Chapter Summaries

Russell and the Shadowflame Dragon successfully fused with the Flame Rule, creating the Flame Ancient Dragon and the Burning Sword, which became the Flame Crown. Their advancement melted the snow across the Shadowflame Kingdom, and Russell set his sights on Froststar while helping Rosai break through his limits.

• Russell and the Shadowflame Dragon completed their advancement, with the Burning Sword anchoring the Flame Ancient Dragon outside the rule world.
• Russell formed the Burning Sword into the Flame Crown, then agreed to teach dragons and Dragon Knights about fusing with rules in the Amber Dreamscape.
• Russell and Shadowflame tested their new power and discussed gathering Froststar's Origin Power to strengthen the declining rules and the Amber Dreamscape.
• The Flame Ancient Dragon melted the snow across the Shadowflame Kingdom, expanding its territory and creating new Warm Enclaves.
• Russell told Rosai that Shadowflame's fusion with the Flame Rule had broken his limits, and Rosai began evolving his breath toward dragonfire.

Russell gathered dragons and other listeners atop the Great Amber Tree to explain the Path of Rules after he and Shadowflame advanced. The chapter ended as Russell began his lecture, while Shadowflame and Snowcake bickered in his mind.

• Katie and Blizzard waited on the Great Amber Tree and discussed Shadowflame’s advancement and Katie’s devotion to Russell.
• Old Madam Ingrid, Madam Meryl, and Aunt Roby discussed Russell’s latest advancement and the burden of saving the world.
• Russell arrived riding Shadowflame, who became a thousand-meter giant before transforming into a flame atop the Flame Crown.
• Russell soothed Snowcake and asked both Ancient Dragons to stay quiet, but Shadowflame and Snowcake began arguing through their mental link.
• Russell addressed the gathered listeners and said he would explain the Path of Rules, warning that understanding it depended on their own comprehension.

After Russell’s lecture on the Path of Rules, the dragons and Dragon Knights resolved to search for clues to other Ancient Dragons while strengthening their nations. Russell then loosened the Dragon Breath shackles of foreign Wyverns and arranged a gathering with his ministers, while Shadowflame reminded him that he lacked dominance.

• King Debroye and the others concluded that dragons who sought the Ancient Dragon path during the Warm Era might have merged with the rules, and King Ares called for a search of ancient texts, legends, ruins, and unusual places.
• Russell used the Burning Sword and the Flame Ancient Dragon’s power to loosen the Dragon Breath shackles of foreign Wyverns, giving them hope of following the Path of Man and Dragon.
• Russell ordered Charles to invite Wyverns from every nation to Shadowflame Volcano for help and to summon his ministers for a banquet at Cigar Palace.
• Russell reflected on his loneliness at Shadowflame Volcano, and the Flame Ancient Dragon told him that Shadowflame valued dominance and that Russell lacked it.

Russell prepared Dragon Sleep Continent for a full war against Frost Star and pressed the Grand Scholar Round Table Society to open the Gate of Another World. After the scholars deciphered the gate, Russell set an invasion plan for October 1, leaving the continent poised to strike Eternal Frost Star.

• Russell inspected the experimental center and criticized the Grand Scholars for failing to pierce the Gate of Another World.
• Russell warned the Amber Conference that the Eternal Seven Elders had thawed and ordered Dragon Sleep Continent to prepare for total war.
• After a month of waiting as the two stars continued to fracture, the Grand Scholars and Dragon Knights deciphered the gate’s magic array and opened a temporary passage between Dragon Star and Frost Star.
• Russell organized three Dragon Teams to land on Shattered Frost Star and attack Eternal Frost Star, with himself leading the vanguard.
• Russell set October 1 as the date for the three Dragon Teams to assemble and pierce the Gate of Another World.

Russell discovered that he could freely return to the Dragon Sleep Continent through the Amber Dreamscape, then led the dragon army through the Shattered Sea to attack the Frost Snow Trolls on the way to the Eternal Frost Star. The battle began in the Shattered Sea, where Russell set out to unleash a slaughter while Saiban searched for Frost Giants.

