Recaps

Ed drove Muller away from the scattered players while the guild captains reorganized their defenses and fallen players were resurrected. Muller replenished himself with Blood Corpse flesh, then prayed to Rosalind for help, and a mysterious drop of blood appeared above the wreckage.

• Ed forced Muller to flee through the connected shadows toward the wrecked Blood Corpse-powered locomotive, giving the players time to regroup.
• Ed revived a fallen player as the guild captains formed defensive lines, while newly arrived players waited for the apparent transformation cutscene to finish.
• Muller absorbed the flesh and blood in the wreckage and recovered, but decided he could not defeat Ed, Willow, and Silvis together.
• Muller resolved to injure or kill the enemies before escaping and prayed to Rosalind to stabilize his form.
• A drop of blood appeared above the wreckage, filling the cavern with the scent of food and making the players feel hungry.

After Muller absorbed Rosalind’s True Blood and transformed into a monstrous pseudo-duke, Ed and the players prepared to fight him and reclaim the blood. Silvis completed his resurrection and called on the warriors to charge.

• Ed realized Rosalind’s True Blood could help him reach High Tier, but Muller absorbed it before Ed could take it.
• An urgent quest tasked the players with helping Ed, Willow, and Silvis defeat Muller and recover the True Blood, offering free resurrections and a 150-gold prize pool.
• Muller transformed into a giant flesh-and-machinery worm with four insect legs, and a boss health bar identified him as a mutated pseudo-duke.
• [Howling Pothos] asked [Backstabbing Expert] for a boost and received an enhancement injection to prepare for combat.
• Silvis finished resurrecting, took up his sword, and urged the warriors to charge the monster.

Silvis and the players fought Muller in the cavern while Ed spread moss to recover their bodies and speed their respawns. Muller used salvaged war-machine parts to injure the players, then launched a spinning strike and spat a mass of worms toward the fallen.

• Silvis used his blessed longsword to launch a blade of psionic light at Muller, and the players charged while Willow shielded them.
• Ed spread moss across the cavern floor to support the players’ recovery and respawns.
• Silvis freed his sword from a timber lodged in Muller’s body and severed one of the worm’s insect legs.
• A dying player told [Traditional Eccentric Wheel] that Muller’s chainsaw-like wheel hubs hurt before moss dragged the corpse underground.
• [Retreat Drum Player] warned the players to dodge Muller’s spinning attack, but several were struck and killed when it shattered Willow’s barriers.
• Muller spat a ball of flesh toward the fallen players, and it burst into a rain of writhing worms.

Ed watched the players battle Muller while discussing with Willow how to capture the Middle Tier vampire alive. Willow borrowed Ed’s alchemical golem and began preparing a plan as Silvis pressed Muller in close combat, only to fall into the vampire’s trap.

• Muller released worms that devoured dead players and returned to him, restoring some of his strength.
• Ed asked Willow whether she could defeat Muller, and they agreed that she would try to capture him alive with help from Ed’s alchemical golem.
• Willow reasoned that Muller would replenish himself more slowly without nearby humans or animals.
• Willow protected Silvis with a shield and signaled for him to buy her time while she prepared a formation.
• Silvis attacked Muller’s abdomen, but Muller blocked him with his armored tail and revealed that the knight had fallen into his trap.

Muller attacked the Soul Returners with shadow-striking insect limbs while Ed and Willow discussed the limits of his lineage powers and prepared to contain him. As Muller fired a bone cannonball at Willow, a huge psionic teleportation array activated.

• Muller impaled Benevolent Father Above with a barbed insect leg, dragged him into the shadows, and swallowed him.
• Ed asked Willow why Muller could not enter the shadows completely, and she explained how his Rosalind lineage power limited his York abilities.
• Willow described two ways Blood Corpses could strengthen another lineage’s powers, then told Ed that no grand duke had ever died completely.
• Ed expanded the underground roots to block Muller’s escape while Silvis fought off his spinning saw-equipped insect limbs.
• Muller used the bones of two eaten players to fire a cannonball at Willow, but a vast psionic teleportation array activated.

