Chapter Summaries

The Alliance fleet opened a major naval battle against Sirius, while Ricard tried to draw Alliance ships into a boarding fight and Elvis instead sent a squadron to engage his exposed flagship. As the Storm Cape prepared to fight the Long-Snout Shark, Dahomey forces attacked Lagos and ran into recovered Alliance soldiers defending the port.

• Tulip warships began firing on Sirius's left wing, and the sight of Kun Gang Taita's head disrupted the Sirius return fire.
• Ricard ordered the Saint Juan out of formation to lure Alliance ships into a boarding battle, but Elvis detached three ships to engage it while the rest of the Alliance line held course.
• Gell and Irant led the May Wind in blocking the Saint Juan, while Alliance sharpshooters climbed the masts and aimed at enemy officers.
• Evan ordered Olivia to stand ready with the Electromagnetic Cannon as the Long-Snout Shark raced toward the Storm Cape.
• Dahomey warriors landed at Lagos, where Alliance soldiers and the port fort stopped their advance; the Dahomey commander realized Sirius had misled her about Alliance losses.

Evan used the Storm Cape, the fleet’s hidden Siren’s Song, and Pipi Serpent to disable and destroy Malz’s Long-Snout Shark, then pursued Malz as he fled. When Sirius used a rain-summoning treasure to cripple the alliance’s gunfire, Evan countered with the Mist Silver Lamp and prepared the alliance to fight under cover of fog.

• Evan activated Siren’s Song, which incapacitated the Long-Snout Silver Shark and stripped the Long-Snout Shark of its sea monster’s power.
• Pipi Serpent rammed the Long-Snout Silver Shark from below, and Evan turned the Storm Cape against the Long-Snout Shark while Gary led the Fish Monster Warriors aboard.
• Evan fought Malz, but Malz escaped toward the Red Maple; Evan pursued him after putting Boris in command.
• Sirius’s deputy commander used the Chak Stone Urn to summon a downpour that obstructed the alliance’s guns and increased its losses.
• Evan refused Vice Admiral Elvis’s proposed retreat and ordered Milan to activate the Mist Silver Lamp, blanketing the battlefield in disorienting fog.
• Milan designated allies who could see through the fog, and Olivia prepared the Electromagnetic Cannon as Evan rallied the Storm Cape’s crew.

The Alliance fleet exploited the fog to devastate the Sirius Fleet while Gell’s ships boarded the Saint Juan and Evan fought Malz and Webster aboard the Red Maple. Eternal Fire priests dispelled the fog, revealing the Invincible Armada in ruins as it began to retreat.

• The Alliance line-of-battle maneuvered around the Sirius Fleet and fired coordinated broadsides, while Olivia’s Electromagnetic Cannon scored a sympathetic detonation.
• Gell ordered the Albatross and Oak to board the Saint Juan, and Irant fought among the boarding party.
• Faletis Marshall, Hamilton, and Vice Admiral Elvis attacked Griffiths, while Evan fought Malz and Webster aboard the Red Maple.
• Malz escaped underwater, and Webster transformed into a Hellfire Demon and detonated himself, prompting Eternal Fire priests to summon flames that began clearing the fog.
• After 26,000 shells devastated the Sirius Fleet, the priests’ Spirit Storm dispersed the fog and revealed only seventeen damaged Flame Pennant warships still able to move.
• A flame-shrouded figure ordered the Invincible Armada to retreat.

After Faletis celebrated its victory over Sirius, Isabella praised Evan and his family and ordered the Kingdom to accelerate its plans for the postwar struggle. In Sirius, Philip II learned that his marriage to Mary Theresa would bring him the imperial crown, shifting his attention to his fiancée as the powers prepared for what came next.

