia an intruder before attacking her with a turret.
• Lilia dodged the turret's shots until Lin Yuan realized the golem was keeping her away from it and told her to attack directly.
• Lilia charged through a cannonball, but Lin Yuan noticed the turret had fired much faster and saw a second turret beside the golem.

Lin Yuan watched Lilia defeat the Fangta Golem by using the Coffin’s unexpected side door, then questioned whether the golem was truly connected to Professor Fangta. Lilia found a miniature turret item in the golem’s coffin.

• The Fangta Golem built a network of turrets that slowed, trapped, and repeatedly blasted Lilia, while Lin Yuan stayed hidden in his Coffin during his modifications.
• Lilia kicked the Coffin toward the Fangta Golem and discovered it was immune to the golem’s shells and crowd-control attacks.
• The Fangta Golem aimed its turrets above the Coffin, but Lilia escaped through its side door and cut the golem in two.
• The golem and its turrets melted into the metal floor, leaving Lin Yuan to wonder whether it had been Professor Fangta.
• Lilia found a D-rank Miniature Turret consumable in the open metal coffin.

Lilia explored the shifting rooms of the hidden maze, fighting puppets modeled after professors of the Bronze Thirteen Artisan Academy and collecting their loot. Lin Yuan worked out that rooms and puppets reset when revisited, but Lilia struggled to find unexplored rooms, and the chapter ended with Lin Yuan wondering when their team would encounter the others.

• After Lilia defeated the Kensi puppet, she collected a D-rank Transcendent Iron Pot that could cook low-rank transcendent ingredients.
• Lilia fought through more rooms, facing professor puppets with varied combat styles and receiving different rewards.
• When Lilia encountered the Fangta puppet repeatedly, Lin Yuan marked a room and confirmed that it reset after they left, restoring its puppet and loot.
• Lin Yuan deduced that puppets retained no memories between resets and that the richest rewards came from rooms cleared for the first time.
• Lin Yuan realized Lilia lacked the Inspiration and intelligence to navigate the shifting maze, so he let her keep searching by luck while he remained unable to act during Land Travel Modification.
• As Lilia continued exploring, Lin Yuan wondered how the other teams were navigating the vast maze and when they would meet.

Rock Bear’s team defeated a hammer-wielding puppet and found evidence that another team had already cleared the room, while Poisonous Snake planned to exploit teams during battles. Poisonous Snake concluded that the maze’s core area was inaccessible until some hidden condition was met.

• Rock Bear transformed into his bear form and held off the hammer-wielding puppet while his teammates attacked and defeated it.
• Rock Bear’s subordinates praised him, and he privately believed his strength and secret third form would help him claim first place.
• Rock Bear’s teammate said their route had repeatedly failed to reach the core, and the team found only basic materials in a coffin that someone else had cleared.
• Poisonous Snake explained that his team would exploit rooms when other teams were fighting, while his subordinates considered what to do about Yang Pangzi’s wounded group.
• Yang Pangzi’s team suddenly recovered and escaped into another room before Poisonous Snake’s group could react.
• Poisonous Snake decided not to pursue Yang Pangzi and said the maze’s core was inaccessible without an unknown hidden condition.

Rose used her charm ability to recruit powerful players and set her sights on Lilia. Meanwhile, Lilia found an Energy Gear and, guided by Lin Yuan, installed it in the Labyrinth Tomb’s mechanism core, where she discovered controls indicating the labyrinth could be pushed into dangerous overclocking.

• Rose explained that her team was capturing other player teams and decided to use Scarface’s connection to track down Lilia.
• Lilia found a blue Energy Gear in a treasure chest, and Lin Yuan realized the system was guiding players toward the Artisan Academy’s hidden legacy.
• Lin Yuan asked Lilia to locate the mechanism core and install the gear while Little Black continued its modifications for another twelve hours.
• Lilia unexpectedly found the mechanism core, inserted the Energy Gear, and watched it start powering the labyrinth’s central machinery.
• Lilia examined a control console showing the labyrinth’s operating power and asked what its warning about unlimited overclocking meant.

