Chapter Summaries

Gauss practiced Fly and Feather Fall, learning to control his flight and carry his companions while observing the spell’s risks and limits. He then left Sena City with his party for a long-term Adventurer’s Guild commission training village militias and clearing low-level monsters, while Rachel hoped the opportunity would help his reputation grow.

• Gauss prepared Feather Fall and tried Fly, but lost the spell midair and drifted safely back to the ground.
• Gauss continued practicing, improved his Fly and Feather Fall proficiency, and taught Alya, Shadow, and the others to fly with him.
• Gauss learned that flight consumed mana quickly and that city rules and dangerous conditions limited how far and fast he could fly.
• Gauss and his party left Sena City to train militia forces and clear low-level monsters under a long-term Guild commission.
• Rachel told Adele that the commission could build Gauss’s reputation and hoped he would have a smooth journey.

Gauss Squad arrived in Goat Village to train its militia and clear nearby monsters, and Gauss demonstrated basic combat skills while assessing the villagers’ talents. He began teaching Rhine, a young girl with magical potential, the Fire Bolt cantrip, and she quickly grasped its essentials.

• Gauss introduced himself and his teammates to the Village Chief, learned which monsters threatened the village, and had Theron unfold the Foldable House among the villagers’ homes.
• Gauss demonstrated [Diagonal Slash] by cutting a practice dummy in two, then trained the villagers and identified several promising candidates for combat, archery, magic, and other disciplines.
• Gauss Squad began intensive training the next day, using skill books and practical instruction to develop the selected villagers’ abilities.
• Gauss met Rhine, the village’s young magic candidate, and patiently explained several cantrips before advising her to choose an offensive spell.
• Rhine chose Fire Bolt, and Gauss began teaching it; she grasped its essentials sooner than he expected.

Gauss helped Rhine experience flying, inspiring her to become a mage and see the wider world. The next day, he led the village trainees to fight kobolds, and Rhine watched their first bloody battle from his side.

• Gauss reassured Rhine that she understood Fire Bolt but was too young to cast it, then used Feather Fall and Fly to take her into the sky.
• Rhine flew on her own, saw how vast the world was beyond Goat Village, and decided to become a powerful mage like Gauss.
• The next day, Gauss led the trainees into the woods to practice fighting monsters while Rhine stayed beside him to observe.
• At a kobold cave, Gauss taught the trainees to assess the enemy and told them to handle the fight themselves, though he would intervene if they were in danger.
• The trainees ambushed the kobold scouts with arrows and a charge, killing several as Rhine watched in shock.

Gauss led the villagers of Goat Village through battles against kobolds and skeletons, teaching them from their mistakes and showing them how to use the monsters’ remains. Back at the Foldable House, Alya tested her newly learned Attribute Enhancement spell on Gauss.

• Gauss criticized the villagers’ poor teamwork after helping them clear a kobold lair without casualties, and Rhine asked whether adventurers faced battles like that often.
• Gauss led the villagers to clear a field of skeletons, where his [Sword Soul] abilities swiftly destroyed their souls and the villagers gathered the bones for farming and tools.
• Gauss brought the villagers safely back to Goat Village and reassured Rhine’s father that she had been brave and clever.
• That night, Gauss continued studying [Fireball] while Alya prepared to test her Attribute Enhancement spell.
• Alya cast the eagle’s enhancement on Gauss, boosting his charm, then dispelled it and prepared to test another enhancement.

Gauss mastered the 3rd Ring spell Fireball, then prepared to leave Goat Village with his companions after helping the villagers train. Before departing at dawn, he planned to give Rhine his magic notes, books, and a protective teleportation talisman.

• Gauss watched the villagers demonstrate improved teamwork and combat skills, while Theron praised how quickly they were learning.
• Gauss cast Fireball, creating a huge explosion that left a crater and stunned Alya, Shadow, and Rhine.
• Gauss told Rhine he would be leaving soon, and she chose to remain in Goat Village with her parents despite feeling sad.
• Gauss and his companions announced they would leave at dawn, and grateful villagers brought them food and other gifts.
• The village chief thanked Gauss, who asked him to look after Rhine and promised to visit her again.
• Gauss went out to leave Rhine his magic notes, books, and Andeni's teleportation talisman as parting gifts.

