Recaps

Russell studied the Ice and Snow Power before welcoming Mel and Fred to the Amber Dreamscape. He rewarded Fred for his contributions by making him the Molten Earl, granting him Emerald Lake Province and Zircon Dragon Zack, and obtaining a wyvern egg for him to plant there.

• Russell tried to understand the Ice and Snow Power through swordsmanship, then returned to reality when Kunlaya reported that Mel and Fred had arrived.
• Russell welcomed Mel and Fred, let Mel reunite with his wife, and told Fred that he would become the Molten Earl and receive the Warm Enclave in Emerald Lake Province.
• Fred asked Russell to refine ten Fallen Wyverns into a wyvern egg for him and offered five more to Shadowflame Dragon.
• Russell brought all fifteen Fallen Wyverns to Shadowflame Volcano, where Shadowflame Dragon consumed them and produced a wyvern egg for Fred.
• Russell gave Fred the egg and granted him Zircon Dragon Zack to escort him and his family to Emerald Lake Province, and Fred vowed to plant the egg and return as a Wyvern Knight.

Fred Snowflame returned to Emerald Lake Province, where he planted a Wyvern egg that hatched into Titanium Steel Dragon Ferman and regained his Wyvern Knight power. Watching the new Warm Enclave awaken Molik’s insight, Fred set out with him to cross the Dragon Tribulation.

• Zircon Dragon Zack carried Fred toward Emerald Lake Province while Fred reflected on his new home and his brother Flet’s defection to the Scorching Torrent Kingdom.
• Fred reunited with Vanessa, Fox, and his followers, then led them to the chosen Dragon-Planting Land east of Emerald Lake Province.
• Fred buried Russell’s Wyvern egg and guarded it with his family and followers until Titanium Steel Dragon Ferman hatched on the fourth morning.
• Fred mounted Ferman and regained his Wyvern Knight realm as the dragon’s breath opened a new Warm Enclave.
• Molik grasped the insight needed for his advancement, and Fred mounted him to cross the Dragon Tribulation.

The Shadowflame Dragon gained a surge of power as another Warm Enclave opened, and Russell went west to discover Fred and Molik had completed their dragon tribulation. Russell then surveyed the expanded kingdom and Volcanic Oasis before the Shadowflame Dragon renewed its demand to confront Torrent.

• The Shadowflame Dragon felt its strength rise again and boasted that it was nearing the power of ancient times while Russell studied its fire-element power and his swordsmanship.
• Russell rode the Shadowflame Dragon west and found Fred and Griffon Molik newly advanced after completing their dragon tribulation.
• Russell congratulated Fred, promised to hold an investiture ceremony for him at the end of June, and directed him to join Grand Duke Vitali's Path of Man and Dragon Conference.
• Russell and the Shadowflame Dragon flew to the kingdom's border and saw that it had expanded by more than ten kilometers, bringing the entire Green Capital Snow Forest within its bounds.
• The Shadowflame Dragon wanted to attack Torrent, but Russell calmed it, and they returned to see the Volcanic Oasis expanding as the Ice Cap melted along its boundary.

Nicholas traveled by train to Glimmering Town to retrace Russell’s rise for a documentary-style biography, but a strange star in the daylight led him to learn that the Frost Star had entered Dragon Star’s orbit. The chapter left Nicholas confident that Russell would protect humanity from the coming threat.

• Nicholas rode Mercedes’s Steam Train through Silver Mountain Province and Gloomlight Province, reflecting on Russell’s influence and planning to visit Wuyou Snake Manor.
• Nicholas arrived in Glimmering Town and saw how its factories and ceramic trade had grown under Russell’s rule.
• Nicholas spotted a bright star in the western sky after sunrise and went to Dagger Mountain Observatory to investigate.
• The observatory director told Nicholas that the Frost Star had entered Dragon Star’s orbit and that Frost Snow Trolls could invade through Orbital Overlap.
• Nicholas agreed that Russell and the united human nations could face the Frost Star threat.

Russell traveled to the Ice Prism Grand Duchy to investigate rumors that the Vengeful Dragon had rescued Dalimu. After questioning witnesses who sincerely believed they had seen Dalimu mount the dragon, Russell decided to visit the snowfields himself.

