Chapter Summaries

Kang De attacked the mercenary convoy, rescued its captives, and destroyed the vehicles pursuing them, while two SUVs carrying British journalists escaped toward Moyani. Little Bob prepared for Thomas’s arrival as Kang Jinzhu drove toward the capital to stop his son.

• Kang De overturned a pickup, freed three Myanmar captives, and deployed the Defender Automaton and Himo’s Eagle against the convoy.
• Kang De killed the occupants of an SUV and freed the mercenary leader, who recognized him as Kang Jinzhu’s son and asked him to save his men.
• Kang De used Alchemical Scarabs, the Defender Automaton, and his greatsword to destroy the attackers’ vehicles, while two SUVs escaped toward Moyani.
• The mercenary leader told Kang De that the remaining captives were British journalists, and Kang De continued after them, saying he had to save strangers so Kang Jinzhu would see it.
• Kang Jinzhu took control of the Humvee and drove toward Moyani to stop Kang De.
• Little Bob beat an intelligence officer at the airport, answered a call about Thomas’s arrival, and said they should begin.

Kang Jinzhu and Chakat II raced toward Moyani, where fires suddenly spread across the city. Believing the attack was meant to frame Kang De, Kang Jinzhu convinced the Humvee to take them toward the danger so he could intervene, while Chakat II went to save his citizens.

• Kang Jinzhu and Chakat II traveled toward Moyani in Horus, and Kang Jinzhu suspected that Li Shaoyuan was remotely controlling the Humvee.
• From a hill overlooking the city, Chakat II mourned his damaged palace and considered seeking China's help to rebuild Comora.
• White phosphorus shells and incendiary bombs struck across Moyani before Kang Jinzhu could locate Kang De.
• Chakat II tried to force his way toward the burning city, but Horus restrained him and aimed a weapon at him.
• Kang Jinzhu argued that the attack was a trap intended to blame Kang De, then pleaded with Horus to take them to the embassy so he could stop the situation from worsening.
• Horus drove Kang Jinzhu and Chakat II toward Moyani as the city burned.

Kang De rescued the British journalists Alina and Cole from the mercenaries, but a bomb killed Cole as mortar and incendiary attacks began engulfing the city. After saving civilians and ending the suffering of a badly burned man, Kang De flew toward the source of the bombardment.

• Kang De caught the fleeing vehicles, rescued Alina, and killed the mercenaries pursuing the journalists.
• Kang De neutralized the C4 strapped to Alina, but an explosion killed Cole before he could reach him.
• Kang De saw mortar shells and incendiary bombs striking the city, then carried Alina away from the attacks.
• Kang De extracted flames from burning homes and rushed to help a family whose father was engulfed in napalm.
• Kang De ended the father's agony with his sword, then launched himself toward the source of the bombardment.

Kang De fought to save civilians from the incendiary attack on Comora while killing the mercenaries responsible. At the Chinese embassy, Chakat II secured Chinese humanitarian assistance, and Kang Jinzhu revealed that the French government had plotted the war and the king’s assassination to obtain what was in the king’s tomb.

• Kang De rode Himo's Eagle through the burning city, using the Fire Thief's power to extinguish flames and rescue trapped civilians, though many people died before he could reach them.
• Kang De killed mercenaries fleeing in an SUV and set one of them on fire after demanding to know why they had attacked innocent civilians.
• Ambassador He ordered the embassy’s doctors to prepare to help Comora’s civilians despite the regulations, as Chakat II arrived and requested humanitarian assistance from the Chinese government.
• Chakat II asked Military Attaché Liang for protection while he planned to livestream a visit to the United States embassy, and Kang Jinzhu entered the embassy to speak with Ambassador He.
• Kang Jinzhu told Ambassador He that the French government had plotted the war and the king’s assassination to obtain what was in the king’s tomb.

Little Bob Buruo became fixated on a golden sphere and unleashed its light while Kang Jinzhu worked with Comora and Chinese officials to explain Kang De’s powers and keep him out of the political storm. As Chinese forces headed out to help, Chakat II joined their convoy, while Kang De remained active in the burning city.

• Big Bob ordered Little Bob Buruo to blame the attack on a Chinese man, but Little Bob refused and called the man a vessel before opening his suitcase and releasing a golden sphere that flooded the electronics room with light.
• Kang Jinzhu told an unnamed senior official that a bronze artifact fragment had awakened Kang De’s powers and described his efforts to save people in Moyani.
• Kang Jinzhu and the ambassador agreed that Comora’s legends could provide a cover story and that powerful countries would help make Kang De appear ordinary again.
• The Chinese convoy set out from the embassy as King Chakat II confronted a Western diplomat and then accepted Major Liang’s offer of a lift.