As the Energy Gears powered up the Tomb Labyrinth, its golems grew stronger and the Core Area opened, forcing the player teams to reconsider their plans. Lilia reached a newly opened room containing the tomb of Jinpika, a former vice principal of the Bronze Thirteen Artisan Academy.

• Lilia explained that the control panel’s Unlimited Overclocking setting could make the machine more powerful but risked destroying it, and sent Lilia back to search for Energy Gears.
• After more Energy Gears were installed, the labyrinth’s golems became stronger, and Lilia defeated an upgraded Fangta Golem using her resurrection ability.
• Rock Bear’s team struggled against the strengthened enemies, then followed a teammate’s warning that the route to the Core Area had opened.
• Poisonous Snake decided to follow Rose’s group into the Core Area so they could fight enemies first, while Rose’s tracker located Lilia heading there.
• Lilia’s room continued moving after she defeated its golem and eventually stopped beside a vast chamber containing Jinpika’s coffin.

Lilia entered Vice Dean Jinpika’s room and fought his puppet, whose items could block recovery and appeared capable of prohibiting resurrection. Lilia resurrected unharmed anyway, leaving Lin Yuan unsure whether her ability had overcome the effect or was fundamentally different.

• Lilia entered the sealed room, where the golden Jinpika puppet emerged from its coffin.
• Jinpika attacked Lilia with weapons and used a smoke-producing bubble to stop her recovery, then blasted her apart.
• Lilia resurrected beside Lin Yuan and immediately leaped back into the fight.
• Jinpika unleashed every weapon and used a strange wheel to prohibit resurrection, but Lilia returned unharmed once more.
• Lin Yuan asked Lilia whether her resurrection had felt different, and she said it had not.

Lilia repeatedly resurrected and defeated the Gold Pika Puppet by outlasting its special-item protocols, causing the puppet to overload and explode. Its stored items spilled across the room, leaving Lin Yuan with a huge cache of single-use labyrinth items.

• The Gold Pika Puppet tried soul destruction, attacks on Lilia’s Coffin, rank suppression, and divine chains, but Lilia resurrected each time and tore the chains apart.
• Lin Yuan realized Lilia’s resurrection was an unbeatable counter to the puppet’s collection of special items and wondered about the power hidden inside his Mysterious Little Box.
• The Gold Pika Puppet overheated from the failed protocols, then exploded along with the vortex behind it.
• The vortex released piles of special items that covered the floor, and Lin Yuan suspected Lilia had triggered the puppet’s storage to detonate.

Lilia sorted the rewards left by the Gold Pika Puppet when Rose and her team arrived and tried to charm her into handing over the loot. Lilia resisted Rose’s abilities and offered only the useless puppet remains, prompting Rose to abandon her friendly act and order her team to seize everything.

• Lilia began sorting the scattered items, checking which rewards could be taken outside the maze.
• Rose entered with her team and tried to charm Lilia while her subordinates approached the loot.
• Lilia rejected Rose’s appeal with a blunt response and continued collecting the items.
• Rose asked Lilia for a few items, but Lilia offered her only the Gold Pika Puppet’s worthless remains.
• Rose dropped her pretense and ordered her team to take all the items.

Rose tried to seize the extraordinary items and hold Lilia back, but Scarface broke free of Rose’s Charm and Lilia attacked her. As Rose’s appearance and Charm weakened, her followers hesitated, and Lilia pointed out the limitations of Charm.

• Rose ordered her team to restrain Lilia while the others grabbed the extraordinary items.
• Scarface dodged Lilia’s attack, escaped Rose’s Charm, and warned Lilia about Rose’s ability.
• Rose attacked Lilia with a whip, but Lilia struck her face and punched her in the stomach.
• Rose found that her injured appearance weakened her Charm and left her strongest followers unwilling to intervene.
• Lilia asked whether Rose had gathered her followers through Charm and declared that Charm had limitations.

Lilia advised Rose to use Charm to strengthen herself rather than rely on it to control companions, then intervened when Poisonous Snake’s team arrived to claim most of the room’s loot. Scarface warned Lilia that Poisonous Snake’s offer was a ruse and that his group was more injured than they appeared.

