Chapter Summaries

After using Core Storm, the damaged Intelligent Machines God believed the Solar System had lost its weapons and planned to destroy the Sun, but an approaching force of fast-moving flying units disrupted his advance. The chapter leaves the Intelligent Machines fleet facing an unidentified attack.

• The Intelligent Machines God recovered enough to regain his composure, though Core Storm had badly damaged his chip and weakened his control over the fleet.
• He concluded that the Solar System had lost its intelligent weapons and chose to destroy the Sun rather than occupy the planets.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered the motherships to advance and prepare a long-range missile attack on the Sun.
• A rumbling blast shook Mothership No. 1315 as countless flying units approached the fleet at extraordinary speed.
• A fleet leader reported that the incoming flying units were faster than the Solar System Defense Perimeter's ultralong-range missiles.

The Intelligent Machines God was stunned when the Solar System deployed a fleet of advanced spaceships after its defense perimeter was destroyed. The Neptune Nineteenth Legion arrived to counterattack, revealing that Alice had upgraded Lin Ye’s familiar ships into a diverse interstellar fleet.

• The Intelligent Machines God detected flying objects traveling at 30 kilometers per second and could not understand how the Solar System still had weapons after its defenses were crippled.
• More than a dozen spaceships stopped in front of the Intelligent Machines fleet, creating spatial rifts with their kinetic energy.
• Divine Firmament announced that the Solar System Legion had launched an all-out counterattack and that the Neptune Nineteenth Legion had arrived at the first battlefield.
• The Intelligent Machines God saw a vast fleet of varied ships and realized the Solar System’s technology surpassed that of the Intelligent Machines Civilization.
• The Azure Star people recognized Lin Ye’s familiar ships, including the Luan Bird Aerospace Battleship and the Millennium Falcon.
• Alice had upgraded the ships with advanced armor, reactors, weapons, and production systems, creating varied prototypes for the Solar System fleet.

The Intelligent Machines God ordered his ten thousand motherships to attack the Solar System’s Nineteenth Legion, but a Divine Firmament alert announced that the Human Emperor and his personal vessel, the Queen, had arrived. The Queen appeared behind the ten ships, leaving the Intelligent Machines God stunned by the immense and elegant Star Destroyer.

• The Intelligent Machines God assessed the Nineteenth Legion’s advanced ships and ordered his motherships to attack while occupying Pluto.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet formed an attack formation as sensors detected an enormous object approaching.
• Divine Firmament announced that the Human Emperor had arrived at the First Battlefield aboard the Queen to defend the Solar System.
• The Queen emerged behind the Nineteenth Legion ships, overwhelming the Intelligent Machines God with her size and appearance.

The Intelligent Machines God reacted with disbelief to the Star Destroyer’s arrival and ordered his fleet to launch a full attack on the Solar System Nineteenth Legion. The Hermes activated its Gaia Shield, forming a massive barrier as the enemy’s missiles approached.

• Divine Firmament announced that the Star Destroyer had arrived and described its overwhelming capabilities, leaving the Intelligent Machines God struggling to process the threat.
• The Intelligent Machines God dismissed the announcement as fake and ordered all ten thousand Intelligent Machines Motherships to attack the Nineteenth Legion.
• The motherships activated their weapons and launched a vast barrage of Omega-Type Missiles toward the Solar System fleet.
• The Hermes moved to the front of the formation and activated its Gaia Shield, drawing energy from Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Kuiper Belt.
• The Gaia Shield reached full strength and spread a massive Light Screen over the Nineteenth Legion's position.

Alice used the Gaia Shield to absorb and redirect the Intelligent Machines Fleet’s attack, leaving the invaders’ weapons unable to penetrate it. Emperor Ding Chang ordered the Nineteenth Legion to counterattack, and the 98K vanished from enemy scans as it prepared to strike.

• Alice’s Gaia Shield linked the energy of nearby planets and used simulated solar wind to withstand the fleet’s attack.
• The Intelligent Machines Fleet’s missiles, quantum weapons, and lasers failed to damage the shield, shocking the Intelligent Machines God.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered his fleet to charge its weapons and attack again at double power.
• Emperor Ding Chang ordered the Nineteenth Legion to crush the invaders, and the 98K and Goddess of Victory began charging their weapons.
• The 98K activated its stealth systems and disappeared from the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s scans, preparing an unseen attack.

