Chapter Summaries

After receiving orders to return to the Pattington Plane, Roy led the Half-Elf Guard Regiment home with Gray Dwarf prisoners of war and earned an official Silver Pegasus Legion command. In Padesto City, Commander Helix challenged Roy’s authority to bring the prisoners through the portal, and armed Half-Elves confronted the Silver Moon Elf guards.

• Commander Berkeley gave Roy the order to withdraw, secured him berths for the Three-Masted Sailboats, and appointed him commander of the Half-Elf Guard Regiment.
• Roy led nearly five thousand Half-Elf Warriors from the West Reef Islands to Pattington Island, then brought two thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners from Parrham Island Prison to Padesto City.
• Commander Helix declared that Roy’s Conscription Order did not authorize the prisoners’ entry into the Pattington Plane and ordered him to send them back.
• When Silver Moon Elf guards drew swords to block Roy, the Half-Elf Warriors charged and put their blades to the guards’ necks.

Roy returned to Padesto City with the victorious Half-Elf Guard Regiment, Gray Dwarf prisoners, and Magic Machinery, then revealed a Floating Device that could carry the heavy cargo. The chapter ended with five thousand Half-Elf Warriors escorting two thousand prisoners and floating supplies toward the transit camp at the Foot of the Mountain on Pagisto Plateau.

• Roy cleared the Teleportation Portal entrance and led the Half-Elf Warriors and Gray Dwarf prisoners into Padesto City as supplies followed.
• The Gray Dwarf prisoners attacked Half-Elves who taunted them, and Roy's guards beat them back while escorting them through the city.
• Langbo helped move Roy's Magic Machinery and other supplies into warehouses, where Roy calculated that his stored goods were worth about one hundred and fifty thousand Magic Crystal Stones.
• Roy brought Langbo to the Apple Orchard and demonstrated how a Floating Device lifted and carried a large Wooden Box.
• Roy led five thousand Half-Elf Warriors, two thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners, and a batch of Magic Machinery out of Padesto City toward Pagisto Plateau.

Roy returned to Plateau City after leading the Half-Elf Guard Regiment across the southern Pagisto Plateau, inspecting the mines and learning that Helik had captured nearly twenty thousand Highland Slavers. He accepted all the prisoners for labor in the city and mines as he began overseeing Plateau City's development.

• Roy learned how Magic Airships used Floating Devices to rise into the sky and Wind Stream Layers to travel, then flew above the clouds with Kaka to study the winds.
• Roy reached the First Spinel Mine, inspected its operations, and freed two Dark Moon Elf Prisoners, who set out for Rampart Town.
• Roy visited Qian Ning at the Mithril Mine, where news of the Queen Ivini Islands Naval Battle victory spread, before continuing toward Plateau City.
• Mulin welcomed Roy to Plateau City and told him that Helik had captured nearly twenty thousand Highland Slavers at the Gazan Ancestral Land.
• Roy ordered Mulin to accept all the Highland Slaver prisoners, assigning some to build the city and sending the rest, along with the Gray Dwarf prisoners, to work in the mines.

Roy returned to Plateau City, where Mulin briefed him on the growing population and asked to hand over city administration. Meanwhile, Chief Commander Lucius was sent to the Military Tribunal, and rumors accusing Roy of murdering Abel stirred anger among Half-Elves in Padesto City.

• Mulin reported that Plateau City held nearly six thousand Highland Slaver prisoners and had attracted nearly ten thousand Half-Elves and merchant caravans.
• Roy inspected the Government Affairs Hall, and Mulin asked to leave administration to command the Half-Elf Guard Regiment as Roy planned to expand the city.
• Mulin told Roy that Chief Commander Lucius had resigned over his failures, including delaying reinforcements and mishandling Half-Elf recruitment.
• Silver Moon Elf Warriors escorted shackled Chief Commander Lucius through the Teleportation Portal toward the Military Tribunal, while Commander Helix fled Padesto City to evade trial.
• Padesto City residents discussed Lucius's arrest and Helix's flight, while rumors that Roy had murdered Abel angered Half-Elves and drew objections from Silver Moon Elf nobles.

