Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan upgraded his Northern Territory Defense Line and Sub-city, then learned Christian had captured Cape City intact. As Fang Yuan celebrated the unexpected gain, a huge explosion came from the north, and he sent scouts to investigate the Windy Grassland.

• Fang Yuan upgraded the Northern Territory Defense Line and Sub-city to Tier 10 and discussed with Lilith how to prevent enemy cities from being destroyed.
• Lilith suggested recruiting heroes skilled in Magic Engineering to help find a full-power Magic Crystal Cannon, while Fang Yuan planned to recruit more heroes for attacks on the Windy Grassland.
• A messenger reported that Christian had captured Cape City intact, and Fang Yuan ordered the city occupied.
• A huge explosion sounded, and Fang Yuan confirmed that Christian and his other heroes were safe in Cape City.
• A messenger reported smoke and dust north of the Windy Grassland, so Fang Yuan bought a wilderness-fog-dispelling item and sent five thousand Azure Wind Bloodline Knights to investigate.

Fang Yuan examined Cape City after conquering it, recognized its value as a powerful naval-production base, and upgraded it to Tier 10. Christian returned with spoils that included an Orange Mutated Curio, leaving Fang Yuan eager to inspect it.

• Fang Yuan learned that Cape City produced numerous Orange warships and naval forces, then discussed past naval tactics with Lilith.
• Fang Yuan considered using Cape City’s fleet to explore the coast, attack the West Coast Plains and undead forces, and search the Sea of Perdition for a Creation Magic Rune Fragment.
• Fang Yuan placed Cape City’s Teleportation Tower and upgraded the city to Tier 10, hoping it would produce stronger warships.
• Christian arrived with spoils from the campaign and said Cape City needed a naval hero to command its fleet.
• Fang Yuan inspected an Orange Curio from the spoils and discovered it was a Mutated Curio.

Fang Yuan learned from Christian that the Nossa Empire had risen through magic-industrial warfare before the gods and Archmage City brought its expansion to a halt. After discussing the empire’s military legacy with Lilith, he prepared to use the Mutated Curio to recruit heroes, then decided to strengthen the Orange Curios first.

• Fang Yuan recognized the Nossa Empire on a naval academy graduation certificate and asked Christian about it.
• Christian recounted how the Nossa Empire evolved from a mountain mining settlement into a magic-industrial empire, using Dragon Hunter Crossbows and later modernized forces to expand.
• Christian explained that the Ringed Divine Seat and Archmage City intervened against the Nossa Empire, whose defeat and conversion to worship of the Dawn God ended its hopes of rising again.
• Lilith argued that the Nossa Empire had only spread magic among ordinary people, while Archmage City possessed true magical industrialization and had prevented the empire’s destruction.
• Fang Yuan planned to use the Mutated Curio to recruit powerful heroes, then noticed Christian’s other Orange Curios and decided to strengthen them first.

Fang Yuan used a Golden Prophecy Scroll to learn that Clara's Philosopher's Stone could upgrade his +5 Orange naval academy Curio to Golden quality, then traded for one and successfully upgraded it. He used the Curio at the Hero Altar, where a mysterious woman awoke and addressed him as the Lord of another world.

• Fang Yuan used the Prophecy Scroll and learned he needed Clara's Philosopher's Stone to upgrade the naval academy Curio to Golden quality.
• Lilith explained the Philosopher's Stone's history, and Fang Yuan posted a Mercenary Hall trade offering a Golden Curio, ten Orange Equipment, and a bonus for one.
• A Level 10 Lord from the Central Continent demanded an excessive price, but Fang Yuan held firm and completed the trade just before the deadline.
• Fang Yuan used Clara's Philosopher's Stone in Clara's Alchemy Furnace to upgrade the +5 Curio to Golden Rare quality.
• Fang Yuan placed the Golden Curio on the Sage Stone Slab, awakening a woman who asked whether he was sure he wanted to awaken her.

Fang Yuan recruited the Golden Special Grade hero Misfortune Captain Sarah by promising to take her back to the Nossa Empire’s defeat and help her avenge her people. He appointed Sarah city lord of Cape City and discovered that she could build the Misfortune Flagship and command its Golden Special Grade sailors.

