Recaps

After an assassin attacked Maple Leaf Palace and badly damaged Horus, Kang De helped Goth investigate the plot while navigating his ties to Tina and Hong San’s plans for his authority. With the Dragon Emperor turning their staged match into a real fight, Kang De began arranging Horus’s repairs and sought more time to prepare.

• Santos and Lily examined the dragon remains, while Santos decided Dragon Defense should avoid fighting Kang De and Lily offered to learn his secrets.
• Shadow attacked Maple Leaf Palace, but Kang De escaped the assault and Horus shielded him, suffering severe damage to his body.
• Kang De gave Santos part of the attacker’s remains, and Goth’s investigation pointed toward Xide Kailamu and his missing associate Cole.
• Dairila released a captive for Kang De and gave him the Proof of Stellar Authority, which locked onto his finger and chose him.
• Hong San arrived in Goth and advised Kang De on his relationship with Tina and his place in the duchy, while Kang De began training Hong San’s followers with firearms.
• The Dragon Emperor changed the planned staged match into a real fight, and Horus proposed a major repair and strengthening of his damaged body.
• Tina gave Kang De Chang'an's Watch, a ring that let him teleport to her, while A Xing got drunk and fell asleep in Kang De’s arms.
• Kang De and Tina prepared Horus’s materials list, then Kang De asked Reknos to summon alchemical masters and decided to recruit his father, engineer Kang Jinzhu, for the repairs.

Kang De returned from rescuing Comora to build an alliance with China, claim authority in Comora, and confront a supernatural locust swarm spreading through Gambia. After Big Bob threatened Comora and Kang De’s family, Kang De sought Goth’s help and began preparing to spy on the swarm’s nest.

• Kang De returned to China, discussed cooperation with Wang Yongzhi, reunited with his parents by phone, and accepted the title Nkuozu from Chakat II in Comora.
• Kang De founded Africa Weapons Sceptre League with Kang Jinzhu and explored gaining Zhu'erban Port, but Big Bob’s escape coincided with a locust plague devastating Gambia.
• Kang De investigated Zhuerban, discovered the swarm reacted to Tacitus, collected locust specimens for China and France, and learned that people had vanished while the insects remained near the city.
• Kang De and Horus drilled underground, found living people beneath the earth, and destroyed a swarm of silver locust pythons with an enchanted explosive formation.
• After French pesticide failed and Big Bob threatened Comora and Kang De’s family, Kang De demanded France hand Big Bob over and warned that he would retaliate if Comora was harmed.
• Kang De asked Tina and Goth’s leaders for help, and Stella organized Goth’s forces to study defenses and identify the will controlling the swarm.
• Kang De recruited Agrell to make pork that could transmit its vision from inside the nest, while a professor identified the creatures as the Grewind Swarm and pointed to ancient records that might reveal more.

Kang De used Dragon Might and the Divine Ring to stop the Grewind Swarm, killed Big Bob, and negotiated control of the hive and Zhuerban while arranging international research. After returning to the other world, he encountered a meteor and learned that Malegith had taken control of Dairila’s body.

• Dairila gave Kang De a book on the Grewind Swarm, and Tina translated its countermeasures, including Dragon Might, which Kang De learned to use from Lily through a covenant.
• France tried to seize Kang Jinzhu and attack Kang De in Comora, but Kang De rescued Chakat II, killed the French team, and raised a holy-light dome over Moyani.
• Kang De used lightning, a blizzard, and Dragon Might to break Big Bob’s control of the swarm, then pursued him to the hive and discovered its captive humans and connection to White Mist.
• Kang De rejected Big Bob’s offer and the French president’s plea to spare him, destroyed Big Bob, and demanded that Gambia and Comora unite under Chakat II while making Zhuerban his fief.
• Kang De arranged international funding and research access to the hive, returned to China to reunite with his family, and then went back to Maple Leaf Fort to question Lily about the swarm’s origins and the Sound of Destruction.
• Kang De’s visit to the elven camp coincided with a falling meteor, which he redirected through a portal to Zhuerban, where silver-gray locusts emerged from the impact site.
• Malegith revealed that she had sealed Dairila’s soul and taken control of her body, while Kang De said he trusted her not to harm Dairila.

Kang De led Goth’s response to missing dragons and uncovered a corrupting energy beneath the land, then secretly began exploiting it while preparing to find the trapped dragons. The arc ended with Kang De, Lily, and A Xing defeating a corrupted red dragon, though Kang De still hoped to reach it.

• Malegith urged Kang De to unite the human and elven worlds, then Earth and Cathay, and advised him to win over the dragon’s daughter.
• Kang De gained temporary authority to speak for Goth and led an investigation into the vanished dragon delegation, finding a concealed cavern filled with corrupted monsters.
• Kang De and Lily sealed the cavern, while Stella and Goth’s leaders prepared defenses and debated how to contain the dangerous energy inside.
• Malegith identified the energy as a substance that amplified magic while corrupting matter, and Kang De decided Goth had to control it and keep its discovery secret.
• Kang De trusted Lily with the secret, then built a fortified monster farm where he and Horus killed thousands of creatures and extracted the energy from their remains.
• Kang De, Lily, and A Xing entered the underground region and used the Dragon Ballad to lure the missing dragons, but the first dragon to answer was corrupted and hostile.
• Kang De, Lily, and A Xing broke through the red dragon’s energy shield and battered it until it was barely alive, and Kang De asked them to wait while he tried to communicate with it.