Chapter Summaries

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.

Sun Fei designed new clothes and arranged for Angela and Jima to have them made, then introduced the clothes and a free civil and martial school to Chambord City. As the city embraced his reforms, he continued studying the continent and preparing to use his Hulk Potions to strengthen its leaders.

• Sun Fei realized the eldest princess had deliberately befriended Angela and Jima to learn about Chambord City, but he reassured Angela that she had done nothing wrong.
• Sun Fei showed Angela his clothing designs, asked her to arrange for Chambord's tailors to make them, and privately explained a revealing gift that left her blushing and fleeing the hall.
• Oleg renovated the infirmary into a humane prison for minor offenders, while Sun Fei told stories to children and gradually popularized his new clothes by wearing and giving them away.
• Sun Fei decreed that children aged six to fifteen must attend the free Chambord City Civil and Martial School, where he, Frank Lampard, and Gordon Brook taught them.
• Sun Fei read in the royal archives, continued developing his Diablo characters, and concluded that it was time to use his Hulk Potions to strengthen Chambord City's leaders.

Sun Fei presented Brook and Čech with a Hulk Potion that permanently strengthened the body and Dou Qi channels, disguising its painful transformation and temporary green color as a terrifying side effect. Čech drank the first bottle and regained immense physical strength, while Sun Fei revealed that he had several more potions.

• Brook worked to reform Chambord City's military and worried that he was falling behind Alexander and the other fighters.
• Sun Fei summoned Brook and Čech to the palace and showed them a Hulk Potion, claiming it permanently increased strength but had a terrible side effect.
• Brook volunteered to drink the potion, but Čech snatched it first and swallowed it to spare Brook the risk.
• Čech endured an agonizing transformation that turned him green, then discovered his body had become immensely strong and his Dou Qi channels had expanded.
• Sun Fei revealed that the potion's supposed side effect was only temporary green coloring, making Brook and Čech faint in exasperation.
• Brook told Čech that strengthening Chambord City mattered more than who drank the potion, and Sun Fei produced another bottle, saying he had several more.

Sun Fei gave Brook and Čech the Hulk Potion and tasked them with building an elite Chambord army for the martial combat competition. After Torres left to begin training, Sun Fei summoned Elena through a portal from Diablo World, which opened in the king’s hall.

• Brook drank the Hulk Potion and, like Čech, gained strength and improved capacity for Dou Qi cultivation.
• Sun Fei warned Brook and Čech to keep the potion secret, then gave Brook a bottle to dilute for two hundred loyal soldiers selected for the competition.
• Brook and Čech promised to train the soldiers into an elite army, and they discussed military reforms with Sun Fei before leaving.
• Torres asked for a Hulk Potion, but Sun Fei told him to train with Pierce and Drogba until he was strong enough to endure it.
• After Torres left, Sun Fei switched to Barbarian Mode and opened a portal from Diablo World, through which Elena emerged.

Sun Fei learned that defeating Andariel had made him the Rogue Encampment’s supreme leader, while Elena helped him communicate with its leaders and investigate the Iron Prison Dungeon. The chapter ended with Cain preparing the ancestral oath ceremony, where Sun Fei was expected to receive three abilities.

• Elena told Sun Fei that Akara and Kashya had agreed to his proposal but wanted food support for the Rogue Encampment.
• Warden Oleg reported that the new prison was ready, and Sun Fei ordered him to move the prisoners and show Elena the Iron Prison Dungeon while avoiding the black iron gate.
• Twelve days earlier, Sun Fei returned to the Rogue Encampment and learned that destroying Andariel had made him its supreme leader under the ancestors’ covenant.
• Akara explained that Sun Fei would receive goods at half price but also had a duty to fight for the encampment and its people.
• Cain arrived and announced that Sun Fei could receive three abilities by completing the sacrificial ceremony at the oath altar.

Sun Fei entered the hidden space beneath Akara’s tent and climbed the Ancestors’ Oath Altar, where the gods granted him three divine skills: Learning, Grant, and Summon. He returned safely, then held a secret discussion with Kashya and Cain before leaving the Diablo World.

• Sun Fei followed Akara and the others into her tent and discovered it opened into a vast magical space where moving slowly made him travel faster.
• Akara led the group to the Ancestors’ Oath Altar and told Sun Fei to climb to its ninth level and pray.
• The altar transformed around Sun Fei, and a divine voice granted him the skills Learning, Grant, and Summon as a column of light changed his body.
• After more than three hours, the altar’s light faded, and Sun Fei descended unharmed as Elena hurried to check on him.
• Sun Fei held a secret discussion with Kashya and Cain before leaving the Diablo World, and Akara appeared relieved.