Recaps

Dick recovered the original owner's memories and used his Witcher Senses and combat skills to infiltrate Stony Town. He silently killed several Jatu soldiers while searching for Xiya and Baron Odin III.

• Dick recalled learning to use Witcher Senses to track a person's heart and gained improvements to his combat skills.
• Dick left Kebi behind and entered Stony Town under cover of the weeds, sensing eleven Jatu soldiers, a likely priest, and a captive.
• Dick killed a Jatu soldier who had come to feed the horses, then killed a guard at the corner of a house.
• Dick climbed onto the rooftops and used his crossbow to kill two soldiers guarding the village's edge.
• Dick moved across the rooftops, dropped among three soldiers, and killed all three with his dagger.

Dick silently killed the Jatu guards and went to rescue Xiya, who was being held by a priest. After surrendering his sword to protect her, Dick turned the tables on the priest, who collapsed clutching his throat.

• Dick killed two Jatu soldiers with his crossbow and slit the throat of a third as he slept.
• Dick approached the village's central house and overheard the Jatu priest threatening Xiya and discussing her magical abilities.
• Dick entered the house, but the priest detected him and attacked with a staff before using Xiya as a hostage.
• Dick dropped his sword and obeyed the priest's orders, while Xiya urged him to fight back.
• The priest swung his flaming staff at Dick, but its flames went out and he fell backward clutching his throat.

Dick rescued Xiya, and he, Xiya, and Kebi escaped the village with a string of horses after burning the villagers’ bodies to prevent monsters from gathering. Back at Odinburg, they learned that Jatu forces with Stone Trolls threatened the castle, and Xiya objected when Fisher asked Dick to help defend it.

• Dick killed the priest, freed Xiya, and accepted Kebi’s help in taking the village horses and finding the villagers’ bodies.
• Kebi discovered the bodies and grew furious, while Dick explained that burning them would prevent Ghouls and Rotfiends from turning the area into a disease-ridden zone; Xiya set the house ablaze.
• Dick, Xiya, and Kebi left with the horses, and Dick received 50 Energy Points for completing Kebi’s commission.
• The group returned to Odinburg, where Fisher reported that Jatu forces and two Stone Trolls might attack the castle.
• Fisher asked Dick to help defend Odinburg, but Xiya insisted that witchers remained neutral in worldly affairs.

Dick and Xiya agreed to help Fisher defend Stony Town from the Jatu, while Kebi organized the town’s preparations. As Dick took Xiya to dinner, Kebi set aside his personal feelings and asked whether the nearby villagers had been evacuated.

• Fisher argued that the Jatu would consider Dick involved in the war after he killed their soldiers, and reassured Kebi that Duke Amara planned to exchange a Jatu leader for his father.
• Dick and Xiya agreed to help defend Stony Town, and Fisher promised them a generous commission.
• Xiya told Dick that the Jatu priest had questioned her about her lightning magic after stopping his soldiers from assaulting her.
• Dick persuaded Xiya to eat by claiming that skipping meals would cause wrinkles, then invited her to dinner.
• Kebi declined to join them and began organizing the town’s defenses, while Fisher reassured him about his prospects for advancement.
• Kebi told Fisher he would not let personal matters distract him and asked whether the villagers, especially Uncle O'Neill and his people, had reached town.

After helping prepare the castle’s defenses, Dick and Xiya found shelter and dinner at a shop as the Jatu army approached. Their meal turned into a personal conversation, which ended with Dick grimacing after gulping down the shopkeeper’s wild grape juice.

• Kebi ordered the castle’s defenses prepared and instructed Fisher to record Dick’s return of the horses as a military achievement.
• Dick and Xiya found the market deserted and went to the shop where Dick usually ate.
• The frightened shopkeeper let them inside and prepared steaks and wild grape juice.
• Xiya thanked Dick for rescuing her, and Dick told her she was someone important to him.
• Xiya tasted the grape juice and frowned, while Dick gulped down a large mouthful and made a pained face.

