Chapter Summaries

Thor returned to Tono Territory with Anna and Avila, welcomed the elf girl, and learned that a valuable high-grade Berserk Potion could open a new source of income. While reviewing his plans, he considered eliminating the other powerful Pioneer Lords for their wealth, then rejected the idea as too dangerous and recognized that his recent success had made him overconfident.

• Thor met Avila, welcomed her to stay in his territory, and told Anna to keep her elf traits hidden.
• Anna identified Thor's potion as a high-grade Berserk Potion and said she could make lower-grade ones if they found Bloodlust Flower leaves.
• Thor returned to his study and reviewed the day's events and his plans for the Eagle Merchant Guild.
• Thor considered secretly eliminating the other powerful Pioneer Lords to seize their wealth, as he had done with Stein Campbell.
• Thor decided the deaths would draw suspicion and provoke powerful families, then admitted he had nearly let his success make him reckless.

Thor refused to join Tono’s hunt for Boar Beasts and learned that Lajos’s evacuation operation had secured forty-two mining sites and 210,000 slaves for the Eagle Merchant Guild. He approved hiring Great Knights through the Habs Merchant Guild and told Lajos to register as a Pioneer Knight in Loren City.

• Tono returned early with news of a Boar Beast nest, but Thor declined to join the hunt or claim a share of the beasts.
• Tono gathered more than a hundred knights and set out for the nest in Thor’s territory.
• Lajos reported that the Eagle Merchant Guild had acquired forty-two mining sites and 210,000 slaves from lords preparing to evacuate.
• Lajos proposed hiring ten Great Knights from the Habs Merchant Guild to secure the mines, and Thor approved the plan and provided twenty thousand gold coins.
• Thor instructed Lajos to register as a Pioneer Knight when he went to Loren City.

Thor returned to Eagle Territory, reviewed its expansion and land-reclamation plans, and decided to establish a rotating Chief Steward position to manage its growing affairs. He summoned Monken, Joseph, and Raymond to compete for the role, offering thirty Merit Points per month, and they were thrilled by the opportunity.

• Thor gave Lajos the opportunity to earn a title as a Pioneer Lord, then returned east with his party and reached Eagle Territory after seven days.
• Thor learned that Eagle Territory had grown to six towns and nearly fifty thousand people, and he ordered Covet to finish opening the Eagle River within two months by assigning him more laborers and knights.
• After struggling with the territory's growing paperwork, Thor decided to create a rotating Chief Steward position and summoned Monken, Joseph, and Raymond to consider the role.
• Thor offered the three stewards a chance to become Chief Steward, with thirty Merit Points per month, and they reacted with excitement.

Thor established a Chief Steward position to oversee Eagle Territory’s affairs and selected Joseph after a month-long competition among Joseph, Monken, and Raymond. He appointed Joseph as the first Chief Steward, leaving the other stewards eager for the next election.

• Thor offered thirty Merit Points per month to the Chief Steward and tasked Joseph, Monken, and Raymond with integrating their territories into Eagle Territory.
• Thor drafted rules limiting the Chief Steward’s authority and term, while planning to refine the position’s responsibilities and rewards.
• Joseph, Monken, and Raymond improved their territories, with Joseph’s territory making the greatest gains in farmland, free citizens, and living standards.
• Christine reported that potion production had reached one Low-Grade Life Potion per day and said her Pharmacist friend had declined Thor’s invitation.
• Christine told Thor she had sensed her Spiritual Sea, and Thor instructed her to focus on improving Life Potion production.
• Thor awarded Joseph the Chief Steward badge after he won the competition, then announced the position’s responsibilities and prompted the other stewards to anticipate the next election.

Joseph presented Thor with a development plan for Eagle Territory, and Thor approved a greatly expanded city project. The Eagle Merchant Guild reported strong first-month revenue, and Thor ordered its expansion to accelerate before the Divine Revelation began.

• Joseph gave Thor a comprehensive plan for developing Eagle Territory, including expanding Eagle Town into a major city.
• Thor approved the plan and ordered Joseph to build a city five times larger than proposed, with the initial phase finished within a year and all construction within three years.
• The Eagle Merchant Guild completed much of its expansion, acquired forty-two mineral sites and 210,000 slaves, and distributed the gains among its members, including Lajos.
• The guild's first-month revenue exceeded six thousand gold coins despite ongoing expansion and competition from powerful lords.
• Lajos estimated that the guild could reach the major lords across the west, north, and east within three months, and Thor ordered him to make it happen quickly.
• Thor told Lajos to remain in Eagle Territory and summon the Eagle Merchant Guild's other Pioneer Lords.

Thor announced that the Eagle Merchant Guild would offer its members monthly access to Low-Grade Life Potions and, later, Intermediate Life Potions, strengthening their ties to him. He then urged them to arrange reinforcements for the powerful lords’ expected counterattack after Divine Revelation.

