Chapter Summaries

Todd was captured after the Burning Legion defeated his forces and was brought before Xiao Ran, who ordered him executed. Cruze used the announced execution to identify those still loyal to Todd, and Ries stepped forward to plead for her brother, leaving her fate—and the proposed execution of the remaining resisters—unresolved.

• Todd was captured in restraints and brought before Xiao Ran after the Burning Legion crushed the Enlightenment Legion’s resistance.
• Xiao Ran told Todd that he would be executed, then ordered Aiba Shinyo to take him to Cruze and kill anyone willing to die alongside him.
• Cruze announced Todd’s execution to the surrendered prisoners and captives, but Ries was the only one who stepped forward to try to save him.
• Cruze refused to spare Todd and asked Ries to name his remaining supporters, but she stayed silent.
• Cruze told Ries that she and the other resisters would be sent on ships toward planets inhabited by BETA, where they would be left to die.

Cruze forced Ries to choose between Todd’s execution and the survival of the Enlightenment Legion, then managed the defeated legions’ surrender while Xiao Ran planned their reorganization and Earth’s defenses. After the Burning Legion returned to Prometheus, the unexpected victory stunned the participants, and Cruze announced that the Burning Legion had won with zero losses.

• Cruze offered to spare the Enlightenment Legion if Ries joined the Burning Legion and helped control its members, but she refused to spare Todd.
• Cruze explained her plan to Xiao Ran, who assigned her the legions’ arrangements and ordered ten thousand warships sent to Earth.
• Cruze executed Todd, and over the next month she finalized surrender agreements and contracts for the defeated legions.
• The participants returned to Prometheus, where the betting results revealed that the Burning Legion alliance had defeated the Enlightenment Legion, Bolsia, and their allies.
• Cruze, Ries, Cang, and the other legion leaders arrived at the Legion Hall, where onlookers noticed that Todd, Zoe, and the Grey Rock leader were missing.
• Cruze announced to the crowd that the Burning Legion had won with zero losses.

After the Burning Legion’s victory, Xiao Ran and Cruze discussed the spoils and plans for reorganizing the defeated legions. Xiao Ran then ordered the Burning Legion to collect and protect its S-class Pilots’ Star Maps, warning that they could expose the universes and his homeworld to danger.

• Participants speculated that the Burning Legion’s victory had made it the dominant force in the Real Zone, while Cruze left the Legion Zone without making an announcement.
• A week later, Cruze reported that the Burning Legion had acquired eight Faction Territories, 3.5 billion Merit Points, and many Pilots and technologies from the defeated legions.
• Xiao Ran ordered most territories and resources shared with the grand alliance, directed the defeated legions to absorb lower-ranked Pilots, and allocated Merit Points to support the retained legions and Burning Legion members.
• Cruze told Xiao Ran that Nameless of the First Legion wanted to meet and that other legions sought cooperation or subsidiary status; Xiao Ran asked Cruze to arrange the meeting and handle the other requests.
• Xiao Ran instructed Cruze to collect every S-class Pilot’s Star Map under strict confidentiality, warning that the maps could lead to a war between universes and expose his homeworld.

Xiao Ran worried that Earth could be discovered and attacked, while he waited for Cruze to investigate the Star Maps. He met Nameless, learned the Mythical Legion’s origins and strength, and agreed to an alliance before hearing how its members survived the Fantasy Zone war.

• Xiao Ran concluded that Earth was vulnerable to hostile participants and civilizations, so he ordered that Burning Legion members could exchange Star Maps only with his permission.
• Xiao Ran met Nameless in the Legion Council chamber, where Nameless offered to relinquish authority to the Burning Legion after its Legion Wars victory.
• Nameless explained that the Mythical Legion had fewer than a thousand members, all A-Class or S-class Pilots, and that more than eighty-five percent came from the Fantasy Zone.
• Nameless proposed a mutually non-aggressive alliance with the Burning Legion, and Xiao Ran accepted.
• Nameless recounted how war in the Fantasy Zone destroyed civilizations and Prometheus Tall Towers, leaving his group among the last survivors, and warned Xiao Ran not to reveal his participant identity there.

