Chapter Summaries

The Platinum Dragon Lord and Dust Star Dragon Lord exchanged intelligence about the newly descended force and its suspected five or more World Items, while continuing to disagree over how to cleanse the world. Meanwhile, Tang Zheng explored the lake with Fairy Mil, subdued its supposed Demon God, and pressed Fairy Mil to make his race useful.

• The Platinum Dragon Lord and Dust Star Dragon Lord argued over the Dragon Emperor, the Mother, and whether the world needed a thorough cleansing.
• The two Dragon Lords shared intelligence and confirmed that the force led by Ainz Ooal Gown might possess five or more World Items.
• Tang Zheng and Fairy Mil descended to the bottom of the lake, where Tang Zheng detected a sleeping monster beneath the lakebed.
• Tang Zheng attacked the Giant Salamander monster, then used Charm Species: All to make it submit.
• Tang Zheng told the frightened Fairy Mil that he hoped the Fairy race would give him a pleasant surprise.

A Giant Salamander invaded the Fairy Tribe, overpowering its guards while Tang Zheng’s Shadow Clone watched. In a meeting about the Hundred-Year Aftershock, Fairy Jiezis clashed with the elders and revealed his connection to the Brightness Dragon Lord.

• A Fairy collecting morning dew spotted a Giant Salamander and fled to warn the village.
• The Fairy Guard attacked the Giant Salamander with boosted arrows, but it shrugged them off and knocked the guards unconscious with Tail Sludge.
• Tang Zheng’s invisible Shadow Clone judged that the Fairy Tribe’s forces were too weak to stop the Giant Salamander.
• Fairy Jiezis warned the Fairy elders that the Hundred-Year Aftershock might bring a disaster like the Eight Greed Kings’ invasion.
• After the old Fairy Priest insulted the Fairy God, Fairy Jiezis attacked him, and the Fairy Wing Chief blocked the strike with a barrier.
• Fairy Jiezis declared that he had inherited the Brightness Dragon Lord’s bloodline and threatened the elders for insulting it.

The Giant Salamander attacked the Fairy Tribe, but the Fairy Chief used the Echo of the Windrider to kill it. As the Fairies celebrated, Jiezis murdered the Fairy Chief and Chief Priest and turned on the Fairy Wing Chief.

• The Giant Salamander rampaged through the settlement, and its Mud Jet killed dozens of Fairies.
• The Wing Chief summoned Wind Elemental Spirits and attacked the monster, but it defeated him.
• The Fairy Chief activated the Echo of the Windrider and pierced the Giant Salamander with a Seventh-Tier Storm Spear.
• Jiezis stabbed the Fairy Chief, took the Echo of the Windrider, and killed the Chief Priest.
• Fairy guards charged Jiezis to protect the Fairy Wing Chief.

Tang Zheng saved the Fairy Wing Chief and killed Jiezis, the son of the Brightness Dragon Lord, with an instant-death spell. He learned that his actions could draw the Dragon Lord’s wrath, but offered to take responsibility and help the fairies.

• Eighty fairy guards attacked Jiezis with Aerial Barrage, but he deflected their arrows and charged the wounded Fairy Wing Chief.
• Tang Zheng and Mil arrived, and Tang Zheng shielded the Wing Chief from Jiezis’s attacks before killing Jiezis with Death.
• The Wing Chief warned Tang Zheng that Jiezis was the son of the Brightness Dragon Lord, and Tang Zheng recognized the name as a lead in his search.
• Tang Zheng apologized for causing trouble and promised to take responsibility and help the Fairy Tribe if needed.
• In a treehouse, the Wing Chief served Tang Zheng Crystal Honey Wine and discussed whether the Brightness Dragon Lord would seek revenge.

Tang Zheng gained the Fairy tribe's trust after returning its tribal treasure and helped them prepare for possible retaliation by the Brightness Dragon Lord. After the Dragon Lord's motives and activities were revealed, the chapter ended with the Wing Chief deciding to make Tang Zheng the new Wing Chief.

