Chapter Summaries

The Emerald Peak Tribe's Loa and warriors attacked Bell's group, while Great Seer Mu De tried to protect his people and sent two disciples to evacuate the children. Bell held off the warriors without killing them and ended the chapter by using Bloodlust Berserk to reduce their rationality.

• The Emerald Peak Tribe's Loa attacked Bell, but his Shield Charm blocked its emerald beam.
• Mu De ordered Rui Te and Sen Meng to take the children to Shelter No. 2, then commanded the warriors to fight.
• Mu De cast Berserk Spell on the warriors, and the Loa used Barkskin Spell to strengthen their defenses.
• Bell protected his group with Protego Totalum and stopped Shanna from using fire against the trolls.
• Bell cast Bloodlust Berserk on the Troll Warriors, boosting their strength and speed while reducing their rationality.

Bell used a fused Berserk and Bloodlust Berserk Curse to make the Troll Warriors fight each other, then turned his attention to Mu De and the Loa God. Mu De attacked the protective barrier but failed to break through, leaving Bell’s group still facing the threat.

• Bell’s Bloodlust Berserk Curse drove the Troll Warriors into a violent brawl while his group stayed protected inside the Turtle Shell.
• Bell explained to Shanna how suggestion allowed him to fuse the Curses and bypass the Trolls’ resistance.
• Hermione urged Bell to stop watching the fight and deal with the Loa God, and Bell agreed to confront it first.
• Mu De struck the Protego Totalum barrier with lightning and accused Bell of causing the chaos.
• Bell dispelled Mu De’s lightning and attacked him with Transfiguration, but Mu De dodged and counterattacked with his staff.
• The barrier repelled Mu De, broke his lightning-wrapped staff, and left him unable to break through.

Bell fought Mu De, who fused with the Emerald Peak Tribe’s Loa God and gained a powerful new form. As Mu De’s attacks failed to hit Bell, he targeted Shanna and the others instead.

• Bell struck Mu De through the forest, then let the Loa God merge with the old prophet so he could observe the transformation.
• Mu De emerged transformed, boasting of his power, while Bell warned Fina not to eat the Big Bird Loa God.
• Mu De blasted the forest path and destroyed Bell’s Protego Totalum barrier, but Bell pointed out that the attack had endangered his own tribesmen.
• Mu De attacked Bell with a lightning longblade, but Bell dodged dozens of strikes without being hit.
• Mu De redirected a ball of electricity toward Shanna and the others.

Bell and his companions fought Mu De after he merged with a Loa God, while the fusion drove him to attack his own Troll Warriors. As Mu De charged Bell again, Yomi stepped in to take the fight herself.

• Bell split Mu De’s electric sphere with his katana, and the resulting lightning incapacitated nearby Troll Warriors.
• Bell slammed Mu De into the ground and impaled him with earthen spikes, but Mu De drained white smoke from the Troll Warriors to heal and grow stronger.
• Mu De summoned a lightning storm and shattered the ground with an Earthquake Spell, while Bell escaped underground and emerged beside Shanna.
• Mu De declared himself both Mu De and Loa, then charged Bell with a glowing fist.
• Yomi blocked Mu De’s fist with her katana and said she would take him on.

Bell watched Yomi fight Mu De, then stepped in after Yomi’s final attack left Mu De exhausted and the battlefield devastated. He threatened Mu De with Frostmourne to force the Loa God inside him to return the stolen souls.

• Bell reassured Hermione that Yomi would win and asked Shanna whether the Troll Warriors could be saved.
• Shanna said the Troll Warriors were barely alive and might recover if the Loa God returned what it had absorbed from them.
• Bell called for Yomi to finish the fight, and Yomi’s attack shattered space and devastated the battlefield.
• Mu De returned from the Other Dimension Space but collapsed from exhaustion, while Shanna helped the weakened Yomi.
• Bell erased the energy gathering in Mu De’s hand and demanded that he separate from the Loa God and surrender.
• Mu De refused, so Bell drew Frostmourne, whose power terrified Mu De and the Loa God within him.

