Recaps

Drogba and Pierce rescued Old Sam from Anzhi warriors and learned that the Big Family had helped the foreign envoy target him. After sending Old Sam home, the two Chambord warriors went to a small building in Saint Petersburg’s commercial district.

• Drogba and Pierce mocked the Anzhi knight and defeated his warriors with a flurry of slaps.
• Pierce seized the Anzhi envoy and demanded to know which Zenit noble had helped him find Old Sam.
• The Anzhi knight confessed that the Big Family had colluded with him, and Drogba suggested confronting the family, but Pierce chose to wait for His Majesty’s return.
• Drogba and Pierce introduced themselves to Old Sam as Chambord warriors, and Old Sam recognized them as the Black-Haired Berserk Fist and the White-Haired Swift Sword.
• Drogba and Pierce gave Old Sam ten gold coins and then went to a small building in Saint Petersburg’s commercial district.

Sun Fei secretly returned to Saint Petersburg and learned about the Anzhi Empire's threats and the approaching party from Martial Saint Mountain. After D'Alessandro's group split up, Sun Fei sent Drogba and Pierce to trouble the Anzhi envoys while the threat to Chambord City and the imperial capital drew closer.

• Drogba and Pierce met Modrić in a hidden chamber in Saint Petersburg and waited for Sun Fei to arrive through a teleportation portal.
• Sun Fei returned secretly to the imperial capital after traveling through more than twenty teleportation arrays, then heard Modrić's report on the city's political situation.
• Modrić explained that the young Anzhi Emperor Suleiman Kerimov had made Sun Fei his target, and Sun Fei scolded Drogba and Pierce for not doing more against the Anzhi envoys.
• Drogba and Pierce left to cause trouble for the Anzhi envoys after Sun Fei told them not to kill anyone.
• A hummingbird delivered news that D'Alessandro and his companions had entered Zenit and threatened to massacre the imperial family unless it decided by sunrise the day after tomorrow.
• Modrić reported that Albelda was leading twenty-five people toward Chambord City while D'Alessandro continued toward Saint Petersburg with twenty others.

Sun Fei ordered Chambord’s forces to intercept Albelda’s group while keeping watch on D'Alessandro, whose strength he knew he could not yet match. He trained in the Diablo World, reached level 72, and left Mephisto’s Soulstone intact; meanwhile, Albelda’s masters approached Chambord City.

• Sun Fei ordered Lords Brook and Best to attack Albelda’s group and told scouts to monitor D'Alessandro without drawing his attention.
• Sun Fei considered using the coming invasion to test Zenit’s loyalties and see Emperor Yassin’s strength, then entered the Diablo World to train.
• Sun Fei killed the demon guarding the Hellforge hammer, returned to level 70, and chose not to destroy Mephisto’s Soulstone.
• Sun Fei cleared four seals in the Chaos Sanctuary and reached level 72 before leaving the Diablo World.
• At dawn, Albelda led twenty-three masters toward Chambord City.

As Albelda’s fighters traveled toward Chambord, they mocked the kingdom and plotted to seize its royal family and enslave Alexander’s consorts. A mysterious youth killed Zeman, then revealed himself with three powerful companions to confront the group.

• Silver-Haired Venerable warned Albelda’s fighters that Chambord had defeated powerful attackers, but Oliveira and O'Henry dismissed the warnings.
• Zeman urged the group to kill Chambord’s experts and capture Alexander’s consorts, and Albelda approved the idea of enslaving them.
• An unseen attacker declared that Zeman had insulted his master and instantly crushed Zeman’s head.
• Albelda blocked the attacker’s remaining force and used his power to reveal four figures in the void.
• Albelda demanded to know who the youth and his three companions were and why they had attacked.

Deisler, the Virgo Gold Saint, attacked the Moon Class experts threatening Chambord City, killing two and badly wounding another before revealing his allegiance. He held off Albelda's assault with Spiritual Power barriers, but the Great Sun-Rank Venerable's cyan vines broke through and nearly reached his forehead.

• Deisler killed Zeman and O'Henry with Spiritual Power and gravely wounded Oliveira.
• Albelda identified Deisler's ability as Spiritual Power, and Deisler introduced himself as the Virgo Gold Saint under the King of Chambord.
• The Moon Class experts realized Deisler was from Chambord and began to fear the consequences of their expedition.
• Albelda dismissed Spiritual Power as an unorthodox trick and attacked Deisler with streams of cyan light.
• Deisler raised successive Spiritual Power barriers, but Albelda's vines shattered them and nearly struck Deisler's forehead.

