Recaps

After returning to Prometheus, Xiao Ran decided not to lead the Burning Legion into G Gundam World and left the mission to Luo, who assembled a temporary team and prepared to restore the world’s environment. The group departed with several Legion members, while Xiao Ran stayed behind.

• Xiao Ran dismissed the team after they returned from W World and went to King Frie's Palace to spend time with Shanamia.
• Xiao Ran told Luo he wanted to avoid turning the G Gundam World mission into a Legion operation, and Luo agreed that a smaller team could earn a valuable Follower Slot.
• Xiao Ran considered recruiting Master Asia as a follower but left the mission to Luo rather than risk forcing the choice on him.
• Luo gathered restoration equipment, materials, seeds, and Renard’s small AS units for the G Gundam World mission.
• Sanger and Graham, Yuzes, and Giliam joined Luo’s mission by temporarily leaving their teams and joining Xiao Ran’s team.

Luo and the others returned from the G Gundam world with Rising Wind, Master Asia’s intelligent horse, as their new follower. Basak revealed that Master Asia had beaten or trained the others during their stay, while he had been ordered to abstain for ten years.

• The Burning Legion reappeared a day after Luo and the others entered the G Gundam world, and the exhausted group returned to Xiao Ran with Rising Wind.
• Luo explained that Master Asia had refused to join them and had given Rising Wind to him as their Follower Slot.
• Luo described Rising Wind’s intelligence, technical knowledge, and ability to pilot mecha and operate vehicles.
• Yuzes and Giliam praised Master Asia, and Yuzes said Xiao Ran might have benefited from meeting him.
• Basak revealed that Master Asia had knocked out Yuzes and Giliam and trained them, while Zengar had studied swordsmanship with him for two years.
• Basak said Master Asia had ordered him to abstain for ten years, and Xiao Ran realized that the others had all been beaten by an ordinary man.

After Master Asia trained the group in the G Gundam world, Rising Wind became a celebrated member of the Burning Legion and worked with Luo and Little Eight to create a powerful unicorn mecha. The chapter ended with Xiao Ran marveling at the machine and the extraordinary resources Luo had devoted to a horse.

• Master Asia punished Yuzes and Basak for their shortcomings, ordering Basak to abstain from desire for ten years, and told Giliam that his soul was incomplete.
• Xiao Ran learned that the group had gained greatly from Master Asia's guidance, though he accepted that his own path lay in the Quantum Field.
• Rising Wind, Luo's horse follower, astonished the Burning Legion with his intelligence and advanced Technician skills.
• Luo, Rising Wind, and Little Eight took over part of the research institute to design a mecha for Rising Wind.
• Luo, Rising Wind, and Little Eight unveiled a white, flame-maned unicorn mecha with a Radiant Transmitter System, a GN Solar Furnace, and detachable battle armor.
• Xiao Ran examined Rising Wind's B-class Piloting Skill and the mecha's A-class capabilities, then wondered how other Participants would react to a horse receiving such equipment.

Xiao Ran weighed his third bloodline and whether to begin the S-class Pilot advancement mission, then sought Naza’s advice. He chose the Coordinators Bloodline and asked Naza what he needed to know about the advancement mission.

• Xiao Ran canceled the trip to Full Metal Panic after Renard said he was not ready to visit that world.
• Xiao Ran considered his third bloodline and the S-class Pilot advancement mission while planning the legion’s remaining work during its rest period.
• Xiao Ran consulted Naza about choosing between the Coordinators Bloodline and another mental-oriented bloodline.
• Naza explained that Xiao Ran had not fully developed his Psychokinesis Bloodline and advised him to strengthen his pure technical skill as a backup when GN Particles were countered.
• Xiao Ran accepted Naza’s advice, asked her to find the Coordinators Bloodline, and asked what he should know about the advancement mission.

