Recaps

Charlot gave Anne Whale Butcher and Whale Slayer, and they talked about her publishing success and the life they imagined sharing. A letter revealed that Anne had been appointed a first-class Councillor of the twenty-fourth rank, and Charlot explained how the Lionheart Dynasty appointment had helped her advance in Fars; the chapter ended with Anne confirming she had also received administrative status.

• Charlot showed Anne Whale Butcher and Whale Slayer, and Anne explained the lances' combined ability to summon a shadow knight.
• Anne told Charlot that their novels had become popular across several countries and described how she had built publishing houses and bookstores.
• A postman delivered an official letter to Anne at Baker Street 221B, and she discovered that she had become a first-class Councillor of the twenty-fourth rank.
• Charlot explained that the Lionheart Dynasty had granted them both official positions and that Anne's father had arranged the appointment to help her advance in Fars.
• Anne thanked Charlot affectionately, promised she would never lose her temper again, and confirmed that she had received administrative status as well.

Charlotte gave Anne the Floating World Prosperity artifact and escorted her home, then studied a Golden Ring and advanced his cultivation to the thirteenth rank. The next day, he accompanied Anne to report to the Central Government Office, where his former superior Madame Aldegonde recognized him.

• Charlotte gave Anne the Floating World Prosperity floral crown, and she accepted it happily.
• Charlotte appointed Golden Goat Herolf as his old butler and examined the three Golden Rings, delighting Herolf by seeming to discover the third ring's secret.
• Charlotte opened a tenth Bloody Vortex belonging to the Aristocles clan and advanced his Star War Qi to the thirteenth rank, entering the high ranks of Transcendence.
• Anne asked Charlotte to accompany her to report to the Enforcement Department, and he agreed, taking her in a secondhand carriage.
• Madame Aldegonde greeted Charlotte at the Central Government Office and revealed that his former colleagues already knew his identity and his carriage, Dark Luxury.

Anne Brittany joined the Central Government Office’s Military Enforcement Department and used her authority to send Ellens Cook to the front lines after he threatened Charlotte Mecklen. The department fell silent when Anne revealed that Julius Axel had personally signed her appointment document.

• Charlotte Mecklen asked Madame Aldegonde to look after Anne Brittany, and Anne offered to help the older woman advance by transferring her to the Enforcement Department.
• Charlotte and Anne completed Anne’s appointment paperwork and encountered Ellens Cook, who threatened to investigate Charlotte again.
• Anne declined Charlotte’s lunch invitation to focus on her first day, while Charlotte left to pursue promotions for his subordinates.
• Ellens Cook received a transfer order sending him to Ferlanden and angrily demanded that Anne cancel it.
• Anne refused, declared that Ellens Cook had to serve on the front lines, and showed the department officials her appointment document signed by Julius Axel.

Anne used her imperial authority and Count Brittany's backing to force Ellens Cook to the front lines after he offered to apologize for framing Charlotte. While Charlotte waited for Anne, he ran into Frederica in a coffee shop and learned she had returned to Strasbourg.

• Anne revealed her rank and family backing, rejected Ellens Cook's offer to apologize, and demanded that he be sent to the front lines.
• The head of the Enforcement Department ordered Ellens Cook to leave for the front lines that day.
• Charlotte encountered Ellens Cook outside the Central Government Office and challenged him to a formal duel, but Ellens Cook left without accepting.
• Charlotte waited for Anne in a Val-d'Oise District coffee shop, reflecting on Strasbourg's uneven shortages.
• Frederica met Charlotte at the coffee shop, questioned why he was not at the front lines, and heard that his investigation concerned more than his personal taxes.
• Charlotte asked Frederica why she had returned to Strasbourg despite the Empire's unfavorable policies toward beastfolk.

Frederica asked Charlot to shelter nearly five hundred thousand displaced leopard folk, and he agreed if they learned a human language, studied the Beast God Transformation Technique, and rejected cannibalism. After making plans to discuss the arrangement, Charlot went to meet Anne, while Ellens Cook approached Sophia with an accusation about Charlot.

