Recaps

Lister trained at the recruit camp and met Major Qi, who offered to shape the special-resource assessment in his favor. Her unusual warmth and favoritism left him wary about what she expected in return.

• Lister made progress toward mastering Basic Footwork but failed to learn Shunpo, then found the saber-technique class disappointing because its instructor could teach only up to B rank.
• Lister took part in formation and command exercises before a second lieutenant summoned him to Major Qi’s command room.
• Major Qi asked about Lister’s living conditions and explained that Overlord Tier recruits were rare in the Central Army Group, while Galactic nobles came to another camp to avoid competing against its strong A-rank recruits.
• Major Qi said the special-resource assessment would likely be a simulated battle and that, as its overseer, she could set its format and difficulty.
• Lister grew suspicious of Major Qi’s favor, but she told him to train hard and promised she could design the assessment to secure the resource for him if he rejected the other side’s terms.

Lister sought information about Major Qi while continuing his recruit training, where Instructor Kata helped him master Shunpo in five days. By the end of the second week, Lister had also learned teleportation and fighting techniques, and his reputation as an Overlord Tier genius had spread through the camp.

• Lister asked Reck to look for information about Major Qi, though Reck warned that the officer's records were confidential.
• Instructor Kata gave Lister individual guidance, and Lister mastered Federation Shunpo after five days of practice.
• Lister spent his remaining experience points raising Shunpo to level 5, then astonished Kata and the other recruits with his speed.
• By the end of the second week, Lister had also learned the Federation teleportation skill and Federation Fighting Technique.
• Lister used his remaining Radiance of Extreme Transcendence to raise Federation Teleportation Array to A-rank and considered establishing one on Merrick's planet.

Lister entered the recruit camp’s monthly simulated exam, won his first five battles, and was matched against Lim Aiven in the sixth. He realized Lim had prepared superior equipment to eliminate him, and his own condition suddenly felt wrong as their fight began.

• Major Qi explained that recruits would earn military merit based on their monthly exam rankings, and Major Toke activated the simulated training hall.
• Lister entered a simulated battle with only a standard uniform and basic saber, then defeated Vim Albert with ease.
• Lister won five battles, noticing that his opponents had extra equipment while he had only basic gear.
• Lister was matched against Lim Aiven, who appeared with several pieces of specialized equipment and a confident smile.
• Lister recognized that Lim had prepared to knock him out of the rankings, then felt that something was wrong with his condition.

Lister discovered that his abilities had been restricted to 90% during his fight with Lim, while Major Siegfried confronted the officers he suspected of changing the fight order. Lister began closing in on Lim as she attacked him with a rapidly controlled knife.

• Lister checked his panel and realized his attributes and skill damage had been restricted, though he remained at Overlord Tier.
• Major Siegfried accused the recruit camp officers of changing the fight order, and Major Toke tried to deflect blame and threaten him with a report.
• Major Siegfried told Major Toke to report him, then fixed his attention on Major Eerli as the likely culprit.
• Lim attacked Lister with a dark green knife controlled by her psychic Nen Manipulation Technique, and Lister blocked its repeated strikes.
• Lister checked Lim's skills, used Federation Shunpo to escape the knife's range, and charged toward her again.

Lister fought Lim in the Frost Domain despite heavy suppression, eventually exploiting an opening to defeat her. He survived with 60,000 health and advanced to the next round at rank 67.

• Lim’s Frost Domain damaged and slowed Lister, but he cut through her Nen Guard with an Iai Slash and severely wounded her.
• Lim healed with her armguard, activated a Nen Burst, and transformed her knives into gauntlets before attacking Lister at close range.
• Lister and Lim traded powerful blows, and Lister retreated when her recovery and paralysis effects made the exchange too dangerous.
• As Lim’s Nen Burst began to expire, she kicked at Lister, who countered with a Knee Strike and sent her flying.
• Lister used Shunpo to reach Lim before she landed and stabbed her through the forehead, defeating her.
• Lister received notice that he had won the match, reached rank 67, and would wait for the next round.

Lister won the final round of the monthly exam against Hannah, but Ian was missing from the rankings, raising suspicions that Lim had eliminated him. After claiming his rewards and improving his attributes, Lister heard that Major Eerli was being transferred and received an invitation to meet Major Siegfried.

