Chapter Summaries

Ovakain fled after declaring that he would advance to Legendary and destroy Punk and Benraji, leaving them trapped by the Soul Mark he had placed on Punk. As Benraji suggested retreating to Thought of Truth, Punk began devising a plan to kill Ovakain before the dragon recovered.

• Ovakain declared the battle his but vowed to return as a Legendary and destroy Punk and Benraji, then flew away.
• Punk and Benraji, nearly out of mana, watched Ovakain escape and recognized the danger of his possible advancement.
• Punk realized Ovakain’s Soul Mark could track him and would take decades to remove, while Ovakain could recover in months.
• Benraji suggested returning to Thought of Truth and waiting to see whether Ovakain failed his advancement, but Punk rejected his passive approach.
• Punk noticed the Sleeping Dragon volcano and began considering how to kill Ovakain before his wounds healed.

After the battle between Master Level experts devastated the border plateau, Lord Carot and the Maple Leaf Kingdom’s remaining guards approached the silent battlefield, fearing that nearly all their people had been lost. Princess Livachi asked whether Uncle Zordas and Grandpa Nokani had won, and Lord Carot led the survivors onward to meet the kingdom’s heroes or face their fate.

• The Maple Leaf Kingdom’s guards saw that the border plateau had been transformed into a vast, scorched basin by the battle.
• Lord Carot recognized that the five million hungry people and the Dragon Roar Kingdom’s hundred thousand Mad Dragon Legion soldiers had vanished, leaving the Maple Leaf Kingdom’s survival in doubt.
• Princess Livachi asked Lord Carot whether Uncle Zordas and Grandpa Nokani had won and whether the war was over.
• Lord Carot reminded Livachi that she was now Queen, but she remained uninterested in royal duties and returned to her carriage.
• Lord Carot ordered the guards to march into the battlefield to welcome the kingdom’s heroes or face their fate.

Princess Livachi reached Benraji on the battlefield and learned that the old King had died, then Punk bluntly confirmed that Johnny Zordas was dead as well. As Livachi and the Imperial Guards grieved, Punk ignored them and focused on the distant Sleeping Dragon Volcano.

• Princess Livachi rushed onto the dangerous battlefield, and Benraji protected her with Archmage Armor and comforted her as she mourned the old King's death.
• Benraji made Livachi a small crown after learning she had become Queen of the Maple Leaf Kingdom.
• An old count and an officer asked Benraji about Johnny Zordas, whose survival mattered greatly to the kingdom.
• Punk arrived and told Livachi and the Imperial Guards that Johnny Zordas was dead.
• Benraji rebuked Punk as Livachi and the Imperial Guards were overcome with grief, but Punk ignored them and watched the Sleeping Dragon Volcano.

Punk planned to trigger the Sleeping Dragon volcano to lure Ovakain into a trap and kill him, relying on the Haitzita Magic Casket to conceal the scheme. Benraji stood in his way, having become determined to protect the children and changed his alignment to Lawful Good.

• Punk confirmed that the Sleeping Dragon volcano was dormant but could be made to erupt, and planned to use its destruction to draw out the wounded Ovakain.
• Punk trusted the Haitzita Magic Casket's Prophetic Silence to hide his plan from divinations and calculated that he had an eighty percent chance of killing Ovakain inside the volcano.
• Punk confronted Benraji and urged him to return to the Maple Leaf Kingdom and help its new Queen govern.
• Benraji refused to back down, explaining that his first adventure had changed him and that he could no longer ignore children suffering.
• Punk detected that Benraji's alignment had changed from Lawful Neutral to Lawful Good and regarded him as a dangerous obstacle.

Mika used an enchantment formation to strengthen his and Anya’s souls against the bizarre energy eroding them, then managed to awaken Anya’s consciousness. As Anya faced her despair in her Mind Space, Mika’s call rekindled her hope.