Roy expanded his operations on the Pagisto Plateau, managing prisoner labor and the booming Magic Herbs trade while preparing to travel south. He declined Commander Berkeley’s offer to return to Padesto City, then received a letter from High Priest Reed describing the Expeditionary Force’s desperate fight in the Dark Land.

• Silver Moon Elves petitioned the Silver Pegasus Legion to punish Roy over Abel’s death, but Earl Swynborne ignored their letters.
• Rising Magic Herbs prices revitalized trade between the Elf Continent and the Pagisto Plateau, where Roy controlled the market with Leishande’s pack train.
• Roy brought two thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners to the North Black Iron Mine and explained their labor, rations, and path to freedom through ransom.
• Roy accepted more Headhunter prisoners in Plateau City as construction accelerated, while Leishande reported that Padesto City had fallen into disorder after Lucius left.
• Commander Berkeley offered Roy command of the Half-Elf Guard Regiment in Padesto City, but Roy declined and received a letter from High Priest Reed about Dark Creatures attacking the Expeditionary Force.

Roy declined Commander Berkeley’s request to lead a Half-Elf Guard Regiment in Padesto City, but arranged for Leishande to help form it instead. After Berkeley and Leishande reached an agreement, Roy led Half-Elf Warriors south toward Sun Island Bay to deal with the Fishmen Monsters.

• Roy worried about High Priest Reed after reading his delayed letter, but realized he had no way to enter the Dark Land.
• Roy refused to leave Plateau City for Padesto City, citing its unfinished construction, the prisoners under guard, and his plans for Sun Island Bay.
• Roy asked Leishande to help Commander Berkeley establish a five-thousand-man Half-Elf Guard Regiment, and Berkeley agreed that a Half-Elf should command it.
• Leishande and Commander Berkeley reached an agreement, and Leishande left for Padesto City with his pack train.
• Three days after Berkeley departed, Roy led two thousand Half-Elf Warriors south, gathered another thousand at the Second Spinel Mine, and headed toward Sun Island Bay with Kaka and Griffon Cavalry.

Roy explored a fault zone between the Griffon Bulwark Mountain Range and the mountains south of the Pagisto Plateau, seeking a route to Sun Island Bay. After finding a dangerous stalagmite forest blocking the way, he proposed using the Griffon Corps’ Iron Will ability to smash a passage through it, and village chief Tiprado agreed.

• Roy led the Mine Guard Regiment to the fault zone and sent a squad down the cliff while Griffon Cavalry scouted below.
• Kaka showed Roy the dense, sharp stalagmites blocking the canyon floor and the route toward Sun Island Bay.
• Roy spotted a gap in the stone forest and asked Kaka to land there; Kaka used Iron Will to turn the griffon and its riders to iron and crash through the stalagmites.
• Roy proposed using the Griffon Corps to smash a passage through the stone forest and building a two-cabin lift to connect the northern and southern routes.
• Kaka brought village chief Tiprado to inspect the site, and Tiprado agreed to Roy’s plan after a griffon blasted another crater in the stalagmites.

Roy saw the Griffon Cavalry devastate the Stalagmite Forest and proposed a saddle-mounted mana system to keep griffons from weakening after using Iron Will. After scouting the Fishmen Monsters’ occupied coastline and leading the Mine Guard Regiment through the jungle, Roy’s hidden camp was discovered and the Half-Elves clashed with an approaching group.

• Tiprado’s Griffon Cavalry used Iron Will to smash a broad passage through the Stalagmite Forest, leaving the griffons too weak to fly.
• Roy suggested installing gemstone bases and mana-conversion inscriptions on griffon saddles so external magic crystals could replenish the griffons’ mana.
• Roy and Kaka flew over Sun Island Bay and saw Fishmen Monsters occupying its coastline and attacking the griffon from lookout platforms.
• After resting, Roy led the Mine Guard Regiment through the jungle and camped near the beach, where they watched the Fishmen Monsters.
• Fishmen Monsters heard the Half-Elves in the bushes, found their camp, and charged; Roy and the Half-Elf Warriors rushed out to fight.

Roy led the Mine Guard Regiment in its first battle against the Fishmen Monsters at Sun Island Bay, holding the beach before withdrawing into the jungle and using ambushes to stop their advance. At dawn, Roy found the corpses gone and new Fishmen Monsters arriving on strange sea beasts.