• Lister faced Hannah instead of Ian in the final round and suspected Ian had been targeted by Lim.
• Hannah attacked Lister with her Illusory Thought Domain, but Lister exposed its weaknesses, destroyed it with an Iai Slash, and defeated her.
• Major Qi announced that the next monthly exam would use a challenge system, and Lister found that Ian was absent even from the top five thousand.
• Lister received 180 military merit points, exchanged them for six vials of level-two resources, and raised each of his basic attributes to 66.
• Reck told Lister that Major Eerli was being transferred, possibly to the Central Army Group, and Lister received an invitation to meet Major Siegfried.

Lister met with Major Qi, who explained his retaliation against Major Eerli and revealed that he hoped to recruit Lister into his Thirty-Ninth Army Group fleet in the future. Major Qi also described the recruit camp’s special resource as an unknown form of evolution that could help A-rank recruits reach S-rank and gain Overlord Tier talent.

• Lister visited Major Qi at villa AW-1 and drank Bloody Glory, which increased his stamina recovery speed.
• Major Qi said Major Eerli had changed the exam match order to help Lim in exchange for a lieutenant colonel's post, and that he had arranged Eerli's compulsory recruitment to a dangerous special mission.
• Lister asked why Major Qi had supported him, and Major Qi said his response to Eerli was about asserting authority rather than helping Lister personally.
• Major Qi explained that the Central Army Group offered more chances to earn military merit than the Civilization Army Group, then admitted he hoped Lister would eventually join his fleet.
• Major Qi said he did not know the exact nature of the recruit camp's special resource, but believed it could evolve recruits and had helped some A-rank recruits reach S-rank with Overlord Tier talent.

Lister learned that Major Siegfried had risen through ties to the Leviathan Civilization, then recruited Reck as a future helper. As Lister advanced his secondary profession, the fourth-act expansion launched and gave him a quest to investigate the Alchemy Civilization.

• Major Qi warned Lister to watch for schemes against him and suggested he consider joining the Central Army Group.
• Lister decided Lim had crossed a line and that he needed to get rid of her.
• Reck told Lister that Major Siegfried had joined the Thirty-Ninth Army Group and later gained promotion through a connection to the Leviathan Civilization.
• Lister paid Reck for the information and agreed that Reck could keep helping him after they joined the Arcane Army Group.
• Lister raised his secondary profession to level 33 while attending a lecture on Federation materials research.
• The fourth-act expansion opened with Lister spawned in Alchemy Ruined City, where he accepted the main quest to explore the Alchemy Civilization.

Lister prepared to confront Ian while Wang Yue agreed to an undisclosed plan, and Lim arranged to kill Lister outside the recruit camp’s jurisdiction. Lim’s trusted informant Reck then revealed himself as a shapeshifter who had already lured Lister to the warehouse, leaving Lim face-to-face with a double of herself.

• Three months later, Lister met Wang Yue, who agreed to proceed with their plan despite the risk, and reported that Ian remained secluded and difficult to investigate.
• Lister reviewed his growing strength and confidence before leaving Wang Yue and preparing for the coming confrontation.
• Reck reported Lister’s movements to Lim, who ordered him to bring Lister to the warehouse the next day.
• Lim explained that she had arranged to shift the warehouse into local jurisdiction so Lister’s death would not trigger a recruit-camp investigation.
• Reck revealed that he had already summoned Lister and transformed into a woman identical to Lim Aiven.

Lister killed Lim after defeating her defenses and having the fake Lim crush her heart. Reck arrived with intercepted signal records, leaving Lister to deal with the consequences of killing a Galactic noble.

• Lister entered the warehouse and attacked Lim, overcoming her armguards and leg wraps as Wang Yue watched.
• Lister used his transforming saber to nearly deplete Lim’s health, and Lim begged him to spare her.
• Lister agreed, but the fake Lim crushed Lim’s heart, killing her and earning Lister 110,000 experience points.
• Reck arrived and told Lister that he had intercepted three calls for help addressed to Uncle Jialiwen.

