ladyjlb's manga / #Adventure(234)

Webtoon ch 84 as of 12/12/22 - Ch 104 here - ML is Kim Sehan, a college student and video game addict. - The world has become a game run by the game masters and the gods. Monsters have entered the world and there are people who are players that can kill the monsters. A chosen player is one that a god chose to be their avatar. - The gods and demons are spectators that watch for entertainment. - The gods can only pick up to 2 chosen avatars. - The demons can share their powers with multiple contractors and have countless servants. - The game masters (GMs) manage the servers and assign quests. - Observer orbs are the eyes of the GMs and the gods. - The system regulates and maintains the game as the law. - Points are gained each time a quest is completed. - The points may be spent to increase stats or buy items. - 1st playthrough: In ML’s 1st life, he was a cold and selfish solo player. He was the last survivor after the fall of humanity at the end of the game. After completing the game, ML was granted special access to the DLC store. He uses his points to purchase a “2nd playthrough package” that lets him start again. - DLC = downloadable content (ie additional digital content) - 2nd playthrough: ML returned to the day that the monsters first appeared 10yrs ago. The points from his 1st life are carried over. He can also continue to access the DLC store. - ML discovers he can access the game forum used by the gods, including the chat room. - Han Jisu, ML’s college friend. She died in ML’s past life. - She has the “Celestial Slayer” ability that is S-rank. - It’s a trait that makes you stronger when you see blood. It must be used with care as you could lose yourself to madness if you don’t have control of this ability. Main Quest 1: Escape from the college campus (2 days) Difficulty level: E - ML used points to buy 2 VIP brooches for himself and Jisu. It helps with wound recovery and increases points gained. - Before more observers arrive, ML uses points to increase his stats and kills the hidden boss, a hobgoblin. He receives a girdle that increases his strength stat as a reward. Jisu awakened her ability when she was killing goblins. ML buys a multiplayer package that lets him create a party with Jisu. - Yun Hyeongyun, college student council president. - Park Donggwon, college student council vice president. - Donggwon is a chosen avatar for the god “An Honest Life.” He receives rewards based on the number of people he kills. - In ML’s past life, there were hardly any survivors from the college campus. This was due to Donggwon’s manipulative influence, a psycho who screwed over ML countless times. - Hyeongyun agrees with ML to escape ASAP and leads the group from the gym towards the college entrance. A Sentinel in the form of a huge minotaur suddenly appears. Despite being a C-rank monster, it’s stats are limited to F-rank to match the difficulty level of the 1st quest. - ML acts as bait so the rest of the group can escape. - With no observers around, ML increases his strength stat with points. Combined with the extra strength from the hobgoblin girdle ML received, ML is stronger than an F-rank minotaur and defeats it. - Jisu is waiting for ML while the others have left. She knew he was ok from their shared party info. - ML received platinum rank for completing the quest. - His rewards include 2 upgradable abilities: Final Hour (your movement becomes faster for a limited time) and Regeneration. - He also receives “Adaptive Orichalcum”, the strongest metal in the world. - Party members can share abilities in an exchange. ML shares Regeneration with Jisu while he receives Celestial Slayer. - Jisu has rejected 12 invitations from gods so far. She doesn’t like the idea of becoming an avatar or serving a faceless entity. - ML teaches Jisu the “Crimson Asura” skill, a killing technique that is only possible with her Celestial Slayer ability. He learnt Crimson Asura from a martial arts expert in his past life but couldn’t master it as he didn’t have Jisu’s ability. Main Quest 2: Journey towards the Lomae World Tower (14 days) Difficulty level: C - Lee Mina, a teenage girl and expert manipulator who is the chosen avatar for the Young Jester (Loki). She can change into any person, animal or object. Her power lies in her ability to manipulate the senses of other people. - ML found out Mina’s location from her god through the forum. - He takes Jisu to a bank and uncovers Mina pretending to be a police officer to rob the bank. He makes Mina join them until they complete their 2nd quest. - ML takes Jisu and Mina to a safe zone. He opens the regular points store so they can gear up. ML buys a mace and some armour for Jisu. He bought a short sword and a dagger for himself. - They arrive at the Lomae World Tower. - Mina uses her ability to transform into one of the men on guard outside. From the intel she gathered, there is only 1 boss monster at the rooftop. A team of players must all be from the same start location to be able to enter the boss room together. - So far there are 2 teams. Only 1 team can defeat the boss, leaving the other team to die for failing the quest. - ML meets with Hyeongyun, the leader of one team that has occupied the nearby subway. Hyeongyun is relieved to see ML. - ML suggests searching underground for the true boss monster. - The other team are guarding the Lomae World Tower. In ML’s past life, they became a strong and infamous criminal guild called the Sins. This guild was established by Kim Juwon, a chosen avatar for the powerful god Hades. - Donggwon betrays Hyeongyun’s team and tells Juwon about the real boss underground. Juwon goes undergound with his men and Donggwon. They are stopped at the entrance by Jisu and ML. Mina had earlier infiltrated the Sins and transforms back to her real self. - Jisu faces the Sins while ML takes Mina to fight the rooftop monster, a Sentinel that’s a gigantic basilisk called Orga. It’s “petrifying gaze” ability turns everything to stone. - ML has Mina transform into a weasel, which is a weakness of basilisks. As he fights Orga, Mina manages to bite it in the eye which disrupts its gaze ability. While Orga was distracted, ML put training bracelets on its feet. The weight of the bracelets can be adjusted with a coloured crystal. - Explosives were placed throughout the tower by Mina while she was pretending to be a member of the Sins. ML sets off these explosives then sets the bracelets on Orga to their heaviest weight. - The floor collapses beneath Orga who continues to fall through the other floors weakened by the explosives. - Orga reaches the bottom floor and is pierced through by a spear coated in Orichalcum. ML had arranged the spear with Hyeongyun. - Hyeongyun and his team were fighting the real boss monster, a beholder, on the bottom floor. As instructed by ML, they lured the beholder to stay close to the spear planted by Hyeongyun. The beholder was then crushed by Orga. - ML retrieves the spear and says goodbye to Hyeongyun for now. - ML and Mina meet up with Jisu who is guarding Donggwon. - ML puts a training bracelet around Donggwon’s neck. - ML makes Donggwon sign an absolute contract. - It states, “The contractor must be altruistic, sincere and caring from this point onwards. Failure to follow these rules will result in death by their head imploding from the choker.” - ML lets Donggwon go, as ML can track his location. - Mina is given a B-rank stealth ring as a reward from ML. - Jisu and ML go their separate ways for now. They can still track eachother through the party info. Mina decides to stick with ML. - As a reward for defeating Orga, ML received the B-rank skill “Detection”: the user may search an area within a 50m radius. - ML and Mina go to a dungeon entry that’s guarded by other people. ML found out the location through the forum chat room. - ML buys a Dungeon Destroyer’s Excavation Drill. - ML uses Detection and locates the boss room underground. - 5hrs later he has drilled down to where the boss monster is. - ML and Mina fight lesser mantis monsters. ML then takes out the boss monster, a giant mantis. They take the dungeon rewards and leave nothing for the others fighting their way through the dungeon. - ML and Mina go to another dungeon in the subway. - ML also heard about this dungeon from the forum chat room. - He bought 2 x Cloth of Protection scarves which block 5 ranged attacks, one for Mina and one for himself. They’re attacked by arrows from the Ranger of the Night, the dungeon boss monster. - ML finds and defeats the Ranger with Mina’s help. - He takes the Coat of the Night (Shadow Rush ability) and the Night’s Gloves (Guaranteed Shot ability) as his rewards. - Shadow Rush: move to a shadow within a 10m radius. - Jisu has gone to check on her parents. At their apartment, she enters and fights small monsters. After defeating the monsters, she finds the dead body of her father. Main Quest 3: The Amusement Park - ML (C-rank): Escape from the park with rescued survivors. - Mina (D-rank): Collect 5 stamps from the attractions. - ML and Jisu enter an amusement park where civilians are forced to be the park’s employees. The civilians wear collars that can detonate and kill them. For ML’s quest, he has to save the civilians and the players in the park. - ML’s quest is harder than what it was in his past life. - This sinister park is ruled by the crow constellation Karas. - ML tests a collar he coated with Orichalcum. When detonated, the collar is destroyed but it doesn’t break through the coating. - ML makes it through the haunted house and defeats the monsters with a scared Mina on his back. They collect more stamps from the rollercoaster, the flume ride and the gyro drop. - As the park closes for the night, a deadly parade of monsters appears. ML takes Mina to the Safari Park where most of the other players are hiding. - Song Siu, a chosen avatar of the god Hephaestus. - In ML’s past life, Siu was a famous master craftsman who created high quality weapons and equipment. - Song Changu, Siu’s older brother and a swordsman. - Through the forum chat room, ML observes Changu report and provide intel to an agent of Cheolwoong (and Karas) that night. - Cheolwoong, a Bulgasari (metal eating) monster and the Sentinel of the park. ML tested this monster after boosting his stats to the max. ML confronted Changu about being a spy for Cheolwoong. After ML won against Changu’s sword fighting, Changu says he was forced to become a spy to protect Siu, after losing the fight against Cheolwoong and losing his eyesight. - ML makes Changu tell the truth to Siu. Then ML asks Siu for help with creating a weapon to defeat Cheolwoong. ML bought a basic blacksmithing package and he had Mina use her area isolation skill to set up a barrier around Siu’s workspace. - ML gave the blueprints to Siu to create the “Pile Bunker” weapon. - ML and Mina convinced the other players to help the civilians to escape from the park. - With Pile Bunker, ML destroys Cheolwoong. - As a reward, ML receives a grimoire (A-rank) that gives the Bulgasari ability to convert a consumed metal into part of your body. He gives the grimoire to Mina. - ML frees the employees by removing their collars one by one using the Orichalcum. He has an employee with a stamp help Mina and the other players complete their quest. The stamp is the same for all rides. - Karas appears after hearing about the death of Cheolwoong. ML fights Karas in an epic battle. Meanwhile everyone escapes the park which completes the quest for ML. He can now purchase the unlocked “1st playthrough transfer package”. ML defeats Karas with the help of a transferred succession ability, “Proof of Transcendence”. It’s an upgradable, S-rank ability that allows him to critically injure a celestial within 30mins. - The system announces a major update that changes the game to an “open world”, where travel is possible to other regions and multiple quests can be carried out at once. Guilds can also be created now. - ML asks Mina, Changu and Siu to join his guild in the future. - ML receives the Hunter’s Instinct skill as a reward for completing the quest. For defeating Karas, ML becomes the new master of the crow constellation. His new abilities are “Eye of the Crow” and “Veil of Darkness”. ML has been given a divine status, currently at the lowest class. - ML sent Mina to look for a blonde haired family of 2. - Mina finds Luke Taylor and his teenage daughter Lin. - Luke is a chosen player for the goddess of justice, Astraea (Libra). Main Quest 4: A large raid - defeat the raid boss. Main Quest 4: The vanguard of ruin (Daejeon city) Difficulty level: C - A raid boss will appear in each region, eg there will be 4 across Seoul. ML travels south to Daejeon and runs into Jisu there. - Earlier Jisu was busy wiping out the demon contractors (including the Waning Crescent Moon guild) as part of her 3rd Main Quest (?) - ML and Jisu are attacked by the raid boss, a Gunggi (giant black tiger with wings) but then it runs away. Nearby they find a dead Kirin, a divine beast with its horn missing. ML saw the horn in the chest of the Gunggi. Jisu finds an egg, the Kirin’s fruit. To hatch the egg, it needs a player’s blood as the catalyst. - ML and Jisu go and meet Luke and Lin, after Mina notified ML. He uses Lin’s blood as the catalyst for the egg. ML gives Mina a mithril ore that they found near the Kirin. - ML and Jisu return to Daejeon to wait for the raid boss to appear. A crowd of players and military personnel have gathered. ML runs into Donggwon there. - Using Eye of the Crow, ML detects the Gunggi rapidly approaching. He and Jisu fight the Gunggi when it arrives. - ML makes Donggwon use his crowd manipulation skill to get the military personnel to flee. The Gunggi had it’s stats increased by the GM and it evolves into it's final and most powerful form. - The Gunggi flies high into the sky but ML throws chained spears into its wings. He rallies the players to help pull the monster down with the chains. - While Jisu is fighting the Gunggi, she lets herself be swallowed by it. She destroys the monster from the inside. Jisu receives the Dark Gem of Sacred Dissonance (S-rank) as a reward. It contains extraordinary powers from the concentrated essence of the Gunggi and the Kirin. ML receives the Gunggi’s hide. - Arkatus, GM in charge of the Korean server. - In the forum chat room, ML suggests to the other gods to submit feedback about the GM’s interference. That stops the GM from interfering for some time. - ML hears about a group of thugs with dark blood that attacked Mina and Lin. After further investigation, ML discovers the Dark Sky Clan with its demon servants has been growing in influence. - With children being kidnapped, the most likely demon involved is the 27th ranked demon Neviroth. This demon gains his strength by absorbing the sadness and life essence of humans. - Gang Cheonu, boss / guildmaster of the Dark Sky Clan. - Shin Jaun, contractor of Neviroth and a commander in the Dark Sky Clan. He used to be a professional MMA fighter. He’s obsessed with training and growing stronger. - Jaun searches for ML after he destroyed a branch of the Dark Sky Clan. Meanwhile ML saves the children in the basement of the Clan’s HQ. Then ML sends 100 crows with explosives to all floors of the building, which brings the whole structure crumbling down. Cheonu was inside at the time and is most likely dead. Neviroth tells Jaun that the HQ is destroyed. - The Mask of Anguish: An artifact possessed by Neviroth. - It’s made from the flesh of a demon infused with agony. - To complete the mask and increase the mask’s power, children were being kidnapped and killed when they were in a state of great fear and misery. - Jaun was secretly saving the children. He used an orb that made the children appear to be dead, but they were actually in suspended animation. After Jaun removed their bodies and they were safe, Jaun revived the children so they could escape. - Despite Neviroth warning Jaun that ML is too strong for him, Jaun insists on going to where ML’s comrades are. Jaun wants to force ML to face him after he hurts ML’s friends. Neviroth gives Jaun the Mask of Anguish to help him win the fight against ML. - Jaun arrives at the place where ML’s comrades are. He knocks out Luke and Mina. Then he kidnaps Lin on the demon’s orders. Jisu arrives and tries to stop Jaun from leaving on his motorbike, but she’s knocked back by Neviroth through the Mask. This gives Jaun the chance to escape with Lin. - ML locates Jaun waiting for him with Lin near the port. - As Jaun and ML fight, Jaun soon realises he can’t win on his own. Jaun is forced by Neviroth to wear the incomplete Mask of Anguish. The demon possesses Jaun’s body and fights ML. Jaun’s consciousness returns after some strong hits from ML. - Jaun smashes his face with the mask onto the ground to break the mask and end his contract with Neviroth. Jaun continues to fight ML with half his face still covered by the mask and his boosted stats still present. Jaun collapses after reaching his limit and he’s kicked by ML into the ocean. Jaun is saved by Azazel, the demon of sloth and 1 of the 7 ruling demons. - After the attack by Jaun, ML buys a building to use as his guild’s house. All guild houses become safe zones. ML’s guild house includes a training room / gym and a well stocked workshop for Siu. - ML gathers Mina, Jisu, Changu, Siu, Luke and Lin. He invites them all to join his new guild, Deicide. They accept. - The egg hatches and a Kirin infant is born. It’s a girl and will grow up quickly. She has the lifespan and strength of a Kirin, with the appearance of a human. Mina names her “Snowy”. ML leaves the infant in Mina’s care for now. Main Quest 5: Dungeon race (limit: 1mth) Difficulty level: E - Players must be part of a guild to participate. - The guild with the most points at the end of the quest wins. - Dungeon imprint: only people in the same guild as the person who imprinted / occupied a dungeon may enter it. - Many dungeons have appeared across the city. - ML has deduced the patterns of constellations from the dungeon locations. The higher level constellations will have dungeons with the most points. This constellation points distribution relationship is the key to know which dungeons to target. 3 largest guilds in Seoul: - Genesis, guildmaster Park Sunghyuk (god Tyr) - Lycoris, guildmaster Lee Ah-young (goddess Freya) - Outrising, guildmaster Kang Taesung (god Ares) - Witch of Dreams (Yidhra) is the goddess ML chose in his past life. She’s an outer god from another world. - This time ML politely declines her offer to be her chosen avatar. She says he can reach out for her help anytime as she’ll be watching over him. - ML and Changu become party members. ML shares his Final Hour ability while Changu shares his Mind’s Eye ability. - Siu used Gunggi’s hide and the Coat of the Night to create a special A-rank coat for ML. It has the Shadow Rush skill and the new Wings of Gunggi skill. - Soon Deicide are the top ranking guild with the most points. - ML meets Sunghyuk the Genesis guildmaster after defeating Hong Gaeun the vice guildmaster (who attacked ML 1st). Genesis and Deicide are the only guilds aware of the dungeons’ constellation pattern. ML tells Sunghyuk the location of a mithril vein to gain his trust. - ML asks that their meeting is kept a secret from the other 2 top guilds. Then ML asks Genesis to guard the 18 dungeons of the Scorpio constellation, but to avoid entering them. There are powerful monsters hidden in the dungeons that could destroy the city. In ML’s past life, the monsters were giant scorpions that caused a major catastrophe with many lives lost. - ML takes Mina, Jisu and Changu to the Scorpio dungeons. He uses Eye of the Crow and locates the 1st monster that’s hiding dormant in a large crystal. After fighting monsters to get to the crystal, ML has everyone check the special gas masks made by Siu are on properly. ML cracks the crystal and a giant scorpion emerges, releasing a toxic gas. Those toxins were responsible for the large casualties in ML’s 1st life. - The Outrising guild enter the 18th Scorpio dungeon that’s just appeared. Luke follows them but is urged to flee by his goddess. Luke refuses to leave as he wants to be a hero and protect others. - As a massive scorpion emerges from the crystal, Luke tells the players to run away to avoid the toxic gas. Luke blocks an attack to allow them to escape. - In an attempt to save his life, Luke’s goddess invites him to be her proxy. Suddenly ML arrives through the location transfer bracelet he gave Luke. ML asks the goddess to put that proxy invite on hold for now as he knows it’s more than a human body can handle. In ML’s past life, Luke didn’t survive after using the full extent of the goddess’ power given to him. - The massive scorpion is Antares, the Scorpio constellation. Antares’ power is restricted to match the difficulty level. ML uses Proof of Transcendence to injure Antares. Jisu and Luke also join in the fight. Through Luke, ML asks the goddess to summon the scales of Libra. The huge pressure of the gigantic scales descending from the sky crushes Antares. The scales disappear and ML almost kills Antares, but the scorpion causes an explosion then it vanishes. - ML is given the very rare metal Esther (a metal of the stars with the greatest magic power and magic resistance) as a reward. - ML will also get to select an A-rank skill. - In the end, Deicide is 1st in the dungeon race. - Azazel is bored. She can see that Jaun has no goal or purpose right now. Azazel takes Jaun to an industrial site so he can save a girl from a group of demon servants chasing her. - The girl is called Min Soo-ah. She asks to go with Jaun. She says she can see the future as she’s a chosen player of the goddess Skuld. The further ahead in time she looks, the longer is the cooldown period until she can use her ability again. - The Cape of Darkness guild are demon servants. They kidnapped Soo-ah and her older brother Min Sooho. They wanted to force her to use her ability while keeping her brother hostage. Since her future changed and she survived, she fears her brother will have to die instead. - Soo-ah can see the ending of the game as well. - Currently it shows ML as the Demon Lord of Madness who rules over all of the demons. - Subquest - Dungeon of Futile Dreams: the clear condition is an episode relating to someone you desperately wished for. - Successfully clear the quest in your memories. - Difficulty level: B - Reward: Laplace’s Hourglass. An S-rank item, able to call upon the future of a person for 30mins. - Changu notified ML that a dungeon he was looking for has appeared. Changu has been visiting dungeons to grow stronger. - ML takes Snowy to use her divine power to open the dungeon doors. He enters alone and is taken to a memory from his past life. - The memory is a quest he most regretted. The quest involved saving 1 of 2 groups. A group of 1000 players or a group of 10k / 100k civilians. Choose a group and then kill the other group. - In his past life, ML chose to save the players. He had to fight and kill Min Sooho who belonged to Agathram, the strongest guild at the time. They wanted to save the civilians AND the players. - ML also doesn't want to kill Lin Taylor this time. - Yidhra helps ML to find Lee Mina. She’s at her old high school holding her own memorial for her dead classmates. - ML asks Mina to make an elixir for him and some other items. Agathram guild: - Cheon Sanghwan, Agathram guildmaster - Lin Taylor. ML killed her father in this past life. - Min Sooho, chosen avatar of the god Macha. - Kang Junshik, chosen avatar of the god Agni. - Lee Surin, a mage, chosen avatar of the god Morian. - Kim Taehoon, chosen avatar of Baldur the god of light. - A raid party from ML’s side challenges the Agathram guild. - Kim Taehoon alone faces the raid party. ML arrives and makes it appear that he kills Kim Taehoon. He gives the body to the Holy Saint for safe keeping. - Park Sunghyuk, Genesis guildmaster? - Holy Saint Shin Yoohwa, healer - Lee Surin sets off a trap that explodes and sends poisonous smoke throughout the city. ML kills her. - Min Sooho (tempest) and Kang Junshik (fire) face ML. They chase ML and are caught in his magic trap that’s laced with paralysis poison. - Mina suddenly arrives after deciding she’ll help ML to complete the quest. She deals with the other players while ML faces Cheon Sanghwan. ML leads him to a desert location and calls for Yidhra. She makes ML her proxy and he gains the SS-rank Spiritualisation skill to use the goddess’ power. - Just as ML kills Cheon Sang Hwan, Lin Taylor attacks ML from behind. She seems to have the ability to copy perfectly the skills of others (tbc). Astraea the goddess of justice continued to watch over Lin after her father died. Lin asks to become Astraea’s proxy. - Observers and players alike are drawn to watch this unbelievable battle between 2 divine proxies. - ML set the stage for the ultimate surprise grand finale. - ML makes it so that he and Lin stab eachother at the same time. He sees the notification that the quest is complete. Then he breaks the orb to wake everyone up. - Mina explains to Lin that ML asked her to make an orb that puts the target into suspended animation. He also wanted the effect of this orb in concentrated liquid and smoke forms. - The poisonous smoke was actually the effect of the orb on the citizens in the city. ML and Mina used the orb elixir on their weapons when they stabbed the players on both sides. - ML found a way to save everyone and clear the quest. - ML clears the dungeon and receives Laplace’s Hourglass as a reward. Yidhra also gave him a new Imaginary Space skill that opens a subspace in the air momentarily. - Unknown to ML, Jisu entered the dungeon after him and had her own quest from her memories to complete. - She also cleared the dungeon and received Laplace’s Hourglass. - ML plans to help Mina with her 2 school friends Haemi and Jiseon who were contracted to a demon and died in his past life. - Jisu considers wiping out the Cape of Darkness guild next … - Doyoung Park the Iron Horse, Cape of Darkness guild master - Juan and Soo-ah enter the basement of the guild HQ and find Mina’s friends hiding there. They rescue Min Sooho and Mina’s friends follow them to the ground floor. - The ceiling collapses from Jisu defeating Doyoung. - Jisu fights Jaun almost to his death, then suddenly stops and declares she won this time. ML sent a message to stop Jisu from killing Jaun. - ML is watching from the rooftop. Azazel greets him. - She agrees to accept Mina’s friends as her servants. As a higher demon, her contract will overrule the one they have with the Cape of Darkness demon. - Mara Papiyas, demon of lust (1 of the 7 ruling demons) - Arkatus asks to borrow the power of the lust demon’s contractee. He plans to kill ML. - Mental Resilience (A-rank) is ML’s new skill. - He trains it against Jisu’s bloodlust from her Celestial Slayer skill. After 2mths, his skill is upgraded to S-rank. - Jisu has a skill called “I’m Always a Good Child.” She can control her emotions