• Mika realized the bizarre energy was aimlessly wasting its limited power and used his enchantment formation to help their souls endure its erosion.
• Mika reached Anya, comforted her, and poured his remaining magic power into the formation to nourish her soul.
• The formation awakened Anya’s consciousness, and Mika urged her to focus on something happy rather than surrender to negative emotions.
• In her Mind Space, Anya relived the pain of her childhood and despaired that everyone was using her.
• Mika’s voice reached Anya, and she recognized him as hope began to return.

Princess Livachi realized that the Maple Leaf Kingdom had fallen and that its nobles planned to send her abroad. Benraji left her behind and flew toward the distant volcano, determined to defend his convictions.

• Livachi played with Benraji's magically created firebird and worried that she was about to be sold to a foreign country.
• Benraji told Livachi about a prosperous country beyond the Hoss Mountains where she could be sent.
• Livachi confronted Benraji, recognizing that the Maple Leaf Kingdom had fallen and that she might never return after leaving.
• Benraji explained that her loyal nobles would take her abroad in exchange for the kingdom's territory, then left Livachi alone.
• Benraji flew toward the volcano, resolving to risk everything to protect his convictions.

Punk prepared to trigger Sleeping Dragon Volcano to destroy the Maple Leaf Kingdom, but Benraji confronted him to protect Little Princess Livachi’s last remaining wealth. Punk vanished with a Mirror Image Phantom spell and began their fight.

• Punk showed Benraji a fire-element crystal sphere designed to gather energy without safety runes and explained that he intended to detonate the volcano.
• Benraji warned that the eruption would devastate nearby kingdoms and that Thought of Truth would investigate, but Punk insisted no one could trace him except Benraji.
• Benraji said he was standing against Punk to protect Little Princess Livachi from losing her status and being sold into slavery.
• Punk lamented that they had to fight before facing Ovakain, then vanished using the Master Level Abjuration Spell, Mirror Image Phantom.

Punk finished preparing the Sleeping Dragon volcano while Benraji rushed to confront him, then began their battle by using Benraji’s misjudgment to gain the advantage. The chapter ended with Punk’s compressed Chaos Mist striking from behind as Benraji turned to face him.

• Punk completed the energy inscriptions needed for his volcano plan and decided to deal with Benraji before luring Ovakain.
• Benraji realized Punk had vanished and cast an Explosive Fireball at the sphere of fire elemental crystals.
• A Fire Elemental Protection Wall blocked Benraji’s attack and protected the crystal sphere.
• Punk cast a mana-compressed Chaos Mist at Benraji from behind and mocked him for failing to use metamagic or retreat.

Punk used Mana Compression to trap Benraji in Chaos Mist and bait him into unleashing a powerful Evocation spell. He then attacked with a coordinated pincer of Kinetic Cones, forcing Benraji to abandon his escape spell and reveal his trump card.

• Punk strengthened Chaos Mist with Mana Compression, disrupting Benraji’s senses and Divination Spells.
• Benraji panicked inside the mist and cast Explosive Flame Shockwave, burning it away and melting the surrounding battlefield.
• Punk revealed that he had used Chaos Mist to bait Benraji into casting, then attacked with two Kinetic Cones using Dual Casting and Any Door.
• Benraji abandoned his half-built Flame Charge and activated an old scroll and a crystalline necklace as his trump card.

Benraji used two defensive magic items to survive Punk’s Kinetic Cone attacks and began preparing a counterattack. Punk emerged through a second Any Door and killed Benraji from behind, then took the items from his severed hand.

• Benraji used Water Shield and a Steel Wall scroll to block Punk’s Kinetic Cone attacks.
• Benraji concluded Punk could not immediately cast another attack and began preparing Flame Charge.
• Punk emerged through a second Any Door behind Benraji and stabbed him through the heart with Sith’s Calm.
• Punk severed Benraji’s right hand and began collecting the storage ring and bracelet from it.

Mika rescued Anya from the darkness consuming her soul, then gave her a Mental Fortification Potion and comforted her as she recovered. Anya left safely, while Mika collapsed from the cost of saving her and found his soul badly wounded.

