Chapter Summaries

Suren destroyed the mage corps controlling the Soul Restraining Lamp, then rescued Bartolo by defeating the Holy Ascetics with his Gargoyle Legion. With Bartolo taken to the Small Void Realm for treatment and the Silver Dragon still fighting the Heavenly God Plane’s forces, Suren decided to raid the Gracie Royal Family’s treasury.

• Suren blasted the royal wall, killed Hazel Howard and the thousand-mage corps, and damaged the Soul Restraining Lamp.
• The Heavenly God Plane’s forces trapped the Silver Dragon with the Cadmus Dragon-Hunting Spear and Gleipnir's Entangler while the royal capital descended into chaos.
• Suren found Bartolo fighting Verne Van and the five-hundred-man Holy Ascetic Legion while a curse drove Bartolo’s mutation.
• Suren summoned more than a thousand Gargoyle Puppets and crushed the ascetic legion, then harvested their souls.
• Suren sent the mutating Bartolo into the Small Void Realm and headed for the Gracie Royal Family’s treasury.

Suren looted the Silver Dragon Kingdom’s treasury and rescued Bennett and the Miracle Legion as the Heavenly God Plane’s forces ravaged Eclensa. He tried to sabotage a Magic Tower with explosives, but a powerful Gorgon discovered him, petrified Grandpa Crow, and forced Suren to retreat.

• Suren teleported into the royal treasury, took Gracie I’s sentient Legendary Dragon Rider Heavy Armor, and collected the kingdom’s treasures and dragon crystals.
• Suren freed Bennett and several hundred Miracle Legion soldiers from the prison, explained Garcia’s rebellion, and watched them head out to defend the royal family.
• Suren used the Earth Elemental Wax Figure to travel underground and plant explosives near a Magic Tower, but Grandpa Crow warned him that they had been discovered.
• Suren teleported away after a Gorgon petrified the Earth Elemental Wax Figure and trapped its soul in stone.
• The Gorgon pursued Suren, petrified Grandpa Crow with its gaze, and Suren escaped again as Grandpa Crow shattered and revived; Suren concluded he could no longer sabotage the enemy’s forces.

Suren discovered that the Eighth Tier Gorgon was attacking Helen outside Eclensa and used the opening to plant explosives beneath a Heavenly God Plane Magic Tower. He escaped as the explosives detonated, blasting the tower into the air.

• Suren found Qiantiao injured after she had killed more than a thousand Dragon Riders, treated her wounds, and returned with her to watch the battle outside Eclensa.
• Suren used the Black Crow to discover that the Gorgon was extracting golden energy from Helen while Gracie VIII and his petrified knights lay nearby.
• Suren identified a small blind spot behind the Gorgon's head and realized the Gorgon and Helen were enemies, leaving the city less protected.
• Suren infiltrated Eclensa underground, placed explosives beneath the southern Magic Tower, and teleported out after a Heavenly God Plane mage destroyed his Earth Elemental Wax Figure.
• The explosives detonated beneath the Magic Tower, sending it into the air as flames erupted over Eclensa.

Suren sabotaged the Heavenly God Plane’s attack on the silver dragon and helped Helen complete her tribulation, causing her to become Empress Medusa. With the mages driven from Eclensa, Suren returned to the Eternal Night to prepare an antidote for Tani’s mother and planned to seal the Rainbow Well.

• Suren watched the silver dragon exploit the damaged Legion Magic Array and fight back against Augustus and the mages in Eclensa.
• Suren decided to interfere with the Gorgon draining Helen and offered Helen an equal pact, which she swore to uphold by the Earth Mother Goddess.
• Suren tested the Gorgon’s abilities with Living Corpses and decoys, then killed Helen with an Arrow of Time from its blind spot.
• Helen emerged from her corpse as Empress Medusa, killed Hertus, and tacitly accepted Suren’s request not to treat him as an enemy.
• The silver dragon escaped, the Heavenly God Plane’s mages withdrew from Eclensa, and Suren brought Qiantiao to the Eternal Night to prepare Tani’s mother’s antidote and plan to seal the Rainbow Well.

