Recaps

Lin Ye’s Winter Is Coming repeatedly defeated Kim Geun-seok’s forces, first with Dragon Country’s missiles and then with Bear Country’s freezing climate and superior tanks. After Kim Geun-seok’s coalition was wiped out, the Instance closed without a clear and awarded Lin Ye 56.32 million points.

• Ding Chang warned Lin Ye about the Jin Family Chaebol, while Lin Ye earned points from Winter Is Coming and welcomed Kim Geun-seok’s continued challenges.
• Lin Ye challenged Kim Geun-seok to keep entering Winter Is Coming until he conquered it or was eliminated, and Kim Geun-seok vowed to expose the Instance’s weaknesses with land warfare.
• Kim Geun-seok filled the 50,000 challenger slots with Korean forces and led them across North Stick Country, where Dragon Country’s missiles destroyed his legion and earned Lin Ye 920,000 points.
• Park Seong-man ordered the Kim, Choi, Park, and Lee families to join forces for another challenge, and Kim Geun-seok led their 50,000 challengers into Malaysia before marching toward Bear Country.
• Kim Geun-seok’s coalition struggled in Bear Country’s minus-75-degree cold and retreated to Uvs Lake, where the families prepared trenches, mines, tanks, and artillery against the advancing army.
• Choi Tae-won’s ambush failed when Armata T-14 tanks survived the mines and destroyed his forces, while Bear Country’s tanks later wiped out Park Jeong-yong’s trench troops.
• Kim Geun-seok sent his tanks and Howitzer Vehicles into a direct assault, but Bear Country’s superior tanks overwhelmed them, and Kim Geun-seok shot himself as the challenger count collapsed.
• Bear Country’s forces eliminated the remaining challengers, and the Firmament closed Winter Is Coming with no clears and awarded Lin Ye 56.32 million points.

Lin Ye’s Winter Is Coming challenge drew South Korea, Daiwa, and Nirmaner into a five-million-person coalition against Bear Country. After the coalition suffered devastating losses, Long Yuan spent ten million points to protect Lin Ye, who vowed to keep the Instance from being conquered and secure the refund.

• The Firmament awarded Lin Ye 1.18 million points, raising his total to 6.24 million and placing him 43rd, then accepted his demand to raise Winter Is Coming’s capacity to five million.
• Lin Ye taunted Kim Geun-seok and challenged South Korea to wager its people, while Park Seong-man accepted and recruited Daiwa and Nirmaner into a coalition.
• The Firmament sent the coalition into Winter Is Coming, where its commanders chose Total War Mode and set out to capture a major Bear Country city.
• Yamamoto Sanjūhachi and Park Seong-man attacked Vladivostok, but Bear Country’s Borei submarines launched nuclear missiles that devastated their forces and killed Yamamoto.
• Park Seong-man fled toward Dragon Country’s airspace, but Dragon Country’s missiles destroyed his formation, leaving Kim Geun-seok and Lee Jae-yong in command of the remaining South Korean forces.
• Xi'er took command of Stick Country’s air force and Eastern Ocean Island’s navy, while Kim Geun-seok and Lee Jae-yong prepared a plan to draw Bear Country’s army toward Malaysia.
• Long Yuan spent ten million points on an Immunity from Annihilation Privilege Card, fell from LV4 to Level 3, and protected Lin Ye and Winter Is Coming for 24 hours.
• Lin Ye learned Long Yuan’s protection would be refunded if he lost no points, thanked him, and vowed not to let Winter Is Coming be conquered.

Xi'er led the remaining challengers through a coordinated invasion of Bear Country, capturing Saint Petersburg before the Firmament opened a final quest to take three major cities. Lin Ye’s defenses, a magnetic storm, and Yuri’s Revenge then disrupted the invasion and left the challengers facing escalating threats.

• Lee Jae-yong rejected the original plan, led Malaysia into a disastrous campaign against Bear Country, and was punished after his forces were annihilated.
• After Malaysia fell, Xi'er took command of the remaining forces and coordinated attacks on Volgograd, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg.
• Mansh and Guderian drew Bear Country’s forces away while Rommel captured Saint Petersburg, but the challengers learned the Instance was not over.
• Xi'er accepted the final quest to occupy all three major cities, and the Firmament’s Winter Has Come phase brought severe weather, combat buffs, and the threat of a nuclear attack.
• The Underground People's Self-Defense Army attacked Saint Petersburg with Dog-Headed Mecha Warriors, while communications failures isolated Rommel from Xi'er.
• Yuri's Revenge took control of Kim Geun-seok and thousands of Goryeo fighters, triggering a battle between Goryeo aircraft and the Daiwa fleet.
• Lin Ye revealed his stealthy Caspian Sea Monsters as Mansh and Guderian lost contact with Xi'er and saw millions of Bear Country tanks approaching.

Lin Ye crushed the Challenger alliance in Winter Is Coming, reached LV4, and began building The Great Wall Watch as Great Xia faced attacks from eight Settlements. He prepared a two-million-person beta Instance to strike back at South Korea and learned that the Luan Bird aerospace carrier platform model was complete.

• Bear Country destroyed the Challenger alliance, and Lin Ye’s Mount Fuji Plan and Tsar Bomba killed the remaining challengers and closed Winter Is Coming.
• Lin Ye reached LV4, gained Permanent Exemption Authority, and earned a doubled reward that brought his points to 10.22 million.
• Lin Ye began designing The Great Wall Watch, outfitting Dragon Country’s armed forces and planning to incorporate the Nantianmen, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Penglai, Houyi, and Luan Bird projects.
• Great Xia celebrated Lin Ye’s victory and promotion, while South Korea descended into protests and Park Seong-man apologized for the failed alliance attack.
• Lin Ye told Park Seong-man that South Korea had become his property under their bet and ordered Koreans to leave within three days, then continued developing The Great Wall Watch.
• Eight Settlements attacked Great Xia and killed more than a million young designers, so Lin Ye proposed turning the allied Settlements against one another and defeating them in stages.
• Lin Ye promised the gravely ill Ding Chang that he would help fulfill his wish for Great Xia to rise in the rankings, then submitted a two-million-person test version of The Great Wall Watch for review.
• Park Seong-man ordered Koreans to attack Great Xia’s LV1 designers and barred unauthorized entry into Lin Ye’s Instance, while Lin Ye learned that the Luan Bird aerospace carrier platform model was complete.