Recaps

Caroso and Saya kept Jeff occupied while rescuers attacked the Dark Elf’s cage, and Saya realized Caroso had maneuvered him into their planned strategy. As Jeff pursued them, Caroso offered to help Merlin rescue the captured High Elf, but Jeff mistook Merlin for their accomplice and blocked their path.

• Caroso and Saya restrained Jeff with coordinated magic, and Saya realized he had been drawn into the plan they had previously discussed.
• Caroso told Saya that he would take responsibility for leading the scheme, though Saya had no choice but to keep following the plan.
• A single-ponytail girl and other attendants attacked the Seastone cage holding the Dark Elf while the black-clad men fought them.
• Caroso and Saya ran for the passage, and Jeff chose to pursue them rather than focus on the Dark Elf.
• Merlin headed toward the passage to find the captured High Elf, and Caroso offered to help in exchange for a favor.
• Jeff swung his sword to block Caroso, Saya, and Merlin, mistakenly treating Merlin as their accomplice.

Merlin fought Jeff to protect the people held at the auction house while Rio chose to let events unfold. Caroso and Saya reached the captives’ room, where Caroso used his knowledge of the facility to open the door and retrieve a hidden ring of keys.

• Merlin refused Jeff’s demand to leave and attacked him with a sword, revealing her skill as an eighth-tier warrior.
• Rio watched the fight and told his attendant to let his uncle handle matters, explaining that he intended to gamble on the coming transformation.
• Caroso and Saya left the passage and argued about Caroso’s plan to bring the second event into reality.
• Caroso entered the password to open a secured bronze door and led Saya into a room holding captive knights and an elf.
• Caroso opened a hidden compartment in the wall and took out a ring of keys while the captives watched.

Ailin led the freed prisoners off the Corleone Family’s floating estate, but they were stranded without their powers or a way down. Meanwhile, Peter and Shirley investigated a rural church before a crowd of people suddenly fell from the sky near them.

• Caroso freed the prisoners and told them that Ailin Yixite and Saya Kolia had rescued them, while he secretly informed the High Elf that Merlin had sent them.
• Ailin led the prisoners outside, then rejected Marquis Brey’s suggestion to wait because they could be silenced or blamed if Celica died.
• Ailin proposed capturing nearby sentries to learn how to leave the floating island.
• Peter and Shirley found no obvious problems at the rural church and discussed where someone could pray to the goddess without being noticed.
• A crowd of knights, mages, and nobles fell from the sky, and Peter and Shirley hurried to help them.

After escaping the auction, Shirley, Peter, and Ailin discovered a vast Seastone barrier beneath the floating island, which Peter suspected concealed a major secret. The chapter ended with Caroso sent to retrieve help while Ailin worried that the people of her country could no longer be trusted.

• Shirley calmed the frightened escapees, and Ailin explained how Jeff’s magic arrays had trapped the auction’s guests while Bishop Celica fought an attacker.
• Shirley and Ailin went with Peter to meet Saya and Caroso, who reported that Celica and her opponent were still fighting above.
• Ailin sensed something terrifying beneath them, and Peter insisted that they investigate the ground instead of rushing to Celica’s aid.
• Peter used Giant Growth on a Dawn Recruit, who dug through the earth and uncovered an enormous mass of Seastone.
• Peter sent Caroso to find help and tools, while Ailin offered to call on others and Caroso stopped her.

Caroso gathered Alita, Krumen, and Bai to help Bishop Celica with a secret task in the wilderness, while Messiah watched over the church and reacted to a fissure opening in the Goddess of Dawn statue. The group headed toward the forest, and Messiah set out to see the unfolding trouble.

• Caroso told Alita that Bishop Celica needed their support, and Alita agreed to help after learning the task involved digging.
• Caroso recruited Krumen, hoping her mechanical skills could help build a machine on the spot.
• Caroso, Krumen, Bai, and Alita left the church and headed toward the forest to help investigate.
• Messiah played an ancient ballad above the church as a fissure opened in the Goddess of Dawn statue.
• Messiah mocked the statue and went to watch the excitement, warning that anyone seeking revival would need her permission.

Caroso returned to the Seastone excavation with Bai and Alita, and Bai’s legendary summon forged real iron tools to help the group dig and make parts for Krumen. As the powerful fighters battled overhead, Krumen announced that her assembly was complete.

