Chapter Summaries

Kirk completed the final step of unlocking Queen Dido’s Love and paid Princess Wenlita to help restore Carthage’s independence. As Kirk’s team left the hidden altar, a clash with Roman soldiers escalated into the arrival of Pompey’s 36th Cavalry Legion, forcing them to flee.

• Kirk offered Wenlita one million aurei and asked her to help him invest in Carthage’s restoration, and she agreed to lead him to Queen Dido’s hidden altar.
• Wenlita opened a secret passage beneath the ruins, where Kirk placed Queen Dido’s Love on the altar and completed the ritual with Wenlita’s willing drop of blood.
• The space awarded Kirk an S+ evaluation and unlocked Queen Dido’s Love’s powerful Returning Strike ability.
• Kirk explained to Wang Han that supporting Wenlita was a low-cost investment that might give the team an ally against future enemies.
• As Kirk’s team emerged from the passage, Roman cavalry arrived, and Warrenus and Plo fought with the soldiers before Kirk’s group joined the battle.
• A Roman centurion summoned Pompey’s 36th Cavalry Legion, so Kirk ordered his team to scatter and flee.

Kirk rescued Princess Wenlita from Roman soldiers and decided that Spartacus could help her unite the Numidians and restore Carthage. After Kirk freed Spartacus from the [Soulstone], Spartacus pledged to lead the rebellion while Kirk remained in Rome, leaving Wenlita newly hopeful and increasingly attracted to Kirk.

• Wang Han escaped with [Teleport], Sheva fled with Little Fatty, and Warrenus was captured alive while Kirk went after Princess Wenlita.
• Kirk killed the Roman centurion threatening Wenlita and carried her to Queen Dido's underground altar, where he advised her to build power among the Numidian tribes.
• Kirk realized Spartacus could lead Wenlita's rebellion and discussed releasing him from the [Soulstone] with Valkyrie.
• Kirk gave Spartacus his freedom, and Wenlita swore to follow Spartacus's commands and surrender the throne to him if Carthage was restored.
• Spartacus proposed uniting the Numidian tribes, taking the Province of Africa, and rebuilding Carthage, while promising Kirk his loyalty.
• Wenlita grew attracted to Kirk, but he focused on strategy with Spartacus, who left to inspect Queen Dido's ruins after arranging his release.

Kirk and his team helped Princess Wenlita and Spartacus rally the Numidians, and Spartacus destroyed a Roman cavalry legion while rescuing Warrenus. As Kirk departed for Egypt, Wenlita gave him the Gift of the Major God shoes, while Spartacus stayed behind to build power in North Africa.

• Princess Wenlita summoned Iquita and the Numidian Cavalry to help locate Warrenus, but Iquita challenged Kirk's group until Spartacus forced him to kneel.
• Spartacus took control of the Numidian chiefs, then led a thousand cavalrymen to rescue Warrenus and annihilate the Roman 36th Cavalry Legion.
• Spartacus distributed the captured gold, food, horses, and equipment among the Numidians, while Kirk gave him five hundred thousand gold coins to fund his forces.
• Kirk told Spartacus he was leaving for Egypt and warned him about Iquita, whom Spartacus planned to have killed in battle.
• Princess Wenlita gave Kirk the Footsteps of the Divine Messenger, a Gift of the Major God set piece, and kissed him before returning to Ruzhivan.
• Iquita watched Wenlita's farewell with jealousy as Kirk's ship left the harbor for Egypt.

Kirk’s team arrived in Egypt, found Pompey too well guarded to assassinate, and decided to seek Cleopatra’s alliance. At the Egyptian-Syrian border, they discovered Cleopatra’s forces under attack and rushed to help her as the Abinus Guard closed in.

• Kirk and Wang Han discussed Pompey’s growing power and chose to wait in Alexandria before attempting to influence events.
• Pompey detected Wang Han’s mental link to one of his officers, killed the officer, and forced Kirk’s team to teleport away.
• Kirk decided to ally with Cleopatra and set out for the Egyptian-Syrian border, intending to build influence in Egypt and support Caesar against Pompey.
• Wang Han detected a battle ahead and identified Cleopatra’s smaller force as the target of an army sent by Ptolemy XIII.
• Kirk summoned Katherine and his other fighters, then led them into the sandstorm to rescue Cleopatra.
• Cleopatra refused to flee as the Abinus Guard approached her tent, trusting the oracle that a benefactor would come to her aid.

