Chapter Summaries

Little Pao Pao was overwhelmed by Olympus Espers until Vega burst from underground and slaughtered them. Vega captured Medusa and rescued Little Pao Pao, who had accidentally trapped herself inside her own doorless defensive shell.

• Olympus Espers coordinated their attacks against Little Pao Pao, forcing her to hide in a defensive structure and call for help.
• Medusa ordered her team to capture Little Pao Pao so Olympus could study her unusual abilities.
• Vega emerged from underground, protected Little Pao Pao, and began annihilating the attacking Espers.
• Medusa froze Vega temporarily and ordered her remaining subordinates to retreat, but Vega broke free and killed them.
• Vega stunned Medusa, then reported to Little Pao Pao, who revealed that she had forgotten to install a door in her defensive shell.

Chen Jun, Lilina, Little Pao Pao, and Vega visited the captured Olympus Esper Medusa in Shadow City’s high-security prison and interrogated her. Lilina broke Medusa’s resolve, revealing that Olympus sought to become the new gods of the world.

• Vega placed Medusa in Shadow City’s heavily guarded Space Prison, where wardens gave her an unusually comfortable cell.
• Chen Jun brought Lilina, Little Pao Pao, and Vega to question Medusa, and Lilina warned that the cell’s monotonous white surroundings could break her psychologically.
• Chen Jun transformed the cell into a forest clearing, but Medusa ignored his questions and insisted that the visitors were not human.
• Lilina repeatedly shot and revived a golden dog, then threatened Medusa with repeated deaths until Medusa became terrified.
• Medusa revealed that Olympus had erased its members’ memories and turned their code names into their real names, then disclosed that the organization intended to become the world’s new gods.

The narrator learned that Olympus wanted to become gods and showed Medusa the Shilin civilization, shattering her faith. After capturing her, he prepared to join Lin Xue, who had urgent news of her own.

• Medusa explained that Olympus sought to become gods and establish a tangible faith to restrain humanity.
• The narrator revealed the Shilin civilization to Medusa and claimed that his people were the otherworldly gods Olympus sought; Medusa’s faith collapsed.
• The narrator left Medusa for Lilina to counsel and sent Little Pao Pao to the Shilin Mother Nest to process new information.
• The narrator’s question about which leg Vega moved first caused her to lift three legs and topple over.
• Lilina explained that the resurrecting golden puppy came from the World Tree, and the narrator received Lin Xue’s call summoning him to hear her urgent news.

The narrator and Lin Xue learned that Olympus was mass-producing artificial Espers and attacking Dark World organizations, so they set a trap to draw Olympus into a confrontation. After Sikaro’s team captured an Olympus advance force, the narrator explained that the show of strength was meant to corner Olympus into revealing its true power or retreating.

• The narrator told Lin Xue that Olympus had obtained a Shilin Mother Nest and was using it to mass-produce artificial Espers, while Lin Xue revealed that Olympus had destroyed several resisting organizations.
• The narrator asked Lin Xue to spread false intelligence about an ancient relic in the Taklamakan Desert, and the Esper Team circulated the story through the Dark World.
• Lilina extracted information from Medusa, including the locations of several Olympus branch bases, while Olympus gradually took the bait about the relic.
• Olympus sent an advance team to the Taklamakan, where Sikaro and his men captured them and sent them back after breaking their arms.
• The narrator told Sandora that the staged defeats were meant to make Olympus feel trapped and force it to reveal its strength in a direct confrontation.

Chen and Lin Feng destroyed an Olympus base in the Andes by triggering a volcanic eruption, while Boundless Love began a series of taunting attacks on Olympus facilities. The chapter left Olympus facing repeated strikes and mocking warnings that portrayed its members as toys.

• Chen and Lin Feng traveled to the Andes to destroy an Olympus base concealed beneath a brainwashed town and built near Shilin Ruins.
• Lin Feng used his esper ability to help prepare instant noodles while the pair waited for the agreed time.
• Chen sensed the underground base and triggered an eruption that engulfed the town and destroyed the base.
• Bubble hacked Olympus's computers and left a mocking message claiming Boundless Love had destroyed the base over a trivial offense.
• Three days later, Boundless Love warned Olympus before the Space Twins removed an island and its continental shelf from the Pacific, and further taunting attacks followed.

Boundless Love prepared to attack Olympus’s suspected headquarters on Da Goshi Di Island Reef, while the team questioned why Olympus had scarcely resisted the destruction of its outer bases. The assault began with Sandora, A Jun, and the Shilin Apostles arriving at the remote archipelago, where a powerful energy source and severe interference suggested a Shilin Mother Nest might be buried below.

