Recaps

Emperor Yassin faced Leo Messi, who claimed to have condensed a Divinity, while the Barcelonans advanced on the Imperial Military Department. Dominguez rallied its frightened officers, who activated the military command system despite the danger of revealing its location to the enemy.

• Leo Messi told Emperor Yassin that he had condensed a Divinity and urged him to fight while his Imperial Dao Faith still gave him strength.
• Emperor Yassin mocked Messi’s false smile and unleashed Dragon Fist Sword Qi against him.
• Dominguez arrived at the Military Department and challenged its officers to choose between surrendering in fear and defending their honor.
• The officers rallied behind Dominguez, returned to their posts, and activated the remote military magic system, exposing the department’s location to the Barcelonans.

As Barcelona forces ravaged Saint Petersburg, Zenit’s scattered soldiers received the Military Department’s orders and fought desperately to protect civilians and slow the invasion. Montoya led an elite force through the city to attack the Military Department, where Dominguez prepared to activate a formation as the enemy broke in.

• Magic flares carried the Military Department’s orders, and Zenit officers organized street defenses and civilian escapes across Saint Petersburg.
• Two hundred and fifteen Zenit warriors held off a much larger Barcelona force for forty minutes, killing over five hundred enemies before they fell.
• Montoya gathered more than a thousand elite warriors and led them toward the Zenit Military Department, crushing Zenit troops who tried to stop him.
• Montoya and his forces broke through the Military Department’s defenses, killed staff officers, and poured into the grounds.
• Dominguez ordered the formation activated as Montoya’s troops reached the supreme military and political hall.

Barcelona forces attacked the Zenit Military Department, where Dominguez’s ambush inflicted heavy casualties as the battle spread. After defeating Emperor Yassin, Leo Messi revealed that Eindhoven spies and the fourth prince, Christo, had sabotaged the Central Magic Tower, and Christo erupted at his father’s accusation of disappointment.

• Dominguez’s hidden magic formation and Dragon-Shooting Giant Crossbows killed hundreds of Barcelona soldiers and two Moon Class officers, while Montoya charged toward the crossbow positions.
• Dominguez joined the battle against Montoya as Zenitan soldiers emerged from hiding and the two armies fought fiercely.
• Leo Messi told the defeated Emperor Yassin that he could explain why the Central Magic Tower had collapsed, while four Barcelona Demigods stood behind him.
• Messi summoned Eindhoven spies who had destroyed the Protection of Mother Earth formation, and Yassin recognized that Christo had enabled their attack.
• Yassin asked Christo why he had betrayed Zenit, and Christo roared that his father knew no word besides “disappointed.”

Fourth Prince Christo revealed that he had helped Barcelona and Eindhoven destroy the Central Magic Tower and brutalized Esteban Granero. Emperor Yassin cast Christo out of the imperial family, while Messi stood between them and kept Yassin from killing him.

• Christo accused Emperor Yassin of favoring his brothers and declared that Barcelona's support would make him Zenit's king.
• Christo confessed that he had led Barcelonan and Eindhovener forces into the Central Magic Tower and sabotaged Protection of Mother Earth.
• Christo's allies brought the mutilated, tongueless Esteban Granero before Emperor Yassin.
• Yassin attacked Christo, but Leo Messi shattered the sword energy and announced his plan to support Christo as Zenit's new emperor.
• Yassin apologized to Granero, learned Christo had tortured him, and severed his own arm to renounce Christo as a member of the Zenit Imperial Family.

Christo rejected the severing of his ties to the Zenit Imperial Family and vowed revenge, while Paris and Dominguez fought to protect Saint Petersburg’s civilians and preserve the empire’s forces. Dominguez died destroying the Military Department’s council hall, and a bright star fell across the night sky.

• Christo vowed to imprison his father and slaughter the royal family and Alexander after their ties were severed.
• Paris directed the defense at the north gate and ordered that only civilians, especially women and children, could escape.
• Dominguez refused to flee as Barcelona’s troops overwhelmed the Military Department and killed his remaining guards.
• Dominguez killed Montoya in a mutual strike, then fought on despite being pierced by numerous weapons.
• Dominguez retreated into the council hall and detonated its final magic array, killing himself and the officials inside as a bright star fell.

Paris and Sutton sensed the deaths of important Zenit figures as they fought Barcelona’s forces, while Messi confronted the wounded Akinfeev and Emperor Yassin. Frankie revealed that she had orchestrated Barcelona’s infiltration and Christo’s rebellion as revenge for her father’s death.

