Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran reviewed the completed Berserk Beast Squad upgrades and planned new Super Core units before sending the five Super Cores through a passage to the Fantasy Zone. He remained behind in Prometheus, entrusting Flying Eagle, Giant Whale, Mad Wolf, Overlord Lion, and Charge with a mission to return safely.

• Xiao Ran inspected the modified Super Cores and approved their finalized designs, including Flying Eagle’s brick-shaped core and the Berserk Beast Squad’s upgraded forms.
• Xiao Ran ordered Luo to create ten additional Super Core squads, set rules for their use, and arrange training and support for them.
• After three years of Retention Time, the Burning Legion returned to Prometheus’s normal time flow with its participants substantially stronger.
• Xiao Ran used his right to open a passage to the Fantasy Zone, clarifying that someone else could enter it in his place.
• Xiao Ran sent Flying Eagle, Giant Whale, Mad Wolf, Overlord Lion, and Charge through the passage and told them to return safely.

Xiao Ran confronted Prometheus over its lost portion, and Prometheus offered him three requests in exchange for recovering it. Afterward, Xiao Ran and the Burning Legion debated Prometheus’s motives, while he glimpsed a possible truth about its purpose that vanished before he could grasp it.

• After Prometheus fell silent, Xiao Ran told the others that Eagle’s mission to the Fantasy Zone was only a possibility and that the legion would continue its original arrangements.
• Prometheus asked why Xiao Ran had not gone to the Fantasy Zone himself, then offered him three requests in exchange for recovering its lost portion, including permission for the Burning Legion to leave Prometheus with its territories.
• Xiao Ran accepted the offer for consideration and returned with his companions to the Fleet Territory to discuss it.
• Cruze, Yuzes, Shirakawa Shuu, and Char concluded that Prometheus feared the lost portion might threaten its authority, especially if the Burning Legion obtained it.
• Basak suggested Prometheus might agree to let the Burning Legion leave, prompting Xiao Ran to briefly sense a hidden truth connected to Prometheus, creation, technology, the zones, and protection.
• When Yuzes wondered whether Prometheus had deleted Xiao Ran’s fleeting thought, Xiao Ran and the others grew grave.

Xiao Ran uncovered the possibility that Prometheus could plant thoughts in participants’ minds and ordered an investigation while maintaining the Burning Legion’s preparations. He rejected Bolsia and the Enlightenment Legion’s demands for discounted, high-grade goods, and awaited their response, which invoked the Five-Person Council’s responsibilities without offering a strategic alliance.

• After Basak raised the issue, Xiao Ran and the others considered whether Prometheus could implant thoughts that might alter their memories or turn them against Xiao Ran.
• Xiao Ran assigned Yuzes to lead a research team investigating memory, souls, and psychology, with Hades and Kane assisting, and told everyone to keep a low profile.
• Cruze showed Xiao Ran procurement lists from Bolsia and the Enlightenment Legion, and Xiao Ran refused their requested discounts and above-grade products unless they joined a strategic alliance led by the Burning Legion.
• After Cruze delivered Xiao Ran’s refusal, Xiao Ran considered confronting the two legions and suspected that their similar demands reflected a closer relationship than they admitted.
• Two days later, Cruze and Eshe told Xiao Ran that Bolsia had asked the Burning Legion to grant privileges for the sake of council cooperation, while refusing to sign an alliance or accept the Burning Legion as its leader.

Xiao Ran ordered Cruze to test whether Enlightenment and Bolsia were behind Grey Rock by having Emerald Dream declare Legion War on Grey Rock. At the Legion Council, Cruze backed Emerald Dream and proposed a virtual battle with the losing legion’s members forced to join the winner.

• Xiao Ran told Cruze to reject Enlightenment and Bolsia’s pressure and arrange for Emerald Dream, assisted by other legions, to destroy Grey Rock as a warning to the two legions.
• Eshe notified the legions about the coming war while Cruze prepared the Burning Legion and gathered intelligence on Enlightenment and Bolsia.
• Grey Rock received Emerald Dream’s Legion War challenge and hurried to the Legion Council to demand an explanation.
• At the Legion Council, Tery said Emerald Dream wanted to eliminate Grey Rock as a threat, while Todd urged the legions to settle their conflict through mediation or virtual combat.
• Cruze arrived, supported Todd’s proposal for virtual combat, and suggested that every member of the losing legion be forced to join the winner.

