Recaps

A teleportation array returned Daku’er-Clark, a sailor from the Sea Traveler, whose mind had been shattered by contact with an immense unknown presence. As the Arcane Council debated whether to heed Kang De’s warning about the deep-sea monster, new intelligence left the Grand Speaker stunned and prompted him to contact Kang De.

• Tuolan detected Daku’er-Clark’s teleportation into the Admiralty and sealed him behind isolation barriers.
• The Life Department inspector concluded that an unknown being had destroyed Daku’er-Clark’s mental defenses, and the Grand Speaker ordered him honored and buried.
• Councilor Fermat urged the Grand Speaker to reconsider Kang De’s warning, while Councilor Aokexindun opposed retreating before the Council gathered more intelligence.
• The Grand Speaker received a report describing an underwater city, a vast unknown mind, and the word “Mudblood.”
• The Minister of the Navy delivered a top-secret document, and the Grand Speaker ordered a message sent to Kang De.

After the overnight evacuation saved tens of thousands of people from the Broken Isles, Kang De learned that sea monsters had trapped the Arcane Council’s Azure Fleet and planned a limited rescue. The Council then asked him to prioritize its fleet over the ongoing evacuation of the Broken Isles.

• More than thirty-eight thousand people were evacuated to Distant Harbor, and exhausted volunteers returned home with food, milk tea, and work points.
• Tex and the other passengers heard about the Friendship Store, while a dock laborer broke down as he realized his work and life were finally being valued.
• Hong San reported that the Arcane Council’s Azure Fleet was under attack by the same sea monsters that devastated the Broken Isles.
• Kang De discovered the Council had withheld information about the Sea Traveler and offered to send three transport planes to rescue whoever could reach them.
• Master O’Malley asked Kang De to prioritize saving the Azure Fleet over the refugees of the Broken Isles.

Kang De rejected the Arcane Council’s demand to prioritize rescuing the Azure Fleet, insisting that everyone still waiting on the Broken Isles had to be evacuated first. After punching Master O'Malley and risking a break with the Council, Kang De found comfort in Dairila’s promise to stand with him.

• Master O'Malley asked Kang De to prioritize saving the Azure Fleet, but Kang De said he would first evacuate the remaining people on the Broken Isles.
• Kang De realized O'Malley believed the Council’s rewards and alliance outweighed the lives of the remaining survivors, and condemned his reasoning.
• O'Malley offered wealth, laborers, and the Council’s friendship in exchange for abandoning the survivors, but Kang De refused to weigh their lives against those benefits.
• Kang De declared that he would rescue every survivor before providing the Azure Fleet more than limited support from three transport planes, and warned the Council to state plainly if it wanted war.
• Kang De punched O'Malley and ordered Hong San to escort him out; Hong San admitted he had considered the Council’s proposal rational.
• Kang De asked Dairila whether he had done the right thing, and she embraced him and promised to fight the Council alongside him.

Kang De and Dairila teased each other before she challenged him to name three things they could share that were unique to them. Dairila encouraged him to prepare better so he would not have to choose between saving the Broken Isles and the Azure Fleet, and Kang De left to begin the next stage of the rescue operation.

• Dairila confronted Kang De over teasing her, pinned him down, and grew jealous when she realized he had shared many experiences with Parrot.
• Kang De joked with Dairila, and she ordered him to come up with three experiences that would belong only to the two of them.
• Dairila learned that Kang De had already arranged air transport for the Azure Fleet and praised him for not blaming its soldiers for the Council's failures.
• Dairila urged Kang De to prepare enough resources in the future to save everyone rather than face impossible choices, and they agreed to work toward that together.
• Horus told Kang De that the Azure Fleet rescue plan was ready and the Broken Isles airlift was entering its final push.
• Kang De met O'Malley and demanded the last known coordinates and depth of the sunken submarine as the first payment and condition for rescuing the Azure Fleet.

The Grand Speaker concluded that Kang De had sided with the elves because he was involved with the Phoenix King, and the Arcane Council voted to treat him as an enemy while preparing to aid the Azure Fleet. When Kang De requested the Sea Traveler’s attack coordinates as a condition for rescue, the Council debated whether to reveal its discoveries, but new communications from the missing vessel brought an unknown script and news that it had sunk into deep-sea ruins.

