Chapter Summaries

Mordred sent orders to India while Leon organized the army's withdrawal, exploiting the gap in the Empire's forces. The chapter leaves the purpose of Mordred's orders unfinished.

• Leon organized the army's withdrawal from the continent.
• Mordred sent messengers carrying his orders to India at breakneck speed.
• The chapter explained that Mordred had conquered India and left troops there to maintain order.
• Mordred's trusted subordinates held most of the Empire's military districts.
• Mordred's orders claimed that Artoria had taken the wounded Emperor hostage and incited the army to rebel.

Leon’s side won the battle after the enemy commander died in a suicidal attack, leaving the enemy troops in disarray. After the battlefield was cleared, the fallen commander was pulled from the corpses.

• Leon’s side secured a complete victory.
• The enemy commander launched a suicidal attack and died on the battlefield.
• Percival exploited the enemy’s confusion and crushed their forces.
• Enemy soldiers lost the will to fight, and entire units surrendered.
• The fallen commander, still dressed in distinctive attire, was pulled from a pile of corpses.

Leon’s fleet smashed through Mordred’s forces in the Red Sea and reached the Suez Canal, where Leon personally broke the defenders’ blockades. The fleet routed the troops and continued its advance.

• Mordred’s forces intercepted Leon’s fleet as it entered the Red Sea.
• Leon’s fleet overwhelmed the trained Imperial troops and pushed toward the Suez Canal.
• Mordred’s officers and soldiers halted the fleet for a time with layered blockades along the canal.
• Leon joined the battle with twin guns and punched through the canal defenses, routing the defending troops.

Merlin watched a badly damaged warship descend from the clear sky after His Majesty’s Holy Spear counterattack struck it. An invisible wind slowed its fall as it approached the ground.

• Merlin spotted a black dot descending from the sky.
• He recognized it as a badly damaged warship held aloft by an invisible wind.
• Merlin recalled that His Majesty had struck just as the warship released its Holy Spear formula, with its defenses and stealth inactive.

Leon blocked Mordred’s surprise attack and knocked away his sword and crimson lightning. As the dust settled, Mordred rose from the ruins and walked toward Leon.

• Leon used the Holy Spear to block Mordred’s sword strike hidden in the lightning.
• Leon swept his spear up, knocking away the demonic sword and crimson lightning.
• The lightning struck the nearby ruins and raised dust and smoke.
• Leon saw Mordred rise through the haze and walk toward him.

Mordred faced his father beneath a storm as scarlet lightning lit the sky. His father reached out to him tenderly, leaving Mordred stunned and questioning why.

• Thunder roared and scarlet lightning illuminated Mordred and his father.
• Mordred looked at his father's outstretched hand and stared in disbelief.
• His father showed tenderness instead of the murderous anger Mordred had expected.
• Mordred trembled and asked his father, "Why?"

Mordred unleashed all her mana and charged Leon with her crimson lightning-wreathed sword. The excerpt ended as the Holy Spear hurriedly responded to her attack.

• Mordred released all her mana.
• Mordred activated Super Enhancement and charged Leon with her demonic sword.
• Mordred's blade slashed toward Leon's head.
• The Holy Spear hurriedly reacted.

Mordred told Leon that her strength, speed, magic, and recovery made her certain she would defeat him. Leon laughed at her confidence and dismissed her claim.

• Leon reacted with disbelief when Mordred said he would lose.
• Leon laughed angrily and mocked Mordred's certainty.
• Mordred explained that her strength and speed matched Leon's, her magic surpassed his, and her recovery was greater.
• Mordred said Leon could not outlast her and insisted his defeat was certain.

Mordred recovered from using his trump card, which placed a severe strain on his body. He had used it for the first time against his father and prepared to recover his spent stamina and mana.

• Mordred panted and steadied his breathing after his attack.
• Mordred accelerated the recovery of the stamina and mana his trump card had consumed.
• Mordred recalled that the mode strained his body and could shorten his lifespan.
• Mordred noted that not even Vishnu's avatar in India had pushed him to use the trump card before.
• Mordred had used the trump card for the first time against his father.

Mordred pressed her attack despite being injured and caught Leon off guard with a sudden strike at his neck. Leon released the Holy Sword to respond.

• Mordred charged forward after being struck and thrust her sword toward Leon.
• Leon retreated as Mordred grabbed the Holy Sword's guard with one hand.
• Mordred swung her Demon Sword at Leon's neck.
• Leon hurriedly released the Holy Sword.

