Recaps

Illictra and the Third Army defeated Budak’s Black Asia Orc Dark Warriors near Anyu Town and prepared to return to Melsa Fortress. Kyle learned that the Twenty-Seventh Legion had captured Doken City and considered speeding up his plans to attack Batoons Fortress, as a Shadow Assassin arrived.

• Budak led more than three thousand Dark Warriors out of Anyu Town, and Hausman Kexina ordered his troops to pursue them while Illictra attacked from above.
• Hester’s Ninth Battalion engaged the Dark Warriors, and Illictra killed two High-Gold warriors as the battle spread across the field.
• Budak drank a dark-purple medicine, grew stronger, and charged Illictra, who challenged him to fight.
• The human forces killed the remaining Dark Warriors, and Illictra finished Budak with Silver Radiance.
• Illictra ordered his troops to rest before returning to Melsa Fortress and declined to garrison Anyu Town.
• Kyle heard that Doken City had fallen and planned to march on Batoons Fortress after two more days of investigation, when a Shadow Assassin entered the city lord’s hall.

Kyle confronted Electra with evidence that a Black Asia Orc escaped from Anyu Town, then warned him against carelessness while preserving his command of the Third Army. Electra pledged to do better, and Kyle promised to report his merits after they took Batoons Fortress.

• Kyle reviewed a Memory Crystal Orb recording of a Black Asia Orc escaping Anyu Town in the form of a Black-and-White Crow.
• Electra returned to the fortress and reported that the Third Army had annihilated more than three thousand Black Asia Orc Dark Warriors in Anyu Town.
• Kyle summoned Electra to his study and showed him the recording of the escaped Orc.
• Electra offered to lead Kyle's horse, but Kyle told him he preferred Electra to command the Third Army.
• Electra promised not to be careless again, and Kyle said he would report Electra's merits to the marshal after they took Batoons Fortress.

Velin learned how the Sival Military Code could legitimize Kyle’s disarmament order against the Third Army of the Thirty-fifth Legion, then discussed the coming campaign with Leonas. The story shifted to the Floating Fleet near Celes Fortress, where Ignis gathered the commanders to begin a pre-war meeting.

• Velin signed commendations and went to Leonas to discuss the disarmament of the Third Army of the Thirty-fifth Legion.
• Leonas explained that the Sival Military Code could let Kyle issue the order if Velin vouched for him, and that resistance could be treated as insubordination.
• Velin and Leonas discussed the expected capture of Doken City and South Lede City and the Floating Fleet’s planned surprise attack on Celes Fortress.
• On May 26, 9773, Ignis and forty-one other Soul Intent rank Transcendents gathered aboard the Floating Fleet near Celes Fortress as the pre-war meeting began.

Ignis briefed the commanders on Celes Fortress's defenses and ordered an airborne assault to capture it and trap the Black Asia Orc Army in Lede Province. As the Floating Fleet prepared to leave the Shadow World, the Dragon Riders faced the danger of their vanguard attack and exchanged farewells.

• Ignis reported that Celes Fortress held about one hundred thousand enemy troops and that damage to its Nodens defenses had left the fortress vulnerable to attack.
• Ignis ordered Nolga Flax to charge large-scale offensive magic before the Floating Fleet left the Shadow World and fire it at Celes Fortress upon arrival.
• Ignis ordered Lathern Essol's Dragon Riders to dive from thirty thousand meters and destroy the enemy's remaining long-range weapons after the bombardment.
• Ignis assigned Ovia Silverwing's unit to block reinforcements and prevent the enemy from fleeing south, then ordered the fleet to begin departing in three hours.
• More than three hundred Dragon Riders bid farewell to one another and their dragons as Lathern Essol stroked his white dragon on the deck.

Ignis led the Floating Fleet’s assault on Celes Fortress, devastating the city and its outer defenses with Forbidden Spells. As Abart ordered the Thirteenth Legion to fight to the death, an Eleventh Legion general prepared to retreat, while Dragon Riders and other aerial troops descended on the fortress.

• A Black Asia Orc Shadow Warrior spotted the hidden Floating Fleet and returned to Celes Fortress to report its arrival.
• Ignis ordered the fleet through a gateway to the real world, and the ships unleashed Forbidden Spells that destroyed much of Celes Fortress and killed tens of thousands.
• Abart ordered the Thirteenth Legion to fight to the death and sent Narita to atone for his failure, while Abart armed himself and flew toward the Floating Fleet.
• A wounded Eleventh Legion general rejected Abart’s order and told his surviving troops to retreat and report to their legion commander.
• Dragon Riders, aerial combat Magic Puppets, and Griffin Knights descended or advanced toward the battlefield as Abart flew directly at the Floating Fleet.

