Chapter Summaries

Charlotte built the first Temple of the Serpent of Destiny in Pale City, but a false divine dream turned the residents against it until Juno Arthur intervened. The crowd then attacked the Golden Temple, where Charlotte recognized Captain Huntington among the people preparing to burn an elderly priest.

• A merchant introduced Charlotte to a clerk who secured his missionary permit and ten plots of land before sailing away with his possessions.
• Charlotte recruited workers, mostly Labyrinth Guardians, and completed the Serpent of Destiny Temple, which the Serpent consecrated with Divine Radiance.
• A dream of a golden-armored god warning against the temple spread through Pale City, and angry residents gathered to tear it down.
• Juno Arthur used the Blood Kindred Great Dream Technique to redirect the crowd's fury toward Priest Yannis, whom they believed had betrayed the God of the Labyrinth.
• Charlotte followed the residents to the Golden Temple and recognized Captain Huntington holding a torch beside an elderly priest tied to a stake.

Charlotte recognized Zimmerman Axel Robin in the city and told Juno that the supposedly dead warrior had returned. Juno warned Charlotte that Zimmerman might misunderstand his ties to Menilman, leaving Charlotte worried about what would happen when he returned to Fars.

• Zimmerman burned Yanis alive, and residents then attacked the city lord's residence.
• Zimmerman greeted Charlotte before entering the Golden Temple, and Charlotte hurried back to Juno.
• Charlotte told Juno how Zimmerman had survived the reported attempt on his life, and Juno condemned Julius Axel and Wood Brandon's foolishness.
• Juno said he would avoid fighting Zimmerman unless there was no alternative and suggested Charlotte might be safe because he was not involved in the Axel Family's affairs.
• Juno teased Charlotte about his rumored romances, while Charlotte insisted he was faithful to Anne and feared Zimmerman would misread his relationship with Menilman.
• Charlotte joked that he would sell a Zimmerman Hat with his novels if Zimmerman came after him.

After clearing the Pale City and converting it into a city of the Serpent of Destiny, Charlotte set sail and reached the fourth labyrinth, the abandoned City of Desolation. He could neither occupy nor labyrinthize it, and the Serpent of Destiny did not answer his prayers, so he settled there to investigate its secret.

• Juno told Charlotte that Zimmerman had left the Pale City and urged him to spread the Serpent of Destiny’s faith before returning to Swan Lake.
• Charlotte had the Golden Temple’s dead followers sent to the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, then transformed the temple into a shrine to the Serpent of Destiny.
• Charlotte spread a flattering story about the Serpent of Destiny, and within seven or eight days the Pale City had abandoned Agmilas’s faith.
• Charlotte built temples and symbols of the Serpent of Destiny across the city, successfully cleared the third labyrinth, and set sail along a new sea route.
• Zimmerman disguised himself as a Black Phoenix noble, took Georgiadi Hadrian’s ships and wealth, and later guided the fleet back to the Christopher Route.
• Charlotte reached the City of Desolation but could not occupy or labyrinthize it, so he settled there with his people to search for its secret.

Charlot discovered that the City of Desolation’s true labyrinth lay underground and entered it alone, finding himself transported to the Evil God Arena’s fourth venue. There, stripped of most of his powers and disguised as a teenager named Qian Nan, he joined a team of young Transcendents who mistook him for an academy student.

• Charlot tore down the ruined city and uncovered an underground entrance to the fourth labyrinth.
• Charlot learned that the dungeon could only be entered alone, prepared supplies, and jumped inside.
• Charlot passed through a strange, timeless space and emerged in the form of a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old with most of his special equipment and abilities unavailable.
• Charlot found himself among young Evil God Arena candidates and learned that each team competed for a Divine Shard.
• Una questioned Charlot about his identity and Transcendent rank after he introduced himself as Qian Nan.

Charlotte joined a team of Golden Kite Academy students in the Evil God Arena and learned about the New Continent’s education and their shared ties to Domitian. As the team entered the dark City of Desolation to hunt monsters, Charlotte’s Insight suddenly warned him of danger.

• Charlotte told Una he followed an ordinary Transcendence path and specialized in Channing Falcon Person, disappointing the boy who wanted a defensive fighter.
• Charlotte learned that his teammates came from Golden Kite Academy and that Domitian had taught there, leaving behind the Beast God Transformation Technique and Bloodthirsty Battle Qi.
• A voice announced that teams had twenty minutes to begin hunting monsters, with the first team to kill ten winning a Divine Shard and claiming any spoils.
• Una led Charlotte, Penny, and the two boys through the left exit, which vanished behind them as they entered darkness.
• Penny lit an expensive torch while Charlotte quietly observed the team, and his Insight suddenly warned him of danger.

