Chapter Summaries

Great Swordsman Alvin attacked Roy in the Dragon Lair, believing Roy had taken the Goddess Finger Bone, while Lia intervened to protect him. As Alvin pursued the wounded pair, Lia dragged Roy into the abyss filled with Darkness Qi.

• Great Swordsman Alvin struck Roy from behind, but Lia's Shadow Arrow hit his wrist and Roy blocked the attack with the Hammer of Judgment Book.
• Lia attacked Alvin to protect Roy, and Alvin knocked her aside while continuing to press his assault on Roy.
• Alvin recalled his grandfather's story and realized he believed Roy had taken the Goddess Finger Bone, so he decided to kill Roy and Lia and claim it.
• Roy struck Alvin with a Holy Light Bullet and tried to escape, while Lia repeatedly distracted Alvin as he wounded Roy in pursuit.
• Lia grabbed Roy's hand and leaped with him into the abyss filled with Darkness Qi, leaving Roy startled by the sudden plunge.

Lia rescued Roy from Great Swordsman Alvin by taking him into the Black Mist and hiding with him in a crevice, where Roy's Holy Light powers grew stronger. Their allies later pulled them to safety, and the evidence in the Frost Dragon's lair supported Roy's account of Alvin's attack, though Magister Eroud said the Magic Guild would investigate.

• Great Swordsman Alvin cornered Lia and Roy at the abyss, but Lia pulled Roy into the Black Mist while Alvin refused to follow them down.
• Lia used a grappling hook and rope to secure herself and Roy to the rock wall, then hid with him in a crevice to avoid the wraiths.
• Roy reflected on the vanished white jade and discovered that Holy Light was flowing from his right pinky, strengthening his Holy Light Tree and transforming his arms.
• Lia climbed out and brought Byron.Toll, Linglan.Copperbeard, and Great Mage Darakli to rescue Roy from the abyss.
• Magister Eroud and the others heard Roy's account, examined the Frost Dragon's lair, and found footprints and signs of a fight that supported his accusation against Alvin.
• Magister Eroud said the Magic Guild would investigate Alvin, while Roy chose not to reveal the piece of jade.

Great Mage Cedric trusted Roy’s account, and the magisters uncovered and divided the Frost Dragon’s remains before the Magic Cabin left the Black Sand Sea. Roy translated bishop O’Casey’s letter, learned more about the Goddess Finger Bone and the events at the Dragon Lair, and the story ended with Lia asking a stall owner about the camp’s most famous Demon Hunter group.

• Great Mage Cedric followed Alvin’s footprints to the Frost Dragon’s body and concluded that Roy’s account was credible.
• Magister Eroud summoned a Water Elemental, which melted the ice crystals so Magister Joyce could harvest the Frost Dragon’s materials; Roy received dragon hide and meat.
• Etiya Mika rejected Byron.Toll’s pleas to rest and left the Magic Cabin injured to search for Alvin.
• The Magic Cabin traveled back toward the Black Sand Sea’s edge, and Roy advanced to the peak of level nineteen while studying divine spells and Grimm Empire Language.
• Roy translated bishop O’Casey’s letter and realized that Alvin’s grandfather may have been among the guards who betrayed O’Casey over the Goddess Finger Bone.
• Lia led the group to a dilapidated Demon Hunter Camp and asked a stall owner which Demon Hunter group was the most famous there.

Roy, Lia, and Magister Eroud explored a shabby Demon Hunter Camp, where Roy traded Minor Life Potions for a Serpent Fang and learned about the camp’s dangerous inhabitants. After they left to find the Holy Knight Order, they passed an injured hunting party, and Roy noticed one of its warriors deliberately avoiding his gaze.

