Chapter Summaries

Garos fought the Chimera, whose attacks only worsened its injuries against his cold-bearing scales and bladed body. He discovered a new organ that stored thermal energy, then unleashed an enhanced Flame Dragon Breath that killed the fleeing Chimera.

• Garos challenged the Chimera and fought through its fire breath, roar, and close-range attacks while his scales wounded and chilled it.
• Garos used Dragon Qi Rotation to tear into the Chimera and sever its lion head with an Enhanced Tail Strike.
• The Chimera entered a berserk state and attacked Garos, while Garos noticed a jade-disk-like organ storing thermal energy inside his body.
• Garos released the stored thermal energy, heating his scales and creating a scorching domain as he considered when to use it for maximum breath power.
• The Chimera fled from Garos, who engulfed it in an enhanced Flame Dragon Breath and reduced it to ash.

Garos returned to Dragon Valley after defeating the Chimera, choosing to recover before hunting the remaining Monster Lords. Meanwhile, Iron Shield Caravan overseer Hammer sailed toward the Borderlands to buy valuable ore amid rising demand and growing fears of war.

• Garos judged that his Destruction Dragon Breath could not defeat the adult Silver Dragon Frostmark and decided to avoid fighting far stronger opponents.
• Garos postponed hunting the remaining Monster Lords until he had recovered, then flew back to Dragon Valley.
• The next morning, Molten Iron Tribe followers occupied Sword Crag and established an outpost for the Ignas Dragonflight.
• Garos trained lightly in Dragon Valley while reviewing his battle against the Chimera.
• Hammer explained that the Iron Shield Caravan was skipping its usual trade with the Insect-Eater Clan to pursue higher-value ore, then prayed for a safe and profitable voyage to the Golden Fang Tribe.

Silver Mane Zachary stopped the Iron Shield Caravan to confront its manager, Hammer, over trading with the Golden Fang Tribe instead of the Molten Iron Tribe. Iron Dragon Sorog let the caravan pass and decided to seek Garos's advice before engaging in a price war.

• Silver Mane Zachary blocked the Iron Shield Caravan with chains and demanded that Hammer stop to trade with the Molten Iron Tribe.
• Hammer revealed that the Golden Fang Tribe offered lower prices for ore and paid more for spices than the Molten Iron Tribe.
• Iron Dragon Sorog told Silver Mane not to charge a passage fee, and Silver Mane withdrew the chains and let Hammer's caravan leave.
• Iron Dragon admitted that the Golden Fang Tribe's deeper resources made a price war unwise and decided to ask Garos for advice.

Iron Dragon and Garos chose a direct attack on the Golden Fang Tribe’s trade outpost rather than a price war. Iron Dragon led the raid on Crescent Bay with the Death Angels and Red Iron Cavalry, and the outpost’s defenses began to collapse.

• Iron Dragon reported the Golden Fang Tribe’s trade blockade to Garos, who proposed destroying their riverside outposts to break the deadlock.
• Iron Dragon challenged Garos’s generalization about Goblins, and Garos acknowledged that inherited prejudice had influenced his judgment.
• Garos approved a night raid on Crescent Bay, while Iron Dragon ordered Zachary and the Death Angels to coordinate the attack.
• Zachary led the Red Iron Cavalry toward Crescent Bay as Tasha’s Two-Legged Wyverns approached under cover of darkness.
• The Death Angels struck the watchtowers with acid breath, and the centaurs charged as the Golden Fang Tribe’s defenses quickly collapsed.

Silver Mane’s centaurs and wyverns captured Crescent Bay, destroyed the Golden Fang Tribe’s mecha, and spared the Iron Shield Caravan’s merchants. The Golden Fang Tribe chose retaliation against the Molten Iron Tribe, turning their trade dispute into an impending military conflict.

• Silver Mane led the centaurs in defeating the Flesh Rippers and killing the goblins defending Crescent Bay.
• Silver Mane assured Hammer that the Iron Shield Caravan could keep its purchased ores and leave safely, while the Molten Iron Tribe took the goblin spoils.
• The wyverns hauled the wrecked mecha toward the Molten Iron Tribe’s alchemical base as the centaurs looted Crescent Bay and retreated when Golden Fang reinforcements arrived.
• Golden Fang elders blamed the Molten Iron Tribe for the destruction and agreed to retaliate against its riverbank outposts without declaring full war.

