Chapter Summaries

Qin and Fernandez I prepared for battle, and the returning Northland Knights charged the enemy despite the modern guns and artillery facing them. Fernandez I feared their charge and left his platform, while the opposing commander ordered the artillery to fire on the knights.

• Fernandez I offered a viscountcy for killing Qin and an earldom for capturing him alive, boosting his army’s morale.
• Qin told Man Niu and the Minotaur Knights to face their old opponents, while Burdett stayed behind to protect the princes.
• Man Niu led the black-armored Northland Knights in a charge, carrying the great banner in one hand.
• Fernandez I recognized the knights’ strange strength, panicked, and claimed he was going to inspect the troops.
• The enemy frontline commander mocked the knights as obsolete and ordered the artillery to give them a surprise.

The Augusta Knights charged through the New Divine United Kingdom's artillery and army, using Transcendent Power to overwhelm modern weapons. Man Niu then led them toward Fernandez I, who watched their advance from a relocated position.

• The New Divine United Kingdom's artillery struck the Augusta Knights with a barrage, but the knights emerged from the explosions unharmed beneath crimson Transcendent Power.
• Man Niu led the knights in an attack on the frontline position, where their armor deflected bullets and they slaughtered the defenders until the position collapsed.
• Man Niu regrouped the knights and ordered them to capture Fernandez I alive, leading a charge toward the center of the enemy army.
• Franz and Hubble watched the knights' advance and were stunned by the power of Transcendent Knights.
• Fernandez I watched the knights defeat units along their route as they vaulted over buildings and walls toward the central army.

The Great Xia Empire Expeditionary Force routed the New Divine United Kingdom and captured New Holy City with the aid of the Transcendent Knights. Fernandez I fled toward the Southern Continent, while Hubble eagerly sought to learn more about the knights.

• Man Niu endured the autocannon fire as the other Transcendent Knights broke through the camp defenses and shattered the enemy soldiers' morale.
• Qin ordered the Great Xia Empire Expeditionary Force to advance and seize New Holy City, and the army routed the New Divine United Kingdom despite its numerical advantage.
• Man Niu led repeated attacks that helped the Great Xia Empire Expeditionary Force capture New Holy City and take huge numbers of enemy soldiers prisoner.
• Qin declared victory by unencrypted telegram and claimed all territory belonging to the New Divine United Kingdom.
• Fernandez I rejected Antoine's suggestion to flee elsewhere and returned toward the Southern Continent under a false identity with Antoine.
• Hubble pestered Baron Franz for information about the Transcendent Knights after witnessing their power.

Franz, worn down by questions about Transcendent inheritances, asked whether he could become a Transcendent Knight and received hope from Qin. The chapter ended with Franz beginning training under Knight Burdett’s direction.

• Hubble asked Franz whether the Perella Family had a Transcendent inheritance and whether he could join the Augusta Knight Order, and Franz denied knowing of any inheritance.
• Franz went to ask Qin about the origins of the Transcendent Knights and found him overseeing Elf and Michel’s training with Knight Burdett.
• Knight Burdett told Elf she might need ten years to reach the mortal limit, and he bluntly told Franz that his lack of training made transcendence unlikely.
• Franz asked Qin whether training could earn him sacred grace, and Qin promised to plead with his father once Franz reached his limit.
• Knight Burdett gave Franz a Knight's Sword and told him to train as if his life depended on it.

Derek experimented with Transcendent Power and tested three Mecha Knight prototypes, concluding that it could combine with technology in ways that would reshape the empire’s military. He then visited his grandson Elvis and told Claire that Qin would return soon while Hans and the others handled the New Continent.

• Franz resumed sword practice with Elf, who easily beat him in their sparring session.
• Derek tested Transcendent Power on bullets, weapons, armor, and vehicles, finding that it enhanced some objects far more effectively than firearms.
• Tru presented three Mecha Knight prototypes, and Derek piloted them to confirm that Transcendent Power could bring their machinery to life.
• Derek told Tru to work with the knights on new weapons and armor, while the knights continued testing the prototypes.
• Derek visited Elvis, spun him around when the boy wanted to fly, and told Claire that Qin would return soon and Hans and the others would manage the New Continent.