The battle at Celes Fortress continued as Lathern confronted Yudora, the woman who had killed his sister Mona and was once his lover. Ignis revealed himself as Kvat Silverwing by striking Abart, leaving Abart to recognize the enemy who had killed his father and older brother.

• A Soul Intent High-level fire Spellcaster challenged Abart in the sky while the Black Asia Orcs fled after their command system collapsed.
• Lathern met Yudora in Celes Fortress’s eastern district, and she gave him the wooden sword Mona had asked her to deliver before her death.
• Lathern and Yudora fought at high speed until Yudora wounded him with a cursed blade; Lathern cut off his arm and removed the corrupted fragment of his soul before restoring it.
• Lathern and Yudora gathered their strength for a decisive strike, declaring that they would settle everything between them.
• Ignis drew his Knight Sword and struck Abart with silver radiance that formed pale-red Silverwing Flowers, knocking him back ten thousand meters.
• The fire Spellcaster recognized Ignis as Kvat Silverwing, and Abart recognized the name of the enemy who had killed his father and older brother.

Ignis killed Abart, ending the Ste West chief’s pursuit of revenge, and ordered the Floating Fleet to begin its final battle. After Lassen killed Yulana, he destroyed the sword and pendant tied to their shared past, then faced Ignis among the ruins of Celes Fortress.

• Ignis defeated Abart, who sent the Bone Sword away for his successor before charging to his death.
• Ignis ordered Nolga Flax to begin the final battle, and the Floating Fleet descended as eighteen Spellcasters headed to the ground.
• After losing the Shadow Sword, Yulana asked Lassen if he would have married her; she removed her protections, and Lassen killed her.
• Lassen remembered how he and his sister Mona had brought Yulana into their lives, then crushed the Knight Sword and crystal pendant.
• Ignis found Lassen beside Yulana’s body and reminded him of the Flame Scar Griffin Knight Order’s oath; Lassen saluted him as General Ignis.

After the Ninth Legion reclaimed Celes Fortress, Ignis ordered the execution of more than three thousand Black Asia Orc prisoners, while Ovia oversaw the cleanup. As the campaign continued, Mafarna explained why his Twelfth Legion was at fault and prepared to protect Monrisa, then secretly used magic on his son Lah, who rose with a changed demeanor.

• Ignis ordered Griffin Knights to slaughter the Black Asia Orc prisoners deemed evil, then burned their bodies with Battle Qi.
• Ovia followed Ignis’s order to clean the drill grounds after he left.
• The Twenty-fifth Legion captured Batoons Fortress, and the Twenty-sixth Legion seized Ximoji Mining Fortress, defeating Black Asia Orc forces at both locations.
• Lah demanded that Mafarna send troops against the Ninth and Twenty-fifth Legions, but Mafarna explained that their actions were justified because Monrisa’s forces had allowed enemy assassins to infiltrate.
• Mafarna secretly sent blue light into Lah, causing him to collapse; half an hour later, Lah stood up with a calm expression and questioned why Mafarna had not helped him.

Mafarna’s son laid out two ways for him to protect Monrisa, and Mafarna chose the option that preserved his standing. At the Ninth Legion camp, Velin learned Mafarna would arrive in three days and decided to wait rather than visit him first.

• Mafarna asked his blond son for advice, and his son proposed that he secretly help Velin write off supplies as battle losses to gain Velin’s trust and protect Monrisa.
• Mafarna’s son offered a second option: report Velin to Allied Forces Command, which might dismiss Monrisa but would likely leave Mafarna in conflict with Velin.
• Mafarna lamented the loss of face involved in either choice and settled on the option that best followed his instincts.
• On June 13, 9773, Velin reviewed reports confirming the encirclement was complete and learned from Leonas that Mafarna would arrive in three days.
• Leonas advised Velin not to visit Mafarna first because his position and the Ninth Legion’s pride made that inappropriate, so Velin agreed to wait.

Mafarna arrived at Kixilin Main Camp to demand an explanation for the Twenty-fifth Legion disarming the Third Army of the Thirty-fifth Legion. He left after Velin rejected his demand for a public apology and ordered Pragorn to escort him away.

• Mafarna arrived at Kixilin Main Camp and received a formal welcome from Pragorn.
• Velin consulted Leonas and Selena before allowing Mafarna into the command tent.
• Mafarna demanded that the Twenty-fifth Legion Commander publicly apologize to Monrisa.
• Velin refused the demand and offered Mafarna the chance to make another request.
• Mafarna stood firm, so Velin ended the meeting and told Pragorn to take him away.

