Recaps

Xiluo persuaded the elves to take pride in all honest work and opened the Jade Dream, a luxury service establishment staffed by Nature Elves. Its success attracted customers and immigrants to Niro City, and three years passed amid the city’s rapid growth.

• Xiluo took the elves to the Greatsword, where they tried its services and learned how much customers valued its workers.
• Xiluo proposed opening a similar establishment and argued that every profession was worthy; Fennis rallied the elves to choose work that suited them.
• The elves joined Niro City’s Magic Charging Stations, drawing so many visitors that Xiluo opened more stations and daily Magic Infusions neared two thousand.
• Two months later, Xiluo opened the Jade Dream, which became popular despite charging forty silver coins per service and earned about forty gold coins a day after its opening.
• The Jade Dream helped attract immigrants and accelerate Niro City’s growth, and three years passed.

Abel argued with Koraman over a vine lion, and Xiluo settled the dispute while Koraman received a raise. After Alicia and the dragons left, Xiluo spent the evening with Fennis, then reassured Katelin’s assassin that he planned to bring the elves under his control.

• Abel denied stealing Koraman’s vine lion, and Alicia rejected it as a birthday gift after suspecting it had been violated.
• Koraman demanded compensation, so Xiluo promised to deduct 20 gold coins from Abel’s share and raised Koraman’s annual salary to 120 gold coins.
• Alicia tried to discuss the Divine Trial with Xiluo, but he returned inside with Fennis, leaving her and Koraman to fly away.
• Xiluo and Fennis discussed Jade Dream’s revenue, the elves’ debt, and the births of half-elves before going to the bedroom together.
• A lizardfolk assassin questioned Xiluo on Katelin’s behalf, and Xiluo claimed he intended to bring the elves under his control rather than destroy them.

Eighteen-year-old Xiluo checked on Allen, whose frost and withering powers were nearing full control, then reviewed Niro City’s growth and his own earnings and planned to strengthen his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline. After summoning the Sea Folk Three Sisters, he saw Anali’s forces fighting a Tidal Titan who demanded that they hand something over.

• Xiluo reassured Allen that the Reaper’s withering power could not seriously harm him and encouraged him to keep mastering it alongside his frost power.
• Alice told Xiluo that Niro City had grown to 260,000–270,000 residents and earned 9,600 gold coins in treasury revenue that year.
• Xiluo calculated that he had earned about 54,000 gold coins over three years and reached level 16, with his mutated bloodlines strengthened by more than 42,000 gold coins’ worth of investment.
• Xiluo blew the Spirit-Summoning Conch near the Tate Mountain Range to summon the Sea Folk Three Sisters.
• Anali’s forces battled a Tidal Titan and his followers, while the Titan demanded that the merfolk hand over an unnamed object and drove his trident into Abu’s forehead.

Anali summoned Xiluo to help her Sea Folk fight a Tidal Titan, and Xiluo killed an attacking tidal giant with a single lightning strike. As Xiluo weighed Anali’s promised reward against the Titan’s counteroffer, the Titan began to reveal why he was attacking the Sea Folk.

• Anali sent Mobu to fetch Xiluo, hoping to turn the dragon against the Tidal Titan and recover the clan’s Sacred Artifact.
• Xiluo followed a fishman to the battlefield after considering the danger and the value of maintaining his relationship with the Sea Folk.
• Xiluo saw the level 18 Tidal Titan and doubted he could defeat it, but he killed a level 13 tidal giant with one lightning attack and ate its heart.
• Anali offered Xiluo Conch Stone worth ten thousand Gold Coins to help kill the Tidal Titan, who countered with treasure worth fifteen thousand Gold Coins if Xiluo stayed out of the fight.
• Xiluo rejected the Titan’s offer and moved to join Anali, but the Titan asked whether Xiluo knew why he was attacking the Sea Folk, prompting Anali to warn him not to listen.

