Chapter Summaries

Darian Nightblade brought Caslo to Roland, who assigned him a mission to sell armor in Gondor and buy grain for the kingdom. The chapter ended with Roland advising Caslo to seek Prince Adoramus if Gondor’s nobles offered poor terms.

• Darian Nightblade told Caslo that Roland was likely sending him south to buy grain, and Caslo left his Griffon Knights to continue training under Adilai.
• Roland and Yun Feng argued over whether Caslo should visit Rohan or go directly to Gondor, and Yun Feng stormed out after Roland insisted, “I am the King!”
• Caslo asked Roland why he opposed visiting Rohan, and Roland explained that Rohan was too weak to be worth the trip.
• Roland gave Caslo a Space Bracelet containing ten sets of Excellent Knight Equipment and ordered him to sell them in Gondor and return with grain.
• Roland told Caslo to rest with Ajax before leaving the next day and to visit Prince Adoramus if Gondor’s nobles would not offer a satisfactory price.

Caslo and Caldo flew south on a mission to resolve the kingdom’s predicament, taking care to avoid drawing attention as they crossed Mirkwood. When Orcs appeared near their resting place, Caldo wanted to attack, but Caslo stopped him and prepared to handle them himself.

• Ajax kissed Caslo and wished him a safe return as he left the castle.
• Roland and Nyx watched Caslo depart and discussed his mission and their work managing the kingdom.
• Caslo and Caldo flew high over Mirkwood, staying alert for Orc arrows and a Four-legged Wyvern King.
• Caslo and Caldo landed to rest, and Caslo roasted a chicken for them to eat.
• Caldo sensed Orcs nearby and wanted to kill them, but Caslo told him not to attack and said he would handle it.

Caslo encountered a starving Orc patrol on the Glaton Plains and slaughtered it without drawing his sword. He continued traveling with Caldo, taking care to conceal the Storm Dragon’s presence from enemies who might target them with Black Arrows.

• An Orc patrol tracked the smell of roasted meat and planned to ambush the humans it expected to find.
• Caslo appeared beside the Orcs and let them surround him, then attacked them with speed and wind-infused Dragon Power.
• Caslo killed the fleeing Orcs and their warrior, destroying the warrior’s Battle Halberd before turning him into blood mist.
• Caldo complained that Caslo had taken too long, and Caslo explained that he wanted to hide the Storm Dragon’s presence from the Orcs and Nazgûl.
• Caldo rested on Caslo’s shoulder as Caslo set out to find somewhere to sleep for the night.

Caslo and Caldo flew over the wilderness to find the village the Wandering Orcs had mentioned, hoping to secure a place to rest. Caslo reached the village and discovered that its guards were mercenaries, leaving him curious about why a remote settlement had hired them.

• Caldo and Caslo discussed the cost of dragon armor before Caldo flew them through the sky to search for a village.
• Caldo spotted the settlement, and Caslo landed nearby to examine its walls.
• The villagers spotted Caslo and challenged him, questioning why a wandering knight had no horse.
• Caslo recognized the guards as mercenaries, and he and Caldo grew curious about the village.

Caslo forced his way into a village guarded by the Second Son Mercenary Group after revealing his Fifth Tier strength. He learned from Wes and the boy’s grandfather that the elite group consisted of fallen nobles and younger sons, and that a larger force was following its advance party.

• Caslo claimed he had escaped an Orc clash, but the mercenaries doubted him and refused him entry until he unleashed his Fifth Tier aura and leaped over the wall.
• Caslo brushed past a Third Tier knight who tried to stop him, and the knight ordered his men to leave Caslo alone so they could focus on the commander’s mission.
• Caslo paid a family for shelter and asked the grandfather about the mercenaries; Wes eagerly offered what he had overheard in exchange for a chance to handle Caslo’s sword.
• Wes told Caslo that the group was called the Second Son Mercenary Group, and his grandfather explained that it was made up of fallen nobles and younger sons of minor nobles.
• The grandfather revealed that the mercenaries were only an advance force and that a larger force was coming behind them.

Caslo discovered that Wes had innate combat talent and offered to teach him, while reassuring his grandfather that he would protect the boy. Caldo’s appearance as a dragon frightened Wes and his grandfather, leaving Caslo trying to calm them down.

