Recaps

Sun Fei confronted the military judge Conca after he tried to protect Gejir and abuse the wounded soldiers. He struck Conca down and condemned his cowardice, while the soldiers rallied to his words.

• Sun Fei ordered Brook to free Bazel and send Gejir to the gatehouse with guards.
• Conca rushed in, kicked the soldiers carrying Gejir, and demanded that they fetch a stretcher and summon physicians.
• Sun Fei identified himself as the one who had hurt Gejir, but Conca dismissed him and claimed that he himself was military law in Chambord City.
• Sun Fei kicked Conca into the wall, and Conca quickly knelt and begged for forgiveness after realizing the king had changed.
• Sun Fei brought the wounded soldiers before Conca and condemned him for hiding while they fought to defend the kingdom.

Sun Fei sentenced Military Judge Conca to death for treason, but Conca took him hostage and demanded gold and horses. Sun Fei killed Conca with a punch and a spear, leaving the soldiers and Frank Lampard stunned by another instant kill.

• Sun Fei accused Conca of fleeing before battle and violating military law, and Brook confirmed that the crimes warranted execution.
• Sun Fei condemned Conca to death, while Herald Bazel refused to intervene and the soldiers cheered.
• Conca seized Sun Fei by the neck and demanded gold coins and two fast horses, forcing Lampard to step back.
• Sun Fei calmly told Conca he would not live to enjoy the loot, then punched him into the air and shattered his Dou Qi.
• Sun Fei hurled a spear through Conca's heart, pinning him to the gatehouse wall and astonishing everyone with the instant kill.

Sun Fei killed Conca and used the King's Sword to appoint Pierce as military magistrate, strengthening the soldiers’ resolve to defend Chambord City. He ordered Warden Oleg to hold a dangerous gap in the wall as the coming battle approached.

• Sun Fei, Lampard, Brook, and Bazel reacted to Sun Fei’s unexplained strength after he killed Conca.
• Sun Fei appointed Pierce military magistrate and gave him the King's Sword, ordering him to enforce discipline even against the king.
• Pierce raised the sword and rallied Chambord City's soldiers to fight for Sun Fei, and their doubts about their king faded.
• Sun Fei called for Warden Oleg, who crawled forward and begged for mercy after witnessing Conca's death.
• Sun Fei ordered Oleg to defend a gap in the wall, and Oleg accepted despite fearing the danger.

Sun Fei prepared Chambord City’s undermanned defenses as a disciplined black-armored army approached. The enemy offered surrender under threat of a three-day massacre, and Sun Fei asked the gathered officials and citizens what they should do, leaving Oleg to argue for accepting the offer.

• Brook organized the king’s guard and conscripted townspeople along the walls while Sun Fei worried about the enemy’s strength.
• The black-armored army advanced across the bridge, then halted as four knights rode forward to negotiate.
• Black Knight [One] demanded that Sun Fei surrender, promising protection for the royal family and officials while threatening to enslave commoners and slaughter the city if it resisted.
• Sun Fei asked the people on the wall to weigh the enemy’s offer, and Oleg urged surrender while claiming he spoke for the subjects’ safety.

Sun Fei rallied Chambord City to reject surrender, and Frank Lampard killed Black Knight One after the knight insulted the king and violated battlefield customs. Sun Fei then used his Howl skill to frighten the black knights’ horses, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Pierce, Brook, Bazel, and the gathered soldiers urged Sun Fei to fight rather than surrender, and Sun Fei publicly rejected the enemy’s offer.
• Black Knight One threatened Chambord City and its people, then knocked aside Pierce’s arrow and rode away.
• Frank Lampard leaped from the wall and beheaded Black Knight One in a swift strike, declaring that the knight had insulted his king and broken negotiation customs.
• Sun Fei shouted Howl at the remaining black knights, targeting their horses with the skill.

Sun Fei and Lampard’s actions restored Chambord City’s morale, but the silver-masked commander delayed his attack until after lunch, hoping the defenders would grow weary. With the enemy still holding position, Sun Fei entered Diablo World to strengthen himself and collected three pieces of unidentified yellow equipment.

