Chapter Summaries

Barrett accepted his removal from command but stayed behind to stop Jaeger and the Lu Ying Military Intelligence agents from breaking the seal. Suren and Yuta watched as Jaeger revealed his heretical power linked to the Deep Sea Giant, while Suren discovered that a day had vanished from his memory because of the Time Anomaly Domain.

• Jaeger announced Barrett's removal, and Barrett accepted the order before sending Kamur and the Holy Judgment Legion soldiers out of the ruins.
• Barrett refused to let Jaeger break the seal, and Suren and Yuta secretly watched the resulting battle from a cave opening.
• Jaeger used Servantless to form blue-flame armor, but Barrett initially held the advantage and defeated his two companions.
• Jaeger revealed parasitic red threads and drained his wounded companions, exposing his power as heretical; Barrett released his Giant Implant to fight him.
• Jaeger’s power overwhelmed Barrett, and Yuta recognized the aura as that of the Deep Sea Giant from the Cursed Space.
• Suren contacted Mr. Mirror, then checked his pocket watch and realized that a day was missing from his memory because of the Time Anomaly Domain.

Suren consulted Mr. Mirror about the time anomaly and watched Barrett battle Jaeger, who drew on an evil deity’s power. Yuta confronted the empowered Jaeger while Suren tried to help, and the chapter ended with Mr. Mirror appearing beside the trapped Suren.

• Suren asked Mr. Mirror about the existence he had encountered in a time anomaly, and she identified it as possibly S-005-Time Messenger before warning him not to investigate further.
• Suren watched Barrett unleash his qi and secret technique against Jaeger, but Jaeger summoned the will of a god-tier evil deity and turned the battle against him.
• Yuta rushed to confront Jaeger with the Sacred Object, Magic Cauldron, while Suren informed Mr. Mirror of the danger and entered the Hall of Heroes.
• Suren attacked Jaeger with Black Scythe, illusions, and the Mechanical Armor’s Vulcan Cannons, but Jaeger recovered and spread Bloodline Worms through the passage.
• Suren escaped Jaeger’s tentacles but found himself cut off from Yuta, then Mr. Mirror appeared before him in her Gold-Patterned Cloak.

Mr. Mirror arrived in time to defeat Jaeger, whose body had been corrupted by an Outer God, and Suren recovered valuable law fragments and equipment from the battlefield. Mr. Mirror explained the Outer God’s threat and her plan to rebuild Dawn City, then told Suren he would help her carry it out.

• Mr. Mirror used her Myriad Mirror Wheel domain to confront Jaeger, and the battle ended with Jaeger’s defeat as the red-line worms died.
• Suren found Yuta safe but exhausted, then absorbed Jaeger’s soul and gained law fragments, secret technique knowledge, and other memories.
• Suren preserved the still-living heart infested with worms and found Activated Silver in Jaeger’s Storage Ring, while regretting that Lu Ying’s departing legion had taken his Poisonous Incense Burner.
• Mr. Mirror told Suren that her strength could recover to the Eighth Tier and explained how she had deceived divination to arrive early.
• Mr. Mirror explained that the heretic was likely an ancient Outer God seeking to restore its power through faith, and warned that it might be an Evil God.
• Mr. Mirror revealed her plan to rebuild Dawn City and create a powerful organization, then told Suren he would help her achieve it.

After recovering from the battle, Mr. Mirror joined Suren and Yuta on their journey to the Daru Tribe’s Emerald Sacred Land. Along the way, Suren learned that his All-Seeing Eye might connect to ancient talents and discovered that the Imitation Primal Rune could help him advance his runology, though he still needed to find a Rune Mage blueprint.

• Yuta woke after two days of recovery, and Suren introduced her to Mr. Mirror, who assured her that the seal was safe and promised the Isaac Family would uphold its oath to the Daru Tribe.
• Suren, Yuta, and Mr. Mirror left the Cursed Valley for the Emerald Sacred Land, traveling quickly under Mr. Mirror’s protection.
• Suren asked Mr. Mirror about the Cyclops, and she recalled a one-eyed giant from her father’s travels, suggesting it might relate to Suren’s All-Seeing Eye and its secondary awakening.
• Mr. Mirror identified Suren’s Imitation Primal Rune as an exceptional treasure and explained that a job advancement material could help him comprehend it, but she had no refining blueprint.
• Mr. Mirror told Suren that Rune Mages specialized in runes and that he could ask the Mirror Organization for help finding their inheritance; she also said Sister Chijou had become a pirate in the North Sea.
• The three shared stories around the campfire, and Yuta learned that Suren had once been a slave and heard how he first met Mr. Mirror.

