Chapter Summaries

Evan led the Tulip Alliance fleet against Sirius’s newly strengthened navy, whose Legendary Battleships linked its ships and shared their defenses. As the fleets began probing attacks, Plantagenet unleashed a royal decree aimed at the alliance’s three Legendary Battleships.

• Prince Roderick ordered Sirius’s fleet into a mutually supporting double-column formation, with its ships joined by Maritime Royal Authority’s power.
• Evan commanded the Tulip Alliance fleet to execute a squadron T-crossing maneuver, using the Mind Network and his weather abilities to keep the formation coordinated.
• Crown of Miracles fired electromagnetic shells at a Sirius ship, but a phantom shield blocked them through the fleet-wide skill of Imperial Majesty.
• Roderick explained to Anduin that Servants of the King let Sirius’s fleet transfer attacks and damage among its ships.
• Plantagenet activated Decree of the Former Kings and sent the Fifth Law, People’s Hearts Turn to Me, toward the alliance’s three Legendary Battleships.

Evan and the duchy's fleet battled Sirius's Legendary Battleships, but the arrival of Steam Fortress and Theseus shifted the fight in their favor. As high-level fighters prepared to clash, Evan received a warning, while Lady Crow Yeher led Shaman Wizards across the Niagara River into Buffalo.

• The Crown of Miracles evaded Golden Acacia's mental attack, while Steam Fortress's ship spirit turned against its own side until Princeton took manual control.
• Nymph unleashed Sea Soul's Tidal Cannon, but Prince Roderick used Maritime Royal Authority's World Conqueror's Sword to split the waves and counterattacked.
• Evan changed tactics and used the currents to improve his fleet's maneuvering, damaging Sirius's line-of-battle and weakening Maritime Royal Authority's collective defense.
• Golden Acacia entered the fight and offset Evan's control of the sea, while Sea Soul countered with Bomb Cyclone as Crown of Miracles and Maritime Royal Authority engaged.
• Princeton brought Steam Fortress into Titan Form, and Jerros's Theseus joined the battle, turning the fight into a four-against-two advantage for the duchy's side.
• High-level fighters launched from both fleets as Evan received a warning, while Lady Crow Yeher led Shaman Wizards across the Niagara River into Buffalo.

Yeher led the Mourning Church’s forces against the Garratt Duchy, but Olivia, Angie, Lily, and the duchy’s forces intercepted them and began fighting. Meanwhile, in the Andaman Strait, Anduin linked his life to Ilvedi’s with sorcery to keep the Rose Sword Saint out of the battle.

• Yeher decided to exploit the Garratt Duchy’s apparent redeployment, while Flanida and Uwakala supported her plan.
• Olivia confronted Yeher north of Saratoga Hot Springs City and warned her to retreat, but Yeher refused after judging the duchy’s defenses weak.
• Olivia donned her Gemstone Armor · Starry Dream, Angie assumed her Perfect Creature form, and Lily drew her sword as the duchy’s forces attacked Yeher’s group.
• In the Andaman Strait, Anduin used an antique Wooden Figure to cast Sorcery · A Breath Away on Ilvedi, linking their lives for an hour.
• Anduin urged Ilvedi to stay out of the battle, while the other three Great Wizards rushed toward his companions.

Evan’s forces battled the Mourning Church, and Olivia, Angie, and Mairo trapped and defeated Yeher above the Hartson River. Evan appeared through an Immortal Shell and bound Yeher with the Oath Imprisoning Lock, claiming the Mourning Church for the Garratt Duchy before returning his consciousness to the battle at the Peacock Islands.

