Chapter Summaries

Rayne forced Duke Dans to publicly swear the Dans Family’s allegiance to the Dragonkin, then heard the duke’s offer to pay Wizerland’s Wizards to support his claim to the throne. Rayne rejected the pitch and demanded ten million gold dragons before dawn, or he would tear down Golden Castle.

• Rayne ordered Duke Dans to kill King Malk’s envoy and publicly declare the Dans Family’s allegiance to the Dragonkin, while Borchi went with him to ensure he obeyed.
• Dinglaji healed Coster, and Coster treated Lina, who woke frightened and injured after Rayne’s confrontation.
• Duke Dans returned with the envoy’s head, announced the family’s allegiance, and called up the feudal lords’ armies to march against Malk.
• Duke Dans privately asked Rayne to persuade Emilith not to punish the Dans Family for its role in the succession war, then offered to pay the Wizards double to help his family take the throne.
• Rayne demanded ten million gold dragons from Duke Dans before dawn and threatened to tear down Golden Castle if he did not deliver them.

Rayne collected ten million Golden Dragons from Duke Dans and used the arrival of his Extreme Legion to carry the treasure away. He left the Dans Family under orders to assemble its army and await his commands, while warning Duke Dans not to oppose him.

• Duke Dans presented Rayne with ten million Golden Dragons, and Borchi confirmed the amount was correct.
• Rayne and Borchi stored only a fraction of the chests in their spatial equipment before Wyvern riders approached Lion Rock City.
• Rayne identified the Wyvern riders as his people, and the Scorpion-tailed Lions returned to the city.
• Sikarius and the Extreme Warriors arrived with the Fire Dragons and loaded the chests onto their backs.
• Borchi transformed into a Golden Three-Headed Dragon, and Rayne, Dinglaji, and Borchi departed with the treasure.
• Rayne gave Duke Dans a Voice Transmission Watch and ordered the Dans Family to assemble its army and await instructions.

Rayne secured the ten million golden dragons taken from the Dans Family, then caught up with Emilith’s army as it marched into Lauberdier territory. After the army found a deserted city and learned Baron Kiribin had fled to Wind Fury Fortress, Dinglaji warned that the Lauberdier Family might be preparing a decisive battle or a surprise attack on their rear.

• Rayne paid Borchi two hundred thousand golden dragons and gave each Extreme Warrior five thousand, then questioned Dinglaji about his unhappiness over the Dans Family.
• Rayne and the Extreme Warriors transported the ten million golden dragons through Dragon Crystal Island to Wezelan Floating City, where Reslin secured the treasure.
• Rayne caught up with Emilith’s army and followed it to Oak City, where Baron Kiribin’s abandoned castle and deserted city offered no resistance.
• Valrogan reported that Baron Kiribin had fled to Wind Fury Fortress, and the leaders suspected the Lauberdier Family had ordered him to gather forces there.
• Dinglaji warned Emilith’s group that the Lauberdier Family might be preparing a decisive battle or planning to attack their rear and their cities.

Rayne devised a plan to split the allied army while using his Portals to reinforce whichever force the Lauberdier Family attacked. After Emilith’s army drew an ambush near Wind Fury Fortress, Rayne teleported to her side and Kadeja revealed the enemy troops hidden in the surrounding hills and forests.

• Rayne proposed splitting the army, with Emilith leading one force toward Wind Fury Fortress while his force waited in a concealed valley, ready to teleport to any threatened battlefield.
• Rayne and the Dragons found and eliminated nearly twenty Lauberdier scouts, then Rayne and Duke Fisher hid their force in a fog-covered valley.
• Rayne explained that the concealed force was an open stratagem: the Lauberdier Family could not know which target to attack without risking a Portal-backed counterforce.
• Emilith marched through Lauberdier territory without fighting and continued toward Wind Fury Fortress while Rayne kept in contact with her.
• Emilith reported that Kadeja had discovered the enemy army, and Rayne used several Portals to join her force.
• Kadeja revealed thousands of Lauberdier Transcendents concealed in the forests and hills along the route to Wind Fury Fortress.

