Recaps

Dunn tested the Royal Capital’s loyalty to the Twilight Kingdom and decided its citizens were enemies who could not be spared. He unleashed his Death River power across the capital, leaving the massacre underway.

• Dunn explained to Pearl that he needed to confirm whether the world favored gods before choosing the path to godhood.
• Dunn asked tavern patrons what they thought of [Eye of Chaos] attacking the Atlantis Empire, and they praised [Eye of Chaos] while cursing the pirate nation.
• Dunn concluded that the capital’s loyal citizens were his enemies and resolved to set limits on killing ordinary people to preserve his humanity.
• Dunn unleashed the Death River, and endless blood energy engulfed the Royal Capital.

Dunn unleashed the Death River on the Royal Capital of the Twilight Kingdom, consuming millions of lives to create undead spirits that could serve as his extra lives. Byron confronted him while Pearl blocked Hai'er, and Dunn revealed that he meant to make an example of Byron; the fight began with the capital still in danger.

• Dunn's Death River poured from a crimson cross and swept through more than half the Royal Capital, devouring its inhabitants and turning them into undead spirits.
• Byron and Hai'er arrived to stop the destruction, but Pearl blocked their path beneath the crimson cross.
• Pearl let Byron pass at Dunn's command and prepared to fight Hai'er while Byron confronted Dunn above the city.
• Dunn called the massacre a small return gift, then told Byron that Hohenheim would face him later, making Byron realize he was being targeted as an example.
• Byron challenged Dunn to fight in the Astral Plane, but Dunn refused, implying he would continue the slaughter in the capital.

Dunn maintained the Death River’s expansion while Byron attacked him with his demonic strength and Legendary Spell, Chaos Rain. As Dunn’s blood-red spikes began wearing down the meteors, Byron closed in and wrapped his arms around the Blood Cross.

• Dunn sensed that the royal capital’s forces had slowed the Death River, but he focused on maintaining it rather than confronting them.
• Byron transformed into a Balor and struck the Blood Cross with a fiery whip, but the barrier remained unharmed.
• Byron cast Chaos Rain, sending green-flamed meteors down to attack the Death River and the Blood Cross.
• Dunn raised endless blood-red spikes coated with Conqueror’s Color Haki, which broke the meteors’ defenses and gradually extinguished their flames.
• Byron moved to the Blood Cross and wrapped his enormous arms around it.

Byron used Fel fire to crack the Blood Cross, but Dunn summoned Prometheus and Hermes to keep him occupied while the Death River engulfed the royal capital. After the river transformed the city’s dead into millions of undead, Dunn activated Plunder and drew them toward himself.

• Byron ignited Fel fire over his body, cracking the Blood Cross and forcing Dunn to summon Prometheus to knock him away.
• Byron and Prometheus fought through the city as Fel corruption spread across Prometheus, and Dunn sent Hermes to clear resistance to the Death River.
• Dunn activated the Death River at full power, while Fel corruption muddled Byron’s mind and helped him gain the upper hand over Prometheus.
• The Death River engulfed the royal capital, leaving no life in the city except for a few Legendary beings, then formed millions of undead.
• Dunn activated the Authority of Plunder, drawing the undead toward himself inside the Blood Cross.

Dunn absorbed more than 5.63 million lives from the Twilight Kingdom's royal city without the Legendary Wizard intervening. He battled the Fel-corrupted Byron and, after discovering that resisting Fel drained his Haki, trapped Byron beneath the city's immense river of blood.

• Dunn completed Death River, absorbing the royal city's undead and sensing more than 5.63 million lives within him.
• Dunn recalled Hermes and Prometheus as Fel-corrupted Byron pursued them, then equipped Hermes as armor and Prometheus as a flame atop his hair.
• Dunn countered Byron's attack with a Haki-coated punch and beat him, but realized the Fel was rapidly draining his Haki.
• Dunn dodged Byron's frenzied assault while drawing the city's river of blood back toward the battlefield.
• Dunn engulfed Byron in the river of blood, which began weakening Byron's Fel flames.

Byron escaped Dunn’s blood river and tried to flee, but Dunn caught him and forced him into a desperate corner. Byron unleashed Body-Burning Explosion, flattening the royal capital as Dunn, Pearl, and Hai'er fled the blast.

