Chapter Summaries

Kirk and his companions defeated Pharaoh Khufu and discovered they had to recover his organs and seals to escape the collapsing pyramid. In the hidden chamber, they found the captive Ptolemy and learned the High Priest was plotting against Cleopatra; as the High Priest’s black-robed agent attacked again, Kirk’s team prepared to revive Khufu to control the Anubis Guard.

• Kirk killed the black-robed man, and his death weakened Pharaoh Khufu and the Anubis Guard, allowing Kirk’s team to defeat them.
• Kirk’s team found a curse demanding that they recover Khufu’s organs and return them before the pyramid collapsed, and they opened two canopic jars with the Nephthys's Seal and the Anubis seal.
• Kirk and Little Fatty cleared a blocked passage into the lowest chamber, where they found the bound Ptolemy XIII.
• Ptolemy told Kirk that the High Priest had brought him to the pyramid and imprisoned him, while the black-robed man revealed the High Priest planned to replace Cleopatra with Roman support.
• The black-robed man admitted that he had hidden Khufu’s organs to trap Kirk’s team, then sent the Anubis Guard to attack them and gravely wounded Little Fatty.
• Katherine explained that restoring all four organs could revive Khufu and make the Anubis Guard obey him, and Kirk vanished to attack the black-robed man.

Kirk’s team escaped the collapsing Great Pyramid after restoring Pharaoh Khufu, who warned Kirk that a destructive force was behind the High Priest of Amun. Kirk rushed toward Alexandria, where the High Priest revealed his crimes to Cleopatra and attacked her just as Kirk arrived.

• Kirk defeated the immortal black-robed man, recovered the [Seal of the Supreme God Ra] and a Canopic jar, and helped restore Pharaoh Khufu with the four organs.
• Pharaoh Khufu forgave Kirk’s team, raised each of their attributes by two points, warned Kirk about the wicked force behind the priest, and departed for the Pure Land.
• Katherine and Pearl flew Kirk, Little Fatty, and Ptolemy out of the collapsing Great Pyramid, and the System awarded Kirk World Legend +1 for completing [Miracle Destroyer] again.
• Kirk suspected the High Priest of Amun was a Space virus and hurried back to Alexandria with his team.
• The High Priest confessed to poisoning Cleopatra’s father and kidnapping Ptolemy, then tried to force Cleopatra to marry him and hand over the throne.
• Kirk hurled the [Wolverine’s Claws] into the High Priest’s chest as he lunged at Cleopatra.

Kirk arrived in time to rescue Cleopatra from the High Priest, then fought the High Priest and his forces while the Space virus scanned its target. When Amun God’s avatar nearly killed them, Valkyrie Brunhilde intervened, and Kirk summoned Little Green to battle the avatar.

• Kirk rescued Cleopatra from the High Priest, revealed him as an Evil God from another world, and stalled while the Space virus scanned him.
• Kirk summoned Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Meg, Night Blade, Dream Demon, and Mei Wa to fight the High Priest and the black-robed priests.
• The High Priest summoned Amun God’s avatar, which struck Kirk with divine power while Cleopatra prayed and shielded him.
• The avatar nearly stomped Kirk and Cleopatra, but Valkyrie Brunhilde disrupted it with an attack on its divine awareness, letting Kirk escape with Cleopatra.
• Kirk summoned Little Green, who attacked Amun God’s avatar and fought back against the avatar, ram, and great goose.

Kirk and his allies killed the High Priest, freed Amun God’s avatar, and helped Cleopatra become both Pharaoh and High Priest. After Pearl broke through to A-class, the team prepared to return to Rome, while Kirk spent a final night with Cleopatra before leaving Egypt.

• Kirk’s team cornered the fleeing High Priest, and the Space’s erasure lightning struck him dead.
• Amun God rewarded Cleopatra by making her his representative and High Priest, and she promised to build him a temple in Alexandria.
• Pearl killed the last black-robed man, then broke through to A-class and gained a bat transformation and a combined soul-attacking skill with Anna.
• Cleopatra issued reforms after consolidating power, while Kirk arranged Valkyrie’s A-class contract and prepared the team to return to Rome.
• Kirk told Cleopatra he would leave Egypt the next morning, then spent the night with her in her bedroom.

