Chapter Summaries

Singo and the players damaged Wagnerd’s experiments and freed the White Dragon, Tinia, from some of its restraints. Wagnerd returned, strengthened the dragon-binding array, and turned his attention to the players hiding nearby.

• Singo identified the White Dragon’s drained True Blood, then ordered Born Battle Maniac to smash its container and the experimental equipment while Steamed Bun prepared explosives.
• The White Dragon awoke and struggled against its chains, then stared past the players at a dragon-headed shrine.
• Wagnerd emerged from a rift and tightened the binding array, forcing Tinia back down before taunting it about its past suffering.
• Tinia lunged at Wagnerd, but he evaded its bite and urged it to attack him again.
• Wagnerd sensed the players hiding nearby and announced that he would deal with the intruders.

Wagnerd trapped Steamed Bun, Singo, and Born Battle Maniac with his spells and Dragonified Dog Demons, seeking information about his dead soul fragment. Singo injected Steamed Bun with Diluted Progenitor Dragon True Blood, transforming him into a young dragon, and Steamed Bun charged at Wagnerd as the mage stared at him in obsessive fascination.

• Wagnerd used Mark of Fear to freeze the players, then ordered his Dragonified Dog Demons to capture them alive.
• The Dog Demons seized Steamed Bun, Singo, and Born Battle Maniac and carried them to Wagnerd.
• Wagnerd recognized Steamed Bun's Red Dragon bloodline and demanded to know what had happened to his soul fragment.
• Singo used a concussion grenade to escape and threw a syringe of Dragon True Blood into Steamed Bun.
• Steamed Bun's bloodlines fused, granting him the ability to transform into a young dragon for three minutes.
• Steamed Bun broke free and lunged at Wagnerd, who stood transfixed by the dragon as a priceless specimen.

Steamed Bun and his companions used Rune Firebombs to destroy themselves in an attempt to kill Wagnerd, but his protective spell kept him unharmed. The explosions damaged the dragon-binding array and gave Tinia a chance to struggle free, while Wagnerd prepared to punish her.

• Wagnerd used Mind Control to restrain Steamed Bun and revealed his obsession with studying Steamed Bun’s dragon bloodline.
• Singo reminded Steamed Bun about the Rune Firebombs, and Steamed Bun triggered them, killing himself and the nearby gnolls in the explosion.
• Wagnerd survived inside a magical sphere, then tried to capture Singo and the other player as test subjects.
• Singo and the other player detonated their Rune Firebombs, destroying experimental equipment and leaving Wagnerd enraged.
• The explosions damaged the Wagnerd Dragon Binding Array, allowing Tinia to struggle against her restraints.
• Wagnerd confronted Tinia and raised grotesque limbs from the ground to punish her.

Steamed Bun, Singo, and Born Battle Maniac respawned after their dangerous trip and assessed the rewards they had gained from the Polar Night Demon Tower. Steamed Bun repaid Singo, edited a video about the expedition, and uploaded it to an eager audience.

• Steamed Bun, Singo, and Born Battle Maniac respawned at North Wind Fortress, where Holy Light Bro's naked arrival frustrated the Tiefling Guard Kailun.
• Steamed Bun examined his dragon scales, new Diluted Progenitor Dragon Bloodline trait, Transform into Dragon ability, and Hidden Quest reward.
• Singo reminded Steamed Bun to update his video, and Steamed Bun agreed to make the dungeon expedition into an episode.
• Singo demanded repayment of fifteen Gold Coins, so Steamed Bun mortgaged his dragon scales and paid him back.
• Steamed Bun stayed up all night editing a clickbait video and uploaded it at three in the morning, prompting fans to flock to the new episode.

Steamed Bun released an edited video recounting his group’s run through the Polar Night Demon Tower, exposing Wagnerd’s crimes and showing off the rewards he had earned. The video went viral, driving Erezege’s preregistrations past five million and sending players and guilds rushing to explore the dungeon.

• Steamed Bun posted a video of his encounters with the dragon-transformed Gnolls and exaggerated his role in the group’s escape.
• Steamed Bun showed how he and Singo found Valena’s Diary and learned that Wagnerd had transformed his daughter into a monster.
• Steamed Bun’s footage showed him, Singo, and Born Battle Maniac being defeated after he triggered the Demon Soul Pot, then later fighting Wagnerd at the tower’s summit.
• Steamed Bun displayed the Hidden Quest rewards, including his exclusive trait, Transform into Dragon, and White Dragon scales, before urging viewers to visit the tower.
• The video spread across platforms, pushing Erezege’s preregistrations past five million and prompting major guilds, including the Kingship Guild, to gather players for the dungeon.
• Lore fans debated Keosius’s strength and compared him with figures such as the Void Whale.

