Chapter Summaries

After learning that Kellos, a level 21 Legendary Sword Saint, had attacked the Mushroom King's Territory, Garos decided to prepare for war while keeping a retreat plan ready. He flew toward the wilderness with Alberto, intending to visit Nasha before confronting the threat.

• Sorog reported the attack on the Mushroom King's Territory and warned that a Legendary Realm fighter had joined the assault.
• Gordon relayed Elina's information identifying the attacker as Kellos, the Theo Kingdom's level 21 Legendary Sword Saint, and Garos ordered preparations for both war and retreat.
• Garos asked Alberto to assess his chances, and Alberto warned him about the Sword Saint's domain while promising to watch the battle and send for help if needed.
• Garos decided that the Molten Iron Tribe needed to demonstrate its strength to protect its holdings in the Ser Wilderness, then told Vera to alert Deborah and the Kin Leaders.
• Garos and Alberto flew toward the wilderness, and Garos revealed that they would visit Nasha before meeting the Legendary Sword Saint.

Kellos led the human legion into the Mushroom King's Territory and killed the Spore Troll after it split, regenerated, and fused into a stronger form. The Mushroom King’s territory fell inert, but the true Mushroom King escaped as a tiny mushroom, while Kellos prepared to target the Molten Iron King and Garos received the Sole-Sovereign Dragon Emperor Armor.

• Kellos advanced through the Mushroom King's Territory, clearing fungal growth and monsters while his legion followed to secure the land.
• Kellos unleashed Dust-Cleansing Sword Rain to destroy a vast area and force the hidden Mushroom King to emerge as a Spore Troll.
• Kellos fought the Spore Troll as it regenerated and multiplied, then cut down its fused form and burned its remains to ash.
• The fungal monsters and carpets became lifeless, and Kellos ordered his legion to collect samples and report the Mushroom King's elimination.
• The real Mushroom King escaped underground as a tiny mushroom, while Kellos chose the Molten Iron King as his next target.
• Garos arrived in Anqiya's territory and took the Sole-Sovereign Dragon Emperor Armor from Nasha.

Garos tested the golden armor Nasha had lent him and planned a duel against Kellos, the Legendary Sword Saint. Anqiya delivered Garos’s formal challenge, and Kellos accepted a battle on the Silent Plain seven days later.

• Garos completed his adjustment to the armor and praised the strength it added, while Nasha said she could lend it but could not give it to him without her father’s permission.
• Sorog reported that the fighting in Mushroom King's Territory had ended, and Garos decided to challenge Kellos to a duel while his forces gathered to witness and support him.
• Garos chose Anqiya to carry the challenge, and she sent a duplicate flying toward the human camp.
• Anqiya delivered Garos’s challenge to Kellos at the camp, naming the Silent Plain as the battlefield.
• Kellos accepted the duel for noon seven days later and warned that it would be Garos’s last battle as a king.

Garos Ignas fought the Legendary Sword Saint Kellos on the Silent Plain and defeated him by shattering his domain with overwhelming physical strength. The Molten Iron King rose victorious as the Theo Kingdom's army watched in stunned silence.

• Garos Ignas and Kellos faced each other before the Molten Iron Tribe and the Theo Kingdom's armies, then began their duel.
• Garos entered Red Lotus Form and struck Kellos's Myriad Radiance Sword Domain hard enough to crack it, while Kellos used Weakness Insight and Swordlight Teleportation to wound Garos repeatedly.
• As the battle wore on, Kellos spent nearly half his energy, and Garos's Dragon Breath forced the Sword Saint to prepare a life-consuming Overloaded Domain Compression strike.
• Garos used nine potions and activated his armor before charging through Kellos's Sun Chaser strike and smashing the compressed domain with his claw.
• Garos broke Kellos's Sun-Chasing Sword, pinned him into the ground, and killed him, leaving the Molten Iron Tribe cheering and the human army demoralized.

After defeating the Sword Saint, Garos considered the dangers posed by Legendary Traits and planned to investigate whether his adaptive talent could counter them. As the Molten Iron Tribe captured the human army and debated the prospects of war, a golden figure raced toward them from the west.

