Recaps

The players faced threats in Klaf City while Silvis sought his armor, and Duma’s forces routed the Holy Crusaders. Gray and Nora escaped a vast Blood Corpse horde when Antasia awakened, while the Klaf City party prepared to expand its search for Silvis’s armor.

• The players defeated a huge armored worm, then met Silvis, a campaign knight who revealed that Grand Duke Antos remained sealed beneath Klaf City and offered to guide them there if they found his armor.
• Dark Archmage reported mapping Holy Crusader encampments in Ginkgo Town, while Duma and Duolin lured the Crusaders into a trap and routed their cavalry and two grand knight commanders with help from the Wild Hunt.
• Shit Appraisal Master and Lion Hidden in the Eyes enlisted Traditional Eccentric Wheel to design a mobile resurrection fortress, while Gray and Nora encountered a vast Blood Corpse horde blocking their route east.
• Gray drove the Antasia toward the Second Holy See, but the fortress became trapped in a sinkhole as the horde closed in, and Antasia suddenly took control and pulled them free.
• Antasia revealed that it had awakened, with the World Tree ornament fused to its console and Blood Corpses linked through its vines, then chose a safe route to Valhalla and told Gray memories of his Master.
• Death to Those Who Stop Updating and Ginseng Rooster turned real events into heroic tales about Seraphina and the Demonic Tide, while the players continued following Silvis through Klaf City.
• The players helped Silvis kill a Blood Corpse troll, allowing him to recover an ankle guard and regenerate armor over about forty percent of his body.
• Easily Soluble in Water proposed bringing two more squads to search deeper into Klaf City, and Elderly and Children Fly First agreed to consider transferring top players.

Gray’s group headed for Klaf City while Xilǐ'er carried Noya in a sword, and Ed learned of Antasia through the Root Network. In Klaf City, the players and Willow confronted Muller, whose stolen lineage powers led Ed to identify Rosalind as the source of his Devouring ability.

• [Traditional Eccentric Wheel] built an oversized assault vehicle powered by Blood Corpses, and its first test run hurtled across the Wilderness of Chaos before the group joined Silvis’s advance into Klaf City.
• Gray met Xilǐ'er on the road, learned he was serving the Twin Kings, and accepted his knight’s sword to deliver to Ed.
• Noya transferred her soul into Xilǐ'er's sword, while Ed discovered Antasia and Noya through the World Tree model’s mental space and promised them separate accommodations.
• Ed sent players to question Silvis, who described his fight against a shadow-wielding vampire and led them deeper into Klaf City.
• Muller revealed his powers in a fight with Silvis and the players, killing several players while challenging them to identify his lineage.
• Willow arrived after hearing Wens’s name and attacked Muller with lightning, then Ed reached the cavern through a teleportation tree and began resurrecting the players.
• Ed’s plants and fire disrupted Muller’s attacks as Willow battered him, and Ed analyzed a blood worm from Muller and identified it as Rosalind.
• Ed concluded that Muller had likely acquired powers by eating Blood Corpses, told the lich that Muller was not of Wens’s lineage, and prepared the players to counter his next attack.

Ed and his allies defeated and captured Muller, then found Silvis’s memories unreliable and Antos missing from his sealed chamber. Ed absorbed Rosalind’s True Blood, remade Muller as his subordinate, and learned how the grand dukes’ alliance and the attack on Klaf City had unfolded.

• Ed, Willow, Silvis, and the players defeated Muller, contained him in Willow’s alchemical golem, and recovered Silvis’s armor.
• Silvis led Ed and the players to Antos’s sealed chamber beneath Klaf City, but they found neither Antos nor his companions.
• Ed proposed that Silvis’s memory of guarding the chamber was flawed, and Silvis attacked Ed and Willow before they subdued him and sent him to Valhalla.
• Ed and Willow tortured Muller until he surrendered Rosalind’s True Blood, which Ed absorbed after resisting Rosalind’s offer to join her lineage.
• Ed used the True Blood to sever Muller’s connection to Rosalind, gave him a new body, and declared him part of the Adrian Lineage as Müller-chan.
• Muller told Ed that Rosalind had sent him to Klaf City as an envoy to a summit of the True Blood Alliance.
• Muller recounted how the alliance divided its campaign between the Demon Realm and the neighboring kingdom, where resistance stalled the invasion.
• Muller said a Short-Eared Elf seized Vanessa during the Klaf City meeting, another restrained Hall, and Antos disappeared before Muller was sealed at the city gates.

Ed investigated the Eternal Domain’s connection to the Amber Dragon and the King of Domination while bringing Noya into the Second Holy See. Meanwhile, Soul Returners infiltrated Black Pine City and helped Ginseng Rooster organize a militia as Archbishop Luorui'er secretly prepared to flee.

• Muller told Ed about the vampires beneath Klaf City and the Eternal Domain expedition, and Ed recruited him to help educate people in the Dungeon.
• Ed and Willow reviewed Muller’s intelligence, posted it on the Root Network, and learned that Charlie had been appointed envoy by the Twin Kings after Antos’s fall.
• Muller welcomed Gray, Nora, and Bennett at Valhalla, then led Gray and Nora to Ed while the players recognized him as the Klaf City boss.
• Ed received Noya, a blue dragon soul carried in Xilǐ'er's sword, and negotiated her employment contract with Seraphina before Noya joined the Second Holy See.
• Noya recounted how the Eternal Domain expedition had killed her and taken her body, and Ed and Seraphina linked her lost body to Aeldra, the Amber Dragon.
• Ed concluded that Antos’s authority had given bodies to Eternal Domain knights and that Vanessa and the Immortal King were behind the domain, while Vanessa stripped Antos of his True Blood.
• The Great Adventurer quest sent players to search for sealed grand dukes and infiltrate Black Pine City, where Archbishop Luorui'er rallied residents while secretly planning to escape.
• Ginseng Rooster accepted Luorui'er's appointment as militia captain and recruited players, then organized militia screenings with Andy as his assistant while Dark Archmage and Rod faced the first round.