Recaps

Charlotte’s forces rejected the New Continent Council’s offers of a ceasefire, prompting Avish to summon the Evil God Aruraj Samasu. As the sea monster attacked the fleet, Emilia shattered its enormous water tentacle before it could strike the ships.

• Emilia swallowed Montblanc, and Charlotte shot an opening that let Andreus kill a New Continent Saint Rank expert.
• Avish called for a fight to the death, while Merchel offered terms for a ceasefire; Charlotte refused to negotiate.
• Avish summoned Aruraj Samasu, whose colossal body rose from the sea and unleashed waves that battered the fleets and Ancient Magic Ghost Warships.
• Holy Light Divine Kingdom and Emilia tore through the New Continent fleet, and Avish ordered Aruraj Samasu to destroy them.
• Juno sent Holy Light Divine Kingdom beneath the sea to evade the monster’s strike, while Emilia broke its descending tentacle into a crashing mass of seawater.

Charlotte and Emilia fought the evil god Aruraj Samasu as the New Continent Council’s Saint Ranks struggled to control it. The battle left Charlotte holding a tearful Emilia and promising to fight the enormous monster.

• Charlotte stayed airborne as the fleets withdrew and the battle shifted to the Legendary Warships and Aruraj Samasu.
• Charlotte pierced a seawater tentacle with his Flaming Knight's Lance, causing it to become flesh and blood, and Emilia's ship bit into it.
• The Holy Light Divine Kingdom transformed into a giant whale, surfaced, and bit the other end of the tentacle.
• Avish told Merchel he could control Aruraj Samasu for at most fifteen more minutes, and Merchel urged him to withdraw if they could not kill Charlotte soon.
• Avish sent dozens of tentacles crashing toward Emilia, who fled to Charlotte and cried that the monster wanted to hit her.
• Charlotte caught Emilia and reassured her that they would fight the monster, though he doubted he could defeat it.

After Aruraj Samasu attacked Black Phoenix City, Charlotte sent Ishermerlun to fight the New Continent Council while he used Emilia to strike at its leaders. Charlotte and Emilia pursued Avish into Aruraj Samasu’s body, where Emilia began tearing off pieces of the evil god for herself.

• Charlotte sent Ishermerlun to attack the New Continent Council and carried Emilia through Magic Mirrors toward the battle.
• Charlotte threw Emilia at a Saint Rank summoning Omidalas, and Emilia killed him by tearing off and crushing his transformed head.
• Ishermerlun held Merchel back as several Council Saint Ranks fled, while Charlotte and Emilia attacked Avish and broke his shoulder.
• Avish fled into Aruraj Samasu’s body, and Charlotte followed with Emilia on his back and Blood Spirit Rhino in hand.
• Charlotte charged through the evil god’s liquid body, tearing away flesh as Emilia pointed out pieces she wanted.

Charlotte and his allies defeated the New Continent Council’s forces and returned to Black Phoenix City, where Anne welcomed him and Sophia Garland struggled with her feelings. The chapter ended with Anne revealing that Sophia had left Charlotte a message.

• Anne Brittany and Sophia Garland watched the battle from Black Phoenix City’s walls, while Anne decided she would become Emilia’s adoptive mother.
• Emilia fed chunks of evil god flesh to Gareth, who secretly ate some and felt his blood energy surge toward another breakthrough.
• Avish fled toward the sea as the New Continent Council’s forces scattered or surrendered, and Charlotte pursued him until he and the others surrounded him.
• Charlotte returned to Black Phoenix City with Emilia, where Anne embraced him and gave Emilia candy.
• Emilia frightened Sophia Garland away from Charlotte, while Duchess Mesu praised Anne’s decisive defense of the city and Adora noted that Sophia and Menilman had not lost unfairly.
• Anne told Charlotte that Sophia had mistaken his fleet for enemy reinforcements and had asked her to pass along a message, making Sophia nervous.

