Chapter Summaries

Basba’s order to investigate the warning about a Savage Beastmen invasion was delayed by disputes among the Kingdom of Bia’s generals, while the Savage Beastmen broke through Sogian’s border and advanced in force. Riva and Gurian triggered a flood that swept away the enemy vanguard, leaving both sides facing each other across the raging river.

• Basba ordered scouts to investigate the warning, but Dansen accused him of wasting messenger hawks and doubted the report while the messenger was locked up.
• Savage Beastmen surprised and slaughtered two thousand Sogian border troops, then spread out to attack more garrisons as their main army advanced.
• Ten days later, Bia scouts found signs of an enormous Savage Beastmen force crossing Ridge Mountain and hurried back to report the warning was true.
• Riva and Gurian’s group rolled boulders into the statue above the dam, causing it to collapse and unleash a flood.
• The flood swept away more than twenty thousand Savage Beastmen vanguard troops, and the enemy generals stared toward the gorge as Riva and Gurian watched from afar.

Riva and his companions caused a flood that devastated the Savage Beastmen army, then retreated as the Sogians investigated the dam's collapse. A delayed warning reached Basba, revealing a Savage Beastmen invasion of Bia and the desperate measures Riva's group had taken to slow it.

• Riva, Youyi, and Gurian watched the flood sweep toward the Savage Beastmen and retreated before Sogian troops could surround them.
• The Savage Beastmen marched south toward Bia, and their Dire Wolf Cavalry wiped out five hundred soldiers at a border outpost after killing sixty riders.
• Messenger eagles delivered a blood-edged warning to Basba, who learned that tens of thousands of Savage Beastmen had passed through Xiwas Peak.
• Basba admitted it was too late to send troops in time, and the exhausted scout explained that Riva's group had split up to warn the kingdoms, urge civilians to flee, and hold the Savage Beastmen at the Gulot River.

Basba and the generals ordered Bia’s army to prepare for a march as refugees fled east from the Western Territory ahead of the Savage Beastmen invasion. At Rusbella, the army and refugees saw the flood’s victims drifting down the river, confirming that Riva and Gurian’s plan had succeeded.

• A messenger recounted Gurian’s plan to divert a flood against the Savage Beastmen, and Basba and the generals ordered the army to assemble and march north of Rusbella.
• Thousands of Bia’s citizens fled east as rumors and prophecies spread through the Western Territory, despite officials’ attempts to stop the exodus.
• More than a hundred thousand elite Bia troops approached Rusbella as news arrived that the Savage Beastmen had invaded the Western Territory and massacred people caught too late to escape.
• Basba, Dansen, and Hessman watched the refugees cross the river while soldiers guarded the bridge and prepared to destroy it if the enemy appeared.
• Savage Beastmen and Giant Monster corpses filled the river, and Basba realized that Riva and the others had succeeded.

As the Savage Beastmen invasion expanded, Prince Wittley refused to let political scheming distract the army from winning the war. In Spirnosi Forest, Xivier led three hundred Faeries toward joining the conflict, convinced the threat endangered the whole world and that the Black Ranger might be the Savior named in prophecy.

• Prince Wittley rebuked the Military Inspector for trying to exploit disputes with the generals and ordered him out of the command tent.
• Savage Beastmen forces advanced into Bia and Sogian, with more than a million enemies and an unknown number of Giant Monsters threatening the four kingdoms.
• Xivier told the gathered Faeries that the Savage Beastmen were corrupted and sought to exterminate peoples, making the war a threat to the entire world.
• Xivier recalled finding Riva's corpse missing near the fallen star and connected a dead Soma man she had killed to the prophecy of the Savior's death and rebirth.
• Xivier announced that she would contact other fairy peoples and seek out the Black Ranger, whom she suspected might be the prophesied Savior.

Jilaze Mountain City endured a brutal Savage Beastmen assault under Gurian’s command, though the attack left thousands dead and sections of its walls close to collapse. Gurian ordered preparations for the next assault and wondered whether Riva was the prophesied figure around whom the world’s power was gathering.

• Sogian defenders used fire-oil catapults, boiling oil, ballistae, and shield charges to repel Savage Beastmen and Giant Monsters from Jilaze Mountain City’s walls.
• Savage Beastmen and Corrupted Beastmen broke through in several places, killing many defenders before the assault subsided near sunset.
• Gurian’s officials credited Lord Riva’s prediction and Gurian’s machine modifications with helping the city withstand the surprise attack.
• Sogian generals reported thousands of casualties and warned that Giant Monsters had badly damaged sections of the walls.
• Gurian ordered water poured over the walls and cloth wrapped around soldiers’ legs so they could climb during the next assault.
• Gurian wondered whether Riva was the person in the prophecy, while Qin Xiaoxia considered whether the world could eliminate corruption through its own immunity.

