Chapter Summaries

Brando lured Baron Valen’s First Highland Infantry Battalion into an ambush and crushed it before the Black Blade Legion’s Dragon Riders returned. With the force behind him defeated, Brando prepared to continue his plan and let the fleeing survivors lead the true enemy into the trap.

• Brando learned that scouts had identified the pursuing force as the First Highland Infantry Battalion of the Finn Detachment, commanded by Baron Valen.
• Brando used Royal Knight Academy scouts to draw Valen’s confident battalion into a valley concealed by an illusion maintained by Naga Priests.
• Brando petrified Baron Valen, seven knights, and two wizards with a Shale Longbow arrow, while another wizard escaped with a shattered stone arm.
• The Naga Priests attacked the Highland Infantry with ice spells as Count Odin’s soldiers and the Royal Knight Order’s light cavalry surrounded and routed them.
• Brando gave the Shale Longbow to Orland to pass to Beth, then confirmed the battle was over in less than half an hour and planned to let the survivors lead the enemy into the trap.

Viscount Finn reported the Princess’s capture of Buon Citadel and the presence of Brando’s Rubis Mercenaries to Count Vitokin and the northern leaders. Grand Duke Xifahe identified Brando as a possible descendant of Darus, prompting William to prepare a deadly pursuit as the Princess’s army headed toward the Marr Highlands.

• Viscount Finn surveyed the ruined Buon Citadel and learned that the Princess’s forces had taken it with few Port Guard casualties, while Baron Valen’s Highland Infantry suffered a disastrous defeat.
• Viscount Finn gave Count Vitokin a report confirming that the Princess’s army included a Rubis Mercenary unit, and Vitokin’s gathering discussed Brando’s suspected alliances and power.
• William demanded that the Princess be escorted back to the Empire in exchange for the Temple of Flames intervening against Brando.
• Grand Duke Xifahe and Marquis Yuxi argued that Brando was likely Darus’s descendant, while Knight Reld warned them not to treat speculation as fact.
• William ordered the Temple of Flames to investigate Brando and kill anyone who had followed him, then asked where the Princess had gone and learned that her army was heading toward the Marr Highlands.

Roman and White Mist interrogated Viscount Begning and uncovered the Circle of Unity’s hidden interest. Meanwhile, Brando learned Roman had disappeared again and asked Antitina to turn dismantled magic-furnace parts into Disintegration Crystals as the army prepared to move.

• White Mist explained the Circle of Unity’s nihilist beliefs, and Roman beat Viscount Begning until he admitted the group aimed to overthrow Eluin.
• Roman reasoned that the Circle of Unity had a deeper interest behind its stated goal, and Viscount Begning revealed it was Jorgendigon.
• Antitina arrived with news that Roman had gone missing, and Brando worried but trusted her and the Queen of Witches’ spirit familiar to protect her.
• Brando told Antitina that he had already encountered the Sanctum’s trap and reassured her before showing her dismantled magic-furnace parts.
• Brando asked Antitina to dismantle the Magic Conduction Devices further and make Disintegration Crystals from the scrap.

Brando led the defenders to the Marr Highlands and prepared to meet the Northern Allied Army, using his knowledge of the terrain to choose a bold defensive position. As the enemy’s first units arrived, Brando and his allies waited to see how they would approach.

• Brando ordered the exhausted troops to rest overnight, and Princess Griffine later spoke with him beneath the stars about his earlier actions and fate.
• Brando met the Druid master Wochik and, before dawn, used a map to direct the troops in setting up their defenses at the Marr Highlands.
• The cadets proposed defending Mount Onkel and the two southern peaks, but Brando altered their plan and ordered a bolder deployment.
• Nostra and the Dragon Riders, assisted by Brando’s Wind Spirit Spiders, drove away scouts from the Northern Allied Army.
• William learned that Brando intended to fight at the Marr Highlands, and Count Odin identified the approaching force as likely belonging to Viscount Finn.
• Brando and his allies watched the first Northern Allied Army unit arrive and discussed whether it would seize Mount Matchenko and Mount Leviko.