Bell extracted Mu De’s soul and used Frostmourne to separate the Loa God from it, but Mu De’s soul had been assimilated too extensively to survive. As Hermione worried over the fallen Troll Warriors, Bell came up with another plan that made her wary.

• Bell used Soul Extraction to pull Mu De’s soul from his body and saw that the Loa God was rapidly assimilating it.
• Bell cut into Mu De’s soul and released the faith and souls the Loa God had devoured from the Troll Warriors.
• Bell used Frostmourne to tear Mu De’s soul away from the Loa God, but the soul fragment left behind was too damaged for Mu De to live or retain his sanity.
• Hermione worried about the fallen Troll Warriors and regretted letting Bell handle diplomacy.
• Bell announced that he had thought of a good way forward, making Hermione uneasy about his idea.

Bell restored Great Seer Mu De’s remnant soul with memories taken from the Troll Warriors, then pressured the Loa God to submit to Fina. The Loa God surrendered when Frostmourne’s cold threatened its life.

• Bell checked the Troll Warriors, gathered their memories of Great Seer Mu De, and shaped them into a memory orb.
• Bell strengthened Mu De’s remnant soul with soul fragments and merged the memories into it, leaving the soul to complete the fusion.
• Bell decided to make the Loa God acknowledge Fina as its boss, while Shanna held and played with the bird.
• The Loa God resisted Bell’s demand until Frostmourne’s frost spread across its neck, then surrendered to survive.

Bell revived the Great Seer Mu De and made him a subordinate, then ordered him to resolve the Emerald Peak Tribe’s troubles and fake his death. Bell left the political arrangements to his family and planned to return to building a city.

• Bell told the Loa God to restore the Troll Warriors and warned that he would deal with the Emerald Peak Tribe if they rebelled.
• Mu De regained his memories and pledged himself to Bell, but Bell stopped him from calling him a god and insisted he be called Young Master.
• Bell returned Mu De’s soul to his preserved, dead body and used Ancient Runes to keep it from decaying.
• Bell told Mu De to settle the tribe’s problems quickly, fake his death, and leave before others noticed his body was dead.
• Bell admitted he was poor at plotting and decided to leave the Forest Trolls’ affairs to his family while he returned to building a city.

Bell and his companions shifted their expedition toward finding a city site in the mountains and beyond, where they hoped to confirm reports of another intelligent race. After reaching a vast autumn-colored grassland, Hermione chose it as the place to build their city.

• Bell informed Stuart that the expedition had found the trolls and asked him to send people to contact Mu De, while the Menethil Family changed its focus to investigating Troll Forest.
• Bell, Shanna, and Hermione set out from Emerald Peak Tribe toward the mountain range, and Bell and Shanna joked about the rumored orcs while Shanna drove.
• Hermione warned Bell to stay silent if they encountered the orcs, and Bell explained that the report came from old troll records and had uncertain origins.
• Bell and his companions crossed the mountains and discovered a vast reddish-brown grassland, where Hermione decided she wanted to build the city.
• Bell agreed to search the grassland for a flat site near water and the forest.

Hermione’s group arrived at the Augu Tribe, where Great Shaman Nairuila welcomed them on the warning of the Soul of the Ancestors. Though the tribe’s leaders had decided to send the travelers away, Nairuila invited them inside, leaving their reception tense and uncertain.

• Hermione and her companions landed near the Augu Tribe and met its wary orc inhabitants.
• Hermione introduced her group and learned that Nairuila Xia Cao was the Great Shaman and Viktor Bloodthirsty Blade was the chieftain.
• Nairuila explained that the Soul of the Ancestors had foretold the travelers’ arrival and warned they would bring great change.
• The Augu Tribe’s leaders had voted to drive the travelers away quickly, fearing disruption to their comfortable lives.
• Nairuila invited Bell’s group to a welcoming feast, and Hermione accepted despite the warriors’ hostile looks.

