Recaps

Barcelona reeled after its expeditionary army was destroyed in Zenit, and the empire’s leaders learned that the King of Chambord and his forces were a formidable threat. The chapter ended with the powerful figures gathered in Camp Nou looking to Messi as they faced the consequences of the defeat.

• Barcelona’s people reacted with disbelief and fury when they learned that more than six hundred thousand soldiers and several Extreme Dao experts had been lost in the Northern Region.
• The public demanded revenge against Zenit and accountability from the empire’s Military Department.
• Barcelona’s leaders assembled in the imperial palace temple, where the defeated commanders lay gravely weakened.
• The leaders reviewed the defeat and recognized that the King of Chambord and his army had proven powerful enough to threaten Barcelona.
• Several military commanders glanced toward Messi, who sat at the head of the hall.

Barcelona’s leaders learned that Zenit had destroyed Eindhoven, crowned Alexander emperor, and declared war, prompting Messi to call for time. Three days after Alexander’s coronation, Zenit celebrated its sudden rise in power.

• Emperor Guardiola ordered Barcelona to master Chambord’s magic puppet technology, and Messi told the assembly to prepare for war.
• A messenger delivered news that Zenit had destroyed Eindhoven, crowned Alexander emperor, declared war on Barcelona, and gained the allegiance of Ajax, Lyon, and Alania.
• Barcelona’s nobles recognized Zenit as a dangerous new enemy and looked to Messi for direction.
• Messi said Barcelona needed time.
• In Saint Petersburg, Zenit’s people celebrated Alexander’s coronation and the empire’s conquest of Eindhoven.

The Northern Region’s empires submitted to Emperor Alexander as Zenit rose to dominance, and Sun Fei reunited Constantine with Queen Elizabeth after rescuing him from captivity. Lloris then appealed to Sun Fei to ease the harsh terms imposed on Lyon, uncertain whether his old friend had changed.

• Emperors and envoys from across the Northern Region and other regions traveled to Saint Petersburg to congratulate Alexander and submit to Zenit.
• Zenit’s citizens celebrated Alexander’s rise and credited him with bringing their empire power and the prospect of peace.
• Lloris told Sun Fei that he had found Constantine aboard a Barcelona vessel disguised as a pirate ship and brought him back to Saint Petersburg.
• Sun Fei healed Constantine and restored his severed limbs, allowing him to reunite with Queen Elizabeth.
• Lloris asked Sun Fei to relax the terms imposed on Lyon, wondering whether Sun Fei was still the smiling youth he had once known.

Sun Fei explained to Lloris that Zenit was forcibly unifying the Northern Region to prepare humanity for an approaching calamity. After Lloris agreed to cooperate, Sun Fei and his ministers discussed the need to bring the other empires’ armies under Zenit’s control before Barcelona and the Defilers struck.

• Sun Fei told Lloris that a world-ending calamity was coming and that he sought to unite humanity against it.
• Lloris accepted Zenit’s terms and left for the Lyon Empire, believing Emperor Juninho would cooperate.
• Constantine warned Sun Fei that Lyon’s nobles might resist the agreement, and Sun Fei said the other empires were only submitting under pressure.
• Best and Old Arjen agreed that Zenit needed to take over and reorganize the armies of the major empires.
• Marbury offered the Orc Clan’s army for war, but Sun Fei told him to complete the migration and build a trained army first.

Sun Fei prepared to use Chambord Military Academy’s graduating class to reorganize the armies of the Northern Region’s empires. After arranging the plan, he received word about Luffy and worried that the boy had disappeared at sea.

• Sun Fei decided to keep the newly settled Behemoth Beastmen as a reserve force until they were fully trained and armed.
• Sun Fei learned that the first class of the Chambord Military Academy would graduate the day after tomorrow and said he would preside over the ceremony.
• Sun Fei planned to divide the three thousand graduates into thirty groups and assign each group thirty Silver Crystal Battle Souls to establish ten military districts and reorganize the empires’ armies.
• Sun Fei received a note from a Crimson Hummingbird and lamented that Luffy had been missing for half a year, then vowed to find him for One Sword.

A vast Sea Clan army ambushed the Lyon Empire’s fleet in the Fragrant Sea Region, destroying its chance to escape. King of Buckingham Lloris summoned a powerful signal from a golden scroll as the fleet faced annihilation.

