Chapter Summaries

Atkinson and Lampard’s clash began a battle between the Judgment Divine Knights and the Motley Army, whose competing holy and Behemoth War Songs empowered their forces. The cavalry fought a brutal, evenly matched charge, with the outcome still undecided.

• Atkinson and Lampard clashed, then carried their God Level battle into the sky to keep its aftershocks from devastating the armies.
• The Judgment Divine Knights used the Holy Spirit War Song to strengthen their warriors, and Cassano feared the Motley Army would be overwhelmed.
• The Motley Army answered with the Behemoth War Song, empowering its knights and revealing the Orc Clan’s formidable combat power.
• Cassano recognized the Behemoth War Song and declared that the Church would no longer hold sole dominion over cavalry warfare.
• The Judgment Divine Knights and Motley Army collided, as their different mounts, skills, and enhancements made the charge fiercely contested.
• Kone killed several God Knights despite being speared through the shoulder, while brutal fighting spread across the battlefield.

The Motley Army fought the Judgment Divine Knights to a draw at the Bay of Naples, while Lampard held off Atkinson in single combat. Atkinson withdrew, and the Northern Region and the Holy Church entered a new era of military confrontation.

• The Motley Army and the Judgment Divine Knights clashed in repeated cavalry charges, and the divine knights failed to gain an advantage.
• Lampard fought Atkinson to a standstill, and Atkinson withdrew after learning his opponent was the Golden Lion of the Northern Region.
• Atkinson ordered the Judgment Divine Knights to retreat, and Lampard kept the Motley Army from pursuing them.
• Sun Fei chose not to intervene as the Church's powerful experts remained in the distance.
• The last four hundred thousand remnants of the Red-Black and Blue-Black empires fled the Central Region, and Sun Fei received them at the Northern Region's border.
• The Motley Army's stand against the Judgment Divine Knights established the continent's two great military blocs as rivals.

After the Battle of the Bay of Naples, the Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church entered a tense military standoff while Sun Fei absorbed the battle’s gains and strengthened his empire. One month later, the Northern Region Empire received a request for aid from the Southern Region Human Alliance.

• The Battle of the Bay of Naples convinced the continent that the Northern Region Empire had formidable armies and warriors as well as Sun Fei, and Golden Lion Lampard gained fame for defeating Atkinson.
• The Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church stationed more than a million troops each along their border, avoiding large-scale war despite constant skirmishes.
• Sun Fei promised the four hundred thousand surviving soldiers of the two Central Region empires that they would gain the strength to take revenge, and they swore allegiance to the Northern Region Empire.
• Shaarawy, Milito, Cassano, and Palacio joined the Northern Region Empire, while Sun Fei distributed the veteran soldiers among its legions as instructors.
• Sun Fei and his advisers weighed whether to fight the Holy Church before the Defilers awakened, but the Defilers had not appeared on the Azeroth Continent.
• One month after the battle, the Northern Region Empire received a letter requesting aid from the Southern Region Human Alliance.

The Holy Church called the continent’s powers to unite against the Goblin Empire and assemble an allied army on Paris Island to aid the Human Clan of the Southern Region. Nearly seven hundred thousand troops gathered there, while empires wary of the Church hoped the Northern Region Empire and Sun Fei would join them and share its pressure.

• The Human Clan of the Southern Region appealed to the continent’s powers as goblins seized most of its land and threatened its last two great cities.
• The Holy Church proposed a joint campaign against the goblins, and most major powers, including the Dwarf and Gnome Alliance, agreed to send troops.
• The Holy Church called the allied armies to assemble on Paris Island fifteen days later, while some powers publicly denounced the Northern Region Empire and Sun Fei for remaining silent.
• Nearly seven hundred thousand troops from more than forty empires gathered on Paris Island, with the Church and its allies camped on the southern bank of the Lancang River and wary empires on the northern bank.
• The empires wary of the Holy Church hoped that the Human Emperor of the Northern Region would come to Paris Island and share the pressure from the Church.

The Northern Region Empire finally arrived at the alliance gathering after the Holy Church’s leader used divine power to crush and humiliate the northern-bank factions. Shaarawy and Cassano opened a portal for the empire’s army, and the chapter ended with a Valkyrie emerging as its commander.