• Thor distributed a plan allowing each Eagle Merchant Guild member to exchange for one Low-Grade Life Potion per month, with the quota expected to rise to two.
• Thor revealed that Giant Viperfish were being cultivated and that the guild might provide Intermediate Life Potions within half a year, stunning the Pioneer Lords.
• Thor explained that access to rare Life Potions would bind the guild members more closely to him, and Lajos Assad and Joz Anubi recognized the significance of his claims.
• Thor warned that powerful Pioneer Lords would return after Divine Revelation failed to occur and that the guild needed greater forces to withstand their counterattack.
• Thor told the lords to seek family support after Divine Revelation, offered hiring reinforcements through the Habs Merchant Guild based on their shares, and said he had requested support from his father.

Thor and Covet opened the Eagle River canal, then planned a large-scale expansion of Eagle Territory’s farmland using its water. Thor approved Covet’s three-year plan and promised more Goblin slaves to support it.

• Thor and the Pioneer Lords agreed to seek support from the Dreyrosa Family and prepare for possible retaliation after the Divine Revelation passed.
• Covet brought Thor to the completed canal, where Thor fired a Magic Crystal Cannon to open the riverbank and send Maine River water through the Eagle River.
• Covet reported that 1,423 Goblin slaves had died during construction and that the canal stretched twenty-seven miles; Thor awarded Merit Points to the injured slaves.
• Covet proposed irrigation channels and reservoirs to reclaim two thousand qing of farmland at first, with the possibility of expanding farther east.
• Thor approved Covet’s three-year construction plan and promised to send him another three thousand Goblin slaves.

Thor sought Avila’s help to improve Eagle Territory’s crop yields, then prepared to leave for the approaching Divine Revelation. Meanwhile, Carter arrived in Loren City and set out to find Thor.

• Thor realized that reclaiming new farmland would require more than canals and ordinary fertilizing, so he went to ask Avila for help with crops.
• Anna cast third-rank Blizzard magic with Nia’s support, and Thor arrived to see the frozen forest.
• Avila agreed to help Thor, and within three days she had accelerated the growth of newly planted seeds and improved the existing farmland’s prospects.
• With fewer than fifteen days left before Divine Revelation, Thor began preparing to depart.
• Carter arrived in Loren City with three Apprentice Knights and headed to the Municipal Center to seek information about Thor.

Carter arrived in Eagle Territory as an Apprentice Knight, became Thor’s Guardian Knight, and joined Thor’s party as it set out for the Northern Defense Line. Meanwhile, powerful noble families and the royal family gathered in Loren City for a northern Divine Revelation, while Thor traveled north and gained valuable intelligence.

• Carter arrived in Eagle Territory and told Thor that Count Engel had warned the kingdom was about to make a move in the north.
• Thor welcomed Carter, and Carter chose to become Thor’s Guardian Knight after the banquet.
• Thor prepared Steve, Peros, Ryan, Carter, and more than twenty Formal Knights to travel to the Northern Defense Line and earn Merit Points.
• Powerful noble families and people bearing the Tulip Kingdom emblem arrived in Loren City, alarming its residents and drawing the kingdom’s heirs toward the north.
• Sage Spencer blamed the Dreyrosa Family for learning about the opportunity early, while heirs of the Campbell Family anticipated claiming Stein Campbell’s territory.
• Thor’s group traveled north at a normal pace, and the Daily Intelligence System revealed valuable opportunities along the way.

Thor and his group reached Autumn Leaf Territory, where he joined his Dreyrosa relative Brian on the battered Northern Defense Line. Brian warned that orc attacks were intensifying and offered to help Thor earn Merit Points, while Thor planned to stay only briefly before the coming Divine Revelation.

• Thor learned that the Bloodthirsty Werewolves' Divine Revelation at Autumn Leaf Territory would fail in ten days, so he hurried north with his group.
• Thor arrived at Autumn Leaf Territory and saw the damage left by relentless orc assaults on the fortress.
• A Court Count assigned Thor to the western defense line, where Lyte escorted him to meet Brian, a Viscount and fellow Dreyrosa descendant.
• Brian welcomed Thor, praised his rise as a Pioneer Lord, and warned him that orc attacks had grown more frequent and dangerous.
• Thor told Brian he needed only a few hundred Merit Points to become a Viscount, and Brian offered to help him fight orcs before he left.
• Brian introduced Thor to the others gathered near the battlements.

Thor welcomed Brian and the other knights at the defensive position, then urged Brian to send his son Stuke to claim a vacated territory in the Northern Province. After Thor revealed the Dreyrosa Family’s growing strength, Brian learned that Engel had become a Sky Knight and Marshall was close to becoming an Earth Knight.