Charlotte pursued the fleeing New Continent Council fleet after Princess Mei warned that its members had threatened his women. Anne took charge of the captured ships and immigrants, while Charlotte caught up with the remaining leaders and faced Merchel’s request to talk.

• Sophia Garland began to express her feelings for Charlotte, but Princess Mei pointed out that the New Continent Council’s ships were escaping, so Charlotte set off in pursuit with his allies.
• Anne divided hundreds of captured ships among Duchess Mesu and Sophia Garland, registered the immigrants, and ordered the remaining wealth sealed until Charlotte returned.
• Avish’s group argued over the disastrous retreat, and three Saint Ranks stayed with Merchel while Avish and three others fled.
• Charlotte surrounded the remaining New Continent Council members and demanded to know how they wanted to die, but Merchel asked to talk.

Charlotte secured Merchel’s lifelong service through a magic contract and redistributed the New Continent fleet among his allies. After waiting in the outer seas, he gave warships and Saint Ranks to Princess Mei, Sophia Garland, and Senior Menilman before their fleets departed.

• Charlotte refused to trust Merchel’s group unless Merchel signed a lifelong magic contract, and Merchel agreed after negotiating its terms.
• Charlotte claimed the New Continent warships and had Ishermerlun seize a Saint Rank who objected to losing them.
• Charlotte waited in the outer seas until the Holy Light Divine Kingdom arrived, then gave May Guillaume’s flagship a selected warship when it passed through three days later.
• Charlotte gave Sophia Garland three Magic Alchemical Warships, six ordinary warships, and two female Saint Ranks, and Sophia departed in tears.
• Charlotte gave Senior Menilman the remaining warships and five Saint Ranks, and Menilman accepted the fleet and sailed away.

Charlotte renamed Black Phoenix City as Mecklenburg and began rebuilding Duke Mecklen’s Territory after defeating the New Continent Council. As his army reclaimed the surrounding districts, resistance grew fiercer, leaving the campaign deadlocked.

• Charlotte declared that Black Phoenix City would be renamed Mecklenburg and named the Serpent of Destiny its guardian deity.
• Duchess Mesu departed with her daughter and subordinates after receiving a fleet and wealth as spoils of war.
• Charlotte led the West Wind Knight Regiment to reclaim eight of the territory’s thirteen major districts and more than sixty noble fiefs before resistance emerged.
• Charlotte stayed in Mecklenburg, leaving his generals to fight while he supported them with resources and worked to restore the city.
• Charlotte began rebuilding the region’s universities, establishing Mecklen University and Brittany University while preserving the names of the three historic institutions.
• The West Wind Knight Regiment recovered another major district, but the fighting became deadlocked as New Continent settlers fought bravely with nowhere left to retreat.

Charlotte took Anne aboard the Emilia to the front lines and joined his forces attacking Doviliat Port, the key fortress blocking the retaking of the Abruzzo Region. As Rovereto’s volcanoes began to erupt and an enormous hand emerged from a peak, Charlotte’s assault was about to face another supernatural threat.

• After his Ghost Fleet returned, Charlotte sent it to the front, where his forces won several battles and retook two regions.
• Charlotte accepted Cresto’s request to take command at the front and brought Anne aboard the Emilia, while Nanny Karen warned Anne to stay close to her.
• Charlotte’s fleet and the West Wind Knight Regiment continued their attacks on Doviliat Port, which Rovereto defended with volcanic powers granted by Anululu.
• Charlotte told Anne he would rename the port Anne’s City if he captured it, and Anne began considering another name.
• The mountains around Doviliat Port glowed red and released black smoke as a gigantic hand began clawing its way from a peak.

Charlotte suppressed Rovereto’s summoned incarnation of Flame Evil God Anululu and forced Doviliat Port to surrender, then retook the Abruzzo Region. He led his fleet toward Arcadia Port, where a much larger New Continent fleet awaited him and Avish stood beside the council’s new leader.