• Caroso arrived with Krumen, Bai, and Alita, and Peter asked why the two eighth-tier card makers had come.
• Bai summoned Forging Master Buck, who forged iron hoes from materials gathered nearby.
• Peter and the others used the hoes to dig through the Seastone, while Buck made precise parts for Krumen.
• Alita watched the battle overhead and changed the subject when Shirley said she could not help.
• Krumen announced that the assembly was complete.

Caroso and the others uncovered cultivation tanks containing artificial Death Knights modeled on the legendary Knights of the Round Table, then decided to leave and summon reinforcements. As they returned to the surface, Celica arrived while Minette had disappeared.

• Krumen built a magic-crystal-powered chainsaw that let Caroso cut through the Seastone, and Peter helped pry open the stone and punch through the granite beneath it.
• Caroso and Peter discovered tanks containing powerful, ice-armored Death Knights, and Ailin recognized their faces as resembling the founders of the Pander Empire.
• Ailin named the apparent Knights of the Round Table, then realized the figures were younger than the real knights could have been.
• Caroso suggested the figures had been created using the knights' history and reputation rather than their desecrated corpses, while Peter warned they could grow to the eighth rank.
• Peter decided the group should return to the surface and call for reinforcements, and Caroso encouraged the shaken Ailin to consider her duty as the Empire's princess.
• After the group climbed out, Celica descended from the sky, and Minette was gone.

Merlin defeated Jeff and left him questioning his priorities, while Rio dealt with the nobles after the Corleone Family stopped the attack. Celica learned that the auction house’s underground facility contained tanks for creating Death Knights, leaving her to consider whether the family’s leader was involved.

• Merlin spared Jeff after defeating him, and Jeff resolved to become stronger rather than rely on family status.
• Rio apologized to the nobles for trapping them in nets and said the Corleone Family would pursue the mastermind behind the attack.
• Celica told Shirley that the attacker had been too powerful for her to face and considered investigating how the terrorists had contacted Minette.
• Peter reported that the underground facility contained cultivation tanks holding people with Death Knight auras and that the Death Knights were all seventh rank.
• Celica warned that Dawn’s divine punishment would reach the Corleone Family’s leader if he had been involved.

Celica and the others tried to investigate the hole, but Riccardo accused her of betraying the Goddess of Dawn Church and activated the God Slaying Array against her. They survived by taking cover underground, while Riccardo ordered Primont to ensure they never came back out and powerful leaders from other churches and associations arrived.

• Celica recovered her strength and prepared to investigate the hole with Peter, while Ailin insisted on joining them as a princess.
• Priests formed the God Slaying Array around Celica and the others, suppressing their magic as Riccardo announced that Celica was guilty of betraying the Church.
• Celica, Caroso, Saya, and the others fled into the hole, and Celica blocked the entrance with a Seastone slab before the array's beam annihilated everything above it.
• Riccardo told Primont to take his knights into the pit and silence the survivors, while Primont claimed they would not escape.
• Leaders from major churches and professional associations arrived and asked Riccardo what had happened.

Celica and her companions survived the God Slaying Array, but Riccardo’s attack left them badly injured and trapped beneath the Seastone. Celica hoped the nearby church leaders she had arranged to gather would protect them, while Bai warned that Riccardo might still kill them and blame them for what happened.

• Riccardo tried to dismiss the visiting church leaders’ questions about the God Slaying Array and the Seastone, but the Pope of the Church of the Blazing God of War and a cardinal from the Church of the Lionheart pressed him for answers.
• Celica, Shirley, Peter, Bai, and Alita struggled to survive the power that seeped through gaps in the stone slab; the ice melted, the Death Knights were vaporized, and Caroso led several low-level people through a door.
• Celica accused Riccardo of trying to kill her, while Alita panicked that he would silence the survivors and Bai urged her to stay calm.
• Celica explained that she had arranged for leaders from various churches to stay nearby, hoping they had noticed the array’s disturbance.
• Alita suggested going up to meet the church leaders, but Bai warned that Riccardo could kill them and accuse them of being traitors, leaving Celica uncertain what to do.

Caroso, Saya, Ailin, and Krumen survived the God Slaying Array and found themselves separated from Celica and the others in a sealed underground complex. Krumen identified it as the Goblin Ruins and realized it might contain valuable artifacts.