The Goddess of Victory launched a massive counterattack against the Intelligent Machines Fleet, matching the firepower of ten thousand motherships. Information Collapse Missiles disrupted the enemy’s control systems, and the fleet’s front ring of motherships was destroyed.

• The Solar System Nineteenth Legion began its counterattack aboard the fully armed Goddess of Victory.
• The Goddess of Victory fired a hundred thousand Rainstorm missiles alongside railguns and drones, meeting the Intelligent Machines Fleet’s missile swarm head-on.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered the motherships to increase their firepower as the missile clash shifted toward the fleet.
• Information Collapse Missiles embedded in the Goddess of Victory’s barrage caused garbled code and targeting errors in thousands of motherships.
• The Goddess of Victory’s missiles destroyed the front ring of the Intelligent Machines Fleet’s motherships.

The 98K fired a one-shot Godslayer Round at the Intelligent Machines God aboard Warship No. 1315, destroying the mothership and unleashing a quantum computer virus. The Intelligent Machines God escaped by transferring his data to Warship 89756, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The 98K’s crew locked onto Warship No. 1315 and fired the Godslayer Round from the Hawkeye-γ Sniper Array.
• The projectile pierced the mothership’s defenses, tore apart its hull, and released a quantum computer virus into its data nodes.
• The Intelligent Machines God mocked Lin Ye and used his ability to transfer between motherships to escape the collapsing warship.
• The Intelligent Machines God transferred to Warship 89756 as Warship No. 1315 collapsed, and the expanding explosion destroyed two neighboring warships.

Ding Chang ordered the Solar System forces to deploy after the 98K’s failed attempt to kill the Intelligent Machines God revealed how the Intelligent Machines Civilization survived. The Intelligent Machines God shifted to individual-unit combat, releasing the fleet’s vast arsenal of war machines.

• The 98K struck its target, but the Intelligent Machines God survived by transferring his data to another warship.
• Ding Chang ordered the Space Marines to end the battle quickly and the psionic teams to prepare to capture Intelligent Machines technology.
• The Intelligent Machines God revived aboard warship 89756 and learned that the fleet had lost 500 motherships, leaving 9,500.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered the motherships to abandon large-scale combat and release their individual units for micromanaged fighting.
• The Intelligent Machines Motherships reverted to their original geometric forms and released their combat mechas, swarms, tanks, and other units into space.

The Intelligent Machines Civilization revealed its true trump card by combining its motherships into a space combat fortress and rapidly producing a massive Expeditionary Legion. The chapter ended with giant combat mecha, Stinger Swarms, and Spider Composites forming its front-line battle force.

• The Intelligent Machines Motherships combined into a gigantic space combat fortress, and the Intelligent Machines God fused his mind with it.
• The Intelligent Machines God drew computing power from the warships and used the fortress to produce new units on the spot.
• The Intelligent Machines Civilization assembled an Expeditionary Legion led by giant space combat mecha.
• Stinger Swarms spread across the battlefield as a fast-moving cloud of drones specialized in attacking mechanical structures.
• Tens of thousands of Spider Composites scavenged wreckage and established mobile gun emplacements and fire support points.

The Intelligent Machines God revealed the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s final formation of 800,000 combat units and challenged Lin Ye to face it. The force prepared for a decisive battle whose outcome would determine whether the civilization could expand into the Solar System or be destroyed.

• The Intelligent Machines Civilization assembled Flying Tanks, Transforming Fighters, Warriors, long-range Annihilators, and other combat units into a vast battle formation.
• The Instance command interface showed 800,000 combat units, including one Intelligent Machines Military Fortress and 50,000 Intelligent Machines Annihilators.
• The Intelligent Machines God laughed and declared that Intelligent Machines could be reborn from the flames.
• The Intelligent Machines God challenged Lin Ye to deal with the force and committed the civilization’s last move to the final fight.