Xiao Ran asked Naza about advancement missions, and she explained that they were solo tests with unpredictable restrictions and enemies. After discussing how to obtain a Coordinator Bloodline, Xiao Ran considered other options as he left Naza’s home.

• Naza warned Xiao Ran that advancement missions were solo challenges requiring personal action and thorough preparation, and recommended strengthening his Coordinator Bloodline.
• Xiao Ran explained that he had once given his Coordinator Bloodline to Cruze and asked Naza to find another one.
• Naza agreed to contact other legions, explaining that Coordinator Bloodlines were popular but scarce and that the Burning Legion could no longer enter the SEED World for missions.
• Xiao Ran reflected on the bloodlines he had acquired and how the Legion’s Faction Territory had cut off access to bloodlines that world could no longer produce.
• After leaving Naza’s home, Xiao Ran considered other possible bloodlines, including Native Species, and wondered whether it had side effects.

Xiao Ran obtained and enhanced a Coordinator Bloodline as preparation for his promotion mission to become an S-class Pilot. After unlocking its Combat Coordinator advancement, he considered how to develop the bloodline further.

• Naza found a Coordinator Bloodline and bought it for Xiao Ran for two million.
• Luo's technical group began preparing for Xiao Ran's solo promotion mission by arranging bloodline use and enhancement.
• Xiao Ran used the Coordinator Bloodline, gaining ten points in all attributes and the Focus skill, which greatly increased his reaction ability, hand speed, and calculation speed for ten seconds.
• Xiao Ran used a B-rank Special Evaluation to enhance the Coordinator Bloodline and chose between Specialized Coordinator and Combat Coordinator.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the Specialized Coordinator paths and concluded that Combat Coordinator suited him best.

Xiao Ran upgraded his Bloodline to Super Coordinator and discovered that its mutation had permanently changed his Potential Burst into Seed of Spirit. He gained sharper perception and powerful new abilities, but his eyes remained permanently luminous, and he sensed a seed forming in his mind.

• Xiao Ran became a Super Coordinator after spending an A-Class Special Evaluation, gaining enhanced combat control, perception, and other attributes.
• Xiao Ran found that his Innovator abilities had not directly grown; instead, his spatial perception, clarity of thought, and computation had improved.
• Xiao Ran discovered that his Mental Potential Burst had mutated into Seed of Spirit, with a powerful passive state and an even stronger activated state.
• Xiao Ran saw that his eyes now glowed permanently and realized he could no longer turn off the visual effect.
• Xiao Ran felt a seed inside his mind and realized his Mental Power had borne fruit.

After strengthening his Coordinator bloodline, Xiao Ran’s eyes began glowing permanently and his Potential Burst skill transformed into Seed of Spirit. He strengthened his Psychokinesis to Level 7 and summoned Durandal and the others to investigate the change, learning that Durandal had identified an inheritable genetic factor behind the SEED ability.

• Xiao Ran discovered that strengthening his Coordinator bloodline had transformed Potential Burst into Seed of Spirit and increased his Psychokinesis strength without changing its level.
• Xiao Ran spent two B-class Special Evaluations to raise his Psychokinesis to Level 7, matching the tier of his other bloodlines.
• Xiao Ran returned to the Fleet World and gathered Durandal, Kane, Yuzes, Kira, Athrun, and others at the genetic research institute to discuss his glowing eyes and new ability.
• Xiao Ran explained how his Coordinator strengthening had changed his skill, prompting Athrun to connect Seed of Spirit with the SEED ability.
• Durandal explained that he had found an inheritable genetic factor called the S Factor in Kira, Athrun, and Shinn Asuka, and suggested Xiao Ran might possess a different factor with a similar effect.

Durandal and the others speculated that Xiao Ran’s abilities might stem from a genetic talent connected to spiritual power, but their discussion strayed into unanswered questions about genes and souls. After Durandal collected Xiao Ran’s blood for research, Xiao Ran remembered why he had called everyone together and asked them about their abilities and bloodline compatibility.

