Recaps

Kang De sought the Phoenix King Dairila’s knowledge of the Grewind Swarm, and she found a book describing the insect plague and how to eradicate it. Dairila left after giving him the book and more treats, while Horus suspected she was acting shy because someone had been encouraging her to favor Kang De.

• Kang De decided to ask the elves about the Grewind Swarm and met Dairila outside Danfeng Lucerne after Horus teased him about their relationship.
• Dairila examined the pinned locust and said she had never heard of it, but offered to ask the scholars in her camp for information.
• Dairila returned with a book about the insect plague and gave it to Kang De, while declining to provide spells or supplies for destroying the swarm.
• Kang De gave Dairila another stack of treats, and she left after telling him to take care of himself and grow stronger.
• Horus scanned the book and noted that its ink was fresh, then called Dairila a tsundere.

Kang De and Tina translated Dairila’s book of methods for defeating the Grewind Swarm, while the Phoenix King Malegith revealed her secret plans and her connection to Kang De. The book’s only apparently feasible solution for stopping the swarm’s controller was Dragon Might.

• Kang De realized Dairila had written the freshly prepared book, then brought it to Tina, who began translating its ancient Elvish text.
• Tina translated the book while sitting with Kang De, and they found detailed countermeasures against the Grewind Swarm, including several ways to attack its controlling entity.
• Dairila returned to her tent and found her ancestor Malegith waiting there, eating her snacks and teasing her about Kang De and the Divine Ring of Stellar Authority.
• Malegith told Dairila that the ring was a bridge transmitting power to break through barriers, and privately resolved to act before others could discover her plans.
• Tina explained that most of the book’s proposed methods relied on lost elven techniques or devices, but its final option was Dragon Might.

Kang De and Tina found that an elven book proposed using Dragon Might to destroy Big Bob’s hive consciousness, a method that might work through Kang De’s Fire Thief ability. Kang De sought Lily’s help and confirmed that dragons possessed Dragon Might, then challenged her by asking whether she was brave enough to let him use it.

• Tina read that dragons had once used Dragon Might and Dragon Language Magic to destroy a swarm’s hive consciousness, and she and Kang De suspected the book’s account was deliberately aimed at him.
• Kang De decided to try the book’s method, reasoning that he could verify it with a dragon while the Goth mages prepared to fight the locust plague.
• Tina joked with Kang De as they cuddled, then said she wished she could help him on Earth.
• Kang De met Lily and asked about dragon combat abilities, disguising his request as a way to prepare for their coming battle.
• Lily agreed to share information for payment and confirmed that she had Dragon Might, prompting Kang De to ask whether she was brave enough.

Kang De studied Lily’s Dragon Might and unexpectedly extracted it into a pale golden crystal. The result left Lily in tears as she recognized Kang De as a possible Fire Thief.

• Lily asked Kang De to recreate his earlier expression and tone, then wrote in her notebook as he repeated the line for her.
• After their transaction, Lily released controlled Dragon Might while Kang De used his mental power to sense and study it.
• Kang De offered to help Lily find a missing dragon, but she angrily rejected his offer and warned that the enemy behind the disappearance was beyond him.
• Lily’s turbulent Dragon Might surged toward Kang De, whose soul confronted her through the mark of Akatum.
• Kang De transformed Lily’s Dragon Might into a pale golden crystal, and Lily wept before asking whether he was a Fire Thief.

Kang De learned that Lily recognized him as the Fire Thief and needed his help uncovering what happened to the previous Fire Thief and his companions. Lily gave him the essence of a dragon through a covenant, then asked him to invent a story about her falling in love with him to explain their bond to the Dragon Emperor.

• Lily identified Kang De as the Fire Thief, explained how Dragon Language could help him fight the Grewind Swarm, and asked him to find answers about the previous Fire Thief's final battle.
• Kang De agreed to help Lily and keep their secrets, but concealed his suspicions about the creatures on the Holy Seal Archipelago.
• Lily asked Kang De to invent a story and joined their foreheads, using Dragon Language to grant him the ability to cast dragon spells.
• Lily and Kang De received Proof of the Covenant rings, and the covenant's power alerted Malegith and Dairila.
• Lily told Kang De that Dragon Island's Dragon Emperor knew about their covenant and asked him to claim that she had fallen desperately in love with him.
• A story spread through Danfeng Lucerne about Kang De winning the heart of a young female dragon in his fiancée's home.

After making a Dragon’s Covenant with Lily, Kang De prepared to learn Dragon Language Magic and reassured A Xing and Tina, who accepted the arrangement without jealousy. The chapter ended with the president of Fr*nce urging Chakat II to cooperate for Kang De’s sake.