• Isabella read Vice Admiral Elvis's battle report and praised the allied forces' victory over the Sirius Fleet.
• Livina highlighted Commodore Garratt's achievements and the service of Gell's family, and Isabella promised them a special commendation.
• Isabella ordered Weina to convene the Imperial Council and accelerate the Hegemon Disqualification Plan.
• Livina told Isabella that she intended to advance as a Kingdom Guardian and had chosen the path of Justice.
• Philip II considered Sirius's defeat manageable but resolved to restore public confidence and pursue the imperial crown.
• Mary Theresa told Philip II that her father would restore the emperor-election tradition and pass the imperial throne to him after their wedding.

After the Tulip Alliance conquered Metical, Evan explained the colony’s strategic value and worried about the missing Sirius fleet. The fleet’s destruction was confirmed just as the Raging Tide Church sent Evan an ominous offer of goodwill, which he forwarded to the royal court.

• Evan, Olivia, and Milan divided gemstones and Essence Fruits taken in Metical, while Evan explained the importance of its coal resources to Faletis’s steam industry.
• Evan worried that no one had found the Sirius ships that escaped during the Spirit Storm.
• Diana, secretly Farnese of the Curse School, heard Prince Clement praise her for helping Sirius suffer a defeat and promise her a knighthood.
• A merchant ship returned with proof that the remaining seventeen Sirius ships had been destroyed by a storm near Luanda, leaving Sirius without a military force in the Southern Continent.
• Evan received a Spirit World Communication from Dean Fisher, who called the Raging Tide Church’s message a gift to the Tulip Alliance.
• Evan forwarded Fisher’s message to the homeland, leaving the Queen, Crown Prince, and royal court to deal with the church’s unexplained goodwill.

Evan helped Angie select an Extraordinary Characteristic for Irant and prepared to leave the Southern Continent, but the Kingdom Guardian summoned him to advise on a planned attack against Dahomey. Evan proposed using rival powers to destroy Dahomey and take control of the slave trade, then asked the officers to choose between Oyo, Tagu, and Sana.

• The Bone-Eating Worm sank a Sirius vessel and gained power through the Shipwreck Lament, while its crew avoided fighting Angie as she rode past with a shark escort.
• Angie returned to the Storm Cape with several captured sea creatures, and Evan praised her search for a suitable Extraordinary Characteristic for Irant.
• Evan prepared to return to the New Continent after the Southern Continent mission, concerned about Sister's planned coalition operation.
• The Kingdom Guardian announced the Alliance's plan to attack Dahomey, and Evan publicly framed the invasion as a defense of peace and stability.
• Evan proposed using Oyo, Tagu, or Sana to destroy Dahomey and seize the slave-trade profits without sacrificing Alliance troops.

Anita led a coalition of pirates in a surprise attack on Dios Port while Sirius’s Treasure Fleet was delayed. Meanwhile, Evan and Ilvedi secured the Oyo Tribe’s alliance against Dahomey, and Ilvedi appointed Evan commander of the campaign and named him the Destroyer of Nations.

• Sirius merchants in Dios Port waited anxiously for the delayed Treasure Fleet and learned that General Adonis Auston’s arrival was expected in three days.
• Anita gathered pirate forces and coordinated them through Bess’s Mind Network, then attacked Dios Port before Sirius’s reinforcements arrived.
• The pirate coalition bombarded the port’s defenses and garrison while leaving the merchant ships untouched as plunder.
• Evan and Ilvedi finalized an alliance with Abiodun, ruler of the Oyo Tribe, promising Tulip officers and elite troops to help defeat Dahomey.
• Evan asked whether Ilvedi had killed fourth-rank practitioners, and Ilvedi confirmed that he had slain several in the colonies.
• Ilvedi appointed Evan commander of the alliance’s war against Dahomey and called him the Destroyer of Nations.

Two months after Emerald Light became a Pirate King, Evan fought in Tulip and Oyo’s war against Dahomey, which ended with the fall of its capital. After defeating Queen Pulaka, Evan killed her at her request and left the conquered palace with his allies.