• Durandal suggested that Xiao Ran might have possessed an undeveloped gene similar to the S Factor, while Kane discussed the unknown links between genes, souls, and abilities.
• Xiao Ran interrupted the researchers when their discussion wandered off topic.
• Durandal drew three tubes of Xiao Ran’s blood and stored them for research before asking why Xiao Ran had called everyone together.
• Xiao Ran asked Kira and Athrun what they experienced when their abilities activated, and asked Yuzes and Kane about psychokinesis and the physical form of souls.
• Xiao Ran told Durandal that the Coordinator bloodline seemed to act as a lasting catalyst that strengthened his Innovator Bloodline and psychokinesis.

Xiao Ran was examined after revealing the seed in his brain, and the others concluded it was a beneficial manifestation of his abilities. After he left, Durandal, Kane, and Yuzes began scheming to use his genes for research, while Kira and Athrun were drawn into their plans.

• Kira, Athrun, Yuzes, Kane, and Durandal discussed how abilities, souls, and genes affected one another.
• Everyone rushed Xiao Ran into a full examination after learning he had an extra seed in his brain that he could detonate.
• Yuzes sensed Xiao Ran's telekinesis and Mental Power had grown stronger, while Kane found his soul and magic normal but his soul stronger.
• Durandal concluded the seed was likely a beneficial manifestation of Xiao Ran's abilities and told him that only he could study its effects.
• Xiao Ran asked Yuzes, Ingram, Kira, and Athrun to help him develop his abilities, then warned everyone not to use his genes to create dangerous beings.
• Durandal, Kane, and Yuzes planned a remote underground research facility to experiment with Xiao Ran's genes, and Athrun convinced Kira that sacrifices might be necessary.

Xiao Ran settled on developing his abilities during a year of faction Retention Time, while Luo and Renard led research into technology from several worlds. Their study of Nifaline revealed a highly intelligent Super AI that crashed whenever it tried to process emotions.

• Xiao Ran left the research institute after giving blood for tests and learned that his Seed of Spirit existed on the level of the soul rather than as a physical object in his brain.
• Xiao Ran decided to buy Retention Time instead of entering the Full Metal Panic world, and nine people, including Yuzes, Ingram, Zengar, Elsam, Luo, and Renard, stayed with him.
• Luo’s technical team reproduced the complete ZERO System, Gundanium Alloy W, and Puppet Mobility Technology before moving on to technology from Mecha Wars V.
• Luo, Renard, and the legion’s researchers spent more than two months inspecting Nifaline and studying Gedim’s AI technology.
• Luo and Renard activated Nifaline and discovered that the Super AI had exceptional intelligence and creativity but crashed when it tried to reason about emotions.

Xiao Ran learned that Nifaline was an exceptionally powerful but unstable Super AI and that Arcadia, her unfinished S-class mecha, needed extensive redesign before he could pilot it. While Luo and the others began planning its reconstruction, Xiao Ran continued studying psychic power.

• Renard explained that Nifaline could not be reprogrammed and needed supervision because her independent emotional reasoning could lead to unpredictable decisions.
• Xiao Ran learned that Nifaline had been isolated for ages, was kept offline in the research institute, and spent much of her time watching dramas and movies to learn about people.
• Luo and the others inspected Arcadia and found that the mecha was only eighty percent complete, lacked a cockpit and key components, and had been damaged when Luo touched it.
• Nifaline joined Luo's team to help redesign Arcadia, which required major changes to its armor, energy systems, weapons, operating system, and interior to suit Xiao Ran.
• Xiao Ran continued training his psychic power and studying its uses in combat, detection, prediction, mental influence, and teleportation.

Over the year, Xiao Ran greatly developed his psychokinesis and learned more about his Coordinator and Innovator bloodlines while the Burning Legion slowly rebuilt Arcadia. The year ended with the news that Shanamia was carrying Xiao Ran’s daughter, a naturally conceived child in the Faction Territory.

