Chapter Summaries

Roy received a Silver Pegasus Freedom Medal and was appointed Governor of the Pagisto Plateau, then secured military supplies by describing the Mine Guard Regiment’s campaign at Sun Island Bay. After returning there with Miss Tiffany, he learned sirens had been luring Half-Elves into the sea, and Tiffany went to investigate them.

• Commander Berkeley warned Roy that the Elven Council of Elders had approved charges against him and urged him to help investigators uncover evidence of Mine Owner Abel’s crimes.
• Roy arranged to transport a large shipment of Elementary Magic Herbs to Pattington Island and sent Klayr and Woods instructions to receive it at Castleton Harbour.
• Chief Kampferfred summoned Roy, gave him a Silver Pegasus Freedom Medal, and appointed him Governor of the Pagisto Plateau.
• Roy told Chief Kampferfred that the Mine Guard Regiment was fighting Fishmen Monsters at Sun Island Bay and requested military supplies.
• Roy returned to Sun Island Bay with Miss Tiffany and learned that siren songs had lured more than a dozen Half-Elves into the sea.
• Miss Tiffany went to the shore at night to investigate the sirens, whose songs could bewitch male elves but not female elves.

Roy discovered that his holy light protected him and nearby Dark Moon Elf Warriors from the siren song, so he led an Assassin Squad toward the beach. There, Miss Tiffany was trapped by Jiezena, but Roy’s holy magic freed her and wounded the siren as she fled into the sea.

• Roy’s holy light dispelled the siren song’s effects, and he took Tennyson and six Dark Moon Elf Warriors toward the beach.
• Jiezena sang from the reefs while preparing to move her Fishmen Monsters back into the shore huts.
• Jiezena repelled the Night Blade Leopard’s attack, captured Miss Tiffany in a Six Stars Stone Prison, and speared the fleeing leopard.
• Holy light destroyed the prison, freeing Miss Tiffany, and Roy struck Jiezena with a Hammer of Judgment.
• Jiezena’s shield broke and her arm and abdomen were wounded, but she escaped into the seawater.

After a costly battle with the Fishmen Monsters, Roy agreed to explore peace talks while still seeking contact with their leaders. Siren Commander Latimore accepted the proposal and assigned Jiezena to arrange the initial negotiations, leaving the terms and outcome undecided.

• Jiezena hid beneath a Coral Reef to treat her wounds after a human Priest rescued the Naga mage, while Roy and Miss Tiffany helped the injured Night Blade Leopard and regrouped with the Dark Moon Elf Warriors.
• Roy asked Vice Captain Tennyson to dry the Fishmen Monsters’ hides for possible sale, and Miss Tiffany returned to the sea despite Roy’s warning.
• Village chief Tiprado gathered the Griffon Cavalry and proposed negotiating with the sirens, and the Half-Elves supported seeking peace if the Fishmen Monsters surrendered the North Coast.
• Tiprado, Kaka, and Eugene urged Roy to consider peace talks, and Roy agreed to contact the sirens while maintaining his broader plans for the coast.
• Roy sent five letters asking the Siren Chieftain to hold peace talks, and Lord Commander Latimore ordered Jiezena to arrange the initial contact through Captain Staven.

Roy’s first peace talks with the Sirens of Sun Island failed after he demanded they abandon the island, and he prepared to settle the conflict by force. He then returned to Plateau City, where he addressed construction, prisoner security, and the need to conceal details about Mine Owner Abel’s death from an investigation team.

• Jiezena approached the Half-Elves’ shore to arrange peace talks, and Roy set the meeting for the next evening at a stilt hut.
• At the talks, Roy demanded that the Sirens withdraw from Sun Island, but Staven refused and ended the negotiations.
• Roy told Tiffany he did not believe Elves and Sirens could share the bay and asked her to investigate the Sirens’ internal divisions.
• Roy returned to Plateau City and reassured Mulin that the Highland Slaver prisoners could be managed through restrictions, incentives, and strict rules.
• Roy instructed Mulin to explain Mine Owner Abel’s death as an accidental battlefield death and to keep Commander Helik and the Griffon Cavalry Regiment out of the investigation.

