Recaps

Atlantis experienced a surge of thirteen new Legendaries, becoming the world’s fifth-greatest power, but Dunn concluded that the empire needed to expand despite the strain on its resources. Annie told him Wells had returned as a Pirate King, and Dunn explained why Wells’s Conqueror’s Color Haki made him a risky choice as successor.

• From year 25 to year 32 of the Calendar of the Gods, thirteen people from Atlantis’s indigenous races advanced to Legendary, bringing the empire’s total to over thirty combatants.
• Dunn recognized that Atlantis had nearly exhausted its accumulated potential and struggled to support its Legendaries, so he decided that expansion would have to follow the selection of an heir.
• Annie told Dunn that Wells had returned as a Pirate King, awakened Conqueror’s Color Haki, and had children, prompting her to ask why Dunn would not choose him as successor.
• Dunn explained that people with Conqueror’s Color Haki refused to bow to others, so Wells might not tolerate Dunn directing the empire as an emperor emeritus.
• Dunn argued that Atlantis still needed a new Emperor of the Sea to strengthen and expand the empire after his deification, and Annie accepted his reasoning for the time being.

Annie questioned Dunn about Lilith’s reaction to his choice of heir, and Dunn decided to let the three contenders settle the succession through strength. He was confident Wells would survive the contest, but the chapter left unanswered what would happen if Wells won.

• Annie asked Dunn what he would do about Lilith, who wanted her son to inherit so she could keep wielding power as empress dowager.
• Dunn said Lilith’s opinion did not matter, but Annie warned that leaving her without an answer could cause conflict with the new emperor.
• Dunn proposed that the three contenders fight to determine the heir.
• Annie objected that the duel could kill them, especially Dunn’s only son, but Dunn said Wells’s Yamata no Orochi Devil Fruit would keep him alive.
• Annie asked what would happen if Wells won, and Dunn dismissed the possibility as impossible.

The Atlantis Empire hosted its crown prince selection tournament as dozens of foreign Legendaries, including Kel'Thuzad and Jing, gathered in the capital amid rising tensions between the New and Old Continents. Dunn realized the visitors had hostile intentions but tried to keep the tournament and capital safe while asking what they wanted.

• The Atlantis Empire received delegations and then dozens of Legendaries from the New and Old Continents, as well as the Dragon Race and Elf Race, to observe its crown prince tournament.
• Kel'Thuzad of the Wizard Council and Jing of the Firmament Temple arrived with teams of Legendaries, alarming the Atlantis Empire's leaders.
• The crown prince tournament began on September 1, and Kailant defeated his opponent with a Great Eruption.
• Jing praised Kailant, while Kel'Thuzad mocked Dunn's distribution of Devil Fruits and Jing challenged the Wizard Council's right to seize what it wanted.
• Dunn interrupted Jing and Kel'Thuzad's exchange, tried to prevent a fight, and asked why they had brought so many people to the Atlantis Empire.

During the crown prince tournament, Kailant conceded his semifinal to Wells Campbell, angering Dunn and drawing the interest of High Legendaries Kel'Thuzad and Jing. Yara Moore then defeated her opponent and faced Wells in the final, whose winner would become crown prince.

• Dunn warned Jing and Kel'Thuzad not to misbehave in his territory, provoking their resentment.
• Kailant conceded his semifinal to Wells after Amoklie Grizzly persuaded him to step aside.
• Kel'Thuzad mocked Dunn over Kailant's surrender, while Dunn realized the Bearfolk had made him lose face before the gathered Legendaries.
• Kel'Thuzad and Jing said they were interested in the tournament's outcome, and Dunn agreed to continue watching.
• Yara Moore defeated her semifinal opponent and advanced to the final against Wells Campbell.

Yala defeated Wells in the heir contest, and Dunn immediately declared her the Atlantis Empire’s heir. After Wells revealed he was still alive, Dunn also enfeoffed Wells and Kailant as members of the King's Seven Warlords of the Sea.

• Kel'Thuzad and Jing watched the final, waiting to see whether Dunn would honor the result of the heir contest.
• Yala and Wells fought for hours until Yala tore open Wells's chest and he appeared to die.
• Dunn declared Yala Moore the winner and the Atlantis Empire’s heir, then had Alice take her to the Wizard Tower.
• Wells stood up alive and insisted that he had not lost, startling Jing and Kel'Thuzad.
• Dunn ordered Wells and Kailant to kneel and enfeoffed them as members of the King's Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Dunn launched a surprise attack on the foreign Legendaries gathered in Atlantis, turning the succession ceremony into a battle that devastated the Arena. He summoned his Death River to make the fallen Legendaries’ power fuel Atlantis’s fight, as the conflict continued.

