Chapter Summaries

Unas and the assault party fought through the spider swarms and reached Merlin's mage tower, where Shadra was sealed beneath the ground. With the tower surrounded and the dragons under attack, Unas ordered everyone to charge straight in.

• Rosebayne sensed a powerful Son of Shadra approaching, and Unas led the party in defeating the Giant Spider.
• Huoye destroyed the Giant Spider with a charged flame ray, and Unas finished it off, prompting him to conclude that the party had grown stronger.
• The party pushed through the forest toward the mage tower while the two dragons remained besieged by spider swarms.
• Unas and the others reached the tower and found more than forty Mutant Spiders guarding its entrance as reinforcements closed in.
• Unas ordered the party to stay close and charged into the Mutant Spiders surrounding the tower.

Unas and his companions fought through the Mutant Spiders with help from the Mage Tower’s indiscriminate lightning strikes, then entered the tower through a mysterious window. The window separated Unas from the others, leaving him trapped in a maze with no apparent exit.

• The Mage Tower attacked with lightning, and Unas used his barriers and the Dragonhide Armor to shield the group before leading a charge through the Mutant Spiders.
• The tower repeatedly struck both spiders and intruders with lightning, allowing Unas and his companions to kill their way to its outer wall.
• A window opened in the Mage Tower, and Unas jumped through first while the others followed.
• Unas found himself alone in an enormous corridor after the window vanished, and he realized the entrance had separated him from his companions.
• A mechanical voice announced that Unas had entered a maze and would receive a reward if he found the exit; after failing to break through the walls, he headed forward.

Unas and Qingshui were separated in the mage tower’s maze and tried to find a way through, while Talo used the intruders to continue searching it for a route to Merlin. They revived a construct with fire energy, but it sprang up hostile and they tore off its limbs.

• Gunsel had trapped the second floor in a maze, and Talo let Unas and his companions enter so they could help search it.
• Unas wandered the maze, then began smashing through its walls with his hammer.
• Qingshui found Unas, and they agreed she would scout while he kept breaking walls.
• Qingshui brought back a construct that had run out of energy, and Unas opened its casing and fed its crystal fire energy.
• The construct sprang up with its eyes glowing red, so Unas and Qingshui tore off all four of its limbs.

Unas and Qingshui joined Talo’s search for a way out of the maze, trading Number 16’s information for the golem leader’s map. After gathering more golems and lost companions, Talo found the exit and ordered the group to advance at full speed.

• Unas learned that the golem at his feet was Number 16, and Talo offered to share its maze information in exchange for recovering it.
• Talo retrieved Number 16’s map data, revealing that Unas had been tunneling toward the maze’s center, and Unas and Qingshui followed the golems.
• Talo gathered two more golem companions while Unas’s group found Perella; Perella explained that a maze spell required an exit and could not be escaped by tunneling through its walls.
• The groups continued through the maze, collecting more companions, including Haikesi and a young Druid, while Talo gathered information from seven disabled golem guards.
• Talo displayed the more complete map, found the exit, and ordered the golems to advance at full speed.

Talo and Unas’s group searched for an exit through a winding staircase, then realized the labyrinth could not be escaped by blindly running. After Unas smashed apart a corridor, the surroundings cracked and darkness began swallowing everything.

• Talo led Unas and the others to a staircase, but the golems he sent down it never returned.
• Unas led the group down the winding stairs and, after finding another staircase instead of an exit, realized they needed to solve the labyrinth.
• Qingshui noticed that stone in a short corridor felt different, and the group searched its walls and floor for a mechanism.
• Unas’s punch exposed strange patterns in the stone, but the group could not identify them.
• Unas destroyed the corridor with his twin hammers, causing cracks to spread through the surroundings as darkness swallowed everything.

Unas and his group escaped the mirror-image labyrinth and reached the stairs between the mage tower’s second and first floors. After Unas subdued Talo, the golem demanded that the group agree to rescue its master before it would give them the exit passcode.

• Talo led Unas to a blue gate, and Unas pulled the golem back before it could pass through alone.
• Talo attacked Unas, but Unas weakened it with Firekiss, broke its limb joints with Silver Hammer, and covered its face with a helmet.
• Unas learned that the gate was not the labyrinth’s exit and that Talo had been reciting a passcode.
• Talo explained that damage to a passageway node had collapsed the mirror-image labyrinth and revealed the real staircase.
• The others joined Unas, who praised Qingshui and asked Talo for the passcode.
• Talo demanded that the group promise to help rescue its master in exchange for the passcode.

