Recaps

Dunn outmaneuvered the wounded Legendary Karagon by using Prometheus as a bluff and hiding his own blood inside Karagon’s wounds. The chapter ended with Dunn’s Blade Intent destroying Karagon’s heart.

• Prometheus appeared behind Dunn and fired at Karagon, distracting him while Dunn’s Bloodlines struck and dissolved against Karagon’s body.
• Karagon realized Prometheus’s apparent recovery was a bluff and resumed pursuing the Polaris.
• Dunn offered to let Karagon leave in exchange for sparing the Legendary Battleship, but Karagon rejected the offer to preserve his pride.
• Dunn attacked Karagon while Prometheus launched another feint, prompting Karagon to trap them both in shadows.
• Dunn manipulated his own blood, which had seeped into Karagon’s wounds, and used it to make Karagon lose blood.
• Dunn pierced Karagon’s heart with a blade, and his Blade Intent shredded it.

Dunn killed Karagon, a Legendary, but Karagon died before Dunn could learn who the Legendary Wizards he mentioned were. With Campbell Island destroyed, Dunn ordered everyone to take refuge in the Storm Sea while he handled matters outside, and Annie told him they had rescued Lady Geya of the Elf Race.

• Karagon lost most of his strength after Dunn shredded his heart, then chose to end his own life without revealing who the Legendary Wizards were.
• Annie and the others celebrated Dunn’s victory, but realized Campbell Island had been devastated and their home was gone.
• Dunn ordered Annie to take everyone into the Storm Sea, explaining that he would stay behind to handle some matters and might not return for a long time.
• Annie told Dunn they had rescued Lady Geya and other Elves after their ship was caught in the battle’s aftershocks.
• Dunn learned that sheltering the Elves could affect his relationship with the Elf Race.

After killing Karagon, Dunn became the focus of the world’s major powers and secretly traveled to Bewitching Flame Island. He offered Bronn an Enfeoffment slot in exchange for help founding a nation, but Bronn demanded more.

• Geya and several Elves agreed to accompany Dunn for the next few years, and Dunn accepted.
• News of Dunn’s victory over Karagon spread worldwide, drawing the attention of powerful figures and Legendaries.
• Dunn flew alone to Bewitching Flame Island and visited Lilith, then asked Bronn to meet with him.
• Dunn offered Bronn an Enfeoffment slot in exchange for support in founding his nation.
• Bronn said the offer was not enough, leaving Dunn to wonder what else he could offer.

Dunn negotiated with Bronn over support for his advancement, agreeing to marry Lilith and make her Empress before Bronn demanded the secret behind Dunn's ability to slay a Legendary. Bronn explained that he had been observing Dunn and had concluded that his varied abilities did not all come from his class.

• Dunn invited Bronn to state his terms, and Bronn first asked for an Enfeoffment slot for Lilith after Dunn advanced.
• Bronn demanded that Dunn marry Lilith and make her Empress, upsetting Lilith, who wanted the chance to become a Legendary without marrying.
• Dunn reasoned that marriage would bind Bronn and Lilith to him and agreed to the condition.
• Bronn asked Dunn to reveal the secret that let him slay a Legendary.
• Bronn said he had watched Dunn since he became Pirate King and concluded that Dunn's many abilities could not all come from his class.

Dunn agreed to give Bronn a share of his unusual power after he advanced, and the two signed a contract that also put Bronn in charge of gathering people for Dunn. After Dunn left, Bronn explained why Lilith’s marriage to him would secure their future in the empire, and she accepted that it was the best choice for them.

• Bronn asked Dunn for a share of the power Pearl and Dunn’s other subordinates had displayed, and Dunn agreed to provide two shares after he advanced.
• Dunn and Bronn signed a contract, and Dunn tasked Bronn with gathering people while Bronn’s support offered protection for the five Legendary Battleships.
• Dunn left Bewitching Flame Island and flew toward the Storm Sea.
• Lilith angrily asked Bronn why he insisted she marry Dunn, and Bronn argued that becoming empress would give them access to the empire’s resources and influence.
• After considering the risks of being ordinary Legendaries in the future empire, Lilith concluded that marrying Dunn was the best choice for her and Bronn.

