Chapter Summaries

Toneri and her companions met Aurora, who planned to unite the Wind Clan through a vote at a ball against Tiffany. Aurora agreed to consider joining Londinium’s alliance if Heidi and Toneri solved the disappearances plaguing Salisbury before the event ended.

• Aurora explained that she and Tiffany had agreed to compete for the Wind Clan’s chieftaincy at a vote held at the Grand Theater in three days.
• Aurora told Toneri and her companions that more than twenty fairies and humans had vanished without explanation in Salisbury.
• Toneri introduced Heidi as Londinium’s lord and the future king of the Fairy Kingdom, and Aurora praised their vision of humans and fairies living together.
• Aurora challenged Toneri and Heidi to solve the disappearances before the ball ended, promising to deepen her cooperation with Londinium if they succeeded.

Toneri used Retrocognition Magecraft to investigate the disappearance of Klar’s friend Mina, discovering that Zera had visited her shortly before the spell’s vision broke down. The group was left uncertain about what happened when someone knocked at Mina’s door.

• Teterot, Toneri, and Klar argued on their way to Mina’s preserved home, where Klar explained that Mina had been her best friend and a powerful Wind Clan warrior.
• Toneri searched the house but found no signs of a struggle, and Klar said Mina had been missing for seven days.
• Toneri used Retrocognition Magecraft to replay events in the house from the day Mina disappeared.
• The group saw Zera talking with Mina, and Klar identified Zera as a fairy who had recently returned to Lady Aurora’s faction.
• After Zera left, someone knocked at Mina’s door, and the Retrocognition vision became unstable before they could see what happened next.

Toneri and Klar investigated Mina’s disappearance, learning that Mina had seemed troubled and that powerful magecraft had interrupted their vision at the moment someone knocked on her door. Suspicious of Zera, Toneri led the others back to search her house, where they prepared for a possible confrontation.

• Toneri’s Retrocognition Magecraft repeatedly broke when it reached the knock at Mina’s door, suggesting the visitor or their magecraft was involved in her disappearance.
• Zera told Klar, Toneri, and Teterot that Mina had spoken to her about protecting humans and had seemed conflicted that day.
• Klar recalled that Mina had been in low spirits, and Toneri suggested investigating the places where other fairies had disappeared.
• After leaving Zera’s home, Toneri turned back, concealed the group, and used a Familiar to scout Zera’s house.
• Klar and Teterot drew their weapons as they followed Zera’s footprints inside, suspecting something was wrong.

Toneri and her companions discovered an impostor posing as Zera, who admitted involvement in Mina’s disappearance and mocked the fairies’ hopes for coexistence with humans. Toneri captured her, but she dissolved into transparent liquid, leaving her true identity and whereabouts unknown.

• Toneri and her companions followed Zera into a room and found her eating the corpse of an identical Zera.
• Toneri trapped the living Zera in a magical cage and exposed her lie that she was the real Zera.
• The impostor claimed she had helped make Mina disappear and described torturing her, provoking Klar to attack before Teterot stopped her.
• Toneri confirmed the impostor was connected to Mina’s disappearance but said her torture claims were lies, then bound her tightly.
• The impostor mocked Toneri’s vision of humans and fairies living together, then lost her fairy form and dissolved into transparent liquid.

Toneri and Klar investigated the fairies’ disappearances, and Klar reported their findings to Aurora. While Aurora visited the farmland outside Salisbury and helped an injured Field Fairy, another Field Fairy suddenly attacked and stabbed her.

• Toneri determined that the liquid puppet at Zera’s house had been abandoned by the Fairy Master, and Klar said she would report the incident to Aurora.
• After returning to Aurora’s residence, Teterot went to sleep, and Toneri fell asleep thinking about the danger surrounding Salisbury and Michael.
• Klar reported the investigation to Aurora, who decided to visit the farmland outside Salisbury and brought Klar along.
• Aurora entered the fields despite her attendants’ objections and used Fairy Mystery to ease an injured Field Fairy’s pain.
• A Field Fairy approached Aurora, revealed a Wind Blade, and stabbed her through the chest.

