Recaps

Willomar Stars explained that Charlotte’s Saint Rank Blood Core had been used to restore the Saint Rank Vampiric Weapon Blood Spirit Rhino, though Charlotte could not yet wield it. After leaving the Stars Workshop, Charlotte took the weapon into a Mirror World to test it, where it burrowed into the Bloody Vortex in his right arm and refused to stay out.

• Willomar Stars told Charlotte that Count Galanod, Sophia Garland’s father and the Minister of War, had sold the Stars a Saint Rank weapon after its Blood Core was destroyed in battle.
• Willomar Stars explained that Hassu Stars used Charlotte’s Saint Rank Blood Core to restore the weapon, named Blood Spirit Rhino, and warned that its Dolian secret art might prevent Charlotte from using it.
• Charlotte asked the Stars to report that he had supplied a Baron-rank Blood Core, and Willomar Stars agreed to try to keep the true rank confidential.
• After leaving the workshop, Charlotte took control of a Mirror World in Rosay District so he could examine Blood Spirit Rhino privately.
• Charlotte poured his Bloody Glory into Blood Spirit Rhino, but the chain entered the Bloody Vortex in his right arm and burrowed back inside whenever he pulled it out.

Charlotte tried to sell a baron-grade Blood Core and met Sean Connery, an alchemist hoping to trade two high-grade Vampiric Weapons for it. Sean showed Charlotte the weapons, and Charlotte realized Sean had spent his entire fortune making them.

• Charlotte left the Mirror World, then asked Madam Nancy to find shops that could upgrade his Vampiric Weapons; several shops declined or quoted high prices.
• Charlotte considered selling the baron's Blood Core, and Sean Connery approached him with an offer of one thousand five hundred Écu.
• Charlotte refused Sean's initial offer and agreed to discuss the Blood Core over coffee instead of at Sean's workshop.
• Sean explained the Blood Core's value and proposed trading it for one of two high-grade Vampiric Weapons.
• Sean showed Charlotte two matching pistols, and Charlotte guessed that Sean had spent his entire fortune forging them.

Charlotte negotiated with the indebted alchemist Sean Connery for his two Vampiric Short Spears, whose Blood Cores granted a powerful Agility Technique bonus when used together. Sean finally offered the pair for Charlotte's Baron Blood Core and five thousand five hundred écus, leaving the deal poised for acceptance.

• Sean Connery explained that he had borrowed heavily to forge the Vampiric Short Spears, but Byron buyers had rejected them because he was Farsian and used Classic Alchemy.
• Charlotte learned that the spears' Nicholas Clan Blood Cores held Agility Technique x6 and x7, combining to grant Agility Technique x9 to their owner.
• Charlotte tried to buy both spears at a discount, while Sean insisted they were valuable and resisted selling them cheaply.
• Charlotte warned Sean that his stubbornness and mounting debt could ruin him, then the two haggled over a price involving Charlotte's Baron Blood Core and écus.
• After Charlotte let Sean think it over, Sean pushed the box toward him and offered both spears for the Baron Blood Core and five thousand five hundred écus.

Charlotte bought two High-Order Transcendent Vampiric Short Spears from Sean Connery and named them the Red Rattlesnake and the Blue Rattlesnake. After paying Sean in Machu Picchu and returning him to Strasbourg, Charlotte received an order to return to his territory immediately.

• Charlotte agreed to buy Sean Connery's two Vampiric Short Spears for 5,500 écus and took him to Machu Picchu to withdraw the money.
• Charlotte examined the weapons, named them the Red Rattlesnake and the Blue Rattlesnake, and concealed them within his wrists.
• Dark Luxury carried Charlotte and Sean Connery from Strasbourg to Machu Picchu, where Sean was astonished by the thriving settlement.
• Charlotte paid Sean with Flor banknotes, then returned with him to Strasbourg and brought him back to Stars Workshop the next morning.
• Charlotte returned to Champs-Élysées Avenue Number 58 and received an official order to return to his territory at once.

