Chapter Summaries

Euron Crow's Eye led the Ironborn fleet to attack Greyshield Island, where raiders began slaughtering its people as the Shield fleet rushed to respond. Mia Stonehouse endured captivity aboard Silence while Falia Flowers joined her family's flagship as a liaison officer and headed for battle, confident in the fleet's Ship Cannons and the approaching king.

• Euron Crow's Eye displayed Mia Stonehouse and other captives at the prows as the Ironborn fleet sailed toward the Shield Islands.
• The Ironborn attacked Greyshield Island, and hundreds of raiders landed while beacon fires summoned the Shield fleet.
• Mia Stonehouse watched the island's suffering from Silence, bound and unable to speak after losing her tongue.
• Falia Flowers boarded her family's flagship as a liaison officer while the Shield fleet sailed from Oakenshield Island to defend Greyshield.
• Falia Flowers learned that Divine Grace was a curtain of light and that the First Fleet now carried Ship Cannons, and she trusted it to defeat the Ironborn.

Crow's Eye Euron waited for the Shield Islands Fleet while trusting a prophecy that Joffrey was dead and expecting the Sea Monster to secure victory. When Joffrey appeared with an advancing fleet, Euron's certainty collapsed, and Joffrey declared the hunting game had begun.

• Crow's Eye Euron watched the sea and reassured himself that Joffrey had died and that the prophecy guaranteed the Ironborn's victory.
• Euron recalled how the Ironborn had found Greyshield Island unusually unprepared, while captives gave conflicting explanations for the Shield Islands' gathering on Oakenshield Island.
• Euron concluded that Highgarden was behind the gathering and reasoned that Renly would rely on a mercenary fleet from Tyrosh rather than pursue the Shield Islands.
• Yohn Farwynd alerted Euron to hundreds of ships approaching from the west, and the Sea Monster cried out beneath the waves.
• Euron recognized Joffrey aboard the approaching fleet, panicked as his belief in the prophecy faltered, and watched Joffrey announce that the hunting game had begun.

Ironborn raiders looting Greyshield Island saw King Joffrey’s fleet arrive, then gathered around Euron’s Silence rather than flee. Joffrey’s ships opened fire from a distance, destroying longships as the Ironborn watched in shock.

• The Ironborn spotted a vast fleet bearing Stag and Golden Lion banners and began retreating toward their longships.
• Baron Sandley prepared to leave Greyshield Island, murdered the girl he had been assaulting, and joined the retreating raiders.
• The Ironborn formed a defensive line around the Silence while Euron waited to learn whether Joffrey’s fleet could drive off the Sea Monster.
• Joffrey’s fleet stopped beyond a league from the longships, spread across the sea, and formed an encirclement.
• The fleet fired its guns, sending columns of water around the Ironborn and destroying Baron Sandley’s longship.

Theon Greyjoy relayed Joffrey’s orders as the Royal Fleet destroyed Euron Crow’s Eye’s ships and surrounded the Silence. The fleets closed in on Euron’s motionless flagship, and Joffrey addressed him from the deck.

• Theon used the Battle Map to relay Joffrey’s order for the warships to stop firing on the Silence while devastating the ships around it.
• Theon surveyed the fleets surrounding the Shield Islands and reflected on Brienne Tarth commanding a fleet and the uncertain future of the Iron Islands.
• Joffrey ordered the fleets to close the encirclement, and Theon saw that the Ironborn ships had vanished from the map except for the Silence.
• The fleets tightened their net around the Silence, whose bound figureheads and silent sailors offered no resistance.
• Joffrey walked to the port side, looked down at the sea, and addressed Euron Crow’s Eye.

Joffrey’s forces captured the Silence after Euron’s fleet was destroyed, while Yohn Farwynd and the Mutes surrendered. Euron remained beneath the sea with the Sea Monster, intent on waiting for a chance to kill Joffrey, as Theon gave him ten final breaths to surrender.

• Joffrey’s fleet surrounded the Silence, and Theon urged Euron to surrender while promising him mercy and an honorable place in Pyke.
• The Pride of Driftmark joined the Silence, allowing Six-Pointed Star soldiers to board and take control of the ship.
• Yohn Farwynd tried to find sea creatures to possess but encountered a golden presence, then came to his senses and knelt; the Mutes followed his lead.
• Joffrey’s soldiers guarded the crew, rescued Mia Stonehouse, and destroyed the Silent Maiden Statue as they captured the Silence.
• Euron remained underwater with the Sea Monster, planning to attack Joffrey when the fleet’s weakness appeared.
• Joffrey ordered Theon to give Euron ten final breaths to choose between survival and destruction.

