Chapter Summaries

Evan fought Kun Gang Taita, a Steel Knight whose Battle Faith kept him fighting despite grievous injuries, to defend the May Wind. During the battle, Evan’s swordsmanship advanced to the master level, and he used sword energy to cut the Steel Knight apart.

• Kun Gang Taita survived Evan’s devastating attack through Battle Faith and charged toward the May Wind, determined to kill Evan.
• Evan removed his wizard disguise and confronted Kun Gang Taita with his Ruby Scepter and rapier, but the Steel Knight’s iron-hard body withstood the strike.
• Evan and Kun Gang Taita traded attacks across the sea as Evan used his speed against the Steel Knight’s defense and practiced swordsmanship.
• Evan entered a state of absolute focus and advanced to the Swordsmanship Master level, manifesting sword energy known as the Realm of Steel Cutting.
• Evan crossed behind Kun Gang Taita with his Wind Wings and sword energy, tearing the Steel Knight’s body into pieces.

Evan returned to Treasure Tree Bay with a captured Sirius warship and the Steel Knight’s head, bringing hope to the wounded and setting his sights on weakening Griffiths’s fleet. As he prepared for the Storm Cape’s arrival, he planned to work with Olivia to unlock the Magneto-Europe Stone’s power for a new electromagnetic cannon.

• Doctors Garvin and Shan Di discussed the dwindling penicillin supplies and wondered whether Evan could defeat the Sirius Grand Knight, until news arrived that Evan had returned with the Steel Dragon and a Grand Knight’s head.
• Evan gave Gell the Steel Knight’s head and a Tree of Life Totem, then returned to his room with Olivia.
• Evan planned to strike at Griffiths by inflicting heavy losses on the Invincible Armada, hoping the Royalist Party would remove Griffiths from power.
• Evan decided to investigate the Magneto-Europe Stone with Olivia so they could power an Alchemy Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Before entering the spirit world, Evan sensed he had forgotten something but could not remember what it was.

A Tulip Alliance fleet carried Daphne, Irant, and Angie toward the Southern Continent to see Gell, while Angie saved a sailor from a jellyfish sting and comforted Daphne. Meanwhile, Evan and Olivia built an aquamarine-powered electromagnetic coilgun prototype, and Evan wondered who should be its first target.

• The Tulip Alliance fleet sailed south toward the Southern Continent, where Daphne and her group hoped to see Gell.
• Angie healed Babu after a Blue-Bearded Box Jellyfish stung him, then brought Daphne a bouquet of tulips as Irant practiced swordsmanship nearby.
• Evan and Olivia found that aquamarine could substitute for Magneto-Europe Stone in an efficient Extraordinary Battery.
• Evan built the first Electromagnetic Cannon prototype, a silver-and-rune-covered coilgun using the aquamarine battery and enchanted aluminum rounds.
• Evan and Olivia admired the cannon, and Evan wondered who should receive its first shot.

Evan helped Gell complete a promotion ritual that made him a Third-Order Tree of Life Totem Warrior, then tested Gell’s new lightning abilities. The chapter ended with Gell able to contend with a Grand Knight and the balance of Third-Order fighters shifting again.

• Evan conducted Gell’s promotion ritual beneath the Tree of Life Totem, connecting him to the Source of Mysticism.
• Gell wandered through the Tree of Life’s Material World before awakening and asking Evan who he was.
• Evan jokingly claimed to be Gell’s grandpa, and Olivia elbowed him before he revealed his identity.
• Evan and Gell tested Gell’s new Flash Thunder ability in the forest, where lightning scorched the trees and formed electric eels around his arms.
• Evan confirmed that Gell was now a Third-Order Tree of Life Totem Warrior capable of contending with a Grand Knight.

Baldwin and the Dragoon Pirate Crew defeated a Sirius merchant ship, but the White Knight had been waiting to track them. Evan arrived at Vede Cape and demonstrated his new Electromagnetic Cannon by crippling a Sirius warship from forty kilometers away.

