Chapter Summaries

Great Mage Greimus and Roy fought three gargoyles at the edge of the sea of sand, where Roy recognized one of the dead elves as a Sword Dancer from Great Swordsman Alvin's group. They returned to the Magic Cabin, and Greimus told the other Great Mages that they had discovered a magic eye.

• Great Mage Greimus charged three gargoyles with Ice Magic, and Roy helped him defeat them with holy magic and the Water Elemental.
• Roy gathered the dead elf demon hunters for burial and recognized one as a Sword Dancer from Great Swordsman Alvin's group.
• Roy refused Great Mage Greimus's suggestion to investigate further, wary of the magic eye and the dangerous territory near a lich's hiding place.
• Roy and Great Mage Greimus returned to the Magic Cabin, where Greimus told the other Great Mages that they had found a magic eye at the edge of the sea of sand.

Great Mage Greimus recounted how he and Roy killed three gargoyles, while the Magisters planned to investigate the lich in Hadi and Great Mage Cedric barred the Great Mages from leaving the Magic Cabin. Elsewhere, Byron.Toll and Great Swordsman Alvin’s weakened party remained trapped near Hadi, debating whether to flee or fight the lich pursuing them.

• Great Mage Greimus told the Great Mages that he and Roy had killed three gargoyles and spotted a magic eye, then discussed Demon Hunters ahead of the Magic Cabin.
• Magister Eroud questioned Lia about the lich, and the Magisters agreed that Magister Jonas would investigate while Magister Wesley and Magister Dunlop prepared a hunting ground.
• Opeiya asked Roy to accompany her outside, but Great Mage Cedric later prohibited all Great Mages from leaving the Magic Cabin, leaving Opeiya frustrated and Roy unaware of her grudge.
• Great Swordsman Alvin’s Darkness Qi-infected party hid behind a dirt slope as Byron.Toll and others debated whether to fight the lich or press on toward the edge of Hadi.

Great Swordsman Alvin and his exhausted Elf Warriors fought their way through the Sea of Land while a lich pursued them, until Magister Jonas opened a portal and led them to safety. Meanwhile, Roy stayed in the Magic Cabin with Lia, who brought him breakfast.

• Great Swordsman Alvin and Byron Tolle led the Elf Warriors through the dark as Shadow Demons attacked, and they defeated the creatures after a fierce battle.
• As the lich drew near and the group faltered, Great Swordsman Alvin told Byron Tolle he would stay behind to hold it off, stirring Byron's memories of fleeing the Dark Land years earlier.
• Magister Jonas appeared before the Elf Warriors, recognized Great Swordsman Alvin, and opened a Teleportation Portal for them to escape through.
• Roy wondered why Great Mage Ophelia had taken an interest in him and avoided the second-floor lounge by staying in the storage room beneath the stairs.
• Lia brought Roy Breadfruit with jam after hearing he had skipped breakfast, and they talked about their first meeting at the Isnais Expeditionary Force Camp.

Roy treated the wounded Silver Moon Elf Warriors who returned with Magister Jonas and was surprised to find Byron Tolle among them. Byron Tolle explained that he had also been delayed, leaving the reason for his unexpected return unresolved.

• Lia told Ailis that she planned to join Roy's army so they could stay with him and help Ailis.
• Magister Jonas returned through a Teleportation Portal with exhausted and wounded Silver Moon Elf Warriors.
• Magister Jonas sent Roy to treat the returning warriors, and Lia and several Great Mages followed him outside.
• Roy purified the Darkness Qi inside the wounded warriors and searched for Byron Tolle.
• Roy found Byron Tolle, treated him with Holy Light Art, and asked why he had not followed the expedition route to Brinia.
• Byron Tolle said that some matters had delayed him.

Roy reunited with the Elf Warriors in Haidi, purified their Darkness Qi, and treated their wounds while Great Mage Cedric sought information about the Lich. Cedric recruited Alvin and several Second Rank experts to help capture the Lich alive, then the Magisters began setting up an ambush array as Roy and Byron Tolle patrolled.

