Chapter Summaries

[Soaring Clouds] returned to Valhalla with seeds from Ed and found the players waiting outside while Bennett coached Luoli. Luoli quickly pledged himself to the Soul Returners, leaving Bennett upset, while [Do Some Farm Work] explained that control mattered more than loyalty.

• [Soaring Clouds] counted the seeds Ed had given him and considered sharing them with his team and displaying the Vine Dogs as a precious thing.
• [Soaring Clouds] returned to Valhalla and learned that [Do Some Farm Work] and the others had left Bennett alone with Luoli for private coaching.
• Bennett scolded Luoli for pledging allegiance immediately instead of following the drawn-out surrender he expected from captive games.
• Luoli defended his decision and reminded Bennett that Bennett had also surrendered after being captured and tortured.
• Bennett asked [Do Some Farm Work] whether Luoli could be trusted, and [Do Some Farm Work] replied that keeping everything under control mattered most.

Luoli finished his internship under Bennett and joined Soaring Sky Studio as [Soaring Clouds]'s new, obsequious employee. At the studio, the players planted Ed's Vine Dog Seeds and watched the server's first Vine Dog come to life.

• [Do Some Farm Work] brought Bennett and Luoli out of the cottage in wheelchairs, explaining that Luoli had learned techniques rather than directly acquired skills.
• Luoli introduced himself to [Soaring Clouds] as a new employee and abandoned the Adelaide surname, prompting the studio members to marvel at his transformation.
• [Do Some Farm Work] accepted [Soaring Clouds]'s errand commission, returned Bennett to Gray, and retrieved the deposit.
• [Soaring Clouds] distributed Ed's Vine Dog Seeds, and the players planted them in flowerpots and fed them blood.
• The plants grew into vine dogs, and a player harvested the server's first one as it greeted him with a bark.

[Soaring Clouds 6365] tested his newly grown Vine Dog and discovered its strange abilities. He left two Vine Bandage Packs inside it, hoping the creature would keep them rather than digest them.

• [Soaring Clouds 6365] asked the Vine Dog to run, and it obediently circled him as the other Soaring Sky Studio players watched.
• The players noticed the Vine Dog’s front and hind legs moved at different speeds, stretching its vine body into a comical springlike shape.
• [Soaring Clouds 6365] told the Vine Dog to stop, and its legs’ mismatched timing compressed its body back to normal.
• [Soaring Clouds 6365] fed the Vine Dog a Tasteless Fruit and found that it swallowed the fruit whole and later showed an empty interior.
• [Soaring Clouds 6365] told the Vine Dog to keep two Vine Bandage Packs, and it opened its body so he could toss them inside.

Players tested the new Vine Dogs, discovering their eating, storage, and playing-dead abilities, before [Soaring Clouds] sent them off on work assignments with Luoli. Ed observed the successful pet trial and received notice that Duma had filed a military report from the southern front.

• [Soaring Clouds 6365] tested whether his Vine Dog could store a flowerpot, but the dog refused and the watching players laughed at him.
• The players found that Vine Dogs came in different dog-like appearances but shared abilities including eating, storage, and playing dead.
• [Soaring Clouds] split the group between gold-farming orders in the woods and catching harmless Blood Corpses, then brought Luoli along.
• Ed recorded the players' Vine Dog experiments and decided to wait for [Soaring Clouds] to submit one for the precious-things ranking.
• Little Green informed Ed that Duma's military report on the southern front was unread, and Ed remarked on the coincidence of new developments there and in the Wilderness of Chaos.

Ed reviewed Duma’s plan to attack two towns in Fitz Province and learned how the demon intended to use a feint and sustained harassment to pressure their defenders. Duma had several contingency plans ready for Laurel Town, including civilian evacuations, nightly disturbances, and tunnels.

• Ed asked Duma to give him a verbal account of the military report, and Duma described the two towns near Fir City.
• Duma planned to attack Ginkgo Town after its walls were completed, using the attack as a feint to draw out Laurel Town’s defenders.
• Ed questioned whether Ginkgo Town could hold until reinforcements arrived, and Duma explained that the walls would trap its inhabitants and enemies inside.
• Duma said the feint would become a real attack if Laurel Town refused to send reinforcements.
• Duma outlined plans to relocate civilians, harass Laurel Town’s residents at night, and dig tunnels near the town.

Ed assigned Gungnir to secure the route from Valhalla to Klaf City while the Soul Returners explored the ruins, then published a major update launching new quests against the Blood Corpses and the forces in Fitz Province. The players celebrated the announcement as Gray prepared to leave Valhalla with export goods, while Seraphina watched them go wild and returned to sleep.

