Chapter Summaries

Roy met Chief Commander Lucius in Padesto City to arrange supplies and labor for the Pagisto Plateau mines, while Lucius warned him about controlling the Half-Elf miners and facing an inquiry over Abel’s death. That night, Roy met Dennis at the Third Apple Orchard to trade his half of a Teleportation Pass with Mine Owner Alva, whose presence remained unseen.

• Roy learned that the Silver Pegasus Legion faced mounting pressure in the Empress Ivini Islands and that Commander Helix had arranged for a deputy to take his place in the fighting.
• Roy told Chief Commander Lucius he wanted to trade plateau resources for supplies and requested Gray Dwarf prisoners to work the mines; Lucius supported the transfer and warned Roy to limit the Half-Elf miners’ arrival in Padesto City.
• Roy explained that Abel had died during a melee after attacking pursuing Half-Elf Warriors, and Lucius advised him to submit a carefully worded formal report.
• Roy received a note from the tavern bartender directing him to meet Dennis at the Third Apple Orchard at midnight.
• Roy met Dennis in the orchard, then approached the clearing alone and displayed his half of the Teleportation Pass when an unseen voice asked for it.
• The unseen trader told Roy to unfold the pass and stay still, then dropped a bulging pouch onto the grass.

Roy trapped and killed Mine Owner Avar during a secret trade for a Teleportation Pass, then purified Avar’s demonizing soul. As Padesto City grew suspicious of the escaped mine owners, Roy recruited warehouse managers and discovered a fortune in Avar’s Magic Pouch.

• Roy caught Avar reaching for the Teleportation Pass and identified him as one of the mine owners who had enslaved Half-Elves.
• Avar summoned a fake Fire Elemental Lord, but Roy killed him with the Hammer of Judgment and purified his demonizing soul.
• Roy took Avar’s Shadow Cloak, Magic Inscription Constructs, and Magic Pouch, then paid Dennis to report news of other mine owners.
• Half-Elves across Padesto City discussed the murder and began speculating about which wealthy, low-profile elves planned to leave the plane.
• Roy recruited ten warehouse managers through the Padesto Guild and waited for Leishande’s pack train before choosing a chief manager.
• Roy searched Avar’s Magic Pouch and found five crates of Magic Crystal Stones and a large stockpile of Mithril Ingots.

Roy pursued Mine Owner Carlos after he fled Padesto City and cornered him on a ridge at dawn. Roy accused Carlos of illegal Elf Slave trading and other crimes before ordering his arrest.

• Mine Owner Yarman warned the mine owners that Avar's death had endangered them and proposed buying Teleportation Passes through a broker connected to the city guard commander.
• Carlos rejected Yarman's plan and fled Padesto City with his guards, while Dennis watched and alerted Roy.
• Roy and Dennis pursued Carlos, and Roy summoned Vice Captain Tennyson's Assassin Squad to assist.
• Carlos abandoned his carriages and escaped on horseback, but his horses ran off and his guards disappeared as Roy tracked him through the night.
• Roy confronted the exhausted Carlos on a ridge at dawn and ordered his arrest for illegal Elf Slave trading and other crimes.

Roy killed Carlos and purified his soul, while Dennis investigated the remaining mine owners in Padesto City. After discovering their ties to Commander Helix and Chief Commander Lucius, Dennis fled with her companions, leaving Roy their locations and warning him of the political connections.

• Roy had Carlos assassinated, purified his soul, and sent his body back toward Padesto City with Dennis’s help.
• Roy organized his warehouses while Dennis traced the remaining mine owners to the Silver Moon Elf Residential Area.
• Dennis saw Commander Helix visit a mine owner’s treehouse, then learned the mine owners had attended a dance with Chief Commander Lucius.
• Dennis and her companions fled Padesto City after confirming the mine owners’ connections, leaving Roy a letter with their locations and a warning.
• Roy read Dennis’s letter, tore it up, and realized she had fled after learning about the mine owners’ powerful allies.

