Recaps

Governor Bruce led his surviving dwarf veterans to face the Hurricane Legion and fought Earl Hurricane Io Lixis in a final duel. After Bruce died, Io carried his body to Black Forest Fortress, where Earl Greyshan and the other commanders faced his arrival.

• Bruce and Io Lixis recognized each other and began a duel in the sky, recalling their former adventuring companions.
• Mars ordered the Hurricane Legion to attack, and its disciplined soldiers annihilated Bruce’s six thousand dwarf veterans at the cost of three hundred dead.
• Io defeated Bruce with Hurricane Flash Sword, and Bruce died peacefully after saying he hoped they would meet again in his god’s divine kingdom.
• Io ordered Mars to give the fallen dwarves a proper burial and carried Bruce’s body toward Black Forest Fortress.
• Earl Greyshan hesitated over whether to attack the fortress until Io arrived and presented Bruce’s body to Haider.

After Earl Hurricane Io Lixis brought Governor Bruce’s body to the dwarf camp, the dwarf army retreated, and Velin’s forces later helped finish the Battle of Denchibi. Velin distributed supplies to his troops and allies before receiving orders to garrison Copper Mountain City.

• Haider withdrew the seventy thousand dwarf soldiers from Black Forest Fortress after Io Lixis delivered Bruce’s body to the camp.
• Velin learned that the dwarves had retreated, and the fortress defenders celebrated their reprieve.
• Shirley Ex completed her mission and returned to Xylos Province, while Velin received orders to keep garrisoning Black Forest Fortress until the remaining dwarves were eliminated.
• At the end of August, the Battle of Denchibi ended with fewer than sixty thousand of Bruce’s three hundred thousand soldiers escaping the province.
• Velin allocated the incoming supplies, including jerky, Glowing Wine, Multi-Flame Flowers, weapons, and horses, among his troops and allies.
• In mid-November, Velin received orders to garrison Copper Mountain City in western Denchibi Province.

Velin took command at Copper Mountain City and chose to evacuate its Dwarf civilians before burning the city to flush out the Cave Dwarves. As the area fell quiet, Cave Dwarf elders gathered beneath the ruins to plan their next move.

• Velin arrived at Copper Mountain City, learned that the previous garrison had sealed the underground passages, and decided to move the Dwarf civilians into a camp and burn the city.
• Viscount Moncas led soldiers in evacuating more than eight thousand Dwarf civilians, reopening blocked passages, and demolishing buildings around the Dwarven Mountain God Church to create an isolation zone.
• Moncas set Copper Mountain City ablaze, while the Dwarven Mountain God protected the church with a barrier and the displaced civilians watched their home burn.
• Kyle advised Velin to deprive the area of food and resources, strengthen defenses, and guard the camp’s food stores to lure the Cave Dwarves into a trap.
• After half a month of calm, Cave Dwarf elders gathered beneath the ruins of Copper Mountain City to plot their next move.

After completing the garrison mission at Copper Mountain City, Velin and the 135th Legion returned to Iron Tower City for six months of rest. There, Velin reunited with his relatives and learned more about the war on the northern front before discovering that Flora was engaged.

• The Cave Dwarf chieftains chose to stay underground, while Velin’s forces stripped the wilderness around Copper Mountain City and sealed its openings.
• After the Mountain Dwarf raids continued without any Cave Dwarves appearing, Velin focused on protecting patrols and transport units until the garrison mission ended.
• On December 20, 9734, Velin led the 135th Legion to Iron Tower City for half a year of rest and recuperation.
• Bamund welcomed Velin at the Twenty-Seventh Legion’s garrison and praised his defense of Black Forest Fortress.
• Bamund told Velin that fighting had resumed in the north and described the Ilia Kingdom’s history of wars.
• Flora and Layla greeted Velin, and Layla revealed that Flora was engaged.

