Chapter Summaries

Roy’s fleet reached Queen Ivini Island after surviving a Morado Beast’s waves and receiving guidance from Silver Pegasus riders. Earl Swynborne assigned Roy and the Mine Guard Squad to clear Gray Dwarf Bandits from the West Reef Islands, and Roy said the Pagisto Plateau would remain stable in the short term.

• A Morado Beast leaped from the sea, ate a Wuqiao, and sent waves rocking the fleet before returning to the depths.
• The captain warned Roy about Gray Dwarf Bandits near the Empress Ivini Islands, and Silver Pegasus riders guided the fleet safely toward Queen Ivini Island.
• The Silver Moon Elf adjutant brought Roy to Earl Swynborne, who explained that Gray Dwarf Bandits had spread across the outlying islands and that the legion lacked enough forces to clear them all.
• Earl Swynborne assigned Roy’s Mine Guard Squad to clear the Gray Dwarf Bandits from the West Reef Islands and told him to signal for support if he encountered a large group.
• Roy explained that Half-Elves had driven the slavers from the Pagisto Plateau and said conditions there would remain stable in the short term.

Roy was promoted to command a Silver Pegasus Legion regiment and sent with five thousand Half-Elves to garrison the West Reef Islands against Gray Dwarf Bandits. After arriving, he began securing the islands and met the Silver Moon Elves who lived there.

• Earl Swynborne promoted Roy to regiment commander, assigned him to the West Reef Islands, and ordered him to avoid conflict with the local Silver Moon Elves.
• Roy encountered Christine at the military department, learned she had joined the Silver Pegasus Fifth Combat Regiment, and told her about his assignment.
• Commander Berkeley explained that Gray Dwarf Bandits had been raiding islands at night and supplied Roy with five thousand sets of light cavalry armor.
• Roy's fleet reached the West Reef Islands, where he assigned one ship's worth of Half-Elves to build a watchtower and search for signs of bandits.
• Roy sailed to three connected islands, met the resident Silver Moon Elves, and learned from their Old Elf that no Gray Dwarf Bandit traces had been found there.

Roy stationed the Half-Elf Guard Regiment across the West Reef Islands despite the Silver Moon Elves’ initial hostility, then surveyed the islands and tried to explain why his forces had come. At the village tavern, he warned Rossetti and other Silver Moon Elves that Gray Dwarf Bandits had already occupied nearby islands, and they prepared to stay alert.

• An elderly Silver Moon Elf allowed Roy’s Half-Elf Warriors to camp on the main island and nearby forests, but barred them from the village.
• Roy distributed his troops across the inhabited islands, established a temporary camp, and toured the northern islands by sailboat to inspect their sentry posts.
• Roy told two Silver Moon Elves at the dock that his regiment had come to defend the islands from the Gray Dwarf Bandits, and they welcomed him to visit their village.
• Roy visited the village tavern, met the sculptor Rossetti, and explained that the Gray Dwarf Bandits had occupied several nearby islands.
• Rossetti and another Silver Moon Elf discussed how they had repelled previous Gray Dwarf landings and said they would drive the bandits away again.

Gray Dwarf Bandits launched a fog-covered night raid on the West Reef Islands, attacking the harbor and its ships. Roy led the Half-Elf Guard Regiment in repelling them by dawn, capturing many bandits but losing some warriors.

• Rossetti walked with Roy through the Silver Moon Elf village before Roy returned to camp and went to sleep.
• Gray Dwarf Bandits, guided through dense fog by the Gana, landed near the harbor and seized three Medium Sailboats after forcing back their crews.
• Roy rallied the Half-Elf Warriors and led them to the dock, where they joined the Silver Moon Elf sailors against the raiders.
• Roy and the Half-Elf Warriors drove the Gray Dwarf Bandits back toward the sea, using their prepared formation to overcome the heavily armored attackers.
• At daybreak, the Gray Dwarf Bandits retreated to their ships, leaving corpses behind while Roy’s forces tended the wounded and held a large group of captives.

