Recaps

Lin Ye turned his first dungeon victory into the creation of Raging Waves, a Purgatory-level naval battle that devastated Itō Hidetaka and thousands of challengers. After gaining points and a secluded home, Lin Ye returned to developing future dungeons as Itō vowed revenge.

• Lin Ye took command of the challengers’ fleet in the Battle of the Imperial Sea and sank the Matsushima, earning his first clear and reaching LV1.
• Lin Ye designed Earth Online and created Raging Waves around an attack on Pearl Harbor, then submitted the ten-thousand-person dungeon for review.
• The Firmament approved Raging Waves at Purgatory level, and Lin Ye selected Itō Hidetaka and other challengers for its first run.
• Itō Hidetaka led the challengers to destroy Pearl Harbor, only to learn that the main dungeon had begun and the TF58 Nation-Destroying Fleet was approaching.
• The Nation-Destroying Fleet’s missiles and aircraft destroyed the challengers’ ships, and its carriers emerged from the fog before Itō Hidetaka and Prince Singh were killed.
• The Firmament reported that 6,500 challengers had been erased, while Raging Waves earned Lin Ye 14,600 points and advanced him to LV2.
• Lin Ye declined Zhao Jianyu’s invitation to join the First Research Institute, bought a secluded mountain villa, and advised her on aircraft-carrier research.
• Lin Ye returned to Creation Space to develop future dungeons as Raging Waves’ challenger limit rose to 20,000, while Itō Hidetaka vowed to conquer it and erase Lin Ye.

Itō Hidetaka’s economic mission collapsed into an uprising, costing him his level and nearly twenty thousand challengers. Lin Ye upgraded Raging Waves as the Dahe Settlement prepared a million-person assault, which began with its forces scattered across twenty military bases.

• The Emperor rejected Itō Hidetaka’s plan to send Great He elites directly against Eagle Sauce Country and compelled him to lead a challenge in Raging Waves.
• Itō Hidetaka chose the economic overtaking mission, but his attempts to raise Eastern Ocean Island’s per-capita GDP through coercion provoked sanctions, unrest, and a people’s uprising.
• The Firmament declared the challengers’ mission failed, delayed their exit after Itō Hidetaka harmed Shancheng Kojirō, and subjected them to the events Enemy of the World and People’s Uprising.
• The uprising overwhelmed the challengers, and Itō Hidetaka lost 5,000 points, his Level 2 status, and his weapon privilege.
• Ding Chang warned Zhao Jianyu that powerful challengers would seek revenge on Lin Ye, while the Firmament raised Raging Waves’ capacity to one million and Lin Ye advanced to LV3.
• Lin Ye used Creation Space to expand Eagle Sauce’s military and build nuclear weapons, while Zhao Jianyu warned him that a million challengers could enter the dungeon.
• The Emperor announced that he would lead one million Great He challengers into Raging Waves, and the Firmament reopened the dungeon as viewers gathered to watch.
• Lin Ye found Emperor Xiaochuan at the top of the challenger list and watched the million-person force enter Raging Waves, where the Firmament assigned them to twenty military bases across Eastern Ocean Island.

Emperor Xiaochuan led Eastern Ocean Island into a disastrous war against Eagle Sauce, whose advanced forces destroyed his military and devastated Edo with a nuclear strike. After the challengers failed the dungeon, the Firmament judged their crimes, erased Itō Hidetaka, and demoted Xiaochuan.

• The Emperor prepared Eastern Ocean Island for total war, recruiting millions, pursuing biological weapons, and sending forces to scout and infiltrate other countries.
• Dragon Country destroyed Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s expedition and Yasui’s bacterial troops, while Iga Ryūji surrendered to Eagle Sauce and revealed Eastern Ocean Island’s military intelligence.
• The Emperor ordered a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, where his fleet destroyed abandoned carriers before Eagle Sauce’s actual fleet annihilated the challengers’ ships and aircraft.
• The Emperor refused to surrender as Eagle Sauce crippled Eastern Ocean Island with hypersonic missiles and then dropped Lin Ye’s atomic bomb on Edo, killing the Emperor and all remaining challengers.
• The Firmament brought the dead challengers to the Dongying Judgment tribunal and punished them for their actions, including erasing Itō Hidetaka for lacking enough points.
• The Firmament deducted one million points from Emperor Xiaochuan, demoted him from LV4 to Level 3, and teleported him out of the dungeon.

Lin Ye completed Winter Is Coming, a Purgatory-level dungeon built around a war between Stick Country and Bear Country. Kim Geun-seok led an air assault on Moscow and was destroyed, while Bear Country’s bombers eliminated the remaining challengers and the dungeon ended with no clears.

• Raging Waves earned Lin Ye 1.93 million points, raised him to forty-ninth in the rankings, and was restricted for review before reopening with a 100,000-challenger limit and a cap on point losses.
• Lin Ye built Bear Country in Creation Space with brutal winter conditions, powerful forces, nuclear weapons, and missions for Winter Is Coming.
• After hearing Ding Chang recount Zhao Jianyu’s death and warn him about copied dungeon mechanics, Lin Ye chose Kim Geun-seok and the Kim Family Conglomerate as challengers and submitted Winter Is Coming for review.
• The Firmament approved Winter Is Coming as a Purgatory-level dungeon, and Lin Ye challenged Kim Geun-seok to enter with his conglomerate and stake their lives and superiority on the outcome.
• Kim Geun-seok entered the instance with company elites, selected air combat, and enlisted Prince Singh and more than a hundred aircraft before leading a fleet of 5,600 fighters toward Moscow.
• Bear Country’s missiles and Su-57s ambushed the fleet, destroyed its aircraft, and killed Kim Geun-seok and Singh after the Firmament deducted 800 points for the failed mission.
• PAK-DA bombers then attacked the Black House and wiped out the remaining challengers, after which the Firmament declared the mission a complete failure with 200 people erased, a 0% clear rate, and a 0.01% completion rate.