Chapter Summaries

Charlotte and Dorothy went to the Central Government Office to register the Lucavaro District City Patrol as a Free Knight Regiment. They named it the West Wind Knight Regiment, and Charlotte requested a registration term of 999.

• Dorothy told Charlotte they needed to register a Knight Order, and the two left for the Central Government Office.
• Charlotte ran into his former colleague Edgar, who bragged about his coming promotion and fawned over Dorothy before they moved on.
• Charlotte paid a clerk in the Military Affairs Knight Order Division to process their application and supplied the required documents and information.
• Charlotte named the Knight Order the West Wind Knight Regiment, and Dorothy told him he owed her a favor.
• When the clerk asked for the registration term, Charlotte answered, "Nine hundred and ninety-nine!"

Charlotte and Dorothy went to Gorgia University, where Dorothy explained that she had become God-Pledged to escape her family’s arranged marriages. The chapter left Charlotte understanding why she had chosen a life bound by religious vows.

• Charlotte accepted the Free Knight Regiment’s registration documents after an unspoken understanding with the middle-aged clerk.
• Charlotte and Dorothy rode to Gorgia University, and Dorothy used her permanent access pass to enter the grounds.
• Dorothy told Charlotte she had sworn before the Goddess never to marry and had become God-Pledged after her family tried to arrange a match with Zimmerman Axel Robin.
• Charlotte explained that his eldest brother ran the family and imagined Dorothy sympathizing with his supposed mistreatment.
• Charlotte described the vows and restrictions of being God-Pledged, including the consequences of renouncing the status.

Charlotte defeated a stream of Gorgia University students who challenged him over Anne, then discovered the second movement of House of Asilo’s swordsmanship, Dawn Sky. The next day, he hosted Louis Smythe, who arrived impressed by Charlotte’s recent rise and regretted not investing more in their relationship.

• Hans challenged Charlotte to a duel over his involvement with Anne and Dorothy, but Charlotte defeated him with the Sea Serpent Kick.
• Twenty-two more Gorgia University students challenged Charlotte for Anne, and he defeated all of them before Anne joined him and they went to the opera.
• Charlotte told Madam Nancy to prepare a roast dinner for Louis Smythe, then cultivated his Bloody Runes and awakened Dawn Sky, the second of the Twelve Angelic Movements.
• Charlotte invited Louis Smythe to dinner, and the merchant arrived more enthusiastic after learning of Charlotte’s recent achievements and new imperial rank.

Charlotte invited Louis Smythe to dinner, asked how to improve his chances of surviving the battlefield, and received a Divine Steed as a gift. The next day, Charlotte wrote two wills, sending one to Anne Brittany and burning the other at the temple of the Lord of Radiance.

• Charlotte invited Louis Smythe to share Madam Umeboshi Sauce’s New Continent barbecue and asked him about battlefield protection.
• Louis Smythe advised Charlotte to make a will and burn one at the temple of the Lord of Radiance to receive the god’s blessing.
• Charlotte gave Louis Smythe his charcoal-roasted coffee recipe, and Louis presented him with a pair of Divine Steed leg guards.
• Charlotte wrote two wills, leaving half his property to Anne Brittany and dividing the rest between his elder brother and elder sister.
• Charlotte personally took the second will to the temple of the Lord of Radiance to be burned.

Charlotte led the newly renamed West Wind Knight Regiment out of Strasbourg toward the Duchy of Behemoth, where he tried to keep its reluctant members calm and organized. After Doll Sister and Yellow Bear joined the march, Charlotte discovered that Doll Sister had secretly followed him during his inspection.

• Charlotte left Strasbourg with the West Wind Knight Regiment after receiving orders to set out, and Doll Sister and Yellow Bear caught up to request membership.
• Charlotte announced that the City Patrol had been reorganized as the West Wind Knight Regiment and reassured its uneasy members that they were going to garrison the Duchy of Behemoth, not fight at the front.
• Charlotte appointed Dorothy deputy commander, Dobbin logistics officer, and Doll Sister and Yellow Bear commanders of two Whirlwind Squads.
• Charlotte learned that Doll Sister wanted to become an Imperial noble and Yellow Bear wanted a respectable, stable job, then inspected the camp after dinner.
• Charlotte called for Frederica outside the camp, and Doll Sister revealed herself, explaining that she had followed him while disguised.

Charlotte confronted Frederica, the Leopard Girl assassin disguised as Doll Sister, and agreed to help her escape Strasbourg in exchange for a secret. Her revelation that noble families were moving against Menilman Sumay left Charlotte realizing he had become entangled in a dangerous political conflict.