• King of Buckingham Lloris stood aboard the Lyon fleet’s flagship while the ships prepared to accelerate.
• Thousands of Sea Clan warriors emerged from whirlpools across the sea, and Lloris ordered the fleet to turn and flee.
• The Sea Clan hurled massive weapons at the ships, shattering their magic shields and sinking the Expedition.
• Lloris realized the fleet could not escape and unfurled a pale golden scroll, sending a radiant signal into the sky.

Lloris and the Lyon sailors fought off the Sea Clan while waiting for reinforcements from Chambord. The Sea Clan returned under the golden-armored woman, who ordered an attack and struck Lloris with an ice spike as Luffy warned her that King Alexander would defeat her again.

• Lloris urged the Lyon sailors to hold out for twenty minutes until reinforcements arrived, then led their counterattack against the charging Sea Clan warriors.
• A gigantic warship surfaced two thousand meters away, and a golden-armored woman emerged with Luffy and a group of Sea Clan guards.
• The woman declared that the Sea Clan had returned to the Fragrant Sea Region and ordered her warriors to kill the humans.
• Luffy challenged the woman to spare the Lyon people and warned that King Alexander would make her flee again, but she dismissed him.
• The woman formed an ice spike and sent it through the void toward Lloris, striking the King of Buckingham in midair.

Lloris was saved from the Sea Clan empress by Number One, a Silver Crystal Battle Soul sent by Chambord, but Number One recognized the King Alexander and charged toward it. The empress froze Number One in ice before he could reach the warship.

• The Sea Clan empress’s ice attack badly wounded Lloris, but Alexander’s magic amulet protected him from death.
• The empress attacked Lloris again, and Number One arrived and crushed her ice spikes before Lloris collapsed unconscious.
• Number One’s roar destroyed many Sea Clan warriors, forcing the army to withdraw and encircle the Lyon fleet.
• Number One identified the King Alexander and rushed toward the warship, hoping to learn whether Luffy was aboard.
• The empress raised an ice wall and encased Number One in a thick layer of ice.

Number One and the Silver Crystal Battle Souls fought the Sea Clan empress, but her God Dou Weapon and rising power began to overwhelm them. Alexander arrived after striking her down with a gigantic golden palm, healed Lloris, and left him stunned by his strength.

• Number One broke free of the ice and exchanged a rapid series of blows with the Sea Clan empress, while three Silver Crystal Battle Souls shielded the Lyon fleet from the waves.
• The empress’s God Dou Weapon withstood Number One’s attacks, but he repaired his armor using its Divine Rune array.
• The empress drew on the power of the sea and forced the four Silver Crystal Battle Souls toward the water, leaving the Lyon fleet fearing defeat.
• A gigantic golden palm struck the empress and drove her beneath the ocean, shattering her aura.
• Alexander appeared behind Lloris, healed his injuries, and left him realizing that Alexander had launched the palm strike.

Sun Fei rescued Luffy and the other Lyonians, but a coalition of Sea Clan demon gods, the Fragrant Sea Region empress, and Barcelona’s Son of God Leo Messi surrounded him. The chapter ended with the enemies sealing the area and preparing to kill him.

• Sun Fei healed Lloris and found Luffy aboard the damaged King Alexander, where Luffy explained how the ship had sunk and the Sea Clan had captured them.
• Sun Fei ordered Number One and the other Silver Crystal Battle Souls to evacuate Luffy and the Lyonians’ warships.
• Kluivert arrived in a cloud of black mist and sealed the surrounding space, but Sun Fei broke through the barrier so the Battle Souls could escape.
• Kluivert called forth the Sea Clan empress, the demon gods Eusébio and Deco, and Barcelona’s Son of God Leo Messi.
• The five enemies surrounded Sun Fei, sealed every route with their laws, and declared their intent to kill him.

Sun Fei faced a deadly ambush by Leo Messi and four Sea Clan gods, but used a mysterious silver scepter to defeat Messi’s projection and imprison it in the scepter’s gemstone. Messi survived through another avatar and vowed they would meet again.

• Sun Fei challenged Leo Messi over his alliance with the Sea Clan gods, while Messi argued that power mattered more than loyalty or morality.
• Kluivert and the Sea Clan empress urged the group to attack Sun Fei, but Sun Fei declared he would destroy them all.
• Sun Fei bound Messi with golden beams, then struck him with the silver scepter’s gold-and-silver sword qi.
• The scepter’s laws of order refined Messi’s projection into a crimson sphere and imprisoned it in the gemstone.
• Leo Messi revealed that Sun Fei had destroyed only an avatar containing a third of his power and vowed they would meet again.

