Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Gray Dwarf Bandits, Roy arranged to transport more than fifty thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners of war from Queen Island to the Pattington Plane. He prepared the ports, Teleportation Portals, guards, and a temporary camp, and the first batch began arriving in Padesto City.

• Roy left three thousand Half-Elf guards on Queen Island to guard nearly thirty thousand prisoners while the fleet carried the first batch toward Pattington Island.
• Roy redirected supplies at Pattington Island toward food and dock repairs, then arranged priority use of the Teleportation Portal and cleared Central Square in Padesto City.
• Roy asked General Berkeley for a place to house the prisoners and three thousand Elven Guards; Berkeley agreed to provide guards and recommended an Apple Orchard outside the city.
• The fleet reached Pattington Island, where Roy waited until nearly noon before the Gray Dwarf prisoners disembarked and entered the Teleportation Portal under guard.

Roy oversaw the transfer and first night of the Gray Dwarf prisoners at a makeshift camp outside Padesto City, where the exhausted captives bathed, ate apples and dried fish, and settled in under guard. The next morning, Roy questioned the Red Beard Gray Dwarf about the renewed attack on the Empress Ivini Islands, and the dwarf said his people had been trying to survive.

• Half-Elf guards marched thousands of Gray Dwarf prisoners through Padesto City to a forest clearing outside the city, where Roy had arranged a guarded temporary camp.
• Miss Christine questioned a Silver Pegasus Knight about Commander Roy's victory over the Gray Dwarf fleet and learned that Magic Airships had supplied the pursuing forces.
• The Gray Dwarf prisoners bathed in the stream, discussed their defeat, and received Green Apples and salted fish before settling into the camp for the night.
• Roy inspected the camp and worried the prisoners might riot, while Tennyson hoped some would attempt to escape so the guards could enforce the plane's rule against escaped prisoners.
• The next morning, Roy gave the Red Beard Gray Dwarf two apples and asked why the Gray Dwarves had attacked the Empress Ivini Islands again, and the dwarf answered that they had been trying to survive.

Roy transported thousands of captured Gray Dwarf Bandits from Padesto to Plateau City and discussed expanding the Prisoner of War Camp with Mulin. The prisoners were set to work in the mines and forging workshops, while Mulin raised concerns about having enough guards to control them.

• Roy arranged for Magic Airships to transport the Gray Dwarf prisoners from Padesto to Plateau City and asked Leishande to oversee their departure.
• On his way to the Air Port Dock, Roy unexpectedly met Christine, who thanked him for helping at the Empress Ivini Islands naval battle.
• Leishande reported that the first Magic Airship had boarded eight hundred prisoners, and Roy left Padesto's prisoner transfers in his hands.
• Roy arrived safely in Plateau City with the prisoners and discussed expanding the Prisoner of War Camp with Mulin.
• Roy told Mulin to send prisoners with forging skills to the workshops in the Gaxi Mountain Range in limited batches, and Mulin asked whether the Mine Guard Regiment needed more Elf Warriors.

A large group of Gray Dwarf prisoners arrived in Plateau City, where officials sought skilled smiths for the Forging Workshop, while Half-Elves lined up to join Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment. Mulin reflected on how the chance for Half-Elves to form their own army had improved their lives on Pagisto Plateau.

• Eleven Magic Airships brought thousands of Gray Dwarf prisoners to Plateau City, prompting Half-Elves to discuss their arrival and the new guard recruitment.
• Anchiass heard from Giana that Governor Mulin was recruiting Half-Elf guards, and he considered joining Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment.
• A Half-Elf captain welcomed the Gray Dwarves to Pagisto and offered skilled smiths better work, supplies, and privileges in the Forging Workshop.
• Roy and Mulin watched a long queue of young Half-Elves register for the Mine Guard Regiment, and Mulin explained how her people had struggled to reach Pagisto and build safer lives there.

Roy left Mulin in charge of the Gray Dwarf prisoners in Plateau City and traveled to Sun Island Bay, where the sirens were struggling against the Dark Faceless Ones. He rallied the Half-Elf officers and townspeople to support the defense, leaving them committed to holding the bay and preparing for a prolonged war.

• Roy told Mulin to guard Plateau City, assign skilled Gray Dwarves to the Forging Workshop, and send escape attempts or troublemakers to Tennyson for punishment.
• Roy arrived at Sun Island Bay and learned from Commander Tiprado that the sirens were isolated and running low on magical crossbow bolts while fighting the Faceless Warriors at a disadvantage.
• Roy promised to reinforce the bay with more Magic Airships, Storm Longbows, and Short Flying Spears, and urged the Griffon Cavalry Regiment officers to help the sirens hold the sea against the Dark Legions.
• Roy explained that letting the Dark Faceless Ones control the seas would allow other Dark Legions to enter the Pattington Plane, and the officers enthusiastically agreed to fight.
• Roy told the Half-Elves that fishing would remain restricted so the sirens and murloc refugees could use the bay's resources, and offered passage to Pagisto Plateau for anyone who wished to leave; the townspeople chose to stay.

