Chapter Summaries

Yala struck a deal with Mishiu to sacrifice elves so Mishiu could regain power and help kill someone, while Arthur learned that the Emerald Secret Realm would open in about two hundred years. Suspecting Kulu of sabotaging the World Gate, Arthur arranged to leave and asked Macdo about the realm, learning it held dangers beyond the Son of Emerald’s legacy.

• Yala agreed to provide Mishiu with one million ordinary elves or ten thousand royal-blooded descendants in exchange for his help killing someone.
• Yala recalled how he and Mishiu had arranged the massacre of Emerald City three hundred years earlier, which Ximal and Hemuk had covered up.
• Kulu told Arthur that the Emerald Secret Realm’s seals were weakening and that the realm would likely open in two hundred years, requiring Arthur to enter.
• Arthur asked Kulu to handle his departure arrangements while privately remaining wary of him as a possible saboteur of the World Gate.
• Arthur contacted Macdo, who warned that the Emerald Secret Realm contained things the Son of Emerald had suppressed, then promised to send him more potion.

Arthur returned from the Emerald High Tower to the Maysen Region and prepared to advance to the Fifth Order before the Emerald Secret Realm opened. He reached the Sun Emperor's tomb, where he intended to absorb the peak Sun Emperor's bloodline and break through the final barrier.

• Arthur returned to Falkus City through the World Gate and told Gloria and the others he had come back early to handle unfinished business.
• Arthur decided to pursue Fifth Order advancement in the Maysen Region before the Emerald Secret Realm opened in two hundred years.
• Arthur visited the developed Hanluo Mountain Range and met Aila Falkus, a descendant of his old friend Edward.
• Arthur traveled for more than a month to a remote peak and entered the spatial rift leading to the Sun Emperor's tomb.
• Arthur revealed that he planned to absorb the Sun Emperor's bloodline to reach the Fifth Order.

Arthur explored the Sun Emperor’s tomb and used his Moon Elf power to cleanse the remains of a former High Priest. His Sun Blood awakened on the golden path, allowing him to enter the tomb’s heart, where the Sun and Moon bloodlines reacted intensely.

• Arthur spent half a month examining the tomb’s ruins and reached the corpse of the former Silver Mist Forest High Priest.
• Arthur dispelled the Calamity Curse from the High Priest’s corpse, revealed the Elf’s remains, and stored them away.
• Arthur walked the golden path as his dormant Sun Blood responded to the tomb’s bloodline magic.
• The golden sun’s solar power began flowing into Arthur, though he realized he could absorb only part of it safely.
• Arthur entered the tomb’s heart, where a golden coffin, scepter, crown, and book stood, and the Sun and Moon bloodlines reacted to each other.

Arthur entered the Sun Emperor’s tomb, collected three powerful artifacts, and began refining the emperor’s Sun Bloodline with his Silver Moon Bloodline. Mother of Emerald’s mark completed their fusion, awakening a new bloodline and forming a complete Star Fragment as the world’s power flowed toward the Heavenly Star.

• Arthur approached the Sun Emperor’s coffin, where the emperor’s lingering majesty did not harm him because he was a pure-blooded Moon Elf.
• Arthur collected the golden scepter, the sacred crown, and the golden book from the tomb.
• Arthur recognized the Calamity Curse on the Sun Emperor’s corpse and used his Bloodline Seed to begin refining the emperor’s Sun Bloodline.
• Arthur’s Silver Moon and Sun Bloodline Marks fused, and Mother of Emerald’s mark supplied the power needed to complete their new mark.
• World Power flowed into the Heavenly Star, restoring Arthur’s Star Fragment as visions showed possible paths to his advancement to the Sixth Order.
• The completed star caused a faint tremor that only a few beings at the world’s pinnacle could sense.

Arthur completed his century-long bloodline transformation and awakened as a true Son of Emerald, inheriting memories and absorbing the Golden Sun in the tomb. He discovered that his Emerald Blood let him shift between his original silver-haired Moon Elf appearance and other forms.