Kirk reunited with Spartacus and Princess Wenlita in North Africa, bringing a vast shipment of gold from Pharaoh Khufu’s pyramid to fund their campaign. After discussing how Spartacus could defeat Rome by relying on mobile Numidian cavalry and avoiding set-piece battles, Kirk learned that Spartacus planned to attack the eastern Numidian tribes.

• Kirk left Cleopatra behind and sailed with Wang Han, Little Fatty, and Sheva to the Province of Africa to visit Spartacus and deliver the wealth taken from Khufu’s pyramid.
• Spartacus and Princess Wenlita welcomed Kirk in Ruzhivan, where Spartacus reported that his forces had conquered western Numidia and now ruled millions of people.
• Kirk and Little Fatty produced piles of gold and Khufu’s golden coffin, giving Spartacus the funds he needed to expand his army.
• Spartacus explained that he planned to use mobile cavalry, local knowledge, and raids to draw Roman forces into North Africa’s wilderness and defeat them without fighting on Roman terms.
• With the new military funds in hand, Spartacus told Kirk that he would crush the eastern Numidian tribes and capture their king.

Kirk helped Spartacus conquer Numidia, then returned to Rome with Princess Wenlita and learned that Plo faced execution for murder. He sought divine aid from Juno and turned his attention to saving Plo while advancing the mission to secure Octavian’s rise.

• Spartacus defeated the eastern Numidian tribes, killed their king, and brought all of Numidia under his control.
• Kirk and Princess Wenlita traveled to Rome, where Octavian told them that Plo had fallen into opium addiction and been arrested for murder.
• Kirk and Warrenus failed to prevent Plo from being taken to prison, while Octavian vowed to break him out if necessary.
• Caesar accused Kirk of betraying Rome and warned that he would kill him if Kirk sabotaged Rome again.
• Juno rewarded Kirk with the Queen’s Reversal set skill and a blessing that increased his Luck.
• Kirk considered how the changed situation could affect Octavian’s rise and focused on recruiting Plo.

Kirk and Octavian intervened when Plo faced execution, but Caesar pardoned them and used the affair to promise land pensions for Roman veterans. Seeing Rome’s military strength turning toward Africa and realizing Caesar knew of his ties to Cleopatra and Spartacus, Kirk decided to cash in the team’s rewards and leave Rome.

• Princess Wenlita joined Kirk’s plan to rescue Plo, and Octavian revealed that he had recruited veterans of the 13th Legion to help.
• After Plo was sentenced to death, Warrenus secured a gladiatorial trial, but the judges let professional gladiators gang up on him.
• Kirk, Octavian, Warrenus, and the veterans entered the arena and rescued Plo, then Roman peacekeepers brought them before Caesar.
• Caesar pardoned Plo and the rescuers, then announced land pensions for retired veterans, wounded soldiers, and the families of those killed in service.
• Kirk concluded that Caesar was preparing to focus on North Africa and ordered Wang Han and the others to redeem their rewards and leave Rome.

Kirk and his allies rescued Princess Wenlita from Caesar’s secret prison and escaped Rome, with Caesar’s forces in pursuit. At sea, Kirk unleashed the level 10 [Vortex] and destroyed the Roman fleet surrounding them.

• Kirk discovered that Caesar’s men were tracking him with a compass linked to his Divine Blessing set, then escaped their attempt to arrest him.
• Caesar’s agents captured Princess Wenlita, so Kirk enlisted Illyria’s help to reach the secret prison through her mansion’s basement.
• Caesar assembled his generals and over twenty thousand soldiers to trap Kirk’s team, but Illyria distracted the wardens while Kirk and Wang Han rescued Wenlita through a hole in the wall.
• Wang Han used Xavier’s Ring of Mind Control to divert Rome’s guards, allowing Kirk’s team to escape through the western gate and seize a warship.
• Kirk let more than four hundred Roman warships surround his ship, then used his level 10 [Vortex] to summon a whirlpool that swept away the fleet.

