Recaps

Ding Chang assigned the Star of Entrepreneurship, the Goddess of Victory, and ten Luan Birds to probe the Broodmother settlement at the Magma Sea, while preparing to redirect the full fleet to the Far North Swamp if the target proved false. He gave Trump partial command of the allied fleets and left him ready to take over if Ding Chang fell, and Trump donned Predator Armor.

• Ding Chang reviewed Eagle Sauce Country’s spaceships and ordered the Star of Entrepreneurship, the Goddess of Victory, and ten Luan Birds to attack the Broodmother at the Magma Sea.
• Ding Chang explained that he suspected the Far North Swamp was more likely to hold the true Broodmother and that the Magma Sea assault would serve as a probe.
• Ding Chang granted Trump partial command of the Nantianmen Aerospace Fleet and told him to lead the entire fleet if Ding Chang was killed.
• Trump pledged to fight alongside Ding Chang and activated his Predator Armor.

Ding Chang activated the Yellow Emperor Mecha and led the First Expeditionary Squadron to attack the Broodmother at Insect Star’s southern magma sea. The Earth forces began their assault as the Broodmother mobilized the Zerg and a swarm of Thunderstorm Mutalisks, while the Goddess of Victory isolated the battlefield and deployed laser defense towers.

• Ding Chang entered and activated the Yellow Emperor Mecha, then ordered the First Expeditionary Squadron to attack the magma sea.
• The Star of Entrepreneurship, the Goddess of Victory, and ten Luan Bird Aerospace Fighters entered Insect Star’s atmosphere and advanced on the Broodmother’s Hatchery Pool.
• The Broodmother detected the Earth forces and ordered the Zerg to protect her as Leviathans and Thunderstorm Mutalisks moved to intercept the squadron.
• Ding Chang ordered the Earth warriors to focus their attacks on the Broodmother, while a hundred Eagle Sauce Country mecha warriors descended to bombard her.
• The Goddess of Victory swept the magma sea with laser beams, isolated it by melting the outer rocks, and deployed three laser defense towers against the swarms.

The Earth Allied Forces launched an assault on the Broodmother with Predators, Chengying Mecha, aerospace fighters, and Luan Bird battleships, but the Zerg’s endless reinforcements stalled their advance. As Trump urged Ding Chang to send more troops, Ding revealed that the Luan Birds were preparing an ultimate weapon from the Nantianmen Project.

• Eagle Sauce’s Predators and Dragon Country’s aerospace forces attacked the Broodmother’s defenses as Ding Chang coordinated the deployment.
• The Broodmother called on her descendants to protect her, while newly hatched Zerg swarmed the human forces and formed a tight defensive ring.
• Trump warned Ding Chang that the battle was dragging on and proposed sending more troops or using the 98K to target the Broodmother.
• Ding told Trump to wait and watch as the ten Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships prepared to use an ultimate Nantianmen Project weapon.

Ding Chang ordered the Nantianmen Project’s Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships to use an upgraded particle beam and microwave attack against the Zerg on Insect Star. The beams formed a rotating blue cage around the Magma Sea, leaving the Broodmother isolated as the attack began to reshape the surrounding terrain.

• Trump was shocked to learn that Dragon Country had another powerful weapon beyond the Nantianmen Project, and Ding Chang explained that the project had been upgraded for future warfare.
• Ding Chang ordered the first formation of ten Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships to activate Particle Beam and Microwave Combined Strike Mode and isolate the Broodmother.
• The Luan Bird battleships transformed their decks and charged their particle beam emitters, preparing the weapons for precise strikes.
• The ten battleships fired particle beams into the ground around the Magma Sea, anchoring the beams in the rock.
• The battleships released high-frequency microwaves, expanding and joining the beams into a rotating blue barrier that enclosed the Magma Sea and surrounding rock layers.

The Nantianmen Fleet’s particle-beam and microwave barrier annihilated the attacking Zerg and began contracting around the Broodmother, destroying the magma pool and everything caught inside. Trump watched the assault from Luan Bird No. 1 and noticed the barrier spared the allied Predators and Chengying Mechas.