• The human legion surrendered after Garos killed the Sword Saint, and Sorog, Samantha, and the Molten Iron Tribe began securing prisoners and supplies.
• Garos assessed his severe wounds, explained the Sword Saint’s Guaranteed Hit and defense-piercing traits, and wondered whether he could evolve resistance to Legendary Traits.
• Garos decided to offer the prisoners for ransom, while Sorog warned that the Theo Kingdom might retaliate and Samantha insisted the Ser Wilderness belonged to the dragons.
• Garos suspected that a Magic Satellite had recorded the battle and resolved to pursue alchemical anti-surveillance devices.
• Nasha discovered that her armor had been damaged by the Sword Saint’s final strike, while Alberto tried to flee after learning of the damage and Nasha caught his tail.
• Garos spotted a brilliant golden figure streaking toward them from the western horizon.

Legendary Gold Dragon Orvis Aurelius arrived at the Silent Plain, assessed Garos, and tested him with overwhelming Dragon Might before praising his strength and composure. Orvis invited Garos to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm to compete against its young dragons, but Garos suspected the elder had another motive.

• Orvis Aurelius arrived at the Silent Plain and found Nasha, Alberto, the prisoners, and the wounded Garos after the battle.
• Nasha and Alberto tried to shield Garos and explain that he was not the kind of Evil Dragon Orvis suspected.
• Orvis questioned Garos about killing a Legendary human and pressed him with Dragon Might, while Garos held his ground and the Molten Iron Tribe gathered behind him.
• Garos praised Orvis as a wise and just dragon, prompting Orvis to withdraw his pressure and commend Garos's strength and character.
• Orvis invited Garos to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm's young-dragon competition and offered additional rewards, while Nasha said ordinary prizes would not entice him.
• Orvis urged Garos to defeat the Dragon Realm's pampered young Metal Dragons, but Garos sensed the elder had another reason for wanting him to compete.

Garos learned that Orvis wanted him to compete in the Five Dragon Realms United Tournament to secure a high-stakes wager, and agreed after Orvis offered him the tournament prizes and entry to Between the Primordial Tides. Orvis healed Garos’s wounds and took Alberto back to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, while Nasha stayed behind.

• Garos questioned Orvis’s motives, and Alberto and Nasha revealed that Orvis had wagered valuable treasures on the tournament.
• Orvis offered Garos the tournament prizes and access to Between the Primordial Tides if he represented the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, and Garos accepted.
• Orvis proposed that the other realms’ champion would challenge Garos directly in the final, sparing him the earlier matches.
• Orvis used Holy Healing to treat Garos’s injuries and saw the many Battleworn Marks on his body.
• Nasha persuaded Orvis to let her remain in the wilderness, but he knocked Alberto unconscious and carried him back to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm.

After the Molten Iron King killed Kellos, Theo Kingdom halted its campaign and sought to negotiate for its captured soldiers. In Lothern, Elina decided to deepen ties with the Molten Iron Tribe and asked Gordon to find out whether Garos wanted to rule the entire Ser Wilderness.

• Marquis Marcus and the Theo Kingdom's advisers watched the Magic Satellite recording of Garos defeating Kellos and capturing the kingdom's soldiers.
• Marquis Marcus blamed the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm for supporting Garos, suspended military operations in the Ser Wilderness, and ordered conciliatory negotiations to redeem the prisoners.
• Gordon questioned whether Garos was favored by destiny, while Elina reconsidered her strategy after seeing the Molten Iron King's strength and backing.
• Elina abandoned her plan to use Kellos's victory to expand Lothern's influence and chose to build a deeper alliance with the Molten Iron Tribe.
• Elina asked Gordon to find out whether Garos wanted to become the true ruler of the Ser Wilderness.

Garos returned to Dragon Valley after killing a Legendary Sword Saint and told Aldri, Selina, and Deborah about the battle. Aldri warned him that the Theo Kingdom might retaliate and promised the Metal Dragons’ aid, before Garos carried Deborah away to spend time with her.