Charlotte led the Magic Coin Guild through the Eternal Night Demon Tower, where dragon-transformed monsters overwhelmed the party despite their spells. As the guild neared collapse, Flying Witch stepped forward to unleash her unpredictable Wild Magic.

• Charlotte questioned the fifteen-Gold-Coin map Steamed Bun had sold him as the guild followed its route through the tower.
• Ming Yue warned Charlotte that monsters were approaching, and Feng Ling distributed invisibility potions to the party.
• The dragon-transformed monsters detected the players and charged, forcing Charlotte and the others to fight their way through.
• The guild's spells failed to stop the growing monster horde, and Feng Yun warned that they could not hold out much longer.
• Flying Witch stepped in to help, gathering chaotic magical power without knowing what spell she would cast.

The Magic Coin Guild cleared the Polar Night Demon Tower’s entrance after the Flying Witch’s Wild Surge crushed the dragonized monsters, but Wagnerd appeared and killed Charlotte. The Witch’s next surge transformed her into a vulnerable potted plant, leaving the surviving guild members facing the furious wizard.

• The Flying Witch’s Gravity Reversal crushed the dragonized monsters blocking the tower entrance, allowing the Magic Coin Guild to continue.
• The guild members passed Valena’s Cabin and headed toward the tower’s top floor, but Wagnerd emerged from a Space Rift on the gravity platform.
• Charlotte and the other spellcasters attacked Wagnerd, whose black magical barrier rendered their spells ineffective.
• Wagnerd killed Charlotte with Finger of Death, overwhelming his Shield Spell and draining his Life Force.
• The Flying Witch cast Fire Bolt, but the Wild Surge turned her into a potted plant until the start of her next turn, enraging Wagnerd.

Wagnerd annihilated the Magic Coin Guild players but discovered that their strange deaths and disappearances defied his divination, driving him to vow revenge. At North Wind Fortress, Keosius received Lang Pu’s intelligence on the Polar Night Demon Tower and prepared to act.

• Wagnerd killed the Magic Coin Guild with his Death Cloud Spell and waited as their bodies vanished into particles of light.
• Wagnerd’s Divination Spell revealed nothing about the players’ teleportation, so he concluded that some extraordinary force stood behind them and vowed to capture them.
• Keosius stabilized the hall with his Kingdom Domain after his uncontrolled power nearly turned it into a lava-filled ruin.
• Lang Pu reported that the Starfallers had gathered detailed information about the Polar Night Demon Tower, including Wagnerd’s spells, and Keosius ordered him to report in person.
• Lang Pu arrived through a Dimensional Door, and Keosius noticed his increasingly prominent Dragon Vein Traits and skull necklace, which Lang Pu said he had made from slain Mages.

Lang Pu reported on Wagnerd’s defenses, dangerous spells, and strength before Keosius ordered him to lead an assault on the Polar Night Demon Tower. Keosius equipped Lang Pu with a divination eye and prepared to intervene at a critical moment, while remaining interested in the imprisoned White Dragon at the tower’s summit.

• Lang Pu briefed Keosius on the Polar Night Demon Tower’s monsters, Valena’s abilities, Wagnerd’s spells, and his estimated Level 15 strength.
• Lang Pu eagerly agreed to fight Wagnerd after Keosius asked whether he wanted another Archmage’s head.
• Lang Pu revealed his modified human form, and Keosius questioned its unusual appearance.
• Keosius stored a Maximized Flame Breath in his Calamity Dragon Eye and sent it with Lang Pu to provide divination support.
• Keosius warned Lang Pu to prepare carefully and planned to strike at a critical moment while his elite forces attacked the tower.

Lang Pu entered the Midnight Tower and used his prepared spells to clear the Death Corridor before confronting Wagnerd. Their battle began with Lang Pu countering Wagnerd’s gaze attack, but Wagnerd’s Anti-Magic Field nullified Lang Pu’s Fireballs, and he accused Lang Pu of working with hidden enemies.

