Recaps

The Blood Knight created the Heart of the Stars and fused it with Kyle’s damaged Angel’s Heart, healing and transforming him. After the Legends returned from the illusion and Velin completed his trial, Kyle awoke and the Blood Knight revealed his connection to Kyle before returning to his original form.

• The Blood Knight merged the three World Origin Crystals into the World Heart, used divine power to create fourteen star imprints, and completed the Heart of the Stars.
• The Blood Knight fused the Heart of the Stars and the Law of Creation into Kyle’s damaged Angel’s Heart, then remade Kyle’s body as the new heart merged with him.
• Caesinas and the other thirteen Legends emerged from Reincarnation-Real and bowed to the Blood Knight in gratitude for his bounty.
• Velin completed his trial by killing 131 Soul Intent High-level Transcendents, then worried about Xuemiyya and Kyle as his consciousness returned to his soul.
• The Blood Knight woke Kyle, who sensed his changed body and mourned, then revealed that he had been the source of his lord’s familiar voice.
• The Blood Knight sealed his power, separated the Life Knight and Death Knight from himself, and returned to his original form as his armor’s life and death laws faded.

After Velin returned to his body, he explained his power as a temporary gift from two divine Crowns and reported that a Spirit of Lies had helped the God-Thief in Darrow City. The gods ordered the Legendary Experts to capture the Spirit of Lies, while Datus was sent to the Pantheon for annihilation and Xuemiyya reunited with her returning husband.

• Velin awoke after the Blood Knight, Life Knight, and Death Knight returned to his soul, then told the Legendary Experts that the two Crowns had temporarily empowered him.
• Velin told Caesinas that a Spirit of Lies in Darrow City had aided the God-Thief, and the gods issued divine oracles ordering the Spirit's capture.
• Caesinas, Bamos, and the other twelve Legendary Experts accepted the order, and Velin concluded that the gods' agreement would likely end the war.
• The God of Black Asia Orc questioned Datus about his betrayal, and Datus admitted that greed and dissatisfaction had driven him.
• The God of Black Asia Orc sent Datus's soul to the Pantheon to be annihilated.
• Xuemiyya saw her husband emerge from shattered space on Darrow City's ruins and rushed into his arms.

Velin watched the Legends search Darrow City for the Spirit of Lies while resting with Xuemiyya. The Spirit of Lies revealed evidence that an Outer God named Lucien Walker Taberken... Trollope had orchestrated the theft of divine authority, and the God of Black Asia Orc recognized him as an old enemy.

• Velin settled down with Xuemiyya to watch fourteen Legends search Darrow City for the Spirit of Lies.
• The terrified Spirit of Lies revealed herself when Caesinas detected her disguise and threatened to crush her body.
• Caesinas questioned the Spirit of Lies, who exposed her core and projected a fleeting image that shocked the Legends.
• Bamos identified the figure as an Outer God, and the God of Black Asia Orc recreated his image on another plane.
• The God of Black Asia Orc named Lucien Walker Taberken... Trollope, exchanged accusations with his phantom, and shattered it.
• The God of Black Asia Orc decided he no longer needed to use the fifth-energy-level plane world to infiltrate Trollope's world cluster.

After the battle, Velin reviewed the Ninth Legion’s devastating losses and took responsibility for the ruined supplies, arranging aid for fallen soldiers’ families. The chapter ended with Xuemiyya asking whether he still wanted to sleep.

• The God of Black Asia Orc shared preliminary coordinates for a seventh-energy-level plane world with six other powerful gods, who showed strong interest.
• Leonas reported that the Ninth Legion had suffered nearly seventy percent casualties, including 49,242 dead and 13,789 soldiers disabled by severe injuries.
• Leonas listed the Ninth Legion’s remaining Cultivation Resources, and Velin was shocked by the scale of the stores.
• Velin said he would take responsibility for the lost supplies and ordered damaged supplies distributed to fallen soldiers’ families or adopted children, while keeping the arrangement discreet.
• Leonas thanked Velin and left, and Xuemiyya embraced Velin from behind and asked if he still wanted to sleep.

Velin and Xuemiyya visited a Death Force-contaminated Demiplane, where the Death Knight absorbed the corruption, created Death Followers, and restored the land to life. The next morning, Xuemiyya studied the Death Followers while Velin struggled to follow her explanation, and they left to inspect the Demiplane and decide how to use it.