Theon watched Joffrey’s fleet surround the Sea Monster with a tight net of Depth Charges, leaving it nowhere to escape. When Crow's Eye tried to flee, the Sea Monster overpowered his control and surfaced beside a steel warship.

• Joffrey left with Lady Desmera, while Theon recognized that the fleet’s final hunt was beginning.
• Theon watched the fleet form circular formations and place Depth Charges around the Sea Monster, sealing the shallow seabed and surface routes.
• The fleet completed its bomb net, and a squadron sailed inward to drive the Sea Monster toward it.
• Crow's Eye awoke the Sea Monster, realized the iron bombs had trapped it, and tried to choose a route through the net.
• The Sea Monster resisted Crow's Eye, surfaced, and turned toward the most conspicuous steel warship.

King Joffrey rallied the fleet as a Sea Monster summoned a storm, and the warships wounded it with cannon fire before it vanished beneath the waves. As the storm battered the fleet, Joffrey watched the injured creature and another Sea Monster.

• The Sea Monster summoned a storm, frightening the fleet until King Joffrey’s voice restored the soldiers’ confidence.
• Joffrey ordered a test volley, and the fleet’s cannons struck the Sea Monster’s tentacles and arms.
• The wounded Sea Monster disappeared beneath the sea, and officers ordered the gunners to hold their fire.
• The storm flooded the decks as Theon asked Joffrey whether they would continue with the original plan.
• Joffrey watched the injured Sea Monster on the seabed and another Sea Monster.

During a fierce storm, Falia Flowers watched the Royal Guards use their Divine Grace Power to capture the unconscious Euron Crow's Eye. She decided to align herself with King Joffrey and escort Crow's Eye to him, but the Sea Monster's cry changed as Crow's Eye woke.

• Joffrey ordered the Oakenshield to capture Crow's Eye alive, and Lord Humfrey Hewett appointed Falia to escort him before the king.
• Falia crossed the storm-lashed deck and saw that the Royal Guards had fortified the ship with their Divine Grace Power.
• The Royal Guards formed a wooden extension from the Oakenshield and used it to wrap around and capture Crow's Eye.
• Falia realized the Shield Islands had been shut out by the king, chose to seek the king's favor, and told Lord Humfrey she would escort Crow's Eye.
• Falia poked Crow's Eye in the throat, and he woke and spat out seawater as the Sea Monster let out a stranger, more terrifying cry.

Joffrey ordered the fleet to hold position while he prepared to communicate with the freed Sea Monster and capture it alive. After the fleet’s battle drew the islanders’ attention, the Sea Monster’s enchanting song rose again, luring people from their homes and into a wild dance.

• Joffrey rejected using the Ship Cannons first and decided to try communicating with the Sea Monster before resuming the hunt.
• Joffrey ordered the warships to form a circle one league from the Sea Monster, and Falia Flowers relayed the command.
• The fleet’s steam whistle woke the islanders, who remembered the battle and saw the Sea Monster looming over the sea.
• The islanders saw the Sea Monster disappear and believed the fleet had won, then returned to bed.
• The Sea Monster’s beautiful song woke the islanders again, drawing them toward the shore until they began dancing wildly.

Joffrey approached the Sea Monster aboard the Divine Grace, discovered it was friendly, and gave it an Information Rune so it could speak. After the Sea Monster hinted that Joffrey was a newcomer and that he would soon learn why Crow's Eye had controlled it, Joffrey fled as it leaped into the air and unleashed a cry filled with Magic Power.

• Joffrey approached the Sea Monster alone aboard the Divine Grace, while Theon Greyjoy feared the encounter would turn deadly.
• The Sea Monster submerged, changed its colors to gold and silver at Joffrey's request, and showed no hostility.
• Joffrey touched the Sea Monster with an Information Rune, giving it the ability to speak.
• The Sea Monster told Joffrey it had no name and was called the Sea Monster, the Drowned Beast, or the Storm Demon.
• The Sea Monster said Joffrey would soon learn why it had obeyed Crow's Eye, prompting Joffrey to reverse the Divine Grace and flee.
• The Sea Monster leaped into the air and released a powerful cry filled with Magic Power.