Wang Yue and Lister carried out their plan to replace Lim Aiven, with Reck providing intelligence and signal equipment. After Wang Yue contacted Jialiwen while impersonating Lim, his reaction revealed that he knew Wang Yue was close to an Overlord Tier recruit.

• Reck gave Lister information about Jialiwen and the Aiven Family, and Wang Yue recovered a damaged S-rank chip from Lim's body.
• Lister and Wang Yue chose Jialiwen as the key to making Wang Yue's impersonation of Lim succeed.
• Wang Yue altered Lim's corpse and used a blood-replacement solution to erase evidence, while Reck extracted information from the chip and left with the equipment.
• Wang Yue transferred the intercepted information to a Beta Civilization chip and contacted Jialiwen while posing as Lim.
• Jialiwen asked whom Lim had killed, then cursed her for targeting Wang Yue, someone close to an Overlord Tier recruit.

Wang Yue passed Jialiwen’s call without revealing her identity, while he decided to push “Lim” out of the military district. After the warehouse’s ownership was officially transferred, Major Qi told Lister the investigation would be dropped and offered him part of the Aiven Family’s compensation.

• Jialiwen told “Lim” to stay in her dorm and keep quiet about the recruit’s death until the warehouse documents became public.
• Jialiwen said “Lim” would likely be removed from the military district and sent to govern a planet in a level-three civilization, then ended the call when she protested.
• Lister checked the public decrees and saw that the abandoned warehouse had been assigned to the local government and removed from the recruit camp’s activity area.
• Major Qi told Lister that headquarters would not intervene in Wang Yue’s death and that the camp would stop investigating after receiving compensation from the Aiven Family.
• Major Qi gave Lister ten Beta Civilization universal level-two resources as his share of the compensation, and Lister accepted them.

Lister used ten vials to raise his attributes, then met Ian, who announced he was withdrawing from the special-resource competition and transferring to another recruit camp. Lister accepted Ian’s offer of friendship and waited for the transfer to take effect.

• Lister used ten vials and raised all four base attributes to 194.
• Wang Yue sent Lister messages showing that Ian had guided Lim and helped her target him.
• Ian invited Lister to meet and said he was withdrawing from the competition to become friends.
• Lister checked the camp notification and learned that Ian would transfer to Monroe Recruit Camp in seven days.
• Lister concluded Ian was cutting his losses and agreed to be friends with him.

Lister helped Reck improve his combat rating to Grade B, then won the recruit camp’s monthly exam and the special resource. Colonel Lafei of the Tenth Central Army Group arrived to distribute it and expressed interest in Lister’s talent.

• Lister trained Reck to defend against close-range attacks and retreat to ranged combat, helping him reach Grade B.
• Reck used Lister’s advice to defeat Jia’er and enter the top hundred in the monthly simulated combat exam.
• Lister held his top position as the exam concluded, earning 180 military merits and the camp’s special resource.
• Major Qi introduced Colonel Lafei, who praised Lister’s talent and said he would have invited him to join the Tenth Central Army Group if he were not a martial artist.

Lister used the Federation’s special enhancement resource and discovered it was a Soul Crystal, which he absorbed directly. The enhancement strengthened his soul and raised two skills to S-rank, leaving him with an SS-rank World-Ending Level rating.

• Colonel Lafei prepared the special enhancement pod and warned Lister that using the resource carried a 1–2% chance of death.
• Lister entered the pod, discovered the resource was a Soul Crystal, and chose to absorb it directly for greater utilization.
• Lister endured intense pain as the Soul Crystal entered him, then used his experience to raise Robust Soul from level 20 to level 60.
• Lister advanced Merrick Saber Technique to S-rank, gaining super armor while attacking and adding true damage to its strikes.
• Lister advanced Federation Shunpo to S-rank, gaining the ability to move through space within a 300-meter diameter.
• Lister’s overall rating rose from S-rank to SS-rank, labeled World-Ending Level.

Lister completed the enhancement chamber treatment, tested his newly improved skills, and briefly reached an SS-rank evaluation before leveling up lowered it. He chose to graduate early so he could return to the Merrick Civilization for experience, and Major Qi agreed to arrange his graduation with Reck.