• Caslo teased Wes about wanting a sword, and Wes said he hoped to become a great mercenary to protect his home and grandfather from the Orcs.
• Wes asked Caslo to teach him combat skills, and Caslo revealed that Wes had awakened green Battle Qi Flame and was already a combat professional.
• Caslo offered to take Wes as his apprentice and swore he would care for him as a general of the Lagrange Kingdom.
• Wes doubted Caslo’s claim, but Caldo appeared as a dragon and frightened Wes and his grandfather into shock.
• Caslo scolded Caldo, then woke Wes, who screamed at the sight of him before Caldo jokingly threatened to eat him.

Caslo took Wes from his grandfather to begin training him, teaching him about Lagrange’s knights as they left for Gondor. The chapter ended with Caslo checking their location while Wes rode on Caldo’s back.

• Caslo gave Wes’s grandfather Silver Coins and waited while Wes said goodbye before taking the boy with him.
• Caslo and Caldo noticed Rangers from Gondor, knights from Rohan, and warriors from The Shire gathering with the Second Son Mercenary Group, but Caslo stayed focused on King Roland’s mission.
• Caslo told Wes that knights were the foundation of Lagrange, and Wes declared that he wanted to become a Dragon Knight.
• Caslo carried Wes out of the city, and Wes waved goodbye to his grandfather as they departed.
• In the wilderness, Caslo checked a map to confirm they were inside Gondor while Wes rode on Caldo’s back.

Caslo and Wes arrived at Minas Tirith, where Caslo announced that he had come to meet Gondor Regent Turkon on the Lagrange king’s orders. Keymaster Hulin escorted them through the city gates and toward the royal city.

• Caslo and Wes admired the grandeur of Minas Tirith as they approached Gondor’s capital.
• Caslo summoned Caldo and flew with Wes around Minas Tirith, alarming its residents and prompting Gondor’s soldiers to prepare for a dragon attack.
• Hulin flew up to meet Caslo, identified himself as Minas Tirith’s Keymaster, and agreed to guide him to Regent Turkon.
• Caslo brought Caldo to the seventh-tier gate, where the guards formed a shield wall before the dragon.
• Caslo shrank Caldo to lizard size, and Hulin led Caslo and Wes through the gates into Gondor’s royal city.

Caslo met with Turgon, Regent of Gondor, to establish ties between the kingdoms and negotiate a grain purchase for Lagrange. Turgon agreed to exchange twenty-five thousand tons of grain for ten sets of Excellent Knight Equipment and asked Caslo to stay for a week.

• Wes devoured pastries while waiting with Caslo, then stayed behind when Caslo went to meet the Regent.
• Caslo delivered the King of Lagrange's greetings and gift to Turgon and explained that he had come to establish contact and trade.
• Caslo told Turgon that Lagrange needed to buy twenty-five thousand tons of grain to avoid running out by next year.
• Caslo offered ten sets of Excellent Knight Equipment in exchange for the grain, and Turgon accepted the deal on behalf of the Hulin family.
• Turgon said the grain would take about a week to gather and invited Caslo to a banquet that evening, which Caslo accepted.

Caslo and Hulin discussed the Second Son Mercenary Group’s possible plans near Dol Guldur, while Caslo brought Wes back from Turkon’s banquet and promised to make him a Novice Knight the next day. Elsewhere, a commander ordered assembled squads to move quickly and use their magic scrolls as needed.

• Caslo asked Hulin about the Second Son Mercenary Group, and Hulin explained its origins and history.
• Caslo worried that the group might attack Dol Guldur, while Hulin feared for several Hulin family members serving among them.
• Caslo warned that Dol Guldur’s Nazgûl and Black Arrow could make an attack disastrous, though Hulin hoped the mercenaries would act cautiously.
• Wes praised the banquet food as he walked with Caslo, who promised him better meals in Flowing City and said he would make him a Novice Knight the next day.
• A commander confirmed that the squads were assembled and ordered them to move quickly and use magic scrolls without hesitation.

Caslo and Wes left Gondor after Caslo pledged Lagrange’s support against the coming crisis, while Turkon and Denethor discussed Gondor’s defenses. On their journey home, they discovered that a village had been massacred.