Falia Flowers and the warships attacked the Sea Monster, but its cries turned their cannon fire into harmless explosions in the sky. The monster then detonated the Depth Charges, destroying the fleet’s “fishing net” and leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Sea Monster’s shriek lulled hundreds of warships to sleep, causing their cannonballs to explode harmlessly in the sky.
• Lord Beric Dondarrion ordered the ships to keep firing and switch to solid shot after Falia Flowers noticed some cannonballs hit the sea near the monster.
• Falia Flowers left the cabin, where her father and Crow's Eye remained dazed, and joined Beric on the Oakenshield’s deck.
• Beric realized the Sea Monster might be targeting the fishing net as it submerged and reached toward the Divine Grace with its tentacles.
• The Sea Monster’s cries stopped the cannon fire, and its underwater roar triggered a violent upheaval that filled the sea with dead fish and shrimp.
• The Light Screen revealed that the Sea Monster had detonated the Depth Charges, clearing the Battle Map’s orange-red points and destroying the fishing net.

The Sea Monster neutralized the Divine Grace’s depth charges and pursued the fleet beneath the sea, leaving the warships with few ways to resist. Joffrey realized it had mastered the Information Rune Mirror Image and suspected that a Higher Will now controlled it.

• The Sea Monster’s eerie sound triggered the fleet’s depth charges early, destroying the fleet’s main defense as it submerged and continued after the Divine Grace.
• Elin Lantel watched the crisis unfold from King’s Landing, shut off the screen after feeling the Sea Monster’s gaze, and reported his concern to Joffrey.
• Joffrey kept the Divine Grace sailing backward while the crew panicked and the Sea Monster closed to within two kilometers.
• Joffrey deduced that the Sea Monster used Magic Power in its sound to cancel the Information Magic Power on the shells and trigger their fuses.
• Joffrey recognized that the Sea Monster had broken free of his control and concluded that it had accepted a Higher Will after abandoning Crow’s Eye.

Joffrey negotiated with the intelligent will controlling the Sea Monster while struggling to keep it from taking over the Magic Web and destroying the Divine Grace. The will revealed that Joffrey’s power was only a first step and offered to help him, leaving Joffrey uncertain of its intentions.

• Joffrey tried to learn whether the will was a divine envoy, while it asked him which god had sent him.
• Joffrey and the will negotiated as the Sea Monster advanced and both fought for control of the Magic Web’s stored Magic Power.
• Joffrey offered the Divine Grace and his accumulated Magic Power, but the will dismissed the ship as a toy and warned him not to call his followers dependents.
• The will explained that it had used Joffrey’s fake Proof of Heroism to help the Sea Monster escape control, then criticized the Valyrian Wizards’ use of Magic Power.
• The will told Joffrey that the Proof of Heroism was only the first step, described his soul as unfocused, and offered to help him.

Joffrey learned that his subordinates could eventually master the power of their Mirror Images, but he believed he had time to strengthen his position. He discovered that the weakening Sea Monster was offering an alliance in exchange for his help, and he considered how to respond.

• Joffrey learned that his subordinates could awaken to the power of their Mirror Images over time and escape his control.
• He heard that advancing beyond the Hero level could strengthen his Divine Grace and evolve the Proof of Heroism.
• Joffrey realized the Sea Monster's domain was shrinking because He was weakening, giving Joffrey time and leverage.
• He offered Joffrey a method for breaking through the Hero level in exchange for an alliance oath, believers, and the cultivation of Heroes.
• Joffrey considered the proposed alliance and said that he had an idea.

As the Sea Monster summoned a violent storm, the Divine Grace transformed into a giant who called himself the Storm God and challenged it. The Sea Monster entangled the giant as enormous waves engulfed the fleet, and Falia searched the light screen for what happened next.

• The Sea Monster surfaced without its bewitching voice, while a storm gathered around the Divine Grace.
• The Divine Grace fired its Ship Cannons, but Beric Dondarrion warned that the shots had not harmed the Sea Monster.
• The Divine Grace transformed into a towering giant, which declared itself the Storm God and challenged the Sea Monster.
• The Sea Monster struck the giant with a water column, then wrapped its tentacles around the giant and restrained it.
• A huge wave swept toward the fleet, and Falia clung to a barrier while looking to the light screen.

Joffrey’s giant fought off the Sea Monster, broke through the storm, and used Supernatural Prohibition to calm it. After the Sea Monster poisoned the sea and endangered the fleet, the giant pinned it to the seabed and agreed to hand it over to the Sea God.

