Chapter Summaries

After witnessing the slaughter caused by Iliya’s uprising, Evan explained its political and economic roots to Isabella and Livina. Saint Angel Bellerus arrived seeking insight into social change and the divine struggle behind the rebellion, and Evan left them with a startling question about capitalism’s eventual demise.

• Evan showed Isabella and Livina images of commoners in Iliya killing a former landlord, deepening their alarm over the uprising.
• Evan told Isabella and Livina that Iliya’s mercantilist policies and unequal distribution of wealth had helped drive the rebellion, then outlined the need for government oversight and redistribution.
• Saint Angel Bellerus appeared in the study and asked Evan to explain primary distribution and redistribution.
• Bellerus described the slaughter in Iliya and revealed that the Black Wing God was seeking Capital Divine Authority by spreading faith among the bourgeoisie.
• Bellerus asked Evan whether royal authority would inevitably be replaced by capital, and Evan replied by asking whether capitalism would inevitably perish.

Evan explained to Isabella, Livina, and Belenus how the Steam Industry would foster capital, why capitalism would eventually face crises, and how royal power could regulate its growth. He argued that the Alliance should restrain capital, let its abuses become visible, and use force to defeat any attempt to seize power.

• Evan told Isabella, Livina, and Belenus that capitalism would eventually disappear, that capital did not necessarily have to destroy royal power, and that Capital Divine Authority could be checked.
• Evan traced the rise of the Bourgeoisie Class from the Enclosure Movement and explained how Steam Engines and productive forces enabled capital to expand.
• Evan argued that overproduction would cause recurring economic crises that could weaken the Black Wing God through his connection to Capital Divine Authority.
• Evan explained that royal power could regulate capital through state control of important sectors, economic and legal intervention, and redistribution, while capitalism developed toward state capitalism.
• Evan urged the Alliance to restrain capital, expose capitalist exploitation, and use force against any attempted usurpation; he privately noted that state capitalism's limit might bring the dawn of socialism.

The Alliance assembled a massive fleet to intervene in Iliya after the new republic’s bourgeois rulers seized land, imposed brutal labor laws, and killed thousands. Evan and Anita prepared for battle when negotiations failed, while religious conflict continued to destabilize the Sirius Empire.

• Five Alliance nations sent forty-five warships to Gloucester, led by Rear Admiral Damon Brand, Augustus, and an unidentified High-Ranking Wizard.
• The Iliya Republic, ruled by Jerome and Wright, enacted laws that stripped farmers of their land and subjected vagrants and workers to harsh punishment and exploitation.
• About seventeen thousand people were killed in Iliya over three months, giving the Alliance an opening to intervene.
• Evan and Anita monitored the Alliance diplomats from the Storm Cape, and Anita announced that negotiations had failed and they should prepare for battle.
• Philip II’s Flame Tribunal persecuted followers of the old faith, while the Eternal Fire sect hunted believers of the Kindling Sect.

The Tulip Alliance and Iliya Republic brought their fleets and strongest fighters together for a decisive naval battle. As the fighting began, Harkins blocked the Alliance flagship’s Sun Spear with the Legendary Battleship Sea Soul, but emerald butterflies appeared beside him.

• The Alliance and Republic assembled their fleets off the border between Faletis and Iliya, preparing to decide the war at sea.
• Evan and Anita faced Wright and Jerome across the battlefield, while Bertram tried and failed to invite Anita to dinner.
• Pikeman rose to challenge Ghoul Pikeman as fourth-order fighters began battling above the fleets.
• Damon Brand ordered the Alliance fleet forward in a double-column formation while the Republic positioned its fast ships to board amid the clash.
• Glorious Glory fired its Sun Spear at Eternal Imprisonment Icon, but Harkins raised Sea Soul to intercept the attack and rapidly restored its damaged hull.
• Harkins prepared a counterattack, then noticed emerald butterflies silently drifting past him.

Evan and Harkins began their Legendary Battleship duel as the Crown of Miracles attacked the Sea Soul and drew it away from the battlefield. With Evan’s sister Anita commanding the Storm Cape, the fight between the remaining ships began.

• Evan ordered three golden-bodied Evil Path Alchemists to protect Anita before he boarded the Crown of Miracles with Olivia and May.
• Evan ordered the Crown of Miracles to fire its secondary turrets at Harkins’s Sea Soul, blasting holes in its hull.
• Harkins raised the Sea Soul’s Bubble Ring and used its Whirlpool Maneuver to pursue the Crown of Miracles toward the open sea.
• The soldiers on the battlefield watched the Legendary Battleships depart, while Anita ordered Milan to activate the Storm Cape’s Horned Shark figurehead.
• The Storm Cape charged toward the Republic fleet’s four quasi-Legendary vessels, beginning the ship battle.

