Chapter Summaries

Chang Nie discovered that Muninn, an insider account named after one of Odin’s crows, had edited the creature compendium, and he shared the Easter egg with the other beta testers. As the players prepared to log in again, they considered asking the castle’s lord to summon more players, while Ed decided to improve Little Green.

• Chang Nie found that Muninn had written the creature compendium entries and connected the name to Odin’s crow and Odin Game Company.
• Chang Nie messaged the group to confirm their planned eight o’clock login, and Zhongde, Good Times Don't Last, and Do Some Farm Work replied.
• Do Some Farm Work asked how the group could obtain more beta slots, and Good Times Don't Last suggested asking the NPC lord who could summon souls.
• The players realized they had forgotten the lord’s name, irritating Ed, who was monitoring their conversation.
• Ed checked the time and decided to add features to Little Green during the server downtime.

Ed released four players into the world and added rough experience and stamina displays. When [Good Times Don't Last] asked about bringing in more players through an in-world ritual, Ed explained how to prepare for another summoning, leaving the group amazed by the guide NPC’s intelligence.

• Ed released four souls and showed them an update announcing name displays, experience bars, and stamina bars.
• [Do Some Farm Work] asked Ed how his friend could get closed beta access, and Ed mistook the question for a bodily dysfunction.
• [Good Times Don't Last] reframed the question as a request to summon more souls to help restore order.
• Ed explained that another summoning required materials for new bodies and corrupted souls to use as sacrifices.
• [Zhongde], [Do Some Farm Work], and [Howling Pothos] discussed recording Ed in a player-edited NPC compendium.

Ed followed the four players as they split up to build a raft and test his soul-summoning method, while secretly planning to gain experience from their hunts. The hunters were ambushed by two poisonous plum blossom deer and were devoured, leaving the players’ plans in jeopardy.

• Ed realized he had not yet enabled Little Green’s image-recording function and planned to add it soon.
• The four players divided into two groups: [Howling Pothos] and [Good Times Don't Last] started building a raft, while [Zhongde] and [Do Some Farm Work] went hunting to test Ed’s summoning instructions.
• [Zhongde] and [Do Some Farm Work] hid in bushes and waited for prey, but the floral fragrance from two approaching plum blossom deer poisoned and paralyzed them.
• The plum blossom deer revealed sharp teeth and devoured [Zhongde] and [Do Some Farm Work], showing that they had never been lured toward the bushes.

Ed rescued two paralyzed players by using Deadwood Vines to kill the deer-type aberrants, then collected their genes and gained enough experience to reach level 3. He discovered that his Soul Webway could now hold eight players and ordered Little Green to develop an antidote so the newcomers would wake sooner.

• Ed used Deadwood Vines to trap and kill the two deer-type aberrants as [Zhongde] was logged out and [Do Some Farm Work] lay unconscious.
• Ed collected the Paralysis Flower gene and absorbed the dead aberrants, raising his level from 2 to 3.
• Ed sensed that his Soul Webway's capacity had increased from four players to eight.
• Ed checked how long the players would remain paralyzed and found it would last one hour and twelve minutes.
• Ed instructed Little Green to reverse-engineer the Paralysis Flower toxin and find a way to wake the players sooner.

After a poisonous monster forced Zhou Jue offline, he negotiated with Ji He over selling a closed beta slot before both returned to the game. The players recovered, hunted Vine Sheep, and built a raft, then gathered at the old castle with two live sheep for Ed to use in an Otherworldly Soul Summoning.

• Zhou Jue agreed with [Do Some Farm Work] to split the money from arranging a closed beta slot for [Shit Appraisal Master], with Zhou Jue receiving forty percent.
• Ji He saw the paralysis countdown change to show that the toxin had been removed, and he and Zhou Jue logged back into the World of Disorder.
• Ed told the two players their toxin had been removed, and they resumed hunting less dangerous Vine Sheep.
• [Howling Pothos] and [Good Times Don't Last] finished gathering vines for the raft and discussed eating to recover from their [Weakened] debuffs.
• At the end of the second testing day, the four players met Ed by the old castle; the builders showed off their progress, and the hunters presented four Vine Sheep.
• [Do Some Farm Work] asked Ed to use the two live Vine Sheep for Otherworldly Soul Summoning.

