Chapter Summaries

Charlotte tried to cover Romios and Cresto’s retreat while holding off Zimmerman, but Zimmerman continued to outmaneuver them and severely wounded Cresto. After Charlotte recovered the Knight’s Lance from Wood Brandon, he caught up to see Cresto vanish from the battlefield.

• Zimmerman shattered Charlotte’s Magic Mirror and struck Menilman with a Great Radiant Cross Slash, sending her out of the battlefield.
• Charlotte ordered Romios and Cresto to retreat while he stayed behind to hold Zimmerman back.
• Zimmerman feinted past Charlotte and pursued Romios and Cresto, but Ishermerlun ambushed him with the Knight’s Lance and wounded him.
• Zimmerman shattered the Magic Mirror attached to him, ignited Ishermerlun with radiance, and hurled the Knight’s Lance toward Charlotte.
• Wood Brandon took hold of the Knight’s Lance, but released it when Charlotte approached; Charlotte reclaimed it and attacked, driving Wood Brandon into the Mirror World.
• Charlotte caught up to Zimmerman and saw him severely wound Cresto, who vanished from the battlefield.

Charlotte pursued the wounded Zimmerman to Manise, where he infiltrated the imperial palace and found the sleeping girl Zimmerman in the Old Emperor’s bedchamber. He concluded Zimmerman had not yet been born, then discovered and claimed the Emerald Scroll.

• Zimmerman abandoned his fight with Charlotte and flew toward Manise, so Charlotte sent Romios back to the ship and followed through the Mirror World.
• Charlotte reached Manise, where his Bloodthirsty Battle Qi advanced to the ninth rank and his beastman forms gained new supernatural runes.
• Charlotte entered the imperial palace and found dozens of Tree God Emissaries growing motionless inside it.
• Charlotte discovered the sleeping girl Zimmerman in the Old Emperor’s bedchamber and concluded that killing her would bring Zimmerman out before his birth.
• Charlotte spotted the Emerald Scroll by the girl’s feet and used his Blood Flame Qi to draw it into his hands.

Charlotte opened the Emerald Scroll and entered the Great Library of Emerald, where he chose to absorb all its knowledge. After his All-Knowing Runes multiplied and he endured the infusion, Sage Moni appeared and asked for his name.

• Charlotte returned to the Holy Light Divine Kingdom and announced he would enter seclusion, while Romios learned that the expedition had suffered heavy losses.
• Sophia Garland celebrated Menilman Soumei and Mei Guillaume withdrawing from the battle, while Adora wondered how the contest to bear Charlotte's descendants had shifted to her and Sophia.
• Charlotte discovered that the Emerald Scroll required knowledge in exchange, wrote equations on it, and entered the Great Library of Emerald.
• Charlotte rejected the library manager's warnings and asked to receive all the library's knowledge.
• Charlotte's two All-Knowing Runes absorbed the knowledge and split into four, allowing him to withstand the infusion and astonish the library's inhabitants.
• Moni appeared and asked Charlotte to tell him his name.

Charlot encountered Mani, who explained how he had become the Eyes of Destiny and described the obstacles to reaching God Rank. Charlot then considered whether a divine authority could help the handsome administrator ascend.

• Charlot told Mani that he had destroyed the Eyes of Destiny by confronting them with mathematics test papers.
• Mani struggled to solve Charlot's problems and made him a Sage of the Great Emerald Library, granting him several privileges.
• Charlot asked how Mani became the Eyes of Destiny, and Mani explained that he had placed his consciousness in the Emerald Scroll and cast out its corrupted portions.
• Mani described the obstacles to God Rank and said Zimmerman might eventually become a God Rank enemy.
• Charlot asked the handsome administrator whether he had an authority, then offered to let him try Charlot's own authority.

Charlotte enlisted Hermes to compile a book of games and gambling techniques, hoping to establish him as the God of Gambling and Games. After Hermes gained divine authority, Charlotte republished his novels with a story assigning Hermes a role as one of the Serpent of Destiny’s subordinate deities, and considered how he might use this to surprise Zimmerman.

• Charlotte described Snake Cards to the administrator and learned that he was Hermes, founder of Classic Alchemy.
• Charlotte proposed Hermes Cards and other games, asking Hermes to compile them into a book that could help him gain the divine authority of the God of Gambling and Games.
• Hermes agreed after Charlotte promised to publish the book widely and add the story to his novels.
• After Charlotte left, Hermes and the ancient alchemists played Snake Cards until Hermes manifested the divine authority of the God of Gambling and Games.
• Charlotte arranged for his revised novels to be sold across the Old Continent and added a story portraying Hermes as a subordinate deity of the Serpent of Destiny.

