Chapter Summaries

Sirens attacked the ironclads, and Mulan killed Nido while pretending the sirens had done it. The surviving sirens withdrew with captives as the Pirate King sensed his connection to Nido had been severed and pressed on without turning back.

• Nido escaped the vortex with Mulan and the other supernatural beings, then faced a silver-haired siren wearing the Heart of Deep Blue.
• The sirens capsized the ships and unleashed seawater beasts, killing and dragging away pirates as Nido prepared to fight the silver-haired siren.
• Mulan asked Nido how about he died, then decapitated him and threw his head to the siren, making the pirates believe she had killed him.
• Mulan watched the pirates panic as the sirens killed or captured several supernatural beings, then relaxed after the elf confirmed they had left.
• The silver-haired siren led the surviving sirens away with two captives, while the Pirate King realized his connection to Nido had been severed and continued onward.

Walton’s Antique Ship destroyed Bronski’s fleet while the Pirate King’s fleet advanced on the whirlpool and rescued Mulan and other survivors. Mulan warned the Pirate King that a high-tier Siren wielding the Heart of Deep Blue had lured them into a trap, and the Pirate King vowed to make the Sirens pay.

• Bronski sensed a ghostly pirate ship approaching, saw his Misfortune Pendant crack, and secretly fled his fleet.
• Walton and his fabric-like crew attacked Bronski’s fleet with enchanted cannonballs, boarded its ships, and killed the remaining pirate leader.
• The Pirate King’s fleet reached the whirlpool, attacked the giant whale beneath it, and rescued Mulan and the other survivors.
• Mulan told the Pirate King that Nido had encountered a high-tier Siren carrying the Heart of Deep Blue and warned that the Sirens and Dierjia might have set a trap.
• The Pirate King restrained his anger and declared that the Sirens would pay for provoking him.

The Pirate King’s fleet bombarded the giant whale and sent pirates inside to retrieve the Wish-Granting Pot, while Mulan learned from the Elf that the whale was still alive. Walton and the Sirens attacked the fleet, and Walton began fighting the Pirate King as a demonic beast seized the Sea King.

• The Pirate King used the Thunder Blade to clear smoke and calm the whirlpool, then ordered pirates to enter the whale and find the Wish-Granting Pot.
• Mulan spotted Kilga among the search party, and the Elf warned him that the whale was still alive.
• Walton mocked Dolly, rallied his crew, and sailed toward the Pirate King while the Sirens and a deep-sea monster followed.
• The Pirate King ordered his fleet to fire on Walton’s ship, then clashed with Walton’s sudden attack and severed Walton’s conjured arm.
• Walton redirected a tsunami toward the Sea King and fought the Pirate King amid magical attacks, while the Sirens’ demonic beast wrapped its tentacles around the ship and shook it.

Mulan and the Pirate King’s forces were swallowed by the giant whale, where Walton and the Pirate King continued fighting while Mulan searched the wreckage for the Wish-Granting Pot. Mulan found Kilga’s pendant and was ambushed; he wounded his attacker and discovered it was Kilga, now wielding powerful magic.

• The giant whale swallowed the Sea King, the demonic beast, and everyone aboard, then plunged back beneath the sea and unleashed a massive tsunami.
• Inside the whale, the Pirate King and Walton kept fighting as the surroundings drained their magic power, while Mulan and Newt gathered the surviving pirates to search for the Wish-Granting Pot.
• Mulan searched the wrecked ships and found Kilga’s bloodstained pendant aboard an ancient wooden ship.
• An attacker ambushed Mulan with a crossbow bolt and a blade, injuring his left hand before Mulan fought back with Fang and struck the attacker’s eye.
• Mulan recognized his wounded attacker as Kilga, who now possessed exceptionally powerful magic.

Mulan and Kilga fought over the Wish-Granting Pot, then learned that both wanted to escape its hold and free Kilga’s family. When a strange force awakened inside the Giant Whale, Mulan wished for the Pot to appear with Silias, leaving Kilga behind as he fled.

• Mulan and Kilga traded lethal blows, each holding back enough power to threaten the other.
• Kilga showed Mulan his grandfather’s withered body and explained that the Wish-Granting Pot had granted his family undying bodies at a terrible cost.
• Mulan and Kilga revealed that they both wanted to free Kilga and his family from the Pot’s hold, and Mulan proposed destroying it.
• A rumbling and eerie voice shook the wrecked ship, so Mulan rushed for the Pot while Silias knocked Kilga away.
• Mulan used the Elf’s life force to wish for the Wish-Granting Pot to appear with Silias, then fled as Kilga erupted in fury.

