Chapter Summaries

Roy meets the bard Bernal Shazoo in Padesto City and rejects Bernal’s ideal of Half-Elves living apart, arguing that they should pursue equality and respect. Meanwhile, Siya Gran tells Earl Swynborne how Roy’s Elementary Magic Herbs trade improved Half-Elves’ livelihoods and brought him enormous profits.

• Roy met Langbo at a tea restaurant while waiting for a cargo airship, and the Half-Elf crew members left after greeting him.
• Bernal Shazoo approached Roy and described his vision of a peaceful world where Half-Elves could live separately and freely.
• Roy told Bernal that Half-Elves sought equality and respect through their own efforts, and pointed to the workers at the dock as proof they were pursuing that goal.
• Siya Gran met with Earl Swynborne, who asked for her personal impression of Roy.
• Siya Gran explained that Roy’s high-volume purchases of Elementary Magic Herbs improved Half-Elves’ lives and that rising prices made the trade highly profitable.

After learning that Roy was far wealthier and commanded more troops than he realized, Earl Swynborne summoned him, apparently to assign him to garrison the outer islands. Roy arrived at the Silver Pegasus Military Department, where he greeted Miss Christine.

• Siya Gran explained Roy’s wealth from the mines on the Pagisto Plateau and his Elementary Magic Herbs business, surprising Earl Swynborne.
• Commander Berkeley told Earl Swynborne that Roy commanded about ten thousand Half-Elf guard warriors and two thousand reserves, with additional forces deployed around Plateau City and the plateau.
• Earl Swynborne realized Roy might help solve his problem and ordered Commander Berkeley to bring Roy to him.
• Commander Berkeley found Roy at the Tea Restaurant and warned him that he probably could not avoid a new assignment; Roy suspected he would be sent to garrison the outer islands.
• Roy went with Commander Berkeley to the Silver Pegasus Military Department and greeted Miss Christine there.

Roy accepted a mission to reinforce the Silver Pegasus Knight Regiments at Ram Horn Fjord and returned to Plateau City to gather troops, bringing Miss Christine with him. He planned to raise a reserve regiment and use captured ships converted into Magic Airships, while Christine learned about the atrocities the Highland Slavers had committed against the Half-Elves.

• Roy chose to lead the Mine Guard Regiment to Ram Horn Fjord and asked to form a reserve regiment, while Earl Swynborne required him to bring at least five thousand Half-Elf Warriors.
• Roy arranged to take a converted three-masted ship to the fjord and invited Miss Christine to travel with him to Plateau City.
• Roy and Miss Christine boarded a Magic Airship, which reached Plateau City the following day.
• Roy explained how Highland Slavers had captured and killed Half-Elves for mine owners, horrifying Christine.
• The airship crew raised a flag bearing a hill symbol above the Ship Building at the Air Port Dock.

Roy returned briefly to Plateau City, organized a force to aid the Silver Pegasus Knight Orders against Gray Dwarf Bandits at Ram Horn Fjord, and gathered the Magic Airships and warriors needed for the mission. The fleet departed for Padesto City with five thousand Mine Guard Warriors and Captain Timothy’s Assassin Squad aboard.

• Roy told Mulin that the Gray Dwarf Bandits had blockaded Ram Horn Fjord and ordered her to gather five thousand Elf Warriors for a rescue mission.
• Mulin ordered Captain Timothy to recall the Dark Moon Elf Warriors of the Assassin Squad and prepare them to join Roy.
• Roy collected four Magic Airships from Sun Island Bay and assigned village chief Tiprado responsibility for security around the Pagisto Plateau.
• The five Magic Airships returned to Plateau City, where Roy assembled the five thousand Mine Guard Warriors and more than seven hundred Dark Moon Elf Warriors under Captain Timothy.
• Roy’s six Magic Airships departed Plateau City for Padesto City with the warriors bound for the battle at Ram Horn Fjord.

Roy told the Dark Moon Elf Warriors they were free to leave the Assassin Squad and return home before the next mission, then led the forces to Padesto City. After gathering supplies and crossing to Pattington Island, he assembled the Magic Airships and Elf Warriors into a fleet at Sheltered Fjord.