After recovering, Charlotte revised Bloody Glory into a plan for mass-producing vampire eunuchs and helped integrate the New Continent Council’s Saint Ranks into his forces. As Mason’s campaign spread, he sent Romios and two Saint Ranks to aid Modova, while he turned his attention to identifying the leaders of the other two rebellious immigrant factions.

• Princess Mei returned to Inglima to enter seclusion, Menilman departed without saying goodbye, and Charlotte took Cresto back to the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.
• Charlotte used knowledge from the Great Library of Emerald to redesign Bloody Glory as a set of stackable basic abilities for quickly cultivating mass-produced vampires.
• Mason’s army conquered three countries, while Count Constantine’s forces halted the Gotlandsburg army at Sherr City and the Parmas royal family fled to Modova.
• After Anne and Arsène Lupin Robin requested help for Modova, Charlotte sent Romios and two Saint Ranks to reinforce the country.
• The remaining New Continent Council Saint Ranks integrated into Charlotte’s team aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and Charlotte sought to learn who controlled the two immigrant factions beyond Zimmerman’s.

Charlotte considered how to stop Zimmerman, whose true body might be on the New Continent, as the Old Continent’s nations reconciled and prepared to face the immigrant armies. The chapter ended with Charlotte and Sophia Garland weighing how to find and destroy Zimmerman’s true body.

• New Continent immigrant armies threatened the Old Continent, prompting Byron and the three great empires to sign agreements and prepare for war.
• Charlotte rejected alliance requests from nations that had failed to aid Duke Mecklen's Territory when it was attacked.
• Sophia Garland brought Charlotte lunch and reminded him that the war concerned every nation on the Old Continent.
• Charlotte told Sophia Garland that Zimmerman might have completed most trials for divine rank, leaving his true body as a possible weakness.
• Sophia Garland suggested Zimmerman’s true body was likely on the New Continent, and Charlotte fell into deep thought.

Charlotte considered what could make a god’s true body eternal and indestructible, then discussed the Old Continent’s war and the possible involvement of Blood Progenitors with Sophia Garland. Their conversation continued over dinner at a café aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, where they encountered Golden Goat Herolf.

• Charlotte concluded that a god’s true body needed to unite an eternal substance with an imperishable concept, and he reassured Sophia Garland that the Nine Great Righteous Gods might bring new developments.
• Charlotte and Sophia Garland discussed the war, with Charlotte arguing that Byron could endure the conflict and might have hidden support from Blood Progenitors if the New Continent threatened its survival.
• Charlotte recalled that he had found no evidence linking the fallen Agmilas to the Vangogh Clan, leaving the presence of Blood Progenitors among the New Continent’s evil gods unconfirmed.
• Charlotte invited Sophia Garland to dinner at a café aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, and she accepted.
• Charlotte and Sophia Garland arrived at the café and found Golden Goat Herolf drinking coffee with two Great Ling Demons.

Charlotte learned that Agon had secretly advanced to the Twenty-third Order and told him to use the Dragon Hammer, warning that Saint Rank Supernatural Artifacts might soon become widely available. The conversation left Agon unsettled about the relic’s value and his standing among Charlotte’s increasingly powerful subordinates.

• Charlotte learned from Golden Goat Herolf that Agon had advanced in secret and urged Herolf not to brood over his inability to advance.
• Herolf admitted he had more than a dozen illegitimate children and had recently begun thinking about raising them.
• Charlotte reflected on the complicated children and relationships in his own life while eating with Sophia Garland.
• Agon and Qudero arrived at the café, and Charlotte asked Agon whether he had advanced to the Twenty-third Order.
• Agon confirmed he had advanced a month earlier, and Charlotte told him to use the Dragon Hammer before it became obsolete because the Emerald Scroll might make Saint Rank Supernatural Artifacts widely available.
• Agon regretted his earlier caution and felt miserable as he considered the Dragon Hammer’s future and his place among Charlotte’s powerful subordinates.

Charlotte found that Emilia could consume the sinister plants covering the Mason Kingdom, giving him a way to feed her and a plan to clear the land. He began removing trees and protected the cleared ground with Labyrinthization, leaving the people aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom about to be recruited for extensive clearing work.

• After escorting Sophia Garland to her cabin, Charlotte visited Emilia and heard that she was lonely without company.
• Charlotte offered to bring Emilia Ghost Crewmembers, but, worried she might eat them, proposed Mason Kingdom residents transformed into plants instead.
• Charlotte and Gareth uprooted trees and threw them onto the Emilia, where Emilia consumed them and confirmed she could digest their power.
• Charlotte realized the sinister plants could be used as an abundant food source for Emilia and began clearing the shore with Gareth.
• Charlotte used Labyrinthization to protect the cleared land, then planned to have everyone help clear plants the next morning.