• Velin took Xuemiyya into the barren Demiplane, where the Death Knight destroyed the White Bone tower and absorbed the Death Force sealed beneath it.
• The Death Knight used Death Runes to form an incubation formation and created three hundred Low-Gold Death Followers, then returned to Velin's soul as the Demiplane became lush and green.
• Velin summoned three Death Followers, and Xuemiyya asked to study them before he dismissed them.
• The next morning, Xuemiyya explained her findings about the Death Followers' souls and consciousness, but Velin understood only about half of her magical research.
• Velin and Xuemiyya left to inspect the Demiplane, calculate its area, and consider its use and ownership.

Velin and Xuemiyya explored another demiplane and discovered a magic potion plantation where Unicorn Bats were abusing captive fairies. After rescuing the fairies and ordering the bats hunted down, they brought Mina over to comfort the survivors.

• Velin suggested giving the restored demiplane to his uncle as a laboratory, then traveled with Xuemiyya to another demiplane.
• A Unicorn Bat whipped two exhausted little fairies and planned to eat one, but Xuemiyya burned it to ash.
• Velin summoned three hundred Low-Gold Death Followers and ordered them to capture one hundred Unicorn Bats and kill the rest, including their souls.
• Xuemiyya caught the two falling fairies, reassured them, and restored their magic.
• Velin brought Mina from Cecilia's Demiplane, and Xuemiyya asked her to help heal the little fairies' hearts.

Velin and Xuemiyya explored the demiplane, uncovering its resources and finding hundreds of traumatized little fairies. They decided to move the fairies to Cecilia's Demiplane and arrange for magic puppets to care for the plants, then waited for the fairies to wake.

• Mina led two little fairies into a healing dream while Velin and Xuemiyya searched the demiplane for the others.
• Velin calculated that the demiplane covered 656 square kilometers and discovered its eighteen Magic Potion Plantations and a warehouse full of Transcendent Resources.
• Xuemiyya read the labels and explained the value of the stored materials as Velin examined the warehouse's contents.
• Velin and Xuemiyya counted 678 little fairies and agreed to take them to Cecilia's Demiplane, leaving Uncle to build magic puppets to tend the plants.
• Velin and Xuemiyya waited beside the sleeping fairies, joked about their future children, and Velin fell asleep with his head on Xuemiyya's lap.

After the Greenwood Clan’s fairies blessed Velin and Xuemiyya, Luviya accepted Mina’s invitation and led hundreds of fairies into Cecilia’s Demiplane. Velin and Xuemiyya then entered another Demiplane, where Velin hunted a Ferocious Beast and Xuemiyya noticed the unusual magic concentration.

• The little fairies gave Velin and Xuemiyya an ancient nature blessing, and Luviya introduced herself as the Greenwood Clan’s new chieftain.
• Mina invited Luviya and her people to live in Cecilia’s Demiplane, and Velin opened a passage for the hundreds of fairies to enter.
• Velin and Xuemiyya left for another Demiplane after teasing each other.
• A Low-Gold Ferocious Beast charged Velin, who froze it and used a Druid Spell to harvest its hide, meat, and materials.
• Xuemiyya arrived and remarked that the Demiplane’s magic concentration seemed unusual.

Velin discovered vast Magic Crystal Mines in the third demiplane and planned to use the wealth to build Floating Battleships. A gift from the World Consciousness then entered his soul, raising his power and granting him two new Soul Skills.

• Xuemiyya revealed three Magic Crystal veins, and Velin surveyed the demiplane to find three large, forty-one medium, and two hundred sixteen Small Magic Crystal Mines.
• Velin decided to raise the demiplane’s magical beasts and Ferocious Beasts, while Xuemiyya chose to oversee the second demiplane.
• A seven-colored Flowing Light Passage appeared above the camp, and Nigellus explained that it signaled a gift from the World Consciousness.
• The gift’s crystal entered Velin’s soul, raising his aura to the peak of Soul Intent High-level and granting him Creation-Manifestation and the sealed Creation-Void.

After receiving the World Mother’s gift, Velin was appointed deputy negotiator for talks with the United Kingdom of Kols and decided to use the negotiations to arrange prisoner exchanges. He learned that he had been fined five years of military pay and discovered he had never collected it.