• Lia paid a stall owner for directions to the Holy Knight Order, whose tents stood about ten kilometers outside the camp.
• Roy traded fifty Minor Life Potions for a Serpent Fang, while Magister Eroud said a master craftsman could turn it into a valuable magical weapon.
• Lia explained how Demon Hunters survived by hunting and pointed out the powerful lizardmen known as Treasure Hunters.
• Carlos and Toremu considered robbing the travelers, but Toremu warned Carlos that Magister Eroud was with them; a female assassin later reported their purchase and their questions about the Holy Knight Order.
• Roy, Lia, and Eroud left the camp and passed a weary group carrying injured Demon Hunters, and Roy noticed one warrior turn away from him.

Magister Eroud learned of two other rumored liches in the Sea of Sand from Commander Jerome, who also confirmed that the Dark Land’s center was collapsing into an abyss. Roy and Lia spoke with the Holy Knight Order’s members and heard about their rescue of wounded Demon Hunters before leaving the camp with Eroud.

• Magister Eroud met Commander Jerome, who described a powerful lich five days away and marked two other rumored liches on Eroud’s map.
• Jerome asked about the Sea of Sand’s central region, and Eroud said an abyss was swallowing the sand; Eroud then thanked him with two bundles of Life Potions.
• Roy and Lia joined the Holy Knight Order members around a campfire, where Roy showed his Holy Light and shared preserved fruit.
• A Human Knight reported that the Holy Knight Order had carried badly wounded Demon Hunters back to their camp, and another knight complained about Donn abandoning the injured.
• Magister Eroud left Jerome’s tent, and he, Roy, and Lia departed the Holy Knight Order camp.

Roy and Lia visited the Demon Hunter Camp to learn about the nearby Temple Knight Order, whose Priests helped stranded Demon Hunters despite lacking divine power. They followed two Priests to a wounded hunter’s tent, where Roy offered his medical supplies.

• Magister Eroud returned to the Magic Cabin with news about the lich, and Great Mage Ophelia left alone to investigate its location.
• Roy told Lia he planned to visit the Demon Hunter Camp, and she accompanied him while Ailis stayed behind and practiced summoning a small flame of Holy Light.
• Roy and Lia shared Lemon Tea with the Demon Hunters and learned that the Temple Knight Order’s Priests helped people, while many hunters were stranded because the route out of the Dark Land had been sealed.
• Two Priests arrived at the camp to treat injured Demon Hunters, and Roy and Lia followed them to a tent.
• Roy offered the Priests Hemostatic Bandages and Life Potions as they prepared to enter the tent.

Roy helped the abandoned Priests treat wounded Demon Hunters, then joined Magister Eroud in seeking their aid for the lich hunt. Commander Jerome hoped to join the expedition to search for bishop O'Casey, and welcomed Roy and Eroud when they returned to the camp.

• Roy donated Hemostatic Bandages, confronted Guli when the Demon Hunter threatened him, and learned that the two Priests wanted his help treating wounded men.
• Roy used Purification Art to remove Darkness Qi from two wounded men, then returned to the Magic Cabin and was scolded by Magister Eroud.
• Great Mage Ophelia returned from investigating the liches and reported that the area might contain more than two, prompting the Magic Cabin to change course toward their hiding place.
• The Magisters worried they lacked enough people to capture several liches and decided to ask the abandoned Priests to join the hunt as mercenaries.
• Great Mage Cedric sent Roy and Magister Eroud to negotiate with the Priests, while Commander Jerome hoped the expedition would help him find bishop O'Casey.
• A Priest told Commander Jerome that Magister Eroud and Roy had arrived, and Jerome eagerly ordered him to invite them in.

Magister Eroud recruited Jerome and seven hundred Holy Knight Order Priests to support the lich hunt in Haiti, while Roy traveled with them and continued translating bishop O'Casey's letter. Roy learned that the Priests had been exiled to the Dark Land after their bishop disappeared, and the chapter left him pursuing the letter's remaining meaning.

• Magister Eroud asked Jerome to send Priests into Haiti to transport captured liches, and Jerome agreed to provide seven hundred knights led by himself.
• Jerome explained that the Order had nearly three thousand members but was weakened by the Dark Land's lack of Holy Light Power and wanted to explore Haiti more deeply.
• The Holy Knight Order met the Magisters at the agreed dune, and Great Mage Cedric supplied the Priests with food before they set out behind the Magic Cabin.
• Roy practiced Imperial Language with the Priests and translated three sentences from bishop O'Casey's letter, including, "Only she herself can imprison her."
• Roy learned that the Priests had come from the Roland Continent and were stranded in the Dark Land after their bishop disappeared, leading the Goddess of Freedom Temple to exile them.

