Chapter Summaries

Garos learned from Lionel that the approaching catastrophe came from Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations, an Ancient One, but he refused to flee Bernardo. In the western shallow sea, Heloise led Aura dragons into a clash with Metal Dragons defending the Raging Tide Dragon Realm.

• Lionel warned Garos that Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations was an Ancient One that devoured living worlds, while Garos insisted Bernardo had time to prepare and said he would not flee.
• Lionel told Garos he would share what he knew about the stars but would remain a spectator, then both dragons departed the White Dwarf.
• Heloise told Rieldon that she followed Alvia's orders because they carried out her father's will and urged the Helmode Dragons to adapt to Sacred Aura.
• Heloise spotted disguised Metal Dragons beneath the sea and confronted their gold dragon leader, who demanded that the Aura dragons leave the Raging Tide Dragon Realm's waters.
• The Metal Dragons attacked, and Heloise rallied the Dragons of Aura to fight for their Emperor and Empire.

Garos discussed the approaching calamity, the Purification Potion, and the weakened Orc Empire with Seroel, then learned that Metal Dragons had begun attacking Aura patrols and merchant fleets. He and his blood relatives agreed to confront the Raging Tide Dragon Realm and its Purification Faction dragons.

• Garos told Seroel about his journey into the stars, his meeting with a Moon Dragon, and the warning about the Calamity Egg, Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations; Seroel found no record of the Wild God in her inherited memories.
• Garos and Seroel discussed the Elves’ continued use of the Purification Potion and the Orcs’ retreat into Theresia, and Garos argued that Aura should not invade Cantum while the Orcs had nothing left to lose.
• Seroel asked Garos whether their difficulty conceiving offspring came from his ability or her bloodline, and Garos explained that their powerful bloodlines and Destiny Rank made offspring difficult but that they had ample time.
• Alvia informed Garos that Metal Dragons from the Raging Tide Dragon Realm were attacking Aura’s patrols and merchant fleets.
• Garos contacted Sorog, Gordon, and Samantha, and they agreed to confront the Purification Faction dragons and test the Dragon Realm’s defenses.

Fenoris and the Raging Tide Dragons prepared to defend their realm from the Evil Dragon Empire, but Garos shattered their grand formation and confronted Fenoris. Rather than kill him, Garos challenged the Purification Dragons’ beliefs, leaving Fenoris and the other metal dragons questioning who truly served the Dragon Race.

• Fenoris and Archer rallied the Raging Tide Dragons to attack the Evil Dragon Empire’s forces and activated the Oath of Raging Waves as the invaders approached.
• Fenoris’s empowered dragons fought Claude and the other legendary invaders, but the arrival of Garos made Fenoris retreat behind the formation.
• Fenoris warned Garos that the other Dragon Realms would retaliate, while Garos argued that the Purification Dragons had divided their own kind.
• Garos struck through the Oath of Raging Waves, shattered the water curtain, and seized Fenoris by the neck.
• Garos spared Fenoris and defended his vision of a united Dragon Race, causing Fenoris and the Raging Tide Dragons to doubt their convictions.

Garos broke the Oath of Raging Waves and took control of the Raging Tide Dragon Realm, persuading most of its Metal Dragons to remain under Sacred Aura. As the Realm began to settle into its new rule, the surviving Bronze Dragon King, Sheffield, continued recovering in the Abyss and neared the Immortal Realm.

• Garos released Fenoris and declared that he had come to show the Raging Tide Dragons the radiance of Sacred Aura, then offered them the choice to remain or leave.
• Archer signaled her decision to Fenoris, and he chose to stay; most of the Raging Tide Dragons followed, while a small group departed without being pursued.
• Garos explained to Claude that most of the Metal Dragons had followed their beliefs out of admiration or a desire to seem distinctive, and that his own charisma had helped sway them.
• Sacred Aura took control of the Raging Tide Dragon Realm, while the Radiant Dragon Realm and the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm publicly supported the change.
• Beneath the mud in an unknown Abyssal layer, Sheffield awakened, recovered from his wounds, and continued striving toward the Immortal Realm so he could return to Bernardo.

