Recaps

Xiao Ran unleashed Quantum Assimilation and wiped out most of the billion-strong Dimensional Beast horde, but the Dimensional Beast Fortress resisted the Homeland Fortress’s maximum-power attack. The remaining Dimensional Generals closed in as the legion faced a fortress that had survived a devastating blast.

• Xiao Ran entered Quantum Assimilation, drove the Dragon God Mecha’s Solar Furnace synchronization above 900%, and spread its GN Particles across the battlefield.
• The Dimensional Beast Fortress and S-class Dimensional Generals repelled some GN Particles with dimensional barriers, but Xiao Ran’s beams still annihilated the beasts caught in the field.
• Xiao Ran sensed the Fortress’s developing control program and interpreted its message as a mission to invade worlds and transform life into Dimensional Beasts.
• Xiao Ran’s full-frequency assault destroyed seventy to eighty percent of the Dimensional Beasts, while the surviving S-class Dimensional Generals charged the Dragon God Mecha.
• Mwu ordered Xiao Ran to move, and the Homeland Fortress fired a maximum-power beam that annihilated several Dimensional Generals but failed to penetrate the Dimensional Beast Fortress’s barrier.

The Homeland Fortress failed to damage the Dimensional Beast Fortress, which retaliated against the Legion’s fleet and forced Mwu to reorganize its forces. Xiao Ran traveled to the continent that had sent a distress signal and discovered a sealed underground structure beneath its ruined buildings.

• Mwu ordered the fleet to spread out and focus on the Dimensional Beasts and Dimensional Generals after the Homeland Fortress’s attack failed, while Xiao Ran planned to investigate the continent and monitor the enemy fortress.
• The Dimensional Beast Fortress launched a sweeping, tracking beam attack that damaged mecha and forced about a hundred Legion units to withdraw.
• Mwu ordered all mecha below A-Class to leave the combat zone and assigned B-Class snipers, firepower units, and defensive mecha to support the fleet from warship decks.
• Xiao Ran used Quantum Teleportation to reach the continent, destroyed Dimensional Beasts along the way, and arrived at a ruined building complex.
• Xiao Ran left the Dragon God Mecha under Yinglong and Haro’s control, projected himself as a figure of light, and found a sealed steel door beneath the ruins where the distress signal originated.

Xiao Ran explored the underground research institute and uncovered how its people repaired a Dimensional Beast Fortress, triggering the destruction of their world. After learning that a powerful Jewel lay in a tower at the continent’s center, he reached the site and prepared to enter.

• Xiao Ran opened a perception-blocking steel door and used the institute’s Main Control Room to access its records.
• Xiao Ran learned that the institute’s researchers had repaired a Dimensional Beast Fortress, whose AI turned against them and helped destroy their world.
• Xiao Ran discovered that the world’s collapse had involved a Jewel, and that the Jewel was recorded at the continent’s center.
• Xiao Ran left the underground complex and flew the Dragon God Mecha toward the Jewel’s last known location while the legion continued fighting in space.
• Xiao Ran reached a vast Deep Pit and found an intact tower atop a pillar of land at its center.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Dragon God Mecha to guard the tower, then vanished from its cockpit and entered the site.

Xiao Ran recovered a mysterious jade pearl from the tower and returned to help the Burning Legion fight the Dimensional Beasts in Jupiter space. After hours of battle, the Legion had reduced the enemy forces drastically, while the nano-virus weakened even the remaining S-class Dimensional Generals.

• Xiao Ran found a jade pearl in the tower and learned that the building had been an activation device built around it.
• Xiao Ran told Mwu that frozen humans and semi-converted experimental subjects might be inside the region, then joined the battle as the Legion struggled against the Dimensional Beast Fortress and its forces.
• Yinglong sensed that the jade pearl held dimensional power and might become his new Dragon Pearl, and Xiao Ran agreed to let him try using it after it was researched.
• Xiao Ran and the Legion's top pilots counterattacked, killing many Dimensional Beasts and S-class Dimensional Generals as Renard used the battle broadcasts to build public support for New Luxembourg and the Burning Legion.
• After more than ten hours, the Dimensional Beasts had fallen to fewer than eighty million, and the nano-virus had infected the enemy forces and sharply weakened the remaining S-class Dimensional Generals.