• Byron broke free of Dunn’s blood river and fled, but Dunn used [Future Sight] and [Observation Killing] to intercept him.
• Dunn tore off Byron’s horn, forced him back into the blood river, and caught him when he tried to escape again.
• Dunn drew blood from Byron’s head, and Byron transformed into his Flame Demon form and began using Body-Burning Explosion.
• The explosion evaporated Dunn’s blood river and flattened the royal capital, sending a mushroom cloud high into the sky.
• Pearl and Hai'er abandoned their fight and fled the city to escape the blast.

Dunn survived Byron’s self-detonation, captured and consumed Byron’s soul, then faced an attack from Abyss Lord Lagras through a Spatial Rift. The chapter ended as Lagras’s enormous lava-covered arm struck toward Dunn.

• Dunn regenerated his wings after Byron’s Body-Burning Explosion and caught the spark containing Byron’s soul.
• Dunn revealed he knew the spark concealed Byron’s surviving soul, shattered it, and consumed the exposed soul.
• A Spatial Rift opened to the Abyss, where Lord Lagras demanded that Dunn hand over Byron’s soul.
• Dunn refused Lagras, who thrust a massive lava-covered arm through the rift and slammed it toward him.

Raglas killed Dunn with a strike from the Abyss, but Dunn resurrected and discovered that dying had awakened a trace of the Vampire Fruit’s power of death. Dunn taunted Raglas into attacking again, and Raglas finally snapped despite the cost of crossing planes.

• Raglas blamed Dunn for Byron’s death and the collapse of their plan to invade the Material Plane.
• Raglas struck Dunn with a lava claw, killing him while he was still recovering from a Body-Burning Explosion.
• Dunn resurrected from streams of blood and realized his death had advanced the Vampire Fruit, granting him a trace of the power of death.
• Raglas mistook Dunn’s resurrection for a limited-use death-substitution method and offered to spare him if he submitted.
• Dunn refused and insulted Raglas, who hesitated because attacking across planes had already cost him considerable power.
• Dunn asked Raglas, “So what?”, and Raglas’s anger finally snapped.

Dunn deliberately let Ragras kill him repeatedly to awaken the Vampire Fruit, provoking the Abyssal lord into unleashing increasingly powerful attacks. After surviving Ragras’s Legendary Spell and Finger of Death through repeated resurrections, Dunn sensed he was only one final push from awakening the fruit.

• Dunn stopped resisting Ragras’s hellfire and repeatedly resurrected, seeking to awaken the Vampire Fruit.
• Dunn taunted Ragras, who widened the Spatial Rift and attacked him with a devastating Legendary Spell of falling meteors and a supervolcano eruption.
• Dunn resurrected dozens of times during the spell while Pearl and Hai’er fled the battlefield.
• Ragras cast Finger of Death, killing Dunn instantly, but Dunn resurrected within his unharmed corpse.
• Dunn sensed that he was one final push away from awakening the Vampire Fruit.

After Raglas realized Dunn had used repeated deaths to strengthen his Death Authority, he retreated to the Abyss, leaving Dunn short of fully awakening it. Members of the Wizard Council arrived to investigate the devastated Twilight Kingdom, and Pearl, Hai'er, and Lamia soon joined them as Dunn faced the gathering Legendary figures.

• Raglas recognized that Dunn had used their battles to temper his Death Authority and withdrew into the Abyss rather than keep attacking.
• Dunn realized further deaths would not grant him Death Authority unless he awakened the Vampire Fruit.
• A group of Legendary Wizards teleported to the ruined Twilight Kingdom, and their old leader identified himself as a member of the Wizard Council investigating an Abyss invasion.
• Dunn told the Wizard Council that the Abyss lord had been dealt with, prompting the young-looking Legendary Wizard to question his claim.
• Pearl arrived with Hermes, followed by Hai'er and Lamia, while Prometheus concealed himself above the clouds.
• Pearl explained that he and Hai'er had fled Raglas's Legendary Spell, met Lamia, and then hurried back to Dunn when the spell stopped.

After the Wizard Council confronted Dunn over his massacre of the Dusk Royal Capital, he nearly clashed with Augustine’s group until both sides stood down. Dunn and Augustine ended the chapter exchanging friendly pleasantries after a tense standoff.

