Chapter Summaries

Rayne rushed to Haitok and learned that Kongator’s civil war had ended after King Malek made peace with Duke Dans, leaving Emilith’s restoration forces facing a stronger, more alert enemy. Emilith prepared to invade Kongator, while Rayne uncovered the spy who had leaked information to Malek.

• Rayne traveled overnight to Haitok with Borchi, Igon, and Galadros, then met Emilith and her senior allies.
• Valrogan explained that Malek and Duke Dans had ended their civil war after Malek accepted compensation, and Rayne deduced that Malek had learned about Emilith’s restoration forces.
• Emilith decided to invade Kongator as soon as possible and said her fleet and supplies would be ready to depart the next day.
• Rayne said they needed to find the leak and identified Emilith’s gathered mercenaries as a likely source of information.
• Rayne and Dinglaji returned with a possessed middle-aged Ranger mercenary, whom Rayne named as the one who leaked the information.

Rayne and Emilith prepared to restore the Zhuogengbao Family’s rule in Kongator, uncovering Duke Dans’s role in the leak before sailing with their forces to seize Dragon Crystal Island. The fleet reached the island, and Rayne led the assault through a Portal.

• Valrogan exposed Gorman as a spy who sold Emilith’s identity to Duke Dans for three thousand Gold Shields, and Emilith deduced that Duke Dans had used the information to force Malk to withdraw.
• Emilith revealed her identity and rallied her allies at a final banquet before the forces prepared to depart for Kongator.
• Rayne found Emilith anxious about the campaign, comforted her, and respected her wish to rest rather than be intimate.
• Before dawn, Emilith’s mercenaries and Centaur allies boarded ten Steamships at a hidden pier and sailed across the Thousand Islands Sea toward Kongator.
• Emilith explained that their first objective was Dragon Crystal Island, her former domain and a key to Kongator’s maritime trade.
• As the fleet reached Dragon Crystal Island, Rayne opened a Portal and led the group into the attack.

Rayne and his allies launched a surprise assault on Dragon Crystal Castle, killing its defenders and securing the fortress. After the castle was cleared, Emilith arrived by ship with the Centaur army and saw Rayne waiting at the dock.

• Rayne emerged from a Portal outside Dragon Crystal Castle and attacked the guards before they could raise an effective defense.
• Astan and the three Dragons joined Rayne, while his five mirror images scattered through the castle and slaughtered its defenders.
• Rosby charged Rayne, but Rayne killed the Legendary Great Deer Warrior with a single hammer blow.
• Rayne, his mirror images, Astan, and the Dragons cleared the castle and checked its secret passage and dock for survivors.
• Emilith arrived aboard the first steamship with the Centaur army and saw Rayne at the dock.

Emilith reclaimed Dragon Crystal Island for the Zhuogengbao Family while Rayne set up a Teleportation Array in Dragon Crystal Castle. The array connected to Wezelan Floating City, bringing powerful wizards and Rayne's elite forces to the island as Emilith prepared to give the order.

• Rayne told Emilith that Rosby was dead and Dragon Crystal Island was under her control.
• Emilith revealed her dragon form to the island residents, secured their allegiance, and left to claim the two settlements.
• Rayne assembled and calibrated the Teleportation Array in Dragon Crystal Castle while Emilith sat on the Dragon Throne.
• Rayne activated the array and connected it to Wezelan Floating City, where Speakers Kleios and Kadeja arrived with wizards.
• Forty-eight Extreme Warriors and one hundred and fifty Gunwing Knights emerged through the Portal and formed up outside the castle hall.
• Rayne told Emilith that his people had arrived and asked her to give the order.

A Dragonkin-led force of Dragons, Wyverns, Wizerland Wizards, and flying knights advanced on Crab Harbor, prompting the Fisher Family to mobilize its defenses. Brinton Fisher sent the Sturgeon Warriors into the water as the attackers neared, while the Dragons approached the cannon towers.

• Four Dragons and a swarm of Wyverns flew toward Crab Harbor, causing panic among the dockworkers and residents of Barolsk City.
• Sturgeon Warriors activated the Rune Arrays on the watchtowers and prepared the water cannon towers to defend the port.
• Transcendents recognized the Count of Glamorgan and Wizerland Wizards among the approaching force, and the Sturgeon Warriors' confidence faltered.
• Brinton Fisher rallied the Sturgeon Warriors and learned that the approaching force also included a knight order racing across the bay on winged horses.
• Brinton ordered the Sturgeon Warriors into the water to intercept the knights while he remained by the cannon towers and watched the Dragons approach.

Rayne Augustus and Emilith Zhuogengbao’s army overwhelmed Crab Harbor and captured Brinton, then advanced on the Fisher Family’s castle. Emilith revealed her claim to Kongator and declared that nobles who refused to submit would not be allowed to exist.

