Chapter Summaries

Captain Fox’s merchant ship came under attack from a Vanriel warship, but Nymph infiltrated the enemy vessel’s magical circuits and destroyed it. Tilia watched the warship sink and reconsidered Nymph’s combat strength.

• Captain Fox ordered the Black Raven’s crew to fire on the approaching Vanriel warship, but its barrier deflected the shells.
• Tilia blasted the warship with a crimson torrent, but its barrier withstood her attack.
• Nymph said the fight was already over and overloaded the warship’s magic energy engine through its magical circuits.
• The warship’s Magic Cannons exploded when its crew fired on the Black Raven, and an unknown reaction in its magic energy core caused the ship to explode and sink.
• Tilia asked Nymph if she had destroyed the warship, and Nymph confirmed that she had.

Fang Zheng faced the Dragon Lich and its airborne Undead Bone Dragons, then summoned Malthael from a Soul Stone to defeat them. Malthael destroyed the Bone Dragons and consumed the Dragon Lich’s soul, completing Fang Zheng’s mission.

• The Dragon Lich sent hundreds of Undead Bone Dragons after Fang Zheng at Chaos Fortress.
• Fang Zheng summoned Malthael using a Soul Stone, terrifying the Dragon Lich and stopping the Bone Dragons’ charge.
• Malthael engulfed the Bone Dragons in death mist and devoured their souls.
• The Dragon Lich tried to flee, but Malthael cut it down and tore its soul from its body.
• Fang Zheng refused the Dragon Lich’s offer to serve him, and Malthael consumed its soul despite its threat that the Myriad Death Society would retaliate.
• Fang Zheng saw that the mission was complete, though he regretted using another Soul Stone.

Hecate overwhelmed Waist in their battle at sea, revealing power he recognized as Transcendent. She identified herself as the Pinnacle Seat before erasing him, leaving no trace behind.

• Waist realized Hecate's azure flames devoured the existence of his water creatures and that her power surpassed his expectations.
• An explosion drew Waist's attention to a burning warship sinking into the sea, leaving him worried that he had lost his way home.
• Hecate attacked Waist with starlight, but he escaped by turning his pierced body into water and reappearing in the waves.
• Waist unleashed a massive wave, storm, and lightning at Hecate, but she dispersed them with a tap of her tin staff and shattered his domain weapon.
• Waist recognized Hecate's power as Transcendent, and Hecate named herself the Pinnacle Seat before an azure beam erased him completely.

After Fang Zheng defeated the Dragon Lich and cleared Bay of Lost Souls, O'Glan proposed that the Platinum Family redevelop it into a major harbor. Fang Zheng negotiated for a substantial share, hoping to use the port to supply Heavenly Dao Palace, while the others watched in confusion.

• Fang Zheng learned that Nymph and Hecate had defeated Vanriel's forces, then explained that a Dragon Lich had caused the haunting at Bay of Lost Souls.
• Captain Fox asked about the dead sailors' souls, and Fang Zheng said they had probably been freed from the Dragon Lich's control.
• O'Glan proposed that the Platinum Family restore Bay of Lost Souls as a deep-water port and offered Fang Zheng a share of the profits.
• Fang Zheng countered with demands for a larger share, citing his role in clearing the bay and offering military protection.
• Nanali, Kuria, and the others watched in confusion as Fang Zheng and O'Glan continued bargaining over the harbor.

Fang Zheng finalized a deal with O'Glan for a share of Golden Bay's operating rights before bringing his companions to a tiny reef he had purchased. After the Black Raven departed, he deployed the Heavenly Dao Palace, and an enormous shadow appeared above them.