• Velin learned that seven days had passed while he received the World Mother’s gift, and he admitted to Caesinas that he had touched the threshold of Legend but had not chosen a path.
• Xuemiyya gave Velin the official order appointing him deputy negotiator for the talks in Hayena City, and he reluctantly agreed to attend.
• Velin planned to use the ceasefire negotiations to exchange Black Asia Orc prisoners and obtain supplies for his legion.
• Emicilia ordered Velin fined five years of military pay for the Ninth Legion’s lost supplies, taking his wartime merits into account.
• Kyle listed Velin’s monthly military pay, and Velin asked how long it had been since he last collected it.

Velin appointed Kyle as his deputy for the coming negotiations, while Cyrus prepared the Human Allied Forces’ Negotiation Team to depart for Hayena City. After dismissing the team, Cyrus spoke privately with his daughter Seraphina about Leonas’s condition, and she left reassured that he was unharmed.

• Velin told Kyle he would serve as deputy head of the Negotiation Team and ordered him to accompany him.
• Cyrus summoned the Negotiation Team, set the Hessern Tribe Territory as the bottom line for negotiations, and granted the members access to war documents.
• Cyrus dismissed the other team members and asked Seraphina to stay behind.
• Cyrus tried to explain that Leonas might be injured, but Seraphina questioned whether her father was lying to her again.
• Cyrus said Leonas had nearly been hurt by the aftershocks during the battle against the God Stealers but had emerged unharmed, and Seraphina felt relieved.

Cyrus told Seraphina she would lead a Negotiation Team and revealed the hidden truth of the Eternal Dawn Knight’s power, hoping she would become acquainted with him through Leonas. Seraphina agreed, and the team later departed for the Ninth Legion’s garrison in the United Kingdom of Kols.

• Cyrus explained that he had secured Seraphina’s appointment as leader of the Negotiation Team, which had originally been intended for Luminar Theodore.
• Cyrus revealed that the Eternal Dawn Knight had personally slain three peak Continental Legendary powerhouses in three minutes and killed God-Thief Datus Ingram in under three seconds.
• Cyrus shared evidence that Leonas was close to the Eternal Dawn Knight, and Seraphina agreed to get acquainted with him for her own sake and her children’s.
• Seraphina took her leave, and Cyrus regretted that his past dealings with the Eternal Dawn Knight had been mostly routine official business.
• In early May of 9778, Seraphina’s Negotiation Team departed Yason Province aboard three Floating Ships, escorted by three hundred Gold Knights.

Seraphina led the Negotiation Team to the Ninth Legion’s camp, where she reunited with her fiancé, Leonas, and met Velin. Velin left the negotiations in Seraphina’s hands, declining her offer to make him chief negotiator.

• Leonas and the Ninth Legion’s generals welcomed Seraphina and the Negotiation Team as their three Floating Battleships landed.
• Seraphina embraced Leonas and asked him to call her Sister, but he refused before they greeted each other formally.
• Velin hid his adventure storybook and pretended to work when he learned the Negotiation Team was approaching.
• Seraphina and the other Negotiation Team members greeted Velin, and Seraphina announced that she and Leonas were engaged.
• Leonas asked Velin about the negotiations, but Velin said Seraphina should handle them and declined her offer to appoint him chief negotiator.

Leonas agreed to become the Eternal Dawn Knight’s accomplice in scrapping improved Magic Energy Cannons and promised Seraphina he would marry her after attempting the Dawn Trial once more. Meanwhile, Kainasis planned to take Ostara to meet the Eternal Dawn Knight and have her ask to become his student.

• Seraphina insisted on staying with Leonas and agreed to marry him after the Dawn Trial.
• A report said eight improved Magic Energy Cannons had been damaged in storage, and Leonas approved scrapping them and sending them to the Twenty-Fifth Army.
• Leonas told Seraphina he had become the Eternal Dawn Knight’s accomplice, and she promised to stand by him.
• Leonas told Seraphina he would try the Dawn Trial once more and marry her whether he succeeded or failed.
• Kainasis told Ostara he would take her to meet the Eternal Dawn Knight so she could ask to become his master’s student.

Kainasis brought his granddaughter Ostara to Velin, hoping she could become Velin’s student, but Velin asked Xuemiyya to teach her instead. After Ostara joined Xuemiyya, she revealed that she liked Lester, leaving Velin and Xuemiyya astonished as Velin privately urged Xuemiyya to discourage the romance.

• Velin told Xuemiyya what Kyle had learned from Pragorn about Leonas before Kainasis arrived with Ostara.
• Kainasis asked Velin to take Ostara as his student, but Velin recommended Xuemiyya as her teacher.
• Xuemiyya formally accepted Ostara as her student, and Kainasis left her behind at the tent.
• Xuemiyya asked Ostara whether she liked someone, and Ostara admitted that she liked Lester and that he knew.
• Velin privately told Xuemiyya to put an end to Ostara’s hopes, then gave Ostara three bottles of Silver Moon Essence potion.