After Rome’s fleet suffered a devastating defeat, Kirk followed Princess Wenlita to Queen Dido’s underground temple and met the awakened Carthaginian ancestor. Queen Dido unlocked a faction exchange for Kirk, who learned he would need to help restore Carthage to upgrade his helmet to Dark Gold Equipment.

• Kirk returned to Africa after the whirlpool sank four hundred Roman warships, then left his fleet and traveled inland with Princess Wenlita.
• Princess Wenlita received Queen Dido’s oracle and led Kirk to the underground temple near the ruins of Carthage.
• Queen Dido appeared before Kirk and Wenlita, explaining that Carthage’s rising fortunes and renewed worship had awakened her.
• Kirk unlocked the Carthaginian faction exchange with 200 Favorability and learned he needed 400 to upgrade [Queen Dido’s Love] to Dark Gold Equipment.
• Kirk resolved to help Spartacus conquer Carthage and considered seeking another exchange through Egypt while supporting Octavian’s future rise to power.

Kirk and his allies prepared to face Caesar’s invasion, equipping Spartacus and building intelligence networks as Rome assembled a vast army. When Caesar threatened Egypt to force Kirk into a dilemma, Spartacus chose to abandon Numidia temporarily and aid Cleopatra, with Princess Wenlita agreeing to go.

• Queen Dido asked Kirk to rebuild Carthage and spread her faith, while Princess Wenlita blamed him for their embarrassing encounter.
• Kirk warned that Caesar would invade in two or three months, and the team resolved to fight for themselves rather than for a Plot faction.
• Caesar assembled 40 cavalry legions and a large infantry force, while Spartacus and Kirk prepared to counter them with Wang Han’s reconnaissance and the Victory Goddess’s War Banner.
• Caesar landed 320,000 troops in Africa and ordered attacks on Egypt by land and sea, forcing Kirk’s allies to choose between rescuing Cleopatra and defending Numidia.
• Spartacus decided to aid Egypt because its grain and Cleopatra mattered more than temporarily losing Numidia, and Princess Wenlita supported his decision.

Kirk and Spartacus divided their forces to counter Caesar’s campaign, with Kirk racing to reinforce Cleopatra in Alexandria while Wenlita and Cress organized the Numidian retreat. Kirk reached the besieged city as Octavian ordered a new, ruthless operation against its defenders.

• Spartacus explained that Cress would draw Lepidus’s cavalry into the desert and wear it down, while the main army traveled through the Horn of Africa to Egypt.
• Kirk assigned Wenlita to keep the Numidian tribes loyal and help move them inland, then left with Sheva and Little Fatty to reach Alexandria ahead of Spartacus.
• Kirk arrived by ship and saw Antony and Octavian’s forces besieging Alexandria by land and sea.
• Cleopatra’s preparations helped the defenders repel Antony’s attacks, though Roman forces used captured Egyptians as forced attackers and caused heavy casualties.
• After Antony’s assaults failed, Octavian ordered Warrenus and Plo to carry out a further operation despite Warrenus’s warning that it could enrage the Egyptians and destroy the city.

Kirk arrived at Alexandria and used Neptun’s power to devastate the Roman fleet, saving the northern gate and reuniting with Cleopatra. He then joined the defense of the western gate, where his summoned allies and the Egyptian forces disrupted Antony’s gladiator assault with illusions and arrows.

• Warrenus took Plo and ten thousand elite troops into hiding while Octavian watched Alexandria and wondered how Kirk would respond.
• Kirk, Little Fatty, and Sheva swam to the ruins of the Great Lighthouse, where Kirk summoned Neptun’s power and destroyed around three hundred Roman warships in a vast storm and whirlpool.
• Cleopatra welcomed Kirk in Alexandria as the surviving Roman fleet fled, and the Egyptians’ morale rose; a messenger then reported that Antony’s gladiators were attacking the western gate.
• Kirk and Cleopatra led the Anubis Guard toward the western gate, where Kirk rallied the defenders and summoned Katherine, Pearl, Meg, Anna, Dream Demon, and Illyria.
• Sheva shot a gladiator officer, Little Fatty sent Hellfire Hounds against the attacking mastiffs, and Kirk’s allies cast illusions that turned the gladiators against one another as Egyptian archers fired into their ranks.

