Chapter Summaries

The brave warriors began their assault on Rosa Kevin as the forest’s defenders sacrificed themselves to help them. Ataira cleansed Ocast’s curse and sent him toward the Demon King, but remained behind at Misty Spring, where Risala captured her.

• Rosa Kevin’s appearance scattered most of the adventurers, while Emonled warned the remaining warriors and wraiths attacked them.
• Fudora gave the forest’s last power to Ataira and died as Milansa arrived, mortally cursed by Lilasa.
• Milansa summoned Kars to hold back Lilasa’s spider demons, then sacrificed himself so Ataira could escape with the forest’s remaining power.
• Ataira purified Ocast’s curse at Misty Spring while Tesla defended them with holy barriers, but Risala broke the outer barrier and killed Tesla.
• Ocast awakened and wanted to fight Risala, but Ataira teleported him toward the Rotting Forest to face Rosa Kevin.
• Risala captured Ataira at Misty Spring after Ocast’s teleportation left her behind.

Leichina struggled to survive in the cursed village left behind after the Hero Ocast slew Rosa Kevin, while his sister Fanafuna kept him alive. When Fanafuna left to buy supplies, Rosa Kevin appeared at Leichina’s house, asked to stay, and ate cursed food without harm.

• Fanafuna forced Leichina to wash away the Black Snow and left to buy clean water and supplies.
• Fanafuna walked to town with Denolan, who said he planned to leave the village after his mother died, but she chose to remain.
• While Leichina was alone, Rosa Kevin broke into his house, borrowed Fanafuna’s clothes, and revealed that she was the Demon King.
• Rosa ate a cursed potato despite Leichina’s warning, then cooked and ate more cursed food without getting sick.
• Rosa told Leichina she was the Evil God Rosa Kevin, and Leichina questioned what she was.

In Canfor, Fanafuna obtained a little holy water from the church, while Denolan survived the Black Snow and a violent encounter with Tiadam’s bandits. Fanafuna found Denolan among the caravan’s corpses, and they set off for the inn at the crossroads as another heavy snowfall approached.

• Sister Aislanna accepted silver from Fanafuna and led her into the church, where a priest let her fill her jar with holy water before pouring most of it back into the sacred pool.
• Black Snow killed a passing caravan, and Denolan searched a wealthy merchant’s corpse, taking two valuable Dragon Blood rings and a parchment scroll.
• Tiadam and his bandits arrived, searched the corpses, and discovered Denolan hiding in the stone temple with the merchant’s gold.
• Tiadam took both Dragonblood Rings from Denolan and assaulted him while the other bandits waited outside.
• After the bandits left, Fanafuna found Denolan beside the naked corpses, questioned his connection to Tiadam, and then agreed to continue with him toward the crossroads inn.

Denolan struggled with whether to leave Canfor as Fanafuna returned to Labi Village with flour and holy water, only to find her home buried in rotten soil. She found Leichina alive and Rosa Kevin staying with them, then distributed their scarce holy water despite Leichina’s objections.

• Fanafuna urged Denolan to leave before the blizzard and offered to care for his mother, but Denolan remained reluctant to abandon her and the village.
• Denolan left the inn after Fanafuna departed for Labi Village, then weighed staying in Canfor against selling the parchment he had taken from a merchant’s corpse.
• Fanafuna returned to find her family inn buried beneath rotten soil, but Leichina answered from inside and she broke through to reach him.
• Fanafuna met Rosa Kevin, who introduced herself as an Elder Evil God, and offered her food and clothes while warning her to leave before the blizzard.
• Fanafuna feared the curse and briefly imagined taking her own life, but remembered that Leichina still needed her.
• Fanafuna left to distribute the family’s remaining holy water, while Leichina and Rosa argued over the food she had prepared.

As Rosa Kevin's Curse worsened in Labi Village, Bujier prepared to die alongside his dying wife, while Fanafuna found Ridena dead. Leichina argued with Rosa and sent her away with food, then watched black snow begin to fall again.

• Bujier told his wife they could no longer wait for Koyana and prepared to end their lives as the curse advanced.
• Fanafuna rang the church bell, then carried holy water door to door when no villagers came; she found Ridena dead at Denolan's home.
• Leichina worried that he had been selfish about holy water, but Rosa distracted him by demanding an apology and insisting she was an Elder Evil God.
• Rosa explained that bandits had robbed her and that she had come from the forest to buy food for her subordinates, so Leichina gave her potatoes and corn.
• Leichina saw Rosa off, then lay alone at home and watched black snow begin falling again.