Charlotte tried repeatedly to evade an aged leopardman who had infiltrated his Labyrinth Guardians, only to discover that the orc was a wounded Saint Rank. The leopardman revealed that the orcs had invaded Strasbourg after the Byron Empire promised help from a Blood Progenitor, but the promised aid never came and the orc army was devastated.

• Charlotte returned to Machu Picchu and discovered that an aged leopardman among his captured orcs could not be converted into a Labyrinth Guardian.
• Charlotte tried several times to lose the old leopardman by splitting up and abandoning his troops, but the leopardman repeatedly rejoined his party.
• Charlotte finally confronted the old leopardman, who admitted he was an Orc Saint Rank weakened to a tenth of his strength.
• The old leopardman explained that the Byron Empire had promised a Blood Progenitor would help the orcs breach Strasbourg, but no vampire appeared.
• The old leopardman said Strasbourg's Saint Ranks had destroyed hundreds of thousands of orcs and several orc Saint Rank Shaman Mages after the orcs exhausted their magic against the city's barrier.

Charlotte persuaded Domitian that orcs deserved to live openly and honorably, then learned that the old leopardman was a Saint Rank leader of the Orc Assassin Alliance. Domitian taught Charlotte the Beast God Transformation Technique and disappeared, leaving Charlotte worried that he could follow him anywhere.

• Charlotte argued that orcs were people too, and Domitian praised the idea as an explanation for the orcs’ defeat.
• Domitian revealed that he had created the Beast God Transformation Technique and identified himself as Domitian, a leader of the Orc Assassin Alliance.
• Domitian forced the technique’s teachings into Charlotte’s mind and ordered him to master it before their next meeting, threatening to kill him if he failed.
• Domitian vanished, and Charlotte decided he would not join him on his important mission.
• Charlotte realized the transformation technique could let Domitian disguise himself and enter Strasbourg despite the postwar restrictions on orcs.

Charlotte studied the Beast God Transformation Technique, returned to Silver Doveburg, and prepared supplies as the war spread into Nansera Territory. After sending three Knight Orders ahead, he personally led the remaining West Wind Knight Regiment and Orc Labyrinth Guardians to the front to protect his soldiers.

• Charlotte confirmed Domitian had not followed the Orc Labyrinth Guardians and learned to transform into an Over-the-Back Red Bear Warrior, though the transformation sealed his Bloody Glory.
• Charlotte returned to Silver Doveburg, where residents welcomed the West Wind Knight Regiment, and resumed control of the city’s affairs.
• After receiving Kreil Brittany’s request, Charlotte organized supplies for Nansera Territory and built warehouses connected to several Labyrinthized cities.
• Charlotte sent Dobbin, Yellow Bear, and Anastasia with three Knight Orders to transport supplies to the front.
• When Kreil Brittany requested more soldiers, Charlotte left a thousand West Wind Knight Regiment soldiers in Silver Doveburg and personally led the rest, along with the Orc Labyrinth Guardians, to Nansera Territory.

Charlotte used a novella written by Italo Calvino to win over the Madame Nanseras and advance through Nansera Territory, then joined the front and captured Interlaken. His arrival fulfilled the requirement to establish the thirteenth labyrinth, and Interlaken began undergoing Labyrinthization.

• Charlotte defeated two attacks by local farmers and incorporated the captured attackers into the West Wind Knight Regiment.
• Italo Calvino wrote a novella casting Charlotte as Jonah's illegitimate son, and Charlotte revised it into a story he used to influence the Madame Nanseras.
• Charlotte released a revised version that gave himself a Behemoth mother, and the novella spread through South Seraph as more Madame Nanseras joined him.
• Sebald joined Charlotte's forces and learned the Over-the-Back Red Bear Warrior Transformation, helping clear the way for the West Wind Knight Regiment's advance.
• Kreil Brittany and Abner Soumei ordered Charlotte to capture Interlaken, and the Black Phoenix Dynasty's defenders withdrew as his forces approached.
• Charlotte entered Interlaken and became its master, fulfilling the requirement for the thirteenth labyrinth as Labyrinthization began.