• The giant blasted the Sea Monster at close range, forced it to release him, and strode toward the storm.
• The giant pushed his shield into the tornado, then subdued the Sea Monster with steel needles and shield strikes after it attacked him from behind.
• The giant used Supernatural Prohibition to disperse the storm, and Joffrey raised the Anti-Magic Runes’ exploration priority after noticing the Sea Monster’s reaction.
• The Sea Monster sprayed corrosive black ink across the sea, but the fleet’s Holy Shields kept the ships from sinking.
• The giant pinned the Sea Monster to the seabed with his spear, then agreed to hand it over to the Sea God.

After the Sea Monster was defeated, the king had it healed and named it Siren Kraken, appointing it as a servant of the Sea God. He then promised Theon unparalleled glory, declaring him the first warrior beneath the Sea God’s seat in the Sea God Temple.

• The Sea Monster collapsed on Greyshield Island, and the Divine Grace returned to its original form as the survivors celebrated their victory.
• Theon wondered who the Sea God was and reflected on the Drowned God and Storm God as he watched the wounded Sea Monster plead for mercy.
• The Divine Grace’s priests spent more than half the ship’s energy healing the Sea Monster, though its lost blood could not be restored.
• The king named the Sea Monster Siren Kraken and ordered it to guard the waters and help resist the Evil God.
• The king told Theon that he would be the first warrior beneath the Sea God’s seat in the Sea God Temple.

As the fleet sailed back to Oakenshield Island, Joffrey questioned the Siren Kraken about its past, its master, and the dwindling Spiritual Energy. The Kraken revealed that it had awakened only half a year earlier, and Joffrey invoked their oath to claim the first part of its advancement knowledge.

• Joffrey learned that the Siren Kraken had once lived in the Jade Sea and moved east after the local seas grew unpleasant and Spiritual Energy declined following the Long Night.
• The Siren Kraken said it had last hunted four or five hundred years ago, after hearing that the Valyrian Peninsula had been destroyed, and that its master had grown tired when the Andals arrived and stopped seeing it after the Rhoynar came.
• The Siren Kraken refused to reveal its old master's friends and enemies, explaining that the world prevented it from speaking about them, but it described the ranks below demigods as Great Heroes and Supreme Heroes.
• The Siren Kraken told Joffrey that its master had awakened it half a year earlier and that stored Spiritual Crystals could sustain it for another year or two; one crystal Joffrey gave it would last ten days.
• Joffrey said Theon Greyjoy had obtained the first Proof of Heroism of seawater and demanded the first part of the advancement knowledge, so the Siren Kraken offered him an encrypted soul.

At Lord Hewett's hall, Mia Stonehouse recounted the horrors she had survived after Euron Crow's Eye destroyed House Farman, then left his punishment to King Joffrey. She urged the king to keep Crow's Eye alive if he could help preserve peace or resist the apocalypse, and Joffrey spared him for the sake of his secrets while promising punishment.

• Beric Dondarrion announced that Mia Stonehouse was the sole survivor of the Farman family after Euron Crow's Eye's Ironborn captured Fair Isle and tortured its people.
• King Joffrey comforted Mia and summoned the shackled Crow's Eye, asking her how he should be punished.
• Mia relived her torture and hatred of Crow's Eye but ultimately told Joffrey to decide his fate.
• Mia asked Joffrey to spare Crow's Eye if he could help preserve peace in the Seven Kingdoms or resist the apocalypse.
• Joffrey spared Crow's Eye because he still held secrets, but declared that he would not escape punishment.

Joffrey sentenced Crow's Eye to brutal punishments for his crimes, leaving him mutilated, voiceless, blind, and deaf. Crow's Eye remained alive but faced permanent confinement in a water cell, stone cell, and mud cell.

• Joffrey sentenced Crow's Eye to lose his tongue, voice box, and manhood, and the Royal Guards carried out the punishments.
• Crow's Eye vowed in his thoughts to undermine Joffrey and reject the Drowned God, while a dog seized the severed flesh.
• Joffrey ordered the Royal Guards to remove Crow's Eye's eyes and limbs for his rebellion and crimes against the Farman family and Fair Isle.
• Joffrey sentenced Crow's Eye to cycles of confinement in water, stone, and mud cells, then ordered his hearing destroyed.
• The Royal Guards pierced Crow's Eye's ears, leaving him unable to hear.