Chapter Summaries

Kang De infiltrated the western airport to find Little Bob, but discovered that the apparent hiding place held only phones carrying their ongoing call. After Kang De joined Chakat II’s negotiation, the call exposed Little Bob’s location at the French military base, leaving the team ready to move.

• Kang De surveyed the western airport, suspected Little Bob’s decision to stay in Comora was a trap, and entered the grounds invisibly.
• Kang De used a mechanical beetle to search the terminal and found two satellite phones connected to the call between Chakat II and Little Bob, but no sign of Little Bob himself.
• Kang De photographed the phones and sent the image to Kirov, who showed Chakat II; Kang De then removed the phones’ sound problem with a scroll and returned them to Moyani for monitoring.
• Kang De joined Chakat II’s call and rejected Little Bob’s offer of friendship, then invited him to meet face-to-face.
• Little Bob noticed a sound and the call disconnected, but a technician identified the signal’s location as the French military base.

Kang De learned that Little Bob had seized control of the French military base and was stirring up riots across Comora, so he raced to the base to capture him and stop the violence. After entering the base, Kang De was detected despite his invisibility and came under heavy fire.

• Kirov warned Kang De that Little Bob’s control of the French base threatened Moyani, while reports came in of Gambian garrisons and local residents causing chaos.
• Chakat II ordered an evacuation and emergency preparations, and Kang De promised to protect his family before riding toward the French base.
• Kirov advised Chakat II to gather footage of the French task force attacking Moyani and coordinated Russian and Chinese responses.
• Kang De spoke with Papa Kang during the flight, then decided that capturing Little Bob and taking the treasure was the fastest way to stop the unrest.
• Kang De glided to the French base, entered the White Mist World several times to reach the ground, and crossed the wall under invisibility.
• Searchlights, artillery, and gunfire targeted Kang De, who used the power of time to dodge and prepare to fight.

Kang De used the Hammer of Archimedes to destroy the French military base and pursued Little Bob Buruo as he escaped by plane. He caught up with the aircraft on Himo's Eagle, where Little Bob spotted a howitzer in the sky ahead.

• Kang De realized the French soldiers' weapons were tracking his movements and suspected Little Bob's mind-control artifact was involved.
• Kang De dispelled the mind control inside the administration building, then hid underground and activated the Hammer of Archimedes.
• Kang De used the Hammer of Archimedes to unleash a devastating earthquake that demolished the military base, then escaped to the surface.
• Kang De tried to stop Little Bob Buruo's plane with a dispel spell, but it continued climbing, so he mounted Himo's Eagle and pursued it.
• Little Bob Buruo and his pilots regained control of themselves, and Little Bob spotted what looked like a howitzer ahead of the aircraft.

Kang De shot down Little Bob’s plane, ending the immediate threat to Comora and leaving him to search the wreckage for the royal relic. He then coordinated with Chakat II to pressure the French troops into surrender while heading to raid their base for supplies before returning to the other world.

• Kang De fired a howitzer at Little Bob’s plane, destroyed it, and attacked the wreckage with lightning to ensure no one survived.
• Kang De searched the burning wreckage for the Comora royal relic but could not find it among the scattered debris.
• Kirov told Kang De that the French had stopped firing, the civilians were safe in shelters, and footage of the French shelling had been recorded.
• Chakat II thanked Kang De and said Comora would demand the French troops surrender and hand over their weapons in exchange for permission to rescue their comrades.
• Kang De flew toward the French military base to search its warehouses for weapons and supplies before preparing for the battle of Danfeng Lucerne.

Kang De raided the damaged French base for supplies to aid Danfeng Lucerne, then left to stop Gambian soldiers from terrorizing a city in northwestern Comora. As Horus questioned whether Little Bob or the ancient artifact had controlled the other, Kang De realized he might have overlooked who was truly in control.

• Kang De used Horus's WeChat-marked aerial map to locate the base's warehouses, then hauled out weapons, ammunition, and other supplies before planting explosives.
• Horus warned Kang De that the king was negotiating with France and that he needed to finish before French rescue operations began.
• Chakat II asked Kang De to suppress Gambian soldiers still committing atrocities after Little Bob's control over them had ended, and Kang De agreed to go.
• Kang De looted the base's missile and artillery positions, demolished parts of the site, and flew toward the city in northwestern Comora.
• Kang De attacked the Gambian soldiers who had stayed to commit violence, while sparing those who had fled for the moment.
• Horus asked whether the ancient artifact had controlled Little Bob, and Kang De began to suspect that he had misunderstood their relationship.

