Chapter Summaries

Soren underwent a brief, unexplained Slayer transformation linked to Vivian and hurried toward Goria's Wizard Tower, fearing something had happened to her. In Arendelle, the Princess was crowned Queen, and Anna began preparing to learn Spells as the kingdom celebrated.

• Soren encountered a Frost Blade Panther but avoided fighting it and continued through the woods.
• Soren's body suddenly changed as Divine Essence activated his Slayer Form, then returned to normal when the mutation disappeared.
• Soren suspected Vivian had awakened the Fear Divinity within him and rushed toward Goria's Wizard Tower to find her.
• At Arendelle's delayed coronation celebration, Anna told the Princess she wanted to learn Spells so she could protect herself.
• The Princess was crowned Queen, and Anna became first in line to the throne.

Vivian emerged alone in a wilderness after being teleported, discovered she could walk on water, and set out to find people and reunite with her family. When Yuan-ti adventurers tried to catch her, she killed five with Magic Missiles, and their leader begged to become her servant.

• Vivian surfaced from a lake, discovered she could walk on its surface, and used magic to dry herself.
• Vivian changed into travel clothes, chose a direction by tossing a Gold Daler, and headed southwest to find a city.
• As night fell, Vivian followed smoke to a roadside camp and recognized the people there as Yuan-ti disguised as adventurers.
• The Yuan-ti leader ordered her companions to catch Vivian, but Vivian killed five of them with barrages of Magic Missiles.
• The surviving female Yuan-ti knelt before Vivian and begged to serve her as her master.

Vivian killed five mixed-blood Yuan-ti with a barrage of Magic Missiles, then used her Fear Aura to make the surviving woman swear loyalty to her. Meanwhile, Soren reached Goria’s Wizard Tower in Glacier City and came face-to-face with Goria’s mother.

• Vivian panicked when the mixed-blood Yuan-ti caught her and instantly unleashed more than sixty Magic Missiles, killing five of them.
• Vivian’s Fear Aura overwhelmed the surviving female Yuan-ti, and Vivian made her promise to serve her forever.
• Vivian heard Lillian’s voice taunting her, but refused to let Lillian take control.
• Soren arrived in Glacier City and headed to Goria’s Wizard Tower.
• Goria’s mother appeared near the tower and recognized Soren with hatred.

Soren learned that Vivian had awakened as Lillian, the Fear Witch, after killing a Legendary Assassin, and feared the Demon Lord of Fear might take control of her. Goria agreed to prepare a divination to locate Vivian, while Icetail’s alignment restriction suggested Soren’s sealed Versatile Hands skill had begun to take effect.

• Soren reached Goria in the Wizard Tower and learned that Vivian had saved Goria from the Legendary Assassin called the Hand of Despair by awakening and identifying herself as Lillian, the Fear Witch.
• Soren feared Vivian could become the Demon Lord of Fear’s vessel and asked Goria to use Divination to find her; Goria agreed to prepare the spell.
• Goria recognized Soren’s scimitar, Icetail, and found that she could not touch it without suffering from its cold, while Soren wielded it unharmed.
• Soren suspected that his sealed Legendary skill, Versatile Hands, had started working and was allowing him to wield Icetail despite its apparent alignment requirement.

Soren remained unsure whether Versatile Hands had been restored, while Goria prepared a divination to find Vivian. Goria warned her mother to abandon her dangerous research into elemental annihilation, but her mother refused and resolved to seek an ally to uncover the secret of the Floating City.

• Soren set aside testing Versatile Hands because he lacked an artifact and waited for Goria to complete her divination for Vivian.
• Goria's mother confronted her over risking her life to divine a Godsbane and accused Soren of being one too.
• Goria told her mother that her experiments had caused mutations and destruction, and urged her to give up researching elemental annihilation.
• Goria's mother insisted she could revive the Arcane Empire by reaching legendary rank and finding a Floating City's energy core.
• Goria explained that she did not hate her mother but could not support the dangerous experiment, and her mother left determined to find another ally.

