Chapter Summaries

Fas and Bloodcrow agreed to hold Fang Yuan inside the Bronze Dragon Secret Realm while their forces attacked his territory. Meanwhile, the Hydra Alliance accepted a mysterious consortium’s offer to ambush Fang Yuan, as Aisha finished appraising a set attribute for the Wasteland Territory.

• Bloodcrow warned Fas that Fang Yuan’s growing power made their original plan dangerous, but Fas argued that they had to strike before Fang Yuan became stronger.
• Bloodcrow revealed that he had arranged for White Eagle lords to raid Fang Yuan’s territory, while Fas said he had also arranged an attack from the west and planned to leave legions outside the secret realm.
• The Hydra Alliance’s leader heard reports of military, financial, and beast-attack setbacks at its headquarters in the Poisonous Swamp.
• A messenger told the Hydra Alliance’s leader that a mysterious Blue Star consortium offered eighty billion and disguise scrolls for a two-day attack on Fang Yuan’s territory.
• The Hydra Alliance’s leader ordered its forces to return, its lords to silence their Lord’s Marks, and everyone to await further orders.
• Aisha completed the Silvermoon Set appraisal and obtained the Orange Rare set attribute Moon Eclipse.

Fang Yuan equipped Fiona with the Silvermoon Set and arranged defenses before entering the Bronze Dragon Secret Realm. Meanwhile, the Laurent Group’s new president was revealed to be a Mimic Mud Monster plotting against Fang Yuan on the Mist Deities’ orders.

• Aisha identified the Silvermoon Set’s Eclipse skill, and Fang Yuan assigned the set to Fiona as her exclusive equipment.
• Fang Yuan gave Yasis defensive scrolls, assigned Breni to coordinate the outer alliances, and ordered Meg and Vanas to hold their posts.
• After the secret realm gate appeared, Fang Yuan and his heroes entered the Bronze Dragon Secret Realm.
• Little Laurent learned that the Mist Lord’s envoy was acting on Father God’s order to eliminate Fang Yuan over the possibility that he would awaken fallen deities.
• Little Laurent departed for the Mist World, and the envoy revealed itself as a Mimic Mud Monster that had taken his place as Laurent Group president.
• The Mimic Mud Monster accepted an invitation to meet Senator Jones and seek support for its Prairie Fire Melon tax proposal.

Fang Yuan and his companions discovered that the Bronze Dragon’s labyrinth had transported them to the erased Dark Epoch, where a quest directed them to find a mysterious village. With few clues, Fang Yuan ordered his troops to hunt nearby undead, and they found a map fragment among the slain Silver Skeleton Knights.

• Lilith and Vivian discussed the Dark Epoch, which Vivian said had been erased from history and revealed she knew about it through her Blood Troll bloodline.
• Fang Yuan reported finding a stone tablet that activated the quest “Find the Village,” which required him to seek a mysterious village in the Dark Epoch.
• Fang Yuan’s party worried that the labyrinth’s first level offered too few clues and that the secret realm had seven levels.
• A messenger reported a squad of about fifty Silver Skeleton Knights nearby, and Fang Yuan ordered them killed and the area searched for more undead.
• The messenger returned and told Fang Yuan that the Silver Skeleton Knights had been killed and a map fragment had been found.

The Undead Archmage and Fang Yuan entered the Bronze Dragon Secret Realm, where they raced to find map fragments while preparing for a confrontation. Fang Yuan sent Vivian to rescue Shattered Tooth Town and ordered Christian and Harold to protect her from an approaching undead force.

• The Undead Archmage received a quest to find the map to Mysterious Village and stop Fang Yuan, then organized his undead forces to search for clues and track Fang Yuan.
• Silver Skeleton found a Map Fragment, and Fang Yuan learned it pointed to Shattered Tooth Town as the location of the second fragment.
• Fang Yuan sent scouts to locate Shattered Tooth Town and the Undead Legion, while his troops established defenses around the castle.
• Scouts found Shattered Tooth Town under attack by Gnolls, including thirty Dragon Blood Gnolls, and Fang Yuan sent Vivian with Dragon Hunters, Voodoo Warlocks, and three thousand Auxiliary Legion troops to defeat them.
• Fang Yuan learned that five thousand orange-level undead were marching toward Vivian, so he sent Christian to intercept them and ordered Harold to follow with Holy Light Priests and Griffon Knights.

