Chapter Summaries

Ang waited until the Wind Wolf King and its pack had weakened the White Mane Bear, then killed the wounded Level 4 beast and gathered valuable materials. He left the mountain hollow after collecting the White Mane Bear and wind wolf corpses.

• The Wind Wolf King and its pack fought the White Mane Bear until both sides were badly wounded, then twice attempted to retreat before the White Mane Bear forced them away for good.
• The White Mane Bear began eating a wind wolf corpse to regain strength while Ang watched from the shadows.
• Ang charged the exhausted White Mane Bear with his Dragon Thorn Spear and used his Nimble Enchanted Armament to evade its attacks and wound it repeatedly.
• Ang killed the White Mane Bear by driving his spear through its left eye.
• Ang stored the White Mane Bear's valuable parts in the Demon Sealing Box, collected the wind wolf corpses, and left the battlefield.

Ang tracked the centaurs to their hidden canyon settlement and considered recruiting them, but a wind wolf pack trapped the tribe inside. With food dwindling and the wolves maintaining the siege, the centaurs faced an increasingly desperate situation.

• Ang disguised himself as a wetland lizardman, found centaur hunters, and followed them to their concealed canyon home.
• Ang observed the tribe and considered recruiting the centaurs, but their hostile first encounter left him unsure how to approach them.
• A wind wolf pack led by the Wind Wolf King surrounded the canyon, and Selen and Grom prepared the tribe to defend its narrow entrance.
• The centaurs repelled the wolves' first frontal attack, but the pack then blockaded the canyon and waited for them to run out of food.
• Three days later, Grom told Selen that the tribe had food for only three more days, while Ang watched the Wind Wolf King's wounds heal.

Ang approached the trapped centaurs and won their trust by communicating with Seren and providing food. He offered the Nephilim Remnants a safer home in exchange for fighting for him, and Seren brought the proposal to the tribe for consideration.

• Ang flew over the canyon and avoided the wind wolves before approaching the centaurs, who attacked him with stone spears and rocks.
• Ang used his mental field to speak with Seren Silvermane, identified himself, and asked the centaurs to stop attacking.
• Ang gave the starving tribe wind wolf corpses, and the centaurs ate and began to regard him with less suspicion.
• Ang learned that the Nephilim Remnants were the last centaur tribe on the Tasmania Continent and urged Seren to leave their ancestral land before they died out.
• Ang promised the centaurs a safe new home, plentiful food, protection, and a chance to rebuild their population in return for fighting for him.
• Seren shared Ang's offer with the tribe, whose members considered it while some remained doubtful.

Ang showed the Nephile Tribe what life in North Wind Territory could offer, and Saren agreed to join after three centaurs visited 47th City. As the tribe relocated, Ang also received an update on the stalemate against the lizardmen and planned to send explorers toward Valagajudi.

• Ang summoned Quintina through the teleportation array, and she helped three centaurs travel to 47th City to see North Wind Territory.
• Quintina brought Ang wheat cakes, and the centaurs eagerly ate them along with Golden Fruit and Round Beans.
• Three days later, Gromm Splitmane and the other two scouts returned excitedly, while Quintina reported that the fighting against the lizardmen remained deadlocked.
• Ang told Quintina to spread news of Valagajudi’s resources to attract mercenaries and adventurers, and he said willing centaurs would join the cavalry battalion under Slock and Saren.
• Saren agreed to join North Wind Territory and signed a Magic Contract on behalf of the Nephile Tribe.
• Ang arranged for the centaurs to travel to 47th City in batches, and Quintina departed after telling him to be careful.

Ang devised a plan to separate and hunt the Wind Wolf King after its growing pack took over the canyon. He trapped the king in a deep pit, killed it, and collected its valuable remains.

• Ang watched the wind wolves settle in the canyon and abandon his plan to seal them inside when their numbers grew to nearly a thousand.
• Ang crafted fake wind-element bait and concealed a deep pit three kilometers from the canyon.
• The Wind Wolf King followed the bait away from its pack and fell into the pit, where Ang used a soundproof magic array to hide its cries.
• After the king struggled for two days, Ang dropped three High-Explosion Magic Bombs into the pit and buried it beneath rubble.
• Ang waited a week, dug the barely living king out, killed it with the Dragon Thorn Spear, and collected its pelt, magic core, and meat.

