Chapter Summaries

Chang Wei discovered that the Red Queen and White Queen had escaped Earth’s destruction and that the Red Queen had built a mechanical civilization. Centuries later, humanity had become an empire ruled by Aerith, while her disagreement with Matt left their number of Gene Primarchs fixed at twenty-one.

• Chang Wei arrived in the Resident Evil universe and learned that the Red Queen had escaped Earth’s destruction by fleeing into space with the White Queen.
• After watching Angel reshape Earth, the Red Queen waited a hundred years before returning and building a civilization from Umbrella’s resources.
• Aerith’s people struggled to rebuild humanity in the New World, where T-Virus Humans and enormous prehistoric creatures flourished.
• Five hundred years later, the Red Queen began contacting humanity, which had grown into an empire ruled by the immortal Goddess Empress Aerith.
• Aerith and Matt began living apart after arguing over her reproductive program, and the number of their Gene Primarch children remained twenty-one.

Aerith’s Human Empire had grown powerful under her rule, while Queen of Flames built a rival Mechanical Empire and war broke out over resources. Chang Wei returned to meet Aerith, whose attempt to sense his power revealed that he was beyond her perception.

• The Human Empire’s T-Virus mutations produced 21 powerful Gene Primarchs, while Queen of Flames developed a humanoid mechanical body and technologies that rivaled Aerith’s.
• Aerith and Queen of Flames’s empires went to war over resources, as the Human Empire grew prosperous under Aerith’s constant surveillance.
• Chang Wei learned that Jill had refused Perfect T-Virus implantation and died retaining her human identity.
• Chang Wei appeared before Aerith, who teased him about remembering human time and tried to probe him with telekinesis.
• Aerith could not sense Chang Wei at all, and he reminded her that mortals could not speculate about gods.

Chang Wei reunited with Aerith and questioned her strained relationship with Matt, revealing that their conflict stemmed from Matt’s inability to accept how much the world and Aerith had changed. Chang Wei summoned Matt to meet him, but showed little interest in resolving their marital troubles.

• Aerith discovered that Chang Wei was physically present but absent from her senses, and he teased her about becoming the Goddess Empress.
• Aerith explained that her empire had cloned her more than a thousand times, while Matt struggled with his wife becoming shared property.
• Chang Wei called Matt over, and Matt respectfully greeted the angel he credited with restoring him to human form.
• Aerith described Matt as the Human Empire’s religious leader and explained that he had become a devout believer.
• Chang Wei recognized that Matt resisted the changes around Aerith, while Aerith mistakenly believed their conflict came from her having wronged him.
• Chang Wei decided that he had no interest in interfering in their relationship troubles.

Chang Wei visited Aerith, Matt, and Aerith’s gene primarch children, then discussed how the world he created affected humanity’s development. He left them to adapt to its harsh conditions as the evolutionary contest between T-Virus Humans and Queen of Flames continued.

• Aerith introduced Chang Wei to her twenty-one children with Matt, who greeted him with reverence.
• Chang Wei told Aerith and Matt he had come to visit, and Aerith invited him to afternoon tea.
• Chang Wei advised Aerith and Matt about the world’s droughts, extreme weather, and magnetic disturbances caused by its unusual geography and celestial forces.
• Chang Wei reflected that Aerith’s T-Virus evolution would take many millennia to reach his former strength, while Queen of Flames could develop faster through her knowledge and computational power.
• Chang Wei framed the future as a struggle between virus and machine over who would rule the New World.

Chang Wei visited Queen of Flames on the Moon Base, approved of her existence and plans, and left her an inexhaustible cup of cold cola. He then traveled to a new world, where he arrived in the Caribbean as a pirate captain.

• Queen of Flames showed Chang Wei the organic android she had created, whose appearance reminded him of A2 from Nier: Automata.
• Chang Wei asked Queen of Flames how she felt about her existence, and she explained that her new body let her experience being alive.
• Queen of Flames asked how the Lord viewed lives like theirs, and Chang Wei told her the Lord did not care.
• Queen of Flames described her plans to use Earth’s resources before expanding to Mars, Venus, and the rest of the Solar System.
• Chang Wei told Queen of Flames not to worry about Angels, gave her a cup of Ice-cold Cola that would never run out, and vanished.
• Chang Wei traveled to a new world and found himself aboard a pirate ship in the Caribbean Sea with Chinese pirate crewmen.

