Recaps

Zenit troops and civilians fought desperately to slow Barcelona’s advance through Saint Petersburg. Montoya led an elite force to the Military Department, where Second Prince Dominguez ordered the formation activated as the invaders broke in.

• Zenit officers used the Military Department’s magical flares to organize resistance and protect civilians fleeing the capital.
• Two hundred and fifteen Zenit soldiers held off a much larger Barcelona force in an alley for forty minutes, killing over five hundred enemies.
• Montoya gathered more than a thousand elite warriors and led them toward the Zenit Military Department to destroy the command center.
• Zenit soldiers tried to block Montoya’s force, but the Barcelonans crushed their resistance and reached the Military Department’s gates.
• Montoya and his officers stormed the Military Department, overwhelmed its defenders, and opened the gates for the Barcelona army.
• Second Prince Dominguez ordered the formation activated as Barcelona soldiers poured into the Military Department.

Barcelona forces captured the Military Department after Zenitian ambushes failed to stop them, while Emperor Yassin lost his battle against Leo Messi. Messi revealed that Eindhoven spies and Fourth Prince Christo had caused the central magic tower to collapse, and Yassin confronted his son about his betrayal.

• Dominguez triggered a magic killing formation and Dragon-Shooting Giant Crossbows against Montoya’s Barcelona forces, but Montoya pushed through the defenses.
• Dominguez intercepted Montoya, and the two fought as Zenitian and Barcelona soldiers clashed around them.
• Leo Messi defeated Emperor Yassin, whose arrangements had failed and whose empire’s central magic tower had collapsed.
• Messi revealed the Eindhoven spies who had destroyed the Protection of Mother Earth formation and identified Christo as their accomplice.
• Emperor Yassin asked Christo why he had betrayed him, and Christo angrily challenged Yassin’s repeated claim that he had disappointed him.

Christo revealed that he had helped Barcelona and Eindhoven destroy the central magic tower and tortured Granero, prompting Emperor Yassin to attack him before Leo Messi intervened. Yassin then disowned Christo, severing him from the Zenit Imperial Family.

• Christo accused Emperor Yassin of neglecting him and declared that he would become Zenit's king with Barcelona's help.
• Emperor Yassin condemned Christo's selfishness and explained that his past decisions had been intended to protect him.
• Christo confessed to helping Barcelona and Eindhoven pass the checkpoints and destroy the central magic tower, then revealed the mutilated Granero.
• Emperor Yassin attacked Christo, but Leo Messi shattered the sword energy and said he planned to install Christo as Zenit's new emperor.
• Emperor Yassin drew blood from his severed arm and formally expelled Christo from the Zenit Imperial Family.

As Saint Petersburg fell to Barcelona, Paris directed the desperate evacuation of civilians while Dominguez made a final stand at the Military Department. Dominguez killed Montoya and detonated the last magic array, dying beneath the ruins as a star fell from the sky.

• Christo rejected his ties to the Zenit Imperial Family and vowed to imprison his father and destroy his rivals, Chambord City, and Alexander.
• Paris ordered civilians, especially women and children, to escape through the north gate and commanded that nobles trying to flee be executed.
• Dominguez fought on at the Military Department while his soldiers died protecting him and civilian staff continued issuing orders.
• Dominguez let Montoya strike his heart, then beheaded him and fought off the surrounding Barcelona soldiers.
• Dominguez retreated into the supreme council hall and detonated the final magic array, destroying the hall and killing those inside.
• A bright star streaked across the night sky and fell.

Paris and Sutton witnessed stars fall as Zenit’s defenders fought desperately during the empire’s collapse. Messi revealed that Frankie had orchestrated Barcelona’s infiltration and Christo’s rebellion, while Akinfeev and Yassin faced the consequences.

• Paris saw a star fall toward the Military Department and, believing the second prince had died, charged into the Barcelona ranks in a grief-stricken fury.
• Sutton held the southern city gate for six hours, lost his companions and wolf, and was finally swallowed by the Barcelona troops as another star fell.
• Messi remarked on the fallen stars while Akinfeev cursed him for stopping his attempt to kill Christo, and Yassin silently sneered at Messi’s dismissal of Zenit.
• Frankie identified herself as Costacurta’s daughter and admitted that she had helped Barcelona evade searches, incited Christo to rebel, and devised the destruction of the Central Magic Tower to avenge her father.

