Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan prepared to defend Outpost Camp while ordering Christian to attack Lamo City, and Lilith proposed that another force was awakening the Old Continent’s city-state factions. She suspected remnants of the Archmage Tower were returning and ended by asking whether Fang Yuan remembered the Godhead.

• Fang Yuan learned that Green Sea Alliance forces were gathering to attack Outpost Camp, where Yasis had deployed the Wind Thunder Sword Guards.
• Fang Yuan told Lilith he had sent word to Breni and Yasis to handle the defense, while Christian would attack Lamo City and help secure the northern border.
• Lilith explained that awakened Beastmen were withdrawing from Golden Flower Pioneer Territory and suggested they had been awakened by a force other than the Mist.
• Lilith pointed out that Old Continent legions had not joined the fighting and theorized that survivors from the Archmage Tower were returning to contest the continent.
• Lilith said the returning factions would need the Blue Star Lords because their Civilization Fire was gone, then asked Fang Yuan if he remembered the Godhead.

Fang Yuan sent Vanas to search the northern mountains for the Hero's Regret quest and learned that Liu Zhenhan had established the Bloodlust Alliance in the Windy Grassland. After using Liu's Dragon Tooth Rice Ball to raise Qing Feng's level and loyalty, Fang Yuan stole a Golden Quality item called the Curse of the Demon Dragon from Serena.

• Lilith suggested that the Neutral Factions in Gondor might have awakened because of the divine shard, but Fang Yuan decided to treat them as enemies until they joined his forces.
• Fang Yuan chose to pursue the Hero's Regret quest and ordered Vanas to lead the Windwalkers north to find its trigger location.
• The Guardian Spirit fused with the Book of Curses and gained the Confused Vision curse.
• Liu Zhenhan told Fang Yuan that he had founded the Bloodlust Alliance with thirty lords in the Windy Grassland and sent him a Dragon Tooth Rice Ball.
• Fang Yuan gave Qing Feng the Dragon Tooth Rice Ball, which increased her loyalty and level and temporarily enhanced her Bounty Hunter skill.
• Fang Yuan used the Abomination Gloves to steal from Serena of the Hydra Alliance and obtained the Golden Quality Curse of the Demon Dragon.

The Hydra Alliance planned to attack Fang Yuan, convinced that his forces were weakened and that the Dragon Nation would not intervene. Its leaders prepared overwhelming troops and powerful items, but Serena discovered that Fang Yuan had stolen their Golden anti-magic item, the Curse of the Demon Dragon.

• James and Serena discussed how Fang Yuan’s killing of the Hydra Alliance’s envoy gave them an excuse to attack, while the Alliance Leader argued that the Dragon Nation would not stop them.
• The Hydra Alliance Leader claimed Fang Yuan’s forces were depleted in the south and ordered the alliance to capture his Main Territory within three days.
• Serena reported that Fang Yuan’s route was defended by an Outpost Camp, Griffon Castle, and another checkpoint, while the Alliance Leader outlined their 100,000 troops and siege equipment.
• The Hydra Alliance leaders revealed Orange items and a Golden item, the Curse of the Demon Dragon, which could seal magic and weaken mana-bearing forces for three days.
• Serena searched her bag for the Curse of the Demon Dragon, discovered it was missing, and announced that Fang Yuan had stolen it.

Fang Yuan stole the Golden Dragon's Curse Statue from Serena and prepared to face the Hydra Alliance’s planned assault with a flanking ambush. As he began upgrading his buildings, the Magic Research Laboratory discovered the Orange Rare technology Spell Enhancement.

• Serena discovered that Fang Yuan had stolen her Dragon's Curse Statue, and the Hydra Alliance decided to attack his territory with a force focused on warriors.
• Fang Yuan used his glove to steal items from other lords, gave Qing Feng a Dragon Crystal Dagger, and put the remaining loot up for sale.
• Fang Yuan reviewed Yasis and Breni’s plan to lure the Hydra Alliance into the Northern Territory passage and encircle it with a surprise attack.
• Fang Yuan ordered Breni to demolish the Green Sea Alliance headquarters if possible, then began upgrading his buildings.
• The Magic Research Laboratory analyzed and obtained the Orange Rare technology Spell Enhancement.