• The Grand Speaker and the councilors interpreted Kang De’s refusal to rescue the Azure Fleet as proof that the Phoenix King’s love had drawn him into the elves’ camp.
• The Grand Speaker declared Kang De an enemy, and the Council voted to halt reconciliation efforts, counter Distant Harbor, develop aircraft, and prepare defenses against a forbidden-spell mage.
• The Council debated further aid for the Azure Fleet and refused to share the Sea Traveler’s coordinates, which were tied to discoveries of a monster and an ancient undersea city.
• Kang De asked the Council for the Sea Traveler’s astral coordinates as his first condition for rescuing the Azure Fleet.
• The Minister of the Navy reported that communications with the Sea Traveler had resumed, but an unknown operator had sent a message in an unfamiliar script.
• The Grand Speaker demanded the vessel’s coordinates and learned that it had sunk into deep-sea ruins.

Kang De coordinated the Broken Isles evacuation while arranging supplies for the Azure Fleet, whose commander refused to abandon her crew. As dawn approached, Kang De prepared to confront whatever controlled the sea monsters.

• Kang De rejected the risk of building a submersible and ordered a delayed bombing plan based on the Arcane Council’s unverified coordinates while the Broken Isles evacuation entered its final stage.
• Kang De saw that the Azure Fleet had formed a fortified wall of ice and wind against the sea monsters, but its remote position left him with no practical way to evacuate or support it with fire.
• Kang De sent three Azure Fleet spellcasters to establish contact, but Nixiyasi refused evacuation because she would not leave any of her people behind.
• Nixiyasi accepted Kang De’s offer of fuel, bedding, magic crystals, potions, and other supplies, while Kang De promised to seek a way to save the fleet after evacuating the Broken Isles.
• Kang De suggested killing whatever controlled the monsters, then promised Nixiyasi he would try to save the entire fleet; supplies arrived as the evacuation continued and a great rumbling began across the sea before dawn.

Kang De’s deep-sea bombing failed, and he prepared to confront the awakened monster while evacuating the Broken Isles. As the Starry Sky Council discovered that the Yilan Sea Stele recorded a lost civilization, a colossal tentacle burst from the sea.

• Kang De learned that the bombs had failed, and Dairila suspected the Council had concealed what lay at the bombing site.
• Kang De planned to meet the monster at the Broken Isles and use Mass Projection, while Dairila watched the sea with Phoenix Vision.
• Kang De ordered the final evacuation, and soldiers and civilians boarded transport planes as units withdrew from the islands.
• The curator told the Starry Sky Council that the Yilan Sea Stele contained the last record of an ancient civilization, prompting the grand speaker to question why the monster was among its ruins.
• Dairila spotted the monster approaching, and a tentacle more than a hundred meters above the sea erupted from the waves.

Kang De and Dairila attacked the deep-sea monster together, using sea mines and the Phoenix Flame Greatsword to sever one of its tentacles and collect a tissue sample. The creature regenerated the limb, raised another tentacle, and threatened the fleeing refugees bound for Distant Harbor as Kang De and Dairila launched another attack.

• The deep-sea monster emerged and withstood the islands’ artillery barrage, prompting Horus to call for stronger weapons.
• Kang De and Dairila flew toward the monster while Dairila ordered the evacuating elves to stay aboard their planes.
• Kang De dropped one-ton sea mines onto the tentacle, and Dairila sliced through the damaged section and collected a piece of tissue.
• The monster rapidly regenerated its tentacle and raised another one, while sea monsters gathered to feed on the severed piece.
• The monster threatened the refugees and tried to strike a departing transport plane as Kang De and Dairila attacked again.

The final evacuees left the Broken Isles while Kang De and Dairila fought the God of the Star Palace, who was using a colossal sea beast’s body to pull himself free from the seabed. The monster emerged from the sea just as Kang De ordered the remaining personnel to retreat.

