Chapter Summaries

Field was exiled to the cursed Nightfall Territory with only five hundred gold coins and his personal servants, while his family mocked him and refused further support. After his younger half brother confessed to murdering the girl Field’s former self had loved, Field was left shocked and furious.

• Field’s stepmother assigned him Nightfall Territory, and Field accepted the exile without protest.
• Field asked Count Kurt for support to develop his territory, but Count Kurt refused and granted him only five hundred gold coins and permission to take his personal servants.
• Field’s relatives and younger half brother mocked his appearance and his new fief, and Field told his brother to get lost.
• Field’s younger half brother revealed that he had raped and murdered the girl Field’s former self had loved.
• Field was stunned and disgusted by his younger half brother’s confession.

Field fought back when his younger brother threatened him, but a Chosen One intervened and threw him aside. Facing exile to Nightfall Territory and fearing further attacks, Field set out for Golden Eagle City to investigate a mysterious green dot only he could see, which led him to a slave market.

• Field attacked his younger brother after he insulted and threatened him, but a wine-red-haired Chosen One grabbed Field and hurled him into a wall.
• Field decided to build up his strength before returning to confront his brother and investigated the green dot on his map, suspecting it was tied to his rare lord talent.
• Field gathered his belongings and left for Nightfall Territory with his butler and an escort led by Connor.
• Field traveled to Golden Eagle City to seek supplies for his territory and follow the green dot.
• Field followed the green dot to the city's northern slave market, where Connor recoiled from the stench.

Field searched a slave market for the green dot and found a white wolf demihuman girl. He bought her along with two hundred other slaves and prepared to take them to Nightfall Territory.

• Field searched the cages while a merchant described the prices and cruel treatment of the slaves.
• Field found the green dot above a white wolf demihuman girl and stopped himself from touching her when she growled and Connor warned him.
• Field bargained the merchant down from three gold coins to fifty silver for the girl.
• Field bought a hundred human slaves and a hundred demihuman slaves, including the wolf girl, for fifty-three gold coins.
• The merchant gave Field the slaves' soul contracts and ropes, and Field prepared to lead them to the Cursed Land.

Field failed to secure a loan and spent his remaining funds on supplies for Nightfall Territory. After learning the beast-eared slave he bought was Ashina, he discovered she was an unawakened Chosen One and realized his ability could help him survive in his fief.

• Kao told Field that merchants refused to lend to him because his second elder sister had warned them to charge him ten times the price.
• Field abandoned his attempt to borrow money and spent 180 gold coins on packhorses, tools, food, and books for his territory.
• Field failed to recruit mercenaries, who refused to travel to Nightfall Territory, and brought his group to a waystation for the night.
• Field summoned the beast-eared girl, who told him her name was Ashina after a month of silence.
• Field saw Ashina's status panel identify her as an unawakened Wolf Cavalry Chosen One who was malnourished and close to collapse.
• Field told the frightened Ashina that he had bought the slaves to develop his territory and asked whether her dress fit.

Field fed Ashina and told her he intended to train her into a Chosen One, then traveled with her toward Nightfall Territory. They reached Ka Mountain Fortress, where Field learned his past generosity had made him familiar to Baron Bull and the locals.

• Field brought Ashina to dinner, where she eagerly ate three steaks and five pieces of bread.
• Field said he wanted to train Ashina into a Chosen One, and she agreed as long as she could keep eating meat.
• During ten days of travel, Field bought Ashina meat and potions and purchased magical supplies for Nightfall Territory.
• Field and Ashina arrived at Ka Mountain Fortress, the final fortress on their route to the Northern Frontier Province.
• Kao told Field that he had often given his allowance to the villagers and Baron Bull, and Field hoped the locals would welcome them.

Field's journey was interrupted by a horde of rotting corpses near Ka Mountain Fortress, forcing Connor's cavalry and Field to fight. Field killed a corpse himself, while the attack was still underway.

