Chapter Summaries

Fourth Prince Christo tried to have Granero killed with Chambord City's weapons, but Frank Lampard intervened and escorted Granero away. Emperor Yassin then explained how the third prince had been saved as an infant, leaving him burdened by guilt over the child who died in his place.

• Christo ordered his soldiers to fire on Granero after Granero insulted him and challenged him to give the order.
• Frank Lampard stepped out beside Granero and warned that Chambord City's weapons must not be turned against their own countrymen.
• Lampard and Granero left with their companions, while Christo cursed and slapped an officer who urged him to punish Lampard.
• Emperor Yassin told Akinfeev that Mushnikov had switched the infant third prince with the old King of Chambord City's newborn son to save the prince from their enemies.
• Yassin said he had always felt indebted to the old King of Chambord City for the child's death and had therefore cared for the small kingdom.

Emperor Yassin told Akinfeev that Frank Lampard was Mushnikov’s junior fellow disciple and a trusted protector chosen to safeguard the third prince. He explained that Lampard had sacrificed his powerful Lightning-Element Dou Qi cultivation to hide his strength, but did not reveal why before the chapter ended.

• Akinfeev worried that Lampard’s rapid rise might conceal a plot against the third prince.
• Emperor Yassin assured Akinfeev that Lampard was trustworthy and revealed that he had met him long ago.
• Yassin explained that Mushnikov had entrusted the third prince to Lampard so he could eventually return to his family.
• Yassin recalled that Lampard had abandoned his Half Moon Class Great Perfection Lightning-Element Dou Qi and reduced himself to Three-Star Class Water-Element Dou Qi.
• Akinfeev asked why Lampard had crippled his cultivation, and Yassin did not answer before the chapter ended.

Emperor Yassin explained the history behind Alexander’s survival and Lampard’s sacrifices, then told Akinfeev that he intended Alexander to inherit the throne. He left the succession decision clear, while hoping his other sons would accept Alexander’s rule.

• Emperor Yassin explained that Mushnikov and Lampard concealed the third prince’s identity to protect him from their enemies.
• Emperor Yassin recounted how Lampard dispersed his cultivation, remained in Chambord City, and continued to care for Alexander despite his injuries.
• Akinfeev realized that Emperor Yassin’s past support for Chambord City and Alexander had been motivated by his desire to make amends to his son.
• Emperor Yassin explained that he had granted Christo command of the west gate’s defenses to give his fourth son another chance.
• Emperor Yassin told Akinfeev that Alexander was the best choice to inherit the throne and named the shortcomings he saw in his other sons.

Emperor Yassin discussed Alexander’s place as his long-lost third prince with Akinfeev, then gave another son one last chance after hearing of his misconduct. In Chambord City, Torres learned that Barcelona’s invasion had brought Zenit to the brink and prepared to return to Alexander with the news.

• Emperor Yassin told Akinfeev he would formally acknowledge Alexander after the war with Barcelona and worried whether Alexander would accept him.
• Akinfeev reassured Emperor Yassin that Alexander would believe the truth, and the two reminisced about their past before Akinfeev left.
• A black-clad guard reported on his assignment, and Emperor Yassin decided to give his unnamed son one more chance despite his reckless conduct at the west gate.
• Torres returned to Chambord City and learned from Brook that Barcelona had invaded Zenit, Constantine had been captured, Luffy and the Reverse Whale Warship were missing, and Chambord’s forces were stretched thin.
• Prime Minister Best urged that Alexander be notified, and Torres set out to return to him at once.

Best and Brook organized preparations to support Zenit and transport the Behemoth Beastmen to the empire while Sun Fei remained in a deep state of refinement in the Divine Domain world. As faith in Sun Fei surged, the mysterious voice believed he might refine the world ahead of schedule.

• Brook stopped Torres and asked him to explain the situation and Sun Fei's arrangements in the Land of Exile.
• Torres gave Best and Brook the king's plans and letter, and they prepared to recruit the Behemoth Orc Clan and build thousands of teleportation stations.
• Best sent Torres back with a recording scroll and promised that preparations for the Behemoth Beastmen's migration would be completed within twenty days.
• Sun Fei continued absorbing Power of Faith as the Divine Domain world gradually changed and Zenit's people and Behemoth Beastmen increasingly prayed to him.
• The mysterious voice observed that Sun Fei might finish refining the Divine Domain world ahead of schedule.

Wars spread across the Azeroth Continent as rival empires and races fought on every front. At Saint Petersburg, Granero watched Barcelona forces retreat, then realized their withdrawal had been a trap as a renewed assault began.