• Russell and King Toka discussed Frost Star’s approach, the need to strengthen their nations, and rumors of the Vengeful Dragon.
• Russell took the Shadowflame Dragon through the Volcanic Domains and flew north from the Scorching Black Soil Kingdom to the Ice Prism Grand Duchy.
• Grand Duke Dario told Russell that knights had seen Dalimu rise from the snow and mount a huge dragon shaped like a black curtain.
• Russell questioned several knights and sensed that they genuinely believed their account.
• Russell concluded that he needed to visit the snowfields himself to find out whether the sightings were real or an illusion.

Russell and Shadowflame Dragon investigated the site where the Ice Prism Dragon fell, and Little Dream Dragon revealed that a Vengeful Ancient Dragon was hidden there. Russell freed Dalimu Ice Prism from its torment and asked him to fight against Frost Star’s invasion.

• Russell and Shadowflame Dragon searched the snowfield near the Ice Prism Dragon’s tombstone but found no unusual aura.
• Russell summoned Little Dream Dragon to search for traces of the Vengeful Dragon.
• Little Dream Dragon’s Rule Power dragged a gigantic, ragged black dragon out of the void.
• Russell recognized the Vengeful Ancient Dragon and identified the knight chained to its throne as Dalimu Ice Prism.
• Dalimu regained his clarity after being freed from his torment, and Russell asked him to fight for humanity against Frost Star.

Young Master Dalimu fused with the Vengeful Ancient Dragon and gave Russell the Spear of Vengeance so he could pursue vengeance against the Frost Snow Troll. After revealing that he was also Sigroft, he and the dragon vanished into the abyss, while Russell returned home with the spear transformed into a bracelet.

• Young Master Dalimu accepted vengeance as his purpose and pulled a rib from his chest, transforming it into the Spear of Vengeance.
• Russell took the spear and promised to carry Dalimu and help him fulfill his mission against the Frost Snow Troll.
• Dalimu revealed that he was Sigroft before he and the Vengeful Ancient Dragon vanished into the abyss.
• Russell gave the Little Dream Dragon ten Frost Star Beads and promised the Shadowflame Dragon the remaining ten.
• Russell turned the Spear of Vengeance into a rib bracelet and returned with the Shadowflame Dragon to the Shadowflame Element Volcano, where the dragon began its seclusion.

Russell negotiated the Heavenly Thunder Shadow Kingdom's role in the Amber Conference while Frost Troll Vanguard Officers gathered at Dragon Ridge Summit to plan their next dragon hunt. The trolls settled on a strategy and departed, leaving their attack's target unclear.

• King Gregory Fire Shadow welcomed Russell and his party to the Heavenly Thunder Shadow Kingdom, where Russell began negotiations over King Gregory and Duke Windsor's roles in the Amber Conference.
• At Dragon Ridge Summit, Frost Troll Gu led attendance and learned that six Vanguard Officers were absent: five had died and Frost Da had defected.
• The Vanguard Officers argued over their failures, the Eternal Seven Elders, and their need to obtain more dragon orbs to complete the overlap of the Heavenly Track.
• Frost Troll Gu proposed drawing the Great Bats and ants in several directions before striking elsewhere, and the Vanguard Officers agreed on a battle plan and swore an oath to Frost Star.
• The Frost Troll Vanguard Officers vanished from Dragon Ridge Summit after the meeting.

At the Amber Conference, Russell urged the nations to prepare for Frost Star’s arrival, then encountered the fairy Saiban in the Oak Forest. Saiban entered the Amber Dreamscape, and Russell and Little Dream Dragon found him near its misty boundary.

• Marquis Merlin reported that the Frost Snow Trolls had destroyed dragons and threatened nations, while the conference elected seven standing committee members and Russell warned everyone to prepare for Frost Star’s invasion.
• Russell returned to Cigar Palace after the conference and spotted Saiban dancing in the Oak Forest.
• Saiban told Russell that a dreamscape was calling to free wills across the continent and agreed to visit the Amber Dreamscape.
• Russell entered the Amber Dreamscape and asked Little Dream Dragon to find Saiban.
• Little Dream Dragon led Russell to the misty boundary, where he spotted Saiban beyond the dense mist and called out to him.

