Chapter Summaries

Roy investigated Luker’s Destiny’s Favor and studied the Black Blade Clan’s Sword Saint techniques, then found ways to imitate them with his own bloodline power. He left planning to rely on potions if he could not defeat Amo.

• Roy wondered whether Luker possessed a small share of Protagonist’s Fate and concluded that killing Amo and Yannis could help him test his ideas about destiny.
• Luker explained that his clan passed down Following Slash, Charge Slash, Thunderous Strike, and Blade of Execution, though he had not mastered the last technique.
• Roy learned that Thunderous Strike concentrated Life Energy and natural magic power into a single attack, and he struggled to perform the techniques properly himself.
• Roy calculated that his Bloodline Awakening, Ferocious Transformation, and Animate Witchcraft could make him stronger than Amo, but worried that Amo’s Life Energy and hidden techniques could still pose a threat.
• Roy quickly imitated Luker’s first three techniques by combining basic movements with his bloodline abilities, then decided to use potions if he could not win.

Roy focused on alchemy and chose to refine a Dragon Power Potion using Dragon Antelope hearts. After the potion succeeded, he drank it and found that it increased his strength by five degrees, more than he expected.

• Roy focused on gathering ingredients and studying formulas, then chose to make a Dragon Power Potion.
• Roy issued a quest for Dragon Antelope hearts, and Yiwente, Ulid, and the other apprentices hunted several beasts to obtain them.
• Roy paid the apprentices and used his Portable Small Alchemy Laboratory to refine the potion, with his Alchemy Tools assisting him.
• Roy completed the potion by infusing it with Activation Energy and identified it with Hermes' Eye.
• Roy drank the potion and woke the next morning to discover that his strength had increased by five degrees.

Roy sought materials to prepare weapons and discovered that Tuval could supply a large stock of ice-element gem dust and fragments. After acquiring them, Roy planned to use his Alchemy Talent and Luck's Favor to forge a Level 2 Flawless Gem, aiming beyond the reserves of a Level 1 Wizard.

• Roy told Sailen and Athedia that he had mostly solved the problem of dealing with Amo and needed to alter or make backup weapons suited to the Orc World.
• Roy contacted Tuval to ask for materials, and Tuval offered Wizard Rank materials, Carbon Stone, and a large quantity of low-grade gems in exchange for blood mercury and other goods.
• Roy haggled with Tuval and bought the gem dust and fragments, along with other materials, for 160,000 worth of goods.
• Tuval sent apprentices to deliver the materials, and Roy inspected the ice-blue dust and found that it came from a mine with a pure element.
• Roy returned to his Alchemy Room and set out to forge a Level 2 Flawless Gem.

Roy refined a flawless Level 2 Elemental Gem and used it to enchant a sword with frost power. Ulid then revealed that Yannis was training under Sword Saint Masur and planned to compete for the Beast God's Gift at next year's Bloody Trial, leaving Roy intent on taking his teacher's task more seriously.

• Roy refined a flawless Level 2 Elemental Gem and confirmed its stored energy and output with Hermes' Eye.
• Roy forged a sword with an enchanted socket, embedded the gem, and tested the resulting frost weapon in the wilderness.
• Ulid told Roy that Yannis was in Mulien, training as a student of Sword Saint Masur.
• Ulid revealed that Yannis had reached the Great Knight stage and signed up for next year's Bloody Trial to seize the Beast God's Gift.
• Roy resolved to take his teacher's task of dealing with Yannis more seriously.

Roy planned to use the Beast God Festival to advance his standing in the Orc World and continued improving his strength while preparing for the next festival. After reaching 40 degrees of Life Energy and researching attribute potions, he encountered a shortage of Salt of Para, then received an urgent message warning that his identity might have been exposed.

• Ulid explained that Yannis planned to rise through the Orc ranks by winning the Bloody Trial and eventually competing to become an Orc General.
• Roy realized the next Beast God Festival would take place the following year and decided he needed to build his strength before confronting Amo and pursuing Legendary Destiny.
• Roy ordered Ivent, Ulid, and his other subordinates to investigate while he studied Enhancement and ways to obtain local Talent Source Material.
• Roy raised his Life Energy to 40 degrees, gave his ineffective potions to his apprentices, and developed an Insfan Potion formula that required Salt of Para.
• Roy received several urgent messages through his Communication Crystal warning that his identity might have been exposed.

