Chapter Summaries

Rayne led the Saint Gun Knights into the Underdark to create chaos at Malsubray and help Kuilu and Yizite evacuate Eilistraes's followers. After defeating patrols and freeing slaves, the battalion attacked the city, whose defenders activated a magical barrier as Matron Mother Baenre and three other powerful Drow arrived.

• Livlin roused the Saint Gun Knights before Rayne, Livlin, and Kastaggin led them through the Obsidian Tower's portal into the Underdark.
• Rayne's Heavenly Soldiers reported that spies had exposed Kuilu's evacuation plan, leaving good Drow trapped inside Malsubray and others hiding outside it.
• The Saint Gun Knights killed Gray Lizard Cavalry patrols, freed slaves, and advanced toward Malsubray while shooting down Dark Elf patrols.
• The battalion reached Malsubray and opened fire on its defenders, with Vandus killing a Drow commander and Rocket Launchers bombarding the city gate.
• The Drow activated Malsubray's defensive Force Field, and Matron Mother Baenre arrived with Grover, Dacnaren, and Marlos Storizer to confront the attackers.

Rayne’s forces breached Menzoberranzan’s defenses, and Rayne defeated Matron Mother Malos’s spell attack before turning to help Kastaggin fight Matron Mother Baenre. The chapter left Rayne and his mirror images surrounding Baenre as she faced their combined assault.

• Matron Mother Baenre ordered Grovfer and Dacnaren to stop Kuilu and Malos’s rebellious son, then commanded Malos to attack the surface forces.
• Malos began casting Potent Acid Rain, but Rayne ordered Kastaggin to smash the city gate while the Saint Gun Knights doubled their bombardment.
• Kastaggin’s Storm Hammer and fifty rocket shells destroyed the gate, broke the Rune Array, and brought down Menzoberranzan’s protective barrier.
• Rayne struck Malos with his hammer, but her Mislead substitute took the blow; Malos escaped into the Shadow Plane as Rayne failed to hit her again.
• Matron Mother Baenre overwhelmed Kastaggin with her Shadow Clones, so Rayne arrived with six mirror images and blocked her attack.
• Rayne and his mirror images surrounded Baenre, striking her with mental and magical attacks while Rayne fired an Electric Light Ray.

Rayne turned Matron Mother Baenre’s attacks against her, seized her Legendary Soul Rend Blade, and used it to drive her into retreat. As the Saint Gun Knights stormed Malsubray, Rayne pursued Baenre while the battle devastated the city.

• Matron Mother Baenre’s Shadow Clones overwhelmed Rayne’s Mirror Images, but Rayne used his Psionic Field to anticipate Baenre’s ambush and evade her strike.
• Baenre’s Soul Rend wounded Kastaggin and her Touch of Chaos failed to harm Rayne, who counterattacked and shattered her arm with a Thunder Slash.
• Kastaggin’s Storm Hammer forced Baenre away from her scimitar, and Rayne caught the weapon before she could reclaim it.
• Rayne recognized the scimitar as a Legendary weapon and used its Soul Rend enchantment to attack Baenre, destroying two of her Shadow Clones through the Mirror Images.
• The Saint Gun Knights charged into Malsubray and clashed with the Gray Lizard Cavalry and Drow Warrior Regiment as gunfire and explosions filled the city.

Livlin’s Saint Gun Knights advanced through Malsubray, where Vandus saved her from a Shadow Clone and helped her destroy it. As Spiderkin approached the Legion and Rayne pursued Matron Mother Baenre, Matron Mother Malos emerged to intervene but was ambushed and gravely wounded by Dacnaren.

• Livlin led the Saint Gun Knights into Malsubray, where their Soul Guns and Rocket Launchers overwhelmed the Drow defenders.
• Livlin halted the Legion near the Spider Queen Lolth’s statue and watched Rayne pursue Matron Mother Baenre while his Mirror Images fought her Shadow Clones.
• Vandus shot a Shadow Clone attacking Livlin, and he and Livlin joined forces to kill it.
• More than twenty Spiderkin charged from the Spider Temple, so Livlin ordered the Saint Gun Knights to form a defensive firing line.
• Matron Mother Baenre called on Malos to help her, and Malos cast a Darkness Curtain before Dacnaren ambushed her with a curved blade and left her near death.