Sun Fei overwhelmed the Sea Clan’s remaining fighters with his gold-and-silver sword qi after destroying Messi’s avatar. The battle continued as Eusébio fled and Kluivert was bound by the chains of order.

• Sun Fei’s sword qi struck the seawater giant summoned by the Sea Clan empress, absorbed it into his silver scepter, and then attacked Kluivert, Deco, Eusébio, and the empress at once.
• Kluivert, Deco, Eusébio, and the Sea Clan empress launched their attacks against Sun Fei.
• Sun Fei tore apart Eusébio’s twin blades and punched him away, then shattered Kluivert’s spear and dismissed the demonic qi that wrapped around his arm.
• Gold-and-silver chains of order spread from a hole in Kluivert’s chest and bound most of his giant body.
• Eusébio tried to escape through the void, abandoning Kluivert.

Sun Fei used the silver scepter’s Light of Creation to trap and defeat Eusébio and Deco, while Kluivert was also overwhelmed by its chains. Kluivert begged Sun Fei to spare him and offered to serve him as his master.

• Eusébio fell to his knees and begged Sun Fei for mercy as the chains of golden and silver sword qi engulfed him.
• Deco ambushed Sun Fei while he was distracted, but Sun Fei revealed he had anticipated the attack and trapped him with the chains.
• Deco recognized the legendary power of the Light of Creation before the chains sealed him inside the black jeweled sphere on Sun Fei’s scepter.
• The chains transformed Eusébio and Deco into spheres of gray light and drew them into Sun Fei’s scepter.
• Kluivert, nearly consumed by the chains, begged Sun Fei to spare him and offered to become his servant.

Sun Fei defeated the Sea Clan’s three evil gods and questioned the captured Sea Clan empress, agreeing to spare her people if she answered. Her revelations about the Sea Clan’s vast domains and coming plans left Sun Fei facing the prospect of a much larger conflict, and she reacted sharply when he asked about the Defilers.

• Sun Fei refined Kluivert into black energy and absorbed him into the silver staff, then turned to the restrained Sea Clan empress.
• The empress asked Sun Fei to spare her warriors, and he agreed to spare the people of the Fragrant Sea Region if she answered his questions.
• The empress said Kluivert had partnered with a Barcelonan Son of God to lure Sun Fei, while the Sea Clan’s return to its homeland followed a year spent gathering strength and aiding other branches.
• She revealed that the Sea Clan was divided among four great oceans and seven great abysses, ruled by nine imperial families, and warned that the Eleven Great Imperial Domains would soon make a move.
• Sun Fei asked whether she had heard of the Defilers, and the Sea Clan empress reacted with alarm.

Sun Fei learned from the Sea Clan empress that the Defilers were demons from the Otherworldly Dead Realm who had devastated the Sea Clan a thousand years ago and might return to harvest the living again. He secured peace between the Sea Clan and the humans of the Northern Region, then returned to the Divine Domain Great World, exhausted by the power required to wield the Scepter of Creation.

• Sun Fei questioned the Sea Clan empress, who explained that the Defilers had nearly destroyed her people a thousand years earlier and treated living worlds as pastures to harvest.
• Sun Fei released the empress and threatened to destroy the Sea Clan in the Fragrant Sea Region if its aquatic races attacked the humans of the Northern Region.
• After learning that the Defilers might soon return, the empress agreed to keep the peace and asked that the Sea Clan and humans fight together against them.
• The Sea Clan army vanished into the ocean, and Sun Fei returned to the Divine Domain Great World, where he recovered from the strain of using the Scepter of Creation.

Sun Fei refined the divine source power of four demon gods, increasing his strength and fusion with the Divine Domain Great World, then returned to Zenit and reviewed preparations for peace with the Sea Clan, military reorganization, and the Behemoth Beastmen’s resettlement. He ordered defiant empires to submit their armies within three days and learned that the Orc migration and new settlement were progressing well.

