Chapter Summaries

Lu Mingfei mastered the Storm Knight’s Dragon Communion incantations, including Improved Dragonfire, before the old knight told him his training was complete and sent him to pursue his own mission. Lu Mingfei left the church after a solemn farewell, carrying the old knight’s final wish that he survive.

• Lu Mingfei learned Dragonfire, Dragonbite, and Dragonclaw, and the old knight warned him not to treat Dragon Communion lightly.
• The old knight taught Lu Mingfei Improved Dragonfire, which he mastered in less than two days.
• The old knight explained that powerful High-Tier Dragon Communion Incantations required hunting Flying Dragons and consuming their Dragon Hearts.
• The old knight told Lu Mingfei that he had taught him everything he knew and urged him to leave and carry out his mission.
• Lu Mingfei knelt to salute the old knight, then left the church after hearing him say, “Don't die, brat.”

Lu Mingfei tried to break through Stormgate, but the Troll, crossbowmen, and ballista stopped his repeated attempts. After eleven deaths, even Torrent refused to charge again, leaving Lu Mingfei facing the gate without his loyal steed.

• Lu Mingfei entered Stormgate and was ambushed by a Troll and a barrage of crossbow bolts, dying before he could pass.
• Lu Mingfei tried charging through on Torrent, but the Troll knocked them down; their next attempt evaded the Troll but ended in a hail of arrows.
• Lu Mingfei assessed the gate’s hazards, including the chevaux-de-frise, barricades, ballista, and patrolling soldiers, and considered asking Emiya to draw their fire.
• After his eleventh death, Lu Mingfei began drawing tactical diagrams, but Torrent hid behind the Site of Grace and refused to join another charge.

Lu Mingfei defeated Godrick’s guards at Castleward Tunnel and prepared to face Margit, the Fell Omen, to gain the ability to return to Earth. He emerged beneath Stormveil Castle, admired the city, and heard Margit challenge him.

• Lu Mingfei killed every guard at Castleward Tunnel and kindled its Site of Grace.
• He replenished his Flasks and reflected on how much stronger and more accustomed to killing he had become.
• Lu Mingfei set out to confront Margit, hoping to earn the right to travel freely between Earth and the Lands Between.
• He emerged from the tunnel, saw Stormveil Castle, and said he wanted to take their beautiful hometown back.
• Margit addressed Lu Mingfei and vowed to extinguish his ambition and the flame that drove it.

Lu Mingfei fought Margit, the Fell Omen, at Godrick’s gate but was defeated for the twenty-third time. After learning Margit’s attack patterns, he prepared to challenge him again.

• Margit emerged atop the wall and attacked Lu Mingfei, who struck first with a Storm blade.
• Lu Mingfei dodged Margit’s opening plunge and wounded him with Spinning Slash, but golden daggers injured Lu Mingfei’s thigh.
• Lu Mingfei used Storm Foot and a Dragon Communion Incantation to bite Margit, but Margit’s tail sent him flying and his light hammer finished the fight.
• Lu Mingfei counted his twenty-three defeats and reflected on how strong Margit and the demigods might be.
• Lu Mingfei decided he had learned Margit’s attack patterns and stood ready to fight him again.

Lu Mingfei fought Margit, the Fell Omen, using the Storm Knights’ techniques and his knowledge of Margit’s attacks to overcome the powerful foe. After Margit’s body dissolved into golden motes, Lu Mingfei was left standing with his sword and a sarcastic remark.

• Lu Mingfei interrupted Margit’s challenge and opened the fight with Dragonfire and Storm Foot.
• Margit wounded Lu Mingfei with a golden dagger, but Lu Mingfei struck back with Dragonfire and Spinning Slash.
• Lu Mingfei pierced Margit’s chest, then attacked the regenerating wound with a storm vortex as Margit retaliated with golden daggers.
• Lu Mingfei evaded Margit’s dagger, kicked him away, and threw his own dagger into Margit’s left eye.
• Lu Mingfei drew the Lordsworn’s Straight Sword and used Square Off to cut open Margit’s chest, causing the Fell Omen to collapse and dissolve.

After defeating Margit, the Fell Omen, Lu Mingfei reunited with Emiya Shirou and learned why Shirou had been out of contact. Shirou explained that Ken Kaneki’s Curseblood path had eroded his mind, and warned Lu Mingfei to be careful with Dragon Communion.

