Chapter Summaries

Abel gave White Snow and Feiyan gemstones, then learned that his Identification Token had granted him Elder authority over war machines. As War Fortress No. 03 flew north into the Orc Empire, he saw its bitterly cold landscape and continued toward an unknown destination.

• Abel gave White Snow sapphires and Feiyan perfect sapphires and rubies, then ordered No. 03 to create White Snow a nest aboard War Fortress No. 03.
• The War Fortress No. 03 Spirit recognized Abel's Identification Token as an Elder Identification Token and explained that Elder authority could command multiple war machines through a spirit within its control range.
• Abel asked No. 03 about a map obtained with the token, but the Spirit had no information about it.
• Abel ordered the Magic Tower's roof opened and watched White Cloud pull War Fortress No. 03 over the hills north of the Budapest Mountains.
• Abel observed the cold, snowy Orc Empire landscape as White Cloud carried War Fortress No. 03 farther north.

Abel traveled through Wolf Plain in disguise and learned that the Orc Empire had called its Great Wolf Rider Commanders away as it prepared for war. After hearing Wolf Rider Captain Becher mention the Beast God Festival, Abel transformed into a werewolf and prepared to intervene in the fight.

• Abel crossed into Wolf Plain and saw nomadic Wolf tribes whose adult werewolves were absent, along with the nearly deserted military city of Zumu City.
• Abel heard a battle-qi wolf howl and ordered War Fortress No. 03 Spirit to locate the three Wolf Rider Captains fighting near a river.
• Becher refused Carlo's demand to return, explaining that the empire was preparing for war and that the Beast God Festival gave him a chance to become a Great Wolf Rider Commander.
• Abel suspected the Beast God Festival was connected to the activities at Mount Nam and grew concerned about the threat to Miracle Wall.
• Abel transformed into a werewolf and retrieved the legendary armor Grace of the Holy Wolf to protect himself.

Abel disguised himself as a powerful wolf-clan noble and claimed Bicher as his attendant, escaping the Wolf Rider Captains who were pursuing him. As they traveled toward the Beast God Festival, Bicher revealed that the orc empire was mobilizing for a major war against humanity.

• Abel concealed the Grace of the Holy Wolf beneath leather armor, equipped himself like a Wolf Rider, and shrank Bai Xue to the size of an ordinary eagle.
• Abel used the Direwolf King and a trace of death qi to impersonate a Great Wolf Rider Commander, then intervened as Wolf Rider Captains Carlo and Bicher fought.
• Abel claimed Bicher as his attendant, and Carlo and the other Wolf Rider Captain left rather than challenge him.
• Abel and Bicher rode away together, and Abel asked about the Beast God Festival.
• Bicher explained that the festival took place every ten years on Mount Nam and revealed that the orcs were preparing for a major war against humanity.

Abel traveled toward the Beast God Festival with Bicher, a Wolf Rider Captain, while pretending to be a Great Wolf Rider Commander. After learning about the festival and discovering how Bicher’s identification token worked, Abel copied Bicher’s appearance.

• Abel agreed to travel with Bicher toward the Beast God Festival and claimed they would take the safer route through the Stony Land.
• During their journey, Abel used White Cloud to pull War Fortress No. 03 and shared wolf-clan rations with Bicher.
• Bicher told Abel that the Beast God Festival involved a trial in the Beast God Temple and could reward participants with Beast God’s Blood.
• Abel asked about Bicher’s identification token, then took it and studied its priest-made anti-forgery pattern.
• Abel transformed himself into an exact copy of Bicher while Bicher watched in horror.

Abel explored the barren Stony Land and reached Scan City as he investigated the Orc Empire. Meanwhile, a human squad traveled into orc territory to pursue K3516, suspecting that he intended to compete for Beast God's Blood.

• Abel took White Cloud to the Stony Land, where he observed the Minotaurs' scarce water sources and stone-field farming.
• Abel flew over Scan City, the Minotaurs' largest city, and saw its temple and palace.
• Grand Knight Commander Donald's squad of five knights and five Intermediate Wizards crossed the Wolf Plain using Teleportation and rested inside an Isolation Array.
• Grand Knight Commander Donald asked the squad to help avenge Sorceress Aimos, and they discussed K3516's mysterious strength and battle record.
• Intermediate Wizard Hubert reasoned that K3516 had the Orc War Drum, Beast Fang's map, and information about Beast God's Blood, while Grand Knight Commander Eddie revealed that K3516 had entered seclusion.

