Lord of Mysteries Emperor Returns Season Raid Guide 2026
Emperor Returns — this site's working translation of 大帝重临 — is the 12-player season raid added in version 1.2, officially dated 2026-10-02 and now live.
Your opponents are two wills of Emperor Roselle: the lingering will (残留意志) and the corrupted will (污染意志). As of 2026-10-05 this page is re-verified frame-by-frame against a complete first-clear recording uploaded 2026-10-03: the official pre-launch facts stand, post-launch observations get their own ledger, and everything still unverified stays in the crimson list.
How to read this page
Three ledgers. Official facts hold official text only, each traced to an official article. Live observations hold frame-read numbers from the recording, each with a video timestamp. The crimson list is what remains unverified.
Version 1.2 · Season raid · live 2026-10-02 · re-verified 2026-10-05
Sources are tiered: official text and recorded footage each back their own ledger; portals contribute nothing. See the source ledger.
Official facts ledger
The first thirteen rows come from the official 2026-09-15 article 《战大帝，拿65装等冒险装备！》; the fourteenth is from the official 2026-09-04 Q&A (article/529). Nothing here is aggregated, inferred or taken from a portal.
Dungeon record
- Name & party size
- The raid is 【大帝重临】 and it is a 12-player raid. That is the only size official text gives; no other party size appears in any official source.
- Open date
- It opens on 2026-10-02. The date comes from the official 2026-09-15 article.
- Official category
- Chinese official text calls it a 赛季团本 — literally a season raid. That official label is why this page uses Season Raid as the English qualifier.
- Version
- It belongs to version 1.2. The 1.2 store description lists the patch as including new dungeons 丰饶之树 (Tree of Bounty) and 大帝重临 alongside the rest of its contents.
Two-phase mechanics
- Two boss entries
- The official overview names two bosses: 首领：罗塞尔大帝残留意志 and 首领：罗塞尔大帝污染意志. The overview line also refers to 残留意志与污染意志 together.
- Phase one · 残留意志
- Phase one is the lingering will, and it tests the party 以知识皇帝的方式 — in the manner of the Knowledge Emperor. The whole party has to solve a math puzzle together, and failure deals heavy damage to the party.
- Phase two · 污染意志
- Phase two is the corrupted will — Roselle after the Red Moon corruption. At the end of the fight the party helps him recall happy memories so that he can resist it (红月污染).
Rewards & cosmetics
- Gear rewards
- Rewards are item level 65 adventure gear, plus one item level 65 branded (烙印) gear piece in the amulet slot.
- Amulet name
- That branded amulet is named 烙印护符：神赐热线. The name is carried by the official-account post and the official-announcement reprint, not by the official-site render of the same article.
- Cosmetics
- Two cosmetic rewards are named: the headpiece 知识的掠影 and the cloak 大帝的辉光.
- Drop-decay rule (official)
- Official Q&A (article/529, 2026-09-04): public raid rewards stop decaying only while at least 10 of a 12-player raid (or 5 of a 6-player party) still hold reward counts; otherwise rewards scale down proportionally. Kicking members is blocked during boss fights. The original text expected the change to land the following week.
Official positioning
- Official framing
- The official framing for the run-up is 在迎战罗塞尔大帝前，先来丰饶之树历练一番！ — train at Tree of Bounty first, before you face Emperor Roselle.
- Update-notice wording
- The official update notice introduces the 【大帝重临】 dungeon as 即将开启 — opening soon — and describes it as 可组队参与挑战获取专属奖励: team up to take on the challenge and earn exclusive rewards.
- Story framing
- Emperor Roselle was thwarted by players at the world calamity 斯蒂姆宫 — his 登月梦, the moon-landing dream — and his lingering will (残留意志) appears in the raid.
Post-launch observations (verified 2026-10-05)
- In-fight boss bar names (both records kept)
- The fight reads 罗塞尔的残留意志 (t=280) and 罗塞尔的污染意志 (t=640); the official article writes 罗塞尔大帝残留意志／污染意志. Both spellings are recorded here for the same pair of wills.