Roy accepted Tuval’s request to eliminate orc thugs threatening his farmland, negotiating payment and information about the Creao Mushroom. After killing the five thugs, Roy discovered their wealth and began considering targeting Amo the Headcutter, while the witnesses feared Amo’s retaliation.

• Roy learned that orcs connected to Amo the Headcutter were harassing Tuval over his farmland and agreed to help.
• Roy met Tuval, negotiated a reward of 5,000 magic stones plus Creao Mushroom information and samples, and identified the five thugs.
• Roy followed the orcs away from the village and killed all five with a sudden sword attack.
• Roy searched the bodies, collected their Qi and Blood Seeds, found several thousand magic stones, and took their Swift Dragons.
• Luker recalled how Amo had robbed his clan’s caravan, and the townspeople panicked over how Amo would react to the killings.

Roy examined Wizard Tuval’s Creao Mushrooms and had Event experiment with cultivating them, while Amor searched for the supposed Luker who had killed members of his clan. Event’s experiments produced mushrooms that grew on rotten wood and an unusually vigorous Animate Plant.

• Amor learned that Luker was alive and ordered his people to find him and avenge the Molten Fire Tribe.
• Roy studied Tuval’s carnivorous Creao Mushrooms and had Event test ways to cultivate them beyond flesh and blood.
• Tuval’s subordinates spread rumors that diverted Amor’s search, leaving the conflict between Amor and Roy to be dealt with later.
• Event discovered that the Creao Mushrooms had adapted to the local soil and water, growing on rotten wood after mixing with nearby Giant Mushroom mycelia.
• Event showed Roy large, vigorous mushrooms whose Life Energy had been stimulated by Animate Potion, making them resemble naturally occurring Animate Plants.

Roy and Yvent developed Creao Mushrooms that could imitate living tissue and grow into a high-yield food source. Roy then used the cultivation method to create an animated, human-sized Mimic Mushroom and recognized it as a powerful vessel for Witchcraft Energy.

• Roy sensed that the Giant Mushroom’s mutation had produced a naturally animated state, and he asked Yvent to keep cultivating it.
• Yvent used discarded Bloodline Potions to grow mushrooms that absorbed Bloodline Factors and imitated human organs, including lifelike, moving body parts.
• Yvent cultivated a Creao Mushroom that could turn a corpse into a substantial yield of food within weeks, and Roy named the edible variety the Creao Delicious Mushroom.
• Sailen and Athedia tried the new mushroom rations and found them genuinely tasty, while Roy privately compared them to mushrooms left behind by the dead.
• Roy dismantled his aging Succubus Puppet, used its remains and a dragon antelope corpse to refine Dragon Power Potion, and increased the Animate substances in his mushroom cultivation.
• Roy animated a human-sized Mimic Mushroom and realized that its flexible body could serve as an excellent vessel for Witchcraft Energy.

Roy developed Mimic Mushrooms into short-lived combat puppets and refined stronger variants through rapid experiments. He tested them against Luker, who surrendered after the mushrooms overwhelmed him with varied attacks and draining spores.

• Roy named the humanoid mushroom Mimic Mushroom and gave it an Intelligent Body through witchcraft.
• Roy tested the puppet's combat ability and found that it could destroy a wooden target but dissolved after roughly an hour, with combat shortening its lifespan.
• Roy continued improving mushroom-based consumables and combat forms, producing versions with strength ranging from Novice Knight to Great Knight.
• Roy ordered Luker to spar with a group of Mimic Mushrooms, and Luker discovered their attacks included poisonous spores, draining effects, and powerful strikes.
• Luker unleashed his full strength to defeat a giant mushroom, then surrendered when more Mimic Mushrooms continued advancing.

Roy explained how his animated mushroom creatures worked and discussed their potential uses with Sailen. When Sailen’s illness worsened, Roy proposed using bloodline factors from a Dark Elf to create a clone that might help treat her Bloodline Disease.

• Roy explained that spore dust weakened enemies by consuming their energy, while Luker lamented that he could not defeat a bunch of mushrooms.
• Roy described his mushroom creatures’ abilities and recorded their sizes, attack power, and skill modules in a document.
• Roy discussed cultivating tougher mushrooms and finding ways to refine them into golems, while Sailen called the creatures underhanded.
• Sailen coughed blood, and Roy worried that her illness was worsening.
• Roy offered to extract bloodline factors from Planje’s marrow blood to create a clone as a possible way to treat Sailen’s Bloodline Disease.

