Chapter Summaries

Kang De negotiated with arms dealer Kirov for more powerful weapons while flying to Africa, then learned from A Xing’s signal that the elves had attacked. He brought several crates of weapons to the White Mist World and prepared to fight with Horus.

• Kirov paid the Serbian pilots to obey Kang De and offered him interpreters and an assortment of firearms.
• Kang De asked Kirov to find him heavier weapons and artillery, leaving a gold bar as a deposit and giving Kirov a cut piece as thanks.
• After the An-12 took off, Kirov and Dimitri discussed Kang De’s frightening reputation and his poor firearms skill.
• Kang De checked the cargo hold and saw the Quantum Signal Generator flash, confirming that the elves had attacked A Xing and the others.
• Kang De left a spatial coordinate, transported crates of weapons and ammunition to the White Mist World, and ordered preparations for battle as Horus transformed into a war vehicle.

Xierfankai Le struggled with the council’s interference as he prepared to besiege Danfeng Lucerne, knowing the elves’ plans were largely designed to stop Kang De. A report from eastern Goth revealed that Kang De had routed an eight-thousand-strong auxiliary legion in less than eight minutes.

• Xierfankai Le reviewed the siege plan and recalled that the council had ordered a rushed attack on Danfeng Lucerne despite the city’s formidable defenses and the army’s lack of preparation.
• Xierfankai Le recognized that the council’s reinforcements and deployments were intended to contain Kang De, whom he regarded as the war’s greatest threat.
• The deputy chief of staff delivered a report that Kang De had routed the Sawada auxiliary troops in Halin District about forty minutes earlier.
• Xierfankai Le learned that the eight-thousand-strong auxiliary legion had lasted less than eight minutes before its survivors fled and Bulen City’s garrison attacked.

Xierfankai Le's staff learned that Kang De had destroyed eight thousand Sawada soldiers in eight minutes and was advancing toward them. Xierfankai Le rallied the elves to study Kang De's weaknesses and prepare to kill him above Danfeng Lucerne.

• Xierfankai Le ordered the deputy chief of staff to read the report on Kang De's attack, which had wiped out eight thousand Sawada soldiers in eight minutes.
• The deputy chief of staff described how Kang De's alchemical vehicle and crossbows decimated the Sawada army, while Hilmeria-Teldrassil and the Crimson Queen killed Captain Hai'an and the Officer Training Corps.
• Xierfankai Le told his staff that he feared defeat but urged them to fight rather than submit to Kang De's threats and demands.
• The staff officers proposed countermeasures, including heavy armor, shields, magic, dispersed formations, and efforts to restrict Kang De's teleportation and vehicle.
• Xierfankai Le ordered the elves to prepare plans and equipment for the armies Kang De would face, then had a banner hung declaring that the demon from Cathay had crossed Halin.

Kang De reflected on the massacre he had led in the other world and wrestled with the cost of using overwhelming force to stop further atrocities. As he faced delays on both fronts and feared he might not reach his father in time, he resolved to stay and kill every enemy if the rescue failed.

• Kang De returned to the An-12 after massacring several thousand enemy soldiers, moving weapons into the White Mist World and replacing their weight with ballast.
• Kang De recalled how modern firearms and his own attacks had slaughtered the poorly equipped force, leaving him disturbed despite the overwhelming victory.
• Kang De asked a Serbian pilot how British machine gunners might have felt at Bembesi, and the pilot condemned the British as executioners.
• Kang De considered the time needed for A Xing and Sword Saint Cascading Snow to reach Danfeng Lucerne and for him to locate his father, who was held by Gambia soldiers.
• Kang De feared that either the elven attack or a Gambia soldier could kill someone before he arrived, and vowed to remain until every enemy was dead if he failed to make it in time.

Kang De arrived in Senegal to reach Comora and rescue his father, hiding the weapons he had brought and enduring extortion at the airport. After a phone thief and his accomplices provoked him, Kang De killed the thief and headed toward Comora with Horus, declaring he would treat any attack as self-defense.

• Kang De landed in Senegal with two Serbian pilots and secretly moved the weapons into the White Mist World while in the airport restroom.
• Kang De paid off customs staff, a security officer, and airport police to avoid delays, then parted from the Serbians and left the airport.
• A thief snatched Kang De’s phone, and Kang De chased him after striking a white man who had mocked him and tried to block his way.
• Kang De offered the thief money and his wallet for the phone, but the thief demanded his backpack and attacked him with a dagger.
• Kang De broke the thief’s arm, drove the dagger into his chest, and beat him to death before calling out Horus.
• Kang De entered the Hummer with Horus and said they were going to Comora, ordering him to kill anyone who shot at them or prepared to do so.