• Fishmen Monsters rushed from the beach and attacked the Mine Guard Regiment, whose trained Half-Elf Warriors fought them back with shields, swords, and arrows.
• The battle lasted from noon until dusk, and Roy ordered a staggered retreat into the jungle while Timothy and Tennyson led the Assassin Squad to ambush the pursuing Fishmen Monsters.
• The Fishmen Monsters stopped pursuing the Regiment, and the Half-Elf Warriors rested and established a temporary camp deeper in the forest.
• Kaka and Tiprado witnessed the scale of the slaughter, while Roy began planning a trap to kill more Fishmen Monsters before they could react.
• At dawn, Roy returned to the beach and discovered that the corpses had vanished and Fishmen Monsters were gathering there alongside strange sea beasts.

Roy’s Half-Elf Warriors faced a vastly larger force of Fishmen Monsters, whose toadfish-riding elites used a summoned tide and powerful water jets to drive them from the beach. After scouting the Fishmen Monsters’ immense settlement on Sun Island, Roy regrouped his forces and led a prepared attack that inflicted heavy losses before the warriors withdrew from another incoming wave.

• Roy ordered the Half-Elf Warriors to escape the summoned wave by retreating into the forest, where the toadfish-riding Strong Fishmen attacked them with water jets.
• Roy used a Hammer of Punishment to rescue a Half-Elf Warrior surrounded in the flooded woods, then led the squadron deeper into the jungle.
• Roy returned to camp and joined Kaka on a griffon flight to Sun Island, where they saw the Fishmen Monsters’ vast settlement and estimated its population at over a hundred thousand.
• Three days later, Roy led three thousand Half-Elf Warriors to the beach, where they shot Fishmen Monsters with arrows before withdrawing as a huge wave approached.
• The Fishmen Monsters remained in control of the beach despite suffering heavy casualties.

Roy’s Half-Elf Warriors used jungle ambushes to inflict heavy casualties on the Fishmen Monsters, but the fighting settled into a stalemate. Roy led a nighttime attack that destroyed the Toadfish Cavalry and overwhelmed the beach force, only for a new wave of Fishmen Monsters led by a six-armed Painted Face Siren to arrive as the Elf Warriors retreated.

• Roy rejected his Half-Elf captains’ calls to fight head-on and ordered the warriors to lure the Fishmen Monsters into the jungle and ambush them.
• For four days, the Half-Elf Warriors drew Fishmen Monsters into the jungle while Griffon Cavalry attacked the beach, killing thousands without losing a warrior.
• The Fishmen Monsters adapted by using Toadfish Cavalry to summon tides and avoid pursuing the Half-Elves deep into the jungle, creating a stalemate.
• At night, Roy led nearly two thousand Half-Elf Warriors in a charge while Timothy and Tennyson led the Dark Moon Elf Warriors into the shallows and signaled the Griffon Cavalry to dive-bomb the Toadfish Cavalry.
• The Mine Guard Regiment destroyed the Toadfish Cavalry and routed the beach force, then Roy ordered the Elf Warriors to retreat as a new wave of Fishmen Monsters led by a six-armed Painted Face Siren came ashore.

Jiezena withdrew her battered Fishmen Monster Legion from Sun Island Bay’s North Coast after the Half-Elves’ attacks drove them into the sea. The Siren Commander reassigned her to guard the southern entrance, while other Siren Captains moved to claim the northern coast and confront the Half-Elves.

• Jiezena discovered that the Half-Elves had destroyed the Anglerfish Warriors and slaughtered Fishmen Monsters, then ordered her forces to abandon the North Coast and retreat to the Coral Reef Island Sea Area.
• Roy found the North Coast’s Fishmen Monsters had withdrawn underwater, leaving his Mine Guard Regiment unable to reach them.
• The Griffon Cavalry Regiment expanded to seven hundred riders and repeatedly frightened the Fishmen Monsters on Sun Island with aerial raids.
• Several Siren Captains gathered to seek control of the North Coast after learning Jiezena had withdrawn her legion.
• The Siren Commander ordered Jiezena to regroup in the southern waters of Sun Island Bay, and the other Siren Captains began discussing how to divide the northern defensive zones.

