Recaps

Thirteen Sahuagin leaders planned a new raid on the human transport route and gathered a force of one hundred thousand mermen. The Ice Thorn Legion discovered the pirates' movements, and Zorack and Rastall Helios began preparing to destroy them.

• The thirteen Soul Intent Tier Sahuagin agreed to raid the human transport ships again and revealed that their combined forces exceeded ninety thousand mermen.
• The High-tier Soul Intent Sahuagin assigned the most dangerous tasks to weaker troops and planned to reduce his rivals' forces during the raid.
• Three days later, one hundred thousand mermen traveled toward the route between Sixth Teleportation Array Island and Luohai Port City.
• A reconnaissance squad reported the pirates' movements to Zorack, who summoned his battalion commanders and notified Rastall Helios.
• Rastall halted ships from leaving Sixth Teleportation Array Island and went to meet Zorack to plan the pirates' extermination.

The Ice Thorn Legion ambushed the fishman pirates as they attacked a transport fleet, overwhelming their forces. Gontis fled but was cornered by Zorack and two other High-tier Soul Intent mermaids, and tried to escape toward the surface.

• The High-tier Soul Intent Sahuagin worried that the pirates’ march had gone too smoothly, while the mermaid fleet concealed its warriors beneath the decks.
• The fishman pirates attacked the transport ships, and the mermaid warriors broke cover and charged into battle.
• More than thirty thousand mermaid warriors joined the fight, rapidly decimating the hundred-thousand-strong pirate army and terrifying the Sahuagin leaders.
• The High-tier Soul Intent Sahuagin fled with a Gold Low-tier Sahuagin, but the Gold warrior died during their escape.
• Zorack identified the fleeing Sahuagin as Gontis, and two High-tier Soul Intent mermaids blocked his path; Gontis then fled toward the sea surface.

Rastar, Zorack, and the mermaid warriors captured the traitor Gontis and agreed to take him to Okla City for trial by the Moon Knight. In Okla City, Kyle briefed Velin on the Parambria relocation, Celeste’s work, and the stagnant war with Seraphitaine.

• Rastar defeated Gontis’s suicide attempt and sealed his magic, preventing him from escaping or detonating his soul.
• Rastar and Zorack agreed to bring Gontis to Qixing West District so the Moon Knight could decide his fate.
• The group boarded a Floating Ship for Okla City while the Ice Thorn Legion continued clearing out the remaining fishman pirates.
• Kyle told Velin that more than twelve million Aerans were leaving Parambria, but limited transport capacity was delaying the relocation.
• Kyle explained that Celeste had stayed in Tucas Province to teach unaffiliated Dawn Priests after two thunderclaps sounded in the sky.
• Kyle reported that the Third Corps’s war with Seraphitaine had barely shifted the border and consisted mostly of small clashes.

Velin learned that General Rastar and General Zorack had captured Gontis, a fishman pirate leader wanted by the Hainas Mermaid Kingdom for a rebellion two centuries earlier. After punishing Gontis and agreeing to hand him over, Velin discussed appointing Hebrew as chief envoy to Alp Island.

• Rastar and Zorack reported that they had destroyed one hundred thousand fishman pirates and captured their leader, Gontis.
• Zorack explained that Gontis had rebelled during a campaign two hundred years ago, causing the deaths of three royal relatives and the capture of the queen’s brother.
• Velin used [Reincarnation - Void] to punish Gontis and agreed to let Zorack take him after half a month in the dungeon.
• Velin suspended Rastar from his post temporarily and told him to rest before receiving an important assignment.
• Velin told Kyle that he wanted Hebrew to serve as chief envoy for the trip to Alp Island.

Damian Bria left the Parambria Kingdom's Royal Capital, and half a month later the Qixing Army took control of Buria City after its garrison surrendered. Iden raised the Qixing Territory Noble Flag over the Royal Palace and gathered the remaining maids, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Damian Bria departed the Royal Capital with his family, officials, and thousands of soldiers, while the Capital Garrison General ordered his troops to keep order and await the Qixing Army.
• Half a month later, Iden led the First Legion to Buria City, where Kaferin surrendered the city's 8,731 garrison soldiers and handed over his sword.
• Iden assigned battalions to take control of the Royal Palace, city defenses, key buildings, and streets, then led his troops into the city.
• Qixing soldiers raised the Qixing Territory Noble Flag over the Royal Palace, and residents mourned the fall of the Parambria Kingdom.
• Iden ordered the remaining maids gathered in the Royal Palace square, where more than eight hundred waited anxiously.

