Chapter Summaries

Barcelona warriors disguised as Zenit soldiers attacked the west gate while Barcelona’s army and four supreme experts launched a coordinated assault on Saint Petersburg. After Granero reached the gate and found the attackers apparently dead, the body count revealed that more than fifty disguised warriors were still unaccounted for.

• Disguised Barcelona warriors at the west gate turned on Zenit soldiers as the Barcelona army attacked the city and four supreme experts fought Zenit’s defenders in the sky.
• Granero rushed to reinforce the west gate, where he found dead soldiers, damaged siege-defense equipment, and the shaken Fourth Prince Christo.
• Granero berated Christo for his mistakes and ordered the soldiers to count the bodies.
• The soldiers identified 571 dead Zenit soldiers and only 100 Barcelona corpses, leaving Granero to question where the other fifty-odd disguised warriors had gone.

Emperor Yassin punished Christo for his incompetence and disregard for his soldiers, then ordered Granero to hunt down the Barcelona spies hiding in the imperial capital. Granero began a citywide investigation as the danger of their infiltration continued to loom.

• Granero warned that fifty Barcelona warriors were missing in the city, and Christo accused him of treason.
• Emperor Yassin arrived, silenced Christo, and stripped him of his military command and all future civil and military posts.
• Emperor Yassin apologized to the soldiers and thanked them for defending Zenit.
• Emperor Yassin ordered Granero to find the Barcelona spies and authorized him to mobilize troops across the city.
• Granero returned to the Public Security Office headquarters and began organizing a citywide search.

Granero uncovered a Barcelona spy network operating through Eindhoven citizens and learned that it threatened the central hub of Saint Petersburg’s protective magic array. He raced to the First Magic Tower as the capital faced imminent danger.

• Granero visited Dominguez and asked why the first prince, the eldest princess, and most of the empire’s troops were absent from the capital.
• Paris revealed that Emperor Yassin had secretly withdrawn the eight hundred thousand troops and concealed the whereabouts of the royal family members.
• Dominguez suggested that the Barcelona spies had disguised themselves as people of Zenit, prompting Granero to resume his search.
• Granero’s investigators caught an Eindhoven citizen trained by Barcelona, exposing a tightly organized spy network in Saint Petersburg.
• Granero’s interrogation uncovered a plot against the Protection of Mother Earth array, so he notified the authorities and hurried to the First Magic Tower.

Granero rushed to the First Magic Tower after learning that the Fourth Prince had entered it, but the tower began collapsing and the Protection of Mother Earth barrier failed. With Saint Petersburg exposed to the Barcelona forces, Granero led the remaining defenders toward the tower to attack the spies who had sabotaged it.

• Granero rode to the First Magic Tower and learned that the Fourth Prince had entered with guards, claiming to act on Yassin's orders.
• The First Magic Tower shook apart, its statue fell, and its magical alarm sounded across Saint Petersburg.
• The Protection of Mother Earth barrier broke, leaving the capital defenseless against the Barcelona forces.
• Granero sent a trusted knight away with a message, then rallied his men to attack the spies responsible for sabotaging the tower.
• Granero and the remaining knights and soldiers charged toward the collapsing tower, singing the empire's song.

Barcelona’s five Demigods trapped Emperor Yassin as the central magic tower collapsed and Barcelona troops poured into Saint Petersburg. Dominguez refused to flee north and prepared to fight, while Granero’s fate remained uncertain.

• Emperor Yassin rushed toward the central magic tower, but Alves intercepted him and was knocked into a crater by Yassin’s sword strike.
• Masiqielanuo blocked Yassin next, and Busquets and Pedro joined him as Alves returned, surrounding Yassin with all five Barcelona Demigods.
• The Protection of Mother Earth barrier vanished as fires and breaches spread along Saint Petersburg’s walls and Barcelona soldiers entered the city.
• Dominguez learned that the central magic tower had collapsed and that Granero had entered it to confront the Barcelona spies.
• Dominguez declared that he would not flee and called his men to fight as they witnessed Yassin strike Alves down.

As Barcelona’s forces overwhelmed Saint Petersburg, Dominguez organized civilians’ evacuation and sent Paris to lead them toward the north gate while he headed for the imperial headquarters to fight. The city’s nobles reacted in different ways, and Akinfeev gathered the ten Judgment Knights in the Imperial Knights’ Hall.