Xiluo learned that the merfolk sisters possessed a Sea God Orchid and agreed to help them fight the Tidal Titan and his tidal giants in exchange for the orchid and the return of Eternal Love. Xueli completed a contract and invoked the Goddess of Wealth to witness it, and a voice asked Xiluo whether he agreed.

• The Tidal Titan revealed that the merfolk had a Sea God Orchid, and Xiluo considered how it might help him gain an Ancient Dragon bloodline.
• Xiluo judged that the Tidal Titan was telling the truth, but hesitated to aid either side as the giants increasingly overwhelmed the merfolk.
• Anali admitted that her sisters had found the orchid and offered it to Xiluo if he helped defeat the Tidal Titan; she later proposed returning Eternal Love in exchange for his help.
• Xiluo agreed to help kill the tidal giants, while Xueli swam to him to prepare a contract.
• Xueli wrote an agreement requiring Xiluo to kill the Tidal Titan or the tidal giants and return Eternal Love, in return for the merfolk giving him the Sea God Orchid.
• Xueli offered one hundred gold coins to the Goddess of Wealth as a witnessing fee, and a divine voice asked Xiluo whether he accepted the contract.

After sealing a wealth-bound contract with Xiluo, the merfolk sisters pursued the retreating Tidal Giants while Xiluo hunted them down. He used Eternal Love’s eighth-tier spell, Whirlpool Storm, to trap and kill most of the giants, then finished off the survivors as the chapter ended with his eyes lighting up.

• Xiluo and the three merfolk sisters confirmed the contract witnessed by the God of Wealth, and the Tidal Titan Holgar ordered the giants to retreat.
• Xiluo and the merfolk pursued the fleeing giants, while Xiluo’s lightning paralyzed the shrimp soldiers and crab monsters in his path.
• Anali directed the Sea Folk to pursue Holgar and leave the other giants to Xiluo, who caught and killed the first fleeing giants.
• When the remaining giants scattered, Xiluo used Eternal Love to cast the eighth-tier spell Whirlpool Storm, trapping them in a massive underwater tornado.
• After the storm subsided, Xiluo identified surviving giants and killed them, including one who tried to ambush him; then his eyes suddenly lit up.

Xiluo and Xueli pursued the Tidal Titan to his lair after defeating the Giants guarding the area. There, Xiluo claimed the cavern’s treasures and activated a mysterious gray bead, which made everything around him disappear.

• Xiluo persuaded Xueli to lead him and the Sea Folk to the Tidal Titan’s lair, claiming they should eliminate the Titan’s remaining forces.
• At the Giants’ home, Xiluo broke all four limbs of one Giant, killed most of the twelve Giants, and learned that the captive would not reveal the lair’s location.
• Xiluo asked Xueli and the Fishmen to search the coral reefs until they found a huge cavern that appeared to be the Tidal Titan’s lair.
• Xueli offered the cavern’s treasures to Xiluo as thanks, and he accepted before inspecting the weapons, armor, and ores.
• Xiluo found a dusty gray bead, channeled magic power into it, and watched everything around him vanish in a flash of white light.

Xiluo was transported to a sealed arena where he fought a succession of young chromatic and mutated dragons that vanished into light when defeated. He suspected the arena was the legendary Dragon Soul Arena and realized its opponents were exposing his lack of combat technique, though he still did not know how to leave.

• Xiluo woke in an empty arena, defeated a young white dragon, and watched it vanish into light before a young black dragon appeared.
• Xiluo discovered an invisible barrier blocked escape, defeated the black dragon, and then fought a young green dragon and other chromatic dragons, including a red dragon.
• After the five chromatic dragon types vanished, Xiluo recognized clues suggesting the arena was the legendary Dragon Soul Arena, where dragons tested themselves against copies of predecessors.
• Xiluo defeated a young mutated black dragon and a young nature green dragon, then fought a young red thunder dragon and a young ice crystal dragon.
• Xiluo struggled against a young refining fire dragon despite winning, recognized that his opponents used their abilities and combat techniques more skillfully than he did, and wondered if the arena was meant to train later generations.