Roy’s forces faced nearly sixty thousand Fishmen Monsters, whose Toadfish Cavalry flooded the forest and forced the Half-Elves eastward. At night, Timothy and Tennyson coordinated a strike that let the Griffon Cavalry destroy the tide-summoning Anglerfish while the Assassin Squad killed the remaining Fishmen Warriors and Anglerfish in the shallows.

• Roy saw nearly sixty thousand Fishmen Monsters gathering on the North Coast as the Elf Warriors prepared for battle.
• Four Siren Captains ordered the Toadfish Cavalry to summon enormous waves that flooded the forest and carried Fishmen Monsters toward the elf camp.
• Roy led the Half-Elves east through the forest while Fishmen Monsters attacked them in the rising seawater.
• At night, Timothy and Tennyson led the Assassin Squad through the sea and signaled the Griffon Cavalry to attack the glowing Anglerfish.
• Kaka, Little Eugene, and more than seven hundred Griffon Cavalrymen struck the Anglerfish, while the Assassin Squad killed the remaining Fishmen Warriors and Anglerfish in the shallows.

Roy’s forces defeated the Fishmen Monsters on the North Coast, driving most survivors back to Sun Island and securing the coastline. Roy planned to build ships and drive the Fishmen Monsters out of the bay before their population recovered, despite Kaka’s doubts.

• The receding tide left the Fishmen Monsters stranded in the muddy forest, where Roy and the Half-Elf Warriors cut them down.
• Dark Moon Elf Warriors, Griffon Cavalry, and the Assassin Squad trapped the retreating Fishmen Monsters on the beach and completed the encirclement before dawn.
• Four Siren Captains fled to Sun Island, and fewer than five thousand Fishmen Monsters escaped back into the sea.
• Elf Warriors spent three days killing the trapped Fishmen Monsters and buried their bodies beneath the trees.
• Roy began preparing to build a seawall, harbor, and ships, and planned to travel to Castleton City to seek craftsmen and speak with Miss Tiffany.
• Roy told Kaka that the Fishmen Monsters would return if allowed to recover, then they flew away from the coast on Kaka’s griffon.

Roy returned from Sun Island Bay to Padesto City, where he met Berkeley and learned that Silver Moon Elf nobles were still stirring up trouble over the death of a noble descendant. He then traveled to Castleton City and asked Miss Tiffany to interpret for him when he dealt with the sea demons.

• Kaka carried Roy to Padesto City, where Roy reported to the Silver Pegasus Military Department and learned Berkeley was training the new Half-Elf City Defense Guard Regiment.
• Roy visited Berkeley, who explained that the Half-Elves had taken over Padesto City and warned Roy to keep a low profile amid rumors about a Silver Moon Elf noble's death.
• Roy returned to Pattington Island and praised the Half-Elf squadron for maintaining his eleven three-masted sailboats.
• Roy took a supply ship to Castleton City, where he found Ms. Belinda still absent and Miss Tiffany still aboard the Black Pearl.
• Roy asked Miss Tiffany to interpret for him so he could communicate with the sea demons.

Roy discussed the sirens at Sun Island Bay and considered repurposing idle ships to build up his forces there. As Woods, Sabrina, and Klayr prepared to join the Sakarram Adventure Group or seek Roy out, Roy explained the Silver Pegasus Legion’s role in the Queen Ivini Islands Naval Battle and invited his friends to visit the Pattington Plane.

• Miss Tiffany explained the sirens’ history and suggested Roy dismantle and transport idle Three-Masted Sailboats to Sun Island Bay for reassembly.
• Master O'Casey invited Woods to become his teaching assistant, but Woods declined because he planned to join the Sakarram Adventure Group.
• Instructor Virgil offered Sabrina a basic swordsmanship instructor position, but Sabrina had already decided to join the Sakarram Adventure Group.
• Klayr left the Elf Academy and told his driver to take him to Castleton Harbour to find Roy.
• Moira and Woods visited Roy on the Black Pearl, and Roy arranged for Moira and the others to travel to the Pattington Plane during their break.
• Roy explained that the Silver Pegasus Legion had held the Empress Ivini Islands until the Priest Corps and Great Elf Archer Legion helped turn the battle around.

