Chapter Summaries

King Ghidorah learned that the palace belonged to a vast empire of more than thirteen million people and declared Sangis his subordinate, ordering her to bring him government documents. Sangis went to the archives while the shaken attendants recovered, leaving King Ghidorah in control of the palace.

• King Ghidorah used telepathy to question Sangis about the red dragon ruler and the empire.
• Sangis explained that Valerirus had founded the empire about a thousand years earlier and that it now had over fifty cities and more than thirteen million people.
• Sangis reported that the empire had about 13.4 million registered residents and sixty-seven dragons, prompting King Ghidorah to question Apekus's claim that the dragons had been exterminated.
• King Ghidorah appointed Sangis his subordinate and told her to continue managing the palace and bring him some documents.
• Sangis headed to the second-floor archives and ordered the stunned attendants to get to their feet.

Lufuna prepared to flee Vagrian with the head librarian, the silent librarian, and a little girl as the city reeled from upheaval. A palace guard announced that Valerirus had yielded the throne to Caesar, while shocked nobles gathered near the palace.

• Lufuna rushed into the library carrying the little girl, and the head librarian gave her credentials for Gerlen City and urged her to leave with only essentials.
• Lufuna and the little girl gathered rare books while the head librarian packed ancient texts and the silent librarian kept watch at the entrance.
• Hearing the square grow calmer, Lufuna saw a palace guard on a wyvern announce that Valerirus had passed the throne to Caesar and that the city guard would respond.
• The head librarian told Lufuna to stop watching and leave, and she gave the little girl a book with a red dragon on its cover to carry.
• Near the palace, more than a dozen powerful nobles, including the Lord Protector and Duke Luer Yas, sat in stunned silence around a table.

The empire’s nobles discussed how to respond after the Red Dragon Emperor was defeated and taken away, while the Silence Society confirmed that the black dragon was Voraksa and noted his mysterious golden companion. The chapter ended with the Society urging its contacts to act quickly regarding the empire’s forbidden zone.

• The Lord Protector and the nobles agreed that they could not resist the new rulers directly and planned to seek the Red Dragon Emperor’s return while showing deference to the new emperor.
• Duke Luer Yas proposed sending a young dragon knight from the Lannaro Family to watch the forbidden zone instead of risking the Lord Protector.
• White-robed members of the Silence Society confirmed that their target was Voraksa, whom legends called the Silencer of the Gods.
• The Silence Society members discussed the golden three-headed dragon, which they believed might be as powerful and mysterious as Voraksa.
• A senior white-robed man ordered his companions to press their contacts to move faster regarding the forbidden zone.

Sangis briefed King Ghidorah on routine imperial affairs, the empire’s administration, and the mysterious Forbidden Land. King Ghidorah assigned Voraksa to investigate it and prepared to meet the Lord Protector, the Imperial Guard commander, and several grand dukes.

• Sangis read reports about the Noble Academy’s expansion, flooding in Antioch City, a miners’ strike in Tharsis, and a lost wyvern, prompting King Ghidorah to question why such matters reached him.
• Sangis explained that the Lord Protector, an ancient black dragon, dealt with threats to the empire, though she could not explain why he had failed to intervene when the red dragon was attacked.
• Sangis presented a sealed report about the Forbidden Land, which had been protected by Valerirus for over a thousand years and was guarded by an order to kill unauthorized visitors.
• King Ghidorah summoned Voraksa and told him to investigate the Forbidden Land; Voraksa first reported that the red dragon was nearly recovered.
• Sangis told King Ghidorah that the Lord Protector, the commander of the Imperial Guard, and several grand dukes wanted to meet him and had brought gifts.
• Sangis outlined the empire’s Senate, consuls, officials, and local government, then King Ghidorah ordered her to admit the visitors.

Duke Luer Yas, the Lord Protector, and the grand dukes met King Ghidorah and learned that Valerirus had survived and been made a governor. King Ghidorah appointed Voraksa captain of the guard, leaving the Lord Protector puzzled by Valerirus’s calm reaction to his former enemy.

