Chapter Summaries

Jose and the Dragon Worship Cult fought the Northern Witch Council after their ambush failed, then Jose separated Doris from the other witches and battled her alone. Doris revealed a ring that summoned a Legendary Winter Lance, leaving Jose to reinforce his barrier against the deadly weapon.

• Eldo and a hidden Legendary White Dragon joined Jose after he killed Eber and recovered from his injuries, forcing the Northern Witch Council to fight rather than withdraw.
• Jose, the Dragon Worship Cult’s dragon and dragonborn, and the three witches exchanged powerful spells until Jose and Krumlina’s combined attacks helped break the witches’ formation.
• The witches teleported apart, allowing Jose’s allies to isolate Doris while Jose pursued her and taunted her about fighting without a Magic Tower.
• Jose pressured Doris with close-range attacks, but she deliberately weakened her defenses to deceive his sharp observations and bait him into charging.
• Doris activated a ring to summon the Legendary Winter Lance, and Jose poured energy into his Fire Elemental Barrier to strengthen it.

Jose drove off Doris and the other Northern Witch Council mages, then rejected the Dragon Worship Cult’s offer of formal membership while keeping negotiations open. After learning that intruders had attacked the Molten Core, he teleported back and found three surviving Thieves trapped by his Fire Lizards.

• Jose charged through Doris’s Legendary Magic attack, wounded her face with his claw, and forced her to escape using a lifesaving scroll.
• The other two witches noticed Doris’s retreat and escaped with their own scrolls, while Eldo again invited Jose to formally join the Dragon Worship Cult.
• Jose stalled Eldo’s offer, healed his shoulder, and refused to trade the damaged Lapophile Dragon Slayer Sword before the Sussex Kingdom’s founding ceremony.
• Mother of the Cold Tide proposed raiding a Barbarian tribe with Jose, and he declined to discuss it for the moment.
• Jose teleported to the Molten Core after sensing an attack and found three Thieves besieged by Fire Lizards beside two dead intruders.

Jose discovered that the Salvation Church had tried to steal the Cursed Conch and decided to deliver it to the Church of Justice. As the Sussex Kingdom prepared for its founding ceremony, Taelrica told Doris the Northern Witch Council would wait for an opportunity, and Doris chose to begin the trial.

• Jose found the Salvation Church's infiltrators dead in the Molten Core and inferred that they had come for the Cursed Conch.
• Jose retrieved the Cursed Conch from his secret chamber and decided to hand it over to the Church of Justice.
• Jose ordered Ergou to display the damaged Lapophile Dragon Slayer Sword at the founding ceremony and discussed plans for new citizens and the ceremony's growing crowds.
• Doris raged over her injuries and the failure of the Northern Witch Council's operation until Taelrica arrived and healed her with a Legendary potion.
• Taelrica said the council would accept the Sussex Kingdom as a neighbor and wait for an opportunity, and Doris declared that she had made up her mind to begin the trial.

Jose handed the Cursed Conch, identified as the Heart of the Sunken Abyss, to Kordaya and then presided over the founding ceremony of the Sussex Kingdom in Oka City. The ceremony declared the kingdom’s founding and began a military parade with an imposing Ogre phalanx, leaving the gathered envoys wary of the kingdom’s strength.

• Jose showed Kordaya the Cursed Conch, and Kordaya identified it as the Heart of the Sunken Abyss, a relic valued by both the Church of Justice and the Salvation Church.
• Jose gave the Heart of the Sunken Abyss to Kordaya, who used a teleportation scroll to leave Red Fort.
• Jose welcomed envoys and tribal chiefs before leading them to the viewing platform for the Sussex Kingdom’s founding ceremony.
• Jose declared the Sussex Kingdom founded, and Oka City’s residents answered with thunderous cheers.
• Ergou began the military parade, and the heavily armored Ogre phalanx marched through Oka City, impressing the crowd and alarming the envoys.

