Chapter Summaries

Xiluo traded with the mermaids for conch stones and secured their friendship, while Anali secretly ordered Naga to follow him and watch for him to use the Sacred Relic. After returning to Niro City, Xiluo’s arrival prompted a middle-aged man at the Greatsword to rush out and arrange for his nephew to return to the Royal Capital.

• Xiluo bought conch stones from Anali, Xueli, and Flora at a discount and accepted their gift of Immortal Dwelling Conches and a Spirit-Summoning Conch.
• Anali told Xueli and Flora that Xiluo likely knew the power of Eternal Love, then sent Xinaji, Xige'er, and Waleya to follow his warship and report if he used its spell.
• Xiluo checked his progress aboard the warship and found his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline had reached 57.8%, still short of 60%.
• Xiluo returned to Niro City with the beastman army, where the subjects welcomed him and news of his arrival spread.
• A middle-aged man at the Greatsword heard Xiluo had returned, hurried out, and resolved to visit his nephew and get him to return to the Royal Capital.

Xiluo returned from the expedition, told Alice about her merfolk relatives and the sacred relic, then left to inspect Hadien’s newly built Magic-Powered Jet Vehicle. As Hadien demonstrated it around Niro City, Martin hurried toward the factory hoping to meet his nephew.

• Xiluo returned to the castle and told Alice that mermaids from her mother’s people had intercepted his fleet over their sacred relic, but they had parted without fighting.
• Alice worried about her mother’s past, and Xiluo comforted her before Hadien interrupted their private time to announce that he had built a Magic-Powered Jet Vehicle.
• Xiluo flew with Hadien to the factory, where workers admired the vehicle and discussed its expected price and mass production.
• Hadien rode the vehicle through Niro City, impressing pedestrians with its speed and maneuverability while Descenders compared it to an electric scooter.
• Martin traveled by carriage toward the factory, praying that he would meet Xiluo, as startled cries rose outside.

Xiluo and Hadien demonstrated their Magic-Powered Jet Vehicle to Hadien’s uncle, Martin Swann, and pitched it as affordable transport for travel within Niro City. Martin recognized its practicality but could not learn how they planned to supply enough charging Spellcasters, and he decided to stay and find out.

• Martin spotted Hadien riding a Magic-Powered Jet Vehicle with Xiluo and chased after them to speak with his nephew.
• Martin inspected the vehicle and criticized its speed and magic patterns, while Hadien defended their invention.
• Xiluo explained that the vehicle was designed for convenient travel within cities and announced a planned price of seventy silver coins, with sales expected to begin in about half a month.
• Hadien described charging stations where a full charge would cost twenty copper coins and provide roughly fifty kilometers of travel, or about a hundred kilometers with some pedaling.
• Martin asked how Xiluo and Hadien would secure enough Spellcasters to recharge the vehicles, but Xiluo called the solution a trade secret and Hadien refused to explain.
• News of the vehicle demonstration and upcoming production spread throughout Niro City, while Martin decided to stay and investigate their charging plan.

Waleya, Xige'er, and Xinaji tried to monitor Xiluo by befriending Niro City's wealthy residents, but the plan cost them the thirty gold coins Anali had provided. Meanwhile, Xiluo celebrated the presale of ten thousand Magic-Powered Jet Vehicles before the Spirit-Summoning Conch sounded, leaving the Sea Folk alarmed that the Naga might have been exposed.

• Waleya, Xige'er, and Xinaji joined the queue for Magic-Powered Jet Vehicles and learned that Niro City's buyers were paying scalpers for places in line.
• The three Naga decided to spend money befriending wealthy residents so they could gather information about Xiluo.
• Depu reported that ten thousand Magic-Powered Jet Vehicles had been presold, and Xiluo collected three thousand gold coins before flying toward the Tate Mountain Range.
• Waleya and Xige'er admitted to Anali that they had spent the thirty gold coins she gave them, so she offered them another hundred.
• The Spirit-Summoning Conch sounded, and Anali feared the Naga had been exposed, though they insisted nobody had followed them.

Xiluo traded for more Conch Stone and tried to discourage Anali from bringing the Merfolk to Niro City, then absorbed the stones and awakened the Thunderfall Dragon ability [Elemental Lord]. The chapter left him with two newly attracted Water Elements and plans to seek more near the ocean.

• Xiluo met Anali, Xueli, and Flora and traded 3,500 gold coins’ worth of Conch Stone.
• Anali asked about living in Niro City, and Xiluo exaggerated its expenses to dissuade the Merfolk from moving there.
• Anali gave Waleya and Xige'er 500 gold coins to gather information on Xiluo, while Waleya celebrated spending their previous funds in Niro City.
• Xiluo absorbed the Conch Stone in the castle vault, raising his Thunderfall Dragon Bloodline concentration to 60.5% and his level to 15.
• Xiluo discovered that [Elemental Lord] had attracted two level-six Water Elements, which joined him without requiring payment.