Charlotte secured a harbor in the Mason Kingdom and brought in West Wind Knight Regiment soldiers and new alchemical weapons to clear the sinister plants. As his forces began cutting down the trees, Zimmerman awakened in Manise City and raised an army of Tree God Emissaries.

• Charlotte used the Holy Light Divine Kingdom to clear several square kilometers of shoreline, then stopped using his Saint Ranks as laborers after recovering a harbor.
• A fleet delivered ten thousand West Wind Knight Regiment soldiers, thirty thousand support personnel, twelve Land Dreadnoughts, and over a hundred Centaurs.
• Charlotte deployed the soldiers and alchemical weapons to cut down trees across the cleared land.
• Zimmerman awakened in the imperial palace and said Charlotte's tree-cutting plan would take decades to finish.
• Zimmerman called on his Tree God Emissaries to awaken as Evil Spirits gathered toward the palace and formed an army.

Charlotte organized Modova to absorb refugees by forming the Fallen Kingdom Knight Regiment to reclaim deserted islands in the Agres Sea, while preparing to defend the territory from Zimmerman. Less than a month after Charlotte arrived, Zimmerman sent twenty Tree God Emissaries toward Modova, and Charlotte led his forces to meet them at the Gandis Mountains.

• Zimmerman conquered six countries in a month, prompting the Old Continent's nations to form an alliance, while Saint Lumiel maintained neutrality.
• Charlotte went to Brittanyburg to settle disputes among the allied commanders and manage the influx of refugees into Modova.
• Charlotte created the Fallen Kingdom Knight Regiment, assigning refugees to reclaim deserted islands in the Agres Sea in exchange for food and shelter.
• Brunhild Asa asked Charlotte to accept refugees driven from Byron and promised supplies in return, and Charlotte agreed.
• Charlotte received word that twenty Tree God Emissaries were approaching Modova and led his subordinates to the Gandis Mountains.

Charlotte tested the Land Dreadnoughts and Centurions against the Tree God’s forces, then directed the West Wind Knight Regiment’s Saint Ranks in coordinated attacks. The battle turned into a one-sided hunt for the Tree God Emissaries, while their corpses disappeared aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.

• Charlotte deployed Land Dreadnoughts and Centurions, whose defenses held against the Tree God Emissaries but whose rifles could not harm them.
• The Land Dreadnoughts’ crimson radiance weakened the Plant-Transformed Warriors, and the Centurions cut through their ranks before the warriors broke past the line.
• Charlotte sent the West Wind Knight Regiment forward and coordinated dozens of Saint Ranks against the Tree God Emissaries.
• After a Tree God Emissary fell, a young man covered in eyeballs caught its corpse aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, where it vanished.
• Agon and four other Saint Ranks smashed another Tree God Emissary, and Dapochilodo subdued and devoured it aboard the Holy Light Divine Kingdom.
• Charlotte’s Saint Ranks used coordinated attacks to knock another Tree God Emissary from the sky, leaving Arsène Lupin stunned by the slaughter.

After the Evil Spirit army retreated, Charlotte returned to Brittanyburg and reorganized the allied troops while learning that Juno had driven Zimmerman back at Sherr City. Juno warned him that Zimmerman was only at the Twenty-first Order and could become far more dangerous once he recovered his strength.

• Charlotte ended the pursuit through the Gandis Mountains and withdrew his army to Brittanyburg after the West Wind Knight Regiment defeated the seventh Tree God Emissary.
• Charlotte told Andreus that Land Dreadnoughts and Centurions supported Saint Ranks, then left a force to guard the mountains.
• When a Byron commander protested that his troops had missed the fighting, Charlotte sent him to hold the Gandis Mountains, and he integrated troops from other nations into the West Wind Knight Regiment.
• Charlotte learned that Zimmerman had joined another migrant army at Sherr City and that Juno had intercepted him and won their battle.
• Juno told Charlotte that Zimmerman was only at the Twenty-first Order and could surpass him if he recovered to the Twenty-second or Twenty-third Order, or returned to the peak of Saint Rank.

Charlot learned that Juno and Zimmerman considered him one of the Old Continent’s most gifted young people, then watched Juno fight Zimmerman in a Dreamscape. He traveled to Sherr City hoping to kill Zimmerman and arrived to find an old mage already fighting him at an advantage.

