Chapter Summaries

Andre defeated and killed Trischka after accusing him of serving the Northern nobles and carrying out the great grain requisition. Born Battle Maniac, frustrated that an NPC had taken his kill, turned on the allied soldiers to earn contribution points and Gold Coin.

• Andre used Holy Oath Magic to overpower Trischka, knock his sword away, and wound his shoulder with a Magic Weapon strike.
• Trischka accused Andre of trusting a wicked dragon over his father and warned that the dragon would seize the North and devour its people.
• Andre condemned the Northern nobles and Trischka’s role in the great grain requisition, then beheaded him.
• Andre said the dragon was a more competent ruler than the Northern Nobles, but vowed to kill him if he ever revealed a monstrous true face.
• Born Battle Maniac complained that Trischka had stolen his kill and attacked the allied soldiers for contribution points and Gold Coin.

As the kingdom’s army descended into chaos, Maxi led the Bosque Duchy’s Lionheart Knights into battle, where their linked defenses made them a formidable mobile fortress. When they began driving back the enemy, Anthony’s Dragonkin Paladins appeared to challenge them.

• Maxi led the Lionheart Knight Order into battle under the Bosque banner as kingdom forces and players targeted them.
• Maxi used Warding Bond to link the knights into a formation that shared damage and could concentrate their attacks.
• The Lionheart Knights withstood gunfire, explosives, and improvised attacks, then advanced and steadied the allied front lines.
• Holy Light Bro transformed into a giant bear and charged the knights, but they pierced him with their lances and killed him.
• Maxi rallied the Lionheart Knights to break through, while the enemy army struggled to counter their formation.
• Anthony led the Dragonkin Paladins onto the battlefield, proclaiming their loyalty to the Dragon Lord and the Embers of the Burned King.

The Dragon Oath Paladins and the Lionheart Knight Order clashed, with Anthony and Maxi leading their forces. As the Dragonkin Paladins’ heat and dragon power gave them the advantage, Maxi summoned the Lionheart Knights’ ultimate weapon, a giant lion spirit.

• Maxi Stewart recognized Freed among the Dragonkin Paladins and denounced him as a traitor, while Freed challenged him to face his students.
• Anthony linked the Dragon Oath Paladins with Dragon Vein Link, and both armies charged into battle.
• The Dragonkin Paladins used Dragon Majesty to frighten the Lionheart Knights, but Maxi rallied his forces against the illusions.
• The Dragonkin Paladins’ Blazing Aura filled the battlefield with unbearable heat and began to overwhelm the Lionheart Knights.
• Maxi invoked Lion Guardian, summoning a gigantic male lion spirit from the Lionheart Knights’ formation.

Anthony and the Dragonkin Paladins summoned a fiery Red Dragon phantom that destroyed Maxi’s lion spirit and annihilated the Lionheart Knight Order. With the allied army’s defenses collapsing, Mezhuolash led the Tiefling infantry forward to crush the fleeing forces.

• Anthony and the Dragonkin Paladins recited their oath and summoned a Red Dragon phantom bearing Keosius’s will.
• Maxi urged the Lionheart Knights to believe in the Bosque Lion, but the lion spirit faltered and was consumed by the Red Dragon’s flames.
• The Lionheart Knights were burned to ashes, while Maxi survived long enough to be engulfed in flames, raving that it was all an illusion.
• The Dragonkin Paladins celebrated as the Lionheart Knight Order was completely annihilated, and the allied army began to collapse.
• Mezhuolash raised the Eternally Burning Greatsword and ordered the Tiefling infantry to crush the fleeing allied forces.

Grand Duke Leo begged Oszedro to save the North as the Embers of the Burned Kingdom routed the allied army and destroyed the Lionheart Knight Order. Oszedro raised a massive ice barrier to halt the advance, but the Purgatory Calamity appeared in the sky as the chapter ended.

• Grand Duke Leo watched the Lionheart Knight Order fall to the Dragonkin Paladins and pleaded with Oszedro to intervene.
• Oszedro raised a miles-long Greater Ice Barrier that trapped the allied soldiers and stopped the Embers of the Burned Kingdom's army.
• Lang Pu struck the barrier with a Greater Fireball, while heavy artillery fire also failed to break it.
• Viscount Luton and the Northern Nobles took comfort in Oszedro's intervention as they watched the barrier withstand the attacks.
• A blazing figure descended from the sky, and Viscount Luton recognized it as the Purgatory Calamity.

