Recaps

Ovia arrived at Stardust Manor to fulfill his promise to serve the Eternal Dawn Knight, while Ignis received a letter from Celestia and met Kyle to obtain a black crystal. Velin welcomed Ovia into his Griffin Knight Order and reviewed his recent exchanges, as Ignis agreed to serve Kyle’s master for three hundred years after ascending to Legend.

• Ovia told Ignis he had come to honor his promise to serve the Eternal Dawn Knight and asked him to deliver Celestia’s letter to Kvat.
• Ignis read Celestia’s letter, which recalled their past and expressed her hope that they might meet again.
• Velin returned to Stardust Manor and welcomed Ovia as commander of his Griffin Knight Order.
• Velin reviewed the thirteen kinds of items he had exchanged, while Xuemiyya began reading a Magic Book about the Mind Aspect.
• Kyle gave Ignis an irregular black crystal after reminding him to serve his master for three hundred years once he reached Legend, and Ignis agreed.

Velin spent a day relaxing in an illusion, then went out alone and overheard former soldiers discussing the Expeditionary War. Meanwhile, Leonas and Seraphina arrived in Kaminas Satellite City and set out to visit his father before a gathering.

• Velin stayed in a Planet World-type illusion until noon the next day, while Xuemiyya searched for him, found his sleeping body, and went to meditate at the Stardust Platform.
• Velin learned that Xuemiyya was meditating and that Kyle and Lyanna were away, while Ignis had taken Ovia to cultivate, so he concealed his appearance and went out alone.
• At a commercial street, Velin overheard Warner and other youths discuss their service in the Expeditionary War and Warner’s distant glimpse of the Eternal Dawn Knight.
• Leonas and Seraphina arrived at Kaminas Satellite City, agreed to attend a gathering, and went to see Leonas’s father after spotting two Inquisitor Knights.

Leonas returned to the Thirty-Third Adjudication Office with Seraphina and learned how its personnel had changed during his seven-year absence. As the Magic Train traveled toward the capital, Seraphina asked where he planned to take the Eternal Dawn Knight.

• De Reis and Torgna welcomed Leonas and Seraphina at the Teleportation Hall, and Leonas took Seraphina's hand as they left.
• Leonas and his companions boarded a special Magic Train from Kardunas Satellite City toward District 9 of the capital.
• Torgna reported that the Thirty-Third Adjudication Office had continued operating but had undergone personnel transfers during Leonas's absence.
• Leonas learned that six of the office's promising juniors had been transferred away as part of a Saint's effort to staff the New World.
• Seraphina explained that the New World would attract many living beings and that the Judgement Force would be needed to maintain order there.
• After De Reis and Torgna left to look at the scenery, Seraphina asked Leonas where he planned to invite the Eternal Dawn Knight.

Leonas returned to the Dawn Secret Vault Sanctuary with Seraphina and visited his father, Left Canon Cloriel Leondro Octavian. He told Cloriel he planned to undergo another Dawn Knight Trial and intended to marry Seraphina regardless of the result, then began recounting his past seven years.

• Leonas told Seraphina he planned to visit Third Dawn Knight Academy and District Nineteen, and said he might not be capable of teaching two promising youngsters.
• Leonas and Seraphina arrived at the Dawn Secret Vault Sanctuary, where Leonas greeted his brother before praying and heading to meet his father.
• Leonas and Seraphina entered Cloriel's side hall, and Cloriel welcomed them and teased them about when he would propose marriage for Leonas.
• Leonas told Cloriel he intended to undergo another Dawn Knight Trial and marry Seraphina whatever the outcome, and Cloriel agreed to support him.
• Cloriel remarked that Leonas had changed greatly in less than seven years and asked him to describe how he had spent that time.

Velin returned to Stardust Manor and met Leonas, who had come to see him. Velin pressed Leonas about when he and Seraphina would marry, and Leonas said it would probably be about ten more years.

• Velin relaxed on the Floating Battleship with Xing, then threw the wine-loving griffin into the air for special training.
• Velin used two bottles of Glowing Wine to lure Xing back to the ship.
• Velin left the Celestia Demiplane and learned from Kyle that Leonas had arrived at Stardust Manor.
• Velin and Kyle met Leonas in a garden, where Leonas said Seraphina was with Velin's wife at Stardust Platform.
• Velin asked when Leonas and Seraphina would marry, and Leonas answered that they would probably marry in about ten years.

