Chapter Summaries

Samael secretly restored the Leviathan Whale with its spirit core after making the Argo’s heroes work through the night to atone for their mistake. The grateful girl offered to guide the Argo through the Stormy Sea Region, and the heroes discovered she was a member of the Sea Royal Family.

• Samael made the seven-person landing party and their accomplices salvage whale remains and gather other components as penance for their actions toward the girl.
• Samael revealed that the whale’s spirit core was all he needed, destroyed the salvaged remains, and explained to Oryx that the heroes needed a lesson in humility.
• Samael used his blood and magic to reconstruct the Leviathan Whale, and the girl woke and joyfully reunited with her pet.
• The girl offered to guide Prince of Calydon and the Argo through the Stormy Sea Region in return for the feast.
• The heroes saw the girl’s fish tail and realized she was a member of the Sea Royal Family.

The Argo Heroes crossed the dangerous Stormy Sea Region with the little mermaid guiding them and Samael helping Jason navigate through storms and whirlpools. After escaping the worst of the storm, they were stopped by the mermaid, who warned that two towering Bronze Artifacts ahead could crush the ship.

• The little mermaid led the Argo into the Stormy Sea Region to shorten its voyage to Colchis, and Jason steered the ship through currents and tornadoes.
• A violent storm struck, and Jason ordered the crew to row and activate the defensive spell arrays while Samael assigned the heroes to protect the ship and navigator.
• Samael and the archers destroyed wind columns threatening the little mermaid, while Orion warned the crew about an approaching wave.
• Samael instructed Jason to sail along the whirlpool currents, and the Argo navigated through the whirlpool zone and emerged into calmer light.
• The little mermaid blocked the Argo and warned that crashing rocks lay ahead as Samael spotted two enormous Bronze Artifacts towering over the sea.

The Argo’s crew crossed the Clashing Rocks and the Eye of the Tidal Sea with help from the little mermaid, who guided them toward Colchis before returning home. She left to warn her people that something was wrong, while a faint pale-red stain spread through the sea.

• The little mermaid played her conch to open the Clashing Rocks, and the Argo followed her through the narrowing passage.
• Samael noticed the Clashing Rocks seemed to be made of metal and wondered why they had bronze gates and voice-activated mechanisms.
• The little mermaid assured the heroes that Poseidon’s authority had tamed the currents around the Eye of the Tidal Sea, and the Argo sailed safely past it.
• The little mermaid opened a passage through the sea mist and told the heroes they were near Colchis, then refused Prince of Calydon’s offer to visit a human city so she could report the trouble in the Stormy Sea Region.
• Samael said goodbye to the Leviathan Whale, and the little mermaid rode home without noticing a pale-red stain spreading through the sea.

After the Argo’s crew celebrated their safe passage through the dangerous waters, Samael examined a fish-scale sea chart left behind by a girl and suspected it showed a hidden region beyond the fog. The ship reached the Kingdom of Colchis, where Jason and the others would seek the Golden Fleece, while Samael realized the chart’s Atlantean connection could be significant.

• The heroes held a moonlit party aboard the Argo, with Jason fishing, the others hunting sea creatures, and Samael cooking.
• Samael brought Atalanta shaved ice and cake, teased her, and had his dessert taken in exchange for her promise to take good care of him later.
• Orion gave Samael a glowing fish-scale sea chart that a girl had accidentally left behind, and Samael suspected it mapped somewhere beyond the Stormy Sea Region’s fog.
• Samael discouraged Orion from turning back immediately and pointed out that Orpheus’s music could help them explore the chaotic region later.
• At dawn, the Argo reached the Kingdom of Colchis, and Samael recognized the chart’s connection to Atlantis after Orion explained that he knew Atlantean.

The Argo reached Colchis, where Jason and the heroes agreed to gather information before formally meeting the king in three days. While exploring the capital alone, Samael discovered a secluded fortune-telling tent protected by a magical barrier.

• Samael and Atalanta arrived at the meeting room, where the heroes teased them about their relationship and Samael explained that Atalanta had kept him awake with archery training and lessons.
• Samael questioned Jason’s plan to gather intelligence, and the heroes agreed to prepare carefully and visit the King of Colchis in three days.
• Jason led the heroes in prayers and sacrifices before the Argo entered the harbor, and the group dispersed into Colchis to trade their spoils and explore.
• Atalanta joined Caenis, Circe, and the other women, leaving Samael to wander the city’s market by himself.
• Samael found a remote fortune-telling tent with an invisible magical barrier and entered to find a cloaked fortune-teller dozing among unsettling objects.

