Chapter Summaries

After the world’s assimilation, Arthur examined the newly awakened Lela and discovered that the World Origin had greatly enhanced his talent. Arthur offered to take Lela as his student, and Lela accepted eagerly.

• In Karad, young Karl briefly revealed a powerful bloodline while gazing toward Aierka State, then hid it when servants approached.
• Several days after the world’s assimilation ended, Lela awoke in Xisili City and realized he could no longer return to the real world.
• Arthur visited Lela, who grieved the loss of his home, family, and friends.
• Using the World Origin, Arthur saw that Lela’s knight and wizard talents had risen to fourth rank and could eventually reach sixth rank.
• Arthur offered to make Lela his student, and Lela accepted immediately.

Arthur gave Lela a deeper version of the Arthur Breathing Technique and considered how to develop the vast population of survivors arriving from the real world. At a meeting in Xisili City, officials learned that millions of outsiders had flooded into Aierka State, and Arthur stopped them from disputing the reports.

• Arthur welcomed Lela as his student, gave him the revised Arthur Breathing Technique, and told him to rest before training toward Great Knight.
• Arthur visited other places and reflected that many players remained asleep or had died, while ordinary survivors greatly outnumbered the players but lacked the resources and teachers to pursue supernatural paths.
• Ruxiu told the officials in Xisili City that millions of outsiders had arrived in Aierka State and that the cities were nearly full.
• The officials questioned the reports, but Ruxiu explained that the figures might be underreported and that hundreds of thousands of outsiders were gathering in a nearby western city.
• Arthur told the assembled officials there was no need to question the number of refugees.

Arthur ordered Aierka State to take in millions of refugees despite its food shortage and planned to obtain relief supplies from the southern countries. He assigned Lela, Shrim, and Qimu to help settle the refugees and select people who could rebuild their collapsed world.

• Arthur ended the officials’ debate about the refugees’ origins and asked how they could be settled and fed.
• Ruxiu warned that Aierka State’s food reserves would last less than a month, so Arthur ordered governors to accept the refugees and said he would send food from Xisili City and borrow the rest from southern countries.
• Arthur watched Lela, Shrim, and Qimu train as the Knight Seeds within them began to awaken, then warned them not to overtrain.
• Lela asked whether Arthur intended to wage war on the southern countries, and Arthur confirmed it before saying all three students would have duties.
• Arthur tasked Lela, Shrim, and Qimu with reassuring refugees, selecting teachers, doctors, students, officials, experts, veterans, and skilled workers, and helping rebuild their world.

Arthur organized refugee relief and set plans for identifying doctors and controlling unrest, then led a campaign through southern Aierka State that devastated kingdoms and extracted tribute. He turned his attention to the Desert Empire Kaidozer, awaiting its response to his demands.

• Arthur instructed Lela and the others to identify doctors among the refugees, prepare for negotiations, and use Lela's five-hundred-knight order to suppress any riots.
• Arthur's forces attacked the Kalanguo Kingdom, where his fiery palm destroyed the Royal Palace and killed the royal family as an army surrounded the capital.
• Ruxiu and Soang watched the Kalanguo Kingdom's nobles surrender, while Arthur remarked that it was the third kingdom he had defeated.
• Arthur explained that he sought food and wealth rather than direct rule, and the Kalanguo Kingdom agreed to pay a heavy tribute now and every year afterward.
• Arthur wondered how the Desert Empire Kaidozer would answer his letter, while Ruxiu warned that the powerful empire was unlikely to accept his terms.

The King of Kaidozer initially rejected Arthur’s demands for provisions and wealth, but the Ancient King’s power compelled him to accept the proposed alliance. Lela then told Arthur that Kaidozer had agreed and sent supplies, easing the food shortage caused by the refugees arriving in Aierka State.

• During the Muen Festival, the King of Kaidozer became furious at Arthur’s letter demanding money and provisions in exchange for an alliance.
• The letter’s crimson mark overwhelmed the King of Kaidozer with bloodline pressure, but the Ancient King appeared and suppressed its power with his own domain.
• After sensing a hidden silver moon mark and unfamiliar bloodline, the Ancient King ordered the King of Kaidozer to accept the letter and agree to Arthur’s terms.
• At daybreak, Lela told Arthur that Kaidozer had agreed to the alliance and sent a large shipment of provisions and wealth.
• Lela explained that the shipment, along with earlier aid and purchases, would provide enough food for now as Aierka State continued taking in refugees.