Riva’s guerrilla army used traps and other tactics to kill Giant Monsters and weaken the Savage Beastmen, while the Faeries crossed the forest to join him. The chapter ended with Xivier and her companions pledging their support, as she promised that more long-lived races would join them.

• The defenders froze the mountain city’s walls and gateway, making them difficult for the Savage Beastmen to climb or breach.
• Riva’s hunters killed five Giant Monsters in a pit trap, bringing their total to thirteen, while more than six thousand guerrilla fighters hunted across the southwestern forest.
• Xivier led over three hundred Faeries through the forest, where they found evidence that Soma warriors were killing Giant Monsters.
• On the tenth day, Xivier’s group met a team of Giant Monster hunters, then traveled to the guerrilla army’s camp and reunited with Riva.
• Xivier knelt before Riva and offered the Faeries’ help against the disaster, saying she had also called on other Faerie settlements and long-lived races.

The guerrilla army grew to nearly twenty thousand before discovering a vast, unnatural swamp that convinced Youyi the world had been infected by Corruption. As Savage Beastmen forces began moving around Sogian's Mountain City Fortress, Gurian rejected retreat and proposed a surprise attack, promising that Riva's guerrilla army would help destroy the entire enemy force.

• More than four thousand Faeries and several rare long-lived races joined the guerrilla army, raising its numbers to nearly twenty thousand.
• Riva and Youyi found a huge swamp filled with rotting carcasses and Giant Monsters, and Youyi concluded that Corruption had infected the world.
• Riva withdrew with the guerrilla army after their successful hunt, while Gurian's forces continued holding Sogian's Mountain City Fortress for nearly two months.
• As the Savage Beastmen split their forces to circle the fortress, Sogian's generals urged Gurian to retreat and preserve the veteran soldiers.
• Gurian argued that only seventy or eighty thousand Savage Beastmen remained before the fortress and proposed a surprise sortie with Riva's guerrilla army to kill the entire enemy force.

The Sogian army secretly evacuated Jilaze Mountain City and launched a surprise assault on the Savage Beastmen camp. As the battle turned into a slaughter, Savage Bears, Winged People, guerrilla fighters, and fairies joined the attack, crushing the Beastmen from both sides.

• Sogian soldiers silently descended ladders and slipped out of Jilaze Mountain City, assembling an army of roughly seventy thousand men.
• Gurian's modified crossbows helped Sogian crossbowmen kill the Savage Beastmen sentries in the outer watchtowers without raising an alarm.
• After the Sogians were discovered at the final watchtower ring, their general ordered the army to attack, and flaming arrows set the Beastmen's tents ablaze.
• Sogian soldiers stormed the camp and attacked the Savage Beastmen and Giant Monsters, but the Beastmen rallied and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Savage Bear warriors charged into the camp and tore into the Beastmen, while Winged People, guerrilla fighters, and fairies attacked from the air and darkness.
• The combined assault broke the Savage Beastmen's ranks and turned the battle into a slaughter.

After the allied forces crushed the Savage Beastmen in a night raid, Riva rallied the warriors for the coming war, declaring that he would never retreat. The chapter ended with the assembled fighters vowing to fight alongside him.

• The Sogian soldiers, Guerrilla Army, Savage Bear People, Faeries, and Winged People finished routing the Savage Beastmen and gathered on the bloodied battlefield.
• Riva climbed onto the wreckage of a command tent, and Gurian saluted him after declaring that he had fulfilled his mission.
• Riva told the warriors how his dreams had ended his doubts and affirmed that he would never retreat.
• Riva warned that more than two million Savage Beastmen threatened the world and urged the warriors to fight beside him and the Guerrilla Army.
• The warriors answered Riva with roars of “Never retreat” and vowed to fight to the death.

Riva’s Guerrilla Army expanded its campaign against the Savage Beastmen, using mobile attacks and intelligence networks to inflict heavy losses while avoiding direct battles with their main armies. After a successful assassination and another victory at Yongke Canyon, Riva’s commanders prepared to change their plan.

• Riva’s forces destroyed two Savage Beastmen armies and used the victory to draw hundreds of thousands of enemy troops into pursuit.
• The Guerrilla Army fought in smaller units, striking only when it held a numerical advantage, while Faerie and Winged People assassins killed enemy commanders.
• After the battle at Yongke Canyon, a Winged People messenger delivered news of the victory to the Guerrilla Army’s hidden headquarters.
• Xivier presented Riva with the head of the Savage Beastmen Crown Prince and reported that her team had killed about twenty-seven high-value targets.
• Gurian told Riva they were nearly ready, and Youyi perked up at the prospect of a change in plans.

