Recaps

Duke of Moravia destroyed the Abyss Gate and rewarded Velin and Kyle with World Origin, which accelerated Velin’s cultivation. After returning to Task’s military camp, Velin questioned Hebrew about how the camp had expanded while he was away.

• Duke of Moravia’s Demon-Slaying Cannon destroyed the Abyss Gate and Solomon City, and the Metagea Plane rewarded him with one unit of World Origin.
• Duke of Moravia gave Velin and Kyle a hundred Korila units of World Origin to share, and both swallowed their portions to strengthen themselves.
• Half a month later, Velin awoke with the Death-Knight combat skill inscribed on his second Soul Ring, three years ahead of schedule.
• Two days later, Velin left the Fuluo War Floating City and returned to Task’s military camp, where he found the camp greatly expanded.
• Hebrew explained that after Velin and Kyle left, survivors of the Demonic Calamity had surrendered, so he accepted them as prisoners and had Brother Lavia preach among them.

Velin reorganized the Auxiliary Army, splitting the Blackrock Army and creating the Thousand Forts Army under Freeman, with noble youths placed in its command structure. As the Fifteenth Army advanced toward Solomon City, the province’s counties surrendered without resistance.

• Velin questioned Valk about the noble-born youths in the Tenth Battalion and ordered him to send all 788 to meet him.
• Velin told Kyle he planned to give loyal nobles authority over local forces and develop a local noble army, while ordering the Shadow Assassins to investigate them.
• Velin reorganized the Auxiliary Army: Carlisle and Feri kept command of the 12,000-man Blackrock Army, while Freeman became general of the 38,000-man Thousand Forts Army.
• Velin inspected the newly formed Thousand Forts Army with Freeman, who promised to make it the strongest Auxiliary Army within half a year.
• The Fifteenth Army advanced toward Solomon City, and the county nobles raised white flags and prepared to surrender before the army arrived.

After the Stovia District fell, Velin divided its provinces, ports, and mineral resources among the Fifteenth Army, the Eighteenth Army, and the Holy Crusaders. As the Expeditionary Army prepared for a new offensive, the Church of the Beast God spread accusations that drew adventurers toward the border, where Shira and her brother sensed something was wrong.

• Velin received Rassel’s letter and removed the Ansa Kingdom’s flag from Gorfito City, marking the end of the campaign for Stovia.
• Velin assigned three regions each to the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Armies and two to the Holy Crusaders; Rassel chose Barik Province, Sea Breeze Province, and Lulisk City first.
• Velin allocated the Canyon Mountain Ancient Road, Thousand Fortresses Province, and Solomon Province to the Fifteenth Army, while the Holy Crusaders received Libek Province and Gorfito City.
• Velin directed Kyle to distribute valuable mines to his cousin and the Holy Crusaders, and the forces established garrisons and began mining.
• Duke Ister sent the First Legion to launch another offensive against the Ansa Kingdom as the Church of the Beast God spread claims that the Army of Other Gods had colluded with demons.
• At an Obrala City tavern, Shira quietly told her black-haired brother that something seemed wrong, and he warned her not to say it aloud.

A Shadow Assassin reported that the Church of the Beast God had sent concealed Beast Callers to assassinate Velin and Kyle, while Count Obrala admitted he was playing both sides to protect his family. Kyle arranged contact with the count, and Velin ordered preparations to capture the assassins alive.

• Shira asked her brother whether they should stop the adventurers being steered by someone, but he told her they could not interfere and promised roasted rice flowers.
• A Shadow Assassin returned early to tell the Cat Mask captain that Count Obrala's daughter had revealed the Church of the Beast God sent concealed Beast Callers to the Stovia District to target Velin and Lord Kyle.
• Kolrich Obrala's illegitimate daughter confirmed she had spread the news and killed her lover, while Kolrich reflected that he was playing both sides to shield his family from the Church and Sky City.
• A Shadow Assassin delivered the report to Kyle, who ordered him to have Cat Face tentatively contact the Count of Obrala City and rewarded him with three Low-Grade Magic Crystals.
• Kyle informed Velin of the report, and Velin identified soldiers, forced-labor overseers, and spies as likely ways for the assassins to approach him and ordered that they be captured alive if possible.

Kyle uncovered an assassination plot against Velin by the Church of the Beast God's Heresy Inquisition and identified the other prisoners as spies and agents with varied motives. Velin learned that the German Kingdom’s forces and an exile organization were operating in the Stovia District as the Expeditionary Army debated its next steps.

