Chapter Summaries

Alvords learned that his Gedim Fleet had been summoned from the past, then destroyed the bionic robot and prepared to attack the Victory Fleet. Xiao Ran offered Alvords a chance to surrender, but Alvords refused and launched his forces.

• Alvords learned that the Gedim Fleet had been summoned to the Milky Way from three thousand and twelve cycles in the future and declared that the civilization reconstruction system was no longer needed.
• Alvords destroyed the bionic robot’s warship, saying that the robot was no longer useful and that he would not allow a duplicate of himself to exist.
• Alvords sent Gedim drones to attack the Victory Fleet and said Artificial Intelligence would fight in place of his forces.
• Xiao Ran criticized the Victory Fleet for delaying its attack, then offered Alvords a chance to surrender to preserve the last remnants of Gedim civilization.
• Alvords refused Xiao Ran’s offer, and Xiao Ran powered up Dawn as Alvords ordered the Gedim fleet to attack.

Xiao Ran and the Victory Fleet held off the Gedim assault while Dawn charged its cannon, then unleashed a devastating attack that wiped out the drone forces and crippled much of the Gedim fleet. Alvords watched in disbelief as his confidence collapsed.

• Cruze, the GN Dragoons, and the EVAs erected layered defenses in front of Dawn while the rest of the Victory Fleet advanced toward the Gedim warships.
• Xiao Ran charged Dawn’s cannon for more than a minute as the defenses blocked the Gedim attacks.
• Xiao Ran ordered the defenders aside and fired Dawn’s cannon, whose expanding beams engulfed the space ahead.
• Dawn’s attack destroyed all the Gedim drones and erased or severely damaged more than half of Alvords’s warships.
• Alvords stared at the devastation and realized Xiao Ran’s earlier promise to give him a chance had not been empty boasting.

After witnessing Xiao Ran's attack with Dawn, the Impact Legion assessed the Burning Legion's power and debated whether to keep targeting Naza's Overlord Legion. Peg argued that they should pursue ties with the Burning Legion and continue negotiations, despite still hating Naza.

• Naza concluded Dawn's attack nearly matched an S-class mecha's primary attack and wondered whether Xiao Ran could eventually become an S-class Pilot.
• The captured Impact Legion members and four A-Class Pilots watched the attack and felt its threat to lower-level pilots and fleets.
• The four A-Class Pilots compared Dawn's attack with their Moonlight Cannon and judged Xiao Ran a likely top-tier A-Class Pilot if his close combat was strong.
• Peg pointed out that the Impact Legion had lost the Moonlight Cannon and lacked advantages against Xiao Ran, so they should reconsider targeting the Overlord Legion.
• Peg said she still hated Naza but planned to continue negotiations with the Burning Legion to strengthen her influence.

Alvords’s fleet was overwhelmed by the Victory Fleet, while Basak and Luo dismantled the warship Basco. Luo’s recycling revealed two mysterious items, but Basak dragged him away as the warship was about to explode.

• Alvords watched the Tyronians destroy his fleet and panicked as Basak and Luo attacked his warship.
• A mechanical female voice declared that the old Gedim people threatened Gedim’s reconstruction, then vanished as Alvords’s communication channel cut off.
• Basak sensed danger, and he and Luo decided to destroy Basco’s bridge and recycle the warship.
• Luo recycled Basco and discovered Nifaline, a flawed autonomous super AI, and Arcadia, an unfinished Vanguard Series unit.
• Basak grabbed Luo’s unit and sped away before Basco exploded.

After the battle, Xiao Ran and Luo discovered that Basco’s wreckage, the Super AI Nifaline, and an unknown Vanguard unit had been recovered. Nifaline then turned the Impact Legion’s weaponized drones against their own fleet, leaving its members facing a surrender ultimatum from the Victory Fleet.

• The Victory Fleet finished off most of the Gedim forces, detained the surrendering Life Pods, and waited for the mysterious female voice to return.
• The Impact Legion’s leaders grew confused when Nifaline failed to respond and their two thousand Moonlight Cannon-equipped drones remained under her exclusive control.
• The drones activated, turned their weapons on the Impact Legion’s warships, and prompted the Victory Fleet to demand the legion disarm and surrender.
• More than an hour earlier, Xiao Ran and Luo found Basco’s wreckage, the egg-shaped Super AI Nifaline, and an unknown unit that was the Vanguard Series’ ultimate form in their inventories.