• Juno sent Charlot a letter containing a Dreamscape in which Zimmerman called Charlot his greatest rival, while Juno praised Charlot’s talent before the allied forces.
• Charlot watched Juno battle Zimmerman with the Blood Demon Spear; Juno gained the upper hand, and Zimmerman withdrew after being struck by three Blood Energy Bullets.
• Charlot realized Juno had sent the Dreamscape to teach him how to fight Zimmerman and show him Zimmerman’s strength.
• After making arrangements for Modova, Charlot flew alone to Sherr City, intending to try to kill Zimmerman there.
• On reaching Sherr City, Charlot saw Zimmerman struggling against an old man in white robes whose chaotic spells gave him the advantage.

The chapter recounted the miraculous life of Don Quixote Cervantes, the legendary founder of Lionheart Castle University of Necromancy and Alchemy who later became a murderous criminal. It revealed that Great Philosopher Borozhe was one of Cervantes’s six direct disciples and the disciple who reported him.

• The narrator described Great Philosopher Borozhe as the Lionheart Dynasty’s foremost powerhouse and the only living Great Philosopher.
• The chapter recounted how Don Quixote Cervantes rose from a slow-witted boy and bestselling novelist to a celebrated swordsman and founder of Lionheart Castle University of Necromancy and Alchemy.
• Cervantes secretly slaughtered more than a thousand people in the university’s laboratories, and his beloved disciple exposed his crimes.
• Cervantes defeated a thousand imperial soldiers, killed the Empress and Crown Prince, drank tea in front of the Emperor, and then vanished.
• The chapter revealed that Borozhe was one of Cervantes’s six direct disciples and the one who reported him.

Charlotte encountered Zimmerman in the sky, where they fought over the Emerald Scroll while Borozhe prepared layered defensive Magic Arrays. Charlotte escaped to Sherr City and reunited with Antonio, the Old Emperor, and Princess Axo.

• Zimmerman broke away from his fight with Borozhe and attacked Charlotte, demanding that he return the Emerald Scroll.
• Charlotte denied having the scroll and used his agility and ranged attacks to keep Zimmerman at a distance.
• Borozhe chanted to erect a defensive Magic Array, then began another chant as Zimmerman tried to withdraw.
• Charlotte delayed Zimmerman with the Red and Blue Rattlesnakes until Borozhe's second defensive Magic Array appeared, then fled toward Sherr City.
• Charlotte met Antonio in Sherr City, and Antonio brought him to see the Old Emperor and Princess Axo.

Charlotte visited the Fars and Byron military encampments, where he discussed the war, Zimmerman, and the growing threat posed by powerful beings. He reunited with Julian, who invited him to dinner in the Inglima military district.

• The Old Emperor spoke warmly with Charlotte about postponed weddings and lamented the war, while Princess Axo asked what Zimmerman was planning.
• Charlotte learned that Anne was handling government affairs in Strasbourg and was doing well.
• Charlotte visited Byron's military district and asked Count Constantine about Zimmerman, then agreed to deliver Constantine's rapier to Andreus and keep him safe.
• Count Constantine told Charlotte that Juno had left to seek a way to defeat Zimmerman.
• Charlotte reunited with Julian, learned that he had advanced to Saint Rank, and accepted his invitation to eat in the Inglima military district.

Charlotte met with Julian and Ban Lamorak in Sherr City, where they discussed their abilities, the war, and Charlotte’s Centurions. After giving each friend a Centurion, Charlotte was greeted by Crown Prince Brunhild Asa.

• Julian brought Charlotte to a restaurant and summoned Ban Lamorak.
• Ban Lamorak spoke of wanting to challenge Zimmerman, and Charlotte learned that abilities had known limits before God Rank.
• Charlotte, Julian, and Ban Lamorak discussed the war and the troubled state of several empires.
• Charlotte brought out two Centurions and gave one each to Julian and Ban Lamorak.
• Brunhild Asa entered the restaurant and asked Charlotte why he had not visited him first.

Charlotte met with Brunhild, Julian, and Ban Lamorak, who brought news that the evil gods of the New Continent were joining forces and approaching the Old Continent. After discussing the threat and the need for help from the Nine Righteous Gods, Charlotte returned to the Fars camp, where an unexpected visitor appeared the next morning.

• Brunhild told Charlotte, Julian, and Ban Lamorak that the evil gods were coming in force and that enormous creatures had been seen heading toward the Old Continent.
• Charlotte brought the group to his Mirror World, where they discussed the invasion and the possibility of support from the Nine Righteous Gods.
• Charlotte saw Brunhild, Julian, and Ban Lamorak off after several hours of conversation and returned to the Fars military encampment.
• Charlotte spent the night in a grocer's shop requisitioned for his lodging, and an unexpected visitor arrived the next morning.