• Paris saw a falling star and feared that the second prince had died, then unleashed her grief and fury on the Barcelona soldiers at the north gate.
• Sutton resolved to hold the south gate to the death and was overwhelmed by Barcelona’s troops.
• Messi watched the fallen star and dismissed Zenit’s chances of ever threatening Barcelona.
• Frankie told Akinfeev that she was Costacurta’s daughter and had helped Barcelona evade searches, turned Christo against Zenit, and destroy the Central Magic Tower.

Emperor Yassin faced Leo Messi as the Barcelona army attacked Saint Petersburg, while Akinfeev sacrificed himself to kill Frankie. After telling Messi he would obtain the continent’s accumulated power, Yassin engulfed himself in golden flames, leaving Messi to realize he had been deceived.

• Leo Messi demanded that Emperor Yassin reveal the reason for the war, promising to halt the slaughter if Yassin answered.
• Akinfeev told Yassin that the ten Judgment Knights had died and that he had ensured the third prince would learn the truth.
• Akinfeev charged forward and killed Frankie before Busquets blasted apart his radiant form, and another general’s star fell from the sky.
• Old Arjen and the Chambord City Saints arrived too late to save the second prince, then cleared the Military Department and set out to find Paris.
• Emperor Yassin whispered to Leo Messi, then said Messi would obtain everything the continent had accumulated over the past hundred years.
• Messi realized Yassin had not actually told him the secret as Yassin’s Imperial Dao Power of Faith surrounded him in golden flames.

Emperor Yassin dispersed into the world rather than let Barcelona kill him, leaving Messi and the Extreme Dao experts shaken by his death and final words. Messi ordered Barcelona’s forces to seize Saint Petersburg, then took Christo away after offering him Zenit’s throne as a puppet ruler.

• Emperor Yassin transformed into golden mist and vanished, declaring that his third prince would raze Camp Nou in his stead.
• A celestial phenomenon marked Yassin’s death, and Busquets and the other Extreme Dao experts feared their own eventual fall.
• Messi ordered the four Extreme Dao experts to take control of Saint Petersburg and preserve the imperial palace.
• Messi offered Christo the Zenit throne on the condition that he obey Barcelona and suppress resistance.
• Christo eagerly offered to join the Catalan royal family, but Messi questioned whether he was qualified and took him away.
• Barcelona and Eindhoven spies searched the corpses and carried off the unconscious Granero.

Arshavin and Natasha sensed the deaths of their loved ones in the imperial capital and vowed revenge against Barcelona, while Sun Fei continued refining his Divine Domain Great World with Power of Faith. When Imperial Dao Power of Faith arrived, Sun Fei felt a sudden heartbreak and saw Yaxindadai appear in its golden light.

• Arshavin and Natasha sensed that Emperor Yassin, Dominguez, and others had fallen, and mourned their loss.
• Arshavin swore to take revenge on Barcelona and trample Camp Nou.
• Sun Fei absorbed vast Power of Faith as his Divine Domain Great World expanded and its laws grew more complete.
• A mysterious voice observed that Sun Fei needed more Power of Faith to refine the world, then reacted with surprise when golden Imperial Dao Power of Faith arrived.
• Sun Fei opened his eyes, felt as if he had lost someone dear, and heard the Dragon Fist associated with Emperor Yassin.
• Yaxindadai’s image appeared before Sun Fei in a screen of golden Power of Faith.

Emperor Yassin gave Sun Fei his final gift of Power of Faith, sending him back into a profound state of cultivation while the Behemoth Beastmen’s homeland faced escalating disasters. The chapter left Pope Ernst and Nash awaiting Sun Fei’s return as news arrived that Torres and O’Neal had come back from Azeroth.

• Emperor Yassin embraced Sun Fei in spirit, then became a wisp of Power of Faith that joined the vast golden power flooding into Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei’s Power of Faith surged, greatly accelerating his refinement of the Divine Domain Great World and returning him to a mysterious state.
• Over twenty days, disasters and the spread of the Metal Shamo and Evil Water Swamp devastated the Land of Exile, killing many Behemoth Beastmen and making migration to Azeroth urgent.
• More than 130 candidates failed to receive a sign from Beast God Rexxar during the search for a new pope, while Ernst cursed Sun Fei for going into seclusion.
• The Legion of Light rescued Behemoth Beastmen from disasters, and rumors that Sun Fei was connected to Beast God Rexxar spread among the orcs.
• Nash rushed to Ernst with news that Torres and O’Neal had returned from the Azeroth Continent.