Keosius shattered the Northern alliance’s ice barrier and transformed the battlefield into a burning wasteland, while Silver Wing Oszedro answered by covering the sky in frost. As their opposing powers divided the battlefield between fire and ice, Grand Duke Leo realized his fate depended on Oszedro and grew to hate both dragons.

• Keosius blasted the Northern alliance’s indestructible ice barrier apart, prompting the Embers of the Burned Kingdom’s soldiers to cheer.
• Keosius used Control Weather to raise the temperature, spread fiery clouds, and melt ice across the battlefield.
• Grand Duke Leo and the Northern nobles stared in fear at Keosius’s overwhelming power, leaving Leo to hope Oszedro could stop him.
• Silver Wing Oszedro appeared above the alliance and used Control Weather to fill his half of the sky with snow, frost, and icy wind.
• Leo recognized that the two dragons could destroy his nation and grew increasingly hateful toward Oszedro and other beings who threatened his rule.

Keosius and Oszedro assembled their dragon forces for a confrontation that threatened to become a new Dragonfall War. They argued over who caused the conflict between the Embers of the Burned Kingdom and the Northern United Kingdom, ending with Keosius declaring that the bloodshed was the price of establishing a new order.

• Oszedro’s silver dragons and giant allies arrived, while Christina’s Faria Clan, Tinia, and a host of Wyverns joined Keosius.
• Keosius and Oszedro assessed each other’s formidable size and power, and Oszedro resolved that Keosius must not fall under Tiamat’s influence.
• Oszedro condemned Keosius for disrupting the order between humanity and dragonkind, but Keosius interrupted and accused the Northern United Kingdom of starting the war.
• Oszedro defended the North and accused Keosius of pursuing expansion through weapons and violence.
• Keosius said the North’s oppressed people awaited liberation, and he declared that the devastation was the price of establishing a new order.

Keosius fought Oszedro in a fierce aerial battle, countering the Silver Dragon’s spells with speed and magic. Keosius ended the exchange by striking Oszedro with an enhanced Magical Atrophy spell, destroying many of his enchanted scales and treasures.

• Oszedro attacked Keosius with a hailstorm, and both dragons fortified themselves with spells before engaging in combat.
• Keosius dodged Oszedro’s Diamond Star spell with his enhanced speed, while the falling stars raised Ice Mountains that endangered allied soldiers.
• Keosius and Oszedro exchanged spells above the wasteland, terrifying the people watching below.
• Keosius concealed an enhanced Magical Atrophy ray in volcanic ash and struck Oszedro, dimming his magical scales and destroying some of his equipment.
• Oszedro raged over the damage to his treasure, while Keosius gloated that the Silver Dragon might now be no richer than he was.

Keosius and Oszedro fought a devastating battle in the skies, as their opposing powers battered the wasteland and forced armies and spectators to flee. Watching the dragons overwhelm everything, Grand Duke Leo heard a voice ask whether he wanted revenge.

• Oszedro accused Keosius of destroying order and unleashed his gravity magic and freezing breath.
• Keosius dodged Oszedro’s breath, mocked the Silver Dragon, and formed a huge Fire Dragon Tornado around him.
• Marshal Dolo ordered the kingdom’s army to retreat as the dragon battle created a deadly storm of fire, ice, wind, and debris.
• Players, allied troops, and nobles fled or were swept into the chaos, while Viscount Luton watched in terror.
• Grand Duke Leo despaired at the dragons’ power and thought that he, not the dragons, should rule Anzeta.
• An unidentified voice asked Leo, “Do you want revenge?”

Grand Duke Leo accepted a mysterious offer of power to take revenge on Keosius and began preparing a Dragon Slaying Ritual. Meanwhile, Keosius and Oszedro continued their fierce battle, leaving both dragons wounded and the battlefield devastated.

• A mysterious voice tempted Grand Duke Leo with revenge against Keosius and promised him power to save the Bosque Duchy and rule the North.
• Leo agreed to the offer, received a surge of power, and used a crystal to tell everyone of Crimson Edge to prepare for the Dragon Slaying Ritual.
• Keosius struck at Oszedro, but the Silver Dragon's simulacrum vanished and his true body attacked from behind with powerful spells.
• Keosius wounded Oszedro's wing with his claws, then recovered quickly after Oszedro's Ninth Circle Spell hurled him into a mountain.
• Keosius challenged Oszedro to fight head-on, while the battered dragons faced each other above a battlefield ruined by their prolonged clash.

