Chapter Summaries

Thor freed six serfs by burning their Slave Contracts and promised the rest a path to freedom through hard work. He assigned plots of land across Eagle Territory and provided the newly freed citizens with supplies to begin farming.

• Thor summoned six serfs, including Sabina, Bones, Linus, Somerset, Serard, and Sebefia, and declared them free citizens.
• Thor burned the six serfs’ Slave Contracts, ending their bonds and prompting the gathered serfs to respond with shock and gratitude.
• Thor told the newly freed citizens they would receive land, food, seeds, and farming tools, and would owe the territory a regular tax.
• Thor promised the remaining serfs a chance to become free citizens and landowners if they performed well during the year’s planting.
• Thor’s knights distributed numbered wooden plaques corresponding to plots of land.

Thor rapidly developed Eagle Ridge, aiming to complete its construction and become a noble within three years. When the old man he had brought back worsened, Thor used his last two Intermediate Life Potions to stabilize the poison and watched the old man begin to recover.

• Thor organized Eagle Ridge's construction, including orderly buildings, latrines, and reclaimed fields.
• Thor's castle reached completion of its outer structure within the first month, and he aimed to finish his pioneering mission before the kingdom's evaluation in three years.
• Ryan told Thor that the old man was getting worse, so Thor hurried to check on him.
• Thor ordered Ryan to give the old man both remaining Intermediate Life Potions.
• The potions stopped the poison from spreading and began to make it recede, and Thor ordered Ryan to keep watch over the old man.

Thor monitored the old man's recovery while focusing on developing Eagle Territory, which prospered over the course of a month. The Intelligence System then revealed valuable nearby resources, including a Large Iron Mine controlled by Timid Goblins, but Thor recognized that some discoveries were beyond his current strength.

• Thor confirmed that the old man was improving and ordered Ryan to ensure he received proper care.
• Thor devoted himself to developing Eagle Territory, where fields, buildings, and Eagle Castle took shape over the next month.
• The wheat seedlings grew quickly, and the serfs worked eagerly as they anticipated Thor freeing another group of slaves in three months.
• Thor opened the Intelligence System and learned about nearby resource sites, including a Large Iron Mine controlled by Timid Goblins, unicorns, and an Ethereal Dragon's nest occupied by earth dragons.
• Thor judged the Large Iron Mine valuable but recognized that the earth dragons guarding the Ethereal Dragon's nest were too powerful for him to challenge.

Thor decided that securing the Large Iron Mine would be vital to Eagle Ridge’s development, but learned the nearby Timid Goblin tribe numbered at least three or four thousand. As he struggled to find a way to prevent the goblins from escaping, he gained an idea while watching the territory’s serfs.

• Thor chose the Large Iron Mine as his next target and ordered Steve to investigate the Timid Goblin tribe fifty miles east.
• After nearly three days of scouting, Steve reported that the tribe had at least three or four thousand goblins, and possibly as many as six or seven thousand.
• Thor worried that his forces could not defeat the goblins while preventing them from escaping and threatening the mine, but Steve had no solution to offer.
• While walking through Eagle Ridge and hearing serfs discuss the chance of becoming free citizens, Thor suddenly thought of a way to ensure the plan succeeded.

Thor decided to use serfs alongside his knights to eliminate the goblins guarding the iron mine, and returned to Loren City to buy them and replenish supplies. His imposing arrival drew attention, admiration, and hostility from the city’s residents.

• Thor rejected asking Count Engel Dreyrosa for help and decided to solve the goblin problem himself by recruiting serfs.
• Thor ordered Ryan to accompany him to Loren City and left Steve in charge of the territory’s construction.
• Thor told Steve to retrieve a Divine Wood Fruit from his room, hoping it would help Steve become a Great Knight.
• Thor and Ryan set out with more than a hundred knights and reached Loren City after six days of travel.
• Thor entered Loren City, where onlookers recognized the Dreyrosa Family emblem and watched his procession with admiration and hostility.

Thor learned that Lajos Assad had smuggled Blazing Oil into Loren City and sent Ryan to investigate him. After learning that Lajos was an undervalued son of the Assad family who ran a small shop, Thor decided to visit him.

• Thor's Daily Intelligence System revealed that Lajos Assad had smuggled Blazing Oil into his shop and would seek a buyer the next night.
• Thor ordered Ryan to gather information about Lajos Assad.
• Ryan learned that Lajos was the ninth son of the head of the Assad Family and ran a small shop in Loren City.
• Thor decided to visit Lajos with Ryan.

Lajos Assad worried that his attempt to smuggle Blazing Oil into Loren City would be exposed, until Thor Dressrosa arrived and revealed he knew about the goods. Thor offered to buy five hundred pounds, leaving Lajos to consider the unexpected deal.

• Lajos Assad struggled to find a buyer for the Blazing Oil he had smuggled into Loren City.
• Ram assured Lajos that his intended trading partner was trustworthy and that the smuggling could be denied if discovered.
• Thor Dressrosa arrived at Lajos's house with Ryan and presented him with a wooden box containing evidence of the Blazing Oil.
• Lajos dismissed everyone and confronted Thor, who said he had come to discuss business and offered to buy five hundred pounds of Blazing Oil.

