Chapter Summaries

Garos attacked the Gnawrock Tribe, evaded Groz’s magical web, and destroyed Broken-Tooth Goruk and the Giant-Arm Miner. After suffering a magical bite from Groz’s Spider Spirit, Garos killed it with Lesser Fireball and reflected on his need to develop his spell-like abilities.

• Garos smashed a Goblin Warrior as Broken-Tooth Goruk charged him in the Giant-Arm Miner and Groz cast Spider Spirit Web.
• Garos took to the sky, then dived into the Giant-Arm Miner, crushing it and killing Broken-Tooth Goruk.
• Garos swept through the camp with his wings, cutting down goblins and destroying their shelters and weapons.
• Groz’s Spider Spirit bit Garos through his scales, revealing his vulnerability to magical attacks.
• Garos destroyed the Spider Spirit with Lesser Fireball and considered developing more spell-like abilities.

Garos destroyed the Gnawrock Tribe and killed a goblin who survived the initial fire, then examined the giant-arm miner’s alchemy engine. Back at the iron fir hills, he began encouraging Samantha to study alchemy so she could help him exploit its benefits.

• Garos burned the Gnawrock Tribe to the ground, killing Groz before he could activate his communication stone.
• Garos returned to the ruins, found a surviving goblin, and killed it before carrying the giant-arm miner’s wreckage back to the iron fir hills.
• Garos examined the miner’s crude alchemy engine and decided not to study alchemy himself, though he saw value in having an alchemist nearby.
• Garos asked Samantha whether she wanted to become the wealthiest red dragon, and she eagerly agreed that it was one of her lifelong pursuits.

Garos persuaded Samantha to study Alchemy by promising wealth and strength, and she began studying the Dragon Inheritance. Garos discovered that Black Oil from the Alchemy Engine was a potent energy source, giving him a new way to fuel his Adaptive Evolution.

• Garos convinced Samantha that Alchemy could make her wealthy and strong enough to defeat the Holy Flame Arbiter, and she resolved to study it.
• Samantha settled beneath an Iron Fir and began digging through the Alchemy knowledge in the Dragon Inheritance.
• Garos noticed viscous Black Oil on his claws and learned from the Dragon Inheritance that it came from the Alchemy Engine.
• Garos licked the Black Oil, found it intensely spicy and rich in energy, and realized it could help supply the energy his Adaptive Evolution required.

Garos discovered that eating Black Oil greatly enhanced his training, though Samantha could not stomach it and began studying Alchemy with the engine he gave her. Meanwhile, Gordon was captured by a caravan and was being transported to the Lothern Kingdom as a birthday gift for its little princess.

• Garos consumed the remaining Black Oil and found that it dramatically boosted his Dragon Breath training.
• Garos gave Samantha the Alchemy Engine, and she resumed studying her inherited knowledge after spitting out a drop of Black Oil.
• Garos wondered whether Gordon would come to rely on him, unaware that Gordon had already been captured.
• Gordon failed to escape an Alchemy-strengthened cage aboard a caravan traveling along the Trail of a Thousand Snakes.
• A human warrior told Gordon that the caravan would present him to the Lothern Kingdom's little princess as a birthday gift.

Garos scouted the heavily guarded Carmel Black Oil Field, narrowly dodged a silent crossbow bolt, and returned to the Iron Fir Hills. There, Samantha announced that she had begun learning Alchemy, though she could not yet refine Black Oil or make alchemical items.

• Garos observed Carmel Black Oil Field from the clouds and judged its defenses too strong to approach safely.
• A Sky-Hunting Heavy Crossbow fired at Garos, but he dodged the bolt and escaped beyond its range.
• Garos reflected that he needed to send followers to investigate the oil field and that he lacked creatures capable of digging underground.
• Garos returned to the Iron Fir Hills, where Samantha proudly told him she had grasped the basics of Alchemy.
• Garos asked Samantha whether she could refine Black Oil or make alchemical items, and she admitted she could do neither.

