Chapter Summaries

Chang Wei foiled an assassination attempt by the Assassin Organization, forcing the Empire to withdraw its schemes against Noxus. Scathach returned from battle with just over five hundred troops, hardened by the fighting as Noxus gained time to develop.

• Assassins infiltrated the Noxian palace and planned to kill Chang Wei, while their leader dismissed the threat of him being a Treasure Tool User.
• Chang Wei immobilized the assassins with the power of his palace, then dealt with them one by one as the Reincarnator failed to use his abilities.
• The Empire withdrew after the assassination failed and its leaders weighed the mounting pressures against continuing.
• Scathach returned in triumph with a little over five hundred of the troops she had taken to battle, whose resolve and coordination had grown through the fighting.

After Scathach’s army defeated a much larger force, Noxus expanded rapidly under her leadership and Chang Wei’s administration. The Main God Space recognized Noxus as the Southern Noxus Kingdom, making Chang Wei and Scathach faction leaders who could issue missions to Reincarnators.

• Scathach returned to Noxus after winning against thirty thousand enemy soldiers, and the people celebrated her and the Celtic Warriors.
• Chang Wei improved living conditions and created reward systems that gave people opportunities to advance.
• Scathach led Noxus in capturing five cities in the Empire’s southern region while Chang Wei organized its rear and proposed the Ten Thousand Army Plan.
• The Main God Space recognized the Southern Noxus Kingdom as a third faction and made Chang Wei and Scathach its faction leaders.
• Chang Wei and Scathach issued missions to Reincarnators and sent even recently trained recruits to seize more cities so Noxus could defeat the Empire and the Revolutionary Army.

Chang Wei and Scathach strengthened Noxus as its army conquered much of the south, while the Revolutionary Army sought cooperation, failed, and sent spies to learn how Noxus remained stable. The chapter left the Revolutionary Army’s leaders struggling to understand how Noxus financed its military and expansion despite cutting taxes.

• Chang Wei and Scathach used missions and training to expand Noxus’s forces as Chang Wei produced Treasure Tools for Scathach’s warriors.
• Scathach led the Noxian Army to capture more than twenty cities and defeat the Empire’s attempts to reclaim the south.
• The Revolutionary Army tried to cooperate with Noxus, but Noxus rejected the offer and continued consolidating its territory.
• Chang Wei’s identity registration and surveillance hindered Revolutionary Army spies, who resorted to theft and observation to gather intelligence.
• Revolutionary Army leaders learned that Noxian cities were orderly and taxes had been reduced, then questioned how Noxus paid for its growing army.

The Revolutionary Army tried to learn how Noxus manufactured its Imperial Arms, while Minister Honest assessed rebellions spreading across the Empire. He was left weighing whether to redirect Esdeath from the Northern Tribes as Noxus emerged as the Empire’s greatest threat.

• A senior Revolutionary Army general urged his comrades to obtain Imperial Arms technology, and the upper ranks dispatched more spies to Noxus.
• The Revolutionary Army failed to access the manufacturing process because Chang Wei was the sole source of Imperial Arms.
• Minister Honest read reports of Noxian advances in the south and considered how Noxus had outgrown the Revolutionary Army as a threat.
• Minister Honest learned that the Anning Dao had rebelled in the east and that a Reincarnator had helped turn it into a fourth faction.
• Minister Honest considered transferring Esdeath from the Northern Tribes but feared their counterattack if she left.

Minister Honest ordered Esdeath to abandon the northern border and lead the Empire's elite forces south against Noxus. Before departing, Esdeath crushed the Northern Tribes, captured Numa Seka, and left her soldiers celebrating at the fortress.

• Minister Honest ordered Esdeath to prioritize Noxus and ignore the Northern Tribes for the time being.
• Esdeath received the order and decided to attack the Northern Tribes once more before heading south.
• Esdeath led her elite forces through the northern defenses, killing or wounding over ten thousand in half a day.
• Numa Seka led the Northern Tribes against Esdeath, but she defeated and captured him.
• Esdeath told her soldiers they would leave for the south the next day, then spent the night torturing Numa Seka while her troops celebrated.

