Chapter Summaries

After the Behemoth King fell and the orcs retreated, news of the vast northern lands open for development spread across the kingdoms. Count Engel supported Dreyrosa descendants who chose to become Pioneer Knights, while nobles from three kingdoms flocked north to claim territory.

• Michael and his companions learned that Neil Morton was an instructor at Canaan Academy and left Eagle Territory impressed by Thor’s growing stature.
• News spread that the Behemoth King had fallen, the orcs had retreated, and the Tulip Kingdom’s forces had expanded more than a thousand miles beyond the Northern Defense Line.
• Nobles across Frost Moon Province mobilized supplies and descendants to pursue opportunities in the newly opened north.
• Count Engel offered Dreyrosa descendants a chance to become Pioneer Knights and warned them about the dangers of northern development.
• Morris chose to become a Pioneer Knight, and Count Engel granted him knighthood, ten Formal Knights, and five thousand gold coins.
• Seven Dreyrosa descendants set out as Pioneer Knights while nobles and Knight Orders from the Tulip, Violet, and Blazing Kingdoms surged northward.

Thor faced the growing threat from powerful noble descendants targeting the Eagle Merchant Guild’s resource sites and refused to rely on Neil Morton for help. He revealed that his strength exceeded that of an ordinary Early Earth Knight and demonstrated it by overpowering Michael in a spar.

• Thor learned that descendants from seven top Marquis families and several powerful Count families had arrived in Loren City and chosen territories around the Eagle Merchant Guild’s western resource sites.
• Michael warned that more Pioneer Knight Orders would arrive and asked how much help Neil Morton could provide, but Thor said he would not use Neil Morton’s strength.
• Thor told Michael, Cheshire, and Marshall that his power was not that of an Early Earth Knight and led them to the training grounds.
• Thor asked Michael, a Peak Earth Knight, to spar and unleashed an icy Variant Life Source Power that made Michael realize he had underestimated him.
• Thor attacked through the wind and snow, broke apart Michael’s Life Source Power, froze his arm, and sent him flying.

Thor demonstrated that he could overpower Peak Earth Knight Michael, then learned that powerful noble houses would soon compete for the northern frontier’s assets. As Michael began preparing the territory’s forces, Thor received reports that noble-family pioneers had arrived in the Western Region and were already moving against its resource sites.

• Thor fought Michael and froze him briefly, forcing Michael to concede defeat and praise Thor’s strength.
• Michael told Thor that the descendants of three powerful Marquises might bring Sky Knights and that Thor’s forces could secure only part of the assets.
• Thor said the noble heirs might lose their chance if they waited, while Michael warned that their forces could still threaten the Northern Province.
• Michael ordered Cheshire to finish the cleanup and had Marshall help him train the Fledgling Knight Order while he trained the Eagle Knight Order.
• Steve informed Thor that the first Pioneer Knight Order members from powerful noble families had reached the Western Region, where unidentified knights had appeared near major resource sites.

Powerful noble heirs began targeting Eagle Territory’s resource sites, while Thor secretly brought his forces to the Western Region and prepared to confront Ryan Watt. As Tono and Babrulus worried over the gathering threats, Thor’s forces remained hidden and ready.

• Ryan Watt investigated Babrulus’s territory and ordered Trafalgar to gather more intelligence on it and nearby noble heirs.
• Thor secretly stationed his Knight Order in an abandoned territory and learned through Daily Intelligence that Ryan Watt planned to attack an Eagle Territory resource site in seven days.
• Thor sent Steve to investigate Ryan Watt’s strength and learned that his own force had more than twenty Great Knights, including seven Earth Knights and three with Peak Earth Knight combat power.
• As noble heirs and other lords watched Eagle Territory, Tono and Babrulus worried that their forces could not withstand the coming attacks.
• A hurried knock sounded at Tono’s door just after he struck his desk in anger.

Babrulus rushed back to find Ryan Watt attacking a Large Iron Mine, where Thor’s Magic Crystal Cannons devastated Ryan Watt’s Knight Order and forced the fighting to escalate. Thor’s forces intercepted Ryan Watt and his Earth Knights, while Thor prepared another cannon volley.

• A knight reported that Ryan Watt’s Knight Order had attacked Babrulus’s Large Iron Mine, and Babrulus left Tono to assess the situation while Tono stayed behind.
• Ryan Watt ordered Liverpool to end the battle at the mine, but Thor’s third-tier Magic Crystal Cannons struck first and wiped out more than a third of Ryan Watt’s Knight Order.
• Ryan Watt sent Manchester after Thor, and Michael intercepted him in the forest as Thor’s cannons fired a second volley into Ryan Watt’s forces.
• Ryan Watt recognized Thor’s Dressrosa emblem and charged toward him, but Cheshire, Lajos, and two Earth Knights from Joz’s territory blocked his path.
• Thor remained behind the Magic Crystal Cannon as his forces battled Ryan Watt’s group and the cannon began gathering energy for another attack.

