Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran launched a surprise assault on an Amalgam base, destroying its defenses and most of its forces before the transport helicopters arrived. Luo, Yufang, and Yulan joined the attack, and the team wiped out every enemy unit still able to move.

• Xiao Ran ordered the transport helicopters to follow the plan and prepared to attack the base before they entered its anti-air range.
• Xiao Ran fired six missiles at the luxurious villa, then drove his Variable Fighter into the base and destroyed tanks, anti-air emplacements, and enemy AS units.
• Xiao Ran used the base’s confused defenses as cover while he hunted down its forces and demolished warehouses to expose the AS units hidden inside.
• The three transport helicopters deployed Luo in the Demon King Mecha and Yufang and Yulan in M6s as Xiao Ran suppressed the remaining defenders.
• Xiao Ran, Luo, Yufang, and Yulan destroyed all the AS units still capable of moving within three minutes.

After defeating Amalgam’s forces, Xiao Ran led a search of the base and ordered his teams to recover useful machines and valuables while investigating a hidden passage containing a nuclear bomb. The group evacuated by helicopter and cargo plane after burying the passage and bomb beneath the demolished Command Center.

• Xiao Ran and Luo led teams through the Command Center and mansion, eliminating surviving Amalgam mercenaries and searching the buildings.
• Xiao Ran found Amalgam AS units, Savage units, fighters, and cargo containers buried in the collapsed warehouses, while Team Four reported usable transport helicopters and a cargo plane.
• Team Five discovered a nuclear bomb in an underground passage beneath the Command Center, and Luo’s team found a basement containing gold, fine wine, and paintings.
• Xiao Ran ordered Team Six to evacuate with its valuables, Yulan to recover usable machines, and Luo to investigate the passage and deal with the bomb.
• Xiao Ran took to the air in his Variable Fighter as the transports departed, and his team demolished the Command Center to bury the passage and nuclear bomb.

After a successful raid on an Amalgam outpost, Xiao Ran’s force recovered three advanced λ-DRIVER AS units and other spoils. He set their next target on an important Amalgam facility, while considering how to complete Main Mission Two without having to destroy base after base.

• Xiao Ran’s team returned to the cargo ship with three transport aircraft, three recovered AS units, gold, and assorted valuables after destroying an Amalgam base.
• Xiao Ran assigned the three recovered AS units to Yulan, Yufang, and C.L., and told Hayashimizu Atsunobu to keep an eye on the twin sisters.
• Xiao Ran ordered the force to continue north and prepare to attack an important Amalgam factory or research institute.
• Luo worried that destroying one base had advanced Main Mission Two by only four percent and that Amalgam would prepare stronger defenses.
• Xiao Ran explained that seizing equipment mattered more than clearing bases, and considered targeting other factions that threatened peace, including the Soviet Union and the United States.

Xiao Ran planned to exploit Amalgam’s attacks on Mithril to advance his mission and rebuild the organization under Tessa’s command. When Amalgam launched a coordinated assault that threatened to destroy Mithril within two hours, Xiao Ran ordered Luo to use his newly built N-Jammers and moved to support the surviving forces.

• Xiao Ran told Luo not to worry about the mission completion rate and said they should wait until Luo finished the N-Jammer.
• Xiao Ran weighed Amalgam factories and research facilities as potential targets while the ship traveled north.
• El-Elf informed Xiao Ran that Amalgam’s Execution Unit and participants had attacked Mithril’s bases simultaneously, leaving headquarters and the other bases surrounded.
• El-Elf reported that Tessa had evacuated Merida Island’s forces safely and that Luo had built two usable N-Jammers with limited range.
• Xiao Ran ordered Danner's Son to support the nearest Mithril base, directed Luo to prepare the N-Jammers for launch, and set out to deploy himself.

Xiao Ran sent his forces to seize equipment and data from an Amalgam-controlled factory while he drew Soviet air defenses away from the operation. The action team headed for the factory as Soviet fighters converged on Xiao Ran’s Variable Fighter.

• Xiao Ran explained that Amalgam’s attack on Mithril gave him an opportunity to claim its remaining forces and valuable technology.
• Xiao Ran ordered the Fifth Squad captain to lead an assault on an Amalgam factory in Soviet territory and seize equipment or data before destroying it.
• Xiao Ran agreed to assist Danner's Son but said he could not promise when his forces would arrive.
• Luo, the Yufang Yulan sisters, C.L., and the action team departed aboard six transport helicopters with their AS units.
• Xiao Ran flew his Variable Fighter toward a Soviet air force base to draw attention away from the factory mission.
• Soviet forces detected Xiao Ran’s aircraft and dispatched fighters to pursue it.

