Chapter Summaries

You Fei's group learned about Godrick's lineage, grafting, and humiliating defeat by Malenia from Luo Jieer before heading to the Fog Gate to confront him. They stood ready to enter Stormveil Castle's next challenge.

• Luo Jieer explained that an explosion had driven him into hiding, then offered the group three sorcery-related Ashes of War in exchange for runes.
• Aide Jia tested the Glintstone Pebble Ash of War and rejected the idea of turning sorcery into a Weapon Skill.
• Luo Jieer described Godrick as a distant descendant of the Golden Lineage who pursued power through grafting and hid from Radahn.
• Luo Jieer recounted how Godrick attacked Malenia, lost badly, and begged for mercy by kneeling and licking her feet.
• You Fei's group asked where to find Godrick, then crossed Stormveil Castle and reached the Fog Gate.

You Fei and the others entered Stormveil Castle and confronted Godrick, the Grafted, who revealed his monstrous body and fought them with his Golden Great Axe. As the battle escalated, Godrick summoned Exiled Soldiers carrying limbs from many creatures, leaving the adventurers facing a new wave of grafting materials.

• You Fei pushed Fan En through Godrick's Fog Gate, and the group emerged in a ruined courtyard before Stormveil Castle.
• The group encountered Godrick beside a dragon's corpse and scrutinized his enormous, grotesque body, provoking his anger.
• Godrick revealed his grafted limbs and weapons, declared himself the Golden Lord, and charged the adventurers.
• You Fei clashed with Godrick, Aide Jia attacked with magic, and Fan En and Yi Sha joined the fight while Te Pi recorded it.
• Godrick used Stormcaller to force the group back, then summoned Exiled Soldiers carrying limbs from Tarnished, trolls, beasts, and other creatures.

You Fei and the others watched Godrick graft a wolf corpse onto himself, then tried to stop him from gaining more power. The battle left Godrick transformed into a monstrous combination of grafted creatures and weapons, with his strength still rising.

• Godrick cut off one of his arms and grafted it onto a dead wolf, bringing the wolf back to life and increasing his combat strength.
• You Fei attacked a soldier carrying a Great Lobster's head, but two Exiled Knights blocked her and let the soldier deliver it to Godrick.
• Godrick grafted a Lobster Head, Wolf Head, Bear Claw, and Ogre Arm onto himself, then blasted Aide Jia with a powerful stream of water.
• Godrick's grafted limbs and heads wounded Fan En and sent Yi Sha and Fan En flying with a beast's roar, while You Fei intercepted another water attack.
• Godrick continued grafting on a Crab Claw, Great Crow Head, giant dog head, and repeating crossbows as he declared his power.

You Fei and the others fought Godrick, but his grafted limbs and a surprise dragon-fire attack overwhelmed them. After waking at a Site of Grace, they tried again by clearing the castle, only to find what appeared to be their own arms among the grafting materials.

• Godrick used his grafted bear head, crossbows, crab shell, and lobster head to counter the group’s attacks, while Te Pi healed Aide Jia with the wrong potion and knocked him unconscious.
• You Fei, Fan En, Te Pi, and Yi Sha joined the fight, but Godrick grafted the lobster head onto his abdomen and pierced You Fei’s heart with its water stream.
• Godrick tore off a dragon head and engulfed the battlefield in fire, leaving the group unconscious until they awoke at a Site of Grace.
• You Fei led the group back through Stormveil Castle, where they killed the soldiers and reached the room with the Grafted Noble’s corpse.
• Yi Sha spotted new grafting materials that looked exactly like the group’s own arms.

You Fei’s group discovered that Godrick could graft their limbs onto himself and use their abilities in battle. As Godrick overwhelmed both their party and Prince Lan Le’s bodyguards with grafted limbs, the dungeon’s closing bell forced the adventurers out before You Fei could strike back.