- Fight shape, as recorded
- The lobby lists the two wills as boss entries 1 and 2 (1/1 each, t=3040); in fight, the bar carries over from 残留意志 59.2% (t=520) to 污染意志 43.1% (t=640) without refilling, and the enrage countdown runs on across the switch. The footage points to one encounter with an in-fight will switch; the game itself never states it outright, so both records stay.
- Number-sum puzzle, as recorded
- Lingering-will phase: the banner 保持计算区域内数字总和与提示相符! with round targets 1/9 (t=280) → 12/12 (t=400) → 8/8 (t=480); on success the banner reads 程序中断，罗塞尔陷入虚弱! (t=360). Corrupted phase: the banner becomes 收集散落的数字让数字总和满足提示条件! and red +1 / green -1 modifier tokens float in the arena (t=640, t=2640). How numbers are picked up or submitted, and any per-round time limit, are unreadable on screen — not asserted here.
- Enrage countdown
- The boss bar carries a 罗塞尔意志狂暴 countdown: 09:26 at t=280, running continuously across the will switch (05:26 at t=520, 03:59 at t=640). Its starting value and what happens at zero are not shown.
- Revive counter
- The HUD shows 复活次数：9/8+1 (t=280), draining to 6/8+1 (t=520) and 2/8+1 (t=880) as revives are spent, then refilled to 9/8+1 after a wipe re-pull (t=1560). What the denominator means is not explained on screen; only the observations are recorded.
- Sanity & the Requiem dice check
- The HUD carries a SAN value: 63 → 46 at t=1360 (with the 心神不宁 debuff) → 100 at t=1560. The restore is a dice check named 安魂: target 10 points, rolled 19, total bonus +11, with the note 安魂诗社等级高于疯狂等级，本次检定将采用优势骰 (t=1440); team chat carries system lines crediting restored 理智 per successful Requiem.
- Wipes, death recap & nearby revival
- At t=880 the player is dead and the recap panel lists the killing skills: 信息降临 1.3万 (18.7%) and 机械清算 2.3万 (33.7%); the 就近复苏 (revive nearby) button is locked with the note 首领脱战后可就近复活. The recording shows at least one wipe-and-repull: 污染意志 3.7% (t=880) back to 残留意志 100.0% (t=960).
- On-screen number samples
- Samples prove presence, never a requirement: boss HP 100 → 59.2 → 43.1 → 2.0 → 0; damage 暴击1182 (t=480), 吸收1984 (t=400); healing +676 (t=2640), +970 (t=2880); top recorded output 7111万 (14.8%) at t=3008. Total boss HP, any DPS gate and the enrage behaviour at zero are not visible.
- Difficulty & this clear
- The lobby offers 难度选择：普通／困难 plus a 组队／人机 toggle (t=3040). This recording is a Normal-difficulty clear: the victory screen reads 大帝重临 普通 with a clear time of 93分44秒 (t=3012) — the video captures only the latter part of the progression run.
- Roster size & entry score
- The lobby shows 大帝重临 10~12人, 当前队伍(12/12) and 推荐非凡评分：125505 (t=3040); the results panel lists 12 members, all level 70 (t=3008). The official article says a 12-player raid — both figures are recorded. Queueing and lockout rules are not visible.
- Loot distribution, as recorded
- After the kill the raid opens a 团队竞拍 (team auction): 防守物质, 攻击物质 (some marked 珍) and the branded amulet 神赐热线 drop and go under the hammer, with a 150000 max bid in 苏勒 and bid announcements scrolling in team chat (t=3016/3024). The victory screen has a first-clear reward row (t=3012); the lobby reward preview splits public (1/1) and personal (2/2) rewards, and this account counters read 装备奖励 剩余0次 / 外观奖励 剩余1次 (t=3040). The officially named cloak 大帝的辉光 does not appear in this recording.
Pending verification
Eight items that neither official text nor the recording settles. Read them as open, never as fact: this is exactly where filling-in-the-blank copy gets written, and we do not add to it.
Entry requirements beyond the lobby
The lobby gives 推荐非凡评分：125505 and 10~12人 (moved to the live ledger). Level gates, queueing, lockouts and any prerequisite chain are neither on screen nor in official text.