Ang crossed the Amos Mountains and explored the Wennerik Rock Desert, where he met Ras and learned that Ras’s small lizardman tribe stayed behind to care for its elderly members. He joined Ras’s hunting trip and learned that sandworms threatened the tribe, leaving his exploration of the desert ongoing.

• Ang sent a magical rice-like plant to 47th City, crossed the Amos Mountains, and flew for nearly a week to reach the desert.
• Ang disguised himself as a lizardman and met Ras, who warned him that the area was No Man's Land.
• Ras took Ang to his underground tribe, where Ang learned that Ras stayed to care for the elderly after the younger lizardmen left.
• Ras told Ang that sandworms attacked the tribe and that other lizardman tribes had moved away to avoid them.
• Ang spent the night with the tribe and promised to see the sandworms when they next appeared.
• Ras took Ang hunting, killed several Sandthorn Lizard Beasts with two other lizardmen, and Ang spotted a Camelback Beast.

Ang helped Lars's tribe avoid a sandworm with a Camelback Beast, witnessed the burial of an elderly Lizardman, and gave Lars a water-gathering rune board before departing. As he crossed the Winneck Rock Desert, Ang discovered an unmarked oasis where many magical beasts gathered to drink.

• Ang led a docile Camelback Beast back to Lars's group, and a sandworm retreated after catching its scent.
• Lars and the tribe mourned and buried an elderly Lizardman, and Lars told Ang he would stay until the last elder had passed away.
• Ang gave Lars a Water Gathering Rune Board and porcelain, then left the next morning to cross the Winneck Rock Desert.
• Ang followed the distribution of cacti and found a hidden oasis beneath a sand dune, where many magical beasts had gathered.

Ang traveled deeper into the Winneck Rock Desert and spotted an Imperial airship carrying Augustus and Tavia, who were searching for a lizardfolk “god.” The two found the hidden lizardfolk beneath the Sand Sea and attacked him, while Ang fled from their battle.

• Ang rested at several oases, confirmed that no lizardfolk tribes were operating in the desert, and changed to traveling at night to avoid the heat.
• Ang saw an Imperial airship carrying Augustus and Tavia, who discussed their years-long search and the stalled Imperial war against the lizardfolk at Fortress of Will.
• Ang narrowly avoided notice as the airship continued into the desert, then traveled to a field of giant cacti and rested in a cooled Marching Tent.
• After rumbling shook the ground, Ang flew up and saw a huge disturbance beneath the Sand Sea near the hovering airship.
• Augustus and Tavia uncovered a hidden stone structure and confronted the lizardfolk they had sought; Augustus shattered its shield, and he and the lizardfolk began fighting.
• Ang watched the powerful battle briefly, then packed his belongings and fled in the opposite direction.

Ang witnessed Augustus and Tavia battle a powerful lizardman, then studied the ruined battlefield before continuing across the desert. After reaching the coast and traveling north through lizardman wetlands, he entered the Lake Grace Volcano Group, where his journey continued across a dangerous volcanic landscape.

• Augustus and Tavia fought the lizardman until they negotiated an agreement, after which Tavia piloted the airship away and the lizardman headed east toward the Amos Mountains.
• Ang watched the battle’s aftermath, studied the legendary warrior’s sword marks for a week, and then resumed his journey across the desert.
• Two months later, Ang crossed the desert and reached an oasis and coastline, then traveled north through wetlands while avoiding lizardman tribes.
• Ang entered the Lake Grace Volcano Group and cautiously advanced through lava fields and volcanic rock.

Ang crossed deeper into the volcanic region and found a lone Minotaur named Dana living among abandoned stone huts. After a hostile first encounter, Ang befriended Dana and began learning about the Minotaurs who lived nearby.

• Ang and the Camelback Beast went around a wide lava river by following it downstream to a cooled passage.
• Ang spotted a village of stone huts and approached while disguised as a lizardfolk.
• Dana attacked Ang, but Ang disarmed him and questioned him about the beastfolk living in the volcanic region.
• Ang revealed his human form, introduced himself through a soul force field, and learned that Dana had other Minotaurs living elsewhere.
• Dana took Ang to his hut, prepared roasted Maned Beast meat, and shared a meal with him.

Ang befriended a minotaur who had stayed behind while his tribe migrated to escape a coming volcanic eruption, and learned that lizardmen had driven the minotaurs from their ancestral lands. Ang agreed to visit the tribe with him, and as they traveled, the minotaur’s curiosity and fighting antics became clear.

