Chapter Summaries

Oliver returned to Allen Village as a newly appointed Black Iron Knight and reunited with his father, old Jack. Meanwhile, Chen Mo's territory continued expanding, and he brought Victor and Victor's elite Knights into his service.

• Five of the Lord's Knights arrived at Allen Village, where Oliver knelt before old Jack and revealed that he had returned as a Knight.
• Oliver recounted how he had finally killed an enemy Knight and earned knighthood from Chen Mo before taking command of four squire Knights.
• Chen Mo's territory grew prosperous and secure as he welcomed refugees, developed farmland, defeated neighboring Lords, and assigned surrendered nobles to new roles or put them on trial.
• Chen Mo recognized Victor as the future vampire leader from Underworld and absorbed Victor's forty elite Knights, leaving them under Victor's command.

Chen Mo questioned Andrew about his growing distress over the planned attack on Marquis Leonard's fief, and Andrew revealed his past with the Marquis's daughter. He explained that he had left her after the Marquis forced him away, and ended by naming the woman he still loved: Amelia.

• Chen Mo noticed Andrew's worry intensify after he announced the campaign against Marquis Leonard and summoned him to his study.
• Andrew told Chen Mo that he had come from Marquis Leonard's fief, where his father had served as a Knight.
• Andrew recounted how he saved the Marquis's daughter from a werewolf attack, and how they later fell in love and secretly practiced swordsmanship together.
• Marquis Leonard discovered their relationship, rejected Andrew as unworthy of his daughter, and forced him to leave after writing her a farewell letter.
• Andrew confessed that he still remembered the woman he loved and revealed that her name was Amelia.

Chen Mo learned that Andrew had once loved Amelia, the newly elevated Marchioness, and led his Knights to Marquis Leonard’s Fief. Amelia ordered the Castle gates opened so she could hear what Chen Mo wanted to discuss.

• Chen Mo recalled how Marcus and Victor became vampire Elders and suspected Amelia would become the third Elder.
• Chen Mo asked Andrew what he would have done if they attacked Marquis Leonard’s Fief, and Andrew said he would conquer it and ask Chen Mo to spare Amelia and her family.
• Chen Mo ordered the Knights to march to Marquis Leonard’s Fief, and they arrived after several days.
• Amelia and her soldiers spotted the approaching Knights of Blackrock Castle and prepared the Castle’s defenses.
• Chen Mo and Andrew rode to the wall, where Chen Mo called for the gates to open and Amelia ordered them opened despite her Knights’ objections.

Chen Mo entered Amelia’s Castle and proposed marriage, alarming Amelia and her Knights as they feared he meant to seize her territory. Amelia struggled with the prospect of surrendering her home, where she was still waiting for Andrew to return.

• Amelia opened the gates and personally welcomed Chen Mo and Andrew into her Castle.
• In the hall, Chen Mo learned that Amelia had inherited her father Marquis Leonard’s title after his death five days earlier.
• Chen Mo asked whether Amelia was married, removed his helmet, and solemnly announced that he had come to propose marriage.
• Amelia’s Knights drew their swords, believing Chen Mo’s proposal threatened their mistress and her territory.
• Amelia considered that accepting could cost her the Castle and the memories she shared with Andrew, whom she still awaited.

Amelia prepared to fight Chen Mo, but he revealed that he had come to arrange Andrew’s marriage to her, and the reunited couple joined his ranks with her Knights. As Chen Mo’s force traveled toward Blackrock Castle, he sensed a grave danger concealed in the valley woods and ordered everyone to stop.

• Amelia drew her sword and prepared to fight Chen Mo, but he announced that he had come to propose marriage on Andrew’s behalf.
• Andrew removed his helmet, saluted Chen Mo, and embraced Amelia, who wept with relief.
• Amelia and nearly one hundred Knights joined Chen Mo’s ranks, and he allowed her to keep commanding them and retain her Castle.
• Chen Mo’s force of more than three hundred Knights set out for Blackrock Castle, while Victor reflected on Chen Mo’s power and the people’s reverence for him.
• Chen Mo considered that Marcus might soon appear, then halted the force after sensing a tremendous danger hidden in the valley woods.