Esdeath tortured Numa Seka to death, then marched south with her army to confront Noxus. Chang Wei welcomed the chance to face her and appeared before her forces with only Scathach at his side.

• Esdeath tortured Numa Seka until he begged for mercy, then kicked him away and left him to die.
• Esdeath departed the northern border with tens of thousands of soldiers, eager to fight Noxus.
• The Revolutionary Army learned of Numa Seka’s death and concluded that Esdeath was far stronger than they had believed.
• Chang Wei learned that Esdeath was heading south and looked forward to meeting her, while the Noxus Reincarnators feared her power.
• Chang Wei and Scathach appeared before Esdeath’s army after it entered the southern region.

Scathach and a SOLDIER confronted Esdeath’s army and declared war, then Scathach instantly killed Daidas and Niu. Esdeath grew interested in Scathach’s power as Liva faced the two remaining intruders warily.

• Esdeath sent the Three Beasts—Liva, Niu, and Daidas—to confront Scathach and the SOLDIER.
• Niu expressed a desire to peel off Scathach’s face, but Liva reminded him that their mission was to intercept the enemy.
• Scathach said they were not messengers and had come to start a war.
• Daidas charged Scathach, and she pierced him with her crimson spear before Niu could use his flute.
• Esdeath recognized Scathach’s speed and suspected her spear was a Treasure Tool, while Liva prepared to face the intruders.

Scathach defeated Liva by taking control of his water and challenged him to reveal his full strength. Esdeath stepped forward to fight Scathach, and their battle began with a clash of weapons and ice.

• Liva attacked Scathach with water controlled by his Imperial Arms, but she invoked the Water rune and turned his torrent against him.
• The water overwhelmed Liva, leaving him wounded on the ground as Scathach questioned whether he had any greater strength.
• Esdeath refused to weaken Scathach through her subordinates and stepped forward to challenge her.
• Scathach introduced herself as Queen of Noxus and identified Chang Wei as the other King of Noxus.
• Esdeath attacked Scathach with her rapier, Scathach blocked and tried to disarm her, and Esdeath responded by summoning Ice Spikes.

Scathach and Esdeath fought on the battlefield, where Scathach's magic spear overwhelmed Esdeath's defenses and nearly pierced her heart. Esdeath escaped the fatal strike and began planning how to counter the spear's attacks.

• Esdeath ambushed Scathach with Ice Spikes, but Scathach evaded them through intuition and combat experience.
• Esdeath froze the ground and sent Ice Pillars toward Scathach, who shattered them with Spear Aura.
• Scathach struck Esdeath with a fast, Z-shaped spear thrust that pierced her Ice Armor and came close to her heart.
• Esdeath retreated just in time, then recognized the magic spear as a strange Noble Phantasm capable of bypassing defenses.
• Esdeath resolved to change her evasions and create more distance so she could find a way to defeat Scathach.

Esdeath launched a gigantic ice meteor at Scathach, who destroyed it with Gáe Bolg. Esdeath then attacked from within the shattered ice, but Scathach blocked her sword and kicked her away.

• Esdeath rose high above the battlefield and condensed moisture into a colossal ice meteor.
• Esdeath punched the meteor to accelerate its descent and named her attack Hailstone Fury Leap Strike.
• Scathach hurled Gáe Bolg with Piercing Death-Soaring Spear, sending countless spear phantoms into the meteor.
• Gáe Bolg pierced the meteor's core and triggered an explosion that shattered it.
• Esdeath vanished into the ice fragments and attacked Scathach with her sword.
• Scathach recalled Gáe Bolg, blocked Esdeath's strike, and kicked her away.

Scathach defeated Esdeath and brought her to Chang Wei, who claimed he wanted to conquer her. As Esdeath's troops charged to rescue her, Chang Wei turned them to stone with his gaze, leaving Esdeath stunned.

• Esdeath's Hailstone Fury Leap Strike failed against Scathach, who defeated and captured her.
• Scathach returned Esdeath to Chang Wei, who said he wanted to conquer her; Esdeath accepted his power over her.
• Chang Wei pulled Esdeath onto his horse and touched her, while her soldiers rushed to rescue her.
• Chang Wei looked back at the charging army and turned the thousands of soldiers to stone with his gaze.
• Esdeath watched the army's petrification in shock and despair.

