Chapter Summaries

Zong Shen used the Skin of the Forgotten to stop the Goblin King’s pursuing Wrath of the Evil God, then turned the attack into an opportunity to strike the goblin stronghold. Little Blackie charged the Goblin King and its heroes, and the chapter ended with Zong Shen’s shadow spell binding the goblins amid the ruined battlefield.

• A Wrath of the Evil God pursued Zong Shen and Little Blackie, breaking through the Time Stop Orb and Dragon Tamer’s Shield while Zong Shen tried several defenses.
• Zong Shen covered the bolt with Skin of the Forgotten, neutralizing its momentum, and ordered Little Blackie to dive toward the Goblin King before another shot could be fired.
• Zong Shen launched a Fifth-Tier Blazing Flame Skyward Surge spell at the goblin hiding place, disrupting the Goblin King as it tried to load the Malice Great Crossbow and leveling much of the area.
• Little Blackie attacked the Goblin King and its heroes, injuring several heroes but taking spear wounds and becoming trapped in a bog created by goblin witchcraft.
• Little Blackie cast Fifth-Tier Shadow Draconic Hex Entanglement, binding the nearby goblins, including the Goblin King.

Zong Shen launched an assault on the Goblin Tribe, deploying his troops while he and Little Blackie attacked the Goblin King. The Goblin King began transforming into a giant orb of evil energy, and Little Blackie recognized it as a projection of an Outer God as it started consuming nearby creatures.

• Zong Shen released the Wolf Cavalry, Lion Skeleton Knights, and Hellish Two-Headed Hounds, then signaled Vereesa and the Flying Tigers to join the attack.
• Little Blackie dissolved seven or eight goblin heroes with Acid Breath while Zong Shen approached the Goblin King, which was undergoing corruption and reconstruction.
• The Goblin King’s purple energy sphere swallowed three Wildhammer Dwarf Warriors, but Zong Shen struck it with his explosive warhammer and damaged it.
• The sphere unleashed tentacles that absorbed more than a hundred nearby goblins and grew to ten meters across.
• Little Blackie recognized the sphere as an Outer God’s projection and warned Zong Shen to stop it as it rolled through the battlefield, consuming living creatures.

The Goblin King's sacrifice transformed him into Cthulhu, a lower-tier Legendary Outer God Projection that ravaged the Goblin Tribe. Zong Shen withdrew with his forces to wait out its limited duration, while Cthulhu began a larger scheme and three nearby Great Cities detected the dimensional energy.

• The fel sphere devoured hundreds of goblins and twelve Wolf Cavalry before Zong Shen's flames forced it to condense and reveal Cthulhu.
• Zong Shen inspected Cthulhu's attributes, recognized that direct combat was too dangerous, and ordered his warriors to retreat.
• Jeanne summoned Gilles de Rais and eight other French swordsmen, while Gugat hit Cthulhu with his shoulder cannon as Zong Shen's forces escaped on Little Blackie.
• Zong Shen recalled his warriors, flew more than ten kilometers away, and watched Cthulhu slaughter the remaining goblins in the Goblin Tribe.
• Cthulhu planned to leave an Old One Beacon through the blood sacrifice and disguise its Demon Eye while purple corruption spread through the area.
• The Mage Towers in Lentax Great City, Dajialisini Great City, and Wolf Fang Fortress Great City detected the purple energy, prompting their mages to respond.

The Goblin King’s activation of the Eye of Cthulhu triggered alarms at monitoring stations across the Nord and Avalon Kingdoms, prompting reports and investigation teams to be dispatched. As Cthulhu’s projection slaughtered goblins to prepare a hidden beacon, Zong Shen asked Little Blackie what it knew about Outer Gods and planned to consult the Strategy Module.

• Blumer Kun detected deep-purple dimensional energy at Wolf Fang Fortress, recorded its location near Rotbone Forest, and sent a sealed report north by Blade-Wing Falcon.
• Langfeiluo Aimei detected the disturbance at Lentax Great City and ordered an investigation team to search for a spatial rift, while sending a report toward the Imperial City.
• The Mage Tower at Dajialisini Great City also recorded the disturbance and dispatched an investigation team under the monitoring rules.
• Cthulhu’s projection ignored Gilles de Rais and the remaining French swordsmen, slaughtering goblins to create a hidden beacon for a future dimensional invasion.
• Zong Shen asked Little Blackie about Outer Gods and Cthulhu; Little Blackie described their inherited knowledge of dimensional wars but said it knew no record of Cthulhu.
• Zong Shen decided to ask the Strategy Module for information about Cthulhu.

