Chapter Summaries

Richard treated Gelo’s severe abdominal wound by stitching it closed with a makeshift needle and horse artery thread, astonishing the nobles. He then prepared a crude transfusion tube and began looking for a suitable blood source.

• Richard disinfected and stitched Gelo’s abdominal wound with a silver fork tip and artery thread taken from Bill Caesar’s horse.
• The nobles watched Richard’s unfamiliar treatment and believed he was using Wizard magic.
• Bill Caesar brought feathers to the tent and quickly left after setting them down.
• Richard fashioned two hollow feather tubes, sharpened them into needle tips, and attached them to a horse artery to make a transfusion tube.
• Richard prepared to find a suitable source of blood for Gelo.

Richard tested the nobles’ blood to find a compatible donor for Gelo, explaining that mismatched blood could be dangerous. He identified one compatible donor and prepared to transfuse Gelo.

• Richard told the nobles that Gelo needed a blood transfusion and had them test their blood against his.
• Richard explained that incompatible blood could cause toxicity and excluded Gelo’s close relative from testing.
• The nobles completed the tests, and Richard found that Gelo had AB blood and one person present was compatible.
• Richard confirmed Gelo could be saved and began preparing for the transfusion.

Richard transfused Bill Caesar’s matching blood into the unconscious Prince Gelo, frightening Bill into a faint while the transfusion revived the prince. When Earl Vik tried to leave the tent, Lancaster stopped him, and Gelo woke and identified Vik as his assassin.

• Richard discovered that Bill Caesar’s blood matched Gelo’s and forced him to donate blood through a crude transfusion tube.
• Richard frightened Bill Caesar with his sword until his heart raced and the blood flowed faster, then Bill collapsed from fear and blood loss as Gelo began to stir.
• Earl Vik tried to leave the tent, but Lancaster blocked him on Richard’s warning that the departing noble was Gelo’s assassin.
• Gelo woke, remembered the attack, and shouted that Earl Vik had assassinated him.

Earl Vik was captured after attempting to assassinate Gelo, then swallowed a poison pill after warning that Gelo would face further attempts on his life. Richard stopped the soldiers from removing the body, believing Earl Vik could still be saved.

• Lanster disarmed Earl Vik and held him at swordpoint before nobles dragged him into Gelo's tent.
• Gelo confronted Earl Vik about the assassination, but Earl Vik initially refused to answer.
• Earl Vik declared that Gelo would remain a target of political violence and warned that he would die that night.
• Earl Vik swallowed a red pill and collapsed, apparently dead.
• Richard stopped the soldiers from carrying Earl Vik away and said he could still be saved.

Richard realized Vik Earl had faked his death to escape, so Gelo’s nobles tried to make him vomit up the pill for interrogation. Vik Earl was exposed when they forced a foul mixture toward his mouth, and the chapter left him struggling as they began to feed it to him.

• Richard checked Vik Earl’s pulse and told Gelo that he was alive, though the swallowed medicine had taken effect.
• Richard advised Gelo to induce vomiting so Vik Earl would expel the pill, and the nobles proposed several foul methods.
• Bill Caesar suggested combining the methods, and Gelo agreed to have the nobles use them all.
• The nobles returned with a ladle of horse dung, horse urine, and foul soil, then prepared to force it into Vik Earl’s mouth.
• Vik Earl abandoned his act and struggled, but the young nobles overpowered him and began forcing the mixture down his throat.

Earl Vik revealed that an unknown great noble had sent several hundred soldiers to surround and kill the camp, leaving Gelo and the nobles searching for a way to survive. Richard offered to help only if everyone agreed to pay a higher price, and Gelo received his proposed terms.

• Gelo threatened Earl Vik with more vomiting until he confessed that a much larger force was coming to kill everyone in the camp.
• The nobles force-fed Earl Vik to make him vomit again, then turned to Gelo for a way out of their predicament.
• Gelo asked Richard for help, and Richard requested scrolls and a Goose Feather Quill before writing a list of materials.
• Richard gave Gelo the terms of a new deal, explaining that everyone would share the cost if they wanted his help.

Gelo accepted Richard’s terms and let him arrange the camp’s defenses against the approaching army. When the enemy attacked, Richard waited while Gelo tried to warn them off, and the Black Armor Rider ordered his troops to charge.

• Gelo agreed to all of Richard’s terms in exchange for help escaping their predicament.
• Richard arranged the camp with ditches and horse traps on three sides, leaving a clear, torchlit road at the front.
• Richard selected and carefully adjusted thirty-three arrows while the camp prepared for the enemy.
• More than four hundred enemy soldiers arrived, with most gathering outside the open front of the camp.
• Gelo identified himself as the Second Prince of the Emerald Kingdom and ordered the enemy to leave.
• The Black Armor Rider dismissed Gelo’s claim, called the defenders bandits, and ordered his troops to attack.

