Recaps

Charlotte confronted Wood Brandon, who revealed that he had helped bring down the Axel Dynasty out of a personal grudge and could imitate Charlotte’s martial arts through the Infinite Mirror World. Wood Brandon pursued Charlotte between Mirror Worlds with a Spirit Realm Hound, leaving Charlotte to draw the Blood Spirit Rhino as the hounds closed in.

• Charlotte questioned Wood Brandon about his adopted children, his time aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and his role in the rebellion against Fars.
• Wood Brandon said he had incited Axel to besiege Zimmerman because of a personal grudge, and Charlotte attacked him with gun and sword techniques.
• Wood Brandon deflected Charlotte’s attacks with a twig and imitated his swordsmanship, then escaped into a Magic Mirror when Charlotte combined his sword and gun attacks.
• Wood Brandon invaded Charlotte’s Mirror World, pursued him with a Mirror Shadow, and followed him through successive mirrors.
• The Mirror Sage told Charlotte that Wood Brandon’s Spirit Realm Hounds could track dimensions and hunt anyone who knew of them, and the hounds manifested and attacked.
• Charlotte’s Mountain Breaker could not harm the hounds, so he put it away and drew the Blood Spirit Rhino.

Charlotte fled Wood Brandon's Spirit Realm Hounds through his vast Mirror World, drawing him toward Nanselaf and the support of two Legendary Warships. Wood Brandon invaded Charlotte's Mirror World to stop him, and the two began a battle on Charlotte's home ground.

• Charlotte fought off the Spirit Realm Hounds with a Knight's Lance but discovered that Wood Brandon's Mirror World trapped him across its scattered domains.
• Charlotte used mirrors on merchant wagons and ships to extend his Mirror World across the Old Continent, then headed toward Arcadia Port in Nanselaf for help.
• Wood Brandon pursued Charlotte because he feared the two Legendary Warships stationed at Arcadia Port, especially after nearly being swallowed by Amon aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.
• Wood Brandon entered Charlotte's Mirror World, and Charlotte sealed it to keep him from escaping.
• Charlotte and Wood Brandon summoned dozens of Mirror Shadows, and their battle reached its climax.

Charlotte used the Emilia and the Holy Light Divine Kingdom to evade Wood Brandon and force him to flee the Mirror World. Afterward, Charlotte discovered that a Mirror Shadow of Zimmerman Axel Robin had remained behind and appeared to be alive.

• Wood Brandon exhausted himself fighting Charlotte's Mirror Shadows, while Charlotte hid aboard the Emilia, where the Spirit Realm Hounds could not find him.
• Charlotte took the two Legendary Warships toward Wood Brandon, and their arrival drove him to break the Mirror World and escape through a Magic Mirror.
• Charlotte returned to the Mirror World and found Zimmerman Axel Robin's Mirror Shadow still there, apparently alive.
• Charlotte put away the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, held Emilia ready as a weapon, and greeted Zimmerman as an old friend.

Charlotte encountered a confused being calling itself Zimmerman and told him about his identity and family, but a powerful force reclaimed him before Charlotte could learn more. Charlotte and Emilia returned with the two Legendary Warships, while the New Continent Council argued over its missed chance to attack.

• Charlotte told Zimmerman that he was Zimmerman Axel Brittany, the son of McLean Brittany and the brother of Antonio and Anne, with Charlotte as his brother-in-law.
• Zimmerman briefly accepted Charlotte’s account, then accused an evil god of corrupting his memories as a powerful force swept him away.
• Emilia devoured much of the force’s manifestation, but it escaped the Mirror World before Charlotte could capture it.
• Charlotte carried Emilia out of the Mirror World and returned the Emilia and the Holy Light Divine Kingdom to the sea near Arcadia Port.
• The New Continent Council’s leaders argued over whether they should have attacked Charlotte while his ships were missing, and Idhæra challenged Avish and Red Eagle’s confidence.