• Fan En cut down the arms hanging from the beams, but the adventurers’ limbs vanished before reaching the ground and reappeared overhead.
• You Fei’s group returned to Godrick’s Fog Gate and found that he could graft You Fei’s arm, Aide Jia’s arm, and Te Pi’s leg onto himself, gaining their combat abilities.
• Godrick used the grafted limbs to suppress You Fei’s group, while Prince Lan Le’s bodyguards fought another Godrick who grafted similar limbs and wiped them out.
• Aide Jia recognized the arms carried by new soldiers as belonging to Prince Lan Le’s bodyguards and warned the group, but Godrick grafted them on and their combined attack sent You Fei flying.
• You Fei rose in fury and prepared her strongest strike, but the dungeon’s closing bell rang and the adventurers were expelled before she could use it.

Gong Qiying watched adventurers emerge from Zane Dungeon and reflected on the changes he had made to Godrick’s fight. As You Fei and her group recovered outside the portal, an Adventurers’ Guild staff member hurried over to them.

• Adventurers emerged from Zane Dungeon in distress, and Gong Qiying questioned one who had been transformed into a tree and witnessed his companions’ infidelity.
• You Fei’s battle aura exploded near the portal after she was teleported out, and Aide Jia, Te Pi, and Fan En helped manage the aftermath.
• Gong Qiying explained that he had made Godrick more unpredictable with changing grafts and limbs taken from adventurers who died in Stormveil Castle.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La sold information about Beinal to adventurers outside the dungeon.
• You Fei and the other adventurers drank after their ordeal, then an Adventurers’ Guild staff member hurried over to her group.

You Fei accepted a dangerous Adventurers’ Guild commission to investigate demon attacks marked by three-finger brands, which the guild suspected were connected to Fallen Devil Eggs. Gong Qiying secretly recorded the briefing, while a maddened old man outside Black Rock City searched for Frenzied Flame.

• Adventurers in Warrior Country exchanged dungeon information while Gong Qiying listened and noticed the guild recruit You Fei for a commission involving unknown monsters.
• The Branch Guild Master told You Fei, Fan En, and Yi Sha that demons had appeared in several cities and that the escaped demon had dropped a Fallen Devil Egg.
• The guild suspected the escaped demon was using Fallen Devil Eggs to turn people into demons, and You Fei agreed to investigate the attacks.
• You Fei sensed someone outside the meeting room, but found no trace; Gengar later delivered its recording to Gong Qiying, who planned to obtain her investigation results.
• An old man writhed in a scorched burrow outside Black Rock City, repeatedly demanding Frenzied Flame.

You Fei's group failed to find any demons, while Black Rock City became caught up in the free mounts and wolf ashes from Zane Dungeon. Sai Ke demonstrated the Weapon Skill Shattered Step after training under Beinal, then went with Qiao Ke La to hunt Magic Rabbits, where they discovered signs of a humanoid creature and heard a voice offering Frenzied Flame.

• You Fei's group searched for demons for three days without finding any, and the attacks stopped during their investigation.
• Adventurers flocked to Zane Dungeon for free Torrents and Lone Wolf Ashes as Te Pi and Earl Gerhard arranged to recruit experienced miners.
• Sai Ke used Shattered Step to outmaneuver a battle mage and argued that Weapon Skills required hard training to reach their full potential.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La, short of money after training with Beinal, accepted a commission to hunt Magic Rabbits.
• Qiao Ke La found humanoid footprints, warm scorch marks, and burned fingerprints at a large burrow before a voice inside offered Frenzied Flame.

Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La encountered Dorian, a demon whose brief memories of his mission were overwhelmed by the Frenzied Flame, and fought to survive his attacks. Just as Dorian gained the upper hand, another demon arrived and punched him.