Kilga's magic power surged after he used the Wish-Granting Pot, while Mulan and Newt struggled to stop him inside the Giant Whale. A terrifying shadow appeared beneath the draining lake, and a revived Demonic Beast forced the survivors to flee toward the Esophagus as the Pirate King and Walton continued fighting.

• Kilga attacked Mulan with overwhelming magic power, and Newt and another Supernatural Being pirate joined the fight to stop him.
• The Pirate King and Walton's clash tore open the Giant Whale's inner walls, draining the lake and thickening the corrosive purple mist.
• A vast, humanlike shadow appeared beneath the water, causing the awakened pirates to collapse in terror before vanishing when the lake drained dry.
• Golden-red fluid seeped into the dead Demonic Beast, reviving it and unleashing tentacles and swarms of tiny monsters across the Giant Whale.
• Walton attacked the Pirate King while the Demonic Beast and its parasites ravaged the surroundings, forcing Newt, Mulan, Kilga, and the other Supernatural Being to run for the Esophagus.

Mulan rescued the badly injured Raskin, then revealed his betrayal during the clash between Walton and the Pirate King. Using Walton’s power to swap places, Mulan struck Kilga with the Sea Soul, leaving the Pirate King furious as the battle resumed.

• Mulan rescued Raskin from the Giant Whale, and the survivors emerged to find the fleet destroyed and the Great Vortex nearby.
• Mulan killed a supernatural pirate, then urged Kilga and Newt to keep betting on him as he claimed Bloomfield’s decline would serve his interests.
• Walton and the Pirate King resumed their battle, while Walton captured Mulan, Newt, Raskin, and Kilga and demanded the Thunder Blade in exchange for them.
• The Pirate King accepted Walton’s terms but withheld the Thunder Blade as Walton threw the captives toward him.
• Mulan allowed Walton’s magic to enter his body, then swapped places with Walton and struck Kilga with the Sea Soul, severing his arm and shoulder.
• Walton blocked Mulan’s follow-up with the Thunder Blade, and the Pirate King erupted in fury as the battle continued.

Walton drove Bloomfield from the battle, leaving the wounded Pirate King to retreat to Jewel Island and hide behind its Ritual Array. After reaching Valentine, Mulan reunited with Leo and asked Dolly to become his companion as a new era began.

• Walton avoided Bloomfield's final charge, and the Pirate King fled while Mulan asked why Walton had not killed him.
• Walton and Mulan sailed away from the great vortex as Walton explained that the world's energy would continue to rise.
• Bloomfield returned to ruined Jewel Island, activated its protective Ritual Array, and became increasingly fearful as rumors spread about his defeat.
• Mulan waited in Valentine for Leo and told Walton he was watching the end of Bloomfield's era.
• Dolly arrived with the unconscious Leo, and Mulan invited her to stand with him and help bring hope to the world.

Mulan revealed the darkness threatening the world to Dolly through her song and invited her to join Dawn. Dolly accepted, and Mulan returned to Valentine with Leo, who reunited with Old Buck.

• Mulan lowered his mental defenses and asked Dolly to show him the truth through a Siren song.
• Dolly’s song revealed the spreading Chaos and despair Mulan was fighting, while the power of Dawn rose against the darkness.
• Mulan invited Dolly to join Dawn, and she accepted, entrusting her heart and life to him while promising to remain vigilant.
• Mulan returned to Valentine with the weakened Leo, and Old Buck excitedly helped them inside.
• Leo and Mulan traded boasts about their titles and argued over which brother was older.

Mulan returned from the pirate campaign, received a promotion and estates from Nisheriel, and began planning how to destroy the Wish-Granting Pot. At Black Castle, Matt revealed that the fourth issue of Truth and Magic would feature their paper on precision Human Transmutation, poised to make waves in the supernatural community.

• At dinner, Mulan teased Leo about giving in to pretty women among the pirates, and Leo admitted the situation had been complicated.
• After a week in Valentine, Mulan left as the Valentine Daily expanded sales and the major powers announced the Maritime Security Joint Convention.
• Nisheriel summoned Mulan in Digo, raised his viscount rank by two grades, and awarded him two estates for his concealed contributions.
• Mulan returned to Black Castle and privately considered how to begin experiments to destroy the Wish-Granting Pot.
• Matt showed Mulan a preliminary copy of the fourth issue of Truth and Magic, which featured their paper with Professor Alopha on precision Human Transmutation.
• Matt told Mulan's students about the paper, then left delighted that the publication would spread his name around the world.