• Charlotte dropped the Holy Light Divine Kingdom onto the mountaintop and destroyed Anululu’s incarnation.
• Charlotte offered Doviliat Port’s residents peaceful surrender, and Rovereto agreed when Charlotte threatened to crush the city.
• Charlotte took Doviliat Port, sent Rovereto and a group of immigrants to the Principality of Modova, and relocated many of the port’s residents.
• The New Continent forces fled Limat, allowing Charlotte to retake the Abruzzo Region without a battle.
• Charlotte sailed toward Arcadia Port but stopped when he saw a fleet larger than the one outside Black Phoenix City.
• Avish identified Charlotte to a burly man, revealing that the former New Continent Council chairman was no longer its leader.

Charlotte formed his fleet into a mist-shrouded maze and faced the New Continent Council’s forces at Arcadia Port. After learning that Agmilas had fallen, the Council’s Saint Ranks coveted Charlotte’s apparent method of wielding Evil God power, and Idhæra challenged him to a battle to the death.

• Charlotte linked his warships around the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and the Emilia, cloaking his fleet in mist.
• Avish and the other chairmen watched Charlotte’s fleet as Romios questioned how it could wield Labyrinth Power after Agmilas’s fall.
• Idhæra revealed that Ipgil, Xiloxian, and Nairo had killed Agmilas, and that His worshipers and candidates had lost their connection to Him.
• Romios speculated that the Old Continent had discovered a way to wield Evil God power independently, making the Council’s Saint Ranks eager to seize the secret.
• Idhæra flew out from Arcadia Port and challenged Charlotte to a battle to the death.

Charlotte confronted the peak Saint Rank Dream Witch Idhæra and used his Mirror World and Ishermerlun to resist her Dreamscape. The battle continued with Idhæra fighting Ishermerlun inside the Dreamscape while Charlotte watched from the Mirror World.

• Anne warned Charlotte not to go, but he reassured her and flew out to confront Idhæra.
• Idhæra asked how Charlotte could wield Agmilas's power, and Charlotte claimed he was a vampire who had seized it through the Blood Progenitor.
• Idhæra vanished to trap Charlotte in her Dreamscape, but he escaped into the Mirror World and left Magic Mirrors behind.
• Idhæra pushed her Dreamscape into the Mirror World, and Charlotte summoned Ishermerlun to enter it and fight her.
• Idhæra transformed into a helpless girl to lure Ishermerlun, but Ishermerlun attacked her, forcing Idhæra to defend herself and retreat.

Charlotte assessed the forces under his command and tried to negotiate with Idhæra over a place for the New Continent immigrants to settle, but neither side could agree. After Idhæra returned to Arcadia Port, Romios sent Abelia to capture Charlotte, claiming her Bloody Glory countered the blood clan.

• Charlotte considered intercepting ships from the New Continent to recruit their passengers before they joined the New Continent Council.
• Idhæra withdrew from the Mirror World after she failed to defeat Charlotte there and shattered the mirror she held.
• Charlotte offered Idhæra Goling Island or islands in the Agres Sea, but she rejected both proposals and demanded five or six districts of Duke Mecklen's Territory.
• Charlotte and Idhæra recognized that neither could defeat the other, and Idhæra returned to Arcadia Port.
• Romios ordered Abelia to capture Charlotte and revealed that her Protagoras Scroll and Bloody Glory countered the blood clan.

Charlotte's forces confronted the New Continent Council at Arcadia Port, where Gareth drove back Abelia and Romios sealed the port behind a black curtain. Back aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, Charlotte gave Anne Divine Shards and Nanny Karen taught her the secret technique needed to use them safely, while Charlotte insisted he needed to consolidate his strength instead.

• Charlotte sent Gareth to intercept Abelia, and Gareth forced the Fourth Speaker to retreat toward Arcadia Port.
• Romios raised a black curtain around Arcadia Port, and Charlotte returned to the Holy Light Divine Kingdom without convening a military meeting.
• Anne told Charlotte she regretted being too weak to help him, and Charlotte offered her Divine Shards from the Agres Sea.
• Nanny Karen explained that Divine Shards could raise Transcendence rank when used with a secret technique and warned that undigested energy could be dangerous.
• Nanny Karen taught Anne the technique, and Anne returned most of the shards to Charlotte after he said he needed to consolidate his foundation.

