Chapter Summaries

Duchess Mesu sailed on Thessaly with the Northern Fleet, intending to reclaim the north, but found Charlotte Mecklenburg already holding the city. Charlotte revealed his Saint Rank forces and used the Golden Ring to summon the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, setting up a confrontation between legendary warships.

• Duchess Mesu planned to seize Thessaly and restore her family's power in the north with the Northern Fleet.
• A subordinate told Duchess Mesu that Thessaly flew Charlotte Mecklenburg's flag, so she sent her daughter Adora to order Charlotte to withdraw.
• Adora met Charlotte at Thessaly's walls, and they recognized each other as Sheffield University graduates before discussing the Mesu Family's claim to the territory.
• Charlotte summoned his Saint Ranks and showed Adora that his force outnumbered the Mesu Family's thirteen Saint Ranks by one.
• Charlotte threw the Golden Ring into the sea, unleashing colossal waves that pushed the Northern Fleet back before the Holy Light Divine Kingdom emerged unharmed.

Charlotte faced Grand Duchess Mesu, who demanded Thessaly in exchange for helping him attack Black Phoenix City. After weighing the opportunity, he proposed that they join forces to capture the capital and protect their territories together, leaving Mesu to consider his offer.

• Charlotte showed Adora the summoned Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and she was impressed by him.
• Grand Duchess Mesu arrived and recalled that she had investigated Charlotte, while he learned that Emperor Brittany had also looked into his past.
• Mesu demanded Thessaly and offered ten Saint Ranks to help Charlotte attack Black Phoenix City.
• Charlotte examined the map and recognized that the Black Phoenix forces had left the capital's defenses exposed.
• Charlotte proposed an alliance with Mesu to seize the greatest spoils of war and defend their territories together, and Mesu fell silent to consider it.

Charlotte secured Duchess Mesu’s alliance and advanced on Black Phoenix City, using a deceptive plan to smuggle his forces inside. He entered the city with his Saint Ranks and considered how to carry out the Serpent of Destiny’s task there.

• Charlotte and Duchess Mesu signed an alliance pact, and she lent him ten Saint Ranks led by her daughter Adora Mesu.
• Charlotte took Thessaly’s fleet and Knight Order, split the West Wind Knight Regiment, and continued toward Black Phoenix City.
• Charlotte recruited six captured Saint Ranks to warn their friends and relatives about a false attack plan, which prompted Black Phoenix’s defenders to prepare an ambush elsewhere.
• Charlotte disguised his troops as Black Phoenix residents and smuggled more than ten thousand soldiers into the city without detection.
• Charlotte entered Black Phoenix City with his Saint Ranks and remembered his task to leave the Serpent of Destiny’s mark in the city’s righteous god buildings.

Charlotte and the West Wind Knight Regiment captured Black Phoenix City and began consolidating their control, but a battle report revealed that Georgiadi Hadrian had routed the Four-Nation Alliance Army at the front. The chapter left Charlotte shaken by Georgiadi’s sudden rise as a renowned general.

• Charlotte sent dozens of Saint Ranks and infiltrated West Wind Knight Regiment troops to seize the Black Phoenix Palace, where they captured Emperor Yannis Hadrian and the imperial family.
• Charlotte ordered the imperial family sent to Strasbourg, assigned Kratos to guard the palace, and sent Black Dragon to open the city gates for his army.
• Charlotte ordered Senior Adora to demand the city’s nobles submit, then occupied Black Phoenix City and sent resisting nobles and their families to Machu Picchu and Strasbourg.
• Charlotte waited for the Black Phoenix army dispatched to ambush him, but received a report that Georgiadi Hadrian had led raids that killed eleven Saint Ranks and forced the Four-Nation Alliance Army to retreat.

Count Georgiadi Hadrian routed the Four-Nation Alliance Army and rushed back to defend Black Phoenix City, where Charlotte used Emperor Yannis Hadrian as a hostage to demand his surrender. Georgiadi appeared to yield, but Yannis then ordered his rescuers to protect him while he escaped, and Georgiadi reluctantly agreed.

