Recaps

Li Lin returned to the former Magic Empire and joined a temple expedition to uncover what lay hidden in its ruins. The expedition reached the Summoning Hall, where the gods revealed their conflict with the God of Justice, who descended through Mina and turned the group against Li Lin and Angela.

• Li Lin returned to his homeland with Angela, learned that a thousand years had passed, and entered Giant Wood City while hiding his identity and gathering information about the ruined empire.
• Li Lin persuaded Bishop Kelen to let him join the temple expedition, then traveled with Duncan, Mina, Fina, and the paladins toward the ruins while Angela manipulated the sisters.
• Li Lin uncovered a hidden entrance near Dika and bought a group of enslaved elves, but released them when they rejected his offer of protection and killed an old mage who attacked him.
• Li Lin guided the expedition into the ruined capital, where undead attacks and poisonous mist weakened the party as Angela’s influence grew over Fina and a banshee claimed a paladin’s soul.
• Li Lin led Duncan’s party to the sanctuary and revealed that Duncan had been the sole survivor of previous expeditions, then identified himself as the last Arcane Mage and master of the Summoning Hall.
• The Goddess of Dawn and other gods told Li Lin that the God of Justice had driven them from the Divine Realm, while Duncan betrayed the party and helped the God of Justice descend through Mina.
• The God of Justice drained Duncan and his lieutenant to ash, and Li Lin and Angela attacked the possessed Mina before Fina stepped between them and took Mina’s sword strike.

Li Lin investigates the Magic-Banning Prison and travels toward Yinkalan while preparing Mina and Fina to survive as vampires. In Yinkalan, he reunites with Nia, learns the God of Justice died long ago, and sets out with a lead on finding his sealed weapons and the truth behind the continent’s upheavals.

• Li Lin joins the gods’ alliance against the God of Betrayers, agrees to let their followers settle in the fallen city, and travels toward Wensains with Angela, Mina, and Fina.
• Li Lin learns from Templar knights and Sest about the Magic-Banning Prison, infiltrates it with Angela, and discovers that imprisoned mages hid Animation Runes in the statues they carved.
• Li Lin and Angela train Fina and Mina as they travel, then Li Lin helps a black-clad man retrieve the Caseli Magic Core from a corpse.
• In Yinkalan, Li Lin sells a Magic Empire ornament to Mayor Jieka Hilton, while a cloaked woman who recognizes the ornament asks Jieka to find the traveler.
• A Beast Tide attacks Yinkalan, and Li Lin and Angela make Mina and Fina fight the Shadow Hounds as the town’s defenders face shadow mages and their king.
• Li Lin and Angela defeat the King of Shadow Mages, and Li Lin reunites with Nia, who reveals she has waited for him for a thousand years and is the Eternal Library.
• Nia tells Li Lin that the God of Justice died 1,352 years earlier, and the group leaves Yinkalan after she explains how the Five-Nation Alliance conquered the Magic Empire.
• Nia advises Li Lin to seek help in the City of a Thousand Towers and use the Eye of Kalatu to locate his weapons, while Li Lin suspects the God of Justice shaped the continent’s upheavals.

Li Lin and his companions reached Warsaw, where they became entangled in a power struggle involving the city’s mages, Ailas, and the Red Robe Association. After defeating Isabel and surviving Ailas’s attempted duel, Li Lin was recognized by an old dragon as Luoxia, while the dragon killed Ailas and departed.

• Angela framed Mina for provoking mercenaries, and Li Lin helped Mina drive them from a tavern before the party secured a carriage to Warsaw.
• The old archmage confronted Li Lin over the Eternal Library, but Li Lin defeated the mages, turned the old archmage into a lich, and learned that the Association might possess a powerful weapon.
• Angela exposed the brutality of bandits to Mina and Fina, and the party continued to Warsaw, where Nia revealed that mages controlled the city.
• Nia overturned Li Lin’s trial over forbidden magical goods and approved a duel with Ailas, while Li Lin learned that Ailas and his allies planned to seize the city’s central pillar.
• Li Lin consulted Kalatu through the Eye of Kalatu, received a warning about their enemies, and vowed to avenge the Magic Empire before preparing to face the Red Robe Mages.
• Li Lin and his companions killed the Red Robe Mages who had come to Warsaw, including Isabel, whose undead experiments and charm magic failed against Li Lin.
• The half-elf woman killed Matel to make Ailas’s order to seal the transfer stone pillar take effect, but Angela killed her and escaped as mist.
• Li Lin defeated Ailas’s summoned beasts, and when Ailas summoned an ancient red dragon, the dragon recognized Li Lin as Luoxia, swallowed Ailas, and invited Li Lin to Dragon Island.

Li Lin pursued revenge against Grand Duke Moore’s family, rescued Fina from the Temple, and took the Black Road toward the Dark Elves. He attacked Kasos City and prepared to bring down its defenses as the Elf Goddess tried to draw out the Spider Goddess.

• Li Lin discovered that Ailas’s possessions bore signs of the Blasphemy Society and set out with Nia and his companions to search for Infinite Corridor.
• Li Lin agreed to treat Grand Duke Moore, secretly altered the Caseli Magic Core, and vowed to ruin Moore’s family.
• The Temple imprisoned Fina after discovering she was a vampire, but Li Lin allied with the Goddess of Secrets and rescued her.
• Li Lin uncovered an impostor in the caravan, then took the dangerous Black Road after learning that ships to Kudel were unavailable.
• Li Lin and Nia discussed recruiting oppressed peoples, and Li Lin chose to investigate the Dark Elves before deciding how to approach them.
• After reaching Kasos City, Li Lin attacked its Dark Elf patrols and demanded that the city’s inhabitants kneel before him.
• Li Lin used magic and undead against Kasos City’s defenders while Angela, Mina, and Fina fought off assassins on the wall.
• The Elf Goddess tried to draw out the Spider Goddess, but Li Lin shielded her aura and poured power into the city wall as the earth rumbled.