Chapter Summaries

Sun Fei offered Paris a bargain to free Angela, but Angela bit her tongue and appeared to die before he could save her. Enraged, Sun Fei sent her away with Little Black and turned his fury on the assassins, then clashed with Paris as the battle on East Mountain continued.

• Sun Fei offered to stay out of Paris's affairs if she released Angela, but Paris refused to trust his promise.
• Angela told Sun Fei to avenge her and Jima, then bit her tongue and stopped breathing.
• Paris returned Angela's body to Sun Fei, who placed her on Little Black's back and sent the dog away from East Mountain.
• Sun Fei attacked the assassins, drove two curved-blade swordsmen off the king's altar, and forced the earth-element assassin to flee.
• Paris left Ziyan and attacked Sun Fei with two azure divine birds, and their clash shook the mountain peak.

Sun Fei attacked Paris with the Purple and Azure Twin Swords, but Murphy appeared and struck him down. As Murphy advanced on the eldest princess, an unseen attacker punched him and sent him flying.

• Paris was driven back by Sun Fei’s attack, and Murphy intercepted the Purple and Azure Twin Swords with a punch that injured Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei used a [Healing Potion] and a [Minor Rejuvenation Potion] to recover, then switched to [Assassin Mode] and vanished into the dust.
• Murphy could not find Sun Fei, and Paris ordered him to kill the eldest princess after learning Chambord City’s people were already dead.
• Paris joined the fight against Ziyan while Murphy advanced on the eldest princess, killing cavalrymen who charged to protect her.
• An unknown attacker’s fist struck Murphy in the chest and sent him flying backward.

Arshavin revealed himself and defeated Murphy, turning the battle on East Mountain in Tanasha’s favor, but Modrić suddenly betrayed them and struck Arshavin and Ziyan. Paris regained control and ordered an attack on Chambord City, until Sun Fei revealed that his injuries had been faked and confronted Modrić and two supposedly dead assassins.

• Arshavin revealed his identity and gravely wounded Murphy, forcing Paris to stop the fighting.
• Paris and Arshavin faced off as the survivors gathered into opposing groups, and Tanasha acknowledged that Sun Fei’s actions had helped her.
• Modrić attacked Arshavin and Ziyan from behind, then tried to strike Tanasha, whose water-element magic item blocked his attack.
• Arshavin injured Modrić in retaliation, but the ambush left Arshavin and Ziyan gravely wounded and shifted the advantage to Paris.
• Paris ordered Modrić and the other assassins to massacre Chambord City and disguise it as a revolt.
• Sun Fei stood up without a sign of injury, said he had faked his wounds, and demanded to know why Modrić had sided with Paris and how two assassins had returned from the dead.

Sun Fei exposed the plot behind the staged deaths of He Shengzhen and Prince Obinna, rejected Paris’s offer, and attacked the conspirators. He killed Obinna and He Shengzhen in one strike, then turned his attention to Paris and Sandro.

• Sandro revealed that he had impersonated Prince Modrić and that He Shengzhen and Prince Obinna were still alive.
• Sun Fei realized that Paris’s allies had staged the Thracian delegation massacre and He Shengzhen’s death to mislead him.
• Paris offered to spare Sun Fei and preserve Chambord City if he swore allegiance to Dominguez, but Sun Fei refused and threatened the gathered nobles.
• Sun Fei attacked with the Purple and Azure Twin Swords, and a roar left Obinna and He Shengzhen vulnerable to his strike.
• Sun Fei beheaded Obinna and He Shengzhen, then taunted Sandro and asked Paris how he could feel better.

Sun Fei survived the white-clad assassin’s attack and killed him in a deliberately brutal display that shocked everyone on East Mountain. He then revealed that he had covered the summit with magic traps, trapping anyone who tried to flee.

• Paris offered Sun Fei a chance to serve Dominguez, but Sun Fei insulted her instead.
• The white-clad assassin used his invisibility technique to stab Sun Fei, while Ziyan warned him of the attack.
• Sun Fei severed the assassin’s arm, dragged him out of invisibility, and beheaded him with the azure sword.
• Sun Fei pulled the assassin’s clawed arm from his body without showing pain, frightening the gathered envoys.
• A guard tried to flee and was killed by a lightning magic trap, and Sun Fei announced that traps covered the summit.