Ed explained the limits of Soul Summoning and prepared to bring another Soul Returner into the game. After the players finished testing, Ji He received a shareable beta invitation and gave its code to Yu Yun, who successfully activated his account for the next session.

• Ed told [Do Some Farm Work] that summoning another Soul Returner would require more materials and time, and that souls might take until the next day to respond.
• Ed explained that Soul Returners could only descend for twelve hours because their bodies might otherwise disintegrate.
• The four players ate around the campfire, logged out, and ended the second day of testing while Ed used the Vine Sheep remains to mold a body.
• The players planned to explore the opposite riverbank, and Ji He received a shareable closed beta invitation code.
• Ji He offered the code to Yu Yun for whatever he thought it was worth, and Yu Yun successfully activated his eligibility for the next closed beta session.

A gaming platform’s technical department repeatedly removed “World of Disorder” from its new games rankings, only for it to reappear in the same spot without any trace of an intrusion. After the director failed to stop it, the programmer went home intending to investigate the game as a player.

• A technician told the director that “World of Disorder” kept returning to the twentieth spot in the new games rankings despite being removed each day.
• The director took over the technician’s workstation and deleted the game from the platform’s backend.
• The technician refreshed the homepage, and “World of Disorder” appeared again in twentieth place.
• The director gave up and said he would speak to the boss, while the technical staff ended their overtime.
• The technician went home and decided to investigate “World of Disorder” by approaching it as a gamer.

Cui Yuan explored the official World of Disorder website, discovered its monster entries and unusually intelligent NPC information, and became eager to play despite lacking closed beta access. After changing his username, he noticed something odd in the opening animation while repeatedly refreshing the site.

• Cui Yuan registered an account and examined the map and bestiary, learning about dangerous creatures such as the “Plum Blossom” Deer.
• Cui Yuan found that different players, including [Muninn] and [Zhongde], had edited entries in the bestiary.
• Cui Yuan read the NPC entry for Ed Adrian, who was described as the only NPC in the closed beta and highly intelligent.
• Cui Yuan became hooked on the game’s style and content, though he still lacked closed beta access.
• Cui Yuan shared the game’s homepage in gaming groups, changed his ID to [Great Wei Boxing Champion], and spotted something unusual in the opening animation.

Cui Yuan discovered that the website’s opening animation hid a puzzle, while [Shit Appraisal Master] entered the World of Disorder and joined the other players. The five crossed the river to explore the Black Forest, leaving Ed behind to monitor them and prepare to recover them if they died.

• Cui Yuan recorded the website’s opening animation and analyzed its final frames, spotting a multicolored effect that suggested a hidden puzzle.
• [Shit Appraisal Master] entered the game, reunited with [Do Some Farm Work], and met the other three players, including [Zhongde].
• [Howling Pothos] proposed finishing the raft and crossing the river, and [Do Some Farm Work] introduced the new player to the world outside the castle.
• The players finished a raft before noon and crossed the river together to reach the other bank.
• Ed watched the players begin exploring without their healing-capable NPC, told Little Green to monitor them, and returned to the castle to consider his next move.

The Tree Worship Church bishop accused Dragonborn Village of harboring an apostate and entered alone to investigate. After sensing the village’s fruit tree, he found the apostate’s trail and thanked the dragon-transformed villager for cooperating.

• The Tree Worship Church knights arrived at Dragonborn Village and accused it of sheltering an apostate.
• The dragonborn guard rejected the accusation, then challenged the bishop to enter the village alone.
• The bishop accepted and entered Dragonborn Village while the gates closed behind him and villagers watched.
• The dragon-transformed man warned the bishop not to threaten or punish the villagers, and the bishop declined his offer to fight.
• The bishop touched a fruit tree with his branch-like hand, sensed the apostate’s trail, and announced that he had found it.