• Sarah rejected Fang Yuan’s appeal for revenge, explaining that the Nossa Empire had been betrayed and destroyed by the gods and Archmage City.
• Fang Yuan accused Sarah and the Nossa people of cowardice, then promised to take her to the past so she could avenge her country herself.
• Sarah accepted Fang Yuan’s invitation and joined his command as a Golden Special Grade hero.
• Fang Yuan inspected Sarah’s skills and learned she could unlock the Misfortune Flagship and turn its sailors into Golden Special Grade Misfortune Sailors.
• Fang Yuan appointed Sarah city lord of Cape City, and its harbor shipyard gained the Misfortune Flagship as a production option.

Fang Yuan inspected the powerful Misfortune Flagship being built in Cape City and learned about its weapons, skills, and history from Sarah. He brought Sarah to the Lord’s Hall to meet the other heroes, where she recognized Christian as the Holy Light Fox.

• Fang Yuan discovered that Cape City’s harbor was producing a Misfortune Flagship without consuming his resources, though it would take seven days to finish.
• Fang Yuan examined the flagship’s panel and learned about its formidable weapons, mechanical warriors, and misfortune-based skills.
• Sarah told Fang Yuan that the Nossa Empire had spent a century of wealth and the help of many mage schools to build the empire’s only Misfortune Flagship.
• Fang Yuan reassured Sarah that the flagship would not sink again and took her to the Lord’s Hall to meet the other heroes and receive equipment.
• Christian recognized Sarah, and she greeted him as the Holy Light Fox.

Fang Yuan learned of Sarah’s past defeat of the Central Continent’s armies and equipped her for naval command. When he heard that the Mist Legion had devastated the Beastmen Empire’s capital and occupied the grassland tribes, he decided to head north and take back the Windy Grassland.

• Christian and Sarah recounted how Sarah’s tactics had defeated the ten great powers’ legions in a military exercise, and Sarah explained that the Nossa Empire later regretted missing its chance to conquer them.
• Lilith revealed that Archmage City and the Ringed Divine Seat would have intervened unless the ten nations were conquered within two months, and Fang Yuan promised Sarah he would fulfill the Nossa Empire’s ambition in the secret realm.
• Christian advised Fang Yuan to equip Sarah for naval command, and Fang Yuan received a sextant and Captain’s Firearm from Zhao Sheng of the Zixiao Alliance.
• Fang Yuan gave Sarah the naval equipment and an Underwater-Breathing Scroll, then sent her to Cape City.
• A messenger reported that the Mist Legion had ruined the Beastmen Empire’s capital and occupied the Windy Grassland’s tribes, so Fang Yuan announced he would head north to take back the grassland.

Fang Yuan and his heroes planned a northern campaign to seize Windy Grassland, identifying three decisive battles and prioritizing Iron Shield City. As Christian proposed a surprise capture of the city during the battle, Lilith revealed that the Spear of Gondor could provide the needed solution.

• Fang Yuan ordered a preemptive attack north, and Christian, Lilith, and the other heroes supported the campaign.
• Fang Yuan reviewed the map with his heroes, and they chose to scout northwest near Magic Dragon Underground City while drawing enemy attention toward Iron Shield City.
• Aria and Sarah explained Iron Shield City's strategic importance, and Sarah divided the conquest of Windy Grassland into three decisive campaigns.
• Christian warned against besieging Iron Shield City and proposed luring out its main force before capturing the city with a surprise cavalry attack.
• Christian rejected using the Demon Knights because the enemy would recognize them, and Lilith suggested the Spear of Gondor.

Fang Yuan used the King of Gandor's Crown to summon Mad King Guderian, a Dark Gold hero who joined his command. Recruiting him earned Fang Yuan a Dark Gold Crystal for Clara's Trial Tower, and Guderian's first skill left Fang Yuan stunned.