Soren left the Wizard Tower with Goria’s clues about Vivian’s location: south, mountains, and somewhere near the sea. In the City of Wealth, Aladdin finished his daily boastful storytelling and thought he saw Vivian, though he dismissed it as a drunken hallucination.

• Goria told Soren that her divination pointed south, toward mountains near the sea, and that the final card was a snake.
• Soren thanked Goria and left the Wizard Tower to search for Vivian, while Goria watched him go and suspected he was a Godsbane.
• Goria revealed that another prophecy had said Soren would find Vivian because their fates were one.
• In the City of Wealth, Aladdin entertained patrons at the Copper Pot Tavern with an exaggerated tale of defeating five earth elementals.
• Aladdin left the tavern with money he had earned from his storytelling and noticed someone he thought was Vivian, but decided he was imagining things.

Soren learned that Goria had located Vivian somewhere in the south, near mountains and the ocean, and set out to search for her. In the City of Wealth, Aladdin noticed someone who looked like Vivian and dismissed it as a drunken illusion.

• Goria told Soren that her divination pointed south, toward mountains near the ocean, and that the snake card was linked to Vivian's location.
• Soren left the wizard tower, resolved to search the southern coast, while Goria watched him go and suspected he was a god child.
• Soren arrived in the City of Wealth, a prosperous southern port known for trade and the worship of the Goddesses of Wealth and Pleasure.
• Aladdin entertained the Copper Pot Tavern with an exaggerated story about defeating earth elements, then secretly left with money he had stolen.
• On his way home, Aladdin thought he saw Vivian, but assumed he was drunk because he believed she had gone north with Soren.

Soren killed a couple aboard the merchant ship and searched their room for the supernatural item they had mentioned. He found a cursed Legendary water sprite cloak and hid it, then began arranging the bodies so they would not be discovered before the ship reached Shipwreck Bay.

• Soren waited until midnight, then picked the lock on the couple's cabin while the ship's guards were away.
• Soren stabbed the sleeping man through the heart and snapped the woman's neck when she woke and tried to cry out.
• Soren searched the cabin and found Mohe's Sorrow, a cursed Tier 2 Legendary water sprite cloak with charm abilities.
• Soren sensed the cloak's curse, put the item away, and began concealing the bodies until the ship reached Shipwreck Bay.

Soren visited Shipwreck Bay to seek information about the Godsbanes of Fear, using Charm Person to question a local intelligence broker. He learned that a powerful Vampire God Child was nearing the coast while the Silver Hand pursued him, but found no news of Vivian, so he planned to continue south after a brief stay.

• Soren stopped a pickpocket who tried to rob him in Shipwreck Bay and made his way to an underground gambling den used by an intelligence organization.
• Soren showed the broker a special Crest, paid him, and used Gaze of Fear and Charm Person to make him disclose what he knew about the Godsbanes of Fear.
• The broker told Soren that a Vampire God Child had killed several other Godsbanes and was approaching the coast near the City of Wealth.
• Soren learned that the Silver Hand, a Legendary Paladin carrying an Artifact, was hunting the Vampire God Child, but the broker had no information about Vivian.
• Soren decided to remain in Shipwreck Bay for two days before continuing south to search for Vivian.

Soren encountered a newborn Vampire hunting in Shipwreck Bay and recognized that she had deserted her elders. After making her dispose of the victim’s body, he invited her to his room and offered help in exchange for her assistance.

• Soren avoided a seductive Vampire in the streets of Shipwreck Bay and rented a room at an Inn.
• From his window, Soren watched a newborn Vampire use a Charm Spell to feed on a drunken man.
• Soren confronted the newborn, identified her as a deserter, and ordered her to dispose of the corpse and clean up the blood.
• The newborn carried out his instructions while Soren prepared for a possible attack.
• The newborn climbed into Soren’s room and asked who he was, and Soren offered to help her if she helped him in return.

Soren subdued the newborn vampire Yaliana and learned that her cousin had turned her into a servant after killing their family. He planned to kill the vampires pursuing her and use a high-level vampire in a Bloodline Purification Ritual to strengthen himself.

