Chapter Summaries

Garos exchanged Ashen Delight for the Eye of True Sight and learned that Margarita could not see his future when she attempted a prophecy. As tensions grew along Aura Kingdom’s border with Theo Kingdom, Garos turned his attention to the Permafrost Tundra.

• Garos learned that Alya had accepted Aura Kingdom’s invitation and would visit after finishing her current task, while he trained to control his Furious Radiation.
• Margarita arrived from Lothern Kingdom and exchanged the Eye of True Sight for Garos’s greatsword, Ashen Delight.
• Garos asked Margarita to prophesy about his future, but the stars and threads of fate vanished from her sight, forcing her to stop.
• Margarita left Aura Kingdom with Ashen Delight, while the Eye of True Sight remained to support Garos’s next attempt at Adaptive Evolution.
• Aura Kingdom rejected Theo Kingdom’s demand to return those who had fled, and both kingdoms reinforced their borders as small clashes increased.
• Garos watched the tensions with Theo Kingdom and turned his attention to the Permafrost Tundra.

Woruk revealed his Legendary Realm strength, defeated the Barbarians, and proclaimed himself the Everfrost King before uniting the Permafrost Tundra. After the threat reached Garos, the Red Iron Dragon decided to defeat Woruk and bring the Northern Frontier under the Aura Kingdom.

• Woruk revealed his Legendary Realm domain, crushed the Barbarian chief, and slaughtered the tribe after they refused to submit.
• Woruk ordered the surviving Frost Giants to call him the Everfrost King and announced his plan to unite the tundra before advancing south.
• Woruk led the Frost Giants across the Permafrost Tundra, forcing most tribes to submit and destroying those that resisted.
• Intelligence about the Everfrost King's rise reached Garos at the High Mountain Dragon Court.
• Garos decided to crush Woruk before he united the tundra and to bring the Northern Frontier into the Aura Kingdom.

Garos Ignas traveled to Dragonfang Fortress to confront Woruk, the legendary Frost Giant who planned to conquer the Wilderness. Garos killed Woruk and secured the Aura Kingdom’s position in the Permafrost Tundra, while his dragons hailed him as the true Lord of the Northern Frontier.

• Garos decided to secretly strike at the Frost Giants, sent Vera to patrol Crimson Flame Royal City in his likeness, and flew north to Dragonfang Fortress.
• Garos ordered Heriam and Kaxier to announce the Dragonkin presence, drawing Woruk to the fortress alone.
• Woruk tried to recruit Heriam and Kaxier, but they mocked his outdated plans and told him the Wilderness already belonged to Garos.
• Garos emerged from his glacier hideout and battled Woruk, overpowering him despite the Giant’s formidable traits and abilities.
• Woruk feigned death through his Winter’s Will trait, but Garos burned him away with Overlimit Destruction Dragon Breath.
• The dragons at Dragonfang Fortress cheered Garos as their king and the true Lord of the Northern Frontier.

Garos secured the Northern Frontier for the Aura Kingdom and used the Eye of True Sight to begin pushing his body toward further evolution. Six years later, Alya prepared to return to Atlant Continent, uncertain whether to reconcile with Garos over the Hall of Heroes or treat him as a threat.

• Garos ordered Heriam to command the northern campaign, with Kaxier, the Golden-Plumed Griffin, and the Eight-Snake Leopard helping subdue the remaining Frost Giants.
• Garos awakened the Eye of True Sight and discovered that its strain could stimulate his eyes to evolve, inspiring him to seek out Legendary Artifacts for further adaptive evolution.
• The Molten Iron Legion conquered the Permafrost Tundra, and six years later Garos held the title Lord of the Northern Frontier.
• Alya advanced to level twenty-four after receiving a Blazing Sun Fruit from an Elf lord, then learned that the Aura Kingdom had once been the Molten Iron Tribe and feared Garos wanted the Hall of Heroes back.
• Alya considered avoiding Garos, making peace, or striking first, then took the Elf lord's advice under consideration and departed for Atlant Continent.