Old Arjen and Modrić prepared to return to Chambord City with the unconscious Paris, Lampard, Hasselbaink, and Batistuta, who were still gravely injured. After the group escaped by teleportation, five Barcelona masters discovered the site and headed for Chambord City.

• Old Arjen decided to activate the teleportation array beneath Twin Tower Peaks so the injured could reach Chambord City for treatment.
• Paris cried out Sun Fei's name in her sleep, and old Arjen gave her a Life Restoration Elixir.
• Old Arjen ordered the teleportation array activated, and Lampard, Hasselbaink, Batistuta, and Paris were sent to Chambord City's Sky City.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection masters arrived after the teleportation and set off to attack Chambord City.

Piasson made his way toward Chambord City in disguise to deliver Akinfeev’s secret order while Barcelona hunted Zenit’s surviving elites. In the Land of Exile, Ernst and the Chambord delegation worried over the invasion, but Elena insisted they not interrupt Sun Fei’s cultivation.

• After Barcelona’s Moon Class powerhouses left, Saints hiding near Twin Tower Peaks emerged and disguised themselves as refugees heading for Chambord City.
• Piasson traveled north among fleeing civilians, keeping his power sealed to avoid detection while carrying Akinfeev’s secret order to the King of Chambord.
• Piasson concluded that Barcelona was sensing and hunting Zenit’s powerful warriors and mages, and he feared a broader hunt would begin after the invaders finished looting Saint Petersburg.
• More Barcelona Moon Class powerhouses appeared overhead as Piasson continued toward Chambord City.
• In the Land of Exile, Ernst, Elena, and the others learned of Barcelona’s invasion and debated waking Sun Fei, who had been cultivating in seclusion for thirty-one days.
• Elena refused to let anyone disturb Sun Fei and told the others to keep waiting.

Sun Fei emerged from seclusion just as Ernst neared death and the orcs’ migration preparations awaited him. Meanwhile, five Barcelona experts attacked Chambord City, where golden-armored warriors appeared and killed one of them with a single punch.

• Ernst waited outside Sun Fei’s stone hall, hoping to see him before his death, while the orcs and Chambord City prepared for the migration.
• Ernst’s beloved holy maiden tried to enter the hall, but Elena blocked her until Sun Fei came out.
• Sun Fei emerged, asked whether Elena and the holy maiden were sparring, and mistook the frail Ernst for an old geezer.
• Five Barcelona Moon Class Great Perfection experts arrived above Chambord Ancient City and one fired at its walls, but a barrier reflected the attack.
• More than twenty golden-armored warriors surrounded the Barcelona experts, and one of them punched a Barcelona warrior into a rain of blood and broken bones.

Chambord City's Mithril War Souls killed four Barcelona masters and let the surviving Armando escape after he guessed they could not travel far from the city. Best and Brook watched him go with knowing smiles.

• Three golden-armored Extreme Dao masters killed the Barcelona master who had threatened Chambord City.
• The War Souls killed two more Barcelona masters and wounded the last survivor, Armando, before stopping their pursuit.
• Armando concluded that the War Souls were magic puppets bound to a range of two thousand meters from Chambord City's walls.
• Armando fled toward Saint Petersburg, believing he could use his discovery to gain wealth and glory in Barcelona.
• Hundreds of additional Mithril War Souls appeared over Chambord City, then vanished, renewing the city's confidence.
• Best and Brook watched the direction Armando had fled and smiled knowingly.

Piasson avoided attacking the injured Barcelonan master Armando and was placed in charge of the Zenitian refugees. Trapped among Armando’s reinforcements, Piasson considered the secret decree and made an astonishing decision, while Sun Fei visited the dying Pope Ernst.

• Piasson and his companions discussed using the Mithril Puppets to intimidate the Barcelonans and protect Zenit’s people.
• The wounded Barcelonan Moon Class master Armando landed among Piasson and the refugees, and Piasson decided not to risk attacking him.
• Armando ordered Piasson to organize the refugees and build a tent, then called his followers to his aid and instructed them to keep the Zenitians alive.
• Armando’s special consideration gave Piasson a small tent, but guards prevented him from escaping with the secret decree.
• Piasson studied three scrolls and made an astonishing decision.
• Pope Ernst cursed Sun Fei after hearing him insult Zhong Dajun.