Charlotte studied the Mirror Spirit ability and developed a new kind of conceptual creature before launching a siege on Strasbourg on the final day of the deadline. After taking the city, he punished and pardoned the rebel nobles in ways that greatly expanded the Fars royal family's directly governed lands.

• Charlotte studied the Mirror Spirit in Machu Picchu and condensed a second rune, which brought Spirit Realm Cloud Cats into his Mirror World.
• On the final morning of the deadline, Charlotte, Antonio, and Ishermerlun launched a siege on Strasbourg while Gareth occupied Asturias.
• Asturias escaped after Antonio stopped Charlotte from pursuing him, and Antonio returned to the front lines to report the rebellion's suppression.
• Charlotte sentenced several Axels to hanging, then exiled others to the Agres Sea after neutral nobles pleaded for mercy.
• Charlotte let nobles who had supported the Axels buy pardons, taking their titles and fiefs and expanding the Fars royal family's directly administered lands.

After suppressing the Strasbourg rebellion, Charlotte negotiated with Romios to avoid war over South Seraph and offered the New Continent Council self-government in exchange for nominal lordship and land in the New Continent. Twenty-seven rounds of talks ended with Charlotte gaining nominal ownership of land across twenty-seven major regions.

• Charlotte left Anne Brittany, Nanny Karen, Kreil Brittany, and Abner Soumei in Strasbourg to oversee government affairs, then returned to Arcadia Port with Andreus.
• Charlotte invited Romios aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and proposed settling the conflict peacefully instead of going to war.
• Charlotte offered to make South Seraph an autonomous territory governed by the New Continent Council if it recognized him as lord and exchanged land in the New Continent.
• Charlotte promised not to tax the South Seraph Free Zone, while requiring it not to tax people from Duke Mecklen's Territory.
• Romios organized a negotiating delegation, and the two sides held twenty-seven rounds of talks aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.
• Charlotte secured nominal ownership of land in twenty-seven major regions of the New Continent.

Charlotte divided the New Continent Council by negotiating separate land claims and oaths of allegiance, ending the conflict and bringing the New Continent Council Free Territory under Duke Mecklen. After returning to Mecklenburg, he ordered the West Wind Knight Regiment to eliminate gangs across his territory.

• Charlotte offered South Seraph's cities to New Continent immigrants in exchange for their land claims, fracturing the New Continent Council into competing factions.
• Charlotte and the council agreed to rename South Seraph the New Continent Council Free Territory and signed contracts making the council and its settlements swear allegiance to Duke Mecklen.
• Avish left with several subordinates after finding no support, while the council celebrated the end of the war.
• Charlotte oversaw the withdrawal of Duke Mecklen's army and the council's return of troops to local lords, then sailed back to Mecklenburg two weeks later.
• Charlotte sent the West Wind Knight Regiment to forcibly conscript gang members, rapidly improving public security across Duke Mecklen's Territory.
• The chapter ended by noting that the South Seraph Restoration Army and its leader, Hughes, suffered the greatest losses from the new contract.

After three New Continent fleets conquered small Old Continent countries, Red Eagle warned Charlotte Mecklen that the new rulers had been corrupted by evil gods and their populations faced extinction. The Serpent of Destiny appeared in Charlotte’s dream and urged him to stop the evil gods from disrupting the eras, but Charlotte awoke uncertain whether the message had been an oracle.

• Charlotte spent a month handling the affairs of his territory, where improved security and commerce attracted immigrants from the free territories of the New Continent Council.
• Three immigrant fleets conquered the Mason Kingdom, Gotlandsburg, and the Duchy of Calabria while the Four Great Empires began peace talks.
• Red Eagle told Charlotte that the three New Continent rulers had become vessels for evil gods and that more than a million residents could die.
• Charlotte gave Red Eagle a fleet with two Ancient Magic Ghost Warships and undead Saint Rank escorts, then planned to investigate the threatened countries and alert the Four Great Empires.
• The Serpent of Destiny appeared in Charlotte’s dream and said the evil gods had inserted an illusory era between Lady Black Moon’s era and its own, asking Charlotte to stop them.
• Charlotte woke drenched in cold sweat, could not tell whether the dream had been an oracle, and received no response after praying.

