Chapter Summaries

Xiluo explored the City of Freedom, learning how its diverse races and Descenders lived and worked alongside one another. After Barbara returned with the Holy Warriors, a Descender approached Xiluo and invited him to become a movie star, revealing that the city already had recording devices and theaters.

• Faer showed Xiluo and Barbara the City of Freedom's recruitment platforms, where Descenders argued with a Vampire and volunteered for a Lich's experiments and a Dark Elf's breeding work.
• Xiluo learned that the Free United Association collected compensation for deaths and changed into Dragonkin form before continuing to explore the city.
• Xiluo sampled the city's restaurants and leisure establishments with Barbara and the Holy Warriors, then sent them back when Barbara could no longer continue.
• A level 3 Human Cleric stopped Xiluo and explained that the city used Recording Devices to make movies for its theaters, inviting Xiluo to become a star.

Xiluo watched a film crew in the City of Freedom, decided to bring their filmmaking business to Niro City, and invited the Ivy Team to work for him. After Archbishop Keluōmǔ confirmed Xiluo’s status, the team agreed to follow him, and eighteen days later his treatment day arrived.

• The Descender Abu took Xiluo to watch Director A Nan’s team film a staged scene, and Xiluo learned that they made Ivy films.
• Xiluo watched a previous film by A Nan’s team and visited a cinema, then calculated that the business could earn substantial profits in Niro City.
• Xiluo invited A Nan and the Ivy Team to work for him, but they suspected he was a slave trader until Moro and Archbishop Keluōmǔ confirmed his status.
• The Ivy Team agreed to follow Xiluo to his city, and they arranged to meet at the temple entrance eighteen days later.
• Xiluo avoided gambling at the Betting Arena because powerful people were there, kept a low profile, and waited until his treatment day arrived.

Xiluo and Barbara visited Saintess Fannis at the Wealth Temple, where she offered to treat Barbara and tried to recruit Xiluo as a Divine-Chosen Dragon. Barbara’s treatment restored much of her health through a Divine Spell, though her level remained low.

• Barbara woke Xiluo, and Archbishop Keluōmǔ escorted them to meet Saintess Fannis at the temple.
• Fannis offered Xiluo a discounted treatment and a fee of 5,000 gold coins if he joined the Goddess of Wealth, but Xiluo refused to become a believer.
• Barbara offered to join instead, and Fannis used the Eye of the Goddess of Wealth to reveal that Barbara was a green dragon who had suffered eleven years as a blood dragon.
• Xiluo paid Fannis 25,500 gold coins, and she summoned the Primordial Angel Pamiel Waukeen to cast Life Regeneration on Barbara.
• Barbara returned to her dragon form with renewed strength, and Fannis warned that her bodily functions still lagged behind those of a normal dragon.

Xiluo bought the Red Thunder Mutation method from Saintess Fannis after bargaining its price down to 4,000 gold coins, then learned that carrying it out would cost far more. After Barbara tried the Dragon Soul Orb and asked Xiluo to teach her to become divinely chosen, they went to the City of Freedom’s slave market so Xiluo could recruit people for his businesses and film crew.

• Saintess Fannis offered Xiluo a book on mutating lightning organs, and Xiluo bargained her price down from 8,500 to 4,000 gold coins.
• Xiluo read that red thunder mutation required years of treatment and thousands of gold coins, leaving him determined to earn more money.
• Barbara used the Dragon Soul Orb, cleared three stages, and asked Xiluo to teach her how to become divinely chosen; he agreed to arrange it after they returned.
• Xiluo told Barbara he planned to buy slaves for the Jade Dream and his film crew, then they headed to the City of Freedom’s slave market.
• Xiluo and Barbara arrived at the crowded market, where slave owners displayed people of many races in iron cages.

Xiluo used his ability to identify powerful but undervalued Vampires and Werewolves, then bought them alongside other slaves for a total of 870 gold coins. After he arranged to leave the City of Freedom in seven days, the hidden-strength slaves plotted to escape and kill him and Barbara, and they boarded his airship with the rest of the slaves.