The Negotiation Team arrived in Hayena City ahead of ceasefire talks, and Velin and Kyle settled into their lodging before exploring the city. Velin stopped at a map stall and asked a Black Asia Orc girl what she was selling, but she said the maps had belonged to her father and she did not know what they were.

• Ostara spent two months studying under Xuemiyya and gradually changed her feelings for Lester from love to admiration.
• Seraphina led the Negotiation Team to Hayena City, where Orik Kadojia welcomed them on behalf of the United Kingdom of Kols.
• The team settled at the Rose Twilight Courtyard, and Seraphina assigned three hundred Gold Knights to guard it.
• Velin and Kyle left the courtyard to explore Hayena City's South City District, where the Black Asia Orcs avoided them.
• Velin stopped at a carpet stall and asked a Black Asia Orc girl about her maps, but she said they had been left by her father and she did not know what they were.

Velin suspected the Black Asia Orc girl was tied to a secret and had Kyle stage a fake-map dispute to draw out anyone watching her. After interrogating the watchers, Velin learned her father had worked for a powerful tribal figure, hidden a secret, and died after returning gravely wounded.

• Kyle accused the Black Asia Orc girl of selling him a fake map and threatened her while Velin waited for someone to intervene.
• Several hundred Black Asia Orc soldiers arrived, and their officer offered to punish the girl before Kyle claimed her as a maid for Velin.
• Velin ordered the soldiers to arrest the Black Asia Orcs watching from nearby shops, including a middle-aged member of the Gaines Tribe.
• Velin interrogated the five watchers in the True Illusion Realm and learned the girl's father had concealed a secret after working for an important figure in a major tribe.
• Velin discovered the watchers had been keeping one another in check and dismissed their arrangement as pointless.

Velin forced the Black Asia Orc Officer to take responsibility for the five delirious Black Asia Orcs, prompting Auric Kadoja to send him to report the incident to Bamos. Velin secured Taya’s submission and brought her into the Messier Demiplane, while Bamos reacted furiously to the officer’s account.

• Velin ordered the Black Asia Orc Officer to handle the five delirious Black Asia Orcs and identify the First Deputy Commander of the Negotiation Team as responsible.
• Auric Kadoja ordered the Black Asia Orc Officer to take the five prisoners to Bamos and report what had happened, warning that he would care for the officer’s family if misfortune befell him.
• Velin threatened Taya until she agreed to submit and asked him to preserve her family bloodline, and he promised to give her a husband after the negotiations.
• Velin explained to Kyle that he had tested Taya and believed fear had led her to choose what benefited her.
• After hearing the Black Asia Orc Officer’s report, Bamos repaired the officer’s injuries and called for his guards.

Bamos punished five Black Asia Orcs, rewarded a Hayena City officer, and ordered tribes to surrender part of their wealth. The next morning, Velin learned that Bamos, commander of the Black Asia Orc Northern Army, had come to visit him.

• Bamos ordered five Black Asia Orcs beheaded, then offered a golden parchment to the Hayena City defense officer and arranged for Torgan to protect him.
• Bamos appointed Torgan as his candidate for governor of the Laan Tribe Territory and sent five generals to demand one-fifth of the wealth from the tribes linked to the condemned Orcs.
• Velin returned to the Rose Twilight Courtyard and fell asleep, while Kyle took a newly acquired servant into the Messier Demiplane to teach her etiquette.
• The next morning, Velin found the Black Asia Orc woman serving him tea and pastries, and Kyle explained that she had learned the task through her own talent.
• A Low-Gold Knight reported that Bamos had arrived, and Kyle offered to invite the Legendary Expert in personally.

Velin met Commander Bamos, who discussed exchanging prisoners and then offered him a map to a treasure connected to Pirate King Borne Moonst. Velin accepted the gift, leaving Kyle curious about his lord’s motives.

• Kyle brought Commander Bamos to meet Velin, and a Black Asia Orc girl served them tea.
• Bamos reported that the Northern Army held 319 Ninth Legion soldiers and 47,837 other Human Warriors, and agreed to exchange prisoners for Black Asia Orc Warriors held by Velin’s forces.
• Bamos explained that he had been instructed to give Velin a gift in a reasonable manner to thank him for fighting for My God during the battle against the God Stealers.
• Bamos presented Velin with a map to a treasure connected to Pirate King Borne Moonst, and Velin accepted it after several refusals.