• Roy purified the Elf Warriors’ Darkness Qi and treated their injuries, including Linglan.Copperbeard’s wounds, while learning that the group had been tormented by a Lich.
• Great Mage Cedric met with Great Swordsman Alvin, questioned him about the Lich, and asked him to stay and help capture it alive.
• Alvin relayed Cedric’s invitation to the Elf Warriors; some First Rank members left, while Byron Tolle, Linglan.Copperbeard, Mage Darakli, and other Second Rank experts stayed.
• Magister Wesley chose an ambush site, and the six Magisters and their Great Mages began setting up a magic array to bind the level-six Dark Magical Beast.
• Roy accompanied Byron Tolle on patrol around the area.

Roy and Byron Tolle patrolled the magic array site, fought off a Cave Demon, and then fled when the lich pursued them through the Dark Land. They signaled for help, and Linglan.Copperbeard and Darakli rushed toward them as the purple mist drew near.

• Roy and Byron Tolle patrolled the sandy area while the Magisters prepared the magic array, and Byron told Roy about Magister Joyce and the lich.
• Byron Tolle attacked a Cave Demon with arrows, while Roy used two Silver Hammers to stun it and help bring it down.
• Roy prayed over the Cave Demon and absorbed its Darkness Qi as Holy Light Power before he and Byron resumed their patrol.
• As night fell, Byron recognized the lich in the purple mist and led Roy away while the lich's minions pursued them.
• Byron Tolle sent up a Magic Signal Flare, and Great Swordsman Darwin ordered the others to help Roy and Byron escape.
• Linglan.Copperbeard and Darakli fought through Dark Creatures and hurried toward Roy and Byron as the lich's purple mist came into view.

Roy, Byron.Toll, Linglan.Copperbeard, and Great Mage Darakli struggled to escape the lich’s encircling Black Mist as its spells overwhelmed them. Great Swordsman Alvin returned to confront the lich, then retreated toward the magic array when the mages’ signal appeared.

• Byron.Toll broke through the Black Mist with Roy, and the pair fled the lich’s Meteor attacks as it pursued them.
• Byron.Toll and Roy met Linglan.Copperbeard and Great Mage Darakli, but the lich’s laughter incapacitated Darakli until Roy used Purification Art on Linglan.Copperbeard.
• A Meteor blast knocked the group down, leaving them exposed as the Black Mist rolled toward them.
• Great Swordsman Alvin charged the lich with his Crystal Sword, but its petrifying defense and black flames forced him to retreat.
• A green Magic Signal Flare appeared from the magic array, and Great Swordsman Alvin sprinted toward it.

Roy and the others fought through the lich’s Black Mist as they tried to reach the magic array, with Alvin and Byron.Toll cutting down the lich’s minions. The lich focused on Roy’s Holy Light, and Linglan.Copperbeard was knocked down while shielding him.

• Alvin and Byron.Toll fought off ghouls as the group raced toward the magic array, but the lich’s Netherwind swallowed them in Black Mist.
• Roy, Alvin, Byron.Toll, and Linglan.Copperbeard fought wraiths and ghouls inside the mist while Darakli remained unconscious on the dwarf’s shoulder.
• Alvin struck at the lich with a phantom swordsman, then led the group out of the mist as the wraiths stayed trapped within it.
• Roy burned ghouls with Holy Light, drawing the lich’s attention; his Holy Light also melted the Darkness Qi bands restraining him.
• Roy threw Silver Hammers at the lich, briefly stopping its advance, while Linglan.Copperbeard shielded Roy and was smashed to the ground by the lich.

Roy and the others escaped the lich’s pursuit with help from the magisters, then Roy treated the badly injured Linglan.Copperbeard. Magister Eroud lured the lich into the concealed Magic Rune Array, which began activating beneath it.