Thor persuaded Lajos Assad to supply him with Life Elixir by offering gold and revealing that his father had given him a formidable force and that he expected to pass the kingdom’s assessment. Lajos agreed to deliver the goods at Maple Leaf Territory, setting their cooperation in motion.

• Thor offered Lajos fifty gold coins as a deposit for five hundred pounds of goods.
• Thor proposed that he and Lajos cooperate, presenting their exchanges as gifts between friends rather than smuggling.
• Lajos rejected the proposal, suspecting Thor wanted him to bear all the risk if they were discovered.
• Thor revealed that Engel Dreyrosa had given him one Great Knight, fifty Formal Knights, and several hundred Apprentice Knights.
• Lajos reconsidered and agreed to deliver the Life Elixir to Maple Leaf Territory at dusk the following day.

Thor secured a trade partnership with Lajos Assad and bought Blazing Oil before purchasing three thousand high-grade serfs from the Habs Merchant Guild. He learned of a Life Potion auction in Loren City three months later, which he might attend.

• Thor and Lajos Assad reached a partnership, and Thor sent Ryan with gold coins and thirty knights to Maple Leaf Territory to collect goods.
• Thor visited the Habs Merchant Guild to buy sturdier serfs for his territory.
• Thor negotiated with the guild manager and bought three thousand high-grade serfs for five hundred and forty gold coins.
• The Habs Merchant Guild manager told Thor about a Life Potion auction in Loren City three months later, and Thor said he might attend.

Thor prepared Eagle Ridge for a campaign to seize an iron mine after bringing in three thousand serfs and confirming Steve had become a Great Knight. The chapter ended with Thor addressing the assembled people before the expedition began.

• Thor purchased supplies for the three thousand new serfs, then Ryan returned with the Blazing Oil and the Habs Merchant Guild's slaves.
• Thor's group brought the serfs safely back to Eagle Ridge, where their arrival expanded the territory's population to about three thousand five hundred.
• Thor confirmed that Steve had become a Great Knight and ordered him to stabilize his realm and gather intelligence on the Goblin Tribe.
• Steve and Ryan learned the tribe likely numbered five to six thousand and finished scouting the surrounding terrain.
• Thor ordered the operation to begin, and the people of Eagle Ridge gathered as he stepped onto a platform to address them.

Thor rallied 3,500 serfs and commoners for a Pioneer War against a large Timid Goblin Tribe, promising freedom and a chance to become knights for those who killed enough goblins. He led a mounted force toward the tribe, and the goblins learned that humans were approaching.

• Thor promised to free anyone who killed three Timid Goblins and let those who killed ten join the Reserve Knight Corps, prompting 3,500 people to volunteer.
• Thor distributed weapons and led the force toward the large Timid Goblin Tribe, planning to surround it and use Blazing Oil.
• Thor assigned Ryan to command the serfs and part of the Knight Order, while Steve inspected the supplies and Blazing Oil.
• After two hours, Thor and more than two hundred mounted knights charged toward the tribe as Ryan's forces spread out around it.
• A goblin rushed into the cavern where the tribe's leader and stronger goblins had gathered and warned them that humans were coming.

Thor’s knights and serfs annihilated the Timid Goblin Tribe in a day-long assault, then Thor inspected the Large Iron Mine that had motivated the campaign. The prospectors estimated its reserves at more than fifty million pounds, possibly nearing a Super Large Iron Mine.

• The knights under Thor poured Blazing Oil over the Goblin Tribe’s territory and began slaughtering the goblins as Steve killed the goblin chief.
• Ryan led more than a hundred knights and over three thousand five hundred serfs against goblins fleeing the fires.
• After a day and night, Thor’s forces killed every Timid Goblin and burned the corpses, while Steve and Ryan began securing the area.
• Thor took knights and three prospectors to investigate the Large Iron Mine identified by the Daily Intelligence.
• The prospectors reported that the mine likely held more than fifty million pounds of iron and might approach the size of a Super Large Iron Mine.

Thor secured the Large Iron Mine and ordered the area enclosed while preventing news of it from spreading. The updated Daily Intelligence revealed that adamantine would form in the mine in three months, alongside other nearby discoveries.

• Thor confirmed the Large Iron Mine’s valuable mithril iron reserves and ordered the surrounding area incorporated into his territory.
• Thor sent knights and Reserve Knights to explore the area and keep the mine’s discovery secret.
• The Daily Intelligence System updated with information about nearby creatures, resources, and locations, including an Ethereal Dragon’s occupied nest.
• Thor read that adamantine would form inside the Large Iron Mine in three months and recognized its value as a material for Golden Armor.

Thor discovered a group of gnomes in the Large Iron Mine and secured their agreement to work for him, giving his territory skilled craftsmen who could turn its ore into valuable armor. The chapter left Thor expecting the mine and the gnomes to transform Eagle Territory’s struggling economy.