• The Wing Chief told Tang Zheng that the Brightness Dragon Lord had taken Jiezis's mother and that Jiezis had returned to ask the Fairy tribe to become its vassals.
• Tang Zheng returned Echo of the Windrider to the Wing Chief and urged the tribe to prepare for retaliation, while Mil grew increasingly afraid of him.
• Tang Zheng and Mil took Jiezis's corpse away as the Fairy tribe relocated to a hidden outpost.
• The Brightness Dragon Lord brooded over the new Hundred-Year Aftershock, Players, and its plans to bypass the world's shackles.
• After a month and a half without retaliation, the Wing Chief told Mil he had decided to appoint Tang Zheng as the new Wing Chief and take the role of Chief Priest himself.

Go Gin reached Broken Tooth City in the Troll Great Nation to begin building his fame, while Tang Zheng settled the Fairy Tribe’s leadership and arranged for a Doppelgänger to manage it in his place. Tang Zheng left the Doppelgänger to monitor Mil the Fairy as he considered how to use the fairies’ teleportation magic.

• Go Gin arrived at Broken Tooth City with Troll Tree, who explained the city’s name and its history.
• At a Fairy Tribe banquet, Mil the Fairy reported that most fairies accepted Tang Zheng as wing chief, while some resented Mil’s appointment as chieftain.
• Tang Zheng reviewed records suggesting the Fairy God had appeared four hundred years earlier and noted that he had learned the Brightness Dragon Lord’s general location.
• Tang Zheng assessed the Fairy Tribe’s many Magic Casters and tasked a Doppelgänger with meeting returning fairies and watching Mil the Fairy.
• Tang Zheng vanished as a black shadow, and the Doppelgänger assumed his fairy appearance.

Ainz attended the Sorcerer Kingdom’s Royal Tournament in disguise before joining Jircniv and Mayor Li in the VIP viewing room. The anxious vassal rulers watched as Ainz took his seat, while he asked Albedo about the arena’s defenses.

• Ainz walked through E-Rantel disguised as Fei Fei with Narberal and learned that Pandora had created the Death Knight patrols.
• Ainz and Narberal headed to the Royal Tournament arena, where Jircniv and Mayor Li anxiously awaited him.
• Eight-Edge Assassins entered the VIP room and took up concealed defensive positions.
• Ainz arrived with Albedo, and Jircniv and Mayor Li knelt to greet him.
• Ainz invited the two rulers to sit and watch the tournament, then asked Albedo about additional security outside the viewing room.

Ainz watched the Sorcerer Kingdom’s Royal Tournament and discussed the slow adoption of Undead labor with the Blood Emperor. At Nazarick’s monthly meeting, Demiurge interpreted Ainz’s labor plans as the beginning of world conquest, and Ainz ordered him and Albedo to prepare proposals.

• Ainz watched the tournament with the Blood Emperor and Mayor Li, then explained that contestants of any race could enter the Sorcerer Kingdom’s event.
• Ainz asked the Blood Emperor about Undead labor in the Baharuth Empire, and the Blood Emperor said commoners still feared the Undead.
• At Nazarick’s monthly meeting, Demiurge and the other Guardians reported on their territories and discussed the slow promotion of Undead labor.
• Demiurge claimed that Ainz planned to conquer the world by making its peoples depend on Undead labor, and Albedo supported his interpretation.
• Ainz concealed his confusion and ordered Albedo and Demiurge to present plans and proposals.

Ainz’s guardians interpreted his promotion of Undead Labor as part of a plan to spread a religion and prepare Nazarick for world conquest, while Ainz privately struggled to follow their reasoning. Meanwhile, Tang Zheng tested the Soul of the Heroic Spirit and hoped Nazarick’s expansion would draw out the True Dragon Lords and drain the Great Tomb’s resources.