Charlotte completed Interlaken’s Labyrinthization, renovated the nearly empty city, and led the West Wind Knight Regiment against three Black Phoenix Dynasty Knight Orders. He killed Baron Regretbird in a sudden duel, defeated the other two orders, and sent hundreds of prisoners to Machu Picchu.

• Interlaken completed its first Labyrinthization, and Charlotte directed his orcs to demolish and rebuild the city’s residences.
• The Black Phoenix Dynasty sent three Knight Orders to keep Charlotte’s forces occupied at Interlaken.
• Baron Regretbird challenged Charlotte to a duel, and Charlotte killed him with one shot from Blue Rattlesnake.
• Charlotte charged Baron Regretbird’s Knight Order with Mountain Breaker and then attacked the other two orders as their formations fell into disorder.
• Bear Tribe Warriors captured Baron Dusky Crow and Baron Colorful Swan, and the West Wind Knight Regiment defeated their Knight Orders.
• Charlotte gathered roughly four to five hundred prisoners and sent them to Machu Picchu.

Charlot led the West Wind Knight Regiment into a chaotic battle and became trapped behind the Black Phoenix Dynasty's lines, where he repeatedly fought Chloe Hadrian's royal main-force Knight Order. After a pause in the fighting, Charlot challenged Chloe alone, and Chloe launched their next duel.

• Charlot left Italo Calvino in charge of Interlaken City and led troops out to set an ambush, prompting the Black Phoenix Dynasty commander to send another Knight Order.
• Charlot and Abner Soumei's forces maneuvered among several small cities, where Charlot fought two stronger Knight Orders and lost more than a hundred men.
• Charlot encountered a royal main-force Knight Order and accidentally ended up behind the Black Phoenix Dynasty's lines, while its commanders feared he meant to cut off their retreat.
• Chloe Hadrian pursued Charlot through more than ten fierce battles, dueling him repeatedly without either gaining the upper hand.
• After his troops rested, Chloe learned Charlot had issued a solo challenge, went out to meet him, and thrust his lance-spear at Charlot.

Charlotte and Chloe fought to a standstill until Charlotte’s concealed armor-piercing bullet revealed that Chloe possessed the Proof of Oaths, making ambushes against him difficult. After an exhausting day, Chloe vowed to lead an army charge instead of dueling again, while Charlotte considered raiding the enemy camp with his beastman warriors.

• Charlotte and Chloe traded spear attacks for more than half an hour, with Chloe’s Proof of Hills deflecting Charlotte’s Energy Bullets.
• Charlotte fired a concealed Demon-Breaking Armor-Piercing Bullet, but Chloe’s Proof of Oaths warned him in time to deflect it.
• Chloe angrily challenged Charlotte to fight head-on, while Charlotte realized the Proof of Oaths had foiled his plans to ambush him.
• Charlotte and Chloe fought until both were exhausted, then returned to their camps.
• Chloe told his adjutant he would stop dueling and lead an army charge the next day.
• Charlotte restored his energy and considered raiding Chloe’s camp with his nine Transcendent beastman warriors.

Charlotte abandoned the plan to sacrifice his subordinates to kill Chloe and continued retreating through Black Phoenix Dynasty territory, while his raids disrupted the enemy’s supply lines and helped Kreil Brittany and Abner Sumay on the main battlefield. After blundering into Iya Town, Charlotte took the city and learned that he could not leave until he had levied taxes there eighteen times.

• Charlotte withdrew most of the West Wind Knight Regiment’s soldiers and supplies, leaving elite troops to cover their retreat instead of raiding Chloe’s camp.
• Charlotte’s maneuvers behind enemy lines stretched the Black Phoenix Dynasty’s forces, allowing Kreil Brittany to push back the main Knight Order and Abner Sumay to capture two auxiliary Knight Orders.
• Charlotte continued plundering and transporting supplies away, leaving Chloe’s pursuing army short of provisions.
• After a werewolf reported that Iya Town lay ahead, Charlotte ordered the West Wind Knight Regiment to take the city.
• Iya Town’s residents surrendered with little resistance, and Charlotte received a message requiring him to levy taxes eighteen times before he could leave.

