Recaps

As the Qixing Army fought on several fronts, it seized ground in Cask Province and struck the Holy Blood Papal State while Parambria’s invasion brought a devastating battle at Black River Ford. Airedes died, Lancaster prepared to retreat from Tyrannus Fortress, and Aymond killed Moen outside Twilight City.

• Oleus organized twenty legions from the kingdom’s mass recruits as the enemy fleet bombarded the Royal Capital, but its Holy Blood Shield held.
• Cassius and Talion’s forces defeated Sonalion Okra’s army at Cask Province, captured Baja, and gained the cooperation of prisoners and wavering cities.
• Ignis led 195 Floating Battleships to destroy Tiberius City, then received orders to join the Third Corps against Paramshiria’s advance.
• Airedes and Angus fought at Black River Ford, where the Third Corps used cannons and bombs before Angus killed Airedes in combat.
• Eze captured routed Parambria soldiers, while Angus reviewed the battle’s casualties and Ravenna rebuked him for risking the army.
• Lancaster had forty-eight generals enslaved and planned to retreat from Tyrannus Fortress as Doxius, Cassius, and Ignis considered the enemy’s next move.
• Moen refused his generals’ plea to surrender and challenged Aymond outside Twilight City, where Aymond struck him down.

Velin’s forces conquered the Okra Kingdom, where he learned that its founder Ross came from the same place as he did and secured the royal treasury in exchange for sparing the people and imprisoned generals. After Xuemya survived a devastating ambush by the Holy Blood Papal State, Velin prepared to retaliate and began organizing the new nation’s forces.

• Aymond’s victory and the Parambria army’s defeat at Tyrannus Fortress led Velin to reorganize his commanders and prepare the campaign against Okra Kingdom.
• Velin mobilized the Three Corps and the Floating Fleet, while King Oleus became the founding king Ross Okra and arranged for Elissina to evacuate royal youths.
• The Qixing Army attacked the Royal Capital, and Ross fought Ignis before drawing Velin into a dream and trading the treasury’s wealth for protections for Okra’s people and generals.
• Velin took the capital, healed Valerian, opened the royal treasury, and ordered the captured generals buried with Ross after they killed themselves.
• Velin and Kyle discovered a hidden inscription beneath the city, and Odor opened a portal to the Planeswalker’s home before sending Velin into a trial realm.
• A Holy Blood Papal State ambush crippled Xuemya’s fleet and nearly killed her, but Odor brought her to Velin, who treated her injuries and resolved to retaliate.
• Velin set out the new nation’s military needs, assigned Xuemya responsibility for building its system, and ordered Kyle to seek the Dawn Church’s support for an attack on the Holy Blood Papal State.

Velin gathered allies and forces to retaliate against the Holy Blood Papal State for its attack on Xuemya. The campaign ended with the destruction of the God of Holy Blood’s phantom and the church’s surrender, as Velin and Kyle moved to open a passage to an unclaimed demiplane.

• Velin removed Zeflin as Ice Legion commander and sent her to serve Xuemya, then traveled north with Xuemya and Kyle to meet Grey, who traded with them and gave Velin a shard of the Ring of Time.
• Velin visited Angus in Xinia City, learned the Holy Blood Papal State had planned Xuemya’s attack, and arranged for Duke Moravia to supply Magic Puppets while Kyle secured Dawn Church forces.
• Kyle recruited Celeste, Valkast, Simons Caswell, Leonus, and one thousand Soul Intent Tier Transcendents for Velin’s campaign, while Velin appointed Celeste duke and prepared the retaliation.
• Velin led the Third Floating Fleet and more than twenty thousand Magic Puppets against the City of Holy Blood, where the church mobilized civilians and its forces to resist the invasion.
• Velin and his allies overwhelmed the city’s defenders, and Velin killed the white-haired elder after the Death Knight sent more than a million released souls into the River Styx.
• Velin shattered the God of Holy Blood’s statue and phantom, gained knowledge of the god’s blood authority, and sealed it away as Celeste secured the church’s surrender.
• Velin and Kyle reached the palace beneath the Holy Blood Cathedral, where Kyle began opening a passage to the unclaimed demiplane.

Velin and the Qixing Army defeated the Holy Blood Church, then Celeste forced Parambria Kingdom to accept vassalage and send its royal and noble heirs as hostages. As the new territory was organized, Velin learned of a future threat in Solantia Death Forest, while Orlando reunited with Hebrew and revealed his plans to help Lord become a nation.

• Velin divided the spoils from the fallen City of Holy Blood, gave the Chalice of Holy Healing to Leonus, and learned that King Damian had ordered a purge of the Church’s clergy and their relatives.
• Velin and Celeste arranged negotiations with Parambria, while Damian killed Arnolak and purged the Holy Blood Church before Celeste arrived with the Third Floating Fleet.
• Celeste subdued Parambria’s forces and offered Damian the choice of surrendering territory to Qixing or facing the destruction of Buria City.
• Damian chose compromise and signed the territorial agreement, sending all seven royal children and 113 noble heirs away as hostages and future students of the Qixing Army.
• Velin assigned the Parambria princes and princesses to the Church, Legion, and household service, while Xuemya tested Celia Buria and promoted her to Head Maid.
• Velin foresaw that a meteor shower would free an Outer God avatar in Solantia Death Forest in seven years, and Hebrew arrived at Luohai Port City with his warriors.
• Orlando stopped Hebrew from running away, explained his plan to become one of Lord’s ten Legendaries, and embraced him after Hebrew vowed to pursue his own goal alongside Orlando’s.