Recaps

Fairenton watched six thousand Zenit cavalry attack the Ajax army and saw Frank Lampard break through its spear-and-shield formation. Learning that Lampard was likely the former master of Chambord, Fairenton decided to kill him himself.

• Fairenton ordered the Ajax army to draw the six thousand Zenit cavalry into a trap and attack them with volleys of arrows.
• The Zenit cavalry pressed on despite heavy losses, and Frank Lampard shattered Ajax spears and shields with a lightning-powered strike.
• Lampard’s cavalry crashed into the Ajax formation and began slaughtering its soldiers.
• Fairenton recognized Lampard’s black greatsword and learned from his general that the warrior was likely Frank Lampard, a former master of Chambord.
• Fairenton put on his helmet and said he would fight Lampard himself to hurt Alexander.

Fairenton directed the Ajax forces to contain Zenitian attacks on both wings while keeping the central army ready to trap the reinforcements. When the Zenitian main force stopped short of the battlefield, he ordered a gap opened for Lampard’s surrounded cavalry, hoping to draw the Wolf Fang Legion into his encirclement.

• Fairenton declined to fight while waiting for the King of Chambord, warning his two senior brothers from Great Snow Mountain that Alexander was exceptionally powerful.
• After Zenitian cavalry attacked from the south, Fairenton sent eleven thousand Earth Tiger cavalry to meet them and ordered Lampard’s six thousand cavalry surrounded but not attacked.
• A scout reported that ten thousand Zenitian infantry and three thousand cavalry with supplies were approaching, and Fairenton ordered ten thousand infantry sent against a later attack from the west.
• Fairenton explained that he had planned to wear down the Zenitians at the siege and hoped to lure the King of Chambord into battle.
• When a rider reported that the Zenitian reinforcements had halted a mile away, Fairenton ordered the center to open a gap and let Lampard’s cavalry pass through slowly to bait the Wolf Fang Legion.

Fairenton’s carefully planned attack faltered as Zenit forces occupied the Ancient Castle of Death and scattered Ajax troops across the battlefield. The Zenit cavalry broke through toward Twin Flag City, where two Great Snow Mountain masters attacked, but a powerful Zenit warrior rose to challenge them.

• Fairenton opened a gap in the Ajax formation to lure Frank Lampard’s six thousand Zenit cavalry into a trap.
• Scouts reported that Zenit forces had occupied the Ancient Castle of Death and that other Zenit units had disappeared, prompting Fairenton to order the Ajax troops back and attack the cavalry.
• Frank Lampard unleashed a powerful Dou Qi skill, helping the Zenit cavalry break through the Ajax formation and race toward Twin Flag City.
• Fairenton summoned his two senior brothers from the Great Snow Mountain, and they attacked the retreating Zenit cavalry with fire Dou Qi as the Ajax army advanced on the city.
• The two masters flew toward Twin Flag City’s western gate, but a burly Zenit warrior rose from the cavalry and confronted them with lightning power.

Frank Lampard and Elena stopped two Great Snow Mountain experts from advancing on Twin Flag City, shocking Prince Fairenton with the strength of the King of Chambord’s forces. The attackers learned the defenders’ names, while Alexander remained yet to join the fight.

• Frank Lampard used lightning attacks to hold back one Great Snow Mountain expert, while Elena countered the other with ice arrows.
• The four fighters’ clashes filled the battlefield with fire, ice, lightning, and destructive shock waves that forced Ajax’s soldiers to retreat.
• The Great Snow Mountain experts asked which defender was Alexander, and Lampard declared that they were not worthy of challenging his king.
• Lampard identified himself as the King of Chambord’s Gold Saint, and Elena introduced herself as a warrior from Chambord City.
• Prince Fairenton recognized the fighters as Lampard and Elena and was stunned that they had stopped his Nine-Star Class senior brothers, Anita and Ainuo.

Sun Fei and the cavalry escort, including Angela, made it through the Ajax camp and entered Twin Flag City. As Lampard and Elena fought two Ajax Nine-Star masters beneath the western gate, Sun Fei watched from the battlements and marveled at Lampard’s rapid growth.

• Fairenton halted the Ajax army’s charge after Anita and Ainuo failed to overcome Lampard and Elena.
• Sun Fei brought Angela and the other women into Twin Flag City with the cavalry, and the city gates closed behind them.
• Sun Fei left Angela with her attendants and rode to the western gate tower, where Drogba, Pierce, Hulk, and Kanute greeted him.
• Lampard and Elena resumed their evenly matched battle against two Ajax masters as soldiers on both sides watched.
• Sun Fei observed Elena suppressing one opponent with arrows and Lampard holding his own against the other, and he wondered at Lampard’s extraordinary growth.

