Chapter Summaries

Redd tried to earn the old red dragon’s trust by using his blood to break its curse. As the dragon regained its health and strength, it fixed a keen gaze on Redd, leaving its response to his gesture uncertain.

• After the dragons finished their meal, Redd decided that helping the old red dragon overcome its curse was the best way to earn its trust.
• Redd cut his palm, collected a cup of his blood, and gently persuaded the wary old dragon to open its mouth.
• Redd poured the blood into the dragon, then watched as its scales regained their sheen and its cursed growths began to recede.
• Over the next hour, the growths and rotting sores vanished, and the dragon’s eyes became bright and keen as it studied Redd.

Redd won the Crimson Demon Dragon Aegon’s acceptance as his companion, then learned that Aegon was nearing the end of his lifespan. Redd wondered whether evolution points could extend Aegon’s life and examined the dragons’ information before reviewing his own panel.

• Redd asked the Old Dragon to become his companion, and after a clash of roars with Ehm, the dragon showed acceptance.
• Redd checked his Pet Panel and found that the dragon, Crimson Demon Dragon Aegon, had joined his companions.
• Redd learned that Aegon was 211 years old, in old age, and had fewer than nine years left before reaching his maximum lifespan.
• Redd wondered whether evolution points could extend Aegon’s lifespan and compared the information on Aegon, Ehm, and King Ghidorah.
• Redd opened his Personal Panel, saw that he had two evolution points, and turned his attention back to Aegon’s evolution path.

Redd struggled with the 10,000 evolution points required for Aegon and Ehm to reach the Titan stage, then compared their paths with King Ghidorah’s gradual growth. As he weighed the dragons’ different routes, he noticed an overlooked detail in King Ghidorah’s information.

• Redd calculated that hunting Sandworms would earn evolution points too slowly to reach the 10,000 required to extend Aegon’s life.
• Redd found that both Aegon and Ehm needed 10,000 points to reach the Titan stage.
• Redd saw that King Ghidorah progressed through infancy, youth, adulthood, and maturity, with lower costs for its earlier stages.
• Redd compared the dragons’ evolution paths and considered choosing between rapid advancement and gradual growth.
• Redd returned to King Ghidorah’s information and noticed a detail he had previously overlooked.

Redd discovered that his age was listed as “12 years (12-infinity)” and believed he had an unlimited lifespan, which filled him with confidence about earning evolution points for Aegon. He set out for the Valyria Ruins on Ehm, while Aegon reacted with disbelief and offense to Redd’s boastful words.

• Redd expanded King Ghidorah’s information and saw that its age was listed as “1 year (1-infinity).”
• Redd checked his Personal Panel, saw his own age listed as “12 years (12-infinity),” and became ecstatic at the thought that he might be immortal.
• Redd regained his composure, promised Aegon he would earn even a million evolution points, and announced they would leave for the Valyria Ruins.
• Aegon felt offended and doubtful when Redd called him “kid” and boasted about burning the ruins, but Redd failed to notice his reaction.
• Redd climbed onto Ehm as the Black Dragon took flight, then pulled King Ghidorah from his head and tucked it against his chest.

Redd coordinated Ehm and Aegon in a highly effective hunt across the Valyria Ruins, gathering Evolution Points and growing confident that he could reach ten thousand. Over the next six months, the trio hunted creatures and searched the ruins for useful treasures.

• Redd set a target of at least twenty Sandworms and led Ehm and the struggling Aegon into the air.
• Redd directed Ehm to draw out Sandworms while Aegon covered him with Dragonfire, and the dragons learned to hunt together.
• Redd and the dragons killed twenty-seven Sandworms in one day, earning fifty-four Evolution Points.
• Redd praised Aegon, who complained that his wings were exhausted from flying.
• Over the next six months, Redd, Ehm, and Aegon hunted creatures across the Valyria Ruins and searched the rubble for Evolution Points and treasures.

Redd and his dragons spent six months scavenging the Valyria Ruins, collecting weapons, damaged books, and more than a hundred Dragon Eggs while building up over six thousand evolution points. With daytime prey gone, Redd considered hunting at night, and the chapter ended with King Ghidorah biting through and swallowing a piece of metal.