• Rayne’s forces used Soul Guns to destroy Crab Harbor’s Water-Pressure Cannon Towers and break through its defenses.
• Brinton attacked the Golden Three-Headed Dragon, but a Legendary High Tier Arcanist froze his strike and bound him while an Elf Mage defeated the Sturgeon Warriors without killing them.
• The Gunwing Knights and Extreme Warriors routed the River Bay Legion, while Rayne opened a large Portal for five thousand Centaurs to enter Crab Harbor.
• Brinton recognized Emilith Zhuogengbao and Valrogan, and Emilith declared that she sought the people’s allegiance rather than the nobles’ support.
• Emilith ordered Brinton shackled as her army advanced through Barrosk City and reached the shielded Fisher Family castle.

Rayne and Emilith’s army reached Flowing Stream Fortress, where Duke Lives Fisher defended the castle behind a powerful water shield. After Rayne learned that Fisher was Oceanus’s Chosen One, Kleios gathered the wizards’ power and cast a Ninth Circle Meteor Burst, leaving the first meteor crashing into the shield.

• The army attacked Flowing Stream Fortress, but its Water Flow Shield and Water Pressure Turrets repelled the assault and killed more than twenty Centaurs.
• Emilith learned from Valrogan that Duke Lives Fisher intended to hold the castle, while Rayne recognized Fisher as Oceanus’s Chosen One.
• Emilith said the Dragon God had negotiated with the other gods to keep them from interfering in the mortal war, and she urged the army to spare Fisher’s life.
• Rayne asked whether the speakers could break the shield, and Kleios planned to destroy it while Speaker Kadeja cut off its river-water supply.
• Kleios used an Energy Gathering Rune Array to combine the power of thirty-two wizards and cast the Ninth Circle spell Meteor Burst.
• Four meteors descended on Flowing Stream Fortress, and the first struck the Water Flow Shield in a thunderous explosion.

Duke Fisher tried to protect Flowing Stream Fortress from the Wizard group’s Meteor Bursts, but Kadeja’s Stasis Field weakened the fortress’s Water Curtain Formation. Livs*Fisher charged out with the Blade of a Thousand Rivers to stop Kadeja, only to be intercepted by a powerful young Dragon Knight.

• The white-haired Wizard Kadeja used an Eighth Circle Stasis Field to slow the moat water, weakening the Water Curtain Formation as the High Elf’s Meteor Bursts battered Flowing Stream Fortress.
• Duke Fisher ordered fresh Sturgeon Warriors to reinforce the shield and Water Pressure Turrets to fire at Kadeja, but their attacks stalled inside the field.
• Duke Fisher recognized the enemy’s strength, ordered Aidem to defend the fortress and Berisi to take the family’s children to the northern underground water gate, then prepared to fight.
• Livs*Fisher summoned the Blade of a Thousand Rivers, strengthened himself with Divine Arts, and rushed through the shield toward Kadeja.
• A young Dragon Knight intercepted Livs*Fisher with Dragon Roar and lightning, and his True Word Edict failed to stop the Dragon Knight’s warhammer strike.

Rayne fought Duke Fisher’s Water Giant while Kadeja and Kleios continued their spellcasting. Rayne seized Duke Fisher and Kleios’s Meteor Burst destroyed Flowing Stream Fortress’s barrier, leaving the fortress exposed.

• Duke Fisher struck Rayne with the Blade of a Thousand Rivers, but Rayne overpowered him and used lightning to reveal and wound him underwater.
• Duke Fisher transformed into a Water Giant and attacked Rayne, who protected Kadeja from the giant’s blows and repeatedly shattered its body.
• Rayne summoned five Mirror Images and coordinated temporal and lightning attacks that exhausted Duke Fisher’s Soul Power.
• Rayne stunned the Water Giant, seized Duke Fisher’s true body, and pulled him out of the moat and Stasis Field.
• Kleios completed Meteor Burst, and the fourth meteor destroyed the Water Curtain Barrier, knocking out the Sturgeon Warriors who maintained it.

Rayne’s forces captured Flowing Stream Fortress, and Emilith tried to halt the killing before it provoked Oceanus. Rayne forced the defeated Duke Fisher to choose between surrender and the destruction of his family and city, and Lives Fisher finally ordered the Sturgeon Warriors to lay down their weapons.

• Sikarius led the Extreme Warriors across Kleios’s frozen trench while the Gunwing Knights and wizards broke through Flowing Stream Fortress’s defenses.
• The defenders’ counterattacks failed under the concentrated gunfire, and the Extreme Warriors, Gunwing Knights, and Centaur Legion overwhelmed the fortress.
• Kaijade warned Emilith not to anger Oceanus, so she called on the defenders to surrender, but the fighting continued.
• Rayne took the unconscious Duke Fisher to the fortress’s highest tower and revived him as the battle raged below.
• Rayne threatened Duke Fisher with the destruction of Barolsk and the Fisher Family, prompting Lives Fisher to order the Sturgeon Warriors to surrender.

