Chapter Summaries

Kaya and the arriving Sternritter learned that Quincy spiritual attacks could defeat the Holy Knights, while the Five Elders faced them at Elbaf. Newgate then led a demonized, controlled Rocks and other transformed figures to the group, and Kaya prepared to act with Auswählen.

• The Sternritter arrived and Maron explained that concentrated Quincy spiritual attacks could kill the Holy Knights.
• Kaya told the group that the Five Elders had arrived, and Loki openly threatened the World Government as Saturn questioned Elbaf’s allegiance.
• Newgate emerged from the forest pursued by demonized Rocks and other transformed figures, warning that Rocks was controlled and a more terrifying presence was on the island.
• The Five Elders realized Imu had acted personally and connected the dark figure above the forest to the missing Gunko.
• Kaya recognized the calamity in Rocks, raised his fist, and invoked Auswählen.

Garp and the Marines witnessed Quincies dying in a mysterious blue light before Kong ordered Garp to reinforce God Valley, where Rocks had appeared. The same light devastated Quincy forces at sea and on Hachinosu, leaving Basard alive and demanding answers from the Quincy king.

• Garp saw captured Quincies in the Marines' underground laboratory scream and disintegrate into bones beneath a pillar of blue light.
• Kong learned that Rocks and his crew had appeared at God Valley and ordered Garp to lead reinforcements there, despite Garp's protests.
• Kodo watched blue light engulf the Quincies who had defeated his crew, while Sege collapsed after recognizing that the power was taking everything from them.
• On Hachinosu, blue pillars struck Quincies across the island, stripping away their bodies and killing Eileen and the others pursuing Basard.
• Basard realized that the light carried Quincy Spiritual Power and shouted at Your Majesty, asking why he had killed his own people.

Kaya and the Quincy transformed with Spiritual Power and fought the demonized Davy Clan and the Elders as Imu appeared through Gunko. Kaya removed the corrupting power from Rocks, who regained control and survived.

• A torrent of Spiritual Power aged Kaya and strengthened the Quincy, who revealed their Vollständig forms and charged into battle.
• Newgate told Kaya that Gunko had possessed Rocks, and Kaya recognized that Imu had arrived.
• Kaya fought Rocks and heard him plead to be killed, but told him to live and raise his son.
• Kaya used Sankt Altar to pull a black mass of power out of Rocks and cast it onto the ground.
• Rocks regained clarity, collapsed, and joked that he had nearly been played to death.

John, Kaido, and their allies overwhelmed the Five Elders, leaving Fengxi badly injured beneath the other monsters. Elsewhere, Gloriosa struggled to keep the demonized Davy Clan down while recoiling from their apparent affection for her.

• John enlarged a metal robot and battered Gyuki while Kaido overpowered Itsumade and twisted his neck.
• Ganzui and Maron bombarded Fengxi with explosions and missiles, leaving him gravely wounded but alive.
• Loki threw Fengxi into the air, where John and Kaido knocked Gyuki and Itsumade onto him.
• John, Kaido, Loki, Ganzui, and Maron celebrated their victory and joked about earning bounties.
• Gloriosa fought the demonized Davy Clan with arrows, repeatedly knocking its members down as they kept getting back up.

Gloriosa subdued the demonized Davy Clan with her new ability, and Kaya restored Rocks to normal. As they regrouped on God Valley, a terrifying magical storm engulfed the island, while an unseen force felled most of the Celestial Dragons in Mary Geoise.

• Gloriosa used Slave Arrow to stop the demonized Davy Clan members, who became infatuated with her.
• Rocks returned to normal after Kaya removed the power forced into him, and Gloriosa learned that Gunko had taken control of him.
• Gloriosa led Rocks and the Davy Clan back to Kaya and the others, where Newgate welcomed Rocks back.
• A black lightning bolt struck God Valley, and storm clouds, a giant pentagram, and black mist plunged the island into a nightmare.
• A strange wave reached Mary Geoise, causing many Celestial Dragons to collapse as the remaining ones wondered whether a hidden lord had acted.

Saint Nerona Imu arrived at God Valley and restored Saturn, Mars, and Warcury, then clashed with Kaya as Rocks attacked. The Five Elders returned to battle, and Ganzui was struck by an old centaur swordsman.