• The Eastern Region erupted into war after human empires enslaved dwarves and gnomes, who struck back with powerful weapons and machines.
• The Western Region split into rival alliances, while the Elf Empire fractured into Green, Blood, and Dark Elves over the new Elf King's legitimacy.
• Goblin expansion threatened Southern Region humanity, prompting Maradona to help bring the Bayern Munich Empire and the Dortmund alliance toward an alliance.
• The Dragon Clan and the Holy Church continued their devastating war in the Central Region, while Barcelona's invasion of Zenit stalled at Saint Petersburg.
• Granero grew furious as Fourth Prince Christo repeatedly sent elite Star-Rank Warriors out to collect heads for military merit, despite earlier losses.
• Barcelona troops ambushed pursuing Zenit warriors, then their army suddenly turned back to attack as powerful figures flew toward Saint Petersburg, and Granero realized the retreat had been a trap.

Disguised Barcelonan warriors infiltrated Zenit City and attacked the west gate while four Barcelonan Extreme Dao experts assaulted the city’s protective array. Granero reached the west gate after the fighting, where a body count revealed that more than fifty infiltrators were still missing.

• Disguised Barcelonan warriors on the wall turned on their Zenit comrades and joined an assault on the west gate.
• Four Barcelonan Extreme Dao experts attacked the city’s protective array, and Emperor Yassin, Hasselbaink, Lampard, and a Chambord City expert rose to confront them.
• Granero rushed to reinforce the west gate and found the enemy fighters apparently dead, with much of the defensive magic equipment destroyed.
• Granero berated Fourth Prince Christo, then ordered the soldiers to count the bodies.
• The count found 571 dead Zenit soldiers and only 100 Barcelonan bodies, leaving Granero to ask where the other fifty-odd infiltrators had gone.

Emperor Yassin arrived at the west gate and punished the fourth prince Christo for his failures, then charged Granero with hunting down the Barcelona infiltrators. Granero began a citywide investigation as his sense of impending danger grew stronger.

• Christo accused Granero of spreading rumors, and Granero warned that fifty Barcelona warriors were missing and might sabotage the Protection of Mother Earth magic array.
• Emperor Yassin ended the argument, pressed Christo to the ground, stripped him of military authority, and demoted him to a sixth-rank noble barred from future office.
• Emperor Yassin apologized to the soldiers for their needless deaths, thanked them for their efforts, and rallied their resolve to defend Zenit.
• Emperor Yassin ordered Granero, also called Esteban, to find the Barcelona spies and authorized him to mobilize troops across the city.
• Granero returned to the Imperial Capital Public Security Office and began organizing a citywide search as his foreboding grew.

Granero investigated how Barcelona spies had evaded the imperial capital’s search and uncovered a connection to an Eindhoven spy network. After interrogations revealed a grave threat to the city’s protective magic array, he rushed to the First Magic Tower.

• Granero told Dominguez about the missing Barcelona spies and asked where the first prince, the eldest princess, and eight hundred thousand troops had gone.
• Paris said Emperor Yassin had likely concealed the withdrawal of the troops, and Dominguez suggested the spies might have disguised themselves as people of Zenit.
• Granero’s search caught an Eindhoven-trained spy, revealing that Eindhoven agents in Saint Petersburg were allied with the Barcelonans.
• Granero’s Thunderbolt Plan captured several underlings, and interrogations eventually revealed a threat to the Protection of Mother Earth magic array.
• Granero notified the imperial family, the Military Department, and Dominguez, then rushed to the First Magic Tower to protect the array’s central hub.

Granero raced to the First Magic Tower and discovered that the fourth prince had entered it, then watched the tower and the Protection of Mother Earth barrier collapse. He led the remaining soldiers and knights toward the tower to hunt the spies responsible, as Saint Petersburg faced destruction.

• Granero rode with several hundred elite riders to the First Magic Tower after receiving Emperor Yassin's golden token.
• A guard told Granero that the fourth prince had entered the tower with about fifty guards, claiming to act on the emperor's orders.
• The ground shook, the First Magic Tower began to collapse, and the Protection of Mother Earth barrier broke.
• Granero sent a trusted knight away with a message, then rallied his men to attack the spies who had sabotaged the tower.
• Granero charged into the collapsing tower, followed by the knights and the remaining imperial soldiers, who sang the empire's song.

Barcelona's four Demigod-level powerhouses attacked Emperor Yassin as the Central Magic Tower collapsed and Saint Petersburg's defenses failed. Dominguez learned that Granero had entered the tower to face the Barcelona spies, but refused to flee and rallied his men to fight.