• Fang Yuan chose the King of Gandor's Crown to recruit a hero from the Gondor royal line who could wield the Spear of Gondor's full power.
• The crown awakened a towering, archaically armored hero who called himself Mad King Guderian and agreed to join Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan recruited Guderian and received a Dark Gold Secret Realm Source Crystal for Clara's Trial Tower as an achievement reward.
• Fang Yuan welcomed Guderian, inspected his attributes and skills, and was shocked by the first skill.

Fang Yuan assessed Mad King Guderian’s powerful skills and planned to use him as a dangerous solo fighter against the orcs on Windy Grassland. He gave Guderian the Spear of Gondor, raising his loyalty, then summoned him to the Lord’s Hall to prepare for war.

• Fang Yuan examined Guderian’s curse, which made him kill 3,000 subordinates every seven days but greatly enhanced him during its outbreak, and considered assigning him dwarven soldiers.
• Fang Yuan reviewed Guderian’s swordsmanship, Battle Qi, corruption skills, and Hydra, concluding that they made him a powerful battlefield hero suited to fighting alone.
• Fang Yuan told Guderian that he would receive an important mission in the coming war against the northern orcs.
• Fang Yuan presented Guderian with the Spear of Gondor, which Guderian recognized as a weapon he had once wielded and which had killed him.
• Guderian accepted the spear and pledged to fight for Fang Yuan, raising his loyalty from 85 to 95.
• Fang Yuan told Guderian to accompany him to the Lord’s Hall to learn how the war would begin.

Christian planned a decisive campaign against Iron Shield City, choosing to seize Fire Fox Tribe and a nearby Trade City to gain the initiative and secure a forward base. Fang Yuan committed troops and supplies to the operation, and Christian departed to lead the army into a battle whose outcome Fang Yuan feared would determine the war.

• Fang Yuan introduced Gudrian to Christian to lead ten thousand golden Dragon Spear Knights, and Christian identified Fire Fox Tribe as the decisive battlefield.
• Christian explained how capturing a nearby Trade City would enable surprise attacks on Fire Fox Tribe, speed reinforcements, and threaten Iron Shield City’s flanks.
• Christian planned to keep heroes and troops at Bloodline Castle while sending the remaining available heroes and a large force to the campaign.
• Christian specified extensive troop and supply requirements, and Fang Yuan agreed to provide them.
• Fang Yuan gave Christian the dark-gold Plague of Magic Locusts scroll, but Christian returned Holy Light Judgment and said one forbidden spell was enough.
• Christian led the legion away through the Teleportation Array as Fang Yuan hoped for victory and warned himself of the consequences of defeat.

As Fang Yuan's forces advanced into the grasslands, Yin Aspect Holy Son planned to concentrate the Mist Lords' army at Iron Shield City and use an artifact to counter Fang Yuan's Forbidden Spells. The Undead Archmage volunteered the undead as the vanguard, eager to avenge his previous defeat.

• The Undead Archmage reported that at least five thousand of Fang Yuan's Scout Cavalry had crossed the Boundary River and reached the capital's ruins.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son rejected attacking Fang Yuan piecemeal and ordered the Mist Lords to gather their forces for a decisive battle on the grasslands.
• The Undead Archmage warned that Fang Yuan's Forbidden Spells had repeatedly destroyed their armies, and Yin Aspect Holy Son explained that the Mist Artifact could dispel their magic but could not cast Scourge-level spells.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son and the Undead Archmage identified Iron Shield City as Fang Yuan's likeliest route north and ordered the Mist Lords' Golden Legions to assemble there.
• The Undead Archmage asked to lead the undead vanguard and avenge his defeat, and Yin Aspect Holy Son granted his request.

Christian devised a deception to draw the enemy toward Iron Shield City while her forces targeted Trade City and the Fire Fox Tribe. Fiona and Yasis crossed the Boundary River and defeated a Dragon Rider force, then continued toward the Pigman Tribe to clear a path for the main army.

