Chapter Summaries

Suren recovered his two rings from Katyusha, who also gave him a Star Charm that eased his Mental Mutation. After consulting Mr. Mirror, he learned about possible treatments and planned to seek help from the Daru Tribe.

• Suren nearly attacked Katyusha when the lingering effects of using the Death God's Phantom triggered a violent frenzy, but he subdued himself with a tranquilizer.
• Katyusha gave Suren a Star Charm and returned his rings for one gold coin, accepting his promise that he owed her a favor.
• Suren contacted Mr. Mirror, who explained that Mental Power Mutation was irreversible and outlined several possible ways to suppress or treat it.
• Mr. Mirror told Suren that the Whispers of the Dead came from the Law of Death and warned him to avoid using the ability until his mutation was addressed.
• Suren decided to seek out the Daru Tribe, whose Great Druids might know how to cure Mental Mutation.

Suren bought Yuta, a badly injured Druid of the White Wolf Tribe, from a slave merchant in Blizzard City and treated her at the Owl Inn. As Yuta recovered, Suren worked on strengthening his weapons, while a group planning to rescue the demi-human slaves began watching the inn.

• Suren searched Blizzard City's slave market for Sub-Humans who could speak Common Tongue and learned that Hodge was organizing resistance against slave traders.
• Suren used the Daru Language to communicate with a captured Snow Fox, confirmed she understood Common Tongue, and bought her for five million Liso.
• At the Owl Inn, Suren freed the Snow Fox from her rune chains, and she revealed that her name was Yuta and that she was a Druid of the White Wolf Tribe.
• Yuta fainted and changed into human form, so Suren carried her to Room 303 and treated her severe wounds.
• While Yuta recovered, Suren reinforced Witch's Hair with runes and began working on a new Frost Doll.
• A group in Blizzard City learned that Suren had bought Yuta and ordered its members to watch the Owl Inn until he tried to leave the city.

Suren discovered that trained watchers were tracking Yuta and helped her plan how to find her captive people while arranging a way to meet the Daru Tribe's chief. After confirming the watchers followed Yuta, he staged a fake escape and returned to Blizzard City, where he rescued Jick from Wind Punishment.

• Suren noticed three professionally trained watchers near the Owl Inn and suspected they were tracking Yuta.
• Yuta woke, learned Suren sought help for his Mental Mutation, and offered to take him toward the Daru Tribe's Sacred Lake using a token and map.
• Yuta explained that she needed to rescue her captured people, and Suren proposed gathering information before attempting a rescue.
• Suren and Yuta staged her escape from the inn, confirming that watchers pursued her, while Suren disguised a corpse as her murdered master and fled using Space Teleportation.
• Suren found Jick at the Public Security Office after his Wind Punishment ended, covered him with a warm cloak, and offered to take him for treatment.

Suren rescued Jick, treated his injuries, and accepted him as a disciple, giving him books and blueprints to study runes and mechanical explosives. While gathering information about the Sun Merchant Guild’s slave shipments at a pirate tavern, Suren recognized the disguised Katyusha.

• Jick told Suren that Laman and Marianne had murdered his father and that he had survived their attempt to capture him.
• Suren killed the two men tracking them, then treated Jick and fitted him with a mechanical leg.
• Jick asked Suren to accept him as a disciple, and Suren agreed after warning him that his life could become dangerous.
• Suren gave Jick books and blueprints and answered his questions about runes and explosives.
• Suren went to a pirate tavern to seek information about the Sun Merchant Guild’s slave shipments and heard reports about recent events at sea.
• Suren recognized Katyusha entering the tavern in disguise.

Suren waited in the Sailor's Tavern for an information broker, where he encountered Katyusha in disguise and watched the pirate captains gather. After escorting the drunken Katyusha back to her hotel, Suren received news that the Sun Slave Merchant Guild would transport the demi-humans in three days and planned to help intercept the Daru Tribe.

• Suren observed Katyusha's disguise and waited among the pirates gathering for their Saturday captains' meeting.
• Gwenbu Mari entered the tavern, and his crow killed a parrot with a strange ability that Suren recognized as a soul curse technique.
• Katyusha fled from an overly familiar Viking pirate, revealed herself to Suren, and stayed to drink while they talked.
• The Rooster-Head Man delivered Suren's information, and Suren carried the drunken Katyusha back to the Star Hotel, where Butler Herbert received her.
• Suren returned to the inn and told Yuta that the Sun Slave Merchant Guild would transport the demi-humans in three days, then planned to prepare puppets and Rune Thread before intercepting the Daru Tribe.

