Chapter Summaries

After the Dawn Pirates recovered dozens of Mechanical Octopuses, Tani confirmed he wanted to remain with the crew and awakened the World Sea Chart of Black Sam from his three Cursed Gold Coins. As Suren modified the captured machines, he began considering how Pandora’s charm ability might help him seize enemy mechanical forces intact.

• Suren and the Dawn Pirates captured forty-three more Mechanical Octopuses, bringing their total to forty-eight, and learned of one of Duke Raphael’s Secret Research Bases.
• Suren asked Tani whether he wanted to stay with the Dawn Pirates, and Tani eagerly agreed to become their partner and chief navigator.
• Tani combined his three Cursed Gold Coins and revealed the World Sea Chart of Black Sam, which mapped vast regions and pointed toward dangerous waters where the giant dragons were.
• Suren inventoried the battle’s loot and began improving the Mechanical Octopuses in a temporary laboratory aboard the New Dawn.
• Suren worried that the Mafah Mechanical Legion could self-destruct before he captured its machines intact, then realized Pandora’s charm ability might provide a solution.

Suren released Pandora and tried to secure her cooperation, discovering that she had become a false god by concentrating Mountain Concealed Country’s faith in herself. Pandora agreed to a contract to help Suren when needed, and her signature revealed the name Pandora P. Isaac.

• Suren brought Pandora out of the Small Void Realm and tested several methods of enslaving or controlling her, but each one failed.
• Suren deduced that Pandora was Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, a false god who had absorbed Mountain Concealed Country’s faith, and connected her creation to his teacher, Lady Seraya.
• Pandora revealed that Amaterasu had been defeated and that restoring the Kamifuku Clan’s faith would take centuries and risk collapsing Mountain Concealed Country’s faith system.
• Suren offered Pandora freedom in exchange for a contract requiring her to help him and refrain from harming him or his friends, and Pandora accepted.
• Pandora signed the contract as Pandora P. Isaac.

Suren secured Pandora’s cooperation with a contract witnessed by the God of Nature, then continued north with the Dawn Pirates while modifying their Mechanical Octopuses. Near Roman Country, his communicator reconnected with Barrett’s Holy Judgment Legion, which was being pursued by the North Sea Fleet’s secret Void Fleet.

• Suren summoned the God of Nature to witness an equal contract with Pandora, then freed her and returned her possessions, keeping the Death Novel with her consent.
• Pandora refused to return Yata no Kagami and explained that she could seal a High-Tier Professional only in Hidden Mountain, then demanded a room and solitude.
• Suren told Qiantiao that Pandora was Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, and the Dawn Pirates continued north through storms while Tani grew more adept at sensing and possibly triggering them.
• The Dawn Pirates hunted giant sea beasts for food, reached the waters near Roman Country, and Suren finished upgrading dozens of Mechanical Octopuses.
• Suren’s Lu Ying military communicator received a signal from Barrett, whose Holy Judgment Legion was running out of supplies while Dorosel Castillo’s Void Fleet pursued it.
• Barrett faced the prospect of fighting to the death until a report identified Suren as the person who had previously traded Activated Silver with him.

Suren joined forces with Barrett and Qiantiao to confront Oleg’s Eighteenth Fleet, which had been pursuing Barrett’s battered ships. After revealing that he planned to destroy the enemy fleet himself, Suren led the two fighters toward the three pirate ships as battle began.

• Barrett admitted to Suren that Oleg’s Eighteenth Fleet had pursued his ships and requested medicine and fresh water.
• Suren learned the enemy’s numbers and abilities, assembled the Dawn Pirates, and prepared fifty Mechanical Octopuses to attack the fleet’s ships.
• Suren and Qiantiao arrived aboard the Dawn, and Barrett gave Suren the Storage Ring containing the items from their previous trade.
• Suren announced that he intended to annihilate the Eighteenth Fleet, and Qiantiao revealed her Sword Saint strength to convince Barrett they could fight.
• Barrett agreed to join Suren and Qiantiao in holding off the enemy’s strongest fighters while Suren approached the three ships to use his abilities.

