Recaps

Lancelot shattered the City of Freedom’s elemental crystal wall and forced the Lord of the Free City and the hidden Demigod Weilin into the open. With the outside Demigods demanding that the battle move away from Planet Pandora, the fighters entered the spatial interlayer, where the spectators prepared to watch.

• Lancelot arrived atop a thunder dragon and destroyed the City of Freedom’s defenses with his spear and lightning.
• Lancelot’s Haki revealed Demon Body Weilin, the Lord of the Free City’s hidden Demigod, and Lancelot destroyed a pocket dimension containing their teleportation array.
• The Lord of the Free City questioned whether Lancelot belonged to the Serpent Ring Family or the Angpeier Family, while Balhak suspected Lancelot wore the Serpent Ring Family’s Ten Thousand Serpents Armor.
• Yadelien and the other Demigods ordered the City of Freedom’s fighters to move the battle into the spatial interlayer to protect Planet Pandora.
• Lancelot, the Lord of the Free City, Weilin, and the Epic-level black mages entered the spatial interlayer, and Yadelien opened a water-mirror vortex for the Demigods to watch.

Lancelot charged through the City of Freedom’s dark mages and defeated them with a single lightning strike before facing the Lord of the Free City. The Lord’s soul-cutting attack severed Lancelot’s soul, but Lancelot restored his head with his Immortal Body and kept fighting.

• Lancelot attacked the Lord of the Free City, while Demon Body Weilin transformed his bone mage tower into a giant and the other dark mages joined the assault.
• Lancelot broke through the combined attacks and killed the Epic-level dark mages with a single lightning strike, leaving Demon Body Weilin gravely wounded.
• The Lord of the Free City used Dead Soul: Sanction to cut through Lancelot’s neck and split his soul.
• Lancelot used Immortal Body and his powerful mental will to restore his head, then prepared to continue fighting.

Lancelot launched a fierce assault on the Lord of the Free City, breaking through the mage tower’s defenses before his enemy transformed into a giant king of evil spirits. Their clash revealed that both were formidable, dangerous opponents, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Lancelot endured the mage tower’s soul impacts and shattered its bone spears with the Infinity Scale Armor.
• Lancelot countered the Eye of Annihilation’s beam with his golden lightning spear, forcing the mage tower to expend much of its energy.
• The Lord of the Free City transformed into a thousand-meter-tall king of evil spirits and turned the mage tower into a spiral rapier.
• Lancelot merged the lightning dragon into his spear and struck the Lord of the Free City, overpowering him in their clash while losing a portion of his soul essence.
• Lancelot and the Lord of the Free City withdrew to a distance and each recognized the other as a dangerous opponent.

Lancelot fought the Lord of the Free City through soul attacks and relentless bombardment, surviving injuries that would have stopped an ordinary demigod. Lancelot pierced the Lord’s weapon and revealed that he was a Guta Star Person, prompting speculation among the watching demigods about Ashes and the Guta Federation.

• The Lord of the Free City attacked Lancelot with a torrent of dark elements, but Lancelot split it with his spear and trapped the Lord in his Mind World.
• Lancelot struck at the Lord, killed Demon Body Weilin, and was then caught in a gigantic soul hand that shattered his soul body.
• Lancelot stitched his soul back together and dodged the Lord’s soul bombs while waiting for the bombardment to weaken.
• Lancelot seized an opening, pierced the Lord’s spiral rapier, and tore away part of his cloak.
• The watching demigods saw that the Lord of the Free City was a Guta Star Person, while Balhak wondered whether Ashes had a secret connection to the Guta Federation.

Lancelot and the Lord of the Free City fought a brutal battle, with the Lord exhausting his artifacts and trump cards to nearly kill Lancelot. Lancelot survived through Immortal Body and defeated him with a devastating spear strike, ending the Lord's existence on Planet Pandora.