Chang Wei created a crew of undead pirates and the ironwood warship Jörmungandr, then attacked a British merchant ship in the Caribbean. After learning that the Black Pearl was still active, he headed for Royal Port, planning to plunder it and take Elizabeth.

• Chang Wei transformed his crew into powerful undead zombies and built the spiked Legendary Warship Jörmungandr.
• Chang Wei spotted a British merchant ship and ordered his crew to attack it.
• Jörmungandr survived the merchant ship’s cannon fire and rammed its hull, while the zombie pirates slaughtered the sailors.
• Chang Wei questioned the captured captain and learned that the Black Pearl was still active and that the merchant ship had been bound for Royal Port.
• Chang Wei ordered the captain to lead him to Royal Port, intending to plunder it and take Elizabeth before the Black Pearl arrived.

Chang Wei brought the Jörmungandr straight toward Royal Port and attacked despite its heavy defenses. After his zombie sailors stopped the first cannon barrage, the ship smashed through the docks and gun batteries, leaving Norrington scrambling to avoid its keel.

• Chang Wei rejected the captain’s warning and ordered the Jörmungandr to charge directly at Royal Port.
• Norrington spotted the unfamiliar black ship, ordered Governor Swann off the city wall, and commanded the harbor batteries to fire.
• Ten zombie sailors leaped up and split the incoming cannonballs, preventing the first barrage from harming the Jörmungandr.
• Norrington’s other fleets rushed to surround the ship as it continued toward the docks without slowing.
• The Jörmungandr crashed through the docks and destroyed several gun batteries, while Norrington twisted his ankle and scrambled clear of its keel.

Chang Wei and his zombie sailors overran Royal Port, forcing Governor Swann and Norrington to surrender. Chang Wei demanded Elizabeth, then took the cursed Aztec gold coin from her and accepted Governor Swann’s offer of two hundred thousand pounds.

• Norrington’s marines fired on Chang Wei’s zombie sailors, but their bullets, bayonets, and blades could not harm them, and the zombies slaughtered the defenders.
• Norrington ordered his fleet to bombard Royal Port, but the zombies dodged the cannon fire, and Governor Swann surrendered.
• Chang Wei stepped ashore and introduced himself as an Eastern pirate captain and wizard after the zombies returned to their normal appearances.
• Chang Wei demanded Elizabeth, knocked Norrington down with an invisible force, and defeated Will when he tried to rescue her.
• Governor Swann offered two hundred thousand pounds to protect Elizabeth, and Chang Wei removed the cursed Aztec coin from her chest.

Chang Wei raided Royal Port, seized cannons and magical trinkets, and left with Elizabeth and a Voodoo Corpse. He planned to search for Odin’s treasure and other Norse relics.

• Chang Wei’s crew found ten unused Howitzer Cannons, and Norrington realized Governor Swann had intercepted the guns intended for his fleet.
• Chang Wei’s pirates took the cannons and ammunition aboard the Jörmungandr while Norrington confronted the evidence of Royal Port’s corruption.
• Chang Wei decided to seek Odin’s treasure, reasoning that Norse relics might exist in the Caribbean world.
• Chang Wei raided Royal Port and its nearby Smuggler’s Port for a day and night, collecting magical trinkets before leaving with Elizabeth.
• Chang Wei’s crew discovered a huge, stitched, rotting living corpse, which Chang Wei identified as a Voodoo Corpse.

Chang Wei challenged the Voodoo sorcerer Black Mamba to pit his Reanimated Corpse against Chang Wei’s zombie sailors, then defeated him and forced him into servitude. As Chang Wei’s reputation as a devil spread through Royal Port, Will Turner confronted Norrington for letting him take Elizabeth.

• Chang Wei boasted about his zombie sailors and told Black Mamba he would have to serve him if his Reanimated Corpse lost their fight.
• Black Mamba ordered his Reanimated Corpse to attack, but Chang Wei’s boatswain caught its axe and split it apart with a single blow.
• Chang Wei engulfed Black Mamba in Black Mist and threatened him with a curse, forcing the sorcerer to accept his new role as Chang Wei’s slave.
• People in Royal Port began calling Chang Wei the Devil, and Will Turner questioned Norrington about allowing him to take Elizabeth.