Charlotte and Romios agreed to settle their dispute through duels, with prisoners and immigrants at stake. Romios’s Black Curtain briefly cast Ishermerlun into the void, but Charlotte summoned him back, and their battle revealed that Romios wielded evil god power.

• Charlotte blockaded Arcadia Port, and Romios challenged him to a series of duels over Nansera Territory.
• Charlotte proposed staking one hundred thousand people per victory, but the sides instead agreed to exchange prisoners and immigrants after each duel.
• Romios entered the arena and used his Black Curtain to sweep Ishermerlun away.
• Charlotte opened a Magic Mirror and brought Ishermerlun back from the void.
• Ishermerlun blocked Romios’s next attack, and the two fought in the skies as the watching Saint Rank experts feared Romios’s power.
• Charlotte explained that Romios borrowed evil god power and said Constantine could defeat him without the Black Curtain.

Romios and Ishermerlun fought to a draw, and the New Continent Council’s forces were pushed back into the South Seraph Region. Charlotte sent Andreus to face Red Eagle, who used their battle to reveal that she feared the war would leave few survivors.

• Romios activated the Black Curtain to force Ishermerlun back, then called their battle a draw.
• Romios admitted that Charlotte’s forces had overwhelmed the New Continent allied army and driven it into the South Seraph Region.
• Red Eagle volunteered to fight the second round, and Charlotte sent Andreus to face her.
• Andreus threatened Red Eagle by saying Charlotte would kill her younger brother if she won, and Red Eagle eased her attack.
• Andreus urged Red Eagle to join Charlotte, while Red Eagle said the war was meaningless and feared few would survive it.

Charlotte and Romios traded prisoners and people through a series of duels while their forces prepared to fight at sea. Meanwhile, Cresto besieged Sedona City, where a New Continent commander used an evil god's power to transform the city into a monster and halt the West Wind Knight Regiment.

• Red Eagle told Andreus that she could bring Charlotte many people, and Andreus relayed her words to Charlotte, who praised him and arranged for a Ghost Ship to collect a thousand prisoners from Cappadocia.
• Agon defeated Romios's Saint Rank fighter and captured him, after which Charlotte released the fighter and received a group of elderly people, women, and children from Romios.
• Charlotte and the New Continent Council fought successive duels, exchanging thousands of people before both sides halted the matches and began probing each other at sea.
• Cresto led the West Wind Knight Regiment to Sedona City, where a New Continent commander transformed the city with evil god power and stopped the regiment outside its walls.

Charlotte built a hot spring resort at Doviliat Port and relocated the Holy Light Divine Kingdom’s entertainment venues there. He was then summoned to suppress a rebellion in Strasbourg, where the Axel Family remnants had seized the city, apparently with former Prime Minister Wood Brandon’s help.

• Charlotte developed Hot Spring Mountain with villas, resort towns, bathhouses, and entertainment venues, and assigned Great Ling Demons to serve there.
• Charlotte distributed the summit villas to his generals and returned to Arcadia Port, where Emperor Brittany ordered him to put down the Strasbourg rebellion.
• Charlotte left his fleet under the Black Dragon and Ishermerlun’s command, then secretly traveled to Machu Picchu with Anne, Kreil Brittany, Abner Sumay, and Andreus.
• Charlotte waited in Machu Picchu for Antonio, since retaking Strasbourg would be nearly impossible without a peak Saint Rank expert.
• Charlotte received intelligence that Wood Brandon had planned the rebellion and contacted the imperial clansmen who remained in Strasbourg.
• Charlotte recognized that the longer the rebels held Strasbourg, the more likely nobles loyal to the Axel Family would join them.

