Chapter Summaries

After Louise's use of Void Magic secured Tristain's victory, she kept her role secret while Biba Amatori arranged support from the World Government. Prince Wales took control of Regen. Zista's defeated army and considered reclaiming Albion and marrying Henrietta.

• Tristain's nobles credited Biba Amatori for the victory, while Louise told Princess Henrietta the truth about her Void Magic.
• Tengen Uzui met Staff Officer Rodrin, who said two Conquerors would be sent and ordered him to capture a magic-capable noble and a commoner for research.
• The World Government designated the magic world as "Zero Magic."
• Prince Wales offered Tristain ten magic airships and fifty cannons in exchange for taking control of Regen. Zista's army, and the nobles accepted.
• Biba Amatori urged Prince Wales to propose to Henrietta and use her old letters to persuade Germania to annul her engagement.

With Biba Amatori’s help, Wales restored Albion, became King Wales, and sent Henrietta a marriage proposal along with her old letters to the king of Germania. Biba then proposed making Henrietta Queen of Tristain before marrying her, giving Wales a way to unite the kingdoms.

• Prince Wales returned to Albion with over sixty thousand troops, leaving the rebel nobles and generals dead in Tristain and retaking towns on the way to Londinium.
• Biba Amatori stayed at Wales’s side while Chelsea and Horobi remained in Tristain to protect Louise, and Mr. Hugh stayed at the Magic Academy to research alchemy.
• After stabilizing Albion, Wales sought Romalia’s approval to become king, while Biba arranged for cannons and magic airships to be converted for war and developed bolt-action rifles.
• Wales tacitly approved the rifles after Biba argued they could protect Albion and Wales’s love for Henrietta from a possible war with Germania.
• After the Pope invested him as King Wales, Wales proposed to Henrietta and sent her past letters to Germania, despite the risk to her reputation.
• Biba advised Wales to make Henrietta Queen of Tristain before marrying her, leaving Wales stunned.

Biba Amatori tried to persuade King Wales to annex Tristain and wage war on the Elf Kingdom to seize its Wind Stones and technology. When Wales refused, Biba revealed he had Wardes under his command and used Andvaria to take control of the king, leaving his plan underway.

• Biba Amatori urged King Wales to annex Tristain Kingdom and then invade the Elf Kingdom for its Wind Stones and technology.
• King Wales rejected the plans, citing the dangers of aggression and his wish to preserve the bond between their royal families.
• Biba Amatori revealed that he and Wales could no longer maintain a pleasant relationship and asked for his cooperation.
• Wardes entered and addressed Biba Amatori as his lord, shocking King Wales.
• Wardes used the Andvaria ring to immobilize King Wales, and Biba Amatori declared that the king would now obey.

Imu reviewed the newly opened Star Gate to The Familiar of Zero and considered how the World Government could exploit its magical and technological resources. He watched Esdeath and Historia spar, then wondered where to station the government next and whether he would ever return to Sea Star.

• Imu studied intelligence about The Familiar of Zero and identified Saito Hiraga’s internet-connected laptop, a nuclear submarine, and Louise’s future Void Magic as valuable assets.
• Imu reviewed Biba Amatori’s plan to unify the world through war, collect Brimir’s four legendary items, and infiltrate Saito Hiraga’s homeworld.
• Stussy told Imu that Esdeath and Historia were about to spar, so he shut down the information system and went to watch.
• Imu watched Esdeath and Historia battle in transformed forms while their guards and Red Lotus watched from the field’s edge.
• Imu reflected that he had spent more than two years in the Giant World and began considering the next world for the World Government’s base.

Esdeath sparred with Historia to improve her strength, while Doflamingo struggled through a two-on-one fight as he worked toward Imu’s test. Imu then reflected that swordsmanship was not his path and began training with a new fighting style based on a pale-blue hemispherical space.

• Esdeath used Mahapadma against Historia, but Historia’s predictive ability let her block every attack and endure the full ten seconds.
• Esdeath worried that her growth had slowed and continued sparring with Historia, who agreed in exchange for tennis games.
• Doflamingo fought Surtr and Utgard together, showing elite Vice Admiral-level strength while aiming to meet Imu’s Admiral-level test.
• Imu teleported to the third floor of Star-Pressure Palace and decided to pursue a fighting style different from the previous Imu’s swordsmanship.
• Imu formed a pale-blue hemispherical space from white mist as the gravity spotlights and flash emitters activated.