• Christian ordered the legions to feign a direct attack on Iron Shield City while a separate force seized Trade City and then the Fire Fox Tribe.
• Christian assigned Fiona and Yasis to clear enemy scouts around the Pigman Tribe, Kubo and Aria to capture it, and Breni to lead the Demon Knights against Trade City.
• Breni received Tira's Bridge and prepared to cross the Boundary River with the Demon Knights as part of the deception.
• Fiona and Yasis crossed the Boundary River, where Yasis used War Mist and the Sword-type Dragon Eagle Knights to destroy the Dragon Riders who attacked them.
• Yasis let a five-man Dragon Rider scout squad escape and led the Dragon Eagle Knights toward the Pigman Tribe.

The Yin Aspect Holy Son received reports that Fang Yuan’s forces had crossed the Boundary River and concealed the battlefield, leaving the defenders unable to locate his Main Force. He ordered coordinated aerial and ground reconnaissance attacks, while warning his commanders to avoid traps, and sent the Undead Archmage south under strict restrictions.

• Dragon Riders reported that Fang Yuan’s Aerial Legion had crossed the Boundary River, seized scouting areas, and appeared near Iron Shield City.
• The Undead Archmage urged an immediate southern attack, but the Mind Flayer Great Elder warned that Fang Yuan’s missing Main Force and obscured battlefield could conceal a trap.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son accepted the Mind Flayer Great Elder’s caution and ordered the Dragon Riders and the Harpy Lord’s personal guards to breach the aerial defensive line and restore reconnaissance.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son sent the Undead Archmage south with more than a hundred thousand Undead Knights and Black Knights to probe the ground defenses and locate Fang Yuan’s Main Force.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son forbade the Undead Archmage from bringing bone dragons and ordered him to use teleportation scrolls and abandon surrounded troops, then commanded both forces to set out.

Fiona and Yasis led Wasteland Territory’s aerial forces against a Harpy army near Iron Shield City, using a retreat and a deliberate formation clash to counter the enemy’s advance. Yasis’s Sword-type Griffon Knights wiped out most of the Bat Riders, and he ordered the survivors to charge and break the enemy formation.

• Fiona withdrew after losing three hundred of her five hundred Golden Dragon Eagle Knights, then ordered her remaining troops to regroup with Yasis.
• The Harpy Mist Lord refused to pursue Fiona and kept his army in formation as it advanced toward Yasis’s defensive line.
• Yasis and Fiona agreed to meet the enemy formation with their own, with Yasis confronting the Bat Riders and Fiona leading the center against the Harpies.
• Yasis’s Sword-type Griffon Knights charged the Bat Riders, whose self-destruction blasts killed many of their own troops and left only about a hundred survivors.
• Yasis ordered the surviving Sword-type Griffon Knights to charge and use their lives to break open the enemy formation.

Yasis led the Sword Dragon Hawk Knights in a desperate counterattack that annihilated the Harpy Lord’s main force, though the Harpy Lord escaped. After assigning Fiona to watch the surviving Dragon Riders, Yasis learned that an Undead Legion had reached the Boundary River and was fighting Aria’s Guardian Knights.

• The Harpy Mist Lord sent five thousand sword-wielding Harpies to stop the Sword Griffons, and they wiped out the Griffin Legion while losing only five hundred soldiers.
• Yasis used the fallen Griffin Legion’s disgrace to spur the Sword Dragon Hawk Knights into a furious charge that destroyed the five thousand Mutated Harpies.
• Yasis and Fiona’s forces overwhelmed the Harpy army, killed the Golden Hero Fura, and forced the Harpy Mist Lord to retreat after both wings were defeated.
• Yasis left Fiona to keep the surviving Dragon Riders pinned down and conduct reconnaissance while he prepared to return for reinforcements.
• A Griffin Knight reported that an Undead Legion had bypassed Yasis’s forces and reached the Boundary River, where it was fighting Aria’s Guardian Knights.
• Yasis ordered his troops to return to the Boundary River to see what was happening.

After the Harpy Mist Lord’s defeat, Yin Aspect Holy Son reorganized Iron Shield City’s defenses and awaited news from the Undead Archmage. The Undead Archmage advanced toward the Boundary River, where Christian prepared to meet his legion with the Holy Light forces and Magic Crystal Cannons.

