Chapter Summaries

Evan uncovered Hawkins’s history and confirmed he had been ruined by the White Egret Merchant Guild, while also discovering that Wright’s faction employed ghouls. Impressed by Hawkins’s abilities, Evan recruited him as his commodore aide-de-camp and appointed him a major.

• Evan and Milan witnessed Hawkins’s memories, learning that the White Egret Merchant Guild had dismissed him, seized his family’s property, and left him unable to find work in Iliya.
• Evan realized that the guild was aggressively swallowing Iliya’s assets and that Wright’s faction relied on human-form ghouls.
• After waking, Evan learned that Hawkins had skillfully revised the Mercury Trading Company proposal and decided to recruit him as his agent.
• Evan summoned Hawkins and revealed that he was the White Knight, then invited him to serve as his aide-de-camp.
• Hawkins accepted, and Evan made him a Garratt Family Vassal and Commodore Aide-de-Camp with the rank of major.

Evan completed his advancement to a Third-Order Branded Swordsman, unleashing a burst of lightning that pierced the volcanic crater and created a waterfall. After taking stock of his growing assets and forces, he planned to rejoin the Storm Cape and receive new crew members.

• Evan finished his three-day advancement in the rainforest, mastering Thunderous Breath and awakening the Extraordinary Energy Divine Might.
• Evan blasted through the volcano's outer wall, causing water from the crater lake to pour down as a waterfall while the pirates mistook the spectacle for a natural phenomenon.
• Evan examined his transformed body and confirmed that he had become a Third-Order Branded Swordsman with greatly increased attributes.
• Evan reviewed his commercial holdings, pirate fleet, and military forces, including Hawkins's role in managing his businesses.
• Evan planned to reunite with the Storm Cape crew the next day and take aboard new recruits, including the ship's first Cadet Officer.

After completing his advancement to a Third-Order Branded Swordsman, Evan entered the Spiritual World and prepared to claim the Lost City of Poseidia’s treasures. He attacked the lava-armored forces guarding the barracks, leaving the battle underway as he tore through their ranks.

• After three sleepless days, Evan completed his advancement and fell asleep in Volcano Lake, but his routine drew him into the Spiritual World less than an hour later.
• Evan assessed his new strength and decided to conquer the Beacon Anchorage and seek the Three-Eyed People’s Magneto-Europe Stone.
• Evan manifested emerald Soul Armor and headed to the city’s barracks and Sun Palace, which he identified as his main targets.
• The barracks gates opened, and lava-armored infantry and cavalry charged out to confront Evan.
• Evan rushed into the infantry ranks with lightning-fast attacks, crushing and tearing apart the lava demons without being harmed by their molten attacks.

Evan defeated the defenders of Poseidia, shut down the Sun Palace’s energy system, and removed its Magneto-Europe Stone. At the city’s edge, Moonstone Miss appeared, but her strange behavior made Evan suspect she was not the person he knew.

• Evan killed the Lava Knights and routed the remaining forces in the plaza before entering the Sun Palace.
• Evan shut down the Magneto-Europe Stone’s central control hub and learned from a maintenance log about the crystal’s energy-conversion and wireless-transmission functions.
• Evan removed the Magneto-Europe Stone and carried it toward the edge of Poseidia, proud of having conquered the Lost City.
• Moonstone Miss appeared in the forest and asked Evan to invite her into Poseidia, interrupting his apology for missing their plans.
• Evan noticed that Moonstone Miss acted unlike herself and became alarmed when she reacted with surprise to the Magneto-Europe Stone.

Evan exposed and killed a juvenile Mimic Demon that had impersonated Moonstone Miss, then reunited with the real Moonstone Miss and shared a Wind-Letter Grass leaf with her. He used the Magneto-Europe Stone to greatly expand the Tree of Life and strengthen his Beacon Anchorage, leaving it on the path toward becoming his own Small World.

• Evan stopped the apparent Moonstone Miss from touching the Magneto-Europe Stone and remained wary when she offered him two Wind-Letter Grass leaves.
• The disguised creature attacked Evan as he pretended to learn how to use a leaf, but he dodged its strike and seized it.
• Evan identified the attacker as a juvenile Mimic Demon, crushed its head, and discovered the real Moonstone Miss had witnessed the fight.
• Moonstone Miss explained the Mimic Demons' disguises and accepted one Wind-Letter Grass leaf from Evan after he offered to share the loot.
• Evan placed the Magneto-Europe Stone beside the Tree of Life, which absorbed its energy, grew across the Sixth Layer, and spread a sunlit Small World beneath its canopy.