As the Northern Allied Army advanced against Princess Griffine’s forces at Mount Onkel, Viscount Feng? Daogning led a probe toward the princess’s central position. The Blei Infantry came under a sudden explosion, leaving the battle’s outcome unclear.

• The Northern Allied Army gathered beneath Mount Onkel as Brando and Princess Griffine surveyed the approaching forces.
• Count Vitokin learned that Princess Griffine’s central position was held by Odin’s private army, while Feng? Daogning identified its vulnerable central axis and volunteered to lead the vanguard.
• The Northern Allied Army began advancing, and Feng? Daogning led the Brey Detachment’s Blei Infantry across the valley.
• As the Blei Infantry approached the princess’s position under the Temple of Flames’ blessing, an explosion hurled several soldiers into the air.

Brando’s Disintegration Crystal mines devastated the Northern Allied Army’s advance, but Viscount Feng? Daogning took the two southern hills and launched a full assault on the central position. As the allied forces closed in, Brando rallied the wavering Noble Private Soldiers and ordered Beth’s archers to fire crystal-tipped arrows.

• Brando’s Disintegration Crystal mines killed and demoralized the Blei infantry, but Viscount Feng? Daogning forced the survivors to keep advancing.
• Viscount Feng? Daogning sent the Highland Infantry toward Mount Vileko, where Sanir’s Naga Imperial Guard routed the attackers before withdrawing; Viscount Finn claimed the hill as captured.
• The False White Lion Legion and the cadets withdrew from Mount Matchenko, and Baron Constantine’s detachment took the hill.
• After learning that both hills had fallen, Viscount Feng? Daogning ordered the Northern Allied Army to attack the central position from three sides.
• Brando raised the Sword of Earth to steady the wavering Noble Private Soldiers, while Beth prepared the archers to fire arrows tipped with Disintegration Crystals.

Brando’s forces struggled against the Northern Allied Army until he revealed his power and used summoned beasts and Wind Spirit Spiders to break the enemy’s charge. As the battle continued, Count Vitokin ordered the Finn and Constantine Detachments to commit all their forces, unaware that the supposed vanguard of the Finn Detachment had already been wiped out.

• Princess Griffine, Freya, and the Royal Knight Academy cadets steadied the Noble Private Soldiers as the Blei light infantry crossed the river and attacked.
• Brando recognized that Viscount Feng Daogning was waiting to exploit gaps in the formation and that the Finn and Constantine Detachments were advancing through the woods.
• Viscount Feng Daogning targeted the Noble Private Soldiers’ left wing, and Brando transferred command to Nemesis before riding toward the threatened flank.
• A tide of black wolves and rock leopards emerged from Black Gate of Light openings and attacked the Blei infantry as Brando confronted Viscount Feng Daogning.
• Brando summoned Wind Spirit Spiders, whose golden-red beams destroyed more than a hundred Earth Dragon riders, while Viscount Feng Daogning escaped into the infantry.
• Count Vitokin’s attendant ordered Viscount Finn to commit all his forces, and Finn was confused because his vanguard had already been wiped out.

Brando’s ruse trapped the Brey Detachment while the Northern Allied Army struggled to free its forces, and he triggered a catastrophic blast that destroyed much of the battlefield and broke the seal on a powerful storm entity. The entity attacked Curiosity Seeker Garlok as lightning engulfed the battlefield.

• Brando’s illusion magic concealed the Finn Detachment and Constantine Detachment, allowing the Naga Imperial Guard and Royal Knight Academy cadets to encircle the Brey Detachment.
• Count Vitokin sent the Northern Allied Army’s Dragon Cavalry into battle, but the Southern Legion’s Dragon Riders held them off while the Fielder Detachment’s heavy cavalry prepared to charge.
• Buchilit’s Naga Priests began casting Ice Blades, but Curiosity Seeker Garlok used Spell Disintegration to suppress the battlefield’s magic.
• Brando coordinated with Antitina and summoned black wolves before a tremendous underground blast destroyed the Fielder Detachment’s heavy cavalry, damaged nearby forces, and split Mount Matchenko and Mount Vileko.
• A storm entity emerged from the newly opened abyss, thanked the mortals for breaking its seal, and attacked Garlok with a storm of lightning.

