Chapter Summaries

Garen visited Linley before his duel with Heidesen, then settled in Chiyan City with Jenny and cultivated while waiting for the fight. Linley defeated Heidesen, and Garen left with Jenny after congratulating him.

• Garen joined Delia, Jenny, and Master Longers at Linley's residence, where Linley said he was confident he could defeat Heidesen.
• Garen and Jenny bought a mansion in Chiyan City and spent two months sightseeing and cultivating as Garen neared the Saint Realm as a warrior.
• Garen flew with Jenny to Tujiao Mountain to watch Linley's duel and sensed a movement technique in Heidesen's use of earth-style elements.
• Linley gained the advantage in the duel and defeated Heidesen, leaving him unable to fight.
• Garen congratulated Linley by sound transmission and left Tujiao Mountain with Jenny.

After mastering the Wind and Fire Movement Techniques, Garen planned a joint campaign with Linley against the Radiant Church and stayed in Chiyan City for Wharton’s wedding. At the wedding, Linley learned Reynolds had died in battle, but left to investigate after Garen reminded him that no body had been found.

• Garen spent half a month studying the Wind and Fire Movement Techniques, then went to discuss an attack on the Radiant Church with Linley and Sessler.
• Garen proposed that Arthur attack the Church’s southern territories while Linley expanded from the north, and Linley agreed to their plan.
• Garen stayed in Chiyan City for Wharton’s wedding and grew closer to Jenny as they spent time together.
• At the wedding, Garen gave Wharton Phoenix Blood Fruits, which Linley had hoped to obtain for his brother.
• Linley told Garen that Reynolds had died on the border battlefield, but Garen urged him to investigate because no body had been found.
• Linley left with Delia to seek information about Reynolds, while Garen and Jenny slipped out of the palace.

Garen brought Jenny home, where his parents welcomed her warmly, then learned that Emperor Gafni would soon abdicate and he would inherit the throne. With the war against the Radiant Church stalled, Garen planned to contact the Violet Flame Warriors and proposed renaming the empire Demacia.

• Garen reassured Jenny as they traveled home, and she worried about meeting his parents and making a good impression.
• Irene and Clark welcomed Jenny into their home, and she quickly became part of the family.
• Arthur told Garen that Emperor Gafni would abdicate in a few days and that the war against the Radiant Church had stalled at the border.
• Garen decided to ask Yale to contact the Violet Flame Warriors, hoping to recruit them and benefit from their crafting skills.
• Arthur suggested naming the empire after Garen, but Garen proposed calling it Demacia instead.

Garen helped establish the Demacia Empire, agreed to marry Jenny during the Yulan Festival, and sought Yale’s help in bringing the Violet Flame Warriors to the empire. As the Demacia Empire prepared to invade the Chaotic Territory, Wusenno learned of threats from Garen and Linley—then an intruder broke into his room.

• Arthur completed the throne handover to Gafni, announced the founding of the Demacia Empire, and delivered a speech as Garen and Lois watched.
• Irene suggested that Garen marry Jenny, and the family agreed to hold the wedding during the Yulan Festival.
• Garen reunited with Yale and asked him to help bring the Hyde Clan to the Demacia Empire so they could try to awaken their Violet Flame Warrior bloodline.
• Garen prepared to attack the Radiant Church’s Saint Realm forces in the Chaotic Territory before the Yulan Festival.
• Wusenno learned that the Demacia Empire had assembled two million soldiers and that Linley’s forces had captured Mote County City, so he ordered reinforcements and contacted the Dark Alliance.
• An intruder smashed into Wusenno’s room after killing the blond messenger, and Wusenno demanded to know who had entered.

Garen killed Ushenno and the angels guarding him, then the allied forces rapidly conquered the Radiant Church’s territory in the Chaotic Territory. Demacia Empire and Baruch Kingdom divided the lands, with Baruch Kingdom taking most of them through Bebe and Linley’s Rat Tide strategy.

• Garen shattered the angels’ formation with a Soul Attack, then killed Ushenno after identifying his true body; the Thunder-Winged White Tiger finished off the remaining angels.
• Garen obtained an Intermediate Experience Card from an angel’s corpse, worth 10,000 experience points.
• Saint Realm magical beasts helped Demacia Empire and Baruch Kingdom defeat the Chaotic Territory’s forces, and the two powers divided the Radiant Church’s former lands within two months.
• Bebe recruited millions of Stone-Slaying Rats and Shadow Rats after befriending three Purple-Gold Rat Kings, then coordinated with Linley by letter.
• Linley sent Haeru, Bebe, Barker’s Five Brothers, and elite warriors to lead the Rat Tide against the enemy, forcing soldiers to surrender and clearing the way for Baruch Kingdom to seize cities.

