Chapter Summaries

Lu Mingfei learned that he had to take the 3E Exam on Dragon Script despite being unable to understand it, and Amon produced a living Red Dragon Cub to tutor him. The chapter left Lu Mingfei realizing Amon had secretly taken the dragon from the Archives and worrying about the consequences.

• Amon offered Finn ten percent of whatever Caesar paid for the right to use Norton Hall, and Finn eagerly agreed to negotiate.
• Professor Guderian delivered student IDs and warned Lu Mingfei that the 3E Exam on Dragon Script was the next day.
• Lu Mingfei failed to understand Professor Guderian's spoken Dragon Script, but Guderian decided his lack of response was an unprecedented mutation.
• Finn told Lu Mingfei that failing the exam would get him expelled and his memories erased, while Amon said he had another possible solution.
• Amon brought in a white sculpture that awakened as the Red Dragon Cub, explaining that he had swapped it for the specimen in the Archives.
• Lu Mingfei questioned whether taking the dragon without permission was dangerous, and Amon's actions left him fearing the Academy's reaction.

Amon kept the Red Dragon Cub, Little Red, in the dorm despite Finn’s fears and recruited it to tutor Lu Mingfei in Dragon Script for the exam. The attempted lesson stalled when Little Red seemed unable to understand what it was supposed to teach.

• Finn panicked when Amon revealed Little Red, but Amon showed how tame the dragon cub was by feeding and petting it.
• Finn and Lu Mingfei agreed not to report Amon after he warned them about tattling and explained why the Archives might not notice the dragon was gone.
• Amon declared Little Red their foreign tutor, and Lu Mingfei sat down to begin a Dragon Script lesson.
• After three minutes of silence, Amon and Lu Mingfei realized Little Red did not know how to teach, and Finn suggested it was too young.
• Amon wondered whether Little Red needed teaching materials, leaving Lu Mingfei doubtful that the cub could help him prepare for the exam.

Amon reassured Lu Mingfei that his resistance to Dragon Might could let him remain at Kassel College even if he failed the 3E Exam, then pushed him to preserve his S-Class rank. Finn explained the exam and sold Amon a collection of seventy-six deciphered Dragon Script sentences, leaving Lu Mingfei to attempt an overnight study session.

• Amon told Lu Mingfei that his performance on Freedom Day had proven his value and resistance to Dragon Might, while Finn confirmed that failing the 3E Exam could still get him downgraded from S-Class.
• Finn showed Lu Mingfei campus forum posts dubbing him and Amon the Kassel Duo, and Amon asked Finn to explain the 3E Exam.
• Finn explained that students drew what they saw during a Dragon Script chant, and NOMA analyzed their drawings for Dragon Script patterns.
• Lu Mingfei realized the exam questions might come from the seventy-six deciphered Dragon Script sentences, and Amon paid Finn two thousand dollars for his collection of images.
• Finn sent the seventy-six sentence images to Amon and wondered whether Lu Mingfei could learn Dragon Script overnight and create a miracle.

Amon arranged last-minute Dragon Script practice for Lu Mingfei, first using Little Red to recite glyphs and then finding an online tutor when the dragon cub grew exhausted. Naga agreed to teach Lu Mingfei for his 3E Exam the next day, and their video lesson was about to begin.

• Finn gave Lu Mingfei Dragon Script glyphs but explained that he could not provide their pronunciations, so Amon took Lu Mingfei to his room for special training.
• Amon told Lu Mingfei that his share of the Freedom Day profits would repay his efforts, then had Little Red recite Dragon Script glyphs for him to memorize.
• Little Red taught Lu Mingfei several glyphs before tiring out, leaving Lu Mingfei worried that he would have to guess during the exam.
• Amon contacted Scarlet Naga and asked her to tutor Lu Mingfei, and she readily agreed to a video call.
• Naga greeted Lu Mingfei on camera and offered to teach him Dragon Script, while Lu Mingfei nervously accepted her help.

Naga taught Lu Mingfei the fundamentals of Dragon Script Grammar, while Finn secretly investigated her and mistook the lesson for a deliberate gift from China’s Orthodox. Lu Mingfei believed Amon had arranged the lesson for him and silently resolved to repay his kindness.

• Naga explained that Dragon Script was a declaration invoking power, and warned Lu Mingfei that focused chanting could unconsciously create a Spirit Word.
• Lu Mingfei asked how Naga knew the supposedly lost grammar, and she proudly called herself a grandmaster of dragon language.
• Finn asked EVA to investigate Naga, learned her past was blank and that she had ties to He Xiaomeng and the Chen Family, then concluded she had deliberately exposed the lesson as a diplomatic gift.
• Naga casually said she was teaching Lu Mingfei because Amon had helped her before, while Amon accepted Lu Mingfei’s grateful look without correcting his misunderstanding.