Charlotte returned to Interlaken City after Labyrinthizing Iya Town and escaping the pursuing forces. Kreil Brittany and Abner Soumei told him the Brittany Offensive had ended and the main Knight Orders would leave South Seraph, while Charlotte would remain to administer several cities.

• Charlotte completed the Labyrinthization of Iya Town, withdrew before nearby forces arrived, and took the town’s wealth and most of its stored grain.
• After Iya Town was restored to normal, Charlotte hurried to Interlaken City, where Italo Calvino had assigned homes to returning residents by lottery.
• Chloe pursued Charlotte after believing rumors about his plundering, but Charlotte crossed the front lines and returned to Interlaken City safely.
• Kreil Brittany and Abner Soumei told Charlotte that Byron’s reinforcements had forced the Empire to abandon the Brittany Offensive and South Seraph.
• Charlotte asked to remain in South Seraph, and Abner offered to appoint him administrative officer of several major cities.
• Kreil Brittany said the Purple Finch and Maple Leaf Knight Orders would leave, leaving only the West Wind Knight Regiment in the Duchy of Behemoth and the Nansera Territory.

Charlotte consolidated control of South Seraph, built up the West Wind Knight Regiment, and arranged a tacit war with Chloe while governing the territory. After the Empire of Fars appointed him civil affairs officer of five major cities and news arrived of an alliance with Inglima, Grand Princess May Guillaume came to the front lines to settle a personal score.

• Kreil Brittany transferred defensive zones and Knight Orders to Charlotte, who reorganized them into the West Wind Knight Regiment and expanded its combat squads.
• Charlotte and Chloe agreed to suspend their fighting and cultivate before dueling again, leaving their armies in a tacit standoff.
• Charlotte spread The Legend of Charlotte and promised lenient policies and no future taxes, winning support among the Madame Nansera while profiting from wartime seizures.
• A delegation from Strasbourg appointed Charlotte civil affairs officer of South Seraph's five largest cities and announced that Fars and Inglima had allied against Byron, the Black Phoenix Dynasty, and the Orc Tribal Alliance.
• Grand Princess May Guillaume and Aurora Soumei arrived with detectives from the Fiery Steed Detective Agency, and May told Charlotte she planned to settle a personal score in Silver Doveburg.

Charlotte learned that Princess Mei knew about his novels and the labyrinth passages, then discovered why she had come to South Seraph: to push him into dictating more manuscripts. The chapter left him back at work under Princess Mei’s relentless supervision.

• Princess Mei explained that she had encountered Menilman in Cappadocia City through the labyrinth passages and revealed that Anne had admitted writing the novels under the name Anne Mecklen.
• Charlotte confessed that he had hidden his authorship because he was naturally shy, then learned Menilman had gone to Cappadocia City at his suggestion and taken his fleet with her.
• Charlotte reflected on Menilman’s limited power, his own many government positions, and his determination to stand by Anne rather than use her for political gain.
• Charlotte realized Princess Mei had come to South Seraph to make him resume dictating novels and had summoned Italo Calvino to help push the manuscripts.
• Princess Mei supervised Charlotte’s dictation so relentlessly that he worked whenever he was not eating or sleeping, with a clerk even following him when he went to relieve himself.

Chloe challenged Charlotte, but Princess Mei stopped him and knocked him unconscious so Charlotte could continue dictating his novel. Later, Princess Mei took Charlotte to Silver Doveburg to meet Menilman, leaving him realizing he was in the hands of Menilman's enemy.

• Chloe challenged Charlotte after his battle aura advanced and he condensed the Proof of Earth.
• Princess Mei intervened, warned Chloe not to disturb Charlotte's writing, and knocked him unconscious.
• Chloe's female adjutant rushed out, collapsed on top of him, and fainted after finding he was alive.
• Charlotte heard rumors about Chloe and his adjutant lying beneath the city walls, then resumed dictating his manuscript.
• Princess Mei took Charlotte to Silver Doveburg, where Menilman had arrived, and Charlotte realized he was with Menilman's enemy.

