Chapter Summaries

As the war escalated, the Legendary Battleship Valhalla attacked Sirius’s Glory of Divine Grace, while Garratt prepared to celebrate Evan and Olivia’s wedding. Evan welcomed his returning family to White Swan Castle, where his aunt embraced him.

• A Lizard Shadow Thief killed a Sirius soldier during the bloody border fighting.
• The Supreme Knight avoided risking Sirius’s fate on a decisive clash, and the Empire expanded its attacks on Lowland shipping as the war spread.
• Valhalla attacked Glory of Divine Grace outside Antwerp, and the two Legendary Battleships clashed with their signature powers.
• Milan and Apusuya held their wedding a week before Evan and Olivia’s planned ceremony.
• Evan welcomed Uncle Gell, Irant, and his aunt at White Swan Castle, and his aunt hugged him.

The day before Evan and Olivia’s wedding, dignitaries and Extraordinary guests arrived in Long Island for the duchy’s grand celebration. As Olivia finished preparing on the morning of July 7, Evan learned that Mister Jerros and Princess Stephanie had not arrived and could not be contacted.

• Evan arranged Dreamscape Cruise passages to bring Old Continent guests directly to Long Island, where they traveled by carriage or steam locomotive to Saint Evan City.
• Aliyi rode the railway with his uncle and reflected on Evan’s rise, while his uncle corrected him for addressing the Grand Duke too casually.
• Gell, Daphne, and Anita welcomed dignitaries at the State Guesthouse, where Daphne’s youthful appearance drew attention and guests speculated about life-extending products.
• Evan planned to keep Gell and Daphne near him after the wedding, while Irant prepared to join a commerce-raiding fleet in the Eritrea Sea.
• On the morning of July 7, Livina placed Faletis’s crown on Olivia, and Evan helped her put on sapphire-crystal heels.
• Midola told Evan that Mister Jerros and Princess Stephanie had not arrived and could not be contacted, startling Livina.

Evan and Olivia’s wedding took place on the lawn before White Swan Castle, where their families, friends, and dignitaries gathered to witness their vows. The ceremony ended with the couple exchanging rings and kissing, while Jerros and Stephanie remained missing.

• Evan confirmed through the Spirit World that Jerros and Stephanie had not responded, then reassured Livina as the wedding proceeded.
• Evan waited at White Swan Castle as more than a thousand guests gathered, including kings, governors, Extraordinary Persons, wizards, and clergy.
• Olivia arrived by flying carriage in a procession of Griffon Air Knights and walked to Evan with her father, Marquis Amore.
• Olivia and Evan exchanged vows before Archbishop Lance, promising to love and protect each other.
• Evan and Olivia exchanged diamond rings and kissed before their guests.

After their wedding, Evan and Olivia spent their honeymoon in the Spirit World while preparing for Olivia’s advancement. They learned that Dream Cultists were heading to the Shattered Star Sea to collect nails from the Legendary Battleship Nagelfar, and a message from Jerros revealed trouble there that required their attention.

• After the wedding fireworks, Irant and Yilina strolled through White Swan Castle’s gardens and discussed his assignment to the Peacock Islands and her interest in making a figurehead.
• Evan and Olivia honeymooned in the Spirit World, where they played in an oasis and discussed the requirements for Olivia to advance to a Third-Order Great Wizard.
• Evan and Olivia hid when a group of Octopus Heads arrived and overheard them say they were going to the Shattered Star Sea to collect the nails of the Legendary Battleship Nagelfar.
• Evan and Olivia suspected the Dream Cultists were pursuing a larger plan connected to the ancient gods and decided they might need to follow them.
• A Rebirth Puppet from Jerros delivered a message, and Evan learned that someone had run into trouble in the Shattered Star Sea.

As the Sirius Empire and the Lowland Republic fought a bloody war, Faletis intervened to preserve the balance of power. Evan sailed into the Shattered Star Sea to find the missing Jerros and Stephanie, and spotted a fleet ahead as he approached a dangerous archipelago.

• Black Wing God followers and Danfu Mafia's pirates attacked ships as the Sirius Empire and Lowland Republic fought at sea and on land.
• Philip II considered sending the Royal Alfonso into battle, but Faletis deployed the Steam Fortress near Sirius, forcing the Empire to hold back.
• Evan left Olivia in charge of national affairs and sailed into the Shattered Star Sea to search for Jerros and Stephanie aboard the Sea Soul.
• Evan studied Jerros's message and the hazardous nautical chart, then noticed a large fleet of Sea vessels above them.

Evan followed a powerful fleet into the Shattered Star Sea and discovered that it united numerous Evil God Cultist groups, including the Sea Monster Mother’s forces. When the legendary Witch Baba Yaga emerged and spotted him, Evan’s surveillance was exposed.

