Recaps

Lin Ye’s redesigned Raging Waves instance introduced a massive world-war scenario, impressing the Emperor even as he planned to kill Lin Ye before he could grow stronger. The Firmament revealed the challengers’ mission to wage war against Eagle Sauce, and Itō Hidetaka questioned what the unlimited time limit meant.

• The Emperor and Itō Hidetaka admired the detailed palace setting and Lin Ye’s instance design.
• The Emperor decided Lin Ye had to be eliminated because his rise could threaten the Dahe Settlement.
• The Firmament introduced the Eastern Ocean Island and Eagle Sauce factions and announced a total-war mission with several victory conditions.
• Itō Hidetaka noticed that the previous mission options were gone and asked the Firmament whether challengers could remain in the instance forever.

The Emperor and Itō Hidetaka learned that Total War Mode let them command Eastern Ocean Island’s people and resources, while Eagle Sauce could still attack them at any time. The Emperor saw an opportunity to build a massive force and exploit the dungeon’s rules before striking Eagle Sauce.

• The Firmament announced that the dungeon had no time limit but that time passed a hundred times faster inside, and warned that Eagle Sauce might sanction or attack Eastern Ocean Island.
• Itō Hidetaka proposed waiting until they were fully prepared, but the Emperor rebuked him and urged them to seize the initiative.
• The Emperor asked the Firmament to explain Total War Mode, which allowed challengers to command Eastern Ocean Island’s NPCs, develop resources, recruit soldiers, and attack freely.
• The Emperor proposed recruiting millions of soldiers, producing war supplies, and using tactics such as surprise attacks, feigned cooperation, or stealing Eagle Sauce’s technology.
• Itō Hidetaka praised the Emperor’s strategy and believed it could help them return to glory.

Great Xia’s leaders and Dungeon Designers watched Lin Ye’s Raging Waves dungeon and feared the Emperor would be a difficult opponent. In Edo, the Emperor inventoried the challengers’ enormous arsenal, preparing for the coming battle.

• Ding Chang told Zhao Jianyu that Lin Ye’s highly detailed, free-form dungeon design could not be easily replicated, and said Great Xia had to believe Lin Ye would win.
• Li Yunlong joked that he wanted Lin Ye in the army, then warned that the Emperor had defeated every dungeon opponent and killed many Great Xia talents.
• The Emperor began reviewing the weapons the challengers had brought into Raging Waves, including millions of rifles, thousands of vehicles and ships, and thousands of aircraft.
• The narration explained that more than a million challengers could bring dungeon weapons without real-world production limits, giving the Eastern Ocean Island forces an arsenal far larger than the S1-era Shorties had possessed.

Itō Hidetaka praised Dahe Settlement’s military strength, but the Emperor ordered preparations for a cautious attack on Eagle Sauce Country and revealed a hidden biological-weapons unit. The Emperor sent Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Dr. Yasui to scout nearby countries and find people for experiments, intending to use the Bacterial Special Forces against Lin Ye.

• Itō Hidetaka compared Dahe Settlement’s forces with Eagle Sauce Country’s and said their weapons and potential troop numbers gave them strong odds of victory.
• The Emperor warned Itō Hidetaka that the enemy’s unknown equipment could include more advanced technology and ordered preparations to finish within a month.
• The Emperor ordered Minamoto no Yorimitsu to take fifty thousand shogunate samurai to scout nearby countries, assess their forces, and seize resources.
• The Emperor revealed that Dr. Yasui, whose full name was Yasui Shirō, secretly developed bacterial and viral weapons, and that the 100 Special Forces were Daiwa’s Bacterial Special Forces.
• The Emperor said Yasui and Minamoto no Yorimitsu would seek people for experiments so the biological weapons could help defeat Lin Ye.

The Emperor expanded his campaign against Eagle Sauce Country by ordering espionage, military preparation, and efforts to secure the residents’ loyalty. He began a public speech in Edo, and the crowd knelt in response to his opening words.