Xiluo fought an ancestral red dragon to the limit and then lost to an ancestral Netherthunder Dragon in the Dragon Soul Arena. After clearing the eleventh stage and narrowly losing the twelfth, he received a choice of rewards and considered which one to take.

• Xiluo defeated the Young Ancestral Red Dragon after a prolonged battle that exposed his opponent's superior close-combat skill and Dragon Combat Techniques.
• Xiluo faced the Young Ancestral Netherthunder Dragon, whose lightning absorption and combat skills countered his abilities, and was killed after half an hour.
• The Dragon Soul Arena announced that Xiluo had cleared the eleventh stage and narrowly lost the twelfth, naming him the most outstanding dragon of the new generation in fifty years.
• The arena offered Xiluo a choice among Dragon Combat Techniques, Dragon Spells, and becoming an Ancient Dragon's follower.
• Xiluo wondered how the arena judged his potential and considered which reward to choose.

Koraman emerged from the Dragon Soul Arena boasting that he had defeated every kind of Chromatic Dragon, while Xiluo revealed he had cleared eleven stages and earned dragon spells. Xiluo then took Koraman and Alicia to meet Fennis, who agreed to share the elves’ spells, and her invitation for Xiluo to visit at night left the other dragons with their own assumptions.

• Koraman fought through the Dragon Soul Arena, defeated several Chromatic Dragons, then lost to a powerful Black Dragon and blamed Dragon Combat Techniques for his defeat.
• Koraman told Alicia he had beaten every Chromatic Dragon and earned praise from the ancestors, but Xiluo revealed that he had cleared eleven stages and received dragon spells as a reward.
• Alicia eagerly wanted to enter the arena herself, but Xiluo explained that the Dragon Soul Orb could only be used once a day and led them to seek spells from Fennis.
• Xiluo, Koraman, and Alicia found Fennis practicing archery at the military camp, where Xiluo praised her marksmanship and asked about the elves’ spells.
• Fennis agreed to share the elves’ spells, explaining that they were mostly nature and transmutation spells up to the sixth tier and would need adjustment for other races.
• Fennis invited Xiluo to visit her at night to discuss their plans, and Koraman and Alicia interpreted the invitation as a serious duty for their leader.

Xiluo arranged spell lessons for the young dragons and introduced them to the Dragon Soul Orb, which let them fight ancestral dragons in an arena. Alicia used the orb and claimed she cleared eight rounds, though Xiluo suspected she was hiding how far she had really gotten.

• Xiluo gathered elf spellcasters and the dragon whelps for lessons, and persuaded the reluctant Abel to attend.
• Alicia praised Xiluo for staying up late with Fennis, and Xiluo arrived at the military camp carrying Fennis.
• Alicia asked Xiluo for the Dragon Soul Orb, and he gave her the first chance to use it after Gordon and Alicia argued over their turns.
• Alicia returned from the arena claiming she had cleared eight rounds and lost to a Steel Red Dragon after running out of magic.
• Xiluo suspected Alicia had lied about her result, but he kept quiet as Koraman praised her.

Gordon cleared nine stages in the Dragon Soul Arena, while Allen cleared eight and Abel and Koraman cleared five each. After two months of studying and training, Xiluo still lost to the Nether Thunder Dragon, and a Blue Dragon arrived to tell him and Allen that his first child had been born.

• Gordon cleared nine stages, earned Dragon Combat Techniques, and challenged Xiluo to a contest against the dragons who had defeated them.
• Xiluo revealed that the ancestors had judged him the most outstanding Chromatic Dragon of the past fifty years and said he had the potential to become Legendary upon reaching adulthood.
• Allen cleared eight stages and received a prediction that he could become Legendary if he survived his growth, while Abel cleared five stages, matching Koraman.
• Xiluo and the other dragons studied and trained for two months, and Xiluo mastered Dragon Thunderclaw but still lost to the Nether Thunder Dragon after a prolonged battle.
• A Blue Dragon flew to Xiluo and Allen and announced that his first child had been born.