• Sandora identified Da Goshi Di Island Reef as the likely location of Olympus’s main base and warned that destroying a buried Shilin Mother Nest could contaminate the Pacific Ocean.
• A Jun’s sister, Sandora, Qian Qian, and Ding Dang realized Olympus had largely abandoned its branch bases instead of organizing a meaningful counterattack.
• Sandora chose herself, Pandora, her sister, and A Jun for the assault, while Qian Qian and Sister Chen Qian stayed behind; she also raised suspicions about Medusa’s unusually detailed intelligence.
• Ding Dang refused to intervene against Olympus because its actions remained a matter among mortals, though she said her priestess could help.
• A Jun and the others reached Da Goshi Di Island Reef in a stealth transport, detected a powerful energy source beneath it, and began descending toward the largest island.

Boundless Love, Sandora, Pandora, and Viska infiltrated Olympus’s headquarters on Da Goshi Di Island, where Pandora blasted through the hidden entrance and killed Poseidon by mistake. They continued into the base as Olympus’s forces fought one another, unaware that Poseidon had been the organization’s regional leader for Asia.

• Sandora scanned Da Goshi Di Island and found Olympus’s concealed bunker beneath the island.
• Sandora used her psychic powers to make Olympus’s troops attack one another, then identified a hidden entrance beneath a cliff.
• Pandora ignored the complicated energy locks and blasted down the alloy wall with her sniper cannon, exposing the passage and burying Poseidon in the rubble.
• Boundless Love questioned the injured black-robed man, but Viska killed him when he grabbed at Boundless Love.
• As the group entered the bunker, Viska and Pandora recognized the dead man as Poseidon, Olympus’s person in charge for the Asian region.

The group descended through Olympus’s ruined base, where Sandora controlled surviving fanatics and Viska defeated the leader Hades. In the assembly hall, they found the dead high-ranking members and confronted a surviving man who hinted that Olympus and Boundless Love sought the same ancient-god legacy; Sandora demanded to know where his companions and the ruins were hidden.

• The group passed through Olympus’s base as Sandora used mental control to stop surviving elites from attacking them.
• A hidden man named Hades revealed himself, but Pandora’s polarization field disrupted his invisibility.
• Viska withstood Hades’s attacks, nullified his Death Storm, and shot him dead with a sniper rifle.
• The group reached the assembly hall and found its high-ranking occupants dead from a barrage of wounds.
• A surviving bearded man claimed that Boundless Love also sought the legacy of the ancient gods.
• Sandora confronted the survivor and demanded the location of his companions and the ruins.

The narrator’s group learned that Zeus had been betrayed by Artemis after Olympus uncovered a Shilin Mother Nest secret that allowed only one person to become a god. They entered the Mother Nest’s Council of Gods, found two dead leaders and a mysterious hexagram, and ended with Viska asking Siweisi to identify its constellations.

• Sandora interrogated Zeus, and he revealed that an Olympus leader had betrayed and injured him after the leaders discovered that only one person could enter the divine realm.
• The narrator sealed Zeus’s Esper abilities, spared him, and followed his directions into the ancient Mother Nest beneath the base.
• Pandora blasted through a concealed wall, and the group entered the Council of Gods, where Viska found two dead Olympus leaders.
• The narrator deduced that Artemis, a mysterious woman who had influenced Olympus for two years, was likely behind its pursuit of godhood.
• The group found a glowing silver hexagram but no obvious passage, and Viska asked Siweisi to search its constellation patterns in the Database.

Viska used forgotten knowledge to analyze the spent teleportation array and helped the group infer that its constellation pattern came from a different observation point. Siweisi's simulation identified the Moon as the place from which the Star Disk's sky could be observed 770,000 years ago, giving the group a new lead on Artemis's destination.

• Siweisi searched stellar data at Viska's suggestion, and Viska activated the hexagram array, which exhausted itself and erased Artemis's destination coordinates.
• Viska used a star map from 770,000 years ago to reverse-engineer the array and found a tiny mismatch between its constellations and Earth's ancient sky.
• Sandora proposed that the Star Disk had been calibrated from somewhere other than the group's location on Earth.
• Siweisi found no matching location on Earth, so Viska urged her to expand the search beyond the planet.
• Siweisi's simulation identified the Moon as the location from which the Star Disk's sky could be observed at the specified time.

