Chapter Summaries

Beller revealed a lightning-winged form and brutally defeated the Berserk Dragon, who tried to flee but was trapped by the Fog Gate. After the battle ended, Beller stared down at Jia Paer, while Gong Qiying declared the fight over.

• The Berserk Dragon used magma, elemental breaths, and aerial attacks against Beller, but he endured her assault and revealed wings made of Crimson Lightning.
• Beller overwhelmed the Berserk Dragon with fire, lightning, and bone spikes, then pierced her chest and tore off part of her tail.
• The wounded Berserk Dragon fled toward the arena’s edge, but Jia Paer pointed out that the Fog Gate blocked her escape.
• Beller dragged the Berserk Dragon from a rock wall and crushed her resistance until the sounds of the fight stopped.
• Beller stared down at Jia Paer, who feared he would be attacked next, while Gong Qiying declared the battle over.

Gong Qiying used Bayle to repeatedly beat plague-infected dragons, and the violence gradually cured E'luo, Xiduo, and other infected dragons. The Berserk Dragon and the dragons from the Floating Island remained infected, and Fudolin revealed that hunger might be the key to curing them.

• Gong Qiying kept Bayle nearby to subdue the unconscious dragons and discovered that E'luo's plague-driven rage returned as soon as he woke.
• Bayle repeatedly beat E'luo, Xiduo, the Berserk Dragon, and the demon dragons whenever they awoke, while Gong Qiying redirected newly infected dragons from Academy Gate Town to Bayle.
• Repeated beatings gradually weakened and eliminated the plague in E'luo, Xiduo, and the infected dragons from Warrior Country, who Gong Qiying then sent away.
• Gong Qiying reviewed Fudolin's recording and learned that her pure-blooded dragon clan lived on the Floating Island, where the plague had overwhelmed the island and infected the Berserk Dragon.
• Fudolin told Abei that satisfying the infected dragons' desires might cure them, then revealed that the dragons were hungry.

Gong Qiying discovered that hunger, sloth, and gluttony drove the demonic dragons’ plague, so he fed them in the Gourmet Area before sending them to Beller for a beating. Fudolin and Abei led dragons out to lure their afflicted kin, only to find the battle had already ended and the Warrior Country was peaceful.

• Fudolin explained that the Prime Demonic Dragons’ sloth and gluttony had spread through the plague, leaving their kin ravenous and unwilling to seek food.
• Gong Qiying arranged for Cabbage Throwers to feed Berserk Dragon and the other demonic dragons in the Gourmet Area, then sent them to Spike Mountain for Beller to beat.
• Berserk Dragon awoke amid clouds and flying food, gorged herself while restrained, and was startled when Beller appeared and the dragons were beaten.
• Fudolin and Abei led the strongest dragons out of the dungeon with food to lure their afflicted family members and remove the plague.
• The group found adventurers cleaning up the battlefield and learned that the God of Magic and the demonic dragons were gone and the fighting had ended.

After the battle, Fudolin, Abei, and the other dragons learned that Yuenka had devastated the Imperial Capital and that their clan leader and Fudolin’s mother were still trapped in Zane Dungeon. The dragons joined the relief effort, while King Bontou grappled with the destruction of his reforms and Yuenka’s apprentice, Aide Jia, offered to continue the research responsibly.

• Fudolin and the dragons emerged from the portal bewildered by Black Rock City’s strange aftermath and the Erdtree standing there.
• A Dragon Knight explained that Radagon had defeated Yuenka, the demon dragons and the infected clan leader remained inside Zane Dungeon, and the Imperial Capital needed help.
• Abei called the dragons and Black Rock City volunteers to assist with relief work, and Fudolin joined them while hoping her mother would return safely.
• The dragons and volunteers reached the ruined Imperial Capital and joined the military, adventurers, Te Mude, and Lan Le in helping civilians.
• King Bontou learned that many gifted people had died or become vegetative patients, leaving him doubtful about the Warrior Reform and battle aura conversion technology.
• Aide Jia identified himself as Yuenka’s apprentice and told Bontou that he would take responsibility for guiding his former mentor’s research onto the right path.

After Yuenka’s death, Bontou arrested Aide Jia, sought his ancestors’ advice about Warrior Country’s future, and agreed to turn Yuenka’s Mage Tower over to the Magic Association. As churches and other factions reacted to the disaster, You Fei searched the ruins for her father, while Jia Paer remained trapped in a dark forest inside Zane Dungeon.

