Chapter Summaries

Fang Zheng defeated the fire dragon swarm and absorbed the Power of Time from a massive male dragon, triggering a growth-induced sleep. He found shelter in an old air-raid shelter and fell asleep with Little Fire Dragon beside him, while silver-white particles began flowing into Little Fire Dragon.

• Fang Zheng used lightning, Twilight Judgment, and the Death Cloud to destroy the attacking fire dragons.
• Fang Zheng subdued and drained the massive male fire dragon, absorbing its Power of Time.
• Fang Zheng grew drowsy and flew to an exposed air-raid shelter beyond the city ruins.
• Fang Zheng apologized to Little Fire Dragon, told it to rely on what he had taught it, and fell asleep.
• Little Fire Dragon curled up in Fang Zheng's arms and fell asleep beside him.
• Silver-white particles formed a barrier around the sleeping Fang Zheng, and some flowed into Little Fire Dragon.

Fang Zheng completed his evolution into a young Time Dragon with Zerg enhancements and discovered that Little Fire Dragon had transformed as well. He awakened his familiar, who became a little girl and called him “Mommy.”

• Fang Zheng watched his Time Dragon and Zerg genes stabilize, completing his growth into a young dragon.
• Fang Zheng saw that his dragon form had grown larger and changed color, and he discovered his new abilities on the panel.
• Fang Zheng transformed back into human form wearing armor and clothing made from his dragon scales and Zerg traits.
• Fang Zheng found that Little Fire Dragon had become smaller and changed to resemble his Time Dragon form.
• Fang Zheng used Awakening on Little Fire Dragon, who transformed into a little girl and called him “Mommy.”

Fang Zheng named the newly transformed Dragon Kin Wendy and brought her back to the Main World, where she joined his companions. He then returned with Nymph to Rex’s Mage Tower to discuss what came next and return the Tome of Ten Thousand Laws.

• Fang Zheng named the Little Fire Dragon Wendy and discovered her time-based healing and support abilities, which she could use only three times a day.
• Fang Zheng left the fire-dragon world with Wendy and several fire dragon corpses, intending to have Milune study whether their genes could improve the Mutalisks.
• Fang Zheng introduced Wendy to his companions, and Nanali and Kuria happily petted her.
• Fang Zheng told Tilia and Hecate to guard the house, then took Nymph through Rex’s teleportation gate to the Mage Tower.
• Fang Zheng entered Rex’s room and greeted his mentor, intending to discuss what came next and return the Tome of Ten Thousand Laws.

Rex explained why the White Tower of Heaven welcomed Fang Zheng after his actions against the Castina Family and offered him a path to become an official mage. Fang Zheng received a badge and parchment for the upcoming graduation assessment, then began to ask Rex about other matters.

• Rex told Fang Zheng that the Castina Family led the Holy Kingdom faction that opposed mages, and praised him for weakening them.
• Rex informed Fang Zheng that the White Tower had accepted him and gave him ten days to reach the tower for a graduation assessment.
• Rex explained that Fang Zheng would take the assessment alongside White Tower apprentices, foreign mages, and knight apprentices from the Sanctum of Contemplation.
• Rex described how the Fire Dragon Legion and Scales Merchant Guild would also participate, and warned Fang Zheng to avoid killing their members.
• Rex outlined the benefits of passing, including official mage status and the right to build a Mage Tower, then asked why Fang Zheng had come to see him.
• Fang Zheng told Rex he had questions to ask.

Fang Zheng reviewed his progress with Rex and waited at the White Tower of Heaven for the graduation assessment, where teams selected outside assistants by drawing numbers. He was the last mage called, and his assessment was about to begin.

• Fang Zheng had learned from Rex to use his dragon bloodline to analyze and cast spells, but he still could not advance into the Legendary Domain.
• Rex promised to introduce Fang Zheng to someone who might help him understand how to become Legendary after the assessment.
• Fang Zheng learned that teams in the graduation assessment selected outside assistants at random before drawing a test for their team.
• Fang Zheng received number 9 and waited while the other mages were called and recognized by the audience.
• Fang Zheng was the last mage backstage, and he walked out after his number was called.

