Chapter Summaries

Aria’s forces reclaimed the central section of Marigold Fortress, and she sent word to Fang Yuan to upgrade it quickly before the Beastmen could threaten the Wasteland Territory. With the fortress secured, Aria waited for news of Breni’s interception of the Beastmen, where the battle had reached its decisive stage.

• Aria and the Guardian Knight Order destroyed the Magic Wolf Lair, recovered its Source Crystals, and killed every fleeing wolf.
• Aria explained that the central section of Marigold Fortress had been reclaimed, though it was less than one-tenth of the fortress at its peak.
• Aria ordered a messenger to tell Fang Yuan to upgrade Marigold Fortress within a day so it could block the Beastmen and protect the route to the Wasteland Territory.
• Aria reviewed the plan in which Breni led the Demon Knight Legion to intercept the Beastmen while Christian and Yasis provided support from Bloodline Castle.
• Aria waited for news from Breni as the battle between the Demon Knights and the Beastmen reached its decisive stage.

Yasis broke the Dragon Riders’ attack and located the Beastmen Legion’s command center, creating an opening for Breni’s thousand Demon Knights. Breni killed the Beastmen commander in a decapitation strike while the Demon Knights remained surrounded.

• Yasis led the Aerial Legion through the Dragon Riders’ poisoned volley, exploiting their brief rigidity to destroy most of them.
• Yasis found the Beastmen command center as the Beastmen surrounded the Demon Knights and forced them to fight defensively.
• Yasis ordered the surviving Griffon Knights and Dragon Hunters to dive toward the Beastmen commander.
• Breni led more than a thousand Demon Knights out of the Gloomy Forest in a Demonic Flame Charge.
• Breni pierced the Beastmen commander’s throat with her lance and beheaded him with her greatsword.

Breni defeated the Beastmen Legion’s commander and helped destroy its Turtlemen formation, while Christian held the enemy at Bloodline Castle with Vivian’s forbidden spell. After Aria captured Marigold Pioneer Fortress, Fang Yuan upgraded it to Level Nine, empowering Aria and the fortress’s units.

• Breni rallied with Yasis, routed the Beastmen, and led the Demon Knights in annihilating the Turtlemen spearmen while the Wolf Riders and Bearman Berserkers fled.
• Christian’s scouts reported that three hundred thousand Beastmen controlled the battlefield, and Fiona warned that the defenders lacked the strength for a frontal fight.
• When five thousand Minotaurs advanced to test the defenders, Christian ordered Vivian to cast Annihilation, destroying nearly all of them and driving the Beastmen army away.
• Christian received reports that Aria had captured Marigold Pioneer Fortress and that Breni had defeated a thirty-thousand-strong Beastmen force with ten thousand Demon Knights.
• Fang Yuan upgraded Marigold Fortress to Level Nine, unlocking Aria’s maximum compatibility, Legion Skills for its units, and Orange Common quality for all non-Orange units.

Fang Yuan used Marigold Pioneer Fortress to prepare a massive army for the decisive battle against the 500,000 Beastmen, leaving his forces with a numerical advantage. He sent reinforcements east and ordered 15,000 Sword Griffon Knights produced, betting that victory would fund his plans to conquer Gondor and advance his Main City.

• Fang Yuan discovered that Marigold Pioneer Fortress's compatibility with Aria upgraded its stationed units to orange quality and saw the fortress as the key to defeating the Beastmen.
• Fang Yuan assessed his forces and concluded that his current wilderness-capable troops were too few to defeat the Beastmen without reinforcements from Marigold Pioneer Fortress.
• Fang Yuan upgraded the fortress's 50,000 level-one soldiers and used Forced Conscription to add 500,000 troops, bringing his decisive-battle forces to nearly 800,000 against 500,000.
• Fang Yuan ordered 5,000 Champion Heavy Armor and Sword and Shield Guards and 3,000 Flame Magi sent to the Main Territory, then commissioned 15,000 Sword Griffon Knights at great cost.
• Fang Yuan expected victory over the orcs to provide resources for roads, the conquest of Gondor, and a Level 10 Main City within a month.