• Colonel Lafei decided not to compete with Major Qi for Lister and left after Lister completed the enhancement treatment.
• Lister recovered, tested his S-rank Merrick Saber Technique and renamed Federation Shunpo to Flash, then reached SS-rank before leveling up dropped his evaluation to S-rank.
• Lister reviewed the Arcane Army Group's leave rules and decided to pursue early graduation so he could return to the Merrick Civilization.
• Lister asked Major Qi to arrange his graduation after the next monthly assessment, and Major Qi agreed to let him graduate at the rank of captain.
• Lister asked for Reck to graduate with him and be assigned to the same place, and Major Qi agreed.

Lister and Reck reported to the A73 Small Cruiser, where Lister was assigned to head the Landing Operations Department. Their arrival coincided with Major Boren arguing with headquarters over a mission, and Boren reacted angrily when he learned Lister was the new department head.

• Lister and Reck left the frigate on Satellite XQ333 and presented their transfer orders to the A73 Cruiser’s guard.
• Captain Cohen verified their orders, welcomed them aboard, and prepared to take them to Major Boren.
• Lister asked Cohen how to obtain leave and learned that Boren’s approval was required for the department head.
• Boren protested to Lieutenant Colonel Kali about losing a ten-thousand-point mission, then accepted a replacement mission worth one thousand points.
• After Cohen introduced Lister, Boren interrupted and cursed headquarters for sending a recruit to lead his Landing Operations Department.

Lister joined cruiser A73 as the provisional minister of landing operations, but Captain Boren assigned Major Thorn to guide him until he learned to command. As the ship sailed toward a new mission, Lister began taking charge of the department and appointed Reck as deputy leader of the second combat team.

• Captain Boren assessed Lister's strength but objected to putting a recruit in charge of landing operations, so he told Major Thorn to guide him.
• Major Thorn showed Lister and Reck around A73 and explained the ship's layout, reduced crew, and landing department.
• Cohen confirmed Lister's minister position and told him to raise his pending matter after the mission.
• Thorn advised Lister and Reck to change into their proper uniforms and rank insignia before reporting to the department.
• After A73 began sailing, Lister reviewed the officers and chose Reck to fill the vacant deputy leader position on the second combat team, with Thorn's approval.

Lister learned that the Landing Operations Department usually avoided combat to limit casualties, but the cruiser’s mission at CX412 turned out to involve a vast infestation of mutated giant black ants. After the cruiser’s cannons were forced to stop to protect the planet’s resources, the Landing Operations Department was ordered to prepare for battle.

• Major Thorn explained that the department usually kept soldiers out of combat and aimed to keep each mission’s death rate below one percent.
• Lister learned that the previous head of the Landing Operations Department had been demoted and transferred after the last mission’s high casualties.
• Lister and Major Thorn examined scans of CX412 and discovered that its population had been killed and giant black ants had spread across the planet.
• The cruiser fired its Magnetic Pulse Cannon and neutron cannon at a concentration of ants, but stopped the bombardment to avoid destroying the planet and its obsidian Fu stone.
• Major Thorn ordered the Landing Operations Department to prepare for combat as the cruiser could not safely eliminate the scattered ants from orbit.

Captain Boren debated abandoning the black-ant extermination mission, but Lister and Major Thorn landed on the resource planet to try to handle it. Lister revealed the force of his Killing Intent Wave and sensed every black ant underground before unleashing a surge of energy.

• Captain Boren rejected dangerous plans to send soldiers down and prepared to ask headquarters to reassign the mission.
• Truman reported that only Director Lister and Major Thorn had landed on the planet.
• Lister told Thorn he would take responsibility if he failed to deal with the black ants.
• A dozen giant black ants surrounded Lister and Thorn, and Lister said he would kill them directly.
• Lister spread his Killing Intent Wave, making the nearby ants tremble and the underground swarm shake.
• Lister sensed black ants across a radius of more than a hundred kilometers, opened his eyes, and released a violent energy fluctuation.

Lister used Killing Intent Wave to wipe out the black ants across a vast area while preserving the obsidian Fu Stone resources, revealing power that suggested he had Overlord Tier combat strength. Captain Boren investigated Lister’s restricted personnel file and learned he was a reserve talent, while Lister continued clearing the resource planet.