Keosius attacked Oszedro, breached the Ancient Silver Dragon’s protective spell, and gained the upper hand in their aerial brawl. When Oszedro recognized Olivia’s scent on Keosius and demanded to know what had happened to her, Keosius taunted him that Olivia had become a Kingdom Citizen and challenged his outdated ideals of order.

• Keosius launched a powerful attack at Oszedro, whose spherical protective spell absorbed and reflected the blow.
• Keosius tore open a portal through the protective spell, seized Oszedro from behind, and bit through his defenses.
• Oszedro broke free with spells and counterattacks, and the dragons plunged through an Ice Mountain while fighting.
• Oszedro recognized the scent of a Silver Dragon on Keosius and demanded to know where Olivia was and what Keosius had done to her.
• Keosius said Olivia was already a proud Kingdom Citizen and mocked Oszedro’s belief in his own order.

Keosius provoked Oszedro into abandoning his fortress and unleashing Bahamut’s Breath, while Keosius prepared a Primal Breath of his own. The two attacks collided, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Oszedro teleported away and raised Bahamut’s Platinum Fortress to protect himself from Keosius.
• Keosius taunted Oszedro about his granddaughter and claimed that the Young Silver Dragon had tasted good, enraging the Ancient Silver Dragon.
• Oszedro dismissed his fortress, condemned Keosius, and activated Bahamut’s Wind to unleash Bahamut’s Breath.
• Olivia flew toward the dueling dragons to stop the fight, while Christina pursued her and tried to keep her from interfering.
• Keosius built up a powerful reaction in his dragon crystal and fired Primal Breath as Oszedro’s sacred torrent descended.

Oszzedro and Keosius's breaths collided, devastating the wilderness as their powers settled into a stalemate. Olivia tried to stop her grandfather, but the dragon clans joined the fight, leaving the battle spreading between the Silver and Blue Dragons while Tinia attacked a Silver Dragon.

• Oszzedro's Bahamut's Breath collided with Keosius's Primordial Breath, creating a blast that destroyed tents and scattered onlookers.
• Leo Bosk watched the catastrophe from cover as a strange voice stirred his hatred of the dragons.
• Olivia and Christina crashed into an Ice Mountain, and Olivia broke free to plead with Oszzedro to stop.
• Leonard rallied the Silver Dragons to aid Oszzedro, while Christina led Blue Dragon guards to block them.
• Tinia joined the dragon-clan battle and pinned an adult Silver Dragon beneath her.

Keosius’s Chaos Fire overwhelmed Oszedro’s divine breath and shattered Bahamut’s shield, while the Heart of Kareks urged Keosius to kill the Ancient Silver Dragon. Olivia’s desperate cries helped Keosius resist the urge, and he spared Oszedro by burning away his left wing; Mellward’s silver dragons rushed to rescue their wounded elder.

• The Divine Power within Oszedro’s breath suppressed Keosius until the Heart of Kareks unleashed Chaos Fire and reversed the clash.
• Keosius advanced on Oszedro as the Blue Dragons cheered, Christina fought harder, and Olivia realized he was losing control.
• Keosius’s Chaos Fire engulfed Oszedro’s ice breath and shattered the shield formed by Bahamut’s Wind and the metal disk.
• Olivia called out to Keosius, prompting his remaining reason to resist the Heart of Kareks’s demand to kill Oszedro.
• Keosius turned his attack aside, burning away Oszedro’s left wing and sending him falling from the sky.
• Mellward’s silver dragons rushed to protect and rescue the wounded Oszedro.

Keosius fought to resist the destructive power in his blood while Olivia tried to reach him, and Leo Bosk attacked him with an abyssal spear created by the Revenge Devil. Olivia was badly wounded protecting Keosius, who defeated Leo and watched the Revenge Devil vanish after promising they would meet again.