• Lu Mingfei picked up a black crystal left by Margit and wondered how it could send him home.
• Lu Mingfei used the Tarnished's Old Finger to contact Emiya Shirou, then summoned him and greeted him warmly.
• Emiya Shirou explained that he had been helping Ken Kaneki, who had become a Bloody Finger while seeking power for an urgent real-world problem.
• Emiya Shirou said the White Mask had led Ken onto the Curseblood path, whose resonance with Ken and rapid growth of power contributed to his mind being eroded.
• Emiya Shirou said they had recently found a way for Yura to help Ken regain clarity, then warned Lu Mingfei to be extremely careful with Dragon Communion.

After Melina tried to take Lu Mingfei to the Roundtable Hold, he returned to Lu Mingze’s illusory sea instead of going home. Lu Mingze explained that the power of the Stars had drawn him into another world, then warned him that Nono was near death.

• Emiya Shirou explained that the Parting Black Crystal could send Lu Mingfei between worlds, but dying in his original world would be permanent.
• Melina appeared at the Site of Grace and began guiding Lu Mingfei toward the Roundtable Hold, but his hand vanished from her fingertips.
• Lu Mingfei awoke on the sailboat in Lu Mingze’s illusory sea and realized he had returned to the world of the Three Gorges.
• Lu Mingfei asked Lu Mingze whether he had caused the journey, and Lu Mingze denied it and attributed it to the power of the Stars.
• Lu Mingze warned Lu Mingfei that Nono had lost nearly ninety percent of her blood and was close to death.
• Lu Mingfei asked Lu Mingze whether he was really a devil.

Lu Mingze unsealed Lu Mingfei’s powers and explained how they could help him save Nono and fight the dragon. He revealed that Seven Sins was in Ye Sheng’s bag and urged Lu Mingfei to take Wrath and judge the traitors.

• Lu Mingfei admitted he would save Nono because she was one of his few friends, and Lu Mingze agreed to help him kill the dragon.
• Lu Mingze unsealed Lu Mingfei’s Gathering and casting abilities, granting him infinite mana and the power to prevent opponents from using Word Spirits.
• Lu Mingze showed Lu Mingfei that Nono was dying and explained that Lu Mingfei’s own Word Spirit, “Don’t Die,” could save her.
• Lu Mingze gave Lu Mingfei the Word Spirits Dustless Realm and Eye of the Storm King as outward forms of his Storm Path.
• Lu Mingze revealed that the seven alchemical weapons called Seven Sins were in Ye Sheng’s bag and told Lu Mingfei to use Wrath against the traitors.

Lu Mingfei awakened a Word Spirit that pulled Nono’s blood back into her wound and let her remove the bone spike from her heart, then brought her to the Moniach. He returned to the river after the crew spotted the still-living Dragon King, leaving the ship in panic and without a weapon capable of stopping it.

• Lu Mingfei found Nono near death in the river and used his newly awakened Word Spirit to draw her blood back into her wound.
• Nono woke, pulled the bone spike from her heart, and then fell unconscious again, so Lu Mingfei fitted her with a respirator.
• Lu Mingfei used Dustless Realm and Eye of the Storm King to propel himself and Nono to the surface and crash onto the Moniach’s deck.
• Lu Mingfei laid Nono on deck, briefly faced Caesar, then plunged back into the river.
• Grayson saw the Dragon King was still alive, and the crew panicked because they had no means to defeat it.

Lu Mingfei opened the ancient case and drew the living blade Wrath, then used Dragon Communion Power and Storm techniques to fight Dragon King Norton underwater. He wounded Norton but was hurled into a reef, while Wrath absorbed his blood and resonated with his power.

• Lu Mingfei followed Lu Mingze’s instructions to open the ancient case and draw the horse-chopping saber Wrath.
• Lu Mingze explained that the spiritually infused blade had awakened and provoked Norton, so Lu Mingfei kindled his Dragon Communion Power and silenced Norton’s draconic speech.
• Norton charged Lu Mingfei, but Lu Mingfei used Storm Foot to knock aside the Dragon King’s claw.
• Lu Mingfei used Eye of the Storm King with Wrath to tear open Norton’s body and make dragon blood gush into the river.
• Norton swept his tail at Lu Mingfei, who countered with Storm Blade but was thrown into a reef and injured.
• Wrath absorbed Lu Mingfei’s blood and grew hotter as its violent will resonated with his Dragon Communion Power.