Velin, Leonas, Xuemiyya, and Seraphina traveled to Third Dawn Knight Academy, where Leonas explained the kingdom’s network of interplanar passages. They entered the academy under guard, leaving the duty officer wondering who Velin was.

• Leonas told Velin that he and Seraphina had agreed to wait ten years, and Velin decided not to interfere.
• Kyle told Velin he and Ignis planned to go somewhere in two days, then left Stardust Manor.
• On the carriage ride, Leonas explained that an underground passage connected the kingdom to 1,352 First and Second Energy Level plane worlds, and Velin expressed interest in visiting it.
• The group arrived at Third Dawn Knight Academy, whose graduates mostly joined the Church’s forces or special agencies.
• A disguised High-Gold Inquisitor Knight showed his golden Ring of Judgment at the gate and escorted the carriage inside while the duty officer kept the guards from looking.

Velin toured the Third Dawn Knight Academy with Leonas and learned that students each tended an Ancient Steel Tree. Leonas showed him the tree bearing his youthful promise and his elder brother’s tree, while the tree cultivated by his father was likely long gone.

• Velin examined an Ancient Steel Tree and learned from Leonas that students cared for one from enrollment until graduation.
• Leonas led Velin, Xuemiyya, and Seraphina to the tree where he had carved a promise to become a Dawn Knight and impress his father and Seraphina.
• Xuemiyya teased Seraphina about Leonas’s childhood declaration, while Leonas recalled the memory without embarrassment.
• Leonas took Velin to his elder brother’s Ancient Steel Tree, where Velin read the brother’s dramatic inscription and both men laughed.
• Velin asked about the Ancient Steel Tree cultivated by Leonas’s father, and Leonas explained that trees over a thousand years old had probably been cut down.

Velin and Leonas learned about the academy’s contract duels after two knightly students asked Xuemiyya and Seraphina for votes. Velin agreed to attend and gave the girls until sunset the next day to identify Leonas in exchange for a chance at advancement.

• Leonas explained the academy’s three kinds of duels and how supporters gathered votes for contract duels.
• Xuemiyya and Seraphina told the silver-haired and blue-haired girls they would vote if Velin and Leonas agreed to watch the duel.
• Velin agreed to attend and asked the girls to identify Leonas, while Leonas offered them career opportunities if they succeeded.
• Velin set a deadline of sunset the next day for the girls to name Leonas.
• The girls thanked Velin and Leonas, said the duel would take place at Arena No. 17, and left to gather votes.

Velin, Xuemiyya, Seraphina, and Leonas traveled to Arena No. 17 to watch a contract duel after Velin bet that two knight girls would fail to identify Leonas. At the academy entrance, Leonas verified that he had recommended the group, and they cast their sixteen votes for Elinor before taking their seats.

• Velin proposed a bet with Xuemiyya and Seraphina over whether the two girls would guess Leonas’s identity, and Xuemiyya agreed.
• The four left the hillside and traveled to Arena No. 17 at the Third Dawn Knight Academy.
• Velin gave Leonas as the group’s guarantor, and Leonas presented his cross-sword medal to prove that he had recommended them.
• The academy staff verified the medal and recorded sixteen votes for the group.
• Velin and his companions voted for Elinor, then followed a purple-haired female knight to Room No. 7 overlooking the arena.

Before Malvina and Eleanor’s contract duel, Velin and Leonas watched the arena fill and joked about whether Talinovi Octavian should call Velin grandfather. The two twelfth-year students began their long-awaited match, with Eleanor giving Malvina her stronger sword before their opposing powers clashed.

• Leonas sealed the room, shared Transcendent Fruits, and discussed confidential matters with Seraphina while Velin read and Xuemiyya studied.
• Talinovi Octavian opened the contract duel and revealed that she was related to Leonas, who explained that their family recalculated seniority beyond five generations.
• Malvina and Eleanor entered the dueling platform, where Talinovi encouraged both students to fight without holding back.
• Eleanor offered Malvina her more powerful longsword, and Malvina accepted it while promising to pay the price after the battle.
• Eleanor unleashed crimson Battle Qi, and Malvina countered with frost that spread from the sword and dispersed the fiery force.

