Chapter Summaries

Lorne refused to retreat and transformed into his dragonmancer form to intercept the World Government’s descending beam. As he charged toward the Judgment Fortress, its crew realized his energy readings had surpassed their records.

• Lorne rejected Kuina’s plea to stand down and told her and Ryan to protect the people and the Fearless while he stopped the beam.
• Kuina accepted that holding the ground defenses was her training, and Ryan promised to defend the Fearless.
• Lorne transformed, unleashing golden lightning and a divine dragon that renewed the evacuated civilians’ hope and stunned Denjiro.
• Lorne launched himself from Tenshu Castle and raced toward the red beam and the Judgment Fortress.
• The Judgment Fortress’s commander dismissed the approaching Lorne, but an adjutant reported that his energy readings had risen beyond all recorded data.

Lorne charged head-on into the World Government fortress’s Light of Annihilation, using its destructive energy to strengthen his body as it regenerated from catastrophic damage. The beam erupted in blinding white light, leaving Ryan, Kuina, and the others unable to see what had happened to him.

• The fortress commander ordered the Light of Annihilation fired at Lorne as the weapon’s energy climbed to its maximum output.
• The beam descended toward Wano, terrifying the evacuating civilians in Flower Capital and the samurai watching below.
• Lorne accelerated into the beam instead of dodging, and the collision sent shock waves across the sea and Onigashima.
• The beam tore away Lorne’s flesh, but his Battlefield Valor skill regenerated his cells and rapidly strengthened his body.
• Lorne formed a golden shield that absorbed the attack and began forcing the beam back toward the fortress.
• The beam’s energy surged again and a burst of white light swallowed Lorne from view.

Lorne endured the Judgment Fortress’s Light of Annihilation as his body rapidly regenerated and adapted, then formed a Golden Grit shield that stopped the beam. On the ground, Kuina and the crew held the Fearless and the civilians, trusting Lorne to survive.

• The fortress’s monitoring team reported that Lorne’s cellular activity was increasing, and the commander ordered the backup power activated despite the risk of overloading the reactor.
• As the intensified beam stripped away his flesh, Lorne’s body grew tougher, and Golden Grit formed a shield that halted the attack.
• Kuina watched the beam and affirmed that Lorne would not lose, while Denjiro feared that even Kozuki Oden might not have survived it.
• Ryan and Bakel rallied the crew to defend the Fearless, and Carrot vowed to protect everyone despite her worry for Lorne.
• Kuina drew Wado Ichimonji and told Carrot to hold the line and protect the civilians; Ryan added that Lorne had his own plans for Carrot’s training.

Lorne endured the World Government’s amplified Light of Annihilation and shattered it with a powerful golden dragon-shaped strike, then broke the Judgment Fortress’s shield. Wounded but healing, he charged toward the fortress to attack it directly.

• Ryan rallied the Marines to protect the evacuation, while Denjiro and Hyogoro urged the samurai to support Lorne.
• Lorne laughed inside the red beam and began absorbing the Judgment Fortress’s energy, prompting its commander to raise the weapon’s output to 150 percent despite the reactor’s imminent overload.
• Lorne unleashed Set... Breaker, erasing the Light of Annihilation and splitting its pillar apart.
• The golden dragon-shaped force smashed through the fortress’s defensive shield and damaged its systems.
• Lorne reappeared with his wounds healing and charged toward the Judgment Fortress.

Lorne broke into Judgment Fortress and fought his way through its defenses toward the Power Room. He defeated Saint Uranos’s guards and approached the terrified Saint Uranos beside the floating core.

• Lorne tore through the fortress guards and Seastone electric net, then smashed through a door despite the gravity suppression system.
• Lorne destroyed the fortress’s defense robots and broke into the Power Room.
• Lorne killed the two CP0 agents who charged him.
• Lorne burned the Holy Knights with Divine Dragon Lightning and smashed them into the floor, leaving them incapacitated.
• Lorne strode toward Saint Uranos, who staggered back against the core’s protective barrier.

Lorne destroyed the Judgment Fortress’s levitation core, killing Saint Uranos and bringing the fortress down off Wano Country. He claimed Wano Country’s protection and confronted the Five Elders, while an eerie red light appeared beneath the wreckage.

