Recaps

After uniting the Northern Region, Emperor Alexander became the center of celebrations and tributes from empires across the continent. In Saint Petersburg, Sun Fei welcomed the return of the rescued King Constantine, while King Lloris asked him to ease the harsh terms imposed on Lyon, uncertain whether his old friend had changed.

• Emperors and envoys from across the regions submitted to Alexander and congratulated him on his accession.
• People across Zenit and the Northern Region praised Alexander for ending the fighting and uniting the continent.
• Sun Fei thanked Lloris for bringing back King Constantine, whom he had found captive aboard a Barcelona ship disguised as a pirate vessel.
• Sun Fei healed Constantine, and Constantine reunited with Queen Elizabeth in an emotional scene.
• Lloris asked Sun Fei to soften the conditions imposed on the Lyon Empire, worried that Sun Fei was no longer the smiling youth he remembered.

Sun Fei told Lloris that he was uniting the Northern Region to prepare humanity for a coming calamity, and Lloris agreed to cooperate. After Lloris departed, Sun Fei and his ministers discussed the empires’ reluctant submission and the need to bring their armies under Zenit’s control before Barcelona and the Defilers threatened them.

• Sun Fei told Lloris that a world-destroying calamity was approaching and that Zenit’s forceful unification was meant to prepare humanity; Lloris believed him and agreed to cooperate.
• Lloris left for the Lyon Empire, knowing that he would face a difficult reception and that the agreement would transform his empire.
• Constantine warned Sun Fei that Lyon’s nobles might resist, and Sun Fei said the empires were only submitting because they feared Zenit’s strength.
• Best and old Arjen agreed that the empires were waiting to see how the war with Barcelona ended, while Sun Fei warned that there was little time before Barcelona and the Defilers advanced.
• Old Arjen proposed dividing the Northern Region into ten military regions and taking control of the empires’ armies, and Best accepted that war might be unavoidable.
• Marbury offered the Orc Clan’s army for the fighting, but Sun Fei told him to finish settling the Orcs and build a trained army first.

Sun Fei planned to use Chambord Military Academy’s graduating class to reorganize the Northern Region’s armies, backed by powerful war soul puppets. After setting the operation in motion, he received news that Luffy had been missing at sea for half a year and vowed to find him.

• More than forty million Behemoth Beastmen settled in the Anzhi Empire, strengthening their loyalty to Sun Fei, who kept them in reserve until they were trained and armed.
• Sun Fei learned that the first class of more than three thousand Chambord Military Academy students would graduate the day after tomorrow and decided to preside over the ceremony.
• Sun Fei told Best and Old Arjen that he would assign the graduates to establish ten military regions and reorganize the imperial families’ armies.
• Sun Fei planned to split the graduates into thirty groups, each supported by thirty Extreme Dao silver crystal war souls, and set a strict deadline for the reorganization.
• After Best and Old Arjen left to arrange the plan, Sun Fei received a note reporting that Luffy had been missing for half a year and vowed to find him.

The Lyon Empire’s diplomatic fleet encountered a massive Sea Clan army in the Fragrant Sea Region, and the Sea Clan’s attack crippled its escape attempt. King of Buckingham Lloris unfurled a pale gold scroll, sending a powerful signal into the sky as the fleet faced destruction.

• Thousands of Sea Clan warriors emerged from the sea and approached the Lyon fleet.
• Lloris ordered the fleet to accelerate and turn away from the Sea Clan rather than fight.
• The Sea Clan hurled heavy weapons at the warships, shattering their magic shields and damaging their hulls.
• A Sea Clan war hammer split the Expedition in two, preventing the fleet from reaching high speed.
• Lloris realized the fleet could not escape and unfurled a pale gold scroll that burst into a blazing signal overhead.

Lloris and the Lyon sailors fought off a Sea Clan attack while waiting for reinforcements from Chambord. The Sea Clan returned under a golden-armored woman, who ordered the humans killed and attacked Lloris with an instant ice spike.

• Lloris urged the Lyon sailors to hold on for Chambord's reinforcements and ordered them to repel the Sea Clan assault.
• Star-Rank warriors leaped into the sea to intercept the charging Sea Clan while the ships' crews launched arrows and magic cannons.
• A massive warship surfaced nearby, carrying the golden-armored Sea Clan leader and the missing Luffy, who had been away for nearly half a year.
• The Sea Clan leader announced her return to the Fragrant Sea Region and ordered her forces to kill the humans.
• Luffy taunted the leader and asked her to spare the Lyon people, then insisted that his master, King Alexander, would make her flee again.
• The Sea Clan leader conjured an ice spike and sent it through the void toward Lloris, striking him before he could evade.