In the thirty-eighth year of the Black Moon, Charlotte investigated the Law of the Gods and raised the threat in the New Continent to the highest priority, summoning its council to discuss the missing countries. As the representatives arrived in Mecklenburg, Charlotte suddenly remembered that Juno had left him a notebook he had not yet properly read.

• Charlotte searched several copies of the Law of the Gods for a way to change an era but found no answers.
• Reports said the Mason Kingdom, Gotlandsburg, and the Duchy of Calabria had cut off contact, while adventurers sent to investigate had disappeared.
• The New Continent Council offered help, and Charlotte invited its representatives to Mecklenburg after receiving further warnings about the evil god.
• Romios arrived aboard a Magic Alchemical Warship with nearly a hundred people, including Idhæra and Abelia, and they met Red Eagle.
• Charlotte received the representatives at the Serpent of Destiny Temple, then remembered Juno's unread notebook and began sweating.

Charlotte used the Serpent of Destiny’s power to give everyone gathered at the Great Temple ten Dawn of Destiny, which could teleport and heal them, then discovered that he had incurred a huge debt for the favor. He left the temple facing the awkward silence of his assembled family and allies.

• Charlotte realized an evil god’s influence had been blocking his inspiration, and the Serpent of Destiny offered a sanctuary and Dawn of Destiny to those fighting the evil god.
• Charlotte gathered more than a hundred people, including Anne, Sophia Garland, and his other allies and family, at the Great Temple.
• The Serpent of Destiny bestowed ten silver scales on each person, granting them ten Dawn of Destiny apiece.
• Charlotte learned that each Dawn of Destiny cost one Joy of Destiny and that he now owed another thirteen hundred Joy of Destiny.
• Charlotte opened his eyes to find the conference hall silent as Emilia asked why he had kept them closed.

After Charlotte Mecklen’s allies and acquaintances quietly left the conference room, the New Continent Council discussed its hopes of claiming lands freed from evil gods. Charlotte remained alone with the gathering and found that the Serpent of Destiny would not help him face it.

• Sylvie Martin and Vinnie Arsenault left, and Sylvie reflected that Charlotte had become a stranger while affirming her own ambitions.
• Dorothy, Belisa, Aurora, and Anastasia departed together, followed by Charlotte’s subordinates and the New Continent Council delegation.
• Idhæra criticized the council for acting like Charlotte’s subordinates, while Red Eagle defended Charlotte’s treatment of them.
• Romios explained that the council hoped to occupy the lands of three countries after the evil gods were driven out and establish a nation for New Continent people.
• Red Eagle warned that the council lacked enough people to populate a new nation, leaving Romios and the others silent.
• Charlotte prayed for help from the Serpent of Destiny, but it refused to provide a loan, leaving him to face the gathering alone.

Adora, Sophia Garland, and their allies stayed in the conference room as tensions rose around Anne and Charlotte. Sophia challenged Anne to a duel over who would give birth to a child surnamed Mecklen first, while Emilia sent Charlotte to another dimension so he could not intervene.

• Adora decided to stay and face Menilman, and Kreil and Antonio chose to support Anne.
• Abner Sumay and Nanny Karen moved closer to Anne, while Sabastine and Domitian stood behind Menilman.
• Sophia Garland challenged Anne to a duel, saying they would compete to see who could give birth to a child surnamed Mecklen first.
• Anne rejected the idea of Charlotte fighting in her place and angrily confronted Sophia, while Charlotte tried to explain himself.
• As Charlotte moved to intervene, the River of Destiny appeared before him and he could no longer move.
• Emilia had the Little Silver Serpent send Charlotte to another dimension so he would not disrupt the spectacle.