Garos reviewed the Aura Kingdom’s growth and judged that rising tensions among the Southern Kingdoms could draw his realm into war. When he discovered the newly awakened Legendary Amethyst Dragon Iseramathus in Crimson Flame Royal City, he welcomed him and persuaded him to stay, then learned that the Lucky Messenger would soon visit to discuss cooperation.

• Garos used [Sensory Information Link] to review reports on the Aura Kingdom’s development and weighed its close ties with Lothern against the growing threat of another war among the kingdoms.
• Garos spotted an unknown Legendary Dragon in Crimson Flame Royal City with the Eye of True Sight and flew to confront him.
• Iseramathus revealed himself as a Level 23 Amethyst Dragon, explained that he had awakened recently and come out of curiosity, and apologized for entering unannounced.
• Garos told Iseramathus that Ennus was likely his descendant, and Iseramathus said he would meet him when he had time.
• Garos invited Iseramathus to stay in Crimson Flame Royal City, and the Amethyst Dragon accepted so he could learn about the kingdom and the changed wilderness.
• Garos learned that the Lucky Messenger had returned to the Atlant Continent and would soon visit to discuss cooperation.

Garos learned that Iseramathus had been secretly observing Aura Kingdom, then tested his own resistance to the Amethyst Dragon’s mental attacks. The test ended when Garos sensed a long-awaited guest arriving and went to welcome her.

• Garos asked Ennus whether he had met Iseramathus, and Ennus vowed to impress his father and earn his help.
• Anqiya brought a disguised purple falcon to Garos, and Iseramathus revealed himself after she exposed his unusual reaction to her beauty.
• Iseramathus explained his immersive Way of Observation and invited Garos to observe the world with him, but Garos declined.
• Garos asked Iseramathus to attack him mentally, and he endured a barrage of Psionic skills with little apparent effect.
• Garos stopped the test after sensing a long-awaited guest approaching Crimson Flame Royal City and said he needed to welcome her.

Garos confronted Alya over the Hall of Heroes, but she refused to return it and fought him inside the Ring of Desperation with several Legendary Artifacts and a summoned Heroic Spirit. After a fierce battle, Garos activated Rebirth at Death's Door and broke through Alya's defenses, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Garos summoned Alya to the Dragon Palace and demanded the Hall of Heroes and compensation, while Alya defended taking it and rejected his terms.
• Alya left Crimson Flame Royal City and waited in the wilderness, where Garos attacked her and she trapped him inside the Ring of Desperation.
• Alya used her Legendary Artifacts, Luck Domain, and Heroic Spirit to battle Garos, while a Seraphic Envoy briefly appeared but refused to attack him.
• Alya empowered her Heroic Spirit and unleashed a fused annihilation spell that devastated Garos, but Rebirth at Death's Door restored him with overwhelming power.
• Garos shattered the Wings of Sanctuary, seized Alya's pendant, and struck her through the Immovable Armor; the chapter ended as she spat blood.

Garos defeated Alya, the Lucky Messenger, and recruited Mien Nelson, a Heroic Spirit, after promising to protect Mien’s family. As Garos recovered and assessed his spoils, the Goddess of Luck Church condemned the Aura Kingdom, but the nations focused on preparing for the Second War of the Nations.

• Iseramathus met Garos after the battle, and Garos told him Alya was dead and their old grudge was settled.
• Garos learned that Mien Nelson had served Alya as a Heroic Spirit, promised to protect Mien’s family, and accepted his pledge of loyalty.
• Garos ordered Sorog to watch the Goddess of Luck Church and sent the Gem Merchants' Guild to bring Mien’s family safely to the Aura Kingdom.
• Garos replenished his energy, examined six Legendary Artifacts, and discovered that Heroic Spirits could use Legendary Equipment.
• The Goddess of Luck Church condemned Garos and the Aura Kingdom after confirming Alya’s death, but other nations made no public response and prepared for the Second War of the Nations.

Garos trained his domains and new pathway skills, then learned that the Lothern Kingdom had acquired and exhausted its Advanced Spirit-Matter Crystals, leading him to suspect the crystals supported the Saint-King’s return and to prepare for renewed war. When an envoy from Rybos proposed closer ties, Garos asked for three crystals as a test of the kingdom’s sincerity, leaving cooperation undecided.

