Chapter Summaries

Kang De and his allies concealed the dead elves, prepared to ambush the island’s scouting parties, and sent a parrot to infiltrate the enemy. As they chose a vulnerable patrol to target, Cleveland insisted that Kang De let her handle the fight herself.

• Kang De, A Xing, and the knight buried the elves’ bodies, covered the blood, and had animals foul the area to mask the scent.
• Kang De considered how the elves might respond to continued casualties and learned from Tina that they might burn the forest, so he decided they needed to reveal the ruins and give the elves a reason to hold back.
• Kang De recruited the parrot to act as a traitor and lure the elves into an ambush, warning it not to speak Chinese and arranging for Pigeon to stay in contact.
• Kang De studied the patrol map and chose to avoid groups led by high-ranking officers, then offered Cleveland a stun baton.
• Cleveland accepted the baton but told Kang De not to intervene and insisted that he leave the fight to her.

Cleveland and the others ambushed and killed a third group of elves, then Kang De ended the surprise attacks and revealed his plan to draw the elves toward the rift while the Gothians seized their warship. As the group prepared to attack a fourth squad, the kangaroo took up a great warbow and showed unexpected confidence, hinting that it had used one before.

• Cleveland killed the last elf in the third ambushed group and collected his enchanted pendant while Kang De recorded what he learned about elven bodies.
• After the group gathered weapons and hid the corpses, Kang De decided they had killed enough elves and explained that they would lure the survivors toward the rift, then try to capture the Wings of Wayne.
• Kang De selected a fourth group of nine elves near the rift, including two officers, and insisted on helping with the attack despite Cleveland's objections.
• A Xing volunteered to fight for Kang De, but the kangaroo took the great warbow and indicated that it would use it, displaying a confidence that made Kang De suspect it had wielded a bow before.

Kang De’s group ambushed an elven patrol, and the kangaroo revealed its skill with a war bow by killing the party’s leader. The other elves attacked the kangaroo as it darted through the jungle.

• Kang De and the knight reached the planned ambush site while the kangaroo went into the woods to hide.
• Miss Fulan tried to draw the elves’ attention, but Sir Halen Nigulezi ordered his soldiers to stay alert and demanded that she surrender.
• The kangaroo shot Halen’s arrow apart, severed his bowstring, and then struck his throat with a second arrow.
• The other elf sergeants fired volleys toward the kangaroo, which leaped through the grass with its longbow as Halen died.

Kang De’s kangaroo companion slaughtered an elven archer squad with astonishing precision, then accepted a chance to hunt more elves. At the elves’ shore camp, Captain Taize doted on a golden parrot that secretly watched the warship with cold mockery, just as an elf arrived with urgent news.

• The kangaroo dodged the elves’ volleys and killed their officers and soldiers with expertly aimed arrows while Cleveland fought alongside it.
• Cleveland saluted the kangaroo, and Kang De recalled how earlier attempts by the animals to teach him had ended in fights.
• Tina suggested that the kangaroo hunt more elf squads, and it agreed to leave with arrows while Kang De asked Pigeon to have the bar-headed goose watch it.
• At the elves’ temporary shore camp, Captain Taize played with a golden parrot and promised to take it aboard the Wings of Wayne.
• An elf hurried over to Captain Taize with urgent news.

Sir Taize discovered an unusual magical weapon fragment on the Holy Seal Archipelago and sent it to his superior aboard the Wings of Wayne to claim credit. Kang De recognized it as Clow Reed’s Skull Crusher and crossed its location off his map.

• A scouting party reported an object radiating pure magic despite the Holy Seal Archipelago’s suppression of extraordinary power.
• Sir Taize imagined using the discovery to advance his career and ordered his men to retrieve it.
• Sir Taize found a pink, bird-shaped weapon fragment in the box and sent it to the master aboard the Wings of Wayne.
• Pigeon showed Kang De a picture of the fragment, and Kang De crossed it off his map.
• Kang De told the princess that the elves had found Clow Reed’s Skull Crusher.

Sir Taize and the master found many powerful relics on the island and resolved to eliminate the Goths before claiming its secrets for the Dusk Moon Dynasty. After the master returned to the Wings of Wayne with the Azoth dagger and Taize’s parrot, Taize learned that a scouting party had gone missing.