• Garos arrived at his fortress and reunited with Aldri, Selina, and Deborah, who teased him about his muscular human form and an embarrassing shapeshifting mishap.
• Garos revealed that he had killed a Legendary Sword Saint on the Silent Plain, astonishing Aldri and Selina and impressing Deborah.
• Selina praised Garos and offered to spread rumors that the Raging Tide Dragon Realm protected him, while Aldri gave him more potions and urged him to call for help if the Theo Kingdom retaliated.
• Garos explained how his conflict with the Theo Kingdom began, and Aldri promised to summon powerful Metal Dragons if Garos faced another Legendary opponent.
• After Aldri and Selina flew away, Deborah urged Garos to rest, but he swept her into his arms and vanished with her.

Garos negotiated an alliance with Crystal Princess Elina, securing Lothern’s recognition, technical assistance, infrastructure support, and trade in exchange for strategic cooperation. He delayed proclaiming himself King of the Wilderness until the Molten Iron Tribe had brought the entire Ser Wilderness under its rule, and ended by preparing to move against the Mountain King.

• After recovering from his fight with the Legendary Sword Saint, Garos joined Sorog and Gordon in the Mind Network to discuss Elina’s proposal that he become King of the Wilderness.
• Elina offered Lothern’s diplomatic recognition, alchemical and engineering expertise, infrastructure support, and a fair trade agreement in return for a strategic alliance with the Molten Iron Tribe.
• Garos accepted the alliance in principle, insisting that the tribe retain control of the Ser Wilderness, train its own people, and trade fairly.
• Garos told Elina he would proclaim himself king only after bringing the wilderness’s northeast and south under his rule and silencing opposition; Elina addressed him as Emperor Ignas in advance.
• After Elina left the Mind Network, Samantha urged an attack on the Hill Giant King, Sorog warned that the Mountain King’s restraint seemed unusual, and Garos declared that their peace was over.

After the Molten Iron King's fame spread beyond the Ser Wilderness, Garos planned to defeat the Mountain King and eventually establish a kingdom. He assembled dragons and summoned lords for the campaign, while Tressie reported that Garos Academy was ready.

• Garos and his blood kin decided to defeat the Mountain King before consolidating their rule and founding a kingdom.
• Garos ordered the dragonflights and three lords to strike the Mountain King together, with thralls following to secure the northeast afterward.
• Garos learned from Tressie that the Dragon Academy was complete and approved her name for it: Garos Academy.
• Garos flew to the Ser Wilderness, where the participating dragonflights and three lords assembled for the campaign.
• Gold Dragon Nasha joined the expedition, eager to fight the Giants because of their history with dragons.

Garos rallied the dragons of the Molten Iron Tribe to attack the Mountain King, while Grom gambled on absorbing Leyline Energy to reach the Legendary Realm. The dragons arrived before Grom could break through, leaving him to prepare for battle with the damaged Legendary Equipment Earthshaker.

• Garos controlled his inherited hatred of giants, rejected the idea of granting surrendering giants vassal status, and rallied his warriors to unify the Ser Wilderness.
• The dragons roared their approval and flew to the Ironspine Mountains, where Grom had been absorbing Leyline Energy to strengthen himself and repair Earthshaker.
• Grom recalled his tribe's flight from the Orc Empire and chose to risk everything by accelerating his attempt to break through the Legendary barrier rather than abandon his territory.
• Grom sent the young giants away to preserve the tribe's chance of survival if he fell.
• On the seventh day of Grom's attempt, the Molten Iron Tribe's dragons arrived, and Grom pulled Earthshaker from the Leyline vortex and ordered his warriors to prepare for war.