• An ancient eye and a black tree recognized the sign of a Son of Emerald and discussed the coming war and Arthur’s potential to reach the Seventh Tier.
• The Star of Destiny ensured that Arthur’s advancement to the Sixth Order would succeed as his bloodline transformed during his slumber.
• The Silver Moon Mark disappeared and a permanent Emerald Mark formed, drawing solar power from the Golden Sun and turning Arthur into a true Son of Emerald.
• After more than a hundred years, Arthur awoke in the golden coffin with inherited memories from the Mother of Emerald’s bloodline and the Sun Emperor.
• Arthur found that he had absorbed the Golden Sun and used a water mirror to examine his transformed appearance.
• Arthur changed his black hair and eyes back to silver and realized that his Emerald Blood could shift between forms.

After absorbing the Sun Emperor’s remains, Arthur reached the Fifth Order and planned to complete his unstable Sun Bloodline by targeting Yara. Months later, he delayed returning to the Emerald High Tower after learning that Dark Elf civilians were fleeing to the surface, and ordered that they be sheltered while their wizards were sent to Falkus City under guard.

• Arthur absorbed the Sun Emperor’s power, advanced to the Fifth Order, and found that the combined Sun and Silver Moon Bloodlines had cleared his path to the Sixth Order.
• Arthur decided to seek Yara’s Sun Bloodline to restore the missing piece in his own and collected the Sun Emperor’s burial goods.
• Arthur’s awakening as the Son of Emerald caused the Emerald Sword to awaken and suppress the sealed monster, which planned to escape when the Emerald Secret Realm opened.
• Months later, Kular reported that Dark Elf civilians were fleeing from the underground world to the surface.
• Arthur ordered the Governors to shelter the migrating Dark Elf civilians and send their wizards to Falkus City under guard.

Arthur heard the Dark Elf wizards’ plea for help against a plague that was devastating the underground world and determined that it would not survive on the surface. He ordered the seal at their passage to be lifted, allowing the Dark Elves to seek refuge in the Maysen Region.

• Kular gathered information about the underground world, and several Dark Elf wizards arrived at the Royal Palace in Falkus City.
• The elderly Dark Elf wizard told Arthur that a plague had infected even Official Wizards and transformed entire cities’ residents into contagious monsters.
• The wizard claimed that the plague and mutated monsters disappeared or died when brought to the surface, while Kular questioned whether the Dark Elves could be trusted.
• Arthur recalled that the underground world had once been a separate world infected by calamity and concluded that its plague would become ineffective on the surface.
• Arthur decided to accept the Dark Elves and ordered wizards to go to the sealed site and lift the seal.

Arthur descended into the underground world to investigate the plague and traced its contamination to a passage leading into a deeper, unassimilated layer. As a Demon God began to awaken beyond the rift, Arthur recognized it.

• Arthur ignored Kular's warning and entered the underground world with Kular, Gloria, and several Dark Elf wizards.
• A Dark Elf wizard explained that underground day and night depended on elemental activity, and Arthur sensed gray power spreading from the abandoned Mind Flayer territory.
• Arthur transported the group to the contaminated wasteland, where his emerald power shielded them from the radiation.
• The group discovered a rift leading to a deeper layer of the underground world, and Arthur suspected the plague came from its forces of calamity.
• A gigantic Demon God began to awaken beyond the rift, and Arthur recognized it.

Arthur confronted Demon God Algorn, the same being he had fought centuries earlier, and revealed power that had reached the Fifth Order. Their battle devastated the space around the passage, and Arthur’s emerald power began suppressing Algorn as the demon’s body and will weakened.

• Arthur recognized Demon God Algorn as the demon who had escaped after their battle outside the Silver Mist Forest centuries earlier.
• The Dark Elf wizards recognized Algorn, while Arthur unleashed his bloodline aura and forced the elves around him to kneel.
• Arthur claimed the surrounding space as his domain and clashed with Algorn in hundreds of battles of pure will.
• Algorn recognized Arthur and was shocked that he had advanced from the Fourth Order to the Fifth in less than a century.
• Arthur attacked with Silver Radiance and combined the powers of the sun and silver moon into emerald force that shrank Algorn’s body and weakened his will.