Gabriel told Garos he wanted to unite the Metal Dragons as their sole Dragon King and set out for the Raging Tide Dragon Realm to win support. Nereus then revealed that Odhos had been unreachable for nearly a year, and Garos found a mysterious golden ring in Odhos's time-research space that attached itself to his wrist and vanished from sight.

• Gabriel asked Garos to let him travel to the Raging Tide Dragon Realm, explaining that he wanted to become the sole Metal Dragon King and unite the Dragon Realms.
• Garos approved Gabriel's ambition, and Gabriel led young Metal Dragons from the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm toward the Raging Tide Dragon Realm.
• Nereus asked Garos whether Sacred Aura intended to expand beyond Atlant, and Garos said the Empire would continue expanding but could eventually return the Raging Tide Dragon Realm to the Metal Dragons.
• Nereus told Garos that she had been unable to contact Odhos for nearly a year, so Garos immediately went to investigate his time-research space.
• Garos found a golden ring bearing patterns resembling his scales; it teleported onto his right wrist and then became invisible.

Garos found no trace of Odhos in the Time-Slow Space except for a ring that had vanished into his wrist, and Nereus could not detect it. Nereus explained that Odhos’s obsession with time began after he dreamed he lived a thousand years in another world; Garos left determined that Bernardo’s Dragon Race and Empire would endure.

• Garos searched Odhos’s Time-Slow Space, found nothing else, and concluded that Odhos may have vanished while attempting to reach another timeline.
• Garos told Nereus what he had found, and she examined his wrist but detected no foreign object.
• Nereus recounted how Odhos had dreamed of spending a thousand years in a different history, then became convinced that the dream world was real.
• Nereus reflected that Sheffield was lost and Odhos had disappeared, leaving only three Dragon Kings in the Metal Dragon Realm.
• Garos declared that Bernardo’s Dragon Race had an Empire and an emperor who would reach the Immortal Realm, then left as Nereus went to sleep.

Garos continued his relentless training on the White Dwarf, growing denser and stronger while reviewing his powerful new Path abilities. Five years later, he learned that Nereus had succumbed to Twilight and watched her farewell message, in which she entrusted the Dragon Realm’s future to him and Sacred Aura.

• Garos trained under the White Dwarf’s extreme gravity and concluded that his strength had grown enough to challenge a Saint without ascending to godhood.
• Lionel watched Garos train and considered that Garos might someday overcome even the Ancient One, then explained how he had learned to balance his Moon Dragon nature.
• Garos reviewed the legendary skills Rage Sublimation and Death Incarnation and considered the future potential of his Star-Self Clone.
• Garos trained between Bernardo, the White Dwarf, and the Fey Wilds for five years while leaving Odhos’s silent ring unexplored.
• In the year 701 of the New Calendar, Aldri told Garos that Nereus had entered Twilight and delivered her farewell image.
• Nereus told Garos she could finally rest because Sacred Aura would carry the Dragon Race forward, and Garos wished her peaceful sleep.

At Nereus’s farewell, Garos vowed to protect the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm until it found a new Dragon King, while Rodelian and the Copper Dragon King confronted him over Nereus’s sleep and Odhos’s disappearance. Years later, Sheffield awoke in the Abyss and annihilated the demons around him.

• At Nereus’s funeral, Deborah and Nasha recalled the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm’s hospitality, and Garos promised to defend it until a new Dragon King was born.
• Orvis told Garos that the realm had no suitable successor, and Garos vowed that anyone who attacked it would make an enemy of Sacred Aura and him.
• Rodelian accused Garos of causing Nereus’s sleep and Odhos’s disappearance, while the Copper Dragon King said they had trusted Garos because Nereus did.
• The Sacred Aura Empire announced comprehensive protection for the Wave-Subduing Dragon Realm without interfering with its sovereignty.
• In New Calendar Year 706, Sheffield emerged from his slumber in an Abyssal swamp and reduced the surrounding demons to ash.

