Chapter Summaries

Vermila broke through to Tier Seven during the battle, while Director Steel Tiger appeared to protect Lancelot and fought Langbein. As Gosdo and the others remained trapped in a deadly blood barrier, Lancelot summoned Zyra for help.

• Vermila awakened a new aura and advanced to Tier Seven as Langbein approached the group.
• Langbein attacked Lancelot, but a drop of silver-black blood transformed into Director Steel Tiger Kamori and stopped the strike.
• Director Steel Tiger destroyed Langbein's sea-monster assault and engaged him in battle.
• Vermila realized Lancelot had relied on Steel Tiger and learned that Gosdo and others were in danger inside a world of blood.
• Lancelot told Vermila not to risk breaking through the blood barrier and summoned Zyra.

Lancelot summoned Zyra to break the blood-colored curtain trapping Gosdo and the others, but a masked martial artist stopped her. With all four Epic-level fighters occupied, Victor led a group of transcendents to attack Lancelot and his companions.

• Lancelot summoned Zyra, who recognized the blood-colored curtain as a blood sacrifice and attacked it to free the captives.
• A masked figure blocked Zyra and fought her, leaving her unable to break through the curtain.
• In the underground space, Kanpasi agreed to Victor’s plan to capture Lancelot, and Victor led transcendents through the tunnels toward him.
• As Vermila worried about Zyra, Lancelot sensed enemies approaching from behind and shouted for everyone to form a battle formation.

Lancelot and his allies faced Victor, a Tier Eight knight, and a Tier Seven half-beastman, as Lancelot volunteered to hold Victor off until the Alliance sent help. Lancelot met Victor’s sound-wave attack and enormous greatsword in a direct clash, but ultimately crashed back to the ground.

• Lancelot identified Victor as the Tier Eight knight who had driven him from the core area, and he and Vermila prepared their group for the approaching enemies.
• Lancelot told Vermila and the others to hold off the remaining attackers while he challenged Victor alone.
• Lancelot surged toward Victor, protected himself with steel feathers and Molecular Aggregation Insects, and struck with an electrified fist.
• Victor unleashed a sound-wave attack and then swung his enlarged greatsword at Lancelot from the air.
• Lancelot launched himself upward to meet Victor, and their attacks collided with tremendous force before Lancelot fell and cracked the ground.

Lancelot and Victor escalated their aerial duel, each unleashing an energy burst as they traded increasingly destructive blows. Their battle continued with neither gaining a clear advantage, while Damu killed his opponent and prepared to support Lancelot.

• Lancelot recovered from his injuries and used Qi: Ultimate Burning to strengthen himself before clashing with Victor again.
• Victor praised Lancelot’s strength, then unleashed his own energy burst and attacked with the savage ape formed from his Dou Qi.
• Lancelot activated Willpower Burst, and his Regenerative Bone Marrow stabilized his body as the two fighters gathered strength for another clash.
• Lancelot and Victor collided for a third time, their battle tearing up the surrounding terrain and stopping the combatants below to watch.
• Damu judged that Lancelot could hold his own, killed his opponent with his daggers, and set out to support the captain.

Lancelot used the Energy Storage Cube to repeatedly replenish his energy, forcing Victor to flee and leading the Chosen Ones’ fighters on a chase. As the students and temporary avatars neared defeat in the blood-colored world, an emerald light spread through Red Stone Canyon and left Langbein terrified.

• Lancelot replenished his energy with the Energy Storage Cube and provoked Victor into an increasingly reckless attack.
• After Lancelot refilled his energy for a third time, Victor fled, triggering the Chosen Ones’ rout as Damu and the others pursued them.
• Kanpasi asked Black Fox for help, and two Tier Seven fighters arrived to reinforce Victor.
• Victor and the two masked fighters attacked Lancelot together, but he fled at lightning speed and evaded their attempts to catch him.
• Gosdo, Zyra, Steel Tiger, and the students suffered heavy losses as the temporary avatars began to flicker and one dark figure shattered.
• An emerald light spread across Red Stone Canyon, making the plants bow as Langbein felt a bone-deep chill.

Cynthia, Heart of Verdure, revealed herself as the Alliance’s trap for Ashes and effortlessly captured the enemy’s Epic fighters. She used Life Reversal to restore the dead students, who awoke as Lancelot reminded Vermila that they had been used as bait.