• Sun Fei’s Howl frightened the black horses, and Chambord’s defenders jeered at the Black Knights and rallied their spirits.
• The silver-masked man restrained his knights and ordered the army to attack after lunch, when he expected Chambord City’s morale to falter.
• Brook sent scouts to guard the other approaches, while Sun Fei arranged rotating watches to keep the defenders rested.
• Sun Fei entered Diablo World as a barbarian, cleared the respawned monsters from the graveyard, and collected three yellow items, three blue items, and 600 gold coins.

Sun Fei prepared to level up quickly by identifying and equipping three powerful items, then claimed his reward for killing Blood Raven. He gained Elena as a mercenary and accepted a quest to rescue Cain, leaving the story poised for a dangerous journey through the Underground Passage.

• Sun Fei returned to the Rogue Encampment, bought tomes and scrolls from Sister Akara, and identified his new equipment.
• Sun Fei equipped the Soul Emblem Buckler, Storm Piercer Dagger, and Bronze Self-Repair Heavy Gloves, then sold spare gear and bought a helmet and boots from Charsi.
• Sun Fei turned in the Blood Raven quest to Kashya and received Elena as his personal mercenary.
• Sun Fei accepted Akara's quest to find and rescue Cain by reaching the Dark Wood, retrieving a scroll, and opening a portal at the Stony Field.

Sun Fei and Elena ventured into the Underground Passage on their way to find the Tree of Inifuss, fighting monsters together as they grew more coordinated. The chapter ended when Elena suddenly cried out in distress behind Sun Fei.

• Sun Fei bought Elena a bow and protective equipment before leaving the Rogue Encampment.
• Sun Fei noticed that Elena could not see the equipment dropped by monsters and wondered if only he could collect such drops.
• Sun Fei led Elena into the Underground Passage and told her to stay behind him while he took the front.
• Sun Fei and Elena fought their way through the passage, with Sun Fei attacking nearby monsters and Elena killing distant enemies with ice arrows.
• Elena suddenly cried out in panic and grief behind Sun Fei.

Sun Fei and Elena found the tortured body of Nina, a missing Rogue, in the Underground Passage, and buried her before continuing to the Dark Wood. After Sun Fei retrieved the Tree of Inifuss scroll and returned to the Rogue Encampment with Elena, he went to Akara for a translation while Elena stood guard by the portal.

• Elena recognized the dead Rogue as Nina, a seventeen-year-old companion who had disappeared a month earlier, and mourned her brutal death.
• Sun Fei buried Nina and found a packet of plant seeds on her body, which Elena carefully kept.
• Sun Fei and Elena continued through the Underground Passage, buried several other dead Rogues, and reached the Dark Wood.
• They fought their way to the Tree of Inifuss, where Sun Fei retrieved a parchment scroll and collected equipment dropped by monsters.
• Sun Fei opened a Town Portal, and Elena wondered how many Rogues might have survived if they had had such scrolls.
• At the Rogue Encampment, Sun Fei took the scroll to Akara for translation while Elena guarded the portal; he returned a few minutes later and asked why she had not gone to speak with her sisters.

Sun Fei opened the portal to Tristram and fought through its monsters with Elena, while Chambord City’s defenders endured the enemy’s prolonged, motionless siege. Sun Fei and Elena cleared the first wave and encountered Skeleton Archers as he prepared to attack them.

• Sun Fei activated the five stone pillars and opened a portal to Tristram, warning Elena to stay close and retreat if the fighting became dangerous.
• Sun Fei entered Tristram and was attacked by skeletons, zombies, and Fallen; Elena followed and supported him with ice arrows.
• Sun Fei used his Howl skill and healing potion to repel the monsters, and he and Elena defeated the first wave after more than ten minutes.
• In Chambord City, Brook and the defenders waited under pressure as the black-clad enemy remained stationed on the bridge without attacking.
• Sun Fei and Elena encountered Skeleton Archers, and Sun Fei switched to his dagger and buckler to strike a skeleton hiding around a corner.

Sun Fei and Elena were overwhelmed by Skeleton Archers in Tristram, forcing him to escape with her to the Rogue Encampment. After treating his wounds, Sun Fei planned to return alone, but Elena feared he was dismissing her and pleaded to stay with him.