Kirk and his team rescued Cleopatra from Ptolemy’s Anubis Guards and escorted her through the desert, while she sought Caesar’s support to reclaim Egypt. When no reply from Caesar arrived, Cleopatra feared he would not take her side, and Kirk began to sympathize with her plight.

• Kirk and his team defeated the Anubis Guards sent by Ptolemy to kill Cleopatra, and Cleopatra watched Kirk fight from inside her tent.
• Kirk met Cleopatra and explained that he had come to Egypt on Caesar’s orders to hunt Pompey, while Cleopatra offered to repay the team if she regained her throne.
• Kirk promised to protect Cleopatra until Caesar arrived, then helped her surviving followers travel toward the Syrian coast.
• Kirk and Wang Han discussed Cleopatra’s political skill and questioned the seductive image of her in the Original Drama.
• After two days of travel, Cleopatra asked Kirk whether Caesar had replied, and Kirk admitted that no message had arrived.
• Cleopatra worried that Caesar would not support her, apologized for losing her composure, and moved Kirk to feel sympathy for her.

Cleopatra rejected Caesar’s demands to preserve Egypt’s independence, leaving her vulnerable to her sister Arsinoe IV and Caesar. When desert riders attacked Cleopatra’s procession, Kirk chose to save her and charged into the attackers.

• Cleopatra told Kirk she wanted to escape Egypt and asked him to take her somewhere safe if the Roman civil war reached the country; Kirk agreed.
• In Antioch, Cleopatra and Caesar argued over Egypt’s army and future, and Caesar sent her to camp outside the city.
• Wang Han revealed that Caesar planned to install the beautiful Arsinoe IV as Egypt’s ruler and annex Egypt into Rome.
• Cleopatra refused to compromise her country’s independence, and Kirk decided to protect her despite the danger of defying Caesar.
• Desert riders charged Cleopatra’s procession, and Kirk used [Footsteps of the Divine Messenger] and [Gale] to smash through them as Sheva and the others joined the fight.

Kirk rescued Cleopatra from Arsinoe IV's desert cavalry and hid with her in a remote oasis while Caesar's forces searched for them. After a passionate encounter with Illyria in the lake, Kirk caught a masked female spy and discovered her identity was still concealed.

• Kirk slaughtered the Tribal Leader and roughly a hundred desert cavalrymen, then took Cleopatra and her followers into the desert.
• Cleopatra told Kirk she wanted an independent Egypt allied with Rome and planned to liberate Egypt with his help.
• Antony reached the battlefield with Roman cavalry and began searching for Kirk and Cleopatra on Caesar's orders.
• Kirk's group spent half a month hiding at Mosuo's oasis while Wang Han, Little Fatty, and Sheva went out to gather news or train.
• Kirk summoned Illyria to the lake, then caught a watcher who wore a Human Skin Mask and tore it away with his claws.
• Kirk hauled the watcher from the water and realized the masked spy was a beautiful woman.

Kirk advised Cleopatra as Caesar’s campaign against Pompey faltered, leading Caesar to abandon his plan to annex Egypt and support Cleopatra. Cleopatra raised loyal legions against Ptolemy, while Caesar marched to face Pompey in a third decisive battle.

• Little Fatty reported that Spartacus had captured the West Numidian Tribal Leader, while Wang Han warned that the East Numidian chieftain remained wary and Spartacus needed supplies.
• Pompey defeated Antony and Lepidus after his Space virus skill threw Caesar’s cavalry into disarray, and Caesar recognized that his campaign in Egypt was failing.
• Kirk persuaded Caesar to stop trying to eliminate Cleopatra, and Caesar invited her back and agreed to abandon his plan to annex Egypt.
• On Kirk’s advice, Cleopatra rallied support across Egypt and raised ten Queen’s Legions, prompting Ptolemy to send the Pharaoh’s legions south to fight her.
• With Pompey’s forces weakened, Caesar marched south for a third decisive battle as Kirk and Cleopatra discussed Egypt’s future.