Katyusha considered the looming political turmoil and the stories unfolding around her, while Suren prepared to leave Blizzard City after teaching Jick. When the Smuggling Gang tried to seize Jick for his family’s assets, Suren killed them and helped Jick settle the score with Marianne before they left the city.

• Katyusha told her old nurse that the Northern Lands faced major changes and reflected on the conflicts surrounding Oleg and the demi-humans before falling asleep.
• Suren taught Jick Alchemy Potion research and bomb-making for two days, then prepared to leave for the imperial capital.
• The Smuggling Gang stormed Suren’s hotel room to capture Jick, admitting that someone had offered them a share of the Benson family’s assets.
• Suren used his Wind Cutting Threads to kill the gang members, then returned with Laman’s head after killing the former guard captain.
• Suren and Jick went to a private sanatorium, where Jick set off an explosion in Marianne’s ward, and the two escaped into the crowd before security arrived.

Suren traveled with Yuta aboard a fleet carrying Daru Tribe slaves, planning to free them, but Hodge’s raid and a curse-driven pirate ambush disrupted the voyage. As the North Sea Fleet attacked, Hodge moved to another ship and Suren followed him.

• Suren confirmed that Yuta’s Daru tribespeople were aboard the slave ship and boarded a different merchant ship with her, while a suspected pursuer watched from the docks.
• Fog spread over the sea, and Hodge Soriano attacked three slave ships to liberate their captives; Yuta went to check on her tribespeople.
• Red-eyed crows unleashed a Parasitic Curse across the fleet, and Suren recognized the attack as Gwenbu Mali’s Plague Crow’s Septic Curse.
• The King of the North Sea’s fleet emerged from the fog and attacked, forcing the merchant ships to fight as Hodge realized the pirates had targeted him.
• Hodge jumped onto a seized merchant ship to draw the attack away from the slaves, and Suren leaped after him.

Suren helped Yuta and the Daru Tribe escape the slave ship while pirates pursued them, then used a Mechanical Armor to disable two pirate ships and draw off their attackers. He faced Suleiman, the Blade of the Void, and recognized the pirate’s Scythe of the Void as a chance to study spatial abilities.

• Suren identified the pursuing fleet as Greedy Wolf Carol’s squad, while Hodge fled with the pirate captains in pursuit.
• Suren told Yuta to lighten the slave ship and flee east, and the freed Daru Tribe used wind magic to speed their escape.
• Pirates equipped with Void Wings caught up, so Suren jumped into the sea and told Yuta not to resist while he handled them.
• Suleiman boarded the slave ship and threatened the Daru Tribe, but Suren emerged in a Colonel-Grade Ship-Slaying Type IX Mechanical Armor and attacked the pirate ships.
• Suren damaged two pirate ships to force Suleiman and his men to return, then identified Suleiman’s Scythe of the Void and anticipated testing his spatial ability.

Suren defeated the pirate Suleiman by using Chronos' Spatial Gloves to imprison his Void Displacement, then extracted Fourth Tier Spatial Law Fragments and intelligence about the King of the North Sea's fleet. He learned that Oleg's forces had built a Void Implant Fleet and considered traveling to Pirate City to investigate further.

• Suren studied the pirates' Void Implant abilities while his Mechanical Armor killed most of the attackers, but Suleiman escaped into darkness using his stealth talent.
• Suren trapped Suleiman in a checkered space and let him attack a puppet inside the Mechanical Armor while he secretly prepared a counter.
• Suleiman's Void Wings failed when Suren used Chronos' Spatial Gloves to imprison spatial fluctuations, and Suren killed him with a spatial rift.
• Suren extracted Suleiman's soul and gained Fourth Tier Spatial Law Fragments, practical spatial techniques, and intelligence about Oleg's fleet and Pirate City.
• Suren learned that Oleg's forces had obtained Cursed Materials from the Void Plane and forged a Void Implant Fleet, prompting him to consider visiting Pirate City.

Suren escaped the pirates with Yuta after she returned to help him, and they made their way across the sea together. Once they reached a liferaft, Yuta thanked him for saving the Daru Tribe and gave him a wolf-claw amulet as a token of friendship.

• Suren absorbed a Fourth Tier Spatial Law Fragment, which doubled his Folded Space and greatly improved his Spatial affinity.
• Suren emerged from the Chessboard space and found Yuta fighting pirates in her white-wolf form, so he attacked the pirates and damaged their ship before escaping with her.
• Yuta carried Suren across the sea until he revealed an inflatable boat, then he treated her wounds and gave her a shirt.
• Yuta thanked Suren on behalf of the Daru Tribe and declared him their forever friend.
• Yuta made a necklace from her wolf claw and gave it to Suren, who accepted and wore it.