Denolan visited Oyana’s magic shop with a parchment containing the Dragonblood Gem recipe, but an attack by Phantom Thief Bernard unleashed holy water that could cleanse Rosa Kevin’s Curse. Denolan gathered the water to help his village, while the chapter ended with his peaceful dream set against memories of the village destroyed by the curse.

• Oyana discussed Canfor’s worsening Black Snow and her plan to profit from land purchases after the church purified Rosa Kevin’s Curse.
• Denolan entered Oyana’s shop carrying the recipe parchment and recognized a Dragonblood Ring that linked her to Tiadam and the bandits.
• An explosion at a nearby church drew a crowd, and holy water poured through the street, cleansing the curses of infected citizens.
• Denolan took a clay jar and collected pure holy water before the church could intervene.
• Oyana discovered Yalila had broken an expensive amulet and sent her into the shop’s hidden spatial area.
• Denolan sheltered in a temple with the holy water, dreaming of marrying Fanafuna before remembering his village’s destruction.

After waking from a nightmare about losing her castle and eye, Rosa Kevin learned that Talatala and her slime kin had accepted her promise of food and declared them her servants. Talatala persuaded her to reclaim stolen treasure from five nearby dragons, while secretly believing Rosa Kevin’s rise would bring prosperity to the slime monsters.

• Rosa Kevin woke from a nightmare, mistook it for reality, and mourned her vanished castle before realizing her eye and part of her tail were missing.
• Rosa Kevin promised Talatala and her kin rewards, then offered them one potato as the first installment of their promised food supply.
• Talatala refused to send the slimes toward Canfor without provisions and pay, and proposed taking treasure from five dragons to fund Rosa Kevin’s return to power.
• Talatala explained that the dragons held treasure stolen from Rosa Kevin after her defeat, and Rosa Kevin agreed to confront them and reclaim it.
• Rosa Kevin headed in the wrong direction before correcting course, while Talatala told her kin that Rosa Kevin’s eventual rise would bring them prosperity.

Tishalar summoned dragons to Timirora Peak while Raslin'er and Mara'an suffered under her power, and the Sacred Sea's phantoms foretold the awakening of Rosa Kevin. After Pervi's father returned from the Hall of Dragons as a cursed, decaying dragon, the curse marked Pervi and spread through the snow, while Li Laar and Mimilar's hatchlings remained hidden from Tishalar's summons.

• Tishalar summoned dragons to Timirora Peak, and Raslin'er learned from the Sacred Sea's phantoms that the decayed evil god would awaken as a new era began.
• Mara'an suffered under Tishalar's summons as his descendants flew toward Timilora, where Tishalar took human form and thousands of dragons gathered beneath her.
• Pipapengpa and Kayisi told Pervi and Li Laar about the dragons' pilgrimage, then led the Dragon Tooth Tribe toward the Hall of Dragons after the dragons departed.
• Pipapengpa returned alone on the seventh day, revealed himself as a decayed dragon, and cursed the Dragon Tooth Tribe in Rosa Kevin's name.
• The curse marked Pervi and blackened the snow, while the eldest priest identified it as Rosa Kevin's Curse.
• Li Laar and Mimilar celebrated their three newly hatched dragons and hoped to live peacefully beside Rosa Kevin's treasure.

Rosa Kevin climbed Barrier to reclaim a treasure from the dragons, but Bilila insulted her and flicked her off the mountain. Hungry and unable to find help in the burned remains of Leichina Village, she left the dragons behind as Bilila’s family dealt with his foul-mouthed behavior.

• Rosa Kevin reached Barrier’s summit and demanded that Li Laar’s dragons return the treasure they owed her.
• Bilila abruptly began insulting Rosa Kevin, argued with her, and flicked her off the mountaintop.
• Rosa Kevin rolled down the mountain, vowed to return for revenge, and went to Leichina Village seeking help and food.
• Rosa Kevin found the village burned to ashes, searched the remains of Leichina’s home, and cried out in hunger when she found no potatoes.
• Mimilar cooked stew while Bilila cursed at his family, then hit him with an iron ladle and denied him dinner.

Leichina awoke as a soul-retaining zombie created by Rosa Kevin and tried to escape toward Canfor, where he hoped to find Denolan and Fanafuna. He learned that Rosa Kevin’s divine power made him collapse whenever he moved more than fifteen feet away from her, leaving the pair bound together as Denolan prepared to sell holy water at the black market.

