Recaps

Charlotte went to the Mostarburg Knight Order to deliver Kreil Brittany’s message, but after the order ignored him, he destroyed its camp gate and fought Azure Knight Enzo. Charlotte defeated Enzo with House of Asilo’s lance technique, Folding Space, and left him unwilling to continue.

• Charlotte found that the masterless Mostarburg Knight Order ignored his call from outside its camp.
• Charlotte blasted apart the camp gates, prompting Azure Knight Enzo to ride out and challenge him.
• Charlotte told Anastasia to move away, then used Mountain Breaker and House of Asilo’s lance art against Enzo.
• Charlotte feinted Enzo into an upward thrust, changed direction in midair, and smashed him and his horse to the ground, killing the horse.
• Enzo accused Charlotte of a sneak attack, but after seeing his technique, he did not dare fight again.

After defeating Green Knight Enzo, Charlotte invited the Mostarburg Knight Order’s captains to meet with Kreil about sending troops, then reflected with Anastasia on the devastation war had brought to Behemoth and Nansera. He promised to help her recover her mother’s body so she could bury her at Silver Doveburg.

• Charlotte defeated Green Knight Enzo and entered the Mostarburg Knight Order’s camp while Anastasia stayed outside.
• Charlotte told Blood Knight Diak and the other captains that Kreil Brittany had summoned them to discuss dispatching troops, and they agreed to meet Kreil.
• Charlotte left the political meeting to look over Mostarburg’s walls and considered how the war could end Behemoth’s independence and erase Nansera Territory.
• Anastasia asked Charlotte whether Behemoth and Nansera would ever find peace, and Charlotte said peace might come in a form not everyone could accept.
• Anastasia asked Charlotte to help bring back her mother so she could bury her at Silver Doveburg, and Charlotte promised to do his best.

Kreil Brittany reorganized the Mostarburg Knight Order and left to attack Nansera Territory, entrusting Charlotte with the rear. Charlotte then learned that Mostarburg would undergo Labyrinthization, which required him to collect taxes eighteen times, and gathered the city’s nobles to discuss the ducal residence.

• Kreil Brittany won the Mostarburg Knight Order’s support, split it into three new Knight Orders, and transferred strong soldiers to the Purple Finch and Maple Leaf Knight Orders.
• Kreil left Mostarburg with five Knight Orders to attack Nansera Territory and ordered Charlotte to guard the rear and gather the remnants of two other Knight Orders.
• Charlotte’s diary announced that he had gained temporary rule over Mostarburg and had to complete eighteen tax collections without leaving to place the sixth labyrinth.
• Charlotte summoned Mostarburg’s nobles to discuss ownership of the ducal residence, drawing together hundreds of local nobles.

Charlotte auctioned the two dukes’ possessions in Mostarburg, completing two Labyrinthizations before leaving the city. He then split up with Anastasia and headed to his hometown of Seagull City, where he worried she might hear rumors about his past.

• Charlotte persuaded Mostarburg’s nobles to auction the duke’s residence and other possessions, promising to distribute the proceeds among them.
• The auctions completed Mostarburg’s first and second Labyrinthizations, and the diary granted Charlotte passages to Machu Picchu, Silver Doveburg, and Cappadocia City.
• Charlotte left the remaining auctions to the local nobles and took the West Wind Knight Regiment and Silver Doveburg Knight Order to gather two barons’ knight orders.
• Charlotte suggested that Anastasia go to Mount Oude City while he traveled to Seagull City, and she agreed.
• Charlotte worried that old acquaintances in his hometown might tell Anastasia about his romantic rumors.

Charlotte challenged Seagull City’s Knight Captain Freeman Martin after Freeman had humiliated Dobbin and Yellow Bear, then defeated him without serious injury. As Freeman retreated, Charlotte decided to write a novel about him under the pen name Angry Bunana.