Charlotte traveled with Princess Mei toward Menilman, recited a fantasy novel for her, and learned she wanted him to publish it in Inglima while praising Lionheart King Charles. The chapter ended with Charlotte unknowingly taking credit for a ghostwritten story whose secret would remain hidden for generations.

• Princess Mei stopped flying after a short distance and had Charlotte bring out the Dark Luxury so she could conserve her strength for Menilman.
• During the carriage ride, Princess Mei admitted she was uneasy about being alone in an enclosed space with an unrelated man, and Charlotte tried to ease the awkwardness by offering to recite a novel.
• Charlotte began telling Princess Mei a fantasy story about children who found a snowy world inside a wardrobe, and she asked whether he had modeled it on Lionheart King Charles.
• Princess Mei told Charlotte to publish the book in Inglima and praise the Lionheart King, and Charlotte agreed to publish all his novels there if he received manuscript fees.
• The narration revealed that Anne had secretly hired a young lady to write an extra story, and that the ghostwriter's royalties and hidden authorship would only be discovered by her descendant generations later.

Charlotte returned to Silver Doveburg with Princess Mei and found Senior Menilman waiting in Dark Luxury. After the two Saints fought and later departed, Charlotte received a letter from Menilman containing major news, but its contents were not revealed.

• Princess Mei and Menilman exchanged threats inside Dark Luxury, and Charlotte retracted the carriage to protect it.
• Princess Mei blasted Charlotte away, and Menilman stood between him and the princess before the two Saints fought in the sky.
• Charlotte fled the battle and returned to Silver Doveburg, where residents welcomed him and asked about the fighting.
• Princess Mei announced that they would return to Sedona City in three days, then Menilman warned Charlotte not to provoke her and collected supplies before leaving.
• A steward gave Charlotte a letter Menilman had left, and Charlotte was startled by the major news in its opening line.

Charlotte weighed Menilman’s plan to seize Saint Michael’s Island and traveled to Cappadocia City, where the residents welcomed him enthusiastically. Menilman explained that her fleet needed an infiltrator to support an attack on the Golden Goat Fleet, and Charlotte learned that many people on the island already knew him.

• Charlotte considered joining Menilman’s campaign, but delayed his decision while planning to use Cappadocia City for more Labyrinthizations and to learn about the New Continent.
• After Princess Mei and Aurora left, Charlotte arranged affairs in South Seraph and the Duchy of Behemoth, then traveled through a passage to Cappadocia.
• Cappadocia’s residents crowded around Charlotte and escorted him to the city lord’s manor, where Menilman, Cruz, and Seaman welcomed him.
• Menilman told Charlotte that her clashes with the Golden Goat Fleet had ended in mixed results and that she needed someone to infiltrate Saint Michael’s Island.
• Charlotte asked whether anyone on the island knew him, and Menilman replied that he was already famous there.

Charlotte agreed to infiltrate Saint Michael's Island for Menilman after learning that Domitian had arranged the mission to help resolve the Agmilas crisis. Menilman gave him a copy of the orc Bloodthirsty Battle Qi secret method and assigned him tasks to gather intelligence, contact the Golden Deputy Goat, free three imprisoned Saint Rank experts, and investigate the island's ancient warship; Charlotte began preparing for the infiltration.

• Menilman explained that Domitian had taught Charlotte the Beast God Transformation Technique so he could disguise himself as an orc slave and enter Saint Michael's Island.
• Menilman said Domitian could help resolve the Agmilas crisis if Charlotte acted as an insider, and Charlotte agreed to assist in taking the island.
• Charlotte asked for the orc Bloodthirsty Battle Qi secret method, and Menilman gave him an original scroll left by Domitian, explaining the Eight Great Orc Blood Oaths.
• Menilman tasked Charlotte with gathering information, contacting the Golden Deputy Goat resistance, freeing three Saint Rank prisoners, and uncovering the secrets of Saint Michael's Island and its ancient warship.
• After spending a day resting, Charlotte prepared to infiltrate the island and sent Bangle Mountain and Unicorn Vulture back to Machu Picchu, taking only a few weapons and Blood Spirit Rhino.