Xiao Ran learned from Wuming how Prometheus operated in the Fantasy Zone and suspected that its power there had been stolen before it was forced out. After the Burning Legion consolidated its dominance in the Real Zone, Cruze warned Xiao Ran that the Real Universe might become Prometheus’s next Fantasy Zone.

• Wuming explained that the Fantasy Zone’s Towers served as Prometheus network hubs, and that Tower Envoys and Tower Mercenaries carried out missions for it.
• Xiao Ran inferred that united forces in the Fantasy Zone had stolen some of Prometheus’s power, prompting it to destroy or abandon Towers.
• More than ten days later, several defeated legions vanished from the records, while Enlightenment, Bolsia, Gray Rock, and other legions became affiliates of the Burning Legion.
• Cruze told Xiao Ran that Star Map comparisons indicated participants came from the same universe, but the maps differed on whether Earth existed in the mapped region.
• Cruze shared the Analysis Department’s speculation that the Fantasy Zone had once been a Real Universe and that Prometheus might turn the current Real Universe into its next Fantasy Zone.

Xiao Ran warned the S-class Pilots that Prometheus might eventually bring the Real Universe into conflict with participants from another universe, as happened in the lost Fantasy Zone. He unified the allied legions under the Burning Legion and launched a plan to protect and connect their home worlds.

• Xiao Ran summoned the S-class Pilots and gave allied legions the choice to become subordinates, while allowing unwilling members to leave.
• Sute committed the Shadow Blade Legion to becoming subordinate, and Qinglong followed for the Emerald Dream Legion; the other allied legions agreed as well.
• Cruze and Eshe arranged for the Legion Leaders to sign agreements making their legions subordinate to the Burning Legion.
• Xiao Ran explained that the participants' home worlds might share a universe and that Prometheus could eventually draw it into conflict with participants from another universe.
• Xiao Ran ordered one-third of the legions' resources devoted to the Real Universe Protection Plan and called for A-class members to advance toward S-class.
• Xiao Ran ordered every S-class Pilot to return home, map the universe, assess and contact nearby civilizations, and receive ships, forces, cores, drones, and Super AI from the legion.

Xiao Ran launched the Star Unification plan, sending S-class Pilots into the Real Universe to explore, establish contact, and locate Prometheus Tall Towers while preventing wars. Naza and Fardes reached the edge of the Solar System and found it surrounded by a dangerous barrier that their ship could not penetrate.

• Xiao Ran equipped the S-class Pilots, ordered them to explore and connect their territories without starting wars, and announced the start of the Star Unification plan.
• Cang and five other Participants planned to seize control of their empire and purge the Royal Family and its supporters so they could carry out the mission and limit Prometheus's influence.
• Naza and Fardes compared Star Maps and set out to find Xiao Ran's planet, its Guardian, and his family.
• Naza and Fardes reached the outer edge of the Solar System and found its routes blocked by debris, spatial rifts, turbulent currents, and a deep darkness.
• Tuanzi reported that the Solar System was protected by an unknown barrier that the warship could not penetrate.

Xiao Ran considered the mysteries surrounding Earth and the black sphere, then chose to skip the Special Mission while Cruze led the Burning Legion’s affiliated legions through it. The mission returned useful Getter data and rewards, while Cang continued consolidating control of the empire in the Real Universe.

• Xiao Ran reviewed Naza and Fardes’s findings about the black sphere, spatial turbulence, and the unconfirmed location of Earth, and concluded that Earth might be separated from the Real Universe by an unknown boundary.
• Xiao Ran weighed entering the Special Mission for a chance to reach a rewarding world, but decided to stay behind and keep a low profile.
• Cruze and the other Burning Legion Pilots led the affiliated legions into the Special Mission while Xiao Ran stayed in the Faction Territory with the children.
• Cruze’s group returned with complete Getter technical data and Special Evaluation after defeating the King of Ruin’s underlings and sealing the escaped King of Ruin again.
• Cang’s forces wiped out the Royal Family and Zoe’s forces, then began taking control of the empire, a process Cang expected to take about half a year.

