Chapter Summaries

The Dawn Pirates ambushed and killed a host of Siren Sea Monsters, then pursued the White Eagle fleet after tracking its biological marker. They found Frost Moon Princess Skadi Harris overseeing an Agapanon Temple ritual, and the chapter ended as Barrett ordered a devastating cannon barrage against her ships.

• Tani detected the Siren Sea Monsters, and Suren's crew feigned death before ambushing them with flash bombs and gunfire.
• Sister Chijou and the other fighters pursued the fleeing monsters, captured the Lord Grade Siren Sea Monster, and returned with it for Suren to study.
• Suren taught Karma to process the monsters' living organs while the Dawn Pirates continued toward the biological marker.
• Frost Moon Princess Skadi Harris watched Agapanon Temple priestesses conduct a sea ritual and discussed the threat of a mysterious force with her advisers and Pirate Emperor Carlo Meldis.
• The Dawn Pirates spotted the White Eagle fleet, and Barrett ordered nearly a hundred cannons to fire at Princess Skadi's ships.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates attacked the White-headed Weng’s escort fleet, discovering that Princess Stika and Pirate Emperor Meldis were aboard. After a fierce battle involving the North Sea Kraken, Meldis and Stika escaped when Stika warned that the Sea Ruins were about to appear, leaving Suren’s crew to subdue the monster and salvage the ships.

• Suren ordered the Dawn Pirates to bombard the five pirate ships, but barriers protected two of them, leading Barrett to suspect a Seventh Order Professional was aboard.
• A North Sea Kraken attacked the warships, and Suren sent his Mechanical Octopus Legion to restrain it while the cannons sank three enemy ships.
• Princess Stika’s group revealed that Meldis was protecting her, and Meldis left the ship to fight Barrett, Chijou, and Dr. Banks.
• Suren used Chronos’ Bow of Time Curse to kill Stika’s guards, while Pandora shielded him from Meldis’s attacks.
• Stika warned Meldis that the Sea Ruins were about to appear, and Meldis used a scroll to escape with her.
• Suren explained that Stika had mistaken the attack for an assassination attempt, then ordered Dr. Banks to anesthetize the Kraken as the crew prepared to salvage the White-headed Weng.

Suren captured the North Sea Kraken and recovered the Chronos' Void God Hand and other offerings from the wreckage of the White-headed Weng. After learning that the Agapanon Temple had lured adventurers into a mass sea sacrifice, he and the Dawn Pirates were trapped in the Sea Ruins by Sea King Drake, but Mr. Mirror told them how they might escape.

• Suren and Dr. Banks trapped the North Sea Kraken, and Dr. Banks collected samples to study its Titan Bloodline.
• The Dawn Pirates salvaged the White-headed Weng and recovered the Chronos' Void God Hand along with numerous mythic offerings.
• Lolota, Karma, and Tani brought the captive priestess Olruun to Suren, who killed her and extracted information about the temple's prophecy and planned sacrifice of over a hundred thousand adventurers.
• Suren ordered the crew to return to the ships, but Sea King Drake summoned a violent storm that drove the Dawn Pirates into the Sea Ruins.
• Suren told Qiantiao, Dr. Banks, and Barrett what he had learned, and they discussed the need to escape the Sea Ruins.
• Mr. Mirror told Suren that he needed to find the River of the Underworld and travel upstream, while warning him about the Undead Creatures there.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates sailed through the Sea Ruins, where they fought Sea Burial Corpses and an immense fleet of undead ships. The legendary Eternal Night Emperor appeared under Sea King Drake’s command, leaving the pirates facing the Sea Ruins’ ruler.

• Suren learned from Mr. Mirror that the Dawn Pirates had to travel west and find the River of the Underworld to escape the Sea Ruins.
• Suren gave Pandora faith-bearing treasures, and she asked him to help force the Sea King to reveal himself so she could seize its faith.
• Sea Burial Corpses attacked the fleet with mental assaults, and dozens of sailors fell overboard before the crew fought back.
• Undead ships surrounded the fleet, but Suren harvested the monsters’ Gray Mist, preventing them from reviving as the Dawn Pirates fought through the horde.
• Pandora warned Suren that the Sea King had arrived, and the legendary Eternal Night Emperor emerged from the mist with Sea King Drake on its deck.