Chen Mo discovered more than a hundred werewolves hiding in the forest around the valley and judged that fighting them would endanger his three hundred knights. He formed the Knights into a defensive circle, then attacked first with his pistols, whose blue beams burned a werewolf to ash.

• Chen Mo sensed werewolves concealed in the woods on both sides of the valley and recognized the danger they posed to him and his knights.
• Chen Mo decided to protect his subordinates rather than fight the werewolves alone, despite hoping the battle would improve his abilities.
• Chen Mo ordered the Knights to form a defensive circle and prepare their weapons.
• Chen Mo fired a dazzling blue beam that reduced a hidden werewolf to ash.
• Chen Mo sent denser beams into the forests, revealing the werewolves concealed among the trees.

Chen Mo used his energy pistols to protect the Knights from a werewolf ambush, while the Knights fought to hold their formation against the pack. After Chen Mo cleared the attackers, the Knights recognized him as Thor, the god who commanded lightning.

• Chen Mo shot werewolves hiding in the woods and destroyed those leaping from the treetops before they could land among the Knights.
• The werewolves charged from all sides, and the Knights formed ranks with shields, lances, swords, and crossbows to hold them back.
• The Knights struggled as werewolves broke lances, damaged armor, and threatened to breach their formation.
• Chen Mo turned his energy pistols on the werewolves pinning down the Knights and burned them to ash, rescuing those in immediate danger.
• The Knights saw Chen Mo wielding the blue, thunderous beams and recognized him as Thor.

After Chen Mo’s lightning-like weapon convinced his knights that he was the God of Thunder, their faith spread across his territory. Three days after returning to Blackrock Castle, Chen Mo met Marcus, who asked for help recovering his twin brother, William.

• Chen Mo’s knights knelt before him, believing he was the God of Thunder, while a black-robed observer followed their procession after witnessing his power.
• Stories of Chen Mo’s deeds spread through his territory, and he allowed his subjects’ growing faith to continue under supervision.
• Three days after returning to Blackrock Castle, Chen Mo recognized the visitor as Marcus, the first vampire.
• Marcus explained that his brother William had become the Progenitor Lycan and asked to borrow Chen Mo’s strength to retrieve him.

Marcus joined Chen Mo and transformed more than six hundred Knights into vampires, while Chen Mo prepared armor that let them fight in sunlight. Chen Mo continued using Marcus to find William and draw out Alexander Corvinus, whose Perfect Blood he sought.

• Marcus approached Chen Mo, asking him to find his twin brother William and provide protection for them.
• Marcus joined Chen Mo, hoping to use his power to help vampires rule the world and control the growing Lycan population.
• Chen Mo had Marcus transform more than six hundred Knights into vampires but refused to become one himself.
• Marcus told Chen Mo that the descendants of the vampire and Lycan progenitors would die if their progenitors were killed.
• Chen Mo used Andrew's echolocation ability to confirm that vampire Knights could navigate without sight.
• Chen Mo outfitted the vampire Knights with full-body armor that shielded them from sunlight, creating a daylight-capable legion.

Chen Mo equipped his Vampire Knights to operate in sunlight and launched a territory-wide purge after discovering that William, the Progenitor Lycan, was creating Lycan packs and slaughtering villages. The Knights tracked William to a destroyed village, where Chen Mo ordered an immediate search to end the threat that night.

• Chen Mo armed the Vampire Knights with flexible armor that protected them from sunlight, then remained wary of Marcus's concealed strength and ambition.
• After investigating a Lycan attack, Chen Mo concluded that William had recently created the pack and ordered a purge across his territory.
• As Lycan packs and massacred villages multiplied, Chen Mo split the Knights into five teams led by Andrew, Victor, Amelia, Marcus, and himself.
• The Knights followed William's trail to a village where the inhabitants and livestock had been killed, but William had already left.
• Chen Mo ordered Amelia to burn the corpses and sent everyone else to search for William, insisting that the hunt end that night.

Chen Mo captured the Progenitor Lycan William after a village was destroyed and ordered that he be imprisoned, rejecting Marcus's pleas to spare his twin brother. On his way through the workshop district at Blackrock Castle, Chen Mo encountered a little girl named Selena running in front of his warhorse.