Dick and Xiya prepared for the coming Jatu siege, with Xiya making him a Dimeritium Bomb. After returning to his courtyard, Dick sensed danger and drew his sword.

• The vendor offered Dick and Xiya a free meal as his commission for defending Odinburg from the Jatu, and Dick promised to return after the battle.
• Dick accompanied Xiya to her laboratory, where she made Swallow Potions and began preparing a Dimeritium Bomb in exchange for Cockatrice materials.
• Xiya explained how Dimeritium affected sorcerers and witchers, then told Dick she would bring him the bomb the next morning.
• Dick left the laboratory and returned to his courtyard, planning to practice his swordsmanship and replenish his crossbow bolts.
• Dick noticed the unnatural silence and his medallion began vibrating, so he drew his silver sword and turned toward the danger.

Second Granny confronted Dick over her third sister’s death and confined him in the courtyard. She offered to spare him if he drugged Odinburg’s soldiers’ breakfast to help the Jatu capture the castle, leaving Dick to decide whether to cooperate or fight.

• Second Granny arrived with two monsters and accused Dick of killing her third sister.
• Dick tried to escape the courtyard, but Second Granny’s confinement spell blocked him.
• Second Granny showed Dick her dead sister’s head, which identified him as the killer.
• Dick claimed he had killed the third sister in self-defense, and Second Granny accepted that the stronger had prevailed.
• Second Granny revealed that she and her eldest sister were working with the Jatu to conquer Odinburg.
• Second Granny demanded that Dick pour a sleeping potion into the soldiers’ breakfast or face death.

Dick learned that the Broom Witch had killed the market vendor, then fought and defeated her two Gargoyles. The Broom Witch transformed and stopped Dick’s sword with three fingers, leaving him trapped in close combat.

• The Broom Witch revealed that her Gargoyles had killed the market vendor, whose last words had mentioned Dick and Xiya.
• Dick charged the Broom Witch and fought both Gargoyles while she described her necromancy and their construction.
• Dick found the Gargoyles’ exposed necks and severed both their heads, using the Protection Sign to block one attack.
• The Broom Witch transformed into a hulking monster, crushed a Gargoyle’s head, and attacked Dick with a cleaver formed from her broom.
• Dick dodged the cleaver and thrust at the Broom Witch’s abdomen, but she caught his sword with three fingers and halted him.

The Broom Witch forced Dick to drink an experimental potion that made him stronger and accelerated his healing, but his body began swelling as they fought. As the battle left Dick near death, Xiya headed to his residence with a Dimeritium Bomb she had made overnight.

• The Broom Witch battered Dick, dragged him into the courtyard, and forced him to drink her experimental Gargoyle Third Generation potion.
• Dick’s wounds began to heal and his strength increased, but a growing lump in his skull caused him severe pain.
• Dick and the Broom Witch fought across the ruined courtyard, and she warned that the flawed potion would not save him before attacking again.
• Xiya walked toward Dick’s residence carrying the Dimeritium Bomb she had successfully made on her first attempt.

Xiya sensed danger at Dick’s courtyard and shattered its ward with a lightning spell, saving him from the Broom Witch. Dick and Xiya defeated the monster, but Dick’s mutation worsened as his Witcher talent advanced.

• Xiya discovered a ward around Dick’s courtyard and used a lightning spell to break through its defenses.
• The Broom Witch was struck by Xiya’s lightning while Dick lay helpless and continued to mutate.
• Xiya threw a Dimeritium Bomb at the Broom Witch, and Dick kicked it into the monster, blocking her transformation.
• Dick beheaded the Broom Witch and crushed both her head and the previous Broom Witch’s head.
• Dick’s panel credited him with defeating the monsters and showed that his School of the Lynx Witcher talent had increased his physique.