Kang De realized that the Comora relic might be controlling Little Bob and still directing events from hiding. After stopping mind-controlled soldiers from opening fire during the king’s meeting with the French, he ordered a search of the city, but gunfire erupted from the Foreign Legion’s encampment.

• Kang De and Horus reasoned that the relic had used Little Bob as a host and had faked its disappearance to pursue another scheme.
• Kang De warned King Chakat to retreat from his meeting with the French and rushed to the city outskirts.
• Three mind-controlled soldiers drew their guns at King Chakat, the French ambassador, and their own commander, but Kang De’s defenses blocked the shots and a dispel scroll freed them.
• Kang De searched the French personnel and ordered a curfew and a headcount, but found no sign of the relic.
• Gunfire erupted near the Foreign Legion Comora Task Force’s encampment.

Kang De broke the mind control over the French Foreign Legion and restored order, while remaining alert for the artifact spirit. The spirit then attacked the Chinese embassy, where Horus confronted a golden sphere and screamed in pain.

• Kang De agreed to help the French soldiers and gave King Chakat II a talisman to guard against mind control before flying to the encampment.
• Kang De dispelled the mind control, calmed the soldiers, and had Lieutenant Colonel Virey organize the shaken survivors while he searched for the artifact spirit.
• A Frenchman approached the Chinese embassy with a lead case, but a driverless Humvee killed him after the golden substance inside drew the guards closer.
• The golden sphere rolled from the case, and Horus sensed the same powerful call he had felt at the king's tomb.
• Horus reached for the sphere and warned Kang De that the embassy was its target, then cried out in pain.

Horus was taken over by the Comora artifact spirit, forcing Kang De to pursue the weaponized Humvee out of Moyani while trying to save his creation. The chase ended at the western airport, where the possessed Horus turned his weapons on Kang De and agreed to talk.

• Horus touched the golden sphere and the artifact spirit seized control of him, causing him to attack Kang De and flee in the Humvee.
• Kang De pursued Horus with his alchemical mechanisms, dodging gunfire and explosives while warning the king and the city’s residents to take shelter.
• The French ambassador saw evidence linking the golden sphere to the Humvee and ordered a high-security report to headquarters.
• Kang De followed Horus out of Moyani and tried to persuade the artifact spirit to stop, while sensing that Horus was still resisting and had not transformed.
• At dawn, Kang De recognized the western airport as the place where the artifact spirit had previously planned to hide.
• Horus reached the airport, turned the Humvee’s weapons and the nearby defenses toward Kang De, and said they could talk.

Kang De negotiated with the artifact spirit, which demanded to be taken to Gambia to reclaim its body, Tacitus. When the spirit tried to seize control through Horus, Kang De turned the trap around and used Extraction to destroy Tacitus and absorb its power, leaving the spirit to disintegrate.

• Kang De taunted the artifact spirit and threatened to make its existence unbearable until it agreed to take him to Gambia.
• The artifact spirit explained that Tacitus held its body and that it needed Kang De to enter the kings' tomb with it.
• Kang De agreed to cooperate but demanded that Horus regain some autonomy and speak to him.
• The artifact spirit made Horus pretend to comply, then used contact with Kang De to send spiritual tendrils into his mind.
• Kang De resisted the attack and used Extraction on the golden sphere, breaking down Tacitus and absorbing its power.
• The artifact spirit realized that its soul was disintegrating and recognized Kang De as a Fire Thief before it perished.

After defeating the artifact spirit, Kang De absorbed Tacitus’s vast information and shared it with Horus and the White Mist World. He gained the ability to manipulate time and space there, but wondered how he could use it when living enemies could not enter.

• The artifact spirit died, freeing the French mercenaries and the people it had controlled across Comora.
• Kang De extracted Tacitus and struggled to contain the alien information flooding his mind.
• Horus asked Kang De for Tacitus, and Kang De infused its power into him before taking him to the White Mist World.
• The White Mist World transformed, and Kang De gained the ability to slow time, move instantly, and alter space within it.
• Kang De realized he could not bring living enemies into the White Mist World and joked that he might only be able to use his new powers against Horus.

Kang De and Horus defeated the artifact spirit’s plan, and Kang De reclaimed the western airport from Little Bob’s mercenaries while preparing to face the approaching French task force. Horus sensed something in the sky that he wanted to eat, just as steel aircraft carrying cluster bombs began diving toward the airport.