Suren led the Dawn Pirates toward Devil's Island, where he believed Sea King Drake's Godhead was hidden, while Drake's undead fleet pursued them. Suren split the group and acted as bait, allowing the main force to land on the island as he continued evading the enemy.

• Suren ordered the Dawn Pirates to break through the undead horde and head for Devil's Island, reasoning that Drake's Godhead was likely there and that Drake was weaker on land.
• Undead sea monsters damaged one of the ships, and Suren ordered the pirates to dump cannons and supplies to increase their speed as the Eternal Night Emperor closed in.
• Suren proposed splitting the fleet, then stayed behind alone aboard a ship staffed by Living Corpses to draw Drake's attention while the others sailed for the island.
• Suren blocked Drake's Death Energy Arrow Rain with his Black Umbrella and Law of Death, prompting Drake to pursue him instead of the other ship.
• After Drake's forces destroyed his ship, Suren escaped in an assault boat and learned from Qiantiao that the main force had successfully landed on Devil's Island.

Suren escaped onto Devil's Island and reunited with the Dawn Pirates, while treasure hunters on the island learned that the Sea Ruins were a deadly trap. After Suren deciphered an ancient inscription and identified three possible locations for the Sea King's divinity, he and Pandora set out under cover of Ötzi the Iceman's Shroud.

• Suren killed Captain Parker, escaped the pursuing undead, and encountered the Black Panther Group, whose members recognized his warning about the Sea Ruins as the undead fleet appeared offshore.
• Suren returned to the Dawn Pirates' defensive position and learned that Pandora's discovery of an ancient stone tablet had drawn the Sea King's forces toward them.
• Suren recognized the inscription as Seram Script and used it with the island layout and Sea God Constellation to identify three possible locations for the Sea King's divinity.
• Barrett and Suren agreed that Suren and Pandora would slip away to search for the divinity while the Dawn Pirates held the undead back as a diversion.
• Suren and Pandora wrapped themselves in Ötzi the Iceman's Shroud and disappeared from the marching tent.

Suren and Pandora infiltrated the divine tomb while Pandora battled Sea King Drake, giving Suren a chance to search for the source of Drake’s power. Suren found the pseudo-divine crown and seized it, but Drake sensed his presence.

• Pandora detected Sea King Drake’s ambush, then fought him with divine arts while Suren’s Living Corpse decoy was killed.
• Suren used Ötzi the Iceman’s Shroud to slip into the crystal palace and discovered its vast hoard of treasures, including a Four-Color Elemental Heart and an Ouroboros Fragment.
• Suren found the Crown of Pope Flail, the vessel through which Francis Drake had condensed a pseudo-divine nature, near the sealed golden door.
• Suren deciphered the crown’s thirteen-layer Rune of Lunn Lock and took the crown, alerting the Sea King to his presence.

Suren helped Pandora seize the Sea King's crown, allowing her to extract the Power of Faith and defeat Sea King Drake. After Suren gained Water Element Law Comprehension and a God-tier rune from Drake's soul, members of Prince Carnap's Treasure Hunting Group arrived and tried to claim the ruins, prompting a confrontation with the Dawn Pirates.

• Suren survived the Sea King's attacks until Pandora arrived, took the crown, and began extracting its Power of Faith.
• Pandora defeated Sea King Drake, while Suren escaped the battle and extracted Water Element Law Comprehension and the Rune of the Sea God of Himinglæva from Drake's golden soul.
• With the Sea King dead, the monster siege eased, and Suren and Pandora waited at the Crystal Palace for the Dawn Pirates while recovering from their injuries.
• Sigel and Prince Carnap's Treasure Hunting Group arrived, demanded a share of the treasure, and attacked Suren after he refused.
• Barrett blocked the gunfire, Qiantiao confronted Sigel's group, and the rest of the Dawn Pirates arrived.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates crushed Prince Carnap's Treasure Hunting Group after its members attacked them, then uncovered signs that Sigel belonged to a mysterious group tied to Calamity Law. The chapter ended with the pirates salvaging the Crystal Palace's immense treasure and crystal structures.

