Chapter Summaries

Xiluo persuaded Hadien to leave his family and join him in founding a magic-powered artifact guild in Niro City, while secretly turning Hadien’s enthusiasm into free labor and supplies. After Xiluo lost most of his arena winnings to rigged matches, Alice and Xiluo were escorted to the inner keep for Congress.

• Xiluo proposed a cheaper, gear-driven magic-powered vehicle, and Hadien eagerly praised the design.
• Xiluo convinced Hadien that he needed to leave his family to earn independent recognition and invited him to establish the Xiha Magic-powered Artifact Merchants' Guild in Niro City.
• Hadien reinforced Xiluo’s scales, then accepted ten gold coins to buy more magic dust and resolved to meet Xiluo daily despite suspecting the coins had originally been his.
• An old Spellcaster questioned Hadien about Xiluo, but Hadien said their conversation had been pleasant and gave no indication of Xiluo’s plans.
• Xiluo complained to Alice that Royal Capital merchants had rejected his investment offer and that rigged arena matches had cut his winnings from three hundred and sixty Gold Coins to eighty.
• The next morning, two knights arrived to escort Alice and Xiluo to the inner keep for Congress.

Xiluo and Alice attended the Gerlo Kingdom’s congress, where Xiluo discovered that several powerful figures were secretly monsters, including Marquis Dorian, and suspected the woman beside the king was the Dragon Mother. After the king invited Xiluo to speak about Niro City, Xiluo prepared to address the gathered nobles.

• Alice showed Xiluo her mother’s sapphire necklace, and he sensed it held immense magical power before advising her to keep it and have Gordon examine it later.
• Xiluo and Alice entered the castle reception hall, where Marquis Dorian welcomed them and Xiluo identified him as a level-seventeen Shadow Demon in disguise.
• Xiluo noticed that the eldest prince William was a Dragonblood Warrior, while other nobles included a high-ranking vampire and a Half-Lich.
• The king arrived with an injured mature Green Dragon whom Xiluo suspected was Baili’er Blach, the Dragon Mother, and opened the congress by welcoming Xiluo and Alice.
• The king discussed border tensions with Sophia and territory matters, then Alice described Niro City’s difficulties before Xiluo asked to speak as its Guardian Dragon.

Xiluo tried to apologize to the nobles by offering them a lucrative investment, then found himself pulled into Marquis Dorian’s plan to attack the halflings. The king and nobles expected Xiluo’s water-attribute dragon strength to help, while Dorian explained why the kingdom’s Legendary could not be sent out.

• Xiluo offered the nobles contracts promising to repay their investments at 200% after ten years, and he collected 11,000 gold coins.
• Marquis Dorian proposed that he and Xiluo lead an expedition to defeat the halflings, and the king and nobles turned to Xiluo for help.
• Dorian explained that the halflings raided coastal settlements, commanded sea monsters, and possessed powerful weapons and some wielders of Fel Power.
• Xiluo questioned why the kingdom could not send its Legendary, and Dorian said the guardian had to remain hidden to protect the royal family and kingdom.

After agreeing to join Marquis Dorian and the eldest prince on an expedition against the Halflings, Xiluo decided to strengthen his Extreme Thunder Dragon bloodline instead of waiting to improve his spellcasting. He absorbed lightning items, caused severe damage to the inn, and woke to find his bloodline concentration had risen to 50.1%.

• Marquis Dorian secured Xiluo's participation in an expedition, and the eldest prince announced he would join them; they agreed to gather at the docks near Omara in a month.
• Alice and Paladin Andy warned Xiluo to protect himself, and Alice gave him her necklace for the journey.
• Xiluo spent 5,500 gold coins on items that could increase his Extreme Thunder Dragon bloodline, then absorbed their energy at the inn.
• Xiluo's lightning grew out of control, blasting through the floor and wall; Alice apologized to the frightened inn guests and promised compensation.
• Xiluo awoke that evening, confirmed the damage had been compensated, and told everyone to leave before checking his status and seeing his Extreme Thunder Dragon bloodline at 50.1%.

