Chapter Summaries

Aimar and the Gnome squadron joined Shaarawy’s group after demonstrating their combat skill and rejecting Rosario’s overtures. Their nearly thousand-strong mechanical monster fish army emerged from underground, revealing a powerful force hidden beneath the island.

• Aimar introduced himself as leader of the Gnome Empire’s Earth-Traveling Squadron and challenged the gathered forces to prepare to fight the goblins.
• After a Barcelona general mocked him, Aimar kicked the man unconscious and shot down six or seven Barcelona experts who attacked him.
• Shaarawy and the others recognized the gnomes’ skill with powerful magical firearms, and Rosario tried to welcome them before Aimar insulted him.
• Aimar chose to join Shaarawy’s group, judging him favorably for intervening on the gnomes’ behalf.
• Nearly a thousand mechanical monster fish broke through the ground, surprising the assembled forces with the scale of the hidden army.

The Northern Region Empire’s allies prepared to march south against the goblins, while Sun Fei stayed in Sky City to strengthen himself and help the Gold Saints catch up with the empire’s growing power. The chapter ended with Sun Fei having reached the God King Realm and Torres and the others training in seclusion.

• Rosario regretted that the Gnome and Dwarf Alliance had sided with the Northern Region Empire, then urged the armies to march south to aid the Southern Region.
• Shaarawy ordered the Northern Region army to depart, and Susanna, the female gnome, and the allied commanders joined him as nearly eight hundred thousand troops left Paris Island.
• The Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church continued training their armies through clashes along the Bay of Naples, which both sides expected to be a key battlefield.
• Sun Fei used the Northern Region Empire’s growing prestige to gather Power of Faith and reached twenty-one percent fusion with the Divine Domain Great World, advancing to the God King Realm.
• Sun Fei placed Torres and the other Gold Saints in seclusion with divine medicines, resources, and strengthening arrays so they could raise their strength to the Great Sun-Rank Venerable realm.

A Northern Region Empire army rescued a mother and her two daughters from goblins in the occupied Southern Region. As the army prepared to fight, the family was sent to safety, and the girls never forgot the Human Emperor who had sent their rescuers.

• A starving mother and her daughters, Anna and her older sister, crept north through goblin-occupied land in search of water and food.
• Goblins found the family, struck down the mother, and attacked the girls, but a volley of arrows interrupted them before they could harm the children further.
• Female human warriors rescued the family, then charged down the hill as a vast human army emerged and surrounded the goblins.
• A female Rogue archer gave the girls bread and explained that the Northern Region Empire had come to destroy the goblins on the orders of its Human Emperor.
• The family was escorted to the rear camp, and Anna and her sister watched the army charge into battle beneath a red-haired female general.
• More than a decade later, the sisters became renowned archers, joined the Northern Region Empire's knights, and became devoted believers of the Human Emperor.

The expeditionary army entered the Southern Region and discovered the goblins’ horrific treatment of human captives, prompting its commanders and soldiers to swear off taking goblin prisoners. After defeating a million goblin troops, the army realized the danger was greater than expected when an enormous force and goblin airships surrounded its camp at dawn.

• The expeditionary army routed goblin forces, captured a ruined city, and took more than five thousand goblins prisoner.
• Gerrard learned that the goblins had tortured and eaten the city’s human inhabitants, then killed every captive goblin.
• Shaarawy saw the human victims and declared that the expeditionary army would take no goblin prisoners, a resolve shared by the enraged soldiers.
• The expeditionary army marched overnight and defeated nearly a million goblin troops in a battle that lasted until nightfall.
• Shaarawy and the other commanders discussed the goblins’ immense numbers, powerful warriors, and feared machines.
• At dawn, the expeditionary army discovered that countless goblin troops and airships had surrounded its camp.

Elena commanded the expeditionary force against a disciplined goblin army, first allowing Kompany’s cavalry to attack before ordering the camp fortified. When goblin gods joined the battle, Elena revealed her overwhelming power and killed one, while the fight continued around the besieged camp.

• Kompany led twenty thousand Manchester City cavalry into the goblin vanguard, cutting down vast numbers before the army’s superior numbers began to wear them down.
• Elena ordered Gerrard, Shaarawy, Cassano, and Ramos to seal the camp’s approaches with Fist Intent Spiritual Imprints and prepare a defensive position.
• Goblin Demigod-level fighters attacked Kompany, and Elena shot four of them down before ordering the expeditionary force to bring the Manchester City cavalry back to camp.
• Elena fought two True God-level goblins with a spear as the camp’s imprints and magical barrier protected the soldiers from the battle’s aftershocks.
• Elena drove her spear through one goblin god’s head, killing it as the battle between gods continued.