• Cynthia appeared and trapped the four hostile Epic powerhouses inside her domain.
• Cynthia turned the four Epics into green crystal and forced Victor and the other survivors to surrender.
• Cynthia shattered the bloody curtain and retrieved the blood-jade altar from the ground.
• Cynthia used Life Reversal to restore the students’ bodies and return their souls, waking them from death.
• Vermila realized the operation had used the students as bait, and Lancelot told her that people could be used as pieces on the board.

After Lancelot’s group suspected Brigadier General Mountbatten of betraying them, an investigation linked him to the Ross Family of the Blood Clan. Alliance leaders then agreed to pressure the Ross Family and force concessions from the Blood Clan.

• Lancelot pointed out that their expected machine and troop support had never arrived, leading Cage and Keaton to suspect Mountbatten had set them up.
• The Alliance investigated Mountbatten, who attempted suicide, but Cynthia revived him so a soul expert could examine his memories.
• Lancelot learned through Zyra’s channels that Mountbatten’s affair involved the Ross Family, one of the Blood Clan’s three great families.
• Cynthia told the leaders that the Ross Family blamed Dimen and denied any involvement, but the leaders rejected that explanation.
• Urta urged the Alliance to remove Blood Clan influence from the military and cut its share of officers by another two percent.
• The hall’s leaders, including Cynthia, agreed to pressure the Ross Family and force the Blood Clan to make concessions.

Ashes discussed how Mountbatten and Dimen’s capture advanced its plan to inflame conflict within the Crimson Alliance. After the students gathered at the ruined Red Stone Canyon estate, Lancelot helped organize a military merit competition before they split up to hunt threats across Planet Golden Bridge.

• Ashes members revealed that Mountbatten and Dimen had erased the organization’s secrets from their souls and planned to let the Crimson Alliance blame the Blood Clan, deepening tensions between the factions.
• The Ashes members discussed the losses suffered by their allies and said the organization would remember Mountbatten and Dimen’s sacrifices before their disguised spaceship departed.
• At the ruined Red Stone Canyon estate, the Alliance ordered the students to travel alone or in small teams across Planet Golden Bridge and eliminate threats to Alliance rule.
• Cage asked Lancelot whether he would join a team, and Lancelot chose to operate alone despite receiving many invitations.
• Vermila challenged Lancelot to a military merit contest, and students from all four academies joined in.
• Lancelot proposed pooling military merit for prizes, and the students balanced their teams, approved the rules, and prepared to set off.

Shake Baha demonstrated the Combat Auxiliary Device to the Dusk Desert’s intelligent insects, transforming a warrior into a powerful, tentacled fighter and winning their interest. In the Sunset Jungle, Balielunduo learned that Gale Potions were rapidly strengthening the Gale Demon Wolf cubs and considered investing more in the Three-Eyed People and the Campbell Family.

• Shake Baha introduced the Combat Auxiliary Device and asked the intelligent insects to provide a warrior for testing.
• An oval organism entered the lobster-like insect warrior and transformed it with electrical, armored tentacles that could destroy objects and let it fly.
• The intelligent insects were impressed by the demonstration, and Shake Baha was pleased that the device worked.
• Balielunduo learned that cubs given Gale Potions were developing faster and showing increased affinity for wind magic, with no obvious side effects found.
• Balielunduo promised the division leaders their full potion allotments and considered investing more in the Three-Eyed People and the Campbell Family.

Xisi strengthened the Campbell Family’s ties with the Gale Demon Wolf Tribe by offering Elder Sachiya concentrated Gale Potions, while discussing cooperation on seven mines. In the Underdark, Logo finished the insect race’s equipment order and the tribe’s potion order, then turned his attention to other affairs.

• Xisi promised Sachiya the next batch of Gale Potions and heard the Gale Demon Wolf Tribe wanted to discuss mining seven mines with the Campbell Family.
• Xisi gave Sachiya twelve concentrated Gale Potions, and Sachiya recognized that the rare potion could benefit his noble family’s wolf pups.
• Xisi and Lunbate discussed using potion sales to bind the Gale Demon Wolf Tribe and the Inferno Minotaurs to the Campbell Family.
• Xisi left the castle with a Heavenly Eye squad and traveled to the Underdark to report to Logo.
• Logo completed the insect race’s alchemical equipment order and the Gale Demon Wolf Tribe’s potion order after more than a month of work.

Xisi visited Logo’s growing Underdark complex and learned that Logo was preparing to fuse Caesar with an inheritance crystal. He hurried to see whether he could help, leaving Caesar’s fusion still ahead.