• Lister’s Killing Intent Release killed the nearby black ants, earning experience and showing Major Thorn the scale of his strength.
• Captain Boren found that Lister’s transfer order omitted his tier and combat power, then discovered his restricted file identified him as Federation Military District reserve talent.
• Boren questioned the bald head of the Cadre Division, who explained that Major Qi had arranged Lister’s transfer and confirmed that Lister had Overlord Tier combat power.
• The bald major hinted that headquarters did not yet plan to reclaim Lister from the A73, and Boren agreed to thank him during his next leave.
• Lister used his saber to kill the remaining black ants above and below ground, then told Major Thorn that they needed to clear more areas.

Lister led the Landing Operations Department in wiping out the black ants on a resource planet with support from the cruiser’s radar and artillery departments. After learning how mission rewards were distributed, he realized military merit was much harder to earn in the army group than it had been at the recruit camp.

• Captain Boren arranged full support from the radar and artillery departments and prepared the ship’s officers to help Lister complete the mission.
• Truman used the electromagnetic cannon and particle imaging to locate and restrain the black ants while the artillery cleared paths for Lister and Major Thorn.
• Lister unleashed his Killing Intent Wave against the ant colonies, then officers followed up at seventeen underground locations and killed the remaining ants across the planet.
• Lister asked Major Thorn about the mission’s military merit and learned that the Landing Operations Department could receive up to 300 points, which he had authority to distribute.
• Thorn explained that enlisted personnel often waited a year or longer for merit points, and Lister realized that even earning 180 points a month would be difficult in the army group.

After Ship A73 completed its mission, Lister secured the Landing Operations Department’s standing and learned about the possibility of forming a Civilization Army for the Merrick Civilization. He left the conversation interested in pursuing that path, while Major Boren hoped to keep him on the ship.

• Lister issued orders and filed the mission records as Ship A73 finished its work and prepared to resupply.
• Captain Boren announced that headquarters would continue assigning missions after Ship A73’s successful operation, and the officers welcomed Lister to the ship.
• The officers distributed military merit, giving the Landing Operations Department 300 points and leaving the rest of the share largely to the captain and deputy captains.
• Captain Boren apologized to Lister, arranged a private training room for him, and guaranteed the Landing Operations Department at least five percent of future mission merit.
• Captain Boren urged Lister to stay on Ship A73 and explained that Lister could eventually establish a Civilization Army if he became a major and gathered enough military merit and resources.
• Lister asked about the requirements for establishing a Civilization Army and became interested in forming one for the Merrick Civilization.

Lister arranged two weeks of leave to return to the Merrick Civilization and delegated the Landing Operations Department’s daily work while he was away. As he prepared to leave aboard the warship A73, he learned how the Galactic Federation’s warships relied on different Class Holders to amplify their weapons.

• Captain Boren approved Lister’s two-week leave, which would begin when the warship reached Planet A4323.
• Lister told the Landing Operations Department that Lieutenant Zahn would handle its daily work during his absence, with Second Lieutenant Reck assisting.
• Lister distributed military merit to the department’s company-grade officers, giving most three points and Reck five.
• Lister visited other department heads aboard the warship A73 and found they treated him with deference because of rumors about his S-rank combat power.
• Lister learned that telekinetic, mechanical, and magic Class Holders powered the warship’s weapons, while martial arts Class Holders were considered less useful aboard ship.

Lister accepted a personal mission to capture the fugitive Powell in the Yalan Civilization, where he recognized Powell as the notorious Dog Profiteer from his past life. He found Powell’s shop and agreed to buy an S-rank saber, leaving his plan for the mission unclear.

• Captain Boren offered Lister extra leave in exchange for a personal mission to capture or execute the C-rank fugitive Powell in the Yalan Civilization.
• Lister traveled to the Yalan governing planet and learned that Powell had fled there after murdering two Arcane Civilization citizens.
• A blacksmith’s hammering reminded Lister that Powell was the Dog Profiteer from his previous life, and he hurried to Powell’s shop.
• Powell displayed expensive sabers and claimed their attributes would be revealed only after purchase.
• Lister pretended to choose Powell’s S-rank saber and agreed to buy it for thirty thousand credits, then said he had one condition to make clear.