Charlotte joined Una, Penny, and two Golden Kite Academy students in the Evil God preselection, using his exceptional marksmanship to kill monsters and help the group survive. After Penny explained how the preselection worked, Charlotte realized she might know more about him than she should.

• Charlotte killed a Poisonous Human Head and a distant monster, discovering that the arena counted his kills toward a total of 26,942.
• Penny found a dagger in the monster’s ashes, and the group agreed to save their loot and divide it according to each person’s kills.
• Charlotte decided to help the students kill ten monsters before going off alone, and his gunshots drew a group of six armed monsters.
• Charlotte killed the group’s strongest monster with six shots to the head, and the Golden Kite Academy team cleared the remaining monsters and collected three weapons.
• Una said they needed to kill two more monsters to finish the preselection, and Penny explained that winners avoided selection for a year while Evil God Candidates could delay entering the arena.
• Charlotte grew suspicious when Penny explained the rules and realized she was different from the other students.

Charlotte and Zimmerman remained in the Evil God Arena after Una and the two boys escaped, and Zimmerman revealed her name and disguise to him. Charlotte agreed to help her collect all the Divine Shards as they prepared to clear the dungeon together.

• Charlotte killed the monsters that rushed toward the group, and Una collected Divine Shards before leading herself and the two boys into the shelter.
• Una learned from a Golden Kite Academy teacher that Qian Nan and Penny were not academy students, then realized they had been left behind in the arena.
• Penny introduced herself to Charlotte as Zimmerman, and he hid his identity while hearing her describe Domitian as a Saint Rank killer.
• Zimmerman shed her Penny disguise and appeared as a woman resembling Madam Shirley, prompting Charlotte to suspect she had not recovered all her memories.
• Zimmerman told Charlotte she needed all the Divine Shards, and he agreed to cooperate with her.

Charlotte fought through the underground labyrinth with Zimmerman, advanced his Bloodthirsty Battle Qi to the third order, and gained the Eagle Strike rune. After they rested and discussed Zimmerman's past, they encountered a powerful sixth-order monster that Charlotte's guns could not harm, forcing him to draw his rapier.

• Charlotte and Zimmerman cleared more than ten groups of monsters, and Charlotte found a rapier and throwing knives while Zimmerman absorbed a Divine Shard and advanced to the fifth order.
• Charlotte's Bloodthirsty Battle Qi advanced to the third order and formed the Eagle Strike rune, greatly increasing his drawing speed.
• Zimmerman suggested a rest, shared water and bread with Charlotte, and told him that Aunt Morphy had raised him in the New Continent and taught him his unusual path of Transcendence.
• Charlotte and Zimmerman resumed fighting and killed four more groups of monsters before meeting a spiked, boar-like sixth-order Transcendent monster and its smaller companions.
• Charlotte's Magnum Hand Shuttles and ordinary bullets could not pierce the monster, so he put his guns away and drew the rapier.

Charlotte and Zimmerman fought through the dungeon, taking down a sixth-order monster and collecting Divine Shards while Charlotte absorbed the Malicious Intent rune. After several more battles, Zimmerman used the shards to advance to the sixth order, while a tiny silver snake watched Charlotte from a faint halo on his back.

• Charlotte and Zimmerman fought a sixth-order monster, with Zimmerman severing its hind leg and Charlotte blinding it before Zimmerman killed it with a Radiant secret art.
• Zimmerman took the monster's Divine Shards and gave Charlotte its rune, which Charlotte absorbed and identified as the race-independent Malicious Intent ability.
• More monsters gathered, so Charlotte and Zimmerman killed several groups before retreating to a secluded corner to recover.
• Charlotte inspected his damaged thrusting sword and considered using his throwing knives if it broke, while the tiny silver snake on his back watched him unnoticed.
• Charlotte and Zimmerman fought seven or eight more battles, and Zimmerman spent enough Divine Shards to advance to the sixth order.

Charlotte and Zimmerman continued fighting through the dungeon, where Charlotte used his Over-the-Back Red Bear Warrior form and Super Frenzy to defeat powerful monsters. During a rest, Charlotte’s Infinite Mirror World formed its seventh rune, Mirror Sage, whose appearance resembled Lady Black Moon and left him worried that he had somehow offended the Goddess.

• Charlotte transformed into an Over-the-Back Red Bear Warrior, gained the Frenzy rune, and combined it with Malicious Intent to enter Super Frenzy.
• Charlotte and Zimmerman killed groups of monsters as they advanced through the dungeon, while Charlotte worried that the increasingly powerful enemies would slow their progress.
• During a rest, Charlotte secretly cultivated Bloody Glory and formed the seventh Infinite Mirror World rune, Mirror Sage.
• Charlotte created a Magic Mirror and saw a seductive female sage whose face resembled Lady Black Moon.
• Charlotte stopped wondering why the Mirror Sage resembled the Goddess after his silver halo began emitting a dangerous aura, then transformed back into his bear form to feel safer.

