Chapter Summaries

Roy inspected Plateau City's Highland Slaver prisoner camp, praised its Half-Elf guards, and found that many prisoners had settled into camp life. Meanwhile, Woods learned that Roy's Mine Guard Regiment bought nearly all the city's Magic Herbs, and Moira ran after a tearful Half-Elf girl, with Miss Tiffany following.

• The three investigators left Queen Island without a response from the Silver Pegasus Legion and planned to report their findings without accusing Roy of Abel's death.
• Roy toured the Concentration Camp, examined the prisoners' food and living conditions, and urged the Half-Elf guards to enforce clear rewards and punishments.
• Roy saw that many Highland Slaver prisoners, especially women and the elderly, accepted camp life, while laborers earned points they could spend on necessities.
• Woods visited the Free Market and learned that gatherers sold most Magic Herbs to the Mine Guard Regiment's buyers, leaving few for other merchants.
• Moira nearly collided with a crying Half-Elf girl carrying a pot of broth, then chased after her to offer help as Miss Tiffany followed.

Moira witnessed a Half-Elf girl caring for her injured father, while Woods learned that the gatherer had been beaten and shunned after selling a supposed Winter Thorn Grass. The next morning, elf merchants brought the bound gatherer to City Hall to demand punishment, and his daughter rushed to him.

• Moira secretly watched Little Aisli feed medicine to her unconscious, injured father and saw her cry while doing laundry.
• Woods bought Lantern Fruit and Sand Date roots and heard that Half-Elf gatherers had blacklisted the gatherer for selling Winter Thorn Grass to an herb merchant.
• Woods learned that elf merchants claimed the Winter Thorn Grass was a frozen Thorn Vine and had beaten the gatherer as a fraud.
• At breakfast, Roy planned to inspect the North Black Iron Mine, while Sabrina chose to train recruits and Woods planned to explore the Tollai River.
• Elf merchants brought the bound, injured Half-Elf gatherer to City Hall and demanded punishment, and Little Aisli ran up to him.

Mulin investigated a Silver Moon Elf merchant’s accusation that a Half-Elf gatherer had sold counterfeit Winter Thorn Grass, but postponed judgment while she sought more evidence. After Moira insisted that Roy help uncover the truth, they set out for Sun Island Bay, where Moira revealed she would interrogate people herself if necessary.

• Sergei accused a Half-Elf gatherer of selling him a counterfeit Winter Thorn Grass, and Woods confirmed the herb was a disguised Thorn Vine.
• Mulin heard witnesses testify against the gatherer, ordered him held in the Concentration Camp’s jail, and required the witnesses to remain in Plateau City for ten days while she investigated.
• The gatherer’s daughter fainted as guards took her father away, and Moira comforted her before learning that her older brother was with the Mine Guard Regiment at Sun Island Bay.
• Moira demanded that Roy help find the truth, and Roy agreed to speak with Mulin.
• The Magic Airship left for Sun Island Bay without its planned Iron Chains, carrying Moira and Miss Tiffany, and Moira told Tiffany she would question people one by one if Roy had not helped.

Roy sent Woods north to investigate Winter Thorn Grass and mobilized the Assassin Squad’s Second Company to investigate the dispute in Plateau City. Meanwhile, Moira and Miss Tiffany arrived at Sun Island Bay so Roy could seek Jiezena’s help in uncovering the truth through dreams.

• Roy ended the Second Company’s leave and ordered Deputy Commander Tennyson to watch the Silver Moon Elf Merchants and investigate their associates and the Free Market gatherers.
• Tennyson’s warriors detained a Silver Moon Elf Merchant’s Half-Elf attendant, who gave a prepared account of how his Boss encountered the gatherer selling the alleged fake Winter Thorn Grass.
• Tennyson questioned the gatherer’s Half-Elf acquaintances and found that they shunned him, leaving the investigation more complicated than a simple trade dispute.
• The Magic Airship reached Sun Island Bay before dawn, where Miss Tiffany recalled Roy asking whether Jiezena could enter dreams and help reveal the truth.