Samael tried a witch diviner’s astrolabe, but his divination overloaded it and nearly caused a disaster. After he contained the blast, he recognized the diviner as the Princess of Colchis, a priestess from Hecate’s temple.

• A veiled diviner invited Samael to try her astrology-based divination and asked him to offer a small part of himself.
• Samael gave the diviner a strand of hair and asked whether the voyage would obtain the Golden Fleece smoothly.
• The divination overloaded the crystal ball, and the diviner discovered in her book that it was about to explode.
• Samael caught the cracking crystal ball and hurled it away, dispersing most of its force before it detonated.
• Samael comforted the diviner and recognized her as the Princess of Colchis and a priestess from Hecate’s temple.

Samael met Medea, the young princess of Colchis, and reflected on how Jason’s future betrayal would turn her into a vengeful Witch. After their fortune-telling encounter, Medea gave Samael a handmade lucky charm before he could leave.

• Samael recognized Medea as Hecate’s young priestess and recalled how Jason’s betrayal would eventually lead her to kill her brother, sons, and enemies.
• Medea apologized for collapsing against Samael, and he compensated her for the crystal ball he had broken.
• Medea returned most of Samael’s money, keeping only the one Golden Zeus owed for the failed fortune-telling.
• Medea offered Samael a lucky charm in exchange for a part of his body, and he gave her a lock of hair.
• Medea made Samael a vivid voodoo doll dressed in pink, leaving him staring at the charm in dismay.

Samael accepted Medea’s lucky charm and helped her hide from Hecate’s temple priests, who came to investigate a disturbance. After the priests left, he discovered Medea had fallen asleep inside the tent.

• Samael told Medea his name was Theseus and accepted her lucky charm.
• When Hecate’s temple priests approached, Medea pulled Samael into the divination tent and offered to distract them.
• Samael disguised himself as the fortune-teller and persuaded the old priestess that he was a harmless follower of Hecate.
• The old priestess chatted with Samael for half an hour before inviting him to seek work at the temple and leaving.
• Samael called for Medea to come out, then found her asleep beside the partition.

Samael advised Medea on making figurines before leaving her at Hecate’s temple, but a mysterious pink mist later drove her to seek him out. When Medea arrived at the heroes’ gathering and confessed that she wanted to stay by his side, Samael removed the mist and cleared her mind.

• Medea showed Samael her unfinished models, and he suggested building movable skeletons and covering them with clay and resin.
• Samael left Medea designs for a set of Seven Classes figurines, then warned her to stay in Hecate’s temple because Colchis might be dangerous.
• That night, Medea prayed for Theseus’s safety and asked to see him again, while a pink mist seeped into her body.
• The next morning, Medea appeared among the gathered heroes and told Samael she had thought about him all night and wanted to help him.
• Samael spotted the pink mist in Medea’s eyes and pulled it out, breaking its hold over her and leaving her bewildered.

Samael sent Circe to negotiate with her brother Aeetes over the Golden Fleece while Jason prepared to inspect Ares's sacred grove. Circe left the Argo, and Samael headed to Atalanta's room, pleased that the others would be occupied.

• Jason asked Samael whether he should pray to Hera or Hecate because he felt uneasy, and Samael pointed him toward Circe as a useful ally.
• Samael woke Circe and ordered her to visit the palace and learn what Aeetes would demand for the Golden Fleece.
• Circe accepted the task and left the Argo, thinking she could also see her niece Medea again.
• Jason realized Circe was Aeetes's sister and praised Athena, but Samael warned him not to expect much from their distant relationship.
• Samael advised Jason to inspect Ares's sacred grove, so Jason gathered powerful companions and went ashore to prepare for the possibility of stealing the fleece.
• After the crew dispersed, Samael walked toward Atalanta's room, pleased that he could spend private time with her.

Samael escorted little Medea back to Hecate’s temple, then secretly provoked a clash between Hecate and Aphrodite while Atalanta dragged him back to their work. That night, Jason reported that the Golden Fleece was tied to King Aeetes’s life, complicating their plan to obtain it.