Fafweil weighed Holden’s options as Sacred Aura’s power grew, then learned that Sheffield had returned from the Abyss as an Immortal Dragon. Sheffield came back to the Raging Tide Dragon Realm expecting his people to welcome him, but found Metal Dragons living alongside Evil Dragons and resolved to eradicate them.

• Fafweil rejected the War Knight’s proposal to abandon the Abyssal front, while keeping the Platinum Star’s dangerous mutation secret from the meeting.
• The War Knight reported that Sheffield had survived the Abyss, broken through to an Immortal Body, and returned to Bernardo.
• Fafweil saw Sheffield’s return as a chance to pressure the Red Emperor and discussed the opportunity with the Empire’s other Immortal Ones.
• Fenoris told Alvia that he had accepted Sacred Aura’s rule and now regarded anyone who opposed the Emperor as an enemy to eradicate.
• Sheffield returned to the Raging Tide Dragon Realm and found Evil Dragons living alongside Metal Dragons, then vowed to kill every Evil Dragon there.

Sheffield returned to the Raging Tide Dragon Realm intending to purge its Evil Dragons, but his former followers Fenoris and Archer told him they had chosen to stand with Sacred Aura and the wider Dragon Race. They asked him to set aside his prejudice and see Sacred Aura for himself, leaving Sheffield to confront their rejection of his beliefs.

• Sheffield declared that he would kill every Evil Dragon and minion of the Red Calamity in the Raging Tide Dragon Realm.
• The Oath of Raging Waves rose from the sea and blocked Sheffield from entering the Dragon Realm.
• Fenoris met Sheffield and explained that the dragons inside were striving for the rise of the Dragon Race under the Lord of Sacred Aura.
• Archer joined Fenoris and told Sheffield that she no longer believed scale color determined whether a dragon was evil.
• Fenoris asked Sheffield to visit Sacred Aura and judge the Dragon Empire with his own eyes.

Sheffield confronted Garos over the Raging Tide Dragon Realm and attacked him, while Garos adapted to Sheffield’s Judgment Divine Power and survived the Judgment Sword. The chapter ended with Garos reborn in Bloodflame as his sealed traits and abilities returned to full strength.

• Fenoris, Archer, and the Legendary Metal Dragons stood against Sheffield and urged him to give Sacred Aura a chance, but Sheffield left to confront Garos.
• Sheffield accused Garos of evil, rejected his explanation, and attacked him; the two fought from the Boiling Sea into space as Garos shifted forms and Sheffield’s strength and defenses proved formidable.
• Sheffield invoked his Judgment Divine Power, shackling Garos, sealing Battle Dragon and Undying Life, and eventually forming the Judgment Sword.
• Sheffield’s Judgment Sword severed Garos’s arm and inflicted repeated wounds before splitting his body into four pieces.
• Garos’s pieces ignited with Bloodflame and converged, allowing him to regenerate completely after adapting to the Judgment Seal.

Garos defeated the Bronze Dragon King Sheffield, recovered by absorbing stellar energy and Sheffield’s life essence, and discovered that Sheffield had left behind a Judgment Destiny Core. Lionel revealed that Sun Dragons might know how to forge Destiny Cores into weapons, while Bernardo’s official account of the battle portrayed Sheffield as repenting and entrusting the Dragon Race to Garos.

• Garos reflected on how he had survived Sheffield’s Judgment Sword and concluded that Sheffield’s conviction had remained firm until death.
• Garos questioned why Bahamut had allowed Tiamat to influence Sheffield, then replenished his strength with stellar energy and drained Sheffield’s remaining life essence.
• Sheffield’s body disintegrated, leaving a sword-shaped Judgment Destiny Core that attacked Garos before he subdued it.
• Lionel arrived, told Garos that Sun Dragons possessed secret arts for forging Destiny Cores into weapons, and left Garos with a possible lead.
• The Aura Chronicles recorded an account claiming Sheffield had driven out Tiamat’s influence, repented, and entrusted the Dragon Race’s future to Garos.