Iden considered the factions forming within the Qixing Army and reported concerns about Bamund taking charge of the palace maids. As the Parambria Kingdom’s former provinces became the Qixing East District, the Ex Family faced a decision about its branches, while the Seraphitaine border remained stable under Angus.

• Iden selected two hundred and thirty maids to maintain the palace and handed the rest to Bamund, while Greg proposed reporting Bamund’s actions to the Lord.
• Iden reviewed the army’s competing factions, resolved to remain loyal to the Lord, and inspected Buria City’s defenses.
• Bamund considered the Ex Family’s future and favored merging its branches under Velin, though every option depended on Velin’s approval.
• After Damian Bria’s last army left Parambria on June 15, 9805, Bevelin renamed its eighteen former provinces the Qixing East District and appointed Belder its Archon.
• Celeste handed naturally awakened Dawn Priests to the Holy Third Dawn Kingdom’s missionary Priest Corps and left for Okla City.
• Angus kept the Qixing East District’s border with Seraphitaine stable as Qixing troops captured frontier settlements and built fortresses.

Hebrew returned to Okla City and learned that Velin had summoned him to lead a diplomatic mission to Alp Province and invite the Moon God Church to the New Continent. Velin offered Hebrew a path toward becoming a marquess, but explained that his current battle merits were insufficient.

• Hebrew arrived at the Royal Palace, worrying that Velin had called him back to send him to his elder brother.
• Velin reassured Hebrew that he had summoned him for an assignment, then told him to lead a delegation to Alp Province.
• Velin instructed Hebrew to persuade the Moon God Church to develop the New Continent, offering it a vast diocese and control over a duchy's faith.
• Hebrew questioned whether he was suited to diplomacy, and Velin asked whether he wanted to become a marquess.
• Hebrew eagerly agreed, but Velin said his battle merits were only enough for a count and admitted that he bore some blame for the shortfall.

Velin learned that Abyss believers would soon trigger a Demonic Calamity in the Nagarash Kingdom and began preparing to respond. He summoned Kyle to discuss the threat, while the chapter left their conversation about to begin.

• Velin told Hebrew he would lead an envoy to the Moon God Church on Alp Island and promised to support Hebrew's future ambitions.
• Velin learned that Xuemya and her teacher had summoned thirty succubi, who were captured for experiments.
• Velin received a warning that Abyss believers would sacrifice ten million people in fifteen days to open an Abyss Gate in the Nagarash Kingdom.
• Velin ordered Hilda to fetch Kyle and Xisina to send an urgent coded letter to his maternal grandfather.
• Kyle left his chess game with Celeste and followed Velin into the Cecilia Demiplane.

Velin prepared a secret expedition to the Nagarash Kingdom to fight demons and earn world contribution. Xuemiyya agreed to join him, and three days later the group departed aboard the Floating Ship Star Moon.

• Velin told Orlando and Celeste to assemble a demon-clearing force of powerful High-tier Soul Intent Transcendents and keep the mission confidential.
• Kalaya and Xuemiyya finished an experiment extracting lust factor from succubus souls, and Hilda summoned Xuemiyya to Velin.
• Velin invited Xuemiyya to the Nagarash Kingdom to kill demons, and she agreed to bring Kalaya along.
• Velin, Xuemiyya, Kalaya, twenty-seven High-tier Soul Intent Transcendents, and an Intermediate Soul Intent Transcendent boarded the Floating Ship Star Moon and headed south.

Three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks sacrificed Nan'en Province to summon the Abyss Gate and gain power, then arranged to lure Legendary Demons into a trap. As the first Legendary Demon entered the province, one Warlock led him toward a supposed god’s ruin.

• Three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks finalized their plan to use a Blood Sacrifice and a borrowed Legendary object to trap and kill three Legendary Demons.
• Abyssal Cultists sacrificed millions of people across Nan'en Province, summoned the Abyss Gate, and unleashed demons that devastated the surrounding lands.
• The Abyss Gate sent profound information to seventeen people, and the three Warlocks accepted it while resisting the urge to become slaves of the Abyss.
• A Low-tier Legendary Balrog Flame Demon emerged from the Abyss Gate, learned that the world's gods had fallen, and dreamed of devouring its inhabitants and becoming an Abyssal Lord.
• A High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlock told the Balrog Flame Demon he had discovered a god’s ruin and led him into a valley.

