Chapter Summaries

Roy finalized the forces staying at the North Mithril Mine and prepared to lead the Half-Elf Guard Squad west, while Commander Helik marched five thousand Rebel Army warriors toward the western plateau. The chapter ended with Helik urging his troops to hurry through thorn-covered wilderness before nightfall.

• Roy left Qian Ning in charge of three hundred Half-Elf Warriors at the North Mithril Mine to guard the prisoners and secure the mine.
• Mulin recognized Roy's efforts to help the Highland Half-Elves and hoped the young warriors in the Guard Squad would grow into a strong force.
• Roy read Klayr's letter describing his failed search for support in Padesto City and his plan to buy supplies in Castleton City.
• Village chief Tiprado prepared the Griffon Corps to scout the western plateau as slavers reached Black Crow Ridge and Roy readied the Guard Squad to depart.
• Commander Helik led five thousand Rebel Army warriors west with supplies, horses, and rams, following Griffon Knights toward the Kaltim Mountain Range.
• After surveying the wilderness, Helik ordered his troops to move faster and cross the thorn-covered area before nightfall.

Roy led the Mine Guard to Ghost Crow Ridge after reinforcing the Third Mine, determined to stop the slavers before they entered the Southern Plateau. The Assassin Squad attacked a slaver camp in the Scorched Wood Forest, but the slavers fought back and the battle continued in the darkness.

• Roy arrived at the Third Mine with one thousand Half-Elf Warriors, welcomed its defenders, and announced that the army would march to Ghost Crow Ridge after resting overnight.
• Roy reflected on his responsibilities to the Half-Elves and his dream of seeking the Holy Light, while Sabrina warned Moira that Roy did not want her taking dangerous missions.
• The Mine Guard set out for Ghost Crow Ridge, and the Griffon Corps searched for slavers who had hidden in the dense woods.
• Roy's army camped at the eastern edge of Ghost Crow Ridge as slavers hid in the Scorched Wood Forest, planning to attack a Half-Elf settlement.
• Dark Moon Elf Warriors from the Assassin Squad struck the slavers around their bonfire, but a slaver captain counterattacked and the fighting spread through the shadows.

The Dark Moon Elf Assassin Squads and Roy’s Mine Guard gradually cleared the headhunters from Ghost Crow Ridge, while Commander Helik’s Rebel Army struggled to contain another headhunter force in the Kaltim Mountain Range. Roy secured the ridge’s eastern side and blocked the route into the Southern Plateau, as nearly four thousand Half-Elves gathered at Ghost Crow Ridge.

• Moira pulled a Dark Moon Elf Warrior into the shadows during an ambush, and he thanked her afterward for saving him.
• Timothy and Tennyson led sixteen Assassin Squads through Ghost Crow Ridge, clearing seven headhunter camps during the night.
• Commander Helik let a headhunter group pass so his forces could prepare to funnel a larger force into a pocket, but his later clashes failed to join his army with Roy’s forces.
• Woods learned from a tree that at least two thousand headhunters were scattered across Ghost Crow Ridge, and Roy’s Mine Guard advanced to attack them.
• Roy’s Mine Guard took control of eastern Ghost Crow Ridge in a week, with help from the Assassin Squads and Griffon Corps, and blocked headhunters from entering the Southern Plateau.
• Nearly four thousand Half-Elves gathered at Ghost Crow Ridge in two weeks, while Helik’s Rebel Army continued skirmishing with headhunters in the Kaltim Mountain Range.

Roy and the Mine Guard drove the headhunters from Ghost Crow Ridge, cutting off their route into the Southern Plateau, while the retreating forces and Half-Elves entered a stalemate in the Kaltim Mountain Range. The chapter ends with Commander Helik leading a nighttime assault on a headhunter-held Silver Mine.

• Roy, Woods, and Sabrina led the Half-Elf Warriors against the headhunters at Ghost Crow Ridge, and Sabrina killed their captain after Roy struck him with a Holy Light Hammer.
• The headhunters fled north into the Kaltim Mountain Range, and Roy held Ghost Crow Ridge rather than immediately pursuing them.
• Miss Tiffany praised Woods for becoming a First Rank Claw Druid, while the chapter noted the recent advances of Sabrina and Moira and Roy’s continued Priest stage.
• The Griffon Corps and Assassin Squad harassed the headhunters in the southern Kaltim Mountain Range, but the two sides reached a stalemate.
• Commander Helik surrounded a headhunter-held Silver Mine with five thousand Rebel Army soldiers and led Half-Elf Warriors in a nighttime assault on its fortress.