Liu Zhenhan learned that White Eagle’s forces had entered Windy Grassland and decided to attack the Hydra Alliance to prove his loyalty to Fang Yuan. Meanwhile, the Hydra Alliance used an Astrology Card to locate the missing gemstone from its Golden Token, and the result pointed to the Beastmen Great Shaman.

• Liu Zhenhan’s subordinates reported that the Hydra Alliance had occupied their former base and that White Eagle’s forces were expanding into Windy Grassland.
• Liu Zhenhan recognized Fang Yuan as the powerful figure behind him, but Fang Yuan did not answer his call because he was preparing for battle.
• Liu Zhenhan decided to attack the Hydra Alliance and take its leader’s head as a token of loyalty to Fang Yuan.
• The Hydra Alliance’s leaders examined their incomplete Golden Token and used an Astrology Card to locate its missing gemstone.
• The Astrology Card identified the Beastmen Great Shaman, and Christian asked whether Vanas was truly leading the incoming beastmen.

Vanas reported that a large Golden Shaman Legion and the Great Shaman would soon reinforce the Beastmen, prompting Christian to plan a strike against them before a decisive battle. Christian organized a Demigod-led raid and assigned Breni to command the forces left behind at Bloodline Castle and Marigold Fortress.

• Vanas reported discovering a Tigermen Berserker legion and an eight-hundred-strong Golden Shaman Legion in a valley, with the Great Shaman and more than four thousand reinforcements expected within a day.
• Aria explained that Shamans could purify Forbidden Spells, described their strengths and limits, and warned that the Shaman Legion could turn the battle against Christian's forces.
• Christian decided to intercept and kill the Great Shaman and destroy the Shaman Legion before they joined the main battle, while Aria recommended using a main-front engagement to conceal the ambush.
• Christian selected herself, Harold, Aria, Helen, Qing Feng, and Vanas for the raid, while Vivian stayed behind to help defend Bloodline Castle.
• Christian assigned Fiona, Breni, Vivian, and Yasis to command the remaining troops and gave Breni overall command, instructing her to pressure the orcs without risking a reckless charge.
• Christian ordered the raid party to set out immediately.

Breni devised a plan to probe the Beastmen with a small Demon Knight force while the others guarded their positions. Meanwhile, Christian’s group spotted the Beastmen Great Shaman at the valley and prepared a focused ambush against him.

• Breni proposed leading three thousand Demon Knights toward the river’s upper reaches to test the Beastmen commander and disrupt their scouts, while Fiona, Vivian, and Yasis maintained their assignments.
• Breni led the Demon Knights north and ordered them to pursue a Beastmen wolf-rider scouting squad so none of the scouts could escape.
• Christian chose to lead his group through the valley to approach the Beastmen’s lowlands without drawing in the main battlefield forces.
• A Great Shaman dispelled the valley mist and appeared with a Kodo Beast army, including the Golden Shaman Legion.
• Christian ordered Helen to provide support and commanded the group to focus their fire on the Beastmen Great Shaman.

Christian and Aria fought the Beastmen Shaman Legion while Qing Feng searched for the hidden commander. After Qing Feng killed the commander’s Life Share Kodo Beast, Helen refreshed the heroes’ skills, enabling the demigods to annihilate the enemy; meanwhile, Breni’s Demon Knights reached the main battlefield.

• Christian and Aria attacked the Beastmen Shamans, but the Shamans countered with magically armored Kodo Beasts and forced the demigods into a stalemate.
• Helen, Vanas, and Qing Feng suspected that a hidden commander was directing the Beastmen’s counterattack, so Helen held back her Echo of Melody.
• Qing Feng recognized a weakened Kodo Beast as the likely source of the Beastmen Great Shaman’s Life Share spell and used Shadow Shuttle to reach it.
• Qing Feng killed the Kodo Beast and the golden gemstone beside it, throwing the Shaman Legion into disarray.
• Helen activated Echo of Melody to refresh the heroes’ skills, and Christian and Aria unleashed their full strength to annihilate the Beastmen force.
• Breni led three thousand Demon Knights into a head-on clash with the legion blocking their advance on the main battlefield.