Roy met Vice Captain Tennyson outside Padesto City and planned nighttime assassinations against two of the four remaining Mine Owners before they could flee. Meanwhile, the Mine Owners argued over Chief Commander Lucius’s fee, and Mine Owner Yarman secretly planned to avoid paying the balance after reaching Pattington Island.

• Roy learned that military supplies were occupying the One-Way Teleportation Gate until at least the following noon, then found Vice Captain Tennyson and the Griffon Cavalry hiding in the mountains.
• Roy and Vice Captain Tennyson chose Mine Owner Seagonis and Mine Owner Agalia as targets for simultaneous nighttime assassinations, with Roy leading one team.
• Mine Owner Yarman persuaded Mine Owner Seagonis and Mine Owner Agalia to contribute 1,250 Magic Crystal Stones each toward Chief Commander Lucius’s fee before the portal route opened at noon.
• After Seagonis and Agalia left, Mine Owner Yarman told the young Mine Owner that they would pay only half and seek help from brokers connected to the Naga Sea Clan on Pattington Island.
• Mine Owner Seagonis returned to his treehouse, where he considered staying in Padesto City and relying on his forty Half-Elf guards rather than leaving alone.

Vice Captain Tennyson’s squad assassinated Mine Owner Seagonis, while Agalia escaped an ambush after Roy appeared on his terrace. Agalia fled toward Seagonis’s treehouse, unaware that Seagonis was already dead.

• Vice Captain Tennyson led Dark Moon Elf Warriors onto Seagonis’s treehouse and killed Mine Owner Seagonis in his bedroom.
• Agalia, unable to sleep, went onto his terrace and found Roy waiting there.
• Agalia leaped from the terrace, escaped a Dark Moon Elf’s backstab, and ran into a rose-thorn thicket.
• Roy watched as six Dark Moon Elf assassins pursued Agalia into the bushes.
• Tennyson’s squad regrouped with Roy’s Second Assassin Squad and moved toward Agalia.
• Wounded and pursued, Agalia fled toward Seagonis’s treehouse, hoping its guards would protect him.

Vice Captain Tennyson and the Dark Moon Elf assassins killed Mine Owner Agalia, while Roy purified Agalia’s soul. Mine Owner Yarman and Darius then sought Commander Helix’s help to settle their payment and leave Padesto City, as Helix learned of the assassinations and prepared to take them to Chief Commander Lucius.

• Vice Captain Tennyson and five Dark Moon Elf assassins pursued Mine Owner Agalia and killed him on Central Avenue.
• Roy purified Agalia’s soul, which became a sprite and flew toward the Spring of Life.
• Mine Owner Yarman decided that he and Darius would pay the remaining Magic Crystal Stones and leave Padesto City as soon as possible.
• Yarman and Darius met Commander Helix and followed him toward the Guard Regiment, where Helix learned that Seagonis and Agalia had been assassinated.
• Commander Helix told Yarman and Darius to follow him to Chief Commander Lucius, promising to send them through the Teleportation Portal afterward.

Commander Helix and Chief Commander Lucius arranged to smuggle Mine Owners Yarman and Dalias out of Padesto in exchange for Magic Crystal Stones. Roy confronted them at the Teleportation Portal and publicly accused them of Elf Slave trading, leaving Helix exposed.

• Commander Helix told Chief Commander Lucius that assassins had killed Seagonis and Agalia, then showed him Magic Crystal Stones paid by Yarman and Dalias for portal fees.
• Lucius accepted the bribe and ordered Helix to escort Yarman and Dalias to Pattington Island and arrange their departure from the harbor.
• Helix brought the Mine Owners to Central Square and negotiated with the portal guards to let them leave among the Half-Elf laborers.
• Yarman reassured Dalias that Helix would not betray them because he had taken their bribe.
• Roy appeared beside the Teleportation Portal, arrested Yarman and Dalias on suspicion of Elf Slave trading, and asked Helix to help capture them.

Roy exposed Yarman and Darius as wanted mine owners, while Commander Helix killed them and avoided the fallout. Helix was ordered to recruit a Half-Elf Guard Regiment, but recruitment stalled as Roy prepared Padesto City to serve as a supply hub for the Pagisto Plateau.