Kang De crossed into Comora and infiltrated his father’s company compound in occupied Sangmili, where he found it ransacked and the family dogs slaughtered. After killing several Gambian soldiers and capturing another, he called Kirov to translate as he prepared to question the captive.

• Kang De and Horus traveled across Seligal, and Kang De explained his view of the region’s poverty and history of exploitation.
• Kang De crossed into Comora and drove to Sangmili, which had been captured by Gambian troops.
• Kang De sent Horus back to the White Mist World and slipped through the occupied city toward his father’s company compound.
• Kang De found the compound ransacked, the garden destroyed, and two family dogs hanging in the yard while a Gambian soldier skinned them.
• Kang De killed several Gambian soldiers inside the compound and captured another, then called Kirov and told him to translate.

Kang De interrogated a Gambian soldier through an interpreter and learned that Major Oschatz had captured the missing Chinese people. After locating the major’s camp, Kang De prepared to force his way in and question him.

• Kang De threatened a captured Gambian soldier over the phone until the man revealed that Major Oschatz had captured the Chinese people.
• The soldier identified the barracks north of Sangmili as Oschatz’s base and agreed to guide Kang De there.
• Kang De drove the soldier to the camp, learned it held about three hundred Gambian troops, and killed him after reaching the area.
• Kirov sent Kang De a photograph of Major Oschatz, and Kang De memorized his appearance before preparing to attack the camp.
• Kang De told Horus he would fight his way in, kill those in front of Oschatz, and then question the major.

Kang De and Horus attacked the poorly guarded Gambian camp to find the Chinese captives and Major Oschatz. Kang De disabled the camp’s power and backup generator while Horus led the Humvee’s assault, and the attack continued as Horus unleashed his weapons.

• Kang De ordered Horus to attack the camp’s gate with the Humvee’s heavy machine guns and grenade launcher, destroying the guards, watchtowers, and entrance.
• Kang De and Horus drove into the camp, then split up to search for Major Oschatz and the Chinese captives while avoiding harm to any Chinese people.
• Kang De used his Lynx rifle to kill Gambian soldiers he encountered, then removed its scope after struggling to aim through it.
• Kang De found and destroyed the camp’s electrical distribution room, cutting off its power supply.
• Kang De threw a fireball into the building housing the backup generators, then gave Horus permission to attack freely.
• Horus drove the Humvee into a warehouse as gunfire and machinery filled the camp.

Yiyer watched Transformers while guarding a warehouse in Comora until an Autobot attacked the Gambian forces. After the robot seized Yiyer and Kang De confronted Major Oschatz, Kang De called Kirov to translate.

• Yiyer enjoyed looting a Chinese person's house and watched Transformers while assigned to guard the warehouse.
• An Autobot burst through the warehouse wall, attacked the Gambian soldiers, and set off a chaotic assault on the compound.
• Yiyer fled to Major Oschatz's command post and claimed that Michael Bay had sent a Decepticon to attack them.
• A giant robot crushed Yiyer and brought Kang De into the command post, where Kang De shot a soldier who entered the room.
• Kang De pressed his rifle against Major Oschatz's face and called Kirov to translate.

Kang De interrogated Oschatz and learned that Gambia’s king had hired mercenaries who took the kidnapped Chinese people to Yayeruoba, including a man resembling Kang De. After ending the call, Kang De prepared to attack an enemy army in Stream Valley with Horus and heavy machine guns.

• Kang De used threats and torture to make Oschatz reveal that mercenaries had taken the Chinese captives under orders from Gambia’s king.
• Kirov questioned Oschatz about the mercenaries and promised to investigate the force, while suspecting a secret motive behind Gambia’s costly war effort.
• Oschatz identified Yayeruoba as the captives’ location and confirmed that a Chinese man resembling Kang De had been handed over unharmed.
• Kang De burned Oschatz despite his pleas, then ended the call with Kirov to pursue the mercenaries before they learned the camp had fallen.
• In Stream Valley, Cascading Snow asked Kang De to stop the enemy army, and Kang De ordered Horus to use the Overhead Firing Method against its formation.

Kang De’s forces annihilated the Tuke City-State army in six minutes, while the Elf Expeditionary Force tried to use the battle to learn his methods. After Kang De left a gruesome warning at the battlefield, the elves declared that he had broken through Xiaye, and he called Kirov from Earth to order takeout.