• Kyle secretly arrested eighteen suspects and brought Velin to the underground prison to question them.
• Velin ordered Kyle to search the blonde woman’s soul, revealing she was an assassin sent by the Church of the Beast God's Heresy Inquisition with a plan to mark Velin using Young Calamity Beast blood.
• Kyle identified the assassin’s three squads, eighteen people in total, and collected the dangerous blood from her arm.
• Velin left the other seventeen prisoners’ fates to Kyle while reflecting on Ansa’s fall and the Expeditionary Army’s disputes over governing its territory and advancing against the German Kingdom.
• Kyle reported that the remaining prisoners had confessed: seven were German intelligence spies, five were merchant daughters passing along military movements, and five were agents of the Karelite exile organization seeking to reclaim the Stovia District.

Velin inspected the Blackrock Army and Thousand Forts Army before encountering soldiers pursuing a brother and sister near the border. After uncovering that the pursuit served a corrupt officer’s scheme, Velin had the siblings brought along and headed toward Millet City, suspecting the youth might be a Child of the Plane.

• Velin inspected the expanded Blackrock Army and the Thousand Forts Army after the interrogation.
• Velin and Kyle bet on whether two fugitives were lovers or siblings, then stopped a Punishment Army patrol searching for them.
• Velin exposed the patrol captain’s lie and learned that deputy commander Les planned to exploit a wealthy merchant’s daughter and fortune to win Viscount Eli’s favor.
• Velin sent Miller to capture the brother and sister, and Kyle declined to recruit the youth despite his talent.
• Velin suspected the youth was a Child of the Plane and ordered the patrol captain to lead them toward Millet City with the siblings.

Velin arrived in Millet City and met Eli Doyle, who apologized for his Punishment Army officers’ abuse of two siblings. Eli arrested the army’s senior officers, and Velin identified seven as evil before preparing to leave, but Eli asked to speak with him privately.

• Velin and his exhausted Third Company reached Millet City, where a Punishment Army officer went to report their arrival to Eli Doyle.
• After learning that Deputy Commander Les had mistreated the siblings, Eli ordered his guards to arrest the Punishment Army’s senior officers and brought the reporting officer to meet Velin.
• Eli apologized to Velin and explained why he had formed the Punishment Army; Velin accepted the apology and said they had no conflict of interests.
• Seventeen senior officers were brought before Velin, who used Alignment Detection and found that seven had Evil Alignment.
• As Velin prepared to leave, Eli stopped him and asked to discuss a personal matter.

Eli agreed to share the Ancient Ruins in Millet City with Velin, who promised an equal split of its valuables and records. Meanwhile, a boy named Rien remembered a life centuries in the future and questioned whether he had traveled back in time or entered an illusion.

• Eli revealed the Ancient Ruins to Velin and, after weighing the risks, offered to share it with him.
• Velin agreed to copy the Ruins' written records and split its valuables equally with Eli.
• A High-Silver Knight took seven Punishment Army officers away for punishment and imprisoned the other ten.
• At the Manor, Velin told Kyle he thought the brother and sister could help open an ancient underground ruin.
• Rien woke in Millet City six hundred years in the past, remembered his future explorations with his sister, and wondered whether he had returned to the past or was trapped in an illusion.

Velin investigated the changed behavior of Rien, a boy who seemed to have memories of another timeline, and ordered a Shadow Assassin to monitor him. Two days later, Velin entered an ancient underground ruin with Viscount Eli and Kyle.

• Velin learned that Rien’s demeanor had changed and ordered Kyle to secretly have him watched rather than confront him.
• Rien reunited with his father at the Malice Merchant Guild, while a Shadow Assassin recorded his words and actions.
• Rien’s father decided to sell the guild and return to their hometown, though Rien privately held a different plan.
• Velin, Kyle, and Viscount Eli reached the Ancient Ruins, opened its blocked entrance, and led the group underground.

Velin and his companions freed thirty-six Meteor Tribe souls from golden statues, receiving Star Cores in return. In a second cavern, Velin saw a strange aura around a faceless statue that Eli perceived as ordinary and Miller could not see at all, so they agreed to summon Duke Moravia to investigate.

• Kyle used Disintegrate to break apart thirty-six golden statues, releasing the souls inside.
• Velin summoned the Death Knight, which purified the souls as they passed through its body.
• The Meteor Tribe souls thanked Velin, gave him Star Cores, and were carried away by an unknown radiance.
• Velin and Eli agreed that Eli would take the gold while Velin kept the Star Cores.
• Velin found a strange aura around a faceless statue, but Eli saw an ordinary statue and Miller saw nothing.
• Velin proposed asking his grandfather to investigate, and Miller flew toward Floating City in Nax City to summon him.

