Chapter Summaries

Garos kept the Jawbone Clan from pledging loyalty to the Stone Giants until their stronger elder arrived, then prepared the clan for a possible battle. He secretly followed the Stone Giant vanguard to assess the threat and decide whether to defend his territory or retreat.

• Garos stayed hidden while Kalu demanded that the strongest Stone Giant come to negotiate, and the Stone Giant promised an elder would arrive alone in three days.
• After the Stone Giant left, Garos praised Kalu, refused his request for shed dragon skin, and told the Jawbone Clan to prepare for battle.
• Garos had the Jawbone Clan feast from its food stores, relying on past rewards to reinforce its loyalty before a possible conflict.
• Garos secretly followed the Stone Giant vanguard and estimated that it was around Level 9, roughly equal to his own Life Level.
• Garos considered the danger posed by a Stone Giant elder and planned to investigate the threat before deciding whether to retreat or make the vanguard pay.

Garos followed Targon to the Stone Giant camp, where he discovered an Earth Vein Symbiosis Pool and a powerful Diamond Giant Elder. After testing the camp’s defenses and judging the Stone Giants to be refugees rather than an advancing force, he decided to strike when the elder visited the Jawbone Clan in three days.

• Garos secretly followed Targon to the Stone Giant camp and observed its Earth Vein Symbiosis Pool, young Stone Giants, Giant Stone Guardians, and magical vassals.
• Targon reported the Jawbone Clan’s refusal to the Diamond Giant Elder, who decided that Kalu’s intelligence made the Glutton Demon worth subduing.
• Garos drove a level 9 Mammoth Beast toward the camp and watched the Diamond Elder kill it with a leap and two blows.
• After reviewing the camp’s population and defenses, Garos concluded that the Stone Giants were refugees seeking a place to settle, not an advance force.
• Garos decided to attack the Diamond Elder if it went alone to the Jawbone Clan in three days, then left the camp.

Garos waited with the Jawbone Clan’s forces to ambush the Diamond Elder, but two Kora Giant Eagles arrived to scout the hills instead. After capturing them, Garos learned that Elder Aibadan had sent them to investigate the Jawbone Clan, and his killing intent flared.

• Garos prepared a coordinated ambush, planning to strike the Diamond Elder from above while his followers restrained it.
• Two Kora Giant Eagles approached the Shattered Spine Hills and spotted the Jawbone Clan’s hidden elite troops.
• Garos recognized the eagles as Stone Giant scouts and watched them prepare to leave.
• Garos dived from the clouds, caught both eagles, and brought them to a rocky platform.
• The Kora Giant Eagles told Garos that Elder Aibadan had ordered them to investigate the Jawbone Clan and report anything unusual.

Garos decided to launch a nighttime raid on the Stone Giant camp before its people could grow stronger, while Diamond Elder Aibadan independently suspected a dragon was behind the Jawbone Clan and prepared to strike first. The two sides were on the verge of clashing as Garos streaked toward the camp and alarmed its inhabitants.

• Garos concluded that delay would favor the Stone Giants and chose to attack their camp at night.
• Garos sent the injured Kora Giant Eagles to the Jawbone Clan camp, gathered his monster army, and ordered Kalu and Bloodfang Hodge to lead the raid.
• Garos flew ahead to draw Diamond Elder Aibadan away from the camp while the monster army marched toward the highlands.
• Aibadan noticed that the Kora Giant Eagles had not returned, suspected an ambush and a dragon behind the Jawbone Clan, and decided to raid before the enemy could act.
• As Aibadan and Targon left the stone house to gather their forces, a crimson figure tore across the night sky toward the camp.

Garos attacked a Stone Giant camp from the sky, killing a young adult Stone Giant and clashing with the Diamond Giant. The Giants rallied to protect their young as Garos began another dive into their prepared defenses.

• Garos rained Explosive Scales over the camp, but the Diamond Giant raised a curtain of rock to shield the younger Giants.
• Garos feinted toward the Diamond Giant and smashed into a young adult Stone Giant, killing it in a crater before climbing back into the sky.
• The Diamond Giant leapt after Garos and weighed him down with a heavy spell, but Garos took its punch, struck it with his wing, and escaped upward.
• The Diamond Giant warned Targon that Garos was cunning and ordered him to guard the surviving young Giants.
• Garos spiraled through the clouds and dived again as the Stone Giants and magical beasts launched ranged attacks, while the Diamond Giant fired a powerful white beam.

