Recaps

Renard outlined a plan to establish the New Unified as a governing body above Earth’s nations and turn the Anti-Dimensional Beast Allied Forces into a true coalition. As the group discussed research findings and preparations at Homeland Fortress, Renard proposed integrating Earth’s resources and training new forces to fight ordinary Dimensional Beasts.

• Mwu’s First Fleet secured Luxembourg, while three other sub-fleets remained stationed in the United States, Japan, and Australia.
• Renard reported that he had rejected other countries’ requests to join and planned to build support through a new alliance and the New Unified.
• Durandal reported that Dimensional Beast cells were unlikely to spread infection, and that detection drugs and equipment had been developed.
• Luo explained that the Dimensional General combined mechanical and biological components and possessed powerful dimensional abilities, though damage had limited its performance.
• Xiao Ran concluded that singing could weaken the Dimensional General’s biological components and told Luo to capture more of the mechas for study.
• Renard proposed merging the New Unified, Amalgam, and the Burning Legion, integrating nations’ resources, and training their people with newer combat technologies.

Renard secured support for forming a Union and obtaining technology and equipment, while Yuzes proposed developing a cheap enhancement drug for ordinary soldiers. Xiao Ran then visited Chidori Kaname and her friends, encouraging them to explore piloting or MS design before Chidori asked why he had come.

• Xiao Ran agreed to support Renard's plan for a Union, including guidance, equipment, and technology for renovating the factions' factories.
• Renard requested medicine, Enhanced Human technology, personnel, portable Iron Man Armor, and three Iron Man conversion sets, and Xiao Ran approved the support for Burning Legion members.
• Yuzes explained the limitations of existing enhancement methods and proposed researching a cheap, mass-produced drug for ordinary people, which Xiao Ran approved for after the Dimensional Beast project.
• Ingram asked Xiao Ran to check on Chidori Kaname and her friends, so Xiao Ran traveled to their residential module and interrupted their class.
• Xiao Ran asked the students how they were adjusting and encouraged Kazama Shinji and the others to practice piloting or consider MS design, before Chidori asked what he wanted to discuss.

Xiao Ran warned Chidori Kaname not to be misled and arranged for Murong Liu and Fukamura Rin to monitor and train her. Meanwhile, Renard established Unification under Kane’s leadership, leaving the United States outside its protection before revealing the substantial benefits offered to member factions.

• Xiao Ran visited Chidori Kaname, warned her about the woman influencing her, and urged her to keep practicing her training.
• Xiao Ran assigned Murong Liu and Fukamura Rin to monitor Chidori Kaname and continue her training.
• Renard convened a world conference in Luxembourg, where most factions joined Unification and a few refused.
• Kane announced Unification’s establishment and withdrew its fleet from the United States after it refused to join.
• Renard presented member factions with technology, enhancements, Coordinator breeding, Dimensional Beast detection, military support, and relocation benefits.

Unified’s factions prepared for the Dimensional Beasts while Renard introduced policies to strengthen his rule, and Xiao Ran left most Earth affairs to others. After half a month of calm, three dimensional passages opened, prompting the fleets to mobilize while Xiao Ran learned he could not deploy his Dragon God Mecha.

• Renard and Kane began coordinating Unified’s deployments, factory construction, personnel selection, and preparations for new MS production.
• Renard introduced public welfare measures and a secret Contribution Points system to reward loyalty and monitor support for his faction.
• After half a month without Dimensional Beasts, pilot trainees began their studies, faction leaders completed C-Class enhancements, and the first several thousand refugees settled in Homeland Fortress.
• Alarms sounded across the five fleets when three dimensional passages opened, two inside the Second and Third Fleet’s defense zones and one beyond their range.
• Xiao Ran ordered Renard to decide whether to attack the third passage, directed the First Fleet to support and the Fourth Fleet to heighten defenses, and warned the fleets after more than fifty A-Class enemies were detected.
• Luo told Xiao Ran that the Dragon God Mecha was still being studied and could not be deployed.

Xiao Ran let Luo keep the Dragon God Mecha out of battle and monitored a new Dimensional Beast invasion while Kane used Canada’s crisis to bring countries into the unification. After suspecting the enemy’s scattered forces concealed a covert maneuver, Xiao Ran ordered heightened surveillance, but the threat remained unclear.

