Recaps

Linden expanded the Mushroom Garden while containing a dangerous slime outbreak, capturing Louisa, and learning that a growing rift threatened the Dungeon. As he began exploring the Seventh Floor, Dylan’s voyage to Siren Island was interrupted by pirates boarding the Wind Feather.

• Dylan escaped a Weakness Curse and a raid on his tavern, but Liadrin recognized Wilfred's strength pendant among his belongings.
• Linden contained the multiplying Slimes and discovered rifts leading toward the Deep Zone, while Norris awakened transformed into a powerful, scaled creature.
• Linden captured Lacus and the Yellow Book, built a hidden chamber around the book, and extended the Fungal Carpet toward the Deep Zone before Mayflies halted its spread.
• Norris killed adventurers who cornered him, then served a month of punishment as Linden strengthened the Mushroom Garden and developed Norris's abilities.
• Louisa and Hake entered the Dungeon with their group, but Linden's traps and Puji forces captured them, while Solalin waited outside with Church forces and adventurers.
• The Yellow Book warned Linden that a growing rift could lead to Dungeon collapse and said the Dungeon Core might let him repair it, so Linden sent it with Norris under strict conditions.
• Linden spread the Fungal Carpet onto the aquatic Seventh Floor, developed bait and underwater attacks, and began preparing for its monsters.
• Dylan considered taking Bella to the Dungeon as war loomed, but pirates boarded the Wind Feather, and Linden spotted three Gold Ranks among them.

After escaping the moving mist, Dylan was left adrift while Linden expanded the Mushroom Garden, developed new Puji weapons, and led an expedition into the Deep Zone. Meanwhile, Fahr uncovered a Demon Race plot against farmland, and Sophia’s ship took in Bella as Dylan continued searching for a way forward.

• Caspar seized the Wind Feather with Garon’s help, but Linden attacked them as the moving mist engulfed the ship and Water Ghosts overwhelmed the crews.
• A giant ship destroyed the Blood Shark and Wind Feather, leaving Dylan and Puji adrift until they escaped the fog and reached an island.
• Linden explored the underwater ruins, experimented with magic and Puji services, and learned that Louisa considered the Yellow Book dangerous.
• Fahr investigated blighted crops at Antler Village and exposed a Demon Race spy who had tried to spread Corruption Potion through the irrigation channels.
• Little Black’s corrosive breath helped Linden’s Pujis defeat a level 65 Thousand-Pivot Mayfly, after which Linden expanded the Fungal Carpet into the Deep Zone.
• Linden’s expedition found multiple rifts and battled cave monsters, while Louisa helped capture a Minotaur and Norris was sent to search for cave dwellers with the Yellow Book.
• Sophia’s ship left Silver Sand Bay despite Oruk’s blockade, and Bella joined after revealing that she had killed Horn and was being hunted.
• Dylan asked Puji whether to seek directions from a passing vessel, but Puji refused and chose to follow the direction from which it had come.

Linden reclaimed the Old Mushroom Garden, expanded the Puji forces, and defeated a human expedition sent to subjugate them. The expedition’s survivors escaped, Eiding joined the Puji King, and a new invisible threat appeared among the Cave Dwellers.

• Linden left Silver Sand Bay with Dylan after learning that Bella had escaped and was Dylan’s daughter, while Fahr took charge of the Mute Wind Town guild and discovered that Puji was renting out Illumination Pujis.
• Linden used the Mycelium Network to locate the Cave Dwellers’ fortress in the Old Mushroom Garden, then led the Puji army to defeat and capture the tribe, reclaiming the garden and assigning Norris and the Yellow Book to train them.
• An Earth Worm attacked Louisa’s team, but Linden and the Pujis killed it, allowing Linden to gain Rock Eating, High Temperature Resistance, and High-Temperature Tunneling.
• Fahr assembled a subjugation expedition after investigating the Pujis, and Solalin led the party into the Dungeon while Linden watched and prepared defenses.
• Linden’s Pujis overwhelmed the expedition on the Fifth Floor, where Knight Puji fought Fifteen and the survivors were captured, stripped of equipment, and carried away.
• Fifteen broke free and rescued Solalin and the other prisoners, while Fahr accepted responsibility for the failed expedition and planned to recruit stronger fighters.
• Eiding tried to leave town but returned after the mycelium exposed him, then connected to the Mycelium Network and accepted the Puji King’s offer to call it “Boss.”
• Vera entered the Dungeon with Feiling and Feiyin, while Norris, Little Black, and Louisa fought invisible Six-Clawed Monsters that killed two Cave Dwellers before Linden arrived to inspect the remains.

Linden defeated the Kees army, then learned the Dungeon Core was failing and considered the Yellow Book’s offer to repair it. As Inanna and Eiding left the Dungeon, Linden rebuilt his forces and marched nearly eighteen hundred Pujis toward the Kees Rift.

• Linden discovered the Kis-Pincer Beetles and their level 31 Kis-Eyebug, then used poisonous spores to clear Snake Cave and planned a strike against the Kees.
• Linden’s first attack on the Kees ended in heavy losses to the Evil Eye, but he built Heavy Armor Pujis and used them to trap Kees in Cave Eight and kill the Evil Eye.
• Inanna arrived with Elwin Slayne and the expert team, while Linden arranged for her to use the Gem Dagger to make Knight Puji appear controlled.
• The team found a Spatial Rift surrounded by Kees and learned from Guge that the Dungeon Core was failing and could not be repaired with their knowledge.
• Linden agreed to consider the Yellow Book’s offer to restore the Dungeon, while the Sword Saint confronted the Puji King and Inanna formed a contract with Knight Puji.
• Linden studied Inanna’s notes about the Dungeon and its origins, while Fahr began stockpiling resources and Inanna returned to the Dungeon with Eiding to seek Puji treasure.
• Linden moved Inanna and Eiding to the Sixth Floor, rewarded Eiding with magic crystals, and tested Norris’s expanded control by having him operate the Jida construct.
• Linden sent Inanna away with Pujis and treasures, then led nearly eighteen hundred Pujis to the Kees Rift and sent a Voice Puji across to announce his arrival.