Recaps

The Firmament began the decisive showdown between Lin Ye’s Earth Online and Insect Star, whose overwhelming insect population left the spectators despairing. The Dimensional Gates opened between the two worlds, and three enormous Super Giant Insects emerged into Earth Online.

• The spectators saw Earth Online’s advanced cities, five great territories, orbital infrastructure, and warships, while Insect Star appeared engulfed by a planet-spanning swarm.
• Viewers argued over whether Lin Ye had prepared a hidden advantage, but most believed Earth Online could not defeat the insects.
• The Firmament completed the countdown and declared the life-or-death showdown officially underway.
• The Firmament opened Dimensional Gates in Earth Online’s African Great Rift Valley and Insect Star’s Rotting Nebula.
• Three immense Super Giant Insects flew through the gate into Earth Online.

The Zerg’s three Leviathans rapidly turned the East African Rift Valley into a sprawling base, using Creep and Drones to build a thousand structures in under ten minutes. Lin Ye let the Zerg continue reproducing, believing their choice of Africa gave the Earth Alliance time to prepare for the coming battle.

• The three Leviathans arrived on Earth Online and spread Creep across the East African Rift Valley.
• The Leviathans released countless Drones, which rapidly formed Hatcheries, Spawning Pools, and other Zerg structures.
• Within five minutes, the Rift Valley held at least a thousand Zerg buildings, and new Drones began mutating into cocoons.
• Azure Star viewers panicked at the Zerg’s rapid reproduction and questioned why Lin Ye had left Africa so poorly defended.
• Lin Ye decided to let the Zerg build up in Africa, reasoning that their choice of landing site gave the Earth Alliance time to prepare.

The Zerg swarm emerged from its Cocoons and rapidly overran several poorly equipped African countries, overwhelming their forces with sheer numbers and on-the-spot mutations. The livestream spectators watched in despair as they concluded Lin Ye and Azure Star were likely doomed against the Firmament.

• The Cocoons cracked open and released Zerg units, which formed a coordinated swarm under Leviathan’s control.
• The Zerg attacked several weak African countries, whose tribal chiefs and soldiers could not withstand the creatures.
• Roaches mutated into Ravagers and other specialized forms, while Mutalisks evolved into Vipers that disrupted human troops.
• The Zerg slaughtered the African forces, and livestream viewers expressed shock and blamed Lin Ye for provoking the Firmament.

The Zerg conquered Africa, converted its buildings and corpses into breeding grounds, and advanced toward Europe and Asia. In the Forbidden City, Ding Chang led the Five Permanent Members as they activated their military projects and prepared to defend Earth.

• The Zerg overran Africa, while overseers transformed human buildings and corpses into Zerg breeding grounds.
• The Zerg split into forces advancing toward Europe and Asia, aiming to reach North America later through the Arctic.
• Lin Ye recognized that the Firmament had revealed its tactics, while the Five Permanent Members had been monitoring the Zerg through their satellite network.
• Ding Chang presided over the Earth Alliance command center in the Forbidden City's Hall of Supreme Harmony and called on the four other powers to join the fight.
• The Five Permanent Members pledged their forces, and their governments announced the activation of their military projects.

Lin Ye’s plans for Earth Online’s counterattack prompted hope among some viewers, though most still doubted Azure Star could defeat the Zerg. As the swarm reached Europe, Rotten Cow Country deployed its Ball Lightning weapon, whose strange electrical spheres stopped the Zerg’s venom but left the swarm bewildered.

• Viewers in the Great Xia Settlement recognized that Lin Ye had preserved Ding Chang’s life in the Instance, and Commander Long Yuan hoped Ding Chang’s spirit would watch over Lin Ye.
• The five great nations’ leaders appeared together in the Forbidden City, while livestream viewers debated whether Lin Ye had hidden methods capable of defeating the Zerg.
• The rapidly multiplying Zerg crossed the Mediterranean, and their vanguard reached the Rome area near Rooster Country.
• Rotten Cow Country’s Ball Lightning weapon targeted the Rome area and filled the sky above the swarm with white electrical spheres.
• The Zerg’s venom projectiles struck the lightning balls without effect, and the ground units stopped to stare at the descending spheres.