The Araucan Clan launched a surprise attack on Pavel Town, where Major Gregg and the armed settlers initially held off the cavalry with superior rifles. Eleven Totem Warriors broke through the defenses and slaughtered the defenders, while an Atelian wizard declared that vengeance would spread across the continent.

• Hunters gathered in Pavel Town as a large force of native cavalry charged and attacked with Trade Rifles.
• Major Gregg rallied the Garrison Force and hunters, whose rifles killed many cavalrymen and stalled the assault.
• Eleven Great White Shark Totem Warriors charged from the woods, shattered the town’s defenses, and overwhelmed the settlers.
• The Totem Warriors killed Old Baron and Ralph, then Manguenk struck down Major Gregg, who splashed a special potion on him before dying.
• Manguenk scalped Gregg and cut out his heart for sacrifice, while an Atelian wizard vowed that the flames of vengeance would spread across the continent.

Evan and his crew approached Cabshill after resolving a series of difficult cases, while a young woman stole the mine's priceless pink Gemstone Star and fled from its monstrous guards. Milan's tarot reading warned Evan that another major trouble awaited him in Cabshill.

• In Glendale, Vito and another guard discussed the valuable pink diamond Artemis and feared the Green Skin Devils guarding the mine.
• A frost-haired young man and ten hooded figures inspected Artemis, discovered it was a fake, and ordered a pursuit of the outsiders.
• The Eldest Daughter revealed that she had swapped the real Gemstone Star for a fake and fled toward Faletis-controlled territory using her tourmaline pendant.
• Evan and his crew approached Cabshill, where Evan complained about being burdened with difficult cases during his journey.
• Milan drew the Nine of Swords and told Evan that his worries would come true and that major trouble awaited him.

Olivia escaped her ghoul pursuers to Concord, but found the harbor sealed and the ghouls closing in. She used Rody Alman to get aboard the Storm Cape, leaving him under her control as she prepared to evade capture.

• Olivia disguised herself and entered Concord, but discovered that Navy Soldiers had sealed the harbor while helping Iliya apprehend fugitives.
• Hodge Jeremy sent his disreputable nephew, Rody Alman, to serve aboard the Storm Cape and left after rebuking him for abusing slaves and maids.
• Olivia spotted the ghouls entering Concord and used Malice Detection to confirm Rody's predatory intentions.
• Olivia cast Mind Control on Rody, led him into an alley, and changed him into his ensign uniform.
• Rody emerged from the alley with a changed bearing and boarded the Storm Cape before the ghouls reached the pier.

Olivia boarded the Storm Cape disguised as Ensign Rody Alman, but ghouls tracking her soon reached the harbor. Evan returned, killed the ghouls that attacked the ship, and ordered the Storm Cape to sail for Kajinia, inviting the newly arrived ensign to his cabin.

• Olivia boarded the Storm Cape and presented her papers to Captain Vede, who explained that the ship was preparing to return to Kajinia on urgent orders.
• A ghoul squad searching the harbor approached the Storm Cape and began tracking Olivia, but Evan arrived with Boris, Milan, and two hunters before they could expose her.
• Evan confronted the ghouls, killed the ten beside the gangway with his Command Saber, and boarded the ship.
• Evan ordered the Storm Cape to sail for Kajinia, and the crew departed despite the harbor blockade.
• A second ghoul squad charged after the departing ship, but Evan shot them with the Thorned Gold Rose; only the white-haired young man escaped into the sea.
• Evan welcomed Ensign Luo Di aboard and invited her to the captain's cabin.

Olivia joined Evan Garratt’s crew aboard the Storm Cape, where Evan recognized her hidden strength but accepted her as a Formal Knight. Evan then reviewed reports of brutal Atelian attacks and received Moonstone Miss’s signal to explore the spirit world that night.

• Olivia admired Evan’s strength and discovered the Captain’s Cabin contained numerous sorcery materials and a snowy-white owl.
• Evan revealed that he knew Olivia, disguised as Mr. Luo Di, was a Formal Knight and assigned her to learn sail handling from Vede.
• Olivia asked whether Evan held a grudge against the ghouls, but Evan declined to explain and directed her to her cabin.
• Evan read Major General Martin Christopher’s report about four bloody Atelian attacks, suspected they might be linked to the recent strengthening of evil spirits, and learned that Major Gregg had marked the attackers with a trackable potion.
• Evan received Moonstone Miss’s message announcing their spirit-world operation that night and replied that he had received it.