• Caslo told Hulin that Lagrange would stand with Gondor if the Dark Lord’s army invaded, then flew away with Wes.
• Turkon praised his grandson Denethor, who urged him to strengthen the borders and tighten patrols against the Wandering Orcs.
• Turkon accepted the need for tighter patrols but postponed costly border defenses, and advised Denethor to keep an eye on Lagrange.
• Wes asked Caslo for a dragon mount, and Caslo promised to catch him a Dragon Blood Beast if he got the chance.
• Caldo spotted a ruined village below, and Caslo saw that blood covered the ground.

Caslo and Caldo found Wes’s village ruined and his grandfather dead, then discovered signs that a Demon Dragon had fought there. As Caslo pieced together a clash between Orcs and the Second Son Mercenary Group, he suspected the mercenaries had been hunting the dragon for a treasure beyond its corpse.

• Wes rushed home and found his grandfather dead, while Caslo identified heavy blade wounds and used Dragon Power to protect Wes from the corpses’ plague spores.
• Caldo detected the lingering power of a Demon Dragon and found signs of Draconic Magic and magic scrolls among the village’s destruction.
• Caslo saw Orc, villager, and mercenary corpses and questioned why the Orcs and nearly a hundred members of the Second Son Mercenary Group had been there.
• Caslo moved Wes to a tent by an upstream water source and urged him to wash and keep living despite his grief.
• Caslo reconstructed a fight in which Orcs attacked the village, the mercenaries drove them out, and a dragon descended amid the fighting.
• Caslo and Caldo suspected the mercenaries had pursued the dragon for its treasure, though they did not know whether they had succeeded.

After the massacre, Caslo and Caldo investigated the battlefield and suspected a surviving mercenary carrying a dragon egg had escaped into Mirkwood. Caslo then discovered that Wes's grief and exposure to the demonic dragon's power had changed his attributes, and he planned to take Wes dragon slaying the next morning.

• Caslo burned the dead villagers and mercenaries while Wes mourned his grandfather.
• Caslo and Caldo searched the surrounding area, found Orcs killed by elite fighters, and concluded the dragon had stopped pursuing survivors near the Anduin River.
• Caslo and Caldo suspected a mercenary carrying the dragon egg had escaped into Mirkwood, and they decided to search east the next day.
• Caslo gave Wes a shortsword and promised to help him avenge his family by hunting the dragon.
• Wes's eyes turned black and scarlet as Caldo realized the demonic dragon's power had shifted Wes's attributes from wind to dark and evil.
• Caslo concealed Wes's transformation and told him they would go dragon slaying the next morning.

Caslo and Caldo took Wes into Mirkwood to confront the Evil Dragon and claim its egg. As the dragons fought, Wes fled with the egg but encountered a mysterious black-robed figure who recognized it as a Shadow Dragon and demonic dragon's egg.

• Caslo and Caldo discovered that Wes’s Dark Attribute had been devoured and replaced by Evil Power, but Caslo resolved to train him as a knight.
• Caslo brought Wes to Mirkwood, where they found a dying mercenary who revealed that the dragon had returned to the forest to search for its egg.
• Caslo and Caldo attacked the Evil Dragon, and Caslo seized its egg and threw it to Wes while he and Caldo stayed to fight.
• Wes ran toward the edge of Mirkwood with the egg but fainted when a black-robed figure spoke to him.
• The black-robed figure picked up the egg, identified it as belonging to a Shadow Dragon and demonic dragon, and warned that the Dragon Knight would not spare it.

Sernal, a Nazgûl, bound the dying evil demonic dragon's egg to Wes with a Slave Contract and sent the young knight away with advice to obtain the dragon's crystal. After rejoining Lidilias, Sernal concealed his encounter with Wes and reflected that he had once been a knight.

• Sernal cut Wes's wrist and used his blood to bind the dragon egg to him by a Slave Contract.
• Wes recognized Sernal as a Nazgûl, confronted him, and learned that the egg's life and death depended on his will.
• Sernal explained that the egg's father was beyond saving and said its dragon crystal could shorten its infancy.
• Sernal identified himself as the Third Nazgûl, then vanished when he warned Wes that other Nazgûl were coming.
• Lidilias asked Sernal where he had been, and Sernal hid his meeting with Wes while directing Lidilias's attention back to the battle.
• Sernal watched the forest where Wes had departed and murmured that he had once been a knight.

Caslo and Caldo fought a powerful evil dragon, and Caslo persuaded it to surrender its life rather than risk destroying its dragon crystal. Caldo recovered the crystal for the dragon egg, while Caslo took the dragon’s corpse.

