Recaps

Reborn in a child’s body, Lin Yuan joined Fairy Tail and began learning to control his remaining spatial magic while keeping the black snake sealed within his soul. After the guild’s team destroyed the cursed power beneath Sunken Bell Town, a serpentine marking escaped, and Lin Yuan feared he might lose the door connecting him to his past.

• At twenty, Lin Yuan sacrificed himself to stop a black serpent from reaching the world, then awoke in a child’s body with his Authorities gone and a black wolf approaching.
• Makarov rescued Lin Yuan, brought him to Fairy Tail, and introduced him to the guild, where his magic overwhelmed the testing crystal and Porlyusica identified it as an unknown Slayer True Magic.
• As Lin Yuan trained to control his power, Natsu’s fire stirred one of his ten seals, and Lin Yuan resisted the black snake’s temptation to unleash the powers within his soul.
• Lin Yuan clashed with Mirajane over her unstable Satan Soul, then helped her calm down and regain some control when her fear endangered Lisanna and Elfman.
• Lin Yuan, Mira, Macao, and Wakaba investigated disappearances at the Sleeping Church, rescued the missing townspeople, and confronted a statue that recognized the ancient thrones sealed within Lin Yuan.
• The group battled the cursed object beneath the church, and Lin Yuan drew its roots back from Sunken Bell Town so Mira could destroy its stone core, though a serpentine marking escaped through a crack in space.
• Back at Fairy Tail, Makarov deciphered the black stone’s inscription as a record of hunting gods, and Lin Yuan dreamed of the ten thrones and a black snake making the final door vanish.
• Mira learned that Lin Yuan feared losing the door and having nowhere to return, then told him that Fairy Tail would be rebuilt even if it collapsed.

Lin Yuan developed his spatial magic through dangerous missions and grew closer to Mira and Laxus as he pursued S-Class status. After Laxus and Lin Yuan passed Gildarts’s trials, both earned their third red marks and passed the exam.

• Makarov revealed that an ancient book recognized Lin Yuan and described him as a God Slayer whose magic consumed space, while Porlyusica later found his deeper power sealed inside him.
• The Magic Council measured Lin Yuan’s magic power as impossible to quantify and provisionally classified him as a Non-Elemental God Slayer under Fairy Tail’s supervision.
• Lin Yuan and Mira competed in duels and practical contests, ending one delivery mission as joint winners, while Laxus challenged Lin Yuan and invited him to pursue the next S-Class Exam.
• Lin Yuan and Laxus rescued miners from a collapsing tunnel, then both sought S-Class candidacy as they took separate missions and Lin Yuan led a team to repair seven sabotaged signal towers and expose a caravan ambush.
• Makarov named Lin Yuan and Laxus as the exam candidates, and Gildarts set their first test: reach Black Reef Island before sunset with his map.
• Lin Yuan and Laxus rescued three fishermen at sea and reached the island just before sunset, then each carried a lit lantern through the fortress and passed the second test.
• Laxus used the terrain and a thrown guild flag to make Gildarts step outside the circle, earning his third red mark and passing the final test.
• Lin Yuan used folded paths and swallowed a fragment of shattered space to reach the flag, and although Gildarts knocked him out of the circle, Lin Yuan emerged holding the flag and earned his third red mark.

Lin Yuan and Mira completed dangerous commissions, while Lin Yuan developed new spatial attacks and trained with Erza to improve his swordsmanship. They entered a shifting castle, rescued its trapped occupants, and destroyed its spatial core, leaving the castle fixed in place.

• Makarov promoted Lin Yuan and Laxus to S-Class Mages, and Lin Yuan chose a tunnel-repair mission with Mira as his partner.
• Lin Yuan and Mira discovered that a runaway mining machine was causing Frozen Rock Mountain to quake, then diverted its magic flow, shut it down, and reopened the transport road.
• After seeing Natsu use Fire Dragon’s Roar, Lin Yuan tried his own Space God’s Roar and destroyed the riverbank, prompting Makarov to ban him from using it unless his life was in danger.
• Lin Yuan and Mira defeated the Iron-Feathered Vultures threatening a canyon bridge, then Lin Yuan completed a crocodile commission by cutting through the gaps in the beasts’ armor.
• Erza trained Lin Yuan in swordsmanship, teaching him to control the changing length of his Boundary-Severing Blade and conceal the tells that gave away his attacks.
• Lin Yuan and Mira entered a shifting castle, rescued twenty-three Magic Council investigators and other occupants, and Lin Yuan pinned the castle’s spatial connections in place.
• Lin Yuan and Mira escorted the injured and children to safety, then destroyed the castle’s clock and spatial core, stopping it from shifting.

A rift pulled Lin Yuan into Aincrad, where his magic was suppressed and the game system could not register him. He honed his swordsmanship, helped clear the lower floors, and reached the fourth floor while searching for a breach that could lead him home.

• Lin Yuan investigated a void in the castle’s broken movement core and was pulled through a rift into Aincrad.
• Lin Yuan discovered that his magic was suppressed and the system did not register him, then chose to climb the floors in search of an exit.
• Lin Yuan survived with his physical abilities and refined his swordsmanship by studying monsters and adapting players’ sword techniques.
• Lin Yuan saved Diabel and defeated the first-floor guardian, while Kirito drew the crowd’s accusations away from him by admitting he was a beta tester.
• Kirito confirmed that Lin Yuan could not use menus or trades, learned that he came from another world, and helped him commission a sword from Nezha.
• Lin Yuan collected ore for Nezha, received his custom longsword, and defeated the second-floor boss alone.
• Lin Yuan explored the third-floor forest and began searching for breaches in the world rather than relying only on clearing the game.
• Lin Yuan rescued two scouts, joined Diabel’s successful third-floor boss raid without fighting, and continued alone to the fourth floor.