• The Holy Church’s leader unleashed overwhelming Holy Power at the oath-taking altar, forcing the northern-bank experts to their knees while Gerrard, Rooney, Van Persie, Silva, and others resisted.
• The Church’s leader intensified the pressure to divine levels and demanded that the northern-bank factions submit, injuring and incapacitating many experts.
• Shaarawy and Cassano appeared, blocked the Church leader’s attack, and assembled an Ultra-Long-Distance Teleport Magic Array.
• Nearly ten thousand Northern Region Empire troops marched through the portal, followed by one hundred Moon Class female magic archers.
• A peerless Valkyrie emerged from the portal, and Shaarawy and Cassano addressed her as “Your Highness,” revealing her as the Northern Region army’s commander.

Valkyrie Elena silenced the Church’s provocations with a display of overwhelming power, revealing herself as Alexander’s consort. She then froze the Church fighters who charged her and shot down its highest representative, taking control of the altar.

• When Barcelona’s powerhouse mocked the Northern Region for relying on a woman, Elena summoned icicles that threatened the hecklers until they fell silent.
• The Church’s representative accused the Northern Region of threatening its allies, and Shaarawy reminded him that he had attacked first.
• Shaarawy identified Elena as Alexander’s consort after the Church representative mocked her role in supporting the Southern Region.
• Elena drew a magical longbow and aimed at the Church representative as divine mages and knights charged her.
• Elena’s arrow froze the charging Church fighters and struck the representative, who fell from the altar.
• Elena appeared atop the altar and looked down at the crowd, which dared not meet her gaze.

Elena's strength cowed the Church leader, revealed as Rosario, and she returned to the Northern Region army without speaking. Shaarawy proposed splitting the alliance's forces to aid two besieged cities, and Rosario invited empires to join the Church's campaign to Allianz City.

• Rosario charged Elena, but froze when his golden crown split open, revealing his face and the damage her arrow had dealt.
• The powerhouses recognized Rosario as a Church cardinal and realized Elena's arrow had been a warning she could have killed him.
• Elena returned to the Northern Region army, leaving the gathered empires too intimidated to challenge her.
• Shaarawy proposed dividing the alliance's army between a campaign to Allianz City and one to Iduna City, and most approved.
• Rosario announced that the Church would head southeast to aid Allianz City and offered protection, intelligence, and divine masters to empires that joined it.

Rosario tried to draw the gathered armies to the Holy Church’s side, but the Elf Clan arrived and joined Elena’s Northern Region force. The Dwarf and Gnome Alliance also appeared, though the chapter ended before their position was stated.

• More than five hundred thousand soldiers chose to follow Rosario southeast, while fewer than three hundred thousand joined the Northern Region force bound for Iduna City.
• Shaarawy and Cassano challenged Rosario’s claim that the Elf Clan would not come, and a green lightning bolt summoned a giant tree and elven teleportation arrays.
• Susanna arrived with six thousand level-six elven archers, asked for Alexander, and chose to join Elena’s army after learning he was absent.
• Rosario proposed setting out, but an enormous underground vessel emerged beside the altar and a gnome angrily corrected a soldier who called him a goblin.
• More gnomes emerged from the vessel, and a gnome woman apologized for her companion’s foul language.

Aimar and the Gnome Clan arrived on Paris Island, where their firearms and hidden mechanical monster fish revealed their strength. Aimar chose to join Shaarawy’s group, and nearly a thousand mechanical monster fish emerged from underground.

• Aimar introduced himself as captain of the Gnome Empire’s Earth-Traveling Squadron and demanded to know when they would fight the goblins.
• Aimar kicked a Barcelona general unconscious after the man mocked him, then shot down six or seven Barcelona experts who attacked him.
• Shaarawy and the others recognized the gnomes’ formidable firearms, while Aimar rejected Rosario’s welcome and accused him of bad intentions.
• Aimar decided to join Shaarawy’s group because Shaarawy had tried to protect him from the Barcelona generals.
• Nearly a thousand mechanical monster fish emerged from underground, startling the gathered forces with the gnomes’ concealed army.

The Northern Region Empire’s allies departed Paris Island with nearly eight hundred thousand troops to fight the goblins in the Southern Region, while Rosario and the Church’s forces left separately. Sun Fei remained in Sky City, advancing to the God King Realm as the Northern Region’s Gold Saints trained to strengthen themselves.

• Rosario regretted failing to win over the Gnome and Dwarf Alliance and urged the Church’s forces to depart for the Southern Region.
• Shaarawy ordered the Northern Region’s allies, including the Real Madrid, Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal Empires, to prepare to march under Elena’s command.
• Susanna and the female gnome ordered their armies to follow Shaarawy, and nearly eight hundred thousand troops left Paris Island for the Southern Region.
• The Northern Region Empire and the Holy Church continued rotating troops through the Bay of Naples and engaging in small border clashes to prepare for war.
• Sun Fei strengthened his connection to the Divine Domain Great World to twenty-one percent and broke through to the God King Realm.
• Sun Fei supplied Torres and the other Gold Saints with resources and divine arrays as they secluded themselves to improve their combat strength.