• Roy told the Dark Moon Elf Warriors they could resign from the Assassin Squad and collect their military pay if they wished to go home, but they insisted they wanted to stay.
• Roy explained to Captain Timothy that Murayaki Port was close to St. Margaret Port and the warriors might not have the same freedom during the next mission.
• Six Magic Airships arrived at Padesto City, where Christine met Earl Swynborne and discussed Roy's forces and the prisoners in Plateau City.
• Roy received twenty crates of Magic Crystal Stones from Langbo and prepared enchanted Elf Longbows and Armor-Piercing Arrows for the coming naval battle.
• Roy sent the Magic Airships through the Teleportation Portal to Pattington Island and organized nine ships into a fleet at Sheltered Fjord, assigning six hundred Elf Warriors to each.

Roy gathered supplies and armed the nine magic airships for the campaign against the Gray Dwarf Bandits at Ram Horn Fjord. After the Shipborne Ballistas were installed and Miss Christine found a suitable wind stream layer, the fleet arrived safely at the fjord.

• Roy reassigned five thousand elf warriors among nine magic airships and used Earl Swynborne's signed requisition form to collect supplies from the warehouse on Pattington Island.
• Roy requested one million Armor-Piercing Arrows, arrow-making components, and five hundred boxes of Elf Biscuits for the warriors.
• Roy found forty Shipborne Ballistas and compatible magic bolts in the warehouse and requested the ballistas for the airships.
• Roy asked old Maggs to install the Shipborne Ballistas, and Maggs led the crewmen in mounting four on each magic airship.
• Miss Christine inspected the nearby skies and found a suitable wind stream layer, then Roy led the nine airships north to Ram Horn Fjord, where they arrived safely after two days and one night.

The Silver Moon Elf forces on Aio Island faced a Gray Dwarf Bandit landing while the Silver Pegasus Knights struggled against the ships’ ballistas. Nine Magic Airships arrived, but Roy’s first volley of magic bolts missed the fleet and drew laughter from the Gray Dwarves.

• The Silver Moon Elf Guard Regiment abandoned its supply ships and climbed onto an island near Aio Island, where the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment and nearly three thousand guards prepared to defend their position.
• Earl McCauley and Viscount Philek led nearly three hundred Medium Sailboats out of Ram Horn Fjord, but they halted when they saw the Gray Dwarf Bandit fleet surrounding Aio Island.
• The Fifth and Sixth Silver Pegasus Knight Orders attacked the Gray Dwarf ships with flaming javelins as the Gray Dwarves launched landing craft toward the island.
• Gray Dwarf ballistas struck several Silver Pegasus Knights and wounded their mounts during the chaotic battle.
• Nine Magic Airships arrived, and Roy exposed their Shipborne Ballistas and fired a magic bolt, but his shot and the following volley missed the ships and fell into the sea.

Roy’s nine magic airships routed the Gray Dwarf Bandit fleet attacking Aio Island, destroying or sinking many of its Three-Masted Sailboats. As the Silver Moon Elves moved in to rescue survivors and salvage the battlefield, Roy kept his airships back and declined to claim any spoils.

• Roy’s magic airships bombarded the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ tightly packed Three-Masted Sailboats with repeated volleys, setting sails ablaze and damaging hulls.
• Silver Pegasus Knight officers joined the airships, while the Silver Moon Elf Warriors on Aio Island cheered as the Gray Dwarf fleet tried to scatter.
• Roy’s airships exhausted their ammunition, and more than half of the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ sailboats were left wrecked or sunk.
• Viscount Philek ordered his fleet toward Aio Island after the unexpected victory, and Earl McCauley learned that Earl Swynborne had sent Roy’s Pagisto Plateau Mine Guard Regiment.
• The Silver Moon Elves began rescuing Gray Dwarf Bandits from the sea, while Miss Christine flew toward Aio Island and Roy refused to descend to collect spoils.