Rayne forced Duke Fisher to surrender at Flowing Stream Fortress, and Duke Fisher swore allegiance to Emilith and the Zhuogengbao Family. Emilith secured his ransom, public support, and troops for the campaign against Malk, leaving the Fisher Family committed to restoring the Dragonkin dynasty.

• Duke Fisher ordered his warriors to lay down their weapons, ending the battle as Rayne's forces took prisoners.
• Rayne identified himself to Duke Fisher and explained that he and the Wizerland Wizards had accepted Emilith's employment in their personal capacities.
• Duke Fisher swore allegiance to Emilith, then followed Rayne through an Any Door to White River Hall and formally greeted her as his liege.
• Emilith demanded Five Million Gold Dragons for the prisoners and ordered Duke Fisher to summon his vassals for a public enfeoffment ceremony.
• Emilith required Duke Fisher to send at least half his forces, along with Aidem and Brinton, to fight Malk, and Duke Fisher pledged the River Bay Legion to her cause.

Duke Fisher weighed the Fisher Family’s losses against the chance to rise during the Dragonkin restoration war, then gathered his vassals to pledge support to Emilith. When Viscount Wadefley refused to attend, Rayne opened a Portal to Cold River City and sent Extreme Warriors through to attack.

• Duke Fisher reviewed the River Bay Legion’s heavy casualties and Berisi argued that the Zhuogengbao Dynasty’s restoration war offered the Fisher Family a chance to climb above its rivals.
• Duke Fisher told his vassals to support Emilith’s campaign against Malk, and the lords pledged troops to her cause.
• Duke Fisher learned that Viscount Wadefley had refused his summons and proceeded with Emilith’s ceremony without him.
• Rayne challenged Duke Fisher over the absent viscount, opened a Portal to Cold River City, and sent two squads of Extreme Warriors through.
• The Portal closed as gunfire and screams sounded from Cold River City, leaving Duke Fisher and the lords to wait in silence.

Rayne forced Duke Fisher to publicly commit to Emilith by broadcasting her investiture ceremony across Barrosk City. Duke Fisher swore allegiance to Queen Emilith and pledged to lead a campaign against Malk Lauberdil to restore the Zhuogengbao Dynasty.

• Rayne summoned the Extreme Warriors, who returned with the captured Viscount Wadefley after destroying his forces in Cold River City.
• Duke Fisher healed Wadefley enough to question him, then stripped him of his title and fief and executed him for treason.
• Kadeja and Kleios used magic to broadcast the ceremony and its sounds across Barrosk City, making the duke and his vassals' actions public.
• Duke Fisher accepted the broadcast and introduced Emilith as Kongator's legitimate heir while her three Dragons revealed themselves above Flowing Stream Fortress.
• Duke Fisher denounced Malk Lauberdil, pledged to lead a punitive expedition against him, and knelt with the lords to greet Emilith as Queen.

Emilith prepared to reclaim Kongator with Duke Fisher’s forces, promising an open campaign and naming Wind Fury Fortress as their next target. Just before the army’s departure, Pedro Morsi arrived and revealed that the Morsi Family supported Emilith, while Rayne noticed that Pedro’s companions carried Dragon-like auras.

• After the ceremony, Duke Fisher reported that his forces needed time to muster, and Emilith gave him seven days to gather the army.
• Rayne explained that Emilith intended to defeat Malk openly, while Emilith declared that they would gain support as they reclaimed Kongator and named Wind Fury Fortress as their next target.
• Duke Fisher and Valrogan organized more than ten thousand troops at Flowing Stream Fortress.
• Valrogan told Emilith that an important visitor had arrived, and Emilith ordered him brought in.
• Pedro Morsi entered the council chamber with three companions and greeted Emilith as queen; Rayne recognized Pedro as a Legendary Serpent Speaker and sensed Dragon-like auras from the others.

Rayne learned that Emilith had secretly built a powerful Scale-Warden Blood Guard with the Morsi Family’s help, and Prince Pedro revealed that the Morsi Family planned to support her campaign against the Lauberdier Family. The chapter ended with Greyworm questioning the Extreme Legion’s strength and Rayne offering a match before Emilith stopped him.