Suren removed the Petrification Curse from Friedel, reuniting her with Tani aboard the Eternal Night as the Dawn Pirates sailed toward Rainbow Island. He then summoned Pandora to discuss countering the Heavenly Gods’ growing influence, and she agreed to let him study her Alchemical Body again.

• Suren used the antidote he had made from Garcia’s memories to remove Friedel’s petrification, and Dr. Banks confirmed that her life signs had returned.
• Friedel awakened, recognized Tani, and reunited with him; she later met Bartolo, whom she remembered as Mr. Saito, and learned that the Black Sam Pirates were gone.
• Bartolo shared swordsmanship advice with the Dawn Pirates, while Friedel confirmed that she could seal the Rainbow Well on Rainbow Island.
• The crew celebrated their victory and Friedel’s recovery as the Eternal Night sailed south toward Rainbow Island.
• Suren summoned Pandora and explained the Heavenly God Plane’s influence across the three kingdoms of Dragon Country, asking her to help steal the believers’ faith.
• Pandora agreed to stay aboard, and when Suren asked to study her Alchemical Body, she removed her robe.

Suren and Friedel sealed the Rainbow Well beneath Rainbow Island, cutting off the Heavenly God Plane mages’ teleportation support. After the mages assembled a floating magic castle and set out, Suren considered luring a furious Eighth Tier Silver Dragon into attacking them.

• Suren sent Pandora to Eclensa to confront the Pseudo-Gods exploiting the chaos after the war.
• Suren and Friedel approached Rainbow Island, where Friedel sensed that the mages had detected them through the rain and slipped into the sea.
• Friedel secretly collected the Rainbow Well in the Seven-Colored Conch and returned safely, then shared some precious Rainbow Well Water Essence with Suren.
• The mages on Rainbow Island lost their source of support for the Teleportation Array and assembled their Magic Towers into a flying magic castle.
• Suren decided not to attack the heavily defended airborne fortress directly and considered drawing an angry Eighth Tier Silver Dragon into the fight.

Suren led the Dawn Pirates into a counter-ambush against three Ten Thousand Mage Corps, using the Eternal Night’s artillery to devastate their concealed camps. After the enemy froze the ship and pressed the attack, Suren activated a plan to lure in a Silver Dragon, which arrived as the battle intensified.

• Tani and Friedel detected signs of an ambush, and Suren judged that three Ten Thousand Mage Corps had surrounded the Eternal Night.
• Suren ordered the Dawn Pirates to fire on three calculated positions, and the first barrage inflicted heavy casualties on the concealed mage camps.
• The mages froze the sea to trap the Eternal Night, but its cannons kept them at a distance while the crew prepared their response.
• Suren activated an alchemy array with Silver Dragon flesh as bait, while the Dawn Pirates fought and tested new weapons without committing their full strength.
• An enraged Silver Dragon appeared on the horizon, and Suren welcomed its arrival as the next stage of his plan.

Suren lured the Heavenly God Plane’s three Ten Thousand Mage Corps into a battle with an enraged Silver Dragon and a Beast Tide, then used the Eternal Night’s Small Void Realm to escape. He repeatedly sabotaged the mages’ formations until the second corps was destroyed, leaving the survivors despairing and the battle turning against them.

• The Silver Dragon attacked the Ten Thousand Mage Corps, while Number Nineteen blocked its breath and Suren’s crew bought time to activate the Eternal Night’s spatial array.
• Suren transported the ship away, and the Silver Dragon summoned a Beast Tide that forced the mages into a prolonged battle.
• As both sides weakened, Suren teleported into the mage formations and killed key defenders, opening gaps for the Silver Dragon and monsters to exploit.
• Suren used repeated ambushes to inflict heavy losses on the three corps and destroy one of their formations.
• An Eighth Tier Great Archmage trapped Suren with the Sky-Sealing Mirror, but Suren used the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring to escape after damaging the formation.
• The Silver Dragon and Beast Tide annihilated the second corps, leaving the surviving mages in despair as the battle’s balance shifted.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates finished off the fleeing Heavenly God Plane mages, then turned on the Silver Dragon when negotiations failed. Using their prepared tactics and a Dragon Slaying Potion, they immobilized the dragon and began wearing it down, leaving Bartolo astonished by their ability to hunt it.