• Evan transformed into a seagull and secretly observed the fleet, finding Gospel Church priests praying over their catch while Ancient God’s Retinue mocked them.
• Evan recognized the fleet’s powerful members, including Petrich of the Deep Sea Brotherhood, and resolved to strengthen the duchy and unite potential allies.
• The fleet reached an island marked as dangerous on the Ancient Scroll, and Witch Baba Yaga emerged from the living wooden cabin aboard the lead ship.
• Baba Yaga used a one-eyed frog to foresee danger and warned the fleet to go around the island.
• Baba Yaga spotted Evan and announced that they had an uninvited guest.

Evan fought the Old Witch and Petrich while rescuing Jerros and Stephanie, turning the sea into a violent storm to disrupt the fleet. The Old Witch’s Chicken Claw Cabin opened a spatial rift that swallowed her and Evan, while the storm scattered the Adventure Ships across the Shattered Star Sea.

• Pedro attacked Evan, who recognized him from Livina’s coronation and transformed into an Infernal Prison Dragon to withstand the Old Witch’s Flame Whistle.
• The Old Witch summoned monsters, and Evan unleashed Oceanic Monsters to meet them while Petrich joined the battle against him.
• Evan summoned a disaster-level storm with the Weather Ring, then used a Storm Giant to keep Petrich from returning to the fleet.
• The Old Witch opened the Chicken Claw Cabin to trap Evan, but a spatial rift tore open and pulled them both inside.
• The storm scattered the four Adventure Ships, leaving the Ancient God's Retinue’s mission in disarray.

Evan escaped Baba Yaga’s attacks, drove her off, and recovered a Chimera Ritual that gave him a theoretical basis for moving wizards between Paths. He began shaping a Path Migration Ritual before spotting Poseidia and approaching aircraft.

• Evan escaped the Chicken Claw Cabin’s shifting interior and confronted Baba Yaga, who revealed she guarded the remnants of a bloodline for Petrich’s group.
• Evan made the snakes inside Baba Yaga’s body attack her, forcing her to burst into ravens and flee with the Chicken Claw Cabin.
• Evan found Baba Yaga’s wooden box, the One-Eyed Frog, and an obsidian tablet describing the Chimera Ritual.
• Evan reasoned that the Chimera Ritual could inform a wizard Path Migration Ritual and began developing one for the Tree of Life School.
• Evan saw Poseidia below and noticed technological aircraft flying toward him.

After entering the Shattered Star Sea, Evan infiltrated an ancient technological civilization and discovered that its powerful Magneto-Europe Stone might be reproducible. Meanwhile, Jerros, Stephanie, and Ram were imprisoned in Auyu Fumos Kingdom and hoped Garratt would find them.

• Evan used the Ancient Scroll to assess the danger of the dark-crimson island, where pilots searching the area failed to find him.
• Evan replaced Aktaion, entered the National Grand Library, and learned that the advanced civilization was the Zonderirik Empire, ruled by ten divine kings.
• Evan found the Magneto-Europe Stone at the center of Arion's capital and considered how its technology could benefit his duchy.
• Daktili summoned Evan for a mission after leave was canceled, calling it a great opportunity.
• In Auyu Fumos Kingdom, Jerros, Stephanie, and Ram remained imprisoned among hostile outsiders and hoped Garratt would locate them.

Evan explored the Zong Deli Rik civilization with Daktili and learned that the Auyu Fumos Kingdom had captured extraordinary slaves, giving him reason to suspect Jerros and Stephanie were among them. After spotting a component in an aircraft identical to an artifact from the Clock Tower, Evan asked about the world beyond the islands and learned that it was said to be flooded.

• In the Great Arena, Stephanie defeated a black wizard in a gladiatorial fight, and a mummy phantom escaped his body and emerged from the stone coffin.
• King Aoyu Fumos announced that the captured extraordinary people would fight at the Day of Assembly and die as part of the ten kings' alliance ceremony.
• Evan and Daktili toured the Zong Deli Rik city, where Evan observed its vast empire, natural lightning abilities, and stark divide between extravagant citizens and enslaved people.
• Daktili told Evan their mission was to attend the ten kings' gathering in the Auyu Fumos Kingdom, which had captured slaves with wondrous abilities, so Evan decided to go in hopes of finding Jerros and Stephanie.
• At the airport, Evan recognized an aircraft component as identical to an Integrated Circuit from the Clock Tower and asked Daktili about traveling beyond the islands.
• Daktili said the world outside the islands protected by Sea Goddess Amphitrite had long been flooded and that nobody who ventured there returned.