• Charlotte learned that Freeman Martin had ordered Dobbin and Yellow Bear shaved bald, and he shot a challenge letter into Seagull City rather than attack it.
• Freeman Martin emerged from the city and charged Charlotte, who recognized him from his past in Seagull City.
• Charlotte dismounted and defeated Freeman Martin repeatedly with his Knight’s Lance, despite Freeman’s rage and Transcendent strength.
• Freeman Martin cursed Charlotte and was helped back into Seagull City by his soldiers.
• Charlotte planned to write a novel starring Freeman Ximen Qing Martin and publish it under the pen name Angry Bunana.

Charlotte met with his brother Mycroft Mecklen and insisted that Baron Valentin obey the order to transfer the Knight Order out of Seagull City. After Dobbin reported that Valentin’s troops were approaching, Charlotte prepared an ambush and offered rewards to anyone who surrendered or captured the baron.

• Mycroft Mecklen visited Charlotte to ask him to withdraw his troops under Baron Valentin’s orders, but Charlotte refused and said he was following Emperor Julius Axel’s command.
• Charlotte urged Mycroft to stay for dinner, gave him gifts and a carriage for the family, and sent him back to Seagull City.
• Charlotte sent Dobbin and men to patrol the area, and Dobbin returned to warn that a force from Seagull City was marching toward the camp.
• Charlotte withdrew half the Knight Order to set an ambush as Baron Valentin led several hundred soldiers toward the camp.
• Baron Valentin promised his soldiers one Centime for victory, and Charlotte countered by offering twenty Centimes to anyone who surrendered and one hundred Écu to whoever captured Valentin alive.

Charlotte captured Baron Valentin’s forces and recognized Yang Melianne, the younger brother of his childhood sweetheart, Talia. After warning Yang that Valentin might retaliate, Charlotte watched him leave with his gang and was overcome by grief for the life Talia’s death had changed.

• Charlotte’s West Wind Knight Regiment surrounded Baron Valentin’s troops, and many surrendered after seeing the guns and the promised reward.
• Yang Melianne and his companions seized Baron Valentin and brought him to Charlotte, who recognized Yang from Charlotte Mecklen’s memories.
• Charlotte spoke privately with Yang and learned that Talia Melianne was buried at the Dark Goddess’s temple outside Seagull City.
• Charlotte warned Yang that Valentin might seek revenge, but Yang said his gang planned to leave and make something of themselves.
• After Yang departed, Charlotte remembered his childhood with Talia and struggled to contain his grief.

Charlotte ransomed Baron Valentin, returned to Silver Doveburg with Anastasia, and learned that Kreil Brittany had conquered most of South Seraph but needed extensive supplies. Charlotte was left considering Kreil’s request.

• Charlotte demanded ten thousand écus for Baron Valentin and left Freeman Martin to negotiate with the Baroness.
• Freeman Martin returned with word that the Baroness would negotiate in person, and Charlotte departed with his Knight Order.
• Charlotte and Anastasia returned to Silver Doveburg, where Anastasia laid her mother’s body to rest in an ancient temple.
• Anastasia reflected on her divided loyalties and found peace in accepting her Farsian identity and future.
• Charlotte received Kreil Brittany’s report that he had captured seven or eight cities and needed food and supplies for his army and the occupied Madame Nanseras.
• Charlotte considered the large amount of supplies Kreil had requested.

Charlotte gathered supplies by selling spoils of war, then received a temporary appointment overseeing five major cities in Behemoth. While hunting outside Silver Doveburg, he spotted an assassin targeting him and pursued the attacker.

• Yang waited for Charlotte at Lady Black Moon's temple for more than ten days, then left with a group of boys to search for him in Strasbourg.
• Charlotte sold maps marking the spoils of war in Nansera Territory to Behemoth's nobles, sending supplies to Kreil Brittany's front lines and the surplus to Machu Picchu.
• Kreil Brittany and Abner Sumay were astonished by the shipment, and Kreil wrote to Strasbourg after deciding Charlotte was still needed to manage supplies in the rear.
• A team from Strasbourg appointed Charlotte temporary Administrator Chief of Mostarburg, Bibury City, Seagull City, Silver Doveburg, and Mount Oude City.
• Charlotte stayed in Silver Doveburg and went hunting with Dobbin, Yellow Bear, and Anastasia, lending her Cat's Mask after she struggled to shoot a wild boar.
• Charlotte detected a rifle-wielding assassin firing at him, deflected the bullet with Unicorn Vulture, and leapt from his saddle to pursue the attacker.

