Chapter Summaries

A premature projection of the Demon God Bairam attacked during Livina’s coronation, but Evan, Ilvedi, Anita, and the Emerald Sun Halo joined forces to destroy him and close the Gates of Hell. The celebration resumed after the damage was repaired, while foreign ambassadors witnessed Faletis’s power.

• The Legendary Battleship Emerald Sun Halo descended and used its power against the monsters pouring through the Gates of Hell.
• Glorious Glory escorted the Queen and nobles to shelter while Evan stayed behind to fight, and palace soldiers and Guard Dragoons formed defensive lines.
• Ilvedi engaged Bairam, then called on Evan to help create an opening; Anita joined the battle in her High-ranking Sea Emperor Dragon form.
• Evan’s Sword Energy Torrent and the others’ wide-area attacks forced Bairam to face Ilvedi’s Titled Saint Sword, which destroyed the projection and the Gates of Hell.
• Evan restored the damaged square, the Black Iron Cross Church altered witnesses’ memories, and the coronation celebration resumed after half an hour.

Prince Manolo’s royal fleet was ambushed in a magically conjured fog, and the attackers killed him before turning Pedro and Spider into corrupted servants. In Beckler, Evan discovered that a group of Scarlet Shooters connected his past with Angie and the Tree of Life School.

• Spider gave Prince Manolo a map of Beckler’s underground pipes, and the Sirius delegation discussed Faletis and the missing precious trees as the Saint Cruz Pearl began its return voyage.
• Argo’s allies used the Mirage Mist Labyrinth to separate the Saint Cruz Pearl from its escorts, then Pikeman attacked and killed Prince Manolo and the ship’s crew.
• Argo ordered the ship stripped and disguised as a pirate raid, while Pedro and Spider were forcibly corrupted with Blood of Corruption.
• Evan took Bach to Beckler’s Extraordinary person prison after finding Bloody Potion among the spoils and recognized the imprisoned captives as Scarlet Shooters.
• Evan realized that his past encounters with the Blood Hand Gang, Angie, and the Tree of Life School were connected.

Angie saw off Clarissa and Leonora, who revealed that their faction was preparing to explore the Star Shattering Archipelago after Demonic Creatures vanished from its buffer zones. Evan reunited with Angie and, prioritizing the search for the last piece of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood, used the Mind Network to identify a target island near the Southern Wind Country.

• Angie escorted Clarissa and Leonora across Georgia Territory and proposed trade between the New Continent and the Star Shattering Archipelago.
• Leonora explained that the Holy Stone Council planned a joint expedition into the Star Shattering Archipelago after Demonic Creatures disappeared from its outer regions.
• Clarissa and Leonora departed, and Angie reunited with Evan on the shore.
• Evan considered how Blood of the Creator could strengthen his body and advance his path, and he prioritized finding the final missing piece of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood.
• Evan used the Mind Network and information from the Scarlet Shooters to locate a small island near the Southern Wind Country.

Evan and his companions discovered that the Blood Hand Gang made Immaculate Holy Blood by draining children, so they launched a surprise assault on the gang’s island fortress. Their missiles demolished the outer defenses, but the Big Boss protected the main building with the Demon Prison Gate.

• Evan and the others watched the Blood Hand Gang’s ritual drain a group of children to produce Immaculate Holy Blood and summon a bound demon creature.
• Evan resolved to destroy the gang, and Angie joined Nymph and Olivia in supporting his decision.
• The Blood Hand Gang’s Big Boss agreed to trade the gang’s strength and intelligence network to the Eye of Wealth in exchange for more sacrifices with wizard aptitude.
• Evan brought the Crown of Miracles to the island and ordered May to fire Hurricane Missiles at the fortress.
• The missiles shattered the outer defenses, but the Big Boss raised the Demon Prison Gate, which swallowed the missiles aimed at the main building.

Evan and Nymph attacked the Blood Hand Gang’s fortress while Olivia, Angie, and the Alchemy Workshop overwhelmed its defenders. Big Boss revealed the power of the Oceanic Secret Treasure · Beast King's Nest, and Evan recognized him as the sentient fifth volume, Blood of the Creator.

• Olivia and Angie descended on the surviving soldiers as Angie deployed the Alchemy Workshop, whose rockets and Toy Soldiers devastated the fortress’s defenders.
• The gang leaders emerged, and Giovanni attacked Olivia and Angie while Crofts transformed the ordinary soldiers into monstrous, empowered fighters.
• Big Boss charged Evan and Nymph, but Evan’s Sword Energy Torrent and Nymph’s gemstone bombardment could not hurt him.
• Big Boss revealed the Oceanic Secret Treasure · Beast King's Nest and transformed into a gigantic creature covered in parts from marine life and monsters.
• Evan recognized Big Boss as Blood of the Creator, the sentient fifth volume of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood.