Xiao Ran used the Variable Fighter to destroy Soviet fighters and missiles while drawing aerial forces away from Luo’s operation. After defeating nearly twenty more fighters, he continued toward the air force base.

• Three Soviet fighters intercepted Xiao Ran, but he outmaneuvered them and destroyed all three with the Variable Fighter.
• The surviving pilots identified the aircraft as a flying, transforming AS and called for support as they fled.
• Xiao Ran drew nearly twenty fighters toward him and destroyed their missile barrage with the Laser Gatling.
• Xiao Ran attacked the fighter formation and shot down nearly twenty aircraft, sparing the pilots who ejected.
• Xiao Ran continued toward the air force base after clearing the aerial threat around Luo’s operation.

Xiao Ran attacked a heavily defended Soviet air force base with his Variable Fighter, drawing enemy forces away from Luo’s team while struggling against the base’s overwhelming firepower. At the factory, Luo, the Yufang Yulan sisters, and C.L.’s group made rapid progress against the defenders.

• Xiao Ran approached the Soviet base after its defenders prepared anti-aircraft guns, AS units, and tanks to stop him.
• Xiao Ran dodged the barrage, transformed into Fortress Mode, and fired on the base’s defenses as he advanced.
• Xiao Ran entered his Innovator state and recognized that the Variable Fighter lacked the firepower needed to break through the base, deciding Luo should prepare a new machine for him.
• Luo, the Yufang Yulan sisters, and C.L.’s group attacked the factory from three directions with six AS units.
• After clearing most of the factory’s defenders, the Yufang Yulan sisters emerged to eliminate enemies outside.

Luo and C.L. led assault teams into the factory while Xiao Ran fought his way into the base in the Variable Fighter. Xiao Ran destroyed most of the base’s defenses and ground forces, but the strain of dragging the mecha beyond its limits left him exhausted as he approached the few remaining enemies.

• Luo and C.L. led their teams into the factory workshop after six AS units suppressed its defenses, while the Yufang Yulan sisters stayed behind to guard the helicopters.
• Xiao Ran broke through the base’s defensive line in the Variable Fighter and attacked its turrets, tanks, and AS units.
• Xiao Ran destroyed more than fifteen AS units and most of the anti-aircraft defenses in three minutes, despite taking repeated hits.
• The remaining enemies regrouped and retreated, but they could not hit the Variable Fighter once Xiao Ran regained control of the skies.
• Xiao Ran, exhausted from the battle and the Variable Fighter’s limitations, landed and approached the few enemies left on the ground.

Xiao Ran encountered an Ox-Head Gundam Head from the Tengen Toppa world and tested its formidable armor and strength in battle. He left the Variable Fighter’s Beam Saber embedded in the enemy’s back, but the fight’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Xiao Ran dodged the Ox-Head Gundam Head’s spiked club as it smashed a crater into the ground.
• Xiao Ran recognized the mecha as a low-tier machine from Tengen Toppa and decided to destroy it and recover it for Luo to examine.
• Xiao Ran’s Laser Gatling and Beam Guns dented the Ox-Head Gundam Head’s armor but failed to pierce it, while he evaded its cannon shells.
• Xiao Ran transformed the Variable Fighter and charged the Ox-Head Gundam Head as it swung its club.
• Xiao Ran evaded the club with a burst of red light, slashed the enemy’s back with his Beam Saber, and thrust the weapon into the wound.

Xiao Ran salvaged a damaged Gundam Head and realized that capturing rookie participants’ Super Robot mecha could yield far more valuable technology than buying low-level equipment. After ordering Luo’s team back to the ship, he flew to rejoin Tessa and Danner's Son while the transport helicopters returned safely.

• Xiao Ran killed the Gundam Head’s pilot, spent 2,000 Merit Points to salvage the damaged mecha, and raised his mission completion rate to thirteen percent.
• Xiao Ran concluded that he should hunt participants for their exclusive Super Robot mecha and analyze their technologies, while also considering Luo’s Zoids as a possible target for an exchange.
• Xiao Ran messaged Luo’s team to return to the ship and flew toward Tessa and Danner's Son.
• Luo felt a sudden chill in the transport helicopter, checked with the pilots, and then sat back down without continuing his game.
• Luo’s transport helicopter group returned safely to the cargo ship after entering the sea, as the Soviet Union did not attempt to intercept them.

After Mithril's bases were devastated in coordinated attacks, Xiao Ran returned to Danner's Son and learned that its Western Pacific team was the only intact combat team left. Richard said Mithril needed a powerful ally and planned to gather scattered members and investigate headquarters.

