Chapter Summaries

Kang De mistook Dairila for Malegith after seeing her play a game console and punished her before realizing his mistake, provoking her fury and tears. Dairila then revealed she had deliberately imitated Malegith to trick him, and asked him to get to know her better.

• Kang De watched surveillance footage of Dairila playing a game console and hurried to meet her at the Sound of the Tide Manor.
• Kang De mistook Dairila for Malegith and spanked her, then was thrown across the room when Dairila retaliated.
• Dairila confronted Kang De about his relationship with Malegith, then broke down crying over the rumors, criticism, and burdens of being Phoenix King.
• Kang De tried to comfort Dairila by speaking of healing their countries' wounds and building a better relationship.
• Dairila revealed she had been pretending to be Malegith to trick Kang De, then told him to get to know her better.

Kang De and Dairila reunited at Sound of the Tide Manor and discussed the Star Palace threat and the crisis in the Broken Isles. Dairila agreed to trust Kang De and suspend the elven fleet’s advance, but she began to ask what the Empire and the Council had done.

• Kang De watched Dairila eat snacks, and the two joked before she asked about his relationship with Lily.
• Dairila explained that she had come to help Kang De confront the Star Palace and praised his work in Distant Harbor.
• Kang De updated Dairila on the Broken Isles, and she revealed that an elven fleet was already on its way to attack the sea monster.
• Kang De warned Dairila that the sea monsters could destroy the fleet and strengthen the deep-sea monster, so he asked her to halt its advance.
• Dairila agreed to trust Kang De, then asked him about the Empire and the Council.

Kang De warned the Arcane Council and the Empire not to send fleets into the Broken Isles before the evacuation was complete, but both rulers chose to investigate anyway. Realizing that the nations would pursue their own interests rather than unite against the danger, Kang De focused on evacuating civilians and preparing for battle.

• Kang De sent Niola and Henry Baker to warn the Council and the emperor to keep their fleets away from the Broken Isles until the refugees and soldiers had withdrawn.
• Councilor Aokexindun and other councilors dismissed Kang De's warning and suspected he was trying to control the deep-sea behemoth, while the grand speaker ordered an independent investigation with increased caution.
• The emperor and his children discussed Kang De's motives, and the emperor ordered only a brief acknowledgment rather than withdrawing the Empire's forces.
• Kang De received the Council's elaborate reply and the Empire's brief one, and realized that the rulers would not set aside their interests to cooperate against the danger.
• Dairila offered Kang De her sword and warned that other rulers would judge him by their own motives, but Kang De decided to accelerate the civilian evacuation and prepare for battle.

The Sea Traveler received orders to investigate the sea monsters threatening the Broken Isles, and Captain Maikafu convinced the crew that Kang De might be hiding or pursuing the monsters’ source. After detecting an enormous torrent of sea monsters, the submarine began a concealed descent into a deep-sea valley to trace them.

• Captain Maikafu told the crew that the Council had redirected the Sea Traveler to find the source of the sea monsters near the Broken Isles.
• The crew speculated that Kang De had caused the attack or intended to seize control of the monsters, and Maikafu ordered them to prevent him from gaining that power.
• The Sea Traveler reached the Broken Sea and detected countless sea monsters rising from an unknown depth toward the surface.
• Captain Maikafu ordered the submarine to follow the monsters down toward their source while activating its concealment systems.
• The Sea Traveler descended toward a deep valley, and the crew reported that the monsters had not noticed them.

Council scholars arrived in Distant Harbor to examine Kang De’s living sea-monster specimen, while the Sea Traveler discovered an ancient underwater palace and encountered a vast, terrifying eye. The chapter ended with the submarine’s crew suffering a psychic assault that exposed the Azure Fleet’s location.

