Edgina rapidly levels her character despite her physical infancy, utilizing spells like Alter Self to appear older and conduct business in the surface world of Zanzyr. She discovers the local religion of Gaebrel is built on a lie regarding soul crystals which are actually conduits for gammathauma radiation linked to ancient technology. Realizing the Underdark is a prison maintained by an Immortal, she seeks a way out and finds the Thisbean Inn, a temporal nexus locked in a time loop. She gathers resources by hunting monsters in the deep tunnels, crafting magical items like the Staff Dread, and enhancing her bat familiar Duum into a formidable combatant. Her growth is accelerated by exploiting the difference between local BECMI rules and her inherited Power of Ten mechanics, allowing her to stack classes like Arcane Theurge and Mystic Theurge. She creates simulacra to manage her affairs and research magic while she focuses on physical conditioning to overcome her racial stat penalties. The milestone culminates in her securing a passage to the surface and establishing a identity as Lady Edge, a mysterious mage of significant power. She navigates the politics of the surface elves and dwarves, revealing truths about their history and the plague that divides them. This phase establishes her capability to manipulate systems and people alike, setting the stage for a larger temporal journey.

Entering the Thisbean Inn, Edgina discovers it is a trap where travelers are sent backwards in time during full moons, forced to fight through history to reach the start of the loop. She recruits a diverse company including Northmen warriors, dwarven exiles, surface elves, and a young blue dragon named Cirruluxul who submits to her power. They clear the Inn of monsters ranging from undead lords to ancient dragons across hundreds of years of jumps, utilizing the reset mechanics to train and improve their stats via the Rule of One. During a forty year stagnation where the portal fails to open, Edgina researches Rune Magic and trains her allies, transforming them into elite warriors bound by loyalty. They encounter a lich servant of an Immortal who guards the timeline, whom Edgina destroys, inadvertently empowering the Inn into an Artifact fused with Immortal energy. The company survives petrification during the long wait, emerging decades later stronger and more cohesive. This milestone shifts the story from solo optimization to party leadership and large scale tactical combat through time.

Reaching the end of the loop in ancient Darkmoor, the company finds the portal held open by spies working for the Ei of Hazz who have kidnapped King Antius. Edgina uses mind reading and truth magic to expose the traitors within the Inn staff and the local nobility, extracting intelligence on the enemy network. She leads a tactical assault through the temporally distorted Inn to rescue the King from his captors in the future timeline, utilizing her company's superior training and magical buffs. Upon returning the King to his proper time, she negotiates rewards and secures control over the Inn's portal mechanisms to prevent future abuses. She establishes a trade network between the past and her future base, leveraging time travel for resource acquisition and training opportunities. The loop is closed safely, allowing her allies to choose between staying in the past or returning to the future with her. This action cements her status as a power broker capable of influencing kingdoms and timelines alike.

Returning to her future base, Edgina formalizes her company into the Company of the Free through a magical Oath of Allegiance that grants telepathic communication and stat bonuses via Marks. She distributes loot and named weapons to her vassals, ensuring their loyalty and growth potential beyond mortal limits. She then travels to Zanzyr City to enroll in the Great School of Magic, ostensibly as a student but effectively as a master seeking knowledge and political leverage. She confronts the Grandmaster and noble houses, exposing lies about her shaden elf heritage and securing alliances with Princess Brittabelle. She provides advanced Rune Magic knowledge to her allies, empowering them to defend against mental domination and witchcraft. This phase transitions the story into high level political intrigue and academic maneuvering within a magocracy. Edgina positions herself to challenge the Immortals by building a network of empowered mortals across time and space.