• Redd collected rusted weapons and ancient books, learning fragments about Valyria, House Targaryen, the Black Mist Demon Eye, and the Orc Invasion, while the magic texts remained unreadable to him.
• Redd and his dragons gathered more than a hundred Dragon Eggs from across the ruins, and Ehm and Aegon watched over the eggs protectively.
• After six months of hunting and exploring, Redd had amassed just over six thousand evolution points toward his goal of ten thousand.
• Redd flew with Ehm, Aegon, and King Ghidorah over the ruins but found no prey, black mist, or Sandworms.
• Redd returned to the Dragonpit and decided that hunting at night might be necessary to find more prey and evolution points.
• Redd saw King Ghidorah bite off and swallow a piece of metal, marveling at the young dragon’s growth and strong teeth.

Redd took Ehm, Aegon, and King Ghidorah out at night to hunt in the Valyria Ruins despite the dragons’ warnings. After a pack of wild dogs was burned, a strange white shadow emerged from the corpses, Aegon became cursed and began falling, and Ehm caught him before he struck the ground.

• Redd insisted on leaving the Dragonpit to find food, despite Ehm and Aegon warning him that the night was dangerous.
• Redd flew with Ehm and Aegon over the ruins and saw numerous creatures stirring beneath the night sky.
• Redd directed Ehm and Aegon to burn a pack of wild dogs, then noticed a brief white shadow rise from the corpses.
• A humanlike scream rang out, and Aegon cried in pain as his flight faltered; Redd saw that Aegon's status had changed to cursed.
• Redd ordered Ehm to catch Aegon, and Ehm seized Aegon's tail to stop his fall.

Redd and the weakened dragons crash-land in the Valyria Ruins, where fire reveals that nearby beasts are transforming into grotesque masses of flesh. As the creatures attack and spread the transformation to others, an awakened black mist threatens to make the situation even worse.

• Redd ordered Ehm to fly toward Fire Peak, but Ehm's exhausted wings gave out and he crashed to the ground with Aegon.
• Redd had Ehm and Aegon set the nearby vegetation ablaze, driving back the approaching beasts with firelight.
• Redd saw wild dogs and other creatures swell with growths and transform into foul-smelling, deformed lumps of flesh.
• The transformed creatures charged through the flames, and Ehm burned the leading attacker with Black Dragonfire.
• Redd discovered that nearby beasts began transforming after contact with the fleshy creatures or even a slight scorch from the flames.
• The black mist that had appeared during the day seemed to awaken as the threat escalated.

Redd and the dragons fought their way toward the lava vent as cursed creatures swarmed them in the Valyria Ruins at night. Ehm became cursed and weakened, leaving Redd desperate to reach safety before the group was overwhelmed.

• Redd realized the creatures were converging on them and ordered the weakened Aegon to crawl toward the lava vent.
• Aegon crawled toward the lava while Ehm fought off the creatures with dragonfire, its tail, and its wings.
• Redd noticed Ehm weakening and saw its status change from "Good" to "Cursed" on the system panel.
• Redd concluded that vengeful spirits inside the ruins' living creatures awakened at night and attacked dragons and fire.
• Redd could not safely reach Ehm to use his blood to lift the curse, so he urged the group onward toward the lava vent.

Redd used his blood to slow Ehm’s curse, stabilizing the dragon long enough for the group to fight their way toward the magma river. They reached its scorching edge, where the pursuing creatures held back, leaving them temporarily safe.

• Redd pried open one of Ehm’s scales, cut his own palm, and pressed his blood into Ehm’s wound.
• Ehm’s status flickered between cursed and weakened, but his condition stabilized for the moment.
• Redd rejected the idea of climbing onto Aegon because the dragon’s back was covered in dangerous bone spikes, and continued directing the dragons from Ehm’s back.
• Ehm, King Ghidorah, and Aegon fought off the creatures as Redd guided them toward the lava vent.
• After nearly an hour, the dragons reached the magma river, and the heat drove the pursuing creatures back.

