Chapter Summaries

Dick fought Slithereen, who used Energy Transfer and black mist to drain Dick's strength and attack from concealment. Dick revealed a sudden power that broke through the mist, impaled Slithereen, and pinned both his wrists.

• Dick and Slithereen traded blows, and Slithereen used Dick's blood to reconnect with him through Energy Transfer.
• Slithereen filled the area with black mist, absorbed about thirty percent of Dick's strength, and wounded him with repeated dagger attacks.
• Dick's wounds healed, and he revealed blood-red eyes and a sudden surge of strength that shattered Slithereen's black mist.
• Dick knocked Slithereen out of concealment, pierced his abdomen with a longsword, and pinned him to a tree.
• Dick caught both of Slithereen's wrists and forced the bones out of place.

Dick killed Slark, reclaimed the strength stolen from him, and headed toward New Island as the fishmen’s invasion devastated the city-state. Red Hair’s estate fell, and after losing a duel with a fishman guard, Red Hair was swallowed by a corrupted orca.

• Dick reversed Slithereen’s dagger into Slark’s heart, beheaded him, and received 300 Energy Points for the kill and quest completion.
• Dick recovered the strength taken by Energy Transfer and returned to the seawater, navigating toward New Island using [Fishman Body].
• Fishmen overran New Island, killing its defenders and civilians as fires and destruction spread through the city.
• A fishman guard challenged Red Hair to a duel; after Red Hair wounded him, the guard shattered Red Hair’s arms and sent him over the estate railing.
• Red Hair fell into the sea and was swallowed by a fifteen-meter corrupted orca.

Niuniu and Lao Ba struggled with being forced to join the fishmen’s attack, while refugees from the small coastal kingdom fled to Mist-Shrouded City and reported that New Island had fallen. Princess Ortega recalled how Red Hair had deceived her about his mermaid wife, leaving her to reconsider their marriage as the city learned of the invasion.

• Niuniu and Lao Ba endured their fellow fishmen mocking them for refusing to kill humans, while guards and sea beasts blocked their escape.
• Refugees reached Mist-Shrouded City and told a patrol captain that fishmen and monsters had attacked the small coastal kingdom.
• The refugees described Sparta’s revenge slogans and reported that Red Hair’s army had not appeared and that Red Hair was said to have died defending his country.
• The patrol captain rode to King Vinese’s palace to report the invasion and ask the king to arrange help for the refugees.
• Princess Ortega remembered how Red Hair had tricked her about his mermaid wife and realized she had been deceived from the start.

Princess Ortega learned that fishmen had attacked and New Island had fallen, then rode to the military camp to alert her father, King Vinese. When the patrol captain named their leader as Sparta, the king recognized the name and realized the attack was connected to his past.

• Ortega blamed the mermaid for her failing marriage and planned to send the Deep Sea Expeditionary Force to capture her.
• A patrol captain told Ortega that fishmen had attacked and New Island had fallen, so she took him to find her father.
• Ortega rode into the military camp and interrupted King Vinese as he drank with his officers.
• The patrol captain reported the attack and said the fishmen were seeking revenge for Sparta's parents.
• King Vinese trembled at the name Sparta and decided his subjects would have to deal with the consequences of his past actions.

King Vinese prepared Mist-Shrouded City for an assault by Sparta’s fishman army, whose leader revealed that the attack was revenge for Vinese’s past imprisonment of his parents. As the siege began, the kingdom’s defenders discovered that the frogman cannon fodder kept advancing even after being struck by arrows.

• King Vinese ordered the kingdom’s forces to prepare its hidden ballistas, cavalry, and city defenses against the approaching fishmen.
• The fishmen attacked the commoners’ district, killing those who had not fled into the nobles’ district.
• Sparta appeared atop a giant turtle and declared that he had returned to destroy Vinese and conquer human lands.
• King Vinese recognized Sparta as the boy he had once imprisoned and resolved to focus on defending the city.
• Fishman priestesses created siege engines from glowing jellyfish, but refused to join the battle and kept the empress away from the front.
• Berserk frogmen and spear throwers began the siege, and the defenders’ arrows knocked down many frogmen before they rose and resumed advancing.