• Emerald Light became the Golden Sea’s third Pirate King after the pirate coalition captured Dios Port, while Crown Princess Livina advanced to Grand Knight.
• The Rose Sword Saint, Ilvedi, defeated the Great Lord possessing Dahomey’s High Priest, allowing Oyo forces to storm the capital of Great Adra.
• Evan fought Queen Pulaka, a Third-Order Dahomey priestess guarding King Agoli Agbo, and severed her halberd before piercing her lung.
• When Oyo soldiers approached to claim Pulaka as a captive, Evan killed her at her request; he then discovered that King Agoli Agbo had taken his own life.
• Dahomey fell, and Evan left the palace to meet Olivia, Milan, and the others waiting at its gates.

Evan and Olivia traveled toward the Old Continent while discussing their research, upcoming duties, and plans for a leisurely adventure. The chapter left Evan preparing to return home with Olivia and his familiars, while Nymph remained behind at Hatlafa Port, overwhelmed with paperwork.

• Evan and Olivia worked on ship Blueprints and the Organic Gem Cultivation Method aboard the Crown of Thorns Sea Serpent, then teased each other with their golden-feather quills.
• Evan told Olivia that he had found a possible original host for cultivating Organic Gemstones and discussed how the Voodoo Empress had combined wizardry with faith.
• Evan reviewed his leave, his expected promotion to major general, and his assignment to serve as liaison for the Tulip's alliance talks with the Raging Tide Church.
• Evan arranged for Angie to return to the New Continent with Minnie and the demonized Great Albatross, and sent Mansa Musa King's Treasure Chest back to Hatlafa Port.
• Evan planned to travel with Olivia, Pipi, and Kaka, explore unknown lands, and begin pursuing his dream of becoming a professional soldier-style adventurer.
• Nymph remained at Hatlafa Port, buried in paperwork and unaware that Evan had forgotten about her.

Olivia and Evan attempted to steal a lightning longsword from a thunderbird nest during their Spirit Realm training but were driven off by the thunderbird family. Olivia then entered a strange dream in Orange Leaf Castle, while an ethereal sailing ship passed near their island unnoticed.

• Olivia waited for Evan to distract the thunderbirds while she tried to seize the lightning longsword from their nest, but she found no opening.
• Evan rescued Olivia as three more thunderbirds joined the pursuit, and they fled through the clouds without the sword.
• Evan's Spirit Power reached 3.52 after he lit the prime matter Beauty, while Olivia's rose to 2.1.
• Olivia woke in Orange Leaf Castle, followed children's laughter down an unfamiliar staircase, and found a circus surrounded by pale humanoid puppets.
• An enormous dreamlike sailing ship passed near the island, unnoticed by Kaka and Pipi.

Evan and Olivia were trapped in a dangerous dream aboard the Strange Dream, where Olivia faced Little Jack and his toy army. After Evan rescued her and they awakened, they saw the ghostly ship fading away, and Evan discovered he had brought Little Jack’s Brass Toy Box back with him.

• Evan realized Olivia was in danger and followed their spiritual connection through the dream to find her.
• Olivia fled through horrifying dream scenes, losing her memories and equipment before reaching a castle ruled by Little Jack.
• Little Jack attacked Olivia with toy soldiers, cannons, and cavalry, but she found a moonstone-eyed doll and purified the soldiers with moonlight.
• Evan burst into the castle and crushed Little Jack’s head as Olivia’s purification restored her memories and triggered the dream’s collapse.
• Evan and Olivia awoke outside their tent and watched the Strange Dream fade over the Sea.
• Evan discovered that Little Jack’s Brass Toy Box had followed him out of the dream.

Evan and Olivia examined the brass Toy Box they had won from the dream and discovered that it was a powerful creation tied to the fourth volume of “Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood.” They left with a vast Alchemy Workshop, research materials from its former owner, and new hopes for Evan’s Wizard’s Path.