• Baldwin transformed into his shark-like combat form and killed the Sirius Formal Knight who had resisted him.
• The Dragoon Pirate Crew slaughtered the merchant ship’s crew, gathered the spoils, and departed after Baldwin erased their spiritual traces.
• The White Knight emerged from concealment and revealed that he had waited nearly two months to catch the Dragoon Pirate Crew.
• Evan brought Olivia and the Storm Cape to Vede Cape to destroy the Sirius fleet blockading the Alliance’s supply line.
• Evan fired the Electromagnetic Cannon twice at a Fourth-Rate Ship from forty kilometers away, leaving it unable to fight.
• The crew crowded around the cannon, eager to try it.

Evan and Olivia tested the electromagnetic cannon, destroying four Sirius warships before Evan’s forces wiped out their survivors to keep the weapon secret. Meanwhile, Griffiths mobilized the Sirius fleet for a decisive battle, and Bess worried that the Privateer Fleet’s growing exposure would force it to abandon its bases.

• Evan gave Olivia control of the electromagnetic cannon, and she fired ten accurate shots that crippled four Sirius Warships while revealing the weapon’s limits and high operating costs.
• Evan ordered his Marines, led by Gary, to kill every surviving Sirius sailor so they could not reveal the electromagnetic cannon.
• Griffiths learned that Kun Gang Taita had gone missing and used the opportunity to order the Sirius fleet to force a decisive battle with the Tulip United Fleet.
• A Sirius-led force found Dragoon Pirate Crew’s Private Port No. 1 abandoned, where a dead White Spoonbill provoked the young wizard accompanying them.
• Bess warned that increased Sirius surveillance threatened the Privateer Fleet and wondered whether to suspend its operations while waiting for the Commander to return.

At a naval conference, Vice Admiral Temple Elvis revealed that the Alliance had gained a third Quasi-Legendary Battleship, Evan’s Storm Cape, and assigned it to help counter Sirius. Evan then learned the Mind Network could host a long-distance cloud conference, and flew to retrieve his family before the coming battle, while avoiding telling Aunt Daphne that Uncle had survived.

• Vice Admiral Temple Elvis convened the Alliance’s naval officers, and Rear Admiral House Sirik warned that Sirius’s Quasi-Legendaries threatened the fleet’s plans to rendezvous with reinforcements.
• Temple revealed that Commodore Garratt and the Storm Cape had slain Steel Knight Kun Gang Taita and brought the Alliance’s Quasi-Legendary strength to three against three.
• After the officers agreed to their orders, Evan realized that the Spiritualized Seagulls’ Mind Network had powered the conference and could earn him rewards and recognition.
• Evan learned that the Alliance support fleet was approaching the Treasure Sea and flew to collect Aunt Daphne, Angie, and Irant before the battle.
• Aunt Daphne broke down when she saw Evan, and he decided to leave the truth about Uncle’s survival for Uncle to explain himself.

Anita’s Dragoon fleet returned to the New Continent and received a respectful salute from Tulip warships, while a bald wizard used a cursed East Lun employee to locate the pirates’ hidden headquarters. Evan’s family joined the war effort, and the Storm Cape sailed south to confront Sirius’s Long-Snout Shark.

• Anita’s Dragoon fleet reached Tulip territorial waters, where two Tulip cruisers saluted and let the privateers pass first.
• A bald wizard transformed an East Lun Branch Company employee into a living pupa and read his memories, learning that the Dragoon pirates’ headquarters lay near the Tasman Islands.
• Evan watched Gell’s family reunion from a seagull’s perspective, then returned to Treasure Tree Bay as the family settled into the fortress guest rooms.
• As the front-line fighting intensified, Gell joined the battle with the May Wind, Irant volunteered as a Royal Naval Academy cadet, and Aunt and Angie helped at the wounded camp.
• The alliance prepared to hold out for reinforcements, while Evan took the Storm Cape south to meet Sirius’s Long-Snout Shark.