• Great Swordsman Alvin’s phantom blocked the lich’s killing blow while Byron.Toll dragged Linglan.Copperbeard away and Alvin carried Great Mage Darakli toward safety.
• A Holy Light Tree and Magister Eroud’s Blizzard slowed the lich, giving Roy and the others time to escape through Magister Jonas’s Teleportation Portal.
• Roy treated Great Mage Darakli and used a Life Potion and Holy Light Art to heal Linglan.Copperbeard’s severe injuries.
• Magister Eroud fled on his Magic Broom as the lich pursued him toward the Magic Rune Array, while the magisters prepared to trap it.
• Magister Cedric ordered the Magic Rune Array activated, and pale blue magical light spread beneath the lich’s feet.

The Magisters trapped the lich in a Magic Rune Array and sealed it inside an Ice Coffin, while Roy helped the injured survivors recover. After reflecting on the battle and finding new scars on his Magic Inscription Construct, Roy returned to the Magic Cabin as the expedition continued toward camp.

• The Magisters used a Magic Rune Array, a tornado, an Ice Wall, and six Ice Chains to capture and freeze the lich.
• Roy treated Linglan.Copperbeard while Byron.Toll helped him drink rum, and Linglan.Copperbeard regained consciousness.
• Six Magisters and twelve Great Mages poured mana into the array until the lich was sealed in an Ice Coffin, while the blizzard destroyed nearby Dark Creatures and replenished Roy's Holy Light Power.
• Great Mage Cedric had two Steel Golems tow the Ice Coffin, while Great Swordsman Alvin and Byron.Toll stayed behind to guard it.
• Roy helped Great Mage Darakli settle into Grems's room, added Tree of Life Sap to his water, and spoke with the other Great Mages.
• Roy returned to the storage room and saw deep new scars on his Magic Inscription Construct; the Steel Golems then pulled the Magic Cabin toward the Darkness Gate Expeditionary Force Camp.

The magisters decided to remain near Haidi and search for more liches and the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, while Greimus and Anlaisedeba escorted the captured lich to Darkness Gate. Roy agreed to join Great Swordsman Alvin and Byron.Toll on an expedition into Haidi, leaving Alvin to seek Magister Eroud's approval.

• Great Mage Cedric led the magisters in choosing to keep searching around Haidi for liches and the Remains of the Frost Dragon before considering the Expedition Road.
• Magister Eroud assigned Great Mage Greimus and Great Mage Anlaisedeba to escort the Ice Coffin to Darkness Gate, and refused Greimus's request to take Roy along.
• Roy learned the Magic Cabin would stay near Haidi and watched Greimus and Anlaisedeba depart with the Ice Coffin.
• Great Swordsman Alvin invited Roy to explore Haidi with him, Etia.Mika, and Byron.Toll, and Roy accepted.
• Byron.Toll urged Roy to reconsider, but Roy reminded him that they were friends; Linglan.Copperbeard joked about the fools around Byron.Toll.

Roy joined Great Swordsman Alvin’s expedition into the depths of Haiti, where Lia and Great Mage Opeiya also became members of the party. The group traveled across the black sands and camped near the edge of the lich’s territory.

• Great Swordsman Alvin asked Magister Eroud to let Roy join the expedition, and Magister Eroud agreed to send a Great Mage for added protection.
• Opeiya volunteered to join the party, and Magister Eroud later recommended Lia as a guide familiar with Haiti.
• Roy discovered that Lia and Opeiya were joining the expedition as the party prepared to depart with Great Swordsman Alvin, Byron Tolle, and Etiya Mika.
• The group crossed Haiti’s difficult black sands, following Lia as she led the way through the quiet edge of the lich’s territory.
• Great Swordsman Alvin stopped the party at a rocky campsite, where Byron.Toll volunteered for first watch and the group gathered around a fire.

The Two-Headed Snake Demon Adventure Group crossed the seabed toward a canyon where Lia’s former Demon Hunter group had encountered a supposedly injured snake demon. After Great Swordsman Alvin explained his family’s lead to the Frost Dragon’s remains, he persuaded Byron.Toll to wait near the canyon while he, Etiya Mika, and Lia entered to investigate.