perfectly with this skill. She was always obedient and submissive to her parents, pretending to be a good child. - Jisu is afraid of being abandoned by ML. - Is she obsessed with him? - Event quest: Treasure Hunting - Location: Glastonbury, UK - Akinen, the GM of the England server. - The top 100 players across the servers are selected to complete the quest. The timeframe is 2wks. - Collect the items (A to D-rank) to get points. - There is only one S-rank item. - The server with the most points will get various benefits. - The Sentinel is a dragon. ML recalls from his past life that there’s a surprise 2nd Sentinel. - Eric Sanders (god: Apollo) - Yulian, a German player - Lee Ahyoung, Lycoris guild - Shin Yoohwa the Holy Saint - ML, Snowy, Mina, Jisu and Changu are selected from Korea. - Snowy is registered as ML’s pet so the system transported her with him. She is perfectly capable of protecting herself. - ML and Snowy find the hidden village of survivors called Avalon. It’s concealed by a lake and a mana barrier. - Morgan Le Fay, ruler of Avalon and the Last Witch. - Avalon is a utopia of mages and fairies. Viviane and Nimue used to be the other witch rulers with Morgan. - ML agrees to leave Snowy with Morgan in exchange for Morgan to teach some magic to Snowy. - The secret highest tier item is Excalibur (SS-rank). - It can only be used by it's rightful master. - Arthur is an English player who is crippled and sees visions of his dead family (an illness?). He blames himself for their deaths. - ML knew Arthur from his past life. ML finds Arthur and scares off some bullies. ML asks Arthur to join his party but Arthur refuses. - Chris Bright, contracted to a demon. - She holds hostage a group of players under her charm ability in order to lure out then kill ML. - Lee Ahyoung and Shin Yoohwa arrive. They use their skills to cancel out the charm spell and save the players. - ML kills Chris but she revives elsewhere (?) - Siris, another demon contractor, awakens both Sentinels: - The Red Dragon from the legend of King Arthur. - Behemoth, the Holy Beast of Legends. It gets bigger over time. - ML takes Arthur to Avalon and gets Arthur to draw out Excalibur from the rock before any players are killed. Morgan completely heals Arthur with her magic. Arthur agrees to join ML’s party. ML and Arthur attack Behemoth first. - The Red Dragon speaks with Arthur about the roles given by the system. No one may defy the beings that preside over the laws of the universe. Only humans are given the role of players so they can become avatars of the gods. - The Dragon offers to help Arthur this once and holds down Behemoth for ML to attack. Using the shared Punishment of Faith skill (S-rank) with Arthur and special customised weapons made by Siu, ML obliterates Behemoth. The Dragon flies away. - England has the most points, followed by South Korea. - Mina found many items while everyone else was dealing with the 2 Sentinels. - Hyunsoo Han, Jisu’s younger brother. - He contacts Jisu and confirns that their mother is with him. - He bears the same tattoo / mark as the demon guilds. He’s made a contract with a demon ranked 17th in the hierarchy. - Soo-ah suddenly foresees an unstable prophecy about Jisu killing everyone in Seoul. - ML goes with Jisu to meet Hyunsoo and their mother. - Jisu is infamous among demon contractors as the Slaughterer. - Jisu was abused by their parents. Their mother was afraid of Jisu. - Hyunsoo reveals he’s the Gangnam branch manager of the Waning Crescent Moon guild. He gives their mother’s head to Jisu, saying he killed her and Jisu will soon join her. - Jisu can no longer restrain herself and her insane bloodlust is fully unleashed. With one hand she rips off Hyunsoo’s head and spine. Then Jisu kills the guild members in the room. - ML tries to kill Jisu before she goes on a rampage in Seoul. Her regenerative ability allows her to recover quickly. She severs ML’s legs. Earlier ML sent a message for Mina to come and help. Mina arrives and traps Jisu in a spatial barrier. Then Mina heals ML. - Yidhra appears and offers to help ML in exchange for 100k points. To calm down, Jisu needs to see her mother. - Dungeon of Futile Dreams: Yidhra takes ML back here and uses her powers to change the dungeon. There is a subquest for ML to get Jisu’s mother Song Chaeyeon to willingly follow him out and escape the dungeon alive. - ML enters the dungeon and his abilities are restricted to only 3 skills. He returns to the 5th Main Quest with the dungeon race and Antares (Scorpio). He finds out Hyunsoo is with the Sins guild. - Yidhra appears and ML becomes her avatar (just for the dungeon). He obtains the Shadow Space skill. - Yidhra says Jisu is still alive. ML thought Jisu died in the beginning from his past life but she survived for awhile. - ML finds Jisu and she’s been taken over by her Celestial Slayer personality. She instinctively wants to protect ML. - ML and Jisu infiltrate the Sins HQ. They get to Juwon’s office and ML knocks out Hyunsoo who is there with Chaeyeon. - ML uses his past life experience to kill Juwon. - Hyunsoo is possessed by Hades but is mortally wounded by ML. Jisu dies after protecting her mother from Hades’ final attack. ML decides against taking Chaeyeon with him. - ML leaves the dungeon and gets Mina to release Jisu. He restrains Jisu and synchronises their memories. Jisu returns to normal. - Mina gets a new alchemy skill. - Main Quest 6: Mamajack’s wicked scheme. - Find Mamajack the chameleon constellation (1wk)

Ch 48 as of 24/08/22 - incredible art - This world has 8 continents. - The Global Holy Church is on the 1st continent. - The continents are numbered as you go eastward. - Witches represent the pinnacle of sorcery. - The Origins: 17 women were the first witches. - Witches don’t age over time. Their powers are duplicated exactly over successive generations. - The Order of Magical Resonance: - An assembly of the very best in sorcery and magic. - A powerful group that works by magic, for magic and of magic. They will take on any mission that involves magic, regardless of the danger. Each member is given an order signet ring / brand. - Guideau the Beast has no magic power at all and is the natural enemy of witches. - His spirit is trapped by a witch’s curse in the body of a beautiful young woman. He is looking for the witch responsible to undo the witch’s curse then kill the witch. The curse is temporarily broken when G kisses a witch and he returns to his original body. This is only possible once with each witch. - Ashaf, a 1st class mage - He carries around a coffin with G’s true original body. - He uses crows and black panthers as his familiars. - Ione, a 120yo witch and Mary, one of her apprentices. - Mary and the other residents of the city think of Ione as a hero. Over 400yrs ago, Ione’s grandmother was called an evil witch even though she saved the city from hellfire and she was sealed. - On the anniversary of her grandma being sealed, Ione plans to unleash the hellfire as revenge. G and Ashaf stop Ione and save Mary with the other young women who were being sacrificed as keys to unleash the hellfire. - G is getting impatient for their next witch-related job. - After a month, a witch committing serial murder and a grimoire in the city of Hayden is the next mission. It’s called “the witch’s pastime” case. The Hayden mayor is stopping the Paladin Corps from taking over this case. He wants the credit for solving it. - Kiera Haines, the only mage on the Hayden police force. - Reuben Cole, Kiera’s magic teacher and lover. - The witch is targeting the people around Kiera. One of the first victims was Reuben. - Shulk and Loran are Kiera’s adopted teenage sons. - Kiera thought they were killed by the witch. - The boys have a set of 2 grimoires that act as one entity. - Grimoires are forbidden instruments of black magic. - There’s a penalty for using the grimoires. - The boys killed people as sacrifices to use the grimoires’ powers. - The boys are in love with Kiera. She only saw them as her sons. - After G defeats them, Kiera kills them herself. - Kiera gives the grimoires to Ashaf. - Phanora Kristoffel the “profound witch” and a necromancy specialist from the Order. She can summon undead Death Knights. - Johan, Phanora’s assistant and a special undead. - Undead need to be regularly maintained by the one who resurrected them so they don’t go out of control. - Resurrections must be performed with the permission of the patient before death or their close relative. All info about necromancy must be disclosed to the patient so they are fully aware. - Undead can be set to auto, semi-auto or manual modes. - Strays are undead who are illegally revived without any guidance. - Sergeant Jeff Enker, who recently lost his fiancé. - Increased cases of unmaintained undead going crazy. - Phanora uses a special lamp to attract strays. A surprisingly large number appear. Johan takes care of them. - They follow the tracks of the strays and discover an old mansion. - Jeff’s fiancé is one of the strays at the mansion. - Necromancy forcibly removes souls from the cycle of reincarnation. There is no method for those souls to return. - Once the spell fades and the soul experiences it's 2nd death, the consciousness exists in nothingness called “the void” for eternity. - The illegal necromancer conducted forbidden experiments on the undead to try and create the perfect body for his dead lover. - Phanora defeats the illegal strays with her Death Knights. After the necromancer was tortured by Johan, Phanora kills the necromancer and turns him into an undead, forcing him to maintain Jeff’s fiancé from now on. - The Paladin Corps: a magic based military force. - They serve under the Global Holy Church. - Their strategic base is a floating castle. - Lt Col Matt Cugat, the “man of ice” and head of the 6th battalion of the 3rd continent. He is an elemental mage who made a pact with a great ice elemental. - The mission for G and Ashaf is to protect the witch. - Helga Velvette, her lineage traces to the Origin called Quena Velvette the “dauntless witch.” - Ashgan the Demon Sword. It was sealed by Quena and only a witch of her lineage can break the seal. It was the responsibility and duty of the Velvette clan to guard Ashgan. - The Executioners are underground witch-hunting specialists since the Dark Ages. They operate in the shadows of the Church. - Helga was framed for the murder of 6 men. - Ishlingen the Demon Hand is a forbidden instrument made from the skin of 17 kings. It has the power of mind control. - Cugat's paladins were brainwashed by the Executioner. The penalty for using the Demon Hand are living human sacrifices. - The Executioners want the power of the Demon Sword. They found the Velvette clan’s hideout and killed everyone. - Helga was the sole survivor who escaped with Ashgan. - The Executioner used mind control on Helga who gave him the Demon Sword. Then he stabbed Helga with it to break the seal. - The Executioner couldn’t control the true nature of Ashgan. It was a being with no reason or respect. G kisses Helga and possesses his original body. In an epic battle, G defeats Ashgan who reverts to a broken sword. - G severed the limbs of the Executioner, which removed the Demon Hand. Cugat takes custody of the Executioner (presumed tortured to death). - Angela Anne Huell the “wrathful / eternal witch” - She has the power to possess a person’s body. That is why she is the eternal witch since she can switch bodies and live forever. - She is responsible for the curse on G. - G possesses Angela’s original body. When G and Ashaf first met 3yrs ago: - Ashaf arrives at a country village to protect a witch. - The Origin was Luna Farmington the “mystic witch.” - She was a master of magic conjured by speech. - Falvell Farmington can’t cast magic because she can’t speak. She has the mark of a curse on her tongue. - Owent is Falvell’s twin brother. - Craig and his father Sven moved to the village 6mths ago. - They’re actually Executioners. They frame Falvell for the slaughter of livestock in the area. Under the guise of a witch hunt, they go after Falvell. - Ashaf convinces G to protect Falvell, after G realised she wasn’t the witch he was looking for. Ashaf gets Falvell to kiss G. - This temporarily releases both of their curses. G kills one Executioner and Falvell kills the other. - Ashaf takes Falvell and Owen back to the Order. - Ashaf makes a deal with G to work for the Order. - The Fall: an endless hole that connects to 17 other worlds. - Located on a small island between the 7th and 8th continents. - L4 is Orlencia Sett, a world of vampires and humans. - Only vampires wear all black clothing during the day. - Assisting G and Ashaf are Oscar the mage and Dunward Colvect, a vampire. Their goals align as Oscar and Dunward are looking for a vampire queen who has the power of a witch. - NB: Vampires have no innate magic power. - A number of vampire incidents have occurred that violate the urban etiquette code. G and Ashaf are looking for Angela. - A witch’s blood is considered a rare delicacy for vampires. - The Conglade: one of the largest vampire factions. - At a masked gala event, human women chosen as special blood sources are presented for the vampire king’s approval to join vampire society. Dunward presents G dressed in white as an offering for the king. Dunward realises the queen of the night isn’t there and removes his mask to reveal his identity. - There are 2 vampire kings: the king of the Conglade and the king of the night. Dunward was once the king of the night but his title was stolen 100yrs ago by Dornez Guywasse who is now the queen of the night. - When Dunward was king of the night, he married a human woman and they had 3 children. Dornez was his mistress. - Dornez took Angela’s offer of power and betrayed Dunward. While he was away with his men to fight a battle against the Conglade, Dornez told the humans where his castle was. - The castle was destroyed and his family were burned alive at the stake. Dornez used her new power to kill Dunward’s men and burn Dunward to the brink of death. Oscar found Dunward and made him drink her blood. They formed a pact and now Oscar’s blood is the only blood Dunward can drink. (Side story) - Caindel Bichon, a lone sentry on guard at a checkpoint. - Angela was bored but found Caindel interesting for his dedication to the life he led. One day he was sick and asked Angela to be the sentry for him. She refused to let an emergency messenger through who was warning about the coming of the demon army. - Caindel and Angela are arrested. As the demon army approaches, Angela frees herself and destroys the demon army with her magic. - Dowler Wu is the greatest fighter in the Conglade and challenges Dunward to a duel, with G’s blood as a witch on the line. Dunward grabs Dowler’s jaws and rips his head apart to win. - Dunward’s younger brother is the neutral bridge that mediates between the Conglade and the night. Dunward, Oscar, Ashaf and G see him to arrange a meeting with Dornez. - Dunward betrays G and Ashaf, allowing them to be drugged by his brother. Later G and Ashaf break free but they face Dornez. - A witch’s kiss holds power. A pact is formed with a witch’s beloved who receives a gift. Angela bestowed her favour and power when she kissed Dornez. In exchange Dornez provided people for Angela to possess (?) - Dornez unleashes her borrowed power. G gets Ashaf to escape first. Ashaf finds Oscar and Dunward. They pretend that they have captured Ashaf and they are taken to Dornez’ castle. - Dornez intends to kill them to keep the castle location a secret. Dunward removes his mask and fights Dornez and her minions. - Oscar releases Ashaf and they look for G. - Meanwhile in Dornez’ castle, G breaks free and uses a pair of axes that are forbidden instruments to decimate the queen’s vampires. - It’s a full moon and Dunward is the one most cherished by the moon’s magic. He easily defeats Dornez’ minions. - Dornez uses a dagger infused with sunlight to stab Dunward in his chest. G appears and attacks Dornez with the axes. - Oscar finally convinces Dunward to drink her blood. He had vowed to never drink human blood again after the death of his family. The power of the full moon and the human blood combine to change Dunward into a massive, all powerful werewolf. - Dornez had immense power but didn’t have the knowledge and experience needed to wield it effectively. Dunward obliterates her body so she can’t regenerate. Angela gave Dornez the role of stalling G and Ashaf while she escaped. - Dornez admits Dunward’s oldest child and daughter survived. Dornez gave his daughter to Angela as her latest vessel. - A witch’s favour can only be given once in their lifetime. - This doesn’t apply to Angela because she can switch bodies. - There are others who have received Angela’s favours. - The 17 levels connected to 17 worlds each have a creator. - Oscar Orlencia is the descendant of the Origin called Lionelle Orlencia the “great witch.” The power of this lineage is linked to the sun. The world of Orlencia Sett was created by Lionelle. - Oscar summons the sun to rise early to stop the Conglade from attacking the remnants of the night vampires. - The 17 Origins agreed it was taboo for any direct (outside or external) influence on the Fall. Oscar’s role is to eliminate anyone who violates this rule. Angela must be punished for breaking it. - G and Ashaf enter an antique shop that deals in magic tools. - The Recluse Doll is a relic from a witch who died. It’s a living doll. She was once human until she was cursed by a witch. G can hear the doll’s voice. - Matt Cugat was transferred to a frontier outpost. - Karl Oakleave (was Craig) the Executioner is there to recruit Cugat. He wears a forbidden instrument as a pendant on a necklace. - Knight commanders and 1 of the 5 archmages - Commander Gil Dellinger is a traitor (?) - Commander Keith was killed by the group of witches and mages. - Using the magical storm as cover - steal the forbidden instruments in storage - A group of 3 witches and some mages - Lucia is the descendant of Viola Spendrow the “giant witch” with the power to control natural disasters. - a witch that uses the power of the moon - Angela - Phanora, Johan and the Death Knights - Helga uses the repaired and resealed Demon Sword - the archmage summons a dragon - a forbidden instrument began as a seed then rapidly grew into a small child - Ashaf asks G to look after the child

Ch 60 as of 20/11/22 * End of Season 1, Ch 60 - ML is Estio 19yo who has a special mental domination ability. - He can read the minds and hearts of all living beings. This includes seeing memories. ML can also feel and control the emotions of others. ML can let an animal and a person communicate with eachother. ML can also take others inside a person’s mind to see their memories. - ML’s family: Parents, older brother Teriot, older sister Rosette. - ML was always abused and ostracised for his ability by his family and the villagers. He decides to leave his hometown of Selbia after his coming-of-age ceremony. 19yo is the legal age of adulthood in the Empire. - Tsuki is a black cat that ML found and saved when he was a boy. In return, Tsuki has helped ML on random occasions over the years. Tsuki was a failed magic test subject who escaped before it was killed. It can transform into a giant black tiger. - Neju, a white fur monkey. It lost it's family including it’s human mother when hunters came and killed everyone. Neju decides to follow ML. - ML arrives in Gallasia city. The guards give him a large chain and collar for Neju as all beasts must be leashed in the city. - While looking for work, ML is referred to the Ignis guild. - ML applies to join the guild and he mentions his ability. - ML is sent on a request as a test. He goes to a collector of rare animals and quickly identifies the problems. The collector is impressed and ML passes the test. - ML is accepted as an official guild member and receives a badge and uniform. He can stay with Neju in the dorm lodgings in the guild building. - ML is assigned to the Special Support Dept. - Most requests are from high ranked nobility. - Lady Seralin (Sera) 10yo, daughter of Viscount Fabiane. - She’s having behavioural issues with her new dog Hiru. ML helps resolve their misunderstanding by letting them communicate with eachother. - The Viscount immediately understands that ML’s ability with animals extends to humans as well. Shortly after he sends a request through the guild for ML to look into a prominent local gem supply business. The Jefferson Company has the largest commercial share of gems in the city. It’s stores have suddenly closed for business. ML has to find out why from Thompson, the head of the company. If possible, ML will also get the company to resume sales. - ML discovers Thompson’s wife Teal is suffering from extreme stress and depression after losing their first 3 children. Their 4th child Leia survived and is healthy, but Teal abandoned their daughter from birth as she thinks Leia will die soon too. - ML takes Thompson and Neju into Teal’s mind and they experience her memories together. Teal had a lover who killed himself when she became engaged to Thompson. Teal blamed herself for the deaths of her children. She thought their deaths were punishment as she was cursed by her ex-lover. - Thompson tells Teal that it’s not her fault and asks her to come back to him and Leia. Teal revives and reacts to Leia’s cries by rushing to her side. - ML collapses from overusing his ability. - He wakes up after being unconscious for 2 days. - The branch manager says ML now has the highest reputation among nobles in this city and neighbouring cities as well. - ML is summoned by Viscount Fabiane for a secret request. The Viscount wants ML to become his subordinate. ML would be appointed as an advisor who would answer directly to the Viscount only. His role would be to read the minds of those chosen by the Viscount. Even though ML politely refuses, the Viscount tells ML to think it over. - ML takes a cactus that the Viscount was throwing away. ML can hear the voice of the cactus. ML calls the cactus “Ahuru.” - Jeremion, Sera’s older brother, wants to buy Neju. ML says Neju isn’t a product for sale. Jeremion calls the guards to take Neju away. When the guards surround ML, Neju lashes out and injures a guard. - The Viscount arrives and orders the guards to imprison ML and get rid of Neju. ML uses his ability to make the guards kill themselves when they attack him. - Tsuki arrives and transforms into a tiger. Tsuki carries Neju and ML away. After 10 days, ML returns to the guild. He’s been summoned to the guild HQ. On the way, the carriage is surrounded by a swarm of harpies. ML uses mind control to make them go back to where they came from. - ML’s shoulder was injured by a harpie. The blood lands on Ahuru and makes a flower bloom for the first time. Ahuru gives the flower to ML and it heals his shoulder. - ML uses a magic portal and arrives at the guild HQ with Neju, Tsuki and Ahuru. - Hwen Leski, Vice guild master - According to the guild master, ML is now a “guild leader” who’ll be entrusted with special missions. ML receives a new guild uniform, badge and other supplies. Hwen asks ML for a demo of ML’s ability. Hwen draws a sword but instead of attacking ML, Hwen holds the sword against his own neck. - Bernie Parker, a guild messenger and a birdman. - He’s assigned as a support member of ML’s team. - Mubien R. Hygar, a Duke and the Emperor’s cousin. - He’s a body-type ability user and a swordmaster. - The Hygar territory is overrun with monsters. It was bestowed on Mubien by the Emperor who sees his talented cousin as a threat. - ML receives his first request as a guild leader from Mubien. - ML and his team enter a magic portal to the Renox underground cave. They encounter friendly and curious giant sandworms, an underground waterfall, and a pack of cave wolves. They exit the cave to the Hygar territory. - ML meets Mubien whose request for ML is to find a descendant of the black dragons. They will search for a month. - A Hygar ancestor drank the blood of dragons which gave incredible abilities to them. Mubien thinks ML is also connected to dragons as ML’s ability is known as a black dragons’ trait. - In the cave, ML fed some blood to Ahuru. ML’s ability has activated in Ahuru, allowing Mubien to hear Ahuru’s voice. This is similar to the Hygar ancestor drinking dragons’ blood. - Jeria, the 2nd wife of Mubien’s father. - Mubien’s mother died after giving birth to him. - All of Mubien’s family were killed during a monster invasion. - Mubien has insomnia due to nightmares. - The pack of cave wolves followed ML and a wolf cub was injured by Hygar residents. ML fed his blood to the cub. - ML uses his ability to negotiate a deal. The cave wolves will be the guardians of Hygar in exchange for food and their safety. - Mubien wants to visit Selbia village to learn more about ML from how he was raised. They stop at the Gallasia branch on the way. A disheveled Viscount Fabiane is there demanding to see ML right away. The Viscount sees ML and begs for ML to help his daughter who has insomnia after seeing the guards killed. The Viscount doesn’t apologise for what happened before with his son. - ML secretly visits Sera with Tsuki. He tells her what happened wasn’t her fault. He’s there as her friend and not because of the Viscount. Sera refuses to let ML erase her memories of him. If that happens she’s afraid she’ll be like her father. Sera just wants ML to keep being her friend. - As they reach Selbia, they discover someone being burned at the stake. It’s Bella, the prettiest girl in the village. She was accused of being a witch and bewitching men to love her. ML saves her and he’s abused by the villagers. Mubien and the others see how he’s mistreated and held in low regard. - It starts to rain and the fire is put out. Mubien offers money to ML’s family if they answer his questions. He wants to know if they’re blood related to ML. They refuse to answer. - ML reads his father’s mind and sees ML was found in a large crater that suddenly appeared in the mountains. ML looked like a large lump of gold to his father who took it back home only to find ML as a baby with golden eyes. - ML’s mother made his father take ML back to the crater but a high priest from the holy palace was there. There was an oracle about a dragon’s treasure falling from the sky. Dragons are agents of god. - Earlier ML’s father killed the wolf who was ML’s guardian. The high priest was looking for the evil person who stole the treasure. It was rumoured the imperial family would come and execute the thief. ML was confined to the attic to protect the rest of the family. - ML projected his father’s memories for everyone to see the truth. ML goes to the crater which is now a large pond. Mubien asks to become ML’s guardian. For now ML tells Mubien to return home. ML will call for Mubien later. - ML goes back to the guild HQ and is told to take a break until the guild master can see him. - Puppet Master, Ignis guild master - Jen, a living doll - Lina, a warrior (?)