The Sussex Kingdom’s founding parade displayed the contributions and strength of its many races, and Oka City celebrated the new kingdom through the night. While the envoys were impressed, Jose focused on the kingdom’s next stage of development: opening a route to the sea through the Duchy of Norn.

• Kobold miners, gnolls, boarmen, orcs, minotaur blacksmiths, goblin scholars, harpies, centaurs, and fishmen marched in the parade as Ergou described their roles in the kingdom.
• The parade ended with ceremonial cannon fire, and Ergou invited the citizens to celebrate as Oka City began its three-day festival.
• The visiting envoys recognized the Sussex Kingdom’s military strength and potential, while Eldo resolved to recruit Jose into the Dragon Worship Cult.
• Jose studied a map of Northern Tydanore and concluded that the landlocked kingdom needed a route to the sea to expand its trade.
• Jose marked a possible route through the Gloomy Forest to the Duchy of Norn and considered winning over its royal family to bypass the Northern Witch Council’s blockade.

Jose weighed plans to weaken the Northern Witch Council and investigated the Dragon Worship Cult while the Sussex Kingdom celebrated its founding. A visit from Albert and Ellie revealed that Metallic Dragons were migrating to higher-level planes, leaving Jose to wonder what threatened Tydanore and how he could advance toward the legendary rank.

• Jose decided to preserve the status quo against the Northern Witch Council for now and considered supporting rival Norn princes to undermine its influence.
• Ergou delivered a report showing that the Dragon Worship Cult's activity had increased, including suspected interference in the Northern Lands conflict between the Mother of the Cold Tide and the Barbarians.
• After the founding celebration ended, Albert and Ellie visited Jose and told him that Yaligris had gone to the Astral Plane to seek treatment for a curse placed by the Red Nest Matriarch.
• Albert and Ellie asked to end their contract because they were leaving Tydanore for a higher-level plane, and Jose accepted their decision and wished them well.
• Albert told Jose that Metallic Dragons had been searching for other planes for decades and had been migrating away, while Ellie gave Jose a Dimensional Bag of magical books as compensation.
• Jose examined the books and considered seeking further magical knowledge from Sun Sail Port, the Elf King, or his Orc allies.

Jose met Gemas Eternal Blaze to discuss the coming turmoil and trade, then visited the Gloomy Forest to question the Elf King about the Metallic Dragons’ migration. The Elf King revealed that Tydanore had become a battlefield over the Four Elemental Gems and left Jose with a warning to grow stronger.

• Jose met Gemas Eternal Blaze, clarified that the Sussex Kingdom and the Dragon Worship Cult were separate partners, and discussed trade and restricted magical goods.
• Gemas gave Jose the Trade City-State’s catalog and warned that Tydanore would soon face turmoil neither of them could control.
• Jose flew to the Gloomy Forest, where Princess Liffia told him that the Elf King was unwell before the Elf King appeared and invited him into Andunar.
• Jose asked about the Metallic Dragons’ migration and the Star Elf ruins in the Red Nest Lair, and the Elf King shared what little he knew.
• The Elf King said Tydanore was already a battlefield because of the Four Elemental Gems, promised to explain more when Jose reached the Legendary realm, and warned him to grow stronger.

Jose rejected the Elf King's offer of a permanent obligation and traveled to the Oloba Plane after Monk Flame Howl summoned him to help the Orobah Orc Empire fight the human-led Beastslayer Alliance. He joined the Orcs' planned campaign in exchange for magical knowledge and began choosing his advance payment from the imperial treasury.

• Jose told the Elf King he needed time to consider the offer to protect the elves forever, then returned to the Sussex Kingdom and learned the Trade City-State would share some magical knowledge.
• Monk Flame Howl summoned Jose to the Oloba Plane, where the Orc Empire sought reinforcements against the Beastslayer Alliance.
• Jose met the Orc Emperor, offered his aid, and negotiated magical knowledge instead of one million gold coins, signing a contract to secure the agreement.
• The Orc Emperor assigned Jose and Monk Flame Howl to an emergency team tasked with countering the five-member Darklight Legendary Squad during the coming attack.
• Jose followed the Orc Emperor to the royal treasury and began reviewing the catalog of fire-element magical knowledge worth four hundred thousand gold coins.