• Luo told Xiao Ran the Dragon God Mecha needed repairs and growth time, while he prepared an S-class backup frame for him.
• Captain Gin reported that three dimensional passages had opened, four S-class enemies had emerged, and Dimensional Beasts had destroyed a city in Canada.
• Kane told Xiao Ran that Canada had requested help while America prepared nuclear weapons, and Xiao Ran approved sending the First Fleet to Canada and preparing the Fifth Fleet for support.
• Mwu led three-quarters of the First Fleet to Canada as the crisis pressured other countries to join the unification under Kane and Renard.
• Xiao Ran noticed the enemy had deployed powerful forces across three passages and ordered heightened passage detection and renewed checks of Solar System drones.

Xiao Ran deduced that the Dimensional Beasts’ earlier attacks had been preparing a path for invasion, while their S-class forces had tied down the Burning Legion. When ten or eleven new dimensional passages appeared in Africa, he ordered a major response and prepared to lead the battle there himself.

• Xiao Ran considered why the Dimensional Beasts had deployed four S-class Combat Powers and concluded that their earlier attacks had likely been scouting and weakening the dimensional barrier.
• Luo, Basak, Yuzes, Giliam, and Ingram defeated the Dimensional General from the third passage with help from the Valkyries’ songs.
• Silver reported that ten or eleven dimensional passages had appeared in Africa and that the three earlier passages were expanding again.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Fourth Fleet and reinforcements to Africa, sent Homeland Fortress above the new passages, and directed Renard and Kane to evacuate civilians.
• Xiao Ran decided to join the battle in Dawn because the Dragon God Mecha could not be used, and Homeland Fortress and the Fourth Fleet arrived above Africa.

Xiao Ran confronted a new Dimensional Beast invasion, discovering that shield-bearing beasts could block ordinary fleet attacks but were vulnerable to the Small MACROSS-class Battleship’s heavy particle cannon. As the battle intensified, he launched in Dawn with the Tactical Armor modules and unleashed a massive attack from the sky, leaving its impact on the battlefield unresolved.

• Xiao Ran ordered the Fourth Fleet to fire on the Dimensional Beast horde, but the shield-bearing beasts combined their dimensional barriers to stop the barrage.
• Xiao Ran had a Small MACROSS-class Battleship fire its heavy particle cannon, which tore through the barrier and destroyed beasts, though new defenders soon restored the shield.
• The Dimensional Beasts surged toward the Fourth Fleet while the shield-bearing beasts retreated to encircle and protect the dimensional passages.
• Xiao Ran ordered Homeland’s secondary guns to target the passages and prepared to sortie as Silver reported his unit would arrive shortly.
• Xiao Ran received Dawn and the spare Tactical Armor modules, then launched from Homeland Spaceport and raced toward Earth.
• Xiao Ran deployed Dawn’s GN Dragoons, synchronized its Solar Furnaces, activated the Triple Red System, and fired a colossal beam down at the battlefield.

Xiao Ran used Dawn to devastate the Dimensional Beasts around the passage, then led the Fourth Fleet into a defensive battle against twelve S-class enemies. The Fifth Fleet arrived with Sheryl, and Xiao Ran combined Dawn with its Tactical Armor as more enemies emerged.

• Xiao Ran pushed Dawn to its limits and unleashed a seven-colored attack that wiped out the Dimensional Beasts surrounding the passage.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Fourth Fleet to release GN Particles, and the fleet's S-class and near S-class Pilots formed a defensive line around the passage.
• Xiao Ran raised a layered shield to protect the fleet from nearly a thousand Energy Rounds fired by twelve S-class enemies emerging from the passage.
• The twelve enemies engaged the Fourth Fleet's Pilots while more Dimensional Beasts poured out of the passage.
• The Fifth Fleet arrived through FOLD Jump passages, and Purple Wind launched Sheryl's Variable Fighter and the Tactical Armor components toward the Fourth Fleet.
• Xiao Ran combined Dawn with its exclusive Tactical Armor, locked onto enemy targets, and prepared to attack.

Xiao Ran used Dawn Tactical Armor to suppress the dimensional passage and attack the Dimensional Generals, discovering that their dimensional abilities let them escape even his near-instant strikes. Sheryl’s song then disrupted the Dimensional Generals’ movements and barriers, leading Xiao Ran to suspect that FOLD Waves naturally countered Dimensional Force.

