Recaps

Kyle and Isadora prepared to move the army while Kyle considered the mysterious vision he had witnessed. Iletos learned that his grandmother had arranged for him to train with his father for thirty years, but Kyle let him return briefly to Empty Island first.

• Kyle asked Isadora about the young man in his vision, and Isadora offered to take him to its source in the Kanosi Kingdom after the war.
• Kyle and Isadora flew to the island where one hundred thousand soldiers awaited inspection, while Merivellna prevented Iletos from escaping.
• Isadora introduced Kyle to Iletos as his friend and told Iletos to call him Uncle, but Kyle asked him not to insist.
• Kyle told Iletos that Lady Olivia had asked Isadora to take him away for roughly thirty years of training.
• Iletos asked to return for a few hours, and Kyle gave him three hours before he flew toward Empty Island.

Velin received the Holy Dragon Kingdom’s promised reinforcements and assigned commanders to guard teleportation nodes and lead the troops. After General Blake reported the army’s size and ranks, Velin asked how many had served in the kingdom’s standing army.

• Kyle returned to Qixing Territory with Isadora, Merivellna, Iletos, and the Holy Dragon Kingdom’s promised reinforcements.
• Velin signed Olivia’s alliance contract, and Merivellna and Isadora agreed to follow his orders and guard the third and second Teleportation Arrays.
• Velin split the hundred thousand troops into two legions, assigning one to its original general and the other to Iletos, and offered monthly compensation to Iletos, Isadora, and Merivellna.
• Velin and the others inspected the army in the Mercier Demiplane, where General Blake welcomed them and reported the force’s personnel and Transcendent ranks.
• Velin asked Blake how many of the troops had formerly served in the Holy Dragon Kingdom Standing Army.

Velin welcomed Blake’s hundred thousand Holy Dragon Kingdom troops into his command and ordered them reorganized into two legions. He then inspected the Cloud Whale Floating Fleet and inspired its crew, ending with his magic healing the Spellcasters.

• Blake told Velin that most of his hundred thousand troops had previous military experience, and Velin assigned him command of the Holy Dragon First Legion while Iletos would lead the Second.
• Velin formally welcomed Blake and the troops into his command, then inspected their training and met Ronan, whom he ordered to assemble the soldiers.
• Velin addressed the assembled troops, promising benefits equal to his elite forces and receiving their pledge to fight for him and Qixing Territory.
• Velin traveled with Kyle to inspect the three hundred Floating Battleships, where Bask greeted him on behalf of the fleet.
• Velin formed Qixing Territory’s banner from the clouds, urged the fleet to master the skies, and sent healing light to its Spellcasters.

Velin prepared Qixing Territory’s forces for the coming war and learned that his elder brother had gathered hundreds of relatives and supporters willing to join the fight. He accepted their help and considered the sacrifices needed as the enemy landmass drew nearer.

• Velin organized Qixing Territory’s Floating Fleets to support the Holy Dragon Kingdom’s forces and paid the two Legends and Iletos in advance.
• Velin asked Kyle to deliver one hundred thousand troops to Orlando, then gave Kyle a month off to travel with Lyanna before the war began.
• Angus gave Velin a letter from his elder brother reporting that 137 clan members had returned with 738 people, including many powerful Transcendents.
• Velin agreed to accept the clan members’ aid and promised to reward everyone who helped him win the war.
• After Angus left, Velin reflected that the family had committed itself to the war and that victory would require sacrifices.

Orlando announced a new six-legion structure for the 350,000 troops at Thousand Wind Great Camp and appointed commanders and staff officers. After answering questions and declaring a two-month reorganization, he left the assembled generals united behind Qixing Territory’s army.

• Orlando announced the formation of six legions and appointed their commanders, deputies, and staff officers.
• Ignatius privately reflected that he had arranged for his nephew, Edgen Ex, to become Fourth Legion staff officer.
• Carandir Ex asked whether a corps-level command would be established, and Orlando explained that the level had been abolished so legion commanders could command directly.
• Orlando answered the generals’ questions and declared that the two-month reorganization had begun, with the new designations required for orders and documents.
• Orlando raised his fist and proclaimed that victory would belong to Qixing Territory, and the generals roared their support.

Velin reviewed his military preparations and learned that Kavir had won a major battle at the cost of an arm, prompting Velin to send him and Hebrew letters and Shining Wine. After receiving notice that an Epic Planeswalker would visit Qixing Territory, Velin arranged for Angus to attend Leonus’s wedding in his place, then went to inspect the Floating Fleet.

