Chapter Summaries

Arro looted and burned the Black Robed Person’s remains before heading toward the Bone Sea, where Redd Ranelli and the Fox Hunting Team confronted him. Meanwhile, the camp descended into madness and Levi and Isaac struggled to hold back the Skeleton Monsters, leaving Arro facing a new conflict as the chapter ended.

• Arro collected a sample from the Black Robed Person’s remains, took his valuables, and burned the corpses before rushing toward the Bone Sea.
• A man called down to Arro from the sky and greeted him as Mr. Moon.
• The camp’s people fell into madness, and Old Shar’s understaffed guards tried to restrain them while they harmed one another.
• Levi and Isaac struggled to hold back the growing mass of Skeleton Monsters as the gorge passage threatened to collapse.
• Arro confronted Redd Ranelli and the Fox Hunting Team, attacked Crow, and learned the names of Crow, Mole, and Fox.

Arrow rejected Miss Fox’s proposal to raid the Fernando Family’s stores and attacked her group, but their Edict and timely escape prevented him from killing them. He unleashed the power of his Blazing Greatsword on nearby skeletons, and Baron Claire recognized him as Arrow; the chapter ended with Arrow struggling through the Magic Strike Technique’s worsening aftermath while fighting more skeletons.

• Miss Fox tried to recruit Arrow to raid the Fernando Family’s stores and explained how the family could blame him for Morfei Fernando’s death.
• Arrow attacked Miss Fox’s group, but a woman used Edict: Stillness to stop his strike, and the group escaped on the Crow as Baron Claire approached.
• Arrow resisted activating Black Flame Shocking Wings, then released the power stored in his Blazing Greatsword and blasted the nearby skeletons.
• Baron Claire recognized Arrow and rushed to his aid while Arrow drank his remaining Purification Potions and suffered from the technique’s aftermath.
• Baron Claire charged into the skeletons, and Arrow suppressed his discomfort to cut down those attacking him.

Baron Claire hurried to reinforce the ravine passage after Arrow warned that a Camp Howl had broken out and only two young men guarded it. As Skeleton Monsters battered the checkpoint, Levi devised a risky plan to jump onto the torches and draw their attention, leaving Isaac to help him.

• Arrow warned Baron Claire that a Camp Howl had erupted in the Refugee Camp and that only two Young Men were guarding the ravine passage, so Claire ordered Eden to escort him and the others to hurry ahead.
• Levi reported that nearly all the support guards had left to respond to another disturbance, while Skeleton Monsters pressed against the checkpoint.
• Isaac despaired and urged Levi to run, but Levi refused to give up and proposed using their old acrobatic move to jump higher.
• Levi pointed out the torches above the checkpoint and explained that drawing the Skeleton Monsters' attention could halt the tightly packed horde.
• Levi pulled Isaac into their familiar crouching stance and called for him to launch him upward.

Arro reached the canyon after the soldiers stopped the Skeleton Army, where he learned a young soldier had died while serving as bait. Back at camp, he struggled with the aftereffects of the Magic Strike Technique and decided to prepare firearms to counter the witchcraft that had stopped him.

• Arro followed Baron Claire into the canyon, where they found the Skeleton Army blocked and a young soldier dead after he had lured the undead into a trap.
• Arro apologized to the Quiet Young Man, but the soldier accepted his death as the price of holding the canyon.
• Baron Claire and the Veteran Soldiers thanked Arro for protecting the canyon, and Arro urged them to help the people at Camp Howl.
• Arro swallowed his remaining Purification Potions, reviewed how Miss Fox had halted him with an Edict, and concluded that close combat was too dangerous against her.
• Arro decided to advance his firearm backup plan, though he still needed to make bullets.

Arrow worked out the design and production process for brass bullets, then learned that Baron Claire’s personal guard Miles had died mysteriously after the Camp Howl incident. The chapter left Arrow suspecting that Miles’s death was connected to the same force behind a previous traitor’s death.

• Arrow designed brass Cartridge Cases, Warheads, and Boxer Primers and made tools to manufacture bullets.
• Arrow finished dozens of bullets but noted that he had not yet made a firearm or tested them.
• Baron Claire visited Arrow to ask about clues regarding the Camp Howl.
• Arrow asked whether Miles, Claire’s personal guard, had explained anything, and Claire said Miles had died inexplicably.
• Baron Claire revealed that Miles’s body had turned into bloody water, prompting Arrow to wonder whose orders Miles had followed.

