Chapter Summaries

A year after Amigel founded the Goblin Empire, Fiona secretly met Jiang You and warned him that goblin Griffin Knights could threaten the Winged People’s place in the empire. She asked him to father a child with her, citing a prophecy, and proposed that the Winged People raise the griffins themselves.

• Amigel crowned himself the Goblin Empire’s first emperor, appointed wardens from other races, and rewarded the races that fought the titans.
• Amigel sent goblin grand dukes, former tribal chiefs, and young nobles to establish settlements and expand goblin territory.
• Fiona met Jiang You at night and warned him that goblin Griffin Knights could undermine the Winged People’s position.
• Fiona asked Jiang You to father her child, explaining that a prophet had foretold the human race needed his bloodline.
• Jiang You agreed on the condition that Fiona explain how she would protect the Winged People, and she said they would volunteer to raise the griffins for Amigel.

Jiang You arranged for the Winged People to support Amigel’s campaign against the Titan loyalists, then prepared to leave Proadas. After bidding farewell to Amigel, Jiang You and his companions returned to Paradise Mountain a month later.

• Fiona hurried back to the Imperial Palace, and Jiang You returned to the Winged People Embassy.
• Jiang You told Inona about his talks with Fiona and ordered preparations for his departure.
• Jiang You explained that he had sent three thousand Winged People soldiers to join the Goblin campaign against the Titan loyalists.
• Jiang You thanked Amigel, said farewell, and gave Fiona a meaningful look before leaving.
• A month later, Jiang You and his companions returned to Paradise Mountain.

Five years after the Goblin Empire’s founding, Jiang You learned that remnants of the Eaglemen Royal Court lived near Bulos City and chose to leave them alone while the Winged People developed. Ten years later, he met his fifteen-year-old human son Lionheart, who had secretly traveled to Paradise Mountain to ask Jiang You to train him as a transcendent professional.

• Inona told Jiang You that up to ten thousand Eaglemen, led by the Old Eagle King’s ninth prince, had settled in the northern Bulos Mountains and that Eaglemen visited Bulos City each year.
• Jiang You suspected the goblins were concealing their intentions, but told Inona to leave the Eaglemen alone for now and focus on developing the Winged People.
• Ten years later, Inona told Jiang You that a human boy claiming to be his son had come to see him; Jiang You initially ordered him sent away, then remembered Fiona and allowed him to come up.
• Jiang You recognized a blood connection with the blond, purple-eyed boy, and Lionheart said his mother had named him and told him Jiang You was his real father.
• Lionheart explained that he had ridden a griffin to Paradise Mountain and told Jiang You that he had come because he wanted to learn to become a transcendent professional.

Lionheart told Jiang You about his upbringing, his mother Fiona, and the journey that brought him to Paradise Mountain. Jiang You discovered Lionheart shared his talents and began passing on his legendary profession path, adapted for his son’s lack of wings.

• Lionheart recounted growing up among humans in the Human Race Tribe, where he learned to raise griffins but was forbidden from training as a Knight.
• Lionheart revealed that Fiona had told him Jiang You was his father and that she had urged him to seek Jiang You at Paradise Mountain.
• Lionheart explained that the nineteenth prince, Asa Amigel, had sent him away after making an agreement with Fiona.
• Jiang You learned why humans no longer trained as Sequence Users and tested Lionheart’s transcendent aptitude.
• Jiang You found that Lionheart possessed the same talents for radiance and thunder, then transmitted the stages of his legendary path to him.

The chapter recounted Lionheart’s rise among the humans as he patiently built strength under Goblin rule, while Jiang You expanded the Winged People’s settlements and military along the Eastern Sea Coast. It left the Winged People preparing border defenses as the Goblin Empire’s expansion drew close.

• Jiang You trained Lionheart for a year and shared stories that helped shape his ambitions, and Lionheart returned to the humans as a Thunder Wielder.
• Lionheart endured the goblin officials’ abuse, became chief of the human tribe, and used their growing population and Griffin corps to build strength while Amigel eased surveillance.
• Amigel’s age and failing health became apparent as his sons and their factions began struggling for the Emperor’s Throne.
• Jiang You developed seven Winged People cities along the Eastern Sea Coast, with the largest serving as their royal capital beneath Paradise Mountain.
• Sophia completed the Light Swordsman Hero Tier advancement path, and the Winged People expanded their classes, Heaven Corps, and ordinary army.
• Jiang You sent officials to find sites for fortified border passes as the Goblin Empire’s expansion neared the eastern Winged People villages.