Malvina and Elinor fought their graduation duel to exhaustion, with Malvina emerging as the victor. Velin prepared to meet them before the crowd as emerald vines formed a throne on the ruined platform.

• Malvina and Elinor exchanged frost and flame attacks as Velin watched and decided to recognize them in person after the duel.
• Leonas arranged the meeting, while Talinov learned that the Eternal Dawn Knight wished to meet her students after their battle.
• Elinor unleashed Flame Scar Thousand Lights, and Malvina answered with Shadow of Cold Wind in a final clash that shattered the platform.
• Elinor admitted Malvina had won before collapsing, and Talinov caught both exhausted students.
• Talinov gave Malvina and Elinor healing potions and told them their good fortune had arrived.
• Emerald vines rose from the ground and formed a throne on the dueling platform as the crowd watched in silence.

Velin revealed himself as the Eternal Dawn Knight at the Third Dawn Knight Academy and took charge after Elinor and Malvina's duel. He praised and healed both students, while Malvina's long history of hidden injuries came to light.

• Velin's face was revealed, and everyone in the arena stood to salute him as the Eternal Dawn Knight.
• Virgilian Gaokaledo introduced herself as a vice dean and welcomed Velin on behalf of the academy and Archbishop Iriel.
• Virgilian ceded the initiative to Velin, who addressed the nervous Elinor and Malvina and praised their battle.
• Velin cast Life-Healing on Elinor and Malvina, repairing their injuries.
• Elinor reflected that Malvina had accumulated hidden injuries through twelve years of hard training without transcendent resources.

After Eleanor and Malvina recovered from their duel, Malvina's oath drew the God of Dawn's recognition, and she was declared the victor. Velin later toured Third Dawn Knight Academy with Leonas and asked for a few dozen Ancient Steel Tree saplings.

• Velin praised Eleanor and Malvina, and both swore to honor his expectations.
• Malvina's oath caused Dawn Power to bloom, and the crowd believed the Crown had personally witnessed it.
• Talinov announced Malvina as the winner of the contract duel, and the crowd applauded.
• Velin returned to Room No. 7 with Virgilian, where Leonas introduced Xuemiyya to his cousin.
• After Virgilian departed, Velin changed clothes and toured the academy with Leonas, asking him for a few dozen Ancient Steel Tree saplings.

Lance trained with Rayne to develop a technique for sensing hidden enemies, and he finally detected Velin watching them. After Leonas introduced Velin as the Eternal Dawn Knight, the youths greeted him, leaving Velin impressed by their talents.

• Lance repeatedly trained against Rayne’s Mist Clones, trying to sense concealed attackers and enduring repeated collisions with the wall.
• Velin arrived with Leonas and secretly watched Lance and Rayne train.
• Lance sensed someone nearby and directed Rayne’s thirty-three Mist Clones toward Velin’s position, then tracked Velin when he teleported west.
• Velin restrained the Mist Clones, and Rayne stepped in front of Lance to protect him.
• Leonas arrived and identified Velin as the Eternal Dawn Knight, after which Lance and Rayne greeted him respectfully.

Velin tested Lance by trapping him in an accelerated real illusion, while Leonas told Velin and the others how he had found and raised Rayne. Rayne delayed deciding whether to follow Velin until Lance awakened, as Lance neared the end of his trial.

• Lance accepted Velin’s trial, and Velin used Reincarnation—Reality to place him in an illusion designed to compress ten years of hardship into an hour.
• Leonas asked Velin to make Lance’s trials harsher so he would learn from the experience.
• Leonas explained that he had found Rayne unconscious near the border of the United Kingdom of Kols, unable to remember his past, and later arranged for him and Lance to study at Third Dawn Knight Academy.
• Leonas asked Rayne to follow Velin, but Rayne asked to give his answer after Lance awakened, and Velin agreed.
• Lance reached the final stage of the illusion and was close to completing the trial.

Lance survived Velin’s realistic illusion, won the trial, and asked Velin to take him as a disciple so he could study in his illusions. Velin accepted Lance and Rayne as his students and told them where to meet him after they graduated; the next afternoon, two young women approached Velin at the academy’s carriage area.