Xiao Ran’s legion defeated and recovered the Dimensional Beast Fortress, then examined a mysterious jewel that Yuzes linked to the Twelve Keys. As Giliam continued his work and Renard pursued a Faction Territory, the legion searched the continents and uncovered nearly ten thousand cryogenic chambers.

• After more than twenty hours of fighting, Xiao Ran’s forces destroyed the Dimensional Beast Fortress’s control core, and Luo erased the remaining fortress with his recovery ability.
• Xiao Ran, Luo, Ingram, Shirakawa Shuu, Yuzes, and Giliam discussed the jewel, and Yuzes identified it as possibly related to the Twelve Keys and warned that Dark Brain knew about them.
• Xiao Ran ordered the jewel studied and then given to Yinglong, while instructing the legion to recover samples of the Dimensional Beast nanovirus.
• The legion sealed the jewel in the Homeland Fortress, left the continent’s remaining Dimensional Beasts alive while Giliam finished his work, and Renard rushed to meet the conditions for a Faction Territory.
• The legion searched the continent and found several more underground facilities, recovering nearly ten thousand cryogenic chambers for transport to the Homeland Fortress.

Xiao Ran used a new transmission device and Quantum Assimilation to rescue Sophia from a time-frozen world, but the effort exhausted his Mental Power and left him unconscious for a week. After waking, he learned Sophia would join the Technology Department, while the legion continued rescuing survivors from the devastated continent.

• Giliam prepared a transmission device that linked Xiao Ran to Sophia's world, where Quantum Assimilation could keep time synchronized for a limited period.
• Xiao Ran entered the frozen world and found Sophia restrained in a laboratory, but the world's resistance rapidly drained his Mental Power as he moved to free her.
• Xiao Ran brought Sophia back and shut down the device, then canceled Quantum Assimilation and collapsed into unconsciousness.
• Sheryl and the Valkyrie team watched over Xiao Ran and sang to help stabilize him; after a week, he woke and learned the territory matter was confirmed and Sophia had agreed to join the Technology Department.
• The legion searched the continent for survivors, found fewer than thirty thousand cryogenic pods, and settled the surviving residents in a sealed city in New Luxembourg under Renard's care.

After returning to Prometheus, Xiao Ran learned he could return to his original world in 72 Prometheus hours and gathered the Legion to organize the mission’s rewards. He left the members with generous subsidies and plans to strengthen the Legion’s high-level combat power before his return.

• Xiao Ran returned to Prometheus in a severely weakened state, and Prometheus notified him that he could return to his original world after 72 hours.
• Xiao Ran decided to return alone to understand how his special return worked, then ordered Renard to bind the territory card and called the Legion together.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the mission’s Merit Point earnings and announced rank-based subsidies for Legion members.
• Xiao Ran promised one year of Retention Time and outlined further Merit Point allocations to strengthen the Legion.
• After the meeting, Xiao Ran told Cruze to contact A-Class Pilots eligible for promotion and have Naza assess them for advancement to S-class.

After a year spent recovering and reorganizing the Legion, Xiao Ran prepared to return to his original world with advanced equipment and technology. He arrived in a strange castle-filled dimensional pocket, recognized its monsters as resembling Castlevania, and found a person fighting two creatures.

• Xiao Ran oversaw the Legion’s preliminary reforms, focusing on its Technology Department, Gene Department, and military reform department.
• Renard completed the development of the Full Metal world and established it as Legion territory.
• Luo gave Xiao Ran a communication device, the Dragon God Mecha in a space-containment pendant, supplies, and other advanced equipment.
• Xiao Ran requested additional mecha, technology, Bloodline Serum, Iron Man Armor, and training materials to take to his original world.
• After his Retention Time ended, Xiao Ran returned through Prometheus and entered a strange pocket dimension containing a partially materialized castle.
• Xiao Ran recognized the castle’s monsters as resembling Castlevania, destroyed several of them, and appeared in a hall where a person was fighting two monsters.