• Sun Fei killed a Skeleton Archer with his poisoned dagger, then drew the attention of the remaining archers.
• Elena disobeyed Sun Fei's order to retreat and advanced into the arrow storm, where she was badly wounded by arrows and a lightning attack.
• Sun Fei caught Elena, gave her a Minor Healing Potion, frightened the monsters with Howl, and escaped with her through a Scroll of Town Portal.
• Back at the Rogue Encampment, Sun Fei healed himself and Elena, then told her to stay behind while he returned to Tristram alone.
• Elena panicked and pleaded with Sun Fei not to dismiss her, while he remained unaware that the Rogue Encampment depended on adventurers like him.

Sun Fei cleared Tristram, defeated Griswold, rescued Cain, and reached level 12 before preparing to test exchanging Diablo World supplies into the real world. The exchange succeeded for two Healing Potions and one Stamina Potion, while the other three potions failed.

• Sun Fei sent Elena back through the portal, then used Howl and his Barbarian strength to defeat the Skeleton Archers and Night Clan monsters in Tristram.
• Sun Fei fought and killed Griswold, found the green Arctic Furs Quilted Armor among the drops, and equipped it.
• Sun Fei cleared the rest of Tristram, rescued Cain from his cage, and returned to the Rogue Encampment to claim his mission rewards.
• Sun Fei reached level 12, allocated his attribute and skill points, had Cain identify his equipment, and sold the items he could not use.
• Sun Fei bought potions and asked the mysterious voice to exchange them, learning that his level was too low to exchange a Scroll of Town Portal.
• Sun Fei confirmed the exchange of five Healing Potions and two Stamina Potions; two Healing Potions and one Stamina Potion were successfully exchanged.

Sun Fei used his remaining Diablo World time to level his mage, paladin, and necromancer in separate parallel spaces, choosing skills he hoped to use in the coming real-world battle. He set out as a level 3 necromancer to kill Blood Raven and reach level 6, but a growing horde of nighttime monsters began chasing him.

• Sun Fei left his level 12 Barbarian and entered a separate Rogue Encampment as a mage, where he reached level 3 and learned Fire Bolt, Charged Bolt, and Ice Bolt.
• Sun Fei activated his paladin, cleared the Den of Evil, reached level 3, and spent skill points on Might and Prayer.
• Sun Fei entered another parallel Rogue Encampment as a necromancer, reached level 3, and learned Teeth and Amplify Damage while planning to learn Corpse Explosion.
• Sun Fei accepted Kashya's Blood Raven quest, bought potions with his remaining gold, and raced toward the Burial Grounds at night.
• Nighttime monsters including Fallen, Dark Huntresses, and Gargantuan Beasts gathered into a huge pursuing horde behind Sun Fei.

Sun Fei fought through hordes of monsters in the Diablo World, reached level six, and learned Corpse Explosion just before his time limit expired. Back in Chambord City, he sensed his necromancer power and discovered he could use only one character’s abilities at a time, then switched to barbarian mode as the battle neared.

• Sun Fei lured and killed hundreds of monsters, then pressed on into the Cold Plains while fighting off ever-growing hordes.
• As the Diablo World time limit began, Sun Fei killed enough monsters to reach level six and put his new skill point into Corpse Explosion before returning to the real world.
• On Chambord City’s walls, Frank Lampard, Oleg, Brook, and Gejir sensed a powerful energy coming from the ruined stone house, while the exhausted defenders awaited the enemy’s attack.
• Sun Fei assessed the stalled siege and expected the enemy commander to attack around lunchtime, then tested the powers he had brought back from Diablo.
• After learning he could access only one character’s abilities at a time, Sun Fei switched from necromancer mode to barbarian mode.

After reaching level 12 in Barbarian Mode, Sun Fei discovered that his Diablo equipment and its abilities could manifest in the real world. He tested the gear’s powers and ended the chapter with a rock and potions stored in his belt.

• Sun Fei noticed that his barbarian armor and other equipment had appeared on his body, and the mysterious voice explained that level 10 adventurers could manifest their gear in the real world.
• Sun Fei summoned his great axe, then switched between it and his dagger and buckler simply by thinking about them.
• Sun Fei hid his Diablo armor and restored his real-world clothes, while his original heavy knight’s armor remained discarded in a corner.
• Sun Fei tested whether his magical equipment retained its abilities by placing a rock in his belt, and it vanished into one of the belt’s eight storage slots alongside his potions.

