Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo beat Woodwose until he apologized for his men’s behavior, then discussed the upcoming auction with Barghest. Barghest agreed to join Bai Mo’s group in a private box, while Bai Mo insisted that Manchester’s fairies would have to prove themselves and atone.

• Bai Mo restrained Woodwose’s Lung of the Planet and beat him until Woodwose surrendered and apologized for failing to control his men.
• Woodwose confronted his former Queen’s Knights, learned they had tried to capture a human for Spriggan, and punished them for provoking Bai Mo.
• Woodwose recognized Bai Mo as something powerful and inhuman, then wondered how he could learn to behave with such good manners.
• Bai Mo explained to Barghest how Woodwose’s reliance on strength had made him vulnerable, and said the beating might make Woodwose listen when it mattered.
• Bai Mo asked Barghest to join his group’s private box at the auction, and she agreed.
• Barghest asked Bai Mo to give Manchester’s fairies a chance, but he said they would need to prove themselves and atone.

Muryan turned the auction of Gloucester's Clan Bell into a battle royale, urging the assembled fairies to kill one another until only one Child of Prophecy remained. As Bai Mo's group prepared to respond, Muryan sealed the theater and declared that no one could leave until there was a winner.

• At the auction, Melusine recognized a carpet as one that had belonged to Aurora, while Barghest spotted a familiar bed and suspected someone had brought it from her manor.
• Muryan announced that Gloucester's Clan Bell was the final lot and set its price as the head of a Child of Prophecy, ordering the claimants to kill one another.
• The fairies immediately began attacking each other, and Melusine killed a Fang Clan fairy who charged into Bai Mo's box.
• Bai Mo ordered Caster and Tristan to guard their surroundings, Mash to protect Ritsuka, and Barghest to evacuate Gloucester's humans while he went to find Spriggan.
• As Barghest volunteered to accompany Bai Mo, Muryan twisted the theater and announced that everyone was trapped until a winner was decided.

Bai Mo broke Muryan’s barrier and stopped its curse from killing everyone, but Gloucester was surrounded by the northern army. As a black, transformed figure approached, Bai Mo told Caster to help Ritsuka.

• Morgan shattered Muryan’s barrier, and Bai Mo absorbed the curse into his blade before the barrier broke.
• Barghest briefly experienced a strange vision before Bai Mo woke her after she passed out.
• Bai Mo cut apart the fireballs attacking Gloucester as Muryan revealed that Spriggan had surrounded the city with the northern army.
• Caster wanted to find Knocknarea, but Morgan warned her that ringing the bell had made her an enemy.
• Bai Mo urged Caster to help Ritsuka as a black, Woodwose-like figure approached.

Beryl used Muryan's shrinking barrier and Dawn of Salvation to steal a sleeping powerhouse's strength, transforming himself into a powerful gray wolf. He attacked Bai Mo, Morgan, and Melusine, but his real target appeared to be Mash.

• Beryl combined Muryan's barrier, a sleeper's power, and Dawn of Salvation to gain immense strength, accepting the cost of abandoning his human body.
• Beryl, transformed into a gray wolf with 970,000 horsepower, arrived in Gloucester and sought Mash.
• Bai Mo confronted Beryl over what he had done to Mash, while Morgan reflected Beryl's attack back at him.
• Bai Mo's blade tore through Beryl's fur, and Melusine joined Bai Mo and Morgan in attacking him.
• As the three struck Beryl, he turned toward Mash, prompting the others to protect her.

Beryl’s human-affecting curse engulfed Gloucester, and Morgan contained it while the fairies descended into a bloody battle royale. As Knocknarea’s forces advanced on the city, Morgan prepared to show Caster how a Fairy of Paradise fought.

• Beryl’s gray wolf body released a curse that threatened humans, so Morgan teleported her companions away and sealed the mist inside a barrier.
• The Children of Prophecy and other fairies slaughtered one another in Gloucester, while Morgan recalled that Britain’s fairies would eventually destroy themselves.
• Morgan challenged Barghest’s desire to save the fairies, and Barghest asked permission to evacuate the scattered humans.
• Gawain insisted on helping the people, and Morgan warned her not to give in to her beastly nature.
• Morgan stopped a flying sword and saw Knocknarea’s forces encircling Gloucester, then ordered Melusine to capture their leader.
• Morgan summoned a magic circle and told Caster to watch as she fought the approaching army.