Sun Fei used magic traps and a healing potion to defeat Paris's forces, then faced Paris's surrender and said he would discuss it with his wife. The chapter ended as he did something that shocked everyone on East Mountain's summit.

• Sun Fei revealed that he had covered East Mountain's summit with magic traps, and a Shenhua guard was burned to ash while a Four-Star-Rank Warrior was badly injured triggering more traps.
• Butcher Sandro attacked Sun Fei, who healed his wound with a red potion, dodged Sandro's counterattack, and killed him.
• Sun Fei took two silver rings from Sandro's corpse and faced Paris, whose remaining experts made her decide to surrender.
• Paris offered to end the clash if Sun Fei removed the traps, but Sun Fei said he would discuss it with his wife before doing something that shocked everyone.

Sun Fei revealed that Angela and his supposedly dead guards were alive, exposing the deaths as part of a plan and taking control of the standoff. The chapter ended with the gathered fighters stunned as Lampard and the other guards stood unharmed behind Sun Fei.

• Sun Fei whistled, and Angela arrived atop the enormous black dog with waterskins and a robe for him.
• Sun Fei had the dog retrieve Lampard, Drogba, Jima, and the others while the watching factions studied its route across the mountain.
• Sun Fei announced that it was time to witness a miracle and splashed spring water onto the bodies.
• Lampard woke first, picked up his sword, and calmly took his place behind Sun Fei.
• The other guards rose unharmed, revealing that their wounds and deaths had been faked and leaving Paris, Arshavin, Ziyan, and the others in shock.

Sun Fei revealed that Chambord City's people had faked their deaths and that Elena had stopped Paris's raiding parties in the city, leaving Paris's side surrounded and defeated. The swordsman Dani challenged Sun Fei to a fair fight to save Paris, and Sun Fei summoned his armor and twin swords before promising to defeat him with one move.

• Sun Fei explained that Chambord City's people had feigned death, and he revived Jima with cold water while showing the breastplate that had protected her from Paris's strike.
• Paris revealed that she had sent raiding parties into Chambord City and threatened its palace and people, but Sun Fei said his subjects would not become dry bones.
• Elena arrived with the head of the raiding parties' leader, confirming that the threat to Chambord City had been stopped, while Best, Gordon Brook, Paul Pierce, and other Chambord leaders joined the group.
• The White Snow Peak Hermit Dani removed his mask, identified himself, and offered to fight Sun Fei, asking him to spare Paris if Dani won.
• Sun Fei summoned his Diablo World armor and Purple and Azure Twin Swords, then told Dani that one move would decide whether he left the summit alive.

Sun Fei defeated White Snow Peak Hermit Dani and forced Paris to crown him king of Chambord City, sparing her and Dani as they left East Mountain's summit. He then blocked the other fleeing envoys and princes, demanding to know whether he had permitted them to leave.

• Sun Fei defeated White Snow Peak Hermit Dani in a swift sword duel, leaving Dani badly wounded but alive.
• Dani asked Sun Fei to spare Paris, but Sun Fei refused to decide her fate for her and allowed Dani to leave alive.
• Sun Fei retrieved the bloodstained crown and demanded that Paris place it on his head in exchange for her freedom.
• Paris crowned Sun Fei before the watching delegation, and the people of Chambord City hailed him as their king.
• Paris helped Dani escape along a route through the magic traps, while Sun Fei let them go without pursuit.
• Sun Fei stopped two swordsmen trying to flee after them and asked the remaining envoys and princes whether he had given them permission to leave.

Sun Fei let Elena and Chambord City's warriors defeat the remaining attackers on East Mountain, then had Best secure nearly 800,000 imperial gold coins in compensation from the surviving princes. After the prisoners were taken away, Sun Fei watched the injured eldest princess and Arshavin with cold loathing, leaving their relationship at a tense impasse.

• Sun Fei sent Elena to fight the two yellow-clad saber wielders, and she froze them with Ice Arrows before shattering their bodies.
• Sun Fei ordered the surviving attackers to fight for their lives, and Drogba, Paul Pierce, and Brook killed opponents in succession.
• Sun Fei sent Best to negotiate with the surviving princes, who signed compensation agreements worth nearly 800,000 imperial gold coins.
• Warden Oleg's guards took the princes to Chambord City's little black room as hostages until their kingdoms paid.
• Sun Fei stood silently watching the injured eldest princess and Arshavin with indifference and loathing.