The Long-Snout Shark pursued a Tulip fleet using its sea monster’s senses, while Evan’s Storm Cape tried and failed to ambush it with the Electromagnetic Cannon. The three paired duels between Tulip Alliance and Sirius Quasi-Legendary Battleships began, as a bandit-suppression force arrived at Hatlafa Port.

• Malz Harry ordered the Long-Snout Shark to pursue the Tulip fleet after its Long-Snout Silver Shark sensed the ships beyond visual range.
• Malz kept his distance from the fleet, prompting Evan aboard the Storm Cape to order Olivia to fire the Electromagnetic Cannon.
• The Long-Snout Silver Shark warned Malz of the incoming projectile, and a spinning Water Element Shield deflected it.
• Evan ordered the Storm Cape to close in on the Long-Snout Shark as the allied fleet resumed maneuvering against Sirius’s Invincible Armada.
• The six Quasi-Legendary Battleships engaged in three paired duels, while a bandit-suppression force arrived at Hatlafa Port.

The Sirius-led anti-pirate fleet found Hatlafa Port and tried to break the Dragoons by exposing their base and challenging White Knight’s reputation. Emerald Light arrived as the Dragoon Pirate Crew’s vice captain and launched herself toward the enemy fleet.

• The Dragoons prepared Hatlafa Port for battle while Beth said White Knight could not return and that their vice captain was coming.
• Wizard Harvey used ghosts and sorcery to reveal the mystic lock around Hatlafa Port, then offered the pirates a chance to abandon White Knight before his fleet attacked.
• Harvey’s disciple mocked White Knight and challenged him to face Billy Buddha, stirring the watching pirates to demand that White Knight appear.
• Emerald Light arrived aboard a pirate ship, identified herself as the Dragoons’ vice captain, and shattered Harvey’s curse with her sword.
• Emerald Light drew Dragon Slayer Sword Siegfried and leaped from her ship toward the anti-pirate fleet.

Anita attacked the wizard-led fleet alone and overcame its cannons, monstrous familiars, and curses to reach the bald wizard Harvey. Harvey escaped with a Substitute Puppet, but Anita's arrival helped turn the battle into a victory for the Dragoon crew, while the White Knight's reputation rose among the witnesses.

• Anita raced across the sea and charged Harvey's flagship, where Harvey ordered the cannons to fire and sent Billy Buddha to attack her from the air.
• Harvey summoned Rotten Stench Moths with the Human Skin Book, but Anita's Dragon Might sent the creatures plunging into the sea.
• Anita boarded the warship, cut through its attackers and Harvey's curses, and killed Taren, while Harvey escaped using a Substitute Puppet.
• Billy Buddha and the pirate fleet retreated, but Anita's allies and the ships from Hatlafa Port surrounded Bradley's subordinates and won the counter-suppression campaign.
• The watching pirates became increasingly convinced that the White Knight was a peak-level Grand Knight or stronger.

Harvey reported his failed expedition against the White Knight, while Anita consolidated control of the Dragoons and prepared for another raid. In the Southern Continent, Griffiths used a divine spell to secretly swap the abilities and perceptions of two warships, setting up Sirius’s plan to break the naval deadlock.

• Harvey told the Curse School’s Chief that the White Knight had thwarted his plan to claim the Tavernier Blue Diamond, and the Chief ordered him to support Anduin in Sirius while avoiding trouble with the White Knight.
• Anita fed Bess and continued organizing the Dragoons after Evan’s absence, as the enlarged fleet grew confident in its strength and Hatlafa Port’s defenses.
• Anita asked Bess to gather intelligence so they could attempt another major raid before Evan returned.
• Major General Malz brought the Long-Snout Shark into the War Fog, where Griffiths coordinated with the other Sirius quasi-legendaries to prepare for a decisive strike before the Alliance support fleet arrived.
• Dean Webster used a scroll from a Third-Order Bishop to cast Concept Displacement, secretly swapping the abilities and cognitive perceptions of two warships for up to three days.
• Griffiths’s plan aimed to create an advantageous matchup for Sirius’s warships so the Red Maple could surprise the Alliance and end the stalemate.