• Lancelot's lightning attacks battered the Lord of the Free City's shields as he endured repeated soul-shattering attacks and pressed forward.
• The Lord of the Free City abandoned his body and used the Legend-quality [Ice God Pierces the Stars] scroll to freeze Lancelot before unleashing Dead Soul Storm.
• Lancelot's health fell to one percent, but Immortal Body locked it there and granted him ten seconds of maximum attack power.
• Lancelot unleashed Dragon King: Black Hole, absorbed lost soul energy and life force, and struck the Lord of the Free City with his golden lightning spear.
• The spear split the Lord of the Free City's greatsword and soul, and the defeated Lord accepted his loss as he dispersed.

The Serpent Ring Family investigated the mysterious fighter wearing the Ten Thousand Serpents Armor and concluded that the Gendaya Royal Court might have discovered a passage to Golden Star. Patriarch Webster and First Elder Baudelaire decided to gamble on the rising Gendaya Royal Court, leaving Balhak to accept their reasoning without fully understanding it.

• Lancelot vanished after the Demigods witnessed his control over the spatial turbulence, and Balhak returned to the Serpent Ring Family's headquarters to report the attack on the City of Freedom.
• Webster and Baudelaire reasoned that the mysterious fighter's armor might be the Ten Thousand Serpents Armor and that the Gendaya Royal Court's occupation of nearby star systems suggested it had found a passage to Golden Star.
• Webster explained that the Serpent Ring Family could not tell Ashes about the secret and needed to choose a power hostile to Ashes that could withstand the Guta Federation.
• Webster and Baudelaire chose to ally with the rising Gendaya Royal Court, while Balhak struggled to follow their deductions.

After the City of Freedom’s destruction was wrongly credited to the Angpeier Family, its leaders tried to turn the publicity into political gain and sent the patriarch’s energy clone to negotiate with Ashes. The Sun Eclipser beat the clone, fell under the Primordial Evil God Diorus’s influence, and summoned Sylvain back while blaming him for Bennierte’s death.

• The Angpeier Family’s leaders concluded that an unknown enemy had framed them and used them to provoke Ashes, then decided to exploit their newfound reputation by crediting the deed to the Third Prince.
• The Angpeier patriarch sent an energy clone to meet the Sun Eclipser, who attacked and battered it before the patriarch could speak.
• Diorus intensified Baliewei’s grief and rage over Bennierte’s death, and Baliewei’s calming artifact Elven shattered as the evil god took control of him.
• Baliewei blamed the Angpeier Family, the Serpent Ring Family, Index, and Sylvain for Bennierte’s death, then recalled Sylvain from Planet Veyin under the pretext of an important discussion.

Diorus killed Sylvain and took control of the Sun Eclipser’s body, turning Star Moon and its Ashes members into an extension of himself. Sylvain’s clone helped Index and their children flee, and after Dark Moon Gelaxius attacked them, Lancelot intervened while Index escaped.

• At Star Moon, the Sun Eclipser and Diorus overwhelmed Sylvain, and Diorus absorbed both of them to gain a physical form.
• Diorus transformed Star Moon and the Ashes members aboard it, then planned to wait for the expedition before attempting to devour the Elven Plane.
• Moon Devourer attacked Sylvain’s trusted followers, while Dark Moon Gelaxius moved against Index on Planet Pandora.
• Sylvain’s clone sensed the evil god’s power and warned Index to run, giving her time to take Mora and Bradley aboard the Fallen Star Nest and flee.
• Dark Moon Gelaxius intercepted the Fallen Star Nest and attacked Index, but Lancelot struck him and gave Index time to escape.
• Lancelot faced Dark Moon Gelaxius and prepared to fight.

Lancelot fought Dark Moon Gelaxius outside Planet Pandora, forcing the injured High-Rank Demigod to use True Name Release. Their battle left both wounded, but Lancelot’s Thunder Dragon King-enhanced spear nearly severed Gelaxius’s head.