Kirk helped Cleopatra’s forces turn the tide against Ptolemy, and Caesar’s army drove Pompey back to Alexandria. Facing the city’s formidable defenses and unbroken supply lines, Kirk proposed assassinating Pompey, but Cleopatra feared he would be killed.

• Cleopatra gave Kirk a golden mask that would protect him from pyramid curses and told him the pharaohs’ tombs held wealth he could use to supply Spartacus.
• Cleopatra reported that Mosuo’s forces had ambushed and routed Ptolemy’s army, captured Memphis, and advanced toward Alexandria.
• Caesar assigned his commanders to attack Pompey, whose troops retreated after brief skirmishes, allowing Caesar’s army to reach Alexandria.
• Caesar and Kirk saw that Pompey and Ptolemy had gathered a huge force inside Alexandria, whose strong walls and sea supply routes made it difficult to besiege.
• Kirk suggested assassinating Pompey to spare Alexandria from a prolonged war, and Cleopatra embraced him and begged him not to risk his life.

Kirk and his team opened the Water Gate for Caesar’s forces, then fought Pompey’s army to hold the entrance until Caesar’s cavalry arrived. Antony led the cavalry through the gate, while the battle for the city continued.

• The Centurion killed the Decurion, and Kirk’s team emerged from hiding after Wang Han used her Mind Control Ring to subdue the Water Gate’s guards.
• Kirk opened the Water Gate and signaled Caesar as Caesar’s forces crossed the Nile and rushed toward the city.
• Kirk transformed into Wolverine and killed Pompey’s Legion Commander while his teammates fought to keep the Roman and Egyptian forces from retaking the gate.
• As Kirk’s team began to fall back under the growing assault, Wang Han, Kirk, and the others used fire, ice, illusions, and other skills to delay the enemy.
• Antony led Caesar’s cavalry through the Water Gate despite arrows raining down from the city wall.

Kirk and his companions planned a nighttime infiltration of Alexandria to open the city gates for Caesar’s forces, while Caesar agreed to pay five million aurei for their mission. The chapter ended as the team prepared to move, with Spartacus already set to receive the fortune and unite the Numidian tribes.

• Cleopatra revealed that Alexandria’s Water Gates could be opened during the Nile’s summer flood, but the Great Lighthouse’s mirrors and the city’s defenders made a nighttime approach in winter extremely dangerous.
• Caesar ordered a naval attack and blockade, and Kirk volunteered to open the gates in exchange for five million aurei, which he said he would give to Cleopatra.
• Cleopatra’s troops, led by Mosuo, Wang Han, Little Fatty, Sheva, and others, arrived in Alexandria and strengthened her position.
• Kirk, Wang Han, Little Fatty, and Sheva planned to infiltrate the city, while eight summoned women were sent to clear a wall outpost and help them get inside.
• Wang Han reported that Spartacus had the five million gold coins aboard a merchant ship near Sicily and planned to unite the Numidian tribes; Kirk urged the team to begin the mission.

Kirk’s team infiltrated Alexandria despite a deadly crocodile-filled approach, then used the vampire women and enchantresses to lure Roman guards away from the Third Water Gate. The team reached the gate’s defenses, where the Centurion sent most of his men off after the women and kept watch with only a few soldiers.

• Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Caroline, Night Blade, Meg, Dream Demon, and Mei Wa slipped past the Great Lighthouse and signaled that they had reached the wall.
• Kirk’s team crept toward Alexandria under Sheva’s Yeti Camouflage and found thousands of Nile Crocodiles feeding on civilians Pompey had thrown from the wall.
• Kirk released Little Green’s aura to scatter the crocodiles, then teleported himself and the others onto the wall after the eight women had silently killed the guards in an arrow tower.
• Little Fatty avoided the searchlight by hiding inside a crocodile’s mouth, then climbed onto the wall and rejoined Kirk’s group.
• Kirk led the team toward the less-guarded Third Water Gate, where the eight women lured Roman soldiers around a corner and killed them out of sight.
• The Centurion investigated the women, returned with a dulled expression, and sent most of his soldiers after them while he stayed behind with a Decurion.

