Recaps

Kang De and the newly created Autobot agreed to travel together, though the Autobot chose to postpone naming himself and listed the supplies he needed to restore his weapons. Kang De returned to the White Mist World to gather supplies, leaving the Autobot to interrogate their prisoners.

• Kang De joked about naming the Autobot, and the Autobot decided to choose his own name after learning more about the world.
• Kang De and the Autobot agreed on temporary forms of address, with Iron Ox forbidden, and decided to travel together.
• The Autobot told Kang De he needed white mist, gasoline, metal, and ammunition, and explained that he could recycle small-caliber rounds into limited replacement ammunition.
• Kang De told the Autobot to question their two prisoners and record their answers, then returned to the White Mist World to find supplies.
• The Autobot woke one prisoner by throwing him onto a boulder and threatened him until he answered who he served.

Kang De learned that Tina had declared herself engaged to him and was heading toward a confrontation with the elves, while the Vidal Family had supplied information about his whereabouts. After killing two captives who had attacked him, he began plotting to use his newly awakened Autobot son to automate the labor of enchanting ammunition.

• Kang De learned from a captured knight that Tina had called him her husband and was leading her followers toward Gaoluin, near the Goth border and the elven army.
• Kang De questioned the knight about the Vidal Family, then shot him and another captive after concluding that his enemies needed to fear the consequences of attacking him.
• The Autobot told Kang De that the captives had paid for their actions, and Kang De agreed that the first prince was responsible for the chain of events.
• Kang De realized the Autobot could absorb transferred Elements and might be able to help produce enchanted bullets, while also reworking weak .22-caliber ammunition into stronger rounds.
• Kang De coaxed the Autobot into agreeing to help and prepared to transfer a blueprint and task to him using a USB drive.

Kang De persuaded the Autobots to help develop tools that could make enchanted ammunition production easier, while planning to use the resulting strength against the elves and the Empire. Leona deduced Kang De’s likely route into Goth and learned that a powerful mercenary group was searching for him.

• Kang De convinced the Autobots to handle enchanting work and explore devices for storing and outputting Elements so other workers could draw enchantments.
• Kang De fell asleep, and the Autobots promised to help him carry out his plans.
• Leona examined the two dead knights and concluded Kang De had intimidated and interrogated them before killing them.
• Leona reasoned that Kang De would travel west into Goth and then north to reach Tina, so she planned to search for him there and tell the greenskins where to go.
• Leona learned that a powerful mercenary group led by a formidable fighter was using its connections to find Kang De.

Kang De traveled west through the wilderness toward Goth, hoping to reach Tina before her volunteers entered the battlefield. As he and the Autobot continued their journey, Kang De considered supplies, weapons, and another trip to Earth, leaving their next steps unresolved.

• Kang De chose to avoid imperial settlements and drive west toward Goth, since traveling north through the empire risked an ambush.
• Kang De cooked a steak and joked about being Tina’s husband, while the Autobot questioned his supposedly unhappy reaction.
• Kang De considered buying property near a US military base in Japan to access military supplies through the White Mist World.
• The Autobot replenished ammunition and experimented with explosives, incendiaries, and enchanted bullets under Kang De’s guidance.
• Kang De noted that the Autobot’s fuel use was high and decided he needed to return to Earth to find supplies, property, and money.

Kang De continued toward Goth, hoping to contact Tina and learn about the war, while weighing what her engagement to him meant. He planned to raise money by robbing wealthy, corrupt nobles and merchants, and tried to justify his plans to the Autobots.

• Kang De told the Autobots they would reach the border that afternoon and visit a nearby imperial city to learn about wealthy nobles and merchants.
• Kang De explained that he needed money for a house and planned to melt down stolen gold to sell on Earth.
• Kang De described his planned robbery as redistributing wealth from exploitative rich people, while the Autobots pointed out that Kang De made him do chores.
• Kang De insisted that helping family with housework was not exploitation and called his household law-abiding and kind.
• Kang De told the Autobots that robbing wealthy enemies in Glittering Sand had been deeply satisfying and urged him to understand the appeal.

Kang De accidentally crossed into Goth and decided to continue toward the war-torn land rather than turn back. After finding a road and following smoke to a village, he discovered it had been destroyed in an Elvish atrocity.

