Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran, Luo, and Renard discussed the new mecha and how its low-level energy and weapon technologies limited its performance against A-class opponents. Renard outlined possible energy sources and weapon technologies from this world that could help address the weaknesses.

• Renard reviewed Xiao Ran's previous battle and explained that the mecha lacked sustained attacks, burst power, and varied attack levels against opponents with strong defenses.
• Xiao Ran recognized the mecha's shortcomings and considered how his Innovator abilities depended on the Solar Furnace.
• Renard explained that the Solar Furnace and most of the mecha's weapons were too low-level to bring out an A-class machine's full potential.
• Renard compared the Black Hole Engine, Annihilation Engine, and Ougang Extractor, concluding that the Fury's Ougang Extractor was the most practical available energy source.
• Renard noted that technologies from this world could provide enough weapon systems to equip a true A-class mecha across multiple attack levels.

Xiao Ran discussed developing a new mecha with Renard and Luo, including how to combine research into several engines and energy systems. After Renard compared Psychokinetists with Newtypes, Luo confirmed that both could use a T-LINK or Mental Power Frame, and Xiao Ran made his decision about which bloodline to strengthen.

• Xiao Ran learned that Luo expected the preliminary work on a new mecha to take about ten days and was investigating links between the Solar Furnace, Black Hole Engine, Dimension Devourer, and other technologies.
• Xiao Ran proposed gathering available researchers, asking Doctor Bian to help, and looking for Shirakawa Shuu.
• Luo urged Xiao Ran to decide on a development direction before designing a mecha around his abilities.
• Renard explained how Psychokinetists differed from Newtypes and recommended strengthening Xiao Ran's Psychokinetist bloodline to complement his existing abilities.
• Luo said Psychokinetists and Newtypes could both use T-LINK and Mental Power Frames, though mismatched users would achieve only about eighty-five percent effectiveness.
• Xiao Ran made his decision after hearing Luo's explanation.

Xiao Ran chose to strengthen his Psychokinetist bloodline after comparing its abilities with those of Newtypes and Innovators. Meanwhile, Cruze arranged a Marriage Alliance with Furi, which offered a new unit and researchers in exchange for technology.

• Xiao Ran compared the abilities of Psychokinetists, Newtypes, and Innovators, and concluded that Psychokinesis would complement his Innovator Bloodline.
• Xiao Ran decided to strengthen his Psychokinetist bloodline because he expected difficult enemies during their extended stay in this world.
• Luo began discussing the initial design of Xiao Ran's unit, then received a call from Cruze about Furi's Marriage Alliance offer.
• Cruze reported that Furi would send a newly manufactured unit, research data, and researchers, and asked Luo to choose technology to exchange.
• Renard suggested sharing GN-T Type Solar Furnace, λ-DRIVER, Material Technology, and part of the GAT Series data, and Xiao Ran approved with restrictions on internal use.

Luo, Renard, and Xiao Ran reviewed Frie mecha data and began outlining a new machine suited to Xiao Ran’s abilities and future battles. They left its detailed design and many technical problems for Luo to work on.

• The materials Cruze sent arrived, and the three examined the data for Giga-Thine and the experimental Besi Lu.
• Luo judged Giga-Thine a powerful A-Class machine but found Besi Lu’s Ougang Energy weapons and Sai Chuang System concepts more useful for Xiao Ran’s new mecha.
• Luo and Xiao Ran decided the new unit should combine a roughly fifty-meter frame with a standard-sized mecha inside and a transformation structure.
• Xiao Ran chose GN Dragoons, Beam Sabers, four synchronized Solar Furnaces, and Ougang-based weapons, while Luo began planning its energy systems, armaments, defenses, and propulsion.
• Luo added T-LINK frame conversion and a compact five-to-six-meter machine to the design considerations as Xiao Ran and Renard listened.

Xiao Ran visited Durandal to discuss genetic research and learned that safe genetic enhancements were currently limited to embryos, while bloodline serums for adults remained stalled. He planned to strengthen his Psychokinetist bloodline and offered to let Durandal collect data.

• Xiao Ran reminded Luo that the new mecha needed decisive burst weapons and said he would join its development team.
• Xiao Ran visited Durandal’s research division and heard that genetic enhancements could give embryos Coordinator abilities and improve their potential, but could not yet safely modify adults.
• Durandal explained that bloodline serums lacked stabilizing, reconstruction, and fusion elements, and that destructive enhancement risked Gene Collapse.
• Xiao Ran considered possible genetic neutralizing agents, then promised to bring Durandal useful samples from other worlds if he found them.
• Xiao Ran told Durandal he intended to strengthen his Psychokinetist bloodline and asked him to collect data.

Xiao Ran completed the Psychokinetist bloodline enhancement and discovered major increases to his attributes and new psychokinesis abilities. He learned that his Pure Innovator bloodline had fused with psychokinesis, extending its use through brainwaves and GN Particles.

