Chapter Summaries

Roy returned to Padesto City as the Silver Pegasus Legion evacuated the Pattington Plane, and General Berkeley handed the city and its Half-Elf Security Guard Regiment over to him. Roy organized the city’s defenses and reassured its residents that his Trading Company would continue buying their Magic Herbs after the Teleportation Portal closed.

• General Berkeley delayed his departure until Roy returned, then gave him the keys to the military department and left Padesto with the Silver Moon Elf Officers.
• Roy met Berkeley, revealed that he had advanced to Second Rank, and accepted responsibility for Padesto City and its Tree of Life.
• Roy ordered Mulak to expand the Security Guard Regiment to twenty thousand warriors and divide Padesto City into ten security districts.
• Roy told Leishande to move into the military department, take charge of the legion’s warehouses, and prepare to supply the guards.
• Roy told the assembled Half-Elves that the Teleportation Portal would be dismantled and promised that his Trading Company would buy their Magic Herbs, prompting cheers.

Roy reassured the Half-Elves that their Magic Herb trade would continue despite the coming closure of the Teleportation Portal, then traveled to gather troops and supplies for a journey to the Endless Sea. After learning of heavy losses in a battle with the Faceless Legion, he ordered nine deployable Magic Airships prepared for a long journey.

• Roy left Leishande in charge of Padesto City and traveled by Magic Airship to Plateau City.
• Roy and Mulin inspected the Magic Herb Trading Company, where Roy ordered continued purchases and directed supervisors to stabilize the market and prevent price gouging.
• Roy assembled five thousand Half-Elf guards in Plateau City and traveled to Sun Island Bay.
• Kaka told Roy that Jiezena’s assault team had killed another Faceless Overlord in the Western Sea but lost six Magic Airships, Priests, crew members, and Siren warriors.
• Roy asked Commander Tiprado for deployable Magic Airships and ordered all nine prepared for a long journey, with Plateau City as the first stop.

Roy prepared to leave Sun Island Bay and lead a large force to occupy Volcano Island before the Silver Moon Elves closed the portal on Pattington Island. The fleet gathered at Plateau City and departed for Padesto City.

• Roy told Jerome that he planned to seize an island and build a new portal, and Jerome agreed to join him with Priests from the Holy Knight Order.
• Roy asked Jiezena to guard Sun Island Bay while he occupied Volcano Island; Jiezena arranged for a thousand Siren Warriors to join the expedition.
• Roy invited Moira, Sabrina, and Miss Tiffany to accompany him, while the Griffon Cavalry Regiment stayed behind.
• Roy assembled more than two thousand Half-Elf Guards, twelve hundred Dark Moon Elf assassins, Siren Warriors, and Priests at the North Coast dock and launched nine Magic Airships.
• At Plateau City, Roy’s fleet took aboard another five thousand Half-Elf Guards and combined with six waiting Magic Airships before heading to Padesto City.

Roy brought fifteen magic airships from Padesto City through the Teleportation Portal to Pattington Island, where he rallied the Half-Elves and continued toward the Empress Ivini Islands. He coordinated with Commander Malthus to meet near Kui Island and gave him a detailed route chart for the journey.

• Roy arrived in Padesto City and learned from Opeiya that the Teleportation Portal was busy receiving tens of thousands of Half-Elves each day.
• Roy calmed the crowded newcomers, warned them to keep the portal passage clear, and rallied them with news of the war and his expedition.
• Opeiya opened the passage to Pattington Island, and Roy led all fifteen magic airships through the Teleportation Portal.
• Roy saw Pattington Island crowded with Half-Elves, then took one airship to the Empress Ivini Islands while the other fourteen continued onward.
• Commander Malthus met Roy on Empress Island and said Earl Swynborne had sent the Second Silver Pegasus Knight Regiment to assist him.
• Roy set a meeting point five nautical miles east of Kui Island and gave Malthus a chart showing a route with safe resting islands.

