Recaps

Velin reorganized the Eastern Expeditionary Army and issued instructions about the churches and the region’s leadership. Meanwhile, Hebrew struggled with a surge of cultists on First Teleportation Array Island, and a mysterious woman arrived at a hidden underwater site.

• Velin gave the Eastern Expeditionary Army a year and a half to reorganize and train, then told Celeste and Lucian to defer to Angus on military command.
• Velin told Kyle to compensate the Moon God Church envoys, contact the Holy Life Kingdom, and ensure Lavia retained actual control if Qixing West District established a pope.
• Velin anticipated the end of Xuemya’s experiment as he walked through the palace garden.
• Hebrew ordered two captured cultists beheaded, then tasked a Low-rank Gold Knight with producing results against the cults within half a month.
• A fish passed through a black barrier deep beneath the sea north of First Teleportation Array Island and transformed into a woman whom two young men welcomed as the High Priest.

The Lust Cult archbishop planned to sacrifice most of his stronghold to hide the cult’s role in the Famine Cult’s destruction and advance his own path toward becoming a Legendary. Hebrew then set out with guards and Floating Battleships to destroy the stronghold.

• The Lust Cult archbishop told six priests that a traitor had helped wipe out the Famine Cult’s nearby strongholds, then proposed framing the Corruption Church and luring garrison troops to the Lust Cult base.
• The archbishop imprisoned the six priests and chose three—Orion, Dylan, and Vina—to stay behind as bait after a ritual.
• The archbishop revealed that he knew Vina had a child, promised to raise the child, and sealed the three priests underground to detonate when the garrison troops arrived.
• The archbishop left more than a thousand cultists to die as a diversion while considering his own past collusion with an Outer God and his stalled path to Legendary status.
• On October 15, 9810, Hebrew boarded a kilometer-class Floating Battleship with twenty guards to attack the Lust Cult stronghold near First Teleportation Array Island.

Hebrew took three Floating Battleships on a detour to investigate his suspicions and encountered a fleeing Lust Cult archbishop. He then ordered a devastating bombardment of the cult’s underwater hideout and returned, hoping the purge would keep Cultists away from First Teleportation Array Island.

• Hebrew ordered the Floating Battleships to detour north because his intuition told him something was wrong, while a Famine Cult priest secretly followed them.
• Hebrew sensed a hidden Cultist, pursued the Lust Cult archbishop at sea, and forced him to flee by sacrificing part of his soul.
• Hebrew told the fleet to fire three rounds immediately upon reaching their destination, and the attacks destroyed the Lust Cult’s hiding place and killed over a thousand Cultists.
• Hebrew ordered thirteen consecutive attacks until the underwater mountain peak was flattened, then turned the fleet back to First Teleportation Array Island.

Velin received his final Fate Guidance, which said that fifteen years later thirty-four landmasses would leave their subcontinents and form the Ilaria Subcontinent and Star Lord Corridor near the Main Continent. He realized the move could separate him from his grandfather and the Ilia Kingdom for decades, and the chapter ended with him and Xuemiyya considering how much easier it might be to meet beyond the world.

• Velin heard a Fate Guidance describing how thirty-four landmasses would rearrange and naming the new Ilaria Subcontinent and Star Lord Corridor, before bidding him farewell as Lin.
• Velin inferred that a powerful being had intervened to move the landmasses and wondered how far the Xenops Subcontinent was from the Main Continent.
• Xuemiyya told Velin that the Xenops Subcontinent lay about twelve million kilometers from the Main Continent.
• Velin estimated that the relocated landmass would be two to two and a half million kilometers from the Main Continent and worried that he might be cut off from his grandfather and the Ilia Kingdom.
• Xuemiyya agreed with Velin that meeting beyond the world could be faster than traveling across Reality Space.

Xuemya drew Velin into a new illusion, while the story shifted to Angus preparing the Eastern Expeditionary Army’s surprise invasion of the Kingdom of Seraphitaine. The army’s three routes were assigned, and Angus began arranging military supervisors as adventurers gathered near the border.

• Xuemya chose to play the Demon king in an illusion with Velin, who reluctantly let her pull his consciousness inside.
• Angus announced a three-route surprise attack intended to seize territory and encircle Seraphitaine’s million-strong border army.
• Angus worried that the enemy might abandon the targeted provinces and invade Damon and Cavendish instead, so he decided to send military supervisors.
• Angus sent a report to Duke Celeste and Lucian for their signatures before it was delivered to Okla City.
• Adventurers crowded around the mission board in White Swallow Town and stared in shock at the newly posted missions.