• Dark Moon Gelaxius questioned whether Lancelot meant to make an enemy of the Ashes Organization, but Lancelot attacked instead of answering.
• Lancelot’s golden lightning spear broke through Gelaxius’s defenses, and Gelaxius unleashed a punch that shattered space around them.
• Gelaxius activated True Name Release and attacked with a shadow sphere that drained Lancelot’s vitality as the two fought at close range.
• Lancelot and Gelaxius wounded each other in their furious clash while the Demigods watching from Planet Pandora stabilized the planet against the battle’s aftershocks.
• Lancelot’s Thunder Dragon King-enhanced spear struck Gelaxius in the forehead and nearly severed half his head.

Lancelot and Webster defeated Dark Moon Gelaxius outside Planet Pandora, and Webster revealed that the Serpent Ring Family wanted to join His Majesty’s cause. Lancelot realized Webster had mistaken him for one of Logo’s people and wondered whether the family meant to join the Gendaya Royal Court.

• Gelaxius sacrificed his horns to launch a devastating attack, and his shadow daggers wounded Lancelot despite his escape through space.
• Webster appeared as a giant serpent encircling Planet Pandora and struck Gelaxius, crippling him as he tried to flee.
• Lancelot pierced through space and struck Gelaxius, who was later left dead outside Planet Pandora.
• After the Demigods departed, Lancelot asked Webster why he had helped him.
• Webster said the Serpent Ring Family pledged allegiance to His Majesty and wanted the Golden Bloodlines to flourish again on the Elven Plane.
• Lancelot recognized the reference to the Golden Bloodlines and suspected Webster had mistaken him for one of Logo’s people.

Lancelot secured the Serpent Ring Family’s pledge of allegiance to Logo and accepted Webster’s invitation to visit their territory. He left the family elders preparing to welcome him as a powerful relative while erasing all records of the Ten Thousand Serpents Armor.

• Lancelot asked Webster how he had discovered the Golden Star, and Webster explained the clues that had led him to the truth.
• Webster promised to keep the Golden Star secret and give up the Serpent Ring Family’s claims to the Ten Thousand Serpents Armor; Lancelot agreed to report the family’s allegiance to Logo.
• Webster invited Lancelot to visit the family, and Lancelot accepted so he could strengthen their relationship and seek help locating dark mages on Planet Pandora.
• Webster brought Lancelot to the family’s territory, then told Baudelaire and Balhak to treat their guest with humility and guessed that he was Jin Laken.
• Balhak questioned Lancelot’s bloodline, but Webster insisted the family could declare him a descendant of the Infinite Serpent regardless of the truth and ordered the elders to erase all records of the Ten Thousand Serpents Armor.

Lancelot secured the Serpent Ring Family’s intelligence support in hunting dark mages and left for Holy Knight Star. In the Astral Realm, Index fled the Elven Plane with her children and Sylvain’s Egg of Resurrection, struggling to shield it from the evil god’s power while seeking a way to revive him.

• Webster and Baudelaire gave Lancelot a generous gift, and he arranged for the Serpent Ring Family to help locate dark mages on Planet Pandora.
• Lancelot said he had spoken with His Majesty and told the family to pay their respects on Holy Knight Star in three days before departing.
• Index traveled through the Astral Realm aboard the Fallen Star Nest with Mora, Bradley, and a spider egg that held Sylvain’s last hope of revival.
• Index explained that she had secretly gathered Sylvain’s karma, Fortune, blood, and traces of his soul to create the Egg of Resurrection.
• Index revealed that she was diverting the evil god’s power onto herself to protect the egg, and said she needed to get farther from the Elven Plane’s influence.

Spider Mom received valuable supplies from Logo’s rune clone and escaped toward the Treacherous Destruction Continent, while the clone destroyed a hidden threat before leaving. At a banquet on Holy Knight Star, Webster and Baudelaire mistakenly concluded that Grand Elder Jin Laken had been the lightning-element expert, and Logo asked about Fujia Huanshe.