• Horus recovered after absorbing the golden sphere’s knowledge, and Kang De learned that he could control alchemical puppets and process ammunition more efficiently.
• Kang De returned to Earth, used the Centurion War Armor to kill the mercenaries at the airport, and told Chakat II that the dangerous artifact was still in his possession.
• Kang De hunted down the surviving mercenaries despite French protests and learned that Lieutenant Colonel Virey had been relieved after refusing orders to retrieve them.
• Kang De took control of the western airport and had Horus move most of its military supplies into the White Mist World, leaving some behind for the French to find.
• Horus sensed something tasty overhead as aircraft carrying cluster bombs descended toward the western airport.

French and American forces bombed Comora’s western airport to kill Kang De and destroy the Tacitus, while Comora’s leaders struggled to respond. Kang De returned safely to his father and planned to use his apparent death to pressure France before disappearing to find his wife.

• French and American fighters bombed the western airport with overwhelming force, and the Comoran soldiers feared Kang De had been killed.
• Lieutenant Colonel Virey confronted the French ambassador over the attack, resigned, and demanded political asylum from King Chakat II.
• Chakat II confronted the ambassador at the French embassy, scarred his face, and warned that someone would come for him.
• Kang De appeared in the Chinese embassy shelter and told Kang Jinzhu that he had survived the bombing and gained the Tacitus and an unexpected bonus.
• Kang De said he would pretend to be dead for up to two days to pressure France, then revealed he planned to go find his wife in the 2D world.

Kang De and Horus escaped an impending French air strike by entering the White Mist World, where Kang De discovered the western airport had become accessible. They timed a refresh to copy the incoming fighters, then captured the empty aircraft and preserved them in the White Mist World.

• Horus detected a swarm of approaching aircraft, and Kang De teleported with him into the White Mist World as the French strike neared the warehouse.
• Kang De realized that controlling the western airport had unlocked the airport in the White Mist World, and he and Horus planned to exploit its time-linked refreshes.
• Kang De returned to the real world, saw the aircraft formation, and told Kang Jinzhu he intended to continue his work; his father accepted his choice and let him go.
• After waiting for the bombing, Kang De and Horus refreshed the White Mist World until the airport and its supplies were shown as ruins alongside the incoming aircraft.
• Kang De slowed time and redirected the empty fighters away from the mist wall while Horus shut down and landed the aircraft, absorbing the final fighter.

As Danfeng Lucerne neared defeat, Tina confessed that she had hidden the elves’ attack from Kang De to keep him out of the war, and the Grand Duke of Goth forgave her. Kang De arrived with A Xing and launched an aerial intervention, leaving Goth’s defenders with a chance to fight back.

• Xierfankai Le committed Twilight Moon’s air forces and refined their tactics, allowing the elves to break through Danfeng Lucerne’s defenses and seize sections of its walls.
• The Grand Duke of Goth told Tina he knew she had withheld the warning from Kang De, forgave her, and called on the Goths to fight to the last moment.
• Explosions tore through the elven reserves outside the city, and Xierfankai Le recognized Kang De’s long-range attack and ordered his forces to find him.
• The Grand Duke of Goth and the Sword Saint Cascading Snow covered A Xing as she reached the wall and gave Tina a communicator and an object from Kang De.
• Kang De’s aircraft emerged from a portal over Danfeng Lucerne, and he announced that he had arrived to provide air support and fight for Tina.

Kang De arrived over Danfeng Lucerne and used Horus’s fighter form to wrest control of the skies from the elven forces. As Goth’s people rallied around the hope he brought, the city prepared to counterattack.

• Kang De rejected Reknos-Teldrassil’s advice to flee and promised to retake the skies over Danfeng Lucerne, while Cascading Snow urged the grand duke to act.
• Kang De and Horus attacked the elven aerial formations, using supersonic passes and sonic booms to send hippogriff and pegasus riders crashing to the ground.
• Kang De praised Horus as they swept through the sky, and Goth’s soldiers and civilians watched the fighter drive back the elves and flee with their mages.
• Reknos-Teldrassil ordered Goth’s forces to regroup, prepare a counterattack, and spread the news that Kang De had arrived to bring them hope.

Kang De and Horus fought the elven dragon knights in their transforming fighter, destroying two dragons with missiles before Kang De helped sweep away the surrounding air forces with cannon fire. The fighter transformed into an armored warrior and charged the last dragon knight with a great axe.