Miss Tiffany found Siren Jiezena and persuaded her to travel to Plateau City to help confirm who had lied. Meanwhile, the Silver Moon Elf merchant tried to escape the city but was stopped as Deputy Commander Tennyson announced that Boss Roy would hold a public trial.

• Miss Tiffany dove into the sea south of Sun Island Bay and followed Sun Island mermen to Jiezena's Coral Reef palace.
• Miss Tiffany invited Jiezena to fly to the inland plateau and explain her dispute, and Jiezena agreed despite her unease about leaving the sea.
• The Silver Moon Elf merchant decided to flee Plateau City before the judgment in the Half-Elf gatherer's case was announced.
• A Dark Moon Elf Warrior stopped the Silver Moon Elf merchant at the city gate and told him he could not leave while the case remained unresolved.
• Deputy Commander Tennyson arrived and told the Silver Moon Elf merchant that Boss Roy intended to try the case publicly.

Roy used Jiezena’s dream song to show the gathered elves what had happened during the disputed Magic Herbs trade. The dream ended with the Half-Elf gatherer selling a Winter Thorn Grass to a Silver Moon Elf merchant, leaving the rest of the case unresolved.

• Jiezena told Roy she could bring everyone who heard her song into a dream so they could witness what happened.
• Roy addressed the crowd, explaining that he had built Plateau City to improve life for its residents and promote its prosperity.
• Jiezena’s song plunged the square into darkness, and the elves found themselves inside a dream of the Free Market.
• The dream showed a Half-Elf gatherer approaching a Silver Moon Elf merchant with a Winter Thorn Grass hidden under ice-coated moss.
• The merchant bought the Winter Thorn Grass for one hundred Magic Crystal Stones after bargaining, and the gatherer left happily, hoping to fund Little Aisli’s education.

Roy exposed a Silver Moon Elf merchant’s deception and role in a violent assault by revealing the incident through the merchant’s memories. He sentenced the merchant to two hundred years in prison and warned merchants that Plateau City would punish wrongdoing while keeping its markets open to competition.

• A Silver Moon Elf merchant replaced the purchased Winter Thorn Grass with a Thorn Vine, then falsely accused a Half-Elf gatherer of selling him fake herbs.
• The merchant and other elf merchants beat the gatherer unconscious, took his money pouch, and left him badly injured.
• Roy revealed the events to the gathered elves through the merchant’s memories and sentenced him to two hundred years in prison and a fine of one hundred Magic Crystal Stones.
• Roy sentenced the other elf merchants who joined the assault to ten years in prison, with the option to post bail.
• Roy told the crowd that herb merchants could sell to competing buyers but would be punished for illegal conduct, and the Half-Elves cheered.

Roy’s policies reshaped Plateau City’s Magic Herb trade, and he traveled to Sun Island Bay to oversee harbor construction. Three weeks later, he faced two Silver Moon Elf commanders sent to take over mines on the Pagisto Plateau and demanded that they preserve the Mine Guard Regiment’s share of the revenue.

• Boss Roy raised the Mine Guard Regiment’s purchase price for Elementary Magic Herbs and encouraged Half-Elf gatherers to sell mid- and high-grade herbs in the Free Market.
• Roy traveled to Sun Island Bay with Jiezena, Miss Tiffany, and Moira aboard a Magic Airship, while Sabrina stayed behind to help Mulin train the new Half-Elf army.
• Jiezena leaped from the Magic Airship into the sea at Sun Island Bay, and Roy inspected the harbor project with Commander Tiprado and asked him to prepare fresh fish for transport to Plateau City.
• Three weeks later, Roy returned to Plateau City after Mulin summoned him, where Commander Brad and Commander Ke Leiwen arrived with two thousand Half-Elf Warriors to take over mines.
• Roy told Commander Brad and Commander Ke Leiwen that half of each month’s mine revenue had to go to the Mine Guard Regiment and that the amount could not fall below the previous month’s revenue.

Roy refused to surrender the operating mines to the Silver Moon Elf commanders and steered them toward restoring abandoned mines in the Kaltim Mountain Range. After securing supplies on credit and a permit to buy armaments, Roy planned to return to Castleton City to meet an arms merchant.