• Quilion boarded the last transport plane with the survivors, recognized that the Doom Warriors had another way to escape, and kept Horus’s purple crystal secret.
• Luokas silenced Viscount Ron after he panicked and shouted that the monster would attack Distant Harbor, while Quilion and the first mate urged trust in Kang De and the Empress.
• Kang De and Dairila realized the God of the Star Palace was straining to pull his enormous body out of the seabed as the final evacuations continued.
• The God of the Star Palace declared that his sacrifice and his chance to destroy Kang De had been foretold, then tore himself free from the seabed.
• Kang De ordered all remaining personnel to retreat as a giant whirlpool formed, and the colossal monster emerged into the mortal world.

The Starry Sky Council learned that the Yilan-Tai'er destroyer had fed on the lost civilization for ages and was now hunting in the Broken Isles, but the Grand Speaker still hoped Kang De could defeat it. The monster surfaced and devastated three islands with a massive water blast, leaving Kang De poised to unleash Mass Projection as Horus warned him to be careful.

• The head of the House of Knowledge and Learning urged the Grand Speaker to prepare for war, while the Speaker sought information about the destroyer and the ancient survivors for the Council.
• The survivors’ drawings showed Yilan-Tai’er’s rise and destruction, and revealed that the behemoth had drawn power from its last city and produced sea monsters.
• An intelligence officer reported that the dragons described the Broken Isles battle as facing an island-sized creature.
• The God of the Star Palace surfaced amid floating boulders that shielded it from artillery, while Kang De waited for his people to evacuate before attacking.
• The monster sucked in and expelled seawater, destroying the central island and devastating three islands; Dairila swept Kang De to safety.
• Kang De opened a spatial portal and ordered Mass Projection, but Horus warned him to be careful.

Kang De hesitated to use Mass Projection against the behemoth because a lethal strike could devastate Goth’s western coast, while a weaker blow might let the creature escape and threaten Distant Harbor. After the three powers refused to commit to a timely response, Kang De heard Lily say something that gave him a sudden idea.

• Horus warned Kang De that the behemoth’s force field could disrupt Mass Projection and that a strike powerful enough to guarantee its death could cause catastrophic earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Dairila urged Kang De to act before the behemoth reached Distant Harbor, but admitted the Silver Moon Council and other powers might delay their help.
• The God of the Star Palace summoned sea monsters and led the behemoth east toward the continent, threatening to destroy Distant Harbor.
• Kang De returned to Distant Harbor and summoned envoys from the three powers, but they urged him to use his forbidden spell while offering only vague assurances of support.
• Kang De rejected the envoys’ perfunctory response, and Lily observed that the powers would act decisively if the behemoth threatened their own capitals.
• Kang De seized on Lily’s last remark and demanded that she repeat it.

The Holy Emperor plotted to exploit Kang De’s crisis in Goth by spreading blame, demanding submission from Goth, and secretly offering Kang De marriage, territory, and support in exchange for his allegiance. Back at Distant Harbor, Kang De reconsidered a dangerous plan, while Dairila revealed she had found a way to send troops if they pretended to act as a couple.

• The emperor asked Alex to assess Kang De’s predicament, and Alex proposed using it to estrange Kang De from Goth and recruit him for the Empire.
• The emperor ordered spies to blame Kang De for unleashing the ancient beast and spread panic along Goth’s western coast.
• The emperor demanded Goth become an imperial duchy and offered Kang De a secret alliance through marriage, land, and support.
• The Starry Sky Council’s members argued over whether to help Kang De, while the Arcane Council had no discussion.
• Kang De returned through a Phase Gate and reconsidered using Mass Projection because of its risks.
• Dairila told Kang De she could persuade or bypass the Council to send troops, but they would have to pretend to be a couple, and she went to speak with Princess Tina.

Dairila proposed a false marriage claim with Kang De to persuade the Silver Moon Council to aid the coming battle, while warning that Distant Harbor would likely become the battlefield. As Kang De and Hong San prepared for the threat, Hong San’s master, Dong Tianming, appeared and challenged Kang De to meet him; the chapter ended with a refugee asking Hong San to hear a report.