• Xiao Ran entered the Enhanced Treatment Pod and used the Psychokinetist serum for his bloodline enhancement.
• After more than ten hours, Xiao Ran woke and sensed a dramatic increase in his Mental Power and changes to his body.
• Xiao Ran checked his profile and found that the enhancement had raised all his attributes and given him the Psychokinetist bloodline at LV5.
• Xiao Ran saw that Psychokinesis, Psychokinesis Field, and Psychokinesis Amplification had appeared as mastered skills.
• Xiao Ran discovered that the Pure Innovator bloodline had fused with psychokinesis, allowing him to use the ability within his brainwave and GN Particle ranges.

Xiao Ran reviewed how the fusion of his Psychokinetist and Innovator Bloodlines had strengthened both sets of abilities and concluded that they likely complemented each other beyond a simple sum. Eager to test the new powers and techniques, he left Home and headed to the Burning Legion.

• Xiao Ran examined his three new A-Class psychokinesis skills and considered how their GN Particle and Solar Furnace requirements interacted with his bloodline fusion.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the changes to his Innovator abilities, including psychokinesis amplification, greater control within brainwave range, and Teleportation that cost twenty Mental Power.
• Xiao Ran noted that Quantum Shock had gained a physical impact effect and Quantum Assimilation could amplify psychokinesis.
• Xiao Ran sensed new technique memories, left the Enhancement Room, provided a blood sample at the research institute, and headed to the Burning Legion to test his abilities.

Xiao Ran tested his enhanced Psychokinesis by challenging his allies to a practical combat exercise. As they launched a coordinated attack, he began countering them and discovered he could control his GN Dragoons through a direct mental connection.

• Xiao Ran teleported into Darkness Sky and familiarized himself with the new abilities gained from enhancing his Psychokinesis Bloodline.
• He summoned Basak, Kira, Athrun, Luo, Graham, and Naluo to fight him in a practical combat test, promising the exercise would end if his machine was hit.
• Graham assigned the group roles, and the pilots coordinated their opening assault against Darkness Sky.
• Xiao Ran dodged the attacks while activating Dual Reactor Synchronization, Spirit Burst, and the Triple Red System.
• Xiao Ran launched his GN Dragoons toward Naluo and sensed he could control them through a direct connection with his mind.

Xiao Ran discovered that his strengthened abilities let him control GN Dragoons directly with his mind, making them far more agile as they fought Nalo. While battling several opponents, he also tested telekinesis on a Beam Boomerang and used newly demonstrated powers against Athrun and Graham.

• Xiao Ran controlled the GN Dragoons through a direct mental link, changing their formations and helping them evade Nalo's fire.
• Nalo switched to suppressive fire, but the GN Dragoons scattered and attacked her unit from all directions while several charged into her barrage.
• Xiao Ran used telekinesis to divert Graham's Beam Boomerang toward Athrun, then evaded Luo and clashed with Kira.
• Xiao Ran realized telekinesis could redirect unguided weapons but warned himself to watch for Mental Power resistance equipment.
• Athrun and Graham charged Xiao Ran, who enlarged Darkness Sky's Beam Sword to attack Graham and formed a dark blue energy orb in its palm to fire at Athrun.

Xiao Ran discovered that his fused Psychokinetist and Innovator powers let him gather, control, and use GN Particles to amplify attacks and create shields. He ended the test with a spectacular barrage of beams, then declared that he could do even more.

• Athrun evaded Xiao Ran’s small sphere, and Kira’s beam struck it, triggering a minor explosion that scattered GN Particles in a dazzling flash.
• Graham dodged Xiao Ran’s Beam Saber as it absorbed nearby GN Particles and expanded, revealing how Xiao Ran’s psychic abilities could strengthen attacks with little effort.
• Xiao Ran charged his GN Dragoons with GN Particles and formed small shields around them, realizing that his bloodline fusion had greatly increased his control over the particles.
• Xiao Ran activated his skills and formed Wings of Light behind Darkness Sky before warning Kira, Athrun, Zoe, Basak, Graham, and Luo to stop the test and retreat.
• Xiao Ran gathered the GN Dragoons, his energy, and the Wings of Light into a ring-shaped formation, then fired a vast, controlled barrage of beams into space.
• Xiao Ran looked at the display with excitement and insisted that he could do more.

Xiao Ran tested Darkness Sky’s limits and discovered he could create beams through a fusion of telekinesis, GN Particles, and the Mental Power Frame, even though the mech lacked the necessary function. After exhausting himself, he left the test with a clearer grasp of his new abilities and ideas for improving them with a compatible mech.