• Lang Pu dispersed the poisonous clouds, blocked the dragon-blooded monsters with a Stone Wall, and burned them with Grease and Wall of Fire.
• Lang Pu broke the Arcane Lock and entered the next room, where the Calamity Dragon Eye showed him Wagnerd approaching.
• Wagnerd stepped through a Space Rift and threatened to use Lang Pu as experimental material, while Lang Pu challenged him in return.
• Wagnerd attacked with Eyebite, but Lang Pu’s Gaze Veil reflected the spell and briefly stunned Wagnerd.
• Lang Pu launched Fireballs at Wagnerd, but Wagnerd’s Anti-Magic Field erased them before they reached him.
• Wagnerd recognized Lang Pu as an ally of the beings hiding behind the scenes and mocked his confidence.

Lang Pu and Wagnerd fought in the corridor after Lang Pu revealed his Dragon Vein Ogre form, and Wagnerd tried to restrain him with spells. Keosius used the Calamity Dragon Eye to strike Wagnerd while he was immobilized, then tore open a rift and emerged.

• Wagnerd exposed Lang Pu’s disguise with Dominate Person, and Lang Pu transformed into a Dragon Vein Ogre and attacked him.
• Wagnerd protected himself with Otiluke's Resilient Sphere, then immobilized Lang Pu with Monster Immobilization Spell.
• A skull on Lang Pu’s body dispelled the spell, allowing Lang Pu to attack Wagnerd and Wagnerd to bind him with Dragon Vein Binding.
• Lang Pu struck Wagnerd with Monster Immobilization Spell as Wagnerd’s chains bound him and drained his dragon blood.
• Keosius fired Maximized Flame Breath from the Calamity Dragon Eye at the immobilized Wagnerd, then tore open a Space Rift and emerged.

Keosius incinerated Wagnerd’s original body, but Wagnerd’s soul escaped and appeared as an illusion, prompting Keosius and Lang Pu to search for him. The chapter ended with Wagnerd’s wandering soul entering Valena’s trap in the Wooden House in the Snow.

• Keosius blasted Wagnerd with repeated fire breaths, reducing his body to salt-like sand.
• Keosius crushed the remains and freed Lang Pu from the Dragon Vein Binding.
• Wagnerd’s soul formed an illusory face from the sand and revealed that he had escaped his body.
• Keosius reasoned that Wagnerd would seek a vessel in Valena, his daughter transformed into a monster, and ordered Lang Pu to find him.
• Wagnerd’s wandering soul entered the Wooden House in the Snow, where Valena’s deadly illusion awaited intruders.

Wagnerd returned to Valena’s snow house and tricked her into believing he would take her to the outside world before seizing her body for his evolution. Keosius foresaw Wagnerd approaching the imprisoned White Dragon and prepared to stop him.

• Valena welcomed Wagnerd back and told him that guests had called her a monster and treated her cruelly.
• Wagnerd comforted Valena, promised to take her outside, and led her out of the snow-house illusion.
• Wagnerd’s body emerged from the stitched monster, and Valena’s fading consciousness accused him of lying again.
• Wagnerd declared that he would use their evolution to become greater than the Dragon God.
• Keosius heard Wagnerd’s laughter, used Future Sight to see him approaching the imprisoned White Dragon, and said they had to stop him.

Keosius broke through the Polar Night Demon Tower to reach the imprisoned White Dragon, Tinia, and persuaded her to submit by showing her a vision of her doomed future and promising to kill Wagnerd. He began dismantling the Dragon Binding Array with Lang Pu, leaving Tinia poised to be freed.

• Keosius flew through the tower's floors with a pillar of fire and reached the top in seconds, while Lang Pu struggled to follow.
• Keosius found Tinia, a young White Dragon with an unusually powerful bloodline, and discovered that she could understand him but could not speak.
• Keosius showed Tinia a vision of her being devoured and promised to save her and kill Wagnerd if she submitted.
• Tinia exposed her vulnerable neck in submission to Keosius, choosing survival over her pride.
• Keosius began destroying the Dragon Binding Array, and Lang Pu joined him by attacking its dragon-scale and dragon-blood nodes.

Keosius and his companions freed Tinia from Wagnerd’s magic array, but the Dragon Mad Black Wizard appeared in a monstrous stitched body and attacked. Keosius struck first, yet Wagnerd used dragon-specific spells to evade his breath and vanish from the Red Dragon’s senses.

• Keosius, Lang Pu, and Tinia destroyed the magic array, freeing Tinia from her century-long imprisonment.
• Keosius sensed the Dimensional Lock and warned Lang Pu and Tinia that Wagnerd was coming.
• Wagnerd appeared in a gigantic monster stitched from White Dragon parts and threatened to devour Tinia and Keosius.
• Keosius raised layers of defenses and attacked Wagnerd with lightning and Maximized Flame Breath.
• Wagnerd evaded Keosius’s breath with Aura of Concealment, then used Greater Dragon Aversion to disappear from the Red Dragon’s senses.