The Intelligent Machines God unleashed his mobile army, believing its superior individual units would overwhelm the Solar System's legions. Ding Chang revealed that the Solar System had prepared its own elite fighters, and five thousand Space Marines deployed for their first battle.

• The Intelligent Machines God sent his army toward the Solar System's nineteen legions and declared that human missiles would be useless in close combat.
• Ding Chang recognized that Alice's earlier destruction of the enemy base had forced the Intelligent Machines God to reveal his hidden Core Storm.
• Ding Chang ordered all nineteen legions to begin the real battle and deploy their Space Marines.
• Five thousand genetically enhanced Space Marines emerged from the Solar System's ships in Mark I Thunder-type Power Armour.
• The Space Marines proclaimed their loyalty to the Emperor as their armour, gene-seed enhancements, and Neural Interface Matrix were revealed.

Five thousand Space Marines activated their mechs and charged the Intelligent Machines Army, while Divine Firmament notifications listed their many enhancements. The Intelligent Machines God was shaken by the Marines’ amplified abilities as its army briefly shut down.

• Five thousand Space Marines activated their mechs and leaped toward the Intelligent Machines Army.
• The Space Marines arrived before the army and charged into its densely packed ranks.
• Divine Firmament notifications described the Space Marines’ implanted organs and the many enhancements they provided.
• The Intelligent Machines God paused in shock, causing the Intelligent Machines Army to shut down briefly.
• The Intelligent Machines God realized that species enhanced thousands of times could surpass the Intelligent Machines’ analytical advantage and become godlike.

The Space Marines attacked the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s forces, tearing through its mechas and drone swarms despite their overwhelming numbers. As the machines’ long-range cannons continued firing, the Space Marines effortlessly dodged the beams, leaving the battle’s outcome unmistakable.

• The Intelligent Machines God rejected Divine Firmament’s BUFF notifications and ordered every combat unit to attack.
• The Intelligent Machines and human fleets exchanged missile fire as the Space Marines charged into the enemy formation.
• At the order to decapitate the enemy, Space Marines used Power Swords to destroy Giant Space Combat Mechas by striking their heads and central systems.
• The Space Marines cut through the Stinger Drone swarms with their shields and firepower.
• The Long-Range Annihilators fired energy cannons at the Space Marines, who dodged the beams with ease.

The Space Marines destroyed the Intelligent Machines Army’s first line of defense, defeating its spider units with Chainswords after breaching the giant mechs and drone swarms. The battle left the Marines unscathed, while spectators in the Instance Livestream Room questioned the Azure Civilization’s strength and level.

• The Intelligent Machines Spider Composite charged the 5,000 Space Marines with lasers, bullets, missiles, and mechanical arms.
• The Space Marines identified the spiders’ Zerg characteristics and readied their Chainswords.
• The Space Marines cut through the spiders’ armour and internal systems, causing them to self-destruct.
• Within two minutes, the Space Marines had wiped out the mechs, drones, and spiders and breached the Intelligent Machines Army’s first line of defense without casualties.
• Spectators in the Instance Livestream Room marveled at the one-sided defeat and debated whether the Azure Civilization was a Level Two Civilization.

The Intelligent Machines God watched the Space Marines overwhelm his forces and took direct control of the surviving units. He left the battle personally directing every machine as the fortress’s second line of defense faced the Marines.

• The Intelligent Machines God saw the Space Marines tear through three echelons of his army despite their numerical advantage.
• He analyzed the Space Marines’ armor, speed, and coordination but could not explain their superior performance.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered all Intelligent Machines units to centralize authority and switch to his direct control.
• He connected his consciousness to the surviving medium-sized units, replacing their autonomous red lights with deep blue ones.
• The Intelligent Machines God split his consciousness across the battlefield and began directing the machines as a single player.

The Intelligent Machines God coordinated its forces to damage the Space Marines, but their rapid regeneration let them recover and counterattack. As the Machines’ defensive line fell, the Solar System Legion’s Psionic manipulation program cracked the Intelligent Machines God’s programming and seized its consciousness.

