Chapter Summaries

Bai gained new insight into the laws while painting Tig, but Caroso caught up with the Flying Dutchman after surviving the Nether Sea. He reunited with Bai and immediately attacked Tig, who met him in battle.

• Bai realized she could not paint Tig from memory and used her understanding of laws to depict him with greater spirit.
• After Bai finished painting Tig, a storm of blood filled with shattered souls struck the ship, leaving her too exhausted to stand.
• The lookout spotted Caroso pursuing the Flying Dutchman atop a whale, and Bai rushed to the stern and wept when she saw him alive.
• Caroso greeted Tig as his father, then leaped from the whale and attacked with his flaming sword.
• Tig drew his blade and charged Caroso.

Caroso and Tig ended their clash, and Tig confirmed that he was Caroso’s ancestor and had thrown him into the Nether Sea to heal him. Bai learned the truth and worried over Caroso, while Tig teased the pair about marriage and welcomed his descendant aboard the Flying Dutchman.

• Caroso and Tig clashed with their laws, and Tig praised Caroso’s strength before asking how many sharks he had killed.
• Caroso said he had killed 1,013 sharks and thanked Tig for restoring his soul and repairing his foundation.
• Caroso landed on the Flying Dutchman and embraced Bai, who was confused when she heard him call Tig father.
• Caroso explained that Tig was his ancestor, and Tig praised Bai’s potential and joked that Caroso should marry her.
• Tig told Caroso to call him Dad, leaving the pirates surprised to learn Caroso was the captain’s descendant.
• Caroso explained to Bai that Tig had thrown him into the Nether Sea to heal him, and Bai questioned the danger of his family’s methods.

Bai and Caroso reached a warmer understanding aboard Tig’s ship, but Tig revealed that Caroso’s ring bound him to the Nether Sea as the Death God’s messenger. The chapter left them trapped with no known way to remove the ring, while the Netizens searched for a solution.

• Tig told Bai that her harsh training had forced her potential to grow, and explained that the ship had to keep sailing until it reached the other shore.
• Caroso called Bai his teacher, and the pirates and Netizens teased them about their closeness as Bai blushed against Caroso’s chest.
• Tig noticed Caroso’s dungeon-reward ring and revealed that wearing it made him the Death God’s messenger, preventing him from leaving the Nether Sea.
• Caroso tried to pull off the ring and asked whether cutting off his finger would help, but Tig said neither would work because he had the same ring.
• Bai worried that Caroso might be trapped forever, while the Netizens promised to clear the Nether Sea dungeon and find a way out.

Teresa investigated Presia after seeing tax soldiers abuse shopkeepers and kill one who could not pay. She learned the harsh taxes were imposed nationwide, then witnessed widespread poverty and oppression in several cities, leaving her reeling at the state of the empire.

• Teresa saw tax soldiers demand new taxes from shopkeepers, beat an owner, and shoot a clothing shop owner dead when he could not pay.
• Teresa confronted the noodle shop owner, but he reported her to the police after she questioned the Emperor’s policies.
• Teresa broke the police chief’s Iron Cage spell, defeated the officers, and fled to the Tax Bureau.
• Teresa interrogated the tax officials, learned the tax standard applied nationwide, and killed the two soldiers who had shot the shop owner.
• Teresa questioned a tax official about his modest home and learned that commoners bore the new taxes while nobles were exempt.
• Teresa visited poorer streets and saw destitution, then watched police arrest a streetwalker over an expired health certificate and unpaid taxes; she realized three cities had been alike.

Teresa set out for Winter City to stop Isli, while Presian nobles and students formed the National Salvation Alliance to oppose the Second Prince’s tax-funded feast and reforms. As Winter City prepared for a gathering at Winter Fortress, the alliance’s supporters began moving through the city toward the palace and fortress square.

• Teresa realized Isli had shattered the balance her father had established and headed toward Winter City to stop him.
• Students from Presia told Merlin they were returning home to oppose the Second Prince’s tax-funded feast and pursue political and military reforms.
• Merlin warned the students that they might die, then praised their resolve as they named their organization the National Salvation Alliance.
• On September 30, 136 noble children arrived in snowy Winter City and contacted their allies, managing to gather around ten thousand people.
• At dawn, groups led by a young warrior in armor moved through Winter City toward the royal palace and the square before Winter Fortress.

Nimel warned Caroso that people were gathering around Winter Fort as Presia prepared to crown Isli, and Caroso headed for a small island in the Nether Sea to give the new emperor a grand gift. Before Caroso left the Flying Dutchman, Tig gave him a genuine Blasphemous Blade, a divine artifact better suited to him than Laevateinn.