Roy returned to Castleton and invited Sabrina and Tiffany to help him on the Pattington Plane, where he expected renewed conflict with the sea demons. After discussing plans, threats, and music with his friends, he met Mrs. Winnie, who asked him to take her grown Night Blade Leopard to the Pattington jungle so it could regain its wild nature.

• Roy invited Sabrina to serve with the Mine Guard Regiment on the Pattington Plane and said he wanted Tiffany to go to Sun Island Bay to contact the sea demons.
• Roy asked Klayr about building large sailing ships, and Klayr warned him that investigators might look into Mine Owner Abel's death and that the Grimm Empire's Plane War was intensifying.
• Roy hummed a melody for Klayr, who began writing it down and named it "Autumn Whisper."
• Roy stopped at Mrs. Winnie's Potion Shop and found her with the Night Blade Leopard.
• Mrs. Winnie asked Roy to take the Night Blade Leopard to the Pattington Plane and help it return to life in the jungle, and Roy agreed.

Roy took the Night Blade Leopard to his home, visited Countess Amelia at Ellington Castle, and discussed developments on the Pattington Plane and the wider world. Back in Castleton City, he met Klayr and an Imperial Merchant about hiring a dwarven artisan, learning that dismantling and reassembling an existing Three-Masted Sailboat might be feasible.

• Roy brought the Night Blade Leopard home and shared a quiet evening with Moira before traveling to Ellington Castle.
• Roy told Countess Amelia about the Half-Elves, the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ alliance with a Siren Legion, and other news from the Pattington Plane and Castleton City.
• Roy spent the night speaking with Countess Amelia, then returned to Castleton City the following day.
• Roy found Klayr’s note asking him to meet at the harbor about a dwarven artisan and went to the docks the next morning.
• An Imperial Merchant told Roy that building a Three-Masted Sailboat from local materials could take four and a half years, but the dwarven artisan said dismantling and reassembling an existing ship should be manageable.

Roy arranged for Maggs to inspect and convert his eleven Three-Masted Sailboats into Magic Airships so they could be transported through the Plane Teleportation Portal. After Maggs confirmed the ships and portal were suitable, conversion work began on Pattington Island while Roy took Miss Tiffany to Padesto City.

• Roy learned that dismantling and rebuilding the Three-Masted Sailboats would take a year and a half, so an Imperial Merchant proposed fitting them with Floating Devices instead.
• Roy hired Maggs to inspect the portal and prepare a conversion proposal, then negotiated a trade agreement with the Imperial Merchants for Magic Herbs, potions, and metals.
• Roy, Maggs, and Miss Tiffany traveled to Pattington Island, where a wave tossed Miss Tiffany overboard before she flew alongside the Supply Ship on her Magic Broom.
• Maggs inspected Roy's eleven Three-Masted Sailboats and confirmed they could be converted into Magic Airships.
• Maggs confirmed that the magic Teleportation Portal could accommodate the ships, and Roy began arranging the installation of reinforced brackets for their Floating Devices.
• Roy took Miss Tiffany through the portal to Padesto City while Maggs and his apprentices began the conversion work.

Roy returned to Padesto City with Miss Tiffany and a Night Blade Leopard, where he arranged to move the abundant Elementary Magic Herbs to the portal for shipment to Castleton. The chapter ended with Baron Kampferfred reading a military commendation that awarded Roy the Silver Pegasus Freedom Medal and appointed him Governor of Pagisto Plateau.

• Roy entered Padesto City with Miss Tiffany and received salutes from Half-Elf guards who recognized him.
• Roy agreed to meet Commander Berkeley the next morning after Berkeley’s guards requested an appointment.
• Langbo told Roy that warehouses were nearly full with goods from Pagisto Plateau and Elementary Magic Herbs supplied by Augustus.
• Roy arranged ten carriages to begin transporting the herbs to the Teleportation Portal and left the Night Blade Leopard with Langbo.
• Baron Kampferfred read a commendation promoting Roy to Governor of Pagisto Plateau and awarding him the Silver Pegasus Freedom Medal.