Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran joined Master Asia and Naza against the Dimensional General, whose spatial distortions and energy shield had made it difficult to hit. He coordinated a combined assault and struck the enemy in the chest with an enormous energy spear, breaking the balance of the battle.

• Xiao Ran sent GN Dragoons and Dragon Scale Machines into the battlefield to spread GN Particles and assess the fight between Master Asia, Naza, and the Dimensional General.
• Xiao Ran identified the enemy's spatial abilities and energy shield, then ordered Mwu to bring reinforcements, including the ATX Squad and SRX Squad.
• Xiao Ran entered the battle and learned that Master Asia could lock onto the Dimensional General but struggled to land attacks, while Naza's attacks were largely ineffective.
• Xiao Ran used the Dragon Scale Machines and GN Dragoons to restrict the enemy's movement as Naza and Master Asia attacked from the front and rear.
• Xiao Ran amplified his psychokinesis, locked onto the Dimensional General, and drove a massive energy spear into its chest.

Xiao Ran, Master Asia, and Naza defeat the Dimensional General and destroy the dimensional passage, then Xiao Ran briefs the Burning Legion’s core members on the threat of Dimensional Quakes and new enemy forces. Durandal sends Xiao Ran a message during the meeting, and Xiao Ran’s reaction leaves the briefing at a tense interruption.

• Xiao Ran and Master Asia coordinate a series of attacks that devastate the Dimensional General, and Xiao Ran withholds a final shot after recognizing that his spear has already pierced its cockpit.
• Naza escorts Reaction Missiles into the dimensional passage while Xiao Ran and Master Asia secure the wreckage; the passage is destroyed, and the three withdraw from the transformed battlefield.
• Xiao Ran returns to the fortress, places the Dragon God Mecha in the Research Department’s hangar, and convenes a meeting of the Burning Legion’s core members.
• Xiao Ran explains that the Dimensional Beasts have located Earth, can trigger Dimensional Quakes, and include evolved types and S-class Dimensional Generals; he orders squads to avoid engaging without sufficient reinforcements.
• Durandal sends Xiao Ran a message during the briefing, and Xiao Ran reads it and frowns after meeting Durandal’s gaze.

Xiao Ran reorganized the forces defending Earth after the battle, then learned that Dimensional Beasts had been transformed from humans by a special type of cell. The team began investigating ways to identify and suppress the cells while preparing for a potentially enormous invasion.

• Xiao Ran and Mwu reviewed the fleet and combat forces, then assigned four fleets to Earth’s strongholds and regions while the Fifth Fleet remained at Homeland Fortress.
• Xiao Ran and the others visited the Gene Research Department, where researchers reported that captured Dimensional Beasts contained human genes and cells undergoing transformation.
• Yuzes concluded the beasts had come from real humans and called for a way to detect and suppress the cells, as well as inspections of previously visited areas.
• Luo told Xiao Ran that the damaged unit had been sealed and could not yet be inspected, while Yuzes urged caution about the cells’ possible spread.
• Xiao Ran warned that the invasion could involve hundreds of millions or more Dimensional Beasts and ordered Luo to prepare Tactical Armor and Song Weapons if the Valkyries’ songs proved effective.
• Luo agreed to begin preparations, and Giliam offered to bring in others to help.

Xiao Ran tested whether the Valkyries’ songs could affect Dimensional Beasts and learned that their music restored one captive’s human awareness. The chapter ended with Xiao Ran revealing that he had communicated telepathically with the beast and discovered it had been a little girl who only wanted her parents.

• Mwu explained to Sheryl and the Valkyries that Dimensional Beasts had been transformed from humans by special cells, and asked them to test whether singing could help.
• Durandal and Ingram prepared a restrained Dimensional Beast for the experiment, and Xiao Ran had Kaname, Makina, Reina, Freya, Mei Yun, and Sheryl sing in turn.
• The Dimensional Beast calmed as the singers performed, and its expression shifted from rage to sorrow and pain.
• Sheryl sensed that the beast had regained its human feelings, while Xiao Ran questioned whether restoring its awareness only made its suffering worse.
• Xiao Ran and Durandal considered extracting the beast’s soul and placing it in a new body, and Xiao Ran revealed that telepathy showed the beast had been a three-year-old girl who wanted her parents.

Xiao Ran learned that singing could suppress the Dimensional Beast transformation and weaken the creatures, while Sheryl's voice awakened the human soul of a little girl trapped inside one. As the Burning Legion's researchers sought ways to detect and reverse the transformation, Earth turned to the Legion for protection and began reorganizing under its growing influence.

• Xiao Ran chose to let Ingram sedate the awakened Dimensional Beast, which had once been a three-year-old girl, and told Durandal not to use her as a research sample.
• Ingram reported that singing suppressed the special cells and reduced the Dimensional Beast's combat abilities, with Sheryl's singing producing the strongest effect.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Gene Research Department to investigate how to detect, suppress, eliminate, or reverse the cells, while Mei Yun vowed not to forgive whoever had transformed the child.
• Xiao Ran contacted Kane and learned that Earth's nations had suffered heavy losses and were turning to Renard and the Burning Legion for protection after more than thirty dimensional passages opened.
• The nations reorganized the Anti-Dimensional Beast Allied Forces under the name Burning, promoted the Legion's technology, and revealed its control of a small European country.
• France announced that it would merge into the Burning-controlled country, and demonstrations in Paris ended after the Second Fleet's forces arrived.

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.