• Olivia struggled through the hurricane to reach Keosius as he battled the will of destruction, while Leo Bosk listened to the Revenge Devil urge him to take revenge.
• Leo Bosk summoned the Spear of Revenge from his hatred and hurled it toward Keosius.
• Olivia flew into the spear’s path and was badly wounded, but her cry brought Keosius back to his senses.
• Keosius dissolved the spear with an antimagic ray as Oszedro and the Silver Dragons withdrew through a portal.
• Keosius confronted Leo Bosk and engulfed him in flames, then recognized the Revenge Devil in the fire.
• The Revenge Devil promised Keosius they would meet again before vanishing in a burst of lightning.

Keosius healed the grievously wounded Olivia, who said she had saved him because she had once sworn to do so before falling unconscious. He then tracked down Crimson Edge, whose members had plotted to kill him, and tore into their hidden Alternate Dimension.

• Keosius used Bahamut's Wind and Dragon's Breath to disperse the Abyssal Energy and heal Olivia's wounds.
• Olivia told Keosius she had sworn to save him, then sank into a deep coma.
• Keosius said he would drag out the enemies hiding nearby and went after them.
• Dex Flamegold urged Crimson Edge to attack the weakened Red Dragon, while Ingrid Garses warned that the plan was dangerous.
• Crimson Edge prepared for battle when Keosius tore open the Alternate Dimension and greeted them as Dragon Slayers.

Crimson Edge’s assault on Keosius failed when he broke free of their restraints and turned Grom’s Dragon Slayer Arrow against him. Grom died, and Ingrid and the surviving companions were left terrified as the fight continued.

• Keosius shattered Klein’s Alternate Dimension, sending Crimson Edge crashing onto the battlefield in the Prime Material Plane.
• Dex invoked Amanata’s power against Keosius while Klein bound him with spectral chains, and Grom, Ingrid, and Klein launched a Dragon Slayer Arrow, Divine Flame Strike, and Calamity Blade.
• Keosius broke free, unleashed Magical Atrophy to nullify the divine flames and spatial blade, and caught Grom’s Dragon Slayer Arrow.
• Keosius charmed Grom, then hurled the arrow back through his chest and burned both his body and fleeing soul to ash.
• Ingrid failed to save Grom and trembled in terror as she realized how hopeless their battle against Keosius seemed.

Keosius defeated and killed Lano after overpowering the Barbarian’s Primal Warrior form. He then faced the three surviving members of Crimson Edge, who realized they were helpless against the Red Dragon.

• Lano transformed into his Primal Warrior form and charged Keosius to avenge Grom.
• Keosius swept aside Lano’s attack, shattered his battle axe, and sent him flying.
• Keosius seized Lano, carried him high into the air, and drove him into the ground, killing him.
• Keosius turned toward the three remaining members of Crimson Edge and indicated that they were next.
• Dex stared at Lano’s charred corpse in despair, realizing Keosius had found and defeated them one by one.

Desk Flamegold attacked Keosius but was captured and killed after his final attempt to claim protection as a Chosen One failed. Klein’s attempt to foresee a way out also failed, leaving him bleeding and stunned before the Red Dragon.

• Desk Flamegold charged Keosius with his sword and invoked the Soul of Revenge, but the Red Dragon dodged and caught him in a claw.
• Keosius crushed Desk’s armor and rejected his plea for mercy after Desk claimed to be Lord Amanata’s messenger.
• Keosius burned Desk Flamegold to ashes, then discovered that his armor and sword were disguised legendary equipment.
• Ingrid watched Desk die, while Klein revealed that his Converging Future ability had shown no safe escape and could not perceive Keosius’s future.
• Keosius’s power struck Klein’s mind, and Klein stood bleeding from his eyes and muttering in disbelief.

Klein tried to escape Keosius using teleportation, time magic, and an Astral Plane conduit, but the Red Dragon pursued him. A Time Dragon Whelp named Talin.Akmonde appeared and offered Keosius the Tower of Time’s goodwill, leaving Klein’s fate unresolved.

• Keosius confronted Klein and destroyed his first teleportation portal before Klein used Elminster's Evasion and a Time Pocketwatch to escape.
• Klein traveled toward the Outlands through the Astral Plane, but Keosius tracked him with the Calamity Dragon Eye and tore open a rift to follow.
• Keosius cornered Klein beside an Astral Plane Color Pool, and Klein collapsed in despair after exhausting his escape methods.
• Talin.Akmonde emerged from the void and asked Keosius to show mercy, while ignoring Klein’s pleas for help.
• Talin.Akmonde greeted Keosius on behalf of the Tower of Time and offered its goodwill.