Recaps

Yeenoghu told Dunn how a forbidden Legendary [broodmother] had awakened and driven the Gnolls from the Withered Stone Wilderness. Believing a prophecy referred to Dunn and his companions, Yeenoghu asked them to kill the broodmother while he fought its Legendary child.

• Yeenoghu explained that he had advanced to Legendary and planned to unite the Withered Stone Wilderness before a horde of monsters began slaughtering its inhabitants.
• Yeenoghu initially delayed attacking, assuming a Wizard had released the monsters, and the [broodmother] used the time to produce a Legendary creature.
• The broodmother's army overran the Withered Stone Wilderness and forced Yeenoghu and his Gnolls to retreat to the Gold Panning Plains.
• Yeenoghu said a prophecy had foretold humans who could help him, and he recognized Dunn and his companions as those people.
• Yeenoghu offered to hold off the broodmother's Legendary child while Dunn and the others led elite Gnolls to kill the broodmother.

Dunn learned that Yeenoghu was Zi Rat, a fellow member of the Eye of the Firmament, and heard why Yeenoghu believed he could kill the weakened Broodmother. Trusting the Eye of the Firmament’s prophecy, Dunn decided to consider the dangerous hunt for the rewards and renown it could bring.

• Yeenoghu offered Dunn and his companions a place to rest after they hesitated to accept his request to fight the Broodmother.
• Yeenoghu asked Dunn to stay behind, revealed himself as Zi Rat, and recognized Dunn as Mr. Wei Sheep.
• Dunn returned to his guest room and reflected on meeting his fellow secret-organization member, feeling less concerned about his safety.
• Yeenoghu told Dunn that the Eye of the Firmament had prophesied Dunn would help him and that the Broodmother had weakened itself by accelerating the gestation of a Legendary child.
• Yeenoghu promised Dunn all the spoils, and Dunn considered trusting the prophecy and trying to kill the Broodmother for renown and the chance to strengthen himself.

Dunn persuaded Annie, Sarna, Maddy, and Maxim to join his planned attack on the Broodmother by revealing that Yeenoghu and a more exalted Eminence would support them. The group agreed to prepare, and Dunn decided to bring Sarna along after sensing danger when he considered leaving her behind.

• Dunn announced his plan to help the Gnolls attack the Broodmother, and Annie, Sarna, Maddy, and Maxim objected.
• Dunn explained that Yeenoghu would hold off the Broodmother’s child and that the Broodmother’s main body had been weakened.
• Dunn hinted that an even more exalted Eminence had assured him of the operation’s success, silencing the objections.
• Dunn told the group to rest while the Gnolls prepared for the attack.
• Dunn decided to bring Sarna along after sensing danger when he was about to leave her behind.

Dunn and his companions spent several days in the Gnoll city as Yeenoghu prepared a war against the Broodmother. When the Broodmother launched an all-out assault, Yeenoghu ordered Dunn and the others to join the defense while he sought the Broodmother's Child.

• Dunn learned that Yeenoghu was organizing the Gnolls and other tribes for a war to reclaim the Withered Stone Wilderness.
• As the city grew somber over the coming war, Annie said she wanted to leave, and Dunn reassured her that he would not fight a battle they were bound to lose.
• A horn sounded, and the city announced an enemy attack, prompting Dunn to suspect the Broodmother.
• Yeenoghu arrived and explained that the Broodmother's Child had likely guided the Broodmother into launching an all-out assault.
• Yeenoghu said he would seek the Broodmother's Child for a decisive battle in the Astral Plane and told Dunn and the others to join the fight outside the city.

Dunn and his companions set out with Harrison’s undersized Gnoll squad to reach the Broodmother, while the allied forces struggled to hold the front line. After they fought their way deep into the monster tide, a sudden burst of pressure announced that Yeenoghu had taken the Broodmother’s Child into the Astral Plane to fight.

• Dunn and his companions left the city, worried that too few Gnolls were available to protect their planned strike against the Broodmother.
• Harrison introduced his squad of thirty-eight Gnolls, including ten fourth-tier fighters, and led them toward the front line with Dunn’s group protected in formation.
• Harrison’s squad cut through the mostly low-tier monsters, while Dunn’s Conqueror’s Color Haki failed to affect creatures linked to the Broodmother.
• Dunn’s group drew monsters away from the defenders, helping the Gnoll allied forces regain some ground.
• A thunderous crash and immense pressure halted the battlefield before the pressure vanished; Yeenoghu had taken the Broodmother’s Child into the Astral Plane to fight.