• Lorne shattered the levitation core, causing the Judgment Fortress to fall into the sea as the Fearless shielded the Flower Capital from the resulting wave.
• The First Battalion was destroyed in the crash, and Lorne found and killed the dying Saint Uranos among the wreckage.
• Lorne answered the Five Elders through Uranos’s Den Den Mushi, declared Wano Country his territory, and crushed the device.
• Denjiro and Hyogoro led Wano Country’s people in asking Lorne for protection, and he told them they could live freely now that Kaido and Orochi were dead.
• Lorne ordered Ryan to recover the fortress’s research materials and rare metals, while the blond member of the Five Elders angrily reacted in Mary Geoise.
• An eerie red light appeared beneath the wreckage of the sunken fortress.

Lorne killed Saint Uranos and left Ryan and Denjiro to salvage the collapsing Holy Knights' fortress and rescue its prisoners. He then set out with Kuina and Olsen to find the Soul of Pluton in Wano Country's Mouth of the Underworld, where the group descended into a blazing, treacherous passage.

• Lorne stomped Saint Uranos to death, then dismissed Ryan and Denjiro's concerns and left them to stabilize the fortress, gather resources, and receive civilians.
• Ryan and Denjiro organized the cleanup, with Denjiro praising Lorne for saving Wano Country and Ryan reluctantly giving him credit.
• Lorne asked Olsen to guide him to the Mouth of the Underworld, where the map marked the Soul of Pluton, and Kuina chose to accompany him.
• Olsen led Lorne and Kuina through the ruins of Onigashima to a sulfurous fissure, and all three jumped into it.
• As they descended through the dark-red passage, the heat grew intense and Olsen's compass went haywire, but Lorne continued forward by instinct.

Lorne, Kuina, and Olsen reached the lava lake where the Soul of Pluton lay, and two ancient Lava-Variant Sea Kings rose to guard it. Lorne shrugged off their attacks and left both beasts reeling, then prepared to fight in earnest.

• Olsen warned Lorne and Kuina that the lava lake was too dangerous to cross, but Lorne said he would jump in.
• Two Lava-Variant Sea Kings emerged from the lake, and Kuina prepared to fight one until Lorne stopped her and claimed both.
• One beast blasted Lorne with lava, but he emerged unharmed as Battlefield Valor healed his charred skin.
• Lorne shattered one beast's lava shell with Decimating Smash and sent it flying back into the lake.
• Lorne used Crushing Blow to pull the two beasts together and smash their heads into each other.
• Lorne mocked the dazed beasts and said he was getting serious.

Lorne let the guardian beast of the Mouth of the Underworld bite his arm, enduring its lava without Armament Haki as his body regenerated and grew stronger. After learning that overwhelming power would drive the beasts berserk and summon deeper beings, he seized the beast and prepared to strike with his Dragonmancer-enhanced strength.

• Lorne let the lava beast bite his right arm, and its fangs failed to pierce his bones despite the magma burning his skin.
• Kuina used Observation Haki to see Lorne’s wounds regenerate, while Olsen watched in disbelief at his resistance to the lava.
• Kuina explained Lorne’s strength as bloodline power, and Olsen read that a guardian beast faced with overwhelming strength would summon beings from deeper within.
• The beast tried to fling Lorne into a magma lake, but Lorne pierced its lava shell, locked his legs around its neck, and held on.
• Lorne absorbed the heat and pain through Battlefield Valor, strengthened his Dragonmancer form, and gathered golden light around his fist as he called to Kuina to watch.

Lorne killed the two ancient Guardians of the Mouth of the Underworld, then prepared to seek the Soul of Pluton with Kuina and Olsen. The underground cavern began shaking as a vortex formed in the magma lake, revealing a terrifying presence below.

• Lorne battered the first Guardian with defense-piercing punches and crushed its head, destroying its body in the magma.
• The second Guardian tried to flee, but Lorne intercepted it and shattered its head with a single punch.
• Lorne returned to shore, Kuina checked that he was unharmed, and Olsen collapsed in shock.
• Kuina asked about finding the Soul of Pluton, but the underground space began shaking before Lorne could answer.
• A vortex formed in the magma lake, turning nearby magma into black rock as an ancient, destructive pressure rose from its depths.

Lorne, Kuina, and Olsen descended into the volcano and found the living metal core known as the Soul of Pluton. Olsen warned that it had a powerful will and rejected outsiders, but Lorne declared that he would make it submit and claim it.

• Lorne froze the lava lake and ordered Kuina to take Olsen away from the center of the vortex.
• As they descended, Olsen explained that the Soul of Pluton needed the volcano’s heat to remain liquid and could become dormant or solidify if it cooled.
• The group reached a stone hall where Olsen recognized the floating living metal as Pluton’s core and said it could give a warship self-awareness.
• Olsen warned that the Soul of Pluton had its own will and would destroy anyone it did not acknowledge.
• Lorne dismissed the warning and said he would make the Soul of Pluton obey, while condemning the World Government’s founders for relying on weapons.