Garos used his flight and speed to devastate the Stone Giant camp while avoiding the Diamond Giant’s attacks, then knocked the giant down with a high-speed collision. The Diamond Giant lured Garos away from the camp by provoking his anger and tempting him with its diamond heart, and Garos pursued it as planned.

• Garos dodged the Diamond Giant’s beam and gravity spell while attacking the Stone Giants with Dragon Breath and Explosive Scale.
• Garos killed Stone Giants during a dive and slammed into the Diamond Giant, sending it crashing into the camp’s wall.
• The Diamond Giant healed itself with earth and stone, then realized it could not protect its clansmen while fighting Garos inside the camp.
• The Diamond Giant insulted Garos and displayed its diamond heart to provoke and tempt him.
• The Diamond Giant ran away from the camp, and Garos pursued it, secretly pleased that it had taken the bait.

Garos fought Aibadan, the Diamond Giant, while his Thrall Legion attacked the Stone Giant Camp. After luring Aibadan away and then exploiting its distraction, Garos used Black Oil, Fairy Scale Powder, and Bloodburst Art to deliver a final charge that shattered the Giant and won the battle.

• Garos and Aibadan exchanged powerful attacks, and both were badly injured by their first collision of ultimate techniques.
• Garos revealed that his Thrall Legion was assaulting the Stone Giant Camp, prompting Aibadan to turn back in panic.
• Garos used Black Oil, Fairy Scale Powder, the Horn Ring, and Bloodburst Art to exceed his normal limits and dive at Aibadan.
• Garos's second collision shattered Aibadan's body, and he tore the Diamond Core from its chest as a trophy.

Garos killed the Diamond Giant with a planned ambush and learned to value caution as well as strength. After taking its Diamond Core and beginning to consume its magical remains, he returned to the Stone Giant Camp, where Kalu was fighting a Granite Giant.

• Garos reflected that preparation and careful planning had let him defeat the stronger Diamond Giant, and resolved to stay cautious.
• Garos swallowed two magical diamonds from the Diamond Giant's remains, then kept the Diamond Core and flew back to the Stone Giant Camp.
• Kalu fought a Granite Giant while boosted by the warlocks' spells and the Bloodfang Warlord's battle aura.
• Kalu tricked the Granite Giant with his Super Demon Fist, struck it with a close-range energy sphere, and pounded it into the ground.

Garos defeated the Stone Giants, ordered the prisoners killed, and secured the Earth Vein Symbiosis Pool. He began planning how to govern his territory and formally united his vassals as the Molten Iron Clan.

• Garos revealed the Diamond Giant's core, breaking the Stone Giants' morale, while his vassals overwhelmed the remaining defenders.
• Kalu killed the Granite Stone Giant, and Garos ordered every captured Stone Giant killed and the monsters enslaved.
• Garos left Ogres to guard the Earth Vein Symbiosis Pool and considered establishing outposts and controlling resources across his territory.
• Garos decided to find an intelligent vassal or Dragonkin follower to manage the territory, dismissing Samantha and Kalu as unsuitable.
• Garos declared that the scattered vassal clans would share one name, and the Molten Iron Clan was formally established.

Garos organized the People of Molten Iron into warbands and transformed Kalu into a Dragon-Vein Kin using his Dragon Blood. After the clan returned to the Giant camp, Garos named their highland home Quenching Heights.

• Garos appointed Kalu commander of the legion, made former clan leaders warband leaders, and assigned Molten Iron Priests to oversee them.
• Garos performed Dragon Vein Conversion on Kalu, who swallowed the Dragon Blood and endured a painful transformation into a Dragon-veined Glutton Demon.
• Kalu pledged absolute loyalty to Garos, who gained a powerful subordinate but regretted that Kalu inherited the Red Dragon Bloodline instead of the Iron Dragon Bloodline.
• The kin carried away the Diamond Giant's remains and returned to the Giant camp, leaving Ogre Ugo and a Bone-Chewer Warband squad to guard the Earth Vein Symbiosis Pool.
• Garos named the highland where the Molten Iron Clan was born Quenching Heights.