King Vinese’s defenders repelled the frogmen and killed the giant turtle, but the cavalry became trapped outside the gates as the fishmen launched an ambush. The chapter left the soldiers watching from the walls as sea snakes and fishmen overwhelmed the isolated riders.

• King Vinese ordered the archers to aim for the frogmen’s heads after discovering that head wounds stopped them from recovering.
• The frogmen climbed the walls with bone ladders while fishmen advanced, and King Vinese ordered his soldiers to remove the ladders.
• King Vinese held back from leading a cavalry charge, and a subordinate general led eight hundred riders out to attack the giant turtle.
• The cavalry killed the turtle, but fishmen emerging from the moat cut off their retreat as the gates closed.
• Dozens of sea snakes burst from the ground and coiled around the cavalry while the fishmen attacked.

Sparta’s fishmen overwhelmed King Vinese’s defenses and cornered him on the city wall. Revealing that Vinese had branded him slave number-3, Sparta defeated the king and turned his attention toward Princess Ortega in the palace.

• Sparta sent sirens and flying monsters to attack the city while the sea beasts advanced on its walls.
• Sparta rode a flying monster to the wall, broke through the defenders, and killed King Vinese’s attendant before he could warn Princess Ortega.
• Sparta killed the remaining guards and revealed the slave brand Vinese had placed on him and his family.
• King Vinese confronted Sparta about his family’s enslavement, and Sparta threatened Princess Ortega while muttering a spell.
• King Vinese attacked Sparta with his hammer and dagger, but Sparta sent him crashing through the battlements and looked toward the palace.

Kraken destroyed the royal palace and drove Vinese and many humans mad before Sparta killed the king and negotiated a new deal with the sea monster. Meanwhile, Medusa awakened Nami, who revealed that Sparta had attacked the human world, and urged her to recall the sea beasts.

• Kraken appeared above the royal capital, crushed the palace, and unleashed psychic power that drove many humans mad.
• Sparta killed the crazed Vinese and confronted Kraken in the mental space, where they agreed that Kraken would spare the fishmen and destroy only selected places.
• Sparta ordered the fishmen to withdraw from the city and await further instructions.
• Nazi and Medusa reached Nami aboard a sea creature, and Medusa broke the bubble holding the Siren Empress in a daze.
• Nami woke, warned that Sparta had attacked the human world, and was embraced by her sister, who asked her to call back the sea beasts.

Dick lured Sparta away from the battle and fought him, while Medusa prepared to confront the Kraken Sea Beast and entrusted the fishman world to those around her. As Dick revealed a strange transformation, Medusa gave Valkyrie an unusually tender farewell and named her future high priestess.

• Sparta noticed the sea beasts leaving the city, then pursued Dick after the demon hunter revealed he had killed Sparta’s younger brother.
• Dick and Sparta fought on open ground, trading blows and shockwaves without either gaining the advantage.
• Dick said their testing was over and transformed, his eyes turning lava-red.
• Medusa instructed the guards and priests to protect the Siren Princess and blamed Sparta for starting the war, warning Nami not to make war on humans.
• Medusa told Nazi to discuss her future with Red Hair, who had been rescued from a whale and lay unconscious in the submarine.
• Medusa stroked Valkyrie’s hair and told her she would become high priestess and protect the fishman world.

Medusa left Valkyrie and the fishmen to face the Kraken Sea Monster while Dick defeated Sparta, who died remembering his family. Dick then hurried toward the inner city to help Medusa fight the Kraken, resisting its mental contamination along the way.

• Medusa told Valkyrie she had to leave for her mission, then ordered the fishmen to withdraw and headed toward Mist-Shrouded City.
• Morgana comforted Valkyrie as she watched Medusa approach the Kraken, while Lao Ba and Niuniu retreated toward the coast.
• Dick defeated Sparta after overcoming his repeated Blinks and dealt him a fatal wound with the Dawn Sword.
• Dick told Sparta that avenging his parents was not wrong, but killing civilians was, then took Sparta's trident and put a Divine Cigarette in his mouth before Sparta died thinking of his family.
• Dick received Medusa's message to help kill the Kraken and hurried toward the inner city, where he felt the monster's mental contamination but resisted it with [Super Self-Healing].

Medusa and Dick fought the Kraken Sea Monster, with Medusa petrifying it while Dick destroyed its three hearts from within. After the Kraken collapsed, Medusa began to dissipate into azure starlight as she looked toward the eastern sea.