Roy created a new body for Sailen using Planje’s blood and performed a brain transplant, hoping to save Sailen from her worsening condition. The surgery succeeded, but the examination still showed contamination as Roy received basic knowledge about the Soul Stone.

• Roy persuaded Sailen to agree to a transplant, then asked Planje for a blood sample and explained that he planned to use it to grow Sailen a new body.
• Roy used cloning techniques and witchcraft to grow a Dark Elf girl’s body in a Nurturing Pod over four weeks.
• On April 15, Roy performed the transplant surgery on Sailen inside a sealed chamber.
• The surgery went smoothly, but the examination array continued to show that Sailen was contaminated.
• Roy’s Alchemy Talent revealed basic occult knowledge about the Soul Stone.

Roy learned about Soul Stones, Soul Seeds, and methods of preserving and restoring souls while examining the limits of his attempt to save Sailen. After successfully brewing Insfan Potion and raising his Life Energy to 50 degrees, he brought Planje and Luker to Tanlie City to seize an upcoming opportunity against Amo.

• Roy’s Inspiration revealed information about Soul Stones, Soul Seeds, resurrection, and lich phylacteries as forms of soul preservation.
• Roy’s attempt to treat Sailen failed, and she awoke in the body of a little Dark Elf girl; he sent her back to rest and ordered Athedia to dispose of Sophia’s body.
• Roy reflected that he would outlive Sailen and his other mortal friends, then returned to his work on potions.
• Roy successfully refined Insfan Potion and drank it, raising his Life Energy from 40 to 50 degrees.
• Roy tested his increased strength, gained confidence that he could kill Amo, and headed to Tanlie City with Planje and Luker.

Roy and his companions went to a tavern in Tanlie City to learn about Amo's attacks on caravans and the Shan Lu Tribe. Roy provoked a fight, killed several Molten Fire Tribe orcs, and waited as Amo arrived with his warriors.

• Roy learned from a tavern server that Amo had robbed caravans and killed adventurers and Molten Fire Tribe warriors.
• Roy pretended to be Luker and let the Molten Fire Tribe orcs confront him in the tavern.
• Roy caught the leader's battle-ax, crushed it with his fingers, and killed several orcs with fragments of the weapon.
• Roy struck the orc leader dead after the leader threatened him, while onlookers warned that Amo would retaliate.
• Amo arrived on a Swift Dragon mount with more than a dozen Orc Warriors and demanded to know who had killed his people.

Amo confronted Roy and attacked him, but Roy matched his strength and fought him into the open as a crowd gathered to watch. The real Luker heard the orcs mistake Roy for him and wrestled with shame, relief, and hope over Roy’s use of the Black Blade name.

• Amo unleashed his powerful Aura and charged Roy, who met his battle axe with Frost Blade.
• Amo launched ranged battle-aura cleaves, and Roy adapted, blocking the attacks as their fight wrecked the room and moved outside.
• Orcs gathered and praised the supposed Luker Black Blade, believing he had returned to avenge the Black Blade Clan against Amo.
• The real Luker realized he lacked the strength to claim the revenge people attributed to him and wondered whether Roy could uphold the clan’s reputation in his place.

Roy killed Amo by unleashing the Golden Behemoth Bloodline’s power, avenging Luker’s clan and defeating Amo’s followers. As Luker celebrated the Black Blade Clan’s vengeance, Roy’s Phantom Panel began acquiring the Source Quality from Amo’s corpse.

• Amo raised his Life Energy to 100 degrees with the Burning Blood Axe, but Roy awakened his bloodline and reached 300 degrees of strength.
• Roy froze Amo with a Frost Blade and used Charge Strike to sever his head.
• Luker unfurled the Black Blade Clan’s banner and proclaimed that the clan had avenged its dead and washed away its shame.
• Amo’s followers charged Roy, who killed several with frost sword aura before Planje and Luker cut down the fleeing survivors.
• Roy saw Spiritual Power condense from Amo’s corpse, and his Phantom Panel showed Alchemy Talent Acquisition progressing from 33% to 100%.

Roy gained the Unexpected Joy Alchemy Talent, which could turn failed Apprentice-level refinements into useful unexpected products, and considered combining it with Luck's Favor. After discovering valuable materials in Amo’s poleaxe, Roy took Amo’s corpse to his mansion in Tanlie City and demanded to know where the treasure was hidden.