After Pragorn warned Mafarna to apologize to Marshal Velin, Mafarna sought to understand the danger behind his words. Kahe used the Soul Skill Destiny Tracing to investigate Velin’s hidden connections, and the chapter ended with the gathered blood returning to Kahe carrying unknown information.

• Pragorn advised Mafarna to apologize to Marshal Velin and hinted that a powerful figure stood behind the Eternal Dawn Knight.
• Mafarna discovered his injured son had fought a female warrior and knocked him unconscious so Kahe could take control.
• Kahe questioned Mafarna about Velin Ex, the stories of his achievements, and whether the Saint had appeared publicly in the past hundred years.
• Kahe performed Destiny Tracing with seven drops of golden blood, and after seven minutes the blood from his brow returned carrying the information it had found.

The golden-haired youth awakened as He on the silver road of destiny, where Lei revealed that part of his past was missing and that he may have encountered a Forbidden Figure. He returned to Kixilin Main Camp, where Mafarna knocked him unconscious and the legion’s leaders gathered to investigate the Destiny Golden Light.

• The golden-haired youth followed a voice along the silver road and met Lei, who awakened his memories and restored his identity as He, a servant and guardian of destiny.
• Lei told He that he had triggered a protective mechanism himself, that part of his destiny was missing, and that the Mother Goddess remained asleep; she gave him a Fish of Fate before he returned.
• The golden light faded at Kixilin Main Camp, and Mafarna saw his son freed from the binding force and knocked him unconscious to conceal what had happened.
• Velin, Zesop Elvir, Nigellus, Leonas, and others gathered outside the tent, where Zesop identified the phenomenon as Destiny Golden Light caused by the awakening of someone who bears destiny.
• Nigellus explained to Velin that those favored by destiny are born that way, while those who bear destiny usually come through reincarnation, prompting Velin to wonder whether his uncle-in-law qualified.

Mafarna explained that Kahe and Lah shared one body and that he had helped Kahe awaken hidden consciousness, though he did not know why Kahe had become burdened by destiny. Nigellus and Zesop agreed to investigate Kahe, and Nigellus began entering his consciousness to examine him.

• Mafarna knelt before Nigellus and Zesop, accepting blame and pleading for Kahe's safety.
• Nigellus eased the pressure Zesop had placed on Mafarna and promised Kahe would be safe unless he crossed the Church's bottom line.
• Mafarna revealed that Lah and Kahe were his two sons sharing one body, and that he had obtained the method to call forth hidden consciousness from an ancient scroll.
• Mafarna asked what would happen if Kahe brought about disaster, and Nigellus said one of them would be sent to Judgment Prison.
• Nigellus stopped Zesop from examining Kahe and pressed his hand to Kahe's forehead, entering his world of consciousness.

Inside the blond youth’s Sea of Consciousness, Kahe met Velin and explained that his attempt to learn who stood behind Velin had caused the accident. Kahe sent Velin back with the Fish of Destiny as an apology, while Nigellus remained in the Sea of Consciousness awaiting his awakening.

• Kahe reached out from the Sea of Consciousness, sealing Velin’s Ring of Mind Protection and drawing Velin’s consciousness inside the blond youth.
• Zesop caught Velin before he could be hurt and sealed off the area around the blond youth, while Leonas, Selena, and Pragorn agreed to wait.
• Kahe showed Velin a memory fragment of Nigellus observing Kahe’s past, answering Velin’s question about where Nigellus was.
• Kahe admitted that peering into Velin’s past had caused the accident, and Velin accepted his apology and dismissed the earlier misunderstanding.
• Kahe gave Velin the Fish of Destiny and sent him out of the Sea of Consciousness, then lifted the seal around Nigellus and waited for him to awaken.

Velin persuaded Zesop to spare Mafarna and later convinced Nigellus to entrust Kahe to him instead of imprisoning him. With Kahe set to awaken soon, Velin asked Mafarna to tell him everything he knew so he could protect Kahe.

• Velin woke and asked Zesop to let Mafarna go, explaining that Kahe had apologized for what happened in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Velin helped Mafarna up, then shared cushions and fruit with him and the others as they waited through the night.
• Nigellus regained consciousness and learned what had happened from the fairy's memories, but said he could not determine whether Kahe was the one who could bring calamity.
• Zesop and Nigellus considered imprisoning Kahe, but Velin offered to take responsibility for him, and Nigellus agreed.
• Velin steadied Kahe and asked Mafarna to wake him and explain everything he knew about him.

