Recaps

Mel, Xipei, and their apprentices set out to rescue Reynold and the Dragon Emperor, fighting their way through attacks tied to the kidnappers’ search for an ancient weapon. They rescue Reynold and uncover a likely entrance to the ruins, while Mel and Xipei reaffirm their plans to marry.

• Mel and the others learned that kidnapped engineers had seen weapon blueprints and factory production lines, then watched a masked kidnapper shoot Reynold during a broadcast.
• The group joined the effort to rescue Reynold, and Anna and Moli insisted on coming along despite Field’s warnings about the danger.
• The kidnappers demanded a hundred million credits for Reynold and threatened the Dragon Emperor, so Mage Field, Mel, and the apprentices traveled to Kojinier City to follow Reynold’s signal.
• Magitech fighters attacked their dragonship, but Xipei and Anna helped repel them before Goliath and Xuefeng arrived to steady the ship and assist the group.
• Mel pulled Reynold from a lake, where he had hidden after escaping his captors, and Reynold urged them to continue on to rescue the Dragon Emperor.
• Xipei summoned remnant souls to search for the fanatics, while Mel proposed marriage and recorded Xipei accepting before they pressed on toward the lair.
• The group fought off attacking planes and hidden mechas, and Reynold explained that his captors had questioned him about the Northern Cross Barrier and its role in the Federation’s defenses.
• Goliath and Xuefeng captured mecha pilots who mentioned an ancient weapon and ruins, and Moli found an opening in the burned mountainside as Mel ordered her to copy a sentence for setting it ablaze.

The party explored the Radiant Fortress, fought its ancient machines, and uncovered the devil’s schemes and the history of its sealed demons. After the Flame of Fury reunited with her companions, they battled the Machine Zealots to rescue the Dragon Emperor, whose cage fell toward a giant black dragon.

• The narrator led the party into the Radiant Fortress, where they uncovered diary fragments, ancient machinery, and an Annihilator that Goliath helped destroy.
• The group realized the Machine Zealots had recently powered the Annihilator, while a Mind-Control Demon began invading their minds and separating them.
• Reynold returned home, learned that Ciprins and Mephistopheles had become partners, and mourned his lost relationship with Ciprins.
• The narrator and Ciprins fought the devil in its Demiplane, where the narrator discovered the Machine Zealots were holding Reynold and planned to capture the Dragon Emperor.
• The narrator contracted with Damala and twenty-three Death Banshees, and Damala explained that Hailianna had built the palace to seal a devil and demons.
• Ciprins reunited with Mephistopheles, while the narrator joined Mel and the others to restore the array trapping the Annihilators and defeat the machines and cyborgs.
• The party learned that the Machine Zealots had taken the Dragon Emperor, then split up as Damala, Goliath, Mel, and Xipei led the fight and rescue effort.
• The Flame of Fury confronted the masked kidnapper, protected Agnes and the Dragon Emperor, and watched the Dragon Emperor’s cage plummet as a giant black dragon appeared beside her.

After the rescue at Radiant Fortress, Xipei and Mel returned to the mage tower, confronted the past surrounding Mel’s teachers, and became entangled in new sorcerer and warlock threats. The arc ended with attacks across the Federation and a concealed Osite mothership revealed near the capital.

• Agnes rallied the Dragon Cavalry against the mech warriors, and Xipei and Mel agreed to marry after the battle.
• Xipei and Mel exposed the institute’s mistreatment of Xipei, rescued a hostage, and returned to the ground with the surviving slime.
• Ciprins protected Duoji from a Machine Zealot, while the Flame of Fury calmed the frightened vice president and fled the reporters with Mel.
• Moli challenged Agnes to govern instead of pursuing acting, then joined Xipei and Mel for a shopping trip in the capital.
• Yamier revealed that Nova had traded his life to save newborn Mel, and Xipei and Mel later reconciled in private.
• Angela Rhodes’s past as a druid and her interest in Ciprins led into the investigation of rogue sorcerers, while Damala brought Lusien and Luolan to ask Xipei for help.
• Warlocks’ use of stolen relics drove Xipei into a rage, and he accidentally damaged the hospital before learning that the villains had stolen Hailianna’s staff.
• Crow sent Xipei and Mel to investigate a prison explosion and a disgraced dragon, as Warden proposed marriage to Reynold and the Federation suffered widespread attacks.
• A hidden mothership emerged near the capital, Reynold went to parliament, and Xipei flew to investigate as a charred, unconscious person fell past him.

Ciprins Field and his allies stopped the mothership and foiled the Machine Zealots’ attack on the Federation, while Mel and Xipei announced their engagement. In the aftermath, Ciprins declined the Shadow Moon high priesthood and returned to tower life, where his reforms sparked a student protest.

• The Flame of Fury rescued reporters and Magitech Corps mech warriors from the mothership, then joined Moli and the dragon cubs as Ciprins cast Boundary of the Dead and Goliath destroyed the ship.
• After the crash, Ciprins Field was praised as the Evil Fire Saint, and he recovered Hailianna’s staff by surviving the teacher’s trials in its memory.
• Xipei and Damala uncovered Kelisiting’s alliance with the Machine Zealots, and Ciprins rescued officials from the bomb-rigged Congress building as Reynold kept the teleportation array running.
• Mel and Xipei defeated Xuesang, and Mel proposed to Xipei before the Congress building collapsed and Lady Crow carried Reynold to safety.
• The Shadow Moon Temple sought to make Xipei its high priest, but Mephistopheles opposed the plan, and Ciprins interrupted their confrontation before declining the position himself.
• Mel and Xipei held their wedding, the elves recognized Ruiduo as their missing eldest princess, and Mel and Ciprins began enforcing stricter standards at their magic tower.
• When apprentices protested the new education rules, Ciprins ordered underqualified students back to university, then faced the visiting students with Mel as Damala arranged their accommodations.