Imu trained his Gamma Ray ability while the World Government’s reforms and law enforcement continued to expand across Sea Star. The chapter ended with Stussy telling Imu that Tom’s team had built the first Sea Train.

• Imu trained in Star-Pressure Palace, using Gamma Ray to clash with the Flash Emitters under eighteenfold gravity.
• The World Government continued enforcing the slave-trade ban, with Dragon and his police chiefs leading efforts against slave traders and buyers.
• Gasparde, Buck, Charlotte Opera, and Charlotte Katakuri became known as the Four Great Gourmet Traps.
• The World Government advanced its living-conditions and Heavenly Tribute reforms, while small nations increasingly sought to relocate their populations to the Red Line.
• The World Government implemented public ownership and registration of Devil Fruits, expanding the Holy Land Treasury to hold its growing collection.
• Stussy told Imu that Tom’s research team in Water Seven had successfully built the first Sea Train.

Imu learned that Tom and his collaborators had developed the Sea Train ahead of schedule using Sea King Alloy, and reviewed plans for a tunnel through the Red Line and trade with another world. He approved the proposed Star Gate opening and considered future opportunities for Biba Amatori.

• Imu read Stussy’s report and learned that Tom, Gairam, and Dr. Stylish had developed Sea King Alloy, enabling the Sea Train to be completed five years early.
• Imu considered using Black Marlin to protect Sea Trains from Sea Kings until Shirahoshi was born and could command them.
• Stussy told Imu that the Construction Department planned to begin the Red Line Tunnel Project on December thirty-first, and Imu approved of the preparations.
• Imu approved the Five Elders’ proposal to partially open the Star Gate to Demon Slayer World for trade in January, with entry and access restricted.
• Imu thought about Biba Amatori’s attempt to unify a world and considered giving him command of CIPHER POL-No.8 if he succeeded.

After Tristain’s engagement to Wales was annulled, Henrietta became queen while Wales’s kingdom prepared for further war under Biba Amatori’s influence. Wales explained the leaked letter to Henrietta and asked her to marry him, leaving her shocked.

• Duchess Marianne told Henrietta that Germania had annulled her engagement to Wales after receiving her love letter, and Henrietta agreed to prepare to rule Tristain as queen.
• Biba Amatori directed Wales to visit Henrietta, blame the leaked letter on Biba, and propose marriage; Wales obeyed under Andvaria’s Ring’s influence.
• Biba Amatori explained that he had persuaded Wardes to cooperate by offering him a chance to pursue power alongside him.
• Wales secretly met Henrietta in Tristain and claimed Biba had leaked her letter without his knowledge.
• Wales asked Henrietta to marry him, and she reacted with shock.

King Wales and Queen Henrietta agreed to marry and publicly announced their union, prompting King Joseph to plot a war against them. Joseph planned to enlist Germania and test the strength of the other Void users.

• King Wales asked Queen Henrietta to marry him, and she agreed to face the consequences with him.
• The next day, Queen Henrietta announced her marriage to King Wales and assured Tristain’s nobles that the kingdom would remain independent; the nobles approved the match.
• Albion and Tristain jointly announced the marriage, shocking the kingdoms across Halkeginia.
• King Joseph welcomed the announcement as an excuse to wage war, and Sheffield warned him that Tristain had a Void user capable of defeating a vast army.
• King Joseph reasoned that opening multiple fronts could counter that threat and ordered Sheffield to contact King Albrecht III of Germania about joining the campaign.

Gallia and Germania mobilized 150,000 troops to attack Tristain and Albion, while Biba Amatori promised Queen Henrietta that two Pentagram-class magic dolls would defend Tristain’s eastern front. As Germania’s armies advanced without resistance, a streak of golden light destroyed a magic warship, leaving Marshal Nixa and his forces under sudden attack.

• King Albrecht III agreed to send Germania’s forces against Tristain and Albion, joining Gallia’s declaration of war.
• Gallia and Germania divided their forces to attack Tristain from several directions and threaten Albion by sea.
• Biba Amatori told Queen Henrietta that two Pentagram-class magic dolls would stop Germania’s army.
• Germania’s forces advanced along Tristain’s eastern front without encountering defenders.
• A golden streak struck a Germania magic warship and destroyed it in a violent explosion.