• Velin reviewed plans for assembling the second batch of troops as the teleportation network expanded toward completion.
• Kyle reported that Kavir had rallied his troops and defeated an enemy force five times larger, though Kavir lost an arm; Velin wrote to Kavir and Hebrew and sent them Shining Wine.
• Velin received a notice that an Epic Planeswalker would visit Qixing Territory in three months and considered inviting his grandfather to meet the visitor.
• Velin asked Angus to represent him at Leonus and Seraphina’s wedding in the Holy Third Dawn Kingdom because Velin and Kyle were occupied.
• Angus agreed to attend, and Velin went to inspect the newly organized Floating Fleet.

Velin inspected Qixing Territory’s reorganized Eight Floating Fleets, addressed their leadership and training needs, and placed Ignis in charge of the air forces. Later, Kavir received a letter from Velin in the Graylight Wasteland and shared wine with Hebrew.

• Velin inspected the reorganized fleets and learned that five commander positions remained vacant because Ignis considered the available candidates unqualified.
• Velin ordered Ignis and the generals to keep training on schedule for simulated combat in three months, then assigned Ignis responsibility for the Floating Fleets and aerial Knight Order.
• Ignis asked Velin to appoint a deputy close to him, and Velin promised to choose someone soon.
• Velin left for Star Prayer City to arrange the gradual delivery of strategic supplies to the front lines.
• Hebrew brought Kavir letters from Velin, and Kavir read his message before reflecting on his lost arm and how the dangers of war had changed his outlook.
• Kavir asked Hebrew to share the Shining Wine Velin had sent, and the two had guards bring it to them.

Isla De, the String Lady of Time, arrived in Qixing Territory and revealed that Velin could not be fixed by fate and had lost fragments of his past timeline. She reunited with her former teacher Odor, then returned him to his laboratory and left Velin guarding his grandfather as he remained in enlightenment.

• Duke Moravia waited with Velin until Odor was suddenly taken from his laboratory, and Velin recognized that an Epic had arrived.
• Isla De appeared before Velin and Duke Moravia, identified herself as the Lord of Time Abyss and the String Lady of Time, and said she had come to see an old friend and meet the person acknowledged by the Moon Goddess.
• Isla De told Velin that fate could not be fixed upon him and that fragments of his past timeline, including one from three months earlier, had been erased before granting him and Duke Moravia a blessing.
• Isla De found Odor in a separate space, embraced and kissed him, and asked him to hold her once before they said farewell.
• Isla De returned Odor to his laboratory and departed, while Velin emerged from enlightenment and guarded Duke Moravia.

After Duke Moravia emerged from his enlightenment, Velin finalized plans to reorganize Qixing Territory’s troops into four legions while keeping the Qixing Legion as his guard and designating the Ice Legion the Twentieth Legion. He gave Cassius the reorganization list and set a deadline of two months.

• Duke Moravia thanked Velin for helping him gain insight, destroyed Velin’s Magic Memory Crystal Orb, and departed after Velin outlined the disposition of 150,000 troops in Moravia Duke’s Territory.
• Velin reviewed Qixing Territory’s forces and decided the Qixing Legion would remain his guard while the Ice Legion received the Twentieth Legion designation.
• Velin organized the Ninth Legion around the Ice Sword Battalion and Star Moon Battalion, naming Doxius commander, Lahael deputy commander, and Ophalius staff officer.
• Velin formed the Thirteenth Legion from most of the Gray Mist Vassal Army and assigned Seraphina as commander, with Kaidros and Drall handling its actual command.
• Velin organized the Fourteenth Legion around the West Wind Legion and the Eighteenth Legion from Gray Mist soldiers and Black Asia Orcs, appointing their commanders and officers.
• Velin summoned Cassius, gave him the reorganization plan, and told him to complete it within two months.

Velin prepared to leave Qixing Territory with the allied forces for the war, entrusting the territory and its supply routes to Belder. After the expedition departed, Belder took charge of Qixing Territory and assigned Andrew some of Kyle’s Star Moon Department duties.

• Velin and Kyle discussed the assembled army of more than 1.2 million troops and their confidence in winning the war.
• On December 15, 9794, Velin’s forces crossed into Mercier Demiplane, and Velin entrusted Belder with maintaining Qixing Territory and its supply routes.
• Velin, Xuemya, and the others boarded the Star Moon Floating Ship and departed as Qixing Territory’s Archons watched.
• Belder ordered the Archons to continue purchasing supplies, train the City Defense Armies, and strictly screen outsiders for cult activity.
• Belder told Andrew to take over some of Kyle’s Star Moon Department affairs, and they agreed to discuss the work over drinks.