Thor defeated Ryan Watt’s forces, captured Ryan, and returned to Eagle Territory as news of the battle shook the west. He then ordered Lajos to spread the story further, preparing for the unrest to come.

• Thor’s forces overwhelmed Ryan Watt’s knights, while Michael and the other Earth Knights defeated Ryan’s remaining fighters and captured him.
• Thor ordered Steve to reward the knights who defended the mines and instructed Babrulus to handle the battlefield cleanup and report the spoils.
• Thor returned openly to Eagle Territory with Ryan and other prisoners, and word of Ryan’s defeat and Michael’s presence spread among the Pioneer Lords.
• Seven days later, Thor settled Ryan in Eagle Territory and summoned Lajos to order the Eagle Merchant Guild to spread the news further.

Thor offered Lajos Assad a chance to reconnect the Assad Family with the Eagle Merchant Guild and access Intermediate Life Potions, while Eagle Territory quietly amassed overwhelming strength. Meanwhile, Moravi Spencer gathered powerful noble heirs to discuss the Dreyrosa Family’s growing presence and the difficulty of claiming its resources.

• Thor told Lajos Assad that the Eagle Merchant Guild would trade with the Assad Family if they were willing to give up their resistance, and offered him an annual chance to exchange for an Intermediate Life Potion.
• Burton Dressrosa and two other Earth Knights arrived in the Northern Province, bringing the Eagle Merchant Guild’s known Earth Knight strength to ten, though Thor and Ryan’s full abilities remained concealed.
• Moravi Spencer learned that Ryan Watt had been captured and that the Dreyrosa Family had sent more Earth Knights, making it clear he could not seize the Eagle Merchant Guild’s resources alone.
• Moravi Spencer invited powerful noble heirs to his territory, and twenty-seven gathered at his castle to discuss the situation.
• At the meeting, Jessica rebuked Pal for mocking Ryan Watt, and Moravi Spencer warned that reclaiming the resources Dressrosa had taken would not be easy.

Moravi Spencer proposed that the twenty-seven Pioneer Lords form an alliance to challenge the Eagle Merchant Guild and prepare for powerful heirs arriving in the Northern Province. After revealing his Late Earth Knight strength, he secured their agreement and completed the alliance’s initial planning.

• Moravi Spencer warned the Pioneer Lords that the Eagle Merchant Guild and Dreyrosa Family had become too powerful for individual families to challenge.
• Moravi proposed uniting the lords and revealed that Steel Adams of the Adams Family would arrive within two months.
• Moravi Spencer distributed an alliance proposal, prompting disputes over how its rewards would be divided.
• Moravi displayed his Late Earth Knight strength and told the lords they could either accept his proposal or refuse to join.
• The twenty-seven Pioneer Lords agreed to Moravi’s arrangements, forming an alliance with forty-two Earth Knights and more than a hundred Great Knights.

Moravi Spencer led the Northern Alliance in planning an attack on Thor Dressrosa and the Eagle Merchant Guild, whose mines and production sites promised enormous spoils. As the alliance advanced east, Thor gathered the guild’s forces and prepared to meet them at a chosen battlefield.

• The twenty-seven Pioneer Lords argued over the alliance’s name and division of benefits before settling on the Northern Alliance and its arrangements.
• Moravi Spencer proposed seizing the Eagle Merchant Guild’s resource sites, assigned seven Pioneer Lords to harass them, and ordered the others to assemble for an assault on Eagle Territory.
• The Northern Alliance began moving east, prompting Tono and the other Eagle Merchant Guild lords to mobilize their Knight Orders and rush to support Thor.
• Thor prepared the guild’s forces at the former battlefield of the Maine Alliance and Minotaur Tribe, where Steve reported that the Northern Alliance was less than five days away.

Thor deployed Eagle Territory’s forces and prepared a battlefield to ambush the Northern Alliance. The alliance’s advance was caught in cannon fire and Blazing Oil, and Thor’s first strike killed an Earth Knight, leaving Moravi Spencer and the others shocked by the Dreyrosa Family’s strength.

• Thor gathered Eagle Territory’s high-level forces, positioned fifteen Magic Crystal Cannons, and spread Blazing Oil across the battlefield.
• Moravi Spencer led the Northern Alliance toward Eagle Territory, confident that its superior numbers would ensure victory.
• The alliance entered Thor’s trap, where cannon fire ignited the Blazing Oil and catapults sent more burning oil into their ranks.
• Moravi ordered the Earth Knights to attack, and Thor assigned his allies to hold them back while he confronted their leaders.
• Thor charged on Nia and killed an Earth Knight with one strike, stunning Moravi and the advancing alliance.