Rotten Cow Country's Ball Lightning made the Zerg vanguard disappear without damaging the surrounding landscape, halting the remaining swarm. Rooster Country's Cyber Louvre Project then deployed transforming robot warriors to attack the Zerg hatching site.

• The Zerg paused as Ball Lightning struck the swarm and erased it from the battlefield without leaving scorch marks or disturbing the ground.
• Spectators struggled to explain the vanishing swarm, while the chapter revealed that Ball Lightning used quantum technology to shift its targets into an unobservable state.
• The remaining Zerg swarms on the western Mediterranean shore stopped advancing and began building hatcheries to produce more troops.
• An announcement declared Rooster Country's Cyber Louvre Project fully integrated and its robot vanguard legion arrived.
• Robotic dogs rushed toward the Zerg hatching site, transformed in midair into human-sized robot warriors, and charged into battle.

The Robot Legion stalled the Zerg long enough for Rotten Cow Country to analyze their troops and deploy the Terminator and Quantum Legions. The Terminators drove the swarm back toward Africa while the million-strong Quantum Legion blocked its escape, leaving the Zerg trapped between them.

• The ordinary Robot Legion fought the Zerg in a stalemate while transmitting combat data to Rotten Cow Country’s quantum computer and the Five Permanent Members.
• Rotten Cow Country completed its analysis of the Zerg, and Rooster Country’s Terminator Legion and Rotten Cow Country’s Quantum Ghost Legion entered the battlefield.
• The Terminators used liquid nanotechnology, splitting, and Flame Breakers to slaughter the Zerg, which lacked weapons powerful enough to destroy them.
• Lin Ye explained that the Terminators were natural predators of the Zerg, and the swarm began retreating east to join the forces headed for Asia.
• The Terminators drove the Zerg south while the million-member Quantum Legion cut off their retreat at the boundary between Africa and Europe.

After wiping out the Zerg in Europe, Rooster Country and Rotten Cow Country sent their forces toward Africa while Dragon Country and Bear Country launched a counterattack against the Zerg in Kazakhstan. Bear Country's Mutant Legion reached Astana first, and its monstrous appearance stunned both the Zerg and the spectators.

• Rooster Country and Rotten Cow Country exterminated the Zerg in Europe and burned and scoured the battlefield to destroy any remaining eggs or corpses.
• The Quantum Legion, Destroyer Legion, and Robot Legion began moving toward Africa to attack the Zerg's main base.
• A Zerg legion advanced through Desert Country and Oil Country into Kazakhstan, where it began hatching more troops instead of attacking Dragon Country immediately.
• Dragon Country's Shan Hai Jing Land Warfare Forces and Bear Country's Mutant Legion and Yuri Legion entered Kazakhstan from the east and north.
• Bear Country's mutants charged into the first battle in Astana, frightening the Zerg with their barely human appearance.

Bear Country’s mutant soldiers devastated the Zerg swarm, then the Yuri Mind Control Corps turned the retreating bugs against one another. The chapter left the battlefield consumed by a blood-red frenzy of Zerg slaughtering Zerg.

• Bear Country’s Feral Humans, Birdmen, and Ratmen tore through the Zerg with their strength, flight, and tunneling attacks.
• The three Leviathan bugs in Africa sensed the mutants’ assault and ordered the swarm to retreat.
• Bear Country’s Yuri Mind Control Corps arrived behind the Feral Humans and began controlling the fleeing bugs.
• The Yuris’ control clashed with the Leviathans’ commands, causing some bugs to explode and others to collapse or lose strength.
• The Yuris took control of most of the swarm, turning the bugs’ eyes red and making them attack one another.