• Hai'er told the Wizard Council’s Legendaries about Dunn’s massacre of the Dusk Royal Capital, and Doris prepared to attack him.
• Bane demanded that Dunn return with the Wizard Council to answer for the massacre, and Dunn refused.
• Bane identified Augustine, Doris, and the other members of their group, then threatened to take Dunn by force.
• Dunn challenged Augustine, while the Wizard Council’s Legendaries, Hai'er, and Dunn’s allies prepared for battle.
• Dunn opened a spatial passage as Prometheus and Hermes arrived, and the gathered Legendaries’ auras collided.
• Augustine stopped the confrontation, apologized to Dunn, and both sides withdrew before exchanging pleasantries.

Augustine avoided fighting the Atlantis Empire and agreed to part ways peacefully with Dunn. Before leaving, Dunn invited Lamia to join Atlantis, offering her a Legendary Battleship and the possibility of access to Alice’s Tower of Life, leaving Lamia tempted by the offer.

• Augustine chose not to confront Dunn because the battle risked heavy casualties, and Lamia showed no intention of helping him.
• Dunn and Augustine exchanged farewells and agreed to return to their respective destinations.
• Dunn invited Lamia to join the Atlantis Empire, startling the Legendary figures present.
• Dunn offered Lamia ownership of a Legendary Battleship and the possibility of secondary access to Alice’s Tower of Life.
• Lamia considered the offer, especially the Legendary Battleship, which could support her future advancement.

Lamia accepted Dunn’s invitation to join Atlantis after settling some old business, seeing it as a chance for better resources and a Legendary Battleship. After Dunn left, she rejected Augustine’s appeal to remain with the Wizard Council and vanished to prepare to move.

• Lamia weighed Dunn’s offer against the Twilight Kingdom’s collapse and decided Atlantis was an attractive destination.
• Lamia told Dunn she would join him after taking care of some old business, and Dunn agreed to receive her in Atlantis before leaving through a spatial passage.
• Augustine questioned Lamia about joining Atlantis and warned that the Wizard Council would eventually oppose Dunn.
• Lamia dismissed the Wizard Council’s appeal, while Doris revealed that even she had not yet secured a place in the Tower of Eternal Darkness.
• Lamia mocked Augustine, said she had business to finish before moving, and vanished.

Dunn returned to Atlantis after exhausting the Tower of Life’s magic power, then joined an emergency council meeting where the Eye of the Firmament asked for help against the Wizard Council. When the others pressed him to commit Atlantis’s forces, Dunn considered revealing something that might help the Lyon Empire hold out for two more years.

• Dunn returned to the imperial palace after Alice berated him for draining the Tower of Life’s magic power pool.
• The Eye of the Firmament summoned all thirteen council members to an emergency meeting.
• The Eye of the Firmament said the Lyon Empire was facing a decisive battle against the Wizard Council and needed help because its Legendary ranks had been depleted.
• You Rooster identified several council members who had reached Legendary, and Dunn recognized some as future evil gods from his former life.
• Si Snake agreed to help personally but said the Elf Race would send no more forces, and the others offered no further support.
• You Rooster urged Wei Sheep to commit Atlantis’s forces, but Dunn resolved not to enter the war and considered revealing something to help the Lyon Empire endure.

Dunn suggested preparing a home for Deities before they were expelled into the Astral Plane, inspiring the Eye of the Firmament to pursue the idea. Less than half a year later, the Lord of Dawn ascended with a city-sized tract of land and established the first Divine Kingdom in the Astral Plane.

• Dunn concluded that the Lyon Empire needed more time and suggested that Deities take a prepared home with them into the Astral Plane.
• The Eye of the Firmament seized on Dunn’s idea and left to test it, while You Rooster warned Dunn that the Wizard Council would destroy empires and urged him to ally with the Lyon Empire.
• Dunn rejected the alliance because he feared the Lyon Empire would annex the Atlantis Empire and turn it into a battlefield.
• Within half a year, the Lord of Dawn achieved Deification and voluntarily departed for the Astral Plane with a city-sized tract of land.
• The Lord of Dawn cleansed the land with His divine power and established His Divine Kingdom there.