Roy’s Mine Guard Army turned the slavers’ retreat from the Kaltim Mountain Range into a counteroffensive, using Griffon Cavalry armed with Black Iron Spears and nighttime attacks by the Assassin Squad to drive them north. The slavers fled in fear as Roy’s forces pursued them, leaving the Mine Guard Army in control of the initiative.

• Commander Helik led the Half-Elf Warriors in capturing Silver Mine Castle at heavy cost, where they found the remains of slaughtered Half-Elf miners and Gray Dwarves.
• Roy learned that the Rebel Army had taken the Silver Mine and surveyed the slavers’ retreat routes from Ghost Crow Ridge.
• Leishande delivered supplies and Black Iron Spears commissioned by Qian Ning, and Captain Tiprado demonstrated that a Griffon rider could use them to shatter a boulder.
• Roy ordered the Griffon Corps to train with the Black Iron Spears while slavers began fleeing north from the southern Kaltim Mountain Range.
• Roy led the Mine Guard Army north, while the Griffon Cavalry harried the fleeing slavers and the Assassin Squad attacked them at night.
• The Assassin Squad’s raids forced slavers to travel in large groups, making them easier targets for the Griffon Cavalry’s Black Iron Spears.

Roy received orders from the Silver Pegasus Military Department to avoid openly helping Commander Helik’s Rebel Army, so he delayed joining forces while arranging secret aid. He later brought supplies and coordinated a renewed pursuit of the Highland Slavers, while Helik reclaimed two devastated mines.

• Commander Helik’s Half-Elf warriors repelled another Highland Slaver assault on the Silver Mine Castle as the siege continued.
• Roy received a letter ordering him to monitor Helik’s Rebel Army and avoid aiding it, so he kept his forces at Green Sun Lake and planned to continue support secretly.
• Roy received Klayr’s shipment of Tree of Life Sap and Healing Potions, then flew with Kaka and Little Eugene to deliver supplies to Helik.
• Roy and Helik agreed on a coordinated pursuit, with the Mine Guard Army advancing north while the Griffon Corps and Assassin Squad harassed the Highland Slavers.
• Roy’s Mine Guard Army pursued north for three days without encountering the fleeing Slavers, while Helik reclaimed two mines that had been left in ruins, with their miners dead.

Roy’s Half-Elf Warriors drove the Headhunters from the Kaltim Mountain Range and pursued them toward the Northern Plateau. At North Wind Canyon, Sabrina stopped and killed Chieftain Agas but suffered serious wounds, which Roy treated.

• Roy’s mounted Half-Elf Warriors, aided by Commander Helik, the Griffon Corps, and the Assassin Squad, drove the Headhunters out of the Kaltim Mountain Range.
• Sabrina and her squad ambushed Agas and several dozen Headhunters as they fled through North Wind Canyon.
• Agas used his Ancestor Shadow to bind Sabrina, but radiant light freed her, and she fought him in close combat.
• Agas stabbed Sabrina with a dagger and wounded her with his War Blade, but Sabrina killed him with a strike to the forehead as the Half-Elves wiped out his group.
• Roy treated Sabrina and the injured Half-Elf Warriors with bandages, Tree of Life Sap, Healing Potion, and Holy Light Art, while Sabrina insisted she had to stop Agas from escaping.

Roy’s Mine Guard Army drove the Highland Slavers from North Wind Canyon while Commander Helik led the Rebel Army north in search of freedom and a foothold. After discovering the atrocities in the Kaltim Mountain Range mines, Roy redirected the Highland Slaver prisoners to the Sudaso Mountain Range, and his army reached the North Mithril Mine.