Velin dispatched the eight Floating Fleets into the Mercier Demiplane, then traveled with Kyle through the Teleportation Arrays to the Lochart Islands. At the Thousand Wind Great Camp, he praised Orlando for organizing a million troops in one year.

• Velin arrived at the harbor and ordered Ignis to lead 430 Floating Battleships through the passage into the Mercier Demiplane.
• Velin met Hyperion Ex, a relative serving as commander of the Teleportation Array’s defenses, and entrusted the site’s security to him.
• Velin sent Xuemya and Zeflin into the Cecilia Demiplane, then traveled with Kyle through two Teleportation Arrays to the Lochart Islands.
• Velin and Kyle flew to the Thousand Wind Great Camp, where Orlando greeted Velin with a deep bow.
• Velin praised Orlando for building up the camp and reorganizing a million troops, while Orlando credited the generals and soldiers.

Velin reviewed Orlando’s troop deployments and ordered a pre-war meeting, then visited a landing-training exercise at the western base. The Sixth Legion completed the exercise by planting its flag on the mountaintop.

• Orlando showed Velin the garrison map for twenty-five legions and explained the troop allocations, training islands, and landing base.
• Velin ordered all officers at battalion level and above, along with unattached Soul Intent Tier Transcendents, to attend a pre-war meeting in seven days.
• Velin and Kyle transferred more than two hundred thousand troops and eight floating fleets into Thousand Wind Great Camp, while Xuemya and Zeflin went to collect supplies for the Ice Legion.
• Velin and Kyle watched more than fifteen hundred ships approach the western island as mages attacked them with spells during the landing exercise.
• The landing force fought through simulated attacks and secured the island, and the Sixth Legion planted its flag on the mountaintop after roughly two hours.

Velin inspected the Sixth Legion after its costly landing exercise, praised its soldiers, and urged them to believe in victory. After he left, the legion rested briefly and began its fourteenth landing exercise with renewed resolve.

• Velin and Kyle agreed that elite troops and overwhelming strength were essential for a Landing Operation, then went to meet the Sixth Legion's commander.
• Galm Ex, Alick Ex, and Cowell Ex discussed the legion's heavy casualties while Rayat reflected on the realities of war.
• Velin encouraged the officers not to show doubt before their soldiers, then ordered them to assemble the Sixth Legion for inspection.
• Galm Ex reported the legion's strength, and Velin praised the assembled soldiers and told them that they would write the legion's glory.
• The Sixth Legion answered Velin's speech with a unified pledge of victory, then rested before beginning its fourteenth landing exercise.

Velin convened the final pre-war conference and established the Qixing Army, naming its Supreme Command and organizing its forces into three corps. The chapter ended with Angus discovering he had been appointed commander of the Third Corps, despite Velin originally intending to give his father an easy role.

• More than a thousand generals and Soul Intent Tier Transcendents gathered as Velin, Duke Moravia, Merivellna, Isadora, and Kyle took their places at the conference.
• Velin announced that the allied army would be called the Qixing Army, or Star Moon, and named himself Supreme Commander, Duke Moravia Chief Archmage, and Kyle staff and logistics officer.
• Orlando read the Supreme Command's orders, organizing spellcasters into six Mage Legions and knights into three Knight Legions, then announcing their commanders.
• Orlando read out the composition and leadership of the First and Second Corps.
• Velin's orders appointed Angus commander of the Third Corps, surprising Angus, while Velin admitted he had meant to give his father a less demanding position.

Velin assigned military roles, urged the army to recruit Life Priests, and outlined how Soul Intent Tier Transcendents would be distributed among the legions. As the commanders began discussing strategy, Duke Moravia plotted a thirty-year trial for his son-in-law Angus, who feared he had no one to help him.

• Orlando appointed Xuemya Ex as Logistics Officer and Ignis commander of the Floating Fleet Headquarters, assigning them troops and fleets.
• Velin revealed that the army had only 2,335 Life Priests and asked the commanders to recruit more, offering Seven-Colored Crystals as rewards.
• Velin announced that seventy percent of unattached Soul Intent Tier Transcendents would join legions while the rest stayed at headquarters as reserves.
• Velin opened the floor for discussion and allowed Merivellna and Isadora to leave, while Duke Moravia chose to remain.
• Duke Moravia resolved to put Angus through an unforgettable thirty-year trial, and Angus feared he could not escape or get help from his father.