Lloris was nearly killed by the Sea Clan empress before Number One, a Silver Crystal Battle Soul from Chambord, arrived and saved him. Number One recognized the Reverse Whale Warship and rushed toward it, but the empress trapped him in ice.

• The Sea Clan empress gravely wounded Lloris with an attack that his magic amulet barely blocked.
• The empress sent more ice spikes at Lloris, but Number One appeared and crushed them before Lloris collapsed unconscious.
• Number One roared, wiping out many Sea Clan warriors, and the empress ordered her army to withdraw and surround the fleet.
• Number One identified the distant Reverse Whale Warship as King Alexander's and hurried toward it to search for Luffy.
• The Sea Clan empress raised an ice wall and froze Number One inside a thick layer of ice.

Number One and three silver crystal battle spirits fought the Sea Clan empress, whose God Dou Weapon overwhelmed them and threatened the Lyon fleet. Alexander arrived with a golden palm strike that sent her plunging into the sea, then healed Lloris.

• Number One broke free of the ice and exchanged blows with the Sea Clan empress while three other silver crystal battle spirits shielded the Lyon fleet from the waves.
• The Sea Clan empress drew on the sea's power and forced the four battle spirits downward, leaving Lloris and the Lyon crew fearing defeat.
• A gigantic golden palm struck the Sea Clan empress and sent her deep beneath the sea.
• Alexander appeared beside Lloris, healed his injuries, and revealed himself as the one who had launched the palm strike.

Sun Fei rescued Luffy and the surviving Lyonians, then tried to leave with them before Kluivert and several powerful enemies surrounded him. The chapter ended with Sun Fei trapped in a carefully prepared death trap, facing four Sea Clan demon gods, the empress, and Barcelona’s Son of God, Leo Messi.

• Sun Fei struck the Sea Clan empress away, healed Lloris, and reunited with Luffy aboard the King Alexander.
• Luffy explained that the damaged King Alexander had sunk into the abyss and its crew had been captured by the Sea Clan.
• Sun Fei sensed danger and ordered Number One and the others to escort Luffy and the Lyonians away.
• Kluivert appeared in black mist and tried to seal the area, but Sun Fei broke through his spatial restraint so the Lyonians could escape.
• The empress, the demon gods Eusébio and Deco, Kluivert, and Leo Messi surrounded Sun Fei and sealed every route out.

Surrounded by Messi, Kluivert, and three other enemies, Sun Fei revealed the silver scepter’s power and swiftly destroyed Messi’s avatar. Messi survived elsewhere and vowed they would meet again, while Sun Fei remained trapped among the Sea Clan gods.

• Sun Fei questioned Messi about joining forces with the Sea Clan gods, and Messi said they were united against Sun Fei and that strength mattered more than morality.
• Kluivert and the Sea Clan empress urged the others to attack Sun Fei, who declared that he would wipe them out and targeted Messi first.
• Sun Fei immobilized Messi with golden beams, then struck him with gold-and-silver sword energy from a silver scepter.
• The scepter’s chains of order refined Messi’s body into a crimson sphere and imprisoned it in the gemstone, before the Sea Clan gods could intervene.
• Messi’s voice revealed that Sun Fei had destroyed only an avatar containing a third of his power, and he vowed to meet Sun Fei again.

Sun Fei overwhelmed the Sea Clan empress and the demon gods with his silver scepter and gold-and-silver sword qi. As Kluivert was consumed by the chains, Eusébio tried to escape, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Sun Fei sent sword qi at the Sea Clan empress, but her golden sea god scepter raised a seawater giant that was absorbed by his silver scepter.
• Sun Fei attacked Kluivert, Deco, Eusébio, and the Sea Clan empress with four streaks of sword qi, and they counterattacked together.
• Sun Fei tore apart Eusébio’s blades and punched him away, then shattered Kluivert’s lance and brushed off its demonic energy.
• Gold-and-silver chains emerged from Kluivert’s chest and spread across his giant body, trapping more than half of him.
• Eusébio tried to merge into the void and flee, abandoning Kluivert.

Sun Fei defeated the Sea Clan demon gods Eusébio and Deco after their attempts to escape and ambush him failed. He sealed both of them inside the gemstone on his silver scepter, while Kluivert was still being consumed by the chains and begging for mercy.