Thor Dressrosa and Ryan revealed overwhelming strength against Moravi Spencer’s Northern Alliance, defeating multiple Earth Knights and forcing Moravi to call for reinforcements. The remaining enemy knights hesitated as Thor and Ryan pressed their attack.

• Moravi Spencer was shocked to find that Thor had become a Peak Earth Knight and that Eagle Territory had more Earth Knights than his intelligence suggested.
• Moravi ordered Mipodi to hold back Michael and sent four Peak Earth Knights to confront Michael, Thor, and Ryan.
• Thor used his icy power to defeat one Peak Earth Knight, while Ryan struck down another with thunder.
• Thor and Ryan wounded two more Peak Earth Knights in a rapid exchange, stunning Moravi and the other knights.
• Moravi called for Grig Casseres and Jurgen Vincent to send their men, but the knights hesitated and no one advanced.

Thor activated both his Ice and Snow and Death Law Imprints while surrounded by seven Earth Knights, unleashing a vast field of frost that turned his attackers into ice sculptures. As the battlefield fell silent, death aura began drawing Life Source Power from the frozen knights to restore Thor.

• Moravi Spencer rallied the Northern Alliance’s Earth Knights and charged Thor, prompting all thirty-one remaining Earth Knights to attack Eagle Territory’s forces.
• The Northern Alliance divided its forces, surrounding Thor, Ryan, and Michael while pressing Eagle Territory’s other knights.
• Thor activated his Death Imprint alongside his Ice and Snow Imprint as seven Earth Knights closed in on him.
• Thor’s freezing aura spread across the battlefield, and seven Earth Knights became ice sculptures within a vast frozen area.
• Death aura drew Life Source Power from the ice sculptures into Thor as the fighting stopped and everyone stared at the scene.

Thor used the Frost Law and Death Law to freeze the Northern Alliance’s Earth Knights, then turned the battle in Eagle Territory’s favor. After restoring his depleted Life Source Power, he killed Moravi Spencer and left the remaining enemies facing defeat.

• Thor’s first eruption of the Frost Law and Death Law froze seven Earth Knights, and he recovered Life Source Power by draining those trapped in the spreading death aura.
• Thor reached Ryan, told him to rest, and faced the seven Earth Knights who had nearly killed him; the Pioneer Lords began blaming Moravi and pleading for mercy.
• Thor invoked the laws a second time, freezing most of the group and killing the Earth Knight the fleeing Peak Earth Knight had struck and abandoned.
• Thor offered the surviving Northern Alliance forces a chance to surrender and pay ransom, but Moravi Spencer challenged his ability to use the laws again and threatened his family.
• A halo restored Thor’s Life Source Power, and he moved too quickly for Moravi Spencer to react, piercing his chest and freezing him to death.

Thor defeated the allied noble descendants who attacked Eagle Territory, killed Moravi Spencer, and took the survivors captive for ransom. As the captives anticipated retaliation from powerful families, Thor remained confident in the strength of the Dreyrosa Family and his father.

• Thor killed Moravi Spencer, prompting the remaining Pioneer Lords and Earth Knights to surrender.
• Thor ordered Cheshire to restrain the captives and arranged for Marshall to notify the rear, while Ryan defeated the Frost Knight.
• Thor used the second dam’s floodwaters to extinguish the spreading fire, though the torrent swept away many Knight Order members.
• Anna and Avila helped Cheshire seal the surviving Earth Knights’ Life Source Power, and Eagle Territory finished processing the captives after nightfall.
• Grig Casseres argued that Moravi’s death and the nineteen captives would draw powerful families against Thor, but Thor remained unconcerned because his father was a formidable Sky Knight.

Thor defeated an alliance of powerful noble descendants, then arranged for Count Engel to demand their ransom and planned to consolidate control over the Northern Province. When Lajos Assad, Tono, and Babrulus arrived, Thor ordered them to summon the remaining Pioneer Lords of the Eagle Merchant Guild to Eagle Territory.

• Thor wrote to Count Engel, asking him to demand ransom from the captured nobles and offering him half the proceeds.
• Thor discussed the Eagle Merchant Guild's next move with Lajos Assad and expected the defeat to deter the three top-tier marquis descendants from coming.
• Lajos Assad returned to Eagle Territory and learned that Thor had defeated the attackers and taken their knights captive.
• Thor confirmed to Lajos Assad, Tono, and Babrulus that he had defeated the alliance and was holding more than ten Pioneer Lords.
• Thor ordered the three to summon the remaining seven lords to Eagle Territory, warning that Northern Province was dangerous for those who refused.