Velin left Duke of Moravia studying a statue in the cave and returned to Millet City, where he investigated Rien’s activities. After Velin staged a test, Rien realized he was being watched and decided to leave the Ansa Kingdom as soon as possible.

• Velin played board games with Viscount Eli until Duke of Moravia, Miller, and Xing arrived through a Spatial Channel.
• Duke of Moravia became absorbed in studying a statue, and Velin and the others waited before eventually leaving him in the cave.
• Velin returned to Millet City while Viscount Eli arranged to transport gold from the cave, and Velin gave Kyle a Star Core and a tree stump to study for making a Priest Scepter.
• Velin read the Shadow Assassin’s records of Rien and suspected that Rien knew the secret of the Ancient Ruins.
• On Velin’s orders, a Shadow Assassin triggered Rien’s ward with a dagger and watched him break it.
• Rien concluded that someone was testing him, reset his ward, and decided to move up his plan to leave the Ansa Kingdom.

Velin captured Lien and questioned him about his return from the future, learning that he and his sister had spent eight hundred years in Chaotic Star City without finding a way home. Velin offered cultivation resources and safe passage for Lien’s family in exchange for the cultivation methods in his mind, and Lien accepted.

• Velin ordered the shadow assassins to capture Lien and his family without harming them.
• Six shadow assassins seized Lien and brought him to Velin’s manor, leaving his family unharmed.
• Velin dismissed the shadow assassins and questioned Lien about his origins and future timeline.
• Lien explained that he and his sister had gone to Chaotic Star City and spent eight hundred years searching for a way home.
• Velin offered resources and safe passage for Lien’s family in exchange for cultivation methods, and Lien agreed.

Velin learned that the Ancient Ruins belonged to the Evil Soul Master organization Dream Scar and chose Life Law Knowledge recovered from its cursed statue. Duke of Moravia left after giving Viscount Eli five spell books, while Velin planned to remain at the ruins for a few more days.

• Kyle arranged for the young man and his family to stay in the north courtyard and told him to come each day for training.
• Half a month later, Velin brought Kyle and Viscount Eli to the Ancient Ruins, where Duke of Moravia explained that the statue carried a soul-contaminating curse and mark.
• Velin shared his memories of the young man with Duke of Moravia and warned him not to research the young man.
• Duke of Moravia offered three types of Law Knowledge, and Velin chose Life Law Knowledge.
• Viscount Eli declined the Law Knowledge and requested a Soul Intent grade Spell, so Duke of Moravia gave him five books of spell research notes.
• Duke of Moravia departed, and Velin told Eli he intended to stay in the Ancient Ruins for a few more days.

Velin arranged for Lien to meet Duke of Moravia, who questioned him about his soul and the Lost World Minkosis. Later, Velin escorted Rien and his family to the Ancient Ruins, where they departed for Chaotic Star City as the altar collapsed.

• Velin told Lien that his grandfather had resolved the threat from the Evil Soul Master, promised him Cultivation Resources, and restricted him and his family to Millet City until further notice.
• Velin gave Kyle the Law Orb containing Life Law Knowledge and told him to study it and teach him.
• Duke of Moravia examined Lien and discussed his protected soul and the Lost World Minkosis, while Velin eavesdropped outside before quietly leaving.
• Velin and Kyle escorted Rien, his father, and his sister through the Ancient Ruins to the third cavern's altar.
• Rien and his family departed for Chaotic Star City, and the altar collapsed as Velin and Kyle left the cavern.

Velin returned to Solomon City, ordered captured German adventurers and mercenaries sent to the mines, and then traveled to Xipu City for a meeting about governing the former Ansa Kingdom. The leaders divided its territory into two new states and ordered the armies to prepare for an offensive against the German Kingdom next January.

• Velin returned to Solomon City, learned that Count Rassel had captured more than eight hundred German adventurers and mercenaries, and ordered Hebrew to send them to work in the mines.
• Hebrew left Devonshire to meet Velin, who reviewed reports showing that the Blackrock Army and Thousand Forts Army had largely suppressed open resistance in Stovia District.
• Velin and Count Rassel traveled to Xipu City after receiving a meeting order from Marquis Roden.
• Marquis Roden announced that the former Ansa Kingdom would be divided into the Duchy of Silvis and the Anastas Diocesan State.
• Marquis Roden said the Expeditionary Army would attack the German Kingdom next January and instructed the forces to integrate their Auxiliary Army troops and arrange equipment.

Velin learned more about the kingdom’s political situation, then took command of a poorly trained Auxiliary Army force in the Stovia District and reorganized it. He suspected Count Rassel was responsible for the troops’ poor quality.