Toneri exposed the fairy doctor who had attacked Aurora and searched the assassin’s soul for clues. The memory fragments appeared to implicate Tiffany, leaving the Wind fairies furious while Klar doubted the accusation was straightforward.

• Klar told Toneri that Aurora had been attacked outside the city and was badly injured, and that the dead assassin had turned into transparent water.
• Toneri went to the Bell-Ringing Hall and found Aurora unconscious with a wound that repeatedly reopened because of lingering magical power.
• As Toneri examined Aurora, a fairy doctor attacked her with a Wind Blade, but Toneri trapped the doctor in crystal using the Staff of Selection.
• Toneri searched the captured assassin’s soul and found fragmented memories showing Tiffany among cheering Wind Clan fairies.
• The fairies erupted in anger at the apparent evidence against Tiffany, while Klar kept her doubts to herself.

Heidi and Bavanxi secretly investigated the northern half of Salisbury and followed Gale to an abandoned house. After entering, they were ambushed by a fairy lurking in the rafters.

• Heidi and Bavanxi heard northern fairies voice their hatred of humans and support Tiffany becoming clan chief.
• Gale entered a tavern seeking outsider fairies called simpletons, then left without finding any.
• Heidi and Bavanxi followed Gale invisibly using Michael's Hades Helmet.
• Gale entered a deserted house, and Heidi and Bavanxi broke through its stone wall to follow him inside.
• A hidden fairy attacked Heidi with a hand axe, which she narrowly dodged.

Gale transformed into a powerful monster and overwhelmed Heidi and Bavanxi in battle. As Gale moved to kill them, Bavanxi fired a deadly cannon that engulfed him in black magical power and sent the blast into the sky.

• Gale revealed his monstrous transformation and attacked Heidi, while Bavanxi supported her with a barrage of magical bullets.
• Gale broke through Bavanxi’s defenses and struck Heidi, knocking the Sword of Selection from her hand and leaving her gravely injured.
• Bavanxi summoned treants to hold Gale back, but he tore through them almost instantly.
• Bavanxi powered a strange cannon with her magic and stored gems as Gale charged at her.
• Bavanxi fired the cannon, engulfing Gale in black magical power and sending the blast streaking into the sky.

Bavanxi survived the battle that destroyed part of Salisbury, while Toneri and Teterot prepared for a dangerous ball where Aurora’s opponents might strike. As Tiffany fell asleep after taking her medicine, her maid Norn entered her room with a blade at her throat.

• Bavanxi healed herself with a Magic Potion after Gale was vaporized and Fairy Guards surrounded the ruined district.
• Toneri saw Star Piercer’s blast from the Bell-Ringing Hall and worried that a powerful enemy had forced Bavanxi to use the God-Slaying Weapon.
• Two days later, Toneri rejected Aurora’s revealing ball gown and went to Teterot, who had hidden weapons in her own gown in case a fight broke out.
• Teterot predicted Aurora’s enemies would attack at the ball, and she vowed to avenge Heidi and Bavanxi.
• Tiffany took her medicine and went to sleep, after which Norn entered her room and placed a short blade against her throat.

At the Fairy Ball, Aurora arrived and spoke with Toneri about the coming clan leader contest and her concerns for Tiffany. Tiffany finally entered the ballroom, leaving the contest and Aurora’s request for Toneri to help her unresolved.

• Teterot, Toneri, and Heidi admired the ballroom as the fairies waited for the opening ceremony, which was delayed because Tiffany had been held up.
• Aurora arrived with Klar and greeted Toneri, while Klar joined Teterot and the others to enjoy the ball.
• Aurora told Toneri she felt nervous because she was worried about Tiffany, whose healed-injury headaches had changed her outlook and strained their friendship.
• Aurora asked Toneri to cure Tiffany’s headaches, and Toneri hesitated but agreed to do her best.
• Tiffany entered the ballroom, commanding the fairies’ attention with her imposing presence.