Jose selected valuable fire-magic books from the Orc royal library and learned about the dragons of the Oloba Plane. He defeated Cookberty in a public duel, and the Orc Emperor concluded that Jose carried the bloodline of a Legendary Dragon Species, a claim Jose left unexplained.

• Jose chose rare, high-quality magic books and agreed to pleasant cooperation with the Orc Emperor.
• Monk Flame Howl told Jose that dragons on the Oloba Plane were scattered, with four to five hundred Metallic and Five-Colored dragons and two neutral Legendary Dragons.
• Cookberty confronted Jose over his one-million-gold reward, and Jose provoked him into attacking.
• Jose dodged Cookberty’s first charge and knocked him into the garden, then defeated him again with flames from the Phoenix Heart.
• The Orc Emperor identified Jose’s power as evidence of a Legendary Dragon Species bloodline, and Jose called it a secret.

Jose joined the Orc Emperor’s assault on Bloodthorn Fortress and was tasked with holding off its Silver Dragon defender, Valenlamm. Valenlamm attacked, unaware that Jose was concealing his true strength.

• The Orc Emperor’s army advanced on Bloodthorn Fortress, where the Kingdom Alliance’s defenders repelled the first assault with arrows, stones, and boiling oil.
• The Orc Emperor ordered Jose to conceal his strength while the siege continued, and elite orc warriors attacked the fortress gates as fighters clashed below the walls.
• Valenlamm appeared above the fortress and froze many orc warriors with his breath, prompting Jose to fly up and confront him.
• Jose introduced himself as Francisco Trinidad Jose and agreed to keep Valenlamm occupied, while Valenlamm urged him to leave and then charged when Jose refused.
• Jose used Data Vision to track Valenlamm’s attack but pretended to panic as the Silver Dragon rushed toward him.

Jose fought Valenlamm while concealing his true abilities, then used a staged injury to avoid the battlefield for three days. When Ugott encountered Jose in the Orc camp, he abandoned a sabotage mission and warned the Darklight Legendary Squad that the Red Dragon might be hiding his strength.

• Jose used his reactions and physical strength to hold his own against Valenlamm, then pretended to be injured when the Orc army retreated so he could leave the battlefield.
• Jose spent three days recuperating in the Orc camp while the Orcs and Kingdom Alliance continued fighting over the increasingly damaged fortress.
• Jose sensed a concealed presence near his tent, but Ugott escaped after recognizing him from their earlier encounter on another plane.
• Ugott returned to Bloodthorn Fortress and told the commander and the Darklight Legendary Squad that he had abandoned his sabotage mission after nearly being detected by Jose.
• Sinrado Darkmoon and the others considered Ugott's account of Jose's unusual resilience and flames, then decided to prepare for the possibility that Jose was concealing his strength.

Jose led the Orobah Orc Empire’s assault on Bloodthorn Fortress and overwhelmed Valenlamm in the air, but a hidden Legendary Mage and Hunter ambushed him with the Darklight Legendary Squad. Jose survived their poison arrow and unleashed a vast Burning Domain, leaving the battle raging as the attackers faced his full power.

• Monk Flame Howl reported that someone had infiltrated the Orc camp, and the Orc Emperor ordered the army to launch its decisive assault on Bloodthorn Fortress with Jose’s help.
• The Orcs bombarded the fortress with catapults, then charged as Jose and Valenlamm clashed in the sky; Jose activated his Phoenix Heart, wounded Valenlamm, and forced him to retreat.
• A hidden Legendary Mage and Hunter from the Darklight Legendary Squad trapped Jose with a Dragon Binding Spell and struck his shoulder with a poison arrow, while Valenlamm joined their attack.
• Jose burned away much of the poison and countered the attackers’ spells and arrows, then spread his Fire Elemental Barrier and Burning Domain across the battlefield.
• Jose’s heat melted the hunter’s special arrow into molten iron and rapidly healed his wound, while Ugott and the other fighters watched in shock.