Mulan promoted the upcoming issue of Truth and Magic and visited Matt to seek ways to break down a powerful, stable holy relic for study. He and Matt discussed risky experiments before Chris served a surprisingly restorative soup to Mulan and an unbearably awful one to Matt, then discovered it was awful herself.

• Mulan told his students that precision human transmutation would appear in the next issue of Truth and Magic and encouraged them to publish their own research.
• Chris told Matt that supernatural beings were arriving in Digo to ask about the Black Castle and the journal, while Mulan confirmed that prospective buyers had begun subscribing.
• Mulan asked Matt how to disrupt a stable, powerful object, and Matt suggested trapping it in a rift between the Otherworld and reality or offering it to a holy relic.
• Mulan rejected the holy-relic offering as useless and discussed the dangers of testing the rift method with Matt.
• Chris served Mulan and Matt her thick greenish soup, which Mulan found delicious and restorative while Matt found it agonizing.
• Chris tried the soup herself, ran to the bathroom, and left Matt relieved.

Mulan discovered that Chris's awful-tasting soup had potent restorative and invigorating effects, then set out to learn its recipe and purify it. After tasting the concentrated result, he recognized it as a powerful awakening potion and began considering its potential.

• Mulan praised Chris's nourishing soup and asked her to teach him how to make it, naming it Chris's Love.
• Mulan's attempts to cook the soup caused two explosions, but he eventually succeeded when Chris took over.
• Mulan took the soup to Matt's underground laboratory and purified it into a small amount of transparent pale green liquid.
• Mulan drank a sip of the purified liquid, endured its intense effects, and concluded that it could be a valuable awakening potion.

Mulan examined Chris’s unusual Awakening Potion and warned Matt about its danger, while Barton, Handel, and Benjamin began the Special Security Department’s outreach to Digo’s supernatural community. The innkeeper agreed to register and sell Truth and Magic, as Nisheriel’s plan to expand the Empire’s oversight moved forward.

• Mulan told Matt that Chris’s Love could not be scientifically reproduced and cautioned him to limit any private experiments to ten drops at a time.
• Barton, Handel, and Benjamin visited the Little Corner inn in their Special Security Department uniforms to explain Dierjia’s laws and registration process.
• Handel told the inn’s supernatural guests that registration could provide legal access to supplies of Truth and Magic, prompting them to ask about the journal’s next issue.
• The innkeeper accepted the reminder and, the next day, announced that her inn could sell Truth and Magic for gold and magical materials.
• Special Security Department personnel began extending Dierjia’s administrative oversight around Digo under Nisheriel’s plan.

The fourth issue of Truth and Magic revealed a breakthrough in Human Transmutation, while Mulan asked his students how fate could be broken. He then led four Silent Knights to the Kordel People’s ancestral homeland, where crows gathered as the villagers grew uneasy.

• The fourth issue of Truth and Magic circulated, astonishing wizards and alchemists with a paper describing successful, precision-controlled Human Transmutation.
• A Solota Wizard received the journal aboard a Dierjia Western Ocean Fleet battleship as many people sensed that a new age was approaching.
• Mulan challenged his students to imagine how they could break fate, linking the question to the world’s future and the Holy Relic.
• Mulan and four Silent Knights followed signs of an old road through the Basman mountains while searching for the Kordel People’s ancestral homeland.
• Mulan’s group reached Kordel villages, where crows gathered around them and the villagers’ curiosity turned to unease.

Mulan and his companions entered the Kordel settlement as an enormous flock of ravens gathered overhead, alarming the locals and reviving memories of the Raven Church. The Kordel elders prepared to meet them while Mulan’s Silent Knights stayed alert, and the group approached the settlement’s ceremonial center.

• Solomon explained that ravens were sacred to the Kordel People, and Phoenix recalled that the Raven Church had once been suppressed for killing people it considered traitors to its people.
• Phoenix described the Raven Church’s goal of reviving the Kordel People’s former civilization, while Mulan connected its return to the ancient purge following the Raven Queen’s betrayal of the Apostle.
• Ravens gathered in growing numbers above Mulan and his companions, drawing the Kordel People out of their homes and filling them with awe and unease.
• Kordel elders ordered women and children indoors and debated whether the approaching newcomers belonged to the Raven Church.
• Mulan and his companions reached the ceremonial center, where hundreds of Kordel People waited beneath carvings of ancient Quinas totems.
• Solomon and the other Silent Knights prepared to protect Mulan, and Mulan told them to remain vigilant without making their readiness obvious.

Mulan calmed the Kordel People in Liventemi, dismissed the ravens, and began studying the surviving Quinas inscriptions and records. Meanwhile, Cuil revealed his past in the Raven Church and recognized Mulan’s command over the ravens as evidence of the Raven Queen’s power, while the other young people questioned the church’s claims.