• Santos warned Kang De that Lily’s status made the covenant a serious matter, and Kang De argued that it could benefit Dragon Island Defense.
• Kang De and Lily agreed to proceed with their bargain, and Lily told him to reassure Tina and the Crimson Queen before they began practicing Dragon Language Magic.
• A Xing told Kang De she had witnessed the covenant and promised to keep it secret, then asked Lily to pretend to be close to Kang De to provoke Tina; Lily refused.
• Tina explained that she understood the Dragon’s Covenant and believed Kang De had made a practical deal with Lily, then encouraged him to stay cautious and confident.
• Tina sent Kang De back to learn Dragon Language Magic, while Stella admitted she was overwhelmed by Tina’s calm response.
• In Moyani, the president of Fr*nce appealed to Chakat II to cooperate and invoked Kang De as a reason to prevent the crisis from worsening.

After Kang De threatened Frnce, its president tried to persuade Chakat II to hand over Kang De’s father as leverage, but the king refused and pledged Comora’s support for Kang De. The president turned toward a plan to kidnap Kang Jinzhu and deploy Frnce’s trained superpowered forces.

• Fr*nce mobilized its defenses and the president urged Chakat II to help stop Kang De by handing Kang Jinzhu over to them.
• Chakat II rejected the president’s offer, saying Comora would stand by Kang De because he trusted him and would keep his promise.
• The president threatened Comora with Fr*nce’s retaliation, but Chakat II declared that his people would fight alongside their friend, even if they had to die.
• After the negotiations failed, Fr*nce prepared to kidnap Kang Jinzhu and send its elite superpowered forces after Kang De.
• Chakat II told the president that he would take pride in Comora refusing to submit, and mocked him as a politician who served votes and interest groups.

After the French president threatened Kang De’s father, Chakat II left the Chinese embassy to face the approaching crisis with his people, while international teams raced toward Comora. A French strike team planned to seize Kang Jinzhu and kill Kang De, leaving the coming confrontation imminent.

• Ambassador He urged Chakat II to stay in the Chinese embassy, but the king chose to return to his people and warned that France might target Kang Jinzhu to pressure Kang De.
• Ambassador He said China had sent specialists to protect the embassy and Kang Jinzhu, while Chakat II left without using Kang De’s signaling device.
• A Chinese team flew toward Comora to protect the embassy and its citizens, though its members criticized Kang De’s recklessness.
• Extraordinary teams from several countries headed for Comora, while France’s six-person team planned to capture Kang Jinzhu and kill Kang De.
• The French team’s leader inspected their armor and axe and demanded that Kang De be left to him for the final blow.

As a locust swarm approached Moyani, Chakat II tried to keep Comora’s panicking people united while French special forces plotted to seize Kang Jinzhu and turn the crowd against the king. When Oulus captured Chakat II, Bulahan stood up for him and was killed, just as Kang De appeared to seize Oulus’s arm.

• Chakat II toured Moyani and urged the people to trust him and Kang De while rumors and fear spread.
• Oulus and his French team prepared to exploit the swarm’s arrival, attack the Chinese embassy, and capture Kang Jinzhu.
• As the locust swarm reached Comora, the crowd turned against Chakat II, and Oulus’s team overturned the king’s vehicle and captured him.
• Oulus denounced Chakat II before the crowd and urged them to kill him, while the king hesitated over his signal device.
• Bulahan called for Oulus to let the king go, and Oulus killed him with his battle-axe.
• Oulus noticed the signal device and began attacking Chakat II, but Kang De appeared in flames and seized Oulus’s arm.

Kang De rescued the king and fled to the Chinese embassy, where he turned to face the French team pursuing him. He left Oulus broken, killed the archer and another French fighter, and the chapter ended with the other extraordinary observers too afraid to intervene.

• Oulus attacked Kang De while trying to kill the king, but Kang De rescued the king and carried him toward the embassy as the French team and foreign observers pursued them.
• Kang De left the king with the ambassador and asked the Chinese comrades to protect him, then sent Horus underground to carry out a separate task.
• Kang De rejected the instructor's request to stay inside the embassy and teleported out to confront Oulus.
• Kang De blocked Oulus's axe, disarmed him, broke his limbs and jaw, and left him alive as the stunned onlookers watched.
• Kang De fashioned a bow from the battle-axe shaft and concrete, then shot the archer dead despite his explosive, poison, and incendiary arrows.
• Kang De pursued a French swordsman and cut through his weapon, hand, armor, and body, while the other extraordinary beings watched without helping.