• Albedo argued that Nazarick should gather intelligence and use Undead Labor to enter other nations, spread the Sorcerer Kingdom’s influence, and prepare for conquest.
• Demiurge proposed establishing a religion centered on Ainz Ooal Gown and coordinating it with Undead Labor as a way to probe the continent before attacking.
• Ainz approved the next stage of Demiurge’s plan despite not understanding its details, while the guardians praised his supposed grand strategy.
• Tang Zheng sparred with the Soul of the Heroic Spirit in True Dragon Lord form, tested its combat abilities, and destroyed it with Martial Arts.
• Tang Zheng considered Nazarick’s likely expansion and concluded that Demiurge’s continued presence would drive world conquest, consume Nazarick’s resources, and bring it into conflict with other forces.

Tang Zheng confirmed Decem Hougan’s memory alterations and reassigned the God-kin Captain to the Gravity Dragon Lord while the Sorcerer Kingdom attacked the Centaur Tribe Nation. As Tang Zheng chose to wait and prepare, the Sorcerer Kingdom’s Undead slaughtered the Centaur army and killed its king despite his offer to surrender.

• Tang Zheng questioned Decem Hougan and accepted Saphis Xoth’s report that the Elf King’s memories had been successfully altered.
• Tang Zheng assigned the Earth Dragon Lord body to Decem Hougan and ordered the God-kin Captain to adapt to the Gravity Dragon Lord instead.
• Imlaris informed Tang Zheng that the Sorcerer Kingdom had moved against the Centaur Tribe Nation, and Tang Zheng decided to wait and prepare.
• A Death Knight and Death Warrior charged into the Centaur forces and slaughtered more than a thousand Warriors in under ten minutes.
• The Centaur King offered to surrender and become a Sorcerer Kingdom vassal, but the Death Warrior beheaded him and the Death Knight crushed his head.

The Sorcerer Kingdom crushed the Centaur Tribe Nation, and Prince Hakon fled east while Sebas and Solution set the Ghost Ship Captain Grelle on a mission to spread the kingdom’s name and Ainz Ooal Gown’s faith. Two years later, Princess Renner watched the snowfall over the Abelion Hills with Climb nearby.

• After the Centaur King died, Prince Hakon fled east with his guards to preserve the Centaur Tribe Nation.
• Sebas told Solution that survivors would spread word of the Sorcerer Kingdom’s power and that Shadow Demons would collect the dead.
• Sebas ordered Ghost Ship Captain Grelle to sail east with the Sorcerer Kingdom’s flag raised, avoid conflict, promote Undead Labor, and spread Ainz Ooal Gown’s faith.
• Sebas and Solution left by carriage to pose as traveling merchants and gather intelligence in the next nation before the Ghost Ship arrived.
• On February 21 of New Calendar Year Four, Princess Renner looked over the snowy Abelion Hills, and Climb urged her to put on another layer.

Princess Renner assessed the Sorcerer Kingdom’s advance toward the Minotaur Nation and warned that it would not stop before confronting the Central Six Nations. Tang Zheng reviewed Renner’s strategic proposals and the Sorcerer Kingdom’s rapidly advancing route, leaving its next move under consideration.

• Princess Renner told Climb that Revival Town had grown into a city, while Climb insisted on continuing to call her Your Highness.
• A Doppelgänger disguised as Tang Zheng met Princess Renner and asked how she had detected its false identity; Renner said it might have been intuition.
• The Doppelgänger gave Renner intelligence on the Minotaur Nation, and Renner concluded that the Sorcerer Kingdom would keep advancing toward the Central Six Nations.
• Lainas angrily wondered whether the Sorcerer King intended to conquer the world.
• Tang Zheng studied the world map and Renner’s strategic proposals, noting that the Sorcerer Kingdom’s advance toward the Minotaur Nation had accelerated.

