Recaps

As the United Navy blockaded the sea routes around Atlantis without invading, Annie organized the empire’s defenses and assigned its Legendaries to the eastern and western fronts. The chapter ended with Bronn and Lamia leading their forces out to meet the looming war while Annie, Alice, and Lilith stayed to defend the homeland.

• Lilith hosted a banquet welcoming Sparu and five other Legendaries, and Annie declared Atlantis to be on war readiness.
• In March of year eight, the United Navy occupied the sea routes east and west of Atlantis, then stopped outside the Storm Sea.
• By May, Sparu and the other newly joined Legendaries grew impatient as the blockade cut off Atlantis’s income and the enemy held back from invading.
• Annie explained that the United Navy was trying to draw Atlantis into battle beyond the Wizard Tower’s area of influence.
• Annie assigned Bronn to lead the eastern front and Lamia to lead the western front, while she, Alice, and Lilith remained to defend and support the homeland.

As the United Navy’s war with the Atlantis Empire dragged on and casualties mounted, Annie pushed to conscript the empire’s indigenous races after they refused to volunteer. She asked Lilith and Alice to back a final ultimatum, leaving Lilith alarmed by the risk of rebellion.

• The United Navy attacked Atlantis’s eastern and western fleets with fifteen Legendary Battleships, and Annie teleported the western fleet’s Legendary Battleships east to help secure a draw while the western forces suffered heavy losses.
• The two sides fought a two-month war of attrition, with the United Navy’s Legendaries staying outside the Sea Route and avoiding a decisive battle.
• Lilith warned Annie that continued casualties would cripple the empire, and Annie explained that the United Navy controlled whether the Legendaries fought.
• Amber Boll reported that most indigenous races had rejected Annie’s conscription orders and that few others had agreed to join the war.
• Annie told Alice she could no longer treat the races gently, and Alice gave her permission to act.
• Annie asked Lilith to issue an ultimatum requiring every race to send at least half its adult Classholders to war, and argued that the empire’s Legendaries could suppress any rebellion.

Annie and Lilith forced the other races into the war, using Alice’s intervention to suppress their rebellion without making the empire responsible for the slaughter. As Atlantis and the United Navy suffered heavy losses, the United Navy’s Legendaries finally entered the fray.

• Annie and Lilith signed the decree of amnesty, but the other races rejected the empire’s ultimatum and began organizing resistance.
• Alice unleashed a Magic Power Tide from the Wizard Tower, erasing three rebellious races and forcing the others to join the war.
• Annie explained that she had counted on Alice to intervene and planned for Dunn to win the other races’ loyalty after the war.
• The other races strengthened Atlantis’s army, but the fighting intensified and both sides lost several Legendary Battleships.
• After five of its Legendary Battleships were destroyed, the United Navy sent its Legendaries into the fray.

Bronn and the Atlantis Empire’s Legendaries fought the navy forces at the Shattered Rock Archipelago. The Raging Waves Sword Saint targeted Sparu and Finis, and the chapter ended with Sparu being swept toward Bronn while Finis had vanished.

• The Raging Waves Sword Saint confronted Bronn, and Bronn transformed into his Dragonkin form and attacked him.
• Igneel intercepted Bronn’s air cannon, then chased him as Bronn tried to draw both Igneel and the Raging Waves Sword Saint away from the other fighters.
• The Legendaries on both sides paired off, while Sparu and Finis fought cautiously against a navy Legendary.
• The Raging Waves Sword Saint joined the fight against Sparu and Finis, driving them back with another navy Legendary.
• Bronn struggled against Igneel until he heard a roar calling Sparu’s name and saw Sparu swept toward him by seawater, pursued by the Raging Waves Sword Saint and another fighter; Finis had disappeared.

Annie rushed to the Shattered Rock Archipelago after Finis was killed and questioned Sparu about his death. She challenged the Raging Waves Sword Saint and began shifting the battlefield through her Sea Route, but Igneel suddenly returned by breaking through space.

• Annie left Alice to watch the western battlefield and teleported with Lilith to the Shattered Rock Archipelago after sensing Finis’s death.
• Annie sent Igneel through a spatial portal when he kept attacking Bronn, then asked Bronn how Finis had died.
• Bronn said Finis had called out Sparu’s name before dying, and Sparu claimed the Raging Waves Sword Saint and his partner had abandoned him to attack Finis.
• Annie challenged the Raging Waves Sword Saint and began manipulating the space around the battlefield, prompting him to consider the danger of fighting within her Sea Route.
• Igneel suddenly burst out of space after the Raging Waves Sword Saint noticed he had not returned.