Zong Shen connected Cthulhu and other Outer Gods to the Endless Continent’s cycles of eras, then learned that the [Skin of the Forgotten] could weaken Cthulhu’s projection. He and Little Blackie flew back to the Goblin Tribe to confront it, while Vereesa followed at a safe distance.

• Zong Shen theorized that past lords had founded the current human Kingdoms and that new generations of lords might replace them as eras changed.
• The Strategy Module explained that Cthulhu came from a dimension ruled by the Old Ones and confirmed that the [Skin of the Forgotten] could neutralize the projection’s chaotic energy and shorten its duration.
• Zong Shen gave Vereesa a [Decoy Puppet (Purple)] and persuaded Little Blackie to help him attack Cthulhu using the [Skin of the Forgotten].
• Little Blackie carried Zong Shen toward the Goblin Tribe as Vereesa followed on Flying Tiger, ready to wait nearby.
• Cthulhu continued slaughtering the goblins, while Gilles de Rais and the other eight French cousins struggled to keep up.
• Little Blackie dove toward Cthulhu as Zong Shen prepared the [Time Stop Orb (Gold)] and kept the [Skin of the Forgotten] hidden until the last moment.

Zong Shen weakened the Cthulhu Projection with the [Skin of the Forgotten], but it pursued him with a supersonic black dot after he escaped through a teleportation gate. He tracked the dot from a distance and planned to evade it with spatial magic while his companions returned to clean up the Goblin Tribe.

• Zong Shen flew over the Cthulhu Projection and used [Time Stop] to cover its head with the [Skin of the Forgotten], reducing its power to epic grade and cutting its remaining existence time in half.
• The Cthulhu Projection tore the skin apart, abandoned its beacon plan, and pursued Zong Shen, eventually condensing its remaining evil energy into a fast-moving eyeball.
• Zong Shen swapped places with the [Decoy Puppet (Purple)] and escaped the eyeball by opening a teleportation gate to the outskirts of Bosbang, then destroyed the gate with the [Magic Interferer (Orange)].
• Vereesa reported that the black dot resumed its pursuit after the gate vanished and flew east, while the Strategy Module showed it was traveling over 1,400 kilometers per hour and closing in on Zong Shen.
• Zong Shen ordered Vereesa to return to the Goblin Tribe with the others, collect the remaining loot and the torn [Skin of the Forgotten], and erase their traces after the Cthulhu Projection dispersed.
• Zong Shen found a trapped Golden Treasure Chest that could teleport its opener thousands of kilometers away and planned to use it, along with spatial magic, to keep the black dot chasing him.

Zong Shen escaped the Eye of Cthulhu by opening a Golden Trap Treasure Chest, which teleported him thousands of kilometers away to a barren rocky region. With six hours before the cursed eye could catch up, he marked the area with a teleportation beacon and set out to explore nearby locations, while Vereesa’s team finished salvaging the Goblin Tribe.

• Zong Shen learned that the Eye of Cthulhu carried an Old One’s curse and could keep pursuing him for more than a day, so he planned to collect it later with the [Skin of the Forgotten].
• Zong Shen opened the Golden Trap Treasure Chest and endured a painful random teleportation to a rocky region 8,927 kilometers from the Eye of Cthulhu.
• Zong Shen recovered from the teleportation, found three nearby exploration markers, and set the area as a beacon with the [Thousand-Kilometer Teleportation Gate].
• Zong Shen started driving the [Magic Energy Drill] toward the nearest exploration marker, 21 kilometers away.
• Vereesa led the Goblin Tribe battlefield cleanup while Favid burned the goblins’ remains, and the team recovered the [Fragment of the Elven Key (Orange)] and two [Wrath of the Evil God] bolts.

Vereesa finished searching the ruined Goblin Tribe while Zong Shen drove toward his destination in a Magic Energy Drill. The destination was the stranded King Ragnar Lodbrok, whose attackers were closing in after a disrupted teleportation.