• Caroso told Saya that Celica's allies were likely holding back the church's forces and that they needed to find an exit.
• Ailin woke and searched for Celica, but found another room and no sign of her group.
• Caroso explained that they were no longer in the same place, and Ailin realized the ceiling was sealed.
• Krumen woke, recognized the complex as the Goblin Ruins, and explained that the ancient goblins had advanced mechanical and biological knowledge.
• Krumen became excited at the prospect of finding valuable things in the ruins.

Caroso and his companions explored the Goblin Ruins, where Krumen discovered she could make ice bombs from the materials there. After Pander Empire soldiers ambushed them, Caroso used the bomb and his fighting skills to defeat their knight, while Minette set out to enter the ruins through another entrance.

• Krumen explained that she could use the ruins' materials to make ice bombs, surprising Saya and Caroso.
• Minette prepared to return to the dangerous Goblin Ruins to repay a favor and rescue Mei, despite Single-ponytail and Mei trying to dissuade her.
• Pander Empire soldiers ambushed Caroso, Krumen, Saya, and Ailin with guns and Demon-Breaking Rounds, wounding Ailin before she found cover.
• Caroso planted an ice bomb as a feint, freezing the soldiers and disrupting the knight's attempt to use a remote control.
• Caroso cut off the knight's arm with a greatsword, and Krumen asked Saya to reimburse her for the bomb.

Ailin confronted a knight who had tried to kill her under Grand Duke Benson’s orders and executed him after he defended his loyalty and questioned the idea of a just war. The underground facility began releasing its seventh-rank Death Knights, leaving Caroso, Ailin, Saya, and Krumen to face them.

• Ailin questioned the defeated knight, who admitted he had obeyed Grand Duke Benson and defended his loyalty to his lord.
• The knight argued that all wars served power and wealth, while Caroso explained the King of Knights’ reforms and Ailin struggled with the conflict between loyalty and righteousness.
• Ailin killed the knight after Caroso advised her to follow her heart.
• The cultivation tanks began absorbing their liquid, and Caroso guessed someone was releasing the Death Knights or destroying evidence.
• The Death Knights burst from their tanks, and Saya, Ailin, Caroso, and Krumen prepared to fight.

Caroso, Ailin, and Saya fought through Death Knights on the third floor while Celica and her companions battled a larger force above. Celica confronted a paladin who served the church’s scheme, and the chapter ended with her unleashing a powerful Divine Radiance of Dawn to withstand an explosion of Death Knights.

• Ailin, Caroso, and Saya coordinated their attacks to melt, stagger, and cut down the Death Knights on the third floor while Krumen struggled to keep up.
• Celica’s group fought waves of seventh-tier Death Knights as Bai and Alita used healing cards to stabilize the injured and Shirley focused on healing Celica.
• Alita questioned why the Death Knights were being used as expendable forces, and Bai suggested their enemies were trying to avoid exposing more important assets.
• An eighth-tier paladin and his knights appeared and attacked Celica, declaring that he was carrying out a mission for the church.
• Celica rejected the paladin’s claim that the church’s actions served the Goddess, destroyed the knights’ formation, and drove him back.
• The paladin triggered an explosion among the Death Knights, and Celica planted her sword in the ground and unleashed Divine Radiance of Dawn to shield her group.

Caroso, Ailin, Saya, and Krumen rescued Celica’s group from an eighth-rank ambush by using the Goblin Ruins’ magic arrays and mechanisms. The exhausted survivors regrouped in the command room, where Saya began explaining what had happened.

• Celica’s party faced two eighth-rank knights after Celica had destroyed most of the Death Knights, but a magic array blocked the attack and dropped them through two levels.
• Celica’s group landed in the Goblin Ruins’ command room, where they found Caroso, Ailin, Saya, and Krumen waiting.
• Caroso and Ailin were badly injured, Saya was exhausted, and Krumen was the only one still in normal condition.
• Bai examined Caroso’s frostbitten arm, while Celica and Alita asked what had happened and Ailin’s condition was checked by Peter.
• Caroso asked Saya to explain the situation, and Saya began recounting how Krumen had discovered the ruins and Caroso had found the command room.

Minette discovered that the Goddess of Dawn Church had tortured and experimented on captured Dark Elves, including her former junior, and rescued the survivors. After they begged her to flee, Minette drew on Caroso’s power, broke through the ruins, and faced the church’s followers with a bleeding Bone Blade.