Fang Yuan learned that Lilith had identified a potentially Golden Quality Mutation Rune and decided to reclaim Golden Flower Pioneer Castle to improve the research facilities. He enhanced the Flame Magus Camp with a Spell Enhancement Rune and began gathering materials for another upgrade as the Beastmen Imperial Guard launched its siege of Outpost Camp.

• Lilith explained that the Mage Research Academy had analyzed three runes and that a difficult, potentially Golden Quality Mutation Rune might hold the key to creating Legendary soldiers.
• Fang Yuan learned that Lilith needed a qualified dragon-bloodline mage assistant or a higher-level Spell Research Laboratory, and he resolved to speed up reclaiming Golden Flower Pioneer Castle.
• Fang Yuan reviewed the approaching battles at Lamo City and Outpost Camp, then chose to apply the Spell Enhancement Rune to the Flame Magus Camp rather than Voodoo Castle.
• Fang Yuan enhanced the Flame Magus Camp, raising Flame Magus attributes and spell damage by 50%, then upgraded the rune once and searched the trading platform for more fire-element Orange Source Crystals.
• At Outpost Camp, the Beastmen Imperial Guard reached the city walls under rune-enhanced shields, while their commanders ordered the Siege Weapon Legion to prepare for the assault.

As the Hydra Alliance pressed its attack on Outpost Camp, Yasis ordered the Wind Thunder Sword Guard to counterattack before the walls fell. The Guard killed Janar and the Griffins launched an assault on the Beastmen’s war machines.

• Serena reported that Fang Yuan was attacking Lamo City instead of reinforcing Outpost Camp, so the Hydra Alliance leader ordered James to breach the camp that day and sent 3,000 mages south to prepare an outpost.
• After Fang Yuan’s cavalry counterattack failed, James ordered siege weapons and an orange siege scroll used against Outpost Camp’s walls.
• Yasis learned the walls would collapse within half an hour and ordered the Wind Thunder Sword Guard and other legions to destroy the attacking war machines.
• When the Beastmen broke through the walls, the Gorse Knights and Auxiliary Corps charged out and struck their line.
• Janar activated Berserk and blocked the charge, but a Wind Thunder Sword Guard attack split him in two.
• Thirty-six Griffins took to the sky and swooped toward the Beastmen’s war-machine position.

After the Hydra Alliance’s attack on Fang Yuan’s Outpost Camp was repelled by his Gold units, James prepared a cautious follow-up strategy while the alliance leader sent reinforcements. Meanwhile, Breni seized an opening to push his Demon Knights through an Outpost Camp and raced toward the Northern Frontier Passage.

• James learned that the defenders had killed Janar and destroyed the frontline siege positions, so he planned to hold the line with specialized units until the Minotaur Soul Walker arrived.
• The Hydra Alliance leader confirmed Fang Yuan had Gold units and sent the Minotaur Soul Walker and Foxman Mages to James, ordering him to take the Outpost Camp with concentrated forces.
• Breni’s Demon Knights occupied an Outpost Camp during a garrison change and began advancing through it toward the Green Sea Alliance headquarters.
• A messenger reported that the Outpost Camp had fallen, Yasis’s Auxiliary Corps had been wiped out, more than half the Griffon Knights were lost, and a third of the Wind Thunder Sword Guard had died.
• Breni abandoned his supplies and ordered the Demon Knight Order to march at full speed toward the Northern Frontier Passage.

James’s forces captured Outpost Camp after driving back Yasis’s defenders, but Fang Yuan quickly sent Yasis to counterattack with reinforced troops. The Hydra Alliance’s army collapsed under a pincer assault, and James begged to negotiate peace.

• James learned that his forces had captured Outpost Camp, then ordered troops to search for Fang Yuan’s outer territories and requested reinforcements.
• Fang Yuan arrived in the Undead Territory with reinforcements, reassured Yasis, and ordered him to retake Outpost Camp with Griffon Knights and Dwarf Chariots.
• Fang Yuan sent Qing Feng to the battlefield and instructed Lilith to use Meteor Fire Rain if the front line lost again.
• James organized the Hydra Alliance’s forces to attack the barony and Gloomy Forest, then requested that their army be doubled.
• Yasis’s counterattack reached Outpost Camp as cavalry struck the Hydra Alliance’s rear, causing the army to collapse.
• James realized his forces had been caught in a pincer attack and called Fang Yuan to request peace talks.