• Dairila explained that she would seek the Silver Moon Council’s support by pretending to be engaged to Kang De, but said Twilight Moon would prepare to fight the sea monster at Distant Harbor.
• Kang De worried about evacuating Distant Harbor’s residents, and Horus urged him to formulate a battle plan while Hong San ordered Quilion to guard evacuated refugees and suppress rumors.
• Dong Tianming appeared before Hong San, criticized Kang De’s handling of affairs, and demanded that Kang De climb a mountain to meet him without using divine abilities or mechanical arts.
• Hong San found Kang De’s tent empty and read a note saying Kang De had returned to Danfeng Lucerne because Tina needed him.
• A middle-aged refugee manager approached Hong San and said she wanted to report a situation.

Kang De rejected the Empire’s proposals and vowed to kill Alex, while Reknos warned him that Goth would no longer bear the costs of his conflicts. Back in Distant Harbor, Kang De found that the people had rejected the rumors against him and decided to keep the danger from them before asking the Azure Fleet to fill his mist crystal with its mana.

• Reknos confronted Kang De over the danger he had brought to Goth and presented the Empire’s proposals, including demands that would sacrifice Stella or Tina’s freedom.
• Kang De refused the Empire’s terms and declared that he would kill Alex, even if the Empire tried to stop him; Reknos insisted Goth would not follow Kang De into another war.
• Tina reassured Kang De that she trusted him, and he promised to handle the threat without leaving her behind.
• After returning to Distant Harbor, Kang De learned that residents had reported and confronted rumor-mongers instead of believing claims that he had caused the approaching danger.
• Kang De decided to keep the danger from the people, then traveled to the Azure Fleet and asked its commander to fill his mist crystal with the fleet’s mana.

After forcing the Azure Fleet to lend its magic power, Kang De used the mist crystal to bring a gigantic sea beast into Earth’s Pacific Ocean, intending to fight it before it reached Distant Harbor. The chapter ended with the U.S. president reacting to footage of the monster near California with unexpected delight.

• The Azure Fleet confirmed that the sea beasts had withdrawn, and Nixiyasi prepared to free the fleet from the ice.
• Kang De demanded the Azure Fleet’s magic power for his mist crystal and threatened its officers until Nixiyasi ordered the fleet to comply.
• As the fleet powered the crystal, Kang De told Nixiyasi he planned to find and kill the behemoth at sea rather than evacuate Distant Harbor.
• Kang De took the charged crystal through a Phase Gate to the Knight Astolfo, then opened a portal that brought the warship into the eastern Pacific Ocean.
• Kang De guided the crystal’s power to transform the Knight Astolfo as the enormous creature roared above the Pacific and headed toward California.
• The U.S. president watched footage of the approaching monster and shouted, “Wonderful!”

President Chuan Abao pushed to publicize the approaching sea monster and livestream an American military response, but his officials persuaded him to delay announcing it. He approved a joint attack with a nuclear fallback as Knight Astolfo carried the illusion of the monster toward the eastern Pacific coast.

• Chuan Abao celebrated the crisis and tried to announce that he would defend America, but Eshipo and the defense secretary blocked his phone from sending another tweet.
• The defense secretary warned Chuan Abao that a failed attack could bring casualties, public panic, and political damage, persuading him to reconsider a public livestream.
• The defense secretary proposed using a nuclear weapon if the conventional assault failed, while other security council members raised concerns about detection and preserving a specimen.
• Chuan Abao ordered a double-guarantee plan: confidential reporters would film a joint attack by all four military branches, which would be livestreamed if successful, with a nuclear strike as the fallback.
• The defense secretary agreed to convene an operations meeting, and America's war machine began to mobilize.
• Knight Astolfo continued across the eastern Pacific carrying the Mist Crystal and the illusion of a giant sea monster toward the United States.

The Starry Sky Council and the other great powers observed the deep-sea behemoth and debated how Kang De might defeat it, while Distant Harbor remained unaware of the danger. The chapter ended as a spatial gate opened over the sea and black cylinders began falling toward the monster.