• Medea clung to Samael in the marketplace and insisted she trusted him and Atalanta, despite Atalanta warning her not to trust people so easily.
• Samael and Atalanta urged Medea to stay inside Hecate’s temple because Colchis had increased its patrols, and Medea asked when she could see Samael again before returning inside.
• Aphrodite’s power clashed with Hecate’s divine force near the temple, and Samael realized his actions had made the goddesses blame each other.
• Atalanta pulled Samael away to question people in the eastern district, and he clasped her hand as they walked together.
• Jason told Samael that King Aeetes was unlikely to surrender the Golden Fleece because rumors claimed his life depended on it.

Jason faced the first trial for the Golden Fleece in Colchis, where King Aeetes expected him to die to the Divine Bulls. With protection from an ointment Theseus had given him, Jason survived their attacks and began to gain confidence.

• Jason arrived at the sacred field, where King Aeetes and a crowd gathered to watch him face the trial.
• Jason recalled how Aeetes had demanded that he plow the field with two Divine Bulls, sow dragon's teeth, defeat the warriors that grew from them, and then steal the Golden Fleece from a sleepless dragon.
• Jason searched the crowd for Theseus, whose advice had brought him to the trial, but could not find him.
• Aeetes's priests sounded the war horns and released the Divine Bulls, which charged at Jason amid flames and flying stones.
• Jason charged the bulls and found that Theseus's ointment made his skin bronze-like and protected him from their flames and blows.

Jason completed Aeetes’s first trial by making the Divine Bulls plow the sacred field, then using the Dragon Tooth Soldiers’ instinct to fight one another to weaken them before killing the last survivor. With Samael’s scheme securing Jason’s victory, the venomous dragon guarding the Golden Fleece remained as the next challenge.

• Jason subdued the Divine Bulls, yoked them to the bronze plow, and sowed the sacred field with the venomous dragon’s teeth.
• As the Dragon Tooth Soldiers emerged, Jason drank a potion and hid while stones provoked the soldiers into slaughtering one another.
• Jason emerged from concealment and killed the last surviving Dragon Tooth Soldier with his sword.
• Jason declared that he had completed Aeetes’s first task, and Samael argued that the king had to accept the victory.
• The chapter revealed that Samael had used Circe’s Magic Potion and the soldiers’ natural tendency to fight among themselves to make Jason’s plan work.
• With the trial complete, the venomous dragon guarding the Golden Fleece remained.

Jason and his companions seized the Golden Fleece and escaped Colchis aboard the Argo after Samael forced King of Colchis to honor his promise. The ship sailed home, while Jason asked Samael how he had persuaded Aeetes to let them go.

• Jason entered the sacred grove with two companions and soon emerged carrying the Golden Fleece after they subdued the dragon.
• Aeetes tried to stop them, but Heracles and the heroes’ preparations cornered him, and Samael gave him the Olive Branch while privately speaking to him.
• Aeetes publicly congratulated Jason and ordered his guards to escort the heroes, letting them depart with the Golden Fleece.
• Circe rejoined the group aboard the Argo, and Jason cut the mooring rope so they could leave Colchis.
• At sea, Samael explained that he had warned Aeetes about the consequences of breaking his oath and the threat posed by his sons, then said he had also left him a way out.

The Colchian Dragon caught up with the Argo, but Samael subdued it and learned it had fled Colchis after stealing from Ladon. As the dragon’s past misdeeds drew a fleet of Dragon Tooth Soldiers around the ship, Samael also discovered Circe had brought a purple-haired stowaway aboard.

• Samael recalled how he had persuaded the King of Colchis to abandon his claim to the Golden Fleece and avoid seeking revenge.
• The Colchian Dragon attacked the Argo, but Samael knocked it into the sea, and it shrank into a docile puppy beside him.
• The Colchian Dragon admitted it had stolen Ladon’s stash and fled to guard Ares’s sacred grove, then bargained with Samael over its hidden treasures.
• Hundreds of Colchian ships surrounded the Argo, and the Colchian Dragon confessed it had also taken gold and silverware from the sacred grove.
• A purple-haired stowaway emerged from Circe’s room, and Samael realized Circe had secretly brought someone aboard.

Samael protected Medea from being forced back to Colchis while its fleet attacked the Argo with weapons and Ares’s bloody power. As Jason ordered a retreat, the sea filled with enraged monsters and the Colchian forces grew stronger, leaving Samael to face Ares’s arrival.