• Spider Mom worried about the cost and difficulty of returning to the Treacherous Destruction Continent, then found powerful auras outside the Fallen Star Nest.
• Logo’s rune clone sent Spider Mom elemental crystals and other supplies, and she gathered them before piloting the Fallen Star Nest away.
• Logo’s rune clone revealed the Godslayer and destroyed a hidden enemy with its cannon before departing with his subordinates.
• At a secret banquet on Holy Knight Star, Webster and Baudelaire believed Grand Elder Jin Laken had disguised himself as the lightning-element expert, and Jin Laken unknowingly reinforced their assumption.
• Logo asked Webster about the Serpent Ring Family’s Legendary, Fujia Huanshe, and Webster praised Logo in response.

Logo brought Webster and the other grand elders to Golden Star, where they saw their ancestral home and the power he had used to reclaim it. After Logo offered the Serpent Ring Family land to settle, the elders pledged their full allegiance.

• Logo invited Fujia Huanshe to join his personal guard, and Webster agreed while asking whether the move would expose the Serpent Ring Family's submission.
• Logo opened a Gate of Space and took Webster and the other grand elders to Golden Star nearly a year later.
• Webster and the other grand elders were overcome by their return to Golden Star and recognized how their home planet could aid the Serpent Ring bloodline.
• Webster saw the cosmic storm shielding Golden Star and recognized the spatial wormhole as a defensible choke point.
• Logo showed Webster the corpses of three High-Rank Demigod magical beasts he had killed, and Webster was awed by his strength.
• Logo offered Fujia Huanshe and the Serpent Ring Family land on Golden Star, and Webster and the other grand elders knelt and pledged their loyalty.

Logo settled the Serpent Ring Family’s role in serving the Royal Court on Planet Pandora and offered it substantial resources. The family agreed to remain and fight in secret while sending its younger elites to Golden Star, where the story left their arrangement finalized.

• Webster offered Logo a secret about the Ashes Organization and the Guta Federation, but Logo revealed that he already knew.
• Baudelaire asked to keep the Serpent Ring Family on Planet Pandora as the Royal Court’s agents against rival forces and the remaining black mages.
• Logo approved up to twenty thousand Star Wheels in supplies for the family.
• Logo ordered Fujia Huanshe to bring Serpent Ring Family members to Golden Star so the Royal Court could develop their territory and safeguard their legacy.
• Logo and the Serpent Ring Family agreed to keep their connection secret and communicate in secret.

Logo discussed Ashes’ growing control over the Guta Star People and the likely future planar war before waiting for economic turmoil to strengthen support for his currency reforms. He then returned to the Nirvana Tower and began preparing to advance his alchemy level to Alchemy Master.

• Webster warned Logo that Ashes was attacking the Guta Star People, and Logo concluded that Diorus had taken control of Ashes and perhaps the Guta Federation.
• Webster and Baudelaire predicted an inevitable planar war, while Logo privately judged it would begin after pioneering started.
• The Serpent Ring Family’s leaders departed satisfied, and Webster gave the grand elder a gift to support their supposed connection.
• Two months later, the left minister urged Logo to convene an An Alliance assembly as Guta Federation bond issues and currency printing caused severe economic losses.
• Logo told the left minister to wait until the economic storm had caused greater losses before he stepped forward.
• Logo returned to the Nirvana Tower and prepared to raise his alchemist level to Alchemy Master.

Logo broke through to become an alchemy master, enduring a violent transformation that shook the Nirvana Tower and Holy Knight Star. After discovering his new Hall of Wisdom talent and greatly improved attributes, he turned his attention to upgrading the Nirvana Tower to Five-Star Miracle quality through the Abyss.