• The group avoided Dark Magical Beasts and camped beneath a sheltered rock, where Roy gave Great Mage Ophelia Tree of Life Sap and cleared Darkness Qi from her body.
• Lia told Great Swordsman Alvin that her former Demon Hunter group had followed a snake demon into a canyon after seeing a lich badly injure it, but the demon killed their leader and scattered the group.
• Great Swordsman Alvin explained that his grandfather had found the Frost Dragon’s remains in a cave near a sea eye and left behind a scroll describing their location.
• The group reached the Great Rift Valley, and Great Swordsman Alvin convinced Byron.Toll to wait outside while he checked the canyon without provoking the snake demon.
• Great Swordsman Alvin entered the rift with Etiya Mika, and Lia followed them.

Great Mage Ophelia revealed that Alvin wanted to investigate the Two-Headed Demon Snake for a possible Frost Dragon bloodline, and the group agreed to hunt it for its Elemental Cores and Lia’s chance to avenge Uncle Loki. Balsa. They found the wounded demon snake in its cave, where it ambushed Roy, but his Hammer of Sanction froze it mid-attack.

• Great Mage Ophelia told Roy that Alvin suspected the Two-Headed Demon Snake had Frost Dragon bloodline, and explained that Elemental Cores could help a Great Mage advance to Mage Mentor.
• Alvin persuaded the group to hunt the demon snake, and Lia agreed because she wanted to avenge Uncle Loki. Balsa.
• Lia scouted the Great Rift Cave and found the demon snake curled up in its deepest chamber, so Alvin led the group inside together.
• Byron.Toll fired a Fletched Arrow at the demon snake, which blocked it with an Ice Shield and then attacked the group with a Shadow Arrow.
• The demon snake suddenly lunged at Roy from behind, but Roy raised the Hammer of Judgment Book and struck it with Hammer of Sanction, freezing it in place.

Roy and his companions fought the wounded Two-Headed Demon Snake in the cave, using magic, swordsmanship, and vines to overcome its attacks. After they killed it, Great Swordsman Alvin smelled its blood and said it resembled Dragon Blood.

• Roy escaped the snake demon’s jaws, and Great Swordsman Alvin pulled Etia.Mika from its throat while Great Mage Ophelia teleported Roy to safety.
• Byron.Toll shot the snake demon, which armored itself in ice and attacked the group with an Ice Spike and Shadow Arrows.
• Great Swordsman Alvin wounded the snake demon with a powerful strike, and the creature tore its two heads free from their shared body.
• Roy struck one head with the Silver Hammer, Lia stabbed its eye, and Great Mage Ophelia teleported Roy away as the head crashed into the cave wall.
• Etia Mika bound the other head with Iron Caltrop vines, and Great Swordsman Alvin severed its neck before extracting its core and fangs.
• Great Swordsman Alvin sniffed the snake demon’s blood and told the others it smelled like Dragon Blood.

After months of searching Haidi for liches, Roy’s Adventure Group reached a vast abyss filled with Darkness Qi, where Great Swordsman Alvin prepared to descend. As a huge Bone Dragon spiraled into the abyss, the group faced a new and dangerous discovery.

• Great Swordsman Alvin divided the Two-Headed Demon Snake’s cores, fangs, and hide among the Adventure Group, and explained to Lia how he had identified its Dragon Clan bloodline.
• Roy thanked Opeiya for helping the group, and she explained that her Space Magic could get them out of danger.
• The Adventure Group made repeated searches through Haidi over several months, and Etiya Mika lost his right arm during a failed hunt before Linglan.Copperbeard and Darakli returned to replenish the group.
• Lia grew anxious as the group entered Haidi’s interior, but Alvin persuaded Eroud to continue searching for liches rather than turn back.
• Alvin led the group across the Black Sand Sea to a vast abyss and began preparing to descend as a Bone Dragon flew down into it.