• Emperor Yassin rushed toward the Central Magic Tower, but Alves intercepted him and was sent crashing into the ground by a single sword strike.
• Masiqielanuo blocked Emperor Yassin next, and Busquets and Pedro joined him to surround the emperor.
• Barcelona's forces poured through breaches in Saint Petersburg's walls as civilians fled amid fires and destruction.
• Dominguez saw the Protection of Mother Earth barrier collapse and learned that Granero had led his men into the Central Magic Tower to confront the spies.
• Dominguez refused to break out for Chambord City and ordered his men to join him in the fight.

As Barcelona forces broke through Saint Petersburg’s defenses, Emperor Yassin could not stop them alone, and the city descended into panic. Dominguez sent Paris to lead civilians toward the north gate while he raced to fight, as the chapter ended with Akinfeev and the Judgment Knights assembled in the Imperial Knights’ Hall.

• Barcelona powerhouses repeatedly blocked Emperor Yassin, showing that the emperor could not turn back the invasion alone.
• Dominguez rallied soldiers to calm the panicked crowds and direct civilians toward the north gate and safety in Chambord City.
• Dominguez gave Paris his golden token and ordered her to lead the Imperial Capital Public Security Office’s elite forces in opening an escape route for civilians.
• Dominguez headed alone toward the Military Department to fight the Barcelona forces, telling Paris to forgive Alexander if she reached him.
• Nobles across the residential district barricaded themselves, fled, or formed armed groups to fight the invaders.
• Akinfeev sat in the central tower as the ten Judgment Knights knelt before him in full armor.

As the Protection of Mother Earth array collapsed and Barcelona’s assault closed in, Akinfeev sent Piasson away with Emperor Yassin’s secret succession edict and other scrolls, ordering him to deliver them to Alexander. Chris Sutton and Martial Saint Mountain’s disciples prepared to fight, while Sutton arranged for Luffy’s mother to be escorted to Chambord City.

• Akinfeev ordered the ten Judgment Knights to prepare for the empire’s final battle, then privately told Piasson to disguise himself and carry a sealed scroll to Alexander.
• Akinfeev gave Piasson a silver scroll containing a light prison and the power of Emperor Yassin’s full-strength strike, and Piasson left with the scrolls.
• Akinfeev led the other nine Judgment Knights and their retainers toward their final battle.
• After the Protection of Mother Earth array shattered, Chris Sutton saw the First Magic Tower collapsing and gathered the disciples of Martial Saint Mountain to fight.
• Chris Sutton told his disciples to get Luffy’s mother out of the capital and take her to Chambord City, but the wife of One Sword appeared and said there was no need.

As Barcelona's invasion overwhelmed the capital, a young woman killed herself rather than fall into enemy hands, and Martial Saint Mountain's warriors charged to fight. Meanwhile, Modrić ordered the Letters and Visits Office to evacuate its records and establish a spy network before the chapter ended with Busquets urging Emperor Yassin to surrender.

• A young woman told Sutton she would not make the empire's warriors risk their lives for her, then took her own life rather than be captured by the Barcelonans.
• Sutton buried the woman and led more than fifty Martial Saint Mountain disciples toward the fighting near the south gate.
• Modrić ordered the Cold-Blooded Nine Eagles to send the Letters and Visits Office's files and records to Chambord City through a teleport array.
• Modrić tasked Koko, Woods, and Brent with the Hidden Thorn Plan and refused to waste the office's forces resisting the fall of the capital.
• Busquets offered Emperor Yassin a place among Barcelona's ten great generals if he surrendered, as four enemy Demigods surrounded him.

Emperor Yassin used the imperial Power of Faith to wound four Barcelona Demigods, but Leo Messi arrived and effortlessly destroyed Yassin’s sword qi. Yassin recognized Messi as Barcelona’s legendary genius and realized Barcelona’s war was connected to a secret.

• Alves, Busquets, Masiqielanuo, and Pedro attacked Emperor Yassin after taunting him over the absent Chambord experts.
• Emperor Yassin gathered the capital’s golden dragon aura and unleashed Dragon Fist Sword Qi, breaking the four Barcelona experts’ domains and injuring them.
• As Yassin launched a second attack, four red-and-blue figures appeared and caught the sword qi, then merged into one man.
• Emperor Yassin recognized the man as Leo Messi and sensed that his power had reached the legendary realm.
• Yassin concluded that Barcelona had started the war to obtain a secret.

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.