• Roy offered Commander Ke Leiwen and Commander Brad a choice between surrendering a share of the operating mines' revenue or reopening the abandoned Kaltim Mountain Range mines under a separate revenue split.
• Ke Leiwen and Brad chose the abandoned mines, then borrowed living supplies from Roy before leading two thousand Half-Elf Warriors into the mountains.
• Roy submitted another request for military equipment, which General Kampferfred rejected, but Kampferfred granted him a permit to purchase Silver Moon Elf armaments.
• Roy told Mulin that Klayr had connected him with an arms merchant and that he would travel to Castleton City with Moira and the others.
• Magic Airship service to Pattington had expanded to five airships, but high fares limited most passengers to Elf Merchants.

After returning from the Pattington Plane, Roy resumed his trade with Imperial Merchant Darwin while refusing to intervene in the merchants’ dispute with Castleton’s port guards. At the Elf Academy, Ms. Edith told Roy that he was among its three most outstanding students and warned him that Christine was the only person in Castleton City who could help him.

• Woods searched the Northern Plateau for Winter Thorn Grass but found none before returning for the start of term.
• Roy reunited with Moira and the Sakarram Adventure Group in Padesto City, then sailed with them to Castleton City carrying Magic Herbs and Magic Metal.
• Roy transferred his cargo to Imperial Merchant Darwin’s ship, refused to help the merchants regain port access, and agreed to supply necessities on the condition that they avoid merchants who had wronged him.
• Roy visited Castleton Elf Academy with Moira, Sabrina, Woods, and Miss Tiffany, then met Ms. Edith near the Teaching Building.
• Ms. Edith named Roy, Wagner Klayr, and Senior Ursula as the academy’s three most outstanding students of the past decade.
• Ms. Edith told Roy that Princess Ophelia had asked him to maintain a good relationship with Christine because only Christine could help him in Castleton City.

Roy met Klayr in Castleton City, where Klayr warned him that Silver Moon Elves viewed him as a butcher and urged him to keep a low profile. The next day, they visited Quartermaster Leo to buy equipment for Roy’s regiment, and Roy agreed to purchase five thousand sets despite the enormous cost.

• Klayr found Roy at Elf Academy, and the two went to a Tea Restaurant to talk.
• Klayr told Roy that rumors praised him among Half-Elves but condemned him among Silver Moon Elves, and warned that his protection from Earl Swynborne might not last.
• Klayr said he had found a seller for Roy’s equipment purchase, and Roy showed him a Military Procurement Permit.
• The next morning, Klayr took Roy to the Castleton City Armaments Depot to meet Quartermaster Leo.
• Roy requested five thousand sets of lightweight, magic-resistant Light Armor, and Quartermaster Leo quoted a total of three hundred thousand Magic Crystal Stones for a complete set of armaments.
• Roy said he would prepare the money.

Roy bought military equipment and supplies in Castleton City, then received a letter from Viesel warning that the Goddess of Freedom Temple in Gorfito had been abandoned and its Priests had vanished. The news left Roy fearing they had entered the Dark Land.

• Roy agreed to buy five thousand sets of Standard Military Uniforms, Storm Swords, and Elf Longbows from Quartermaster Leo, with the uniforms to be delivered in three batches.
• Roy and Klayr bought Elf Biscuits, Breadfruit, and Tree of Life Sap, and Roy's crew loaded the goods and the first shipment of sixteen hundred uniforms onto the Black Pearl.
• Roy spent the evening with Klayr, Woods, Sabrina, Moira, and Miss Tiffany, who asked whether he had considered returning the Black Pearl to the sea.
• Roy found Viesel's letter in his mailbox and read that the Priests at the Goddess of Freedom Temple in Gorfito had vanished.
• Roy worried that the missing Priests might have gone into the Dark Land and been unable to return.

Roy returned to Pattington Island and learned that the Silver Pegasus Legion was sending troops and supplies to Gorfito, where High Priest Reed remained in danger. After delivering supplies and equipment, he saw a Half-Elf in Padesto City calling for resistance to Silver Moon Elf rule.