A young mother and her daughters, Anna and her older sister, were rescued from goblins by the Northern Region Empire’s army in the Southern Region. As the girls were taken to safety, they saw the human forces charge into battle and learned that the Northern Region’s Human Emperor had sent them to destroy the goblins.

• The mother and her hungry daughters crept through goblin-occupied land, but Anna ran toward the sound of water and exposed them to a goblin patrol.
• The goblins attacked the family, but a volley of arrows from human female warriors drove them away before the worst could happen to the girls.
• A vast Northern Region Empire army arrived, and its female warriors cut through the goblins and carried the mother and daughters to safety.
• A female Rogue archer gave Anna and her sister bread, said the Human Emperor of the Northern Region had sent the army to wipe out the goblins, and ordered their escort to take the family to the rear camp.
• The mother and daughters watched a red-haired female general lead the charge, and Anna and her sister later became renowned archers and faithful believers of the Human Emperor of the Northern Region.

The expeditionary army entered the Southern Region and discovered the goblins’ brutality, prompting Shaarawy and the soldiers to abandon their restraint toward prisoners. After defeating a massive goblin army, the expeditionary force awoke surrounded by an even larger horde and goblin airships.

• A Northern Region cavalry unit slaughtered nearly ten thousand goblins, and Gerrard later captured a ruined city with Liverpool's troops.
• Gerrard killed more than five thousand captured goblins after finding evidence that the goblins had tortured and eaten the city’s human inhabitants.
• Shaarawy and the expeditionary army swore to take no goblin prisoners and set out for Iduna City after resting only half the night.
• The expeditionary army defeated a goblin force of nearly a million, while its commanders discussed the goblins’ huge numbers and powerful units.
• The expeditionary army woke to find itself surrounded by a vast tide of goblins and goblin airships.

Valkyrie Elena commanded the expeditionary force against a goblin army led by powerful demigods and gods. She revealed her overwhelming strength in battle, and the chapter ended with her killing a goblin god as the war raged on.

• Kompany led twenty thousand Manchester City cavalry into the goblin vanguard and slaughtered nearly two hundred thousand goblins.
• Elena ordered the camp secured with Fist Intent Spiritual Imprints as Kompany's cavalry began to tire and goblin demigods attacked.
• Elena shot down four goblin demigods and fought a True God-level goblin while Kompany and other generals helped the surviving cavalry return to camp.
• Elena wielded an ancient spear against two goblin gods as their battle devastated the surrounding battlefield.
• Elena drove her spear through a goblin god's head and killed him.

Elena killed three Goblin Clan gods and protected the expeditionary army, but the battle left the army questioning how the goblins had known their route and deployment. She urged the leaders to consider retreating to Paris Island, leaving the army to decide whether to advance toward Iduna City or withdraw.

• Elena defeated two Goblin Clan gods in the sky, then killed another with a bow shot that drove the watching goblin gods away.
• Elena restored the shattered ground, but the battle had turned the surrounding grassland into a desert and caused at least a million Goblin Clan casualties.
• Cassano, Gerrard, Ramos, and Kompany suspected the goblins had known the army's plans in advance, and Kompany raised the possibility of a traitor.
• Elena recommended retreating to Paris Island because the expeditionary army was too weak to reach Iduna City, but she left the final decision to the leaders after a half-day rest.
• Susanna and Miaoli said their clans would follow the Human Clan's decision and returned to organize their troops.

The Northern Region expeditionary army chose to continue toward Iduna City despite the dangers, while a rival force led by the Holy Church suffered catastrophic losses in a goblin assault. The chapter left the second army trapped and its generals resentful of the Church and their allies.

• Gerrard, Shaarawy, and Kompany urged the Northern Region commanders to press on toward Iduna City, and the generals agreed to continue.
• Cassano told the commanders to prepare their troops while he reported their decision to Imperial Consort Elena.
• The Gnome girl and Susanna discussed the Human Clan, the Holy Church, and what the Elf Clan might have discovered before Susanna returned to her army.
• The goblin army attacked the Holy Church's expeditionary force, reducing its nearly six hundred thousand troops to fewer than four hundred thousand.
• Generals from the other empires complained that their armies bore the brunt of the fighting while the Church and powerful allies preserved their strength.

The goblins overran the Sunderland camp, and Juventus commander Iaquinta slaughtered the retreating Sunderland soldiers, provoking other empires to confront him. Rosario suppressed their anger and explained that the goblin attack was only a probing force, while the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus were conserving strength for a stronger enemy.