• Dunn ordered his forces to spare no lives, and Atlantis’s Legendaries attacked both the New World coalition and the Old World factions.
• Kel'Thuzad opened a Spatial Rift to summon undead, while Jing fought to stop him and urged Dunn to join forces against the Wizard Council.
• The fighting destroyed the Arena and killed everyone there who was not Legendary.
• Dunn accused Jing and Kel'Thuzad of making Atlantis their battlefield, and Kel'Thuzad admitted the two sides had tacitly accepted that arrangement.
• Dunn gathered the Arena’s blood and summoned his Death River, which connected Atlantis’s Legendaries and let them return from death within its reach.

Dunn and the Atlantis Empire attacked the New World faction, disrupting the expected alliance as the war began. Annie fought the Seven Deadly Sins, sacrificed herself to badly injure Igneel, and told Elvita, “See you in a bit!”

• Dunn rejected Jing’s demand to join the New World faction and killed one of its Legendary fighters with his divine art, Finger of Death.
• Kel'Thuzad and Jing drew Dunn into combat to keep him from killing more Legendaries, but Dunn said their efforts would not change the outcome.
• Annie refused Elvita’s offer to join forces and attacked the Seven Deadly Sins, targeting Igneel with elemental powers.
• Annie badly injured Igneel but let Elvita pierce her chest and seize her heart, then smiled and said, “See you in a bit!”

Annie sacrificed herself and returned through Dunn’s Death River, proving that Atlantis’s Legendaries could resurrect and emboldening them in battle. As Atlantis gained the upper hand, Bronn swallowed one of the Titled Legendaries and began to swell, sending the other three fleeing.

• Annie detonated herself, injuring Elvita and the other members of the Seven Deadly Sins before she disappeared.
• Annie emerged unharmed from the Death River and attacked Gluttony Igneel, while the Seven Deadly Sins realized the river had revived her.
• Annie’s resurrection convinced Atlantis’s Legendaries that Dunn could bring them back, and they fought without fear, overpowering their more numerous opponents.
• Bronn transformed into an Azure Dragon and used Heat Breath against himself and the four Titled Legendaries surrounding him.
• Bronn swallowed one of the Titled Legendaries, then his ruined body began to swell, prompting the other three to flee.

Bronn sacrificed himself to kill a Titled Legendary, then revived, while Atlantis’s fearless Legendaries overwhelmed the combined forces of the New and Old Continents. Jing and Kel'Thuzad sealed Dunn, but an Apotheosis Ritual began within Atlantis.

• Bronn detonated himself to kill a Titled Legendary and returned to life through the Death River.
• The surviving Titled Legendaries and the forces of Jing and Kel'Thuzad struggled against Atlantis’s resurrecting warriors, who continued to drive them back.
• Dunn used his divine Blood Authority to hold Jing and Kel'Thuzad in the fight, prompting them to join forces against him.
• Jing and Kel'Thuzad repeatedly shattered Dunn’s body before Kel'Thuzad sealed him, but Kel'Thuzad suspected the fight had gone too easily.
• Faith power spread across Atlantis, suppressing the Legendaries as they recognized the beginning of an Apotheosis Ritual.

Dunn’s clone was destroyed as his Apotheosis Ritual began, revealing that he was ascending to Deityhood on an island in Atlantis. With Jing and Kel'Thuzad racing to stop him, Dunn ordered Poseidon and Evelyn to defend the ritual and Alice to protect the believers in his Divine Kingdom.

• Kel'Thuzad and Jing suspected that Dunn was the one undergoing Deification and set out to find the ritual.
• Black lightning shattered Dunn’s seal, destroyed his clone, and carried the black and red lights of his Divinity to the ritual site.
• Jing and Kel'Thuzad realized Dunn’s immense faith could make him at least a Weak Power and rushed toward the ritual, abandoning their endangered subordinates.
• Dunn received his blood and death Divinity as millions of believers prayed for him, while he explained that he had used them to deceive Jing and Kel'Thuzad.
• Dunn ordered Poseidon and Evelyn to stop Jing and Kel'Thuzad and told Alice to protect the believers; Poseidon rose from the sea in a giant body of water and blocked their way.