Roy traveled from Plateau City to Padesto City to arrange an air route and then inspected the first Three-Masted Sailboat being converted into a magic airship on Pattington Island. The ship rose into the air during its first test, while Roy arranged to continue converting more vessels despite limited supplies.

• Roy surveyed the direct griffon route between Plateau City and Padesto City and decided magic airships could ease the transport of Metal Ingots.
• Roy learned that the Buenos Elven Council of Elders' investigation team had left Padesto City for the Pagisto Plateau, then asked Commander Berkeley to help apply for an Air Port Dock.
• Roy passed through the Teleportation Portal to Pattington Island and inspected Maggs's work installing Floating Devices on a Three-Masted Sailboat.
• The Imperial Merchant told Roy that the available Floating Devices could convert only two magic airships for now, but Roy ordered the support-frame work to continue on eleven Three-Masted Sailboats.
• A human mage activated eight Floating Devices, and the Three-Masted Sailboat rose out of the seawater and floated into the air.

Roy and Maggs completed the first Magic Airship on Pattington Island and flew it to Padesto City through the Teleportation Portal. The successful arrival left the Half-Elves eager for the planned air route and work opportunities on the Pagisto Plateau.

• More than two hundred Half-Elf Warriors hauled the Three-Masted Sailboat to shore while Roy and Maggs oversaw its floating equipment and preparations for conversion.
• The Imperial Merchant paid Roy over seventy-five thousand Magic Crystal Stones, declined to buy Fishmen Monster leather, and agreed to procure more Floating Devices.
• Roy stayed on Pattington Island while Maggs completed the first Magic Airship and trained Half-Elf pilots; the craft passed its test flight, and General Kampferfred approved its entry permit.
• Roy boarded the completed Magic Airship with Half-Elf Warriors, and Maggs piloted it through the mountains to the Teleportation Portal.
• The Magic Airship passed through the portal and arrived above Padesto City's Central Square, where crowds of Half-Elves watched and anticipated future jobs on the Pagisto Plateau.

Roy brought the Magic Airship to Padesto City, inspected its unfinished Air Port Dock, and arranged for supplies to be shipped toward Plateau City. As the airship began its next voyage, a Dwarf Apprentice explained why airships were uncommon in the Dwarven Kingdom and widespread in the Grimm Empire.

• The Magic Airship emerged through the Teleportation Portal above Padesto City, where Half-Elves cheered for Roy.
• Roy and Maggs inspected Padesto City's unfinished oak-tree Air Port Dock while Maggs trained Half-Elf pilots in airship handling.
• Roy accompanied Maggs through the Teleportation Portal back to Pattington Island, then returned to Padesto City's Apple Orchard as Langbo prepared supplies.
• Roy ordered Langbo to prioritize food and daily necessities for Plateau City and revealed that he had ordered forty Ship-Mounted Magic Cannons for the airship.
• After the airship was loaded, Roy ordered the Dwarf Apprentices to set sail, and one apprentice explained that underground railcars served the Dwarven Kingdom while airships thrived in the Grimm Empire.

Roy traveled aboard a magic airship from Padesto City to Plateau City, where he unloaded half its supplies before continuing toward Sun Island Bay. As a caravan approached Plateau City, its travelers spotted a three-masted sailboat floating in the sky.

• Roy said he intended to visit the Roland Continent as the airship climbed through the clouds and entered the Wind Stream Layer.
• The Dwarf Apprentices used a balloon sail to determine the wind’s direction and guided the airship through the Wind Stream Layer.
• After three days, the airship reached Plateau City, where Roy unloaded half its supplies and continued toward Sun Island Bay.
• Silver Moon Elf merchants traveling with a caravan learned that the Mine Guard Regiment bought unsold goods at below-market prices.
• An elf in the caravan pointed out a three-masted sailboat floating above Plateau City, and the travelers wondered what it was.