Roy returned to Sun Island Bay and learned that the Faceless Legion had trapped the sirens and devastated their forces. He organized a plan to seal the bay’s entrance with an Ice Wall and a stone barrier, leaving the Faceless Warriors separated and under attack.

• Jiezena confronted Roy over the sirens’ losses and accused the Half-Elves of failing to support them as the Faceless Legion occupied the Western Sea.
• Roy learned that fewer than ten thousand sirens remained in the bay and only a little over three thousand could still fight, then proposed blocking the entrance with stone and earth.
• Miss Tiffany offered to work with the Siren Chanters to freeze an Ice Wall across the entrance, giving the Griffon Cavalry a foundation for a stone barrier.
• Roy arrived at the bay entrance that night, where Jiezena and the Siren Chanters cast their magic and raised an Ice Wall more than two hundred meters across.
• The Griffon Cavalry threw stones into the sea while five thousand Highland Slaver prisoners filled the gaps with Hollow Bricks, and Siren Warriors killed Faceless Warriors driven away from the wall.

Roy and the defenders built a wall across the entrance to Sun Island Bay and repelled repeated attacks by the Dark Faceless One Legion. After the overnight battle, Roy inspected the damaged defenses and rested in camp, where Sabrina asked whether they could defeat the Legion and protect the Pattington Plane.

• Highland Slavers prisoners and Half-Elves built a stone and Hollow Brick City Wall across the entrance to Sun Island Bay.
• The Griffon Cavalry and Half-Elf guards attacked the Faceless Warriors as they tried to climb the wall, while Priests empowered the defenders with holy light.
• Roy fought through the night, and Lia and a Night Blade Leopard saved him from a tentacle that tried to drag him into the sea.
• At dawn, the Dark Faceless Warriors retreated, and Roy ordered the Highland Slavers prisoners to repair three collapsed sections of the wall.
• Roy rested in camp and spoke with Sabrina, who asked whether they could defeat the Legion and whether they might have to abandon the Pattington Plane.
• The chapter revealed that Commander Tiprado had previously held back the Griffon Cavalry Regiment, believing the Legion posed no threat to the northern elf settlements.

Roy brought Gray Dwarf craftsmen to Sun Island Bay to design armor for the siren warriors, hoping it would help them withstand the Faceless Warriors. The enemy did not attack on Roy’s third night, and the chapter left Jiezena examining Roy’s crude armor blueprint.

• Sabrina watched Roy sleep and reflected on her conflicted feelings for him and Moira.
• Jiezena and Miss Tiffany discussed the sirens’ refuge, the messages sent to other sirens, and the name Medidala Cape.
• Roy and the Half-Elves waited through the night for the Dark Faceless One Legion, while the Holy Knight Priests told stories about the Dark Land.
• Jiezena explained to Roy that the sirens could not defend the sea entrance effectively because the Faceless Warriors could attack from any direction through the water.
• Little Eugene arrived with ten Gray Dwarf craftsmen, and Roy revealed that he planned to have them make armor for the siren warriors.

Roy arranged for Gray Dwarf Artisans to design flexible, blade-covered armor to protect Siren Warriors from the Faceless Warriors’ constriction attacks. As the Faceless Legion withdrew from Sun Island Bay, Roy and the Sirens discussed uniting their scattered tribes and preparing a counterattack, while Jiezena went to seek a deep-sea Giant Beast.

• Roy explained his Siren armor design to ten Gray Dwarf Artisans, who began adapting their flexible Dwarf Chain Mail while considering its weight and blade placement.
• Jiezena assigned Alesia and Elliot to work with the artisans until the Siren armor was completed.
• After a stone wall was built at Sun Island Bay, the Faceless Legion withdrew, and Jiezena confirmed that no Dark Faceless Ones remained nearby.
• Jiezena showed Roy Atias’s nautical chart, revealing how the Pattington Plane’s scattered islands could make it difficult for the Faceless Legion to conquer the entire sea.
• Atias volunteered to contact other Siren tribes and unite them against the Faceless Legion, while Roy promised Magic Airships and a future counterattack.
• Jiezena left to explore the deep sea and search for a Giant Beast with which to form a contract and become a Sea Beast Priest.

After the Faceless Legion vanished, Roy strengthened Sun Island Bay’s defenses and returned to Castleton City to discuss converting Magic Airships. He arrived at Castleton Harbour and thought about visiting Moira and Princess Ophelia.