Arrow questioned why Miles had turned into blood and suspected the Fox Hunting Team’s actions were tied to the larger struggle over the Count’s territory. After meeting Count’s daughter Mirina and accepting her thanks, he asked to exchange her offered Gold Coins for something else.

• Arrow wondered whether the Fox Hunting Team had turned Miles into bloodwater and considered what the wizard families were seeking in the Count’s territory.
• A woman explained that Arrow should view the territory as a chessboard and identify what the rival wizard families were fighting over.
• Baron Claire introduced Arrow to Mirina, who knew him as Mr. Moon and thanked him for protecting the territory’s people.
• Mirina offered Arrow a box of Gold Coins as a reward, and he asked whether he could exchange some of them for something else.

Arrow sought a steady supply of cooking oil by offering to keep killing Skeleton Monsters, but Miss Mirina instead asked him to help fight the Empire’s wizards. As Mirina and Baron Claire argued over whether she should flee, Arrow realized that other forces had used him in their schemes and wondered which side to choose.

• Arrow proposed exchanging his help clearing Skeleton Monsters for cooking oil, and Miss Mirina explained that the refugees had left Jill Town with little to spare.
• Miss Mirina asked Arrow to help kill the Empire’s wizards, revealing that they had begun to act; Baron Claire urged her to retreat, while Mirina refused to abandon the people.
• Arrow recalled Redd Ranelli’s actions, the Fox Hunting Team’s warning, and his own recent battles, then concluded that he had been used to influence events.
• Arrow realized Miss Mirina had likely been persuaded by the conflict between the Wizard Families and questioned what role he should take.

Arro ambushed Redd Ranelli’s convoy with an explosive Crystal Sphere, leaving Redd gravely wounded but alive. Arro then confronted him and prepared to finish him off as Redd’s injured guard fled.

• Redd Ranelli learned that his target had refused his offer and ordered Crow to prepare a carriage for Scarlow Fortress.
• Redd Ranelli inspected a Crystal Sphere, mistook it for an ordinary trinket, and tossed it among the others, triggering an explosion in his carriage.
• Arro detected Mole following him underground and hurried to the blast site, where he found Redd and the convoy’s survivors.
• Redd recognized that someone had helped Arro, while the wounded giant fled instead of obeying Redd’s command to stop him.
• Arro leaped at Redd and unleashed Charged Fire Blazing with his Blazing Greatsword.

Arro defeated Redd Ranelli and Crow, then disguised the evidence of his Glass Hand Grenade attack before returning to the convoy site. He sent the guards back to Mirina with the news that the Ranelli envoys were dead and concealed the grenade’s mundane nature.

• Redd Ranelli used Space Transfer and a Mole trick to hide underground, but Arro detected him and killed him with Cyclone Slash.
• Arro charged the wounded Crow and split him in two with his Blazing Greatsword.
• Arro examined Crow’s charred remains, collected tissue samples, and told the convoy guards to inform Mirina that the Ranelli envoys had been killed.
• The Guard Captain led the convoy back toward Scarlow Fortress after deciding not to challenge Arro.
• Arro collected Magic Stones and Enchanted Treasure fragments, then used shattered stones and Heterogeneous Magic Power to disguise the traces of his glass bomb before clearing the battlefield.

Arro met Baron Claire near Peran Castle after killing Redd Ranelli and his subordinates, and reassured him about the Ranelli Family’s retaliation. Arro promised to show Claire a treasure that could help repel the Saint Fernando Empire’s army, then used a visual trick to make Claire believe his Glider had shrunk into a copper Pendant.

• Arro spotted Baron Claire near Peran Castle and landed his Glider to speak with him.
• Arro told Baron Claire that he had killed Redd Ranelli and his subordinates, and revealed that Mole had already left.
• Baron Claire worried that the Ranelli Family would retaliate, while Arro argued that repelling the Empire’s army was the more urgent concern.
• Arro reminded Baron Claire of his promise and said the treasure that could help defeat the Empire’s army was at Peran Castle.
• Arro used the Flash Eye Frame Filling Method to make the Glider appear to shrink into a copper Pendant, impressing Baron Claire.
• Arro urged Baron Claire to hurry with him so Claire could still return and explain himself to Miss Mirina.