Suren, Qiantiao, and Barrett launched a surprise attack on the North Sea Fleet, sinking its three warships and turning the sea battle into a desperate fight. Suren unleashed his puppet army against the stranded pirates while Qiantiao and Barrett kept Dorosel occupied, leaving the Fleet Captain exposed when Suren was ready to join the fight.

• Suren signaled that he and Barrett had come to negotiate while secretly directing Mechanical Octopuses toward the pirate ships.
• The Mechanical Octopuses tore apart all three warships, sending the North Sea Fleet’s crew into the sea.
• Qiantiao unleashed a powerful sword slash that destroyed another section of warship and forced Dorosel to fight her and Barrett.
• Suren summoned five hundred Rune Anomaly Puppets and attacked the stranded pirates, harvesting souls and gaining experience as the battle spread.
• Dorosel fought Qiantiao and Barrett instead of fleeing, while Suren prepared to turn his attention to the Fleet Captain.

Suren used his intelligence, cursed objects, and puppet-control abilities to kill two Fifth Tier Squad Captains and turn the North Sea Eighteenth Fleet against itself. As the Dawn Pirates gained the advantage, Qiantiao revealed a further transformation and told Barrett to prepare to act.

• Suren trapped Whale Hunter Elenor in Steinitz's Chessboard and killed him with the Black Scythe, then learned more about the Void Fleet from his soul.
• Suren evaded Roberson's assassination attempt and manipulated Tek into striking Roberson, then killed Tek with a calculated double slash.
• Suren used Mental Tentacles and Puppet Massacre Ground to seize control of the pirates, making them attack one another and breaking their will to fight.
• The Dawn Pirates and Judgment Pirates joined the attack as the panicked pirates fled, while Barrett realized Suren's strength could match an entire legion.
• Qiantiao received a message, warned Barrett to prepare, and caused her Six-Armed Rakshasa phantom to condense into a solid form beyond its Second Release State.

Suren and his allies defeated the Void Fleet’s Eighteenth Fleet near the Evil Shipwreck, killing deputy fleet captain Dorosel and seizing a huge haul of ships, equipment, and advancement materials. After extracting Dorosel’s memories and Spatial Law expertise, Suren learned the location of a dangerous Void Ruins site and a legendary Spatial Augment Armor, leaving him eager to investigate.

• Suren overwhelmed the pirates with his Puppet Theater, harvested their Gray Mist, and raced toward the battle against Dorosel.
• Suren restricted the surrounding space, while Qiantiao and Barrett pinned Dorosel down; Qiantiao’s sword strike and Suren’s Black Scythe killed him.
• Suren stripped Dorosel’s soul, greatly improving his Spatial Law comprehension and learning about the Toxte Royal Alchemist Academy ruins and the legendary Chronos’ Void God Hand.
• Qiantiao and the badly injured Barrett joined the fight near the shipwreck, and the Dawn Pirates and Judgment Pirates finished off the remaining squads.
• Suren recovered Dorosel’s Void Demon Hand and other spoils, while the Dawn Pirates salvaged valuable equipment and supplies from the sunken ships.

Suren treated Barrett’s injuries, fitted him with the Hand of Silver, and began crafting a Gargoyle from Activated Silver. After Barrett departed on a rescue mission, Suren tested the completed Gargoyle and discovered its remarkable defenses and teleportation ability.

• The Dawn Pirates salvaged the wreckage while Dr. Banks treated Barrett, whose organs had been badly damaged by Dorosel’s punches.
• Suren gave Barrett the Hand of Silver prosthetic, and he and Banks installed it; the arm fused successfully and later helped Barrett regain his strength.
• Suren used the Activated Silver and Seraya’s notes to build a Gargoyle, while Barrett recovered and then led the Holy Judgment Legion away to rescue captured comrades.
• Suren and Qiantiao tested the Gargoyle, whose curved surface deflected attacks and whose wounds healed, and Suren revealed that it could teleport using a spell he had installed.

Suren arrived in Moros with Qiantiao and Lolota, gathered information about rescuing Kai, and explored the city’s market. There he found a Puppet Master selling Rune Anomaly Puppets and learned that many Puppet Masters had come to Moros for the legendary Four-Color Elemental Heart.