Anne challenged the other women to a duel over Charlotte, but Princess May Guillaume, Sophia Garland, and Menilman each kissed him before leaving. Charlotte returned from his spiritual struggle having reached the Twentieth Order and gained new Mirror Spirit abilities, then shared a passionate moment with Anne while Emilia and the Little Silver Serpent watched.

• Anne challenged Sophia Garland, Menilman Su Mei, Princess May Guillaume, and Adora Mesu to join a duel over Charlotte.
• Princess May Guillaume, Sophia Garland, and Menilman each kissed Charlotte and left, while Adora fled after realizing the room was already a powder keg.
• Charlotte's spirituality nearly exploded amid the evil gods, but he returned to reality and advanced to the Twentieth Order.
• Charlotte formed the Mirror Spirit's third and fourth runes, gaining the Spirit Realm Fear Serpent and Spirit Realm Desire Serpent, then condensed two more Blood Flame Qi runes.
• Charlotte found Anne alone in the conference room and kissed her passionately, unaware that Emilia and the Little Silver Serpent were hiding nearby.

Charlotte took Anne on a tour of Mecklenburg, explaining how he had rebuilt the city and organized its markets to support ordinary residents. After showing her the city’s prosperity and orderly design, he invited her to lunch.

• Charlotte suggested spending the day showing Anne around Mecklenburg before he left again, and Anne accepted.
• Charlotte showed Anne Mecklen University, which had few students and was preparing to open alongside Brittany University.
• Charlotte and Anne toured Mecklenburg’s busy markets, where he explained his policies and the West Wind Knight Regiment’s shops selling affordable food.
• Anne realized that Charlotte had preserved the city’s cultural character while rebuilding it, and recalled how orderly it had remained during the siege.
• Charlotte invited Anne to lunch at a nearby restaurant, and Anne took his hand and agreed.

Charlotte met a black-haired young man who claimed his invention could give ordinary people power equal to Transcendents and Saint Ranks. After hearing his idea, Charlotte had him brought to Duke Mecklen’s residence, leaving the young man anxious about why he had been taken there.

• Charlotte and Anne entered a restaurant and heard a black-haired young man argue that ordinary people would decide the wars of the future.
• After the other diners drove the young man away, Charlotte followed him outside and asked why he believed ordinary people could change warfare.
• The young man said his invention could give ordinary people strength comparable to Transcendents and Saint Ranks.
• Charlotte asked the young man to wait in his carriage, then returned to enjoy lunch with Anne.
• Charlotte took Anne home, and the young man was guarded in the carriage until it brought him to Duke Mecklen’s residence.

William Triton presented Charlotte with designs for a corpse-powered armored vehicle called the Land Dreadnought and an alchemical warhorse suit called the Centurion. Charlotte decided to keep William in Mecklenburg and funded the prototypes, inviting him to join the West Wind Knight Regiment and Mecklen University.

• A Great Ling Demon clerk led William Triton to Charlotte, who introduced himself and invited William to discuss his inventions.
• William showed Charlotte the Land Dreadnought, a boxy armored vehicle powered by converting the life force of battlefield corpses into blood energy.
• Charlotte decided the Land Dreadnought’s technology was too sinister to release and resolved to keep William in Mecklenburg.
• William presented the Centurion, an armored alchemical warhorse that could channel the strength of ordinary soldiers and help them match Low-Order Transcendents.
• Charlotte offered William a place in the West Wind Knight Regiment, a lifetime professorship, two hundred Écu, and a testing ground to build prototypes of both inventions.

Charlotte prepared an expedition to fight the evil gods, leaving trusted allies to guard Mecklenburg and sending Anne and others back to Strasbourg. Sophia Garland, May Guillaume, Menilman, and Adora then joined his force, while their romantic rivalry left Charlotte eager to depart for the Mason Kingdom.