After the Half-Elf Warriors buried their dead, Roy ordered them to abandon beach fighting and draw the Gray Dwarf Bandits into the jungles, where they won a week of battles and forced the fleet to withdraw from the West Reef Islands. The chapter ended with Roy watching Silver Pegasus Warriors drive a fleet southwest across the sea.

• Roy led the Half-Elf Warriors and Silver Moon Elf residents in burying the seventy-four Half-Elf Warriors killed in the dock battle.
• Roy inspected the other reef islands, brought their Silver Moon Elf residents to the main island, and ordered the Half-Elf Warriors to retreat into the jungles during future raids.
• The Gray Dwarf Bandits repeatedly attacked the reef islands under cover of fog, but the Half-Elf Warriors fought them in the forests and inflicted heavy casualties.
• After a week of fighting, the surviving Gray Dwarf Bandits withdrew from the West Reef Islands.
• Roy watched from a medium sailboat as Silver Pegasus Warriors forced a distant fleet to flee southwest.

After the Gray Dwarf Bandits withdrew from the West Reef Islands, Roy treated the wounded and rallied the Half-Elf Warriors by explaining that defending the islands also protected their homeland. Christine visited Roy during her half-day leave, warned him that the raiders could return, and then flew to Talin Island with the Fifth Silver Pegasus Battle Group.

• The old Silver Moon Elf thanked Roy for defending the island and invited the Half-Elves to move into the village, but Roy chose to keep their camp in the western forest.
• Roy treated the wounded with Holy Light Art as the camp cared for survivors from the week of fighting across the West Reef Islands.
• Roy used shells to explain that the Gray Dwarf Bandits could threaten Pattington Island if they seized the Empress Ivini Islands, renewing the Half-Elf Warriors' resolve.
• The Silver Moon Elves sent Magic Herbs to help treat the wounded, while Roy recognized that the Silver Pegasus Battle Groups could not stop the raids across the entire island chain.
• Christine visited Roy, explained that the Fifth Silver Pegasus Battle Group had driven off the Gray Dwarf fleet, and warned him to stay vigilant because the raiders might return.
• Christine spent part of her leave walking and talking with Roy before flying off to join the Fifth Battle Group at Talin Island.

Roy continued preparing the Pagisto Half-Elf Guard Regiment to defend the West Reef Islands as the Gray Dwarf Bandits seized eastern islands and massacred their Silver Moon Elf inhabitants. An old Silver Moon Elf led Roy to the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, which recognized his unusual holy-light power and foresaw that Roy would leave the Elven World once he gained wings.

• Roy trained the Half-Elf Warriors to swim and operate Flying Fish Boats while they guarded the West Reef Islands.
• Commander Berkeley delivered supplies, took the Gray Dwarf prisoners, and gave Roy the official designation for the Pagisto Half-Elf Guard Regiment.
• Commander Berkeley told Roy that Gray Dwarf Bandits had captured more than a dozen eastern islands and slaughtered over three hundred Silver Moon Elf residents on Talin Island.
• An old Silver Moon Elf led Roy through a hidden forest path to the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, Lord Cenarius.
• The Ancient Tree of Wisdom sensed that Roy absorbed Holy Light Particles without a god's blessing, could not identify his path, and foresaw that he would leave the Elven World once he gained wings.

Roy prepared the Half-Elf Warriors on the West Reef Islands as the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ war against the Elves worsened. When Redbeard Miles attacked the island through the fog, Roy confronted him and struck him with the Hammer of Judgment Book’s holy hammer.

• Roy learned that Cenarius had fallen asleep and heard how wars had left only one Ancient Tree of Wisdom and six War Ancient Trees on the Empress Ivini Islands.
• Roy reflected on seeking Dark Creatures to strengthen himself, then trained the Half-Elf Warriors and prepared the island against another Gray Dwarf attack.
• As fog enveloped the West Reef Islands, Redbeard Miles led his Gray Dwarf Bandits toward the main island’s dock on rafts.
• Roy sounded the alarm, and the Half-Elf Warriors pulled their Flying Fish Boats ashore and fired arrows before retreating from the dock.
• Roy formed the Half-Elf Warriors into combat formations and faced Miles, then struck him in the chest with a holy hammer from the Hammer of Judgment Book.