Five years after Arthur watched his young trainees, Xisili City had grown into a prosperous center of the Aierka State, which celebrated the anniversary of Arthur’s arrival. So'ang reunited with Qimu, who had brought gifted children from Kalan State, and the two old friends caught up as they explored the transformed city.

• Arthur and Lela watched dozens of children with exceptional aptitude train, and Arthur reflected on the effort it had taken to find them.
• Five years passed, and Xisili City celebrated the holiday marking the rise of the Aierka State seven years after Arthur arrived.
• So'ang met Qimu, who had returned from Kalan State with Vivian and several children, all of whom had fifth-grade aptitude.
• So'ang and Qimu discussed the children's prospects, Som's extraordinary progress, and Qimu's hopes of becoming a Radiant Knight within two years.
• The old friends toured the rapidly modernizing city and heard that its power plant would soon provide electricity.
• So'ang and Qimu stopped when a procession of carriages caught their attention.

Arthur received Xilata, Kaidozer’s Fifth Prince, who came to ask whether Arthur still honored the promise he had made to Kaidozer’s ancestor. Arthur recalled that Kaidozer had supplied food during a refugee crisis five years earlier and asked what the ancestor wanted him to do.

• Qimu and Xiso watched a Kaidozer caravan arrive under the Karad Royal Family’s crest and worried that its visit was tied to turmoil in the desert empire.
• Xilata admired the sacred plants and grand palace Arthur had built in Xisili City before entering the hall to meet him.
• Arthur’s Crimson Bloodline suppressed Xilata, but Xilata refused to kneel and then delivered his greeting respectfully.
• Xilata told Arthur that his ancestor wanted to know whether their old agreement still stood.
• Arthur remembered the supplies Kaidozer had sent during Aierka State’s refugee crisis and asked Xilata what his ancestor wanted him to do.

Kaidozer possessed Xilata and asked Adir to help him deal with an Ancient King, offering the Gudola Secret Codex in exchange. Adir accepted after reading part of the tome, and Kaidozer said he would return in a month with more information about their target.

• Kaidozer took control of Xilata and told Adir that the worlds had merged, awakening foreign Kings seeking their greatest prize.
• Kaidozer asked Adir to help him deal with a King, but Adir initially refused to risk fighting an equal for the favor he owed.
• Kaidozer offered Adir the Gudola Secret Codex, and Adir read its teachings on bloodline transformation before agreeing to help.
• Kaidozer gave Adir the section of the tome covering Kings and promised the Emperor section after the job was done.
• Kaidozer said he would return in a month, then left Xilata, and Adir wondered whether the resurrected Ancient Kings came from the Progenitor World where Purple Woman lived.

Arthur analyzed the Bloodline Path and traced how the Ancient Kings used their descendants to prepare for entering the merging worlds. He remained tempted by the path but doubted the secret tome’s reliability, especially its instructions for fourth-level advancement.

• Arthur concluded that the Bloodline Path advanced through devouring powerful foreign bloodlines, with each transformation risking death and becoming harder for those with strong bloodlines.
• Arthur reasoned that Ancient Kings who mastered the path were likely stronger in combat than Wizards of the same level.
• Arthur recalled that Kaidozer had asked him to help confront an Ancient King whose revival lagged because his descendants and empire had declined.
• Arthur deduced that Ancient Kings used Royal Descendants to become native to the world and reduce the suppression they would face when returning.
• Arthur questioned whether to use the secret tome and suspected that its fourth-level instructions might be misleading or dangerously incomplete.

Arthur set aside the Bloodline Secret Tome to focus on the upheaval in the world, visited his gifted student Som, and promised to help save Som’s aging Black Dog. He then trained Lela, Shrim, and Qimu, considering how the Bloodline Path might extend their progress as knights, before a dark light approached.