• Xiao Ran unleashed over a thousand beams from Darkness Sky, then realized he could make them appear from nothing by combining his abilities.
• Luo reviewed the footage in slow motion, identified the fleeting patterns that formed the beams, and recognized Judica’s attack method.
• Xiao Ran ended the test exhausted, judging that firing the few beams had consumed too much Mental Power to count as a practical success in Darkness Sky.
• Xiao Ran concluded that a compatible mech, a T-LINK System, and greater telekinesis mastery would make the attack more powerful and less costly.
• Xiao Ran estimated that he had mastered about sixty percent of telekinesis and more than eighty percent of his fused bloodline ability.

After the live-combat test, Xiao Ran returned to the Burning Legion with his companions and discussed the strain of his new attack and the capabilities of Darkness Sky. Kira argued that Darkness Sky was too balanced and should be replaced by specialized units, leaving Xiao Ran and Luo reconsidering its design.

• Xiao Ran piloted Darkness Sky back to the Burning Legion while Luo, Athrun, Kira, Graham, Basak, and Nalu escorted him in their units.
• Xiao Ran reassured Kira that he could walk despite severe mental exhaustion, then invited everyone to discuss the test and his new unit.
• Athrun and Kira said Xiao Ran had become harder to track, and Xiao Ran explained that his improved abilities let him control the GN Dragoons more directly.
• Luo suggested that upgrading the GN Dragoons with T-LINK equipment could reduce the resistance Xiao Ran felt while controlling them.
• Graham praised the burst power of Xiao Ran's sword strike, and Xiao Ran explained that the psychokinetic enhancement was powerful but costly to sustain.
• Kira said Darkness Sky was too balanced for high-rank combat and proposed building specialized units; Luo showed sudden realization as Xiao Ran looked at him with concern.

Xiao Ran and Luo discussed how to design a new A-class mecha around Xiao Ran’s abilities, prioritizing firepower, speed, mobility, and T-LINK systems over all-around defense. After outlining the design requirements, Xiao Ran learned that the Marriage Alliance with Fury had been negotiated and that Earth and Fury were ready to resume talks.

• Kira explained that an A-class mecha should emphasize its pilot’s strengths, and Luo agreed that Darkness Sky had been an imperfect experiment in all-purpose design.
• Xiao Ran specified that his new mecha should focus on shooting, firepower, speed, and mobility, with four improved Solar Furnaces, T-LINK systems, GN Dragoons, defensive fields, Beam Shields, and light wheels.
• Xiao Ran told Luo that the new mecha should retain Darkness Sky’s separation and combination system because his strengthened psychokinesis let him teleport within the range of GN Particles.
• Luo agreed to consider Xiao Ran’s requirements and asked him to bring Doctor Bian over as soon as possible.
• Graham told Xiao Ran that Cruze had completed negotiations for the Marriage Alliance with Fury and that Earth and Fury were ready to resume talks.

Over three months, Xiao Ran finalized Frie's agreement with Earth and oversaw rapid military and industrial development, including the White Star refit, lunar Requiems, and new machine projects. With just over a week until his wedding to Frie Princess Shanamia, Cruze revealed why he had pushed so urgently for the marriage.

• Graham told Xiao Ran that the agreement between Earth and Frie had been settled and that Cruze had pressed to finalize the marriage arrangements quickly.
• Xiao Ran approved the agreement, and Frie received territory beside Satellite Integration in exchange for resources and technology while its forces were reorganized.
• Earth's industries advanced the White Star refit, lunar Requiems, new machines, and infrastructure, while Home became a hub for technical work and research.
• Xiao Ran monitored the developments and Cruze's training of the Steel Dragon Squad as reports arrived daily.
• With just over a week before Xiao Ran and Shanamia's wedding, Cruze told Xiao Ran the real reason he had been so invested in it.

As Xiao Ran and Frie prepared for their wedding on Satellite Integration, Xiao Ran and Cruze discussed the extensive security operation meant to catch anyone planning an attack. Kane coordinated surveillance across the satellite and tasked Carolan with monitoring the Earth Defense Force, while rewarding him with a drug that halted aging for a year.

• Xiao Ran watched the packed wedding venue and told Cruze that nothing could go wrong during the ceremony.
• Cruze said Kane and El-Elf had deployed extensive screening and security, then left to begin his part of the operation.
• Kane monitored reports of suspicious people being detected and praised Carolan for helping secure the satellite.
• Kane ordered Carolan to monitor the Earth Defense Force fleets and report anything unusual, while noting that guards and forces were positioned across the Earth Sphere.
• Carolan revealed that his spies were watching every fleet and that he had stationed Knight Mobile Suits and a unit near the venue to respond to attacks.
• Kane gave Carolan a pill that would halt his aging for a year, and Carolan swallowed it and vowed loyalty to Kane, Satellite Integration, and Xiao Ran.

