Recaps

Sun Fei fought Three-Star Swordsman Langde on the stone bridge while Pierce, Drogba, and the other defenders held back enemy officers at terrible cost. After Breno died taking enemies with him, Sun Fei ordered the survivors to retreat, but they refused and declared they would advance and retreat with King Alexander.

• Sun Fei split Langde’s Explosive Flame Slash with his axe and clashed with him in a fierce battle that raised a blood-colored tornado around them.
• Langde urged enemy officers to cross the battle and attack Pierce and the others, but Sun Fei used Howl to frighten and kill many of them.
• Several officers reached Pierce and the defenders, who fought them in a desperate melee despite their wounds and lack of combat skill.
• Breno, mortally wounded, grabbed an enemy officer and leaped into the river with him and two other officers, where the Bloodthirsty Fierce Water Beasts devoured them.
• Pierce killed the officer fighting him, while the defenders’ fearless resistance drove the remaining enemy officers into retreat.
• Sun Fei, wounded by Langde, cleared the remaining officers and ordered his twenty-one surviving men back to the city, but they refused to retreat without him.

Sun Fei shattered the stone bridge to halt the black-armored army, then faced the enemy alone after throwing Drogba to safety. He killed Three-Star Swordsman Langde with a rapid combination of Sorceress spells and a Barbarian attack.

• Sun Fei ordered Pierce and the others to retreat, but they charged back to protect him as a powerful mage approached through black fog.
• Sun Fei used repeated axe blows to crack the stone bridge, then leaped with Drogba to the enemy side as the center collapsed and cut off the army’s route to Chambord City.
• Drogba rushed to rescue Sun Fei, but Sun Fei hurled him across the gap and ordered him to tell Brook and Lampard to keep everyone inside the city.
• Sun Fei charged the black-armored soldiers and switched between Sorceress and Barbarian modes to attack Langde with Fire Bolt, Charged Bolt, and Ice Bolt.
• Sun Fei slowed Langde with his spells and beheaded him with the Storm Piercer Dagger.

Sun Fei killed Langde and drove the Black Armor Army to collapse, but the Silver-Masked Man ordered a barrage of heavy arrows that appeared to kill him. The black-cloaked mage took Sun Fei’s corpse to his tent to dissect it, then recoiled in horror when the supposedly dead Sun Fei smiled.

• Sun Fei beheaded Langde and advanced toward the black mist while the terrified Black Armor Army retreated.
• The Silver-Masked Man realized Sun Fei’s rapid rise in strength had turned the battle and ordered the archers to fire armor-piercing heavy arrows.
• The arrows slaughtered the soldiers on the broken bridge and struck Sun Fei until he fell, prompting the Silver-Masked Man and the surviving troops to believe he was dead.
• The black-cloaked figure ordered soldiers to carry Sun Fei’s corpse to his tent, intending to dissect him and learn how he converted power between attributes.
• The black-cloaked figure turned Sun Fei’s corpse face up, and his smile froze when Sun Fei smiled back.

Sun Fei survived the Black Armor Army’s arrows, captured the four-star mage, and killed the Silver-Masked Man and his black knights. As the enemy soldiers fled, cavalry appeared on the distant plains, leaving Chambord City’s fate and the newcomers’ arrival to be revealed.

• Sun Fei defeated the black-cloaked four-star mage, tied him up, and broke his limbs to prevent him from escaping.
• Sun Fei left the mage’s tent and frightened the guards into revealing where the Silver-Masked Man was.
• Chambord’s people mourned Sun Fei’s apparent death, while Bazel and Gejir celebrated and Gejir eyed Angela.
• The Silver-Masked Man ordered his forces to retreat, but Sun Fei burst into his tent and confronted him.
• Sun Fei killed the eight black knights and stabbed the Silver-Masked Man through the throat, sending the surviving soldiers fleeing.
• Military horns sounded as a vast cavalry force approached Chambord City across the plains.

Sun Fei defeated the remaining black-armored soldiers and returned to Chambord City after hostile Zenit knights tried to run him down. He reunited with the people at the broken bridge, who celebrated his return alive.

• Sun Fei saw silver-armored knights slaughtering the fleeing black-armored soldiers and assumed they were Zenit reinforcements.
• Sun Fei bound the unconscious four-star mage to the Silver-Masked Man's corpse and prepared to return to Chambord City.
• A group of Zenit knights charged Sun Fei, and he knocked them and their horses down when they refused to stop.
• Sun Fei silenced the knights with his killing intent and headed back toward Chambord City with the bundle.
• Sun Fei used Leap to cross the broken bridge, where Harry, Pierce, Drogba, and the gathered townspeople welcomed him with tears and cheers.