• The Elf Expeditionary Force sent the Tuke City-State army to delay Kang De and test his capabilities, but Horus, A Xing, Sword Saint Cascading Snow, and Kang De’s weapons destroyed it in six minutes.
• Hilmeria feared that modern weapons had made courage and honor meaningless, while Kang De prepared his team to continue toward Danfeng Lucerne.
• Kang De used Phoenix Vision to search the battlefield and decided to leave a frightening surprise for the elven scouts.
• The elves found the burning corpse tower and Kang De’s threat to kill them all, but Xierfankai Le insisted the army’s mission had succeeded and ordered the campaign to continue.
• The Elf Expeditionary Force added “The bloody, brutal dreadlord has broken through Xiaye” to its command-tent banner.
• Kang De and the Humvee appeared near Sangmili in Comora, and Kang De called Kirov to order takeout.

Kang De ordered more heavy weapons and mines from Kirov while traveling toward Moyani to find the Chinese hostages. He discovered the hostages had been moved and attacked the armed men at their former location, leaving the story with him preparing to interrogate and kill them one by one.

• Kang De asked Kirov for prohibited weapons, artillery shells, ammunition, rocket launchers, and five hundred antipersonnel mines, and Kirov agreed to gather what he could.
• Kang De traveled south through the Gobi in the Hummer and collected fuel, building materials, and industrial explosives from the military camp he had attacked.
• Kang De reached a walled building near Moyani, where Oschatz had said he escorted the Chinese hostages, but his life-detection vision showed no captives inside.
• Kang De broke through the gate and killed the armed white guard, then hurled iron bars through the windows at two more men.
• Kang De charged into the building, cut its power with electricity, and hunted down the men inside as gunfire and screams filled the darkness.

Kang De interrogated Daniel Monet and learned that the kidnapped Chinese people, including his father, had been taken to a king’s mausoleum north of Moyani to help with an excavation. He also discovered that Little Bob led the mercenaries and decided to investigate Big Bob as he continued toward the rescue.

• Kang De woke Daniel Monet by stabbing his thigh and questioned him amid the bodies of Daniel’s comrades.
• Daniel told Kang De that the Chinese captives had been moved to a king’s mausoleum north of Moyani because the mercenaries needed their help excavating it.
• Daniel identified Little Bob as the mercenaries’ boss, and Kirov explained that Little Bob was Big Bob’s son and that Big Bob remained Comora’s power behind the scenes.
• Kang De asked Kirov to investigate the war’s pretext, the mausoleum, and Big Bob’s whereabouts, then left the building and drove toward the next stage of his search.

Kang De reached the heavily guarded royal tomb where his father and the other Chinese hostages were likely being held, determined to infiltrate it without alerting the mercenaries. As he prepared to sneak in with Horus, the Transformer sensed something nearby calling to him, much closer than before.

• Kang De listened as Kirov explained that France might be secretly involved in the war and hostage-taking, but Kang De chose to act without asking his homeland for help.
• Kang De arrived at the royal tomb and confirmed that the excavation was still underway, making it likely the hostages were still inside.
• Kang De resolved to infiltrate the camp quietly, avoiding guns, explosives, and anything that might draw the enemy's attention.
• Horus transformed and told Kang De that something near the tomb was calling to him, as it had in Myanmar, but the feeling was much closer now.

Kang De prepared to investigate the king’s tomb after Horus sensed something inside calling to him, and he began infiltrating the mercenary camp in a stealth outfit. The camp’s alarm sounded just as Kang De approached a tent, leaving his covert sweep at risk.

• Horus told Kang De that something in the king’s tomb felt familiar and seemed to be calling to him.
• Kang De decided to take whatever treasure Horus sensed and vowed to ruin the mercenaries’ plans after rescuing his father.
• Kang De donned the Brotherhood’s Shadow Lone Walker Set, gathered enchanted weapons and potions, and left Horus waiting in Hummer form.
• Kang De silently infiltrated the tomb’s mountain approach, killed guards at the towers and guard booth, and destroyed their bodies.
• Kang De crossed the gate and cleared the winding road toward the tomb before an alarm suddenly rang as he approached a tent.

Kang De infiltrated the king’s tomb amid a camp-wide alert and a diversion staged by Horus, fighting his way underground to rescue the hostages. He found seven of his father’s colleagues but learned that Kang Jinzhu was missing, and demanded to know what had happened to him.