Spriggan's plan to have Woodwose killed faltered when Aurora refused to send Melusine, but Melusine suddenly captured Knocknarea and escaped. The battlefield turned against Spriggan, and a brilliant azure light swept over the area, reducing everything to dust.

• Spriggan learned that Woodwose was surrounded but the Calamity of the Beast had not appeared, and he went to Aurora for help.
• Aurora refused to send Melusine against Woodwose, leaving Spriggan to seek Knocknarea's aid.
• A wintery light appeared, and Melusine seized Knocknarea before anyone could stop her.
• Knocknarea accused Aurora and Spriggan of betrayal, and the fairies turned on Spriggan.
• An overwhelming azure light illuminated the battlefield and reduced everything to dust.

After Gloucester fell into chaos, Ritsuka and Mash went to rescue survivors while Morgan secured her hold over the Clan Bells. Bai Mo defeated Beryl, recovered the Dawn of the Apocalypse device, and left the dying man facing Mash.

• Ritsuka and Mash followed Barghest into Gloucester to help survivors and fight the crazed Children of Prophecy.
• Morgan stayed on the wall, restrained the unconscious Muryan, and considered the remaining Clan Bells within her grasp.
• Bai Mo overwhelmed Beryl's attacks and resisted the curse Beryl had created to target humans.
• Bai Mo killed Beryl with the Myoken Divine Wheel, which also recovered the miniaturized Dawn of the Apocalypse device and turned Beryl's curse against him.
• Bai Mo sealed the cursed mist in Pandora's Box, and the others arrived as Beryl saw Mash beside Ritsuka.

Beryl Gut confessed that he had tortured Mash because he was obsessed with her, then attacked Ritsuka after Mash rejected him. Mash blocked him with her shield, accidentally crushing Beryl’s head, and vomited from disgust.

• Bai Mo froze Beryl’s cursed heart when Beryl hurled it at Mash, and Ritsuka pulled her out of its path.
• Beryl told Mash he had pursued her because he loved her and described his pleasure at breaking her fingers.
• Mash recoiled in disgust and rejected Beryl’s confession.
• Beryl activated his curses and lunged at Ritsuka, but Mash raised her shield to protect him.
• Mash accidentally crushed Beryl’s head against her shield and vomited.

Bai Mo rescued humans from Gloucester and invited Barghest to join him in New Darlington, but she refused and hurried back to Manchester as a growing hunger overtook her. The chapter left Barghest secretly devouring a dead fairy, with her appetite turning toward the living.

• Mash asked Bai Mo for time off after the Lostbelt, and he promised she could take a trip to recover.
• Bai Mo joined the rescue effort in Gloucester, freed human slaves, and healed the injured.
• Barghest brought rescued humans to Bai Mo and accepted his thanks, but declined his invitation to New Darlington and asked him to visit Manchester in three days.
• After Barghest left, Bai Mo found the bloody remains of victims and burned the corpses.
• Barghest fled toward Manchester, consumed a dead fairy, and realized her hunger was intensifying and demanding living fairies.

Morgan dealt with the traitors and captured Knocknarea, then woke Muryan and secured the Wing Clan’s Clan Bell. Muryan survived the curse for now, and Morgan took possession of the bell.

• Morgan dismissed Knocknarea’s complaints about betrayal and ordered Caster to take her away while Melusine left to rest.
• Morgan tried to examine unconscious Muryan, but Koyanskaya appeared and asked to help her in exchange for the Clan Bell.
• Koyanskaya explained that Muryan had been cursed and asked Morgan to summon Bai Mo, while Morgan used magecraft to delay the curse and wake Muryan.
• Muryan told Morgan that she had hidden the Wing Clan’s Clan Bell beneath the auction house, and Melusine returned with a pile of bells and decoys.
• Morgan identified the real Wing Clan’s Clan Bell and broke its barrier, claiming it for herself.

Morgan secured the fourth Clan Bell and left Muryan alive but warned, while Bai Mo freed Woodwose from the miniature Dawn of Salvation and discovered how thoroughly it had drained him. The chapter ended with Bai Mo recognizing that Lun Rang had greatly upgraded the device by combining magnetic field power and magecraft.