• The Emperor told Itō Hidetaka that his earlier tactics had lacked ruthlessness, and Itō praised his resolve.
• The Emperor ordered Iga Ryūji and three hundred Ninja Corps members to infiltrate Eagle Sauce Country and investigate its military and intelligence assets.
• The Emperor tasked Itō Hidetaka with keeping the military bases training and arranging a speech for Edo’s residents, warning that public discontent could trigger resistance.
• Three hours later, the Emperor addressed a crowd in Edo using archaic language, and the residents dropped to their knees and greeted him.

The Emperor stirred Eastern Ocean Island into enlisting millions of soldiers, while Lin Ye watched, confident that Eagle Sauce Country’s overwhelming strength would make the Emperor’s plans futile. After seven successful days of recruiting, the Emperor received a call from Eagle Sauce demanding that he stop and pay a one-trillion fine or face sanctions.

• The Emperor used a speech about Eagle Sauce Country’s threats to persuade Eastern Ocean Island’s people to enlist and ordered Itō Hidetaka to coordinate recruitment and training.
• Lin Ye judged the Emperor’s strategy to be futile because the instance’s Eagle Sauce Country vastly outmatched Eastern Ocean Island.
• Seven days later, four million recruits had joined the military, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Iga Ryūji’s special forces were nearing their destination.
• The Emperor and Itō Hidetaka discussed their growing forces while playing Shogi in the imperial palace garden.
• An Eagle Sauce official accused the Emperor of militarism and inciting hatred, then demanded that he stop and submit a one-trillion fine or face severe sanctions.

The Emperor learned that Eagle Sauce tracked Eastern Ocean Island with Keyhole Satellite 20, a technology Lin Ye had introduced into the instance, and realized Dahe could neither hide from nor shoot down it. He then heard Minamoto no Yorimitsu report that Dragon Country’s army had surrounded his landing force, before the call ended and tens of thousands of challengers disappeared from the instance.

• The Emperor confronted Itō Hidetaka over Eagle Sauce’s apparent knowledge of their movements, and the Firmament explained that a Keyhole Satellite 20 was orbiting 250 kilometers above Eastern Ocean Island.
• The Emperor ordered Itō Hidetaka to have mortars shoot down the satellite, but Itō Hidetaka said the weapons could not reach it.
• The Emperor retreated indoors and told Itō Hidetaka that Dahe needed to obtain Lin Ye’s full-map-vision technology.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu called to report that Dragon Country’s army had surrounded his landing force, Doctor Yasui and nearly all his men had died, and he had been shot in the knee.
• An explosion ended Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s call, and the Emperor saw the instance’s challenger count fall by tens of thousands.

After Dragon Country destroyed Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s forces and Yasui’s bacterial troops, the Emperor suspended his plans to expand and focused on preparing for war with Eagle Sauce Country. His situation worsened when Iga Ryūji and his ninja team surrendered to Eagle Sauce and revealed Eastern Ocean Island’s military intelligence.

• The Emperor learned that Dragon Country had wiped out Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s Shogunate Special Forces Corps and Yasui’s bacterial troops, and the Firmament confirmed that Dragon Country was a legitimate faction designed by Lin Ye.
• The Emperor put foreign expansion on hold and ordered his forces to prepare for conflict with Eagle Sauce Country while delaying its sanctions.
• The Firmament announced that three hundred challengers had surrendered to Eagle Sauce Country and would be removed from the dungeon.
• The Emperor ordered Itō Hidetaka to identify the deserters, and Itō discovered that they were Iga Ryūji and his ninja team.
• The Firmament revealed that Iga Ryūji had surrendered, changed nationality, and disclosed Eastern Ocean Island’s troop deployments and military intelligence to Eagle Sauce.

Great Xia’s experts praised Lin Ye’s Raging Waves dungeon for its advanced Keyhole satellite, third-party Dragon Country faction, and psychological warfare after Iga Ryūji defected and exposed Eastern Ocean Island’s strength and plans. Emperor Xiaochuan lost his composure over the betrayal and the collapse of his strategy, while Itō Hidetaka urged him to steady himself.