Velin celebrated his aunt Flora’s private engagement to O'dor, then took a break and visited a Shia Beastman dance venue near the legion’s garrison. A performance by Melody Master Mias stirred his curiosity about the troupe’s hidden purpose, which he suspected might involve the ancient Moon Elf Kingdom.

• Flora told Velin that she and O'dor had privately decided to marry, while Layla said she would wed Lord Madmonk after the war; Velin said he hoped to marry within ten years.
• Velin hosted a banquet for friendly nobles, then began his vacation the following day.
• Velin and Kyle visited a commercial camp west of the legion’s garrison and entered a venue run by performers from the Holy Shia Beastman Kingdom.
• Velin watched Shia Beastmen dance and learned that Mias, the troupe’s deputy leader, was a Melody Master.
• Kyle explained the God of Melody’s connection to the God of Dawn and used Angel Power to dispel the beguiling music around them.
• Velin suspected the troupe had come for a secret purpose, possibly connected to the Moon Elf Kingdom, and considered reporting it to his superiors.

Velin bought the life of a Plainclothes Swordsman named Britt and followed him to a garrison camp, where Britt confronted his father, Viscount Akart. Akart hesitated over releasing Britt after realizing Velin’s payment came from someone powerful, and a soldier rushed into the tent before he could decide.

• Velin and Kyle left the performance after noticing that the singing had bewitched the crowd and suspected the Shia were gathering information.
• Velin bought the Plainclothes Swordsman’s life for ten thousand Gold Coins after Kyle sensed a demonic aura around him.
• Britt led Velin and his attendants to the Third Garrison Unit of the Twenty-Seventh Legion, where a patrol confronted them.
• Kyle’s identity Command Token knocked the middle-aged patrol leader into his soldiers, and the man apologized to Velin after recognizing its authority.
• Britt told Viscount Akart that he was an expendable illegitimate son, then repeated his demand to leave after Velin’s money arrived.
• Akart hesitated to release Britt because the numbered Gold Notes suggested Velin was an important figure, and a soldier hurried into the tent.

Velin bought Britt, an illegitimate son of the Anglite Family, and Kyle transformed his demon-tainted soul into a new Black and White Swordsman class. Britt began a new life under Kyle’s care, leaving his old name and family behind.

• Viscount Akart brought Britt out of the camp after Velin revealed he had purchased him, and Kyle warned Akart to keep his subordinates in check.
• Akart disowned Britt and stripped Dolitt of his patrol captaincy after Velin’s group left.
• Britt told Velin how an Ascetic Monk had trained him, but concealed the prophecy that had led him to the commercial camp.
• Velin told Britt to take a new name and placed him in Kyle’s care, and Kyle used Angel Power to purge the demon aura tainting Britt’s soul.
• Britt’s class evolved into Black and White Swordsman, granting him the ability to wield light and darkness and a bloodline that could pass on Transcendent potential.
• After awakening, Britt bowed to Velin and Kyle.

Velin received a Guidance of Fate revealing that a fragment of the Divine Artifact [Ring of Time] lay near Unicorn Mountain and that the Druid's Book was needed to obtain it. He secretly set out with Kyle, who rescued a five-person Adventure Team from a Ferocious Tiger on the way east.

• Kyle named Lahael the Gray Swordsman and demonstrated his Darkness Form and Radiance Form to Velin.
• Velin received a revelation about the [Ring of Time] fragment and the Druid's Book, then found Unicorn Mountain on a map of the Ironforge Mountain Dwarf Kingdom.
• Velin told Bamund he would be away for up to two or three months, then left the Twenty-seventh Legion's camp with Kyle.
• Velin and Kyle concealed their faces and camped sixty kilometers from Unicorn Mountain.
• Kyle killed a Low-Gold Ferocious Tiger that had been chasing a five-person Adventure Team for more than two hundred kilometers.