Cruze and Yuzes pressured Grey Rock into surrendering to the Emerald Dream Legion, while the Shadow Blade and Overlord Legions announced further challenges. Xiao Ran arrived and proposed a decisive contest between the Burning Legion and the Enlightenment Legion, with the winner taking everything.

• Yuzes insulted Grey Rock and Cruze pushed him toward a virtual battle, while Todd tried to mediate between the legions.
• Cruze confronted Todd about the alleged marriage alliance proposal, and Grey Rock surrendered to the Emerald Dream Legion rather than face a Legion War.
• Bicchy announced that the Shadow Blade Legion would challenge Grey Rock, and Fardes declared a challenge on behalf of the Overlord Legion.
• Cruze told Todd that the Burning Legion was retaliating for Grey Rock's disrespect toward Xiao Ran, and Todd proposed settling matters through a contest between the legions.
• Xiao Ran arrived and challenged Todd to commit their legions' full strength to a decisive match, with the winner taking everything.

Xiao Ran turned Todd’s attempt to block the war against Grey Rock into a declaration of war on Enlightenment, Bolsia, and their affiliated legions. Todd, Zoe, and Grey Rock accepted, and the gathered legions chose sides as a much larger conflict loomed.

• Xiao Ran rejected Todd’s appeal for stability and formally declared war on Enlightenment, Bolsia, and their affiliated legions.
• Qinglong appeared and stood with Xiao Ran, followed by several supporters, while Zoe arrived and sided with Todd.
• Xiao Ran assigned the Grey Rock Legion to Qinglong’s side and said the Burning Legion would handle Enlightenment and Bolsia.
• Zoe accepted Xiao Ran’s declaration of war, Todd followed, and Grey Rock also accepted.
• Cruze watched as Qinglong, Shute, and Naza named their legions’ support, leaving fewer than ten legions with Xiao Ran against nearly twenty on the opposing side.

As the Legion War drew near, Xiao Ran prepared the Burning Legion’s alliance and revealed the scale of its forces to reassure its allies. He planned to take the field himself, while Enlightenment and Bolsia’s attempts to recruit other legions failed.

• Betting pools favored Enlightenment and Bolsia over the Burning Legion’s smaller alliance, but Xiao Ran ignored the wagers and focused on preparations.
• Xiao Ran hosted an alliance banquet and promised the allied legions the Burning Legion’s full support in the war.
• Xiao Ran disclosed that the Burning Legion could deploy hundreds of S-class Pilots, thousands of pseudo S-class Pilots, hundreds of thousands of warships, and support from Super Zone legions.
• Xiao Ran required the allied legions to follow the Burning Legion’s command and offered them access to its catalog, loans, and most of the war’s spoils in exchange for technology and special items.
• Xiao Ran decided to join the Legion War personally, while Cruze told him that Enlightenment and Bolsia had failed to win over the unnamed Legion Leader and that Eshe had rejected Ries’s request to join the Burning Legion.

Xiao Ran led the Burning Legion into the MUV-LUV world for a large-scale Legion War, where the mission forced them to defend Earth despite offering no victory rewards. He prepared to use Ladam Dimensional Beasts to counter the opposing alliance’s potential numbers and deployed the fleet across the Solar System.

• Xiao Ran and Cruze discussed bringing promising legions under the Burning Legion’s influence while leaving Ries and her group for later.
• More than thirty legions entered the MUV-LUV world with a massive fleet, and Xiao Ran learned that his faction was locked to Earth and required to protect it.
• Xiao Ran briefed the commanders on the BETA threat and considered whether the Enlightenment and Bolsia alliance might control the BETA or be tasked with destroying their hives.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Gene Department to remove the restrictions on Ladam Dimensional Beast seeds and spread them through the galaxy to grow by consuming BETA.
• Xiao Ran asked Hades to establish a temporary hell on Earth, then assigned ten fleets to guard different parts of the Solar System and sent Ghost Ships on patrol.