The Adventure Group discovered that the abyss was an Ancient Battlefield and spotted a Bone Dragon repeatedly entering it, possibly in search of the Frost Dragon’s remains. The Magisters chose to hunt the Bone Dragon, and after locating its nest and preparing an ice magic array, the group began their plan to lure it into a trap.

• Lia sensed the Bone Dragon emerging from the abyss, and the Adventure Group hid as it flew overhead without noticing them.
• Alvin identified the abyss as the Ancient Battlefield and told the Magisters that the Frost Dragon’s remains might be hidden near its cliffs.
• Alvin persuaded the Magisters to hunt the Bone Dragon while continuing the search for the Frost Dragon’s remains.
• Ophelia rejoined the Adventure Group, which spent more than half a month locating the Bone Dragon’s nest and observing its repeated trips into the abyss.
• The six Magisters prepared an ice magic array near the nest, and Byron.Toll took responsibility for luring the Bone Dragon while Ophelia prepared to retrieve him through a Teleportation Portal.

Byron.Toll and Opeiya lured the Bone Dragon into Cedric’s Magic Rune Array, where the magisters trapped and killed it, uncovering a cracked Dragon Soul Crystal Core. At the abyss, Roy realized Alvin’s map showed the quicksand’s flow and found a hidden ledge leading into the abyss, where the search for the Frost Dragon’s remains could continue.

• Byron.Toll and Opeiya used Teleportation Portals to draw the Bone Dragon into Cedric’s Magic Rune Array.
• Cedric’s Gravity Field grounded the Bone Dragon while the magisters pinned it with Ice Spikes, and Joyce cut off its head.
• Cedric found a cracked Dragon Soul Crystal Core inside the shattered skull, causing the Darkness Qi in the abyss to boil.
• Alvin searched the abyss’s edge for the treasure entrance while Roy and Lia watched nearby.
• Roy recognized that Alvin’s map depicted the directions of the quicksand currents rather than the abyss’s outline.
• Roy followed the map into the quicksand and reached a solid ledge on the abyss’s rock wall.

Roy and Great Swordsman Alvin discovered a hidden cave behind the black quicksand and found the Frost Dragon’s remains sealed behind a Holy Light Wall. Roy passed through the barrier alone and entered the cavern, where the dragon’s enormous body and hoard awaited.

• Roy found a cave hidden behind the black quicksand waterfall and entered it with Great Swordsman Alvin and Lia.
• Great Swordsman Alvin found his grandfather’s Elven inscription and recognized the cave from his grandfather’s description.
• Roy discovered a huge dragon scale lodged in the rock and suspected the cave held the Frost Dragon’s remains.
• Roy and Great Swordsman Alvin reached a pale golden Holy Light Wall and saw the headless Frost Dragon lying atop a mountain of treasure beyond it.
• Roy passed through the Holy Light Wall, which let him enter while blocking the others, and approached the Frost Dragon’s remains.

Roy entered the Frost Dragon’s sealed treasure cave, discovered a dead human priest and a holy bone, and absorbed the divine consciousness within it. After the Holy Light Wall vanished, Great Swordsman Alvin attacked Roy from behind, but a Shadow Arrow struck his wrist as his Crystal Sword hit Roy’s Hammer of Judgment Book.

• Roy repeatedly passed through the Holy Light Wall while searching the cave for a way to disable it, and Great Swordsman Alvin urged him to investigate the Frost Dragon’s hoard.
• Roy found a human priest’s skeleton, took its Prayer Book, unfinished letter, and route scroll, and arranged the remains for burial.
• Roy uncovered a white jade bone, whose divine consciousness tried and failed to possess him; the bone became a small finger bone on Roy’s right thumb.
• The Holy Light Wall vanished and the cave’s sacred aura faded as Roy picked up the Prayer Book.
• Great Swordsman Alvin approached Roy from behind and swung his Crystal Sword at him, but a Shadow Arrow struck Alvin’s wrist as the sword hit Roy’s Hammer of Judgment Book.