• Suren, Qiantiao, and Lolota disembarked in Moros and saw the North Sea Fleet’s Princess Skadi and escort ships in the harbor.
• Suren and Qiantiao learned that Kai had been sent to the Gladiatorial Arena as a slave gladiator and would take part in a Hero’s Trial the next day.
• Suren split from Qiantiao and Lolota, who went to the public baths, and headed to the Trading Market to buy magical beast materials and browse ancient documents.
• Suren found Karma selling Rune Anomaly Puppets and recognized her as an Abomination Puppeteer.
• Karma told Suren that Puppet Masters had gathered in Moros to seek the Four-Color Elemental Heart, a legendary energy core from the ancient Goblin Civilization.

Suren learned that a Four-Color Elemental Heart had been discovered near Devil's Island and planned to seek out the survivor, Baron Opatra, while traveling toward the Void Ruins. In Moros City-State, he recognized the legendary bounty hunter Van Gogh, who shared clues about Skadi’s shipment and produced a painting that hinted at a huge monster lurking in the darkness.

• Suren learned that the Goblin-era Four-Color Elemental Heart had reportedly been found on Devil's Island, and that Baron Opatra was the only known survivor of the island.
• Suren bought four Rune Anomaly Puppets from Karma, recognized her as a descendant of Robert Boyle, and traded her puppet materials for the original Rune Anomaly Puppet blueprints.
• Suren confirmed through information brokers that Devil's Island held many treasures and dangerous monsters, then decided to meet Baron Opatra and investigate the island.
• Suren spotted Van Gogh painting portraits in the city square and asked whether he was pursuing Skadi; Van Gogh said he was, but had not yet found an opportunity to kill her.
• Van Gogh told Suren that Skadi’s shipment would soon leave from Pier Seven and suggested it might be bait, then finished a painting whose uncertain divination warned of a huge monster in the darkness.

Suren and Qiantiao watched Kai fight the Mouth of Hell at the Moros Central Gladiatorial Arena and learned that Mafa was using the arena to strengthen him while controlling him with a collar. The chapter left them needing both to rescue Kai and to obtain the collar’s key.

• Suren suspected that Vincent F. Van Gogh’s information about Skadi was connected to Katyusha and her powerful family.
• Suren visited Walrus Street, noticed Baron Opatra at the Golden Rose, and later went to the arena with Qiantiao and Lolota to watch Kai’s match.
• Suren discovered that the arena’s ancient stones could grant gladiators heroic blessings and help them improve their abilities.
• Hunk fought in the arena and defeated his opponent, while several royal knights from the Holy Judgment Pirates died or were badly wounded in slave-gladiator matches.
• Kai entered the final beast fight, revealed that he had reached the Fifth Tier, and battled the Lord Grade Mouth of Hell.
• Suren determined that Kai’s Mechanical Slave Collar required a specific key and could trigger a poison device if damaged, leaving the rescue plan more difficult.

Suren searched Moros City-State for a way to obtain the key to Kai's Mechanical Slave Collar while watching for signs of danger from the Agapanon Temple. News that the Flying Fish Group had returned from Devil's Island with treasure drew the city to the docks, creating cover for Barrett and the others to attack the Sun Slave Merchant Guild and rescue the Holy Judgment Legion.

• Suren and Qiantiao met Kai after his arena fight, and Suren used Pandora's Mental Crystal to place a Mental Suggestion in Kai's mind; they learned that Skadi carried the key to his collar.
• Suren investigated Onis Popov and the Agapanon Temple's prophetic abilities, but found no opportunity to approach Skadi or obtain the key.
• At the Rainbow Tavern, Mars announced that Old Smoker, Lawryen, and the Flying Fish Pirate Group had returned from Devil's Island with a shipload of treasure and a safe sea route map.
• Suren examined the Flying Fish Group's Ancient Relics at the crowded dock and noticed that the treasures came from many different eras.
• Explosions and fighting broke out in North City and then West City; Suren recognized the blue-flame bombs he had given Barrett and realized Barrett's group was attacking the Sun Slave Merchant Guild to free the Holy Judgment Legion.
• Suren mingled with the crowd and hurried toward the fighting.

