Chapter Summaries

Sordil tried several spells to cure Acnologia’s strange poisoning but failed, then joined Belserion and Mevajena to investigate the enemy camp. He overheard enemy soldiers discussing food shortages and the elite force attacking their supply ships.

• Sordil used Healing Magic, Troyah, and Primordial on Acnologia, but none of the spells woke him or removed the poison.
• Sordil avoided Murellia’s question about curing Acnologia and hurried with her to the central command tent.
• Mevajena teased Sordil and Murellia after they arrived together, then separated them and brought the group back to discussing the enemy.
• Sordil listened in on the enemy camp and learned that soldiers feared starvation because an elite force had been raiding their food transports.

Sordil’s squad ambushed Zakro’s food convoy near Galakor Island, where Sordil’s poison attack put Montedoss’s group at a disadvantage. Zakro sent a signal as the battle continued, leaving the ambush’s next move unresolved.

• Sordil learned that Kelsu’s forces had received food and planned another transport, so he and Belserion decided to intercept it.
• Kelsu sent Zakro, Montedoss, and Feldroka with a convoy, secretly placing a crumpled cloth in Zakro’s hand.
• Sordil led his squad into deeper waters to locate the convoy and test its defenses.
• Montedoss guided Zakro’s convoy past Galakor Island, convinced Sordil’s unit would attack.
• Sordil’s squad ambushed the convoy, and Sordil’s Poison Dragon’s Roar gave his masked allies an advantage over Montedoss’s group.
• At Montedoss’s request, Zakro fired a breath attack into the sky as a signal.

Sordil and Igneel fought off an ambush by Zakro, Feldroka, and Montedoss, then escaped as reinforcements arrived. They reunited with the others in an undersea cavern, where Sordil found them joking about him and Igneel.

• Sordil killed Zakro with his Ghost Dragon's Roar and trapped Feldroka, but called off the fight when enemy reinforcements appeared.
• Igneel broke away from Montedoss and fled toward the sea, but Montedoss's Gravity Zone trapped him.
• Sordil switched into Holy Dragon Mode, devoured the Gravity Zone, and immobilized Montedoss long enough for Igneel to escape underwater.
• At the undersea cavern, Diphiya reported that Sordil and Igneel were missing, and Murellia worried about her master.
• Kaldiz reassured Murellia, and Metalicana joked about Igneel being a burden until Sordil arrived angrily from outside.

Sordil devised a plan to exploit the enemy’s concentration of forces on the supply convoy by attacking their camp and forcing them to choose between defending it and guarding their provisions. At the battlefield, the reinforcements argued over the failed defense before discovering that Zakro had survived his apparent death.

• Igneel and Metalicana exchanged insults, then reluctantly apologized to each other after Sordil intervened.
• Sordil proposed attacking the enemy camp to draw troops away from the supply convoy, then intercepting or destroying the provisions depending on the enemy’s response.
• Talib accused Montedoss of failing to signal for help, but Feldroka and Glaide mediated until the two leaders agreed to work together.
• Glaide learned that Zakro was believed to have fallen, but Zakro emerged from the sea and explained that he had survived the attack by shifting his body.
• Glaide and the others pulled the wounded Zakro from the water and tended to him.

Sordil coordinated Ishgar’s forces to exploit the Western Continent army’s decision to send troops away with its grain convoy. Two days later, he led his group from an underwater cave to attack the convoy, prioritizing the grain over its escorts.

• Sordil returned to Ishgar’s camp and ordered Belserion to gather the troops and besiege the enemy camp.
• Delsd warned Kelsu and Goodpes that their camp was vulnerable, and enemy attacks soon struck from three directions.
• Goodpes proposed recalling the troops and having Olibuk’s forces escort the grain convoy, and Kelsu and Delsd agreed.
• Sordil ordered Belserion to intensify the central attack and sent his battle plan to the northern and southern fronts.
• Yanimus told Montedoss that Glaide and Talib had been recalled to defend the camp, leaving Western Continent troops to protect the grain convoy.
• Two days later, Sordil ordered his forces to surface and attack the convoy, making its grain their primary target.