Garos recovered in the Fey Wilds after defeating Sheffield, while Vera urged him to spread the Red Emperor’s story beyond Bernardo. Hollis revealed that the ancient empire of Imaskar was fighting the gods, leaving Garos to consider the danger of divine attention and how Sacred Aura could grow before the gods moved against it.

• Garos rested among the fae, and Vera asked whether he was now Bernardo’s strongest dragon and when he would become its ruler.
• Vera admitted she had followed Hollis to Faerûn and told people there stories about Garos, but few believed her.
• Hollis told Garos that Imaskar was resisting an invasion by divine Saints and Avatars after provoking the gods.
• Hollis explained that Imaskar believed divine power could be studied and replicated, and that it might be creating something capable of stripping away Divinity or replacing faith.
• Garos considered seeking an opportunity in Imaskar but decided the war was too dangerous to approach rashly.
• Garos wondered whether Sacred Aura would eventually provoke the gods and resolved to grow stronger before they took notice.

Vera spent a playful day in the Verdant Gardens before meeting Naitar, a Fairy Dragon who pranked her and then vanished. She realized he was the god Naital Skiyasak, while Titania watched the gardens and began planning how the Joyful Court could build trust with the Red Iron Dragon.

• Vera patrolled the Verdant Gardens, told stories about the Red Emperor, and pranked several Fae.
• Naitar arrived and praised Vera’s stories, then disrupted her Shapeshifting Spell until she transformed into several ridiculous dragon forms.
• Vera showed Naitar around the gardens and tried to prank him with a Stinky Flower, but he turned the prank against her and disappeared.
• Vera remembered that Naitar was Naital Skiyasak, the god of Pseudodragons and Fairy Dragons.
• Naitar asked Titania to visit the Verdant Gardens, but Titania expelled him and considered how the Joyful Court could form an alliance with the Red Iron Dragon.

Vera told Garos that a Fairy Dragon named Naitar had teased her and might be the Fairy Dragon God, prompting Garos to consider whether the Joyful Court had noticed him. Concerned that the Fey Wilds might not remain a safe refuge, Garos decided to send trusted offspring and followers to Faerûn to establish a foothold.

• Vera arrived at Garos's platform and described how a Fairy Dragon named Naitar had pranked her in the Verdant Gardens.
• Garos considered whether Naitar was the Fairy Dragon God and whether his visit was a warning aimed at Garos or merely a playful prank.
• Garos told Vera to notify him if she encountered Naitar again and cautioned that the Fairy Dragon might only be pretending to be a deity.
• After Vera returned to the Fey Wilds, Garos worried that the Joyful Court might not accept him and that the Fey Wilds might not be a reliable refuge.
• Garos decided to send trusted offspring and followers to Faerûn to secure an outpost in the territory expected to be abandoned after the Imaskar Empire fell.

Garos assigned Galkro and Laria to travel to Faerûn, establish a foothold, and prepare for Sacred Aura’s future Great Expedition. After they agreed to the dangerous mission, Galkro told the younger dragons that they too could someday win glory across many worlds.

• Galkro complained that Orotara offered no opportunities for expansion, while Laria explained that he was studying their inheritance to prepare for future responsibilities.
• Galkro gathered nine of Laria’s Adolescent Dragon descendants for a fight, but Garos arrived through a rift in the sky.
• Garos told Galkro and Laria that an Empire in Faerûn was at war with deities and ordered them to prepare an outpost for Sacred Aura’s future expansion.
• Galkro and Laria accepted the dangerous mission, and Garos told them to return to Atlant for equipment and resources before departing.
• Galkro canceled the young dragons’ fight and promised that Sacred Aura would plant its banners in many worlds, giving them a chance to join future expeditions.

Garos sent Galkro, Laria, and a force of Dragonforged Warriors through a spatial rift to establish Sacred Aura’s first foothold in Faerûn. After they concealed themselves from the divine wrath ravaging the east, the lich Sammaster discovered traces of their arrival and grew curious about the outsiders.