• Morgan secured the Clan Bell and considered how she could obtain the remaining Clan Bells from the Fang Clan.
• Muryan pleaded that she had acted loyally, but Morgan told her to spend her remaining time seeking redemption in Gloucester’s library and to keep Morgan’s survival secret.
• Bai Mo examined the miniature Dawn of Salvation, but its safeguards began melting its Magic Circuits, so he used the Myoken Divine Wheel to cut it open and release Woodwose.
• Ritsuka struck the sleeping Woodwose with a brick, waking him, but he was so drained that he fell back to the floor.
• Bai Mo concluded that Lun Rang had upgraded Dawn of Salvation by combining magnetic field power with magecraft, making it capable of rapidly draining even a powerful user.

Bai Mo questioned Woodwose about the attack that had kept him unconscious, but Woodwose remembered only hearing an insect’s wings. Morgan then ordered him to infiltrate Oxford and retrieve the Fang Clan’s Clan Bell, while she prepared a Water Mirror to help relocate her Britain.

• Bai Mo asked Woodwose what had been used to keep him asleep, and Woodwose recalled hearing an insect’s wings before he lost consciousness.
• Morgan arrived and ordered Woodwose to infiltrate Oxford, retrieve the Fang Clan’s Clan Bell, and bring Oxford’s humans back with him.
• Woodwose realized the attacker had stolen his belongings and asked Morgan about Beryl, whom she confirmed was dead.
• Morgan held Bai Mo’s wrist and thanked him for helping secure victory, then asked him to continue helping relocate her Britain.
• Morgan opened a Water Mirror so Bai Mo and the others could travel between places in Britain, while an unnoticed insect flew away from the window.

Bai Mo discussed Morgan’s priorities with Woodwose, who gave up on winning Morgan’s affection and admitted he had been courting Aurora instead. Meanwhile, Lancelot rescued Aurora from the surviving northern fairies and escorted her toward Salisbury, increasingly convinced she was a scourge.

• Woodwose praised Bai Mo’s strength and asked how he could make Morgan fall in love with him.
• Bai Mo said Morgan would put saving Britain before love, and Woodwose revealed he had been sending Aurora valuable jewelry as a backup plan.
• Woodwose left despite Bai Mo warning him against pursuing Aurora.
• Surviving northern fairies hunted Aurora and Spriggan after Knocknarea’s final command, and they tortured Spriggan after discovering he was human.
• Lancelot killed a fairy pursuing Aurora, then helped her up and offered to escort her to Salisbury.

After returning to New Darlington, Bai Mo discussed expanding Morgan’s Water Mirror transportation network and helped settle the humans. Knocknarea remained a proud prisoner, while Peperoncino revealed that another visitor wanted to speak with Bai Mo.

• Bai Mo praised Morgan’s Water Mirror transportation magecraft and asked whether it could be installed across the Lostbelts; Morgan agreed to discuss the undertaking with him.
• Morgan brought Baobhan Sith along as Bai Mo settled the humans in New Darlington, intending to teach her to treat them as subjects rather than fairies.
• Artoria and Ritsuka escorted Knocknarea to a room, where Knocknarea insisted Morgan would treat her as a guest despite her defeat.
• Ritsuka asked Caster what her dream was after Knocknarea lamented that her own dream of inheriting Britain had become unlikely.
• Bai Mo and Morgan confirmed the coming month’s trade transactions with Peperoncino, who learned Beryl had confessed his love to Mash and offered to visit her.
• Peperoncino told Bai Mo that another person who called herself a friend of Ritsuka and the others wanted to speak with him.

Bai Mo visited the Autumn Forest, protected its fairies from an enormous black dog, and built crystal blade walls around their home. Oberon arrived and asked Bai Mo about the Child of Prophecy’s mission and the Fairy of Paradise’s task.

• Bai Mo followed a map to the Autumn Forest and met fairies who welcomed him and told him their prince had been away for a long time.
• An enormous flaming black dog charged toward the forest, and Bai Mo threw it into the sky, killing it when it crashed back down.
• Bai Mo raised sharp crystal-like blade walls around the Autumn Forest to protect the fairies, then warned them not to touch the walls.
• Oberon arrived, explained that he had escaped a troublesome pursuer, and asked Bai Mo what task the Fairy of Paradise had when coming to the outside world.

