Chapter Summaries

Charlotte learned that New Continent forces had seized most of Duke Mecklen's Territory and were threatening Black Phoenix City, where Anne and his other companions were gathered. He sailed for the city with Menilman and her warships, determined to reclaim his home.

• Menilman told Charlotte that rebellions and renewed conflicts had left the Four Great Empires unable to intervene in Duke Mecklen's Territory.
• Menilman explained that the New Continent Council, with at least twenty Saint Ranks and tens of thousands of soldiers, had occupied most of the territory and was besieging Black Phoenix City.
• Charlotte learned that Anne, May Guillaume, and Sophia Garland were in Black Phoenix City and decided to go there immediately.
• Menilman joined Charlotte with three Magic Alchemical Warships, and his fleet set sail for Black Phoenix City.
• Black Phoenix City remained under fierce attack despite its Saint Rank defenders, reinforcements from the Four Great Empires, Duchess Mesu, and the Fars navy.

Anne Brittany defended Black Phoenix City against the New Continent Council after its forces seized Charlotte Mecklen’s territory. As the city held out under siege, a fleet appeared from the sea.

• New Continent forces invaded Charlotte Mecklen’s territory, and Anastasia, Dobbin, and the West Wind Knight Regiment retreated in an orderly fashion.
• Anne Brittany brought Nanny Karen, Kreil Brittany, and Abner Soumei to aid the defense, evacuated supplies, and withdrew the remaining troops to Black Phoenix City.
• Anne gathered support from Charlotte’s allies, while Sophia Garland commanded the fleet and Princess Mei Guillaume and Adora Mesu helped defend the city.
• Montblanc demanded Black Phoenix City’s surrender and threatened its people, but Anne forbade her forces from taking his bait and vowed to make the invaders pay when Charlotte returned.
• Montblanc and another New Continent Council leader discussed claiming the women in the city as spoils, then a fleet sailed toward Black Phoenix City.

Charlotte arrived at Black Phoenix City with a powerful fleet, while the defenders mistook his ships for an enemy force and feared the city was doomed. After Montblanc offered him a duel and threatened to claim the women of Black Phoenix City, Charlotte accepted and rose into the air.

• Sophia told Anne she loved Charlotte and urged her to flee with Mesu while Sophia stayed to resist the overwhelming fleet.
• Black Dragon recognized one of the approaching ships as the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and someone identified another as the Dolmabahçe.
• Charlotte ordered the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and Emilia to lead the fleet through the New Continent Alliance ships, forcing them to move aside.
• Juno told Charlotte that two New Continent Saint Rank experts were discussing how to divide up Anne, and Charlotte's anger grew as Montblanc confirmed the threat.
• Montblanc challenged Charlotte to a duel, offering to return Duke Mecklen's Territory if Charlotte won and demanding the city's women if he lost.
• Charlotte accepted Montblanc's challenge and rose into the air.

Charlotte killed three New Continent Saint Rankers who ambushed him, then ordered Emilia to devour the enemy forces outside the city and leave no survivors. Emilia’s kick sent Montblanc onto a ship where Gareth confronted him, and Montblanc learned that only Emilia could let him leave.

• Charlotte used his enhanced speed and secret arts to kill three New Continent Saint Rankers who attacked him.
• Charlotte told Emilia to use the city as the boundary, eat the enemies outside it, and leave no survivors.
• Emilia kicked Montblanc onto a ship, where a strange force prevented him from taking off.
• Gareth fought Montblanc and identified himself as Charlotte Mecklen’s eldest son.
• Montblanc asked Emilia to let him leave, while she offered Gareth a piece of her food and disparaged the Twenty-third Order.

Charlotte and his Saint Rank allies turned the battle against the New Continent Council, while Avish and Merchel tried to negotiate a ceasefire. The chapter ended with Avish offering fifty cities and a non-aggression pact just as Emilia began eating Montblanc.

• Charlotte struck down one New Continent Saint Rank expert and forced several others back before his allies joined the fight.
• Charlotte restored his Bloody Glory, strengthened his Agility Technique and Blazing Roaring Bullet, and learned to fly freely.
• Avish and Merchel joined the battle, but Kratos engaged Avish while Menilman and Cresto fought Merchel.
• After learning that Charlotte had returned with powerful allies and Montblanc had been trapped, Avish offered to withdraw in exchange for Montblanc, but Charlotte refused to answer.
• Merchel warned Avish that the Council risked being wiped out, so Avish offered fifty cities and a non-aggression pact.
• Emilia began eating Montblanc as Avish made his offer.

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.