Evan and Nymph fought the Big Boss, an evil consciousness born from the fifth volume of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood and now inhabiting the Oceanic Secret Treasure Beast King's Nest. After the Crown of Miracles helped destroy his summoned creatures, the Big Boss revealed that his body could replenish them, leaving Evan and Nymph unsure how to defeat him.

• Evan realized that Blood of the Creator had become the Beast King's Nest, an Oceanic Secret Treasure controlled by an evil consciousness called the Big Boss.
• The Big Boss recognized Evan as a Tree of Life School wizard and attacked, hoping to devour him and become a complete life-form.
• Evan transformed into an Infernal Prison Dragon and attacked the Big Boss while he and Nymph broke through the summoned creatures and fled toward the Treasure Sea.
• May ordered the Crown of Miracles to fire its turrets and the Red-Haired Witch, helping Evan and Nymph nearly wipe out the Big Boss's summoned army.
• The Big Boss revealed that his Oceanic Secret Treasure body could replenish his losses, then took a grotesque form and charged at Evan and Nymph, who wondered how they could fight him.

Angie and Olivia defeated Crofts while Kaka helped bring down Giovanni, but the Big Boss devoured the fleeing vampire to conceal that he was an Oceanic Secret Treasure. As the Big Boss attacked Evan and Nymph, Nymph trapped him and pulled them into a dream, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Angie cut through Crofts’s defenses, and Olivia used Five Stars Bombardment to destroy him and the structures in its path.
• Giovanni fled toward the Beast King’s Nest, but the Big Boss devoured him and revealed that he killed anyone who learned his secret.
• The Big Boss attacked Olivia, Angie, and Kaka, but Kaka wrapped the two girls in shadow and escaped with them.
• The Beast King’s Nest charged Evan and Nymph, and Evan dodged its attacks while searching for a way to defeat it without destroying the secret scroll inside.
• At Nymph’s urging, Evan drew the Beast King’s Nest into itself with his dragon breath, allowing her to trap it in Diamond Prison and cast Emerald Nightmare Dream.
• Evan began falling from the Material World into a dream, and the Big Boss’s bloody radiance faded as the spell took hold.

Evan and Nymph fought Big Boss in a dream while Angie and the others moved Beast King's Nest onto land, where the Oceanic Secret Treasure lost its power. Big Boss's escape failed, and Evan destroyed him with lightning before Beast King's Nest reverted to Blood of the Creator.

• Angie used Wind Element Elves to bring Infernal Prison Dragon and Nymph aboard the Crown of Miracles, then realized moving Beast King's Nest onto land might disable its treasure.
• Evan and Nymph faced Big Boss in the dream, where Evan pierced his blood-colored body with Flesh and Blood Collapse.
• Evan summoned the Hundred-Armed Giant while Nymph's kingfisher familiars attacked Big Boss's many heads, and they battled for twenty minutes.
• Big Boss sent hundreds of remaining monsters fleeing toward the edge of the Dreamscape World, but they suddenly collapsed back into the blood river.
• Evan transformed into a Storm Dragon and engulfed Big Boss in a massive lightning strike as the others transported Beast King's Nest to land through the Black Cavity.
• On land, Beast King's Nest lost its abilities and collapsed into the fifth volume of Sacrifice of Flesh and Blood, Blood of the Creator.

Evan advised Livina to accelerate shipbuilding and destabilize Frisia while they discussed Annie’s growing fame and Livina’s planned visit to his territory. He then found a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, which he believed was the closest thing to the Spring of Life needed to create Blood of the Creator.

• Evan urged Livina to speed up construction of the Iron Rib Wooden Hull Ships and prepare to provoke regional conflicts within Sirius, targeting the Frisia Kingdom.
• Livina agreed that Frisia was a suitable target and noted the Netherlands Banking Group’s disappearance and the Black Wing Order’s interest in the kingdom.
• Evan asked about Annie, and Livina said Annie had become a celebrated knight and would return to visit Evan’s territory with her.
• After ending the call, Evan watched the Sea Soul drive sea monsters away from a hydrothermal vent deep beneath the sea west of the New Continent.
• Evan identified the vent as a likely source of the primordial life needed to create Blood of the Creator.

Evan created Blood of the Creator, a powerful ring that let him transform flowers into seagulls and raise White Swan Castle. After deciding his creation might not be pure enough for his own transformation, he planned an expedition to the Star Shattering Archipelago to seek better hydrothermal vents.

