Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his fight with Heart of Thunder, Garos trained his close-quarters agility with Alberto and Deborah in Dragon Valley. Alberto revealed why he had stayed away from the Dragon Realm, but his family sent his sister Nasha to retrieve him by force.

• Garos reflected on his battle with Heart of Thunder, weighed the strength of the other regional kings, and began training to improve his agility.
• Alberto tried Garos's Black Oil, joined him in aerial sparring, and was repeatedly knocked around as Garos practiced tight turns and evasive maneuvers.
• Vera teased Deborah about her feelings for Garos, while Deborah asked Alberto why he had stayed in the Borderlands; Alberto explained that his territory had been destroyed and he wanted to escape his controlling parents.
• Deborah reminded Alberto that the Dragon Realm had reopened, and Vera's suggestion that his parents might have tracked him left him fearing their reaction.
• Garos carried Deborah off to train with him, and Vera told Alberto that the pair behaved even more intimately when unobserved.
• In the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, Alberto's parent ordered Nasha to take armor and a tracking tool to bring him home, and Nasha eagerly set out for the Borderlands.

Garos and Alberto returned from slaughtering demons at the Abyssal Rift, and Alberto asked to stay in the Molten Iron Tribe to learn how to develop a territory. After Garos agreed to shelter him despite the risk posed by Alberto’s Legendary parents, he explained his Charisma Hierarchy Theory and advised Alberto on how to build a stronger leader’s presence.

• Garos and Alberto killed demons near the Abyssal Rift, and Garos absorbed life energy from the corpses to restore himself.
• Alberto asked to stay with the Molten Iron Tribe after his sleep and learn from Garos, offering to serve the tribe for free.
• Garos tried to send Alberto away after learning his parents were old gold dragons, but Alberto made promises of future aid until Garos agreed to shelter him.
• Alberto asked Garos how he managed his territory, and Garos explained his Charisma Hierarchy Theory.
• Garos advised Alberto to develop distinctive symbols and traits to strengthen his leader’s presence, and Alberto listened thoughtfully.

Zolaya brought the young dragons of the former Dominic Dragonflight to Dragon Valley, where Tressie began teaching them their place in the hierarchy. Garos tested Zolaya’s poisonous lightning and trained with his followers, while Nasha entered the Borderlands to find Alberto and confront the evil dragon she believed had captured him.

• Zolaya led the frightened young dragons through the blizzard to Dragon Valley and reassured them that the Molten Iron King had offered them a chance to grow stronger.
• Tressie took charge of the new arrivals and crushed a defiant young Blue Dragon beneath her foot to teach them to respect the pecking order.
• Garos asked Zolaya to attack him with her strongest skill, then endured her poisonous emerald lightning and agreed to help her train.
• Deborah objected to Zolaya monopolizing Garos’s attention and led her away to give her a lesson, while Garos resumed training with Alberto.
• Nasha crossed into the Borderlands, sensed the many evil dragons there, and secretly continued toward Alberto’s location, determined to confront whoever held him captive.

Garos sparred with Alberto in the skies above Dragon Valley until Nasha arrived, mistook the training for abuse, and attacked Garos. Garos defeated and pinned her, leaving Nasha fearing she would become his captive.

• Garos used his wings and superior combat skill to batter Alberto during their training spar.
• Nasha saw Alberto being struck and assumed Garos had captured and tortured her brother.
• Nasha charged Garos in Golden Armor and unleashed a series of elemental attacks.
• Garos broke free of Nasha’s wind claw and overpowered her in a clash of explosive claws.
• Garos seized Nasha, slammed her into the frozen ground, and pinned her in a crater.

Nasha Aurelius attacked Garos after finding him with Alberto, but Alberto and the others explained that Garos was his trusted ally and a ruler who kept order. Nasha apologized and became curious about Garos, then learned that the powerful Red Iron Dragon was still a Young Dragon.

• Garos pinned Nasha down after she attacked him, while Alberto recovered and watched instead of rushing to help.
• Alberto mocked Nasha and explained that he and Garos were allies who had fought together and brought order to the Borderlands and northwestern wilderness.
• Zolaya and Deborah backed up Alberto's account, and Garos released Nasha when she calmed down.
• Alberto recounted how he met Garos, and Nasha set aside her hostility and formally apologized to the Molten Iron King.
• Vera introduced Garos and his titles, while Nasha discussed their martial arts and praised his strength.
• Deborah revealed that Garos was still a Young Dragon, shocking Nasha with how young and powerful he was.

Nasha found Alberto in Dragon Valley and challenged Garos’s ideas about training and the order of his territory. After beating Alberto, she chose to stay and study the Martial Path, leaving her father waiting for them to return to the Dragon Realm.