Ch 49 as of 22/11/22 - also on Webtoon ** The drip feed approach to giving background info details is annoying … Story is interesting so wait and see - ML is Jaehwan, a swordsman and the last Walker in the Nightmare Tower. He started clearing the Tower later than other Walkers. As a result he missed out on getting other skills and items. He devoted himself to improving his stabbing ability instead. - One day the Tower emerged in cities around the world. - People who accepted the summons to the Tower were called Tower Walkers. They climbed the Tower to prevent the fall of humanity and the end of the world. - Walkers received a blessing from the “interface system” and could obtain special items, skills, powers and qualifications. - Tower Impacts: great catastrophes where monsters flood out from the Tower into the world. About a third of humanity perished as a result of the 1st Tower Impact. - Regression stones: turns back time and sends the user back to when the Tower first summoned them. The user’s current memories will remain intact. The stone can also be split up and used. - Many in the Tower chose to regress to the past, rather than continue to climb the Tower or die. - ML was part of a group called Carpe Diem. - On the 85th floor, ML obtained the Wyrmsbane sword. It contains the energy of the sun and moon in order to defeat a dragon. - At the 98th floor, the Chamber of Hellfire: Yunhwan the 2nd last member is too injured to continue. Rather than regress, he decides to jump down the outside of the Tower. - ML rests on the 50th floor at Atopos, a village created by Walkers for Walkers. He learns blacksmithing skills from Jay, the last blacksmith in the village who eventually leaves. - ML has been trying to clear the 99th floor for 10yrs. - There have been at least 10 Tower Impacts so far. - ML is the last Carpe Diem member left. 5yrs later he defeats the guardian, Frostwyrm the ice dragon and clears the 99th floor by himself. ML obtains the Frostwyrm sword. When the user shows their will to fight, the sword blade is revealed. - After 40yrs, ML is the 1st to clear the Tower. - At the 100th floor, ML learns the truth about the Tower. This floor is a control room and ML meets Beastreign, a demon and the master / owner (?) of this Tower. - Conquering the Tower just means completing the tutorial, and not saving the world. Next is the main game where ML has the option to return to the start with his memories intact and climb the Tower all over again. ML refuses to participate in the main game. - There is no item in the Tower that can send you back in time. - Nightmare stone: those who use it are trapped in a dream conjured up by the dream demon. (Falsely labelled as a regression stone) - The Nightmare Tower is also called the Fortress of Regret. It’s the 2nd work of Mulak the dream demon. - The Tower traps those who respond to the call of the Tower into a dream created by the dream demon. The Tower Impacts never happened and no one died, as this was conjured up by the Tower. - While Walkers do not age inside the Tower after decades have passed, outside it’s only been a month or so. - Beastreign shows ML that his body and those of the other Walkers are unconscious and in hospital in the outside world. - ML tries to kill Beastreign by returning every day to the 100th floor from the 50th floor. Beastreign has no intention of killing ML. - ML is a special premium product that Beastreign has to sell to the Harvesters, so (his soul?) can’t be damaged. - A Cultivator (ie Beastreign) ripens and enhances Products (ie ML) in 2 stages (the tutorial and the main game). This is so the Product can safely adjust to the system of the “Great Realm” and give them a chance to advance to a new world. - Good Products are picked out during the tutorial game. - The real ripening process begins in the main game. This 2nd stage is like watering and fertilising carefully selected seeds. - ML’s level and all of his stats have maxed out at 100. - Beastreign explains to ML that this universe consists of one main dimension called the “Great Realm” and countless peripheral worlds that branch out from it. Earth is one of the many smaller planets scattered throughout the peripheral worlds. - The Nightmare Tower is at the roots of the Tree of Illusion. - The 12 Monarchs are the rulers of the Great Realm. - Those who clear the main game and enter the Great Realm will often receive recommendations of power from the Monarchs. - ML can see particles that he somehow understands to be the basic matter of this world. This matter starts to send messages to ML. From these messages, ML knows Beastreign plans to hand ML over to the Harvester known as the Monarch of Darkness. - ML refuses to be a product and has an awakening as an “over-adapted player” who now truly understands “stabbing.” - His whole being becomes “stabbing” and he is continuously stabbing at the world. [ 1st stage of awakening - Doubt / Suspicion ] - The power to break down the true essence by doubting the world. [ 2nd stage of awakening - Understanding / Question ] - The power to understand that broken down world. - Throughout the Tower on various floors, ML came across cryptic messages about the Tower. These were probably left by Mulak. - ML defeats Beastreign who is reduced to a much weaker demon and ML breaks through the ceiling of the 100th floor. - Suddenly ML finds himself in a new land. - ML kills huge horned beasts and collects their horns. - ML kills Green Pieris (butterfly) clan members after they attack. (They are 1 of the 5 noble clans of the Great Realm) - ML is surprised when his Frostwyrm sword devours their weapons. He obtains a small dimensional bag, several spectre crystals (forcefully raises one’s spiritual power by a set value), and a map of “Tree of Illusion - Chaos.” - ML kills a 2-horned beast that was chasing a small group. They are from the ruthless Red Fox clan, except for Minora. - Minora the Witch of Massacre, member of the Shadow Warriors - She was commissioned to kill one of the Red Fox clan members in the group. She warns ML to kill them before they try to kill him. - ML overhears the Red Fox clan members refer to ML’s Frostwyrm sword as a rare and valuable artifact called a spirit weapon, after they see ML feeding other weapons and equipment to the sword. - They gather over half of their clan (40+ members) to attack Minora and ML after he intentionally loaned them the Frostwyrm sword. ML wants to see Minora’s true skills. - Black Fox Klant, 3rd stage adapter, clanmaster of Red Fox. - Minora fights the Red Fox clan members first. She gives ML a return stone that’ll let him escape to the nearest castle. - ML steps up and wipes out Klant and most of the clan members. He retrieves his Frostwyrm sword and takes out the remaining clan members as they flee. - ML and Minora arrive at the north checkpoint of Gorgon Castle. - People are sent to Chaos after dying in the Great Realm. If they die in Chaos, they become food for the Tree of Illusion. - ML sees them appear in the summoning circle, naked and distraught. Soon guards appear to manage the new arrivals. - A certificate is required to enter the castle. Minora bribes the guard with a horn from the 2-horned beast. - “Bull-headed” Carlton Xavier, 5th stage adapter, northern checkpoint chief and the least corrupt officer in Chaos. - ML doesn’t have a certificate and refuses to be certified. - Carlton’s ordinance skill doesn’t work on ML and the chains of Carlton’s silver arrest skill are broken by ML. - Spiritual corruption: a chronic disease that everyone living in Chaos gets. The spirit is slowly corrupted and ghoulification occurs. - Horns from the horned beasts are the only medicinal ingredient that can ease spiritual corruption in Chaos. - Minora’s level of spiritual corruption is measured at above 15%. She’s recommended to medicate ASAP. - The spiritual corruption level can’t be evaluated in ML when Carlton uses the measuring device on him. Carlton thinks this is because ML’s spirit is purer than anyone in Chaos. - Spectre crystals: valuable items that can amplify an adapter’s spiritual power. Only the Green Pieris can possess these crystals and avoid corruption. ML can hold a crystal and not get corrupted. These crystals also prove the identity of Green Pieris clan members. - Minora and ML are allowed to enter the town. ML kills 4 brothers when they attack ML for his Frostwyrm sword. - Twilight’s Fall blacksmith shop and the biggest forge in Gorgon. - Meikal Garnard, Twilight’s Fall vice manager and master artisan. - Meikal challenges the other blacksmiths to make a hole in the horn of a quadhorn beast and they can be the vice manager for the day. ML makes a hole with his finger but it breaks the horn. - ML reimburses Meikal with the horn of a pentahorn beast. - ML wants to make a scabbard for the Frostwyrm sword. The sword evolves after eating another horn of the pentahorn beast. - Meikal names the Frostwyrm sword “Maverick”. - Minora was told to bring ML back with her by some thugs who had taken her friend Clare as a hostage. - He refused to go with her so she returned alone and was forced to fight. ML appears to help her and he sends a blast through the roof that breaks the soundproof barrier. - Carlton arrives with his men and they capture the thugs. At the last minute the thugs use a smoke bomb that accelerates corruption. - The thugs try to escape but ML attacks. The leader turns himself into a ghoul but ML still destroys him. Minora and Carlton are rapidly turning into ghouls. They ask ML to kill them. - Chungheo the Divine Physician - Jahir, 5th stage adapter, Captain of the ghoul extermination squad. - Jahir and his squad arrive to deal with the people who have turned into ghouls. Carlton is saved after ML crushed a pentahorn and fed it to him. It’s too late for Minora and Jahir wants to kill her but is stopped by ML. Suddenly Chungheo arrives to help Minora but his sword breaks (when he sees ML?). - Chungheo borrows ML’s sword and uses his ghoul slash ability to draw a picture of Minora. Chungheo collapses from exhaustion before he can finish it, his energy depleted from treating the castle lord. ML mimics Chungheo and uses ghoul stab to complete the picture which cures Minora. - Chungheo and ML are both awakeners. - ML is a complete awakener with a human heart (?) - Chungheo is an incomplete awakener who kept his emotions (?) - Awakeners are a few extraordinary beings in the Great Realm that have escaped the rules of the system after clearing the (Master’s) Tower. They obtained a powerful strength by rejecting “adaptation.” Their strength can change the power dynamic in Chaos. - Dark Shadow Captain, 5th stage adapter, Dark Shadow squad. - Yurhen Cheever, Internal Commander of Gorgon Castle - The Dark Shadow Captain invites ML to meet Yurhen. - Yurhen asks ML to share what’s happened to him since he arrived in Chaos. Yurhen admits to his men spying on ML from the moment he entered Gorgon Castle. - ML knows his body is in a spiritual state with his real body still back on Earth. He thinks because he escaped the Tower and didn’t join the main game, the Tree of Illusions thought he was an envoy and sent him to Chaos. - Yurhen calls ML a protagonist who has run away from a major faction that is pursuing him. He offers the protection of Gorgon Castle in exchange for ML saving the castle lord. - There is a pact among the 12 Monarchs that they won’t interfere with Chaos. - Steel Region, the 5th region of the Great Realm. - Heoyu of Unbending Steel, the Steel Monarch. - Darkness / Pitch Black Monarch of the 9th region. - Chungheo challenges ML to a duel to see which is stronger: his slash or ML’s stab. Chungheo is (repeatedly) defeated by ML and agrees to answer ML’s questions. - Tower master: Dream demons create towers that can be ranked from F to S. There are demons with no interest in ranks. - Masters have a S-rank apprentice and became a master craftsman early on. Only special towers unrelated to cultivation can be called a master’s tower. Masters are searching for the truth of the world (?) - Chungheo cleared the “Moby Dick” Tower in the martial realm. - Chaos was originally a blessed place. - Souls tired of war in the Great Realm came to Chaos for some rest and peace. Those in Chaos don’t age, get hungry or get drunk. Missing familiar things from their previous life, they mimick actions like eating and drinking in Chaos. - Abyss expedition squad: an alliance to find the resurrection fruit on a branch of the Tree of Illusions. Mulak the dream demon was the squad leader and Chungheo was a squad member. - A dead person in Chaos can come back to life after eating the resurrection fruit. - 900yrs ago, the squad obtained the fruit but the 12 Monarchs were waiting for them at the entrance to Chaos. The Monarchs stole the fruit and have been resurrecting ever since (along with the 5 noble clans?). After the expedition, no one has seen Mulak. - Resurrection Palace: the place of resurrection for the 12 Monarchs and the 5 noble families. It also manages all fruits in Chaos. - Jahir urgently asks ML and Chungheo to see the castle lord. - The castle lord is affected by advanced ghoulification. - They arrive at the castle to find the castle lord has been betrayed by his subordinates who have joined the Golden Sky sect. - Defensive Horn Captain, 4th stage adapter - Twisted Horn Captain, 4th stage adapter - ML defeats the 2 captains who tried to stop them. - The Gorgon castle lord was also a member of the Abyss expedition squad and survived the war against the Monarchs. - The castle lord went out to investigate the appearance of people who can manipulate spiritual corruption. 6mths ago he returned in an advanced state of ghoulification. - The External Commander, Dark Shadow Captain and the other Captains have all betrayed the castle lord. They attempt to use a Ghoul Seal on the castle lord. It’s a secret technique of the Green Pieris clan that requires a spectre crystal. - The castle lord’s spiritual energy will be transferred to the crystal. The one who possesses that crystal will be the master of Gorgon. - ML interrupts the seal with his sudden arrival and he changes the deal with Yurhen. ML will wipe out all of the traitors in exchange for taking Chungheo and forming a new Abyss expedition squad. - ML’s overwhelming power wipes out the traitors. - The Sole King used Ghoul Descension to possess the body of the castle lord. It wields the devastating Void Sword that can turn souls instantly into ghouls. - White Engraved World: Chungheo’s unique world created by his ideal to remember everyone who has disappeared. - Every awakener has their own unique world. - The shape of that world is formed by the keyword (emotion or desire) obtained upon awakening. The more powerful the awakener, the more existences they can bring into their own world. - ML’s keyword is “oblivion” - ML somehow defeats the shadow of the Sole King. - The Sole King leaves the castle lord’s body, saying it will meet ML again at the entry to the Abyss. - The castle lord transfers his spiritual energy to ML and says “Don't forget the human heart” then vanishes. A large tattoo of a dragon (the guardian beast) appears on ML’s arm. He’s now the new Gorgon castle lord. - Aimel Groshek, the last castle lord who died / vanished - During the Flowing Soul ceremony, the story of the soul that has disappeared forever is told repeatedly. The story of the soul will never be mentioned again after the ceremony. - ML wants to unify Chaos so there’ll be no need for a castle lord. - ML challenges anyone to fight him for the position of castle lord over the next month. Anyone who loses against ML must join the Abyss expedition squad that leaves in 2mths. - ML holds a tournament that attracts the strongest fighters. - Yoon Yong, Lightning god sect leader. - Gang Hwang, Flame King sect leader. - Kaiman, Southern Sea sect leader. - There are 10 sects governing Chaos and there are 4 great castles. - The Golden Sky sect eliminated the Lightning god sect a week ago. The Shadow Warrior and Sky Dragon sects were also eliminated. Manticore castle is also under the control of the Golden Sky sect. - Lim Jinhong, Golden Sky sect leader. - Shin Mugeuk, Eternal sect leader. - Zhuge Myung, Forest Scholar sect leader. - Ja Gukryeong, Holy Maiden sect leader. - The tournament is interrupted by an alarm. A horde of ghouls led by a mega ghoul is approaching Gorgon. ML alone kills the mega ghoul and parts the horde like the sea with a powerful blast released from his sword. Everyone rallies around ML to fight. - Later 6 sect HQs relocate to Gorgon. - ML builds a mini Nightmare Tower called Carpe Diem. - He uses the Tower’s much slower time difference inside to help with the sect leaders’ training. On the 1st floor he gets them to learn each others’ techniques to grow stronger. - On the 2nd floor ML trains Kaiman on how to become an awakener.