• Charlotte arranged William Triton's research support, chose his expedition forces, and left the Black Dragon and Regulus to oversee Mecklenburg.
• Charlotte sent Anne, Kreil, Abner, Antonio, and others back to Strasbourg before Sophia Garland visited him.
• May Guillaume arrived to join the campaign, and she and Sophia Garland clashed over their connections to Charlotte.
• Menilman and Adora arrived, and Sophia, Menilman, and Adora formed an alliance before Menilman offered their help to Charlotte.
• Charlotte distributed Divinity Crystals and decided to leave for the Mason Kingdom, where forests had suddenly spread across the land.

Charlotte set out aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and entered its other space to learn which evil god controlled plants. After narrowly surviving Huang Damisir’s power, he learned from Omibella that Dapochilodo had lost her plant authority when her true body was stolen, and Dapochilodo told him how its return could restore her strength.

• Charlotte gathered his companions and subordinates aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, then sailed with the Emilia without mobilizing an army or fleet.
• Charlotte entered the other space and nearly died when he looked at Huang Damisir, but Amon took the evil god’s power in his place and later consumed its shattered bones.
• Charlotte asked Omibella which evil god controlled plants, and she identified Dapochilodo while explaining that Dapochilodo’s true body had been stolen.
• Charlotte visited Dapochilodo, who said she alone held plant authority and that thieves had taken apart her true body, leaving her weakened.
• Dapochilodo told Charlotte that bringing her stolen true body aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom would restore her power and let her suppress Omibella.

After returning from another space, Charlotte restricted where Dapochilodo’s increasingly numerous Great Ling Demons could provide services. During the voyage toward the Mason Kingdom, Sophia Garland gradually drew closer to him while Menilman, Adora, and Princess Mei competed over who would approach him next.

• Charlotte summoned a Great Ling Demon for food, then decided to limit the places where the demons could operate because Dapochilodo was creating more of them.
• Sophia Garland brought lunch to Charlotte, and they ate together on the terrace while discussing university and their pasts.
• As they chatted, Sophia Garland subtly moved closer and worked to lower Charlotte’s guard.
• On another deck, Menilman, Adora, and Princess Mei confronted one another over Sophia Garland, whom Menilman said was no one to yield.
• Princess Mei summoned the Queen Bee from a Crystal Bottle and declared that the next round should be hers.
• During the voyage toward the Mason Kingdom, Charlotte repeatedly found himself alone with one of the girls, though he could not understand their intentions.

Charlotte and Adora talked over grilled fish about Charlotte’s complicated relationships and his refusal to have illegitimate children. Charlotte then returned to the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, where he fought a Tree God Emissary linked to the long-dead evil god Dapochilodo.

• Charlotte grilled fish while Adora recounted the details of the day he had kissed Anne and revealed that there was more to the story than he had realized.
• Adora suggested that Charlotte could marry Anne and still take lovers, but Charlotte insisted he had never agreed to have children with Menilman, Princess Mei, or Sophia Garland.
• Charlotte and Adora finished their meal, and Charlotte flew toward the Holy Light Divine Kingdom while Adora waited before following him.
• Charlotte fought a vine-covered enemy who instantly recovered from his wounds as the others watched from the three Legendary Warships.
• Abelia identified the enemy as a Tree God Emissary and said Charlotte suspected it was connected to the remains of the dead evil god Dapochilodo.

Charlotte fought the Tree God Emissary, who revealed that the Ancient Modoro Cult used Human Alchemy to refine evil-god remains into their bodies. Charlotte trapped him in the Mirror World, where the Spirit Realm Fear Serpent quickly destroyed him, and the gathered Saint Ranks wondered whether the Holy Light Divine Kingdom could eat him.

• The Tree God Emissary offered to reveal the Ancient Modoro Cult's Human Alchemy secret if Charlotte joined him, while secretly planning to seize Charlotte's warships.
• Charlotte decided to keep the Tree God Emissary alive and used a Blazing Roaring Bullet to drive him into the Mirror World.
• The Tree God Emissary landed on a passage in the Mirror World, where a serpent emerged and blasted him apart with green energy.
• Charlotte retrieved the Tree God Emissary and was surprised that the Spirit Realm Fear Serpent had defeated him so quickly.
• Idhæra and the other Saint Ranks recalled how hard Tree God Emissaries were to fight, while Andreus suggested feeding this one to the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.