The Goblin Empire flourished as it developed alchemy, while the Winged People, humans, and other races established new territories and institutions. At the empire’s zenith in year 300, a momentous event threatened to determine its future.

• Amigel expanded the Goblin Empire and established the Royal Engineering Academy as steam technology advanced.
• Jiang You named the Winged People’s eastern territory Rosendas and oversaw the growth of their cities and population.
• Lionheart became a Sacred Lion Knight, founded the human city of Rhine City, and brought Fiona home after she had spent 190 years in the palace.
• The Frost Clan migrated south to Harros, joined the Goblin Empire’s campaigns, and later founded Harros City.
• Amigel established the Royal Griffin Knight Order, whose griffins were cared for by human keepers.
• Goblin engineers developed alchemy, drawing students from across the continent, just as a momentous event arose within the empire.

Jiang You learned that Emperor Amigel had died after his seventeenth son attacked him in the Imperial Palace, and that Milan Amigel had hastily taken the throne. He heard the events that led to the fatal confrontation from Elena.

• Edward Inona reacted in shock when he heard that Amigel was dead, while Jiang You ordered Elena to explain what had happened in Proadas.
• Elena reported that rivalry between Milan Amigel and A Shou Amigel had intensified, then Alesha had failed to settle their conflict.
• Milan had abducted A Shou’s fiancée and presented her to Amigel, who took her into his harem.
• A Shou attacked Milan, and Amigel punished A Shou with fifty lashes and confinement after Milan complained.
• A Shou feigned repentance, entered the Imperial Palace, and fought a fierce battle there; Amigel was later found mortally wounded by his own Amigel’s Spear.
• Amigel died, and Milan hastily ascended the throne before his father’s coffin.

Jiang You learned that Goblin Emperor Amigel had died, but warned his Winged officials not to exploit the Goblin Empire’s apparent weakness because Great Sage Azeba and a possible hidden Demigod could still protect it. He ordered a watch on Proadas and discovered that Limiel’s family had produced three promising talents, including thirteen-year-old Evita.

• Winged officials urged Jiang You to expand their territory and join other peoples in challenging the Goblin Empire, but he said the time was wrong because the empire might still have a hidden Demigod.
• Jiang You ordered Jomora to gather news in Proadas day and night and report back.
• Jiang You learned that Sophia had gone to the Southern Fairy Forest to celebrate a Light Fairy’s fifteen-hundredth birthday and told Limiel to keep her safe.
• Wayne told Jiang You that Evita, Limiel and Sophia’s younger sister, had become a class holder at thirteen because of her talent for the light element.
• Jiang You praised Limiel’s family and remarked that three hundred years had passed since the days of his old companions.

Five princes rebelled against Milan Amigel, throwing the Goblin Empire into chaos, and the nineteenth prince asked Lionheart to support his bid for the throne. Unsure whether to risk the Human Race’s future, Lionheart traveled to the Eastern Sea Coast to seek his father’s advice.

• Several princes raised armies against Milan Amigel, drawing nobles and other races into the rebellion.
• The nineteenth prince asked Lionheart to send Human Race riders on Griffins to fight for him, promising to lift restrictions and grant them land.
• Lionheart and the Human Race elders disagreed over whether to join the rebellion, so Lionheart asked Fiona for her counsel.
• Fiona urged Lionheart to consult his father, and Lionheart set out for the Eastern Sea Coast on a Griffin.
• Twenty days later, Lionheart arrived at the Eastern Sea Coast.

Lionheart traveled to Paradise Mountain to ask Jiang You whether he should support the Nineteenth Prince's rebellion, and Jiang You changed his advice after learning Milo Azeba backed the prince. Lionheart returned to the Rhine Fief and sent his reply, as Asa Amigel raised an army and Milo led troops to support him.

• Lionheart crossed the Eastern Sea Coast, presented his Winged Jade tokens, and saw how much the Winged People’s lands had changed.
• Lionheart told Jiang You he wanted to support the Nineteenth Prince, and Jiang You warned him that the human race was too vulnerable to risk involvement.
• Jiang You read the prince’s letter and, after hearing of Milo Azeba’s close bond with him and reputation for keeping his word, urged Lionheart to offer full support.
• Jiang You promised that the Winged People would help Lionheart if he faced difficulties, and that he would intervene against a powerful opponent.
• Lionheart returned to the Rhine Fief and wrote to the Nineteenth Prince as Asa Amigel raised an army and Milo Azeba led troops in support.