A red-haired archer revealed herself as a Great Sun-Rank Venerable and battled Albelda with powerful ice and fire arrows while an assassin attacked the Moon Class experts. The assassin, Inzaghi, killed a bearded expert, leaving the remaining enemies under attack from both sides.

• A blue arrow from the red-haired woman froze Albelda’s vines, pierced his arm, and revealed that she wielded the power of a Great Sun-Rank Venerable.
• The woman fired a fire arrow at Albelda, and the sudden shift from cold to heat worsened Oliveira’s injuries and sent him falling.
• Albelda regrew his arm with Wood-Element Dou Qi and used Blink to evade the woman’s arrows as their battle continued.
• The black-haired young man vanished with an assassin’s technique, and the Silver Moon Venerable warned that he might be one of the Four Thorns.
• Inzaghi struck down a bearded Moon Class expert by cutting his throat and then destroying his heart.

Philip Inzaghi, Deisler, and Garcia fought the Moon Class masters who had invaded Chambordian territory, while two Great Sun-Rank Venerables battled overhead. The invaders were overwhelmed, and the Chambordian masters continued their assault as they hurried to obey Brook’s order to reach the imperial capital.

• Philip Inzaghi used his Concealment skill to evade the Moon Class masters’ spells and attacks, then reappeared and killed the man who had urged the others to attack.
• Inzaghi resumed attacking the panicked invaders, while the two Great Sun-Rank Venerables continued fighting high above.
• Deisler used a Spiritual Power technique to immobilize several Moon Class masters, allowing Inzaghi to kill them.
• Garcia summoned his Wings of Divine Grace and sent holy light swords raining down on the remaining Moon Class masters, turning the fight decisively in Chambord’s favor.

Garcia, Deisler, and Inzaghi defeated the attacking Moon Class masters, while Elena captured Albelda and ordered them to take him to Sun Fei in the imperial capital. In Saint Petersburg, Andrew Shemak pushed the Military Department to condemn Alexander and submit to D'Alessandro.

• Garcia, Deisler, and Inzaghi routed the Moon Class masters and let the survivors flee to spread word of Chambord City's strength.
• Elena defeated Albelda and delivered the nearly dead prisoner to Garcia, explaining that Lord Brook had ordered her to return to defend the royal city.
• Elena told the three men that Sun Fei had returned to the imperial capital, and they eagerly prepared to meet him.
• Military Department leaders debated whether to support Alexander or yield to D'Alessandro, with less than half a day remaining before D'Alessandro's deadline.
• Andrew Shemak claimed the military could unite behind convicting the King of Chambord and continued advocating submission to D'Alessandro.

At a Military Department meeting, young officers defended Sun Fei against demands to hand him over, while Diarra urged First Prince Arshavin to punish them and surrender the King of Chambord. Arshavin instead condemned the surrender faction, ordered Andrew Shemak and Diarra executed for treason, and revealed that his Iron-Blooded Camp had surrounded the hall.

• Gary Cahill and other young officers protested Andrew Shemak’s proposal and declared their support for Sun Fei.
• Diarra accused the young officers of colluding with Sun Fei and urged Arshavin to imprison them and hand Sun Fei over to D’Alessandro.
• Arshavin rebuked Diarra, declared that Zenit would fight, and insisted that the empire alone would decide Sun Fei’s fate.
• Arshavin ordered Andrew Shemak and Diarra taken away and executed for treason.
• Soldiers from Arshavin’s Iron-Blooded Camp entered the surrounded council hall as the two nobles begged for their lives.

Arshavin seized control of the Military Department and executed nobles accused of conspiring with Anzhi. At the Eldest Princess’s residence, Natasha learned the operation was ready and ordered Paris to act, trusting that a mysterious person would help her.

• Arshavin’s Iron-Blooded Camp soldiers killed Andrew Shemak and Diarra, then blocked the council hall’s exits.
• Military Department clerks read letters implicating capital nobles in collusion with Anzhi, and Arshavin’s soldiers executed more than twenty accused nobles.
• Natasha waited in her residence while Ziyan reported that Arshavin controlled the Military Department.
• Natasha told Ziyan to send word to Paris, saying that a mysterious person would help Paris carry out their plan.