Fang Yuan forced the Hydra Alliance to surrender a Golden Forbidden Spell Scroll in exchange for its surrounded heroes, while secretly arranging for Qing Feng to kill White Bull Walker before the contract took effect. The Alliance redeemed its other forces with ten billion gold coins’ worth of resources, but Donnie discovered his hero had been killed and realized Fang Yuan had outmaneuvered him.

• Fang Yuan ordered Yasis to attack the surrounded Hydra Alliance forces after their threats and negotiations failed.
• James realized the alliance had been trapped and admitted that its forces were surrounded, prompting Donnie to take over negotiations with Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan demanded the Doomsday Tornado scroll as ransom and told Lilith to have Yasis extort the surrounded lords while Qing Feng targeted White Bull Walker.
• Qing Feng killed White Bull Walker just before the contract took effect, and Fang Yuan received the Forbidden Spell Scroll.
• The surrounded lords paid ten billion gold coins’ worth of resources to redeem their remaining heroes and troops, while Donnie learned White Bull Walker was dead and collapsed in rage.

Zhao Zixiao told Lin Ying how Fang Yuan defeated the Hydra Alliance, took its Forbidden Spell Scroll, killed White Bull Walker, and seized the Hero’s Curio. While the Four Sacred Alliances weighed how to handle Fang Yuan and the White Eagle threat, Fang Yuan discovered that the Curio could recruit a designated Hero.

• Zhao Zixiao explained that Fang Yuan trapped the Hydra Alliance’s force and negotiated a ransom that included its Wind Dragon Tornado Forbidden Spell Scroll.
• Zhao Zixiao revealed that Fang Yuan had used the surrounded troops as leverage, killed White Bull Walker just before the spell took effect, and taken the Hero’s Curio while securing a second ransom from James.
• Lin Ying said the White Eagle consortium had threatened war and demanded Fang Yuan, while the Four Sacred Alliances considered pressuring him to return the scroll.
• Zhao Zixiao advised the Four Sacred Alliances to avoid confronting Fang Yuan and instead build mutual interests, then began messaging him to trade for his spoils.
• Fang Yuan inspected White Bull Walker’s Curio and discovered that it could recruit a designated Hero without faction restrictions.

Fang Yuan examined the White Bull Walker's Horn and considered which building to use it on, realizing it could recruit a development hero rather than only a combat hero. After Zhao Zixiao and Lin Ying contacted him about trading, he decided to use the horn on the Trade Market to create an anonymous platform for high-value exchanges.

• Fang Yuan learned that the White Bull Walker's Horn could create a hero compatible with a building's units and weighed its value against selling it.
• Fang Yuan considered his barracks but rejected them because their units already had suitable heroes, were too specialized, or were due for an upgrade or dismantling.
• Fang Yuan realized the horn could be integrated into any building in his main city, not just a barracks, and saw development heroes as valuable because his expanded hero slots gave him room to recruit them.
• Zhao Zixiao and Lin Ying congratulated Fang Yuan and asked whether he had items suitable for trade.
• Fang Yuan imagined building an anonymous trading platform for high-value items and decided to use the White Bull Walker's Horn on the Trade Market.

Fang Yuan learned from Lilith about the history of magical research institutions and decided to seek out a White Witch research hut to produce a research-oriented hero. Xu Fei then offered a Golden Special Grade item for Fang Yuan’s Forbidden Spell Scroll, and Fang Yuan discovered the item was a Unicorn's Horn.

• Fang Yuan waited for the Trade Market to produce a development-type hero and decided he would seek a research-oriented mage next.
• Lilith explained the eras and institutions of magic, recommending that Fang Yuan look for a White Witch research hut.
• Fang Yuan decided to search for buildings related to Witch Huts rather than pursue the harder-to-find orthodox mage institutions.
• Xu Fei contacted Fang Yuan, offered a Golden Special Grade item in exchange for the Forbidden Spell Scroll, and sent its item panel.
• Fang Yuan saw that Xu Fei’s item was a Unicorn's Horn.

Fang Yuan traded a wind-element Forbidden Spell Scroll to Xu Fei for the Golden Equipment Unicorn's Horn, which summoned a unicorn for Lilith. As they prepared to inspect the unicorn, the Trade Market announced that Fang Yuan had obtained the Orange Rare Grade development hero Aisha, Child of Commerce.