Abel’s Iron Armor Beast gave birth to two dragonbeasts, whom the dragons named Iron Armor Blue Dragon Beasts. The news spread through Niro City, where residents speculated about the offspring and some women set out to approach Abel.

• Abel brought Xiluo and Allen to see the two newborn dragonbeasts, whose mother was weak after giving birth.
• Gordon mocked the offspring, but Xiluo defended them and warned that they would need training to obey Abel.
• Xiluo proposed the name Iron Armor Blue Dragon Beast, which Abel and the others accepted, and the system recognized the name.
• Abel revealed that he planned to seek advice from elven druids so he could train the dragonbeasts and raise hundreds or thousands of offspring.
• Word of Abel’s children spread across Niro City, where residents discussed the dragonbeasts and some women decided to visit Abel.

After Abel fathered children with a crowd of human women, merchants offered him gold to sire more offspring, and he accepted a per-attempt arrangement. The chapter ended with Xiluo hearing reports of Abel’s activities while he continued building Dragon Thunderstorm.

• A crowd of women asked Abel whether he was interested in human women, and he agreed to mate with them if their children would belong to him and live in Niro City.
• After several hours, the women left satisfied, and Abel arranged accommodation for two women who had received his essence.
• The women spread word of their encounter, prompting merchants to offer Abel gold for impregnating women they supplied.
• Abel negotiated a fee of five gold coins per attempt and agreed to begin the next day, while Koraman angrily rejected a similar offer.
• Xiluo heard his subordinates’ reports about Abel, leaving him and the Little White Dragon dumbfounded.

Xiluo and Alice announced that they were together and expecting a child, prompting Alicia and Allen to confront Xiluo. Gordon convinced them that Xiluo’s relationship with Alice was a calculated way to control the city lord, and Xiluo praised his explanation.

• Xiluo worried about Alice’s pregnancy and agreed that she should announce their relationship to Niro City.
• Alice’s announcement that she was pregnant with Xiluo’s child was met with congratulations from the city’s subjects.
• Alicia learned of the pregnancy, then found Allen and discovered that he had not known about it either.
• Alicia and Allen searched for Xiluo and found him exercising with Gordon at the military camp.
• When Alicia challenged Xiluo about his relationship with Alice, Gordon claimed it was a strategy to control her, and Xiluo praised Gordon’s explanation.

In the Gerlo Kingdom, Prince William and Old Buck continued draining a captive green dragon to strengthen William and planned to capture another dragon. In Niro City, Abel mistook the disguised necromancer Crasson Meister for a magical dog and carried him off, leaving Crasson terrified of Abel’s intentions.

• Prince William complained that the captive green dragon’s blood was nearly depleted and demanded that Old Buck act against a weak dragon; Old Buck agreed after William promised him two thousand gold coins.
• The wounded green dragon awoke after William and Old Buck left, lamented her captivity, and hoped the Metal Dragons Clan might rescue her.
• More than ten days later, an unidentified man chose Abel as his next target, while Abel bought vitality potions at a shop in Niro City.
• Abel spotted a black-and-white dog leaking potent magic power and charged after it, unaware that it was Crasson Meister in a female dog’s body.
• Abel seized Crasson and flew away, while Crasson feared Abel had discovered him and suspected the blue dragon intended to mate with him.

Kelason was abducted by the Blue Dragon Abel, then witnessed a Spellcaster use a Dream God Potion and a Shrink Spell in an attempt to capture the sleeping dragon. Kelason raised the alarm and escaped, but Koraman grabbed him and flew with Alicia toward the burning beast pens.