• Imu unleashed his supreme Conqueror's Haki across God Valley, knocking out the fleeing Celestial Dragons, slaves, and Marines.
• Loki charged Imu but was defeated in one exchange, losing his hands and feet.
• Imu revealed himself as Saint Nerona Imu, the King of the World, and restored Saturn, Mars, and Warcury with demonic aura.
• Kaya confronted Imu, while Rocks attacked him with Dark Sea Abyss; Imu dodged and left behind explosive little devils that engulfed those nearby in flames.
• An old centaur swordsman emerged from the smoke and struck Ganzui, while the Five Elders returned to battle.

Imu restored the Five Elders, who resumed fighting the Quincy but remained outmatched as their opponents gained the upper hand. Meanwhile, Kaya faced Imu, who warned that David and the Quincy would destroy the world.

• Imu repaired the Five Elders and restored them to their former state, allowing them to fight the Quincy again.
• John used Second Transmutation to defend his robot from Nusjuro, while Ganzui bombed Nusjuro and Nusjuro charged Keel.
• Keel revealed that his six wings were his real guns, blasted holes through Nusjuro, and broke his blade so that his attack missed.
• Kaido overpowered Fengxi, while Gyuki’s venom attack was intercepted and Newgate and Gloriosa struck back against Gyuki.
• Loki blocked Itsumade’s flames and held open the sandworm’s jaws as Maron self-destructed inside it, blasting it in two.
• The Sternritter Quincy kept the Five Elders at a disadvantage as Kaya faced Imu, who said David and the Quincy would destroy the world.

Kaya and Rocks fought Imu together as the battle threatened to tear God Valley apart. Imu retreated into the sky and tried to attach a fragment of demonic energy to Kaya, but Kaya burned it away and declared that no one would interrupt them.

• Rocks and Imu clashed while Kaya’s Reishi sword shattered Imu’s attack with the Heavenly Punishment Sword.
• Imu flew above the battlefield and unleashed a devastating sword strike, but Rocks emerged unharmed and attacked with Kaya.
• Imu transformed his weapon into the Sword of Anger and fought both men as cracks split God Valley.
• Kaya and Rocks continued pursuing Imu, driving the battle to the valleys beside a massive mountain.
• Imu formed a small bell of demonic energy and secretly attached a fragment of it to Kaya.
• Kaya recognized the fragment, burned it away with Reishi Concentrated Flame, and said no one would interrupt them.

Kaya and Imu fought above God Valley while Imu used a Grudge Demon Sword to take Rocks out of the battle. Kaya revealed overwhelming swordsmanship and Conqueror’s Haki, ending the fight’s exchange with a slash that split God Valley in two.

• Imu marked Rocks with demonic energy and pierced him through the chest with a Grudge Demon Sword, temporarily taking him out of action.
• Kaya recognized that Imu had marked both him and Rocks, while Imu declared that Kaya and his bloodline had to be eliminated.
• Imu summoned the Holy Life Spear and clashed with Kaya above the clouds in a battle of Spiritual Power and Haki.
• Kaya linked his sword strikes into a seemingly endless attack and cut Imu’s shoulder when he could not defend in time.
• Kaya matched Imu’s Conqueror’s Haki with Azure lightning, then unleashed a slash that cleared the clouds and split God Valley in half.

The pirates subdued the Five Elders while Kaya fought Imu, but the mortally wounded monsters suddenly revived with black-flame weapons. Fengxi killed Loki with a giant axe, leaving Kaido stunned as the battle turned against the pirates.

• Keel taunted the captured Nusjuro, while Newgate and the others held down Saturn, Fengxi, and the other defeated monsters.
• Ganzui and Maron blasted the sandworm, and John suggested that killing Imu and the Five Elders could bring down the World Government.
• The five wounded monsters roared as black flames gathered around them, and the sandworm reassembled before cutting through Ganzui's armor and wounding him.
• Itsumade broke free of John's restraints and slashed John, while Saturn attacked Newgate with a black-flamed sword that filled in Newgate's space cracks.
• Fengxi threw Loki and Kaido off his back and beheaded Loki with his axe, while Kaido stood stunned.