Brando’s release of Adgar the Rager devastated the Northern Allied Army while the Storm Elemental battled Curiosity Seeker Garlok and Flame-haired Nicholas. Though the Princess’s forces had a chance to retreat, Brando chose to stay and prepare for another fight, expecting the Cruzian people to appear.

• Brando’s planted Disintegration Crystals broke Adgar the Rager’s seal, and the Storm Elemental attacked Curiosity Seeker Garlok and the Northern Allied Army.
• Flame-haired Nicholas severed Adgar’s hand, prompting the elemental lord to trap him and Garlok in Lightning Cages and bombard the battlefield.
• Adgar’s attacks helped wipe out or capture four Northern Allied detachments, while Brando’s forces seized the abandoned Leiren light infantry.
• Flame-haired Nicholas and Curiosity Seeker Garlok endured the Lightning Cage by standing still and using defenses, leaving the battle at a stalemate favorable to Brando’s side.
• The Half-Elf princess asked Freya to check whether Brando would retreat, but Brando refused and ordered everyone to rest and prepare for the next battle.

Brando led the retreat from Adgar’s unleashed rampage and revealed to Princess Griffine why he supported her vision for Eluin. As the Temple of Flames’ Gate appeared overhead, Count Yanila Su prepared the Royal First Fleet to jump to Ambersell for the Battle of Saint White.

• After the Lightning Cage failed, Adgar unleashed violent whirlwind elements and a Lightning Storm, so Princess Griffine ordered the forces to retreat toward Mount Onkel while staying inside the valley.
• Bridget called Brando an excellent prophet, and Princess Griffine asked whether he had known about the monster sealed beneath the temple ruins; Brando confirmed that he had.
• When Griffine asked why he helped her, Brando said his answer was her own resolve to restore Eluin’s glory for everyone, and she thanked him for changing the kingdom’s future.
• Brando warned Griffine that the Temple of Flames would not simply compromise, then recognized a teleportation-gate reaction and identified it as the Gate of Flames.
• Count Yanila Su received Griffine’s order aboard the Victory, activated the Saint White Bay secret Anchoring Point, and readied the Royal First Fleet to jump under the codename Battle of Saint White.

The Temple of Flames Fleet and its forces arrived and killed the Storm Elemental Adgar, after which William demanded Princess Griffine surrender. Griffine entrusted Brando with the Key of Anchor and asked him to save her brother, but Brando rejected surrender and challenged William, declaring that he would change Eluin’s future.

• The Temple of Flames Fleet appeared above the battlefield and bombarded Adgar while eleven Templar Knights struck its vital point.
• William killed Adgar with a pillar of golden-red light, then demanded that Princess Griffine surrender within thirty seconds or face defeat.
• Mephisto confronted High Priest Wood, revealed that Moros had killed Princess Magdal, and said Brando had guessed the Temple of Flames was involved.
• Princess Griffine decided to surrender, gave Brando the Key of Anchor, and asked him to save her younger brother.
• Brando stopped Griffine from saying more, declared that history would not repeat itself, and challenged William over the wrongs of forty years earlier.

Brando and Eluin’s forces faced the Temple of Flames and the Northern Allied Army at Mount Onkel, while unexpected allies arrived to turn the tide. The chapter ended as four Floating Towers appeared before the Cruzian fleet, bringing the High Tower Wizards into the battle.

• William ordered the Temple of Flames to kill the defenders, and Andriga, Medisa, Charles, and Ropal moved to hold off the eleven Templar Knights while Brando waited for an opening.
• The Northern Allied Army advanced despite its soldiers’ reluctance, and Brando refused Princess Griffine’s suggestion to retreat.
• Lantorilan’s Royalist Faction attacked the Northern Allied Army’s flank, and Aiko arrived to fight for Eluin and fulfill his promise to Brando.
• William ordered the Cruzian Airship Fleet to intercept Lantorilan’s forces, but spatial turbulence opened four teleportation gates before the warships.
• Four black Floating Towers emerged from the gates, and the Cruzian forces recognized the arriving High Tower Wizards.