Dacnaren betrayed Malsubray’s ruling family, killed Matron Mother Malos, and fought Matron Mother Baenre as Rayne’s forces battled the Spiderkin. Baenre trapped Rayne, Dacnaren, Yizite, and Kastaggin in Lolth’s Web, but Silver Fire burned it away, leaving Rayne ready to attack.

• Dacnaren revealed his rebellion against the female Drow and beheaded Matron Mother Malos before attacking Matron Mother Baenre.
• Rayne sent mirror images and Extreme Warriors to help the Saint Gun Knights fight the Spiderkin, then learned from Yizite that Dacnaren had long planned to free oppressed male Drow.
• Rayne, Kastaggin, and Yizite joined Dacnaren against Matron Mother Baenre, who wounded Kastaggin and Yizite and trapped Dacnaren with a divine illusion.
• Matron Mother Baenre cast the Ninth Circle Divine Arts, The Lolth's Web, binding all four opponents and suppressing their powers.
• Rayne broke free by enlarging his body, but a silver fireball burned away the web and disrupted Baenre’s spell as Rayne hurled the Thunder God's Spear at her.

Rayne killed Matron Mother Baenre and led his forces to loot Malsubray, refusing Dacnaren’s plea to rule the city and free its Drow. The Spider Queen watched from afar, while Rayne’s troops split up to escort Eilistraes’s followers and search the city’s families.

• Rayne’s Sunlight Spell and Thunder God’s Spear left Matron Mother Baenre near death, and he finished her with the Soul Rend Blade after confirming that Lolth had rejected her prayer.
• Kuilu, Kastaggin, Yizite, and Dacnaren joined Rayne, who explained that Lolth was watching but could not easily intervene; the Spiderkin were wiped out and Baenre’s ring was recovered.
• Rayne ordered Livlin and Kuilu to escort Eilistraes’s followers out of Malsubray, while Kastaggin, Yizite, and Agassi led the fourth company to loot the Storizer Family and other homes.
• Rayne led the fifth company toward the Bane Family as Dacnaren urged him to rule Malsubray and offered his allegiance, but Rayne refused because he would not risk a war with Lolth.
• Rayne arrived at the Bane Family and led his forces inside, where thunder and gunfire soon rang out.

Rayne destroyed the Bane Family and looted its immense treasury, then discovered a hidden chamber beneath Matron Mother Baenre’s residence. There, he identified a sealed mass of divine blood after a mirror image was burned by its radiant power.

• Rayne led his forces through the Bane Family’s defenses, killed its resistance, and destroyed a statue of Lolth when she tried to contact him.
• Rayne and his troops emptied the Bane Family’s vast treasury, using Dimensional Space rings and Reslin’s Nebula Ring to carry off the treasure.
• Rayne sensed a dangerous object beneath Matron Mother Baenre’s residence, found the sealed chamber, and killed the Dark Elves who had fled there.
• Rayne used the Eighth Ring Key of the Gate to enter the chamber and found golden liquid sealed inside an egg-shaped amber.
• Reslin tested the amber with a True Mirror Image, whose hand was burned by the radiant power, and Rayne identified the liquid as Blood of the Deity.

Rayne discovered that the amber containing divine blood was a masterless artifact forged by the fallen Lord of Dawn Losen Da, and endured its intense Holy Light until its stored energy was spent. He secured the artifact and led his Legion through raids on Malsubray’s leading Drow families before withdrawing with their treasure, leaving the city in chaos.

• Rayne identified the amber as Lord of Dawn Losen Da’s masterless artifact and endured its scorching Holy Light until it ran out of energy.
• Rayne found that the artifact could not be stored in the Nebula Ring, but confirmed that Rook Exchange could transport it and left it with Reslin to study.
• Rayne reunited with Yizite, Kastaggin, and the Fourth Company after they plundered the Storizer Family.
• Rayne led the Legion in looting the top eight Drow families in Malsubray and transported their treasure to the Obsidian Tower.
• Rayne ordered the Legion to withdraw, leaving Malsubray’s surviving Drow nobles fighting even more fiercely for power.