The Qixing Army announced an eight-month border patrol mission and offered rewards that drew interest from adventurers, especially the chance to exchange for Seven-Colored Crystal and choose a Transcendent-grade weapon. Laria Crete signed up after learning the performance requirement, and the mission was set to assemble in four days.

• A Silver Intermediate warrior announced the mission, warned that anyone who withdrew after it began would be treated as a traitor, and directed recruits to sign up at the White Swallow Town Constabulary Station.
• Adventurers weighed the rewards against the eight-month commitment, while Gold Tier adventurers focused on the additional rewards and the uncertainty around what counted as outstanding performance.
• A Gold Low-tier half-elf ranger left the Adventurer Guild and joined the registration line at the constabulary station.
• The Silver Intermediate warrior explained that a Gold Low-tier professional needed to kill thirty High-rank Silver professionals or one Gold Low-tier professional to qualify for outstanding performance.
• The ranger identified himself as Laria Crete of the Moon Elf Kingdom, registered as a Gold Low-tier ranger, and received an iron identity plate.

Angus launched a surprise attack on Karia Fortress after Silver assassins eliminated its outer outposts and more than a hundred High-grade Magic Crystal cannons devastated the fortress. Doxius captured it by morning and sent troops to seize Dongyan City before the Selefitayin kingdom could respond.

• Angus deployed more than three hundred Silver assassins to clear Karia Fortress’s outer outposts before daybreak.
• Angus ordered Doxius to plant the army’s flag atop Karia Fortress, and Doxius led the siege.
• High-grade Magic Crystal cannons destroyed the fortress’s key facilities and breached its walls as Heretics poured inside.
• The old general ordered the troops to withdraw and warned the rear garrison that the war had begun before flying to meet the attackers.
• Doxius’s forces captured Karia Fortress and planted the Eastern Expeditionary Army’s flag at sunrise.
• Doxius ordered the Third Battalion and Sixth Battalion to capture Dongyan City, the rear supply transfer center.

Mordekai, newly appointed to investigate smuggling in East Luoyan Province, learned that the Heretic army had captured Karia Fortress and Dongyan City and was advancing toward Dongluoyan City. He ordered Governor Brendor to mobilize the province’s forces and prepared to defend the city.

• Governor Brendor tried to corrupt Mordekai with a banquet and two captive women, but Mordekai concealed his true purpose and remained focused on his investigation.
• A bloodied Level 5 Warrior arrived at the manor and asked to see General Mordekai.
• The warrior reported that Karia Fortress had fallen, General Sainkles had died, and Dongyan City and its supplies had been seized by the Heretic army.
• Mordekai realized the enemy was likely moving to encircle Dongluoyan City and told Governor Brendor to mobilize every available force.
• After hearing the warrior’s account of the enemy’s powerful weapons and troops, Mordekai resolved to defend the city rather than flee.

Doxius’s forces besieged Dongluoyan City while the Kingdom of Seraphitaine’s commanders assessed the invasion and planned to counter it. Valgard ordered attacks from Vitria Province and Thornwood Province, as a secret transaction began inside Dongluoyan City’s Governor’s Mansion.

• Mordekai judged that Dongluoyan City could hold out for no more than five days without reinforcements, while Doxius’s army numbered at least one hundred thousand.
• Doxius received orders to capture Dongluoyan City within three days and summoned his commanders to a meeting.
• Valgard learned that the Qixing Army had destroyed 150,000 troops in East Luoyan Province and advanced into Viridian and Dehol Provinces.
• Valgard ordered Dongluoyan City to defend itself, instructed the Viridian and Dehol fronts to delay the enemy, and directed the troops in Vitria and Thornwood to attack the enemy border.
• Valgard requested reinforcements from across the kingdom and planned to organize a counteroffensive once they arrived.
• A secret transaction began inside the Governor’s Mansion in Dongluoyan City.

Governor Brendor agreed to help the Heretics destroy the Square Tower in exchange for escape, and Dongluoyan City fell in a devastating surprise attack. The Eastern Expeditionary Army occupied the city, while Doxius ordered his forces to pacify civilians, eliminate resistance, and repair the walls.