Willow and her allies used an alchemical golem, plant-based psionic powers, and Silvis’s flying sword to defeat Muller. The sword pierced Muller from the inside and lodged in the cavern wall.

• Willow summoned an alchemical golem, which survived Muller’s bone cannonball and struck him with a powered fist.
• Muller recognized that the group had several middle-tier fighters and abandoned his plan to defeat them.
• Silvis hurled his knight’s sword at Muller while the young psionic warlock lifted Muller off the ground with plant powers.
• The alchemical golem seized Muller’s legs and turned him so Silvis’s sword could pierce his mouthparts and internal organs.
• Silvis’s sword shattered Muller’s tail armor from within before embedding itself in the rock wall.

Muller’s defenses broke under Silvis’s strike, letting the players and Willow press their attack. As the players surrounded him, Willow’s golem tore flesh from Muller’s tail and stuffed it into its headless neck, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Muller severed his four insect legs to escape the alchemical golem, but the golem punched him into a rock wall.
• Silvis’s strike damaged Muller’s defenses, and the players rushed in to attack him.
• Willow questioned the players’ battle slogan, then realized they had reversed her and Ed’s names in it.
• Muller struck off the alchemical golem’s head with a saw blade, but Willow kept controlling its body.
• Willow’s golem gripped Muller’s tail, tore off strips of flesh, and stuffed them into its hollow neck.

Silvis, Ed, Willow, and the Elite Warriors defeated Muller by carving up his bloated body and sealing it inside an alchemical golem. After the emergency quest ended, Silvis learned that the warriors could resurrect, and Ed mentioned seeing an Eternal Domain knight named Xilǐ'er do the same.

• Silvis pinned Muller’s wormlike body to the ground, allowing the players to slice him apart and feed the pieces to the alchemical golem.
• Willow solidified the golem and sent it through a portal to her laboratory in Valhalla, where defensive arrays immobilized it.
• The system confirmed that Muller Rosalind had been contained and ended the emergency quest, prompting the players to celebrate.
• Silvis thanked Ed and Willow for saving him, and Ed introduced himself and Willow as members of the Second Holy See.
• A resurrected Tree Worship Church warrior bragged about earning five gold coins, and Silvis asked Ed whether the young warriors could resurrect.
• Ed confirmed the Elite Warriors could resurrect and praised the Eternal Domain’s resurrection ability, recalling the knight Xilǐ'er.

Ed joined Silvis and Willow in Klaf City to collect the remaining pieces of Silvis’s armor and search for where Grand Duke Antos was sealed. After reclaiming the armor fragments from Blood Corpses and other enemies, Silvis regained much of his vigor as the final piece flew into place.

• Ed asked Silvis how many armor pieces remained, and Silvis said he needed a backplate, a gauntlet, and a flank plate.
• Ed decided to help Silvis find the armor and locate Grand Duke Antos, and Willow joined them to use her tracking spells.
• Willow located three nearby armor pieces, and Ed led the group deeper into Klaf City.
• The players reclaimed Silvis’s backplate from goblin Blood Corpses, then recovered the other pieces from a giant spider and an Adelaide count.
• Silvis summoned the final abdominal plate to his flank, completing his armor and restoring his vigor.

After restoring his armor, Silvis thanked the players and led them deeper into Klaf City toward Grand Duke Antos’s sealing site. He explained the city’s buried history, then revealed a vast heap of Blood Corpse remains beneath a bridge.

• Silvis’s armor repaired and reinforced itself, and he saluted the players for helping him recover it before promising to lead them to Antos’s sealing site.
• Silvis led the group through increasingly cold caves, and Ed asked whether they might be ambushed by enemies.
• Silvis said he had once fought Blood Corpses in the area for a month and had killed three newly revived marquises.
• Silvis explained that Klaf City had once been built around a river and that its lord’s residence stood on a fortified sandbar.
• At a stone bridge, Silvis revealed that he had dumped the Blood Corpse remains into the dried riverbed to keep other lineages from feeding on them.
• The players saw mountains of corpses and pools of blood filling the riverbed beneath the bridge.