• Barbara suggested that Xiluo buy male Vampires and Werewolves who could create more of their kind, and Xiluo used the system to find ones whose abilities their owners had overlooked.
• Xiluo bargained down the price of a level-eight Vampire and bought about eight capable Vampires and Werewolves for roughly 300 gold coins.
• Xiluo bought other cheap slaves until he had twenty-five in total, then returned to the Temple of the Goddess of Wealth and left Barbara to watch them.
• Xiluo met with Ivy's team, which A Nan and Abu were responsible for, and agreed to leave the City of Freedom in seven days.
• The Vampires and Werewolves plotted to free themselves and kill Xiluo and Barbara, then boarded the Medium Airship with the other slaves seven days later.

Xiluo returned to Niro City with Barbara, Ivy’s filmmaking team, and the slaves, then told them about their future work. When the vampires and werewolves tried to attack him after the temple party departed, he revealed his true dragon form and stopped them, leaving Akeixi to invent an excuse for the rebellion.

• Archbishop Keluōmǔ agreed to take Xiluo and the slaves to Niro City aboard the airship, where the vampires and werewolves secretly plotted to escape and kill their masters.
• After the airship landed, Xiluo sent the temple members away and introduced himself to the slaves as Niro City’s Guardian Dragon and the Lord’s Right Hand.
• Xiluo said many of the slaves would be assigned jobs at the Jade Dream and confronted the vampires and werewolves about their powers.
• A werewolf broke his slave collar, transformed into a dire wolf, and urged the others to attack Xiluo and Barbara.
• Xiluo transformed into a huge dragon, terrifying the rebels and forcing them to deny that they had meant to attack him.
• Akeixi claimed that a made-up Mad Wolf Disease had caused his outburst and asked Xiluo to put another slave collar on him.

Xiluo returned to Niro City with Barbara, the Ivy Team, and several captured vampires and werewolves, who learned that the city was protected by multiple dragons and welcomed them warmly. As the dragons and city leaders gathered to watch a film, Abel provoked Barbara by asking whether she had challenged the Arena, and she threatened to spar instead.

• Xiluo questioned the werewolves about their supposed mad wolf disease, confirmed they could spread infection, and spared them because they were useful.
• Abu realized Xiluo was the real Lord Xiluo Utrasis, and Xiluo revealed that several other dragons lived in Niro City.
• The slaves and Ivy Team watched Niro City's people greet Xiluo affectionately and met the dragons and silver moon elves who had kept the city safe.
• Koraman mistook the newcomers for food, but Xiluo explained that the Ivy Team would make films and that the slaves had important uses.
• Xiluo met Alice and Fennis, and the group set off to watch a film while the Ivy Team explained what films were.
• Abel asked Barbara whether she had challenged the Arena, and Barbara challenged him to spar.

Xiluo built a makeshift cinema, screened films for the dragons and their companions, then began turning willing women into Vampires and Werewolves. After the first Vampire completed an Embrace and was ordered to recuperate, the next transformation began with a Werewolf infection.

• Xiluo and the dragons built a cinema and watched a short film, followed by a more explicit one that prompted Abel to mock the human actors.
• Xiluo stopped Abel's commentary and sent Alicia and Fennis to bring six willing women from the Jade Dream for the transformation process.
• One woman explained that Vampires and infected Werewolves gained longer lives and physical changes but faced restrictions such as avoiding sunlight.
• Xiluo ordered a Vampire to Embrace one of the women, who became a level-two Vampires Servant after the process.
• Xiluo learned that a Baron-level Vampire could safely perform an Embrace about once every six months and ordered the Vampires and Werewolves to recuperate while working at the Magic Charging Station.
• The transformations continued, and the next woman began a Werewolf infection.

Xiluo expanded Niro City’s businesses and opened its first cinema, where Ivy Team films unexpectedly drove a surge in Jade Dream customers. The screenings became a lucrative attraction, leaving Xiluo and the film team earning heavily as Abel watched their success.