Xiao Ran sent Ghost Battleships to scout Earth while considering whether Prometheus had given the Hostile Alliance an advantage. The reconnaissance revealed the enemy fleet hiding in the Solar System, and Xiao Ran proposed covert operations to counter it without attacking Earth.

• Xiao Ran dispatched fewer than fifty Ghost Battleships to scout ahead while the main fleet stayed back.
• Xiao Ran, Cruze, Yuzes, and Giliam discussed whether the Hostile Alliance might have gained control of the BETA and concluded that Prometheus was likely balancing the conflict.
• The Ghost Fleet reported that Earth was fighting the BETA and that more than ten thousand Hostile Alliance warships were hiding at the edge of the Solar System.
• Cruze and Char reasoned that the enemy fleet was protecting Earth and had exposed its presence, allowing the Burning Legion to leave Solar System defense to them.
• Xiao Ran suggested using the Demon Envoy to infiltrate the enemy and Hades to sabotage their forces and assassinate combat personnel without launching a large-scale attack.

Xiao Ran exploited the Hostile Alliance’s exposed presence in the Solar System by sending a covert force to infiltrate Earth while positioning a fleet to monitor the enemy. After securing a separate star system against the BETA, he ordered the Technology Department to prepare to destroy the entire system on command.

• Xiao Ran recognized that the Hostile Alliance’s fleet in the Solar System revealed its restrictions, and ordered a team to infiltrate Earth while Cruze watched the enemy from the Kuiper Belt.
• Miyoshi Meiya joined the Earth mission, which included one hundred S-class Pilots, thirty thousand Iron Men, and support teams led by El-Elf and Kane.
• The Burning Legion sent forces to another star system to clear out the BETA and establish defenses, while the Hostile Alliance searched unsuccessfully for the Legion around Earth.
• After the Earth team went into hiding and Cruze’s fleet reached the Solar System, Xiao Ran’s main fleet moved to the secured star system.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Technology Department to deploy Dimension Devourers throughout the star system so it could be erased at his command.

Xiao Ran planned ways to psychologically torment the Hostile Alliance and tasked Cruze with carrying out a covert operation against its fleet near Earth. Cruze used a Time Stop Device and an overwhelming deployment to surround the fleet, then began preparing to seize its crew and alter its records.

• Xiao Ran reviewed the Burning Legion’s traps and deployments, then proposed using demonic whispers to unsettle the Hostile Alliance.
• During a remote meeting, Cruze proposed covertly transforming humans with Radam and using Space Blockade equipment to make the enemy feel haunted; Xiao Ran approved and gave him command authority over Earth’s forces.
• One hundred S-class Pilots, Space Blockade equipment, and over 1.2 million warships joined Cruze’s operation against the Hostile Alliance fleet.
• Cruze’s forces stopped time across the enemy fleet, searched and controlled targets unaffected by the device, and secretly infiltrated and repaired the warships.
• After the Time Stop Device was released, alarms sounded and the Hostile Alliance fleet found itself surrounded by more than a million warships.
• Cruze ordered Hades to put the enemy personnel to sleep, then directed cleanup teams to detain anyone still awake and told the Super AI team to roll back the fleet’s data.

The Burning Legion used Time Stop Devices and Specters to stage increasingly widespread hauntings across the Hostile Alliance fleet, causing confusion, fear, and collapsing morale. Todd and Zoe reviewed the reports and wondered whether the Burning Legion was responsible, as the fleet faced a threat beyond its understanding.

• The Hostile Alliance fleet woke after hours of unexplained sleep and found no enemy, no alarm records, and no explanation for the missing warships.
• Yuzes pointed out an oversight in the erased records, while Cruze said the fleet would disappear eventually and planned to continue the hauntings with Hades's Specters.
• Cruze treated the fleet as bait, expecting it either to retreat and reveal the Hostile Alliance's main force or to draw reinforcements into a trap prepared by more than a million warships.
• The Hostile Alliance discovered that more than a hundred warships were missing, while ships equipped with Anti-time-stop Devices concealed that they had activated and then shut them down.
• Poisonings, shared nightmares, mass sleep, hallucinations, puppet-like behavior, and music heard by individuals spread through the fleet, destroying morale and trust.
• Todd and Zoe examined the reports, debated whether the hauntings were supernatural or the Burning Legion's work, and Todd demonstrated a fireball as he considered the possibility.