Roy led a nighttime assault on Kui Island, coordinating the Sirens, Dark Moon Elf assassins, Priests, and Half-Elf warriors to disable the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ fleet and attack their fortress. The assassins infiltrated the island, seized five sentry posts, and began entering the fortress.

• Roy’s forces hid near Kui Island, and Jiezena’s scouts confirmed that the dock held dozens of Gray Dwarf ships and was heavily guarded.
• Roy ordered the operation to begin after dark, sending Jiezena’s Sirens to attack the ships while Captain Timothy led the Dark Moon Elf assassins and Priests ashore.
• The Sirens towed the Dark Moon Elves across the sea, and the raiders landed west of the dock before advancing into the island’s rainforest.
• The assassins silently killed the guards at five sentry posts, with the Priests’ blessings strengthening their combat abilities.
• Captain Timothy led the assassins to the mountain fortress and killed a watchman at its entrance as they began their attack.

Moira and Captain Timothy led the Dark Moon Elf Warriors into the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ underground city, where Moira killed a Second Rank Gray Dwarf after Captain Timothy was injured. Meanwhile, Roy’s forces attacked Kui Island’s dock, and Half-Elf and Siren Warriors pressed the Gray Dwarves from both sides.

• Captain Timothy led the Dark Moon Elf Warriors through the bunker and discovered the Gray Dwarf Bandits’ underground city, then ordered squads to scout its exits while the others attacked.
• Moira followed Captain Timothy through the underground streets and killed a muscular Second Rank Gray Dwarf by stabbing his skull with her Magic Serpent Short Sword.
• Captain Timothy drank a Life Potion after the Gray Dwarf injured his left arm, then warned the warriors to be cautious as they advanced.
• Roy ordered the Magic Airships toward Kui Island while Jerome and the priests blessed the Half-Elf guards and Roy told them to withdraw when the blessing expired.
• Jiezena’s Siren Warriors scuttled ships at the dock as Gray Dwarf Bandits tried to stop them, and Roy’s ships rammed into the harbor to land Half-Elf fighters.
• Sabrina’s battle dance strengthened the Half-Elf guards, who drove the Gray Dwarves back until Siren Warriors joined them in a pincer attack.

Roy’s forces seized the pier and drove the Gray Dwarf Bandits into the jungle and Underground City, while the Dark Moon Elf Warriors held the city’s exits through the night. By dawn, Roy had reinforced the siege and secured the harbor, then prepared to storm the Underground City.

• Sabrina and the Half-Elf guards routed the Gray Dwarf Bandits at the pier as Jiezena’s Siren Warriors emerged from the sea and their song slowed the fleeing dwarves.
• Roy ordered Jiezena to secure the pier and coastline, then joined Sabrina’s pursuit of Gray Dwarf Bandits fleeing into the jungle.
• Captain Timothy’s Dark Moon Elf Warriors withdrew from their raid, trapped the Gray Dwarf Bandits inside the Underground City, and held the entrance overnight while Priests treated their wounded.
• Roy arrived at the Underground City at dawn, relieved Captain Timothy’s exhausted warriors, and had the Half-Elves build a wall around the entrance.
• Roy returned to the harbor, where Jiezena had secured the pier and captured hundreds of Gray Dwarf Bandits, and prepared to attack the Underground City.

Harold survived the Elven Guards’ rout of the Gray Dwarves on Kui Island and was taken prisoner as the elves buried the dead and captured the dock. At the Underground City, Roy confronted a powerful Gray Dwarf Chieftain, and his third Silver Hammer was about to strike.

• Harold fled with the Gray Dwarves as the Elven Guards overwhelmed them, then surrendered with the survivors on the beach.
• The elves bound Harold and marched the prisoners to the dock, where Gray Dwarves dug pits for the dead and Harold realized their ships had been sunk.
• A Siren Warrior asked what to do with the prisoners, and a voice replied that they belonged to Roy and must be left alone.
• Roy defended the Underground City entrance as Gray Dwarf Bandits emerged in heavy armor, then faced their Chieftain when he charged and destroyed the makeshift walls.
• Captain Jerome blocked the Chieftain’s chain hammer while Captain Timothy tried to attack from the shadows, but the Chieftain forced them back.
• Roy summoned three Silver Hammers; the first stunned the Chieftain, the second dispelled the Dwarf King phantom’s hammer, and the third flew toward him.

