Recaps

Lister established the Merrick Government, recruited talent, and built up its civilization while serving with the Arcane Civilization’s military. He joined Roland’s secret venture to harvest Soul Crystals, helped kill a Soul-Devouring Spider mother, and returned stronger to find Jiji had awakened his own consciousness.

• Lister commissioned Powell to forge Jiji, Merrick’s Tyranny Bracers, and the Resentful Eye Monster, then returned to Merrick and established its government with Quint as speaker.
• Lister and his team recruited thousands of people from Chali Nation and neighboring countries, including Sariel and Hunter, to advance Merrick’s civilization.
• After Merrick’s rapid growth, Lister received Merrick’s Tyranny Bracers and learned that Jiji’s upgrade had given him a breeding chamber for temporary Evil Shadow Mechanical Birds.
• Lister joined Roland’s plan to exterminate a cultivated Soul-Devouring Spider mother in return for a share of the Soul Crystals.
• Lister and Roland fought the broodmother after clearing its offspring, and Lister killed it despite suffering severe toxin damage.
• Lister divided the Soul Crystals with Roland and Wang Yue, then Wang Yue captured the next broodmother for Lister to cultivate.
• Lister used ten Soul Crystals to raise Robust Soul to level 165 and upgraded Merrick Saber Technique to SS-grade.
• Lister visited Powell’s store and learned that Jiji had awakened his own consciousness, then renewed their symbiotic contract.

Lister founded the Merrick Civilization Army, advanced to major general, and led its first major campaign against the Sun Wheel Church. After defeating Archbishop Sunflare, he secured ships and alloy for Merrick and began building the army’s officers and military industry.

• Lister helped Kavin and Hoffman escape the Federation’s assault, then left the Arcane Civilization Army and established the Merrick Civilization Army.
• Merrick rose to a level-three civilization, and Lister opened its recruit camp, where players flooded enlistment and trained in the Merrick Saber Technique.
• Lister accepted an exclusive advancement quest to expand the army and raise its officers’ ranks, while Quint and Wang Yue gained House of Representatives seats for Merrick.
• Lister became a major general and army commander, then accepted a mission to secure Tantalum Dark Alloy in the Maizhe Galaxy.
• Lister led the Merrick forces and players against the Sun Wheel Church, whose warriors discovered that the army’s soldiers could revive after death.
• Archbishop Sunflare and his bishops attacked Lister, but Lister killed them and routed the church’s forces, completing the conscription mission.
• Lister kept the Sun Wheel Church’s warships, shared the mission’s military merits with his officers, and arranged a long-term alloy supply and the opening of Merrick’s first military factory.

Lister ascended to Hegemon, secured Merrick’s level-four status, and conquered the Babylon and Blue Cluster Galaxies while building alliances. After centuries of preparation, he and his allies struck Beta and Witchcraft with Boren’s collapsing mechanical core, leaving both civilizations reeling.

• Lister advanced to Hegemon, killed Admiral Vidal in the Soul Barrier, and gained Boren Leviathan’s protection as Merrick’s ascension was approved.
• Lister helped Kavin seize the Babylon Galaxy, defeated Yatke and the Star Matrix Civilization, then took the Blue Cluster Galaxy and renamed it the God's Rise Civilization.
• Lister accepted the Lord of Qingteng’s contract to protect the future Seed of Eternity in exchange for resources, forces, and the right to cultivate the seed.
• Three hundred years later, Lister, Kavin, Wang Yue, and Hoffman began a revenge plan with Boren, preparing to turn his unstable mechanical core into a devastating weapon.
• Lister mobilized Merrick and its allies while Sailuo and Pas directed the Soul-Devouring Spider toward Merrick’s territory.
• Pas confronted the Soul-Devouring Spider mother and tried to force it to lay eggs in Merrick’s Star Region, using an imitation of Lister’s aura to frighten it.
• Lister and Kavin detonated Boren’s core in the QR Star Region after stalling Sailuo and Morris, escaping as the collapse destroyed Beta’s Third Ruling Planet and parts of Witchcraft’s core region.

Lister defeated the Galactic Federation’s enemies, built a new coalition, and expanded his power while the Undying Legion fought the Void Corridor and other factions. The Machine-Slaying Federation was founded with control over thirty-six galaxies, while a future war with the Star Machine Civilization remained more than three hundred years away.

• Lister defeated Sailuo, Zion, and Morris, abolished the old Galactic Federation Constitution, and ordered the creation of a new Federation.
• Lister contracted with the damaged Soul Barrier, then announced the Galactic Era and rebuilt the Federation’s constitution and military structure.
• Lister formed a new power against the Void Corridor, led the Undying Legion into the N7 Galaxy, and forced a limited settlement after Curtis and other World Annihilation experts intervened.
• Lister assembled Hegemons to attack Gebeier, claimed the Angis Galaxy after defeating its factions, and trained inside the Eye of Ashes barrier until his Merrick Saber Technique and Flash reached SSS rank.
• Lister announced the Hegemon’s Trial, while Kavin claimed the Ancient Machine Holy Grail and learned that several powers had attacked the Ancient Machine Kingdom.
• Lister drove off Ruler Two and confronted Aiselyn, then founded the Machine-Slaying Federation and showed its delegates that it controlled thirty-six galaxies.
• Lister and Kavin agreed to wait more than three hundred years before confronting the Star Machine Civilization, while Hoffman reached the Overlord Tier without attaining World Annihilation level.