Paris and Granero led nearly ten thousand soldiers through Saint Petersburg in a coordinated purge of the empire’s nobles. As the Night of Bloodshed began, the forces of Arshavin and Dominguez attacked the Imperial Council of Elders and other noble strongholds.

• Paris ordered the Public Security Office forces to set out according to plan, and Granero joined her with a mysterious black-cloaked figure following behind.
• Nearly ten thousand elite soldiers split into groups and moved toward different parts of Saint Petersburg.
• The Night of Bloodshed began as Arshavin and Dominguez joined forces to purge noble factions whose loyalty to the empire was divided.
• The Iron-Blooded Camp and Public Security Office soldiers surrounded the Imperial Council of Elders and its members’ residences.
• The soldiers stormed the council hall, and panic-stricken nobles fell beneath their blades.

The Council of Elders’ chairman ordered a Moon Class guardian to rally two legions and plunge Saint Petersburg into chaos as the Iron-Blooded Camp and Imperial Capital Public Security Office besieged the council’s fortress. A guardian escaped from the fortress, leaving the defenders’ treasonous plan in motion.

• The Iron-Blooded Camp and Imperial Capital Public Security Office attacked the Council of Elders’ fortress, and a crossbow bolt killed a nobleman who challenged them.
• The Council of Elders’ chairman reassured the panicking nobles that their three Moon Class guardians could get them out.
• The chairman ordered a guardian to tell two legions that the eldest prince had launched a coup and to let them burn, kill, and loot in Saint Petersburg.
• The chairman revealed he had contacted D'Alessandro and intended to make the council his agents before his arrival.
• A streak of light escaped the fortress, and the Iron-Blooded Camp soldiers shouted that a Moon Class powerhouse was getting away.

Chris Sutton and Luffy arrived to support the imperial forces attacking the Council of Elders’ fortress, and Sutton killed the Senate’s Moon Class master. Luffy smashed the fortress gates and walls with his elastic, iron-hard fists, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• The Council of Elders’ Moon Class master broke through the soldiers’ attacks while the president threatened to destroy Saint Petersburg.
• Chris Sutton killed the Moon Class master with a flash of golden sword light, and Luffy denounced the president for insulting his master.
• Luffy and Sutton’s arrival rallied the imperial troops, who surged against the fortress.
• Luffy leaped from the sky, survived the fall, and shattered the iron gates with his stretching fists.
• Luffy repeatedly extended and retracted his arms to demolish the fortress walls, astonishing the soldiers and Chris Sutton.

Luffy used the ancient Rubber Fist technique to help the attacking soldiers breach the Council of Elders’ fortress and pursued its president. When the Moon Class masters Montoya and Stoch appeared, Chris Sutton intervened to protect Luffy from Montoya’s attack.

• Luffy’s Rubber Fist shattered the fortress wall, and the attacking soldiers overwhelmed the Council of Elders’ guards, who surrendered.
• Luffy chased the Council of Elders’ president, smashing through guards and shields as the president fled and called for Montoya and Stoch.
• Montoya and Stoch unleashed powerful auras that swept the attacking soldiers away and left Luffy struggling to hold his ground.
• Montoya fired a streak of blue energy at Luffy, and Chris Sutton shattered it with golden sword energy.

Sutton defeated the Council of Elders’ Moon Class masters as the purge of Saint Petersburg’s corrupt nobles concluded. The purge succeeded, but Zenit still faced the imminent arrival of D'Alessandro, and Paris departed to prepare for the coming battle.

• Sutton used his golden lance to suppress Montoya and Stoch while Luffy helped rout the Council of Elders’ guards and killed its president.
• Sutton pierced Montoya’s throat and then stabbed Stoch, who detonated himself rather than accept defeat.
• Sutton left with Luffy as the Council of Elders was destroyed and the soldiers began clearing the battlefield.
• Paris watched the purge’s conclusion and noted that D'Alessandro would arrive at sunrise, threatening the Zenit Empire.
• Paris and the mysterious cloaked figure disappeared to prepare for what came next.

After the Night of Bloodshed destroyed the anti-King of Chambord alliance, Arshavin released the surviving officials and nobles, and Saint Petersburg prepared for the decisive arrival of D'Alessandro and his party. The chapter ended with Zenit's defenders awaiting the coming battle at dawn.