• Russell found that he could enter the Amber Dreamscape and return freely from the Shattered Frost Star, and he developed the snow-white sword aura of Profound Meaning—Demon Sword.
• Russell returned to the Dragon Sleep Continent, then led the First, Second, and Third Dragon Teams through the Gate of Another World to the Shattered Frost Star.
• Russell led the teams into the Shattered Sea and used Demon Sword to open a path toward the Eternal Frost Star as Grand Duke Vitali watched from Dragon Star.
• Frost Snow Trolls erupted from the Shattered Sea and stirred up its magic, but Duke Elden and the Dragon Teams fought back in battle formations.
• Russell searched the battlefield for Frost Giants, then ordered Saiban to keep searching while he and Shadowflame prepared to attack the trolls.

Katie and the Blizzard Dragon escaped the Frost Snow Trolls, recovered, and rejoined Russell’s Dragon Team, which defeated the trolls in the Shattered Sea. Russell led the team through a magicless void to Eternal Frost Star, where the Dragon Team and the Frost Giants’ Hundred Tribes began their decisive battle.

• Katie and the Blizzard Dragon fled the Frost Snow Trolls to Dream Volcano, where Katie reported the battle and recovered with Frost Star Beads.
• Katie and the Blizzard Dragon returned to the Shattered Sea, where Russell’s reinforced Dragon Team defeated the Frost Snow Trolls and collected Frost Star Beads.
• Russell led the Dragon Team into a magicless void, creating a flame path as Young Master Dalimu and Saiban made two other Paths of Rules for the group to follow.
• Russell struck Eternal Frost Star with a Conceptual Slash, cracking its surface and prompting the Eternal Seven Elders and the Three New to confront him.
• Mountain Elder summoned the Hundred Tribes of Frost Star, and Russell and Mountain Elder led their forces into battle.

Russell and the dragons battled the Eternal Seven Elders and Three New on Eternal Frost Star as the trolls tried to overwhelm them and deny the dragons their corpses. Russell grasped the power of Frost Star and used it to kill Fish Elder with the newly awakened Super Ultimate Art: Sword of the Troll.

• Russell fought the Frost Giants with Dalimu, Saiban, and other dragon allies, while Dream Tapir Tapir failed to enter the giants’ minds and withdrew to rest.
• The Frost Snow Trolls began detonating their power to injure dragons and destroy their corpses, but Grand Duke Vitali arrived with Phantom Dragon Knights who slaughtered ordinary trolls and shifted the battle toward Dragon Sleep Continent.
• Russell drew on Frost Snow Power and Snow Soul Power during the battle and realized they embodied Frost Star’s unique vitality and a rule governing its world.
• Russell’s ordinary-looking strike killed Fish Elder, and he explained that he had gained the power through enlightenment rather than theft.
• Russell unleashed the Super Ultimate Art: Sword of the Troll, a sword technique belonging to Frost Star’s world.

Russell used the Super Ultimate Art: Sword of the Troll to kill the Frost Giants as they drew on Eternal Frost Star’s power, and his counterattack helped trigger the star’s destruction. After the resulting blizzard scattered the armies, Russell regrouped with Dalimu and Saiban and continued hunting the surviving Frost Giants.

• Russell killed Fish Elder, Lion Elder, and Ci Xin, while Hou Xin and Ou Xin fled and the remaining Frost Giants invoked the annihilation plan.
• The Frost Giants drew Snow Soul Power from Eternal Frost Star, but Russell also absorbed and wielded it, cutting through the besieging fighters with his swordsmanship.
• Russell tracked down and killed Ou Xin, and the ancient dragons divided and consumed the fallen Frost Giant’s remains.
• Eternal Frost Star collapsed and exploded, filling the Shattered Frost Star core with shattered ice and a raging blizzard that scattered the combatants.
• The dragons and trolls resumed their battle while surviving Frost Giants absorbed the escaping Snow Soul Power, and Russell told Dalimu and Saiban to help him hunt Hou Xin.