After the war, Garen and Linley planned to consolidate their gains and root out the Radiant and Dark Churches from the Chaotic Territory, while the Radiant Church prepared to fight back. Garen’s wedding began in Light-Extinguishing City, where he welcomed Linley and Reynolds among his guests.

• Garen told Linley about the Miniature Plane and warned him to transform before entering so he would not be injured.
• Heidens learned that Wusenno and six angels had been missing for two months and were likely dead, and he summoned Leiming and Luoye to discuss the Radiant Church’s losses.
• Luoye and Leiming insisted that the Radiant Church could not surrender its Chaotic Territory foundations, and Heidens sent them with six Four-Winged Angels while seeking cooperation from Affleck of the Dark Church.
• Garen and Jenny hosted their wedding guests in Light-Extinguishing City on the Yulan Festival of 10009 Yulan Calendar.
• Linley and Reynolds arrived at the wedding, and Garen welcomed them and joked with Reynolds about being captured after eating a Phoenix Blood Fruit.

Garen married Jenny, and the Couple System activated, giving him a way to help her grow stronger. He then met with Yale and the Hyde Clan leaders to arrange an attempt to awaken their Violet Flame bloodline and recruit them to Demacia.

• Garen celebrated his wedding with Jenny as nobles and Saint Realm powerhouses, including Desri and Yale, attended.
• Garen and Jenny spent their wedding night together, and in the morning the Couple System revealed Jenny’s warrior and magic levels and intermediate Water-style talent.
• Garen realized he could use the Experience System to help Jenny reach the Saint Realm and potentially the God Realm.
• Garen met Yale and Hyde Clan Leader Vincent, Meteor, and Trey at a Dawson Chamber of Commerce hotel.
• Garen proposed using the blood of a living Saint Realm Phoenix to awaken the Hyde Clan’s Violet Flame bloodline, and Vincent agreed to try and serve Demacia afterward.

Garen went to the Sunset Mountain Range to capture a Saint Realm phoenix for the Four Ultimate Warriors’ plans, and Little White challenged a Lava Fire Phoenix to settle an old grudge. After their battle ended in a stalemate, Garen stepped in to subdue the phoenix.

• Garen confirmed Vincent had brought the Purple Flame Secret Manual and set out with Little White to find a Saint Realm phoenix.
• Little White led Garen to the Lava Land, where it provoked the Lava Fire Phoenix that had wounded it in the past.
• Garen ordered Little White not to kill the phoenix, then watched the two Saint Realm beasts fight while studying the phoenix’s use of the Fire Element.
• Little White damaged the phoenix’s lava armor, but the phoenix repeatedly repaired it with energy from the lava, and neither beast could defeat the other.
• After the exhausted beasts stopped fighting, Garen declared Little White was not strong enough and took over.

Garen challenged the recovered Lava Fire Phoenix and defeated it with a fused fire-and-wind spell and a Soul Attack, forcing it to submit. After collecting Nirvana Grass, he entered the Lava Lake to study its dense Fire-style elements.

• Garen let the exhausted Lava Fire Phoenix recover, then challenged it to a full-strength fight and promised to defeat it with fire magic.
• Garen battered the Lava Fire Phoenix with a fused Meteor Shower and Chain of Wind Blades spell while its lava attacks failed to penetrate his Wind Shield.
• Garen struck the Lava Fire Phoenix with a Soul Attack, and after it regained consciousness, demanded that it submit or die.
• The Lava Fire Phoenix agreed to serve Garen, who named it Little Fire and told it to recover before returning with him.
• Garen collected dozens of Nirvana Grass plants and jumped into the Lava Lake to comprehend the Fire-style elements.

Garen mastered the basics of the Mysteries of Fire Elements, gathered the Hyde Clan into his forces after helping its leaders awaken as Violet Flame Warriors, and settled into married life with Jenny. When Abel told him that the Radiant Church and Dark Church had called for negotiations, Garen considered using the meeting to destroy both sides’ Saint Realm forces.

• Garen communicated with Fire-style elements in the Magma Lake and shaped them into a firebird and a sword, beginning his study of the Mysteries of Fire Elements.
• The Lava Fire Phoenix gave Garen Volcanic Crystal Cores, which he collected before returning to Light-Extinguishing City.
• Garen gave Vincent, Meteor, and Trey Nirvana Grass before they drank phoenix blood; Vincent completed his transformation into a ninth-rank Violet Flame Warrior, while Meteor and Trey remained unconscious.
• Vincent thanked Garen for awakening the Hyde Clan’s Violet Flame Warrior bloodline, and Garen brought the clan into his forces and bought them a neighboring estate.
• Garen comforted Jenny after returning from his long absence, and a month later Abel told him that the Radiant Church and Dark Church had requested negotiations at the Liuyan River.
• Garen questioned what the Radiant Church could negotiate after losing its territories and considered turning the Dark Church against the others before killing their Saint Realm forces.