Rayne detected the Lauberdier Family’s ambush and stopped the Centaur army before it entered the valley, while enemy forces including the Snow Eagle Guard attacked from the hills and sky. As the Dragons fought the Snow Eagles and the Great Deer Warriors charged, Rayne completed a Portal and the Extreme Warriors emerged, opening fire.

• Rayne discovered the concealed army, estimated its numbers, and spotted a magic trap in the valley before ordering the Centaurs to stop and the scouting squad to return.
• The Lauberdier army revealed itself and charged, while the Snow Eagle Guard took flight and announced the Etis Family’s support for Malk.
• Igon, Galadros, and Xindala engaged the Snow Eagles, and Borchi joined them as the Great Deer Warriors charged toward the Centaur formation.
• Rayne completed the large Portal, and the Extreme Warriors emerged, formed ranks, and fired their Rambo's Guns at the charging Great Deer Warriors and Snow Eagle Guard.

The Extreme Legion and its allies routed the Lauberdil Family's army with gunfire, aerial attacks, and spells, while Rayne teleported behind the enemy lines to strike at its leaders. The chapter ended with Rayne charging Prince Dylan as the prince fought back and the Eagle Song Hunter fired arrows at him.

• The Extreme Warriors slaughtered the charging Great Deer Warriors and shot down half of the Snow Eagle Guard before the surviving fliers retreated.
• The Gunwing Knights, Wizards, Fire Dragons, Centaurs, and River Bay Legion overwhelmed the Lauberdil Family's forces and broke their defensive line.
• Rayne, Duke Fisher, and Speaker Kadeja teleported behind the enemy army to confront its Legendary leaders, while Speaker Kleios stayed to protect Emilith.
• Prince Dylan Lauberdil and the surrounding Legendaries attacked Rayne, who used Dragon's Roar, Blood Rage, and Thunder Strike to kill or wound most of the enemy lords.
• Rayne charged Prince Dylan, while the Legendary Eagle Song Hunter retreated beyond the force field and fired seven arrows of light.

Rayne defeated the Lauberdier Family’s forces on the mountaintop, killing Rona Etis and capturing Earl Luquya while Speaker Kadeja’s magic aided him. He showed the wounded Prince Dylan the rout of his army and offered him a choice: submit to Queen Emilith and become Duke of Lauberdier, or die as his family’s forces were destroyed.

• Prince Dylan struck Rayne with Storm Slasher, but Rayne’s defenses stopped the axe before Rayne hammered him and sent him tumbling down the mountain.
• Rona Etis’s arrow froze Rayne briefly, but Rayne broke free; Speaker Kadeja trapped Rona Etis in a Maze Spell while Duke Fisher killed two attackers and wounded Earl Luquya.
• Rayne brought Rona Etis back from the Maze Spell and killed him with a hammer, then the Extreme Warrior pursued and shot down the Snow Eagle Hunters who attacked from the sky.
• Rayne returned to the mountaintop carrying the wounded Prince Dylan and showed him the Lauberdier Family’s routed forces as the battle below became a slaughter.
• Rayne offered Prince Dylan the choice to submit to Queen Emilith and become the new Duke of Lauberdier in exchange for sparing the survivors, or be killed while his army was destroyed.

Rayne and Emilith defeated the Lauberdier army, and Prince Dylan switched sides, pledging the family’s loyalty to Queen Emilith. With Wind Fury Fortress still held by Malk’s forces, Dylan promised to open its gates for Emilith within half a day.

• Rayne spared Prince Dylan, who ordered the Lauberdier troops to surrender and persuaded many to lay down their weapons.
• Emilith ordered the wounded treated and accepted Dylan’s oath of allegiance, naming him Duke of Lauberdier.
• Rayne questioned Dylan about the Spellcaster who had concealed the army, but Dylan said the mysterious figure had vanished.
• The victors counted the Lauberdier casualties, including more than six hundred dead Great Deer Warriors.
• Emilith asked Dylan to capture Wind Fury Fortress, and he promised to open its gates within half a day if given a thousand soldiers.

Dylan Lauberdier helped Emilith’s Dragonkin army seize Wind Fury Fortress and rallied its residents against Malk, but Rayne and the Wizerland councilors moved to curb Dylan’s growing power. Dylan was forced to surrender five territories and pay a vast ransom before the army marched into Dragon Forest, where Rayne hoped to find a Mithril mine.