Kirk pursued Pompey after Caesar’s forces took Alexandria, fighting his way aboard Pompey’s ship and crashing it into the Great Lighthouse. He followed Pompey inside, where the chapter ended with Kirk realizing Pompey had turned the lighthouse beam toward the sea.

• Caesar’s cavalry routed Pompey’s legion, and Kirk spotted Pompey escaping Alexandria by ship.
• Kirk pursued Pompey down the Nile, leaped aboard his flagship, and fought through the soldiers.
• Kirk seized the steering oar and drove the warship into the Great Lighthouse, where Pompey escaped onto the structure.
• Kirk chased Pompey into the lighthouse and battled the guards and commanders holding him back.
• Kirk noticed that the lighthouse beam was shining out across the sea and realized Pompey was responsible.

Kirk confronted Pompey atop the Great Lighthouse while a spatial scan sought a way to kill the virus who had survived before. Kirk overwhelmed Pompey’s guards, but Pompey’s Mind Control left him near death just as the scan completed and a blood-red storm gathered overhead.

• Kirk killed a Legion Commander who was signaling Pompey’s fleet, then climbed the outside of the Great Lighthouse to reach Pompey.
• Pompey stalled Kirk with a story about his belt, which held Neptune’s power to create whirlpools, while Kirk scanned his virus type.
• Kirk killed another Legion Commander and hurled guards from the lighthouse as he fought Pompey’s men.
• Pompey used Mind Control to slow Kirk and let the guards surround him, driving his Health Points below 200.
• The spatial scan reached 100%, and a gale, a blood-red vortex, and enormous lightning bolts appeared above the Great Lighthouse.

Kirk used the Great Lighthouse’s mirrors to turn Pompey’s Mind Control against him and blind the guards while buying time for the dimension’s energy to gather. As the chapter ended, Kirk had thrown Pompey’s forces from the tower, while Cleopatra and Kirk’s companions watched the lighthouse blaze from afar.

• Kirk remembered Wang Han’s advice about reflecting Mind Control and drew Pompey’s control beam toward a lighthouse mirror.
• The reflected beam struck Pompey, leaving him mentally dazed, while Kirk leaped from the tower and adjusted its seven mirrors.
• Kirk used [Flame of the Sun God] and the mirrors to flood the lighthouse with light, blinding Pompey’s charging guards.
• Caesar and Cleopatra witnessed the lighthouse’s radiance, and Cleopatra hoped Kirk would survive the fight.
• Wang Han, Little Fatty, Sheva, and their companions saw the light from their warship and hurried toward Kirk.
• Kirk sent more than a hundred guards, including the Legion Commander, plunging from the Great Lighthouse into the stormy sea.

Kirk battled Pompey atop the Great Lighthouse, but Pompey took control of Kirk and kicked him from the tower. Before Kirk hit the ground, a red lightning strike erased Pompey and then destroyed the lighthouse, leaving Kirk still falling.

• Kirk wounded Pompey's body and used the mirrors in the Great Lighthouse to turn Pompey's Mind Control against him.
• Pompey realized Kirk had likely killed Grebo with the red lightning and fled toward the edge of the tower.
• Kirk leaped after Pompey, hooked him with Wolverine's Claws, and hauled him back onto the platform, but Pompey used Mind Control to take over Kirk's body and kick him off the lighthouse.
• Cleopatra prayed for Kirk's life, while Wang Han ordered the others to recover his body so he could be revived.
• A massive red lightning bolt erased Pompey, then struck the Great Lighthouse and crumbled it as Kirk continued falling.

Kirk survived Pompey's death and the destruction of the Great Lighthouse, then recovered Pompey's Sea God belt and earned rewards for defeating the space virus and killing Pompey. Back in Alexandria, Cleopatra revealed she would be crowned Female Pharaoh, but Kirk delayed her coronation by seducing her in Amun God Hall, leaving Caesar waiting at the Sun Altar.