Arrow returned to Peran Castle with Baron Claire and used a giant hot-air balloon and hand grenades to demonstrate how his inventions could help defend the city. He planned to use the grenades to increase his influence over Baron Claire and bring manpower into the Viscount Territory to establish his own base.

• Baron Claire saw the enormous hot-air balloon above Peran Castle, and Arrow explained that Bevan had built it using the method Arrow taught him.
• Arrow showed Baron Claire the power of hand grenades by detonating one against Soldier Heavy Armor.
• Baron Claire doubted the grenades could stop Formal Knights, but Arrow argued that they could injure them and let ordinary soldiers hold them back.
• Arrow revealed that servants were processing materials so he could make many more grenades using a special refining process.
• Arrow considered using Baron Claire's influence to bring workers into the Viscount Territory and expand the tree-demon laboratory into his own base.

Arrow rebuked Baron Claire for demanding tens of thousands of Hand Grenades and explained that the Earl’s territory had to fight for itself. He then showed Claire how a hundred grenades could break the enemy’s elite vanguard and potentially rout the whole army.

• Arrow said the available materials could make at most a hundred Hand Grenades, and Baron Claire asked for enough to crush the Saint Fernando Empire’s invasion outright.
• Arrow told Baron Claire that he wanted allies and warriors, not people expecting him to solve every problem for them.
• Baron Claire argued that the grenades were too weak and too few to matter, prompting Arrow to realize that the nobles lacked basic knowledge of battlefield tactics.
• Arrow proposed saving the grenades for the enemy’s elite assault, then pursuing the routed troops and using the explosions to spread panic through the army.
• Arrow explained that a hundred grenades could devastate the vanguard, break the enemy’s morale, and give the Earl’s territory a chance to sweep across the battlefield.

Lord Arrow secured Baron Claire’s tacit cooperation and prepared to take over the Viscount Territory while the materials for making Hand Grenades were processed. He called Bevan away from his watch on the Hot Air Balloon and began lunch with him, leaving their conversation to follow.

• Baron Claire accepted Lord Arrow’s plan and agreed to persuade Countess Ilinda while lending him limited authority.
• Lord Arrow ordered Bard and Dylan to prepare to take over the Viscount Territory the next morning.
• Heli reported that processing the materials would take about seven more days, and Lord Arrow considered how to manage the territory with Peran Castle’s manpower.
• Lord Arrow learned that Bevan was still keeping watch on the Hot Air Balloon, though he had assigned him to do so, and asked Heli to bring him down.
• Heli brought Bevan to the dining room, where he greeted Lord Arrow as his teacher.

Arro concluded that the danger of being pursued had temporarily passed and decided to establish a base near Peran Castle. He then asked Bevan about his meditation, learning that Bevan could draw upon shadows despite not yet sensing Mental Strength.

• Arro explained to Bevan that several days of exposing himself had brought no pursuers, so he believed he was safe for now and planned to establish a base.
• Bevan revealed that he had suspected Arro might leave because Arro’s Knight Training had been unusually restrained.
• Arro asked Bevan what he had gained from meditation, and Bevan said he had recently become able to draw upon shadows.
• Arro warned Bevan about activating Mental Strength near the Shadow Different Dimension, but Bevan clarified that he had not sensed Mental Strength and could draw upon shadows without it.
• Arro wondered whether Bevan’s shadow-element talent was exceptional and whether there was something unusual behind it.

Arro investigated Bevan’s new ability to control shadows and confirmed that it came from Bevan rather than a parasitic Demonic Beast. He told Bevan that the small shadow was a promising way to touch and train his Sea of Consciousness.

• Arro considered whether Bevan controlled the shadow or was being followed by a Shadow Monster, then asked Haoli to leave so he could speak with Bevan alone.
• Arro examined Bevan’s records, which showed that Bevan had gained the ability to create and control shadows after a meditation session two days earlier.
• At Arro’s request, Bevan created a small shadow inside a circle of candlelight, and Arro sensed a faint fluctuation of Void Magic Power.
• Arro reassured Bevan that the ability was a sign of talent and explained that it could provide a way to reach and train his Sea of Consciousness.