• Xiao Ran’s beams overwhelmed the Dimensional Beasts, while the Dimensional Generals evaded the barrage with their Dimensional Force.
• Xiao Ran sensed that the Dimensional Generals seemed to be one with their cockpits and speculated that they might be transformed humans or mass-produced units.
• Xiao Ran attacked a Dimensional General with Dawn Tactical Armor’s crystal greatsword, but it distorted space to escape, leaving only a shallow wound.
• Xiao Ran teleported Dawn in front of the Dimensional General and engulfed it in cannon fire.
• Sheryl’s song strengthened the Legion and weakened the enemy, disrupting the Dimensional Generals’ movements and Dimensional Barriers.
• Xiao Ran wondered whether FOLD Waves were a natural counter to Dimensional Force.

Sheryl's song weakened the Dimensional Beasts and their dimensional abilities, allowing Xiao Ran's forces to gain the upper hand. Xiao Ran discovered that the passages led to a vast world fragment holding more than a billion Dimensional Beasts and a damaged fortress, then watched the passages close after he attacked the creatures inside.

• Sheryl's singing interfered with the Dimensional Barrier and weakened the Dimensional Beasts, while Xiao Ran continued destroying them to prevent their numbers from growing.
• Xiao Ran sent GN Particles into the dimensional passages and discovered they connected to a vast, separate world filled with more than a billion Dimensional Beasts and hundreds of S-class enemies.
• Xiao Ran observed that the mission progress was still below one percent and identified a colossal, damaged fortress whose fluctuations appeared to help the Dimensional Beasts cross the passages.
• Xiao Ran suspected the Dimensional Beasts had been sealed in the world fragment and that the fortress or an instinctive force controlled their invasion.
• Xiao Ran used GN Particles to kill Dimensional Beasts across the fragment, provoking the survivors to retreat before the dimensional passages shrank and disappeared.
• Xiao Ran concluded that the Dimensional Beasts followed rigid behavioral patterns and sent a message to begin planning based on what he had learned.

After learning that the Dimensional Beast Legion numbered at least one billion and included hundreds of S-class units, Xiao Ran warned the Burning Legion that a Dimensional Quake could bring them all to Earth. The Legion began preparing to seal the space around Earth, while Xiao Ran ordered a special Dimension Devourer built as a last resort and then ended Quantum Assimilation to rest.

• Xiao Ran convened the Legion's senior personnel and shared his intelligence about the Dimensional Beasts, their fortress, and the fragment world they inhabited.
• Xiao Ran warned that a Dimensional Quake could bring at least one billion Dimensional Beasts to Earth and ordered commanders to use the Dimension Devourer if necessary to stop dimensional passages.
• Luo, Giliam, and Shirakawa Shuu volunteered to investigate ways to seal Earth's surrounding space, including time-sealing, space blockade, and magic.
• Renard explained that speeding up the territory plan could sacrifice the chance to claim the world, while delaying risked a catastrophic invasion; Xiao Ran ordered Luo to build a specialized Dimension Devourer for him to deploy as a last resort.
• Xiao Ran ended Quantum Assimilation, returned to his residence aboard the Homeland Fortress, and fell asleep from exhaustion.

After recovering from Quantum Assimilation, Xiao Ran assessed the Dimensional Beast threat and discussed preparations with Luo. He proposed a new project to reach Sophia, whom he believed could provide control of the world and the power to create multiverses.

• Xiao Ran considered the Dimensional Beasts' numbers, the threat of a full-scale invasion, Renard's search for a Faction Territory Card, and the need to prepare on several fronts.
• Sheryl and Saki Maski brought Xiao Ran food, and he explained what he had sensed in the Dimensional Beasts' space.
• Luo told Xiao Ran that the Technology Department was pursuing Space Blockade equipment, producing Song Weapons and large Dimension Devourers, and struggling to develop a way to monitor the other world.
• Xiao Ran proposed bringing Earth's Whispered to the Technology Department to work on fixed-point dimensional travel and multiverse reconstruction.
• Xiao Ran explained that he wanted to reach Sophia and bring her to their world, and assigned Giliam to lead the project with Nifaline's help.