Suren infiltrated the battle in West City, stole Chronos' Bow of Time Curse, and helped Barrett escape into the Small Void Realm. After Onis Popov targeted Suren with Tyr, God of War's Causal Golden Spear, Suren trapped the spear in the Small Void Realm, leaving Onis unable to contact it.

• Suren killed two Lu Ying Military Intelligence Department spies and discovered that Barrett was fighting a desperate battle against Lu Ying forces in Narachi District.
• When Lu Ying agents used Chronos' Bow of Time Curse against Barrett, Suren impersonated a senior officer and stole the bow.
• Suren warned Barrett to flee through Coral Alley, then brought Barrett and two surviving subordinates into the Small Void Realm before escaping across West City.
• At Agapanon Temple, the priestess lost track of Barrett and suspected that the prophesied person had interfered, while Onis Popov hurled Tyr, God of War's Causal Golden Spear toward Suren.
• Suren trapped the returning spear in the Small Void Realm, and Onis Popov lost contact with it.

Suren hid in Moros City-State after taking the Roman Country’s Golden Spear, but a citywide search forced him to seek shelter with Karma, a young puppet maker from the Boyle Family. She revealed that her younger brother’s soul was trapped in a broken Puppet Core and asked Suren to help repair the family’s Heart of the Mechanical Puppet blueprints.

• Suren reasoned that the temple could not precisely divine his location, then hid in the slums as Roman forces sealed off Moros City-State and searched for the stolen Golden Spear.
• Karma recognized Suren through her Sixth Sense and sheltered him, using her Substitute Life Puppet to sever the karmic trail by burning it.
• Suren told Karma that he was Teacher Seraya’s disciple, gave her several Fourth Tier Abomination Puppets, and agreed to help with her puppet questions.
• Karma showed Suren an intricate blueprint that he identified as part of a soul-housing Puppet Core and revealed that her younger brother was trapped inside a shattered core.

Suren discovered that Aberk Boyle was trapped in a damaged ancestral puppet core and learned that Karma suspected Vasily Tilmido of orchestrating the pirate attack that destroyed her family. He took Karma and Aberk as disciples, then chose to intercept Frost Moon Princess’s treasure shipment as Moros City-State reopened its harbor, while Onis Popov remained unable to trace his missing divine spear.

• Karma explained how Aberk had been sucked into the Boyle Family’s damaged puppet core during the pirate attack and why she suspected Vasily Tilmido.
• Suren identified Aberk’s Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart talent and began studying the core with him, hoping to repair it.
• Karma asked to follow Suren, and he accepted her and Aberk as disciples and members of the Dawn Pirates.
• As the city lifted its lockdown and ships headed toward Devil’s Island, Suren learned that Frost Moon Princess’s shipment would leave from Pier Three aboard the White-headed Weng.
• Suren chose to intercept the treasure shipment and confirmed that Princess Stika’s submarine had also begun moving.
• Onis Popov learned from the High Priest that the stolen divine spear could not be traced and that its thief would likely go to Devil’s Island.

Suren and Karma tried to leave Moros City-State for Devil's Island, but Ebel stopped them and his guards stole four Fourth Tier Rune Anomaly Puppets from Karma's Storage Ring. They escaped aboard the North Wind, while Ebel realized Suren might possess even more valuable Boyle Family treasures.

• Suren left for the docks with Karma and his new disciples, while Ebel waited there, jealous of Karma and determined to confront her companion.
• Ebel accused Suren and Karma of being involved in a temple treasure theft, then ordered his guards to search their Storage Rings after Karma cited the law against detaining people without evidence.
• The guards found nothing suspicious in Suren's ring but stole four Fourth Tier Rune Anomaly Puppets from Karma's; Suren urged her to leave rather than risk further scrutiny.
• Suren and Karma boarded the North Wind just before it sailed, and Suren predicted that the pirates would return the puppets once they felt guilty.
• Ebel examined the puppets, recognized their immense value, and began suspecting that Suren might have even more valuable treasures.

Suren and Karma fought the North Sea Fleet’s Seventh Squad after Ebel came to seize them, and Suren revealed overwhelming strength while Karma killed Ebel. Suren left Karma aboard the North Wind and raced across the sea to kill Vasily.