The Guerrilla Army ordered the allied forces to abandon their defensive lines and regroup at three locations as it shifted its strategy toward the spread of corruption. Gurian hinted to Youyi that his past was not what she believed, leaving her stunned.

• Dansen and Basba discussed the weakening Savage Beastmen attacks and returned to Marshal Wittley's command tent after being summoned.
• Three Winged envoys announced that the Guerrilla Army had revised its strategy and ordered the armies to withdraw, evacuate civilians, and regroup at Mount Hossimu, Klingger Gorge, and Eightfold Peak.
• Basba and Dansen objected to abandoning their defenses, but the envoys explained that the Savage Beastmen's disrupted command and the spread of corruption required a change of focus.
• Youyi demanded to know why Gurian had ordered the withdrawal, and Gurian hinted that he was no ordinary former foot soldier before making a gesture over his heart.
• Youyi recognized the significance of Gurian's gesture and stared at him in shock.

Youyi discovered that Gurian belonged to the Dawn Association, whose emblem was marked on Riva’s palm, and feared that the organization would reclaim her as a missing secret scroll. Gurian reassured her that the Association would accept her as a living child, then summoned Qin Xiaoxia’s thoughtform, leaving Youyi convinced the encounter was real.

• Youyi recognized Gurian’s Heart-Clasp Salute and nervously hurried to the command tent while Gurian briefed the Guerrilla Army commanders on their operation.
• After the commanders left, Youyi asked Gurian whether he had come to take her back, and Gurian greeted her and Riva with the Dawn Heart-Clasp Salute.
• Gurian explained that Riva’s palm bore the Dawn Association’s emblem and that Youyi was a missing secret scroll transformed into a living being.
• Gurian assured Youyi that the Archive Management Office would not turn her back into a scroll, but Youyi insisted its members and its Shadow of the Mystic Realm were frightening.
• Gurian projected Qin Xiaoxia’s thoughtform, and Youyi recognized the Sage and confirmed that the experience was real.

Youyi explained Dawn to Riva, and Qin Xiaoxia warned him against relying on outside power while promising Dawn’s help if needed. As the armies withdrew and repositioned, the Soma and Long-Lived forces struck the Savage Beastmen’s western grasslands, captured their royal court, and triggered growing panic and desertions.

• Youyi told Riva about the Infinite Abyss, the Dawn Association, and the Dawn Sage, and Riva knelt to beg Qin Xiaoxia to end the war.
• Qin Xiaoxia urged Riva to rely on his own strength, offered limited help, and promised Dawn’s power would answer if the Corruption could not be resolved.
• The Soma and Long-Lived armies withdrew from the fronts and used mystic realms to move troops toward planned attack positions.
• Soma armies appeared across the western grasslands and advanced on the Savage Beastmen royal court, which fell about a month later.
• News of the royal court’s fall and rumors of Corruption spread through the Savage Beastmen armies, prompting tribes to desert and flee west.
• A group of fleeing Savage Beastmen discussed joining the Black Ranger’s Guerrilla Army to fight those corrupted by darkness, then continued on to evade their pursuers.

Riva’s forces captured the Savage Beastmen’s second capital and used selective killings and defections to weaken the corrupted army. By spring, the remaining Savage Beastmen were surrounded in Rusbella as Riva’s new Guerrilla Army sang outside its walls.

• Riva killed a Savage Beastmen royal in the second capital and ordered his troops to hunt corrupted Savage Beastmen while sparing those who had not succumbed.
• Basba and allied soldiers defeated a Savage Beastmen squad in a bloody street fight as the city’s defenders celebrated the fall of both capitals.
• The allied forces harried the invading army, prompting mass desertions and reducing its numbers by more than half within two months.
• The surviving Savage Beastmen retreated to Rusbella, where more than three hundred thousand gathered behind the city’s defenses.
• Riva, Youyi, and Gurian positioned the Guerrilla Army outside Rusbella, and its Savage Beastmen soldiers sang together until the song reached the frightened defenders inside.

Riva and Gurian’s plan to win over uncorrupted Savage Beastmen inside Rusbella succeeded, and the allied army prepared to attack before dawn. The chapter ended as a widespread mutiny opened gates and set the city’s defenses ablaze.

• Savage Beastmen inside Rusbella heard the allied army’s folk song and feared that their own people had joined the enemy.
• A Savage Beastman officer signaled the allied army with a fire arrow, and Winged People intelligence officers reported that three groups inside the city were ready to help.
• Riva ordered the Winged People to deliver coordination plans, while Gurian told the allied commanders to prepare to break every Savage Beastman banner before dawn.
• A Savage Beastman officer distributed white ribbons to his soldiers and recruited them to help the allied army take Rusbella.
• Allied soldiers crossed the Two Rivers as Winged People warriors took flight, while Savage Beastmen mutinied, killed commanders, set fires, and opened the western and southern gates.