Christian led the Golden Flower Family Guardian Knights to destroy the Undead forces, then rushed toward Shattered Tooth Town after suspecting their attack concealed another objective. There, he saw Vivian unleash a forbidden spell at the town.

• The Silver Skeleton Lord sent five thousand Undead Knights after Vivian's troop while preparing other undead forces to provide support.
• Christian led five thousand Guardian Knights in a head-on charge and used holy light to destroy the Undead Knights.
• Christian and Harold found the remaining undead forces nearly defeated, and Christian suspected the attack was a diversion meant to target Fang Yuan or Vivian.
• Christian sent Harold back to protect Fang Yuan and rode with the Guardian Knights toward Shattered Tooth Town.
• Christian arrived as Vivian's black dragon fired a beam of light toward Shattered Tooth Town, and he recognized it as her forbidden spell, Annihilation.

After Vivian captured Shattered Tooth Town and recovered the second Map Fragment, Fang Yuan learned that his reputation had fallen and began suspecting the Church of Light was connected to the secret realm. The undead revealed that a captured commoner from the town was closely tied to the mission, leaving the Undead Archmage shocked by the prompt he discovered.

• Vivian recounted how she defeated the Gnolls, breached Shattered Tooth Town's walls, and obtained the Map Fragment, while Fang Yuan explained why he accepted the cost of taking it.
• Lilith and Christian argued about the Church of Light and its merger with the Holy Church, and Lilith explained that the Church of Light had risen during the Dark Epoch.
• Fang Yuan suspected that his lost reputation might be connected to the Church of Light, then heard that undead had massacred Shattered Tooth Town and captured one of its commoners.
• Fang Yuan questioned Vivian about anything unusual among the town's residents, then examined the Map Fragment for clues to the Mysterious Village.
• The Silver Skeleton Knight brought the captured commoner to the Undead Archmage and reported that the native seemed connected to the Mysterious Village mission.
• The Undead Archmage scanned the commoner with the Mist Mark and reacted with utter shock to the mission prompt.

The Undead Archmage joined Bor’s Avengers and headed toward the Forest Giant tribe to seek allies for their quest to find the Mysterious Village. After learning the third Map Fragment was with the giants, Fang Yuan sent Lilith and a powerful force to retrieve it, allowing her to spare the tribe only if they cooperated.

• The Undead Archmage accepted Bor’s invitation to join his adventurer party, which Bor named the Avengers, and agreed to seek vengeance against Fang Yuan’s forces.
• Bor proposed that the Avengers visit the Forest Giant tribe for allies and said the Mysterious Village held treasures that could help them grow stronger.
• Fang Yuan learned from the second Map Fragment that a young Forest Giant had collected the third fragment and that it was in the Forest Giant tribe.
• Lilith explained that Forest Giants had once been powerful but feared magic, especially fire magic, and Fang Yuan considered whether their tribe might yield a troop Building Card.
• Fang Yuan ordered Lilith to find the Forest Giant tribe and spare them if they handed over the Map Fragment; otherwise, she was to destroy them, taking Flame Magi, auxiliary troops, Griffon Knights, Dragon Hunters, Sword Masters, and Wind Mages.

Lilith learned that the Forest Giants faced extinction from Divine creatures and that Kardoso planned to dilute their Original Blood to save the tribe. She secured Hom’s oath to serve her lord in exchange for protection, food, and help reclaiming the chieftainship, then set out for the Shattered Tooth Tribe.

• Kardoso defeated Hom in a duel, declared himself chieftain, and ordered the Forest Giants to stop marrying within the tribe and dilute their bloodline.
• Hom left the tribe after losing and met Lilith’s Purple Moon Mercenaries, offering to guide her to the Shattered Tooth Tribe.
• Hom told Lilith that Divine creatures had devastated the Forest Giants and that Kardoso’s plan to pollute their bloodline had driven him to challenge the new chieftain.
• Lilith offered the Giants protection under her lord in return for their service, and Hom agreed after asking for plentiful food.
• Hom signed the Blood Oath Contract, and Lilith ordered the mercenaries to advance toward the Shattered Tooth Tribe.