• Hong San warned Master O’Malley that the Council would be held responsible if its unauthorized actions awakened the deep-sea monster and caused casualties.
• Master O’Malley and the Council scholars entered the central laboratory and saw Kang De’s writhing tentacle specimen.
• Captain Maikafu led the Sea Traveler deeper beneath the Broken Sea as its crew tracked the immense monster horde.
• The Sea Traveler discovered an intact underwater palace at a depth of sixteen hundred meters, but the advancing horde and an unseen force attacked the submarine.
• Captain Maikafu ordered the bow shutter opened, revealing the palace and an enormous eye watching the Sea Traveler.
• The eye’s power overwhelmed Captain Maikafu and tore through his memories, uncovering the Azure Fleet’s location.

A teleportation array returned Daku’er-Clark, a sailor from the Sea Traveler, whose mind had been shattered by contact with an immense unknown presence. As the Arcane Council debated whether to heed Kang De’s warning about the deep-sea monster, new intelligence left the Grand Speaker stunned and prompted him to contact Kang De.

• Tuolan detected Daku’er-Clark’s teleportation into the Admiralty and sealed him behind isolation barriers.
• The Life Department inspector concluded that an unknown being had destroyed Daku’er-Clark’s mental defenses, and the Grand Speaker ordered him honored and buried.
• Councilor Fermat urged the Grand Speaker to reconsider Kang De’s warning, while Councilor Aokexindun opposed retreating before the Council gathered more intelligence.
• The Grand Speaker received a report describing an underwater city, a vast unknown mind, and the word “Mudblood.”
• The Minister of the Navy delivered a top-secret document, and the Grand Speaker ordered a message sent to Kang De.

After the overnight evacuation saved tens of thousands of people from the Broken Isles, Kang De learned that sea monsters had trapped the Arcane Council’s Azure Fleet and planned a limited rescue. The Council then asked him to prioritize its fleet over the ongoing evacuation of the Broken Isles.

• More than thirty-eight thousand people were evacuated to Distant Harbor, and exhausted volunteers returned home with food, milk tea, and work points.
• Tex and the other passengers heard about the Friendship Store, while a dock laborer broke down as he realized his work and life were finally being valued.
• Hong San reported that the Arcane Council’s Azure Fleet was under attack by the same sea monsters that devastated the Broken Isles.
• Kang De discovered the Council had withheld information about the Sea Traveler and offered to send three transport planes to rescue whoever could reach them.
• Master O’Malley asked Kang De to prioritize saving the Azure Fleet over the refugees of the Broken Isles.

Kang De rejected the Arcane Council’s demand to prioritize rescuing the Azure Fleet, insisting that everyone still waiting on the Broken Isles had to be evacuated first. After punching Master O'Malley and risking a break with the Council, Kang De found comfort in Dairila’s promise to stand with him.

• Master O'Malley asked Kang De to prioritize saving the Azure Fleet, but Kang De said he would first evacuate the remaining people on the Broken Isles.
• Kang De realized O'Malley believed the Council’s rewards and alliance outweighed the lives of the remaining survivors, and condemned his reasoning.
• O'Malley offered wealth, laborers, and the Council’s friendship in exchange for abandoning the survivors, but Kang De refused to weigh their lives against those benefits.
• Kang De declared that he would rescue every survivor before providing the Azure Fleet more than limited support from three transport planes, and warned the Council to state plainly if it wanted war.
• Kang De punched O'Malley and ordered Hong San to escort him out; Hong San admitted he had considered the Council’s proposal rational.
• Kang De asked Dairila whether he had done the right thing, and she embraced him and promised to fight the Council alongside him.

Kang De and Dairila teased each other before she challenged him to name three things they could share that were unique to them. Dairila encouraged him to prepare better so he would not have to choose between saving the Broken Isles and the Azure Fleet, and Kang De left to begin the next stage of the rescue operation.