• Sir Taize received the master’s letter urging a thorough search for sacred artifact fragments, then collected several newly discovered relics, including a dagger engraved with “Azoth.”
• The master came ashore with a hundred soldiers and agreed with Sir Taize that the elves had to kill the Goths and secure the island’s relics for the Dusk Moon Dynasty.
• Sir Taize gave the master his golden parrot, and the master returned to the Wings of Wayne with the parrot and the Azoth dagger.
• Sir Taize turned to deploying the new soldiers, but learned that a scouting party had gone missing.

Sir Taize ordered the elves to withdraw and wait for the Wings of Wayne to be repaired, while Master Laclais demanded an immediate search for the Goths. The parrot secretly flew toward the warship’s magical core chamber, leaving its purpose unclear.

• Sir Taize learned that six scouting teams had gone missing and ordered the remaining teams to withdraw while sailors watched the island’s surrounding waters.
• Sir Taize concluded that the Goths had chosen their targets carefully and planned to find and destroy their hidden warship once the Wings of Wayne was repaired.
• Master Laclais urged the captain to begin searching the island immediately, but the captain sided with Sir Taize’s plan to wait for repairs.
• Master Laclais left the captain in anger, and the parrot flew through the warship toward its magical core chamber.

A parrot sabotaged the Wings of Wayne’s magitech core, delaying repairs and intensifying the dispute over how to pursue the Goths. Kang De watched the elves argue and prepared fireworks to lure them toward the island.

• The parrot killed two guards, entered the magitech core chamber, and triggered an explosion by slashing its magic patterns.
• Laclais learned that the blast had worsened the warship’s damage and extended repairs to more than two days, then urged the captain to pressure Sir Taize to attack sooner.
• The captain and Laclais met Sir Taize, who refused to advance without more intelligence, and the leaders argued over whether to hurry or wait for reconnaissance.
• Pigeon relayed the beach gathering to Kang De, who concluded that the elves were divided and decided to lure them with fireworks infused with Elements.

Kang De and Tina discussed the Goths’ war with the elves, and Tina assured him that she had never lied about their cause. As evening fell, Kang De’s fireworks convinced the elves to prepare to depart, bringing his plan to capture their warship closer to action.

• Kang De told Tina that damage aboard the elven ship had delayed it, and he agreed she could guide the operation while staying off the ship.
• Tina explained that the Goths were defending their land and freedom, and Kang De said he believed her and would help them.
• Cleveland arrived and argued with Kang De after he teased him about his time dressed as Miss Fulan.
• As the sun set, Kang De launched brilliant Element-infused fireworks that stunned the elves on the archipelago.
• The Master demanded action, and Sir Taize ordered the troops assembled and prepared to depart.

Kang De used enchanted fireworks to distract the elves while preparing a trap in the valley, and he wrestled with whether to return to Earth or join the Goths. As the Goths prepared to seize the Wings of Wayne, Master Laclais discovered that the sacred dagger fragment was missing and felt a chill behind him.

• Kang De reflected on how gunpowder and magic could be combined, while weighing his desire to return home against the possibility of fighting alongside Tina and the Goths.
• Kang De told Tina and the knight that the fireworks would lure the elves into the valley, where he had arranged dangerous surprises linked to the Black Beasts' mutations.
• Kang De and the knight discussed seizing or destroying the Wings of Wayne, while Kang De hinted that he had further preparations for the battle.
• Pigeon and the other birds brought oil drums from Kang De's warehouse as Captain Oswald readied the Goth soldiers and sailors aboard the ship.
• Master Laclais returned to the Wings of Wayne, found his parrot waiting in his cabin, and discovered that the sacred dagger fragment was missing from his workbench.

A parrot assassin killed Master Laclais, searched the ship’s roster, and left the captain’s cabin after killing an attendant. At the mysterious rift, the captain and Sir Taize heard an unknown language spoken in a powerful voice.