Arthur defeated the Demon God's Fifth Order avatar in the underground passage but discovered that Alarun and other Calamity Lords remained sealed beneath the earth, while the Wizard World and Calamity World seemed headed toward another war. Back in Falkus City, Arthur decided to open a gate to the World of Gods, but its immense World Energy cost forced him to reconsider his plans.

• Arthur dispelled the Demon God's avatar, then learned from Alarun that the Calamity World was destined to return.
• Arthur left the underground world after handing matters over to Kular and returned to the Royal Palace in Falkus City.
• Arthur considered the World Consciousness's warning that another war with the Calamity World might be near and concluded that he could safely enter the Emerald Secret Realm as a Fifth Order being.
• Arthur used his ability and World Energy to activate the coordinate to the World of Gods.
• Arthur realized that opening the gate and returning would cost roughly two hundred thousand units of World Energy, so he changed his plan.

Arthur spent most of his Source Power to send an empowered avatar into the World of Gods, then awoke in the body of Yasuo Bakulu, a fallen soldier rescued from a battlefield. As Yasuo recovered in a poor hut, a girl brought him soup.

• Arthur invested over six hundred thousand Source Power in his avatar, granting it the fate and advantages of a Child of the World.
• Arthur completed the transfer and left to rest, trusting his avatar to survive and rise in the World of Gods.
• Scavengers found a bloodied person crawling out from beneath the corpses on an abandoned battlefield.
• Arthur awoke in the body of Yasuo Bakulu and recovered Yasuo’s memories of his noble family and death in battle.
• A girl brought Yasuo hot soup, which he accepted politely as he began recovering.

While recovering in a scavenger camp near the Tamlu border, Arthur learned about the local knight ranks and the people caring for him. A ghoul’s attack unsettled the camp, and the chapter ended with a scream in the night.

• Arthur reflected on the kingdom’s knight ranks and used the source power he had brought from his original world to heal and strengthen his body.
• Wendy visited Arthur with soup, and he learned that she was an orphan living with her uncle’s family among scavengers near the war-torn border.
• Arthur met the camp’s ailing residents and sensed that a cold force was killing the old man, while poisonous insects tormented the one-armed hunter, Kum.
• Scavengers returned with a corpse torn in half, and the old man grew frightened, repeatedly warning that a ghoul was nearby.
• Wendy told Arthur that a young scavenger had vanished during a battlefield search and was found dismembered, then a scream rang through the camp.

Arthur stayed in the scavenger village after a ghoul attack, then asked Wendy to spend the night in his tent to keep her close. Wendy’s uncle revealed himself as the ghoul and attacked her, but Arthur intervened, leaving them facing off.

• A ghoul killed another scavenger, and Arthur decided not to leave the village while its people remained in danger.
• The scavengers stayed together until the attacks stopped, then relaxed and cautiously resumed scavenging.
• Wendy brought Arthur soup and told him her uncle had shared a wild boar; Arthur asked her to stay the night, and she misunderstood his request.
• Wendy’s uncle entered Arthur’s tent, transformed his arm into a spiked black limb, and struck Wendy down.
• The monster prepared to tear Wendy apart, but Arthur stood between them and blocked its claw.

Arthur revealed himself as a formal knight and killed the ghoul that had taken Uncle Ta’s form. He left the tent to look outside, allowing the grieving Wendy to come with him.

• Arthur blocked the ghoul’s attack and drove it away from Wendy with a crude stone spear empowered by Life Energy.
• The ghoul revealed its true form and recognized Arthur as a formal knight, then tried to escape.
• Arthur trapped the ghoul with controlled spear strikes and killed it despite its rapid healing.
• Wendy mourned Uncle Ta while Arthur waited quietly, then asked whether she could go with him.
• Arthur agreed, picked up his spear, and walked outside with Wendy following.

Arthur discovered that the ghoul he had killed had been gathering military intelligence for Duke Yashu and claimed its hidden map, letter, weapons, and wealth. Three days later, a grand carriage arrived at the scavenger village, and someone began to step out.