Xiao Ran and Luo concluded that the unfinished Arcadia mecha had developed inside Basak, while Nifaline gained control of Gedim forces after the original Nifaline disappeared. With 2,354 armed mecha surrounding the Impact Legion fleet, Cruze led a force to deal with them.

• Xiao Ran and Luo theorized that the unfinished Arcadia mecha had been nurtured by Nifaline inside Basak and joked that Luo had recovered the mission’s final boss.
• Mwu told Xiao Ran that Nifaline had discovered something, so Xiao Ran and Luo went to the bridge to speak with her and Captain Okita.
• Nifaline revealed that she had gained Gedim management authority and control of 2,354 mecha armed with Moonlight Cannons, which had surrounded the Impact Legion fleet.
• Xiao Ran ordered Nifaline to make the surrounded forces surrender or attack if they resisted, then assigned Cruze to handle the situation.
• Cruze took the Drone Unit and half the Victory Fleet’s pilots toward the coordinates where Nifaline had trapped the Impact Legion fleet.

The captured members of the Impact Legion were reunited and struggled to understand how their plans had collapsed. Cruze negotiated with them, accepting their final offer and proposing that the agreement begin a friendship.

• The four captured Impact Legion members met the three newly captured survivors and learned that Nifaline had disappeared before their planned attack.
• The seven lamented their defeat and waited in silence until Cruze arrived with a reunion meal and wine.
• Cruze asked what the prisoners believed their value was, and the curly blue-haired man offered the Moonlight Cannons under the existing terms and raised the second condition to fifty percent.
• Cruze accepted the offer and raised a toast to the start of a friendship.

After the Burning Legion’s victory and the restoration of the three Earths, Xiao Ran received the mission results and rewards. He reflected on the mission’s incomplete exploration and rewards before choosing to return aboard the Burning Legion.

• The Burning Legion received the Moonlight Cannon and related technologies, while the Overlord Legion’s victory changed the mission conditions and restricted rewards for most Burning Legion members.
• The Yamato used the Universe Restoration System at the cost of Kodai Mamoru’s soul to restore the three Earths, and their people returned to their respective worlds.
• Xiao Ran received the Truth of the World rewards, including bloodline serums, Third Mazinger Power: Enhancement, and the Z Alloy formula.
• Xiao Ran considered the missing exploration and Favorability notifications and assessed the value of the mission rewards.
• Xiao Ran chose to return immediately from aboard the Burning Legion.

Xiao Ran returned from a mission, discovered that three Burning Legion members had died, and ordered El-Elf to investigate before heading to the Legion Management Center. There, he prepared to confirm the Overlord Legion’s subordinate status, adjust the legion’s setup, and handle the spoils of war and Moonlight Cannon technology.

• Xiao Ran saw that the Burning Legion had lost three C-class Pilots from the same five-person team and told the legion that the day was for rest.
• Xiao Ran sent Char and Amuro’s group with Basak and Zechs to tour the area, then summoned Cruze, Renard, Luo, and El-Elf to the Legion Management Center.
• Xiao Ran asked El-Elf to investigate the deaths and remind legion members to avoid similar losses, while Cruze continued communications with the Overlord Legion and the Impact Legion.
• Xiao Ran assigned Luo and Renard to select useful settlement rewards with Naza’s people and planned to give the Moonlight Cannon technology to them for the Faction Territory.
• Xiao Ran arrived at the Legion Management Center and met Naza, Fardes, Peg, and a representative of the Impact Legion, who had come to deliver the spoils of war.

Eshe and her teammates began a group newbie mission in the Muv-Luv ATE world, where they had to find fifteen powerful newcomers and keep them from provoking the BETA. Eshe found Char first and set off with him to locate the next teammate.

• Prometheus assigned the group a mission to join a faction and become guards within one month, while suppressing Eshe's team's physical attributes and skills.
• Eshe reunited with Sman, Barnes, and Harvey and ordered them to find the fifteen newcomers and prevent them from acting recklessly around the BETA.
• The four teammates split up to search the city using their trackers.
• Eshe found Char reading on a bench, and he joined her to find the next person.

Char, Eshe, and their companions reunited with the other squads in Alaska and reviewed the world’s war against the BETA. The group began weighing which human faction to join for their mission.