Elena defeated three Goblin Clan gods and saved the expeditionary army, but the battle exposed how dangerous the advance into the Southern Region would be. After Kompany suggested there might be a traitor in the human army, Elena proposed retreating to Paris Island and gave the leaders half a day to decide.

• Elena killed two Goblin Clan gods with her spear and another with three arrows, driving the watching goblin gods away from the camp.
• Elena repaired the shattered ground and forced the floodwaters and flames underground, though the surrounding grassland was left a wasteland.
• Shaarawy estimated that the Goblin Clan had suffered at least a million casualties, while Cassano, Gerrard, and Ramos questioned how the goblins had anticipated the army's route and deployment.
• Kompany suggested a traitor might have revealed the human army's plans, and Elena set that question aside.
• Elena recommended retreating to Paris Island because the expeditionary army was unlikely to reach Iduna City, then allowed half a day for everyone to decide whether to withdraw or continue.
• Susanna and Miaoli said their clans would follow the humans' final decision and returned to regroup their forces.

The Northern Region expeditionary force chose to continue toward Iduna City despite the danger, while Susanna and a gnome girl discussed what the Elf Clan and Gnome Clan had discovered. Meanwhile, the Holy Church’s allied army suffered heavy losses under a goblin assault, and its generals resented being left to bear the fighting.

• Gerrard urged the commanders to continue toward Iduna City, and Shaarawy and Kompany supported him.
• The commanders agreed to press on, and Cassano went to report their decision to Imperial Consort Elena.
• Susanna told the gnome girl that the Elf Clan had uncovered traces of something from the past, then rode away on her white tiger.
• The goblin army surrounded the Holy Church’s allied expeditionary force, reducing its nearly six hundred thousand troops to fewer than four hundred thousand.
• The allied generals complained that the Holy Church, Barcelona, and Juventus had preserved their forces while other empires suffered the losses.

As goblins overran the Sunderland camp, Juventus commander Iaquinta killed fleeing Sunderland soldiers and provoked outrage among the allied empires. Rosario then claimed the goblin assault was only a probing attack and that the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus had held back to prepare for a stronger enemy.

• The goblin tide breached Sunderland’s camp, and Adam Johnson ordered his remaining soldiers to retreat toward Juventus’s camp.
• Iaquinta attacked the retreating Sunderland soldiers, fought Adam Johnson, and ordered Juventus troops to kill the survivors.
• Fellaini, Delauno, Milošević, and other empire experts confronted Iaquinta and condemned the powerful allies for leaving them to fight as cannon fodder.
• Rosario arrived with experts from the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus, and Iaquinta accused Johnson and the others of rebellion.
• After hearing both sides, Rosario said the goblins’ attack was a probe and that the major powers had conserved their strength for a stronger assault.

Rosario ordered the commanders back to their camps and promised Church support, but the Everton forces were left exposed as the goblins gained ground. Adam Johnson and Fellaini discovered that the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus had abandoned their camps and left the empires to face the goblins alone.

• Rosario wounded Adam Johnson for challenging the Church and ordered the commanders to return to their camps.
• The Church sent priests to treat some soldiers but withheld other promised support, while Barcelona and Juventus seized goblin spoils.
• The Everton defensive line suffered heavy casualties as Church forces reassigned nearby armies and left Everton under pressure.
• Adam Johnson set off to confront Rosario, and Fellaini followed with commanders from other empires to plead for him.
• They found the Church camp deserted, and Johnson reported that the Barcelona and Juventus camps were empty too.
• The commanders realized the three forces had used their armies as cannon fodder and fled with the spoils.

Sun Fei rescued Fellaini and the other empire commanders from a Church-made killing array disguised as the Holy Spirit Killing Array, then helped them defeat the goblin army. After the survivors reorganized, the expeditionary army set out toward Iduna City, expecting a larger war.

• A deadly array trapped Fellaini, Adam Johnson, and the other commanders, who realized the Church had framed the Northern Region Empire for the attack.
• Adam Johnson sacrificed his source power to strike the array, but his explosion failed to open an escape route.
• Sun Fei arrived, shattered the array, restored Adam Johnson and the wounded commanders, and revealed himself as the Human Emperor of the Northern Region.
• Sun Fei and the recovered commanders led the remaining armies to rout the goblins, while Sun Fei killed the goblin experts and absorbed their source power.
• Fellaini resolved that the Everton Empire needed a ruler like Sun Fei, and the expeditionary army later reorganized and advanced toward Iduna City under Elena's leadership.

