Recaps

Caroso rejected the old limits on ninth-rank fighters and challenged the powers that enforced them, while trying to turn public opinion and political alliances against the established order. By the end, his allies had begun open campaigns against the Perus Kingdom and the Yellman regime as an information war took shape.

• Caroso returned to the Laria front, rescued Bai, and led his forces to defeat Quinn’s army and capture the Laria Defense Line fortress.
• Caroso revealed that he and Bai had married in the Nether Sea, while Elizabeth rejected the marriage and fled aboard the Black Pearl.
• Caroso entered the battle against seven ninth-rank powerhouses, escaped their trap, and killed one of them before returning to Kong and Bai.
• Caroso told Kong he intended to bar fighters above the seventh rank from warfare and challenge the world’s powerful people alone, then left with Bai.
• Caroso secured a weapons deal with Adolf Vienna and met Kazan, explaining that Azure Wolf Province could be changed because it had few noble titles.
• Caroso and Kazan argued over public trust and propaganda as the churches and United Nations prepared to brand him a threat.
• Ailin ordered her knights to advance on Lion City, Kazan announced the Delos United States and declared war on Perus, and Adolf urged Yellman supporters to overthrow their regime.
• Caroso watched the campaigns spread and told Minette that his allies were ready to begin an information war.