• The newly transformed werewolves returned to Jade Capital with the other women, while Xiluo handled the lady lord and Fennis before returning to his work.
• Xiluo asked Hadien to study a Shadow Camera, assigned Tīgǔ to assist Ivy Team with filming, and had Little White Dragon Allen teach Barbara spells.
• After researching Dragon Thunder Condensation for a month, Xiluo opened the completed cinema fifteen days after his return and arranged for retainers to manage the crowds.
• Longhair, Baldy, and the female cleric watched the first film, whose provocative teacher-and-student plot sent many viewers rushing to the Jade Dream.
• Packed screenings and booming Jade Dream business brought Xiluo about 28.8 gold coins a day, while Ivy Team members also earned enough to spend lavishly.
• Abel came to see how films were made and witnessed the Ivy Team’s new wealth.

Abel persuaded Xiluo to help him make adult films, then earned a fortune starring in them and bragged to the other dragons. Koraman and Alicia discussed making films of their own, with Alicia proposing Koraman star in hers.

• Abel asked Xiluo to lend him a Shadow Camera, and Xiluo negotiated a forty-percent share of the earnings for Abel.
• After learning that producers in the City of Freedom received only thirty-five percent, Abel accepted Xiluo's offer and agreed to follow Descenders' guidance on filming.
• Two weeks later, Abel's new cinema became a hit, and he earned 14.4 gold coins in a day from the films.
• Abel bragged about his earnings to Allen and Barbara, then taunted Koraman and Alicia until Koraman lunged at him and Alicia restrained Koraman.
• Alicia told Koraman they could make films too, proposing that she direct and Koraman star, and Koraman worried that the role would disgrace him.

Xiluo reviewed Niro City’s growing prosperity, counted his vast wealth, and reached level 17 before visiting the pregnant Alice. He then flew out to meet Allen and Barbara, while Alice was expected to give birth in about a week.

• Koraman stayed behind while Alicia went alone to borrow a Shadow Camera, and a third cinema opened in Niro City, dividing the audience and reducing the producers’ earnings.
• Baili'er warned Xiluo that Crown Prince William had disappeared from the Royal Capital, but Xiluo dismissed the warning as unimportant.
• After a year and three months, Xiluo counted his growing income and found that he had 67,513 gold coins, while Niro City’s population had reached 360,000.
• Xiluo reviewed his level 17 attributes and his powerful Dragon Thunder · Extreme spell, then stored his gold and left the treasury.
• Xiluo visited Alice, whose dragon’s child was due in about a week, and sensed the lively baby by licking her belly.
• Xiluo flew from the castle and met Allen and Barbara, who had both grown stronger over the past year and three months.

Xiluo encouraged Allen after he failed to defeat the Ice Crystal Dragon in the Dragon Soul Arena, then bought 65,000 gold coins’ worth of materials and swallowed them to strengthen himself. Alicia, Koraman, and Abel watched the tornado caused by his absorption until it faded and Xiluo opened his eyes.

• Allen borrowed the Dragon Soul Orb but failed again to defeat the Ice Crystal Dragon, while Xiluo explained that he was now facing an Ancestral Extreme Thunder Overlord Dragon in the arena.
• Xiluo told Allen to act in films and work at a magic charging station so he could earn gold and raise his bloodline concentration; Allen agreed and flew off.
• Barbara wondered how to remain valuable to Xiluo as she compared herself with the talented young dragons.
• Xiluo collected Tornado Pearls and thunder-congealing stones worth 65,000 gold coins from Bishop Xiwel at the Temple of the Goddess of Wealth.
• Xiluo flew outside the city and swallowed the Tornado Pearls, unleashing a powerful wind that formed a towering tornado around him.
• Abel spotted the tornado and summoned Alicia and Koraman; the three young dragons flew over and waited until the tornado faded and Xiluo opened his eyes.

