Recaps

After Ciprins Field’s experiment destroyed the laboratory and his relationship with Reynold ended, he met Mephistopheles Madsen while studying at the library. Their arrest led to a prison attack, which they helped repel, and they chose to remain in their cell to keep practicing magic as the summit arrived.

• Ciprins Field’s teleportation experiment exploded, and the institute suspended him while officials investigated the destruction.
• Ciprins told Reynold Scott they should break up after confronting him about Mephistopheles Madsen, then learned Mephistopheles had arrived in the capital.
• At the Central Grand Library, Ciprins and Mephistopheles met while reaching for a book, tested dangerous ancient runes, and were arrested for damaging the library.
• In their cell, Ciprins and Mephistopheles practiced spells, discussed magic and other worlds, and agreed to help when a prison alarm sounded.
• They fought off cyborg intruders, then helped the prison forces stop an attack by a concealed giant mech.
• Ciprins disabled the mech by burning runes into its energy circuit, and he and Mephistopheles returned to their cell to recover.
• Mephistopheles learned to make a fluorescent rune after two days of practice as summit attendees arrived at the prison.
• Reynold asked whether the pair could be released, but Ciprins and Mephistopheles made clear they wanted to stay and practice until the summit ended.

Xipei and Mel grew closer as the summit brought cyborg attacks and renewed conflict with Reynold. After Xipei helped stop the attackers and spent time with Mel, Reynold confronted him again, and Mel turned Reynold into a sheep in public.

• Mel and Xipei were sentenced to a week in prison, but Mel refused to leave without Field, and Angela later released Mel for the magic summit.
• Ciprins accepted Moli as her apprentice, began testing her spellwork, and later taught her potion-making and fire control.
• Mel gave Xipei a mithril spatial ring and revealed his feelings through a diary written at the summit, and Xipei told Mel he liked him too.
• Xipei and Mel planned to live together and attend the summit in matching robes, while Xipei warned Mel that cyborgs might be Dawn Alliance agents.
• Xipei spotted cyborgs near the summit and helped stop their attack, protecting the explosive device and rescuing people while spectators mistook him for Mel.
• Ciprins fought cyborgs with Gravity and Hellfire magic and launched their bomb into the sky, where it exploded harmlessly.
• Xipei and Mel escaped reporters, bought creatures as magical ingredients, and went to a holographic movie that left them both sick.
• Reynold confronted Ciprins after the movie, and Mel turned him into a sheep before he and Ciprins left under a Disillusionment Charm.

Xipei and Mel moved into the mage tower, confessed their feelings, and set out with Lusien and their companions to rescue Anna and Moli. Their search led them to a collapsed mine, where they found signs that Lady Angela had fought the cyborgs.

• Xipei moved into Mel’s tower, where Mel turned the insulting five-star old man into a bouncing slime and introduced her to the tower and its memories of his teacher, Yamier.
• Mel confessed his love to Xipei, and they became partners and spent the night together.
• Lusien brought a bomb to the tower, then revealed that Anna and Moli had been kidnapped and that their captors wanted Shield of the New Star data.
• Mel, Xipei, Lusien, Priest Luolan, and Reynold traveled by airship to rescue the apprentices, locating them near the capital with tracking magic.
• The group reached Gray Mountain Kingdom and learned that Mining Platform No. 8 had collapsed, with reports of cyborg-like injuries and demons inside the mine.
• Xipei’s memories of the bunker resurfaced in the dark tunnel, but Mel comforted her and led the group deeper into the mine.
• Luolan revealed his dark elf appearance, and the group found cyborg remains and a metal feather from Lady Angela’s mecha before following a trail of blood.

Xipei, Mel, and their companions uncovered a cyborg attack in the mine, fought through the enemy base, and rescued their captured apprentices and other prisoners. The arc ended with the group naming a rescued sacred tree elf Ruiduo while Field sensed a faint fluctuation from his teacher.

• The group found Ms. Angela in the mine and learned she was a Mourner who legally used her destructive power, while she repeatedly rushed ahead to kill cyborgs.
• A transmigrated Artificial Demon attacked, and the group became trapped by mechanical doors as Electronic Demons crowded Xipei’s shrinking protection.
• Xipei summoned her former teacher and unleashed Hellfire and undead spirits to defeat the demons, then learned the others recognized her as the Flame of Fury.
• Reynold identified the attackers’ equipment and connected the cyborgs to a plot against the Federation, while the group found dead dwarves and damage to the mine’s steam power room.
• The group used the cyborgs’ teleporter to reach their base, but the device shut down after Mel and Reynold went through, leaving their teammates behind.
• Xipei and Mel fought through the base as Xipei found Anna and Moli, chastised them for being captured, and later let them help under strict combat rules.
• Moli feared Xipei would abandon her after a weak spell, but Xipei comforted her and watched her cast Hellfire for the first time.
• Anna and Moli rescued a young elf from a cage, and Xipei recognized her as a rare sacred tree elf.
• Mel woke the shackled dwarves, learned they had called the elf Luokexiweinan, and suggested the name Ruiduo, which made her smile.
• Field sensed a faint fluctuation from his teacher, while Mel dismissed the danger and said no one would target Speaker Reynold.