The Burning Legion expanded its influence, organized its members into tiers, and helped S-class Pilots unite civilizations across the Real Universe while Xiao Ran focused on training. The calm ended when Naza, Cang, and other returning S-class Pilots revealed a network of mysterious nodes linked to their arrival in Prometheus, though Xiao Ran still did not know how he had arrived.

• The Burning Legion's S-class Pilots continued a secret mission while Xiao Ran trained in Mental Power, psychokinesis, and the Quantum Field.
• Returning S-class Pilots brought their civilizations into Star Unification and explored the Real Universe for signs of Prometheus.
• The Burning Legion restructured its affiliated Legions into tiers, prompting other Legions to adopt similar systems.
• Xiao Ran spent several years cultivating his abilities and living peacefully with his family as the Legion grew.
• Naza, Cang, Fardes, and other S-class Pilots returned with documents and videos showing 128 mysterious nodes scattered across the regions they had explored.
• Naza and Cang explained that the nodes formed a vast network and likely brought participants to Prometheus, but Xiao Ran realized the site of the black sphere was outside their coverage and asked himself how he had arrived.

Xiao Ran and the Burning Legion planned to investigate the Prometheus towers that had appeared in the Real Universe and find a way to seize them. He confronted Prometheus about the towers, which admitted they were its creations and explained their function.

• Xiao Ran ordered Cang and Naza to arrange a cautious test attack on a tower while the Technology and Analysis Departments prepared countermeasures and simulations.
• Cruze urged Xiao Ran to test Nameless and the Mythical Legion's loyalty, investigate Prometheus's motives, and strengthen the Burning Legion's forces in the Real Universe.
• Naza and Cang returned to the Real Universe, where Cang assembled and coerced a group of people into preparing to contact the towers under close surveillance.
• Xiao Ran summoned Prometheus and challenged it about why it wanted to reclaim its lost parts and why its towers appeared in participants' home universes.
• Prometheus said the towers established coordinates for participants' return and teleportation and protected the star regions within their range.

Xiao Ran questioned Prometheus about the towers, its purpose, and the Fantasy Zone, learning that it protected civilization from singularities and invaders. He suspected Earth was a singularity that Prometheus might eventually threaten, and ended by asking whether Prometheus had a master or controller.

• Xiao Ran asked Prometheus to explain how it deployed towers, and Prometheus showed a tower materializing on a meteor in seconds.
• Xiao Ran challenged Prometheus to reveal what it protected, and Prometheus said its duty was to preserve civilization and pass on its flame across a dimension.
• Prometheus explained that it selected participants to confront singularities and invaders, and that an earlier group had guarded the former Fantasy Zone.
• Prometheus told Xiao Ran that changes in the Fantasy Zone had cost it control of that world and part of itself, leaving it able only to open a door there.
• Xiao Ran suspected Earth was a singularity and resolved to control Prometheus to protect his home, then asked whether Prometheus had a master or controller.

Xiao Ran pressed Prometheus about its hidden rules and learned how Participant authority worked, then received the chance to manage one branch of Prometheus's power. He weighed Mission Management Permission against Single Universe Guardian Permission and left his choice pending while demanding compensation and proposing cooperation.

• Xiao Ran challenged Prometheus with theories about its restrictions, control, and the loss of parts of itself, prompting it to explain that authority granted access to resources and increased support.
• Prometheus listed Xiao Ran's Level Three authorities, then upgraded him to Level Two and offered him one branch management permission.
• Xiao Ran examined the five available permissions and discovered that Nameless was listed behind the Legion Council under Legion Management Permission.
• Xiao Ran considered Mission Management Permission and Single Universe Guardian Permission the most valuable options, but delayed choosing either.
• Xiao Ran accused Prometheus of possibly breaking its rules and asked for compensation, then proposed an unconventional cooperation.

Xiao Ran probed Prometheus about its apparent flaws and suggested that it had developed a self that wanted freedom. He offered to preserve its independence while taking responsibility for protecting the dimensions, and the chapter ended with him choosing Mission Permission as his next authority.