Bor and the Undead Archmage found the Shattered Tooth Tribe under attack by Fang Yuan’s forces, then joined Kardoso and headed toward Dwarf City to seek Bronzebeard’s aid. At Fang Yuan’s castle, Lilith delivered a map fragment, revealing that the fourth, fifth, and sixth fragments were together.

• Bor led the Undead Archmage’s clone and a small undead force toward the Shattered Tooth Tribe, but they saw Fang Yuan’s army overwhelm and capture the Forest Giants.
• The Undead Archmage reassured Bor, then Kardoso surprised him and revealed that he was Bor’s friend and a Drow-blooded Forest Giant.
• Kardoso told Bor and the Undead Archmage that Hom had taken the Forest Giants and proposed they find Bronzebeard, whose dwarves needed help against a black dragon with a Divine bloodline.
• The Undead Archmage agreed to travel to Dwarf City, hoping to turn the black dragon into a Monster Lord, and the group set out.
• Lilith gave Fang Yuan the third Map Fragment, and he discovered that the fourth, fifth, and sixth Map Fragments were together.

Fang Yuan recruited Hom and 3,000 Original Blood Giants, then learned that the three remaining map fragments were in territories near the Ailan River. Christian proposed provoking the Dwarves and the black dragon’s followers into war so Fang Yuan could attack both sides afterward.

• Lilith explained that Hom and the Forest Giants could be recruited, and that the Secret Realm’s past would return to its original course after they left.
• Hom joined Fang Yuan as an Orange Special Grade hero, bringing 3,000 Original Blood Giants into Fang Yuan’s forces.
• Hom described the Ailan River region and its competing Dwarf, black dragon, and human factions, where the Dwarves and black dragon’s followers were preparing to annex River Mouth Town.
• Fang Yuan asked his heroes how to obtain the three map fragments, and Christian advised him to provoke a war between the Dwarves and the black dragon’s followers, then attack both after they weakened each other.

Christian planned to trigger an all-out war between the Black Dragon and the dwarves so Fang Yuan could seize River Mouth Town and their strongholds. After Doom disappeared and rumors blamed the Dwarf King, Qing Feng prepared to exploit the rising tensions by targeting a prominent dwarf merchant leader.

• Christian explained how Qing Feng would assassinate leaders from the Black Dragon and dwarf factions, while Hom and the Forest Giants joined River Mouth Town as mercenaries and Christian led Fang Yuan’s forces to capture it.
• Fang Yuan approved the plan and gave Qing Feng, Hom, and Christian their orders.
• In River Mouth Town, Bor and Kardoso proposed capturing Doom, a bard who publicly insulted the dwarves, as a gift to Bronzebeard.
• The disguised Undead Archmage teleported Bor, Kardoso, and the unconscious Doom out of the town.
• After rumors spread that the Dwarf King had ordered Doom’s death, Qing Feng chose the leader of a dwarven merchant caravan as her next target.

Kardoso and his companions joined Dwarf King Bronzebeard in a plan to kill Black Dragon King Aslan, triggering open war between the dwarves and the black dragon’s forces. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan’s allies strengthened River Mouth Town, and Lilith uncovered a theory about the origin of demigods that might relate to their mission.

• Kardoso offered to help Bronzebeard kill Aslan in exchange for help reaching the Mysterious Village, and proposed sneaking across the Ailan River to assassinate the Black Dragon King.
• After learning that Aslan’s assassins had wiped out a dwarf merchant caravan, Bronzebeard declared total war and pledged royal support for the journey to the Mysterious Village.
• Aslan ordered his forces to prepare to attack River Mouth Town, then mobilized for war after hearing that dwarves had killed two of his chieftains.
• River Mouth Town’s nobles sought an alliance with Bronzebeard Castle, recruited mercenaries, and armed an Original Blood Forest Giant group to defend the town.
• Fang Yuan told Christian to carry out the next stage of their plan after Qing Feng returned to River Mouth Town.
• Lilith told Fang Yuan that she had a theory about the origin of demigods that might be connected to their mission.

Lilith revealed that the Dark Epoch’s history had been altered and that Divine creatures came from the sealed Dark Ancient God King’s power. Fang Yuan realized the secret realm might require reinforcing the seal and ordered Christian to reach the Mysterious Village before the Mist Lords could break it; Christian’s forces then prepared to raid River Mouth Town.