Dunn’s group raced through the monster hordes toward the Broodmother after Yeenoghu drew the Broodmother’s Child into the Astral Plane. When high-tier monsters slowed their advance in the ruined Withered Stone Wilderness, Annie unleashed powerful magic to clear a path for the group.

• After Yeenoghu took the Broodmother’s Child into the Astral Plane, Dunn ordered the group to advance at full speed toward the Broodmother.
• Harrison led the charge as the high-tier Gnolls fought through the monster encirclement and reached the Withered Stone Wilderness.
• Dunn’s group saw that the wilderness had been devastated by bloodshed and negative energy, while Dunn learned the Broodmother was still about a hundred li away.
• Dunn kept Sarna’s enhancement ability in reserve and ordered her to heal the Gnolls sparingly, then told Annie to act before the group became trapped.
• Annie summoned violent winds, rain, ice, and lightning, destroying the surrounding monsters and clearing a long path ahead.
• Dunn ordered the group to charge toward the Broodmother before the monsters could surround them again.

Dunn's party fought through the Broodmother's powerful monster horde as Annie used her ultimate spell to clear their path. They reached the edge of the enormous pit and saw the Broodmother, while Annie had exhausted her magic and Dunn carried her.

• Annie's magic attacks helped Dunn's party reach the depths of the Withered Stone Wilderness, but a swarm of high-tier monsters blocked their route to the Broodmother's pit.
• Flying monsters engaged Annie while the others attacked the party, and Gnoll Warriors died as the defense began to collapse.
• Annie unleashed a giant fire dragon's Dragon's Breath, destroying nearly all the monsters over several miles and opening a path forward.
• Dunn caught Annie after she teleported to him and began to fall from exhaustion, then carried her as the party hurried onward.
• Dunn's party reached the enormous pit and saw the Broodmother at its center.

Dunn and his allies fought through the Broodmother’s fourth-tier guards while Sarna strengthened the party. Dunn pierced the legendary Broodmother with Black Feather and detonated dragon-blood threads inside it, causing it to explode.

• Dunn used Conqueror's Color Haki to free the party from the Broodmother’s oppressive aura and realized it could counter a legendary being’s influence.
• Dunn handed Annie to Sarna and ordered Harrison and the others to hold off the Broodmother’s guards while he attacked it.
• Sarna cast enhancement spells as the Gnolls engaged the guards, while Maxim and Maddy protected Sarna and Annie.
• Dunn’s Blood Piercing attacks failed to penetrate the Broodmother, so he transformed and prepared Black Feather with Haki and burning bloodlines.
• Dunn drove Black Feather through the Broodmother’s defenses and detonated dragon-blood threads inside it, making the Broodmother explode.

Dunn's attack on the Broodmother failed to control its corrosive blood, and its cry devastated his allies as it healed and fought back. The Broodmother then gave birth to a hundred Fourth Tier monsters, including fliers, while Dunn resolved to keep fighting.

• Dunn wounded the Broodmother, but its corrosive blood resisted his control and drenched him.
• The Broodmother's cry incapacitated many Gnolls, and the group suffered devastating casualties.
• The Broodmother rapidly healed, and Dunn cut down nearby weaker monsters before charging it.
• The Broodmother struck Dunn with its tentacles, then opened bloodshot eyes and fixed its gaze on him.
• The Broodmother rapidly gave birth to a hundred Fourth Tier monsters, many of them capable of flight.

Dunn fought through the Broodmother’s fourth-tier monsters, then used an explosive dragon-blood attack to break free and reach Annie. As he hesitated over whether to leave Sarna behind, she revealed a Legendary Treasure that needed time to unseal, but Dunn doubted she could use it.

• Dunn endured repeated wounds while fighting the monsters and realized the Broodmother had detached from the Mycelial Carpet to pursue him.
• Dunn dispersed burning dragon-blood beads in an explosion, wounding the monsters and escaping their encirclement.
• Dunn flew to Annie and considered whether to take her and Sarna with him as the Broodmother targeted him.
• Sarna told Dunn she had a powerful Legendary Treasure that needed time to unseal and asked him to hold off the Broodmother.
• Dunn questioned whether a third-tier person could meet the requirements to use a Legendary Treasure.