In New Darlington, Caster and Ritsuka shared their modest dreams, while Bai Mo learned that the Fairies of Paradise were meant to sacrifice their lives and memories to forge the Holy Sword of the Planet. After Oberon warned him about Cernunnos and urged him to take Camelot, Bai Mo left to gather fruit and found an unconscious Wind Clan fairy.

• Caster told Ritsuka that she dreamed of becoming an upper-class fairy and walking freely through the city, and Ritsuka shared her hope of opening a bakery.
• Bai Mo reacted angrily when Oberon explained that the Fairies of Paradise would die forging the Holy Sword of the Planet.
• Oberon warned Bai Mo that Beryl had worsened Cernunnos's condition and that the Holy Sword was needed to erase the god's hatred and curses.
• Oberon urged Bai Mo to seize Camelot quickly, then vanished after telling him to take Caster away.
• Bai Mo gathered magical fruit in the woods and found an unconscious Wind Clan fairy beside a lake, gave her some life force, and left.

Bai Mo and Morgan agreed on their next moves in Britain, formalized their Servant contract, and discussed helping Baobhan Sith. In Oxford, Woodwose found the city overrun by the Calamity of the Beast, rescued a group of surviving humans, and prepared to lure the threat away so they could escape to Camelot.

• Bai Mo told Morgan about the Autumn Forest and Oberon, and Morgan planned to travel to Camelot before separating Cernunnos from Britain's surface land.
• Morgan placed three Command Spells on Bai Mo and explained that she could now form a contract with him.
• Morgan asked Bai Mo to help her build a good relationship with Baobhan Sith, and Bai Mo said he had already told another child about her.
• Woodwose returned to Oxford and found the Calamity of the Beast and black dogs rampaging through the city.
• Woodwose discovered surviving humans beneath the bell hall and ordered them to run toward Camelot while he drew the beasts away.

Woodwose lured the Calamity of the Beast toward Salisbury, while Bai Mo and Morgan reached Camelot amid a violent struggle for power. Morgan and Bai Mo moved to reclaim the throne as a new threat emerged beneath the city.

• Woodwose carried the Clan Bell west toward Salisbury, drawing the Calamity of the Beast and its black dogs after him.
• Bai Mo, Morgan, Ritsuka, Tristan, Mash, and Melusine arrived in Camelot and found its factions fighting throughout the city.
• Morgan said they would take the throne so she could control Camelot, then asked Bai Mo to take her to the queen's tower.
• Bai Mo sensed a curse rising within the Great Hollow and warned that a long battle was coming.
• Bai Mo flew toward the queen's tower as Camelot's forces aimed demonic swords at him.

Bai Mo and Morgan retook Camelot’s throne, and Morgan reclaimed her staff and declared judgment on the fairies of Britain’s Six Great Clans. She sent the nobles in the tower into Cernunnos’s Great Hollow and began preparing to transfer Britain into a new era.

• Bai Mo broke through Camelot’s protective barrier and threw a charging knight into Cernunnos’s Great Hollow, where the knight became a Mors.
• Bai Mo defeated the eight powerful fairies who attacked him, and the remaining nobles made way for Morgan.
• Morgan lifted her staff, activated Water Mirror across Camelot, and confirmed her identity as Queen Morgan to the assembled fairies.
• Morgan told Bai Mo to protect her while she transferred Britain and abolished the Lostbelt, then commanded the people of Britain to heed her judgment.
• Morgan condemned the fairies of the Six Great Clans, and when the tower’s nobles attacked her, Bai Mo sent them into the Great Hollow.

Lancelot abandoned Aurora after confronting her about her destructive behavior and rejecting her demand to take her to Pan-Human History. When Aurora called him by his old name, Sino, he turned back, and she chose to offer herself to him in exchange for escape.

• Lancelot found the Calamity of the Beast in Salisbury, but it spared him and charged toward a gathering of fairies.
• Aurora asked Lancelot to take her to Camelot, then requested passage to Pan-Human History after he warned that Morgan would punish her.
• Lancelot refused to keep serving Aurora, called her a plague, and resisted her spell with his Magic Resistance.
• Lancelot left Aurora by a stream, but her use of his old name, Sino, made him turn around.
• Aurora undressed and offered herself to Lancelot, who told himself to wait another hour before returning to his Master.