Tru reached the threshold of Transcendence, and Derek granted him Transcendent Power after they discussed its potential beyond combat. Tru’s creative power and research ideas set the story on the path toward a Transcendent civilization.

• Tru waited in the palace for an audience with Derek, having become a researcher and reached the threshold of Transcendence through years of training.
• Derek explained to Tru that Transcendent Power was a concept that could amplify more than combat.
• Tru argued that Transcendent Power could be applied to many fields, and Derek described possibilities such as better medicines and independent Transcendent tools.
• Tru asked Derek to grant him Transcendent Power, and Derek told him to feel the Transcendent world.
• Tru awakened fiery red Transcendent Power associated with creation and became eager to investigate its source and uses in daily life.

After receiving the emperor’s authorization, Tru established a Transcendent Research Institute and began turning an abandoned training camp into a research facility. He recruited selected researchers and revealed to Steve that their task was to study Transcendent Power.

• Tru chose an abandoned training camp outside Pulan City as the institute’s site and selected researchers from a list delivered by the palace.
• Tru surveyed the camp, ordered its old buildings demolished, and planned new living quarters, research areas, testing grounds, and a concealed perimeter.
• The construction teams began work, and Tru revised the institute’s blueprints as his chosen researchers arrived.
• Tru welcomed his student Steve and delegated the institute’s daily work to him.
• Tru demonstrated a flame in his palm and told Steve that the researchers had been gathered to study Transcendent Power.

Fernandez I returned to the Southern Continent with Antoine and journeyed to the Bruno Family’s ancestral land, reflecting on the family’s lost glory. At a stone door deep in the mountains, Antoine’s flashlight failed, and Fernandez I used his jeweled sword to probe a crack in the door.

• The Transcendent Research Institute began its first official project, researching Knight Armor.
• Fernandez I arrived in the Southern Continent disguised as an old man, with Antoine as his only companion.
• Fernandez I and Antoine traveled to the Holy City and then Hansen County, where Fernandez I decided to visit the Bruno Family’s ancestral land.
• Fernandez I showed Antoine the carvings and statues in the mountain caverns and told him about the Bruno Family’s legendary Sacred Bloodline.
• Antoine’s flashlight lost power near a stone door, and Fernandez I drew his jeweled sword and thrust it into a crack.

Fernandez I and Antoine discovered that the family sword powered the ancestral door, then kept working together to transport batteries while concealing their plans and suspicions. On the New Continent, Qin prepared to return home after the Great Xia Empire’s victory, but his brothers argued over who would stay behind to manage affairs.

• Fernandez I recognized the sword’s crack as the keyhole and realized the ancestral door needed electricity, then asked Antoine to help bring more batteries.
• Fernandez I considered killing Antoine but decided to keep him as a useful porter, while Antoine sensed the killing intent and secretly prepared to strike if necessary.
• Fernandez I and Antoine left the cave and spent the following days carrying batteries through the mountains.
• Fernandez I opened a trading company to cover his travels and smuggle batteries into the mountains after learning that charging them would take much longer than expected.
• Qin’s forces swept aside resistance on the New Continent, and Qin began preparing to return home once he had arranged affairs.
• List, Hans, and Michel each tried to nominate someone else to stay behind, while Elf remained a spectator.

Qin reorganized the New Continent into provinces and rewarded wartime supporters to establish a loyal local ruling class. Franz prepared to return to the homeland, while Hubble accepted a mayoral post and received advice on developing his city and avoiding corruption.

• Qin compromised with his younger brothers, allowing each to stay on the New Continent for a few months and assigning them Transcendent Knights.
• Qin divided the New Continent into provinces and rewarded Franz, Good, Hubble, Olyck, and other wartime contributors.
• Franz told Hubble he had secured him a mayoral post and urged him to build a reliable team of advisers.
• Franz advised Hubble to attract settlers, develop resource-processing industries, seek university expertise, and use a friend's transport connections.
• Franz warned Hubble against corruption and promised to keep supporting him after returning to the homeland.