• A camp-wide alarm forced Kang De to abandon his plan to kill the mercenaries quietly and search for the hostages as guards raised security and began evacuating equipment.
• Kang De confirmed that no hostages were outside the tomb and coordinated with Horus to stage an attack that would distract the mercenaries without endangering the captives.
• As Horus’s diversion threw the camp into chaos, Kang De slipped through the closing tomb doors, killed the guards, and fought through the underground passages.
• Kang De used Extraction to break through the rock above a hidden holding area, killed two mercenaries, and found seven of his father’s Chinese colleagues.
• Kang De realized Kang Jinzhu was not among the hostages, crushed a mercenary’s head in anger, and shouted to ask what had happened to his father.

Kang De learned that Kang Jinzhu had been taken away with the artifact, then fought his way through the underground complex to join Horus’s attack on the camp. He emerged into the battle and vanished in black light, leaving the hostages behind as the assault continued.

• Kang De questioned the hostages and learned that Kang Jinzhu and the artifact had been taken away after their captors confiscated the group’s phones and watches.
• Kang De told Horus to launch the full attack and chose to fight his way out from inside rather than return by spatial jump.
• Kang De killed the mercenaries in the underground hall, using magic, a machine gun, and a Lynx rifle to defeat the approaching teams.
• Kang De returned through the tunnel, killed the guards, and used his mental power and a kick to collapse the king’s tomb doors.
• Kang De joined the fighting outside, crushed a trapped machine gunner, and vanished in black light as the camp’s attackers noticed him.

Kang De and Horus destroyed the mercenary camp, then interrogated its officers about Kang De’s father and the treasure excavated from the king’s mausoleum. After learning that his father had been taken to Monia, Kang De rescued the imprisoned Chinese workers and planned to take them to the Chinese embassy in Moyani.

• Kang De attacked the camp with explosives, fire, and rockets while Horus drove the armed Hummer through its defenses and destroyed two infantry fighting vehicles.
• Kang De and Horus finished off the remaining soldiers, moved the captured vehicle and weapons into the White Mist World, and brought the unconscious officers to the king’s mausoleum.
• Kang De used gruesome punishments to force the officers to reveal that his father had been taken to Monia by Mr. Buruo, along with treasure excavated from the ruins.
• Kang De learned that the mercenaries intended to conceal their operation and what they planned to do with the Chinese laborers after excavation; he killed the officers who refused to answer honestly and erased the evidence.
• Kang De freed the imprisoned Chinese workers, packed them into the Hummer, and told Horus to take them to the Chinese embassy in Moyani.

As Gambia occupied Moyani, Kang Jinzhu deduced that Little Bob’s French-backed mercenaries planned to overthrow Gambia’s king and exploit ancient tombs, using the deaths of Chinese citizens to justify intervention. Little Bob refused to let Kang Jinzhu contact his family but agreed to carry his last words to China, while Kang De raced toward Moyani, unaware that his father was preparing to die.

• Gambia’s king believed the occupation of Moyani had secured his secret deal, unaware that the plotters planned a second phase against him.
• Kang Jinzhu confronted Little Bob with his deduction that the mercenaries intended to use Chinese deaths as a pretext to intervene in Gambia and excavate its tombs.
• Little Bob refused Kang Jinzhu’s request to call his wife and son but allowed him to dictate a final letter and promised to pursue compensation for his family.
• Kang Jinzhu agreed to cooperate and wrote his last words, privately grieving for his wife and son and hoping his son would remain kind after his death.
• Kang De drove toward Moyani as his crude signaling device began glowing red.

The Elf Expeditionary Force received reports that Kang De had destroyed three armies and prepared to confront his advancing war chariot while Xierfankai Le hesitated over committing the air force. In Valentan, Tagelise learned that Kang De had left to aid Danfeng Lucerne and that the visitor from beyond the heavens was dead, then confronted Elandil, who revealed herself as the Phoenix King.

• The scouts reported that Kang De had annihilated Yalunxide's army with increasingly brutal attacks, and Xierfankai Le ordered preparations to counter his alchemical war chariot in the fourth interception.
• Xierfankai Le considered using the air force to break the siege of Danfeng Lucerne but held back under the council's order to preserve it for fighting Kang De.
• After eight hours, Tagelise discovered from Hong San that the Elf Expeditionary Force had attacked Danfeng Lucerne and Kang De had gone to aid Goth's capital.
• Hong San told Tagelise that the visitor from beyond the heavens had died at Sword Saint Cascading Snow's hands, and Tagelise rushed away.
• Tagelise confronted Elandil, who revealed herself as the Phoenix King and asked how much more he intended to take from her.