Chapter Summaries

The Silver Moon Elf negotiation team traveled toward the Griffon Bulwark Mountain Range, while Viscountess Euphemia tried to learn why Earl Swynborne had not attacked the Half-Elf Rebel Army. Christine refused to help her, then returned to Roy and the others by the stream.

• The negotiation team left Padesto City with Elf Warriors, unicorn elf knights, Silver Pegasus Warriors, and the Adventure Group riding white War Horses.
• At a streamside rest stop, Roy talked with Woods while Sabrina struggled to groom her horse and Instructor Virgil demonstrated how to do it.
• Viscountess Euphemia asked Christine to walk with her and questioned why Earl Swynborne had not followed the Elven Military Council's order to destroy the Rebel Army.
• Christine said she knew little about her father's decisions and refused Euphemia's request to stand with her, keeping her investigation of the Slave Traders secret.
• Christine left Euphemia and returned to Roy and Woods beside the stream.

Instructor Nora and the Negotiation Team traveled through the Pattington Plane to begin peace talks with the Half-Elf Rebel Army, while Duke Augus quietly considered opposing the negotiations. The delegation reached the area near Bulwark Village, where Earl Griffin’s letter formally opened the second round of talks.

• Instructor Nora brought her Adventure Group into the Pattington Plane to help root out slave traders without implicating innocent Half-Elves.
• Christine asked Roy and Woods about the Lapis Lazuli Forest, and Roy sensed someone watching him as Viscountess Euphemia departed.
• Captain Terrence warned the group to stay near camp, and Instructor Nora trained Roy in Elven Martial Arts, exposing his poor balance and clumsy movements.
• Duke Augus considered persuading the other negotiators to destroy the Half-Elf Rebel Army, while Earl Griffin’s position remained unclear.
• The Negotiation Team reached the forest near Bulwark Village after eight days, and Earl Griffin sent a messenger with a letter to begin the second peace talks.
• The Half-Elf Rebel Army welcomed the prospect of negotiations and prepared to seek the greatest possible benefits.

The Silver Moon Elf Negotiation Team presented harsh peace terms to the Half-Elf Rebel Army, and the first day of talks ended in arguments. Instructor Nora assigned Roy, Woods, and Sabrina to gather information about Slave Traders within the Rebel Army while Christine maintained contact with the Silver Pegasus Legion.

• Roy followed the Negotiation Team into Bulwark Village, where a large and resentful Half-Elf crowd watched the Silver Moon Elves arrive.
• The first day of negotiations ended in arguments after the Silver Moon Elf team demanded the Rebel Army Chieftain face judgment, its forces disband, and more than half its Half-Elf members leave the Pattington Plane.
• Roy trained with Sabrina, who overwhelmed him in a sparring match, and Woods gave him tree sap as a supposed druid remedy for soreness.
• Instructor Nora reminded the Instructors that their mission was to root out Slave Traders in the Rebel Army and planned an information-gathering effort.
• Instructor Nora sent Woods to seek contact with his uncle and asked Roy to investigate cautiously; she assigned Sabrina and herself to gather information and Christine to contact the Silver Pegasus Legion.

Roy disguised himself as an ordinary Half-Elf hunter and entered Bulwark Village to investigate the Rebel Army and find Benjamin. After learning that Benjamin lived in the Fifth District, Roy left a dread wolf pelt with a Rebel Army warrior and took the warrior’s pouch of Kole.

• Roy disguised himself in leather armor and crossed into Bulwark Village, claiming to hunt dread wolves and sell their pelts.
• A Rebel Army warrior directed Roy toward the village’s districts, and Roy learned that the Rebel Army had gathered fewer than fifty thousand Half-Elves.
• Roy saw that Bulwark Village was overcrowded, filthy, and short on supplies as he passed through its districts.
• Roy offered a dread wolf pelt to a Rebel Army warrior, who tried to pay with Kole that Roy considered useless.
• Roy asked whether a human mage was in the village and learned that Benjamin lived in the Fifth District.
• Roy gave the warrior a pelt and took his pouch of Kole.

Roy learned that Benjamin the Mage might be hiding in the Fifth District and reported the lead to the instructors. Instructor Nora planned a covert investigation there the next day, while the chapter ended with Roy and Sabrina starting their morning at camp.

• Roy sold two dire wolf hides to Half-Elf rebels in Bulwark Village for two Magic Crystal Stones and heard that Benjamin might be in the Fifth District.
• Woods told Roy that he had failed to find his uncle, and Roy suggested they return to camp and report the lead to Instructor Nora.
• Roy told the instructors what he had learned, and they discussed capturing Benjamin because he might know about Slave Traders.
• After returning to camp, Instructor Nora ordered the group to investigate the Fifth District the next day and assigned Roy and Sabrina to gather intelligence.
• The next morning, Roy saw Sabrina feeding the horses and went to fetch water from a nearby stream.