• Durandal advanced Coordinator technology using Xiao Ran’s genes, enabling newborns to reach Super Coordinator levels with improved fertility and fewer errors.
• Xiao Ran mastered new psychokinesis techniques, including short-range teleportation, mecha summoning, barriers, attacks, and mental control, though he could not develop precognition.
• Xiao Ran confirmed that his SEED Mode had erupted and gained a deeper understanding of his Coordinator bloodline and its abilities.
• Luo and the others continued a slow, extensive overhaul of Arcadia, rebuilding it into a stronger S-class mecha.
• Shanamia became pregnant with Xiao Ran’s daughter, prompting heightened security across the Burning Legion’s territories.
• Xiao Ran was stunned that he had naturally fathered a child in a Faction Territory.

Xiao Ran learned that Shanamia was pregnant with his first child, a rare occurrence for high-level participants. The Burning Legion rallied around the couple and prepared for the child’s arrival, while Naza and Durandal explained how the pregnancy might have happened.

• News of Shanamia’s pregnancy drew attention across the territory, and Xiao Ran stayed by her side, overjoyed by the coming child.
• Renard sent more than a thousand robots to protect Shanamia, while Luo expanded defenses and Durandal oversaw her examinations.
• After Retention Time ended, Renard summoned Xiao Ran’s team and other allies, and the Burning Legion’s participants congratulated Xiao Ran.
• Naza explained that high-level participants had extremely low fertility and called Shanamia’s pregnancy an exceptionally rare accident.
• Durandal suggested that changes in Xiao Ran’s evolving Coordinator bloodline may have caused the pregnancy.

Xiao Ran prepared to enter his A-to-S-class advancement mission, balancing his ambition to strengthen the Burning Legion against his desire to be present for Shanamia’s child. After receiving his loved ones’ support, he set out for the mission alone.

• Naza explained that Xiao Ran’s enhanced bloodline made him reproductively incompatible with ordinary humans, and Shanamia’s unborn daughter was an exceptionally rare child who inherited his traits.
• Sheryl told Xiao Ran that she and Mwu would not have children while the legion needed them, and made him promise to return safely and witness Shanamia’s child being born.
• Xiao Ran explained that he intended to begin his advancement mission on schedule because the legion needed more S-class Pilots, and Sheryl realized he had planned to go without her, Mwu, or Saki.
• Xiao Ran spent the final day of his rest period alone in Prometheus, calming his worries about the mission and leaving Shanamia behind.
• Xiao Ran’s squad and other allies gathered to support him; Luo prepared his machine and supplies, while El-Elf gave him a tablet of operational packages.
• Sheryl, Mwu, and Saki urged Xiao Ran to be careful as he departed alone for his advancement mission.

Xiao Ran entered the Super Robot Wars J mission alone and found himself falling toward Earth inside a fading sphere of light. After analyzing the descent and waiting until the landing route was fixed, he teleported into Berserk Flying Eagle and ordered it to land.

• Prometheus assigned Xiao Ran a solo advancement mission in Chaos World Super Robot Wars J, while Cruze, Mwu, Renard, Luo, and Basak were sent elsewhere.
• Xiao Ran received six possible missions and learned he could not obtain help or establish contact with the Orb or Frie factions.
• As the Light Barrier carried him toward Earth and began to fade, Xiao Ran calculated its remaining duration and considered how to survive the fall.
• Xiao Ran waited through the barrier's final route adjustment, then summoned Berserk Flying Eagle beneath him.
• Xiao Ran used Teleportation to enter Berserk Flying Eagle's cockpit and ordered Flying Eagle to land.

Xiao Ran recognized Touya Yun as the protagonist of this world and decided to eliminate him before he could grow close to Shanamia. Falcon staged a failed landing, but Xiao Ran used his psychic abilities to ensure Touya Yun was crushed beneath its hand.