Hubble arrived in Songshan City with Olyck, who presented him with a privately owned airport as an investment in the city. After Hubble secured an order to ship steelmaking equipment through the airport, Ganard’s administration stabilized, and Qin finally decided he could no longer delay returning home.

• Hubble and Olyck arrived in Songshan City after Hubble left his military post.
• Olyck revealed that he had built the New Continent’s first privately owned airport and made it his gift to Hubble.
• Hubble arranged to buy steelmaking equipment from the homeland and ship it through the airport, while Olyck offered to halve the shipping costs.
• Ganard’s administration stabilized after most of its new officials took office, and attracting more settlers became a priority.
• After waiting several more months, Qin could no longer suppress his longing to return home.

Qin returned to the homeland and reunited with Claire and Elvis while the Empire celebrated his victory. At the Transcendent Research Institute, Steve developed a stable formula for permanent light-based strengthening, and Tru brought the finished products to the palace, where Elvis rolled to Steve’s feet.

• Qin returned to the homeland with List, Elf, and Michel, leaving Hans behind on the New Continent, and reunited with Claire and Elvis.
• The Empire welcomed Qin, and he attended the ceremony with Elvis after completing an interview.
• Tru’s researchers celebrated when Steve revealed a new Transcendent Formula that permanently strengthened iron with healing and restorative light.
• Steve and Tru refined the formula, produced finished items, and traveled to the palace to present them to Derek.
• Tru’s team entered the palace and found the imperial family chasing Elvis as he rolled across the floor to Steve’s feet.

Derek reviewed the Transcendent Research Institute’s new items and research, then distributed some of the rare creations. In the Western Continent, Ambassador Jack finally saw proof that Transcendent Power existed, leaving his faith in science shaken.

• Tru gave Elvis a glowing cross pendant from the Transcendent Research Institute, and Elvis happily took it.
• Steve explained the institute’s Transcendent Formula to Derek, who tested it and promised Steve a fitting reward.
• Tru reported progress on Knight Mechs and modified vehicles, noted that ships remained too difficult, and secured more resources from Derek.
• Derek sent newly crafted Transcendent items out from the royal palace, where people quickly sought them.
• Lionheart Ambassador Jack examined a glowing iron statue, felt its effects, and admitted that Transcendent Power was real.

Ambassador Jack confirmed that Transcendent Power was real and began seeking ways for the Lionheart Kingdom to keep up with the new era. Meanwhile, Knight Burdett replaced Pulan City’s church statue with one resembling Michel’s father, and Michel allowed the change as the Lionheart Embassy prepared a donation.

• Ambassador Jack had his assistant cut himself with a dagger, then confirmed the wound healed unusually quickly under Transcendent Power.
• Jack ordered a report to the Lionheart homeland and arranged a donation to the church, hoping it might help him obtain Transcendent Power.
• Michel found Knight Burdett replacing the church’s century-old statue with one that resembled Michel’s father.
• Burdett declared the old statue blasphemous and vowed to replace false statues throughout the empire, while Michel told the bishop to let him proceed.
• The bishop told Michel that a Lionheart Embassy staff member had promised a donation of fifty thousand Gold Coins the next day.

Ambassador Jack mistook a statue of the Great Xia Emperor for God after a bishop told him, “If God had a face, it would surely look like this.” Meanwhile, Qin oversaw the successful test of a Transcendent-powered fighter jet, marking a major breakthrough as the Transcendent Era began.

• Ambassador Jack visited Pulan City’s oldest church and discovered its century-old Divine Statue had been replaced with a statue resembling the Great Xia Emperor.
• The bishop told Ambassador Jack that if God had a face, it would surely look like this, and Jack donated a huge sum in a daze.
• Qin supervised a test in which two Transcendent Knights piloted a modified twin-engine fighter jet together.
• The Transcendent Knights pushed the fighter jet to its limits, demonstrating extraordinary speed, maneuverability, and weapons performance.
• Qin celebrated the successful test as other Transcendent technology trials also began producing breakthroughs.

