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Ouch @Boybinary The King really has it in for you!
This is thoroughly bad news I am afraid. Over the past year there have been quite a few reports about this phenomenon in this community and I have been advised by the Moderators that this is an issue Player Support cannot fix so not even to bother sending players there. I'm not sure anyone who saw this glitch in their games ever got their normal episode race back, so if you do let us know.
If this now takes the fun out of playing, I can really recommend starting a new game from scratch. With your expertise you'd be back at the top of the game in no time with lots of gold and if you wipe the history from your device before downloading the app King would never know it's you.