• Frederica told Charlot that the Orc Tribal Alliance and Orc Assassin Alliance had collapsed, leaving her responsible for the leopard folk from 186 tribes.
• Charlot agreed to take in the leopard folk across the cities he controlled, provided they learned Fars or Inglima, studied the Beast God Transformation Technique, and became Non-Cannibals.
• Frederica agreed to discuss the details with Charlot that evening at Champs-Élysées Avenue Number 58, and Charlot left to meet Anne.
• Charlot met Anne as she handled her new Enforcement Department duties, and they left together.
• Ellens Cook stopped Sophia Garland outside Sheffield University and claimed Charlot was secretly seeing a young lady from the Brittany family.

Sophia Garland used Ellens Cook’s slander as an excuse to visit Charlot Mecklenburg and seek his help, while arranging for her father to receive a damaging report about Ellens. Charlot promised to deal with Ellens, unaware that he had already been sent to the front and that Sophia’s letter threatened his future.

• Ellens Cook told Sophia Garland that Charlot Mecklenburg had arranged his transfer to the Ferlanden front, and Sophia offered to recommend him to her father, Count Galanod.
• Sophia wrote her father a letter mentioning Ellens Cook’s insult to her reputation and sent it through an Imperial Post branch.
• Charlot spent the day with Anne and then escorted her home to 58 Sixth Avenue in the Val-d'Oise District.
• Charlot returned to Champs-Élysées Avenue Number 58 and found Frederica and Sophia waiting for him.
• Sophia claimed Ellens Cook had slandered both her and Charlot, and Charlot promised to handle the matter.
• Frederica realized Sophia was pursuing Charlot and became more alert.

Charlotte discussed his rapid rise to high-rank Transcendence and the Mecklen School of writing with Frederica and Sophia Garland. After Frederica explained the danger facing her leopard people tribe, Charlotte said he could help both women and proposed integrating beastmen into human society.

• Charlotte told Sophia Garland that he would someday be strong enough to stand against Duchess Mesu, and Sophia admired him and thought of his novels.
• Frederica asked Charlotte about his rank, and he revealed that he had recently reached thirteenth-rank, low-tier high-rank Transcendence.
• Frederica hinted to Sophia Garland that she could help her, and Sophia realized Frederica was an ally rather than a rival.
• Charlotte considered Ellens Cook a cunning opponent, unaware that Anne Brittany had emotionally shaken him.
• Frederica explained the leopard people tribe’s plight, and Sophia Garland said the matter would be difficult to handle.
• Charlotte said beastmen could be integrated into human society and asked Madam Nancy to prepare pastries and tea.

While under investigation in Strasbourg, Charlotte learned from Sophia Garland that the Holy Light Divine Kingdom was a suppressed first-generation Legendary Warship, then secretly traveled to Saint Michael’s Island to investigate its underground labyrinth. He found routes leading deeper beneath the island and continued descending toward the mysterious ship.

• Charlotte found Golden Goat Herolf’s note warning that the Golden Ring controlled the unfinished Holy Light Divine Kingdom, which had been created from another Divine Creature, and he crushed it.
• Charlotte asked Frederica and Sophia Garland about the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and Sophia explained its history as a vanished first-generation Legendary Warship and shared conflicting accounts of its connection to the Queen Bee.
• Charlotte decided to investigate Saint Michael’s Island, spent the day with Anne, and used the Mirror Gate to travel there after seeing her home.
• Charlotte quietly entered the unguarded underground labyrinth, searched the place where Herolf had lured him before, and found nothing there.
• Charlotte used his Labyrinth Power to locate passages at least three levels deeper and continued descending toward a point below sea level.

Charlotte explored Saint Michael City's fourth-level labyrinth, found the Holy Spirit Michael hidden beyond it, and buried a pile of bones that he believed belonged to the kingdom's first king. As he finished, he heard a soft, joyful laugh.