Roy’s forces captured Gray Dwarf scout Doyle and learned that nearly thirty thousand Gray Dwarves remained in the Underground City. As Roy prepared to force the defenders out, Doyle offered a treasure in exchange for sparing his people.

• Roy’s Silver Hammers killed the Gray Dwarf chieftain, and the surviving bandits mourned him at the Underground City entrance.
• Doyle slipped out through a secret exit and tried to scout the docks, but Siren Warriors and Elven Guards captured him.
• Jiezena brought Doyle and other suspected Gray Dwarf leaders to Roy, whose interrogations revealed the Underground City held nearly thirty thousand residents and had no practical escape route for a large force.
• Roy confronted Doyle about the Gray Dwarves’ attack on the Empress Ivini Islands, then tied him to a tree where he could watch the Underground City entrance.
• As Gray Dwarves retrieved their dead while Half-Elves guarded the entrance, Doyle offered Roy a treasure in exchange for sparing his fellow Gray Dwarves.

Roy offered the Gray Dwarves of Kui Island a chance to surrender and serve fifteen years of penal labor, but Grand Elder Augustus rejected the terms. After the Silver Pegasus Knight Order arrived, Roy told Commander Malthus that he intended to make Kui Island a home for Half-Elves and stay to secure it.

• Roy offered Doyle the chance to have the Gray Dwarves surrender by the following night in exchange for transportation to the Pattington Plane and fifteen years of mine labor before release.
• Doyle reported the elven army’s strength and Roy’s terms to Grand Elder Augustus, who angrily rejected surrender and threw Doyle into a wall, knocking him unconscious.
• The Silver Pegasus Knight Order arrived on Kui Island and found the Gray Dwarves contained in a prisoner enclosure while Roy’s forces controlled the island.
• Roy told Commander Malthus that he planned to occupy Kui Island as a place for Half-Elves to settle and would not return to the Pattington Plane yet.

Roy negotiated the surrender of the Gray Dwarves on Kui Island and secured the island for the Mine Guard Regiment. After the Silver Pegasus Knight Order departed, he prepared to remain on Kui Island and promised Jiezena that the Sirens would soon return to Sun Island Bay.

• Doyle emerged from the Underground City with a white flag, and Walker reported that the Gray Dwarves had surrendered.
• Roy offered the Gray Dwarves service in the mines for 50,000 points, explained their treatment and conditions, and signed a Magic Contract with Grand Elder Augustus.
• Augustus handed Roy the Bronze Scepter, and the Gray Dwarves surrendered their weapons and moved to prisoner-of-war camps on the beach.
• The Mine Guard Regiment occupied Kui Island and collected spoils while salvaging ships, and Commander Malthus and the Silver Pegasus Knight Order departed.
• Roy told Jiezena that he would send two Magic Airships to return the Sirens to Sun Island Bay within the next few days.

Roy consolidated his control of Kui Island and heard from Doyle about Captain Johnny Relf’s lost treasure. Opeiya and Great Mage Greimus arrived on the island, where Opeiya saw the prisoners and sunken ships and recognized Roy’s abilities as a commander.

• Roy reviewed Kui Island’s defenses and resources, including the Gray Dwarf prisoners, cannons, airships, and underground forge.
• Doyle told Roy that pirate captain Johnny Relf had hidden a vast treasure near the islands, and Roy sent him back to the prisoner camp with a bottle of rum.
• Roy remembered Johnny Relf, and Tiffany froze when Roy asked whether she remembered him.
• Opeiya and Great Mage Greimus arrived through a Space-Time Rift and learned that Roy had captured Kui Island.
• Opeiya surveyed the prisoner camps and sunken ships, gaining a new appreciation for Roy’s command.