Kirk and the Egyptian defenders fought to hold Alexandria’s walls against Chrysomokko’s black mastiffs and the Roman gladiator legion. Kirk transformed into Wolverine and broke the gladiators’ assault, but he ended exhausted and badly wounded as Antony sent another infantry legion toward the city.

• Little Fatty and the Egyptian guards fought off the black mastiffs until the beasts broke through their defenses, and Kirk helped kill them with Wolverine’s Claws and Glory of the God of War.
• The Roman gladiator legion reached the walls, where Kirk cut down ladders and used End of Ruin to kill a centurion despite the gladiators’ shield wall.
• Kirk activated Wrath of the God of War, strengthening his allies as Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Meg, and the Anubis Guard joined him in driving back the gladiators.
• Cleopatra led her remaining mana guards onto the wall, and Kirk transformed into Wolverine to protect her, tearing through hundreds of gladiators.
• The gladiator commander and tribunes attacked Kirk, but Sheva shot the commander while Kirk killed several tribunes.
• Kirk, severely injured and exhausted, saw Antony send another infantry legion toward the walls as Antony advanced to exploit the defenders’ weakness.

Kirk helped Alexandria’s defenders annihilate the gladiator legion and then devastated the Roman advance by hurling boulders and burning siege towers. As Antony led his cavalry toward the walls, a terrifying shape appeared in the clouds, and Octavian recognized the world-destroying threat he had seen before.

• Kirk killed the Legion Commander by turning the Roman’s own sword against him, and the Anubis Guard annihilated the gladiator legion at great cost.
• Kirk and Meg’s demons hurled boulders into the Roman ranks while Cleopatra directed archers, catapults, and ballistae against the attackers.
• Antony sent towering siege engines toward Alexandria’s walls, so Kirk charged through the Roman formation and set multiple towers ablaze.
• Antony rode out with his cavalry as Roman forces reached the walls, while Sheva and Little Fatty continued fighting to protect Alexandria.
• A huge shape appeared in the clouds, terrifying Antony’s horse, and Octavian recognized the devastating force from the Battle of the Tiber River.

Kirk and Cleopatra’s forces repelled the Roman siege after Little Green burned the Roman siege engines and legions, but Antony struck the dragon down with a mysterious ballista bolt. The chapter ended with Kirk and Cleopatra recovering together in the palace as the Roman threat remained outside Alexandria.

• Octavian and Antony ordered their troops to retreat as Kirk summoned Little Green and used its dragonfire to destroy more than fifty siege towers and tens of thousands of Roman soldiers.
• Antony fired a ballista bolt through Little Green’s armor and heart, gravely wounding it as Kirk rushed to save it.
• Kirk reached the Nile before the Roman cavalry, recalled Little Green to its pet space, and returned to Alexandria after the battle ended.
• The siege ended with Egypt losing more than twenty-four thousand soldiers while the Romans lost over forty thousand men, more than three hundred warships, and their siege weapons.
• Kirk declined the victory feast and went to Cleopatra’s palace, where he persuaded her that intimacy would restore his strength and heal his wounds.

Kirk secured Amun God's cooperation against Rome and learned that the Egyptian faction offered valuable rewards, including a reusable resurrection coffin. Amun warned that danger lay to the south, and Kirk realized the Romans might release stored water from the dams near Aswan to flood Alexandria.

• After spending the night with Cleopatra, Kirk wondered whether Antony's siege bolt had wounded Little Green with a space virus and resolved to stop Antony.
• When Amun God appeared, Kirk argued that Rome's conquest of Egypt would destroy the deity's worship and faith, then persuaded him to cooperate against the Romans.
• Kirk unlocked the Egyptian faction's rewards and examined its exchange list, including the Pharaoh's Golden Coffin and divine Rune Words.
• Amun warned Kirk and Cleopatra that a Roman scheme threatened their efforts and that the danger lay in the south.
• After a renewed Roman attack was repelled, Kirk inspected Alexandria's southern gate and asked Cleopatra about the Nile's waterworks near Aswan.
• Cleopatra revealed that three dams between the cataracts stored roughly as much water as a full Nile flood, and Kirk recognized how the Romans could threaten the city.