Ed, Silvis, Willow, and the players crossed Klaf City’s ruined battlefield to find the sealed grounds of Grand Duke Antos beneath the city lord’s residence. The players discovered coins among the castle rubble, then rejoined Ed’s group to inspect Antos’s seal rather than fight him.

• Silvis led the group across the stone bridge and explained that Antos’s sealed grounds lay beneath the city lord’s residence on the river island.
• Silvis said the ruined castle suggested Antos had been punched into the ground, prompting the players to joke about his defeat.
• [Great Wei Boxing Champion] found a silver coin in the rubble, and the players scattered through the castle ruins to search for valuables.
• Silvis suggested that only the middle tiers needed to confirm Antos’s location and asked whether Ed planned to fight the grand duke.
• Ed said they would only inspect the seal and invited the players to join, so they abandoned their treasure hunt and followed him.

Ed, Silvis, and Willow found the entrance to Grand Duke Antos’s sealed chamber beneath the ruined castle. Elsewhere, Bennett revealed that Antos was in danger and that the bloodline summons was compelling freed Blood Corpses to seek him, so Gray agreed to let Bennett leave.

• Ed followed Silvis and Willow through the ruined castle and found a pit in the great hall, but Silvis showed them stairs leading below.
• The group descended to a stone door that Silvis identified as the entrance to Grand Duke Antos’s chamber.
• Bennett called for help from the storeroom aboard the Antasia, waking Gray and his wife.
• Bennett told Gray that Antos had sent a bloodline summons conveying danger and pain, and that freed members of the Antos Lineage would rush toward him.
• Gray offered to let Bennett go, promising not to harm him unless Bennett attacked first.

Gray shocked Bennett unconscious to keep him from answering Grand Duke Antos’s summons, then urged Antasia to hurry with their warning to the Second Holy See. In Klaf City, Ed and the players opened Antos’s sealed chamber and found it empty, leaving Silvis to confront the possibility that both Antos and the remains of his companions were gone.

• Bennett chose to be shocked unconscious rather than leave the Antasia and face the danger of Grand Duke Antos’s summons.
• Gray electrocuted Bennett until he lost consciousness, then asked Antasia to travel faster so they could warn the Second Holy See.
• Ed opened the stone door beneath the city lord’s manor in Klaf City while Silvis stayed outside, mourning his liege and companions.
• Ed and the players searched the ruined underground chamber with night vision as Silvis waited outside.
• Ed called Silvis in and told him the chamber held neither Antos nor the remains of his companions.

Ed, Willow, and Silvis explored Grand Duke Antos’s ruined sealing site but found no sign of Antos or his companions. As the players looted the old castle, Ed questioned Silvis about what he had personally witnessed during the expedition.

• Silvis entered the underground chamber and recognized it as Antos’s sealing site, though the grand duke and his companions were missing.
• Ed and Willow searched for clues while Silvis examined battle marks and relived the expedition’s final moments.
• The Soul Returners found little of interest, so Ed gave them a quest to investigate the old castle, which they divided up to loot.
• Ed asked Silvis to distinguish what he had witnessed from what he had inferred.
• Silvis said Antos had sensed a threat and summoned Blood Corpses, then entered the chamber with the expedition while Silvis stayed outside to fight; Silvis never opened the stone door.

Ed investigated the disappearance of Antos and the expedition, reasoning that they may have captured the grand duke and left Klaf City. When Silvis challenged the theory with his memories of guarding the door, Ed suspected that Silvis’s memory was unreliable, and Silvis began struggling to recall what happened.

• Ed and Willow ruled out several explanations for the empty stone chamber and the lack of activity among the Blood Corpses.
• Ed proposed that the expedition had captured Antos alive and left, explaining why the chamber was empty and the Eternal Domain had taken no action for months.
• Silvis rejected the theory, pointing out that he had never seen anyone leave through the stone door or found it open after resurrecting.
• Ed questioned whether Silvis could really have killed the vast numbers of Blood Corpses he remembered and suggested that something was wrong with his memory.
• Silvis struggled to remember what had happened while he guarded the stone door.