• Vereesa directed her warriors to search the Goblin Tribe thoroughly and uncover hidden prisoners and supplies.
• Zong Shen drove the Magic Energy Drill across rough terrain because spatial turbulence had temporarily sealed his Big Pouch.
• King Ragnar Lodbrok learned from Kiamko that an enemy had deliberately disrupted their teleportation and stranded them on the route to Wolf Fang Fortress.
• Four companies of hooded warriors advanced toward Ragnar with the aid of spatial mages, while Gulta complained to Letai about the teleportation disruption.
• Gulta made a crude remark about Sandina, and the surrounding warriors drew their great axes.

Zong Shen discovered that King Ragnar’s party had been trapped by Queen Sandina’s forces in spatial turbulence and was under siege. After learning that rescuing Ragnar could bring rewards comparable to those of a large Ruins, Zong Shen assessed the forces and watched for a chance to intervene.

• Gulta and Letai followed Queen Sandina’s Nord Royal Guards through the Shadow Wormhole toward their mission.
• Ragnar’s teleportation failed amid spatial turbulence, so he and his guards held their position while Kiamko gathered magic for a spell.
• Zong Shen reached the Strategy Module’s marked location and found Ragnar’s party fighting hundreds of attackers.
• The Strategy Module explained that Queen Sandina’s forces had ambushed Ragnar’s party and that rescuing him could yield a major reward.
• Zong Shen learned the forces’ numbers and capabilities, then continued observing the battle while considering how to help Ragnar.

Zong Shen intervened as Queen Sandina’s forces closed in on King Ragnar, using an aircraft bombing squadron and several powerful spells to disrupt the battle. He reached Ragnar’s position, where Kiamko fired at him before Zong Shen could prove he had come to help.

• Zong Shen scanned the Nord Royal Guards’ attributes as they overwhelmed King Ragnar’s Axe-Hammer War Guards, while Kiamko cast Giant Vine Sweep to push back the attackers.
• Kiamko exhausted his natural elements, and King Ragnar concluded that Queen Sandina had arranged the ambush as the Nord Royal Guards regrouped around them.
• Zong Shen deployed an Aircraft Bombing Squadron Support Order, sending 96 mana bombs into the battlefield and forcing the epic mercenaries to defend themselves.
• Zong Shen followed the bombing with Explosive Fire Rain, Giant Rock Impact, and a lightning spell, then flew through the chaos toward King Ragnar.
• Kiamko fired a Wood Spirit Arrow at the approaching Zong Shen, who shouted that he had come to save King Ragnar and blocked the attack with Evil Grime.

Zong Shen gained King Ragnar's trust with evidence of Queen Sandina's adultery and accepted a quest to help him escape. He sent Ragnar and the surviving guards tunneling away in a magic-powered drill, then stayed behind to delay the mercenaries pursuing them.

• Zong Shen showed Ragnar a recording crystal as proof that Queen Sandina had betrayed him, and Ragnar agreed to trust him.
• Kiamko sacrificed his life to surround Ragnar and Zong Shen with a vast thorn barrier, keeping Gulta, Letai, and the royal guards outside.
• Ragnar offered Zong Shen a quest to help him escape, and Zong Shen accepted before proposing they flee underground in a magic-powered drill.
• Ragnar and the surviving Nord Axe-Hammer War Guards tunneled away while Zong Shen stayed behind and collapsed the tunnel with a Goblin Bomb.
• Gulta and Letai broke through the thorn barrier, and Zong Shen used the Time Stop Orb to freeze them before striking Letai and trying to escape.

Zong Shen escaped underground with King Ragnar’s pursuers close behind, while Queen Sandina’s forces regrouped and tried to track the king. After reaching the surface, Zong Shen paused to recover, leaving the rescue’s success dependent on Ragnar’s escape.

• Zong Shen used a Magic Energy Drill and bombs to evade Gulta and Letai, sealing the tunnels behind him as he fled underground.
• Gulta and Letai emerged from the collapsed tunnels and joined the Nord Royal Guards in seeking King Ragnar’s location.
• The Royal Guard captain ordered four spatial mages to track Ragnar using a beacon, while Sandina’s forces hurried to pursue him before reinforcements arrived.
• The chapter revealed that Sandina’s influence over several princes and cities had set the Nord Kingdom on the brink of civil war if Ragnar survived.
• Zong Shen drilled back to the surface, found his machine badly damaged, and stopped to rest before traveling toward two marked locations.

