Chapter Summaries

Xiluo secured the nobles’ agreement to accept the Niro Garrison in their territories and sold them the Legendary Frost Titan’s flesh for a large profit. He then offered the Dragons a chance to serve as garrisons for double pay, and they eagerly volunteered.

• Marquis Dorian and Xiluo pressured Viscount Paul and the other nobles until the King endorsed the Niro Garrison protecting Gerlo’s territories.
• Marquis Dorian demanded that the nobles pay for the garrison, while Xiluo offered specialists to help increase their incomes, persuading them to agree.
• Xiluo sold Titan flesh to the King, nobles, and Knights for five gold coins per pound, earning one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.
• After the nobles left, Xiluo refused to share the proceeds with the Dragons and offered them paid garrison posts in other territories.
• The Dragons who worked alongside Abel eagerly volunteered after Xiluo promised them double salaries.

Xiluo arranged for dragons to serve as garrison troops across the kingdom, persuading Alicia’s followers to go by promising they could continue their breeding work. After the noble lords departed with their assignments, Xiluo sold titan flesh and calculated that he had 950,000 gold coins to spend.

• Abel objected to losing his followers, but Xiluo told him he could keep them in Niro City only if he paid their garrison fees himself.
• Xiluo assigned dragons, soldiers, and Descenders to the noble lords’ garrisons, and he persuaded Alicia’s followers to accept their postings while reminding them to keep paying her share.
• Koraman celebrated the prospect of being alone with Alicia, while Alicia reminded her followers that their contracts remained in force and they had to return to Niro City each year.
• The noble lords left with their assigned garrison troops, and news spread that the king had named Xiluo Dragon Guardian of the Realm and an Honorary Marquis.
• Xiluo sold 60,000 pounds of titan flesh for 300,000 gold coins, bringing his total funds to 950,000 gold coins.

Xiluo repaid part of his debts to the young dragons and helped them choose mutated bloodlines. After Xilian left for Dragon Island, King Rovori Gerlo returned to the capital and declared Xiluo the nation's guardian dragon, unlocking a new achievement for him while he slept.

• Xiluo summoned Allen, Abel, Alicia, Koraman, and Xilian, then explained that he would repay some of their debts so they could obtain mutated bloodlines.
• Xilian agreed to return to Dragon Island to choose a silver dragon bloodline, while Xiluo discussed white and green dragon mutations with No. 4.
• Allen chose the Torrent Dragon mutation, Alicia chose the Poison Demon Dragon, and Abel accepted Xiluo's Thunderclap Dragon method.
• Xiluo bought the Torrent Dragon and Poison Demon Dragon methods from No. 4 and repaid gold coins to the dragons, leaving 590,000 coins and 1.67 million in debt.
• Xilian departed for Dragon Island, and King Rovori Gerlo returned to the capital and announced Xiluo as the nation's guardian dragon.
• Xiluo unlocked a new achievement in his sleep.

Xiluo’s forces reached the cities of Gerlo, where Cedric Byrne became the guardian of a city and found a way to profit by offering dragon-blooded offspring to wealthy merchants. As Xiluo’s influence and wealth grew, he consulted Xiwel about developing his blue dragon bloodline and was warned to watch the Ulaluo Kingdom.

• Xiluo decided not to spend his achievement points yet, while the Niro Garrison followed the noble lords back to their territories.
• Cedric Byrne and two hundred soldiers arrived in Marquis Calvin’s city, where the townspeople welcomed them as protectors serving Xiluo.
• Cedric offered the merchant Seris dragon-essence treatments for his offspring, negotiated a price of four gold coins per attempt, and left after making eight gold coins.
• Xiluo’s experts and trading company helped cities develop, and the King of Gerlo rewarded him with 300,000 gold coins, bringing his reserves to 990,000.
• Xiluo asked Xiwel about methods and resources for developing his mutated blue dragon bloodline, and she advised him to be wary of the Ulaluo Kingdom.