The Crown of Miracles fought the Sea Soul while the Alliance and Republic fleets clashed around them. After the Crown pierced the Sea Soul with its main guns, Harkins submerged the wounded battleship and unleashed a massive tidal attack.

• Damon Brand and Besimo Gregory ordered their fleets to break apart and engage the enemy independently as the Alliance and Republic ships began firing.
• Evan directed the Crown of Miracles to counter the Sea Soul’s Bomb Cyclone with Olivia’s Tranquility spell.
• May fired the Crown’s main guns, piercing the Sea Soul from bow to stern and badly damaging its recovery system.
• Harkins activated Underwater Stealth, submerged the Sea Soul, and ordered it to use the Tidal Cannon against the Crown of Miracles.
• The Sea Soul drove five-meter waves toward the Crown of Miracles at a thousand kilometers per hour.

Evan and Olivia used the Crown of Miracles to evade the Sea Soul’s tidal attack and destroy the legendary battleship with a missile strike. Harkins survived and charged toward them, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Evan ordered May to use Dreamscape Cruise, moving the Crown of Miracles out of the tidal wave’s path.
• May detected the submerged Sea Soul, and Evan launched 128 Hurricane Missiles with Hecy’s targeting support.
• Harkins sensed the incoming missiles and escaped beneath the Sea Soul using Free Will.
• The missiles devastated the Sea Soul, leaving its hull wrecked on the seabed, while Harkins survived the blast.
• Harkins flew toward the Crown of Miracles, vowing to kill Evan and Olivia for obstructing his ambitions.

Besimo Gregory’s attempt to hide the Republic fleet failed when Pipi and the Storm Cape launched a boarding assault on the Eternal Imprisonment Icon. As the wider naval battle erupted, Evan exhausted a missile barrage against Harkins, then transformed and confronted him in the sky.

• Besimo Gregory cloaked the Republic’s four Quasi-Legendary Battleships, but Pipi attacked the Eternal Imprisonment Icon and shattered the concealment.
• The Storm Cape rammed the Eternal Imprisonment Icon, and Gary led the Sharkmen aboard while Anita and the alchemists engaged Besimo Gregory and the other Third-Order fighters.
• The Glory joined the assault, the other Republic ships moved to help, and Extraordinary fighters began battling across the sea.
• Hamer fought Gary and Irant aboard the Eternal Imprisonment Icon as the crews clashed in the surrounding naval battle.
• Evan fired Hurricane Missiles at Harkins, but Free Will let Harkins evade them, so Evan transformed into a Storm Dragonborn and faced him directly.
• Harkins charged Evan with Wildness and Reason Exile, and Evan answered by throwing an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb.

Evan fought Harkins, using advance intelligence and a prepared electromagnetic pulse to disrupt his construct arm before meeting his transformed fourth-order power head-on. With Olivia and May’s beam cage trapping Harkins, Evan collapsed it into a blinding explosion, leaving only the Hermit Shell behind.

• Evan resisted Harkins’s Free Will ability, and an electromagnetic pulse made Harkins’s construct arm strike his own chest.
• Evan pursued the injured Harkins with dragon breath, but Harkins broke free and revealed his Ghost God form as Evan assumed his Thunder God Battle Form Phoenix Form.
• Evan and Harkins clashed in the sky with their transformed powers and fighting techniques.
• Olivia and May used five Red-Hair Crystals to create a Light Beam Cage around the battling pair.
• Harkins tried to escape the completed cage, but the Mountain Giant knocked him back inside.
• Evan told Harkins that only he would die, and the cage collapsed into a blazing point of light, leaving the Hermit Shell behind.

Irant killed Haimo while the Alliance Army fought the Republic Navy and its ghouls, and Anita struck Besimo down. Pikeman called on the Ghoul King’s power and split into two, leaving Anita transformed into a High-ranking Sea Emperor Dragon to face Mocking Tunnel Forager.

• Irant used Crimson Lake Light and Lake Light Reflection to defeat Haimo, then turned on Thomas Gregory when he recognized the stolen sword.
• Sidrick drove back a Grand Knight and blasted two ghouls while Anita battled Besimo Gregory with Dragon Slayer Swordsmanship.
• Anita overpowered Besimo, while Pikeman noticed Harkins the Outlaw’s Life Aura vanish and called upon the Ghoul King.
• The Ghoul King’s power split Pikeman into two, and one copy attacked Anita after biting the Second Seat’s Steel Body in half.
• Anita emerged from the sea as a High-ranking Sea Emperor Dragon and breathed Frost Dust Breath at Mocking Tunnel Forager.