• Olivia suspected the Toy Box belonged to the Alchemy School, but Evan identified it as an Animation School creation and activated its toy soldiers with Animated Aura.
• Evan ordered the red and blue armies to demonstrate, and they immediately attacked each other until he stopped them after a quarter of the soldiers were destroyed.
• Evan realized the soldiers were Animated Dead Objects from the fourth volume of “Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood,” and he returned them to the box.
• Evan activated another rune, causing the Toy Box to unfold into a large Alchemy Workshop that could repair the soldiers and contained a Biological Modulation Laboratory.
• Evan found research notes and a diary by the High-Ranking Wizard Steel Man, whose work focused on Animated Dead Object but offered little information about Overall Activation Art.
• Evan kissed Olivia and credited her as his lucky Goddess after reflecting that their Adventurer’s Blood might help them find more volumes of “Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood.”

Evan Garratt advised Queen Isabella on how to guide Faletis’s economic development, arguing that the kingdom should encourage industrialization and markets while keeping strategic industries under state control. Isabella appointed him an adviser to the Queen’s Think Tank, and Evan left with his ambitions focused on advancing his own strength and business interests.

• Queen Isabella invited Evan Garratt to meet her and her Think Tank advisers, Kirkcaldy and Francis, during their debate over free markets and state-led industrialization.
• Evan presented his theory of the Capitalized Economy, explaining how industrial growth and concentrated capital could empower a class capable of challenging the kingdom’s rulers.
• Evan warned that the rise of the bourgeoisie could destabilize the kingdom, citing the Iliya Kingdom as a cautionary example.
• Isabella asked Evan how to manage the coming economic transformation, and he proposed state control of key industries alongside free competition elsewhere.
• Isabella appointed Evan an adviser to the Queen’s Think Tank, and he left St. James’s Palace with Livina.

Evan received his promotion to Rear Admiral, settled into a royal villa with Olivia, and completed his extraordinary weapon, Thunder Fang. Meanwhile, Bishop Fisher sought Tulip’s help against the Deep Sea Brotherhood and the Sea Monster King Kraken.

• Queen Isabella presided over Evan’s promotion ceremony, and Evan learned that Tulip and Sirius had signed a ceasefire agreement ahead of Philip II’s wedding and coronation.
• Evan and Olivia moved into their royal-capital villa, marked it as the Garratt and Amore Residence, and prepared to leave for the Southern Wind Country.
• Evan completed Thunder Fang, a lightning-attribute sword capable of summoning the third-tier elemental Lightning Elf Thunderbird.
• Bishop Fisher told a priest that Harkins would not deploy the Legendary Battleship Sea Soul and said he would seek help from Tulip against the Deep Sea Brotherhood.
• Fisher identified the Ancient Sea Turtle Kraken, the Sea Monster King, as a possible source of outside aid and planned to meet Tulip’s representatives.

Evan and Olivia visited an auction in Kun Sai, where they bought and named a rare green gemstone, then encountered the celebrated singer Vitas. After spending the night together, a shadow slipped into Frog Croaking Forest ahead of their planned expedition.

• At an auction in Kun Sai, Olivia identified an unusual serpentine specimen as meteor-formed glass, and she and Evan bought it for sixty Gold Lions.
• Olivia named the gemstone Green Meteorite and discussed how it could help her advance in the Gem School.
• Evan and Olivia listened to Vitas sing, but Olivia refused to buy tickets and left with Evan.
• Evan and Olivia returned to their suite, where they shared an intimate night together.
• Late that night, a shadow left the hotel and headed toward Frog Croaking Forest.

Evan and Olivia followed an adventuring party searching the Frog Croaking Forest for missing women and discovered that a group of worshippers had gathered twenty captives as brides for the Frog God. The worshippers sent Mike and a swarm of Frog Monsters to deal with the approaching searchers.

• Captain Titus's party searched the forest for missing women while Evan and Olivia followed behind them.
• Titus told Da Long to keep an eye on Evan and Olivia as they trailed the group.
• The searchers found a handkerchief bearing Miss Nara's name, and Evan and Olivia went with them to investigate.
• Five green-robed worshippers stood beside a pond holding twenty young women asleep inside giant frog eggs.
• The worshippers sent Mike to meet the approaching party and ordered him to use them as food for the Frog God.
• A swarm of thirty or forty enormous Frog Monsters charged toward the woods.