Charlotte learned that a Horse King Tribe Orc Assassin expected a large Orc army to invade Strasbourg, then prepared Silver Doveburg for the threat. The Orc army surrounded the city in the morning, and after Charlotte activated Labyrinthization, its first probing attack failed before a force of more than a hundred Over-the-Back Red Bear Warriors began a second assault.

• Charlotte fought the Orc Assassin, who revealed that the Orc army would invade Strasbourg and then escaped using Ten Thousand Miles Like Wind.
• Anastasia identified the assassin as a Horse King Tribe warrior, and Charlotte decided to send the invasion warning to Strasbourg and Kreil Brittany.
• Charlotte returned to Silver Doveburg, where Dobbin reported that tens of thousands of Orcs had surrounded the city.
• Charlotte activated Labyrinthization and used the West Wind Knight Regiment to repel the Orcs' first probing attack.
• The Orc army launched a second attack less than half an hour later, this time sending more than a hundred Over-the-Back Red Bear Warriors.

Charlotte defended Silver Doveburg from repeated orc assaults, transformed captured orcs into Labyrinth Guardians, and advanced to ninth-order Transcendent. After the orc army appeared to retreat, an Orc Assassin ambushed him, and Charlotte launched a rapid counterattack.

• Charlotte killed several Over-the-Back Red Bear Warriors with his rifle and lance before the West Wind Knight Regiment helped repel the attackers.
• After Silver Doveburg completed its third Labyrinthization, Charlotte transformed more than a hundred captured orc warriors into Labyrinth Guardians and broke through to ninth-order Transcendent.
• Charlotte rallied Silver Doveburg’s defenders, then lured the orcs into the Labyrinthized city and repelled their assaults repeatedly.
• When the orc army began retreating toward Mostarburg, an Orc Assassin attacked Charlotte with a spiked mace.
• Charlotte blocked the mace with Mountain Breaker and countered with twenty-eight rapid thrusts.

Charlotte saved Silver Doveburg from the three Saint Rank Orc Shaman Mages by hiding the city and its residents in its labyrinth layers. He then left for Strasbourg disguised among five Transcendent Over-the-Back Red Bear Warriors, alarmed by the vast number of orc armies he encountered.

• After the Orc Assassin failed to kill Charlotte, three Saint Rank Orc Shaman Mages unleashed a gale that buried Silver Doveburg beneath sand and dust.
• Charlotte restored Silver Doveburg by revealing the city after hiding its residents and the destroyed city in its labyrinth layers.
• Charlotte asked Anastasia to guard Silver Doveburg and set out for Strasbourg with five Transcendent Over-the-Back Red Bear Warriors.
• Charlotte encountered at least five immense orc armies and disguised himself as an orc to blend in with their ranks.
• The orc vanguard briefly clashed with Strasbourg's Royal Knight Regiment before both sides withdrew.

Charlotte struggled to turn the orc army into Labyrinth Guardians and learned that Agmilas’s labyrinth power was limited, especially against ordinary Transcendents. He left Machu Picchu with the Guardians to witness the war at Strasbourg, leaving Dorothy and Belisa to defend the hidden city.

• Charlotte tried to corrupt orc warriors into Labyrinth Guardians, but larger groups and stronger Transcendents resisted the transformation.
• Dorothy warned Charlotte against relying on Agmilas’s Fel Energy, while Charlotte reflected on how his predecessor’s choices had left him on a dark path.
• As the orc armies departed Machu Picchu, Charlotte discovered that NPC markers wore away and concluded that labyrinth power was less reliable than he had believed.
• Belisa reflected on how much happier she was in Machu Picchu than in Grand Duchess Joseph’s service.
• Charlotte took his transformed orc Guardians to witness the war at Strasbourg and asked Dorothy and Belisa to protect Machu Picchu with the West Wind Knight Regiment.
• Dorothy watched Charlotte leave and said that war was truly terrifying.