• Thor learned that Brian had recently become an Earth Knight and discussed the abandoned territories in the Northern Province with him and the other knights.
• Thor advised Brian to send someone within the month to claim a former Ferrin Family territory and offered twenty Formal Knights to help Stuke establish himself as a Pioneer Lord.
• Thor explained his plans to annex powerful lords’ territories and revealed that he had counted on the Divine Revelation not erupting, alarming Brian and Stuke.
• Brian warned that the Dreyrosa Family lacked the strength to hold so many territories, and Thor replied that Engel had become a Sky Knight several months earlier.
• Thor told Brian that Marshall was also close to breaking through to Earth Knight, leaving Brian and Stuke stunned.

Thor settled at the Northern Defense Line with Brian’s support, then joined the knights in battle when a Tier 3 Minotaur Tribe attacked at dawn. He and Brian led the defense into the melee, where Thor’s strength quickly cleared Minotaurs around him.

• Brian praised Thor’s actions and ordered Stuke to register as a Pioneer Lord in Loren City and follow Thor’s arrangements.
• Thor received intelligence warning that a Tier 3 Minotaur Tribe would attack the Northern Defense Line the next morning, and stayed at the pass instead of pursuing distant beasts.
• At dawn, Brian warned Thor to eat quickly, stay beside him, and use a Knight’s Lance when the Minotaurs attacked.
• The Magic Crystal Cannons struck the approaching Minotaurs, but the tribe scattered and charged the pass in large numbers.
• Brian and Thor led their knights off the battlement to meet the Tier 3 Minotaur Tribe, while Brian engaged its chieftain and several second-rank Minotaurs.
• Thor and Ryan surged into the enemy ranks, sending Minotaurs flying as frost and lightning cleared the area around them.

Thor and Ryan led their knights in slaughtering the Minotaurs, and Thor rescued Brian before defeating a third-tier Minotaur leader with his ice power. After the battle, news of a third wave of Kingdom reinforcements left Thor and Brian suspicious about the arrival of several great nobles’ children.

• Thor and Ryan cut through the second-tier Minotaurs, easing pressure on the Knight Orders as Thor pursued merit points.
• Thor went to help Brian, whose fight against a third-tier Minotaur leader and two Peak Second-Tier Minotaurs had become dangerous.
• Thor froze one attacker long enough for Brian to kill it, then used his ice power to pin and freeze the third-tier Minotaur leader.
• Thor and Brian killed the remaining Peak Second-Tier Minotaurs, and the Knight Orders slaughtered the Orc tribe’s several thousand Minotaurs.
• After the battle, Brian told Thor that a third wave of Kingdom reinforcements had arrived, including several children of great nobles, and Thor began to suspect something was amiss.

Noble descendants from the Tulip, Blazing, and Violet Kingdoms gathered at the Northern Defense Line, ostensibly to reinforce it while pursuing the coming Divine Ruins. After Duke Kalenina revealed the looming Orc War and a family elder's concerns, the nobles were dispersed among the defensive points, where Thor noticed someone unexpected among the newcomers.

• Thor dismissed Brian's confusion about the noble descendants and asked him to explain the surrounding terrain and battlefield matters.
• Noble descendants from the three kingdoms gathered noisily in Autumn Leaf Territory, prompting Marquis Lehman to ask Duke Kalenina to intervene.
• Duke Kalenina ordered the nobles assigned to defensive points and learned from his grandfather that an Orc War might follow the Kingdom War, with only one hundred and fifty years remaining for the Kalenina Family.
• Marquis Lehman sent a knight to fetch Eurico and Cortez, hoping his children might benefit from the opportunity surrounding Divine Revelation.
• Marquis Lehman dispersed the noble descendants along Autumn Leaf Territory's defense line, and some arrived at Thor and Brian's position by evening.
• Thor sensed two Earth Knights among the arrivals, then recognized someone leading the group and reacted with surprise.

Joz Anubi arrived at Autumn Leaf Territory with his sisters Isabelle and Aisha, and introduced them to Thor and Brian. As the group settled in, a large orc force approached the defensive point, prompting Isabelle to agree to follow Brian’s orders for the coming battle.

• Joz Anubi explained Thor’s achievements in the Northern Province to Isabelle and Aisha, and Isabelle asked to meet him.
• Joz Anubi, Isabelle, and Aisha arrived at the battlements and met Thor and Brian.
• Thor learned that Isabelle was heir to the Anubis Family of the Violet Kingdom and heard about the three kingdoms’ northern defense against the orcs.
• Joz Anubi and his sisters settled at the defensive point while conflicts broke out between noble descendants and local knight orders elsewhere.
• Brian warned that one or possibly two third-tier orc tribes, numbering over ten thousand, were approaching, and Isabelle agreed to follow his arrangements.