Evan collected the remains of the Sea Soul, then used the Crown of Miracles’ missiles and sword energy to help Anita defeat Pikeman. The gods’ hidden maneuvering continued as Belenus recognized that mortals had the power to counter the Ghoul King’s intervention.

• Evan retrieved the intact Hermit Shell and gathered the Sea Soul’s wreckage and scattered materials into his Sorcery Garden.
• Sariel defended Pikeman’s use of Mordigian’s power, while Belenus considered aiding the Black Iron Cross Church and saw Evan as a capable ally.
• Anita fought Pikeman as Sidrick recovered Second Seat’s head and Damon Brand captured the injured Besimer.
• Anita drew Pikeman into the path of the Crown of Miracles’ Hurricane Missiles, and the bombardment left him gravely wounded.
• Evan caught the exhausted Anita and destroyed Pikeman with Animated Aura · Sword Energy Torrent.

After the Alliance Army defeated Iliya’s forces, Yellen fled aboard the Southern Cross to the Shattered Star Sea and vowed to reclaim his throne. Evan and Anita captured the rebellion’s leaders before they could escape, and Evan confronted Wright over an old score.

• The Republic’s forces surrendered after Anita killed a fourth-order-equivalent monster, while ghouls fled and Pikeman escaped.
• Yellen rejected the former Kingdom High Command’s hopes of returning home, then ordered the Southern Cross to sail to the Shattered Star Sea.
• Evan and Anita flew to Hereford to decide the fate of the rebellion’s leaders.
• Jerome and Wright prepared to escape through a blood portal made with more than a hundred sacrificed civilians.
• Kaka trapped the leaders inside the White Egret Merchant Guild headquarters and crushed their portal before Evan confronted Wright.

After defeating the forces behind Iliya’s failed republic, Evan used a bloodline curse to kill Wright’s relatives and bring Wright’s crimes to an end. Anita avenged her family at the Garratt cemetery, while the Slaughter Angel and Bellerus reflected on the defeat and the future spread of reform.

• Atman Neilco sailed toward exile with Iliya’s assembly members’ families and ordered a sailor thrown overboard before escorting Madam Jerome to the Poop Deck.
• Evan brought the captured Wright to the Garratt Family cemetery, where Wright boasted that his descendants could rebuild the family’s power.
• Evan cast a bloodline curse that killed Wright’s relatives across several kingdoms and made Wright suffer their deaths through their shared bloodline.
• Anita killed the weakened Wright and wept with Evan at her family’s graves.
• The Slaughter Angel told Bellerus that capital’s influence would keep spreading despite the defeat, and Bellerus left the prediction open to the future.

After Wright’s death collapsed the capitalists’ hold over Iliya, Evan, Anita, and Olivia intercepted fleeing officials’ families and seized their fleet. They discovered the ships carried spoils worth about sixty million Gold Lions, giving Evan the wealth to begin state capitalism in the Georgia Territory.

• Sand saw the mine overseers flee after the miners heard that Wright had died, and the miners poured out of the mine cheering.
• Evan animated four Ancient Tree Guardians to guard the Garratt Family cemetery as he and Anita finished honoring their ancestors.
• Olivia told Anita that the Mind Network had found the fleeing families of Republic officials, and Anita eagerly joined her and Evan to pursue them.
• The officials’ families and the White Egret Merchant Guild crew threw Neilco’s corpse overboard, then a black warship and azure mist captured their four Armed Merchant Ships.
• Evan, Anita, and Olivia inventoried the seized cargo and found wealth worth roughly sixty million Gold Lions, which Evan planned to use for state capitalism in the Georgia Territory.

After the Alliance liberated Hereford City and secured Iliya, Evan repurposed the captured councilors’ families as loyal subordinates and received a divine mark naming him a saint. He was promoted to hereditary Marquis, then considered where to establish his family’s second territory.

• Evan decided to alter the councilors’ families’ appearances and memories, turning them into loyal, capable subordinates rather than killing or imprisoning them.
• The Alliance Army liberated Hereford City and advanced inland, while Augustus asked Evan for guidance on the next phase of the campaign.
• An angel’s miracle healed the wounded, and Evan received a cross-shaped stigmata that led Church priests to proclaim him Saint Evan.
• The Alliance occupied Iliya, and the Queen promoted Evan directly from Viscount to hereditary Marquis for his service in the war.
• Evan, Sister, and Olivia studied a map of Iliya and discussed where to establish their family’s second territory.