Fang Zheng was assigned as an assistant to a team that included Fina and Miss M, whom he unexpectedly met during the assessment. After escaping the attention of the crowd, he learned who the other members were and noticed their team seemed incomplete.

• Hailien drew the last remaining number, and the inspector announced that her team had drawn number 9.
• Fang Zheng arrived as the team’s assistant with Nymph, prompting a mocking remark from a rival mage before Fina and Miss M recognized him.
• Fang Zheng greeted Fina and Miss M, and the crowd reacted to rumors about his identity and past deeds.
• Fang Zheng and the girls left the crowd for a tavern, where Fina introduced Miss M, Hailien, and Katie as the team members.
• Fang Zheng noticed Katie’s and Hailien’s nervousness and asked why their team seemed short on members.

Fang Zheng learned why Fina, Miss M, Hailien, and Katie had formed a small team, and he helped Katie feel comfortable by letting her remain in Stealth. The team then began discussing its assessment mission.

• Fina explained that only four people remained in the team because Miss M struggled with strangers, Katie was unwanted by others, Hailien refused to team up with them, and Fina had arrived late.
• Hailien identified herself as a Feral Hunter Warlock who awakened the power of her dragon blood.
• Katie revealed that she was a rogue who liked sneaking because nobody noticed her.
• Fang Zheng and the others agreed that Katie could stay in Stealth, and she vanished from sight.
• Fang Zheng turned to Hailien and asked what their assessment mission was.

Fang Zheng and the four girls learned that their graduation mission was to investigate strange lights at Ice and Snow Peak, where tensions among humans, elves, dwarves, and other races could make the task politically troublesome. Fang Zheng became team Captain, and the group prepared to go despite their unusual mix of national affiliations.

• Hailien read the mission scroll, which tasked the group with investigating and resolving strange lights at Ice and Snow Peak within two months.
• Fina explained that the area was home to elves, dwarves, and Frost Giants, and might also see Dark Elves during hunting season, making the mission fraught with inter-racial tensions.
• The group learned that the Haefaris Guild, which wanted to expand human influence in the region, had commissioned the mission.
• Fang Zheng proposed asking local residents about the lights and leaving any matter involving native races to local authorities; the others took heart from his plan.
• Hailien, the Astrologer, and Katie urged Fang Zheng to become Captain, and he accepted.
• Fang Zheng asked why the girls from different nations had formed a team, and each explained that she was unconcerned about political criticism.

Fang Zheng and his group found no clues about the reported light or the missing Haefaris Guild, but his divination pointed them toward Ice and Snow Peak. After someone bought every horse and mule in town, they encountered the arrogant person responsible.

• Fang Zheng brought Little Fire Dragon along after it cried for him, and used the Mobius ring to swap Tilia and Nymph’s positions so he could retrieve it.
• Fang Zheng and the girls learned from a tavern owner that nobody nearby had seen the strange light at Ice and Snow Peak.
• Fina led the group to the Haefaris Guild branch, where they discovered it had moved away a month earlier.
• Fang Zheng examined the mission request, used a Divination Spell, and decided the group should continue to Ice and Snow Peak.
• Fang Zheng and the girls found that someone had bought all the horses and mules, and an arrogant voice addressed Hailien as the Flame Lady.

Fang Zheng and his companions encountered Hax and his wealthy, domineering mistress at the market. After she tried to buy Fang Zheng and ordered Bolt to seize him, Fang Zheng defeated Bolt with a single strike and left, while the woman vowed to claim him.

• Hax insulted Hailien and her companions, and Fang Zheng stepped in to confront him.
• A richly adorned Dragon Carriage arrived carrying Hax's mistress, who offered Fang Zheng fifty million gold coins to become her servant and demanded his Little Fire Dragon.
• Fang Zheng ignored the woman's offer and started to leave with the others, so she ordered Bolt to catch him.
• Bolt attacked Fang Zheng from behind, but Fang Zheng blocked his strike with Vampire and unleashed the Power of Existence, leaving Bolt badly wounded.
• Hax rushed to Bolt as Fang Zheng walked away, and the woman declared that she would claim Fang Zheng no matter the cost.