• Steve told Thor that they had found a group of gnomes in the underground cavern.
• Thor recognized the gnomes’ renowned craftsmanship and saw them as a way to forge iron ore into armor.
• An elderly gnome named Asachi asked Thor to spare the group and offered their labor.
• Thor promised the gnomes food and shelter in exchange for thirty years of work and freedom afterward.
• Asachi accepted Thor’s offer, and Thor saw the gnomes as the start of a profitable production chain for Eagle Territory.

After discovering that the elderly goblin was a level-four alchemist, Thor recognized the immense value the goblin’s skills could bring to Eagle Ridge. He left Steve in charge of the iron mine, then returned to his territory, where freed serfs received land and became its first substantial group of free citizens.

• Thor learned that the goblin leader was a level-four alchemist capable of crafting valuable magical items, potentially including Magic Crystal Cannons.
• Thor freed two hundred and seventy-three serfs, and twenty-seven of them joined the Reserve Knight Corps.
• Thor assigned Steve thirty Formal Knights, one hundred Apprentice Knights, and two hundred Reserve Knights to guard the iron mine, then arranged for serfs to begin mining its ore.
• Thor brought Ryan and the freed serfs back to Eagle Ridge and allotted them land, making them free citizens and the territory’s first substantial group of subjects.

Thor’s Eagle Ridge developed rapidly over two months, with a completed castle, expanding households, and growing fields. After learning that the mysterious old man had awakened, Thor sent Ryan and the Knight Order to clear Green Goblins from Maine River Valley.

• Thor used ore from the Large Iron Mine and goblin-forged tools to accelerate Eagle Ridge’s construction.
• Thor bought five hundred female slaves, assigned most to members of his Knight Order, and promised serfs rewards for years of service.
• Thor assessed his slow progress toward becoming a Formal Knight and hoped Daily Intelligence would reveal a way to improve his cultivation.
• Ryan told Thor that the mysterious old man had awakened.
• Thor ordered Ryan to lead the Knight Order to clear Green Goblins from the upper reaches of Maine River Valley.

Neil Morton awoke in Thor’s castle after Thor saved him from Datura Poison, then thanked his rescuer over a meal. Thor decided he wanted to keep the powerful knight in Eagle Ridge to strengthen its defenses against the Northern Province’s threats.

• Neil Morton woke in Thor’s castle and realized Thor had saved him from the Datura Poison.
• Thor invited Neil Morton to eat, and Neil thanked Thor and offered to repay him if he could.
• Neil Morton told Thor that he came from the east of the Tulip Kingdom, and the two continued their meal.
• After they parted, Thor considered recruiting Neil Morton because Eagle Ridge lacked powerful fighters to face dangerous orcs and magical beasts.

Neil Morton explored Eagle Ridge and was shocked by its knights, citizens, and unfamiliar customs, which differed sharply from what he had seen across the Empire. Thor knew Neil was wandering and focused on finding a way to keep him in the territory.

• Thor left Neil Morton to rest and attend to his duties, confident Neil posed no threat to Eagle Ridge.
• Neil Morton explored the territory and wondered how a poor lord had obtained the resources needed to heal him.
• Neil Morton discovered that workers and slaves included Formal Knights, who worked cheerfully without appearing oppressed.
• Neil Morton saw Eagle Ridge’s free citizens, sanitation rooms, and sincere smiles, and felt as if he had glimpsed a new world.
• Neil Morton followed the crowd to see Knight Ryan return with knights and prey, then watched the approachable knights distribute the food.
• Thor learned that Neil was wandering around Eagle Ridge and considered how to persuade him to stay.

Neil Morton discovered Ryan’s extraordinary Life Source Power and asked to take him as a student. Thor refused to decide for Ryan, but offered Neil a place to stay and teach him, hoping he would remain in the territory.

• Neil Morton saw Ryan training and was astonished by the density of his Life Source Power.
• Neil Morton offered to teach Ryan, but Ryan refused because he was Thor’s Guardian Knight.
• Neil Morton asked Thor to let Ryan study under him and offered a Sky Knight and a Saint Domain Knight’s breathing technique in exchange.
• Thor said Ryan’s choice was his own and proposed that Neil stay and teach him, promising to let Ryan leave if he wished.

Thor kept Neil Morton in his territory by persuading Ryan to stay, then received the first large shipment from the Large Iron Mine and word that Lajos Assad would visit next month. He looked forward to working with Lajos to sell the mine’s armor and expand his territory.

• Thor persuaded Neil Morton to remain by keeping Ryan in the territory, and Neil left pleased with the arrangement.
• Thor inspected the Large Iron Mine’s shipment of one hundred sets of Black Iron Armor, one set of Silver Armor, and two hundred farming tools.
• Thor learned that production would increase the following month and ordered the supplies stored.
• Thor received a letter from Lajos Assad saying he would visit at the beginning of next month.
• Thor planned to use Lajos’s commercial connections to sell the mine’s goods to other lords for higher prices.