Gear, build & positioning advice
Neither official text nor the recording offers citable gearing, composition, build or positioning guidance. Any rotation, split or positioning call you read elsewhere is community invention; this page does not relay it.
Drop table & rates
The recording proves the team auction and the 神赐热线 drop (see the live ledger); a full drop table, per-boss attribution and any drop rate remain unsourced. The cloak 大帝的辉光 does not appear in this recording.
Hard-mode differences
The lobby proves two selectable tiers, 普通 and 困难 (this video ran Normal). What Hard changes — mechanics, unlocks, rewards — has no evidence at all.
Reset, lockout & permanence
The lobby's 装备奖励／外观奖励 remaining-count readouts prove reward counts refresh on some cycle; the cadence, lockout rules and whether this is season-bound are in no official text and not on screen.
What 神赐热线 actually does
The amulet's drop is now proven — it went to the team auction (t=3024) — but its effect text has no footage and no official description. Treat any stated effect as unverified.
Official English name
The lobby shows an illegibly small Latin strap under 大帝重临 (t=3040). The game still publishes no readable official English name; Emperor Returns remains this site's working translation.
Global-server availability
Official material and the recording are both CN-client only. Whether 大帝重临 reaches other regions, and when, is not stated anywhere official.
Everything inside the crimson frame is unverified. Until it is confirmed, this page publishes no gate numbers, no gearing advice and no positioning calls.
Three things called 大帝重临
The Chinese name 大帝重临 is overloaded, and the English query space is fully occupied by novel lore. Sort the senses out before you read a single mechanic.
The season raid opening 2 October
This page. The in-game 12-player season raid added in version 1.2 and dated 2026-10-02. Everything on this page is about this one.
A PvP season name
This site's own PvP guide shows the season 大帝重临（上）running 2026.08.21–2026.10.14. It shares the name and nothing else: rank ladders, the Triumph Badge activity track and Warfront modes live on that page.
Open the PvP guideNovel & pathway lore
大帝重临 also reads as Lord of Mysteries novel lore around Roselle Gustav and the Black Emperor pathway, and English results for the query are dominated by that reading. This page is the in-game raid, not the novel.
Emperor Returns is a working translation used by this site. The game has no official English name for this raid — treat Emperor Returns as a search handle, not an official title.
Competitor portals — 9game (2026-09-20, 2026-09-24) and biubiu (2026-09-23) — already target this query. They are named here only to record that the intent is contested; they are not a source for any mechanic on this page.
Version 1.2 timeline
Four dates position this raid: three from official pages, the last from this re-verification.
Version 1.2 goes live
2026-09-17The version is live. The season-raid wording lands in the same window, but the raid itself is still ahead.
Version 1.2 calendar丰饶之树 opens
2026-09-18The Tree of Bounty party dungeon opens. Official framing puts it before the Emperor fight: train here first.
Tree of Bounty dungeon大帝重临 opens
2026-10-02The 12-player season raid opens, paying item level 65 adventure gear and the branded amulet.
Re-verified against footage
2026-10-05This page is re-verified frame-by-frame against the complete first-clear recording uploaded 2026-10-03 (Snow雪諾, Normal, clear time 93分44秒): three pending items convert to observations, and the live ledger with frame citations ships.
Dates only. This is not a farming schedule — everything still open sits in the pending-verification ledger above.
Source ledger
Every source behind the two fact ledgers, with the channel discrepancy stated plainly.
Official account
TapTap official-account post — 《战大帝，拿65装等冒险装备！》(2026-09-15, 苏茜（狗官方）)
The carrier of the full announcement text, including the per-boss 首领： labels and the amulet name 烙印护符：神赐热线. Where the channels differ, this post governs.
Official announcement
4399 official-announcement reprint (2026-09-15)
A reprint of the same official announcement, carrying the same full text with the per-boss labels and the amulet name intact. Where the channels differ, this reprint governs alongside the official-account post.
Official site
Official site — article 529 (2026-09-04)
The official Q&A. One raid-relevant rule: public rewards stop decaying only while at least 10 of 12 (or 5 of 6) still hold reward counts, otherwise they scale down; kicking is blocked during boss fights. The original expected the change to land the following week.
