Chapter Summaries

Garos assessed Ashen Annihilation Form after defeating the Deep Frost Tyrant and considered how Abaddon's Tear might help him control his mutations. Seroel warned that the Orcs' absent Saint Realm suggested a larger threat, while Garos decided to pursue the fleeing Claude and considered taming him.

• Garos reviewed Ashen Annihilation Form's destructive power and concluded that it outperformed Sky-Rending Form, though his body gradually corrected the aberrant state.
• Garos considered inheriting Abaddon's form-switching trait from the Tear of Immortality to preserve and control his mutations.
• Seroel teased Garos about his theatrical personality after mutation, then warned that the Orcs' Saint Realm had stayed absent throughout the battle.
• Garos and Seroel agreed that the Orcs were likely preparing a dangerous plan, and Seroel reminded him that Claude had survived.
• Garos watched the isolated, fleeing Claude and decided he would rather capture and tame the Chromium Dragon than kill him.

Garos explained that he wanted to capture Claude alive because keeping the Dragon Race’s strength from declining would protect Garos’s own interests, and Seroel agreed to help hunt him. Wounded Claude escaped beneath the sea and dreamed of his years of starvation and captivity; when Garos found him in the cavern, Claude mistook him for part of the dream and faced him without fear.

• Garos told Seroel he would try to capture Claude alive and tame him, but would kill him if the attempt became too dangerous.
• Garos explained that he wanted to preserve the Dragon Race’s influence because its decline would bring trouble to him, and Seroel joined the hunt.
• Claude fled across the sea, hid in an underwater cavern, shrank into a hatchling-sized form, and curled up to sleep.
• Claude dreamed of spending eighteen years imprisoned and starved, escaping after the laboratory was abandoned, and growing into the Deep Frost Tyrant through relentless hunting and violence.
• Garos found Claude in the cavern and formed a Dragon Aura Bomb, while half-asleep Claude mistook Garos for a dream and rolled onto his back, unafraid.

Garos Ignas ambushed Claude with a Dragon Aura Bomb, then pursued and overpowered him when he refused to submit. The chapter ended with Garos forcing Dragon Breath into Claude’s mouth and stomach until the wounded Chromium Dragon passed out, his life uncertain.

• Seroel confused Claude with a dream while Garos Ignas prepared and hurled a Dragon Aura Bomb, badly burning Claude despite his Winter Famine defense.
• Claude fled through the deep sea, but Garos followed him through a Space Rift and offered him a chance to submit; Claude refused and challenged him to fight.
• Garos transformed into his Six-Armed Form, caught Claude’s charge, and battered him with close-range Dragon Aura Bombs while absorbing the resulting energy.
• Claude unleashed World-Devouring Throat in a desperate attempt to bite Garos, but Garos tore through the warped space and wrenched Claude’s jaws open.
• Garos poured Dragon Breath directly into Claude’s mouth, filling his body with destructive energy until Claude experienced fullness for the first time and lost consciousness.

Garos brought the barely living Claude to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm and persuaded Nereus to keep him imprisoned while he recovered. Nereus then explained that Immortal Ones strengthened their Divine Power by hunting others with similar powers, and Garos accepted the dangers of pursuing the Immortal Path.

• Garos learned from Seroel that she could not keep Claude trapped in a dream for long, so he took the unconscious Chromium Dragon to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm.
• Nereus recognized Claude and agreed to guard him while Garos planned to tame him after his recovery.
• Garos warned Nereus that he had brought Claude to give her a new challenge, and she accepted responsibility for keeping the dragon contained.
• Nereus warned Garos that the Fury Curse might be connected to the Primordial Wild God and explained that Immortal Ones evolved their Divine Power by hunting others with similar powers.
• Garos realized that Immortal Ones faced an endless cycle of hunting and being hunted, but declared that he intended to reach the highest point regardless of the risks.

Garos learned more from Nereus about the Immortal Path and the possibility of walking it alongside the Divine Path, then returned to Nausir after killing Claude. As the war against Cantum entered a fiercer stage, he promised to unleash an even greater devastation across the battlefield.

