Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sun Fei overwhelmed and killed the Six-Winged Battle Angel, then killed Infantino when the divine master tried to flee. The sight broke the Barcelonans’ resolve, and Busquets and the other surviving leaders fled.

• Sun Fei battered the Six-Winged Battle Angel with hundreds of summoned figures until its body was grievously damaged.
• Sun Fei tore off the angel’s wings and twisted off its head, killing it before the horrified Barcelonans and Church divine masters.
• The Chambord warriors roared in celebration while the enemy army fell into panic and disarray.
• Infantino fled, but Sun Fei pulled him back and twisted off his head.
• Busquets, Pedro, Masiqielanuo, Alves, and the other demigod-level divine masters retreated in fear.

Sun Fei and his allies routed the Barcelona and puppet armies, while the Mastiff Clan and silver crystal war souls pursued the fleeing enemy masters. The surviving troops surrendered or died resisting, and Sun Fei welcomed Shaarawy and his brothers to Chambord City.

• The Valkyrie Elena, Bastürk, silver crystal war souls, and Orc Clan masters arrived as Sun Fei ordered the enemy pursued.
• Shaarawy, Diego Milito, Palacio, Pato, and Cassano arrived after racing to defend Chambord City, and Sun Fei welcomed them as brothers.
• Orc Clan masters and silver crystal war souls chased Busquets and the fleeing Barcelona masters while Chambord troops launched a counterattack.
• The Orc Clan masters and silver crystal war souls killed the Church divine masters, and Sun Fei absorbed their remains and energy into his Divine Domain Great World.
• The 400,000 Barcelona troops and 300,000 puppet imperial troops surrendered, though some Barcelona warriors chose death over surrender.
• Shaarawy and his companions marveled at Sun Fei's power and realized that he had reached a legendary level beyond their understanding.

Sun Fei reunited with his battle-hardened allies and learned that Barcelona had conquered Saint Petersburg, killed Emperor Yassin and Prince Dominguez, and installed Christo as a puppet ruler. The chapter ended with Piasson revealing three secret scrolls hidden inside his body and offering them to Sun Fei.

• Sun Fei welcomed Shaarawy, Milito, Pato, Cassano, and the other allies, and promised to share his insights after the fighting.
• Zenit survivors told Sun Fei that Barcelona had massacred more than a hundred million people in Saint Petersburg and that Emperor Yassin and Prince Dominguez had died.
• Old Arjen recounted how a mysterious Barcelona expert had defeated Lampard, Hasselbaink, and Batistuta, while Sun Fei learned that Christo had sided with Barcelona.
• Hazard brought Piasson, a Silver Moon Knight disguised in Barcelona armor, to meet Sun Fei, and Best explained how Piasson had tried to warn Chambord.
• Piasson cut open his abdomen and pulled out three scrolls that Grand Knight Commander Akinfeev had entrusted to him before his death.

Sun Fei healed Piasson after learning of the Silver Moon Knight’s secret sacrifice, then named him Zenit’s new Grand Knight Commander and opened the secret edict. In Saint Petersburg, a mysterious white-robed figure appeared at the north gate and stopped a mass execution by killing the Barcelona executioners.

• Sun Fei healed Piasson’s damaged organs and restored his strength with divine power.
• Sun Fei named Piasson the empire’s new Grand Knight Commander and promised to restore Zenit.
• Sun Fei opened the secret edict scroll as the story shifted to Barcelona-occupied Saint Petersburg.
• Barcelona forces prepared to execute hundreds of Zenit prisoners at the north gate while their officers mocked the captives.
• A mysterious white-robed, black-haired figure appeared and killed the executioners before they could behead the prisoners.

Sun Fei returned to the occupied capital and annihilated the Barcelona officers and collaborationist soldiers at an execution, inspiring the Zenit civilians to rise up. He then entered the black prison and began healing the mutilated Granero, leaving the torturer frozen in terror.

• Sun Fei stepped onto the execution platform and killed the Barcelona officers and thousands of collaborationist soldiers without harming the Zenit civilians.
• The crowd recognized Sun Fei and surged through the north gate, calling for resistance against the occupation.
• Sun Fei entered the black prison, where Granero was being tortured on Christo’s orders.
• Sun Fei freed Granero from his chains, apologized for arriving late, and used divine power to regenerate his injuries while the torturer watched helplessly.