Xiluo gathered and commanded water elements in the sea, then used them to catch seafood before returning to Niro City. There, the Magic-Powered Jet Vehicle went on sale, and its first riders drew an envious crowd, while production remained far behind demand.

• Xiluo left the castle, flew to the sea, and used conch stone and his aura to attract and tame a level 11 Elite- giant wave element, naming it Ah Shui.
• Xiluo gathered water elements, tidal elements, and water snake elements until his available space was full, then ordered them to catch fish and shrimp and fed on the seafood they brought him.
• Xiluo returned to Niro City as the sun rose and headed back while the Magic-Powered Jet Vehicle sale began in the central square.
• Waleya, Xinaji, Xige'er, Yuri, Kuli, and Anto received their vehicles and rode through the streets, attracting attention and prompting other subjects to place reservations.
• The crowd rushed to reserve vehicles, but the factory's output of about fifty per day left the ten thousand existing preorders likely to take more than half a year to fulfill.

Martin learned that ordinary soldiers could recharge Magic-Powered Vehicles because they had magic power, and realized Xiluo freely spread techniques that other Spellcasters guarded. As charging business boomed, Xiluo discovered outside Spellcasters were undercutting his stations and declared that recharging would require a license.

• Martin questioned a Magic Charging Station and watched ordinary soldiers charge a vehicle using their magic power.
• Martin understood that many people could gain magic power by learning Meditation Techniques, though most Spellcasters kept those techniques secret, and decided to remain in Niro City with Hadien.
• Xiluo enjoyed Alicia's massage while a subordinate reported that charging stations were earning nearly one gold coin a day and his achievement points had reached 45.
• Xiluo learned that charging-station customers had declined because Spellcasters from outside forces were charging lower prices.
• Xiluo ordered the city to require Magic-Charging Licenses and denounced unlicensed recharging as dangerous and unlawful.

Xiluo spread a warning that unlicensed recharging damaged Magic-Powered Vehicles, but the elf sisters continued operating in secret as their debts mounted. After Xiluo organized a crackdown, he caught Ina and her companions celebrating another hidden transaction and confronted them from the sky.

• Xiluo ordered his subordinate to publish a warning against private recharging and issue recharging licenses, while Alicia privately recognized that his claims about magic power were lies.
• Ina explained that she and her companions were recharging vehicles to help repay their debts, but the three elves learned Xiluo's notice threatened their work.
• Ina and the other elves decided not to become adventurers and continued taking customers discreetly, despite the ban.
• Xiluo sent soldiers and Beastmen to catch unlicensed spellcasters, then summoned dragons when the crackdown barely increased Magic Charging Station customers.
• Ina and her companions completed another secret recharge and vowed to keep stealing business from Xiluo, but Xiluo descended before them and demanded to know whom they planned to drive mad.

Xiluo arrested Ina, Sarah, and Jenny after accusing them of breaking Niro City's laws, while his public denunciations turned the city's subjects against the elves. When the elves' companions realized the three had not returned, Fennis Emerald Star led a group to Niro City, where the subjects' accusations made them confront a middle-aged woman.

• Xiluo surrounded Ina, Sarah, and Jenny with water elementals and rejected Ina's attempts to explain their magic supply, then ordered their arrest.
• Ina collapsed after Xiluo repeatedly drowned out her defense, but she stopped Sarah from fighting and the water elementals carried the three elves away.
• Other dragons arrested unlicensed spellcasters across Niro City, and the Magic Charging Stations saw their users return over the following days.
• In the Green Forest, the elves grew worried when Ina, Sarah, and Jenny missed their gathering, and their leader agreed that they should go to Niro City together.
• Fennis Emerald Star led more than a dozen elves into Niro City, where they heard subjects call Ina, Sarah, and Jenny vile criminals and confronted a middle-aged woman who insulted them.

Fennis Emerald Star led the Green Forest elves to Niro City after confirming that Ina and two others had been arrested for unauthorized magic infusion. Xiluo demanded a ransom for their release, and the chapter ended with Fennis meeting him and the elves reacting to his enormous dragon form.

• Fennis and the elves confirmed that Ina and two other elves had been arrested for performing unauthorized magic infusion, but they had no gold to enlist help or uphold justice.
• Fennis led the elves to seek the city lord, then learned that Xiluo was at the Western Military Camp and went there instead.
• Xiluo offered to release the prisoners if they surrendered their illicit earnings and Green Forest paid a ransom of two hundred gold coins per elf, while his dragon companions threatened to eat them.
• A guard told Xiluo that Green Forest's representatives had arrived, and Xiluo welcomed the chance to collect the ransom.
• Xiluo and the young dragons confronted Fennis's group, whose members were shocked by Xiluo's size and worried about his growing power.