Half a year after founding the Atlantis Empire, Dunn managed its government from the capital on Eidinger Island while waiting for an opportunity to advance without drawing the Wizard Council’s attack. He told Annie to prepare for her [Traveler] advancement once he succeeded, leaving their return to contact with the outside world dependent on that opportunity.

• Dunn established the imperial capital around the Wizard Tower on Eidinger Island, then declared the entire island an imperial estate after his subordinates fought over land there.
• Annie told Dunn that Lilith and her father were asking when they could come over, and Dunn said they would have to wait.
• Dunn explained that advancing now would provoke the Wizard Council, so he was waiting for an opportunity that would divert the world's powerful figures.
• Dunn told Annie to prepare to complete the [Traveler] advancement ritual after his own advancement, and Annie said she had been ready for a long time.

Dunn struggled to manage territorial disputes and growing tensions in Atlantis while waiting for the Boll Family to arrive. When Banboer successfully ascended to godhood as the God of War, Dunn recognized the long-awaited opportunity.

• Annie complained that Dunn's subordinates were fighting over territories, while Dunn worried that administrative shortages and disputes with the indigenous races could destabilize the country.
• Dunn learned that the Boll Family had moved to Bewitching Flame Island but could not come to Atlantis until he was satisfied it was safe to bring Bronn.
• A divine fire appeared, and Dunn observed it closely, sensing that this attempted ascension differed from the previous failures.
• A crystal rose from the divine fire, and Banboer announced that he had become the God of War, the world's first being to ascend to godhood.
• Annie asked Dunn what the God of War was, and Dunn said this was the opportunity they had been waiting for.

Dunn seized the appearance of a God Ascender as an opportunity to begin preparations for his founding ceremony and legendary advancement ritual, expecting the newborn gods to draw the Wizard Council’s attention. Meanwhile, a Legendary Wizard traced the Devil Fruits back to Dunn and resolved to pursue him despite the danger.

• Dunn reasoned that the birth of gods would distract the Wizard Council and ordered Annie to prepare the founding ceremony and send the Black Pearl to Bewitching Flame Island.
• Dunn said the ceremony date would be decided with Annie’s father, whom he had promised the position of imperial prime minister.
• In an Old World workshop, a Legendary Wizard used images of Devil Fruits changing shape to identify Dunn as their source.
• The Legendary Wizard recognized Dunn from their earlier encounter and learned that Dunn had slain a legendary.
• The Legendary Wizard decided he could not abandon his pursuit of Dunn because Devil Fruits might help him become a high legendary.

Dunn prepared for Atlantis's founding ceremony as Prime Minister Amber arranged invitations and security, while the rise of Apotheosis Ascenders threatened to bring conflict between the Wizard Council and the New World. Expecting enemies to target Atlantis, Dunn gave Bronn a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit before the ceremony.

• Amber told Dunn that preparations were complete but envoys would need a month to arrive, and Dunn ordered her to send invitations using all five Legendary Battleships.
• Amber asked whom to invite from the Wizard Council and the Lyon Empire, and Dunn instructed her to invite both.
• Dunn warned his officials to prevent disorder and protect citizens if Legendary battles broke out during the ceremony.
• Dunn considered the risks of Atlantis's location being exposed and the Wizard Council targeting the empire and its Wizard Tower.
• After everyone else left the Congress Hall, Dunn summoned Bronn and gave him a Devil Fruit, identifying it as the Mythical Zoan Fish-Fish Fruit, Azure Dragon Form.

Dunn told Bronn that Eddinger was dead and Alice had recently ascended to Legendary, then oversaw the founding of the Atlantis Empire amid a tense world war. At the ceremony, Dunn’s proclamation as emperor also began his Legendary Ascension Ceremony.

• Dunn revealed Eddinger’s death and Alice’s ascension to Legendary, shocking Bronn.
• Delegations from over a hundred powers traveled to Atlantis for the empire’s founding ceremony while the Wizard Council and Lyon Empire remained at war.
• Amber managed unrest caused by visiting nobles seeking rare races in Atlantis.
• Amber introduced Dunn to more than a million citizens at Imperial Square, and Dunn announced the founding ceremony.
• Dunn sat on the Dragon Throne and began the Legendary Ascension Ceremony.