Rayne screened more than two thousand Drow refugees for infiltrators before leading them through a portal to Gotham City. The Drow arrived at the Highland Fortress and, overwhelmed by their first sight of sunlight, were welcomed by Rayne.

• Rayne met Kuilu and the gathered Drow, then announced that everyone would be screened before entering Gotham City.
• Rayne used his Soul Eye to identify infiltrators, killing them and having Kuilu confirm their allegiance by inspecting their captured souls.
• Several infiltrators tried to flee or attack during the screening, but Rayne, his Heavenly Soldiers, Yizite, and Dacnaren killed them.
• Kuilu and the Priests removed the Drow's Spider Marks, and the refugees traveled through portals and the Teleportation Array to the surface.
• The Drow emerged into daylight at the Highland Fortress, wept as they looked over the city, and heard Rayne welcome them to Gotham City.

Rayne arranged housing for the Drow in Gotham City and identified the artifact he had recovered as the Sacred Blood Amber, a divine relic of Lord of Dawn Losen Da. He bound the artifact to himself and learned that it could convert energy into Holy Light Power and grant Divine Arts, leaving him able to wield its power.

• Rayne showed Kuilu and Yizite the Drow’s new community, where residents would pay for their houses and monthly property fees, and Kuilu named it Moonlight Garden.
• Rayne went to the Obsidian Tower, reviewed the spoils taken from Malsubray, and examined an egg-shaped amber artifact.
• Rayne found a book describing how Lord of Dawn Losen Da had created the Sacred Blood Amber to store Divine Power, restrain evil, resurrect the dead, and grant Divine Arts.
• Rayne used the Soul Eye to identify the amber’s runes and learned that it converted energy into Holy Light Power for casting and granting Divine Arts.
• Rayne poured Soul Power into the Sacred Blood Amber, bound it with a mental mark, and learned to control its movement and use its powers.

Rayne explored the Sacred Blood Amber’s powerful Divine Arts and used Gotham’s growing wealth and military strength to prepare for the future. He visited Livlin late at night and offered to make her a Saint Tier powerhouse in exchange for a price that would guarantee her loyalty, leaving her shocked and asking what it was.

• Rayne discovered that the Sacred Blood Amber could bestow powerful permanent blessings and grant him several life-saving abilities, then tested its Divine Arts in his laboratory.
• Rayne distributed three million Gold Shields among those who fought at Malsubray, boosting the Spear Legion’s loyalty and the residents’ enthusiasm.
• Rayne waited as his agents searched Naxxas Floating City for Kolsted’s Soul Jar, while his Heavenly Soldiers cleared undead from the Averken region and he charged the Sacred Blood Amber.
• Rayne secretly traveled to Livlin’s home late at night and asked how long it would take her to reach Saint Tier.
• Rayne offered Livlin an immediate path to Saint Tier and a permanent cure for her headaches in exchange for a price guaranteeing her loyalty, and Livlin asked what the price was.

Rayne persuaded Livlin to abandon her faith in the Goddess of Vengeance and convert to the Glorious Lord Saint Giles, then brought her to the Santra Residence to advance her to Saint Tier. After blessing her with Sacred Blood Amber, he began infusing her with Holy Light Power, leaving her enduring intense pain as her transformation continued.

• Rayne told Livlin she could reach Saint Tier and cure her headaches if she converted to the Glorious Lord Saint Giles, while assuring her that refusing would not affect her position or treatment.
• Livlin chose to serve Saint Giles, and her faith in the Goddess of Vengeance faded as a new, fragile golden Flame of Faith appeared in her soul.
• Rayne teleported Livlin to the Santra Residence, where he prepared to advance her away from Gotham City's residents.
• Rayne activated Sacred Blood Amber and blessed Livlin, transforming her Blood Crystal Power and greatly increasing her strength.
• Rayne poured Holy Light Power into Livlin, warned her that the pain would be intense, and told her to endure it.

Rayne used the Sacred Blood Amber to push Livlin through her Seventh Soul Transformation, making her the first Saint Tier Blood Knight and naming her the Holy Blood Angel. He bestowed Divine Arts on her and ordered her to keep Saint Giles secret, then asked how Blood Elves became Blood Knights and gained Blood Crystal Power.