Ed and Willow subdued Silvis when his memories triggered a violent episode, then bound him and kept him unconscious while deciding what to do with him. Ed explained his suspicions about memory problems among people from the Eternal Domain and began listing unanswered questions about Silvis.

• Silvis recalled something, became unstable, and charged Ed and Willow, who paralyzed and electrocuted him until he collapsed unconscious.
• Willow offered to teleport Silvis to Valhalla, and Ed agreed to keep him confined there rather than risk letting him wake.
• Ed bound Silvis with a rapidly growing seed and covered the branches with Paralysis Flowers to keep him asleep.
• Willow asked how Ed had recognized Silvis's memory problem, and Ed compared it to Xilǐ'er's earlier confusion and suggested such episodes were common among people from the Eternal Domain.
• Ed described two unresolved questions about Silvis: his ignorance of replenishing health with refined iron despite knowing Xilǐ'er, and the strange way armor behaved during resurrection.

Ed sent Willow to Valhalla with Silvis, redirected the players to investigate Adelaide after Antos disappeared, and left a clone guarding the castle. Back in Valhalla, he joined Willow to question the trapped Muller, who remained unable to escape the packed alchemical golem.

• Willow took the unconscious Silvis to Valhalla while Ed planned to inspect the Soul Returners and later question Muller with her.
• Ed noticed a familiar sword mark in a depression near the basement door, then climbed through the ruins and collected a silver coin bearing a crowned man's portrait.
• Ed gave the players a new quest to search for Adelaide's sealed location and supplied the team leaders with Temporary Resurrection Tree seeds.
• Ed rooted and wrapped his clone in the castle before returning his consciousness to his main body in Valhalla.
• Ed visited Willow's laboratory, where Willow explained that Muller's weakness after receiving power and the golem's cramped interior kept him trapped.

Ed and Willow tried to interrogate Muller, who was trapped inside an alchemical golem, but he attacked instead of cooperating. Ed used a magically powered meat slicer to punish him, then prepared a meat grinder when Muller retreated into himself.

• Ed and Willow decided to question Muller and demand the Grand Duke's Blood and information from him.
• Ed snapped off one of the alchemical golem's fingers, giving Muller's flesh room to grow into a mace that attacked Ed.
• Ed cut off the mace and, with Willow's help, built a machine powered by a magic array.
• Ed removed the plug and ran the machine as a meat slicer, cutting Muller's growing flesh into slices while Muller tried to speak.
• Muller stopped growing flesh and withdrew into himself, so Ed plugged the opening and switched the slicer attachment to a meat grinder.

Ed tortured Muller with a meat grinder inside the alchemical golem until Muller surrendered and gave up the Grand Duke’s Blood. Ed then told Muller to pray to him for a chance to survive as his body collapsed.

• Ed pushed a meat grinder into the alchemical golem and began pulverizing Muller’s flesh.
• Muller tried to avoid the blades, grew vocal organs, and repeatedly shouted that he surrendered.
• Ed refused to stop until Muller agreed to hand over the Grand Duke’s Blood, despite Muller warning that he would die without it.
• Muller gathered the drop of blood from his ruined body and sent it through the golem’s finger into Ed’s hand.
• Ed told Muller to pray to him to stop his body from falling apart.

Ed used a drop of True Blood to enter Rosalind’s consciousness and confronted her in a sea of blood worms. He rejected her offer to join her lineage, claimed the blood as his own, and began spreading his roots through her consciousness as she attacked.

• Ed used a wooden thorn to analyze the True Blood while Muller’s body disintegrated and he tried to survive by eating his own flesh.
• Ed’s consciousness traveled through the True Blood’s connection to Rosalind, where worms surrounded him and she challenged his identity.
• Rosalind appeared as a veiled noblewoman and offered to make Ed a duke if he joined her lineage and accepted her affection.
• Ed rejected Rosalind’s offer, manifested the drop of True Blood, and claimed Muller had given it to him before dying.
• Ed transformed into a giant tree and spread his roots through Rosalind’s consciousness, prompting her to disappear and send the sea of blood down upon him.

Ed seized Rosalind’s true blood and used it to repel her from his mental space, then absorbed it and gained five levels. After awakening, he showed the lich his uninfected eye and created a new toothy plant.