• A Gold Low-tier Shadow Assassin offered Brendor a way to preserve his reputation by staging his death as a loyal governor, but Brendor rejected the plan and agreed to destroy the Square Tower two nights later before fleeing with his family.
• On October 28, 9811, Brendor’s agents destroyed the Square Tower, causing the Holy Blood Shield around Dongluoyan City to disappear.
• The Eastern Expeditionary Army’s 9th Legion bombarded the city with 150 high-tier Magic Energy Cannons, killing countless defenders and civilians before its troops charged in.
• Mordekai emerged from the rubble and flew toward the eastern wall, but an Intermediate Soul Intent knight intercepted and killed him.
• By dawn, the Eastern Expeditionary Army had cleared most organized resistance, and Doxius ordered his troops to pacify civilians, eliminate remaining resisters, and repair the city walls.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army and the Moon God Church’s forces overwhelmed the Kingdom of Seraphitaine on multiple fronts, while Valgard struggled to hold Delin Province. After ordering conscription and guerrilla tactics, Valgard learned that Kalabuya Province had fallen and the enemy was advancing toward Clive Province.

• After Dongluoyan City fell, Seraphitaine’s Western Expeditionary Corps prepared to pin down the heretic army, while Angus ordered more forces into the campaign.
• Doxius led two hundred thousand troops toward Delin Province as Valgard assembled a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-strong Westward Corps to confront them.
• The Moon God Church’s second army erased Kagadalis City, and its third army annihilated eighty thousand Seraphitaine troops and captured more than sixty thousand.
• After thirteen days of fighting on the Delin Plains, the Eastern Expeditionary Army destroyed most of Valgard’s army, and Seraphitaine’s losses across the front exceeded seven hundred thousand.
• Valgard received Thorim Seraphitaine’s letter promising three hundred thousand reinforcements, then ordered mass conscription, city evacuations, and sabotage of enemy supply routes.
• A Level 6 Warrior reported that Kalabuya Province had fallen to a frontal assault and the enemy was advancing toward Clive Province, then fainted before finishing his report.

Valgard sent a subordinate to summon a purple-haired woman and ask her to assassinate Angus, the heretic army’s commander. Bound by her contract with Valgard, she accepted the mission, located Angus at Karia Fortress, and prepared to leave the kingdom once her obligation was fulfilled.

• Valgard decided to seek an assassination after the northern army’s rapid advance made his harassment strategy useless, and he sent a Level 6 Warrior with a token to a candy shop in Delin City.
• The purple-haired woman revealed that she and Valgard were enemies, warned the subordinate about Valgard, and learned from the token that he wanted her to kill the heretic army’s commander.
• She recalled that Valgard had staged the pursuit that once led him to save her and had used their contract to make her eliminate his political rivals.
• The purple-haired woman consulted a Magic Mirror, learned that Angus was at Karia Fortress in East Luoyan Province, and sealed the mirror before it could finish its advice.
• She packed her belongings and resolved to leave the Kingdom of Seraphitaine after completing the mission, while Valgard regretted that his final chance to use her was gone.

Angus persuaded the assassin Shaxier to abandon her mission and join the Qixing Army, learning that she was bound by a contract to Valgard. Shaxier agreed to remain imprisoned until Angus killed Valgard and the contract ended.

• Shaxier appeared before Angus and admitted Valgard had sent her to assassinate him.
• Angus recognized Shaxier’s spatial talent and offered to help free her from her contract if she joined the Qixing Army.
• Angus and Shaxier talked through the night, and he told her about his rebellious son and the Qixing Army.
• Shaxier agreed to surrender and chose to wait for the contract to dissipate after Angus killed Valgard.
• Angus ordered an officer to take Shaxier to prison and warned him not to mistreat her.

Velin learned that Angus had detained Shaxier and decided to use the story of their encounter to bargain with his maternal grandfather. Meanwhile, Angus received news that enabled a major offensive, while Valgard’s forces struggled in Delin City and he reacted with laughter to an urgent letter from Dong Luoyan.

• Velin read Angus’s report about Shaxier and began writing a letter to his maternal grandfather, hoping to trade on the story.
• Angus ordered his forces to advance toward Dongluoyan City and instructed General Doxius to join the Second Army in taking Delin City.
• Shaxier watched Valgard through a Magic Mirror and asked a guard to summon his superior.
• Valgard berated his officers for failing to suggest a plan, then received an urgent letter from Dong Luoyan and laughed after reading it.

While Valgard led three hundred thousand troops west to reclaim territory, Verien’s hidden army struck at the weakened defenses behind him. Verien captured Delin City and much of Delin Province, leaving the Western Expeditionary Corps to receive the news a day later.