• The Silver Dragon and the monsters overwhelmed the Heavenly God Plane mage corps, and the surviving mages broke out after unleashing a powerful Hurricane Spell.
• Suren ordered the Dawn Pirates to act, and he and his companions hunted down the fleeing mages while the Silver Dragon killed the remaining Great Archmages.
• Suren tried to persuade the Silver Dragon to stop fighting, but it answered with Dragon Might and attacked, so Number Nineteen blocked its breath and the Dawn Pirates began their assault.
• Bartolo and Number Nineteen engaged the Silver Dragon in close combat while the others waited for an opening based on the dragon's recorded weaknesses.
• Number Nineteen fixed a spatial coordinate on the dragon, allowing Suren to catch it and stab it with a Dragon Slaying Potion-coated dagger.
• Suren summoned the Mechanical Octopus to lock the Silver Dragon's wings, and the Dawn Pirates surrounded it to begin wearing it down as Bartolo recognized their true strength.

The Dawn Pirates killed the Eighth-Tier Silver Dragon after a brutal battle in which Qiantiao broke through to a new level of swordsmanship. They collected the battlefield’s rich spoils and fled before reinforcements arrived, while a black-robed mage reached the abandoned site and learned that a Silver Dragon had disrupted his ambush.

• The Dawn Pirates fought the Silver Dragon through the night, draining its blood with Dragon Slaying Potions while the crew endured its attacks and Dragon Might.
• Qiantiao, pushed to the brink while facing the dragon, awakened her Rakshasi power and struck through its neck scales with a sword technique that reached beyond the Sacred Realm.
• After hours of fighting, the Silver Dragon lost too much blood and fell; Suren bound it and stored it in the Small Void Realm, and the sea monsters retreated.
• Suren treated the injured crew as the Dawn Pirates gathered the Silver Dragon, Mage Corps equipment, monster corpses, and other spoils before sailing away.
• A black-robed mage arrived at the empty battlefield, summoned undead mages to learn what had happened, and realized that a Silver Dragon had caused his ambush plan to fail.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates sailed into the Golden Sea, nearing the Ancient Dragon Country Ruins as Sister Chijou revealed her growing swordsmanship. After she killed a mutated sea monster, Bartolo warned that an eruption had spread Hell Qi into the Golden Sea, marking the start of the most dangerous part of their voyage.

• Suren and Sister Chijou discussed their approach to the Ancient Dragon Country Ruins and the delay in developing the Thunder Dragon Bloodline Potion.
• Tani warned the crew that they had passed Giant Elephant Island and were entering the territory of the Titan Sea Monster.
• A mutated Sixth-Tier Silver Hell Titan Ghost Snake attacked, and Sister Chijou killed it with a single sword strike.
• Bartolo explained that Sister Chijou's sword strike had met resistance from the laws of heaven and earth.
• Bartolo concluded that the Hell Volcano had erupted and spread Hell Qi into the Golden Sea, making the waters around the ruins more dangerous.

The Dawn Pirates fought their way through the Troll Sea, where Suren grew wary of the monsters gathering around them. That night, Suren and Qiantiao ambushed a powerful invisible intruder, a red-robed cardinal who resurrected after they killed him, leaving Suren uncertain whether more enemies were nearby.

• The Dawn Pirates battled the enormous Titan Corpse Demon and killed it after a fierce fight.
• Bartolo warned Suren that the monsters' unusual gathering might be caused by a supernatural presence, so the crew strengthened its defenses as the Eternal Night sailed onward.
• Suren and Qiantiao meditated on the mainmast while Hell Qi filled the night air.
• Suren sensed a powerful unfamiliar soul approaching and, with Qiantiao, ambushed the invisible intruder using the Rune Black Umbrella and her sword.
• The intruder appeared as a red-robed cardinal from the Heavenly God Plane, resurrected after being killed, and seemed to be alone.

Suren and Qiantiao fought a Red Robed Archmage who repeatedly resurrected, wielded soul-burning flames, and summoned a Sword God skeleton. Mr. Black sealed him briefly, but the mage unleashed Arcane Undead Scourge, leaving the Dawn Pirates surrounded by hundreds of thousands of undead.