Redd and the three dragons fought their way upstream along the lava river toward their lair atop the Broken Volcano as black mist drove the flesh creatures into a suicidal attack. After reaching the mountain and burning back their pursuers, they encountered a gigantic sandworm erupting from underground.

• Redd ordered Aegon, Ehm, and King Ghidorah to move upstream along the lava river, using its heat as a barrier against the flesh creatures.
• Black mist enveloped the creatures and drove them to cross the scorching lava bank despite their bodies burning, forcing the dragons to keep fighting as they advanced.
• After more than two hours, Redd and the dragons reached the foot of the Broken Volcano, where the mist and creatures stopped short of the mountain.
• Redd ordered Aegon to climb toward the summit and directed Ehm to fly and burn the black mist and creatures below.
• As Redd thought the danger had passed, a gigantic, joint-limbed sandworm burst out of the ground.

Redd and Ehm escaped a nighttime Sandworm attack and returned to the volcano lair, where Redd checked his companions’ conditions. Finding Aegon still cursed, Redd cut his palm and prepared to make the sleeping dragon swallow his blood.

• Redd ordered Ehm to take flight as multiple Sandworms burst from the ground and hurled rocks at them.
• Ehm carried Redd through the barrage and brought him back to the volcano lair, where Aegon was asleep and dangerously weak.
• Redd checked the system statuses and found himself and King Ghidorah well, Ehm weakened, and Aegon cursed.
• Redd cut his palm and gestured for King Ghidorah and Ehm to help him give his blood to Aegon.

Redd gave Aegon blood until the dragon’s status changed from cursed to weakened, then kept watch over the ruins and slept in the den. The next morning, he woke to King Ghidorah’s heads tugging his hair and chewing on his sword hilt, and threatened to punish them for their pranks.

• Redd and Ehm pried open Aegon’s mouth while King Ghidorah helped, and Redd fed the dragon his blood until his status changed to weakened.
• Redd checked the dark ruins from Fire Peak and confirmed the creatures below had not approached the lair.
• Redd returned to the den, slept on King Ghidorah, and woke the next morning when one of its heads tugged his hair.
• Redd scolded Er Lang for pulling his hair and threatened to grind the heads’ horns flat if their pranks made him go bald.
• San Lang approached Redd while chewing a metal sword hilt, and Redd realized the dragon had taken it from his waist.

Redd began a thorough excavation of the Fire Peak ruins, hoping to uncover the source of the protection that had kept the black mist and mutated creatures away. He found treasure and Dragon Eggs, then continued searching the surrounding fortress ruins with King Ghidorah.

• Redd checked the sleeping Black Dragon Ehm and Red Dragon Aegon and saw that both had survived the previous night's battle, though Aegon was marked as aged.
• Redd decided the Fire Peak ruins concealed the source of their protection and set out to search them again with King Ghidorah.
• Redd and King Ghidorah excavated a ruined tower and found chests containing gold dragons and Dragon Eggs, some of which still showed signs of life.
• Redd and King Ghidorah spent the following days hunting for food and excavating the fortress ruins across Fire Peak and the surrounding peaks, uncovering supplies, treasure, and weapons.

Redd finished looting the ruined Valyrian fortresses and searched their books for clues about the volcanoes’ protective power. He discovered that the Valyrians used Dragonbinder and an ancient ritual to form a blood bond with dragons, then learned how that bond helped them defeat the Ghiscari Empire and establish the Freehold.

• Redd and King Ghidorah spent nearly two months excavating more than thirty ruined volcanic fortresses, recovering 632 vital Dragon Eggs and numerous books.
• Exhausted by the slow excavation, Redd told King Ghidorah to keep digging and promised him all the metal he found, then turned to studying the books.
• Redd found a tome about the Fourteen Flames and learned that fourteen volcanoes had once formed a chain linking the Valyrian Peninsula to Essos.
• The tome described how Valyrians used Dragonbinder and an ancient ritual to create a blood connection with dragons, then raised young dragons to trust humans.
• Redd learned that dragon riders helped the Valyrians crush the Ghiscari Empire and establish the Valyrian Freehold across much of southern Essos.