• Minette found a cultivation chamber filled with elves and Dark Elves, recognized her former junior among them, and read records detailing the Death Knight experiments.
• When a paladin and knight’s squad caught up with her, Minette killed them in a swift attack and continued reading the research journal.
• Minette shattered the cultivation tanks, freed the surviving Dark Elves, and told them she had come to save them.
• The Dark Elves pleaded with Minette to escape and protect their people, but she refused to leave them unavenged.
• Power from Caroso’s divine mark gathered around Minette, and she blasted through two layers of Seastone before confronting the Goddess of Dawn Church’s followers.

Minette emerged as a ninth-rank Dark Elf and confronted the churches over their persecution of her kin and the Goddess of Dawn Church’s creation of Death Knights. She declared her intent to kill Riccardo and avenge the Dark Elves, then faced a barrage of powerful cards and divine attacks.

• Minette appeared in the sky as a ninth-rank Dark Elf, determined to protect her people after learning how badly they had been persecuted.
• Riccardo urged the professionals to capture or kill Minette, but she swiftly cut down half of them without using a card.
• Minette accused the Goddess of Dawn Church of turning her kin into Death Knights and threatened to stand against anyone who opposed her.
• The other church leaders demanded that Riccardo explain the Death Knights, but he ordered them to focus on the danger Minette posed.
• Riccardo used a divine disc as Minette challenged him, and Primont stood guard beside him.
• The churches launched powerful spells and blessings at Minette, including Thunderstorm, Flame Burst, Nature's Wrath, and Knight's Temple Hammer.

Minette fought through the gathered church forces and killed Riccardo despite Primont’s protection and the Shield and Blade of Dawn. Wounded by Primont’s attack, she escaped a hundred meters away and challenged anyone to approach the Dark Elf king.

• The church forces’ attacks failed to stop Minette, who swiftly closed in on Riccardo and Primont.
• Primont used the Shield of Dawn and Blade of Dawn to defend Riccardo and attack Minette, but she stunned Primont with Sap and slipped past him.
• Minette completed her understanding of the assassin’s path and cut Riccardo’s throat with her Bone Blade.
• Minette appeared a hundred meters away with a wound from the Blade of Dawn, while Riccardo lay dead.
• Minette licked the blood from her Bone Blade and dared the church forces to approach the wounded King of Dark Elves.

Minette broke through to the ninth rank and killed Archbishop Riccardo, while Messiah and the Goddess of Dawn discussed the church’s corruption and the looming danger. As Celica prepared to confront the traitors, the suspended island began falling from the sky.

• Minette appeared as a Dark Elf after reaching the ninth rank, and Messiah spoke with the Goddess of Dawn about the church and the plan unfolding above.
• Messiah assured the Goddess of Dawn that her contingency had prevented the Lich King's follower from reaching the fight.
• Caroso, Celica, and the others watched Minette kill Riccardo and worried about the church’s failures and Celica’s lack of powerful equipment.
• Celica decided to go above and expose those involved in the Death Knight plot, despite the danger from Minette.
• The island suspended in the air began to fall.

The fallen island exposed an altar whose deathly energy transformed the Church’s Paladins into Death Knights, while Krumen raised the Goblin Ruins and revealed a matching altar beneath it. Celica accused Riccardo and Primont of concealing the Death Knight experiments, and the chapter ended as cracks appeared on the statue at the distant altar.

• The island crashed to the ground, and deathly energy transformed the spared Paladins into Death Knights and Riccardo into a lich before Primont and the others destroyed them.
• The crash exposed a buried altar with a knight statue at its center, while Ailin, Caroso, and Krumen activated the Goblin Ruins and raised its mobile war-chariot form.
• The raised Goblin Ruins revealed a second altar matching the first, prompting the onlookers to suspect the Lich King was connected to the Death Knight experiments.
• Celica used the chariot’s microphone to accuse Riccardo of running the experiments and confronted Primont, who denied knowing about them.
• Celica, Shirley, and Peter left the chariot, and Minette warned the others not to threaten her people before cracks appeared on the statue at the distant altar.

The knight statue unleashed overwhelming deathly aura, and the churches’ powerful relics failed to suppress it. As the Goblin War Chariot approached the ruin, Ailin recognized the statue as the Rebel, Mordred Icht.