Alexander returned alive after the battle, and Angela rushed to embrace him as Chambord City's people celebrated their victory. Best arrived with the Zenit envoy and found his daughter hugging a young man, while Sun Fei mistook Best for a rival flirting with Angela.

• Herald Bazel and Gejir reacted in shock when they saw Alexander alive, while Angela recovered from her grief and hurried from the city wall to meet him.
• Lampard and the others watched Angela run to Alexander as the enemy fled and Zenit reinforcements arrived.
• Little Prince Tolbinsky complained to Tanasha about Alexander, but she scolded him and ordered Steward Best to go to Chambord City.
• Best set out for Chambord City, relieved that its walls still stood, then saw Angela embrace Alexander on the broken bridge.
• Best called out to Angela, and Sun Fei angrily mistook the handsome older man for someone pursuing his fiancée.

After Chambord City’s victory, Sun Fei reunited with Best, learned that a Zenit imperial delegation had arrived to invest him as king, and celebrated his soldiers and civilians. The city began recovering from the battle as a rainbow appeared above it, and Sun Fei recognized the sight as a result of the fighting.

• Sun Fei mistook Best for a man flirting with Angela, grabbed him, and then awkwardly welcomed him after learning he was Angela’s father.
• Best told Sun Fei that Princess Tanasha had brought a Zenit imperial investiture delegation, but Sun Fei refused to rush to repair the broken bridge and announced a victory banquet for the city.
• Sun Fei, Angela, and Jima distributed the royal family’s remaining wealth as compensation to families who had lost loved ones in the battle.
• Sun Fei had physicians use diluted Healing Potion to treat the wounded, while Oleg worked hard to prove his loyalty and Bazel and Gejir shut themselves away.
• The people of Chambord City saw a rainbow surrounded by red haze and prayed, while Sun Fei understood that the sight came from vapor and bloody mist rising from the Zuli River.

After the battle, Chambord City prepared for a victory banquet while Princess Tanasha’s delegation settled in and Prince Tolbinsky continued to criticize King Alexander. A mysterious veiled woman explored the city, grew interested in Alexander, and decided to attend the banquet in disguise as night fell.

• Prince Tolbinsky complained about Sun Fei’s behavior as Princess Tanasha’s delegation crossed into Chambord City.
• Best arranged lodgings for the delegation and invited Tanasha and Tolbinsky to King Alexander’s victory banquet, which Tolbinsky accepted mockingly.
• A veiled woman toured Chambord City with Susan and Knight Commander Roman, judging Alexander by the people’s loyalty and the city’s history.
• The veiled woman decided to attend the banquet disguised as an ordinary person and told Susan and Roman to accompany her.
• Chambord City’s residents gathered at the royal hall as the victory banquet was about to begin.

Sun Fei and Angela appeared at Chambord City’s victory banquet, where Sun Fei honored the 131 fallen defenders by personally placing coins over their eyes and lighting their funeral pyres. As the celebration resumed, Prince Tolbinsky joined the dancing, while a red-cloaked knight and his men pushed toward Angela with malicious intent.

• Tolbinsky arrived at the banquet and received a warm welcome from Chambord City's people.
• Sun Fei and Angela appeared before the crowd, and the people hailed Alexander as their king.
• Three figures in black cloaks watched from the edge of the square, and their leader reacted with surprise at Sun Fei and Angela.
• Sun Fei personally placed gold coins over the eyes of all 131 fallen soldiers and lit their funeral pyres.
• Tolbinsky put aside his arrogance and danced with the crowd as the banquet resumed.
• The red-cloaked knight and his men pressed toward Angela while she danced with Jima and her friends.

At Chambord City’s victory banquet, Sun Fei honored the fallen Breno and rewarded the warriors who had fought beside him. When Zenit cavalrymen assaulted Angela and the townspeople, Sun Fei killed their attackers and ordered the city prepared to confront the delegation.

• Sun Fei toasted Breno, promised to support his family, and awarded the surviving warriors their repaired armor and weapons.
• A Zenit cavalryman slashed a young commoner’s throat after the man defended Angela, Jima, and the other women from the knights’ harassment.
• Sun Fei healed the wounded young man with a [Healing Potion], then heard Angela explain how Shemak’s men had threatened and assaulted them.
• Shemak demanded that Angela perform an indecent dance, Jima be sent to his bed, and Sun Fei hand over his healing potion; Sun Fei refused and punched the cavalryman who threatened him to death.
• Sun Fei ordered Brook and Pierce to evacuate civilians, assemble the army, close the gates, and surround the delegation’s quarters.
• Shemak attacked with [Rock-Splitting Blast], but Sun Fei broke his sword and wounded him, killed seven more cavalrymen, and ordered the last survivor to kneel and kiss his boots.