Todd and Zoe suspected the Burning Legion was behind the hauntings and decided to send their fleet toward Earth while scouting for the Legion. Xiao Ran changed course and ordered the fleet seized and emptied, leaving it as bait; days later, Todd and Zoe’s scouts approached the silent ships.

• Todd and Zoe discussed whether the Burning Legion was responsible for the hauntings, and Zoe proposed sending the fleet toward Earth while dispatching scouts to find the Legion.
• Todd ordered the fleet to head for Earth, but Xiao Ran decided to seize it instead and told Cruze to use the time-stop device to capture its personnel.
• Cruze’s forces cleared the hundred thousand ships, imprisoned everyone aboard, and concealed the empty fleet in the Solar System.
• Several days later, a reconnaissance fleet sent by Todd and Zoe entered the Solar System to investigate the missing ships and approached the ghost fleet.

Cruze’s fleet captured a Hostile Alliance reconnaissance force after overwhelming it with warships and S-class Pilots, while the Alliance struggled to understand why the crews of its earlier fleet had vanished. The chapter ended with the Hostile Alliance learning that its thousand-ship reconnaissance fleet had also disappeared.

• Cruze ordered a fleet to confront a Hostile Alliance reconnaissance force hiding in the Meteor Belt, while planning to clear the Solar System of BETA and their nests.
• The Burning Legion deployed more than ten thousand warships and over a hundred S-class Pilots against the Hostile Alliance’s thousand ships, forcing the enemy to surrender or die.
• The Burning Legion captured ten S-class Pilots and planned to examine the fleet’s records for clues to the Hostile Alliance’s main force.
• Todd received a report that the crews of the Hostile Alliance’s hundred thousand warships had vanished without battle, leaving the ships and supplies intact.
• The Hostile Alliance discovered that its thousand-ship reconnaissance fleet had disappeared as well, leaving its investigators facing the empty hundred thousand warships.

Todd and Cang assessed the Hostile Alliance’s unexplained losses and debated sending forces to the Solar System, while Cang pushed for a closer investigation. In the Solar System, Yuzes asked to experiment on prisoners, but Xiao Ran stopped him from turning them into Dimensional Beasts.

• Todd learned that a hundred thousand warships and a thousand-ship reconnaissance fleet had vanished along with their crews, including many S-class Pilots, and feared the losses had put the Hostile Alliance at a disadvantage.
• Cang suspected the Burning Legion was exploiting the alliance’s losses and considered leaving with his forces to surrender or confront Xiao Ran before further schemes weakened them.
• Cang proposed leading his own forces to the Solar System, prompting Todd and Zoe to plan an investigation with the main force arriving in staggered echelons.
• Yuzes told Xiao Ran and Cruze that he wanted to return and experiment on prisoners, while Cruze objected to human experimentation because the alliance might later incorporate them.
• Xiao Ran told Yuzes not to transform the prisoners into Dimensional Beasts, warning that the method would provoke public outrage.

Yuzes and Durandal developed an infectious, controllable serum to create powerful Artificial Gods, and Yuzes departed with a fleet to begin an adventure. Meanwhile, Cang’s fleet approached the Solar System and repeatedly called for the Burning Legion, but Cruze ordered radio silence and reported the encounter to Xiao Ran.

• Yuzes convinced Durandal to help create Artificial Gods using multiple species’ genes and a controllable, contagious version of Berserk Syndrome.
• Xiao Ran stopped trying to monitor the laboratory closely, while Yuzes and Durandal used much of the Gene Research Department to develop the serum and a resistance serum.
• Yuzes left for deep space with the Valkyrie Squad, a mixed fleet, and several bored S-class Pilots, while Xiao Ran tacitly approved.
• Cang led a widely dispersed fleet of about thirty thousand warships toward the Solar System and repeatedly broadcast requests to contact the Burning Legion.
• Cruze ordered the Ghost Fleet to investigate for supporting forces and test Cang’s response with distress signals from Life Pods, which Cang ignored.
• Cruze ordered every ship to maintain radio silence and reported Cang’s fleet to Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran refused to contact Cang’s fleet, suspecting it was bait and keeping the Burning Legion’s plans on its own terms. Cang, convinced Bolsia would lose and unwilling to sacrifice his relatives, severed ties with the main force and surrendered his fleet, asking to meet Xiao Ran and preserve his forces.