Jose wounded Valenlamm and drove the Silver Dragon back to Bloodthorn Fortress before returning to help Monk Flame Howl against the Shadowlight Legendary Squad. He attacked the squad with a powerful Energy Ray, which pierced its first defenses and struck the Warrior’s shield.

• Jose used a Stun Spell and fireballs to wound Valenlamm, forcing the Silver Dragon to retreat into Bloodthorn Fortress.
• Jose returned to the battlefield and used Dragon Might while the human priests and Orc Shamans strengthened their respective troops.
• Jose joined Monk Flame Howl and told him to watch for Shadowlight’s hidden Thief and Hunter as he attacked the squad’s Dark Elf captain.
• Jose fell toward the Warrior-Mage-Priest trio, concealed himself in flames, and fired an Energy Ray through the mage’s barrier and the priest’s divine shield.
• The Energy Ray struck the Warrior’s shield, and its magic and protective qi began to fail under the beam’s heat.

Jose battled the Kingdom Alliance’s Legendary fighters, then cast Meteor Burst at the cliff above Bloodthorn Fortress. The blast triggered a massive landslide that threatened to bury the fortress.

• Jose chased the Dark Elf mage and evaded an energy arrow before diving toward the exposed Legendary Hunter.
• The hunter fired a Five Star Consecutive Shot, but Jose melted or deflected the arrows and pursued him with Dragon Breath.
• The Nameless Legendary Rogue attacked Jose with a poisoned crossbow bolt, forcing him to stop his breath and recognize his old enemy.
• Jose rose out of reach and gathered energy for Meteor Burst while Orc forces and the Kingdom Alliance adjusted their positions.
• Jose sent the enormous meteor into the cliff above Bloodthorn Fortress, causing an explosion that broke the mountainside loose and sent rocks crashing toward the fortress.

Jose helped the Oloba Empire destroy Bloodthorn Fortress and pursued the fleeing Darklight Legendary Squad, killing two of its members. After the Orc army advanced and Jose gained Cookberty’s Wyvern followers, he recognized that the Oloba Plane could provide him with more draconic followers.

• Jose collapsed half the mountain onto Bloodthorn Fortress, crushing the fortress and breaking the Kingdom Alliance’s resistance.
• Jose chased the fleeing Darklight Legendary Squad and used a stored Meteor Burst to kill the Legendary Hunter and Legendary Warrior, while the Dark Elf mage and Legendary Priest escaped.
• The Orc Emperor thanked Jose, who asked for more magical knowledge, and the Oloba army cleared a route through the fallen rocks and crossed the mountains.
• The Orc Emperor led the army north to join another force and attack a second Kingdom Alliance fortress, where Jose further increased his standing among the Orcs.
• Cookberty’s Wyverns abandoned their former master and joined Jose, who accepted them and saw the Oloba Plane as a source of draconic followers.

Jose waited for the Oloba Empire to defeat the Kingdom Alliance, then used Orc support to gather draconic creatures for the Sussex Kingdom. After the Orcs conquered Beacon City, Jose began collecting the creatures and acquired more than a hundred in a week.

• Jose considered the Oloba Plane’s magical knowledge and wild draconic creatures, while the Orc Empire steadily advanced against the Kingdom Alliance.
• The Kingdom Alliance’s rulers hired the Darklight Legendary Squad to find a way to kill Jose, and the Dark Elf captain left to recruit the Dragon Slayer Swordsaint.
• The Dark Elf learned that the Dragon Slayer Swordsaint had died at Jose’s hands and decided to abandon the contract and flee, while the Kingdom Alliance’s resistance collapsed.
• The Orc army captured Beacon City, and the Orc Emperor paid Jose the remaining magical knowledge and promised him copies of knowledge seized from the conquered kingdoms.
• Jose received intelligence from the Orcs and traveled across the Oloba Plane, subduing more than a hundred draconic creatures in one week.