• Sun Fei refined the divine source power of Messi's avatar, Kluivert, Deco, and Eusébio, reaching eighteen percent fusion with the Divine Domain Great World and True God Ninth Heaven.
• Sun Fei returned to Zenit, reassured Best and the others, and reported that he had reached a peace agreement with the Sea Clan.
• Sun Fei ordered the Northern Region’s empires to avoid clashes with the Sea Clan and told the major empires, except the Lyon Empire, to hand over their armies within three days or face war.
• Best reported that the Behemoth Orc Clan had completed more than eighty percent of its migration and expected the rest to finish within half a month.
• Best reported that settlements for the Orc Clan were taking shape and that Chambord City was helping form a new army that could number over a million within half a year.

Sun Fei ordered the rapid formation of an orc army and tightened security while preparing Zenit and Chambord City for the threat of the Defilers. After Palacio learned that the Dragon Clan had been defeated by the Holy Church, Sun Fei considered supporting the Church’s enemies to keep it occupied.

• Sun Fei put Old Arjen in charge of building an orc army within six months and ordered strict measures against discrimination, unrest, and Barcelona spies.
• Sun Fei sent King of Buckingham Lloris and the Lyon delegation back to Gerland City to discuss integrating the Northern Region’s armies with Emperor Juninho.
• Sun Fei took Little Overlord Luffy to Martial Saint Mountain, where Luffy mourned at his birth mother’s grave.
• Brook reported that Chambord City’s citizens, institutions, and magical beasts had been evacuated to Sky City, as Sun Fei’s secluded cultivators made breakthroughs in the Endless Forest Sea.
• A message told Palacio that the Dragon Clan had been defeated, so he hurried to the Central Region while Sun Fei considered aiding the Red-Black and Blue-Black empires against the Holy Church.

Sky City’s residents and defenses were fully prepared, and Sun Fei activated the city’s flight functions, revealing that it could 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 to himself.

• The residents of Chambord City moved into Sky City after strict screening, and the city’s defenses and systems were fully activated under Angela, Elena, and the Witch’s direction.
• Sun Fei sent golden light into a golden lotus in God King Hall, activating Sky City’s flight.
• Sky City rose into the air, and its residents watched the landscape below through magical screens and cheered for Sun Fei.
• Sky City entered high-speed flight and revealed a view of the starry sky beyond its silver protective film, astonishing Sun Fei’s consorts and ministers.
• Sun Fei announced that Sky City would serve as his traveling palace and the capital of the Northern Region, while privately keeping it as a possible refuge from the Defilers.

The Behemoth Beastmen prospered in their new Orc Empire, centered on Saint Stamford City, until a gigantic silver city appeared above it. Hazard and Nash prepared for an attack, but the city’s arrival was revealed to be connected to Sun Fei.

• The former Anzhi Empire territory became the Orc Empire, where the Behemoth Beastmen and humans from Chambord and Alania learned to live together.
• The Orc Clan renamed its capital Saint Stamford City and organized troops to protect its growing population.
• Hazard patrolled Saint Stamford City and saw a vast silver city emerge from ripples in the sky.
• Hazard alerted the city, while Nash and the orc and Chambord experts prepared to face the mysterious arrival.
• A familiar voice called from the city, and Hazard recognized Sky City and cried out that His Majesty Alexander had arrived.

After securing Chambord’s hidden weapons and sealing stones in Sky City, Sun Fei used the flying city to force the Northern Region’s empires into submission and consolidate them under Zenit. The Northern Region emerged as a unified power, and Sun Fei’s reputation spread across Azeroth as he prepared to contend with the continent’s great empires and other races.

• Orc and Chambord experts hailed the Beast Emperor and His Majesty the King as Sun Fei appeared above Saint Stamford City, drawing a surge of faith toward God King Hall.
• Sun Fei moved Chambord’s vital institutions and modified sealing eggs into Sky City, reinforced the remaining seals, and departed Saint Stamford City on the seventh day.
• Sun Fei openly flew Sky City over the Northern Region’s imperial capitals, crushing would-be attackers and forcing the major empires to submit.
• The Metz imperial family resisted with an army of over six hundred thousand, but Sun Fei’s cannon blast broke the army’s resolve, and the Metz people and soldiers overthrew the ruling family.
• Within a month, Sun Fei’s campaign reorganized the Northern Region into Zenit’s ten great military districts and unified nearly a hundred empires.
• News of the new Northern Region power spread across Azeroth, and Sun Fei came to be regarded as an emperor capable of rivaling human super-empires and other races.

As Sun Fei conquered the Northern Region, wars and alliances reshaped the other regions of Azeroth, and the rise of powerful figures signaled a new age of gods and demons. The Southern Region remained in crisis as Dortmund and Bayern Munich united against the Goblin Empire, but humanity’s survival was still uncertain.