Suren, Mr. Mirror, and Yuta hurried toward the Emerald Sacred Land after Yuta revealed that the God of Nature had offered a way to cure Suren’s Mental Mutation. They discovered that the Unicorn Whale Slave Catching Group was attacking the Daru Tribe’s home and confronted its leader, Gold Tooth Yuke, as Mr. Mirror declared war on slave catchers in the Silent Forest.

• Mr. Mirror suppressed Suren’s violent mental backlash, and Yuta told him that a divine revelation had offered a way to draw a Sacred Pattern Totem and resolve it.
• Gold Tooth Yuke’s slave catchers used captured Daru Tribe members as bait while attacking the Emerald Sacred Land, and the tribe’s elders debated fleeing east of Mount Luger.
• Suren, Mr. Mirror, and Yuta heard gunfire near the sacred land, hurried there, and saw the Unicorn Whale Slave Catching Group preparing to lure out the Daru tribespeople.
• Mr. Mirror charged into the slave catchers’ camp with Suren and Yuta behind her, then demanded that the group’s captain appear.
• Mr. Mirror declared that the Daru Tribe was under her protection and that slave catchers in the Silent Forest would be killed, while Gold Tooth Yuke recognized their cloaks and prepared to face them.

Mr. Mirror, Suren, and Yuta attacked the Unicorn Whale Slave Catching Group to end its slave hunting, overwhelming the camp with their powers. As the battle continued, the Daru elders saw Dagda's Magic Cauldron drawing on the Sacred Land’s natural forces and wondered whether their lost Sacred Object had returned.

• Mr. Mirror refused to back down when Gold Tooth Yuke invoked the group’s backer, and Yuke ordered thousands of gunners to attack.
• Mr. Mirror used her Myriad Mirror Wheel and Material Reflection to absorb and return the group’s bullets and shells.
• Yuta summoned powerful spells, treants, and tangling vegetation, while Suren unleashed his Puppet Legion against the encircling slave catchers.
• Suren controlled more than twenty assassins and forced them to cut their own throats, then trapped a Fourth-Tier assassin in a painful illusion.
• The Daru elders saw elemental forces gathering toward the cliffs and recognized signs that Dagda's Magic Cauldron, their Sacred Object, might have returned.

Suren, Mr. Mirror, and Yuta defeated the Unicorn Whale Slave Catching Group and reunited with the Daru Tribe, whose members welcomed Mr. Mirror as an ancient Oathbound ally. At the Sacred Lake, Yuta’s ceremony brought a divine response that made the Daru Tribe members break through to higher tiers, while Yuta’s transformation continued.

• Mr. Mirror used her Mirror Image Domain to kill Gold Tooth, causing the surviving slave catchers to flee, while Suren and Yuta helped secure the camp and its spoils.
• Aku and the other Daru Tribe youths recognized Suren and Yuta, then brought Grandma Wolf and the elders to the camp, where they honored Yuta’s recovered Dagda’s Magic Cauldron and greeted Mr. Mirror as Lady Ophelia Fay Isaac.
• Mr. Mirror agreed to stay at the Emerald Sacred Land to protect the Daru Tribe from slave catchers and their possible retaliation.
• Two days later, Yuta led the Daru Tribe in a pilgrimage to the Sacred Lake and performed a ceremony before the Gate of Heaven as Suren and Mr. Mirror watched.
• A beam of God-tier radiance descended over the Daru Tribe, and Deer Chieftain, Grandma Wolf, and many other members advanced by a major tier while Yuta’s red totem blazed.

After the Daru Tribe regained the gods’ protection, Yuta drew a Sacred Pattern Totem on Suren to restrain his Mental Power Mutation. Suren left the Emerald Sacred Land for Pirate City, but upon returning to Blizzard City, he learned that Grand Duke Raphael’s fleet had destroyed the King of the North Sea’s Ninth Fleet.

