Chapter Summaries

Nuoyaji rented a room at the Old Oak Inn while Black Owl watched the inn from a rooftop with Fuyila. King Ghidorah investigated Fuyila’s strange red stone and considered the possible connection between her and Nuoyaji, but neither knew the other.

• Nuoyaji paid the innkeeper for a room and dinner, then went upstairs to rest in the storm-damaged inn.
• The innkeeper searched his kitchen for a missing piece of wild boar and failed to notice gold coins on the chopping board.
• Black Owl asked Fuyila whether she knew the young man who had entered the Old Oak Inn, and she said she did not.
• King Ghidorah sensed that Nuoyaji carried the aura of a world node and wondered whether he had arrived before his connection with Fuyila began.
• Black Owl examined Fuyila’s dark red stone with psionic energy, found dormant unfamiliar energy inside it, and returned it to her.

Nuoyaji planned how to approach Viscount Heluos, inspect the old mine route, and watch for signs of Fuyila, whose future rampage he remembered from his previous life. On the rooftop, Fuyila thanked Black Owl for feeding her, then continued south toward the sea as her mother had instructed.

• Nuoyaji reviewed his plans and decided to contact the viscount's secretary, Yimulei, to seek an audience with Viscount Heluos.
• Nuoyaji planned to have Fuke scout the old mine tunnels and check whether they could reopen a grain supply route.
• Nuoyaji recalled how Fuyila had become the Cursed One in his previous life and resolved to watch for reports of an unidentified girl in the southern nations.
• Fuyila finished eating on the rooftop and thanked Black Owl, who then vanished.
• Fuyila touched the warm stone at her chest and continued walking south toward the sea, following her mother's instruction.

Nuoyaji learned that Yimulei had gone to inspect the storm-damaged mine, so he traveled outside the city to offer help in person. At the Magic Nexus Mine, Yimulei faced a buried entrance, damaged tunnels, and missing miners whose survival remained uncertain.

• Nuoyaji asked the innkeeper about Yimulei and learned that he had left Luoweida to inspect the mine after the storm.
• Nuoyaji changed his plan and headed outside the city, hoping to offer Yimulei useful advice at the mine.
• An engineer told Yimulei that the main tunnels were blocked and another tunnel was dangerously unstable.
• A mercenary captain reported that the search had found no missing miners, but Yimulei insisted the rescue effort continue until their fate was confirmed.
• Yimulei ordered the exhausted guards and mercenaries to take a fifteen-minute break.

Nuoyaji approached Yimulei at the collapsed mine and offered a plan to bring food into Luoweida through an abandoned mine tunnel. Yimulei agreed to take him to the viscount, while King Ghidorah watched through Black Owl and then left with Fuyila.

• Yimulei worried that the mine collapse and food shortage would cause Luoweida's people to lose hope and turn against the authorities.
• Nuoyaji told Yimulei that an abandoned mine tunnel southeast of Luoweida could provide a route for bringing in food from beyond the storm damage.
• Yimulei questioned Nuoyaji's knowledge but agreed to bring him to the viscount after Nuoyaji urged him to act quickly.
• Nuoyaji asked Yimulei to have search crews check the mine's ventilation shafts, and Yimulei ordered the mercenary captain to send men.
• King Ghidorah watched the conversation through Black Owl, then had Black Owl meet Fuyila and leave with her.

Black Owl learned that Fuyila had tracked him by scent, then vanished after she finished eating. At the collapsed Magic Nexus Mine, Nuoyaji used Supernatural Hearing and heard footsteps beyond the rubble, suggesting someone might still be trapped inside.

• Black Owl asked Fuyila how she had found him, and she said she had followed his scent.
• After Fuyila finished her bread, Black Owl vanished before her eyes.
• Yimulei told Nuoyaji that he had sent people to investigate the old mine passage and planned to stabilize grain prices until supplies arrived.
• Nuoyaji recognized that the storm, rather than mining or geological problems, had caused the mine collapse.
• Despite the mercenary captain's warning, Nuoyaji approached the blocked passage and used Supernatural Hearing.
• Nuoyaji heard footsteps on the other side of the rubble.

Nuoyaji heard footsteps beyond the mine rubble, and Yimulei's men dug out thirteen trapped miners. The footsteps had come from farther inside the mine, where darkness still concealed whatever was moving.

• Nuoyaji used Supernatural Hearing to tell Yimulei that someone was moving inside the mine beyond the rubble.
• Yimulei ordered the captain and the men to dig carefully while Nuoyaji listened for sounds from the passage.
• The digging stopped when the men heard cracking stone, and Nuoyaji spotted a bloodied hand through a gap in the rubble.
• Nuoyaji urged the men to move a large rock, revealing thirteen injured miners trapped in a cramped space.
• The captain and the others gave the miners water and carried the badly injured away while Nuoyaji realized the footsteps had come from deeper inside the mine.

King Ghidorah explored the collapsed mine as Black Owl, where he found and freed thirteen trapped miners. He made footsteps to alert Nuoyaji and the rescuers, then walked deeper into the mine.

