Chapter Summaries

Singo, Steamed Bun, Born Battle Maniac, and Xia Ye Qiuyu traveled to Dragon City to join a new Imperial war mission against the Orcs of the Ugo Great Prairie. Singo and Steamed Bun were recruited into the Imperial Special Aviation Corps, where they learned they would bomb the prairie to eliminate the Orc threat.

• Singo told Steamed Bun that the Empire planned to cleanse the Ugo Great Prairie of nearly three million Orcs, who reproduced asexually.
• Steamed Bun met Born Battle Maniac and Xia Ye Qiuyu at the portal, and the four traveled to Dragon City.
• At Dragon City's military command center, Hollan Rose assigned Born Battle Maniac and Xia Ye Qiuyu to the ground forces and led Singo and Steamed Bun to a special armory.
• Singo and Steamed Bun met Curtis of the Source Return Society and saw the armory's vast stockpile of bombs.
• Hollan welcomed Singo and Steamed Bun to the Imperial Special Aviation Corps and gave them the Ugo Prairie Great Bombing mission to eliminate as many Orcs as possible.

Singo and Steamed Bun learned about the Empire’s advanced Skyfire armor for Wyverns and began training to use it. Steamed Bun and Noodles completed their first takeoff, hurtling from the runway into the sky.

• Singo showed off his titles while he and Steamed Bun followed a Hobgoblin deeper into the armory.
• The Hobgoblin introduced the Skyfire armor, explaining its rocket boosters, levitation devices, targeting systems, and enhanced Wyvern performance.
• Steamed Bun summoned Noodles and persuaded the reluctant Wyvern to let Ogre workers fit it with the armor.
• Steamed Bun studied the controls, received takeoff clearance from Huo Lan, and activated the boosters.
• Noodles and Steamed Bun raced down the runway and lifted into the sky.

Mantou and Singo tested their armored Wyverns, and Mantou’s exercise bombing annihilated a group of Dwarf rebels and their rescuers. Soro then led a rapidly growing horde of Orcs south toward Avendell Dan, unaware that the Empire had prepared to meet them.

• Mantou nearly crashed while trying to imitate Singo’s aerial stunt, then completed the bombing exercise after Huo Lan warned that the Wyvern equipment incurred rental fees.
• Mantou dropped bombs on captured Dwarf rebels, killing former general Forn Rocksworn and the Dwarves who had come to rescue him.
• Mantou received experience messages for the kills, while Huo Lan praised him for completing the exercise mission.
• Soro declared himself favored by Gruumsh, rallied millions of Orcs, and ordered them to march south and conquer Avendell Dan.
• The Orcs surged across the grassland as armored Wyverns flew in the distance, approaching the Empire’s prepared welcome.

Da Ya led his Orcs toward Avendell Dan, eager to loot the fortress, but the Empire’s mines and napalm bombs devastated the charging horde. Da Ya tried to survive by following other Orcs and abandoning Hawk, but he was killed when firebombs encircled the army.

• Da Ya marched south with his followers, proud of his name and eager to plunder Avendell Dan.
• Soro inspired the Orc horde to invade by promising them riches from humans, elves, and dragons, and the Orcs charged toward the fortress.
• The Orcs triggered the Empire’s minefield, and Da Ya stayed behind the first wave to let other Orcs clear the way.
• Black-and-red monster birds dropped napalm bombs on the Orcs, setting the battlefield ablaze and killing tens of thousands.
• Da Ya abandoned his burning underling Hawk and fled, but the bombers encircled the Orcs with fire and killed Da Ya in the bombardment.

Steamed Bun and the Wyvern Knights bombarded the advancing Orc horde, while Soro urged the Green-skinned Orcs to keep charging. Watching the slaughter, Keosius ordered Dror to exterminate the Orcs completely, and Dror eagerly accepted.

• Steamed Bun celebrated the experience he gained from the first bombing runs, and Curtis commanded the Wyvern Knights to launch another attack with Napalm Bombs.
• The Wyvern Knights dropped another wave of bombs, setting the Orc-covered wasteland ablaze and killing Orcs by the thousands.
• Soro rejected retreat and rallied the Green-skinned Orcs to charge, believing their deaths would exhaust the Empire's magic before the Red Blood Tribe attacked.
• Keosius observed Green-skinned Orcs adapting to the flames and ordered Dror to exterminate them, including destroying the soil they depended on if necessary.
• Dror knelt before Keosius's decree and vowed to leave no Orc alive.