Roy killed Redbeard Miles and led the Half-Elves in a retreat that drew the Gray Dwarf Bandits onto West Island, where forest warfare began. He then returned with Dark Moon Elf Warriors to sabotage the rafts and locate the Gray Dwarves’ anchored ships.

• Roy killed Miles with the Hammer of Judgment and purified his soul before Miles could fully demonize.
• Miles’s death drove the Gray Dwarf Bandits into a furious charge, and Roy led the Half-Elves in a fighting retreat from the dock into the forest.
• Roy guided the Gray Dwarves across the beach onto West Island, where Half-Elf forces began ambushing them among the trees.
• Roy returned to the main island with Captain Timothy, Vice Captain Tennyson, and Dark Moon Elf Warriors to clear the dock and secretly puncture the rafts.
• Roy led seventeen Flying Fish Boats through the fog and found the Gray Dwarves’ anchored Three-Masted Sailboats.

Roy and the Dark Moon Elf Warriors captured all eleven Gray Dwarf ships, then returned to the main island and prepared to trap the exhausted bandits on West Island. The chapter ended as Roy’s Half-Elf archers opened fire on Gray Dwarves advancing through the shallows.

• Roy led fifty Dark Moon Elf Warriors in a stealth attack that seized the first Three-Masted Sailboat and killed its Gray Dwarf crew.
• Captain Timothy and Vice Captain Tennyson led the warriors in capturing the remaining ten ships, while Roy found plundered supplies and treasure aboard the vessels.
• Roy moved the captured ships five nautical miles from the main island, then returned at dawn and found thousands of exhausted Gray Dwarf Bandits stranded on West Island by the rising tide.
• Roy ordered the Half-Elf units to withdraw to the main island, regroup, and prepare fortifications across the shallows to trap the Gray Dwarves.
• Roy led the Half-Elves back to the shallows, where his archers fired volleys at Gray Dwarves advancing through waist-deep water.

Roy trapped the Gray Dwarf Bandits on West Island by destroying their escape rafts and cutting off their supplies. After a two-week siege, more than two thousand starving bandits surrendered, and Roy was added to the Silver Pegasus Legion’s merit roll.

• Half-Elf archers drove the Gray Dwarf Bandits into West Island’s forest while Silver Moon Elves attacked the bandits guarding the main island dock.
• Roy ordered the Half-Elf Warriors to build a six-hundred-meter wooden fence across the beach between the islands.
• The Gray Dwarf Bandits launched twenty rafts at night, but Dark Moon Elf Warriors used stealth to dismantle them and strand the bandits near West Island.
• Roy kept patrols around the island and trapped the Gray Dwarf Bandits there without rushing to attack.
• After a two-week siege left them starving, more than two thousand Gray Dwarf Bandits surrendered to Roy, who had them confined in wooden cages.

Roy returned to Castleton City for a brief visit after Commander Berkeley arranged his leave, while the army prepared to transfer Gray Dwarf prisoners from the West Reef Islands. He reunited with Woods and Klayr, learned their trading company had sold its stock to merchants from the Roland Continent, and found his home empty before heading to the Alchemy Workshop.

• Commander Berkeley arrived at the West Reef Islands with supplies and ships to escort the Gray Dwarf prisoners to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Roy arranged to travel with him toward Castleton City.
• Commander Berkeley warned Roy that his business dealings had drawn criticism from Silver Pegasus Legion officials, then helped him board a supply ship at Pattington Island.
• Roy arrived at Castleton Harbour and reunited with Woods and Klayr, who told him that merchants from the Roland Continent had bought all their Magic Herbs, potions, iron ingots, and Mithril Ingots.
• Roy visited his home on Brown Street, found Ms. Belinda still away and the house empty, then bathed and changed.
• Roy left home and hurried to meet Woods and Klayr at their Alchemy Workshop.

Roy visited the Alchemy Workshop in Castleton, where human merchants had bought out its potions and herbs amid a war on the Roland Continent. He reunited with Moira, who was delighted that he had come home to see them.