Fennis negotiated a three-on-three contest with Xiluo to secure the release of Ina, Sarah, and Jenny, with the elves risking three thousand gold coins and the dragons agreeing to publicly apologize if they lost. Xiluo chose Gordon and Allen as his teammates, and news of the duel spread through Niro City ahead of the next morning’s fight.

• Fennis asked Xiluo to release the three detained elves, but he demanded six hundred gold coins in ransom and rejected her claim that they were innocent.
• Fennis proposed a three-on-three contest instead of paying ransom, and Xiluo agreed to release the elves if his side lost and to stake an additional three thousand gold coins against the elves’ ransom.
• Fennis required three dragons to compete and demanded that Xiluo publicly declare the elves innocent and apologize if the dragons lost; Xiluo accepted.
• After the elves departed to fetch a missing expert, Xiluo selected Gordon and Allen to fight alongside him the following morning.
• Gordon bragged about the upcoming duel to Beastmen and human soldiers, causing news of the contest to spread among people in Niro City.

Xiluo and the young dragons faced three Green Forest elves in a rematch, while spectators gathered to watch. Gordon initially fought alone but was overwhelmed by the elves and their summons; when Xiluo summoned sixteen Water Elements, the elves realized the dragons’ strength had grown far beyond what they remembered.

• Xiluo ordered the spectators to retreat before the duel, and Fennis, an Elf Spellcaster, and an Elf Druid stepped forward to fight the dragons.
• Gordon charged the elves alone, but Fennis’s arrows and the druid’s transformation and attacks left him battered and unable to use his Breath Weapon.
• Fennis summoned five Tree Elves, and the elves continued to overwhelm Gordon despite Allen’s healing support.
• When Allen warned that Gordon needed help, Xiluo summoned sixteen Water Elements, including a Giant Wave Element, to join the battle.
• The elves recognized that their summons and two fighters might be unable to withstand the dragons, and they wondered how the young dragons had become so powerful in only seven or eight years.

Xiluo and Fennis fought after Fennis awakened the Silver Bow’s power, turning their battle into a clash between Hero Realm opponents. Xiluo began gathering a vast storm overhead while Fennis braced to face his ultimate technique.

• Xiluo’s dragons and water elementals overwhelmed the elves until Fennis unleashed Moonlight Radiance, transforming and strengthening herself with the sacred bow.
• Fennis’s arrows struck at the dragons, but Xiluo and the others countered them, and the two leaders ordered their allies to withdraw from the fight.
• Xiluo hurled repeated lightning spears from the sky, while Fennis intercepted each one with silver arrows.
• Fennis sent a volley of arrows after Xiluo, forcing him above the clouds, where he announced he would unleash his ultimate technique.
• Dark clouds and lightning gathered overhead as Fennis held her ground and prepared to withstand Xiluo’s next attack.

Xiluo defeated Fennis by exhausting the power in her weapon with lightning, then offered the indebted elves help finding work in Niro City. The chapter ended as the other young dragons recognized his familiar, likely self-serving manner and suspected he was preparing to trick the elves.

• Xiluo used lightning from his Dark Sky-Violent Storm Pseudo-Domain to repeatedly strike Fennis and destroy her doubles.
• Fennis charged into the sky but lost the silver radiance protecting her and fell, conceding the duel and lamenting the additional 3,600 gold coin debt.
• Xiluo sent the gathered subjects away, offered to release Ina and the other imprisoned elves, and asked Fennis to repay the debt with interest.
• Fennis told Xiluo that the elves had no gold coins after spending their wealth and taking on 80,000 gold coins in debt to defeat Baili'er and reclaim Green Forest.
• Xiluo asked how many elves remained and offered to find them work in Niro City, while Alicia, Koraman, and Abel suspected his help would lead to another scheme.

Xiluo offered the 380 surviving elves legal work in Magic Infusion, promising a share of the earnings and more opportunities in Niro City. When some elves balked at taking additional jobs, he delivered a forceful speech praising hard work, and Fennis embraced his message.

• Fennis told Xiluo that only 380 elves remained after the battle with the Dragon Mother and that five dragons had been captured by Trixie the Silver Dragon and taken to Dragon Island.
• Alicia worried about the two dragons who had escaped, while the Red Dragon Whelp vowed revenge on Trixie.
• Xiluo proposed allowing the elves to perform Magic Infusion legally and split the earnings equally, explaining that Niro City had abundant demand and the work would expand.
• The elves calculated that Magic Infusion could earn them substantial sums to help repay their debts, but some resisted the idea of taking additional jobs.
• Xiluo urged the elves to treat work as a blessing and blamed their past hardship on their lack of effort.
• Fennis resolved to track each elf's debt repayments and regarded Xiluo as a guiding light.

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.