• Great Xia’s researchers marveled at Lin Ye’s Keyhole technology and dungeon design, and Ding Chang looked forward to seeing Eagle Sauce Country’s true face.
• Emperor Xiaochuan smashed the objects on his desk after learning that Iga Ryūji had defected and disclosed Eastern Ocean Island’s forces and battle plans to Eagle Sauce.
• Emperor Xiaochuan nearly collapsed from anger, and Itō Hidetaka summoned maids to cool him down.
• Emperor Xiaochuan rejected Itō Hidetaka’s attempt to explain Iga Ryūji’s betrayal and admitted that it had ruined his plans to gather intelligence, resources, and troops.
• Itō Hidetaka warned Emperor Xiaochuan that Lin Ye’s psychological tactics were meant to unsettle challengers and urged him to remain the settlement’s pillar.

The Emperor realized the instance’s apparent freedom was a trap and planned a surprise attack on Eagle Sauce’s fleet at Pearl Harbor. He left Itō Hidetaka with orders to feign cooperation while Eastern Ocean Island mobilized its entire navy and air force, and the chapter ended with the attack preparations underway.

• The Emperor regained his composure and told Itō Hidetaka that Eastern Ocean Island could still defeat Eagle Sauce if it avoided further mistakes.
• The Emperor ordered Itō Hidetaka to recruit more troops and tell Eagle Sauce that they would pay the one-trillion fine, though he intended the offer only as a delaying tactic.
• The Emperor announced that Eastern Ocean Island would attack Pearl Harbor that night, targeting the TF58 Nation-Destroying Fleet rather than the military base.
• The Emperor ordered the entire navy and air force—thirty thousand warships and more than forty thousand warplanes—to attack the fleet, despite the risks of leaving Eastern Ocean Island exposed.
• The Emperor told Itō Hidetaka to notify the major military bases and advance on Pearl Harbor immediately.

The Emperor ordered Yamamoto Sanjūhachi and Tominaga Yukiyasu to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, destroying its base and the Nation-Destroying Fleet. The attack triggered the special event "Memories of Pearl Harbor," and Eagle Sauce declared war on Eastern Ocean Island with devastating military, economic, intelligence, and nuclear consequences.

• The Emperor sent the navy and air force separately toward Pearl Harbor under Yamamoto Sanjūhachi and Tominaga Yukiyasu.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi and Tominaga Tadashi found Pearl Harbor undefended and contacted the Emperor for permission to attack.
• After the Firmament warned that attacking without declaring war would trigger dangerous consequences, the Emperor ordered the forces to destroy Pearl Harbor.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi and Tominaga Yukiyasu led the bombardment, sinking Pearl Harbor and destroying the thirty aircraft carriers of the Nation-Destroying Fleet.
• The Firmament announced that the surprise attack had triggered "Memories of Pearl Harbor" and that Eagle Sauce had declared war, imposing sweeping military, economic, and intelligence penalties while raising the chance of a nuclear strike to 100%.

After Dahe Settlement’s fleet attacked Pearl Harbor, Eagle Sauce’s buffs stacked to their peak, while Lin Ye revealed that its true Nation-Destroying Fleet consisted of eleven Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Yamamoto Sanjūhachi ordered his ships to return, but a fleet approaching at an impossible hundred knots set off alarms across the armada.

• Lin Ye explained that the Dahe Settlement fleet had bombed abandoned carriers at Pearl Harbor, while Eagle Sauce’s actual peak fleet used eleven Ford-class nuclear-powered carriers.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi dismissed the Firmament’s warnings and ordered the fleet back to Eastern Ocean Island to resupply.
• Alarms sounded across the thirty thousand warships as radar detected an approaching fleet.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi learned the incoming fleet was traveling at least a hundred knots and was stunned by its speed.

Yamamoto Sanjūhachi’s fleet came under a devastating attack from Eagle Sauce’s Super Hornets after its communications were paralyzed. Tominaga Yukiyasu sent Dahe Settlement’s air force into battle, but its aircraft were outmatched by Eagle Sauce’s technology.

• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi realized the approaching warships could reach his fleet within minutes, then a signal attack disabled his fleet’s radar, communications, and warning systems.
• Eagle Sauce’s Super Hornets attacked the Challenger fleet, sinking hundreds of warships and causing further losses as ships fired on one another.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi tried to shoot at the fighters with an antiaircraft machine gun, then called on Tominaga Yukiyasu to save the fleet.
• Tominaga Yukiyasu launched 40,000 Dahe Settlement aircraft against the Super Hornets, but the Eagle Sauce fighters easily outmaneuvered them.

Eagle Sauce’s aircraft outmaneuvered the Challenger fighters before unleashing a massive missile barrage that annihilated the air force and killed Tominaga Yukiyasu. As the smoke began to clear, Yamamoto Sanjūhachi saw the silhouettes of iron behemoths emerging.

• Tominaga Yukiyasu berated the Challenger pilots as they failed to hit the maneuvering Eagle Sauce aircraft.
• The Eagle Sauce aircraft abruptly withdrew, and Tominaga Yukiyasu mistook their departure for a retreat.
• Tominaga Yukiyasu recognized the distant light as a vast missile swarm and ordered the aircraft to scatter, but the missiles struck before they could escape.
• The missile barrage destroyed tens of thousands of Challenger aircraft and killed Tominaga Yukiyasu, causing his instance mission to fail.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi watched the air force’s destruction and saw iron behemoths emerge as the battle smoke cleared.

Yamamoto Sanjūhachi’s fleet was surrounded and annihilated by Lin Ye’s vastly upgraded Nation-Destroying Fleet, wiping out the challengers’ forces at Pearl Harbor. The Emperor watched the losses devastate his plans as fewer than half a million challengers remained and the instance’s warships and aircraft fell to zero.

• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi counted eleven carriers and saw them encircle the remaining ships, then realized his fleet could not match Eagle Sauce’s power.
• The Nation-Destroying Fleet launched a missile barrage that killed Yamamoto Sanjūhachi and destroyed the surviving forces at Pearl Harbor in under five minutes.
• Viewers reacted with fear and astonishment as the barrage comments described the fleet’s overwhelming strength.
• The Emperor lost the Pearl Harbor views and saw the challenger count fall below five hundred thousand while the warship and aircraft totals dropped to zero.
• The Emperor realized that his navy and air force had been wiped out and that his plans for victory had collapsed.

After the Emperor’s attack on Pearl Harbor failed, Eagle Sauce declared all-out war on Eastern Ocean Island, leaving the Emperor facing an overwhelming enemy. Great Xia researchers assessed Lin Ye’s advanced fleet technology while Eastern Ocean Island descended into economic crisis and protests, and Itō Hidetaka suggested surrender.

• The Firmament announced that Eagle Sauce had declared all-out war on Eastern Ocean Island and would land troops in one day, forcing the Emperor to consider surrender or a final stand.
• At the Instance Research Center, Zhao Jianyu said Lin Ye’s warships were decades or perhaps a century ahead of Great Xia’s technology, and Deng Xian suggested the aircraft carriers used nuclear energy.
• Itō Hidetaka told the Emperor that Eagle Sauce’s sanctions had crippled Eastern Ocean Island’s economy and supplies, while news of the Pearl Harbor defeat sparked protests against the Emperor in Edo.
• The Emperor asked Itō Hidetaka what he would do next, and Itō suggested considering the people’s wishes and surrendering to Eagle Sauce.

The Emperor rejected Itō Hidetaka’s suggestion to surrender and ordered Dahe Settlement to fight Eagle Sauce to the bitter end. Itō feared the Emperor’s strategy would provoke another disastrous dungeon event, but he dared not oppose him.

• Itō Hidetaka warned the Emperor that Dahe had little chance of clearing the dungeon and suggested surrendering to Eagle Sauce.
• The Emperor overturned a table, condemned Itō for proposing surrender, and insisted Dahe would never give up in a dungeon.
• The Emperor ordered all challengers to defend Eastern Ocean Island and threatened anyone who fled or surrendered.
• The Emperor told Itō that Dahe would fight to make Eagle Sauce pay and force Lin Ye to reveal his trump cards.
• The Emperor commanded military leaders to prepare for war and promised extra rewards for killing Eagle Sauce soldiers or destroying its equipment.
• Itō silently feared that continued resistance would trigger a special event and bring harsher penalties, but he could only obey.