• Fang Yuan judged the Unicorn's Horn more valuable than his Forbidden Spell Scroll and agreed to Xu Fei's trade.
• Xu Fei explained that the Fei Ye Alliance needed Forbidden Spell Scrolls to clear the treant wall in Silver Moon Forest, then traded the Unicorn's Horn to Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan received the Unicorn's Horn and handed it to Lilith, who summoned a holy-looking unicorn in the Lord's Hall.
• Lilith recognized the horn's connection to the history of the Elf Empire, while Fang Yuan prepared to inspect the unicorn's attributes.
• The Trade Market notified Fang Yuan that he had obtained the Orange Rare Grade development hero Aisha, Child of Commerce.

Fang Yuan welcomed Aisha, learned how her commerce skills could expand his trading network, and examined the powerful unicorn Phila. As his forces gathered outside Lamo City, Christian asked whether they should begin the attack.

• Aisha appeared before Fang Yuan, and Lilith explained the history of the God of Commerce and Wealth after Aisha treated an insult as praise.
• Fang Yuan checked Aisha’s skills, ordered her to prepare one hundred Golden Commerce Guild invitations, and directed her to issue Merchant Permits to the caravan in Blackwater City.
• Fang Yuan examined Phila’s powerful abilities and decided the unicorn could be worth several Forbidden Spell Scrolls despite its inability to harm elves.
• Fang Yuan began choosing high-value lords to invite to the Golden Commerce Guild and considered sending Xu Fei extra invitations.
• A Griffon Knight reported that the army outside Lamo City had assembled and asked whether to begin the attack on Christian’s behalf.

Fang Yuan prepared reinforcements and siege equipment for the assault on Lamo City, while planning how to organize his peripheral alliances after the city fell. The chapter ended with a Magic Rune Architect offering him a Gold-grade fragment from the ruins.

• Lilith assessed the exhausted Demon Suppression and Crimson Flame Alliances, and Fang Yuan promised them territory and resources after the campaign while warning himself not to let them grow too powerful.
• Fang Yuan ordered Lilith to send 5,000 Flame Magi and told Yasis to bring 3,000 Griffon Knights to reinforce the siege of Lamo City.
• Lilith warned Fang Yuan that a Demigod Level dragon might awaken beneath Marigold Fortress, so Fang Yuan sent siege scrolls and arranged for Christian to use the Unicorn's Horn equipment.
• Fang Yuan activated his blessing and received a White-grade Wooden Sentry Tower Building Card, then decided to let another alliance take over the damaged Outpost Camp and Green Sea Alliance territory.
• Fang Yuan planned to divide the Crimson Flame Alliance by moving some of its lords into the Green Sea Alliance, so the three peripheral alliances would restrain one another.
• A Level Two Magic Rune Architect contacted Fang Yuan and offered him a Gold-grade Fragment of Shadow of Stealth in exchange for Magic Rune Diagrams.

Fang Yuan learned that Wu Dan had found a Golden Quality Arcane Armament fragment among the ruins of a fallen Floating City near Deepwater City. He arranged to trade for it and sought information about the ruins, while Lilith’s army advanced toward Lamo City and the Golden Commerce Guild’s invitation was completed.

• Fang Yuan recognized the Golden Quality fragment as part of an Arcane Armament and offered Wu Dan Magic Rune Diagrams in exchange for its location.
• Wu Dan explained that she had found the fragment while exploring a crashed Floating City near Deepwater City, where expanding mana storms threatened her territory.
• Fang Yuan concluded that Deepwater City was difficult to reach and planned to pursue the ruins with help from the Fei Ye Alliance once Gondor stabilized.
• Wu Dan agreed to explore the area and record its coordinates, then sent Fang Yuan the fragment before receiving payment.
• Fang Yuan checked the map and saw that Lilith’s army had reached Black Fish Port and was marching toward Lamo City.
• The Lord’s Mark notified Fang Yuan that the Golden Commerce Guild’s invitation letter had been completed.

Fang Yuan distributed invitations to the Golden Commerce Guild and planned its first opening for the next day. Meanwhile, Demon Dragon Fas devised a scheme to pressure Fang Yuan into entering the Twin Secret Realm by awakening the Beastmen Empire.