Velin and Kyle rescued Milada’s Adventure Team from a Ferocious Tiger, then invited the adventurers back to camp. As Kyle cooked the beast, Milada recounted her past and the hardships of life as a lower-ranking adventurer, leaving Velin with a clearer understanding of their circumstances.

• Velin examined the slain Ferocious Tiger, and Milada thanked him and Kyle for saving her team.
• Velin invited Milada to talk, and Kyle butchered the tiger while Velin stored most of its meat in his Spatial Ring.
• Milada told Velin and her companions that she had lost her family in a fishman calamity and had been raised and trained by an adventurer who later died.
• Milada described leaving Bashio, building her strength across several countries, and joining her current companions before coming to the Ilia Kingdom.
• Milada explained that her Warrior Breathing Method changed her appearance and that she hoped to regain her original form by reaching Gold-grade.
• Milada outlined the team's earnings and travel costs, and Velin reflected on the difficulties lower-ranking adventurers faced.

Velin recruited Milada into his service, then continued with Kyle to a mist-shrouded ravine near Unicorn Mountain. After Kyle purified much of the ravine with a powerful spell, he revealed the extent of his abilities and that he was still several years from reaching Soul Intent.

• Velin offered to fund Milada's adventure team as it grew into an adventure corps, in exchange for her swearing loyalty to him.
• Milada discussed the offer with her teammates overnight and accepted it the next morning.
• Velin gave Milada three Gold Notes and told her to wait at the merchant camp near Iron Tower City before he and Kyle continued toward Unicorn Mountain.
• Velin and Kyle hid their horses, flew down into the ravine, and Kyle used Purifying Light to clear much of its poisonous mist and dangerous creatures.
• Kyle told Velin he had reached High-Gold, needed about six more years to reach Soul Intent, and had mastered numerous combat skills and spells.

Velin and Kyle explored Midas's Lost Land in search of the Ring of Time fragment and encountered a riddle that only the Druid's Book could answer. After Velin identified the Flower of Decay, a gate opened to the next trial ground, and he entered.

• Velin resolved to train harder and asked Kyle to supervise him until he reached High-Gold.
• Velin and Kyle explored the ravine and encountered a strange tree that transformed into two faces.
• The faces welcomed them to Midas's Lost Land and asked what Midas liked most, leaving Velin's many guesses unanswered.
• Kyle found no information about Midas in Angel's Heart, so he suggested Velin consult the Druid's Book.
• Velin read a hidden passage about Midas's research and answered Flower of Decay correctly, opening a gate to the next trial ground.
• Velin entered the gate while holding the Druid's Book.

Kyle explained the world’s layered spaces to Velin as they explored an Interlayer Space. They entered Midas Garden, where Thornes set them a three-month trial to cultivate the Flower of Decay, and Kyle began planting the Seeds.

• Kyle described the six stable spaces and the chaotic Interlayer Spaces, explaining that Ilairelia World was a Supreme Plane World whose surrounding million light-years served as its hunting ground.
• Thornes appeared and told Kyle and Velin that they had to cultivate the Flower of Decay within three months to open the gate to Midas Manor.
• Thornes disintegrated into petals, leaving three decayed Seeds infused with Light Power, which Kyle caught.
• The trial began as a countdown appeared above the garden, and Velin consulted the Druid's Book before Kyle planted the Seeds.
• Velin read that pure Light Power was needed to grow the Flower of Decay from a rotting trunk, while he watched Kyle work.

Kyle and Velin raised the Flower of Decay from a lively Seed until it bloomed and died after sixty-five days, granting them powerful transformations. Thornes explained that their short time together had been the Flower of Decay’s entire life, while Velin questioned whether the petal creature was Thornes or Midas.