Grand Knight Commander Donald’s squad was surrounded by forces tracking them across Wolf Plain, and the Intermediate Wizards voted to flee toward the Death Desert. They encountered successive Wolf Rider armies and pursuing skeletons, leaving the squad trapped between enemy forces.

• Dozens of Green Falcons appeared overhead, revealing that the squad had been spotted and prompting Donald to urge everyone onward toward the Death Desert.
• After horns and war drums sounded from all directions, Hubert and the other Intermediate Wizards voted three to two to head for the Death Desert rather than return to Miracle City.
• Donald remembered that Cyril had gone mad after speaking with Abel about borrowing the Orc War Drum and Beast Fang map, and he kept his suspicions about Abel to himself.
• Donald’s squad encountered a huge Wolf Rider army ahead, and Hubert followed Donald’s order to turn left and teleport away.
• Skeletons summoned by enemy priests pursued the squad, which then ran into another Wolf Rider army and was surrounded by skeletons.

Hubert and the other Intermediate Wizards abandoned four Grand Knight Commanders to escape the Wolf Rider army, while keeping Donald because he knew about Beast God's Blood. The four knights charged into the enemy ranks and unleashed a fatal fusion of their battle qi, leaving a crater and killing themselves along with nearby Wolf Riders and skeletons.

• Hubert realized the Wolf Riders and Minotaurs were assembling a massive force and discussed an escape with the other Intermediate Wizards.
• The Intermediate Wizards decided to leave Eddie, Horatio, Nash, and Ned behind while keeping Donald, then teleported away from the knights.
• Nash, Eddie, Horatio, and Ned formed a battle array and charged into the Wolf Rider army despite the arrows and surrounding skeletons.
• The four Grand Knight Commanders fused their fire-element and Ice Element battle qi as skeletons and Wolf Riders closed in.
• The fusion erupted in a white light, wiping out everything within twenty meters and killing the four Grand Knight Commanders, hundreds of skeletons, and nearby Wolf Riders.

Five Intermediate Wizards escaped the Wolf Riders with Grand Knight Commander Donald and entered Death Desert, where a venomous snake killed Bunyan. Meanwhile, Abel continued clearing the surface areas around Lut Gholein and aimed to become an Intermediate Wizard before confronting powerful hell lords.

• The five Intermediate Wizards used Teleport to carry Donald through the Wolf Rider army and fled more than fifty kilometers to Death Desert.
• Hubert dismissed Donald's anger over the four Grand Knight Commanders' deaths, and Donald agreed to reveal what he knew about the Beast God's Blood near Mount Nam.
• A venomous snake bit Bunyan after his Shattered Ice Armor faded, and the antidote failed to save him.
• Hubert took Bunyan's space pouch and warned the others to keep their defensive spells active at all times.
• Abel continued flying over Stony Land and clearing the Dark World’s surface areas with Strongson, Feiyan, and Bai Xue, while planning to reach Intermediate Wizard before facing the dark-gold hell lords.

Abel discovered that the Orc Empire’s barley harvest had fallen to one-fifth of normal, suggesting a famine that could drive the orcs to attack Miracle Wall. From the Beast God Plain, he contacted Wizard Morton through Batorri to warn him, leaving his teacher stunned that Abel was inside the Orc Empire.

• Abel waited to enter the caves until he mastered Teleportation and continued training while traveling through the Orc Empire in War Fortress No. 03.
• Abel reached the Beast God Plain and saw that its vast barley fields produced grains only one-fifth the size of ordinary barley.
• Abel connected the poor harvest with the disappearance of adult fighters among the Wolf Tribe and Minotaurs and feared that famine would provoke an attack on Miracle Wall.
• Abel contacted Batorri through their Soul Chain and asked her to bring Wizard Morton so he could discuss the crisis.
• Wizard Morton was shocked to learn that Batorri was Abel’s Contracted item, then grew anxious when Abel revealed he was in the Beast God Plain.

Abel reported the Orc Empire’s catastrophic crop failure and missing warriors to Wizard Morton, warning that the orcs might attack Miracle City. Meanwhile, Hubert’s party was swallowed by a sandstorm in the Death Desert, and Abel disguised himself as a Wolf Rider Captain to approach Mount Nam for the Beast God Festival.