• Bontou had Aide Jia arrested, ordered Yuenka’s spells and aura conversion technology halted, and decided to give Yuenka’s Mage Tower to the Magic Association.
• Bontou consulted his ancestors about how to revive Warrior Country, and his grandfather advised him to fight dungeons.
• Tu Erqi and Seth examined Yuenka’s damaged Life Vessel, concluded he was probably dead, and began confiscating his belongings for the Magic Association.
• Churches and other groups reacted to Yuenka’s apparent attempt to become the God of Magic, while the Magic Association moved to secure his legacy.
• You Fei searched the ruined Imperial Capital for her father, Jia Paer, who had been swallowed by Bayle and awakened in a dark forest inside Zane Dungeon.
• Jia Paer failed to summon Torrent, whose message said the steed was too afraid to appear.

Gapar explored the eerie Valley Bottom Forest after Torrent refused to come out, discovering that its enemies were powerful and adapting by striking first. He reached a Forbidden Touch Old Man, but his ambush passed through it, and the creature stabbed him in the chest.

• Gapar decided to travel through the silent forest on foot after he could not summon Torrent, and worried about his daughter and the people left near Bayle.
• Gapar encountered a Frenzied Hand, defeated it with Moonveil, and realized that the forest's enemies were unusually strong.
• Gapar collected the Frenzied Leather Gloves and fought more Frenzied Hands as he continued deeper into the forest.
• Gapar crept up on a Forbidden Touch Old Man and attacked with Drawing Blade Slash, but Moonveil passed through the creature.
• The Forbidden Touch Old Man jabbed its cane into Gapar's chest.

Jia Paer was infected by Forbidden Touch Old Man’s Frenzied Flame in Valley Bottom Forest, then crept through the grass toward Grace before bells drew a horde of monsters into a deadly chase. In the Imperial Capital, You Fei learned he had entered Zane Dungeon and waited anxiously at the portal, where Jia Paer finally returned exhausted and with noticeably thinner hair.

• Forbidden Touch Old Man’s cane immobilized Jia Paer and infected him with Frenzied Flame, leaving him delirious before he awoke back where the encounter began.
• Jia Paer spotted Grace deeper in the forest and cautiously crossed from patch to patch of grass while avoiding Forbidden Touch Old Men and reading warning messages.
• Jia Paer stumbled into bells hidden in the grass, attracting nearby monsters, and sprinted toward Grace as the Forbidden Touch Old Men pursued him.
• After the night’s disaster, You Fei coordinated relief efforts in the Imperial Capital and learned that Jia Paer had been taken into Zane Dungeon.
• You Fei waited by the portal with Abei, and Jia Paer emerged, startling her before explaining that surviving hell had cost him some of his hair.

Jia Paer and E'luo returned from Zane Dungeon battered and exhausted, while the other dragons poured out after them and left the portal area in chaos. After waking from a week of recovery, Jia Paer learned that Warrior Country was holding a seven-day Sain Gratitude Festival to appease Zane, while Fudolin still waited for Berserk Dragon to emerge.

• You Fei pulled Jia Paer from the portal, mistook his exhaustion for a serious injury, and watched him collapse before priests carried him away for treatment.
• E'luo crashed out of the portal into Abei, then fainted after saying he had finally crawled back from hell; other dragons followed, flooding out and collapsing in the surrounding chaos.
• Fudolin waited anxiously by the portal for her mother, but after a full day Berserk Dragon still had not emerged.
• Jia Paer woke after a week in a Warrior Country sanatorium and learned that You Fei was attending the Sain Gratitude Festival, where people performed embarrassing acts to soothe Zane Dungeon.

After waking from a week-long coma, Jia Paer visited a festival celebrating Sain and fled when performers reenacted his embarrassing first death in Zane Dungeon. Meanwhile, King Bontou reviewed the aftermath of the Demonic Dragon and Yuenka incidents and discovered that Yuenka’s mentor had once traveled through the demon-occupied Western Continent.

• Jia Paer left the sanatorium and surveyed the ruined Imperial Capital as rebuilding began.
• Jia Paer went to the Sain Gratitude Festival and watched performers reenact his first death in Zane Dungeon, with You Fei playing a Rust Monster.
• Jia Paer fled before seeing the later performances celebrating his heroic deeds.
• King Bontou considered whether Warrior Country should recognize Zane Dungeon as its National Dungeon and reviewed reports about the recent disasters.
• King Bontou read that Yuenka’s mentor had been an alchemist turned life-magic mage who had entered and exited the demon-occupied Western Continent.

Bontou searched for clues about Yuenka’s demon research and questioned the imprisoned Aide Jia, while Jia Paer offered to take Lu Lu Wo and her companions to visit Fudolin at the dragon nest. Their reunion was interrupted when Fudolin learned that her mother had emerged from the dungeon looking strange.