• Velin told Kyle that the royal family might have plans involving the Expeditionary Army, but he would only help Xuemiyya’s grandfather if the price was right.
• Velin and Count Rassel traveled to the Stovia District, where thirteen thousand Auxiliary Army soldiers arrived at the Fifteenth Army’s camp.
• Velin reorganized the Holy War Army 31st Army, assigning its more than one thousand qualified soldiers to Wind Lex and sending the rest to logistics.
• Velin ordered Hebrew to train the remaining soldiers and prepare them for the Transport Unit 9th Army under Priest Lavia.
• Velin declined Kyle’s offer to investigate the other Auxiliary Army units and suspected Count Rassel had arranged the poor-quality troops.

Velin prepared the Expeditionary Army for war against the German Kingdom as both sides assembled their forces. On January 1, Radiant Calendar 9755, the Fifteenth Army and Dobic’s troops advanced toward each other on the Badako Plain.

• Velin declined to report Wind Lex and ordered five thousand soldiers assigned to the Holy War Army 31st Army while having Wind Lex watched; half a month later, he acknowledged Wind Lex’s ability and spared him.
• Velin reorganized the Blackrock Army and Thousand Forts Army, while the German Kingdom fortified its border and the Expeditionary Army assembled one million troops along the Rhine Mountain defensive line.
• Velin ordered liquor and unlimited food distributed to the soldiers at Darnes Main Camp and Loges Mountain Main Camp before battle.
• Dobic urged the German Kingdom’s generals to unite against the approaching enemy, ordered vigilance against attacks and assassins, and adjusted the units’ deployments.
• On January 1, Radiant Calendar 9755, the Fifteenth Army and Dobic’s troops formed ranks and began advancing toward one another on the Badako Plain.

Velin’s army fought the German Kingdom’s Western Expeditionary Army Eighth Legion, and Hebrew led the Ice Bear Knight Order in a charge against Dobic. Kyle intervened too late to stop Dobic from escaping, leaving him to regret his carelessness.

• Velin ordered the Blackrock Army to bombard the enemy, and Dobic forced his troops to advance while killing deserters.
• Carlisle, Ferry, and Greg led their forces into battle as both armies suffered heavy casualties.
• Velin sent the Knight Orders and most of the middle army into the fight when the Germans committed their elite forces.
• Hebrew led the Ice Bear Knight Order against Dobic and his three Nine-Seal War Beasts, but the clash turned against him.
• Kyle hurled Putlock’s Spear at Dobic, destroyed the three War Beasts, and failed to prevent Dobic from escaping.

Velin’s army defeated the German Kingdom’s forces outside Badako City, and Kyle prepared to lead the siege after Velin reassured him about his battlefield mistake. Five days later, Kyle shattered the city’s Divine Shield, leaving the walls and city exposed to the spears of Putlock’s Spear.

• Velin ordered the Thousand Forts Army to advance and allowed enemy soldiers who surrendered to live, while Greg pursued routed troops toward Badako City.
• Count of Badako shut the city gates and lowered the portcullis, crushing routed soldiers trapped in the entrance and leaving thousands outside.
• Velin counted sixty-nine Battle Merits from the captured heads, comforted Kyle, and promised him command of the siege five days later.
• Kyle led fifty thousand soldiers to Badako City, where Count of Badako had assembled more than twenty-six thousand defenders.
• Kyle struck the Divine Shield with the auxiliary spears of Putlock’s Spear, and Count of Badako ordered his troops off the walls as the shield began to fail.
• The Divine Shield shattered, and the two spears of Putlock’s Spear hurtled toward Badako City’s walls.

Kyle captured Badako City and ordered its professionals sorted and organized into the Badako Army, which would serve as the vanguard against the German Kingdom. After executing hundreds who resisted, he laid out strict desertion penalties and rewards for military merit, leaving the prisoners to be reorganized into four battalions.

• Kyle ordered the Blackrock Army and Thousand Forts Army to storm Badako City, and the Count of Badako fled toward the castle with his guards.
• The invading armies killed defenders, seized the city's wealth, and received the surrender of roughly ten thousand soldiers.
• Kyle ordered the arrest of every professional in Badako City, and soldiers killed or captured those who resisted.
• Kyle sorted more than twelve thousand captured professionals by rank and declared that they would form the Badako Army.
• Kyle used crushing gravity against an elderly nun who defied him, then ordered her beheaded; soldiers also executed 385 other professionals who protested their faith.
• Kyle announced punishments for desertion and rewards for military service, then ordered the prisoners organized into four battalions.