Sun Fei watched Lampard and Elena gain the advantage over their Ajax opponents, but two more Nine-Star Class experts arrived to reinforce them. Čech, Pierce, Drogba, and Torres summoned their Cloths and joined the battle, leaving Sun Fei ready to intervene if they were in danger.

• Sun Fei observed Lampard hold his own against a Nine-Star Class expert from the Great Snow Mountain as soldiers at Twin Flag City cheered for their commanders.
• Lampard's endurance and Elena's replenished magic gradually pushed their opponents toward defeat.
• Two more Nine-Star Class experts charged from the Ajax camp, prompting Čech, Pierce, Drogba, and Torres to leap forward.
• The four generals summoned their Cloths and split into pairs to confront the newcomers.
• Sun Fei let the generals fight to gain experience while remaining prepared to step in, though he wondered why Ajax had so many experts.

Three Great Snow Mountain Holy Land experts replaced Fairenton beneath the Ajax commander's banner, and Doni set out to challenge King of Chambord Alexander. As the battles beneath Twin Flag City intensified, Sun Fei prepared to intervene, but a surge of powerful auras came from the Ajax army.

• Murdoch and Doni appeared with a mysterious red-robed figure at the Ajax army’s command banner, while Fairenton stood behind them.
• Fairenton warned Murdoch and Doni not to underestimate King of Chambord Alexander, and Doni vanished to challenge him.
• Čech used his Scarlet Needle technique with Pierce’s Holy Sword Excalibur to wound a nine-star fire-element expert.
• Drogba and Torres fought another nine-star expert with Great Horn and a barrage of star-powered arrows, injuring him despite their own wounds.
• Sun Fei prepared to stop the battles when terrifying auras, far stronger than nine-star power, surged from the Ajax army.

Sun Fei protected Twin Flag City’s defenders and fought Doni, a Moon-Class master, after Doni attacked the battlefield. Their duel ended with Doni badly shaken and Sun Fei having gained new insight into Moon-Class combat.

• Doni appeared on the battlefield and sent six crimson sword strikes toward Lampard, Elena, Pierce, Čech, Drogba, and Torres, but Sun Fei shattered them with glass-colored fist imprints.
• Sun Fei confronted Doni and ordered his companions back to Twin Flag City, then drove Doni back with a single punch and incapacitated four Nine-Star Class masters.
• Doni summoned his demonic saber Dou Weapons, and Sun Fei revealed the twin Dou Weapons Abramovich had given him.
• Sun Fei and Doni fought at tremendous speed for several minutes, clashing their weapons thousands of times.
• Sun Fei landed unharmed apart from a small tear in his shoulder, while Doni’s robe was slashed repeatedly and his arms bled; Doni realized Sun Fei had held back.

Sun Fei defeated Doni, a Great Snow Mountain master, but sensed a terrifying force from the mysterious figure beneath the Ajax commander’s banner and spared Doni’s life. He knocked Doni unconscious and sent him back to the Ajax camp, then faced the hidden powerhouse with a smile.

• Zenit soldiers celebrated Sun Fei’s victory, while the Ajax army’s morale collapsed and Fairenton realized Sun Fei could fight Moon Class masters.
• Sun Fei assessed Doni’s unstable Moon Class strength and recognized that his Barbarian Mode gave him a decisive advantage.
• Sun Fei used Leap Attack to crush Doni’s defense and blast him into a crater.
• Sun Fei sensed the distant figure’s deadly aura and chose not to kill Doni.
• Sun Fei knocked Doni unconscious, tossed him to the four Great Snow Mountain warriors, and watched the mysterious figure beneath the Ajax commander’s banner.

After healing Doni, the mysterious red-robed master refused to let his disciples fight Sun Fei and stepped into battle himself. Sun Fei unleashed his strongest Barbarian sword technique, but the master's invisible palm shattered the attack and continued advancing.

• The red-robed master healed Doni, rebuked him for his recklessness, and ordered him to stabilize his newly attained Moon Class realm.
• Murdoch offered to fight Sun Fei, but the master declared that Murdoch was no match and then moved to confront Sun Fei himself.
• Elena joined Sun Fei as the soldiers of Twin Flag City fell silent before the impending battle.
• Sun Fei equipped his strongest available gear and used [Whirlwind Slash] with the twin swords of the [Bul-Kathos' Children] set.
• The red-robed master's gentle palm stopped Sun Fei's sword energy in midair, shattered it, and kept pressing forward.