Four years after tensions rose on Babari Island, a beleaguered nature-elf community on Sax Island faced relentless attacks from regenerating barbarians and beasts and sent messengers to seek help. Visi and Aili escaped an Arrow Shark ambush and continued toward Babari Island to find Sister Fennis Emerald Star.

• The King of Ularuo feared Xiluo Utrasis’s growing power and urged officials to persuade Sophia to join forces against him.
• Four years passed as Gerlo and Niro City flourished while the surrounding kingdoms remained wary.
• On Sax Island, nature elves led by Hilda fought off another attack but faced dwindling numbers and enemies with powerful regeneration.
• Hilda agreed to put aside the elves’ pride and send messengers to request reinforcements from their branch clans and parent clan.
• Arrow Sharks attacked the elf messengers at sea, and Lamos died while helping the others break through.
• Visi and Aili escaped the sharks and headed for Babari Island to reach Sister Fennis Emerald Star.

Visi and Aili reached Niro City to seek help for the Rose Clan after demonic forces attacked their group, and the Emerald Star Clan led them to Fennis and Xiluo. They finally met Xiluo, whose enormous appearance stunned them, and he asked what trouble they had faced.

• Two demon women discussed how their attack had wiped out the elves heading toward the mother clan, while the six-armed Marina threatened the human-shaped demon and watched her disappear.
• Visi and Aili arrived at Green Forest seeking Fennis, learned she was in Niro City, and heard that the city was ruled by the dragon Xiluo.
• Emerald Star Clan elves brought Visi and Aili to Niro City, where the subjects warmly gave them rides and praised Xiluo's strength.
• Fennis led Visi and Aili to the castle, where Allen explained that Xiluo was far stronger than he was and summoned him from his lair.
• Xiluo emerged before Visi and Aili, and Fennis introduced them as elves who had suffered trouble; Xiluo asked what had happened.

Xiluo learned that the Rose Clan’s elves were close to defeat after a long war against barbarians with regenerative powers and magic beasts. He summoned the dragons of Niro City to discuss a rescue, leaving Visi and Aili stunned by their size and strange behavior as Xiluo assessed how much his dragons had grown.

• Fennis briefed Xiluo on the Rose Clan’s plight, and Visi and Aili described their losses and the enemy’s regenerative abilities and control over magic beasts.
• Visi explained that the barbarians had worn down the Rose Clan and targeted a branch of the World Tree, so Xiluo promised to help.
• Xiluo sent Allen to fetch Gordon, Abel, and the other dragons still in the city.
• Eleven dragons arrived, and Visi and Aili nervously watched them bicker, threaten, and make unwanted advances.
• Xiluo proudly inspected Allen and Abel, whose levels and dragon bloodlines had improved greatly over four years.

After reviewing the dragons’ growth and his finances over four years, Xiluo gathered the dragons to answer two elves’ request for aid against barbarians. He chose not to join the expedition, and the chapter ended with the dragons laughing at the elves’ warning about their enemies.

• Xiluo reviewed the dragons’ progress, his growing income, and the debts he had repaid, noting that he still needed more gold for additional Dragon God’s Blessings.
• Xiluo explained the elves’ situation to the assembled dragons, who dismissed the barbarians as weak opponents.
• Baili’er asked Visi and Aili what payment they would offer, and Visi promised the elves’ possessions apart from the World Tree offshoot.
• Xiluo said he would stay behind to continue his spell research, while Gordon and the other dragons prepared to leave without him.
• Visi warned that the barbarians could pierce dragon scales with spears and commanded flying monsters, but Abel laughed at her fears and the other dragons looked contemptuous.

Xiluo sent eleven dragons, led by Abel, to Sax Island to aid the elves, despite Visi and Aili’s warnings about their enemies. As the dragons arrived, Gordon destroyed a flock of nearly a thousand Black-Eating Crows with one attack, while the island’s battle against the barbarians remained unresolved.