• Kang De realized he had traveled too far into Goth, then claimed he had entered deliberately and changed his plan to rob the elves instead of an Imperial city.
• Kang De reflected on his bond with the people of Goth and told the Autobots they were entering a domain of war.
• Kang De decided to find a settlement and contact Tina through Goth's communications network, then followed a road across the plain.
• Kang De and the Autobots spotted black smoke and approached a ruined village, with Kang De putting on his armor before they drew near.
• Kang De entered the burned village and found its people dead, some mutilated with Elvish writing carved into their bodies.

Kang De and the Autobots found a village burned to the ground and pursued the elven cavalry whose tracks led north. After confirming the elves had massacred the villagers, they attacked the cavalry with explosives, gunfire, and the Autobots’ transformed battle form, leaving the elite riders stunned and badly injured.

• Kang De and the Autobots found the remains of a massacred village and decided to hunt down the killers.
• They followed spirit deer hoofprints north and caught up with more than thirty elven riders.
• Kang De asked the elves whether they had massacred the village, and their mocking laughter and an ice arrow confirmed their guilt.
• The Autobots fired enchanted Molotov cocktails and explosive canisters, scattering the riders and injuring elves and spirit deer.
• Kang De and the Autobots charged the elven cavalry with guns blazing, and the Autobots transformed and struck them with a battle-axe.

Kang De and the Autobot killed the elven scouts after the elves attacked him and massacred a village. Before the last elf died, Kang De confronted him with the suffering of his victims and left him to die far from home.

• The Autobot cut down the elves and scattered their war stags while Kang De attacked from nearby.
• An elf tried to sound a horn, but the Autobot severed his arms with a thrown axe, and Kang De shot him when he charged for it.
• Kang De questioned the wounded elf about his attack on the village, and the elf defended the killings as revenge and claimed the elves had come to liberate Goth.
• Kang De asked how the elf had become a demon who slaughtered innocents, then told him he would die far from home.
• The elf died with a tear on his cheek, and Kang De reflected that this was war.

After avenging the slaughtered Goth People, Kang De reflected on how war turned ordinary elves into killers and sensed an unexplained change within himself. He returned to cleaning up the battlefield, while far away Hong San was startled when the scroll associated with Master Kang blazed with light.

• Kang De told the Autobots to kill the two surviving elves, and they returned after carrying out his order.
• Kang De spoke with the Autobots about how war and its leaders turned ordinary people into perpetrators, and said the true culprits were those who started the war.
• Thinking about the elves and the war, Kang De experienced a strange change that he could not explain, though the Autobots noticed something had happened.
• Kang De ordered the Autobots to clear the battlefield and collect the elves' equipment, then said he needed to return to Earth sooner than planned.
• Hong San's scroll suddenly grew hot and flashed with dazzling light, and he wondered whether Master Kang had manifested his power.

Kang De looted and erased the traces of the elven scout force, then returned to Earth after leaving the Autobots hidden in a valley. He reunited with Old Wang, whose embrace eased his doubts about how far he had nearly gone in avenging the Goth villagers.

• Kang De searched the elves’ bodies, collected enchanted gear and frost arrows, and warned himself not to underestimate the elven army.
• Kang De decided to take the elves’ heads as proof of vengeance, but the Autobots urged him not to burden himself with a meaningless ritual; Kang De dissolved the bodies and burned the battlefield instead.
• Kang De hid the Autobots in a deserted valley and told them to remain there while he returned to the White Mist World for textbooks.
• Kang De crossed through the White Mist World to Earth, where he found a missed call from the real estate agent and heard someone unlock his door.
• Old Wang entered holding a fire axe, then dropped it and embraced Kang De when she saw he was back.

Kang De returned home briefly and found comfort in Xiaoman’s embrace before asking her to help investigate buying property in Japan. He revealed that he wanted a cheap house near a U.S. military base, leaving Xiaoman to suspect he planned to steal a nuke.

• Kang De and Xiaoman embraced as he recovered from the strain of his battles in the other world.
• Kang De and Xiaoman reminisced about their childhood habit of talking through their bedroom windows.
• Kang De told Xiaoman he had to leave after midnight and asked her to contact the Japanese agent Xiaolun about buying property in Japan.
• Kang De considered whether ghost exorcism could earn him money, then explained that he genuinely wanted to buy a house.
• Kang De said he wanted a cheap property near a U.S. military base, and Xiaoman asked if he planned to steal a nuke.