• Roy arrived at the Alchemy Workshop and found a notice saying all magic potions were sold out.
• Woods showed Roy the workshop and explained that human merchant ships had purchased the potions and stored Magic Herbs because war had created a great demand for them.
• Roy saw Tiffany carefully brewing Mana Potions with Spirit Gathering Grass.
• Moira rushed into the workshop, spotted Roy, and threw herself into his arms.
• Roy told Moira he had taken four days off and had come back because he was homesick.

Roy reunited with his friends on the Black Pearl, recounted his victories in the Empress Ivini Islands, and learned that the Alchemy Workshop had sold a large stock of goods for about 180,000 Magic Crystal Stones. At the harbour, a human merchant offered Roy a chance to trade for Floating Devices, the power sources used in Magic Airships.

• Roy told Woods, Klayr, Moira, and Miss Tiffany about fighting the Gray Dwarf Bandits in the Empress Ivini Islands and capturing eleven sailboats.
• Miss Tiffany asked to join Roy on his next trip to the islands, while Roy refused Moira's request to come along.
• Woods explained that the Alchemy Workshop had sold its stored herbs, potions, and metal ingots for about 180,000 Magic Crystal Stones.
• Roy agreed to accompany Woods and Klayr to the harbour to collect the merchant group's remaining payment.
• Alvin offered Roy either thirty-six boxes of Magic Crystal Stones or a barter deal for the merchant group's goods.
• After Roy asked about Magic Airships, Alvin revealed that the group had bought Floating Devices from the Stan Dwarves and offered them for sale.

Roy bought all of Darwin's Dwarven magical machinery, including sixteen Floating Devices and mining equipment, and arranged to store it in Castleton while he was away. He then left Castleton aboard a Silver Pegasus Legion Supply Ship with Woods and Miss Tiffany, bound for Pattington Island and the West Reef Islands.

• Darwin showed Roy the Floating Devices, Magic Furnace, Ore Grinding Machine, and Ore Refining Device in his ship's hold.
• Roy agreed to buy all the machinery, spending over fifty thousand Magic Crystal Stones in a barter deal that netted him one hundred and thirty thousand Magic Crystal Stones.
• Roy asked Klayr to rent a warehouse near the docks and store the machinery in Castleton until Roy returned from the Empress Ivini Islands.
• Darwin told Roy about the Grimm Empire, its temples and airships, and the long sea route between the continents.
• Roy boarded a supply ship with Woods and Miss Tiffany, while Moira stayed behind with Sabrina and Klayr waved goodbye.

Roy returned to the West Reef Islands and prepared the Half-Elf Guard Regiment for the war spreading through the Empress Ivini Islands. With Miss Tiffany’s help, he equipped the eleven captured Three-Masted Sailboats with Naga Rune Plates that created protective shields, and planned to use the ships to patrol the surrounding waters.

• Roy sailed with Miss Tiffany to the West Reef Islands, where the residents greeted him and Vitas reported on the island’s defenses and ship-training efforts.
• Roy worried that the wider war would reach the West Reef Islands and urged the Half-Elf Warriors to train as sailors, though the eleven captured Three-Masted Sailboats were in poor condition.
• After inspecting the ships, Miss Tiffany offered to obtain Magic Protective Shield Rune Plates, and Roy gave her 2,200 Magic Crystal Stones to buy eleven.
• Miss Tiffany returned from the sea three days later with eleven Rune Plates and demonstrated how they formed a large protective shield when powered by a Magic Crystal Stone fragment.
• Roy installed the shields on all eleven Three-Masted Sailboats and planned to establish a patrol route around the West Reef Islands.

Roy inspected the fortified Three-Masted Sailboats Miss Tiffany equipped with Magic Rune Plates as the war around the Empress Ivini Islands escalated. Silver Moon Elf Warriors’ island ambushes initially punished the Gray Dwarf Bandits, but the bandits later broke through their defenses with Fishmen Monsters and sea demons, forcing the survivors to flee.