Russell discovered that Saiban had become a true fairy within the Amber Dreamscape and received a blessing that let him sense fairies through the wind. He tested whether oak trees could transport people into the dreamscape, then found that the experiment was not yet complete.

• Saiban emerged from the oak forest in the Amber Dreamscape as a larger, independent fairy and gave Russell a Swaying Wind Chime blessing.
• Russell used his new ability to see wind connecting oak trees to the unknown and brought Butler Morris and the castle servants to the oak forest.
• Russell had Morris touch an oak tree and imagine the Amber Dreamscape, causing Morris and the tree to vanish from the real world.
• Russell reached the dreamscape’s border and found Morris and the servants gathered safely among the transported trees.
• Russell asked Morris to touch a second oak tree and imagine Cigar Palace, but the attempt failed.

Russell discovered that fairy forests could transport people one way into the Amber Dreamscape and began recruiting fairies to expand settlement options. After bringing a snow forest into the dreamscape, he planned to relocate refugees from the Molten Fire Grand Duchy, while millions still needed new homes.

• Butler Morris and the other servants failed to return from the Oak Forest, so Russell arranged for them to settle in the Amber Dreamscape and confirmed that each oak tree offered a one-way passage.
• Russell told the cabinet that the Oak Forest could transport over two hundred thousand people and ordered officials to plan their selection and settlement.
• Russell traveled to a snow forest, summoned its hidden fairy with Little Dream Dragon’s phantom, and persuaded her to bring the forest into the Amber Dreamscape.
• The snow fairy gave Russell an Elf Leaf and explained that such blessings had been left behind in time in the Dragon Spirit Forest Sea.
• Russell decided to use the snow forest to relocate up to a million refugees from the Molten Fire Grand Duchy and began searching for more fairies, since seven million people still needed relocation.

Russell organized Fairy Forests to help refugees reach the Amber Dreamscape and began preparing the Amber Central Domain to become a new nation. As a refugee convoy endured the frozen road to the Deep Dream Shadowflame Kingdom, Frost Snow Trolls prepared a diversion to keep Russell away from an attack.

• Russell found Fairy Forests across several grand duchies and invited the fairies into the Amber Dreamscape, while urging Grand Duke Nurche to relocate his people there.
• Russell told Marquis Merlin that Fairy Forests could merge into different Volcanic Domains, and asked him to help prepare the Amber Central Domain and support the Amber Conference.
• Months of peace followed the battle of the Warm Jade Grand Duchy, but Frost Star drew closer and colder weather made migration routes increasingly dangerous.
• A knight gave a pale refugee Blood Activating Potion at a Cold Spring Point, restoring his warmth as he continued toward the Deep Dream Shadowflame Kingdom.
• Frost Snow Trolls planned to attack a refugee convoy and arranged to lure Russell away, keeping him from assisting while they watched the Extreme Ice Sacred Artifact.

Frost Da learned of a Frost Troll plan to attack the Bastion Sincere Kingdom hunting grounds and chose to follow Russell Amber-Deep Dream, while Frost Trolls began ambushing refugee routes. King Chilut lost the twenty-two Fallen Wyverns he was transporting, escaped an ambush, and alerted the Amber Conference as attacks spread.

• Frost Da learned that seventy-two Vanguard Officers would draw out the Great Bat Knights before attacking the Chichen Great Bat, and he vowed to exploit the chaos while pursuing Russell Amber-Deep Dream.
• Frost Da traveled beneath the snow to watch a refugee convoy near the Deep Dream Shadowflame Kingdom and sensed Frost Trolls preparing to raid trade routes.
• Grand Duke Pulvey agreed that his youngest son, Puyol, would settle in the Steam Sparkle Kingdom, while his eldest son, Pryor, would go to the Amber Dreamscape.
• King Chilut took twenty-two bound Fallen Wyverns from the Yellow Earth Grand Duchy, but Frost Trolls sealed the sky; he escaped through a portal, leaving the Wyverns behind.
• King Chilut warned the Amber Conference about the ambush and requested support, while Marquis Merlin called for representatives to convene after learning that Frost Snow Trolls had attacked several refugee routes.