Marshal Nixa’s fleet suffered a devastating attack from unseen golden beams before its surviving forces formed up on the ground. As Levi and Conqueror CR-2 moved to engage Germania’s army, Levi confronted the dragon riders with a deadly storm of bubbles and blades.

• Golden beams destroyed twelve of Marshal Nixa’s twenty airships, killing or wounding more than half the fleet before its survivors reached the ground.
• Marshal Nixa ordered his remaining troops into formation, while more than five hundred magic knights on Fire Dragons flew toward the source of the attack.
• Levi told Conqueror CR-2 to handle the forces on the ground and flew into the sky to confront the dragon riders.
• Conqueror CR-2 charged toward the army as Levi advanced on the dragon riders amid a dense wave of bubbles.
• The bubbles obscured the dragon riders as screams and the scent of blood spread, and one rider glimpsed a spinning Blade Storm.

Levi slaughtered the fire dragon knights with his Wind Breathing and Geppo while Conqueror CR-2 charged Marshal Nixa’s army. The army’s attacks failed, and CR-2 answered with a golden beam that devastated its ranks.

• Levi cut down fire dragons and magic knights as their elemental spells failed to stop the endless bubbles.
• Marshal Nixa and General Slav saw Conqueror CR-2 charging toward their formation and suspected it was a demon.
• Marshal Nixa ordered three volleys of arrows and a barrage of fireballs against Conqueror CR-2, but its defenses shrugged them off.
• The soldiers built earthen walls reinforced with ice, but Conqueror CR-2 fired a golden beam through them and engulfed the ranks in a massive explosion.
• Marshal Nixa realized that the army’s attacks had failed and wondered how they could fight Conqueror CR-2.

Marshal Nixa ordered the Germanians to attack Conqueror CR-2, but its Fear Energy Bullet annihilated most of their formation and drove the survivors mad with terror. As Conqueror CR-2 prepared to finish them off, Levi hesitated over whether to stop it.

• Marshal Nixa rallied the Germanians and ordered their shield, sword, archer, and mage units to attack Conqueror CR-2.
• Conqueror CR-2 emerged covered in self-repairing black armor and gathered fear energy from the soldiers into a violet-green sphere.
• Conqueror CR-2 unleashed a Fear Energy Bullet that consumed the central formation, killing Marshal Nixa, General Slav, and many others.
• The surviving soldiers fled in panic while nearby mages collapsed in terror, and Levi watched the devastation from above.
• Conqueror CR-2 began charging golden flashes to kill the remaining Germanians, leaving Levi to consider whether to intervene.

Biba Amatori monitored Germania’s invasion as Horobi and Conqueror CR-3 devastated one force, while Tengen Uzui prepared to defend Albion’s capital from another. After examining the Founder's Sacred Treasures and two magical mirrors, Biba received King Wales’s urgent request for help against metal puppets that could counter magic and withstand weapons.

• Horobi and Conqueror CR-3 bombarded Germania’s thirty-thousand-strong force from beyond its range, wiping out its chance to resist.
• Biba Amatori assigned Tengen Uzui to defend Albion’s capital against a second Germania force of more than ten thousand soldiers aboard nearly fifty magic airships.
• Biba Amatori examined the ruby rings, the Founder's Prayer Book, and the legend of four Void users and their sacred treasures.
• Biba Amatori considered the Teleportation Mirror and Mirror of Truth valuable to the World Government.
• General Poitiers delivered King Wales’s request for reinforcements after metal puppets that could nullify and reflect magic appeared on the battlefield.

Hugh’s research explained why Halkeginia’s rigid religious and noble order had kept its nations from developing or fighting major wars. Pope Vittorio revealed that the continent faced destruction and planned to let war unify its kingdoms, while Julio was sent to protect Louise so Romalia could use her Void Magic to reach another world.

