Recaps

Ed brought Nuowa and Liya into his plans, preparing Nuowa to claim the Starlight Empire and lead the elves. After rallying the Soul Returners, Ed began the assault on the Holy City while Luxiusi confronted Samuer over his plan to destroy and remake the world.

• Evergreen Tree’s plants responded to thoughts and emotions, and Dawn Ah’s rose lashed at Backstabbing Expert before his pothos blocked it.
• Ed met Nuowa and Liya, who revealed that they were humans and that Nuowa was the rightful heir to the Starlight Empire.
• Nuowa recounted his escape from the palace, his failed rebellion, the creation of Elf’s Dream, and his later struggle against the Demonic Tide and the vampire alliance.
• Ed agreed to help Nuowa save the Empire and the elves, and Nuowa accepted the throne while promising his strength to Ed.
• Ed shared Nuowa’s story with Soul Returners and assembled an army, while Sailesi prepared the Holy City’s defenses and the rebels undermined support for the Stained Ones.
• Nuowa teleported nearly a hundred thousand Soul Returners near the Holy City, and Ed ordered them to attack its walls.
• Samuer told Luxiusi that he planned to reclaim his blessings, erase the world, and create it anew, while Luxiusi urged him to believe in the future and prayed for his release.
• The Holy Crusaders repelled the Soul Returners’ first assault, but the attackers advanced under overturned boats as defenders spotted a moving fortress.

Ed and the Soul Returners conquered the Holy City, exposed and defeated the Stained Ones, and brought the Theocracy under Ed’s rule. After unifying its provinces, Ed turned his attention to the Skeleton Alliance and the Starlight Empire while players pursued new work in the Wilderness of Chaos.

• The Soul Returners assaulted the Holy City as Sailesi used spider lilies to enthrall residents, but Geliwusi fought him with Symbiotic Mistletoe and captured Sailesi’s brainwashed double, Luorui’er Fitz, while the real Sailesi escaped.
• Ed led his forces through the northern gate and into the city, where Geliwusi welcomed him as the holy Son of God and surrendered the Holy City’s defenses to his authority.
• Ed found Luxiusi dead with a twig from the World Tree in his hands, recognized it as the source of the Authority of Passing, and realized he would have to confront the being who wielded death.
• Ed appointed Geliwusi to manage the captured Stained Ones, absorbed the Holy City’s Territory Secret Pact, and used his Root Network to bring the city under the Second Holy See.
• Ed’s forces secured the Holy City, restored residents from Sailesi’s illusion, and executed condemned Stained Ones as Geliwusi announced Ed’s new laws and the city’s treasury was connected to the Root Network.
• Ed took control of the Theocracy without becoming pontiff, and the Soul Returner Legion reclaimed the remaining provinces as the country adopted the name Holy Tree Worship Church Theocracy.
• Ed learned that Sailesi and Samuer had escaped beyond his Root Network, then directed players toward the Wilderness of Chaos while considering how other factions could benefit from their growing numbers.
• [Good Times Don't Last] and [Shit Appraisal Master] opened their trading company, selling parts and assembly services with help from their half-dragon staff.

Ed and Gray Gris turned the Skeleton Alliance’s assassination plot into a battle across Great Labyrinth City while the Soul Returners exposed the conspirators and captured their accomplices. The fight drove Ed, Balund, and Duma south after Giant Arms and Nether Crossing, where Ed’s Absolute Punishment began breaking down Sailesi’s crystal body.

• [Shit Appraisal Master] and [Good Times Don't Last] accepted Gray Gris’s request to help ambush the traitors and visited Suolaer Aoermo and Grand Artisan Keen with rare tools.
• Keen revealed that he, Suolaer, and Brenfield planned to assassinate Gray at the banquet, while Giant Arms and the newly transformed Nether Crossing promised to support them.
• Ed gathered Balund and Aiboke in Great Labyrinth City, prepared to defend Gray, and arranged for Soul Returners to disguise themselves as Corridor Guards.
• At the banquet, Brenfield triggered Giant Arms’s attack, but Ed, Aiboke, and Balund protected Gray while Sailan and Felix fought Keen and Brenfield.
• Ed confronted Nether Crossing, recognized him as the former Cardinal Sailesi, and used Little Green’s Clear Void Pine domain to counter Sailesi’s citywide illusion.
• [Aluode] and the Soul Returners captured Morris and forced Suolaer to confess that the Skeleton Alliance had controlled him and used him as an informant.
• Giant Arms and Nether Crossing fought Ed, Balund, Aiboke, and Duma above the city, while Aiboke defeated and imprisoned Brenfield and Keen.
• Ed, Balund, and Duma pursued the two councilors south, where Duma raised a Flame Hell and Ed unleashed Adelaide of [Absolute Punishment], weakening Sailesi’s crystal body.

After the Skeleton Alliance’s failed assassination, Ed turned toward the growing threat in the south as Soul Returners joined the war between the Alliance and the Starlight Empire. Players captured and contested sand fortresses for loot and military merit, while Nether Crossing inherited Giant Arms’s power and became a councilor.

• Ed and Duma killed Giant Arms, and Balund helped them prevent a councilor’s seawater attack from flooding a coastal city, and Nether Crossing later reported the death and the failed assassination to Whale Tail.
• Ed warned Balund that the Eternal Domain posed a greater threat than the Skeleton Alliance, then left Great Labyrinth City as the Concrete Pouring Club rebuilt the ruined district.
• Crown prepared Nether Crossing to inherit Giant Arms’s four-armed skeleton, while Howling Pothos led Soul Returners into Alliance territory to investigate its skeleton soldiers.
• Odin Game Company opened the Southern Continent Turmoil quest, and Soul Returners chose sides in the war as Ed told Noya he wanted those who yearned for order to prevail.
• Howling Pothos’s squad ambushed a skeleton patrol, captured a sand fortress, and defeated its knight with help from a half-treant.
• Aluode and Howling Pothos staged a peaceful handover of the fortress, then Aluode’s group looted it and returned with skeletal remains and equipment.
• Colin became guardian knight of Sandcastle Number Fourteen and recruited Soul Returners, while Aluode planned to gain military merit by capturing and retaking fortresses.
• Nether Crossing awoke as the Skeleton Alliance’s fifth councilor and set out with Divine Wings to hunt a vampire grand duke, and meanwhile, a centurion plotted to humiliate Howling Pothos with fire.