• Xisi flew to the steel fortress and passed its security system into the Underdark.
• Xisi surveyed the expanding alchemical factories and saw students from the Heavenly Eye Alchemy Military Academy.
• Xisi greeted Crassus and asked whether Logo was available.
• Crassus said Logo was preparing to fuse Caesar with the inheritance crystal bought at auction for 3.05 million Ta Pounds.
• Xisi and Crassus hurried toward Logo to see if they could help with the fusion.

Logo completed a three-star Legend-grade Life Transmutation Array in his laboratory, astonishing those present. After discussing the Gale Demon Wolf Tribe with Xisi, he heard Crassus report a problem at the academy involving the Dark Elf students, but the chapter ended before he explained further.

• Logo finished inscribing the Life Transmutation Array, and Crassus asked him about its grade.
• Logo identified the array as three-star Legend grade, shocking the others and impressing Yarwei and Windsor.
• Xisi told Logo about the Gale Demon Wolf Tribe, and he directed her to continue handling contact with them and consult Butler Lunbate as needed.
• Logo asked Crassus why he had left the academy, and Crassus began reporting that the Dark Elf students had a problem with dating too young.

Logo addressed the danger of young Gendaya men becoming involved with promiscuous Dark Elf women and ordered Crassus to separate the academy's male and female students and restrict contact between them. He then pushed Caesar into the Life Transmutation Array, where Caesar screamed at Crassus as golden light erupted.

• Crassus reported that relationships between Gendaya students and Dark Elf women were harming studies and spreading through the academy.
• Logo considered the cultural conflict between the Gendaya People and Dark Elves, while Yarwei and Windsor failed to promise they could restrain the young women of their clan.
• Logo ordered Crassus to divide the academy into two campuses, separate men and women, and strictly limit contact between Dark Elves and young Gendaya men.
• Logo reassured Caesar that the Life Transmutation Array was safe and ordered him to enter it.
• Crassus mocked Caesar and smacked him into the array, prompting Caesar to scream as golden light shot into the sky.

Logo used Legendary Gold Dragon blood, Madam Poison’s origin marrow blood, and Soul Crystals to transform Caesar in the Life Transmutation Array. Caesar became a living dragon egg as his body and soul were remade, and the transformation remained underway.

• Logo added Legendary Gold Dragon blood to the array, summoning a True Dragon phantom that entered Caesar and began dissolving his body.
• When Caesar fell silent, Crassus feared he had died, but Logo assured him the process was proceeding normally.
• Logo poured Madam Poison’s origin marrow blood over Caesar, and the remains of his body formed a golden egg marked with the image of a True Dragon.
• Logo sent more than a hundred Soul Crystals into the egg to nurture Caesar’s soul, causing its dragon markings to move and make faint cries.

Logo transformed Caesar into a sapient Gold Dragon by combining a Heart of Light and the Holy Adjudicator inheritance with his dragon egg. Caesar emerged with a crown-like array of horns and said he expected to become strong enough to break through to Sanctuary after absorbing his new memories and inheritance.

• Logo used the Heart of Light and a Holy Adjudicator inheritance crystal to transform Caesar, while Crassus wondered whether Caesar could reach the Legendary realm.
• The transformation released brilliant golden light into the Underdark, prompting the old earl to head for Logo's residence.
• Logo replenished Caesar's vitality with Water of Life and holy water, then used a honeycomb device to draw out the dark power from the egg.
• Caesar emerged as a majestic Gold Dragon with three pairs of horns, but his cheeky grin and banter with Crassus quickly returned.
• Logo asked why Caesar had not tried for the Legendary realm, and Caesar explained that his new soul memories and inheritance would give him at least a ninety percent chance of breaking through to Sanctuary after he digested them.

Caesar completed a transformation that raised his bloodline to Epic and made him powerful enough to challenge Legendary opponents. Logo traced the change to an inheritance from a Holy Winged Dragon, then exposed a dark influence from the flesh inside his hive device and asked Yarwei and Windsor for a favor.

• Logo examined Caesar’s new abilities, confirmed that his transformation had caused no problems, and questioned how the Holy Adjudicator class had become so powerful.
• Caesar said the unknown consciousness had belonged to a rare variant True Dragon called a Holy Winged Dragon, explaining his compatibility with the inheritance.
• Logo opened the hive device, and its dark fluctuation affected the group until Logo and Caesar helped Xisi recover.
• Logo explained that he had used dark flesh from a spatial breach to make a siphon, then drew dark power from it into a gray potion that turned black.
• Logo studied the potion and asked Yarwei and Windsor to do him a favor.