Garos returned to Conifer Valley wounded but victorious over the Stone Giants, bringing back the Diamond Core. When Samantha demanded a chance to fight for glory, Garos began persuading her that her true path to fame lay in Alchemy.

• Garos returned to Conifer Valley with severe injuries and showed Samantha and Vera the Diamond Core he had won.
• Samantha tried to touch the core, but Garos swallowed it and stored it away.
• Garos considered Samantha’s growing desire for battle a danger, though he valued her skill at refining Black Oil and did not want to send her away.
• Samantha told Garos she wanted to fight for glory and have her name resound through the heavens.
• Garos praised Samantha’s wisdom and Alchemy talent, arguing that these strengths could make her stand out among Red Dragons.

Garos encouraged Samantha to pursue alchemy and considered whether his battle with the Diamond Giant might awaken his Dragon Qi. Meanwhile, Gnoll scouts sent by the Young Iron Dragon investigated Quenching Heights, where Ugo's Ogres captured them and invoked Garos as their Lord of Crimson Wings.

• Garos persuaded Samantha that becoming a wise Alchemy Dragon would make her distinctive, and she returned to her workshop to begin building an Alchemy Legion.
• Garos returned to his cave Dragon Lair and rested while wondering whether his fight with the Diamond Giant could awaken his Dragon Qi.
• Three days later, Haken led Gnoll scouts across Quenching Heights to investigate the meteor-like impact for the ambitious Young Iron Dragon ruling Shingle Beach.
• The scouts discovered elite Ogres dismantling Stone Giant corpses at their camp, and Ugo's warriors spotted and pursued them.
• Haken invoked the Iron King to intimidate the Ogres, but Ugo captured the Gnolls and said they would face the judgment of the Lord of Crimson Wings, Garos.

After recovering from his battle with the Diamond Giant, Garos considered awakening Dragon Qi but chose steady training over risking a fight to the death. He continued adapting to his lightning evolution and ended the chapter teasing the Fairy Dragon Vera.

• Garos woke after ten days of sleep and found that his wounds had healed, though his broken horn had not fully regrown and Dragon Qi had not awakened.
• Garos rejected the idea of provoking a dangerous battle to awaken Dragon Qi and decided to train steadily instead.
• Garos noticed electrical currents beneath his scales and released a few weak sparks as his lightning-related evolution continued.
• Garos drank Black Oil to ease his hunger and left his cave under the blazing sun.
• The Fairy Dragon Vera offered Garos a pungent substance that made him sneeze sparks, so Garos repeatedly singed her in retaliation.

Garos learned that an Iron Dragon had settled at Shingle Beach and traveled to Quenching Heights to investigate, where he questioned a captured Gnoll scout. The Gnoll’s mention of the Iron King reminded Garos of his brother Sorog Ignas, who had repeatedly urged him to serve the Iron King.

• Garos ordered Molga to explain how Ugo’s forces had captured Gnoll scouts serving an Iron Dragon at Shingle Beach.
• Garos decided to investigate the Iron Dragon himself and told Molga to send Kalu and the elite Ogres to Quenching Heights when Kalu returned.
• Garos arrived at Quenching Heights, approved Ugo’s statue of him, and allowed Ugo’s rivalry with Kalu to continue.
• Garos questioned the Gnoll scout Haken, who revealed that the Iron Dragon commanded Gnolls and Kobolds and was called the Iron King.
• Garos remembered that Sorog Ignas had repeatedly urged him to abandon their mother’s protection and serve the Iron King.

Garos investigated the Iron King and confirmed that he was his long-lost brother Sorog, an Iron Dragon hiding beneath the Estonia River. Rather than descend to meet him, Garos returned toward the Quenching Heights with another idea in mind.

• Garos recalled Sorog's childhood attempts to control him and suspected that the Iron King was his brother.
• Garos questioned Haken, ordered Ugo to stay in camp, and flew north with the gnoll scout.
• Garos reached Shingle Beach on a tributary of the Estonia River and learned that the Iron King lived underwater.
• Garos recognized Sorog's faint scent near the river and turned back toward the Quenching Heights instead of confronting him.