• Fang Zheng and O'Glan negotiated an agreement giving him thirty percent of Golden Bay's operating rights, with additional terms for military assistance.
• Fang Zheng's group arrived at the reef, and O'Glan and Kuria questioned whether anyone could live there.
• Fang Zheng paid Captain Fox and confirmed the remaining arrangements with O'Glan before parting ways with them.
• Fang Zheng and his companions teleported onto the reef, and Captain Fox sailed the Black Raven back toward port.
• Fang Zheng opened the Dimensional Codex and deployed the Heavenly Dao Palace, causing an enormous shadow to appear overhead.

Fang Zheng brought Kuria and Nanali to the Heavenly Dao Palace and began arranging homes and facilities so the small group could live there comfortably. After exchanging for a French Garden Villa and a Coffee Shop, he struggled to choose which Alchemy Workshop to get for Nanali.

• Fang Zheng revealed the Heavenly Dao Palace Floating Island as the group's new home, startling Kuria and Nanali.
• Fang Zheng transformed the island's surroundings into a lush landscape and showed the group the palace grounds.
• Kuria asked for a villa with a garden, while Nanali requested a sturdy Alchemy Workshop and said she hoped everyone could live together.
• Fang Zheng exchanged 1,000 Furniture Coins for a French Garden Villa and also chose a Coffee Shop for the group.
• Fang Zheng found many eligible Alchemy Workshops in the Dimensional Codex and could not decide which one to choose.

Fang Zheng established a Garden Villa and several functional buildings in Heavenly Dao Palace, then settled the girls into their rooms. He entered the Coffee Shop and was greeted by its lone attendant, while considering how he might bring residents from other worlds to the palace.

• Fang Zheng exchanged 3,500 Furniture Coins for a Garden Villa, a Coffee Shop, a restaurant, and Totori's Workshop.
• Fang Zheng showed the group their new home and let them choose their rooms; Hecate steered Tilia away and arranged for Nymph to stay beside Fang Zheng.
• Fang Zheng explored the villa, found that its computer only had a local network, and decided to visit the Coffee Shop.
• Fang Zheng considered inviting people from other worlds to Heavenly Dao Palace, but concluded that few of his acquaintances could leave their current lives.
• Fang Zheng opened the Coffee Shop door, and a petite attendant welcomed him to Rabbit House.

Fang Zheng relaxed at a Coffee Shop and enjoyed cappuccino and cake before Nymph, Tilia, Hecate, Nanali, and Kuria arrived. The group tried coffee for the first time, while Nanali mistook it for an alchemical potion and startled the barista, Chino Kafu.

• Fang Zheng ordered cappuccino and cake from the quiet barista and enjoyed the hand-brewed coffee.
• Nymph, Tilia, Hecate, Nanali, and Kuria joined Fang Zheng at the Coffee Shop.
• Fang Zheng explained coffee to Nanali and Kuria and asked the barista to prepare cups for them.
• Nanali questioned Chino Kafu about whether coffee was an alchemical potion and what effects it had.
• Kuria pulled Nanali away and apologized to Chino Kafu, who resumed brewing while wondering about the unusual group.

After a leisurely evening with the others, Fang Zheng tried to figure out how to use the Eye of Myriad Phenomena. He learned that he needed to raise Gene Absorption to B-rank, but activating it triggered a strange bloodline absorption that left him unconscious.

• Nanali and Kuria enjoyed their first coffee at Rabbit House, then the group shared a meal prepared by cat chefs.
• Nanali wished for small animals to enliven the grasslands, but Fang Zheng said that option was still locked.
• Fang Zheng tried several phrases and rituals with the Eye of Myriad Phenomena before cutting his finger and triggering a hidden mission.
• The mission revealed that Fang Zheng needed to raise Gene Absorption to B-rank and complete the activation in an open area.
• Fang Zheng upgraded Gene Absorption, and the system began absorbing an essence of racial bloodline through the Eye of Myriad Phenomena.
• A searing heat erupted from Fang Zheng's right hand, and his vision went dark.

Fang Zheng awakened as a Time Dragon after absorbing the Eye of Myriad Phenomena’s bloodline and learned about his new time-based abilities. Unable to return to human form until he gained more Power of Time, he entered the Body World to seek it.