• Abel told Wizard Morton that four-fifths of the Beast God Plain’s crops had failed and the young members of the wolf tribe and Minotaurs had disappeared.
• Wizard Morton promised to report Abel’s findings to Grand Wizard Dunn and urged Abel to stay safe.
• Hubert’s group struggled through the Death Desert after a companion died from snake venom and the party faced its extreme conditions.
• Hubert told the others to regroup at Fuer Marsh if they were separated, but a towering sandstorm swallowed the group.
• Abel left War Fortress No. 03, disguised himself as Bicher, and rode toward Mount Nam with ten days remaining before the festival.

Abel reached the Beast God Temple at Mount Nam and followed the other orcs through its purification and registration procedures. After a werewolf priest accepted his Identification Token, Abel entered the main hall with the group.

• Abel traveled with a group of orcs toward Mount Nam and found that every one of them was a powerful Battle Professioner.
• Abel saw the enormous Beast God Temple, where more than a hundred orcs had gathered quietly in the square.
• Abel copied the other orcs by washing himself, removing his shoes, and climbing the temple’s hundred steps, which strengthened their souls with death qi.
• A junior black-robed priest examined the orcs’ bone Identification Tokens and asked Abel why he had arrived separately from the other werewolves.
• The werewolf priest accepted Abel’s explanation, directed him to the wolf tribe’s tents, and led him and the other orcs into the main hall.

Abel passed the Beast God’s preliminary examination and joined the Wolf Rider Captains gathered for the Beast God Festival selection. He learned that the finalists would be chosen through battles and that the Wolf race expected an advantage because a Wolf Orc Priest would preside.

• The Beast God’s green light examined the orcs and blasted out a Minotaur, a Bearman, and a Tigerman, while Abel and the remaining candidates passed.
• Abel joined the Werewolves in the square and introduced himself as Bicher when Wolf Rider Captain Blume asked about his family.
• Blume explained that many noble Wolf Rider Captains had received the opportunity because the regular candidates were occupied with collective training.
• Abel gave Blume Orc Fruit Wine in exchange for details about the selection, and Blume said more than a hundred candidates would battle until thirty remained.
• Abel claimed he was close to reaching Wolf Rider Captain strength, and Blume said the Wolves expected favorable matchups because a Wolf Orc Priest would preside.

Abel attended the Beast God Festival selection and discovered that High Priest Dono was presiding over the battles. Wolf Rider Captain Bloom gained an early advantage against a young bear-man, but a skeleton intervened before Bloom could strike him.

• Abel learned that the arriving orcs had come early for the Beast God Festival selection and saw about one hundred and fifty participants gather.
• High Priest Dono arrived with eight powerful skeletons and announced that the selection would proceed in eight arenas under Junior Priest Enli’s direction.
• Junior Priest Enli matched Wolf Rider Captain Bloom against a young, poorly equipped bear-man, prompting Abel to suspect the pairing favored Bloom.
• Bloom used his speed and superior equipment to overwhelm the bear-man until a skeleton caught his spear and stopped the match.

Abel watched the selection battles and saw how powerful High Priest Dono’s skeleton was. Disguised as Biche, he defeated a young Minotaur with a secret Werewolf Royalty spear technique, but the skeleton stopped the fight and High Priest Dono punished the Minotaur for accusing him of unfairness.

• Abel observed High Priest Dono’s skeleton halt a dangerous fight and judged its intelligence and combat strength to be exceptional.
• Junior Priest Enli began the second round, and the werewolves won most of their battles as the selection continued.
• Junior Priest Enli matched Biche with a young Minotaur, whose Blazing Bull and two-handed axe were ill-suited to the contest.
• Abel countered the Minotaur’s charge with the Werewolf Royalty’s eleventh spear technique, disarmed him, and aimed for his throat.
• High Priest Dono’s skeleton stopped Abel’s spear, then threw the Minotaur away after he accused Abel of using battle qi.

Abel advanced to the Beast God Festival as one of thirty selected orcs after his secret technique convinced the priests of his strength. High Priest Dono asked him to find a Perfect Skeleton Gem during the festival, leaving Abel to conceal that he already possessed several.

• Junior Priest Enli declared that Abel’s secret technique came from the Werewolf Royalty, and the young Minotaur who had challenged him was ordered to leave.
• Abel skipped the second battle because he had no opponent and was granted a place among the thirty selected orcs.
• High Priest Dono dismissed the selected orcs but asked Abel to stay behind, making Abel worry that his identity had been discovered.
• High Priest Dono offered to help Abel become a Great Wolf Rider Commander if he found a gem resembling an intact skeleton during the Beast God Festival.
• Abel agreed to search for the gem while recognizing that High Priest Dono was seeking a Perfect Skeleton Gem, several of which Abel already carried.