Sordil’s group saw through Montedoss and Feldroka’s decoy and located the real grain transport team, then launched a surprise attack that devastated it. Montedoss rushed toward the explosions with Zakro and Feldroka following, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Feldroka reassured Montedoss that their team had a trump card as they carried a decoy grain transport across the sea.
• Yelibell warned Sordil that barrels on the decoy team held a hidden threat, so Sordil ordered everyone to let it pass.
• Yanimus and Hit revealed that Montedoss’s group was the decoy while they led the real grain transport with an ambush force.
• Yelibell found the real transport to the west, but Sordil withdrew to regroup after learning it was surrounded by troops.
• Kelsu learned that the fighting on the central, southern, and northern fronts had ended at different times, and he suspected the enemy was targeting the grain transport.
• Sordil’s group struck the real transport with thirteen large-scale spells, and Montedoss rushed to support it while Zakro and Feldroka followed.

Sordil and Kaldiz used Ghost Dragon's Self Domain to trap the Western Continent's forces while Igneel and the others attacked the grain convoy. After escaping through a southeast opening, Sordil's group detonated the collapsing domain, but they crashed onto the seabed, where a huge tail threatened the oxygen bubble holding their allies.

• Sordil and Kaldiz formed a hollow Ghost Dragon's Self Domain, switching it from a horizontal ring to a vertical trap that plunged attacking dragons into the sea.
• Sordil expanded the domain into a sphere while Igneel, Yelibell, and the others attacked the transport convoy, then learned from Yelibell that the southeast remained open for escape.
• As the domain began to fail, Sordil shrank Igneel and the others into figurines inside an oxygen bubble, and their final attacks detonated the sphere, striking the surrounding Western Continent legion.
• Montedoss arrived to find injured troops and no sign of the enemies or convoy, then agreed with Zakro and Feldroka to split up and search.
• Sordil and Kaldiz crashed onto an undersea plain, where the oxygen bubble rolled out and a massive black tail came down toward it as Sordil shouted for Kaldiz to stop.

Sordil and his companions survived a seabed accident, recovered, and rested before returning to the central battlefield. Two days later, Kelsu confronted the battered grain transport team, and Goodpes ordered Montedoss to explain how the enemy destroyed more than half their supplies.

• Sordil shoved the oxygen shield clear of danger but was buried in the mud when Kaldiz accidentally sat on him, and Kaldiz eventually pulled him free.
• Sordil released Diphiya and the others from the oxygen shield, restoring their full sizes, and the crowded dragons untangled themselves.
• Sordil and Igneel agreed to rest and recover before returning to the central battlefield, then negotiated a payment of liquor after Sordil teased him.
• Two days later, Kelsu and the others met Montedoss's wounded grain transport team and learned that a special unit had destroyed more than half the grain.
• Kelsu rebuked Montedoss, but Goodpes intervened and ordered him to recount the grain raid.

Montedoss recounted how the enemy destroyed much of the provisions and inflicted heavy casualties, while Olibuk warned that headquarters could not send more supplies soon. Kelsu ordered troops to forage behind enemy lines and catch fish, as Sordil’s camp celebrated the success of their plan.

• Montedoss explained that Olibuk and Shideweig had hidden the real provisions among a heavily guarded force, but the enemy had discovered and attacked the transport team near the Principality of Galacore.
• Montedoss described how the enemy used attack magic and black smoke to destroy provisions, kill twenty soldiers, and injure more than a thousand before escaping.
• Feldroka told Kelsu and Goodpes that headquarters had no provisions left to send, prompting Montedoss to suggest raiding enemy territory for food.
• Feldroka proposed catching sea fish, and Kelsu ordered ten-man squads to gather provisions behind enemy lines while the remaining troops fished.
• Yelibell told Igneel and Sordil that the enemy had lost provisions and could not be resupplied, while Sordil promised Igneel they would celebrate in Dragunov after he briefed queen Belserion.

Sordil reported that the grain raids had crippled the enemy’s supplies and revealed their plan to raid Ishgar’s food stores, prompting him to leave Belserion a counterstrategy. In Dragunov, Irene anxiously used flower petals to divine whether her husband would return, unaware of a silver light appearing beneath her.