Gauss gave Rhine books and a protective amulet before leaving Goat Village, then signaled his farewell with Fire Bolts when she arrived too late to say goodbye. His party continued north to a struggling new village, where they found frightened villagers facing a gang of bandits.

• Gauss visited Rhine at night, gave her books and a leaf-shaped escape amulet, and urged her to keep studying magic.
• Rhine overslept after secretly producing a spark of Fire Bolt, but reached the village entrance in time to see Gauss's farewell fireworks and wave to him.
• Gauss and his companions rode north through the summer heat, killed several Green-skin at a pond, and continued toward a newly built village.
• The party arrived at the unfinished settlement and learned from the villagers that nearby bandits had demanded food and threatened to burn their homes.
• A scarred, burly bandit leader rode into the village center with more than twenty armed thugs.

Gauss forced the villagers to fight the bandits he had already subdued, then questioned and killed their leader before setting out to free the people enslaved on the mountain. He and his companions rescued the prisoners and brought them toward the village, while the chapter left Gauss sensing a new feeling arising within him.

• Gauss knocked the bandit leader into a haystack and quickly incapacitated the other bandits, then urged Village Chief Bruno and the villagers to take up weapons and kill them.
• Bruno led the villagers in attacking the helpless bandits, and Gauss discreetly intervened twice to keep anyone from being seriously hurt.
• Gauss used Friends to learn that the bandits' mountain held their remaining men and imprisoned slaves, then killed the leader and ordered the village to clean up.
• Gauss left Shadow to guard the village and took Alya and Theron to the mountain, where they killed the remaining bandits and treated the prisoners.
• Gauss gathered supplies and made carts to carry the rescued prisoners down from the mountain toward the village.

Gauss helped the villagers build homes and defenses, then trained them before setting out with his companions to investigate a powerful monster east of the village. They found a desolate area scattered with shattered stone pieces that might have been created by a petrification ability.

• Gauss used Clay Creatures to gather logs while the villagers began building homes and fortifications.
• Shadow told Gauss that a powerful monster lived east of the village and that the area held far fewer monsters.
• After two days, Gauss and his companions finished the village’s basic defenses and began teaching its residents combat techniques.
• Theron brought back a stag, and Gauss let the villagers share a meal of venison soup.
• Gauss warned Bruno to guard the village while he and his companions went east to investigate the monster.
• Gauss and his companions found a barren area with shattered stone pieces, including what Gauss thought might be an eyeball, and he suspected the monster could petrify its victims.

Gauss and his companions tracked down and killed a Level 6 Petrifying Bull with his powerful Fireball. The victory advanced Gauss’s Path of the Commander, but Alya lamented that the blast had destroyed much of the valuable monster’s materials.

• Shadow found the Petrifying Bull’s trail, and Gauss led the group to its territory after identifying the monster from its tracks and petrified victims.
• Gauss planned a ranged ambush, and Alya and Theron enhanced the group while Shadow and Alya prepared to restrain the bull.
• Alya’s vines and Shadow Bind briefly held the charging Petrifying Bull in place, giving Gauss time to complete and detonate Fireball.
• Gauss’s Fireball killed the Petrifying Bull and left a crater filled with molten remains.
• Gauss reported that the Level 6 kill advanced his Path of the Commander progress to 2/5, while Alya mourned the materials destroyed in the explosion and asked him to avoid Fireball when possible.

Gauss and his companions recovered valuable magic items from the Petrifying Bull’s cave, then used the new Eagle Eye Monocle to scout nearby monsters. Gauss led the villagers through their first battles and continued hunting, leaving them closer to the 6,000-kill milestone.

• Alya and the others gathered about two hundred kilograms of valuable steel from the Petrifying Bull’s remains and searched its cave.
• Gauss identified the Eagle Eye Monocle, Thief Gloves, and a three-use Universal Key, which made him think of the locked emerald pavilion in the maze near Barry City.
• Gauss used the Eagle Eye Monocle to scout monster groups, then led the group toward the village to rest and prepare for further hunting.
• Gauss encountered Lizardmen, whose fear and reverence for his Tough Scale Bloodline weakened them; he killed seven and gained the Lizardman Hunter title.
• Gauss and Shadow helped the trained villagers defeat the remaining Lizardmen, then let them fight several more monsters before Gauss resumed hunting alone.