Dunn began the lengthy ascension ceremony for the Fourth Tier class Emperor of the Sea and resisted the stars’ beguiling influence while his body transformed. As Alice watched from the Wizard Tower, Hohenheim and seven other Legendaries prepared to attack Atlantis, believing Dunn’s ascension would leave its defenders outnumbered.

• Dunn confirmed his ascension and focused his will to resist the stars’ influence as the ceremony transformed him.
• Alice reassured Elvia that Dunn appeared safe, while she sensed at least ten Legendaries hiding in the Storm Sea.
• Eight Legendaries discussed attacking Atlantis, and Hohenheim confirmed that his teacher had learned from the Speaker that the Destiny Legendary Wizard had fallen.
• Hohenheim proposed that he face the newly ascended Legendary Wizard while the others fought Atlantis’s remaining defenders, and the group agreed to wait briefly before acting.

Dunn’s legendary ascension continued through the founding ceremony’s military parade, alarming the legendary figures gathered in the Storm Sea. His consciousness returned to his body, and he completed his ascension as a level 25 Legendary Emperor of the Sea.

• The military parade continued while Dunn’s ascension ceremony showed no sign of ending.
• Pantos and the others debated why Dunn’s ceremony was taking so long, and Hohenheim suggested that a longer ascension could produce a stronger legendary.
• Hohenheim announced that the ceremony had ended and told the others to prepare to act.
• Dunn’s consciousness crossed a boundary, briefly perceived the world from above, and was pulled back into his body.
• Dunn felt his newfound power and checked his Career Card, which confirmed his successful ascension to level 25 and the Emperor of the Sea class.

Dunn completed his advancement to a Legendary Class and faced eight Legendaries who had arrived to challenge the Atlantis Empire. As Bronn attacked and the enemy began splitting up their targets, one assailant was hurled into the Sea, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dunn gained five points in every attribute except Will when he advanced to a Legendary Class.
• Amber and the other officials saw eight Legendaries hovering above Imperial Square and feared for the newly founded Atlantis Empire.
• Dunn confronted the visitors, and Bronn revealed himself as a gigantic dragonkin before attacking them with Heat Breath.
• Igneel absorbed Bronn's Heat Breath, while Bronn explained that Igneel's [Gluttony] ability let him consume anything, tangible or intangible.
• Hohenheim vanished after warning the others that the Wizard Tower had locked onto him, and the remaining Legendaries began choosing their opponents and dividing the spoils.
• A Legendary charged at Bronn but was knocked backward into the Sea.

Bronn revealed that the Azure Dragon Fruit had greatly amplified his Dragon Knight abilities, while Dunn prepared to face five Legends. Dunn turned Prometheus into a Legendary Fire Elemental Lord by giving it Karagon’s soul, leaving the opposing Legends stunned.

• Quintus charged Bronn but was sent flying, then called on Igneel to help him fight.
• Bronn explained that his new dragon form let his Dragon Companion ability restore and double his strength.
• Bronn and Quintus and Igneel entered the Astral Plane to fight, leaving Dunn to face five Legends.
• Dunn summoned Prometheus and placed Karagon’s soul inside it.
• Prometheus transformed into a Legendary Fire Elemental Lord, astonishing Pantos and the other Legends.

Dunn summoned a Wind Element Lord and sent it to fight Eric while Spears battled Prometheus. Three Legendary Golems then emerged from the Wizard Tower, forcing Byron and Mariana to engage them and leaving Pantos to face Dunn one on one.

• Spears took Prometheus away to fight in the depths of the Storm Sea.
• Dunn created the Wind Element Lord Hermes, and Eric took it on as his opponent.
• Byron ordered an attack on Dunn, but a beam from the Wizard Tower made him and Mariana retreat.
• Three Legendary Golems appeared, and Mariana volunteered to help Byron hold them off.
• Dunn told Pantos that they were now fighting one on one.

Dunn fought Pantos while the other Legendaries battled his allies and civilians evacuated the ceremony grounds. Their powers clashed without either gaining ground, and Dunn realized he might combine Conqueror’s Color Coating with Armament Haki to break the stalemate.