• Ed used Rosalind’s true blood to carve out a space in her mental realm and keep her attack at bay.
• Ed absorbed the blood as Rosalind cursed him, and he revealed himself as Sailesi, a cardinal of the Tree Worship Church Theocracy.
• Ed checked his updated status with Little Green and found that absorbing the blood had raised him five levels and improved Hybrid Creation.
• Ed returned his consciousness to his body and woke as the lich checked his eye for infection.
• Ed summoned a purple flower bud that split open to reveal two rows of teeth.

Ed transferred Muller from Rosalind’s lineage into his own and gave him a new body after Muller had been reduced to a flesh-and-blood slime. Muller awoke in a coffin-like tub, learned Ed now controlled his fate, and accepted him as his father.

• Ed poured Muller’s surviving slime-like remains from the alchemical golem into a vine tub and used Rosalind’s true blood to sever Muller’s connection to her lineage.
• Ed shaped a new body for Muller while Willow left the laboratory, asking Ed to share any intelligence afterward.
• Muller awoke in the tub, mistook his surroundings for a coffin, and panicked when he saw Ed.
• Ed told Muller that Rosalind had agreed to let him adopt him and used his higher authority to calm Muller’s hunger and threaten him with disintegration.
• Ed declared Muller would serve the Adrian Lineage under the name Müller-chan and prostrated Muller responded by calling Ed “Father.”

Ed transformed Muller into a Blood Corpse of the Adrian Lineage, absorbed his Blood Poison, and questioned him about his past. Muller revealed that Rosalind had sent him to Klaf City as an envoy to a vampire summit, and Ed asked him to recount the events leading up to it.

• Muller mistook Ed’s puzzled response for acknowledgment and declared himself Müller-chan Adrian, Ed’s son.
• Ed tested his powers, absorbed Muller’s Blood Poison, and concluded that the process effectively made Blood Corpses unable to infect others.
• Ed questioned Muller, who insisted he was now of the Adrian Lineage and said Rosalind had sent him to Klaf City as her envoy to a summit.
• Muller began explaining his history, but Ed corrected him when he started too far back and told him to begin with his birth.

Muller recounted his rise from an unpaid mercenary to one of Rosalind’s trusted marquises, then told Ed about the seven grand dukes’ True Blood Alliance and its plan to conquer the world. The Blood Corpses’ campaigns had stalled against powerful demon races and the kingdom’s fortified great nobles.

• Muller recalled how his lord fled during a Blood Corpse invasion, leaving him and the other defenders to die before the city fell.
• After becoming a Blood Corpse, Muller rose through battles and rewards, gained Shadow Traversal, and became one of Rosalind’s marquises.
• Muller told Ed that the True Blood Alliance had united the seven grand dukes in a truce and strengthened Blood Corpses throughout their ranks.
• Muller explained that three lineages were tasked with subduing the Demon Realm’s races while four prepared to conquer the neighboring kingdom.
• Muller said the Demon Realm campaign became a stalemate against demons and liches, while Grand Duke Hall’s assassination of the king failed to break the kingdom’s resistance because great nobles defended their lands with fortresses.

Ed questioned Muller about the Second True Blood Alliance and the events that caused Klaf City to sink underground. Muller described Antos's disappearance, his own sealing, and his later orders from Rosalind, ending with his admission that he had reported the locations of sealed grand dukes to her.

• Muller explained that Grand Duchess Vanessa called the Second True Blood Alliance to reassign the grand dukes between the Demon Realm and the human front.
• Muller said the alliance meeting in Klaf City included four grand dukes and three marquises, and a Short-Eared Elf struck the castle, making Grand Duke Antos disappear.
• Muller recalled one Short-Eared Elf seizing Vanessa while another held Hall back, as Adelaide sat without reacting.
• Muller said he was sealed at Klaf City's gates by prepared sealing formulas, then contacted Rosalind after the seal loosened decades later.
• Muller admitted that Rosalind helped him break free about half a year ago and assigned him to locate sealed grand dukes, which he did report back to her.