• Sigel led Prince Carnap's Treasure Hunting Group in a surprise attack, but the Dawn Pirates' military-grade firepower and Barrett's Force Domain overwhelmed them.
• Qiantiao cut through the enemy ranks while Barrett battered Sigel, and Suren's Gargoyle caught a Fourth-Tier assassin targeting him.
• Suren summoned hundreds of Rune Anomaly Puppets and sent them into the jungle, turning the battle decisively against the prince's group.
• The Dawn Pirates' main force arrived, and Suren helped Qiantiao kill two Fifth-Tier leaders before the group surrounded and killed Sigel.
• Suren discovered Calamity Law fragments and a connection between Sigel and the Giant Hermitage Society, then found blood-colored worms in his heart and asked Dr. Banks to study them.
• The Dawn Pirates gathered the Crystal Palace's treasure and dismantled its crystal structures, with Suren using his Small Void Realm to transport the largest pieces.

After escaping the Sea Ruins, Suren and the Dawn Pirates captured the legendary Sea Emperor Class Battleship Eternal Night Emperor and discovered it had a newly awakened Ship Ghost. Suren welcomed the Ship Ghost as a companion, and the crew celebrated their living warship.

• As the Dawn Pirates marched toward the coast, Tani showed off his new Water Element Imprisonment technique, while Suren promised Lolota a famous blade if he found one.
• Miles told Barrett that General Rostov had been politically punished for trying to protect the Judgment Pirates, and Barrett listened in silence.
• Suren led the Dawn Pirates in a battle to capture the Eternal Night Emperor, and the crew cleared its monsters and began preparing the ship for their use.
• Suren explored the battleship and found its extraordinary construction, antique cannons, and intact systems, while the crew celebrated their new home.
• Tani, Lolota, and Karma told Suren that the ship's wheel moved by itself, and Suren identified a Ship Ghost hiding in the cockpit.
• Suren invited the Ship Ghost to join the Dawn Pirates, and it accepted; he announced the Eternal Night Emperor as their new companion, prompting the crew to cheer.

The Dawn Pirates restored the Eternal Night and sailed west while Suren outfitted the ship and studied the Four-Color Elemental Heart. In the laboratory, his charging method successfully freed Aberk from the mechanical puppet core, and Suren discovered that Aberk’s talent had undergone a Second Awakening.

• The Dawn Pirates set sail aboard the Eternal Night, repaired the ship, and celebrated its arrival as their new vessel.
• Suren installed a bath and furnished the captain’s quarters for himself and Qiantiao, who discussed her Augment Armor and Rakshasa Golden Body.
• The Dawn Pirates sailed west with adventurer ships following them, while Suren established a laboratory aboard the Eternal Night and studied the Four-Color Elemental Heart.
• Karma noticed that the charging machine had restored Boyle’s mechanical puppet core, and Suren increased its energy supply until Aberk emerged.
• Aberk recited passages he had seen in two books with perfect accuracy, leading Suren to realize that Aberk’s talent had reached a Second Awakening.

Suren and his companions entered the River of the Underworld and sailed through it, escaping the Sea Ruins. After returning to open sea, they set course for the Void Ruins.

• Suren welcomed Aberk as his new disciple and worked with Aberk and Karma in the laboratory while the Dawn Pirates searched for the River of the Underworld.
• Tani found the enormous whirlpool, and Suren decided to steer the Eternal Night Emperor into it despite the danger.
• The Eternal Night Emperor entered the whirlpool’s stable currents, descended into the River of the Underworld, and the crew tossed Obolus Silver Coins into the water.
• Suren and the crew meditated as they sailed upstream, sensing the river’s dark laws and cleansing their souls.
• The Eternal Night Emperor emerged onto a sunlit sea, where Suren ordered the crew to set sail for the Void Ruins.