• The Insect Tide and a Leviathan charged into the blue barrier, where the beams vaporized the insects and blasted half the Leviathan’s body away.
• Spectators in the Instance marveled at Lin Ye’s Nantianmen Fleet and its devastating weapons.
• The command center ordered the ten Luan Bird aerospace carriers to execute the contraction plan around the Broodmother.
• As the carriers moved inward, the shrinking barrier leveled the magma Hatchery Pool and killed the insects trapped inside it.
• Trump praised Dragon Country’s weapon and realized its beams destroyed Zerg while leaving the Predators and Chengying Mechas unharmed.

Ding Chang explained how the particle beams could target the Zerg while sparing allied forces, then handed command of the first formation to President Trump as he monitored the Magma Sea. The beams destroyed the Broodmother’s body, but its remaining head exploded after it warned the Earthlings of destruction.

• Ding Chang explained that the particle beams had been tuned to affect the Zerg and its surroundings without harming allied forces.
• Ding Chang asked President Trump to command the first formation and send its forces to the Far North Swamp, while the ten Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships remained at the Magma Sea.
• Trump ordered the fighters, mecha, and armored units to leave with the Goddess of Victory, and they returned to the Star of Entrepreneurship.
• The Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships narrowed their particle-beam barrier, destroying the trapped bugs and scattering the surrounding Insect Tide.
• The particle beams burned away the Broodmother’s body until only its head remained, and the head exploded as it threatened the Earthlings.

A fake Broodmother triggered a devastating green corrosion explosion, but Insect Star healed itself and a new Broodmother emerged. The Firmament activated the Overproduction BUFF and threatened Azure Star with resource plunder as Lin Ye’s challenge continued.

• A green corrosive explosion destroyed the nearby Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier Platforms and the low-flying Goddess of Victory, while the Star of Entrepreneurship escaped above the atmosphere.
• Insect Star rapidly healed the rupture, and a new Broodmother emerged and produced eggs as the Insect Tide returned.
• Viewers realized that the Broodmother had been fake and questioned how Insect Star could repair itself.
• The Firmament activated the Overproduction BUFF, doubling the Zerg’s reproductive speed after the Broodmother encountered a threat.
• The Firmament blamed Lin Ye, declared that its challenge could not be stopped, and threatened to seize half of Azure Star’s resources.

Lin Ye analyzed the Firmament’s Heart of the Swarm Instance after a destroyed fake Broodmother triggered a strange explosion within Insect Star. He questioned the information the Firmament had provided and considered whether an unknown Zerg overlord was manipulating events.

• Lin Ye felt pressure at the Firmament’s unexpected move but resolved to calmly analyze the Heart of the Swarm Instance.
• Lin Ye compared Insect Star’s strange explosion and regeneration to hidden mechanics in the Instances he had designed.
• Lin Ye listed what he knew about Insect Star, Zerg ranks, Broodmother enhancements, and the planet’s apparent ability to recover.
• Lin Ye realized that the Firmament’s information might be false or deliberately misleading and wondered whether a higher-ranking Zerg controlled everything.

Lin Ye suspected that all ten Broodmothers and the information about Insect Star were fabricated, but he could not warn the NPCs inside the Instance. After the Magma Sea explosion destroyed several spacecraft, Ding Chang divided the forces for the next attack while keeping a reserve and the stellar-class nuclear bomb under his control.

• Lin Ye theorized that all ten Broodmothers could be decoys and hoped Ding Chang would uncover the truth.
• The Magma Sea explosion destroyed ten Luan Bird carrier platforms and the Goddess of Victory, though Ding Chang's earlier recall order preserved most of the first formation.
• Trump demanded to lead an assault on the Far North Swamp, convinced its Broodmother was real.
• Ding Chang reconsidered his assumptions after observing Insect Star explode and heal itself, and warned that the Far North Swamp attack could also be a trap.
• Ding Chang assigned Trump half the Nantianmen Aerospace Fleet for the attack, kept the other half outside the atmosphere, and took control of the spacecraft carrying the stellar-class nuclear bomb.
• Trump accepted Ding Chang's plan and prepared to lead the main force against the Far North Swamp Broodmother.

Ding Chang divided the fleet, leaving himself and thirty Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier Platforms near the Dimensional Gate while Trump led the Expeditionary Legion against the Far North Swamp Broodmother. The Zerg launched a mass suicide assault that disrupted the fleet’s particle-beam attack, leaving Trump shaken.