Kyle’s forces conquered the Badako Plains, and Velin prepared to exploit the German Kingdom’s retreat into Caligus County. As the Expeditionary Army planned its next move against Soliel Province, Ilus reacted violently to news of the enemy advance.

• Kyle used captured Badako professionals as cannon fodder while his armies seized cities across the Badako Plains.
• Dobic failed to secure enough reinforcements, regretted his earlier strategy, and abandoned the northern defensive line to preserve himself.
• After the last fortress fell on January 26, 9755, Velin discussed Kyle’s military lessons and planned to probe Caligus County with the Badako Army.
• Kyle’s Badako Army occupied Caligus County with little resistance and gathered intelligence on the Tenth Legion.
• Velin sent a Guard Knight to contact Count Rassel about attacking Soliel Province.
• Ilus Scrabster received news of the southern advance, killed a maid in a rage, and summoned General Grev.

Ilus gave Grev control of Soliel Province and approved brutal measures to delay the advancing enemy, including mass conscription and flooding. Kyle suspected the enemy's plans involved the Soliel River and sent instructions to Velin, who contacted Count Rassel and investigated Count Korrich Obrala's offer to surrender.

• Ilus asked Grev how to defend Soliel Province, and Grev proposed flooding enemy territory, sabotage, mass conscription, and other ruthless tactics.
• Ilus placed Soliel Province in Grev's hands, and Grev agreed to carry out the defense at any cost.
• The next day, troops began conscripting able-bodied people across Soliel Province while many soldiers plundered civilians with Grev's approval.
• After studying intelligence from Soliel Province, Kyle heard Ferry explain that the enemy meant to exhaust his soldiers with attacks by ordinary people, then ordered the army to march in three days.
• Kyle studied the terrain and the Soliel River, realized something, and sent a letter; Velin then wrote to Count Rassel and sent a Shadow Guard to verify Count Korrich Obrala's wish to surrender.

Count Rassel learned that the Western Expeditionary Army planned to flood Count Obrala’s territory, while Count Korridge considered surrendering to Velin Ex’s forces. The chapter ended with Mengmeng telling her brother that she had dreamed of the flood and its victims.

• Count Rassel received Velin’s intelligence that the Germans planned to flood Count Obrala’s territory and called his commanders to discuss how to respond.
• A Shadow Assassin representing Velin Ex offered Count Korridge surrender terms, placing him and his troops under Count Rassel’s command, and gave him three days to decide.
• The Shadow Assassin warned Count Korridge that the Tenth Legion planned to flood his territory, and Korridge resolved not to play fair.
• Mengmeng told her brother that she had dreamed Obrala City was flooded, with magical beasts in the water and many people dying.

Kyle led a hundred-thousand-strong army into Sollier Province and reached its fortified capital, Sollier City, while preparing to join forces with Velin for the siege. The chapter also revealed that a black-haired youth and his silver-haired sister were fleeing floods, guided by a prophecy about their fates.

• The black-haired youth comforted Mengmeng after she could not recall when her dream would come true, then decided to leave Obrala City for Sollier Province to escape the floods.
• Kyle and his armies captured Sollier Province’s mountain fortresses, incorporating professional prisoners into the Badako Army and sending others to forced labor.
• After the flooding blocked the Eighteenth Army, Kyle ordered his forces to rest before advancing on Sollier City.
• Kyle’s army reached Sollier City and began encircling it, clearing traps and enemy forces from the countryside while awaiting the Expeditionary Army.
• Velin arrived with forty thousand troops and joined Kyle beneath Sollier City, while Marquis Ilus addressed more than two thousand adventurers inside the city.

Marquis Ilus paid adventurers while secretly planning to discard them, as Kyle's army began its siege of Sollier City. The Badako Army suffered heavy losses crossing the moat, but managed to deploy bridges and push Siege Engines toward the walls.

• Ilus distributed Gold Coins to the adventurers, while the black-haired boy and silver-haired girl kept quiet and settled in a tent.
• On March 23rd, 9755, Kyle ordered the Magic Energy Cannons to fire on Sollier City's Divine Shield, but eighteen hundred Intermediate Magic Crystals failed to break it.
• Kyle sent the Badako Army's First Battalion to advance siege equipment under fire, then reinforced the troops struggling to cross the moat amid aquatic magical beasts.
• Grev watched the Badako Army soldiers die in the moat, and Ilus told him they would settle accounts after defeating the Army of Other Gods.
• After more than two thousand soldiers died, the Badako Army completed sixteen iron bridges, and troops pushed eight Siege Engines across the moat toward Sollier City's walls.