Zong Shen escaped the Nord Royal Guards and helped King Ragnar flee underground, while the failed pursuit left Queen Sandina poised to adjust her plans. Gulta and Letai abandoned the mission and decided to hunt Zong Shen, who had stopped nearby.

• Zong Shen cleaned himself and his [Magic Energy Drill] after escaping underground, while King Ragnar continued toward a teleportation Rune anchor city.
• King Ragnar condemned Queen Sandina and vowed to reform the kingdom and break free of the Epoch.
• Gulta blamed Landon Wordsworth for lacking a way to burrow, while Landon accused Gulta and Letai of delaying their attack.
• Letai declared the Bloodfang Mercenary Corps's mission a failure and left the pursuit with Gulta as Landon continued after King Ragnar.
• Gulta sensed that Zong Shen had stopped northeast of them, and he and Letai decided to kill him.

Zong Shen prepared to travel by goblin airship, but Gulta and Letai closed in, forcing him to prepare for a fight. As he faced them, the chapter revealed the political and historical reasons Guser had summoned Ragnar, including Avalon’s looming succession crisis and the theft of King Arthur’s Sword in the Stone.

• Zong Shen stored the damaged Magic Energy Drill, took out the Goblin Airship, and began preparing to travel by air.
• Gulta discovered that the Bloodfang Mark had vanished, but Letai reasoned that Zong Shen had likely stored the marked drill and urged Gulta to keep pursuing him.
• Zong Shen spotted Gulta and Letai approaching within seven or eight kilometers, descended in the airship, and readied the Time Stop Orb before asking whether they had companions.
• The Strategy Guide confirmed that Gulta and Letai pursued Zong Shen for revenge and suggested that killing either could reveal clues about the Bloodfang Mercenary Corps.
• Zong Shen learned that the Bloodfang Mercenary Corps was exploring a suspected Three-Fort Dwarven treasure site in Three Fork Valley, which had drawn attention from King Ragnar and others.
• The chapter explained that Guser had summoned Ragnar over Avalon’s possible civil war and King Arthur’s treasure, after a Nord had pulled the Sword in the Stone from the Mountain of King’s Selection.

Ragnar Lodbrok’s journey to meet old King Guser and the widening excavation at Three Fork Valley set the stage for Queen Sandina’s failed assassination plot. After Zong Shen faced the two Bloodfang mercenaries Gulta and Letai, a thundering disturbance approached from the nearby forest, leaving him and the mercenaries bracing for its arrival.

• The chapter described how Ragnar Lodbrok left the Three Fork Valley excavation to meet old King Guser after the Sword in the Stone was pulled from its boulder, while factions gathered around the buried Three-Fort Dwarves ruins.
• Queen Sandina’s decade-long plan to assassinate King Ragnar was revealed, including disrupting his teleportation, but spatial interference sent him away from the intended ambush site, and Zong Shen’s appearance became an unexpected variable.
• The chapter linked Sandina’s actions and unrest in several kingdoms to the Epoch Curse, then returned to Zong Shen after he stored the Goblin Airship and faced Gulta and Letai.
• Zong Shen consulted the Strategy Module and learned that Gulta was a powerful half-giant while Letai was a stealth-trained assassin, with each mercenary’s strengths covering the other’s weaknesses.
• Letai entered stealth and Gulta approached Zong Shen, but booming drums and shaking ground came from a nearby forest; Zong Shen rose into the air to investigate as Letai retreated.

Zong Shen watched a powerful centaur force charge west, then waited for the mercenaries Gulta and Letai to return so he could assess them. He discovered that Gulta was an exceptionally strong giant-blooded fighter with a way to escape death, and prepared to examine Letai before deciding whether to fight or capture them.