• Rayne recognized Emilith’s three guards as Scale-Warden Blood Guard and realized Astan had once belonged to their ranks.
• Emilith welcomed Prince Pedro Morsi, who confirmed that the Morsi Family had secretly prepared its Viper Legion and royal-capital Serpent Speakers to support her restoration.
• Pedro asked Emilith to help find the person who murdered his sister Eleanor and her children so he could avenge them.
• Emilith introduced Greyworm, Dario, and Minasan to Rayne and revealed that her Scale Guard numbered more than two hundred, including three Legendaries.
• Greyworm challenged Rayne’s claim that the Extreme Legion surpassed the Scale Guard, and Rayne offered a match until Emilith intervened.

Emilith’s forces planned an attack on Wind Fury Fortress, while Dinglaji asked to return to Lion Rock City and seek Duke Dans’s neutrality. Rayne agreed to accompany him, and they reached the city after flying across the Dans Duchy.

• Valrogan outlined the route to Wind Fury Fortress, and Rayne promised the Wizerland Wizards would handle its Storm Rune Array.
• Dinglaji proposed returning to Lion Rock City to persuade the Dans Family not to support Malk, and Rayne advised that their neutrality would be enough.
• Emilith reluctantly agreed to give the Dans Family a chance, and Rayne offered to protect Dinglaji on the journey.
• Rayne used a Portal with Borchi, then had Borchi carry him and Dinglaji by air across the Morse Duchy into the Dans Duchy.
• Rayne and Dinglaji reached Lion Rock City after nightfall.

Rayne escorted Dinglaji back to Lion Rock City and accompanied him to the Dans Family castle, where Dinglaji reunited with his elder brother, Coster. As Coster noticed Rayne and sensed a formidable opponent, he asked Dinglaji who he was.

• Rayne, Borchi, and Dinglaji entered Lion Rock City through its gates without incident.
• Dinglaji told Rayne that the Dans Family had expelled him after he was falsely accused of raping his father's lover, who later disappeared.
• Dinglaji chose to approach the Dans Family castle despite his distress, and the Lionheart Knights challenged him at the gate.
• Coster Dans struck a young knight for insulting Dinglaji, then embraced his returning younger brother.
• Coster sensed danger from Rayne, released Dinglaji, and asked who Rayne was.

Dinglaji returned to Lion Rock City with Rayne and Borchi to negotiate with the Dans Family on behalf of Emilith, but his sister Lina’s insults triggered a violent confrontation. As Dinglaji chased Lina from the reception room, Rayne sent Borchi after them to stop either sibling from dying.

• Coster welcomed Dinglaji, Rayne, and Borchi to Golden Castle and learned that Dinglaji had pledged himself to Emilith.
• Dinglaji waited for Duke Dans, then threatened consequences when his father failed to appear for negotiations.
• Lina Dans arrived, insulted Dinglaji, and provoked him into using Demon Possession to attack her.
• Coster blocked Dinglaji with his Golden Lion Force Wall, but Dinglaji disrupted Coster’s Soul Power and nearly struck Lina before she escaped.
• Rayne struck Coster with a lightning-charged battle hammer, then ordered Borchi to protect Dinglaji while preventing him from killing Lina.

Rayne Augustus defeated Coster and stopped the Lionheart Knights from continuing their attack while Borchi and Dinglaji fought outside. Coster learned Rayne's identity, and the chapter ended as Dinglaji treated him and an elderly Lionheart Knight confronted Dinglaji over his return.

• Coster charged Rayne to reach Lina, but Rayne blocked him and shattered his sword before repeatedly battering him with a warhammer.
• Rayne disabled the Lionheart Knights who rushed in, and Coster ordered the survivors to withdraw.
• Coster recognized Rayne as the Wizerland councilor who had defeated Duke Fisher at Flowing Stream Fortress.
• Rayne warned Coster not to move and told him to order the fighters outside to stop; Coster sent the Lionheart Knights to withdraw.
• Borchi returned carrying the barely breathing Lina, and Dinglaji dispelled his demon possession and began treating Coster.
• An elderly Lionheart Knight entered, saw Coster and Lina injured, and accused Dinglaji of being a disaster for returning.

Dinglaji negotiated with Duke Dans on behalf of Emilith, but Duke Dans rejected his claims and considered Malk’s offer. Rayne threatened the Dans Family and attacked Coster, forcing Duke Dans to pledge the family’s allegiance.

• Duke Dans blamed Dinglaji for the family’s misfortunes, and Rayne intervened when their confrontation escalated.
• Dinglaji demanded that the Dans Family pledge allegiance to Emilith, but Duke Dans challenged his claim of divine support and revealed that Malk’s envoy had made an offer.
• Rayne confronted Duke Dans after he denied choosing a side, and he threatened to replace the family leadership if the Dans refused to submit.
• Rayne restrained everyone in the parlor and struck Coster, stopping just short of killing him.
• Duke Dans lowered his head and agreed to pledge the Dans Family’s allegiance.