After his Storm Dragon bloodline rose above 70%, Xiluo tested his newly strengthened storm abilities and discovered that his flight speed had reached about 450 kilometers per hour. He left the dragon whelps behind and continued flying east, eager to test his growing speed.

• Xiluo examined Abel, Koraman, and Alicia, explained that his bloodline power had grown, and demonstrated his ability to create several tornadoes.
• Xiluo tested his storm breath, which carved a deep trench through the ground, while the three dragon whelps dodged out of its path.
• Koraman and Alicia left after arguing with Abel, who bragged about his Dragonbeast offspring and his progress toward earning ten thousand gold coins.
• Xiluo sent Abel away, flew into the sky, and headed east to test his speed.
• Xiluo overtook a flock of Sawtooth Geese and estimated that he was flying at about 450 kilometers per hour.

Xiluo reached 70% in three mutated bloodlines, tested his enhanced thunder attack, and lost again to the Young Ancestor Extreme Thunder Overlord Dragon. Meanwhile, Pake and five companions fled the burning Great Death Forest, but eight Griffins attacked them from above.

• Xiluo used three spells to reach 600 kilometers per hour, then swallowed a Thunder-Congealing Stone and raised his Extreme Thunder Dragon bloodline to 70.1%.
• Xiluo created and tested [Dragon Thunder · Extreme], destroying a pack of jackals with a lightning blast that he estimated was about 40% stronger than before.
• Xiluo fought the Young Ancestor Extreme Thunder Overlord Dragon in the Arena for eighty minutes and lost again, discovering that it could turn parts of its body into lightning.
• Pake and five loyal companions hid in a hollow tree while Griffins searched overhead, and Pake vowed to avenge his family after Marquis Xikalei's forces killed them.
• When Xikalei's forces set the Great Death Forest ablaze, Pake's group fled toward the Gerlo Kingdom through the fleeing animals.
• Eight Griffins dived at Pake and his companions, whose pursuers raised crossbows and fired.

Pake and his companions escaped the burning Great Death Forest while griffin knights pursued them, and they split up to evade the Xikalei Family. The resulting beast tide destroyed Baron Sabo’s town, forcing the fleeing baron to join a Knight and Spellcaster bound for Niro City.

• Fuluwa held off the griffin knights while Pake’s Spellcaster companion used a spell to send nearby birds attacking them, giving the others time to escape the Great Death Forest.
• After reaching the grassland, Pake exchanged armor with Fawa, and the group split into pairs and fled in different directions.
• A watchtower soldier spotted the forest fire and sounded the alarm, and Baron Sabo learned that it had triggered a beast tide.
• Baron Sabo fled with many townspeople, while the middle-aged Knight stayed behind with nearly a hundred soldiers to defend the town.
• A giant bear smashed through the town’s defenses, and the beast tide overran the settlement.
• Baron Sabo met a Knight and Spellcaster riding a bear-horse-like magical beast, and they agreed to travel together toward Niro City.

Baron Sabo warned Niro City that a beast tide was approaching, but the young dragons Alicia and Koraman flew out to face it without alerting Xiluo. Pake and Rèla'er watched the dragons attack the beasts, then learned Alicia wanted the creatures alive for their meat.

• Baron Sabo reached Niro City and warned its subjects that a fire in the Great Death Forest had driven a beast tide toward the city.
• Alicia and Koraman heard the warning, decided the beasts could earn them money, and flew to meet the tide.
• Alicia and Koraman dismissed Sabo's warning and left to fight the approaching beasts, while Pake and Rèla'er slipped away and followed the soldiers toward the city's edge.
• A Boar-Pigfolk led about five hundred soldiers out of Niro City to confront the beast tide, while Sabo went into the Inner City.
• Alicia and Koraman attacked the beasts from the air, and Pake and Rèla'er watched Alicia scold Koraman for poisoning creatures whose meat she wanted to sell.

Pake and Rèla'er witnessed Xiluo's forces crush a beast tide and turn it into a profitable haul. Xiluo divided the spoils between Alicia and Koraman and the soldiers, while Abel began questioning why the two green dragons had been in the southern city when the tide arrived.