• Kang De and Horus lured the pursuing dragon knight away from populated areas as Hilmeria warned that more dragon knights and elven forces were closing in.
• Horus teleported the fighter through the dragon knight’s ice barrier and fired two missiles, killing the knight and his dragon.
• Horus used a high-speed turn to fire two more missiles at a pursuing dragon, bringing down the second dragon knight.
• The Goth People and Stella’s colleagues at Saint Covelo University supported Kang De by countering the elves’ magical attacks.
• Kang De and Horus used time acceleration, spatial perception, and the fighter’s cannon to shoot down the surrounding elven forces.
• Horus transformed the fighter into an armored warrior, blocked the last dragon’s breath with a tower shield, and swung a great axe at it.

Stella witnessed Kang De defeat the last dragon over Danfeng Lucerne and met him after he emerged from the mechanical giant. With the city's air superiority secured, Kang De and Horus prepared to attack the elven forces outside its walls.

• Horus drove the wounded dragon into Contemplation Grove, where Stella led instructors and students to investigate the crash.
• The mechanical giant climbed from the crater, and Stella called out to Kang De before he emerged through a spatial portal.
• Kang De greeted Stella briefly, then boarded the giant and transformed it back into a flying machine to return to battle.
• Stella noticed that the dragon and its rider had vanished from the crater and watched the machine reclaim the skies over Danfeng Lucerne.
• Kang De spoke with the grand duke and Hilmeria, who identified the elven mage corps and magic weapon positions outside the city as the next threats.
• Kang De and Horus flew toward the enemy positions to begin a bombing attack.

Xierfankai Le watched Kang De’s aircraft devastate the elven air force and long-range units, leaving the commander unable to stop its attacks. With the mage positions suppressed and Horus rearmed, Kang De prepared to support Goth’s troops in retaking Danfeng Lucerne’s walls.

• Xierfankai Le learned that Stonehenge refused to fire at Kang De as the steel-winged aircraft swept toward the elven army.
• Kang De dropped two JDAMs on the mage regiment’s position, and the mages survived by raising an Atmospheric Aegis but lost their fighting strength.
• Kang De attacked the position again with cluster bombs, killing and injuring the mages, their rescuers, and nearby troops.
• Xierfankai Le ordered the spellcasters to spread out, but Kang De strafed another unit and used the White Mist Space to fire howitzer rounds into the elven formations.
• Kang De reported that the elven long-range forces were suppressed and prepared to help Goth’s troops retake Danfeng Lucerne’s walls.

Kang De and Horus helped Goth retake the last section of Danfeng Lucerne’s wall, giving Goth air superiority and forcing the elven expeditionary force to halt its offensive. Kang De demanded the elves surrender unconditionally, but Xierfankai Le rejected surrender and secretly prepared a decapitation strike against the Taidariel Family.

• Kang De and Horus supported Goth’s counterattack, allowing its soldiers to reclaim the breach and drive the elves from Danfeng Lucerne.
• Horus credited Kang De’s earlier choices and actions for their arrival and victory, while Kang De acknowledged that the war was not over.
• Kang De told the Grand Duke that Goth could not sustain an all-out war and demanded that the elves surrender or face strikes on targets across their homeland.
• Xierfankai Le concluded that the elves could not defeat Kang De in open battle, but ordered elite fighters to infiltrate Danfeng Lucerne and capture members of the Taidariel Family alive so he could negotiate peace from a stronger position.
• Xierfankai Le refused the surrender demand and secretly mobilized elite officers, hoping to save his position and reputation by carrying out the attack.

Xierfankai Le gambled with the lives of the Dusk Moon Dynasty’s soldiers and ordered a desperate charge on Danfeng Lucerne, while Kang De faced the threat of the elves breaching the city. With conventional weapons unable to stop them, Kang De returned to the White Mist World to prepare Mass Projection, leaving the nature of his attack unrevealed.

• Xierfankai Le ordered the elven army to charge Danfeng Lucerne and exhaust Kang De’s alchemical weapons, despite the soldiers’ likely deaths.
• Kang De and Horus realized their bombs could not destroy the dispersed army, and Kang De issued a final warning that the elves ignored.
• Elite elves broke through the defenders and fought Horus in the city streets, prompting the grand duke to ask Kang De for help.
• Kang De told the grand duke he would launch Mass Projection, then returned to the White Mist World with Horus.
• Kang De used his spatial power to invert up and down across a commercial district, making the tall buildings point downward.