• Ed summoned Number Four, Number Seven, Number Ten, and Tiya and assigned Gungnir to place Stability Anchors and patrol the road to Klaf City.
• Ed explained that the Soul Returners would explore Klaf City, where a vampire grand duke might be sealed.
• Ed published an update launching the second phase of Great Adventurer, with quests to investigate Klaf City and help Duma and Duolin retake Fitz Province.
• The Soul Returners cheered at the new update as Gray prepared to depart Valhalla with the finished export goods.
• Seraphina saw the players acting like monkeys, muttered that they had started again, and went back to sleep.

After Ed announced Klaf City as a new event destination, players set out across the Wilderness of Chaos without a teleportation point. [Soaring Clouds 3773] traveled on foot with his Vine Dog, while [Howling Pothos] and his companions raced ahead in a carriage as rival groups closed in.

• [Soaring Clouds] told [Soaring Clouds 3773] that exploring Klaf City was not studio work, but let him go after he finished his gathering tasks.
• [Soaring Clouds 3773] set off for Klaf City with his Vine Dog and met players, Dragonborn NPCs, and Gungnir placing Stability Anchors along the way.
• [Soaring Clouds 3773] logged out at a nearby Stability Anchor after receiving a warning that he had been online for 11.5 hours.
• [Howling Pothos] decided to travel to Klaf City by carriage rather than wait for teleportation, since he could not ride a Hoofed Beast.
• [Shit Appraisal Master] helped [Howling Pothos] obtain a carriage and revealed that two groups had already departed that way.
• [Zhongde], [Litang's Supremely Fierce Tiger], [Easily Soluble in Water], and [Howling Pothos] charged down the road in their carriage as two other carriages carrying hostile players rode beside them.

[Howling Pothos] formed a team and entered a chariot race against the [Master Club] and his former employer, the [Jack-of-All-Trades Club]. The three teams became entangled in a tense roadside battle, and the chapter ended as [Howling Pothos] felt the floor beneath him give way.

• [Howling Pothos] recruited [Zhongde], [Litang's Supremely Fierce Tiger], and [Easily Soluble in Water] to protect his carriage and compete against two club teams.
• [Howling Pothos] ordered his team to attack the other carriages' wheels, but an arrow struck one of his rented Hoofed Beasts, which surged ahead in pain.
• [Zhongde] steered toward the [Jack-of-All-Trades Club]'s carriage as the [Master Club] moved in from the other side, but the rival commander braked and broke their sandwich formation.
• [Howling Pothos] hesitated over which team to target, and the [Jack-of-All-Trades Club] attacked his wheels while the [Master Club] joined the fight.
• [Easily Soluble in Water] and the rival players hooked the three carriages together, bringing the battle to a stalemate.
• [Howling Pothos] felt the footing beneath him give way just as he was about to speak.

Howling Pothos and the Jack-of-All-Trades Club and Master Club players were caught in a chaotic gravitational field after their carriages entered it during a fight. Trapped in midair with no way to reach the domain’s edge, they argued over the betrayal that had led to the battle.

• Howling Pothos realized he and the carriages were floating after the group entered a chaotic gravitational field.
• The three carriages, twelve people, six Hoofed Beasts, and their supplies drifted to a halt more than twenty meters above the ground.
• Retreat Drum Player tried to escape the field but could not move himself toward its edge.
• A Master Club player blamed Retreat Drum Player for attacking first, and Retreat Drum Player accused the Master Club of turning on Howling Pothos.
• Howling Pothos pointed out that the Master Club would likely have betrayed him even if he had joined their alliance.

Trapped in a shifting, weightless domain, the players debated how to escape. [Howling Pothos] proposed using a bracer that fired bolts at the cost of HP to propel himself toward the boundary, with health potions to keep himself alive.

• [Elderly and Children Fly First] said the group was safe from the Blood Corpses but could wait for more players to help them escape.
• [Howling Pothos] used Directed Alienation to fire a bolt and explained that changing gravity and viscous air made it difficult to reach the domain’s edge.
• [Retreat Drum Player] suggested that the others shoot him with bolts so he could push through the domain and pull them out with vines.
• [Howling Pothos] proposed using his HP-burning bracer and health potions to propel himself out of the domain.
• [Elderly and Children Fly First] declared that the [Master Club] supported [Howling Pothos], drawing boos from the other players.