• Deathly aura surged from the altar toward the knight statue, and Minette warned everyone to stop it.
• The Flame Pope and the cardinal of the Church of the Lionheart used their relics to suppress the statue, but it shattered their phantoms and damaged their treasures.
• Celica cleaned Riccardo’s contamination from the Heart of Dawn and demanded Primont’s Knight’s Sword, while Primont suspected Duke Benson had been extracting the altar’s faith.
• Caroso ordered everyone to fight, Master Bai went out to help, and Alita stayed to care for the others.
• Master Bai handed out light- and lightning-element cards as the Goblin War Chariot drove toward the second ruin.
• Ailin recognized the knight statue as the Rebel, Mordred Icht.

Caroso revealed that the statue contained Mordred, the King of Knights’ traitorous son, and the Flame Pope concluded that the Scourge of the Undead had used his corpse and the Lich King’s altar in an attempt to create a god. The church leaders decided to seek reinforcements and contain the spreading death energy as the god began to awaken.

• Ailin identified the statue as Mordred, whose history the Pander Empire had suppressed, and Caroso spread the information to those outside.
• The Flame Pope explained that the Scourge of the Undead had likely taken Mordred’s corpse and could have turned him into a Death Knight using the death power from the Lich King’s altar.
• The Flame Pope warned Celica and the church leaders that the scheme aimed to create a god and that the spreading death energy could no longer be contained by their current forces.
• The Flame Pope urged the churches to stop suppressing the awakening figure and instead cut off the incoming death energy while seeking reinforcements.
• Primont agreed to request help from the Goddess of Dawn Church, while the Flame Pope said Master Norma and a Dark Elf could restrain the awakening god long enough for aid to arrive.

Caroso and his companions were trapped inside the death aura surrounding Laria as the sealed Mordred awakened. The church leaders began fighting to contain him, but Mordred overwhelmed a ninth-rank attack and started breaking the magic array.

• Celica sent Caroso, Saya, Ailin, Krumen, and Bai away from the altar as Mordred’s armor began breaking free of the statue.
• Black mist encircled Laria and trapped Caroso’s group, while the Dark Elves escaped through it because they could withstand the aura.
• Caroso stayed behind with Ailin and Krumen, while Bai and Alita took Saya through a temporary opening in the mist.
• Mordred awakened in ice-blue armor, and Norma’s Tree of Life froze as it failed to restrain him.
• Minette refused to attack until the Goddess of Dawn Church’s leaders arrived, but she struck at Mordred after he began breaking the Divine Artifact array.

Minette and the others struggled to contain Mordred as Duke Benson activated a magic array across Laria to feed the Death Knights’ power to him. Merlin realized the city was being sealed and its residents were being driven toward the black aura, while the church’s leaders were still absent.

• Minette used her experience fighting gods to slow the flow of Mordred’s divine power, while Norma and Celica aided her with the Tree of Life and the Divine Radiance of Dawn.
• Mordred retaliated with deathly energy, damaging Celica’s Divine Artifact and cracking the array of Divine Artifacts, but Minette urged the group to hold out for reinforcements.
• Duke Benson reflected on how the churches and other powerful figures had uncovered the altar, then activated a magic array beneath his mansion that enveloped Laria.
• Saya, Bai, and Alita reached the Goddess of Dawn Church branch, but Bai discovered that Laria’s residents were being compelled toward the black aura and the city’s anti-magic array was obstructing her magic.
• Knights sealed the docks and attacked confused outsiders as the mastermind stopped hiding and began supplying Mordred with power.
• Merlin saw the anti-magic array and citywide mobilization, then stopped outside Sophia and Nimel’s rooms, deciding that they needed a god to fight a god.

The Goddess of Dawn Church debated how to respond to the awakening god, ultimately sending Homero with Light Force while preparing the Divine Punishment Array. Merlin freed Nimel and Sophia from confinement, but as she led them toward Caroso, both children began floating as deathly energy poured into them.

• The Pope argued that the Church needed to prepare the Divine Punishment Array and send Homero with Light Force to delay the god.
• Primont reported that Duke Benson’s troops were forcing civilians into the black mist and that Laria’s anti-magic array had been activated, prompting the elders to blame the Pander Empire.
• The Pope ordered Homero to go with sufficient authority and directed the Church to prepare the Divine Punishment Array; he also approved the Church of the God of Wisdom’s application to become Orthodox.
• Merlin opened the confinement room and found Nimel, Sophia, and their attendant playing cards, then took the two children with her after claiming Riccardo had approved their release.
• As Merlin led Nimel and Sophia toward Caroso, Nimel’s eyes and hair turned blue and Sophia’s eyes turned gray, and both began floating as deathly energy transformed into divine power and poured into them.