Keosius fought Wagnerd in the Polar Night Demon Tower and learned that Wagnerd was invoking the forbidden Dragon Frenzy Mythal to transform himself into a monster modeled after Tiamat. As the Kingslaying Star Phantom grew stronger and threatened to drive dragons into madness, Keosius took to the sky to kill Wagnerd before the spell was completed.

• Keosius used the dragon eyes to anticipate the White Dragon's ambush, scorching and slashing its head before it vanished into the void.
• Wagnerd revealed that the Dragon Cult's Red Dragon had killed his companions and swallowed Catherine, driving him to seek ancient magic and the Dragon Frenzy Mythal.
• Keosius recognized the Mythal as the spell that had ended Dragon's Rule and feared its effects on dragons.
• Wagnerd summoned the Kingslaying Star Phantom and absorbed dragon-blooded monsters from the Polar Night Demon Tower, transforming himself into a many-headed, many-limbed creature modeled after Tiamat.
• Keosius built a Mind Barrier against the growing madness and flew above Wagnerd, determined to kill him before the spell finished without being injured.

Keosius fought the maddened Wagnerd beneath the Kingslaying Star Phantom while Tinia’s frenzy briefly threatened him. Keosius killed Wagnerd, destroyed the Polar Night Demon Tower, and the Phantom vanished as the affected creatures began to recover.

• The Kingship Guild arrived and watched Keosius confront the monstrous Wagnerd atop the Polar Night Demon Tower.
• Keosius used Control Weather and lightning to attack Wagnerd, but the maddened Tinia lunged at him.
• Lang Pu shielded Keosius from Tinia’s bite, and Keosius struck the White Dragon with lightning, knocking her to the ground.
• Keosius used Undying Reverse Scale to withstand Wagnerd’s Calamity Ray and unleashed a powerful breath attack that pierced Wagnerd’s chest.
• Wagnerd died, and the Polar Night Demon Tower collapsed into ruins.
• Keosius landed on the fallen monster as the Kingslaying Star Phantom disappeared and the creatures under its influence began to regain clarity.

After defeating Wagnerd, Keosius healed the surviving White Dragon Tinia, who submitted to him as her master. He gained the Dragon Lord achievement and a diluted Progenitor Dragon bloodline, then glimpsed the ancient dragons’ former power.

• Tinia emerged from the rubble and saw Keosius standing over Wagnerd’s enormous corpse.
• Keosius healed Tinia’s wounds with Golden Beams of Life Force, though her weakened body remained frail.
• Tinia approached Keosius, bowed, and accepted him as her master, forming a bond through their mutual submission.
• Keosius received the Dragon Lord achievement and the Diluted Progenitor Dragon Bloodline trait.
• Keosius felt the new power in his blood and saw visions of ancient Progenitor Dragons, wondering how dragons had declined from their former glory.

Keosius gained a level after destroying the Polar Night Demon Tower and learned two new dragon spells, including the powerful Magical Atrophy. After raising his Intelligence to handle his expanding magical knowledge, he returned to find Tinia licking his claws clean.

• Keosius used his accumulated experience to raise True Dragon Sorcerer to level 12, bringing his Caster Level to 15.
• Keosius gained Magical Atrophy, which could dispel magical effects and potentially strip magic from items, and Omniscient Eye, which enhanced his vision and revealed nearby invisible targets.
• Keosius increased his Intelligence to 16 to cope with the complexity of his new spells and reviewed the risks of mastering Magical Atrophy.
• Keosius opened his eyes and discovered that Tinia had licked his foreclaws clean, prompting him to decide she needed reeducation.

Keosius returned to North Wind Fortress and stopped Tinia from wrecking the Hall of Governance by beating her, only to discover she enjoyed the punishment. After Tinia cleaned up using the Wind Creation Spell, Keosius found that her faint Progenitor Dragon bloodline had given her unusually advanced innate spellcasting and contacted Lang Pu.

• Damakos reported that Lang Pu had trapped Tinia in the Hall of Governance because no one could restrain her.
• Keosius scolded Tinia and beat her for destroying the hall, but she appeared to enjoy the punishment.
• Keosius stopped beating Tinia when he noticed her strange delight, and she rubbed against him as if admitting her mistake.
• Keosius ordered Tinia to clean up, and she used the Wind Creation Spell to blow the debris away.
• Keosius checked Tinia's follower panel, discovered her unusually high innate spellcasting level, and contacted Lang Pu.