Bevan explained how training shadow control could help him sense Mental Strength, then described his family’s Knight Secret Technique to Arro. Arro borrowed the genuine scroll and discovered that the system recognized it as the martial arts technique Qi Blood Rampage.

• Arro told Bevan to keep using his shadow ability until he reached his limit and to watch whether his control improved.
• Arro explained voluntary and involuntary muscles, and Bevan compared them to the effects of his family’s Knight Secret Technique.
• Arro wondered whether Knight Secret Techniques could help him become a Formal Knight or awaken the system, and asked Bevan to show him one.
• Bevan warned Arro that Qi Blood Rampage required a Life Seed and could severely burden the body, but agreed to show him the family technique.
• Arro received the genuine sheepskin scroll, and the system offered to let him learn Qi Blood Rampage.

Arro analyzed Qi Blood Rampage and developed a theory about how Formal Knights used Life Force and the Life Seed to gain strength. He explained the distinctions to Bevan, then failed to add points to the secret technique because he did not meet its learning requirements.

• Arro studied Qi Blood Rampage and realized its movements and breathing coordinated with the Life Seed to guide Life Force into the cardiac muscle.
• Arro wrote down his theory that knights absorbed Void Energy into their muscles as Life Force, then used Mental Strength to form a controllable Life Seed.
• Arro explained to Bevan how Life Seeds differed from magic power and how knights could use Life Force to strengthen their bodies and perform extraordinary techniques.
• Arro secretly tried to add points to Qi Blood Rampage, but the attempt failed because he did not meet the learning requirements.

Arrow considered adapting the Knight Secret Technique Qi Blood Rampage into a method that could strengthen muscles and influence Life Force without a Life Seed, though the work would require extensive testing. He then investigated why the mice fed White Fluff Root had lost weight, and told Holly to test possible causes against a Control Group.

• Arrow realized that parts of Qi Blood Rampage might be adapted for people without a Life Seed and began planning how to rewrite the secret technique.
• Arrow gave Bevan the parchment scroll and said they would discuss his idea after taking over the Viscount Territory the next day.
• Holly showed Arrow data indicating that the experimental mice fed White Fluff Root had lost weight, though none had died in large numbers.
• Arrow questioned Holly about the mice’s appearance, eating habits, and mental state, then instructed her to test possible explanations using regrouped mice and a Control Group.

Arrow took over the Viscount Territory and left Dylan in charge of its administration while investigating whether the former Deputy Butler was connected to the Viscountess. As Arrow considered the dangers of White Fluff Root, he realized he might use its Life Force and the Knight Secret Technique to strengthen his cardiac muscle and create a Life Seed.

• Arrow entered the Viscount Territory without resistance and found its Deputy Butler still maintaining order after the Viscountess and many others had disappeared.
• Arrow appointed Dylan acting chief steward and ordered him to watch the Deputy Butler and find the Viscountess if he was connected to her.
• Arrow left the territory's personnel affairs to Dylan while Bard and Bevan helped clean the manor and search for Knight Secret Techniques.
• Arrow recalled that White Fluff Root contained Life Force and reasoned that this might explain why the Experimental Mice lost weight after eating it.
• Arrow realized he could use White Fluff Root and the Knight Secret Technique to strengthen his cardiac muscle and possibly produce a Life Seed.

Arro used two skill points to learn the complex secret technique Qi Blood Rampage and began practicing its method of guiding Life Force through his body. He ended the chapter attempting to direct the energy with White Fluff Root while holding a Support Bridge position.

• Little Heli reported that experimental mice with side effects preferred eating White Fluff Root, and Arro decided to use his remaining supply to activate his cardiac muscle.
• Arro spent his last two skill points to learn Qi Blood Rampage and received its detailed Beginner-level instructions.
• Arro realized the technique used staged exercises, emotional control, and energy gradients to guide Life Force without relying on a Life Seed.
• Arro completed the warm-up and stirred his anger, then checked that his body and Void Energy met the technique's requirements.
• Arro ate White Fluff Root, assumed a Support Bridge position, and began sensing and directing the hot current in his body.