• The Starry Sky Council connected its Beacon Tower System to the Azure Fleet's scout ship and saw the enormous behemoth surrounded by its young.
• The war leader proposed luring the behemoth toward land and assessed the weaknesses of Kang De's alchemy and weapons.
• The Grand Speaker learned that Distant Harbor had not begun evacuating and that residents had reported spies spreading rumors.
• The Grand Speaker wondered what Kang De was doing after leaving the Azure Fleet about forty minutes earlier.
• The councilors saw a dark spatial gate open in the sky as black cylinders came whistling down.

At the White House, experts argued that the giant sea creature should be studied, but the secretary of defense insisted on destroying it before the public learned of its approach to the mainland. As the American air strike began, the beast raised a purple energy shield against the falling bombs.

• Dr. Chandler identified the creature as an enormous octopus-like cephalopod and urged the military to investigate its origins and study it alive.
• The secretary of defense rejected Chandler’s pleas, arguing that the creature’s approach threatened the country and that public knowledge would trigger nationwide chaos.
• A Chuan asked whether the creature could be captured alive, then demanded to know when the promised air strike would begin.
• The secretary told A Chuan that more than two hundred MK 84 bombs would be dropped by a joint air strike group approaching the target.
• A Chuan watched and filmed as the bombers released their payload, and the creature raised its head and unfolded a dazzling purple energy shield.

The US military’s bombing strike failed to penetrate the behemoth’s purple shield, and Trump ordered a wider campaign to capture or destroy it before it reached American shores. At sea, Kang De redirected the American bombs through the White Mist World and unleashed them on the God of the Star Palace, who remained largely unharmed and challenged the Fire Thief to attack again.

• The US air strike group dropped more than two hundred MK 84 bombs on the behemoth, but a purple energy shield blocked the explosions.
• After learning that the shield had stopped every bomb, the secretary of defense persuaded Trump to capture the creature and study its technology.
• Trump grew alarmed that the behemoth might reach Los Angeles and threatened to use nuclear weapons if the military failed to stop it in time.
• Trump and the secretary of defense wondered whether the creature resembled someone, while the aircraft withdrew from the area.
• Horus told Kang De that they had blocked the first strike, and Kang De explained how he had diverted most of the bombs through the White Mist World.
• Kang De released nearly two hundred bombs onto the God of the Star Palace, whose orbiting boulders and regenerative body withstood the assault as he taunted the Fire Thief.

The rulers of the Empire, Starry Sky Council, and Silver Moon Council watched Kang De’s bombardment of the sea monster and weighed the threat he posed. As the elves debated an alliance and marriage with him, Kang De prepared to face the monster while Dong Tianming fumed that he had ignored his summons.

• The Grand Speaker and the emperor considered whether their defenses could withstand a surprise attack like Kang De’s bombardment, and the emperor blamed Alex for making an enemy of him.
• The emperor privately considered killing Alex and giving Kang De his possessions if Kang De accepted the Empire’s proposal, while remaining wary of Kang De.
• Malegith took over the debate in the Silver Moon Council, argued for bringing Kang De into the Dusk Moon Dynasty through marriage, and agreed to an oath and contract despite the elders’ objections.
• Dairila confronted Malegith after the council, but Malegith predicted that the elders would change their minds and said Kang De intended to kill the sea monster without using a forbidden spell.
• Kang De told Hong San that the first strike had no effect and ordered him to prepare the magical devices for a purpose other than attacking the monster, then left through a Phase Gate.
• Dong Tianming complained that Kang De had ignored his summons to climb a mountain and set out to see what Kang De could do.

A Chuan and the U.S. military prepared a massive attack on Kang De’s sea-monster disguise while Kang De planned to evade the assault with the Paradox Element. In the other world, Dong Tianming watched Kang De confront the beast and dismissed his missile attack as an old trick.

• A Chuan blamed Kang De for the shield-like creature near the United States, but the secretary of defense warned that confronting him could open a dangerous second front.
• Kang De and Horus prepared to remove the illusion and slip away, knowing the Paradox Element’s shield could only protect them for so long and might destroy the Afu.
• Pentagon leaders discussed reviving the Iowa-class battleships, while U.S. forces readied carrier aircraft, submarines, and bombers for a major strike.
• A Chuan ordered the military to record the attack and prepare a B61 nuclear bomb if the beast came within five hundred kilometers of Los Angeles.
• Dong Tianming spotted Kang De approaching the sea monster and watched him launch cruise missiles through Phase Gates at the surrounding boulders.
• Dong Tianming judged Kang De’s use of firearms, explosions, and transportation techniques to be an old story.