• Nimel told Caroso that people had gathered around Winter Fort and confirmed that the coordinates were ready.
• Caroso consulted the first mate and chose to detour toward a sea monster despite the danger, then told Bai he planned to give Presia's new emperor a grand gift.
• Bai asked Caroso to find out about her brother when he contacted Nimel again, and Caroso agreed.
• Caroso reached a small island and ordered the Flying Dutchman to circle nearby while he went ashore.
• Tig gave Caroso a Blasphemous Blade made with divine blood and a god's eye, explaining that Caroso could wield it more effectively than Laevateinn.

Caroso battled a powerful sea monster awakened by his slash while trying to get used to Tig's sword. At Winterfort, Isli and Peter confronted more than a hundred young nobles backed by an army and asked what they wanted.

• Caroso's slash awakened a massive sea monster, which attacked the Flying Dutchman.
• Caroso fought the monster with Tig's sword, wounded it, and circled it while conserving strength; Tig stopped Bai from helping.
• More than a hundred young nobles and an army of ten thousand gathered outside Winterfort.
• Isli suspected the nobles had come to rescue the First Prince and considered the political risks of attacking them.
• Peter advised Isli to hear the nobles out, and Isli asked them which families they represented and why they had come.

Teresa read the National Salvation Alliance’s declaration and hurried toward Winter City, fearing Isli would punish the nobles who signed it. The Alliance confronted Isli with demands to free the First Prince and reform Presia, but Isli dismissed them as children and suspected they had been manipulated into provoking him.

• Teresa found the declaration on the road and recognized the signatures as belonging to nobles she had sent to Avalon Academy.
• Teresa raced toward Winter City, worried that Isli would purge the young nobles when he learned what they had done.
• The National Salvation Alliance told Isli it represented the people of Presia and condemned the country’s oppressive system.
• The Alliance demanded the First Prince’s release, the repeal of new taxes, the end of serfdom and absolute monarchy, and the abolition of the noble system.
• Isli mocked the nobles’ demands, noted their limited strength, and concluded that someone might have controlled them to incite conflict.

Isli’s forces crushed the young nobles’ attack on Winterhold until Teresa arrived and called for a ceasefire. Before the factions could negotiate, a fissure opened above the plaza, a massive black body fell through, and a beam of dawn light struck toward Winterhold.

• The noble leader ordered his soldiers to attack Winterhold, and Peter protected Isli from their gunfire with his shield.
• Isli ordered his defenders to capture the young nobles alive and kill the rest as the attackers charged the city.
• Winterhold’s cannons, firearms, and mages devastated the attackers, killing over seventy percent of their ten thousand soldiers in less than two minutes.
• Teresa flew in and called for both sides to cease fire, and Isli signaled his forces to stop.
• A fissure opened above the plaza, and a massive black body fell between the factions.
• A beam of dawn light carrying primordial flames shot from the fissure toward Winterhold.

Caroso’s power forced Winter Fort’s defensive array to activate, and a confused kappa began attacking the fort. The commander ordered the mages to target the monster as spells flew toward it.

• Caroso’s power slammed into Winter Fort’s protective barrier and forced the defensive array to activate.
• The kappa sensed Caroso’s power and howled.
• The kappa sprouted countless long arms and attacked Winter Fort’s barrier, where some tentacles froze into ice.
• The commander ordered all mages to aim at the kappa, and they unleashed spells.

Teresa agreed to persuade the others to leave before helping Isli destroy the monster. She rushed out of the protective barrier, leaving their other matters to discuss later.

• Isli urged Teresa to resolve the immediate danger before Presia fell into crisis again.
• Isli warned that political scrutiny made any mistake dangerous and could threaten the empire their father had held together.
• Teresa agreed to persuade the others to leave, then help Isli destroy the monster.
• Teresa rushed out of the protective barrier.

Caroso blocked Xulos's greatsword with an ancient black blade, surprising Xulos. Xulos then fired a nine-star Cleave card at Caroso.

• Xulos's greatsword struck Caroso's ancient black blade and failed to cut through.
• Xulos recognized Caroso and smiled bloodthirstily.
• Xulos fired a nine-star Cleave card at Caroso.

Bai became the Continent's Number One Card Maker after creating a card that could become a true god card, while Teresa led nobles through a battle in Winter City with help from Osiris's Sky Dragon. Teresa and the surviving nobles broke through the tanks and thieves, but she was wounded and only sixty-three nobles escaped.