Kang De killed the remaining French combatants despite the Chinese instructor’s pleas to negotiate, then faced the approaching Grewind Swarm as international observers watched. He activated the citywide holy-light network and raised a radiant dome that sealed Moyani off from the swarm.

• The French president learned that Kang De had defeated the French team and ordered calls to China and France’s allies while hoping Big Bob would still negotiate.
• Kang De pursued and killed the French wind-controlling woman, rejecting the instructor’s demand that he stop and settle the dispute with France.
• Kang De killed another French transcendent in front of the Americans, then refused to let them leave as the Grewind Swarm approached Moyani.
• Horus confirmed the ritual preparations were complete, and Kang De activated the Divine Ring of Stellar Authority before international observers and the city’s residents.
• Holy-light structures rose around Moyani and joined into a dome that kept the Grewind Swarm outside the city.

Kang De raised a sacred canopy over Moyani to shield the city from the Grewind Swarm, stunning superhumans and world leaders. He confronted Bob Buruo above the canopy and prepared a hidden counterattack as the swarm tried to tunnel beneath the city.

• Kang De used the Church of the Sun’s power to raise a dome of light that protected Moyani from the Grewind Swarm.
• World leaders and the superhumans witnessed Kang De’s feat, while he forced the Americans to choose between cleaning the ground and being killed.
• Kang De ordered the instructor to gather the monsters and superhumans in the city, then flew beyond the canopy to confront Bob Buruo.
• Kang De and Bob Buruo exchanged threats as Bob Buruo revealed that locusts formed his avatar and sent tunneling worms beneath Comora.
• Kang De snapped his fingers to activate buried sacred artifacts and violent totems that shook and sealed the earth, preparing to stop Bob Buruo’s attack.

Kang De defeated Big Bob’s Grewind Swarm over Moyani with lightning, a blizzard, and Dragon Might, then reunited with his father and prepared to pursue Big Bob in Gambia. He left Chakat II with plans to take over Gambia and declared that he would conquer the country.

• Goth’s forces stopped the underground locust attack while Kang De held the swarm’s attention above Moyani.
• Kang De summoned a vast lightning storm and blizzard, exploiting the Grewind Swarm’s weaknesses as the extraordinary individuals and world governments watched.
• Kang De revealed Tacitus’s power, then used Dragon Might to break Big Bob’s control of the locusts and bring down the swarm.
• Kang De returned to the embassy, embraced Kang Jinzhu, and told him they were going home.
• Kang De told Chakat II to prepare to take over Gambia, then told Qin Mengjin he would hunt Big Bob and conquer the country.

Kang De breached Big Bob’s underground palace and discovered the Grewind Swarm’s hive, where abducted people were kept in living pods to sustain the swarm. He confronted Big Bob as the former mercenary emerged from the hive’s central pool.

• Big Bob called the president of the Fifth Republic of Fr*nce and demanded protection in exchange for sharing the secrets beneath Zhuerban.
• The president rejected Big Bob’s pleas, but Big Bob sent evidence to his private email and asked him to send the frigate Knight Astolfo to Banjul.
• Kang De reached the underground palace and used the Power of the Fire Thief to remove its outer wall, then illuminated the enormous chamber with the Sun God Ring.
• Kang De saw that the hive held countless abducted people in transparent pods while the Grewind Swarm covered its interconnected veins and branches.
• Big Bob rose from the central pool, connected to the hive’s network, and confronted Kang De.

Kang De confronted Big Bob in the Grewind Swarm’s hive, rejected his bargain and refused to be deterred by the tens of thousands of captives Big Bob threatened. As Big Bob set the swarm to gnawing through their cages, Kang De tried to destroy the locusts with the Power of the Fire Thief and was overwhelmed by a torrent of Elements, mental power, and memories.

• Big Bob gathered the Grewind Swarm around himself and challenged Kang De, who mocked him and launched an attack.
• Kang De fought through the hive’s tentacles, struck its central core with a mass of mountainside, and forced Big Bob to flee through the hive.
• Big Bob offered Kang De the swarm’s secrets and control in exchange for his life, but Kang De refused and said the hive should be destroyed.
• Big Bob ordered the locusts to gnaw through the captives’ fruit-like cages, threatening to kill them one by one while he hid in the hive.
• Kang De searched the hive with his mental power and used the Power of the Fire Thief to break down the locusts, but a flood of Elements, mental power, and memories surged into him.

Kang De traced the Grewind Swarm’s memories to a primordial power that demanded he accept his destiny, then returned to find the hive subdued and Big Bob fleeing. He realized that the swarm had been created from White Mist extracted from humans, linking it to the empty mirror world.