Ch 25 as of 29/03/22 - ML is Choi Kyungho 25yo (35yo) - Level 99 Warrior (mythical), Karma (good) can’t be measured. - Mrs Choi, ML’s mother. Owner of Lucky Restaurant. - Terminal lung cancer, 6 mths left to live. - Mir, an Asian dragon. Guardian god of the spirit realm - Seed of the World Tree: if grown, good for life force recovery - Carnus di Lupus (Whitey), a white wolf, Guardian god of Earth - Succession of the Guardian God of Earth - A divine revelation: “A brave warrior returning to his birthplace shall save earth.” - Great Cataclysm 3yrs ago - Awakeners: people granted magic powers and classes - Ranks D (lowest) to S (highest), ie D-C-B-A-S - Hunter Association - Magic engineering: a technique / procedure where magic and magic stones are used together. Items can be created that imitate artifacts and can be used by normal people. - bladed ostrich heart for recovery - respawn dungeon raid / dungeon farming - It was an opportunity for the Shinhwa guild to grow bigger. - divine beasts or spirits who possess magic power - Shinhwa Group: a global group that is the top financial corporation in South Korea. - CEO / President - Older sister and 1st child - Lee Sungwon 32yo, son and 2nd child - Guild master of the Shinhwa guild (B+ rank) - Level 25 Magic Archer (rare) - Park Jungsoo 30yo, Chief Secretary - Level 34 Swordsman (common) - Kang Minseok, Assassin (evil), suspect - Candy: an invigorating medicine. Used with an artifact. - Lee Taesung, Team Leader, Special Villian Dept Team (1), Police - Wish fulfilling quest: (Lee Taesung) - “I don’t want to get punished by the Chief” - A Guardian God’s divine strength is derived from human faith. - If a wish is granted or a crisis averted, the god’s divine power increases naturally. - Kraken: the sea is now full of demonic beasts - Kim Dahyun 35yo, the Crimson Witch / the Witch of Flames - The Rainbow 6: official Korean group of S-rank awakeners - She’s an orphan and high school friend of ML - Dahyun’s magic power was depleted and she fainted. - ML came and defeated the demonic beasts. Then he filled up her magic power. - Wish fulfilling quest: (Lee Sungwon) - Clearing an A-rank dungeon - Deodeok: medicinal root, good for lung cancer - Golden Bee honey: good for stamina recovery - Sungwon gave a fire resistant luxury watch to Dahyu and a luxury watch to ML’s mother. - The Dwarf Workshop - Soldin the dwarf - Tyler, a wolf beastman, Blue Tooth tribe - Dimensional travel magic / teleportation magic - ML met the dwarf tribe 5yrs ago in the spirit realm. - The dwarves gave ML a treasure from their tribe. It was a magic bow called Black Hawk. - World Tree: mana circuit recovery - Moonlight herb: magic / mana recovery for Tyler - Mole Cricket: divine spirit contracted to ML - Grey: divine spirit contracted to Soldin - A bow and arrow set requested by ML - A-rank dungeon with Dahyun and the Shinhwa guild. - A crack appeared inside the dungeon. Dahyun had already left the dungeon, leaving behind Sungwon, Jungsoo and the cleanup crew. - A huge bladed panther emerged from the crack and badly injured Jungsoo. ML secretly entered the crack and unseen he threw the bow made by Soldin to Sungwon. Soldin killed the panther with one shot from the bow. - The Shinhwa group have bought the land around the Lucky Restaurant for redevelopment. The Shinhwa guild will relocate their HQ there and an awakeners educational institution will also be built. - Shinhwa are sponsoring the upgrade and expansion of the restaurant to cater for the influx of workers to the area. - Jung Miho, new restaurant assistant - The unforeseen quest of the bladed panther awarded enough karma points to level up Carnus so he can now make disciple contracts. Carnus makes a contract with Tyler that allows a connection with mutual benefits. - Yoo Hodon 34yo, Supervisor, Shinhwa Construction - Level 25 Largest Warrior (rare) - Wish fulfilling quest: (Yoo Hodon) - Rejoining the Shinhwa guild as a hunter

Ch 60 as of 03/08/22 - also on Tapas - ML is Kim Yuwon, a college student. - ML and his comrades were defeated by the Outer Gods. - Chronos sends ML back in time to the day before the Tower appears. It’s New Year’s Eve and ML is in Seoul with a backpack and a knife. The world changes at midnight. - ML has to start over as he has lost all of the stats and arcane power he had before returning. - 1st Tutorial: Survive the zombie horde. (30 mins) - Theme: Survival - ML focuses on obtaining points, experience and leveling up. He douses his knife regularly with salt water as he knows the zombies are weak to salt. ML attains an “Unbelievable Achievement” for killing 100 zombies in 10 mins and he receives free stat points. At the end of the 1st tutorial, ML receives over 1400 points for the total number of zombies killed and also extra stat points. - 2nd Tutorial: Enter the Safe Zone. (Limited capacity) - Theme: Competition - Outside of the Safe Zone, giant earthworm monsters suddenly emerge from underground. ML heads to the subway to hunt these monsters. Hongdae Station is designated as a “hidden dungeon” as the earthworm nest is located there. ML continues to gain more stat points and levels up as he hunts. He also collects the mana essence dropped by the earthworms. - After a few hours, the Safe Zone starts to shrink and so does the capacity. People are randomly expelled as the capacity is reached. Groups form based on survival of the fittest. - ML reaches L20 and his Arcane Power stat is unlocked. He allocates his extra stat points to Arcane Power. - ML calls out to the hidden observer, the Administrator’s Lackey. From the Shop, he buys a basic Arcane Sword and the Monkey’s Eyes skill (F-rank, increased vision and fortifies all 5 senses when activated). ML knows the Lackeys have started to surveil him as a “special administrative target.” (Son Ohgong, the Monkey King, Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal) - ML defeats the Motherworm, the boss monster which ends the 2nd tutorial and stops the Safe Zone from shrinking. The Lackey gives 3 reward options to ML. He could skip to the 5th tutorial, he could receive points, or he could be sponsored by Olympus. ML decides to take option 2 and is rewarded 10k points. - ML’s request to meet with the Tutorial Administrator for 1000 points is approved. ML tells the Administrator about the illegal interference from the Tower in the tutorial, in the form of Olympus. The Administrator kills the Lackey and rewards ML with the Master of Mana, an S+ rank skill. - 3rd Tutorial: Kill 50 monsters, acquire 50 essence. (3 days) - Theme: Hunting - Groups of people try to kill eachother to steal essence. - ML saves 2 people in the subway after the monsters attacking them disturb his sleep. In the dungeon, Kang Seongchan and Lim Jooyeon agree to lure monsters to ML for him to kill and he’ll share some essence with them. - ML leaves the subway with a large box full of essence. - He offers to sell the essence for 100 points each. - Lim and Kang declare the essence was collected by hunting monsters, and not by killing anyone. - A group tries to take the essence by force and ML kills them. - After that, the essence is quickly sold out. - Everyone, including Lim and Kang, leaves by a gate. - 4th Tutorial: - Theme: Defence - ML didn’t enter the gate as he meant to fail the goal of the 3rd tutorial and stay behind to face the “annihilation event.” - ML uses his points at the Shop. He buys: Mid-grade personal inventory, Arctic Steel Sword, Pyromancy Robe, Magic Nullification Shield, a well sharpened sword, and ice crystals. - Armed with new items, ML charges through a horde of Skull demons that explode when they die. His shield shatters when he’s attacked by the giant Suruhtra, a lower class fire demon. - ML’s Monkey Eyes synchronise with the demon fire and evolve into Cinder Eyes (A-rank). Along with his robe, his Eyes enable ML to withstand and absorb Suruhta’s Fire of Annihilation. - After consuming the ice crystals to cool his body, ML uses his arcane power and the Arctic Steel Sword to take down Suruhta. - ML has accomplished an “inconceivable achievement” by defeating the annihilation of the 3rd tutorial. - From Suruhta’s corpse, ML retrieves the Giant’s Heart elixir (increases strength and mana to that of a giant). - The Tutorial Administrator appears and rewards ML with 10k points and the Heaven Slaying Star skill (A+ rank, all stats increase based on the opponents killed). ML spends 10k points at the Shop to get a Lesser Scarlet Medicine Ball (an elixir that raises magic and constitution stats by 1). - Elsewhere the 4th tutorial ends in a few hours. ML uses this time to rest, with his wounds and stamina recovering quickly. - 5th and Final Tutorial: United World (30 days) - Theme: Teams / Time - Participants from different worlds gather for the first time. - They’re on an island called Barraganda that’s slowly sinking. Kill the boss at the island’s peak to escape the island. - Hargaan, self proclaimed heir of Olympus, descendant of Zeus. He’s a pure blood, born and raised in the Tower and decided to climb it. His specialty is extreme brute force utilising electricity. - He approaches ML to join his team, but ML refuses. - ML finds a cave where he swallows the Giant’s Heart. For half a day ML endures the agonising pain as his body changes after he consumed the lifeblood of giants and demons. His stats slowly increase over time. Cinder Eyes helps him to cope with the Flames of the Giants from the fight within his body between the blood of human, giant and demon. He obtains Colossal Fire (B- rank) and Gigantification (like Hercules) after his body successfully absorbs the elixir in full. - CP Rankings: every action is converted into Contribution Points (CP). So far Hargaan leads the rankings by a lot. - ML (L57) climbs the rankings to overtake Hargaan and claim the top spot. - Hargaan’s team include: - Lee Sungyoon, outstanding mana control - Yolche, a pure blood from a mercenary family that use magic. - Elador and Paladinte, elf and dark elf mixed-blood siblings from Pantemium (a world where magic and swordsmanship are highly developed). - Ranker: a being who has completed all of the tests of the Tower and cleared all of the floors. They obtain power, glory and immortality. - Hargaan’s team arrive at a dungeon boss room and find ML has already killed the boss monster. He again rejects an offer to join Hargaan’s team. ML says his aim is to break through the ceiling at the top of the Tower. ML and Hargaan agree to bet on who defeats the final boss 1st and has the most CP at the end of the 5th tutorial. If Hargaan wins, ML must join his team. If ML wins, Hargaan must help ML once when called upon. - Barraganda is actually a mythical beast. The boss monster that ML killed was the Parasite Dragon which produced parasites to suck the strength from Barraganda. Time has stopped now that the Parasite Dragon is dead. Time will flow again when the system returns to its original state after the Lackeys or the Administrator intervene. - ML uses the time to grow stronger and level up. A few days later the Lackeys have fixed the problem and time flows again. - Many of the participants have gathered at the mountain to take on the final boss. ML goes first, followed by Hargaan’s team. They fight a large group of monsters. ML combines Colossal Fire with his Arcane Sword. - There is a massive sealed Chimera imprisoned inside a cavern. Whoever breaks the sealing crystal will break the seal and have control of the Chimera. ML breaks the crystal and orders the Chimera to smash through a wall. - There’s a passageway and ML enters until he reaches the room of Childe the Chimera Creator, the true final boss. - Childe the Dark Magician is an ex-ranker and ex-test examiner of the 50th floor of the Tower. He was exiled to the Tutorial for using players as test subjects to create his chimeras. While he lost most of his powers, he’s still a formidable opponent. - Childe animates many chimeras to attack Hargaan’s team. ML fights directly with Childe. ML uses Cinder Eyes and Gigantification to tear apart Childe’s body until he dies. The animated chimeras collapse now that their creator is dead. - ML tells Hargaan to forget about teaming up as where ML plans to go, it’s better for him to walk this path alone for now. He can’t guarantee the safety of anyone with him. - The Administrator appears and gives ML the reward for attaining the “impossible achievement” of defeating the Chimera Creator. It’s a Dark Divine Crystal (unrefined). It’s also known as a fragment of the Invisibility Helm used by Hades. - Odin is the greatest magic fighter that led the giant faction of Asgard. ML beats Odin’s record of a week to complete the 5th tutorial. ML gets 50k points for his new record of 5 days. - ML tops the CP rankings by a huge margin. - ML obtains more points and stats. He also receives a mysterious egg that might be related to the Outer Gods. - All of the participants are teleported to the 1st floor of the Tower. There are many guilds waiting to recruit new players. - Jackals: people who gave up on moving to the next floor. They commit crimes (kidnapping, robbery, murder, slavery) to collect points. They are secretly supported by Olympus under Ares. ML plans to eradicate the Jackals. - Player’s Kit: a basic item that is used by imbuing it with mana. Once you’re registered, your player number and info will pop up on the kit. It can be used to search the internet and communicate with other players. - At the next town, ML registers as a player. - ML commissions Vulcaro the blacksmith to refine the Dark Divine Crystal. Vulcaro uses the leftover crystal powder from the refining process to combine it with mithril to create a sword for ML. The refined, pure crystal becomes a beautiful gemstone. - Sir Agamemnon is a follower of Ares (son of Zeus and Hera) and a member of Olympus. He tries to scout ML to join Olympus under Ares. ML refuses to follow ‘deviant lowlifes.’ - Agamemnon orders the Jackals to kill ML. - Hargaan finds ML and agrees to join ML on a job. ML apprehends the King of the Jackals, Mu Wooncheon. He’s a player from the martial world who gave up climbing the tower. - ML pretends to be from Olympus and gets Wooncheon to gather all of the Jackals (1000+), with the false promise of a higher position in Olympus. ML unleashes Colossal Fire, then ML and Hargaan make sure everyone is killed. ML splits with Hargaan the collection money he received earlier from Wooncheon. - To make up for the eradication of the Jackals, Agamemnon is assigned a mission to “arrest a criminal. He leads an army (of 200+) to face Vulcaro who is actually Hephaestus the Olympus blacksmith and a ranker. Joining the army is Chryses, an Olympus high ranker under Apollo. - Hephaestus is temporarily turned to stone when Chryses uses Aegis, a replica shield with Medusa’s face created by Hephaestus. (The shield can only be used once a day) - ML arrives in time to stop Agamemnon from taking Hephaestus back to Olympus. ML was contacted earlier by Hephaestus to come pick up the refined crystal. - After ML decimates the soldiers, Chryses steps up to fight ML. One of Chryses’ attacks smashes ML through the wall of Hephaestus’ workshop. There ML picks up the crystal to use it’s dark power to fight Chryses. A final attack knocks out both Chryses and ML. The petrification wears off just in time for Hephaestus to save the unconscious ML from Agamemnon. - The 1st Floor Administrator suddenly appears and stops Hephaestus from killing Agamemnon. - ML wakes to find Hephaestus watching over him. Hephaestus realises ML already knew his true identity (ML knew from his past life). Olympus is now after ML for helping Hephaestus escape from them. ML recovers in hospital then hunts monsters to level up. - The new sword is finished and it is bound to ML after he names it, “Edge of Nightfall.” It’s a black sword specialised for the night and the dark. Hephaestus also used mithril to make an invisible glove for the crystal to be attached to. - Dark Divine Crystal: a fragment that holds the darkness of Genesis. It contains mana with an unending dark property. - It’s a catalyst that summons power. - Stealth, Hell Summon, increased dark mana resistance and amplification, and decreased dark mana consumption. - Edge of Nightfall: It can accumulate dark mana. - In darkness, it greatly increases stamina recovery, mana recovery and mana amplification. - Shuri, an elven warrior and the 1st floor test examiner. - Colosseum: 1st floor testing site to measure strength. - ML intends to surpass the most number of rounds completed, which is currently 19. ML reaches with unprecedented speed the 20th and final round. He faces the boss monster: the 8th head of the legendary Japanese dragon, Yamato no Orochi. He perseveres and defeats the dragon by using his Cinder Eyes to identify it's only weak spot then stabbing it in the heart. - ML is now L69, and his stats range from 60 to 79. - ML’s achievement of 20 rounds is recorded at the Colosseum. - This is the first time the top rank has changed in 1000yrs. - The rewards include a fragment of the legendary Japanese sword that sealed Yamato no Orochi, and Orochi’s 8th Heart that contains a powerful elixir once the poison is neutralised. - The egg suddenly reacts in hunger and devours the dragon’s corpse. Then it falls asleep. - ML progresses through the floors. - He sets a new record for completing the 9th floor test, by creating new paths in the labyrinth. - ML visits Hephaestus and picks up a new sword that’s highly resistant to mana. Then ML teleports to the 10th floor. - ML arrives at the martial realm, where players need to join a martial arts school and pass their test to clear this floor. - ML travels to the Heavenly Mountain and meets the Heavenly Demonic Cult. He passes their 1st trial by finding his own path to the Heavenly Demon, Cheon Mujin. Before the 2nd trial, ML is challenged to fight in a skills test by Cheon Jaryong, Black Tempest Squad Vice Leader. ML easily defeats Jaryong. ML is rewarded with a Crimson Blood Medicine Ball. - The 4 Heavenly Lords: Fist Lord (Pung Baeklim), Sword Lord (Shin Muguek), Spear Lord, Dao Lord. - For the 2nd trial in 3mths time, ML must dodge or block 3 techniques from the Fist Lord. ML spends the 1st mth locked in the training chamber as his body absorbs the mana from Orochi’s 8th Heart and increases his arcane power. ML uses medicinal herbs supplied by the sect to neutralise the poison. - For the 2nd mth, ML spends time in the martial arts library of the sect. He researches for a way to deal with the Fist Lord. - For the last month, ML returns to the training chamber. - The Fist Lord spent the last 3 mths training in seclusion. - The day of the 2nd trial arrives and is held at the sect training grounds. ML dodges the first 2 techniques and blocks the 3rd technique. They agree to extend the trial and continue fighting. - ML surprises the Fist Lord with his basic Heavenly Demon’s Spirit skill. ML learnt about this from the library. - The Fist Lord concedes defeat when ML finds an opening and slashes the Fist Lord’s chest. - After a day to rest, ML is summoned by the Heavenly Demon for the 3rd and final trial. He is taken to the Heavenly Demon’s Cave where the Divine Flame is. The cult exists to protect this flame and find it’s owner. ML must enter and endure the Divine Flame until it acknowledges him. He senses the flame is related to the Outer Gods. The flame grows by consuming fear. ML says he’s come to destroy the flame’s kind. ML survives and is accepted by the Divine Flame as it’s owner. - ML passes the last trial. He obtains the nickname “Heavenly Demonic Cult’s Vice Lord.” - His Colossal Fire Skill is replaced by the Divine Flame skill. It’s a fire that grows by consuming the opponent’s emotions. - The Heavenly Demon is now free to leave the mountain but is comfortable staying where he is. While ML won’t join the Heavenly Demonic Cult, he’ll return for the Murim Great War. - At the 11th floor, ML buys adamantium. - With a week before the test starts, ML goes to the 11th floor dungeon called Agrea’s Maze. He clears the dungeon after killing the boss monster, Spider Queen Agrea. He obtains Agrea’s Thread. - The 11th floor test examiner is Hypnos, an Olympus ranker. - The test location is the Dark Forest. The test consists of 2 teams competing to capture as many flags as possible while fighting monsters or eachother. The team with the most flags after 24hrs wins. Each team is randomly assigned a “king.” The number of flags the king holds is counted as double. - Olympus wants to kill ML and have set up an obvious trap. - The team members are supposed to be random, but ML’s team (A) has all of the weak players while the other team (B) consists of the strong, talented and well-known players. - Most of the players in team (A) forfeit before the test starts. - There are 51 players in team (A) and 200 players in team (B). - Halliman, a player who has already failed the 11th floor test 3 times. He’s in ML’s team and is the king. - ML kills the enemy players who attack Halliman. He lets other players go after they give up their flags. ML leaves his Heavenly Demon’s Spirit to protect Halliman. - Namgung Hoon is considered a genius player. He’s skilled in the Emperor’s Sword Form of his noble family. His father is an executive of the Murim guild. - Roel is nicknamed “Angel” for her rare healing skills and divine power. She’s from the Zion guild. - The other team use the Heaven and Earth Net on ML and Halliman. It’s a martial arts technique for an enclosure formation that completely surrounds your enemy. - ML faces Hoon who tells ML to forfeit. When ML refuses, Hoon challenges ML to a 1-on-1 fight. After a while ML activates his Divine Flame. Hoon realises ML was the one who cleared the 11th floor dungeon. Hoon took a party into the dungeon and found the burnt corpse of the boss monster. - Hoon decides to retreat with his men. He doesn’t want to needlessly waste their lives facing ML. Roel buffs the remaining players who attack ML. When they see ML easily shatter Roel’s Sword of Execution skill, they also decide to retreat. ML makes them hand over their flags first. - Roel tries to recruit ML to her guild but he refuses. - ML intends to grow stronger on his own and become the centre that everyone in the Tower rallies around. - Guilds and teams become corrupt through pride, greed and distrust. That’s why ML won’t accept any help from them. - ML calls out to Hypnos who has been secretly observing. - Hypnos assigned himself as the king of the other team. - As they fight, ML injures Hypnos. They stop when the Administrator appears. Hypnos tries to take all the blame for interfering in the test. His position as test examiner is revoked. All of Olympus’ authority on the 11th floor is taken away. - Hoon witnessed what happened with Hypnos and the Administrator. He realises the test was rigged by Olympus. - ML intends to fight Olympus until he drags down Zeus. - ML gives the flags to Halliman to complete the test. - ML is at the top of the CP rankings for the 11th floor, far above Zeus, Hercules and Odin. The Administrator gave 10k extra CP to ML as a reward. - The Namgung family: - The largest group besides the Heavenly Demonic Cult. - The central body that leads the Murim guild. - Namgung Jinwoon, head of the Namgung family. - 19th floor test: hit 100 targets within 1hr. - ML destroys 1000 targets in less than an hour. - He wants to increase his arcane power before continuing to climb up the Tower. - Great Scarlet medicine ball: - An elixir that greatly increases arcane power is made once every 3yrs by the Shaolin Temple in the martial realm. - The Murim Grand Competition is on the 10th floor. It’s a grand martial arts tournament with the Great Scarlet medicine ball as the prize. Many guilds come to scout the competitors. - ML turns away all of the guilds that approach him. - Hargaan visits ML who takes him to meet Hephaestus. - The war between Olympus and the giant race is why Hephaestus stopped making weapons for Olympus. It was devastating to see his weapons being used against his friends, the giants. Olympus is planning another war against the remaining giants and wants Hephaestus to make weapons again. - Hargaan intends to ask Apollo and Artemis about the war. - Hephaestus made a new glove for the crystal using adamantine from ML. He named the glove “Kynee.” - When ML puts on the glove, it wakes up the egg and the hatching of the egg progresses considerably. - ML easily wins his preliminary round of the competition. - The Zhuge clan has ties with Olympus. They set up the final round to be a battle royale instead of 1-on-1 fights. Most of the clans agree to target ML only. Hoon overheard their plan and warns ML to be careful in the main arena. - ML defeats most of the fighters with Hargaan supporting him. - ML and Hargaan are the last ones left and they have an epic fight. ML used the mana resistant sword to hide his arcane power from Hargaan. ML defeats Hargaan with a knock out punch and wins the competition.