A flying Three-Masted Sailboat arrived at Plateau City as three Silver Moon Elf investigators disguised as merchants entered to investigate Mine Owner Abel's death. Roy noticed them and let them search the city, leaving their investigation to unfold.

• The Three-Masted Sailboat arrived at Plateau City, impressing the Highland Slaver prisoners and worrying a caravan leader about competition from magical ships.
• Three Silver Moon Elf investigators heard the caravan describe Roy's reputation and learned that most Mine Owners had been captured by the Silver Pegasus Legion or had fled.
• The investigators entered Plateau City, saw its unusual buildings and market, and debated how to find witnesses and investigate Abel's death.
• Roy and Kaka watched the investigators from the City Wall, and Roy told Mulin to let them wander the city and search for answers.

Mine Owner Jerome met three Silver Moon Elf investigators searching for answers about Mine Owner Abel’s death and fed them a lurid account of the killing. Roy departed Plateau City for Sun Island Bay, leaving the investigators to remain in the city and Little Eugene behind as a messenger.

• Mine Owner Jerome recognized that the three Silver Moon Elf merchants were investigators and learned they were probing Mine Owner Abel’s death.
• Mine Owner Jerome told the investigators that Abel’s lover Olysses had slit Abel’s throat in a Secret Passage while they fled the mine.
• Mine Owner Jerome distracted the investigators with questions about Buenos City and trade, then secretly sent a report about them to Mulin at City Hall.
• The three investigators failed to find lodging or provisions and spent the night in tents in the Free Market during the city lockdown.
• Roy told Mulin he was leaving for Sun Island Bay with supplies and left Little Eugene in Plateau City to carry messages if needed.

Roy returned to Sun Island Bay with supplies and discovered that Miss Tiffany had gone to investigate Sun Island alone. He launched the Magic Airship to search for her, but Toadfish Cavalry attacked the ship; Griffon Cavalry answered with armor-piercing arrows that pierced the fishmen’s scales.

• Fishmen Monsters continued sabotaging the unfinished pier while Toadfish Cavalry attacked the coastal elves with waves.
• Roy arrived at Sun Island Bay aboard a supply-laden Magic Airship and found the pier in ruins.
• Roy discovered Miss Tiffany was missing and read her note explaining that she had gone to Sun Island to identify who commanded the sea demons and fishmen.
• Roy ordered the Magic Airship to patrol the bay with the Night Blade Leopard accompanying him.
• Toadfish Cavalry attacked the Magic Airship with a giant wave and water arrows, shaking the vessel.
• Griffon Cavalry fired armor-piercing arrows that pierced the Toadfish Cavalry’s scales and sent many into the sea.

Roy led the Magic Airship and nearly seven hundred Griffon Cavalry toward Sun Island after surviving a Toadfish Cavalry ambush. As the island’s defenders gathered and Lord Commander Latimore prepared for battle, the Griffon Cavalry began attacking the Toadfish Warriors in the shallows.

• Toadfish Cavalry summoned a huge wave that struck the Magic Airship, but Roy steadied a Dwarf Apprentice as the ship escaped into the sky.
• Roy gathered the Griffon Cavalry, which guarded the Magic Airship and killed Fishmen Monsters as the force advanced toward Sun Island.
• Fishmen Monsters crowded Sun Island’s shores, and a Siren Captain ordered them to evacuate into an eastern trench while the Anglerfish Knights assembled.
• A Siren Captain warned Lord Commander Latimore that the Half-Elf Legion was approaching with several hundred Griffon Cavalry and a flying magical sailboat.
• Lord Commander Latimore declared that the fishmen of Sun Island controlled Sun Island Bay, while the Griffon Cavalry swooped down and fired arrows at Toadfish Warriors in the shallows.