Chakat II rallied Comora’s survivors and organized relief while Kang Jinzhu searched the city for Kang De. Kang Jinzhu eventually found his son amid the ruins, where Kang De questioned why people made war and wondered whether he had made things worse.

• Chakat II rode with Kang Jinzhu into the devastated city, then climbed onto the Humvee and urged Comora’s people to help one another and follow his directions.
• Armed police and doctors distributed medicine as Chakat II organized residents and began restoring order.
• Chakat II told Kang Jinzhu to go search for Kang De and thanked him for his son’s help; Kang Jinzhu drove away in the Humvee.
• Kang Jinzhu searched the city with the Humvee, but found only signs of the golden eagle until night fell.
• Kang Jinzhu found Kang De among the ruins beside charred bodies, and Kang De wondered why people kept making war and whether he had made things worse.

After the destruction in Comora, Kang De broke down over the deaths he could not prevent and the violence he had used, while Kang Jinzhu tried to comfort him. The survivors approached and thanked Kang De for saving them, leaving him facing their gratitude amid the ruins.

• Kang De blamed himself for the devastation in Comora, and Kang Jinzhu insisted that the atrocities were not his fault and that he had done what he could.
• Kang De rejected his father's reassurances, describing how betrayal, fear, and impossible choices had repeatedly left him relying on violence to protect others.
• Kang De confessed that he had killed many people, including a blind old woman, and broke down as Kang Jinzhu embraced him and listened.
• Survivors approached, including a mother and daughter, and the little girl thanked Kang De for ending her father's suffering.
• More survivors gathered with lights and thanked Kang De, filling the ruins with their words of gratitude.

After waking from a long, peaceful sleep, Kang De discussed how to conceal his powers and avoid being pulled into a wider crisis. His father revealed that other people with superpowers might exist, and the chapter ended with the Russian calling to say he was almost in Comora.

• Kang De woke after sleeping six or seven hours and learned that the city had remained peaceful while he rested.
• Kang De and Kang Jinzhu discussed his powers, his reluctance to involve the state, and the risks of connecting Earth with Goth.
• Kang Jinzhu explained that he had told the state Kang De's powers came from an ancient Comoran amulet and the king's tomb.
• Kang Jinzhu revealed that other people with superpowers existed and that state agencies had concealed related events.
• Kang De told Kang Jinzhu about sending a ghost to the afterlife at Huaxing Garden and joked about starting a ghost-hailing app.
• The Russian called Kang De, said the GRU had been contacting him, and asked Kang De to pick him up because he was almost in Comora.

Kang De arranged for Kirov to join him while remaining wary of the Russian, then sent Kang Jinzhu to speak with Alina. As Kang De left to meet Kirov, Horus reflected on what he had witnessed and decided that the dashcam was humanity’s greatest invention.

• Kang De offered Kirov the choice of completing their deal and leaving or joining him under close watch, and Kirov chose to join him.
• Kang De asked Kang Jinzhu to inform Ambassador He that Kirov was on his way and to ask China what it knew about Russia’s interest in him.
• Kang Jinzhu told Alina that Kang De felt guilty about Cole’s death and encouraged her to report on the French mercenaries’ crimes while omitting the supernatural events.
• Kang De filmed Kang Jinzhu speaking with Alina, then left in Himo’s Eagle to meet Kirov and told Horus to guard the site and hide the camera.
• Horus watched the footage and concluded that the dashcam was the greatest invention in human history.

Kang De accepted a Russian arms shipment in the Gobi Desert and demonstrated his power by safely catching an airdrop platform carrying a Shilka. After arranging to move the weapons to Moyani, he called King Chakat to ask about buying property and land in his country.

• Kang De learned that Kirov’s shipment had been upgraded and doubled, with Russian personnel sent along to operate the weapons, and reluctantly agreed to the airdrop.
• Kang De used Illumination Spells to light the Gobi Desert and Feather Fall to catch the platform carrying the Shilka as it descended.
• Kirov and his fourteen mercenaries landed safely, and Dimitri offered his men’s services to Kang De.
• Kang De told Kirov that his homeland must know about all their dealings, then ordered the cargo moved to Moyani.
• Kang De called King Chakat and asked permission to acquire property and buy land in his country.

