Chapter Summaries

Evan’s forces continued their campaign in Buffalo as Robert and William struggled to plan defenses against the territory’s long borders. Meanwhile, Evan summoned Saint Angel Bellerus to transform the warship into the Legendary Battleship Emerald Corona, which Anita activated and launched into the sky.

• Kvarina Bach killed a wounded second-order ghoul during the fighting in Albany City.
• Robert and William weighed the cost of defending Buffalo’s extensive lakeshore and river boundaries.
• The Mushroom Man and Insect Man recognized the forces in Buffalo as connected to the destruction of their school and plotted to seek help from Bison God Bello.
• Evan summoned Saint Angel Bellerus, who transformed Ship Birch into a Ship of Light.
• Anita activated the Legendary Battleship Emerald Corona, and it rose into the sky using Sun Chariot Patrols the Sky.

Viceroy Flavio ordered Sirius forces to abandon some mines and retreat west after Spirit Tide losses, while Georgia's army prepared to attack Saratoga City with reinforcements from Angie and three peak wizards. Before they could launch their assault, Bello led ghost monsters and Nature Spirits in a surprise attack on their camp.

• Viceroy Flavio scolded General Angelo over the loss of two-thirds of the central resource sites and ordered a retreat one thousand kilometers toward the West Coast.
• William briefed Angie and three peak wizards on the Georgia campaign's advance toward Saratoga City and the suspected third-tier Totem God there.
• Robert warned that the suspected Totem God might be connected to Lady Crow, but the commanders overlooked the enemy's intelligence.
• Bello identified the Georgia camp after the Mushroom Man and Insect Man urged him to avenge Lady Crow and led a ghostly force toward it.
• Bello sent ghost monsters and Nature Spirits rushing into the camp, where alarms sounded and soldiers shouted that the enemy was attacking.

Evan’s forces fought an ambush by spirits at Buffalo while Angie confronted Bello, the Bison God, and used the White Dragon Inheritance. Evan also secured thirty years of use of the Raging Tide Church’s Legendary Battleship, but Angie's urgent message warned that something had happened in Buffalo.

• Evan’s Georgia Territory Garrison Force formed a defense and fought off waves of spirits with Holy Salt Bombs, muskets, and Coral Steel weapons.
• Robert and William engaged the Bandage Man and Hellfire Mad Bone, while Minnie drove back the Shadow Demon.
• Bello attacked the soldiers, recognized Angie, and learned she had escaped the Underworld Cave; Angie invoked the White Dragon Inheritance and sent Evan’s emergency signal into the spirit realm.
• Evan temporarily returned the Sea Soul to the Raging Tide Church in exchange for thirty years of free use of its Legendary Battleship, completing his fleet across the spirit realm, sky, and sea.
• Evan received Angie's urgent message and learned that something had happened in Buffalo.

Angie and the army fought the Plague Epidemic School and Wild Buffalo God Bello, whose divine sword strike threatened to destroy the battlefield. Evan arrived aboard the Emerald Sun Halo, countered Bello’s attack, and confronted him.

• Angie used Flesh and Blood Riot to disable Insect Man, while her Clay Doll blocked Mushroom Man’s Mind Lightning and Samuer subdued Insect Man.
• Wild Buffalo God Bello invoked his Divine Name and cut the three alchemists in half with a devastating blade of light.
• The Emerald Sun Halo arrived through Dreamscape Cruise, and Anita ordered Pegasus to use Dedication Aura to break Bello’s blade of light.
• The battleship’s Sun Chariot Patrols the Sky purified ghosts, monsters, and Nature Spirits across the battlefield.
• Evan launched from the Emerald Sun Halo and challenged the isolated Wild Buffalo God Bello.

Evan defeated Bello with the help of the Legendary Battleship Emerald Corona, then negotiated a territorial boundary with Lady Crow Yeher along the Niagara River. The Iroquois spirit Uwakala watched the Tulip People’s growing influence with concern.

• Evan’s sword aura cut Bello in half, but Bello used Earth Elementalization to reform as a granite Bison God.
• The Emerald Corona’s Pegasus Strike crushed Bello in flames and erased him.
• Lady Crow Yeher arrived with her Shaman Wizards and proposed that she and Evan divide territory along the Niagara River.
• Evan accepted Yeher’s offer, and both sides agreed to keep out of each other’s territory.
• Uwakala emerged from the forest and worried that the Tulip People, allies of the Huron, had made the Iroquois the weakest of the region’s three powers.