The American fleet and air force launched a massive missile assault on Leviathan, but Kang De used the Paradox system to capture the missiles and turn them into weapons against the God of the Star Palace. After the bombardment failed to kill the beast, Kang De taunted it and challenged it to fight him.

• A Chuan ordered the American fleet to fire and told its commander to shout, “For Trump, for America!”
• The American fleet and air force launched hundreds of Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles at Leviathan, whose shield appeared before the missiles reached it.
• Kang De used Horus, the Fire Thief’s time art, and Akatum’s Phase Doors to intercept the missiles and leave Leviathan unharmed.
• Kang De returned to the other world and fired the captured missiles at the God of the Star Palace, wounding it but failing to overcome its regeneration.
• The emperor and the Silver Moon Council watched Kang De’s attack, while A Chuan demanded that the Pentagon use nuclear bombs.
• Kang De insulted the God of the Star Palace, raised his middle finger, and challenged it to fight him.

Kang De baited the God of the Star Palace into attacking, then turned the Pacific Ocean Fleet’s assault back on it. As the creature advanced toward the American coast, A Chuan authorized a nuclear strike, but Leviathan swallowed the bomb before it hit the sea.

• Kang De returned to Earth and sent a barrage of attacks toward the Pacific Ocean Fleet, while Horus questioned attacking servicemen who had helped them.
• A Chuan demanded a nuclear strike against the approaching monster, while the secretary of defense argued that America should capture it and study its energy shield.
• A Chuan used his threat to expose the Pentagon on Twitter to force the secretary of defense to accept a nuclear strike.
• A Chuan authorized the attack, and a B-2 bomber dropped a 340,000-ton bunker-busting nuclear bomb toward Leviathan.
• Leviathan rose from the ocean and swallowed the falling bomb, astonishing A Chuan and the officials watching the live footage.

Kang De launched a single B61-11 Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Bomb at the giant sea beast, revealing that his apparent retreat had concealed a devastating attack. The thermonuclear blast engulfed the beast and its surrounding monsters, while Dong Tianming fled toward Distant Harbor in terror.

• The emperor and the leaders of the Silver Moon Council and Tower of All-Seeing debated sending aid to Kang De after his first attacks seemed ineffective.
• Dairila urged the Silver Moon Council to support Kang De, but an elder opposed relying on him until the minister of war spotted something fleeing near the sea beast.
• Dong Tianming received a warning from Distant Harbor, sensed danger, saw his divination shell explode, and raced toward the harbor.
• Kang De launched a fast-moving boulder that carried a single alchemical bomb through the beast's repulsion field.
• Kang De's B61-11 detonated against the beast, triggering a thermonuclear explosion that engulfed the sea monster and its surrounding creatures.
• Dong Tianming looked back and saw a vast mushroom cloud rise above the burning sea.

Kang De’s thermonuclear bomb destroyed Lahma and triggered the Star Palace’s doomsday alarm, prompting the Gods of the Star Palace to restart their war preparations and move to retrieve him. The chapter ended with the Star Palace preparing to exterminate the mortal world while Distant Harbor waited anxiously for news.

• Kang De’s B61-11 thermonuclear bomb exploded over the sea, scorching Lahma and producing a mushroom cloud that stunned the rulers watching through their remote surveillance systems.
• The emperor saw the weapon’s destructive power and turned his curiosity toward hatred and killing intent, while the Silver Moon Council’s elders reacted with stunned silence.
• At Distant Harbor, Hong San and the military commanders waited for news until Dong Tianming arrived in panic, demanded to see Kang De, and vanished as a paper figure.
• Destroyer and the Gods of the Star Palace detected radiant radiation, declared that the doomsday clock had struck, and ordered the War Council and Extermination Mechanism restarted.
• Destroyer ordered the Starry Firmament Bridge activated and the Warband Guard sent to retrieve Lahma from the mortal world.