• Leichina dreamed of his deceased family and village before waking in mud as a zombie transformed by Rosa Kevin.
• Rosa Kevin ordered Leichina to rob a bakery, but he attacked her with his detachable limbs and escaped while she was unconscious.
• Denolan spent the night alone in an abandoned temple, grieving the village’s deaths while clutching a jar of holy water.
• At dawn, Denolan prepared to sell the holy water at the black market as Rosa Kevin found Leichina near the village.
• Leichina tried to leave for Canfor to find Denolan and Fanafuna, but collapsed when he moved beyond fifteen feet from Rosa Kevin.
• Rosa Kevin explained that Leichina’s zombie body depended on her Decaying Divine Power, and the two resumed arguing.

Denolan sold his holy water in Canfor’s black market but received less money than he needed. After rescuing a silver-haired elf from a thug, he distracted the thug’s gang with scattered coins and fled with her.

• Denolan sold his holy water to the black-market shop for one Kralimaya Gold Coin’s worth of silver coins.
• Denolan intervened when a thug grabbed a silver-haired elf and helped her escape down an alley.
• The elf scolded Denolan for running away and left him behind.
• The thug returned with dozens of companions and cornered the elf.
• Denolan scattered hundreds of silver coins to distract the gang, then grabbed the elf and ran as the thugs began chasing them.

Rosa Kevin agreed to rebuild Labi Village after Leichina challenged her, though she first insisted on finding food. At a black-market auction, Tiadam worried about Yalila, while Yalila and Denolan were cornered by the thugs pursuing them.

• Leichina questioned whether Rosa Kevin was truly an evil god and urged her to rebuild the destroyed Labi Village; Rosa Kevin accepted the challenge but said she needed food first.
• Tiadam presided over an auction of stolen goods and sent a lackey to check whether Yalila had arrived safely.
• Denolan and Yalila escaped the thugs by hiding in a black-market shop, where the shopkeeper scared their pursuers away by invoking Lord Abelato.
• After leaving the shop, Denolan and Yalila argued over why he had helped her and whether he wanted to sell her for money.
• The thugs found Denolan and Yalila again and surrounded them.

Pervi struggled to find a way to lift Rosa Kevin’s Curse as the Child of Destiny, Denolan, was attacked by Eliyi and a new force awakened within him. Rosa Kevin offered Leichina a deal, while the dragons feared the spreading calamity, and Denolan’s mysterious presence named itself Destiny.

• A crimson-armored youth rescued Yalila from the thugs, severed her fingers as payment, and left Tiadam to carry her away.
• Eliyi found the beaten Denolan, mocked his status as the Child of Destiny, and attacked him with divine power from Modraki.
• Pervi absorbed the magic in a ring but found it insufficient to lift Rosa Kevin’s Curse, which continued tormenting Canfor’s people.
• Rosa Kevin announced that destiny had begun and offered Leichina a chance to live as a human again in exchange for submitting to her.
• Dragon Father Li Laar and Dragon Mother Mimilar feared there was nowhere safe from the spreading wars and Rosa Kevin’s return.
• Darkness emerged from Denolan, called itself Destiny, and ended Eliyi’s life.

Denolan woke in an inn after Eliyi rescued him, while Leichina and Rosa Kevin reached Canfor and sought food and lodging. Rosa entered a warehouse full of cursed unpurified food, and Leichina disappeared after being taken away by her.

• Denolan woke in an inn and learned that Eliyi had found him collapsed in an alley and brought him back.
• Leichina carried the exhausted Rosa Kevin to Canfor, where she explained that she gathered monsters to live comfortably rather than to destroy the world.
• Leichina paid the innkeeper's thirty-five-copper debt for a woman and her infant, then Rosa Kevin calculated that the remaining money could buy hundreds of potatoes.
• The innkeeper took Rosa Kevin to a warehouse of unpurified potatoes and corn, where black lightning pulled Rosa inside as curses and miasma tried to escape.
• The innkeeper learned that Leichina had been taken away by Rosa Kevin and assumed they had run off.

Oyana and Tiadam waited at Yetara’s manor to sell a Dragonblood Ring while townspeople mocked a poor countrywoman and her grandson, whom the innkeeper had locked in a cursed warehouse. The chapter ended with Yetara’s lavish lunch interrupted when Tiadam demanded to know how much he would pay for the ring.

• Yetara kept Oyana and Tiadam waiting before inviting them to lunch, while Oyana warned Tiadam that selling the Dragonblood Ring carelessly could bring danger.
• Oyana revealed that Tiadam had stolen two Dragonblood Rings and given one to Yalila, and Tiadam threatened her with his sword.
• At an inn, townspeople laughed as the landlady claimed she had locked a countrywoman in a warehouse full of cursed potatoes and that the woman’s young grandson had been taken away.
• Yetara’s servant described the costly ingredients in the pork chops as Oyana praised the meal.
• Tiadam interrupted Oyana and Yetara’s compliments and asked Yetara how much he would pay for the Dragonblood Ring.