Sun Fei fought the red-robed man’s overwhelming palm outside Twin Flag City, enduring devastating injuries while Elena supported him with arrows and healing magic. As Angela sensed that Alexander was in danger, Sun Fei felt himself approaching a mysterious breakthrough.

• The red-robed man’s palm shattered Sun Fei’s Whirlwind Slash and drove him backward, while Elena’s arrows vanished before reaching it.
• Sun Fei endured crushing pressure and repeatedly unleashed Whirlwind Slash as Elena stood by him and the soldiers cheered from the walls.
• Murdoch and Fairenton watched in shock as Sun Fei continued to resist, and Sun Fei ordered the warriors on the wall not to interfere.
• Sun Fei shielded Elena and refused to retreat, while she ignored his request to withdraw and continued attacking.
• Elena activated Prayer to heal Sun Fei, who kept fighting with a Full Rejuvenation Potion between his teeth as he sensed a change within himself.
• Angela suddenly felt a painful sense of panic and looked toward Twin Flag City’s west gate, fearing that Alexander was in danger.

Angela rushed to the west wall to watch Sun Fei fight, where she prayed for him as he endured the red-robed figure’s crushing giant palm. Just as Sun Fei’s strength was failing, a vast, gentle power descended from the wall and flowed into his body.

• Angela rode the big black dog to the west gate, and Drogba stopped the nobles’ guards from intercepting her.
• Angela saw Sun Fei shielding the wounded Elena and, comforted by Frank Lampard, prayed for her husband to win.
• Sun Fei kept resisting the giant palm while retreating toward the wall, his body repeatedly healing and breaking apart as he protected Elena.
• A powerful, ancient, merciful aura surged from the wall and entered Sun Fei in waves.

Angela’s divine silver power helped Sun Fei endure the Snow Mountain Hermit’s attack, but an unknown expert in Twin Flag City intervened before the city could be destroyed. Sun Fei completed a powerful transformation as the red-robed man withdrew, wary of the hidden defender.

• Angela released a silver radiance that flowed into Sun Fei and made the giant palm hesitate, while the people on the wall knelt before her.
• The red-robed man recognized Angela’s power as divine, decided she was a threat, and sent the giant palm rushing toward Twin Flag City.
• Angela’s radiance faltered under the attack, and Sun Fei could neither control his transforming body nor escape through a portal.
• An enormous earth-element staff emerged from a sky-wide vortex and met the giant palm, and both attacks vanished without a destructive shock wave.
• A hidden expert in Twin Flag City challenged the red-robed man, who withdrew after Sun Fei’s wounds healed and his transformation neared completion.

Sun Fei ended the battle for Twin Flag City after the Ajax army retreated, but he discovered that Elena and Angela had both collapsed. Sister Akara found that they were in deep comas from severe depletion of vitality and soul power, though their lives were not in immediate danger.

• Fairenton ordered the Ajax army to withdraw and make camp after the mysterious expert intervened.
• Sun Fei shed his bloodied covering, reassured his soldiers, and ordered them to collect the fallen.
• Elena collapsed when Sun Fei reached her, and he used a Full Rejuvenation Potion and Paladin healing to treat her.
• Sun Fei learned that Angela had also fainted and was bleeding, then rushed her to the city lord's mansion with Elena.
• Victoria told Sun Fei he could enter the hall, where Sister Akara reported that both women were comatose from depleted vitality and soul power but were not in immediate danger.

Sun Fei learned that Angela and Elena had to be awakened within thirty days, and Akara said a Worldstone might save them if it could be purified. After leaving them in the care of Jima and the maids and securing the city lord’s residence, Sun Fei entered the Diablo World to kill Baal and obtain the Worldstone.

• Akara warned Sun Fei that Angela and Elena could suffer lasting harm or die if they stayed unconscious too long, and she identified the Worldstone as a possible source of soul energy to awaken them.
• Akara explained that the Diablo World’s Worldstone was tainted, but her research with Cain suggested it might be possible to purify it.
• Sun Fei promised the sleeping Angela and Elena that he would obtain the Worldstone, while Jima said she believed he would save her sister.
• Sun Fei left Jima and Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter to care for Angela and Elena, then ordered Lampard, Torres, and Čech to secure the city lord’s residence.
• Sun Fei dismissed concerns about the mysterious mage who had helped defend Twin Flag City and entered a portal to the Diablo World to pursue Baal.
• Sun Fei arrived on the first level of the Worldstone Keep, where the demon monsters he and Elena had previously slain had respawned.

Sun Fei defeated Baal in the Worldstone Chamber and found the corrupted Worldstone, but Tyrael demanded that he destroy it. Sun Fei ignored the archangel and discovered the Immortal King's Soul Cage Sacred Armor among Baal’s drops.