• Mulan used his thoughtforce to approach the frightened Kordel People and learned that Liventemi held remnants of the Quinas Civilization.
• Mulan told the Kordel People he had come to seek answers, then sent the ravens—whom he called messengers of Silindia—away.
• Mulan asked the elders for surviving Quinas books and began examining the cliff inscriptions, where he found passages about the Holy Relic and the Quinas People’s aversion to it.
• Cuil searched a hidden book and found the Raven Queen’s true name, Silindia, then told the young people he had once joined the Raven Church.
• Cuil explained that Mulan’s command over the vast flock showed Silindia’s power, while the young people took Mulan’s ability to speak her name as reason to doubt the Raven Church’s claims.

Mulan used the Silent Knights’ frightening appetites to draw out Raven Church members among the Kordel People, then revealed a strange connection to the Quinas People’s prophecy. The chapter ended with Cuil and the four knights questioning whether Mulan was merely playing a role.

• The four Silent Knights ate so much that the frightened Kordel People spread rumors that they were monsters and sent hunters into the mountains for more food.
• Cuil and several Raven Church members joined the food delivery team, and Solomon paid them with gemstones while reassuring them that ordinary meals would suffice.
• Cuil’s group asked whether Mulan and the others belonged to the Raven Church, and Solomon denied it while naming Silindia.
• Mulan told Cuil’s group that the Quinas People’s history began with an absurd error, then resonated with the Ancient Quinas People’s spiritual presence and left them terrified.
• Mulan dismissed Cuil and his companions, while the four Silent Knights wondered whether he was truly only playing a role.

Mulan studied the Quinas records, rejected the idea that the Apostle’s arrival would destroy the world, and chose to reassure the Kordel People before leaving Liventemi. He departed after revealing the corrected prophecy in their dreams and set out to find the Raven Church and the second Apostle’s Eye.

• Cuil and his companions returned home terrified after meeting Mulan, then arranged for the Kordel People to provide the outsiders with abundant food.
• Mulan concluded that distortions had corrupted the Quinas prophecy and chose forgiveness over fear as his approach to the Kordel People.
• Mulan told Solomon to announce their departure, and Solomon notified the Kordel elders before leaving them a gemstone.
• Mulan entered the dreams of the Kordel People who suspected his identity and corrected the prophecy, saying the Apostle would descend at the world's final hour as its last savior.
• Cuil woke to find Mulan and his companions gone, then urged the Kordel People to spread the truth and went to catch up with them.
• Mulan headed away from Liventemi, hoping to meet members of the Raven Church and obtain the other Apostle’s Eye.

Mulan and the Silent Knights sought the Apostle’s Eye while investigating the Raven Church and suppressing the Raven Queen’s influence. After Cuil’s dreams led the Raven Messenger to identify the Apostle’s Eye, the emissary sent Cuil and his companions to search for Mulan, leaving the Modern Raven Church shaken by the possible Apostle’s descent.

• Mulan explained that he wanted to find the Apostle’s Eye and assess the Raven Church before deciding whether to approach it as saviors or destroyers.
• After two days of searching unsuccessfully, Cuil reunited with his companions and dreamed of two gemstones that looked like eyes.
• A Raven Church emissary transformed from a crow into a man and questioned Cuil about his report that the Apostle had descended in Liventemi.
• Cuil and his companions described their shared dreams, and the Raven Messenger recognized the gemstones as the Apostle’s Eye.
• The Raven Messenger marked Cuil and his companions and sent them to search for the Apostle while he returned to the Modern Raven Church.

The Raven Church debated whether the Apostle had truly descended and resolved to seek him out, hoping he could restore the Kordel People. Mulan met two Raven Messengers, who offered information about the Apostle’s Eye and pleaded for their people’s salvation, leaving him suspecting Silindia had taken the relic into the Otherworld.

• Kunlu reported the account of the Apostle’s Descent to Raven Church leaders, who feared the Apostle might abandon the Kordel People but decided to search for the Raven Gem and find him.
• The Raven Church leader ordered its members to release their ravens, and more than a thousand birds spread out to search.
• Solomon and Reno watched the ravens as Mulan and the Four Knights waited near Blue Moon Forest and Blue Moon Lake for contact with the Raven Church.
• Two Raven Messengers transformed back into human form before Mulan and asked for help saving the declining Kordel People.
• Mulan questioned whether the Raven Messengers had the Apostle’s Eye, and they said they knew where it was; Mulan guessed that Silindia had taken it into the World Barrier Secret Realm.