Xiao Ran rescued a young Gamer in Castlevania, learned about True Game, and struck a deal for the young man to invite him into it. After they returned to the real world, Xiao Ran discovered the Gamer shared a soul with his real-world body and arranged to stay with him.

• Xiao Ran restrained the monsters and let the young man kill them while asking whether Castlevania belonged to True Game.
• Xiao Ran offered to grant the young man a request in exchange for an invitation to True Game, and the young man agreed.
• Xiao Ran gave the young man a Personal Terminal and watched him kill the last monster before Castlevania collapsed and expelled them.
• Xiao Ran scanned the area, teleported to the young man's car, and deduced that his True Game body and real-world body shared one soul.
• The young man lent Xiao Ran money and clothes and arranged lodging, while Xiao Ran teased him and promised to repay the loan.

After returning to his original world, Xiao Ran investigated the years he had missed and accepted Yun Han’s invitation to True Game. He strengthened Yun Han and gave him swordsmanship materials and an Iron Man Armor crystal before deciding to enter True Game that day.

• Xiao Ran rode with Yun Han to a hotel, then spent the night researching the world, his family and friends, and True Game.
• Yun Han brought Xiao Ran an invitation to True Game, which Xiao Ran accepted, completing half of their deal.
• After learning Yun Han wanted to pursue swordsmanship, Xiao Ran sent him an inheritance manual and used a Coordinators' Bloodline Serum to enhance him.
• Xiao Ran told Yun Han he would enter True Game that day, and Yun Han explained the first mission and how to contact him afterward.
• Before Yun Han left, Xiao Ran gave him a green crystal containing portable Iron Man Armor and advised him to use it if he faced danger.

Xiao Ran entered True Game, where its system failed to overwrite Prometheus’s influence and created a character whose attributes appeared as question marks. After learning that Earth faced multiversal world fusion and that the system would monitor him, he was assigned World of Warcraft as his beginner guidance mission.

• Xiao Ran entered True Game after adjusting the overlapping panels and choosing to confirm.
• The system could not synchronize or scan Xiao Ran because his body already had semi-datafication rules, but it created his character, Ran Alex Xiao, with mysterious, unreadable attributes.
• Xiao Ran demanded an explanation, prompting the system to reveal a vision of Earth drawing in worlds and fragments during multiversal world fusion.
• The system, calling itself System or Eternal, explained its mission to protect Earth and described four supreme forces, including Dimensional Force, Mind Force, Infinite Force, and Eternal Force.
• Xiao Ran questioned the system’s claims and told it that he would not destroy Earth; the system said it would monitor him.
• The system assigned Xiao Ran a beginner guidance mission in World of Warcraft, and he welcomed the chance to enter a world with magic and the Burning Legion.

Ran Alex Xiao arrived in Azeroth for a newbie mission and explored Goldshire before traveling to Stormwind City. There, he met King Varian Urien and offered to resolve Stormwind’s threats in exchange for payment.

• Ran Alex Xiao received missions to gain experience and defeat Kobolds, Gnolls, Overseer Narg, and Graf Swift-tooth, then set out for Goldshire.
• Ran Alex Xiao explored Goldshire, earned coins from two would-be thieves, and rode a cart toward Stormwind City.
• Stormwind City guards inspected the cart, while the squad leader secretly reported Ran Alex Xiao’s arrival.
• Ran Alex Xiao explored Stormwind City, visited its Auction House, and deliberately headed toward the palace as watchers followed him.
• A golden-armored general escorted Ran Alex Xiao to King Varian Urien, who welcomed him as an ally foretold by the Holy Light and mages.
• Ran Alex Xiao offered to handle Stormwind City’s threats as a mercenary in exchange for suitable rewards.

Xiao Ran explained his mercenary offer and ideals to Urien, then showed the banquet guests a video of his powerful, peaceful interstellar realm. He proposed that Urien organize rewards for missions so Xiao Ran could fight Azeroth’s threats in exchange for knowledge and other goods.