Roy traveled with seven hundred abandoned priests through the Dark Land, learned why they had been stranded in Haiti while searching for Bishop O'Casey, and mastered the Light Holy Seal with their help. The group reached the first hunting site, where the mages trapped the lich in a magical array and sealed its escape routes.

• The priests told Roy that Bishop O'Casey's Guard Squad had entered Haiti years earlier to find him, losing over two thousand members while their temple cut off supplies and the Goddess of Freedom stopped answering their prayers.
• Roy demonstrated how dark aura from slain Dark Creatures could become Holy Light and discovered that the priests recovered Holy Light faster when near him; they taught him Holy Seal Divine Magic, and he learned Light Holy Seal.
• After half a month of travel, the group reached the hunting site, where six elf Magisters and the Great Mages built a Water Elemental magic array while the priests expected to be assigned to lure the lich.
• Opeiya went alone to draw the lich toward the array, and the priests failed to catch up with her after she entered the desert.
• The mages froze the lich in an iceberg, then trapped it between a second iceberg and four Ice Walls as it tried to escape into the sky.

The Magisters captured a second lich by freezing it in a massive iceberg, but Dark Magical Beasts attacked while they dismantled the magic array. Roy joined the battle, where his Holy Light Tree converted Darkness Qi into Holy Light that restored the Priests’ power.

• Great Mage Cedric and the Magisters trapped the second lich in a huge iceberg and began securing it and dismantling the magic array.
• Dark Magical Beasts gathered around the battlefield, and Great Mage Cedric summoned a Frost Giant to help Magister Joyce fight the Three-Headed Demon Wolf and the other beasts.
• The Frost Giant killed the Three-Headed Demon Wolf and charged into the gathered Dark Magical Beasts.
• Priests joined the Magisters in driving the beasts back through the blizzard, while Roy left the Magic Cabin to reach the battlefield.
• Roy’s Holy Light Tree absorbed Darkness Qi and scattered Light Flowers through the storm, restoring the Holy Light Power of the fighting Priests.

Roy told Jerome where Bishop O'Casey's remains lay and offered the priests a way out of the Dark Land before leaving with Magister Eroud. After returning to the Darkness Gate Expeditionary Force Camp, Roy and the mages were stopped by Half-Elf guards demanding an inspection.

• The priests and mages ended their search of Haidi, and Roy visited Jerome to deliver supplies and say farewell.
• Jerome gave Roy a holy flail, and Roy left him a letter revealing that Bishop O'Casey's remains lay in a hidden Frost Dragon lair in central Haidi, with a map to the abyss.
• Jerome read Roy's letter, mourned the loss of his last hope, and ordered a priest to invite commanders Raine and Rodman to meet him.
• The Magic Cabin returned to the Darkness Gate Expeditionary Force Camp after crossing the Black Sand Sea, carrying four liches in Ice Coffins.
• Half-Elf guards blocked the Magic Cabin and demanded that its occupants get down and submit to an inspection, while Elf Archers aimed their bows at the Great Mage.

Roy returned to the Darkness Gate Expeditionary Force Camp, where Lia decided to stay close to him so she and Ailis might reach the Elf Continent. As Roy dealt with camp reports and concerns over the Pattington Plane, Mage Ensman began planning repairs to the Magic Hub and the sealing of the liches.