• Field spotted red skull icons approaching and warned Connor, but Connor dismissed the danger and ordered the group to continue.
• Field encountered a horde of corpse monsters charging with fleeing peasants, and Connor ordered his twenty cavalrymen to prepare for battle.
• Field told the slaves to link the carts into a barricade and fight, but they hid in fear; Ashina offered to protect him.
• Connor's cavalry charged into the horde with lances, then attacked the corpses with flails and sabers.
• The corpses reached Field's wagon barricade, and Field thrust his longsword into one corpse's neck and wrenched its head aside.

Field and his caravan fought off Corpse Ghouls and learned that death miasma had corrupted Oak Village after seeping through Ka Mountain Fortress. When they reached the fortress to request passage to Nightfall Territory, Baron Bull’s son refused to open the gates and threatened to shoot them.

• Ashina pinned a Corpse Ghoul that lunged at Field, and Field rewarded her with a gold coin.
• Field and the caravan’s slaves killed the attacking Corpse Ghouls, while one of Connor’s cavalrymen was killed in a fall during the fight.
• Field ordered the corpses’ heads cut off and the bodies burned, then questioned the refugees about the attack.
• A refugee explained that death miasma had engulfed Oak Village while its lord and the Chosen One were away investigating the Evil Cult.
• Field led his group to Ka Mountain Fortress and found its outer walls unmanned, though soldiers guarded the inner walls.
• Baron Bull’s son refused Field’s request to pass through the fortress and threatened to have the archers fire if Field approached with the refugees.

Field reached Ka Mountain Fortress, where Richard Bull refused to help and tried to send him toward danger. Field took in the abandoned villagers, then prepared to exploit the empty fortress defenses; after leaving his slaves behind, he checked Ashina’s changed panel with a crystal ball.

• Richard Bull told Field that Nightfall Territory was safe while refusing to open the fortress gates and warning him not to seek help.
• Field threatened the villagers with a five-gold ransom or a forced march to Nightfall Territory, and they chose to follow him.
• Field spotted rotting corpses near the gate on his Mini-Map and gathered thirty slaves to attack the undefended outer positions.
• Field invited Connor to join the fight, but Connor refused and rode away with his cavalry after warning Field to obey Imperial Law and his Family Doctrine.
• Field ordered Kao to keep watch over the slaves, then took Ashina into the woods and used a crystal ball to examine her changed panel.

Field used an Awakening Crystal to awaken Ashina as a Chosen One of the Goddess of Deep Winter, gaining a powerful ally and the slaves’ reverence. He freed Ashina and led the group into a fortified pass, where they encountered Corpse Ghouls.

• Field used an Awakening Crystal on Ashina, and she became a Chosen One of the Goddess of Deep Winter.
• Ashina formed a Chosen One Contract with Field, and he publicly tore up her Slave Contract to declare her free.
• Ashina summoned a Dragon-Breed Wolf mount and revealed her Wolf Rider class and combat abilities.
• Field led the slaves toward the barracks and armory, using a Mist-Driving Lamp to clear the Gray Fog.
• Ashina spotted two armored soldier Corpse Ghouls in the barracks, and Field ordered her to kill them without damaging their armor.

Field and Ashina cleared the barracks of rotting corpses, then confronted a group of soldiers who planned to rob and kill him. Field revealed Ashina’s Dragon-Breed Wolf and ordered her to cripple the soldiers while offering the slaves a coin for each man they killed.

• Ashina and her Dragon-Breed Wolf killed the corrupted soldiers gathered around the barracks.
• Field ordered the slaves to make noise so Ashina could draw in and destroy nearby rotting corpses.
• Field told the slaves to search the barracks for valuables, and they found survivors in a bunker.
• The bearded officer and his soldiers threatened to rob and kill Field to cover up their failure to light the Mist-Driving Lamp.
• Field summoned Ashina’s Dragon-Breed Wolf, which tore off one soldier’s arm, and ordered Ashina to cripple the others.
• Field offered the slaves one silver coin for every soldier they killed.