Kang De bought a logistics depot in Moyani to test how property ownership unlocked the White Mist World, then acquired land near the French military base and discovered the map expansion was blocked by the base. As he considered whether purchasing was the only way to unlock land, the Quantum Signal Generator lit up again.

• Kang De insisted on paying market price for the royal family's logistics depot, and Chakat II arranged the sale and transfer of ownership.
• Kang De moved supplies and weapons into the depot and entered the White Mist World to confirm that owning the property had unlocked the area.
• Kang De asked Chakat II to sell him land near the French military base after the king refused to void the French lease without consulting Kang De's motherland.
• Kang De flew to the newly purchased land and unlocked part of the map, but found that a force around the military base blocked the white mist's expansion.
• Kang De wondered whether property purchases were the only way to unlock map areas, and the Quantum Signal Generator lit up.

Kang De assembled and duplicated a large arsenal of Earth weapons for a long-range attack on the Stoneheart Warband, despite the time-anchor cost. He left the howitzers and Shilkas deployed with Horus, A Xing, and Sword Saint Cascading Snow, ready to strike the elves near Agra.

• Kang De returned to the White Mist World, where A Xing and Sword Saint Cascading Snow told him the Stoneheart Warband had deployed heavy magic devices and was preparing to attack Agra.
• Kang De rejected Hilmeria’s suggestion to retreat and used Horus to scout the elven positions before choosing a distant firing site.
• Kang De and Horus transported howitzers, a Shilka, and supplies to the new position, then Kang De refreshed the White Mist World’s time anchor five times to duplicate the weapons.
• Kang De deployed twelve howitzers and six Shilkas with Horus, A Xing, Sword Saint Cascading Snow, and magical puppets, while Horus warned that he was already occupied managing the firing position.
• Kang De declined to shout “Fire” because he considered it a bad omen tied to his fiancée.

Hilmeria watched Kang De prepare and fire twelve enormous cannons, realizing that his weapons could transform the war and give Goth hope. As the cannons were reloaded for another volley, Kang De called artillery the god of war.

• Hilmeria reflected on Kang De’s victories and secrets, and on the faint feelings she had begun to develop for him despite his bond with Tina.
• Kang De told Hilmeria to protect her ears before firing the cannons, but she refused until he instructed her to keep her mouth open to balance the pressure.
• Kang De and the alchemical puppets pulled the firing lanyards, launching twelve shells with a thunderous roar that left Hilmeria stunned.
• Hilmeria watched the weapons eject their metal cases and get reloaded, imagining how a vast number of cannons could rival the gods of legend.
• Kang De called the cannons “the god of war” and signaled that they were ready to fire again.

After the Stoneheart Warband was destroyed by Kang De’s modern weapons, its commander Bailanpusi warned Xierfankai Le that the elves faced a new system of warfare and urged him not to wait for Kang De. Xierfankai Le ordered a night assault on Danfeng Lucerne, while Kang De returned to Earth after discovering that his howitzers and anti-aircraft vehicles had not respawned.

• Xierfankai Le read Bailanpusi’s final letter, which described the Stoneheart Warband’s defeat and urged the elves to change their military methods before Kang De won the war.
• Bailanpusi explained how Kang De’s mobile weapons, long-range bombardment, and specialized attacks overwhelmed the elves, while recommending dispersed formations and earthwork defenses.
• Xierfankai Le asked whether the nation’s future mattered more than personal honor, then recalled Selendron, a defeated commander who had opposed the war.
• Xierfankai Le ordered the expeditionary force to launch a night attack on Danfeng Lucerne and prepare an all-out assault before daybreak.
• Kang De returned to Earth after using Himo’s Eagle to drop land mines and oil tanks, having discovered that his howitzers and anti-aircraft vehicles had not respawned.

Kang De returned to Moyani during another attack and learned that Chakat II had named him Comora’s heir. He discovered the attackers included seemingly mindless Gambian soldiers, then saw a huge convoy of civilian vehicles charging toward the city.

• Kang De returned to Earth after the heavy weapons vanished from the White Mist World and found Moyani under attack, then spoke with his father and Kirov.
• At the command post, Chakat II told Kang De he had made a will naming him Comora’s next king if he died.
• Kirov explained that the Russian defenders were holding position while unidentified attackers advanced, and Kang De went to the front after ordering a ceasefire.
• Kang De fought the attackers and noticed their poor skills and unnatural fearlessness; an ID suggested that many were Gambian soldiers rather than Little Bob’s mercenaries.
• Kang De warned Chakat II that the attackers seemed to have been “Yuried,” then saw a massive convoy of civilian vehicles racing toward them.