• Nereus told Garos that Immortal Ones might coexist through restraint, distance, and differing Divine Powers, and confirmed that Dragon Gods walked both the Immortal and Divine paths.
• Garos returned to the Blackstone Wasteland, where Elarian and Talamond reported their injuries and Veylan's incapacitation after Saltoya's final counterattack.
• Garos told Elarian and Talamond that he had killed Claude, and Talamond welcomed the news before apologizing for his remarks about dragons fighting among themselves.
• Elarian gave Garos an advance payment and warned that the war would intensify as the Bloodskull forces collapsed and the remaining tribes retreated toward Cantum's interior.
• After Elarian and Talamond praised the devastation he had created, Garos called it an overture and vowed to make an even grander battlefield of lava, fire, and ash.

Garos kept the Ashen Annihilation Form as Nausir's war against Cantum approached its decisive phase, while the Orc Saints prayed to the Beast of Valor for a divine descent. The chapter ended with the Beast's will awakening in Youkete's body and a blood-red moon rising over the gathering armies.

• Garos rejected Seroel's suggestion to use his meteorite and decided to keep his current form for the coming battles.
• Garos and Seroel concluded that the Orcs' confidence might come from the Beast of Valor intervening, and Seroel warned Garos not to remain in a fight too long.
• The Red Tide Saint and the Gnawbone Saint worried that Nausir's advance was weakening the Orcs' faith and prayed at the Beast of Valor's altar for his descent.
• The Beast of Valor's power restored Youkete's corpse and awakened a fierce divine will inside it.
• Nausir's armies advanced as the Orc legions gathered on the Southern Foothills Plain, and Garos saw Nausir's Moon turn blood red.

Garos Ignas fought for Nausir against Cantum, but the Blood Moon’s collapse left him exposed to two Saints, who shattered his body. He revived in a golden form and destroyed Bagchu’s avatar, breaking the Orc army’s resolve before departing through a rift in space.

• Yise Zeya met Garos Ignas before the battle and explained that Nausir revered the gods but did not worship them.
• Yise Zeya rallied Nausir’s assembled army, which advanced onto the Southern Foothills Plain and clashed with Cantum’s Orc Legion as Garos attacked from above.
• Nausir gained the advantage across the battlefield, and the Blood Moon began binding the Red Tide Saint while charging an attack against him.
• Bagchu’s avatar appeared beyond the heavens and shattered the Blood Moon, freeing the Red Tide Saint, who joined the Gnawbone Saint in attacking Garos and tearing his body apart.
• Garos revived through Mastery of Life and Death, then unleashed golden Dragon Breath that destroyed Bagchu’s avatar before it escaped the Blood Moon’s chains.
• The Orcs routed after seeing their god’s avatar fall, while Garos considered the danger of returning to Orotara and vanished through a rift in space.

After killing Bagchu’s Divine Avatar and destroying Nausir’s Elven Moon, Garos returned to the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm to recover and told the Silver Dragon King what had happened. Bagchu considered striking back but stopped when Avernus’s dragon god warned him away from Bernardo.

• Garos arrived in the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm as the dragons discussed the shattered Elven Moon, and Gabriel questioned him about the war in Orotara.
• Garos told Gabriel that Bagchu’s Divine Avatar had destroyed the moon but had also been killed, then left him with the mystery of who had slain it.
• At the Cold Sacred Spring, Garos confirmed to the Silver Dragon King that he had killed the weakened avatar and immersed himself to recover; she warned him that Claude would awaken with his mental problems intact.
• In the Shura Battlefield, Bagchu felt his avatar’s death and prepared to descend on Bernardo, but Avernus’s dragon god warned him not to touch his flesh and blood, forcing Bagchu to withdraw.

Gabriel let the Metal Dragons speculate about Pale Star killing a Divine Avatar, and his evasive confirmation helped the story spread until people believed the Red Emperor had killed a true god and shattered the moon. Meanwhile, Lamorien faced pressure from the Dragon Queen to punish her enemies, while Sheffield waited for the fissure he guarded to close.