• Garos had Mien and Xia'er attack his Flame and Steel Domains until both broke, while Xia'er nearly exhausted himself.
• Garos gained a second Dragon Qi head and two more arms through [Star-Self Head], learned [Life Reaping], and considered the future Wild Path skill [Fury Defies Death].
• Sorog told Garos that Lothern and its allies had no Advanced Spirit-Matter Crystals, and that Lothern had bought up its allies’ supplies around the First Civil War.
• Garos suspected the crystals had supported the Lothern Saint-King’s return and ordered Sorog to gather information and monitor the Theo Kingdom as war approached.
• Aaron Leviborg offered Rybos’s goodwill and proposed closer ties, while warning Garos that Lothern was vulnerable.
• Garos asked Rybos to provide three Advanced Spirit-Matter Crystals before he would seriously consider cooperation, leaving the envoy to deliver the demand within three days.

Ancient White Dragon Frost Calamity Beskar awakened in the Permafrost Tundra and discovered that the Aura Kingdom had claimed the region, prompting him to investigate rather than attack immediately. Garos learned that Rybos had rejected his request for an Advanced Spirit-Matter Crystal and received news of Beskar’s arrival, which he judged to be a manageable threat.

• Beskar emerged from his long slumber, newly Legendary, and flew to a nearby settlement to demand the Trolls and Ogres serve him.
• An Ogre leader declared that the settlement belonged to the Aura Kingdom and challenged Beskar, who decided to question them about Emperor Ignas instead of destroying them; a Goblin Warlock secretly transmitted the encounter to Dragonfang Fortress.
• Aaron Leviborg received Rybos’s refusal to provide an Advanced Spirit-Matter Crystal, relayed it to the Aura Kingdom, and was left unharmed despite the diplomatic slight.
• Garos considered Rybos’s refusal evidence that the crystals were connected to the Saint King, reviewed intelligence about rival kingdoms, and discussed Alberto’s Law City with Nasha.
• Garos received an urgent report that an Ancient White Dragon had occupied an Aura Kingdom outpost in the Permafrost Tundra and learned that the dragon was Beskar, a newly Legendary White Dragon.

Beskar the Ancient White Dragon interrogated Gruff about Emperor Ignas and dismissed the Ogre’s accounts of the emperor’s power as lies. When Beskar threatened the Aura Kingdom and demanded the Northern Frontier Icefields, Ignas arrived in person, tearing through the snowstorm in scarlet flame.

• Beskar questioned Gruff about the Red Iron Dragon Emperor and the Aura Kingdom, but Gruff refused to cooperate and spat at him.
• Beskar provoked Gruff into recounting Ignas’s supposed victories, including defeating ten legends, while Beskar rejected the stories as absurd.
• Gruff declared that Ignas’s deeds could not be explained to a lowly White Dragon, leaving Beskar furious but privately uncertain about the rumors.
• Beskar announced that he had returned as a Legendary Dragon and demanded that Ignas surrender control of the Northern Frontier Icefields.
• Ignas appeared above the outpost as a scarlet meteor, tearing open the snowstorm and filling the area with scorching pressure.

Garos Ignas confronted the Ancient White Dragon Beskar after Beskar trespassed into Aura Kingdom territory, then offered him a choice between leaving and joining the kingdom. Beskar accepted Garos's offer, making him the newest Legendary Dragonkin of Aura Kingdom as the kingdom prepared for future wars.

• Beskar considered fleeing when he saw Garos Ignas's battle form, but Garos used Life Reaping to stop him and drain his strength.
• Beskar surrendered, apologized for trespassing, and offered his accumulated treasures as compensation.
• Garos praised Beskar's survival instinct and offered him the choice to leave or join Aura Kingdom.
• Garos promised Beskar access to resources and opportunities to grow beyond his bloodline's limits.
• Beskar chose to follow Garos, pledging to guard his territory and fight his enemies, and Garos welcomed him as a Dragon of Aura.

