Recaps

Lin Ze investigated the Invisible Veil and followed an ancient passage through the Other Side to Avalon. Stranded there, he clashed with witch hunters and joined Grimm to pursue a giant after finding Old David dead and his son injured.

• Lin Ze investigated 19 King Street with Mia, met Amycus, and learned how Dyson Hargreaves had recruited the vampire to help build a Muggle organization for supernatural affairs.
• Lin Ze connected Amycus’s account of the Invisible Veil to the Death Chamber, learned of three sites on Sterling’s map, and consulted Dumbledore and Quinn about their links to the Other Side.
• Lin Ze, Mia, and Sirius explored the hidden passage at Tintagel, activated its ancient mechanism, and passed through an archway into a strange underground realm.
• The group entered the rift and met Yilai, who explained that Merlin had made it a gatekeeper while building a door connected to death, and Lin Ze used the key to kill Yilai and was sent to Avalon alone.
• Lin Ze reached Carl, where witch hunters captured him after recognizing his robe, but he fought them off and escaped town.
• Lin Ze disguised himself and fought Grimm’s riders, then learned from Bali Kochas and Grimm that the witch hunters served Alfred Pendragon and had burned two captured wizards.
• Lin Ze took Grimm east and found Old David’s mill burning, with Old David dead and his son badly injured, and Lin Ze healed the boy, and Grimm agreed to help him pursue the giant.

Lin Ze investigated the Black Forest’s expanding curse and learned it was a living magical creature that he could not destroy. He joined Saira to investigate a haunted watchtower, uncovered a magic array linked to Morgana, and set out toward Crow Valley to learn more about her.

• Lin Ze found Albert Pendragon’s remains in a cave, then escaped the collapsing cavern with Grimm as a gigantic black-scaled dragon emerged and carried him to Whitewater Valley.
• Colin told Lin Ze about the Black Forest’s expanding curse and promised an item tied to Lin Ze’s return home if he resolved it, so Lin Ze entered the forest and found its ancient boundary marker.
• The forest’s consciousness showed Lin Ze a vision of a gray-robed man and attacked him, draining his magic with poisoned roots until Lin Ze escaped through a Boundary Break.
• Ainsley and her armed men captured Lin Ze, but he defeated them before Sera Morrison arrived and asked him to investigate an old watchtower where people had disappeared.
• Lin Ze told Colin the Black Forest was a living magical creature and advised the valley’s residents to move away, then traveled with Saira through Bitterwater Swamp toward the watchtower.
• Lin Ze and Saira searched the watchtower, found a formation bearing the name Morgana, and fought off the slime-covered creatures and red-lit water lilies with Lin Ze’s fire dragon spell.
• Lin Ze discovered a hollow passage and more magic-array markings beneath the watchtower, then set out east with Saira to investigate their connection to Morgana.
• An elderly villager told Lin Ze that Morgana had lived in Crow Valley, five days farther east, and had been a powerful witch who could speak to the dead.

Lin Ze rescued Sirius, uncovered Constantine’s connection to a hidden shrine and a living Shedding God, and helped Arthur prepare to claim the throne. The arc ended with Lin Ze presenting the Sword in the Stone at the palace as Arthur watched in disguise, while Constantine ordered Lin Ze seized.

• Lin Ze met Morgana in Crow Valley, learned that his finger bone was the Space Finger Bone, and agreed to help her find Mordred, who had stolen her heart and Life Finger Bone.
• Lin Ze and Saira traveled to the capital with Arthur, where Lin Ze learned of the imprisoned Witch King and rescued Sirius from the palace tower.
• Sirius explained how Constantine had imprisoned him, and Lin Ze, Saira, and Sirius began helping Arthur pursue the throne while Lin Ze took on the identity of Merlin.
• Lin Ze and Sirius investigated a mysterious temple idol, then found a northern shrine with a heart linked by dark threads to piles of bones and recovered a black finger bone.
• Morgana identified the black bone as the Wisdom Finger Bone and said a living Shedding God was beneath the northern shrine, while the capital’s idol was a false shedding.
• Lin Ze and Sirius prepared the Sword in the Stone as Saira and Arthur sought support, but royal guards began searching for the Witch King and Merlin.
• During the spring rites, Lin Ze entered the palace disguised as a priest and presented the sword, while Arthur slipped into the hall disguised as a servant.
• After Constantine’s sons and others failed to draw the sword, Constantine ordered soldiers to seize Lin Ze, who challenged him about his deeds at the temple.

Lin Ze and Sirius returned from the magical realm, where Lin Ze pursued the Malfoy case and uncovered a network trafficking in wizard remains tied to Hugh Greengrass and Claude Weil. After rescuing Ben and Weiqi from an attack, Lin Ze followed Weil’s records to a guarded building in Holloway District.

• Lin Ze and Sirius defeated Constantine and Shedding Gods, helped Arthur take the throne, and left the kingdom after Arthur’s coronation.
• Lin Ze and Sirius traveled to the Tree of Life, where Mordred gave Lin Ze the Life finger bone and Morgana recovered the Time finger bone and fused all five bones.
• Lin Ze and Sirius crossed the river of time and returned to London, where Lin Ze learned the Malfoy hearing had been postponed.
• Lin Ze secured Lucius Malfoy’s testimony and evidence by bargaining to protect him and his wife from Azkaban, then used the evidence to resolve the hearing.
• Lin Ze investigated three deaths at the Old Oak inn and traced suspicious Greengrass purchases to a cellar containing jars of a formula made from wizard blood and bone marrow.
• Lin Ze followed the Greengrass Family’s transactions to the White Raven Chamber of Commerce and Claude Weil, uncovering illegal shipments and officials who had helped suppress investigations.
• Sirius reported that Ben and Weiqi had been captured at the White Raven shop, and Lin Ze rescued them before defeating the attackers outside.
• Lin Ze found Weil’s hidden basement and records, learned Weil had fled to a guarded building in Holloway District, and entered the building to investigate.