Garos sent Kalu and the Bone-Chewer Warband to capture the Iron Dragon Sorog, who decided to flee after sensing danger. When the Ogres pursued him, Sorog used the river and his followers to ambush them, but Kalu launched himself toward the dragon as Sorog prepared to attack.

• Garos ordered Kalu to lead the Bone-Chewer Warband north and capture the Iron Dragon alive if possible, while Garos followed overhead.
• Sorog concluded that the Stone Giants might have discovered him and decided to leave Shingle Beach with his Steel Clan followers.
• Sorog spotted Kalu’s Ogre force approaching and directed the Gnolls across the river while the Kobolds dug concealed pits in the shallows.
• Sorog’s followers slowed the Ogres with pits, poisoned arrows, and attacks on their knee joints, sending three Ogres into the rapids.
• Sorog prepared to unleash Electric Fire Breath, but Kalu leapt into the air toward him with his spiked club.

Sorog led his forces against Kalu and the Ogres, but was defeated and captured. The Ogres' Lord of Crimson Wings arrived, and Sorog discovered the dragon was his brother Garos.

• Sorog retreated from the Ogres, then lured them into muddy terrain and ordered the Gnolls and Kobolds to counterattack.
• Sorog grew overconfident and attacked Kalu, but Kalu struck him with his spiked club and the Ogre sorcerers disabled his wings.
• Kalu and the Ogres overwhelmed Sorog, bound him with alchemical chains, and captured the fleeing Gnolls and Kobolds.
• Kalu and Ugo demanded that Sorog submit to the Lord of Crimson Wings and told him the Lord had destroyed the Stone Giants of Quenching Heights.
• Garos descended before Sorog, who offered his territory and followers to secure his life.
• Garos told Sorog to look closely, and Sorog recognized his familiar features before Garos teased him about his missing wings.

Garos rescued Sorog from the Ogres and urged him to join forces, arguing that his arrogance—not his followers’ weakness—had caused his defeat. Sorog was moved by Garos’s offer to build a Dragonkin empire together, but the chapter ended before he answered.

• Garos revealed himself to Sorog after watching the battle at Shingle Beach and freed him from the Ogre sorcerer’s binding spell.
• Sorog blamed his defeat on being outnumbered, but Garos explained that Sorog’s arrogance had let the Dragon-veined Glutton Demon overpower him.
• Garos reassured Sorog that he believed his brother could learn from defeat and overcome his flaws.
• Garos offered Sorog a place at his side to build a Dragonkin empire and restore the Dragon Race’s ancient glory.
• Sorog stared at Garos, overcome by an unfamiliar feeling, and did not yet respond.

Garos welcomed Sorog into the Molten Iron Clan and appointed the Iron Dragon Chancellor to reorganize its warbands. As Garos flew with Sorog to Conifer Valley, he revealed his powerful wing-born speed, leaving Sorog to wonder whether he could become a great savior of Evil Dragons.

• Garos pulled Sorog from the mud, and Sorog accepted him as a brother after recognizing its own mistakes in the fight.
• Kalu apologized to Sorog, and Garos introduced the Iron King to the Ogres as a bloodline brother.
• Sorog proposed restructuring the Molten Iron Clan’s warbands by their strengths, and Garos adopted its plan, naming the former Bone-Chewer Warband Star-Splitting Hammer.
• Garos appointed Sorog Iron Dragon Chancellor and told it to recover before they flew toward Conifer Valley.
• Sorog asked about Garos’s unusual wings, and Garos revealed their dark-red flames and demonstrated his astonishing speed.
• Sorog praised Garos and privately wondered whether he might become the next Sky-Shielding Wings and savior of Evil Dragons.

Samantha played with her animated metal toys at the Sulfur Spring when Garos arrived with her long-lost brother, Sorog. Garos announced that Sorog had joined him to help manage the territory and its followers.

• Samantha used her Alchemy toys to play a battle game with Vera, who had agreed to call her the great Red Dragon Queen.
• Samantha sensed two approaching dragons and recognized Garos and an Iron Dragon flying behind him.
• Garos landed at the Sulfur Spring with Sorog, whom Samantha recognized as her older brother.
• Samantha mocked Sorog for his injuries and weight, and Sorog explained that an Ogre had beaten him.
• Garos told Samantha that Sorog had joined them to help manage the territory and their followers.