Lorne confronted the Soul of Pluton, resisting its psychic assault and destroying the illusion in which it used his mother, Masha, to threaten him. The weapon then attacked him with a storm of metal spikes, leaving him pierced and bleeding as Kuina watched helplessly.

• Olsen warned Lorne that the Ancient Weapon could devastate Wano Country and the surrounding seas, but Lorne approached the liquid metal anyway.
• The Soul of Pluton unleashed a psychic shock wave that injured Kuina and left Olsen writhing in pain.
• The psychic assault showed Lorne an illusion of Masha surrounded by Marines and Celestial Dragons, but his God Dragon Bloodline manifested a golden Divine Dragon that shattered it.
• Lorne repelled the Soul of Pluton's psychic attack with golden lightning and mocked its failed attempt to break his will.
• The Soul of Pluton transformed into silver spikes and attacked Lorne, who stepped forward without dodging and was pierced across his body.
• Kuina cried out as Lorne bled from the wounds, unable to reach him through the storm of spikes.

Lorne let the Ancient Weapon’s liquid metal impale him so he could endure its attacks and turn the damage into Golden Grit. As his power reached its peak, golden energy burst from his body and began shattering the metal spikes.

• Lorne ordered Kuina to stay back as the liquid metal spikes tried to seize control of his body.
• Lorne’s Dragonmancer bloodline resisted the metal with golden lightning while his regenerative power repeatedly healed his wounds.
• Lorne refused Kuina’s pleas to protect his organs and said his will made his flesh indestructible.
• Lorne’s Battlefield Valor converted the physical damage and mental shock into Golden Grit, causing his energy to surge.
• Lorne released an eruption of Golden Grit that snapped the embedded spikes, while golden Dragon Scales lit up across his skin.

Lorne defeated and subdued the Soul of Pluton in the underground volcano, then gained a silver bracer formed from its core. With his Conqueror’s Haki strengthened, he planned to return to the Fearless and transform it using the Ancient Weapon’s core.

• Lorne combined his Conqueror’s Haki with his Golden Grit and met the Soul of Pluton’s enormous liquid-metal lance head-on.
• Lorne shattered the lance with Haymaker-Smash, sending True Damage and Divine Dragon Lightning into the liquid metal’s core and painfully disrupting its consciousness.
• The Soul of Pluton abandoned its attacks, contracted into a trembling metal ball, and submitted to Lorne.
• Lorne grabbed the metal ball, which transformed into a silver dragon-motif bracer around his wrist, as Kuina noticed his improved control over Conqueror’s Haki.
• Lorne told Olsen to prepare craftsmen and materials aboard the Fearless so they could transform the ship and use the weapon’s core against the World Government.

After escaping the collapsing underground passage with the subdued Soul of Pluton, Lorne ordered Wano's craftsmen to refit the Fearless using salvaged fortress materials and Olsen's Seraphim plans. The new ship's structure was reshaped, and Lorne began the crucial step of infusing the Soul of Pluton into its keel.

• Lorne emerged from the Mouth of the Underworld with Kuina and Olsen, and Ryan recognized the silver bracer as the core of the Ancient Weapon, the Soul of Pluton.
• Lorne learned that Denjiro, Hyogoro, and the others had salvaged the Judgment Fortress wreckage, then told Olsen to produce the Seraphim blueprints and Ryan to gather Wano's finest craftsmen.
• Olsen explained that the Fearless would receive Seastone armor, a Seraphim-class main laser cannon, and the Soul of Pluton as its central keel core.
• Lorne ordered the craftsmen to begin the refit, while Kuina and Carrot guarded the port and Ryan coordinated the work.
• Several days later, Olsen announced that the Fearless's keel base was open, and Lorne called the Soul of Pluton from his bracer to infuse it into the ship.

Lorne and Wano Country’s craftsmen completed the Fearless’s transformation into a self-repairing Pluton Battleship armed with Seastone armor and Seraphim cannons. As the ship began a coastal patrol, Lorne ordered Denjiro and Hyogoro to restart Wano’s work and double Seastone production.