• The Emerald Sun Halo held off the Mourning Church’s shamans while Lily suppressed Fierce Tiger Spirit and Olivia fought off pursuing Totem Gods with her electromagnetic cannons and Constellation Alignment Moment.
• Angie and Hecy drew Yeher’s forces away from the Totem Secret Realm, then Mairo and her shaman group emerged from the Hartson River and surrounded the Mourning Church troops.
• Yeher unleashed Gluttony, swallowing Olivia and Angie, but Olivia escaped from within Yeher using the Golden Holy Lance and wounded her.
• Evan opened his eyes in an Immortal Shell, confronted Yeher, and bound her with the Oath Imprisoning Lock as he declared the Mourning Church belonged to the Garratt Duchy.
• After Evan’s consciousness left the shell, Mairo welcomed the captive Yeher into the Prison Lock of Oath.

Evan and the Garratt Duchy’s allies fought Sirius’s hired Great Wizards while their fleet pressed the Maritime Royal Authority and the Invincible Armada in the Andaman Strait. As Sirius’s fleet suffered mounting losses, Prince Roderick summoned a new fleet with the Oceanic Secret Treasure, the Automatically Playing Gusli.

• Marshall used the Bronze Lamp of Scorching Dragon Breath to unleash pursuing flame birds, but Anita countered them with her Frost Dust Breath.
• Anita fought Marshall, Sera engaged Meredith, Nymph faced Fahad, and Jerros charged into Sirius’s fleet to dismantle warships.
• Evan returned to his body and supported the allied fleet while the Steam Fortress, Theseus, and Crown of Miracles attacked the Maritime Royal Authority and the Invincible Armada.
• The allied fleet destroyed Sirius’s warships, weakening the Maritime Royal Authority and threatening to break the Sirius Navy’s morale.
• Prince Roderick invoked the empire’s trump card, and the Automatically Playing Gusli summoned thirty main warships that opened fire on the enemy.

Evan’s alliance fleet failed to break the Maritime Royal Authority’s defenses after Prince Roderick summoned invincible Servants with the Playing Gusli. With the Crown of Miracles’ teleportation skill stolen and the enemy preparing to finish them, Evan appeared in person and prepared a massive rocket strike.

• Irant and the Reliance helped destroy an Invincible Armada ship, breaking the fleet-wide Spell Aura and letting the Crown of Miracles damage the Maritime Royal Authority’s main mast.
• Prince Roderick used the Playing Gusli to summon Quasi-Legendary Battleships as new Servants, and their phantom-like fleet resisted the alliance’s attacks.
• The Plantagenet used the Decree of the Former Kings to steal Dreamscape Cruise from the Crown of Miracles, and Prince Roderick ordered the Maritime Royal Authority to attack with Týrfing · Rending Sword.
• Evan stored the Crown of Miracles and appeared alongside Milan to evade the Rending Sword, while Princeton also abandoned the Steam Fortress and escaped.
• Evan assembled a hundred RDX rockets and announced a 4,000-kilogram-class first wave against the Maritime Royal Authority.

Evan battered the Maritime Royal Authority with rockets, while the battle groups fought to keep the enemy from reaching him. He then used a storm summoned by the Weather Ring to seize the battleship and send it spiraling into the sky.

• Evan launched successive rocket barrages at the Maritime Royal Authority, destroying several ships in its musical-note fleet as its damage transference absorbed the attacks.
• Prince Roderick ordered the allied Great Wizards to focus on stopping Evan, drawing the battle groups toward him while Anita wounded Marshall with her Dragon Slaying Swordsmanship.
• Milan prepared his fate and time-based sorcery and charged toward Fahad, the Fate Trickster Wizard.
• Evan fired three hundred rockets at the Maritime Royal Authority, destroying three more ships, then used the Weather Ring to summon a massive storm.
• Evan formed a giant hand of wind that seized the Maritime Royal Authority and pulled it into a tornado passage.

Evan and the allied forces destroyed the Maritime Royal Authority and defeated the Sirius fleet around the Peacock Islands, while Philip II collapsed after the battleship sank. With Sirius weakened but still fielding powerful forces, Evan urged the allies to pursue the war on the central front.