• Kyle planted the Flower of Decay’s Seed, which sprouted a baby face, ran away, and eventually returned to the pit to sleep.
• Over the next forty-five days, Kyle fed the growing Flower of Decay while Velin watched it grow from an infant into an eighteen-meter-tall tree.
• Kyle and Velin saw flower buds emerge from the tree’s trunk, then watched as two flowers bloomed on the sixty-fifth day and the surrounding petals formed a humanoid creature.
• The two Flowers of Decay fell from the rotten trunk and turned into energy that entered Velin and Kyle; Velin rose from Low-Gold to Mid-Gold, and Kyle awakened five days later having reached Soul Intent rank.
• Thornes told Kyle and Velin that their sixty-five days together had been the Flower of Decay’s entire life, and Velin asked whether the petal creature was Thornes or Midas.

Velin and Kyle reached Midas Manor, where its consciousness revealed the history of Midas Space and announced the final trial. They had sixty days to find three Keys of Time, one hidden in each district of the vast Manor.

• The humanoid petal creature sent Velin and Kyle through a petal passage to the Manor, then restored the Flower of Decay and the barren ground before dispersing.
• Midas, the Manor Lord, introduced himself as Midas Levich Auvilia, a long-dead Moon Elf Legendary High-Tier Arcanist and Druid, but could not answer Velin's questions about the garden's administrator or a treasure vault.
• Midas explained that the Manor was the third and final trial ground in Midas Space, and that completing its trial would lead them to the Arcane Tower and Midas's legacy.
• After a half-hour rest, Midas began the trial and gave Velin and Kyle sixty days to find three Keys of Time in the Manor's front, central, and rear districts.

Velin searched the manor for the Key of Time, improving his combat skills as he passed the Magic Puppet trials. After half a month without finding the key, he spotted a notice in a leisure area and found it lying in a small wooden house.

• Velin fought a Magic Puppet at the warehouse, learned from its patient instruction, and earned permission to enter.
• Velin searched the warehouse for three days but found no trace of the Key of Time.
• Velin passed the trials at four more buildings and improved under the Magic Puppets' instruction, but found no clues to the key.
• Velin entered a leisure area and found a notice board identifying it as the Key of Time's storage location.
• Velin entered a small wooden house and saw a golden key lying on a table.

Velin and Kyle entered the Arcane Tower to claim the Ring of Time fragment, but the Druid's Book swallowed it and evolved. The book also consumed Velin's Spatial Ring and its contents, then drew both men into an independent space created through the combination of time and space Laws.

• Velin and Kyle combined three Keys of Time into the Time Cube, and Midas gave Velin the Greenwood Staff before opening a gate to the Arcane Tower.
• Velin and Kyle found the Ring of Time fragment and discussed how its accelerated time could be used without draining Mana Energy from the region.
• The Druid's Book swallowed the Ring of Time fragment and ignited itself, then emerged with an ancient new appearance.
• The Druid's Book swallowed Velin's Spatial Ring and scattered its contents before pulling Velin and Kyle inside itself.
• Kyle explained that the Druid's Book had formed an independent space by combining the fragment's time Law with the Spatial Ring's space Law.

Velin and Kyle left Midas Space after nearly three months, taking the Corrupt Prosperous Staff and returning to the legion camps. Velin arrived back stronger than before and learned that nobles wanted to buy the butcher shops he had distributed, a matter he postponed until after the war.

• Velin and Kyle were expelled from the Druid's Book, and the frightened book attached itself to Velin's hand.
• Velin and Kyle left Midas Space; Kyle lost the Decay Flower Seeds, and he collected the Corrupt Prosperous Staff as the Corrupt Prosperous Tree vanished.
• Velin and Kyle returned to the cliff and found their horses alive after they had escaped their makeshift stable to forage.
• Bamund learned that Velin had returned to the 135th Legion at Mid-Gold strength and lamented missing the chance to go treasure hunting with him.
• Velin summoned Orlando and Cassius, heard that nobles wanted to buy his butcher shops, and postponed discussing the sale until after the war.