Russell defeated the remaining Troll elders and failed to stop the Shattered Star Flying Boat from vanishing with the Troll Seeds aboard. He returned to the battle, where he led the dragons in wiping out the Trolls while vowing to find the seeds.

• Russell discovered Mountain Elder, Tree Elder, and the other elders fighting over the Shattered Star Flying Boat and its Troll Seeds.
• Eagle Elder and Serpent Elder blocked Russell so Mountain Elder could activate the boat, but Russell killed them after they charged him.
• The Shattered Star Flying Boat faded beyond Russell's reach, and Mountain Elder threatened that the Troll Seeds would one day rise again.
• Russell mocked Mountain Elder, left the vanishing boat, and returned to the battle to destroy the Trolls and order the dragons to leave none alive.
• A wounded dragon restored its strength by consuming a Frost Troll, then joined the slaughter as Russell cut through the Trolls.

Russell and the Amber Conference celebrated the destruction of the troll race while preparing to anchor Frost Star, harvest Origin Power, and strengthen the Amber Dreamscape before Dragon Sleep Continent collapsed. At the victory banquet, Grand Duke Jonas proposed uniting the human nations under Russell as emperor.

• Russell ordered the remaining trolls hunted down and called for the Shattered Star Flying Boat to be tracked after it escaped with troll seeds.
• Russell explained that Eternal Frost Star’s destruction had disrupted Frost Star’s anchoring, and he revealed that Dream Tapir Tapir had found information about the Eternal Frost Star Plan.
• Russell warned that Dragon Sleep Continent still faced extinction, and the Amber Conference ordered research to preserve the worlds’ fusion and extract their Origin Power.
• A Grand Scholar reported that the trolls had planned to hunt another distant world, prompting the Amber Conference to agree that the Amber Dreamscape must be strengthened by gathering more Origin Power.
• At the victory banquet, Grand Duke Jonas proposed uniting the human nations and having Russell become emperor.

Russell refused to pursue the emperor’s throne, explaining that he wanted to transform Amber Dreamscape into a new world. As Dragon Sleep Continent neared destruction, humanity expanded Amber Dreamscape and prepared to move there, while Russell set out to see whether Frost Star’s will would surrender once its power was exhausted.

• Grand Duke Jonas and the other rulers urged Russell to become emperor, but Russell postponed the discussion to focus on the aftermath of the Battle of the Earth's Core.
• Russell told Baron Roman and his family that the emperor’s title did not matter to him; he aimed to establish Amber Dreamscape as a new world.
• By the end of Dragon Calendar Year 5588, Frost Star’s ice had melted, but expanding rifts and frequent earthquakes threatened Dragon Sleep Continent.
• Humanity used Planetary Anchoring to keep Frost Star from splitting apart while dragons extracted Snow Soul Power and Dragon Star’s Origin Power to expand Amber Dreamscape.
• Russell thanked Saiban for scattering seeds that would let humans enter Amber Dreamscape, then said he planned to separate it from Dragon Sleep Continent once everyone had moved.
• Russell left to inspect Frost Star and predicted that its will would surrender after its Snow Soul Power was exhausted.

Russell communicated with the Frost Star Will in the core of the Shattered Frost Star and convinced it to abandon the Eternal Frost Star Plan in favor of merging into the Amber Dreamscape. The Frost Star Will surrendered its remaining Origin Power to him, and Russell set out to create a Snow Mountain Domain for it.

• Scholars and knights discovered unenchanted iron ore on Frost Star, supporting the Origin Erosion Crust Theory and inspiring ideas for the Amber Dreamscape.
• Russell entered the Shattered Frost Star’s core space and called on the Frost Star Will to meet with him.
• The Frost Star Will showed Russell the Eternal Frost Star Plan, which would create a self-sustaining but sealed ecosystem.
• Russell offered the Frost Star Will a Snow Mountain Domain in the Amber Dreamscape, where Frost Star’s species could survive and reproduce.
• The Frost Star Will surrendered its remaining Origin Power to Russell, who decided to return to the Amber Dreamscape and create the domain.