Bell and his group ate roasted Tamu Antelope with the Augu Tribe while Nairuila asked Hermione about Earth and countries. Hermione explained that Earth was a planet, but Nairuila rejected the idea because the land beneath them looked flat.

• Nairuila welcomed Bell and his group into the tribe's hall and served them roasted Tamu Antelope.
• Nairuila and the other orcs prayed before eating, then invited their guests to enjoy the meal.
• Bell tried the meat first, and Shanna and the others followed.
• Nairuila asked Hermione what Earth and a country were, and she described a country as a very large tribe.
• Hermione explained that Earth was a planet, but Nairuila questioned why it was called a ball when the land seemed flat.

Hermione tried to explain that her home world was a spherical planet far away in space, but the Augu Tribe orcs mocked her claims. Great Shaman Nairuila remained interested in the travelers’ origins, while Hermione ended the chapter furious at the crowd.

• Hermione told the orcs that the ground beneath them was a sphere and that the sun, moon, and stars were spherical too.
• The Augu Tribe orcs laughed at Hermione and insisted that the heavenly bodies were discs or points of light.
• Nairuila asked Hermione how far away her home planet was, and she said it was as distant as the stars and that they had traveled by Space Spell.
• An orc Captain mocked Hermione for saying her group had come from the stars, prompting more jeers from the tribe.
• Hermione grew pale with anger as the orcs continued to ridicule her and Bell’s group.

Bell caused the Augu Tribe’s orcs to experience a terrifying vision of outer space, then they suddenly found themselves back in the great hall. Nairuila realized Bell was responsible and feared what he could do, while Hermione remained confused about what had happened.

• The orcs found themselves facing an immense colorful world, two blazing fireballs, and a huge gray sphere in a seemingly endless darkness.
• Salaman panicked and swung his axe wildly as Viktor and Nairuila tried to respond to the apparent catastrophe.
• Bell offered Coke, and the orcs abruptly returned to their seats in the great hall, shaken and drenched in cold sweat.
• Nairuila asked Bell whether he had caused the experience, but Bell ignored him and continued eating.
• Hermione wondered why the orcs had suddenly frozen, panicked, and collapsed.

Hermione confirmed that the orcs had seen their world from above, and Nairuila asked whether they could visit Earth. Bell welcomed the idea only if the orcs built a Teleportation Array and swore loyalty to the Menethil Family, provoking Viktor before Nairuila stopped him to clarify what loyalty meant.

• Hermione confirmed that the enormous sphere the orcs had seen was the land beneath their feet, and the orcs debated what life on its underside might be like.
• Nairuila asked Hermione whether the orcs could visit Earth, and Hermione looked to Bell for an answer.
• Bell said Earth would welcome them but required a Teleportation Array and their oath of loyalty to the Menethil Family.
• Viktor smashed the table and threatened Bell, then became even angrier when Bell added that room and board would be included.
• Nairuila restrained Viktor and asked Bell what swearing loyalty would require, explaining that their peoples might understand the word differently.

Bell demanded that the Augu Tribe acknowledge his infant younger brother as their High Chieftain, and Viktor's violent rejection led Bell and Shanna to overpower the tribe's leaders and warriors. Bell eased the crushing gravity after Nairuila pleaded for his clansmen, leaving the old shaman to decide how to respond.

• Nairuila asked Bell what pledging loyalty would require, and Bell said the tribe must recognize his younger brother as High Chieftain.
• Viktor rejected Bell's demand, attacked him with the Bloodthirsty Blade, and was pinned to the floor by Bell's gravity magic along with the other orcs.
• Shanna stopped Nairuila's spell by stuffing roast mutton into his mouth, then explained that shamans needed chants because they lacked Wands.
• Viktor forced himself upright and challenged Bell again, but Bell increased the gravity and drove him and the other orcs into the floor.
• Nairuila begged Bell to stop as his clansmen suffered, and Bell eased the gravity before listening to the old shaman.

