Chapter Summaries

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.

Russell’s dragons evolved into powerful new forms as Frost Star overlapped with Dragon Star, beginning a long war between humans and trolls. After Tapir delivered Frost Star’s language materials for translation, Little Dream Dragon intercepted it and took its memories of the outside world.

• Dream Tapir Tapir revealed that it now lived in dreams, while Ouroboros described its fusion with space and the Shadowflame Dragon struggled to contain its growing power.
• Russell ordered Ouroboros and Hape to guard the south against Frost Snow Trolls, then returned to battle with the Shadowflame Dragon.
• Half a month later, Frost Star overlapped with Dragon Star through a higher-dimensional veil, and Russell learned that the Eternal Seven Elders planned to seize Dragon Sleep Continent’s Origin Power.
• Russell ordered Tapir to send Frost Star’s language materials to the Amber Conference, and Tapir found Scholar Williams to compile them.
• Little Dream Dragon snatched Tapir away and absorbed what it had seen while exploring dreams in the real world.

Amber City and the Deep Dream Kingdom continued organizing refugees and preparing to counterattack Frost Star, while Marquis Merlin attended a lecture by Lord Ouroboros. The chapter left the knights waiting as Ouroboros prepared to begin speaking through Tep.

• Amber Conference representatives discussed refugee aid, farming, and plans to study Frost Star before counterattacking through the Gate of Another World.
• Marquis Merlin distributed Frost Star language materials, crediting Lord Tep with obtaining the information from troll minds.
• Marquis Merlin's rock-wall mountain eagle urged him to attend Lord Ouroboros's lecture so they could pursue advancement.
• At the Path of Man and Dragon Study Society, Marquis Merlin met Velim Jinnali, who described surviving the Life and Death Dragon Tribulation and becoming a Dragon Domain Lord.
• The host explained that Tep would translate Lord Ouroboros's telepathic words as the lecture was about to begin.

Ouroboros explained how Red Dust Refining Heart and the Life and Death Dragon Tribulation helped phantom beasts master their power, inspiring knights to seek battle and advance. Russell investigated growing fissures across the snowfields and concluded that Frost Star’s destruction was resonating with Dragon Star and could eventually shatter it, exposing its Origin Power.

• Ouroboros lectured the Path of Man and Dragon Study Society on advancement, drawing praise from Grand Duke Vitali and inspiring knights to prepare for battle on the snowfields.
• Grand Duke Vitali decided to pass his title to Viktor and focus on Red Dust Refining Heart.
• Russell descended with Polly into a newly formed fissure near the Mountain Fire Grand Duchy and found it extended more than seven thousand meters underground and was still widening.
• Russell ordered Marquis Cambino to search for more fissures, then found one himself east of the Shadowflame Kingdom as reports arrived of others across the snowfields.
• At the Amber Conference, Russell warned that Frost Star’s destruction was resonating with Dragon Star and might eventually shatter it, exposing Dragon Star’s Origin Power.

Humanity learned that Frost Star had shattered itself to create a new planet and had targeted Dragon Sleep Continent for its Origin Power, prompting nations to prepare for a decisive counterattack. When Frost Trolls attacked a newly born dragon, Russell arrived in time to defeat their leader and rescue it, leaving the injured dragon under his protection.

• Humanity’s leaders agreed to crack the Gate of Another World and take the fight to Frost Star while continuing to hunt Frost Snow Trolls across the snowfields.
• A new volcano formed in the Ancient Tundra Land, and a gray-white dragon named Blizzard emerged as a warm Volcanic Oasis took shape around it.
• Frost Troll He led more than a dozen Frost Trolls in surrounding Blizzard and attacking the newborn dragon.
• Russell rode Harpie to the volcano, summoned Dalimu and the Dream Ancient Dragon, and broke through the Frost Domain to attack the trolls.
• Russell killed Frost Troll He, while the other Frost Trolls escaped into the snowfields.
• Russell met the badly wounded Blizzard and promised to protect it from the Frost Snow Trolls.

Russell arranged for the newly born Blizzard Dragon to join the Amber Dreamscape and recover in its own Volcanic Domain, while he stayed in the Blizzard Volcano to study ice and snow power. After meeting Little Dream Dragon, Blizzard returned to the real world and wondered why other dragons had given up their hopes of becoming Ancient Dragons.

• Russell introduced himself to the Blizzard Dragon, and the Dragon Team reported that they had killed two Frost Trolls after Froststar's ambush failed.
• Russell proposed a fair competition among nations for the Blizzard Dragon, a knight garrison at the Blizzard Volcano Oasis, and a place for the dragon in the Amber Dreamscape.
• Duke Elden and the others struggled to persuade Blizzard, so Russell suggested giving it a cluster of hope; the Amber Conference approved the plan, and Blizzard opened its own Volcanic Domain in the Amber Dreamscape.
• Blizzard teleported to Dream Volcano and sensed Little Dream Dragon's overwhelming power, then returned to the real Blizzard Volcano because it felt safer there.
• As Russell continued studying Ice and Snow Power, Blizzard asked why the other dragons had melted their hopes instead of pursuing advancement into Ancient Dragons.