Russell led the Dragon Team to Shattered Frost Star to locate the Shattered Star Flying Boat and eliminate the remaining trolls. They found the Eternal Three Elders hiding in an underground ocean and confronted them at the end of the chapter.

• Russell and the Dragon Team entered Shattered Frost Star through the Frost Snow Mountain Domain as the planet suffered avalanches and earthquakes after losing its magic power.
• Wyvern Knights told Russell that the Grand Scholar Round Table Society was recording the planet’s collapse and investigating a possible “Bubble Reaction.”
• Russell led the Dragon Team across the failing planet to its polar underground ocean, where the Shattered Star Flying Boat was hidden.
• Russell and the Dragon Knights discovered a Snow Soul Power array sealing the underground ocean, which the Eternal Seven Elders might use to wait for a chance to return.
• The Dragon Team found three Frost Giants guarding a carved iceberg, and Mountain Elder recognized Russell and demanded to know how he had found them.

Russell forced the three frost giants to surrender their knowledge in exchange for allowing a thousand Troll Seeds to survive, while the old trolls died and Frost Star collapsed into lifelessness. With the planet no longer worth anchoring, Russell prepared to let it return to its origin and send Dragon Sleep Continent onward.

• Russell confronted Mountain Elder, Tree Elder, and Serpent Elder at their Shattered Star Flying Boat refuge and rejected their request to let the troll race die out undisturbed.
• Tree Elder and Serpent Elder offered the Troll Seeds and the frost giants’ knowledge in exchange for letting the eggs hatch and reproduce, and Russell imposed his terms without swearing an oath.
• Mountain Elder, Tree Elder, and Serpent Elder surrendered their minds to Dream Tapir Tapir, while the Dragon Knights transported a thousand troll eggs to Frost Snow Mountain Domain.
• Mountain Elder, Tree Elder, and Serpent Elder killed themselves after the eggs were taken, and the dragons claimed their corpses, ending the old troll race.
• Russell and the Wyvern Knight expedition team observed Frost Star’s rapid destruction as its seas vanished, its core collapsed, and all life perished.
• Russell decided to stop spending Origin Power anchoring Frost Star and let it return to its origin so Dragon Sleep Continent could set out again.

After the Dragon Sleep Continent began collapsing, humanity relocated to the Amber Dreamscape and formed the Amber Federal Republic, with Russell named Honorary Emperor. While working to separate the Great Amber Tree from the continent, Russell discovered enormous Maggot Monsters devouring the Cosmic Tree’s roots and warned his companions to prepare for the danger ahead.

• Humanity adopted the Amber Calendar and relocated to the Amber Dreamscape as the Dragon Sleep Continent suffered earthquakes, tsunamis, and worsening climate.
• The nations established the Amber Federal Republic, creating the Dragon Upper House, the Knight Lower House, and a cabinet, while Russell became Honorary Emperor.
• Russell studied the Cosmic Tree from beyond the heavens and saw that Frost Star had gone extinct and that Eternal Starlight was the next target of the Eternal Frost Star Plan.
• Russell discovered enormous Maggot Monsters gnawing at the Cosmic Tree’s roots and realized they had caused its death.
• Russell warned his Ancient Dragon companions about the Maggot Monsters and urged everyone to grow stronger and keep the Great Amber Tree away from the Cosmic Tree’s remains.

Ten years later, Nicholas toured the declining Dragon Sleep Continent and gathered material for a play documenting its final days. He revealed he planned to enter the Freezing Plan after finishing the play, hoping to awaken when the Land of Eternal Starlight overlapped with their world.

• Nicholas traveled by train from polluted Furious Wind City to the declining Warm Sun City to gather inspiration for his new play.
• He photographed the city and a Bitter Earth mine, where resources were being extracted and shipped into the Amber Dreamscape.
• Nicholas told his longtime servant he had to finish Epilogue of the Dragon Sleep Continent within half a year before entering frozen slumber.
• He explained that he wanted to awaken when the Land of Eternal Starlight overlapped with their world, since his mortal lifespan would not last until then.
• Nicholas declared that Epilogue of the Dragon Sleep Continent was not his own epilogue and returned to organizing his materials.