Magion Axel led the Royal Knight Regiment’s Sixth Cavalry Battalion into Machu Picchu, where Charlotte Mecklen captured him and his troops with little resistance. After questioning Magion, Charlotte considered infiltrating Strasbourg and selected skilled Labyrinth Guardians for the mission.

• Magion Axel led his cavalry battalion toward Machu Picchu, hoping to finish the mission quickly and return to reading Anne Mecklen’s novels.
• Charlotte Mecklen let the cavalry enter Machu Picchu, then raised a fog and ordered his forces to attack after they advanced.
• When Charlotte and three other Saint Ranks appeared, Magion surrendered and revealed that he was a devoted fan of Anne Mecklen.
• Kreil Brittany offered Magion signed books, and Magion repeatedly declared himself a prisoner while the others struggled to hold back their laughter.
• Charlotte incorporated Magion’s battalion into his forces and considered using an impersonating group to infiltrate Strasbourg.
• Charlotte selected skilled Labyrinth Guardians for the infiltration plan.

After learning that Morgan Axel had returned to Strasbourg and planned to reclaim the throne, Charlotte recognized the threat to the Brittany Dynasty and decided to stop him before his restoration could gain legitimacy. He sent Anne and Nanny Karen to warn Brittany, then planned to infiltrate Strasbourg with his allies and assassinate Morgan.

• Charlotte learned from Magion that Morgan Axel would ascend the throne in a few days and that the Axels had gathered powerful support in Strasbourg.
• Magion revealed that Morgan’s forces included eleven Saint Ranks, more than sixty Transcendences, and leaders Wood Brandon and Asturias Axel.
• Charlotte questioned Magion, treated him generously, and summoned Kreil Brittany, Abner Soumei, Nanny Karen, Andreus, and Anne to discuss the crisis.
• Kreil and Abner urged a surprise attack, while Nanny Karen advised informing Brittany; Charlotte sent Anne and Nanny Karen to warn him in secret.
• Charlotte rejected a direct assault on Strasbourg and ordered the remaining men to infiltrate the city, assassinate Morgan, and blame Wood Brandon.

Charlotte Mecklen and his allies searched the imperial palace for Morgan, then infiltrated Wood Brandon’s residence to learn where the Crown Prince was. Charlotte discovered that Viscount Soren had been tasked with finding Morgan, but Winnie Brandon’s words left Morgan’s location unknown.

• Charlotte Mecklen, Kreil Brittany, Abner Soumei, and Andreas Constantine used a Magic Mirror to reach Baker Street and entered the imperial palace to search for Morgan.
• After finding the emperor’s and Crown Prince’s quarters empty, the four decided to search Wood Brandon’s residence, where nobles were gathering.
• Charlotte knocked out a young man in a carriage, stored him in the Book of Ages, and disguised himself as Viscount Soren to enter the gathering.
• Winnie Brandon recognized Charlotte as Soren and privately asked about Crown Prince Morgan’s mood, stressing that their plan depended on keeping him safe.
• Charlotte realized Viscount Soren had been responsible for finding Morgan, but Winnie led him into a room before he could learn Morgan’s whereabouts.

Charlotte killed former Crown Prince Morgan Axel and arranged for Wood Brandon to take the blame, then hid with his companions in Strasbourg. After confirming Morgan was dead, Charlotte learned Antonio had surrounded the city, giving him a chance to capture the capital with an attack from within and without.

• Charlotte knocked Winnie Brandon unconscious, left the Prime Minister's residence, and returned to Viscount Soren's residence with Abner Soumei and Andreas Constantine.
• Charlotte found Morgan Axel playing Snake Cards, but a gunshot killed Morgan before Charlotte could act; Abner said Lord Wood Brandon had ordered the assassination.
• Charlotte revealed Winnie Brandon to the card players so they would blame Wood Brandon, then left with Abner and Andreas and later met up with Kreil Brittany.
• Charlotte and his companions hid at Baker Street 221B while soldiers searched Strasbourg and rumors accused Wood Brandon of killing Morgan to claim the throne.
• After several days, Charlotte confirmed Morgan was dead and prepared to leave, but news that Antonio had surrounded Strasbourg led him to send Kreil to coordinate an attack from within and without.