Charlotte stayed with the orc army outside Strasbourg, unable to warn the besieged capital about the Shaman Mages preparing to bury it. When Shanda Tribe wolfmen brought human prisoners to serve as food, Charlotte intervened after they brutalized a captive woman and led his warriors into battle.

• Charlotte realized that at least twelve to fifteen Saint Rank orc Shaman Mages intended to bury Strasbourg, but the sealed gates left him no way to warn the city.
• A Shanda Tribe force arrived with nearly a thousand human prisoners, whom Charlotte recognized as the orcs’ intended food.
• Charlotte heard fighting and found wolfmen beating a badly injured female prisoner who had killed more than twenty of their warriors.
• Charlotte claimed the woman, killed the wolfman who threatened him with a thrust from Mountain Breaker, and ordered his warriors to attack.
• Charlotte’s warriors struck the Shanda Tribe force, and the elderly wolfman leader was killed before he could raise an alarm.

Charlotte rescued Sophia Garland and a group of Sheffield University students from the Shanda Tribe, then led them away from the orc armies. After revealing that he was a Sheffield alumnus posing as a civil servant, Charlotte was recognized as the man who had run off with Gorgia University's West Wind Goddess.

• Charlotte defeated the Shanda Tribe's wolfmen, freed the human captives, and agreed to let the one-armed Sophia Garland fight alongside him.
• Most of the freed captives left, but Sophia and more than ten Sheffield University students stayed with Charlotte, who led them away from the orc armies.
• Sophia explained that the students had been captured while searching for a medicinal herb near Strasbourg, after an encounter with orcs killed nearly half their classmates.
• Charlotte told Sophia that he had graduated from Sheffield University and explained that his orc subordinates were Blood Puppets made with the Spirit Spider Technique.
• Charlotte gave Sophia his name, Charlot Mecklenburg, and a golden-haired student recognized him as the man who had run off with Gorgia University's West Wind Goddess.

Charlotte recruited the surviving Sheffield University students to patrol the orc army’s outskirts after learning that Strasbourg could withstand the orcs’ Saint Rank shamans. He lent Sophia Garland the famed Knight’s Lance Whale Slayer, also known as Lion’s Orb, after revealing that Ban Lamorak had lost it to him.

• Sophia Garland told Charlotte that Strasbourg had dozens of Saint Rank experts and did not need a warning about the orc shamans’ wind spell.
• Sophia and the wounded students shared Holy Water of Light, then chose weapons from Charlotte’s supplies.
• Charlotte learned that Sophia was both a Seventh Order Dark Moon Sorcerer and a sixth-order Dark Knight, known as Strasbourg Rose.
• Charlotte mentioned Julian Asilo, and the students recognized him as Byron’s Youngest Azure.
• Charlotte lent Sophia the Knight’s Lance Whale Slayer, also known as Lion’s Orb, and explained that Ban Lamorak had lost it to him in a duel witnessed by His Majesty Alfred Guillaume.

Charlotte watched the orc Shaman Mages try to bury Strasbourg, but the city’s divine defenses repelled their storm. He then learned that Agmilas’s inheritance was a trap that would lead to his death either way, and concluded that he needed to seek a solution on the New Continent.

• Charlotte reassured Sophia Garland and the Sheffield University students while hiding them among the orc warriors.
• Charlotte saw more than ten Saint Rank orc Shaman Mages unleash a storm against Strasbourg and worried that he could not help the people inside.
• An oil painting summoned endless corridors that swallowed the storm, but the Shaman Mages soon destroyed the painting and its crimson monsters.
• The Gate of Radiance and other buildings rose to form a barrier, protecting Strasbourg with the divine power of twelve true gods.
• Charlotte’s diary revealed that mastering more than fifteen labyrinths would send him to the true Agmilas Labyrinth, while failing would let Agmilas devour his soul.
• Charlotte decided that the New Continent might hold a way to resist Agmilas and put the problem aside for the moment.