• Belserion fretted over Sordil’s silence until Sordil arrived at the command tent to report the operation’s results.
• Sordil told Belserion and Acnologia that the raids had destroyed more than half the enemy’s food, caused over a thousand dragon casualties, and emptied their main base’s supplies.
• Sordil revealed that the enemy planned to send troops behind Ishgar’s lines to steal food, and Belserion and Acnologia laughed at the plan.
• Sordil warned them not to underestimate the enemy, then left a strategy on parchment and returned to see Irene.
• Irene plucked rose petals while divining whether her husband would return, as Tingting and Miaomiao discussed her longing for him.
• A faint silver light appeared beneath Irene’s feet while she continued her divination.

Irene was reunited with Sordil and learned that his forces had damaged the enemy’s supplies, so she arranged a victory banquet. The guests gathered at the palace, where the chapter ended as Irene, King Oddek, and Sordil arrived.

• Irene tore petals from a rose while worrying that Sordil would not return, then was startled by a tremor and fell into his arms as he and the dragons arrived.
• Sordil apologized for arriving late, and Irene struck him before greeting Igneel, Diphiya, and the other dragons.
• Sordil reported that his forces had destroyed more than half of an enemy grain convoy’s supplies and caused nearly a thousand casualties.
• Irene approved a victory banquet and invited the kings and the dragons who had stayed behind.
• Guests gathered in the palace banquet hall, where Igneel and Metalicana argued over their table manners.
• A herald announced the arrival of Queen Irene, King Oddek, and Prince Sordil.

Irene announced that Sordil’s attacks had destroyed the enemy’s food supplies and left the invaders at risk of starvation, boosting morale at the banquet. Sordil then asked Murellia and Mevajena about Belmod, learning that Belmod had sent a condolence delegation to the front lines.

• Grandiere and Diphiya intervened when Igneel and Metalicana fought, and the judges let them stay at the table under warning.
• Irene revealed that Sordil and the others had twice attacked enemy grain convoys, exhausting the enemy’s food reserves.
• Irene raised a toast to the coming victory, and the guests cheered.
• Sordil avoided the banquet’s toasts and went to find Murellia and Mevajena.
• Mevajena teased Sordil, then told him Belmod had sent a condolence delegation to visit the troops at the front lines.

Belmod sent a royal condolence delegation toward Dragunov, while Arthur wrestled with whether repaying the king’s life-saving grace would mean betraying his homeland. Lost in a forest, Zeref stumbled into a dragon battle and escaped underground as Hit struggled against Ishgar’s forces.

• Sordil asked Mevajena and her companion to watch Black Robe and Belmod and discover the delegation’s true mission.
• Arthur learned the delegation was still at the border and would need at least a month to reach Dragunov’s capital, then resolved to continue despite his doubts.
• Zeref emerged from a forest and found himself caught in a battlefield between dragons.
• Zeref used Earth Magic: Rock Well · Quicksand Passage to sink into the ground and escape the battle.
• Hit regretted joining the operation behind enemy lines as Ishgar’s fighters pressed their attack.

Hit escaped an enemy ambush by luring a pursuing dragon into a pit and blinding him with wind magic. Meanwhile, Sordil taught Space Magic techniques and, on September 10, X373, sent the Western Border Army’s Space Magic Division to the battlefield despite believing they were not ready.

• Hit diverted his pursuer into a pit, then trapped him in raging winds and fled southeast.
• Sordil taught Anna and the Space Magic trainees about Spatial Teleportation Arrays, warning them not to attempt theoretical inter-dimensional travel.
• Sordil spent the following days teaching by day and visiting Irene or Grandiere at night.
• On September 10, X373, Sordil addressed the assembled Western Border Army members, apologized for sending them into battle unprepared, and ordered the Space Magic Division to move out.

Anna secretly built a hidden research facility to study an Inter-dimensional Teleportation Array, but Sordil followed her and caught her in the act. He allowed her to continue studying it only under his supervision, leaving Anna eager to stay by his side.

• Anna used a series of Teleportation Arrays to slip away from the palace while Sordil followed her as a tiny black bat.
• Anna reached her secret mountain facility and worked on an Inter-dimensional Teleportation Array, unaware that Sordil was waiting outside.
• Sordil discovered Anna's tunnel, entered the underground hall, and explained why her array would not activate.
• Anna realized Sordil had caught her and admitted she wanted to study the array's construction and operation.
• Sordil agreed to supervise Anna's research and threatened to take back her magic if she disobeyed.