Lu Mingfei fought Norton beneath the river, driven by Wrath and Dragon Communion, and wounded the Dragon King before bursting onto the surface. There he recognized Norton as his friend Old Tang, leaving him devastated as Norton answered with a furious roar.

• Lu Mingfei unleashed Wrath and Dragon Communion, transforming as he charged Norton in a desperate battle beneath the river.
• Caesar and Zero watched the struggle from the Moniach as the ship lurched and a towering column of water erupted nearby.
• Lu Mingfei burst from the river with Wrath embedded in Norton's neck, while the wounded Dragon King pursued him.
• Lu Mingfei recognized the human outline on Norton's head as Old Tang, his friend Ronald Tang.
• Lu Mingfei cried out to Old Tang, but Norton responded with an enraged roar.

Lu Mingfei killed Norton, realizing that the Dragon King he had slain was his friend Old Tang. A week later, he met President Angers at Cassel College and discussed his recovery, grades, and what the battle had revealed about the Four Dragon Monarchs.

• Lu Mingfei recognized Norton as Old Tang and, overcome by grief and fury, pursued him before he could escape into the Bronze City.
• Lu Mingfei drove Wrath through Norton's head and chest, killing the Dragon King and grieving over Old Tang's death.
• After a week of recovery, Lu Mingfei met President Angers for tea in the president's office.
• Angers gave Lu Mingfei his transcript, noting that he had earned a 4.0 GPA and full marks in the internship course.
• Angers asked Lu Mingfei to write an internship paper about the Four Dragon Monarchs and explained that the Bronze and Flame King were twin brothers, a discovery Cassel could not make public.

Lu Mingfei learned that Old Tang had been Norton, the Bronze and Flame King, and answered Angers’s questions about his Dragonification and the missing remains. Angers praised him personally, while Lu Mingfei kept the truth about hiding Norton’s bones to himself.

• Lu Mingfei asked Angers how Ronald Tang could have been the Bronze and Flame King, and learned that dragons could take human form.
• Angers explained that Norton and Constantine had both given up the chance to be reborn, and Lu Mingfei returned the photograph of Old Tang.
• Angers questioned Lu Mingfei about prohibited methods and loss of control, then assured him that his blood tests were clean and the Council of Elders had protected him.
• Angers said Beowulf admired Lu Mingfei and had wanted to meet him, but Angers had refused on his behalf.
• Angers asked where Norton’s remains had gone, and Lu Mingfei denied knowing despite hiding them in his own space.
• Angers personally commended Lu Mingfei, telling him, “Well done.”

Lu Mingfei returned to his dorm after recovering from his battle with Norton and found Fingal posing as a refined scholar. Fingal revealed he had profited from Lu Mingfei’s fame by selling photo books, signed photos, and intimate clothing, leaving Lu Mingfei furious.

• Lu Mingfei returned to Room 303 and found Fingal unusually tidy and dressed in a suit.
• Fingal welcomed Lu Mingfei with extravagant praise for defeating Dragon King Norton, but Lu Mingfei demanded to know what he was up to.
• Fingal admitted that he had sold preorders for Lu Mingfei’s photo books, signed photos, and intimate clothing.
• Lu Mingfei learned the items had sold out almost instantly and that signed photos were being scalped for three thousand dollars each.

Lu Mingfei agreed to split the proceeds from Fingal’s unauthorized merchandise before Caesar visited to thank him for saving Caesar and Nono at the Three Gorges. Caesar gave Lu Mingfei a sword hilt and identified it as Night Tempering.

• Lu Mingfei confronted Fingal about selling signed photos and personal items, then agreed to take eighty percent of the proceeds after learning Fingal had already spent most of the money.
• Lu Mingfei reflected that he planned to live independently from his aunt and uncle and needed money to support himself.
• Caesar arrived at Dorm 303 and asked to speak with Lu Mingfei alone.
• Caesar thanked Lu Mingfei for saving him and Nono during the Three Gorges mission and said the Gattuso Family never remained indebted.
• Caesar presented Lu Mingfei with a bronze sword hilt and identified the sword as Night Tempering.

