Recaps

Li Lin secured the Dark Elves’ cooperation and negotiated with the Duergar while investigating a mysterious woman and one of his former weapons. The search led him into a mist-filled cavern, where he uncovered a Mind Flayer threat.

• Maya sacrificed Matron Ryan to summon the Spider Goddess, but Li Lin destroyed the gate and released the Elf Goddess, who defeated the Spider Queen.
• Li Lin left Maya to govern the Dark Elves under his watch, then returned to the surface and confronted Kudel soldiers trying to control the Black Road.
• Li Lin brought his caravan through the Black Road to Kasos City, where Maya revealed Kudel’s agreement with the Dark Elves and agreed to help Li Lin oppose the Five-Nation Alliance.
• Li Lin traveled to the City of Ten Thousand Stones with Mina and Fina, negotiated a weapons trade with the Duergar, and persuaded them to reduce arms sales to Kudel.
• Nia found records pointing to a mysterious woman’s last appearance in a cavern beneath the Duergar city, so Li Lin set out to investigate with Angela and the Dark Elves.
• Fina’s hunger for blood led Li Lin to let her feed on an unconscious Dark Elf priestess, and she briefly showed signs of a strange awakening.
• Li Lin sent Dark Elf scouts into the cavern’s unnatural mist, then entered after Nia detected psychic energy and magic interference.
• Mina and Fina appeared to attack Li Lin, but Angela killed the illusions and Li Lin concluded that Mind Flayers inhabited the cavern.

Li Lin destroyed the Mind Flayer colony, reunited with Kalin, and brought the prince of Kudel to the capital. He secured a royal agreement for the Dark Elves, while his plans for war advanced and Angela became involved in a palace intrigue.

• Angela freed Mina and Fina from the Mind Flayer’s control, then helped Li Lin attack the colony while Li Lin destroyed the Elder Brain and Kalin defeated the remaining threats.
• Li Lin returned to Kasos City with Kalin and prepared to travel to Kudel, while Weijia set her plan in motion and the prince agreed to support the Dark Elves’ return to the surface.
• Li Lin found Julian and Aikali, forced Julian to cut off two heads as proof of their deaths, and brought the prince safely to Kudel’s capital, Dragon Cry City.
• Li Lin met the king and drew attention to himself at the royal banquet, where he killed Noah after accepting the king’s offer to grant him a request if he won their duel.
• Li Lin proposed that Kudel hire the Dark Elves and grant them forests beside the mountains, and the king signed the agreement to open the Black Road.
• Li Lin coordinated with Maya to begin their plan and assigned Nia and Kalin to track the army and protect the merchant, while he went searching for Angela in the palace garden.
• Angela hypnotized Lola to arrange a meeting with her mistress, and Li Lin appeared as Angela drank from Lola.
• Nia went to gather books for the coming war, while Li Lin toured Dragon Cry City and a paladin demanded that the fat merchant surrender the Dark Elves for judgment.

Li Lin gathered the elves, recovered Suoxiate, and revived Ringwraith City after learning that Magic Controllers had attacked him in the past. As the Five-Nation Alliance approached, he prepared to move the capital’s valuables and revealed the rising city to their forces.

• Li Lin negotiated with the Elf Goddess to take charge of hundreds of abused elves, then sent them west while the king’s forces advanced through the Black Road.
• Li Lin took Rolandis Fali west as leverage for a safe departure, released her to her grandfather, and learned that the old mage had warned the Inner Circle Council about Hymn of Destruction.
• Angela sailed the Shell through a storm to meet the elves’ ships, and the elves’ Divine Chosen placed 725 elves under Li Lin’s command.
• Li Lin and his crew fought off pirates attacking Captain Vincent’s merchant fleet, and Vincent offered to guide them while reacting uneasily to Li Lin’s plan to seek the Grand Line.
• Li Lin brought Angela through a memory of Luoxia’s last battle against five Magic Controllers and reunited with Suoxiate, then explained why he had kept the Ring Spirit Envoys from joining the fight.
• Li Lin returned to Ringwraith City, completed his bargain with the God of Death, and restored 13,700 mages to human form as the dead city began to revive.
• Li Lin ordered the mages to move the capital’s valuables and prepare the core as the Five-Nation Alliance approached, then Nia activated it and the city rose before the invading force.

Li Lin recovered Hymn of Destruction and led a devastating attack on Saint Rolante City, targeting the Five-Nation Alliance and the Temple. After securing the gods’ agreement not to interfere in the war, he turned to developing missiles and surveillance satellites while the conflict continued to build.

• Li Lin destroyed the Mages’ Association’s Sealing Tower defenses, recovered Hymn of Destruction, and brought Angela back to Ringwraith City.
• Li Lin planned an attack on the Five-Nation Alliance and traveled with Angela, Nia, Kalin, and Yi Aier toward Saint Rolante City.
• Li Lin entered the alliance meeting as the Dominator and began killing its representatives while Angela fought the new knight commander, Serat Henderson.
• Li Lin killed the surviving officials at the Temple, while Yi Aier unleashed an attack that destroyed a large part of Saint Roland City.
• Angela tormented Serat Henderson’s family and escaped after the God of Justice intervened, as news of the attack spread across the continent.
• Li Lin asked the gods to covenant not to interfere until the war ended, and they accepted his proposal.
• Li Lin explained a teleportation-based missile design and ordered research into surveillance satellites and the modification of the magic ship.
• Yi Aier argued with Angela about missiles and magic cannons, then unleashed a tremendous beam of white light into the sky.