The Five Elders awakened their ancestral weapons and turned the battle against the pirates, while Imu wounded Kaya with the Sea God Sword. Kaya laughed at the injury and challenged Imu’s confidence in the weapons’ abilities.

• Imu declared that inherited will was meaningless, and Kaya mocked him for how he had treated the Celestial Dragons’ descendants.
• Nusjuro revealed Muramasa and stabbed Keel, while Ju Peter displayed the Sword of Anger and Saturn wielded the life-draining Void Sword.
• The Five Elders unleashed their ancestral weapons, forcing the pirates into a stalemate as Itsumade attacked John with fire and lightning.
• Fengxi used the awakened Xingtian Axe to behead Loki and wound Kaido, then challenged the remaining pirates to surrender.
• Imu cut Kaya with the Sea God Sword, and Kaya laughed as he claimed Imu was far behind him when it came to mechanics.

Loki revived repeatedly through the Power of God and became a giant of light, while Keel unlocked his final form and killed Nusjuro. Imu used black fire to ensure Nusjuro could not regenerate, and Kaya vowed that all five Elders would fall.

• Kaido charged Warcury with the Hammer of Fudo Myoo, but Loki revived and grew into a giant warrior.
• Warcury transformed into Fengxi and split Loki in two with the Xingtian Axe, but Loki reassembled himself through golden Spiritual Power and became a giant of light.
• Keel opened his eyes for the third time, transformed into El Thor: Final Form, and pierced Nusjuro through the forehead.
• Nusjuro burned away into a skeleton as Imu declared that he would no longer regenerate.
• Kaya rejected Imu's claim that the fight was over and vowed that all five stars would fall.

Loki split God Valley in two and killed Itsumade, while the remaining Elders prepared to keep fighting. Keel unleashed God's Trumpet, erasing the Elders and everything on their half of the island.

• Loki split God Valley down the middle with his enormous sword, forcing the people nearby to take to the air as seawater flooded the gap.
• Loki caught Itsumade's black lightning with his sword, causing the bird to bleed and fall, then tore him apart and killed him.
• Warcury and Ju Peter accepted that the Elders might be sacrificed if Imu defeated Loki, and prepared to continue the fight.
• Keel transformed into a giant bird of light and gathered Reishi to form a massive horn.
• Keel fired God's Trumpet, whose golden light erased the remaining Elders and everything on their half of God Valley.

After Kaya and the others destroyed the Five Elders, Imu transformed and confronted Kaya, who began unlocking his Quincy power. Kaya revealed that he could perceive Imu’s weapons on a higher, narrative level, then opened his four eyes and awakened Schrift “A,” The Almighty.

• Keel’s beam destroyed half of God Valley and killed at least three of the Five Elders, prompting John, Ganzui, Maron, Gloriosa, and Newgate to react to their defeat.
• Imu suffered backlash from the Five Elders’ deaths, then transformed into a more powerful half-demon form and drew several weapons.
• Kaya felt his sealed power beginning to awaken, released his sword into Reishi, and recited the stages of the Quincy king’s return.
• Imu attacked Kaya repeatedly, but his blades and divine weapons could not harm him, while Kaya identified the weapons’ origins.
• Imu realized Kaya was perceiving his weapons from a higher narrative level, and Kaya opened four eyes and awakened Schrift “A,” The Almighty.

Kaya defeated an apparent body of Imu at God Valley, then opened a shadow passage and brought the exhausted survivors to his Shadow Realm. He welcomed them to the empty, pitch-black dimension, leaving them bewildered about where they had arrived.

• Imu surrounded himself with eighteen weapons and prepared to attack Kaya, but Kaya used The Almighty to make Imu and the weapons explode.
• Kaya held Imu’s vacant head and realized his power had receded because he had not yet fully analyzed the world; he concluded that he needed to become omniscient to unseal The Almighty completely.
• Kaya invited the others to visit his kingdom, while the survivors of the battle collapsed or struggled to remain conscious in the ruins of God Valley.
• Kaya opened a passage through his shadow and led the others through it, with Newgate following after a brief hesitation.
• Kaya welcomed the group to the Shadow Realm, where they found themselves standing in a seemingly endless, pitch-black world.