• Medea saw her father and brother approaching with Colchis’s fleet, but Samael told her she did not have to return and made Circe responsible for keeping her safe.
• Samael warned Medea to hide aboard the Argo, and Circe took her into the cabin before she could meet her brother and nephew.
• Orion warned the Argo of an attack as Colchis’s arrows and magical ballista bolts struck its defenses, while the heroes stopped the bolts that broke through.
• Jason ordered the Argo to flee rather than fight Colchis, but crimson power transformed the sea into a battlefield of rampaging monsters and strengthened the Wyverns and Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
• Samael recognized the crimson aura as Bloody Dominion, the authority of the God of War, and realized Ares had come in person.

The heroes aboard the Argo fought off Colchis's monsters and attacks as Jason steered through the crimson sea. With thousands of evolved Dragon Tooth Soldiers descending on them, a golden shield awakened Medusa's gaze at the stern.

• Jason warned the crew of a giant demonic octopus, and Samael told him to drop the barrier and focus on steering.
• Heracles and the other heroes cut apart the octopus's tentacles while the Twin Swordsmen killed a sea serpent and Orpheus calmed nearby beasts.
• Samael assigned Caenis to protect Orpheus from Colchis's bolts, while Atalanta's arrow barrage destroyed most of the wyverns attacking the Argo.
• Diana and the heroes fought Dragon Tooth Soldiers, but thousands of their winged, evolved forms rose from the Colchian fleet and dived toward the ship.
• A golden shield landed at the stern, and Samael invoked Medusa's Gaze as its stone head opened its eyes.

Samael invoked Athena’s divine descent to confront Ares and protect the Argo, while Jason led the ship into a storm zone to escape Colchis’s fleet. The Argo left Samael behind amid the gods’ battle, and Atalanta trusted Diana’s reassurance that he would soon catch up.

• Samael’s Magic Formations turned the evolved Dragon Tooth Soldiers into stone, prompting the blond usurper aboard Colchis’s flagship to prepare the Sword of the God of War.
• As Ares’s attack threatened the Argo, Heracles, Atalanta, Caenis, the Prince of Calydon, and the Twin Swordsmen stepped forward to stand with Samael.
• Samael chanted Athena’s name and received her divine descent, then rode Pegasus to shatter Ares’s crimson attack and pierce the Sword of the God of War’s rings with his spear.
• Jason ordered the Argo to flee the gods’ battle, and the crew steered into a dangerous storm zone to shake off Colchis’s pursuers.
• Diana comforted the worried Atalanta and assured her that Samael would catch up, while Artemis privately enjoyed watching Atalanta’s trust in Athena.

Chapter Ten Summary: "Bonus Update Scheduled"

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter begins with a notice that an update is in progress.
• Users are encouraged to click the "Report Error" button to hasten the update.
• The system promises to fix issues within two minutes, but manual repair may take up to three days if automated repair fails.
• The editor explains that they may not always have a source to update from, asking readers for patience.
• The chapter ends with a call to share the book to increase readership, which supposedly speeds up updates.

Character Developments

• No significant character developments in this chapter as it's primarily a system message.

Significant Themes

• Patience and understanding: The editor asks readers to be patient while waiting for updates.
• Community involvement: Encouraging readers to share the book to increase readership and speed up updates.

Character Interactions

• None; this chapter is a system message with no character interactions.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The protagonist, Wang Er, takes his grandfather (Old Man) to the hospital for a check-up.
• They encounter various characters along the way, including a beggar, a group of children, and a woman with a sick child.
• Wang Er decides to take a day off from work to accompany his grandfather.

Character Developments

• Wang Er: Shows responsibility and kindness towards his grandfather, demonstrating his growth as a person.
• Old Man: Exhibits childlike curiosity and naivety, highlighting his vulnerability and dependence on Wang Er.

Significant Themes

• Family Responsibility: Wang Er's decision to prioritize his grandfather's health over work reflects the importance of family responsibility.
• Kindness and Compassion: Wang Er's actions towards others, such as giving money to the beggar and helping the woman with her sick child, underscore the theme of kindness and compassion.

Character Interactions

• Wang Er and Old Man: Their interactions reveal a deep bond and mutual understanding, with Wang Er patiently caring for his grandfather.
• Wang Er and Other Characters: Wang Er's interactions with strangers demonstrate his empathy and willingness to help others, regardless of their social status.