Cruze and Xiao Ran's allies used Xiao Ran's Marriage Alliance with Shanamia to draw out the hidden forces threatening Earth. Xiao Ran accepted the plan despite fearing the casualties it could cause, and the wedding began under overwhelming security.

• Cruze, El-Elf, and Revil uncovered signs of a secret faction within the Federation, DC, Hades Island, and the Earth Defense Force.
• Cruze proposed using Xiao Ran's wedding to gather Earth Sphere leaders and lure the hidden enemies into revealing themselves.
• Kane, Cruze, Char, Jeffrey, Revil, and El-Elf arranged the wedding without telling Xiao Ran until the eve of the ceremony.
• Xiao Ran reluctantly agreed to the plan and warned everyone to maintain control and prevent casualties.
• Cruze watched Xiao Ran and Shanamia arrive at the venue under heavy guard and hoped Xiao Ran would enjoy the wedding.

Xiao Ran and Shanamia completed their public wedding while El-Elf reported that the immediate threat at the ceremony had been handled. As rebel attacks spread across Earth, Cruze ordered the Earth Defense Force to readiness and prepared to send the Steel Dragon Squad into action.

• Xiao Ran exchanged rings with Shanamia, kissed her cheek, and remained vigilant as they greeted the cheering crowd.
• El-Elf reported that his side was handled, then received orders to find and capture a traitor within Satellite Integration.
• Cruze outlined four likely opportunities for an attack during the wedding and reception, while Char noted the enemy might target a less-guarded location.
• Kane reported that rebel forces had seized DC Headquarters and that Defense Force units were rebelling and attacking nearby bases.
• Cruze ordered Earth Defense Force units to First Combat Readiness and told Kane to verify the reports.
• Cruze asked Mwu to oversee the fleet and announced that the Steel Dragon Squad would make its move.

Cruze moved against Earth as rebellions and standoffs spread, while an enormous foreign force attacked Bargyll’s Far East Base. The Steel Dragon Squad revealed its hidden strength and overwhelmed the invaders, as Bargyll explained that Lamia’s intelligence had been intercepted and altered.

• Cruze led his fleet toward Earth and left part of it with Mwu to help defend the Satellite Integration Army, while unrest and armed standoffs broke out across Earth and Paris.
• More than one hundred unfamiliar enemy mechas attacked Bargyll’s Far East Base and quickly overwhelmed its defenses.
• Idarong Sheng launched the upgraded R-1, followed by the SRX Squad, the ATX Squad, and the rest of the Steel Dragon Squad.
• The Steel Dragon Squad revealed a force larger and stronger than the invaders expected, turning the battle decisively in its favor.
• On the Galaxy Diva, Bargyll told Lamia that his side had altered and retransmitted her intelligence, causing the attackers to underestimate the base.

Bargyll confronted Lamia about her allegiance and allowed her to remain with the Steel Dragon Squad, ordering her to fight the attackers while Intelligence later questioned her. After the Far East Base repelled the assault, the fleet departed for DC, while battles continued at White Star, the Moon, and Paris.

• Bargyll told Lamia that her intercepted intelligence had been altered to provoke an attack on the Far East, then asked whether she had gained emotions of her own.
• Lamia admitted she had emotions, and Bargyll ordered her to help eliminate the enemy before Intelligence questioned her about the Shadow Mirror Unit.
• Bargyll ordered Shin and Mayu to watch Lamia and directed the Flying Dragon, Steel, and Black Gold to depart for DC after the battle.
• Lamia launched Angelg and joined the ATX Squad against the attacking forces, which the Steel Dragon Squad annihilated with six second-echelon units lost.
• The Flying Dragon, Steel, and Black Gold left the Far East Base, while Char's and Jeffrey's fleets faced rebel forces at White Star and the Moon.
• Revil remained unable to attack the Paris Rebel Forces because they had taken the city hostage.

Xiao Ran received reports of coordinated rebellions across Earth and ordered the crisis contained while asking whether another force was involved. He remained concerned that the Native Species and Overseers might arrive, and ordered Saki Maski to bring Doctor Bian and Gasper Gillian to him.

• Saki Maski reported unrest across DC, the occupation of Paris, attacks on the Far East Base, ongoing battles on the Moon and White Star, and several bases losing contact.
• Kane said rebel forces from DC and the federation were acting under the guidance of the Unknown Faction, with roughly one-third of the Earth Defense Force involved.
• Xiao Ran asked whether a third-party force beyond the rebels and Unknown Faction was active, and El-Elf said Intelligence had found no evidence of one yet.
• Xiao Ran identified the Unknown Faction as the Shadow Mirror Unit and worried that the Native Species and Overseers could soon appear.
• Xiao Ran ordered every department to bring Earth under control while minimizing disruption to civilians, then told Saki Maski to fetch Doctor Bian and Gasper Gillian.