• Letai warned Gulta that danger was approaching, and the two fled as Zong Shen pursued them through the air.
• Zong Shen identified a force of more than five hundred centaur warriors, led by a level 59 Centaur Khan, charging toward the rocky area west of them.
• Gulta and Letai moved aside as the centaurs passed, while Zong Shen recognized the tribe as a possible future target and considered teleporting an army to attack it.
• After the centaurs departed, Gulta and Letai chased after Zong Shen, who decided to stay and confront them for information about the Bloodfang Mercenary Corps.
• Zong Shen examined Gulta’s attributes and learned that his immense strength, giant transformation, and limb-sacrifice escape ability would make capturing him difficult.
• Zong Shen weighed killing Gulta against recruiting him, then decided to inspect Letai’s attributes before choosing how to handle both mercenaries.

Zong Shen studied Gulta and Letai’s abilities and resolved to subdue the two valuable fighters despite the difficulty. He attacked Gulta with a Tier 5 lightning spell, then turned his next lightning spear toward the stealthed Letai, who realized Zong Shen could track him and tried to flee.

• Zong Shen examined Letai’s attributes and history, learning that his fear of demons stemmed from surviving an expedition to Hellfire Peninsula.
• Zong Shen weighed the value of recruiting Gulta as a powerful frontline fighter and Letai as a scout and assassin, then prepared to fight them.
• Gulta charged beneath Zong Shen while Letai circled behind him in stealth, but Zong Shen tracked Letai with his golden-ring marker.
• Zong Shen used the Thunderhorn of Leiluo to strike Gulta with a Tier 5 Electric Burst Thunderball, badly damaging him and enraging him.
• Gulta hurled rocks at Zong Shen while Letai waited behind him, and Zong Shen summoned a lightning spear and redirected it toward Letai.
• Letai spotted the attack, cursed as he realized Zong Shen could detect him, and ran, but the lightning spear pursued him.

Zong Shen captured Letai by exploiting his weakness to direct combat, then transformed into a demon and attacked Gulta. Gulta revealed his Giant Bloodline and struck back, but Zong Shen continued bombarding him with Chaos Orbs.

• Zong Shen paralyzed Letai with a Lightning Spear, then used Time Stop and summoned sixteen warriors to keep Gulta occupied while he attacked Letai.
• Zong Shen stunned Letai with an Earth-Splitting Wave, seized him, and drove his health below ten percent with Chaos Orbs.
• Zong Shen placed Letai in the Captive Space before Letai's Cowardly skill could let him escape.
• Zong Shen transformed into a demon and attacked Gulta from above while the summoned warriors fought him, dealing enough damage to force Gulta to activate Giant Bloodline.
• Gulta grew to more than ten meters tall, knocked away the remaining summoned warriors, and struck Zong Shen with Enemy-Sweeping Axe Light, but Zong Shen kept attacking and healed from the damage he dealt.

Zong Shen defeated Gulta and captured him alongside Letai before observing the battle between the Tauren and centaurs. With his demon transformation ending, he boarded the Goblin Airship and headed toward a marked forest in the centaurs’ territory to explore.

• Zong Shen chased down Gulta in demon form and used repeated Time Stops to capture him after Gulta’s attempt to escape failed.
• Zong Shen checked King Ragnar’s distance marker and saw that Ragnar was still fleeing more than fifty kilometers away.
• Zong Shen watched the Tauren and centaurs fight, noting their forces and combat abilities without joining the battle.
• Zong Shen’s Demon State ended, so he boarded the Goblin Airship and flew toward the dark-green forest indicated by a golden marker.

Zong Shen scouted the Centaur Tribe from the airship and decided to infiltrate it for its golden-marked Totem Pole and other valuables. After clearing a landing site and putting a patrol to sleep, he disguised himself as a wounded Centaur Laborer and headed toward the tribe.

• Zong Shen surveyed the Centaur Tribe and noted that its main force had left to fight the Tauren, leaving several thousand residents and a few hundred poorly equipped warriors behind.
• Zong Shen lured two Centaur Patrols away from the tribe and used two Type III Goblin Bombs to clear a landing site in the cypress forest.
• Zong Shen landed, stored the Goblin airship, and used his Dreamscape bracelet to put twelve centaurs to sleep.
• Zong Shen used the Shapeshifter's Illusory Mask, smeared on a Centaur Laborer's blood, and took a wooden spear before heading toward the Centaur Tribe in disguise.