Garos led the Molten Iron Tribe’s dragons against the Giants after Mountain King Grom’s offer of vassalage proved to be a ploy to buy time. Garos defeated and killed Grom just as the Giant neared a breakthrough into the Legendary Realm, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Grom offered peace and vassalage, but Garos demanded that he surrender the Earthshaker or cut off an arm and come alone to the Molten Iron Territory.
• Garos rejected Grom’s stalling tactics and ordered the dragons to attack, while Grom rallied the Giants to fight.
• The dragons struck from the air, but the Hill Giants used their earth energy to create a field of heightened gravity that hindered flight.
• The dragons’ rune-etched alchemical ornaments countered the gravity field, and the fighting intensified as Garos and Grom began their duel.
• Garos activated Red Lotus Form and overpowered Grom, who transformed into a massive Stone Giant before Garos smashed through its body.
• Grom’s aura began rising toward the Legendary Realm, but Garos entered Furious State and killed him with four blows before he could complete the breakthrough.

Garos defeated Grom’s leaderless Giants, claimed the northeastern Ser Wilderness, and assigned his dragons to secure and search the territory. Several days later, he visited the Dragonforged Transformation Base, where elite thralls underwent a more refined transformation into Dragonforged Warriors.

• Garos found that Earthshaker rejected his Dragonkin power, then carried it over the battlefield and revealed Grom’s death to the Giants.
• Garos killed the Giants’ commanders and warriors, ending their final stand, then ordered Samantha, Zolaya, and Sorog to secure and develop the conquered territory.
• Garos told Samantha to search for Grom’s hidden resources and the Abyssal Rift, while Zolaya maintained order and Sorog managed the Giants’ fleeing thralls.
• Kalu the Glutton Demon arrived with his Thrall Legion, and Samantha collected Grom’s remains while surveying the mountains.
• Garos returned to the Dragonforged Base with Seraphina and Ludwig and inspected the Dragonblood Furnace as elite warriors underwent transformation.
• A Lich mage suppressed a Gnoll’s unstable Dragon Blood energy, allowing his transformation to continue.

Garos visited the Dragonforged Base, learned that Xiaer Hines had awakened as a soul, and offered him a chance to become a Heroic Spirit. He later discovered that he was the mysterious dragon at the center of the Five Great Dragon Realms’ tournament, while Calvus Velaperion emerged as the likeliest challenger.

• Garos praised Seraphina and Ludwig for managing the Dragonforged Base and went to see Xiaer Hines in the Phylactery.
• Xiaer asked about his wife Beverly, learned she and their two children were safe, and chose to keep living rather than accept reincarnation.
• Garos offered Xiaer the chance to become an undead being or wait for the Legendary Artifact Hall of Heroes to make him a Heroic Spirit, and Xiaer chose to wait for the latter.
• Garos returned to Dragon Valley, where Selina told him about the tournament rules, and he revealed that he was the mysterious dragon whom the champion would challenge.
• Selina teased Garos and Deborah about having children, while Deborah protested that she had not thought about hatchlings.
• In the Radiant Dragon Realm, a Bronze Dragon questioned the tournament rules as Calvus Velaperion calmly considered the mysterious challenger and his own status as the likely challenger.

Aldri and Selina discussed Garos’s tournament role and the divide between the Inclusivist and Purification Factions in the Raging Tide Dragon Realm. After Siano Sheffield ascended to the Legendary Realm, he tried to recruit Aldri, but their opposing beliefs drove Aldri and Selina to leave him behind.

• Aldri and Selina walked along the shore and discussed Garos’s mysterious tournament role and the anger it had stirred among young dragons.
• Aldri and Selina reflected on their Inclusivist beliefs as the newly legendary Siano Sheffield’s power erupted from the sea.
• Siano landed on the beach, congratulated Aldri on nearing the Legendary Realm, and declared his intent to eradicate Evil Dragons.
• Siano urged Aldri to join the Purification Faction, but Aldri rejected his bloodline-based judgment and challenged his absolutist beliefs.
• Selina intervened as the argument intensified, and Aldri departed with her after telling Siano that their different paths could not be reconciled.
• Other dragons arrived to congratulate Siano, leaving him surrounded by supporters.

Garos mastered the Cleansing Spell and began studying magic during breaks from his training, while the Molten Iron Tribe consolidated its rule over the Ser Wilderness over the next three years. With the tribe ready to establish a nation, Garos planned to first defeat the Metal Dragon challenger and reach the Legendary Realm through the Eternal Tide.