• Logo began breaking through from top alchemist to alchemy master after building a broad foundation in every branch of alchemy.
• Logo’s advancement caused immense pain, shattered his energy body, and sent the Nirvana Tower trembling as a huge elemental vortex spread over Holy Knight Star.
• The great elder and the garrison forces prepared for an attack, but no enemies appeared before Logo completed his advancement.
• Logo adjusted to his transformed senses and found that the Eye of Insight had awakened further and his attributes had risen by five ranks.
• Logo gained the Fire of Birth’s fifth subsidiary talent, [Hall of Wisdom], and decided that the Abyss could help him upgrade the Nirvana Tower to Five-Star Miracle quality.

Logo reasoned that the Nirvana Tower’s Freedom trait required chaos, making the Abyss and its World Origin Force essential to its second promotion to Miracle quality. He believed he could withstand the Abyss Will and use its power while relying on the Hall of Wisdom to protect his humanity.

• Logo considered how order and chaos balanced the Astral Realm, with the Abyss serving as its sole source of chaos.
• Logo concluded that the Nirvana Tower’s Freedom trait belonged to chaos and that the Abyss’s World Origin Force could strengthen it toward Miracle quality.
• Logo judged that he could withstand the Abyss Will and might even benefit from its influence as an anchor for his humanity.
• Logo examined the Hall of Wisdom and valued its ability to store Thoughts of Living Beings and release them to protect his humanity.
• Logo regarded absorbing Abyss Power as a safeguard against losing his humanity, even if it meant falling into the Abyss.

Logo planned to gather Abyss power through both pureblood demon corpses and Abyss resources to advance the Nirvana Tower to Five-Star Miracle quality. Though the undertaking would cost far more than Lancelot’s weapon advancement, Logo had the knowledge, tools, and shallow Abyss coordinates needed to begin safely.

• Logo reviewed four ways to obtain Abyss power and ruled out theft and gifts from the Abyss Will.
• He chose to extract power from pureblood demons and Abyss resources, despite the need for both martial strength and wealth.
• Logo calculated that advancing the Nirvana Tower would cost at least a hundred times more than Lancelot’s Steel Feather Cloak advancement.
• Logo used his alchemy expertise, the Eye of Insight, and shallow Abyss coordinates to prepare to open a controlled Abyss passage.

Logo reviewed his strength and confirmed that he could open a passage to the shallow layers of the Abyss. He examined the changes to his attributes, talents, and skills, concluding that he, Lancelot, and Gustavo would each have to develop along paths suited to their different forms.

• Logo confirmed that his gathered knowledge was sufficient to open an Abyss passage and reviewed his combat strength before facing demons.
• Logo noted that he had reached Tier Seventeen while deliberately keeping his five main physical attributes at the Mid-Rank Demigod limit of 170.
• Logo traced his increased spirit and energy to his alchemical foundation, his physique to the resources and shell of the Nirvana Tower, and his mystery and charm to its rune arrays.
• Logo examined the many new Attribute Talents, including dimensional and elemental talents that strengthened his spatial and elemental affinities.
• Logo found that his Demigod Combat Skills were lower-level than Lancelot's because combat techniques required bodily practice, and he recognized that he, Lancelot, and Gustavo had to follow different paths suited to their forms.

Logo planned to rebuild the Nirvana Legion, raise funds by selling part of the Light-Bathed Sea to the Tia Empire, and send his clones to gather resources. Meanwhile, his bloodline clone and Audora left Shining Star for the Abyss after killing the scavengers who had been watching them.

• Logo decided to build a second-generation Nirvana Legion with Legendary soldiers, Epic squad leaders, and Demigod commanders, but recognized that he needed vast resources and time.
• Logo decided to sell some of the Gendaya Royal Court's territory in the Light-Bathed Sea to the Tia Empire and asked Madison to alert its leaders.
• Logo mobilized his rune and potion clones to raise money and directed his bloodline clone to gather Abyss-type resources and strengthen his bloodline.
• On Shining Star, Logo's bloodline clone used Time Pause and his war scythe to kill scavengers, impressing Audora with his improved ability.
• The bloodline clone invited Audora to the Abyss, and she opened a spatial teleportation array for them to leave Shining Star.
• The pair returned to kill scavengers who emerged after they left, then departed again as other figures prepared to set off for the Abyss.