Charlotte gave the Tree God Emissary to Amon, who consumed it and celebrated his bond with his father. As wars spread across the continent, Charlotte’s council chose a small team to investigate the Mason Kingdom, while Red Eagle and Agon volunteered to join.

• Charlotte gave the Tree God Emissary to Amon, who drew out a vine that became a rapier as the creature crumbled to dust.
• A Great Ling Demon reported that the Mason Kingdom had attacked three neighboring countries, and another reported that Gotlandsburg had occupied seven cities in Byron.
• More reports revealed wars across several Old Continent nations, while Parmas asked Duke Mecklen’s Territory for aid and offered the Gandis Mountains in return.
• Romios advised Charlotte to gather intelligence and send a five-person team into the Mason Kingdom before committing a large force.
• Charlotte urged caution with the Dawn of Destiny, and Red Eagle and Agon volunteered for the investigation team.

Charlotte led a small group toward the vegetation-covered Mason Kingdom to gather intelligence, but an aerial barrier and Saint Rank detection blocked their way. He taught his companions the Beast God Transformation Technique so they could enter under disguised identities, then transformed himself into a Silverback Ape Person.

• Charlotte chose Romios and Cresto for the mission while ordering Red Eagle and Agon to stay behind, and Menilman and Princess Mei intervened when Red Eagle tried to join.
• Charlotte arranged for Sophia Garland to command the Holy Light Divine Kingdom while the group approached Mason Kingdom by land.
• Romios detected an aerial restriction barrier and Saint Rank detection covering Mason Kingdom, and Charlotte realized they could not enter openly.
• Charlotte taught Romios the Beast God Transformation Technique, and Romios, Menilman, Princess Mei, Cresto, and Charlotte transformed into beastfolk.
• Charlotte became a Silverback Ape Person and gained Berserk and Throwing runes by reversing his Bloodthirsty Battle Qi.

Charlot and his companions traveled through the plant-choked Mason Kingdom, where they found villagers transformed and bound by vegetation. They reached Manise and discovered its residents were likely Evil Spirits; after entering the city alone, Charlot withdrew when its plants proved too dangerous for the others.

• Charlot, Menilman, Princess Mei, Romios, and Cresto cultivated their Bloodthirsty Battle Qi as they traveled, and several advanced through the orders of Transcendence.
• Charlot awakened Muscle Extension, which lengthened his limbs and improved his strength, speed, and jumping ability.
• The group found Mason Kingdom villagers alive but overtaken from within by plants, and Charlot decided they needed to reach Manise to understand what had happened.
• The five arrived at Manise and suspected its people were Evil Spirits after observing the same person repeatedly entering and leaving the city.
• Charlot entered Manise alone, found plants attacking him in the streets, and retreated when he realized the others could not safely follow.

Charlotte and his companions advanced their Bloodthirsty Battle Qi before entering Manise, where they discovered the city’s residents were being sustained by plant tendrils and New Continent immigrants had occupied the municipal government. The immigrants revealed their intention to conquer the Old Continent and exterminate its people, leaving Charlotte and the others facing the perpetrators behind the kingdom’s destruction.

• Charlotte gathered Romios, Cresto, Menilman, and Princess Mei, then stood watch while they trained to reach the fifth rank of Bloodthirsty Battle Qi.
• Romios advanced first after four and a half days, followed by Menilman, Cresto, and Princess Mei, while Charlotte kept his sixth-rank advancement secret.
• The five entered Manise and found residents repeating fixed routines, with plant tendrils growing from their feet and legs to sustain them.
• Menilman identified the municipal government as a likely base, and Charlotte realized the New Continent immigrants still controlled their evil gods rather than having been corrupted by them.
• More than a dozen immigrants emerged and declared they would conquer nations and exterminate the people of the Old Continent, while Charlotte and his companions listened.