• Anya heard Mika's voice and fought through the darkness until she regained consciousness.
• Mika held Anya as she woke and gave her a Mental Fortification Potion to protect her soul.
• Anya drank the potion, accepted a sugar cube from Mika, and thanked him before leaving through the magic door.
• Mika collapsed in the laboratory and began meditating to restore his mana and examine his soul wounds.
• Mika realized his foundation was severely damaged, his magic potions were gone, and he had provoked master level powerhouses.

After killing Benraji, Punk found little useful loot and prepared to face Ovakain, knowing their fight could end only with one of them dead. At the same time, Livachi accepted the nobles’ plan to merge the Maple Leaf Kingdom into Mobius, grieving the disappearance of her fire elemental bird.

• Punk searched Benraji’s storage rings but found only a nearly useless magic necklace and worthless possessions.
• Punk resolved to confront Ovakain, whose Soul Mark had made their conflict unavoidable.
• Maple Leaf Kingdom’s nobles proposed surrendering their independence, recognizing Dragon Roar’s occupied lands, and arranging Livachi’s marriage to Mobius’s Third Prince.
• Livachi agreed to the nobles’ proposal after realizing that her fire elemental bird’s ashes meant it was gone.
• Livachi shed a silent tear while the nobles celebrated and Kakarot sat quietly.

After the Maple Leaf Kingdom merged with the Mobius Kingdom, Wood and his fellow miners celebrated the promise of better lives until Sleeping Dragon Volcano erupted and rained deadly ore meteors across Maple Blossom City. As the city burned, Livachi refused to flee the palace and was buried beneath a falling boulder.

• Wood's coworker told him that the Mobius Kingdom had reduced taxes on raw Crimson Jasper, and they discussed mining enough ore to win Miss Deni's father's approval.
• A huge Crimson Jasper boulder fell from the sky and crushed Wood's coworker.
• A crimson cloud spread from Sleeping Dragon Volcano, and flaming meteors killed miners and set Maple Blossom City ablaze.
• Old Count Kakarot urged Livachi to evacuate to his basement, but she refused and reflected on her impending marriage and the ashes in her hand.
• A boulder as large as a house struck the temporary palace, engulfing Livachi in flames.

Punk prepared Sleeping Dragon Volcano to erupt and lured the wounded Ovakain to the site. As Ovakain attacked the Fire Element Crystal Sphere, Punk activated a shield spell to protect his plan.

• Punk sealed Sleeping Dragon Volcano’s secondary lava channels and used the runes to suppress its fire elements, causing pressure and heat to build in the main conduit.
• Punk waited for Ovakain, expecting the black dragon to investigate the volcano’s abnormal elemental fluctuations.
• Ovakain flew toward Sleeping Dragon Volcano and saw Punk beside the Fire Element Crystal Sphere.
• Punk sensed that Ovakain’s body had healed but his soul remained damaged, leaving him with less than half his strength.
• Ovakain unleashed Dragon Breath at Punk and the sphere, and Punk activated Walker Yin’s Improved Ruby Shield from his Haitzita Magic Casket.

Punk accelerated the Fire Element Crystal Sphere through the Any Door toward Sleeping Dragon Volcano, forcing Ovakain to use his Legendary spell Flash to try to stop the eruption. Ovakain appeared beside Punk and the sphere, determined to defend the Dragon Roar Kingdom, as the two faced off at the volcano’s brink.

• Ovakain dodged his reflected Corrosive Dragon Breath and revealed that he had achieved Breaking the Cage.
• Punk judged Ovakain a growing threat and continued with his plan to trigger a disaster at Sleeping Dragon Volcano.
• Punk used two Kinetic Propulsions to send the Fire Element Crystal Sphere rapidly through the Any Door toward the volcano’s main lava conduit.
• Ovakain used his Legendary spell Flash to teleport beside Punk and the sphere.
• Ovakain bit toward Punk and the sphere, declaring that he would not let anyone violate the Dragon Roar Kingdom.

Punk trapped Ovakain with a Master Level Enchantment Spell just as the black dragon tried to destroy the Fire Element Crystal Sphere. Ovakain remained immobilized while the sphere entered the Any Door connected to the lava conduit, and Punk declared his victory.