Garen and Linley rejected the Radiant Church and Dark Church’s proposed truce, and the negotiations on the Liuyan River erupted into a battle. Garen killed Leiming and six Fallen Angels in a devastating attack, leaving both churches fleeing.

• Leiming proposed that the Radiant Church be allowed to preach in the territories Garen and Linley had taken, while O'Casey called for peace between all three sides.
• Garen refused both proposals, and Linley barred the churches from preaching in Baruch Kingdom and said his magical-beast army would keep advancing.
• After Leiming attacked the table in anger, Garen killed him with a single slash, and the riverboat broke apart as the church leaders took to the air.
• Garen and Linley transformed and divided their opponents, with Linley facing the Radiant Church and Garen taking on the Dark Church.
• Garen struck the Fallen Angels’ combined formation and killed all six with one blow, prompting the Radiant Church and Dark Church forces to scatter and flee.

Garen and his allies wiped out the Radiant and Dark Churches’ Saint Realm forces, then divided the Dark Church’s territory with Linley’s side. After attending Linley and Delia’s wedding, Garen and Jenny settled on a South Sea island to hunt magical beasts, where Jenny rapidly advanced to Level Seven.

• Garen chased down and killed O’Casey after O’Casey devoured his Saint Realm Black Dragon, then caught and killed Luoye with a Soul Attack.
• Garen returned to find the other battles won and the Radiant Church and Dark Church forces wiped out; he obtained a Life Source Bead from a Light Angel’s corpse.
• Garen collected Magic Crystal Cores with Linley and Bebe, then returned to the Demacia Empire and reported the victory to Arthur.
• Within two months, the Demacia Empire and Baruch Kingdom divided the Dark Church’s territory, and Garen received an invitation to Linley and Delia’s wedding.
• After attending the wedding, Garen and Jenny traveled to a South Sea island, where Little White hunted Saint Realm magical beasts and Jenny advanced to Level Seven.

Garen took Jenny and Little White to the South Sea, where they hunted magical beasts and helped Jenny reach the Saint Realm. After years of trying to advance his understanding of other Laws and Mysteries, Garen finally began grasping the Wind-style Sound Wave Profound Mystery, then received a summons from Beirut.

• Garen and Little White grew stronger through battles beneath the sea, while Jenny rapidly advanced in her water-style magic.
• Garen subdued a Saint Realm peak Flood Dragon, bound it as his servant, and named it Little Dragon.
• With Little Dragon helping them find prey, Garen hunted across the South Sea until Jenny reached the Saint Realm, then returned to the Yulan Continent with his companions.
• Garen spent seven years trying to begin grasping new Laws and Mysteries, but his training, challenges, and stay at the Lava Fire Phoenix's volcano brought little progress.
• At Double Horn Peak in the Death Mountain Range, Garen endured the mountain's sound waves for half a year and began grasping the Wind-style Sound Wave Profound Mystery.
• Beirut sent Garen a Soul Transmission telling him to stand by at the Metal Castle in the Dark Forest on March 2.

Garen left his family and traveled to the Dark Forest to join the other powerhouses summoned by Beirut for the Graveyard of the Gods. Beirut arrived after nightfall and led the gathered group south toward the South Sea Graveyard, while Garen intended to pursue the Ba Serpent on the third level alone.

• Garen left his magical beasts in Demacia and flew to the Dark Forest, where the other Saint-level powerhouses had gathered outside a black Metal Castle.
• Garen greeted Linley and joined Desri, Tulilei, Rutherford, and Rosalie, who welcomed him and planned to recruit him as an ally inside the Graveyard of the Gods.
• Desri warned Garen that the South Sea Graveyard was dangerous, but Garen remained confident in his strength and planned to focus on the Ba Serpent.
• Beirut appeared at night, welcomed Bebe into his arms, and ordered the gathered Gods and Saints to follow him south.
• The powerhouses noticed Bebe's closeness with Beirut and resolved not to offend Linley, while Garen privately thought they were too late to gain Beirut's favor.

Garen entered the Graveyard of the Gods and quickly passed its first three levels before meeting the Snow Cat-Bear Patriarch on the fourth. The two began sparring over the Wind Law Profound Mysteries, and Garen launched a cyan dragon attack.