Field and Ashina’s slaves captured Ka Mountain Fortress’s armory and took its weapons and armor for Nightfall Territory. Field then sent Wildcat and twenty men to Bullhorn Village under Baron Bull’s banner to collect its taxes.

• Field rewarded Wildcat for killing a mutinous soldier, and the slaves joined Ashina’s giant wolf in defeating the garrison.
• Field discovered enough weapons and armor in the fortress armory to equip five hundred men, and he ordered the slaves to take it all.
• Field sent Wildcat and twenty men to Bullhorn Village to carry out his plan while the rest prepared to move the equipment.
• Wildcat and his soldiers entered Bullhorn Village under Baron Bull’s banner, intimidated the village chief, and demanded its many taxes.

Field’s men disguised themselves as Bull Territory guards and looted Bullhorn Village under the pretense of collecting taxes, while Wildcat brought back a young girl the villagers had intended for Baron Bull. The next morning, Field prepared to enter the Gray Fog with Ashina and planned to seize the Grand Manor as a base for reclaiming Starry Night City.

• Wildcat forced Bullhorn Village to surrender livestock, grain, and money, and brought the goods back to Field.
• Field rewarded the guards and ordered them to collect taxes from more Bull Territory villages before anyone discovered their deception.
• Wildcat brought Field the young girl the villagers had offered to Baron Bull, and Field took her in and made Wildcat leader of the guards.
• Ashina woke after a comfortable night’s sleep and joined Field as he planned their route into the Gray Fog.
• Field studied an outdated map and decided the Grand Manor was the best base for reclaiming Starry Night City, though he feared the dangers posed by monsters and possible bosses.

Field led his people into the Northern Frontier under the protection of a Mist-Driving Lamp, and Ashina proved herself a Chosen One by fighting off corpse ghouls. The procession came under attack from a horde, and Field faced a bat woman swooping down from above.

• Field announced that Ashina was a Chosen One, lit the Mist-Driving Lamp, and led the expedition into the Gray Fog.
• Ashina warned Field about an approaching corpse ghoul and killed it with an arrow.
• Field spotted a large horde on his Mini-Map and ordered the wagons formed into a wall while ranged soldiers fired.
• Ashina summoned her giant wolf and attacked the corpse ghouls with her saber and the wolf's fire.
• Wildcat and the slave guards fought the monsters as Field dismounted to avoid a fast-moving creature overhead.
• Field saw a bat woman diving toward him, ducked, and thrust upward with his longsword.

Field and his forces survived a Corpse Ghoul attack with Ashina’s help, then caught Connor’s cavalry attempting to ambush them. Ashina disarmed Connor, and Field confronted the captured captain without yet ordering his men killed.

• The Bat Woman killed a slave before Field’s archers shot her down and Field smashed her head with a halberd.
• Ashina unleashed the Dragon-Breed Wolf’s blue flames, wiping out much of the Corpse Ghoul swarm as Field’s group held the first wave.
• Field spotted nineteen approaching markers and sent Ashina into the Gray Fog to prepare an ambush.
• Connor led nineteen cavalrymen toward Field, planning to kill him and steal the group’s Mist-Driving Lamp.
• Connor’s cavalry found Field’s guards and ranged fighters ready for them, then tried to retreat when Ashina and the Dragon-Breed Wolf appeared behind them.
• Ashina captured Connor and took his Mist-Driving Lamp, while Field greeted him casually and left his fate undecided.

Field forced Connor and the cavalrymen to scout ahead through the Corpse Ghoul-infested territory, then reached Starlit Grand Manor with Ashina and his people. The Mini-Map revealed many monsters in the manor and a huge red dot in the main building’s basement, so Field decided to avoid the building for now.

• Field had Ashina kill a cavalryman and ordered Connor’s eighteen men to scout ahead or die.
• Field’s group followed routes marked on the Mini-Map to evade most Corpse Ghouls as they traveled toward Nightfall Territory.
• After three days of fighting, Connor was the only surviving cavalryman, and Field ordered Ashina to kill him when they reached Starlit Grand Manor.
• Ashina tore the overgrown gates from the manor entrance, and Field inspected its map and grounds.
• Field sensed a threatening presence in the main building and spotted a huge red dot in its basement on the Mini-Map.