• Arshavin ended the executions at the Military Department and sent the surviving nobles and officials home.
• The nobles saw that soldiers were attacking prominent residences across Saint Petersburg and realized the coup had been crushed without Alexander's intervention.
• Foreign envoys hid in the diplomatic quarter and cursed Zenit while waiting for D'Alessandro and his party to arrive.
• At dawn, Zenit's soldiers armed the city walls and magic towers as nobles gathered at the southern gate to face the approaching threat.

D'Alessandro and more than twenty Moon Class masters reached Saint Petersburg, threatening to destroy Zenit after the empire chose to oppose them. Zenit activated its defenses and counterattacked, but the empire's magic weapons vanished before reaching the invaders, leaving everyone wondering who could turn the tide.

• D'Alessandro arrived outside Saint Petersburg with more than twenty Moon Class masters, and his power shattered the walls and killed defenders with a glance.
• D'Alessandro declared that Zenit would be destroyed for opposing him and sent a devastating wave of sound toward the city.
• An unidentified speaker countered D'Alessandro's sound attack, restored the defenders' courage, and prompted Arshavin to issue orders.
• Zenit activated the Earth Guardian magic array and fired its magic weapons at the invaders.
• D'Alessandro effortlessly made the magic weapons' projectiles disappear, leaving the defenders unsure who could stop the enemy.

D'Alessandro's forces attacked Saint Petersburg, but Chambord City and Zenit's hidden masters defeated the Moon Class invaders before D'Alessandro overwhelmed them with his power. As the city neared destruction, a majestic force from the imperial palace halted the devastation, and a blue-haired man appeared to face D'Alessandro.

• D'Alessandro ordered his Moon Class masters to attack Saint Petersburg, where Chris Sutton and Materazzi confronted them and four disguised Chambord masters joined the battle.
• Sutton, Drogba, Pierce, Inzaghi, Deisler, and Materazzi defeated their opponents, but D'Alessandro's covert attack was stopped by an unseen force.
• D'Alessandro ordered all sixteen remaining masters to attack together, prompting Drogba, Pierce, Inzaghi, and Deisler to summon their Gold Cloths as Frank Lampard joined the battle and helped kill every invader.
• Lampard identified the fighters as warriors of Chambord City, and D'Alessandro revealed he had sent Albelda to destroy Chambord; Garcia showed that Albelda had been crippled.
• D'Alessandro unleashed his power, shattered Saint Petersburg's protective barrier, and gravely threatened the city and its people.
• A voice from the imperial palace stopped D'Alessandro's destruction, and a blue-haired man appeared, driving him back with a clash of power.

Zenit’s six Moon Class fighters overwhelmingly defeated their opponents, turning the battle into a one-sided victory and lifting the defenders’ spirits. D’Alessandro then secretly launched a deadly attack against all six, and they realized too late that they could not escape it.

• Chris Sutton killed his opponent with Hurricane Howling Wolf Kill, giving Zenit its first victory.
• Drogba, Pierce, Philip Inzaghi, and Deisler defeated their opponents with their own signature techniques, while Materazzi forced his frightened opponent to flee.
• The Zenit fighters’ victories stunned the defenders and made the enemy’s sixteen Moon Class masters hesitate to attack.
• Drogba and Pierce taunted the enemy, easing the tension among the soldiers on the walls.
• D’Alessandro secretly sent invisible sword energy at all six Zenit masters, and they felt the attack strike before they could react.

D'Alessandro ordered sixteen Moon Class fighters to attack Zenit's six champions, but four of the defenders summoned powerful Gold Cloths and fought back. As the battle erupted, a flame-haired man in golden armor charged out from Saint Petersburg with strength greater than the Gold Saints.

• Six hidden forces blocked D'Alessandro's sword energies from killing Zenit's six fighters, though D'Alessandro could not find who had intervened.
• D'Alessandro ordered all sixteen Moon Class fighters to attack Zenit's six champions together.
• Drogba and Pierce summoned their Taurus and Capricorn Gold Cloths, while Inzaghi and Deisler summoned their Gemini and Virgo Gold Cloths.
• Zenit's six fighters clashed with the sixteen invaders, and the four Gold Saints quickly blasted one opponent apart.
• A flame-haired man in golden armor charged from Saint Petersburg into the battle with power surpassing that of the Gold Saints.