Xiao Ran told Chidori and Sousuke that the Dimensional Beasts were transformed humans and warned that their massive army could invade Earth within six to nine months. He secured Chidori’s cooperation with research involving Sophia and persuaded Sousuke to join his military, leaving both set to help prepare for the invasion.

• Xiao Ran arranged for Giliam to lead research and then summoned Chidori and Sousuke Sagara to discuss the Dimensional Beasts.
• Xiao Ran explained that a billion Dimensional Beasts and hundreds of continent-destroying individuals threatened Earth with invasion within six to nine months.
• Xiao Ran revealed that the Dimensional Beasts had been transformed from humans and asked Chidori to help research Sophia’s power to create Parallel Worlds.
• Chidori agreed to cooperate, while Sousuke initially refused on her behalf, prompting Chidori to strike him with a folding fan.
• Xiao Ran told Sousuke that Earth’s people had to unite against the threat, and Sousuke agreed to join Xiao Ran’s military and undergo training and enhancement.

Xiao Ran brought Chidori and Sophia together in a mental space and tried to persuade Sophia to cooperate with the Burning Legion. Sophia remained wary, but seeing Xiao Ran's other worlds gave her a new hope of escaping her suffering.

• Xiao Ran sent Sousuke Sagara to the Gene Research Department to find a suitable Bloodline Serum and promised him support and a powerful unit.
• Xiao Ran learned that Chidori could communicate with Sophia and used his mental ability to let them meet in a spiritual space.
• Sophia accused Xiao Ran and his fleet of threatening her world, but Xiao Ran argued that cooperation could save it and eventually rescue her true self.
• Xiao Ran showed Sophia selected memories of the Burning Legion's work across other worlds and invited her to join its Technology Department.
• Sophia did not agree to join, but she became less resolute in her refusal after seeing the Legion's achievements and hearing Xiao Ran promise to find and rescue her.

Xiao Ran secured Mithril’s cooperation by offering it a place in the Union as an independent corps, then persuaded Tessa to join a Whispered research project and bring Mithril’s Whispered with her. He gathered the Whispered listed in Mithril’s records and sent them into space, while the wider search for them continued.

• Xiao Ran told Mithril’s leaders that it could join the Union as the Mithril Independent Corps while retaining much of its structure and assets, and warned them that more than one billion Dimensional Beasts could invade.
• Xiao Ran asked Tessa to leave Mithril temporarily and bring its Whispered to his legion, explaining the looming invasion and the research project’s goals.
• Tessa agreed to join the project, which would locate Sophia’s true body, investigate world creation, and organize Whispered technology.
• Xiao Ran received Mithril’s records of Whispered and sent them to Kane, who gathered the listed individuals and transported them into space.

Xiao Ran’s teams developed a dangerous bacteria that weakened Dimensional Beasts and completed a device that disrupted and redirected their Space Channels. With Earth’s defenses improving, he learned the Dragon God Mecha was ready for further psychokinetic stimulation and postponed the procedure so the exhausted researchers could rest.

• Xiao Ran pushed Giliam’s Whispered research group to find Sophia’s true body as Dimensional Beast attacks grew more frequent and weakened Earth’s Space Rampart.
• Durandal developed a bacteria that consumed Dimensional Beast cells and energy, though Xiao Ran withheld its use until its supply and self-evolution could be controlled.
• Sheryl and the Valkyries boosted allied fighters in battle, helping pilots grow more capable against Dimensional Generals and their barriers.
• Luo, Yuzes, Shirakawa Shuu, and Ingram reported that their Space Blockade Device could disrupt Space Jumps, make crossings more dangerous, and redirect Space Channels to chosen locations.
• Xiao Ran ordered the device deployed across Earth within half a month and learned that the Dragon God Mecha was ready for psychokinetic stimulation.
• Xiao Ran postponed the Dragon God Mecha procedure for two days so the exhausted researchers could rest.

Xiao Ran reassured Giliam’s team as they struggled to reach Sophia’s world, then prepared the Burning Legion to test the dimensional interference devices. The test succeeded when a dimensional passage appeared near Jupiter instead of Earth, and Xiao Ran led the pilots toward the hangar for battle.