• Roy met Byron.Toll at Castleton Harbour, where Byron.Toll said he planned to return to the Dark Land to find his old comrades’ bones.
• Roy sailed to the Imperial Merchants’ ships, delivered Elf Biscuits and Breadfruit, and learned from Imperial Merchant Darwin that war had spread across the Grimm Empire’s planes and its Goddess of Freedom Temples had been abandoned.
• Roy reached Pattington Island and learned that the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment and two Guard Regiments were heading to Gorfito with more than thirty Supply Ships.
• Roy worried about High Priest Reed’s situation in the Dark Land but decided he could not help by going there alone.
• Roy flew the sixth magic airship to Padesto City and heard a middle-aged Half-Elf urge others to resist Silver Moon Elf oppression.

Roy expanded his airship and military operations across the Pattington Plane while the Silver Pegasus Legion's upper ranks began scrutinizing his wealth and control of the Pagisto Plateau. News of unequal treatment at the Legion's Kaltim Mountain mines sparked mass Half-Elf desertions, and Roy was at the North Coast dock preparing a supply trip to Sun Island.

• Roy left Padesto City and ordered the Magic Airship to depart for Plateau City with its cargo and crew.
• Roy arrived in Plateau City, delivered new uniforms and armaments to three Half-Elf Guard Regiments, and supported the city's growing herb trade.
• The Silver Pegasus Legion's upper ranks learned Roy controlled eight Magic Airships and had purchased five thousand sets of armor after accumulating substantial wealth from the mines and herb business.
• Half-Elf Warriors deserted Commander Brad and Commander Ke Leiwen's mines in the Kaltim Mountain Range after being forced to work without wages under unequal treatment.
• Roy and village chief Tiprado prepared to transport supplies from the North Coast dock to Sun Island as Roy proposed building a lighthouse.

Roy investigated the ruined Sun Island and returned to Plateau City after learning that Silver Moon Elf commanders Brad and Ke Leiwen had mistreated Half-Elf soldiers, prompting mass desertions. He brought the Half-Elves and the commanders to Padesto City to seek mediation, then learned that a Half-Elf Independent Organization was causing serious trouble there.

• Roy surveyed the ruined Sun Island, discussed plans for a lighthouse and ice-making workshop with village chief Tiprado, and hurried back after receiving Mulin's warning about Half-Elves fleeing the Kaltim Mountain Range.
• In Plateau City, Roy heard from more than fifty Half-Elves that Brad and Ke Leiwen had treated them as unpaid mine laborers, and he agreed to take them to Padesto City to seek justice.
• Roy forced the Silver Moon Elf Warriors surrounding Brad and Ke Leiwen to let the Half-Elves board the Magic Airship, and the commanders had to pay for their tickets as well.
• After arriving in Padesto City, Roy and the Half-Elves agreed to seek mediation from the Silver Pegasus Military Department before appealing to the Elven Council of Elders.
• Roy met Langbo at the Material Warehouse and learned that a Half-Elf Independent Organization had been stirring up trouble in Padesto City, leaving Commander Berkeley's Security Guard Regiment overwhelmed.

Roy was imprisoned after taking thirty-one Half-Elf Warriors to the Silver Pegasus Military Department to challenge their treatment by the Silver Pegasus Legion. As the other Half-Elves evaded a citywide search and spread word of the arrests, Commander Berkeley learned the military department intended to capture them all.

• Roy led thirty-one Half-Elf Warriors into the military department, where Silver Moon Elf Officers accused them of desertion and arrested them.
• Roy asked to speak with Chief Kemp Fred, but the officers locked him in a magically sealed confinement room while the guards beat the resisting Half-Elves.
• Chief Kemp Fred did not visit Roy, who realized the commander was using his confinement to establish the Half-Elves' guilt.
• The remaining Half-Elf Warriors split up, hid around Padesto City, and spread news of the Silver Pegasus Legion's unequal treatment of Half-Elves.
• The young Half-Elves abandoned Berkeley's Security Guard Regiment recruitment after hearing the rumors, and Berkeley learned the military department was searching for the hidden Half-Elf Warriors.