• The Harpy Mist Lord reported his army’s destruction and the death of his Golden Hero, so Yin Aspect Holy Son reassigned command of the Aerial Legion to the Dragon Riders and ordered the Harpy Lord to rebuild his forces.
• Yin Aspect Holy Son moved half the Fire Fox and Beastmen armies to fortified camps and ordered the Dragon Rider Order to cover their construction.
• The Undead Archmage’s forces drove back a Guardian Knight Order, and the Grassland Death High Priest raised Grassland Wights that could withstand and counter Holy Light.
• The Undead Archmage ordered his Death Knights and Black Knights to rush to the Boundary River and kill any Blue Star Lord soldiers crossing it.
• Christian learned that a 200,000-strong undead legion was approaching and ordered the Holy Light Legion across the river with 300 Magic Crystal Cannons.

The Undead Archmage launched an ambush against Christian’s Holy Light Legion, confident his forces would overwhelm them. Christian’s troops endured the attack and countered, while Yasis’s Dragon Eagle Knights watched the undead central army; the chapter ended as three volleys of hidden Magic Crystal Cannons fired at the Death High Priest.

• The Undead Archmage sent troops to attack the Pigman Tribe and ambush the Holy Light Legion as it advanced toward the camp.
• The Undead Archmage received reports that the Golden Cavalry and Guardian Knight legions were resisting his assault, then ordered his forces to attack the approaching Holy Light Legion.
• Yasis ordered his Dragon Eagle Knights to monitor the undead central army and target the unusual skeleton at its center.
• Christian used Harold’s Light Sanctuary to protect the Holy Light Legion from the Death Cloud barrage, then ordered his Paladins to attack the Death Knights.
• The Paladins detonated their Holy Light Undying skill, and the War Priests advanced under their shield formation and used Divine Purification to clear a path to the Death High Priest.
• Christian revealed the Magic Crystal Cannon Legion and ordered three volleys to fire at the Death High Priest.

The Undead Archmage’s army was shattered after the High Priest and most of the ambush force were killed, while reinforcements trapped the undead on multiple fronts. Yasis attacked the undead command center, forcing the Undead Archmage to flee by teleportation, and the chapter ended with him reaching Iron Shield City to beg the Holy Son for revenge.

• The Undead Archmage learned that two enemy cavalry units had escaped and saw Holy Light disperse the Death Cloud over the southern battlefield.
• He discovered that the High Priest had been killed by concentrated Magic Crystal Cannon fire after the Holy Light Legion sacrificed itself to clear the way.
• The Undead Archmage ordered a full attack, but learned that cavalry had blocked his retreat and Blue Star Lord forces had teleported in near the Pigman Tribe and surrounded his army there.
• Yasis led the Dragon Eagle Knights in an assault on the undead command center, and the Undead Archmage escaped with his heroes using Teleportation Scrolls.
• Yasis found the undead main force abandoned, and his soldiers sent word to Christian requesting permission to destroy it.
• The Undead Archmage arrived at Iron Shield City and told the Holy Son that his main force had been wiped out, demanding revenge.

The Yin Aspect Holy Son ordered a counteroffensive against Fang Yuan while dismissing reports of a small cavalry force as a feint. Christian coordinated a withdrawal from the north bank as Breni’s Demon Legion advanced on Trade City, leaving the enemy to face an empty riverbank.

• The Undead Archmage reported that Fang Yuan’s forces had trapped his army, and the Yin Aspect Holy Son sent him south with three hundred thousand undead to rescue the survivors.
• The Yin Aspect Holy Son ordered flying dragons to scout Fang Yuan’s territory, the Black Blood Clan Sword Saint to attack the Pigman Tribe, and a troll army to strike the north bank from the flank.
• After defeating the undead main force, Christian ordered her legions to retreat across the Boundary River and asked for Meg and the Holy Light Legion to reinforce Bloodline Castle.
• Christian learned that Breni had crossed the river without resistance and would reach Trade City soon, then ordered Fiona to delay the enemy wyverns for thirty minutes.
• Christian ordered Aria, Kubo, Copper Body, and Hom to withdraw to Bloodline Castle, leaving the northern bank empty as the enemy advanced.