• Philip II reassured Empress Theresa about Frisia’s rebellion before suddenly spitting blood and collapsing.
• Evan’s allies used Sera’s petrifying magic and Milan’s probability sorcery to defeat Fahad, while two other Great Wizards escaped.
• The Invincible Armada vanished under the Decree of the Former Kings, and Evan destroyed and claimed the wreckage of the Maritime Royal Authority.
• The allied fleet advanced toward the Peacock Islands, while Prince Roderick died beneath the rocket barrage.
• Evan called for the allies to pursue Sirius’s remaining forces and continue the War of National Destiny.

The Sirius Empire seized the Lobito Territory while its battered Invincible Armada fought the Lowland Republic’s forces in the Black Sea. As Sirius gained the advantage after Valhalla fell, Titled Knight Sacani arrived to aid the Republic.

• The Sark Empire fleet destroyed the Sirius defenses at Luanda Cape and claimed Lobito as its territory.
• The Invincible Armada fought the Lowland Republic’s navy, while extraordinary fighters clashed above and around the battlefield.
• Elsa’s Valkyrie destroyed Valhalla, shifting the battle’s momentum toward Sirius.
• Sacani, the Titled Knight known as Thunder Dragon’s Roar, arrived and offered to fight alongside the Republic.

Evan, posing as Thunder Dragon's Roar, joined the battle between the Republic and Sirius and killed Bonecrusher Warhammer with his God King's Feast technique. The Supreme Knight fled north toward Antwerp City, leaving the others to pursue him.

• Evan arrived as Thunder Dragon's Roar and drew the Sirius fighters' anger by intervening in the battle.
• Pablo, Bonecrusher Warhammer, attacked Evan, who countered with lightning and electromagnetic cannon fire as the Republic's monsters resumed fighting.
• Evan clashed with Bonecrusher Warhammer using his Great Sword, then unleashed God King's Feast and controlled a vast river of blades drawn from Sirius warships' cannons.
• Bonecrusher Warhammer was struck by the flying blades and exploded into blood and shattered bones.
• Magnus III urged Evan to help kill another enemy, but Evan argued that Sirius should not be destroyed completely.
• The Supreme Knight escaped the Republic's restraints and flew north toward Antwerp City, prompting Northern White Wind to call for pursuit.

The Sirius Supreme Knight tried to destroy Antwerp City with the Wrath of the Ocean Horn, but the Prosperity Angel stopped him and healed the surviving residents. The gods settled the Lowland Republic’s independence, while Sirius and the Republic remained enemies and Sacani disappeared.

• The Supreme Knight concluded Sirius could no longer control Frisia and decided to cripple the Lowland Republic by destroying Antwerp City.
• The Supreme Knight blew the Wrath of the Ocean Horn, causing Antwerp’s buildings and walls to collapse and trapping residents beneath the ruins.
• Wickliffe told the Supreme Knight that Sirius had lost the Andaman Sea battle, the Peacock Islands, and Emperor was critically injured.
• The Prosperity Angel descended, healed Antwerp’s survivors, and shattered the horn before the Supreme Knight could continue his destruction.
• The Prosperity Angel and the Fire-Stealing Angel appeared and departed after deciding the land’s ownership, establishing the Lowland Republic’s independence.
• Sacani vanished beyond the horizon, and the wreckage of Valhalla sank beneath the water.

After the Tulip Alliance defeated Sirius, Hecate gained the Maritime Royal Authority and blessed Evan for his decisive contributions to the war. The new world order emerged with the Tulip Alliance as a rising hegemon, the Lowland Republic founded, and Sirius greatly weakened, while political conflict loomed in the western Old Continent.