Samantha inscribed a Primary Defense Rune on Garos, who then focused on exploring the spells in his bloodline. A month later, Garos captured a level-seven Rock-Crushing Worm and hoped he could control it.

• Samantha inscribed a Primary Defense Rune on Garos's chest, and he tested its limited defensive effect.
• Garos sent Samantha to practice rune inscriptions on Mobel in exchange for food, while he explored the spells hidden in his bloodline.
• Garos spent a month sensing his Magic Energy and searching for more Spell-like Abilities.
• At an abandoned mine, Samantha lured a Rock-Crushing Worm to the surface, and Garos swooped down and captured it.
• Garos carried the Rock-Crushing Worm back toward the Iron Fir Hills, hoping he could control it.

Garos tried to tame Rock-Crushing Worms with Mind Link so they could help him obtain Black Oil, but the Worm King repeatedly intervened and killed the worms. He abandoned that approach for now and resolved to find another way, while vowing to capture the Worm King someday.

• Garos captured a Rock-Crushing Worm and used Mind Link to offer it food and mating opportunities in exchange for its submission.
• The Rock-Crushing Worm accepted, but the Worm King appeared in its mental world and destroyed its consciousness, killing it.
• Garos recognized that the Worm King’s mental control made taming the worms impossible with his current methods.
• Garos captured more Rock-Crushing Worms and tried to tame them, but the Worm King interfered again.
• Garos vowed to capture the Worm King and turned his attention to other possible targets.

Garos captured Earth Spiders to gather Black Oil and trained by enduring Samantha’s strongest fire attack and smashing into mountains. As he searched for a more suitable place to train, a young Copper Dragon arrived, calling Garos an inherently evil hybrid and challenging him to fight.

• Garos used a female Earth Spider to lure and subdue forty-two male spiders, then sent them to collect Black Oil for a promised chance to mate.
• Samantha unleashed an Explosive Flame Breath Bomb on Garos, cracking his scales, while Mobel avoided being called to spar.
• Garos continued training by ramming into a barren mountain, but found that ordinary terrain no longer challenged him.
• A young Copper Dragon flew toward Garos and declared that he would punish the Red Dragon and Iron hybrid.

Garos encountered a juvenile Copper Dragon who tried to provoke him, but he initially flew away to avoid a risky fight. When she pursued him using a fire-enhancing alchemical item, Garos turned and attacked with Electric Fire Breath, which her golden shield blocked.

• Garos identified the approaching Copper Dragon as an adolescent with a life level of 7 and watched her land and assess him.
• The Copper Dragon teased Garos with a riddle and prepared to fight, but he ignored her and flew away after noticing her alchemical gear.
• The Copper Dragon pursued Garos and used fiery rings on her wings to increase her flying speed.
• Garos turned around and struck the Copper Dragon with Electric Fire Breath.
• The Copper Dragon's gold chain produced a shield that blocked the attack, and she continued pursuing Garos, convinced she could defeat him.

Garos lured the inexperienced Copper Dragon into a mine and used the Rock-Crushing Worm King to create an opening for an attack. He defeated the dragon’s defenses and began stripping it of its treasure and alchemical items, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Garos judged the Copper Dragon weak and greedy, then slowed his flight to lure it toward an abandoned mine.
• The Copper Dragon followed Garos into the mine, where the Rock-Crushing Worm King burst from a tunnel and attacked it.
• The Copper Dragon used its Silver Frost Ring to slow the Worm King, but Garos ambushed it as it took flight.
• Garos used his hidden Lightning Tail Ring to shatter the Copper Dragon’s Watcher Necklace barrier and wound its back.
• Garos interrupted the Copper Dragon’s attempt to use its frost breath and struck it with Hypnotic Breath.
• Garos gathered the Copper Dragon’s spilled coins and gemstones, then removed its gold necklace, Wing Ring, and Silver Frost Ring.

Garos defeated the copper dragon, stole its treasure and alchemical equipment, then retreated when he sensed the power of its lifesaving Spell Scale. The copper dragon unleashed the spell on the Worm King, badly wounding it and ravaging the abandoned mine.