• Char and Eshe arrived at the temporary landing point with Yuzes, Crowley Hamon, and Ing after borrowing a car to collect Ing.
• The gathered group included Zengar Squad, Char Squad, and Yuzes, who was unaffiliated and would later join Jeffrey Squad.
• Giliam explained that the BETA had occupied most of Eurasia, humanity remained divided among nations, and its mecha were technologically inferior to their MS units.
• Ingram outlined four factions the group could join: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Nations, and the Far East.

Char proposed splitting the nineteen participants among four factions so they could gather intelligence, gain influence, and secure resources for better mecha. The teams reached their destinations, with Yuzes beginning contact with the United Nations Army.

• Char proposed splitting up, and the group agreed to divide among the four factions while considering the need to improve their mecha.
• Giliam, Shirakawa Shuu, Yuzes, and Ingram chose separate destinations, and the nineteen participants were assigned to teams for the Soviet Union, the Far East Army, the United States military, and the United Nations Army.
• The United States team reached an American military base in just over ten hours and went into hiding.
• Char's team crossed into Soviet territory in less than a day, while Zenga's team used Eshe's charm ability to secure a military transport plane to the Far East.
• After gathering intelligence, Yuzes began making contact with the United Nations Army.

Yuzes and his team entered Yukon Base by using Barnes’s hacking skills to bypass its security. After discovering a powerful technical supplier operating as a company, Yuzes proposed adjusting their plans to obtain new machines more quickly.

• Yuzes, Johnny Ridden, Shin Matsunaga, Tetsuya, and Barnes watched Yukon Base from nearby and discussed its role in the war.
• Barnes hacked into the base system and registered their information so they could enter without difficulty.
• Barnes used a device to unlock the commander's office, and the team occupied it while Yuzes examined the computer.
• Yuzes discovered a company that supplied advanced technology to the United Nations Army and said their plan might change so they could obtain new machines faster.

Yuzes ordered Barnes to bring Boeing Corporation’s person in charge to him while reviewing classified files about the world and its threats. After Little Ram appeared and revealed Yuzes’s attachment to it, the group suddenly prepared for danger outside the office.

• Yuzes told Barnes to bring Boeing Corporation’s person in charge to him, allowing him to use force as long as the person remained unharmed.
• Yuzes reviewed classified information about the BETA, the G Element Series, and the world’s factions, then reflected on how his teammates might respond to its truths.
• Little Ram crawled onto Yuzes, who immediately fussed over it, prompting Tetsuya to recognize how completely Yuzes had become its devoted caretaker.
• Yuzes explained that he had formed a reinforced Soul Contract with Little Ram with Shirakawa Shuu’s help, then copied Yukon Base’s useful files and sent them to his teammates.
• Little Ram hid inside Yuzes’s clothes as Shin Matsunaga closed the curtains and Johnny Ridden and Tetsuya drew their weapons toward the door.

Yuzes used telepathic hypnosis to take control of Yukon Base’s commanders and established a classified human enhancement program that would help him seize the base. In Sendai, Shirakawa Shuu, Sanger, Elsam, and Eshe learned the world’s true condition and chose to support Alternative4, with Shirakawa Shuu taking charge of their plans.

• Yuzes hypnotized Yukon Base’s brigadier general and lieutenant colonel, then arranged for his companions to join the United Nations Army and gain access to the base’s research and military resources.
• Yuzes became a lieutenant colonel and was put in charge of the classified Warrior Regeneration and Reinforcement Plan, with Barnes assigned as its research subject and covertly tasked with helping build a laboratory and hypnosis device.
• Johnny Ridden and Shin Matsunaga became majors, while Tetsuya and Barnes received new ranks as Yuzes’s group began expanding its control over Yukon Base.
• Sanger, Shirakawa Shuu, Elsam, and Eshe arrived in Sendai and found the Far East’s situation more dire than public reports had suggested.
• After reviewing Yuzes’s classified files on Alternative4 and Alternative5, Shirakawa Shuu and Sanger rejected Alternative5 and decided to join the Far Eastern faction supporting Alternative4.
• Shirakawa Shuu told Sanger that the group would follow his arrangements from then on, and Sanger agreed.

Shirakawa Shuu organized a plan to build a force capable of supporting Alternative4 and inferred that the supposedly introductory mission was far more dangerous than a normal Newbie Mission. He suspected the A-Class Pilots' presence had raised the mission difficulty and that their choices could lead to different Main Missions.