Emperor Yassin faced Leo Messi as Barcelona’s attack devastated Zenit, while Akinfeev sacrificed himself to kill Frankie. Yassin appeared to reveal the secret Messi sought, but left him uncertain whether he had been deceived as golden Imperial Dao Faith engulfed him.

• Messi demanded that Yassin reveal why Barcelona had attacked Zenit, promising to halt the slaughter if Yassin answered.
• Yassin asked whether all ten Judgment Knights had fallen, and Akinfeev confirmed they had while assuring him that the third prince would learn everything.
• Akinfeev charged Frankie and killed her before Busquets blasted apart his radiant form, and another general’s star fell from the sky.
• Yassin drew Messi close and appeared to whisper the secret, then claimed that Messi would find the continent’s accumulated treasures and reminded him of his promise.
• Old Arjen and several Chambord City Saints found the second prince and more than a hundred officials buried beneath the collapsed council hall, then blasted through the surrounding Barcelona forces and left to retrieve Lady Paris.
• Messi accused Yassin of deliberately fooling him as Yassin laughed and became engulfed in brilliant golden Imperial Dao Faith.

Emperor Yassin dissolved into heaven and earth rather than let his enemies kill him, leaving Messi and the Barcelona experts shaken by his death. Messi then ordered the occupation of Saint Petersburg and installed Christo as Zenit's ruler under Barcelona's control, while revealing his contempt for Christo's claim to join the Catalan imperial clan.

• Yassin transformed himself into golden haze and vanished, warning Barcelona that his third prince would raze Camp Nou in his stead.
• A great star briefly shone in the sky before disappearing, and Busquets and the other Barcelona experts mourned Yassin's fall and wondered what he had told Messi.
• Busquets feared Messi had learned Yassin's secret and might kill the witnesses, but Messi resumed his friendly manner and ordered his experts to seize Saint Petersburg while preserving the imperial palace.
• Messi declared Christo the master of the ancient city on the condition that he obey Barcelona and suppress Zenit resistance.
• Christo eagerly offered to join the Catalan imperial clan, but Messi questioned whether he was qualified and left with him as the spies departed with the unconscious Red Beard.

The celestial anomaly leaves people across Zenit grieving, while Sun Fei continues refining his Divine Domain Great World with a sudden influx of Imperial Dao Power of Faith. The chapter leaves him seeing Emperor Yassin’s image and wondering what happened to Chambord City.

• Arshavin and Natasha sensed that Emperor Yassin, Dominguez, and others had fallen, and Arshavin vowed to avenge them.
• Sun Fei’s cocoon absorbed Power of Faith as the laws and borders of his Divine Domain Great World continued to develop.
• A vast torrent of golden Imperial Dao Power of Faith shaped like dragons flowed into Sun Fei’s cocoon, astonishing the mysterious silver figure.
• Sun Fei woke within the cocoon, felt an overwhelming grief, and wondered whether something had happened in Chambord City.
• Sun Fei heard Emperor Yassin’s Dragon Fist and saw Emperor Yassin’s image appear in the golden Power of Faith.

Emperor Yassin gave Sun Fei a final gift of Power of Faith, sending him into a deeper state of cultivation. Meanwhile, disasters devastated the Land of Exile and delayed the Behemoth Beastmen’s migration until news arrived that Torres and O’Neal had returned from Azeroth.

• Emperor Yassin appeared to Sun Fei, embraced him, and merged into him as Power of Faith.
• The pure golden Power of Faith flooded into Sun Fei and greatly accelerated his refinement of the Divine Domain.
• Natural disasters and expanding Dread Beast territories killed many Behemoth Beastmen, forcing the survivors to prepare to migrate to Azeroth.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei for going into seclusion while the Beast God Temple searched for a successor, and High Priest Fox Nash waited anxiously for him to awaken.
• Chambord’s Legion of Light rescued Behemoth Beastmen from disasters, strengthening rumors that Sun Fei carried Beast God Rexxar’s bloodline or was the Beast God reincarnated.
• Fox Nash announced that Torres and O’Neal had returned from Azeroth.

Old Arjen led the wounded Paris, Frank Lampard, Hasselbaink, and Batistuta back to Chambord City through a teleport array while evading Barcelona’s pursuit. Five Barcelona masters then discovered the array’s traces and headed for Chambord City to attack it.