Dunn deployed Evelyn and Poseidon to hold off Jing and Kel'Thuzad while he began his Apotheosis Ritual. He fused 50 points of divinity into his Godhead and became the world's first God with intermediate power.

• Dunn created Poseidon by fusing ocean divinity and immense faith power into him, making him a Demigod bound to the Atlantis Sea Region.
• Dunn gave part of his soul and a vast amount of divine power to Evelyn, raising her strength to rival a Demigod at the cost of several hundred years of her lifespan.
• Evelyn and Poseidon fought Jing and Kel'Thuzad to keep them from disrupting Dunn's Apotheosis Ritual.
• Dunn refined his faith power into 50 points of divinity: 35 points of death and five points each of blood, soul, and darkness.
• Dunn fused the divinity with his Godhead, transformed his body into a Divine Body, and rose to intermediate power.

Dunn discovered that he had fully mastered the Devil Fruit Tree and learned that eating a returned, awakened Devil Fruit would grant him its authority. After completing his apotheosis as the Death Overlord, he sent the Devil Fruits back into the world so new hosts could awaken them.

• Dunn decided not to break through to greater power yet, fearing the risks and the five level 49 supreme bearers of Heaven's Mandate.
• The Devil Fruit Tree appeared in Dunn's consciousness sea, revealing itself as the source of the Devil Fruits and telling him that eating a returned, awakened fruit would grant him its authority.
• Dunn completed his apotheosis and proclaimed himself the Death Overlord, resisting the world consciousness's push to call himself the God of Death.
• Dunn erased his temple and replaced it with the Devil Fruit Tree in the center of his divine kingdom.
• Dunn changed the tree so it reclaimed only awakened Devil Fruits, while other fruits would respawn randomly in the world after their hosts died.

After ascending to godhood as the Death Overlord, Dunn used his new divine power to kill most of the enemy Legendaries gathered across the Atlantis Empire. He spared the Dragon and Elf factions to avoid making the whole world his enemy, but Jing charged him in fury as the survivors froze in terror.

• Dunn inspected his new divine status panel, which showed his divine power, divinity, rules, and authorities.
• The fighting outside Dunn’s Divine Kingdom paused as Kel'Thuzad, Jing, Poseidon, and Evelyn watched warily, while Atlantis’s Legendaries continued battling.
• Dunn cast Divine spell-Mass Death, and its expanding ring of death divine power killed the Undead Army in Kel'Thuzad’s demiplane and weakened Jing.
• The spell killed nearly all Legendaries from the New and Old Continents’ factions, while sparing the Atlantis, Dragon, and Elf Legendaries; Elvita survived by fleeing early.
• Jing charged at Dunn and demanded to know what he had done, and Dunn calmly reminded him that he had warned the Legendaries would die.

Jing attacked Dunn in a rage, but Dunn subdued him inside his Divine Kingdom. When Yi and the Wizard Council Speaker arrived and demanded Jing’s release, Dunn unleashed his Finger of Death on him.

• Jing used Wrath of the Firmament’s Falling Star technique to attack Dunn and threatened Atlantis with the force of his strike.
• Dunn raised his Divine Kingdom to block Jing, repaired the damage, and returned inside to suppress him while warning Kel'Thuzad not to interfere.
• Yi and the Wizard Council Speaker arrived, and Yi ordered Dunn to release Jing.
• Dunn ignored Jing’s taunts, gathered divine power, and struck him with the Divine art-Finger of Death.

Dunn killed Jing inside his Divine Kingdom and replenished his divine power as Yi and the Wizard Speaker prepared to retaliate. The Elf Empress and Bahamut intervened, and Yi agreed to spare Dunn if he could withstand Yi’s Falling Star.

• Dunn killed Jing with Finger of Death and continued refining faith to store excess divine power in his Divine Kingdom.
• Yi sensed Jing’s death and joined forces with the Wizard Speaker, unleashing a vast wave of qi across Atlantis.
• The Elf Empress appeared and stopped Yi’s upheaval, but the Wizard Speaker blocked her from intervening.
• Bahamut arrived, and the four powerful figures argued over whether Dunn should be killed or allowed to live.
• Dunn appeared before them, and Yi offered to end the dispute if Dunn could withstand his Falling Star.

Dunn faced Yi’s Falling Star in a test of strength and survived by absorbing the attack into his Divine Kingdom. The other deities acknowledged Dunn’s power, but Yi left after damaging his realm, and the Wizard Speaker departed with Kel'Thuzad.

