Chapter Summaries

Rodrigo secured royal approval to activate the Sky-Eye Satellite, letting Theo strike Aura’s supply lines, reinforce its troops, and turn the war’s momentum. By summer 343, Aura had been pushed onto the defensive, while a new war spread across the Romanian Plains and the Red Iron Dragon Emperor watched the satellite’s growing exposure with calm concern.

• Rodrigo chose to use the Sky-Eye Satellite’s strategic functions, and the king granted him the highest wartime authority.
• Theo deployed soldiers and Alchemy Golems into Blackstone Gorge, destroyed its stores, and escaped through a beam of blue light.
• Theo launched matching attacks on other Aura supply sites, used Rain of Holy Healing to strengthen its defenses, and disrupted Aura’s offensives across multiple fronts.
• The war’s balance shifted in Theo’s favor from winter 341 through summer 343, while fighting between Ribos and Lothern reignited as the Second War of the Romanian States.
• Rodrigo prepared human Legends for a decisive attack on the Ashen Plains as the Red Iron Dragon Emperor continued training and noted that each satellite use revealed its spatial coordinates more clearly.

Garos and Sorog planned to force Theo to rely on its Satellite so Garos could trace and seize it, while Rodrigo reduced its strategic use to protect it. Sorog’s surprise underground assault devastated the Iron-Chiseling Position, and a huge figure emerged from the final Burrowing Worm as the attack unfolded.

• Garos used his spatial data and Eye of True Sight to track the traces left by Theo’s Satellite, then ordered Sorog to force Theo to use it.
• Rodrigo told Torres that Theo would reserve the Satellite’s major abilities for emergencies and decisive battles, while refusing to commit Legendary Realm fighters before learning more about Garos.
• Theo’s forces continued their costly advance for two weeks, and Aura launched fierce counterattacks across several fronts.
• At the Iron-Chiseling Position, Rodrigo sensed an underground attack, but more than thirty Burrowing Worms erupted through the camp and threw it into chaos.
• Ogres, Trolls, and Dragonforged Warriors poured from the Burrowing Worms and attacked the position.
• The largest Burrowing Worm launched a dark-red projectile that unfolded into a colossal shadow amid the ruins.

Kalu led an Aura surprise raid on Iron-Chiseling Position, where he briefly overpowered Iron Spear Balna and nearly killed Theo commander Rodrigo Crown before Satellite teleportation saved him. After the raid and a concurrent attack on Norman Pass escalated the war, the story moved to New Calendar 344, when the Red Iron Dragon Emperor prepared for Garos's offspring to be laid.

• Kalu emerged from underground at Iron-Chiseling Position, destroyed Theo's heavy infantry and three Fortress Guardian Type IV War Golems, and charged Rodrigo.
• Iron Spear Balna stopped Kalu from reaching Rodrigo, but Kalu's Myriad Army Command Oath-enhanced strength cracked Balna's domain and sent him crashing through walls.
• Kalu attacked Rodrigo again, and Satellite teleportation rescued Rodrigo and two guards while Kalu severed Rodrigo's left arm.
• Rodrigo ordered Balna to abandon pursuit and defend Norman Pass after reporting that Legendary White Dragon Beskar had attacked it, so Balna teleported there as Kalu and the Aura forces retreated.
• The account recounted the raids' effects on the war, then advanced to New Calendar 344, when the Red Iron Dragon Emperor spoke with the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm about Garos's nearly formed Dragon Egg and prepared for its laying.

As the Blooming Festival unfolded behind the lines, Garos arranged a full-scale Aura counteroffensive and used the Magic Satellite's battlefield activity to locate and attack it. He destroyed the Satellite's defenses, seized its Dimensional Teleportation Rune Array Assembly, and returned to the front carrying the crippled weapon, leaving Aura's soldiers celebrating while the war continued.