The Embers of the Burned Empire bombarded the advancing Orc horde with Wyvern bombs, mines, and heavy artillery, inflicting enormous casualties. Shaman Mok spread a spore network that gave the Orcs a collective consciousness and a force field, and Giant Mountain led them charging toward the fortress through the barrage.

• The Orcs crossed the burning, mined wasteland and advanced toward Dragon City despite suffering nearly a hundred thousand casualties.
• Da Tou ordered hundreds of heavy cannons to fire on the Orc horde after a Wyvern scout estimated that three hundred thousand Orcs were in range.
• The artillery barrage killed Orcs by the thousands, but the horde kept pressing forward through the explosions and flames.
• Soro recognized the scale of the Empire's bombardment and ordered Shaman Mok to help the Orcs break through.
• Mok spread spore mycelium across the battlefield, linking the Orcs into a network and awakening a mysterious force field.
• Giant Mountain destroyed an incoming shell and led the empowered Orcs toward the fortress, as they began deflecting and repurposing artillery shells.

During the third day of the Orc assault on Avendell Dan, Giant Mountain’s growing force field let it withstand Imperial bombardments and rally Orcs toward the defensive line. The Orcs reached the fortifications, where George requested support and went to the front line to confront the advancing horde.

• Giant Mountain rallied the Orcs and used a force field to disrupt a heavy artillery barrage, strengthening the Orcs’ advance.
• Giant Mountain led thousands of Orcs toward the Empire’s defensive line, but more than a thousand machine guns cut down the attackers.
• Imperial fire shattered Giant Mountain’s shield and pierced its body, but fungal threads regenerated its wounds and the Orc charged onward.
• George reported Giant Mountain’s approach to the Fifth Defense Zone and requested artillery and Wyvern support.
• George took his pistol and saber and left the bunker for the front line.

Giant Mountain led a vast Orc assault against the Empire’s bunker, where the Orcs’ force field disrupted weapons and helped them break through the defenses. After Giant Mountain killed an Ogre, Division Commander George rallied the Imperial soldiers and directed them to trap the Orc leader in electrified nets.

• Giant Mountain charged through heavy fire, using Orcs as shields against rockets and driving the attackers toward the Imperial line.
• The Orcs’ force field caused bullets to veer and machine guns to fail, but the Imperial troops held their positions as the Orcs reached the trenches.
• Giant Mountain leaped over a rocket and smashed an Ogre into the ground, giving the Orcs their first Imperial casualty.
• George arrived at the front, rallied the soldiers, and organized concentrated fire that forced the Orcs back while isolating Giant Mountain.
• George’s soldiers ensnared Giant Mountain in electrified nets, and the currents scorched the Orc leader as it struggled and screamed.

George and the Imperial army fought Giant Mountain, whose regeneration and Orc force field turned it into a nearly unstoppable War Machine. As the Orc’s warhammer threatened to kill him, George awakened crimson dragon wings and took flight.

• George shot Giant Mountain with an explosive bullet, but the Orc regenerated by absorbing nearby Orc corpses and entered its second phase.
• Imperial troops bombarded Giant Mountain with guns, rockets, grenades, and flamethrowers, but it grew stronger and revived after losing half its head.
• Giant Mountain broke free of the Empire’s capture nets and attacked George, while George stood his ground and challenged it in the Emperor’s name.
• George used his remaining explosive bullets and sword to evade Giant Mountain’s hammer, but the Orc crushed the Ogres who tried to help him.
• Giant Mountain struck at George after he angrily defended Emperor Keosius, and George’s crimson dragon wings burst from his back, lifting him into the air.

George awakened as a Half-Dragon and killed Giant Mountain with a sacred flame Keosius empowered through their bloodline link. Keosius watched from Dragon Blood Mountain and recognized the Orc leader as a notorious threat from his previous life, killed far earlier than in the original storyline.

• George awakened as a Half-Dragon, gained dragon wings, and confronted Giant Mountain in the air.
• Giant Mountain leapt after George and attacked, but George unleashed a pillar of fire that pierced the Orc's chest and destroyed his heart.
• George dove into the crater and killed the helpless Giant Mountain by piercing his skull with his longsword.
• George realized the power that had enabled his victory came from His Majesty and knelt in gratitude as he surveyed the battlefield.
• Keosius watched through the Calamity Dragon Eye and revealed that he had lent George a law-bearing flame while resisting the powers of Gruumsh and the Fungus Lady.
• Keosius recalled Giant Mountain's future as one of the Four Great Scourges and a destroyer of North Aisel.

George killed Giant Mountain, rallied the Imperial army, and joined Dror’s counterattack against the Orcs. As Green-skinned Orcs rebelled against the Pure Blood Orcs, Soro chose to retreat to Red Blood Valley and abandon them.