Naga taught Lu Mingfei the deeper rules of Dragon Script, and he found the language came to him with surprising ease. As the Academy watched the upcoming 3E Exam, Caesar learned that He Xiaomeng was willing to sell back the right to use Norton Hall.

• Naga patiently taught Lu Mingfei Dragon Script, and he realized its patterns felt more like forgotten instincts than unfamiliar material.
• Lu Mingfei asked Amon whether his ease with Dragon Script meant he had dragon blood, and Amon explained that his body had a minor problem preventing natural resonance.
• Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku watched the lesson as Lu Mingze praised Naga's credentials as a Spirit Word Master.
• Caesar addressed the Student Union after losing Norton Hall on Freedom Day and asked whether Lu Mingfei could maintain his S rank in the 3E Exam.
• Chen Motong reported that Lu Mingfei lacked resonance with Spirit Word: Emperor, but the committee doubted the claim because of his reputation.
• Finn called Caesar to offer He Xiaomeng's proposal to resell Norton Hall, and Caesar decided they would not need to move after all.

Lu Mingfei entered the 3E Exam after staying up all night memorizing Dragon Script, while Finn abandoned his planned betting pool and was confronted by creditors. The exam began with a blank sheet and an unseen Dragon Script recording, as Amon watched from the corridor and Masashi Toyama stood ready to handle any medical emergencies.

• Lu Mingfei reached the classroom exhausted but believed he had a decent chance of passing after studying Dragon Script patterns with Naga's help.
• Finn told his dormitory companions that the real news about Lu Mingfei had not discouraged people from backing him, then faced demands from creditors after canceling the betting pool.
• Chen Motong greeted Lu Mingfei and helped prepare the room for the exam, where he noticed Zero sitting nearby.
• Professor Manstein distributed blank sheets, shut down discussion of the exam format, and left the students to await the Dragon Script recording.
• In the corridor, Manstein questioned Amon, who said he had come to observe the exam, while Masashi Toyama remained prepared for possible medical emergencies.

During a chaotic Dragon Script exam, Lu Mingfei answered seven questions before entering Spirit Vision and meeting the mysterious boy Lu Mingze on a rooftop. The encounter ended with Lu Mingze and Amon agreeing to talk after they challenged each other over their presence in Lu Mingfei’s spiritual world.

• Lu Mingfei recognized the Dragon Script in the exam’s music and answered seven questions, but could not recall the final, dangerous line.
• As the classroom descended into madness, Zero told Lu Mingfei that the final line represented “Candle Dragon,” but he still could not write it.
• Lu Mingfei entered Spirit Vision and found himself on a rooftop at sunset beside the boy who introduced himself as Lu Mingze.
• Lu Mingze said Lu Mingfei had forgotten him and called him “brother,” stirring an overwhelming sorrow in Lu Mingfei.
• Amon appeared behind Lu Mingfei and demanded to know what Lu Mingze was and why he was in his junior brother’s spiritual world.
• Amon and Lu Mingze agreed to talk.

On another level of Spirit Vision, Lu Mingze confronted Amon and revealed that Amon’s memories had been altered and that Xia Mi was Jormungandr, Fenrir’s sister. After discussing the people they each wanted to protect and their shared enemies, they agreed to a cautious alliance.

• Lu Mingfei found himself alone on the rooftop as the two figures vanished.
• Amon questioned whether Lu Mingze and Lu Mingfei were Dragon King Twins, and Lu Mingze denied any connection to the Four Great Kings’ thrones.
• Lu Mingze told Amon that King of Earth and Mountains had altered his memories and that Xia Mi was Jormungandr, while Fenrir was her brother.
• Amon said he had long known Xia Mi was not He Xiaoyu and accepted her as his sister anyway.
• Lu Mingze and Amon warned each other that they knew about the people important to the other, then proposed cooperating against their common enemies.
• Amon agreed to a fragile alliance with Lu Mingze after Lu Mingze promised he would never harm Lu Mingfei.

After the 3E Exam, Lu Mingfei accepted that he was a mutated Hybrid and heard Amon’s warning to keep Lu Mingze secret. Meanwhile, Finn visited the Vice Principal, the current Flamel Grandmaster, with an undisclosed alchemical discovery.

• Lu Mingfei found the final Dragon Script diagram filled in and accepted that he was probably a mutated Hybrid.
• Nono collected Lu Mingfei’s answer sheet and told him he had stayed calm during Spirit Vision.
• Amon told Lu Mingfei that Lu Mingze claimed to be his younger brother, advised him to consider trusting him, and warned him to keep Lu Mingze’s existence secret.
• The chapter revealed that the Vice Principal was the current Flamel Grandmaster and that Finn was his sole personal disciple.
• Finn told the Vice Principal he had found something related to alchemy, but did not reveal what it was.