Roy’s Half-Elf Guard Regiment arrived at Murayaki Port after defeating the Gray Dwarf Bandits, and Roy explained how he had acquired and converted their ships into magic airships. Earl McCauley praised Roy’s service and offered him a recommendation to study at Buenos Advanced Elf Academy, but Roy declined for the time being.

• The Gray Dwarf Bandits retreated from Aio Island as the Silver Moon Elves rescued stranded guards, captured prisoners, and recovered loot and damaged ships.
• Roy reported to Earl McCauley at Murayaki Port with the Half-Elf Warriors, while Earl Stasa agreed that the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion could handle the prisoners in exchange for first choice of spoils.
• Earl McCauley gave Roy the right to select spoils, and Roy chose wooden boxes of magic crossbow bolts.
• Earl McCauley asked Roy how he had obtained the magic airships, and Roy explained that he had captured eleven ships and paid a dwarven artisan to convert them.
• Earl McCauley offered Roy a recommendation to Buenos Advanced Elf Academy, but Roy said he had no plans to attend for the time being.

Roy's Mine Guard Army prepared to garrison Gorfito alongside the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment, while Viscount Philek fled Murayaki City by becoming their guide. The airship fleet reached the lake outside Gorfito Canyon, and Roy led his troops into the former headquarters of the Goddess of Freedom Temple.

• Earl McCauley told Roy that his Mine Guard Army would replace the Silver Moon Elf Guard Regiment and garrison Gorfito with the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment, offering him supplies for the journey.
• Viscount Philek asked Earl McCauley to help him leave Murayaki City, and Earl McCauley directed him to join the expedition as a guide to Gorfito.
• Earl Stasa concealed his fury over Countess Stasa's affair with Viscount Philek, while Earl McCauley attended his ball and then departed Murayaki City with the Fifth and Sixth Silver Pegasus Knight Regiments.
• The Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment and Roy's Mine Guard Army loaded supplies onto the magic airships and set out for Gorfito with Viscount Philek as their guide.
• The airship fleet passed through the Wind Stream Layer and landed on a lake outside Gorfito Canyon, where Roy led the Mine Guard Regiment into the canyon.

Roy led the Mine Guard Regiment into Gorfito Canyon with military supplies for the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment. Viscount Philek abandoned his plans to leave after encountering an officer from Earl Stasa’s forces, and Roy reached the regiment’s camp to deliver the crates.

• Roy ordered five thousand Half-Elf Warriors to carry military supplies from the lake to Gorfito Canyon.
• Viscount Philek tried to leave for a tour of the Elf Continent, but changed his mind when Silver Moon Elf Knights led by Earl Stasa’s confidant arrived.
• Roy led the Mine Guard Regiment through the Bloody Path, past Priest Stone Sculptures, and into the scorched valley.
• A Silver Moon Elf Officer assigned Louis to guide Roy’s regiment to the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion’s camp and explain the local rules.
• Roy’s Half-Elf Warriors stacked the supplies at the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment’s camp, where its commander welcomed him and offered a place for the Mine Guard Regiment to set up tents.

Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment settled into Gorfito Canyon alongside Malthus’s Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment, building facilities and sharing lemon tea with the elf knights. As more forces arrived, Roy saw a company of powerful Unicorn Knights and learned that Moon God Temple priests lived in the Goddess of Freedom Temple.

• Malthus showed Roy goodwill because of Earl McCauley’s instructions, Earl Swynborne’s support for Roy, and the need for their regiments to cooperate.
• The Mine Guard Warriors set up their camp, including a shower room and cooking stoves for brewing lemon tea, and invited the Silver Moon Elf Knights to drink some.
• The Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment and the Mine Guard Regiment got along fairly well as both handled their camp duties.
• A company of sixty Unicorn Knights arrived in Gorfito Canyon, and Roy sensed that many of them were likely Second Rank powerhouses.
• A group of elf mages entered the Goddess of Freedom Temple, where Roy discovered that Moon God Temple priests lived.