• Dunn accepted Yi’s challenge to settle the matter with one decisive strike, while Bahamut, the Elf Empress, and the Wizard Speaker agreed to witness.
• The Wizard Speaker explained that Dunn’s Divine Kingdom held immense reserves of divine power and faith, despite Dunn’s limited experience and divine spells.
• Yi struck Dunn’s Divine Kingdom with Falling Star, and Dunn used Finger of Death to counter the great sun.
• Yi expanded Falling Star and shattered Dunn’s divine power torrent, but the Devil Fruit Tree stabilized the Divine Kingdom and restored Dunn’s awareness.
• Dunn drew the weakened great sun inside his Divine Kingdom, where its divine power consumed the attack and revealed Yi.
• Yi forced his way out and damaged Dunn’s Divine Kingdom before the Wizard Speaker left with Kel'Thuzad and Bahamut departed.

Dunn reflected on the political consequences of the battle and learned that the Eye of the Firmament had arranged protection from the Elf Empress and Dragon Emperor. As Atlantis began rebuilding, Annie reported the losses and its leaders considered the factions likely to form under Yala after Dunn’s ascension.

• The Elf Empress explained to Dunn that Bahamut treated him like other dragon slayers, then credited the Eye of the Firmament for arranging her protection.
• Dunn realized that surviving Yi’s attack had nearly destroyed his Divine Kingdom and resolved to keep a low profile while building his strength.
• Atlantis’s Legendaries spent several days on disaster relief, while Yala stayed with Dunn to learn and establish her authority as heir apparent.
• Annie reported that the battle had sunk eighteen islands, killed more than three hundred million people, and caused losses of one billion one hundred and thirty million gold coins, including many true believers.
• Annie rebuffed Yala’s attempt to build a relationship, as the chapter outlined the factions likely to emerge in Atlantis after Dunn became unable to contact it frequently.

Dunn prepared Yala to rule the Atlantis Empire and accepted the support of the Astral Plane Gods before abdicating. After Yala secured the throne through alliances, Dunn ascended to the Astral Plane, leaving Lilith behind.

• Dunn trained Crown Princess Yala in state affairs and instructed Annie, Alice, and others to support her, while he welcomed envoys from the Astral Plane Gods.
• A year later, Dunn abdicated and Yala was crowned empress; she filled all seven Seven Warlords of the Sea slots to build alliances and secure her throne.
• Dunn met Lilith for the last time, and she challenged him over choosing Annie for a new faith and not passing the throne to Wells; Dunn explained the Apotheosis Ritual's requirements and warned that ruling was difficult.
• At the end of August in year 34 of the Calendar of the Gods, Dunn Campbell ascended to the Astral Plane with his Divine Kingdom, relieving the world's Legendary figures.

After Dunn ascended, the Atlantis Empire grew into a refuge for Legendary figures fleeing the renewed war, but its rapid expansion fueled internal unrest. Empress Yala sought to unite the empire through foreign war, while Lilith offered her support only if Yala married Wells, leaving Yala isolated in her opposition to the match.

• Dunn welcomed visiting deities to his Divine Kingdom as the war between the New and Old Continents resumed, with both sides avoiding the Atlantis Empire.
• Yala welcomed Legendary figures seeking refuge, and the empire's ranks swelled to nearly a hundred, intensifying disputes over power and resources.
• Yala proposed joining the war abroad to redirect the empire's internal conflicts, but many refugees and veteran Legendary figures resisted.
• Yala visited Lilith, who offered to support the war plan if Yala agreed to marry Wells.
• Yala recognized that nearly every Legendary figure supported the proposed marriage, while she alone opposed it.

Yala continued pushing to take Atlantis into war despite Lilith and most of the Legendaries opposing her. Annie eventually backed Yala at the fifth Grand Council, leaving the empire poised to enter the war.

• Yala rejected Lilith's marriage proposal and her threat to withhold support for war, arguing that expansion would strengthen Atlantis and bring Dunn more believers.
• Yala's fourth Grand Council proposal to enter the war failed, though slightly fewer Legendaries opposed it than before.
• Yala repeatedly tried to enlist Annie's support while Annie withdrew from politics to prepare for apotheosis as the Weather God.
• Yala persuaded Annie to attend the fifth Grand Council in late December of year 40, where Annie supported entering the war to avert civil conflict and gain more believers.

Yala and Annie led Atlantis into the war between the New and Old Continents, seeking territory, people, and a way to reduce the empire’s excess Legendaries. After heavy losses and a vast expansion of Atlantis’s territory, the empire stopped pushing into neighboring sea routes and began defending its gains as the other powers resumed peaceful coexistence with it.