Redd learned that the Valyrians had reshaped the Fire Peaks with fire magic and human labor to raise dragons, then decided to investigate an extinguished volcano for clues about their work. He began excavating a ruined Fire Peak with Kevin, but the first finds yielded no magical runes.

• Redd read that the Valyrians killed Tamos and his followers, conquered Essos, and reshaped the Fire Peaks to expand their dragon population.
• Redd wondered if the Valyrians' alterations had contributed to the Doom, but dismissed the idea because the black mist and creatures in the ruins suggested something different.
• Redd decided to investigate an extinguished Fire Peak and searched the surrounding area with the three dragons for a suitable volcano.
• Redd and Kevin began digging inside a cooled crater while Da Lang and Er Lang slacked off and Ehm and Aegon lit the way from outside.
• Redd and Kevin unearthed corroded iron pillars without magical runes, and Kevin used Gravity Beams to break through solidified lava.

Redd and King Ghidorah dug through the volcanic crater, uncovering Valyrian steel supports and artificial passages that suggested the Valyrians had controlled the volcano with magic. A sudden earthquake forced Redd and his dragons to flee, and he ended the day wondering whether they should leave their cramped lair.

• Redd and King Ghidorah spent a month digging deeper into the crater and found a huge Valyrian steel spike marked with faint magical runes.
• Redd discovered artificial caverns and passages and hypothesized that the Valyrians had used them to manage lava, heat, and volcanic pressure.
• Redd called off the digging, and he and King Ghidorah climbed back toward the crater's surface.
• A violent earthquake shook the crater, sending rocks tumbling, so Redd ordered King Ghidorah and the other dragons to fly out.
• The tremors stopped once Redd and the dragons escaped, and he returned to their lair and considered moving somewhere safer.

Redd and the three dragons escaped as Fire Peak erupted and destroyed their Dragonpit, then moved to another volcanic peak. After waiting through the night for another attack, Redd began to doubt his suspicions as the dragons fell asleep.

• Redd felt the ground heat up and tremble, then saw lava churning violently inside Fire Peak’s fissure.
• Redd climbed onto the Black Dragon Ehm and ordered the three dragons to flee as the eruption began.
• Fire Peak’s slope collapsed, and flowing lava swallowed the Dragonpit.
• Redd led King Ghidorah, the Black Dragon Ehm, and the Red Dragon Aegon to another volcanic peak and kept them outside the lair while he waited for danger.
• Nothing happened through the night, and Redd’s nerves eased as the three dragons fell asleep.

Redd and the dragons woke to a volcanic eruption on Fire Peak and scrambled to escape the advancing lava. King Ghidorah, Black Dragon Ehm, and Red Dragon Aegon barely took flight before the lava swallowed their platform.

• Redd fell asleep on Black Dragon Ehm while the dragons rested at their lair on Fire Peak.
• The volcano erupted, sending lava down the slopes and shaking the mountain awake.
• Redd shouted for King Ghidorah to wake Ehm and Aegon, and King Ghidorah shocked them with arcs of electricity.
• Redd urged Black Dragon Ehm and Red Dragon Aegon to take off as lava engulfed their lair and raced toward the platform.
• King Ghidorah flew up first, and Black Dragon Ehm and Red Dragon Aegon barely managed to take flight before the lava reached them.

Redd and the three dragons escaped a volcanic eruption in the Valyria Ruins, but Ehm and Aegon suffered severe wing injuries. They fled toward the Smoking Sea and Essos, then landed on a distant mountain summit to recover.

• The volcano erupted as Redd and the dragons tried to escape, sending magma, rocks, ash, and poisonous fog after them.
• King Ghidorah used gravity beams to destroy incoming superheated rocks while Ehm and Aegon were battered and their wing membranes torn.
• Redd concluded that the Valyria Ruins were no longer safe and that a god might be targeting him, so he ordered the dragons toward the Smoking Sea and Essos.
• The exhausted dragons struggled through a long flight, with Ehm and Aegon bleeding from their wounds.
• The dragons landed on a mountain summit at the edge of the Valyria Ruins, where Redd climbed down from Ehm and looked back over the place where he had first found shelter.