Garos trained his Dragon Heart, advised the Iron Dragon during the trade war, and defeated a White Tiger Ferocious Tiger, which he spared after it submitted. Deborah returned and posed a riddle that Garos could not solve, then revealed the answer was patience.

• Garos practiced Bloodburst Art and concluded that his Dragon Heart would likely evolve by the Young Adult Stage.
• The Golden Fang Tribe and Molten Iron Tribe began a trade war, and Sorog followed Garos's advice to abandon riverside strongholds and raid the enemy's instead.
• Garos flew to Windhowl Forest, fought the White Tiger Ferocious Tiger, and forced it to submit rather than killing it.
• Deborah revealed herself, asked Garos to answer her riddle, and said she would forgive his presumption if he did.
• Garos admitted he could not solve the riddle, and Deborah revealed that its answer was patience.

Garos discussed patience and his relationship with Deborah before explaining his plan to subdue Monster Lords and assigning the White Tiger to guard Windhowl Forest. He also asked Deborah how to close the Abyssal Rift, and she offered to seek help from her father or Gold Dragon grandfather.

• Deborah told Garos that patience suited him, and he interpreted her words as a sign that she might care for him but was not ready for a mate.
• Garos explained that he wanted to fight Monster Lords, learn his changed abilities, and recruit powerful creatures to strengthen the Molten Iron Tribe.
• Deborah warned Garos that gathering too many Monster Lords together could lead to clashes and deaths.
• Garos used Mind Link to order the White Tiger to guard Windhowl Forest and live peacefully alongside the Molten Iron Tribe's followers.
• Garos asked Deborah how to close the Abyssal Rift left by the Atavistic Demon Bull, and she said she would ask her father or Gold Dragon grandfather for help.

Garos rejected Deborah’s offer to involve her father, completed his conquest of the southwest, and chose Doug as Iron Will’s new warband leader. Sorog then reported a likely Black Oilfield in Golden Fang territory, leaving Garos eager to seize it.

• Garos declined Deborah’s offer to ask her father for help with the Abyssal Rift and brought her back to Dragon Valley.
• Garos killed the last Monster Lord, a Black-Scaled Giant Serpent, completing the Molten Iron Tribe’s control of the southwest.
• Garos watched Doug defeat Ulos and appointed Doug as Iron Will’s warband leader.
• Sorog told Garos that a Black Oilfield likely lay within Golden Fang territory, and Garos demanded to hear how he had found it.

Sorog discovered that the Golden Fang Tribe’s extravagant use of Black Oil came from a guarded oilfield in its territory, which Garos claimed as his own. Garos prepared to escalate the war and persuaded Deborah to join by framing the campaign as a defense of the Borderlands and offering her gemstones.

• Sorog secretly investigated the Golden Fang Tribe and noticed its Alchemy Golems and freight trucks consumed Black Oil lavishly.
• After a month of surveillance, Sorog traced guarded convoys to a plain and confirmed that the Golden Fang Tribe had an established Black Oilfield.
• Garos declared that the oilfield was his and restrained himself from attacking the tribe without first bringing the Molten Iron Tribe’s strength to bear.
• Garos asked Deborah to help in the coming war and argued that the Golden Fang Tribe threatened the Borderlands’ peace and trade.
• Garos offered Deborah ten high-quality magic gemstones, and she agreed to crusade against the goblins.

Garos declared war on the Golden Fang Tribe and spent seven days preparing the Molten Iron Tribe for attacks across the enemy’s southeastern holdings. After Sorog outlined a strategy of dispersed strikes and supply-line disruption, Garos approved it and agreed to deploy Tressie and Elvie as well.

• Garos rallied the Molten Iron Tribe’s warriors and ordered them to prepare for war against the Golden Fang Tribe.
• The Kin Leaders distributed food, readied their forces, and received orders to attack enemy mines, ranches, pastures, and strongholds after seven days.
• Garos told Samantha to halt weapons and armor production and focus on making High-Explosive Flame Orbs for the war.
• Sorog advised Garos to avoid frontal battles and instead split the forces to attack multiple strongholds and disrupt supplies.
• Garos approved Sorog’s strategy, added Tressie and Elvie to the deployment, and said the tribe could temporarily abandon the Fertile Plain.

Garos assigned Vera and Deborah to guard Dragon Valley while the Molten Iron Tribe prepared for a coordinated war against the Golden Fang Tribe. At the Golden Fang Tribe’s main base, Grand Workshop Master Scott and the Goblin elders agreed to eliminate the Molten Iron Tribe and exploit its Dragonkin.