• Fang Zheng woke in a huge dragon body and discovered his reflection showed a Time Dragon.
• The Dimensional Codex revealed that Fang Zheng had gained the Time Dragon bloodline, increased attributes, and new abilities including Time Manipulation and Kin Conversion.
• Fang Zheng learned that Time Dragons could plunder time, exile targets from the present, borrow extra time, and grow unpredictably by consuming stolen time.
• Fang Zheng realized he needed more Power of Time to become a young dragon and regain his human form.
• Fang Zheng chose the Body World and entered it through the Dimensional Codex.

Fang Zheng explored a ruined modern Earth and encountered a fire dragon, learning that his time-based abilities could reverse its flames and drain its lifespan. After killing it, he flew off to search for more food in the seemingly destroyed world.

• Fang Zheng searched an ash-covered city and found no signs of survivors or other living creatures.
• A red fire dragon attacked Fang Zheng, but he reversed its fire breath with a surge of time and sent it crashing to the ground.
• Fang Zheng discovered the fire dragon was a wild beast that could not understand him, then used Plundering Breath to drain its lifespan until it became bones.
• Fang Zheng learned that the fire dragon yielded about fifty years of time, though the last portion felt rotten and difficult to digest.
• Fang Zheng concluded that humanity might be extinct and flew into the sky to find more creatures to eat.

Fang Zheng hunted fire dragons to plunder their time and tested how his Dragon Breath inflicted aging and death. After a black fire dragon egg hatched, the newborn dragon mistook Fang Zheng for its parent and nuzzled him.

• Fang Zheng used his time-based powers to slow, weaken, and kill a swarm of fire dragons with his Dragon Breath.
• Fang Zheng explained that he had spent about ten days studying the scientific nature of the world’s fire dragons and hunting them to gather time.
• Fang Zheng described filtering the aging and death traits from plundered time, then expelling them as a lethal Dragon Breath.
• Fang Zheng examined the eggs in a collapsed fire dragon nest and heard one crack.
• A black fire dragon hatched from the egg, saw Fang Zheng, and rubbed against him as though he were its parent.

Fang Zheng raised an unusually clever, fragile Little Fire Dragon while hunting Fire Dragons for the Power of Time he needed to grow stronger. He sensed a human being chased through the ruins and arrived just as the rider escaped a Fire Dragon’s attack, leaving her horse burned to charcoal.

• Fang Zheng brought a shark back to the Dock, where the Little Fire Dragon cooked and ate it before studying a picture book.
• Fang Zheng reflected that he had absorbed only a little over half the Power of Time he needed, despite clearing out Fire Dragon packs across much of Europe.
• Fang Zheng sensed a human nearby and took the Little Fire Dragon with him to investigate.
• Fang Zheng found a woman fleeing on horseback from a Fire Dragon as her exhausted horse collapsed.
• The woman rolled clear as the Fire Dragon’s flames burned her horse to charcoal.

Fang Zheng rescued a woman from a fire dragon and introduced himself as Neltharion, Guardian Dragon and King of Earth. He declared that he had come to wipe out the fire dragons, and the woman learned he was not their leader but their enemy.

• Fang Zheng pinned down a fire dragon, drained it into a withered husk, and reduced it to bones with black mist.
• The rider fainted after meeting Fang Zheng’s gaze, and he carried the unconscious human away to talk with them later.
• Fang Zheng reflected on how fire dragons had devastated the world and watched as the blonde woman woke beside his campfire.
• The woman panicked when she saw Fang Zheng, then was shocked when he spoke her language.
• Fang Zheng called himself Neltharion, Guardian of the earth and King of Earth, and told the woman he had come to wipe out the fire dragons.

Fang Zheng learned how the fire dragons had devastated Earth and agreed to take the scavenger woman back to her settlement. When they arrived, he found it under attack and prepared to intervene.