• Ding Chang split the forces, sending Trump to attack the Far North Swamp while keeping thirty Luan Bird platforms near the Dimensional Gate as a reserve.
• Trump brought the Expeditionary Legion above the Far North Swamp, where a Broodmother was guarded by five Leviathans and a growing Insect Tide.
• Trump ordered the Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships to form a ring and prepare a combined particle-beam and microwave strike.
• As the battleships prepared to fire, Thunderstorm Bugs and Flying Baneling Moths swarmed upward and detonated against their undersides to disrupt the attack.
• The battleships fired laser and pulse weapons at the swarm, but the bugs kept coming, and Trump shuddered at their suicide assault.

Trump withdrew the Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships after Zerg suicide attacks disabled their weapons, then tried to kill the Broodmother with the 98K Universe Spaceship’s laser cannon. The laser failed to penetrate the Emperor Mammoths shielding her, and the Broodmother mocked the Earthlings as the Zerg continued reproducing without pause.

• The Luan Bird fleet reported that Zerg had blocked its weapons ports and destroyed five beam emitters, so Trump ordered the ships to return to the fleet.
• Trump ordered the 98K Universe Spaceship to deploy its laser cannon and snipe the Broodmother.
• The 98K fired a charged laser through the atmosphere, while the Zerg swarm sacrificed itself to weaken the beam.
• The laser struck a thick protective layer of Emperor Mammoths piled over the Broodmother, but failed to pierce it.
• The Broodmother mocked Trump as the [Overproduction] BUFF let the Zerg replace their losses at twice their previous reproduction rate.

Trump ordered the 98k spaceship to intensify its laser barrage against the Broodmother, but the Zerg’s Emperor Mammoths blocked the attacks after the Living Carapace BUFF activated. The Firmament mocked the Human Allied Forces and Azure Star, leaving the Azure Star people furious and newly distrustful of it.

• Trump ordered the 98k spaceship to fire a denser, stronger barrage at the Broodmother.
• The lasers burned through the Thunderstorm Bugs and exploding moths, but failed to penetrate the Emperor Mammoths’ carapaces.
• Trump saw that the Emperor Mammoths had grown larger and were glowing gold.
• The Firmament announced that the Broodmother had triggered Living Carapace, boosting Zerg defense by 500%.
• Azure Star viewers condemned the Firmament’s mockery and called on one another to ignore it.

Trump concluded that the Broodmother in the Far North Swamp was the real one and decided to abandon the standoff for a full-force assault. He ordered the Earth Allied Forces to attack Insect Star and lead a direct strike against the Broodmother.

• Trump reviewed the Firmament's notification and agreed with Ding Chang that the Far North Swamp Broodmother was the real one.
• Trump checked the Expeditionary Legion's spaceships, fighters, mecha, and armored warriors, then decided to attack with the entire force.
• Trump assigned Explorer One to gather combat data and Hermes to handle logistics and repairs.
• Trump ordered the Star of Entrepreneurship's forces to strike from high altitude while other ships and fighters cleared the low-altitude battlefield.
• Trump ordered the remaining ships, mecha, and armored warriors to follow him onto Insect Star and kill the Broodmother.

Trump led the Earth Allied Forces in their largest assault on Insect Star, charging into battle as the fleet and ground troops unleashed their weapons against the Zerg. He personally tore through the swarm with his armor and weapons, and the battle continued across the planet.

• Trump transformed into a Predator and charged toward Insect Star, inspiring the Earth Warriors to follow.
• The Earth Allied Forces opened fire across the planet, with ships, mechas, and fighters attacking the Zerg.
• The Prometheus landed as a Future Battle Tank and began slaughtering bugs, while Chengying Mechas and Predators fought on the ground.
• Trump used the weapons in his Iron-Blooded Armor and wielded a Thermal Battle Axe and Laser Sword to cut through the swarm.
• Trump spun above the swamp using his foot hover devices and unleashed his move, Windmill.

Trump and the Earth Allied Forces fought the Zerg at the Far North Swamp, but the Zerg’s rapid reproduction kept their numbers intact and pushed the battle into a stalemate. The Firmament then activated the Wormhole Network BUFF, bringing even more swarms to the battlefield and lifting the Broodmother above the swamp.