• Sabrina’s First Battalion defeated the Highland Slavers at North Wind Canyon, killing two chieftains and helping Roy’s Mine Guard Army take the canyon.
• Commander Helik led five thousand Rebel Army warriors north, rejected Roy’s offer to remain near the Kaltim Mountain Range, and explained that he wanted to establish a foothold in the Northern Plateau.
• Roy promised that the Mine Guard Army would withdraw from North Wind Canyon and move north through Tianpu Canyon, while Commander Helik continued toward the Northern Plateau.
• Commander Helik’s Rebel Army captured three fortresses and killed the Highland Slavers it encountered, while Roy’s army held nearly a thousand prisoners for trial and eventual lifelong mine labor.
• Roy inspected the bloodstained Silver Mines, decided not to send the prisoners there, and assigned them to the Sudaso Mountain Range.
• The Mine Guard Army crossed the Kaltim Mountain Range and wilderness, reaching the Sudaso North Mithril Mine by mid-September.

Roy returned to the North Mithril Mine with four thousand Half-Elf Warriors, entrusted Qian Ning with managing both Mithril Mines and eight hundred Highland Slaver prisoners, and prepared to march toward Tianpu Canyon. Meanwhile, Commander Helik’s Rebel Army invaded the northern wilderness and began destroying Highland Slaver settlements.

• Qian Ning watched Roy’s procession arrive at the North Mithril Mine and considered her mother’s warning that she must secure her position.
• Roy planned a route to Tianpu Canyon and circled a strategic point on the map before Qian Ning brought him fruit tea.
• Roy asked Qian Ning to manage the Highland Slaver prisoners and the two Mithril Mines, and she accepted the challenge.
• Commander Helik led five thousand Rebel Army warriors into the northern wilderness, where they found Highland Slaver settlements scattered and poorly defended.
• Commander Helik’s forces crushed a settlement of more than one hundred Highland Slavers and burned its huts, announcing their invasion with a rising column of smoke.

Roy led the Mine Guard Army through Tianpu Canyon into the Northern Plateau, while the Rebel Army captured a Magic Crystal mine under Commander Helik. After establishing a camp beyond the canyon, Roy surveyed the surrounding hills and spotted a hidden slaver settlement.

• Roy delayed the Mine Guard Army’s crossing until the weather improved, while supplies arrived and Leishande planned to restore a trade route to the plateau.
• Moira’s Assassin Squad hunted retreating slavers in Tianpu Canyon, but Tennyson called off the pursuit and planned to search the Northern Highland Wilderness instead.
• Commander Helik confronted Bulageli at a Magic Crystal mine, then led the Rebel Army in capturing it with the help of two Griffon Cavalry.
• Helik ordered the mine owner’s fate to depend on how he had treated the Half-Elf slaves and declared the mine temporary Rebel Army property.
• Roy led four thousand Mine Guard Army warriors through Tianpu Canyon and established a camp at its northern exit.
• Roy flew with Kaka over the surrounding hills and spotted a slaver settlement concealed in a mountain hollow.

Roy and the Sakarram Adventure Group entered the Northern Plateau to learn about the Headhunters and explore whether they could be resettled. After observing a struggling village and a coming-of-age ritual, the group was mistaken for Pig-Orcs and attacked, leaving the Headhunters dead or gravely wounded.

• Roy secretly led the Sakarram Adventure Group into the Northern Plateau while Kaka and Little Eugene flew north to search for the Gazan Ancestral Land.
• Woods found a Headhunters Village, and Roy explained that he hoped to understand the tribes and help them leave their hunting life by settling them somewhere suitable.
• Roy and his companions observed the village’s impoverished women, elders, and children, then left without disturbing them.
• The group watched young Headhunters kill a Wind Wolf as an elderly Headhunter marked and tattooed the young hunter in a coming-of-age ritual.
• A Headhunter spotted Roy’s group, and the young Headhunters attacked after mistaking the Half-Elves for Pig-Orcs.
• Sabrina and Woods defeated the attackers, leaving the forest clearing strewn with Headhunter bodies and two wounded survivors lamenting their poor training.

Roy held the Mine Guard Army outside the Northern Plateau villages while Commander Helik’s campaign drove headhunters north, then began taking over abandoned mines. The chapter ended with Roy entering a mine and asking its Half-Elf Miners how many workers were there.