After the Bear Country corps destroyed the northern Zerg swarm, they marched south toward Africa while Dragon Country took responsibility for the remaining insects in Kazakhstan Country. Dragon Country's Shan Hai Jing Land Warfare Forces then appeared in the western desert, leaving spectators stunned as three colossal beasts advanced toward the swarm.

• The Bear Country corps wiped out the Zerg in Astana City, and Ratmen devoured the insect remains.
• Lin Ye explained that Mental Seals let Bear Country's mutants and Yuri retain their minds despite genetic modification.
• Alliance Chief Ding Chang sent each country's forces to clear nearby swarms independently before the Five Permanent Members joined forces in Africa.
• The two Bear Country corps headed south through Asia while Dragon Country prepared to clear the remaining Zerg in Kazakhstan Country.
• Dragon Country's Shan Hai Jing Land Warfare Forces advanced across the desert, and spectators saw three colossal beasts approaching the swarm.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas Corps deployed its enormous Mechanism Beasts against the bug swarm. The Torch Dragon devastated the swarm with fire, and the Taotie began swallowing the survivors.

• Dragon Country's Torch Dragon, Taotie, and Black Tortoise Mechanism Beasts arrived and charged into the swarm.
• The Torch Dragon's operators ordered the other Mechanism Beasts to retreat while it launched the first attack.
• The Torch Dragon unleashed plasma flames, destroying more than half the swarm and smashing the Mammoth Bugs.
• The Torch Dragon took flight, and the operators ordered the remaining Mechanism Beasts to begin their second strike.
• The Taotie charged into the remaining swarm and swallowed a mass of bugs, crushing them inside its enormous jaws.

The Black Tortoise Mechanism Beast used its force field to devastate the remaining Zerg in Kazakhstan, after which Dragon Country’s Azure Dragon and White Tiger forces eliminated the fleeing swarm. With Kazakhstan cleared, the three mechanism beasts combined into a massive combat command flying platform and set course for Africa to support the fight against the core Zerg.

• The Black Tortoise Mechanism Beast activated its force field, pulling the Zerg into warped space and destroying them.
• Leviathan ordered the surviving Zerg to flee south, and Dragon Country sent the Azure Dragon Mecha Corps and White Tiger Land Warfare Exoskeleton Corps to pursue them.
• The Azure Dragon Mechas attacked from range while the White Tiger soldiers pursued and killed the Zerg, clearing Kazakhstan within ten minutes.
• Dragon Country ordered its forces to return to their compartments and head to Africa to fight the core Zerg.
• The Torch Dragon, Taotie, and Black Tortoise Mechanism Beasts combined into the Dragon Country Classic of Mountains and Seas Western Wilderness Combat Command Flying Platform and set off for Africa.

Dragon Country mobilized its four great projects toward Africa while Lin Ye warned that the destroyed Zerg swarms had only been probes. The Leviathans responded by accelerating the African hive’s growth and evolving the Zerg into a new army for the coming decisive battle.

• Dragon Country sent its Penglai South Sea Fleet, Mirage, Houyi Project, and Nantianmen Aerospace Fleet toward the African battlefield after the Classic of Mountains and Seas Land Warfare Corps destroyed the Zerg in Kazakhstan Country.
• Lin Ye rejected the viewers’ confidence, explaining that the Zerg had lost only two probing swarms and that Africa would be the true battlefield.
• The three Leviathans analyzed humanity’s revealed weapons, spread Creep and Breeding Pools across Africa, and accelerated Zerg reproduction more than threefold.
• The Leviathans initiated the Zerg’s final evolution, transforming units into forms such as Bladed Bees, Emperor Mammoths, Corrosive Ravagers, and Thunderstorm Dragon Bugs.
• Blood Parasites, Parasite Lords, Charge Bugs, and other advanced Zerg units emerged as the cocoons ruptured across Africa, revealing a newly evolved army.

The three Leviathans abandoned the Zerg’s offensive strategy and prepared a layered defense across Africa, using terrain, toxic fog, ranged units, and an underground tunnel network. As Azure Star spectators watched the Zerg evolve again, they worried that Lin Ye might have no answer to the coming battle.