• Garos cast the Cleansing Spell after a day of study, then decided to use his training breaks to test whether his Adaptive Evolution talent could help him learn magic.
• Samantha and the Sorcerer Order found the northeastern leyline core and Abyssal Rift, while new clans pledged allegiance and the Molten Iron Tribe completed its unification of the Ser Wilderness.
• The Molten Iron Tribe secured the release of captured Theo soldiers through negotiations, and it reached key diplomatic and trade agreements with the Lothern Kingdom.
• Three years later, Sorog urged Garos to establish a nation, citing the tribe’s growth and its need for technology and trade to overcome a development bottleneck.
• Garos said he and Nasha would travel to the Dragon Realm, defeat the Metal Dragon challenger, and use the Eternal Tide to reach the Legendary Realm before founding the nation.

Garos prepared to enter the Metal Dragon Realm, reassuring Deborah that strength would help him overcome prejudice and agreeing to let her and Vera accompany him. As the tournament narrowed to five favored challengers, Garos advanced his Wild Dragon abilities and returned to Dragon Valley, where he found Deborah and an unfamiliar armored woman.

• Garos trained and meditated while Deborah warned him that Metal Dragons might look down on his origins and oppose his championship bid.
• Garos explained that he would focus on winning Orvis’s wager, claiming the championship prize, and earning entry to the Eternal Tide; Deborah and Vera then asked to accompany him, and he agreed.
• At the Metal Dragon Realm’s tournament, Kalwus, Zafili, Gilbert, Balde, and Besiara emerged as the five leading contenders for the right to challenge Garos.
• Garos controlled his Rage before a Winter Wolf, reflected on reaching level six of the Wild Path and learning Selfless Berserk, then flew back toward Dragon Valley.
• Garos landed in Dragon Valley and saw Deborah in human form beside an unfamiliar woman wearing light armor.

Garos traveled with Nasha, Deborah, and Vera across Atlant Continent and the ocean to compete as the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm’s mysterious guest at the Dragon Realm tournament. After Alberto gave Garos a Legendary Artifact to conceal his true species, the party reached the Radiant Dragon Realm, where the Twenty-Four-Winged Gold Dragon King ruled.

• Nasha told Garos that the tournament’s elimination rounds had ended and urged him to travel to the Sea of Serenity for the final stage.
• Garos, Nasha, Deborah, and Vera flew south across Atlant Continent, avoiding sensitive airspace and passing kingdoms, Elven realms, and the Latona Kingdom’s busy port.
• Garos considered the wider world and its powers as the party crossed the continent and continued over the ocean.
• Alberto met the party on a remote island and gave Garos the All-Beings-as-One Golden Sash, which made others perceive him as one of their own.
• Garos wore the sash and continued with his companions across the ocean until they reached the Radiant Dragon Realm.

Garos Ignas entered the Five Great Dragon Realms Elite Tournament final against Kalwus Velaperion, revealing himself as a Red Iron Dragon and provoking outrage among the Metal Dragons. He defeated Kalwus decisively, leaving the spectators to recognize why the elders had granted him a place in the final.

• Garos arrived at the Radiant Dragon Realm, met Aestrid and Orvis, and learned that Kalwus Velaperion had won the right to challenge him.
• Garos waited five days before joining the gathered spectators at the Arena Waters, where dragons traded wild rumors about his identity.
• The announcer introduced Kalwus and Garos, and Garos removed his golden sash to reveal that he was a Red Iron Dragon, drawing protests from the Metal Dragons.
• Kalwus attacked Garos with his flying skills and Siphon talent, but Garos overpowered him in the air and underwater.
• Kalwus unleashed Siphon: Void Return and pushed his strength past its limits, but Garos countered with his Dragon Qi armor and Destruction Dragon Breath.
• Garos struck Kalwus down, and the unconscious Gold Dragon fell into the sea as the crowd accepted Garos's overwhelming strength.