• Abel brought Kelason to the beast pens, bound him with vines, and left him to watch while he mated with a Vine Lion.
• Kelason detected a Dream God Potion, protected himself with spells, and watched a Spellcaster enter and shrink the sleeping Abel.
• The Spellcaster attacked Kelason, so Kelason escaped and barked loudly to alert the guards.
• The Spellcaster summoned Bronze Golems to kill the guards while he continued shrinking Abel.
• Kelason fled into the trees, where Koraman seized him after mistaking him for the source of the disturbance.
• Alicia spotted the fire at the beast pens and flew there, while Koraman carried Kelason after her.

A Spellcaster tried to teleport away with the shrunken Blue Dragon Wyrmling, but Koraman’s crash destroyed the array and Alicia’s pursuit slowed his escape. Xiluo arrived as Gordon Kenneth and the other dragons closed in, leaving the Spellcaster facing the gathered dragons.

• Alicia attacked the bronze golems while the Spellcaster finished shrinking the Blue Dragon Wyrmling and began inscribing a Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Koraman crashed through the beast pens with Kelason, destroying the array and crushing a Vine Lion while the Spellcaster shielded himself and the Blue Dragon Wyrmling.
• The Spellcaster injured Koraman and fled with the Blue Dragon Wyrmling, but Alicia pursued him with spells and vines while Gordon Kenneth answered her call for help.
• The Spellcaster threatened to kill the Blue Dragon Wyrmling, but Gordon Kenneth charged anyway, and an unseen water stream severed the magic power carrying the wyrmling.
• Xiluo arrived, identified the intruder as a level 16 elite Human Spellcaster, and faced him while Alicia and Gordon Kenneth gathered nearby.

Xiluo pursued the spellcaster through repeated teleportations, exposed him as Master Buck, and overwhelmed him with help from elemental creatures and the other dragons. Buck revealed that Prince William had captured Lady Barbara to create a Dragonblood Warrior, so Xiluo spared him for now and took him prisoner.

• The spellcaster used a random Teleportation Scroll to escape, but Xiluo tracked him down and attacked him after each of his repeated teleports.
• After Buck’s Shapechange failed, Xiluo recognized him as Master Buck and summoned water and lightning elementals to join the assault.
• Buck claimed he had come on Prince William’s orders and revealed that William was a Dragonblood Warrior who had captured Lady Barbara for her dragon blood.
• The Red Dragon Whelp stopped attacking when Buck said Barbara was still alive, and Xiluo ordered the others to hold their fire.
• Xiluo took Buck prisoner, deciding to spare him so the dragons could learn more and potentially rescue Lady Barbara.

Xiluo and the other dragons dealt with the aftermath of the failed abduction and learned that Crown Prince William had targeted Abel to create a blood dragon. After hearing how Kelason saved Abel, the dragons praised the dog, while Kelason dreaded being kept as Abel’s favorite magical beast.

• Xiluo warned Old Buck not to make trouble, then joined the Red Dragon Whelp and Alicia in subduing the golems and capturing Old Buck’s former property.
• Xiluo noticed Kelason’s unusual spellcaster status and learned that the dog’s barking had alerted Koraman and Alicia to Abel’s abduction.
• Koraman woke Abel by repeatedly slapping him, and Xiluo revealed that he had ordered the beating because Abel had nearly been captured.
• Xiluo stopped Abel from biting Old Buck and explained that Crown Prince William had sent the spellcaster to turn Abel into a blood dragon, while Lady Barbara remained in William’s hands.
• Xiluo ordered the guards to secure the area and made Abel pay death benefits, then the dragons heard Old Buck’s account and praised Kelason for saving Abel.

Xiluo’s group debated how to rescue Lady Barbara while refusing to trust Old Buck, and Kelason was exposed as an intelligent spellcaster and shackled. The chapter ended with Xiluo asking Fennis whether she could contact the Gold Dragon and Silver Dragon who had attacked Green Forest.