• A parrot stabbed Master Laclais in the anti-magic field and revealed itself as his assassin before he died.
• The parrot searched Laclais’s belongings, mixed substances beneath his body, marked his back with the Chinese character for “danger,” and staged a locked-room murder.
• The parrot killed an attendant in the captain’s cabin, read the ship’s roster, and spoke in Chinese before flying away.
• The captain and Sir Taize reached the rift, where Sir Taize pointed out traces of flame, sulfur, and climbing equipment.
• A tremendous voice began chanting in an unknown language from within the rift, startling the elves.

Kang De used an English recording to make the elves believe the rift led to mysterious ancient ruins, and Sir Taize and Captain Estes decided to explore it together. Meanwhile, Kang De and his companions reached the elves’ command post and prepared to attack.

• Kang De explained why he chose English for the recording and how its unfamiliar sound stirred the elves’ curiosity about the Holy Seal Archipelago.
• Sir Taize offered to investigate the rift while Captain Estes stayed behind, but Estes insisted they go down together to share the credit and manage the risks.
• Sir Taize resented Estes’s decision but agreed, and they ordered Adjutant Mailun to guard the ship with half the force while they prepared ropes and lamps.
• Kang De and his companions approached the elves’ command post and decided they needed to deal with its soldiers and destroy their inflatable boats.

Kang De reassured Cleveland that his plan did not involve making him wear women's clothes, then confirmed the elf camp had weakly disciplined sailors and that elves pursued pleasure. The plan began when elves carried a strange, glowing object into the camp, and Kang De revealed a modified racing-car remote controller.

• Cleveland rejected Kang De’s supposed plan and warned him not to treat the war like a game.
• Kang De made Cleveland admit he had worn women’s clothes of his own free will, while the princess listened and intervened on the knight’s behalf.
• Kang De confirmed with Cleveland that the elf camp had no arrow corps elites on duty and that its sailors were poorly disciplined.
• The princess explained that elves valued pleasure and indulged their desires, and Kang De waited for his plan to take effect.
• Several elves approached the camp carrying a glowing object that played a woman’s voice, and Kang De showed the princess and Cleveland a modified racing-car remote controller.

Kang De planted a disguised bomb in the elven camp and hesitated before triggering it, knowing the attack would kill many elves. Cleveland took the remote and activated it himself, leaving the explosion's outcome unresolved.

• The elves discovered Kang De's device and gathered around its screen, mistaking it for an ancient magical relic that preserved images.
• Kang De explained that the device was a bomb assembled from a gas cylinder, a flame enchantment, scrap materials, and a remote-controlled mechanism.
• Kang De watched the elves crowd around the bomb and struggled with the decision to kill them, but resolved to attack the camp and burn their ship.
• The knight recognized the remote as the bomb's trigger and asked Kang De to wait.
• Cleveland took the remote from Kang De and pushed the lever.

Kang De’s enchanted gas-cylinder bomb destroyed the elven beachhead command post, and Tina asked him to stay clean of killing while she and the Goth knights took on the bloodshed. With the ship’s observer already dead, Kang De planned to seize the Wings of Wayne, but Cleveland insisted that Goth’s forces join the attack.

• The gas cylinder exploded, killing nearly all the elves gathered around the video, and Kangaroo and the knight killed the surviving sentries.
• Tina held Kang De back and told him she hoped to protect him from killing and the burden of bloodshed; Kang De promised to avoid it.
• Cleveland returned after the camp was secured, and Kang De explained that Parrot had killed the observer aboard the Wings of Wayne, so its crew would not know about the explosion.
• Kang De proposed taking a boat with A Xing and others to seize the Wings of Wayne while Tina and Cleveland returned to the Goth camp for reinforcements.
• Cleveland objected to leaving the battle to Kang De and said the people of Goth would fight alongside him.

Kang De, Cleveland, and the Goths launched a surprise assault to seize the elven ship Wings of Wayne while Tina returned to camp. As the boarding battle began, an alarm reached Adjutant Mailun, but no reply came from the captain or Sir Taize.

• Kang De agreed to let the Goths lead the fight and joined Cleveland in taking boats toward the Wings of Wayne while Tina and Sister Superior Bedela headed back to camp.
• Tina wished the soldiers victory and safe returns, then told Kang De she had something to tell him when he came back.
• Kang De teased Cleveland about Tina’s feelings, and Cleveland said he was not in love with her before warning Kang De to stay safe during the coming close combat.
• The Goths stormed the Wings of Wayne with grappling hooks, while Kang De’s group used a grenade and prepared to help hold the line aboard the ship.
• Elven scouts discovered the aftermath of the beach explosions and raised the alarm, prompting Adjutant Mailun to call the forces back, but neither the captain nor Sir Taize answered.