The navy withdrew after killing Finis, while Annie chose not to trap them because she feared problems among Atlantis's new Legendary allies. Back in the Imperial Capital, Yale accused Sparu of being involved in Finis's death, and Annie ended the argument without resolving the suspicion.

• The Raging Waves Sword Saint used Hohenheim's box to suppress Igneel's desire for vengeance, then led the navy's Legendaries away with a crushed orb.
• Annie let the navy escape because she was uncertain whether Sparu or other newly joined Legendaries could be compromised.
• Hohenheim stopped fighting on the western battlefield and withdrew as Lamia and the others were relieved to survive.
• At the Imperial Capital council hall, Yale challenged Sparu over Finis's death and said Finis had recovered fully before the ambush.
• Sparu denied betraying Finis, but Yale insisted his account was false, and Annie stopped their argument and ordered everyone to rest.

As the war drained Atlantis’s finances, Annie refused to expose Dunn and the empire to greater risks and searched for another way to force the United Navy’s Legendaries into battle. Alice proposed attacking the navy’s Legendary Battleships, and the council realized the vanished Divine Punishment no longer prevented them from doing so.

• During months of fighting, the United Navy’s Legendaries avoided battle, and the loss of sea-route revenue pushed Atlantis toward financial collapse.
• Bronn proposed a surprise attack with Annie and Lamia, but Annie warned that leaving another front undefended would invite disaster.
• Lamia suggested asking Dunn to intervene, but Annie refused to reveal Atlantis’s trump card while the threat of the Wizard Council remained.
• Yale asked how the Legendaries could protect their interests, prompting Alice to suggest attacking the navy’s borrowed Legendary Battleships to force their owners to fight.
• Lilith objected that attacking ordinary people risked Divine Punishment, but the council recalled that it had vanished and agreed to Alice’s plan.

In December of Year 8, Atlantis’s fifteen Legendary Battleships overwhelmed the United Navy’s eleven on the eastern front until the Raging Waves Sword Saint and six other Legendaries intervened. Annie then brought Bronn and six allies to face them, as the two groups’ killing intent darkened the battlefield.

• Atlantis sent its fifteen remaining Legendary Battleships to the eastern front, where they suppressed the United Navy’s eleven ships.
• Christina urged the Raging Waves Sword Saint to intervene, and he led the Legendaries toward the battlefield.
• The Legendary [Traveler] unleashed enormous tornadoes that threatened to destroy the United Navy’s ships.
• The Raging Waves Sword Saint stopped the storms with a seawater sword and drew them into a huge maw.
• Annie confronted the Raging Waves Sword Saint and his six companions, then summoned Bronn and six others to meet them.

The Legendaries fought a deadly battle across the Sea Route, while Annie and the Raging Waves Sword Saint discussed deification and the power of the gods. The chapter ended when the Sword Saint warned Annie she was overconfident and she sensed several new Legendary auras approaching.

• After Finis's death made both sides fear another loss, the Legendaries fought at full strength, shaking the Sea Route and devastating nearby islands.
• Bronn fought Igneel, Annie faced the Raging Waves Sword Saint, and Lilith and Hermes teamed up against a navy Legendary.
• Annie avoided the Sword Saint's blade with her space authority, and he paused their fight to discuss the deification method.
• The Sword Saint dismissed the deities in the Astral Plane as opportunists and argued that the deification method was too risky for major figures.
• Annie defended Dunn's judgment and hinted at his unusual knowledge and resources, but the Sword Saint called her overconfident.
• Annie sensed several Legendary auras entering the Sea Route and heading toward the battlefield.

Annie discovered that five Legendaries from the western battlefield had joined the United Navy, tipping the eastern battle against Atlantis. As Atlantis’s fighters neared defeat, Bronn arrived and carried Pantos away, interrupting the enemy’s assault.

• Annie sensed five approaching Legendaries, but the Raging Waves Sword Saint kept her occupied and shattered her attempts to escape and summon help.
• Annie recognized the arrivals as Pantos, Kyle, and three other Legendaries from the western battlefield, and suspected a mole had leaked Atlantis’s plans.
• Annie ordered Alice to teleport Lamia and the others to the eastern battlefield, then focused all her strength on holding off the Raging Waves Sword Saint.
• Pantos and the other newcomers joined the fight, forcing Atlantis’s Legendaries to group together as the United Navy gained a decisive numerical advantage and wounded them.
• Bronn descended and swept Pantos away with his dragon tail; Pantos unleashed his annihilation authority, while Igneel complained that Pantos had taken his food.