• Giliam told Xiao Ran that his research had repeatedly failed to reach Sophia’s world, though he had found a promising lead.
• Xiao Ran contacted Renard and told him that devices capable of sealing space would be installed within half a month.
• The Burning Legion gathered near Jupiter, where Luo confirmed that the interference devices had redirected Earth’s spatial coordinates and prevented passages from appearing there.
• A dimensional passage opened near Jupiter, confirming the devices’ success and triggering combat readiness.
• Mwu ordered the forces to prepare for battle, and Xiao Ran led the pilots toward their units.

The Burning Legion redirected a Dimensional Beast incursion to Jupiter space and overwhelmed the emerging beasts with a coordinated fleet attack. After containing the survivors, Xiao Ran and his team tested a virus against them, which began weakening infected beasts while specialists monitored its spread and effects.

• Mwu ordered the fleet to attack the Dimensional Beasts emerging near Jupiter, and the warships destroyed most of them with concentrated fire.
• Xiao Ran ordered the fleet to reduce and narrow its barrage so the combat units could engage the remaining beasts, while noting that the Final Assault might be approaching.
• After the Dimensional passages vanished, Xiao Ran ordered the forces to gather the surviving beasts, and Yuzes deployed the virus on them.
• The warships enclosed the gathered Dimensional Beasts in a light cage while specialists monitored the virus's effects.
• Yuzes and Durandal told Xiao Ran that infected beasts were weakening and that they needed about three hours to gather data and assess whether the virus remained controllable.

After confirming that dimensional blockade technology could keep Dimensional Beasts away from Earth, Xiao Ran directed the Legion to shift its main battlefield to Jupiter while demanding strict safeguards for the rapidly spreading virus. He also ordered new research and a comprehensive review of the Legion’s forces and weapons to prepare for increasingly powerful threats.

• Silver crystals consumed and transformed every trapped Dimensional Beast, and the Burning Legion destroyed the crystallized remains after collecting samples.
• The Legion returned to the Homeland Fortress, where Durandal, Luo, and the others analyzed the battle data; Renard and Kane announced that Dimensional Beasts would no longer appear on Earth, prompting widespread celebration.
• Luo confirmed that the dimensional blockade worked and that the Dimensional Beasts could only be guided to Jupiter, so Xiao Ran planned to leave the Fourth Fleet on Earth and move the other fleets and the Homeland Fortress to Jupiter.
• Durandal warned that the virus could mutate if deployed widely, and Xiao Ran ordered the researchers to limit its growth and investigate controllable nanomachines that targeted Dimensional Beasts.
• Xiao Ran assigned research into Dimensional Generals and semi-Biological Weapons, then called for a full review of the Legion and the development of more powerful flagships and weapons.

Xiao Ran planned a Burning Legion reorganization, stronger battleships, fortress upgrades, and preparations for a possible Dimensional Beast invasion of their territory worlds. As Earth remained safe for a month, the Legion and its allies shifted resources and recruits toward Jupiter to prepare for the coming Final Assault.

• Xiao Ran told Luo and Durandal to reorganize the Legion, improve individual enhancements, and complete the Dimensional Beast countermeasure in case the creatures appeared in their territory worlds.
• The Burning Legion redeployed its fleets, gathered resources, and began producing weapons and supplies for the decisive battle against the Dimensional Beasts.
• Earth’s fleets withdrew, and after a month without dimensional passages, civilians celebrated the towers that had redirected the threat while the major powers prepared for a possible Final Assault near Jupiter.
• The powers trained selected pilots and physically gifted recruits at the Homeland Fortress, where some would receive enhancements or Iron Man modifications.
• Master Asia brought Tsubaki and other martial artists to the fortress, along with Oonuki Zenji, whose controlled berserk strength could make him a formidable fighter after enhancement.

Xiao Ran finalized the Burning Legion’s defensive plan against the approaching Dimensional Beasts while Renard asked him to consider bringing Tessa along. Giliam then proposed that Xiao Ran personally investigate Sophia’s other world, and Xiao Ran decided to travel there immediately.

• Xiao Ran ended the staff officers’ repeated debate and ordered them to refine the original defensive plan within three hours.
• Renard asked Xiao Ran to take Tessa with him, but Xiao Ran questioned whether she belonged in his squad and said he needed time to consider it.
• Giliam told Xiao Ran that he had confirmed the other world’s coordinates and Sophia’s location, but warned that jumping there could cause unpredictable effects.
• Giliam proposed that Xiao Ran use his connection to the Quantum Field to help synchronize time between the two worlds.
• Xiao Ran agreed to review Giliam’s information and decided to travel to meet him and speak with Sophia face-to-face.