• Zengar agreed to cooperate with Shirakawa Shuu's plan.
• Shirakawa Shuu tasked Zengar and Elsam with investigating Far East bases, training facilities, and troop deployments while identifying promising personnel for a force under their control.
• Shirakawa Shuu said that he, Yuzes, Giliam, and Ingram would develop better machines, while Zengar and Elsam trained pilots in new tactics and operating methods.
• Shirakawa Shuu asked Eshe about her first mission, and she recalled that it had involved a conflict between human factions in the Orb Territory.
• Shirakawa Shuu concluded that the BETA world was too dangerous for a normal Newbie Mission and proposed that the A-Class Pilots' presence had increased its difficulty and might alter their future Main Missions.

Shirakawa Shuu split up with Sanger and Elsam to find allies and recruit promising people, then confronted Alternative4 supporter Kaede Sakon in his home. Shirakawa offered to help reclaim the Far East if Kaede became his obedient collaborator.

• Shirakawa Shuu told Eshe that they would assess how corrupt the Far East was and target its rulers and Alternative4 supporters.
• Shirakawa Shuu chose to approach Kaede Sakon, while Sanger and Elsam headed to Yokohama to investigate the army base and seek recruits.
• Eshe used her power of seduction to learn Kaede Sakon's whereabouts, and she and Shirakawa waited for him at his home.
• Eshe caught Kaede Sakon as he entered, disarmed him, and threw him onto the sofa.
• Shirakawa explained his knowledge of Alternative4, dismissed the XG-70 as inadequate, and offered Kaede improved Tactical Fighters in exchange for his service.

Shirakawa Shuu showed Kaede Sakon advanced machines and weapons, then persuaded him to cooperate by offering access to technology that could transform Tactical Fighters and aid Alternative4. Kaede agreed to become Shuu’s servant, and Shuu warned that Kaede would need to eliminate those unworthy of learning about him.

• Kaede Sakon refused to cooperate with Shirakawa Shuu, citing the danger to humanity and Alternative4.
• Shirakawa Shuu declared that he and his companions held the power to decide the world’s future, then had Eshe display recordings of unfamiliar machines and weapons.
• Kaede examined the projection in disbelief, questioning the machines’ transformations, armor, weapons, and advanced technology.
• Shirakawa asked what Kaede would sacrifice to confirm the technologies were real, and Kaede eventually knelt and pledged to become his loyal servant.
• Shirakawa confirmed that the technologies were real and told Kaede to discard anyone unworthy of becoming a collaborator or learning of Shuu’s existence.

After Shirakawa Shuu and Eshe gave Kaede Sakon advanced technology data, Kaede confirmed its authenticity and resolved to use it to strengthen Alternative4 and drive the BETA from the Far East. He began secretly gathering allies and planned to use Captain Saburou Shousai as a pawn in his effort to purge corrupt elements.

• Shirakawa Shuu told Eshe that Kaede Sakon would keep the technology secret because exposing it would endanger him and their plans.
• Kaede Sakon spent the night studying Eshe's data and became convinced the technologies could be replicated and transform Tactical Fighter performance.
• Kaede Sakon decided the technology could help drive the BETA from the Far East and must be developed in secret, away from Alternative5 and the Americans.
• Kaede Sakon resolved to find trusted allies and gradually remove people he believed had led the country astray.
• Kaede Sakon called Captain Saburou Shousai and arranged secret meetings, ordering his personnel to secure the location and leave no records.

Shirakawa Shuu used Kaede Sakon's meetings to identify the people and resources behind the new unit manufacturing project, then assigned Eshe to investigate them as he expanded his plans to control the Far East. When Kaede Sakon arrived with armed forces surrounding the building, Shirakawa Shuu exposed the threat and Kaede Sakon bowed to him.

• Shirakawa Shuu monitored Kaede Sakon's meetings and memorized information on the powerful people supporting the manufacturing project.
• Shirakawa Shuu gave Eshe a list of contacts and ordered her to investigate them without exceeding her abilities.
• Shirakawa Shuu called Kaede Sakon, demanded that he report his plans, and summoned him to the building.
• Kaede Sakon arrived as his men surrounded the building, but Shirakawa Shuu identified the snipers and armed squads waiting nearby.
• Kaede Sakon raised his hand to signal his forces and then bowed deeply to Shirakawa Shuu.