Unas struck a deal with Talo to learn the password to the first floor and help redeem Merlin, then led the group through the gate to search for the Maze Spell’s Magic Circle. After finding no trace of it, Unas chose to keep searching and gather their trapped allies before confronting Shadra.

• Unas negotiated with Talo, taught it to trust his promise to help Merlin, and learned the secret password to the first floor.
• Talo combined parts from two puppet guards to restore its body, and Unas sent Haikesi to teach the password to anyone escaping the maze while Qingshui stayed with him.
• Unas passed through the gate first and arrived in the first-floor experimental documents room, where Talo recognized the room and began cleaning.
• The others and the two damaged puppet guards joined Unas and Talo, and the group searched the first floor but found only specimens of strange spiders.
• Unas decided they should keep searching for the Magic Circle and free their trapped allies before confronting Shadra.

Unas and his allies broke Gunsel’s maze spell, entered the Spider Research Institute, and searched for Shadra and Merlin. Their search uncovered Gunsel’s assistants, while the golems still had not found Merlin.

• Talo found and shattered Gunsel’s magic mirror, breaking the maze spell and alerting Gunsel that it had been undone.
• Unas gathered the exhausted maze survivors and led them through a light gate to the first basement level after Talo cracked its passphrase.
• Mutated Giant Spiders poured from the corridor’s iron-door rooms, but Unas and his allies defeated them in half an hour.
• Unas’s group searched for Shadra while Talo sent the golems to look for Merlin, whose location remained unknown to them.
• The golems found several captive assistants, and Gerard appealed to Unas for help, claiming he had been kidnapped and forced to experiment with venom.

Unas questioned the laboratory assistants and searched the incubation room for clues to Gunsel’s secrets. Haikesi found fifteen eggs carrying Shadra’s divine presence, leaving the Troll distraught over the god’s humiliation.

• Unas questioned the assistants about Merlin Firestone, Shadra, Rosebayne, secret rooms, and the Purple-robed Person’s habits, but they knew little.
• A young assistant told Unas that the Purple-robed Person had secretly entered the incubation room, and Unas rewarded him with aquamarines.
• Unas split the search party between the cold storage room and the incubation room, where he led a systematic search of the spider eggs.
• Haikesi sensed a faint divine presence, and the Troll examined more than a thousand eggs and identified fifteen Sons of Shadra.
• The Troll grieved over Shadra’s humiliation and clawed bloody furrows into his face, while Unas tried to calm him.

Unas and his group followed a newborn Son of Shadra to a hidden chamber where they found the chained Spider God. They attacked her and removed Gunsel's second Phylactery, leaving Shadra helpless and Haikesi horrified.

• Haikesi sacrificed his blood to hatch a Son of Shadra, which led the group to a hidden granite wall.
• Gerard used corrosive spider venom to weaken the wall, and Unas smashed through it to reveal Shadra's prison.
• The group found Shadra chained and unconscious, with powerful spiders held in cages nearby.
• Unas led a four-direction assault when Shadra awoke and attacked with silk and venom.
• Unas stabbed Shadra's head and extracted Gunsel's second Phylactery, while Haikesi watched in distress.

Unas discovered that the black crystal was a mind-controlling charm rather than Shadra's Phylactery, then led his group to attack Gunsel's constructs and find Merlin. The group reached Merlin's coffin, but their weapons could not penetrate its magical shield, and Merlin woke before it faded.

• Unas learned from Bessarius that the black crystal was a charm crystal, not a Phylactery, and concluded that Gunsel had moved his real Phylactery.
• Unas ordered his followers to destroy the construct guards, while Perella and the Watchers disabled Talo and detached his limbs.
• Unas forced Talo to guide the group to the hidden second basement level, where they found a concealed door and an Anti-Magic Circle.
• Unas and his warriors entered the room and found Merlin asleep in a stone coffin, looking like a young man.
• Unas and the others attacked Merlin, but a blue shield from his necklace blocked their weapons.
• Merlin opened his eyes while the blue shield was still protecting him.

