Recaps

Lancelot rose to first place in the island competition, earned a special-grade invitation, and advanced through the Alliance final examination. The final ten split into opposing camps, and the first three contestants were eliminated as Lancelot and Stell prepared to face each other.

• Mona revealed her position at Holy Sword Academy and offered Lancelot help concealing his identity, while Randall’s Gnolls used Three-Eyed People weapons to repel Jerome’s Hawkfolk.
• Logo dealt with the Snake Gang’s failed attempt to copy Red Crystal Gunpowder and the fallout from Duoliya’s death, while Lancelot used a Gene Stabilizer to gain electrical abilities.
• Lancelot entered the island competition, trained in hiding, then began defeating contestants and recruiting survivors, eventually reaching the top of the leaderboard.
• Lancelot took over the steel arch bridge, defeated Annie and Helen, and stole the Wolf Ape leader’s kill before provoking a large free-for-all on Silver Serpent Island.
• Lancelot won the golden airdrop contest, defeated Jimmy, finished the second round in first place, and chose the Legendary Bloodline Potion as his reward.
• Lancelot received invitations from Holy Sword Academy and Infinite School, then entered the Alliance final examination in Younis City and advanced to the top ten by defeating Edward, Phoebe, and other opponents.
• The final ten formed two camps, with Lancelot and Stell’s group facing Stephanie and Bakeluolie’s allies, and Bell eliminated Stephanie, Stell eliminated Jimmy, and Bell and Beate eliminated Phoebe.
• Bell, Beate, and Rongside joined Lancelot, while Stell joined Bakeluolie and Doreen, leaving Lancelot and Stell facing each other across the arena.

Logo and Crassus’s campaign against the Snake Gang led to war and left Crassus transformed into a semi-mechanical life-form, while Gustavo grew stronger by devouring powerful beasts. Gustavo’s hunt ended in a deadly clash with Brooks’s mercenaries, and he turned his attention to the Crimson Terror.

• Lancelot defeated Rongside in the final test and became the joint recruitment champion.
• Logo and Crassus joined the hunting-ground contest, killing Snake Gang transcendents until Taoruisi shot Crassus and Melier shielded them.
• Herbert declared war on the Snake Gang, and the three great clans sent 400,000 troops against it before the chief stewards halted the fighting for negotiations.
• Logo transferred Crassus’s consciousness and rebuilt him as a semi-mechanical life-form with new equipment and gunner abilities.
• Gustavo devoured the Land Turtle and Ironback Azure Bear, gaining strength, new talents, and Gravity Control powerful enough to exert 107 times standard gravity.
• Gustavo hunted the Nightblade Leopard, Giant Terror Crocodile, Golden-Scaled Eagle, and Thousand-Footed Black-Spotted Centipede, then began developing Hades poison and puppet-making plans.
• Brooks’s mercenaries trapped Gustavo in an Alternate Space Prison, but Gustavo released Hades and killed or incapacitated their force.
• Gustavo killed Elia and Lennar, killed April after learning about the parchment, and turned his thoughts to the Crimson Terror.

Logo strengthened his ties with the great clans by giving them Heavenly Eye Mechas and curing Tiffany and Sherlock, while Lancelot arrived at Holy Sword Academy and began shaping his own cultivation path. The stretch leaves Lancelot preparing to pursue Tree of Life after securing credits and arranging a business partnership with Raquel Navi.

• Gustavo learned that the Brooks Mercenary Corps had entered Gou Site Nicholas’s demiplane and used the parchment keys to plan his own entry, while Brooks joined [Ashes] after Diwoer left for Planet Guta.
• Logo helped the three great clans defeat the Snake Gang, then offered them 1,500 free Heavenly Eye Mechas to build business ties and curb their jealousy of the Campbell Family’s growth.
• Logo treated Tiffany and Sherlock with the Dark Twins ritual, easing their bloodline curse, and claimed Annabelle’s Starry Sky Crystal Stone and Gru Heavy Shield as his reward.
• Lancelot returned to Bolake City, received the Steel Feather Cloak, and flew to Holy Sword Academy, where Nancy St. Paul showed him around and revealed the privileges of his level-six authority.
• Lancelot settled into his villa, selected a broad range of courses, and gave the freshman representative speech before beginning the Holy Sword Gene Training Method and Innovation classes.
• Lancelot learned about Innovation Skills and rejected Steel Tiger’s plan to pursue an SSS-rank skill, choosing instead to create his own path and seeking Tree of Life.
• Lancelot found that Tree of Life required costly resources, then negotiated with Raquel Navi for a share in his credit-dealing business and secured funds to borrow the Regenerative Bone Marrow and Tree of Life catalogs.

Lancelot strengthened his position at the academy while conflicts over his credit-exchange business grew. Meanwhile, Gustavo established the Black Spider Squad in the Jilong Highlands and joined Storm Claw’s expedition into the Abyss of Black Mist, where Raymon’s group reached a dangerous treasure chamber.

• Lancelot defeated Peidasi in combat class, and Zyra revealed her relationship with Minister Mona while questioning whether humans and the Blood Clan could coexist.
• Lancelot explored the academy’s cultivation grounds, advanced in gene engineering, and enlisted Vice President Beaufort’s help after the Student Council’s Inspection Office disrupted his credit-exchange business.
• Lancelot won first place in the freshman competition while Gustavo completed three puppets, received Spider Mom’s protection and Dark Nightmare Beast blood, and traveled to the Jilong Highlands.
• Gustavo named his team the Black Spider Squad, entered the settlement, sold captured spoils through the Victoria Tavern, and arranged to acquire resources for Hades.
• Lennar secured the squad’s provisional admission to Storm Claw, and Gustavo trained while strange accidents unsettled the force and Raymon ordered the squad to join an expedition into the Abyss of Black Mist.
• Raymon led Storm Claw through the freezing abyss to damaged bronze gates, where Nelson repaired a magic array and the expedition entered the ruins.
• Raymon’s group lost members to the ruins’ traps, while a mysterious figure tested another trapped corridor with finger-made clones.
• Gustavo’s Luck Deprivation raised his luck and awakened the Flame of Luck, and he guided Raymon’s group through a maze to a plaza where a giant hydra lunged at Raymon beside a Legendary magic book.