• Charlotte used his Golden Rings to open the gate reserved for Michael's descendants and created a Magic Mirror before entering the coffin hall.
• Charlotte examined the royal coffins and noted that the first, sixth, and last kings' bodies were missing.
• Charlotte searched the kingdom's library, found no way onward, and decided he would ask Golden Goat Herolf about the labyrinth.
• Charlotte's Golden Rings transported him to a natural cave where Holy Spirit Michael slept inside a cocoon of light.
• Charlotte found scattered bones, guessed they belonged to the first King Michael, buried them, and heard a soft laugh.

Charlotte sacrificed the Golden Ring controlling Holy Spirit Michael to the Serpent of Destiny, which absorbed Michael and returned a transformed ring to him. On the sixth level, Charlotte found the Holy Light Divine Kingdom built around a still-living Divine Creature, whose repeated requests left him wondering whether he could fulfill some of them.

• The Serpent of Destiny asked Charlotte to sacrifice Holy Spirit Michael, and Charlotte threw the Golden Ring onto him.
• Michael vanished into the River of Destiny, leaving behind a golden snake-shaped ring that Charlotte reclaimed and wore.
• Charlotte found a Magic Array that led to the sixth level, where he discovered the Holy Light Divine Kingdom moored on an underground lake.
• Charlotte swam beneath the warship and saw a Divine Creature pinned alive beneath it, with feathers from Michael fused into the spikes.
• The Divine Creature's thoughts listed the many things she required before accepting a master and offering to explore the Seven Seas.
• Charlotte asked whether he could fulfill some of her requests, but her repeated thoughts continued without response.

Charlotte discovered the Holy Light Divine Kingdom’s history and damage, then left the ship without exploring the dangerous Seventh Layer of the Labyrinth Cave. Back in Strasbourg, he agreed to help Frederica’s starving leopard people by sending them to Machu Picchu.

• Charlotte used his diary to calm the Divine Creature and gained the Holy Light Divine Kingdom’s voyage log, which recorded the ship’s history and its damage from Akras and Agmilas.
• Charlotte boarded the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, found the entrance to the Seventh Layer of the Labyrinth Cave, and left after the Golden Serpent Ring warned him away.
• Charlotte returned to Strasbourg, learned Frederica and Sophia Garland had visited, and resumed his cultivation after dinner.
• Frederica told Charlotte the leopard people were out of food and asked him to arrange their relocation, so Charlotte directed her to send them to Machu Picchu.

Charlotte brought Frederica and Sophia Garland to Mecklen Manor to sort the valuable books he had acquired, including materials about the Holy Light Divine Kingdom. After returning to Strasbourg to meet Anne, he agreed to visit Aunt Sophie with her on her birthday.

• Charlotte planned to move the leopard people to Cappadocia City and hoped they could help unite humans and beastmen through the Beast God Transformation Technique.
• Sophia Garland offered to help Charlotte search books for information about the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and Frederica reluctantly agreed to assist with sorting his larger collection.
• Charlotte took Frederica and Sophia Garland to Mecklen Manor, where they spent the day examining books and checking for relevant records.
• Charlotte returned to Strasbourg before Anne finished work, and he told her she could choose books for her bookstore and publishing house.
• Anne asked Charlotte to visit Aunt Sophie with her on her birthday, and he agreed as they reflected on how Sophie’s actions had brought them together.

Charlotte returned to the Lucavaro District with Anne and visited Sophie Brittany’s grave at the Temple of the Serpent of Destiny. After praying, he was approached by a young Priest who said the Archpriest wished to see him.

• Little Bard welcomed Charlotte and Anne, then left a dozen youths to await Charlotte’s orders.
• Charlotte spotted Yang Melianne among the youths from Seagull City but decided to speak with him later.
• Charlotte and Anne arrived at the Temple of the Serpent of Destiny and went to the cemetery behind it.
• Anne left white daisies at Sophie Brittany’s grave and prayed, while Charlotte silently apologized and reflected that he had killed Yang Mills.
• A young Priest called Charlotte the Favored One of the Serpent of Destiny and said the Archpriest wished to see him.