Kreil Brittany reported that His Majesty did not want war with Axel, so Charlotte and the others decided to blame Wood Brandon for Morgan’s death and strengthen their alliance. Charlotte escorted Anne to Emperor Brittany’s camp, where they met Princess Axo, who doubted that Wood Brandon had killed Morgan.

• Kreil Brittany told Charlotte that His Majesty would not go to war with Axel, and Charlotte urged the group to agree on a shared account of Morgan’s death.
• Kreil Brittany demanded that Andreus pledge loyalty through a marriage alliance, but Charlotte instead sent him into the Book of Ages to kill Sauron and Winnie Brandon.
• Andreus refused to kill them and began advancing the Book of Ages’ story, while Charlotte accepted his choice and explained that blaming Wood Brandon would protect the Brittany Family’s standing.
• Charlotte secretly escorted Anne to Emperor Brittany’s frontline camp, where they learned that Princess Axo had returned from the Lionheart Dynasty.
• Princess Axo asked who had killed Morgan and said she did not believe Wood Brandon was responsible.

Charlotte received authority to negotiate with the Axels and promised to suppress the rebellion quickly after Emperor McLean Brittany offered him Anne’s hand in marriage. Anne asked Princess Axo to become her stepmother, while Axo hoped Charlotte would protect Anne.

• Charlotte blamed Wood Brandon for Morgan’s death and offered to kill him, while Emperor McLean Brittany suspected Zimmerman or Charlotte of the murder.
• Emperor McLean Brittany appointed Charlotte to handle negotiations with the Axels, replacing Antonio.
• Charlotte assured the emperor that Anne’s future was secure with him and accepted the offer to marry her after the war.
• Charlotte promised to suppress the Axel rebellion within a month and negotiate peace treaties with four nations.
• Anne asked Princess Axo to become her stepmother and explained why she trusted her to care for the family.
• Axo let Anne fall asleep on her lap and quietly asked Charlotte to protect her daughter.

Charlotte launched a flood of sensational novels in Strasbourg that blamed Wood Brandon for Morgan’s assassination, forcing him to resign and plunging the city into greater disorder. Charlotte then sought declarations of loyalty from Axel Family members while searching for the missing Wood Brandon.

• Antonio entrusted Charlotte with negotiating after Charlotte returned to Strasbourg with Emperor Brittany’s order.
• Charlotte printed and flooded Strasbourg with sensational novels implicating Wood Brandon in Morgan’s assassination, selling them for twenty-two centimes or whatever buyers would pay.
• Rumors spread through Strasbourg, and Wood Brandon resigned as Imperial Prime Minister on the sixth day of the novel campaign.
• Wood Brandon disappeared, rival emperor candidates fought for allies, and assassinations increased as Strasbourg descended further into chaos.
• Charlotte offered pardons and restored positions to Axel Family members who renounced their royal title and supported Emperor Brittany, while investigating Wood Brandon’s whereabouts.

Charlotte prepared to retake Strasbourg while worrying about Wood Brandon and Midafis, whose actions could still complicate the conflict. His concerns were interrupted when Wood Brandon appeared through a Magic Mirror and revealed that he belonged to the Vangogh Clan.

• The chapter recounted how Charlotte had taken the royalties from Freeman Martin's novels and paid Fast-Handed Clerks to keep their authorship secret.
• Asturias Axel regretted joining the rebellion as seven Axels in Strasbourg claimed to be the best candidate for emperor.
• Charlotte assessed the chaos in Strasbourg and worried that Midafis might bring his troops to aid the rebels.
• Charlotte planned to eliminate the Axels after retaking Strasbourg and send them to develop islands in the Agres Sea.
• An unfamiliar old man emerged from a Magic Mirror, and Charlotte recognized him as Wood Brandon.
• Wood Brandon revealed that he was a member of the Vangogh Clan.