Ch 41 as of 03/09/22 - ML was Kim Sung In. The year was 2042. - He died as the last and strongest human against Fafnir. - ML is reborn as Kim Su Hyun, a weak high school student who was bullied. The year is 2022. - ML retains his memories and experiences from his past life. - On the way home, he and his mother are attacked by a pair of mutant wolves. His mother protects him. ML scares off the wolves when he emits a powerful aura of killing intent. - The gate to the Tower of Trials (the Abyss) opens for ML. - It’s the start of his journey as an Awakener, ie those who have special abilities to fight against monsters. - ML chose the highest level of difficulty, L10. He understands the higher the risk, the higher his reward will be. He wants to change the outcome of this life as he only managed up to L8 in his past life. - Dungeons and the Tower of Trials first appeared in 2019. - Since then, the rewards and aether stones that can be obtained from dungeons have become valuable resources. This has significantly impacted the world economy. - The Awakeners are the new rich and powerful class. - Outbreaks: when monsters break free from the dungeons and appear in the real world. - For now, the number of outbreaks is manageable. In 2028, a disaster will occur that will bring about the end of the world. - The Tower of Trials consists of many floors. - Each floor has its own climate, environment and culture. - To go to the next floor, one must pass a trial. - With the help of his past combat experience, ML passed the 1st floor trial. He received increased stats and enough achievement points to instantly take the top spot in the Tower rankings. - On the 2nd floor, ML buys skills and items with his points. - Bellie, a dark elf and skill merchant. - Leap skill: the height and number of leaps depends on one’s mastery of this skill. - Transformation skill: a rare growth-type skill. You can copy the abilities of a specified target. - Items: pocket dimension pouch, sword, spear, medicine, food, low grade mana catalyst potion. - Choi Hak Jun, a genius Awakener who was the main culprit behind the mass murder of the Ares guild in ML’s past life. - The mission to pass the 2nd floor trial is to run away with the treasure of the Charle tribe and survive in the forest. - Rather than run away, ML hunts the Charle tribe of lizardmen until he kills the tribe chief to pass the trial. - The treasure of the Charle tribe is a crystal pendant with a special ability: recover from all abnormal states and injuries (up to 5 uses). - ML receives increased stats and even more achievement points to maintain his top ranking. His name is in the public spotlight as a result but no one knows what he looks like. - It takes ML a year to progress through the floors until he reaches the 10th floor. Every 10 floors in the Tower, the trial increases in difficulty considerably. ML will continue to choose L10 difficulty to grow stronger before the massive outbreaks occur in a year’s time. - ML gives 5k points to the gatekeeper of the 10th floor trial. - ML received the hint to be careful of the village mayor for the trial with L10 difficulty. The mission is to save the village from danger and to survive. The NPC villagers are wary and hostile to strangers. ML saved a child from a monster near the village and finds out the villagers consider the mayor a hero for keeping the monsters out of the village. - The mayor approaches ML. After ML offers to share his large quantity of food with the villagers, the mayor allows him to stay. - ML sees human sacrifices are being offered to an “earth god” to keep the village safe. The god is actually a monster serpent that made its nest underneath the village. The presence of the serpent keeps the other weaker monsters away. - ML pretends to be drugged and is given as the next sacrifice to the serpent. Later the mayor visits the nest to find ML has killed the serpent. ML knows this monster won’t attack the one who feeds it which is why the mayor could approach it. - ML presents the serpent’s head to the villagers and explains what the mayor had done. He proposes the villagers take the serpent’s eggs and raise the baby serpents by feeding other monsters to them. These serpents won’t attack the villagers while keeping other monsters away. - The villagers agree to learn how to fight from ML after the child he saved is the first to volunteer. The villagers gradually regain their confidence under ML’s guidance. Suddenly a divine blue phoenix appears. The mayor released it after keeping it drugged and he’s the first one to die by it’s blue flames. - ML stops the phoenix from attacking the village and kills it. He uses the crystal pendant to recover when he’s consumed by the blue flames. ML successfully completes his mission and passes the trial, still ranked in 1st position. ML is called a saviour by the villagers. - Holy Flame skill: a growth-type skill. A holy flame that burns evil. - Awakening Certification Agency (ACA): - A government-run agency that officially ranks Awakeners. - An Awakener may enter and earn money from dungeons after receiving an official rank evaluation from the agency. - You receive an Awakened Registration ID card. - Scouts from guilds tend to observe the evaluations. - Jeong Dong Yeong, Ares guild master, A-rank and a former gangster. Ares guild is rumoured to be involved in moneylending, human trafficking and drug smuggling. - Choi Hak Jun receives his first evaluation after reaching the 15th floor. He’s given B rank. ML controlled his mana to manipulate the measuring device. He’s given C rank. - Awakened Management Institute (AMI): - All Awakened must be certified to participate in a dungeon raid. - Dungeon difficulty is based on the colours of the rainbow. Violet / purple is the most difficult. For yellow and above, you must pass a trial to clear the dungeon. - Lee Ju Ho, B rank and team leader - Kim Ba Reum, vice team leader - ML joins a party of 6 for his first dungeon raid. ML knows from his past life that someone in the party kills the other members in the dungeon. He plans to uncover the murderer and save everyone. - The party enter the dungeon to find it's at least yellow when it was supposed to be an orange dungeon. ML kills the giant cyclops monster while the rest of the party deal with the smaller monsters. - The party enter a large chamber and are given 2 options for the dungeon trial. They choose the option to confront and fight for 30mins the monsters that come through the entry door. - Someone opened the exit door which cancels out the option they chose and leaves them with the other option, which is to run away from summoned monsters for 30mins. - In a plan made with ML earlier, Lee Ju Ho closes the exit door as he and the other members run away. ML stays behind with the healer who is actually an assassin from the Dump guild. - ML figured out she was the murderer from clues earlier. She ends up dying from the summoned monsters. To buy time for the rest of the party, ML faces the monsters that are now stronger and in greater number than before. - The Dump guild, an evil organisation that later contributed to the fall of humanity and the end of days. Their members are promoted depending on the crimes they commit. - Lee Ju Ho turns back to help ML and sees ML destroy the monsters with the holy flame. The final boss monster appears, a lich. The dead monsters are resurrected by the lich. ML leaves Lee Ju Ho to handle the undead monsters while ML faces the lich. - ML and Lee Ju Ho combine their skills and attacks to defeat the lich, destroying the life stone that is it’s life source. - Lee Kyung Jong, general manager, aether stone auction house. - ML sold the aether stones from the dungeon. He included the life stone, which is an advanced aether stone. - ML returns home to find his mother has an injury on her face. She works at a restaurant and was injured by drunk customers who were fighting. ML reveals he’s an Awakener to his mother and convinces her to quit her job after showing her how much he’s earned. - Kim Dae Ho, master blacksmith and weapon craftsman. - ML regrets not being able to protect Dae Ho in his past life. - When ML was under enormous pressure as a famous hero, Dae Ho gave his greatest masterpiece, Balmung the Holy Sword to ML. Dae Ho gave it to ML with no expectations of anything in return. - ML visits Dae Ho and gives him a high grade aether stone to use in creating a new sword for him. - ML asks Lee Ju Ho for help with finding a new place to live; any info on the Dump guild; and to help him with the massive outbreak from a green dungeon on Xmas Eve. - ML returns to the Tower and continues to progress through the floors, achieving new records as he goes. Still keeping a low profile, he refuses all attempts by the guilds to recruit him. - On the 19th floor ML discovers an underground space after destroying a nest of mutant rats. ML faces a snake monster that can regenerate and has strong resistance to magic and physical attacks. He can now summon a phoenix with his holy flame skill and the phoenix destroys the snake. - ML opens a store for his mother (tbc). - Lee Ju Ho gives an expensive red sports car to ML. - ML picks up his new sword from Dae Ho. ML names it “Gram” the dragon slaying sword, (and the alternate name for Balmung the god slaying sword). - At the 20th floor, ML pays 100k points to the gatekeeper for info on the L10 difficulty. ML is told to try not to kill anyone (ie avoid any unnecessary battles) and to always be mindful of his objective. - The mission is to conquer the Grandalum kingdom’s castle, discover it's secret, and survive. The time limit is 1mth. - The Oldram kingdom have declared war on Grandalum. - Attache, a retainer of the Grandalum royal family and the Commander-in-Chief. He orders to defend the castle at all costs. - Commander Maxman, a war hero after his defeat of the Oldram kingdom invasion 20yrs ago. He seems unaware that his soldiers’ expectations of him can also be shackles that bind him. - After ML is refused entry into the castle, he destroys the gates with his new sword. He faces Maxman and strikes a huge blow in the ground. They suddenly disappear in the debris. - Shadow assimilation skill: the ability to move from shadow to shadow. Mainly used as a dark attribute skill by assassins. - ML and Maxman reappear from a shadow in the dungeon of the castle. ML convinces Maxman that he’s not an enemy. - They reach an underground prison abandoned 100yrs ago. - ML uncovers Attaché is actually a lich. He’s a much more powerful lich than the one ML defeated in his first dungeon. - While ML fights Attaché, 2 more liches appear. ML realises they are using the soldiers as sacrifices to summon the lich king. The liches admit that they killed the Grandalum king and disguised themselves as royal retainers. - ML and Maxman are surrounded by a dark space created by the liches. Maxman breaks the space apart as he is a Holy Knight. - ML summons the phoenix and fights the liches. He gets Maxman to protect the soldiers. ML defeats one lich by destroying it's life stone. ML copied the Holy Blade skill from Maxman and defeats a 2nd lich. Maxman uses his ultimate skill, Sanctuary Barrier to protect all the soldiers from the black magic cast by the 3rd lich. - ML destroys the life stone of the 3rd lich and the undead that it summoned all disappear. ML has passed the trial. - ML’s stats increase. He receives a new skill … - ML spends a month locked away in a room on the 21st floor after consuming the highest tier mana catalyst. He trained himself to take in the ambient mana around him. - Lee Ju Ho helps ML by sharing an anonymous post online a week before Xmas Eve. It warns about a terrorist attack by the Dump guild in Anyang on Xmas Eve. This post was necessary to make the citizens evacuate after the AMI refused to believe ML’s warning about an outbreak in Anyang. - Song Kyungtae, AMI Director - Kim Doeui, A-rank Awakener and AMI Assoc. Director - On Xmas Eve, ML wears a mask and creates pretend flames to make it look like Anyang is burning under a terrorist attack. He knows the AMI will send Awakeners to apprehend ML who they think is the terrorist. ML wants to evaluate the available AMI Awakeners and ensure Awakener reinforcements are sent to the area in time for the outbreak. - AMI Special Forces team known as “ACT” - Park Yoongyu, S-rank Awakener and ACT leader - Kang Seungcheol, A-rank and ACT vice leader

Ch 43 as of 06/09/22 ** Also on Tapas as “Demon Devourer” ** action scenes are sometimes confusing, art is ok - ML is Elric Melvinger. He and his older sister Heize are the only ones left from a once prestigious magic family and lineage. - Their parents died when ML was 8yo. - Most of the family were sacrificed in the Great Demon War. Eradicating demons was the duty of the Melvinger ducal family. - ML and his sister were betrayed and abandoned by the vassals of the Melvinger family, the Magic Tower, and the imperial family. While there are those who try to bully and humiliate ML, he’s no pushover. ML is known as the Mad Dog of the Melvinger family. - Sean Nerester, 3rd son of the Nerester family. - He’s an assistant professor at the Academy and ML’s friend. - After the fall of the Melvinger family, the Magic Tower has been led by the top 6 families of the Empire known as the Hexagram. The Nerester family is one of those families. - The Empire is ruled by 4 forces. - Great Lion Family / Domus Leonis: martial arts, swordsmanship - Protestant Alliance / Societas Fidei: religious force - Inspection Bureau / Oculus: intelligence, shadow work - Magic Tower / Turrium - ML is attending the Usdon Academy, the greatest magic school in the country. It was established by his grandfather, Usdon Melvinger. While ML has excellent grades in his theory subjects, he fails to pass and graduate due to his blockage disease. It’s a rare condition that restricts the flow of mana in his body. Because of this disease, he can’t use magic. ML can detect and interpret mana. - ML wants to cure his disease and restore the glory of his House. - ML makes a bet with Dean Barracks of the elemental magic dept at the Academy (7th-circle archmage and a pompous prick). It’s over a dragon nest location that the professors are researching. - If ML loses, the Dean wants the magic pendant that ML is always wearing. It’s a Melvinger family heirloom. If ML wins, he won’t be expelled from the Academy. ML leads an expedition team provided by the Dean that includes Sean. - ML finds the entrance to the dragon’s nest. He uses his intellect to disable the initial traps. After ML opens the doors, they enter the nest and explore the treasure inside. Some team members are under the Dean’s orders to kill ML. They’re interrupted first by the undead dragon, then by the spartoi. Somehow ML’s pendant gives him the ability to predict the movements of the spartoi. ML leads the team to safety in the area past the doors. - ML remains inside the nest and lets the doors close behind him. He uses an artifact to blast the spartoi away with fire. He makes his way to the head of the dragon and pulls out the lance. - ML unknowingly releases Mephistopheles the demon king who killed the dragon with the lance. Mephisto was sealed with the dragon for 1000yrs. Mephisto tries to possess ML’s body and soul as his new vessel. Instead the magic pendant devours Mephisto. - ML wakes up in hospital after he is rescued by Sean. - Sean has men from his family guard the dragon nest for ML. - Somehow ML has a dragon heart and can use dragon magic? ML’s heart is filled with both dragon and demon mana. - Mephisto appears to ML as an evil spirit, with just a fraction of his demonic energy and existence. - Tasha Nerester, the Firebird Witch. Sean’s older sister. - She’s the youngest in history to become a 7th-circle mage. - She’s known as 1 of the 3 new stars who will lead the Empire. - Sean covers for ML at the hospital, while ML trains his magic. He joins a group going to the Yeti highlands. ML is looking for one of the safehouses that holds his family’s legacy. The group is attacked by yetis. ML defeats the yetis and he makes one yeti take him to the yeti village. ML meets the yeti chief who shows ML the safehouse after learning his surname is Melvinger. ML’s ancestor was friends with the yeti king. - The safehouse looks like an ordinary wooden hut on the outside. ML uses the pendant as a key and enters a luxurious and spacious library. ML is teleported to a field and meets his ancestor Otto Han Melvinger, the Winter Sage. ML is taken to a snowy landscape. His first assignment is to swallow the demon that was once the Ice Mountain King, the first and last king of the yetis. - ML must swallow demons and extort their seals which are the root of their existence. A seal or “true name” is the heart where the evil desire of a demon lies. Mephisto’s seal is the seal of original sin. When ML swallows a demon, he takes on their abilities. - ML fights the Ice Mountain King and dies many times. He finally defeats her (the king was a woman) when he truly understands and becomes her. He swallows her and obtains her seal of cruelty. - ML’s next assignment is to take an ice crystal egg to the god of camellias and “perfect the winter.” - The Blue Lion Vile family, 1 of 7 Lion families (?) - Isabelle Vile, an only child with no talent for the sword. - Herman Vile, Isabelle’s father who developed reflux disease. She is looking for magic artifacts that might cure him. She hears about the Ice Mountain King’s grave and goes to look for it. Her uncle Paul Vile sends assassins called the Blue Wolves to kill her. - The assassins massacre the yetis in the village. Isabelle runs away. - Before Isabelle is killed, ML arrives and wipes out the assassins with his magic. Isabelle hires ML to escort her to the capital. - The elite Blue Wolves are sent to kill Isabelle. To safely enter Lacente city, ML uses illusion magic to get past the assassins. - Mages use magic by creating mana circles in their hearts. - Mage ranks: magus (6th-circle) - archmage (7th) - sage (8th) - Warriors and martial artists use aura to strengthen their bodies. - Warrior ranks: user (1st-chain) - advanced (2nd) - expert (3rd) - master (4th) - superior (5th) - The Golden Lion is the only 6th-chain warrior in history. He’s considered the strongest on the continent. - ML has been away for a month and Sean is still covering for him. The Dean has taken credit for discovering the dragon nest. He is using the press and academic circles to pressure Sean to hand over the excavation rights for the nest. - The Blue Wolves cause a massive explosion in Lacente and fire erupts everywhere. ML puts out the fire with ice magic. - With Isabelle’s help, ML wipes out the elite Blue Wolves. - Isabelle gets the last surviving Blue Wolf to tell Paul that he will never be the next Blue Lion. - ML gives Isabelle a copy of his thesis on how to cure blockage disease, which is similar to reflux disease. ML came up with a treatment after researching his own body. It will benefit ML to have a strong ally like the Blue Lion Vile family by his side. - ML and Isabelle help the Lacente citizens to rebuild and recover. - Isabelle goes to treat her father and gather supporters. - ML continues to the capital and finds Isabelle spread rumours about a young mage who is the hero of Lacente and her saviour. - The Usdon Academy headmaster is a powerful and influential position. At the headmaster election, Dean Barracks is a candidate. - ML interrupts the election at the last minute. He has a recording as proof of Barracks’ attempt to kill ML and Barracks’ zero involvement in discovering the dragon nest. - Barracks attacks ML with lightning. ML protects everyone with his ice magic. Tasha summons her phoenix and stops Barracks. - Barracks is arrested for attempted murder and he’s banished from academia. ML gives the excavation rights to Sean’s family. - Guy Nerester, Sean’s father and a 9th-circle sage. - While the Nerester family didn’t contribute to the fall of the Melvingers, they couldn’t help due to political reasons. - ML is invited to the Nerester family residence. He’s tested by Sean’s great uncle, Augustine Nerester, in a magic fog labyrinth but ML finds his way out in record time. - Guy pledges his full support to the Melvingers. - Augustine wants ML to be his first ever disciple. ML is kidnapped by Augustine. ML’s mana is sealed and ML is tested again. - Augustine says he’s the head of a magic martial arts school called Grassland. It’s separate from the Neresters. - It’s the art of fighting by using mana circulation to strengthen your body. It specialises in harmonising various forms of magic. - Gility Tenz the Beast King - He’s a former executive of the Revolutionary Army. - The Revolutionary Army is a notorious terrorist group that exist to free the continent from the Emperor’s tyranny. - Isabelle’s father Herman wakes up from his coma. - He goes to see ML. Paul sends Hilton, his strongest Blue Wolves captain, to stop Herman.

Ch 326 as of 25/05/22 - also on Tapas ** the plot is a bit sloppy and repetitive ** the sad attempts at a romance harem are also stupid - ML is Seo Joo Heon - 38yo ML and his tomb raiding team were sent on an impossible and deadly mission. It was a trap devised to get rid of them as their exceptional skills now made them a threat to their boss, CEO Kwon Tae Joon. Just before ML dies, a crow relic sends him back in time to 2025. ML was 23yo and had yet to become a tomb raider. - From 2025, tombs suddenly appeared all over the world. The tombs contain relics that have the power to grant various abilities to their users. Normally a relic is granted after the tomb filled with traps is successfully navigated and the relic trial is completed. A mutual relationship is formed between the relic and the user. - Relics fall into 2 broad categories: expendable and possession. - Expendable relics can be used by anyone but they have a limit on the number of uses. Possession relics have unlimited usage but can only be used by their owner. A tattoo that appears on the user’s body is a type of possession relic. - Relics have always held a deep hatred for humans by design, and their aim is to harm humans. Talents are needed to utilise the relics. - The 3 main talent or trait groups are: Sociability, Dominance and Compatibility. While sociability is the easiest, it exposes the user to the relic’s poisonous aura. Over time this leads to a painful and debilitating illness called relic syndrome. - Kwon Tae Joon. CEO of the TKBM Group, a large corporation. - Yoon Si Woo, RH man of CEO Kwon. - Lee Jin Ah, exclusive lawyer of TKBM. - Detective Kim Geon Woo. He took in the orphan ML and treated ML like his own brother. - ML reports his former bosses of an art gallery to Detective Kim. They were smuggling and distributing drugs hidden in artworks. ML receives the reward money. He also took a relic from one of the bosses, an Egyptian funeral knife (C rank). - Linda Walker, US CIA agent - Abe Kiyoshi, Japanese excavation team member - A tomb appeared in the area where ML’s unit was. - ML deciphers the tomb glyphs to locate an alternative entrance to the tomb. He asserts his dominance over the tomb relic and forces it into submission. ML obtains the golden and silver axes. - ML uses the relics to close the tomb and it disappears. - A tomb filled with broken weapons appears. It contains the Japanese katana relic, Muramasa. - Relics don’t allow modern weapons to work in tombs. When Abe tries to shoot ML, his gun explodes. ML stole a rope bracelet and a mochi (charm, teleport) relic from Abe. - ML saved civilians who were lured into a sacrificial trap by Abe. - ML locates Muramasa by using the golden axe. ML asserts his dominance over Muramasa. ML leaves Abe behind to die in the closing tomb, after ML heard TKBM sponsors the Japanese team. - Tomb Raider’s 4 basic skills: - Spy, Linguistic, Tomb excavation, and Nimble fingers. - ML receives his reward for obtaining the tomb raider’s 4 basic skills. He chooses the path of dominance. He swallows a silver pill that heals his arm which was injured when Muramasa resisted his dominance. ML gains a new Tolerance (immunity) skill. - Prince Shotoku’s Future Guide (S rank): Sasaki Yuka, a high school girl. Only she as the owner can use this prophetic relic. - ML is referred to as “the person who will swallow the world.” - ML travels to Japan after sensing the future guide is being used on him. At a restaurant, Sasaki pretends to be a waitress and serves ML. She needed to mark him for the future guide by making eye contact. She falls for his good looks. - ML pretends to take Sasaki on a date. He makes her summon the future guide. After she’s copied everything from the guide, ML destroys it with Muramasa. - Oh Seung Woo and his 2 friends. These guys used to work with ML at the art gallery. ML uses them as his subordinates. - Midas: the world’s largest secret auction house in Las Vegas. - ML arrives in Las Vegas before the auction. He uses the golden axe to win big on the slot machines. The golden axe can detect wealth and valuables. ML disguised it as a pocket knife. - The silver axe can detect and mark enemies to its owner’s relics. It can also destroy an enemy’s belongings. - Irene Hilton, daughter of an extremely wealthy family. - She has a god tier relic, the strongest level of all relics. - Her relic causes extreme misfortune for those around her. - In ML’s past life, Irene became the god of failure who financially destroyed countless people and wrecked havoc in many countries. Her personality was twisted after the death of her family. - Irene heard about ML’s luck at the casinos. She wanted to know how to improve her luck so those around her could be happy. - The ominous aura from Irene’s relic helps to increase ML’s tolerance. ML agrees to help Irene with her luck. - ML and Irene attend the Midas auction. ML used Irene’s ability to affect the other attendees. The relics ML bought were: the Code of Hammurabi, Shakespeare’s pen, and Marie Antoinette’s necklace. - With Irene’s financial backing, ML outbid CEO Kwon for the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s elixir plant. It’s a god tier relic and an extremely valuable healing type. CEO Kwon had this relic in ML’s past life. When ML became sick from exposure to relics, CEO Kwon exploited ML by making him work in exchange for the medicinal fruits of this plant. - ML catches Oh Seung Woo and the other 2 trying to run away with his money. ML binds them to a slave contract using the Code of Hammurabi. He makes them take care of the elixir plant. - CEO Kwon calls ML who hangs up on him. ML lets himself be found by Yoon Si Woo. ML provokes Yoon into losing his temper which decreases his control over his relic. ML takes the Voodoo priest’s zombie power (A rank) and uses it on Yoon instead. ML also takes the foxtail millet and Homer’s glasses from Yoon. - At the Las Vegas airport, Lee Jin Ah approaches ML. - She threatens his life when he rejects the job offer from TKBM. He threatens her with the zombie