• Dairila confronted Kang De over teasing her, pinned him down, and grew jealous when she realized he had shared many experiences with Parrot.
• Kang De joked with Dairila, and she ordered him to come up with three experiences that would belong only to the two of them.
• Dairila learned that Kang De had already arranged air transport for the Azure Fleet and praised him for not blaming its soldiers for the Council's failures.
• Dairila urged Kang De to prepare enough resources in the future to save everyone rather than face impossible choices, and they agreed to work toward that together.
• Horus told Kang De that the Azure Fleet rescue plan was ready and the Broken Isles airlift was entering its final push.
• Kang De met O'Malley and demanded the last known coordinates and depth of the sunken submarine as the first payment and condition for rescuing the Azure Fleet.

The Grand Speaker concluded that Kang De had sided with the elves because he was involved with the Phoenix King, and the Arcane Council voted to treat him as an enemy while preparing to aid the Azure Fleet. When Kang De requested the Sea Traveler’s attack coordinates as a condition for rescue, the Council debated whether to reveal its discoveries, but new communications from the missing vessel brought an unknown script and news that it had sunk into deep-sea ruins.

• The Grand Speaker and the councilors interpreted Kang De’s refusal to rescue the Azure Fleet as proof that the Phoenix King’s love had drawn him into the elves’ camp.
• The Grand Speaker declared Kang De an enemy, and the Council voted to halt reconciliation efforts, counter Distant Harbor, develop aircraft, and prepare defenses against a forbidden-spell mage.
• The Council debated further aid for the Azure Fleet and refused to share the Sea Traveler’s coordinates, which were tied to discoveries of a monster and an ancient undersea city.
• Kang De asked the Council for the Sea Traveler’s astral coordinates as his first condition for rescuing the Azure Fleet.
• The Minister of the Navy reported that communications with the Sea Traveler had resumed, but an unknown operator had sent a message in an unfamiliar script.
• The Grand Speaker demanded the vessel’s coordinates and learned that it had sunk into deep-sea ruins.

Kang De coordinated the Broken Isles evacuation while arranging supplies for the Azure Fleet, whose commander refused to abandon her crew. As dawn approached, Kang De prepared to confront whatever controlled the sea monsters.

• Kang De rejected the risk of building a submersible and ordered a delayed bombing plan based on the Arcane Council’s unverified coordinates while the Broken Isles evacuation entered its final stage.
• Kang De saw that the Azure Fleet had formed a fortified wall of ice and wind against the sea monsters, but its remote position left him with no practical way to evacuate or support it with fire.
• Kang De sent three Azure Fleet spellcasters to establish contact, but Nixiyasi refused evacuation because she would not leave any of her people behind.
• Nixiyasi accepted Kang De’s offer of fuel, bedding, magic crystals, potions, and other supplies, while Kang De promised to seek a way to save the fleet after evacuating the Broken Isles.
• Kang De suggested killing whatever controlled the monsters, then promised Nixiyasi he would try to save the entire fleet; supplies arrived as the evacuation continued and a great rumbling began across the sea before dawn.

Kang De’s deep-sea bombing failed, and he prepared to confront the awakened monster while evacuating the Broken Isles. As the Starry Sky Council discovered that the Yilan Sea Stele recorded a lost civilization, a colossal tentacle burst from the sea.

• Kang De learned that the bombs had failed, and Dairila suspected the Council had concealed what lay at the bombing site.
• Kang De planned to meet the monster at the Broken Isles and use Mass Projection, while Dairila watched the sea with Phoenix Vision.
• Kang De ordered the final evacuation, and soldiers and civilians boarded transport planes as units withdrew from the islands.
• The curator told the Starry Sky Council that the Yilan Sea Stele contained the last record of an ancient civilization, prompting the grand speaker to question why the monster was among its ruins.
• Dairila spotted the monster approaching, and a tentacle more than a hundred meters above the sea erupted from the waves.

Kang De and Dairila attacked the deep-sea monster together, using sea mines and the Phoenix Flame Greatsword to sever one of its tentacles and collect a tissue sample. The creature regenerated the limb, raised another tentacle, and threatened the fleeing refugees bound for Distant Harbor as Kang De and Dairila launched another attack.