• Annie forced Yala’s decree to send Atlantis into the war despite opposition from many of the empire’s Legendaries.
• In January, year 41 of the Calendar of the Gods, Yala and Annie led forces to seize the Boer Sea Route and then expanded into neighboring waters and islands.
• The New and Old Continents retaliated when Atlantis threatened their sea routes, and a massive three-way war broke out.
• Fighting in the New World and Old World waters killed more than twenty Atlantis Legendaries and over ten from the two continents combined.
• Atlantis expanded its territory nearly tenfold and gained over a hundred million people before abandoning further expansion and fortifying its gains.
• The New and Old Continents tacitly resumed peaceful coexistence with Atlantis after it stopped reaching for their sea routes.

After the war, Dunn learned that Yala had expanded Atlantis and judged his successor's campaign a success. In the Astral Plane, Dunn's thriving Divine Kingdom and its Petitioners inspired the deities to spread word of life after death, bringing a surge of new believers and faith to Dunn.

• Dunn sensed a massive surge of faith, checked on Atlantis, and approved of Yala's restrained expansion of the empire.
• Dunn tended to his Divine Kingdom, where tens of millions of Petitioners lived among abundant food and drink created with Devil Fruit abilities.
• Dunn's Petitioners outnumbered those of all the other deities combined, and at least a third of them were Fanatics, though none had become Saints.
• After learning how Petitioners came to exist, the deities secretly spread the news to the Material Plane and showed people images of Dunn's Divine Kingdom.
• Hope of a comfortable afterlife drew believers across the world, and Dunn gained a vast amount of faith that nearly matched the Atlantis Empire's current total.

The Gods exploited the war between the New and Old Continents to increase casualties and gather faith, but Banboer’s seizure of a Divine Kingdom shattered their alliance. After revealing divine portfolios as the path to greater strength, he sparked decades of advancement, while Dunn gained the portfolio of death and remained hidden.

• The Gods secretly intensified the war between the New and Old Continents, driving annual deaths into the hundreds of millions.
• Banboer killed the weak power whose Divine Kingdom had sheltered him, seized the kingdom, and revealed that he had advanced to intermediate power.
• Banboer explained that his war divine portfolio had fueled his rapid advancement and granted him new divine spells, quelling the Gods’ anger but leaving their alliance mistrustful.
• Over the following decades, the Gods developed divine portfolios and the number of intermediate powers rose to ten.
• Dunn acquired the divine portfolio of death, realized that some portfolios could enable advancement to greater power, and hid his Divine Kingdom while he watched events unfold.

As the war between the New and Old Continents fueled the Gods’ growing power and rivalry, Dunn hid in the Astral Plane Depths to avoid both the Gods and the Heaven’s Mandate figures. A gathering of divine projections began discussing how to handle wandering Deities after their attacks threatened the Gods’ divine kingdoms.

• Dunn recognized that the Gods’ strength had grown with their believers and that the war was being prolonged by divine interests.
• After learning that the Heaven’s Mandate figures had allowed events to unfold, Dunn left the region where the Gods resided and slipped into the Astral Plane Depths.
• A failed attempt by wandering Deities to seize divine kingdoms halted the Gods’ infighting temporarily and prompted a meeting of divine projections.
• The Gods argued over the threat posed by wandering Deities, while one blamed Banboer for starting the conflict.
• A God of Slaughter proposed winning over some wandering Deities and killing the rest as a warning.

The Gods debated how to handle wandering deities, and Banboer and the God of Intrigue secured agreement on a plan to sort potential enemies from those willing to join Divine Kingdoms under River Styx Contracts. Dunn recognized that the proposal was also a move by the two Gods to build a pantheon and recruit allies.

• The God of Intrigue proposed contacting wandering deities privately and using their responses to identify those who would oppose the Gods’ decision.
• Banboer proposed that wandering deities join the Divine Kingdoms of intermediate-power deities and sign River Styx Contracts, while weaker deities avoided taking them in.
• The Gods largely accepted Banboer’s proposal, and the God of Intrigue ended the gathering by urging them to contact wandering deities they knew.
• Dunn watched without objecting and considered the Gods’ limited influence on the material plane and their difficulties creating Legendary Priests.
• Dunn concluded that Banboer and the God of Intrigue were using the decision to coerce less ambitious wandering deities into joining a nascent pantheon.