Official site
Official site — article 526 (2026-09-15)
The official site's own render of the same article. It is plain text and drops the per-boss 首领： labels and the 烙印护符：神赐热线 name: a CMS rendering gap, not a different announcement.
Official site
Official site — article 521 (2026-09-17)
The source of the 赛季团本 (season raid) wording used on this page.
Official site
Official site — article 520 (2026-09-16)
Part of the same announcement run, cited for the 1.2 content calendar that positions Tree of Bounty before the raid.
First-clear recording
First-clear recording — Snow雪諾, 【诡秘之主 Lord Of Mysteries】新团本【大帝重临】开荒通关 (2026-10-03)
The only footage source for the live ledger: a 50m45s complete CN-client recording with no subtitle track; every fact is read from on-screen UI and cited by frame (t=seconds). One Normal-difficulty progression clear — not evidence for every tier.
Channel discrepancy
Where the channels differ
The official-account post and the official-announcement reprint carry the complete text; the official-site render is abbreviated. On any difference in wording or detail, the official-account post and the official-announcement reprint govern.
Governing rule: where the official-site render and the official-account post or the official-announcement reprint differ, the post and the reprint govern. The live ledger is backed only by the recording — official articles do not vouch for it, and it does not vouch for them.
Sources are tiered: official-account and official-announcement text first, the official site after it; post-launch observations accept recorded footage only. No portal source contributes a fact to this page.
FAQ
- Q1.What is Emperor Returns?
- Emperor Returns is the season raid 大帝重临, added in version 1.2 and opening 2026-10-02. It is a 12-player raid, and Chinese official text calls it a 赛季团本 — which is why this page qualifies it as a Season Raid.
- Q2.When exactly does the raid open?
- 2026-10-02, per the official 2026-09-15 article.
- Q3.Is it one boss or two?
- Official text names two boss entries — 残留意志 and 污染意志 — and the lobby lists them as bosses 1 and 2 (t=3040). In fight, the two forms succeed each other in the same arena, the HP bar carries across the switch without refilling, and the enrage timer runs on (t=520 → 640). The footage points to one encounter with an in-fight switch; the game never says so outright, and this page records both.
- Q4.What do I get from it?
- Official list: item level 65 adventure gear, the amulet-slot branded piece 烙印护符：神赐热线, plus the headpiece 知识的掠影 and cloak 大帝的辉光. Live addition — distribution runs through a team auction, and 神赐热线 is seen dropping to auction (t=3024); the cloak does not appear in this recording.
- Q5.What is the math puzzle?
- Lingering-will rounds show the banner 保持计算区域内数字总和与提示相符! with targets 1/9 → 12/12 → 8/8; the corrupted phase switches to 收集散落的数字 with red +1 and green -1 modifier tokens. How numbers are picked up or submitted is unreadable on screen, so this page does not guess.
- Q6.Is Emperor Returns the official English name?
- No. The game publishes no official English name for this raid. Emperor Returns is this site's working translation — a search handle, not an official title.
- Q7.Should I run Tree of Bounty first?
- Official framing says to train at Tree of Bounty before facing Roselle, and the Tree of Bounty page covers that dungeon. Treat the ordering as official framing rather than a verified prerequisite: the prerequisite chain itself is unpublished.
- Q8.Where can I read the original announcement?
- The full text is carried by the TapTap official-account post and the 4399 official-announcement reprint, both dated 2026-09-15. The official-site render of the same article is abbreviated and drops details; the source ledger below states which channel governs.
- Q9.How many difficulties does the raid have?
- The lobby shows two selectable tiers, 普通 and 困难, plus a 组队／人机 toggle. This recording is a Normal clear (victory screen 大帝重临 普通, clear time 93分44秒); what Hard changes has no evidence at all.
- Q10.Where do the live observations come from?
- All are read from the on-screen UI of one complete first-clear recording uploaded 2026-10-03 by the YouTube channel Snow雪諾 (video ZNXe6f5ZPJo): no subtitle track, frame-checked, every observation carrying a timestamp (e.g. t=1440). It is one Normal-difficulty progression clear — not evidence for every tier.
Keep reading
The raid is one node in the 1.2 sequence. The frame-by-frame walkthrough turns this page's observations into steps; the rest is what to read before and after it.