Sun Fei punished the Zenit cavalrymen who had insulted Chambord and made Torres his personal guard after ordering him to execute one of them. As Sun Fei advanced on Shemak despite Little Prince Tolbinsky's intervention, the eldest princess sent Knight Commander Roman to retrieve Jimi without fighting Sun Fei.

• Sun Fei spared a terrified cavalryman only long enough to have Torres kill him for insulting Chambord City.
• Sun Fei praised Torres's courage and appointed the sixteen-year-old as his personal guard.
• Sun Fei confronted Shemak, who fled to Little Prince Tolbinsky and accused the king of attacking the imperial delegation.
• Tolbinsky drew his sword to defend the empire's dignity, but Sun Fei ordered him to make way or die.
• The eldest princess told Susan that she could not defeat Sun Fei and sent Knight Commander Roman to bring Jimi back safely without fighting him.
• The eldest princess dismissed Shemak's possible death as deserved retribution, while Susan warned that Zhirkov might retaliate.

Sun Fei spared Little Prince Tolbinsky but killed Shemak after the knight commander attacked him, and the people of Chambord City hailed their king. The delegation left without comment, the city kept watch through the night, and Sun Fei woke the next morning after drinking himself unconscious.

• Grand Knight Commander Roman Pavlyuchenko rescued Little Prince Tolbinsky and took him away, while Sun Fei insisted that Shemak remain to face punishment.
• Sun Fei defeated Shemak's desperate attack and beheaded him, then declared that those who trespassed against Chambord City would die.
• The civilians and soldiers of Chambord City knelt and cried, “Long live King Alexander,” while Best and Lampard watched from the palace steps.
• The eldest princess ordered her delegation to leave and forbade its members from discussing the incident.
• The victory banquet continued until dawn, and Brook guarded the delegation's quarters as Pierce, Drogba, and the others watched the city walls.
• After the people drank him into a stupor, Sun Fei was helped back to the palace and woke the next morning.

After waking from a drunken night, Sun Fei surveyed Chambord City and began planning reforms and ways to strengthen the kingdom. At the council meeting, he learned that Bazel and Gejir had fled with the help of a hidden Three-Star Mage, and he ordered a search and the confiscation of Bazel’s estate.

• Sun Fei woke naked after a night of drinking, dressed, and wondered how he could change the people’s clothing.
• Sun Fei surveyed Chambord City and marveled at its ancient stone construction and organized districts.
• Angela brought Sun Fei breakfast and told him the nobles and ministers would soon attend the customary audience.
• Brook reported that Bazel and Gejir had vanished, and Lampard revealed that a powerful Three-Star Mage had been working for Bazel.
• Sun Fei ordered a search for Bazel, the release of the slaves from Bazel’s household, and the confiscation of Bazel’s estate.
• Sun Fei considered how to strengthen Chambord City’s leaders and army so the kingdom could survive the wars ahead.

Sun Fei reorganized Chambord City's leadership after confronting nobles and merchants who challenged his authority, appointing Best to handle domestic administration and Brook to oversee the military. He learned that the Zenit Empire's vassal-state contest could raise Chambord City's rank and loosen restrictions on its population, army, land, and Dou Qi manuals.

• Sun Fei appointed Best as the new herald after Viscount Louis claimed the post and revealed that she had avoided fighting to defend Chambord City.
• Sun Fei ordered the guards to eject protesting merchants, then declared a ten-day postwar adjustment and assigned Best and Brook full authority over domestic and military affairs.
• Brook told Sun Fei that the Zenit Empire's vassal-state martial contest would begin in six months, and Drogba vowed to defeat Blackstone City.
• Brook explained that advancing Chambord City from a sixth-rank to a fifth-rank vassal state would double its legal limits and bring better imperial support and rewards.
• Sun Fei learned that the Zenit Empire restricted the strength of its vassal states to prevent them from threatening imperial rule.

Sun Fei learned that Chambord City had fallen to sixth rank after his predecessor led it to defeat, and he ordered a review of the prisoners in the iron prison and dungeon. He then returned to the Diablo World in Barbarian Mode, where Elena welcomed him at the Rogue Encampment.