• Xiluo gave Allen the King's Ring and sent the dragons with Fennis, Visi, and Aili to Sax Island without gathering additional elves.
• On Sax Island, Hilda and the elves fought the immortal barbarians and magic beasts, suffering heavy losses as Band Crusher attacked Hilda.
• Natasha watched the battle through a Water Mirror and revealed that Arrow Sharks and Black-Eating Crows guarded the island, while her companion warned that reinforcements could disrupt their plan.
• The eleven dragons reached Sax Island carrying three elves, and Visi warned them that a flock of Black-Eating Crows was approaching.
• Koraman's Dragon Might frightened some of the crows, then Gordon charged into the flock and incinerated nearly a thousand of them in one strike, stunning Visi.

Gordon and the other dragons overwhelmed the barbarians and magic beasts, rescuing the Rose Clan elves. The victory was thrown into doubt when the World Tree Sapling toppled after its roots were gnawed away.

• Gordon and the dragons reached the battlefield, where Gordon crushed barbarians and magic beasts while the elves fled his attacks.
• Aili and Visi announced that Fennis’s dragon allies had come to help, and the dragons joined the fight against the enemy army.
• A black dragon attacked Band Crusher, while the other dragons slaughtered the barbarians and magic beasts across the battlefield.
• The Barbarian King called for a divine emissary and stronger helpers, delighting the dragons as they prepared for more enemies.
• Natasha insisted she had not failed, then the World Tree Sapling fell and the elves discovered its roots had been gnawed away.

The Dragons destroyed the flesh monster that had blocked the Elves from pursuing the thieves who stole the World Tree offshoot’s roots, while Natasha and Marina argued over the failed theft. After the battle, Allen demanded payment from the Rose Clan, and Fennis called for Xiluo to intervene; Xiluo appeared before the Dragons and Elves.

• The Elves realized underground Magic Beasts had stolen the World Tree offshoot’s roots, then a monster formed from corpses stunned them and blocked the tunnels as it escaped.
• The Red Dragon Whelp burned the flesh monster with black flames, and the Elves’ attacks finished it, but the collapsed entrance prevented them from pursuing the thieves.
• Natasha told Marina she intended to recover the rest of the offshoot, while Marina pointed out Barbara in the Water Mirror and questioned Natasha’s past schemes.
• Hilda mourned the Rose Clan’s losses, and Allen demanded forty thousand gold coins per Dragon for rescuing the Elves; Fennis objected to the price.
• Fennis asked Allen to summon Xiluo to settle the dispute, and a Thunderforged Dragon appeared after Allen activated his ring.

Xiluo assessed the elves’ resources to settle payment for the dragons’ rescue, then learned that the World Tree Offshoot could help certain dragons upgrade their bloodlines. The dragons grew eager to claim it, while the reasons the Nature Elves guarded it so lightly remained unexplained.

• Hilda told Xiluo that the elves had only thirteen thousand gold coins, equipment worth about forty-one thousand, and an iron mine worth no more than fifty thousand, leaving them unable to pay the dragons’ requested fee.
• Xiluo asked about the fallen World Tree Offshoot, and Hilda agreed to let him have it if they could settle on its value and the cost of the rescue.
• Baili'er and the other dragons estimated the offshoot’s trunk and leaves at about a million gold coins, and several dragons said its natural energy attracted them.
• Xiluo paid No. 4 ten thousand gold coins to learn that the offshoot could upgrade fully mutated dragon species, including his Giant Blue Dragon and Thunderclap Dragon bloodlines.
• No. 4 said the Nature Elves’ parent tribe was powerful enough to deter dragons from stealing the offshoot, and Xiluo declined to pay for more information.
• Xiluo returned from the King's Ring Space and told the dragons what he had learned, making them eager to obtain the World Tree Offshoot.