Garos brought Beskar into Aura Kingdom’s service and sent Gruff to become a Dragonforged royal city guard. On their way back, Garos visited Ignas Royal Dragon Academy, where Beskar saw the kingdom’s young dragons training with extraordinary strength.

• Garos decided to station Beskar in the south of Ser Wilderness, where the Legendary White Dragon would help deter the Southern Kingdoms and secure Aura’s borders.
• Beskar accepted Garos’s decision and pledged his claws and frost to Aura Kingdom.
• Garos promoted Gruff from his frontier post, ordering him to undergo Dragonforged Transformation and serve in the Crimson Flame Royal City guard.
• Garos and Beskar flew toward Ser Wilderness, then changed course to inspect Tressie’s academy in the Borderlands.
• Garos and Beskar took snow eagle forms and observed Ignas Royal Dragon Academy, where dozens of young dragons trained intensely and displayed unusually muscular physiques.

Tressie taught the young dragons at Ignas Royal Dragon Academy about survival, niche theory, and loyalty to Garos, who visited and praised her work. After Beskar discovered that Tressie was his granddaughter, the two White Dragons exchanged guarded courtesies before Garos took Beskar to Wilderness Fortress, leaving Tressie to return to the academy.

• Tressie used Kahn's loss to Liss to teach the young dragons when to dominate, endure, and strike back, while emphasizing loyalty to Garos and the kingdom.
• Garos and Beskar arrived above the academy, and the young dragons roared their allegiance as Garos urged them to grow into pillars of the kingdom.
• Tressie asked Garos for his assessment, and he praised her management of the academy and its instruction in loyalty and survival wisdom.
• Beskar and Tressie recognized their shared bloodline, introduced themselves, and learned that Beskar was Tressie's grandfather; both concealed their suspicions behind polite words.
• Garos praised Tressie and welcomed Beskar's service, then departed for Wilderness Fortress with Beskar while Tressie returned to her duties at the academy.

Garos criticized Alberto’s rigid rule of Law City and warned that he would lose authority if the city did not regain its vitality. Five years later, conflict between the Lain Kingdom and the Sack Kingdom erupted over Sloan, threatening to draw in the Aura Kingdom and other nations.

• Garos and Beskar observed Law City’s strict regulations and saw law enforcers confiscating citizens’ modified vehicles.
• Garos challenged Alberto’s pride in the city’s order, telling him that his laws showed distrust of his subjects and stifled the city’s vitality.
• Garos introduced Beskar to Iseramathus, and the two Legendary Dragons set out to explore the Aura Kingdom together.
• The Aura Kingdom announced Beskar’s allegiance, prompting concern among other nations, while Garos reached Life Level twenty-two by his 120th birthday in the year 341 of the New Calendar.
• The Sloan Duchy declared independence, and the Sack Kingdom sent troops into its territory; after negotiations failed, the Lain Kingdom declared war on the Sack Kingdom.

Frost Fang foiled a suicide infiltration attempt at Abyssal Rift Number Two and warned the royal city that the rift might have been targeted for expansion. In Crimson Flame Royal City, Garos tested his new Spellbreaker Gloves and decided to blame the Theo Kingdom publicly, using the attack to prepare the Metal Dragon Clan for possible intervention in the coming war.

• A diviner found a narrow route through the northeastern defenses, and the infiltrators reached Abyssal Rift Number Two before a Space Lock exposed them.
• Frost Fang and her Werewolf Warriors surrounded the infiltrators, whose self-destruction was swallowed by her Dragon Wolf Spirit; she then reported the attack and requested stronger defenses at all Abyssal Rifts.
• Garos tested the Spellbreaker Gloves by tearing and crushing a fragment of space, and hoped they would help his claws evolve.
• Sorog told Garos that the infiltrators had destroyed themselves without leaving clues, and suggested they were agents of the Theo Kingdom.
• Garos ordered a public condemnation of the Theo Kingdom and explained that the accusation could invite the Metal Dragon Clan to join a campaign against an alleged threat to order.