Sarna revealed that her pendant was Rhongomyniad, a powerful legendary secret treasure that could potentially kill the Broodmother. While Sarna began releasing its power, Dunn drew the Broodmother and its monsters away and tried to hold them off.

• Dunn doubted Sarna's claim until she transformed her pendant into the legendary scythe Rhongomyniad.
• Sarna explained that she could use only part of the scythe's power and needed two minutes to release it without moving.
• Dunn agreed to hold off the Broodmother and its monsters while Maxim, Maddy, and Annie protected Sarna.
• Dunn flew away, drawing the Broodmother and the monsters after him.
• Sarna raised Rhongomyniad and chanted as golden light and figures surrounded her, releasing a legendary pressure that stopped the Broodmother in its tracks.

Sarna released the Holy Lance while Dunn tried to keep the Broodmother from reaching her. Dunn’s Dark Hole scattered the monster army and exposed the Broodmother to Sarna’s final attack, which killed it.

• Sarna released the Thirteen Seals and began the Round Table Decision as the Broodmother first resumed pursuing Dunn, then redirected its charge toward her.
• Yeenoghu kept the Broodmother’s Child trapped in battle on the Astral Plane, preventing it from returning to protect the Broodmother.
• Dunn charged the Broodmother and used Dark Hole to knock it down and drag its monsters away from Sarna.
• Dunn dodged the Broodmother’s tentacles until Sarna shouted “Rhongomyniad” and pierced it with the Holy Lance, killing it.

After surviving the Holy Lance’s attack, Dunn found the Broodmother’s Authority Fragment but could not touch it. Yeenoghu explained that it was suited to Dunn’s Soul-Soul Fruit and promised him the spoils, leaving Dunn wondering how he could use the fragment.

• Dunn recovered from his severe wounds and surveyed the ravine carved through the Withered Stone Wilderness by the Holy Lance.
• Dunn felt drawn to a glowing fragment but could not touch it, and Yeenoghu revealed that only a Legendary could handle an Authority Fragment.
• Yeenoghu explained that the fragment belonged to the Broodmother and held the Authority of [Reproduction], which could be divided into [Creation] and [Life].
• Dunn realized the fragment’s [Creation] Authority might strengthen or awaken his Soul-Soul Fruit, and Yeenoghu promised him the fragment as part of the spoils.
• Dunn asked Yeenoghu how he could use the Authority Fragment when he could not touch it.

After the Broodmother’s defeat, Yeenoghu gave Dunn and Sarna separate authority fragments, and the surviving group recovered before continuing toward the Rock Kingdom. Sarna awakened as a fourth-tier [Source of Life], while the chapter explained why the Wizard Council had forbidden the Legendary Class [World-Saver].

• Yeenoghu gave Dunn an authority fragment, then warned him not to take a second one before he had digested the first.
• Yeenoghu brought Dunn to the unconscious Sarna and placed the [Life] authority fragment in her body, restoring her color.
• The remaining monsters were subdued, the Gnolls held a feast for their allies and fallen warriors, and Dunn and the others later departed for the Rock Kingdom.
• Sarna awakened and advanced to fourth-tier [Source of Life].
• The chapter recounted how earlier [World-Saver] classholders interfered in conflicts and became hated by Legendaries, prompting the Wizard Council to ban the class.

Dunn and Annie reached the Rock Kingdom with Maddy while keeping their distance from Sarna, who had advanced to the fourth tier and could now revive the dead. Maddy brought them to his family’s manor and ordered its main gates opened after revealing that he had recovered the valuable Red Phosphorus Gold.

• Sarna’s fourth-tier Healer ability gave her the power to bring the dead back to life, exceeding her faction’s expectations.
• Dunn told Annie that he could not let Sarna heal him because they had to stay apart until they digested their Authority Fragments.
• After several days of travel, Dunn and Annie arrived in Rock City while Sarna and Maxim went home to report what had happened.
• Maddy led Dunn and Annie to his family’s manor and agreed to settle what he owed them.
• A guard questioned Maddy’s order to open the main gates, so Maddy showed him the Red Phosphorus Gold he had brought back.
• The guards opened the gates to welcome Dunn and Annie and sent word to the family’s higher-ups.

Maddy brought red phosphorus gold and news of a dragon’s death to the Mason Family, while Sarna returned to the royal palace after advancing to the fourth tier. The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint comforted Sarna over Colt’s death, then asked whether the dragonslayer had truly used all the dragon blood essence.