As the Transcendent Era transformed Great Xia, Tru struggled to observe and extract Transcendent Energy until Davis proposed using materials that could absorb it. Their experiments showed that batteries could carry the energy, prompting Tru to expand the research to other existing energy sources.

• Great Xia introduced its first generation of Transcendent Mechs as Transcendent Power accelerated changes across the empire.
• Tru repeatedly failed to observe or extract Transcendent Energy at the Transcendent Research Institute.
• Davis proposed bypassing observation and testing whether Transcendent Materials could absorb and store the energy.
• Tru reviewed Steve and the others' research, then used its findings to guide tests of materials as Transcendent Energy carriers.
• Tru discovered that finished batteries could carry Transcendent Energy and added petroleum, natural gas, and similar materials to the research list.

Qin gave basic Transcendent Medicine to List to find people who would test its long-term effects. List presented the medicine to his noble allies as a chance to gain an early advantage in the new era, and Richard asked about its effects, production, and cost.

• Researchers at a Transcendent Research Institute laboratory confirmed that the medicine had passed Phase III trials and planned further tests on their enhanced slave subjects before disposing of them.
• Qin handed the basic Transcendent Medicine to List and asked him to find people to test its long-term effects.
• List gathered Richard, Dust, and his other noble allies and explained that he had been privately pursuing a place for them in the Transcendent Era.
• List presented the medicine as a body-strengthening product that could help users reach their physical limits faster when combined with training.
• Richard asked List about the medicine's specific effects, production volume, and cost.

List discussed plans to produce and sell a training medicine and promised recommendations for those who proved worthy of becoming Transcendent Knights. Richard and Dust began building a working relationship as they pursued the opportunities List offered.

• Richard advised List to price the medicine as a premium product and sell it overseas, and List assigned him responsibility for sales.
• List told Dust that he could seek a recommendation for a Transcendent Knight opportunity if he proved his worth.
• Dust pledged to earn List’s recommendation and continue serving him as a Transcendent Knight.
• After the young nobles parted ways, Richard invited Dust to dinner to discuss working together, and Dust accepted.

Dust used Richard’s offer of Transcendent Medicine to open negotiations with Prince Charlie’s side, where Princess Mary Dajia paid generously and Richard presented the medicine for sale. The meeting ended with Princess Mary Dajia ready to proceed with a contract, trusting the medicine’s quality.

• After dinner with Richard, Dust contacted Prince Charlie and arranged to introduce him to Transcendent Medicine.
• Prince Charlie’s side quickly invited Dust to negotiate, and Dust agreed to meet Princess Mary Dajia.
• Princess Mary Dajia gave Dust a stack of Gold Vouchers as thanks for connecting her with Richard.
• Richard offered Princess Mary Dajia thirty Transcendent Medicine pills for fifty Gold Coins and provided two samples.
• Princess Mary Dajia declined to test the samples and asked to discuss the contract, and Richard assured her the medicine was produced by the Transcendent Research Institute and used by the royal family.

Dust and Richard made separate sales of medicine to Princess Mary Dajia and Ambassador Jack, with both buyers revealing different approaches to spending. Richard left his first negotiation with the Lionheart Kingdom Embassy frustrated by Jack’s bargaining and generous church donation.

• Princess Mary Dajia bought medicine from Dust at full price and invited him to bring her future goods.
• Dust told Richard about the commission, then left him to meet Ambassador Jack while Richard planned to treat him later.
• Richard met Jack at the church and offered medicine from the Transcendent Research Institute, but Jack asked to test a batch before placing a large order.
• Richard nearly walked away, then agreed to sell Jack ten doses for testing after Jack offered to pay for them.
• Jack donated a thousand gold coins to the church, and Richard watched him leave and cursed the Lionheart Kingdom.