Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Yuan discovered that the furnace rebuilt golems from their remains and could reproduce their former abilities. Touching it triggered a hidden boss: the golem of the designer of the New World series of hulls.

• Lin Yuan watched a Fangta Golem emerge from the furnace, destroyed it, and found that its remains could be fed back into the machine to make another one.
• Lin Yuan deduced that the furnace recreated golems modeled on the academy's deceased survivors and wondered whether he could take it aboard the Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan realized the Poisonous Snake Member had likely triggered a defense mechanism and hurried away from the furnace as it began to shake.
• A dark figure burst from the furnace and struck Lin Yuan's Shapeshifter shield with tremendous force, deforming it.
• Lin Yuan recognized the dark figure as the designer of the New World series of hulls, whose golem had been hiding as a boss.

Lin Yuan discovered that the furnace concealed Moge, a sentient golem whose underlying directive forced him to attack anyone seeking the Academy Legacy. After a fierce fight, Moge regained control and warned Lin Yuan that he was far too powerful for a Paradise Stage player to challenge.

• Lin Yuan discovered Moge inside the furnace and learned that he was a sentient golem with a personality called a Surface Mind.
• Moge explained that an underlying directive compelled him to attack Lin Yuan and expel anyone coveting the Academy Legacy.
• Moge reacted with alarm when Lin Yuan told him the academy was in Paradise and that the game was believed to be the last one.
• Moge's directive took control again, and he attacked Lin Yuan, blocking the Holy Hall Light Blade and sealing Sea Serpent Ram for an hour.
• Moge regained control and told Lin Yuan to leave because he could not take the academy's legacy and was not ready to face him.

Lin Yuan learned that the Divine Artisan Forge’s core was a legacy meant for a suitable player, then challenged its guardian, the Moge Golem. With Reverse Scale powered to its maximum, Lin Yuan gained the upper hand and began damaging the golem.

• Lin Yuan asked Moge about the academy disaster and learned that Inspiration helped people recognize dangerous knowledge tied to “history.”
• Moge explained that the forge’s core could affect the future of the player faction and agreed to fight Lin Yuan for it.
• Lin Yuan and Moge exchanged blows while Lilia watched from behind her black Coffin.
• After Moge dealt heavy damage to him, Lin Yuan activated Reverse Scale at full power and surpassed the golem in strength and speed.
• Lin Yuan battered dents into Moge’s metal body, and its movements stiffened as its strength declined.

Lin Yuan nearly defeated the Moge Golem when the ancient dagger-axe Moge appeared and froze time, but the golem released it before Lin Yuan was struck. Moge explained that Lin Yuan already met the minimum strength requirement to take the Divine Artisan Forge relic, though a restriction in Paradise prevented him from doing so.

• Lin Yuan prepared to finish off the Moge Golem, but a black vortex appeared and stopped time throughout the arena.
• The dagger-axe Moge emerged from the vortex, and Lin Yuan saw a vision of its bloody history as a weapon.
• Moge released the dagger-axe, ending the time stop and allowing Lin Yuan and the others to move again.
• Lin Yuan and Moge discussed the weapon, Moge's personality-extraction technology, and why Moge could not retrieve the relic itself.
• Moge told Lin Yuan that he met the minimum strength requirement to take the relic, but a restriction in Paradise prevented him from doing so.

The Moge Golem explained why ultimate moves and god-tier gear were needed to claim the Academy’s inheritance, while Lin Yuan learned how relics could grant access to authority. Lin Yuan realized that his Special Cannon Blueprint might provide the god-tier gear he needed.

• The Moge Golem explained that Paradise Instances limited players’ access to powerful skills and equipment, and described ultimate moves and god-tier gear as powerful options with high costs or long cooldowns.
• The Moge Golem taught Lin Yuan that fully awakening a relic and grasping its authority’s true essence could let someone wield part of that authority, though the Templar Badge worked differently.
• The Moge Golem explained that its instinct to use Moge prevented Lin Yuan from claiming the inheritance unless he had an ultimate move or god-tier gear to exploit a brief opening.
• The Moge Golem suggested the system had reasons for making the Academy a Paradise Instance, and Lin Yuan realized that his Special Cannon Blueprint might count as god-tier gear.