• Dylan Lauberdier opened Wind Fury Fortress to Emilith’s army, purged Malk’s supporters, and secured control of the city.
• Dylan denounced Malk before the residents and introduced Emilith, who won their support as the Dragonkin army’s ruler.
• Rayne warned Dinglaji and Valrogan that Dylan depended on Dragonkin backing and proposed weakening him through territorial losses and ransom demands.
• Dylan refused the demands but yielded after Rayne’s presence made clear that another Lauberdier could replace him, ceding five territories and more than twelve million Golden Dragons in ransom.
• Kadeja and Kleios established a Teleportation Array linking Wind Fury Fortress to Dragon Crystal Island, and Dylan led his subdued troops north with the Dragonkin army.
• Rayne continued toward Dragon Forest, where the Mithril mine he needed was located.

Emilith led the Dragonkin army across Dragon Forest and conquered Dragon Spine City, executing Viscount Felton and destroying the Philton Family for their part in the fall of the Zhuogengbao Dynasty. After the victory, she stunned Rayne and her advisers by offering him Dragon Spine City, Stream City, and five territories in northern Lauberdier, a domain large enough to become the Duchy of Augustus.

• Rayne and Emilith marched with the Dragonkin army through Dragon Forest and entered King's Territory without encountering an enemy.
• The army surrounded Dragon Spine City, where Viscount Felton surrendered, but Emilith recognized him as a murderer of Dragonkin and ordered his family killed.
• Dragonkin forces stormed Dragon Spine City and its castle, killing Viscount Felton and erasing the Philton Family.
• Emilith granted Rayne Dragon Spine City after the conquest.
• Emilith offered Rayne Stream City and five territories ceded by the Lauberdier Family, creating a domain large enough to become the Duchy of Augustus.

Emilith offered Rayne the title of Duke Augustus, and Rayne discovered she was pregnant with his child, conceived through a dangerous Dragonkin ritual. She revealed that the duchy and the Zhuogengbao Family would convert to the Goddess of Magic’s faith, leaving Rayne stunned by the prospect of a mass religious shift that could provoke divine conflict.

• Emilith offered Rayne a vast duchy and the title of Duke Augustus, but Rayne sensed she was hiding something and refused to answer immediately.
• Rayne used his Soul Eye to discover a second soul in Emilith’s abdomen and took her through an Any Door to Dragon Spine Castle’s highest tower.
• Emilith admitted she had been pregnant for six months and had used her family’s one-time secret technique to conceive a Dragonkin child despite Rayne’s wishes.
• Emilith explained that she needed Rayne’s troops and Wizerland connections to strengthen her rule, which was why she wanted him to become a duke.
• Emilith told Rayne that she and the Zhuogengbao Family would convert to the Goddess of Magic’s faith, along with the Dragonkin and the people of both duchies.

Emilith explained why she planned to replace Bahamut’s worship with devotion to the Goddess of Magic, and Rayne agreed to support her and become Duke Augustus. She also resolved that the Zhuogengbao Family could abandon its Dragonkin bloodline and become a family of Wizards, leaving her unborn child as the last Dragonkin.

• Emilith told Rayne that Bahamut had abandoned the Dragonkin and that she wanted the people of Kongator to worship the Goddess of Magic instead.
• Emilith revealed that Prince Pedro had told her Prince Doran received word that a greater deity had warned Setarina, and Rayne realized the Goddess of Magic was already influencing Kongator’s gods.
• Emilith outlined a century-long plan to spread the Goddess’s faith through schools, temples, education, and magic, and Rayne agreed to accept investiture as Duke Augustus.
• Rayne asked whether converting would cost Emilith her Dragonkin bloodline and Dragon’s Call, and Emilith declared that the Zhuogengbao Family did not need to remain Dragonkin to rule Kongator.
• Emilith said she wanted the Zhuogengbao Family to become a family of Wizards and herself to become the legal heir to the Duchy of Augustus.