• Roy presented portraits of Yarman and Darius, and Helix ordered the guards to arrest them before killing both mine owners and claiming they had resisted arrest.
• Roy purified the mine owners' souls, found no demonic corruption, and left the square as Helix stood over their bodies.
• Chief Commander Lucius ordered Helix to establish a Half-Elf Guard Regiment in Padesto City using newly delivered military supplies.
• Helix recruited only a little over three hundred Half-Elves, and Lucius ordered him to exclude anyone who had served in the Half-Elf Rebel Army.
• Roy sent letters requesting supplies and wrote to High Priest Reed about nearing the level-ten bottleneck after purifying demonic souls.
• Leishande brought supplies from the plateau to Roy's warehouses, and Roy asked Langbo to stay and manage the new transit warehouse.

Roy expanded his trade in Padesto City by arranging a supply partnership for Elementary Magic Herbs and receiving goods from Castleton City. He then secured a military supply allocation for the Pagisto Plateau, including weapons and armor for the Half-Elf forces.

• Roy met Augustus, a former Magic Herbs merchant, and arranged for him to provide a quotation for Elementary Magic Herbs while Langbo managed their warehouse communications.
• Leishande brought news that Commander Helik had led five thousand Half-Elf Warriors into the Gazan Ancestral Land, where nearly twenty thousand Headhunters were trapped.
• Klayr arrived with supplies from Castleton City, including Magic Furnaces and Tree of Life Sap, and Roy told him he planned to brew magic potions.
• Roy and Klayr discussed obtaining arrowheads and armor plates despite Roy's strained dealings with Logistics General Lucius.
• Roy visited the Silver Pegasus Military Department and received a supply list containing arrowheads, armor plates, Elf Long Swords, and Forest Bows; the quartermaster agreed to add two more boxes of arrowheads.

Roy met with Chief Commander Lucius, who explained that Padesto City planned to recruit Half-Elves in Rampart Town for a new city-defense regiment as the war around the Empress Ivini Islands worsened. Roy then reunited with Commander Berkeley and learned that his actions against the mine owners had made him famous in Padesto City.

• Miss Anna summoned Roy to Chief Commander Lucius, and Roy encountered Commander Berkeley outside the office.
• Chief Commander Lucius told Roy that Padesto City's Guard Regiment might be sent to the Empress Ivini Islands and that the city planned to recruit Half-Elves for a replacement defense force.
• Roy explained that Rampart Town held at least twenty thousand Half-Elves, including many former Rebel Army warriors, and said Padesto City had a much larger Half-Elf population.
• Roy left the office and embraced Commander Berkeley, who praised his success against the Highland Slavers on the Pagisto Plateau.
• Commander Berkeley brought Roy to the Second Material Transportation Group's office, where Daisy and Kelly said Roy's deeds against the mine owners were widely known in Padesto City.

Roy addressed rumors about his trade and mining operations, collected military supplies, and accepted a thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners of war for his mines. He left Padesto City early with the prisoners, while the Empress Ivini Islands remained under pressure from Gray Dwarf bandits.

• Daisy and Kelly warned Roy that his Magic Herbs trade and Magic Metal sales were rumored to threaten the Legion's interests, and Roy explained that Earl Swynborne had authorized both activities.
• Kelly told Roy that only three batches of supplies had reached his Half-Elf Warriors on Pagisto Plateau, and Roy said he had secured a new supply shipment despite tensions with Chief Commander Lucius.
• Commander Berkeley told Roy that Gray Dwarf bandits were spreading across the Empress Ivini Islands and that the Legion was struggling to contain them.
• Roy arranged to collect one thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners for his mines, and Berkeley confirmed the Legion had approved the transfer because the prisoner camp was overcrowded.
• Roy collected military supplies from the warehouse and led Leishande's pack train out of Padesto City before nightfall.
• After receiving the shackled prisoners, many of them craftsmen, Roy left Padesto City early and led them on foot toward Pagisto Plateau.