Finn showed the Vice Principal a video of Naga teaching Lu Mingfei Dragon Script grammar, and the Vice Principal recognized the lesson as priceless lost knowledge. Eager to meet Naga, he went to find Lu Mingfei, whose StarCraft match ended with Naga’s base destroyed as the Vice Principal entered his room.

• Finn played a video of Naga teaching Lu Mingfei Dragon Script grammar, and the Vice Principal first mistook it for entertainment.
• The Vice Principal recognized Naga’s explanation as long-lost Dragon Script knowledge and listened intently to the lesson.
• The Vice Principal had Finn copy the video onto an alchemical device and gave him the keys to his collection room in thanks.
• The Vice Principal asked Finn how to contact Naga, then hurried off to ask Lu Mingfei about her and whether she accepted disciples.
• After his exam, Lu Mingfei played StarCraft and destroyed Naga’s base just as the Vice Principal barged into his dorm room.

The Vice Principal pressured Lu Mingfei to introduce him to Naga, who rejected him and continued discussing StarCraft tactics with Lu Mingfei. Meanwhile, Amon traded Caesar a Feathered Serpent God scale for help booking passage on the Yamal and learning its itinerary.

• The Vice Principal revealed his interest in Naga’s alchemy and asked Lu Mingfei to contact her, so Lu Mingfei messaged her through QQ.
• Naga agreed to a video call, rejected the Vice Principal as too ugly to be her dog, and resumed her gaming conversation with Lu Mingfei while he watched.
• Amon met Caesar in Norton Hall and offered him a Feathered Serpent God scale in exchange for help arranging a ticket.
• Amon asked Caesar to find the Yamal’s latest itinerary, and Caesar agreed to send him the information.

Amon put Lu Mingfei through grueling dawn runs, using Little Red to keep him moving and build real physical strength. After reaching the summit, Lu Mingfei was briefly inspired by the sunrise, though Amon expected his motivation to fade within days.

• Amon made Lu Mingfei run ten kilometers before dawn while Little Red chased and nipped at him.
• Lu Mingfei staggered to the summit, where Amon rewarded Little Red with dried fish and praised Lu Mingfei for beating his time from three days earlier.
• Amon explained that Lu Mingfei's confidence needed to rest on genuine strength and that Little Red had become his most effective training aid.
• Amon helped Lu Mingfei to his feet, and Lu Mingfei watched the sunrise over Kassel College and said he understood the value of pushing himself.
• Amon silently noted that Lu Mingfei's inspiration would likely last only a few days before Little Red had to drive him onward again.

Lu Mingfei reflected on Amon’s strict training and received Caesar Gattuso’s invitation to dinner at Norton Hall. Amon planned to attend and spoke with Xia Mi, while Xia Mi sensed a hidden net around the city and Naga watched a familiar bald runner.

• Lu Mingfei told Finn that Amon’s supervision and Teacher Little Red’s bites were driving him to train, though he feared his motivation would fade.
• Finn gave Lu Mingfei Caesar Gattuso’s invitation to a dinner at Norton Hall three days later, and Lu Mingfei wondered whether Caesar wanted a duel.
• Amon considered buying formal clothes for the dinner and took a phone call from Xia Mi, who told him she had mastered Eye of the Wind King.
• Xia Mi asked Amon about his Spirit Word, but he kept it secret; after their call, she sensed unusual figures and an invisible net in the city.
• Naga watched a familiar bald young man run past her window for the seventh time.

Jude Aki and Ye Sheng triggered the City of Bronze, leaving them trapped as the statues and machinery came alive. At Kassel College, the faculty gathered high-ranking students to decipher the Dragon Script and find a way to save them before their oxygen ran out.

• Jude Aki fell into Spirit Vision and cut her lifeline, but Ye Sheng shot a Snake-faced Man statue and brought her back to herself as the City of Bronze began moving.
• Ye Sheng sensed overwhelming fear through his Spirit Word, grabbed Jude Aki, and warned her to move as the statues raised their Ivory Tablets.
• An emergency alarm summoned Amon, Lu Mingfei, Caesar, Chu Zihang, and other high-ranking students to the Library, while Lu Mingfei kept his encounter with Lu Mingze and the “black sheep wall” secret.
• Professor Schneider explained that Ye Sheng and Jude Aki had less than twenty minutes of oxygen and showed the students a photograph of the Dragon Script, asking them to trigger Spirit Vision and decipher it.
• Amon told Lu Mingfei that Ye Sheng and Jude Aki would die if they could not decipher the inscription, leaving Lu Mingfei stunned.

Lu Mingfei used a StarCraft cheat code in Baidu Maps to decipher the Bronze City’s mechanisms and reveal routes through the city. Meanwhile, Mai Sakatoku faced two Second Generation Dragons, and Lu Mingze empowered her with legendary swords for the fight.