Russell rode to the Molten Fire Grand Duchy and fought the Frost Troll Legion, rescuing the remaining people from its assault. After driving off the enemy and confronting Frost Da, Russell learned that the Frost Snow Troll Legion had besieged the Sincere Dragon at Sincere Volcano.

• Russell rushed toward the Molten Fire Grand Duchy after learning that the Frost Snow Troll Legion was slaughtering refugees across the fallen Grand Duchies.
• The Frost Trolls ambushed Russell and the Shadowflame Dragon within a Frost Domain, but Russell summoned the Dream Ancient Dragon and broke its suppression.
• Russell summoned Dalimu, and together they routed the Frost Trolls before pursuing and killing Snow Trolls attacking the Molten Fire Grand Duchy's remaining warm lands.
• Frost Da stole a dazed Snow Giant and escaped into the snowfield after Russell struck it with a spear.
• Russell divided the spoils with Shadowflame and Snow Cake, then received word that the Frost Snow Troll Legion had sealed off Sincere Volcano and placed the Sincere Dragon in grave danger.

Frost Da refined a stolen Snow Giant but remained a second-stage Frost Troll, while Russell and the Dragon Knights responded to the Frost Snow Trolls’ killing of the Sincere Dragon. Frost Troll Gu activated the Dragon Pearl Great Array, drawing the Shattered Frost Star toward Dragon Sleep Continent as the worlds neared overlap.

• Frost Da recovered from Russell’s distant attack, refined an intact Snow Giant, and vowed to seek revenge after failing to advance beyond the second stage.
• Russell and the Dragon Knights learned the Frost Snow Trolls had killed the Sincere Dragon, then ordered dragon nations to seek protection and arranged for King Xilroni’s people to relocate to the Shadowflame Volcanic Domain.
• Frost Troll Gu announced that the Frost Trolls had obtained the fifteenth Dragon Pearl and ordered them to assemble the Dragon Pearl Great Array atop Dragon Ridge Summit.
• The Frost Trolls activated the array with their Extreme Ice Sacred Artifacts, pulling the Shattered Frost Star closer to Dragon Sleep Continent.
• The Shattered Frost Star grew visibly larger as August passed, while a train sped through the Volcanic Oasis into an era of danger and hope.

As the Shattered Frost Star neared Dragon Sleep Continent, Russell coordinated refugee aid and preparations while scholars upgraded the Demon Seeking Tower with an Extreme Ice Sacred Artifact. The upgraded tower detected Frost Snow Trolls at great distances, and Russell arrived to see whether the design could support a counteroffensive.

• Russell assigned nations to provide Magic Potions for refugees in the Amber Dreamscape, while the nations searched for Fairy Forests and moved people into Volcanic Domains.
• The Shadowflame Kingdom and Amber Central Domain were given separate names as the Shattered Frost Star grew across the sky.
• Grand Scholars proposed using an Extreme Ice Sacred Artifact to improve the Demon Seeking Tower and locate Frost Snow Trolls more precisely.
• The Grand Scholars and knight craftsmen completed the tower’s upgrade, and its first test detected another Demon Seeking Tower a thousand kilometers away.
• Russell returned from searching for Fairy Forests and went to inspect the upgraded tower, hoping to distribute fragments of the artifacts and launch a counteroffensive.

Russell used the upgraded Demon Search Towers to locate and kill Frost Da, then helped spread the towers so humanity could hunt Frost Trolls across the snowfields. As Frost Star drew closer and cold spread across the Dragon Sleep Continent, Russell warned that it would soon arrive.

• The upgraded Demon Seeking Towers detected an unusually strong signal in the Black Wave Mountain Range, and Russell flew there with Polly to find Frost Da.
• Russell summoned the Vengeful Ancient Dragon and, with the Dream Ancient Dragon’s power, overwhelmed Frost Da and killed it before it could escape.
• Russell left a piece of Frost Da’s corpse for the Grand Scholars to study and returned the remaining fragments to the Dream Ancient Dragon.
• Russell promoted the upgraded towers as Demon Search Towers, and their expanded range let human nations locate Frost Trolls and Snow Giants across the continent.
• The Dragon Team and human forces attacked the revealed enemies, with Russell leading assaults on Frost Trolls while the Knight Orders advanced into the snowfields.
• At Red Castle, Russell watched Shattered Frost Star brighten the night and observed that Frost Star would soon arrive as cold and snowfall spread across the continent.