Xiluo tested the power of his newly strengthened Extreme Thunder Dragon bloodline and learned that Hadien planned to return with him to Niro City. Dragon Mother Baili'er then warned him that Crown Prince William Gerlo might be draining a captive dragon’s blood and urged Xiluo to destroy the royal fleet with her alchemical bombs.

• Xiluo tested his stronger lightning spells and Lightning Breath, while Alice urged him to stop damaging the house.
• Xiluo told Alice that Hadien was a talented magic-pattern and magic-tool designer whom he intended to bring to Niro City.
• After Alice and Xiluo went to bed, Dragon Mother Baili'er appeared, concealed their room with a Barrier, and explained that her injuries from the Green Forest Battle had not healed.
• Baili'er warned Xiluo that William Gerlo had the aura of a Dragonblood Warrior and might be draining blood from an imprisoned dragon.
• Baili'er gave Xiluo sixteen Advanced Remote-Controlled Alchemical Bombs and proposed that he plant them on the warships, destroy the fleet at sea, and blame the Halflings.
• Xiluo took the bombs after Baili'er reluctantly let go of them, despite her protests about their cost.

Xiluo returned to Niro City with Alice and Hadien, then persuaded Hadien to join a magic-item business and agree to a profit split. He left Alice to arrange Hadien’s lodging, contract, and apprentices while he headed to the Military Camp.

• Baili'er urged Xiluo to help her take revenge on Dorian and reclaim Green Forest, but Xiluo privately dismissed her plan and kept the alchemical bombs she gave him.
• Xiluo spent 3,060 gold coins on defensive scrolls, buying six of each kind and setting aside a set for Alice.
• Xiluo flew Alice and Hadien back to Niro City, where Hadien remarked on the territory’s modest appearance and became eager to help develop it.
• Xiluo proposed a three-way magic-item partnership with Hadien and Alice, then negotiated a profit split of forty percent for himself, thirty-five percent for Alice, and twenty-five percent for Hadien.
• Xiluo told Alice to arrange Hadien’s lodging, sign a contract, and select ordinary people as apprentices, then flew toward the Military Camp.

Omai Fritz and Hadien Swann’s father discovered that Hadien had left the Royal Capital with Xiluo to build a magic artifact business, while Xiluo returned to Niro City and prepared to transform Tīgǔ and Steel Fang into Dragonization Species. The chapter ended with Gordon beginning their Dragon Transformation ritual using his blood.

• Omai Fritz and Lord Yuke searched for Hadien, then found his letter saying he had followed Xiluo to Niro City to establish the Xihe Magic Artifact trading company.
• Xiluo returned to Niro City and told Gordon that the dragons would join a campaign against halflings in a month, giving Gordon hope of completing his fifth divine trial.
• Alicia greeted Xiluo and went to summon Koraman, Abel, and Allen at his request.
• Xiluo assessed Tīgǔ and Steel Fang, then announced that they were ready for Dragon Transformation despite Tīgǔ’s advancing age.
• Gordon agreed to provide more blood, and Xiluo revealed that his accumulated blood would transform both beastmen.
• Xiluo supplied the Magic Dust, and Gordon began presiding over Tīgǔ and Steel Fang’s Dragon Transformation ritual.

Xiluo oversaw Tīgǔ and Steel Fang’s Red Dragon transformation, which greatly increased their strength and broke through their racial limits. After testing their new abilities and ordering them to have more offspring, he waited at the Military Camp until Alicia arrived with several dragons.

• Gordon completed the Red Dragon transformation ritual for Tīgǔ and Steel Fang, raising their levels and extending their lifespans.
• Xiluo tested the transformed beastmen’s strength as Steel Fang hurled an iron spear 750 meters and Tīgǔ threw one 230 meters.
• Xiluo increased both leaders’ food allowances and ordered them to have more offspring so their peoples would grow stronger.
• Tīgǔ and Steel Fang returned to their people, while nearby soldiers watched enviously and some slipped away with beastmen.
• Alicia flew into the Military Camp with several dragons and landed beside Xiluo and Gordon.