Alice warned Lamia that five Legendaries had reinforced the Eastern Battlefield, and Lamia led four others through a portal to support it. Hohenheim and Bella then advanced toward Atlantis, while Krigon faced Bella’s puppets and one detonated itself in a massive explosion.

• Alice projected to Lamia and reported that Pantos and four other Legendaries had joined the Eastern Battlefield, urging the group to prepare for teleportation.
• Lamia realized that five of the seven Legendary auras near the Sea Route belonged to Bella’s human puppets, and she ordered Krigon and Prometheus to hold them off.
• As the seven figures approached, Alice opened a spatial passage, and Lamia led four Legendaries through it to the Eastern Battlefield.
• Hohenheim and Bella attacked; Hohenheim banished Prometheus to the Fire Elemental Plane while he and Bella headed toward Atlantis with three puppets.
• One of the two puppets fighting Krigon began to overload and exploded, raising a mushroom cloud.

Annie’s forces faced betrayal on the eastern battlefield as Sparu and Yale turned against Atlantis, while Yale trapped Annie in his Gladiatorial Arena. In the Imperial Capital, Hohenheim reached Dunn Campbell, only to discover that the Blood Emperor considered Hohenheim his nourishment.

• Sparu and Yale betrayed Atlantis, and they joined the navy in killing Jacob despite his powerful counterattack.
• Sparu told Lakadi that he and Yale had sided with the navy because the others would never have agreed to surrender willingly.
• The Raging Waves Sword Saint revealed that the betrayal was meant to delay Annie, and Yale pulled her into his Gladiatorial Arena.
• Bella struggled to hold off the Legendary Golems as Hohenheim entered the Imperial Palace and climbed toward the throne.
• Hohenheim confronted Dunn Campbell, but Dunn awakened and declared that Hohenheim had delivered himself straight into his mouth.

Dunn’s failed Vampire Fruit awakening left him needing to drink the blood of a powerful creature, while Hohenheim entered the Throne Hall intending to use Dunn as nourishment. Their battle began with Dunn trapping Hohenheim in darkness, and Hohenheim reacted in disbelief to an Anti-Magic Field.

• Dunn’s attempt to awaken the Vampire Fruit went wrong because he had not properly embraced its blood-drinking nature, leaving its will to threaten his mind.
• Dunn realized he could stabilize his awakening by drinking the blood of a Legendary Tier creature, and he saw Hohenheim as an opportunity.
• Hohenheim dismissed Dunn’s strength and refused to flee when Dunn warned him that this was his last chance.
• Dunn struck with Conqueror’s Color Haki, but Hohenheim’s ring blocked the attack with a triggered spell.
• Dunn plunged the Throne Hall into darkness and shook it violently, prompting Hohenheim to exclaim that an Anti-Magic Field was in effect.

Dunn trapped Hohenheim in the Throne Hall’s Anti-Magic Field, forcing him to use his items while preparing a Legendary Spell. As Hohenheim neared the end of his chant, Dunn empowered Night Feather and hurled it at Hohenheim, leaving the duel unresolved.

• The Throne Hall’s Anti-Magic Field prevented Hohenheim from casting spells below Legendary, so he used his Sun Pendant to unleash an incomplete Legendary Spell and hold back Dunn’s black fog.
• Hohenheim began chanting a complete Legendary Spell, choosing to risk his life rather than flee and abandon his chance to advance to High Legendary.
• Dunn attacked Hohenheim with black fog and the Death River, breaking through his defensive spells layer by layer as Hohenheim continued chanting.
• Seeing Hohenheim close to completing the spell, Dunn infused Night Feather with another point of Will Attribute and part of his soul, raising it to Legendary Divine Rank.
• Dunn coated Night Feather with Conqueror's Color Haki and hurled it at Hohenheim; it pierced several shields but was stopped by the final layer.

Dunn interrupted Hohenheim’s Sunfall spell, drained his blood, killed him, and absorbed his soul. After Bella fled toward the Storm Sea, Dunn headed for the Eastern Battlefield, intending to kill more Legendaries.