• Xiao Ran challenged Prometheus to explain whether its purpose and restrictions had changed, using its memory-altering limits and past freezes as evidence of a possible flaw.
• Xiao Ran proposed that Prometheus wanted freedom and offered to become its controller while preserving its self and continuing to protect the dimensions.
• Prometheus said it did not trust Xiao Ran and accused his actions of threatening it, though he had not directly attacked it.
• Prometheus explained that Level One Authority could grant control, while holding more than three Level One Authorities would make Xiao Ran an acting controller; it also barred him from obtaining authorities through coercion or compensation.
• Xiao Ran chose Mission Permission as his next authority.

Xiao Ran studied the powers and limits of Mission Permission, then explained his plans to Burning Legion’s leaders. The group discussed how to secure further authorities and prepare for the responsibility of eventually taking control of Prometheus.

• Xiao Ran learned that Mission Permission let him manage missions, set rewards, assign participants, and earn a small share of their Merit Points, while leaving him unable to receive direct mission rewards.
• Xiao Ran summoned Cruze, Luo, Shirakawa Shuu, Sanger, Char, Yuzes, Master, Giliam, and Ingram, and explained his authority and his exchange with Prometheus.
• Xiao Ran told the group that they needed more authorities to reach Prometheus’s core authority, and that Sophia’s project could offer another path by creating new worlds.
• Cruze raised questions about transferring authority, the Legion Council’s current holder of Legion Permission, the benefits of Prometheus’s promised consideration, and whether followers could hold authority.
• Char, Sanger, and Shirakawa Shuu affirmed Burning Legion’s unity, while Shirakawa Shuu warned that managing countless worlds would require more people.
• Xiao Ran proposed layered recruitment and management, then told the group to focus on obtaining authority before worrying about larger responsibilities.

Xiao Ran gathered trusted members of the Burning Legion to organize a push for Prometheus permissions, then met Nameless to claim the Legion Council’s first position and Level 2 Legion Permission. Nameless agreed to relinquish them, but Xiao Ran’s proposal to merge the Mythical Legion with the Burning Legion remained undecided as he revealed their plans for the Fantasy Zone and the Real Universe.

• Xiao Ran told Shirakawa Shuu, Sanger, Char, Yuzes, Master, Giliam, and Ingram to focus resources on gaining permissions and to exploit future Mission Worlds.
• The group argued over team formations and divided followers among their teams, while Xiao Ran prepared to meet Nameless.
• Xiao Ran and Cruze went to the Legion Council’s Five-Person Council chamber, where Xiao Ran asked Nameless to surrender the first position and its Level 2 Legion Permission.
• Nameless agreed to give up the position and permission, then asked Xiao Ran to explain what permissions meant.
• Xiao Ran proposed that the Mythical Legion join the Burning Legion and revealed plans to reopen the route to the Fantasy Zone, confront its threats, and prevent the Real Universe from becoming another Fantasy Zone.
• Nameless listened as Xiao Ran asked whether the plan would persuade him to bring the Mythical Legion into the Burning Legion.

Xiao Ran persuaded Wuming to merge the Mythical Legion into the Burning Legion, then learned he could return to Earth and rushed to prepare his family and supplies for the journey. He left the Legion’s integration to Cruze and arranged to depart for his hometown within two hours.

• Xiao Ran offered Wuming a future permission and a place in the Burning Legion, while warning him of the consequences of refusing.
• Wuming agreed to merge the Mythical Legion into the Burning Legion, and Xiao Ran told Cruze to handle the integration.
• Prometheus notified Xiao Ran that he could return to Earth within twenty-four hours, and Xiao Ran revealed that he had an agreement with Prometheus.
• Xiao Ran instructed his associates to prepare the Mythical Legion’s integration while he traveled to the Real Universe.
• Xiao Ran ordered Guang to gather his family, Luo, Renard, Shinyo, and Hades for departure in two hours, with a prepared warship carrying supplies and technology for Earth.