Roy negotiated an Elementary Magic Herbs trade with Augustus that would direct more profit to Half-Elf gatherers, then continued escorting Gray Dwarf prisoners toward Pagisto Plateau. An old Gray Dwarf revealed that his people had fled a homeland overrun by tentacled dark creatures, though Elvis dismissed the account as an excuse from habitual raiders.

• Roy explained to Augustus that he wanted the herb trade to help Half-Elf gatherers and offered a thirteen percent commission if Augustus passed the higher prices on to them.
• Augustus promised to honor Roy’s terms, and Roy sent him back to Padesto City to prepare the herbs.
• Roy considered the plateau’s mines and the wealth he had taken from four fleeing mine owners, while recalling that the Silver Moon Elves had ignored the plateau because it lacked a Tree of Life.
• Roy gave an old Gray Dwarf prisoner some Mackerel Jerky and asked why the Gray Dwarves had fought for the Empress Ivini Islands.
• The old Gray Dwarf said his people had fled their homeland after tentacled dark creatures overran it and had been driven away wherever they sought refuge.
• Elvis interrupted and accused the Gray Dwarves of being raiders who had plundered the surrounding seas for more than a hundred years.

Roy returned to a thriving Rampart Town with Gray Dwarf prisoners of war and prepared to continue transporting them toward the Pagisto Plateau. After settling the prisoners in a former Rebel Army barracks, he saw squad leader Elvis and the Silver Moon Elf guards depart.

• Squad leader Elvis warned Roy that the Gray Dwarf Bandits were deceptive and said his squad's escort duty ended at Rampart Town.
• Roy traveled south along the improved Forest Avenue and saw that the villages and roads had changed since his earlier journey.
• Half-Elves welcomed Roy, whose work and Leishande's trade had helped revive Rampart Town while Commander Helik's forces campaigned on the Pagisto Plateau.
• Leishande told Roy that twelve small merchant caravans were preparing to follow his pack train, and Roy said the Gray Dwarf prisoners would rest for two days before continuing.
• Leishande led Roy and the prisoners to the former Rebel Army Row Houses, where Woods's uncle managed the warehouses and the Gray Dwarves would stay.
• Roy escorted squad leader Elvis out of town, thanked him for the journey, and watched the Silver Moon Elf squad ride away.

Roy recruited a Half-Elf Guard Squad in Rampart Town to escort the Gray Dwarf prisoners of war to the Pagisto Plateau. After forming a force of five hundred, he set out with Leishande’s pack train and discussed how to transport heavy Magic Furnaces to the plateau.

• Roy and Kaka waited beneath Roy’s recruitment notice, and a young Half-Elf recognized Roy and rallied other recruits to join.
• Roy recruited five hundred Half-Elves, then told them to go home, gather their belongings, and report to the Row Houses.
• Roy equipped the new Half-Elf Guard Squad with stored armor and weapons, while Leishande provided five hundred rams for them to ride.
• Roy’s Prisoner of War Camp and Leishande’s pack train left Rampart Town, while Kaka and several Griffon Cavalry flew ahead to scout.
• Roy and Leishande discussed moving the heavy Magic Furnaces to the Pagisto Plateau, but the available wagons could only reach its foot and the Griffon Corps was not meant to haul cargo.

Roy led a thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners of war onto Pagisto Plateau and assigned four hundred to Qian Ning at the South Mithril Mine. When Roy asked how to transport his Magic Furnaces up the cliffs, Lobato explained that a hired group had floated one with a mage-operated device and bighorn sheep.

• Roy led the Gray Dwarf prisoners of war from the mountain camp along the perilous road onto Pagisto Plateau, where they reached the Valley Camp.
• Roy learned that many Half-Elves at the Valley Camp were miners from the Nikoba Mountain Range waiting to leave the plateau for Rampart Town.
• Roy brought a thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners of war to the South Mithril Mine and left four hundred there with Qian Ning.
• Roy asked Qian Ning how the mine's Magic Furnace had been transported onto the plateau, and Lobato described using a Floating Device, a mage, and bighorn sheep to pull it through the air.