• George revealed his dragon wings, killed Giant Mountain, and credited the victory to Keosius as Imperial soldiers cheered.
• George ordered the Imperial forces to crush the advancing Orcs, and Dror launched a full counterattack with troops, tanks, Wyverns, and artillery.
• Ba En led tens of thousands of Green-skinned Orcs in a rebellion against the Pure Blood Orcs, whom they accused of using them as cannon fodder.
• Soro blamed Mok for the rebellion and the battlefield’s failures, but Mok said a power above the Legendary level had intervened.
• Soro accepted Mok’s advice to retreat to Red Blood Valley, preserve his elite forces, and leave the Green-skinned Orcs behind.

The Empire’s air and armored forces devastated the Green-skinned Orcs with firebombs, Steam Tanks, and fuel-air explosives, killing huge numbers even in underground tunnels. Steamed Bun and Singo joined Curtis’s Wyvern Knights in a bombing run that blocked the Orcs’ northern escape, leaving them surrounded by fire with nowhere left to flee.

• Wyverns and artillery engulfed the Orcs in flames while Steam Tanks crushed and shot those who survived the bombardment.
• Orcs who hid in underground tunnels were killed by fuel-air explosives that brought heat, shockwaves, and suffocating air into their shelters.
• Steamed Bun and Singo surveyed the devastation as Singo noted that the Empire had killed more than half of the three million Orcs in a few days.
• Curtis ordered the Wyvern Knights to block the Orcs’ northern retreat and encircle them with cluster bombing.
• Steamed Bun and the other Wyvern Knights dropped hundreds of Napalm Bombs across the northern grassland, trapping the fleeing Orcs between seas of fire.

Soro’s retreating orcs were bombed by the Embers of the Burned Empire, but Soro killed Steamed Bun with a spear before leading the Red Blood Tribe north. General Dror let the orcs retreat so the Empire could track them to their settlements, while Curtis prepared to test a mysterious weapon against Soro.

• Soro vowed to crush the Imperial People and deal with the clan leaders plotting to rebel against him as his army fled north.
• Wyvern knights bombed the retreating orcs, and Steamed Bun was warned that Soro was an enemy above Legendary level.
• Soro leapt into the sky and hurled his spear through Steamed Bun and his wyvern, triggering their self-destruct explosion.
• Soro ordered the Red Blood Tribe to keep retreating and resolved to return to Avendell Dan with a stronger army.
• General Dror refused to intercept Soro, explaining that the Empire intended to follow the orcs back to their settlements and eradicate them at their source.
• Curtis told Dror that he wanted to test whether a mysterious weapon could kill a Legendary Warrior.

After the Orcs' defeat, clan leaders plotted to leave the Red Blood Tribe and reclaim their autonomy, but Soro discovered them and ordered them slaughtered. He then turned his attention back to the Embers of the Burned Empire, vowing that his revenge was near.

• Wounded Orcs were left to die or thrown into the Bindler River as clan leaders gathered to plan their departure from Soro's rule.
• Sark of the Frost Wolf Clan urged the leaders to flee in scattered groups at dawn three days later, but Soro appeared above them and called them traitors.
• Soro hurled a spear through Sark, killing him, then declared that his strength gave him the right to rule.
• Soro ordered Garon and Mond to kill the remaining clan leaders, and they slaughtered them in the valley.
• Soro commanded Garon and Mond to display the leaders' heads, dispose of their bodies in the river, and kill any clansmen who showed signs of rebellion.
• Soro looked south toward the Embers of the Burned Empire and vowed that the day of his revenge was near.

The Air Force Corps entered Inafo Valley to destroy the Green-skinned Orcs’ breeding ground, but magical turbulence cut off their communications and concealed them above the valley. Soro ordered his forces to hunt the intruders, then realized they were in the sky as a metal sphere began falling toward the Bindler River’s source.

• Mantou and the Air Force Corps activated their Skyfire armor’s concealment system as they approached Inafo Valley, where magical turbulence disrupted their equipment and severed contact with headquarters.
• Singo mapped Inafo Valley and identified the Green-skinned Orcs’ breeding ground as the target they had to destroy.
• Soro disposed of the slain rebel chiefs and warriors in the Bindler River while Mok showed him a powerful newborn Orc bred from a clan chief’s corpse.
• Mok sensed intruders in the valley, and Soro ordered hundreds of thousands of Orcs to search for them.
• After a day of searching, Soro realized the outsiders were flying above the valley, and a metal sphere descended toward Inafo Valley.