Rayne agreed to help Emilith convert to the Goddess of Magic’s faith, establish the Duchy of Augustus, and found a wizard family, but only after she accepted limits on their son’s inheritance. Their negotiations left Emilith worried that Rayne’s feelings for her had grown colder, and the chapter ended with the discovery of Source Crystal Ore among the treasures seized from Philton’s family.

• Emilith told Rayne she wanted to establish a wizard family, and Rayne warned her that founding one would be extremely difficult without becoming a Soul Saint Wizard.
• Rayne confronted Emilith for making plans without consulting him and agreed to support her ambitions on the condition that anyone named Augustus could inherit the duchy and their son would rank later in succession.
• Emilith accepted Rayne’s promise to protect Zhuogengbao rule over Kongator throughout his lifetime.
• Rayne and Emilith returned to the main hall, where Valrogan and the others congratulated Rayne on becoming Kongator’s eighth duke.
• The Scale-Warden Blood Guard brought in treasures confiscated from Philton’s family, and Rayne spotted Source Crystal Ore among them.

Rayne and Emilith led the Dragonkin army north, taking cities and finding that the fleeing lords had gathered in Kingsland. As the army approached the capital and its formidable Red Dragon Array, Duke Dans and Coster Dans arrived and knelt before Emilith, recognizing her as queen.

• Rayne claimed the Source Crystal Ore from Dragon Spine Castle as his share of the spoils, and the Dragonkin army rested there before raiding Stream City.
• The Dragonkin army captured Stream City, then found that Count Bionsen and other lords had fled toward Kingsland, prompting Emilith to abandon her plan to intercept them.
• After two days of marching, the army reached Kingsland and saw that Malk had prepared to defend the capital behind the Red Dragon Array.
• The Golden Lion Regiment arrived and halted before the Dragonkin army, and Duke Dans and Coster Dans knelt before Emilith and hailed her as queen.

Emilith’s army reached Kingsland and surrounded the capital after crossing Blackwater River, while Rayne and the chairmen identified a weakness in the Red Dragon Arrays and planned an assault on Malk. The Morsi Family’s forces joined the besiegers overnight, and the armies waited for dawn to begin the battle.

• Emilith made Duke Dans and Coster kneel before accepting the Dans Family’s forces, then placed their army under Dinglaji’s command and assigned guards to accompany him.
• The Dragonkin army crossed Blackwater River on a sheet of magically created ice and surrounded Kingsland’s western and southern approaches, leaving the northern route open.
• Rayne, Kadeja, and Kleios examined Kingsland’s Red Dragon Arrays and found that they consisted of separate defensive sites rather than one continuous barrier.
• Rayne planned to use the Void Gate after daybreak to attack Malk directly in the Red Dragon Fortress, while Kadeja and Kleios prepared to face the city’s powerful Spellcaster.
• The Morsi Family’s Viper Legion and Transcendent army joined Emilith’s forces, bringing the besieging army to more than twenty thousand as both sides awaited dawn.

Before dawn, Rayne and Emilith prepared the Dragonkin army for Malk’s forces to attack from Kingsland’s gates. As the Snow Eagle Guard engaged the Extreme Warriors and Kadeja pursued an unknown Legendary Wizard, the Ice Wolf Knights and Golden Lion Regiment unexpectedly passed through each other without a collision.

• Rayne spotted Malk’s forces mobilizing from Kingsland, including the Ice Wolf Knights and cavalry gathering to attack from several gates.
• Emilith positioned her forces and ordered the Golden Lion Regiment to meet the Ice Wolf Knights, with the centaurs following behind.
• The Ice Wolf Knights froze the North River and crossed it as the Golden Lion Regiment advanced to meet them.
• The Snow Eagle Guard attacked the camp, but Rayne ordered the Extreme Warriors to keep their distance, and Kadeja pursued the masked Legendary Elementalist who had nearly struck them with a spell.
• The Extreme Warriors began shooting down the Snow Eagles while Kadeja and the Elementalist fought, and the two knight orders charged toward each other.
• At the last moment, the Ice Wolf Knights split apart, allowing the Golden Lion Regiment to pass through their ranks unharmed.