• Arthur decided to postpone trying the Bloodline Secret Tome until the affairs of the world had settled.
• Arthur visited Som, who was studying bloodline research to help his dying Black Dog, and promised to perform the procedure himself after returning.
• Arthur trained Lela, Shrim, and Qimu, who had advanced slowly as wizards but reached the peak of Sky Knight.
• Arthur considered passing the Bloodline Secret Tome to the three students once they became Origin Knights, provided he had mastered and tested it.
• A dark, ghostly light approached, drawing Arthur's attention.

Arthur and Kaidozer traveled with Arthur’s three students to an isolated island inhabited by the descendants of Chaos’s followers. Kaidozer explained how an ancient battle had driven them into decline, then devoured hundreds of fishermen along the coast.

• Kaidozer arrived late, and Arthur introduced Lela and his other two students as companions for the journey.
• Arthur and Kaidozer carried the students through the sky for more than half a month before reaching an island east of the Karad Empire.
• Arthur sensed that the island held fewer than a million people, and Kaidozer said an ancient battle had left Chaos’s descendants persecuted and diminished.
• Kaidozer killed and consumed hundreds of fishermen, absorbing their blood mist.

Kaidozer slaughtered the people of a city to begin an attack on the Chaos royal family, horrifying Lela, Shrim, and Qimu. Arthur struck the royal palace and killed everyone above the second level, leaving the remaining enemies for his students to fight.

• Kaidozer launched a black beam and rushed toward a city, where his power turned tens of thousands of residents into dust and bone ash.
• Arthur warned Lela, Shrim, and Qimu that they would face more scenes like this, and Qimu asked him to take them to the royal family’s palace.
• Arthur assessed the palace’s defenders and found that it had no third-level beings and few second-level fighters.
• Arthur split the palace with a strike of silver moonlight, killing everyone above the second level.
• Lela, Shrim, and Qimu entered the ruined palace to fight the surviving enemies.

Arthur and Kaidozer waited as the Ancient King Chaos awakened, then Kaidozer fought him in a battle that devastated the sea. While Lela, Qimu, and Shrim watched from the palace, Arthur assessed the Kings’ power and Shrim worried for his teacher.

• Arthur and Kaidozer sensed Chaos slowly awakening in the ruined palace and waited as he took the form of a vast blue dragon.
• Chaos accused Kaidozer of killing his descendants and destroying his projection, then attacked him across the sea.
• Kaidozer confronted Chaos and declared that they had killed him once before and could do it again.
• The two Ancient Kings’ battle split the sea and sent deadly shockwaves across the surrounding area, while Arthur judged their strength greater than his own unless he used his Moon King Form.
• Lela, Qimu, and Shrim watched the devastation from the palace after Lela and the others had cut off the Chaos King’s head, and Shrim worried that Arthur would survive.

Arthur and Kaidozer joined forces to defeat a deep-blue Ancient King after a half-month battle. Arthur’s victory left Kaidozer wary of his strength, while Arthur discovered that fighting in his true form consumed World Energy at an alarming rate.

• Arthur watched the pale-blue dragon weaken against Kaidozer, then transformed into Moon King Form and struck the dragon as it tried to escape.
• The silver giant Arthur and Kaidozer fought the dragon together for half a month, destroying the surrounding islands and killing it.
• Arthur emerged from Moon King Form, exhausted but less injured than Kaidozer, who lost his right arm and suffered a severe head wound.
• Arthur checked his status panel and saw that he had spent seventy thousand World Energy to counter the world’s suppression.
• Kaidozer absorbed the dragon’s corpse and condensed its remains into a small mass of Polar Ice Dragon bloodline essence.

Arthur received the Royal-level Bloodline Secret Tome from Kaidozer and agreed to help him and other Kings kill the Crimson King in three months. After Kaidozer left, Arthur used his Chip to identify hundreds of errors in the tome and began correcting them.

• Kaidozer gave Arthur the Royal-level Bloodline Secret Tome in exchange for his share of the spoils.
• Kaidozer warned Arthur that the Kings were awakening for a final battle and proposed they join forces against the Crimson King.
• Kaidozer explained that the Crimson King was weakened and had been draining his descendants’ bloodlines to recover.
• Kaidozer offered Arthur the Karad Empire and its living prey if Arthur helped the Kings kill the Crimson King; Arthur agreed to meet in three months.
• After Kaidozer departed, Arthur had his Chip scan the Gudola Secret Codex and ordered it to correct 320 errors.