• Count Georgiadi Hadrian defeated the Inglima, Fars, and Byron armies in succession, forcing Baldwin Asa to withdraw.
• Charlotte learned Georgiadi might return to Black Phoenix City and ordered the old Lizardman to bring Yannis Hadrian back from Machu Picchu.
• Georgiadi abandoned the front and hurried back to reinforce Black Phoenix City, prompting Charlotte to activate its defensive barrier.
• Charlotte displayed Yannis Hadrian and demanded that Georgiadi surrender, and Yannis shouted for him to surrender to Count Mecklen.
• Georgiadi agreed to surrender and asked Charlotte to lower the barrier so he could approach Yannis.
• After the barrier descended, Yannis ordered the Saint Ranks to protect him while he escaped, and Georgiadi reluctantly agreed.

Georgiadi Hadrian killed Emperor Yannis Hadrian and launched an assault on Black Phoenix City, beginning a brutal battle between the two sides’ Saint Ranks. As Saint Ranks fell in large numbers, Charlotte’s grief and fury drove him from the seventeenth rank to the eighteenth.

• Charlotte warned Georgiadi Hadrian to keep away from Emperor Yannis Hadrian, but Georgiadi retreated and then hurled a Knight’s Lance through the Emperor and Black Phoenix City’s defensive barrier, killing Yannis.
• Georgiadi ordered his forces to attack the city, and Charlotte sent Kratos to fight with the Holy Light Divine Kingdom’s support as both sides’ Saint Ranks clashed.
• Baron Exon became the first Saint Rank to die, then Black Dragon used Blood Spirit Rhino to kill a Saint Rank from Georgiadi’s side.
• More Saint Ranks fell on both sides as Charlotte and the West Wind Knight Regiment fired into the battle, and the conflict became known as the Blood Rain War.
• As Charlotte watched his subordinates die, his twelfth Bloody Vortex opened and he broke through from the seventeenth rank to the eighteenth.

Charlotte’s forces and Georgiadi Hadrian’s army fought a brutal battle that lasted into the night, while Omibella recovered her memories and sent Amon to help his father. Charlotte used one of his remaining ancient paintings to summon the Labyrinth of Agmiras, unaware that the Voyage Log had promised, “Father, I can help you.”

• Kratos clashed with Georgiadi Hadrian as Black Dragon fought several Saint Ranks and the battle continued until nightfall.
• Georgiadi Hadrian vowed to kill Charlotte for destroying Black Phoenix City and killing his emperor, while Charlotte promised to make him regret killing his men.
• Vigo fell from the sky gravely wounded, and Charlotte arranged for medical officers to carry him away.
• Omibella remembered that Pendragon was her father, Charlot Mecklenburg was her husband, and Amon was her son, then lent Amon her strength and told him to help his father.
• Charlotte recalled his unused Labyrinth of Agmiras paintings and tore one apart, releasing labyrinth corridors and the aura of an evil god.
• A line on the final page of the Holy Kingdom of Light Voyage Log read, “Father, I can help you,” but Charlotte did not notice it.

Charlotte used the Labyrinth of Agmiras to strengthen the Infinite Mirror World, then watched Antonio's arrival turn the battle against Georgiadi Hadrian. After Black Phoenix City was secured, Charlotte prepared to defend it even from his allies.

• Charlotte repeatedly summoned Agmiras's labyrinths and had Georgiadi Hadrian shatter them, gaining the Mirror Shadow and Mirror Demon abilities as the Infinite Mirror World reached ×6.
• Charlotte failed to break through to Saint Rank, but Antonio arrived and joined Kratos to drive Georgiadi Hadrian from the battle.
• Georgiadi Hadrian withdrew toward the sea with Black Phoenix City's remaining elite after the Saint Rank fighters on both sides disengaged.
• Charlotte counted his losses and told Antonio that his growing force of Saint Rank experts reflected their just cause.
• Antonio warned Charlotte that their allies might contest their claim to Black Phoenix City, and Charlotte ordered his fighters to kill any Byronians, Ingrima People, or Lionheart Dynasty people who tried to enter.