• An old headhunter died after young headhunters were defeated by Roy’s group, reflecting that the headhunters had underestimated the Half-Elves and ignored his warnings.
• Roy told Kaka about the fight and their scouting of Headhunters Village, then moved the Mine Guard Army through Tianpu Canyon to a camp on the Northern Plateau.
• Roy waited instead of attacking nearby villages, explaining to Woods that he wanted headhunters to flee north so the army could follow their trail to the Gazan Ancestral Land.
• Commander Helik’s Rebel Army attacked villages across the plateau, spreading news of the headhunters’ defeats and prompting mass migrations north.
• The Logistics General received reports that Roy’s forces had entered the Northern Plateau and that headhunter villages were retreating.
• Roy led the Mine Guard Army to a concealed mine, took its mine owner and private soldiers into custody, and asked the Half-Elf Miners how many workers were there.

Roy inspected Jerome’s Iron Mine and found that its Half-Elf miners lived in relatively decent conditions, though they feared losing the mine and having nowhere safe to go. He took over the mine, freed the miners, and offered Jerome a manager’s position with ten percent ownership as he planned to expand operations.

• Jerome surrendered when Roy and the Half-Elf Warriors arrived, while Little Cooper explained that the mine held seventy Half-Elf miners who had come from Padesto City.
• Roy toured the mine’s homes, dining hall, and tool room, finding that the miners had some privacy and leisure and were not treated as harshly as slaves at the Spinel Mine.
• Roy learned that the miners feared leaving the mine because Highland Slavers were widespread and they had nowhere else to go.
• Roy offered Jerome a job managing the mine and ten percent of its shares, while promising to invest in larger furnaces and secure buyers for its iron.
• Roy told Jerome that the Half-Elf miners would be freed and that he would find new miners to replace them.

Roy took control of mines across the Northern Plateau, freeing Half-Elf miners and sending several Mine Owners to Padesto City for trial. At a Wochak Mountain Mithril Mine, he discovered starving elf slaves and announced their freedom, leaving the miners preparing to spread the news through the tunnels.

• Mine Owner Jerome agreed to serve Roy, and the Half-Elf miners at his iron mine celebrated their freedom and discussed where they wanted to go.
• Roy took over four iron mines, sent three Mine Owners to the tribunal in Padesto City, and transported their stored iron ingots and willing Half-Elf miners toward the city.
• Roy's forces reached a Wochak Mountain Mithril Mine, where Mine Owner Abel surrendered after seeing the Griffon Corps, while Mulin and the Half-Elf Warriors secured the castle.
• Roy found that the Mithril Mine's Half-Elf miners were starving and learned that fewer than four hundred remained, alongside Gray Dwarves and Dark Moon Elves.
• Roy announced to two Half-Elf miners that the elf miners were free, and one miner ran into the tunnels to spread the news.

Roy inspected the miners’ brutal living conditions and freed the elf miners at the Wochak Mountain Mithril Mine. After finding evidence of abuse and death, he ordered Mine Owner Abel to face trial in Padesto City, leaving Abel one night to prepare.

• Roy found the miners’ cramped, freezing quarters and discovered Half-Elves imprisoned and tortured in a basement.
• Roy used Purification to disperse the resentful spirits in the prison, while Half-Elf Warriors rescued the surviving captives.
• Roy found an elf’s bone among the Black Berry vines in a courtyard, renewing his anger over the miners’ treatment.
• Roy announced that the Half-Elf and Dark Moon Elf miners were free, while Gray Dwarf miners had to keep working.
• Roy accused Mine Owner Abel of trading slaves and abusing and murdering elves, then ordered him and his family to return to Padesto City for trial.

Mine Owner Abel decided to flee the Wochak Mountain Mithril Mine with Olysses rather than face an escorted return to Padesto City, while Roy learned of their escape plan and prepared to intercept them. Abel and Olysses entered a secret passage beneath their bed, unaware that Roy had been warned.

• Mine Owner Abel and Olysses discussed the tribunal and decided to hide on Wochak Mountain before secretly traveling to Padesto City.
• Adiya told Roy that Abel planned to escape through a Secret Passage in his bedroom, and Roy offered her a chance to join his Assassin Squad so she could seek her sister.
• Roy sent Moira to take Adiya to Captain Timothy, and Vice Captain Tennyson later met with Roy.
• Mine Owner Abel and Olysses armed themselves, opened the hidden passage beneath their bed, and entered it.