• Luo's team looted equipment, machinery, and data from a factory, then destroyed it with explosions and fire.
• Xiao Ran rendezvoused with Danner's Son near Canada and returned to Mithril's submarine headquarters.
• Tessa tearfully welcomed Xiao Ran, and he comforted her before Richard led them to the Captain's Room.
• Richard explained that Amalgam, American and Soviet forces, and other forces had attacked Mithril's bases, leaving Danner's Son as its only intact combat team.
• Richard said Mithril had lost contact with headquarters, its leaders were missing, and Count Mallory was under house arrest.
• Richard said the team planned to seek a powerful ally, gather scattered Mithril members, and investigate what had happened at headquarters.

Xiao Ran agreed to lead a reconnaissance and rescue operation at Mithril headquarters, and Tessa insisted on accompanying him despite the danger. After Danner’s Son prepared its forces, Xiao Ran helped Tessa into the Variable Fighter and launched for the mission.

• Xiao Ran judged that rescuing Mithril’s confirmed captive research personnel mattered more than searching headquarters, but agreed to lead a reconnaissance and rescue operation there.
• Xiao Ran assigned Richard and Kalinin to plan the operation while he entered first to assess the situation and eliminate threats.
• Tessa insisted on going with Xiao Ran, and Richard accepted her decision after Xiao Ran warned that the Variable Fighter’s forces could injure her.
• Xiao Ran gave Tessa a superior Combat Suit and ordered her to wear it beneath a pressure suit.
• Danner’s Son prepared six AS units, transport helicopters, a cargo aircraft, and two standby fighters as Xiao Ran helped Tessa into the Variable Fighter.
• Xiao Ran launched the Variable Fighter with Tessa secured in the rear seat.

Xiao Ran brought Tessa to Mithril's headquarters, destroyed three attacking destroyers, and discovered the base had been devastated and occupied by enemy forces. He suspected that Mithril survivors were being held in a guarded warehouse.

• Xiao Ran flew toward Mithril's headquarters with Tessa aboard, while transport helicopters and a cargo plane followed behind.
• Tessa endured the Variable Fighter's descent and resolved not to distract Xiao Ran, then marveled as it skimmed across the sea.
• Xiao Ran detected three destroyers near the coast and destroyed their turrets, missiles, and bridges with the Variable Fighter.
• Xiao Ran reached Mithril's headquarters and found its buildings and aircraft in ruins, with dead personnel scattered across the base.
• Xiao Ran saw more than thirty enemy M9s and roughly three hundred ground troops occupying the base, including soldiers guarding a relatively intact warehouse that might hold survivors.

Xiao Ran attacked the Mithril headquarters base to rescue its imprisoned members, destroying enemies while using the Variable Fighter as a shield in front of the warehouse. He confirmed the captives were alive, and Kharg’s reinforcements arrived as the battle continued.

• Xiao Ran spotted three covered machines and launched missiles at them before turning toward the guarded warehouse.
• Xiao Ran charged through enemy fire, destroyed two AS, and used the Variable Fighter’s Laser Gatling and beams to suppress the attackers.
• Xiao Ran announced that he had come as reinforcements sent by Colonel Tessa, and a wounded Mithril member briefly opened the warehouse doors to confirm the captives were inside.
• Xiao Ran told the warehouse occupants to stay hidden while he advanced through the smoke and attacked concealed enemies.
• Two fighter jets bombed the base, then Kharg and other AS descended from transport helicopters and attacked from the air.

Mithril’s reinforcements turned the battle against Amalgam, while Xiao Ran destroyed the remaining λ-DRIVER units. The fight took a sudden turn when two unfamiliar machines appeared, including a machine Xiao Ran recognized as a Gundam.

• Tessa watched the reinforcements arrive and hoped everyone would return safely as Xiao Ran charged back into battle in the Variable Fighter.
• Mithril’s airborne AS units attacked the enemy from behind, and Kharg shielded the helicopters and warehouse while ground troops struggled against Mithril’s growing advantage.
• Amalgam’s λ-DRIVER units rushed Mithril’s M9s, but Xiao Ran used the Variable Fighter’s speed and precise beam fire to destroy them.
• A bull-headed machine smashed through the smoke and disabled two M9s, while a towering machine severely damaged Melissa Mao’s M9 despite Cruz’s covering fire.
• Sousuke Sagara attacked the towering machine as Cruz pulled Melissa’s wrecked M9 to safety, and Xiao Ran identified the two newcomers as a Face and a Gundam.