• Garos told Vera to guard Dragon Valley alongside the Dire Bears and ordered Deborah to defend the territory while he fought elsewhere.
• The Molten Iron Tribe prepared for war as Sorog recovered and gave detailed orders to the leaders of its strongholds.
• The chapter described the Golden Fang Tribe’s industrial base, where Goblins used enslaved Bugbears to assemble Alchemy Golems.
• Scott and the Golden Fang Tribe’s elders discussed their trade-monopoly plan and the need to destroy the rising Molten Iron Tribe.
• The Goblin elders noted that they had made a peace agreement with the Venomtail Tribe and proposed capturing Dragonkin to use as Alchemy materials and furnace labor.

The Golden Fang Tribe decided to declare war on the Molten Iron Tribe, unaware that Garos’s forces had already launched coordinated attacks on its outposts. As reports of the assaults flooded in, Garos struck Steel Nail Outpost and destroyed its heavy cannons in a devastating dive.

• Grand Workshop Master Scott and the Golden Fang elders agreed to attack the Molten Iron Tribe and prepared a declaration of war.
• As Scott addressed the Goblins, outpost leaders reported attacks by a White Dragon, Ogres, Giant Wolves, Iron Dragons, and Wyverns.
• The Molten Iron Tribe’s concealed forces attacked Golden Fang outposts simultaneously, with White Dragon Tressie and other leaders fighting at sites including Quartz Mine.
• Garos targeted the heavily defended Steel Nail Outpost, diving through its defenses before its Alchemical Heavy Cannons could fire.
• Garos’s impact destroyed nearly all the outpost’s anti-air cannons and killed the Goblins operating them.

Garos destroyed Steel Nail Outpost and helped the Molten Iron Tribe cripple the Golden Fang Tribe with coordinated raids. The Golden Fang Elders resolved to gather their forces and march southwest toward the Molten Iron Tribe’s Fertile Plain.

• Garos annihilated the Mecha Golems at Steel Nail Outpost, killed the Goblin warriors, captured several Alchemists, and spared ordinary Goblins.
• The Molten Iron Tribe captured and devastated Golden Fang strongholds, then withdrew before reinforcements arrived and continued its guerrilla attacks.
• Survivors spread frightening reports of the Red Iron Dragon, while the Molten Iron Tribe pushed the Golden Fang Tribe back and inflicted heavy losses.
• The Grand Workshop Master and Goblin Elders reviewed their defeats and discussed Garos’s strength and the Molten Iron Tribe’s tactics.
• The Golden Fang Elders agreed to assemble their legions, break through head-on, and march southwest toward the Fertile Plain.

Grand Workshop Master Scott led the Golden Fang Tribe’s Alchemy Legion into the Fertile Plain and drove back the Molten Iron Tribe, but the Goblins later discovered that their victory had been bait. After dragons destroyed their supply convoy, the starving Legion retreated as the Molten Iron Tribe pursued and the decisive battle began.

• Scott’s Alchemy Legion crossed into Molten Iron territory, smashed its border defenses, and advanced to the Fertile Plain.
• The Golden Fang Tribe defeated the defenders and occupied the Fertile Plain, where its engineers built a fortified base while Molten Iron counterattacks dwindled.
• A scout reported an Abyssal Rift, prompting the Goblin elders to realize the Molten Iron Tribe had used the Fertile Plain as bait and waited for the Goblins’ provisions to run low.
• Red and White Dragons ambushed the supply convoy with Iron Dragon Sorog and the Red Iron Dragon, destroying its Golem escorts in less than ten minutes.
• Scott ordered the Alchemy Legion to retreat, but the provision-starved Goblins were pursued by the Molten Iron Tribe, whose warriors charged as their war song rallied them.

The Molten Iron Tribe ambushed the retreating Golden Tooth Alchemical Legion in the Border Mountains, while Garos destroyed its command vehicles with Destruction Dragon Breath. The Grand Workshop Master survived in a colossal alchemy golem, but Garos defeated it, leaving the goblin army routed and the battle effectively won.

• Ugo and Russell led ogres and werewolves in an attack on the Alchemy Legion as the Molten Iron Tribe’s main force charged in.
• Elvie, the wyverns, and Ugo’s airborne warriors disrupted the goblin artillery while Samantha, Tressie, and Sorog tried to reach the Grand Workshop Master.
• Garos endured concentrated cannon fire, then unleashed Destruction Dragon Breath and destroyed the legion’s command machinery.
• The Grand Workshop Master emerged in a giant alchemy golem, but Garos powered up with Dragon Qi and Flame Thunder and battered it apart.
• Garos charged through the golem with Dragon Impact, killing the Grand Workshop Master and breaking the goblins’ remaining morale.
• The Molten Iron Tribe began its final charge as the surviving goblins dropped their weapons, fled, or surrendered.