Frank Lampard joined the battle for Zenit and used his Lightning Lightspeed Fist to kill the Moon Class masters supporting D'Alessandro. More Zenit masters appeared as the attackers fled, while D'Alessandro confronted the golden-armored warriors and demanded to know who they were.

• Frank Lampard arrived in golden armor and killed six Moon Class masters with his lightning-fast punches.
• Ziyan recognized Lampard and told the eldest princess and Arshavin that his strength was nearing the great sun-rank venerable realm.
• Zenit’s soldiers and nobles cheered as more Zenit masters, including Torres, Čech, Robben, Oleg, and Garcia, appeared in the sky.
• Lampard killed a fleeing Moon Class master, and the surviving attackers fled in terror.
• D'Alessandro questioned the golden-armored warriors’ origins and warned that interfering meant opposing his master, Maradona.

After the Zenit warriors defeated D'Alessandro’s forces, Lampard revealed they served the King of Chambord. D'Alessandro claimed he had sent a Great Sun-Rank Venerable to massacre Chambord City, but the warriors laughed and Garcia showed him the crippled Albelda, leaving him shocked.

• All sixteen Moon Class enemies were slain, and Materazzi broke through to Half Moon Class during the battle.
• Lampard told D'Alessandro that he and the other warriors served the King of Chambord.
• D'Alessandro claimed that his force, led by Albelda, had been sent to massacre Chambord City while its strongest defenders were away.
• The warriors laughed at D'Alessandro, and Garcia presented the unconscious Albelda.
• D'Alessandro examined Albelda and discovered his Dou Qi channels, internal space, and origin power had been destroyed.

D'Alessandro unleashed his full power on Saint Petersburg, overwhelming Zenit's defenders and destroying the city's protections. A mysterious force from the imperial palace stopped his attack, and a blue-haired middle-aged man appeared to confront him.

• D'Alessandro used his Blazing Sun Class Great Perfection power to knock Lampard and the other masters aside and devastate Saint Petersburg.
• D'Alessandro declared that the Zenit Empire would fall, while the city's nobles and soldiers struggled to survive his power.
• A commanding voice from the Zenit Imperial Palace stopped the destruction and sent golden divine dragons to attack D'Alessandro.
• D'Alessandro's clash with the dragons tore open spatial rifts, but an invisible force kept Zenit City safe.
• A blue-haired middle-aged man appeared and drove D'Alessandro back, and the eldest prince recognized him as his father.

Emperor Yassin revealed that he was alive and at the height of his power, then confronted D'Alessandro with a Mythical Class martial art. D'Alessandro countered with his own Mythical Class technique, and their clash remained undecided as Yassin's golden dragon talon began to fade.

• Arshavin identified the blue-haired man who struck D'Alessandro as Emperor Yassin, shocking the nobles who had believed the emperor was near death.
• D'Alessandro questioned Yassin's identity, and Yassin declared himself emperor of Zenit and said he would capture him to force the Martial Saint to come for his release.
• Yassin summoned a golden dragon talon with the first form of Dragon Fist, Dragon Descends upon the Mortal World, and pressed D'Alessandro beneath its power.
• D'Alessandro used the Mythical Class God-Slaying Art to summon a fan of enormous silver swords and attack the dragon talon.
• After six or seven minutes of combat, the swords battered the talon, knocking away its scales and making it increasingly transparent.

Emperor Yassin overwhelmed D'Alessandro with successive forms of Dragon Fist, revealing strength far beyond what Zenit's people and the mysterious observer had expected. After his third attack left D'Alessandro gravely injured, Yassin summoned a golden-flame hand to seize him.

• Emperor Yassin countered D'Alessandro's God-Slaying Art with Dragon Returns, and their clash devastated the landscape while leaving Saint Petersburg untouched.
• D'Alessandro was swallowed by the golden dragon, broke free, and spat out pale silver blood as Emperor Yassin prepared his third move.
• The mysterious cloaked figure wondered whether Yassin had recently reached Mythical Class and whether Lyon Empire concealed an even stronger master.
• First Prince Arshavin organized repairs to the damaged walls and the rescue of survivors while Zenit's people cheered for Emperor Yassin.
• Emperor Yassin struck D'Alessandro with Dragon's Long Roar, severely injuring him, then formed a giant golden-flame palm to seize him.