Xiao Ran confronted two participant-piloted mecha at the base, explaining their origins to Tessa before engaging them in his Variable Fighter. He left the Ox-Head Mecha for Sousuke Sagara to fight and ended the chapter as Sousuke took aim at it.

• Xiao Ran ordered Kharg to stay behind while the others rescued the injured and withdrew, then explained to Tessa that the strange machines were an MS and a Gundam Head.
• Xiao Ran charged the two mecha in his Variable Fighter and assigned Sousuke Sagara to fight the Ox-Head Mecha, telling him to use the λ-DRIVER against its teeth.
• The opposing pilots abandoned their plan to attack the M9s and moved to confront Xiao Ran.
• Xiao Ran transformed his Variable Fighter, slipped between the two attackers, and damaged the G-series Mecha with gunfire and a Beam Saber.
• The Ox-Head Mecha spun toward Xiao Ran with its spiked club, but he calmly evaded it.
• Sousuke Sagara locked onto the spinning Ox-Head Mecha with the Kharg and pulled the trigger.

Sousuke Sagara and Xiao Ran destroyed the G Series Mechas attacking Mithril Headquarters, and Mithril's prisoners were rescued. After returning to Danner's Son, Xiao Ran offered to take in Mithril's scattered survivors while Tessa worried about the missing Jerome Boda.

• Sousuke Sagara used the λ-DRIVER to destroy the spinning Gundam Head with a single shot.
• Xiao Ran shot down a fleeing G-series Mecha, then recovered the wreckage of Aruma Veda and found it unusable.
• Mithril's rescued members and forces retreated to Danner's Son, where the crew treated the wounded.
• Tessa learned that Jerome Boda was not among the rescued and worried about his fate.
• Xiao Ran proposed sending the wounded and equipment to Japan while using Danner's Son to gather Mithril members who had escaped.

With Mithril nearly destroyed, Xiao Ran used Danaan as a base to prepare a two-pronged operation to seize Mithril’s research equipment and rescue its imprisoned members. He assigned Luo to raid the factory and led El-Elf and others toward the prison camp as Danaan approached the United States.

• Danaan rendezvoused with the cargo ship, transferred its equipment and wounded personnel, and welcomed Xiao Ran’s teams aboard.
• Xiao Ran summoned Luo and El-Elf, then prioritized capturing Mithril’s research equipment and rescuing its imprisoned Technicians.
• Danaan gathered intelligence on the U.S.-controlled factory and the military camp holding Mithril’s prisoners as it sailed toward the United States.
• Xiao Ran assigned Luo, Mithril’s AS squad, the Yufang Yulan sisters, and the action teams to seize the factory’s research equipment.
• Xiao Ran, Sousuke Sagara, El-Elf, and C.L. were assigned to rescue the prisoners, with El-Elf piloting the Demon King Mecha to support the assault.

Xiao Ran and Luo prepared for an operation by equipping Xiao Ran’s Variable Fighter with a heavy weapons backpack and reviewing their team’s plans. As the mission began, their forces departed Danaan for their assigned targets, with Xiao Ran and Luo set to lead the opening attacks.

• Xiao Ran assigned the operation teams and discussed the mission plan with Luo.
• Luo told Xiao Ran he had built a heavy backpack for the Variable Fighter, adding missiles, Beam Guns, Cluster Beam Cannons, and thrusters.
• Luo explained that he had also brought a prototype N-Jammer and described plans for N-Jammer production and future MS and AS manufacturing.
• Luo and the hangar crew installed the heavy backpack, and Xiao Ran tested its hatches and weapon systems.
• Xiao Ran piloted the Variable Fighter away from Danner's Son, while Luo and the operation teams boarded their transports.
• Danaan surfaced, activated its ECS stealth system, and flew toward the mission sites as Xiao Ran and Luo prepared to lead the attacks.

Xiao Ran’s upgraded Variable Fighter destroyed the American military camp while Mithril teams rescued detained researchers and recovered factory personnel and equipment. After the mission ended smoothly and Danner's Son began withdrawing, Tessa warned Xiao Ran that America had launched three nuclear missiles, one directly at them and two toward Japanese territorial waters.

• Xiao Ran flew his heavily equipped Variable Fighter to the military camp and used precise missile and beam attacks to destroy its armed forces.
• El-Elf, Sousuke Sagara, and Mithril’s operation team entered the camp and rescued the detained research personnel while Xiao Ran guarded them from above.
• Luo and Yufang Yulan took control of the factory and recovered its personnel and important equipment with little resistance.
• The teams returned to Danner's Son without losses, and the rescued Technicians celebrated their freedom.
• Tessa told Xiao Ran that America had launched three nuclear missiles, including one aimed directly at Danner's Son.