• Dunn and Annie settled into a luxurious courtyard residence on the Mason estate while Maddy went to arrange their payment.
• Maddy presented red phosphorus gold to the Mason Family council and said a dragonslayer was staying at the estate.
• The council members doubted Maddy’s claim that an adult red dragon had been slain and speculated that dragon blood essence remained.
• Sarna returned to the royal palace, where the elders celebrated her advancement to [Source of Life] and discussed Colt’s death.
• The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint comforted Sarna and asked whether the dragonslayer had used up all the dragon blood essence.

Dunn learned that the Rock Kingdom’s aging king was preparing to abdicate and that five princes remained in the Crown Prince Contest. When Annie explained that the final round allowed princes to hire powerful substitutes, Dunn realized he might be drawn into the contest.

• Sarna told the Rock Kingdom Sword Saint that Dunn had spent a large amount of Dragon Blood fighting the Broodmother, and he concluded that Dunn had used it all.
• Dunn read Eileen’s report that the old king of the Rock Kingdom was about to abdicate and asked Annie about the Crown Prince Contest.
• Annie explained that heirs competed in several areas and that the Legendary figures kept royal succession orderly.
• Annie found that five princes were still competing in the contest’s final stages, and Dunn asked what the final round tested.
• Annie said the final round consisted of one-on-one battles between Classholders, with princes allowed to send substitutes, and stressed that a prince who recruited a Limit Breaker could secure victory.
• Dunn realized that the princes might seek him out as a substitute and feared he would be caught up in the contest.

Dunn and Annie endured a stream of nobles seeking dragon blood, then tried to avoid being drawn into the princes’ contest for the crown. After Maddy delivered their promised payment, he asked to bring in a friend, and Dunn recognized that a member of the Royal Family was waiting outside.

• Members of the Mason Family visited Dunn and Annie to ask for dragon blood, but Dunn firmly refused to sell any.
• Dunn decided to stop receiving visitors, but Annie persuaded him to show courtesy to the Rock Kingdom’s leading nobles.
• After two days of visits, Dunn and Annie planned to leave once the dragon’s corpse was butchered in three more days.
• An attendant announced that the thirteenth prince had come to visit, but Annie and Dunn refused to see him.
• Maddy brought Dunn and Annie their promised payment, including an extra ten percent, and asked whether his friend could visit them.
• Dunn used Observation Haki to sense people waiting outside and recognized an aura resembling Sarna’s, realizing the visitor was from the Royal Family.

Dunn confronted Maddy for bringing the thirteenth prince directly to his room, a move that made Dunn appear to have joined the succession struggle. He agreed to meet the prince, then cleared the room of everyone else and left Lace Rock alone with him to discuss business.

• Dunn glared at Maddy and explained that the Mason Family had effectively dragged him into the princes’ succession struggle by bringing the thirteenth prince to his door.
• Maddy offered to turn the visitors away, but Dunn decided to meet them; Annie asked whether the Mason Family had sided with the thirteenth prince, and Maddy confirmed it.
• Maddy brought Lace Rock, the thirteenth prince, to meet Dunn and Annie, and Lace apologized for arriving unannounced.
• Dunn coldly told Lace to get to the point, then sent Lace’s guards and Maddy flying out of the room and slammed the door.
• Lace realized Dunn had subdued his Third Tier guards without moving and became nervous as Dunn invited him to continue.

Lace asked Dunn to help him win the Crown Prince Contest and offered the Rock Kingdom’s recognition of Dunn’s planned sea nation in return. Dunn weighed the offer, which could greatly shorten the time needed for his nation to gain mystical legitimacy.

• Lace revealed that he knew Dunn was the Blood Demon and asked for his help winning the Crown Prince Contest.
• Dunn questioned why Lace expected help after scheming against him, and Lace explained that Dunn had gained the Wizard Order, intelligence organization, and Knight Order in Lionheart City.
• Lace deduced that Dunn intended to found a nation at sea, surprising Dunn and Annie.
• Lace offered to have the Rock Kingdom recognize Dunn’s future nation if Dunn helped him become crown prince.
• Dunn considered how the declaration could shorten his nation’s path to recognition from decades or longer to just a few years.

Dunn accepted Lace’s offer to help him fight for the Rock Kingdom’s throne, despite Annie’s objections, and prepared to leave the Maisen estate. Meanwhile, the king and the Rock Kingdom Sword Saint concluded that Dunn planned to found a nation as part of his path to becoming Legendary and instructed Lace to monitor him and seek advantages for the kingdom.