The Tree Worship Church bishop tracked Ed east from Dragonborn Village, while Ed used Little Green’s plant network to monitor the riders and tried to delay their pursuit. The bishop detected Ed’s spy weeds and continued east, confident he had found the test subject’s direction.

• The village chief let the Tree Worship Church bishop leave, then sent an aide to report the encounter to the master on the sacred mountain.
• The bishop learned that Ed had headed east and led his knights after him, leaving a nearby villager’s promised tax exemption unresolved.
• Ed watched the riders through Little Green’s seeds and saw the bishop discover and uproot one of his spy weeds.
• The bishop recognized the weeds as Ed’s creations, followed their signs of withering eastward, and ordered his knights to continue the pursuit.

Ed lost contact with his scouts and learned that three players had died, while the survivors returned with the dead players’ recovered body parts. He began rebuilding their bodies, leaving [Howling Pothos] and [Good Times Don't Last] to gather more wood.

• Little Green reported that all the seeds along the route were dead, and Ed asked how the players were doing.
• In the real world, [Zhongde], [Chief Shit Appraisal Master], and [Do Some Farm Work] argued over their deaths before using the official map to watch the survivors retreat by boat.
• [Good Times Don't Last] returned to the castle and announced that sixty percent of the army had fallen, while [Howling Pothos] brought back a sack of body parts.
• Ed inspected the recovered pieces and used the unfinished Vine Sheep to begin repairing the three dead players’ bodies.
• [Howling Pothos] invited [Good Times Don't Last] to go chop trees.

The Tree Worship Church bishop led clerics and a tax collector into a cave to find an escaped apostate, but they uncovered a vast hoard guarded by a living dragon. The bishop realized the Church had sent him into a dangerous place without knowing what lay beneath the mountain.

• Players concluded that the river around the ancient castle protected new players and planned to explore the northern and eastern areas instead.
• The bishop led his clerics and the tax collector into a cave, claiming an apostate was hiding inside.
• The Dragonborn Village messenger recognized the missionaries’ horses outside and killed them one by one.
• The clerics found an altar inscribed with a message about offering flesh and blood, and the tax collector’s wounded palm opened a concealed door.
• The group entered a cavern filled with gold coins, and a young cleric disturbed the pile, revealing a dragon’s golden eye.
• The bishop recognized the creature as a living dragon and realized the Tree Worship Church had not known it was there.

The Tree Worship Church bishop negotiated with a dragon over a bounty for the apostate Ed Adrian, offering gold coins in exchange for his capture. As the clerics prepared to leave, a half-dragon-transformed young man accused them of trespassing, leaving the dragon to judge their conduct.

• The dragon startled the Tree Worship Church clerics and set their wooden swords on fire before demanding to know why they had come.
• The bishop showed the dragon a wanted notice for Ed Adrian and offered one thousand gold coins for his capture, or eight hundred if he was dead.
• The dragon accepted the deal, and the bishop signaled for the clerics to leave.
• A half-dragon-transformed young man arrived and accused the clerics of forcing their way into the dragon's kin's territory and disrupting metallurgical plans.
• The young man claimed the village chief had sent him to report the matter, and the dragon asked the clerics whether the accusation was true.

The players revived after Ed repaired their bodies and worried that the World of Disorder’s resources might run out permanently. Howling Pothos tested whether they could breed monsters themselves, raising the possibility of a farm for renewable resources.

• The bishop tried to bargain with the dragon, but the dragon burned the Tree Worship Church members and ordered the surviving young man to deliver metal as usual.
• Ed finished repairing the three players, who logged back into the game as soon as they could.
• Shit Appraisal Master questioned Ed about whether he was alive, then joined the others outside the castle.
• Howling Pothos pointed out that no Deadwood Vine had grown back from a stump and warned that the world’s resources might be finite.
• Howling Pothos placed a living piece of Deadwood Vine and some of his own flesh in the stump, and the vine began moving, suggesting the players could breed monsters.

