Recaps

Kang De exposed Griffin’s coup in Tula Xiaye, seized the Star-Bearing Titan, and prepared to confront the Star Palace while foreign powers maneuvered around him. He then used a Titan Giant to occupy a Canadian nuclear plant, turning the crisis into a bargaining contest with Canada and the United States, before agreeing to destroy the Titan as China requested.

• Kang De sent forces to Tula Xiaye, where Griffin Williams had murdered councilors and tried to provoke war, then redirected the descending meteors through portals and publicly accused Griffin of plotting the attack.
• Kang De’s forces captured the Star-Bearing Titan, but Phaethon escaped with Griffin after the Deceleration Field failed, leaving Kaliusi alive to expose Griffin’s crimes.
• Kang De saved Kaliusi and negotiated with the Council, warning that the Gods of the Star Palace had deceived the survivors of Yilan-Tai’er and seeking payment and cooperation rather than an alliance.
• Griffin and Phaethon fled toward Goth, while Kang De pursued political support among the Council’s factions and planned to defeat Griffin and bind the northern interests to Distant Harbor.
• Kang De went to Earth, summoned a Titan Giant at the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant, and stalled for time as Canadian forces failed to stop it.
• Kang De rejected Trudeau’s initial approach, then demanded 1.2 trillion yuan or compensation based on the cost of a nuclear disaster, while telling him China could protect Canada from superhuman threats.
• A Chuan ordered a joint military operation and an air strike against the Titan, but Parrot and Malegith stopped the attack, and Kang De agreed to go destroy the Titan after Senior Colonel Tian relayed China’s request.

Kang De drew Earth’s military into the Titan crisis while preparing Distant Harbor and its allies for war against Griffin and the Star Palace. After negotiating with the emperor for an alliance, he launched his campaign and exposed Leonard as a spy.

• Kang De maneuvered the American Empire into confronting the Titan, then negotiated a paid role and greater control over the operation while using Earth’s weapons to bombard Griffin’s forces near Nar.
• Kang De and his allies prepared for war as Griffin declared his rebellion, recruited the Star Palace, and advanced on Goth, and Kang De also urged Grand Duke Reknos to choose whether nobles or commoners would shape Goth’s future.
• The emperor offered Kang De his daughter’s hand, the imperial succession, and support against the Star Palace, and Kang De decided to build trust with him while pursuing his own aims.
• Alex revealed to Phaethon that Kang De had come from another world, prompting Phaethon to order a complete revision of the Star Palace’s plans.
• Leonard and the undercover Goth agents planned to oppose Kang De’s war, but Leonard doubted their assumptions after seeing Distant Harbor’s people rally behind him.
• Kang De urged the crowd to defend Distant Harbor’s prosperity, ordered the army to begin its campaign, and sent the legions through Phase Teleportation.
• Leonard realized Kang De intended to turn Distant Harbor and Goth into a military camp, but a purple spike struck him and he was captured as a spy.

Kang De’s forces fought Griffin’s Council army while Kang De tried to preserve his soldiers and exposed them to the purpose of the war. After Dairila rallied the Mortal World to unite against the Star Palace, Kang De launched a decisive assault and deployed a colossal war behemoth.

• Leonard awoke in custody, learned from Julian that Kang De had conscripted him for ten years, and saw the alien army preparing for war.
• Kang De’s forces deployed an extensive defensive line, and both armies exchanged artillery and magic as Horus coordinated Distant Harbor’s defenses.
• Griffin ordered a Council assault through poison-laced fog, where Gaden Mist tried to save recruits before he and the remaining recruits were killed.
• Kang De’s explosives devastated the Council vanguard, and he later honored the wounded in stasis while telling his soldiers he was mortal and would bear responsibility for their sacrifices.
• Griffin offered Kang De a temporary arrangement to buy time against the Star Palace, and Kang De demanded that Griffin let the Council lose and help capture Phaethon.
• Dairila revealed her support for Kang De, declared her love before the troops, and called for the Mortal World to unite against the Star Palace.
• Kang De proposed the Iron Curtain Alliance, secured the Dragon Emperor’s conditional support, and ordered allied forces to attack the Council.
• Griffin’s wyverns met Kang De’s armored dragon battle group, and Kang De opened a vast Phase Door through which a colossal war behemoth emerged.

Kang De defeated Griffin Williams and Phaethon, freed the mind-controlled Council soldiers, and took control of the northern counties. As the Star Palace prepared its return, Kang De secured Otto II’s support for his plans to gather resources and build a force against it.

• Kang De unleashed the Corona Cannon and led Distant Harbor’s forces through the Council’s defenses, while Griffin Williams activated the Star Palace’s mind-control device to turn his soldiers against them.
• Kang De rallied his troops and advanced on Griffin’s command post, where Griffin finally demanded that Phaethon free the soldiers and signal the battlefield before Phaethon announced the Star Palace’s descent.
• Kang De and his allies fought Phaethon, and Malegith moved them to the White Mist World when Phaethon began to self-destruct, and Kang De killed him and returned to find a strange fluctuation had reached the world.
• Kang De executed Griffin, inherited his power, and freed the controlled Council soldiers, then demanded the northern counties and secured Kaliusi’s agreement to unite against the Star Palace.
• Kang De imposed terms on the northern counties, confiscated wealth from their elites, and began installing the Great Wall system while planning the Webway for after the war.
• Apophis told the Star Palace gods that Phaethon’s sacrifice had created a Homecoming Beacon, then selected a man in the northern snowfields as his first target.
• Kang De persuaded Otto II to help him acquire the Empire’s resources and sell refuge in the Shelter, and Otto II agreed to support the plan and attend an international summit.
• Kang De proposed forming the GDI to fight the Star Palace, while Otto II urged him to establish himself as the Empire’s heir and offered him one of his daughters in marriage.