In the Name of the King, Volume 3

This is Volume 3 of the In the Name of the King series and the final chapter of the whole series. After ordinary high school student Li Xin and his classmate Wang Ming accidentally cross into the Mingshen Continent, they become the Guardian of the Eight Ministries and the Ming King respectively. The six ministries—War God, Battle Ghost, Wonderworks, Strange Arts, Law Hall, and Heavenly Mechanism—must submit to the king chosen by the Guardian, while the Imperial Attendant is the king's other half, known as the Soul Keeper. The first two volumes unfold layer by layer around infighting among the Eight Ministries, the alliance between the War God Ministry and the Strange Arts Ministry, and the old mystery of the continental war twelve years earlier. In Volume 3, the stage shifts to the Eternal Night Icefield and the Beast God Continent. As the group ventures deeper, events spiral increasingly out of control, and the people of the Mingshen Continent face one deadly crisis after another: Honglian develops a rare illness, and amid a sea of fire her mysterious origins are about to surface; a mysterious force suppresses the Eight Ministries, and Salian suddenly breaks a pact, hiding a vast conspiracy behind it; the "Ice Fang" pirate crew appears on the Eternal Night Icefield, and the clan leader with a dual personality and the mysterious child Yinjiu are likewise shrouded in questions about their origins and powers. Meanwhile, someone develops a hazy affection for Li Xin, who is both queen and Guardian, and the question of why the mad Beast God King has plundered the icefield for twelve years finally receives an answer. The book continues the series' witty, brisk narrative style, tying up its scattered foreshadowing amid power struggles and adventurous crises. In the end, with the help of the Wonderworks Ministry and the Strange Arts Ministry, Li Xin and Wang Ming return to their original world, and some of the other characters also find their own places to belong.