Charlotte learned that his Golden Serpent Ring was called Whispers of Destiny and that the Serpent of Destiny had favored him. Archpriest Tromsø made Charlotte an official Priest and gave him a lengthy Divine Revelation, which Charlotte and Anne found startling and entertaining.

• Archpriest Tromsø recognized Charlotte as the bearer of Whispers of Destiny and invited him to join the Serpent of Destiny Temple as a God-Favored.
• Archpriest Tromsø revealed that he could glimpse fate and explained how he recognized the divine radiance surrounding Charlotte.
• Archpriest Tromsø appointed Charlotte an official Priest, gave him documents, robes, and a Divine Revelation, and offered him access to the Art of Destiny.
• Charlotte left the temple with Anne and entrusted her with his new documents and robes.
• Charlotte read the Divine Revelation's 128 instructions on pleasing the Serpent of Destiny, and Anne suggested he turn it into a novel.

Charlotte reviewed the Serpent of Destiny’s dangerous Divine Revelations and planned a special novel collection with Anne to create a new custom. The next day, he learned that Menilman had captured two Byronian Magic Alchemical Warships, making the Imperial Rose Fleet famous.

• Charlotte read the God of Fun’s Divine Revelations and dismissed their risky tasks as difficult.
• Anne suggested adding a Serpent of Destiny custom to a special edition of the novels, then proposed writing the Serpent and the Black Moon as the same sex to avoid angering her.
• Charlotte returned to Mecklen Manor with food for Frederica and Sophia, then allowed them to visit the estate freely.
• Charlotte read that the Fars and Inglima fleets had suffered heavy losses in a major battle against Byron in the Giant Whale Sea.
• Menilman captured two retreating Byronian Magic Alchemical Warships, and Duchess Mesu praised the Imperial Rose Fleet’s success.

After learning of Fars’s naval losses, Sophia Garland told Charlotte Mecklen she was suspending her studies to join the navy. Charlotte gave her a Golden Ring to help her borrow a warship, and Sophia left for the battlefield after entrusting him with a lock of her hair.

• Charlotte learned that Menilman had been promoted several ranks and given twenty-two political appointments for his role in the naval victory.
• Sophia Garland visited Charlotte and told him she would suspend her studies and join the navy, leaving Strasbourg.
• Charlotte gave Sophia a Golden Ring and asked her to have someone deliver it to a friend to request the loan of a warship.
• Sophia cut off a lock of her hair and asked Charlotte to keep it; he tucked it into his diary and wished her a safe return.
• Sophia left without looking back, determined to fight for Fars.

After Anne warned Charlotte that political maneuvering was keeping him away from the front, Charlotte tried to harvest Joy of Destiny by rewriting the God of Joy’s legend. The war continued to worsen supply shortages as the rival fleets prepared for another major battle.

• Anne told Charlotte that the Empire of Fars planned to reinforce its navy with army troops, and that she had extended his investigation case so he would likely avoid the battlefield until the war ended.
• Anne explained that Charlotte’s political enemies feared he might gain control of South Seraph and Behemoth, while opportunists sought influence there; she dismissed Ellens Cook as unimportant.
• Charlotte researched the God of Joy and learned that its legend described an incomplete evil god that could make people unhappy.
• Charlotte rewrote The Legend of Charlotte to portray the God of Joy as the Serpent of Destiny’s loyal pet devoted to promoting Cantonese mahjong, then sent the new edition to Anne’s publishing house.
• The Empire of Fars began another round of conscription and planned five more Magic Alchemical Warships as shortages worsened in Strasbourg.
• The fleets of Inglima, Fars, Byron, and Black Phoenix fought repeated small battles in the Sea of Giant Whales, while a larger battle loomed.