Charlotte secured the loyalty of Black Phoenix’s remaining Saint Rank warriors and consolidated his position in Black Phoenix City. After Georgiadi Hadrian fled overseas and Black Phoenix’s nobles followed, Charlotte seized most of the dynasty’s core counties, prompting the Four-Nation Alliance to arrange a conference to divide the territory.

• Charlotte offered compensation for Xunsa’s death and promised protection for the families of the fallen, declaring several dead warriors’ families retainers of the Mecklen Family.
• The four remaining Black Phoenix Saint Rank warriors swore loyalty to Charlotte, while Antonio’s support reassured the nobles.
• Georgiadi Hadrian seized Black Phoenix’s last naval force, left the Old Continent, and announced that he would establish a new nation.
• Black Phoenix nobles fled with their wealth to join Hadrian, and Charlotte’s West Wind Knight Regiment occupied eleven of the dynasty’s twelve core counties.
• The Four-Nation Alliance’s armies encountered Charlotte’s forces in Nordak County, and Emperor Brittany joined with his future son-in-law.
• Lamorak called for a four-nation conference to divide Black Phoenix, and Emperor Brittany agreed to hold it in Black Phoenix City while the armies remained in place.

Adora bid farewell to Charlotte after joining Byron, and Charlotte was appointed chief coordinator for the Four-Nation Alliance conference on dividing Black Phoenix. While preparing for the negotiations, he inspected the captured Legendary Warship Dolmabahçe and decided to let the injured Vigo recover aboard it.

• Adora gave Charlotte an evil god statue, and Charlotte sent her off with a Magic Alchemical Warship, ten other warships, and Black Phoenix naval personnel who refused to surrender to Fars.
• Charlotte was appointed Chief Coordinator of the Four-Nation Alliance Conference on Dividing Black Phoenix and arranged accommodations for the delegates with help from Antonio.
• Delegations led by Count D'Artagnan and Count Galanod for Fars, Count Lamorak for Inglima, Juno Arthur and Count Constantine for Byron, and Brunhild Asa and Conroe for Lionheart arrived in Black Phoenix City.
• Before the conference began, Charlotte inspected Dolmabahçe, Black Phoenix's captured Legendary Warship, known as the Shame of the Legendary Warships for its poor combat record.
• Charlotte decided to place Dolmabahçe under Vigo's command so the injured Flame Holy Knight could recover in comfort.

Charlotte learned that Agmilas would force him into the Evil God Arena unless he reached the Agres Sea within twenty-eight days, then oversaw the Four-Nation negotiations over Black Phoenix. The nations partitioned the dynasty, and Emperor Brittany elevated Charlotte to Duke Charlotte Mecklen, granting him the territory he occupied along with former Nansera Territory.

• Charlotte planned to rename Black Phoenix City the City of Destiny, build nine temples, and promote Fars and the Beast God Transformation Technique as part of his assimilation policy.
• Charlotte read a new diary warning that he had twenty-eight days to reach the Agres Sea and challenge Agmilas or be thrown into the Evil God Arena.
• Charlotte appointed Vigo captain of the Dolmabahçe, entrusted the fleet to Black Dragon, and returned to Black Phoenix City for the Four-Nation conference.
• Antonio fought duels against Count Constantine and Count Lamorak, strengthening Fars's position in the negotiations.
• After more than ten days of talks, the four empires agreed to divide Black Phoenix, with Fars receiving nine of its twelve core directly governed counties.
• The representatives signed the Four-Nation Alliance Treaty and territorial agreement aboard the Dolmabahçe, and Emperor Brittany named Charlotte Duke Mecklen and granted him the territory he occupied and former Nansera Territory.

After the Four Great Empires settled their main treaties, Charlotte reorganized his duchy and prepared to travel to the Agres Sea to confront the Labyrinth Evil God Agmilas. Juno Arthur agreed to accompany him, and Charlotte’s fleet quietly departed Black Phoenix City after two days of preparations.