• Soren challenged Yaliana to attack him three times and wounded her with a concealed, frost-threaded slash.
• Yaliana accepted Soren's strength and told him that her cousin had killed their family, turned her into a vampire, and made her flee to Shipwreck Bay.
• Soren promised to help Yaliana kill the elder vampire and advised her to learn safer ways to hunt.
• Soren explained that vampire material could support his Bloodline Purification Ritual and grant him greater vitality and a Toughness feat.
• The next day, Soren gathered holy water and other tools for fighting vampires, then waited for Yaliana's pursuers to appear.

Soren prepared to flee Shipwreck Port with Yaliana and lure out the Vampire who had turned her, while trying to keep her bloodlust from exposing them. After Yaliana’s pursuers confronted her in the forest, she attacked their leader as two more Vampires closed in.

• Soren returned with concentrated Holy Water and confronted Yaliana about drinking blood again, then told her they were leaving to draw out her Tracker.
• Yaliana left Shipwreck Port alone and was warned by a local Vampire to leave or face execution by the Progenitor.
• Soren followed Yaliana as she traveled into the wilderness, where she resisted killing a drunken sailor who harassed her but snapped his arm.
• After Yaliana had traveled more than ten kilometers, a seductive Vampire confronted her and accused her of fleeing her master.
• Yaliana denounced the Vampires for killing her family, then lunged at the seductive woman as two other Vampires rushed in to subdue her.

Soren fought the Vampires who had captured Yaliana, but she died after helping him kill their leader. He honored her wish for freedom and carried her body away, hoping she would find redemption and a peaceful resting place.

• The seductive Vampire ordered Yaliana restrained and mutilated, then prepared to have her limbs broken and take her back to her master.
• Yaliana's Raging Bloodline awakened as Soren emerged from Stealth and killed one Vampire, while Yaliana attacked the seductive woman.
• The seductive woman stabbed Yaliana through the heart, but Yaliana kept fighting and used Soren's Scimitar to impale her attacker; Soren then beheaded the seductive woman.
• Soren offered Yaliana his blood, but she refused and spoke of her brother, her wish not to kill, and her fear of falling into the Abyss or Hell.
• Yaliana died after thanking Soren, and he collected her body and the arm torn off in the fight before leaving into the darkness.

Soren buried Yaliana and reflected on her struggle against vampire blood thirst, then continued toward the City of Wealth to search for Vivian. In the Abyss, the Succubus Queen claimed Yaliana’s soul from the River Styx and ordered it transformed into a succubus.

• Soren carved Yaliana’s name into her headstone and mourned her choice to die after resisting blood thirst in her final moments.
• Soren added an epitaph honoring Yaliana’s heart and left to seek Vivian in the City of Wealth.
• The Succubus Queen sensed a promising soul entering her domain and summoned a Gazer Observer.
• The Succubus Queen pulled Yaliana’s soul from the River Styx and imprisoned it in a soul stone.
• The Succubus Queen ordered the Gazer Observer to have Yaliana transformed into a succubus, suggesting she might become a Radiant Nun.

Aladdin tracked a woman to an inn and discovered that the little girl with her was Vivian, though she acted unlike the girl he remembered. After Vivian persuaded him to help find a vampire, Soren headed for the City of Wealth after completing his Bloodline Purification Ritual and gaining Toughness.

• Aladdin searched the market for Vivian, then followed a woman who had bought a carriage to an out-of-the-way inn.
• The woman caught Aladdin spying and carried him into a room, where Vivian recognized him after immobilizing him with Hold Person.
• Vivian claimed she had been separated from Soren by a bad person and charmed Aladdin into agreeing to help locate a vampire for a paladin to deal with.
• Soren traveled toward the City of Wealth to investigate reports of a Fear God Child and completed his Bloodline Purification Ritual, gaining the Toughness feat.

Lillian overcame Vivian’s resistance and resolved to fight the other Godsbane, while Soren reached the City of Wealth searching for clues to Vivian’s whereabouts. There, he fled from the arrival of the Silver Knights, who had come to hunt the Godsbane of Fear and were met by the city’s poor seeking justice.