Suren and Yuta traveled through the Silent Deep Forest toward Lake Gaius, where Yuta revealed the Daru Tribe’s history and explained that Mind Flayers lived in the forbidden Cursed Valley. Suren began considering an expedition there to find material for his Alchemical Implant and investigate the prehistoric ruin.

• Suren rode on Yuta’s wolf form through the Silent Deep Forest as she guided him and described its dangerous creatures.
• Yuta hunted a Mountain Wild Boar, and she and Suren shared a meal while discussing his puppet and his search for a Nightmare Spider.
• Yuta explained that Mind Flayers lived in Cursed Valley, a forbidden territory in the north controlled by the Giant Race.
• Yuta recounted how a battle at Cursed Valley five hundred years earlier killed the Daru Tribe’s Great Druids, cost them their Four Sacred Artifacts, and led to their decline.
• Yuta revealed that Daru tribespeople who searched Cursed Valley thirty years earlier were attacked by Mind Flayers, and Suren considered investigating the ruin for its dangers and potential rewards.

Suren and Yuta discovered that the Sun Slave Merchant Guild’s Slave Catching Group had attacked the White Deer Tribe, and they went to investigate. After the group spotted them and a sniper fired, Suren and Yuta faced an imminent confrontation.

• Suren considered hunting a Mind Flayer, and Yuta offered to secretly take him to its forbidden territory after they learned more at the Sacred Lake.
• Yuta and Suren heard gunfire, spotted the attack on the White Deer Tribe, and hurried toward the settlement together.
• Suren and Yuta watched from a nearby tree as the Sun Slave Merchant Guild’s group captured Elder Tagu and the surviving deer people after killing many tribespeople.
• Yuta resolved to follow the captors and try to save her people, but Suren noticed bees had exposed their position and warned that the group had discovered them.
• Yuta prepared to hold off the attackers so Suren could escape, but Suren dodged a sniper round and faced the threat beside her.

Suren and Yuta were surrounded by the Sun Slave Catching Group, whose members attacked after refusing to let them pass. Suren’s violent Mental Mutation took hold, and after killing their Fourth Tier Insectomancer deputy leader, he summoned hundreds of puppets to face the reinforcements arriving from the stronghold.

• Suren and Yuta were caught by a patrol, and Young Master Connie demanded they surrender their weapons and belongings for inspection.
• When Suren and Yuta tried to leave, a gunman shot Yuta, and she fought back while Suren endured the gunfire and unleashed his Thread Control Secret Technique: Slaughterhouse.
• Suren bound Connie in threads and killed several attackers, then identified and killed the Fourth Tier Insectomancer hidden in an Iron-Backed Centipede body.
• Suren killed more members of the Slave Catching Group as the survivors fled, then devoured Gray Mist from the centipede’s corpse.
• As reinforcements approached, Suren released hundreds of puppets and sent Yuta to the treetops before preparing to face the arriving force.

Suren lured the Sun Group into the forest and trapped its forces inside a vast web with his Cocoon World technique. The Puppet Legion began slaughtering the encircled soldiers, while Suren remained in control of the theater.

• Seltert sent two elite squads to rescue Connie, but Suren’s threads and Puppet Dolls killed or captured them in an ambush.
• Frieda McCarthy urged Seltert to attack together, and the Sun Group advanced into the forest despite the mysterious fog.
• Suren waited until most of the enemy entered his trap, then collided with Seltert using Mafa's Mechanical Armor.
• Suren cast Thread Control Secret Art: Cocoon World, enclosing the forest and everyone within the Puppet Theater.
• More than a hundred Abomination Puppets attacked as their eerie laughter disoriented the soldiers, and Suren’s Puppet Legion slaughtered the trapped forces.

Suren used his Puppet Legion to overwhelm the Slave Catching Group while keeping its two Fourth Order Professionals at bay. After defeating Thorn Bear Seltert with a layered ambush, Suren left the other Fourth Order Professional still at large.

• Suren directed hundreds of puppets in a one-sided assault that decimated the Slave Catching Group.
• The Elemental Witch attacked Suren with Thousand Wheel Strangulation, but the Black Hole Doll absorbed and returned the spell, forcing her to escape through a tree.
• Seltert charged Suren with Thousand Needle Downpour, but Suren used a Spatial Barrier to misjudge the distance and create an opening.
• Suren coordinated the Mechanical Armor's strike with frost-spewing puppets, wounding Seltert and trapping him in ice.
• Suren killed Seltert with a spatial rift while the Elemental Witch remained unable to rescue him.

Suren defeated the Sun Slave Catching Group’s forces, killed Captain Seltert, and drove the survivors from the White Deer Tribe’s camp. While gathering spoils, he found Black Sam’s Cursed Gold Coin and a poison-making Cursed Object, then considered building a legion of poisonous puppets.