• Sun Fei fought through Baal’s summoned demons, entered the Worldstone Chamber, and battled Baal’s true body until he killed it.
• Sun Fei ignored Baal’s dropped treasure and retrieved the corrupted Worldstone from the end of the T-shaped corridor.
• Tyrael appeared and told Sun Fei to destroy the corrupted Worldstone, but Sun Fei turned away from him.
• Sun Fei identified a green armor drop from Baal’s corpse and recognized it as the Immortal King's Soul Cage Sacred Armor.

Sun Fei defeated Baal and claimed powerful equipment, including a piece of the Immortal King Set, before taking the corrupted Worldstone to Akara and Cain. As they searched for a way to purify it, Sun Fei examined the mysterious chamber’s golden skeleton and found that even his level 99 Barbarian could not approach it.

• Sun Fei equipped Bul-Kathos' Soul Cage Sacred Armor and gained a surge of strength, then collected Baal's other equipment and sold or stored what he did not need.
• Sun Fei heard Tyrael warn that the corrupted Worldstone could destroy the world, then traveled from Harrogath City to the mysterious stone chamber.
• Sun Fei showed the corrupted Worldstone to Akara and Cain, who warned him not to let anyone else touch it and said they were close to finding a way to purify it.
• Sun Fei saw Akara and Cain studying Demon King's Wisdom after they had removed it from the floating stone lamp's confinement space.
• Sun Fei approached the golden skeleton and discovered that its killing intent prevented even his level 99 Barbarian from coming within five meters.

Sun Fei learned that the Demon King's Wisdom pointed to a God and Demon Altar capable of purifying the Worldstone, but Akara and Old Man Cain did not know its location. He linked the altar’s Black Shadow Merfolk to the mysterious underground waters beneath Twin Flag City and decided to investigate them.

• Sun Fei tested the golden skeleton’s aura with his Laying of Hands gloves, which nearly shattered, and resolved to claim the skeleton’s golden axe when he grew strong enough.
• Akara and Old Man Cain activated a hidden array in the Demon King's Wisdom and projected an image of the towering God and Demon Altar, surrounded by statues resembling dwarves.
• Old Man Cain explained that the altar could purify the Worldstone, but neither he nor Akara knew where it was.
• Sun Fei spotted Black Shadow Merfolk in the projection and connected them to the mysterious underground waters beneath Twin Flag City.
• Sun Fei decided to search the underground waters, memorized the altar’s image, and left the Demon King's Wisdom with Akara and Old Man Cain.
• Old Man Cain thanked Sun Fei for returning the artifact and presented him with four purple-glowing scrolls.

Sun Fei received experimental confinement scrolls from Old Cain and Auntie Akara and proposed recreating Diablo’s teleportation formations in the World of Light. The chapter ended with the Snow Mountain Hermit reprimanding Fairenton for neglecting his martial training, while Fairenton accepted the rebuke.

• Old Cain and Auntie Akara showed Sun Fei their new Scrolls of Confinement, which could trap powerful targets for as long as a day.
• Old Cain told Sun Fei that Chambord City’s first reconstruction stage was complete and that the Demon King's Wisdom might help them build teleportation formations if they obtained the Demon King's Martial Power.
• Sun Fei left the mysterious stone chamber to investigate the waters beneath Twin Flag City and search for the God and Demon Altar and a way to purify the Worldstone.
• Prince Fairenton visited his master, the Snow Mountain Hermit, at the Ajax camp and was told that his martial progress had slowed.
• Fairenton apologized for neglecting his training and asked the Snow Mountain Hermit to punish him.

The Snow Mountain Hermit advised Fairenton to strengthen his martial cultivation and speculated that Alexander’s power was growing at an extraordinary rate. He predicted that powerful figures would soon gather over a mysterious site beneath the desert waters, and Fairenton was left preparing for a major development.

• The Snow Mountain Hermit urged Fairenton to prioritize martial cultivation if he hoped to rule the Ajax Empire, and Fairenton accepted his counsel.
• Fairenton told the Snow Mountain Hermit about Alexander’s rapid rise, leading the Hermit to suspect Alexander’s strength was increasing faster than reports could track.
• The Snow Mountain Hermit revealed that an old friend had appeared in Twin Flag City and warned that peak experts, including Emperor Chivu, would arrive within three days.
• Murdoch advised Fairenton to notify military headquarters, while Fairenton realized the gathering experts were likely drawn by the suspected God and Demon Ruins beneath the desert waters.
• A rider galloped to Fairenton’s tent shouting that something terrible had happened, and Fairenton demanded to hear the report privately.