• Rayne infused Livlin with Holy Light Power and used Will of Dawn to help her endure the agony of her Saint Tier breakthrough.
• After receiving fifteen hundred portions of Holy Light Power, Livlin triggered her Seventh Soul Transformation and emerged with enormous golden-red wings and Saint Tier power.
• Livlin realized she was naked, fled to dress, and returned to thank Rayne, who told her to call him by name.
• Rayne declared Livlin the Holy Blood Angel and bestowed Divine Arts upon her, strengthening her faith in Saint Giles.
• Rayne instructed Livlin to keep Saint Giles's identity secret and preach only to approved members of the Saint Gun Knights.
• Rayne asked Livlin how Blood Elves became Blood Knights and where their Blood Crystal Power came from.

Rayne learned that Blood Crystal Power came from seeds of the Blood Crystal Sacred Tree and was a distorted form of Holy Light Power, then obtained ten seeds from Livlin. He planned a church for Saint Giles and created a clone to serve as the false god’s identity.

• Livlin told Rayne that Archmage Belova had captured the Blood Crystal Sacred Tree and developed the Blood Knights’ Meditation Method, but the Knights’ power caused bloodlust and mental instability.
• Livlin explained that Blood Crystal Power was Holy Light Power and worried that the Sun God Gewon might target Saint Giles; Rayne reassured her and asked her to obtain Blood Crystal Seeds.
• Rayne assigned Livlin to establish a secret church for Saint Giles in the Santra Residence and arrange ceremonies for granting blessings.
• Livlin returned from Eversong City with ten Blood Crystal Seeds after Regent Asjiong agreed to provide them, though he said the city needed its supply for cultivating Blood Knights.
• Rayne went to the Obsidian Tower’s magical laboratory, where he named a powerful clone Saint Giles.

Rayne created Saint Giles as a Holy Light clone, cured the Blood Knights’ flaw, and rapidly raised Saint Giles to Legendary Peak before giving him Sacred Blood Amber. Seeking more charge, Rayne infiltrated Naxxramas Floating City through a Blood Elf Apocalypse Knight, whose sudden question revealed she had detected the spying Sub-Mind Chip.

• Rayne blessed Saint Giles and the other Holy Blood Angels with Holy Light Affinity, allowing them to become Blood Knights without inheriting the Blood Crystal Sacred Tree’s mental flaw.
• Saint Giles used charge to reach Legendary Peak, received Sacred Blood Amber, and gained strength rivaling a Saint Tier powerhouse.
• Rayne decided to harvest souls from Naxxramas Floating City and attached a Sub-Mind Chip to a Blood Elf Apocalypse Knight to investigate its interior.
• Rayne mapped the Floating City’s three levels and concluded that Kolsted and the likely location of his Soul Jar were near the upper-level control room.
• After nearly a month of surveillance, the Blood Elf Apocalypse Knight spoke in High Elvish and asked who had been spying on her and where the spy was hiding.

Rayne learned that the silent Apocalypse Knight in Naxxramas Floating City was General Sanavia, a former Blood Elf hero whose past attacks on Eversong City may have been deliberately restrained. He told Livlin to prepare for an assault on the Floating City, then sent a mage clone to seek Master Ogulvi in Elainto, where the clone was suddenly teleported into a terrifying palace.

• Rayne observed the hooded Apocalypse Knight and realized she had been disguising her intelligence and awareness.
• Rayne asked Livlin about General Sanavia, and Livlin recounted how the Scourge had killed and transformed the famed Ranger General about two hundred years earlier.
• Rayne and Livlin considered whether Sanavia’s repeated, strangely unsuccessful attacks on the Blood Elves meant she retained some free will; Rayne suspected Master Ogulvi might have experimented on her.
• Rayne revealed that Sanavia was in Naxxramas Floating City and told Livlin to prepare for a possible attack, then overheard her private reaction before deciding to focus on his mission.
• Rayne sent a mage clone through the Underdark to Elainto, where a Mind Flayer recognized him as Master Ogulvi’s visitor and teleported him into a vast, ominous palace.