Dick removed the mutation from his self-healing talent after defeating the Broom Witch, then carried the exhausted Xiya home and resolved to tell her how he felt. As Odinburg prepared for the coming Jatu attack, Dick received recovered alchemical ingredients and his damaged silver sword.

• Dick spent 200 Energy Points to remove the mutation from his self-healing talent, restoring his fingers and healing the swelling at his temples.
• Xiya fainted from exhaustion, and Dick caught her before Kebi arrived with soldiers; Dick warned Kebi that the Jatu had allied with monsters and more Stone Trolls might attack.
• Dick carried Xiya to her bedroom, cleaned the sweat from her face, and decided to tell her how he felt when she woke.
• Dick asked two soldiers to guard Xiya while he rested for the coming defense of Odinburg.
• Soldiers returned Dick's silver sword and a bag of materials recovered from the courtyard, and Dick saw that the sword had been badly chipped in his fight with the Broom Witch.

Dick recovered from his battle with the Broom Witch, changed into armor, and prepared to defend Odinburg as the Jatu attacked. At the city gate, Kebi rallied the frightened soldiers by warning them that the Jatu would show them no mercy.

• Dick learned that the Broom Witch had left behind only a broken broom, then accepted replacement armor from Kebi’s soldiers.
• Dick noticed his wounds healing through Intermediate Self-Healing, ate the food Kebi had prepared, and meditated while he rested.
• A soldier alerted Dick that the Jatu were attacking after the war horn sounded, and Dick went to the city gate with two soldiers.
• Dick found the troops frightened and bewildered as Kebi addressed them in full armor.
• Kebi urged the soldiers to hold Odinburg, warning that the Jatu would kill them and their families and that they had no way out.

Kebi rallied Odinburg’s outnumbered defenders with promises of pay and compensation, while Dick assessed the Jatu siege force and its dangerous monsters. As the defenders prepared for battle, Dick reassured a frightened young soldier that he would stay and fight beside him.

• Kebi raised the soldiers’ morale, promised them twenty crowns for each day they held out and compensation for their families if they fell, then assigned Fisher to defend the west wall.
• Kebi admitted to Dick that Odinburg had barely over a hundred defenders against more than three hundred Jatu, and asked Dick to help protect Miss Xiya if the city fell.
• Dick and Kebi inspected the battlements and spotted the Jatu building siege equipment, accompanied by a priest, a Broom Witch, and two Rock Trolls.
• Kebi began patrolling the wall while Dick stayed at his post and promised to look for an opening to deal with the monsters.
• Dick reassured a frightened freckle-faced young soldier that fear was normal and urged him to be brave, promising to stay with him.

Dick and Kebi faced the Jatu army’s demand for Odinburg’s surrender, and Dick killed the envoy to force the defenders to accept that they had to fight. As the defenders took their positions, Dick spotted a battering ram being pushed toward the gate.

• Carter told Dick he would protect his home, and Dick promised to remember his name.
• At dawn, a Jatu envoy demanded that Kebi surrender Odinburg and threatened to slaughter its people if the castle fell.
• Kebi refused to kill the envoy, but Dick shot him and told the defenders that surrender offered no escape from the Jatu.
• Kebi rallied the soldiers and ordered them to their defensive positions along the walls.
• Dick assessed the Jatu siege equipment and recognized that their covered battering ram could break through Odinburg’s gate.

Kebi ordered Odinburg’s defenders to destroy the Jatu battering ram despite the villagers forced to shield it, while Dick watched the siege escalate. After Rock Trolls smashed all three catapults, Dick prepared to use his crossbow and activated his Witcher Senses to investigate why the trolls had withdrawn.

• Kebi ordered the defenders to shoot the battering ram, and the arrows killed the villagers shielding it as well as several Jatu soldiers.
• Kebi directed the catapults to fire, and a stone smashed the battering ram.
• Two Rock Trolls hurled boulders at the walls and destroyed all three catapults, shrugging off the defenders’ arrows with their armored backs.
• Kebi urged the shaken soldiers to hold the city while Dick moved to a battlement gap and prepared his crossbow.
• The Rock Trolls stopped attacking and trotted toward the Jatu shield wall, so Dick activated his Witcher Senses to listen in.