Evan and Moonstone Miss explored an ancient city in the Spirit World, where they fought a Wall of Flesh and escaped back to their Beacon Anchorages. Moonstone Miss, who was Olivia, used Spiritual Purification to confirm her suspicions about Evan’s identity the next day.

• Evan recognized that Moonstone Miss was likely the eldest daughter of Marquis Yuanfan’s Family, then met her to explore the Spirit World together.
• Evan and Moonstone Miss surveyed a dangerous city of Ancient Gods and entered a small temple, where a Wall of Flesh pursued them.
• Evan killed the Wall of Flesh with his Lightning Rod and Thunder Mercury, and they recovered a fragment of Celaeno.
• After a World Change displaced their Beacon Anchorages, Evan and Moonstone Miss used the beacon’s paths to return safely.
• Moonstone Miss used Gem Sorcery: Spiritual Purification on Evan, then planned to confirm that he was the person she suspected.

Evan sparred with Milan and Luo Di aboard the Storm Cape, while Olivia used the encounter to confirm a connection to him. After receiving new intelligence about the Araucan Clan’s attack on Pioneer Town, Evan redirected the ship toward Sir Bin and called a combat meeting.

• Evan sparred with Milan and Luo Di, caught Luo Di when he fell from the main mast, and offered to train him in Rose Swordsmanship.
• Olivia used the close-range encounter to detect familiar traces in Evan and decided to remain aboard to investigate their mysterious connection.
• A tern delivered intelligence that the Araucan Clan had roughly four hundred and thirty warriors, including eleven Totem Warriors and two Formal-level Shaman Wizards.
• Evan ordered the Storm Cape to turn toward Sir Bin’s capital, Harrisburg, and summoned his officers for a combat meeting.

Evan led an elite force into the wilderness to pursue the Araucan Clan, whose massacres and ritual taking of settlers’ hearts seemed to be increasing the number of their Totem Warriors. After reaching the latest attacked town, his men used trained animals and Fleck’s bear hide to pick up the clan’s trail and set off northeast.

• Evan refused military horses and accepted field supplies for two hundred soldiers before leading the pursuit force west from Harrisburg.
• Evan’s soldiers used Animated Shark Skin to march quickly through the wilderness while seagulls scouted ahead.
• At Nowok Town, Evan examined the mutilated settlers and concluded the Araucan Clan had taken and likely eaten their hearts.
• Evan learned the scout team had lost contact with the pursuing natives, so Wilder offered to track them with his trained squirrel.
• Evan gave Fleck a Brown Bear Hide, and Fleck used its heightened sense of smell to identify the trail northeast, matching the squirrel’s direction.

Manguenk led the Araucan Clan in massacring an Iliya settlement and consumed a ghoul’s heart, believing he had become the clan’s first Third-Order Totem Warrior. Evan’s force tracked the warriors to the coast, while the clan’s Shaman Wizards prepared a ritual around Great White Shark Ovig’s Totem Pole.

• Manguenk’s warriors slaughtered a Pioneer Town and killed its Second-Order ghoul supervisor.
• Manguenk ate the ghoul’s heart and declared that he had reached the threshold of becoming a Third-Order Totem Warrior.
• Evan’s force tracked the Araucan warriors into Iliya and found the town they had massacred.
• Evan’s seagull reconnaissance located the warriors heading east toward the coast, and he ordered Bess to summon First Mate Boris.
• The Araucan Clan’s dependents gathered by the sea as Shaman Wizards and Native Maidens prepared a ritual at Great White Shark Ovig’s Totem Pole.

Manguenk began the Araucan Clan’s ritual to become a Third-Order Totem Warrior as Evan’s forces arrived to stop him. Evan’s troops launched a surprise attack, but the Totem Pole shielded the shamans as the battle began.

• Manguenk rallied the Araucan Clan and began the ritual to connect with Great White Shark Ovig.
• Ovig answered the shamans’ call, and Manguenk’s Totem Imprint began growing more lifelike as the promotion ritual progressed.
• Evan recognized the ritual’s purpose and ordered Gary, Milan, Luo Di, Wilder, Mike, and Fleck into their assigned attack roles.
• Evan’s forces scattered spores among the crowd, causing the tribesmen to erupt in uncontrollable laughter.
• Evan’s sharpshooters fired on the warriors, but the Totem Pole’s barrier blocked shots aimed at the two shamans.
• Evan’s soldiers charged the camp amid battle cries as the Araucan warriors remained gathered around the ritual site.