After defeating the Northern Alliance, Thor spared its seven remaining Pioneer Lords but demanded compensation and knightly labor, then used their payments to expand the Eagle Merchant Guild. As he began plans to extend the guild’s reach across the Northern Province, his letter finally arrived in the peaceful Frost Moon Province.

• News of Eagle Territory’s victory spread across the Northern Province, and the seven surviving Pioneer Lords of the Northern Alliance received letters from Tono demanding they come to Thor.
• The seven Pioneer Lords arrived at Eagle Territory, where Thor spared them because they had not directly joined the attack but demanded gold and knightly manpower as compensation.
• Thor offered the seven loans and knight leases through the Eagle Merchant Guild, and they agreed to pay and send knights rather than refuse his terms.
• After receiving their payments and knights, Thor and Lajos Assad finalized plans to expand the Eagle Merchant Guild across the Northern Province and enter the slave trade with the Assad Family.
• A month later, Thor’s letter arrived in the peaceful Frost Moon Province.

Count Engel read Thor’s letter and learned that Thor had defeated the Northern Alliance, captured nineteen noble heirs, and killed Moravi Spencer. Thor’s victory left Engel considering how to use the captured heirs and their ransoms to strengthen the Dreyrosa Family, while the Spencer Family learned of Moravi’s death and reacted with fury.

• Count Engel received and opened a letter from Thor, who described the noble families targeting Eagle Territory and the battles that followed.
• Engel read that Thor had defeated twenty-seven powerful Noble Lords, captured nineteen of their descendants, and killed Moravi Spencer.
• Engel realized Thor had left the Spencer Family’s compensation claim for him to pursue and considered the money’s value to the Dreyrosa Family.
• In the Western Moon Province, a knight reported Moravi’s death to a middle-aged man in the Spencer Family.
• The middle-aged man crushed his desk with Life Source Power and forced the reporting knight to the ground.

After Thor defeated the alliance of Pioneer Lords and killed Moravi Spencer, Count Engel demanded compensation from the noble families and prepared to confront the Spencer Family. A Mid-stage Sky Knight named Zaparov Spencer flew toward Dreyrosa Castle, where Engel awaited him.

• Spencer learned that Moravi had been killed and feared his father's reaction, while Count Engel decided to use the conflict to demand gold from the Spencer Family and the other nobles.
• Count Engel sent compensation demands to the twenty powerful noble families, asking nineteen of them for reduced sums and demanding three hundred thousand gold coins from the Spencer Family.
• The other nobles confirmed that Thor had captured their descendants and defeated their alliance, and several families sent gold to the Dressrosa Family while others watched for the Spencer Family's response.
• The Spencer Marquis received Engel's demand and sent a letter to his father before a Sky Knight departed for Dressrosa Territory.
• Count Engel learned that the approaching Sky Knight was Zaparov Spencer, a Mid-stage Sky Knight, and looked forward to meeting him at Dreyrosa Castle.

Zaparov Spencer arrived in the Dressrosa Territory and demanded that Count Engel surrender Sahara Mine and sacrifice his son. Count Engel revealed he had become a Sky Knight, shocking Zaparov and the gathered families as the confrontation began.

• The Pat Family and other powerful families sent people toward the Dressrosa Family, wary that the Spencer Family intended to seize influence in Frost Moon Province.
• After more than ten days of flight, Zaparov Spencer reached the Dressrosa Territory and called for Engel to come out.
• Zaparov accused a Dressrosa descendant of attacking his family's pioneer territory and killing a Spencer descendant, then demanded the son’s suicide and the surrender of Sahara Mine.
• Engel rejected Zaparov’s demands and said the Spencer Family had no claim to Sahara Mine.
• Engel rose into the air, revealing that he had broken through to Sky Knight and stunning Zaparov and the watching Knight Orders.

Count Engel defeated Zaparov Spencer after revealing that his strength far exceeded that of an ordinary newly advanced Sky Knight. Zaparov lay wounded in a crater with Engel’s lance beside his head, unable to answer him.

• Count Engel matched Zaparov Spencer’s aura, rejected his demand for Sahara Mine and compensation, and demanded four hundred thousand gold coins from him instead.
• Count Engel attacked with his Knight’s Lance and quickly suppressed Zaparov, shocking the approaching Knight Orders and the people watching below.
• As they continued fighting, Count Engel’s superior Life Source Power and Silver Moon Breathing Technique gave him an increasingly decisive advantage.
• Count Engel appeared behind Zaparov and struck him out of the sky, leaving him badly injured in a crater.
• Count Engel planted his lance beside Zaparov’s head and told him that not all Sky Knights were the same.