• A Brass Dragon told Gabriel that Pale Star had killed the Beast of Valor’s Divine Avatar, and the young Metal Dragons gathered to discuss the news.
• The dragons debated conflicting accounts of the battle, and Gabriel vaguely confirmed Pale Star’s victory without correcting their increasingly exaggerated version.
• The tale spread across Atlant and the Fey Wilds, where people came to believe Pale Star had slain a true god and shattered Nausir’s moon.
• The Dragon Queen ordered Lamorien to punish rebels, and he promised to act while recognizing that he might eventually have to fight Garos.
• Sheffield saw that the fissure in Salo Abyss had shrunk and continued waiting for it to close so he could leave his post.

Garos reviewed the aftermath of the battle in Orotara, then brought the awakened Ancient Chromium Dragon Claude to his Small World to tame him by exploiting his hunger. Claude chose submission but attempted to attack Garos, who restrained him and began feeding him Dragon Breath until hunger and satisfaction overwhelmed him.

• Seroel told Garos that the Elves had reclaimed the Redridge Mountain Range, both Orc Saints and the Elven Immortal Ones had survived, and Nausir might seek to commission him again.
• Garos agreed to avoid returning to Orotara, while Seroel warned that she would soon begin sleeping and become less responsive in their dreams.
• Garos told Nereus that he preferred the title Terminator of All Things, then learned Claude had awakened and remained sealed beneath the Cold Sacred Spring.
• Nereus released Claude from his ice seal, and Garos carried him into his Small World to tame him.
• Garos struck Claude when he tried to attack, then fed him a Dragon Aura Bomb and offered him a choice between death and submission; Claude accepted before immediately lunging at Garos.
• Garos caught Claude's jaws and poured Dragon Breath through his Spell-Devouring Fangs, overwhelming him with pain and the satisfaction of being fed.

Garos knocked out Claude after hunger drove the Chromium Dragon to attack, then left him with Nereus for further treatment. Back in Aura, Garos learned that Lamorien had begun crushing western resistance and prepared for a likely confrontation with the Lord of Thunder.

• Garos tried to persuade Claude to follow him by promising relief from hunger and a share of glory, but Claude lunged at him when his hunger returned, so Garos stunned him with a Dragon Aura Bomb.
• Garos brought Claude to Nereus and explained that repeated experiences of fullness might help stabilize his mind; Nereus agreed to keep Claude sealed and under watch.
• Garos returned to Aura, taught Gabriel combat techniques, and then met Gordon atop the Dragon Court, where Gordon confirmed that news of Garos killing a Divine Avatar had reached the kingdom.
• Gordon urged Garos to declare Aura an empire, but Garos refused while the Demon Calamity and other threats remained unresolved.
• Gordon reported that Lamorien had begun personally destroying western rebel groups around the time news of Garos's victory arrived, and Garos predicted that war with the Lord of Thunder was near.

Garos held a victory feast in Aura and weighed whether to attack Lamorien, whose alliance with the Chromatic Dragon Queen threatened his domain. After Nausir honored him and requested another campaign against the Orcs, Garos refused for now, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Gordon proposed a grand feast to celebrate Garos's victory, and seven days later Aura's citizens and court gathered to celebrate.
• Garos discussed her elemental body and research into the Saint King's Immortality Technique with Princess Elina, then authorized her to seek Afra's help.
• Talamond presented Garos with Nausir's Full Moon Medal and asked him to fight the remaining Orc forces, but Garos declined until he had recovered.
• Garos examined the three Space Crystals containing meteors and considered whether to use one to seek a stronger form before confronting Lamorien.

Garos discussed Aura’s coming war against Lamorien with Reinhart, while the Bronze Dragon King Sheffield emerged from the deep sea after fulfilling his oath and rallied the Raging Tide dragons to fight evil. Sheffield assigned Fenoris and Archer to Orotara and prepared to lead the rest to Atlant, but the chapter ended before he chose whether to confront Garos or Lamorien first.