Esdeath learned that Chang Wei could petrify people with his innate Demon Eye and began to understand Noxus’s inclusive strength-based society. Chang Wei and Scathach returned to Noxus with Esdeath as their prisoner, and Chang Wei explained the nation’s values to the welcoming crowd.

• Esdeath grieved over her petrified army, and Scathach explained that Chang Wei had turned them to stone with his Petrifying Demon Eye.
• Chang Wei told Esdeath that his power was innate, prompting her to consider the secrets and unusual beings of the world.
• Chang Wei and Scathach returned to Noxus after defeating Esdeath’s army and capturing Esdeath, whose arrival sparked cheers across the city.
• Chang Wei rode into the central square with Esdeath and told the people that Noxus respected talent and offered everyone a chance to find their place.
• Esdeath asked whether strength ruled Noxus, and Chang Wei explained that strength included wisdom, courage, leadership, and other talents.

Chang Wei spoke to Esdeath about Noxus before conquering her in a sexual encounter, while Scathach watched in surprise. Later, Noxian soldiers found Esdeath’s petrified Frost Legion, and Imperial spies sent word of the defeat back to the Empire.

• Chang Wei told Esdeath that people could rise through talent and strength in Noxus, and Esdeath considered observing the empire for herself despite being a prisoner.
• Chang Wei spent the night with Esdeath, while Scathach wondered why he had chosen Esdeath before her.
• Noxian soldiers patrolling the border discovered that Esdeath’s Frost Legion had been turned into stone statues.
• News of the petrified army spread through Noxus, revealing to its people that Esdeath’s forces had been defeated.
• Imperial spies learned of the defeat and sent the news toward the Empire on Flying Dangerous Species.

After General Esdeath was defeated and captured by Noxus, Minister Honest failed to ransom her and prepared the Empire for a rescue effort. He assembled every Imperial Arms user, shifting the Empire’s focus from Night Raid to the threat posed by Noxus.

• Imperial Spies reported that Noxus had defeated and captured General Esdeath and petrified the Imperial Army with an unknown Power Stone.
• Minister Honest suspected Noxus had powerful Imperial Arms and recognized that Esdeath’s defeat threatened the Empire’s morale and security.
• Minister Honest sent an envoy to ransom Esdeath, but the King of Noxus rejected the offer.
• Minister Honest ordered more spies and assassins into Noxus and intensified the Empire’s military training and preparations.
• Minister Honest summoned every Imperial Arms user to rescue Esdeath as Noxus held the Empire’s southern territory.

As the war between the Empire and Noxus grew harder to predict, the Revolutionary Army planned to gather intelligence and secretly protect Noxus to buy time for its own rise. Chang Wei tasked Noxus’s Reincarnators with protecting officials from the Empire’s assassins, placing them under the oversight of the Emperor’s Sharp Blades.

• The Revolutionary Army’s leader rejected the idea that the Empire-Noxus war was an immediate opportunity and ordered the group to gather intelligence while secretly protecting Noxus.
• Chang Wei reviewed reports of strange, brutal assassinations of Noxus officials and blamed the Empire’s Assassin Organization.
• Chang Wei refused Scathach’s offer to handle the assassins and issued the Reincarnators a mission to protect Noxus officials and administrative personnel.
• The Reincarnators eagerly accepted the mission, and Chang Wei’s separate department for them was placed under the Emperor’s Sharp Blades, an elite force of Noxus Treasure Tool Users.

The Empire escalated its covert campaign against Noxus with poisoned water, village massacres, and released Dangerous Species, while the Reincarnators countered the sabotage and Chang Wei decided urbanization reforms were necessary. A faction city-construction mission appeared, drawing Reincarnators with relevant abilities and expertise into Noxus’s city-building effort.

• The Empire’s Assassin Organization shifted from assassinations to poisoning water sources, massacring villagers, and unleashing Dangerous Species across Noxus.
• Chang Wei recognized that the attacks aimed to destabilize Noxus and distract it while the Empire tried to rescue the captured General Esdeath.
• The Reincarnators investigated the poisoned water, captured the culprits, cleaned the water sources, eliminated the bandits, and strengthened village defenses.
• Chang Wei concluded that urbanization reforms could improve Noxus’s uneven development and help address its security and resource problems.
• A city-construction mission appeared for the faction, and Reincarnators—including civil engineer Zhang Xiang—volunteered their skills for the reforms.