• Duke Luer Yas led the Lord Protector, the imperial guard commander, and the grand dukes into the palace to meet their new sovereign.
• The group knelt before King Ghidorah and introduced themselves, and he asked what they wanted.
• The Lord Protector asked about Valerirus, and King Ghidorah summoned Voraksa, who brought the recovering Red Dragon Emperor into the hall.
• Sangis announced that King Ghidorah had appointed Valerirus governor, demoting him from emperor to a provincial official.
• Sangis announced Voraksa’s appointment as captain of the guard, and Voraksa solemnly thanked King Ghidorah.
• The Lord Protector noticed Valerirus looked unusually calm beside Voraksa and wondered whether Voraksa was pleased with the outcome.

Sangis and King Ghidorah heard Valerirus explain the forbidden land’s ancient history and his reason for coming to guard it. The chapter ended with a white-robed man sitting in a room lined with books.

• The dukes left the great hall, and the Lord Protector glanced back at King Ghidorah before departing.
• Sangis recalled arranging Valerirus’s appointment as provincial governor and Voraksa’s appointment as captain of the guard.
• King Ghidorah asked Sangis to explain the forbidden land, and she deferred to Valerirus’s knowledge.
• Valerirus said the land was once called the Land Abhorred by the Gods, where an evil god had fallen, and that his ancestors had made a pact to guard it.
• Valerirus explained that he had crossed the continent a thousand years earlier to continue fulfilling his ancestor’s promise.
• A white-robed man sat at a desk in a book-filled room, tapping his fingers on an open notebook.

Valerirus explained to King Ghidorah that he had guarded the Forbidden Land in Vagrian to keep the evil god Weiergalun sealed, and King Ghidorah agreed to visit it. Meanwhile, Nuoyaji led his ragged group away from the flooded ruins of Weierna, leaving their destination unanswered.

• A white-robed member of the Silence Society identified Weiergalun as an ancient evil whose fall in Vagrian had created the Forbidden Land, and said the empire's new rulers were no longer human.
• Valerirus told King Ghidorah that Weiergalun's followers had repeatedly tried to resurrect Him and that the Forbidden Land's corruption turned those who entered into murderous monsters.
• King Ghidorah concluded that Valerirus had stayed to guard the Forbidden Land and told him they would go inspect it soon.
• Nuoyaji watched the survivors rest near the flooded city of Weierna, then told them to head west.
• The white-haired girl asked Nuoyaji where they were going, but he did not answer.

Nuoyaji found Fuyila hiding in his caravan and later recruited the fallen spellcaster Chaluoke Weier by confronting him about his past. Chaluoke agreed to help Nuoyaji change the world, then recalled seeing a golden, three-headed dragon after a storm.

• Nuoyaji discovered Fuyila hiding among the caravan’s rations and gave her a place to ride and food to eat.
• A knight riding a griffin delivered several people to the caravan on Lady Meweiro’s behalf, including Chaluoke Weier.
• Nuoyaji recognized Chaluoke and challenged him about abandoning his talent after his closest friend, teacher, and lover died.
• Nuoyaji asked Chaluoke to help prevent disasters and build a stable world, and Chaluoke agreed.
• Nuoyaji asked Chaluoke what unusual events he had witnessed, and Chaluoke recalled a storm followed by a golden, three-headed dragon.

King Ghidorah settled into his role as Vagrian’s new ruler, ordering Sangis to notify other nations and Voraksa to fetch Valeria before flying over the capital to inspect his empire. Members of the Silence Society recorded his flight and discussed making contact, while learning that Valerirus was returning from the Forbidden Land.

• Sangis suggested notifying the continent’s nations that Vagrian had a new ruler, and King Ghidorah approved the announcement under the title Caesar.
• King Ghidorah summoned Voraksa and ordered him to find Valeria and bring her to the palace.
• King Ghidorah flew over Valerilus City to survey the capital, as its people watched and identified him as their new emperor.
• Kaidezi recorded King Ghidorah’s flight, and she and the captain recognized him as the beast from the Western Mine in the Karelia Empire.
• The captain said the Silence Society could try to contact King Ghidorah, and told Kaidezi that Valerirus was returning and the Forbidden Land should be safe for now.

Felipe VIII weighed reports of Vagrian’s new emperor, the empire’s disaster and mysterious beasts, and his son’s unauthorized actions. As he ordered the Crown-Carving Guard to restrain Crown Prince Felipe Kedaoer, he discovered the guards already filled the corridor and his son had arrived.