Gauss and his companions celebrated the completion of Bonfire Village, received a wooden statue, and named the settlement. After leaving, Gauss found a caravan under attack and rescued its guards, triggering the captain's long-awaited breakthrough.

• Gauss returned to the village after clearing the surrounding monsters, and Bruno celebrated the completed Protective Fence with the villagers.
• Bruno unveiled a wooden statue of Gauss and his companions, and Gauss named the village Bonfire Village.
• Gauss stayed another day, confirmed the area was clear of monsters, and departed with his companions.
• Gauss spotted a caravan surrounded by enhanced goblins, while Master Xike fled with his grandson and abandoned the guards.
• Gauss rushed into the battle and killed the goblins before they could overwhelm the guards.
• Gauss congratulated the captain, who realized he had finally broken through his long-standing bottleneck.

Gauss and his companions rescued Jimmy’s guards from Goblins, then continued their journey after Jimmy set off for Sena City to confront the mage who had abandoned them. Gauss reached 6,000 monster kills and gained a specialty that helped him cast spells steadily while flying, then the party moved on toward a town to restock.

• Gauss and his companions defeated the remaining Goblins and learned that the mage Jimmy’s guard company had escorted had abandoned them during the attack.
• Jimmy thanked Gauss, accepted directions to Sena City, and left with his guards after Gauss took only one silver coin as payment.
• Gauss reached 6,000 kills and gained the Professional Specialty [Master of Stable Spellcasting].
• Gauss tested the specialty by flying and casting Magic Missiles, confirming he could attack while airborne, though the technique consumed substantial magic.
• Gauss’s party passed through three more villages, bringing the number they had helped to five, and decided to head to the next town for supplies.

Gauss and his party arrived in the declining mining town of Gold Silver Town, collected their four-week reward, and accepted Jon’s suggestion to explore the monster-infested Brennan Great Mine. Shadow discovered a vast underground lair while scouting the tunnels, leaving the party facing a greater threat than an ordinary monster breeding ground.

• Gauss and his party rested in Gold Silver Town and learned that it had declined after its ore veins ran dry.
• Gauss collected 240 gold coins for the party’s four weeks of work from guildmaster Jon, who recommended they clear monsters from the abandoned great mine.
• Gauss and his party traveled to the Brennan Great Mine to hunt monsters and practice their spells, while Alya wondered whether they might find gold.
• Theron spotted signs of kobolds, and Gauss sent Shadow ahead to scout the mine tunnels.
• Shadow fell through a hidden opening and found a vast underground monster lair where branching passages converged.

Shadow discovered an organized kobold settlement beneath Brennan Great Mine, prompting Gauss and his team to return to Gold Silver Town and plan more carefully. After accepting a commission to clear the lair, they followed Guildmaster Jon to meet a powerful blacksmith who might join them.

• Shadow reported that Brennan Great Mine contained a vast, maze-like kobold settlement protected by strange magic, and Gauss decided the team needed to prepare before attacking.
• Gauss informed Jon about the hidden monster town, and Jon offered the team forty gold coins for the investigation and asked them to clear the lair.
• Gauss accepted the commission and declined Jon's offer to join them, saying the group needed capable allies rather than low-level adventurers.
• Jon led Gauss and his teammates to a blacksmith shop, where the burly blacksmith threw Jon out and demanded payment for overdue weapons.
• Jon proposed that the blacksmith join the party, and she paused when she looked at Gauss and the others.

Gauss met the blacksmith Sif Albenna, who eagerly agreed to join his party for the dangerous commission at the Brennan Great Mine. After demonstrating her exceptional strength and equipment, Albenna anxiously asked whether Gauss thought she was good enough.

• Sif Albenna met Gauss and his companions, then immediately agreed to join their commission despite having refused Jon moments earlier.
• Albenna armored herself with exceptional-quality gear and led Gauss's party outside Gold Silver Town to an abandoned courtyard.
• Albenna guessed that the commission concerned the Brennan Great Mine and said she wanted to protect Gauss and the others from its monster nest.
• Albenna demonstrated her Mountain Tremor technique, accidentally reducing the courtyard to rubble and impressing Gauss with her power.
• After Gauss assessed her abilities, Albenna nervously asked whether he thought she was good enough.