Mordred charged Leon in a rage after being humiliated by her father, but Leon dodged her lightning-fast attack and struck her abdomen. The chapter left Mordred reeling in pain.

• Mordred snapped after her father's humiliation and charged at Leon.
• Crimson lightning surged around Mordred as she attacked.
• Leon anticipated Mordred's strike and dodged it.
• Leon punched Mordred in the abdomen, holding back but causing her tremendous pain.

Leon recognized that Mordred was preparing a devastating wide-range attack and summoned a golden blade from the lake. He braced himself against Mordred’s massive bolt of lightning, but the chapter ended before the clash was resolved.

• Leon saw that Mordred was about to unleash a wide-range attack.
• Mordred’s voice echoed as a massive bolt of lightning formed overhead.
• Leon beckoned toward the lake, and a golden blade shot out of the water into his hand.
• Leon gripped the blade with both hands and faced Mordred’s lightning.

Mordred was critically injured and could barely hold the Demon Sword. Leon watched her fade, reminded of Morgan’s death, and was left at a loss.

• Mordred dropped the Demon Sword and struggled to lift it against her chest.
• Mordred tried to speak, but blood spilled from her mouth.
• Leon stared at his faintly breathing daughter and remembered Morgan’s death.

Merlin explained the truth about Mordred to Leon, but hid a possibility that might make Leon erupt in fury. Mordred continued to suffer against the cold blade as Merlin struggled with unfamiliar feelings.

• Mordred clung to the cold blade and cried out in pain.
• Merlin turned away, troubled by Mordred's agonized wails.
• Leon questioned Merlin, who revealed the truth as he understood it.
• Merlin sensed Leon's furious brutality and concealed a possibility that might provoke him.

Merlin warned Leon that Mordred could hold on for only half a day and would need Morgan’s treatment, but they had to reach Britain within two hours. With Egypt far away and an enemy fleet blocking their route, they faced a desperate race to get His Highness there.

• Merlin said Mordred could hold on for at most half a day and needed Morgan to treat him.
• Leon anxiously asked how much time remained.
• Merlin said they had at most two hours to get His Highness to Britain, despite being in Egypt and blocked by an enemy fleet.

Mordred asked Leon to let her spend the remaining time with her mother. Leon agreed, though he had wanted to stay with her longer.

• Leon noted that less than an hour had passed and that there was still time.
• Mordred told Leon she wanted to save time to talk properly with her mother.
• Leon reluctantly agreed to let Mordred go see her mother.
• Leon raised his hand into the air.

The garrison troops guarding the sealed capital spotted someone approaching the city gates. The chapter ended before they identified the figure.

• The garrison troops patrolled the walls and guarded the closed city gates under orders from the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister's Residence.
• A sentry spotted someone walking toward the city and alerted his squad.
• The soldiers turned their attention toward the approaching figure.

Luther suspected something strange about Arthur after recalling how Mordred had treated him while he was imprisoned. He left the possibility unresolved as Arthur departed.

• Arthur left somewhat absentmindedly.
• Leon asked Luther whether he had discovered something.
• Luther said he was uncertain but had sensed something strange about Arthur.
• Luther recalled that Mordred had kept him well fed and treated him courteously during his imprisonment, which made him suspicious of Mordred's special treatment.

After word spread that the Emperor had returned, officials and nobles gathered at the imperial palace despite the capital’s martial law. They filled the main hall and the square outside, waiting tensely.

• News of the Emperor’s return spread through the capital.
• Officials and nobles accepted the imperial decree as confirmation that the Emperor had returned.
• Officials and nobles of every rank were summoned to the imperial palace’s main hall.
• High-ranking officials crowded inside while minor officials and clerks lined up in the square outside.

Leon reviewed Jeweled One’s notes about strange lifeforms on Venus and Jupiter and recalled the Ultimate Ones that existed on the Solar System’s planets in the Moon World. The notes led him to remember Crimson Moon, the Moon’s Ultimate One, who had once answered Gaia’s summons and brought calamity to Earth.

• Leon read through the notes Jeweled One had sent him, and his expression darkened.
• Leon recalled biological traces detected by a probe on Venus and a mysterious pitch-black Giant seen on Jupiter.
• Leon remembered that the planets of the Solar System in the Moon World each had an Ultimate One, a supreme life-form that embodied all life on its planet and lacked the concept of death.
• Leon recalled that Crimson Moon was the Moon’s Ultimate One and had once answered Gaia’s summons, bringing calamity to Earth.