• The deep-sea monster emerged and withstood the islands’ artillery barrage, prompting Horus to call for stronger weapons.
• Kang De and Dairila flew toward the monster while Dairila ordered the evacuating elves to stay aboard their planes.
• Kang De dropped one-ton sea mines onto the tentacle, and Dairila sliced through the damaged section and collected a piece of tissue.
• The monster rapidly regenerated its tentacle and raised another one, while sea monsters gathered to feed on the severed piece.
• The monster threatened the refugees and tried to strike a departing transport plane as Kang De and Dairila attacked again.

The final evacuees left the Broken Isles while Kang De and Dairila fought the God of the Star Palace, who was using a colossal sea beast’s body to pull himself free from the seabed. The monster emerged from the sea just as Kang De ordered the remaining personnel to retreat.

• Quilion boarded the last transport plane with the survivors, recognized that the Doom Warriors had another way to escape, and kept Horus’s purple crystal secret.
• Luokas silenced Viscount Ron after he panicked and shouted that the monster would attack Distant Harbor, while Quilion and the first mate urged trust in Kang De and the Empress.
• Kang De and Dairila realized the God of the Star Palace was straining to pull his enormous body out of the seabed as the final evacuations continued.
• The God of the Star Palace declared that his sacrifice and his chance to destroy Kang De had been foretold, then tore himself free from the seabed.
• Kang De ordered all remaining personnel to retreat as a giant whirlpool formed, and the colossal monster emerged into the mortal world.

The Starry Sky Council learned that the Yilan-Tai'er destroyer had fed on the lost civilization for ages and was now hunting in the Broken Isles, but the Grand Speaker still hoped Kang De could defeat it. The monster surfaced and devastated three islands with a massive water blast, leaving Kang De poised to unleash Mass Projection as Horus warned him to be careful.

• The head of the House of Knowledge and Learning urged the Grand Speaker to prepare for war, while the Speaker sought information about the destroyer and the ancient survivors for the Council.
• The survivors’ drawings showed Yilan-Tai’er’s rise and destruction, and revealed that the behemoth had drawn power from its last city and produced sea monsters.
• An intelligence officer reported that the dragons described the Broken Isles battle as facing an island-sized creature.
• The God of the Star Palace surfaced amid floating boulders that shielded it from artillery, while Kang De waited for his people to evacuate before attacking.
• The monster sucked in and expelled seawater, destroying the central island and devastating three islands; Dairila swept Kang De to safety.
• Kang De opened a spatial portal and ordered Mass Projection, but Horus warned him to be careful.

Kang De hesitated to use Mass Projection against the behemoth because a lethal strike could devastate Goth’s western coast, while a weaker blow might let the creature escape and threaten Distant Harbor. After the three powers refused to commit to a timely response, Kang De heard Lily say something that gave him a sudden idea.

• Horus warned Kang De that the behemoth’s force field could disrupt Mass Projection and that a strike powerful enough to guarantee its death could cause catastrophic earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Dairila urged Kang De to act before the behemoth reached Distant Harbor, but admitted the Silver Moon Council and other powers might delay their help.
• The God of the Star Palace summoned sea monsters and led the behemoth east toward the continent, threatening to destroy Distant Harbor.
• Kang De returned to Distant Harbor and summoned envoys from the three powers, but they urged him to use his forbidden spell while offering only vague assurances of support.
• Kang De rejected the envoys’ perfunctory response, and Lily observed that the powers would act decisively if the behemoth threatened their own capitals.
• Kang De seized on Lily’s last remark and demanded that she repeat it.

The Holy Emperor plotted to exploit Kang De’s crisis in Goth by spreading blame, demanding submission from Goth, and secretly offering Kang De marriage, territory, and support in exchange for his allegiance. Back at Distant Harbor, Kang De reconsidered a dangerous plan, while Dairila revealed she had found a way to send troops if they pretended to act as a couple.