• Lilia told Rose that Charm worked best as a way to weaken enemies and amplify her own strength, prompting Rose to reconsider how she used it.
• Rose ordered her subordinates to hand over their collected items, and Lilia let her live because keeping the group under control prevented chaos.
• Scarface was thrown back into the room, badly wounded, as Poisonous Snake and his suited companions entered.
• Poisonous Snake claimed his team deserved the room’s items and offered to take seventy percent, while Lilia blocked a dagger he threw at Scarface.
• Scarface warned Lilia that Poisonous Snake’s group planned to pretend to negotiate before taking everything, had concealed their injuries, and used poison.

Poisonous Snake poisoned Rose and her team, then used a custom toxin to suppress Lilia’s regeneration and burn her to ashes. Lilia immediately emerged from the Coffin unharmed, challenging Poisonous Snake’s claim that he was her natural enemy.

• Rose blocked Poisonous Snake’s dagger, but rejected his offer to cooperate, and Lilia refused to share the labyrinth’s treasures with him.
• Poisonous Snake revealed that his Poison Fog had become invisible and colorless, leaving Rose and her team weakened and numb.
• Lilia proved immune to his poison and attacked, but Poisonous Snake’s coordinated team fought her to a stalemate.
• Poisonous Snake used his Poison Vial to suppress Lilia’s regeneration, then led his team in an attack that reduced her to ashes.
• Lilia jumped out of the Coffin unharmed and asked Poisonous Snake what he meant by calling himself her natural enemy.

Lilia repeatedly resurrected while fighting Poisonous Snake’s team, but Poisonous Snake used his last poison to send her sliding through a doorway that closed behind her. Left facing Poisonous Snake and his subordinates, Rose drew strength from Lilia’s example and resolved to become strong herself.

• Lilia resurrected four times as Poisonous Snake and his teammates attacked her, exhausting their strength and poison.
• Poisonous Snake tried to flee, but Rose caught his ankle with her whip and Lilia charged after him.
• Poisonous Snake smashed his poison vial on the floor, creating a slippery puddle that sent Lilia sliding through an open doorway.
• The doorway closed and the maze began moving, leaving Poisonous Snake to threaten Rose while her teammates remained incapacitated.
• Rose remembered Lilia’s fighting spirit, stood her ground, and resolved to become strong rather than rely on Charm.

Rose fought Poisonous Snake and his subordinates with renewed resolve, inspired by Lilia, while learning to use her Charm ability in combat. Meanwhile, Lilia returned to the maze’s central mechanism room and accidentally set its console to unlimited overclocking.

• Rose stood her ground against Poisonous Snake, whose attacks were interrupted by her strengthened Mind Softening and Charm.
• Poisonous Snake’s subordinates joined the fight, and their numbers pushed Rose back despite her using Charm to disrupt their attacks.
• Rose realized Charm worked best against enemies and resolved to follow Lilia’s example, then began considering how to keep her belongings from falling into Poisonous Snake’s hands.
• Lilia climbed to her feet in the central mechanism room after falling through the maze and discovered she had turned the console’s dial to “Unlimited overclocking.”
• A fragment of the Gold Pika Puppet’s ruined body became wedged between the console and the central shaft as the maze’s mechanisms began vibrating at high speed.

The labyrinth went into unlimited overclocking while Lin Yuan slept through maintenance, and Lilia’s attempt to stop it ended with the control pointer breaking. The labyrinth eventually exploded and stopped, leaving Lilia reunited with Rose and handed an item Rose had protected.

• Little Black explained that Lin Yuan had entered deep dormancy while it maintained the Lin Yuan, so Lilia closed the Coffin and tried to reset the overclocking mechanism.
• The labyrinth shook, the control pointer flew off and broke, and every room began shifting and rotating with its doors open.
• Lilia and Lin Yuan’s Coffin were tossed through rooms as awakened puppets were flung around the labyrinth.
• A tremendous explosion sent Lilia into a spacious room, and the labyrinth finally stopped moving.
• Lilia found Rose, who explained that she had anchored herself during the chaos and that the others and their items had been scattered.
• Rose returned to Lilia the extraordinary item she had managed to protect.