Rayne learned from Master Ogulvi that Sanavia’s regained free will did not free her body from the Scourge Legion’s control. After Ogulvi destroyed Rayne’s Mage Clone, Rayne contacted Sanavia through a Sub-Mind Chip and offered her a chance to regain her freedom; she asked what she should do.

• Master Ogulvi revealed that he had experimented on undead two hundred years earlier and that Sanavia was the sole survivor who regained some free will.
• Ogulvi explained that undead were controlled through both their souls and bodies, and that Sanavia could reclaim bodily control by killing the undead who transformed her and devouring its Undead Fire.
• Rayne considered how taking control from powerful undead might disrupt the Scourge Legion, then admitted he wanted to use Sanavia to achieve his own goals.
• Ogulvi blasted Rayne’s Mage Clone apart with the Ninth Circle Collapse Spell, and Rayne decided not to seek him out again unless facing a crisis.
• Rayne contacted Sanavia through a concealed Sub-Mind Chip and offered to help her break free from the Death Lord’s control and oppose the Scourge Legion.
• After half a day of hesitation, Sanavia asked Rayne what she should do.

Rayne used Sanavia to investigate the New Homeland Floating City and locate Kolsted’s Soul Jar, then presented the gathered blueprints to Ansiwodoss and prepared to lead an attack. He planned to take Iola’s Core rather than claim the existing Floating City, which he rejected as too ugly for his own plans.

• Rayne learned from Sanavia that the Floating City held three Apocalypse Knights, elite undead, and Kolsted’s Saint Tier monsters, while the Death Lord remained at Icecrown Fortress.
• Sanavia estimated Kolsted’s Soul Jar was more than ninety percent likely to be near the control room and agreed to map the Floating City’s levels and Rune Arrays over several weeks.
• Sanavia identified Rayne as Master Ansiwodoss, and Rayne suggested that she might be resurrected if she served him well.
• Rayne brought Ansiwodoss blueprints of the New Homeland Floating City, explaining that Sanavia had secretly gathered them.
• Rayne told Ansiwodoss he intended to lead the attack and take Iola’s Core, but refused to keep the Floating City because he considered it ugly and had another design in mind.

Rayne planned a surprise assault on New Homeland Floating City to kill Kolsted, destroy his Soul Jar, and claim Iola's Core. He gathered the allied forces in Gotham City and gave the order to move out.

• Rayne told Ansiwodoss he wanted to build an unconventional Floating City and secured his teacher's agreement to lead the assault on New Homeland.
• Rayne outlined a plan to use Reslin's Portal, disable the Floating City's Rune Array, isolate it from the Death Lord, and split the forces between attacking Kolsted and finding his Soul Jar.
• Ansiwodoss summoned the Wizerland Speakers and Legendary Wizards, and the Wizerland forces quietly prepared for the battle.
• Ten days later, Rayne assembled six Saint Tier experts, allied elites, and hundreds of Legendary soldiers at Gotham City's Highland Fortress to review the synchronized attack plan.
• Rayne finished the briefing and ordered the assembled forces to move out.

Rayne launched the assault on Naxxramas Floating City, sending the Wizerland Wizards and Extreme Warriors to confront Kolsted while four other teams targeted the city’s Rune Array nodes. As the first team fought its way toward the control room and the Floating City prepared to jump, Rayne teleported himself to its upper level.

• Rayne assembled nearly four hundred elite fighters in an ice cavern and divided them into five teams, while Kuilu activated a communication-interference array across the Dragon Bone Wilderness.
• Rayne’s forces received spells, potions, and protective scrolls before Reslin’s Mirror Images secretly teleported the Wizerland Wizards, Extreme Warriors, and Rayne’s Heavenly Soldiers into the Floating City.
• Kolsted attacked the arriving Wizerland Wizards with undead armies and powerful spells, but Ansiwodoss countered with fire while the Extreme Warriors and Sikarius’s gunners fought off the undead.
• Kleios, Roni, and Kadeja helped cast the Wizerland Force Field, allowing Ansiwodoss and the others to press toward the control room despite Kolsted’s growing assault.
• Kolsted stopped casting and the Floating City began preparing to jump, so Rayne sent the other four teams to separate locations inside the city before teleporting himself to the upper level.