• Chen Mo ordered the Knights to burn the villagers' corpses before they could transform, then rode with Marcus to find William.
• The Knights trapped William with chained bolts, and Marcus tried to stop them from hurting him before Chen Mo forced him to stand down.
• Chen Mo threatened Marcus and ordered that William be locked away forever, far from Marcus.
• Chen Mo returned to Blackrock Castle and rode into its workshop district to find craftsmen who could build a dungeon for William.
• Selena ran into the road in front of Chen Mo's warhorse, and one of her companions shouted for her to come back.

Chen Mo transformed the workshop’s craftsmen and their families into vampires, then searched his territory for Alexander Corvinus without finding him. After three years of conquest brought nearly all of western Europe under his rule, Chen Mo reached Cape Roca and spotted a ship sailing west, suspecting Alexander was aboard.

• Chen Mo halted his horse before Kane’s granddaughter Selena, then chose her father Bert to oversee the construction of William’s prison.
• Chen Mo asked the workshop’s craftsmen and their families whether they would give up sunlight to serve him, and they agreed to become vampires.
• Chen Mo ordered Marcus to transform the workshop community and move their workplace into a cave behind Castle Mountain.
• Chen Mo mobilized his forces to search for Alexander Corvinus, but Alexander escaped without leaving a trace.
• Over three years, Chen Mo’s Vampire Knights conquered most of western Europe, leaving only the last resisting territory on the Iberian Peninsula.
• After taking the final Castle, Chen Mo saw a sailing ship heading west from Cape Roca and called out Alexander Corvinus’s name.

Alexander Corvinus fled Europe by ship after Chen Mo's relentless expansion drove him to the continent's western edge. As he watched the Knights on the shore, he resolved to defend his immortality if Chen Mo pursued him across the sea.

• Alexander recalled how his sons Marcus and William became monsters and how he followed them for centuries, trying to contain the destruction they caused.
• After witnessing Chen Mo kill the werewolves with blue Thunder, Alexander fled and learned that Marcus had pledged loyalty and William had been imprisoned.
• Alexander evaded Chen Mo's rapidly expanding forces until they pushed him to Cape Roca, where he joined a local Lord and secretly prepared a ship to escape.
• When Chen Mo's Knights arrived at the Castle, Alexander abandoned the Lord and sailed away with his men and supplies.
• Aboard the ship, Alexander watched the Knights on the distant coast and vowed to fight Chen Mo if he pursued him.

Alexander Corvinus escaped across the sea, but Chen Mo pursued him with an inflatable assault boat and boarded his ship to confront him. As Alexander launched a calculated strike at Chen Mo in midair, the chapter left their fight about to begin.

• Alexander Corvinus sailed away from the coast, believing the destroyed ships would prevent Chen Mo from pursuing him.
• Chen Mo ordered Andrew and the knights to wait, then leaped from the 140-meter cliff into the sea.
• Chen Mo inflated an assault boat from his storage space, started its motor, and raced after Alexander Corvinus's ship.
• Alexander Corvinus watched Chen Mo close the distance and drew his sword as the assault boat approached.
• Chen Mo leaped from the assault boat toward the ship's stern, and Alexander Corvinus thrust his sword at him while he was still airborne.

Chen Mo defeated Alexander Corvinus aboard the ship, and Alexander surrendered after believing Chen Mo was a god sent to reclaim his powers. Back at Blackrock Castle, Chen Mo challenged him to a proper sword fight, and the two prepared to clash.

• Chen Mo cut Alexander Corvinus's sword apart, and Alexander stopped his men from attacking and surrendered.
• Alexander asked whether Chen Mo was human or a god, and Chen Mo answered that he was both.
• Chen Mo returned to Blackrock Castle with Alexander and his captured men, where the people welcomed the victorious procession.
• Chen Mo asked whether Alexander wanted to see Marcus and William, but Alexander said he was ready to rest and leave those matters to Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo handed Alexander a standard sword and challenged him to a proper fight, and Alexander charged at him.

Chen Mo fought Alexander Corvinus in Blackrock Castle and rapidly learned from the ancient warrior’s swordsmanship until he defeated him. Selena watched the duel beside Amelia as Chen Mo held his blade to Corvinus’s throat.