• Garos told Reinhart that Aura would conquer the west and reassured him that the Chromatic Dragon Queen was unlikely to send an avatar.
• Garos consumed treasure in his treasury to fill his Dragon Jade, then considered the God-Sealing Dragon ritual and rejected its limits.
• Sheffield sensed that the Abyssal Rift had healed, broke free of his oath to guard it, and rose from the sea at the peak of the Destiny Rank.
• Sheffield rallied the Raging Tide dragons and sent Fenoris and Archer with one-third of the legendary dragons to Orotara.
• Sheffield refused a Copper Dragon’s proposal to make Garos and Lamorien weaken each other, insisting that justice must be pursued openly.
• Sheffield prepared to lead the remaining dragons to Atlant, then deliberated over whether to confront Garos or Lamorien first.

Garos learned that Lamorien was acting urgently in the west while the Bronze Dragon King launched an attack on the Storm Dragon and his brood. After refusing Holden’s request to fight at the Abyssal Roots, Garos saw the two Dragons of Destiny clash, complicating his planned campaign against Lamorien.

• Garos summoned Xia'er and learned that Lamorien was traveling across the west to spread the Chromatic Dragon Queen’s influence, collect Blood Tax, and execute resisters.
• Garos ordered the Sanctum to prioritize destroying the Storm Dragon’s temples when war began, while the Bronze Dragon King decided to target Lamorien first.
• The Bronze Dragon King and the Raging Tide Dragon brood confronted Lamorien and the Helmode Dragon Brood, and their battle began in the sky.
• Marcus Vider offered to commission Garos to fight demons at the Abyssal Roots, but Garos refused and blamed Holden for causing the crisis.
• Garos spotted the Bronze Dragon King and Lamorien fighting and realized the Bronze Dragon King had attacked before Garos could begin his own campaign.

Garos Ignas, Reinhart, and Marcus flew west to witness the battle between Sheffield and Lamorien, where Hitherfell intervened and the fight became a three-on-one assault against the Bronze Dragon King. Sheffield survived their combined attack and withdrew, leaving Garos to consider the danger of future conflict as Hitherfell agreed to visit his Dragon Court and Marcus departed to report to the Holden Empire.

• Marcus urged Garos Ignas to help Sheffield defeat Lamorien, but Garos said dragonkin alliances were not so simple and then flew west with Reinhart, followed by Marcus.
• Sheffield battered Lamorien until Hitherfell arrived, dispelled Sheffield’s defenses, and helped Lamorien wound him.
• Garos Ignas arrived as Sheffield ordered the Raging Tide Dragon Realm forces to retreat, and Garos, Hitherfell, and Lamorien attacked Sheffield together.
• Sheffield endured their combined assault with his Holy Oath defenses, warned the three dragons that he would hunt them, and retreated into the clouds.
• Garos Ignas decided not to pursue the wounded Lamorien, invited Hitherfell to the Dragon Court, and let Marcus leave to report to the Holden Empire.

Garos learned why Hitherfell opposed Sheffield and worried that the newly unbound Bronze Dragon King would threaten Evil Dragons like him. He resolved to pursue Destiny Rank, while Sheffield considered the Holden Empire’s request for help against the Abyss.

• Hitherfell explained that Sheffield had once defeated and pursued her, and that she now thwarted him out of revenge for her human mate.
• Garos and Hitherfell concluded that the Abyssal Rift had likely healed, freeing Sheffield from his oath to guard it.
• Hitherfell said she might hinder Sheffield again but would not risk her life fighting him, then left after Garos questioned her story about her mate.
• Garos recognized Sheffield as a major threat and returned to the Small World to train toward Destiny Rank.
• Marcus asked Sheffield to aid the Holden Empire against the Abyss, and Sheffield agreed to hear an official envoy from Holden's Destiny Rank.

Garos released Claude after years of treating his hunger and madness, believing the Chromium Dragon would return because he had grown dependent on Garos. As the Dragon Realms faced growing unrest over the younger generation’s desire to fight evil, Garos learned that his blood relatives Sorog and Samantha had awakened.