• Arthur followed the ghoul’s scent to a hidden cache and found a map of southern Tamlu, weapons, coins, and a torn letter ordering Sink to scout for Duke Yashu.
• Arthur realized that the Kingdom of Senai had used the ghoul to gather intelligence before its invasion of Tamlu, though the letter’s unfinished command left its other objective unknown.
• Arthur took the ghoul’s belongings, including a light-gray longsword and coins worth about a hundred and twenty Jin'ers.
• Arthur’s victory spread through the village, and the scavengers envied Wendy after hearing that he had promised to take her away.
• Three days later, a large black carriage arrived at the village, and its passenger stepped out.

Arthur took Wendy from the village, rewarded the scavengers who had rescued him, and headed north while considering the Bakulu Family’s precarious position in the war. More than half a month later, a stranger arrived at the village and learned that its residents were moving into a city.

• Arthur picked up Wendy and gave supplies and coins to the villagers, including the scavengers who had carried him from the battlefield.
• Arthur reflected on the Kingdom of Senai’s invasion, the Kingdom of Tamlu’s internal turmoil, and the difficult choices facing the Bakulu Family.
• Arthur traveled north, planning to absorb his remaining power and regain the strength of a Sky Knight within three months.
• A little over half a month later, a dark-skinned middle-aged man arrived at the village and found its residents preparing to move.
• The man asked the hired driver whether he was collecting a shipment, and the driver explained that he was helping the villagers move into the city.

Gaga, a lurker for the Kingdom of Senai, investigated the knight who killed a ghoul and suspected he might be Sink, then set out to capture him. Meanwhile, Arthur and Wendy walked through a cold city, with Arthur seemingly unaffected by the winter weather.

• A coachman told Gaga that scavengers had rescued a young knight who later killed an adult ghoul while badly wounded.
• Gaga bought the ghoul's corpse from the scavengers and discovered a spear wound marked by Life Energy.
• Gaga revealed his real name and his role as a lurker for the Duke of Senai, and resolved to capture the knight he believed might be Sink.
• Wendy shivered in the cold as she walked through the city with Arthur, who said he was not cold.

Arthur and Wendy saw disguised Tamlu soldiers enter a church of the God of Gloom, where Prince Rugel reunited with Irula while fleeing capture. Arthur left without approaching them, and Rugel learned that his other companions had not arrived.

• Arthur hid with Wendy as a ragged group of apparent defeated soldiers entered the city, and one man briefly found Arthur familiar.
• Arthur recognized the building the group entered as a church of the God of Gloom and left with Wendy.
• The young man waited inside the church for Arthur to follow, but eventually gave up.
• Irula welcomed Prince Rugel and offered to take him somewhere secluded because the city was under surveillance.
• Rugel asked after the others, and Irula said that none had arrived yet.

Ilula and Sil prepared to leave Prince Gru drugged and asleep so Veruba's guards would find him, helping the Third Prince take the throne and granting the Dim Priests freedom to build churches. Arthur visited the church and sensed Ilula's formidable Soul Power before asking about a mural depicting the Lord of Darkness's birth.

• Ilula told Sil that the crystal-flower potion was ready to keep Gru asleep for several days, and Sil said Veruba's guards would find him.
• Sil justified their plan to Ilula by explaining that it could end Tamlu's war and secure the Third Prince's promise to lift restrictions on the Dim Priests.
• Arthur arrived at the church, and Ilula welcomed him and offered to show him around.
• Arthur sensed that Ilula was powerful and recognized the Soul Power flowing through him.
• Arthur stopped before a mural, and Ilula explained that it depicted the birth of the Lord of Darkness.

Arthur questioned Priest Ilula about the origins of Deities, then left the church after donating thirty gold coins. He discovered a wounded young man who recognized him as Yasuo and realized the stranger was the missing His Highness Gru.

• Arthur asked Ilula whether Deities were born from humans, and Ilula explained that they were born like mortals.
• Arthur donated thirty gold coins to the church and left after failing to find the group he had been seeking.
• Ilula discovered that Gru was missing and found an alchemical puppet in his bed; Sil ordered a tracking ritual.
• Arthur sensed a ritual beginning at the church, then blocked a surprise sword attack beside his carriage.
• Arthur disarmed the golden-haired attacker and took him to his lodgings, where the wounded man revealed himself as His Highness Gru.