• Hugh’s research identified shared faith in Brimir, magic restricted to nobles, and royal ties to Brimir as reasons Halkeginia’s nations had avoided large-scale war and stagnated.
• Julio asked Pope Vittorio why Romalia allowed the kingdoms to slaughter one another.
• Pope Vittorio explained that the coming Wind Stone Disaster threatened the continent and that humanity needed to reclaim the Holy Land and escape through the World Gate.
• Pope Vittorio said he hoped one kingdom would unify the human nations through war, despite the casualties, and refused to support any particular kingdom.
• Pope Vittorio ordered Julio to go to Tristain and protect Louise, whose Void Magic would be needed to open the World Gate and reach another world.

Gallia and Albion fought a brutal war in which Albion’s muskets and artillery devastated Gallia’s traditional forces, turning the conflict into a defense of the nobility against weapons that could challenge mages. After Sheffield ordered Gallia’s offensive to halt, she brought five enormous steel giants called Yormungand to the battlefield.

• Gallia’s commanders saw Albion’s massed muskets and artillery decimate their charging soldiers and recognized the threat the weapons posed to the noble class.
• Marshal Eivigney and the Gallia generals vowed to destroy Albion, its muskets, and the craftsmen who made them.
• Gallia’s armored dragon-riding nobles attacked Albion’s magical warships, while Albion’s muskets and cannons kept Gallia’s ground forces from advancing.
• Sheffield ordered Marshal Eivigney to withdraw the troops and revealed five towering steel giants called Yormungand.

Biba Amatori learned how the Elf Race’s ancient magic protected Gallia’s Yormungands, then flew into battle to test their defenses. As one Yormungand swung its greatsword at him, the watching leaders waited to see what he would do.

• Biba Amatori watched five Yormungands withstand and repel Albion’s attacks with Reflection magic.
• King Wales explained the basics of ancient magic and identified the Yormungands’ defense as the elves’ Reflection spell.
• Biba Amatori ordered Wardes to remain aboard the flagship and rode Wardes’ griffin toward the battlefield.
• Biba Amatori fired a Rankyaku at a Yormungand, but its Reflection barrier blocked the attack.
• Biba Amatori appeared in front of the Yormungand as it swung its greatsword at him, while both armies’ leaders watched.

Biba Amatori broke through a Yormungand’s Rebound Magic, but Sheffield redirected all five constructs to attack Albion’s troops, reversing the battlefield’s momentum. Unable to stop the constructs, Biba Amatori unleashed purple-and-white fog and vowed to kill Gallia’s forces.

• Biba Amatori’s serpent-shaped sword strike broke through a Yormungand’s barrier and forced the construct backward.
• Biba Amatori dodged the other four Yormungands while King Wales ordered Albion’s army to counterattack.
• Sheffield used her Void ability to redirect the five Yormungands toward Albion’s soldiers.
• The Yormungands attacked Albion’s forces and overwhelmed their advancing battle line.
• Biba Amatori resolved to kill Gallia’s soldiers and released dense purple-and-white fog.

Biba Amatori unleashed a vast cloud of poisonous gas that devastated Gallia's army and forced Sheffield to flee. Meanwhile, attackers targeted Louise at Tristain Academy, where Mr. Hugh faced a blond boy whose instrument transformed the ground into water.

• Biba Amatori spread purple poisonous gas across the battlefield, killing Gallian soldiers as they fled.
• Gallia's army collapsed into panic, and Sheffield escaped into the sky while deciding to report Biba to Joseph.
• Sheffield concluded that Gallia's military defeat threatened the kingdom, but believed Louise's Void Magic could counter the gas.
• Attackers assaulted Tristain Academy and fought Chelsea while Louise and Saito Hiraga stood behind Mr. Hugh.
• The blond attacker played a golden instrument, and its waves transformed the grass and soil around Mr. Hugh into water.

Hugh and Damian recognized each other as alchemists while opposing each other over Louise’s capture. Hugh offered to teach Damian and fund his studies, but Damian answered by unleashing ice monsters made through a combination of alchemy and magic.

• Hugh used alchemy to freeze the school lake and trap Janet in the ice.
• Hugh introduced himself as an intermediate alchemist and learned that Damian was ten years old and had been hired to capture Louise.
• Damian said the Element Brothers had taken the job for money, but refused to reveal who hired them.
• Hugh praised Damian’s talent and offered to become his teacher and cover his research resources.
• Damian created ice monsters from the frozen lake and sent them lunging at Hugh.