Breni’s Demon Knights were trapped between the pursuing Great Bear Knights, Wolf Riders, and a Turtlemen defensive line, but she broke through by sacrificing revived knights and escaped into the forest. Christian returned to Bloodline Castle, learned the Beastmen had spread out to ambush the stronghold and its rescuers, and ordered Aria to assemble the army for a decisive battle.

• Breni realized the Beastmen had anticipated her movements and planned to use her as bait, so she sent a Griffon Knight to warn Bloodline Castle not to send rescuers.
• Breni led the Demon Knights in repeated charges through the Turtlemen Spear Shield Legion, then activated Soul Rebirth to revive fallen knights and destroy the Turtlemen force at the cost of their lives.
• Breni saluted the fallen Demon Knights and led her surviving troops into the forest as the pursuing Wolf Riders halted in fear.
• Christian returned to Bloodline Castle and learned from the Griffon Knights that the Beastmen had deployed troops to ambush the stronghold and its reinforcements.
• Christian told Aria to assemble the entire army, declaring that the time for the decisive battle had arrived.

Christian divided his forces to rescue Breni, seize the pontoon bridge, and prepare a decisive counterattack against the orcs. Fiona’s army advanced under Yasis’s aerial protection, but the chapter ended as Yasis’s Griffon Knights began fighting the orc aerial legion and Fiona’s force met fifty thousand orcs.

• Christian sent Fiona with a large army to rescue Breni and ordered her to stand firm if the orcs surrounded her.
• Christian sent Aria, Vanas, and Helen to capture the pontoon bridge and block the orcs’ reinforcements from crossing the river.
• Christian assembled the remaining forces for a flanking attack, and Breni joined him with the Demon Knights.
• Fiona’s army marched north while Yasis’s Griffon Knights protected it from orc ambushes.
• The orcs sent Bat Riders and Wyvern Riders against Yasis, and the two aerial forces began a large battle.
• Fiona’s army encountered a fifty-thousand-strong mixed orc force as it advanced.

Fiona’s army held off the orcs in a fierce battle, with Champion Heavy Armor cutting through the Tigerfolk while Minotaurs threatened the Dragonbone Golems. After learning Fiona was surrounded and Bloodline Castle faced a 150,000-strong orc force, Christian ordered the castle’s army to march out and intercept them.

• Fiona formed a defensive line and used crossbow volleys to weaken the advancing orcs before ordering her infantry into battle.
• Champion Heavy Armor devastated the Tigerfolk Heavy Armor with their three-meter greatswords, though Minotaurs battered the Dragonbone Golems and forced Fiona to send reinforcements.
• The orcs deployed Centaur Rocket Cavalry and wolf riders to slow the Champion Heavy Armor, leaving both armies locked in an attritional stalemate.
• A Griffon Knight reported that Fiona was surrounded, Yasis’s Griffon Knight Legion was fighting Dragon Riders and Bat Riders, and 150,000 orcs were advancing on Bloodline Castle.
• Christian ordered Breni and Vivian to lead the castle’s army out to intercept and destroy the orcs.

Christian's center army destroyed the Beastmen's vanguard with a combination of fire and wind magic, then pressed toward the enemy center. Christian realized the opposing central army was only a decoy and that the Beastmen's main force was attacking one of the wings.

• Breni and Vivian took their legions to engage the Beastmen's left and right wings while Christian led the center army against the vanguard.
• Christian's Sword Shield Infantry drew the Turtlemen forward as the Rabbitmen Magic Archers inflicted 6,000 casualties during their retreat.
• Christian's Flame Magi and Wind Mages combined their spells into Fire Dragon Tornadoes, which wiped out the Turtlemen and routed the Rabbitmen.
• Christian sent nearly 60,000 Sword Shield Infantry against the Beastmen's central army, whose Foxman Mages, Spiky Pigmen, and Elephant Warriors were gradually overwhelmed.
• Christian recognized that the Beastmen's center was a decoy and ordered scouts to check both wings for the enemy's main force.

Christian won the central battle but learned that Vivian and Breni were both in grave danger, so she rushed to support Breni. Breni’s forces were surrounded by Beastmen until Christian’s army arrived and attacked the encirclement.