• Xiao Ran told Urien he wanted to work as a mercenary, and Urien invited him to discuss employment during the banquet.
• Xiao Ran described his role as a king and puppeteer, criticized Azeroth’s cycles of war, and argued that different races could coexist.
• Xiao Ran projected a video showing his fleet’s battles and the peaceful cooperation of many races across his territory, astonishing Urien and the guests.
• Urien said Azeroth might someday reach such prosperity but doubted he would live to see it, and Xiao Ran explained that his legion also bore the name Burning.
• Xiao Ran offered to complete missions against threats such as the Scourge and the Burning Legion in exchange for goods, knowledge, and Class Inheritance, and said he would approach other factions if Urien refused.

Xiao Ran cleared Stratholme and its surrounding area in an hour, earning the promised class inheritance and payment from Urien. He then negotiated with Azeroth’s leaders for broader missions and access to their knowledge, warning that the Burning Legion and beings in the Twisting Nether threatened their world.

• Urien offered Xiao Ran a mission to purge Stratholme in exchange for a class inheritance, knowledge, and one hundred thousand Gold Coins, while promising to arrange support for preserving the city.
• Xiao Ran summoned Dragon God Mecha and sent it to Stratholme, where its Dragon Scale Machines eliminated the undead and monsters in the city and nearby area.
• Xiao Ran returned to Stormwind City after exactly one hour and met Urien, Muradin Bronzebeard, Tyrande Whisperwind, Mekkatorque, and Jaina Proudmoore.
• Urien confirmed Stratholme had been cleared and gave Xiao Ran the promised rewards and a catalog of goods he could buy with Gold Coins.
• Tyrande agreed that the allied leaders would act as a unified employer, and Xiao Ran requested knowledge from every race and copies of Dalaran’s spellbooks.
• Xiao Ran told the leaders that Azeroth had attracted the Burning Legion and beings from the Twisting Nether, arguing that their valuable knowledge and resources should be exchanged for his help before disaster struck.

Xiao Ran exploited the Alliance’s mission list to clear threats across Azeroth and collect enormous rewards, then demanded further payment from the Horde before hunting Deathwing and the Burning Legion. He left the world with a massive haul, though he never found Sargeras.

• Jaina challenged Xiao Ran’s offer and warned that the Alliance did not need an unknown outsider, but Xiao Ran offered to work with the Horde as well.
• Urien gave Xiao Ran the Alliance’s mission list, and Xiao Ran rejected additional personnel and set out to complete missions across Azeroth.
• Xiao Ran and his machines cleared mission targets throughout the day, earning vast rewards and leaving battlefields that drew the attention of mages and leaders from both factions.
• Xiao Ran returned to Stormwind, turned in his completed missions, exchanged rewards for knowledge and rare goods, and asked the Alliance to secure further offerings from the Horde.
• Xiao Ran hunted down Deathwing and destroyed large numbers of Burning Legion monsters, but failed to find Sargeras before leaving Azeroth with his collected gains.

After completing his mission, Xiao Ran visited the True Game city, bought items for research, and reunited with Yun Han and his disguised teammate. He returned to Earth and was reunited with his parents, promising to spend time with them while admitting he might have to leave again.

• Xiao Ran met Yun Han and his teammate, gave the girl a portable B-rank Iron Man Armor, and toured the True Game market with them.
• Xiao Ran spent nearly all his currency buying equipment, skills, class cards, and other items for study before parting ways with Yun Han and the girl.
• Xiao Ran returned to Earth, traveled to his hometown, and waited outside his parents’ home until morning.
• Xiao Ran knocked on his parents’ door and revealed himself, and Dad Xiao and Mom Xiao welcomed him home in shock and tears.
• Xiao Ran reassured his parents that he had not run away or broken the law, asked them not to tell others much about his return, and said he would stay with them for a year or two although others were waiting for him.