After the prewar meeting ended, Velin and Kyle traveled to investigate the sea where the landmass had descended. There they found twenty-three Floating Battleships and a Brizet Subcontinent fleet whose commanders were planning to claim the new land.

• Velin declared the prewar meeting concluded and ordered the army to obey the Supreme Command; afterward, Xuemya left to organize the Logistics Department and speak with her mother.
• Velin assigned Angus command of the Third Corps, and Angus and Elisa discussed the appointment and Velin's role in it.
• Velin and Kyle traveled through four Teleportation Arrays to an island where a port, reclaimed land, and a Floating City were under construction.
• Velin took the Star Moon Floating Ship and Space Jumped four hundred thousand kilometers out to sea with Kyle.
• A young man and his Blue-haired Woman sister aboard one of twenty-three Floating Battleships identified the area as the landfall site and discussed returning to the Brizet Subcontinent to report it.

Raxius Kiria’s fleet encountered Velin Ex’s Star Moon Floating Ship while both were headed for the descending land. After they established a peaceful understanding and exchanged a sea chart for a storybook, Raxius’s fleet began its return voyage north.

• Raxius Kiria ordered his damaged fleet to prepare for combat but forbade anyone from attacking the approaching ship without his command.
• Velin learned that the fleet had no Legends and brought the Star Moon Floating Ship to a halt fifteen kilometers away.
• Raxius and Velin introduced themselves and agreed that their groups could cooperate against the enemies on the descending land.
• Raxius gave Velin a sea chart, and Velin traded him an Adventure Storybook he had written.
• Raxius ordered General Loft to lead the twenty-one Floating Battleships north as Velin and Kyle watched them depart.

Velin and Kyle surveyed the abnormal spatial region, and Kyle demonstrated a Combat Skill that erased a massive storm. After confirming the Sea Chart was genuine and taking a final respite in the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom, they returned to the Lycart Archipelago as the troops prepared for war.

• Velin asked Kyle to assess the Sea Chart and explain how the World Mother expanded space when land descended.
• Velin had Kyle test his strength against a sixty-kilometer storm, and Kyle erased it with Fallacy of Refutation - Origin Deconstruction.
• Velin and Kyle spent half a month mapping the abnormal spatial region, and Velin confirmed that the Sea Chart was genuine.
• Velin chose to spend another half month in the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom before returning to the Lycart Archipelago.
• Velin and Kyle arrived near the Thousand Wind Great Camp and saw soldiers conducting intense coordination drills before flying toward the camp.

In January 9795, a growing spatial anomaly signaled that land was about to descend, prompting the Qixing Army to prepare for a landing operation. The anomaly expanded into a vast black domain, and the Monitoring Fleet continued watching it from a safe distance.

• A Floating Battleship detected rapidly intensifying spatial fluctuations, and Silvano Ex reported the situation to Detachment Leader Viola.
• Viola ordered Floating Battleships No. 96 and No. 98 to return to Sixth Teleportation Array Island while the remaining ships retreated and monitored the anomaly.
• Velin ordered Kyle to confirm the report and send two High-tier Soul Intent Transcendents to investigate and map any newly descended land.
• Velin placed the First Legion, Second Legion, and Tenth Legion on combat readiness and assigned Orlando command of a Floating Fleet for landing operations.
• Within ten days, the anomaly expanded into a black domain fifteen thousand kilometers wide and ten thousand kilometers tall, while the Monitoring Fleet's commander resisted moving closer to study it.

Kyle watched a vast new continent emerge from a black domain and claimed it before other nations could approach. As the continent settled behind a world membrane, the story shifted to Lance, whose memories began with the disaster known as the Twilight of the Gods.

• Kyle flew into the Anomaly Space Fluctuation Sea Domain and observed the black domain after its expansion slowed and then stopped.
• Kyle watched the black domain reveal a continent nearly a quarter the Xenops Subcontinent's east-west length and warned three Kingdom Legendaries away from it.
• Kyle placed a law marker to claim the continent and later witnessed the black domain shatter, exposing the land within Reality Space.
• Kyle touched the continent's world membrane and learned it would remain for thirty years, testing the descendants of the devoured world against beings from Reality Space.
• Lance recalled how the Twilight of the Gods fifteen years earlier destroyed every divine statue on the Cross Continent and led his bishop teacher to take his own life.