After Riva’s forces defeated the corrupted Savage Beastmen in Rusbella, the allied army celebrated its victory and the world returned to peace. Riva then led a secret Guerrilla Army force to the western grasslands, where they began a ritual to contain an expanding corrupt swamp.

• Riva broke the last Savage Beastman flag in Rusbella and announced that the war was over as Solar Radiance brought daybreak and the warriors cheered.
• A month later, the Guerrilla Army disbanded publicly, but nearly ten thousand elite fighters secretly gathered in the western grasslands.
• Riva, Youyi, and Gurian inspected a vast, foul swamp that was slowly spreading across the land.
• Riva ordered the warriors to prepare, and the fighters cut their palms and chanted an oath to burn away corruption.
• Youyi recited the Magic Language as the warriors’ glowing blood flowed around the swamp and the World Consciousness awakened to aid them.

Qin Xiaoxia guided the world’s power to suppress the spreading Corruption and summon Earth’s will to capture its source. The marsh became a lake, marking a breakthrough in studying Corruption, though Youyi and Qin Xiaoxia knew the world had changed permanently.

• Youyi and the Guerrilla Army soldiers chanted and shed blood to fuel the Spell Formation Array, which stopped the marsh’s spread and burned away its edges.
• The marsh exploded, revealing a mass of concentrated darkness, and Qin Xiaoxia recognized it as the Corruption source he had been waiting for.
• Qin Xiaoxia redirected the world’s blessings through the array and called on the World Mother to bring Earth’s will into the world.
• The sky opened in a vision, and a shaft of light descended, capturing the Corruption substance and leaving a deep pit where the marsh had been.
• Rain filled the pit to form a clear lake, and the Guerrilla Army celebrated as the world expressed joy and relief.

More than a year after the Prophecy War, the world rebuilt and its people began new lives. On Earth, Riva toured a marine Mystic Realm and marveled at Sun Wukong’s weapon, while Qin Xiaoxia and Dawn scholars studied the sealed corruption in Demon Eye’s Wasteland World.

• Qin Xiaoxia used World Mom’s power to erase the corruption swamps in the Giant Monsters’ forest, ending the crisis for the world’s native inhabitants.
• After the war, people returned home, the Foam Tavern reopened in Jiniz, Prince Wittley traveled with retired Guerrilla Army veterans, and Xivier returned to her forest.
• Youyi took Riva on a Dawn Association sightseeing trip aboard the Deep Sea Light to see the Ruyi Fine-Hooped Rod beneath the sea.
• Qin Xiaoxia and other Dawn scholars gathered in Demon Eye’s Wasteland World to study the sealed source of corruption as the world showed signs of renewed vitality.

Dawn tested whether Earth’s vitality could counteract primordial corruption in the Wasteland World, sacrificing more than a thousand creatures before one Horned Demon Beast survived. Doctor Lucy then tried to recruit the survivor for further research, but it refused and was knocked unconscious for dissection.

• Qin Xiaoxia, Su Su, Red Banshee, Demon Eye, and Dawn’s researchers prepared a world-spanning array to channel Earth’s vitality into creatures exposed to sealed corruption.
• Dawn sent insects, livestock, wild beasts, and captured Magic Beings into the corruption zone while Su Su and Red Banshee monitored their bodies and souls.
• After a day and night, the test subjects began collapsing without warning, and by the third day only the Doriel Horned Demon Beast remained alive.
• Su Su and Red Banshee ended the experiment, and Demon Eye moved the surviving beast to safety outside the test area.
• Doctor Lucy offered the Horned Demon Beast a contract for further research, but it refused and was knocked unconscious by a Dawn member with a syringe.

The Dawn Association used newly developed magic script to unseal the former Kasluopa members who had been preserved beneath the sea. The awakened friends roared with joy as Dawn members and viewers around the world celebrated the oath fulfilled.

• At Similson Plains Academy, Gao Lun learned that his friend had obtained a magic script talisman from a junior student who had traded it for a concert ticket.
• Students and faculty gathered to watch a live projection of the Dawn Association’s unsealing ceremony after Professor Akrodos’s class was canceled.
• At Silent Moon Island, Jilian raised the sealed block of ice from the sea while Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee began the unsealing ritual.
• Qin Xiaoxia traced luminous magic script as the Red Banshee sang, and the script enveloped the ice until it cracked and melted.
• Kebienike and more than four thousand former victims of corruption awakened, then roared with joy as Dawn members and viewers around the world cheered.