As orc Shaman Mages battered Strasbourg with devastating winds, Sophia Garland protected Charlotte and their group behind a hill with her Dark Moon spell. The storm intensified while Strasbourg’s defenses held, and Count Brittany privately planned to use the war to eradicate the orcs; Anne stayed safe with her family and resolved to work harder for her future with Charlotte.

• Charlotte realized the Nine Righteous Gods’ miracles were shielding Strasbourg from the orc Shaman Mages’ Great Wind Spells.
• Sophia Garland led the group behind a hill and cast May the Dark Moon Goddess Be Above to shelter them from the gale.
• Charlotte waited out the worsening weather, reflecting on his slowed progress in mastering new abilities and hoping Anne was safe.
• A violent storm of wind, rain, and thunder formed outside Strasbourg’s barrier while the city remained protected.
• Count Brittany watched the storm and planned to use the war to wipe out the orc tribes.
• Anne stayed safely with her father, missed Charlotte, and resolved to work harder toward their marriage.

Charlotte retreated from Strasbourg with his small force, then found a camp where orcs had kept human captives as food and led a raid to free them. He left with about two hundred rescued people, and an orc force began pursuing them as they stopped to rest.

• Charlotte withdrew toward Machu Picchu with his supplies running low, and the storm weakened as his force moved farther from Strasbourg.
• Charlotte found an orc camp decorated with thousands of human heads and ordered his troops to attack.
• Sophia Garland and the others stormed the camp, defeated its defenders, and freed the human captives.
• Charlotte offered the captives a chance to follow, but many stayed behind or delayed, so he departed with about two hundred people.
• Charlotte led his force more than ten kilometers onward to rest, and an orc force appeared behind them a little over an hour later.

Charlotte defeated an orc force pursuing him and returned to Machu Picchu, where he turned the captured orcs into Labyrinth Guardians. He then used three Labyrinthization opportunities to receive Agmilas’s evil god power, which opened a new Bloody Vortex in his eyes.

• Charlotte led the orcs under his command into battle, killed or incapacitated the pursuing force’s commander, and routed its soldiers.
• Charlotte’s werewolves blocked the fleeing orcs while Sophia Garland and Sheffield University students killed those who refused to surrender.
• Charlotte brought the rescued humans and captured orcs back to Machu Picchu, adding the humans to the West Wind Knight Regiment and making the orcs Labyrinth Guardians.
• Charlotte’s diary revealed that he had gained more than one thousand Labyrinth Guardians, including nine Transcendents, and could use three Labyrinthization opportunities to receive Agmilas’s power.
• Charlotte accepted the power and merged it with Bloody Glory, opening a new Bloody Vortex in his eyes as the Labyrinth of Agmiras lost three pages.

Charlotte led the West Wind Knight Regiment from Machu Picchu to strike at the orcs, then hurried to Strasbourg after the enemy forces collapsed. The Empire rewarded him for answering the call to defend the throne, and he returned home to reunite with Anne.

• Charlotte wondered whether his Bloody Vortexes and Infinite Mirror World were connected to the Vangogh Clan, then planned to capture more orcs with his Labyrinth Guardians.
• Sophia Garland arrived at Machu Picchu with Sheffield University students, thanked Charlotte for rescuing them, and agreed to join the West Wind Knight Regiment.
• Anastasia brought elite troops from Silver Doveburg, and Charlotte led the reorganized regiment on raids that expanded his orc Labyrinth Guardians to more than two thousand.
• After learning the orc armies were collapsing, Charlotte marched to Strasbourg, where a Royal Knight Regiment leader congratulated him for being the first to answer the call to defend the throne and advised him to visit the Central Government Office.
• Emperor Julius Axel promoted Charlotte, authorized him to expand his private Knight Order, and awarded him a Blood Kindred baron's Blood Core and a custom Vampiric Weapon.
• Charlotte returned to Champs-Élysées Avenue Number 58, where Anne embraced him in tears, and he told her he had rushed back to Strasbourg out of concern for her.