Charlotte infiltrated a slave ship bound for Saint Michael's Island by hiding aboard as it sailed from Cappadocia City. After witnessing the cramped, brutal conditions endured by the orc slaves, he resolved to destroy the island and end the slave trade if he survived.

• Charlotte reviewed his weapons and missing artifacts, then focused on cultivating the Demonic Flame Horse ability to improve his chances of surviving the mission.
• After Menilman reported that the slave ship had reached the designated waters, Charlotte boarded a merchant vessel and sailed from Cappadocia City.
• The merchant vessel drew the slave ship's fire and fled, while Charlotte dove beneath the pirate ship, clung to its hull, and secretly climbed aboard.
• Charlotte hid aboard for several days, then transformed into a frail Overback Red Bear youth and let the crew mistake him for an escaped orc slave.
• The crew forced Charlotte into the overcrowded lower hold, where he saw the orc slaves' suffering and vowed to destroy Saint Michael's Island and end the slave trade.

Charlotte cultivated Bloodthirsty Battle Qi while imprisoned aboard a slave ship, then reached Saint Michael's Island and was put to work repairing its walls. After secretly trying to make a pirate fall from the battlements, he was recruited by a minor pirate leader.

• Charlotte's old Seed of Power shattered and combined with Bloodthirsty Battle Qi to form a new seed in his lower abdomen.
• The slave ship arrived at Saint Michael's Island, where Charlotte and the other captives were sent to a slave warehouse.
• A pirate selected Charlotte and hundreds of other slaves, who were assigned hard labor on the island's walls.
• Charlotte shoved a sleeping pirate off the battlements, then grabbed his wrist and called for help, prompting nearby pirates to rescue him.
• A minor pirate leader stopped Charlotte and offered him a place on his short-handed crew.

Charlotte infiltrated the Golden Goat Pirate Group on Saint Michael’s Island, where he gained the trust of slaves and pirates before Boss Monkey ordered an attack on him. Charlotte killed Boss Monkey and his men, and his Seed of Power exploded as he howled.

• Charlotte spent seven or eight days building connections on Saint Michael’s Island and secretly practiced Bloodthirsty Battle Qi.
• A pirate ambushed Charlotte and confessed that Boss Monkey had ordered him to kill him; Charlotte killed the attacker and dragged his body to Boss Monkey.
• Charlotte challenged Boss Monkey, who admitted he wanted to serve bear paws to a guest from the New Continent and ordered his pirates to attack.
• Charlotte used his cudgel technique to kill several pirates and then fought Boss Monkey, breaking the beastman’s neck.
• Charlotte howled as the Seed of Power in his lower abdomen suddenly exploded.

Charlotte used his new Bloodthirsty Battle Qi to take command of Boss Monkey’s pirate squad and build his strength among the Golden Goat Pirate Group’s bottom-tier pirates. When Black Seahorse ordered him to jump into the sea, Charlotte grabbed the pirate and leaped from the wall with him.

• Charlotte defeated Boss Monkey, claimed command of his squad, and taught more than ten strong slaves the Beast God Transformation Technique.
• Charlotte learned that Saint Michael City’s transient population was divided among pirate factions led by Transcendent bosses, and he ignored their recruitment offers.
• A pirate reported that a length of iron chain was for sale for five Gold Pounds, but Charlotte refused the exorbitant price.
• Black Seahorse ordered Charlotte to jump into the sea, and Charlotte grabbed him and leaped off the wall.

Charlotte killed Black Seahorse with Dark Corrosion and took over his patrol and pirates. He built a larger force from rescued slaves, then was summoned by Deep Sea Squid to welcome the Golden Goat Fleet’s flagship.

• Charlotte struck Black Seahorse underwater and destroyed him with Dark Corrosion.
• Black Seahorse’s pirates followed Charlotte after their leader failed to surface, and Charlotte took over his residence and patrol duties.
• Charlotte recruited more than five hundred slaves into his direct force and taught the Beast God Transformation Technique to several dozen of them.
• Deep Sea Squid summoned Charlotte to the harbor to welcome the Golden Goat Fleet’s flagship.