Velin visited Milada and her adventuring team to assess them and outline a three-stage investment plan, beginning with a decade of support and growth targets. He left the second stage undisclosed, making continued aid depend on the team proving its value.

• Cassius reported that Star Prayer Camp's fifty High-Bronze Tier Warriors had advanced and that new Swordsmen, Bowmen, Spearmen, and Shield Bearers had joined.
• Velin traveled to the commercial camp and followed Milada's mark to the courtyard where she and her team were staying.
• Milada introduced her adopted daughter Polina, and Velin learned the backgrounds, races, ages, and strengths of Milada, Lari, Greta Doring, Joslyn, and Clinta Mins.
• Velin offered the team ten years of financial, equipment, potion, horse, food, and training support, with the goal of increasing their strength and growing their group to one hundred members.
• Velin recommended that the team develop in Dany Province and warned that he would suspend his aid if they failed to meet his expectations.

Velin completed a grueling three-month training regimen before the 135th Legion received orders to garrison Xigas Province and defend its border with the dwarves. As his forces spread across the region, a devastating war engulfed the Masai Autonomous Duchy, while the larger conflicts elsewhere remained unresolved.

• Velin appointed Mien deputy leader of Milada's adventure group, then agreed to train under Kyle until he became a Soul Intent Knight.
• After three months of intensive training, Velin learned four combat skills and attended a meeting where the Twenty-seventh Legion received orders to garrison Xigas Province.
• Burborn Silvis assigned Velin's 135th Legion the defense zone from Stone Mountain City to Dwarf Stone Pass and placed two logistics battalions under its command.
• Velin returned to an empty Stone Mountain City and divided his troops among five posts, retaining roughly twelve thousand men under his direct command.
• The Ironforge Mountain Dwarf Kingdom launched a major offensive against Bashio Kingdom as war between the Axi Magic Kingdom and Sacred Mountain Dwarf Kingdom intensified.
• The fighting devastated the Masai Autonomous Duchy, while the Kingdom of Isia remained in a stalemate and awaited the outcome of the greater war.

Velin enjoyed a rare day off after months of intense training, then learned that meeting the Moon Goddess’s believers could earn him five invitations to the Alp Island Banquet. When training resumed, he reflected on the kingdom’s shifting fortunes as the Ilia Kingdom refused to help the Bashio Kingdom in its northern war.

• Velin rode to a hill near Stone Mountain City and spent his leave picnicking alone.
• Velin considered his five-year path to High-Gold and the pressure he felt to keep advancing for those who depended on him.
• Velin recalled the Minotaur priestess Sala and planned to meet the Moon Goddess’s returning believers at Dwarf Stone Pass to obtain five Alp Island Banquet invitations.
• Velin considered using the invitations to secure his family’s support for his costly Teleportation Array trade plan.
• After Velin resumed training, Belgrav Silvis refused the Bashio Kingdom’s request for military aid, leaving its envoys and Talia without a solution.

Velin left Dwarf Stone Pass with Kyle and traveled into the Graylight Wasteland, where he reunited with Moon Goddess Candidate Saintess Sala. After receiving invitations to the Alp Island Banquet, he divided them between Kyle, himself, and a future trade with his family.

• Velin assigned Orlando and Cassius to govern Stone Mountain City, then traveled to Dwarf Stone Pass and told Olcott that he had private matters to handle.
• Velin and Kyle slipped into the Graylight Wasteland at night, where Kyle destroyed a Kobold settlement and Velin noted that the Monster Clans were spreading again.
• Velin and Kyle encountered Sala and her attendants, and Sala soothed Velin after her divine power briefly overwhelmed him.
• Sala gave Velin five invitations to the Alp Island Banquet at the Moon Goddess's instruction and invited him to attend in fifty years.
• Velin gave one invitation to Kyle, kept one for himself, and planned to use the other three as bargaining chips with his family.