Evan accompanied Arion’s aerial fleet to the Auyu Fumos Kingdom, where he pondered the strange, advanced civilization and its apparent isolation from the outside world. During the fleet’s parade around the capital, Evan sensed the Adventurer’s Blood he had been seeking, while Petrich’s battered force continued toward its mission without approaching the missing advance unit.

• Petrich refused a bishop’s suggestion to speed toward the rendezvous point, choosing to avoid the remnants’ territory and continue collecting remnant fingernails at normal speed.
• Evan flew beside Arion’s Floating Warship and questioned why the technologically advanced Zong Deli Like Civilization was absent from the Ancient Scroll and believed the outside world was flooded.
• Daktili pointed out the Auyu Fumos Kingdom’s capital, and Evan observed its carefully planned, eerie-looking architecture.
• Arion’s Floating Fleet paraded around the capital as citizens watched, while Petrich’s distant retinue grew furious.
• Evan sensed the familiar connection of Adventurer’s Blood near the capital and felt relieved that he had found his target.

At a lavish feast in Aoyu Fumos Kingdom, Evan judged the ten kings’ decadent rule and decided to investigate the Great Arena. When Arion went there to select slaves, Evan followed, gaining a chance to explore the place.

• Evan stood disguised as Aktaion among Arion’s retainers while the ten kings feasted and indulged in dancers and wine.
• Evan assessed the kings’ power and resolved to investigate the Great Arena as soon as his shift ended.
• Arion’s lioness Xurmene killed and ate three slaves, while the kings laughed and the other servants continued working in fear.
• Arion asked Aoyu Fumos to let him choose slaves at the Great Arena, and Aoyu Fumos assigned General Iamos to escort him.
• Evan followed Arion and Xurmene toward the Great Arena, recognizing an opportunity to investigate.

Evan rescued Stephanie from the arena after Arion selected her, but her orichalcum collar prevented an ordinary escape. He attempted to remove it by cutting off her head, leaving Stephanie’s fate uncertain.

• Chapatik told the imprisoned Black Obelisk operatives that their church had abandoned them, while Jerros tried to encourage them before the Ten Kings Gathering Conference.
• Arion inspected the prisoners and demanded that Stephanie be brought to him because he desired her.
• Evan, disguised as a Zong Deli Rik soldier, carried the unconscious Stephanie away to a lavish bathroom.
• Stephanie explained that her collar blocked Extraordinary Power and could only be unlocked with the king’s key.
• Evan proposed cutting off Stephanie’s head to remove the collar, then swung his sword as she protested.

Evan returned Stephanie to the Great Arena and searched for a way to free Jerros, whose soul-bound Rune Locks made rescuing him difficult. The group discovered that the Zong Deli Rik People worshipped Ai Huote, revealing their civilization as a remnant from the era of the ancient gods, and Evan prepared to question the Ancient God's Retinue.

• Evan brought Stephanie back to the arena and learned that Jerros's soul was bound by Rune Locks that could make him explode if his spatial signal was cut off.
• Evan proposed infiltrating the Engineering Academy to find information about the slave collar and its key while the group discussed their limited time to rescue Jerros.
• Evan used his Life Magnetic Field to survey the city and found a temple statue identified as the God of Engineering and Arena Ai Huote.
• Evan and the others realized that the Zong Deli Rik civilization belonged to the era of the ancient gods.
• Evan turned to the Ancient God's Retinue and prepared to ask why the remnants were on the territory of the Epoch Remnants.

Evan disguised himself as Arion to steal technical records and learned more about the ancient civilizations and their connection to the Spirit World. He set a plan in motion to seize Aoyu Fumos’s slave-control key, and the operation began as Stephanie and Ram waited outside the Great Arena.

• Evan impersonated Arion and ordered the Engineering Academy to provide records on Rune Locks, Sky-Floating Ships, Single-Person Aircraft, and Magneto-Europe Stone.
• Evan questioned the Ancient God's Retinue and learned that three other surviving Pre-Epoch Civilizations were being hunted for their fingernails.
• Evan connected the Spirit World Beacon Anchorages of himself, Olivia, and Jerros to civilizations from three different eras.
• Evan looted the Engineering Academy’s records and orichalcum, then decided he had to steal the key in Aoyu Fumos’s possession to free Jerros.
• Evan arranged for Flesh and Blood Puppet Assassins and itching bacteria to cause disturbances in nine royal capitals.
• Stephanie and First Mate Ram waited outside the Great Arena as Evan, disguised as Aktaion, declared that the operation had begun.

Evan’s attacks on nine royal capitals triggered chaos, a mysterious itching illness, and the destruction of Sea Goddess temples, forcing the Children of God to leave their gathering. Evan then ambushed Aoyu Fumos in disguise as Arion, stole the key controlling the slave shackles, and signaled success with less than half an hour remaining before the dangerous Time Node.