• Nasha asked Garos how he built such vast reserves of Dragon Qi, and Alberto credited Garos’s demanding training methods for his own increased strength.
• Garos showed Nasha Dragon Valley, whose orderly guards and training grounds changed her view of his territory, and she acknowledged that Alberto had good reason to ally with him.
• Nasha revealed that their father had sent her to bring Alberto home, then beat her brother after Garos allowed her to settle the family matter.
• Nasha asked to remain in Dragon Valley to exchange martial experience and observe its rules, and Garos welcomed her as a visitor.
• After Nasha left with Vera, Alberto pretended his beating had been mere hardship, while Garos continued adapting to the Frenzied Flame.
• Nasha told the Old Gold Dragon that she was in no hurry to return with Alberto, then ended their message before he could question her.

Nasha trained with Garos through fierce sparring and elemental resistance drills, setting herself the goal of mastering his techniques and surpassing him. The chapter ended with Alberto arriving in Dragon Valley with four golden horns, leaving Garos and Nasha stunned by his transformation.

• Nasha sparred with Garos, received advice about smoothly combining elemental attacks, and decided to learn his techniques and eventually defeat him.
• Garos found Deborah disguised as a fish and dragged her into another round of training while Vera supported her.
• Tressie put the Dominic Dragonflight's young dragons through harsh drills, and their food, recovery, and training under the Molten Iron Tribe steadily strengthened their loyalty to it.
• After resting, Nasha attacked Garos with elemental skills to help him build resistance, leaving his Cold Explosive Scale cracked and exposing his Battleworn Marks.
• Alberto approached Garos and Nasha with four golden horns instead of one pair and offered no explanation for the change.

Alberto showed off his artificial four-pair horn crown, while Garos tested Nasha’s Sole-Sovereign Dragon Emperor Armor and learned how dramatically it enhanced its wearer. Nasha resolved to train until she could challenge Alberto after his coming slumber, as the Ser Wilderness settled into a balance among three Regional Kings while war intensified in the Southern Kingdoms.

• Alberto claimed his four pairs of artificial horns were a sacred crown marking his destiny, and Garos praised the idea while Nasha threatened to rip them off.
• Nasha told Garos that her father had made the Sole-Sovereign Dragon Emperor Armor, then let Garos borrow it and taught him its command phrase.
• Garos activated the armor by shouting its command and felt his strength, speed, and recovery surge before returning it to Nasha.
• Nasha went looking for Alberto to punish him, but found he had gone to sleep; Garos warned that his Life Level would likely reach eighteen when he woke.
• Nasha vowed to reach level eighteen before Alberto awoke and asked Garos to intensify her training.
• The Molten Iron Tribe consolidated its holdings, the Troll King died attacking the Mushroom King's Territory, and the Ser Wilderness entered a Threefold Wilderness era as war in the Southern Kingdoms worsened.

Gordon trained with the Crystal Princess, enduring her powerful Evocation magic as he worked to grow strong enough to join his blood kin. King O'Brien then revealed that he would personally lead Lothern's armies against the rebels, backed by the kingdom's awakening Legendary Guards.

• The Crystal Princess tested Gordon with fire, ice, lightning, and other Evocation spells, leaving him badly injured before the court physicians healed him.
• Gordon vowed to keep training so he could honor the Ignas name and eventually stand among his brothers in the Ser Wilderness.
• The Crystal Princess told Gordon she would gift fifty units of Black Oil Crystals to the Gem Merchants' Guild as an investment in her relationship with Garos and the Molten Iron Tribe.
• King O'Brien arrived, asked Gordon to invite Garos to the Royal Court when he reached the Legendary Realm, and told Elina she could continue her dealings with the dragonflight.
• O'Brien revealed that he would personally take command against the Anti-King Faction and awaken the Legendary Guards to march with him.

Garos accepted Elina’s Black Oil Crystal gift and learned that King O’Brien planned to lead the Southern War campaign himself, prompting him to prepare for the war’s possible end by expanding into the Permafrost Tundra. He appointed Heriam to establish a foothold and escape route there, then returned to training to strengthen himself.

• Garos accepted Elina’s gift of fifty units of Black Oil Crystal after Gordon explained that she expected nothing in return.
• Gordon reported King O’Brien’s plans to lead the campaign and awaken the Legendary Guards, and Garos considered how a swift Lothern victory could threaten the tribe’s wilderness holdings.
• Garos decided to establish a fallback foothold in the Permafrost Tundra in case the Southern War ended before he reached the Legendary Realm.
• Garos and Sorog chose Heriam to lead the expedition north, with Kaxier and a carefully selected group of followers.
• Heriam accepted the mission and began organizing the expeditionary army while Garos resumed his training.

Garos considered joining the Metal Dragon Realms’ tournament but declined for now, choosing to focus on training and the approaching Young Adult Stage slumber. After ten years of preparation and the rise and fall of wars across the wilderness and southern kingdoms, he settled the Molten Iron Tribe’s affairs and entered slumber in New Calendar year 289.