Xiluo prepared his dragons and Beastmen for the campaign against the Halflings while advising Hadien to prove himself to his family through his inventions. Five days before departure, Xiluo’s army marched from Niro City and arrived at the harbor, where Marquis Dorian and the prince welcomed them.

• Xiluo gathered the dragons, explained the campaign plans, and persuaded them to buy advanced scrolls for protection.
• Xiluo stopped Hadien from confronting his uncle’s group and told him to let the finished factory and Magic-Powered Jet Bicycle prove his plans; the group then waited outside the castle for a chance to see him.
• Five days before the campaign, Xiluo led six dragons and a force of fifty Hyena-People and fifty Boar-Pigfolk out of Niro City as residents cheered them on.
• Two days later, Xiluo’s army arrived at a port city, where frightened locals fled until soldiers identified the dragons and Beastmen as Niro City’s forces.
• Marquis Dorian and the prince disembarked to greet Xiluo and the dragons.

Xiluo joined Marquis Dorian and Crown Prince William’s expedition against the Halflings, while assessing their powerful guardians, troops, and ships with growing suspicion. He refused a pre-battle banquet and sailed with the dragons toward the island believed to be the Halflings’ base.

• Xiluo introduced the dragons to Dorian and William, and they praised the dragons’ support for the campaign.
• Dorian and William admired Xiluo’s necklace, and Xiluo recalled that [Eternal Love] could unleash a powerful eighth-tier water spell.
• Xiluo recognized that Buck might be concealing hero-level strength and noticed the prince’s army included many formidable fighters and spellcasters.
• Xiluo declined Dorian’s invitation to dine aboard a warship and requested a tour of the fleet and its troops instead.
• Dorian described the fleet’s ten warships and its elite forces, then sailed toward the island believed to be the Halflings’ home base.

Crown Prince William and Buck plotted to capture Xiluo for his dragon blood, but Xiluo’s power became clear when the fleet encountered the Halflings’ Ferocious Fish. After devastating the school with lightning spells, Xiluo plunged into the sea and stopped the fish’s advance, while Dorian ordered the fleet to pursue the enemy ships.

• William and Buck reaffirmed their plan to capture dragons and obtain dragon blood, believing the Young Dragons would be easy to overpower.
• As the fleet entered Halfling waters, Dorian warned of approaching monsters, and Xiluo ordered the dragons and Steel Fang’s Boar-Pigfolk to prepare for battle.
• A vast school of Ferocious Fish attacked the warships, and the dragons and Spellcasters fought them with spells.
• Xiluo killed thousands of Ferocious Fish at a time with powerful lightning attacks, alarming William and Buck with how quickly he cast them.
• After firing six blasts and using nearly half his magic power, Xiluo dove into the sea and repeatedly rammed and electrocuted the Ferocious Fish until he halted their advance.
• Dorian praised Xiluo, ordered the fleet to avoid hitting him, and directed the ships to pursue the Halfling warships.

Marquis Dorian’s fleet fought the Halflings at sea while Gordon and the Boar-Pigfolk used devastating javelin throws to defeat one Halfling warship. The Halflings’ other ship gained an advantage in a separate boarding battle, leaving the wider engagement unresolved.

• Lord Amo led two Halfling warships toward Dorian’s fleet, and the sides exchanged cannon fire as Dorian maneuvered his ten ships around them.
• The Halflings discovered that swarms of Ferocious Fish had been killed and saw a sea monster attacking the remaining fish, but their ships became surrounded and one vessel’s defensive barrier nearly failed.
• Steel Fang and Gordon hurled javelins at the Halfling ship; Gordon’s lightning-enhanced throw pierced its barrier and shattered its mast, killing a Halfling.
• The Boar-Pigfolk volleyed javelins at the approaching Halflings, and Gordon and the other dragons used spells and force to repel Lord Amo’s boarding assault and crush his forces.
• Dorian praised Xiluo Utrasis and his allies, while another Halfling warship boarded a vessel lacking powerful defenders and gained the advantage.