Kang De prepared to return to the other world after spending the evening with Xiaoman, while she mistakenly guessed that his plans involved a US military base and Transformers. His journey back was diverted, and he appeared in front of Hong San, who believed Kang De had been dead for forty-nine days.

• Xiaoman warned Kang De not to steal a nuclear weapon or attack a US military base, then agreed to ask Xiaolun about buying a house near one.
• Agent Xu told Kang De that powerful people had pressured him for information about the house, and Kang De suspected Xie Guangjun was behind the inquiry.
• Kang De told Xiaoman he would leave at midnight, downloaded files and entertainment for the other world, and left her asleep with a video of the Hummer transforming.
• Xiaoman watched the video and assumed Kang De was planning another Transformers adventure involving an American military base.
• Kang De arrived somewhere other than the valley and found Hong San burning spirit money for him on the forty-ninth day after his supposed death.

Kang De returned to find Hong San burning offerings for him and learned that Princess Tina had entrusted Hong San with the Crimson Scroll and a mission to deliver it to Goth’s Grand Duke. After sparing Hong San, Kang De joked that he would stay, and Hong San begged to go with him rather than become a mountain lord.

• Kang De appeared at Hong San’s offering table, frightened Hong San, and crushed his own spirit tablet.
• Kang De recognized the Crimson Scroll among the offerings and demanded to know how Hong San had obtained it.
• Hong San explained that Princess Tina had given him the scroll and a letter, ordering him to deliver them to Goth’s Grand Duke or bury them if Goth fell.
• Kang De understood that Tina had lost hope after Glittering Sand and ordered Hong San to get up, acknowledging that he had kept his promise.
• Kang De told Hong San he was not leaving, and Hong San clung to his leg and begged to go with him instead of becoming a mountain lord.

Kang De found himself in a town with Hong San and planned to search for the Autobots, but learned that Hong San had become the leader of a growing refugee group in Valentan. As Kang De offered to help Hong San escape and prepared to leave, the Crimson Scroll suddenly burst into golden flames.

• Kang De threatened Hong San, realized they were in a town, and planned to locate the Autobots using landmarks, his phone photos, and familiar sounds.
• Hong San explained how he had rescued refugees from bandits, organized them, and won several battles, building a large group that settled in Valentan.
• Hong San told Kang De that ambitious followers and Valentan's mayor wanted to use his reputation and people, and admitted he wanted to escape.
• Kang De offered Hong San a way out but refused to take him along, and Hong San agreed to return to the empire.
• Kang De picked up the Crimson Scroll, which erupted in golden flames as his strange insight and rhythm returned; Hong San recognized the glow from the previous night.

Kang De discovered that the Crimson Scroll reacted to him, but he still could not understand its writing before news arrived that the city was preparing for war. With the gates sealed and the elves approaching, Hong San urged Kang De to reveal his identity as Princess Tina’s husband and seek permission to leave.

• Kang De touched the Crimson Scroll, causing it to blaze with golden light, but he could not decipher its characters or discover its effect.
• Hong San sent away young guards who rudely confronted Kang De and warned him that his old associates might soon hear of Kang De’s arrival.
• Old Du reported that the city lord had sealed the gates, requisitioned supplies, and ordered standardized food rations because war was imminent.
• Hong San realized the city was preparing to defend itself against an elven attack and said he could not leave his people behind.
• Kang De offered to use his Extraction ability to dig an escape tunnel, but Hong San warned that Ley Line School mages would detect it.
• Hong San proposed that Kang De reveal he was Princess Tina’s husband and ask the mayor for permission to leave the city.

With the city under siege and its gates shut, Kang De agreed to accompany Hong San to meet the mayor under a false identity rather than reveal he was Tina’s royal son-in-law. He joined Hong San’s group as a military strategist and prepared to meet its leaders, while considering how to contact the Autobots by radio.