Sun Fei tested the storage sash, then switched between Sorceress, Paladin, and Barbarian modes before returning to Barbarian mode and leaving the stone room. Lampard and the others were stunned, believing Alexander had displayed four different powers at one-star level.

• Sun Fei discovered that the sash could store up to eight basketball-sized objects, one in each slot.
• Sun Fei switched to Sorceress Mode and tested his fire magic, then concealed its energy field.
• Sun Fei switched to Paladin Mode and felt its sacred Aura before familiarizing himself with the powers he could access.
• Sun Fei returned to Barbarian mode, concealed his magical equipment, and walked out of the stone room.
• Lampard, Oleg, Brook, and Gejir were shocked, since they believed Alexander had displayed four distinct powers inside the room.

Sun Fei assessed the enemy’s preparations and decided Chambord City had to strike before its defenses were overwhelmed. He organized a counterattack and asked Frank Lampard to guard the city and protect Angela and Jima if he died.

• Brook reported that the enemy had brought siege ladders, arrow-blocking walls, and six boulder catapults to the stone bridge.
• Sun Fei rejected Brook’s suggestion that he flee and announced he would lead an attack outside the city.
• Sun Fei ordered Brook to rest the soldiers and gather twenty loyal strongmen, while Pierce prepared supplies according to his instructions.
• Sun Fei asked Frank Lampard to stay on the wall and protect the city during the counterattack.
• Sun Fei asked Lampard to protect Angela and Jima and help them escape safely if Sun Fei died in battle.

Sun Fei convinced Lampard to remain on the wall while he prepared to lead a sortie against the enemy. After testing Sun Fei’s strength, Lampard agreed, and Sun Fei rallied twenty strongmen before Pierce brought up heavy knight armor.

• Sun Fei told Lampard that a hidden enemy threat remained in Chambord City and that Lampard needed to stay on the wall to keep it in check.
• Lampard tested Sun Fei with a Dou Qi-enhanced punch, then agreed that Sun Fei could leave the city while he remained behind.
• Sun Fei resolved to grow stronger after the crisis and returned to the wall, where Brook had gathered more than twenty powerful men.
• Drogba lifted a heavy slab of wall, and Sun Fei impressed the strongmen by tossing it aside one-handed.
• Sun Fei rallied the strongmen to join his attack on the enemy, and Pierce arrived with more than forty soldiers carrying heavy knight armor.

Sun Fei armed a small force of strongmen in heavy armor and prepared to lead them in an assault on the enemy formation. He left Brook in charge of the wall and descended with his warriors, leaving Angela unable to stop him.

• Sun Fei ordered Pierce and the strongmen to wear the old king’s heavy armor and choose oversized weapons, then assigned Oleg to the expedition while keeping Brook on the wall.
• Sun Fei gave the armored men waterskins containing diluted potions that restored their stamina and could heal their wounds.
• Sun Fei ordered the warriors to obey him, then led them out of the stone house and down ropes from the wall.
• Pierce and the other warriors landed below, gathered around him, and formed a V-shaped wedge.
• Angela ran to stop Sun Fei from leaving, but he put on his helmet and descended the rope without speaking to her.

Angela watched Alexander lead a small force down from Chambord City's wall to attack the besieging army. The Silver-Masked Man ordered his tower-shield formation to meet them, but Alexander's thrown axe smashed through its defenses and let his soldiers break into the formation.

• Angela watched Alexander leave the wall to join his soldiers and pleaded for him to return alive.
• The Silver-Masked Man surveyed Chambord City's defenses and ordered his troops to prepare an attack.
• The Silver-Masked Man spotted Alexander's armored men descending ropes and ordered two formations to form a concave line of tower shields and lances.
• Alexander led the wedge toward the enemy formation as the people on the walls watched anxiously.
• Alexander shouted and hurled his giant black axe, blasting through the tower shields and opening a bloody gap.
• Alexander and his soldiers charged into the disorganized formation, cutting down the black-clad soldiers.

Sun Fei and his armored strongmen broke through the enemy’s tower-shield formation and wreaked havoc on the narrow bridge. The Silver-Masked Man ordered reinforcements and a full assault, while the black-armored soldiers at the front began to flee.