• Eusébio’s escape was stopped by chains of gold and silver sword energy and order, and he knelt to beg Sun Fei for his life.
• Deco ambushed Sun Fei from behind, hoping to steal the silver scepter, but Sun Fei had anticipated the attack and trapped him with the chains.
• Deco recognized the power of the Light of Creation and realized that greed had led him to challenge Sun Fei.
• The chains sealed Deco and Eusébio into gray orbs and drew them into the gemstone atop Sun Fei’s scepter.
• Kluivert, weakened by the chains, begged Sun Fei for mercy and offered to become his subordinate.

Sun Fei defeated the Sea Clan’s evil gods and questioned the captured empress about the Sea Clan’s return and its alliance with Barcelona. She revealed that the Sea Clan’s four great oceans and seven great abysses were preparing for major action, then reacted sharply when Sun Fei asked about the Defiler.

• Sun Fei refined Kluivert into black energy and spared the Sea Clan empress long enough to question her.
• The empress pleaded for her warriors, and Sun Fei agreed to spare the Fragrant Sea Region’s people if she answered his questions.
• The empress said Kluivert and Barcelona’s Son of God had planned the operation, while the Lyon fleet’s arrival had been accidental.
• She explained that her people had spent a year seeking aid and freeing sealed Sea Clan gods before returning to their homeland.
• The empress revealed that the Sea Clan’s four great oceans and seven great abysses were embroiled in wars and would soon make a major move.
• Sun Fei asked whether she had heard of the Defiler, and the empress’s expression changed drastically.

Sun Fei learned from the Sea Clan empress that the Defilers were demons from the Otherworldly Dead Realm who had devastated Azeroth a thousand years earlier and might return soon. The Sea Clan agreed to live peacefully with the humans and fight alongside them if the Defilers came, while Sun Fei returned to the Divine Domain Great World exhausted from using the Scepter of Creation.

• Sun Fei questioned the Sea Clan empress about the Defilers, and she described them as a limitless horde that had nearly destroyed the Sea Clan a thousand years earlier.
• The empress said the Defilers treated living worlds as pastures, harvesting their inhabitants before leaving survivors to reproduce for a future invasion.
• Sun Fei released the empress and warned her to keep the aquatic races of the Fragrant Sea Region at peace with the humans of the Northern Region.
• The empress returned to ask whether Sun Fei knew about the Defilers, and he told her they would appear in the world again soon.
• The empress agreed to keep the Sea Clan peaceful and proposed that they stand with the humans against the Defilers if they returned.
• Sun Fei returned to the Divine Domain Great World, where he replenished his depleted divine power and reflected that the Scepter of Creation had helped him escape Messi's trap.

Sun Fei refined the four demon gods’ divine essence, raising his fusion with the Divine Domain Great World to eighteen percent, then returned to Zenit and reviewed the Northern Region’s affairs with Best and the others. He ordered the empires to submit their armies and learned that the Behemoth Beastmen’s migration and resettlement were progressing well.

• Sun Fei refined the divine essence of Messi's avatar, Kluivert, Deco, and Eusébio, reaching True God Ninth Heaven and bringing his fusion with the Divine Domain Great World to eighteen percent.
• Best and the others welcomed Sun Fei back after waiting anxiously for news of him.
• Sun Fei told his advisers that he had reached a peace agreement with the Sea Clan and ordered the Northern Region’s empires to avoid conflict with them.
• Best reported that most empires had surrendered control of their armies, while Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, and several others were stalling; Sun Fei gave the holdouts three days to comply, except Lyon.
• Best reported that more than eighty percent of the Behemoth Orc Clan had migrated and that settlements and plans for a new orc army were progressing in the former Anzhi Empire.

Sun Fei ordered the Northern Region’s armies and orcs to unite against the Defilers, then visited the martyrs’ cemetery and returned to Chambord City as his allies made breakthroughs. News that the Dragon Clan had been defeated by the Holy Church left Sun Fei considering support for the threatened Red-Black and Blue-Black empires.

• Sun Fei ordered Old Arjen to organize the Orc Clan’s army, warned officials to prevent conflict between humans and orcs, and demanded that the Letters and Visits Office guard against Barcelona spies and resistance.
• Sun Fei sent Lloris and the Lyon delegation back to Gerland City to discuss integrating the Northern Region’s armies with Juninho.
• Sun Fei took Luffy to Martial Saint Mountain, where Luffy mourned at his birth mother’s grave, then returned with him to Chambord City.
• Brook reported that Chambord City’s citizens and key institutions had been evacuated to Sky City, where Angela had also brought several thousand king-level magical beasts.
• Sun Fei found that Palacio, Lampard, the Necromancer, and other masters had made breakthroughs, but Palacio received news that the Holy Church had defeated the Dragon Clan and hurried to the Central Region Continent.
• Sun Fei considered supporting the Red-Black and Blue-Black empires to keep the Holy Church occupied.

