Recaps

The Skeleton Alliance and its allies fought Rosalind, York, and the Blood Corpse Tide as the battle shifted with the arrival of Vanessa and the struggle over Whale Tail’s Holy Remains. The Holy Remains transformed into Snake Tail, and Divine Wings ordered Sailesi to retreat while an unknown voice challenged them.

• Rosalind and Sailesi fought across the battlefield while Blood Corpses attacked the Skeleton Alliance, and Sailesi drew on Giant Arms’ power to break Rosalind apart.
• Rosalind unleashed blood mist and Blood Worms, but Whale Tail intercepted the blood rain and tracked Rosalind’s resurrection before York ambushed her.
• Divine Wings and Sailesi battled Rosalind and York as Wens and Hall formed a three-day covenant and prepared to charge out of the Demon Realm.
• Vanessa plunged the Demon Realm into darkness, allowing York to kill Whale Tail and escape with her Holy Remains, while Rosalind used the darkness to recover and gather Blood Corpses.
• Vanessa entered the battlefield, impaled York, and tried to escape with Whale Tail’s remains, but Ed disrupted the spatial rift and trapped her there.
• Rosalind swallowed Whale Tail’s Holy Remains and transformed into a giant python, overpowering Sailesi and Divine Wings as Osmond fought his way inside her body.
• Divine Wings killed Osmond and turned him into a weapon to strike the Holy Remains inside Rosalind, crystallizing her body, and Sailesi shattered it and found that Whale Tail had become Snake Tail.
• Divine Wings ordered Sailesi to retreat with Snake Tail to the Sand Capital, but an arrogant voice challenged them.

Ed and his allies fought to secure the Holy Remains while confronting Samuer’s plans and the Skeleton Alliance’s leaders. After Vanessa escaped and [Divine Wings] fell, Willow and Nuowa led the effort to defeat Wens, whose death transferred his abilities and Authorities through a broken covenant.

• Wens, Bianchi, and Ozilazis blocked [Divine Wings] and Sailesi, while Ed discovered Rosalind had awakened as a blood worm inside Whale Tail’s true blood.
• Ed fought Samuer through their roots and learned that Samuer planned to destroy the world and remake it for the Demonic Tide.
• Willow became a high tier after Ozilazis died, and Ed helped her and Nuowa locate the battlefield as Vanessa accepted his deal and escaped through a rift.
• [Divine Wings] gave Sailesi his crystal-cluster wings and the Holy Remains, then killed Bianchi and shattered Wens’s body by detonating his Psionic Energy.
• Hall joined Sailesi on his flight toward the Skeleton Alliance, while the remaining skeleton soldiers lost their leaders and Ginseng Rooster tried to control the retreat.
• Willow and Noya used alchemical golems to fight Wens, and Nuowa and Liya killed Lombardi before joining the battle.
• Nuowa used Vanessa’s spine as bait and Aeldra’s Heart of the Amber Dragon to trap Wens beneath the Blood Pool, allowing Willow and Liya to kill him.
• A True Blood Covenant declaration revealed that Wens’s deliberate violation of a three-day truce transferred his abilities and Authorities to another vampire grand duke.

After Ed absorbed Hall’s power, [Ginseng Rooster] helped Colin unite the surviving Skeleton Alliance warlords and secure command. The Soul Returners offered to teleport the Alliance south, but Colin chose to attempt inheriting [Divine Wings]’ Holy Remains before the withdrawal.

• Hall split from his shared consciousness, but Samuer killed Hall Number One while Hall Number Two feasted on Blood Corpses and the aberrant plant secretly consumed Hall from within.
• Ed absorbed Hall, Rosalind, and Wens’s powers and Authorities, then announced upgraded Calamity rewards and began planning to secure Territory Secret Pacts.
• [Ginseng Rooster] persuaded Colin to attend a warlords’ meeting, where Grant killed Balovi and challenged Colin to a duel.
• [Chosen of the Four Gods] secretly drained Grant’s strength, and Colin defeated him, cut off his head, and fused their broken swords into a horse-slaying saber.
• The warlords unanimously elected Colin commander-in-chief and acting councilor, and he took temporary command of Grant’s and Balovi’s troops.
• [Ginseng Rooster] and his allies negotiated with Duma and presented the Skeleton Alliance with an offer to withdraw south by teleportation, provided it left its camp intact.
• Colin accepted the offer’s uncertainty and agreed to attempt inheriting [Divine Wings]’ Holy Remains, asking the warlords to recover the relic and elect a new acting councilor if he died.

Colin returned the stranded army from the Demon Realm, but the Skeleton Alliance’s new councilor, [Thousand Faces], threatened the soldiers and exposed the council’s distrust. Colin declared himself Councilor [Broken Sword] and marched on Sand Capital as [Crown] prepared to raise a new force.

• Colin fused [Divine Wings]’s saber with his body, reached High Tier, and led the stranded soldiers back to the Alliance through Nuowa’s Rainbow Bridge.
• Sailesi delivered the Holy Remains to [Crown], and Hall joined the Skeleton Alliance as councilor [Thousand Faces] after [Crown] transformed him.
• [Thousand Faces] probed Colin’s mind and fled when he sensed Colin’s dormant allies, while [Ginseng Rooster] identified him as Hall and the army captured a Wing Army officer.
• Colin and the warlords learned that the council might execute or imprison them, then Colin declared himself Councilor [Broken Sword] and ordered the army to march on Nors and kill every vampire.
• As [Hard Armor] suffered another defeat against the imperial forces, Sailesi returned to Sand Capital and reported the Demon Realm mission’s losses and the deaths of [Divine Wings] and [Whale Tail].
• [Ginseng Rooster] recruited players and used volunteers to grow a Temporary Teleportation Resurrection Tree, which produced a thousand Soul Returners for Colin’s [Broken Sword] Assault Squad.
• The Wing Army officer told [Crown] and [Thousand Faces] that Colin had openly rebelled, and [Crown] ordered [Hard Armor] to suppress the revolt.
• [Crown] prepared troops for the campaign and had [Thousand Faces] mass-produce middle-tier fighters from stored skeletal remains.