After learning that Artemis and the ancient Shilin base might be inside the Moon, Lin Ming and his companions traveled there to investigate. Pandora's scans revealed that the Moon was hollow, leaving the group facing a vast hidden structure with no obvious entrance.

• Lin Ming told Qian Qian and Older Sister that Olympus had been defeated but Artemis remained missing, and Bubble's analysis linked the Star Disk to the Moon.
• Pandora detected a massive hollow and high-energy reaction inside the Moon, while Sandora concluded that an ancient Shilin outpost might still be operating there.
• Lin Ming, Qian Qian, Older Sister, Sandora, and the Pandora sisters reached the lunar surface aboard Seven Trillion.
• Pandora launched Worker Bee probes and scanned the Moon, finding no surface entrance and an interference layer covering the entire Moon.

The group discovered that the moon concealed a vast, functioning Shilin fortress and entered its interior. Viska revealed that the fortress was Bastion Star No. 7535, which she had renamed the Viska Bastion Star.

• Pandora confirmed that the hollow moon contained a hidden base, and Sandora suspected it was connected to events from seven hundred thousand years earlier.
• Viska opened a concealed passage by speaking a phrase, and the group traveled through the moon's crust into the base.
• The group entered the fortress's enormous buffer zone, where its alloy structures and crystal conduits were still operating.
• Sandora's memory returned when artificial gravity activated, causing her, Qian Qian, and Older Sister to tumble down the passage.
• The group crossed the buffer zone and reached a dormant city of war factories, docks, and floating warships.
• Viska explained that the fortress had been called Bastion Star No. 7535 before she renamed it the Viska Bastion Star.

Viska explained that the moon was her Glory-Class planetary fortress and led the group toward its Control Center to prevent Artemis from activating it. Inside, they discovered records of ancient humans and Espers, and Viska and Sandora denied that the Shilin Apostles’ visit had created modern Espers.

• Sandora explained that Glory-Class Warships were unique planetary fortresses materialized by leader-class Shilin Apostles, and Viska revealed that she had destroyed Earth’s original moon and replaced it with the Viska Bastion Star.
• Viska projected a route through the fortress and warned that Artemis might reach the lunar core and accidentally awaken the ship, so she and Pandora commandeered an Assault Ship to reach the Control Center.
• The group traveled through the dormant fortress, entered the Control Center through its Conceptual Barrier, and sent Pandora’s Terminators to search while they headed for the central control room.
• The group found an information center filled with projections and data on ancient humans, including figures named Ares, Apollo, Hera, and Hercules, whom the narrator recognized as early Espers and experimental subjects.
• When Older Sister suggested that modern Espers resulted from Viska’s ancient visit to Earth, Viska and Sandora denied it.

The group learned that Viska had once fought the Shilin Apostles in an ancient war that destroyed Atlantis, and they reassured her that they did not blame her. They then captured Artemis, who revealed that Olympus had searched ancient ruins for Star Disk technology and admitted that its pursuit of the gods was based on a lie.

• Sandora and Viska explained that the Crystal Prism contained records of methods for disabling and exterminating Espers, not for creating them.
• Viska recounted how Shilin Researchers had aided Atlantis before the Fallen Alliance attacked and a Planetary Fortress destroyed the civilization; she later forgot much of her past and wandered with the Fallen Apostles.
• The narrator and Pandora comforted Viska, who had feared they would blame her for Atlantis's destruction.
• After Shilin Soldiers reported an intruder's trail, Viska led the group through the facility, where Pandora stopped Artemis with Time Stop and Older Sister weakened her.
• The group removed Artemis's mask and discovered she was a young blonde woman who had investigated ancient ruins for Star Disk technology and claimed that Olympus's belief in gods was only a deception.

Viska reclaimed command of Bastion Star, and the group learned that Artemis had pursued Shilin technology without understanding its origins. After Olympus fell and the fortress was left untouched, ordinary life resumed, but Lin Xue arrived with something to tell the narrator.

• The group escorted the captured Artemis to Bastion Star's control room, where Viska restored her command authority and revealed the fortress's cosmic surveillance systems.
• Artemis learned that the ancient ruins she had studied belonged to the Shilin Apostles, while Viska discovered Bastion Star's two planetary rings were missing but posed no danger to Earth.
• The group left Bastion Star in place, and the Esper Team took custody of Artemis and Zeus as the surviving Olympus members were eliminated.
• Boundless Love withdrew from public view after Olympus's destruction, while rumors spread that Artemis and Zeus remained alive in Esper Team custody.
• The narrator returned to ordinary life, but Lin Xue visited to mooch a meal and said she had something to tell him.