• Fang Yuan sent half of the Golden Commerce Guild invitations to chosen Lords and scattered the rest randomly, setting the guild to open the next day.
• The Undead Archmage reported that the Zixiao Alliance had attacked the Rainbow Cloud Alliance base and suppressed the Great Necropolis to level eight.
• Fas decided to provoke the Beastmen Empire into awakening so its expansion would make Fang Yuan fear a future threat and seek to raise his territory to level nine.
• Fas explained that the awakened Beastmen would fight a nearby Demigod-level dragon lair rather than attack Fang Yuan, while their presence would pressure him to enter the Twin Secret Realm.
• Fas ordered dragon-blood minions to awaken Beastmen near the Gloomy Forest within three days and put the Mist Lords' Golden Legions on standby to enter the secret realm ahead of Fang Yuan.

Ren Yuan rejected White Eagle’s demands and revealed that a sleeping Demigod Level demon dragon had forced Dragon Nation to abandon Gondor, while Fang Yuan launched the Golden Commerce Guild and received urgent news from the battle at Lamo City.

• Ren Yuan refused White Eagle’s terms and ordered a statement condemning its pressure over Gondor and Fang Yuan.
• Ren Yuan told his assistant that a Demigod Level demon dragon slept beneath a vast Underground City in Gondor, and that Dragon Nation planned to warn and evacuate the region’s lords.
• Ren Yuan learned that Lilith and Zhao Zixiao had received invitations to the Golden Commerce Guild and told them not to enter until the nation investigated it.
• Fang Yuan saw that no lords had confirmed entry into the Golden Commerce Guild until a Level 5 Lord from Pig Bay Town accepted his invitation.
• A Griffon Knight reported severe losses during the assault on Lamo City, then another reported that Lilith, Christian, and Yasis helped kill the enemy hero and seize the northern wall.

Fang Yuan's forces and their allies besieged Lamo City, overcoming its protective formation and fierce defenders through siege weapons, scrolls, and Christian's aerial assault. Christian and Yasis led the final push, the gates opened, and the Heavy Cavalry charged into the fallen city.

• The Crimson Flame Alliance and Suppression Demon Alliance leaders discussed whether to leave Fang Yuan after the siege, then turned their attention to the assault on Lamo City.
• The attackers began the siege with crossbow fire and trebuchets, while the defenders used ballistae and flame-spouting weapons to repel the first attempts to climb the walls.
• Mage Meg's priests shielded the Heavy Infantry, who reached the battlements, but a protective formation appeared and a defending Mage Legion wiped them out.
• Fang Yuan's forces shattered the formation with siege scrolls and weakened the defenders with buff and debuff scrolls, before three Orange Heroes led another assault that the Orange Rare Sword Masters and mages crushed.
• Fire Elementals attacked the defenders, and Christian summoned and mounted a unicorn before leading Yasis and the Griffon Knights in an aerial assault that overwhelmed the Sword Masters.
• The attackers took the walls, opened Lamo City's gates, and sent the Heavy Cavalry charging into the city.

Fang Yuan learned that the Demigod-Level Demonic Dragon and the Beastmen of the Windy Grassland were awakening, and decided to strengthen his territory rather than leave Gando for the Silver Moon Forest. After refusing Lin Ying’s invitation, he received the loot from Lamo City, including a Golden Treasure Chest and Sok’s Key.

• Lin Ying told Zhao Zixiao that the Four Sacred Alliances would offer the Zixiao Alliance territory and reinforcements in the Silver Moon Forest if it left Gando.
• Zhao Zixiao said he would leave only if Fang Yuan did, while a messenger reported that Fang Yuan’s forces had captured Lamo City.
• Liu Zhenhan warned Fang Yuan that Beastmen and high-tier monsters were awakening around the Underground City and across the Windy Grassland.
• Lin Ying informed Fang Yuan that the Demigod-Level Demonic Dragon was awakening, and Fang Yuan decided to upgrade his main city before confronting the threats.
• Fang Yuan refused Lin Ying’s invitation to leave the Northern Territory and resolved to remain in Gando to pursue the godhood.
• Fang Yuan received Lamo City’s loot, including Orange equipment and items, building-card fragments, a Golden Treasure Chest, and Sok’s Key.