Tiadam and Oyana’s attempt to negotiate with Yetara failed, and Yetara ordered his servants to bring Tiadam back after recognizing the Hero’s bloodline in him. At Oyana’s shop, Tiadam fought the Dragon Tooth youth who had attacked Yalila, and the two prepared to settle their dispute in a duel.

• Tiadam insulted Yetara’s offer, so Yetara ended their meeting and had Oyana and Tiadam escorted out.
• Oyana told Tiadam she had brought him as protection, while Yetara resolved to retrieve Tiadam because he carried the Hero’s bloodline.
• Tiadam offered to help at Oyana’s shop, and Oyana teased him about courting Yalila before Yalila’s scream interrupted them.
• Tiadam found Yalila restrained by the Dragon Tooth youth, who denied cutting off her fingers, and Yalila demanded that Tiadam kill him.
• Tiadam escaped the youth’s attack and bound him with his own chain, then accepted the youth’s challenge to fight.

Tiadam and Oyana subdued the Dragon Tooth youth, while Eliyi found Rosa Kevin and arranged to borrow her servant. Leichina regained consciousness as a zombie after a mysterious massacre and realized the people around him feared him.

• Tiadam fought the Dragon Tooth youth in Oyana's shop until Oyana bound and knocked the youth unconscious with summoned vines.
• Oyana ordered Yalila to restrain the youth and bring Tiadam a healing scroll, while Yalila asked to be freed from her magic-immune chains.
• Eliyi questioned an innkeeper's wife about recent guests, and the inn workers accidentally beat the woman while trying to ambush Eliyi.
• Eliyi found Rosa Kevin in the inn's storeroom and paid her to borrow her servant for a job.
• Leichina awoke in a golden pool as a zombie, witnessed a black figure massacre people, and later realized a child had recognized him as a monster.

New nun Latmimi arrived in Canfoer and exposed a monster hiding among worshippers at Mira Cathedral. As the church investigated monsters lurking in the decaying city, Eliyi noticed a foreign greatsword-wielder entering the slums.

• Latmimi arrived in Canfoer and saw the suffering caused by Rosa Kevin's Curse on her way to Mira Cathedral.
• During Mountain-Sealing Day worship, Latmimi attacked an old woman who turned out to be a spider-like monster.
• The monster revealed itself at the service, sending believers, nuns, and pilgrims fleeing.
• Bishop Labrador told Aislanna that monsters displaced from the Forest of Decay had been hiding among Canfoer's people.
• Monk Abelato led church martyrs to investigate an undead monster that had attacked merchants near the black market.
• Eliyi watched the city from the cathedral dome and noticed a foreign man carrying a greatsword entering the slums.

Pervi reached Oyana’s shop to rescue his younger brother Lanta and negotiate a trade for Dragon Tooth Clan weapons. After Oyana punished her apprentice Yalila and sent her away with Lanta, Pervi offered a rare dragon-eye amulet in exchange for Oyana’s Dragonblood Ring.

• Pervi threatened Oyana and demanded to know where Lanta was, but Oyana proposed trading for Dragon Tooth Clan weapons.
• Yalila tortured Lanta while Oyana was away, and Oyana returned with Pervi before Yalila could continue.
• Oyana slapped Yalila and forced her to confess that she had kept goods from Tiadam and met him in the slums.
• Pervi freed Lanta, then Oyana sent Yalila and Lanta to the shop while she discussed a trade with Pervi.
• Oyana described the Dragonblood Ring’s value, and Pervi offered an amulet made from the eye of a pure-blood Lulolinge Divine Dragon.

Latmimi defeated the Spider Demon, but its death destroyed Mira Cathedral and killed many worshippers. Meanwhile, Leichina’s undead plague spread through Canfor as Tiadam’s gang fell apart, leaving the city in chaos.

• Latmimi killed the Spider Demon, whose remains crashed into Mira Cathedral and killed priests, nuns, and choir children.
• Cardinal Labrador led the surviving crowd in prayer for the dead while Aislanna survived with minor injuries.
• Leichina’s undead power flooded the slums, raising monsters and spreading death through Canfor.
• Abelato recognized the fourteen-year-old Leichina as the source of the chaos and rallied the martyrs to fight.
• Tiadam’s gang battled the undead, but a lackey betrayed him, and the remaining men fled as Tiadam was seized.