Arthur Gebilie and the Kingdom of Tsuyioru Xiu's condolence delegation arrived in Dragunov, and Sordil arranged to meet them at the Teleportation Array. After Arthur explained that the delegation wanted to reach the front lines with supplies, Prince Sordil agreed to send them there.

• Arthur Gebilie arrived in Dragunov's royal capital and sent a letter of state to the palace.
• A servant summoned Sordil from class, so Sordil left Anna to teach while he went to the Council Hall.
• Sordil learned that Arthur led the condolence delegation and planned to use the Teleportation Array to reach the front lines.
• Sordil sent his Thought Body, General Oddek, with the Chancellor and Foreign Minister to receive Arthur's delegation.
• At the Teleportation Array, Prince Sordil mocked the delegation's visible supplies, but Arthur explained the actual supplies were stored in Space Items.
• Prince Sordil told Arthur and the delegation to come up to the platform so he could send them to the front lines.

Sordil sent Arthur’s delegation to the front lines after secretly alerting the dragon leaders, and the dragons searched for the delegation’s hidden supplies before turning to a backup plan. Meanwhile, Kelsu learned that the opposing camp was feasting while his own side faced worsening supply shortages.

• Sordil teleported Arthur and the delegation after his prank, then told the Chancellor he targeted Cuiyi'aorshu’s delegation because his identity had been exposed.
• Belserion and Acnologia entered the tent where the delegation lay blinded, and Belserion ordered them taken to the infirmary.
• Belserion and Holy Dragon found no supplies in the delegation’s Space Item and decided to use Sordil’s backup plan before meeting Hadessta and the others.
• Arthur awoke at the Ishgar Camp, where Xizhalansa introduced himself and invited Arthur to a welcoming banquet.
• Kelsu met Goodpes and another commander, who complained that their food-gathering party had failed and the opposing camp was holding a bonfire feast.

Arthur met Belserion and the leaders at the command tent, where Igneel challenged the delegation for arriving without gifts. Arthur proved that the care packages were stored in a Space Item, then attended the welcome banquet and left apparently drunk, though the cold wind briefly cleared his mind.

• Xizhalansa separated Arthur from the rest of the delegation and escorted him to meet Belserion and the leaders.
• Igneel mocked Arthur's delegation for arriving without gifts, while Belserion defended them and invited Arthur to explain.
• Arthur said the care packages were stored in a Space Item after the carted supplies were left with Prince Sordil in the Kingdom of Donagunov.
• Arthur produced crates of supplies from the Space Item, silencing Igneel, and Belserion invited him to the welcome banquet.
• After drinking with the leaders, Arthur asked to leave and staggered back toward his tent, where a cold wind briefly cleared his mind.

Arthur secretly left the banquet after pretending to be drunk, while Belserion and the other dragons realized he was missing and organized a search. At the Western Continent camp, a falling disc-shaped object crashed into Kelsu and the dried fish, leaving Goodpes and Delsd furious.

• Belserion and the other dragon leaders stopped pretending to be drunk, but Hadessta went after Arthur when Wattster and others insisted someone watch him.
• Arthur used a hangover cure to steady himself, checked that no one was following, and headed somewhere other than his tent.
• Goodpes and Delsd argued over Kelsu's dried sea fish, and a disc-shaped object fell from the sky and buried Kelsu's hands and the fish.
• Hadessta returned to the banquet and told Belserion that Arthur had disappeared from his tent.
• Belserion apologized to Hadessta and ordered the troops to search for Arthur.

Arthur tried to hide his actions from the dragons, but Belserion’s search ended when Arthur was found unconscious in the grass and mistaken for a drunk. After recovering, Arthur completed the condolence-gift handover and prepared to leave the camp for Cuiyi'aorshu.

• Wattster persuaded Belserion to gather and guard the condolence delegation before searching for Arthur.
• Arthur evaded the search briefly when a roar distracted the dragons, then hid in the grass as search parties closed in.
• Igneel restrained Belserion while the others teased him, until a messenger reported that Arthur had been found.
• Hadessta questioned the guards, who said they found Arthur unconscious in the grass and had bathed him after he vomited.
• After two days, Arthur woke, thanked Belserion, handed over the condolence gifts, and used his hangover as an excuse to return to his tent.
• After recovering for two more days, Arthur found an opportunity to bid Belserion farewell and prepare to withdraw.