• Lu Mingfei struggled to decipher the Dragon Script while the others, including Chu Zihang, worked at their screens and Amon played StarCraft.
• Lu Mingfei entered “black sheep wall” into Baidu Maps, causing every screen in the control room to display a detailed, dynamic map of the Bronze City marked as his deciphering result.
• Mai Sakatoku, transformed by Dragon Raja serum, prepared to hold off two Second Generation Dragons as they approached through the Bronze City.
• Lu Mingze appeared behind Mai Sakatoku and chanted to steady her power and summon the swords Ame-no-Habakiri and Futsu-no-Mitama.
• Mai Sakatoku faced the roaring Dragon Servants with the legendary swords in her hands.

Mai Sakatoku fought Sansun and a Third Generation Dragon Servant in the underwater passage while Ye Sheng and Aki hurried toward the Monarch. The smaller Dragon Servant broke away toward the Monarch, leaving Mai to hold Sansun back and buy Kassel's people time.

• Lu Mingze enhanced Mai Sakatoku, then vanished to play StarCraft and left her to face the approaching dragons.
• Sansun attacked Mai with Dragon Breath, but she cut through its shockwave and severed half of the Third Generation Dragon Servant's foreclaw with Futsu-no-Mitama.
• Mai used Underworld Reflection to wound Sansun, but its tail strike slammed her into the passage wall and left her injured.
• Sansun ordered the Third Generation Dragon Servant to rush toward the Monarch, and Mai could not stop it because Sansun's attacks kept her pinned down.
• Mai focused on holding Sansun back while Ye Sheng and Aki hurried through the water toward their destination.

The Wa Master and Angers watched the river as a Dragon Servant attacked the Moriah, while the Orthodox and government forces prepared for the possible awakening of Norton. Angers rushed to help the fleeing crew after the creature destroyed a helicopter, and the Wa Master ordered an investigation into who had sent it.

• The Wa Master told Angers and the Elder in Tang Suit that the Orthodox would allow the operation but would kill anyone who crossed their boundaries, including Kassel people.
• The government deployed a heavy armored brigade for the Dragon Defense exercise, while two Hybrid officers doubted conventional weapons could stop Norton.
• The Wa Master killed a crow that was watching them, and a Daoist in a worn robe chanted about using a True Dragon as a catalyst for an immortal elixir.
• Ye Sheng and Aki boarded the lifeboat with the Brass Canister as the third mate ordered the Moriah to accelerate away from an approaching underwater creature.
• The Dragon Servant leapt from the river and smashed the approaching helicopter with its tail, prompting Angers to rush toward the Moriah.
• The Wa Master ordered the Elder in Tang Suit to identify who sent the helicopter and offer help recovering the bodies.

Three backpackers witnessed a Dragon Servant destroy a helicopter and met the Daoist Priest Pingyangzi, while Ye Sheng, Selma, and Manstein fought the creature aboard the Moriah. Manstein’s bombs failed to kill it, and he used a Spirit Word to shield himself and the others from its counterattack.

• Three backpackers saw a Dragon Servant leap from the river and destroy a helicopter, and the girl photographed it before Pingyangzi warned them to leave.
• Selma watched the Dragon Servant attack the Moriah as Manstein and the crew struggled with their limited weapons.
• The First Mate maneuvered the Moriah while the crew released ten mini bombs, and Manstein detonated them after the Dragon Servant swallowed them.
• The Dragon Servant survived the explosion and turned a bomb into a blast of fire and metal aimed at the Moriah.
• Manstein invoked the Domain of Dustless Space to protect Ye Sheng, Selma, and himself from the Dragon Servant’s attack.

Pingyangzi killed the Dragon Servant that had attacked the Moriah, while Angers recovered Constantine's Bone Cinerary Urn and said the true Monarch remained asleep. After the survivors were taken over by local forces, Pingyangzi showed a strange, fervent interest in the dragon corpse, and back at Kassel College Amon drew Lu Mingfei into a rematch against his mysterious gaming rival.

• A crimson Bronze Sword pierced the Dragon Servant's head, killing it, while its gaze left Ye Sheng unconscious and harmed his consciousness.
• Pingyangzi arrived, identified himself as a vice principal of True Martial Demon-Slaying Academy, and claimed custody of the dragon corpse.
• Angers arrived by helicopter, took Constantine's Bone Cinerary Urn, and told Mans the slain creature was only a Dragon Servant guarding the Dragon Tomb.
• Wa Master and an Elder in Tang Suit took over the riverbank, while Pingyangzi entered the container with the corpse and spoke excitedly about using a True Dragon as a catalyst.
• At Kassel College, Schneider waited in the silent control center as the Moriah's signal remained lost, while Amon challenged Lu Mingfei to help him beat his gaming opponent.