• Suren and Qiantiao killed the Red Robed Archmage twice, but he resurrected and used Dark Shadow to create multiple copies before they killed him a third time.
• The Red Robed Archmage ignited Soul Fire that burned souls, forcing Suren and Qiantiao to retreat and reassess their attacks.
• The mage summoned a skeletal Sword God wielding Buddha Slaughter, and Qiantiao charged it while Suren faced the Red Robed Archmage.
• Mr. Black cast the Eighth-Tier Four-Element Demon-Sealing Heaven Seal and restrained the mage, but the mage released dozens of Undead Griffins that tore through the chains.
• The Red Robed Archmage cast Arcane Undead Scourge, summoning hundreds of thousands of undead and surrounding the Dawn Pirates.

Suren’s Dawn Pirates held off the Red Robed Archmage’s undead army with the Eternal Night’s firepower, but giant skeletons and a spreading plague threatened to overwhelm them. Suren discovered he could control undead through their Soul Fires and cast Great Puppet Theater across the battlefield, leaving the battle poised for a reversal.

• Suren watched the Dawn Pirates’ guns and cannons slow the undead tide while Qiantiao and the other fighters battled powerful undead creatures.
• Commander Dora directed the defense as the Red Robed Archmage sent eight giant skeletons against the Eternal Night, and the Mechanical Warriors engaged them.
• Dr. Banks warned the Dawn Pirates that Plague Zombies were spreading a dangerous infection through the air and wounds.
• Suren realized that Mental Power threads could control undead Soul Fires and froze a charging skeleton with one.
• Suren cast Mystic Art: Great Puppet Theater, spreading its enormous cross and threads over the battlefield as the Dawn Pirates’ morale surged.

Suren used his Grand Puppet Theater to disrupt the Red Robed Archmage’s control of the undead, stopping the Low Tier skeleton tide and throwing High Tier monsters into disarray. He then confronted the Eighth-Tier mage directly, keeping him occupied with Gargoyles as Bartolo recognized a law behind Suren’s fighting style.

• Suren spread threads across the battlefield, extinguished the Soul Fires of hundreds of skeletons, and then froze the Low Tier undead by sending them a stop command.
• Suren found that his threads confused High Tier undead and let the Dawn Pirates and Mr. Black’s mages exploit their openings, while the Red Robed Archmage lost control of much of his army.
• The Red Robed Archmage sent Ghost Assassins after Suren, but Suren evaded them and charged toward the mage to draw his attention away from the crew.
• Suren restrained the Red Robed Archmage with Spatial Imprisonment and battered him with Gargoyles, then kept dodging his spells and replenishing his puppets as their forces fought to a stalemate.
• Bartolo watched Suren hold off the Eighth-Tier mage and murmured that he had recognized the law Suren was using.

Suren and the Dawn Pirates defeated the Red Robed Archmage’s undead assault when Bartolo killed his body, though the enemy’s soul escaped by possessing a Skeleton Sword God. Suren claimed the archmage’s legendary treasures and began absorbing his Undead Space, leaving the fleeing enemy furious at losing it.

• Suren used Puppet Theater to turn nearby undead into a defensive barrier while he held off the Red Robed Archmage and waited for Bartolo to strike.
• The Red Robed Archmage began summoning divine power, and Suren interrupted the casting with Mr. Mirror’s Deity Sealing Scroll, creating an opening for Bartolo to cut him down.
• The Red Robed Archmage’s soul escaped and possessed the Skeleton Sword God fighting Qiantiao, who then fled through a Gray Mist as the other undead stopped moving.
• Suren collected the Red Robed Archmage’s corpse and discovered legendary equipment, a vast hoard of treasures, and a replica fragment containing the Death God's Fire secret art.
• Suren used the Ouroboros Time-Space Ring to absorb the enemy’s Plane Fragment, while the Red Robed Archmage sensed the loss of his Undead Space from a deserted island.

After defeating the Red-Robed Archmage, Suren’s crew collected valuable undead samples that could lead to powerful bloodline potions, while Suren began studying the Death God's Fire Secret Technique. Qiantiao successfully fused with a Legendary Augment Armor and emerged stronger, with signs that she could soon advance to the Eighth Tier.