Xiluo agreed to protect Hilda’s Rose Clan and its replacement World Tree Sapling by bringing them under his protection in Niro City. He distributed the mission payment and sapling among the dragons according to strength, while Natasha watched and realized her plan to seize the sapling had failed.

• Xiluo agreed to take Hilda and the Rose Clan to Niro City and let his dragons guard them while they buried their dead.
• Xiluo proposed distributing the mission’s 400,000 gold coins by strength and claimed 100,000 for himself.
• Karl defeated Baphomet in a prolonged battle, and Xiluo ranked the dragons by strength.
• Xilian defeated Koraman, after which Xiluo finalized the rankings and assigned each dragon a share of the gold and World Tree Sapling.
• Xiluo stored the remaining sapling in his Spatial Ring and left for Niro City, while Natasha worried that the dragons had taken the sapling she intended to seize.

Xiluo discovered that World Tree offshoot energy could strengthen a chosen mutated bloodline, but advancing his Extreme Thunder Overlord Dragon bloodline would require far more than he had consumed. He negotiated with Hilda for future supplies, then welcomed more than a thousand Rose Clan elves to Niro City, where Descenders eagerly pursued them under Depu’s costly courtship rules.

• Marina mocked Natasha after the dragons defeated them, and Natasha left to report to Lord Rodrigo.
• Xiluo consumed the remaining World Tree offshoot and learned in his Mindscape World to direct its energy into his Extreme Thunder Overlord Dragon bloodline, raising its progress by 58%.
• Xiluo learned that Hilda’s clan supplied one ton of World Tree offshoot annually only to powerful protectors, and Hilda agreed to ask her parent clan to invest in him because of his talent.
• The returning Rose Clan elves saw Chromatic Dragons over the island and fought them until the Metal Dragons arrived and explained that their kin were safe.
• Hilda brought more than a thousand Rose Clan elves to Niro City, where Xiluo settled them in the eastern forest and announced their arrival.
• Descenders crowded around the elf women, while the city’s elves followed Depu’s rules requiring suitors to provide a home and gifts.

Xiluo introduced Hilda and twelve Rose Clan elves to Niro City's pleasures, and their spending soon strained the clan's finances. After Hilda reported that the Nature Elves' parent clan wanted to assess Xiluo, he left with Xilian to meet them, while Rodrigo sent Natasha to free an underground ally who could oppose him.

• Xiluo and Fennis brought Hilda and twelve Rose Clan elves into Niro City, where they enjoyed its shops, food, entertainment, and wellness facilities.
• Over the following days, the elves spent 1,200 gold coins, so Hilda cut off their funds; some sought work or turned to other ways of earning money.
• Hilda told Xiluo that the Nature Elves' parent clan wanted to meet him and judge his strength before deciding how many resources to provide.
• Xiluo took Xilian and flew toward the Nature Elves' main base to meet the parent clan.
• Natasha summoned Rodrigo and told him that Xiluo was a legendary blue dragon allied with elves; Rodrigo gave her a compass and ordered her to find and unseal an underground ally who could deal with Xiluo.

Natasha and Marina found a frozen undead master who accepted Rodrigo’s treasure and promised to recover soon before helping kill Xiluo Utrasis. Meanwhile, Xiluo and Xilian arrived at World Tree Island, where the World Tree’s domain suppressed their strength and the Nature Elves revealed a formidable force; they reached the World Tree and met the clan’s leaders.

• Natasha and Marina followed a Death Knight to an undead skeleton frozen in an ice crystal, which read their memories and took Rodrigo’s locating treasure to speed its recovery.
• Xiluo and Xilian flew toward World Tree Island and saw its three ring districts arranged around the World Tree.
• As the dragons entered the island’s domain, it progressively suppressed their strength, and Empress Anina Worldchild welcomed them and guided them toward the World Tree.
• Xiluo observed powerful Nature Elves, spellcasters, sacred hunters, and magical beasts whose conditions were enhanced by the World Tree.
• Xiluo reached the World Tree and saw Ancient War Trees, two Life Trees, and a gathering of fifteen powerful elves, including three other Legendaries besides Empress Anina.