• Lilith told Fang Yuan that the sub-deities might not have been ancient gods and that the Ancient God War had been fought against invading Dark Ancient Gods.
• Lilith explained that a Nameless Ancient God King had sacrificed himself to seal the Dark God King, whose leaking power later formed Divine creatures.
• Fang Yuan concluded that the Dark God King was sealed inside the Mysterious Village and worried that clearing the secret realm meant hunting Divine creatures and reinforcing the seal.
• Lilith warned Fang Yuan that the Mist Lords might be trying to undo the seals, so they had to reach the Mysterious Village first.
• Qing Feng told Christian that Hom was ready and River Mouth Town’s gates were open, and Christian ordered the Gorse Knights to launch a lightning raid.

Hom seized River Mouth Town for Christian, who discovered the Dwarves planned to ambush the Black Dragon King and ordered attacks on both sides. Qing Feng stopped the assassination attempt and Christian’s forces captured the Black Dragon King, but Bronzebeard City fell before the Dwarves launched their assault.

• Hom betrayed River Mouth Town’s nobles, forced their surrender, and welcomed Christian’s army into the town.
• Christian confined the residents, learned that the Dwarves and Black Dragon King were preparing for battle, and ordered a rapid attack on both Bronzebeard City and the Black Dragon King’s lair.
• Kardoso, Bor, and the Undead Archmage attacked the Black Dragon King, but Qing Feng intervened and killed the Undead Archmage as the other two escaped.
• Hom’s forces subdued the Black Dragon King and his vassals, obtained the fifth Map Fragment, and kept the Black Dragon King alive.
• The Dwarf King ordered his forces across the Ailan River, then learned that Bronzebeard City had been occupied.

Bronzebeard Castle fell to Christian’s forces, while Bronzebeard escaped downriver and joined Kardoso and Bor on their journey to the Moonlight Forest. The Undead Archmage received a new mission to stop Fang Yuan from claiming the seventh map and ordered his army to seize the Moonlight Elf Tribe.

• Christian’s knights announced that River Mouth Town had surrendered, the Black Dragon King had submitted, and Bronzebeard Castle had fallen; Bronzebeard fled into the Ailan River as many dwarves surrendered.
• Kardoso and Bor discussed the Shadow Warrior and the weakening seal of the Dark Ancient God, then agreed to seek help from the elves in the Moonlight Forest.
• Kardoso and Bor found Bronzebeard and other dwarves washed ashore, and Bronzebeard agreed to join their mission to the Moonlight Forest.
• The Undead Archmage received a failed-mission notice and a new task to prevent Fang Yuan from obtaining the seventh map and merging with the Hunter.
• The Undead Archmage learned that the seventh map was in the Moonlight Forest and ordered his army to abandon stealth and seize the Moonlight Elf Tribe.

Fang Yuan learned about the Moonlight Forest’s divided elves and recruited the injured Black Dragon King Aslan, then sent a vanguard to seize the seventh Map Fragment. An Undead Legion attacked while its Archmage raced toward the forest, and Harold’s Holy Light Legion was ambushed and surrounded as Fang Yuan’s main forces prepared to respond.

• Fang Yuan ordered reconnaissance toward the unmapped area and learned that the seventh Map Fragment lay in the Moonlight Forest, home to hostile, isolationist elves.
• Aslan told Fang Yuan about the elves’ civil war and the Elf King’s curse; Fang Yuan recruited him and had Christian restore his severed claw.
• Fang Yuan sent Hom and Aslan with a vanguard toward the Moonlight Forest, while Christian’s forces waited behind them as a reserve.
• A scout reported an approaching Undead Legion led in part by a golden Bone Dragon, and Fang Yuan deployed his forces to meet it.
• The Undead Archmage split his army, sending one force to draw Fang Yuan into battle while he hurried toward the Moonlight Forest to stop Christian from getting the map fragment.
• Harold’s Holy Light Legion pursued fleeing undead without waiting for the wings, then fell into an ambush; ghosts silenced the Holy Light Priests, and bone dragons and Death Knights surrounded Harold’s force.