• Black Owl examined the collapsed mine and discovered a wounded miner still alive beneath the rubble.
• Black Owl freed the miner, then searched the mine and dug out thirteen survivors, leaving them together near the tunnel entrance.
• King Ghidorah sensed Nuoyaji and other rescuers on the far side of the rubble and deliberately made footsteps for them to hear.
• Nuoyaji called out that someone was inside, and Black Owl stopped walking.
• Black Owl left the miners and headed deeper into the mine.

Black Owl found a vast, pulsing pit beneath the mine and realized an ancient behemoth was sleeping there, while Nuoyaji rescued miners and spotted a mysterious shadow. The Silence Society confirmed their search had failed and headed southeast to find a loosened seal and wait for the beings beneath it to awaken.

• King Ghidorah sent Black Owl deeper into the damaged mine, where he discovered a bottomless pit and felt a slow pulse coming from below.
• King Ghidorah concluded that the storm and landslide had disturbed an ancient behemoth but chose not to awaken it yet.
• Nuoyaji helped rescue the trapped miners, and Yimulei thanked him and offered to take him to the viscount.
• Nuoyaji saw a small, cloaked black figure near the trees, chased it, and returned unsettled by how events were diverging from his knowledge of the future.
• The Silence Society learned that the storm-ravaged field was not the place they sought, and their leader ordered them to find the remaining site and wait for its inhabitants to awaken.

King Ghidorah recovered fully, unleashed a controlled hurricane, and flew toward the continent’s interior to explore it. In a distant forest, A Qiu finished a crude shelter with help from animals and remembered how the storm had destroyed her former home.

• King Ghidorah inspected his restored body and decided to leave his side quests behind to explore the world.
• King Ghidorah spread his wings, heated the lake, and formed a storm that he kept within a radius of a dozen or so kilometers.
• King Ghidorah flew inland beneath the storm clouds, keeping his body hidden from view.
• A Qiu finished building a small shelter and thanked the animals that had helped her.
• A Qiu remembered the peaceful wooden home she had built and how the storm had swept it away.

After a catastrophic storm destroyed her forest home, A Qiu struggled to rebuild a shelter and mourned her missing family. Her animal friends sensed another danger as a vast black cloud appeared and began spreading across the sky.

• A Qiu recalled how a violent storm lifted her cabin and forced her and her animal friends to shelter underground.
• After the storm, A Qiu found the forest flattened and her familiar home and landmarks gone.
• A Qiu and her animal friends gathered usable timber and built a crude cabin.
• A Qiu wept over her lost home and worried about her parents, then resolved to search for them.
• A Qiu's animal friends grew alarmed and dragged her toward shelter as a black cloud rapidly spread across the sky.

King Ghidorah fed on the storm’s lightning as he flew deeper into the continent, leaving the storm’s destruction below. A Qiu and the small animals survived the storm, but she accidentally smashed her newly built wooden house and decided to rebuild it.

• King Ghidorah absorbed energy from the storm and flew onward, dismissing the damage left by his earlier superstorm.
• A Qiu and the small animals took shelter from the fast-moving storm, which passed almost as quickly as it arrived.
• A Qiu discovered that she had smashed her wooden house while taking cover and broke down crying.
• After the animals tried to comfort her, A Qiu steadied herself, picked up the house’s main beam, and resolved to build again.

King Ghidorah surveyed the storm-ravaged mountains, remembered that he wanted a lair, and decided to find or claim a castle. Meanwhile, a group of black-robed figures arrived at abandoned ruins in the western Karelia Empire, where their leader prepared to put the others to work.

• King Ghidorah landed in a flooded mountain region and recognized it as being near the place where he had first awakened.
• King Ghidorah remembered that he wanted a home and compared his lack of a lair to Godzilla’s grand undersea temple.
• King Ghidorah decided to seize a suitable castle, ask Apekus for directions, or have Apekus build him one.
• A group of black-robed figures entered an abandoned mine site in the western Karelia Empire.
• The group’s leader identified the ruins as their destination and told the others he would be putting them through trouble.

Duke Desolation, Marquis Darkblood, Keyin Yidu, and other powerful figures followed the black-robed leader into a collapsed mine to investigate what lay beneath it. They reached an enormous underground chamber, where murals covered the walls.

• The black-robed leader revealed Duke Desolation, Marquis Darkblood, and Keyin Yidu among the figures gathered at the ruins.
• Duke Desolation cleared the rubble from the mine entrance with a single motion and led the group inside.
• The group followed the mine tunnel to a vast pit and jumped down into its depths.
• Duke Desolation and Marquis Darkblood landed safely in the underground space, where the group saw murals covering the chamber walls.

The leading black-robed man and his companions channeled their power into an ancient altar, awakening the dragon of destruction Voraksa. As dark red light consumed the underground chamber, the black-robed man knelt before the awakening being.