Charlotte transferred Yang Melianne and his companions out of the doomed Evil Dragon Knight Regiment and put them in charge of security in the Lucavaro District. After Yang tried distributing money to starving residents and was attacked, Charlotte said only the Emperor could save Strasbourg and suggested rebellion as an alternative.

• Yang Melianne asked Charlotte for weapons after enlisting in the Evil Dragon Knight Regiment, and Charlotte ordered him to report to the West Wind Knight Regiment instead.
• Charlotte arranged Yang's transfer through the Political Affairs Bureau and assigned him and his companions to provide security in the Lucavaro District.
• Charlotte gave Yang a bag of Centimes to distribute, and the starving residents swarmed him and took the money.
• Yang asked Charlotte why the people had reacted violently, and Charlotte said the Bard Merchant Association could not save Strasbourg and that the Emperor was responsible.
• When Yang asked whether they could do anything, Charlotte faintly smiled and told him he could try rebelling.

Sophia Garland received the Queen Bee, a Legendary Warship Charlotte had arranged for her, and set sail toward the battlefield with a supply ship. As the Queen Bee flashed with mysterious radiance, Charlotte in Strasbourg suddenly felt he owed someone a great deal of money.

• Sophia Garland waited at the harbor for the warship Count Galanod had prepared, but Yalman warned her that an approaching ship was not the Count's.
• An Inglima naval officer delivered the Queen Bee, and Yalman identified it as one of the Seven Seas' twelve Legendary Warships.
• Sophia realized Charlotte had secured the Queen Bee for her, took the Golden Ring that made the ship respond to her, and resolved to fight Anne for her love.
• Sophia accepted the Count's newly built warship as a supply ship, then departed with the Queen Bee and its crew for the sea.
• The Queen Bee flashed with hazy radiance ten times, while Charlotte suddenly felt as if he had incurred a massive debt despite having none.

Charlotte rounded up the God of Joy’s followers in Strasbourg and made them memorize a mahjong-filled edition of The Legend of Charlotte, while his Snake Cards custom spread widely. Meanwhile, a major naval battle reshaped the balance of power, and Byron shifted the war back to Ferlanden, ending Charlotte’s quiet days in Strasbourg.

• Charlotte used Lucavaro District gang members to round up the God of Joy’s followers and made them memorize the new edition of The Legend of Charlotte before paying fines to leave.
• The special edition and its Snake Cards became popular across Strasbourg and Fars, with even the Red Dragon Emperor and Lionheart Emperor taking up the game.
• Byron’s navy ambushed Duchess Mesu’s Northern Fleet, and Menilman, Sophia Garland, and allied fleets joined the battle.
• Sophia Garland’s Queen Bee sank three Byron warships, while Menilman’s fleet captured Black Phoenix’s flagship and another Magic Alchemical Warship before Black Phoenix collapsed and Byron withdrew.
• Sophia Garland named her new fleet the East Wind, and Menilman’s victories brought her fleet’s strength level with the Northern Fleet.
• Byron redirected the war toward Ferlanden and launched several large battles, killing tens of thousands of soldiers and ending Charlotte’s quiet days in Strasbourg.

Charlot Mecklenburg led the West Wind Knight Regiment to the Red Dragon Strait for Fars’s Southern Offensive, only to discover that the other four Knight Orders had been recalled and his troops had been left facing the orcs alone. After killing the messenger who brought the orders, Charlot decided to seize Dubrovnik and use its labyrinth passages to withdraw.

• Charlot left Anne and gathered Anastasia, the Labyrinth Guardians, more than five thousand troops, Golden Goat Herolf, and Leopard God Domitian for the Southern Offensive.
• Charlot’s troops found towns emptied and stripped of people as they marched toward the Red Dragon Strait.
• At the strait, Charlot learned that his Knight Order was the only one to arrive and that the Orc Tribal Alliance had several hundred thousand orcs and at least five Saint Ranks.
• Charlot received orders explaining that four Knight Orders had been recalled to Ferlanden, leaving him to hold the southern front until reinforcements arrived.
• Charlot killed the imperial messenger and ordered his troops to attack Dubrovnik so he could Labyrinthize the port and retreat through the labyrinth passages.
• Charlot rejected Domitian’s offer to contact the orc Saint Ranks, warning that personal connections could be used to trap them.