• The three Leviathans decided to defend Africa rather than launch attacks, ordering the Zerg to gather and build successive lines of defenses.
• The Zerg used Africa’s highlands for ranged attacks and spread Creep and dense, toxic fog across the continent.
• The Zerg dug tunnels beneath Africa that could eventually connect to other continents and allow the swarm to escape bombardment.
• Azure Star spectators reacted to the Zerg’s new defensive plan and their grotesque evolved forms, including Emperor Mammoths, Thunderstorm Bugs, and Flying Banelings.
• Spectators debated whether Lin Ye had more strategies, while some noted that he would be erased if he lost the challenge.

Lin Ye judged that the Zerg relied on biological evolution and lacked sophisticated tactics, while the Earth Alliance assembled its forces in Turkey to launch a coordinated attack on Africa. Ding Chang outlined a plan to destroy the swarms and kill the three Leviathans, with capturing one as a possible goal.

• Lin Ye assessed the Zerg's second evolution and concluded that their technology and combat tactics fell short of his expectations.
• The Earth Alliance gathered its armies and Eagle Sauce Country's ten spacecraft at a temporary command center in Turkey.
• Ding Chang told the assembled leaders that the Africa operation would avoid large-scale weapons to protect Earth.
• Ding Chang assigned Rooster Country's Robot Legion and Bear Country's Mutant Legion to lead the campaign against the Zerg swarms, supported by Yuri's Legion and Dragon Country forces.
• Ding Chang ordered the Quantum Legion and Dragon Country units to assassinate the three Leviathans, while asking Bear Country's Yuri Legion to attempt to control and capture one.

Ding Chang outlined a strategy to capture a Leviathan and exploit its data, then assigned Eagle Sauce Country a crucial role in preparing humanity for the war. He began the Spark Plan by ordering the evacuation of people to the moon and Orbital City, leaving Earth’s forces with a reserve if the planet fell.

• Ding Chang explained that capturing a Leviathan could provide Lin Ye’s Creation Space with Zerg data and enable it to reproduce Zerg units and technology.
• The presidents of the Four Countries agreed with Ding Chang’s deployment, and the president of Eagle Sauce Country asked what role his country would play.
• Ding Chang told the president of Eagle Sauce Country that his country had an important task and ordered its army to transport military personnel and civilians to the moon and Orbital City.
• Ding Chang named the evacuation effort the Spark Plan, intending to preserve humanity’s forces if Earth were destroyed.
• Spectators outside the Instance were stunned by Ding Chang’s foresight and recognized that moving people into space could keep Earth’s civilization alive even if the planet fell.

Ding Chang presented the Earth Alliance’s plan to use lunar space-based weapons against Zerg spawning pools and send combined spacecraft forces through the Dimensional Gate to destroy the Zerg homeworld. He declared that he would lead the assault on Insect Star with Trump, while Russian Bear would command the battle on Earth.

• Ding Chang explained that Eagle Sauce Country should use its lunar space-based laser weapons to precision-strike ten Zerg spawning pools identified by satellites and quantum computers.
• Ding Chang unveiled the Star-Detonation Plan, in which Eagle Sauce Country’s Star Wars Project ships would join Dragon Country’s Nantianmen Aerospace Fleet and attack the Zerg mother queen on Insect Star.
• Ding Chang announced that he would personally command the assault on Insect Star and asked the president of Eagle Sauce to join him.
• Ding Chang assigned the president of Russian Bear to take command of the fighting on Earth after he and the president of Eagle Sauce departed.
• Trump agreed to accompany Ding Chang, while Rooster Country and the other leaders pledged support for the mission and the Earth campaign.

Ding Chang rallied the Five Permanent Members’ assembled forces and launched their campaign against the Zerg. The land army and a quantum raiding force set out for Africa, where they would strike at the giant insect Leviathan.