• Roy escorted Magister Eroud from the Magic Cabin, and the Half-Elf guards welcomed Roy and brought the cabin into the camp.
• Lia told Ailis she would become Roy’s follower to help them leave the Dark Land, and Ailis admitted she wanted to see the Elf Continent too.
• Deputy Commander Timothy briefed Roy on camp business, the struggling mines on the Pattington Plateau, the stockpile of Dark Magical Beast materials, and a suspected Nakma Demon army nearby.
• Roy read letters from his friends and worried that Silver Moon Elf Nobles would pressure Earl Swynborne over the Half-Elves’ growing presence on the Pattington Plane.
• Mage Ensman told the Magisters he would help address the Darkness Gate’s problems, then gave Magister Wesley a plan to repair the damaged Magic Hub array and discussed sealing the liches.

Roy returned to Gorfito from the Dark Land, reported on the situation at the Darkness Gate, and discussed his regiment’s possible relief and his magical materials business. He learned that the mages might soon set out again and that Ensman was a Legendary Mage working with the liches.

• Ensman prepared to replace a failing lich in the magic array and instructed Cedric to learn how to seal the remaining liches.
• Roy returned through the Darkness Gate, reported Dark Land sightings to Gabreles, and heard that troops might soon relieve his regiment.
• Roy visited Malthus, who said the regiment could soon return to Gorfito, though Roy explained he might have to accompany the mages back into the Dark Land.
• Roy met Philek at the lake and arranged to send valuable Dark Magical Beast materials to auction while declining Philek’s offer to go into business together.
• Greimus warned Roy to stay in camp because the expedition might depart soon and revealed that Ensman was one of the Magic Guild’s three Legendary Mages, there because of the liches.

Ailis resisted a mysterious voice urging her to surrender control of her body, while Roy translated O'Casey's letter and learned the Goddess of Freedom had been imprisoned and divided from the Goddess of Night. The Magic Cabin reached Brinia, where Roy searched unsuccessfully for High Priest Reed.

• Ailis refused to let Lia fetch Roy and struggled against a voice that promised power and a comfortable life if she let it take control of her body.
• Roy finished translating O'Casey's letter, which described the Goddess of Freedom's connection to the Goddess of Night, the Dark Legions, and a divine consciousness seeking a suitable body.
• Lia told Roy that Ailis wanted to wait a couple of days before receiving more Holy Light Power so she could try drawing it in herself.
• After traveling through Isnais, Roy and the mages reached the Brinia Expeditionary Force Camp, where Roy and Great Mage Greimus surveyed the busy settlement.
• Roy asked more than a dozen Priests whether they knew High Priest Reed, but none recognized the name, and Great Mage Greimus encouraged him to keep trying.

Roy and Great Mage Greimus searched the Brinia Expeditionary Force Camp for news about High Priest Reed and liches. Roy learned that Reed had traveled deeper into the Dark Land to aid injured elves, and the Magic Cabin set out after him.

• Roy and Great Mage Greimus questioned Priests throughout the Brinia camp but found no information about liches or High Priest Reed.
• Roy noticed an aid station and met Ge Lan, a former assistant to High Priest Reed, who confirmed that Reed came from Castleton City.
• Ge Lan told Roy that Reed had left about half a month earlier to treat injured Priests farther along the Expedition Road.
• Ge Lan explained that he stayed behind because his prosthetic leg might make him a burden, and asked Roy to give Reed his regards.
• The Magic Cabin spent the night in Brinia, then continued deeper into the Dark Land while the six Magisters planned to seek information about liches at a nearby Demon Hunter Camp.

Roy and Great Mage Greimus fought off the Dark Creatures pursuing the Magic Cabin after leaving the Brinia Expeditionary Force Camp. Roy discovered the flail Jerome had given him could unleash powerful Holy Light attacks as he battled the Specter Wolves.

• The Magic Cabin left the Brinia Expeditionary Force Camp, but Specter Wolves and Dark Lizards began following it across the Black Sand Sea.
• Great Mage Greimus used Blizzard to freeze the pursuing beasts and told Roy to help clear them out.
• Roy killed a frostbound Dark Lizard with his flail, then pursued the Specter Wolves as they tried to escape the storm.
• Roy used the Hammer of Judgment Book to smash one Specter Wolf, then struck another with his flail.
• The flail released Holy Light Bullets that destroyed eleven Specter Wolves at once, leaving Roy astonished.