After the battle atop East Mountain, Sun Fei calmed the situation, helped Ziyan and Arshavin recover from their injuries, and left with Angela while Best secured compensation for Chambord City. The chapter ended with Sun Fei considering how Zenit's rival factions might try to recruit him and why he had spared Paris.

• Sun Fei blasted the carrion birds from the sky, apologized to the eldest princess, and cleared magical traps from East Mountain.
• Fernando Torres and Petr Čech led Chambord City's Iron Army in clearing the ruins, astonishing the surviving imperial cavalrymen.
• Best persuaded the eldest princess to sign a financial assistance plan to compensate Chambord City for its losses.
• Sun Fei gave Ziyan Rejuvenation Potion, which rapidly healed most of her injuries.
• Sun Fei tossed half a vial of Rejuvenation Potion to Arshavin and rode away with Angela, leaving Arshavin to consider his political predicament.
• Sun Fei reflected that Arshavin, Dominguez, and Paris might seek his support, and that he had spared Paris for Chambord City's future.

Sun Fei spent a quiet, affectionate ride through East Mountain with Angela and told her about Elena. When they returned to Chambord City, they found foreign raiders imprisoned after they had slaughtered several noble households, and Brook asked Sun Fei to decide their fate.

• Sun Fei explained why he had released Paris, choosing to preserve the rivalry between Arshavin and Dominguez rather than strengthen either side.
• Sun Fei rode with Angela through East Mountain, comforted her about her role in the day's events, and told her Elena's story.
• Sun Fei and Angela returned to Chambord City after noon, where the evacuated civilians had begun coming home.
• Brook reported that the foreign warriors had slaughtered Viscount Louis's family and attacked other noble and wealthy households before someone subdued them and left them for the Chambord City guards.
• Brook asked Sun Fei to decide how to deal with the imprisoned raiders.

Sun Fei used the raiders’ attack to eliminate Chambord City’s old noble faction and secure its wealth, then began the city’s military reforms after the imperial delegation departed. His first royal decree established two corps, including the oddly named Urban Management and Defense Corps.

• Sun Fei ordered the captured foreign raiders tortured, chained, and held for ransom, with those unclaimed after a month to be thrown into the Zuli River.
• Sun Fei revealed through his actions that he had used the attack to purge Viscount Louis and the other old nobles, while their seized wealth passed to the royal treasury.
• The next day, Andrei Arshavin left Chambord City for the imperial capital, while Tanasha remained behind.
• Sun Fei issued his first royal decree, creating the Saint Corps and the Chambord City Urban Management and Defense Corps.

Sun Fei reorganized Chambord City's military and government, abolished hereditary nobility, and began reshaping the city. The chapter ended with Alexander unveiling a new legal code carved into twelve bronze statues, three of them still blank.

• Sun Fei established three military branches under the king’s direct command and kept the planned Brocade Guard for the future.
• Sun Fei replaced the old administrative system with two chancellors, a Letters and Visits Office, and six ministries, then asked Best to refine the plan and recommend ministers.
• Best recalled how he had gone to Zenit to secure Alexander’s investiture and reflected on Alexander’s transformation into a capable king.
• Sun Fei abolished hereditary nobility, reassigned the city’s districts, and arranged new homes for residents.
• On the third day after the battle at the summit of East Mountain, Alexander erected twelve bronze statues bearing the new laws, leaving the last three blank.

Sun Fei’s public law code won praise and raised his standing in Chambord City, while he continued building the kingdom’s institutions and strengthening its resources. In the Diablo World, Akara investigated his Feign Death Potion, and Cain arrived with transformed armor after deciphering its magical patterns.

• Chambord City’s people studied the laws engraved on the bronze statues, and Princess Tanasha praised them as a sage’s law, boosting Sun Fei’s reputation.
• Mazzola and Luciano brought Sun Fei ten Dou Qi manuals and five magical notebooks, which he copied and sent to the Civil and Martial School’s library.
• Sun Fei found that his body could not retain Dou Qi or Magic Power, so he set aside those methods of cultivation and relied on the Diablo World to grow stronger.
• Sun Fei showed Akara the Feign Death Potion, and she questioned him about how he had made it and whether herbs from the World of Light had caused its mutation.
• Cain rushed in with armor whose magical patterns and fluctuations had changed to match the Diablo World, announcing that he had finally understood how the patterns worked.