• Trump and the Earth Allied Forces slaughtered Zerg units with superior weapons, but their attacks could not break the Zerg formation.
• The Zerg replenished every casualty from the nutrient-rich swamp at more than ten times their normal speed, keeping the battle at a stalemate.
• Trump grew exhausted at the front while commanders reported that troops could not advance and combat units needed ammunition and recharge.
• The Broodmother mocked Trump and predicted the Zerg would defeat humanity and plunder its technology.
• The Firmament activated the Wormhole Network BUFF, and swarms from elsewhere on Insect Star poured out of the swamp in even greater numbers.

Trump ordered the Earth Expeditionary Force to concentrate all its firepower on the Broodmother, despite the cost, and the attack opened a breach through the Emperor Mammoth defenses. The Broodmother remained confident that her countless Zerg would quickly fill it.

• The [Wormhole Network] BUFF activated, allowing the Zerg to move across Insect Star and reinforce the Broodmother at the Far North Swamp.
• Trump realized the Broodmother was real and, surrounded by overwhelming numbers, feared the Earth Allied Forces would be destroyed.
• Trump ordered the Expeditionary Legion to direct all its firepower at the Broodmother and told his soldiers to make one final attempt.
• Earth forces at high altitude, low altitude, and on the ground attacked the Broodmother while the Chengying Mecha Warriors and Iron-Blooded Armor Warriors fought through the Emperor Mammoths.
• The combined assault opened a breach in the Broodmother's defenses, but she declared that her Zerg would immediately fill it.

Trump rushed through the closing breach into the Broodmother, where Emperor Mammoths crushed his Iron-Blooded Armor and left him trapped and near death. As his systems failed, he revealed the armor contained an antimatter energy block that would annihilate the Broodmother when exposed.

• Trump activated his armor’s jet thrusters and slipped through the breach just before the Emperor Mammoths closed it.
• The Emperor Mammoths swarmed over Trump, trapping him inside the Broodmother and preventing Earth’s forces from reaching him.
• The Broodmother laughed and thrashed through the Far North Swamp as the swarm crushed Trump’s armor and his oxygen supply dwindled.
• Trump revealed that the armor’s antimatter energy block would be exposed if the suit was destroyed, triggering an annihilation powerful enough to kill the Broodmother.
• Trump addressed Alliance Chief Ding Chang and declared that he would not disappoint him.

Trump sacrificed himself by detonating the antimatter energy block inside the Broodmother’s swarm, killing her and devastating the Far North Swamp. The Earth Allied Forces survived after carrying out his order to retreat.

• Trump ordered the Earth Allied Forces to withdraw more than twenty kilometers from his exposed antimatter energy block.
• The Earth Allied Forces retreated as Trump’s emergency communication system failed.
• Three seconds later, the antimatter energy block detonated inside the Emperor Mammoths’ swarm and killed Trump.
• The blast tore through the Emperor Mammoths, drained the Far North Swamp, and destroyed everything within five kilometers.
• The Broodmother’s body burned to ashes, and the Earth Allied Forces saw that Trump had succeeded in killing her.

The Earth Allied Forces celebrated after the Broodmother’s apparent death, believing they had defeated the Zerg. Ding Chang noticed the Zerg remained organized and warned the Expeditionary Legion to retreat, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Earth Allied Forces opened fire across Insect Star and prepared to exterminate the remaining Zerg.
• Instance spectators celebrated the victory and praised the Eagle Sauce commander’s sacrifice and Lin Ye’s achievement.
• Ding Chang saluted the fallen Eagle Sauce commander after watching the antimatter explosion.
• Ding Chang observed that the Zerg and Emperor Mammoths had stayed organized during the blast, suggesting the Broodmother might not control all Zerg or might not have been the real Broodmother.
• Ding Chang ordered the Expeditionary Legion to fall back and warned them not to return to the Far North Swamp.

After Trump’s death, Ding Chang’s forces attacked the Zerg, believing the Broodmother was dead, but Insect Star split open and unleashed a catastrophic wave of green magma. The Broodmother reappeared, and the surviving Zerg mocked the humans as the expeditionary force’s losses mounted.

• Under Ding Chang’s orders, the expeditionary force charged into the Far North Swamp ruins to slaughter the Zerg.
• A deep roar sounded beneath the Broodmother’s corpse, and a massive fissure spread across more than half of Insect Star.
• Insect Star split apart and engulfed the surrounding atmosphere in green magma, destroying many of the expeditionary force’s weapons and personnel.
• Ding Chang saw that the Broodmother’s body and the Earth forces in the Far North Swamp had vanished amid the eruption.
• The fissure closed, the magma flowed back underground, and the Broodmother crawled out of the restored swamp as the Insect Tide gathered around her.
• The Broodmother laughed at the humans and said their sacrifice would help the Zerg Civilization destroy them faster.