• Xiao Ran ordered Cruze to ignore Cang’s repeated contact requests while the Burning Legion expanded its search for enemy forces.
• The Burning Legion kept Cang’s fleet under observation and considered whether his fleet or the following main force was intended as bait.
• Cang reflected on Bolsia’s infighting and concluded that its internal factions would not cooperate effectively against the Burning Legion.
• Cang decided to surrender rather than let Bolsia’s leaders drag his relatives into a losing war.
• Cang ordered his fleet to cut contact with the main force, disable its weapons and systems, and broadcast its surrender to the Burning Legion.

Cang surrendered his fleet to the Burning Legion, while his final message about a god confused the Hostile Alliance. A month later, the Legion unleashed billions of Ladam Dimensional Beasts against the Hostile Alliance’s main force, which lost more than half its strength before the beasts were wiped out.

• Xiao Ran ordered Hades to meet Cang, direct Cang’s fleet to Earth, and bring Cang in after checking him.
• Hades collected Cang in his Life Pod, and Cang secretly sent Bolsia a misleading message claiming a god had appeared.
• Cruze welcomed Cang into the Burning Legion and agreed that Cang’s fleet could keep its organization.
• The Hostile Alliance grew confused by Cang’s disappearance and message, then debated advancing on the Solar System or drawing out the Burning Legion.
• Yuzes returned to the Solar System and launched his Infectious Source, while Ladam Dimensional Beasts multiplied by consuming BETA and planetary matter.
• The Burning Legion’s broadcast concert preceded an assault by tens of billions of Ladam Dimensional Beasts, which fought the Hostile Alliance for a week and cost it more than half its strength.

Xiao Ran revealed that the Burning Legion had infected the opposing fleets with a controllable virus and gave Cang three days to demand their surrender. Cang warned the alliance that the virus had spread and exposed the Burning Legion’s overwhelming strength, leaving the alliance to face the choice of surrender or death.

• Xiao Ran told Cang that infected escape-pod survivors could spread a controllable virus through the enemy fleets and gave him three days to relay the surrender ultimatum.
• Xiao Ran ordered Mwu to recover the Burning Legion’s deployed assets and gather the fleet in the Solar System with Cruze and the others.
• Cruze and Yuzes triggered the virus with Mei Yun’s Song of the Wind, causing enemy ships and infected units to attack one another, then reported the spread to Burning Legion II.
• Cang opened a public video call with the alliance and explained that the Burning Legion had caused the Solar System incidents and infected the recovered survivors.
• Cang told the alliance the virus would make them berserk and eventually destroy them, revealed the Burning Legion’s superior forces, and blamed Todd and Zoe for starting the war.

Cang urged the Hostile Alliance to surrender to the Burning Legion, and fear of the Berserk Virus and mistrust among the fleets drove many to defect. After Xiao Ran gave them three days to choose, the deadline passed and the Burning Legion began a cautious long-range assault on the remaining resistance.

• Cang defended his surrender and offered the Hostile Alliance a chance to preserve its fleets and organizations if they joined the Burning Legion.
• The confirmed Berserk Virus and Cang's warning intensified suspicion, causing the Hostile Alliance to fracture as fleets headed for Earth to surrender.
• Xiao Ran ordered Cang to give the alliance three days before the Burning Legion wiped out the holdouts and triggered the virus.
• Cang required arriving fleets to disarm near the moon, and the Bolsia Legion continued to collapse as more forces surrendered.
• After the three-day deadline, the Burning Legion appeared with its S-class and pseudo S-class forces, jumped away from the enemy, and began beyond-visual-range strikes.