After the 135th Legion’s nine-month garrison mission ended, Velin led more than forty-six thousand troops north to clear a route through the Graylight Wasteland toward Angala Province. When he learned that the Centaurs had been driven from their gathering grounds and were fighting Gray-skinned Goblins, he released a group of prisoners and offered to negotiate with their Great Chief.

• On April 15th, 9736, Velin received orders to lead the 135th Legion north with the Twenty-seventh Legion and join the attack on Angala Province.
• Velin organized the vanguard, middle army, and rear army, then marched north from Dwarf Stone Pass with over forty-six thousand soldiers and more than eight thousand logistics troops.
• When the vanguard encountered unusually small Centaur tribes, Velin summoned captured Centaurs to learn what had happened.
• The Centaur tribal chief told Velin that Dwarf armies had invaded five years earlier, forcing the Centaurs south into a war with the Gray-skinned Goblins.
• Velin ordered Cassius to release the twenty-three Centaurs and gave him a Token of Credence to offer their Great Chief a deal outside Angala Province.

The 135th Legion joined a campaign to disrupt the Dwarves’ resource routes through Centaur territory, while Velin and Kyle considered how to decipher a map taken from the Dwarven marquis Darag. Kyle left to investigate the map, and Velin remained in camp, following Kyle’s training schedule as the other legions deployed.

• The Centaur tribes fled toward the Gray-skinned Goblins, and Angara Province’s governor ordered the Dwarven army to seal the border and requested reinforcements.
• Burbon Silvis and Ophelia Silvis attended a joint meeting, where Burbon explained the operation’s goals: reduce Dwarven forces near Angara Province and cut off their resource route through the Centaur gathering grounds.
• Velin took out the strange-marked map looted from Darag, and Kyle proposed searching the area for locations that matched its markings.
• Kyle took the map and left Velin a training schedule, assigning Gray to watch him while he was away.
• Velin briefed his officers as legions departed to search the Centaur gathering grounds, then stayed in camp and trained while the 135th Legion remained quiet.

Kyle deciphered most of the Parchment Map, and Velin planned to profit from its many resource sites by trading with or subcontracting to other armies. At Black Kiln Mountain, Rodis faced worsening food and weapon shortages as the Centaurs fought the Gray-skinned Goblins and weighed whether to trade with humanity.

• Kyle explained the map’s symbols and locations to Velin, having deciphered roughly ninety percent of its information through field investigations.
• Velin planned to divide profits from the map’s resource sites among allied commanders and nobles, while keeping the remainder and waiting another half month before acting if the Centaurs did not approach him.
• At Black Kiln Mountain, Rodis considered a Command Token and hesitated to trade with humans, whom he suspected might be setting a trap.
• Surilen reported that at least two hundred thousand Gray-skinned Goblins had gathered west of Black Kiln Mountain and described the camp’s dwindling forces, weapons, and armor.
• Rodis learned that the Centaurs had exhausted most of the supplies bought from the Dwarves and lamented the losses suffered under his rule.

Surilen led Centaur archers to the Human Army to secure weapons, and Velin negotiated a trade exchanging Dwarven weapons for Gray-skinned Goblin slaves. After the deal was set, Velin brought Kyle’s map to the Twenty-seventh Legion’s command tent.

• Rodis sent Surilen with three hundred Centaur archers to test the humans and obtain weapons, while Rodis prepared to attack the Gray-skinned Goblins.
• Human soldiers intercepted Surilen’s group, but brought them to Rassel after examining Rodis’s Command Token.
• Velin summoned the Centaurs to the main camp and offered more than fifty thousand Dwarven weapons, refusing to sell the Human Army’s own weapons.
• Kyle and Sulun negotiated a deal: every two weapons would be traded for three young and able Gray-skinned Goblin slaves or fourteen elderly, weak, sick, and disabled ones.
• Sulun promised to prepare enough slaves for a trade in half a month, and Velin took Kyle’s redrawn map to meet Burborn, Madmonk, and Bamund.