Gauss welcomed Albenna to the team, and the group set out for the Brennan Great Mine to begin scouting for their commission. As Shadow explored the tunnels, the chapter revealed an organized Kobold settlement whose inhabitants revered a mysterious master.

• Gauss welcomed Albenna to the team, and she accidentally crushed his hand while clasping it.
• At a welcome dinner, Gauss and Albenna ate so much that Gauss eventually conceded, while Alya watched in amazement.
• The next day, Alya loaded the team's cart with provisions, and Gauss's group departed Gold Silver Town for the Brennan Great Mine.
• Gauss ordered Shadow to scout and map the mine while Raven Ike's crows watched for monsters; the team buffed Shadow before she slipped into the shadows and headed uphill.
• Deep beneath the mine, Kobold warriors drilled while other Kobolds mined and smelted ore, all showing reverence for their master.

Gauss and his companions infiltrated Brennan Great Mine, cleared kobold scout posts, and used a miniature Clay Spider to investigate the lair. The spider bypassed the kobolds’ barrier and revealed a crowded underground town, leaving Gauss poised to explore deeper.

• Gauss and Alya discussed the kobolds’ unusual silence and strong equipment while Shadow mapped their tunnels.
• Gauss’s squad planned to enter through Tunnel Three and use a miniature Clay Spider to scout beyond the lair’s alarm barrier.
• The group entered the mine under cover of Alya’s butterfly powder and silently eliminated several kobold scout posts and dealt with traps.
• Gauss sent his Clay Spider into the cavern, where a patrolling kobold soldier tried to stomp it but failed.
• Gauss guided the spider through the mysterious barrier and saw the kobold town and its many inhabitants.

Gauss used a clay spider to scout a well-organized kobold lair, uncovering its food stores, smithies, and stockpiled weapons before following a shaman to the lair’s center. There, he saw the kobolds offer a magic crystal to a powerful red-scaled creature and realized it was a draconic beast, not a red dragon.

• Gauss watched kobolds cultivate food and raise small creatures, and inferred that carts bringing in supplies used a hidden passage outside.
• He saw kobold craftsmen smelt ore and make weapons, then wondered whether the lair was preparing to attack Goldsilver Town.
• Gauss followed a kobold shaman carrying a fire-attributed magic crystal into the lair’s brightly lit central area.
• The kobold shaman placed the crystal atop a treasure pile, and a red-scaled beast emerged to seize it.
• Gauss recognized the creature’s dragonlike appearance but concluded that it was a draconic beast rather than a red dragon.

Gauss identified the lair’s ruler as a juvenile Red Dragon Beast and decided to continue the commission with his companions. He and Shadow infiltrated the Kobold lair, where Gauss began casting a Fireball on its smelting area as the detection barrier shuddered.

• Gauss concluded that the creature in the lair was likely a Wyrmling-stage Red Dragon Beast, and told Alya and the others what he had found.
• After weighing the danger, Gauss and his companions agreed to continue the commission and planned to weaken the Kobold forces with a Fireball.
• Gauss and Shadow entered the lair while Alya, Theron, and Albenna waited outside, ready to support their escape.
• Gauss used his mental map to target the smelting area and gathered magic to cast Fireball near the trembling detection barrier.
• The Kobold craftsmen and guards saw a blazing point of light appear inside the lair as the barrier twisted violently.

Gauss and his companions devastated the kobold nest with a Fireball, then fought off kobold scouts and forced the tribe to respond. The kobolds awakened a murderous Dragonborn Kobold and brought it toward Gauss, leaving the groups poised to fight.

• Gauss's Fireball engulfed the kobold nest, killing hundreds and drawing the Red Dragon Beast's furious attention.
• Shadow rescued Gauss from the blast, and he recovered his strength while checking the many kills the spell had caused.
• Gauss and his companions ambushed and killed kobold squads in the mine tunnel, while kobold spellcasters identified their presence and planned a response.
• Gauss led Alya and the others back to the surface, where they prepared to fight the kobolds pursuing them.
• The kobold spellcasters brought a coffin outside and awakened Red Dog, a violent Dragonborn Kobold who killed one of his kin and fixed his hungry gaze on Gauss.
• Gauss ordered his companions to prepare for battle as Red Dog advanced.