Abel and Olysses escaped the Mithril Mine through a secret passage, but Tennyson and Timothy’s Assassin Squad ambushed and killed them. Roy’s forces freed the mine and seized the Northern Plateau, then turned toward the Headhunter clans in the eastern Nikoba Mountain Range.

• Abel and Olysses emerged from the secret passage and hid in Sleeping Bags in a rocky crevice, unaware that the Assassin Squad had tracked them.
• Tennyson attacked Abel’s Sleeping Bag, but Timothy came up behind Abel and slit his throat while Olysses fought the assassins.
• The Assassin Squad overwhelmed Olysses and carried both corpses back to the mine, where the miners celebrated their freedom and joined the Mine Guard.
• News of Abel’s death reached Padesto City and nearby mines, warning Mine Owners that they could be executed for their crimes.
• Roy and Helik’s forces captured the Northern Plateau’s mines and drove the Headhunter tribes north, while Helik asked Roy to inspect the Gazan Ancestral Land as a possible base.
• Roy’s Mine Guard turned toward the Nikoba Mountain Range, where Griffon support would help them enter the difficult terrain.

Roy restored control over mines on the Pagisto Plateau and prepared to return to Padesto City to capture the Mine Owners who had abandoned the eastern mines. He left the plateau’s operations in others’ hands and traveled with his companions toward the city, where a coachman spoke of the Half-Elf rebellion without realizing Roy had led it.

• Mine Owner Jerome brought Headhunters prisoners to the Fourth Iron Mine to replace freed laborers and resume work.
• Roy’s Mine Guard occupied the abandoned mines in the Nikoba Mountain Range and brought nearly three thousand Half-Elf Miners to safety.
• Roy decided to return to Padesto City to find the fleeing Mine Owners, and he arranged for Woods, Sabrina, and Moira to return to Castleton City and take up their duties or studies.
• Roy flew from the North Black Iron Mine toward Padesto City, then sent Kaka and the other Griffon Cavalry riders away before continuing on foot with his companions.
• Roy’s group reached the outskirts of Padesto City, where Half-Elves offered them apples and a carriage ride toward the city.
• The Half-Elf coachman told Roy that he had heard a leader had freed many slaves on the Pagisto Plateau, unaware that Roy was that leader.

Roy returned to Padesto City, sent his companions through the Teleportation Portal, and began investigating wealthy outsiders who had recently arrived. After arranging for Dennis to gather information, he sought a warehouse to rent or buy.

• Roy reported to the Silver Pegasus Military Department and obtained a new Teleportation Pass.
• Roy said goodbye to Moira, Sabrina, Woods, and Miss Tiffany as they entered the Teleportation Portal.
• At the Red Maple Leaf Tavern, Roy paid Dennis to find information on wealthy unfamiliar faces who had arrived in Padesto City within the past two weeks.
• The bartender urged Dennis to investigate Roy's background after he left a Magic Crystal Stone as a deposit.
• Roy visited a property rental Trading Company and asked about warehouse sizes and prices.

Roy rented five warehouses in Padesto City, arranged to hire Half-Elf managers, and used Dennis to contact a fugitive Mine Owner with a split Teleportation Pass. The chapter ended with Chief Commander Lucius summoning Roy for a meeting as he considered how to respond to Roy’s control of Pagisto Plateau.

• Roy rented five connected warehouses for storing ordinary Metal Ingots and scheduled interviews for warehouse managers.
• Dennis reported that Roy’s target was a Mine Owner who had returned to Padesto City and sought a Teleportation Pass to escape to the Elf Continent.
• Roy paid Dennis to deliver half of a split Teleportation Pass to the Mine Owner and arrange a meeting.
• A Silver Moon Elf adjutant invited Roy to meet Chief Commander Lucius the next morning, and Roy accepted.
• Chief Commander Lucius discussed Roy’s takeover of Pagisto Plateau with his adjutant and worried that the legion could not simply surrender control of the region.