• In the illusion, Lance used the Red Dragon’s heart to regrow his severed arm and attempted to create Crimson Dragon Scale Armor, but the skill’s illusory heart exploded and destroyed most of his body.
• Lance awoke from the illusion, declared that he had won the trial, and asked Velin to take him as a disciple; Velin accepted him as his second student.
• Lance asked to enter another illusion immediately, but Velin refused because Lance’s mental energy was depleted and his consciousness had begun to separate from his soul.
• Velin asked Rayne to choose whether to follow him, and Rayne agreed; Velin formally welcomed both youths as students of Qixing Territory.
• Velin gave Lance and Rayne a High-Grade Magic Crystal each and explained how they could join him after graduating from Third Dawn Knight Academy.
• The following afternoon, Velin reached the academy carriage area, where two young women spotted him and hurried over.

Velin and Leonas toured the Holy Third Dawn Kingdom’s historic and secret sites for two months before Velin agreed to meet Left Canon Cloriel. The chapter ends with Velin and Leonas seated with Cloriel in the Dawn Secret Vault Temple, beginning their conversation.

• Velin tested two young knightesses’ knowledge of Leonas, and the silver-haired girl correctly identified him before falling for him at first sight.
• Xuemiyya told Velin that Seraphina was willing to find other spouses for Leonas, surprising him.
• Velin and Leonas visited notable sites across the Holy Third Dawn Kingdom, including an interplanar teleportation hall, the Daylight Royal Court, and the Dawn Bell Tower.
• After two months, Velin accepted Leonas’s invitation to meet Left Canon Cloriel at the Dawn Secret Vault Temple.
• Cloriel greeted Velin and Leonas, asked Leonas to make tea, and praised Velin as they began their meeting.

Velin and Leonas said goodbye after Velin spent three months visiting the Church of Dawn, while Cloriel privately reflected on Leonas’s Dawn Knight Trial and his wife Leonia. Velin returned to Stardust Manor with Xuemiyya and found the warriors training.

• Velin asked Left Canon Cloriel whether Lester could become a Dawn Paladin, and Cloriel said Lester would become a legend but gave no certainty about the trial.
• Cloriel reflected that Leonas could not fail the Dawn Knight Trial and worried he would have to persuade Leonia again.
• Velin and Leonas embraced and parted, with Velin asking Leonas to invite him to his wedding with Seraphina.
• Velin and Xuemiyya returned to Stardust Manor, where Velin saw the warriors training and playfully pinched Xuemiyya’s cheek before darting away.

Velin returned to Stardust Manor, adjusted Ovia’s training schedule, and planned the group’s departure for the Ilia Kingdom. Meanwhile, Lyanna completed the Ethereal Resonance Ritual under Kyle’s watch, gained the wind’s bloodline, and awoke with the ability to share some of her strength with him.

• Velin told Ignis to resume training until Kyle returned, then give everyone three days of rest before they departed for the Ilia Kingdom.
• Ignis increased the pressure on Ovia and promised to teach him the Feather Ascension Sword once his physical strength improved.
• Kyle watched Lyanna endure the final stage of her month-long transformation, ready to intervene if it went wrong.
• After Lyanna’s transformation succeeded, Kyle caught her, restored the storm-damaged land with Nature’s Revival, and explained the four conditions of the Ethereal Resonance Ritual.
• Lyanna awoke three hours later and learned that her new bloodline let her share some of her strength with Kyle.
• Kyle told Lyanna to lie still and understand her new power, promising to stay beside her.

Kyle returned to Stardust Manor with Lyanna after a month in the Messier Demiplane, where she gained wind Bloodline Power through a ritual. Velin prepared to travel to Qixing Territory, and the group reached Yulali City’s teleportation hub, where their transfer was delayed while the array charged.

• Kyle and Lyanna emerged from a Flowing Light Passage and returned to Stardust Manor, where Ovia fell asleep from mental exhaustion.
• Kyle told Velin that a Wind Spirit Ritual in the Messier Demiplane had given Lyanna wind Bloodline Power, and Velin announced their departure for Qixing Territory in three days.
• Velin led Kyle, Lyanna, Xuemiyya, and Ignis away from Stardust Manor, while the others temporarily entered the Demiplane.
• The group arrived at Yulali City’s Teleportation Hub Hall, where Virelia Lesandros greeted Velin and offered to show him around while Teleportation Array Number Nine charged.
• A Spellcaster lowered the array’s transmission intensity by three levels because Lyanna was in the group.