At the Fairy Ball, Tiffany’s worsening headache and agitation culminated in her transforming into a monster and stabbing the emcee. Norn revealed that the creature had impersonated Tiffany and eaten missing fairies and humans, leaving the enraged crowd to pursue her as she fled.

• The emcee introduced Tiffany and Aurora as rivals in the Wind Clan leader selection, while supporters from North and South Half-City clashed around the hall.
• Toneri warned her group to watch for trouble, and Teterot charged into a group of North Half-City fairies with her Cat Hammer.
• Tiffany grew increasingly distressed by the noise and stabbed the emcee through the heart with an ornamental sword.
• Norn accused Tiffany of being a monster that had killed and eaten the real Tiffany and numerous fairies and humans.
• The crowd turned against Tiffany, who could only roar and fled as the fairies chased her.

Tiffany rampaged through Salisbury as the fairies fought her, while Aurora used a Wind Omen to rally the clan against the monster. Toneri restrained Tiffany and killed her, leaving the fairies to celebrate the apparent victory.

• Monsterized Tiffany tore through the Fairy Guards, and Teterot and Heidi attacked her while Toneri helped protect Heidi.
• Aurora broadcast a speech urging the Wind Clan to unite against the monster and blaming it for Tiffany's death.
• Tiffany briefly regained clarity, pleaded that she was not a monster, and charged at Aurora.
• Klar organized the guards to protect Aurora, but Toneri finally stepped in and bound Tiffany with emerald vines.
• As the fairies gathered to attack the captive, Toneri cut Tiffany's neck with a sword.

After Aurora became Wind Clan chief, Toneri learned that the Earth Clan and Fang Clan were attacking Londinium and hurried back with Wind Clan warriors. Outside the city, Brave Lainick defeated and killed Grisen, leaving Londinium's defenders facing the Fang Clan chief's overwhelming power.

• A messenger told Toneri that the Earth Clan and Fang Clan had attacked Londinium after their fairies were killed, and that Brave Lainick had joined the assault.
• Toneri set out for Londinium with Klar and five hundred elite Wind Clan warriors, intending for them to fight the Earth Clan or defend the city.
• Grisen stayed behind to let his comrades retreat while Londinium's elite squads attacked the fairy alliance.
• Lainick arrived and told Grisen that he had killed the retreating humans, then healed Grisen's wounds before accepting his challenge.
• Lainick pierced Grisen's chest and crushed his still-beating heart, killing him.

Toneri reunited with Michael outside Londinium and learned that the Wing Clan had sent three thousand soldiers to reinforce the city. With the Earth Clan and Fang Clan besieging Londinium, she devised a plan to break the siege by coordinating attacks from inside and outside.

• Toneri surveyed the enemy camps outside Londinium and realized her forces could not break through alone.
• Michael reunited with Toneri and reported that the Mirror Clan had agreed to remain neutral.
• Yurugu revealed that the Wing Clan had sent three thousand soldiers to reinforce Londinium.
• Toneri proposed having Heidi return to the city and coordinate with the Knights of the Round Table and Wind Clan to defeat the Earth Clan, while she and Michael's Wing Clan forces held off the Fang Clan.

Michael brought Heidi back to Londinium, where Uther prepared a decisive assault against the allied Earth Clan and Fang Clan forces. As the troops readied to depart before dawn, Heidi returned to the orphanage and was warmly welcomed by the children.

• Michael and Heidi arrived in Londinium, where Uther welcomed them and reported on the city's strained defenses.
• Heidi explained Toneri's battle plan, and Uther refined it into a surprise attack on the enemy army's rear while the defenders lured it toward Londinium.
• Uther assigned Heidi to defend Londinium while he led the assault force, and Heidi accepted her responsibility with resolve.
• That night, Heidi watched the soldiers prepare to march before dawn, then went to the orphanage but hesitated at the entrance in her formal gown.
• Allen recognized Heidi and called the other children, who rushed out to greet her.