Unas and the Night Elves confronted Merlin Firestone, who denied abducting and experimenting on their people and blamed his fallen apprentice, Gunsel. Unable to break Merlin’s shield, they waited in the Anti-Magic Room, where Merlin revealed his ties to Dalaran’s Council of Guardians and warned that he had sent their images to his allies, leaving Unas uncertain.

• Unas and the Night Elves attacked Merlin’s blue shield, but it held as Merlin woke and identified it as his Absolute Defense Shield.
• Unas accused Merlin of abducting and experimenting on Night Elves, while Merlin denied responsibility and blamed Gunsel.
• Huoye told Unas that they could break the shield only by taking Merlin outside, so Unas chose to wait for it to fade in the Anti-Magic Room.
• Merlin threatened Unas and revealed that he belonged to Dalaran’s Council of Guardians, whose members would retaliate if he died unjustly.
• Merlin said he had sent the group’s images to his colleagues and urged them to imprison him and investigate, making Unas doubt whether Merlin was guilty.

Unas killed Merlin after using his promise of a deposit to buy time, then gained five levels and chose an unavailable talent. He and the others tried to reach Merlin’s upper tower floors for evidence of his crimes, but Talo went motionless and the magical door resisted every attempt to enter.

• Natasha advised Unas that they needed solid evidence of Merlin’s crimes to prevent Dalaran from retaliating, so Unas persuaded Merlin to order Talo to fetch a million Gold Coins.
• With Merlin’s head exposed, Unas suddenly beheaded him, and Nightmoon and Unas struck again until Merlin was completely dead.
• Unas gained five levels and selected Ancient Kings' Guardian, but learned that it required a hero’s soul; the Night Elves then thanked him for avenging them.
• Unas ordered the group to preserve Merlin’s body and follow Talo, but Ashina reported that the construct had gone silent, and Huoye could not revive him.
• Unas and Huoye tried to break through the magical door to the upper floors, but their attacks failed, and Huoye warned that tearing down the tower could destroy its contents.

Unas freed Shadra from Gunsel’s control and helped drive the Mutant Spiders away, then asked Mati'gosa to guard the mage tower and break its magic door while he went to rescue the Red Dragon’s children at Fairy Lake. The Blue Dragon began examining the door as Unas prepared to leave with the Night Elves.

• Unas brought Shadra out of the tower, and her command split the Mutant Spiders between those who turned against Gunsel and those who stayed loyal to him.
• Unas, Nightmoon, and Qingshui attacked the horned Son of Shadra with Mati'gosa’s help, removed its Charm Crystal, and caused more spiders to pursue Gunsel.
• Unas and the Blue Dragon defeated the remaining Mutant Spiders, and the survivors fled into the forest.
• Unas asked Mati'gosa to guard Shadra and help open the magic door while he rescued the Red Dragon’s children at Fairy Lake; Mati'gosa agreed to stay despite the Red Dragon’s protest.
• Mati'gosa examined the door of light and discussed sealing Arcane Magic with Huoye, while Unas left to join the waiting Night Elves.

Unas and his allies reached Fairy Lake to confront the Seven-Headed Lizard, but the creature attacked from underwater while remaining hidden. After the Purple-robed Person escaped into the lake, Unas suspected he was Gunsel, who had come seeking forces at the Biological Research Institute beneath the lake.

• The group arrived at Fairy Lake, where Unas warned the little Red Dragon that they needed to draw the Seven-Headed Lizard out before fighting it.
• The little Red Dragon attacked the lake with dragon breath, but water jets struck her and the Seven-Headed Lizard stayed hidden.
• Unas stopped the little Red Dragon from diving into the lake, then persuaded her to escort and protect Marcus's hundred-man company on its way from Swamp.
• Nightmoon and Perella hit a giant python and a hidden Giant Bat with dragon-breaking ballistae, while the Purple-robed Person jumped into the lake and escaped Unas's pursuit.
• Unas suspected the Purple-robed Person was Gunsel, whose forces had turned against him and who had gone to the Biological Research Institute beneath Fairy Lake to seek reinforcements.

Gunsel discovered that Unas could resurrect the dead and abandoned his plan to build up his forces, ordering an assault to capture the Paladin. The battle began as Gunsel offered to trade the Night Elf hostages for Unas, while Unas threatened the Lich’s phylactery.