Sun Fei restored Ernst to his youthful appearance and learned that Barcelona had invaded Zenit, causing devastation and leaving Emperor Yassin’s fate uncertain. He decided to return immediately but agreed to take part in the Beast God Temple’s pope selection first, as the orcs awaited a successor.

• Sun Fei healed Ernst, restoring him to the appearance he had at twenty, and Ernst realized Sun Fei had reached God Rank.
• Ernst told Sun Fei that the orcs faced a dire crisis and Barcelona had invaded Zenit.
• Torres reported Barcelona’s atrocities, the capture of the King of Byzantium, Luffy’s disappearance, and the damage to Zenit’s forces; Sun Fei decided to return.
• Ernst persuaded Sun Fei to settle the pope succession before leaving, and Sun Fei agreed.
• Sun Fei and Ernst arrived at the Beast God Temple plaza, where the selection had failed to produce a successor despite hundreds of thousands of candidates.

As Sun Fei approached the statue of Beast God Rexxar, a deadly meteor shower threatened the City of Behemoths, and Sun Fei revealed his godlike power by stopping it. The statue awakened in response, leaving the Behemoth Beastmen restored and the pope selection on the verge of its conclusion.

• Sun Fei felt the statue of Beast God Rexxar calling to him as he approached, while the mysterious voice urged him to reclaim his former glory.
• A vast meteor shower descended on the City of Behemoths, and the orcs despaired as their strongest fighters failed to stop it.
• Sun Fei summoned a towering golden apparition that destroyed or swallowed the meteors and revealed his power as a True God.
• The Behemoth Beastmen and Chambord delegation stared in shock, then cheered and worshipped Sun Fei.
• The statue of Beast God Rexxar blazed with light, healed the Behemoth Beastmen, and came to life.

The statue of Beast God Rexxar recognized Sun Fei as its master, while Rexxar revealed that Ernst could return to Earth through a blue portal. Sun Fei chose to remain in Azeroth, and the Behemoth Beastmen hailed him as their Emperor.

• The statue of Beast God Rexxar came to life, knelt before Sun Fei, and entered his body as a beam of faith.
• Rexxar appeared in the sky, thanked Zhong Dajun for preserving hope for Azeroth, and opened a blue portal to Earth for Ernst.
• Ernst realized the portal could take him home and invited Sun Fei to go with him.
• Sun Fei resisted the urge to leave, chose to stay with Elena and his friends, and said he would find his own way back to Earth someday.
• Ernst entered the portal and returned to Earth, while Rexxar saluted Sun Fei before vanishing.
• The Behemoth Beastmen prostrated themselves before Sun Fei and proclaimed him their Emperor.

Zhong Dajun returned to Earth with the powers he had gained as pope of the Beast God Temple and stopped a speeding truck, unaware that a camera had captured him. Meanwhile, Barcelona installed Christo as Zenit's puppet ruler and launched an invasion of Chambord, where its army was halted by powerful defenses.

• Zhong Dajun avoided the crosswalk where he had died and used a Behemoth Beastman priest's War Song to stop a truck from hitting pedestrians.
• Zhong Dajun realized he could still use his powers on Earth and headed home for his engagement, while a nearby camera recorded him.
• Christo announced a reformed Zenit Imperial Family and became Barcelona's puppet ruler, then used his power to settle scores and suppress resistance.
• Armando returned to Saint Petersburg with news of Chambord's defenses, and Barcelona sent more than two hundred thousand troops toward the northern frontier.
• Busquets and Pedro watched Chambord Ancient City after two days of fighting, as its Demigod-level magic puppets and God Level shield kept the Barcelona army at bay.

Chambord City endured Barcelona’s siege and took in hundreds of thousands of refugees, while old Arjen counseled against a premature counterattack until King Alexander returned. The chapter ended with Piasson, the former Zenit Judgment Knight, emerging from Barcelona’s main camp beside the captive refugees.

• Barcelona failed to capture Chambord’s Mithril Puppets and used collaborationist soldiers and mistreated refugees to pressure the city into surrendering.
• Brook and Best refused to admit collaborationist troops, but Chambord opened its gates to tens of thousands of refugees and ultimately sheltered more than two hundred thousand.
• Ptolemy’s refugee tactics and Barcelona spies failed to bring Chambord to disorder or exhaustion.
• Best proposed using five hundred Mithril Puppets to destroy Barcelona’s gathered forces, but old Arjen warned that survivors could devastate civilians and expose the puppets’ limits.
• Old Arjen said Fernando had likely reached King Alexander and predicted the king’s return was near, raising the officers’ hopes for a counterattack.
• Piasson, the former Tenth Judgment Knight of Zenit, emerged from a luxurious tent in Barcelona’s main camp near the imprisoned refugees.