Baron Roman and Roland contracted with Pseudo-Dragon Descendants and went their separate ways as Shattered Frost Star’s approach spread fear across Dragon Sleep Continent. On January 2nd, 5588, Russell reached Dragon Ridge Summit, where Frost Star’s highest peak neared it, and set out to inspect the approaching world.

• Baron Roman and Roland each contracted with a Phantom Beast Pseudo-Dragon Descendant, advancing to higher ranks as Phantom Beast Knights.
• Baron Roman left Roland to oversee industrialization and departed to join the Wyvern Regiment, reflecting on the fear Shattered Frost Star inspired across the continent.
• Shattered Frost Star continued to approach Dragon Sleep Continent, disrupting daily life and dampening celebrations for Shadowflame Kingdom’s Dragon Birth Festival.
• Russell traveled with King Elton Ice Wall and other Dragon Knights to Dragon Ridge Summit, where Frost Star’s highest peak drew within a few thousand meters.
• Russell said he would fly up to inspect Frost Star.

Russell discovered that the Frost Snow Trolls had anchored Shattered Frost Star to Dragon Star with an array, but destroying it did not stop the worlds from overlapping. As the Ice Age worsened, the two Dragon Ridge Summits finally met, and Russell reached out to touch Frost Star.

• Russell and the Dragon Knights concluded that Shattered Frost Star was a higher-dimensional projection and that it would become a gate when the dimensions overlapped.
• Using Little Dream Dragon’s vision, Russell discovered that the Frost Snow Trolls had built an array from the power of fifteen fallen dragons to anchor the two worlds together.
• Frost Troll Gu ordered the surviving trolls to hide and wait for Frost Star to overlap, while the group argued over their losses and plans for advancement.
• Russell cut off part of Dragon Ridge Summit, damaging the array, but the Ice Age spread across Dragon Sleep Continent and blizzards froze routes between nations.
• Russell watched the two Dragon Ridge Summits overlap, then walked to their meeting point and touched Dragon Ridge Summit on Shattered Frost Star.

Russell discovered that Frost Star contained a seed of the Cosmic Tree and agreed to help Little Dream Dragon devour it. As Snow Trolls began attacking across the continent, he mobilized Shadowflame Kingdom’s forces and set out to fight in the Dragon Demon War.

• Russell sensed Frost Star’s Frost Snow Power as the two Dragon Ridge Summits overlapped, then witnessed golden cracks in the sky revealing a core inside Shattered Frost Star.
• Russell returned to Amber Dreamscape, where Little Dream Dragon identified the core as a Cosmic Tree seed that Frost Star had killed to create a refuge world.
• Little Dream Dragon declared that it would devour Frost Star’s seed, and Russell agreed to help it.
• Fred Snowdown and the others reported that Snow Trolls had appeared across the snowfields and were attacking nations.
• Russell returned to Dragon Ridge Summit, gathered information through the Demon Search Tower, and called Shadowflame Dragon to battle.
• Russell led Dragon Knights, Wyvern Knights, dragons, and Knight Orders toward the border as the Dragon Demon War began.

Russell decided to abandon scattered defenses and coordinate humanity’s forces against the Frost Snow Troll invasion, sending his Contract Partners to guard the borders. When Russell left the Shadowflame Kingdom, a Frost Troll attacked there but found Ouroboros waiting with the phantom of an amber Dream Ancient Dragon.

• Russell learned the Frost Snow Trolls were using their movements to keep him occupied while they attacked other nations, so he began clearing Snow Ghosts and Snow Demons instead.
• Shadowflame Dragon urged Russell to unite humanity by giving up some countries, and Polly, Harpie, Sembra, and Ouroboros supported the plan.
• Russell ordered Polly, Sembra, and Ouroboros to guard the borders, Harpie to support from Red Castle, and himself and Shadowflame Dragon to respond when needed.
• Two Frost Trolls watched Russell leave for the Molten Fire Grand Duchy, and the thin one prepared to attack the Shadowflame Kingdom in revenge for his brother Pan.
• The thin Frost Troll charged toward the Volcanic Oasis and struck at Ouroboros, but an amber Dream Ancient Dragon phantom appeared behind the little snake.