Dick persuaded the Rock Trolls Ouk and Bark to abandon their attack on the gates by giving them food. The Jatu priest then cast Bloodlust, and Jatu soldiers advanced with siege ladders to assault the walls.

• Dick asked Kebi to gather a large sack of tasty meat for the trolls.
• As Ouk and Bark prepared to smash the gates, Dick offered them food if they left.
• Dick threw the food down, and the trolls ate it before departing with the sack.
• Dick learned that the Jatu priest had been unable to keep the trolls from leaving and had ordered an assault instead.
• The Jatu priest cast Bloodlust, and Jatu soldiers advanced toward the walls with siege ladders and shields.

Dick and Kebi led Odinburg’s defenders against a Jatu assault, using boiling sewage and stones before the attackers reached the battlements. After the defenders ran out of supplies, Dick killed two Jatu soldiers who climbed over the wall and rushed to face four more.

• Kebi ordered Fisher to distribute boiling sewage and stones while the Jatu advanced with siege ladders.
• Jatu soldiers hooked two ladders onto the battlements, and the defenders knocked several climbers down with stones and poured boiling sewage on others.
• After the defenders exhausted their sewage and stones, more than ten Jatu soldiers had been killed.
• Dick shot the first Jatu soldier to climb over the wall, then killed a second with his sword.
• Dick saw four Jatu soldiers break through at another gap and ran to confront them while ordering nearby defenders to hold their position.

Dick helped the defenders repel the Jatu’s first assault, but the town lost many soldiers. In the corner tower, he and Kebi learned that Carter, an orphaned boy Dick had saved, was dying from his wounds and begging to live.

• Dick killed several Jatu soldiers on the battlements, rallied the defenders, and helped them survive the first wave of the siege.
• After the fighting, Kebi reported that the defenders had a little over ninety men left and that both sides had suffered heavy casualties.
• Dick followed Kebi to the corner tower, where the apothecary doctor Anson treated the wounded and told them he could not save a badly injured soldier.
• Dick recognized the dying soldier as Carter, the boy he had saved from an arrow during the attack.
• Carter told Kebi, Anson, and Dick that he was an orphan and pleaded with them to save his life.

Dick used a dangerous witcher potion to try to save the wounded Carter, then learned that the Jatu planned to attack with demonized soldiers. As the city prepared for the assault, Val and the blacksmith Zeus arrived with reinforcements.

• Carter drank Dick’s Swallow Potion and collapsed, leaving his survival uncertain for two hours.
• Dick overheard the Jatu commander agree to test a potion on thirty warriors before deciding whether to retreat.
• Kebi told Dick that the city had no more soldiers to recruit, just as a commotion broke out below.
• Kebi discovered that Val had brought eight armed guards to help defend the city.
• Zeus arrived with a group of sturdy dwarves ready to support the defenders.

Dick and Kebi’s defenders faced Jatu soldiers transformed by a potion into desiccated corpses and giant mantises. The mantises attacked the battlements, and although Dick and Zeus’s dwarves killed one, more monsters climbed onto the wall.

• Val left the walls while Kebi sent his eight retainers to Captain Fisher and assigned Zeus and the dwarves to defend beside Dick.
• Dick recognized the Jatu soldiers’ transformation and warned Kebi that they had lost their terrain advantage.
• The Jatu soldiers burst into desiccated corpses and giant mantises, which flew toward the walls while the corpses climbed them.
• Giant mantises dodged the defenders’ arrows, killed soldiers, and attacked Kebi as panic spread along the battlements.
• Dick stunned a mantis with Mental Shock, and Zeus’s dwarves smashed it apart with their hammers.
• Several desiccated corpses reached the battlements and began climbing onto the wall.