• Qiao Ke La and Sai Ke fled the cave after Dorian emerged in flames, but he caught up with them and blocked their escape.
• A giant eagle's cry briefly restored Dorian's memories of his mission for Priestess Ounuo La, but the Frenzied Flame soon made him lose his reason again.
• Dorian burned the summoned eagle, then regenerated after Sai Ke's Lion Slash and endured Qiao Ke La's ice spells.
• Qiao Ke La trapped Dorian with ice pillars, and Sai Ke struck him with Storm Blade before they tried to run for reinforcements.
• Dorian caught Sai Ke and Qiao Ke, grew extra arms, and overwhelmed their defenses until another demon appeared and punched him in the face.

Dorian used a mutated Fire Sac to wield flames as he battled a hulking demon, then fought You Fi and Fan En before escaping underground. He briefly regained his senses in hiding, where a mysterious purple figure emerged from the shadows.

• Dorian revealed that eating Aknosom meat had given him a Fire Sac that let him produce flames without magic.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La tried to flee the fight, but Dorian blocked their path and attacked them with fire.
• Fan En rescued Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La, and You Fi joined him to overpower and capture Dorian.
• Dorian's severed hand took control of the restrained demon, and Dorian escaped by burrowing underground, leaving Fan En to pursue a decoy arm.
• Dorian surfaced in a hidden burrow, briefly regained his senses, and fell asleep as a chubby purple figure emerged from the shadows.

Dorian’s memories revealed how he had encountered the Frenzied Flame and why he had gone mad, giving Gong Qiying new information about demons and the Abyss. You Fei’s group captured an injured demon and brought it toward the city, where Aide Jia demanded it on Prince Lanle’s orders.

• Dorian recalled his noble upbringing, Ounuo La’s request to investigate unusual Fallen Devil Eggs and the Abyss, and how seeing the Frenzied Flame through Iliphis had driven him mad.
• Gengar reported Dorian’s spoken memories to Gong Qiying, who concluded the Frenzied Flame could not spread from Dorian and decided to leave him alive as a future means of showing demons the Abyss.
• You Fei and Fan En subdued a demon without killing it, and the priests treated it while Qiao Ke La thanked You Fei and Fan En for rescuing them.
• You Fei’s group escorted the captured demon toward the city, passing travelers drawn by news that Zane Dungeon was open.
• At the city gates, Aide Jia met You Fei and demanded that she hand over the demon on Prince Lanle’s orders.

You Fei let Aide Jia take the captured demonkin under an order from Prince Lanle, then wondered why they wanted it as she and Fan En navigated Black Rock City’s growing crowds. Meanwhile, the Strategy Team’s map revealed their exploration of Limgrave and their discovery of Beinal, whose Weapon Skill lessons sparked a widespread dispute before news arrived that Glory Dungeon had undergone an anomaly.

• You Fei handed the demonkin over to Aide Jia after he showed her Lanle’s order, then told Fan En she wanted to investigate but did not expect Lanle to harm anyone.
• You Fei and Fan En found Black Rock City crowded with adventurers drawn by Zane Dungeon, and Yi Sha explained that the tavern’s magical map updated with the Strategy Team’s progress.
• The Strategy Team explored Stormhill, marked Stormveil Castle as extremely dangerous, and later identified Beinal’s location with a golden circle.
• The Strategy Team stopped updating the map while adventurers gathered at Beinal to learn Weapon Skills, prompting the teachings to spread rapidly.
• Conservatives and Reformists began arguing across Black Rock City and nearby cities over Weapon Skills, Beinal, and their competing ideals.
• Adventurers learned that Glory Dungeon, controlled by the city lord known as Gladiator, had undergone an anomaly.

Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La arrived in Hero City and joined the crowds flocking to Glory Dungeon. Sai Ke explained how Glory Dungeon’s new anomaly complemented training at Zane Dungeon, but he could not quite recall the new area’s name.

• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La traveled to Hero City on the newly opened earth-dragon route and marveled at the city and the crowd outside Glory Dungeon.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La learned that Glory Dungeon’s Hero Areas offered stories and inheritances, while the Glory Battlefield ranked adventurers by the monsters they defeated.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La heard that Warrior Reform and historical nihilism had caused Glory Dungeon’s popularity to decline.
• Sai Ke and an elderly local resident discussed how Glory Dungeon’s new anomaly let adventurers experience Heroes’ lives and Weapon Skills, which they could learn faster after Beinal’s instruction at Zane Dungeon.
• Sai Ke tried to remember the new area’s name and guessed, “Thirty Heroes?”

Gong Qiying explained how Glory Dungeon could turn its hero legends into a team-based battle attraction, and Mordin launched Thirty Heroes using his plan. Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La entered the new area, where Sai Ke discovered that Bernahl’s teachings still applied.

• Gong Qiying persuaded Mordin that adventurers would welcome a large roster of heroes and explained his plan for team battles on fixed maps.
• Mordin adopted Gong Qiying’s Thirty Heroes concept, based on the Defectors’ War, and asked how future heroes should be released.
• Gong Qiying rejected the idea of introducing gacha and left the details of future releases to Mordin.
• Mordin launched Thirty Heroes, which grew popular as successive groups of adventurers tried it.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La entered Glory Dungeon and received the heroes Fiendish Black Blade and Overlord Heavenly King.
• Sai Ke found that Teacher Bernahl’s teachings still worked in Thirty Heroes.

Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La entered Glory Dungeon’s Thirty Heroes arena, where Sai Ke’s Storm Blade training helped him understand Fiendish Black Blade’s Weapon Skill, while Qiao Ke La received an unfamiliar hero. A week later, Mordin celebrated the arena’s surging traffic, as a mysterious mage in Warrior Country’s Imperial Capital discovered that Magic Faith Concentration had fallen.

• Sai Ke used his inspiration from Beinal’s Storm Blade lessons to grasp Fiendish Black Blade’s Weapon Skill, while Qiao Ke La lamented being randomly assigned Overlord Heavenly King.
• Mordin recalled hearing Gong Qiying mention Gacha and made Thirty Heroes assignments random, hoping to increase uncertainty and keep adventurers coming back.
• Sai Ke and Qiao Ke La joined nine other adventurers for a match, where two former invaders boasted of their experience fighting people before the teams charged down the roads.
• Mordin reviewed a week of traffic data and found that Glory Dungeon’s visitors had multiplied, briefly surpassing Red Fang Dungeon at its peak.
• A hooded mage in a Mage Tower in Warrior Country examined pure Glintstone Aide Jia had brought from Zane Dungeon and worried about developing magic suited to the country before an upcoming festival.
• The hooded mage sensed an invisible ripple and realized that Magic Faith Concentration in Warrior Country had fallen.

Yuenka discovered that Magic Faith Concentration had sharply declined despite Zane Dungeon appearing in the Warrior Country, while King Bontou urged him to finish the Encyclopedia of Magic before the War Festival. After reading a strange report from the Arnor Kingdom, Yuenka sent Aide Jia to investigate the renewed popularity of Weapon Skills, leaving Jia intrigued by what he heard outside his workshop.

• Yuenka noticed a drastic decline in Magic Faith Concentration and decided to investigate, while Bontou warned him that Fred's faction planned to oppose their reforms at the War Festival.
• Bontou declared that he wanted victory at the festival, and Yuenka asked about Fred's delegation to the Arnor Kingdom.
• Yuenka read the observer's letter describing Princess Serena's stories about Ornstein, Zane Dungeon footage, sparring adventurers, and Prince Temude's arrival with two dragon companions.
• Aide Jia studied the captured demons in Black Rock City and received Yuenka's order to investigate why people had started loving Weapon Skills again.
• Aide Jia left his workshop and heard guards say that many people were visiting Beinal in Zane Dungeon to learn Weapon Skills.