Charlotte and Zimmerman continued clearing the underground City of Desolation, with Zimmerman advancing to Mid-Order Transcendence by consuming Divine Shards. When Frost Undead Knights threatened Zimmerman, Charlotte joined the fight and secretly collected the shards they dropped, leaving him with more than a hundred of his own.

• Zimmerman consumed two Divine Shards and advanced to Mid-Order Transcendence as he and Charlotte discussed their arrangement for clearing the dungeon.
• Charlotte fought off a group of giant, venom-spitting rats while Zimmerman admitted that he was afraid of them.
• Zimmerman attacked a squad of Frost Undead Knights, but their powerful leader and the surrounding knights overwhelmed him.
• Charlotte entered Super Frenzy to kill the ordinary Frost Undead Knights, then used Bloody Glory to destroy the three low-order transcendent knights he had lured away.
• Charlotte collected three Divine Shards from the remains and reflected that, unlike Zimmerman, he could not absorb shards quickly enough to advance immediately.

Charlotte found a third Magic Contract Document in the dungeon but had no suitable target for it. He and Zimmerman continued hunting monsters, and Charlotte advanced to the fourth Order, awakening Thick Skin.

• Charlotte helped Zimmerman kill a Mid-Order High Stage Frost Undead Knight, and Charlotte found a Magic Contract Document among the remains.
• Charlotte and Zimmerman discovered a nest of several hundred monsters and withdrew to rest before Charlotte secretly returned and slaughtered them alone.
• Charlotte brought Zimmerman a short spear he had obtained from the monster nest, and Zimmerman accepted it.
• After more than ten battles, Charlotte advanced to the fourth Order of Bloodthirsty Battle Qi and awakened Thick Skin.

Charlotte continued slaughtering monsters in the dungeon after Zimmerman left upon reaching the eighth rank, pushing his kill count beyond twenty thousand and growing stronger. While hunting a spider nest, he killed its scouting monster and its followers, then heard an angry woman demand to know why he had slaughtered her descendants.

• Charlotte agreed to stay with Zimmerman until he advanced another rank, and Zimmerman eventually reached the eighth rank and left the dungeon alone.
• Charlotte unleashed his eighteenth-rank Bloody Glory, surpassed ten thousand kills in a day, and later pushed his total beyond twenty thousand while condensing eighteen Hands of Blazing Flame.
• Charlotte found that wandering monsters were nearly gone and began studying one of the remaining nests, which was guarded by a gigantic eighteenth-rank spider and many Transcendent spiders.
• Charlotte prepared eighteen Blood Flame Demonic Guns and killed the spider monster that emerged to scout, along with the smaller spiders accompanying it.
• An angry woman's voice asked Charlotte why he had slaughtered her descendants.

Charlotte failed to subdue the giant spider nest through direct confrontation, then used mist and a temporary labyrinth to capture the nest and its leader in his diary. He met the Spider Queen and asked her name.

• Charlotte found an ancient longsword inside a giant spider's corpse, but it attacked him, so he shattered it and destroyed its consciousness.
• The spider leader used human-shaped cocoons as bait, but Charlotte discovered the people inside were dead and left to prepare another approach.
• Charlotte surveyed the remaining monster nests, replenished his lost Hands of Blazing Flame, and returned to the spider nest with a plan.
• Charlotte filled the nest with mist for several days, turned it into a temporary labyrinth, and wrote a story in his diary before activating Capture.
• The diary's power dragged the spider nest, its descendants, and its leader into the book, where Charlotte saw the Spider Queen and asked her name.

Charlotte sealed the remaining seven monster lairs into his diary, took control of the fourth labyrinth, and set sail for the fifth labyrinth on Aegean Island. He arrived at the island with his enormous fleet, terrifying its residents as he prepared to investigate the town Agmilas had Labyrinthized.

• Charlotte sealed the other seven monster lairs into his diary and reflected on his wish to live peacefully with Anne.
• Charlotte Labyrinthized the underground ruins and allowed them to remain the fourth branch venue of the Evil God Arena.
• Charlotte returned to his fleet and ordered it to sail along the newly appeared route.
• After less than two days, Charlotte's fleet reached Aegean Island, where Agmilas had Labyrinthized Tonystark Town.
• Charlotte prepared to investigate Tonystark Town, while the island's residents panicked at the sight of his fleet and fled, armed themselves, hid, or prayed.

Charlotte’s fleet frightened Aegean Island’s residents, so he went ashore and negotiated with Militia Captain Temple Robin to buy supplies peacefully. He introduced himself under a fabricated Farsian identity and arranged to tour the island with Temple as his guide.

