Chapter Summaries

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.

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.