Recaps

Ginseng Rooster turned Black Pine City’s unpaid militia against the clergy while Duma assembled a mass force of Soul Returners to attack. The Soul Returners broke through the north gate as Ginseng Rooster led the militia against the Fitz residence and the grand knight commander at the south gate.

• Ginseng Rooster recruited a militia, then helped the Soul Returners raid the Holy Crusaders’ barracks and capture soldiers.
• Luorui'er gave Ginseng Rooster tree seeds instead of wages, and he later hid the crates while stirring resentment among the militia.
• Ginseng Rooster used Forget-Sorrow Mint and secret messages to build the militiamen’s anger over unpaid service and grain taxes, then staged his beating to rally them.
• Soul Returners persuaded the militia to support the Son of God’s army, and Ginseng Rooster coordinated an assault on the south gate with Duma.
• Duma gathered more than twenty-two thousand Soul Returners outside Black Pine City and launched the assault as Luorui'er prepared to flee through a tunnel.
• [Shit Appraisal Master] led eighteen Soul Returners fused into the Treant Aggregate, which smashed through the north gate and let the Soul Returners enter the city.
• Ginseng Rooster led the militia into the Fitz residence, presented hidden tree seeds as their wages, and redirected them to seize the south gate.
• Ginseng Rooster confronted the grand knight commander, and players joined the fight by firing seedpods and trying to immobilize him.

Ed’s forces captured Black Pine City while the players built a mobile resurrection fortress and pursued the grand duke’s sealed grounds. The search in Klaf City uncovered Adelaide’s seal, and Ed prepared to break it as the Eternal Domain’s delegation headed south with Silvis.

• [Ginseng Rooster] led the Soul Returners into Luorui’er’s mansion, where Luorui’er’s symbiotic plant drove both sides into a deadly battle until Ed arrived and restored the Gungnir members.
• Ed took control of Black Pine City, assigned Duma to manage the Tree Worship Church front, and connected him with Noya to help oversee resources, quests, and Soul Returners.
• [Shit Appraisal Master], [Traditional Eccentric Wheel], [Lion Hidden in the Eyes], and [Good Times Don’t Last] built the King of Fall Resistance, I Guess and set out toward the grand duke’s sealing site.
• The four players encountered Charlie, learned that the Eternal Domain had killed Antos, and continued toward the sealing grounds while the Klaf City teams searched for Adelaide.
• The four players drove into a Blood Corpse horde, suffered a crash, and became trapped between the creatures above and below the damaged fortress.
• [Good Times Don’t Last] and [Traditional Eccentric Wheel] proposed moving the Resurrection Tree and excavating a way out, and the group began the Snake Plan.
• The Klaf City explorers found a flashing part of a vast sealing pattern in Rotting Corpse Dark Lake, while Ed agreed with Charlie that both sides could hunt grand dukes independently and sent Silvis south with the Eternal Domain delegation.
• [Do Some Farm Work] told Ed that an advance party had found what might be Adelaide’s seal, and Ed confirmed it remained intact before gathering Soul Returners to prepare to break it.

Ed and the Soul Returners fought the Twin Kings, Margaret, and Cuiske as Adelaide’s seal broke and the grand duke revived. Ed rallied the players into Half-Treant Aggregates and brought forth Noya, who confronted Cuiske as the battle continued.

• Xilǐ'er’s advance party found the Second Holy See’s Klaf City exploration team at the Rotting Corpse Dark Lake, and Xilǐ'er revealed his identity before the groups joined forces against Adelaide.
• Adelaide and Cuiske trapped the allied groups in the cavern, but Ed emerged and summoned players through the Teleportation Tree as the Twin Kings descended to fight.
• Ed’s forces battled Cuiske and Margaret while Adelaide manipulated events to break free, and the Twin Kings’ lance shattered the ceiling, sending Antos blood toward the seal.
• Ed used his clone to block the blood-filled breach, but Cuiske destroyed the stone pillar and Adelaide revived, unleashing his void eye against the battlefield.
• Ed ordered reinforcements and used Muller’s stolen vitality to revive players as Half-Treant Aggregates, who joined the fight against Cuiske, Margaret, and Adelaide.
• Ed summoned Noya from beneath the rock, and she emerged as a giant emerald dragon and forced Cuiske to drop the Eye of the Void.

Ed defeated Adelaide, reached High Tier, and recovered memories revealing that he was the Creator behind the World Tree. He woke to a changed Klaf City, new duties, and debts he had little money to repay.

• Ed defeated Cuiske and Adelaide, devoured Adelaide’s True Blood, and transformed into a vast tree that saved Klaf City from collapse.
• The system awarded the players an SSS rating and opened the Klaf City clearing event, while Noya organized the players and Muller finally rested.
• The King of Domination revealed Xilǐ'er’s past and freed him from her control, while Adelaide was imprisoned with Antos after losing his True Blood.
• Leo VII endorsed Luokenuosuos as Keeper of the Seal, and a young traveler offered the Skeleton Alliance information about Wens and Rosalind in exchange for peace.
• During his High Tier breakthrough, Ed reviewed his memories and learned how Number Three’s past and the Creator’s history were connected to him.
• Ed realized he was the Tree God and Creator, then split off part of his consciousness to restore Little Green as his chief assistant.
• After three days, Ed fashioned a youthful body beneath the giant tree and looked through a spatial rift, but Seraphina followed him and demanded security for his loans.
• Ed discovered that Noya had lowered the resurrection fee, then greeted her while regretting that he had awakened.