• Garos ordered Vera to carry out a timed prank and told Sorog to prepare every front for a full-scale counteroffensive.
• Beskar attacked the eastern Unbreakable Wall while Kalu and Aura's mixed legions assaulted the west and other strategic positions; Rodrigo sent Theo's Legendary fighters to intercept them and authorized repeated Satellite support.
• Garos disguised himself as a falcon, tracked the Heavenly Eye's movements from space, and waited until Rodrigo ordered a Legendary-level Orbital Strike against Kalu.
• Garos transformed into his battle form, overwhelmed the Satellite's defenses, trapped Theo's Legendary fighters and the Heroic Spirits with the Ring of Desperation, and tore out the Dimensional Teleportation Rune Array Assembly.
• Garos carried the disabled Satellite back to the surface and landed near Iron Wall Fortress, where Aura's soldiers hailed him as he displayed the captured weapon.

Garos captured Theo’s Silver Satellite and turned the battle in Aura’s favor, while Theo’s counterattack on Crimson Flame Royal City failed when a Legendary Amethyst Dragon forced Hawthorne to retreat. Theo’s forces fell back toward the Emerald Ridge Mountains, leaving Aura in control of the borderlands as the war continued.

• Garos’s capture of the Silver Satellite strengthened Aura’s troops, while Beskar escaped the three Legendary fighters who had been ordered to kill or capture him.
• Kalu rallied Aura’s western front with news of the Satellite’s capture, healed through the Myriad Army Command Oath, and pursued the fleeing Balna.
• Garos ordered Aura’s troops to secure their gains, then confronted Percival and two other Theo champions, who threatened Crimson Flame Royal City.
• Hawthorne began preparing a legendary spell over Crimson Flame Royal City, but a Legendary Amethyst Dragon appeared and ordered him to leave, forcing him to retreat.
• Percival learned that an Amethyst Dragon guarded the city and ordered Theo’s champions to withdraw as Garos declared that wherever he stood was his kingdom.
• Theo’s defeated forces retreated toward the Emerald Ridge Mountains, and Silverglow City received news of the loss and occupation of the borderlands.

Rodrigo Crown and Whitan Yat prepared Dragonbreaker Pass to stop Aura’s advance after Theo’s defeat at the Unbreakable Wall, while Garos examined four Dragon Eggs in the High Mountain Dragon Court. Rodrigo left the defense dependent on reinforcements from Theo’s capital or its allies, and Garos resolved to end the war before his offspring hatched.

• Rodrigo Crown reported the Theo army’s heavy losses and retreat to Whitan Yat at Dragonbreaker Pass.
• Whitan Yat bound his life and domain to Noldon Pass’s defenses, while Rodrigo reorganized the troops and demanded reinforcements from the capital or Theo’s allies.
• Rodrigo warned that he would abandon the pass if Theo’s leaders failed to provide enough strength to make victory possible.
• Garos examined four Dragon Eggs and learned that Alberto had spread word of his capture of the Sky-Eye Satellite to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm.
• Garos said his offspring might take years to hatch and resolved to end the war before then.

Garos met with Deborah and learned that all four of her Dragon Eggs were healthy, then trained before interrogating the captured Theo legend Barna Fisher. He outlined how Aura could devastate Theo’s heartland and pressed Barna to share intelligence or urge his kingdom to negotiate; Barna asked for time to think.

• Deborah told Garos that all four Dragon Eggs were healthy, and Aldri took them outside after scolding her for playing with them.
• Garos trained with Xia'er and Mien, then summoned the captured Theo legend Barna Fisher.
• Garos described a plan to bypass Dragonbreaker Pass and ravage Theo’s heartland if the kingdom refused to negotiate.
• Garos challenged Barna’s loyalty by asking whether he served Theo’s people or its rulers, and urged him to reveal military intelligence to shorten the war.
• Barna lowered his head and asked for time to think, while Garos warned that his patience and Theo’s time were limited.

Garos reassured Mien that he had no interest in attacking civilians, then met with his dragon kin to plan Aura’s assault on Theo’s final defensive line at Noldon Pass. The dragons agreed to prepare for a direct attack in twenty days, aiming to crush Theo’s will to resist with an unmistakable battlefield victory.

• Garos told Mien that he would not trample civilians unless driven into a desperate position, though he claimed his restraint came from lack of interest rather than compassion.
• After training the Heroic Spirits through the night, Garos contacted Sorog and summoned Samantha and Gordon to a mental meeting.
• Sorog explained that Noldon Pass and Dragonbreaker Pass were Theo’s last strong defenses, and Samantha proposed using her Seventh-Generation Molten-Core Bombs to destroy the pass.
• Sorog argued that Aura should attack Noldon Pass head-on so Theo would see its defeat as proof of Aura’s overwhelming strength rather than a trick.
• Garos approved Sorog’s plan and gave him twenty days to mobilize the legions, prepare siege engines and supplies, and seek support from allies.