Adjutant Mailun took command after the captain and Sir Taize failed to answer his distress signal, and chose to return to defend the Wings of Wayne rather than risk entering the rift. Meanwhile, Kang De and his animal companions swept through the ship and reached Master Laclais's room, where they heard that elves were approaching from the island on rafts.

• Adjutant Mailun concluded that the captain and Sir Taize were trapped or dead and ordered the elves to build rafts and support the Wings of Wayne.
• Cleveland interpreted the elves' cries as evidence that the ship's senior officers were missing and left to coordinate an attack, while Kang De gave him jars of incendiaries.
• Kang De followed Parrot through the ship with Kangaroo, A Xing, and the other animals, who killed elves hiding in the cabins and corridors.
• Kang De reached Master Laclais's room, where three bodies lay, and gathered pure elemental crystals from the magister's belongings.
• Goths shouted that elves were approaching from the island on rafts.

Kang De took command of a ballista defense against the elves approaching the Wings of Wayne on rafts. By enchanting the bolts and giving the gunner night-vision sunglasses, he turned the ship’s weapons against the attackers, leaving Mailun’s forces retreating in chaos.

• Kang De rejected Captain Oswald’s order to stay out of the fighting and sent Parrot, Honey Badger, and Howler Rat to help Knight Cleveland.
• Kang De persuaded Captain Oswald to let him operate a ballista and had Oliver and his assistants prepare it.
• Kang De gave Oliver enchanted sunglasses that let him see clearly in the dark, then charged a ballista bolt with elemental power.
• Mailun led the elves toward the Wings of Wayne, confident they could board before the Goths could use the ship’s ballistae.
• Kang De’s first bolt struck the sea and electrified the surrounding water, shocking elves on rafts and in the water.
• Mailun ordered a retreat after seeing the Wings of Wayne raise its sails, but a second bolt came thundering toward the elves.

Adjutant Mailun’s forces suffered a devastating defeat, while Captain Estes and Sir Taize fought for survival after discovering that the rift was a trap filled with Void Spirits. The elves’ discovery of visions depicting humanity’s future power left them desperate to claim the hidden legacy before the Goths.

• Adjutant Mailun blamed himself for the losses and the capture of the Wings of Wayne, then set off toward the rift to seek Captain Estes and Sir Taize’s forgiveness.
• The surviving elves on the beach followed Adjutant Mailun after he dismissed them.
• Captain Estes and Sir Taize fought alongside the remaining elven soldiers as endless Black Beasts attacked and their arrows ran low.
• Sir Taize recalled how the elves had found sacred artifact fragments and light screens showing a powerful human civilization and its victories across the stars.
• The elves hurried deeper into the rift to seize the human legacy, broke through a hidden passage, and stumbled into an underground town where Black Beasts poured from a dark pool.
• Sir Taize realized that the Black Beasts were Void Spirits.

Captain Estes and Sir Taize fought through the Black Beasts to recover a scroll that revealed the danger posed by the Void Spirits, but the Goths captured their ship and devastated the island forces. With the scroll’s fate and the world at stake, Sir Taize sent it toward Adjutant Mailun and ordered him to surrender to the Goths.

• Estes told Sir Taize that the Black Beasts were Void Spirits and urged the elves to press toward the town, where they hoped to hold out for reinforcements.
• Adjutant Mailun reached the cavern with a dozen elves, fought off the Black Beasts at the entrance, and sounded the Azurewood Horn.
• Taize read an ancient scroll in the town’s central building and agreed with Estes that they needed to take it away and destroy the underground site.
• The scroll’s appearance enraged the Black Beasts, and the elves fought toward the exit as Mailun reported that the Goths had taken their ship and nearly wiped out the island forces.
• Taize wrapped the scroll around an arrow and shot it toward Mailun, then ordered him in the empress’s name to surrender to the Goths.