Book Two: The Dragon-King Alliance

The second book in the series "Highschool Project: The Dragon-King Alliance," details the events in which Dragon Claw, a guild composed of evil Dragon-Slayers, attempts to open a portal to the absit lands, where thousands of dragons live, in order to use them to take over the Underworld.

Set in the summer of 2020, the book begins when Divinos, one of the four SZ-Class Devils, visits our protagonists, Zane and Amber, while they're on a mission, informing them that there's going to be a meeting taking place between the seven Dragon-Slayers who trained under the Dragon-Kings.

Below is a summary of every chapter.

Chapter One: A Warm Blizzard (Annual Mage Tournament Arc)
Zane and Amber travel to Antartica on a special mission to assist a duo of siblings. There, they meet Shota Tsukomi, the Hellfire Dragon-Slayer, and Mio Tsukomi, the Frost Dragon-Slayer.

After failing to complete their mission, they're visited by Novis, the Diamond Dragon-Slayer, who informs them that a special meeting between the seven Dragon-Slayers who trained under the Dragon-Kings is happening soon.

Chapter Two: Blood of Royalty
Black Crown heads to the Realm of Fallen Angels, where they learn of the evil intentions of Dragon Claw — a guild composed of nearly every Dragon-Slayer. In order to combat this new threat, the Dragon-King Alliance is formed between Zane, Mio, Shota, Divinos, and the remaining three Dragon-King-Slayers — Tarik Axis, the Abyss Dragon-Slayer; Alain Axis, the Holy Dragon-Slayer; and Novis, the Diamond Dragon-Slayer.

Chapter Three: Exhibitions of Testament
The Dragon-King Alliance, excluding Divinos and Novis, propose a five-on-five battle against Black Crown, which pits Zane against his comrades in a tournament-style matchup.

Chapter Four: Testing the Waters
The five-on-five match continues, and Black Crown learns of the Annual Mage Tournament being held in the Underworld — which they decided to sign-up for.

Chapter Five: Earning the Crown
One week later, Black Crown heads to the Underworld to participate in the first day of the Annual Mage Tournament, with Mio and Shota acting as temporary members.

In the first match, Ruben is chosen to fight a mage he isn't prepared for.

Chapter Six: Black Magic is Bright
In the second match, Lance is pit up against a mage who wields White Magic, which proves to be a dangerous counter to his Black Magic.

Later, Black Crown watches Novis, who is acting as a temporary member for another guild, in action against a mage who wields a strange type of Iron Magic.

Chapter Seven: Shower of Sparks
Following a close battle in the second round, Kristina is paired up against another mage who also wields Weapon Magic and appears to be just as skilled as she is.

In the subsequent round, an opponent wielding an extremely powerful type of Fire Magic nearly kills the opponent they're paired up to fight.

Chapter Eight: Pride of the Glaciers
In the fourth round, Mio is sent out to deal with a mage that can control the surrounding space, which proves to be a challenge for her, as she struggles with close-range combat.

Later, Shota, the Hellfire Dragon-Slayer, is sent out to fight Akira, a mage from Green Gate.

Chapter Nine: Battle of the Highest Rank
As the tournament closes in towards the end, the guild that Black Crown is put up against a guild that uses their one-time substitution to bring in none other than Lord Spencer, one of the four reigning SZ-Class Devils.

In an attempt to combat their power, Black Crown pleads with Divinos to take up their substitution and defeat his fellow Dragon-Slayer and SZ-Class Mage.

Chapter Ten: The Golden Wings of Oblivion
In the final round, Zane is paired up against an SX-Class Mage from the Five Shields. In order to match them in power, Zane attempts to activate his Gold Dragon-Slayer Mode, which may or may not wield the ability to win the tournament.

Chapter Eleven: Disaster Around the Globe (Dragon Claw Arc)
Following Zane's loss against the SX-Class Mage, Black Crown returns to the mortal world to find that disasters around the globe have been destroying entire cities, though they know better than to assume it's a coincidence.

The night following Black Crown's return to the mortal world, Zane goes on a solo mission to investigate small house fires that have been going off randomly. After scouting the area, Zane discovers in the corner of town a battle between Lagann and a mysterious mage who wields orange flames.

Chapter Twelve: Talons Etched in Stone
With Mio and Shota joining Black Crown as temporary members, Zane, Mio and Ruben are sent out on a mission to investigate reports of strange figures in black hoods making an appearance in the city.

However, after running into none other than Jay Valentine, the mages find themselves under a surprise attack from none other than Dragon Claw.

Chapter Thirteen: A Plan to Savor
After barely managing to fight off Dragon Claw with the help of Jay, Black Crown reunite with Tarik, Alain, Novis and Divinos in order to discuss a plan that will stop Dragon Claw before they can open a portal to the Absit Lands, where thousands of dragons reside.