• Goblins broke through Sunderland’s camp, and Adam Johnson ordered the surviving soldiers to retreat toward Juventus’s position.
• Iaquinta killed Sunderland soldiers for retreating and ordered Juventus troops to seal the camp and slaughter the rest; Adam Johnson attacked him.
• Fellaini, Delauno, Milošević, and other empire leaders confronted Iaquinta and protested that their forces had been used as cannon fodder.
• Rosario arrived with powerful figures from the Church, Barcelona, and Juventus, and Iaquinta accused Adam Johnson and the others of rebellion.
• Rosario used his overwhelming aura to silence the gathered leaders, then said the goblin attack was a probing assault and that the three major forces were saving their strength for a stronger invasion.

After the Holy Church and its allies abandoned the empire armies, Adam Johnson and Fellaini discovered their camps were empty and realized they had been used as cannon fodder. The remaining commanders faced the goblins without the promised support, and an unexpected event began.

• Rosario injured Adam Johnson, ordered the commanders back to their camps, and promised Church support.
• The battle continued as the goblins gained the advantage, while Church forces withheld promised aid and took captured spoils.
• The Church’s actions left the Everton defensive line near collapse, and Adam Johnson blamed himself for bringing his soldiers into danger.
• Adam Johnson went to confront Rosario, while Fellaini gathered other commanders and followed to protect him.
• They found the Holy Church, Barcelona, and Juventus camps abandoned, with traces of spatial teleportation magic and no troops remaining.
• The commanders realized the three major forces had fled and left them to face the goblins, just as something unexpected happened.

Sun Fei rescued the surrounded expeditionary commanders by destroying the Church’s disguised killing array, then helped rout the goblin army. The expedition set out for Iduna City, with the commanders braced for a larger war against the goblins.

• A deadly array resembling the Holy Spirit Killing Array trapped Fellaini, Adam Johnson, and the other commanders, who suspected the Holy Church meant to frame the Northern Region Empire.
• Adam Johnson burned up his origin power and self-destructed to try to open an escape route, but the array held and its killing intent intensified.
• Sun Fei arrived, tore apart the array, and restored Adam Johnson and the wounded commanders with golden energy.
• Sun Fei led the fight against the goblins, routing their army and killing the goblin powerhouses as Fellaini resolved to reconsider his allegiance.
• After daybreak, the expeditionary army advanced toward Iduna City with Gerrard and Kompany leading the vanguard and Elena commanding the central army.

Adam Johnson’s army left a staged battlefield to convince the Holy Church that the Human Clan forces had been destroyed, while the Human Emperor of the Northern Region concealed the expeditionary army from goblin senses. The army pressed toward Iduna City as Elena continued crushing goblin attacks, and the Holy Church prepared its next plan on Paris Island.

• Adam Johnson and the others staged the battlefield with bones, minced flesh, and corpses before using teleportation arrays to remove their army and erase its tracks.
• Iaquinta and Alaba inspected the battlefield, confirmed the staged deaths of sixteen foreign Extreme Dao experts, and left to report to Rosario.
• The Human Emperor of the Northern Region concealed the expeditionary army from goblins, allowing more than two hundred thousand soldiers to cross the Southern Region without fighting.
• Elena killed the last true god-level goblin in the goblin army’s sixth failed attack, bringing the goblins’ battlefield losses across their attacks to more than five million.
• The expeditionary army swept through the Southern Region toward Iduna City while the Holy Church made preparations on Paris Island.

Cardinal Rosario secretly met with a Goblin Empire leader and learned that the Northern Region Imperial Consort had killed more than thirty goblin True God-level beings, delaying the plan to destroy the expeditionary army. Meanwhile, Everton's coalition camped near Munich Allianz City to prepare for its final push into the city.

• Rosario questioned Iaquinta and Alaba about their inspection, accepted their assurances, and secretly placed silver lights inside them as they left.
• Rosario searched for watchers, sealed his tent with formations, and vanished through a tear in space.
• Rosario met a powerful green mass of light, which revealed that the Goblin Empire's forces had lost more than thirty True God-level beings to the Northern Region Imperial Consort.
• Rosario agreed to report the delay to Platini and urged the goblins to deal with the Northern Region Imperial Consort, while the goblin leader asked him to keep Maradona occupied.
• After a day and two nights of forced marching, Everton and the imperial coalition forces camped in the Ruhr Mountains, less than a hundred thousand kilometers from Munich Allianz City, and prepared to enter it.