• Lorne forced the Soul of Pluton to fuse with the Fearless’s keel, giving the ship living-metal pathways and the ability to repair itself.
• The craftsmen spent seven days installing full Seastone armor and two upgraded Seraphim main cannons connected to the Pluton core.
• Ryan reported that the completed Fearless could self-repair conventional damage within thirty seconds, and Olsen named it a true Pluton Battleship.
• Lorne ordered the Fearless to set sail, then declared his intent to confront the World Government, Marine Headquarters, and the remaining emperors.
• Lorne told Denjiro and Hyogoro to resume work in Wano Country and double Seastone mine output; they said the mines were ready and the furnaces could be fired up.

Lorne announced that he had taken control of Wano Country and founded the Fearless Empire, declaring it a fourth power and warning that invaders would face an ancient weapon. Morgans eagerly ordered worldwide coverage while the Marines debated how to respond.

• At the Udon Quarry and Ringo Arms Factory, Denjiro and Hyogoro oversaw the production of seastone ore, 100,000 armor-piercing bullets, and 3,000 seastone blades for Lorne’s forces.
• Ryan connected a Golden Den Den Mushi to the World Economy News Paper and major Marine Branch monitoring channels, and Lorne broadcast his declaration across the world.
• Lorne announced Kaido’s death, Kurozumi Orochi’s execution, his control of Wano Country, and the destruction of the World Government’s Judgment Fortress, then declared the founding of the Fearless Empire.
• Morgans ignored the World Government’s warning and ordered his staff to publish the news worldwide under the headline announcing the birth of the Fearless Empire.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, and Akainu reacted to Lorne’s announcement at Marineford, with Akainu demanding an immediate Buster Call.

The World Government and the Red Hair Pirates reacted to Lorne’s rise as a new power after he destroyed the Judgment Fortress and seized Pluton’s core. Monkey D. Dragon secretly met Lorne in Wano to question his ambitions, and Lorne denied seeking to rule the sea.

• Sengoku ordered Navy forces to reinforce New World branches and stay away from Wano without his direct orders.
• Shanks and his crew discussed Lorne’s defeat of Kaido and the creation of a fourth power, while Shanks decided to wait before contacting him.
• The Five Elders ordered the Holy Knights to recover Pluton’s core and kill Lorne.
• Monkey D. Dragon slipped into the Fearless Fortress and reached Tenshu Castle, where Lorne sensed him and confronted him with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Dragon praised Lorne for freeing Wano’s oppressed people, then asked whether he intended to replace the Four Emperors and the World Government.
• Lorne rejected the idea of becoming an emperor, saying he had no interest in ruling the sea or claiming a supreme throne.

Lorne revealed that his goal was to destroy the Celestial Dragons and agreed to a mutual-defense alliance with Dragon and the Revolutionary Army. Their meeting was interrupted by news that the Cross Guild had attacked a Wano Country resource island, prompting Lorne to prepare to answer the assault.

• Lorne told Dragon he intended to raze Mary Geoise and destroy the Celestial Dragons, and Dragon said the Revolutionary Army shared that goal.
• Dragon proposed an alliance to share intelligence, respect each other's territories, and provide mutual support in an assault on Mary Geoise; Lorne accepted.
• Ryan burst into Tenshu Castle with news that a fleet of more than fifty ships had attacked No. 7 Heavy Industry Resource Island and plundered its Seastone ore.
• Dragon identified the attackers' banner as the Cross Guild's and explained that Crocodile, Dracule Mihawk, and Buggy had founded the organization.
• Dragon warned Lorne that Crocodile had targeted Wano Country's Seastone to strengthen the Cross Guild, while Ryan brought Lorne a more detailed report.

Lorne led the newly refitted Pluton · Fearless to No. 7 Resource Island after the Cross Guild attacked it for its seastone stores. He arrived to find Crocodile’s forces devastating the island, and the chapter ended as the ship locked onto the enemy fleet and charged its weapons.

• Lorne rejected Dragon’s offer of support and ordered Wano Country to prepare for combat.
• At Kuri’s port, Olsen reported that the Pluton · Fearless was ready for a live-fire test, and Lorne led Kuina, Carrot, Ryan, and the warriors aboard.
• Lorne powered the battleship with his golden grit, and the Fearless raced toward No. 7 Resource Island.
• Crocodile’s fleet bombarded the island while his pirates attacked its defenders and prepared to breach the Underground Fortress.
• Lorne’s Conqueror’s Haki knocked out most of the pirates as the Fearless arrived, and Lorne confronted Crocodile.
• Olsen locked the Fearless’s weapons onto the enemy fleet and reported that the Soul of Pluton had reached full resonance.