Fang Zheng took Fina and the others toward Ice and Snow Peak in a Wanderer-class lander, driving so recklessly that most of the passengers became violently ill. By the Forest of Life, the group had arrived far sooner than expected, but Katie had fainted and several others were barely able to stand.

• Fang Zheng summoned a Wanderer-class planetary lander outside the city and took the girls aboard.
• Fang Zheng claimed to be an experienced driver, then sped down the road while Nymph and the others warned him about obstacles.
• Fang Zheng used a nitrous boost and drove the group to the edge of the Forest of Life by sunset.
• Hailien and Fina collapsed from motion sickness, while the Astrologer praised Fang Zheng's driving.
• Nymph told Fang Zheng that Katie had fainted.

Hax and Bolt worried that their assessment mission might conflict with the rival team’s, while their wealthy sponsor demanded that they find Fang Zheng. Fang Zheng searched Ice and Snow Peak for the mission’s promised midnight light but found no sign of it, leaving the mission’s mystery unresolved.

• Hax and Bolt discussed their sponsor’s obsession with Fang Zheng and Hax’s plan to use Hailien’s connection to him against her.
• Bolt warned Hax that the rival team’s assessment mission might overlap with theirs, then hinted that Hax could use a family treasure.
• Hax refused to rely on the treasure and argued that his team could finish the assessment before their rivals.
• Fang Zheng watched Ice and Snow Peak at midnight but saw no light, despite the mission description.
• Nymph reported that her radar detected no abnormalities or fluctuations around the peak.

Fang Zheng accompanied Fina and the others through the Forest of Life while letting them handle the combat assessment. When goblins attacked, the team revealed their unconventional fighting styles and defeated them.

• Fang Zheng gave up his idea of using the Wanderer to clear a road after the others objected.
• Katie scouted ahead and reported twenty goblins, so Fina and the others formed up to fight while Fang Zheng stayed back to support them.
• Fina took the frontline with a shield and Meteor Hammer, the Astrologer summoned a starry bow, and Hailien moved to the rear.
• The Astrologer killed the lead goblin with an arrow, then Hailien summoned a flaming tiger as the goblins charged.
• Fina fought with her Meteor Hammer while Katie attacked from hiding with magic items, and the team overwhelmed the goblins.

After the group defeated more than twenty Goblins, Fang Zheng discovered an elven-patterned blade among their weapons, suggesting something was wrong in the forest. Nymph detected Goblins and several barely alive unidentified beings to the northeast, and Fang Zheng hurried off to investigate while the others rested.

• Fina and Katie recovered from vomiting after seeing the Goblin corpses, while Hailien slept from the strain of her battle.
• Katie explained that Feral Hunter Warlocks used weapons linked to their Dragon Blood and that their fighting style burdened their Mental Plane.
• Fang Zheng noticed that a Goblin's curved blade was unusually well-maintained and bore elegant silver elven patterns.
• Nymph detected many Goblin life-signs and several unidentified beings with extremely weak vital signs five hundred meters northeast.
• Fang Zheng told the others to rest and vanished to investigate the beings and deal with the Goblins.

Molly and the captive elves faced torture at the hands of goblins, and Molly was stabbed as they began to attack her. Just as a goblin pressed toward her, time stopped.

• The goblins dragged Molly’s patrol captain away and left her hanging, while Molly tried to shield the two younger elves beside her.
• The goblins seized Molly and dragged her from the cage as her younger sisters screamed.
• A goblin tore Molly’s Leather Armor and stabbed her in the lower abdomen when she tried to endure silently.
• Molly screamed and struggled as the goblins prepared to attack her, and time stopped at the moment she wished it would freeze.

Fang Zheng rescued Molly and the other elves from a goblin prison, using Wendy’s Time Rewind to restore their injuries. Molly revealed that a mysterious black shadow had helped capture her patrol, while the elves knew nothing about the lights reported on Ice and Snow Peak.