• Ding Chang addressed the assembled coalition of roughly four hundred million troops and fired the shot that began the attack.
• The soldiers of the Five Permanent Members answered with battle cries as the army launched its full-scale assault.
• The Robot Legion, Bear Country’s Mutant Legion, Rooster Country’s Terminators, and the coalition’s heavy ordnance prepared to advance against the Zerg.
• The coalition’s land forces boarded Dragon Country’s Western Wilderness Central Control Platform Battleship and flew over the Mediterranean toward Africa.
• The command center ordered Rotten Cow Country’s Quantum Legion to sail invisibly through the Strait of Gibraltar and land in Angola for a joint decapitation strike against the Leviathan.

Dragon Country sent its land forces aboard the Mirage for a covert landing in Tanzania, while Ding Chang led the joint space fleet toward the Dimensional Gate. Lin Ye and Azure Star’s spectators placed their hopes in the fleet as the coming battle against the Firmament approached.

• Dragon Country ordered its Azure Dragon Mecha units and White Tiger soldiers to board the Mirage and sail toward Tanzania for a surprise attack on the Zerg Leviathans.
• The Mirage vanished into the sea breeze after the second surprise-attack fleet set sail.
• Ding Chang donned the Yellow Emperor Mecha and ordered the Star Wars space warships and Nantianmen Aerospace Battleships to charge toward the Dimensional Gate.
• The joint fleet of Dragon Country and Eagle Sauce Country accelerated to Mach 1.5 as spectators watched and cheered for Lin Ye and the Earth Allied Forces.
• Lin Ye reflected on Ding Chang’s role as Alliance Chief and said he was counting on him to show Azure Star the Five Permanent Members’ true combat power.

The Earth Allied Forces launched a frontal invasion of Africa, but the upgraded Zerg and a battle-commanding Leviathan stalled their advance. As Herlu warned the surprise forces about the Leviathan’s power, the Quantum Legion and Dragon Country’s maritime forces landed behind the swarm and began striking its Drones.

• Zhulong, Taotie, and Black Tortoise landed in Libya, Pharaoh Country, and Morocco, and the Earth Allied Forces began advancing south against the Zerg.
• The Zerg’s upgraded units overwhelmed the Robot Legion and inflicted heavy losses on Bear Country’s Mutant Legion, while a Leviathan mocked the human forces in Earth language.
• Herlu ordered the Terminators, Mechanism Beasts, and allied weapons to attack together, briefly driving the Zerg back with overwhelming firepower.
• The Leviathan spread poisonous fog, spawned replacement bugs, and unleashed corrosive attacks, prompting Herlu to warn the Quantum Fleet and Penglai maritime base that the Leviathan had to be dealt with.
• Herlu joined the battle atop Black Tortoise, but the frontal army advanced less than a hundred kilometers in half a day.
• The Quantum Legion and Dragon Country’s maritime forces landed on Africa’s western and eastern coasts and raided the Zerg rear, causing two Leviathans to begin laying eggs frantically.

The Leviathans flooded the East African Rift Valley with Corrosive Slurry and poisonous fog to trap the Quantum Legion, but Dragon Country used Mirage’s bombardment as cover to surround and attack them. The Leviathans were left mangled and near defeat, and they called to Lady Broodmother Queen for protection.

• The Leviathans spread Corrosive Slurry and poisonous fog across the East African Rift Valley, restricting the Quantum Legion and hindering its attacks.
• The Quantum Legion warned Dragon Country’s Mirage that the Leviathans had trapped them, and Mirage confirmed that it was advancing toward the Zerg nest.
• Mirage launched a massive bombardment that cleared Zerg forces and Corrosive Slurry while concealing the Azure Dragon Mecha and White Tiger Armored Warriors’ approach.
• Dragon Country’s forces surrounded the two Leviathans and attacked with lasers, armor-piercing rounds, plasma cannons, and Dragon’s Breath Flame.
• The Leviathans counterattacked, but their biological weapons weakened; White Tiger Armored Warriors bound their backs and began cutting through their carapaces as the Azure Dragon Mecha destroyed their rescuers.
• As the Leviathans neared death and Zerg across Africa rampaged without their control, they called to Lady Broodmother Queen on the distant Insect Star for protection.