Rose recounted how she lost most of the items in the maze and asked to join Lilia’s crew, but left after misunderstanding Lilia’s answer. Lin Yuan woke after his modification and discovered he could move freely on land, then described a vivid dream of his life on Blue Star ending with the truck that killed him.

• Rose explained that Poisonous Snake, Rock Bear, and her former subordinates took most of the items during the chaos, leaving her with only the upper half of the Principal's Token.
• Rose invited Lilia to leave with her, but Lilia chose to stay, and Rose asked to join her crew before leaving after misreading Lilia’s refusal.
• Lilia realized Rose wanted to learn from her intelligence and wisdom, then heard Lin Yuan wake and greet him.
• Lin Yuan tested his modified body and found that he could move freely on land without grounding notifications.
• Lin Yuan told Lilia that he had dreamed of his old life on Blue Star, including the Dayun truck that struck him.

Lin Yuan learned that Poisonous Snake held the other half of the token and discovered that his half pointed toward it. He and Lilia followed its guidance through the wrecked maze, where Lin Yuan prepared to cut through a blocked path.

• Lin Yuan learned that Lilia had meddled with his dream and that Little Black was resting after modifying the ship.
• Lin Yuan recalled that Poisonous Snake held the other half of the token and decided to find him.
• Lin Yuan noticed that his half-token repeatedly pointed in the same direction, suggesting it was drawn to the other half.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia followed the token through rooms twisted by the maze's malfunction, struggling to find a passable route.
• Lin Yuan reached a blocked wall and drew the Holy Hall Light Blade.

Lin Yuan cut through the Tomb Labyrinth’s metal walls with the Holy Hall Light Blade, using the broken mechanisms to travel directly toward the other half of the Dean’s Token. Poisonous Snake tracked the token’s approach and prepared to ambush whoever was carrying it, unaware that Lin Yuan was on his way.

• Lin Yuan carved a passage through the labyrinth wall and explained that only his weapon and strength made the shortcut possible.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia crossed several rooms, following the half-token as it pointed toward the other half.
• Poisonous Snake rested with the items he had taken from the Gold Pika Puppet and regretted losing most of the spoils to Rock Bear’s team.
• Poisonous Snake used a device and his half of the Dean’s Token to track the approaching holder, whom he assumed was Lilia.
• Poisonous Snake planned to use sealing and suppression items against Lilia, then wondered how she had reached the next room so quickly.

Lin Yuan and Lilia broke through a metal wall to reach Poisonous Snake, who mistook Lin Yuan for a woman before attacking them with his team. His strongest poison weakened Lilia but barely affected Lin Yuan, who tore free and revealed that his overwhelming stats countered Poisonous Snake’s strategy.

• Poisonous Snake expected Lilia to take another route, but Lin Yuan cut through the metal wall with his Light Blade and entered with her.
• Poisonous Snake mistook Lin Yuan for Lilia in disguise, then tried to persuade him to stay neutral before secretly signaling his team to attack.
• Poisonous Snake and his teammates struck Lin Yuan and Lilia with weapons, nets, and a gem that accelerated their attacks.
• Poisonous Snake’s poison weakened Lilia and trapped her in a net, but Lin Yuan tore through his net despite the poison’s strength reduction.
• Lin Yuan explained that the poison’s effects barely mattered against his immense strength and health.

Lin Yuan killed Poisonous Snake, claimed the complete Dean's Token, and followed a scream into a hidden space in the maze. There, he and Lilia discovered a strange, imposing spherical machine.

• Poisonous Snake tried to stop Lin Yuan with poison and a Slowing Bomb, but Lin Yuan used his skills to capture and kill him.
• Poisonous Snake's subordinates fled, and Lin Yuan found the lower half of the Dean's Token in Poisonous Snake's pouch.
• Lin Yuan joined the token's halves and learned that it could control the Artisan Academy's machinery.
• After a scream came from the maze's mechanical structures, Lin Yuan and Lilia went to investigate.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia reached a hidden clearing and found an enormous spherical furnace-like machine at its center.