• Alicia and Koraman's dragons and soldiers slaughtered the beasts, then captured surviving magical beasts for sale.
• Pake watched Steel Fang and the other soldiers fight with extraordinary strength as the beast tide collapsed.
• Xiluo arrived, inspected his dragon-transformed troops, and agreed that Alicia and Koraman could keep eighty percent of the spoils while the soldiers shared the rest.
• Alicia pleaded with Xiluo for the spoils, and the Green Dragon Whelp blamed himself for their debts and wondered whether he should work harder to repay them.
• Xiluo reproached Alicia and Koraman for not notifying him about the beast tide and considered building another city wall around the outer city.
• Abel and Barbara arrived, envied the haul, and Abel demanded to know why Alicia and Koraman had been in the southern city.

Alicia and Koraman sold the beast-tide spoils, and Barbara blackmailed Koraman over his secret cinema business. Meanwhile, Pake and Rèla'er hid in Niro City, but the Xikalei Family’s pursuers arrived and began searching the outer city, prompting Human Soldiers to approach.

• Alicia and Koraman sold beasts and earned gold, while Koraman’s fourth Divine Trial raised him to Elite-+.
• Barbara discovered Koraman’s secret and demanded a thousand gold coins to keep it from Abel; Koraman agreed to pay.
• Pake and Rèla'er discussed hiding in Niro City and feared the Xikalei Family would pursue them for the stolen secret treasure.
• Kasluo and Mage Decker arrived in Niro City with black-armored knights and used the Blood-Sucking Worm to search for Pake.
• Kasluo’s knights barged into homes and assaulted Subjects while searching, and Pake and Rèla'er watched from hiding.
• A group of Human Soldiers approached the search party.

Xiluo confronted the Ulaluo Kingdom’s Black-armored Knights after they broke into Niro City homes searching for a fugitive, demanding compensation for the subjects they disturbed. The dispute turned into a fight when Allen attacked Kasluo, who emerged from a ruined house unharmed and prepared to unleash the Black-armored Knights’ full power.

• Kasluo identified himself as an Enforcement Knight of the Xikalei Family and agreed to wait while Niro City’s soldiers summoned their lord, while Pake and Rèla’er worried that they could not escape the Blood-Sucking Worm’s detection.
• Xiluo and Allen arrived over Niro City, and Xiluo introduced himself as the city’s Guardian Dragon and the lord’s representative.
• Kasluo asked Xiluo to cooperate in capturing a fugitive, but Xiluo condemned the Knights for breaking into homes and demanded twenty silver coins for every disturbed subject.
• Kasluo threatened Xiluo with the Xikalei Family’s Hero Realm warriors, and Allen responded by attacking the Knights with icy breath and a Sonic Boom Spell.
• Kasluo charged Xiluo, but Allen intercepted him and struck him with an ice-coated claw, sending him through a house.
• Kasluo emerged unharmed and declared that he would show Xiluo the Black-armored Knights’ true power.

Xiluo and Allen defeated the black-armored knights who had attacked Niro City, while the enemy captain tried and failed to escape. Xiluo left the captured men stripped of their equipment, and the black-robed spellcaster escaped by teleportation.

• Allen dispelled Captain Kasluo’s divine and magical enhancements, then fought him with spells and claws while the black-robed spellcaster supported him.
• When the soldiers were overwhelmed, Xiluo summoned his elemental creatures, which defeated the other black-armored knights.
• Xiluo ordered his soldiers to strip the defeated knights and arrange to sell their equipment to compensate Niro City’s subjects.
• Allen weakened Captain Kasluo with the Reaper’s power, but Kasluo summoned a bronze golem and tried to escape with a Teleportation Scroll.
• Xiluo stopped Kasluo’s teleportation while the black-robed spellcaster escaped, and Allen and the elementals subdued the captain before the soldiers stripped off his equipment.