At Dragonbreaker Pass, Percival proposed luring and trapping the Red Emperor during Aura’s assault, while Rodrigo revised the plan and stressed that Theo had to win. Five days later, Kalu revealed his new Legendary Realm strength and the power he drew from Beneath the Dragon Throne as he prepared to face Dragonbreaker Pass.

• Percival arrived at the strategy meeting after killing an Aura Wyvern Scout Squad and explained that Aura was preparing a direct assault on Dragonbreaker Pass.
• Percival proposed making the Red Emperor believe the pass was failing, then trapping him inside with Whitan Yat’s domain so the assembled legends could attack him.
• Percival said the damaged Ring of Desperation could no longer trap several Legendary Realm warriors, and he planned to use his bow to deliver the Red Emperor’s final wound.
• Rodrigo changed the plan to use several real breaches, wait until most of the Red Emperor had entered before sealing the trap, and prioritize restraining him while the pass’s outer defenses held.
• Rodrigo warned that the Red Emperor was cunning and declared that Theo could not afford to lose the battle.
• On April 7, Kalu demonstrated Bloodburst State using the power he shared through Beneath the Dragon Throne, then ate as he looked toward Dragonbreaker Pass.

Garos Ignas rejected a cautious siege plan and led Aura’s army against Noldon Pass, where he shattered Theo’s defenses with a meteor-like strike. The Aura Legion charged through the breach as the stunned defenders faced the start of the assault.

• Garos Ignas sensed Kalu’s new Legendary Realm trait and considered using Dragon Vein Conversion on Elvie.
• Gelbin and Eldrin proposed wearing down Noldon Pass’s defenses before striking, but Garos Ignas declared that Aura would break through without sacrificing its soldiers in attrition.
• Garos Ignas rallied Aura’s assembled forces and led them toward Dragonbreaker Pass, while Rodrigo prepared Theo’s defenses and Whitan Yat raised the Unyielding Bastion.
• Garos Ignas rose into the sky and plunged toward the pass; Gelbin and Eldrin supported his attack with cannon fire and fireballs as Whitan Yat reinforced the shield.
• Garos Ignas cracked and tore open the Unyielding Bastion, then crashed through Dragonbreaker Pass’s wall, killing defenders and leaving a vast breach.
• The shaken Theo defenders watched as Garos Ignas threatened them, and Aura’s forces charged into the pass at their emperor’s command.

The Red Emperor, Garos Ignas, fought through the Legendary defenders at Dragonbreaker Pass and survived Percival’s fatal arrow by using Rebirth at Death’s Door. The Theo defenses collapsed, Rodrigo and other survivors were captured, and the Aura Legion opened a path into the Theo Kingdom’s heartland.

• Whitan Yat bound himself to Noldon Pass with the Sacred Oath of Watchfulness, reforging its walls and peaks while petrification began consuming him.
• Whitan Yat, Esther, Darrick, and Hawthorne surrounded Garos, but Garos healed by draining life energy and adapted to their attacks.
• Garos feinted against Darrick, then struck Esther down and killed Hawthorne after she unleashed her final spell; Darrick escaped the dragon’s attack.
• Percival emerged from hiding and pierced Garos’s heart and both heads with the King-Beast-Piercing Arrow, but Garos revived, seized Percival, and crushed him.
• Whitan Yat turned to stone as the Unyielding Bastion vanished, and Darrick teleported away while the Theo forces surrendered and Rodrigo was captured.
• The Aura Legion occupied the Emerald Ridge Mountains defensive line and advanced toward the Theo Kingdom’s heartland.

After Aura's victory at Dragonbreaker Pass, Garos chose to consolidate the kingdom's new territory rather than continue expanding its wars. Iron Dragon Sorog proposed the Temple Project, a space-based platform combining a Magic Satellite and the Hall of Heroes to collect and deploy Heroic Spirits, and Garos approved testing it.