• The Intelligent Machines God ordered its units to flank the Space Marines and focus armor-piercing fire on individual targets.
• The Space Marines took heavy hits but rapidly regenerated their armor and bodies, even recovering from catastrophic head injuries.
• The Space Marines destroyed flying tanks with Power Fists and cut through mech warriors with Chainswords.
• The Intelligent Machines God felt its consciousness pulled away from its combat units and received a notification that the Psionic had cracked its programming.

The Solar System fleet used Intelligent Machines School Psionics to hack the Intelligent Machines God while Space Marines distracted his forces. The Psionics captured all of his data, leaving the Challengers Faction’s commander-in-chief under their control.

• The Intelligent Machines God realized the Psionics were invading his core data and struggled against their control.
• Divine Firmament explained that Intelligent Machines School Psionics could sense and attack Intelligent Machines data streams.
• A hundred Psionics aboard the Luan Bird Aerospace Battleship connected to the Intelligent Machines God and steadily increased their control.
• Ding Chang’s plan used the Space Marines as a feint while the Psionics infiltrated the Intelligent Machines God to obtain his core data.
• The Psionics completed the capture, and Divine Firmament announced that the Intelligent Machines God was under control.

The Psionics seized control of the Intelligent Machines God's consciousness and turned the entire Intelligent Machines Army against itself, destroying the invaders. After the victory, Ding Chang ordered the Solar System's forces to return to their warships and reported that they had captured the God's advanced data.

• The Intelligent Machines God lost control of his consciousness, and the Psionics took over the army's central system.
• Intelligent Machines units across the battlefield received corrupted commands and began attacking their own forces.
• The liquid lurkers turned on Intelligent Machines vehicles and one another, while the Solar System's Space Marines withdrew and watched.
• Ten minutes later, the Intelligent Machines Army had been wiped out, leaving its wreckage in Pluto's orbit.
• Ding Chang reactivated the planet's Quantum Communication system, congratulated the warriors, and ordered the Space Marines and 18th Legion to return to their warships and War Zone.
• Kaza was stunned by the Solar System's victory as five thousand Space Marines and one hundred Psionics finished the battle without him joining the fight.

Ding Chang returned to Earth after the Solar System’s forces swiftly defeated the Intelligent Machines Civilization. Divine Firmament declared the Instance a failure for the Challengers and awarded Lin Ye a cache of stolen technologies, while Solar System Online received the Universe Arena’s top Instance ranking.

• Ding Chang sent the ten warships back to their posts and piloted the Queen toward Earth as the Solar System captured the Intelligent Machines wreckage.
• Divine Firmament declared the Instance mission a failure after all Challenger forces had been killed, and Intelligent Machines God BT1315 broke down upon hearing the verdict.
• Divine Firmament deducted five million Star Yuan from the Green Vine Civilization and awarded Lin Ye numerous Intelligent Machines technologies, including Intelligent Machines Control Center Construction.
• Divine Firmament reported that the Instance had lasted three hours and thirty-six minutes, with no erasures, a 20% completion rate, and a 0% clear rate.
• Divine Firmament maintained Solar System Online’s Stellar-level Instance rating and ranked it first among all Instances launched in the Universe Arena.

After the Azure Civilization crushed the Intelligent Machines Civilization, the Divine Firmament raised Solar System Online’s difficulty rating to Galaxy-level, making it War Zone 112’s first such Instance. The challenge ended with Lin Ye and the District Heads back in reality, and Lin Ye received five million Star Yuan as a reward.

• War Zone 112’s spectators reacted to the Azure Civilization’s victory and pleaded with Lin Ye to spare their civilizations.
• The Divine Firmament changed Solar System Online’s difficulty rating to Galaxy-level and declared it the first Galaxy-level Instance in War Zone 112.
• The Instance’s countdown ended, and the Divine Firmament announced that Solar System Online would reopen in 24 hours, with civilizations able to sign up to challenge it.
• Lin Ye and the District Heads returned to the Federation Tower, where the District Heads remained stunned by the Solar System’s displayed strength.
• Lin Ye received five million Star Yuan for Solar System Online’s victory.