Xiluo and his companions arrived at World Tree Island, where Anani restored them and arranged for them to prove their strength in the Nature Elves’ Ancestors Trial Grounds. The chapter left Gordon beginning the trial as the elves learned that Xiluo had won the Dragonkind Tournament despite his opponent using Dिक्स’s Chain.

• Anani welcomed Xiluo to World Tree Island and embraced him and Xilian, lifting the World Tree Domain’s suppression and restoring their strength.
• Xiluo summoned his companions, and Anani tested the dragons’ bone ages before introducing the Nature Elves’ Ancestors Trial Grounds.
• Anani found Gordon’s physique remarkable for his bone age of thirty-seven, while she praised Xiluo’s age of thirty-four as unprecedentedly talented.
• Gordon entered the Ancestors Trial Grounds as Abel and other dragons began recording the projected trial, hoping to capture him losing to an elf.
• Little White Dragon told Anani that Xiluo had won the Dragonkind Tournament even though the second-place Gold Dragon had used Dिक्स’s Chain, and Xiluo confirmed it.

Red Dragon Whelp Gordon fought his way through the Elf Trial Grounds, defeating opponents from level 10 through level 19 and impressing the elves with his strength. After Gordon killed the level 19 Holy Archer in six minutes, the elves questioned whether he could really be only level 19.

• The Elf Queen summoned a level 10 elf hunter, whom Gordon killed almost instantly with a black flame projectile.
• Gordon defeated the level 11 spellcaster and the level 12 druid, while Cuixin's claims about the elves' abilities repeatedly fell short.
• Gordon killed the level 16 assassin after about ninety seconds, then beat the level 17 druid in dragon form after three minutes.
• Gordon struggled against a level 18 spellcaster who used duplicates and a Withering spell, but killed him after six minutes and fifteen seconds.
• Gordon defeated the level 19 Holy Archer in six minutes, prompting the elves to wonder whether he was actually a Legendary powerhouse.

Gordon and Allen fought in the Nature Elves Clan’s trials, showing the elves how far dragon strength exceeded their expectations. After Allen’s trial, Xiluo noticed the elves recording the dragons’ abilities and potential.

• Gordon fought legendary half-elf Henry Faer for half an hour before collapsing, while Henry won with his armor damaged and his strength diminished.
• The Elf Queen agreed to sell Gordon one ton of World Tree branches and leaves each year for twenty thousand gold coins, and Xiluo then had Allen enter the trial.
• Xiluo saw a Level 22 Legendary Origin Elf record Gordon’s age, strength, abilities, and potential in a bark-bound book.
• Allen defeated the trial opponents through level 18 but lost to the level 19 enemy after fighting for thirty minutes.
• The Elf Queen praised Allen, and the Origin Elf recorded his abilities and potential as the young elves grew more cautious of dragons.

Xiluo entered the elves’ Trial Grounds and swept through opponents up to Level 20, defeating the Half-Elf Holy Warrior with overwhelming force. He then faced a Level 21 Legendary Spellcaster, whose powerful magic disrupted Xiluo’s attacks and turned the trial into a difficult battle.

• The Elf Queen offered Xiluo three tons of World Tree material per year for defeating the Level 20 Holy Warrior and promised five tons if he could beat the next stage.
• Xiluo defeated the trial’s Level 10 through Level 19 opponents with thunder, then overwhelmed the Level 20 Half-Elf Holy Warrior in a four-minute fight.
• Xiluo’s companions praised his performance while the elves watched in astonishment.
• A Level 21 Legendary Spellcaster dispelled Xiluo’s thunder, weakened him with spells, and survived a direct strike by relocating himself.
• Xiluo summoned storms and attacked with his Crimson Thunder Spear, but the Spellcaster used earth magic to shield himself and spread earth along the spear as the battle continued.