• Caldo and Caslo struggled to damage the evil dragon as it defended against Caldo and focused its attacks on Caslo.
• Caldo spotted two Nazgûl nearby, but the proud evil dragon charged at them without seeking their help.
• Caslo struck the evil dragon with his Adamant Dragon Lance after Caldo’s Draconic Magic tore open its scales, leaving it mortally wounded.
• Caslo promised to spare the dragon’s offspring and have it contract with his disciple, persuading the evil dragon to die without destroying its dragon crystal.
• Caldo retrieved the dragon crystal for the egg, and Caslo collected the corpse, discarding some grain to make room.

Caslo and Caldo found Wes after he encountered a Nazgûl and discovered that the dragon egg had contracted with him. They also found that the Nazgûl had left Wes with a Black Knight’s Guardianship, then Caslo took him home and gave him an object only he could use.

• Lidilias and Sernal abandoned the dragon egg rather than risk confronting the Dragon Knight, while Caslo and Caldo went to find Wes.
• Wes ran to Caslo in terror and revealed that a Nazgûl had contracted him with the dragon egg.
• Caldo identified the contract as a Slave Contract involving the descendant of an evil demon dragon, but chose not to pursue the matter.
• Caldo examined Wes and found strange energy that Caslo recognized as the Guardianship of a Black Knight.
• Caslo took Wes home and gave him an object that only Wes could use.

Caslo returned with Wes after killing a dragon and obtaining a dragon egg, only to discover that a Nazgûl’s protection skill was embedded in Wes’s soul. Yun Feng and Adolf Heinrich could not remove it safely, so Yun Feng began an attempt to stabilize Wes’s soul while Adolf Heinrich sealed the skill.

• Caslo gave Wes the dragon crystal and flew him home, while Sernal watched them leave from the shadows.
• Roland welcomed Caslo back, and Caslo recounted the dragon fight, the egg’s contract with Wes, and the Nazgûl’s involvement.
• Roland examined Wes and found that a Nazgûl-level Death Knight protection skill was inside him.
• Yun Feng and Adolf Heinrich determined that purification could not remove the protection and that forcibly extracting it would endanger Wes.
• Wes agreed to endure the pain of sealing the skill, and Yun Feng began stabilizing his soul as Adolf Heinrich prepared to seal it.

Yun Feng discovered that Wes’s dragon soul protected his soul and prevented anyone from reaching the Nazgûl skill within it. After warning Caslo to watch over Wes, the chapter left Wes settling into his new home and Roland relieved that the grain had been stored.

• Yun Feng’s attempt to probe Wes’s soul triggered a backlash from the unborn dragon bound to him by a Dragon Rider Contract, and Yun Feng and Adolf Heinrich could not reach the Nazgûl skill.
• Yun Feng told Roland that Wes’s dead contract made his soul impossible to investigate, then advised Caslo to keep a close eye on his apprentice.
• Caslo gave Roland the grain and Turkon’s coral-tree gift, but Roland returned the gift and told Caslo to give it to Yun Feng.
• Caslo explained to Yun Feng that Wes had been a wind-elemental professional soldier before an evil demon dragon’s power changed his attribute, and that a Nazgûl had created the contract and left the skill behind.
• Yun Feng warned Caslo against letting Wes become another Nazgûl, and Caslo vowed to take responsibility for his disciple.
• Ajax comforted Wes at lunch, welcomed him into her home, and urged him to learn from Caslo; later, Roland told Nyx that he felt relieved after the grain was stored.

Roland considered using a newly acquired Primary City to establish a foothold at Lagrange City and reclaim the Lagrange Plain, though he still had to resolve the kingdom’s military and political burdens before marching east. Meanwhile, Ismir received relief grain that eased his food shortage.

• Roland told Nyx that taking Lagrange City would put the Lagrange Plain under the kingdom’s control, and vowed to remove Sauron and prepare his children to claim the Human Emperor’s throne.
• Roland explained that the system shop had offered a Primary City in exchange for all his Honor Points, giving him the means to establish a fortified eastern outpost and counter the Chariot People.
• Roland recognized that the kingdom could not yet launch the campaign because its troops were scattered, its forces were needed on other fronts, and many responsibilities still occupied him.
• Ismir received two cartloads of the kingdom’s relief grain from Ymir, easing the shortages caused by feeding his Goblin Knights and their Tutu Pigs.