• Charlotte recognized that Frederica carried a pistol matching the model whose supply he had destroyed, then summoned Blood Rose and challenged her to resist.
• Frederica admitted that she had arranged for the assassins to attack Ferdinand's coffin after it left Charlotte's jurisdiction and offered him a secret in exchange for help escaping Strasbourg.
• Frederica revealed that several great noble families were targeting Menilman Sumay because Zimmerman Axel Robin had killed their relatives in duels.
• Charlotte recognized that he already knew the identities of the families involved and realized Menilman and Dorothy Soumei had been drawn into political schemes connected to his position.
• Charlotte asked whether Frederica had killed the real Doll Sister, and Frederica explained that she had only knocked her out and tied her up.

Charlotte brought the West Wind Knight Regiment to Machu Picchu, established a second labyrinth, and kept the troops there while they gathered supplies and settled in. After avenging Hannah, he tracked down Lord Leo’s two servants to kill them and strengthen himself.

• Charlotte led the dwindling West Wind Knight Regiment to Machu Picchu, where the troops became NPCs and enabled him to establish a second labyrinth.
• Charlotte learned the double labyrinth would take eighteen days to complete, provide greater control over NPCs, and help him track nearby deserters, so he camped at Machu Picchu instead of continuing toward the Duchy of Behemoth.
• Charlotte sent combat squads to requisition grain and seeds, then organized the Knight Order to clear wasteland for future planting.
• Charlotte visited Hannah’s grave and destroyed the trapped monster, fulfilling his promise to avenge her.
• Charlotte located Lord Leo’s two mid-order servants and vanished to attack them with Blood Rose.

Charlotte ambushed one of Lord Leo’s blood servants, but the servant’s marked life force poisoned him when he absorbed it. With no way to purge the poison, Charlotte began creating House of Arthur’s Blood Kindred True Word Technique and received an insight from a mysterious will in the Endless Void.

• Charlotte watched Lord Leo’s weakened servants and confirmed they were not true vampires.
• Charlotte separated the servants, then killed one with the Vampire Hand Axe and absorbed his vital essence.
• The servant’s life force ravaged Charlotte, and he discovered that House of Arthur’s Primal Blood Boiling caused the dangerous backlash.
• Charlotte tried to open a sixth Bloody Vortex and create the Blood Kindred True Word Technique rune, but repeatedly failed and spat out corrosive black blood.
• A voice from the Endless Void warned Charlotte, and a will entered his mind, giving him an insight that made the rune’s structure clear.

Charlotte reached Tier Six, gained the rune for the Blood Kindred True Word Technique, and began waiting in Machu Picchu for a second labyrinth layer to form. His strict food rationing and the fortress’s shifting paths pushed the West Wind Knight Regiment to the brink of riot.

• Charlotte stabilized his sixth Bloody Vortex, recognized the black-covered book as a Blood Kindred evil god, and advanced to Tier Six.
• Charlotte failed to defeat Lord Leo's remaining Blood Servant, whose Blood Butcher training let him block the Vampire Hand Axe.
• Charlotte returned to camp and ordered the West Wind Knight Regiment to stay in Machu Picchu for eighteen days, rationing their food while he waited for the second labyrinth layer.
• Dorothy organized an all-female unit and, along with Dobbin, Yellow Bear, and Frederica, struggled to keep the hungry regiment under control as people became lost inside the fortress.
• When the grain-requisition teams could no longer leave, the regiment erupted into fights and surrounded its leaders, with Dorothy preparing to escape as the crowd threatened to seize them.

Charlotte completed the second-stage Labyrinthization of Machu Picchu, used the fortress to bring the West Wind Knight Regiment out safely, and left Mason and Hermontha behind to begin rebuilding it. After cultivating the Spirit Spider Technique and setting out for the Duchy of Behemoth, he learned that two armies were fighting ahead and that one had been defeated.

• Charlotte ordered the West Wind Knight Regiment members to gather at the Gate of Homer, raised stone walls to separate the holdouts, and opened a passage for everyone who raised a hand.
• Charlotte left Mason, Hermontha, and a hundred people in Machu Picchu to rebuild the fortress, then led the West Wind Knight Regiment toward the Duchy of Behemoth.
• Charlotte read his diary and reflected on his labyrinth abilities before noting that he had cultivated the Spirit Spider Technique after eighteen days in Machu Picchu.
• A scout reported that two armies were fighting ahead, and Charlotte sent out more scouts to find a route around them.
• The sound of battle cries erupted ahead, and Frederica recognized that one army had been defeated and the other was pursuing it.

Charlotte recognized the fleeing Yahoo Knight Regiment and the pursuing force as Byronian cavalry, then prepared the West Wind Knight Regiment to avoid being overrun. When the deserters rushed toward his lines, he ordered his troops to hold formation and force them around the camp.