• Xiao Ran spotted Touya Yun beside Besi Lu and worried that Shanamia would form a connection with him.
• Xiao Ran ordered Falcon to land at the school and crush Touya Yun in an accident.
• Falcon descended toward Touya Yun, but Besi Lu rose and rammed it aside, saving him from the initial fall.
• Xiao Ran used his psychic abilities to make Touya Yun stumble beneath Falcon's swinging arm.
• Falcon crushed Touya Yun beneath its palm, leaving the nearby witnesses stunned.

Xiao Ran staged remorse over Touya Yun’s death while Eagle blamed the accident on a loss of control. Besi Lu’s systems then activated and locked onto Xiao Ran, whose identity and location the girls inside questioned.

• Eagle confirmed that Touya Yun had been crushed, and Xiao Ran explained that this world’s Touya Yun was not the person he knew.
• Xiao Ran exited Eagle and pretended to be shocked and regretful about Touya Yun’s death.
• Eagle claimed an unknown influence had disrupted its thrusters, while Tinia, Katia, and another girl realized their attempt to save Touya Yun had caused his death.
• Tinia blamed Eagle, but Xiao Ran accepted responsibility and let Eagle go wash its hands by the river.
• Besi Lu’s systems and power source stabilized, and its display locked onto Xiao Ran as green light filled the cockpit.
• Tinia asked Xiao Ran who he was and where he had come from, and he gave his name before asking where they were.

Xiao Ran took control of Besi Lu as Hawk destroyed waves of Insectoid Robots with ease. He launched the machine into the sky at startling speed, leaving Tinia stunned in the cockpit.

• Hawk destroyed the Insectoid Robots attacking it, then washed its hands at the riverbank.
• Dozens of Insectoid Robots launched hundreds of missiles at Hawk, while Kouji Kabuto and Sayaka tried to intercept them.
• Katia and Melua left Besi Lu to take an unconscious woman to safety, and Xiao Ran promised to protect them.
• Xiao Ran climbed into Besi Lu’s cockpit and told Tinia to fasten her seat belt, explaining that he already knew how to operate its systems.
• Xiao Ran piloted Besi Lu into the sky at extreme speed as energy motes enveloped the machine.

Xiao Ran piloted Besi Lu to destroy the Mechanical Beast Legion before it could reach the city, demonstrating abilities that astonished Tinia. He told her he might come from another Earth and had encountered an identical Besi Lu, while privately wondering what identity to use in this world.

• Xiao Ran ignored the Insectoid Robots and charged toward the Mechanical Beasts approaching the city, while Tinia warned him about the danger of overloading Besi Lu.
• Xiao Ran unleashed powerful energy beams and a crystalline greatsword, destroying all ten Mechanical Beasts as Tinia watched in disbelief.
• Xiao Ran shut down Besi Lu's forced Ougang Burst Mode and told Tinia that she and the other pilots lacked the abilities to draw out the machine's full potential.
• Tinia asked Xiao Ran who he was, and he said he might be from another Earth and had once encountered an identical Besi Lu.
• Tinia remained confused and suspicious, while Xiao Ran considered what identity to fabricate for his missions in this world.

Xiao Ran and Eagle defeated the Mechanical Beasts and Insectoid Robots, then faced Kouji Kabuto and explained that they came from another world. Xiao Ran accepted responsibility for Touya’s death but refused to submit to an attack, while Katia also admitted the girls’ part in the accident and insisted they had to finish their mission first.

• Xiao Ran destroyed the Mechanical Beasts with Besi Lu, while Eagle evaded the missiles and defeated the Insectoid Robots.
• Xiao Ran returned to the school, where Kouji Kabuto questioned him and the girls about their machines and identities.
• Xiao Ran said Mazinger Z, the Mechanical Beasts, and the Jupiter Alliance did not exist in his world, and Tinia asked if he was from another Earth.
• Xiao Ran explained that Besi Lu had accidentally landed on Touya and killed him, apologized, and warned Kouji that he would resist if attacked.
• Katia said the girls had contributed to the accident by taking control of Besi Lu, and promised they would apologize and accept punishment after completing their mission.