Roy’s forces attacked Sun Island, where they discovered a Sea Beast Priest and a colossal Deep Sea Octopus protecting the island. Roy withdrew to find Miss Tiffany, then resumed preparations to transport ships to Sun Island Bay.

• The Griffon Cavalry surprised the Toadfish Cavalry with Armor-Piercing Arrows, and the Siren Captains fought back with water and ice magic.
• Kaka told Roy that Tiprado suspected Sun Island hid a Second Rank expert, while Lord Commander Latimore summoned a massive creature from the Cold Pond and worried that Jiezena was becoming ambitious.
• A Deep Sea Octopus’s tentacles erupted along Sun Island’s coast, so Roy turned the magic airship away before it could be attacked.
• Roy found Miss Tiffany on a reef, and she explained that a Sea Beast Priest controlled the Deep Sea Octopus and would have to be defeated to occupy Sun Island.
• Roy’s Half-Elves completed a wooden dock, and Dwarf Apprentices converted the magic airship back into a Three-Masted Sailboat so its devices could be transported to Pattington Island.

Roy strengthened the defenses at Sun Island Bay and decided to seek Second Rank support against the dying Sea Beast Priest, while continuing to expand Half-Elf control of the region. In Padesto City, he met herb merchant Augustus to discuss supplies as the Magic Herbs market grew unstable.

• Griffon Cavalry built a seawall around the pier at Sun Island Bay under Miss Tiffany and village chief Tiprado's supervision.
• Roy learned from Miss Tiffany that Sea Beast Priest Lord Commander Latimore and his Giant Octopus remained on Sun Island, and that the sirens were divided into factions.
• Roy chose to keep the Mine Guard Regiment at Sun Island Bay and planned to request Second Rank powerhouses from the Silver Pegasus Legion or hire them through the Mercenary Guild.
• Roy flew with four Dwarf Apprentices and sixty Half-Elves to Padesto City, sent them through the Teleportation Portal, and returned to meet Augustus.
• Augustus assured Roy that his herb gatherers could supply large orders of Elementary Magic Herbs from Blackwater Swamp and said smuggling would focus on higher-grade herbs.

Augustus refused a Castleton Trading Company offer, while three Silver Moon Elf investigators failed to learn about Boss Roy in Plateau City because the Half-Elves feared them as former Mine Owners. Roy settled the mines’ payment with Magic Crystal Stones and learned that the higher-ups planned to reopen the Teleportation Portal to the Pattington Plane.

• Augustus reflected on how Roy had freed the Half-Elf mine slaves and refused to sell Magic Herbs to the Castleton Trading Company merchant.
• Three investigators struggled to find lodging or information in Plateau City, and a Half-Elf elder explained that the locals mistook them for Mine Owners who bought and sold slaves.
• Mulin watched the investigators from the City Wall as caravans continued entering Plateau City.
• Roy submitted a request for aid at the Silver Pegasus Military Department and settled his quarterly payment with Magic Crystal Stones.
• The logistics commander told Roy that the higher-ups planned to reopen the Teleportation Portal to the Pattington Plane.

Roy learned that the Pattington Plane portal would reopen, while the Silver Pegasus Legion’s high command approved the opening and debated Roy’s growing authority. The meeting ended with Sun Island Bay assigned to Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment, as Earl McCauley worried Roy might become too powerful.

• The logistics commander told Roy that the Pattington Plane portal would reopen before year’s end, and Roy anticipated new competition in the Magic Herbs trade.
• Roy returned to Castleton City to arrange for a Second Rank expert to deal with the Sea Beast Priest on Sun Island, then found the city quiet as the Elf Academy’s term ended.
• Earl Swynborne, Earl McCauley, and Earl Reginold agreed to open the portal at the beginning of next month and impose a commodity tax on trade passing through it.
• Earl Swynborne asked Earl McCauley to send a Second Rank expert to eliminate the Sea Beast Priest, but McCauley objected because Roy’s expanding power was under investigation.
• After the other earls declined to campaign on Sun Island, Earl Swynborne decided that Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment would take it.
• Earl McCauley warned Earl Swynborne that Roy could become a second Alvis, but Swynborne trusted that the Legion could keep Roy’s force dependent on its supplies.