• Garos assessed how his Cold Explosive Scales were weakening as his body adapted, while Nasha arrived and invited him to a Metal Dragon Realm tournament.
• Deborah offered to bring Garos to the Raging Tide Dragon Realm, but Nasha warned him about Siano Sheffield, the Fury of Justice; Garos remained wary and declined to commit to the tournament.
• Garos continued training his scales, wings, blood, and control of the Frenzied Flame as three years passed and Heriam led a pioneering legion north into the Permafrost Tundra.
• King O'Brien’s forces initially advanced in the Southern Kingdoms’ war, but the Rybos Kingdom’s weapons turned the tide at the Beckton Great River, leaving Lothern in a precarious position by New Calendar year 289.
• After ten years since his last slumber, Garos reached the limits of his body and mind, arranged for allies to watch over the Molten Iron Tribe, consumed his accumulated treasures, and entered Young Adult Stage slumber.

The Molten Iron Tribe expanded its power while Abyssal Rifts spread and the Southern War turned against Lothern. As the Anti-King Faction prepared to assault Valdo City, Gordon left the Crystal Princess behind when she refused to abandon her people, and King O'Brien prepared to defend the capital.

• Heriam defeated the Frostclaw Troll clan and strengthened the Molten Iron Tribe's foothold in the Permafrost Tundra.
• A massive Magic Tide erupted from the Borderlands' Abyssal Rift, and Nasha returned to help contain it as Abyssal disturbances spread across the world.
• The Kantum Orc Empire conquered the Theresia Continent and began building a fleet, while the Rybos-led Anti-King Faction seized much of Lothern's territory.
• King O'Brien rejected peace proposals, and Gordon, Sorog, Samantha, and Alberto awoke from their long slumbers.
• As the Anti-King Faction surrounded Valdo City, Gordon urged Elina to flee, but she chose to remain; Gordon departed, and the enemy prepared its final assault while O'Brien stood ready to defend the capital.

As Lothern’s defenses neared collapse, the Saint King Alan Lothern emerged from the Sacred Stele, punished the traitors, and drove the coalition army away while dissolving the Southern Federation. The kingdoms began recovering from the war, and the chapter ended with the Molten Iron King awakening in the Northern Frontier after nearly thirty years of slumber.

• King O'Brien led Lothern’s defenders into battle while Iron Dragon Gordon returned to carry Elina, and Elina promised to become his princess if the kingdom survived.
• Mave and the commander of the Royal Knights Order betrayed O'Brien, binding him with Soul Chains and stabbing him in the back.
• The Sacred Stele erupted, and Saint King Alan Lothern appeared, executed the traitors, and used his realm to overwhelm the coalition forces.
• Alan dissolved the Federation, pardoned the invading soldiers, and ordered them to leave Lothern; the coalition army fled in panic.
• Gordon claimed that destiny favored him, but Elina denied promising to become his princess, while O'Brien refused her request to have Alan pursue the retreating enemy legends.
• The Southern Kingdoms began recovering after the war, and the Molten Iron King awakened from his long slumber in the Northern Frontier.

After nearly thirty years of slumber, Garos Ignas awakened at the peak of level 20 and returned to Dragon Valley. He discovered that his blood and wings had evolved, leaving him eager to test his new strength as his dragons celebrated his return.

• Garos Ignas awoke in New Calendar 318 after a long slumber, found himself at the Mortal Limit of level 20, and sensed major changes in his body.
• Garos recalled Xia'er, whose soul remained stored in a phylactery, and resolved to check whether it had recovered clarity.
• Garos burst through the earth near Dragon Valley and soared into the sky, where the dragons celebrated his return while Deborah advised them to wait for him to finish adapting.
• Garos tested his evolved wings, which expanded beyond a hundred meters and could fold and attack from unusual angles.
• Garos discovered that his new Ferocious Wings consumed Dragon Qi continuously, but judged his vast reserves and adaptation talent made them well suited to him.

After a twenty-nine-year sleep, Garos awakened to transformed wings, scales, and Dragon Blood, then replenished himself and tested his new abilities. He discovered that his blood could convert into concentrated Dragon Qi and back with almost no loss, leaving him confident that few beings could defeat him.

• Garos tested his crimson wings in flight and found that his single-layer scales had stronger defenses and could continuously absorb heat for his Dragon Jade.
• Garos flew to Dragon Valley, where his followers brought food and resources; he ate for hours until his strength and vitality returned.
• Tressie, Deborah, and Vera admired Garos's changed appearance, and he learned that the tribe had developed steadily while he slept for twenty-nine years.
• Garos examined his Dragon Blood and found that it stayed on the verge of burning without making him lose control, even when the Frenzied Flame stirred.
• Garos cut his foreleg and discovered that blood exposed to air became concentrated Dragon Qi, which he could draw back into his body and turn into blood again.
• Garos concluded that the cycle made him nearly invincible below the Legendary Realm, then steadied himself before his confidence could go to his head.