• Suren merged the undead Plane Fragment into his Small Void Realm while the Dawn Pirates recovered and gathered the battlefield’s undead creatures for study.
• Dr. Banks found complete genes in Mythical Species samples and said they could enable a range of potent bloodline Gene Potions, possibly reaching Demigod Bloodline strength.
• Suren resolved to seek out the enemy himself, using biological markers Dr. Banks had placed on the surviving Heavenly God Plane ships to track them.
• While the Dawn Pirates sailed through the Ancient Dragon Country Ruins, Suren studied the Death God's Fire Secret Technique and learned to control a small Soul Fire with the Servantless Secret Art.
• Qiantiao emerged from seclusion after fusing with her Legendary Augment Armor and said it could let her fight an Eighth-Tier opponent and had revealed insights into the Haki Body.

Suren and Pandora uncovered a plan by the Silver Dragon Country’s king and mages from the Heavenly God Plane to sacrifice a hundred thousand people to the Lord of Gray Mist for safe passage through the ruins. As the Pseudo-God appeared, Suren destroyed the mages’ ritual array, provoking it and setting Pandora’s ambush in motion.

• Suren joined Pandora aboard the funeral fleet and learned that she suspected its passengers were being brought as sacrifices to the Lord of Gray Mist.
• Pandora explained that the Silver Dragon Country’s king had ties to Garcia and that believers’ prayers pointed toward a Pseudo-God in the sea; she asked Suren to help her steal its faith power.
• As the fleet reached the target waters, the ships gathered and their crews began throwing funerary offerings into the sea.
• Suren discovered Bennett, Isabelle, and the Miracle Legion aboard the fleet, warned the siblings that they had been brought as sacrifices, and brought Bennett into the plan.
• When the black mist and the Pseudo-God appeared, Suren teleported to the other flagship and killed the mages performing the ritual.
• The enraged Pseudo-God confronted Suren, who summoned the Death God's Phantom to resist its intimidating pressure.

Suren disrupted the Lord of Gray Mist’s sacrifice and fought off its sea-monster horde while Pandora restrained the Evil God with Faith Theft. Just as the battle seemed nearly won, Suren discovered that the Lord’s true body was a moving Cursed Space called Hell Dragon Country, which was closing in on them.

• Suren killed Gray Mist Cult followers across the funeral fleet, while Bennett assembled the Miracle Legion to resist the Evil God’s will.
• The Lord of Gray Mist summoned storms and sea monsters, and Suren collected tens of thousands of intended sacrifices into the Small Void Realm while fighting the horde.
• Bennett and Isabelle refused Suren’s offer to evacuate the Miracle Legion, and their knights fought on as Suren drew the monsters away from the ships.
• The Gray Mist Giant revealed divine power, but Pandora appeared in a Red Moon and used Faith Theft to bind and weaken the Evil God.
• After the battle continued for an hour or two, Suren sensed something wrong and identified the Lord of Gray Mist’s true body as the moving Cursed Space Hell Dragon Country.

Suren led the Dawn Pirates into the Grade T Cursed Space known as Hell Dragon Country, where Hell Qi and undead monsters threatened their survival. After reassuring the crew that he could escape the space and Dr. Banks supplied medicine to slow mutation, they prepared to sail toward their destination and encountered a pureblood undead giant dragon.

• Pandora weakened the Lord of Gray Mist by stealing most of its faith divine power, while Suren gathered people at sea before the black mist engulfed them.
• Suren arrived aboard the Eternal Night and explained the danger of the Cursed Space as Bartolo described how the Black Sam Pirates had been destroyed there.
• Suren eased the crew’s fears by saying he could leave the space, and Dr. Banks announced that his anti-mutation drug could protect them in the short term.
• The Dawn Pirates sailed cautiously through Hell Dragon Country while Grandpa Crow scouted and Bartolo shared survival advice; Qiantiao said she was nearing an Eighth Tier breakthrough.
• Bartolo cut a pureblood Sixth Tier Undead Giant Dragon from the sky, and the Dawn Pirates hauled in its corpse before he warned that several more monsters were approaching.