After escaping a weightless field, the players recovered their belongings and linked their teams, animals, and carriages together to travel safely through the Wilderness of Chaos. They set off with a warning sign for those behind them, while [Elderly and Children Fly First]'s carriage remained closest to the danger.

• [Retreat Drum Player] agreed to surrender [Howling Pothos]'s armguard on the condition that rescues alternated between teams, and [Howling Pothos] accepted and returned to the ground.
• When [Howling Pothos]'s vines proved too short to reach everyone, [Litang's Supremely Fierce Tiger] suggested linking the players together, and [Howling Pothos] pulled the group out of the weightless field.
• The players retrieved most of their Hoofed Beasts, carriages, weapons, and food, then agreed to travel as one group for safety.
• [Zhongde] shouted, "Boats linked by iron chains, as steady as solid ground!" and the players linked six Hoofed Beasts, three carriages, and twelve people together with vines.
• [Easily Soluble in Water] placed a warning sign ahead of the weightless field that read, "Danger ahead. Turn left and follow the wheel tracks."

[Soaring Clouds3773] followed misleading signs toward a supposed treasure chest and was caught in a Weightlessness Domain. He joined four trapped players who had been stuck there for an hour after several groups of players left false directions, and the chapter ended with him despairing over his ruined expedition to Klaf City.

• [Soaring Clouds3773] read signs promising magnificent scenery, an outstanding experience, and a huge treasure chest, then sprinted ahead with his Vine Dog Bruce.
• A player shouted for [Soaring Clouds3773] to stop, but he flew into the Weightlessness Domain and spun through the air.
• [Soaring Clouds3773] realized the signs had led him into a trap, while Bruce stopped at the domain's edge with his body stretched like a sausage.
• [Soaring Clouds3773] met the trapped [Ham Warrior], [Lettuce Priest], [Bread Knight], and [Butter Archer], who argued over their group name and the players who had tampered with the signs.
• [Ham Warrior] explained that several groups had successively removed, replaced, or added signs, and [Bread Knight] told [Soaring Clouds3773] they had been trapped for an hour.
• [Soaring Clouds3773] despaired after learning how long they had been stuck, having taken three days off to explore Klaf City.

The Sandwich Squad was trapped in the Weightlessness Domain, unable to contact anyone, until [Soaring Clouds 3773] used Bruce and a makeshift rope to get everyone out. He then wrote down escape advice and sent it into the domain for anyone else who might be trapped.

• [Ham Warrior] proposed suicide, calling for help, and waiting for the Gungnir Road Repair Team as ways to escape, but the group could not contact other players and the road crew was still far away.
• [Bread Knight] and [Soaring Clouds 3773] realized they could use the Vine Dog Bruce as an anchor and rescue line.
• [Soaring Clouds 3773] anchored Bruce to a boulder, launched Bruce into the domain, and grabbed his paws to pull himself and the dog out.
• [Soaring Clouds 3773] connected a Strangler Fig to Bruce to make a long rope and rescued the other four members of the Sandwich Squad.
• [Soaring Clouds 3773] wrote down ways to escape the domain and sent the wooden sign inside to help others.

[Lettuce Priest], [Soaring Clouds 3773], and their companions left misleading signs near the Weightlessness Domain, then added translated versions when two foreign players failed to understand them. Meanwhile, [Howling Pothos] and the others reached the quest area where Klaf City was supposed to be, but found no trace of it and considered whether it had vanished into the sky or sunk underground.

• [Lettuce Priest] questioned [Soaring Clouds 3773] about the misleading signs, and [Soaring Clouds 3773] admitted he would not remove them despite leaving useful escape advice inside the domain.
• The League of the Feebleminded watched two foreign players avoid the Weightlessness Domain by following the wheel ruts, then realized the pair could not read the signs.
• [Ham Warrior] and the other players made three foreign-language versions of the signs and planted them beside the originals before heading toward Klaf City.
• [Howling Pothos] confirmed that the combined carriage party had reached the edge of the quest area, but the players saw only ordinary wilderness where Klaf City should have been.
• [Retreat Drum Player] suggested that Klaf City might have flown into the sky or sunk underground, then explained how ancient cities could be buried beneath later settlements.

The teams reasoned that the buried ruins of Klaf City were effectively a tomb and concluded that the Grand Duke and the Blood Corpses were likely underground. They planned to lure Blood Corpses into the area and follow them as they dug toward their progenitor.