Black Tower Wizards and the Highland Knights intervened in Eluin’s civil war on the Kolkovan Royal Family’s side, while Brando challenged William over the Temple of Flames’ claims. Brando summoned two Tomes of Life and survived William’s strike after William briefly reached the Extreme Realm, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• The Black Tower Wizards attacked the Temple of Flames fleet with ice spells, and William confronted them over violating the Taftaka Pact.
• The wizards declared their support for the Kolkovan Royal Family, and Brando challenged William’s accusations by citing the Temple’s concealed history in Rus.
• Bunid and the Highland Knights arrived, vowed to stand by their oath, and agreed to hold off the Temple fleet while Brando faced the Northern Allied Army.
• Brando used the Seafoam Gem and Eternal Orb to summon two Tomes of Life, revealing his power as a summoner and alarming William.
• William reached the Extreme Realm and launched a golden sword strike at Brando, destroying a Black Giant Tower along the way.
• Anruoduo’s Holy Ring countered William’s attack, leaving Brando unharmed and the battlefield stunned.

Brando turned the battle on Marr Highlands with the Tomes of Life, an undead army, and powerful Spellweaver cards, while William’s forces struggled to contain him. After Qian drove back the White Wing Knights, Brando drew three cards and prepared to counterattack.

• Brando blocked William’s Extreme Realm strike with the Anruodu Holy Ring and multiplied his Enchanted Furnace Constructs, activating the Tomes of Life to heal his allies.
• William ordered the Templar Knights to attack Brando, but Brando summoned a Scorched Hell Giant that wounded them and disrupted their formation.
• Brando played Fallen Guard, raising a vast army that attacked the Northern Allied Army, while the battlefield’s corpses were sacrificed to Ecronia’s Crucible of Adversity for energy.
• Brando used Lightning Storm through his thirty-two Enchanted Furnace Constructs to kill the Templar Knight Raphael, prompting William to call in the White Wing Knights.
• Qian charged the White Wing Knights, defeated three of them, and scattered the rest after revealing her Dragonkin strength.
• Brando’s Mind Acceleration drew him Desperate Trojan Horse, High Spirits, and Blade of White Sun, setting him up to counterattack.

Brando used the Desperate Trojan Horse and a series of spells to turn the battle against the Cruzian forces while racing to gather enough Light. The chapter left him protected by a rapidly empowered Mordefis as William confronted them.

• Brando activated the Desperate Trojan Horse and selected Radiant Martyr, Vampire Baron, and two Fallen Guards to exile.
• Fro and Tia slowed the White Wing Knights and brought them down, while Ropal, Tiger Sparrow, and the others held the grounded knights at bay.
• Brando used Fallen Guards to power the Desperate Furnace, then cast High Morale, Energy Drain, and Lightning Storm to disrupt the enemy and protect his allies.
• Brando summoned an Ecronian Weaver, cast another High Morale, and drew nine Fate Cards, including three Dawns that increased his Light and Dark mana.
• Brando ordered Mordefis to protect him and sacrificed Charles, Ropal, and Medisa to empower her until she broke through the Side of Truth.
• Mordefis intercepted William’s attack, then positioned herself between him and Brando.

Brando fought William with the Sword of Earth, traps, and carefully prepared cards while the armies clashed overhead. As the Cruz Empire’s Konoria Second Fleet arrived, Brando activated the Desperate Trojan Horse and Anruodu Holy Ring, leaving William facing the revived cards and Brando’s next move.

• Brando evaded William’s Flash Sword with Wind Empress Nine Luminaries, then used the Sword of Earth and a Disintegration Crystal to blast William into a crater.
• Brando reset his constructs and drew Anruodu’s Holy Ring while Mordefis intercepted William; Andriga died after killing a Templar Knight with her final strike.
• The Southern Legion Dragon Riders damaged the Cruzian escort ships, and the Konoria Second Fleet arrived to reinforce the battlefield.
• William confronted Brando as nine Templar Knights surrounded them, while Brando set down two Dawn cards and completed the Desperate Trojan Horse’s counter.
• Brando activated the Desperate Trojan Horse to return removed cards to play, blocked William’s sword beam with Anruodu’s Holy Ring, and began drawing cards for the next round.