• The copper dragon broke free of Garos’s hypnosis, attacked him, and discovered he had taken its equipment, jewelry, gems, and gold.
• Garos dodged the copper dragon’s charge, seized it by the tail, and slammed it into the ground.
• The injured copper dragon revealed a Spell Scale on its chest, and Garos retreated rather than risk facing its unknown power.
• The copper dragon chased Garos briefly, then attacked the Worm King after Garos taunted it while escaping.
• The copper dragon’s Spell Scale unleashed a barrage of ice blades that grievously wounded the Worm King.
• The Worm King fled underground as the copper dragon continued blasting the abandoned mine with ice blades.

Garos returned to the abandoned mine, considered whether to approach the injured Worm King, then brought his treasure back to the Iron Fir Hills and resisted his dragon hoarding instinct. After sharing a conditional promise of treasure with Samantha and eating one magical gemstone, he took three alchemical devices into the sky to test them.

• Garos found the ice blades left by the Copper Dragon and decided not to risk subduing the injured Worm King beneath the mine.
• Garos returned to the Iron Fir Hills, counted his gemstones and coins, and resisted the urge to hoard them through force of will.
• Samantha became overwhelmed by the treasure, begged Garos for some, and returned to studying Alchemy after he promised a reward if she pleased him.
• Garos ate one magical gemstone, found that he could not bring himself to eat a second, and put away the five remaining gemstones and his coins.
• Garos took three alchemical devices into the sky to test their power and effects.

Garos tested the Alchemy items he had taken from Deborah and began training against ice damage, while Deborah flew north to her parents and told them a Hybrid Dragon had robbed her. The chapter left Deborah crying before her parents in the red maple forest.

• Garos discovered that the Silver Frost Ring inflicted painful ice damage on him and decided to train his resistance.
• Garos tested the Flowing Fire Wing Ring and Watcher Necklace, concluding that the Wing Ring might help his wings undergo Adaptive Evolution.
• Garos used the ice formed by the Silver Frost Ring to train his scales and muscles, enduring the cold under the moonlight.
• Deborah flew north across the Ser Wilderness and reached a red maple forest where her parents lived.
• Deborah landed before her parents, cried, and said that an awful Hybrid Dragon had taken all the Alchemy items they had given her.

Deborah learned that the Red-Iron Hybrid Dragon who defeated her may have become evil through abandonment, and decided to capture and reform it after training with her father. Meanwhile, Garos continued improving his fire resistance with Samantha when an Earth Spider emerged from the ground.

• Deborah's parents comforted her and listened as she described being defeated and robbed by a Red-Iron Hybrid Dragon.
• Aldri and Selina explained that hardship and abandonment could shape Evil Dragons, and urged Deborah to defeat, capture, and reform her foe.
• Deborah asked Aldri for stronger alchemical items, but he said he would train her first to improve her combat experience.
• Garos rested after training and wished for another wealthy Metal Dragon to rob.
• Garos had Samantha spray him with Flame Dragon Breath, and his Buffer Scales developed a faint new coloration.
• An Earth Spider crawled out of a crack in the ground near Garos.

Garos learned that an Alchemy Golem guarded the Black Oilfield underground, so the Earth Spiders could only retrieve oil-saturated soil. He traded partial breeding opportunities for more soil and resolved to strengthen himself against any future crusade.

• Garos examined an Earth Spider's memories and saw a powerful Alchemy Golem killing spiders near the Black Oilfield.
• Garos rewarded the Earth Spider with half a breeding opportunity because it had brought back oil soil instead of Black Oil.
• Garos offered other male Earth Spiders the same deal, pulling them away midway through mating and encouraging them to dig up more oil soil.
• Samantha called Garos evil for exploiting the spiders, while Garos insisted he was only motivating them to work harder.
• Garos worried that his fearsome appearance would make adventurers treat him as an Evil Dragon and decided he needed to become stronger.