Evan and Olivia completed the Emerald Sun Halo’s monthly patrol, then visited Olivia’s father to propose a railway linking Far Sail Territory and Georgia. The Marquis embraced the plan to build an economic artery connecting the colonies.

• Evan and Olivia watched an aurora in the Arctic before returning to the Emerald Sun Halo, where Anita scolded them for leaving her to work and happily ate the breakfast they brought.
• The Emerald Sun Halo completed its patrol over Long Island, and Evan noted Buffalo’s recovery, its new capital of Saint Evan City, and the territory’s need for more immigrants.
• Evan and Olivia returned to Georgia, while Anita went back to Hatlafa Port to command the Dragoons.
• Evan and Olivia visited the Marquis at Orange Leaf Castle, and Olivia persuaded her father to hear their money-making proposal.
• Evan explained a Coastal Railway Company and the proposed Georgia Corridor, a 368-kilometer railway connecting Brunswick and Far Sail Port.
• The Marquis recognized that the railway could become an economic artery for the colonies and help transform the territories.

Evan agreed to smuggle mass-produced Extraordinary Weapons to the Sirius Empire, while deciding to focus on securing his territories rather than expanding inland. Months later, a fleet carrying Anthony, Dilys, Knight Ambrose, and Iliyan refugees reached the New Continent.

• Evan agreed to supply Holy Salt Bombs, Sword Oil, and Coral Steel weapons to Mr. Diego for the Sirius Empire's forces, advancing his effort to weaken Sirius through smuggling.
• Olivia asked Evan about the abandoned inland lands, and he chose to stabilize their territories instead of expanding into dangerous regions.
• In the spring of Sea Origin Calendar 188, Anthony and Knight Ambrose discussed the Black Wing Order, Iliya's rebellion, and the Constituent Assembly's expected sentences aboard a fleet sailing for the New Continent.
• Dilys joined Anthony on deck, where the fleet's passengers and Iliyan refugees celebrated after the lookout spotted Montauk Lighthouse.

Evan oversaw the start of the Georgia Corridor railway and discussed industrial cooperation, potion research, and vaccines with Anthony and Dilys. He then invited them to see Vulcan Metal Company's new weapons.

• Evan watched demolition engineers clear a hill as crews began building the Fort Lauderdale–Key West City railway section.
• Evan explained his plans to establish railway standards and collaborate with the kingdom's industrial system.
• Anthony thanked Evan for involving him in sonar research, which helped him become a Formal Wizard, and Evan gave Dilys a Bioenzyme Preparation.
• Evan introduced vaccines as a new direction for potion research, leaving Anthony and Dilys confused by the unfamiliar concept.
• Evan led Anthony and Dilys to see Vulcan Metal Company's new weapons.

At Glory Church, retired Ralph received a visit from Iron Wall Knights led by Ambrose, who expected their mission to conclude within three to six months. In Georgia Territory, Evan demonstrated the long-range Georgia Rifle and a devastating rocket launcher, leaving Anthony and Dilys stunned as he explained his philosophy of saturation bombardment.

• Ralph comforted a little girl who dropped her cookie, then greeted Ambrose and the approaching Iron Wall Knights outside Glory Church.
• Ambrose told Ralph that the Knights would not disturb his peace and expected their mission to reach a result within three to six months.
• Johnson demonstrated the Georgia Rifle by hitting targets from distances up to five hundred meters, impressing Anthony and Dilys.
• Evan explained the Georgia Rifle's capabilities and said he would not yet produce more advanced firearms that could overturn the world's order.
• Evan ordered a rocket launcher salvo against a distant hill, which the rockets destroyed in a series of explosions.
• Evan urged Anthony and Dilys to favor saturation bombardment, using steel and fire rather than soldiers on future battlefields.

Evan used the restored Mountain Giant to excavate a canal across Buffalo, planning to connect the Great Lakes region with the eastern coast and develop fur trade. As he worked, Silver Knights from the Sark Empire’s Dawn Church spotted the golem and flew toward him.

• Evan illuminated the primordial quality Compassion, strengthening Animated Aura and allowing Bloodline Plugin to equip three plugins at once.
• Evan and Olivia discussed Buffalo’s development, the coming conflict with Sirius, and Kyle and Dilys’s work on vaccine research.
• Evan piloted the restored Mountain Giant across the Abayachi Plateau, carving a canal route and outlining plans for fur-trading posts and partnerships with Atelian People tribes.
• Angie spotted Silver Knights from the Sark Empire’s Dawn Church crossing the northern horizon.
• The Silver Knights saw the Mountain Giant, turned their pegasi, and charged toward Evan.