Tang Zheng watched the Sorcerer Kingdom’s campaign draw hidden powers into the open and ordered the Fairies to monitor the Minotaur Nation. Meanwhile, Sebas and Solution traveled there to investigate a possible Player and recruit a Minotaur governor, while Prince Hakon’s fleeing Centaurs crossed their path.

• Tang Zheng suspected Demiurge had sent the Ghost Ship as bait to expose hidden forces and told Imlaris, the Butler, to have the Fairies watch the Minotaur Nation.
• Prince Hakon and his Centaur Knights rested on Talag Snow Mountain, where Dail reassured the despairing prince that the Sorcerer Kingdom—not he—had caused their people’s ruin.
• The Centaurs spotted a carriage pulled by creatures that seemed to be Golems and watched it continue toward the Minotaur Nation.
• Inside the carriage, Solution asked Sebas whether to kill the Centaurs, but Sebas said they might be useful and explained their mission to investigate a possible Player in the Minotaur Nation.
• Sebas told Solution that they were headed to Solsaa to recruit its greedy governor, Gak, who belonged to the weaker Old-School Faction, and agreed they should change their human appearances.

Ulgash Mobe Mobe's Horn visited the Minotaur emperor in Zultan Walla, where they discussed the growing slave population and the Minotaur Nation’s dependence on slave labor. The emperor then revealed that a Ghost Ship had come from the Sorcerer Kingdom, and Prince Hakon’s report of its Legendary Tier Undead alarmed the court.

• Ulgash Mobe Mobe's Horn traveled through Zultan Walla and entered the Labyrinth Palace to meet the emperor.
• Ulgash Mobe Mobe's Horn warned that the growing population of human and Orc slaves could become unbalanced, and the emperor explained that reducing their numbers risked national turmoil.
• The emperor told Ulgash Mobe Mobe's Horn that a Ghost Ship carrying Undead was a confirmed fact, not merely a report.
• The emperor had guards bring Prince Hakon into the hall, where the centaur identified the Ghost Ship as coming from the Sorcerer Kingdom.
• Prince Hakon described the Sorcerer Kingdom and its Legendary Tier Undead, leaving the minotaur court astonished and doubtful.

Prince Hakon told the Minotaur Sovereign that the Sorcerer Kingdom’s undead had destroyed his country, prompting the Minotaur court to investigate the kingdom and the ghost ship following Hakon. Meanwhile, Sebas disguised himself as a minotaur and explored Sossal, where he learned about local magic items and bought several.

• Prince Hakon described a Death Knight and a greatsword-wielding undead that had defeated more than a thousand elite centaur cavalrymen, and the Minotaur Sovereign ordered Ulgash Mobe Mobe's Horn to record his account.
• Ulgash Mobe Mobe's Horn warned that the undead could raise an army and suspected Hakon was guiding the ghost ship, while the Minotaur Sovereign ordered Hakon's party watched and sought more intelligence about the Sorcerer Kingdom.
• The Minotaur Sovereign considered whether Ainz Ooal Gown and the Sorcerer Kingdom were connected to the Corpus of the Abyss and a True Dragon Lord.
• Sebas, disguised as a minotaur by Ainz's Disguise Transformation Ring, visited Gacker's Workshop in Sossal and learned how Horn Communicators worked.
• Sebas recalled Mare and Aura's lost Acorn Communication Necklace and bought several portable magic items from the minotaur shop owner.

Sebas reported his findings about the Minotaur Nation to Ainz, including the legendary Sunlight Scripture, and concluded that they needed a wider way to gather intelligence. He proposed making the nation’s slaves resist, leaving their next move undecided.

• Sebas returned to the temporary lodging with magic items and reviewed what he had learned about the Sunlight Scripture, also called the Book of Sacred Decrees.
• Solution used a coded Message to contact Ainz, and Sebas reported that the Minotaur Sage was believed to have died more than a hundred years earlier and that he had found no evidence of a True Dragon Lord.
• Sebas told Ainz about the Sunlight Scripture and legends of the Sage’s axe, which could create tornadoes and Earth Fissures.
• Solution asked how to proceed and mentioned that Ghost Ship Captain Grelle was waiting at the border for instructions.
• Sebas argued that they should make the Minotaur Nation’s slaves resist so they could gather more intelligence, and his resolve to try the idea hardened.