• Pompey's death freed Kirk from his control, and Kirk used Wolverine's Claws and teleportation to escape as the Great Lighthouse collapsed and Pompey's nearby fleet sank.
• Kirk reunited with Wang Han, Little Fatty, and Sheva among the ruins, where he found Pompey's ashes and the [Tide of the Sea God] belt.
• The system credited Kirk with destroying its second enemy space virus and completing the Roman gods' commission, and awarded him the hidden titles [Miracle Bulldozer] and [Aristocrat Slayer].
• Kirk returned to Alexandria, where Cleopatra revealed she had been declared Female Pharaoh and would be crowned at noon.
• Cleopatra took Kirk to Amun God Hall, but he delayed her coronation by making love with her there.
• Caesar waited at the Sun Altar for Cleopatra to appear and ascend the throne.

Cleopatra was crowned Pharaoh while Kirk consolidated his influence in Egypt and sent money to Spartacus’s forces. After learning that Ptolemy XIII had fled to the Giza Plateau and might be possessed by an evil force, Kirk prepared to pursue him at the Pyramid of Khufu.

• The High Priest of Amun God explained Cleopatra’s absence by claiming she was praying, while he found Kirk and Cleopatra together inside the temple and ordered everyone to leave them undisturbed.
• Cleopatra arrived late and was formally crowned Cleopatra VII, while Caesar privately resolved to make Egypt a Roman province when he had recovered his strength.
• Cleopatra told Kirk that Ptolemy XIII had fled to the Giza Plateau and warned him that Ptolemy might have been possessed; she gave Kirk an item that could ward off the Pharaoh’s curse.
• Kirk took five million aurei from Caesar’s grain payment and reward and sent the money to Spartacus to fund his forces in Numidia.
• Caesar left Egypt with grain for famine-stricken Rome, while Kirk planned to use the time before Caesar’s next campaign to strengthen Egypt and Carthage.
• Kirk told Wang Han and the others that they would go to the Pyramid of Khufu to hunt down Ptolemy and rob a tomb, and Little Fatty eagerly anticipated the expedition.

Kirk and Little Fatty entered the Pyramid of Khufu to seek treasure, but a mysterious black-robed figure trapped them inside and unleashed deadly hazards and mummies. After defeating the mummies and reaching the Queen’s Chamber, they found treasure whose value Kirk said was modest in their era, while the pyramid’s dangers remained unresolved.

• Wang Han explained the history of the pyramids as the team reached the Giza Plateau, where Kirk revealed that Cleopatra had directed him to the Pyramid of Khufu and its hidden wealth.
• Little Fatty spotted a suspicious figure near the pyramid, and Kirk and Little Fatty entered while Wang Han and Sheva stayed outside because intense magnetic interference disrupted magic.
• A black-robed figure appeared inside the pyramid and a granite block sealed the entrance, trapping Kirk and Little Fatty as they headed toward the Queen’s Chamber.
• Kirk stopped a rolling boulder, then fought through a swarm of mummies; when he struck the black-robed figure, it vanished and left behind the Seal of Osiris, which caused the mummies to collapse.
• Kirk broke into the Queen’s Chamber, where Little Fatty eagerly examined the Queen’s possessions, and Kirk explained that the antiques were worth only a few hundred thousand aurei in their current era.

Kirk and Little Fatty fought the Anubis guards, reached Pharaoh Khufu’s chamber, and discovered a fortune in gold bricks. As they stripped the chamber, the pyramid began to collapse, and Kirk kept the team alive by identifying the trap and shoring up the ceiling; they continued removing the gold despite the danger.

• Kirk and Little Fatty battled the Anubis guards, and Kirk killed their black-robed leader, but the guards kept reviving until Kirk found an Anubis Seal that temporarily suppressed them.
• Kirk’s team forced open the Pharaoh’s Chamber and found treasures, then Little Green’s dragonfire revealed that the chamber’s floor and walls concealed vast quantities of gold bricks.
• Kirk and Little Fatty calculated the fortune’s value and began filling their Space Marks with gold, while Kirk noticed the curse engraved on Pharaoh Khufu’s coffin.
• The pyramid shook as the team removed the gold, but Kirk explained that the bricks supported the structure and ordered the team to prop up the ceiling with granite pillars.
• Kirk’s team hurried to haul away the remaining gold as the chamber continued to crumble, and they began discussing how to remove the ceiling bricks.