After the players logged off, Ed realized that he needed to grind monsters himself to keep gaining offerings and leveling up. Far away, the Tree Worship Church’s presiding archbishop investigated five priests whose soul trees had burned to charcoal and requested reports from the Aduolin Province diocese.

• The players returned to the castle and logged off, leaving markers around the hollow where the Deadwood Vine was growing.
• Ed reviewed his level 3 attributes and worried that he could not reliably gain offerings without recruiting more players.
• Ed decided to go grind monsters after work, despite preferring to maintain his NPC role around the players.
• The presiding archbishop examined five burned soul trees in the Verdant Holy See and considered what could have killed them so quickly.
• The archbishop asked a priest to bring him the latest reports from the Aduolin Province diocese.

An office worker watched a newcomer’s video revealing how to solve an Easter egg on World of Disorder’s homepage and obtain an activation code. Intrigued, he planned to try the game after work, but Cui Yuan said he already wanted to play a new game in his library.

• An office worker found a video about cracking an Easter egg in World of Disorder and realized he had seen the game on the new games chart.
• The video creator pieced together a hidden image of Odin and a treant, then decoded the raven’s wing feathers to identify Huginn.
• The creator used Huginn’s name to find a hidden wiki page, woke a sleeping squirrel with a mallet, and received a pine cone containing an activation code.
• The office worker regretted missing the puzzle and planned to try the game after work.
• Cui Yuan declined dinner plans because he wanted to try a new game in his library.

Cui Yuan’s puzzle-solving video made “World of Disorder” spread rapidly online, bringing a surge of players to the game’s website and bug reports to the platform. As the technical department scrambled to respond, members of the gaming group that had once dismissed the game began discussing it again and asked Zhongde whether it was fun.

• Cui Yuan watched Cui Yuan walk away and felt that the other man’s voice seemed familiar, though he could not remember where he had heard it.
• A novice video creator’s puzzle-solving video went viral, drawing viewers to “World of Disorder” and prompting many to preregister and submit bug reports.
• The technical director called a department meeting as manually submitted reports about the game’s unfixable bug surged, and ordered employees to work overtime.
• Prospective players explored the game’s website, discussed its five listed monsters and NPC Ed, and made “World of Disorder” a trending search.
• Members of the gaming group where [Zhongde] and the others had first discussed the game began praising its video and asking @A Zhongde Dried Meat Wholesale whether the group was playing it.

While hunting near the castle, Ed discovered a massive [Rat King] made of thousands of mutated rats, which devoured a Vine Sheep and rolled toward him. He tried to use the Barony of Tur's secret pact vessel against it by issuing the command [Hang Upside Down].

• Zhou Jue said he would check out the viral game video after his shift.
• Ed used Little Green's plant-sensing ability to see while hunting monsters at night.
• Ed realized the scarcity of prey was explained by an enormous [Rat King] consuming creatures nearby.
• The [Rat King] crushed and devoured a Vine Sheep before advancing toward Ed.
• Ed took out the secret pact vessel and commanded the [Rat King] to [Hang Upside Down].

Ed escaped the Rat King by reversing gravity and flying back to Baron Tuer's castle, where he learned how the swarm formed and dispersed. After dawn, he told Little Green they would add new features, while Cui Yuan logged into the Soul Webway as the game servers prepared to open.

• Ed used the territory's secret pact to try to restrain the approaching Rat King, but the creature resisted his spell.
• Ed cast [Hang Upside Down] on himself and Little Green, then manipulated gravity to fly back to the castle.
• Ed altered gravity at the castle entrance to keep ordinary creatures from entering and watched the Rat King until dawn.
• The rats broke free from the Rat King's core and scattered across the wilderness, giving Ed a rough understanding of how the swarm formed and dispersed.
• Ed told Little Green they would implement new features after looking at the offline players' bodies in the hall.
• Cui Yuan skipped work and entered the Soul Webway as [Great Wei Boxing Champion].