Velin attempted to separate Lah and Kahe, who shared one body, by splitting their soul and creating a new body for one of them. After hours of work, he had stabilized two independent souls and grown a body, but had not yet merged the second soul with it when the sleeping blond young man sat up.

• Leonas, Selena, and Pragorn agreed to conceal the truth about the golden light and present it as Kahe's breakthrough, resolving the dispute between the Ninth and Twelfth Legions.
• Velin put Kahe to sleep, regrew his severed arm, and began splitting his soul with Mafarna watching.
• The Blood Knight stabilized Kahe's divided soul while Velin poured in soul power from Seven-Colored Crystals and separated the two halves.
• Velin expanded and shaped one half into a stable new soul, returned it to its original body, and repeated the process for the other half.
• Velin used Kahe's severed arm to grow a new body, then paused before merging the second soul into it.
• The blond young man sleeping nearby suddenly sat up, drawing Velin and Mafarna's attention.

Velin transferred Kahe’s soul into a new body, and the Blood Knight removed a cursed insect that threatened the fusion. Kahe then split Lah’s consciousness into the new soul and collapsed, leaving Velin to watch over both brothers as they slept.

• Mafarna welcomed Kahe back, and Kahe urged him to let Velin continue his work.
• Velin moved Kahe’s soul into the new body, but a black aura began corrupting it until the Blood Knight crushed a cursed insect and used the Knight Lance to dispel the aura.
• Velin fused the other soul with its original body and found no further rejection or black aura.
• When Velin asked about splitting consciousness, Kahe recalled a mysterious method and began transferring Lah’s consciousness into the new soul.
• Kahe completed the transfer and collapsed; Velin checked both brothers and waited for them to awaken.

Kahe awakened after his soul separated from Lah’s, and Mafarna comforted both sons as Kahe began life anew. Velin accepted Kahe’s loyalty and negotiated compensation and military support with Mafarna, leaving Lah puzzled by their hidden arrangement.

• Lah woke and learned from Mafarna that the unconscious boy beside him was his older brother, then Mafarna took him outside to explain their shared soul.
• Kahe awakened that night, reunited with Mafarna, and said he had been reborn with only a small amount of Battle Qi remaining.
• Kahe explained that his and Lah’s competing consciousnesses had affected Lah’s behavior, and Mafarna agreed to let the brothers move forward.
• Velin accepted Kahe’s oath of loyalty, while Mafarna pledged cooperation between the Ninth and Twelfth Legions.
• Velin offered the Twelfth Legion supplies for half a year and additional magical equipment as compensation, directing Mafarna to return damaged items to the Twenty-fifth Legion’s commander for possible repairs.
• Lah watched Velin and Mafarna’s exchange without understanding why damaged equipment would be returned to the commander who had bullied his cousin.

Velin ordered reinforcements and coordinated with the Twelfth Legion as Ignis prepared a trap for the Black Asia Orc Army near Celes Fortress. Ignis staged a disaster to convince the orcs the fortress was weak, and their general fled toward the army camp, believing a major victory was within reach.

• Velin ordered the Twenty-seventh Legion to reinforce Celes Fortress, assigned corps from the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Legions to Doken City and South Lede City, and requested the Twelfth Legion's help clearing scattered orc units.
• Ignis prepared defenses at Celes Fortress and asked Nolga Flax to stage an accident that would mislead the Black Asia Orc Shadow Warriors.
• Nolga arranged a huge explosion, a Floating Battleship's emergency landing, and the apparent disappearance of patrolling human troops to make the fortress seem vulnerable.
• A Black Asia Orc spy reported the apparent weakness to his Low-Gold general, who sent Lia to verify the scene.
• Lia saw Griffin Knights killing exposed orc spies and returned through the Shadow World, but the general rescued her from the flames pursuing her.
• The Low-Gold general escaped with Lia toward the military camp, convinced the humans were hiding Celes Fortress's true weakness.

After learning that Celes Fortress had few defenders, Manus ordered sixty thousand Tribal Army troops to attack it in two vanguard armies and appointed Titus to lead one. Manus later revealed that Titus was Bartholomew’s illegitimate son and ordered a spy to watch whether Bartholomew visited him.

• A Black Asia Orc scout reported that Celes Fortress had lost its Floating Battleship but appeared to have few human troops defending it.
• The generals debated whether to attack or keep observing, and Titus proposed using Tribal Army troops as a vanguard.
• Manus ordered sixty thousand Tribal Army troops divided into two armies and appointed Titus to command the Vanguard Left Army.
• After the others left, Manus told Bartholomew that Titus was his illegitimate son, but Bartholomew accepted the assignment without pleading for him.
• Manus ordered a spy to watch Titus and determine whether Bartholomew visited him.