• Roy acquired the Black Iron Rank Unexpected Joy Talent and realized its effect could complement Luck's Favor by salvaging failed alchemy attempts.
• Roy considered using unexpected alchemical results in his Gem Synthesis project and with the Mimic Mushroom, but postponed experimenting.
• Roy inspected Amo’s poleaxe and identified its Blazing Lava Iron as exceptionally valuable Fire-attribute material.
• Roy found a refined-iron key among Amo’s belongings and ordered Luker to carry Amo’s corpse to his mansion.
• Roy reached Amo’s mansion, killed a guard who attacked him, and demanded that the occupants reveal where Amo’s treasure was hidden.

Roy killed Amo and looted his treasure vault, earning the gratitude of the people who had suffered under the Molten Fire Tribe. After Luker pledged allegiance and offered him the Black Blade Tribe’s legacy, Roy gained a Heroic Halo and became a hero.

• Roy killed the orcs who could not guide him to Amo’s treasure, then forced a surviving orc to lead him to the vault.
• Roy opened the vault with Amo’s key and collected its iron, gold, silver, magical beast materials, and other valuables.
• The people outside celebrated Amo’s death and hunted down his fleeing men.
• Luker offered Roy his allegiance and asked him to inherit the Black Blade Tribe’s position and pursue the Sword Saint’s legacy.
• Roy accepted Luker’s allegiance, and the world’s gathered power granted Roy a Heroic Halo.

After becoming an Orc Hero, Roy gathered followers and arranged with Tuval to seize the Molten Fire Tribe’s resources. He tested his Unexpected Joy talent and created an Elemental Mushroom capable of storing and releasing elemental power.

• Roy accepted several Orc Warriors as followers and ordered them to hunt Amo’s brothers and Minions and attack the Molten Fire Tribe.
• News of Amo’s death spread, and Tuval warned Roy that the Orc upper echelons would soon take notice of him.
• Roy proposed that he and Tuval occupy the Molten Fire Tribe’s mines and farmland, and they established a rough plan.
• Roy tested Unexpected Joy by embedding gemstone fragments in Mushroom seeds, producing several failures and erratic mutations.
• A long-stemmed Mushroom mutated into an Elemental Mushroom that could gather and unleash elemental power through its implanted core.

Roy discovered that failed Mimic Mushroom mutations produced useful spore dust, then spared the Molten Fire Tribe’s old chieftain in exchange for its treasures. He used Amo’s blood and refined Blazing Lava Iron to make a hair growth cream that might help his Hair Ghost Witch Body evolve.

• Roy ordered Ivent, Athedia, and the Secret Camp’s other subordinates to cultivate Mimic Mushrooms and supply him with alchemical resources.
• Roy examined the ruined Mimic Mushrooms and discovered their spore dust could serve as a powerful alchemical base.
• The Molten Fire Tribe’s old chieftain begged Roy for mercy and offered him a powerful Magic Pearl, so Roy let him return to his clan.
• Planje reported that Roy’s orc followers were reliable, while Tuval prepared to claim the Molten Fire Tribe’s farmland and mineral deposits.
• Roy decided to use Blazing Lava Iron to enhance his Hair Ghost Witch Body and refined it with Amo’s blood into a bottle of hair growth cream.

Roy tested a new elemental trait in the Hair Ghost Witch Body and hired a blacksmith to reforge materials from Amo’s treasury. Tuval then reported that Yannis had appeared at the Bloody Trial alongside Imperial Princess Maggie Quicks, suggesting the Orc Empire was investing in his potential.

• Roy absorbed Blazing Molten Essence into his hair and confirmed that the Hair Ghost Witch Body gained fire enchanting and immunity traits.
• Roy hired a blacksmith and his apprentices to process and reforge the magical materials in Amo’s treasury in exchange for the ordinary valuables.
• Tuval requested a secret meeting and reported that Yannis had appeared in Mulien ahead of the Bloody Trial.
• Tuval showed Roy an image of Yannis with Imperial Princess Maggie Quicks and said the Orc Empire might be pursuing a marriage alliance based on Yannis’s potential and possible Hero Bloodline of Emperor Urun.
• Roy realized the political stakes had raised the difficulty of his mission.