• Christian’s Sword and Shield Guards defeated the central Beastmen army’s Elephant Warriors, and she concluded that the Beastmen’s main force was attacking Vivian’s right wing.
• Scouts reported that Vivian’s army was being overwhelmed and Breni’s cavalry was trapped by Golden Mad Bear Knights, so Christian ordered her forces to march toward Breni.
• Breni led her Demon Knights through the Beastmen cavalry and Bloodline Knights in an attempt to break toward Christian, but ten thousand Centaur warriors blocked their path.
• The Centaurs and Mad Bear Knights surrounded Breni and the remaining Demon Knights, who launched a final charge.
• Christian’s army arrived, and she ordered her infantry and support troops to break the encirclement and kill the Beastmen.

Christian rescued Breni’s left-flank army and ordered Breni to return to Bloodline Castle for cavalry while Christian marched to save Fiona. On the right flank, Vivian’s Grey Dwarves held the Beastmen main force with Voodoo Curse Warlock clones, and Vivian’s Annihilation Forbidden Spell became ready as she watched for the enemy commander.

• Breni and Christian discussed the heavy losses inflicted on the Beastmen and Christian explained that she had shifted forces after learning the Beastmen’s main force was on the right flank.
• Christian decided not to reinforce Vivian and instead marched to rescue Fiona, while ordering Breni to gather cavalry at Bloodline Castle and send scouts to find Aria and check the pontoon bridge.
• Vivian’s Grey Dwarves endured the Beastmen assault after Voodoo Curse Warlocks used Voodoo Diffusion to give clones the Voodoo Puppet skill, letting them repeatedly absorb lethal damage.
• Vivian ordered the remaining Grey Dwarves transformed into Voodoo clones, and they trapped the Beastmen main force by holding its attacks and advancing whenever it stopped.
• The following day, Vivian’s Annihilation Forbidden Spell recovered, and she fixed her gaze on the Beastmen commander while waiting for a chance to strike.

Aria’s Guardian Knights captured the southern bank and pushed south after the Beastmen retreated, while Vivian used the Grey Dwarves and a forbidden spell to destroy a Beastmen commander and trap his legion. Vivian’s forces remained in a precarious stalemate as Aria’s cavalry approached from the north.

• Aria sent her Guardian Knights to seize the Beastmen camps and pontoon bridge, then learned the Beastmen had withdrawn across the river and led most of her force south.
• Vivian directed the Grey Dwarves into a circular formation that surrounded the Beastmen legion and exposed its commander to attack.
• Vivian summoned a demonic dragon whose forbidden spell killed the Beastmen commander and annihilated his royal guard.
• The demoralized Beastmen tried to flee, but the Grey Dwarves trapped them in a ring despite being unable to attack.
• Vivian feared the Voodoo Diffusion skill would expire before reinforcements arrived as Aria’s Guardian Knights approached from the Northern Territory.

Fang Yuan reinforced Yasis’s aerial forces with twenty thousand Griffon Knights to help defeat the Beastmen, then used his blessing to obtain a Seven-Colored Lucky Grass and planned to profit by enhancing the battle spoils. The Battle Map announced that Aria and Vivian had defeated the main orc forces on the right flank.

• Lilith warned Fang Yuan that the Voodoo Warlocks’ Legion Skill depended on battlefield conditions and left the fragile warlocks vulnerable, then discussed magic, energy conservation, and Blue Star’s technological potential with him.
• A Griffon Knight reported that Yasis’s aerial legion had suffered two-thirds casualties while fighting the Beastmen’s elites and requested at least twenty thousand Sword Griffons to destroy their aerial army and golden Dragon Riders.
• Fang Yuan obtained resources from the Zixiao Alliance, raised the Griffon Knights’ numbers to twenty thousand, and ordered them to support Yasis without restraint.
• Fang Yuan used his free blessing attempt and received an Orange-quality Seven-Colored Lucky Grass, then planned to enhance equipment recovered from the battlefield to recoup the war’s costs.
• The Battle Map announced that Aria and Vivian had defeated the main orc forces on the right flank.