• Dunn signed a contract agreeing to help Lace, then explained to Annie that their danger would be unchanged and Lace was their best option.
• Dunn and Annie decided to pack and leave the Maisen family’s estate because their identities had been exposed.
• Lace reported his negotiations with Dunn to the Rock Kingdom’s king and Sword Saint, who suspected Dunn intended to found a nation to complete a Legendary advancement ritual.
• The king and Sword Saint discussed the possibility that Dunn’s nation could unite more than ten Legendaries, while noting that the United Navy and other powers might oppose it.
• The Sword Saint told Lace to keep watch on Dunn and seek the greatest benefits for the Rock Kingdom, revealing that he had already chosen Lace as the next king.

Dunn and Annie learned that the Rock Kingdom was likely manipulating events around the princes’ contest, while the other princes recruited Limit Breakers to oppose Dunn. The chapter ended with Dunn eager to face the Peak Limit Breaker [Blade Ghost] Damon, who had agreed to fight for the seventh prince.

• Dunn turned away the other princes who came to recruit him, making clear that he had accepted the thirteenth prince’s commission.
• Annie returned with the dismantled dragon carcass, and Dunn explained that the Rock Kingdom’s rulers were likely using their situation to gain an advantage.
• Dunn and Annie discussed the Mason Family heir’s appointment as commander of the Rock Knight Order and the family’s early support for a candidate.
• A messenger told Dunn that all four rival princes had recruited Limit Breakers, including [Blade Ghost] Damon for the seventh prince.
• Annie said Damon was a Peak Limit Breaker weaker than Pearl and noted that he seemed to have settled in the Kingdom of Wesley.

Dunn and Annie suspected the Kingdom of Wesley had brought [Blade Ghost] to the crown prince contest to avenge Dunn’s attack on its naval port. At the palace, the Rock Kingdom Sword Saint confronted Barbara and Tasl ov, whose demand for a greater share of tribute threatened to trigger a battle between legends.

• Dunn recognized [Blade Ghost] as a likely agent of the Kingdom of Wesley, seeking revenge for his massacre at its naval port.
• Annie questioned whether Lace had truly been privately selected as crown prince, since the Seventh Prince had secured [Blade Ghost] for the contest.
• The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint accused Barbara and Tasl ov of interfering in the succession, while they argued that Lace had already been promised the throne.
• The Seventh Prince challenged the Sword Saint, saying the other princes had been treated as discarded pawns despite being members of the Rock Family.
• Tasl ov demanded an extra ten percent of the tribute for himself and Barbara, and the Sword Saint refused.
• The Sword Saint blasted the five princes away as Tasl ov prepared to fight, leaving a clash between the legends imminent.

The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint, Tasl ov, and Barbara agreed to settle their succession dispute through a struggle among the princes rather than risk a war between Legendaries. The old king made Rock City the battleground, leaving the princes to fight for the crown with their own abilities.

• The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint refused to surrender any of his share of the kingdom's tribute, despite Tasl ov and Barbara pressuring him over the succession.
• The old king proposed that the Legendaries stay out of the conflict while the princes fought for the crown within Rock City.
• The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint and Tasl ov both accepted the old king's proposal.
• The princes remained silent, knowing they could no longer withdraw without risking the Rock Kingdom Sword Saint's wrath.

As Rock City prepared for the Crown Prince Contest, Annie sensed that something was wrong, and Dunn received a warning that [Blade Ghost] was hunting him. Dunn and Annie remained calm, while the Rock Kingdom Sword Saint suspected Dunn might be confident enough to face [Blade Ghost].

• All three Knight Orders moved into Rock City as noble households closed their doors and the city grew unusually quiet.
• Annie told Dunn that the city felt wrong and that she could not reach Sarna, but Dunn reassured her and said they would leave after the Crown Prince Contest.
• Annie found a note from the thirteenth prince warning Dunn that [Blade Ghost] was hunting him and urging him to flee.
• Tasl ov mocked the thirteenth prince for warning Dunn, while the Rock Kingdom Sword Saint explained that the warning could earn the prince goodwill.
• The Rock Kingdom Sword Saint watched Dunn and Annie remain composed and began to suspect Dunn intended to fight [Blade Ghost] head-on.