• Bontou found Yuenka’s investigation report useless, then realized Yuenka and Aide Jia had captured demons for research and went to question Aide Jia in prison.
• Aide Jia offered to infer Yuenka’s purpose from his mentor’s materials, but Bontou ordered Tu Erqi to search his memories and presented him with a Slave Contract.
• Jia Paer met Leon, Lu Lu Wo, and Da Er at a tavern, where Lu Lu Wo worried about Fudolin staying at the dragon nest.
• Jia Paer offered to take Lu Lu Wo and the others to visit Fudolin, who had been questioned extensively by E'luo and Xiduo about the Floating Island Dragonkin and the plague.
• Fudolin happily greeted her former companions, but a maid announced that her mother had emerged from the dungeon and looked very strange.

Gong Qiying explained how Century Soup and repeated beatings cured the demonic dragons, though the treatment left them obsessed with food. When Fudolin reunited with her mother, the Berserk Dragon, she discovered her mother had the same food fixation as the others.

• Gong Qiying showed the City Lords the cured dragons, who begged for food and milk after eating Century Soup for seven days.
• The City Lords discussed investigating the Prime Demonic Dragons, and Red Fang confirmed the dragons were free of the plague and could be released.
• Gong Qiying sent the Floating Island Dragonkin out of Zane Dungeon after the gathering.
• Fudolin rushed to the dungeon portal when she learned her mother had emerged, then found the dragons sprawled outside and obsessed with food.
• Fudolin recognized her transformed mother and ran to embrace her, but the Berserk Dragon stayed behind to eat cake, leaving Fudolin devastated.

Fudolin reunited with her mother, Nati, only to find her transformed by traumatic memories from Zane Dungeon and soothed by constant eating. After weeks of treatment and visits, the Floating Island Dragonkin began recovering, and the treatment was declared successful in the sixth week.

• Nati devoured a cake while Fudolin and the onlookers watched, and Fudolin tried to understand what had happened to her mother.
• When Fudolin asked what the dungeon had done to Nati, the Floating Island Dragonkin trembled with terror until guards fed them.
• E'luo and Xiduo arrived and moved the dragons into the Dragon Prison, where mental healers attempted to treat them.
• Fudolin visited Nati with cake, and Nati gradually began recognizing her during the second week of treatment.
• Fudolin brought carrots instead of cake during the third week, prompting Nati to become cold toward her again.
• After six weeks, the treatment was declared successful.

Nati and Bontou agreed that the Floating Island Dragonkin would remain in Warrior Country and compensate for the damage they caused, though Nati secretly hoped to keep eating at Zane Dungeon. As the partnership took shape, Bontou raised a plan to end the Battle Festival with the nation’s full strength.

• Nati formally apologized to Bontou and E'luo for the Floating Island Dragonkin’s damage and thanked them for their care.
• E'luo and Xiduo discussed the dragonkin’s recovery and considered how to persuade them to settle in Warrior Country, especially by appealing to their love of Zane Dungeon’s food.
• Nati offered to keep her clan in Warrior Country and compensate for its losses, while secretly planning to eat at Zane Dungeon every day.
• Bontou accepted Nati’s offer, and both sides felt satisfied with the preliminary partnership.
• Bontou told Nati that he had an important matter concerning Zane Dungeon and asked whether she had heard of the Battle Festival.
• Bontou declared that they were prepared to end the Battle Festival with the strength of the entire nation.

Nati told the Floating Island Dragonkin that they could settle in Warrior Country and join its Battle Festival, but footage of Radahn’s fight terrified them until a food-exploration commission won them over. In Great Demon City, Ounuo La struggled to control the hungry Prime Demonic Dragons before learning of a dungeon in the Abyss and deciding to make contact.

• Nati reassured the Floating Island Dragonkin that negotiations with Bontou had gone well and announced their invitation to participate in the Battle Festival.
• Fudolin showed the dragonkin footage of Radahn fighting adventurers, and the dragons panicked when they learned they might have to fight him.
• The dragonkin agreed to cooperate with Warrior Country on exploring Gourmet Areas for legendary cooking utensils and recipes.
• Ounuo La tried to manage the Prime Demonic Dragons, who were still ravenous after the plague failed and demanded food they had tasted through their mental connection with the Floating Island Dragonkin.
• Ounuo La read Dorian’s report about a dungeon in the Abyss and decided to send a trusted subordinate to meet it and make a friend.

Nati explored the Gourmet Area, where she found a legendary cooking utensil and vowed that the Floating Island Dragonkin would claim the region. In the neighboring Forest Area, Lan Le defeated a Tigrex and recovered a golden Battle Memory as he trained for the Battle Festival.

• Fudolin confronted a shopkeeper selling a pirated guide, while Nati bought Gourmet Area guides and discussed the adventurers' vanity with her daughter.
• Nati set rules requiring the Dragonkin to study their commissions and complete their work before pursuing food, while the clan divided its time between construction and Portal commissions.
• Nati explored the dangerous territory beyond the Rainbow Fruit and found the Dragon Conversion Pot, the second legendary cooking utensil sought by Ku Li Pa.
• Nati swallowed the Dragon Conversion Pot, gathered ingredients from the monsters she defeated, and decided that the Floating Island Dragonkin would explore the Gourmet Area.
• Lan Le defeated a small Tigrex in the Forest Area and asked his bodyguards when the Battle Festival would reopen.
• Lan Le touched a golden drop from the Tigrex and obtained Azure Star's Battle Memory, Thirteen.