• Old Arjen decided to activate the teleport array beneath Twin Tower Peaks so the wounded could return to Chambord City for treatment.
• Paris cried out for Alexander in her feverish sleep, and Old Arjen gave her a Life Restoration Elixir.
• Old Arjen and the physicians prepared Frank Lampard, Hasselbaink, Batistuta, and Paris for transport as a Saint reported that the array was ready.
• The group teleported to Chambord City, and the remaining Saints dismantled and concealed the array before Barcelona’s masters arrived.
• Five Barcelona masters realized the Zenit survivors had likely fled to Chambord City and set off to attack it.

Piasson traveled toward Chambord City in disguise to deliver Akinfeev’s secret order while Barcelona hunted Zenit’s survivors. In the Land of Exile, Ernst and Chambord’s delegation waited anxiously for Sun Fei to emerge from cultivation, but Elena refused to let them disturb him.

• After the Peak Moon Class masters left, Saints disguised themselves as refugees and headed for Chambord City.
• Piasson concealed his power among fleeing civilians and made his way north, determined to deliver Akinfeev’s secret order to the King of Chambord.
• As Barcelona’s Moon Class masters continued searching the skies, Piasson worried that their pursuit would reach the northern frontier before he could reach Chambord City.
• In the Land of Exile, Ernst and Chambord’s delegation grew anxious after Torres reported Barcelona’s invasion and Sun Fei remained in seclusion for thirty-one days.
• Pierce, Drogba, and others urged the group to wake Sun Fei, but Elena insisted they keep waiting.

Sun Fei emerged from seclusion just as Ernst waited to see him before his death, while Barcelona’s attack on Chambord City was met by a magical shield and golden-armored warriors. The golden warriors killed one of the five Barcelona experts, leaving the other four facing a far stronger defense than they expected.

• Elena stopped Ernst’s lover, the Bode Swan Clan saintess, from entering Sun Fei’s seclusion hall, and Sun Fei emerged before they could fight.
• Sun Fei mistook the frail Ernst for an old man, and Ernst excitedly reacted to seeing him.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class experts arrived above Chambord City and one fired a beam at its walls.
• Chambord City’s shield reflected the attack, and more than twenty golden-armored warriors surrounded the Barcelona experts.
• A golden-armored warrior killed one Barcelona expert with a punch, leaving the other four stunned.

Chambord City’s Mithril War Souls killed four Barcelona powerhouses but let the wounded Armando escape after he guessed they could not travel far beyond the old walls. Best and Brook watched him go, while hundreds of additional puppets appeared over the city before vanishing again.

• Twenty-six gold-armored Mithril War Souls killed four of the five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection powerhouses and wounded the last, Armando.
• Armando realized the warriors were magic puppets and tested how far they could pursue him.
• Armando concluded the puppets could not travel more than two thousand meters beyond Chambord City’s old walls and flew toward Saint Petersburg to report his supposed discovery.
• After Armando left, several hundred more Mithril War Souls appeared over Chambord City, then silently vanished.
• Best and Brook watched the distant sky where Armando had disappeared and exchanged knowing smiles.

Piasson faced the danger of being held by the wounded Barcelona master Armando while carrying a secret imperial edict, and made a startling decision about three scrolls. Elsewhere, Pope Ernst reacted angrily when Sun Fei called his master an old geezer.

• Piasson and his companions discussed using mithril puppets to deter the Barcelona army and protect Zenit refugees.
• The wounded Barcelona Moon Class master Armando landed among the refugees, and Piasson decided against attacking him.
• Armando ordered Piasson to organize the refugees and set up a tent, then summoned his followers and instructed them not to harm the Zenit people or mistreat Piasson.
• Piasson remained under close watch and considered the three scrolls he carried before making a startling decision.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei for insulting his master, and Sun Fei recognized Zhong Dajun as the old geezer.

After Sun Fei reached God Rank, he restored Ernst’s youth and learned that Barcelona had devastated Zenit, prompting him to prepare to return. Ernst persuaded him to attend the Beast God Temple’s papal succession ceremony first, where the selection had failed to recognize any candidate.

• Sun Fei restored Ernst’s body to its youthful state, and Ernst realized Sun Fei had reached God Rank.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that Barcelona had invaded Zenit and the orcs faced a catastrophe in the Land of Exile.
• Torres recounted Barcelona’s destruction in Zenit, including the capture of the King of Byzantium, Luffy’s disappearance, and the fall of the Southern Frontier.
• Sun Fei decided to return to Zenit, but Ernst persuaded him to settle the Beast God Temple succession first so orc experts could later join him.
• Sun Fei and Ernst arrived at the crowded City of Behemoths, where hundreds of thousands of priests and shamans had failed the Beast God’s test for a new pope.

