Chapter Summaries

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.

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.