• Medusa confronted the Kraken Sea Monster and attacked it with magical arrows that began to petrify its tentacles.
• Medusa unleashed a Mental Storm to immobilize the Kraken and told Dick to destroy its three hearts.
• Dick climbed into the Kraken’s mouth, cut through its flesh, and destroyed the blood vessels connected to all three hearts.
• The wounded Kraken tried to persuade Medusa to stop, but she continued using her divine power to petrify its body completely.
• The Kraken shattered into rubble in the sunlight, and Dick escaped the falling debris.
• Medusa’s body shrank and began to fade into azure starlight as she gazed toward the eastern sea.

After Medusa sacrificed herself to defeat the Kraken Sea Monster, she gave Valkyrie her bow and told Dick that Xiya was alive in the Nine Hells, directing him to Free City. Dick strengthened his abilities with his rewards and continued to the shore as the surviving fishmen prepared to return home.

• Medusa passed her bow to Valkyrie, who vowed to protect the Deep-Sea World, while Dick failed to reach Medusa before she vanished.
• Medusa used her remaining soul energy to tell Dick that Xiya was alive in the Nine Hells and that he had to go to Free City to find her.
• Dick checked his rewards, gained a ninefold physique, and spent Energy Points to improve Hypnosis, Sword Oil Making, and Magic Bombs.
• Dick headed to the shore and saw the surviving fishmen preparing to leave amid grief and doubts about the war.

Dick ended the war between land and sea, recruited Stein for the Witcher Order, and parted ways with Morgana as she went to find her son. In the deep sea, Nazi transformed Red Hair into a fishman and chose to give him another chance.

• Empress Nami declared that fishmen could no longer set foot on land without permission, and Dick said goodbye to the fishmen as they returned to the sea.
• Dick invited Stein to join the Witcher Order, and Stein accepted after negotiating for research supplies; Morgana declined for now so she could visit her son.
• Nazi and Nami discussed bringing Guoguo and his sister to the palace and inviting Niuniu to join the fishman guard.
• Nazi challenged Red Hair to drink a potion that would turn him into a fishman, and he accepted and underwent the painful transformation.
• Nazi explained that Red Hair could change his tail back into legs, then embraced him and decided to give him another chance.

After Mist-Shrouded City's destruction reshaped the continent, Dick returned to Kaer Morhen, where the Witcher Order had rebuilt and gained new members. He stocked the Order with potions, then left for Free City, passing through Odinburg and the Mist Swamp.

• News of Mist-Shrouded City's destruction ended the fighting near Firstfall Bay, eased Sarleon's vengeance, and led Emperor Marius to abandon plans to conquer Sarleon and focus on his people.
• Dick returned to Kaer Morhen with Stein, learned that six young witchers had survived the Trial of the Grasses, and gave the Order deep-sea food and materials for weapons.
• Beier showed Dick his Secondary Mutation, which let him grow three heads and three arms, and explained that he could cast Signs while using the ability.
• At a banquet, Dick learned that Aisi had returned to the Order and that more than a dozen sorcerers had joined its ranks.
• Dick spent seven days making potions with Aode, then left Kaer Morhen and visited Kebi in Odinburg, where he learned that Vanessa was pregnant.
• Dick crossed the Mist Swamp with Spotty and reached the outskirts of Free City.

Dick arrived in Free City and confronted Archbishop Duncan, who drew him into a private domain to explain his plans and the threat facing the world. Duncan revealed that he was Puck and hinted at a connection between himself and Dick before transforming into a monstrous form.

• Duncan introduced Dick to Thor of the Cleaver Gang, West, and the King of Beggars as they welcomed him outside Free City.
• Dick challenged Duncan over his persecution of sorcerers and Xiya, and the two prepared to fight away from the city.
• Duncan transported Dick into his domain and said he had reached demigod level, seeking to unify the Panda Continent and gather the people's faith to oppose Them.
• Duncan revealed that he was Puck, Geralt's adopted son, and explained that he had traveled through time and learned of the World Devourers beyond deep space.
• Duncan asked Dick why his heartbeat quickened when they met, then opened blood-red eyes and revealed rows of sharp teeth.