Lance learned that Cross Continent had entered an unfamiliar space believed to be connected to the Twilight of the Gods, and he planned to send his family away before going west. Meanwhile, Kyle studied how dramatically Transcendents and resources had increased in Kasser Province over the past fifteen years.

• A boy invited Lance to drink with his father, and Lance later went to the deputy commander Sarn’s estate.
• Sarn told Lance that the continent had arrived in an unfamiliar space, possibly the force behind the Twilight of the Gods, and warned that war and turmoil were coming.
• Lance said he would send Anna and her child to the Holy Blood Papal State and ask his senior brother to protect them.
• Lance told Sarn he planned to go west, then passed out drunk and was carried to a room by maids.
• Kyle examined a map and his followers’ reports, noting the surge in Transcendents and the discovery of at least twenty Magic Crystal Mines in Kasser Province.

After Kyle reported that the land held abundant resources, Velin ordered the First Corps to begin a war against the Okra Kingdom. Orlando mobilized the forces and assigned their roles in the landing operation, leaving the invasion plan ready to proceed.

• Velin ordered the First Corps to set out and told Orlando that he awaited news of victory.
• Orlando summoned Iden, Blake, Orbis, and Talia, ordered them to prepare for war, and left Ignatius Ex in command of the First Corps.
• The First Legion assembled fifty thousand soldiers, while ships and mage corps prepared to enter the Demiplane.
• Orlando briefed the commanders that the target was the Okra Kingdom and explained that its people, called Aetheranthians or Aerans, resembled humans but had unusual traits.
• Orlando assigned the First Legion to lead the landing in northern Baimu Province, the Second Legion to support from the south, and the Tenth Legion to serve as reserve, distributing the fleet and mage corps among them.

Orlando launched an invasion of Baimu Province, sending the First Legion and fleet through a Demiplane passage as the Okra Kingdom detected the approaching forces. The Provincial Governor ordered Baimu Province to prepare for war and seek reinforcements, while an Eighth-tier Space Mage recognized the invaders as enemies from beyond the membrane.

• Orlando told Iden that the First Legion had to win the opening battle and raise its banner over the first city in Baimu Province.
• Half a month later, Orlando opened a Demiplane passage at sea and sent ships and the First Legion toward Baimu Province under the First Floating Fleet's protection.
• Baimu City's Coastal Monitoring Center detected a growing mass of enemy ships, and a white-haired Eighth-tier Space Mage identified them as forces from beyond the membrane.
• The Provincial Governor ordered Baimu Province into a state of war, commanded the nobles to muster their forces, and requested reinforcements from the royal capital.
• The Provincial Governor recalled the continent's past catastrophe and feared that the newcomers had come to settle accounts with its inhabitants.

The First Legion advanced on Luohai Port City, where the Stone Bone Legion prepared its defenses and the two sides began exchanging fire. The chapter ended with the defenders’ first Anvil Roarer barrage destroying more than ten Fast Attack Boats and sending over a hundred warriors into the sea.

• Orlando ordered the fleet to set out, while the Tenth Legion remained behind as a reserve.
• A middle-aged general organized Luohai Port City’s defenses with twenty thousand Stone Bone Legion warriors and other troops, and ordered the foreign merchants killed.
• Iden ordered the Third Battalion to probe the city’s defenses, arranged aerial support from Lady Talia, and instructed First Mage Tu to prepare a joint spell to flood the city.
• The Third Battalion deployed more than three hundred Fast Attack Boats and advanced toward Luohai Port City.
• A Bald Priest encouraged the warriors as the boats scattered to avoid concentrated fire.
• The city’s Anvil Roarers fired on the approaching boats, destroying more than ten and sending over a hundred warriors into the sea.

Iden’s First Legion tested Luohai Port City’s defenses, landing troops who clashed with the city’s Black Armor Unit before withdrawing. The costly probe revealed that the enemy’s weapons could pierce their armor, and Iden prepared for a full war council as both sides faced the coming battle.

• The Third Battalion advanced under arrow fire while Silver Life Priests rescued wounded soldiers, and the First Mage Corps raised an earthen slope near the city wall.
• The middle-aged general ordered the Black Armor Unit to attack the landed troops, and the two forces began a fierce close-range clash.
• Iden ordered a retreat after realizing the probe had achieved its purpose, and the middle-aged general called the city’s generals and nobles to a meeting.
• The Bald Priest and Third Company recovered the dead and wounded from the sea as the Third Battalion Commander mourned the more than six hundred fallen soldiers.
• Iden ordered food and wine for the survivors and summoned the battalion commanders to a war council, with Greg and Bamund following him.