The Dawn Pirates entered the hidden spatial realm containing the Toxst Void Royal Alchemy Academy and discovered Dr. Banks’s marker on a nearby Mafah submarine. Suren launched a surprise attack, and when two of three submarines tried to flee, he suspected one carried the Secret Research Base and moved to stop them.

• The Dawn Pirates grew stronger during their peaceful voyage, gaining new Fourth Order Professionals and three Fifth Tiers.
• Suren and the crew sailed through a spatial barrier into the secret realm after the wind rose, avoiding the North Sea Fleet’s patrols.
• Dr. Banks detected his biological marker near a Mafah submarine, so Suren split the crew between an ambush and a stealth attack.
• Suren approached the submarines with Mechanical Octopuses, then attacked after their crew detected the metal-signatured machines.
• Two submarines tried to escape while the third advanced to confront Suren, leading him to suspect the Secret Research Base was aboard one of the fleeing vessels.
• Suren marked the submarines with Dr. Banks’s biological marker and sent the Mechanical Octopus Legion after all three.

Suren ambushed Mafa’s submarines and used Pandora to seize control of the crew aboard the Royal Seven, the secret mechanical research base. After enduring a cursed laser attack and holding off Mafa’s forces, he completed his Void Whale Swallowing technique and vanished with the submarine, while reinforcements were closing in.

• Suren attacked the three submarines with Mechanical Octopuses, forced them to surface, and fought their Mechanical Warriors with his Black Scythe and Gargoyle.
• Suren opened his Nightfall Domain and used hidden Siren Banshee Dolls to disorient the defenders while pressing the Royal Seven’s crew to open its hatch.
• A Mechanical Warrior’s Alpha Laser Alchemical Eyeball struck Suren, but he evaded the beam and killed its wielder as Pandora took control of the people inside the submarine.
• Pandora helped Suren defend himself while he began using Alchemy: Void Whale Swallowing to capture the Royal Seven, as Qiantiao warned that a North Sea Fleet expert was approaching.
• Suren completed the technique, swallowed the Royal Seven, and escaped with Pandora after she concealed their retreat with the Tsukuyomi Illusion Technique.

Suren hid the Dawn Pirates and the captured Royal Seven inside his Small Void Realm, leaving Princess Stika’s forces unable to track them. He discovered the submarine held Mafa’s leading engineers and advanced production equipment, and began planning a Mechanical War Workshop to mass-produce Mechanical Octopuses.

• Suren reunited with Dr. Banks and the Dawn Pirates aboard the Eternal Night Emperor, then learned they had fought off pursuers while intercepting his escape.
• Suren and more than a hundred Spatial Ability users activated an Alchemy Array to store the Eternal Night Emperor and its crew in the Small Void Realm, while a Substitute Doll severed his karmic trail.
• Princess Stika’s search parties failed to track the pirates, and her advisers connected the attack to the group that had previously targeted her and to the disappearance of the Eternal Night Emperor.
• Suren stayed hidden underwater while his will explored the Small Void Realm, where the Dawn Pirates waited among his stored treasures and ships.
• Suren inspected the Royal Seven and found more than eighty Mafa researchers, advanced mechanical equipment, combat armor, and blueprints inside it.
• Suren realized the equipment and engineers could let him build a Mechanical War Workshop and mass-produce Mechanical Octopuses, though he still needed to find enough materials.

Suren developed a mechanical workshop in the Small Void Realm, then traveled toward the North Sea Fleet’s base to explore the dangerous Cursed Space at Toxter Void Alchemy Academy. He infiltrated a supply convoy as a disguised slave and arrived at the ruins’ main camp.

• Suren and the Dawn Pirates built a Gothic castle workshop, where Dr. Banks moved his biological laboratory and Mafa engineers began producing Mechanical Octopuses.
• Suren learned that the workshop lacked materials, but Mr. Mirror told him Count Antonio could supply controlled materials through his merchant guild in Lu Ying.
• After the North Sea Fleet reduced its searches, Suren reached the academy ruins and considered exploring the Unstable Plane Channel for rare Void treasures.
• Suren decided to wait for a supply convoy so he could enter the crowded base without being detected.
• When eight ships arrived, Suren teleported into a slave ship, replaced a captive, disguised himself, and sailed with the fleet into the main camp.