• Valgard assembled three hundred thousand troops and marched west, leaving Delin City with only a small garrison.
• Verien ordered his sixty thousand hidden troops to march on Delin City after Valgard’s main force departed.
• Thorn Crown City’s militia raised a white flag and surrendered as Verien’s army emerged from the mountains.
• Cities across Delin Province surrendered, and Verien’s forces reached Delin City before Valgard could hear of their advance.
• Verien’s troops stormed Delin City, seized its eastern wall, and raised the Qixing Territory flag.
• A day later, a shrill cry rang through the Western Expeditionary Corps headquarters.

Valgard withdrew most of his army to retake Delin City, while Doxius realized the enemy had likely pulled back and sent Melian to probe their camp. Melian captured the disorganized camp with just over six thousand troops, earning unexpected battle merit, and Doxius prepared the army to march.

• Valgard chose to withdraw most of his forces toward Delin City, leaving about sixty thousand men behind and ordering the army to massacre towns to conceal its movements.
• Doxius suspected the Kingdom of Seraphitaine's Western Expeditionary Corps had withdrawn and sent General Melian to probe its camp.
• As Melian's troops approached, the defenders' camp collapsed into confusion, and the eighth-level warrior ordered his men to retreat.
• Melian led over six thousand soldiers in a charge that captured the camp, killing more than ten thousand enemies and taking over thirty thousand prisoners.
• Doxius ordered his army to assemble and march out after learning of Melian's unexpected victory.

Valgard’s forces repeatedly sacrificed troops in failed assaults on Delin City, while the defenders suffered almost no losses. After Count Barn fled and Valgard ordered him pursued, Verien led more than fifteen thousand warriors out of the city to attack, leaving both armies poised for battle.

• Valgard ordered the Iron Cobalt Roarers to stop firing and sent Count Barn’s troops to assault Delin City.
• The city’s defenders killed thousands of attackers, and Count Barn requested permission to withdraw; Valgard instead ordered Count Damien to continue the siege.
• The Western Expeditionary Corps launched repeated assaults, losing more than fifty thousand men while Delin City’s defenders suffered only thirty-seven wounded.
• Count Barn fled west with his men, and Valgard ordered General Sukes to capture him and kill his subordinates.
• Verien led more than fifteen thousand Moon God Church warriors out of Delin City, and Valgard ordered his forces to form ranks and meet their charge.

The Moon God Church Expeditionary Force annihilated Valgard’s army, captured him, and pursued the survivors into prisoner camps. When Shaxier revealed that she had deceived him in revenge, Valgard died from rage, and Angus ordered his body buried.

• The Moon God Church Expeditionary Force broke through the Seventh Legion’s shield wall and routed the Kingdom of Seraphitaine army.
• Valgard led the Azure Wing Army into battle, but Verien defeated him, severed his limbs, and captured him alive.
• After three days of pursuit, the Moon God Church Expeditionary Force captured most of the fleeing soldiers, while Doxius took Delin City and moved to secure the province.
• Angus questioned the silent Valgard, then summoned Shaxier, who revealed her role in deceiving him and destroying his army.
• Valgard died when he realized Shaxier had set him up, and Angus ordered guards to take his body away for burial.

King Thorim Seraphitaine decided to surrender the Kingdom of Seraphitaine to the Parambria Kingdom to preserve the royal family. He sent Marshal Mikhail to bring Berichi and his family to Seraphitaine City, while Berichi realized that trouble had reached his peaceful life in Bakikaen City.

• Shaxier told Angus that the contract on her soul had disappeared, and Angus arranged for her to go to Okla City in three days.
• Thorim reflected on the loss of eight provinces and decided that surrendering was the best way to preserve his kingdom and royal family.
• Thorim secured Gaius and Mikhail’s support for the surrender and appointed Mikhail to bring Berichi and his family to Seraphitaine City.
• Mikhail arrived with five thousand soldiers outside Berichi’s manor in Bakikaen City, and Berichi went out to meet him.

Mikhail visited Berichi and persuaded him to return to public service as Seraphitaine’s Foreign Minister, granting him authority to negotiate with the Qixing Army. Berichi agreed after Mikhail promised to protect his family, and he prepared to leave for the royal capital in three days.

• Mikhail arrived at Berichi’s estate and asked him to show him around while Berichi avoided asking why he had come.
• Mikhail met Berichi’s grandson, gave the boy a wooden sword, and hinted that he hoped to see him grow up.
• Berichi asked about Seraphitaine’s losses, and Mikhail revealed that the kingdom had lost twelve western provinces and its border army to the Qixing Army.
• Mikhail told Berichi that King Solim wanted him to serve as Foreign Minister and negotiate with the Qixing Army, with the kingdom seeking land to preserve its royal and noble bloodlines.
• Mikhail promised to protect Berichi and his family, and Berichi agreed to serve as envoy and travel to the royal capital in three days.