• Gunsel reached the underwater Biological Research Institute, counted 173 guards, and began considering how to retake the Mage Tower.
• A captive Night Elf girl named Aelia Darkstar surfaced in a bubble, delivered Gunsel’s threat, and died, but Unas used Redemption to revive her.
• After seeing Unas resurrect Aelia, Gunsel sent his forces out to seize the Paladin alive, hoping to learn the secret and regain his living body.
• The group retreated behind a small hill as Gunsel’s aquatic monsters and mutated guards emerged from the lake and gathered on shore.
• Gunsel demanded that Unas surrender and promised not to hurt him, while Unas threatened to destroy Gunsel’s phylactery; Gunsel countered by threatening the hostages and offering to release them if the Night Elves handed Unas over.

Unas and his allies fled as Gunsel’s forces attacked, but the Lich singled Unas out for capture. Gunsel trapped Unas inside a forest of icicles and ordered King Kong to force him out.

• Gunsel ordered his guards to attack, and Unas told his allies to split up and flee into the woods.
• The Tauren Centaur pursued Unas while ignoring Natasha, so Unas sent her left and ran right alone.
• Gunsel attacked Unas with falling icicles, and Unas cut and smashed his way through them with Firekiss and the Silver Hammer.
• Unas reached the edge of the icicle barrier and saw that Gunsel’s monsters had surrounded the exit.
• Gunsel demanded that Unas surrender, then ordered King Kong to bring him out of the icicles.

Unas fought his way through Gunsel’s ice-pillared trap as monsters closed in around him, while his regrouped allies searched for the hidden Lich. Overwhelmed and pinned down, Unas was saved when Little Red Dragon’s roar announced the reinforcements’ arrival.

• King Kong smashed through the ice pillars as Unas retreated through the Pillar Forest and taunted the hidden Gunsel.
• Unas attacked a squad of Lizardmen, then withdrew when Dragonkin arrived and King Kong broke through to the center.
• Unas fought King Kong and the converging monsters while Gunsel held back his prepared spell and Unas’s allies searched for him.
• A Dragonkin and King Kong knocked Unas down and pinned him beneath a foot, but Unas used Divine Storm to scatter the enemies and rise.
• Little Red Dragon roared in the distance, signaling that Unas’s reinforcements had arrived.

Gunsel captured Unas during a battle disrupted by Alexstrasza’s arrival, but a human counterattack forced the Lich and his monsters to retreat. With Unas missing, Marcus and the others prepared to continue the assault on the Seven-Headed Lizard, while Alexstrasza insisted on leading the attack herself.

• Alexstrasza’s roar distracted the dragonkin, allowing Unas to fight back, while Gunsel struck him with Deep Freeze and resisted attacks from Perella, Natasha, Nightmoon, and the Watchers.
• Gunsel trapped Unas inside a magical black cloth artifact and fled as Alexstrasza and the Watchers pursued him.
• Alexstrasza’s draconic might stunned the dragonkin, but Gunsel rallied mutants to hold her off until more monsters recovered and surrounded her and the Watchers.
• Human soldiers attacked with bombs and fire, breaking the monsters’ ranks and forcing Gunsel to order a retreat; Alexstrasza captured more than twenty Red Dragonkin.
• Marcus urged the Warden’s allies to press their advantage and continue the assault on the Seven-Headed Lizard, and Alexstrasza volunteered to lead it.

Unas escaped the ice only to find himself trapped in Gunsel’s magic prison, where the Lich tried to force him to surrender the Phylactery. The chapter ended with Gunsel discovering Unas’s ability to resurrect the dead and threatening to exploit it.

• While trapped and without his senses, Unas examined his body, noticed the green specks from Giant Fir, and reflected on his Holy Power and the Shadowfiend consuming Bessarius's Fel orb.
• Unas regained his senses, broke out of the ice, and found himself inside a sealed prison cell beneath a blue magic portal.
• Gunsel revealed that he held two Night Elf girls captive and demanded that Unas return his Phylactery.
• When Unas refused to surrender it, Gunsel slit one girl's throat and sent her corpse into the cell.
• Gunsel demanded that Unas resurrect the girl, revealing that he had witnessed Unas use Resurrection before, but Unas claimed he could not do it.