The Emperor refused to surrender and ordered Eastern Ocean Island to prepare for war, while planning to defend against Eagle Sauce Country’s air attack. Eagle Sauce instead destroyed two major military bases with hypersonic intercontinental missiles, leaving the Emperor stunned and only 350,000 challengers alive.

• The Emperor rejected surrender, ordered challengers to suppress civilian protests, and instructed military bases to prepare their anti-air weapons.
• The Emperor planned to abandon offense and use Eastern Ocean Island’s home-ground advantage to defend against Eagle Sauce Country’s expected air attack.
• Itō Hidetaka reported that Hiroshima Wuhai Military Base had been destroyed, killing all 100,000 challengers stationed there.
• The Emperor watched Eagle Sauce destroy Maizuru Military Base with a missile, reducing the instance population to 350,000 challengers.
• Itō Hidetaka guessed that Eagle Sauce had used a long-range weapon like Lin Ye’s tracking shell, and the Firmament identified the missiles as AGM-183 ARRW hypersonic intercontinental missiles.

Eagle Sauce's hypersonic intercontinental missiles destroyed nearly every remaining military base in the Instance, leaving the Emperor and Itō Hidetaka as the last Challengers. The Firmament relayed Eagle Sauce's demand that they surrender or face an ultimate punishment.

• The Firmament explained that Eagle Sauce's missiles could travel at fifteen times the speed of sound and had struck Eastern Ocean Island from Seattle, shocking the Emperor and Itō Hidetaka.
• The Emperor challenged the Firmament over Lin Ye's advanced technology, and it insisted that the Instance's technology had sound principles and passed rigorous review.
• Eagle Sauce's missiles destroyed seventeen of the eighteen remaining military bases, reducing the Instance population to 50,000.
• Edo No. 1 Army Arsenal was destroyed, and the resulting shock wave shook the Imperial Garden Pavilion of Pines as the Light Screen went dark.
• The Emperor realized that only he and Itō Hidetaka remained, lamented the defeat of his million-strong force, and heard Eagle Sauce offer them surrender in exchange for avoiding an ultimate punishment.

Lin Ye’s Supersonic Missiles destroyed all twenty military bases on Eastern Ocean Island, but Emperor Xiaochuan refused to surrender and demanded that Eagle Sauce launch its final weapon. A B-2 Spirit bomber dropped Lin Ye’s 50,000-ton atomic bomb, Shorties, on Edo City, and the Emperor watched the blast surge toward the Imperial Garden.

• Researchers and Great Xia officials marveled as Lin Ye’s Supersonic Missiles wiped out Eastern Ocean Island’s twenty military bases.
• Itō Hidetaka begged Emperor Xiaochuan to surrender, but the Emperor struck him, threatened him, and vowed that the Dahe people would fight to the death.
• The Firmament announced that Eagle Sauce would launch a nuclear strike on Edo City, and Emperor Xiaochuan prepared to die by his own sword rather than surrender.
• A B-2 Spirit bomber appeared above Edo City and dropped Shorties, an atomic bomb Lin Ye had increased to a yield equivalent to 50,000 tons of TNT.
• Shorties detonated in central Edo, destroying buildings and engulfing the city in fire as the blast swept toward the Imperial Garden.

The Emperor and Itō Hidetaka died when Eagle Sauce’s atomic bomb destroyed Edo, causing the Raging Waves dungeon mission to fail. In the Great Xia Settlement, researchers struggled to comprehend the weapon as Deng Xian identified it as a nuclear-fission device.

• The Emperor panicked and begged for his life as the atomic bomb’s blast blinded and engulfed him and Itō Hidetaka.
• Firmament announced that the Emperor had been killed by Eagle Sauce’s atomic bomb and that all challengers had died, failing the dungeon mission.
• The livestream shifted to an aerial view as the explosion’s fireball and mushroom cloud destroyed Edo and killed its civilians.
• Viewers and researchers at the Great Xia Settlement’s dungeon research center watched in stunned silence before reacting to the bomb’s power.
• Zhao Jianyu asked Ding Chang whether he understood Lin Ye’s technology, while Deng Xian identified the weapon as nuclear fission and said nuclear energy could be made into a weapon.