Xiao Ran and the three girls escaped the arriving United Nations Army by accepting Kouji Kabuto and Sayaka’s invitation to the Photon Research Institute. There, Xiao Ran met Doctor Yumi and removed his mask, revealing his unusual glowing eyes.

• Kouji Kabuto warned Xiao Ran and the girls that United Nations Army forces were approaching, and Katia explained that Besi Lu and the girls could not fall into their hands.
• Doctor Yumi invited Xiao Ran and the girls to the Photon Research Institute, and Kouji and Sayaka offered to protect them and provide information about Earth.
• Xiao Ran accepted the invitation and brought Katia, Tinia, and Melua to the institute with Kouji and Sayaka.
• Xiao Ran and the girls met Doctor Yumi in the underground hangar, where Eagle transformed into fighter form and went dormant.
• Doctor Yumi asked about Xiao Ran’s mask, and Xiao Ran removed it to reveal his glowing eyes.

Xiao Ran revealed his face and explained his unusual eyes, the Innovators, and what he knew about the Besi Lu. Doctor Yumi then briefed him on the world’s forces, leaving both sides with a great deal of intelligence to exchange.

• Xiao Ran removed his mask, and Tinia, Melua, Katia, and Sayaka were struck by his appearance before noticing his glowing eyes.
• Xiao Ran explained to Doctor Yumi that he was an Innovator and described Gene Adjustment Technology, prompting Doctor Yumi to ask about Coordinators.
• Xiao Ran explained the Besi Lu’s origins and limitations, then guessed that Katia, Tinia, and Melua had brought it from the Moon.
• Doctor Yumi led Xiao Ran and the others to a conference room and spent over an hour explaining the world’s situation and its major forces.
• Xiao Ran acted as though the information was new to him, asked Doctor Yumi many questions, and said he now roughly understood the situation.

Xiao Ran explained his world's factions and history, then revealed that he was its Great President and a prince of the Frie. He left Doctor Yumi and the others stunned and distrustful, while insisting he posed no threat to their world.

• Xiao Ran described the factions, alien threats, and unified leadership of his world, which shared some features with Doctor Yumi's world.
• Doctor Yumi asked about Xiao Ran's identity and the Frie Kingdom, and Xiao Ran claimed to be the Great President who controlled his world's military forces.
• Xiao Ran explained the Frie's origins and revealed that he was a Frie prince married to a different Shanamia, asking the group to keep it secret.
• Kouji Kabuto agreed to keep the matter confidential, and Sayaka scolded him for focusing on the wrong thing.
• Xiao Ran said he could sense the group's distrust as an Innovator and insisted he had no intention of connecting or invading the worlds.
• Doctor Yumi questioned Xiao Ran's apparent youth, and Xiao Ran explained that Innovators lived more than ten times as long as ordinary people.

Xiao Ran questioned Katia, Tinia, and Melua about Besi Lu and used their account to identify Frie’s factions and key figures. He concluded that Glandon Goz was behind events in this world and considered investigating Frie, but Doctor Yumi warned him against going alone before two people entered the conference room.

• Xiao Ran asked Katia, Tinia, and Melua about their capture, escape from the Moon, and the man who gave them Besi Lu.
• Xiao Ran displayed photographs, and Katia identified Aiseldah Shiun as their rescuer and Ovan Lanks as one of the people who intercepted them.
• Xiao Ran explained the roles of Aiseldah, Ovan, Fuluo Menluo, Carolan Wei, Dania Gade, and Shanamia, and described Glandon Goz as the annihilation faction’s schemer.
• Xiao Ran concluded that Glandon was behind the events and said he might need to investigate Frie himself.
• Doctor Yumi warned Xiao Ran that going to Frie alone was too dangerous, and a man and a woman entered the conference room.