Chen Jun arranged a reunion between Lilina and Xiao Ling after learning that Xiao Ling and Liu Fan were leaving. He and the Shilin Apostles prepared the former Red Brick Wall café for the meeting, and the group headed there with Xiao Ling recognizing its significance.

• While resting in a park with Viska and Pandora, Chen Jun heard Lilina say that Xiao Ling and Liu Fan were leaving and ask him for help.
• Chen Jun arranged for Asidda and Asidora to restore their flower shop to the appearance of the old Red Brick Wall café and keep outsiders away.
• Chen Jun, Viska, and Pandora met Lilina, Xiao Ling, and Liu Fan after Lilina had spent half an hour keeping the two students occupied.
• Chen Jun invited Xiao Ling and Liu Fan to Red Brick Wall, and Xiao Ling revealed that she remembered the café and its former owner.

Chen arranged a staged reunion in the recreated bar where Xiao Ling and Lilina had last met, revealing that Lilina was Xiao Ling’s missing older sister. The sisters reunited, and Chen then turned to the next task: asking Sikaro whether everything had been taken care of.

• Chen and the twins recreated the bar’s former interior and populated it with Empire Officers posing as customers and staff.
• Chen told Xiao Ling that her sister had been found in another world and had returned in a new body as Lilina.
• Xiao Ling doubted Lilina’s identity until Anweina appeared through Lilina as a glowing spirit, prompting Xiao Ling to recognize her sister and embrace her.
• Chen led Liu Fan, Viska, and Pandora into the back room so the sisters could reunite in private.
• Lilina declared that Xiao Ling would stay while Liu Fan could leave, and Pandora kicked Sikaro into a wall after he offered Liu Fan a pirated Light Disc.
• Chen dragged Sikaro out of the wall and asked whether everything had been taken care of.

Wood and the others investigated Lin Xue’s recurring prophetic nightmare of a city destroyed by an unknown disaster, but found no evidence of an imminent threat. As Lin Xue’s ability worsened, they realized Ding Dang might be able to help and turned to her.

• Sikaro reported finding nothing unusual after investigating cities tied to Lin Xue’s nightmare, and Wood kicked him into a wall for his unhelpful report.
• Lin Xue described her recurring vision of a city strewn with mutilated corpses, and Wood’s group searched for a disaster that could explain it.
• At a tea party, Wood realized Lin Xue had been staying at his house because its energy field eased her runaway prophetic ability, so he invited her to spend the night.
• Wood and the others worried that the Mother Nest Crystal’s radiation had caused Lin Xue’s ability to go out of control and considered whether Qian Qian’s and Older Sister’s powers might suffer the same effects.
• Sandora reported that their investigations found no likely cause for the disaster, but the group refused to dismiss Lin Xue’s accurate prophecy.
• Ding Dang appeared after several days away, and Wood and Sandora decided to ask her for help.

The group discovered that Lin Xue’s nightmares came from an apocalyptic disaster in a parallel world, then used the new Space-Time Management Center to trace its location. A small team arrived in that world and drove toward a city, finding no other vehicles along the highway.

• The narrator asked Ding Dang to investigate Lin Xue’s dreams, and she confirmed that their own world faced no disaster but agreed to help the threatened world.
• Lin Xue and the others learned that the dreams were caused by the collective human consciousness crying out as the parallel world approached apocalypse, and they agreed to save it.
• Two days later, Tawell used the Hibernation Pod to track the source of Lin Xue’s spiritual interference and identify the world’s coordinates.
• The narrator, Sandora, Viska, and Ding Dang traveled to the low-energy world, where their troop carrier briefly landed on a tree before its Anti-Gravity Engine kept it from crashing.
• Viska detected no abnormalities nearby, and the group drove along an empty highway until a city appeared in the distance.

The narrator and his companions entered a deserted city, discovered that it was overrun by infected, and rescued Zhao Leisong and his family. They took the survivors into Seven Trillion and began searching the city for others left behind.

• Viska detected infected in the city, and Seven Trillion destroyed the attackers.
• Viska located three normal life signals surrounded by six infected, and the narrator burned the infected to ash.
• The narrator and his companions rescued Zhao Leisong, Song Yao, and Zhao Xiaoxiao after Zhao Leisong collapsed from exhaustion.
• Zhao Leisong’s family boarded Seven Trillion, and the narrator set the vehicle to patrol the city for more survivors.