Sun Fei completed Sky City's settlement and security preparations, then activated its ability to rise and travel through space. He declared it the Northern Region's capital and traveling palace, while keeping its role as a last refuge from the Defilers in reserve.

• Chambord City's residents settled in Sky City after rigorous screening, and its defenses and surveillance systems were fully activated under Angela, Elena, and the Witch's direction.
• Sun Fei sent golden light into a lotus in God King Hall, causing Sky City to rise into the air as its residents watched in amazement.
• Sky City entered high-speed flight and became surrounded by a starry sky, astonishing Sun Fei's queens, Paris, and the ministers.
• Sun Fei declared Sky City his traveling palace and the Northern Region's capital, and privately considered it a refuge if the fight against the Defilers went badly.

The Orc Empire had prospered under Sun Fei, and its capital, Saint Stamford City, was startled when a vast city appeared in the sky. Hazard and the assembled defenders recognized the newcomer as Sky City and heard Sun Fei’s voice, but the chapter ended before he explained his arrival.

• The Behemoth Beastmen settled in the former Anzhi Empire, which Sun Fei had named the Orc Empire, and renamed its capital Saint Stamford City.
• Hazard, a Mid-Tier Moon Class warrior, patrolled the city walls after helping form the orc army.
• A silver-white city emerged from ripples in the sky above Saint Stamford City, and Hazard ordered the city placed on alert.
• Nash and the orc and Chambord City powerhouses prepared to face the apparent visitor.
• Sun Fei’s voice came from the city, and Hazard recognized Sky City and knelt in the air.

Sun Fei used Sky City to tour the Northern Region and bring its empires under Zenit's rule, establishing a unified Northern Region Empire. His swift conquest left him as a major power on the Azeroth Continent.

• After six days at Saint Stamford City, Sun Fei moved Chambord's vital institutions and sealed stone eggs to Sky City, then departed to conquer the Northern Region.
• Sun Fei openly flew Sky City over the region's imperial capitals, and attackers who approached its shield were killed.
• The Metz Empire's army of more than 600,000 collapsed after Sun Fei demonstrated Sky City's defensive cannon, and the Metz imperial family was overthrown.
• Over the following month, Sun Fei reorganized the Northern Region's empires into Zenit's ten military regions, as rulers submitted and commoners welcomed his policies.
• Sun Fei unified the Northern Region and became recognized as a sovereign capable of contending with the continent's great human and nonhuman powers.

As Sun Fei conquered the Northern Region, wars and shifting alliances reshaped the other continents: the Church defeated the Dragon Clan and destroyed two human empires, while new coalitions formed elsewhere. In the Southern Region, the goblins overwhelmed human forces, forcing Dortmund and Bayern Munich to unite as the war continued.

• The Holy Church, Juventus, and the Mediterranean Sea Clan defeated the Dragon Clan, while the Church destroyed the Blue-Black and Red-Black Empires.
• Shaarawy, Pato, Milito, Palacio, and the other Young Supremes protected the two empires' surviving elite forces and killed more than forty Church Extreme Dao experts before withdrawing to the Northern Region.
• The Elf Empire allied with the Madrid Empire, and the Golden Elf King restored the Blood Elves, helping Madrid resist Barcelona and the Holy Church.
• The Dwarf and Gnome Alliance and the Eastern Region's human empires ended their war, freed enslaved dwarves and gnomes, and began cooperating.
• The goblins defeated human armies across the Southern Region with vast forces and magical machinery, forcing Dortmund and Bayern Munich to join forces.

The Southern Region’s humans faced near defeat against the Goblin Empire as Sun Fei prepared the Northern Region for war. After the Holy Church and Juventus Empire destroyed the Central Region’s kingdoms, Shaarawy and Milito led more than four hundred thousand surviving soldiers toward the Northern Region to seek refuge with Alexander.

• The goblins’ rapid growth and brutal treatment of human captives drove humanity to unite against them, but the Southern Region’s armies suffered repeated defeats and gathered for a last stand in Iduna City and Allianz City.
• Sun Fei strengthened the Northern Region with military reforms, Magic Mobile Phones, and mass-produced Ultra-Long-Distance Teleport Magic Arrays.
• The Holy Church and Juventus Empire defeated the Dragon Clan and the empires of Red-Black and Blue-Black, leaving fewer than five hundred thousand survivors.
• Shaarawy, Milito, and other renowned masters led more than four hundred thousand displaced soldiers across the Central Region toward the Northern Region, where Alexander had sent an army to meet them.