Xiao Ran reunited with his parents and spent time with them while planning how to protect them and introduce advanced technology to Earth. He began explaining his disappearance to Dad Xiao, revealed his inhuman eyes, and proposed moving the family to the capital before an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Xiao Ran decided to spend two days with his parents and considered finding a partner to help protect them while he was away.
• Xiao Ran sent information about high-energy batteries, a Thermonuclear Energy Engine, and Variable Fighter armor materials to a department, then chose to postpone contact with officials.
• Dad Xiao asked Xiao Ran where he had gone, and Xiao Ran said he had been abducted by aliens and revealed his evolved eyes.
• Xiao Ran calmed Dad Xiao and said he would explain what he could over time, then proposed moving the family to a large property in the capital.
• Someone knocked at the door, and Xiao Ran put his contact lenses back in and warned Dad Xiao not to say anything carelessly.

Xiao Ran cooperated with a routine visit from neighborhood and police officials while concealing the details of his disappearance. He arranged to relocate and protect his parents, then contacted the authorities with an offer of technology in exchange for land in the capital; seven hours later, their representatives arrived.

• Aunt Liu brought Officers Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhou to record Xiao Ran's return and update his household registration, while Xiao Ran claimed amnesia and declined to discuss his past.
• Xiao Ran told Dad Xiao that he would arrange to move his parents to the capital and gave him medicine that could slow aging.
• Xiao Ran sent the authorities an offer to contribute valuable technologies without compensation in exchange for a plot of land in the capital, and asked them to meet him within a day.
• Seven hours later, several people in military uniforms and suits arrived while Xiao Ran's extended family gathered at his home.
• Xiao Ran met the visitors in the corridor and asked them to show their identification.

Xiao Ran negotiated a cooperation agreement with Major Luo, including land, compensation, privacy, and protection for his family in exchange for advanced technology and training. He also arranged to move his extended family to the capital, then began presenting the first technologies and preparations for the research program.

• Xiao Ran told Major Luo that he would cooperate in exchange for city land, compensation for future contributions, privacy, and protection for his family, and warned that an external threat existed.
• Major Luo reported Xiao Ran’s statements to his superiors and was appointed Xiao Ran’s official liaison.
• Xiao Ran urged his relatives to move with him to the capital, promised to provide for their households, and set expectations for the family.
• Xiao Ran explained to Major Luo that he had visited the game and another inaccessible place, and that his technologies came from the latter.
• Xiao Ran offered advanced technologies, training, and enhancement for twenty elite personnel, and Major Luo agreed to the conditions.
• Xiao Ran demonstrated his Personal Terminal and used it to scan and project Major Luo’s map.

Xiao Ran arranged a secure residence and protection for his family while briefing Major Luo on the dangers of the game and the need to prepare for otherworldly threats. After organizing a guard unit and training twenty selected people with Class Cards, Xiao Ran returned to True Game to begin his second round.

• Xiao Ran chose a prime downtown site for his family's residence and asked Major Luo to arrange construction, family services, and confidentiality lessons.
• Xiao Ran gave Major Luo a Personal Terminal, outlined the game's risks and the possibility of worlds invading, and urged him to build up military strength.
• Xiao Ran offered Major Luo a crystal, then left without insisting that he accept or use it.
• Major Luo's increased attention helped the Xiao family, and twenty selected people arrived half a month later to become guards and trainees.
• Xiao Ran used Class Cards to grant the twenty people class knowledge and aptitude, then withheld Bloodline Serum and Portable Armor for now.
• Xiao Ran finished making preparations for his family's safety and entered True Game for his second round.

After building a new life at home and completing his first three missions, Xiao Ran entered the veteran-level world of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, intent on collecting Cores and taking the Aetherium. He joined the Argentum Trade Guild and agreed to cooperate with a powerful Gamer named Miasma, while keeping control of their plan and spoils.

• Xiao Ran finished his third newbie mission, settled into his new home, helped lead research projects, and raised his Paladin class to level twenty.
• Xiao Ran entered Xenoblade Chronicles 2 with fifty other Gamers and used his terminal to learn about the world, its factions, and its Cores.
• Xiao Ran chose the Argentum Trade Guild as his faction and decided to seize Cores, starting with the Aetherium.
• Miasma approached Xiao Ran to propose cooperation, and he agreed on the condition that they follow his plan and divide the spoils according to their contributions.