Commander Berkeley went to the Silver Pegasus Military Department as Half-Elves rallied to demand the release of their people, while General Kampferfred sought outside aid. Imprisoned Roy learned that the Half-Elf Warriors were being held underground, broke the barrier with Freedom Blessing, and began questioning the guards.

• Commander Berkeley rode to the Silver Pegasus Military Department after learning Governor Roy was detained there, while Half-Elves followed and gathered outside.
• Bo Naer ordered the Independent Organizations to exploit Roy’s detention, and their speakers rallied Half-Elves to demonstrate at the military department.
• Thousands of Half-Elf demonstrators surrounded the military department, leaving General Kampferfred and Commander Berkeley trapped inside as they refused each other’s demands.
• General Kampferfred sent Knight Moria to seek aid from Silver Pegasus headquarters while Roy studied Freedom Blessing in the Detention Cabin.
• Roy shattered the cabin’s magical barrier and bolts, then questioned two Silver Moon Elf guards, who revealed that the Half-Elf Warriors were held in the underground prison.

Roy and Commander Berkeley moved to free the imprisoned Half-Elf Warriors as protests threatened Padesto City. Meanwhile, Earl McCauley and Earl Swynborne received urgent pleas for help amid a Half-Elf crisis and a Gray Dwarf attack, leaving the Silver Pegasus Legion short of troops.

• Commander Berkeley told Roy that organizers were stirring up the Half-Elf demonstrations, and Roy urged him to release the imprisoned Half-Elf Warriors first.
• Commander Berkeley took Roy into the underground cells, where Roy opened the cell and reassured the imprisoned Half-Elf Warriors as Berkeley claimed responsibility for taking them away.
• Silver Pegasus Knight Moria delivered General Kampferfred’s plea for aid to Earl McCauley, who became furious and went to consult Earl Swynborne and High Priest Reginold.
• Earl Swynborne told Earl McCauley that Gray Dwarf Bandits had attacked two Guard Regiments and thirty supply ships at Ram Horn Strait, straining the already depleted defenses.
• Earl McCauley read the plea concerning the Half-Elf crisis, and he and Earl Swynborne realized both emergencies had hit at once as High Priest Reginold arrived.

Earl Swynborne and Earl McCauley discussed reinforcing Ram Horn Fjord and addressing the crisis on the Pattington Plane. Roy calmed a Half-Elf demonstration in Padesto City, but the gathering heightened tensions between Half-Elves and Silver Moon Elves.

• Earl McCauley agreed to take the Fifth and Sixth Silver Pegasus Knight Regiments to Ram Horn Fjord and seek reinforcements from Earl Persella, while Earl Swynborne promised to handle the Pattington Plane situation.
• Earl Swynborne summoned Christine and told her to prepare to accompany him to the Pattington Plane.
• Roy addressed thousands of Half-Elves gathered outside the Silver Pegasus Military Department, urged them to trust him and leave peacefully, and they dispersed.
• Roy and Commander Berkeley went to the Security Guard Regiment camp, where they discussed the upcoming official judgment, the Magic Airship refits, and the possibility that Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment would be sent to the Empress Ivini Islands.
• After the demonstration, some Elf merchants left Padesto City, and Half-Elves and Silver Moon Elves began treating each other with greater wariness.

Christine returned to the Pattington Plane with Earl Swynborne and saw how Padesto City had changed, while the earl investigated the conflict between General Kampferfred and the Half-Elves. After hearing the Tree of Life’s account, Earl Swynborne expelled Kampferfred and asked Commander Berkeley how many Elven Guards remained in Padesto City.

• Christine and Earl Swynborne arrived in Padesto City with a squadron of Silver Pegasus knights and rode through its bustling streets.
• Earl Swynborne confronted Commander Berkeley about the feud with Kampferfred and listened to the Tree of Life’s whispers.
• General Kampferfred arrived at the Tree of Life as Earl Swynborne ordered him to leave the Pattington Plane immediately.
• Kampferfred was escorted toward the Teleportation Portal without retrieving his belongings.
• Earl Swynborne asked Commander Berkeley how many Elven Guards Padesto City's Security Guard Regiment had, and Berkeley could not answer.