As the Zerg sent every Leviathan toward Earth, Ding Chang realized that Insect Star itself was a living organism that controlled the Broodmothers and the rest of the Zerg. The expeditionary force had been nearly wiped out, and the chapter ended with the planet’s true nature revealed.

• The Firmament announced that the Broodmother was sending every Leviathan to Earth after the expeditionary force suffered over ninety percent casualties.
• Azure Star viewers despaired as they watched the expeditionary force’s losses and many left the livestream.
• Ding Chang studied his notes and recalled Insect Star’s fissure, eruptions, and rapid healing.
• Ding Chang concluded that Insect Star was a gigantic living creature that had given birth to and controlled the Zerg, with the Broodmothers serving as its organs.

Ding Chang ordered the Earth Allied Forces to retreat through the Dimensional Gate while the Heart of Gold launched the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb at Insect Star. He stayed behind with the Heart of Gold to delay the Leviathans, preparing for his final battle as the bomb approached its target.

• Ding Chang learned that the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb could destroy Insect Star and determined that the remaining forces needed to retreat before it exploded.
• Ding Chang ordered the Luan Bird aerospace carriers and the Star of Entrepreneurship to pass through the Dimensional Gate, while the Heart of Gold began the bomb's launch sequence.
• Ding Chang flew into space to hold back the approaching Leviathans, insisting that the commanders return to Earth and support the fighting there.
• The surviving crews saluted Ding Chang as the ships raced through the Dimensional Gate and the Heart of Gold launched the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb.
• Ding Chang and the Heart of Gold crew remained near Insect Star, accepting that the ship could no longer escape, and Ding Chang announced his final battle.

Ding Chang used the Yellow Emperor Mecha to hold back the 20 Leviathans at the Dimensional Gate as the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb approached Insect Star. Insect Star swallowed the bomb just before impact, and the chapter ended before its explosion was revealed.

• The 20 Leviathans raced toward the Dimensional Gate as the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb entered Insect Star's atmosphere.
• Ding Chang deployed the Yellow Emperor Mecha and vowed to stop the Leviathans from reaching his people.
• Ding Chang unleashed the mecha's weapons, using its Pulse Shield and heavy fire to block and wound the 20 Leviathans.
• The Leviathans attacked the Yellow Emperor Mecha with corrosive slime while the nuclear bomb's countdown reached its final seconds.
• Insect Star split open and swallowed the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb just before it landed.

A stellar-class nuclear bomb destroyed Insect Star, the Heart of Gold, and the twenty Leviathans before the blast killed Ding Chang and ended the livestream. Back in the Instance livestream room, Lin Ye reflected on Ding Chang’s decision and prepared to reveal Earth Online’s remaining advantage over Firmament.

• The nuclear bomb ignited Insect Star, whose destruction sent a shockwave that obliterated the Heart of Gold and reached the Dimensional Gate.
• The blast burned the twenty Leviathans to ashes and killed Ding Chang after he urged his fellow people of Earth to carry on.
• The Insect Star livestream vanished, and the spectators returned to Earth Online.
• Lin Ye praised Ding Chang’s final decision while acknowledging the expeditionary force’s earlier tactical mistakes.
• Lin Ye told Firmament that Earth Online’s trump card was not the stellar-class nuclear bomb and that the Zerg had no chance of winning.

The Dimensional Gate closed after the Earth Allied Forces destroyed Insect Star, but the surviving soldiers learned that Alliance Chief Ding Chang and President Trump had died in the battle. As Herlu rallied the troops to avenge them, Earth Online triggered a Technological Explosion buff.

• Thirty Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier Platforms and the Star of Entrepreneurship returned as the Dimensional Gate closed and the three Leviathans lost their shields.
• The Firmament announced that Insect Star had been destroyed and that the war would continue until either humanity or the Zerg were extinct.
• Herlu and the Earth Allied Forces celebrated the news, then learned that Ding Chang and Trump had died sacrificing themselves.
• Herlu ordered the allied forces to kill the remaining Zerg and avenge Ding Chang and Trump.
• The Firmament announced that Earth's losses had triggered the Technological Explosion buff.