Recaps

Zheng Yichen survived a scheme to capture him and was taken in by Lolise, who taught him about magic while investigating his unusual nature. After the Holy Church began searching for him, they left for Lolise’s home in the Illusion Demon Forest, where Zheng Yichen encountered a group driven mad by the forest.

• Zheng Yichen woke as a dragon hatchling, raided visitors for valuables, and kept hiding in his cave as townspeople grew interested in capturing him.
• Town leaders organized a hunt using heavy crossbows and a ballista, and Zheng Yichen was wounded, subdued with drugged bolts, and captured.
• Lolise appeared, claimed Zheng Yichen, and took him to the empty town, where she discovered his unusual healing, lack of Dragon Aura, and ability to seize a mage’s fireball.
• Lolise taught Zheng Yichen the Common Tongue and explained that he was a Cursed Dragon whose soul and rapid growth made him an anomaly.
• Zheng Yichen studied magic and trained under Lolise, who explained spell patterns, Battle Qi, and his unusual growth while testing his physical and magical abilities.
• When the Holy Church arrived, Lolise and Zheng Yichen left town for the Illusion Demon Forest, while the Church found the town’s residents alive inside a sealed space and began investigating Zheng Yichen’s old lair.
• At Lolise’s castle, Zheng Yichen followed a Ghost Maid into the forest and found people made delirious by fumes from burned trees, and he slowed them with icy mist and knocked them unconscious.