• 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, and Palacio protected their elite forces and gained renown.
• Shaarawy and the other Young Supremes disappeared from the Northern Region before the Church could retaliate, prompting speculation that they had attained godhood.
• The Elf Empire allied with the Madrid Empire, and Mourinho, Ronaldo, and the Elf King helped halt Barcelona and the Holy Church’s advance in the Western Region.
• The Dwarf and Gnome Alliance and the Eastern Region’s human empires ended their war, freed enslaved dwarves and gnomes, and began peaceful cooperation, reportedly aided by Maradona.
• The Goblin Empire overwhelmed human armies in the Southern Region with vast forces and magical weapons, forcing Dortmund and Bayern Munich to unite against it.

After conquering the Northern Region, Sun Fei strengthened its defenses and received a request for aid from his sworn brother. In the Central Region, the surviving soldiers of the Red-Black and Blue-Black empires fled toward the Northern Region, hoping to find refuge with Alexander.

• The Human Clan of the Southern Region suffered repeated defeats against the Goblin Empire and gathered its remaining soldiers in Iduna City and Allianz City for a final stand.
• Sun Fei expanded military reforms, established Magic Mobile Phone communications, and prepared teleportation arrays across the Northern Region.
• Sun Fei received a request for aid from his sworn brother in the Central Region.
• Shaarawy, Milito, and other surviving commanders led fewer than five hundred thousand troops from the defeated Red-Black and Blue-Black empires toward the Northern Region.
• A Moon Class master urged the exhausted column onward, telling them that Alexander had sent an army to meet them across the Strait of Naples.

A remnant army of more than four hundred thousand reached the border of the Northern Region, hoping to find refuge under Alexander, but Kao Shaoyi and four Holy Church fighters caught up with them. With Shaarawy, Cassano, Palacio, and Diego Milito unconscious, the army faced the threat of slaughter.

• The defeated soldiers crossed the Central Region toward the Bay of Naples, believing they were close to safety in the Northern Region.
• Kao Shaoyi and the Four Divine Knights of Punishment appeared and confronted the army.
• Dozens of the army’s experts charged at the Church fighters, but Kao Shaoyi effortlessly sent them flying back.
• Kao Shaoyi demanded that Shaarawy and Cassano come out, threatening to slaughter the soldiers if they refused.
• Officers found Shaarawy, Cassano, Palacio, and Diego Milito unconscious on stretchers, while Pato’s sacrifice during the fall of Milan was recalled.

Cassano and the surviving armies of the Red-Black and Blue-Black Empires struggled to reach the Northern Region while Kao Shaoyi attacked them. The Judgment Divine Knights and the Juventus Empire's army arrived, leaving the 400,000 survivors trapped as the final battle began.

• Cassano awoke and refused to let his officers sacrifice themselves so he could escape, insisting he could still fight despite his grave injuries.
• Dozens of warriors launched suicidal attacks on Kao Shaoyi, while officers directed the rest of the army toward the Strait of Naples and the Northern Region.
• The Holy Church's Judgment Divine Knights arrived, followed by the Juventus Empire's mounted army, encircling the fleeing remnants.
• The chapter ended with the 400,000 soldiers short of supplies, their strongest fighters gravely wounded, and no one able to oppose Kao Shaoyi.

Kao Shaoyi attacked the fleeing army and demanded that Shaarawy, Cassano, Milito, and Palacio surrender, while Cassano was carried north against his will. As a Divine Knight of Punishment crossed into the Northern Region and threatened the refugees, an unknown voice declared that Church knights who entered the region would die.

• Nearly a hundred thousand soldiers turned to face the pursuing enemy and charged to buy time for the rest of the army.
• Kao Shaoyi threatened to crush the two empires' remaining forces unless Shaarawy and the other Young Supremes appeared, but they stayed hidden among the fleeing troops.
• Cassano, bound to an officer's back, struggled and watched imperial soldiers sacrifice themselves while Milito, Shaarawy, and Palacio remained unconscious.
• Kao Shaoyi crushed thousands of soldiers with a palm strike and ordered the Four Divine Knights of Punishment to attack the fleeing army.
• One Divine Knight crossed into the Northern Region and mocked the refugees, then heard an unseen voice declare that Church knights who entered the region would die.