• Frederica warned Charlotte that changing formation would cause the West Wind Knight Regiment to collapse, so he ordered a tight defensive formation.
• Charlotte recognized Baron Filer's Yahoo Knight Regiment among the fleeing soldiers and identified their pursuers as elite Byronian cavalry.
• Charlotte feared the Byronians would target him for cultivating Bloody Glory, so he armed himself with rifles and loaded Demon-Breaking Armor-Piercing Bullets.
• Dobbin reported that the enemy had two thousand men and only one cavalry force, while Madame Nansera's troops were weak.
• When the Yahoo Knight Regiment's deserters rushed toward his lines, Charlotte ordered his men to make them go around and sent Yellow Bear with five hundred men to intercept them.

Charlotte’s West Wind Knight Regiment struggled to control routed troops before Byron cavalry challenged them to a commander’s duel. The Blood Butcher launched a charge, and Charlotte fired his Anti-Space Long-Range Rifle as the veteran Knight advanced under his Proof of War.

• Charlotte ordered his three hundred riflemen to fire warning volleys at routed soldiers who charged toward the West Wind Knight Regiment.
• Yellow Bear intercepted fleeing soldiers and used force to gather most of the routed troops together.
• Byron cavalry stopped within rifle range, and Charlotte met their commander on the battlefield after ordering his men not to fire without command.
• The opposing commander identified himself as a South Seraph Restorationist and declared that his war against Behemoth had nothing to do with Fars.
• The Blood Butcher ordered his cavalry to charge, leaving Charlotte’s troops unable to shoot without risking their commander.
• Charlotte raised the Anti-Space Long-Range Rifle and fired as the Blood Butcher charged under his battle aura and Proof of War.

Charlotte led the West Wind Knight Regiment against the Byronian cavalry after killing their commander, and the battle turned into a rout of the Byronians. He unlocked a faint golden blade aura through Bloody Glory and ended the fight by cutting through a Blood Butcher and his iron shield, leaving no enemy standing.

• Charlotte shot the charging South Seraph restoration knight with a Demon-Breaking Armor-Piercing Bullet and killed him.
• Charlotte rallied the West Wind Knight Regiment to charge, then shot several Byronian knights before joining the melee.
• Dorothy used a Gale card to blind the charging Byronians as the armies collided, while Frederica fought on the front lines and Yellow Bear gathered troops in the rear.
• Charlotte and the West Wind Knight Regiment overwhelmed the Byronian cavalry, killing or wounding more than half of the nearly two hundred knights.
• Charlotte fought a defensive Blood Butcher, and Bloody Glory awakened a faint golden blade aura on Blood Rose.
• Charlotte split the Blood Butcher and his iron shield with one strike, then found no enemies still standing.

After defeating Byron’s Knight Order, Charlotte tried to avoid further fighting, but he absorbed Baron Filer’s scattered Yahoo Knight Regiment and killed its deputy when the man challenged his authority. The chapter left Charlotte asserting control over the enlarged West Wind Knight Regiment as its members joined Yellow Bear in proclaiming him their sole commander.

• After the West Wind Knight Regiment celebrated its victory, Charlotte ordered his men to clear the battlefield and sent Dobbin ahead with scouts, telling him not to engage before the main force arrived.
• Charlotte gathered more than five thousand defeated soldiers from the Duchy of Behemoth and incorporated them into the West Wind Knight Regiment.
• A deputy of the Yahoo Knight Regiment demanded that Charlotte return command and recover Baron Filer’s body, and Charlotte shot him dead with the Anti-Space Long-Range Rifle.
• Charlotte declared that the West Wind Knight Regiment could have only one voice, and Yellow Bear led the soldiers in shouting that it was Charlotte Mecklenburg’s voice.
• The Yahoo Knight Regiment’s defeated soldiers fell silent and accepted Charlotte’s authority as the West Wind Knight Regiment’s members rallied around him.

Charlotte reorganized the defeated forces into the West Wind Knight Regiment and marched into the Duchy of Behemoth, while desertions and dwindling supplies reduced his army. After sending Grand Duke Joseph an embellished battle report demanding aid, Charlotte learned Joseph was campaigning against Nansera Territory and that the duchess had assigned him Baron Filer’s Silver Doveburg instead of the capital.

• Charlotte reorganized the defeated Yahoo Knight Regiment and assigned more than two thousand surrendered Madame Nansera to his expanded force.
• Charlotte learned Baron Filer had secretly planned to invade Nansera Territory through Fars, but his Madame Nansera lover exposed his route, prompting the South Seraph Restorationists to intercept him.
• Charlotte collected supplies and warhorses, but thousands deserted during the march, leaving the West Wind Knight Regiment with just over six thousand men when it reached the Duchy of Behemoth.
• Charlotte sent Grand Duke Joseph a misleading battle report that omitted his incorporation of the Yahoo Knight Regiment and surrendering enemies while requesting supplies, reinforcements, and a garrison.
• Charlotte received a reply from Grand Duke Joseph’s wife stating Joseph was fighting in Nansera Territory and assigning the West Wind Knight Regiment to Baron Filer’s Silver Doveburg rather than Mostarburg.