• Evan and Angie watched the fourth creation ritual succeed, producing a gem of Blood of the Creator from hydrothermal vent fluid and his blood.
• Evan set Blood of the Creator in a ring and used it to turn a cluster of white flowers into seagulls.
• Evan used the ring to build the final tower and complete White Swan Castle while Angie watched.
• Olivia prepared White Swan Castle for Queen Livina’s visit, and Midola and the others stocked its cellar with their own wine.
• Evan considered the flaws in the hydrothermal fluid’s vitality and studied the Oceanic Secret Treasure Scroll for more primordial vents.
• Evan planned to search the volcanic islands of the Star Shattering Archipelago and considered joining an expedition from Celebes Island.

After Prince Manolo’s assassination, Philip II ordered a military campaign against the Tulip Nations, blaming them for the killing and demanding the murderer’s surrender. He prepared to attack their New Continent holdings while Evan and Livina remained unaware of the approaching crisis.

• Anduin reported that Pedro and Spider were missing and that powerful outsiders had likely hidden them.
• Theresa joined Philip II in the council hall, calming him and easing the ministers’ fear.
• Philip II ordered a diplomatic demand for Tulip to hand over the murderer within two months.
• Fafmann, Anduin, and Bancroft outlined the troops, ships, and Extraordinary figures available for an attack on the New Continent.
• Philip II approved the operation and threatened to drive the Tulip Nations from the New Continent if they refused his demands.

Clarissa and Leonora received Angie’s first delivery to Celebes and learned that Evan’s group might let the witches test the Ancient Scroll and join an exploration. Evan then spoke with Anita about her future advancement before setting out alone toward Celebes in disguise.

• Clarissa and Leonora waited on Celebes for Angie, who appeared in emerald butterflies and exchanged the witches’ payment for their first shipment of goods.
• The Snake-Eyed Witch collected the supplies and asked whether Evan’s group would sell access to the Ancient Scroll; Clarissa said they could test part of it and that the Animation School might join the exploration.
• Evan told Anita that he planned to help her become a Pure-Blooded Dragon Species and pursue another path to becoming a Titled Knight.
• After Anita ended their call, Evan set off with Kaka toward Celebes, disguised and carrying an Oceanic Secret Treasure that translated animal communication.

The Ancient Gods' retainers prepared a ritual on an island in the Star Shattering Archipelago to corrupt human Spellcasters, while a large wizard expedition explored the region. As a spreading shadow reached the expedition, Evan emerged from the Shadow World and saw a red figure in the forest.

• The Ancient Gods' retainers gathered on an insect-infested island and complained that the World Will denied them its favor and slowed their growth.
• Yelen warned the retainers to act before human Spellcasters left their Wizard Towers, and they began a ritual to summon Hypnos's power.
• A large expedition led by Third-Order Extraordinary Persons crossed the buffer zone and split up to explore the Star Shattering Archipelago.
• The Snake-Eyed Witch noticed a dense, ominous shadow rushing toward her group from deeper in the archipelago.
• Evan leaped out of the Shadow World on Kaka's back, found himself in a strange forest, and spotted a red figure darting between the trees.

Evan was drawn into the World's Dark Side, where a red-cloaked girl and a nesting doll appeared amid a sudden surge of danger across the Star Shattering Archipelago. After identifying the realm and losing contact with the witches, he faced the doll again as an ancient stone castle emerged.

• Evan turned a charging lone wolf into a deer with his ring, then approached the red-cloaked girl and her doll.
• The girl and doll vanished, and the misty forest became an abandoned wooden house; Evan discovered that he had been moved deeper into the archipelago.
• A dead boy attacked Evan from upstairs, but Evan destroyed it with lightning as the house began to collapse.
• Evan recognized that he was in the World's Dark Side and suspected a large-scale evil-spirit riot, but he could not contact the witches.
• The nesting doll reappeared and produced a smaller doll as an ancient stone castle emerged before Evan.

Evan encountered a succession of dark-side evil spirits before nearly falling under the spell of Princess Theia, who tried to make him her groom. He escaped her wedding trap and destroyed her and the Human-Faced Flies with rockets.

• Evan burned the castle and defeated a noblewoman evil spirit, then destroyed a pursuing man with an electric field.
• Evan recognized that the nesting dolls grew smaller as their accompanying evil spirits grew larger, and crushed a towering executioner with lava.
• Evan resisted Princess Theia's enchanted marriage proposal after realizing the crowd was eager to make him one of them.
• Evan escaped into the sky as Princess Theia and the men transformed into a maggot-like monster and Human-Faced Flies.
• Evan launched rockets from his Sorcery Garden, engulfing the town in steel and flames.