• The Sirius Empire’s national fortune flowed to the Lowland Republic and the Tulip Alliance, whose influence spread across the known world.
• Hecate ascended to the Maritime Royal Authority as the oceans and their sailors acclaimed her new authority.
• Evan entered Banda Aceh City, where Hecate appeared, blessed him, and granted him increased power and subordinate authority over maritime affairs.
• The Goldfinch arrived at the western coast of the New Continent and used the Former Kings’ decree to help defend the remaining Tulip territories.
• The Lowland Republic gained the Wealth Church’s support, Sirius retained only part of its New Continent holdings, and the Tulip Alliance became a rising world hegemon.

Six months after the war, the Ancient God's Retinue had formed the Golden Palm Federation, while the Tulip Alliance consolidated its gains and faced the threat of Death Messenger's promotion to Crown Rank. Evan prepared to use the recovered Maritime Royal Authority and Valhalla to build a living Legendary Battleship called Gemstone River.

• Yeher, a covert agent for Evan, set out to investigate Death Messenger, the Fourth-Order Crown Wizard leading the Curse School.
• The Curse School had escaped its contract with Sirius using the half-finished Black Orlov and joined the Ancient Gods' camp.
• Evan sent Niekado to the Peacock Islands to represent the duchy in the East Lun Branch Company, which had become the islands' nominal ruler.
• Milan urged Evan to begin work after the duchy spent half a year preparing the Maritime Royal Authority and Valhalla.
• Evan prepared to build the living biological warship Gemstone River.

Evan and the duchy’s Great Wizards built and awakened Hōshō, a living Legendary Battleship with immense speed and power. After testing its abilities, Evan proposed taking the ship beyond the sky, and the wizards eagerly understood his intent.

• In a boundless space, the Atrocity Angel and other Great Existences agreed that they had to gather nails and build the Mythical Warship Nagelfar to reach beyond the door and compete for fate’s choice.
• Evan and the wizards assembled a biological battleship in Hatlafa Port using the Maritime Royal Authority, Flesh Eggs, and other materials.
• Olivia, Evan, and Angie performed the rituals to awaken the ship, while Milan used Peeking at the Timeline to guide its transformation.
• Olivia called the newly awakened ship Hōshō, and its shy ship spirit answered the wizards.
• Under Olivia’s command, Hōshō demonstrated its ability to travel rapidly across the sea, through the air, and within the planetary magnetic field.
• Evan pointed above the sky and proposed that the group travel to the world beyond it, prompting the wizards to eagerly accept the idea.

The Lowland Republic held its first election, while William Orange and the Eye of Wealth used democracy to consolidate capitalist control and unveiled the Democratic Fighter profession. Meanwhile, Evan and his companions broke free of the planet and began their journey into space, ending with their excited arrival above the atmosphere.

• Antwerp City residents voted in the Lowland Republic’s election, and one voter praised William Orange and said he would support Constance Harun for Prime Minister.
• William Orange and Archbishop Barry toasted their cooperation as the Eye of Wealth prepared to use the republic as a model for spreading democracy and capitalist influence.
• The Wealth Church agreed to support the Eye of Wealth’s plan, and Orange confirmed that the Democratic Fighters were ready to advance under the Prosperity Angel’s new profession.
• The chapter explained that Democratic Fighters could gain power by winning public support, making them a tool for stirring political upheaval and extending the Eye of Wealth’s influence.
• Evan and his companions used the Gemstone River’s propulsion system to break free of the planet’s restraints and enter space.
• Evan admired the view with Olivia, while Milan and Calvin led the disciples in cheering for their journey beyond the planet.

The Gemstone River reached space, where Evan and the crew named their home planet Helag after receiving a word from a vast consciousness. Three strange space creatures then attacked the ship, and Olivia merged with the Gemstone River as it transformed into a living combat form.

• The Gemstone River broke through the ionosphere and entered orbit, letting the crew view the planet and the World Wall from space.
• Evan wondered whether they were the first to reach space and proposed naming their home planet; a vast consciousness gave him the name Helag.
• Three enormous flagellates attacked the Gemstone River, and Evan ordered Hecy into combat form and the others to their positions.
• Olivia entered the ship's core cockpit, merged her consciousness with the Gemstone River, and activated its Artificial Lifeform skill.
• The Gemstone River transformed into a forty-meter squid-girl monster form, becoming a living biological species capable of reproducing.