• Suren noticed that a warship from the North Sea Fleet had caught up with the North Wind and recognized that its crew had come for him and Karma.
• Ebel boarded the North Wind with his men, accused Suren and Karma of involvement in the city attack, and ordered them taken in for questioning.
• Suren told Karma to kill the pirates, and she attacked with her mechanical puppets and fought Ebel’s forces.
• Suren killed the North Wind’s captain and other officers with a spatial thread, while Karma seized the chance to kill Ebel with a bladed cable.
• Suren praised Karma, told her to wait, and leaped from the ship to race across the sea toward Vasily’s warship.

Suren defeated the North Sea Fleet’s Seventh Squad, uncovered Vasily Tilmido’s role in the Boyle Family massacre, and returned the Thousand-Handed War Demon to Karma. After the Dawn Pirates found a sealed chest, Suren opened it and discovered a vast supply of Golden Fleece whose purpose remained unclear.

• Suren charged alone at Vasily Tilmido’s squad, used Spatial Displacement to board its ship, and fought the pirates with his Puppet Theater and Rune Anomaly Puppets.
• Vasily deployed the Thousand-Handed Mechanism War Demon, but Suren and the arriving Dawn Pirates defeated him and nearly wiped out the Seventh Squad.
• Suren learned from Vasily’s memories that he had colluded with the Ghost Shark Pirate Crew to attack Karma’s family, and he gave Karma the War Demon and Vasily’s Storage Rings.
• The Dawn Pirates found a sealed chest aboard the captured ship, and Suren opened it at sea to reveal a huge stockpile of Golden Fleece.
• Pandora explained that Golden Fleece was a rare treasure used as an offering to the gods or in mysterious rituals.

Pandora traded her help erasing the North Wind crew’s memories for the Golden Fleece, while Suren rescued Barrett and learned the Judgment Pirates had escaped. Barrett joined the Dawn Pirates, whose leaders concluded Devil’s Island might conceal a mass-sacrifice plot and unanimously chose to intercept the North Sea Fleet.

• Pandora asked Suren for the Golden Fleece and offered to handle the witnesses aboard the North Wind; Suren agreed, and she used a Mental Avatar to alter their memories.
• Suren released Barrett and his two adjutants from the Small Void Realm, and they confirmed that their comrades had escaped Moros City-State.
• Barrett asked to join the Dawn Pirates, and Suren welcomed him and the Judgment Pirates into the crew.
• Suren told the senior crew members his suspicions that the Devil’s Island treasure was tied to a ritual that might sacrifice more than a hundred thousand adventurers.
• Dr. Banks proposed tracking the nearby White-headed Weng and intercepting the North Sea Fleet’s ships to disrupt the suspected ritual.
• Qiantiao, Banks, Barrett, and the squad leaders agreed to intercept the North Sea Fleet, and the Dawn Pirates voted unanimously to go.

After rescuing the surviving royal knights and absorbing Vasily Tilmido’s puppetcraft knowledge, Suren’s Dawn Pirates pursued the White Eagle toward Devil’s Island. They discovered a ghost ship destroyed by a Siren Sea Monster and suspected the White Eagle’s shipment had been used as bait to lure hostile crews into the monsters’ territory.

• Suren reunited with the Holy Judgment Pirates’ survivors, welcomed them into the Dawn Pirates, and organized the enlarged crew into three squads under Qiantiao, Dr. Banks, and Barrett.
• Dr. Banks pinpointed the White Eagle’s route toward Devil’s Island, and Barrett trained and reorganized the Dawn Pirates as they pursued it.
• Karma befriended Lolota and Tani aboard ship while Suren studied Vasily Tilmido’s extracted puppetcraft knowledge and prepared to repair the Heart of the Mechanical Puppet.
• The Dawn Pirates found an empty Silver Gun Pirates ship, and Dr. Banks determined that a Siren Sea Monster’s infrasound had killed its crew.
• Suren and Qiantiao suspected the Silver Gun Pirates had been targeting the White Eagle’s shipment and that the Mafah Empire had leaked its route to lure enemies into the sea monsters’ territory.
• Suren concluded that the White Eagle was carrying a great treasure and decided the Dawn Pirates could use the situation as bait while they pursued it.