Dick defeated Duncan and inherited his [Blood of the Source] talents, including Blink and Time Traveler, then emerged as Free City's new ruler. He entered the city seeking a route to the Nine Hells.

• Duncan revealed that he and Dick both bore [Blood of the Source], and the two fought a fierce battle using their transformed bodies and abilities.
• Dick predicted Duncan's preferred Blink attack and struck him, fatally wounding him despite Duncan's attempt to explain his powers.
• Duncan asked Dick the difference between religion and royal power before dying, and Dick gained [Blood of the Source], energy points, and Divinity Fragments.
• Dick saw a warning about using Time Traveler and decided not to use it to search for Xiya.
• The Church of the Eternal Fire and the Cleaver Gang appeared, and Cleaver said Duncan had declared the survivor would rule Free City.
• Dick entered Free City to seek a route to the Nine Hells.

Dick discovered King Lioke beneath the bishop's cathedral and awakened the Demigod talent, then reunited with his companions in Free City. After telling them about Xiya, he agreed to explore beneath the bishop's great hall with Russell, Harden, and Alice.

• Vigo prepared to die defending Simba City, but the Knights of the Eventide stopped fighting after realizing the archbishop had controlled them.
• Dick's out-of-body vision led him to a bone statue he identified as King Lioke, the ruler of the seventh level of Hell.
• Dick spent all 3,000 Energy Points and gained the Demigod talent, then suspected that mastering Hypnosis could help him acquire a domain.
• Dick discovered that more than a week had passed while he gazed at the lotus, and Vesemir explained that word of Dick's victory over Archbishop Duncan had spread across the Panda Continent.
• Dick told his companions about Xiya, then agreed to explore beneath the bishop's great hall with Russell, Harden, and Alice while Vesemir stayed behind and Geralt and Little Yennefer went to meet Sean.

Dick and his companions explored the elven ruins beneath a wealthy residence in Free City, where they found a mutated Hell Earth Elemental guarding the central chamber. After Dick killed it, the group prepared to clear the side passages before opening the sealed gate and confronting King Lioke.

• Dick, Alice, Russell, and Harden entered the elven ruins and discussed making them a new Witcher Order training base.
• The group approached the energy dome around a huge, bone-armored Earth Elemental, which broke free and trapped Dick and Alice inside a ring of fire.
• Dick protected the frozen Alice from the flames, then advanced to fight the monster while she prepared a spell.
• Dick split the Hell Earth Elemental in two with a flash of moonlight, and Alice collected its unusually large energy core.
• Dick realized King Lioke was likely behind the sealed gate and asked which side passage to clear first; Russell and Harden chose the right.

Dick and his companions defeated a Hell Viper and explored the cavern, where they found Kayn transformed into a demon. Dick subdued Kayn, identified the skeletal Alexander as the cause, then vanished with the white-bone statue when he touched it.

• Dick and Alice led the group through a poisonous cavern, where Alice, Russell, and Harden supported Dick as he killed the Hell Viper.
• Alice cleared the poison, and the group returned to the central area while Dick waited for the others to finish exploring the left passage.
• Dick, Russell, and Harden opened the central door and found a demon wielding ring blades; Dick recognized him as Kayn and warned the others not to hurt him.
• Dick grabbed Kayn by the neck, knocked him unconscious, and bound him, then told Russell and Harden to take Kayn back safely.
• Dick identified the hooded skeleton as Alexander and left to reach Xiya, but touching the white-bone statue caused him and the statue to vanish amid blue runes.

Dick defeated King Lioke’s minions and fought the high-ranking deity, whose time-slowing domain left him exhausted. King Lioke declared the trial complete and opened a portal to Hell, where both of them were headed.

• Dick defeated the Earth Elemental, the plant monster, and the Hell Viper, then faced King Lioke and his skeletal soldiers.
• Dick gained 1,000 Energy Points from defeating seventy sentries and spent them to raise Fighting to grandmaster level, unlocking Three Heads and Six Arms.
• Dick fought King Lioke with his enhanced forms and swords, but King Lioke’s domain slowed his attacks and wore him down.
• Dick struck King Lioke three times, but the deity reformed from the apparent defeat and explained that the trial was over.
• King Lioke revealed that Dick’s victory ended a ten-thousand-year contract that had trapped him in the mortal world, then opened a portal to Hell for them both.