Chang Wei oversaw the rapid construction of ten New Cities in Noxus, which brought the southern population under centralized management and made the region harder to infiltrate. As the Empire and Revolutionary Army struggled to adapt, the Empire assembled its Imperial Arms users, including Will, whose armor could counter Akame’s Demon Sword Muramasa.

• Brother Tummu and Li Ting helped Chang Wei transform Noxus by planning and building roads, bridges, houses, and urban infrastructure.
• Noxus completed ten New Cities with water and sewage systems, drawing in the population from the southern region and easing its labor shortage.
• Noxus tightened patrols and identity checks, making it harder for the Empire’s assassins and the Revolutionary Army to operate or infiltrate the cities.
• The Revolutionary Army tried recruiting city residents as informants but repeatedly failed because residents distrusted them and reporting spies brought a large reward.
• The Empire assembled its Imperial Arms users, including Will, whose Shura Incarnation: Noble Chariot could resist and restrain Akame’s Demon Sword Muramasa.

Chang Wei recruited Esdeath to serve Noxus and put her in command of Emperor's Sharp Blades, an elite unit of Imperial Arms users. While Night Raid and the Empire prepared separate missions to Noxus, Esdeath tested her new soldiers in combat and defeated all ten.

• The Empire sent its Imperial Arms users to Noxus to rescue Esdeath, while the Revolutionary Army ordered Night Raid to assassinate her.
• Chang Wei offered Esdeath a position serving Noxus, and she agreed to obey him.
• Chang Wei assigned Esdeath to root out the Empire's and Revolutionary Army's forces in Noxus and placed Emperor's Sharp Blades under her command.
• Esdeath challenged the ten armor-wearing soldiers to attack her and fought them in the training ground.
• Esdeath defeated all ten soldiers, leaving their armor cracked and dented.

Esdeath defeated the Emperor's Sharp Blades in a sparring match, then received Chang Wei's powerful Ice Fists, which could complement her own Imperial Arms. Meanwhile, the Empire, Revolutionary Army, and Anning Cult began mobilizing, while the Western Kingdom faction remained unrecognized and was still being developed.

• Esdeath praised the Emperor's Sharp Blades' teamwork and urged them to keep improving after demonstrating her superior strength.
• Chang Wei gave Esdeath the Ice Fists, which he had created from a Super Dangerous Species.
• Esdeath tested the Ice Fists and learned they could match the power of her Imperial Arms without conflicting with them.
• The Empire's Imperial Arms users and Reincarnators began their mission with the Assassin Organization's cooperation.
• Najenda left Lao and Hill to guard Night Raid's base and prepared to return to the Revolutionary Army to select an Imperial Arm.
• The Anning Cult's leader agreed to act after its Reincarnators reported that the Empire and Revolutionary Army had mobilized, while the Western Kingdom faction continued seeking recognition.

Chang Wei had Esdeath and Scathach lead separate operations, but Scathach quickly uncovered and captured nearly a hundred Imperial intelligence officers while Esdeath struggled with intelligence work. A masked informant told Esdeath that the Empire believed she was imprisoned in Noxus, and Will and the others prepared to rescue her by attacking the ten Emperor's Sharp Blades they mistook for Noxian monitors.

• Chang Wei assigned Esdeath and Scathach separate operations, judging Esdeath better suited to lead an elite force than a large army.
• Scathach used Runes to uncover an Imperial intelligence officer's memories, locate nearly a hundred connected agents, and have them arrested.
• Esdeath failed to make progress gathering intelligence and began doubting her ability in the new role.
• A masked informant told Esdeath that the Empire believed she was imprisoned in Noxus and viewed the ten Emperor's Sharp Blades as her guards.
• Esdeath decided to use the Empire's belief to lure its Imperial Arms users into a fight, while Will and the others prepared to attack the ten supposed Noxian monitors and rescue her.