Dick fought the monsters on Odinburg’s battlements, helping the defenders kill mantises and mummies until he was left to protect the wounded Kebi and the dwarves. He lured four remaining giant mantises away from them, but as he killed one, another struck at him from behind and the chapter ended with him in immediate danger.

• The soldiers and dwarf blacksmiths fought back against the giant mantises and mummies, while Dick killed an Incomplete Demonic Mummy and gained energy and ability points.
• Dick noticed that the defenders were being overwhelmed, while the Jatu army began to retreat from the walls.
• After the fighting left Kebi, Zeus, and the wounded dwarves as the last armed defenders on their stretch of battlements, Dick told them to take refuge in the corner tower.
• Dick drew four giant mantises away from the group and ran down the stairs toward the inner city.
• The mantises wounded Dick, but he used Mental Shockwave and thrust his sword into one mantis’s neck as another attacked him from behind.

Dick, Xiya, and Kebi defended the city until reinforcements from the Order of the Falcon arrived and routed the Jatu army. As the Jatu commander fled, a hooded sorceress appeared behind the headquarters and began chanting.

• Xiya rescued Dick from the giant mantises with fireballs, then revealed that she had become a dual-element sorceress of fire and lightning.
• Dick warned Xiya and Kebi that the city gate could not hold, but Xiya refused to abandon him.
• Xiya revealed that she had contacted her master, who had sent the Order of the Falcon as reinforcements.
• The Order of the Falcon's cavalry, led by its grand master, charged the Jatu flank and shattered their formation.
• Kebi called for the fleeing Jatu commander to be pursued, but Xiya pointed out a hooded sorceress riding a white horse behind the Jatu headquarters.

Barbara trapped the Jatu forces in an illusion, allowing Dick to kill the Broom Witch and the Falcon Order to capture the survivors. Queen Meve knighted Kebi, while Barbara took Xiya back to the city after noticing her breakthrough.

• Barbara cast an illusion over the Jatu soldiers, and the Broom Witch escaped toward Dick.
• Dick killed the Broom Witch, then found and kept a potion from her pouch.
• Kebi and the Order of the Falcon captured the remaining Jatu soldiers and their commander.
• Queen Meve promoted Kebi from squire to knight of the Order of the Falcon.
• Barbara recognized that Xiya had broken through and took her back to the city, giving Dick a lingering look.

Queen Meve honored Dick for defending Odinburg by granting him the title Dick of Rivia, then left to muster an army against the Jatu. After speaking with the survivors and townspeople, Dick headed toward the fortress but changed direction before reaching it.

• Queen Meve granted Dick the honorary title Dick of Rivia and promised to publicize his title and portrait across Ravenstern.
• Queen Meve explained that she was returning to Ravenstern City to join Duke Amara and muster an army against the Jatu.
• Kebi told Dick to rest in the castle and confirmed that she had dealt with the market vendor's body; Dick also spoke with Zeus, Fisher, and Carter about the battle and their survival.
• Dick met Anson and his little brother, who thanked him for helping the city survive the attack.
• Dick approached the fortress courtyard, paused, and changed direction.

After Odinburg’s battle, Dick ate and drank at a familiar shop, then bathed in Little Odin’s room and reviewed his rewards. He spent all 400 Energy Points upgrading his Signs before falling asleep.

• Odinburg’s vendors thanked Dick for saving them, and he visited a shop where he ate cold beef and drank a sour liquid.
• Dick went to Little Odin’s room in the fortress, recognized the maid whose sister he had helped, and bathed while noticing his wounds had healed quickly.
• Dick reviewed the 400 Energy Points he earned from killing monsters and completing the city defense commission.
• Dick upgraded Mind Shockwave to professional level and Flames and Protection to proficient level, spending all his Energy Points.
• Dick left Eldest Sister’s potion unused, dressed in pajamas, and fell asleep.