Thor and the Knight Orders fought an orc assault whose divine contamination drove the orcs into a blood-maddened frenzy and infected knights as well. As the mutated Third-Tier orcs overwhelmed Brian and the defenders, Thor left Ryan in command and rushed to help Brian, while countless more orcs converged on Autumn Leaf Territory.

• Brian and Thor discovered that one Third-Tier orc tribe, including three Third-Tier orcs and more than thirty Second-Tier orcs, was attacking the defenses.
• Thor and Ryan led their Knights against the orcs, but the creatures grew stronger and more violent as blood energy gathered around them.
• Three Third-Tier orcs mutated under the power of the Fallen God, forcing Brian, Isabelle, and the Anubis Family Earth Knight into a desperate fight.
• The contamination spread through the Knight Orders, causing some knights to attack their comrades and inflicting mounting casualties.
• Thor ordered Ryan to hold the battlefield and charged toward Brian to help him.
• Orc tribes across the Orc Territory continued gathering and advancing on Autumn Leaf Territory.

The Bloodthirsty Werewolf leader corrupted the Elifagar River with Anubis's power, driving orc tribes toward Autumn Leaf Territory as the defenders prepared for a growing assault. The chapter ended with a Tier 5 Tiger-headed Human appearing and the dukes and Sky Knights moving to fight.

• The Bloodthirsty Werewolf leader ordered his followers to infect the Elifagar River with Anubis's power and killed a werewolf who questioned their intrusion into Behemoth territory.
• The corrupted river spread Anubis's power downstream, infecting orc tribes and drawing them toward Autumn Leaf Territory as fighting eased on the other defensive lines.
• Duke Kalenina told the gathered leaders that they should wait, stop any Tier 4 or stronger Orc Tribes, and rely on an elder's strengthened formation for protection.
• A Tier 5 Tiger-headed Human appeared near Autumn Leaf Territory, prompting Duke Kalenina and Duke Lepur to attack while the other Sky Knights moved to confront emerging Tier 4 orcs.

Thor and the defenders fought through relentless orc assaults at Autumn Leaf Territory, including a Tier 4 tribe, while Marquis Mcken dealt with its Tier 4 orc. After the first brutal day, the attacks resumed, and the chapter revealed that the great kingdoms’ nobles intended to let Divine Ruins descend so their descendants could explore them.

• Thor warned Brian that the fighting was not over, and a new mutated horde charged the defensive position.
• The Magic Crystal Cannons devastated successive Orc Tribes, but a Tier 4 tribe arrived and Marquis Mcken appeared to confront its leader.
• Thor, Brian, Isabelle, Lajos, and the knights fought the remaining orcs through the night, suffering deaths and severe injuries before the attackers briefly withdrew.
• Thor shared Life Potions with his companions during a short rest, but the horn soon signaled another assault.
• The Tulip Kingdom and nobles from three other great kingdoms planned to prevent the god’s descent while allowing the Divine Ruins to descend, giving their descendants a chance to enter.

After days of fighting in Autumn Leaf Territory, Thor drank Isabelle’s restorative potion and broke through to the Late Great Knight stage. Meanwhile, a Divine Revelation ritual began at a huge altar more than fifty miles away, and the gathered nobles sensed its start.

• The endless beastman assault exhausted the defenders, and reinforcements arrived on the third day to give them a brief respite.
• Isabelle gave Thor a potion that restored his Life Source Power, and its surge triggered a breakthrough.
• Thor advanced to the Late Great Knight stage as frost spread around him, then thanked Isabelle for the potion.
• Thor, Isabelle, Brian, and other Earth Knights sensed a disturbance while Duke Kalenina said a Divine Descent of Anubis had begun.
• A servant at an enormous altar more than fifty miles from Autumn Leaf Territory began offering the blood of countless living beings to awaken Anubis.

The Bloodthirsty Werewolves’ sacrifice to Anubis began inscribing divine laws into Autumn Leaf Territory, causing a massive upheaval while Thor and the defenders rushed to finish the orc assault. As darkness swallowed the altar, ten Saint Domain experts gathered to watch, wary that Anubis might truly descend.

• The Bloodthirsty Werewolf chieftain called for more sacrifices as the werewolves around him were consumed and turned into blood energy for the altar.
• Anubis’s ominous power spread across Autumn Leaf Territory, and strands of divine law began to inscribe themselves into the world.
• Thor and Isabelle recognized the disturbance as the start of the Divine Revelation, while Thor urged Ryan and Brian to clear the remaining orcs quickly.
• Brian deployed rested knights and resumed firing the Magic Crystal Cannons, accelerating the slaughter as battles continued across the defense points.
• At the center of Autumn Leaf Territory, ten Saint Domain experts discussed Anubis and the danger of Divine Descent, with an old woman warning that their juniors could be trapped by the Covenant of the Gods.