• Hong San urged Kang De to seek the mayor’s permission to leave, but Kang De feared being betrayed and refused to reveal who he was.
• Kang De agreed to attend the mayor’s meeting with Hong San while concealing his identity and judging the mayor for himself.
• Kang De chose to pose as Hong San’s martial uncle and military strategist, settling on the alias Dong Xiansen.
• Kang De considered using a radio to contact the Autobots and decided he would need a map and observations of the sky to locate himself.
• Old Du summoned the leaders, and Hong San introduced Kang De as his junior martial uncle and newly appointed military strategist.

Hong San struggled with the burden of leading displaced people as an elven attack approached, while Kang De challenged his resignation and reluctance to act. As Hong San set out for the mayor’s military council amid the people’s desperate trust, Kang De steadied him and told him not to be afraid.

• Hong San introduced Kang De as his martial uncle and military advisor, and the leaders discussed whether to fight or flee as the mayor prepared the city for war.
• Kang De brushed off Chen Honghu’s question and went upstairs, while Hong San lamented that his old brothers’ growing ambitions could lead them to ruin.
• Hong San told Kang De he wanted to run rather than seek office, and explained that he felt powerless to change the suffering of ordinary people.
• A messenger summoned Hong San to the mayor’s military council, and Hong San urged Kang De to leave the city if he could.
• Hong San walked through streets filled with people who trusted him to protect them, then stumbled under the weight of their hopes.
• Kang De caught Hong San by the shoulders and quietly told him, “Don’t be afraid.”

Kang De reassured Hong San as the refugee leader prepared to meet the mayor, and Hong San rallied his people before leaving for city hall with Kang De. Hong San hesitated when Kang De offered to help protect the group, then asked to hand over his position; after Kang De punched him, they entered city hall and heard someone shouting inside.

• Kang De comforted Hong San, who then promised the gathered refugees he would seek a way out and urged them to stay calm.
• Hong San agreed to attend the mayor’s meeting and persuaded the messenger to let Kang De accompany him as his chief military adviser, introducing him as Dong Zhuo.
• Kang De reflected on the frightened civilians and decided he would help Hong San defend them if Hong San chose to stand and fight.
• Hong San asked Kang De to take his position, and Kang De punched him in the forehead.
• Hong San and Kang De entered city hall, where they heard someone loudly cursing in the meeting room.

Kang De and Hong San joined Valentan’s war council, where Kang De recognized Leona and her old butler from an earlier encounter and suspected the meeting was no coincidence. Mayor Nick demanded that merchants and nobles contribute their wealth and efforts to defend the city, leaving the council facing his uncompromising ultimatum.

• Kang De heard Leona arguing inside the meeting room and learned she belonged to the Vidal Family, then recalled meeting one of her family’s butlers during his flight from the first prince’s men.
• Kang De and Hong San entered the council chamber, where Leona recognized Kang De’s familiar bearing and the old butler recognized him with fear.
• Mayor Nick welcomed Hong San and Kang De, introduced himself, and gave Kang De a seat at the council table.
• Leona protested that Nick was keeping her in Valentan, and Nick said he required her and the other merchants to help defend the city.
• Nick argued that merchants and nobles had profited from Goth and declared that everyone, without exception, had to contribute to Valentan’s survival.

Mayor Nick forced Valentan’s factions to prepare for the elven siege and threatened vengeance against anyone who betrayed Goth. Leona pledged the Vidal Family’s support through Kang De, while the city’s organizations received mobilization quotas that would draw nearly everyone into the war.

• Mayor Nick declared that Valentan had to unite behind his plans and warned that Goth would remember both its defenders and its traitors.
• Leona left her seat and asked to swap places with Hong San, claiming she had fallen for Kang De’s companion before revealing that she wanted to join forces with Kang De.
• Leona told Mayor Nick that the Vidal Family’s wealth, manpower, and supplies would follow Kang De, and Nick accepted her request after asking whether the family’s pledge would hold.
• Mayor Nick revealed that Goth was recording everyone’s contributions and threatened to punish traitors and their families if the kingdom fell.
• Mayor Nick assigned mobilization quotas to the city’s factions, including requiring the Heaven and Earth Society to provide eight hundred militiamen and eight hundred reserves.

Hong San struggled with the mayor’s order to raise 1,600 fighters and support workers, while Kang De learned why Mayor Nick used harsh measures to defend the city. After Leona followed Kang De and Hong San into an alley, Kang De confronted her and the Vidal Family, demanding to know whether she recognized him.

