This is a summary posted by iheartz at jcafe. Thank you iheartz!
I'll repost it here for the same reason as 43.
Weed convinces the rebels to follow him and attack one of Hermes' policing groups (probably in order to bait out the main army of the territory's Lord). He puts on full Bar-Khan gear, summons legions of undead and crushes them. Although the policing force is destroyed, the rebel leaders start to fear him and he gains massive notoriety. The local lord leads his army into the mountains where contact with the rebels was said to have taken place, but finds it mostly covered in fog (due to the Silver Bird's ability). The army is then ambushed in the fog by a group of undead, receiving a lot of casualties. The army managed to locate the necromancer in charge of the undead and lobs a lot of spells his way. The spells are absorbed by the Absolute Magic Defense spell that Weed uses and the players in the army realize the necromancer was wearing Bar-Khan's full set. The army gets defeated and Weed marches his undead legion to the understaffed castle of the region, conquering it. He gets large drops to his faith, courage, etc. His undead force, notoriety and the Power to Reject Death skill increases.
Hermes guild leaders are having a meeting. First topic is about Weed and they decide to bump up Weed’s bounty from 70 to 100 million as well as send more assassins after him. Unfortunately, Weed is extremely difficult to catch thanks to his ability to move around the continent and disguise himself. The talk then goes to how the Haven Empire is weakening economically due to the migration of players, the numerous wars destroying many facilities and killing many of the workforce. On the other hand, Arpen, albeit having a relatively miniscule economy compared to Haven’s, is growing at an astounding speed. They discuss various methods of fixing the economy.
Short scene of where the Haven kingdom is worsening economically and the NPCs are starting to interact less with the players. Another short scene of where Lee Hyun is scrolling through the Dark Gamer and normal forums for information on the Weed Hunt so that he can avoid it. He also decides his next target to attack.
Lee Hyun goes and buys “expensive” seafood, shocking the vendor. It turns out that Seoyun’s coming for dinner tonight. When going home, he meets Seoyun’s father. It turns out that Seoyun’s father was going through the neighborhood and asking about Lee Hyun. All of the things they said were fairly positive (?). They talk for a while and the father asks if Lee Hyun is having seafood for dinner. Mentally, he’s hoping that Lee Hyun will invite him because he wants to have a meal with his daughter. After dropping many hints, Lee Hyun invites him. His father essentially goes “Oh no, I couldn’t possibly trouble you” and Lee Hyun immediately says that it’s too bad. This annoys Seoyun’s father because etiquette usually means that you’re supposed to reject the offer the first time and the person that’s giving the offer is supposed to insist (ex: “Oh no, I couldn’t possibly impose on you” -> “Oh, but I insist” -> “Thank you very much”). While he’s mentally venting his frustration, Lee Hyun suddenly asks if they have met in Royal Road before. The father fervently denies it, sweating in nervousness (because Bart the Trade and Weed the God of War have an immense gap between them and he doesn’t want to lose face). Weed mentions something either about how Bart failed deal (?) and the father accidentally blurts out something about him upholding his side of the deal and how it wasn’t his fault. There’s a long stretch of silence between them and Weed asks again whether they have met in Royal Road.
The Black Sword guild, who is currently conducting guerilla tactics against the Hermes guild, receives a letter saying that Weed will damage the Hermes guild on a certain date. Because of that, they decide to assault one of the Hermes castles on that date (the guild leader keeps the existence of the letter a secret from the other members. Weed infiltrates the staging area for the Griffon Legion of the Herme’s guild. He turns himself into an extremely attractive and muscular griffon, cowing most of the male griffons (and causing the other male griffons to challenge him to establish who’s the alpha male) while attracting the female griffons. Because of the assault by the Black Swords guild, the griffon knights are mobilized. Mule, the leader, notices the presence of an extremely strong and nice looking griffon and decides to ride it. One of the others asks if Mule riding an untrained griffon is wise but he just shrugs it off, saying that there’s no way the rebels would take the castle anyways. Weed gets equipped with a full magical griffon armor set massively boosting his stats and they take off.
They are flying above the battle when Weed dives down at an extreme speed to the alarm of the Hermes players (he uses Wind Sprint which he got from converting his art stats t