• Beirut led the group to the Graveyard of the Gods and explained that a mature Mid-level God Ba Serpent guarded its first eleven levels.
• Garen crossed the first level, killing Saint Realm Undead for experience, then cut through magical beasts and Plant Lifeforms on the second level.
• Garen avoided disturbing the enormous Ba Serpent on the third level and entered the fourth level through a black door.
• Garen encountered the Snow Cat-Bear Patriarch, who pointed out the exit, and asked him to spar over the Wind Law Profound Mysteries.
• The Snow Cat-Bear Patriarch attacked with a flute's soul-stirring music, and Garen resisted it before countering with a cyan dragon formed from Wind Laws and Sound Waves.

Garen survived the Snow Cat-Bear Patriarch’s Wind Space attack and used the chance to comprehend the High-level Profound Mystery. After promising to help the Snow Cat-Bear clan leave the Exile Land, he headed for the fifth floor.

• The Snow Cat-Bear Patriarch crushed Garen’s azure dragon attack with Wind Space and trapped Garen in a spatial cage.
• Garen endured the pressure while studying how the Patriarch gathered and compressed wind elements, grasping the basics of Wind Space.
• Garen broke free with the God-Slaying Blade and thanked the Patriarch for allowing him to learn.
• The Snow Cat-Bear Patriarch asked Garen to help his clan escape the Exile Land, and Garen promised to do so.
• Garen said goodbye and flew toward the passage to the fifth floor as the Patriarch left after sensing a nearby battle.

Garen entered the fifth layer of the Graveyard of the Gods and went alone to challenge the Flame Monarch on the sixth. After killing dozens of Red Flame Demons, he met the Flame Monarch and left him staggered into a lava river with their first clash.

• Garen declined Desri's offer to face the Flame Monarch with the group and flew off alone to find the sixth-layer entrance.
• Garen found a hiding Red Flame Demon on the fifth layer, learned where the passage was, and continued onward.
• Garen arrived on the sixth layer, killed dozens of Red Flame Demons, and collected a Soul Golden Grain.
• The Flame Monarch rose from a lava river and attacked Garen with the Bloodthirsty Giant Axe.
• Garen met the Flame Monarch's strike with the God-Slaying Blade and knocked him off balance into the lava, while the collision sent Garen flying back.

Garen fought the Flame Monarch on the Graveyard of the Gods’ sixth level and began to fuse the Mysteries of Speed and Slowness with the Mysteries of Vocal Music, but the Monarch fled before he could finish. Garen then headed through the seventh level toward the Mother Empress, Lashabel, hoping she would help him test whether he could fuse three profound mysteries.

• The Flame Monarch entered Battle Form and clashed with Garen, whose growing strength and vibrations began to show signs of fusing three profound mysteries.
• The Flame Monarch fled into the Lava Crater, and Garen chose to leave him alive, then killed Red Flame Demons on his way to the seventh level.
• Garen reached the seventh level and forced a Plant Lifeform to reveal that the passage to the eighth level lay east, near a black pyramid where the Mother Empress waited.
• Garen killed the Plant Lifeform and flew toward Lashabel, determined to test whether the Wind Element could achieve an overall fusion of three profound mysteries.

Garen fought Mother Empress Lashabel on the seventh level, testing his blade techniques and advancing his understanding of Fire-style Mysteries. Lashabel conceded and let him proceed to the eighth level, leaving Garen annoyed that the fight ended just as he was enjoying it.

• Garen approached the dark pyramid and fought off Lashabel’s swift crystal-like vines with the God-Slaying Blade.
• Garen found the vines too fragile to test his Wind-style Mysteries, so he switched to Fire-style attacks and blasted through Lashabel’s defenses.
• Garen combined the Fire Element with the Profundity of Explosion, greatly strengthening his attacks and gaining an initial understanding of another Fire Mystery.
• Lashabel realized Garen was steadily exhausting her energy, then withdrew her vines and offered to let him enter the eighth level.
• Garen complained that Lashabel had ended their fight and said he preferred her unruly, calling her Little Lash.

Garen forced Mother Empress Lashabel to help him fuse the Fire Element with the Profundity of Explosion, then spared her and advanced to the eighth floor. There he challenged the Evil Eye King to test his soul attacks, and the king prepared to use his ultimate move after ordinary attacks failed.

• Garen provoked Mother Empress Lashabel into fighting until he fused the Fire Element and the Profundity of Explosion at an introductory level, then honored his promise and spared her.
• Garen entered the eighth floor, reviewed his growing Fire-style experience requirements, and considered developing his soul attacks against the Evil Eye King.
• Garen found the Evil Eye King guarding the entrance to the ninth floor and asked him to attack with his soul powers.
• The Evil Eye King's gray soul attack and golden beam failed to harm Garen, whose dark blue energy protected his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Evil Eye King recognized Garen's unusual soul defenses and decided to use his ultimate move.