As war tensions rose between the Aura Kingdom and the Theo Kingdom, Aldri awakened as a Legendary Silver Dragon and learned that the Raging Tide Dragon Realm was dividing over the Purification Faction. He and Selina moved to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, while Deborah told Garos she was carrying their first four children and Garos resolved to prepare for the coming conflict.

• The Aura Kingdom and the Theo Kingdom exchanged accusations and demands as both nations mobilized troops along their border.
• Aldri emerged from a long sleep as a Legendary dragon and learned from Selina that Garos had also become Legendary and that the Bronze Dragon King Sheffield was advancing the Purification Faction.
• Aldri saw the growing divisions in the Raging Tide Dragon Realm and left with Selina for the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, where their families were relocating.
• Deborah learned of her parents’ migration and later told Garos that she was pregnant with about four dragon eggs.
• Garos promised to invite Aldri and Selina to visit and, after considering their future children and the approaching war, decided to prepare actively for conflict.

Garos secured Lothern’s Myriad Army Command Oath to prepare Aura for war with the Theo Kingdom, while Lothern’s spell advisor arrived to help implement it. As Aura intensified its military preparations, Deborah’s parents visited the kingdom and sensed the approaching conflict.

• Garos told O'Brien that Aura would wage war on the Theo Kingdom and requested Lothern’s Formation Magic; O'Brien agreed to share the Myriad Army Command Oath under restrictions against transferring or using it against Lothern and its allies.
• Garos asked for a Magic Satellite, and O'Brien refused to provide one but offered to repair and modify any enemy satellite Aura captured.
• Lothern’s spell advisor teleported to Crimson Flame Royal City, and Garos signed the magical agreement before assigning Sorog the Iron Dragon to oversee implementation.
• Aura produced Command Insignias and began training its troops to use the formation as military preparations intensified over the following half month.
• Deborah arrived with her parents, Aldrian and Selina, who had come from the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm to visit her and Garos; they grew troubled by the signs of impending war.
• Garos noticed the dragons’ arrival, dismissed Xia'er to rest, and turned to face them.

Garos sent Deborah to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm with her parents to keep her and their unborn child safe while war approached. The Aura Kingdom launched its first assault on Theo, capturing Iron Wall Fortress in a night, while Garos watched from afar and declared that the war had only begun.

• Aldrian and Selina urged Garos to let Deborah return with them to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm, and he agreed that she and their unborn child would be safer there.
• Deborah and her parents departed for the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm after Aldrian promised the Stanitor Family would aid Garos if he faced mortal danger.
• At Iron Wall Fortress, Harold and Tom spotted the Red Iron Cavalry charging through a thunderstorm, and the defenders sounded the alarm.
• Elvie killed the fortress commander with an arrow, shattered its defenses, and led the Red Iron Cavalry through a breach she carved in the wall.
• The Aura forces overwhelmed the fortress, and Harold escaped through a drainage tunnel as the Aura Dragon Banners replaced Theo's flags.
• Garos watched from the mountains and declared that the capture of Iron Wall Fortress was only the beginning.

After the Aura Kingdom and Theo Kingdom became locked in a costly stalemate, Theo commander Rodrigo Crown convened an emergency war council to reveal the Heavenly Eye satellite’s strategic capabilities. The chapter left the council considering escalation as Rodrigo explained why Theo had not used the weapon before.

• Garos approved Sorog’s plan to use Iron Wall Fortress as an anchor for a multi-front assault, while both kingdoms’ Legendary Realm combatants held back.
• Aura and Theo mobilized armies across ten strategic positions, where months of fighting produced heavy casualties and no decisive breakthrough.
• Rodrigo reviewed mounting losses and recognized that Aura’s monsters could endure attrition and winter conditions better than Theo’s soldiers.
• Rodrigo summoned an emergency war council and announced that Theo needed to change its strategy rather than keep fighting on Aura’s terms.
• Elwin revealed that the Heavenly Eye satellite could deliver troops and supplies, heal soldiers, and conduct orbital precision strikes.
• Rodrigo explained that Theo had withheld the satellite’s full capabilities because using them was costly and would escalate the war.