Roy and the Mine Guard Regiment improved their camp in Gorfito Canyon, learned from the Silver Pegasus Knights, and received a road-building assignment. Viscount Philek remained trapped in the canyon, restless and unable to return to Murayaki City while Silver Moon Elves watched the entrance.

• Roy and the Half-Elf Warriors built new camp facilities, and Roy studied the Silver Pegasus Knights’ aerial tactics and training.
• The Mine Guard Regiment received orders to widen and gravel the road from the Goddess of Freedom Temple to the valley exit, and Roy accepted the mission.
• Viscount Philek used his ability to communicate with trees to find fruit trees in the forest and accompanied the Half-Elf Warriors outside the canyon.
• Viscount Philek continued longing for a chance to become a Silver Pegasus Knight and grew frustrated with his restricted life in Gorfito Canyon.
• Viscount Philek considered returning to Murayaki City when he heard the Magic Airship would bring more supplies, but abandoned the idea after seeing the Silver Moon Elves guarding the canyon entrance.

Roy delivered Viscount Philek’s letter to his family and learned that they wanted him to remain away from Murayaki City while they dealt with the fallout. Back in Gorfito Canyon, Roy prepared to attend a meeting about the increasingly urgent Darkness Gate and began telling Philek what his family had said.

• Roy’s Half-Elf Warriors finished paving the road to the canyon entrance, and Roy traveled to Murayaki City to collect military supplies and deliver Philek’s letter.
• At the Philek family manor, Roy met Philek’s younger brother, who said the family’s businesses had suffered heavy losses and asked Roy to keep Philek in his care for the time being.
• Roy returned to Gorfito Canyon with the supplies and sensed that the sacred aura was fading while the dark aura spread from behind the Goddess of Freedom Temple.
• Malthus invited Roy to attend the commanders’ meeting about the Darkness Gate at the temple the next day, and Roy agreed to listen.
• Roy healed Philek’s strained arm and told him that his younger brother, rather than their father, had received him at the manor.

Roy left a tense meeting over who would control the sealed Darkness Gate and explored the abandoned residential district of the Goddess of Freedom Temple in Gorfito. In a hidden stone chamber, he found a priest’s account revealing that the Goddess of Freedom had been imprisoned in the Dark Land, prompting the temple to launch its expeditions.

• Commander Malthus brought Roy to a Silver Moon Elf officers’ meeting, where the Magic Guild and Moon God Temple argued over control of the Darkness Gate and plans to build a Moon Well.
• Roy slipped out of the Main Hall to explore the temple grounds and the deserted priests’ residential district.
• Roy found ruined ascetic chambers carved into the canyon wall and used Holy Radiance to read an account written on one chamber’s wall.
• The account described a priest’s efforts to find the Goddess of Freedom, including questioning demons, consulting a mage, and seeking a prophet’s vision.
• A demon revealed that the Goddess of Freedom had been imprisoned in the Dark Land and fallen asleep, after which the temple’s archbishops planned a war and sent an Expeditionary Force into the Dark Land.

Roy discovered that the Goddess of Freedom Temple had sent repeated expeditions into the Dark Land and that its Priests had ultimately abandoned Gorfito to seek their missing Goddess. While exploring the temple, Roy advanced to Level Eleven, then left through a hidden passage and kept Viscount Philek in Gorfito as his guide for a new supply mission.

• Roy read the temple inscriptions and learned that three expeditions had failed before the Priests abandoned Gorfito and entered the Dark Land, planning to seal the Darkness Gate behind them.
• Roy explored more chambers, uncovering records about the Elves' war with the Naga and the forms of divine magic practiced by the Priests.
• The sacred aura in the temple strengthened Roy's Holy Light Tree, and he broke through to become a Level Eleven High Priest.
• Roy followed a wooden passage out of the temple and emerged on a mountainside near the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment's camp.
• A Silver Moon Elf guard asked Roy to release Viscount Philek, but Roy said Philek had to remain as a guide for the Mine Guard Regiment's new supply assignment.
• Roy boarded a Magic Airship and went to speak with a Half-Elf captain about the military supplies that had not yet been unloaded.