• Alicia and Abel argued over who would keep Kelason until Xiluo pointed out the dog’s unusual spellcasting and intelligence.
• Kelason invented a story about the Intelligent Dogs, but Xiluo ordered him to stay in Niro City and teach spells, then had him bound with Magic-Suppressing Shackles.
• Xiluo ordered Old Buck confined and sent soldiers to obtain shackles capable of restraining a Hero Realm spellcaster, despite Old Buck’s warning that he was needed to navigate William’s underground base.
• The dragons rejected a frontal assault on the Gerlo Kingdom, and Xiluo explained that rescuing Lady Barbara had to avoid exposing Niro City or relying on the unity of the Chromatic Dragons.
• Fennis arrived and offered help, prompting Xiluo to ask whether she could contact the Gold Dragon and Silver Dragon who had attacked Green Forest.

Xiluo arranged for Depu to hire a guild in Seven Waters City to spread news that Crown Prince William was a Dragonblood Warrior who had captured a metal dragon. The rumor reached two silver-haired dragons, who flew out to investigate and demand answers from the Gerlo Kingdom if it proved true.

• Fennis told Xiluo that Christo had left the region and Trixie was staying in Seven Waters City.
• Xiluo said he planned to use the metal dragons against William, then had Old Buck bound with high-grade magic-suppressing shackles.
• Xiluo sent Depu to Blue Star, where Depu hired the Legendary Guild to carry out the plan for a large payment.
• Mora told tavern patrons in Seven Waters City that William was a Dragonblood Warrior who had captured a metal dragon, and the news spread through the city.
• Two silver-haired elves discussed the rumor, recognized that the captured Blood Dragon might be one of their Dragon Kin, and flew out to investigate.

Xiluo used the chaos caused by a Quicksilver Dragon’s attack on Prince William to break into William’s estate and find the Underground Chamber. He reached the imprisoned, emaciated Barbara and revealed himself to her.

• A Quicksilver Dragon and a Silver Dragon confronted William in his estate, accusing him of becoming a Dragonblood Warrior and attacking him.
• William claimed the dragon blood came from an evil Green Dragon, then fled through the Inner City as the dragons pursued him.
• Xiluo entered William’s villa, killed two guards, and located a hidden passage beneath the floor.
• Xiluo destroyed the passage’s traps with his Lightning Storm Breath and reached Barbara’s altar.
• Xiluo stopped his breath and told the weakened Barbara that he had come for her.

Xiluo rescued Barbara from captivity, freed her from the Magic-Suppressing Shackles and Steel Pillars, and carried her out of the manor. He brought her to Niro City, where he told her the human city was his territory and that she had nothing to fear.

• Xiluo revealed his identity to Barbara, gave her the Vitality Orb, and explained that he had captured the spellcaster and lured away the Dragonblood Warrior.
• Xiluo transformed into his enormous true form and snapped Barbara’s Magic-Suppressing Shackles with his strength.
• Xiluo used healing spells while removing the Steel Pillars from Barbara, who endured the pain and survived in an extremely weakened state.
• Barbara changed into human form, and Xiluo carried her through the tunnel and out of the manor before escaping the city by carriage and flight.
• Xiluo returned to Niro City at midnight with Barbara, who woke as he descended and feared he had brought her to another human settlement.
• Xiluo told Barbara that Niro City was his territory and a city of dragons, where she had nothing to fear.

Xiluo brought Barbara back to Grassland, where Alicia healed her and the dragons reunited with their former caretaker. As Barbara learned how powerful the dragons had become, she noticed Gordon seemed smaller than Xiluo, leaving Gordon astonished.

• Xiluo explained to Barbara that Niro City supported him willingly and that its current female lord was carrying his child.
• Xiluo brought Barbara to Grassland, where Alicia recognized her and used divine spells to heal her.
• Xiluo asked the dragons to gather quietly and keep Barbara's return secret, and Barbara adopted the name Ms. Gree.
• Barbara greeted Allen, Abel, Koraman, and the others, and learned that nearly all of them were Divine-Chosen Dragons with extraordinary powers.
• Barbara praised Gordon's build, but Gordon insisted he was bigger than Xiluo and ran over to compare their sizes.