Roy and Sabrina entered Bulwark Village’s overcrowded rebel camp and reasoned that the negotiations might be meant to secure rights for the Half-Elves before the Rebel Army’s Chieftain abandoned the refugees. Roy followed a rebel soldier who claimed to know his contact, Benjamin, while Instructor Nora and Magician Scarlett were left surrounded after a child accused Nora of hitting him.

• The Rebel Army’s ranks had grown to fifty thousand Half-Elves, leaving Bulwark Village short of food and unable to move easily.
• Roy and Sabrina discussed the camp’s worsening conditions and concluded that the negotiations might secure protections for the Half-Elves before the Chieftain withdrew with a smaller force.
• A rebel soldier recognized Roy’s search for Benjamin, said Benjamin now used the name Welsh, and led Roy and Sabrina into the Fifth District.
• Instructor Nora and Magician Scarlett followed, but Half-Elf children surrounded them and one child accused Nora of hitting him, drawing nearby rebels around the instructors.

Roy and Sabrina were lured into a trap in the Half-Elf Rebel Army’s Fifth District camp while their instructors struggled to follow them. Roy woke captive among Abbott, Benjamin, and Jones, revealing that the group’s old enemies had survived.

• Half-Elf warriors surrounded Instructors Eleanor and Gru, while Instructor Virgil sent Christine and Woods for help and pursued Roy and Sabrina.
• Woods transformed into a giant bear to lead Christine out, and Instructor Nora and Magician Scarlett chased after Roy and Sabrina on a Magic Broom.
• The instructors lost Roy and Sabrina among the tents, and an archer struck Magician Scarlett’s Magic Broom with an arrow.
• A Rebel Army warrior led Roy and Sabrina into a tent, where Half-Elves ambushed and overpowered them; Roy was knocked unconscious.
• Roy woke surrounded by Half-Elves and recognized Abbott, Benjamin the Mage, and Jones, who had survived their earlier capture.

Roy and Sabrina were captured by Benjamin, Abbott, and the Slave Traders, who fled the Fifth District with them as hostages. The Instructors caught up with the fleeing group, and Instructor Gru killed Jones after he threatened Sabrina.

• Roy and Sabrina were bound and captured, and Abbott demanded to know where Roy had hidden the Golden Key.
• Jones tried to kill Roy, but Benjamin stopped him and ordered the Slave Traders to take Roy and Sabrina along as hostages.
• Magician Scarlett spotted the Slave Traders carrying Roy and Sabrina and fired a signal flare to alert the Instructors.
• The Instructors and Rebel Army soldiers pursued the Slave Traders, while Benjamin escaped on a Magic Broom with Abbott and a young Half-Elf boy.
• Jones took the unconscious Sabrina hostage and admitted that he worked for whoever paid him, angering the Rebel Army soldiers.
• Instructor Gru shot Jones through the temple, freeing Sabrina from his grasp.

Instructor Nora and the Silver Moon Elf reinforcements rescued Sabrina and captured the Slave Traders, but Roy had been carried away by Abbott and Benjamin. As the instructors searched for Roy, negotiations shifted in the Silver Moon Elves’ favor, while Abbott and Benjamin prepared to fly Roy across the Bulwark Mountain Range in pursuit of treasure.

• Benjamin escaped with Abbott and Roy on the Magic Broom while the Slave Traders were distracted by the battle.
• Instructor Gru killed Jones, and Miss Christine’s Silver Pegasus Legion drove back the Slave Traders and rescued Sabrina.
• Instructor Nora learned that Benjamin had taken Roy and led a search party into the forest, but they found no trace of him by nightfall.
• The Slave Traders’ presence in the Rebel Army’s Fifth District gave the Silver Moon Elf Negotiation Team leverage, and Half-Elves began leaving the Bulwark Village camp.
• Roy awoke on a freezing mountain beside Abbott and Benjamin, who planned to cross the Bulwark Mountain Range and questioned Roy about the Golden Key.
• Benjamin repaired the Magic Broom, while Abbott admitted he had killed Jasper for money and told Roy he would not let him freeze to death.

Benjamin and Abbott crossed the Griffon Mountain Range with Roy bound and near death, then stopped to rest on a cliff ledge. Kaka and Little Eugene rescued Roy and took him to a warm spring, where they tried to revive him as he began to wake.