Logo tested the Black Blood Potion, strengthened several allies, and prepared equipment as his Power of Legend neared completion. He then departed with the old earl and companions for the clan gathering on Origin Island, leaving Annabelle behind to guard the Underdark.

• Logo gave Yarwei and Windsor Black Blood Potion to test, and they absorbed its energy to rise in rank.
• Logo confirmed the potion was safe for dark-element transcendents, and Tiffany and Sherlock later used it to reach the High-Rank Transcendent realm.
• The old earl warned Logo not to delay their trip to the clan gathering and prepared for his final attempt to break through to Legendary.
• Logo spent the following days making equipment, reached Tier Six, and brought his Power of Legend deduction to 95.23%.
• Logo persuaded Annabelle to stay behind and guard the Underdark with the promise of Azure Light potions.
• Logo, the old earl, Crassus, the Dark Twin Stars, Caesar, and Gain boarded a flight to Origin Island.

Logo learned that the Frenzied Clamor Pirate Crew was being hunted after its leader, Annula, had antagonized nearly every great power on Planet Oklo, and assigned Yarwei and the Dark Elf mercenary group to investigate it. On the Skyfish, the old count also explained the Gendaya clan gathering and Martial Arts Tournament, where Logo planned to make his name and face powerful challengers.

• Caesar and Crassus bickered while serving Logo and the old count during their flight to Origin Island.
• A broadcast reported that a joint military operation had driven Annula and the Frenzied Clamor Pirate Crew into the Whirlpool Sea.
• Logo recounted Annula's history of betrayals and crimes, including Dragon Hunting and attacks on the Crimson Alliance and Tia Empire.
• The old count considered the pirate crew's fortune, but Logo stopped the argument and assigned Yarwei and the others their first mercenary mission.
• The old count described the clan gathering and Martial Arts Tournament, noting that the White Wolf Kingdom and Dawn Empire had sent formidable contestants.
• Logo reassured the old count that this time things would be different.

The chapter recounted how the Dawn Empire’s 1576 invasion shattered the Gendaya Royal Court and described the betrayals, rival powers, and political upheavals that shaped the aftermath. The Gendaya People were left weakened and dependent on the Corte Alliance, while the Dawn Empire’s wider campaign was disrupted by the Sebawen Faith and intervention from other empires.

• Anthony Douglas proposed an absolute national defense perimeter in 1570, and the Dawn Empire killed the Gendaya King and invaded the Royal Court in 1576, conquering its provinces and inflicting devastating losses.
• The Corte Alliance delayed its response to the Royal Court’s plea for aid, then helped defend the Trident Archipelago in exchange for extensive access and benefits, leaving the Gendaya Royal Court increasingly dependent on it.
• Diriel Bailang disabled key defenses at the Western Capital, allowing Dawn Empire forces to teleport inside and destroy the Royal Court’s command center before the Night Watchers helped the surviving forces retreat.
• The Sebawen Faith rose against the Dawn Empire, forcing Anthony Douglas to abandon plans to attack other powers; after its suppression, its leader and core members escaped to the Light-Bathed Sea.
• The Winter Empire, Corte Alliance, Crimson Alliance, and Tia Empire backed forces attacking the Dawn Empire and took action in space, disrupting its campaign and changing Planet Oklo’s political balance.

Logo and the old earl returned to the Trident Archipelago, where they discussed the Red Maple Clan’s ancestral ties to the Silver Peak Clan. The old earl rejected visiting the Grand Duke of Silver Peak as their first stop, leaving Logo to wonder whether they would align with the New Blood Faction or the Neutral Faction amid growing conflict with the Old Blood Faction.

• The Skyfish approached Eastern Capital, and the old earl pointed out the Red Maple Clan’s ancestral territory in the archipelago.
• Logo suggested visiting the Grand Duke of Silver Peak because the Red Maple Clan had branched from the Silver Peak Clan.
• The chapter recounted how the Seven Great Clans descended from the progenitor and became the main branches of the Gendaya Tribe.
• The Royal Court expanded the Gray-Eyed Blood Descendants after the war, strengthening the New Blood Faction and intensifying opposition from the Old Blood Faction.
• The old earl said they would not visit the Grand Duke of Silver Peak first, and Logo asked whether they would join the New Blood Faction or the Neutral Faction.