• The Daru Tribe completed its sacrificial ceremony, and Suren observed its members advance in tier as their divine inheritance was restored.
• Yuta drew the Eclipse Sacred Pattern Totem on Suren, warning him that its growing spirituality could overwhelm him if he failed to control it.
• Suren spent time studying the Daru Tribe’s Divine Inheritance Arts, then told Mr. Mirror he planned to leave and seek the Rune Mage inheritance and spatial materials.
• Mr. Mirror revealed that Emmerich, the Reis Family, and Sabina had gone to the Lu Ying Imperial Capital to help establish a merchant guild and intelligence network.
• Suren left the Silent Forest with Aku and the Daru youths, while Yuta stayed behind to teach and quietly wished him well.
• After Mafah recognized Oleg’s rule as King of the North Sea and pirate forces spread through the region, Suren returned to Blizzard City and learned that Grand Duke Raphael’s fleet had destroyed the Ninth Fleet.

Suren returned to pirate-ruled Blizzard City and met Qiantiao at Sailor's Tavern, where a rigged card game threatened to turn violent. Meanwhile, a purple-haired Lance Family heiress planned to influence Oleg's new rule and considered an alliance with the Regadi Family.

• Suren learned that Oleg had been crowned King of the North Sea and that he was wanted by pirates and Lu Ying's slave traders.
• Suren traveled through Blizzard City's lawless streets to meet Qiantiao, while a purple-haired Lance Family heiress ordered survivors of the Brumaire Coup sent to help Oleg govern.
• The heiress discussed Grand Duke Raphael's powerful steel fleet and decided to pursue a marriage alliance with the Regadi Family, though she questioned whether William was the right match.
• Suren found Qiantiao gambling at Sailor's Tavern with a young saber-carrying girl, and recognized that the game was rigged.
• After Qiantiao lost her money, she wagered the girl's sword and accused the dealer of hiding a card, while Suren pointed his gun at the dealer and warned her not to move.

Suren watched Sister Chijou confront and defeat the Iron Crocodile Pirates after they were caught cheating, then reunited with her as she took him and Lolota to a bathhouse. The chapter left the three entering a private room at the Great Sun Bathhouse.

• Suren confronted the cheating dealer, but Sister Chijou shot her when One-Eyed Dragon flipped the table and threatened them.
• Sister Chijou's crew arrived, and she challenged One-Eyed Dragon to settle the dispute or face her blade.
• One-Eyed Dragon revealed his Rune Mage abilities, and Sister Chijou's crew defeated the Iron Crocodile Pirates until he paid compensation.
• Sister Chijou distributed the money to her crew and told them to prepare to set sail in five days.
• Suren reunited with Sister Chijou, and she brought him and Lolota to the Great Sun Bathhouse for a private room.

Suren and Qiantiao relaxed together in a private bathhouse while discussing Qiantiao’s plans to advance and Suren’s search for Rune Mage knowledge and the King of the North Sea’s Void Fleet. They decided Suoke might lead them to the Rune Old Man, and Suren considered infiltrating the King’s fleet before their candid bathing conversation ended with Qiantiao telling him not to stare.

• Qiantiao brought Suren and Lolota to a private bathhouse room, where she and Suren bathed while Lolota waited nervously.
• Qiantiao explained that Lolota had been rescued from a slave ship after being trained as a child gladiator.
• Suren learned that One-Eye Suoke was the son of the Rune Old Man, a powerful lord in the Tarim Islands, and Qiantiao expected Suoke to seek revenge after losing at cards.
• Qiantiao told Suren that she was preparing to advance to the Fifth Tier and needed suitable Augment Armor, and Suren suggested looking for Spatial Materials connected to the King of the North Sea’s Void Fleet.
• Qiantiao suggested infiltrating the King of the North Sea’s expanding pirate fleet to learn about the Void passage, and Suren agreed the plan could work.
• Qiantiao removed her loosened bath towel, and when Suren openly admired her figure, she told him that she did not mind but had not said he could keep staring.

Suren and Qiantiao spent several days in Blizzard City before setting sail with the Dawn Pirates aboard the battered Grey Dolphin. When three pirate crews ambushed them at sea, Qiantiao ordered her crew to prepare for boarding and she and Suren readied to fight.