• Ovakain used Blink to reach the Fire Element Crystal Sphere and tried to crush it before it passed through the Any Door.
• Punk activated Peter Pan's Ultra-High-Pressure Kinetic Confinement Array and immobilized Ovakain a millimeter from the sphere.
• Ovakain struggled with all his strength and magic but could not break free of the violet array.
• Punk explained that he had forced Ovakain to approach the trap by detonating the volcano and driving him toward the sphere.
• The Fire Element Crystal Sphere entered the Any Door while Ovakain remained trapped, and Punk told him he had lost.

Punk triggered Sleeping Dragon Volcano’s eruption to kill Ovakain, unleashing a firestorm that threatened to engulf the Hoss Mountains. Ovakain’s defenses failed under the elemental torrent, but his Legendary Necklace calmed the flames as he lost consciousness and sank into childhood memories.

• Punk’s fire elemental crystal sphere ignited the lava conduit, and he fled as Sleeping Dragon Volcano erupted.
• The eruption destroyed the crater and sent scorching ash across the Hoss Mountains, threatening creatures and kingdoms throughout the region.
• Punk focused on Ovakain, who remained trapped near the crater and took the eruption’s elemental torrent head-on.
• Ovakain’s magical protections shattered, and fire elements burned through his body and soul.
• Ovakain’s Legendary Necklace radiated pale-blue light that calmed the fire elements and slowed their reactions.
• Overwhelmed by pain, Ovakain’s consciousness sank into vivid memories of his childhood.

Ovakain remembered his childhood in the half-dragon tribe, where an old priest raised him to be kind and taught him magic. After the priest died and entrusted him with his dream, Ovakain vowed to protect his paradise from anyone who threatened it.

• A kind half-dragon priest rescued Ovakain’s abandoned egg, named him “kind dragon,” and raised him as family.
• The old priest taught Ovakain magic from his extensive library, helping him become a spellcaster despite his unruly nature.
• Ovakain cherished his peaceful life among the half-dragons in the swamp.
• The old priest died at age eight hundred and seventy-six, asking Ovakain to carry on his dream of freeing the half-dragons from their bloodline’s curse.
• Ovakain completed Breaking the Cage and vowed to punish those who violated his paradise.

Ovakain survived the eruption of Sleeping Dragon Volcano but discovered that the Dragon Roar Kingdom and the Hoss Mountains had been devastated, so he fled south to recover and seek revenge on Sai'an. Punk failed to catch him, but marked him with a spell as their pursuit began.

• Ovakain emerged from the crater alive, protected by the Legendary Equipment necklace around his neck.
• Ovakain sensed that the Hoss Mountains and the Dragon Roar Kingdom had been burned into a lifeless wasteland and wept over their destruction.
• Ovakain swore revenge on Sai'an and fled south to heal his wounds and reach the Legendary Level.
• Punk realized Ovakain had survived because of his necklace and pursued him, but lacked the mana to catch up.
• Punk activated the Any Doors in his robe and cast Soul Mark on Ovakain as he flew beyond the horizon.

After Ovakain escaped, Punk marked the wounded dragon and prepared to pursue him, but first decided to retrieve a valuable eyeball from Anya at the Thought of Truth branch. After recovering some mana and reaching Level eighteen, Punk left Sleeping Dragon Volcano to act before Ovakain and the approaching investigators got farther away.

• Punk sensed that his Soul Mark would let him track Ovakain as the dragon fled south through the Hoss Mountains, and resolved to continue hunting him.
• Punk decided to return to Thought of Truth, take the strange eyeball from Anya, and avoid the investigation team heading toward the Hoss Mountains.
• Punk restored his mana while roasting and eating Rock Shrimp in the lava lake.
• Punk discovered that he had advanced to Level eighteen and felt more confident about facing Ovakain.
• Punk cast Kinetic Propulsion and left Sleeping Dragon Volcano for the Thought of Truth branch.