• Emperor Brittany, Berunhill, and Inglima’s representatives left Black Phoenix City after the treaty negotiations, while Juno Arthur remained behind for Byron.
• Charlotte divided his duchy into thirteen major districts, accepted nearly a hundred nobles into his service, and left Black Dragon and Regulus in charge.
• Charlotte sought Juno Arthur’s advice about traveling to the Agres Sea, and Juno revealed that Charlotte’s Labyrinthizations had led him to identify the destination.
• Juno explained that Charlotte would face an incarnation of Agmilas rather than the Evil God’s true body, and agreed to accompany him.
• Charlotte prepared supplies and a fleet, then quietly departed Black Phoenix City for the Agres Sea.

Charlotte sailed toward the Agres Sea aboard the Dolmabahçe with nine Saint Rank experts and a powerful fleet, intending to campaign against Agmilas. The voyage grew monotonous, but it ended with Charlotte spotting a much larger fleet bearing Black Phoenix’s crest.

• Charlotte left Black Phoenix City with Juno, Vigo, nine Saint Rank experts, and seven Magic Alchemical Warships, while leaving trusted subordinates behind to manage his territory.
• Charlotte’s fleet crossed the Sea of Giant Whales as he continued trying to break through to Saint Rank before reaching the Agres Sea.
• Charlotte transformed the Dolmabahçe’s portholes and mirrors into the Mirror World and returned to his cabin to cultivate.
• Vigo summoned Charlotte to the captain’s cabin, where Charlotte saw a fleet more than ten times larger than his own, with every ship bearing Black Phoenix’s noble crest.

Charlotte’s fleet bypassed Black Phoenix forces as he headed toward the New Continent and the mysterious coordinates. He revealed the Holy Light Divine Kingdom to Juno, who examined Omibella and explained the extreme danger of advancing from Saint Rank to Divine Rank.

• Charlotte ordered his fleet to bypass a small Black Phoenix fleet and offered its nobles amnesty, but three Saint Rank experts attacked Vigo until Juno rescued him.
• Charlotte’s fleet outpaced the Black Phoenix ships, and Kratos deterred seven Saint Rank experts from attacking when the fleet encountered a larger force.
• Charlotte confirmed Georgiadi Hadrian was heading for the New Continent and altered his route to search for the remaining treasures needed to repair the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.
• Charlotte told Juno that he possessed the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and Juno entered the Dreamscape with him to inspect Omibella.
• Juno examined Omibella for seven or eight hours and explained that advancing from Saint Rank to Divine Rank had succeeded only nine times, producing the Nine Great Righteous Gods.

Juno Arthur explained to Charlotte that beings who reached divine rank, including evil gods and vampire blood progenitors, lost their ability to think and responded according to fixed patterns. After Charlotte returned from Juno’s Dreamscape, they discussed whether he might one day make Anne long-lived and how Charlotte had acquired Gareth Mosred as a Blood Servant.

• Juno Arthur told Charlotte that divine beings and vampire blood progenitors had lost their wisdom, leaving their responses patterned and unnatural.
• Juno warned Charlotte that the unfinished Holy Light Divine Kingdom and Omibella might mutate further, and that Charlotte should abandon them if they showed signs of breaking free.
• Charlotte recalled the ship’s connection to the Sea of Fury, briefly considered exploring it, then resolved to avoid danger and live peacefully with Anne.
• Charlotte returned from Juno’s Dreamscape, and Juno asked him to consider whether he would make Anne long-lived when she grew old.
• Charlotte asked Juno for advice about training his Blood Servant, and Juno recognized Gareth Mosred and heard how Charlotte had acquired him.
• Juno remarked that Charlotte and Brittany’s family were favored by the Serpent of Destiny, and Charlotte protested that he was not especially enviable.

Charlotte and three Saint Rank companions explored an uncharted island where powerful Supernatural Power was rejected and encountered strange monsters and unfamiliar wildlife. Near the island’s center, they met a group of blue-skinned giants who spoke the Sherlock Dynasty language.

• After seven or eight days of sailing, Charlotte found the island where the serpent fangs, whale tears, and ancient tree branches had been hidden.
• Charlotte landed with Agon, Gareth Mecklen, and Andreus, while Juno Arthur stayed aboard the fleet; the island’s strange force made flight difficult for those above Saint Rank.
• The group killed a hostile, one-eyed creature wearing a Sherlock Dynasty naval uniform and then saw many more creatures gathering near the cliffs.
• Charlotte and his companions pressed deeper into the island, killing a giant wolf-like Supernatural Beast and encountering other unusual wildlife.
• Near the island’s center, blue-skinned giants emerged from the forest with crude bows, and Charlotte understood their Sherlock Dynasty speech.