• The slaver prisoners reinforced Sun Island Bay’s wall, while Roy’s Mine Guard Regiment received more magic crossbow bolts and faced questions from the Silver Moon Elf military about its purchases.
• Roy discussed the crowded Plateau City and its prisoner population with Mulin, assigning Gray Dwarf smiths to the Forging Workshop and ordering the rest to undergo training and close supervision.
• Roy arranged to travel to Padesto to meet the Imperial Merchant Darwin about converting Magic Airships, and he thought about seeing Moira again.
• Roy arrived at Castleton Harbour, noticed its improved facilities and busy Fish Market, and spotted the Black Pearl and White Manor.

Roy visited Darwin to arrange a large purchase of Floating Devices and negotiate a sale of Black Magic Crystals to Imperial merchants. He left the ship after refusing Mike’s offer, while Mike hurried after him to keep the crystal deal alive.

• Roy met Darwin aboard a merchant ship and requested four hundred Floating Devices and Master Maggs’s help installing them on Magic Airships.
• Darwin arranged an initial delivery of one hundred and fifty Floating Devices and ten Propulsion Devices for the morning after tomorrow, with the rest to follow in two batches.
• Roy offered a chest of Black Magic Crystals, and Darwin introduced Mike as a potential buyer.
• Roy rejected Mike’s offer of five ordinary Magic Crystal Stones for two Black Magic Crystals and began to leave.
• Darwin followed Roy and offered free metal support frames for the Floating Devices, which Roy accepted.
• Mike caught up with Roy and asked to continue negotiating over drinks, but Roy declined and left.

Mike failed to buy Black Magic Crystals from Roy, while Spencer planned to try the next morning with Merchant Darwin. After receiving Darwin’s note about the kingdom’s exchange rates, Roy visited the renovated Goddess of Freedom Temple and found Half-Elf children living there.

• Mike tried to negotiate with Roy, but Roy refused him, and Merchant Darwin agreed to bring Spencer to meet Roy the next morning.
• A group of young nobles discussed their families’ orders to return home with Black Magic Crystals, and Spencer vowed to buy as many as he could from Roy.
• Roy found the Goddess of Freedom Temple repaired and received an unsigned note from Darwin listing the kingdom’s Black Magic Crystal exchange rates.
• Roy spoke with Half-Elf children outside the temple before hearing someone call Iris back inside.
• Roy passed Mrs. Winnie's Potion Shop and looked beneath the hedge for the big black cat, then watched the swollen Da Nei River rush toward the sea.

After returning from war, Roy reunited with Moira and spent a quiet evening with her before she left for class the next morning. The next day, he traded Black Magic Crystals with Spencer and Darwin, then reflected on the enormous expenses of the war.

• Roy returned to his empty home on Brown Street, cleaned up, and waited on the terrace until Moira arrived.
• Moira embraced Roy, and the two shared dinner and a quiet night together; she told him she wanted to go with him to the Pattington Plane after graduation.
• Moira left for Elf Academy the next morning while Roy continued sleeping.
• Darwin and Spencer visited Roy to trade for Black Magic Crystals, and Roy gave Spencer a box of crystals in exchange for fifty thousand Magic Crystal Stones, which went to Darwin as a deposit.
• Roy considered how the costs of the war had nearly overwhelmed him, then ate a simple brunch on the terrace.

Roy visited his Alchemy Workshop, then met Woods and Klayr aboard the Black Pearl to discuss the Dark Faceless One Legion’s advance on Pattington Plane and the need to secure supplies. The three friends agreed to support the war effort, and Klayr volunteered to arrange purchases of military supplies with their reserve funds.

• Roy saw that his Alchemy Workshop was thriving, with more than two hundred apprentices producing cheap potions through an assembly-line process.
• Woods noticed that Roy seemed different when he arrived at the workshop, then later joined Roy as they waited for Klayr after his concert.
• Klayr told Roy and Woods that Buenos Capital was alarmed by the crisis on Pattington Plane and that some elves had proposed abandoning it.
• Roy explained that the Dark Faceless One Legion had occupied the Western Sea and that the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion could not spare forces to turn the tide.
• Roy urged Woods and Klayr to maintain supplies for the war, and Klayr agreed to use their reserve funds to purchase and store military goods on Pattington Plane.

Roy completed a Floating Device deal and brought the equipment and Dwarven Artisans to Pattington Island, where Maggs discovered the ships’ dwarven history. Roy later met Christine on the beach, and they talked about the peaceful life she wanted and the surprises in his own.

• Roy said goodbye to Klayr and Woods, then comforted Moira and promised they would meet again after the term ended.
• Roy completed a deal with Darwin, loaded Floating Devices and thirty Dwarven Artisans onto a ship, and sent them to a Three-Masted Sailboat at Safe Harbor.
• Maggs inspected the dwarven-built ships and warned his fellow artisans that the Frozen Sea route would never remain unobstructed.
• Roy checked the repaired airship framework on Pattington Island and found Christine relaxing on a nearby beach.
• Christine told Roy she wished she could live peacefully on the island, while Roy said his life had taken an unexpected course but still brought surprises.