Field chose the grand winery as a defensible shelter and ordered the fields cleared so they could become a food source. After imposing discipline on skeptical villagers, he led Ashina and the guards into the winery, where they fought off a horde of Corpse Ghouls.

• Field selected the brick-and-stone grand winery and promised the slaves wages to clear its corrupted fields.
• When villagers doubted the poisoned land could be farmed, Field ordered them to clear the eastern fields and sentenced one man to five lashes.
• Field led Ashina and the guards into the winery, forbidding fire because they needed to preserve the building.
• Corpse Ghouls charged from the darkness, and Ashina and her wolf held back most of the horde.
• Field killed a Corpse Ghoul that had knocked down a guard, saving him from the monsters.

Field and his party cleared the Winery of corpse ghouls and fought a powerful Rat Monster, which Ashina killed with a divine spear skill. After searching the ruined floors, they opened the wine cellar, where rows of oak sherry casks awaited them.

• Field encouraged the guards to fight as warriors, and they helped him wipe out more than seventy corpse ghouls.
• Field found a dead Bat Woman and ruined barley in the brewing room before Ashina warned that a monster was approaching.
• The Rat Monster shattered a guard’s shield and attacked Field, but the Dragon-Breed Wolf shielded him.
• Ashina and the Dragon-Breed Wolf wounded the Rat Monster, and Ashina killed it with her Spear of Piercing Extreme Cold.
• Field treated the wounded and led the party in clearing the Winery, where they found no valuables on the first two floors.
• A guard opened the cellar doors, revealing a dark staircase and piles of oak sherry casks.

Field found valuable sealed barrels of Black Pearl Grapes Wine at the Starry Night Winery and surveyed the territory after its corrupted creatures were burned. He gathered his servants to address them, leaving his plans for them unstated.

• Field found unopened barrels of Black Pearl Grapes Wine and ordered Kao to count how much remained drinkable.
• Ashina suggested making wine, but Field said they would consider it after securing the territory.
• Field surveyed the land and watched residents burn a pile of corrupted creatures.
• Field asked Scissors to gather everyone who served him.
• Kao arrived and said counting the wine barrels would take at least two days, then Field met with his servants.

Field rewarded his servants for good work, then began planning the development of Nightfall Territory and a raid against his younger brother. He enlisted Ashina to help train a light cavalry unit and opened the next day's assembly by paying guards for killing Corpse Ghouls.

• Field gave Clay Pot a silver coin for making a soft bed and promised monthly rewards for outstanding work.
• Kao advised Field against granting Demihumans the chance to become Freemen, but Field said Nightfall Territory would have laws of its own.
• Field drafted plans for agriculture and summoned Ashina to discuss developing the territory.
• Field told Ashina he planned to raid his younger brother and asked her to help train a light cavalry unit using the twenty warhorses from his second elder sister.
• Field gathered his subjects the next day and began paying guards one silver coin for each Corpse Ghoul they had killed.

Field announced new rules for Nightfall Territory, offering slaves a path to freedom through work and military service while urging tolerance toward demihumans and prayers for Ashina. He recruited and organized more soldiers, then prepared to take them out to fight monsters and prove their worth.

• Field awarded the guards their rewards and announced that slaves could earn a gold coin to gain freedom through monster hunting or other work.
• Field told his subjects to set aside racial prejudice and include Ashina in their prayers to strengthen her as a Chosen One.
• Field recruited slave soldiers by requiring candidates to run five laps, selecting twenty-three recruits from those who completed the test.
• Field combined the wolf demihumans from the original guard with new recruits to form a twenty-man Raiding Cavalry unit, while the remaining soldiers formed a thirty-three-man guard.
• Kao objected to arming slaves and giving them warhorses, but Field defended the soldiers and ordered extra food before taking them to clear monsters.