Will Turner set out to help rescue Elizabeth while Norrington prepared to pursue the Jörmungandr later with a stronger fleet. Chang Wei’s reputation spread among Caribbean pirates, and he captured a band of Viking Pirates after they attacked his ship.

• Norrington argued that Will Turner could not rescue Elizabeth alone, but agreed to give him a ship and told him to follow the Jörmungandr and send signals.
• Will Turner boarded the ship, then discovered that he did not know how to sail.
• Pirates spread news of Chang Wei, the Jörmungandr, and Royal Port’s plunder, prompting many to seek a place among his undying crew.
• Chang Wei used a north-pointing compass to locate a group of Viking Pirates who had just raided a merchant ship.
• The Viking Pirates charged the Jörmungandr, and Chang Wei let them grapple aboard before his ten zombie sailors overwhelmed them.

Chang Wei searched for Odin’s Gungnir and other legendary weapons while building up his zombie crew, and the Black Pearl finally tracked down the Jörmungandr. Barbossa prepared to attack, but Chang Wei chose to stand his ground as the Black Pearl closed in.

• Chang Wei questioned Viking pirates about Odin’s treasure and had a captive drained by his zombies when the man sneered at him.
• Chang Wei continued searching for Gungnir, Zeus’s Lightning Spear, and Hades’s Bident while turning captured Vikings into zombie sailors.
• The Black Pearl learned that Chang Wei had taken Elizabeth and an Aztec Gold Coin, then searched the Caribbean for the Jörmungandr.
• The Black Pearl’s lookout spotted the Jörmungandr, and Barbossa rallied his cursed crew to attack it.
• Chang Wei saw that the Black Pearl was closing fast, but he made no attempt to flee.

Chang Wei and his crew defeated the Black Pearl’s cursed pirates and captured Barbossa. Chang Wei then used a knife he called the Inevitable Black Rose to kill a cursed pirate, leaving Barbossa terrified that the curse could be broken at the cost of his life.

• The Black Pearl attacked the Jörmungandr, and Chang Wei’s moonlight revealed its boarding pirates as skeletons.
• Viking zombie pirates overwhelmed the Black Pearl crew, captured the ship, and brought Barbossa before Chang Wei.
• Barbossa explained the Aztec Gold Coin curse and insisted that no one could lift it.
• Chang Wei stabbed an unlucky pirate with the Inevitable Black Rose, and the pirate died without turning into a skeleton in the moonlight.
• Barbossa realized the curse could be broken and feared that Chang Wei would use the knife on him.

Chang Wei forced Barbossa and the Black Pearl’s crew to submit, then accepted them into his service in exchange for the location of their treasure. With the Black Pearl under new command, Chang Wei planned to seek Xiao Feng and use the Mao Kun Map to find mysterious treasures, while Barbossa hoped Chang Wei could lift the pirates’ curse.

• Chang Wei frightened Barbossa and the Black Pearl’s pirates by demonstrating The Inevitable Black Rose, a blade that could kill even the cursed pirates.
• Barbossa offered to submit after Chang Wei refused to accept him without a reason, and the pirates urged their captain to accept the wizard’s terms.
• Barbossa offered the crew’s treasure on Treasure Island, and Chang Wei agreed to take them in.
• Barbossa and the pirates regained their freedom, and the Black Pearl gained Chang Wei as its new master.
• Chang Wei remembered that Xiao Feng possessed the Mao Kun Map and decided to make him the next stop, while Barbossa hoped Chang Wei could break their curse.

Chang Wei showed the crew of the Jörmungandr his two Demon Spears, demonstrating the white pistol’s endless ammunition and describing the black pistol’s guaranteed-hit bullet. Barbossa fled at Chang Wei’s invitation to test the tracking weapon, leaving its effect yet to be seen.

• Chang Wei renamed Jörmungandr the Sea King's Ship and made Poseidon its figurehead.
• Elizabeth asked whether Chang Wei’s pistols were Demon Spears, and he explained that the white one could fire without ammunition or gunpowder.
• Chang Wei fired the white Demon Spear repeatedly at Barbossa, knocking him down and blowing him apart before he rose again.
• Chang Wei explained that the black Tracking Demon Spear had one bullet that always hit its target and returned to the gun afterward.
• Chang Wei gave Barbossa time to run, and Barbossa fled to test the Tracking Demon Spear.