Sun Fei stabilized Marton City after its liberation, supporting the Alania resistance and using the city to test his plans. He sent priests to establish his branch of the Holy Church there, and the people came to regard him as their savior and become loyal believers.

• Sun Fei returned to the Chambord Army camp as its disciplined soldiers earned the trust of Marton City's Alania people.
• Charles and the other officers established a provisional government and recruited young adults into the resistance army using captured Anzhi supplies.
• Sun Fei met the provisional Alania leaders and approved some of their requests for troops and supplies.
• Sun Fei kept the army in Marton City for three days and sent twenty priests through teleportation arrays to preach and aid the residents.
• The priests healed the people and spread stories of Sun Fei, winning the Alania residents' devotion as his loyal believers.
• Sun Fei monitored events across Azeroth and concluded that a truly chaotic age had arrived.

Sun Fei followed reports of rising wars and the Young Supremes across Azeroth, while worrying about hidden threats in the Northern Region and the Sea Clan and Golden Skeleton. Three days later, he led the Chambord Army south from Marton City with new companions and rescued refugees slowing their march.

• News reported wars across the continent and named the rising geniuses known as the Young Supremes, including Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei dismissed comparisons that placed him below other Young Supremes but memorized their names, expecting to meet them someday.
• Sun Fei grew more wary of the Northern Region’s apparent calm, the Anzhi people, and Hell-type dark forces, while learning little about the Sea Clan or the Golden Skeleton.
• After three days, the Chambord Army broke camp and headed south with a thousand Marton City Resistance Army cavalry led by Charles Adam.
• Anna, Edward, Leo, and Leo’s two siblings joined Sun Fei, who intended to guide Anna and Edward and nurture Leo’s talent.
• Sun Fei reached level 20 on Hell Difficulty, and the marching army slowed as it rescued Alania survivors along the way.

Sun Fei and the Chambord Army liberated most of Alania, while the resistance grew into a powerful army and the country prepared to restore its empire. With no surviving imperial heirs, Leo was recognized as Alania’s new emperor, leaving the restored nation under his rule.

• Sun Fei openly used his Paladin skills to destroy zombies and mutant beasts, earning fame as the Human Emperor of the Northern Region.
• Over the next month, Sun Fei and the Chambord Army liberated six cities and defeated Alania’s four Anzhi legions, while the resistance expanded into a large regular army.
• The Chambord Army settled in Didikaka City, and Sun Fei trained Anna, Edward, and Leo, later taking Leo as his nominal disciple.
• As the Alania people sought an heir to restore the empire, rumors and evidence emerged that Leo descended from a former imperial prince born out of wedlock.
• With Sun Fei’s prestige and the Chambord Army’s support behind him, Leo became Emperor Leo of the restored Alania Empire.

Emperor Leo consolidated the new Alania Empire by declaring Sun Fei Father of the Nation, allying with Zenit, and establishing the new faith as the state religion. As Sun Fei helped build schools and guide Leo, his former companions gained influential positions and visited him each day, though their ambitions had shifted toward status.

• Leo declared Sun Fei Father of the Nation, allied Alania with Zenit, and made the new faith the empire's state religion.
• Sun Fei arranged an emperor training class to teach Leo royal etiquette and the affairs of state.
• Sun Fei funded eight comprehensive schools and a military academy, using Chambord's model to train Alania's people.
• Sun Fei's campaign paused while he helped Leo govern, and opportunists gathered outside the Chambord Army's camp seeking his favor.
• Charles Adam, Anna, Edward, and other former survivors gained important imperial roles and visited Sun Fei to practice martial arts each evening.
• Sun Fei recognized that his former companions sought status more than martial progress and let them follow their chosen paths.

Sun Fei returned to Chambord City for a family dinner, where he explained his plans for Alania and the neighboring empires before ordering Garcia to reinforce Didikaka City. After returning to the imperial capital, he faced a Young Supreme who challenged his title and threatened to strip away his aura.

• Sun Fei ordered the Chambord Army to prepare to leave Didikaka City and resume its campaign against the Anzhi Empire.
• Sun Fei returned to Chambord City and shared a family dinner with Angela, Best, and Brook.
• Sun Fei revealed that Leo's imperial token was forged and that he had given Leo Alania's throne, while planning to influence Alania through schools and military academies.
• Sun Fei told Best and Brook to prepare people to build alliances with neighboring empires, then ordered Garcia to go to Didikaka City and steady the situation.
• Sun Fei returned to Didikaka City and was challenged by a Young Supreme from beyond the Northern Region, who threatened to strip away his aura and title.