• Two years after the Destiny Dragons’ clash, Garos watched the Bronze Dragon King enter Cloudpiercer City and later lead the Raging Tide Dragons into Abyssal Roots under a partnership with Holden.
• Garos continued treating Claude in the Small World, and Claude’s lucid periods lengthened as his hostility toward Garos gave way to awe and respect.
• Garos told Claude he pitied him and opened a spatial rift, then let him leave; Claude emerged over the sea and felt unexpectedly melancholy despite being free.
• Garos told Nereus that Claude would return because the years of treatment had bound him mentally, while Nereus warned him about the risks of releasing Claude.
• Garos and Nereus discussed young dragons questioning the Dragon Realms’ protective isolation and the Dragon Race’s lack of an Immortal Realm powerhouse.
• Garos sensed that Sorog and Samantha had awakened from their slumber.

Sorog and Samantha awakened from slumber to learn that Aura had conquered most of Atlant and Garos had destroyed an Orc deity’s Divine Avatar. After welcoming them back, Garos began another mutation in the Small World, but his new form concentrated immense power in one oversized right arm and left him badly unbalanced.

• Sorog and Samantha awakened in the Lain Plateau and discovered that one of Bernardo’s two moons was missing.
• Gordon told Sorog and Samantha that Garos had destroyed an Orc deity’s Divine Avatar and that Aura ruled three-quarters of Atlant, with only Lamorien remaining independent.
• Sorog and Samantha praised Gordon for managing Aura while Garos had been away, then reunited with Garos and celebrated their return at a banquet.
• Garos explained that he planned to mutate again to prepare for a coming storm, then returned to the Small World and used a meteorite to trigger Frenzied Flame.
• Garos’s new mutation gave him a devastatingly powerful right arm but left the rest of his body gaunt, slow, and unbalanced, so he used another meteorite to attempt a different form.

The Dragon Queen forced Lamorien to abandon his doubts and prepare to capture Garos as a sacrifice. Meanwhile, Garos completed a mutation that greatly strengthened his physical combat abilities and unlocked Second Shining, then spent several months training before Lamorien set out to destroy the Aura Kingdom.

• The Dragon Queen summoned Lamorien and ordered him to offer Red Emperor Pale Star as a sacrifice, but Lamorien warned that Garos had killed a Divine Avatar and that Sheffield might oppose him.
• The Dragon Queen accused Lamorien of stalling and used her will and Apostle Mark to burn away his hesitation and resistance.
• Garos absorbed the Frenzied Flame from a Space Crystal and mutated into a close-combat form with greatly enhanced physical attributes, but lost Dragon Breath, Dragon Qi projection, and many other abilities.
• Garos discovered that Aura Burst let him enter Shining Form and then Second Shining, whose immense power damaged his body but produced devastating physical force.
• After several months of training, Lamorien's resistance had been completely dismantled, and he vowed to make Garos a sacrifice and reduce the Aura Kingdom to ashes.

After Garos Ignas transformed and declared that he would no longer be restrained by caution, he led Aura into a war against the Helmode Dragon Brood and the temples of Tiamat. He destroyed the Storm Dragon’s temple and began fighting Lamorien, while battles spread across the west and Aura’s forces struggled against the Evil Dragon Guards.

• Garos summoned Sorog, Samantha, and Gordon, dismissed their advice to wait, and ordered a legendary assault on the west without mobilizing ordinary legions.
• Lamorien announced that the Dragon Queen had ordered the destruction of Aura, and he struck Terragon when he questioned the decision.
• Garos crashed into the temple in the Braketon Kingdom, destroying it, then charged Lamorien as the two dragons began fighting in the sky.
• Aura’s legendary dragons and the Helmode Dragons joined the battle, while Evil Dragon Guards emerged from the ruins and attacked Garos and his allies.
• Reinhart trapped the Evil Dragon Guards in his darkness, and the Sanctum deployed Aura’s forces to strike temples across the west.
• Kalu and other Aura Legends fought the guards at a coastal temple, while battles across the region settled into a deadlock.