Velin learned that the Kingdom of Seraphitaine wanted to surrender and considered how to end the war and found his new nation. After Kyle suggested a skyborne capital, Velin recalled an unfinished Floating City hidden in an Outer Dimension and decided to retrieve it with Kyle and Celeste after the war.

• Velin received Seraphitaine’s surrender document and summoned Kyle to discuss it.
• Velin weighed whether Celeste or the Moon God Church should handle the surrender, then assigned the matter to Kyle.
• Kyle suggested establishing secondary capitals in the regions of the three major churches and building the true capital in the sky.
• Velin remembered a hidden Outer Dimension near Black Forest Fortress containing an unfinished Floating City, three Magic Puppet legions, and an Outer God godhead.
• Velin told Kyle that he, Kyle, and Celeste would retrieve the Floating City after the war.

Kyle prepared to investigate the Kingdom of Seraphitaine and told Lyanna he would take her to its surrender negotiations. Across the continent, rulers and warlords reacted to Seraphitaine’s impending defeat, while its foreign minister arrived in Delin City to await talks with the Qixing Army.

• Kyle ordered intelligence on the Kingdom of Seraphitaine and encouraged Lyanna to build her skills organizing information before bringing her to negotiations.
• Damian Bria learned Solim was preparing to surrender, wrote him a mocking letter, and considered whether the Qixing Army would keep advancing.
• The King of Skelly wrote mocking letters to Solim, while thirteen western warlords began moving toward an alliance against the threat posed by Seraphitaine’s surrender.
• Berichi arrived in Delin City on January 1, 9813, and learned that negotiations would wait until after the Qixing Army’s Miracle Day celebrations.
• Berichi settled into his manor and began gathering intelligence about the Qixing Army and the official who would negotiate with him.

Kyle and Berichi negotiated the Kingdom of Seraphitaine’s surrender of eleven provinces, hostages, and religious concessions, with the agreement set to be signed three days later. Afterward, Kyle met Celeste, who agreed to help Lord retrieve a Floating City and warned that the Moon God Church’s Expeditionary Force could devastate Seraphitaine’s lands.

• Kyle and Berichi established three core terms, including the transfer of eleven provinces, hostages, and the Moon God Church becoming the mainstream faith in the Principality of Seraphitaine’s territory.
• Kyle let Lyanna take part in the negotiations, then praised her efforts and urged her to learn from the experience.
• Kyle arranged to meet Berichi again in three days to sign the agreement, then left to speak with Celeste.
• Celeste agreed to help Lord retrieve a Floating City from the Xenops Subcontinent.
• Celeste told Kyle that the Moon God Church’s Expeditionary Force was too extreme and should leave Seraphitaine after the war.

After the Seraphitaine territorial agreement triggered unrest, Solim learned that the First Prince was plotting a rebellion and ordered his forces to crush it. The chapter ended as royal troops stormed the First Prince’s banquet, killing everyone except him.

• Berichi signed the territorial agreement with the Qixing Army, and rebellions broke out across the Kingdom of Seraphitaine as its terms spread.
• Solim continued ruling amid assassinations and political turmoil, relying on Gaius and Mikhail to maintain order.
• Gaius presented Solim with secret letters showing that the First Prince was plotting a rebellion.
• Solim ordered the First Legion to suppress the uprising, execute its instigators, bring the Third Princess and Fifth Princess to him, and summon the Fourth Prince and Seventh Prince.
• The First Prince rallied his supporters at a banquet, promising to share the throne’s glory with them.
• Royal troops attacked the estate and, by Solim’s order, killed everyone except the First Prince.

Solim crushed the First Prince’s rebellion and confronted him over betraying the king despite years of favor. He stripped his eldest son of his family name and expelled him from the royal family, while sending Lorna and Vilo to Okla City as hostages.

• Soldiers killed more than a hundred nobles and officers at the First Prince’s banquet, then escorted him to the Royal Palace.
• Solim slapped the First Prince across the square and had the Fourth Prince and Seventh Prince carry him into the Administrative Hall.
• Solim accused the First Prince of betraying him and ordered him to kill the Third Princess and Fifth Princess in exchange for being sent to Okla City as a hostage.
• The First Prince refused to kill his sisters and asked Solim to spare Lorna and Vilo, then tried to take his own life with the sword.
• Solim stopped the First Prince, stripped him of his family name, expelled him from the royal family, and ordered Lorna and Vilo sent to Okla City as hostages.