Xiluo captured the fel-transformed Halfling Amo after the allied forces and young dragons won the naval battle, then discovered that Dorian’s bracelet was absorbing the dead soldiers’ souls. During the prisoners’ interrogation, Amo revealed that the Halflings served the Demon Lord Suo'ersen, gathered human sacrifices for him, and had a much larger army than the humans expected.

• The young dragons joined the fighting and helped turn the battle into an easy victory while Amo tried to escape underwater.
• Xiluo spotted level 11 fel-transformed Amo, defeated him underwater, and captured him after crushing both his arms.
• Xiluo used Spirit Vision and saw Dorian’s bracelet absorb the souls of the dead; he chose not to expose Dorian.
• After the battle, Dorian proposed interrogating the Halfling prisoners, and Xiluo claimed the interrogation of Amo.
• Amo declared that the Halflings served the Legendary Demon Lord Suo'ersen and raided for human sacrifices to feed him.
• Amo boasted that the Halfling Demon Empire had over fifty thousand soldiers and hundreds of High-ranking Halfling Demons, leaving the humans staring at him strangely.

Xiluo and his allies used a captured Halfling’s Fel Power and disguises to bypass Demon Island’s alarms, land at the harbor, and begin a covert attack. As Xiluo’s group reached the island’s Sacrificial Grounds, a Halfling confronted them.

• Xiluo’s group learned from the one-eyed Halfling that Demon Island had fifty thousand soldiers, hidden Arcane Cannons, anti-air defenses, and alarms that detected anyone without Fel Power.
• Xiluo proposed forcing two captured Halflings to use Fel Power, and his group disguised themselves as Halflings to pass the island’s detection system.
• At night, Xiluo and his allies entered the harbor disguised as Lord Amo’s party and knocked out the guards in the night-watch rest building.
• The group split into three teams, and Xiluo’s team moved through the residential area, killing Halflings as they searched the island.
• Xiluo’s team entered an enclosed area called the Sacrificial Grounds, where they saw dried blood and rotting remains before a bare-chested Halfling ordered them to leave.

Xiluo and the spellcaster discovered kidnapped captives in the halflings’ settlement, then an alarm exposed their group and the young dragons revealed their true forms. After the others empowered Gordon, he rampaged through the residential district, leaving the halflings terrified as the wider attack on the harbor began; Xiluo watched the battle without joining it.

• Xiluo and the advanced spellcaster found many kidnapped people in the low houses, including humans and several other races, and the spellcaster planned to have them freed and returned home.
• An explosion and an alarm exposed the invaders, so the spellcaster called for reinforcements and the young dragons transformed from their halfling disguises.
• Xiluo confirmed the group’s agreement to support Gordon’s divine trial, and the young dragons and Alicia cast spells and divine magic to strengthen him.
• Gordon flew over the residential district and burned its houses, then killed and devoured a Fel-transformed halfling, terrifying the defenders.
• Explosions spread through the harbor as the paladin and spellcaster attacked the halflings, while Xiluo remained in place and surveyed the battle with his lightning-wreathed spear.

Xiluo intercepted an Arcane Cannon shot with his Thunder Spear, alarming the Crown Prince, Old Buck, and the Halflings as the dragon forces continued their assault. The battle shifted when blood-red light and thunderous roars announced enormous figures approaching from behind the harbor.

• Crown Prince William and Old Buck discussed attacking Xiluo, believing the dragons had little magic power left, while Kane fought the Halflings nearby.
• Xiluo hurled his Thunder Spear into an incoming cannonball and destroyed it in midair, stunning the Crown Prince, Old Buck, and the Halflings.
• Old Buck sent a shadow double to stay with the Crown Prince and departed to attack, while the Crown Prince summoned Kane back for protection.
• The Red Dragon Whelp, Little White Dragon, the Young She-Dragon, Koraman, Abel, the Paladin, and the Advanced Spellcaster reacted to Xiluo's feat as Xiluo warned everyone to dodge cannonballs.
• Xiluo spotted approaching ships at sea and decided to leave after reinforcements arrived, while a shadowy figure watched the dragons and waited for a better chance to strike.
• Blood-red light appeared behind the harbor, and several enormous figures approached as the Halflings showed reverence and fear and Xiluo and the others grew grim.