• Brook explained that Chambord City had six months to succeed in the martial contests or lose its status as a country, and that it had fallen from fourth rank after losing nineteen matches under Sun Fei's predecessor.
• Sun Fei ordered Brook to prepare for the contests and ended the council meeting after learning why Chambord City had performed so badly.
• Brook asked Sun Fei to clear the names of innocent prisoners, including Petr Čech, and Sun Fei ordered Warden Oleg to halt torture and prepare for a review that afternoon.
• Sun Fei instructed Fernando Torres to ask Best for a detailed report on the prisoners, then reflected that Best likely knew more about the dungeon than he let on.
• Sun Fei returned to the Diablo World, sold equipment in the Rogue Encampment, switched from Necromancer Mode to Barbarian Mode, and met Elena near Kashya's tent.

Sun Fei bought a stronger axe, accepted a quest from Charsi, and took Elena to kill the Countess in the Forgotten Tower. After Elena’s new bow helped them defeat the boss with ease, they set out for the monastery to find Charsi’s hammer.

• Sun Fei escaped the teasing Rogues with Elena and bought a 1–30 damage great axe from Charsi.
• Sun Fei accepted Charsi’s quest to find a hammer in the Barracks and took Elena through the Dark Wood toward the Forgotten Tower.
• Sun Fei gave Elena a gold-quality short bow, and she thanked him shyly before they entered the tower.
• Elena froze the Countess with Ice Arrows, allowing Sun Fei to kill her before she could cast a spell.
• Sun Fei collected over 5,000 gold coins and ordinary blue equipment, then headed with Elena toward the monastery in the Tamoe Highlands.

Sun Fei and Elena fought through the Barracks, recovered Charsi’s magical hammer, and prepared for a final battle against Andariel. After upgrading their gear and learning Andariel’s history, they stood outside her lair, ready to face her.

• Sun Fei and Elena fought through the Barracks and defeated the Fallen Smith, recovering the magical hammer.
• Sun Fei leveled up to fourteen, assigned his attribute and skill points, and returned to the Rogue Encampment to repair his equipment and give Charsi the hammer.
• Charsi offered to imbue one piece of Sun Fei’s equipment and gave him a twenty percent discount on repairs and future purchases.
• Sun Fei sold his blue equipment and bought armor for Elena, who thanked him for his generosity.
• Elena told Sun Fei the story of Andariel, and the two fought through the monastery to reach her lair.
• Outside Andariel’s chamber, Sun Fei warned Elena to stay at least thirty meters away during the coming battle.

Sun Fei defeated Andariel, gained a level and four pieces of golden equipment, and learned that killing her made him the Rogue Encampment’s chosen leader. Back in Chambord, he went with Brook and Fernando Torres to reorganize the Iron Prison Dungeon, where they found a crowd gathered in the square.

• Sun Fei and Elena fought Andariel, with Sun Fei drawing her attacks while Elena struck from a distance, until they killed her and cleared the fifth underground floor.
• Sun Fei reached level 16, collected four golden equipment drops and other loot, then returned with Elena to the Rogue Encampment.
• Elena told Sun Fei that the Ancestors' Blood Oath made him the encampment’s supreme leader and entitled him to three legendary magical abilities, as the townspeople gathered and knelt before him.
• The game’s time limit forced Sun Fei to return to reality before he could ask questions, and he exchanged for potions before leaving the game.
• Sun Fei ate, then traveled with Brook and Fernando Torres to the Iron Prison Dungeon to begin reorganizing it, where they found the square crowded with people.

Sun Fei heard the grievances of Chambord City's commoners and released many prisoners after reviewing the iron prison’s case files. He then explored the vast underground prison and, while waiting for Čech, noticed a mysterious patterned steel gate.

• Commoners gathered to ask Sun Fei for justice, and he ordered the case files brought to the square for public hearings.
• Sun Fei reviewed complaints, freed more than forty prisoners within half an hour, and later released sixty to seventy percent of the prison’s inmates while sending additional grievances to Best.
• Sun Fei entered the underground prison with Brook and Oleg and saw its extensive cells, water dungeons, and underground river.
• Oleg explained that the labyrinth had been discovered more than a hundred years earlier and that no one knew who had carved it.
• Sun Fei reached the towering hall where serious criminals were held and ordered Oleg to bring Čech to him.
• While waiting, Sun Fei spotted a huge black steel gate covered in familiar-looking patterns and asked what it was for.

Sun Fei explored the prison’s mysteries, restored Petr Čech as captain of the King’s Guard, and arranged a sealed chamber for an undisclosed task. The chapter ended with Sun Fei preparing to act inside while Oleg and the guards stood watch outside.