• Fang Zheng killed the goblins holding Molly and found her wounded among the captured elves.
• Molly told Fang Zheng that her patrol had been attacked that morning and that all her companions were imprisoned nearby.
• Fang Zheng pulled out Molly’s dagger and ordered Wendy to rewind time seven hours, restoring the elves’ injuries.
• Fang Zheng freed the elves and covered them with cloaks, and Molly thanked him for saving them.
• Molly explained that nearly a hundred goblins had attacked her patrol before a terrifying black shadow appeared and she lost consciousness.
• Fang Zheng asked about the reported lights on Ice and Snow Peak, but Molly said the elves had seen none.

Fang Zheng and the others rescued the surviving elves and mourned those killed by the goblins, while he considered the possibility that a powerful dragon had controlled the goblins. He explained to Katie and Fina that people choose their own paths and must accept the consequences.

• Nymph and the others arrived, and Fang Zheng left the surviving elves in their care while he searched the cave for clues but found nothing useful.
• Fang Zheng used Nymph's radar search to check for the mysterious figure, then suspected it might have used Dragon Might to make the elves faint.
• Fina said the elves' magic power had been drained despite their claim that they had cast no spells, and she used a Divine Art to calm their minds.
• Fang Zheng, Fina, and Katie watched the survivors mourn the dead elves, and Katie questioned why evil monsters existed in an orderly world.
• Fang Zheng told Katie that good and evil came from individual choices, and he told Fina that people had to accept the consequences of their choices.

After rescuing the elves, Fang Zheng and his companions accepted an invitation to visit their village, where the elves welcomed them with a song for the returning survivors. As the group settled in, the elf Captain invited them to a banquet, while Fang Zheng hurriedly stopped Nymph from singing.

• The elf Captain thanked Fang Zheng for rescuing and avenging her kin, then offered his group shelter and help before their journey to Ice and Snow Peak.
• Fang Zheng accepted the invitation, and his companions followed the elves to their small village in the Forest of Life.
• The villagers greeted the returning elves with the Song of Serenity, which Fina explained honored the dead and welcomed the survivors home.
• Nymph praised the village scenery and offered to sing, but Fang Zheng refused because her singing had once knocked out nearly everyone around her.
• The elf Captain entered the guest hall and invited Fang Zheng and his companions to join the village banquet.

At the elves’ banquet, Fang Zheng’s companions learned from their hosts while Fina visited the Temple of Nature. An elf named Molly later asked Fang Zheng to hold her because she could not escape the trauma of her captivity, and he comforted her with an embrace and a kiss.

• The elves held a modest banquet to thank Fang Zheng and his companions for saving them, and shared pieces of their traditions with the guests.
• Hailien learned about attuning to fire, the Astrologer studied the elves’ astral chart, Katie practiced with elf rangers, and the Little Fire Dragon played with the elf children.
• The elf priests invited Fina to the Temple of Nature, while Fang Zheng spoke with an elf girl who led him to a guest treehouse.
• The elf girl revealed that her name was Molly and that she was one of the elves Fang Zheng had rescued.
• Molly asked Fang Zheng to hold her so she could escape memories of her captivity, and he embraced and kissed her.

Fang Zheng found no clues in the elven village about the shadow that attacked the patrol, while the girls studied elven knowledge and the wounded elves sought comfort from him. When the group prepared to leave for Ice and Snow Peak, the elves offered them a guide, and Fang Zheng discovered it was Molly.

• Fang Zheng and Nymph searched the elven village and its surroundings but found no trace of the shadow or the flash at Ice and Snow Peak.
• Hailien, Katie, and the Astrologer studied with the elves while Fina prayed and cultivated at the Temple of Nature.
• Fang Zheng helped the traumatized elf patrol survivors recover, and more elves came to him for comfort.
• Fang Zheng called the group to leave after assisting the last elf, despite the Astrologer's plea to stay and study longer.
• The elves offered to send a guide with the group to Ice and Snow Peak, and Fang Zheng learned that the guide was Molly.