• Felipe VIII and his confidants discussed Vagrian’s new emperor, Caesar, and decided to send an envoy with proper courtesies.
• The Speaker-General described Crown Prince Felipe Kedaoer’s relief efforts and punishments of profiteering nobles, and Felipe VIII ordered the Crown-Carving Guard to make him behave.
• Felipe VIII read a report of two giant beasts at the Western Mine and learned that Lord Medici could not investigate because the Tower Mage Corps was dealing with storm damage.
• Felipe VIII ordered the Crown-Carving Guard summoned, but the Grand Duke of the Eastern Marches and Marquis White Wind found the guards already lining the corridor.
• Felipe Kedaoer approached the study and greeted his father.

Felipe Kedaoer confronted Emperor Felipe VIII and explained that he had joined the Silence Society to uncover the world’s hidden history and protect the empire from threats beyond its borders. He then revealed that the Crown-Carving Guard had seized the palace and declared himself regent.

• Felipe Kedaoer dismissed the Grand Duke of the Eastern Marches, Marquis Whitewind, Marshal Chesko, and the Speaker-General so he could speak privately with Emperor Felipe VIII.
• Felipe VIII accused Kodaor of ruining the empire, but Kodaor said he was trying to remove corrupt parasites and safeguard the people and the empire.
• Kodaor told Felipe VIII that he had worked with the Silence Society and learned that the gods were real and a demonic god slept in the empire’s eastern Forbidden Land.
• Kodaor described the empire as only a small clearing in a fog-filled world and said he wanted to uncover the truth before the empire was destroyed.
• Kodaor announced that the Crown-Carving Guard had taken control of the palace and that he would govern as regent, then told Felipe VIII to rest.

Hermann von Grimm learned that Valerirus had abdicated in favor of Caesar, a gold dragon, and then encountered the enormous three-headed King Ghidorah above Gerlen City. King Ghidorah declared himself emperor, and Hermann bowed to him.

• Hermann von Grimm read the Senate's urgent notice that Valerirus had abdicated and Caesar had become emperor.
• Hermann saw a huge golden shape pass over Gerlen City, and his secretary reported that it was an unfamiliar three-headed dragon.
• King Ghidorah surveyed the city and its wyverns from the air.
• Hermann flew toward King Ghidorah on a wyvern and recognized his immense size and golden scales.
• King Ghidorah told Hermann, “I am your emperor,” and Hermann bowed and addressed him as His Majesty Caesar.

King Ghidorah toured Gerlen City after its city lord Hermann welcomed him, while Lufuna settled into a house the curator had arranged. The curator then handed his collected artifacts and a key to a member of the Silence Society, asking them to fix the world.

• Hermann welcomed King Ghidorah to Gerlen City and explained how express wyvern deliveries had spread news of the new emperor.
• King Ghidorah learned that Gerlen City was a major hub for roads and wyvern transport, then ended Hermann's report.
• The curator gave Lufuna a key to a small house and left her to return to his family.
• Lufuna recognized the golden three-headed dragon flying overhead as the one from the capital, while the curator and his taciturn companion departed.
• The curator met a white-robed member of the Silence Society and gave him his collected books, scrolls, artifacts, and a key to an iron cabinet.
• The white-robed man thanked the curator on behalf of the Silence Society, and the curator told him to fix the world.

King Ghidorah announced himself as Caesar the Great to the people of Gerlen City, while his agents arrested members of the Destruction and Revelation Society who were plotting to enter the Forbidden Land. After Ghidorah returned to the capital, Mayor Hermann ordered the prisoners interrogated, and the Society’s leaders agreed to seek help from someone by accepting all his conditions.

• Lufuna joined the crowd gathered in the square, where King Ghidorah used telepathy to proclaim himself Caesar the Great, and the people shouted their loyalty.
• King Ghidorah spotted several figures slipping into an alley and privately ordered Mayor Hermann to handle a job.
• Members of the Destruction and Revelation Society discussed their plan to enter the Forbidden Land despite losing contact with the First Seat, but Vagrian wyvern cavalry surrounded and captured them.
• Hermann reported the capture to King Ghidorah, who declined to inspect the prisoners and flew back toward the capital.
• Hermann ordered the heretics taken to the basement for interrogation and worried their presence would harm his standing.
• The Society’s leaders learned their Gerlen City agents had been captured and decided to invite someone to help, agreeing to all his conditions.

King Ghidorah let Sangis handle the diplomatic preparations while he reflected on how the world's mana was slowly changing his body. Elsewhere, a woman gave Venerable An a key to retrieve Tyrfing, setting up an expedition to the Forbidden Land while the empire was distracted by its new emperor.