Evan pursued the Long-Snout Shark toward Cape Agulhas but grew wary when the enemy’s behavior changed. He discovered Griffiths had switched ships to the Red Maple and launched an attack, leaving Evan, Milan, and Olivia to face a mortal crisis.

• Evan consulted Milan, Olivia, Sirik, and Temple Elvis, but none of them found anything unusual about the enemy ships or crews.
• As the ships approached Cape Agulhas, Evan ordered the Storm Cape to slow down and stop pursuing the Long-Snout Shark into the dangerous southern waters.
• Griffiths revealed that the Long-Snout Shark had changed into the Red Maple and ordered it to close in on the Storm Cape.
• Griffiths leaped from the Red Maple and formed a huge Flame Greatsword with the Dragon Breath Torch to attack the Storm Cape.
• Evan told Milan to activate the Mist Silver Lamp while he held Griffiths back, and Olivia joined him in the air.
• A Bright Red Fire Line shot toward Griffiths's eye as Evan prepared to charge.

Evan and Olivia harassed Griffiths as the Red Maple pursued the Storm Cape, while Dean Webster used a divine scroll to hinder their abilities. Griffiths summoned Magma Fish and empowered himself with divine arts, and Olivia and Evan revealed their strongest techniques as the confrontation escalated.

• Olivia covered Evan with rapid alchemy-musket fire while Evan struck Griffiths with a lightning attack, interrupting his pursuit of the Storm Cape.
• Dean Webster used Word of Power to restrict flight, firearms, and witchcraft around the battlefield as the Red Maple continued after the Storm Cape.
• Evan and Olivia entered the sea, where Olivia attacked Griffiths with water guns and Griffiths summoned two Magma Fish to pursue her.
• Griffiths empowered himself with Flame Holy Emblem, while Evan activated Thunder God Battle Form and prepared to fight him.
• Olivia returned to her original appearance, destroyed the Magma Fish with Tourmaline Thunder Cannon, and used three gemstones to grant Evan speed, fire resistance, and a protective shield.

Evan fought Griffiths while Olivia supported him, but she unleashed the Gemstone Star’s devastating power when Griffiths threatened her. The Storm Cape escaped the Red Maple in Mist Silver Lamp fog, but Evan and Olivia remained in danger from Griffiths and the unleashed storms near Cape Agulhas.

• Evan used his buffs, Master Level swordsmanship, and Olivia’s Thunder Cannons to hold off Griffiths, while Griffiths judged him a threat and attacked Olivia.
• Olivia used Crimson Lake Light to block Griffiths’s strike, but Evan urged her to retreat as the fight approached the end of Mist Silver Lamp’s duration.
• Olivia defied Evan and used Gem Sorcery: Star Shattering with Artemis, blasting Griffiths away and disrupting the weather near Cape Agulhas.
• Milan used Ocean Current Horn to speed the Storm Cape away from the Red Maple, then expanded Mist Silver Lamp’s fog enough to conceal the ship from its pursuers.
• Evan carried the exhausted Olivia, who lamented the cost of the Gemstone Star, as Decapitation Waves and a still-fighting Griffiths threatened them.
• Evan used Shadow Jump to flee with Olivia.

After Shadow Jump went wrong, Evan and Olivia became stranded on a deserted island surrounded by deadly whirlpools and powerful restrictions. They searched for a way out, shared a romantic moment, and remained unaware of a huge white snakeskin floating nearby.

• Evan rescued the unconscious Olivia from the whirlpools and brought her onto the island, where he discovered that magic and several other abilities were blocked.
• Olivia woke and suggested that Evan’s Shadow School Sorcery Item had interfered with Kaka’s Shadow Jump, sending them to the island south of Cape Agulhas.
• Evan assessed the island’s many restrictions, while Olivia recovered after temporarily losing her spellcasting ability.
• Evan and Olivia tried to leave but turned back, then investigated the island and found a giant Whale Fall beneath an underwater cliff.
• Evan told Olivia that he wanted to live forever with her, and she kissed him as a huge white snakeskin floated nearby unnoticed.