• Evan’s Flesh and Blood Puppets attacked nine royal capitals, freed slaves, set buildings ablaze, and unleashed a short-lived pathogen that caused unbearable itching.
• The attackers destroyed the Great Temple and divine statue in Zonderirik, prompting the ten kings to abandon their gathering and rush toward the attacked kingdoms.
• After the Children of God and other high-level forces departed, Aoyu Fumos waited in his capital while receiving reports of further attacks on nearby islands.
• Evan disguised as Arion approached Aoyu Fumos, ambushed him with Thunder Dragon’s Roar, and revealed himself after stealing the slave-shackle key card.
• Evan signaled the assassins and Stephanie that the mission had succeeded as midnight on August 1 drew near.

Evan and his allies escaped the Great Arena as the city erupted into chaos, but his battle with Aoyu Fumos was interrupted when the Zonderirik Empire’s five-year time reset began. With the reset’s flood racing toward them and Aoyu Fumos transformed into a corrupting, decayed force, Evan fled toward a Blue Hole using his Golden Compass.

• Stephanie broke into the Great Arena and helped free the gladiators and prisoners while unrest spread through the city.
• Aoyu Fumos transformed into a Quasi-Mythical Form and fought Evan in the sky, forcing Evan to use multiple forms and sword styles.
• A bell rang at midnight, and Evan realized a conceptual flood was resetting Zonderirik’s civilization by five years.
• Aoyu Fumos briefly regained his memories, then transformed into a strange ribbon-like creature and threatened to trap Evan in the time cycle.
• Evan collected Jerros, Stephanie, and Ram, placed them and the key in the Sorcery Garden, and fled as the reset flood advanced.
• Evan used his Golden Compass and dived beneath the sea, opening a Blue Hole at a depth of eighty meters.

Evan escaped the Water Flow Tunnel and returned to his Sorcery Garden, where he witnessed Jerros’s Theseus become a Legendary Battleship. After Jerros pledged his strength to Evan, they sailed out together, ready to face the open sea.

• Evan emerged from a Blue Hole, realized his World's Favor had sharply decreased, and decided to lie low after uncovering the Ancient God's Retinue's conspiracy.
• Evan returned to his Sorcery Garden and found Jerros and Stephanie safe while the Theseus underwent its transformation.
• The Theseus absorbed the essence of eight reconstructed ships and completed its transformation into a Legendary Battleship.
• A Rebirth Puppet officer saluted Jerros, and Evan congratulated him on the ship's long-awaited achievement.
• Jerros thanked Evan for saving him and Stephanie and pledged the strength of himself and the Theseus to Evan.
• Evan took Jerros, Stephanie, and Ram aboard the Theseus, and Jerros declared that nothing on the sea could stop them.

Evan and Jerros tried to escape the Storm Belt at the edge of the known world aboard the Legendary Battleship Theseus, where they were ambushed by a gigantic Singing Snake. The Theseus repaired the damage and prepared to fight, but two more giant snakes appeared and surrounded the ship.

• Jerros refused to shelter in the Sorcery Garden and ordered the Theseus to break through the Storm Belt while he and the ship spirit stayed in the captain's cabin.
• Evan asked about the Golden Kingdom, and Jerros explained that a Golden Compass could guide them to it before their compasses pointed east toward the Storm Belt's exit.
• A warning sounded in Evan and Jerros's chests, so Jerros ordered the Theseus to prepare for battle and the Puppet Legion deployed its weapons.
• A gigantic Singing Snake ambushed the Theseus and cracked its hull, but the ship's Chronal Wind restored the damage.
• The Theseus prepared to ram the Singing Snake with its Copper Horn Mountain ability, but two more giant snakes emerged and surrounded it.

Evan and Jerros fought three giant Singing Snakes in the Storm Belt, using the Theseus’s Time Imprint to destroy one before retreating. As they harvested the creature, Vinia appeared and Evan recognized her as Kurutena, the Sky Goddess of the Golden Kingdom.

• The Theseus charged past two Singing Snakes and struck a third, but the beasts retaliated with a Sonic Arrow that damaged the ship.
• Evan urged Jerros to take shelter in his Sorcery Garden, and Jerros activated the Theseus’s Time Imprint, summoning eight duplicates to encircle the snakes.
• Evan used Flesh and Blood Riot to immobilize the wounded Singing Snake, and the nine Theseuses tore it into pieces while the other two escaped.
• Evan and Jerros divided the dead snake, and Evan stored it in his Sorcery Garden to harvest fourth-rank Essence Fruits.
• Vinia arrived with a gigantic storm spirit, cleared the clouds over the sea, and Evan recognized her as Kurutena, the Sky Goddess of the Golden Kingdom.