Adam Johnson and the Human Emperor of the Northern Region deceived the Church’s investigators into believing the expeditionary army had been destroyed, while the Human Emperor concealed the surviving force from goblin senses. The army continued its advance through the Southern Region as Elena defeated another massive goblin assault, and the Holy Church put its plans into motion on Paris Island.

• Adam Johnson and the others staged the battlefield with bones, flesh, and the Church’s killing array before teleporting the army away and concealing its tracks.
• Iaquinta and Alaba inspected the battlefield, confirmed sixteen corpses matched the foreign Extreme Dao masters, and prepared to report to Cardinal Rosario that they had been killed.
• The Human Emperor of the Northern Region used his power to hide the more than two-hundred-thousand-strong army from goblins as it marched toward Munich Allianz City.
• Elena killed the last True God-level goblin in the sixth goblin assault, leaving the goblin army in retreat after suffering another crushing defeat.
• The expeditionary force continued driving through the Southern Region toward Iduna City, while the Holy Church advanced its plans on Paris Island.

Cardinal Archbishop Rosario secretly met with a powerful goblin who revealed that the Goblin Empire’s attack was delayed by the Northern Region Imperial Consort, who had killed more than thirty true god-level goblins. Meanwhile, Everton and the allied army reached the Ruhr Mountains to prepare for their final push toward Allianz City.

• Rosario questioned Iaquinta and Alaba about their inspection, then secretly marked them with silver light before they left.
• Rosario opened a hidden meeting with a powerful goblin, who said the Goblin Empire’s plan had been delayed by the Imperial Consort’s strength and the need to guard a factory.
• Rosario agreed to report the delay to Platini and urged the goblin to eliminate the Imperial Consort and the Northern Region army.
• The goblin asked Rosario to keep Maradona occupied so he would not discover the factory, then vanished.
• After marching for a day and two nights, Everton and the allied army camped in the Ruhr Mountains to prepare to enter Allianz City.

The allied forces of Everton and the other empires camped near the Southern Ruhr Mountains while Elena led an expeditionary force toward Iduna City. When the expeditionary force was nearly overwhelmed by millions of goblins and a God King, Alexander’s distant sword strike killed the God King and turned the battle.

• Sun Fei kept the allied forces hidden in the forest near the Southern Ruhr Mountains instead of advancing toward Allianz City.
• Elena led her expeditionary force through the Southern Region, defeating goblin forces and approaching Iduna City.
• More than five million goblins surrounded the expeditionary force on the Westfalen Great Grassland, and God King Poldiğa trapped Elena in battle.
• Alexander’s gold-and-silver order-chain sword energy killed Poldiğa and more than fifty True God Level goblins from afar.
• Gerrard and the other survivors recognized the sword energy as Alexander’s and wondered at the extent of his power.

The expeditionary army reached Iduna City after routing the goblins, while news of Alexander’s power and the Church’s accusations against the Northern Region Empire shook the continent. After the army settled in, Elena slipped away and found King Sun Fei waiting for her.

• After the Human Emperor of the Northern Region killed Poldiğa, Elena, Gerrard, and the other human fighters routed the goblin army.
• Götze commanded the Southern Region armies as they helped the expeditionary army break through the siege and enter Iduna City.
• Reports of Alexander’s strike spread across the continent, prompting speculation that he had reached the God King realm.
• Rosario and the leaders of several human empires accused the Northern Region Empire of betraying humanity and called for war against it.
• Elena left the camp in disguise with two Rogue women warriors and made her way through Iduna City.
• Elena and her companions found King Sun Fei waiting for them.

Sun Fei reunited with Elena, Miaoli, and Tanya in Iduna City and revealed that he had reached God King Third Heaven. As they walked through the besieged city, he saw starving refugees and a society reduced to desperate barter, and his concern grew.

• Elena greeted Sun Fei warmly, and Miaoli and Tanya joined them, teasing him and asking why he had come to Iduna City.
• Sun Fei confirmed to Miaoli and Tanya that he had reached the God King realm.
• Sun Fei recalled that absorbing goblin masters' power and killing Poldiğa had raised his fusion with the Divine Domain Great World to thirty percent and brought him to God King Third Heaven.
• Sun Fei explained that he had secretly come to assess Iduna City and prepare for an impending clash between the Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church.
• Sun Fei, Elena, Miaoli, and Tanya walked through Iduna City and saw starving refugees selling possessions, labor, and even family members for food.
• Sun Fei watched the city's desperate poverty and furrowed his brows.