• [Retreat Drum Player] explained that Klaf City might have been buried by erosion and warned that digging into it could expose the teams to underground water or other dangers.
• [Elderly and Children Fly First] realized that the teams’ mission resembled tomb raiding, and [Easily Soluble in Water] tried reciting a tomb-raiding formula before [Zhongde] pointed out that the flat surroundings made it useless.
• The teams noticed that no Blood Corpses had appeared since they entered the area, despite having encountered them throughout their journey.
• [Litang's Supremely Fierce Tiger] suggested that the Grand Duke and the Blood Corpses were underground, and [Zhongde] reasoned that the creatures were digging toward their progenitor.
• [Elderly and Children Fly First] proposed luring Blood Corpses into the area, dropping aggro, and following them underground once they began digging.

Players used paired riders on Hoofed Beasts to make three groups of Blood Corpses collide and lose track of them across the ruins of Klaf City. With the herds dispersed and no changes yet visible, the team prepared for nightfall and began sampling local creatures.

• [Zhongde] and [Read Without Replying] rode their Hoofed Beasts together and made two Blood Corpse groups crash into each other, losing their prey in the chaos.
• [Zhongde] posted a screenshot of the tangled Blood Corpses on the forum as [Blood Corpse: Fall Flat].
• [Retreat Drum Player], [Elderly and Children Fly First], and [Howling Pothos] assessed the tactic, and six riders formed three pairs to create three separate Blood Corpse groups in Klaf City.
• The riders returned to the team, and [Elderly and Children Fly First] told everyone to prepare in case something happened after nightfall.
• [Easily Soluble in Water] offered [Read Without Replying] a silver coin to eat wriggling worm-like meat with his taste and smell settings turned up, causing him to back out.

At the campfire, [Benevolent Father Above] pretended to enjoy insect meat and persuaded the players to eat it, then revealed that his review was a trick. The players turned on him just as the captains warned that the Blood Corpses were making a move.

• [Benevolent Father Above] ate a piece of insect meat and falsely praised its flavor to win a silver coin from [Easily Soluble in Water].
• Persuaded by [Benevolent Father Above]'s review, the players accepted insect meat from [Easily Soluble in Water] and began eating it.
• [Benevolent Father Above] spat out his uneaten piece and laughed as the others realized the meat was slimy and foul.
• [Benevolent Father Above] returned the silver coin and explained why he had not believed World of Disorder could have tasty food.
• The captains called to the players from the high ground, warning that the Blood Corpses were making a move.

The players watched the Blood Corpses answer the Grand Duke’s call and excavate three sloping entrances, then agreed to explore together. Since the tunnels were not ready, most of the players logged off while the three captains stayed to keep watch.

• The Grand Duke called to the Blood Corpses, drawing them together and guiding them to dig into the ground.
• [Elderly and Children Fly First] saw the Blood Corpses begin excavating three entrances.
• [Retreat Drum Player] proposed that the three teams explore together, and [Elderly and Children Fly First] and [Howling Pothos] agreed.
• The Blood Corpses dug orderly, sloping ramps, prompting [Retreat Drum Player] to suggest the players log off and return later.
• The players beat [Benevolent Father Above] before logging off, while the three captains remained to watch the Blood Corpses.

The players cleared the remaining Blood Corpses and discovered a vast space beneath the plains, then prepared a vine net to descend into it. [Benevolent Father Above] reached the bottom and found a stone-paved road, leaving the group poised to explore what lay below.

• [Elderly and Children Fly First] and [Retreat Drum Player] reported that a collapse had swallowed many Blood Corpses and ordered the players to prepare to move.
• [Easily Soluble in Water] made a sign warning others to use a different entrance, and the players advanced on the remaining Blood Corpses.
• The players killed the Blood Corpses and found a huge dark pit beneath the collapsed ground.
• [Read Without Replying] tested the pit's depth, and the players built a reinforced vine net anchored to iron birches.
• [Benevolent Father Above] descended the net and discovered a stone-paved road beneath the plains.

The players discovered a vast underground city beneath Klaf City and recognized it as a dungeon full of potential dangers and loot. They split into groups to explore its abandoned houses, where falling stalactites reminded them to prepare better for future expeditions.

• The players climbed down into Klaf City’s underground streets and saw a stone road, rows of ruined houses, and pillars supporting the plain overhead.
• The players celebrated finding a dungeon and connected their Adventurers’ Guild ranks and merit points to the world’s adventuring system.
• The players finished off the wounded Blood Corpses, collected their ears as proof, compared ranks, and split into groups to explore the houses.
• [Easily Soluble in Water] was struck by a falling stalactite, and [Zhongde] patched his injury and advised everyone to wear helmets.
• The players knocked down more stalactites and considered collecting the underground moss to fulfill Ed’s commission and earn money.