• Pantos charged Dunn after taking his challenge as an insult, and their first punch shook the ceremony grounds and injured civilians.
• Amber, Annie, and the ministers led the evacuation while Classholders and the Knight Order helped protect the citizens.
• Dunn assessed the battles: Alice held off Hohenheim, Bronn faced two opponents, Prometheus and Hermes fought evenly, and Byron and Mariana stalled three Legendary golems.
• Dunn and Pantos exchanged close-range blows, but Pantos’s annihilation power erased Dunn’s attacks and left them at a stalemate.
• Dunn tried blood manipulation and the Dark-Dark Fruit against Pantos’s authority, but both failed, until Pantos’s comment reminded him that Conqueror’s Color Coating could be combined with Armament Haki.

Dunn experimented with combining Armament Haki and Conqueror’s Color Coating while fighting Pantos, eventually mastering the technique and overpowering him. Pantos was left badly injured and driven into the sea as Dunn pressed the attack.

• Dunn kept trying to use Armament Haki beneath his Conqueror’s Color Coating, while Pantos realized Dunn was growing stronger during their fight.
• Dunn’s attempts became more successful as he mastered his newly gained power, and he knocked Pantos back.
• Pantos considered fleeing but feared the consequences of abandoning Hohenheim and his allies.
• After the fighters separated, Dunn applied Armament Haki first and successfully layered Conqueror’s Color Coating over it.
• Dunn struck Pantos with his combined Haki, caved in his chest, and sent him crashing into the sea.

Dunn used his Haki to counter Pantos’s Authority of Annihilation and relentlessly beat him, while their battle devastated parts of Atlantis. Pantos escaped into the Storm Sea toward the Old World, leaving Dunn unable to keep him from recovering quickly.

• Dunn’s Conqueror’s Color Coating resisted Pantos’s Authority of Annihilation while Ryuo let him land penetrating blows, turning their fight into a one-sided beating.
• Dunn pursued Pantos into the sea, and their battle caused tsunamis that sank small islands and devastated nearby settlements.
• Dunn moved the fight into the sky to limit damage to Atlantis and continued striking Pantos.
• Dunn realized Pantos had been steering their fight eastward and was using the force of a punch to escape toward the Old World.
• Pantos fled into the Storm Sea before Dunn could catch him, and Dunn accepted that his injuries would heal within about a month.

Dunn abandoned his pursuit of Pantos and moved to help the other battles, choosing Byron as his target. After learning Pantos had fled, Byron and Mariana abandoned the fight and escaped toward the Storm Sea.

• Dunn decided not to chase Pantos and assessed the battles across the battlefield.
• Dunn judged that Alice could hold out against Hohenheim and that joining the fights in the Storm Sea would not quickly defeat Eric or Spears.
• Dunn chose to attack Byron rather than Mariana, while Bronn remained outmatched by Igneel and the other Legendary Golem.
• Byron realized Dunn was coming for him, then cursed Pantos and refused Hohenheim's demand to hold the line.
• Byron transformed into a Flame Demon and fled toward the Storm Sea, while Mariana disappeared.

Hohenheim and the surviving Legendary fighters retreated after Pantos’s defeat, leaving Dunn, Alice, and Bronn victorious. Their respite ended when three Legendary Sea Monsters rose in the Storm Sea and attacked Prometheus, and the chapter left him escaping their grasp with help from Dunn’s allies.

• Hohenheim ordered Igneel, Quintus, Eric, and Spears to retreat after Pantos lost, then teleported away with Igneel and Quintus.
• Alice told Dunn the enemies had left, and Bronn praised their victory as they discussed repairing Atlantis.
• A crash and roars sounded from the Storm Sea, and Alice discovered that three Legendary Sea Monsters had risen.
• Dunn and Bronn found Prometheus being dragged toward the sea by tentacles while an underwater sound wave weakened him.
• Dunn summoned Hermes, whose Wind Blades wounded the tentacles as Bronn attacked, allowing Prometheus to tear free and escape.