Evan destroyed Princess Theia’s evil spirit and discovered that her Dark Side realm had formed around the corpse of a giant princess. He extracted her Giant Bloodline into a new Bloodline Plugin, then sensed the Witch’s signal as her group fled Dream Cultists.

• Evan used fire elemental spirits and dragon breath to destroy Princess Theia after her nesting dolls restored her body six times.
• The Dark Side shattered, revealing collapsed stone halls and the giant princess’s coffin in the Material World.
• Evan identified the corpse as the source of Theia’s evil spirit and extracted its Giant Bloodline to create a Bloodline Plugin.
• Evan sensed that the Witch’s signal had returned and saw that she and Clarissa and Leonora were fleeing Dream Cultists while badly wounded.
• As the Dream Cultists pursued the Witches on Giant Octopuses, a flash and explosion split the gloomy sky.

The Snake-Eyed Witch used a sacrificial dance and her Gaze to fight off the Dream Cultists, but her injuries and corruption left her vulnerable to capture. Just as Gamael began draining her spirit and soul, a sudden sword strike severed his tentacles and a shadow carried her away.

• Abeid and Gamael restarted their Divine Art Erosion, but the Snake-Eyed Witch halted it with a drumbeat and began a sacrificial dance.
• The Snake-Eyed Witch unleashed her Gaze, killing the ghouls and injuring Gamael and Abeid, but Delusional Heart Sound’s corruption overwhelmed her.
• Abeid and Gamael subdued Clarissa and Leonora, while Gamael bound the Snake-Eyed Witch and began using Divine Art Sucking on her.
• The Dark Side collapsed, and Abeid urged Gamael to stop draining the Witch.
• A blazing Sword Light severed Gamael’s tentacles, and a shadow swallowed the freed Snake-Eyed Witch as an unknown rescuer spoke.

Evan rescued the Snake-Eyed Witch and her students from the Ancient God's Retinue, defeated their attackers, and discovered that the witch was Sera, an old friend of his school’s founder. The reunion left Sera learning that Evan had inherited Hiber Crete’s school.

• Evan freed Clarissa and Leonora and gave them a Purification Potion for their injured teacher.
• Evan trapped the attackers with giant hands of stone, then used the Blood of the Creator of the World to disrupt the Insect Man’s swordsmanship.
• Evan activated the Titan Army bloodline ability and blasted the Insect Man, while his sword energy destroyed the two fleeing Dream Cultists.
• Evan bound the slowly healing Insect Man in Extraordinary Shackles and released the witches from his Sorcery Garden.
• Evan recognized the Snake-Eyed Witch as Sera, revealed his identity as Evan Garratt, and told her he had inherited Hiber Crete’s school.

Evan parted ways with Sera and continued alone to the volcanic archipelago, where he used its unusually potent Spring of Life to transform his Blood of the Creator. The transformation left him feeling fundamentally changed, and he discovered he could create a perfect duplicate of himself with Immortal Shell.

• Sera thanked Evan, promised to visit the Tree of Life School after seeking help for her spiritual contamination, and departed with her team on Kaka.
• Evan learned more about Sera's history and decided that building ties with powerful allies could help him confront the growing threats from evil gods and the True God Church.
• Evan traveled through the dangerous island region and reached the volcanic archipelago, where he found the area's richest Spring of Life.
• Evan began transforming his Blood of the Creator inside the Sorcery Garden, and the potent Spring of Life produced a vision of enormous red whales swimming through his body.
• Evan sensed that his body, soul, and bloodline had changed profoundly, then used Immortal Shell to create a flawless duplicate of himself.

Evan completed an Immortal Shell and gained World's Favor after exploring and naming the Moon Bay Archipelago. On his return, he spotted a Sirius expedition led by Thorn of Fire and sent a tornado after the ship, intent on confronting the Titled Knight.

• Evan tested his Immortal Shell, discovering that it copied his body and Extraordinary Power and let him transfer his soul between replicated bodies.
• Evan explored the volcanic island chain, named it the Moon Bay Archipelago, and gained World's Favor, sensing that his Branded Swordsman path was nearing the Fourth Order.
• Thorn of Fire led a Sirius Empire expedition deeper into the Shattered Star Sea, hoping to gain World's Favor and strengthen his Titled Saint Artifact.
• Thorn of Fire spotted a massive tornado approaching his expedition ship and ordered the crew to turn away.
• Evan controlled the tornado from the Sea Soul and steered it after Thorn of Fire's ship, deciding to greet the Sirius Titled Knight.