Recaps

Kang De organized the evacuation of the Broken Isles while fighting the God of the Star Palace and preparing for the deep-sea behemoth. As the great powers refused to heed his warnings, the Sea Traveler found an underwater palace and an enormous eye revealed the Azure Fleet’s location.

• Kang De defeated the island lord’s forces, learned the Star Palace planned to unleash a deep-sea behemoth, and ordered an evacuation of the Broken Isles.
• Kang De secured supplies and support from Reknos, the elves, and the Church of the Sun, while Hong San recruited volunteers and prepared Distant Harbor to receive refugees.
• Kang De used balloons, helicopters, dragons, mines, and an airbus to evacuate survivors, then announced that the Bridge of the Starry Sky had succeeded.
• As sea monsters attacked the islands, Kang De trapped them in the White Mist World, struck the God of the Star Palace, sealed the deep well with mines, and sent warnings to the world’s rulers.
• Kang De investigated a mist crystal and established a biological research institute, while the Arcane Council formed a response team and prepared its forces to study the monster.
• Dairila visited Kang De, offered to help confront the Star Palace, and agreed to trust his warning that the elven fleet should halt its advance.
• The Council and Empire declined to withdraw their fleets, so Kang De accelerated the civilian evacuation and prepared for battle.
• The Sea Traveler followed the monsters to an underwater palace, where an enormous eye overwhelmed Captain Maikafu and uncovered the Azure Fleet’s location.

Kang De refused to abandon the Broken Isles survivors, then pursued the God of the Star Palace across the Pacific as the major powers watched and debated whether to help. His nuclear strike devastated the sea, but it also triggered Destroyer and the Gods of the Star Palace to restart their war preparations and send forces for Lahma.

• Tuolan sealed Daku’er-Clark inside the Admiralty, and the Grand Speaker received reports of an underwater city and ordered a message sent to Kang De.
• Kang De refused O'Malley’s offer to trade the Broken Isles survivors for aid to the Azure Fleet, then promised Dairila they would prepare to save everyone in the future.
• Kang De evacuated the Broken Isles while the God of the Star Palace emerged from the seabed and devastated the islands, and he returned to Distant Harbor and challenged the other powers to act.
• Dairila sought Silver Moon Council support, while Kang De rejected the Empire’s demands and charged a mist crystal with mana from Nixiyasi’s Azure Fleet.
• Kang De took the Knight Astolfo into the Pacific and used portals and magic to redirect American attacks away from Leviathan and toward the God of the Star Palace.
• After A Chuan forced the United States to authorize a nuclear strike, Leviathan swallowed the falling bomb, and Kang De later drove a B61-11 through the monster’s repulsion field.
• Kang De’s thermonuclear bomb engulfed the sea monster and its surroundings, stunning the rulers watching remotely.
• Destroyer and the Gods of the Star Palace detected the radiation, restarted the War Council and Extermination Mechanism, and ordered the Warband Guard to retrieve Lahma.

Kang De destroyed the Star Palace’s invading forces and turned to uniting Earth and the White Mist World against the threat of a stronger return. He negotiated a pact with China, formed a government for his growing territories, and began investigating the Star Palace wreckage while gathering allies and resources.

• Kang De used a Paradox-enhanced W53 through a Phase Gate to destroy Hermes, Lahma, and their forces, shattering the Starry Firmament Bridge and damaging the Star Palace.
• Kang De returned to Distant Harbor, declared the Broken Isles crisis over, and ordered a blockade, a combined fleet patrol, and a research center for the recovered wreckage.
• Kang De met Chinese officials in Beijing, negotiated a five-year agreement with Senior Colonel Tian, and named it the Patriots’ Covenant.
• Kang De proposed producing enchanted weapons and defenses with state resources, then arranged for Parrot to oversee Earth’s study of magitech.
• Kang De created four ministries to prepare his territories for war and appointed Horus, A Fu, and Dong Tianming to lead key forces and departments.
• Kang De welcomed Leona to Distant Harbor and asked her to develop the West Goth Company and support his coming wars, while Princess Tina arrived and agreed to delay her public appearance.
• Kang De’s fleet found no survivors on the Broken Isles and secured the strange materials left by the Star Palace’s destruction.
• Kang De brought Starry Firmament Bridge fragments to Malegith for study, and she identified a Levitation Stone before he ordered her to make five hundred wafers.

Kang De uncovered the Arcane Council’s plans around Yilan-Tai’er while defending the Broken Isles from the Azure Fleet. When An Youyi was kidnapped in London, he pursued the crime despite a British cover-up and exposed Section 5’s role in hiding a massacre, leaving a tracker on Ian Crook to follow the conspiracy.

• Kang De learned that the Arcane Council was secretly seeking Yilan-Tai’er and ordered his forces to resist the Azure Fleet’s incursion near the Broken Isles.
• Kang De’s forces overturned the Azure Fleet’s assault boats and rescued their crews, while A Fu tried to persuade Nixiyasi to meet Kang De.
• After Xiaoman told Kang De that An Youyi had apparently been kidnapped, he went to London and found British authorities withholding information from Chinese investigators.
• Kang De enlisted Alina’s help, questioned an Albanian gang member, and followed him to a hideout where he found the Viking Skull gang dead and An Youyi missing.
• Kang De concluded that an extraordinary person had killed the gang members and that powerful British figures were concealing the kidnapping and trafficking operation.
• Kang De questioned Shalalin as Section 5 agents cleaned the hideout, then followed Ian Crook’s convoy and caused a crash that exposed the remains and a kidnapped human-rights worker to witnesses.
• Kang De planted a metal insect on Ian Crook and left to track whoever came to silence the MI5 official.