Garos tested his evolved Frenzied Flame, discovered that he could preserve his reason while entering Furious State, and found that his rage could drive nearby creatures into madness. The story then shifted to Theo Kingdom, where attacks on its Ser Wilderness outposts prompted Marquis Marcus and Legendary Sword Saint Kellos to assess the crisis.

• Garos deliberately intensified Frenzied Flame and entered Furious State while a Psychic Barrier kept his reason intact.
• Garos discovered that his rage radiated outward, driving a Polar Falcon and other nearby creatures to attack recklessly.
• Garos pushed his anger until his body and Psychic Barrier began to fail, then suppressed it and returned to Dragon Valley, satisfied with his new ability.
• Three years after the Federation Civil War ended, Theo Kingdom received reports that Regional Kings had seized or destroyed its Ser Wilderness outposts.
• Marquis Marcus and Kellos studied a map of the threatened outposts at Iron Crown City's Otherworld Strategy Directorate.

Marquis Marcus and Kellos planned a Theo Kingdom campaign to reclaim the Ser Wilderness, while Garos learned about the Saint King’s return and heard Gordon claim that Destiny Rank governed everyone’s fate. The chapter left Gordon defending his bizarre belief that his choices had determined whether the Saint King appeared.

• Marquis Marcus described the Molten Iron King, Mushroom King, and Mountain King as threats in the Ser Wilderness and proposed a cleansing operation led by Kellos.
• Kellos and Marcus discussed whether the Saint King had truly returned to life, then agreed that the kingdoms could not risk testing his power.
• Garos used the Blood Kin Link to ask Sorog, Samantha, and Gordon about events during his twenty-nine years of slumber, including the Saint King’s reappearance and later appearances.
• Gordon announced his Destiny Doctrine, arguing that Destiny Rank mattered more than power, talent, hard work, intelligence, or opportunity.
• Gordon claimed he was favored by destiny and argued that the Saint King’s return had depended on whether Gordon chose to stay in Lothern Royal City.

Garos learned that the Southern Kingdoms could soon threaten the Molten Iron Tribe now that their civil war had ended, and he rejected Samantha’s proposal to conquer the other Regional Kings. He resolved to hold the wilderness if possible, while privately recognizing that the tribe’s future depended on whether he could stand against a legend.

• Gordon insisted that destiny favored him but said he still needed to train to deserve its favor, then argued with Samantha about princesses and the Crystal Princess.
• Sorog told Garos that Alberto was studying the Molten Iron Tribe’s management while Nasha spent her time challenging powerful fighters.
• Sorog reported that the tribe had mostly remained at peace with the Mountain King and Mushroom King, apart from unusual Giant activity during an Abyssal Rift crisis.
• Samantha urged Garos to wage war on the other Regional Kings, but Garos explained that the Southern Kingdoms were now the greater danger after the Lothern Federation dissolved.
• Garos declared that he would not abandon the wilderness unless forced, while privately questioning whether he could face a legend.

Garos trained in Binding Armor and demonstrated that his strength had risen far beyond Alberto’s, who conceded their challenge without fighting. Later, Deborah entered Garos’s sealed bedchamber, and the two dragons drew close together.

• Garos tested his increased speed while training in Samantha’s Binding Armor, then teased Deborah when she arrived dressed in jewelry and she fled into Burning Steel Fortress.
• Alberto visited Garos, challenged him to a fight without Garos’s Red Lotus Patterns, and agreed to their usual debt stakes.
• Garos removed his armor and revealed a terrifying aura, so Alberto immediately conceded rather than risk fighting him.
• Alberto resumed training while Garos returned to Burning Steel Fortress and rested in his treasure-filled bedchamber.
• Deborah slipped into Garos’s room, knocked the invisible Fairy Dragon out of the way, sealed the door, and approached Garos intimately.

After spending several days with Deborah, Garos resumed training and approved Tressie’s plan to establish White Dragon Academy. His training was interrupted by an urgent report that human legions had launched major attacks in the Mushroom King’s Territory.

• Deborah asked Garos to promise that she would always hold the most important place in his heart, and he reassured her with a riddle about their shared past and future.
• After Deborah fell into a deep sleep, Garos returned to the training grounds, where Alberto teased him for resting and fantasized about surpassing him.
• Tressie proposed building a separate training site for young dragons, and Garos approved her plan to establish White Dragon Academy.
• Alberto and Garos offered to teach at the academy, while Tressie promised to make it a cradle for the tribe’s future powerhouses.
• Sorog urgently informed Garos that human legions were advancing through the Mushroom King’s Territory amid intense fighting.