Roy learned about the Goddess of Freedom Temple’s preparations in Gorfito Canyon while talking with Viscount Philek, then studied exorcism divine magic in the mountain stone chambers. He copied the complete Holy Light Bullet spell and discovered it consumed more Holy Power than other spells of its rank.

• Roy invited Viscount Philek to share Orange Wine and heard that priests and mercenaries had been arriving in Gorfito Canyon for years.
• Roy explained his past as a Novice Priest and his Mine Guard Regiment’s assignment, while Viscount Philek recounted battles involving Gray Dwarf Bandit Magic Airships.
• Roy learned that the Magic Guild was preparing a large Sealing Magic Array and that a Fourth Rank Legendary Mage would arrive to conduct the ritual.
• Roy studied the stone chambers and learned that exorcism spells included Holy Light Bullet, Divine Light Flame, and Fist of Heaven.
• Roy copied the complete Holy Light Bullet spell and realized it consumed the most Holy Power among divine spells of the same rank.

Roy returned to Gorfito Canyon with military supplies and learned that unstable Space Fissures near the Darkness Gate were allowing Dark Creatures to emerge. The Sealing Magic Array remained unfinished as the threat in the canyon worsened.

• Roy’s Divine Light helped calm the Half-Elf Warriors and Silver Pegasus Knights, who increasingly gathered together in the camp’s rest area.
• The Mine Guard Regiment received a commendation for its actions at Ram Horn Fjord, and Roy entrusted Viscount Philek with establishing an investment fund.
• At Murayaki Port, Roy received military supplies and letters from General Berkeley and Mulin, learning that the Mine Guard Regiment had recruited six thousand new Half-Elf troops and that a Silver Moon Elf team had gone to the Kaltim Mountain Range.
• Roy returned to Gorfito Canyon and found tighter security and exhausted elf warriors, then used Divine Light to dispel dark aura in the rest area.
• Commander Malthus told Roy that Space Fissures near the Darkness Gate had become unstable, letting Dark Creatures emerge.

Roy advanced as a priest while the unstable Darkness Gate spread dark aura through Gorfito Canyon and forced the Magic Guild and Moon God Temple to abandon their sealing effort. They decided to use the Great Moonlight Spell to contact the priests in the Dark Land, and that night Roy witnessed its beam descend on the Goddess of Freedom Temple.

• The sealing array destabilized the Darkness Gate, letting dark creatures and their aura spread through Gorfito Canyon and affect Silver Moon Elf Warriors.
• Roy learned Holy Light Bullet and Hammer of Wrath, advanced to level thirteen, and gained four Judgment Divine Magic spells.
• The Magic Guild and Moon God Temple admitted that their sealing effort had failed and proposed repairing the Darkness Gate by contacting the priests in the Dark Land.
• Legion Commander Gabreles questioned how the elves could reach the Dark Land, and the Moon God Temple High Priest proposed sending moonlight through the gate with the Great Moonlight Spell.
• Commander Malthus told Roy that the garrison might remain in Gorfito Canyon for its full term, and Roy returned to his regiment's camp after the meeting.
• That night, Roy saw a beam of moonlight descend upon the Goddess of Freedom Temple.

High Priest Yakqin used moonlight to contact the Priests guarding the Darkness Gate in the Dark Land, and they agreed to remove its seal and hand over their camp. After mages and Legion Commander Gabreles entered the Dark Land, Roy was summoned to the Main Hall, where Gabreles announced that the gate had opened and was being stabilized.

• Viscount Philek approached Roy with an investment proposal while Roy stared toward the Goddess of Freedom Temple.
• High Priest Yakqin used a ritual to turn the Darkness Gate into a mirror and contacted the Priests guarding it in the Dark Land.
• Yakqin asked the Priests to lift the gate’s seal so the mages could repair it, and they agreed to hand over the camp.
• The Darkness Gate returned to a purple vortex, and Magic Guild mages and Legion Commander Gabreles entered the Dark Land.
• Roy received orders to report to the Main Hall, where Gabreles announced the gate had opened and the mages were working to stabilize it.