Roy expanded the North Black Iron Mine’s Forging Workshop, organized the Gray Dwarf workers, and explained their work rules and benefits. He then traveled to the Northern Plateau camp to receive more Headhunter prisoners, many of whom were too frail to cross Tianpu Canyon.

• Roy brought Gray Dwarf prisoners to the three Black Iron Mines and established a Forging Workshop at the North Black Iron Mine, where Walker had already organized production.
• Roy inspected the workshop’s iron bars, Magic Black Iron, and Hollow Bricks, then told Walker to observe the new prisoners and expand the workshop.
• Roy gathered the Gray Dwarves and explained their jobs, work hours, scoring system, benefits, and penalties for fleeing.
• Roy left for the Northern Plateau camp with a Half-Elf squad and saw its Mine Guard forces, confiscated supplies, bighorn sheep, and thousands of Headhunter prisoners.
• Roy considered how to handle the elderly, women, and children among the Headhunters, who were unlikely to cross Tianpu Canyon on foot.

Roy gathered Headhunters prisoners and displaced families in the wilds beside the Tollai River, where they built a walled camp. After arranging supplies and work at the site, Roy told Leishande that a Plateau City would soon rise there.

• Roy told Mulin he planned to build a Prisoner of War Camp beside the Tollai River and bring the Headhunters there.
• Adair delivered fifteen hundred prisoners and told Roy that Helik’s forces had trapped the Headhunters in the Gazan Ancestral Land but needed cold-weather supplies and magic potions.
• Roy led the prisoners, more than three thousand displaced Headhunters, and three thousand rams through Tianpu Canyon to North Black Iron Mine Castle.
• Walker showed Roy the cargo racks built for the rams, and the pack train carried hollow stone blocks to the northern wilds.
• Roy organized the prisoners to dig trenches and build the camp’s walls, shelters, and drainage ditches beside the Tollai River.
• Leishande delivered three magic furnaces and steel bars to the wilds camp, where Roy declared that a Plateau City would rise.

Roy developed the Prisoner of War Camp into a growing town on the Pagisto Plateau while the Silver Pegasus Military Department struggled to conscript Half-Elves in Padesto City. After receiving a Conscription Order, Roy was instructed to lead five thousand Half-Elf Warriors to fight in the Empress Ivini Islands.

• Roy explained to Leishande that the new settlement would include a Prisoner of War Camp, housing, a market, barracks, warehouses, and homes for Half-Elves.
• Roy agreed with Kaka to visit Sun Island Bay and confront its fishmen once the camp was running smoothly.
• Chief Commander Lucius sent Roy a second Conscription Order after Padesto City's recruitment failed and set aside a report accusing Roy of murdering Abel.
• Roy completed the river dike and Prisoner of War Camp, where Headhunters and Half-Elves gathered around a growing market.
• Roy received the order to bring five thousand Half-Elf Warriors to fight in the Empress Ivini Islands.

Roy recruited five thousand volunteer Half-Elf Warriors to reinforce the Silver Pegasus Legion in the Empress Ivini Islands, leaving Mulin to manage the Headhunter prisoners and the plateau operations. After traveling through Padesto City and across the sea, Roy's fleet approached the islands, where Gray Dwarf Bandits had occupied outlying territory.

• Roy improved the Headhunters' meals and established a routine at the prisoner camp, then assigned Mulin to manage the camp while he departed.
• Roy explained the dangers of the Empress Ivini Islands deployment, and more Half-Elf Warriors volunteered than he could take, so he selected five thousand.
• Roy led the Half-Elf Warriors and a five-hundred-man Assassin Squad south to Padesto City, then used a Teleportation Portal to reach Pattington Island.
• Roy waited for the Silver Pegasus Legion logistics department to gather enough sailboats, then led the five thousand Half-Elf Warriors east across the sea.
• After sailing for a day and a night, Roy learned that the fleet was nearing the outer edge of the Empress Ivini Islands.