Xiao Ran negotiated with Sophia about joining the Burning Legion while confirming the risks of retrieving her body from another world. Sophia agreed under conditions, but the rescue would have to wait until the Dimensional Beasts were defeated and dimensional travel became possible again.

• Xiao Ran questioned Giliam about the positioning device, and Giliam said Sophia could sense her body in another world but they could not independently verify its condition or her reports.
• Xiao Ran told Sophia about the Dimensional Beasts and invited her to join the Burning Legion so they could work together against the threat.
• After two hours of silence, Sophia agreed to join on the conditions that she remain free, receive help with her revenge, and be rescued from her other world; Xiao Ran accepted and offered her high-level authority.
• Sophia warned Xiao Ran that her body was near death and that time in her world was nearly stopped; Giliam said a medical pod could sustain her after the transfer.
• Xiao Ran admitted that the Legion could not currently travel to Sophia's world because dimensional conditions had grown unstable, so they would need to defeat the Dimensional Beasts before attempting the rescue.

Xiao Ran and the Burning Legion began their battle against the Dimensional Beasts in Jupiter’s sector, suppressing their first wave while preparing for the enemy’s full transfer. The chapter left the true decisive battle imminent, with nano-weapons deployed and dimensional blockade preparations underway.

• Sophia agreed to join the Burning Legion and work on its linking equipment and multiverse research.
• Alarms sounded across the Burning Legion as more than two hundred dimensional passages opened in Jupiter’s sector and the fleet entered combat.
• Xiao Ran coordinated with Mwu, Renard, Luo, Durandal, and Giliam, assigning battle preparations and ordering the teleportation equipment completed as quickly as possible.
• Mwu ordered the fleet and pilots to attack the emerging Dimensional Beasts, while Sheryl’s singing boosted allied forces.
• As the dimensional fluctuations intensified, Luo prepared to activate the dimensional blockade equipment when the Dimensional Beasts transferred as a whole.
• Mwu ordered nano-warheads launched, scattering the nano-weapons among the Dimensional Beasts.

The Burning Legion’s nanorobots spread among the Dimensional Beasts as the legion fought and retreated through increasingly distorted space. A Dimensional Quake then brought an enormous horde and a vast continent near Jupiter, and the legion began its prepared counterattack as Xiao Ran’s Dragon God Mecha shielded the fleet.

• The Technology Department’s stable nanorobots began spreading through the Dimensional Beasts, while the legion continued fighting to earn Merit Points.
• As the dimension fluctuations intensified, Xiao Ran and Mwu ordered the legion to retreat from the distorted region.
• A Dimensional Quake filled space with Dimensional Beasts and brought a vast continent into the Jupiter region, while the dimensional passages vanished.
• Mwu ordered the legion to locate the Dimensional Generals, prepare Dimension Devourer and nanobot warheads, and activate the Space Blockade devices.
• The Dimensional Beasts unleashed a massive beam barrage, and the fleet dispersed while drones and S-class self-destruct units launched dimension warheads.
• Xiao Ran activated the Dragon God Mecha’s new energy backpack and formed a GN Particle shield at the front of the fleet.

Xiao Ran and the fleet resisted the Dimensional Beast horde while the Burning Legion detonated Dimensional Warheads to devastate the enemy. The Dimensional Beast Fortress and S-class Dimensional Generals used dimensional power to slow the resulting black holes, leaving Xiao Ran determined to reduce the enemy’s numbers himself.

• Xiao Ran summoned Dragon Scale Machines and layered shields around the fleet as the combat units added their own defenses against the Dimensional Beasts’ attacks.
• Mwu ordered the fleet to prepare its main cannon and engage the approaching S-class enemies, while Xiao Ran canceled the Dimensional Warheads aimed at the continent after the CIC detected a Distress Signal there.
• The Dimensional Warheads detonated among the horde, creating black holes that swallowed Dimensional Beasts and disrupted their formation.
• The Dimensional Beast Fortress and returning S-class Dimensional Generals emitted bands of light that used dimensional power to slow the black holes’ expansion.
• Luo explained that the Dimensional Beasts were resisting the Dimension Devourers rather than suppressing them, and Xiao Ran prepared to reduce their numbers himself.