powder. - ML uses the silver axe to destroy most of the relics on her. - He picks up the Paris Montmartre painter’s ink (B rank). - CEO Kwon approaches ML next. - ML steals the Lonely God’s invitation (SS rank, god tier) - CEO Kwon has the Conqueror’s relic, a parasitic relic located somewhere on his body. It’s a powerful domination relic that controls the minds of others to make them completely obedient. - The crow relic warns CEO Kwon not to unleash his Conqueror’s relic. CEO Kwon ignores the crow and the disturbance caused from his relic awakens the Great Catastrophe. They end up in the centre of a giant tomb, with similar tombs appearing across the world. - Set, Anubis and Osiris: ancient Egyptian, god tier relics - Anubis’ trial: the Scale of Judgement - The undead emerge and attack ML. The crow relic saved him. - ML locates the true forms of the relics: Set’s pile, Osiris’ hourglass, and Anubis’ ankh cross. He closes the giant tombs after forcing Anubis to let ML pass the trial. - The Body of Achilles dipped in the Styx River: a powerful defence relic that makes CEO Kwon almost immortal. - After trying to kill ML, CEO Kwon tries to recruit ML again. - ML attacks CEO Kwon with Muramasa until he breaks it. ML also uses the Code of Hammurabi to reflect the impact back at CEO Kwon when his Conqueror’s relic activated. CEO Kwon collapses after his body sustains massive damage. - Yoojaeha, a relic restoration expert. He was known as the Fraud King and was on ML’s tomb raiding team in ML’s past life. - ML asks Irene for help in looking for Yoojaeha. Irene recognises him as the scammer who recently sold a fake artwork to her brother. He sold copies of the same artwork to many others. - Yoojaeha faked his death to hide after pulling this scam. - Edward, a weapons and information dealer later known as the god / king of wealth. He was a big investor in relics and acted as the middleman between relic users in the market. - Yoojaeha is contacted by Edward with a job offer to restore relics from CEO Kwon. Meanwhile ML arrives at the office address provided by Irene. ML meets Yoon Minhyi, Yoojaeha’s assistant. ML has a bag full of his relics that need restoration. - Yoojaeha uses his “Secret Signature” relic (B rank, rare esper type) to make perfect copies of ML’s relics. The counterfeits disappear after 12hrs. Yoon Minhyi returns the relics to ML, claiming they’re too damaged to be repaired. ML knows the relics are fakes and finds Yoojaeha in the back room. - ML wants Yoojaeha to sign a contract to be ML’s exclusive relic repairman. ML offers to restore Yoojaeha’s reputation and return his art style to him that was stolen by Richard, who became famous with that style. Yoojaeha was an art student and Richard was his tutor. - ML lets Yoojaeha meet with CEO Kwon to see if the offer will be matched. Richard and CEO Kwon are close associates. ML arrives to save Yoojaeha when CEO Kwon tries to kidnap him. - The Brush of the Joseon Palace Flower Garden: a repair relic (B rank). ML uses this relic to prove speed repairing is possible. - ML obtains a new skill, Tomb restoration. - Keira Clark, a US army general known as the god of war. - In ML’s past life, Keira monopolised all of the map relics. - Edward offers a job to ML from Keira to steal the relic from a tomb in China. Irene takes ML and Yoojaeha to Macau in her private jet. - ML tells Irene that because her tattoo relic is the parasitic type, it can’t be extracted from her body. It’s better for her to learn how to manipulate and use her relic. ML will teach her about dominance while Yoojaeha will teach her about sociability to control her relic. - On the ship heading for the tomb, ML catches a young girl stealing relics from those on board. She’s Vivian Lucy and uses the medusa relic. ML learns from her that the US excavation team are also there. He takes all of the relics from her then lets her go. - ML and Yoojaeha infiltrate the Chinese fleet. - The Chinese relic sends sea monsters to attack the fleet. - ML learns from the Chinese relic about the crow. - The crow was a well respected divine relic. She can devour her enemies and take their powers as her own. She betrayed the relics and signed a contract with a human. She devoured many relics and either took their powers or made them slaves to the human. The crow was abandoned by the human who was fooled by the other relics. She was imprisoned and sealed away, while the human was killed. The tomb ML entered before he died was the crow’s prison. - Sword of the Flower Knight / Hwarang relic (A rank) - ML obtains this sword from the US team who are in pursuit. - With a smaller boat, ML locates the Chinese relic under a large tree. ML uses the sword to chop down the tree. - Zheng He’s treasure map of the west relic (A rank) - The map is used to identify locations related to Irene’s relic. - ML gives a fake map to Edward who gives it to Keira. - Edward is furious when the fake map disappears. The UK PM was meeting with Keira at the time and disappeared with the map. - ML has Edward contact Keira. ML offers to help find the UK PM by using the hidden powers of Keira’s map relics. Keira arranged to meet at a hotel. - ML writes tomb glyphs on the maps using Shakespeare’s pen. ML pretends this is a spell when he’s already located the PM earlier with Zheng He’s map. The PM is in the Sahara desert. What ML wrote with the pen makes the hotel staff throw a small bomb into the room. The US agents are compelled to rip up the map relics. - In the confusion, Yoojaeha used the painter’s ink to draw a fountain. As an escape relic, ML and Yoojaeha are teleported to the actual fountain outside. - ML, Yoojaeha and Irene fly to Turkey to find help with Irene’s relic. They go to a tomb that’s guarded by US special forces and Turkey soldiers. ML creates an alternative entry to the tomb by using a low level relic as a bomb with his tomb excavation skill. - ML leads the soldiers that followed them into a trap room. - The Hand of Midas relic: it was split in half to become the Golden Hand and the Failure Hand. Irene bathes in the lake to try to remove her relic, the Failure Hand. This woke up the Golden Hand which tries to kill Irene to reclaim its other half. - ML dives in and instructs Irene to assert her dominance over the Golden Hand. The tattoo on her body changes and the contract is complete. The Golden Hand will now balance the power of the Failure Hand. Irene now has control over her relic. - Sekhmet, Egyptian goddess of destruction relic: it allows the user to destroy a target anywhere. The risk / penalty is the user changes form. This is because Sekhmet is also known as Hathor, Egyptian goddess of love. Keira uses the Sekhmet relic to destroy the Turkish tomb and she changes into a baby. ML uses his tomb restoration skill and escapes with Irene and Yoojaeha. - Pandora: a global organisation with members who collect relics. They created new laws to monopolise relics and limit the usage of relics in society. - The inauguration ceremony of Pandora as the international tomb management body is held. All tombs and relics will now be managed by Pandora, for the protection and safety of humanity. No one else may enter tombs or own relics. Anyone resisting this new law will be seen as a terrorist and severely punished. - ML is invited to meet the Hiltons after they’re told about Irene’s condition. ML, Yoojaeha and Irene fly to NY. They’re met at the airport by Pandora. ML supports Irene to use the power of her relic to destroy the guns and other relics. She causes an explosion which is blamed on Pandora in the media. The risk for Irene using her relic is inner greed. She’ll show a strong desire to get what she wants. This time she desired ML’s smell. - At the Hilton residence, Irene’s brother is there and he tries to kill Yoojaeha. He seems to be prejudiced against relics. - ML senses something is wrong and enters the mansion to find Irene’s parents are in the late stages of relic syndrome. Someone rapidly progressed the disease in a short period of time. - ML offers to help cure Irene’s parents. - Relic of Xufu: it controls children and is an exploitation relic that only cares about wealth. It’s also the key to awakening the elixir plant into a true healing relic. - ML finds Edward who is disguised as a homeless man as he’s hiding from Keira. In exchange for info on the relic of Xufu, ML offers to make Edward his business partner in a new company. Edward says he sold the relic to Keira. It’s located in Ghana. - In Ghana, ML finds a tomb that has an undergound tea plantation. This tomb was created by Shennong’s relic. Keira is using Xufu’s relic to control children and use them as free slave labour in the tea plantation. ML finds Xufu’s relic, a worm. It’s an extortion type relic and needs to be presented with riches. After the children are led outside, ML defeats Shennong’s relic and closes the tomb. - Back in NY, ML meets up with Oh Seung Woo and the other 2. ML puts Xufu’s relic in the soil of the elixir plant. He asserts his dominance to force the plant to bear fruit. They all go to the Hiltons to find Keira has kidnapped the parents. ML had Yoojaeha create clones of the parents earlier, so the real parents are safe. - ML squeezes the juice from the fruit of the elixir plant to heal Irene’s brother who was shot. - ML took video of the children working in Ghana. He sent the video to Edward who leaked it to the media with reports of illegal child slavery in the tomb conquered by Keira. - On the way to Irene’s parents, they’re attacked by Keira. - Van Gogh’s painting relic: Irene’s power stops the group from being sucked into the painting. She remains to fight Keira while the rest go to ML’s new NY penthouse. - ML gives the juice to the parents and they quickly recover. ML goes back to Irene. He finds Keira who has turned into a white grub. The painting relic was damaged and also left behind. - ML borrows a separate residence from the Hiltons. He puts Keira the grub into a bottle of alcohol to weaken her control power over the Sekhmet relic. Her subordinates arrive and ML throws the bottle at them. It breaks and the soldiers step on Keira the grub. - ML uses a counterfeit painting relic to absorb the soldiers and Keira. After he obtains info on the US army, ML leaves them in the fake painting as it self destructs. - The Hiltons host a cruise ship party for ML as their saviour. They’re interested in ML’s new company as investors. - The crow visits ML to warn him that the major relics are starting to target him. The crow gives ML a large gourd relic which ML stores in the painting relic for now. - Pandora party: ML, Irene, Yoojaeha and Edward attend. - The party was intended to recruit high level relic users to Pandora. - Austin Rockfeller, a famous celebrity who is an actor, an author and a musician. He’s from a wealthy family who are patrons of Pandora. He has the Avesta relic, a SS rank religious relic. - Julian Miller. He was a colleague of ML in his past life. He has Zhuge Liang’s relic which has the power of insight. It shows the info of all tombs and relics, including their weaknesses. - ML disrupts CEO Kwon from recruiting Julian. - Before the news reporters, ML and Yoojaeha accuse Richard of plagiarism from using a relic. - ML steals the Avesta relic from Austin. Yoojaeha uses the painter’s ink to help them escape. - ML’s rope relic upgrades itself after it refused Austin’s control. It’s now a multi-usage silver sky rope (B rank). - To upgrade his relics and use Avesta, ML must increase his popularity. He tries writing a novel but he has no talent for it. - The appearance of tombs around the world that form a pattern herald the coming of the 7 Great Tombs. - ML goes to Kyoto after reports of 2000 missing women. - At Kyoto, ML is attacked by the hypnotised women. One of them is Sasaki Yuka. ML escapes with her and removes the hypnosis from her. - ML uses the rope relic and the promise of restoration to train Anubis and form a contract with ML. Using Anubis’ power, ML summons an undead army of 20k soldiers to face the hypnotised women. Simon is an American with a harem relic that uses necromancy to control women. Souls of dead soldiers possessed the women. Their allegiance switches to ML. Simon reveals that 1 of the 7 Great Tombs will appear in Kyoto. - ML has Sasaki manage his fan club. - ML obtained Casanova’s perfume relic and some of his relics upgraded. Shakespeare’s pen is now S rank. - Lee Seol Ah, she was the team scout in ML’s past life. - ML confronts her when she’s disguised as a maid at the hotel ML is staying at. She uses the spirit from a reaper relic to attack him. - The spirit is fearful of one of ML’s relics and disappears. - Anubis captures Lee Seol Ah’s comrades who came to save her. ML learns they are from Red Flowers, a Chinese tomb raiding group. They were spying on Simon who offered to help them with the Great Tomb in Kyoto. They were spying on ML after he defeated Simon. ML lets Lee Seol Ah and her comrades go after he hid a wiretap on her. - Pandora is affiliated with USA and Europe. China formed a separate alliance with Russia. Chinese hackers obtained info on the 7 Great Tombs from Pandora. - The 7 Great Tombs each have a relic that’s associated with 1 of the 7 deadly sins: pride, envy, greed, lust, wrath, gluttony, and sloth. - The Great Tomb in Kyoto appears as ancient Roman ruins. ML approaches the entrance and is met by Yoon Si Woo and Yang Chen. - In ML’s past life, Yang Chen betrayed ML’s team. He sent them to the tomb to die. He gave them an escape relic that was actually a self trapping relic. - Outside of the entrance, other teams are lying on the ground as they’re ovecome by sloth. ML’s tolerance skill allows his to resist the effects of sloth. ML creates an alternative entrance to the tomb. The other teams recover and follow after ML. - To stop them, ML uses his tomb excavation skill which evolves into a tomb destruction skill. ML arrives at a Roman amphitheatre. The relic appears as Emperor Nero who loved the arts but his skills were terrible. - Nero praises ML for the novel he wrote and challenges ML to a literature competition. ML convinces Nero to leave the tomb with him to compete in an environment that’s fair for both of them. The relic shows it’s true form as a golden laurel wreath. - ML saw Julian Miller as he left the tomb before it disappeared. ML later suspects Julian led the other teams to safety. - The Nero relic says it bought ML’s novel. ML finds out the rope relic boasted about the novel to the other relics. Xufu’s relic collaborated with the other relics to sell ML’s novel. - ML makes Xufu’s relic hand over the profits from the novel. Among them is a relic’s core, the soul of a destroyed relic. - Yoojaeha creates a fake Nero relic using the relic’s core so the fake will last longer. ML puts a post to sell the relic on the online relic forum created by Pandora. He arranges an auction in LA and makes the attendees pay 1 relic per person as the admission fee. - Princess Sophie of Monaco wins the auction with a bid that consists of both money and high level relics. Julian Miller was captured by ML before he could reveal the Nero relic was a fake. Lee Seol Ah overheard Julian. - Lee Seol Ah proves the relic is a fake by breaking it with a B rank dagger relic. ML frames Julian by planting the real Nero relic on him. Julian is arrested and Sophie leaves with the Nero relic. - The Nero relic escapes from Monaco and returns to ML to have their literature competition. ML makes the venue at CEO Kwon's holiday villa on an island in Hawaii. ML lures the villa staff away with a trail of money. - The Great Tomb appears and crushes the villa. ML had Xufu’s relic use its connections to gather many relics to be the audience. - ML uses harsh criticism of Nero’s novel to break Nero’s will. Nero admits defeat and ML forms a contract with the relic of sloth. - ML captures all of the relics in the audience. They admit to being his fans after Anubis refers to ML as a potential cultural asset. - The tomb disappears and CEO Kwon arrives with his men who use relics to attack ML. The relics refuse to hurt ML now that he’s a cultural asset. Sophie arrives and ML throws to CEO Kwon the Nero relic with a hearing device attached. ML makes it sound like he did a deal with CEO Kwon then disappears after Yoojaeha used the painter’s ink. - ML arrives at the Hiltons’ holiday villa in Hawaii. ML overhears CEO Kwon infer that his conqueror’s relic is Julius Caesar’s relic. - ML goes to South Korea after reports of the next Great Tomb has appeared. People are missing after becoming possessed by the relic of lust. Lee Seol Ah is also there. With Irene’s help, ML finds and captures the relic of lust in the form of Dalgi, a nine tailed fox. - ML helps Detective Kim and his family when they’re hassled by Pandora agents. A small tomb appeared in their unit. ML finds and removes the relics, the gold lumps of 2 brothers. ML transfers a large sum of money to Detective Kim to help repair the damage. - The Nero relic was recalled from CEO Kwon by ML. - With Irene’s help, ML summons from a list provided by Edward over 250 Pandora members from around the world. They are brought to Nero’s tomb that has appeared at the Pandora branch office in South Korea. Irene’s relic brings financial disaster to them. ML forces them to reveal all of the corruption secrets within Pandora and takes videos of their confessions. He takes their relics and the members still have to make it through a maze to survive. - As not all members survived, there are now vacancies in Pandora. ML released an edited version of the videos to the media, exposing the corruption within Pandora. ML asks George, Irene’s brother, to join Pandora and gather allies to join with him. ML shows George an unreleased video of a member that confessed to Austin Rockfeller making the Hiltons sick. - Irene’s risk is triggered and ML spends the night in bed with her (not sure if they had sex?). In the morning the room is full of riches. Irene has now gained control of the Golden Hand. - ML goes to a secluded location and brings out the large gourd relic from the crow. He tried using Irene’s Golden Hand to force a treasure from the gourds but it backfired. The beings that emerge from the gourds attack him. ML and Irene defeat them, and ML gathers the relics they drop. - Joshua, a prophecy relic user and the god of fate. - He has the Nostradamus and Delphi Temple relics. He can’t see ML’s future for some reason. He was the one behind Austin to make the Hiltons sick. - The 3rd tomb of the 7 Great Tombs has appeared in Syria. It has the relic of envy. Yoojaeha is kidnapped and sent to this tomb by Richard. ML arrives in Syria with Irene. They’re attacked by Lee Seol Ah and the Chinese-Russian team. - Jin Chae Won, the gluttony king. She works for the Chinese. - ML confronts Lee Seol Ah that she’s being forced to work with the Chinese and Jin Chae Won because of the huge debt from her family. He uses a relic from the gourds, the Tears of Odin's Crow Muninn (Memory). It allows Lee Seol Ah to recall the memories of her past life with ML. - ML and Lee Seoh Ah rescue Yoojaeha and defeat the relic of envy, Salieri’s Music Book and the buff relic, Catherine de Medici’s fork. Jin Chae Won’s relic is controlling the tomb from afar and amplifies the effect of envy to include self envy. It doesn’t work on Yoojaeha as he has low self esteem and he bashes up the proxy relic, an incense burner. ML clears the tomb and they escape. Later ML has Lee Seol Ah sign a contract. - ML interrupts a live interview of Richard with the news that he cleared the tomb and rescued Yoojaeha. Richard is accused of plagiarism and trying to kill the original artist. - Richard uses a relic again to teleport Yoojaeha with ML. They were prepared for this and were armed with relics. They escape through a painter’s ink drawing. - Wade Harman, the propaganda king. He has the ability to control all media and press with the Goebbels relic. He enjoys spreading misinformation. - Richard uses his connections to defend himself in the media and suppress any interviews and articles from Yoojaeha. ML receives an anonymous email offering to help. Suddenly there are reports all over the world attacking Richard. ML knows it’s Wade. - Richard has the Mirror Mask relic that let him copy Yoojaeha’s skills. The problem for Richard is when he paints, he takes on the appearance of Yoojaeha as well. ML issues a challenge for Richard to paint in public. - ML ambushes Richard at his home with a bunch of news reporters. They make a bet on the spot to prove who is telling the truth. Richard and Yoojaeha have to reproduce a famous painting that Richard did before. Richard doesn’t even come close. - ML reveals the risk from Richard’s relic is he lost his own style and skills the more he used it. Richard tries to hide as a sculpture bust but ML finds him and he’s arrested for fraud. - Edward notifies ML of the new relic user rankings released by Pandora. They range from L1 Apprentice, L2 Player, L3 Swindler, to L4 King. Irene and ML are both kings, while Lee Seol Ah and Yoojaeha are swindlers. - Wade Harman contacts ML to invite him to join his excavation alliance. Wade offers to give ML info on the special treasures for kings. In exchange he needs ML’s help to take care of Julian Miller in Syria. The aim of the alliance is to find the Hitler relic. - Julian is using a relic from Indra the Indian god of lightning and war. He and his team are targeting others who hurt the community with their relics. He confiscates their relics and destroys their camps. After being accused of fraud by ML, Julian is in Syria because he’s on the run from Interpol. ML defeats Julian with his own relic. ML forces Julian to join his team and sign a contract. - ML takes Julian, Yoojaeha and Lee Seol Ah into a nearby tomb. It turns out to be a trap set by Wade. They defeat the plague relics and ML gives the others some fruit from the elixir plant to recover. - ML is able to resist the plague effects with his tolerance / immunity skill. He swallows a poison relic to meet the conditions to call forth the plague god relic. He uses this relic to send a flood of liquid waste to Wade and his team as they enter the tomb. - ML pretends to destroy the plague god relic with Julian before they go their separate ways. ML returns to the collapsed tomb to collect the damaged relics for restoration. - Wade goes to Jin Chae Won to demand help from a healing relic. She was the one who set up the trap tomb. She kills Wade. - Jin Chae Won kidnaps Lee Seol Ah then copies her appearance to fool ML. The crow warned ML that a strange aura was coming so he knew she was fake. She turns his place into a tomb. - The rope relic is the only one not affected by her high level relic. The rope evolves into a S rank Blessed Holy rope. - The crow gives ML some power temporarily which allows him to use his tomb excavation skill to find a way out. - Lee Seol Ah was thrown into another tomb created by Jin Chae Won. She’s rescued by the spirit from her reaper relic. - Nero helps ML to fight the monster army created by Jin Chae Won’s relic. ML pushes Jin Chae Won through a portal which takes the relic with her. The tomb collapses and ML survives. - ML sleeps non stop for a week. When he wakes, there have been many cases of relics that have claimed an owner without a tomb. The remaining king positions in the rankings have also been filled. Lastly there are nasty rumours being spread about ML, including an illegitimate son. - ML goes to a tomb in Kazakhstan where Julian had been stopping anyone from entering because it was dangerous. ML uses a clone created from a relic to distract Julian and the other teams, while he’s already entered the tomb. He’s challenged by the relic to play a game on a giant chessboard. - The relic is Sun Tzu’s Art of War. ML refuses to play chess and fights the relic head on instead. He defeats the relic and obtains it’s true form of Chinese chess pieces. - ML defeats and captures Louis Martin, a boy who spread the rumours to avenge Keira. ML finds out from Louis that the Leonardo da Vinci relic is at the US Pentagon. Louis escapes due to Julian interfering. - ML had a piece of Louis’ clothing and located him using the map relic. He has George make Pandora pass a law about any relic users under the age of 12yo must have their guardian’s consent before using their relic. ML sent hair samples from Louis and Yoojaeha to Edward for him to manipulate the results of the DNA test. Edward advises ML that after several retests, it showed a match which means Yoojaeha could be Louis’ father. - Louis is recruited by TKBM who offer to make CEO Kwon his guardian. Before Louis signs the contract, ML reveals the DNA test results and lets CEO Kwon do the test himself to confirm. - ML takes Louis with Yoojaeha and Lee Seol Ah on a train heading for the Pentagon. The train is attacked by Joshua who summons a tomb to appear. Joshua uses a relic to kidnap Louis. - Joshua uses an atomic bomb relic on the train. ML survives due to his defence relics. The Code of Hammurabi absorbed the attack and ML fires it back at Joshua and his men. - ML isn’t affected by Joshua using the Nostradamus relic as he wore earplugs so he couldn’t hear what was being said. - ML beheads Joshua and his body reveals he used a prison inmate disguised as him. ML has Lee Seol Ha use her reaper relic to rescue the other train passengers. - ML enters the tomb summoned by Joshua. ML wins the drinking game against the 14-sided dice relic and closes the tomb. - A fleet of army vehicles arrive and ML is surrounded by US soldiers. They claim to know his weakness but the info they have is wrong and ML beats them up. ML finds out there’s an extermination request on him and it contains a mixture of true and false info. - ML suspects the request was made by the 3 Egyptian god relics who ran away when ML was facing Jin Chae Won. - ML heads to the Pentagon in an army vehicle. He sees news about the next Great Tomb has appeared at the Pentagon. - ML finds the 3 Egyptian god relics hiding in this tomb. He defeats Anubis and the other 2 surrender. With their help, ML defeats the many Egyptian relics led by the god tier relics of Thoth and Tutankhamen. ML also obtains all of the relics from the Pentagon that were swallowed up by the tomb. - ML had trapped CEO Kwon in a mummy coffin after Kwon and his team attacked ML. To keep Kwon trapped, ML makes Tutankhamen keep the tomb open as it’s the relic of wrath and the tomb owner. The tomb only has traps and no relics. - Earlier in the tomb when ML was confronted by Julian, ML used Muninn’s tears to make Julian recall his past life memories. ML gives the Da Vinci relic to Yoojaeha which made him the Fraud King in ML’s past life. This relic can make a perfect copy of anything. It can only be used by someone with artistic ability. - Jacob Grey, US President. In ML’s past life, Jacob supported Keira and used relics to start a world war. - Jacob contacts ML and demands the return of the