• Garos assessed Theo Kingdom's defeat and decided to seek territory, reparations, and treaties rather than invade farther or enter the other kingdoms' wars.
• Garos reviewed how Theo's fighters might have threatened him if they had cooperated and resolved to rely less on his revealed Dragon Jade ability.
• Samantha urged an advance on Silverglow City, but Sorog argued that Aura should first secure its gains and wait for Garos to reach the Advanced Legendary Realm before considering further conquest.
• Sorog reported that he had captured Commander Rodrigo's soul in the Hall of Heroes after Rodrigo killed himself following his surrender.
• Sorog proposed the Temple Project, combining a Magic Satellite with the Hall of Heroes to gather souls and deploy Heroic Spirits, and Garos approved testing the idea.

Garos Ignas led the Aura Kingdom’s army toward Silverglow City, while King Oliver Chapman accepted that Theo could not stop the invasion and ordered Aris Province surrendered to open peace talks. Garos entered Iris City without resistance, and Aris changed hands as the Two-Ao War temporarily ended and negotiations began.

• Garos Ignas kept the Aura army’s pace steady as it advanced toward Theo’s capital, hoping to force the kingdom to negotiate rather than fight.
• King Oliver Chapman heard Spencer explain the Red Emperor’s overwhelming power, then ordered envoys to seek aid from Theo’s allies.
• Oliver ordered Governor Anderson to disarm Aris Province and prepare Iris City to welcome Garos, while ministers inventoried Theo’s wealth and drafted terms for reparations and peace.
• Two days later, Anderson welcomed Garos at Iris City’s open gates, where officials and commoners knelt as the Aura army entered.
• On June 3, Aris Province changed hands without a battle, and the two kingdoms began peace negotiations.

In occupied Iris City, bard Caleb discovered that Aura’s nonhuman soldiers were disciplined and that the new rulers were feeding civilians with wealth seized from nobles. After singing in gratitude, he found an Aura Kingdom notice seeking bards and wondered what work it offered.

• Caleb walked through Iris City, feared the Aura guards, and gradually questioned the Theo Kingdom’s propaganda when he saw the soldiers behaving with restraint.
• Caleb joined a food line and received bread and soup from a Centaur woman distributing meals alongside a Snake Woman and a Wolf Woman.
• The Centaur woman explained that Aura citizens would not let their fellow citizens go hungry, and the Snake Woman said the food was paid for with taxes and wealth taken from nobles.
• Caleb thanked the three women with an improvised song, and the Centaur woman invited him to return for food the next day.
• Caleb found an Aura recruitment notice seeking eloquent people, preferably bards, and considered applying so he could earn a living.

Caleb accepted a paid role writing songs and stories for Aura’s Propaganda Department after witnessing the kingdom’s order and considering his own poverty. As Garos and Sorog assessed the occupation of Aris Province, Garos defended propaganda as essential to lasting rule and turned to plans for restricting Theo’s future military power.

• Caleb went to an Aura recruitment interview, where a Werewolf offered him gold to write works praising Ignas, the Aura Kingdom, and its new order.
• Caleb composed a hymn to Ignas, accepted the advance payment, and agreed to review the contract and task requirements as a Propaganda Department collaborator.
• The Propaganda Department recruited writers across Aris Province, and its early songs and stories about food distribution and public order began spreading among residents.
• Sorog reported to Garos that Aura had largely secured Aris Province and explained the department’s recruitment and outreach efforts.
• Garos told Sorog that public opinion could reduce hatred and resistance, making propaganda an essential weapon alongside military strength and law.
• Sorog outlined proposed peace treaty restrictions barring Theo from developing strategic weapons like Satellites and limiting its cultivation of legendary-level powerhouses.

Garos trained his Flame and Steel Domains and spoke with the aging O'Brien, who asked Aura to help break Lothern's military deadlock at Quinn Heights. Garos agreed to send Kalu, promised to preserve Aura's alliance with Lothern for ten years after O'Brien's death, and returned to training as O'Brien faced the end of his reign.