Charlotte and the West Wind Knight Regiment arrived at Silver Doveburg, where Baroness Fiel welcomed him coldly and assigned the troops to the barracks. As Charlotte went to explore the city with Dorothy and Frederica, he learned that Frederica had been a celebrated senior at Gorgia University and was known as the Forest Goddess.

• Charlotte arrived in Silver Doveburg and awkwardly refused Baroness Fiel’s hand, then defused the insult with a joke about his bad breath.
• Baroness Fiel assigned Charlotte’s troops to the city barracks and left without hosting the planned banquet.
• Charlotte toured Silver Doveburg with Dobbin, then agreed to explore its local food and ale with Dorothy.
• Frederica joined Charlotte and Dorothy, and Dorothy revealed that Frederica had studied at Gorgia University and graduated two years before her.
• Dorothy told Charlotte that Frederica had been famous at university as the Forest Goddess, whose leopard form was associated with hunting and cultivating plants.

Charlotte reflected on the discrimination orcs faced and demonstrated that he had learned the Colorless Blade technique, impressing Dorothy and Frederica. He took the two women to a tavern in Silver Doveburg, where he enjoyed the local ale and asked about having it delivered to Strasbourg.

• Charlotte apologized to Frederica after realizing his remark had ignored the discrimination orcs faced, and she forgave him while privately extending her assassination plans to six months.
• Dobbin returned from scouting and found Charlotte, Dorothy, and Frederica gone, but discovered Charlotte’s message scratched into the ground.
• Dorothy and Frederica exclaimed when Charlotte revealed he could use Colorless Blade, an ability he had developed through practicing House of Asilo swordsmanship.
• Frederica reconsidered her plans and thought about using Charlotte to deal with people who held grudges against her.
• Charlotte brought Dorothy and Frederica to a Silver Doveburg tavern, enjoyed its ale, and asked the tavern owner about arranging deliveries to Strasbourg.

The Baroness's family and Butler plotted to reclaim Silver Doveburg and the Yahoo Knight Regiment from Charlotte, believing his troops would return to them. Butler rushed into the leaderless West Wind Knight Regiment's camp, where confusion broke out and someone shot at him.

• The Baroness's children condemned Charlotte and urged their mother to drive him and his Knight Order from Silver Doveburg.
• Butler brought former Yahoo Knight Regiment soldiers to claim that Charlotte's men would return if the Baroness called for them.
• The Baroness decided to go to the military camp, and her family set out with servants and deserters.
• Butler planned to seize command of Charlotte's Knight Order, frame Charlotte as a traitor, and take the position of chief financial steward.
• Butler galloped into the West Wind Knight Regiment's camp while Charlotte and the other senior leaders were absent.
• The startled regiment formed defensive formations, and someone fired a shot at Butler.

The West Wind Knight Regiment massacred Baron Filer’s family and household after the Baroness tried to seize the regiment. Charlotte returned to the camp, learned what had happened, and urged his soldiers to cover up the killings by blaming South Seraph restorationists.

• Bull and the baron’s eldest son were shot dead after they entered the camp and tried to command the soldiers.
• The West Wind Knight Regiment dragged the Baroness and her two children from their carriage and killed them, then slaughtered the household servants fleeing behind them.
• Charlotte heard the gunfire while eating with Dorothy and Frederica, hurried back to camp, and learned from Yellow Bear that the Baroness had tried to seize the regiment.
• Charlotte realized his soldiers had killed the baron’s family and servants, then gathered them and claimed South Seraph restorationists had attacked Silver Doveburg.
• The soldiers, afraid they would be hanged for killing nobles, took heart when Charlotte proposed they observe a moment of silence for the Baroness.

After taking Silver Doveburg and Dove Castle, Charlotte secured the West Wind Knight Regiment’s loyalty and explored Baron Filer’s vast collection. He feared the Empire would investigate and force him to flee, so he looked for valuables he could take and discovered the Baron had collected forty-five Supernatural Artifacts.

• Charlotte convinced the West Wind Knight Regiment to blame Madame Nansera for the Baron’s family’s deaths and threatened to name anyone who deserted as a traitor.
• Charlotte had the family’s bodies gathered and burned, then moved into the Baron’s residence with his companions.
• Charlotte explored Dove Castle and worried that an Imperial investigation would make him flee before he could take much of Baron Filer’s wealth.
• Charlotte asked Butler Datt about the collection and learned that Dove Castle held forty-five Supernatural Artifacts, each listed in a catalog.
• Charlotte read the catalog and took an immediate interest in a Knight’s Lance made through Classical Alchemy.