After Great Xia’s experts celebrated Lin Ye’s nuclear weapon and the Dahe Settlement’s defeat, the Raging Waves dungeon remained open and its challengers found themselves trapped in a white void. The Firmament announced that Lin Ye had arranged individual trials and penalties for their crimes, beginning the dungeon’s final stage: Dongying Judgment.

• Deng Xian concluded that Lin Ye had mastered nuclear fission and urged Great Xia to appoint him director of the research institute, while Ding Chang and Li Yunlong celebrated Great Xia’s victory.
• Spectators noticed that Raging Waves had not closed and that no results screen or point deductions had appeared.
• The Emperor awoke in a white void alongside the dead challengers, including Itō Hidetaka, Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Yamamoto Sanjūhachi, Tominaga, and Iga Ryūji.
• The Emperor reassured the trapped challengers that the dungeon’s 500-point failure penalty would not erase them.
• The Firmament announced that Lin Ye had set individual penalties based on each challenger’s crimes and declared the final stage, Dongying Judgment.

The Firmament opened Lin Ye’s Earth International Tribunal to judge the Great He Clan challengers for their actions in the Raging Waves dungeon. Iga Ryūji received only a 20-point deduction for surrendering to Eagle Sauce, leaving the Emperor furious at what he saw as Lin Ye’s attempt to encourage betrayal.

• The Firmament announced a separate settlement and began the Dongying Trial because the challengers had failed to clear the free-mode dungeon.
• A grand tribunal appeared, and the challengers discovered they were in Lin Ye’s Earth International Tribunal as the livestream resumed.
• The Firmament summoned Iga Ryūji, whose surrender to Eagle Sauce and disclosure of military information had made him a target of the other challengers’ anger.
• The Firmament deducted 20 points from Iga Ryūji for choosing to surrender to Eagle Sauce, then transported him out of the dungeon.
• The Emperor recognized that the light punishment could encourage challengers to surrender and share their faction’s information with Eagle Sauce.

The Firmament judged the challengers for their actions in the instance, imposing point deductions that erased many of Eastern Ocean Island’s forces. Itō Hidetaka was ultimately sentenced to immediate erasure, while the Emperor feared that Lin Ye’s manipulation of the judgment could cost him his position.

• The Firmament deducted points from Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Yasui, and their troops for invading Dragon Country, then punished Ogura Tako, Miyazaki Sanrin, and hundreds of thousands of challengers for conscripting residents into the war.
• The Firmament sentenced Yamamoto Sanjūhachi, Tominaga Yukiyasu, and their naval and air forces to lose 10,000 points each for the Pearl Harbor attack, erasing as many as 200,000 people and demoting many survivors.
• The Emperor realized Lin Ye had shaped the judgment to make severe deductions appear reasonable, and he feared being demoted from his position.
• Itō Hidetaka, having gone mad, ignored the Firmament’s summons as it listed his crimes and deducted 100,000 points from him.
• The Firmament erased Itō Hidetaka after declaring that he lacked enough points.

The Firmament judged Emperor Xiaochuan for his crimes in Lin Ye's instance and deducted one million points, demoting him from LV4 to Level 3. The Emperor was teleported out as the Firmament posted the instance's clearance statistics.

• The Firmament erased Itō Hidetaka after deducting one hundred thousand points, leaving the Emperor fearful of his own penalty.
• The Firmament summoned Emperor Xiaochuan to the tribunal and listed his crimes, including promoting war, developing biological weapons, and invading Dragon Country.
• Emperor Xiaochuan protested the charges and demanded a quick ruling, but the Firmament deducted one million points.
• The Firmament demoted Emperor Xiaochuan from LV4 to Level 3 because his points fell below ten million.
• The Emperor begged the Firmament to reverse the decision, but it teleported him out and displayed the clearance statistics to spectators.