Roy, Greimus, and the mages traveled through the Dark Land, where Roy learned that High Priest Reed had been helping Demon Hunters along the same route. After three weeks, the Magic Cabin reached the outskirts of the Dragon's Maw Expeditionary Force Camp.

• Roy and Greimus slaughtered the Specter Wolves and Dark Lizards caught in Greimus's blizzard, then collected their soul crystals.
• Cedric praised Roy's combat abilities and told Eroud that Ensman saw a resemblance between Roy and Bishop Felix Mitchell.
• Eroud questioned Demon Hunters at two camps about liches, but learned no useful information about them.
• Roy traded supplies for magical beast materials and heard from a Demon Hunter that Reed had healed his severed finger before continuing down the road.
• After visiting six camps and gathering accounts of Reed's good deeds, the Magic Cabin reached the outskirts of the Dragon's Maw Expeditionary Force Camp.

Roy and Great Mage Greimus fought off a squad of Nakma Demons that attacked the Magic Cabin near Mouth of the Magic Dragon. The squad was wiped out, and Roy collected the black crystals they left behind.

• Six Nakma Demons emerged from the dust and attacked the Magic Cabin, with one driving a War Blade into its wall.
• Great Mage Greimus froze the first Nakma Demon with an ice lance and shattered him with Ice Burst Art.
• Roy blocked a Nakma Demon’s spear with the Hammer of Judgment Book, then killed him with a Silver Hammer and flail.
• The other Great Mages joined the fight, trapping the remaining Nakma Demons in an Ice Wall while Great Mage Greimus beheaded them.
• Roy searched the fallen Nakma Demons and found black crystals instead of soul crystals, while the other Great Mages praised him.

After discovering that the Nakma Demons were attacking Dragon's Maw, Great Mage Cedric ordered the Magic Cabin to retreat, but the mages used World Sight to observe the battle and spotted a lich behind the demon legion. They watched as the camp's Priests fought without divine magic, and the chapter ended with a Nakma Demon Warlord arriving at the gates and cutting down the Priests who charged it.

• Great Mage Cedric rejected Joyce's suggestion to hunt more Nakma Demons and sent Ophelia to scout Dragon's Maw.
• Ophelia reported that the Nakma Demons were attacking Dragon's Maw, so Great Mage Cedric ordered the Magic Cabin to retreat.
• Ophelia used World Sight to show the mages the battle, and they spotted a lich within the Black Mist behind the Nakma Demon Legion.
• Magister Eroud hid the Magic Cabin in a rift and ordered the mages to observe the battle at Dragon's Maw.
• Roy saw Priests burn their remaining life force as Holy Light Flames to take Nakma Demon warriors with them.
• A Nakma Demon Warlord arrived at the camp gates and cut down Priests who charged toward it.

The Priests and Nakma Demon warriors fought desperately at the Dragon's Maw Expeditionary Force Camp until a High Priest used the Wisdom Holy Grail to transform into an angel and kill the Nakma Demon Warlord. A blizzard summoned by the mages turned the tide, and Roy went to help the wounded Priests before recognizing the fallen angel.

• The High Priest absorbed the faith and Holy Light Power of fallen Priests, transformed into an angel, and beheaded the Nakma Demon Warlord before collapsing from the transformation.
• The Nakma Demon warriors continued attacking as the liches used Black Mist to prevent their retreat and the battle engulfed the camp.
• Great Mage Cedric and Magister Eroud summoned a powerful Blizzard Domain that froze the liches' Black Mist and unleashed ice cones against the Nakma Demon Legion.
• Magister Joyce pursued two fleeing liches while Cedric trapped another in an ice prison, and the mages sent Roy and Great Mage Greimus to aid the wounded Priests.
• Roy destroyed a frozen Nakma Demon warrior and collected its Black Magic Crystal before Greimus directed him to search for injured Priests.
• Roy found the fallen angel holding the Wisdom Holy Grail and recognized the Priest's mangled face, leaving him stunned.