• Ang made icy fruit-and-ale drinks for the minotaur, who explained that his people moved between settlements to avoid volcanic eruptions.
• The minotaur tried and failed to learn shapeshifting, then told Ang how lizardmen had driven the minotaurs from their fertile ancestral lands into the volcanic region.
• Ang asked to see how the minotaur’s people lived, and the minotaur agreed to lead him to their new gathering place.
• On the journey, the minotaur repeatedly provoked magical beasts, and Ang killed a Blazing Earth Lizard that had overpowered him.
• The minotaur expertly skinned the Blazing Earth Lizard with Ang’s knife, and Ang gave him the knife as a gift.

Ang accompanied Dana to the Stonehorn Tribe, seeing the harsh volcanic lands the Minotaurs lived in and hearing Dana question why intelligent races had to fight. Dana returned to a warm welcome and found the tribe had built him a new stone house.

• Ang healed the Camelback Beast’s injured hooves and wrapped them to protect them from the volcanic rocks.
• Dana grew angry after Ang described the Lizardmen’s fertile territory, then fell quiet as they discussed whether intelligent races could coexist.
• Ang and Dana reached the Minotaurs’ new settlement, where Dana eagerly used Ang’s telescope to look at it.
• Aunt Beibei welcomed Dana back and explained that the chief had expected him to return before lava flooded the old settlement.
• The Stonehorn Tribe’s chief and members warmly greeted Dana and welcomed Ang, who introduced himself in Orcish.
• Dana found the stone house the tribe had built for him and recognized its familiar furnishings.

Ang explored the Stonehorn Tribe and spoke with its chief, Herug, about the Lizardmen, the Minotaurs' decline, and a safer route through the volcanoes. He traded rune tablets and refreshments with the tribe, then began arranging for materials to forge weapons for its warriors.

• Ang explored the Stonehorn Tribe, met its chief Herug, and learned that the Stonehorn Tribe was the last Minotaur tribe in the Lake Gress Mountain Range.
• Herug marked a safer route through the Lake Grace Volcano Group on Ang's map and recalled that airborne visitors had passed through years earlier.
• Ang gave skinning knives to Dana and the young Minotaurs, then sold Herug two Water Gathering Rune Boards for magic crystals.
• Ang demonstrated an Ice Rune Tablet by making Wild Fruit Mead Slushie, prompting Herug to buy ten Ice Rune Tablets and twenty Water Gathering Rune Boards.
• Ang offered to customize weapons for the Minotaurs and showed Herug ore samples; Herug sent warriors to find similar ore, and they returned with several promising chunks.
• Ang examined the ore and told Herug that the tribe would need to mine more of it to arm every warrior.

Ang forged enchanted weapons for the Stonehorn Tribe, and Herug used a new warhammer to defeat a Lava Roaring Tiger after it attacked Dana. The Minotaurs celebrated, while Ang considered the beast and Herug’s strength.

• The Minotaurs searched the mountains for ore while Ang smelted it beside a Magma Lake and forged a rune-engraved giant axe and warhammer for Herug.
• Ben warned Herug that Dana had provoked a Lava Roaring Tiger, and Herug rushed to help with Ang following.
• Ang healed the badly burned Dana as Herug faced the Level 4 beast and fought it with the new warhammer.
• Herug shattered the tiger’s magma armor, battered it to death, and earned cheers from the Minotaurs.
• Ang healed Herug’s wounds and reflected on the Lava Roaring Tiger’s power and Herug’s strength.

Ang helped the Stonehorn Tribe grow stronger, but Herug refused to relocate until Ang could defeat the lizardmen. Dana then joined Ang on his journey north, and the two reached Betas Plain after crossing the volcanic region and facing lizardmen along the way.

• The minotaurs feasted on the Lava Roaring Tiger, and Herug gave its hide to Ang as thanks.
• Ang forged nearly two hundred metal weapons and supplied the tribe with necessities, then asked Herug to move the Stonehorn Tribe to North Wind Territory; Herug declined until Ang could defeat the lizardmen.
• Ang left the tribe, and Dana revealed he was following him with Herug and the tribe's approval, so Ang agreed to take him along.
• Ang and Dana crossed the Lake Grace Volcano Group, and Dana became troubled by the tribe's harsh living conditions and vowed to grow strong enough to drive out the lizardmen.
• The pair fought several lizardman tribes as they traveled north, and Dana grew calmer and more skilled in battle.
• Ang and Dana reached Betas Plain by traveling along the coastline, with Dana more thoughtful and responsible after their journey.