Fairenton learned that his provisions convoy and elite cavalry had been destroyed by Zenit forces, leaving his army in crisis. Beneath Twin Flag City, Sun Fei discovered that powerful experts were searching the waters around the mysterious buildings and resolved to grow stronger before confronting the man in red.

• A scout told Fairenton that Zenit troops had burned most of the army’s provisions and killed Lord Dean during an ambush.
• Other scouts reported that the twelve thousand Earth Tiger cavalry had suffered a crushing defeat, General Kelundo had died, and General Erdos was retreating with the survivors; Fairenton collapsed unconscious.
• Sun Fei failed to reach the underwater buildings, sensed mermaid-like creatures and identified a structure resembling the [God and Demon Altar].
• Sun Fei evaded several powerful underwater scans and concluded that seven or eight Moon Class experts were watching the waters for something important.
• Sun Fei visited the unconscious Angela and Elena, vowed to make the man in red pay, and then headed toward the western gate with Fernando Torres.

Sun Fei prepared Twin Flag City for the return of the soldiers who had destroyed an Ajax supply convoy, while the battered survivors approached the city. Their return was interrupted when they encountered a mysterious man and child on a dune in the war zone.

• Sun Fei overheard militia reservists praising him and ordered Torres to spread timely, reassuring reports of the fighting throughout the city.
• Sun Fei told Torres to have the nobles prepare a feast at the west gate to welcome the three hundred returning warriors.
• Ribery and Andrei Shevchenko led 238 survivors toward Twin Flag City after their ambush burned more than half of the Ajax supplies, at the cost of over sixty soldiers.
• Ribery and Shevchenko spotted a white-robed man and a golden-haired child on a dune, surrounded by an invisible force that kept the blowing dust away.
• A soldier called out to warn the child about the danger, and Ribery and Shevchenko reacted with alarm.

Shevchenko and Ribery encountered the terrifying boy Arthur and his mage companion in the desert, while a Holy Church group tracked the necromancer Hasselbaink toward Twin Flag City. In Twin Flag City, Sun Fei welcomed the returning raiders and honored the warriors who had died.

• Arthur frightened Shevchenko, Ribery, and their more than two hundred warriors with a glance, but the middle-aged mage calmed him and they vanished in black flame.
• A Holy Church group led by Lord Deacon tracked Hasselbaink’s aura to the desert near Twin Flag City and set out for the city.
• Lord Deacon used a crystal ball to locate the middle-aged mage and Arthur, then decided the Church would enter the City of Gods and Demons to await Hasselbaink.
• Sun Fei praised generals Andrei and Frank for burning a hundred Ajax supply wagons and promised to report their achievement for rewards.
• Sun Fei led the soldiers in a toast to the sixty-four warriors who had died during the surprise attack.

Sun Fei honored the returning soldiers and warned Shevchenko about two powerful strangers near Twin Flag City. A Holy Church party led by red-robed deacon Pellegrini arrived, and Sun Fei let them into the city despite the danger, only for cries and curses to break out as he approached the gate.

• Sun Fei toasted the 238 returning imperial warriors, promised them merit and gold, and spoke of hoping they would survive the war.
• Shevchenko told Sun Fei about the mysterious mage and the frightening boy Arthur, and Sun Fei ordered soldiers not to provoke them.
• Sun Fei and Shevchenko spotted a powerful party bearing the Holy Church's banner approaching Twin Flag City through the Ajax encampment.
• A Church knight demanded that the city gate be opened, and Sun Fei silenced him with a display of power before ordering the gate opened.
• The Church party entered Twin Flag City, and Sun Fei and Shevchenko headed toward the gate as screams, curses, and a whip crack sounded below.

Sun Fei intervened when Church divine knights abused the soldiers guarding Chambord City's gate, then used his golden Holy Power to pose as a Son of God before red-robed deacon Pellegrini. Pellegrini accepted Sun Fei's identity provisionally and asked him to accommodate the Church's official business in the city.

• Sun Fei leaped from the city wall and stopped a divine knight from whipping the gate guards, then healed the wounded soldiers with Prayer.
• The divine knights recognized Sun Fei's golden Holy Power and treated him with awe as the soldiers hailed him as Lord Alexander.
• Sun Fei rebuked the divine knights for violating Church doctrine, and they lowered their heads without answering.
• Pellegrini arrived and questioned Sun Fei about his temple and purpose, while Sun Fei assessed the deacon's powerful aura.
• Sun Fei identified himself as Alexander, king of Chambord City, and Pellegrini asked him to accommodate the Church's official business.