Kaya moved everyone from God Valley into a Reishi-filled shadow world and created a new country for the Quincy. As the survivors awakened and Rocks reunited with Teach and Alice, a Celestial Dragon began making demands, prompting Rocks to ask Kaya for permission to kill him.

• Kaya revealed the people he had rescued from God Valley and announced he would build a country for the Quincy.
• Kaya shaped Reishi into a vast silver-white city and used Spiritual Pressure to quiet the frightened people who woke there.
• Newgate rejected Gloriosa's and Ganzui's suggestions that he become a Quincy, then remembered they had come to save Rocks.
• Rocks woke in the shadow world and reunited with Teach and Alice.
• A Celestial Dragon demanded that the Marines arrest Rocks and the others, and Rocks asked Kaya if he could kill him.

Kuma’s attack on a Celestial Dragon sparked a revolt in God Valley, and Kaya stopped the violence to recruit the crowd into the Wandenreich and declare their goal of overthrowing the World Government. The people rallied behind him, while Dragon threw down his rifle and Rocks’s group watched as Kaya led them toward a new life.

• Rocks killed a Celestial Dragon, and Kuma punched another one before urging everyone to fight back to survive.
• Slaves and people from God Valley attacked the Celestial Dragons as the Marines stood aside, while Dragon watched the uprising begin.
• Kaya silenced the crowd and announced that he would save them by making them citizens of the Wandenreich and joining them in overthrowing the World Government.
• Kaya sent blue spiritual rain over the crowd, and the people cheered against the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.
• Dragon discarded his rifle as Rocks, his family, and the pirates watched the crowd rally behind Kaya, who invited them to take the world together.

Kaya built up the hidden Wandenreich by turning God Valley’s survivors into Quincy and dealt with Magnolia and her twin sons. He kept Princess Shuri, Imu’s former vessel, in the shadow realm.

• Kuma, Ivankov, and Ginny celebrated their new Quincy powers and vowed to help free others.
• Kaya had the survivors line up to become Quincy, while Gloriosa gave them blood wine and the remaining Celestial Dragons stayed imprisoned.
• Ganzui brought Magnolia to Kaya after she refused to become Quincy, but Kaya reassured her and offered her a place in the Wandenreich.
• Magnolia drank Kaya’s blood wine, becoming a Pure-Blood Quincy, and Kaya told her that her sons, Shamrock and Shanks, would adapt to Quincy power.
• Kaya asked Magnolia to clean his palace and then revealed that he had secretly taken Princess Shuri into the shadow realm.

Kaya restored Shuri’s memories and freed her from Imu’s control, revealing her past as Princess Shuri of Esperia and her role in her father’s death. Shuri chose to become a Quincy and fight the World Government, with Brook still alive and waiting for her.

• Kaya told Gunko about her past as Princess Shuri and used Reishi to destroy the black energy controlling her.
• Shuri remembered how Imu had made her kill King Ruben and attack Brook before erasing her memories and turning her into Gunko.
• Kaya urged Shuri to join the Quincies and fight the World Government, telling her that Brook was alive and waiting for her.
• Shuri accepted Kaya’s hand and said she would become a Quincy.
• Shuri completed the ritual and became a Quincy with the Schrift “C,” The Compulsory.

Keel confided in Loki that Quincy power had made him feel as though he was losing his humanity, while Loki dismissed his fears. After leaving God Valley to seek his other half, Kaya found Haschwalth amid a village massacre and recognized him as a naturally born Quincy.

• Keel told Loki that unleashing his Quincy power had submerged his consciousness and made him fear losing himself, but Loki called him foolish for worrying about becoming stronger.
• Loki revealed that he and Keel had been chosen for Kaya’s personal guard and said Kaya had gone looking for his other half.
• Kaya arrived at a village in the West Blue as pirates prepared to kill its sole surviving villager, Haschwalth.
• Kaya recognized that Reishi was instinctively gathering around Haschwalth and understood that he was a naturally born Quincy.
• Haschwalth asked Kaya to kill the pirates, and Kaya tore them apart before declaring Haschwalth the heir to the Wandenreich.