Aria annihilated the orc forces on the right flank, then joined Breni and Christian’s pursuit of the retreating ambush legion. The chapter left Breni charging into the riverbank battle to reach the orc commander while Fiona and Christian’s troops were under heavy pressure.

• Aria defeated the remaining Elephant Warriors, and Vivian dispelled Voodoo Diffusion, killing the Grey Dwarf Legion while weakening the Voodoo Warlocks.
• Vivian found a golden ring among the spoils as her surviving warlocks began carrying the loot toward Bloodline Castle.
• Aria met Breni, corrected her mistaken belief that the orcs had crossed the river, and persuaded her to join the attack on the force ambushing Fiona.
• Christian learned the orcs were retreating toward the pontoon bridge, then led his lighter troops in pursuit and ordered Fiona to join him.
• Breni reached the riverbank battle and ordered the Demon Knights to charge the orc commander while Fiona and Christian’s troops struggled against the orc heavy-armored legion.

The heroes defeated the Beastmen Legion and discovered that its soldiers were awakened warriors of the Old Continent, fighting under the New God's instructions rather than serving the Mist. They returned toward Wasteland Territory with warnings of a possible new civilization and a Behemoth on the grassland, while Vivian brought Fang Yuan a golden, unidentified ring.

• The Beastmen commander led his remaining soldiers in a last counterattack, but Aria and the Guardian Knights crushed them.
• Aria, Breni, and Christian discussed the Beastmen's sophisticated tactics, and Christian sensed a strange god's aura that might point to another civilization entering the conflict.
• A young Behemoth appeared across the river, called the fallen Beastmen traitors, and left; Christian ordered the troops to report the discoveries and return to Bloodline Castle.
• Yasis reported that reinforcements had helped him destroy the Beastmen's Aerial Legion and kill every Dragon Rider, and that his forces had obtained a Golden Building Card.
• Vivian gave Fang Yuan a golden ring that had not yet been appraised, and he called for Aisha.

Aisha’s appraisal awakened the Ring of Strength’s Ring Spirit, and Lilith explained its origins in the ancient Spirit Weapons that inspired Arcane Armaments. Fang Yuan discovered that the ring could greatly strengthen both its wearer and his army, then learned that Yasis had won a major battle and captured a Golden Barracks Building Card.

• Aisha successfully appraised the Ring of Strength and awakened its Ring Spirit.
• Lilith explained the history of Spirit Weapons, their dangerous forging methods, and the legend of the Supreme Ring of Power.
• Fang Yuan inspected the ring and found that it granted 10,000 Strength and an aura that increased his army’s Strength by 5,000.
• Lilith judged the ring to be a safe weapon forged by the Dwarf King’s improved technique, and Fang Yuan considered giving it to Christian, Aria, or Breni.
• A messenger reported that Yasis had annihilated the Beastmen force, including its Aerial Legion, and defeated the Golden Wyvern Riders.
• Fang Yuan learned that Yasis had obtained a Golden Barracks Building Card and celebrated the prospect of gaining a second Golden unit.

The Other God revealed how he had taken control of the Land of Extreme Abyss fortress and resurrected fallen Neutral Faction Heroic Spirits as his first army. After Fang Yuan’s heroes returned with spoils and reports of strange orc behavior, Lilith suggested that events from the Great Calamity Era might explain it.

• The chapter recounted how Old Continent Archmages fused the Land of Extreme Abyss with the Abyss and Hell planes to create a fortress that resisted the Mist, before their defeat left it abandoned.
• The Other God inherited the fortress under an agreement with the Archmages and used his New God avatar and the Wall of the Faithless to gather and convert Heroic Spirits into believers.
• The Other God resurrected the fallen Neutral Faction Heroic Spirits from Gondor and vowed to wait until Blue Star and the Mist Civilization weakened each other before pursuing greater power.
• Fang Yuan welcomed his returning heroes, who brought spoils and reported that orcs had behaved strangely on the battlefield.
• Aria told Fang Yuan she had seen her brother among the orcs, and Lilith said events from the Great Calamity Era might explain their behavior.