Ang and Dana rescued Linya from pursuing lizardmen, and she joined their journey. Linya told them about her Half-Elf heritage and her missing parents, while Ang reassured Dana that he would be treated fairly in North Wind Territory and Amnath.

• Dana spotted lizardmen chasing Linya across the plain, and Ang lowered a rope so she could climb the cliff to safety.
• Ang, Dana, and Linya escaped on Camelback Beasts, and Ang flew ahead on his Magic Broom to confirm the lizardmen had stopped pursuing them.
• Linya thanked Ang and Dana, then asked to travel with them, and they welcomed her into their group.
• Linya explained that she was a Half-Elf born in the Archipelago Plane and that her parents had disappeared more than ten years earlier while searching for elven tribes.
• Dana objected to the Empire’s prejudice against Half-Elves, and Ang promised that Dana would be treated equally in North Wind Territory and Amnath.

Ang, Linya, and Dana crossed Betas Plain and infiltrated a Lizardman tribe using Shapeshifting to learn why its warriors were gathering. They discovered a planned advance toward the Litchfield Plains and ended the chapter discussing how to uncover the Lizardmen’s intentions.

• Linya told Ang she was determined to find other intelligent races, and Ang suggested searching extreme environments where Lizardmen were unlikely to live.
• Ang, Linya, and Dana crossed Betas Plain for more than twenty days, evading patrols and fighting increasingly aggressive Lizardmen.
• Ang transformed himself into a Lizardman and learned to use Shapeshifting on Linya and Dana so the three could infiltrate a nearby tribe.
• Ang learned that a Lizardman Legendary Expert had ordered tribes to prepare for a large-scale operation, and a warrior said their god had summoned them to march to the Litchfield Plains.
• Linya warned that the Litchfield Plains held Fortress of Will’s defensive line, and Ang speculated that the Empire’s Legendary Experts and the Lizardmen might have reached an agreement.

Ang sabotaged and nearly destroyed a Lizardmen tribe preparing to join a southern army, then fled north with Linya and Dana. Three surviving Lizardman Great Warriors pursued them, and the group escaped on their Camelback Beast across the eastern plains.

• Ang confirmed that the migrating Lizardmen planned to join other tribes and form an army, then sent Linya and Dana away while he stayed behind to attack.
• Ang dropped magical incendiary bombs across the Lizardmen camp, setting its supplies and ground lizards ablaze and killing most of the forty thousand Lizardmen.
• Ang returned the next morning and used poison arrows and magical bombs against the survivors, believing he had wiped out the tribe.
• Three wounded Lizardman Great Warriors survived and followed Ang, Linya, and Dana north after treating their poison with a magical herb.
• Ang gave Linya and Dana stamina potions, led them on a daylong escape, and found their hidden Camelback Beast so they could ride farther east.

Ang and his companions used poison traps and false trails to weaken the Lizardman Great Warriors pursuing them. By the end, two pursuers had died, while the taller lizardman continued after Linya and Dana.

• The three Lizardman Great Warriors tracked Ang's group east, and Ang warned Dana that they would keep pursuing until they were dead.
• Linya sensed a faint presence behind them, so Ang set a concealed poison trap that killed the shorter lizardman when he sniffed a stone.
• Ang split from Linya and Dana to create a false trail, then planted a bomb carrying fire toxin along his route.
• The two remaining Lizardman Great Warriors split up, with the taller lizardman following Linya and Dana and the burly lizardman chasing Ang.
• The burly lizardman triggered Ang's trap, was consumed by the fire toxin, and died.

Ang, Linya, and Dana prepared an ambush for the pursuing Lizardman Great Warrior, equipping themselves and setting traps on a concealed slope. They wounded him in a coordinated attack, but his regeneration and strength kept him dangerous as the fight continued.

• Ang hid the Camelback Beasts in a magically dug cave and outfitted Dana with plate armor while lending Linya the Swift Wind bow and poison arrows.
• Ang set magical traps as the three concealed themselves and waited for the Lizardman Great Warrior, whose weakened aura suggested the earlier traps had injured him.
• Linya's first arrows failed to pierce the lizardman's aura, but Ang trapped him in a Mud Swamp Technique and Linya's poison arrow burst into poisonous mist.
• Ang wounded the lizardman, but his wound rapidly healed, and the warrior kicked Ang away before turning to face Dana's attack.
• Dana struck the lizardman's shoulder, Ang slashed his back, and Linya pierced his shoulder with an arrow, drawing a shocked and furious reaction.