Later, Black Crown travels to The Garden, a utopian city located in a parallel dimension to Earth. There, they hope to find and discover what kind of artifact Dragon Claw is after to open a hole to the Absit Lands.

Chapter Fourteen: Enter the Darkness
Amber, Lance, Alain and Tarik are sent to Realm of Fallen Angels to retrieve the Ratio of Dimensions, the artifact that Dragon Claw hopes to attain in order to gain control of an army of dragons, using them to conquer both Heaven and the Underworld

Dragon Claw enters the Realm of Fallen Angels and engages in combat with the four mages.

Meanwhile, Zane is contemplating going after Amber, who he worries may be in severe danger.

Chapter Fifteen: Lightning of Triumph
As Amber is defeated by Liqor, the Water Dragon-Slayer, she prepares to meet her end, but not before a lightning strike comes down that saves her from being killed.

Appearing on the battlefield to change the tides is the Dragon-Slayer of Wrath, and the host of Emperor Unus, Zane.

Chapter Sixteen: Ratios of Loss
With Dragon Claw having successfully retrieved the Ratio of Dimensions, Black Crown must return to the mortal world and prepare for a final battle with the guild of mages, who will invade in exactly one week.

Chapter Eighteen: The Forbidden Remain
Zane and Amber take on a mission to hunt down a Devil-Slayer whose been terrorizing the Draco Domain, which begins to bring bad memories back to the both of them.

Chapter Nineteen: Ghost of School
Assisted by Lucy and Kristina, Zane investigates strange occurrences at their school, which has been haunted the nearby residents.

Chapter Twenty: Wings of the Flame
Dragon Claw launches their attack on the city, and Divinos uses a spell that freezes all mortals within time. Zane fights Hayes, who uses Sand Dragon-Slaying Magic, and finds that he's unable to absorb the Elemental Magic that he wields.

Chapter Twenty-One: Presidents of War
Following a battle that injured him several, Zane retreats to the rooftop of the highest building in the city, watching the fights between the Black Crown and The Dragon-King Alliance, against Dragon Claw, who seems to have the edge in battle.

Chapter Twenty-Two: A Rematch Within the Blaze
Shota takes on Caloris, the Fire Dragon-Slayer and the leader of Dragon Claw, who proves to be much more powerful than he let on. Meanwhile, Alain fights Rio, the Moon Dragon-Slayer, who seems to be affecting everyone's battles simultaneously.

Chapter Twenty-Three: A Gleaming Light of Glory
An injured Zane and Amber take on Akira, the Rainbow Dragon-Slayer, whose ultra-fast magic threatens their very life.

Chapter Twenty-Four: A Silver-Rung Bell
With Zane retreating once more with Amber by his side, they watch as Divinos makes an appearance on the battlefield, taking on multiple Dragon-Slayers at once.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Fused
When dragons begin to appear on the battlefield, Alain and Tarik preform a special ritual using Merge Magic that turns their souls into one entity — or, in other words, fuses them together to create a single warrior known as Alik.

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Largest Price
With more and more dragons making their appearance on the battlefield through a small hole to the Absit Land, even Divinos begins to become overwhelmed at the shear amount. Shota, who notices that they can't win unless they get rid of the dragons, takes matters into his own hand with a special, but forbidden spell.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Paths Diverge
After being healed by Lucy, Amber returns to battle and assist Novis in his battle against Jiro, the Iron Dragon-Slayer. Meanwhile, Zane helps Alik fight Caloris and Liqor, the Water Dragon-Slayer.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Dream Farewell
Caloris reveals his Anathema's O.C.D. Mode, which creates numerous clones of him. Launching one final attack, the remaining members of Black Crown and the Dragon-King Alliance must defeat Caloris and his clones before the planet is destroyed in the battle.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Small Favor
One week after the defeat of Dragon Claw, Amber visits Zane with a small but also not-so-small favor — entering a tournament that will decide who her future groom will be.

Chapter Thirty: Fifty-Fifty
Zane progresses in the tournament with ease, but is worried of facing Felix McKnight, the leader of the Five Shields, who is also competing through the tournament defeating each mage he fights with little-to-no effort.

Chapter Thirty-One: The Crimson-Gold Flames
In the final battle, Zane faces off against Felix, who has no issues in overpowering him, despite Zane begin able to absorb his Earth Magic.

With everything on the line, Zane asks Unus to assist him in merging both his Gold Dragon-Slaying Magic and his Fire Devil-Slaying Magic to create the Crimson-Gold Dragon-Slayer Mode he achieved in his fight with Van.

Chapter Thirty-Two: Sealed With a Promise (Epilogue)
Divinos visits Black Crown unexpectedly, informing them that he'll accept their offer on becoming a part of Black Crown, so long as he has no responsibility to be there all the time — to which they accept.

Zane visits the Underworld on his own to visit Lucifer, wishing to ask the King of the Underworld for a favor regarding his daughter.