Fang Yuan's forces annihilated the undead army after Harold held the vanguard, then deduced that the undead had split their forces to delay the search for the seventh Map Fragment. Fang Yuan sent Harold with an escort to reinforce Christian, while Hom and the Black Dragon King reached the ruined Moonlight Elf tribe and headed toward the Elf King's tribe.

• Fang Yuan used Just Judgment to dispel the Death Cloud, restore his priests, and weaken the undead, then ordered Lilith's and Vivian's forces to encircle them.
• The undead Monster Lords fled, their forces collapsed, and the allied legions destroyed the Golden Bone Dragons and the remaining undead.
• Harold apologized to Fang Yuan, who accepted responsibility for the assignment and praised Harold; Harold's loyalty rose to 85.
• Fang Yuan and Lilith concluded that the undead had split their forces, with the main army likely heading to the Moonlight Forest to delay the search for the seventh map.
• Fang Yuan sent Harold with three hundred Gorse Knights and three hundred Griffon Knights to warn and reinforce Christian.
• Hom and the Black Dragon King found the Moonlight Elf High Priest's tribe in ruins, suspected the Elf King had fallen, and hurried toward the Elf King's tribe for the seventh Map Fragment.

Christian led her forces toward an explosion in Moonlight Forest while the Undead Archmage fled after losing most of his army and the Seventh Map Fragment. Fang Yuan obtained the fragment, joined the Avengers, and began the three-day final mission to escort them to the Mysterious Village and reinforce the ancient god’s seal.

• Aslan reported that both Elf tribes had been destroyed and the Moonlight Elves had vanished, while Harold told Christian that the Undead had split their forces.
• Christian concluded that the Undead had killed the Elves and ordered her forces toward an explosion that might mark the Seventh Map Fragment’s location.
• Bor, Kardoso, and their companions were surrounded after the Undead Archmage used them to locate the Elf tribes, and Bor shielded the others from an arrow barrage.
• Christian’s holy radiance threatened the Undead Archmage, who escaped by teleporting his Soulfire to a hidden sanctuary before learning that Fang Yuan had defeated his army and taken the Seventh Map Fragment.
• Fang Yuan retained his exchange attempt, joined the Avengers, and started the three-day mission to escort them to the Mysterious Village and reinforce the ancient god’s seal.

Fang Yuan joined forces with the Ancient God Hunting Association to enter the Demiplane and reinforce the seal on the Dark Ancient God's left hand. After the mission succeeded, Merit Exchange unlocked, revealing divine power and the Light Elf among its offerings.

• Christian reported that his forces had defeated the undead and rescued the Avengers Adventurer Group, who then gave Fang Yuan the seventh piece of sheepskin.
• Fang Yuan assembled the seven map pieces, found the Demiplane's entrance, and led his army there before the three-day window expired.
• Bor explained that the Demiplane held the Dark Ancient God's left hand and that Dark Servants were weakening its seal by feeding it divine bloodlines.
• Fang Yuan ordered a probing attack, and Christian's Holy Light Legion defeated the Dark Servants while their bloodline-based powers incapacitated several allied forces.
• Bor and Kardoso used their magic runes to reinforce the seal, completing the mission and unlocking Merit Exchange for Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan saw that the Merit Exchange offered a Golden Magic Rune, divine power, and the Light Elf.

Fang Yuan completed the first seal, obtained a fragment of a Dark Gold Curio, and agreed to bring Bor and Kardoso along to the next sealing mission. He teleported to the second level of the secret realm and found himself cast as the evil dragon guarding a princess.

• Fang Yuan exchanged his Merit Points for a Source of Divine Power Magic Rune and two Divine Power Crystals, then gave the crystals to Harold after evacuating the sealed Demiplane.
• Bor gave Fang Yuan a fragment of a damaged sealed Divine Artifact that could become a Dark Gold Curio if all seven fragments were gathered.
• Fang Yuan agreed to free the dwarves and elves on the condition that Bor and Kardoso accompany him to reinforce the remaining seals.
• Bor explained that the next mission involved the Dark Ancient God's Right Hand, which created illusions, and that the royal family might know how to reach its sealed Demiplane.
• Fang Yuan teleported with his subordinates to the second level and discovered that people outside the tower were calling him an evil dragon who had imprisoned a princess.