Lan Le found a golden battle memory of Azure Star fighting three Elder Dragons, but kept it because none of his bodyguards used an Insect Glaive. After returning to Black Rock City, he encountered refugees from Ska Meron and was shocked to learn they worshipped Godrick.

• Lan Le declined to watch the Insect Glaive memory and considered finding an expert who could experience it for him.
• Lan Le trained in the Forest Area, then returned to Black Rock City with his bodyguards.
• Lan Le learned that the city guards had arrested ragged refugees who had fled war-torn Ska Meron.
• An Elven refugee tried to preach to Lan Le and identified his god as Godrick, making Lan Le spit out his water.

Lan Le dealt with refugees in Black Rock City who worshipped figures like Godrick, then explained how Beacon’s Declaration of Freedom had sparked turmoil among Ska Meron’s major churches and a lower-class uprising. Back in Zane Dungeon, Gong Qiying received a warning from Red Fang that there was a traitor among them.

• Lan Le ordered the guards to investigate an elf refugee who claimed to worship Godrick, but stopped them after realizing the elf knew nothing about Godrick beyond a stock religious creed.
• Lan Le told his bodyguard that small churches in Ska Meron adopted famous figures as gods to attract followers, while the major churches’ internal conflict had enabled an uprising.
• Lan Le explained that Beacon had spread her Declaration of Freedom among women in the Holy Light Church and other churches, leaving the religious authorities in chaos.
• Lan Le saw that the Holy Light Church cathedral in Black Rock City had few believers and no nuns present.
• Gong Qiying sensed his merit rising, then opened a letter from Red Fang that said there was a traitor among them.

Red Fang told Gong Qiying that demons had infiltrated humanity’s territory and asked him to investigate three suspicious dungeons in Scamellon. Gong Qiying accepted the assignment, eager to confront the three Dungeon Lords who openly disliked him.

• Red Fang showed Gong Qiying miasma collected from demons in You Lei Sha’s Bonds Dungeon, suggesting the demons had recently traveled from the Western Continent.
• Red Fang reasoned that the demons had likely used a dungeon to reach Scamellon and identified more than a dozen nearby Dungeon Lords as suspects.
• Red Fang asked Gong Qiying to investigate three dungeons near an inactive dungeon where he could open a branch city, offering support and the chance to profit from Scamellon’s war.
• Red Fang described White Blood Dungeon, Holy Light Dungeon, and Explosive Flame Dungeon, then revealed that all three Dungeon Lords openly disliked Gong Qiying.
• Gong Qiying accepted the assignment and said he enjoyed appearing in front of people who hated him.

Gong Qiying learned that White Blood Dungeon’s Dungeon Lord hated him but could not discover why, then considered what demons might know about dungeon self-awareness. With adventurers’ exploration of Zane Dungeon stalled, the chapter ended as Lan Le rallied fourteen Forest Area weapon legions to compete in the Battle Festival.

• Red Fang told Gong Qiying that White Blood Dungeon’s Dungeon Lord had become withdrawn and seemed to hate him, but would not explain why.
• Red Fang asked Gong Qiying to investigate three suspicious dungeons, warned him not to mention the demons, and said demons might understand dungeons better than humans did.
• Gong Qiying recalled demons finding and exploiting dungeons, then reviewed information about the Sealed Objects near Scamellon.
• Gong Qiying noted that adventurers had explored the main regions of Zane Dungeon but were struggling to advance, while newcomers remained absorbed in the Forest Area.
• Lan Le assembled fourteen legions of Forest Area weapon users and declared that they would win the Battle Festival.

Tu Erqi struggled to perfect a Super Forbidden Spell while the Warrior Country prepared for a larger Battle Festival to rebuild public confidence after recent disasters. Three days before the festival, Lan Le and the country’s assembled forces finished their preparations for an assault on Zane Dungeon.

• Tu Erqi reviewed Aide Jia’s progress on simplifying Yuenka’s battle aura conversion technique for public use.
• Lan Le drilled his weapon-based legions and prepared them to fight at the Battle Festival in three days.
• Bontou organized knights, dragons, golems, berserkers, mages, and adventurers into a larger force for the festival.
• E'luo and Xiduo ordered the dragons to train harder, while the Floating Island Dragonkin practiced restraining Radahn and improving their attacks.
• Tu Erqi and the other organizers prepared three Super Forbidden Spells, tactical plans, joint training, and streaming equipment for the coming battle.