• Benjamin and Abbott flew up the mountain with Roy, while the cold and Roy’s Sacred Tree power changed his body.
• Benjamin steered the Magic Broom through a mountain pass and landed on a ledge to rest.
• Kaka and Little Eugene spotted the pair and decided to approach after seeing them fall asleep beside Roy.
• Kaka recognized Roy, found him still breathing, and secretly carried him away with Little Eugene and the Magic Broom.
• Kaka and Little Eugene warmed Roy in a spring, gave him potions, and called his name until he began to wake.

Roy recovered from his ordeal with Kaka and Little Eugene’s help, then returned toward Bulwark Village after discovering Benjamin dead and capturing Abbott. He reached the Negotiation Team’s camp at midnight, where the instructors saw him alive.

• Kaka and Little Eugene rescued Roy from the mountain and nursed him in a forest pool until he recovered.
• Roy learned that Benjamin and Abbott had wanted a key from him, then healed himself and absorbed Holy Light Particles through the Sacred Tree.
• Kaka carried Roy by griffon to the cliff, where they found Benjamin dead and Abbott dismembering his arm.
• Roy and Kaka knocked Abbott unconscious, bound him, took his Magic Pouches, and brought him toward Bulwark Village by griffon.
• Kaka left Roy and Abbott near the Negotiation Team’s camp, and Roy dragged Abbott to the camp, where the instructors came out to meet him.

Roy reunited with the Instructors, brought Abbott back alive, and hoped to secure a Teleportation Certificate so Miss Tiffany could question him about Jasper’s murder. As negotiations between the Rebel Army and the Silver Moon Elf officials stalled over Rampart Town’s leadership, Viscountess Yuffilia proposed Roy as governor, and Earl Griffin called for a meeting with him.

• Roy reunited with the Instructors and explained that two Half-Elves had rescued him from Benjamin and Abbott.
• Roy told Instructor Nora he intended to take Abbott back so Miss Tiffany could ask him why he killed Jasper, and Miss Christine offered to try to obtain a Teleportation Certificate.
• Roy rested at the camp after binding Abbott in a trunk, while negotiations continued between the Negotiation Team and the Rebel Army.
• The Negotiation Team and Rebel Army agreed on public hunting land, protections for Half-Elves, and the return of Padesto City residents, but remained deadlocked over who would govern Rampart Town.
• Viscountess Yuffilia suggested Roy as a compromise governor to Earl Griffin, who asked her to bring Roy to his carriage for a proper talk.

Earl Griffin summoned Roy for a conversation, then discussed with the negotiators how to resolve their dispute with the Rebel Army over Rampart Town’s governor. The negotiators nominated Roy as mayor without his knowledge, while Roy wondered when he could return to Castleton.

• Earl Griffin asked Roy about his background and studies, then summoned the other six negotiators after Roy left.
• Duke Augus argued that the Rebel Army could be crushed by force, while Viscountess Yuffilia urged the negotiators to avoid war and preserve the Pattington Plane.
• The negotiators debated who could govern Rampart Town, since the rebels rejected a Silver Moon Elf and the negotiators opposed appointing a Half-Elf.
• Viscountess Yuffilia nominated Roy, citing his ties to Earl Swynborne’s investigation team and Christine Swynborne, and the negotiators approved him as their candidate.
• Roy roasted a pineapple at camp and asked Instructor Nora when they could return to Castleton, unaware of his nomination.

Roy tried to keep Abbott in his custody and was summoned to the peace talks as an observer. Earl Griffin then unexpectedly presented Roy as the candidate to govern Rampart Town, leaving Roy stunned as the negotiations continued.

• Roy stopped three Elf Warriors from taking Abbott by explaining that Abbott was a wanted criminal from Castleton, and Christine backed Roy's claim that he would return Abbott to the Goddess of Freedom Temple.
• Instructor Nora told Roy to attend the peace talks as an observer, and Earl Griffin brought him into the Rebel Army's Command Post.
• Earl Griffin announced that Roy was the Silver Moon Elf Negotiation Team's candidate to govern Rampart Town, prompting a Rebel Army official to question Roy's youth and inexperience.
• Roy realized that the Negotiation Team had nominated him without asking him first.

After the peace agreement ended the Half-Elf rebellion, Roy learned he had been appointed Rampart Town’s governor in name, while the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion would manage the town’s reconstruction. In Padesto, Earl Swynborne rewarded Sabrina and gave Roy an appointment letter he could use to become governor whenever he chose.

• Addison Xize and the Rebel Army leaders signed the peace agreement, and Addison was arrested as the Rebel Army disbanded in Bulwark Village.
• Half-Elves left Bulwark Village for Padesto City or returned to hunting, while the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion took control and arranged aid along the routes.
• Earl Griffin explained that Roy’s governorship was nominal for now and that legion administrators would handle Rampart Town’s affairs; Instructor Nora then led the Adventure Group away.
• The Adventure Group reached Padesto, where Earl Swynborne invited them to the Command Post and offered each Instructor a magical item from his collection.
• Earl Swynborne gave Sabrina Spike-tailed Crystal Lion Leather Armor, two Serugi Longswords, and an Apple Orchard, then gave Roy an appointment letter allowing him to become Rampart Town’s governor whenever he wished.