Kirk and Cleopatra discovered Octavian’s plan to destroy Alexandria with a series of engineered floods, then struggled to protect the city. After Kirk used the [Tide of the Sea God] to split the first waves and the Egyptians’ breakwater held briefly, the barrier collapsed and the flood struck the south gate.

• Kirk and Cleopatra realized Octavian planned to destroy Alexandria by bursting the Nile’s dams, and Kirk ordered a breakwater built at the south gate.
• Cleopatra directed hundreds of thousands of laborers as they constructed a massive breakwater and reinforced the Water Gates before nightfall.
• Kirk used the [Tide of the Sea God] and its [Whirlpool] ability to split more than a dozen flood waves, diverting the water and hurling logs into the Roman camps.
• Octavian ordered Warrenus and Plo to destroy the remaining dams, and the resulting waves and logs battered the breakwater until it collapsed.
• Kirk rushed with Cleopatra to the south gate, where Little Fatty, Mosuo, and the others braced the gate against the flood’s first wave.

Kirk and Alexandria’s defenders repelled Octavian’s flood-assisted assault, then fought the Romans for fifteen days. The Egyptians had inflicted heavy losses, but Alexandria’s army was exhausted and the city remained under siege.

• Kirk held Alexandria’s gates against the flood, then used barricades and catapults to damage Warrenus and Plo’s ships as they forced their way through the Water Gate.
• Kirk summoned his allies, who used illusions, sirens, and ranged attacks to disrupt the Roman fleet while the floodwaters receded and Octavian’s main army advanced.
• Kirk weakened and devastated the Roman troops with Absolution of the Dawn Goddess, captured Warrenus and Plo, and helped seal the Water Gate before Octavian’s army could enter.
• Octavian withdrew after his assault failed, while Antony broke with him and began guarding against his rival.
• Cleopatra organized flood relief as Kirk repaired the defenses and prepared Alexandria for further attacks; over the next fifteen days, the Romans lost 120,000 men and the Egyptians suffered 70,000 casualties.
• After fifteen days of fighting, Alexandria had only 30,000 exhausted soldiers left, with fewer than 10,000 defending each section of the walls.

Kirk and Cleopatra’s exhausted defenders faced defeat at Alexandria until Spartacus arrived with 100,000 armored cavalry and helped destroy the Roman forces. Alexandria celebrated its victory, Cleopatra reaffirmed her devotion to Kirk, and Amun God appeared as Egypt’s favorability reached 500 points.

• Kirk refused to retreat and led Cleopatra and the Egyptian defenders in a final charge against Antony’s Roman army.
• Spartacus arrived with 100,000 armored cavalry and caught Antony’s separated forces by surprise, devastating the rear camp with javelins.
• Kirk attacked the Roman vanguard from behind with more than 20,000 Egyptian soldiers, crushing the forces caught between them and Spartacus.
• Octavian abandoned his baggage and fled by ship to Greece, while Antony vanished and the Romans suffered a catastrophic defeat.
• Cleopatra and Wang Han embraced Kirk, and Cleopatra said she would follow him while continuing to rule Egypt.
• Amun God appeared in Alexandria, and Kirk learned that Egypt’s Favorability had risen to 500 points.

Kirk secured Egypt’s support, rejected Rome’s demands, and marched west to reclaim Numidia while Cleopatra remained to govern. In Rome, Caesar used the crisis to strengthen his power, but Brutus and the Republicans assassinated him.

• Kirk chose to save Favorability for the Pharaoh’s Golden Coffin and received quests from Amun God to help Egypt capture Syria and Mesopotamia.
• After Spartacus defeated Antony, Kirk and Spartacus planned a campaign against Lepidus, leaving fifty thousand cavalry to defend Egypt under Wang Han’s counsel.
• Cleopatra rejected Rome’s demands, and Kirk killed the Roman envoy and warned Rome that Egypt would not resume grain exports without meeting her conditions.
• Kirk left Egypt with Cleopatra’s support and marched west to reclaim Numidia as rebellions spread through Rome’s provinces.
• Caesar persuaded the Senate to extend his dictatorship and prepare another campaign against Egypt, but Brutus and the Republicans assassinated him.