Richard used nine spell artifacts to devastate the cavalry charging the camp, killing or injuring more than fifty of the enemy. As the surviving troops regrouped, Richard watched from inside the camp, having reduced their force by roughly one-eighth.

• The nobles and Prince Gelo drew their swords as the cavalry closed in, while Richard prepared a spell and Pandora hid her silver fork.
• Richard altered the road to narrow and slow the charging formation, then threw nine spell artifacts into the cavalry.
• The artifacts exploded, killing the cavalry at the blast’s center and causing pursuing riders to crash into the dead and trample one another.
• Gelo and the nobles stared at Richard as the camp survived the charge and the enemy’s advance was thrown into chaos.
• The surviving enemy regrouped, while Richard estimated that the explosion and trampling had caused more than fifty casualties out of a force of over four hundred.

After the explosion weakened the besieging soldiers’ morale, Richard prepared to exploit their hesitation by testing his Hand Crossbow and modified arrows. He adjusted his aim through repeated shots as the enemy organized a volley outside the camp.

• Richard judged that the explosion had badly shaken the enemy’s morale and could make another defeat trigger a rout.
• Richard ordered Bill Caesar to fetch his modified arrows and a better Hand Crossbow.
• The enemy prepared to attack with a volley of arrows while Richard aimed at their apparent leader.
• Richard deliberately fired a test shot that struck a tree, then used the arrow’s impact to assess the Hand Crossbow’s accuracy.
• Richard fired a second test shot, noted that it landed lower, and prepared to shoot a third time.

Richard used a hand crossbow and Phosphorus Candle spells to kill the enemy leader and rout the force surrounding the camp. The army fled into the darkness, leaving the nobles, including Gelo, stunned by how little they had contributed.

• Richard calibrated his aim by shooting at trees and then prepared to target the enemy leader as the soldiers outside the camp readied their bows.
• Richard shot the leader through the visor slit, killing him before he could give the order to attack.
• Richard killed two more men who approached or tried to calm the soldiers, then picked off nearby soldiers with the hand crossbow.
• Richard summoned three Phosphorus Candle flames to illuminate the area and continued killing the enemy with precise arrows.
• After Richard killed twenty-one soldiers and their morale collapsed, the remaining force fled into the darkness.
• Gelo and the other nobles stared at one another, realizing that Richard had fought the battle while Bill Caesar had only supplied arrows.

Richard prepared to leave the forest, advising Gelo to rely on Lanster and build up loyal soldiers before returning to the Royal Capital. As Richard and Pandora walked back to the small hill, he explained why he had restrained her from killing and promised to deal with the beast tide before leaving.

• Richard told Gelo to leave the forest at dawn, trust Lanster, and stay at Lanster's Territory Castle for ten days to gather loyal soldiers.
• Richard said he hoped Gelo would become a Wizard and survive because he might need Gelo's help in the Royal Capital; Gelo clutched the ether bottle and wondered whether he could become a Wizard.
• Richard and Pandora walked through the forest as nocturnal beasts fled from Pandora, who showed her displeasure by biting the prongs off a silver fork.
• Richard explained that he had stopped Pandora from killing the camp's attackers because he wanted her to develop her own values and avoid needless slaughter.
• Richard told Pandora he planned to leave after his research reached a stopping point but might return years later, and promised to resolve the beast tide first; Pandora took his hand as they headed back to the small hill.

Gregory behaved unusually and hurried away while Pandora grew suspicious. Richard broke into the mountain’s secret chamber, took the Crystal Skull, and left before its delayed influence could affect him.

• Gregory complained about Richard’s explosions and tried to slip away, but Pandora caught his tail and stopped him.
• Gregory tricked Pandora by claiming Richard was behind her, then flew off without his usual attempt to placate her.
• Pandora noticed Gregory had been acting strangely and looked toward the mountain where Richard was blasting.
• Richard detonated the drilled rock, entered the revealed chamber, and found an altar holding the Crystal Skull amid magical patterns.
• The Crystal Skull began to gather energy and told Richard to put it back, but he grabbed it and left the chamber before its delayed influence could keep him there.

Richard noticed Gregory’s increasingly frequent, long absences and promised Pandora he would ask him about them. He gave the bored Pandora a triangular prism, whose rainbow light briefly gave her something new to enjoy.

• Richard found Pandora brooding on the hill and learned that Gregory had gone out again.
• Richard reflected on Gregory’s unusual absences and said he would find a chance to talk to him.
• Richard showed Pandora how a triangular prism split sunlight into seven colors and gave it to her as a gift.
• Pandora considered striking Richard for rubbing her hair but decided to let him off because of the gift.
• Pandora used the prism to make rainbow light and remembered that she could watch animals drink at the pool.

Pandora went to the pond, massaged the wild boar, and examined the Triangular Prism Richard had given her. Its rainbow light made her smile before she remembered that Richard would eventually leave, while Richard began researching the Crystal Skull.