Sun Fei displayed his godlike power by stopping a meteor shower that threatened the City of Behemoths. The statue of Beast God Rexxar awakened in response, while the gathered beastmen worshiped Sun Fei.

• Beastmen gathered around Sun Fei and Ernst as Sun Fei sensed the statue of Beast God Rexxar calling to him.
• A vast meteor shower descended toward the City of Behemoths, trapping the crowd beneath its deadly reach.
• Sun Fei summoned a giant golden phantom that destroyed or swallowed the meteorites and revealed his godhood to the gathered beastmen.
• The Behemoth Beastmen cheered and worshiped Sun Fei, while Elena and the Chambordians rejoiced at his transformation.
• The statue of Beast God Rexxar shone with light, healed the beastmen, and then came to life.

Beast God Rexxar’s statue recognized Sun Fei as its master, while the true Rexxar revealed that Ernst could return to Earth and regain what he had lost. Sun Fei declined to leave with Ernst, who passed through the portal, and the Behemoth Beastmen hailed Sun Fei as their Emperor.

• The statue of Rexxar came to life, bowed to Sun Fei, and entered his body as a beam of faith.
• Rexxar appeared in the sky and opened a portal to Earth, telling Ernst he could return and regain everything he had lost.
• Sun Fei nearly rushed to the portal but stopped after thinking of Elena, his friends, and the empire he still had to protect.
• Ernst invited Sun Fei to come with him, but Sun Fei refused and said he would find his own way back to Earth someday.
• Ernst entered the portal and vanished, then Rexxar saluted Sun Fei before disappearing.
• The Behemoth Beastmen prostrated themselves before Sun Fei and proclaimed him Emperor.

Zhong Dajun returned to Earth with the powers he had gained in another world, while Barcelona established control over most of Zenit and sent an army against Chambord City. The Barcelonans reached Chambord but found its defenses and Mithril Puppets too formidable to overcome.

• Zhong Dajun used a War Song to stop a runaway truck and realized his powers still worked on Earth.
• Zhong Dajun left the scene for home, unaware that a nearby camera had recorded him.
• Fourth Prince Christo reassembled the Zenit Imperial Family as Barcelona’s puppet and helped suppress resistance across the empire.
• Armando returned to Saint Petersburg with news about Chambord City, prompting Barcelona to send more than two hundred thousand soldiers toward the northern frontier.
• Busquets and Pedro watched the Barcelonans struggle against Chambord’s defenses after two days of fighting.

Chambord City held out against the Barcelona and puppet armies while taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees, and old Arjen advised against a premature counterattack. He expected King Alexander to return soon, while Piasson appeared in the Barcelona camp beside a refugee enclosure.

• Barcelona's forces failed to capture Chambord City despite repeated assaults, and Busquets turned to a war of attrition using puppet troops and refugees.
• Ptolemy forced starving and injured refugees toward the city, and Chambord opened its gates to tens of thousands while its Mithril Puppets repelled another attack.
• Chambord took in more than two hundred thousand refugees and several thousand spies without collapsing or suffering the expected internal chaos.
• Best proposed using hundreds of Mithril Puppets to destroy the enemy army, but old Arjen warned that the survivors could ravage civilians and learn the puppets' limits.
• Old Arjen said Fernando had likely reported to King Alexander and that the king's return was near, lifting the commanders' spirits.
• Piasson, the former Tenth Judgment Knight of Zenit's Knights' Hall, stepped out of a luxurious tent in the Barcelona camp near an enclosure holding refugees.

Piasson learned that Armando expected Chambord City to fall by midnight and ordered him to prepare to claim credit and loot the city. As the Barcelona army mobilized, Piasson spotted unusual figures in the camp and seemed to realize what power they were relying on.

• Piasson visited Armando, reported reaching the two-star class peak stage, and learned that Chambord City was expected to fall at midnight.
• Armando told Piasson to ready his soldiers and be among the first into Chambord City to claim credit.
• Piasson took two captured Zenit girls to his tent, where he assaulted them.
• As evening fell, Barcelona's army sounded its horns and assembled for battle.
• Piasson spotted several unusual figures in the camp and froze as he appeared to understand the Barcelona army's confidence.