• Charlotte had an Undead Saint Rank assure Aegean Island that his fleet came to replenish supplies, but the islanders remained terrified even after most of the Ghost Ships submerged.
• Charlotte gathered his officers aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, then took Andreus and Agon ashore to see Tony Stark Town and replenish provisions.
• Andreus praised the ship’s entertainment and urged Charlotte to let West Wind Knight Regiment members use it, so Charlotte decided to set rules for access.
• Charlotte stepped between his supply officers and the island militia, then asked the islanders to send someone to negotiate.
• Charlotte claimed to be a Level Five Chief Clerk and Minister Plenipotentiary of War, and Temple Robin identified himself as Aegean Island’s Militia Captain.
• Temple agreed to let Charlotte’s supply teams purchase provisions under militia escort and offered to guide him around the island.

Charlotte visited Aegean Island and discovered that Tony Stark Town had completed its Labyrinthization as soon as he tried to influence it. He remained suspicious of the seemingly simple labyrinth, while his people held a bonfire party with the islanders.

• Charlotte toured Aegean Island with Andreus and Agon, and Temple Robin asked how Charlotte had acquired so many Ghost Ships.
• Charlotte told Temple Robin that the Ghost Ships were spoils from a battle with a Ghost Fleet, and Temple Robin accepted that the visitors had not come to seize the island.
• Charlotte recognized that Tony Stark Town had been labyrinthized and judged the town’s Labyrinthization crude and easy to penetrate.
• Charlotte arranged a party to reassure the islanders and told Andreus that he had begun labyrinthizing Tony Stark Town.
• Charlotte learned that Tony Stark Town’s Labyrinthization had already finished, but he remained wary and decided the party should go ahead.
• Hundreds of sailors and Great Ling Demons held a bonfire party with Aegean Island’s residents, and the island’s young men eagerly approached the beautiful demons.

Charlotte secured Aegean Island’s support, built temples to the Serpent of Destiny, and recruited several hundred warriors before leading the fleet away. After days of sailing along the newly revealed route, he saw Aegean Island ahead again, leaving the fleet trapped in a looping labyrinth.

• Charlotte persuaded Temple Robin and the islanders to approve temples to the Serpent of Destiny, then oversaw their construction across Aegean Island.
• Charlotte built a Lantern Tower in Tony Stark Town, earning the residents’ goodwill.
• Charlotte recruited several hundred of Aegean Island’s warriors into his fleet, and Temple Robin joined to accompany them.
• After the fleet left the island, hundreds of Ghost Ships and all eleven Ancient Magic Ghost Warships emerged from the sea.
• Temple Robin saw the Holy Light Divine Kingdom swallow a huge fish and became frightened by the fleet.
• Charlotte led the fleet along the new route for six or seven days and found Aegean Island ahead once more.

Charlotte led his fleet through a succession of increasingly unsettling Aegean Islands until they escaped the Agres Sea, then decided to return alone and confront the weakened Agmilas. He sent Juno and the fleet back toward Black Phoenix City while taking the Dolmabahçe into the open ocean, staking everything on his faith in the Serpent of Destiny.

• Charlotte discovered that each new Aegean Island had different residents and no temples to the Nine Righteous Gods, but he sent Great Ling Demons ashore to establish contact.
• Charlotte repeatedly followed the same procedures at each successive island as the fleet crossed twenty-seven Aegean Islands and thirty-one labyrinths.
• Charlotte's fleet finally left the Agres Sea, and the crew celebrated their escape from the oppressive repetition.
• Charlotte told Juno that he had seen Agmilas's weakness and would return alone to challenge Him.
• Charlotte transferred the humans aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom to the Dolmabahçe and left Juno to take the fleet back to Black Phoenix City.
• Charlotte entered the open ocean aboard the Dolmabahçe, convinced that the Serpent of Destiny's gaze made his reckless gamble worthwhile.

Charlotte sailed alone into the Ferdinand Route and fought Agmilas’s Ishermerlun Palace and its Ghost Fleet with the Holy Light Divine Kingdom. As the battle continued through the night, Charlotte’s fleet grew, and the warship transformed into a gigantic whale.

• Georgiadi Hadrian led his fleet toward the New Continent, while Juno left Drusilla in command of the Swan Lake and followed Gareth toward the fight.
• Charlotte entered the Ferdinand Route and found Ishermerlun Palace surrounded by nearly a thousand Ghost Ships.
• Charlotte and the Holy Light Divine Kingdom attacked the Ghost Fleet, and Omibella’s blazing beam destroyed several ships before striking Ishermerlun Palace.
• Charlotte Labyrinthized Ghost Ships and fought for a day and night, while several enemy ships mysteriously sank and his controlled fleet grew to more than two hundred.
• As Ishermerlun Palace continued firing, Omibella vanished and the Holy Light Divine Kingdom transformed into a mountain-sized whale.