Two Soul Intent Demon Warlocks trapped and killed a Legendary Balrog Flame Demon with the Purple Disk and Dawn Power, then prepared to hunt another. Three days later, Velin divided his forces to clear demons from the corrupted northern border of the Nagarash Kingdom.

• A high-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlock lured a low-level Legendary Balrog Flame Demon into the underground palace, where the Purple Disk sealed it and drained its power.
• Kalin reported that Kuhn was leading another Legendary Snake Demon toward them, and the two Warlocks stabbed the trapped Balrog with longswords bearing Dawn Power.
• After the Balrog died, the Warlocks placed its body in a small Demiplane and began resetting their formation to hunt a second demon.
• Three days later, Velin saw the vast corruption at the northern border and sent Kyle and Celeste to clear demons from either side while he, Xuemya, and Kalaya advanced from the front.
• Kalaya promised to protect Velin and Xuemya, and Velin quietly asked her to keep them safe.

Kexius learned that the Royal Capital had fallen and feared for his sister Lina while Winter Fortress continued to face the demon invasion. Elsewhere, Xuemya captured three Succubi and confronted a group of refugees, whose blonde mage reacted with terror.

• After a day of fighting, Kexius drank with a level-three warrior and was summoned to meet General Kellogg.
• Kellogg told Kexius that more than three hundred thousand demons had taken the Royal Capital in less than half a day.
• Kexius asked whether Lina had escaped, collapsed when Kellogg said he did not know, and left the hall distraught.
• A group of refugees fled from three Succubi, and a muscular female mage carried Liya when she fell behind.
• Xuemya restrained the Succubi and put them in her Demiplane with Kalaya's help.
• Xuemya asked the refugees if they had taken the wrong path, and a blonde woman in a blue Mage Robe trembled at the sight of her.

Xuemiyya offered to take a group of mages to Winter Fortress, while Kalaya secretly verified that the Blue-haired Female Mage was not an Abyssal Cultist and discovered her ties to Rafenox. Aboard the Floating Ship Star Moon, Velin introduced himself to the group and invited the Muscular Female Mage to guess his age.

• Xuemiyya offered the mages a ride to Winter Fortress, and the Muscular Female Mage accepted on behalf of the group.
• Kalaya examined the Blue-haired Female Mage's consciousness and told Velin she was not an Abyssal Cultist, but was secretly from the Rafenox Principality and knew him and Xuemiyya.
• Xuemiyya welcomed the group aboard the Floating Ship Star Moon, and Velin guided them to the aft deck while claiming to be Xuemiyya's knight.
• Velin told the Muscular Female Mage that he was a High-rank Gold Knight and challenged her to guess his age in exchange for an answer to one question.
• The Muscular Female Mage guessed that Velin was seventy-three years old and waited for him to respond.

Velin brought Xuemya’s rescued mages to Winter Fortress, where Nori struggled with whether to leave Liya and travel with him. A powerful demon was slain outside the fortress, and Celeste appeared aboard the ship, sensing a loathsome aura as the blue-haired Twilight believer froze in fear.

• Velin told the mages he had served Xuemya since he was eight, and his stories of the lands beyond Cross Continent stirred their longing.
• As the Star Moon Floating Ship neared Winter Fortress, Nori admitted she wanted Velin to stay and declined his offer to leave with him because she had promised to protect Liya.
• A sword strike split the sky, and a thousand-meter headless demon fell near Winter Fortress as several figures began slaughtering the fleeing demons.
• Celeste appeared on the ship and told Velin she sensed a loathsome aura, while the blue-haired mage froze and prayed to the God of Twilight.

Velin exposed Fulis Rafenox as a spy from the Rafenox Principality but spared her and offered to connect her with an ally. As the group rested, Fulis revealed her kingdom’s covert operations in Nagarash and asked why Celeste had spared her.

• Celeste identified the blue-haired mage as a member of the Dusk Church, but Velin persuaded him to release her.
• Velin told Nori he had hidden his identity to avoid discouraging her, then offered to introduce her to a friend; Nori chose to bring Liya and her brother along.
• Celeste left to carve up the Legendary corpse while Velin and the mages rested on the deck.
• The blue-haired mage introduced herself as Fulis Rafenox, a princess whose grandfather ruled the Rafenox Principality, and said her country had gained control of two southern provinces in Nagarash over eight years.
• Velin encouraged Fulis and invited her grandfather to seek him out, then said Celeste had once been more extreme but had changed.

Velin recounted Celeste’s past as a Judgment Knight, then watched Celeste’s forces destroy the demons threatening Winter Fortress. Liya reunited with her brother Kexius, who joined her decision to travel with Velin, while Velin considered how to recruit the talented young warrior.