Olivia used the Gemstone River to defeat three Flagellates, and Evan discovered they were ancient biological weapons marked as Ark Plan · Purger · No. 9527. Milan foresaw an approaching danger and Evan ordered a retreat, while countless more Purgers awakened in space.

• Olivia attacked the three Flagellates with the Gemstone River, broke through their linked defenses, and destroyed them with her eight-sword technique.
• Evan collected the Flagellate remains, named the planet Helag Star, and received a great surge of World's Favor.
• Evan examined a Flagellate control core marked “Ark Plan · Purger · No. 9527” and suspected the creatures were weapons made by an ancient civilization.
• Milan sensed an irresistible danger approaching, so Evan ordered Hecy to retreat toward the atmosphere.
• Countless Purgers awakened in deep space, searched with mental fluctuations, and fell silent after finding nothing.

After the Sirius Empire’s defeat, Empress Dowager Theresa began reforms while preparing to protect its remaining interests in the New Continent. Back at White Swan Castle, Evan learned that Sidrick’s team had produced Metallic Hydrogen and rushed to explore its potential for a Plasma Cannon.

• Theresa became regent for the infant Emperor Odrich after Philip II and the other princes with Succession Rights died, and she signed a Trade Restriction Act against the Lowland Republic.
• Theresa pursued domestic industrial reforms and considered contacting the Garratt Duchy to preserve Sirius’s interests in the New Continent.
• Evan and Olivia returned from space to White Swan Castle and found Sidrick waiting for them.
• Sidrick told Evan and Olivia that his researchers had successfully produced Metallic Hydrogen.
• Evan realized Metallic Hydrogen could enable a Plasma Cannon and hurried with Sidrick to investigate the weapon.

Evan tested Metallic Hydrogen explosives and ordered the Mechanical Immortality School to develop a Plasma Cannon for the Gemstone Star. Meanwhile, Stephanie visited Livina in Faletis, where they discussed the alliance’s priorities and noticed expensive tulip bulbs being planted in the palace garden.

• Evan examined the crater left by a Metallic Hydrogen test and instructed Sidrick to begin mass production and develop a Plasma Cannon.
• Evan decided to keep the Plasma Cannon project within the Mechanical Immortality School rather than involve witches from the Gate of Truth School.
• Evan planned to mount the finished weapon on the Gemstone Star and use it against the Purifiers, while the newly formed Octopus Girl hid behind Olivia.
• Stephanie and Livina sparred in the palace square, then walked together as Livina invited her sister to stay longer.
• Livina explained the alliance’s priorities: developing the Peacock Islands, expanding Faletis’s Steam Industry, and securing Ugor Island and the Black Sea route.
• Stephanie noticed gardeners planting costly tulip bulbs from the Lowland Republic, and Livina offered to give her some before she left.

Tulip merchants devised a plan to trade next year's harvest through Guild Standard Sales Contracts as Evan's duchy expanded its economy, population, and university. In spring of Sea Origin Calendar 192, Jerros returned with a Purger core and suggested it came from the Muria Civilization, renowned for biotechnology.

• A tulip merchant proposed selling next September's harvest through Guild Standard Sales Contracts, and the other merchants agreed.
• A professor reviewed economics at the Great Cathedral while Garratt National University developed its courses and recruited students.
• Evan's duchy reached its population-growth target, prepared to expand westward, and attracted investment as its influence grew.
• At White Swan Castle, Jerros showed Evan the Purger core and said he might know its origin.
• Jerros opened the Sorcery Garden · Uruk Great Temple and identified the Third Epoch's Muria Civilization as a leader in biotechnology.