As the world’s Legendaries rushed to attain godhood, Dunn delayed his own plans until the Atlantis Empire was secure. Annie began her yearlong Legendary Ascension Ceremony from the Old World to the New World while the Tower of Life lowered Atlantis’s barrier, leaving the region exposed to the Storm Sea and rival factions.

• The Lord of Dawn defeated deities who tried to seize his Divine Kingdom, killing three and forcing others to flee or submit to him.
• Deities without Divine Kingdoms began attaching themselves to those who had them, and pantheons started to form.
• Dunn decided he would not become a god until the Atlantis Empire was completely secure.
• The Tower of Life shut down Atlantis’s protective barrier so Annie could begin her ascension journey through the Storm Sea.
• Alice and Lamia prepared protective magic arrays on islands along Annie’s route to help Atlantis withstand the storms.
• Annie set out as members of other factions began acting in hopes of exploiting any problems with her ceremony.

After Annie completed her New Sea Route and reached the New World, faith power helped her advance to Legendary and transformed the route. Dunn and his companions protected her from rival powers, and the Atlantis Empire reopened to the outside world as preparations began for the influx of visitors.

• Annie reached the New World after a year and two months of pioneering the route, then completed its nautical chart and began advancing to Legendary.
• Faith power converged on Annie and the New Sea Route, driving her advancement and clearing the Storm Sea’s clouds while improving the route’s conditions.
• Dunn arrived with Bronn, Pearl, Lamia, and Krigon and exchanged blows with rival Legendary figures who tried to kill Annie before her power and route were fully established.
• Annie completed her advancement, and the New Sea Route connected the Atlantis Empire to the outside world.
• The Tower of Life restored its barrier, and the empire began preparing for outsiders, profits, and risks from the reopened route.

After the United Navy’s invasion failed against Atlantis’s Legendary Battleships, the Empire’s maritime supremacy was recognized while the gods’ influence grew. The world adopted the Calendar of the Gods, marking the end of the Age of Exploration and the first signs of a millennia-long conflict between the gods and the Wizard Council.

• Dunn deployed nine Legendary Battleships as the United Navy attacked Atlantis’s control of the New Sea Route.
• Atlantis defeated the United Navy, sinking one of its Legendary Battleships and leaving it too weakened to continue its campaign against the Pirate Kings.
• Christina sided with several Legendaries against her teacher, the Raging Waves Sword Saint, deepening divisions within the United Navy.
• The Atlantis Empire’s ten Legendary Battleships convinced the world of its maritime supremacy, and other powers speculated that Dunn’s Legendary Class enabled their production.
• The gods agreed on the Calendar of the Gods without consulting the Wizard Council, and the New World, Old World, and Elf Continent recognized it.
• The first year of the Calendar of the Gods began, marking the end of the Age of Exploration and the first signs of a war between the gods and the Wizard Council.

Yala and Arthur staged a mutiny aboard the pirate ship [Blackbird], killing the greedy captain and his allies. Yala claimed the captaincy, and the pirates accepted her after she offered to divide the dead crew’s belongings.

• The pirates accused their captain of keeping most of the loot, and Yala rallied them against him.
• The captain’s trusted man shot a pirate, prompting Yala to lead the crew into battle against the captain’s faction.
• Arthur stabbed the captain from behind, and Yala beheaded him before killing the Navigator and the captain’s trusted men.
• Yala revealed she was a woman, declared herself the new captain of the [Blackbird], and promised to divide the dead pirates’ belongings equally.
• The pirates cheered for Captain Yala as her advancement to Second Tier [Pirate Captain] succeeded.

Dunn reviewed the Atlantis Empire’s secret Successor Plan as he continued strengthening his emperor’s aura. Annie presented Yara Moore as a promising candidate, while Dunn’s approaching obligation to achieve deification made finding a worthy successor essential.

• Annie climbed the throne hall’s nine hundred and ninety-nine steps and told Dunn that his growing aura now prevented her from using space authority near the throne.
• Dunn asked Annie about the Successor Plan, and she said several promising candidates appeared near the beginning of her report.
• Annie’s report described how Yara Moore and her brother Arthur joined the pirate ship [Blackbird], led a mutiny, and helped Yara advance to [Pirate Captain].
• Annie reminded Dunn that Yara had won the Successor Competition and received the Mythical Zoan-Phoenix Fruit.
• Dunn considered the need to choose a successor before his contracted path to deification, and the chapter explained that he had supplied Devil Fruits to support the plan.