At Castleton Elf Academy’s end-of-term ball, Sabrina received an invitation from Edith to join Princess Ophelia’s Guard Squad, while Roy arrived to find Klayr and encountered Sabrina and Moira. The chapter ended with Roy and Moira dancing together as Sabrina watched.

• Sabrina and Moira attended the ball, where Sabrina’s reputation as the academy’s top swordsman drew attention.
• Edith invited Sabrina to join the Guard Squad, and Sabrina asked for time to consider.
• Roy arrived at the academy with Woods, then separated from him when a mage girl pulled Woods onto the dance floor.
• Christine told Roy that Klayr had not arrived yet, and Roy declined to join her Silver Moon Elf friends.
• Roy found Sabrina and Moira and explained that he had come to Castleton on business and would take them to Pattington Island.
• Moira accepted Roy’s invitation to dance while Sabrina watched them from beside the dance floor.

Roy reunited with Klayr at the Elf Academy’s end-of-term ball and asked him to find a powerful mercenary to kill a Sea Beast Priest threatening the Half-Elves on the Pattington Plane. Klayr agreed to look into it, and Roy later explained the situation to Sabrina.

• Klayr arrived at the ball amid a crowd of admirers, performed three pieces, and captivated the attendees with his piano music.
• Sabrina avoided a Half-Elf youth’s invitation by taking Roy’s hand and pulling him onto the dance floor.
• After the performance, Roy, Moira, Sabrina, and Woods waited for Klayr and joined him in his carriage.
• Roy told Klayr he wanted to hire a powerful mercenary to kill the Sea Beast Priest at Sun Island Bay, and Klayr promised to find a way within two days.
• After getting off the carriage, Roy explained to Sabrina that the Sea Beast Priest enslaved fishmen and threatened the Half-Elves’ living space.

Roy and Klayr failed to recruit Byron.Toll, a Second Rank powerhouse in Castelton, and Klayr promised to seek another candidate. Back at home, Roy’s Holy Power surged and he advanced to become a First Rank High Priest, discovering that his Holy Light Tree had blossomed.

• Klayr told Roy that a Second Rank powerhouse named Byron.Toll lived in a tavern on Brown Street, and they went there to seek his help.
• Roy reunited with Boss Duke, explained the turmoil on the Pattington Plane, and learned that Byron.Toll had been grieving a lost companion.
• Byron.Toll angrily rejected Roy’s request and left the tavern, so Klayr offered to look for another Second Rank powerhouse among nobles or through the Mercenary Guild in Buenos.
• Imperial Merchants waited outside Roy’s courtyard to offer deals, but Roy declined because he had already signed a contract with another buyer.
• Roy rested among the Light Flowers and felt his Holy Power gather into a cocoon as his Holy Light Tree expanded and merged with him.
• Roy broke through to become a First Rank High Priest, formed a magic vortex, and saw his Holy Light Tree blossom.

After advancing to first-rank High Priest, Roy was ambushed by human assassins and nearly killed before Byron Phil rescued him. Roy learned that Byron had served alongside High Priest Reed in the Dark Land, where the situation was dire and most of Byron’s mercenary group had died.

• Roy reached first-rank High Priest, gained sharper senses, and found he could cast the difficult Hammer of Sanction.
• Five Black-Clothed Assassins attacked Roy at his home, wounded him, and pursued him into the street.
• A hidden archer shot down the assassins, and Byron Phil emerged to recover his arrows.
• Roy followed Byron and asked about High Priest Reed, whom Byron said he had served with in the Dark Land.
• Byron told Roy that supplies and living conditions in the Dark Land were terrible, and that most of his mercenary group died when Dark Creatures surrounded them.