Evan and Olivia explored a hidden island and suspected its many injunction effects concealed something valuable. After Evan defeated and bound the island’s Crown of Thorns Sea Serpent, he named it Pipi and asked it about the island’s treasures.

• Evan and Olivia ate grilled fish while discussing how they might escape and whether someone had deliberately created the island’s injunction abilities to hide a secret.
• Evan sensed a creature approaching the shore, left Olivia by the fire, and struck the giant sea serpent into submission.
• Evan recognized the serpent as a Crown of Thorns Sea Serpent and decided it could guard the island’s hidden treasure.
• Evan used an Animation School Imprint Contract to bind the serpent, named it Pipi, and asked whether the island held treasures.
• Pipi confirmed that treasures were on the island.

Evan and Olivia found a hidden storehouse containing enough extraordinary Treasure Tree timber to build a Legendary Battleship, along with the Oceanic Secret Treasure that created the island’s injunctions. After Evan deactivated it, he had Kaka take every piece of timber, leaving with a vast haul of shipbuilding materials.

• Evan, Olivia, and Kaka rode Pipi to a hidden cavern, where Pipi broke through a disguised rock wall.
• Evan destroyed two attacking Human Knights with lightning and discovered a golden treasure chest in a dark chamber.
• Evan found a warehouse packed with carefully preserved Treasure Tree timber and realized it could supply materials for a Legendary Battleship.
• Olivia found the Oceanic Secret Treasure and identified it as the source of the island’s injunctions.
• Evan deactivated the treasure’s effects, restoring the Mind Network and their magical abilities.
• Evan ordered Kaka to swallow the entire timber storehouse into its shadow space.

Evan and Olivia escaped the island with a trove of shipbuilding materials and reunited with the Storm Cape crew, while Olivia kept her true appearance and joined Evan openly. Evan learned that the decisive naval battle between Sirius and the Northern Cold Wind was approaching.

• Evan and Olivia flew north from the island after spotting the buried remains of thousands of Anuma Slaves, while Pipi swam after the Storm Cape.
• Evan and Olivia discussed how the Royalist Party had hidden the materials needed to build a Legendary Battleship, and Evan planned to use the Oceanic Secret Treasure as Hatlafa Port’s barrier.
• Evan offered to buy Olivia jewelry, then showed her a plan to cultivate artificial organic gemstones for the Gem School.
• Milan divined that Captain Luo Di was dead, and the Storm Cape crew mourned Evan and Luo Di before Evan arrived with Olivia and introduced her as Major Olivia.
• Evan contacted Lieutenant General Temple Elvis and learned that Sirius had joined its main fleet with two quasi-Legendary Battleships, as the war entered its decisive naval stage.

Evan avoided attacking the wounded Griffiths and let the Alliance reinforcements reach the battlefield, where Tulip and Sirius assembled for a decisive naval battle. As the fleets opened their clash at Benin Bay, the Alliance formed a line-of-battle and Elvis announced that Sirius’s deputy naval commander, Kun Gang Taita, had been beheaded.

• Pipi caught up with the "Storm Cape" and escorted it underwater, while Evan decided not to risk attacking the ill Griffiths aboard the "Red Maple".
• By the ninth day, the Alliance reinforcements had joined the fleet, and both sides gathered at Benin Bay with seventy-three battleships and more than thirty thousand troops.
• Sirius raised the commander's flag aboard the "Saint Juan" and formed its fleet into the Crescent Formation.
• Elvis rallied the Alliance fleet and ordered it to form a line-of-battle and seize the windward position through the Mind Network.
• The Alliance fleet advanced toward Sirius, and a report announced that Sirius deputy naval commander Steel Knight Kun Gang Taita had been beheaded.