• Roy found Miss Tiffany adjusting Magic Rune Plates on a Three-Masted Sailboat, and she said she had bought them with Magic Crystal Stones.
• After the Silver Pegasus Legion exploited the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ weakness in jungle warfare, Silver Moon Elf Warriors won repeated clashes across the outer islands.
• Gray Dwarf Bandits landed on a southern reef island and held outside the forest while Armor-Piercing Arrows failed to penetrate most of their armor.
• Sea demons drove a vast swarm of Fishmen Monsters ashore, and the creatures charged through the elf traps as the Gray Dwarf Bandits advanced behind them.
• Silver Moon Elf Warriors were overwhelmed by the attackers and retreated to a cliff, where the surviving twenty-odd warriors escaped by rope and left on Flying Fish Boats.

Roy and the Half-Elf Guard Legion prepared for the possibility that the Gray Dwarf Bandits and Siren Legion would attack the West Reef Islands as Silver Moon Elf reinforcements sailed toward the main islands. The arrival of the Great Elf Archer Legion and Moon God Temple Priest Corps convinced Roy that the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom would defend the Empress Ivini Islands, and he began readying his troops for the coming battle.

• Roy and Woods discussed the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom’s setbacks and agreed that the Half-Elf Guard Legion might have to retreat to Pattington Island if the West Reef Islands fell.
• Woods delivered four crates of elementary magic potions while describing the merchant-driven surge in demand for magical goods across the Pattington Plane.
• Roy recognized a fleet of more than thirty Medium Sailboats carrying Great Elf Archers, followed by ten ships bearing the Moon God Temple’s banner.
• Roy concluded that the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom would not abandon the Empress Ivini Islands and headed to the temporary camp to prepare the Half-Elf Warriors for a possible attack.

Gray Dwarf Bandits, Fishmen Monsters, and sea demons invaded Queen Island, where Silver Moon Elf Warriors and a War Ancient Tree defended the shore. After a giant wave flooded the battlefield and the invaders began to gain the advantage, eight thousand Great Elf Archers and Moon God Temple priests arrived, forcing the enemy forces to retreat while the abandoned Fishmen Monsters remained trapped.

• Gray Dwarf Bandits and Fishmen Monsters landed on Queen Island and attacked the Silver Moon Elf Warriors, who fell back into the forest.
• The War Ancient Tree used Life Awakening to turn oak trees into Treant Warriors, who joined the Silver Moon Elf Warriors in holding back the invaders.
• A Sea Beast Priest summoned a giant wave that flooded the forest, scattered the defenders, and let the invading forces advance.
• Eight thousand Great Elf Archers landed on the far side of the island and rushed to the battle, where their arrows helped the Treant Warriors and Silver Moon Elf Warriors regain the advantage.
• Moon God Temple priests arrived as moonlight dissolved the sea beasts' scales, and the Sea Beast Priest fled with the sea beasts.
• Gray Dwarf Bandits retreated toward the sea, while sea demons abandoned the Fishmen Monsters on the beach to cover their escape.

The Silver Moon Elves defeated the Siren Legion and Gray Dwarf Bandits at the Empress Ivini Islands, while the Naga Sea Clan seized the Sirens’ Dimore Trench territory. Roy returned to Castleton City, sold a shipment of Magic Herbs at a steep profit, and arranged to transport Magic Machinery back to Pattington Island.

• The Moon God Temple priests’ ritual empowered the Silver Moon Elves, who routed the Gray Dwarf Bandits while the wounded Great Sea Serpent fled with the Sea Beast Priest.
• Prince Fere learned of the battle’s outcome and led the Naga Sea Clan toward the Dimore Trench to take it from the weakened Sirens.
• Commander Berkeley told Roy that his unit might soon return to the Pattington Plane, and Roy asked to take two thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners for work in the mines.
• Roy returned to Castleton City with Elementary Magic Herbs, sold them to an Imperial Merchant for three times their original price, and arranged to ship Magic Machinery to Pattington Island.
• The Naga Sea Clan attacked the Siren Legion in the Dimore Trench, forcing the Sirens to flee toward the Frozen Sea, while the Gray Dwarf fleet escaped toward Orc-controlled waters.