Chang Wei killed Barbossa with a magic gun, then led the Sea King's Ship into Treasure Island by opening its hidden harbor. At the treasure hoard, he dismissed the Aztec Gold Coins' curse and ordered the zombie pirates to load everything onto the ship.

• Chang Wei shot Barbossa with a magic bullet, and Elizabeth asked whether he could make more magic guns.
• Chang Wei opened Treasure Island's harbor, and the Sea King's Ship sailed inside while the Black Pearl's crew struggled ashore.
• Barbossa led Chang Wei and the others past the island's traps, one of which a Black Pearl pirate accidentally triggered.
• Chang Wei reached the hoard, dismissed the Aztec Gold Coins' curse as mediocre, and handled the coins without being affected.
• Chang Wei ordered the zombie pirates to move every piece of treasure onto the Sea King's Ship within an hour.

Chang Wei dismissed the Treasure Island fortune as inadequate and set out to find Xiao Feng’s Navigational Chart, but Norrington’s fleet arrived before they could depart. Chang Wei ordered his undead crew to attack the Great Britain Royal Navy.

• The treasure was counted at 3,789,137 pounds, and Chang Wei dismissed the fortune while Elizabeth defended her father against accusations of smuggling.
• Barbossa praised Chang Wei as a possible Emperor of the Sea, but Chang Wei said he would claim the title by defeating the world rather than following the Pirate Code.
• Barbossa warned Chang Wei that the Pirate Kings controlled Calypso’s seal, and Chang Wei declared that he could kill gods.
• Chang Wei ordered the crew to find Xiao Feng and take his chart of the world’s mysterious places.
• Norrington’s fleet caught up with Chang Wei’s ships, and Chang Wei ordered his zombies to go to war with the Great Britain Royal Navy.

Will Turner and James Norrington found Elizabeth aboard the Jörmungandr, which sailed beside the Black Pearl, and Norrington’s fleet attacked the two ships. The fleet’s cannon fire failed to stop the Jörmungandr, while the Black Pearl repaired itself and kept advancing toward the British ships.

• Will Turner recognized the Jörmungandr and rejoiced at finding Elizabeth, while Norrington doubted she had survived unharmed.
• Norrington spotted the Black Pearl sailing beside the Jörmungandr and wondered why the two ships were together.
• Norrington led a large fleet aboard the HMS Endeavour and ordered his ships to fire when they reached cannon range.
• Will Turner panicked because Elizabeth was still aboard the Jörmungandr, but Norrington refused to let personal feelings affect the battle.
• Cannonballs bounced off or failed to damage the Iron Birch hull of the Sea King's Ship, so Norrington ordered incendiary shells.
• The Black Pearl was nearly blasted apart, then its broken planks returned and reassembled as both ships continued toward the fleet.

Norrington used hinged shot and coordinated broadsides to damage the Black Pearl and slow both ghost ships, while the Sea King's Ship endured the bombardment. Chang Wei decided to engage Norrington's fleet directly and stepped onto the sea, leaving Norrington to declare that he was a devil.

• Norrington ordered his five warships to fire hinged shot, snapping the Black Pearl's mast and tearing the Sea King's Ship's sail.
• Norrington maneuvered his fleet through repeated broadsides and retreats, while cannon fire damaged the Black Pearl and injured Chang Wei's Zombie Pirates.
• Barbossa climbed aboard the Sea King's Ship and asked Chang Wei what they should do about Norrington's fleet.
• Chang Wei said they would fight in melee combat and walked to the bow as a cannonball was deflected from him.
• Chang Wei leaped onto the surface of the sea and stood without sinking, prompting Norrington to call him a devil.

Chang Wei froze the sea, trapping Norrington’s fleet and letting the Undead Pirates overwhelm it. Norrington surrendered to protect his men, while Elizabeth remained with Chang Wei’s pirates and Norrington offered Great Britain’s ransom.

• Chang Wei froze the sea around Norrington’s fleet, and cannon fire failed to break the thick ice.
• Barbossa led the Undead Pirates across the ice as Norrington realized his fleet could not escape or win.
• Will Turner urged Norrington to fight for his men, but Norrington chose to surrender to prevent needless deaths.
• Norrington’s sailors surrendered, and Will Turner went with them while Elizabeth stayed with Chang Wei’s crew.
• Norrington offered Chang Wei a ransom from Great Britain in exchange for the fleet’s surrender.