After selling the Light-Bathed Sea territory to the Tia Empire, Logo used the proceeds and resources gathered by his avatars to produce the second batch of the Nirvana Legion. The chapter ends with more than a thousand upgraded war soldiers assembled, including five new specialist unit types that complete the legion’s tactical force.

• The Gendaya Royal Court sold its Light-Bathed Sea territory to the Tia Empire for 142,840 Star Wheels, drawing confusion from its people and outsiders.
• Logo spent the proceeds on troop-production resources and used the demiplane to conceal their transfer to the Nirvana Tower.
• The potion avatar and rune avatar sent gathered resources to the Elven Plane, while the bloodline avatar waited with Abyss-related resources and demon corpses he could not transport.
• Logo began producing the second batch of the Nirvana Legion, whose assembly line created elite Legend- and Immortal-quality soldiers.
• More than a thousand war soldiers gathered in the barracks after the first batch was remade and upgraded.
• The chapter introduced the Mechanical Demonic Spider, Giant War Tree, Leviathan, Sage, and Mother of Deep Blue as control, support, transport, communications, and logistics units.

Logo completed the first Colossus, Ares, Lord of War, and used the Fire of Birth to maintain the God-Hunting Spear. He then turned to his prototype Demon Slaughterhouse, while the Nirvana Legion gained a powerful new commander and Golden Star’s cross-plane trade route continued to provide resources.

• Logo developed five original troop types and established a profitable cross-plane trade route for Golden Star’s resources through the Prado Universe System.
• Logo completed the Colossus Ares, Lord of War, replacing its uncooperative divine will with a new will bound to obey him.
• Logo sent Ares to the barracks level, where his Divine Authority of War strengthened the Nirvana Legion and could help its troops evolve.
• Logo maintained the God-Hunting Spear, repairing its minor damage and preparing it to fire consecutive shots.
• Logo inspected the prototype demigod artifact called the Demon Slaughterhouse.

Logo planned a costly campaign to turn the Abyss into a source of resources, while the An Alliance’s senior members met to discuss the need for a leader. The gathering ended with Mitar calling for a leader other than the Sunset Lord, unsettling his subordinate A'erk anbeiqi.

• Logo planned to expand the Nirvana Legion, turn the Holy Spirit Bird into a Colossus, and forge a Legend- or Immortal-quality Demon Slaughterhouse to sustain a war against the Abyss.
• Logo calculated that making fifty Rare-quality Demon Slaughterhouses would cost 250,000 Star Wheels and returned to work despite falling short of the funds.
• Mitar Kuroweisi, Yasike Bulaien, and A'erk anbeiqi gathered as representatives of the An Alliance’s major groups to discuss important matters.
• Mitar declared that the An Alliance needed a leader, alarming Yasike and A'erk because the proposed leader was not the current chairman, the Sunset Lord.

Mitar persuaded the An Alliance’s leaders that the Elven Plane needed Logo to guide it through political and economic turmoil. The group issued a joint announcement praising Logo, while Mitar privately confirmed to Alex that he had delivered the speech as instructed.

• Mitar condemned the Saila Empire’s aggression, the Ashes Organization’s interference, and the Guta Federation’s economic coercion across the Elven Plane.
• Mitar argued that Logo’s record and policies made him the only suitable leader for the An Alliance.
• Bulaien, A'erk anbeiqi, and the other attendees agreed that Logo should take charge of the organization.
• The group issued a joint announcement describing the crisis and praising Logo without directly naming him as chairman.
• Mitar contacted Alex, confirmed he had followed the instructions for his speech, and agreed with Alex that Logo would soon become the An Alliance’s common leader.