• The emperor asked Alex to assess Kang De’s predicament, and Alex proposed using it to estrange Kang De from Goth and recruit him for the Empire.
• The emperor ordered spies to blame Kang De for unleashing the ancient beast and spread panic along Goth’s western coast.
• The emperor demanded Goth become an imperial duchy and offered Kang De a secret alliance through marriage, land, and support.
• The Starry Sky Council’s members argued over whether to help Kang De, while the Arcane Council had no discussion.
• Kang De returned through a Phase Gate and reconsidered using Mass Projection because of its risks.
• Dairila told Kang De she could persuade or bypass the Council to send troops, but they would have to pretend to be a couple, and she went to speak with Princess Tina.

Dairila proposed a false marriage claim with Kang De to persuade the Silver Moon Council to aid the coming battle, while warning that Distant Harbor would likely become the battlefield. As Kang De and Hong San prepared for the threat, Hong San’s master, Dong Tianming, appeared and challenged Kang De to meet him; the chapter ended with a refugee asking Hong San to hear a report.

• Dairila explained that she would seek the Silver Moon Council’s support by pretending to be engaged to Kang De, but said Twilight Moon would prepare to fight the sea monster at Distant Harbor.
• Kang De worried about evacuating Distant Harbor’s residents, and Horus urged him to formulate a battle plan while Hong San ordered Quilion to guard evacuated refugees and suppress rumors.
• Dong Tianming appeared before Hong San, criticized Kang De’s handling of affairs, and demanded that Kang De climb a mountain to meet him without using divine abilities or mechanical arts.
• Hong San found Kang De’s tent empty and read a note saying Kang De had returned to Danfeng Lucerne because Tina needed him.
• A middle-aged refugee manager approached Hong San and said she wanted to report a situation.

Kang De rejected the Empire’s proposals and vowed to kill Alex, while Reknos warned him that Goth would no longer bear the costs of his conflicts. Back in Distant Harbor, Kang De found that the people had rejected the rumors against him and decided to keep the danger from them before asking the Azure Fleet to fill his mist crystal with its mana.

• Reknos confronted Kang De over the danger he had brought to Goth and presented the Empire’s proposals, including demands that would sacrifice Stella or Tina’s freedom.
• Kang De refused the Empire’s terms and declared that he would kill Alex, even if the Empire tried to stop him; Reknos insisted Goth would not follow Kang De into another war.
• Tina reassured Kang De that she trusted him, and he promised to handle the threat without leaving her behind.
• After returning to Distant Harbor, Kang De learned that residents had reported and confronted rumor-mongers instead of believing claims that he had caused the approaching danger.
• Kang De decided to keep the danger from the people, then traveled to the Azure Fleet and asked its commander to fill his mist crystal with the fleet’s mana.

After forcing the Azure Fleet to lend its magic power, Kang De used the mist crystal to bring a gigantic sea beast into Earth’s Pacific Ocean, intending to fight it before it reached Distant Harbor. The chapter ended with the U.S. president reacting to footage of the monster near California with unexpected delight.

• The Azure Fleet confirmed that the sea beasts had withdrawn, and Nixiyasi prepared to free the fleet from the ice.
• Kang De demanded the Azure Fleet’s magic power for his mist crystal and threatened its officers until Nixiyasi ordered the fleet to comply.
• As the fleet powered the crystal, Kang De told Nixiyasi he planned to find and kill the behemoth at sea rather than evacuate Distant Harbor.
• Kang De took the charged crystal through a Phase Gate to the Knight Astolfo, then opened a portal that brought the warship into the eastern Pacific Ocean.
• Kang De guided the crystal’s power to transform the Knight Astolfo as the enormous creature roared above the Pacific and headed toward California.
• The U.S. president watched footage of the approaching monster and shouted, “Wonderful!”