• Sun Fei shattered the tower-shield formation with a mighty axe blow, and the people of Chambord City cheered from the walls.
• The Silver-Masked Man ordered the army to switch formations, sent Langde to the front with a hundred soldiers, and prepared an attack on the city.
• Sun Fei, Pierce, Drogba, and the other strongmen charged into the enemy ranks and overwhelmed the soldiers on the bridge.
• A black-armored officer ambushed Sun Fei with a broken lance, but Sun Fei summoned his great axe and split both the lance and the officer in two.
• Sun Fei and the strongmen continued their assault, throwing the enemy formation into chaos and driving the black-armored soldiers to flee.

Sun Fei and his armored strongmen fought across the stone bridge as Black Knight Two restored the defenders’ tower shield and dragon spear formation. Sun Fei switched to Necromancer Mode and used Corpse Explosion to devastate the soldiers behind the shields, leaving the assault underway.

• Black Knight Two killed fleeing soldiers, rallied the black-clad troops, and ordered them to form a second defensive line.
• Sun Fei and his armored companions cut down the defenders and pushed the black-clad line back along the bridge.
• Sun Fei regrouped the strongmen into a wedge and told them to drink from their waterskins before charging again.
• Sun Fei kicked corpses over the tower shields, switched from Barbarian Mode to Necromancer Mode, and cast Corpse Explosion.
• Sun Fei’s explosions killed more than twenty soldiers and wounded or scattered many others behind the formation.

Sun Fei used his Necromancer and Barbarian powers to kill Black Knight Two and break the black-armored soldiers’ shield formation. He then led the armored strongmen across the bridge, and his Paladin aura restored their strength as they fought.

• Sun Fei’s Corpse Explosion injured Black Knight Two and threw the black-armored soldiers into chaos.
• Sun Fei switched to Barbarian Mode, leaped over the tower shields, and kicked Black Knight Two to death in midair.
• Sun Fei summoned his giant axe and split the tower shields and lances, opening the formation for the armored strongmen to charge.
• Sun Fei advanced through the enemy ranks while the strongmen fought behind him and began suffering injuries.
• Sun Fei activated Paladin Mode and used Prayer to heal and strengthen the strongmen, who shouted their support for King Alexander and surged forward.
• The black-armored soldiers recognized Sun Fei’s Song of Life Battle Aura and called for an expert to stop him.

Sun Fei’s paladin auras broke the black-armored army’s formation, and he led twenty-three fighters across the stone bridge to destroy all six siege ladders. The charge continued toward the boulder throwers as Chambord cheered, while Lampard realized that Alexander possessed several powerful abilities.

• Sun Fei activated [Prayer] and [Might], causing the black-armored warriors to flee after their commander, Black Knight [Two], was killed.
• Sun Fei led the steel-helmeted strongmen through the broken formation, while Pierce and Drogba helped topple the first two siege ladders into the river.
• The black-armored army’s horn orders arrived too late to save the formation, and the strongmen destroyed the remaining four siege ladders.
• Sun Fei and the twenty-three fighters advanced across the increasingly narrow bridge toward the six boulder throwers, despite a dangerous whirlpool below.
• The people of Chambord cheered from the walls as Angela and Jima watched anxiously, and Lampard recognized Alexander’s physical, icy, and knightly powers.

The Silver-Masked Man ordered an armor-piercing arrow volley against Sun Fei’s forces but agreed to spare Sun Fei for his mysterious teacher, who wanted him captured alive. As Sun Fei and his companions advanced across the bridge, the three-star swordsman Langde arrived and attacked them with Explosive Flame Slash.

• The Silver-Masked Man flew into a rage over the Black Armor Army’s failed formation and ordered an indiscriminate volley of armor-piercing heavy arrows.
• The cloaked figure asked that Sun Fei be captured alive, and the Silver-Masked Man changed his order so the archers would not kill him.
• Sun Fei and his twenty-two companions routed the black-armored soldiers, destroyed more enemy formations, and drove Bloodthirsty Fierce Water Beasts into a feeding frenzy below the bridge.
• Sun Fei smashed four of the six boulder launchers off the bridge as his group advanced to its midpoint.
• Langde arrived and unleashed Explosive Flame Slash at Sun Fei and his companions.