Roy worked with Great Mages Greimus and Ophelia and Magister Jonas to relocate the Pattington Plane’s Teleportation Portal to Kui Island. The portal was activated after a day and a night of work, while Roy agreed to pay its maintenance costs and considered Jonas’s advice for protecting the island from volcanic lava.

• Greimus arrived on Kui Island and told Roy that Ophelia had come to inspect the island and help relocate the portal.
• Ophelia opened a Space Fissure to fetch Magister Jonas and the portal, while Greimus explained that moving an existing portal would be much faster than building one from scratch.
• Roy showed Greimus the cleared site near the dock and described his plans for Kui Island, including workshops, shipbuilding, and bringing Dwarven artisans.
• Jonas warned Roy that the island’s volcano could threaten the portal, rejected his request for a Magic Shield, and advised him to build a lava diversion canal and embankments.
• Jonas and her students brought the portal components to the clearing, assembled the structure with help from Roy’s Magic Airships, and calibrated it.
• The portal activated after a day and a night of construction, and the exhausted mages cheered around it.

Roy returned to Padesto City after relocating and testing the Teleportation Portal, announcing that the Half-Elves would have a route back to the Elf Continent through New Island. He began organizing reinforcements and supplies for Kui Island and plans to transport its Gray Dwarf prisoners to Plateau City.

• Opeiya tested the newly assembled Teleportation Portal, and Great Mage Ophelia confirmed that it had opened successfully and required forty-five days of stability testing.
• Roy sent two Magic Airships through the portal with one thousand Siren Warriors, then returned to Padesto City with Great Mage Greimus.
• Roy announced to the Half-Elves that the Pattington Plane remained connected to the Elf Continent and that New Island would serve as their route back.
• Roy told Leishande that he needed guards and supplies for Kui Island and planned to move nearly forty thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners to the concentration camp outside Padesto City.
• Leishande agreed to send ten thousand Half-Elf guards and arrange supplies, while Roy ordered all available Magic Airships reserved to transport the prisoners.

Roy arranged transport for Gray Dwarf prisoners of war, coordinated troop movements between Padesto City and Kui Island, and planned the island’s defenses against Gray Dwarf bandits. The chapter ended with Roy asking the Magic Airship captains to volunteer to stay on Kui Island.

• Roy ordered the Air Port Dock to suspend ordinary transport and use arriving Magic Airships to carry Gray Dwarf prisoners of war to Padesto City.
• Greimus spoke with young Half-Elves at the dock and learned about their orchard work and their life in Padesto City.
• Roy reached Central Square, where more than five thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners had arrived, and ordered Adjutant Walker to move them to a temporary settlement and secure air transport.
• Roy returned to Kui Island with Half-Elf reinforcements, learned that a Gray Dwarf bandit ship had circled the island, and discussed defense plans with Tiffany and Captain Timothy.
• Roy assigned three of his eleven Magic Airships to remain on Kui Island and asked their captains who would volunteer to stay.

Roy strengthened Kui Island’s defenses against an expected Gray Dwarf Bandit counterattack and transferred forty thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners through its Teleportation Portal to Padesto City. The prisoners arrived safely, while Roy and Leishande monitored the city and kept watch for trouble on Kui Island.

• Roy left three Magic Airships and Captain Timothy on Kui Island, reinforced its garrison, and prepared defenses against a possible Gray Dwarf Bandit attack.
• Moira finished a reconnaissance shift in the rainforest and met Lia and Roy at the camp before Roy went to inspect the dock defenses.
• Roy and Great Mage Greimus oversaw the transfer of forty thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners through Kui Island’s Teleportation Portal to Padesto City.
• More than a hundred thousand Half-Elves watched as the prisoners marched through Forest Avenue, while Lia blended into the crowd and spoke with a Dark Moon Elf captain.
• Roy inspected Padesto City with Leishande and asked him to monitor Kui Island, while Leishande dealt with the strain of organizing guards and prisoner camps.