Evan’s forces overwhelmed the Laughing Spore-afflicted natives while Evan attacked the ritual to stop Manguenk’s transformation. As the old shaman sacrificed himself, Ovig took over Manguenk’s body just as Evan unleashed Thunderous Breath.

• Gary led the Navy Soldiers through the native warriors, while Gary, Milan, and Luo Di cut down the Totem Warriors.
• The shamans summoned an Electric Light Javelin at Evan, but his Divine Might absorbed the lightning and he struck the barrier protecting Manguenk.
• Manguenk realized Ovig was consuming his identity and tried to resist the transformation.
• The older shaman sacrificed his life to hasten the ritual, allowing Ovig to transfer his consciousness into Manguenk’s body.
• Evan unleashed Esoteric Truth · Thunderous Breath at the newly transformed Ovig.

Evan faced Ovig, a Nature Spirit who had taken over Chief Manguenk’s body, and revealed his own Third-Order power when Ovig threatened the navy. Their fierce battle moved into the forest, where Evan believed his superior skill would give him the advantage, until Ovig unleashed a spell-like roar.

• Manguenk narrowly escaped Evan’s sword strike, then revealed that Ovig had taken control of his body and identified himself as the Araucan Clan’s Totem God.
• Ovig said he had taken a body for the future of Nature Spirits and offered Evan eternal life in exchange for worship, but Evan mocked and rejected him.
• Ovig shaped the altar’s gold vessels into a lightning-wielding spear and attacked Evan, who released his Third-Order aura and rallied the navy.
• Evan and Ovig fought at extraordinary speed through the forest, exchanging sword and spear blows as Evan judged Ovig’s combat skills inferior.
• Ovig used Deterrence, unleashing a predator’s roar at Evan.

Evan fought Ovig, a Totem God inhabiting Manguenk’s body, and exploited the strain between Ovig’s soul and borrowed body to drive him into the sea. With help from the Faletis Navy’s Siren’s Song, Evan caught up and killed Ovig, unlocking the Godslaying achievement.

• Evan blocked Ovig’s Mind Deterrence with World Barrier and struck him with Thunder Mercury, sending him crashing into a cliff.
• Evan dodged Ovig’s Golden Spear and Deep Cold Breath, then disrupted his control of Manguenk’s body with Flesh and Blood Riot.
• Ovig fled into the sea, and Evan pursued him while Ovig summoned a school of sharks to hold him off.
• Evan used the Storm Cape’s Siren’s Song to incapacitate the sharks and approached the helpless Ovig.
• Evan struck down Ovig with the Lightning Rod as Ovig detonated his Soul Origin, unlocking the Godslaying achievement.

Evan killed Ovig and returned to the beach after the Araucan Clan’s forces were wiped out. He identified the Great White Shark Totem Pole as a powerful material that could help the Storm Cape approach quasi-legendary status, then ordered his crew to sail for Far Sail Territory.

• Evan reflected on Ovig’s death and the organization of Totem Gods behind him, then ordered Boris to take the Storm Cape to shore and recover two wounded Demonic Sharks.
• Di Aogu used Inspire to help the Araucan Clan’s remaining warriors break through the encirclement, but Luo Di secretly poisoned him with Scarlet Toxin.
• Milan, Gary, and Olivia caught up with Di Aogu and killed him and the last two Totem Warriors, exterminating the Araucan Clan’s fighting force.
• Evan returned to the beach, where he ordered the soldiers to camp and dispatched terns to request ships and report the mission to Christopher.
• Evan examined Ovig’s Totem Pole and recognized that its remaining power could help the Storm Cape become quasi-legendary, then ordered the crew to head for Far Sail Territory.

Evan studied the Golden Spear’s transformative techniques, gathered figurehead-making knowledge, and completed the refit of eight privateer ships in Far Sail Territory. He then prepared to upgrade the Storm Cape with a steel skeleton and build a powerful figurehead.

• Evan examined the Golden Spear and used its techniques to reshape a gold coin, then read Anthony’s collected figurehead-making research.
• Evan considered how to combine Animation School and Alchemy School knowledge to turn the Great White Shark Totem Pole into a powerful figurehead, and wrote to Moonstone Miss for advice.
• The Araucan women and children reached Tortuga Island, where the Arawak Clan agreed to receive them in exchange for an equivalent price.
• Evan completed the refit of eight Brigantine Brig privateer ships at Mercury Shipyard, and Hawkins reported that the trading company had begun operating successfully.
• Evan agreed to visit the Marquis after finishing work on the Storm Cape, then prepared to replace its wooden bones with a steel skeleton.