• Dominguez led his guards into the panicked streets and ordered soldiers to calm the crowds and guide them toward the north gate.
• Dominguez gave Paris his gold token and ordered her to take the Public Security Office’s elite troops to the north gate and evacuate the civilians.
• Dominguez set off alone toward the imperial headquarters to fight, telling Paris to tell Alexander that he forgave him.
• Nobles throughout the residential district hid, fled, or died in fires, while several hundred young nobles gathered guards and charged toward the fighting.
• Akinfeev sat in the Imperial Knights’ Hall as the ten Judgment Knights knelt before him.

As Barcelonian forces attacked the imperial capital, Akinfeev sent Piasson away with a secret succession decree and other scrolls to deliver to Alexander, while the remaining Judgment Knights prepared for their final battle. At Martial Saint Mountain, Chris Sutton chose to fight and ordered his disciples to protect Luffy’s mother, who then appeared and said they did not need to.

• Akinfeev ordered Piasson to disguise himself, escape, and deliver the sealed succession decree to Alexander, giving him two additional scrolls for protection.
• Piasson accepted the mission and left the hall, while Akinfeev led the other nine Judgment Knights and their retainers toward battle.
• After the Protection of Mother Earth magic array broke, Chris Sutton saw the First Magic Tower collapsing and gathered the disciples of Martial Saint Mountain to fight.
• Sutton summoned his lance and wolf-beast mount, then ordered his disciples to escort Luffy’s mother to Chambord City if possible.
• The wife of One Sword emerged from the trees and calmly told Sutton that escorting her was unnecessary.

As Barcelona breached Zenit's imperial capital, Sutton and the disciples of Martial Saint Mountain chose to fight, while Modrić ordered the Letters and Visits Office to evacuate its archives and establish hidden agents. Emperor Yassin faced four Barcelona Demigods, and Busquets again offered him a place among Barcelona's generals if he submitted.

• A young woman killed herself rather than risk capture by Barcelona, and Sutton buried her before leading the charge toward the southern city gate.
• More than fifty disciples of Martial Saint Mountain armed themselves and rushed down the mountain to fight Barcelona's forces.
• Modrić ordered the Letters and Visits Office's archives transported to Chambord City and tasked the Cold-Blooded Nine Eagles with the move.
• Modrić assigned Koko, Woods, and Brent to implement the dangerous Hidden Thorn Plan and promised compensation for their families.
• Modrić refused to commit the Letters and Visits Office to defend the capital, and its members began carrying out his orders.
• Busquets offered Emperor Yassin a place among Barcelona's ten great generals if he submitted, as four Barcelona Demigods surrounded him.

Emperor Yassin drew on the imperial Power of Faith to overwhelm four Barcelona Demigods, but Leo Messi arrived and effortlessly destroyed his golden Sword Qi. Yassin recognized Messi as Barcelona’s legendary young powerhouse and realized the war was likely being fought over a secret.

• Alves, Busquets, Masiqielanuo, and Pedro attacked Emperor Yassin after taunting him about his missing allies.
• Emperor Yassin gathered golden dragon qi from the imperial capital and shattered the four Barcelona powerhouses’ attacks, injuring them with his Sword Qi.
• Emperor Yassin launched a second wave of golden Sword Qi at the wounded Demigods.
• Four red-and-blue figures appeared and merged into one, and the newcomer caught and dissolved the Sword Qi with ease.
• Emperor Yassin recognized the newcomer as Leo Messi and concluded that Barcelona’s war against Zenit was being fought over a secret.

Emperor Yassin confronted Leo Messi, who revealed that he had condensed a Divinity, and Yassin attacked him with Dragon Fist Sword Qi. At the Military Department, Dominguez rallied the remaining officers to activate the command system and hold their ground as the Barcelona forces advanced.

• Leo Messi told Emperor Yassin that he had condensed a Divinity and urged him to attack while his Imperial Dao Faith remained active.
• Emperor Yassin mocked Messi’s false smile and struck him with Dragon Fist Sword Qi.
• Dominguez arrived at the Military Department and rallied the frightened officers with a speech about defending the empire and their loved ones.
• Dominguez ordered the officers to return to their posts and activate the Military Department’s magical command system, despite the danger of revealing its location to the enemy.

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.