Leviathan’s transformation, triggered by the Insect Star mother insect, gave the giant insects vastly accelerated healing, relentless attacks, and faster reproduction, turning the Earth coalition’s battle against them around. Lin Ye identified the mother insect as the key target, while Ding Chang and President Trump decided the space fleets had to cross the Dimensional Gate and attack Insect Star.

• Leviathan called on the Insect Star queen, and a strange green light healed the Leviathans and intensified their attacks and reproduction.
• The White Tiger Armored Warriors and Azure Dragon mecha regrouped under the Leviathans’ renewed assault, while the ground hatching pools began producing more insects.
• Lin Ye concluded that the mother insect controlled the Leviathans and that defeating her was necessary to stop their recovery.
• Lin Ye considered Dragon Country’s Nantianmen Project, Eagle Sauce Country’s Star Wars Project, and its stellar-class nuclear bomb sufficient to defeat the mother insect.
• After receiving warnings from the ground, Ding Chang told President Trump that they had to cross the Dimensional Gate and attack Insect Star.

Ding Chang led the Earth expeditionary fleet through the Dimensional Gate to Insect Star, rejecting Trump’s proposal to destroy Earth and preserving the fleet for the fight ahead. After crossing the Corrosive Nebula, the fleet reached the planet and prepared a cautious reconnaissance mission while Earth’s forces continued battling the Zerg.

• Ding Chang rejected Trump’s plan to use space-based weapons to destroy Earth and ordered the fleet to attack the Zerg Motherworld through the Dimensional Gate.
• The expeditionary fleet entered the gate as Herlu rallied the forces remaining on Earth to hold off the Zerg and support the Alliance Chief.
• The fleet emerged above Insect Star, where the Firmament announced that victory required exterminating all Zerg life and offered no further hints.
• Ding Chang ordered the fleet to slow through the acidic, ethane-filled Corrosive Nebula to avoid damaging its ships or triggering an explosion.
• After leaving the nebula, Ding Chang ordered a hundred Mingdi Aerospace Fighters and the Ishimura to scout Insect Star before the fleet approached its atmosphere.

Ding Chang’s expedition surveyed Insect Star and discovered its harsh environment, enormous Zerg population, and ten apparent Broodmother sites. He chose two likely real Broodmother locations to attack, while spectators watched the plan unfold in the Instance livestream.

• Ding Chang sent Mingdi Aerospace Fighters and the Ishimura to survey Insect Star, and their data produced a detailed planetary simulation.
• Ding Chang and Trump studied the results, noting the planet’s extreme conditions, active volcanoes, and estimated 100 billion life units.
• Trump showed Ding Chang satellite images revealing twenty Leviathans and ten enormous Broodmother-like shapes across the planet.
• Ding Chang concluded that only one of the ten Broodmothers was real and that the others were likely Zerg traps disguised as volcanoes.
• Ding Chang selected two sites for the expeditionary force to attack, judging them less likely to be active volcanoes.
• Spectators in the Instance livestream debated Firmament’s disclosures and praised Ding Chang’s tactical skill.

Ding Chang chose attack points at the Far North Swamp and the Magma Sea, forcing the expeditionary force to plan two separate routes. He asked Trump for details on Eagle Sauce Country’s space warships so he could decide how to divide the fleet.

• Ding Chang used the mother bugs’ positions near the Dimensional Gates to select two targets at Insect Star’s poles.
• Ding Chang and Trump provisionally named the targets the Far North Swamp and the Magma Sea.
• Trump asked Ding Chang how they should divide their forces, and Ding Chang requested the Star Wars Project’s warship capabilities.
• Trump showed Ding Chang data on six ships: the Star of Entrepreneurship, Millennium Falcon, Starship Enterprise, Ishimura, Prometheus landing ship, and Heart of Gold.