• Fang Zheng told the woman he protected Earth, not humanity, and asked her to explain the world’s condition.
• The woman explained that fire dragons had overwhelmed humanity, that their largest swarm was believed to be in Britain, and that her settlement was running short of supplies.
• Fang Zheng offered to carry the woman home, then lifted her in his claw and flew with her and Little Fire Dragon over the mountain.
• They found the woman’s settlement under siege by fire dragons, and she pleaded with Fang Zheng to save her companions.
• Fang Zheng agreed to fight and lunged toward the factory.

Fang Zheng arrived at the factory in his dragon form and used his Dragon Might and lightning to defeat the fire dragons. After leaving the stunned woman behind, he flew away, pleased with his dramatic display.

• A man ran out of ammunition while defending his injured companion from a fire dragon.
• The fire dragons sensed Fang Zheng approaching and fled, then landed and bowed in fear when he descended.
• Fang Zheng threatened the fire dragons and summoned a storm of lightning that killed them.
• Fang Zheng set down the woman he had been carrying, told her to survive, and flew away.

Fang Zheng crossed into Britain while pursuing the fire dragons, searching for the alpha dragon he believed was missing from the hordes. He and Little Fire Dragon heard an airplane engine overhead and went to investigate.

• Fang Zheng encountered survivors who viewed him as a savior, an enemy to kill, or a Dragon Knight’s patron, while some begged him to destroy humanity.
• Fang Zheng used Dragon Breath to kill a group of humans who wanted to become his followers and help bring about humanity’s destruction.
• Fang Zheng concluded that the fire dragons lacked an apparent leader and were all female, which left him wondering how they reproduced.
• Fang Zheng entered Britain and heard an airplane engine, then agreed to investigate with Little Fire Dragon.

Fang Zheng and Little Fire Dragon encountered American military aircraft before Fang Zheng hunted a swarm of fire dragons in Manchester. He left to search for the dragon leader while an armed helicopter crew watched him and wondered if he was the rumored Guardian of the Earth.

• Fang Zheng spotted two American transport planes and an attack helicopter, then approached them while invisible with Little Fire Dragon.
• Little Fire Dragon flew beside a transport plane, bumped it, and returned to Fang Zheng when the humans inside failed to respond.
• Fang Zheng avoided the military aircraft after noticing they carried soldiers, tanks, and armored vehicles, and continued toward Manchester.
• Fang Zheng trapped hundreds of fire dragons with Dragon Might and the Power of Time, then drained their life and destroyed them with a black storm.
• Fang Zheng decided he needed to find the dragon leader and flew away as an armed helicopter crew wondered if he was the Guardian of the Earth.

Fang Zheng struggled to locate the lead fire dragon while adapting his divination magic to his Time Dragon powers. He spotted people gathering fruit in a ruined field, but a fire dragon attacked them before he could approach.

• Fang Zheng reflected on how his Time Dragon bloodline had transformed his divination spells and considered asking Rex for help improving his Command spells.
• Fang Zheng discovered a vegetable plot among the ruins and saw several people arrive to pick its fruit.
• A second vehicle arrived, and its occupants argued with the fruit pickers beside the field.
• A fire dragon swooped down, and the people fled toward their vehicles before it engulfed the vehicles in flames.

Fang Zheng saved a group of humans from fire dragons and learned that London was where the dragons first appeared. He flew toward the ruined city with Little Fire Dragon, ready to face the fire dragons gathered there.

• Fang Zheng struck down a fire dragon with lightning and helped the humans extinguish the flames.
• The humans recognized Fang Zheng as Neltharion, the Guardian of the Earth, and one man asked him to save them.
• Fang Zheng questioned the humans about the fire dragons’ origins, and their leader pointed him toward London.
• Fang Zheng restored the scorched fields to life before flying southwest toward London with Little Fire Dragon.
• Fang Zheng arrived at the ruined city, where a host of fire dragons gathered to confront him.