• Pandora walked to the pond and saw the animals waiting their turn to drink, including the once-troublesome wild boar.
• Pandora called the wild boar over and kneaded its stiff bristles until it relaxed and enjoyed the massage.
• The wild boar tried to lick Pandora's hand, and Pandora struck it and called it stinky before resting her head against its body.
• Pandora held the Triangular Prism up to the sun and watched its rainbow light fall across her face.
• Pandora briefly smiled, then frowned as she thought about Richard eventually leaving and no longer playing with her or giving her gifts.
• Richard began his formal research of the Crystal Skull in the castle.

Richard advanced his research on the Crystal Skull and spells while preparing to leave the castle. He told Pandora he would depart the next day, and she asked him not to go.

• Richard discovered that the Crystal Skull could cause Mental Shock and generate a field that strengthened mental resilience or enhanced intelligence.
• Richard used the Crystal Skull’s field to improve his Mental Strength and continued modifying Zero-Ring Spells from the Chapter of Munro.
• Richard explained to Pandora how the North Star changed over thousands of years as she watched him point out stars.
• Richard told Pandora he was leaving the next day because he had finished nearly everything he could research there.
• Pandora asked Richard not to go, but he said he could not stay, and she turned away and entered the castle.

Richard reflected on whether his transmigration and the world around him were real, and resolved to uncover the truth despite his attachment to Gregory and Pandora. He decided to leave the Blue Lion Kingdom and explore the wider world.

• Richard studied the constellations and concluded that his world occupied Earth's place in the Solar System around the year 2100.
• Richard questioned whether transmigration, divergent memories, and impossible events could be explained by hidden forces or errors in reality.
• Richard considered whether his past fifteen years and the people around him had been real or merely virtual data and game-like events.
• Richard decided he had to leave the Blue Lion Kingdom, travel, and investigate the world's secrets, regardless of Gregory and Pandora.

Gregory returned to the castle in a panic, took Richard and Pandora away, and left them in the woods before flying back to confront the danger pursuing him. Richard realized Gregory’s behavior might mean he was entrusting Pandora to him, while Pandora clung to Richard in fear.

• Gregory sensed a growing danger as he flew toward the Black Ancient Castle where Pandora and Richard lived.
• A hooded Wizard crossed Mansman Island, checking a black iron ring before hurrying toward an unknown destination.
• Gregory arrived at the castle and urgently told Richard and Pandora to climb onto his back.
• Gregory flew them to a forest clearing, told Richard to leave with Pandora, and then shook Pandora off when she tried to stop him.
• Gregory flew back toward the castle to face his pursuer, while Pandora grabbed Richard’s hand and Richard began reviewing his memories of Gregory.

Richard used his memory-extraction ability to revisit conversations with Gregory and learned that Gregory suspected mainland Wizards had caused the disappearance of the dragons. Gregory said the danger had reached Smans Island, while Richard remained set on leaving after finishing his research.

• Richard recalled Gregory evading questions about his age, dragon companions, and frequent trips away from the castle.
• Gregory admitted that he had searched for his companions for years but had found none, and feared he and Pandora were the last dragons alive.
• Gregory told Richard he suspected mainland Wizards were secretly targeting dragons and that he had fled the mainland with Pandora as danger approached.
• Gregory asked what Richard thought of Pandora after learning Richard planned to leave, then denied that he wanted Richard to stay or take her along.
• Richard pointed out that people who lie often repeat another person's words, and Gregory frowned before the two parted.

After realizing Gregory had sensed danger, Richard returned with Pandora to investigate and saw Gregory being overwhelmed by a mysterious Wizard. Richard stopped at a distance and used his telescope to observe the silent hill.

• Richard decided to return to Gregory to retrieve his belongings, investigate the danger, and bring Pandora back to him.
• Richard and Pandora hurried through the forest, then saw Gregory fighting a smaller figure who appeared to be a Wizard.
• The Wizard blocked Gregory’s fire, struck his weak points, and knocked him out of the sky before both figures disappeared from sight.
• Richard approached the hill with Pandora but stopped a thousand meters away, judging the opponent too strong to face directly.
• Richard took out his compact telescope and looked toward the hill.

Richard and Pandora returned to the ruined hill and found evidence that Gregory had almost certainly been killed by a powerful Wizard. Richard supported Pandora as she faced the loss of her only family, while preparing to confront the approaching enemy.

• Richard spotted a black-clad Wizard through the Lens Barrel, and the Wizard detected him and rushed toward his position.
• Richard led Pandora into the forest, laid false tracks, and circled back toward the hill to exploit the Wizard’s assumptions.
• Richard and Pandora reached the summit and found the Dragon Cave, Black Castle, and experimental buildings destroyed, with Gregory’s blood and a severed piece of his tail.
• Pandora froze at the sight of the remains and struggled with grief and fear as she realized Gregory was gone.
• Richard supported Pandora, retrieved the surviving suitcase and useful items, and began speaking to her seriously.