Roy transported forty thousand Gray Dwarf prisoners to Plateau City, using Apple Wine to calm them during the airship journey. After they arrived, he decided to expand the city beyond the crowded Small City and put Mulin in charge of planning the Second Ring of Plateau City.

• Roy loaded Gray Dwarf prisoners onto airships, where a Half-Elf crewman issued numbered tags and offered Apple Wine to those who cooperated.
• The Gray Dwarves lined up for wine and settled into the cabins as guards explained the rules, meals, and possible work in the Forging Workshop or mines.
• Roy and Great Mage Greimus watched as Captain Rodehart flew the airship to Plateau City with its prisoners.
• Mulin complained that Plateau City was overcrowded after Roy brought another large group of Gray Dwarves, adding to the Half-Elves already packed into the Small City.
• Roy drew a broad circle around Plateau City on a map and told Mulin to plan the streets and districts of its new Second Ring.

Mulin managed Plateau City’s expansion and its growing demands while Roy prepared to take stored Ring-Style Siren Armor to Sun Island Bay and assigned more duties around Kui Island. Newly arrived Gray Dwarf prisoners entered the established camp system, where older prisoners explained how work and rewards shaped their lives.

• Mulin discussed Plateau City’s second-ring expansion with Roy, including the need to extend its water, drainage, and street networks.
• Roy told Mulin he had moved the Teleportation Portal to Kui Island and planned to claim nearby waters from the Naga Sea Clan, risking war if negotiations failed.
• Mulin showed Roy eight thousand sets of Ring-Style Siren Armor, and Roy ordered the stockpile loaded onto Magic Airships for delivery to Sun Island Bay.
• Roy declined to meet Qian Ning about the Nikoba Mountain mines, told Mulin to expand mining to disperse the prisoners, and asked her to send Griffon Cavalry to Kui Island; Mulin pointed out that all eight hundred had been transferred away.
• New Gray Dwarf prisoners carried supplies from the dock to the camp and were settled among the existing prisoners.
• Older Gray Dwarves explained that prisoners could earn Work Points for goods and wine, and the newcomers began adjusting to camp life.

Roy explained Plateau City’s rapid construction and practical infrastructure to Great Mage Greimus while recounting his experiences on the Pattington Plane. The airships arrived at Sun Island Bay with the siren armor, where Roy learned a siren envoy had been waiting for him.

• Roy explained to Great Mage Greimus how Plateau City’s underground drainage and river-fed water system had been built affordably using resources from the Black Iron Mines.
• Roy recounted how slag bricks, black iron, and Highland Slaver prisoners helped build the city, which had taken only six years to develop.
• Roy told Great Mage Greimus that Commander Tiprado had later sent him to Sun Island Bay, where he encountered the sirens.
• Roy’s two Magic Airships arrived safely at Sun Island Bay and found eleven airships docked, indicating the Siren Assault Team was not fighting.
• A Griffon Cavalryman told Roy that a siren envoy had waited at the pier for nearly a week, and Roy saw the envoy there after docking.

Roy traded 7,500 sets of Ring-Style Siren Armor to Olifu for Black Magic Crystals and learned that the Dark Faceless One Legion was fighting the sirens near Star Sea Island. Jiezena asked him to support the battle, and Commander Dicas arrived to say the Holy Knight Order was ready to join.

• Olifu met Roy at the pier and exchanged Black Magic Crystals for 7,500 sets of Ring-Style Siren Armor, with Roy arranging delivery to Star Sea Island.
• Commander Tiprado returned to Sun Island Bay and reported that scouts from the Dark Faceless Ones had been intercepted before reaching the bay.
• Jiezena arrived and said she planned to search the deep sea for a passage, then asked Roy to support the sirens fighting near Star Sea Island.
• Roy hesitated because Commander Jerome's Priests were stranded in Padesto City, but Commander Dicas arrived and said the Holy Knight Order was ready to join the battle.