After returning from the Oloba Plane with draconic creatures and a trove of magical knowledge, Jose began establishing the Fire Warden profession for his followers. He blessed Sorda Bloodtooth in the Magic Tower, where a dragon-shaped mark appeared on Sorda’s forehead.

• Jose returned to Tydanore with books from the Kingdom Alliance and a Fire Warden profession scroll gifted by the Orc Emperor.
• Jose ordered Ergou Bloodtooth and the mages to sort the books, then learned that the Northern Witch and Dragon Worship Cult had appeared amid fighting between the Barbarians and Krumlina.
• Jose told Ergou to investigate the unusual battlefield reports and continue monitoring the princes of Norn after the First Prince was named heir.
• Jose summoned Sorda Bloodtooth and offered him the chance to become the first Fire Warden, warning that the process carried risks.
• Jose took Sorda into the Magic Tower’s core, gathered fire elemental energy, and performed the blessing ritual.
• A dragon-shaped mark appeared on Sorda’s forehead as the blessing took effect.

Jose blessed Sorda Bloodtooth and Grem Stone Hammer to prepare them to become Fire Wardens, then inspected the lesser dragon clans settled in the Sussex Kingdom and improved their management plans. After blessing his other qualified familiars, he returned to the Magic Tower to study the magic books from the Oloba Plane and pursue the Legendary Mage realm.

• Jose gave Sorda Bloodtooth and Grem Stone Hammer strong foundations for becoming Fire Wardens, then postponed blessing another familiar because he felt mentally exhausted.
• Jose visited Olivia's settlement, learned that the Wyverns were difficult to manage and costly to feed, and approved a hunting range around Dragon Feeding Peak.
• Jose inspected the Land Dragons, Claw Dance Dragons, and Arrow Dragons, and told Olivia to ensure the Arrow Dragons could adapt to forest life.
• Jose visited Kashi and confirmed that the Dragon Turtles and Water Marsh Dragons were doing well, offering suggestions to improve their care.
• Jose blessed his remaining qualified familiars as Fire Wardens, then returned to the library to study the magic books he had acquired in the Oloba Plane.

Jose chose to pursue an alliance with Belden, the Second Prince of the Duchy of Norn, as part of his plan to take the duchy. After Jose secretly followed Belden into the Gloomy Forest, he revealed himself and told the prince, “You came.”

• Jose reviewed the Second and Sixth Princes’ positions and chose to have his agents monitor and approach the Second Prince, Belden.
• Belden secretly trained in exile at Redstone Territory, hoping to become a Legendary Warrior and reclaim the throne.
• After hunters reported an Extraordinary Beast riot in the Gloomy Forest, Belden and Ari led soldiers to investigate and protect the villages.
• Belden’s party entered the forest, where Jose watched them under an Invisibility Barrier and his aura had stirred the beasts.
• Jose revealed himself to Belden after the soldiers fainted and Ari was immobilized by Dragon Might, then calmly said, “You came.”

Jose recruited Belden to help him seize control of the Duchy of Norn, then advanced a plan to stir conflict among its princes while Sussex Kingdom stayed neutral in a northern war. Three years later, his political scheme was progressing, but Jose remained stuck just short of the Legendary realm and surveyed how his Magic Tower trained loyal forces and recruited talent.

• Jose offered Belden resources and secret support in exchange for becoming King of Norn, then assigned VanCleef to aid him and Ergou to support the Sixth Prince through the Odyssey Kingdom.
• Jose planned to destabilize Norn by backing the Second and Sixth Princes against the First Prince, while Sussex Kingdom deflected pressure to join the conflict between the Barbarians and the Mother of the Cold Tide.
• Three years later, the Old King Teno XII reconsidered the First Prince's succession as the Sixth Prince gained support, while Belden secretly grew stronger in Redstone Territory.
• Jose struggled to find his own path to the Legendary realm despite the magical knowledge he had gained from the Oloba Plane.
• Jose observed the Magic Tower, where the middle levels trained trusted kingdom forces and the upper levels offered study and advancement to qualified applicants in exchange for value.