Pentagon’s relics. ML has Yoojaeha use the Da Vinci relic to create fakes. - ML meets Jacob who has experts verify the fakes. - ML receives a call for help from the rope relic. Anubis was summoned by the relic commanders who almost destroy it. Yoojaeha arrives with ML and is able to restore Anubis. - Anubis swears loyalty to ML who gives it the task of cleaning up the mess from the extermination request is sent out. - Kwon Sung Woo, oldest son of CEO Kwon. - Kwon Sung Jae, 2nd son of CEO Kwon. - Kwon Joo Hee, 3rd child and daughter of CEO Kwon. - Kwon Sung Jae visits ML at his home to recruit ML’s help in the succession fight with his brother. Sung Jae tries to steal ML’s relics but his dominance power isn’t high enough and he’s easily defeated by ML. He’s needed by ML to access CEO Kwon’s secret vault that contains all of his relics. - A Great Tomb appears in Paris. Security is tightened for foreign excavators. ML and his team, along with Sung Jae, take a commercial flight to blend in with the civilians. - ML learns Kwon Sung Woo and Yang Chen are also on this flight. He provokes them with a contract for Sung Woo to hand over everything he owns and they send TKBM agents to attack him. ML takes Sung Jae hostage and forces Sung Woo to sign the contract. - The foreign team hired by Yang Chen want to force the plane to land and they fight with the TKBM agents. ML has Yoojaeha create fake copies of the passengers, Sung Jae and ML’s team. When Yang Chen blows up the plane, ML uses the Lonely God’s invitation relic to teleport everyone to a remote part of Canada. - At first Yang Chen manipulates the media with reports that blame ML for the plane crash. Only the TKBM people seemed to have survived due to their relics. After ML arrives in a town with his team and the passengers, the real story that the crash was caused by TKBM is revealed. Sung Woo loses everything when ML enforces the contract. Irene threatens any company with bankruptcy if they help TKBM. - Sung Jae takes ML to the location of the vault with CEO Kwon’s relics. ML knocks out Sung Jae and leaves him behind after ML takes all of the relics. The coffin with CEO Kwon is finally found and ML allows the coffin to open after Kwon relinquishes ownership of his relics. - Chloe Laurent, she was the doctor for ML’s team in his past life. She was among the passengers of the plane but she escaped. - Chloe is now a member of Noah, an anti-materialist organisation. They’re against all relic usage and claim they want to restore the world back to before relics existed. Their leader Benjani is actually collecting the confiscated relics. - After paying Xufu’s relic, the rope relic turns into a young girl with a mermaid relic. It needs someone to recognise her within 10 days or it’ll turn into bubbles. ML recognises the rope relic. - ML finds and captures Chloe. He uses Muninn’s Tears but the process is disrupted by Jin Chae Won’s relic. Chloe was going to meet CEO Kwon who needs a healing relic. - ML has Yoojaeha disguise himself as Chloe and go to the meeting instead. At ML’s place, he destroys the brainwashing relic that was attached to Chloe and she regains her senses and her memories, including those from her past life. ML has Chloe sign a contract. - The meeting with CEO Kwon was a trap to hold Chloe hostage. Yoojaeha creates fakes of himself and Chloe. He inflicts a curse on CEO Kwon then escapes. The curse is related to the 14-sided dice relic. ML can roll the dice from afar and the result is a punishment for CEO Kwon. - With TKBM’s recent troubles, they’re keen for new excavation recruits to enter the Great Tomb in Paris. - Yoojaeha creates disguises and false identities for ML, Lee Seol Ah and Julian. They successfully infiltrate TKBM. - Joshua had a prophetic dream about the TKBM teams that showed ML. The Detection King was sent to Paris to find ML using her Norse god relic. The detection was interrupted by Irene who made the Pandora branches in Europe go bankrupt. They recall the Detection King. - ML obtains a new Stealth skill. - ML, Julian and Lee Seol Ah separate from the rest of TKBM as they enter the tomb. They arrive at the tall central tower and start to climb. They face the armies of the Napoleon, Xiang Yu and Ramses II relics. ML lures the armies outside to face the TKBM teams. - ML sneaks back into the tower with his stealth skill. - ML provoked Napoleon and Xiang Yu to fight each other. He used the 4 Egyptian god relics to defeat Ramses II, the relic of pride. ML decides to keep the tomb open for now. At the top of the tower, ML stopped the Loki relic from escaping. He took the items Loki had and he let Loki escape when he changed into a bird. - ML triggered a risk and went around acting crazy and spending money. Chloe helps him to snap out of it after he was captured by Julian and Lee Seol Ah. - Yoojaeha was sent by ML to attend an exclusive party in Russia. The aim was to buy the relics from the British royal family. Yoojaeha kidnapped the royal uncle, and created a fake so he could approach the Princess with the relics. He inadvertently saved the life of that uncle when an assassination attempt was made. Yoojaeha becomes famous as the saviour of the British royal family. - Eve Rockfeller, Austin’s sister. A senior Pandora member. - She seems to be under the command of the Prometheus relic. - Prometheus is disguised as Mr Rothschild, head of Pandora. The Prometheus titan relic is the other leader of the relics. Prometheus stole Zeus’ lightning and eagle. - Yang Chen pays Joshua to have a prophetic dream about him. In the dream, ML has killed everyone in the TKBM excavation teams. Before he kills Yang Chen, ML blames him for killing his “family.” - Joshua gives Yang Chen a name that he got from ML’s mind in the dream. He suggests trying to keep this person away from ML. - There’s a spike in bad reviews online about the products from ML’s company. ML’s team investigates them. - ML uses his fan club led by Sasaki to leave good reviews. - Later ML agrees to hold a fan meeting as thanks for the hard work from the fan club. He demonstrates some relics and wears props from fans while having his photo taken. - Dan / Im Hae Jin, a butcher. He was the hunter in ML’s team in his past life. Im Soo Ah is Dan’s sick 4yo daughter. She died in his past life. Dan’s name was given to Yang Chen by Joshua. - Yang Chen frames Dan for murder using relics to fabricate evidence. ML intervenes with Julian acting as Dan’s lawyer. The case goes to trial and Dan is found not guilty. - ML takes Dan’s daughter to a safe location where she’s watched over by Chloe. ML beats up Yang Chen and found out that Joshua was the one who told him about Dan. ML has Detective Kim arrest Yang Chen for making a false report. Dan’s case and Yang Chen are in the media, spreading more bad publicity about TKBM. - Chloe treats Soo Ah who has relic syndrome. Soo Ah has an operation and will make a full recovery. - (Own query: why not the fruit from the elixir plant?) - Later Dan signs a contract with ML. - ML teaches and trains Dan in how to use combat relics. - Eve gives a new prophetic relic to Joshua known as Merlin’s camera. It takes Polaroids of a future from a different timeline. - Joshua confirms this when he shows a photo to Yang Chen of him with ML’s team. Yang Chen releases some of his aura while looking at the photo. He recalls some memories from his past life when this photo was taken. He recalls betraying ML’s team. - ML and his team were monitoring Yang Chen in prison and they arrive to catch him with Joshua. A dead body was used as a medium again by Joshua who escapes. ML finds out what Yang Chen remembers and takes the photo. Yang Chen accuses Yoojaeha of also being a traitor. Later Yoojaeha steals Muninn’s tears and uses it on himself. He throws up and faints after being overcome by his past memories. - ML locates Joshua at a remote and secure villa. ML goes after him and leaves the others to watch over Yoojaeha. - Yoojaeha recalls from his past life that he stole health data reports on the team and gave them to Yang Chen. He was angry when he was accused of stealing. He didn’t restore the relics properly that were taken by the team into the tomb before they died. - Yoojaeha escapes and goes to ML at Joshua’s villa. - ML overcomes the attacks from Joshua’s relics and captures Joshua. The rope relic finds Yoojaeha and brings him to ML. Joshua is put into the painting relic to be questioned more later. - Yoojaeha admits to being a traitor and tells ML about his actions that contributed to the team’s death. Yoojaeha’s guilt over their deaths made him remorseful and willing to offer his life to ML now. - ML is willing to give Yoojaeha a 2nd chance. After Yoojaeha explains himself to the others, they also agree to let him live. - ML has taken Joshua’s relics and will get Joshua to make prophecies for the team. He also has Joshua make general and fake prophecies that ML shares for free through a new prophecy channel. - Kwon Hyuk Soo, brother-in-law of CEO Kwon - Ilya Volgof, a member of ML’s team from his past life. He has the Freud relic that manipulates memories. He also has a demon relic that can summon any of the 72 demons. - Ilya is ordered by Kwon Hyuk Soo to capture ML and his team. - Yoojaeha, Julian and Lee Seol Ah are swallowed by a giant snake relic. Julian uses his lightning power to destroy the relic from the inside. ML pursues Ilya and almost has his memories altered but is saved by the others. ML uses Muninn’s Tears on Ilya. - Kwon Hyuk Soo arrives with his men. Ilya fools Hyuk Soo to think he’s against ML and uses a demon to take Hyuk Soo’s arm. - ML wins in a battle of dominance power to defeat Hyuk Soo and his men. ML uses Osiris to imprison Hyuk Soo in a fake underworld. - Ilya confirms he’s recalled his memories from his past life. - Ilya is persuaded to sign a contract with ML. - ML has Ilya alter Joshua’s memories so he’s on their side. - King’s Tomb: contains secret relics. The one who possesses the secret relics becomes the true king. To stop relics from losing the essence of their being, they need a king of kings who’s in charge of the birth, death and rebirth of relics. - ML distracts Pandora and the other excavation teams around the world with fake tomb predictions and fake copies of himself. - ML gives Dan a stack of Polaroids to help with his relic user training. They are photos of Dan fighting. The more he uses the photos, the more he suspects they are his actual memories. - The crow tries to stop Dan from thinking about the photos. When Dan insists on knowing the truth even if it will cause him pain, the crow helps him to recall his past life. - ML and the team head to check the location of the King’s Tomb in the Pacific Ocean. The secret relics detect their presence and summon the King’s Tomb early. An island emerges from the ocean. - On the island, the secret relics teleport ML’s team and scatter them. Only 1 relic each is randomly assigned to them. - The Chinese excavation team with Jin Chae Won arrive soon after. - Irene was given Dalgi the 9-tailed fox relic. After observing Irene use her dominance to force Dalgi to submit, the secret relic of Kumiho the fox spirit asks Irene to make a contract with it. - ML entered a cave and is surrounded by lizards. He’s invited to make a contract with a secret relic that’s a giant lizard. ML is attacked when he refuses. - The crow appears and saves ML. She takes ML to a space she created in the tomb. She reveals that she's also a secret relic despite being imprisoned. The crow asks to make a contract with ML. - Only after the crow promises to get all of the other secret relics for ML does he agree to make a contract. - Yoojaeha and Ilya found each other. As they were about to enter the cave, they’re met by Jin Chae Won. She has Julian’s lightning relic and uses it to force the other 2 to be her guides. - A tremor in the tomb allows Yoojaeha and Ilya to escape from Jin Chae Won. They find the secret relic of the Phoenix. Yoojaeha was contracted to the Phoenix relic in his past life. He makes a contract with it again. - The other secret relics find the crow relic and attack while the contract with ML is being finalised. The crow protects ML and the contract is completed. ML uses the crow’s predation skill to devour the other secret relics. - All of the relics that were taken are automatically returned to their owners. ML meets up with his team but they’re attacked by Jin Chae Won and her monster spider relic. - Several ships approach but they have enemy excavation teams on board. The ships fire at ML’s team. - Suddenly a boat with Dan arrives and he fights the people on the ships. The rope relic helps get ML’s team onto a ship controlled by Dan, and throws Jin Chae Won into the ocean. - ML rests for a few days. He has Julian, Chloe, Lee Soel Ah and Ilya choose a secret relic to make a contract with. This alleviates the heavy toll on his body from the crow managing so many secret relics. Those on ML’s team with a secret relic are now ranked as kings. - Their hotel is attacked by a large force from Pandora who want the secret relics. ML and his team fight back while evacuating the civilians in the area. Yoojaeha takes video to use against Pandora. - The media receive the videos and Pandora is blamed for widespread destruction in an urban area. ML also holds a press conference and condemns Pandora’s violence. - When the relics were taken away at the King’s Tomb, their powers were suppressed. As a result, Kwon Hyuk Soo escaped from Osiris and Joshua ran away after coming to his senses. - Hyuk Soo fled to CEO Kwon to ask for medical aid. - ML found Joshua who was hiding from bounty hunters. Joshua wants to stick with ML now as Pandora has abandoned him. - The crow relic tells ML that the 7 Great Tombs are the key to the Great Prison that the body of the crow is in. - Joshua feels like something is blocking any predictions about the Great Tomb of greed. The crow says the leaders of the relics could be behind this. - The leaders of the relics are Prometheus and the relic of gluttony, who is the monster spider relic of Jin Chae Won. - Mammon, the relic of greed is forcibly prevented from creating her tomb by Prometheus and the gluttony relic. - Nina Miller, Julian’s younger sister. - Yoojaeha was disguised as ML when he was attacked and his throat was cut. He survived due to the immortality skill of the Phoenix relic. ML uses the disguised Yoojaeha as bait and learns the assassin is using the Jack the Ripper relic. - Julian was shocked to see Nina as the assassin. She was reported dead after a fire at her school. - Together ML’s team captures Nina. She’s been brainwashed to become a human weapon. Ilya checked her memories and saw a facility where she was imprisoned with many others. The facility was owned by Benjani, the head of Noah. This operation most likely involves TKBM and Pandora as well. - Seo Joo Won / Joy Allenby, ML’s twin sister. - Pandora attack ML’s company and its assets. - ML sends the team out to deal with it. Edward mentions that due to a shortage of manpower after the attacks, no one is available to monitor his sister. Since the company started, ML had Edward send people to secretly watch over his sister. - After losing their parents, ML and his sister were in an orphanage. She was adopted 17yrs ago and taken to the US. She’s now attending Harvard University as an engineering student. - She has a very high affinity with relics. - In ML’s past life, she died from relic syndrome. - ML ends up temporarily kidnapping his sister so he can tell her the truth about himself and reveal she’s under his protection. - Pandora promote several people to the rank of king by giving previously banned relics to them. Pandora also continue to attack ML and his team. - ML learns from Irene about an upcoming art exhibition sponsored by Pandora. They’re using the exhibition to recruit artists that could become potential relic restorers. Artists have good sociability with restoration relics. ML convinces Yoojaeha to hold his own exhibition at the same time to disrupt the one by Pandora. - On the first day of the exhibitions, Pandora used entry restriction relics to stop visitors to Yoojaeha’s. ML retaliated with Ilya using his demon relic to infest the Pandora venue with bugs. They agree to call off the use of relics and normal operations resume. - Pandora send some famous art critics to insult and belittle Yoojaeha’s artworks. Andrew, an even greater art critic that used to be Richard’s friend, visited on his own volition. He told off the other critics for not recognising the artistic genius of Yoojaeha. - Raphael’s pencil relic chose Yoojaeha to make a contract. - Yoojaeha’s exhibition is performing better in entry ticket and art booklet sales than Pandora’s exhibition. Yoojaeha’s artworks are also selling well. - Matthew Tyler, a US army colonel, was given Hitler’s relic by Pandora to help him upgrade. He uses the relic to create a barrier over the exhibition venues. He captures a couple of Pandora’s best restorers. He also tries to force Yoojaeha to be his exclusive restorer. - ML uses the crow relic to devour Hitler’s relic and defeat Matthew. ML faints from the pain caused by the crow from consuming the strong evil aura of Hitler’s relic. Inside the crow’s stomach, ML helps to destroy evil or strange relics to relieve the pain. He also recovers some relics to be restored. - Meanwhile ML’s team are in a tomb that suddenly appeared after the relic sensed the true king there. They clear the tomb after defeating the Seals of Heaven relic which can take the form of an ancient mirror, bell or sword. - ML tries to activate the domination buff skill of the Seals of Heaven relic but he doesn’t meet the requirements to do so. He recalls this relic was owned by CEO Kwon in his past life. - In the cleanup from the art exhibitions, ML found Michaelangelo’s relic and gave it to Yoojaeha. With the power from relics of 3 Renaissance masters (ie Da Vinci, Raphael and Michaelangelo), Yoojaeha can restore relics even faster than before. - One of the relics recovered by ML from Matthew was the greed relic, a fossil stone. It was broken and sealed by the relic leaders. Yoojaeha is unable to fix it. ML has the relic researchers from his company, including his sister, help with the greed relic. - ML had earlier revealed to his sister that the company sponsoring her research at Harvard was his company. - ML wants to torment CEO Kwon mentally as further punishment for his sins. ML plans to have Kwon recall some memories from his past life by using the Polaroid camera relic. - ML arranged for Yang Chen to escape from prison. Ilya brainwashes Yang Chen to take a Polaroid of CEO Kwon and deliver it to him. Ilya also put a wiretap on Yang Chen. - Yang Chen tells CEO Kwon about the possibility of a parallel timeline. He gives Kwon the photo and Kwon experiences the memory from his past life when he gave Yang Chen the order to kill ML. Kwon recalls Pandora and TKBM had grown to dominate the world and he was 1 of 4 emperors. ML calls CEO Kwon to provoke him further. Kwon is so angry he kills Yang Chen. - ML is notified by Edward that the greed relic is almost fixed. ML’s sister contributed the most to restoring it. ML and his team make many preparations before they let the Great Tomb of greed appear in the Grand Canyon. As ML’s team enter the tomb, CEO Kwon and his team follow them. Ilya and Dan lead Kwon’s team into a trap. - Prometheus as Rothschild is leading the Pandora team to the tomb. - Jin Chae Won finds the place that ML’s team were staying at near the Grand Canyon. Irene is there and tries to fight back. Yoojaeha left behind a prototype copy of Muninn’s Tears that ML asked him to create. It reacts to the energy from the fighting. - ML’s team get through the gates and traps of the tomb. - ML passes the trial from Mammon the greed relic. She wants to make a contract with ML’s body and soul. The crow relic won’t let her and takes ML’s team away from Mammon. - As Mammon is on her way to punish the crow, she sees CEO Kwon with his team. She likes Kwon’s greed and decides to take him with her. Mammon makes CEO Kwon fight ML to see who is more worthy of her. The TKBM team arrive and attack ML’s team. - The crow makes Mammon recall her past life when she’d made a contract with ML. They collected many relics together but the relics were all given to CEO Kwon. She also recalls Kwon had ML killed. Mammon is so angry about the death of ML that she uses up most of her power and beheads CEO Kwon. She reverts to her relic object form and ML takes her. - CEO Kwon’s head and body can still move despite being separated. ML throws the head far away to make the TKBM team chase after it. Rothschild arrives with the Pandora team and attack. ML creates a tunnel with his tomb excavation skill and his team escape. Rothschild turns into Prometheus and catches up. - Dan had recently made a contract with a secret relic, the Word of Amitahba (a Buddha fish). Dan uses it to against Prometheus. Julian uses his secret relic Haetae (a mythical lion) as well. - ML helps hold off Prometheus so Dan and Julian can escape. The rest of the team make it out of the tomb. ML gives false info about the greed relic to the rival excavation teams waiting outside. He describes the relic to look like Prometheus so the rival teams will enter the tomb and delay the titan relic. - ML and the team return to find their place in a mess. - Irene is missing and they detect Jin Chae Won’s aura. - The Muninn’s Tears prototype was activated. Both Irene and Jin Chae have most likely recalled memories from their past lives. - CEO Kwon’s head was found (ML has the body). He asks Rothschild about a relic to restore past life memories. Rothschild now knows the crow relic helped ML recall his past life. - Rothschild orders Pandora to put huge bounties on ML and his team, and Irene. They’re falsely accused of various crimes. ML and the team go into hiding. - Mammon is restored by Yoojaeha and makes a contract with ML. Mammon wants to be ML’s secret relic instead of the crow. ML says he’ll consider it if Mammon brings him useful relics first. - One night when the crow and Mammon clash, ML finally makes his decision. He will keep the crow as his secret relic. - Prometheus releases Odin’s spear, a god tier relic that can find its target anywhere. He throws it to hit ML. - The crow senses the spear approaching and alerts ML. He prepares for when it pierces him with a Phoenix feather relic from Yoojaeha. The wound heals right away and ML throws the spear back at Prometheus. The rope relic is attached to the spear to return the damage absorbed by the Code of Hammurabi. - The spear creates a large hole in Prometheus’ chest. - The rope brings back the spear and the Code to ML. - ML throws the spear to find the weakness of the Achilles armour relic on CEO Kwon’s body. Kwon Hyuk Soo deflects the spear which targeted his daughter. It injures her then returns to ML with Kwon Hyuk Soo holding on tight. - Kwon Hyuk Soo didn’t know that his daughter was used as the weakness for the armour by CEO Kwon. ML offers to become allies with Kwon Hyuk Soo, as they were both betrayed by CEO Kwon. ML gives a healing relic made by Chloe to use on his daughter. - Later ML gives a diluted version of Muninn’s Tears to Kwon Hyuk Soo to recall some past life memories. - Julian locates Irene in a remote town. ML and the team go to Irene. ML convinces her to return with them. He tells her that all of the team have their past life memories. She can forget about her past life as the current reality is completely different. - Irene tells ML about info she recalls from her past life. - Pandora is led by 13 special executives that utilise the King Arthur relic of the round table. CEO Kwon is a round table member. - ML was included in the list of true king candidates from the Pandora system. CEO Kwon was very agitated about this and wanted ML to be excluded. Not long after this, ML was killed. - With Kwon Hyuk Soo’s help, ML and his team easily infiltrate the TKBM office. ML retrieves CEO Kwon’s head and they escape. - ML forces the Achilles armour relic to separate from CEO Kwon’s body. ML then resets the armour relic to remove its weakness from Kwon Hyuk Soo’s daughter. - ML takes CEO Kwon’s head and body to remain in the fake underworld created by Osiris. The body parts are on a surgical relic that keeps them alive until the surgery is complete. - ML forced CEO Kwon to reveal useful info. ML found out how to use the Seals of Heaven relic and met the requirements. ML orders it to show the locations of the king’s treasures. - The crow tells ML about her previous contractor. He was the former true king over the relics. He was murdered following a rebellion that was led by the Prometheus and Horus relics. A strict hierarchy among relics was enforced. Those relics like the crow that were against the rebellion were imprisoned. - ML gathers all of his relics to observe as he asserts his dominance to force the Achilles armour to make a contract with him. ML wants all of the relics to obey him as the next true king, even when they’re against the relic leaders. Eventually ML gets more than half of his relics to pledge allegiance to him. - Jin Chae Won starts attacking branch offices of Pandora, killing everyone and taking all of the relics. She’s looking for Pandora’s secret research facility. Prometheus sends Horus to deal with her. - Jin Chae Won sealed the monster spider relic while she attacked Pandora. The spider comes out when the seal was weakened after the fight with Horus. The spider has no memory of the Pandora attacks and refuses to believe Jin Chae Won is strong enough to seal it away. - The spider relic creates a tomb to fight against Horus. - ML and his team sense the aura of the tomb. ML sees this as an opportunity to attack the spider relic while it’s distracted. - Jin Chae Won tries to get the spider relic to stop it's rampage. - The spider says this is a continuation of a war with Prometheus after the murder of the true king. They agreed to a ceasefire to rule over their half of the world as they see fit. The spider relic has always wanted to eliminate all humans. Prometheus wanted to groom a new king from the humans. - Horus escapes to bring back reinforcements from Pandora. - The spider relic faces ML and his team. The secret relics and ML fight the numerous spiders and the spider relic. - ML persuades Jin Chae Won to release the spider relic. It’s no longer useful to her cause as it doesn’t listen to orders. - ML removes the spider relic from Jin Chae Won’s body and seals it away. - Meanwhile Dan and Irene have been fighting Horus and the Pandora army outside the tomb. ML arrives with his team and they teleport with Dan and Irene using an escape relic. - ML and the others arrive in the mountains. ML has Nero create his palace underground so they can hide and won’t be detected. - ML brings out the spider relic to fight until it submits. - Numerous relics escape that were in the spider’s stomach. They dug a tunnel and made their way outside. The rope relic chases after them and evolves into a secret relic which gives it the power to catch all of the runaway relics. - ML now has contracts with 2 secret relics, which is unheard of. - ML also has all 7 of the Great Tomb relics. - Horus and the Pandora elite force find ML and attack. - ML tries to open the Great Prison as a means of escape. Only 4 out of the 7 Great Tomb relics agree to open the Great Prison. The entrance is split into several entrances and scattered across the world. The earth tremors from the Great Prison disrupted the anti-teleportation relics used by Pandora and ML’s team escapes. - The Pandora system relic seems to be using the corpse of the former true king (tbc). - The Gaia relic is responsible for raising new relics for Pandora. Prometheus chooses many new relics to use against ML, even though these relics are still unstable. - Zeus’ eagle relic visits ML. It proposes a deal to free Zeus from the Great Prison first in exchange for info on the locations of the entrances. Pandora has already found them and are guarding them. - ML and his team attack a farm in the US where an entrance to the Great Prison is. ML uses the Seals of Heaven relic to gain entry, as it’s considered a proxy key of the true king. - Prometheus and Horus arrive at the farm. Prometheus leads a Pandora team into the Great Prison and declares a state of emergency. The guard relics are mobilised to search for ML’s team. - A sacrifice is needed to awaken the 7 Great Tomb relics into treasure grade. Each awakened relic is a key with its own assigned territory. ML’s team hunt the guards to be used as sacrifices. - After an explosion from a guard who self destructed, ML’s team are surrounded by the other guards and Prometheus. ML continues to collect sacrifices. The pride relic Ramses II awakens as the SS-rank Emperor’s key / key of majesty after 1000 blood sacrifices. - With Yoojaeha’s help, ML’s team teleport to the Slave’s Door. The key removes the barrier and opens the great doors to the 1st basement level of the Great Prison. It’s a jungle environment. - The eagle guides ML to where Zeus is. Prometheus arrives and attacks ML’s team. ML uses the key to release imprisoned relics on the way to help fight Prometheus. The connection between the crow and ML is suddenly cut off as security is tightened. - Zeus and other Greek mythology relics are imprisoned in an ancient temple complex in the middle of the jungle. - ML secretly used the Code of Hammurabi relic when he made Zeus swear on his Pantheon to serve under ML. - Prometheus arrives with the guards and ML uses the key to trap them inside the temple. ML releases Zeus and the Greek relics. - Zeus absorbs the stolen lightning from Prometheus and reduces the titan relic to his original form, a log with a blue flame. - After the Greek relics take turns to torture Prometheus, Zeus refuses to serve ML. When the Greek relics try to escape, they explode as a penalty of the contract Zeus had unwittingly made with the Code. Zeus attacks ML and the Code. As a penalty, Zeus’ balls drop off as his future children are considered part of the Pantheon. - Poseidon and Hades lead the Greek relics to attack. - ML summons the Egyptian god relics and their armies to fight. - ML defeats the Greek relics and they are forced to serve ML. - ML’s team enter the jungle again and encounter another excavation team. ML finds out that when he released the Greek relics, he also opened dog holes to the Great Prison. - ML uses these dog holes to lure more teams to enter. - ML captures these teams and takes all of their relics to be use as sacrifices for the awakening of the Great Tomb relics. - Nero the sloth relic is the next to awaken. - A Pandora team arrive …