Evan and Olivia followed the trail of the missing women to a frog-monster nest, where Evan used his Toy Box army to defeat the monsters and capture their green-robed allies. After they freed and purified the women, Vitas warned that they had angered the Frog God, and a terrifying presence awakened beneath the forest.

• Titus led the party to a rocky shoal, where he found dozens of enormous Frog Monsters and ordered everyone to flee.
• Mike struck Titus down and threatened Evan and Olivia, declaring that he would offer Olivia as a bride to the Frog God.
• Evan deployed cavalry, musketeers, and cannons from his Brass Toy Box, destroying the Frog Monsters and capturing Mike and four other green-robed men.
• Evan questioned Mike about his strength and the Frog God, while his mercenaries freed the twenty missing women from frog eggs.
• Olivia used Gem Sorcery to purify the women, and the captured Vitas warned Evan that freeing the Frog God's brides had caused enormous trouble.
• The dead Frog Monsters' blood seeped underground, a violent tremor shook the forest, and a heavy pressure descended on everyone.

Evan and Olivia gathered Gemstone Shells before Evan destroyed the Frog God’s body, only to discover that the golden crown was its true form and that it could rebuild itself. They escaped with the crown still in Kun Sai City, and Evan resolved to return for it.

• Evan used Thunderbird to distract the Frog God while he and Olivia hid in a Natural Well, where he collected more than a hundred Gemstone Shells.
• Evan and Olivia concluded that the golden crown had altered the forest and that Kun Sai City’s Magistrate likely knew about the Frog God and its sacrifices.
• Evan sent Kaka to plant Alchemy Bombs beneath the Frog God and detonated them with a high-pressure pulse, destroying its body.
• Evan sensed danger and stopped himself from touching the crown, which rebuilt the Frog God’s body from nearby materials.
• The crown reclaimed the gifts of the five green-robed men, while Evan and Olivia escaped as the city knights arrived and knelt before the Frog God.
• Evan watched from the clouds and decided to return for the crown later.

After escaping Frog Croaking Forest, Evan and Olivia met Bishop Fisher in Mykonos and followed him through a Blue Hole to the Polar Region. There, Fisher revealed the Raging Tide Church’s mission involved the Sea Monster King Kraken, but clarified that the enormous island was the Ancient Sea Turtle’s descendant.

• Evan and Olivia sent the rescued adventurers and missing people away from Kun Sai, warning them to keep quiet and never return.
• Evan and Olivia spent several days in Mykonos, where Evan began selectively breeding Gemstone Shells.
• Fisher arrived through a Water Element Tunnel, discussed Octopus Ghost Harkins’s troubling alliances, and invited Evan and Olivia to see the Raging Tide Church’s work.
• Fisher led Evan and Olivia through a Blue Hole to an icy sea near the Polar Region.
• Fisher pointed out a colossal nine-headed shape beneath the clouds and identified the island as the descendant of the world’s last Ancient Sea Turtle, the Sea Monster King Kraken.

Evan, Olivia, Fisher, and Princeton learned that Kraken was the last Ancient Sea Turtle and was vulnerable while gestating new land, making him central to a struggle for power in the Black Sea. As they prepared to discuss an alliance, Kraken awakened and sensed Phorcys’s aura on Evan and Olivia.

• Evan summoned Princeton’s projection, and Fisher explained Kraken’s identity, the Ancient Sea Turtles’ role in creating islands and continents, and Kraken’s coming vulnerable gestation period.
• Fisher revealed that the Raging Tide Church wanted to protect Kraken and enlist his support against the Deep Sea Brotherhood and the Sea Monster Mother’s forces.
• Evan asked Princeton what divinity meant, and Princeton described it as a mark of transcending mortality that granted a higher-dimensional perspective and the ability to harm beings of divine rank.
• Fisher invited the group to continue their discussion at the Raging Tide Church’s camp, but a massive surge forced them to flee into the sky.
• Kraken awakened and asked why Evan and Olivia carried the aura of Phorcys of the Endless Ocean, prompting Princeton and Fisher to look meaningfully at the pair.