• Velin told Nori, the Blue-haired Female Mage, and Liya that Celeste had served as a Judgment Knight before becoming a Dawn Paladin, and Celeste warned him to stop inventing stories.
• Celeste led the destruction of the demons near Winter Fortress, leaving the garrison general worried about what the northern forces would do next.
• Liya called to her brother Kexius from Velin’s Floating Ship, and Kexius awakened as a Level 8 warrior while falling from the fortress wall before flying to the ship.
• Kexius embraced Liya, thanked Velin for saving her, and agreed to accompany her to Velin’s country.
• Velin considered arranging for Xuemya to teach Kexius and for Pastor Lavia to train Nori.

Velin explored an ancient underground ruin and found a diary written in a language from his homeland. Its entries suggested the wanderer who wrote it had mentored Acrylic, the mortal name of the God of Holy Blood, and taught him how to become a god.

• Celeste invited Velin to inspect ruins forty kilometers southwest of Winter Fortress and said he had already cleared the underground guards.
• Velin entered the ancient palace, searched its bookshelves, and found a glowing book that became solid after he read its title, “Wanderer's Diary.”
• The diary described its writer arriving in the world and taking in a talented boy named Acrylic, whom Velin recognized as the God of Holy Blood's former name.
• The entries recounted how the wanderer trained Acrylic, later known as Alec, and eventually met him again in the Holy Blood Kingdom.
• The wanderer wrote that he gave Acrylic knowledge about becoming a god and ways to prepare escape routes from hopeless situations.

Velin uncovered the Holy Blood ruins’ connection to the God of Holy Blood before returning to the Floating Ship, while Kexius left Winter Fortress behind. At the Abyss Gate, Celeste and another human faced thirteen Legendary Demons, and Celeste offered the other person first pick.

• Velin read a diary describing the God of Holy Blood’s past, sent the ruins’ books to the Cecilia Demiplane, and destroyed the underground ruins.
• Velin told Celeste that the ruins dated back to before the God of Holy Blood became a god, more than ninety thousand years earlier.
• Velin returned to the Floating Ship and prepared to depart with the Muscular Female Mage, Liya, and Kexius; Celeste declined to join them so he could pursue his bet to kill more Legendary Demons.
• Kexius left Winter Fortress, promising General Kellogg he would help him if they met again, while Kellogg wished him safe travels.
• At the Abyss Gate, Celeste and another human confronted thirteen Legendary Demons, and Celeste said, “You pick first.”

Kyle and Celeste fought the fifteen Legendary demons at the Abyss Gate while Orlando and the other Soul Intent Transcendents charged into the demon army. After Kyle and Celeste killed the final two demons, the Abyss Will tried to reclaim their Soul Power but met heavy resistance.

• Kyle and Celeste killed two Legendary demons, leaving thirteen to attack them together.
• Three hundred and seventeen Soul Intent Tier demons sent hundreds of thousands of demons against the human Transcendents, and Orlando led the charge.
• Velin watched from the Floating Ship Star Moon and agreed with Kalaya not to join the battle.
• Orlando fought through the demon army as other Transcendents struggled against powerful demons and some were teleported away.
• Kyle and Celeste recalled their first encounter with a Legendary demon, then killed the last two Legendary demons.
• The Abyss Will tried to reclaim the two demons' Soul Power through the Abyss Gate but encountered layers of obstruction.

Abyssal Lord Shivalianse evaded the Abyss Will’s summons and visited her descendant’s world, while the Abyss Will sent two powerful demons to Ilyria World. Kyle and Celeste struggled against them, and Kalaya rushed to rescue Orlando as he was surrounded.

• Shivalianse left the 7,785th layer of the Abyss, gave her descendant a hundred years to conquer a world, and hid in another space to evade the Abyss Will’s summons.
• The Abyss Will sent Zarek and Uller through the Abyss Gate to Ilyria World, where they learned their mission and faced Kyle and Celeste.
• Zarek and Uller fought Kyle and Celeste near the Abyss Gate, gradually gaining the advantage as the battlefield’s demons were killed by the fighting.
• Six high-tier Soul Intent demons surrounded Orlando, who had already used two of the three strands of Legendary power Kyle had left inside him.
• After Xuemya warned Velin about Orlando, Kalaya flew to rescue him, while Velin summoned Life-Knight and Death-Knight as backup.