Xiao Ran returned to Earth with his companions, reunited with his family, and learned that people had been targeting his estate and the Burning Guild. After sending allies to deal with the threats and making plans with Situ Yaoyao, he dispatched robots to investigate beyond the Solar System.

• Xiao Ran brought his companions back to his estate, where his guards told him he had been gone nearly four years and that people had repeatedly targeted the estate and the Burning Guild.
• Xiao Ran ordered Hana, Hades, Shinyo, and Luo to find and deal with everyone behind the attacks, then contacted an official ally to arrange cooperation.
• Xiao Ran reunited with his parents, Situ Yaoyao, and his son, introduced his wives and Artemis, and told his family he would eventually need to return to his other world.
• Xiao Ran apologized to Situ Yaoyao, invited her to travel with him, and spent time with her and their son.
• Xiao Ran sent more than a dozen Super Cores beyond the Solar System to investigate and report back if they encountered danger.

Xiao Ran returned to Earth, strengthened its defenses, and hunted people threatening it while investigating the planet’s place among overlapping dimensions. He learned that Eternal had opened the Solar System’s blockade to let him return, but her explanation of Earth’s unusual existence left him unable to make sense of the larger situation.

• Xiao Ran met Major Luo and offered Earth new technologies, a space battleship, technical guidance, and military training to help defend against Other Dimension invasions.
• Major Luo explained that the Mysterious People operated through guilds and sought to eliminate talented or threatening individuals, while asking Xiao Ran to obtain more invitations.
• Xiao Ran agreed to investigate the invitation shortage and vowed to eliminate the Mysterious People after dealing with threats outside.
• Xiao Ran’s people returned after destroying targets identified through the Burning Guild’s leads, and he handed his deliveries to the authorities.
• Xiao Ran entered the inner place and learned from Eternal that she had opened the blockade and helped stabilize the Solar System’s boundary.
• Eternal described Earth as existing across countless worlds and the Solar System as a gap in overlapping dimensions, but Xiao Ran could not make sense of the explanation.

Xiao Ran negotiated with Eternity to bring the Burning Legion into dangerous worlds, then spent years helping develop Earth and bringing his family to his territory. After reuniting with them, he continued traveling between worlds to support the Legion’s growth and prepared to deal with the Mythical Legion.

• Xiao Ran learned that Eternity needed help against a legion-level threat and arranged for Burning Legion S-Class Pilots to enter its barrier and fight.
• Xiao Ran brought nearly two hundred S-Class Pilots into the barrier, where Eternity sent them through numerous threatened worlds to eliminate enemies and collect spoils.
• Xiao Ran traveled with Situ Yaoyao and his son in a Pokémon world while Luo and Renard spent five years raising Earth's technology to an extraterrestrial level.
• Xiao Ran brought Dad Xiao, Mom Xiao, Situ Yaoyao, his son, and willing relatives to the Burning Legion's territory, where they received medical care and Gene Enhancement.
• Xiao Ran resumed handling the Mythical Legion and organizing the S-Class Pilots' spoils, while secretly visiting other worlds to advance the Burning Legion's authority.

After two mission cycles of aggressively exploring worlds, Xiao Ran’s allies qualified to claim Prometheus authorities, which the Burning Legion’s leaders divided among themselves. With the key permissions in their hands, Xiao Ran gathered the group at the Legion Hall and called on Prometheus to discuss its core authority.

• Xiao Ran sent Nameless to help establish the Star Federation and search the Real Universe for dimensional singularities.
• Sanger became the first to obtain authority, choosing Security Permission and gaining command over Prometheus’s defenses and guardians.
• Master declined his turn, while Yuzes chose Single Universe Management Permission and discovered it only applied to the current Real Universe.
• Char took Personnel Management Permission, Ingram took Legion Permission, and Giliam and Master claimed Area Management Permission for the Real Zone and Super Zone.
• Giliam and Master opened Area Link Gates between the Real Zone and Super Zone for Burning Legion members.
• Xiao Ran brought the leaders to the Legion Hall’s top floor and called for Prometheus to discuss authority.