• Qiantiao finished bathing, and Suren stayed with her and Lolota at the Great Sun Bathhouse for five days while he repaired and made puppets.
• Qiantiao lost her savings gambling, while Lolota arranged supplies and warned that Suoke and other pirates were gathering against the Dawn Pirates.
• Qiantiao, Suren, and Lolota left Blizzard City aboard the Grey Dolphin, and Suren sensed watchers reporting their departure to rival crews.
• The Dawn Pirates sailed from the harbor as other pirate captains predicted their defeat by Suoke's forces and discussed a newly awakened Fourth Tier talent user.
• Three ships from the Iron Crocodile, Flamingo, and Iron Hammer pirate groups appeared near an uninhabited island and threatened to sink the Grey Dolphin.
• Qiantiao ordered the Dawn Pirates to lower their sails and prepare for a boarding battle, then agreed with Suren to divide the enemy ships between them.

Suren and Qiantiao faced an ambush by three pirate crews, and Qiantiao revealed her overwhelming sword power as the boarding battle began. Suren then trapped all four ships in a web of threads and unleashed hundreds of Rune Anomaly Puppets, leaving both sides stunned as the fight turned in the Dawn Pirates’ favor.

• Suren prepared an Alchemy Array while Qiantiao and the Dawn Pirates braced for three approaching pirate ships led by “One-Eye” Suoke, “Gold Hook” Charles, and “Iron Wall Exploding Bear” Horn.
• The pirate crews grappled the Grey Dolphin and boarded, while Qiantiao revealed her immense sword aura and six-armed battle form to confront their Fourth Tier leaders.
• As the Dawn Pirates were pushed back by the vastly larger force, Suren cast his spells and spread tough silver threads around the four ships, sealing everyone inside a vast cocoon.
• Suren summoned hundreds of Rune Anomaly Puppets from Spatial Scrolls, shocking the pirates, the Dawn Pirates, and Qiantiao.

Suren and Qiantiao led the Dawn Pirates to victory over three pirate crews, and Suren learned that the Rune Old Man’s lineage and the Mountain Hidden Country were tied to the Four Northern Continents. After parting from Qiantiao, Suren headed south toward Blizzard City to investigate the King of the North Sea’s fleet and its Void Implants.

• Suren unleashed his Puppet Legion and scattered the Iron Crocodile Pirate Group’s attack on the Grey Dolphin while Qiantiao held off five Fourth Tier fighters.
• A Fourth Tier assassin tried to kill Suren, but Suren used the Black Umbrella and a thread to behead him.
• Suren summoned a Living Corpse with a Black Scythe and a battle mecha, while Qiantiao killed the remaining pirate captains and the Dawn Pirates cleared the ships.
• Suren harvested Suoke Leonhart’s Soul Fragments and learned that the Rune Old Man had fled the Lu Ying Imperial Capital with a Cursed Object and that the Mountain Hidden Country held mysteries about 108,000 Deities.
• The Dawn Pirates claimed a new ship and sailed north, while Suren headed south toward Blizzard City after telling Qiantiao he planned to infiltrate the King of the North Sea’s fleet.

Suren returned to Blizzard City to find a way into the North Sea Fleet and investigate the secret Neuro-Mechanical Technology. When the fleet arrived, he spotted Banner and a possible technical specialist accompanying him, then watched Banner kill two pirates who mocked his machinery.

• Suren learned that the North Sea Fleet’s rescued pirates might arrive in Blizzard City and saw an opportunity to join them.
• At the Walrus Tavern, Suren heard reports about the Silent Forest, the missing Iron Crocodile Group, and a machinery specialist newly appointed captain of the Nineteenth Squad.
• Suren watched the Fourth Fleet arrive and recognized Banner, whose advanced Mechanical Arm suggested he had grown far more powerful.
• Suren suspected that a walrus-mustached man accompanying Banner was a Super Mechanical Warrior and might be the technical specialist behind Banner’s Neuro-Mechanical modifications.
• After pirates mocked Banner’s reliance on machinery, Banner killed two of them by controlling a metal nail and driving it through their heads.

Suren infiltrated the Ninth Fleet by posing as a cannoneer and sailed with it toward Pirate City, carefully hiding his identity as the crew vetted its new recruits. The fleet reached the Devil’s Sea, and Suren anticipated arriving at Hasterlin before heading toward the Mountain Hidden Country, where Rune Old Man was based.