Charlotte and his companions befriended the Blue Giants of Solomon Island by trading metal weapons and agreed to visit their tribe. Singilina warned them about Mimic Demons, and Charlotte’s group reached the tribe’s giant tree, where he armed the curious children with firearms.

• Charlotte spoke with Singilina and offered five metal rapiers in exchange for being welcomed as guests.
• Singilina introduced herself as the chieftain’s daughter and said the Blue Sky Tribe were Solomon Island’s only inhabitants.
• Andreus asked about the monsters that had attacked them, and Singilina identified them as Mimic Demons that could imitate the Blue Giants.
• Singilina explained that transformed Mimic Demons could be identified because they had no gender, and she led the group toward the tribe.
• Charlotte and his companions reached the giant tree where hundreds of Blue Giants lived, and Charlotte gave the children Magnum Hand Shuttles and taught them to fire.

Charlotte met the last Ancient Modoro Tree, which offered its trunk to help the Blue Sky Tribe leave Solomon Island, before he discovered that the Queen Bees inside the Bag of Insects could combine into a growing consciousness. He confirmed that training this awareness with mathematics and the Blood Kindred True Word Technique could develop its abilities.

• The Ancient Modoro Tree told Charlotte that the Sherlock Dynasty had felled its kin to build Legendary Warships and offered its own trunk if he would take the Blue Sky Tribe away.
• A swarm of Queen Bees appeared above the island, and Charlotte realized they had also been used to build the Sherlock Dynasty's warships.
• Charlotte sent the Bag of Insects into the swarm, where it absorbed Queen Bees and began producing a faint consciousness that responded to his mathematical input.
• Charlotte tested the Bag of Insects with increasingly difficult calculations and discovered that the growing Queen Bee collective could think and process information.
• Charlotte fed the collective the Blood Kindred True Word Technique, and several hundred Queen Bees transformed into a black bat, proving that the trained consciousness could develop supernatural abilities.

Charlotte and the Blue Sky Tribe survived a devastating Queen Bee swarm, and he agreed to take the giants away from Solomon Island aboard his ship. As he taught them the Beast God Transformation Technique, he realized the Blue Giants might be the same kind of beings as the Ling Demons.

• The Queen Bee cloud drove off Charlotte’s Bag of Insects, unleashed several powerful attacks around the Ancient Modoro Tree, then vanished.
• Singilina told Charlotte that Solomon Island held many dangers and asked him to take the remaining Blue Sky Tribe away.
• Charlotte promised the tribe passage on his ship and offered to teach them the Beast God Transformation Technique so they could appear human.
• Charlotte handed out illustrations and taught the Blue Giants the transformation technique, while Andreus and Agon discussed its potential to reduce conflict between humans and beastfolk.
• Singilina and an elderly Blue Giant transformed quickly, leading Charlotte to suspect the Blue Giants were Ling Demons with an innate talent for transformation.

Georgiadi Hadrian scouted Charlotte’s fleet while Charlotte helped the Blue Sky Tribe and discovered the Ancient Modoro Tree was willing to leave Solomon Island. Charlotte transferred the tree into the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and prepared to take the tribe aboard, unaware that Georgiadi Hadrian was nearby.

• Georgiadi Hadrian considered how to split Charlotte’s fleet, then saw strange monsters flee into the ground and grew wary of Solomon Island.
• Charlotte and Andreus taught the Blue Giants about secret cultivation arts while Charlotte learned that the Ancient Modoro Tree wished to die and did not resist being moved.
• Charlotte brought out the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and asked the Ancient Modoro Tree to join it without being cut down.
• The Ancient Modoro Tree transferred into the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, leaving a decayed trunk behind, and Charlotte invited the Blue Giants aboard.
• Chief Angelina ordered the Blue Sky Tribe to board the ship, and the children eagerly explored its deck and Labyrinth Guardians.