Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.