Garos had Samantha refine crude oil from Oil Soil into Black Oil, then used the refined fuel to power his training. Meanwhile, an adventuring party from the [Tomorrow] company entered the Ser Wilderness to search for an alchemical creation and approached the Iron Fir Hills, where they might encounter a Hatchling Dragon.

• Garos realized the oil in the Oil Soil was crude and asked Samantha to refine it into Black Oil, offering her five gold coins.
• Garos persuaded Samantha to leave the coins with him in exchange for a promise that their value would grow over time.
• Samantha made an alchemical crucible and refined the crude oil, and Garos drank the Black Oil and gained a surge of energy.
• Garos flew to his training ground and charged into rocks he had frozen with the Silver Frost Ring.
• The five adventurers from the [Tomorrow] company entered the Ser Wilderness to search an abandoned mine for a powerful alchemical creation.
• The party headed toward the Iron Fir Hills, and the Spellcaster hoped to capture a Hatchling Dragon.

Garos trained with Black Oil at a remote mountain, pushing through changes to his Buffer Scales as his resistance to ice improved. Nearby, five adventurers detected Dragonkin traces in the Iron Fir Hills, spotted Garos, and decided to pursue him for the fortune they believed he represented.

• Garos continued training by crashing into a frozen mountainside, and he noticed his Buffer Scales growing red, brittle, and hot.
• Black Oil strengthened Garos and improved his training efficiency, while his resistance to ice gradually increased.
• Five adventurers nearing the Iron Fir Hills discovered that Havyn’s magical crystal sensed a fire Dragonkin aura there.
• The adventurers debated avoiding the hills or investigating, then chose to approach cautiously in hopes of capturing a weak dragon.
• Misair used an Alchemy telescope to spot Garos training and told the others she had seen a fortune beyond measure.

Samantha was ambushed by five adventurers and fought back after their spells and equipment prevented her from escaping. Garos watched from above, judged the group to be weak but dangerous, and dove down to intervene.

• Samantha played with ants before rushing to the Alchemy Workshop to calm the boiling Black Oil.
• A rogue shot Samantha with a poisoned bolt as a blond warrior, a necromancer, a spellcaster, and a priest attacked her.
• The adventurers repeatedly weakened and restrained Samantha, stopping her from using Dragon Breath and dragging her back to the ground.
• Samantha fought on despite her wounds, while Garos watched from the clouds and assessed her attackers.
• Garos decided the adventurers were not a major threat but recognized their tactics could endanger a Hatchling Dragon, then dove toward the battle.

Garos arrived during the adventurers’ attempt to capture Samantha and killed their Spellcaster with a sudden aerial attack. He then targeted the white-robed priest while the Blonde Warrior charged after him.

• The adventurers used poisoned bolts, spells, and holy attacks to weaken Samantha while trying to capture the Red Dragonet alive.
• Garos dove into the battle, ignored the Spellcaster’s Anti-Air Spell, and killed him with a crushing strike.
• The Blonde Warrior powered up his armor with a Magic Energy Stone and charged at Garos.
• Garos dodged an alchemical crossbow bolt and pounced toward the white-robed priest, leaving the Blonde Warrior for last.

Garos defeated the adventuring party after the Necromancer’s corpse magic turned the blond warrior against him. When Samantha brought back the fleeing Rogue, the captive offered her treasure and a map tied to a Legendary Realm alchemical item in exchange for her life.

• Garos killed Hedi, the white-robed priestess, despite the blond warrior’s attempt to draw his attention away from her.
• The Necromancer used Hedi’s and Havyn’s corpses to empower the blond warrior and attack Garos, but the blond warrior turned on him and killed him.
• The blond warrior charged Garos, who struck him into a rock wall and then burned both him and the Necromancer to prevent them from surviving.
• Samantha returned with the female Rogue, but Garos refused to keep her alive and said he would kill her.
• The Rogue offered her treasure and a map connected to a Legendary Realm alchemical item in exchange for her life.