Velin and Bamos agreed to establish trade after the war, then settled how to address the incident involving five Black Asia Orc tribes. Bamos ordered Torgan to take Taya and purge the tribes’ leaders, while Gamond was assigned to oversee a prisoner exchange.

• Velin and Bamos agreed to resume trade between their sides after the war ended.
• Bamos offered compensation for the five tribes’ actions, but Velin declined and asked him to help Taya take revenge instead.
• Bamos ordered Torgan to take Taya and purge the upper ranks of the five major tribes in the Laan Tribe Territory, dividing their seized wealth among his men and the royal capital.
• Bamos assigned Gamond to handle the Northern Army’s prisoner exchange with the Ninth Legion, then flew to the royal capital to report to his teacher.
• Velin returned with Kyle to study the Parchment Map.

Velin explained to Kyle why he had arranged elaborate compensation for the prisoners, then attended the opening day of armistice negotiations between the United Kingdom of Kols and the Holy Third Dawn Kingdom. The talks made little progress, and Velin expected them to continue for months.

• Velin told Kyle that his plan would let the Black Asia Orc prisoners return home sooner and avoid having to explain their deaths if they perished during mining.
• Velin instructed Kyle to find a chance to retrieve the Pirate King's Treasure before negotiations ended.
• On March 12, 9778, the delegations led by Motius and Seraphina opened armistice negotiations in Hayena City, with Velin sitting beside Seraphina.
• The negotiators argued throughout the day and reached agreement on only three of eighty-seven clauses, while Velin stayed out of the debate.
• Kyle served Velin a meal made with ingredients from his recent accidental gains, and Velin said the negotiations would likely continue for months.

Velin and Seraphina signed the Hayena Armistice Agreement, ending the war between the United Kingdom of Kols and the Holy Third Dawn Kingdom after a ceasefire period began on June 1, 9778. Back at the Ninth Legion’s camp, Velin reviewed its losses and ordered the captured wealth divided between casualty compensation and war merits.

• Seraphina and Velin signed and exchanged the negotiation documents, bringing the Hayena Armistice Agreement into effect.
• Velin returned to the Ninth Legion’s main camp and convened a legion meeting after sending the Negotiation Team to report to Cyrus.
• Kahe reported that the Ninth Legion had suffered 64,694 deaths, 22,680 missing personnel, and 32,762 wounded or disabled during the war.
• Velin ordered Leonas to manage a compensation fund made up of one-third of the Ninth Legion’s captured wealth.
• Velin assigned the remaining wealth for distribution according to war merit, with Bishop Selena and Speaker Pragorn handling the matter under General Ignis’s oversight.

Velin ordered Ignis to recruit experienced aerial knights for Qixing Territory’s forces, and Ignis began selecting candidates from the Ninth Legion. When Ignis told Ovia about the plan, Ovia offered to recommend suitable officers, beginning with Olek.

• Velin ordered the army to break camp in three days, then privately asked Ignis to find Griffin and Dragon Rider knights willing to leave their homeland.
• Velin explained that Qixing Territory needed experienced aerial forces and gave Ignis authority to build a team that he would command.
• Ignis began reviewing the knight rosters and summoned Ovia so he would not recruit his son’s men behind his back.
• Ignis told Ovia about the plan, and Ovia correctly suspected that Velin had requested it.
• Ovia recommended Olek, a scarred High-Silver knight whose injuries made advancement difficult, and began describing another candidate, Skaon.

Ignis and Kyle recruited talented officers from their legions as they prepared to leave the war behind, while Velin received a cryptic message from the Guidance of Fate about Legendary Remains in the Southern Desert Kingdom. After the Ninth Legion withdrew from the Laan Tribe Territory, Leonas invited Velin to visit the royal capital.

• Ignis thanked Ovia, embraced him, and asked him to tell his mother that her father loved her before Ovia left.
• Boke Ya and Bowen chose to follow Kyle and the Marshal, and Kyle promised them opportunities to advance their talents.
• Leonas learned that people were being recruited from the Ninth Legion and allowed it to continue.
• Velin received a message that Legendary Remains would appear at Port of Batanas in three years and should be delivered to the Holy Dragon Kingdom.
• The Ninth Legion withdrew toward Lycaea War City, and Leonas invited Velin to the royal capital to thank him and introduce him to friends.