Roy inspected Sun Island Bay’s new gate and asked Atias and Adina whether the sirens could use Sand Worms to reinforce the walls. After returning to the Griffon Cavalry headquarters, he saw armored Siren Warriors and asked the Gray Dwarf artisans about their armor.

• Roy learned that Siren Chanters had built the gate’s statues with Sand Worms, whose sand hardened like reef stone.
• Roy asked Atias about using Sand Worms to strengthen the outer City Wall, and Adina said they were already reinforcing the entrance wall but could not take the worms far from seawater.
• Adina tried to seduce Roy, and Atias warned her that Jiezena might punish her when she returned.
• Roy saw the Siren Warriors training and noted their growing strength as he flew back over the wall and its Slaver prisoners.
• Roy returned to the Griffon Cavalry headquarters, told Kaka to notify him when Jiezena returned, and asked the Gray Dwarf artisans whether they had finished forging siren armor.

Roy tested the first Ring-Style Black Iron Armor made for sirens and sent the Gray Dwarf artisans to fix problems with its backward flexibility. After returning from the Outer Sea, Jiezena inspected the improved armor and proposed testing it against Faceless Warriors, then led Elliot and Alesia into the sea.

• Roy watched Elliot test the first siren armor in the sea and found that its spinal joints jammed during backward movement and a surfacing maneuver.
• Roy told the Gray Dwarf artisans to modify the armor, and they hurried back to the Magic Furnace with Elliot and Alesia.
• Miss Tiffany warned Roy that the armor could make the Gana Sea Clan's future war against the sirens more difficult and said there were several hundred sirens.
• Jiezena returned from the Outer Sea, rested on Sun Island for three days, and joined Roy's second performance test of the improved armor.
• Jiezena proposed testing the armor against Faceless Warriors and led Elliot and Alesia toward waters where she knew they could find them.

Jiezena led Miss Tiffany and a squad of sirens toward the deep sea, where they encountered and fought five Faceless Warriors. The sirens defeated the squad, demonstrating the Ring-Style Siren Armor’s value in close combat.

• Jiezena told Miss Tiffany that her contracted deep-sea Giant Beast was near death and had returned to the abyss to recover, and she had signed another Magic Contract with it.
• Miss Tiffany gave Jiezena a Mana Potion, whose effects made Jiezena surge forward through the water with her.
• Roy warned Commander Tiprado that the Faceless Legion could eventually transform and destroy the Pattington Plane, then ordered the Magic Airship to approach after a Water Ball signal rose from the sea.
• Jiezena’s squad hid in a Seaweed Thicket when five Faceless Warriors approached, and she sent armored Elliot and Alesia to ambush them.
• The Faceless Warriors wounded Elliot and entangled several unarmored sirens, but Jiezena and the others intervened and killed all five enemies.

Jiezena and Roy prepared a Siren Assault Team to strike Faceless units in the Western Sea, where the Faceless Legion’s spread of Darkness Qi threatened Pattington’s seas. After a month of preparation, Jiezena led the equipped team toward a temporary Faceless camp for its first operation.

• Jiezena reported that the Faceless Legion had killed many Deep Sea Giant Beasts and that Darkness Qi was spreading from the Great Sea Abyss into Pattington’s seas.
• Jiezena proposed forming a Siren Assault Team, and Tiffany suggested using Magic Airships to provide blessings and shelter during raids.
• Roy approved mass production of Ring-Style Siren Armor and rewarded the Gray Dwarf craftsmen who designed it.
• Over the next month, Jiezena and Tiffany mapped the Faceless Legion’s patrols, while Sun Island Bay received armor, modified airships, Priests, and Siren Chanters for the assault team.
• Jiezena led one thousand Siren Warriors and two Magic Airships toward a trench camp holding fewer than a thousand Faceless Warriors and no high-ranking fighters.

Roy joined the Priests in blessing the Siren Warriors, revealing that his Holy Light could replenish both his own power and theirs. The Sirens attacked the Faceless Warriors’ trench, where Jiezena faced the enemy regiment’s officer.

• Jiezena reported that the Faceless Warriors’ temporary camp lay in a trench ten nautical miles away, and Roy ordered the airships to slow down.
• Roy joined a group of Priests blessing the Siren Warriors and cast repeated spells, while the Holy Light Tree replenished the Priests’ depleted power.
• More than a thousand Siren Warriors entered the sea and engaged the Faceless Warriors near the trench.
• Jiezena and the Sirens drove into the trench, using their armor, blades, and songs to counter the Faceless Warriors.
• Jiezena pursued the Faceless Warrior officer, but it struck her with an undercurrent and attacked her with spiked tentacles.