Bell negotiated with the Augu Tribe, agreeing to a Sacred Duel against its injured chieftain, Viktor, in one week to decide whether Bell could become their chieftain. After leaving the tribe, Bell planned to explore the great grassland and search for other orc tribes before construction began.

• Nairuila said the Augu Tribe would not submit unconditionally and named a Sacred Duel against its strongest warrior as the condition for Bell to become chieftain.
• Bell agreed to the duel without magic, and Nairuila said the injured Viktor needed time to recover.
• Viktor accepted the one-week deadline, refused Bell's healing potions, and vowed to take Bell's head.
• Bell left the Augu Tribe with his companions and observed the orcs' living conditions on the way out.
• Bell told Shanna they would spend the next few days exploring the grassland and looking for other orc tribes.

Bell and his companions spent five days scouting the grassland and sampling its animals while preparing for the Augu Tribe’s campaign. With only one forested mountain range left to explore, they planned to finish their survey and rest before the duel in two days.

• Shanna and Bell decided to search for the delicious antelope by tasting the grassland’s animals, and Shanna urged everyone into the Flying Car.
• Bell told Hermione they would observe the orcs from a distance and explained that their scouting would help the Augu Tribe prepare to unify the orcs.
• Yomi offered to take Bell’s place in the duel, and Hermione supported her, but Bell said he had already promised to fight and would not break his word.
• Hermione suggested bringing Jennifer and her subordinates, but Bell declined because they were already overworked.
• Bell’s group spent five days mapping the grassland, observing its orcs, and collecting samples while tasting many of the animals.
• Shanna identified a forested mountain range as the last unexplored area, and Bell planned to finish scouting it before resting ahead of the duel.

Bell and his companions discovered an isolated mountain covered in unnaturally cultivated magical plants and investigated its unusually orderly Magic Power. They began searching for the source of the anomaly, hoping to uncover a way to keep Magic Power stable outside a Wizard's body.

• Bell showed Hermione surveillance feeds of orc tribes and said they had mapped the tribes' locations for Nairuila to study.
• Bell noticed unusual vegetation on a distant mountain, and Shanna turned the Flying Car toward it after confirming the plants seemed deliberately cultivated.
• Bell sensed that the mountain's Magic Power was unusually concentrated and orderly, but he could not communicate with it.
• Hermione suggested the mountain might be an Earth Element Creature, but Bell found no sign that it had consciousness or instincts.
• Bell proposed searching the mountain for clues about how its Magic Power remained stable, and the four Wizards spread out to investigate.

Bell’s group found two orc shamans guarding Holy Mountain and fought them after the orcs declared trespassing a capital crime. Yomi sent Ke Er crashing into the mountainside, while Hermione faced Sa Lu.

• Ke Er and Sa Lu confronted Bell’s group and demanded to know why they had entered Holy Mountain.
• Ke Er attacked Bell, but Yomi blocked his Bone Blade with her tachi and chipped it.
• Sa Lu hurled a fireball at the group, but Bell’s barrier protected them from the flames.
• Bell assigned Hermione to fight Sa Lu and Yomi to fight Ke Er, then sat with Shanna to watch.
• Yomi dodged Ke Er’s strike and kicked him into the mountainside, where he stood up with hard, earth-gray rock covering his face.

Yomi and Hermione fought the two orc shamans guarding the Holy Mountain, with Hermione defeating Sa Lu and Yomi gaining the upper hand against Ke Er. Sa Lu fell, while Ke Er remained kneeling after Yomi’s punishing strike.

• Ke Er drew on the Holy Mountain’s Magic Power and attacked Yomi, but she evaded his blow and narrowly cut his hair.
• Sa Lu struggled against Hermione’s rapid spells and summoned an Earth Elemental from a boulder for protection.
• Sa Lu prepared a Lava Fireball, but Hermione appeared behind him, dispelled it, and caused his Magic Power to run wild.
• Hermione used Petrificus Totalus to immobilize Sa Lu, took his warhammer, and watched the Earth Elemental collapse.
• Yomi sliced through Ke Er’s weapon and kicked him in the stomach, forcing him to drop to his knees.