Evan visited Crown Princess Livina in Beckler to discuss the territory he would receive after the war, while Livina struggled with her growing attraction to him and her desire to keep him close to the Kingdom. Evan revealed that he had already chosen a territory in the New Continent: Buffalo.

• After the war ended, Evan brought Sister and Olivia to Beckler while the Alliance army began its purge and martial law operation in Iliya.
• Evan admired the bone china tea set he had given Livina and reflected on how his ceramics business was spreading through the Alliance.
• Livina appeared in a formal court dress and greeted Evan as an equal, recognizing how far he had risen from the boy she once recruited as her Guardian Knight.
• Livina brought Evan a map for his upcoming enfeoffment and secretly brushed her foot against his calf as she considered how to strengthen his ties to the Kingdom.
• When Livina offered to explain Iliya's territories, Evan tapped the map and said he had already chosen Buffalo in the New Continent.

Evan explained why he had chosen Buffalo for his new territory and discussed Anita’s future with Livina. He offered to combine his remaining Treasure Trees with the Kingdom’s stock to build a supernatural battleship for Anita.

• Livina questioned Evan’s choice of Buffalo, and Evan considered the territory’s ports, waterways, farmland, and potential to attract immigrants.
• Livina agreed to convey Evan’s request for Buffalo to the Queen and told him that Anita had received the honorary rank of Baroness.
• Livina asked Evan whether Anita would join the Kingdom Navy as a rear admiral, but Evan said he could not decide for his elder sister.
• Evan offered his remaining Treasure Trees, prepared for Anita’s battleship, to combine with the Kingdom’s stored materials and build a supernatural ship.

Evan and the Faletis Kingdom agreed to jointly build a Legendary Battleship, Emerald Sun Halo, with Anita Garratt as its actual owner and captain. As the Alliance reshaped its economy and Iliya’s people fled toward the New Continent, a massive Spirit Tide erupted there.

• Evan negotiated with Queen Isabella and Livina for a joint shipbuilding plan, with the Kingdom nominally owning the warship and Anita Garratt commanding it.
• Evan and Livina agreed that the Kingdom would prepare another shipbuilding project if it later gathered enough materials, and Evan asked her for a land development charter.
• The Tulip Nations began nationalizing key industries and restricting private capital under the Black Iron Cross Church’s leadership.
• Charlie I restored the Iliya dynasty under Alliance protection, while Iliya’s people faced hardship and fled toward the New Continent.
• A massive Spirit Tide erupted on the New Continent as the Iliya refugees journeyed there.

As Evan’s territory launched compulsory literacy and schooling, the New Continent’s rising magical activity intensified its conflicts and unleashed a devastating Spirit Tide. The chapter ended with Buffalo collapsing under ghoul rule and nightly attacks, its people trapped in a living hell.

• Evan’s disciples and territorial officials established a Literacy Department, while the marquisate began adult literacy classes and compulsory schooling for children.
• Jacob and Kyle completed their advancements, then joined Calvin in research at Waterfall Hill Wizard Tower until a distant bell and a fiery sky signaled a major battle near the New Sirius Viceroyalty.
• The conflict between Lady Crow Yeher and Mother of Water Mairo intensified as magical activity rose, while extraordinary squads defended the Cumberland and Abayachi lines.
• Baldwin, Billy Buddha, and Onions pursued powerful spirits and monsters across the defense lines to help contain the growing threat.
• Buffalo’s ghouls restricted residents from escaping and preyed on them, while nightly supernatural attacks spread terror through the cities.
• Nearly half of Buffalo’s original four hundred thousand residents had been lost, and the former colony had become a place of widespread death and despair.

Evan’s forces entered Buffalo to stabilize the territory after a devastating Spirit Tide Impact, while Evan and Olivia searched the Spirit World for knowledge to build a Legendary Battleship. They found an ancient diagram of Star God Eärendil’s ship, the Birchwood, whose symbolic design caught their interest.

• Colonel Robert and Iron Bone William reported to Evan that the Garrison Force had reached Long Island Port and was ready to advance into Buffalo.
• Evan ordered his commanders to stabilize Buffalo’s major cities and kill the remaining ghouls as the Spirit Tide’s devastation and a Third-Order Totem God threatened the region.
• Evan and Olivia entered the Spirit World and visited the Turin Grand Library to research the foundation of a Legendary Battleship compatible with Bellerus’s power.
• Kingfisher Lady showed them blueprints of ancient Extraordinary Ships and Mythical Artifact Ships, explaining that symbolism mattered greatly to gods.
• Evan and Olivia discovered a diagram of Star God Eärendil’s ship, the Birchwood, and were struck by its beautiful, highly symbolic design.