Dunn learned that Yala had left the sea route to seek advancement elsewhere, while Annie questioned why he had not chosen his children as successors. Dunn explained that his approaching Vampire Fruit awakening meant Wells was his last child, so he would not let his only son risk his life for succession; the chapter ended with Annie reporting that Gannis had come to join them.

• Annie told Dunn that Yala had left the sea route after advancing, and Dunn ordered Eileen to watch her if she survived the crossing.
• Annie asked Dunn why he had not groomed Evelyn or Wells to succeed him, and Dunn explained the dangers Evelyn would face outside the empire.
• Dunn said his body was becoming more like a dead person's as the Vampire Fruit approached awakening, leaving Wells as his last child.
• Dunn refused to let Wells risk his life for succession and said he could reserve an Enfeoffment slot if Wells wanted to become legendary.
• Annie told Dunn that Gannis had come to join them, and Dunn left arrangements for him to her discretion.

After Hohenheim joined the United Navy, it reunited and conquered the other nine sea routes, killing two pirate Legendary experts and forcing the rest to flee. In Atlantis, Lilith gathered the empire’s female Legendary experts to build support for Wells’s succession, but Annie sensed several Legendary experts heading toward Atlantis.

• In Year 5, Hohenheim joined the United Navy, restoring its unity while Christina lost her authority but remained fleet admiral.
• In Year 6, the United Navy invaded the other nine sea routes, killed two pirate Legendary experts, drove the rest away, and occupied the routes within a year.
• Lilith hosted a tea gathering with Annie, Eileen, Lamia, and Alice as she sought their support for Wells to inherit the throne after Dunn’s planned deification.
• Annie sensed several Legendary experts entering the sea route and heading toward Atlantis.

The United Navy’s leaders argued over their failed ambush and the six Legendaries who had joined the Atlantis Empire. The Raging Waves Sword Saint proposed attacking the Sea Route to draw Atlantis’s forces beyond the Wizard Tower’s protection, and Christina agreed to follow his orders.

• Hohenheim blamed the Raging Waves Sword Saint for ambushing the Legendaries instead of attacking the Atlantis Empire first, while the Sword Saint defended his decision.
• Pantos redirected the argument toward how to fight Atlantis as the United Navy’s divided factions discussed their options.
• Hohenheim volunteered to fight the [Blood Emperor], and Igneel offered to take on Bronn.
• The Raging Waves Sword Saint warned that Atlantis’s forces and Wizard Tower made a direct assault too dangerous.
• The Raging Waves Sword Saint proposed capturing stretches of the Sea Route outside the Storm Sea to force Atlantis to fight beyond the Wizard Tower’s range.
• Christina told the Raging Waves Sword Saint that she and her forces would follow his orders.

Annie met with six injured Legendary figures who wanted an alliance against the United Navy, but she rejected their proposal and offered them harsh River Styx Contracts to join the Atlantis Empire. The six erupted in anger, and Annie told them to sign or leave.

• Annie dismissed Jacob's outburst, while Sparu restrained him and tried to keep the meeting peaceful.
• Annie said her attitude represented Dunn's and mocked the six for being defeated by the United Navy.
• Sparu proposed that the Legendary figures and the Atlantis Empire unite against the United Navy and Hohenheim.
• Annie rejected an alliance but offered the six River Styx Contracts to join the empire.
• The six read the contracts, denounced them as enslavement, and threatened to attack.
• Annie refused to soften the terms and ordered them to sign or leave.

Annie forced six injured Legendaries to sign contracts and join the Atlantis Empire, then explained that their options were limited by the wars ahead. She said she would handle the coming war against the United Navy without disturbing His Majesty Dunn.

• Sparu demanded to wait for Bronn, but Annie froze the island and threatened the six Legendaries until they agreed to sign.
• Sparu signed first, and Nicholas and the other four Legendaries followed; Annie then welcomed all six and arranged temporary lodging and a banquet.
• In the imperial courtyard, Annie told Lilith and Lamia that the injured Legendaries had little reason to choose the United Navy or other powers over Atlantis.
• Annie said she had taken the six in without asking Dunn and would not disturb him over the coming war against the United Navy.