• Frida watched Seltert die and escaped after realizing Suren had discovered her hiding place.
• A Cursed Object burned an opening through Suren’s thread barrier, allowing the surviving slave catchers to flee and regroup with their camp forces.
• Yuta entered the battlefield, confirmed Suren was unharmed, and recognized that the White Deer Tribe members had been left behind.
• Suren collected the battlefield spoils and found Black Sam’s Cursed Gold Coin in Seltert’s Storage Ring.
• Suren examined the Insectomancer’s possessions and acquired Annistora’s Highly Poisonous Incense Burner.
• Suren considered using the incense burner to create a group of highly poisonous dolls.

Suren and Yuta reached the Emerald Sacred Land, where Yuta introduced him to wary young patrol guards. They learned that another human had arrived the day before with the Spear of Mebhionnach and was being hailed as the Prophesied Hero, leaving Suren and Yuta uncertain how that fit the prophecy and Isaac oath.

• Suren gathered the battle spoils and accepted the White Deer Tribe’s thanks for driving off the Slave Catchers.
• Suren comforted Yuta as she grieved for the dead, and the two continued their journey after the tribe escorted them out.
• Suren and Yuta traveled down the Runas River and plunged over a towering waterfall into the lush Emerald Sacred Land.
• Yuta explained the sacred pillars to Suren, and patrol leader Cora questioned why Yuta had brought a human into the land.
• Cora told Yuta and Suren that another human had arrived with the Spear of Mebhionnach and was recognized as the Prophesied Hero.
• Yuta translated the news for Suren, and they set out to meet the chieftain.

Suren arrived at the Daru Tribe’s Emerald Sacred Land with Yuta, where the tribe’s warriors gathered to meet him and he reunited with Katyusha. He learned that Katyusha was studying Oxiang’s Chapters of Poetry, a collection of poems that held laws and spells, and remained curious about her mysterious connection to the Daru.

• Suren and Yuta reached the Emerald Sacred Land, where Suren sensed the Laws of Nature and removed his Clown Mask.
• Aku and the other apprentice Druids challenged Suren after noticing Yuta’s Wolf Claw Amulet, but Yuta stopped them before a fight began.
• Elder Pasu recognized Suren as the human warrior who had saved him and his tribesmen, then escorted him toward the chief and elders.
• Suren encountered Katyusha beside ancient stone tablets and learned that she had been invited to the sacred land after helping the Daru captured by slave hunters.
• Katyusha explained that the tablets contained Oxiang’s Chapters of Poetry, and Suren recognized their poems as treasures that could convey laws and spells.

Suren met the Daru Tribe’s elders, renewed the ancient oath on behalf of the Isaac Family, and learned that their sacred land or a Demon-Devouring Totem might help control his mutated Mental Power. He left considering whether the Cursed Valley ruins could hold a Great Druid capable of drawing a stronger totem.

• Suren entered the Divine Tree and met Chieftain Monah, Grandma Wolf, and the Daru elders, who thanked him for saving their tribesmen.
• Suren revealed that Ophelia Faye Isaac was alive and had sent him to discuss the tribe’s oath, prompting the Divine Tree’s power to respond.
• Suren signed the ancient oath scroll on behalf of the Isaac Family, renewing its friendship with the Daru Tribe.
• Monah and Grandma Wolf examined Suren’s mutated Mental Power and explained that remaining in the Sacred Land could suppress it, while a Demon-Devouring Totem might contain it.
• Monah said the Daru Tribe’s incomplete totem technique could only suppress Suren’s mutation temporarily, and Suren considered searching the Cursed Valley ruins for a Great Druid.

Suren received the Eclipse totem from the Daru Tribe’s elders to contain his Mental Mutation, then returned to the village with Yuta. There, he encountered Katyusha studying the tribe’s poetry and remained curious about her identity and the Sacred Object she had found.

• The Deer Chieftain drew the Eclipse totem on Suren, explaining that a permanent totem would require a Great Druid above the Seventh Tier and that Mental Mutation could also strengthen him if he controlled it.
• Grandma Wolf mentioned that the Daru Tribe’s Sacred Object, Fahl’s Holy Grail, was lost, and Suren considered searching for clues to the tribe’s relics.
• Suren thanked the elders after the completed totem absorbed the Mental Power he could not control, and the Deer Chieftain advised him not to suppress his emotions entirely.
• Yuta led Suren back through the forest to the village, where the tribespeople greeted him and Katyusha read poems from the black stone stele.
• Suren and Yuta watched Katyusha recite a poem and enter a state of resonance with nature; afterward, Suren introduced Yuta to her, and the two women exchanged greetings.