• King Ghidorah told Sangis to arrange the visiting envoys' reception as before, leaving her to manage the Senate and the empire's preparations.
• King Ghidorah realized that his body instinctively absorbed mana from the air and that the energy was gradually changing his constitution.
• A hooded woman met Venerable An on a wasteland and gave him a wooden box containing a key to retrieve Tyrfing from one of her group's bases.
• The woman and her companions discussed using the empire's change of emperor as an opportunity to enter the Forbidden Land, despite the cost of giving up Tyrfing.

King Ghidorah decorated his palace hall with treasures taken from Apekus, including the Chaos Beast King Core, while dismissing most of the collection as junk. The core’s faint hum echoed a steady vibration from a barren, uncharted land far away, where something had been running underground for tens of thousands of years.

• King Ghidorah brought Apekus’s treasures out of the spatial device and arranged the enormous Kobep Crystal and Chaos Beast King Core as glowing decorations in the hall.
• King Ghidorah placed the God of War mecha beside his throne and dumped the rest of the treasures into a pile.
• King Ghidorah set a scepter by the throne and left the remaining objects for Sangis to sort out later.
• King Ghidorah moved the Chaos Beast King Core around until he found a spot he liked, ignoring its intermittent hum.
• Far away in an uncharted barren land, a steady underground hum made the gray-black powder quiver.

Nuoyaji traveled with Chaluoke and Fuyila aboard a Karelia Empire airship carrying foreign minister Robert Burton to meet Vagrian’s mysterious new emperor. Fearing that the changes in the world might also have altered the evil god Weiergalun’s fate, Nuoyaji planned to enter Vagrian and search for the god Weierxi, who had once defeated him.

• Nuoyaji confirmed that Robert Burton was traveling to Vagrian as Karelia’s envoy to meet its new emperor, Caesar.
• Nuoyaji recalled that Vagrian had been destroyed in his previous life by the evil god Weiergalun and transformed into the Throat of the Abyss.
• Nuoyaji worried that Weiergalun might have awakened early or escaped his seal in this changed world.
• Nuoyaji decided to enter Vagrian as part of the diplomatic delegation and search for Weierxi.
• As the airship passed through darkening clouds, Fuyila fell asleep while Chaluoke kept a hand on the hatchet at his waist.

King Ghidorah had Lavas inspect a mysterious pile of treasures, but the scholar recognized several legendary relics and left determined to investigate them. Afterward, King Ghidorah remembered that the black bead resonated with energy from the same source and wondered what distant object had triggered it.

• King Ghidorah moved the buzzing Chaos Beast King Core around the hall until it fell silent in a corner.
• Sangis brought Master Lavas to King Ghidorah, who asked him to identify the treasures.
• Lavas examined the pile and told King Ghidorah that he had never seen the items and would need time and help to identify them.
• In the corridor, Lavas realized the treasures included legendary objects and resolved to consult a hidden book and trusted colleagues.
• King Ghidorah recalled that the bead resonated with energy from the same source and decided to investigate the cause later.

Wolunxius, the Demon God of Shattered Remolding, awakened after its ancient seal crumbled and escaped from its underground tomb. As it set out to massacre the living, a huge black dragon raced toward it, and Wolunxius turned to flee.

• The ancient palace and seal collapsed, awakening Wolunxius from its long imprisonment.
• Wolunxius burst from underground and revealed itself as one of the Thirteen Demon Gods.
• Wolunxius vowed to destroy human cities, awaken the other Demon Gods, and slaughter every living creature.
• A gigantic black dragon appeared on the horizon and accelerated straight toward Wolunxius.
• Wolunxius sensed danger and fled from the approaching dragon.

Voraksa hunted for Valeria and killed Wolunxius after the demon god could not answer his question. Witnesses from a secret organization found the remains and began reporting the incident to their Patriarch.

• Wolunxius fled from Voraksa, who caught it and asked whether it was Valeria.
• Wolunxius said it was not, and Voraksa crushed its head and left to search elsewhere.
• Voraksa bit part of Wolunxius's corpse before flying away.
• A group of people emerged from the forest, and their leader identified the corpse as the Demon God of Shattered Remolding.
• The leader ordered the group to notify the Patriarch and recover the remains, then they began cleaning up the site.