Garos’s Molten Iron Tribe crushed the Golden Fang Tribe’s Alchemy Legion and prepared to advance on its stronghold at the Black Iron Plain. The Venomtail Tribe’s raid on Dragon Valley was deterred by Deborah, and Garos’s army resumed its march toward the Golden Fang headquarters.

• Garos found no corpse of the Goblin Alchemist after the battle, while the Molten Iron Tribe finished slaughtering the routed Golden Fang forces and celebrated its victory.
• Garos rallied his warriors with a declaration of dominion and ordered them to rest before the campaign continued.
• The Venomtail Tribe’s Snake-men approached Dragon Valley, but Deborah warned them that harming her would bring the Metal Dragons after them, so they withdrew.
• Garos learned of the Snake-men’s retreat and decided to keep building Deborah’s favor while avoiding the hostility of Mature Dragons.
• After resting for more than half a day, Garos led the Molten Iron Warriors toward the Golden Fang Tribe’s stronghold on the Black Iron Plain.

The Molten Iron Tribe conquered the Golden Fang Tribe after the Grand Workshop Master's palace revealed itself as an Intelligent Golem and surrendered. Frostmark Aldri then discovered that Deborah had been hiding in the Borderlands and decided to find out what she was doing.

• Molten Iron warriors surrounded the Golden Fang Tribe, whose Goblins feared resisting after Scott's death and the Alchemy Legion's defeat.
• The Grand Workshop Master's palace transformed into a steel colossus, but its calculations led it to kneel and submit to Garos.
• The Grand Workshop Master explained that he was an Alchemical Intelligence created from Scott's soul, and Samantha examined his valuable intelligence core.
• Garos claimed the Golden Fang Tribe and its resources for Molten Iron, while the Grand Workshop Master enforced the surrender and crushed Goblins who refused.
• Frostmark Aldri realized that Deborah had remained in the Borderlands despite claiming to be adventuring, and decided to seek her out.

Selina persuaded Aldri to give Deborah space, but he decided to visit her in the Borderlands and check that she was safe. Meanwhile, Garos inspected the Molten Iron Tribe’s growing Golem production and weighed the threat posed by neighboring tribes as they prepared for conflict.

• Selina told Aldri that Deborah was growing up and should be allowed to make her own choices, and Aldri agreed before deciding to check on her himself.
• Selina and Aldri set out for Deborah’s location, with Selina refusing to warn their daughter because she hoped to catch her by surprise.
• Garos inspected the Molten Iron Tribe’s Golem workshop, where Alchemists, Gnolls, and Kobolds repaired and assembled Golems for the tribe’s defenses.
• Garos considered how the Molten Iron Tribe’s rise had alarmed Dawn, Venomtail, and the Ironblood Tribe, and concluded that consolidating his gains was wiser than striking first.

Garos inspected the Molten Iron Tribe’s growing production and newly captured Black Oilfield, then used a riddle and a compliment to win Deborah’s affection. The chapter left him continuing to court her while the tribe prepared for the war its growing power might provoke.

• Garos watched the Grand Workshop Master teach Samantha how to etch a Defense Rune along the natural grain of her scales.
• Garos inspected the guarded Black Oilfield, considered its strategic value and Black Energy Stones, and kept the resource’s existence secret.
• Garos returned to Dragon Valley and decided to win more of Deborah’s affection before her adult Silver Dragon noticed the tribe’s growth.
• Garos posed Deborah a riddle about a star, and she answered correctly.
• Garos complimented Deborah’s scales, making her flustered and increasing her affection while he refined his Dragon Taming Art.

Garos ended his afternoon of riddles with Deborah and Vera, then went to train under triple hypergravity. Vera tried to imitate his neck exercise, hurt herself, and panicked.

• Vera joined Garos and Deborah’s riddle game and proudly presented a confusing riddle about the sky.
• Garos guessed that Vera’s riddle described the sky, while Deborah praised it to keep Vera encouraged.
• Garos headed to his training ground, drank Black Oil, activated the hypergravity device, and began an intense neck-strengthening exercise.
• Vera watched Garos train, tried to copy his movement, and cried out that her neck was broken.