Heidi visited the children at the orphanage and found resolve in the handmade amulet they gave her before the battle. As Londinium prepared to defend itself, Hector trained the recruits and spoke with Michael, who expected the coming fight to end in victory.

• The children praised Heidi, told her about Darian’s visits, and gave her a handmade amulet for protection.
• Heidi accepted the children’s gift and resolved to defeat the fairies and secure a better future for them.
• Hector taught the newly conscripted recruits how to prepare their weapons and defend the city.
• After sending the recruits away, Hector forged a sword until Michael arrived and asked about the planned counterattack and reinforcements.
• Michael teased Hector as a tsundere, then expressed hope that the battle would go smoothly with him there.

Heidi led an elite force out of Londinium to attack the Earth Clan’s siege machines, but Roderick intercepted her and gained the upper hand. Red fireworks signaled that Toneri’s army was beginning its planned attack from behind the fairies.

• The Earth Clan bombarded Londinium with magical catapult spheres and launched a full assault, while Michael restored the damaged defensive barrier.
• As the defenders ran low on arrows and the gates came under attack, Heidi ordered an elite sortie against the fairies and their machines.
• Spriggan sent Roderick and his gladiators to confront Heidi’s force as it cut through the besieging fairies.
• Roderick shattered Heidi’s magical blade and fought her with his gladiators, but Heidi’s power surged and sent him flying.
• Roderick resumed his attack, and red fireworks signaled that Toneri was beginning the planned strike from behind.

Toneri led a smaller allied force to isolate Lainick and keep him from reinforcing the Earth Clan, then accepted his challenge to a duel. The chapter ended as Toneri and Lainick prepared to fight, while Michael stayed behind the walls and Hector went to battle.

• Michael refused to join the battle, claiming he needed to maintain Londinium's defensive barrier, and Hector left to fight.
• Leinitz learned that Toneri was leading a surprise attack on the Fang Clan's main camp and decided to face her himself.
• Toneri used Territory Creation to raise stone walls between the Earth Clan and Fang Clan camps and built a fortress for her five thousand troops.
• Lainick proposed settling the war's outcome with a duel, and Toneri accepted to keep the armies from fighting.
• Toneri released her magical power as Lainick transformed into a massive, silver-furred beast.

Toneri defeated Lainick and invited the Fang Clan to join the Londinium Alliance, while the other battles remained unresolved. Heidi and the Knights of the Round Table charged Roderick’s deadly flying-axe barrage in an attempt to reach and defeat him.

• Toneri battered Lainick into submission, and he agreed to withdraw the Fang Clan from the war.
• Toneri asked Lainick to consider joining the Londinium Alliance, and he said he needed time to decide.
• Uther and the Wind Clan fairies fought Spriggan’s forces, but Heidi’s group failed to arrive as planned.
• Roderick’s increased strength and flying axes trapped Heidi, Darian, Hector, and the Knights of the Round Table in a stalemate.
• Hector proposed charging Roderick to limit his axes, and Darian and the Knights volunteered to shield Heidi.
• Heidi led the Knights of the Round Table into the flying-axe barrage to reach Roderick.

Heidi killed Roderick with the Sword of Selection, but Darian died after taking the axe meant for her. She led the surviving warriors against Spriggan’s camp, where the Earth Clan was defeated and Spriggan was captured.

• Heidi unleashed the Sword of Selection and cut Roderick in half, but she was too exhausted to dodge his final axe throw.
• Darian shielded Heidi from the axe and died despite her attempt to heal him, asking her to become king of all Britain and fulfill their wish.
• Heidi crushed Roderick’s head and led the remaining warriors in a charge toward Spriggan’s main camp.
• Spriggan learned that Roderick had been slain and Lainick had withdrawn from the war after losing his duel with Toneri.
• Heidi’s reinforcements rallied Uther’s forces, and the Earth Clan was defeated, with Spriggan captured and bound.