• Kang De searched the memories of Gambia’s people and discovered centuries of Grewind Swarm activity and the suffering it had caused.
• While Kang De remained absorbed in the hive, Big Bob tried to trap him with explosives, but Big Bob’s body refused to detonate them and the swarm cast the explosives away.
• Kang De followed the hive’s memories back to its ancient defeat and saw a familiar East Asian man fighting alongside powerful companions.
• At the end of the world, a mysterious voice offered Kang De the hive’s power and urged him to fulfill his mission, but Kang De rejected it before being sent back.
• Kang De awoke to find the hive silent and learned Big Bob had fled; he then concluded that the hive had obtained its energy and materials from the White Mist he had extracted from humans.

Kang De discovered that the Grewind Swarm produced White Mist and feared it was connected to a coming catastrophe that could turn Earth into the White Mist World. After Horus helped him regain his composure, Kang De pursued Big Bob aboard a French warship and prepared to end his story.

• Kang De realized that the Grewind Swarm’s essence was White Mist and worried that Earth might become a lifeless world as the White Mist World’s time anchor drew closer.
• Horus reminded Kang De how he had faced danger during the Battle of Glittering Sand, and Kang De steadied himself and decided to act rather than wait.
• Kang De left the hive’s human captives in its care and told Horus they would kill Big Bob, whose location the Swarm had heard.
• Big Bob fled aboard the French frigate Knight Astolfo, but Kang De appeared on the bridge and subdued the captain and crew with an invisible force.
• Kang De confronted Big Bob, rejected Qin Mengjin’s warning that a leader wanted to speak with him, and told Big Bob to look into his eyes.

Kang De rejected the French president’s plea to spare Big Bob for the sake of humanity’s research and killed him, then told the watching world leaders that his own power and control of the insect nest made him the bigger picture. The president was left furious and shocked as Kang De asserted his dominance.

• The French president contacted Kang De remotely and endured his insults before asking him to spare Big Bob so the world could study the insect nest and prepare for future threats.
• Kang De questioned the president’s appeal to the bigger picture, pointing to the victims of Big Bob’s crimes and comparing the president’s reasoning to the pardon of Japanese war criminals after World War II.
• Kang De used the Power of the Fire Thief to destroy Big Bob’s body and soul in front of the watching leaders.
• The president demanded to know why Kang De had killed Big Bob, and Kang De replied that he controlled the situation and could destroy the insect nest whenever he chose.

Kang De forced the world powers to consider his demands for Zhuerban, a unified Gambia and Comora, and an extraordinary-individual school in exchange for access to the Grewind hive. After returning to the White Mist World, he explained that he wanted Earth’s scientists to study the coming threats, while secretly planning to obtain their research and equipment; the chapter ended with him discovering the hive had no people in it.

• Kang De killed Big Bob, rejected the French president’s objections, and demanded that Gambia and Comora unite under Chakat II, with Zhuerban becoming his fief.
• Kang De offered the nations access to the hive’s research in Zhuerban, where they would pay for land and rent, station troops, and fund his school for extraordinary individuals.
• Kang De warned that tens of thousands of people were hanging inside the hive and urged the leaders to act quickly; after the call ended, he asked the ship’s captain to take him back to Gambia by sea.
• Kang De returned to Zhuerban and told Horus he wanted Earth’s scientific experts to study the Grewind Swarm and prepare for future disasters.
• Kang De explained that he could secretly acquire the nations’ research data and equipment through the White Mist World, then discovered that the enormous hive held only locusts and no people.

The five permanent members rushed to deploy forces in Zhuerban, while Kang De let Chakat II handle Comora’s impending union with Gambia and said goodbye to his father. After Kang Jinzhu left under international escort, Kang De returned to the White Mist World to prepare for the coming battle with the dragons and the Grewind Swarm.

• France’s advance party reached Zhuerban, where it found a Chinese camp already established with heavy vehicles and supplies, prompting the United States and Russia to revise their deployment plans.
• The five nations moved to conceal the Swarm disaster in Gambia, while Chakat II took charge of negotiations and prepared to absorb Gambia’s remaining regions into Comora.
• Chakat II offered to build an elite Comoran force loyal to Kang De, and Kang De advised him to consider a public trial for Gambia’s king.
• Kang Jinzhu departed for home in a convoy escorted by forces from five countries, and he urged Kang De to protect himself and those he cared about.
• After the convoy left, Kang De returned to the White Mist World with Horus and planned to repair the frigate, study the hive, and prepare for the dragons.
• Kang De boarded the Horizon-class frigate and declared that they needed to find a way to get it moving before the dragons came from the sea.