Sun Fei completed the Sorceress’s final Rogue Encampment quests and, after killing Andariel for the seventh time, experienced her memories and received a warning about a coming calamity. Andariel left him a complete, powerful armor set and urged him to protect the woman he loved.

• Cain identified and modified the magical armor, then became absorbed in Sun Fei’s magic notes and said he might use them to open the strange storage ring.
• Sun Fei sent Akara and Elena to Chambord City to study potion-making, then returned to the Diablo World and began the Sorceress’s remaining quests.
• Sun Fei killed Andariel for the seventh time, and her final tear swept him into memories of her life and tragic love for Diablo.
• The restored Andariel appeared to Sun Fei, warned him that a great calamity was coming and that every Flower of the Rogue would endure hardship, and told him to protect his beloved.
• Andariel vanished after leaving Sun Fei a complete magic armor set of extraordinary power.

Sun Fei found and equipped the complete Arcanna's Tricks set, then discovered a mysterious black mask that heightened his senses but could not be identified. After completing Act I with all seven classes, he returned to the holographic screen and saw an unexpected change.

• Sun Fei identified the four pieces of Arcanna's Tricks and equipped the level-15 set, gaining powerful bonuses.
• Sun Fei tried to identify the floating black mask, but the Scroll of Identify revealed no name or attributes.
• Sun Fei found that wearing the mask heightened his five senses, then stored it after confirming the effect disappeared when he removed it.
• Sun Fei returned to the underground catacombs, where his sorceress had completed every Rogue Encampment quest and all seven classes had cleared Act I.
• Sun Fei returned to the 3D holographic screen and saw a surprising change.

After completing every first-act quest, Sun Fei received the reward [Mercenary Strength Stacking], which caused the powers of six mercenaries to overwhelm Elena. He took the unconscious Elena to a hidden chamber, where he prepared to intervene as her condition worsened.

• Sun Fei absorbed the blood-red reward message and discovered that the quest reward would stack mercenary strength.
• Elena began sweating and bleeding as ice, fire, lightning, and poison powers clashed inside her.
• Sister Akara cast Healing Spells on Elena, but the conflict continued to grow more dangerous.
• Sun Fei arrived through a portal, used a [Full Rejuvenation Potion], and carried Elena to the Underground Grotto Labyrinth City.
• Sun Fei used his last [Full Restoration Potion] and, realizing the stacking process threatened Elena's life, reached for the clasp of her armor.

Michael Ballack spotted an approaching enemy army and Chambord City rapidly prepared its defenses. In the underground labyrinth, Sun Fei endured Elena’s pain with her and the two grew closer as she recovered.

• Michael Ballack saw an armed force approaching across the grassland, and a wounded scout confirmed it was hostile.
• Ballack sounded the alarm, and Chambord’s soldiers raised the steel drawbridge and assembled to defend the city.
• Right Chancellor Best and Gordon Brook arrived beneath the gate tower as Drogba, Ivanović, and Essien brought reinforcements.
• Sun Fei shared the four elemental forces tormenting the unconscious Elena, enduring severe pain until the forces settled and returned to her.
• Elena awoke, held Sun Fei close, and enveloped them both in a curtain of water.

After Elena and Sun Fei affirmed their feelings for each other, a hostile coalition army arrived at Chambord City demanding the release of its detained princes. Chambord's commanders prepared to resist, leaving the city on the brink of battle.

• Elena regained her armor and weapons after combining the powers of the six other NPC mercenaries, gaining strength beyond Sun Fei's usual combat power.
• Elena knelt before Sun Fei, and he ordered her to stand beside him rather than kneel, making clear that he accepted her.
• A mage on horseback demanded that Chambord City lower its drawbridge and release the detained princes, then attacked Michael Ballack and the soldiers with wind blades.
• Ballack and the other Saints formed a shield wall, while Chambord's archers fired a volley that shattered the mage's magical shield and drove him back.
• A coalition army bearing banners from several kingdoms and cities advanced toward Chambord, and Gordon Brook and Best welcomed the chance to fight and train their troops.