Piasson learned from Armando that Barcelona planned to take Chambord City at midnight, though the method remained secret. After abusing two captured Zenit girls, Piasson noticed several distinctive figures in the camp and suspected he had discovered the Barcelona army’s source of confidence.

• Piasson visited Armando, reported reaching the Two-Star Class Peak Stage, and heard that Chambord City would fall at midnight.
• Armando told Piasson to prepare his soldiers and be among the first to enter the city, but refused to explain how Barcelona would break through.
• Piasson encountered Barcelona soldiers escorting two captured Zenit girls and ordered them taken to his tent.
• Piasson abused the girls while the soldiers outside resented his privilege.
• As Barcelona’s army prepared for battle, Piasson spotted several distinctive figures and seemed to understand its confidence.

Piasson suspected the Holy Church was helping Barcelona and arranged for two young women to carry his warning to Chambord, disguising their escape as an act of cruelty. As Barcelona began its assault, Chambord shielded the refugees and began evacuating them, while the two women sought an audience with Old Arjen to deliver urgent intelligence.

• Piasson told two trusted Zenit women to warn the King of Chambord about his suspicions, then staged their apparent torture and sent them with refugees toward Chambord’s walls.
• Drums sounded in the Barcelona camp, and Robben, Best, and Old Arjen prepared Chambord’s defenses for an imminent attack.
• Old Arjen ordered the city shield expanded to protect refugees as Barcelona launched a magical bombardment, and Chambord’s forces guided the refugees through portals while Rogues killed spies who tried to cause panic.
• Several powerful auras rose from the Barcelona camp, and a soldier told Old Arjen that two young women had urgent intelligence for the king; Old Arjen ordered them brought up.

Two frightened girls delivered Piasson's warning that Barcelona had help from the Holy Church, prompting Chambord's leaders to evacuate civilians and prepare for battle. As Barcelona and the Church attacked the city's barrier, the priests summoned a Battle Angel, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Two blood-covered girls told Old Arjen and the others that Piasson had sent them with intelligence about Barcelona and the Holy Church.
• The girls asked Chambord's leaders to rescue Piasson, and Best promised that they would bring him out of the Barcelona camp.
• Old Arjen ordered civilians moved to Sky City and refugees teleported to the Alania Empire and the Anzhi Empire.
• Busquets and the Holy Church's divine priests approached Chambord, and Gianni Infantino's Spear of Judgment struck the city's barrier without breaking it.
• At Busquets's request, Gianni Infantino and the priests opened a portal and summoned a winged Battle Angel.

Barcelona’s Battle Angels clashed with Chambord City’s Mithril Magic Puppets, and the puppets gained the upper hand after old Arjen sent in reinforcements. Divine priest Infantino then began a more powerful summoning, bringing Chambord City to its true crisis.

• Infantino summoned forty Battle Angels, which attacked Chambord City’s barrier as old Arjen strengthened and contracted it.
• Fifty or sixty Mithril Magic Puppets rose to fight the Battle Angels, and their clash caused devastating shock waves that killed thousands of soldiers outside the barrier.
• The Battle Angels and Mithril Magic Puppets fought to a stalemate despite the angels’ slight individual advantage.
• Old Arjen sent another sixty Mithril Magic Puppets into the battle, and the puppets began destroying the Battle Angels.
• Infantino and ten divine priests drank red potions and began summoning through an even larger silver vortex portal.

A Four-Winged Battle Angel overwhelmed Chambord’s Magic Battle Puppets, leaving the defenders and Piasson despairing as Barcelona prepared to storm the city. Sun Fei returned at the last moment and instantly destroyed the angel, turning the battle’s hope toward Chambord.

• A Four-Winged Battle Angel emerged from the Holy Power vortex and joined the battle against the Magic Puppets.
• The angel badly damaged dozens of Magic Puppets, while Barcelona’s forces cheered and Armando promised his soldiers the spoils of Chambord.
• Piasson resolved to attack the Barcelona command and die for Zenit if Chambord fell.
• Alves threatened to slaughter everyone in Chambord, but Sun Fei appeared and challenged him.
• Sun Fei struck the Four-Winged Battle Angel down with a single push, astonishing both armies and bringing Best, Brook, Arjen, and Piasson to tears.