• Night Feather’s feigned exhaustion lured Hohenheim into lowering his guard, but Hohenheim stopped the first strike with his Wizard Robe and nearly completed Sunfall.
• Dunn used After Echo to pierce Hohenheim’s throat with a second umbrella strike, interrupting the spell and causing its backlash to injure Hohenheim.
• Dunn pulled Hohenheim close with Black Vortex, drained his blood, gained freedom from the Vampire Fruit’s will, and transformed.
• Dunn twisted off Hohenheim’s head, absorbed his soul, and used it on Night Feather before flying from the throne hall.
• Bella severed her spirit-thread connections and escaped toward the Storm Sea, while Dunn chose not to pursue her.
• Dunn flew toward the Eastern Battlefield, planning to kill more Legendaries to establish the Atlantis Empire’s prestige.

Dunn arrived at the Eastern Battlefield after defeating Hohenheim, interrupting the United Navy’s advantage and the Raging Waves Sword Saint’s rising power. He rejected the Sword Saint’s offer of a truce and attacked him, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• The United Navy’s Legendaries overwhelmed Lakadi and Nicholas while Lamia struggled to hold off the Raging Waves Sword Saint.
• Dunn’s Conqueror’s Color Haki swept across the battlefield and disrupted the Raging Waves Sword Saint’s near-breakthrough.
• The Raging Waves Sword Saint realized Hohenheim had likely died and began pulling back as Dunn approached.
• Dunn arrived, rejected the Raging Waves Sword Saint’s truce proposal, and struck him with an attack that sent him flying near Christina and Lilith.
• Dunn and the Raging Waves Sword Saint clashed again, and an unseen force hit the Sword Saint from behind, making him cough blood.

Dunn killed the Raging Waves Sword Saint after Christina betrayed him in the name of justice, then pursued Pantos as the battlefield paused in shock. With Bronn keeping Igneel occupied and Pantos trapped, Dunn activated the Lunar Phase authority to attack.

• Dunn stabbed the gravely wounded Raging Waves Sword Saint through the heart and used blood authority to prevent him from resisting.
• Christina told the Raging Waves Sword Saint that she had betrayed him for justice, and he condemned her for risking their navy and territories.
• Dunn revealed that he and Christina had negotiated, then tore off the Raging Waves Sword Saint's head before he could mention the Eye of the Firmament.
• The fighters stopped when the Raging Waves Sword Saint fell, while Pantos tried to flee and Bronn held him in place despite Igneel tearing into him.
• Dunn charged at Pantos and activated the Lunar Phase authority, darkening the sky and bringing out the moon.

After awakening the Vampire Fruit, Dunn gained new powers and killed Pantos before rushing to help Bronn fight Igneel. Meanwhile, Atlantis demanded that the Navy hand over Sparu, and Christina allowed them to deal with him themselves.

• Dunn's awakened Vampire Fruit granted him cellular reorganization, several authorities, and the ability to turn humans into vampires.
• Dunn used a full moon's power to overwhelm Pantos, kill him, and collect his soul, blood, and legacy.
• Lilith demanded that the Navy hand over Sparu, while Lakadi and Nicholas blamed him and Yale for their losses.
• Kyle tried to calm Atlantis's Legendaries and asked them to wait until they spoke with Christina.
• Christina told the Navy not to stop Atlantis, and Sparu fled as Atlantis's Legendaries moved against him.
• Dunn and Bronn continued attacking Igneel, whose strong life force and authority made him difficult to defeat.

Dunn and Bronn wore Igneel down while the other Legendaries defeated Sparu and Yale, leaving Igneel as the last enemy. Elvita arrived to save Igneel, then summoned the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins to confront Dunn.

• Dunn and Bronn battered Igneel, gradually worsening his injuries as the other Legendaries defeated Sparu and Yale.
• Igneel regained his reason, used his enormous maw to force Dunn and Bronn back, and called for Elvita to save him.
• Elvita appeared beside Igneel and tried to persuade Dunn to let him go, but Dunn refused.
• Elvita said the Seven Deadly Sins could negotiate together, and five more figures appeared beside her.

Dunn faced the Seven Deadly Sins as Elvita demanded that he hand over Igneel, while Atlantis's exhausted forces risked being overwhelmed if fighting began. A Silver Mirror message revealed that the Wizard Council had launched a devastating attack on the Lyon Empire, leaving Dunn to weigh the new threat as Elvita renewed her request.

• Dunn assessed the gathered Seven Deadly Sins, especially Envy, and recognized Elvita as their accepted leader.
• Elvita asked Dunn to let her take Igneel, but Dunn resisted because Bronn was gravely wounded and Atlantis could not safely fight the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Thunderous blasts from the New World shook the world, and Elvita realized that another battle had begun.
• Dunn and Christina received a Silver Mirror plea for help from the Eye of the Firmament, who reported that the Wizard Council had attacked the Lyon Empire with hundreds of Legendaries.
• Dunn learned that dozens of Legendaries had already fallen and the Lyon Empire was near collapse, then judged that sending Atlantis to help would risk his people.
• Elvita urged Dunn to grant her request, warning that the same danger threatened both of them.