• The director of the Chronicle Court, Marquis Darkblood, Duke Desolation, and the leading black-robed man discovered ancient murals depicting a dragon and an altar beneath the pit.
• The leading black-robed man placed a black-and-red crystal in the altar and ordered the others to channel their power into it.
• The altar devoured their energy, leaving Duke Desolation, Marquis Darkblood, and the director of the Chronicle Court exhausted.
• The crystal split as the altar and murals lit up, and the leading black-robed man announced that the dragon of destruction was awakening.
• The leading black-robed man knelt and called the ancient being Voraksa as dark red light devoured the chamber.

A ritual beneath an abandoned mine unleashed a devastating pillar of light and freed the ancient dragon Voraksa. Voraksa emerged into the human age, declared his survival and hatred of the gods, while King Ghidorah flew toward the disturbance.

• The black-robed leader waited for the altar’s fissure to release the being he had awakened, while Duke Desolation and Marquis Darkblood watched.
• Purple light spread through the underground chamber, then vanished as an enormous dark red pillar erupted and destroyed the mine ruins above.
• King Ghidorah noticed the distant eruption and changed course to investigate.
• The black-robed leader saw a huge black dragon claw its way out of the pit where the altar had stood.
• Voraksa sensed that the gods were gone, declared himself the Dragon of Destruction, and spread his wings as he proclaimed that he had survived.

Voraksa emerged from his underground prison and set out to announce his return by destroying a city, but King Ghidorah defeated him with a single golden lightning strike and pinned him to the ground. After learning Voraksa had no castle, King Ghidorah ordered him to lead the way to one.

• Voraksa flew from the pit and searched for a target to destroy, then sensed an enormous, unfamiliar creature nearby.
• Voraksa attacked King Ghidorah, but golden lightning erased his left wing and sent him crashing to the ground.
• King Ghidorah pinned Voraksa beneath his foot and left him badly injured while questioning him.
• King Ghidorah asked whether Voraksa had a castle, and Voraksa said he did not.
• Voraksa told King Ghidorah that he knew where a castle was, and King Ghidorah ordered him to lead the way.

The unnamed leader of the men in black died amid the ruins after the pillar of light devastated the underground chamber. A wounded middle-aged man emerged from the rubble and headed toward the edge of the pit, leaving the other survivors behind.

• The pillar of light killed Duke Desolation and severely injured Marquis Darkblood, the head of the Chronicle Court, and Shattered Pivot Executioner.
• The unnamed leader of the men in black lay dying and mistook a blurred figure for his mother before he died.
• A middle-aged man in a dark blue robe climbed out from under the rubble and bound his injured arm.
• The middle-aged man surveyed the ruins, saw that Marquis Darkblood was still alive, and walked toward the slope without looking back.

Voraksa led King Ghidorah toward a dragon elder’s palace but found the plain he remembered submerged beneath a vast flood, suggesting the palace had been destroyed. He struggled to explain the changed terrain to King Ghidorah and accidentally brushed his healing wing stump against his magic field.

• King Ghidorah remarked that Voraksa had recovered well as they flew across the sky.
• Voraksa recognized the flooded landscape as the place where he had expected to find a dragon elder’s palace.
• Voraksa reasoned that the gods’ ancient wars might have transformed the land and destroyed the palace.
• King Ghidorah questioned Voraksa when he slowed, and Voraksa hesitated over how to explain that their destination might be gone.
• Voraksa’s magic output wavered as he tried to steady himself, and his left wing stump brushed against his lifting field.

King Ghidorah questioned Voraksa about the War of the Gods and learned that Voraksa had been defeated within its first few decades, long before the war’s decisive battles. King Ghidorah ordered him to find a palace or die, and Voraksa flew off to search.

• Voraksa fell into the lake after a slight brush from King Ghidorah, then climbed out and stood before him.
• King Ghidorah asked when Voraksa had been defeated and whether he knew Apekus, but Voraksa had never heard of him.
• Voraksa said he was roughly at the eleventh tier and claimed that dozens of gods had worn him down over decades.
• King Ghidorah learned that Voraksa had been eliminated only a few decades into the thousand-year War of the Gods and dismissed what he could know about it.
• King Ghidorah ordered Voraksa to find him a palace or die, and Voraksa flew away to search.

King Ghidorah resumed control of Black Owl and discovered Fuyila had stayed beside the avatar while he was away. Reviewing its memories, he learned that Nuoyaji had used his knowledge as a regressor to secure aid and organize relief for Luoweida, leaving King Ghidorah convinced that Nuoyaji benefited from a protagonist halo.

• King Ghidorah left Voraksa to search and transferred his consciousness into Black Owl in Luoweida City.
• Black Owl stood abruptly and knocked Fuyila to the floor, then King Ghidorah realized she had stayed beside the avatar and tried to feed it bread.
• Fuyila said an uncle had given her the bread, and King Ghidorah reviewed Black Owl's records of the past day and a half.
• Nuoyaji gained Viscount Heluos's authorization and gold, reopened an abandoned mine route, and arranged for a prominent woman to guarantee grain sales to Luoweida.
• Nuoyaji and Dezi established a transparent Disaster Relief Committee and secured advance wages for miners who agreed to clear and repair the damaged mines.
• King Ghidorah concluded that Nuoyaji's successes came from his regressor's knowledge and the protagonist halo, and found the world interesting.