• Alexander Corvinus attacked Chen Mo, who parried his thrust and countered as the two began a fierce sword fight.
• Selena arrived in the hall and watched the duel from behind Amelia, who encouraged her to observe carefully.
• Chen Mo adapted to Alexander Corvinus’s techniques during the fight and steadily gained the advantage.
• Chen Mo disarmed Alexander Corvinus and held his sword to the defeated warrior’s throat.

Chen Mo tested Alexander Corvinus’s Pure Blood on Andrew and discovered that it granted vampires immunity to sunlight. He prepared to test another possible effect, while considering how the discovery would change life for Selena, Amelia, and the other vampires.

• Chen Mo defeated Alexander Corvinus in a sparring match and learned from his centuries-honed swordsmanship.
• Chen Mo treated Alexander as an honored guest, and Alexander cooperated by letting him draw blood for experiments.
• Chen Mo gave Andrew a drop of Pure Blood, then confirmed that Andrew could stand in sunlight without being harmed.
• Andrew realized that Selena and Amelia would benefit from the sunlight immunity, while Chen Mo decided that Andrew and Amelia deserved a wedding.
• Chen Mo called Amelia into the study and ordered her to fetch a cup of blood for his next test of Pure Blood.

Chen Mo tested Alexander Corvinus’s Pure Blood on Andrew, discovering that it repaired a vampire’s ability to eat ordinary food and greatly enhanced his strength. After Andrew, Amelia, and Victor reached the enhancement limit, Chen Mo kept the secret to the three trusted knights and prepared to test the blood on himself.

• Chen Mo had Andrew taste fresh animal blood, and Andrew found it foul while Amelia confirmed it was fresh.
• Chen Mo concluded that a drop of Pure Blood had repaired Andrew’s ability to enjoy human food without otherwise changing him.
• Andrew drank a test tube of Alexander Corvinus’s blood, and Amelia tested his new strength in a sword fight.
• Chen Mo gave Andrew another dose, but it did not increase his strength further, so he concluded that Andrew had reached the limit of Pure Blood’s enhancement.
• Chen Mo summoned Victor and gave him and Amelia Pure Blood; both reached physical abilities five times those of ordinary people.
• Chen Mo kept Alexander Corvinus’s identity and Pure Blood secret among Andrew, Amelia, and Victor, then ordered them to guard the door while he prepared to test the blood on himself.

Chen Mo used Alexander Corvinus's Pure Blood to transform his body, gaining immortality and greatly expanded potential. After leaving the study, he called little Selena to him and told her to open her mouth.

• Chen Mo drank a drop of Pure Blood but felt no effect, so he concluded that, unlike vampires, he needed to inject it into his bloodstream.
• Chen Mo tested Alexander Corvinus's blood with his own, then injected Pure Blood into his vein using a syringe.
• Chen Mo endured intense pain as Pure Blood transformed his cells and genes, replacing his blood with Pure Blood produced by his own bone marrow.
• Chen Mo completed his evolution, reaching seven times ordinary human strength and gaining an immortal body.
• Chen Mo ordered Andrew, Victor, and Amelia to bring little Selena to him, then returned from bathing and called her over.
• Chen Mo told little Selena to open her mouth, and she expected him to give her candy.

Chen Mo used his Pure Blood to restore Selena’s health, free her from blood dependence, and let her enjoy sunlight for the first time in years. After sharing Perfect Blood with his followers, he established the Vampire Empire and remained to rule it.

• Chen Mo gave Selena drops of his blood and confirmed that she had regained a normal taste and no longer depended on blood.
• Chen Mo exposed Selena to sunlight, and she discovered it felt warm rather than painful before excitedly looking outside from his study window.
• Selena ran off to play outside, while Amelia hurried after her and Chen Mo returned to his desk.
• Chen Mo used the remaining blood from Alexander Corvinus to free the Temple Knights, workshop craftsmen, and their families from vampires’ weaknesses.
• Three months later, Chen Mo was crowned Emperor at Blackrock Castle, and Andrew, Amelia, Victor, and Marcus became dukes and the four vampire elders.