Kang De stopped a convoy of civilians who had been mentally controlled, then learned that Little Bob’s treasure could control people. He returned to the other world to ask Sword Saint Cascading Snow how to break the spell, and she said the battlefield held something that could help.

• Dimitri prepared to stop the speeding vehicles, but Kang De raced toward them to keep the soldiers from killing possible civilians.
• Kang De realized a supernatural power was directing the drivers, then disabled their cars and restrained them without killing them.
• Kang De suspected Little Bob had used the treasure from the king’s tomb to control the civilians and told Kang Jinzhu what had happened.
• Kang De returned to the Russian line, ordered Dimitri to keep patrolling, and flew back to the other world.
• Kang De asked Sword Saint Cascading Snow how to break a spell that confused people’s minds, and she said something on the battlefield could help.

Kang De looted the defeated Stoneheart Warband’s magitech and magical defenses before continuing toward Danfeng Lucerne with Hilmeria and Sword Saint Cascading Snow. He then returned to Earth, freed the mind-controlled civilians near Moyani, and learned that Little Bob had used a golden sphere to control them.

• Kang De took the three heavy magitech devices from the battlefield and considered how their elemental powers could threaten modern weapons.
• Hilmeria found magical scrolls and sanctuary amulets among the dead, explaining how elf officers defended themselves against mental spells.
• Kang De and Sword Saint Cascading Snow discussed the dangers ahead at Danfeng Lucerne, and he promised to bring the conflict to an end.
• Kang De told Iron Son that he might need weapons from a French military base, then returned to Earth.
• Kang De used a scroll and staged a moonlit blessing to break the mind control over the civilians near Moyani.
• The freed civilians said Little Bob’s group had controlled them with a golden sphere, and Kang De vowed to take it back.

Kang De prepared to confront Little Bob over the mind-control artifact while weighing how to keep it from the French and compensate Comora for losing it. He encouraged Chakat II to work toward making Comora number one in Africa, leaving the king cautiously willing to try.

• Kang De gave Kang Jinzhu an amulet to resist mind control and explained that he planned to kill Little Bob and take the artifact, while Kang Jinzhu would alert people back home.
• Kang De left Horus to guard Kang Jinzhu and discussed how Little Bob’s apparently restrained attack might have been meant to lure him into a trap.
• Chakat II thanked Kang De and admitted that Comora had little means to repay him or protect its ancestral treasure.
• Kang De acknowledged that Comora could not keep the mind-control artifact but promised to secure a purchase price for the country.
• Chakat II asked whether Comora could still get justice, and Kang De urged him to try to make Comora number one in Africa.
• Chakat II accepted Kang De’s hand and agreed to try, though he privately doubted the idea.

Kang De intercepted and freed a second group of mind-controlled Comorans bound for the airport, then discussed with Chakat II whether Little Bob might use them as bombs or hostages. When Little Bob requested talks, Kang De decided to kill him and suggested he could use the ancestral mind-control artifact too.

• Kang De traced the French-backed plan to seize the treasures in the Comoran and Gambian kings’ tombs and learned that Little Bob’s scheme had been disrupted.
• Kang De used an elven spell scroll to free a convoy of controlled civilians and had Chakat II direct them home over the radio.
• Kang De told Chakat II that Little Bob might be sending civilians to the airport as suicide bombers or bringing them as hostages to negotiate his escape.
• Chakat II said he would consider negotiating because he feared that pursuing Little Bob could get the civilians killed and burden Kang De with guilt.
• After Chakat II reported that Little Bob had requested talks, Kang De said he would find a way to kill him and proposed using the mind-control artifact himself.

Chakat II confronted Little Bob Buruo over his threats against Comora’s civilians and demanded the release of the hostages and the return of the royal treasure. As the two argued, Kang De used the call’s signal to locate Little Bob at an airport in western Comora and flew there to attack, unaware that Little Bob was calmly anticipating his move.

• Chakat II rejected Little Bob’s demand to speak with Kang De and refused to be intimidated by threats against Comora’s civilians.
• Chakat II warned that Comora would give its royal treasure to whoever helped destroy the Buruo family, then offered Little Bob safe passage if he released the civilians and returned the relic.
• An intelligence officer and Ambassador He used the call to pinpoint Little Bob’s location to a building at an airport in western Comora.
• Kang De learned the location, prepared a surprise attack, and flew toward the airport to end the conflict and collect supplies.
• Little Bob continued arguing with Chakat II while secretly remaining calm, his eyes glowing gold as he anticipated Kang De’s arrival.