Rayne and Emilith faced Duke Dans’s betrayal and an attack by Malk’s forces, while two masked Legendary High Tier Wizards intervened. After Rayne injured one wizard and sent him fleeing, he entered the Ice Wolf Knights’ charge alone and devastated their formation, giving the Centaurs time to arrive.

• Dinglaji reported that the Dans Family had defected and attacked his guards, forcing Emilith to send the Gunwing Knights and Wizard Corps toward the western gate.
• A masked Level 19 Wizard teleported beside Rayne and tried to attack Emilith, but Rayne interrupted the spell with his Thunderbolt Hammer, injuring the wizard before he escaped north.
• Rayne deduced that Malk had the backing of two Legendary High Tier Wizards, then left Kleios to protect Emilith and opened a Portal to confront the Ice Wolf Knights.
• Rayne used eighteen stored Chain Lightnings to kill hundreds of Ice Wolf troops and tear a wide gap in their formation.
• Rayne and his five images unleashed Dragon Roars and Thunderous Smite, stopping the Ice Wolf Knights’ charge as the Centaurs reached them.

Rayne and the centaurs tore through the Ice Wolf Knights while Rayne refrained from absorbing their souls because Yuriel might be watching. After Duke Brandon’s Ice Wind Cold Tide killed dozens of centaurs and exposed Rayne’s mirror images, Rayne seized the duke with Electric Claw and prepared to strike him with three warhammers.

• Rayne and his mirror images carved a breach through the Ice Wolf Knights, killing hundreds as Naqi led the centaurs in pursuit.
• Rayne saw the Ice Wolf Swordsmen’s faith converging on Yuriel and decided not to absorb their souls.
• Rayne and his mirror images used Rainbow Ray, lightning, and other attacks to clear the enemies around them.
• Duke Brandon ambushed Rayne with ice spikes and a concealed sword aura, but Rayne countered with Dragon Roar, shockwaves, and lightning before smashing him with a warhammer.
• Duke Brandon cast Ice Wind Cold Tide, freezing dozens of centaurs and destroying two mirror images’ spells.
• Rayne exposed Duke Brandon’s deception, seized him with Electric Claw, and closed in with two mirror images as all three raised their warhammers.

Rayne and Duke Brandon battled while their forces slaughtered each other, and Rayne forced the Sword Saint to abandon his greatsword and retreat into a Seventh Circle Ice Barrier. Rayne left a mirror image to guard the trapped, gravely wounded duke and went back through an Any Door.

• Duke Brandon used Ice Roar to break Rayne’s encirclement, then carved through the Centaur formation with his Ice Greatsword and spells.
• Rayne sent his four mirror images to attack the Ice Wolf Knights and Brandon family’s cavalry, inflicting devastating casualties.
• Duke Brandon turned to fight Rayne after seeing his forces being destroyed, and the two clashed while Rayne recognized the duke’s superior swordsmanship.
• When the mirror images returned, Rayne let Duke Brandon stab him, trapped the Ice Greatsword in his body, and struck the duke until he was gravely wounded and disarmed.
• Duke Brandon activated a crystal to seal himself inside a Seventh Circle Ice Barrier, and Rayne left one mirror image to guard him while he departed through an Any Door.

Rayne broke the Brandon Family’s cavalry charge and helped the Centaurs overwhelm the Ice Wolf Knights before teleporting into the Golden Lion Regiment to shatter its force field. He defeated Coster and sent him through an Any Door, then confronted Duke Dans.

• Rayne charged through the Ice Wolf Knights, killing cavalrymen and a Legendary Brandon lord while the Centaurs followed through the broken formation.
• Rayne saw the Golden Lion Regiment resist the Gunwing Knights’ gunfire and the Wizards’ spells with its Golden Lion Force Field.
• Duke Brandon thawed early from his Ice Barrier, but Rayne’s Mirror Image interrupted his spell, knocked him unconscious, and sent him through an Any Door to Emilith and the others.
• Rayne and his four Mirror Images teleported into the Golden Lion Regiment and used Dragon’s Roar to knock down hundreds of Lionheart Knights, letting the Gunwing Knights and Wizards break the force field.
• Rayne and his Mirror Images killed Lionheart Knights and defeated Coster, then Rayne sent the unconscious Coster through an Any Door and turned to Duke Dans.