After Dunn let Elvita take Igneel, Hohenheim was revived as a weakened lich and urged by his teacher to embrace Death Authority. In Atlantis, Dunn’s council considered how to respond to the Wizard Council’s assault, and Pearl argued that the New World—not the Lyon Empire—was the force capable of holding the Council back.

• Dunn let Elvita and the others take Igneel, recognizing that the Wizard Council threatened every faction opposing it.
• In the Pure White Tower, Hohenheim’s teacher revived him from his Phylactery and told him to abandon his ambitions and pursue Deification through Death Authority.
• Dunn asked Atlantis’s Legendaries whether they should aid the Lyon Empire, while Annie reported that Legendary life auras were vanishing amid the continuing earthquakes in the New World.
• Bronn argued that Atlantis had to help the Lyon Empire, while Lamia and Lilith doubted that Atlantis had enough strength to make a difference.
• Pearl said Atlantis needed an enemy that could occupy the Wizard Council and identified the New World as a better choice than the Lyon Empire.

Pearl proposed that Lamia and Alice secretly tear the New World apart during the ongoing battle to force its powers into the war, and Dunn approved the risky plan. He also ordered the preparations for his Demigod-level Apotheosis Ritual, leaving both strategies ready to proceed.

• Pearl suggested that Lamia and Alice use a Legendary Spell to tear apart the New World amid the fighting between the Wizard Council and the Lyon Empire.
• Lamia said they were unlikely to be noticed during the battle but would be discovered if the Wizard Council investigated afterward, and she confirmed the Wizard Tower could supply power for one Legendary Spell.
• Dunn approved the plan and ordered Alice and Lamia to prepare as quickly as possible.
• Dunn asked Annie about the religious order, and she reported that its core group of one hundred thousand was ready and that it could spread across the country within five years.
• Dunn ordered preparations on two fronts and said he would begin a Demigod-level Apotheosis Ritual, reassuring the worried Legendaries that it would not affect his rule.

The Wizard Council’s attack on the Lyon Empire led to the New World splitting apart and an Abyss invasion, forcing the Council and Lyon to make peace. Meanwhile, Dunn’s church prepared for his Apotheosis Ritual, scheduled for midnight in three days.

• The Wizard Council attacked the Lyon Empire while the United Navy and Atlantis Empire fought, but the New World’s rupture turned its natives against the Council and released an Abyss Lord.
• The Abyss invasion forced the Wizard Council and the crippled Lyon Empire to join forces, while hostility between the Council and New World remained.
• On a remote island in the Atlantis Empire, a hundred thousand devoted believers gathered around a statue of Dunn as the foundation of his Deification.
• Annie told Edward that Dunn would hold the Apotheosis Ritual in three days, and Edward summoned twelve archbishops to begin preparations.

The Wizard Council discovered that Eddinger’s Wizard Tower had caused the New World’s destruction and ordered the Blade of Dusk to lead an attack on Atlantis. Three days later, Dunn began his Apotheosis Ritual and ignited divine fire, leaving a ray of death divinity forming within it.

• The Wizard Council identified Eddinger’s Wizard Tower as the source of the spell that split the New World.
• After learning that Atlantis’s emperor had killed Hohenheim in minutes, the Wizard Speaker ordered the Blade of Dusk to lead three Legendary squads to warn Atlantis and kill its emperor if possible.
• Dunn began his Apotheosis Ritual in the Throne Hall at midnight, using the Eye of the Firmament’s method to ignite divine fire with gathered faith.
• Edward led a hundred thousand believers in praying to Dunn’s statue, sending immense power of faith to Dunn.
• A ray of ink-black death divinity emerged from Dunn’s divine fire.

Dunn completed his apotheosis, refining five points of death divinity and becoming a demigod. Edward received the World Consciousness’s blessing and rose to legendary rank as the world’s first priest.

• Dunn used his abundant faith power to refine death divinity beyond the one point needed to become a demigod.
• Edward led the believers in prayer until Dunn told them they could stop, then received divine power that raised him to high-tier classholder.
• A force from the World Consciousness poured into Edward and drew away more than half of Dunn’s newly converted divine power.
• Edward became a legendary priest through the World Consciousness’s blessing as the world’s first priest.
• Dunn completed his transformation as a demigod with five points of death divinity.