Brando used Adversity Paradise’s accelerating card cycle to overwhelm William’s forces, then fought William inside the swordsman’s Extreme Realm after William burned his life to create it. Brando destroyed William’s Law Lines with the Godslayer Demon-Breaking Cone and killed him, but William refused to reveal the truth about the November War.

• Brando completed Adversity Paradise’s cycle, bringing back his creatures and spells until the Northern Allied Army’s morale collapsed and he drew eighteen more cards.
• Brando’s constant sacrifices strengthened Mordefis, who broke through to Law Peak and forced William into a desperate final gambit.
• William entered the Extreme Realm and trapped Brando in his personal domain, cutting him off from Desperate Trojan Horse and Tome of Life.
• Brando revealed his abyssal transformation, then used the Godslayer Demon-Breaking Cone to strike William’s Law Lines and collapse his domain.
• Brando asked William about the November War during the last Holy War, but William refused to answer, so Brando killed him with the Sword of Earth.

After defeating William, Brando learned how Spellweavers could be defeated and resolved to pursue his own ultimate law. As the battle in the mountains continued to turn against Eluin, the Eluin Royal First Fleet arrived and struck the Cruzian fleet from the flank.

• Brando defeated William in the Plain of Extremes and asked Otales about the weaknesses of Spellweaver decks.
• Otales explained how the Four Saints had defeated Odin by exhausting the limited elements that powered his landless deck.
• Brando accepted that he needed to develop his own deck, and William's world collapsed as Brando returned to the battlefield.
• Brando's allies and Princess Griffine rejoiced at his survival while the remaining Templar Knights faced their vice commander's death.
• Nostra and the Southern Legion struggled to hold off the Cruzian fleet as their ships and riders suffered heavy losses.
• The Eluin Royal First Fleet emerged from Saint White Bay and bombarded the Konoria Second Fleet, destroying ships along its flank.

Brando helped defeat the Northern Allied Army and advised Princess Griffine to pursue the Cruzian Fleet and seize Port Ambersell, using the threat of Eluin joining the Wind Empress Temple as leverage. After the battle, Nemesis recovered a ring from William’s body, which summoned a new Wind Spirit who recognized Otales.

• The Eluin Royal First Fleet and Brando’s Wind Spirit Pseudodragon broke the Cruzian Fleet, while the Northern Allied Army fled and the seven Templar Knights surrendered.
• Brando urged Princess Griffine to pursue the Cornelian Fleet and capture Port Ambersell, arguing that the Cruzians would not retaliate if Eluin could turn to the Wind Empress Temple.
• Princess Griffine agreed to order Count Yanila Su to continue the pursuit and promised to consider Brando’s advice while protecting Eluin’s people.
• Brando dismissed several of his powerful summons after the battle, then asked Fulu to inspect the corpses, but she refused and Nemesis searched them instead.
• Nemesis found a ring on William’s corpse bearing the Wind Empress’s Saint Rune, and Brando used his law power to summon the ring’s Heroic Soul.
• The summoned Elf Maiden recognized Otales as her “Miss,” then introduced herself as Blade Knight Otales, the Wind Empress’s chief archer.

Brando discovered that the elven beauty posing as Otales was Saint Osore, the Wind Empress, and discussed the Soul Imprint Ring with Nemesis. Otales chose Nemesis as her inheritor and offered to teach her ancient String Magic, but Nemesis declined for now; the chapter ended with Brando recognizing a relic on William's corpse.

• Brando confronted the elven beauty about her identity, and she revealed that the crying Elf Maiden was the real Otales before vanishing in embarrassment.
• Brando explained the Soul Imprint Ring to Nemesis and said its Heroic Soul had to approve its inheritor.
• Nemesis asked whether the ring could go to Princess Griffine, but Otales chose Nemesis instead.
• Otales revealed that she was a mage skilled in ancient String Magic, or dragon magic, and urged Nemesis to study magic; Nemesis said she would think about it.
• Nemesis continued searching William's corpse and found a flowing-silver bracer that Brando recognized as Flowing Fireflies, the Torch of Knowledge, a sacred relic of the Sky Dragon Crystal.