Evan used the Mountain Giant to capture four Silver Knights scouting Tulip territory and learned they were seeking threats to the Dawn Church’s mission. Their captain, Languedoc, interrupted before they could reveal more, then rescued them and left Evan wondering what clock was about to appear.

• Evan realized the Silver Knights were waiting for reinforcements and had the Mountain Giant leap at them, pinning the knights and their pegasi with gravity magic.
• Olivia questioned the captured knights, who said they were scouting for anomalous individuals that might threaten the Church’s mission.
• One knight began to reveal that their mission concerned a clock soon to appear in the era, but a holy sword’s power broke Olivia’s spell and restored the knights’ consciousness.
• Languedoc arrived with a holy sword and clashed with the Mountain Giant, then recovered his companions after Evan offered to return them in exchange for their pegasi.
• Languedoc flew away with the Silver Knights, leaving Evan and the others concerned about the approaching clock.

Saint Evan City prospered as Evan expanded trade, attracted settlers, and established a development bank. In his Wizard Tower, Evan and Angie studied Pegasus blood and Angie discovered something remarkable in their Gene Sequence.

• The Hartson Fur Company completed its first full trade cycle with Atelian tribes and sent furs to Saint Evan City for processing.
• Milan reunited with Apusuya as the Storm Cape's sailors arrived with their families to settle in Long Island.
• Hawkins established the Long Island Development Bank with Evan's authorization, and Edith Hobien joined its team.
• Evan shifted his focus to Gene Theory and examined four male Pegasus with Angie.
• Angie found something incredible in the Pegasus Gene Sequence and urged Evan to inspect it.

Evan and Angie discovered a shared gene sequence in all Demonic Creatures, which Evan named the Golden Chain and which could transform the Animation School’s research. Meanwhile, Priest Barrett secured the Netherlands Banking Group’s support for the Wealth Church’s plans in Frisia and prepared to retrieve the true Balance Holy Sword from the New Continent.

• Angie and Evan found matching intron fragments in every Demonic Creature they had sequenced, but none in ordinary creatures, and Evan named the sequence the Golden Chain.
• Evan explained that the Golden Chain could guide Biological Modification Art and might allow the Animation School to assemble a complete sequence from Extraordinary life forms.
• Priest Barrett urged the Netherlands Banking Group directors to help the Wealth Church establish influence over Frisia through its banks.
• William Orange asked what practical aid the church could offer, and Barrett assured him that divine wisdom would solve the problem.
• After securing a satisfactory result, Barrett said the church needed to retrieve the true Balance Holy Sword from the New Continent.

Evan and Angie developed Gene Hunter and the Golden Chain through experiments, while Evan pursued research into the Emerald Sun Halo and Magneto-Europe Stone. After Angie learned about the Clock Tower School’s dangerous wandering creation, a messenger delivered a summons from Great Wizard Jerros to meet Evan about exploring the Endless Ocean.

• Evan and Angie used Gene Hunter to implant the Golden Chain into plants and discovered that creatures’ capacity for extraordinary status limited the chain they could bear.
• Evan considered Gene Hunter’s potential to cause devastating inherited mutations and whole-body DNA rupture.
• Calvin and Jacob set out to collect species around the Faletis Colony to support research on the Golden Lock Chain.
• Evan studied the Emerald Sun Halo and Magneto-Europe Stone at Turin Grand Library while Angie read about the Clock Tower School’s monstrous, history-wandering creation.
• Great Wizard Jerros sent Evan a letter asking him to meet at the polar island where they had first met to discuss their future exploration of the Endless Ocean.

Evan agreed to join Jerros and Stephanie in searching the Clock Tower for the Ancient Scroll, a legendary sea chart that could aid exploration. As rumors drew powerful adventurers to the New Continent, Evan assembled and equipped his team, but a Sea Hunter’s report at the end of July abruptly shattered the calm.

• Jerros told Evan and Angie that the Ancient Scroll could map the seas and might be found in the Clock Tower, then asked Evan to help secure it.
• Angie connected the Ancient Scroll to the Clock Tower after recalling what she had seen in the Wandering Source of Mysticism Tower, and Evan agreed to join the expedition.
• As news of the Clock Tower spread across the New Continent, Evan selected Anita, Olivia, Angie, and Milan for his adventure team while Mother-in-law Lord stayed behind to guard home.
• Evan and Nymph forged the Gemstone Dictionary for Olivia, Evan helped Angie complete the Silver Ring and gave her the Brass Toy Box, and he armed Milan with Black Steel revolvers.
• The team prepared through late July until a Sea Hunter returned from the Shattered Star Sea with news that abruptly disrupted the New Continent’s calm.