Titus led the Black Asia Orc vanguard toward Celes Fortress, where the Twenty-seventh Legion ambushed and routed his troops. Outmatched and cornered, Titus surrendered to the Inquisitor Knight.

• At Celes Fortress, Ignis learned that only part of the Black Asia Orc Army had moved and planted a flag on the sand table before leaving.
• Titus gathered his commanders and prepared to attack Celes Fortress, while privately considering surrender rather than risk punishment for defeat.
• Fornal and the hidden Third Camp waited underground until the Black Asia Orc troops approached, then emerged and charged after an earth-spike ambush killed more than a thousand soldiers.
• Titus halted his panicking troops, but the Twenty-seventh Legion's elite forces overwhelmed the Black Asia Orc army and blocked its escape routes.
• Titus exhausted his defenses and, cornered by the Inquisitor Knight and a Dawn Priest, dropped his weapon and raised his hands in surrender.

Fulna forced the Black Asia Orc forces to surrender after Titus ordered them to lay down their weapons, while the Inquisitor Knight pursued those who fled. Ignis learned of the Twenty-seventh Legion’s victory at Celes Fortress, and Mitchell returned to his headquarters, visibly angry as Fulna arrived to see him.

• Titus ordered the Tribal Army to surrender, and Ulysses was killed by Fulna when he urged the Ruston Tribe to keep fighting.
• The remaining Tribal Chiefs surrendered, while some fled and the Inquisitor Knight went after them; Fulna made Titus bind himself with an ordinary rope and guarded him.
• Over fourteen thousand Black Asia Orc prisoners marched to Celes Fortress, where Ignis and Mitchell discussed the battle and Mitchell declared they would be strangers.
• Mitchell left Ignis, who later heard that the Twenty-seventh Legion had annihilated sixty thousand Black Asia Orc troops and captured more than twenty thousand.
• Mitchell returned to the Legion Command Department in a grim mood, and Fulna entered after a guard warned him that the Legion Commander was angry.

Fulna reported the capture of Titus to Mitchell, who ordered him sent to Ignis, while Manus decided to punish Titus for surrendering. Ignis used an Alignment Check on Titus and spared him for the moment, then ordered him sent back to the Legion Command Department for the marshal to decide his fate.

• Mitchell reprimanded Fulna, ordered him to copy the Sival Military Code, and told him to deliver Titus to Ignis.
• Manus asked Bartholomew how Titus should be punished, accepted his recommendation of execution, and assigned him as executioner.
• Manus declared that the Third Legion would continue blockading Celes Fortress rather than rescue the allied forces trapped inside.
• Fulna delivered Titus to Ignis, who questioned him about his origins and faith in the Crowns of the God of Black Asia Orcs.
• Ignis performed an Alignment Check on Titus, said his life could be spared for now, and ordered guards to send him to the marshal.

Velin tested Reincarnation Void and Reincarnation Reality on the Black Asia Orc General, who experienced life as a slave named Titus in an Illusionary Realm World. Titus broke through the mystery of conscious ignorance and became a feared killer, but he still wondered whether his world was real; the chapter ended with him finding and lifting a crying baby.

• Velin received the surrendered Black Asia Orc General from Celes Fortress and decided to use him as an experimental subject.
• Velin cast an Illusionary Realm World over the Orc General, who awoke as Titus, a wounded slave cat person.
• Titus regained his strength, killed his tormentors, slaughtered their tribe, and grew into the feared Heart-devouring Demon.
• Velin watched and troubled Titus as he journeyed across the plains, while Titus began to suspect that his world was unreal.
• Titus considered that his suspicions might be paranoia, then found a baby beneath corpses in a plundered Cat person tribe and picked it up.

Titus raised Lin, a catgirl he had found as an infant, on a hill before she eventually stopped visiting and he left the Illusionary Realm. After awakening in the outside world, Titus pledged himself to Velin and accepted a role as his masked attendant.

• Titus took the infant Lin with him after burning the corpses in the small tribe, and later named her Lin Titus.
• Lin grew up on the hill with Titus, asked to become his wife, and left after he said he would not miss her.
• Lin returned every three years with growing numbers of people, but eventually no one came; Titus then shed his aged appearance and began comprehending reality and illusion.
• Titus solved the Illusionary Realm Mystery, causing the realm to collapse, and Velin returned to the outside world.
• Velin introduced himself and offered Titus a chance to work for him; Titus pledged allegiance on the condition that Velin did not betray him.
• Velin told Titus to abandon his original faith, wear a mask, and serve as his attendant, then ordered guards to arrange his military registration and camp.