Caesar Gattuso thanked Lu Mingfei for saving him and others by giving him the alchemical weapon Night Tempering and covering several expenses. Caesar left Lu Mingfei with his private number and said he still owed him two lives.

• Caesar cut his finger and used his blood to activate the alchemical weapon Night Tempering, which Lu Mingfei called a lightsaber.
• Caesar explained that Night Tempering could only be activated by someone with an A-Rank or higher bloodline and offered it to Lu Mingfei as a friend.
• Caesar cited Lu Mingfei's role in saving him, his girlfriend, and the Student Union members aboard the Moniach as the reason for his gifts.
• Caesar told Lu Mingfei he had paid Norton House's renovation and utility costs for four years and had repaired and fueled the Bugatti Veyron.
• Lu Mingfei accepted Night Tempering, and Caesar left his private number and said he still owed Lu Mingfei two lives.

Lu Mingfei returned to the Lands Between because he feared he could not face another Dragon King without sacrificing more of his life, and Melina brought him to Roundtable Hold. After meeting Gideon Ofnir and finding a blacksmith, he learned that repairing his armor would cost Runes.

• Lu Mingfei admitted to himself that fear of his weakness had driven him back to the Lands Between.
• Melina explained Roundtable Hold and brought Lu Mingfei there through the Site of Grace.
• Lu Mingfei met Gideon Ofnir, who welcomed him but warned him not to overstep his bounds as a mere passerby.
• Lu Mingfei asked Gideon where to find a blacksmith and went to meet the old smith in the corridor.
• Lu Mingfei asked the blacksmith to repair his Exile Knight armor, then protested when the smith demanded Runes.

Lu Mingfei had Hewg repair his armor at Roundtable Hold and met several of its residents before Gostoc finally persuaded him to enter Stormveil Castle by the side path. Lu Mingfei left wary of Gostoc’s motives, while Gostoc hoped to profit from his choice.

• Lu Mingfei paid Hewg in Golden Runes to repair his damaged armor, learned that Hewg was a shackled misbegotten, and thanked him with a respectful salute.
• Lu Mingfei spoke with D and Diallos, then declined to commit to learning the Two Fingers’ incantations from Corhyn because he did not believe in gods.
• Gostoc watched Lu Mingfei pace between the main gate and the side path, then warned him that the gate guards had killed several Tarnished.
• Lu Mingfei agreed to take the cliffside route into Stormveil Castle despite fearing heights, and Gostoc anticipated earning Runes from his decision.
• Before leaving, Lu Mingfei questioned why Gostoc was helping him, freezing Gostoc’s smile.

Lu Mingfei fought his way through the tower and discovered that Gostoc had trapped him in a storage room with an elite Exile Knight. The cramped room left him struggling to counter the knight’s powerful sword-and-shield attacks as their clash continued.

• Lu Mingfei killed the exile soldiers guarding the cliff walkway and cleared the tower’s weak defenders, but a resident ambushed him from behind before he killed the attacker.
• Lu Mingfei found a hidden stairwell behind crates and climbed to a small room, where the door slammed shut behind him.
• Lu Mingfei recognized the armored opponent in the room as an elite Exile Knight and realized that their shared fighting style made him especially dangerous.
• The Exile Knight drove Lu Mingfei back in the cramped room, and Lu Mingfei dodged a strike that shattered a gilded jar.
• Lu Mingfei struck the knight’s iron shield with a heavy downward blow, shaking dust from the beams.

Lu Mingfei asked his master about killing an Exile Knight and learned that the old veterans had become enemies serving Godrick, with death sometimes offering them mercy. His master explained how people used Runes and their own inner nature to grow stronger, then told Lu Mingfei he was destined to become a hero.

• Lu Mingfei told the old knight that he had fought and defeated an Exile Knight at Stormveil, and his master explained why killing the fallen veterans was justified.
• The old knight demonstrated his true Storm power by blasting Lu Mingfei more than a mile away with a hurricane.
• The old knight explained how people directed Runes into their bodies, souls, faith, or magic according to their inner nature.
• The old knight told Lu Mingfei that Storm power was only a tool for him and that his own path could make him a hero.
• Lu Mingfei questioned whether he could really become a hero, and the old knight rapped him on the forehead and demanded to know why he could not.