In Malong Port, James’s account of a strange storm near the Sea Scar drew the Volcano Knight Order and the Oathbreakers, both seeking information about the Clock Tower. Anita intervened, secured James’s account without a fight, and set out with her team as ships converged on the Sea Scar from both sides.

• James told fellow Sea Hunters that a strange storm near the Sea Scar had swept a gray whale into a colorful light in the sky.
• The Volcano Knight Order and the Oathbreakers entered the Juniper Tavern and both demanded that James come with them.
• Anita arrived with Molly, Jeanne, Granie, and hundreds of pirates, then ordered the two factions to give her favor.
• James gave Anita information about the anomaly, and she posted a sea chart marking its location in the tavern.
• Ships from the New Continent headed for the Sea Scar, while Anita’s team aboard the Crown of Miracles set out to rendezvous with the Theseus and ships approached from the Star Shattering Archipelago.

Evan and his companions entered the Clock Tower after rival factions raced into its opening to pursue their own goals. The party was scattered into separate worlds filled with mechanical monsters and other dangers, as battles began to erupt across the tower.

• Evan gave Jerros, Stephanie, and Ram Beacon Amulets made from Chronos Dragon scales so they could reunite inside the Clock Tower.
• The Clock Tower opened, and ships and forces from the churches, nations, Star Shattering Archipelago, and other groups charged into its twisted entrance.
• Evan's group entered the Clock Tower, and Evan put away the Crown of Miracles after the party passed through the shifting sea and sky.
• Evan arrived in a jungle infected by a mechanical virus and faced a giant brass cocoon that opened to release a mechanical butterfly.
• Olivia, Anita, Angie, and other entrants appeared in separate dangerous worlds, while a Winter Knight confronted pale figures beneath a frozen river.

Evan defeated the Clock Tower’s organic mechanical creatures and found the fourth volume of the Inheritance Secret Scroll along with a spellbook from the Tree of Life School. After the Clock Tower shifted him to Banshee Forest, he faced its bizarre monsters by preparing a barrage of rockets.

• Evan used lightning and his Shadow Swamp to defeat the mechanical creatures filling the Clock Tower’s first space.
• Evan found the fourth volume of the Inheritance Secret Scroll and stored the Tree of Life School spellbook in his Sorcery Garden.
• Evan studied the spellbook’s ideas about organic mechanical creatures and the Tree of Life’s Genetic Code.
• The Clock Tower transported Evan to Banshee Forest, where he sensed approaching scarecrows, moving trees, and candle-bodied figures.
• Evan summoned forty rockets and launched them at the monsters in the forest.

Anita, Olivia, and Milan each overcame the Clock Tower’s first trial and found its rewards, while Evan destroyed the Banshee Forest and discovered a damaged circuit board from an ancient technological civilization. As Evan wondered whether the world had once reached the Electrical Age, the scene changed and he heard insects chirping again.

• Anita killed the dragon-veined beasts in the valley and retrieved a vial of Pureblood Dragon blood from a stone pillar.
• Olivia blasted her way through the underground mines and found a rose-carved blue diamond described as a cursed jewel.
• Milan navigated the trap-filled maze, shot the Dalos Hound Demons, and reached an exit whose object surprised him.
• Evan used artillery-saturation tactics to destroy the Banshee Forest and found a damaged integrated circuit contaminated with insect chitin.
• Evan considered whether the circuit came from a civilization that had existed before the current epoch, then heard insects chirping as the scene changed.

Evan explored the Clock Tower’s third space, a forest on the back of a giant whale, where mutated creatures and insect monsters attacked him. After defeating a masked Nether Puppeteer who tried to ambush him, he waited by a stream and worried that other entrants might be more dangerous than the monsters.

• Evan realized he stood in a forest on the back of a colossal whale and noted that insect monsters had appeared throughout the Clock Tower’s spaces.
• Evan used his Infernal Prison Dragon breath and powerful Life Force Field to destroy the hostile creatures while leaving the forest intact for his companions.
• Evan found a masked woman impersonating a familiar girl by a stream and cut through the illusion with his sword.
• The woman revealed herself as a Nether Puppeteer, but fled after Evan wounded her and recognized her profession.
• Evan kept the woman’s blood as a means of learning about her and worried that other intelligent entrants posed a greater threat than the monsters.