Velin returned to the royal capital with Xuemiyya, Kyle, and Ignis, but their journey was interrupted by knights who accused them of aiding the Famine Cult. Kyle subdued the knights, and Velin decided to wait for their commander to arrive and compensate him.

• Velin returned to Larik City after seven years, and Ignis recalled visiting the Ilia Kingdom centuries earlier.
• Velin's carriage stopped when more than thirty knights surrounded the group and demanded an inspection, accusing them of being Famine Cult accomplices.
• Kyle knocked all thirty-four knights and their horses to the ground, then silenced the knight who threatened him.
• Velin inspected the scene and told Kyle to keep the knights pinned down until their commander arrived and compensated him.
• Kaos Makushis discussed the hunt for the remaining Famine Cult members with Siprian when a High-Silver Warrior rushed in to report something.

Kaos confronted Kyle after his grandson Kaban was captured, but the arrival of Cyprian’s daughter Xuemiyya and son-in-law Velin turned the dispute into a family reunion. Velin accepted Kaos’s apology and left Cyprian an invitation to visit White Tower Manor.

• Kaos learned that Kaban had been captured north of the capital and flew there with Cyprian.
• Kaos confronted Kyle, who had gravely injured Kaban, while Cyprian tried to defuse the situation.
• Xuemiyya recognized Cyprian’s voice and emerged from the carriage with Velin.
• Velin greeted Cyprian and learned that Kaos was his friend and the commander of the City Defense Army.
• Cyprian advised Kaos to offer Velin a compensatory gift as a formal apology, and Velin invited Cyprian to visit White Tower Manor.

Velin visited Babula at the Asterix Manor to find out where Krell had gone. Babula revealed Krell’s likely destination but refused Velin’s gift to protect his friendship with Krell, leaving Velin to pursue Krell and help his wife.

• Kaos thanked Cyprian for intervening and promised to discipline Kaban after the incident.
• Velin and his companions arrived at the Asterix Manor, where Velin chatted with the guard while Babula came to meet them.
• Velin asked Babula about Krell, and Babula said Krell had likely left the royal capital after they met three months earlier.
• Babula privately told Velin where Krell had gone after securing Velin’s promise not to reveal the source.
• Velin offered Babula a bottle of Key to the Sanctuary, but Babula returned it and asked him to help Krell’s wife.
• Babula rewarded the guard and his squad with cultivation resources after Velin departed.

Velin traced Krell to Flower Manor of the Ring Sea in Duopas County and arrived there with his companions after spending the night in a demiplane. As they approached the manor the next morning, a guard stopped them.

• Velin took the Star Moon Floating Airship to Duopas County after learning that Krell had likely moved into Flower Manor of the Ring Sea.
• Velin and Xuemiyya joked about making Krell serve as commander of the Floating Fleet once they cured Italia.
• Kyle found the manor using a map, and Velin arrived above it that night.
• Krell told the unconscious Italia about his expedition, regretted failing to earn enough merit points to help her, and went to sleep beside her.
• Velin entered Cecilia's Demiplane to rest beneath the Tree of Life Sapling, where Ignis admired it and spoke with Kyle.
• After waking at sunrise, Velin led everyone to the manor, where a guard ordered them to leave the private property.

Velin Ex reunited with Krell at his manor after searching for him, then confronted him about the woman hidden inside the main house. Krell realized Velin had uncovered the truth and stopped pretending, while Xuemiyya and Kyle went to bring Italia out.

• Kyle told a suspicious guard that Velin Ex was an old friend of Krell, and Krell ordered the visitors admitted.
• Krell prepared to receive Velin while keeping Italia out of sight, and Velin's group entered the manor.
• Velin caught a Red Goldfish in the garden and joked with Kyle about cooking it before greeting Krell.
• Velin and Krell embraced and caught up, and Krell claimed Italia had gone away to relax.
• Velin confronted Krell about the woman hidden in the main house and sent Xuemiyya and Kyle to bring her out.
• Krell asked when Velin had discovered the secret, and Velin lied that he had only just found out.