Sebas learned that a supposedly executed human slave had escaped, and the investigation uncovered a clue connecting the case to the mysterious organization Grace. At Shattered Stone Mine, Tera traded with an unusually old human slave, who offered information about a mysterious expert sent to investigate the Ghost Ship in exchange for magical equipment.

• Solution told Sebas that the slave supposedly burned as a living candlestick had actually escaped, though his whereabouts remained unknown.
• The chapter revealed that Grace had operated from the abandoned Shattered Stone Mine for about twenty years.
• Tera used Fairy Path to bring an unnamed human slave to the forest and traded Purple Tree Leaf Juice for part of the information she had requested.
• The slave asked Tera to trade magical equipment and weapons, saying he had information about the mysterious expert sent by the Minotaur king because of the Ghost Ship.
• Tera agreed to consider the trade after hearing the slave's offer.

Number One explained that Grace’s plan to take over Sossal had been delayed by the Ghost Ship and a powerful Minotaur arrival, while Tang Zheng watched the group and prepared to provoke conflict between Nazarick and the Minotaur Nation. Later, Number One witnessed the cruelty of a fertilizer workshop before a female Minotaur suddenly appeared in his carriage.

• Number One met with Grace members Number Three, Number Five, and Number Six in their mine hideout and postponed their plan to take over Sossal.
• Tang Zheng reviewed what he knew about Grace and ordered Butler Imlaris and the Fairies to monitor the Minotaur Nation, using Number Six as bait.
• Number One visited a fertilizer workshop where human slaves ground the bodies and bones of other slaves into fertilizer.
• A female Minotaur suddenly appeared inside Number One’s carriage as he traveled home.

Solution approached a human slave in Sossal and offered him Undead Labor from the Sorcerer Kingdom, while Governor Hui Mo Graymore Ghesum's Horn abandoned his plan to seize the Ghost Ship after learning the King had sent an envoy. Three days later, two unfamiliar Minotaurs arrived outside Sossal.

• Solution transformed from a female Minotaur into a human woman and questioned an old slave about helping someone escape Sossal.
• The old slave concealed his thoughts with his Innate Talent, "Mental Courtyard," but recognized Solution's offer of Undead Labor as genuine and hoped it could save other slaves.
• Hui Mo Graymore Ghesum's Horn considered capturing the Ghost Ship, then gave up when he learned a royal envoy was coming to investigate it.
• Hui Mo Graymore Ghesum's Horn ordered ten female human slaves and ten female Orc slaves brought to him.
• Three days later, two Minotaurs appeared outside Sossal by teleportation, and the city guards approached them nervously.

Adjudicators Iron Horn Tron and Head Collector Kaisel investigated the Ghost Ship after learning it was controlled by the intelligent Undead Grelle. They lured Grelle away from the vessel and secretly boarded it to search for evidence.

• Iron Horn Tron and Head Collector Kaisel arrived in Sossal and met city lord Hui Mo Graymore Ghesum's Horn, who briefed them on Grelle and the Ghost Ship.
• Head Collector Kaisel ordered Hui Mo Graymore Ghesum's Horn to invite Grelle away from the ship under the pretext of preventing public panic.
• Two days later, Grelle left the Ghost Ship aboard a Bone Dragon to travel to Sossal's border fortress.
• Iron Horn Tron and Head Collector Kaisel revealed themselves from a Stone Disguise and discussed the Bone Dragon's resistance to magic below the Sixth-Tier.
• Head Collector Kaisel and Iron Horn Tron used spells to approach the Ghost Ship, flew onto its deck, and began their investigation.