• Lillian refused to let Vivian take control and insisted that they had to kill the other Godsbane before it endangered them and Brother.
• Soren’s Bloodline Purification Ritual greatly increased his vitality as he traveled toward the City of Wealth, still lacking a clue to the meaning of the Snake card.
• Soren arrived at the wealthy harbor city and saw the Goddess of Wealth’s vast temple and its solid-gold statue.
• A wave of panic swept through the city as the Silver Knights arrived, and Soren recognized them and hid in an alley.
• Silver Hand stopped a young Paladin from proposing to Purify the city and reminded his knights that their mission was to eliminate the Godsbane of Fear.
• Poor residents came out to meet Silver Hand, and a grieving old man told him that his son and daughter had been killed; Silver Hand promised that Justice would endure.

Soren watched Silver Hand and the Paladins arrive in the City of Wealth and realized their presence signaled a sweeping purge. At City Hall, the City Lord and the city’s officials and nobles panicked over the danger, while the City Lord warned that Silver Hand was powerful enough to kill them all.

• Soren observed Silver Hand’s Paladins as poor residents came to them, and anticipated a violent purge.
• Soren reflected on the Paladins’ strict pursuit of justice and their willingness to fight anyone they judged evil.
• The City Lord berated his officials and nobles for allowing Silver Hand’s Paladins into the city, fearing their Detect Evil spells would expose the city’s widespread crimes.
• A noble proposed killing the Paladins, but the City Lord rejected the plan and warned that fighting Silver Hand could provoke a battle between Legendary figures.
• The City Lord recalled how Silver Hand had once challenged a kingdom and forced its cruel ruler to abdicate.

The nobles of the City of Wealth debated how to contain the Paladins, deciding to hunt the Vampire God Child and sacrifice select criminals to appease them. Soren watched the city mobilize, leaving the nobles’ purge underway as they tried to keep the Paladins from intervening further.

• An elderly noble asked whether the Temple of Wealth could drive out the Paladins, but the burly man explained that the Church of Fortune could not risk a war with the Church of Radiance.
• A cold-looking noble proposed using gang leaders, slave traders, and other disobedient organizations as scapegoats while urging the council to find the Vampire God Child.
• The nobles agreed to search for the Godsbane of Fear and dispatch the Guard Force and City Legion across the city.
• The burly man ordered the nobles to execute selected offenders under the law and deal with the Commoners later.
• Soren heard the army’s horns and saw the City Guard and Guard Force mobilize as the nobles began their purge.

Soren watched the City of Wealth descend into fires and violence after the Paladins’ purge, as the poor suffered and the city’s brief promise of justice collapsed. Demons then emerged amid the chaos and began slaughtering the city, while a Devil slipped into the flames to pursue its own scheme.

• Soren watched battles, fires, and looting spread through the City of Wealth and reflected that the purge would leave ordinary people poorer without delivering them justice.
• A grieving man blamed a white-haired old man for the death of his wife and daughter, and a young Paladin knocked him unconscious.
• Paladins used Detect Evil, and the gathered aura turned the sky blood red as Demons descended into the city.
• A Glabrezu and other Demons slaughtered civilians and overwhelmed the City Legion, prompting a burly commander to demand help from the temples and Holy Spirit Clerics.
• A Devil emerged from the flames, declared that Devils would prevail, and vanished into the fire to enact an Intrigue.

As demons and riots pushed the City of Wealth into slaughter, Soren suspected Devils and other forces were manipulating the conflict. After the young Paladin lost his faith while mourning a dead child, Soren urged him toward a darker path, and the former Paladin walked into the darkness carrying transformed power.

• Soren realized the escalating riot might be orchestrated by Devils and watched demons and city forces clash as the violence spread.
• Soren's body reacted strangely, and he sensed that Vivian was nearby before finding a young Paladin weeping over a dead girl.
• Soren told the young Paladin that his weakness and naive pursuit of Justice had helped unleash the slaughter, and the Paladin's holy radiance disappeared.
• Soren urged the former Paladin to fight Evil with Evil and seek the Holy Avengers, then vanished into the darkness.
• The young man took up his sword, whose holy power had become eerie, and walked away as his future path remained uncertain.