• Suren learned that the Ninth Fleet was recruiting in Blizzard City and joined the line under the name Jonny, claiming to be a wanted cannoneer.
• The recruiters accepted Suren after he demonstrated his cannon skills, and he boarded the White Eagle with the other new recruits.
• The Ninth Fleet set sail for Pirate City, and Suren kept his cover while informants aboard the ships investigated newcomers.
• A Deep Sea Violet Eel attacked the fleet, but General Gluttony, Ixil Peon, swallowed it whole.
• As the fleet approached Hasterlin through the Devil’s Sea, Suren heard pirates discuss the city and thought of the Mountain Hidden Country and Rune Old Man.

Suren arrived in Pirate City and explored its Black Market, where he bought rare materials and mechanical parts, including machinery from Old Lindun. While following a suspicious man connected to Banner, Suren discovered the man recognized the scent of X Serum and suspected he was linked to Danny Banks.

• Suren crossed the Devil's Sea with the Ninth Fleet and reached the glittering Golden City of Pirate City.
• After disembarking, Suren declined to join Sharp and the other pirates, then entered the city alone to learn about geishas and the Mountain Hidden Country.
• Suren contacted Qiantiao, who said she was investigating matters in Pirate City and did not meet him.
• Suren bought rare alchemical materials and mechanical components from Sister Tang's Magic Material Shop, including parts from Mafah armor and Old Lindun machinery.
• Suren sensed Banner's suspicious companion nearby and followed the man through the Black Market toward an alley.
• The man confronted Suren after detecting X Serum on him, and Suren asked whether he knew Danny Banks; the man stiffened in surprise.

Suren discovered that the mysterious man was Pickman Banks, Danny’s father, who had survived the laboratory explosion through the Eternal Cell. Pickman agreed to prepare gene-repairing medicine for Danny, and Suren later arrived at the Nagano House geisha house, where he unexpectedly encountered Qiantiao.

• Suren told the mysterious man that Danny was alive and explained that Danny’s mutated body might fail within a year or two.
• Suren admitted that he wanted Neuro-Mechanical Technology, and he clarified that he had followed the man after learning Banner had a mechanical body.
• The man identified himself as Pickman Banks and revealed that an Eternal Cell had repaired his body after the laboratory explosion.
• Pickman agreed to leave gene-repairing medicine for Danny at the Fire Dance Tavern, while Suren promised to deliver it.
• Suren explored Pirate City’s Food Street, then visited the Nagano House geisha house and unexpectedly ran into Qiantiao.

Suren visited Nagano House, where he discovered Qiantiao was using the establishment to ambush Ghost Sword Yashi with help from masked ninjas. Elsewhere, Zolas persuaded Oleg and the North Sea Fleet Captains to begin governing the Four Northern Continents through tax reforms, and Oleg agreed.

• Suren entered Nagano House, recognized Qiantiao and Lolota, and rented Koike Teppei’s company while discreetly gathering information about Pirate City and the Mountain Hidden Country.
• Qiantiao argued with Yashi about the death of One-Eye Suoke, then fought him with his famous blade, the Chrysanthemum Crested Divine Palace Guardian.
• Four masked ninjas raised a purple Spatial Barrier around Qiantiao and Yashi, which vanished moments later, leaving Suren to realize the clash was a planned ambush and that the battlefield had been transferred.
• At Emperor Entertainment City, Zolas asked Oleg for authority to reform the Four Northern Continents and argued that taxation could build prosperity and loyalty.
• Oleg accepted Zolas’s proposal and ordered the North Sea Fleet to proceed with the reforms.

Suren explored Pirate City, gathered supplies and intelligence, and encountered mysterious visitors searching for Fujiwara Hayato’s manuscripts. The chapter left him surprised to find the deserter Alec Barrett fighting in the Black Market.

• Suren left Changsye Geisha House after saying goodbye to Koike, then explored Pirate City and watched gladiator matches with pirates from his ship.
• Suren visited the Seven-Colored Conch Market, bought mechanical goods and research instruments, and met a group of concealed strangers who paid nearly ten million Liso for Fujiwara Hayato’s manuscripts.
• Suren collected reserved materials from Sister Tang’s Magic Material Shop and asked Black Beauty Amaris about the Cyclops, Black Sam’s Cursed Gold Coin, Spatial Materials, and Void Implants.
• Suren went to the Black Market after hearing a fight and recognized one of the combatants as Alec Barrett, the deserter and former commander of the Lu Ying Holy Judgment Legion.