Charlotte captured Dubrovnik, turned most of its orcs into Labyrinth Guardians, and secured a fleet and a retreat route. With more than twenty thousand Guardians at his command, he decided to hold the strategically important city and asked Menilman for reinforcements.

• Charlotte led the Labyrinth Guardians into Dubrovnik, defeated its remaining orcs, and began transforming the city into a labyrinth.
• Charlotte captured two orc militia forces and learned that hunger and factional conflict had fractured the orc camp.
• When Dubrovnik's fleet returned carrying thousands of orcs, Charlotte ambushed them, captured more than fifty ships, and took over ten thousand prisoners.
• Charlotte sent fewer than five hundred Non-Cannibals to Cappadocia and transformed nearly twenty thousand other orcs into Labyrinth Guardians.
• Charlotte chose to remain in Dubrovnik and sent Menilman a request for aid against the orc camp.

Charlotte tried to recruit Agon and his six or seven thousand Non-Cannibal beastmen, but Agon insisted on returning to the Southern Continent and challenged Charlotte’s Saint Ranks for the right to leave. As Agon fought Golden Goat Herolf, Charlotte realized that the elephant people’s ancestral land, Machu Picchu, was on his territory.

• Agon led his ragged elephant-person army to Dubrovnik and asked Charlotte for food and safe passage to the Southern Continent.
• Charlotte demanded that Agon’s people join the Non-Cannibals, and Agon refused, saying he would leave with them.
• Agon challenged Charlotte’s Saint Ranks, and Domitian revealed that Agon was the youngest beastman Saint Rank and wielded the Dragon Hammer.
• Charlotte ordered Domitian to lend Treading the Sea to Golden Goat Herolf, then learned from Domitian that the elephant people’s ancestral land was Machu Picchu.
• Golden Goat Herolf and Agon began a battle in the sky, with Agon matching Herolf’s sword strikes using his bare fists.

Charlotte sent Agon's beastman army to Cappadocia City while Agon and Golden Goat Herolf fought, then provoked Agon after the Elephant Person discovered his troops were gone. Charlotte finally claimed the leopard people had taken Machu Picchu and gained citizenship in the Empire of Fars, leaving Agon caught between disbelief and hope.

• Agon and Golden Goat Herolf fought for hours as Charlotte's Labyrinth Guardians subdued the beastmen and sent those who were Non-Cannibals to Cappadocia City.
• Agon noticed his army had vanished, questioned Domitian, and searched for Charlotte, who hid in the labyrinth and insisted the beastmen had left on their own.
• Agon smashed buildings and demanded that Charlotte return his people, while Golden Goat Herolf stood nearby ready to guard against him.
• Charlotte taunted Agon and then revealed that the leopard people had taken Machu Picchu.
• Charlotte said he had helped the leopard people gain citizenship in the Empire of Fars, so they could live in Strasbourg as humans.

Charlotte failed to keep Elephant Person Agon from escaping after Agon fought Golden Goat Herolf and Leopard God Domitian, but Agon later ambushed Charlotte and carried him away. As Charlotte tried to talk his way out of danger, he asked Agon why the vampires had wanted to harm him.

• Agon rejected Charlotte’s offer and attacked, killing more than a hundred Labyrinth Guardians as Charlotte ordered his soldiers to fight back.
• Golden Goat Herolf and Domitian fought Agon together until he fled, and Charlotte ordered them to stop pursuing him.
• Domitian warned Charlotte that Agon had not used the Dragon Hammer and would return with no mercy, while Charlotte believed he had weakened Agon’s resolve.
• Agon burst out of the ground, seized Charlotte, and carried him across the Red Dragon Strait despite Herolf and Domitian’s attempt to intervene.
• Charlotte tried to save himself by asking Agon why the vampires had wanted to harm him.