Abel and the other selected beastmen entered Mount Nam for the Beast God Festival, where High Priest Dono began the ceremony. After twenty mid-grade spirit beasts were sacrificed, a green beam struck the massive stone wall, and the story left the festival’s outcome unrevealed.

• Junior Priest Enli gathered the thirty selected beastmen and led them into Mount Nam.
• Abel and the others followed a carved stone road to a massive wall, where High Priest Dono awaited them.
• Junior Priest Enli ordered twenty Pike Knights to bring spirit beasts as offerings.
• The Pike Knights sacrificed twenty mid-grade spirit beasts on a stone platform, and each vanished in green light.
• The platform released a green beam that struck the stone wall.

Abel and the orcs entered the Beast God Festival space through a green portal, while four Intermediate Wizards and Donald slipped in just before it closed. The chapter ended with Hubert believing the sacrifice might yield the Beast God's Blood or another valuable item.

• Junior Priest Enli warned the thirty orcs to stay inside the festival space for three days and retreat from enemies they could not defeat.
• Abel entered the portal first and found himself in a walled plaza surrounded by a vast sea of bones.
• Four Intermediate Wizards and Donald arrived at Mount Nam as the portal was closing and entered the festival space, leaving five orcs outside.
• High Priest Dono laughed at the humans’ entry, seeing a chance to weaken Miracle City, then sent the remaining orcs away until three days later.
• Abel waited for the other orcs to arrive before exploring the sea of bones.
• Hubert recalled how the wizards had brought the injured Donald through the marsh and past the arrays, and concluded that the sacrifice could produce the Beast God's Blood or another precious item.

Abel entered the Beast God Festival space with the orcs and confronted Donald and four Intermediate Wizards, who could no longer use magic or magical items. He took Donald’s Knight Greatsword and scabbard, revealed that he was K3516, and left the humans at the mercy of the orcs after confiscating their spatial bags.

• Hubert and the other humans arrived in the Beast God Festival space, where they discovered they could not draw mana or use their spatial bags.
• Abel approached Donald, caught his attack, and took the Knight Greatsword from him.
• Donald recognized Abel as K3516 after hearing him speak fluent human language.
• Abel dodged Donald’s punch, took his scabbard, and moved past him without offering help.
• Hubert begged Abel to save him, but Abel took his spatial bag and those of the other three wizards.

Abel let the orcs kill the five human captives, then faced twenty-four orcs who demanded the Werewolf Royalty secret technique. Bai Xue revealed its immense strength and attacked, while Abel disclosed that he was the human Blacksmith Grandmaster; the orcs met their deaths singing an ancient song.

• Abel refused to help Hubert and watched as the orcs killed him, Donald, and the three other Intermediate Wizards.
• Wolf Rider Captain Blume confronted Abel and offered to spare him if he surrendered the Werewolf Royalty secret technique.
• Abel pointed to Bai Xue as his friend, and the Snow Eagle grew into a high-grade spirit beast, overwhelming the orcs with its physical presence.
• Abel revealed his name and identity as a human Blacksmith Grandmaster, leaving Blume shocked before he accepted his fate with orcish pride.
• Blume began singing an ancient orc song, the other orcs joined in, and Bai Xue attacked them amid the singing.

Abel entered the sea of bones and fought through waves of increasingly powerful skeletons while magic and battle qi remained suppressed. He reached skeletons at the level of Great Wolf Rider Commanders and used his enhanced perception to battle them one at a time.

• Abel left the square after Bai Xue killed the twenty-four orcs, equipped himself with a Knight Greatsword and magic shield, and rode into the sea of bones with Bai Xue.
• Thirty skeletons rose when Abel entered the bone sea, and he destroyed them with precise sword strikes.
• Abel advanced through repeated waves of thirty skeletons, whose strength steadily increased as he moved farther into the sea of bones.
• At two hundred meters, Abel recognized that the trial’s difficulty came from mounting pressure as each participant fell and others faced more skeletons.
• When thirty Great Wolf Rider Commander-level skeletons attacked, Abel activated his enhanced vision and began destroying them individually with his sword and shield.