• Oleg told Sun Fei that a dangerous, unexplored passage lay beyond the steel gate, and Sun Fei resolved to investigate it later.
• Brook brought Petr Čech to Sun Fei, who freed him, gave him food, and reinstated him as captain of the King’s Guard after clearing him of treason.
• Čech thanked Oleg for secretly protecting him from Bazel’s plan to have him killed in prison.
• Sun Fei asked Oleg for the bodies of condemned prisoners and the Silver-Masked Man, and ordered him to bring them along with the black-cloaked mage to a sealed chamber.
• Sun Fei ordered Oleg and the guards to keep watch outside and not enter, then prepared to conduct his important business inside the chamber.

Sun Fei discovered that his Barbarian Find Potion skill could produce a mysterious green potion that massively enhanced strength and durability. He named it the Hulk Potion and realized it might help strengthen Chambord City's soldiers and leaders.

• Sun Fei killed two captured mercenaries and used Find Potion on their corpses, but the skill produced nothing.
• Sun Fei used Find Potion on the Silver-Masked Man's corpse and obtained a small green vial.
• Sun Fei forced a few drops of the potion down the tall, thin mercenary's throat, and the man transformed into a powerful, green-skinned figure before returning to normal with greatly enhanced strength and toughness.
• The empowered mercenary broke his chains and attacked Sun Fei, but Sun Fei killed him with a single slap after Warden Oleg rushed in to protect the king.
• Sun Fei forgave Oleg for entering without permission and named the mysterious potion the Hulk Potion.

Sun Fei interrogated the surviving four-star mage after discovering that the slain Silver-Masked Man was Kolbak, a prince of the Sander Empire. The mage warned that Chambord City and Zenit would face the empire’s retaliation, but Sun Fei suspected the attackers had been conducting a secret mission and demanded to know its purpose.

• Sun Fei failed to find another Hulk Potion in the last corpse and stored the remaining potion for further investigation.
• Sun Fei used Healing Potion to revive the badly injured four-star mage, then woke him with cold water.
• The mage identified the Silver-Masked Man as Kolbak, a prince of the Sander Empire, and threatened Sun Fei with the empire’s revenge.
• Sun Fei told the mage that the attackers had been wiped out and that their secret approach suggested they had concealed their origins.
• Sun Fei threatened the mage and demanded to know why he had secretly come to Chambord City.

Sun Fei forced Evans to reveal that he had brought Prince Kolbak and the Black Armor Army to Chambord City to seize an ancient battlefield ruin. Evans explained the ruin’s significance, while Sun Fei recognized that Chambord’s underground prison might be part of it.

• Sun Fei tortured Evans and used a [Healing Potion] to persuade him to reveal the truth.
• Evans said he had found an ancient map and identified a gods-and-demons battle site beneath Chambord City.
• Evans revealed that he recruited Kolbak and planned to kill him after the army helped locate and excavate the ruins.
• Evans explained that the army had disguised itself and traveled secretly to Chambord City, intending to seize it before anyone noticed.
• Evans described the legends of the ruins and said powerful empires, including the Manchester Empire, had risen through their discoveries.

Sun Fei forced the map to the ruins of gods and demons from Evans, then killed him and destroyed the evidence of the secret chamber’s deaths. He kept Evans’s indestructible storage ring and the Silver-Masked Man’s armor, then recruited Warden Oleg to handle important tasks for Chambord City.

• Sun Fei used [Raise Skeleton] and a threat of soul torture to make Evans hand over the map to the ruins of gods and demons.
• Sun Fei examined the map, dismissed his skeleton, and killed Evans instead of healing him.
• Sun Fei used [Find Potion] on Evans’s corpse and obtained another [Hulk Potion].
• Sun Fei burned the corpses and tried to destroy Evans’s storage ring and the Silver-Masked Man’s armor, but put them in his storage space when they resisted his attacks.
• Sun Fei summoned Warden Oleg, warned him about his past crimes, and explained that his battlefield service had earned him a chance to atone.
• Oleg swore loyalty, and Sun Fei said he intended to entrust him with important tasks and would judge him by his actions.

Sun Fei ordered Oleg to turn the soldiers’ convalescent home into a prison, then spent the evening telling Chambord City’s children stories and heard that poverty kept them from pursuing dreams of becoming magicians or warriors. He returned to the palace with an idea for helping them and learned that Angela and Jima had met the Zenit Empire’s eldest princess, who had asked about him.

• Sun Fei ordered Oleg to convert the soldiers’ convalescent home into a prison without burdening civilians, and Oleg offered to pay for the repairs himself.
• Sun Fei strolled through Chambord City, greeted its residents, and told stories to Louis and a circle of children.
• The children told Sun Fei that poverty and their commoner status prevented them from training as magicians or warriors, and Sun Fei came up with an idea.
• Angela and Jima returned to the palace and told Sun Fei they had met the Zenit Empire’s eldest princess, who had asked about him.