• Hong San objected that his society lacked enough trained people, weapons, and supplies to meet the mayor’s demand, but Mayor Nick insisted the city hall would provide some equipment and the group must handle the rest.
• Kang De watched Hong San fall silent under the order, then heard Nick explain that people feared him rather than the elves because swords persuaded more effectively than words.
• Nick told Kang De that he hoped he would bring the city hope, while Kang De wondered why the mayor treated him as someone special.
• Kang De and Hong San left the council hall, and Leona chased after them despite her butler’s warning that it might be a trap.
• In the alley, Kang De and Hong San attacked Leona’s butler, then Kang De pinned Leona against the wall and embedded his axe beside her head.
• Kang De accused the Vidal Family of refusing to leave him alone and demanded that Leona say whether she knew who he was.

Kang De confronted Leona Vidal, who claimed to be Tina’s friend, but remained suspicious of her and insisted she prove her identity. The standoff ended with Leona agreeing to go to the Heaven and Earth Society’s base, while Kang De warned he would kill her if she was lying.

• Kang De buried his axe in the wall beside Leona’s head, and Leona recognized it as resembling Tina’s axe.
• Leona’s old butler said she was a friend of Kang De’s wife, and Kang De demanded proof before trusting her.
• Leona argued that she was the heir to the Vidal Family and had come to Goth for Tina, while Kang De suspected she might be an investigator sent by Alex.
• Kang De and Hong San urged Leona to come to the Heaven and Earth Society’s base to clear up the misunderstanding, and she agreed to go for Tina’s sake.
• Kang De promised to apologize and thank Leona if she proved her story, then warned that he would chop her to death if she was lying.

Kang De escorted Leona and Hong San through the locked-down city, then heard how Tina had returned to Goth and begun recruiting supporters after exposing the Empire’s betrayal. Leona intended to help Tina despite being rebuffed, and Kang De learned that she wanted to prove herself as Tina’s true friend before insulting her.

• Kang De teased Leona during the ride, while Hong San remained troubled by the mayor’s demand for sixteen hundred people to be conscripted.
• Kang De suggested visiting the Vidal Chamber of Commerce, but Leona suspected he meant to attack it and agreed to talk in a quiet square instead.
• Leona told Kang De that Tina had publicly exposed the betrayal in Glittering Sand, hinted at the first prince’s role, and called on young people to return to Goth and fight the elves.
• Leona explained that Tina had become calculating and distrustful, and had rebuffed her when she came north to offer help.
• Leona declared that she would help Tina anyway, prove she was a true friend, and then insult Tina once she thanked her.

Leona explained that she had contacted Kang De to reunite him with Tina, whose northern campaign had become dangerous. She revealed that Tina had attracted wealthy supporters by selling shares in the supposed riches of an ancient ruin, and Kang De recognized the risky promise behind their investment.

• Leona asked Kang De to praise her, and he patted her head before she angrily rebuked him.
• Leona told Kang De she wanted him to return to Tina quickly because Tina was in a bad state and might be pursuing a dangerous plan.
• Leona explained that Tina had raised forces in the north with support from nobles, merchants, knights, and mercenaries seeking different benefits.
• Kang De deduced that Tina had promised wealthy supporters an enormous benefit she might not be able to deliver.
• Leona revealed that Tina was selling shares in the supposed wealth of an ancient ruin, offering future dividends and short-term interest in exchange for support.

Leona explained Tina’s deception to Kang De and realized he had taught Tina the scam’s methods. As they considered how to stop it, Kang De decided he would not leave the city without Leona.

• Leona told Kang De that Tina’s scheme relied on later members’ fees and could provoke devastating consequences if exposed.
• Kang De revealed that he had casually described the scam methods to Tina, shocking Leona.
• Leona urged Kang De to reach Tina and help stop the scheme before it brought disaster to Teldrassil and Goth.
• Kang De outlined three possible ways to keep a scam from being exposed, including turning the false promise into reality or eliminating its victims.
• Kang De said he could not ask Nick for passage or reveal the scheme because either could cause unrest and prevent his departure.
• When Leona assumed Kang De would escape alone, he asked what would happen to her.