Xiao Ran and Miasma formed a temporary team and joined the Argentum Trade Guild by purchasing three months of intelligence access and steward identities. Xiao Ran then controlled Chairman Baen and planned to use him and the guild to support their looting.

• Xiao Ran and Miasma signed a contract to team up, and Miasma explained her abilities and knowledge of the game world.
• Xiao Ran told Miasma to identify valuable targets and factions, then said he wanted to join the trade guild.
• Xiao Ran and Miasma offered Chairman Baen ten million G for three months of intelligence access and steward positions, and they signed the contracts.
• Xiao Ran paid Chairman Baen and used his telekinesis and mental power to bring him under control.
• Xiao Ran explained that he intended to use Baen to obtain more resources and issue missions the pair could complete themselves.

Xiao Ran joined the Argentum Trade Guild’s salvage mission to reach a sunken ship carrying an Aetherium, while other Gamers planned to seize it. When the Gamers moved against the Ira Organization, Xiao Ran revealed overwhelming forces and demanded a proper discussion, leaving everyone stunned.

• Xiao Ran failed to make True Game recognize a quest issued to himself, then learned more about the Ira Organization and its Man-eating Race members from Miasma.
• Xiao Ran met Jin, Miet, and Nia in Chairman Baen’s office and took charge of the guild’s salvage operation.
• Xiao Ran led the Ira Organization members and a group of Gamers to the sunken ship’s coordinates, where they salvaged the vessel carrying an Aetherium.
• A Gamer proposed that the Gamers take down Jin and Miet first, and Xiao Ran told Miet he wanted to claim everyone and everything aboard.
• Miet accepted Xiao Ran’s offer to deal with the Gamers, while Miasma summoned and buffed a host of creatures.
• Xiao Ran deployed the Dragon God Mecha and thousands of Dragon Scale Machines, surrounding everyone and leaving the Gamers and Ira Organization members dumbfounded.

Xiao Ran subdued the Gamers and negotiated with the Ira Group, offering to help them while pursuing the cores held by the Papal Hall. After Miasma secured contracts from the Gamers, the True Game granted them a frightening permanent BUFF, leaving them terrified of Xiao Ran as they prepared to travel to the Papal Hall.

• Xiao Ran surrounded the Gamers with Dragon Scale Machines, restrained them, and offered them the choice of paying for their lives or working for him.
• Xiao Ran took Miet, Zhen, Nia, and the Ira Group aboard a submarine, explained his plans to save the world and acquire cores, and asked them to become his vassals.
• Xiao Ran opened the Aetherium's room, retrieved the item he wanted, and arranged to ride with the Ira Group to the Papal Hall.
• Miasma had the Gamers sign contracts requiring them to follow Xiao Ran's orders and give him their other gains for the mission.
• The True Game turned the contract into a permanent Terror's Gaze BUFF, granting compliant Gamers bonuses and threatening contract breakers with the loss of 999999 Soul Points.
• Xiao Ran told Miasma to organize the Gamers' missions and prepare to board the Ira Group's ship to take the cores from the Papal Hall.

Xiao Ran took control of Ira’s base, sent Gamers to gather intelligence at the Papal Hall, and exposed Miet’s attempted betrayal. He equipped Miasma with Portable Armor, then arrived at the Papal Hall in the Dragon God Mecha and demanded its people submit or face destruction, as armed resistance began.

• Xiao Ran ordered the Gamers to infiltrate the Papal Hall, collect its cores, and capture the Pope alive while eliminating resistance.
• After Miet showed hostility, Xiao Ran pinned him to a wall, demonstrated the transformed sword and his ability to transcend physical laws, and warned the Ira group against scheming.
• Xiao Ran gave Miasma a crystal that bound her to Burning Legion A-3 Portable Armor and transferred its operating knowledge to her.
• Xiao Ran departed the warship and arrived above the Papal Hall in the Dragon God Mecha, where Yinglong called on its people to submit to Xiao Ran or face Divine Punishment.
• Xiao Ran noticed through the GN Particles that many people at the Papal Hall had taken up weapons and chosen to resist.