• Garos considered focusing his weak domains on a single effect and resumed training in the Dragonspine Mountains.
• O'Brien explained that injuries from the First Civil War had damaged his essence, shortened his lifespan, and ended his hopes of advancing beyond Advanced Legendary Realm.
• O'Brien asked Aura for a powerful unit to help Lothern break Ribos's defenses at Quinn Heights; Garos said Beskar was occupied suppressing uprisings but offered Kalu instead.
• Garos assured O'Brien that Kalu was exceptionally strong, and O'Brien accepted him as Lothern's reinforcement.
• O'Brien said he preferred his son Raymond as successor and asked Garos to preserve their alliance; Garos promised its terms would remain unchanged for ten years and agreed to give Raymond one chance to correct a foolish decision.
• After O'Brien ended the call, Garos looked toward Lothern and resumed training beneath the night sky.

Kalu broke the Ribos First Defense Line at Quinn Heights, allowing O'Brien and Lothern's forces to win the battle and drive Ribos into retreat. O'Brien considered the risks and promise of Lothern's alliance with Ignas, while the war continued to favor Lothern.

• Kalu used Gluttony State, Bloodburst State, Energy-Eating Skin, and Starving Wretch to smash through Ribos's central fortress and open the defense line.
• O'Brien ordered Lothern's troops to charge, and Kalu helped collapse the fortress before leading the assault through the breach.
• Several nights later, O'Brien reflected on Ignas's growing power and prepared for both continued alliance and a possible future conflict with Aura.
• Kalu urged O'Brien to eat more, and O'Brien accepted his advice during the victory feast.
• By October 4, Ribos had abandoned Quinn Heights, and Lothern had won a decisive victory; its soldiers called Kalu Aura's Fang, while Ribos called him the Gluttonous Archdemon.

Garos converted Elvie into Dragonkin, transforming her into a powerful new form and bringing her close to the Legendary Realm. He anticipated entering another long slumber in ten to fifteen years and considered how the Aura Kingdom could remain secure while he slept.

• Garos praised Elvie's service in the kingdom's wars and offered to bind her bloodline to his through Dragon Vein Conversion.
• Elvie willingly accepted the conversion, and Garos engulfed her in legendary Bloodflame that remade her body and soul over eight days.
• Elvie emerged from the blackened shell with dragon horns, scales, and iron-edged wings, then pledged herself to Garos as Dragonkin.
• Garos sensed that Elvie had neared the Legendary Realm and urged her to complete her breakthrough soon.
• Garos estimated that his next slumber would begin in ten to fifteen years and considered the need for more Legendary figures to protect the kingdom while he slept.

After Elvie departed to prepare for her ascent to the Legendary Realm, Garos thanked Iseramathus for defending the royal capital and agreed to gather materials for a ritual to purify Ennus’s bloodline. Garos considered how his growing kingdom could raise many dragons to Legendary status, and Iseramathus concluded that the Aura Kingdom might restore the Dragon Race’s First Era glory.

• Garos sent Elvie away to master her new power and prepare for her ascent to the Legendary Realm.
• Iseramathus appeared, and Garos thanked him for intervening when the royal capital was attacked, while Iseramathus pointed out that Garos had expected him to help.
• Garos agreed to gather seventeen materials for Iseramathus’s Amethyst Dragon Bloodline Purification Ritual for Ennus.
• Garos considered the potential of Elvie, Ennus, Anqiya, and the other dragons and lords in the Aura Kingdom, including using the Eternal Tide to help Sorog break through.
• Garos asked what the kingdom might become if it endured for thousands of years and its dragon population kept growing, and Iseramathus predicted that Garos could usher in an era restoring the Dragon Race’s glory.

As Lothern’s victories pushed Ribos toward defeat, King Anto Croan learned that the Holden Empire would provide no further support because it was concentrating on problems with its Abyss Development Project. Abandoned by its ally and seeing no chance of victory, Anto decided to seek peace with Lothern.

• Anto Croan heard reports of Ribos’s repeated defeats and ordered the kingdom to strengthen its defenses while seeking no more help from neighboring kingdoms.
• Anto asked Darrick whether he could have killed the Red Emperor, and Darrick said the Emperor’s hidden abilities and resurrection made success unlikely.
• Anto contacted Minister Winston, who refused additional aid and explained that the Holden Empire had changed its priorities after confirming the Lothern Saint-King was dead.
• Winston revealed that the empire had sent many Legendary experts to address unexpected problems with its Abyss Development Project.
• Anto concluded that the empire was willing to let Ribos and Lothern weaken each other, and he decided to seek peace before Lothern reached the capital.