Xiluo drew the demons away from the rescued captives, then led them toward Crown Prince William and Kane while Old Buck fought the other dragons. Old Buck rushed to protect William as the demons closed in.

• Xiluo and the Young Dragons were trapped by a magic net cast by a level 16 Halfling Spellcaster, while the other dragons attacked him without gaining the upper hand.
• Xiluo hurled spears at the Demon-Hunting Spider and Giant Bull Demon, enraging them and drawing the demons away from the captives.
• The rescued captives fled toward the harbor as the Spellcaster and Paladin continued evacuating them, and a fish-headed naga recognized the sapphire necklace around Xiluo’s neck.
• The Red Dragon Whelp, Abel, and Allen fought the shadow-shrouded Spellcaster, who was revealed to be Old Buck, while he planned to capture the dragons for Prince William.
• Xiluo led the pursuing demons toward Crown Prince William and Kane, calling for their help despite their protests.
• Old Buck realized the demons were approaching William and dissolved into shadow to rush to the Crown Prince’s defense.

Xiluo drew the demons’ attacks away from the Crown Prince and engineered the chaos that led to Paladin Kane’s death. After the dragons escaped by ship, Little White Dragon Allen completed the Reaper’s fourth trial by killing Kane, while the Red Dragon Whelp and Allen prepared to claim their rewards.

• Xiluo’s attacks on the Giant Bull Demon drew the demons toward the Crown Prince and Kane, leaving the two men surrounded and nearly out of Holy Power.
• The Battle Demon struck Kane while Old Buck fought to hold the demons back, and Xiluo carried the gravely wounded Paladin away as the Crown Prince fled toward the harbor.
• Xiluo ordered the young dragons and Dorian’s subordinates to retreat, and their warship left first as the other ships began withdrawing.
• Kane asked to be put out of his misery, and Xiluo had Little White Dragon Allen freeze his heart, completing Allen’s fourth Reaper trial.
• After the ships reached safety, Xiluo and the other dragons returned to their quarters, where the Red Dragon Whelp and Allen prepared to claim their trial rewards.

Gordon completed his fifth Divine Trial and became a War God Red Dragon, gaining formidable new abilities. The next morning, the Crown Prince and Old Buck confronted Xiluo over the demons and Kane Buffy’s death.

• Allen emerged from his trance as a level 11 cleric, while Gordon’s divine power caused him to grow and wreck part of the ship.
• Gordon awoke as a level 13 Divine-Chosen War God Red Dragon and explained that his warrior power strengthened his body, resilience, and fighting spirit.
• A paladin described how the War God’s Power of War had once grown strong enough during a kingdom’s decisive battle to defeat a legendary foe.
• Gordon shrank back down and said his next trial required him to defeat a peak Hero-level opponent in single combat.
• The next morning, the Crown Prince and Old Buck accused Xiluo of leading demons to them and causing Kane Buffy’s death, while Marquis Dorian planned to report the halflings’ demonic ties to the king.

Xiluo defended himself against Prince William and Old Buck, then faced a Sea Folk fleet seeking the Hailan Clan’s sacred necklace around his neck. After refusing their offers to buy it, he learned they had also come to thank him for rescuing one of their people and had brought gifts.

• Xiluo accused Old Buck of letting Kane die and argued that his conduct made him unfit to serve Prince William.
• Marquis Dorian’s Spellcaster and Paladin joined the others in criticizing Old Buck, while Prince William said he would report the dispute to his father and the Earth God Temple’s archbishop.
• Thousands of Sea Folk surrounded the warships, and their Merfolk leader demanded the sapphire necklace Xiluo wore as the Hailan Clan’s sacred relic.
• Prince William revealed that the necklace belonged to Alice Nite, and Xiluo insisted it was his because Alice had bought and given it to him.
• The Merfolk offered up to 15,000 gold coins for the necklace, but Xiluo refused and told them to leave if that was their only reason for coming.
• The Merfolk leader explained that they had also come to thank Xiluo for rescuing one of their people from the Halflings on Demon Island and presented chests of gifts.