Chapter Summaries

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.

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.