Piasson discovered that the Holy Church was involved in the coming attack and tried to get a warning to the King of Chambord. As the Barcelona forces began their assault, Chambord protected the refugees, and two girls arrived with urgent intelligence for His Majesty.

• Piasson told two trusted Zenit women about his suspicions and decided to disguise them as victims so they could be sent toward Chambord City.
• Piasson ordered soldiers to take the two women with the refugees toward Chambord's walls, then heard the Barcelona camp assemble for battle.
• Robben, Best, and old Arjen prepared Chambord's defenses, while old Arjen ordered that refugees continue entering the city.
• The Barcelonans bombarded Chambord, but old Arjen expanded the city defense shield to protect the refugees as they entered through magical portals.
• Chambord's warriors killed Barcelona spies trying to cause panic, while powerful auras rose from the enemy camp.
• A soldier told old Arjen that two girls from the Barcelona camp had urgent intelligence for the King of Chambord, and old Arjen ordered them brought up.

The two girls delivered Piasson’s warning that the Holy Church had joined Barcelona’s assault, prompting Chambord’s leaders to prepare an evacuation and ready their defenses. As Barcelona and the Church launched their attack, divine master Gianni Infantino summoned a Battle Angel, leaving the defenders facing a formidable new threat.

• The two blood-covered girls reported Piasson’s warning that the Holy Church was supporting Barcelona and pleaded for his rescue.
• Old Arjen promised to rescue Piasson and ordered civilians and refugees moved out of the old city.
• Barcelona’s army and the Church’s divine masters advanced toward the Zuli River, and Gianni Infantino’s Spear of Judgment struck Chambord’s barrier without breaking it.
• Gianni Infantino and eleven divine masters opened an interdimensional portal and summoned a Battle Angel.

Forty Battle Angels attacked Chambord City, but the city’s Mithril Magic Puppets outnumbered them and gained the upper hand after reinforcements arrived. Infantino and the divine priests then opened a larger summoning portal, bringing a new threat to Chambord City.

• Infantino sent forty Battle Angels to bombard Chambord City’s shield, and old Arjen narrowed the shield around the city to withstand the attack.
• Fifty or sixty Mithril Magic Puppets rose to meet the angels, and their clash devastated the Zuli River banks and caused heavy casualties among nearby soldiers.
• The Battle Angels and Mithril Magic Puppets fought at close quarters, with neither side gaining a clear advantage despite the angels’ individual superiority.
• Old Arjen sent another sixty Mithril Magic Puppets into battle, and the reinforced puppets destroyed increasing numbers of Battle Angels.
• Infantino drank a potion and joined the divine priests in opening a larger silver vortex portal, as Chambord City’s true crisis began.

Sun Fei returned to the battle for Chambord City as the Barcelonans celebrated their apparent victory, and he instantly defeated the Four-Winged Battle Angel. The battlefield fell silent as Chambord’s defenders recognized their king.

• A Four-Winged Battle Angel emerged from the Holy Power vortex and quickly destroyed dozens of Chambord’s magic battle puppets.
• Armando celebrated the expected fall of Chambord City and promised his soldiers loot, while Piasson resolved to die fighting for Zenit.
• Alves threatened to slaughter everyone in Chambord City as the Barcelonan soldiers prepared to charge.
• Sun Fei appeared over the battlefield and sent the Four-Winged Battle Angel flying with one blow.
• Best, Brook, old Arjen, and Piasson recognized Sun Fei as the tide of battle abruptly changed.

Sun Fei arrived at Chambord and effortlessly captured Infantino, while the Four-Winged Battle Angel absorbed other angels and transformed into a Six-Winged Battle Angel. The new angel threatened Sun Fei, leaving both armies and Piasson anxious about the looming fight.

• Chambord’s soldiers cheered as Sun Fei arrived, and the Barcelonans feared his strength.
• Infantino mocked Sun Fei, but Sun Fei seized him by the neck from a thousand meters away.
• The Four-Winged Battle Angel absorbed the fallen angels’ power and the remaining Two-Winged Battle Angels, beginning to grow another pair of wings.
• The angel became a Six-Winged Battle Angel and threatened Sun Fei unless he released Infantino.
• Old Arjen, Brook, Best, and Piasson worried that Sun Fei might lose as the battle’s uncertainty grew.