• Sorog agreed that Sacred Aura should focus on conquering Bernardo before launching the Great Expedition, and Garos said the expedition would wait until he reached the Immortal Realm.
• A dozen days later, Galkro and Laria led hundreds of Dragonforged Warriors through Garos’s rift into Faerûn.
• On the Nameless Wasteland, Galkro and Laria sensed the gods’ wrath in the east and transformed their force into birds to fly north under concealment.
• Sammaster arrived at the landing site, found that the spatial traces had been erased, and wondered whether the cautious outsiders were dragons.

Garos investigated the site of the healed Abyssal Rift beneath the Raging Tide Dragon Realm and found no trace of danger, though he planned to have it watched. He then joined Deborah and Isanora for a fishing contest, lost to Deborah, and agreed to spend a month peacefully by her side.

• Garos descended into the underwater gorge where the Abyssal Rift had been and found the seabed perfectly intact, then decided dragons should monitor the area regularly.
• Garos reunited with Deborah and Isanora on the beach, and Deborah invited him to go Tail Fishing with them.
• Garos and Deborah made a contest of catching the most fish in an hour, while Isanora asked what she would get if she won.
• Garos drew a huge school of fish to his tail, but his Dragon Might frightened them away, leaving Deborah with the biggest catch.
• Deborah won the contest, and Garos agreed to stay with her in the Raging Tide Dragon Realm for a month; the two leaned against each other while Isanora watched.

Sorog experienced a vision that revealed a secret Ferrous Dragon inheritance, including a path to become the supreme Ferrous Dragon King, and summoned Garos, Gordon, and Samantha to tell them. The chapter left Garos wondering why the inheritance had awakened in Sorog rather than in him as the emperor who possessed Ferrous Dragon blood.

• After decades of Empire growth, Sorog reviewed reports through a snowstorm, fell asleep in the administrative hall, and saw Ferrous Dragons fight over a massive Iron Throne in a lucid vision.
• Sorog awoke with knowledge of a hidden bloodline inheritance and decided to notify Garos, while Garos contemplated his progress toward Immortality and the possible loss of his Mutant Body.
• Garos sensed Sorog’s summons, returned from the White Dwarf, and met Sorog, Gordon, and Samantha at the Dragon Court.
• Sorog asked whether Gordon or Samantha had dreamed of the Iron Throne; both denied it, and Garos said he had experienced no such dream either.
• Sorog explained that his vision was an inheritance available to Ferrous Dragons who had founded a Dragon Empire and that it revealed how to ascend the Iron Throne.
• Sorog told Garos that the inheritance described a supreme Ferrous Dragon King who would rule all Ferrous Dragons across countless worlds, planes, and starfields.

Sorog revealed inherited lore about the first Ferrous Dragon King, the Dragonfall War, and scattered fragments of the king’s Divine Power. Garos learned the location of one fragment but remained wary of the inheritance and the dangers of pursuing the Supreme Iron Throne.

• Garos asked Sorog whether the forgotten Ferrous Dragon King was the same ruler Sorog had mentioned, and Sorog explained that the first king was also called the Supreme Dragon.
• Samantha questioned whether Sorog’s newly awakened inheritance could be a deception and admitted that the Chromatic Dragon Queen had repeatedly tried to tempt her; Garos told her to report any future whispers.
• Sorog recounted that the Platinum Dragon God fought the first Ferrous Dragon King, who fled wounded to the Material Plane and was killed in an ambush by the Chromatic Dragon Queen.
• Sorog said the king’s death sparked the Dragonfall War, which weakened the Dragon Race and led the Dragon Gods to erase the war’s true history; Garos connected this buried trauma to dragons’ distrust of their gods.
• Sorog revealed that the king scattered his Divine Power across worlds and sent Garos the location of one fragment, warning that other Ferrous Dragon emperors might already be seeking them.
• Garos memorized the coordinate but decided not to rush into the struggle, suspecting the inheritance or the promise of the throne might conceal a trap.