Sun Fei and his companions witnessed Elton trying to seize a young woman in Iduna City, and Miaoli intervened when he turned his attention to her and the other women. Miaoli sent Elton flying with a slap, leaving his guards stunned and the confrontation unresolved.

• Elton's guards seized a young woman after he chose her from the market and offered her companion moldy bread as payment.
• Miaoli confronted Elton and demanded that he release the woman and leave with his men.
• Elton ignored Miaoli's warning and reached for her, while leering at her and Elena.
• Miaoli slapped Elton and sent him flying into the ground, stunning his guards and drawing the crowd's attention.

Sun Fei and his companions witnessed Iduna City's hunger, violence, and class divisions after Miaoli and Tanya beat men who abused the vulnerable. Sun Fei ordered preparations for a teleportation supply route and turned his attention to the city’s nobles; the next day, Götze came to apologize to the Northern Region Empire.

• Miaoli knocked Elton’s guards down, and Elton fled after an old man warned Sun Fei that his brother Hunt was a renowned defender of Iduna City.
• Sun Fei gave the old man bread and stayed beside him until he had eaten, while Tanya and Miaoli took the abused young woman with them.
• Tanya slapped the man who tried to stop them from taking the young woman, and she followed Sun Fei’s group.
• Sun Fei and his companions surveyed Iduna City and found starving refugees, widespread violence, and wealthy nobles exploiting civilians while avoiding the defense of the city.
• Sun Fei ordered the Northern Region Empire’s mage unit to begin constructing a teleportation passage and focused on the nobles as another way to address the city’s crisis.
• The next day, Götze came to the expeditionary army’s camp and solemnly apologized to the Northern Region Empire.

The Northern Region Empire worked to win Iduna City's people and take control of the city while its forces supplied aid and repaired defenses. Sun Fei then strolled through the city with Tanya, Miaoli, and Victoria, where Elton confronted them and targeted Miaoli.

• Elena accepted Götze's apology, ending the feud between Chambord City and Dortmund.
• The Northern Region Empire sent magisters to repair Iduna City's defenses and distributed congee to displaced people and disaster victims.
• Princess Victoria led a supply convoy to Iduna City as the empire used its aid and staff to build influence and quietly take control.
• Sun Fei took Tanya, Miaoli, and Victoria on a walk through Iduna City, where Victoria recalled her Southern Region roots.
• Elton rushed out with armored warriors, surrounded Sun Fei and the women, and glared at Miaoli with hostile intent.

Elton ambushed Sun Fei and his companions in Iduna City, intending to take revenge and seize the women. Sun Fei allowed the soldiers to arrest the group, leaving Princess Victoria confused but curious about his plan.

• Victoria insulted Elton when he blocked her path, and Elton ordered his men to seize her and her companions.
• More than a dozen Dou Qi experts and hundreds of armored soldiers surrounded the group, while Miaoli and Tanya obeyed Sun Fei’s unspoken instruction not to resist.
• The soldiers shackled Sun Fei, Victoria, Miaoli, and Tanya, and Victoria announced that she was the Northern Region Empire’s finance minister.
• A Four-Star Mage persuaded Elton that Victoria was lying, so Elton ordered the soldiers to restrain her and dismissed her claim that Sun Fei was the Human Emperor.
• Victoria stopped struggling and watched Sun Fei as Elton’s soldiers led the four away.

Sun Fei and the women were taken to Mad Boar Elton’s hall, where he planned to give Sun Fei to Lord Takahara Naoyasu. Tanya and Miaoli revealed their strength and subdued Elton’s guards, while Sun Fei stopped Miaoli from killing him; Victoria then taunted Elton with the truth about Sun Fei’s identity.

• Elton escorted Sun Fei and the three women into his hall and sent Felipe to fetch his brother Hunt.
• Elton lusted after the women and said he would give Sun Fei to Lord Takahara Naoyasu as a handsome male companion.
• Tanya and Miaoli broke their magical shackles, incapacitated the guards, and threatened Elton.
• Sun Fei told Miaoli to spare Elton, then calmly examined the hall after freeing himself from his shackles.
• Victoria revealed that Sun Fei was the Human Emperor of the Northern Region, and Elton fainted from panic.
• Victoria asked Sun Fei to remove her shackles after teasing him about staging the capture for dramatic effect.