Suren entered the North Sea Fleet’s secret-realm city disguised as a slave and volunteered to explore Cursed Spaces, while Princess Stika’s advisers planned to search for the Void Gene Potion. The chapter ended as pirates came to send Suren and the next batch of slaves into the Unstable Plane Channel.

• Suren used an Energy Fluctuation Jammer to pass the city guards’ inspection and was locked up with the male slaves.
• A Tier 4 pirate officer offered the slaves a chance to escape slavery by exploring Cursed Spaces, and Suren raised his hand along with the others.
• Dr. Bachar Pearson told Princess Stika that the Void Academy might have developed a Void Gene Potion that granted permanent high spatial affinity.
• Samigina warned that searching the Tier T Experiment Zone could be deadly, and Princess Stika assigned Major General Tatyana to lead the team and ordered that few slaves be allowed to survive.
• On the fourth day in prison, Suren realized the pirates were taking the next slave batch into the Unstable Plane Channel, and the prison door opened.

Suren entered the Cursed Space as an investigator and used Steinitz's Chessboard to unlock the Void Academy library's hidden fourth floor. He found a trove of powerful spatial techniques but chose to search the archives for clues about Herbert Hilboray before deciding what to take.

• Suren entered the Cursed Space aboard an alchemy airship and learned that the investigation concerned a possibly damaged seal on the Plane Channel to the Void Plane.
• Suren recognized Major General Tatyana and realized that her royal guards intended to target the investigation team's leader for information.
• Suren left the group and went to the Void Academy library to investigate the mysterious Herbert Hilboray and the cause of the Void Monsters' eruption.
• Suren used Steinitz's Chessboard to reveal the library's hidden fourth floor, confirming that the device came from the same era as the academy.
• Suren discovered intact, high-tier spatial tomes on the fourth floor but decided to search the archives for information about Herbert Hilboray first.

Suren searched the academy archives and library for Herbert Hilboray, uncovering evidence that the erased genius had developed a Void Gene Potion and warned of an impending Void Invasion. He avoided entering Laboratory Zero before the invasion began, but found a hidden library exit directly into the Grade T experimental zone.

• Suren summoned more than a hundred companions to search the academy archives, and Aberk linked a missing top-ranked student’s research on Void Genes to Herbert Hilboray.
• Suren found Herbert’s encrypted notes in a manuscript about Void Insectoids, learning that a Mother Insect threatened the Plane Channel and that Herbert had been imprisoned after developing the Void Gene Potion.
• Suren concluded Herbert was likely the Cursed Space’s main will, but chose not to enter the dangerous Laboratory Zero with less than an hour before the Void Invasion.
• Suren stored his companions in the Small Void Realm and inspected the fourth-floor library, finding Alchemical Items and empty hidden compartments.
• Suren used Steinitz’s Chessboard to open a concealed spatial door in the ceiling and discovered that it led directly to the Grade T experimental zone.

Suren entered the Grade T Experimental Zone with the Dawn Pirates’ support and followed Major General Tatyana’s group into Laboratory Zero. As Dean Mason led them underground and blamed Herbert Hilboray for the old disaster, Suren recognized Mason’s account as a cover-up, and the chapter ended with a monster attacking people at the rear of the group.

• Suren and the Dawn Pirates agreed to risk entering the experimental zone to find Herbert Hilboray and investigate Laboratory Zero.
• Suren used the spatial gate to enter the experimental zone and made his way toward Laboratory Zero.
• Suren found Major General Tatyana arguing with the vice dean over the sealed laboratory, and Dean Mason appeared and offered to lead the group inside.
• Suren followed Tatyana’s group through the barrier and into Laboratory Zero’s dark underground tunnels.
• Dean Mason claimed Herbert had caused the old disaster and spread a false warning about a Void Invasion, but Suren realized Mason was concealing the truth.
• Someone at the rear of the procession cried out that a monster was killing people.