• Bai revealed Osiris's Sky Dragon, a fake god card she could transform into a true god card, and claimed the title of Continent's Number One Card Maker.
• Xulos wounded Caroso as Caroso covered Bai's escape, while Nimel stayed out of the fight to preserve the Church of the God of Wisdom's neutrality.
• Osiris's Sky Dragon struck the Apocalypse Tanks with Thunder Summoning Ball, and Teresa forced a path through the battlefield while holding off the National Defense Force's general.
• Hidden thieves attacked the fleeing nobles, but Teresa cut down several of them and Osiris's Sky Dragon exposed the remaining thieves by breaking their stealth.
• Teresa was wounded by the general's Heavy Strike, then rallied the survivors as sixty-three nobles escaped and charged onward for Presia's freedom.

Caroso and Kappa blocked Winterhold’s forces while the city deployed its elites to stop the people from escaping. As Kappa was finally ground down and the soldiers surged out, Caroso hinted that he still had another way to make their escape possible.

• Xulos used Frost’s Wrath against Caroso, but Caroso struck down the spell’s axe shadow and admitted he could not defeat Xulos without magic power.
• Isli sent Winterhold’s imperial guards, air force, and Dragon Knights into battle as the Sky Dragon was overwhelmed by shamans, priests, airplanes, and the city’s cannon.
• Isli concluded that Caroso’s arrival was part of a conspiracy targeting Presia and deployed six Tier 8 Dragon Knights and their dragons.
• Caroso asked whether letting the others leave would make him the greatest in history, then Kappa collapsed after being ground down by the opposing forces.
• Winterhold’s soldiers charged out of the city toward Caroso and the others.

Teresa returned to Winterhold at Tier 9 and used a swarm of multiplying Grim Patrons to block the city’s troops and escape routes. The soldiers were stalled by thousands of Patrons as Teresa stood ready to stop the Dragon Knights.

• Isli ordered the garrison and troops inside Winterhold to break out in several directions, while Peter and Herman moved to intercept them.
• Caroso summoned Teresa, stunning Isli, Xulos, and the assembled commanders with her Tier 9 power and royal equipment.
• Isli claimed Teresa was an illusion, and Xulos resumed his attack on Caroso and Teresa after briefly hesitating.
• Teresa summoned Grim Patrons and used Inner Rage, Cruel Taskmasters, and Unstable Ghouls to multiply them into a force of over three thousand.
• The Patrons blocked major roads and hindered soldiers and armored vehicles, while Teresa faced the Dragon Knights with the Destruction Greatsword.

Teresa and her people fled to the shore and encountered a tribal group sent by Grand Duke Osiris to receive her. The shaman began to explain that the Presia Empire was temporarily...

• Teresa led her people in a desperate run to the shore.
• Teresa questioned a group of roughly a hundred people in tribal attire, led by a shaman.
• The shaman told Teresa that Grand Duke Osiris had sent them to receive her and began explaining the situation in the Presia Empire.

Caroso returned from the continent severely wounded and collapsed onto the ship. Bai and the others worried over him and vowed revenge, while Tig approached with a solemn expression.

• Caroso crashed onto the ship after returning from the continent.
• Bai helped Caroso up and asked if he was okay.
• The others saw Caroso's chest wound and wondered who had injured him.
• The others threatened to throw Caroso's enemy into the Nether Sea to feed the fish.
• Tig approached with a solemn expression.

Tig announced that the young master was getting married, and the pirates eagerly reacted to the news. The announcement left one lookout injured and another pirate dead, though his companion restored his jaw.

• Tig told the pirates that the young master was getting married.
• The pirates cheered at the prospect of wedding wine and joked about attending and officiating the wedding.
• A shocked lookout fell from above and crashed to the ground.
• A drinking pirate dropped his jaw in surprise and died, and his companion picked up the jaw and put it back on.

Bai sulked over Caroso suggesting they fake a marriage, and Caroso tried to calm her down. She rebuffed his attempt to touch her, leaving him to realize how difficult an angry girlfriend was to restrain.

• Bai and Caroso lay facing each other on the bed in silence.
• Caroso comforted Bai and said his earlier suggestion about fake marriage had not meant what she thought.
• Bai snorted, turned away, and shook off Caroso's hand when he touched her shoulder.
• Caroso realized that an angry girlfriend was harder to restrain than a pig during the New Year.

Caroso appeared refreshed on deck the next morning while Bai remained asleep. The viewers speculated about what had happened between them the night before.

• Caroso arrived on deck early the next morning, looking energetic and refreshed.
• Bai stayed asleep, and no one knew whether she was exhausted or avoiding everyone out of embarrassment.
• The comments returned, and viewers asked where Bai was and teased Caroso about the night before.
• Some viewers joked that Bai was powerful enough to be a tyrant and that one could ship oneself with Baby Caro.