Aide Jia discovered that Glory Dungeon’s mutation had made Zane and Glory Dungeons a topic of excitement throughout the Warrior Country, reviving people’s interest in Weapon Skills and frightening him into seeking help from Prince Lanle and his teacher. Meanwhile, Te Pi Bask neglected the Golden Lion Merchant Guild to train in Glory Dungeon, where he won Hound Step and prepared for a possible change at Zane Dungeon and Leon’s return.

• Aide Jia investigated the widespread discussion of Zane and Glory Dungeons, then realized that Glory Dungeon’s heroes and Weapon Skills had reignited a childhood enthusiasm across the Warrior Country.
• Remembering his childhood shame over his inability to learn Weapon Skills, Aide Jia hurried back to report the threat to Prince Lanle and his teacher.
• Staff at the Golden Lion Merchant Guild told a merchant that Te Pi Bask had disappeared from guild business because he was obsessed with the Thirty Heroes.
• In Glory Dungeon, Te Pi defeated an adventurer through extensive Weapon Skill training and tactical tricks, winning the Hound Step dagger in their wager.
• Te Pi looked toward Zane Dungeon and predicted it would change again, giving him a chance to meet Leon.

Leon discovered a previously unknown road near Lake Liurnia and persuaded the sleepy Strategy Team to investigate it, driven by a feeling that his father was waiting in Warrior Country. Meanwhile, You Fei’s search for Dorian continued to fail, and the Reformists launched a sudden counterattack by announcing a new magic technique that used battle aura.

• Malu, Delu, and Te Er dozed in the sun until Leon arrived with a map showing a newly discovered road near Lake Liurnia.
• Leon explained that he believed the road might connect to Zane Dungeon’s new areas and said he felt his father was waiting for him in Warrior Country, so the Strategy Team set off with him.
• You Fei and Fan En searched another empty cave for Dorian, whose false clues had kept him out of reach while suspicion grew that he had used Fallen Devil Eggs to transform people.
• You Fei noted that more people were learning Weapon Skills and feared an imminent backlash, while Fan En avoided confronting Godrick because of the grotesque grafted monster he had become.
• You Fei entered a busy street and saw Aide Jia announce that Master Yuenka’s magic encyclopedia would soon be released, introducing a new technique for casting magic with battle aura.

Aide Jia publicly promoted Master Yuenka’s technique for converting battle aura into magic power, along with the Reform Ring meant to reduce its dangerous side effects. As the crowd embraced the subsidized rings, You Fei worried that Zane and Glory might not be able to withstand the growing challenge.

• Aide Jia argued that magic was the Warrior Country’s future and claimed Master Yuenka’s technique could let its citizens cast magic by converting battle aura.
• Aide Jia demonstrated the technique with an ignition spell, and some spectators produced flames before one suffered a painful side effect.
• Aide Jia presented the Reform Ring, which he said could reduce malfunctions and lessen their effects, then announced national subsidies for trial-stage rings.
• A large crowd cheered the technique and its promised access to magic, while You Fei realized the demonstration was meant to counter Zane Dungeon’s influence.
• You Fei recalled her father Jia Paer’s confidence in Zane Dungeon and wondered whether Zane and Glory could defeat their opponents this time.

Yuenka halted the decline in Magic Faith Concentration by spreading aura conversion technology, while Gong Qiying explained that the new interest in magic was drawing visitors away from Glory Dungeon. He proposed bringing in reinforcements to help Mordin keep promoting Weapon Skills.

• Yuenka assured King Bontou that releasing the incomplete aura conversion technology had halted the decline in Magic Faith Concentration.
• Yuenka celebrated the success of his experiment but worried that the Zane Dungeon might bring unexpected changes to the Warrior Country.
• Mordin wondered why fewer people were entering the Thirty Heroes area despite his new Gacha Hero and generous rewards.
• Gong Qiying explained that Aide Jia and Yuenka's disciples had sparked a surge of interest in learning magic, drawing people away from Glory Dungeon.
• Mordin vowed to keep promoting Weapon Skills, and Gong Qiying proposed bringing in reinforcements.