Duke Mel visited Marquis Merlin’s grave before choosing to enter the Freezing Plan and follow Russell into the future. After Mel was frozen, Russell drew him into the Place of Contemplation, where they reunited and discussed the Amber Dreamscape’s development.

• Duke Mel and Annie visited Marquis Merlin’s grave and remembered the family members who had died or stayed behind rather than join the Freezing Plan.
• Mel agreed to take his reserved freezing slot, saying goodbye to Annie and gathering with his family for one last lunch.
• At Deep Dream Volcano, Mel severed his contracts with his Phantom Beasts and wyverns and entered a Cryo-pod among the sleeping people and Russell’s six frozen Phantom Dragons.
• Russell used his connection to the Amber Dreamscape to bring the newly frozen Mel into the Place of Contemplation, where Mel found himself young again.
• Russell and Mel discussed the Amber Federation and their past, and Russell promised that the Amber Dreamscape would become a true new world.

After awakening from a century of slumber, Russell emerged to find the Amber Federation transformed and began preparing for the arrival of the Land of Eternal Starlight. He planned to free Dalimu and named the force that would conquer the new world the Burning Legion.

• Russell awoke with his six Contract Partners and joined Little Dream Dragon, who had helped shape the Amber Dreamscape during his sleep.
• The Amber Federation’s leaders welcomed Russell, but he dismissed their ceremony and flew away with Little Dream Dragon.
• Russell visited Shadowflame Volcanic Domain and reunited with Little Fire Dragon.
• Russell explained that the Land of Eternal Starlight was approaching and that he wanted to help Dalimu escape the Abyss of Vengeance.
• Russell drew his Burning Sword and proposed naming their force the Burning Legion.

Russell and the Ancient Dragons surveyed the Dragon Sleep Continent before opening a Gate of Another World to the Land of Eternal Starlight. There, Russell met Tyrande Whisperwind, who said Queen Azshara was expecting him beneath the World Tree in accordance with a prophecy from the Moon God.

• Rose Duke Elden Swirlwall and Dalimu Ice Prism reflected on the ruined Dragon Sleep Continent, while Russell urged the group to focus on the Land of Eternal Starlight.
• Duke Elden showed the group a new magic-tech aircraft, which crashed shortly after takeoff, and Russell said the Amber Federation would explore the new world once the orbital overlap occurred.
• After the Gate of Another World opened, Russell entered the Land of Eternal Starlight and sensed that its Cosmic Tree was withering and the world was collapsing.
• Russell studied the world's magic, then used Tapu's help to communicate with a group of forest-dwelling natives led by Tyrande Whisperwind.
• Tyrande told Russell that Queen Azshara awaited him beneath the World Tree and that the Moon God had prophesied his arrival more than a century earlier.

Russell arrived in the Land of Eternal Starlight and met Queen Azshara, ruler of the Wind Whisper Tribe, while awaiting an audience with the Moon God. After learning about the Moon God’s power and influence, Russell considered how the deity might fit into the Amber Dreamscape.

• Aviana escorted Russell and Tyrande to the Wind Whisper World Tree, where Queen Azshara welcomed Russell to the Tree Court.
• Russell revealed several of his Contract Partners, startling Azshara, Aviana, Tyrande, and the other Children of the Forest.
• Russell entered the Tree Court with Azshara, learned that the Moon God had foretold his arrival, and explained that he came from Dragon Sleep Continent in peace.
• Tapu gathered information from the Children of the Forest, and Russell learned that the Moon God was the Land of Eternal Starlight’s sole true god, served by demigod messengers such as Aviana.
• Russell and Little Fire Dragon discussed the Moon God’s monotheistic faith and considered whether Russell could bring her into the Amber Dreamscape.