Dunn and his companions fought off three Legendary Sea Monsters that attacked Prometheus, then withdrew when the creatures stopped pursuing them. Alice revealed that the Sea Monsters had sensed the Curse of the Sea on Dunn’s Devil Fruits, which came from the Mother of Sea Monsters.

• Prometheus told Dunn that Legendary Sea Monsters had suddenly attacked him after the Human Legendary left.
• Three Legendary Sea Monsters emerged and attacked Dunn, Prometheus, Hermes, and Bronn, while one inflicted a brief mental attack on Dunn with the words “Mother... curse.”
• Dunn and the others held off the Sea Monsters but avoided killing them for fear that nearby creatures would go berserk and threaten Atlantis.
• Alice told them to fly higher, and the Sea Monsters quieted down and sank back into the depths.
• Alice explained that the Devil Fruits carried the Curse of the Sea, and Dunn identified the Mother of Sea Monsters as its source.

Dunn worried that Devil Fruits might be tied to the Mother of Sea Monsters, then oversaw Atlantis’s recovery and held an enfeoffment ceremony for five new Legendary warlords. As the ceremony began, he saw that the power raising their auras came from the citizens’ faith.

• Dunn warned his people to stay as far from the sea as possible because of the danger posed by the Mother of Sea Monsters and her sea monsters.
• Atlantis completed its rapid reconstruction, though nearly a hundred thousand citizens had died in Imperial Square and the empire’s total losses were even greater.
• Annie told Dunn that preparations for the enfeoffment ceremony were nearly complete, and he agreed to hold it the next day.
• Dunn chose Carter, the Minotaur Chieftain, as the fifth recipient so the empire’s Legendary ranks would represent its many races.
• Dunn enfeoffed Pearl, Krigon, Eileen, Carter, and Lilith as members of the King's Seven Warlords of the Sea.
• As the five participants’ auras rose, Dunn saw that the energy came from the gathered citizens and recognized it as the power of faith.

After the Enfeoffment ceremony made five people Legendaries, Dunn organized the Atlantis Empire’s leadership and distributed noble titles. He then tasked Elvia and Carter with appeasing the native races whose lands and way of life had been disrupted, leaving the empire to settle into its new rule.

• The Enfeoffment ceremony ended with five new Legendaries, bringing the empire’s Legendary forces into double digits.
• Dunn appointed Lilith empress, assigned government and military posts to his allies, and named Monet court wizard after Valentin declined the position.
• Dunn granted counts, viscounts, and barons’ titles to his longtime subordinates and the remaining original pirates.
• Dunn recognized that the native races resented their relocations and felt little loyalty to the new empire, though they could provide valuable fighters.
• Dunn appointed Elvia ambassador to the races, with Carter assisting her in winning them over and backing her promises with military strength.

Dunn explained that Annie’s Legendary Ascension Ceremony had to wait until Atlantis retaliated against the powers that had attacked it, since the empire had yet to prove its strength. The chapter ended with Dunn insisting that a successful retaliation would deter interference and make Annie’s ceremony safer.

• The Rock Kingdom recognized the Atlantis Empire, while other Old World powers secretly established diplomatic relations with it.
• The first God Ascender and then other deities were expelled into the Astral Plane Depths after spending a year in the Material Plane.
• Dunn played with his daughter Evelyn Campbell while Annie asked when she could begin her Legendary Ascension Ceremony.
• Dunn told Annie that Atlantis needed to retaliate against its past attackers before she attempted her ceremony, to deter other powers from interfering.

Dunn chose Byron of the Twilight Kingdom as his target for retaliation and traveled to the Royal Capital with Pearl. There, he waited in a tavern to test whether the World Consciousness had stopped punishing Legendaries for mass killings, while struggling with the thought of slaughtering civilians.

• Dunn ruled out most of the Legendaries who had attacked Atlantis and selected Byron because he seemed easier to kill than Spears.
• Dunn and Pearl concealed their auras in a tavern in the Twilight Kingdom’s Royal Capital instead of attacking Byron immediately.
• Dunn told Pearl that he suspected the World Consciousness had abolished its punishment for Legendaries who killed mortals en masse.
• Dunn considered using the attack to test that conjecture and his new ability, but felt conflicted about killing the city’s civilians.