Ch 141 as of 07/09/22 - also on Tapas (translation bad in Ch 124) ** small elements of romance / harem are annoying - ML is Lucas Traumen 40yo, a 9-star great mage. - He was imprisoned for 4000yrs in the darkness of the Abyss by the Demigod Lord, who has the power to control space. - ML possesses the body of Frey Blake 20yo, a 1st year student who killed himself. He was known as the worst student at the prestigious Westwood Academy and a victim of bullying. His family banished him for being a disgrace due to his weak body and lack of talent. - Count Isaka Blake, current family head, master of the 5th magic tower, and 1 of 5 x 7-star mages in the Castkau Empire. - 4000yrs ago was the Light Ages, an era in history that was the golden age of magic in the world. The 4 masters from that era were: - Kassajin, the magic warrior king - Schweizer Strow (Wilsemann), the great sage - Iris Phisfounder, the black witch - Lucas Traumen, the strongest mage in history - Together with Lucid the sword king, these 5 heroes fought against the Demigods. - The Demigods came into existence after separating from God, the law and will of the world. If the laws of cause and effect are disturbed too much by the Demigods, they are subject to punishment by God. - Isabelle Triznine 20yo, a 3-star mage, 1st year student, and 1 of the top 2 students at the Academy. (She’s annoying and useless) - Lady Syris Triznine, the Academy Director and Isabelle’s aunt. She’s a 6-star mage and received the title of “Ice Synthesis” from the Empire. - Peruan Jun 22yo, a 5-star mage, 3rd year student and the other top student at the Academy. He’s also the leader of the Traumen Rings, an exclusive club for Academy students where membership is invite only. His family is 1 of the 3 most influential families in the Empire. - Sonia Aquareed, the noble daughter of a prominent knight family from the Luanoble kingdom. She’s to be Peruan Jun’s fiancée in an arranged marriage. Her family is known for the Flame Sword skill (tbc). She was given the title of “Rainstorm.” - ML cultivated his mana until he reached the level of a 5-star mage. - ML deals with the bullies in the Academy. - Schweizer's 3 training methods: assimilation, amplification, and battling. Isabelle asks ML to teach her about battling after he mentioned it in class. - During their vacation break, ML and Isabelle travel to the Yspania Mountains that are known to be full of monsters. On the way their ship is attacked by pirates who have contracted a lich to help them. ML defeats the lich on his own and kills all of the pirates. - Peruan Jun was on board and initially helped to defend against the lich. He’s indebted to ML after he was saved by ML. - In the mountains, ML and Isabelle fight monsters until they find an empty cave behind a waterfall. There ML shows Isabelle the battling method while cultivating his mana. After a month he becomes a 6-star mage. An injured phoenix is attracted by ML’s mana and comes to the cave. ML heals the phoenix and it gives ML a phoenix feather before it leaves. - ML saves a mercenary held captive by some bandits. ML saves Sonia after her entourage was attacked by the remaining bandits. - ML and Isabelle return to town with the injured mercenary who is the son of the pub owner and innkeeper they met earlier. Here they part ways with Sonia and the survivors from her group. - ML and Isabelle head back towards Schweizer's dungeon in the mountains. They find the entrance on an island in the middle of a huge lake on a mountain peak. They pass through a series of doors. They’re asked a question at each door by a projected image of Schweizer that ages as they progress. The questions can only be answered by ML. - The final room was prepared just for ML. He admits to Isabelle that he is Lucas. ML packs the magic items from the room. He finds Schweizer’s journal that recorded the events after Lucas disappeared. The last page tells ML to complete Schweizer’s greatest golem masterpiece “Anastasia” to find out the rest of the unrecorded history from the time ML was in the Abyss. - They exit the dungeon and are met by a massive 1000yo drake king. ML fights it with Schweizer’s staff. The phoenix comes to distract the drake king while ML takes the Frozen River elixir from the dungeon. Isabelle heals and cares for ML when he’s overcome by the effects of the elixir. The phoenix is near death when ML emerges to fight the drake king again. ML cuts off the head of the drake king and uses the energy from it’s heart to revive the phoenix. - Lylia Jun, Peruan’s younger sister. - Duke Shepherd Jun, current family head, 1 of the 5 x 7-star mages in the Empire, and master of the 4th magic tower. - After ML has recovered, they visit the Jun estate. - Shepherd speaks privately with ML. He recognised the typhoon earrings ML wore as a magic relic made by Lucas. ML reassures Shepherd that he’s not an enemy. ML says he found Schweizer’s dungeon by accident and can’t recall where it is. - Shepherd talks about those including himself who inherited the will of the 5 heroes to fight for humanity against the Demigods. - These forces are divided across various circles that fight amongst themselves. Currently the most influential circles are those aligned with Strow, Phisfounder, and Lucid. - Shepherd says Isaka Blake is in contact with the Demigods. - Heinz Blake, ML’s older brother, is a member of the Strow circle like Shepherd. Heinz vouched for ML. - Mischael Blake, ML’s oldest brother. - ML decides to leave the Academy. Isabelle follows him. - On Shepherd’s advice, ML goes to the 3rd magic tower. There he researches and trains while stabilising the energy from the elixir. - ML agrees to spar with Liamson, a dark elf warrior and the next leader. The match is interrupted by Camil, Liamson’s master and it ends in a draw. - Magic book reading rights exam: ML easily passes. - ML meets Mikel, a senior floor master of this magic tower. - Mikel is a member of the Phisfounder circle. - Mikel is impressed by ML’s skills. ML is invited by Mikel to join him on an investigation of the Apostles in Utiano. - Apostles: humans chosen by the Demigods who can wield divine power. Fanatics that worship the Demigods are gathering around the Apostles. The Demigods appoint Apostles to avoid God’s punishment. - Mikel refers ML to Adelia, a genius alchemist. ML asks her for advice on making a high spec golem. He then asks her to help make a high quality mana potion from the blood of the drake king and a phoenix feather. ML drinks the potion and becomes a 7-star mage. - The investigation group consists of Mikel, ML, Isabelle, Camil and Liamson. They visit a small village. The mayor with some men greet Mikel and his group. Liamson confirms with ML that there are traces of blood everywhere and no other villagers around. The mayor and his men change into creatures of the Demigods and attack. The creatures are defeated by ML and Isabelle. - The mayor is left for questioning. He says the villagers were sacrifices to create creatures and liberate the powers of the Apostles. Suddenly his body self destructs, causing a big explosion. - ML destroys a nearby forest that had all of its vitality devoured. The Apostle finally reveals themself to be Lukess, the vice-master of the 3rd magic tower. The group work together and eventually defeat Lukess. Mikel dies after he is caught in the blast when Lukess’ body self destructs. - Yulian Montolivo, master of the 3rd magic tower. - ML didn’t include in his report that the Apostle was Lukess. - ML refuses the offer from Yulian to become a floor master. - ML gives the Apostle crystal he found to Adelia. She uses the crystal to make a mana potion and also extracts lightning energy. ML drinks the potion. - Heinz visits ML. He warns ML to refuse the order to return to the Blake House for now as it’s dangerous. - Camil teaches spirit magic to ML and Isabelle. ML makes a contract with a dark spirit that looks like a cat. - Beniang Argento, master of the Traumen circle. She’s half dragon, half human. Her father was the previous master who was killed by the Demigods 2yrs ago. - Steve Jack of the Strow circle - Jerome Werner of the Lucid circle - Dugenzar of the Phisfounder circle - ML is scouted by the largest circles. He’s already agreed to visit the Traumen circle first. Dugenzar doubts ML’s skills and attacks him. He is easily defeated by ML who leaves him stuck in ice. - At the Traumen circle base, ML learns about the artifact wars between circles. With the weakened state of the Traumen circle, small and medium circles have been challenging and taking the Traumen artifacts. ML goes and challenges 6 small circles nearby. He defeats them and makes them swear allegiance to the Traumen circle. He also retrieves all of the artifacts that were taken. - ML is announced as a new executive of the Traumen circle. He quickly gains everyone’s respect with his skills and advice. - ML plans to make the Traumen circle the central pillar that will unite and lead all of the other circles against the Demigods. - ML wants the Traumen circle to win a friendly tournament in 3mths time against the small and medium circles in the area. This will strengthen the authority and power of the Traumen circle. - A member of the Traumen circle returns from their mission of finding Kassajin’s heir. They were unsuccessful in convincing Kassajin’s heir to join the fight against the Demigods. - ML decides to visit Kassajin’s heir by himself. Isabelle stays behind to continue training the Traumen circle members. - ML uses a fake identity as a mage mercenary to escort a merchant group going to the elf forest to trade with the elves. - The merchant group discover undead remains in the forest. A young magic warrior is destroying the undead. The warrior attacks ML when he finds out he’s from the Traumen circle. In the martial arts used by ML, the young man recognises Kassajin’s techniques. ML is taken to the young man called Ivan’s house and meets Ricky, the sword Demigod who claims to be a traitor. Ricky also wants to get rid of the Demigods. - Ricky wants to work together with ML. Ricky says when an Apostle is killed, the Demigod associated with them falls asleep. Ricky is able to kill the Demigod who is vulnerable then. Ricky proves it by killing Indra, the lightning Demigod after ML said he killed the Apostle Lukess. - Knowing the identity of an Apostle is to know the weakness of a Demigod. Ricky says there’s an Apostle in the elf village. ML and Ivan plan to kill the Apostle so Ricky can then kill the Demigod. - ML asks Siack, a high elf and a mage, for her help to enter the elf village with Ivan. He met her as a mage in disguise with the merchant group. - Snow the elf queen, the last ice elf adopted by the royal family. - Oydin, the elf queen’s older brother and a powerful spiritualist. He’s been secretly summoning the undead in the forest. - ML’s spirit communicates with the World Tree to find out how his friends died. Kassajin died after a week long battle with a Demigod. Lucid died when his homeland was annihilated. - ML finds out that Iris was a traitor who secretly allied with the Demigods. She killed Schweizer. She also drove apart Lucid and Kassajin. She’s still alive after all these years. - Ricky tells ML that Oydin is the Apostle. ML and Ivan provoke Oydin to lose his temper and summon the undead. - Oydin also summons his contracted demon, Asura. - ML reminds Asura of the debt it owes him from his past life. ML wants to know where Iris is but she disappeared 4000yrs ago after she made a contract with the Demigod Lord. - Asura agrees to make a contract with ML after he offers his soul as collateral. Asura breaks the contract with Oydin and disappears. - ML finds Oydin to be too weak and suspects Oydin is a fake Apostle. Oydin summons the death Demigod who confirms that Oydin was just bait to lure out the traitor who is killing the Demigods. Oydin is killed by the death Demigod. - A spell for summoning a skeletal dragon is triggered by Oydin’s death. Snow in disguise helps Ivan and ML to defeat the dragon. - Snow reveals to ML and Ivan that she is Ricky’s Apostle. Ricky saved her as the last surviving ice elf after her people were killed by the Demigods. - ML and Ivan are given the fruit of the World Tree as rewards. When eaten, the fruit greatly increases one’s mana. - Ricky meets with ML. He gives ML a Demigod crystal from Indra. He wants ML to pretend to be his Apostle by consuming the crystal and attend an upcoming Demigods assembly with him. ML won’t lose his mana after gaining divine power as the Blake House was created to be test subjects of the Demigods. - After consuming the crystal, ML becomes an 8-star mage. - Ivan leaves to find Kassajin’s 3 legendary relics (tiger king’s gloves, giant’s belt, and gale necklace) so he can surpass Kassajin’s level. Ivan and ML agree to meet again in 1.5yrs at the circles conference to get rid of the corruption and division. - Snow and ML visit Ricky but have to hide as the Hydra Demigod is there. Hydra detects Snow’s mana and suspects Ricky is the traitor as Snow is an elf like Oydin. Ricky attacks Hydra but she splits into 9 parts. He destroys 7 of them. ML and Snow go after one part while Ricky chases the other. Snow distracts the Hydra part while ML casts a spell that destroys it. - ML spends 2mths with Ricky to train using his divine power. - ML and Ricky travel to Pilat in disguise to use the warp stone. The Demigods assembly is in the Luanoble kingdom and ML’s body can’t withstand Demigod teleportation. - While waiting for the warp stone to be ready, Ricky visits the Blake House to gather intel. Leyrin is the Demigod who established the research lab that created the Blake House. Count Isaka might be an Apostle. - The large circles have spies following Ricky and ML. - Charles Roland, a female vampire who was once a queen of the vampires and executive of the Phisfounder circle. Charles summons the demon Lilith, the succubus queen. Lilith tries to find info from ML’s dreams but is stopped due to his mental strength and help from Asura. - In the Luanoble kingdom, Ricky takes ML to a place where ML will receive a mask to hide his divine power. - ML meets Hector who was a dragon captured by the Demigods. It’s soul was forced to submit and it became the Demigods’ slave, trapped in human form. ML asks Hector to make a golem for him. - ML’s master was a dragon. The beings who first fought the Demigods were dragons. - Before the assembly starts, Ricky assigns ML to practise using his divine power while getting rid of the trash in the Luanoble kingdom. Marquis Dalaman built slave camps that contain beings from all races. ML attacks the castle of the Marquis who is killed with his men. ML leads the freed slaves from the castle to destroy all of the slave camps. - The 5 Apocalypses: the strongest of the Demigods. - Death, Poison, Fire, Sword and Leyrin. - As the assembly starts, the Demigod Lord and the Apocalypses arrive with their Apostles. The Lord suggests they reveal their Apostles. Ricky who is already suspected of being the traitor, refuses to reveal his Apostle. The fire Apostle is the phoenix ML met before. It’s evolved into human form. Leyrin’s Apostle is Letia Blake, Frey’s mother. The death Apostle is the demon Satan. - Leyrin reveals a newly discovered metal called Illuminium. When consumed, it can completely hide the divine power of a Demigod. With this metal, the Apostles are no longer needed and the Demigods won’t by punished by God regardless of how many they kill. So far only a limited amount of this metal has been created. More will be made available soon. - The Lord speaks privately with Ricky. The Lord knows Ricky is the traitor and offers to pardon Ricky. Another Demigod will be framed as the traitor. The Lord orders Ricky to kill his Apostle. - Ricky meets with ML to say farewell. Ricky kills the clone of the poison Demigod who was spying on them. Ricky slashes the barrier around the assembly and creates a fissure in space. He pushes ML through that fissure which closes up. The other Apocalypses appear to kill Ricky. - ML sees Lucid’s grave and sword in the space created by Ricky. 4000yrs ago Lucid and Ricky were in a duel. Lucid said true strength was having conviction with the blade that put one’s life on the line. Lucid’s conviction was his trust in his friends. The Lord interrupted the duel and killed Lucid. - Ricky respected Lucid and was angry at the Lord for what he did. Ricky discovered his purpose after hearing Lucid’s words. - The Lord appears before ML to kill him but is stopped by Iris. She uses the favour owed to her by the Lord to save ML. Iris asks to see ML’s true face but he refuses as he doesn’t trust her. - Ricky has critically wounded 3 Apocalypses but he’s suddenly stopped by the Lord and left to die. Ricky goes to ML and says ML must go to the Blake House to stop the production of Illuminium. Ricky’s body disappears and leaves behind a core. - ML confronts the large circles who were following him. He tests the abilities of Charles the vampire and forces her to submit to him. She pledges her loyalty when she learns ML is Lucas. - ML meets the phoenix and finds out the soul of the drake king coexists with the phoenix in its body. The phoenix was forced to become an Apostle after the fire Demigod approached it. The phoenix says the fire Demigod is recovering in the desert. - 3rd Princess Fiore 25yo. She maintains a neutral stance. - ML meets Heinz and they go back to the Blake House. - ML is challenged by Mischael and ML easily defeats him with martial arts and minimal magic. His parents are impressed by ML. - ML sends out his spirit and overhears Letia and Isaka. Letia is pushing for an engagement with Fiore to obtain a rare ingredient for Illuminium that only the imperial family has access to. - Fiore and ML meet privately under the guise of marriage talks. She knows Letia wants a resource from her. Fiore’s master supports the Traumen circle. ML asks Fiore to join him in the fight against the Demigods. They’re interrupted by Fiore’s master through a communication orb. - Cairo Wilsemann, Fiore’s master and former master of the Schweizer circle. He’s also the master of the secret 11th magic tower. He was good friends with Beniang’s father who died after he was betrayed by the 3 largest circles. - ML tells Cairo that he plans to reform the circles from within. Cairo tells Fiore to do all she can to assist ML. - ML pretends to accept the marriage proposal with Fiore. Letia acknowledges ML is ready to know the family secrets. She takes him to a secret area of the estate where the experiments take place. ML is introduced to Leyrin who detects his divine power. Leyrin doesn’t kill ML yet as she’s weakened while in the process of using her power to heal the injured Apocalypses. - Heinz had long suspected ML and confronts him about Frey. ML says he killed himself because of his family. Heinz is distraught as he wanted to spare Frey the pain of becoming a living experiment like his brothers. Heinz was the one who blocked Frey’s mana channels so he couldn’t use magic. - ML has Heinz look for the Illuminium at the estate. Heinz discovers human hearts were an ingredient to make the metal. - ML begins his attack on the Blake House and fights Isaka. - The vampire is tasked with looking for Letia who was ordered to hide by Leyrin. Letia uses human sacrifices to summon the Demigod of darkness. The Lord sends 2 more Demigods who will arrive soon. The vampire is found hiding in the shadows by the darkness Demigod. - The badly injured vampire returns as ML defeats Isaka. ML is attacked by the darkness Demigod, while Heinz fights Letia. The vampire consumes Isaka’s blood to recover fully and joins ML to fight the Demigod. The vampire draws a warp circle to the demon realm using a magic circle to Asura that ML had prepared earlier. The darkness Demigod is sent to hell and destroyed by Asura. - ML helps Heinz and kills Letia. - 2 more Demigods arrive and ML is badly injured. - Suddenly Isabelle and a group of warriors teleport in. Isabelle takes ML to the warriors’ base to heal him. Heinz and the vampire are also taken there. Cairo had contacted Isabelle and put her in touch with his group, Paragon. (Isabelle is still really annoying) - Paragon is an alliance outside of the circles. Diablo, a 9-star arch lich, leads the Paragon warriors against the 2 Demigods. - Diablo returns to base to confirm they defeated the Demigods. - ML asks the vampire to arrange a meeting with Altan, the master of the Phisfounder circle. ML tells Heinz to take control of House Blake to secure all of the secret info gathered there on the Demigods. Fiore will support him. - ML wants Hector to help Beniang realise her full potential. - ML, Cairo and Diablo go to rescue Hector. Diablo works on undoing the complex magic cast by the Lord. Hector shows the almost finished golem ordered by ML. The golem is in the form of a young woman. ML has the Anastasia core created by Schweizer for this golem. - Snow gets a temporary substitute to act as the elven queen in her place. She joins ML to fight the Demigods. - Altan meets ML at the Traumen circle base. ML promises to show Altan the summoning circle for Asura in exchange for an alliance between the Traumen and Phisfounder circles. The vampire helps to convince Altan by confirming ML defeated a Demigod by himself. - Nora, Kassajin’s successor and Ivan’s master - Nora meets ML and agrees to go with him to visit the Strow circle. - Demigods start attacking cities that are connected to the circles. Geotanbul is the first. Lord gave Illuminium to the Demigods so they can massacre mortals without fear of divine punishment. - There is an emergency meeting of the circles at the Jun mansion in the capital. - Elia is a Demigod living in the northern snowfields. ML goes to see Elia for her help with reaching the level of a 9-star mage. - ML, Snow, Nora and Diablo fight Elia after she hears about Ricky’s death. She assesses their skills and agrees to help ML reach 9-star by fighting her. He will have to almost die to do that. - ML incredibly achieves 9-star in 1 day. - The Lord helps the 3 Apocalypses to fully recover quickly by absorbing Leyrin and sharing her powers with them. - Iris is the Lord’s Apostle. - All Demigods are equal … until they’re not - The Jun meeting: - Regil Wilsemann, Strow circle master. Cairo is his older brother. - Regil deliberately agitates the other circles to identify the troublemakers and consolidate his power. - Jekyd / Zekid, Lucid circle master - Beniang Argento attends with her executives, Nora and Snow. - Gomes is the Diesel Rick Gauntlet circle master, the most powerful of the small and medium sized circles. - ML takes control of the meeting - unification of the circles - The first priority is to find the Apostles of 2 Apocalypses. - ML and his friends kill the Strow circle members led by Regil who decided to abandon the circle and join the Lord, even as slaves. - Anastasia is finally complete and activated with the core. - Schweizer Strow (Wilsemann) copied his memories and personality into the core. - ML’s inner circle now know his true identity. - Silkid, a desert city - fire Apocalypse and phoenix - Ivan is in the desert. Phoenix finds him and asks Ivan to kill her. Ivan refuses.