Russell quelled Snow Demon unrest and studied the Frost Star races’ power crystals while refugees struggled to reach safety. As Frost Star’s invasion overwhelmed several countries, he refused to abandon the Shadowflame Kingdom and prepared to defend Dragon Sleep Continent alongside his Contract Partners.

• Russell and the Shadowflame Dragon defeated Snow Demons and examined the differences between troll and Snow Demon Ice Soul Beads.
• Russell continued clearing the trade route as refugees fled toward the Shadowflame Kingdom, the Scorching Torrent Kingdom, and the Amber Dreamscape.
• At the Amber Conference, Russell learned that Frost Snow Trolls had breached several countries and refused requests to leave his own kingdom undefended, urging the nations to evacuate into Volcanic Domains.
• Russell sent Ouroboros to take Tepe to the border for battle training, while warning Ouroboros not to put Tepe in mortal danger.
• Russell agreed with Ouroboros that humans and Phantom Beasts had to protect Dragon Sleep Continent together.

Welim Jinnali and Russell’s Phantom Beasts faced escalating Frost Troll attacks across the snowfields. As a meteor bore down on Ouroboros and Tapir, Ouroboros chose to protect its companion rather than escape into the Dark Dreamscape.

• Welim Jinnali led his knights against Snow Demons, but a Riding Blue Skin and a troll blocked their retreat, so he charged the troll to draw it away.
• Ouroboros trained Tapir to fight Snow Demons, then warned it to flee when a Snow Troll descended nearby.
• Russell learned that Frost Trolls were advancing on Volcanic Oasis and rode north, while Polly and Sembra prepared to defend the region and Harpie flew to support Ouroboros and Tapir.
• Two Snow Demons cornered Ouroboros and Tapir, but Ouroboros summoned the Dream Ancient Dragon’s power to break the Frost Domain and drive them back.
• The Dream Ancient Dragon shattered a meteor threatening Ouroboros, but another meteor trapped them; Ouroboros shielded Tapir instead of abandoning it and braced for impact.

Dream Eater Tapir watched Ouroboros sacrifice itself to shield it from a meteor, then awakened its resolve and survived as dream energy inside Frost Troll Sheng’s subconscious. Russell mourned the severed mental links but defeated a Frost Troll, and the links to Ouroboros and Tapir returned as they began their transformation through the Life and Death Dragon Tribulation and Red Dust Refining Heart.

• Ouroboros shielded Dream Eater Tapir from the meteor but shattered under its impact, inspiring Tapir to sincerely desire strength.
• The meteor struck Tapir, and Frost Troll Sheng emerged from the crater believing the Amber Dreamscape had eliminated Russell’s Contract Partners.
• Russell felt his mental links to Ouroboros and Tapir sever, then killed a Frost Troll and its Snow Giant with Shadowflame Dragon’s help.
• Russell’s links to Ouroboros and Tapir returned stronger, and he hurried toward Cloud Dream Oasis to witness their transformations.
• Tapir’s accumulated dream energy preserved its consciousness after its body was destroyed, and it revived inside Sheng’s subconscious dream.

Dream Tapir Tapir discovered that the Eternal Seven Elders had sent Frost Troll Sheng to kill Russell and helped Ouroboros and Harpie defeat him. Russell arrived after the battle and recognized Ouroboros’s new phantom-dragon ability, but Tapir was still missing.

• Dream Tapir Tapir reviewed Frost Troll Sheng’s memories and learned that the Eternal Seven Elders had targeted Russell and Ouroboros in a plot to kill Ouroboros.
• Tapir and Ouroboros agreed to stop Frost Troll Sheng, while Ouroboros sensed Russell approaching and Harpie arriving.
• Tapir manipulated Frost Troll Sheng’s subconscious, drawing him toward Cloud Dream Oasis as Harpie and Ouroboros attacked him.
• Harpie and Ouroboros killed Frost Troll Sheng after he struggled against their combined assault.
• Russell arrived and celebrated the victory as Ouroboros revealed he could extend his body infinitely through the void; Russell named him Infinite Ouroboros and asked where Tapir was.