Arthur discovered hundreds of errors in Kaidozer’s codex, then returned from Chaos Island with Lela, Qimu, and Shrim after Qimu killed King Chaos and reached Radiance. Back at his palace, Arthur learned that King Kurid had died.

• Arthur found more than three hundred errors in the codex Kaidozer had given him and resolved to be cautious about the Ancient Kings.
• Arthur saw that Qimu had reached Radiance and presented King Chaos’s head after the students’ battles against the Chaos royal family.
• Qimu said that weakness was the only wrong, arguing that strength alone could protect people and their world.
• Arthur took Lela, Qimu, and Shrim back toward his palace, reaching it in less than ten days.
• Ruxiu told Arthur that King Kurid had died, leaving Arthur stunned.

Arthur learned that King Kurid had died after the Crimson King drained his bloodline, and considered whether to pursue Karad’s vacant throne. After hearing Ruxiu’s detailed plans, Arthur left the throne question to be addressed while turning his attention to the corrected Gudola Secret Codex and his next steps.

• Ruxiu reported that King Kurid had died a month earlier and that a messenger found his body dried up like the other Royal Descendants.
• Arthur suspected the Crimson King had drained Kurid’s bloodline to accelerate his recovery while Arthur and Kaidozer were overseas.
• Ruxiu urged Arthur to claim Karad’s vacant throne, and Arthur asked what they should do before listening to Ruxiu’s plans late into the night.
• Arthur confirmed that the Chip had finished correcting the Gudola Secret Codex, but decided not to risk testing its most advanced teachings with his main body.
• Arthur resolved to consider experiments with a clone later and stepped out of his palace into the night.

Arthur entered Karad City to investigate King Kurid’s death and prepare for the succession struggle, while sensing the recovering Crimson King in the palace. As Karl met secretly with Kaidozer and Akala, he revealed that he had more important business than claiming the throne.

• Arthur arrived at Karad City, where Ruxiu’s uncle welcomed him and recognized him as a powerful Child of Crimson.
• Arthur sensed the Crimson King in the palace, and Karl also noticed Arthur’s arrival and declared that he was the strongest.
• Arthur examined King Kurid’s body and confirmed that the Crimson King had completely drained his bloodline, while suspecting Karl’s role in the succession.
• Arthur waited for Kaidozer and the others as rival factions gathered in Karad City and nobles debated whether Karl or Prince Xiso should inherit the throne.
• Karl dismissed the throne as unimportant and turned to address the gathered Kaidozer, Akala, and other guests.

Crimson King fought Desert King Kaidozer and Daughter of Deep Blue Akala while their battle threatened Karad City. Arthur revealed his full power as a new King and shielded the city from the oncoming destruction.

• Crimson King confronted Kaidozer and Akala, then transformed and attacked them with overwhelming force despite his wounded true body.
• Kaidozer and Akala transformed into their true forms and joined forces against Crimson King, while their clashing domains devastated the surrounding land.
• In Karad City, Ruxiu and the residents watched the battle’s destructive torrents approach, and Arthur judged that its outcome was already decided.
• Arthur climbed the steps and released his power, reaching the Ninth Order of the Third Order as his presence forced everyone in the city to kneel.
• Arthur’s sacred domain stopped and dissolved the torrent before it struck Karad City, and the people hailed Xiso as a new King.

Arthur revealed his Moon King True Form and intervened in the battle between Kaidozer and the Crimson King, helping turn the fight against Kaidozer. After gaining the old world's blessing and overwhelming power, Arthur helped defeat Kaidozer, though the Crimson King remained a dangerous presence.

• Arthur manifested his Moon King True Form outside Karad City, stunning Ruxiu as Lela and the others watched.
• Arthur struck Kaidozer during the Kings' standoff, shattering his body and giving the Crimson King an opening to attack.
• Arthur unleashed his bloodline's strongest strike against Kaidozer, and the Crimson King revealed that he had been pretending to be injured to lure the other Kings out.
• Arthur tore apart the deep-blue giant serpent and drew on the old world's blessing, becoming empowered by its remaining World Energy.
• The Crimson King attacked as Arthur fought Kaidozer, whose aura weakened until Arthur shattered the giant eye above and drowned Kaidozer's will in the world's power.