After negotiating a deal with the five permanent members, Kang De reunited with his family and Xiaoman before preparing to return to the other world. The chapter left him facing the dragon race’s challenge and seeking answers about the Grewind Swarm and the Sound of Destruction.

• Kang De negotiated an eight-billion-dollar deal with China, the United States, Russia, Britain, and France to dig a shaft to the insect nest, accepting most of the payment in goods.
• The five countries’ explorers reached the insect nest and discovered humans being cultivated and harvested among dormant locusts.
• Kang De returned to China and reunited with Mama Kang, Papa Kang, Uncle Wang, and Xiaoman.
• Uncle Wang reprimanded Kang De for leaving him to handle pressure from people seeking cooperation, and Kang De asked him to keep acting as an intermediary.
• Kang De told Xiaoman he planned to return to the other world, where he would face the dragon race’s challenge and investigate the Grewind Swarm and the Sound of Destruction.
• The next morning, Mama Kang praised Xiaoman and told Kang De to eat and leave.

After returning to Maple Leaf Fort, Kang De reassured Tina and A Xing before heading out to speak with Lily about the Grewind Swarm and the previous Fire Thief. He learned that Lily knew little about the swarm’s creator, then left to seek answers from a cheeky parrot.

• Kang De returned to Maple Leaf Fort, where Tina asked whether everything had gone smoothly and welcomed him back.
• Tina noticed Kang De’s awkward response to her affection and asked A Xing, “What’s her name?”
• Kang De brought Horus from the White Mist World and discussed plans for calling his mother between worlds and operating the Knight Astolfo.
• Kang De confronted Lily with a recording of her earlier pleas, told her he had dealt with the insect nest, and asked about the Grewind Swarm’s creator and the phrase “Bring down the veil of doomsday.”
• Kang De told Lily that the Fire Thief’s power had shown him memories of the previous Fire Thief, and Lily reacted angrily when he said she was pretty.
• Kang De ended his conversation with Lily and set out to question a cheeky parrot.

Kang De tested Horus’s new Transformer body while traveling to the elf encampment to meet the empress. When an officer obstructed him, Kang De escalated the confrontation and left the elves watching a blazing meteor descend from the sky.

• Kang De rode Horus’s newly built motorcycle body and joked with him about its combat forms and possible powered armor.
• Kang De reached the Elf Expeditionary Force’s camp and asked a patrol to arrange a meeting with the empress.
• Xinqiduo-Gelipeng challenged Kang De’s unannounced visit and refused to pass along his message without hearing his reason.
• Kang De fired rockets into empty ground to wake the camp, then warned the officer that he would answer for provoking a grand forbidden spell mage.
• Xinqiduo-Gelipeng drew his sword, and a huge blazing meteor appeared in the sky as the elves stared at Kang De.

Kang De intercepted a fiery object falling toward the elven camp and sent it through a portal into Zhuerban, where it caused extensive destruction. After Horus ejected him during their return, Dairila caught him and publicly hinted that he had come to the camp for her.

• Kang De and Horus flew toward the elven camp to intercept the falling object, which the elves had mistaken for Kang De’s forbidden spell.
• Kang De discovered the object was not an ordinary rock and sent it through a portal into Zhuerban, where it shattered buildings and damaged the city.
• Silver-gray locusts emerged beneath Zhuerban and devoured fragments from the impact site after Kang De and Horus left.
• Horus ejected Kang De when his power system could no longer carry them both, and Dairila caught him in a princess carry.
• An elf accused Kang De of staging the incident, but Dairila cleared him and hinted to the assembled elves that she knew why he had secretly visited the camp.

The Phoenix King defended Kang De from her officers, then privately revealed herself as Malegith, the ancient Phoenix King, who had been impersonating Dairila. Malegith claimed Dairila was sealed inside her own body, but Kang De trusted that Malegith would not harm her.

• The Phoenix King rebuked Oliverjia for condemning her friendship with Kang De and ordered the elven forces to stand down and patrol the area.
• The Phoenix King dragged Kang De into her tent, dismissed concerns about his engagement to the Princess of Goth, and explained that she had been happy to see him protect her.
• Kang De mistook the Phoenix King’s confession for a prank by Parrot and rejected it, prompting the disguised figure to burst into laughter.
• The figure revealed herself as Malegith, defeated Kang De in a scuffle, and claimed she had sealed Dairila’s soul and taken control of her body.
• Kang De asked what had happened in Twilight Moon, then told Malegith he trusted her not to harm Dairila because of the sacrifices she had made in the past.