The Embers of the Burned Empire detonated a Magic Fission Bomb over Inafo Valley, destroying the Green-skinned Orcs and burying the valley. Soro survived after a blood-red lightning bolt transformed him, then appeared in the sky to confront Keosius as the Wyvern Knights realized a godlike enemy remained.

• The Magic Fission Bomb detonated over Inafo Valley, incinerating the Green-skinned Orcs, collapsing the valley, and drying up the Bindler River.
• Mok died in the blast, while Soro survived the heat and prayed to Gruumsh before a scarlet bolt of lightning struck him and changed his appearance.
• The Air Force Corps escaped above the blast, and Steamed Bun and Singo discussed the bomb’s power as the Wyvern Knights searched the ruins for survivors.
• Curtis warned the Wyvern Knights that an entity beyond the legendary tier was nearby, likely a god’s incarnation.
• A massive, one-eyed Orc in black full plate armor rose through the smoke with a Blood Spear and roared Keosius’s name.

Gruumsh descended as an avatar, declared the Embers of the Burned Empire the enemy of all Orcs, and resurrected many of the Orcs killed at Inafo Valley. He attacked Dragon City with a flaming giant spear, but Keosius began to appear through a Space Rift as the city’s defenses failed.

• Gruumsh’s divine command filled Orcs across the multiverse with hatred for the Embers of the Burned Empire, triggering attacks on Imperial People.
• Gruumsh revived more than a hundred thousand Orcs and led them toward Dragon City to take revenge.
• Dror recognized Gruumsh and ordered guards to warn Misha, who prayed for Keosius to intervene.
• Gruumsh hurled a flaming giant spear at Dragon City, collapsing buildings and tearing through the city’s magical defenses.
• A dragon roar sounded as Keosius’s enormous claw emerged through a Space Rift above the city.

Keosius confronted Gruumsh’s divine avatar above Dragon City, destroying the Orc God’s Blood Spear projection and rejecting his demand for submission. Their domains collided as they fought in the sky, while the Orc and Imperial armies resumed battle below, with the war’s outcome resting on the two powerful opponents.

• Keosius emerged above Dragon City and used his combined powers to shatter Gruumsh’s descending Blood Spear.
• Keosius tried to devour the Blood Spear, but Gruumsh recalled it and recognized that the Red Dragon possessed an extraordinary mix of powers.
• Gruumsh demanded that Keosius submit and become his mount, while Keosius countered by demanding that the Orcs become dependents of the Empire.
• Gruumsh enveloped Keosius and Dragon City in his Divine Power Domain, and Keosius broke through it with his own domain.
• Keosius and Gruumsh exchanged reality-warping threats and illusions, then fought through the sky as their armies clashed again below.

Keosius survived Gruumsh’s Blood Spear by using the Time Pocketwatch and destroying the spear with his breath, then faced the Orc God in a brutal close-range battle. Gruumsh wounded him with a divine battle axe, and Keosius recognized that the god’s combat experience and divine perception gave him a dangerous advantage.

• Keosius broke free of Gruumsh’s Eye of Untinking, but the Blood Spear still pursued his heart.
• Keosius activated the Time Pocketwatch, evaded the slowed spear, and destroyed it with his Plundering Breath as the time stop ended.
• Gruumsh pursued Keosius with a divine battle axe, and Keosius broke free of the god’s binding domain through sheer strength.
• Gruumsh struck Keosius’s right shoulder and later slashed his torso, while Keosius hit the Orc God with his right claw and made him bleed Divine Blood.
• Keosius watched Gruumsh rise and realized the god’s experience and divine perception made him a formidable opponent despite his weaker incarnation.

Keosius battled Gruumsh’s avatar, surviving its increasingly powerful attacks while refusing to submit. As Gruumsh pursued him, Keosius called on a hidden ally, and Dumasong emerged from the earth to confront the Orc God.

• Keosius dodged Gruumsh’s attacks and struck him with a full-force blow, but Gruumsh’s divine power healed his injuries and his returning battle axe nearly caught the Red Dragon by surprise.
• Gruumsh offered Keosius a contract to become his subordinate and eternal mount, but Keosius tore it apart and mocked him.
• Gruumsh consumed the source of his divine power, revealed his immense avatar, and attacked Keosius with his spear and battle axe.
• Keosius escaped Gruumsh’s weapons by turning into a sea of fire, then returned to the ground and warned a hidden presence that the Orcs would overrun the land if he fell.
• Dumasong, the Shield Dwarf God who had fought Keosius months earlier, emerged from the ground and challenged Gruumsh.