Charlotte defeated the Mirror Spirit created by his reflection and took control of a Mirror World, then expanded it by reflecting more of his surroundings. The next morning, Sophia Garland arrived with an unfamiliar middle-aged gentleman, reminding Charlotte that he had forgotten to ask Dorothy about the Garlandnode Family.

• Charlotte spent a quiet afternoon with Anne, then cultivated Bloody Glory and used it to summon a Mirror Spirit in a mirror.
• Charlotte entered the Mirror World and destroyed the Mirror Spirit with Mountain Breaker, gaining control of the mirror.
• Charlotte reflected the house, nearby streets, and the Lucavaro River to enlarge his Mirror World, but found its inhabitants and scenery limited and dull.
• Charlotte decided to buy more mirrors the next day, but before he could go out, Sophia Garland arrived with an unfamiliar middle-aged gentleman.
• Charlotte remembered that he had forgotten to ask Dorothy about the Garlandnode Family.

Sophia Garland and Steward Yalman thanked Charlotte for protecting her, then Charlotte hosted a gathering of young ladies at his home. When the conversation turned to his family and rumored troubles in Seagull City, the guests misunderstood his circumstances, and Charlotte tried to stop Anastasia from speculating about his brother.

• Sophia Garland visited Charlotte with Steward Yalman, who conveyed Count Garlandnode's gratitude and offer of friendship.
• After Sophia and Yalman left, Charlotte invited several young ladies to his home, where they gathered over pastries.
• Sylvie Martin asked whether Charlotte had returned to Seagull City, drawing the ladies' attention to his strained family ties.
• The young ladies interpreted Charlotte's remarks and Sylvie's vague reply as evidence that his brother was persecuting him over the family fortune.
• Anastasia suggested Charlotte's brother had spread rumors to keep him from inheriting, and Charlotte urgently asked her to drop the subject.

Charlotte entered a Magic Alchemy Crystal Glass Window’s Mirror World, defeated its Mirror Spirits, and gained control of the Infinite Mirror World. He merged it with the mirror world in his home and emerged through that mirror, though he remained unsure why using three instances of Labyrinthization had granted him the secret art.

• Charlotte entered the mirrored Champs-Élysées Avenue and realized its strange crowd consisted of reflections controlled by a Mirror Spirit.
• Charlotte killed the Mirror Spirit disguised as a newspaper-selling child, then discovered that Withered Rose replenished its bullets by consuming the reflected people’s Fel Energy.
• Charlotte shot the crowd until the remaining reflections merged into six copies of him, then defeated them with Blood Rose and the swordsmanship of House of Asilo.
• Charlotte gained control of the Magic Alchemy Crystal Glass Window’s Mirror World and merged it with the Mirror World in his home.
• Charlotte stepped out through the mirror in his home and recognized the Infinite Mirror World as the Vangogh Clan’s secret art, while remaining uncertain how Labyrinthization had granted it.

Charlotte visited Stars Workshop to have a Vampiric Weapon made with the Blood Core granted by Emperor Julius Axel. After discovering the imperial document did not specify the Blood Core’s grade, he offered the workshop his hidden Dolian Saint Rank Blood Core, and the story ended as Willomar Stars returned with a small box containing the delayed weapon.

• Charlotte visited Stars Workshop with Emperor Julius Axel’s document and met its master, Willomar Stars.
• Charlotte checked the document and realized it did not specify the grade of the Blood Core the Emperor had granted him.
• Charlotte revealed his Dolian Saint Rank Blood Core and handed it to Willomar Stars for the weapon’s creation.
• Willomar Stars said the weapon would be ready in half an hour, but kept Charlotte waiting while the workshop struggled to refine it.
• Willomar Stars finally returned with a small box and apologized for the delay, claiming the weapon had become more perfect.