Kalaya rescued Orlando from the demons at the Abyss Gate, but more than a hundred Soul Intent demons then attacked the Star Moon Floating Ship. Velin’s knights stopped them, and the Blood-Knight empowered Orlando so he could fly to help Kyle and Celeste against two high-tier Legendary demons.

• Kalaya trapped the eight demons attacking Orlando in an illusion, making them turn on their allies, then pulled more demons into the confusion and rescued Orlando.
• The demons broke free, discovered they had been deceived, and charged toward the Star Moon Floating Ship.
• Kalaya offered to lure the demons away, but Velin sent the Life-Knight and Death-Knight to destroy the two leading attackers.
• Velin summoned the Blood-Knight and merged him with the Life-Knight and Death-Knight, raising their combined strength to high-tier Legendary.
• The Blood-Knight restored Orlando’s severed arm and gave him high-tier Legend strength, and Velin ordered him to kill the two demons fighting Kyle and Celeste.

Orlando used the Blood Knight’s power to overwhelm two high-tier Legendary demons, who turned on each other while trying to escape through the Abyss Gate. Three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks then activated a stolen Famine Cult artifact using three Legendary demon bodies, leaving the battle frozen.

• Orlando appeared with the Blood Knight’s power and drove the high-tier Legendary Balrog Flame Demon and high-tier Legendary Ice Demon back.
• Celeste realized Velin was an ancient great being who only revealed his power in moments of crisis, and resolved to treat him as before.
• Kyle and Celeste watched as Orlando pressed the two demons, while Kyle collected Celeste’s bloodstained Angel Feathers.
• The two demons maneuvered toward the Abyss Gate, sacrificed saint souls, and fought over a crack leading to the Abyss.
• Three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks emerged and activated a stolen artifact with the bodies of three low-level Legendary demons, freezing the battlefield for an instant.

The Blood Knight destroyed the corrupted Divine Artifact, cleansed the land, and enabled Orlando to close the Abyss Gate. Afterward, Velin and Xuemya reassured Kalaya that their relationship would not change.

• The Blood Knight seized and destroyed the blackened bone, then used sacred light to purge corruption from the Qixing Army and native survivors while annihilating the demons.
• Orlando struck down the two high-tier Legendary demons and three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks, causing the Abyss Gate to vanish.
• Orlando reported to the Blood Knight, who withdrew his borrowed power as Orlando's World Disk gained twenty-seven marks.
• Life-Knight and Death-Knight returned to Velin's soul, and Velin reassured Kalaya that she remained his elder and their relationship could stay as before.
• Xuemya took Kalaya's hand and urged her not to overthink Velin's identity, and Kalaya agreed to listen.

After the battle, Velin returned to Qixing West District while a youth with lost memories survived a Demon attack and received a mission from a Dusk Church cleric. Later, Kyle began putting the plan to betray Celeste into motion by inviting him out to sea for a fight.

• Velin surveyed the polluted land, treated the wounded Transcendents, and ordered the Star Moon Floating Ship to return to Qixing West District.
• A youth who had recovered only some of his memories witnessed Demons and an Evil God’s pollution ravage his city before the arriving power purified the land and destroyed the Abyss Gate.
• A surviving Dusk Church cleric appeared in the youth’s mind, revealed that he was in Ilyria World, and asked him to travel north to find people.
• The youth left his ruined home and headed north with the cleric’s soul protecting him, leaving a bundle of silver coins buried behind.
• On April 22, 9806 of the Radiant Calendar, Kyle invited Celeste out to sea under the pretense of wanting to fight, beginning the plan to betray him.

Velin and Kyle prepared to lure the Chosen One of the God of Opera and Art to the Sixth Teleportation Array Island while considering how to keep the churches’ power balanced. The Blonde Woman’s fleet arrived near the island, and the alarm sounded as Kyle went to investigate.

• Velin and Xuemya traveled to the Sixth Teleportation Array Island, where Velin planned to keep the Chosen One there and bring the kingdom closer to having ten Legendaries.
• Kyle kept the sleeping Celeste ready as bait and considered balancing the Dawn Church’s strength with Legendaries from the Church of Life and the Moon God Church.
• The Blonde Woman learned that spatial anomalies had diverted her seventeen-ship fleet and decided it would depart for the land to the south the next day.
• The Blonde Woman reflected on her mission to the Xenops Subcontinent and wondered how her twin grandnieces were doing.
• On May 5, Radiant Calendar 9806, island watchmen spotted the fleet and sounded the alarm, and Velin sent Kyle north to check whether it had arrived.