Roy and the Adventure Group chose magical gifts from Earl Swynborne’s vault before returning to Castleton City with Abbott imprisoned in a box. On the Black Pearl, Miss Tiffany forced Abbott to confess to Jasper’s murder, killed him, and plunged into the sea.

• Miss Christine helped the instructors choose magical items, while Sabrina selected Dwarf Chain Mail and a chainmail battle skirt, and Roy chose a Thrust Sabre.
• Roy threw the Golden Key and Captain Relf’s Treasure Map into the sea to provoke Abbott, then told him Captain Relf had died.
• The Supply Ship reached Castleton City, and Roy and Sabrina carried Abbott’s box onto the Black Pearl, where Miss Tiffany opened it.
• Miss Tiffany used her bewitching power to make Abbott confess that he killed Jasper for the Treasure Map and intended to kill Roy for the Golden Key.
• Miss Tiffany stabbed Abbott in the chest and cut his throat, then plunged into the sea.

Roy buried Abbott beside Jasper, then returned to find Ms. Belinda away and the temple preparing to close. High Priest Reed departed for Gorfito, leaving Roy alone with the temple’s books and the weight of another farewell.

• Roy buried Abbott beside Jasper, planted a cypress tree, and left Orange Wine at both graves.
• Roy returned home, read Ms. Belinda’s joyful letter from Buenos, and gave Moira the Thrust Sabre.
• Roy visited the Goddess of Freedom Temple and found High Priest Reed packing after receiving a Conscription Order to report to Gorfito Headquarters.
• High Priest Reed gave Roy books on divine arts and explained that the Wisdom Holy Grail had to go with him to the Dark Land.
• High Priest Reed left Castle Town, and Roy locked the temple gates and brought several boxes of books home.

Woods returned to Castleton and revived the Black Pearl’s main mast with a drop of Spring of Life, while Miss Tiffany came back to live aboard the ship. When Elf Academy began its new semester, Roy and his friends settled into their studies and routines.

• Woods returned to Castleton without finding Miss Tiffany or access to the Goddess of Freedom Temple, so Roy invited him to stay on the Black Pearl.
• Woods used a drop of Spring of Life from Earl Swynborne to restore a trace of life to the ship’s main mast.
• Miss Tiffany returned with two waterlogged suitcases and said she had gone home to pack before the semester began.
• Roy, Woods, Tiffany, and Moira began the semester at Elf Academy, choosing courses suited to their interests.
• Roy found Klayr surrounded by admiring Silver Moon Elves and continued balancing his classes with visits, letters, and Adventure Group meetings.

Roy received High Priest Reed’s letter announcing the expedition to the Dark Land, then prepared to leave on an adventure with his friends. At the academy ball, Woods told Roy that Sabrina was in trouble.

• Roy read High Priest Reed’s letter about the repaired gateway and the coming expedition to the Dark Land, and worried about Reed’s safety.
• Roy traveled to his final astrology assessment with Moira, Tiffany, and Woods, then told Instructor Nora that his group planned to explore west of the Griffon Mountain Range.
• Roy and Woods bought supplies for their journey to Rampart Town and attended the Elf Academy ball, where Klayr performed three piano pieces.
• Woods rushed to Roy and said Sabrina was in trouble at the crowded Dance Floor.

After Sabrina struck a Silver Moon Elf noble at the Academy Dance, Roy helped her escape the ensuing confrontation and arranged for the group to leave for Pattington Island. The next morning, they boarded a military supply ship bound for the Pagisto Plateau, while the Silver Moon Elf nobles failed to stop them.

• Sabrina defended a friend during an argument, slapped a Silver Moon Elf noble, and faced a growing crowd of angry nobles with Miss Tiffany at her side.
• Roy arrived with Woods, Moira, and Klayr, tried to mediate, then led Sabrina out as Woods forced a path through the crowd.
• Roy and his companions escaped the academy by carriage, agreed to meet aboard the Black Pearl the next morning, and left for Brown Street.
• Roy, Moira, and Sabrina boarded the Black Pearl, where Woods showed them the revived mast and its spreading growth through the ship.
• At Castleton Harbour, Roy and his companions loaded supplies onto a military supply ship and set their destination as the Pagisto Plateau.
• The Silver Moon Elf nobles reached Deep Water Dock but were barred from boarding, and Roy's group sailed away toward Pattington Island.