Chapter Summaries

After the Sniper Star Cannon destroyed the final Star Ring threat, Chen Jun said goodbye to his friends in Academy City and returned to the Shadow Base. He reunited with Little Pao Pao, but Bubble and Silvia immediately stirred up misunderstandings about his family life.

• Chen Jun fired the Sniper Star Cannon and completely disintegrated the dead planet, destroying the last Star Ring Fragment threat.
• Ruiko Saten, Shirai Kuroko, Kazari Uiharu, Misaka Mikoto, and Kiyama Haruue said goodbye to Chen Jun, who told them they could visit him through Aleister or the English Puritan Church.
• Misaka Mikoto and the others became angry when Chen Jun revealed that they could still reach him through permanent passages, and Ruiko ran off crying.
• Chen Jun and his group returned to the Shadow Base, where Tawell welcomed them and Silvia mistook the transfer device for a fast vehicle.
• Little Pao Pao rushed into Chen Jun's arms, but Bubble pulled her away and called him heartless, while Silvia joked that he had abandoned his wife and daughter.

After returning to Shadow City, A Jun arranged to make the Misaka Sisters' district livelier and envisioned the city becoming a hub for travelers from other worlds. Back home, Anweina welcomed him with an enormous banquet, leaving him to face Qian Qian's jealousy and Sandora's appetite.

• Siweisi reported that Shadow City's residential district was nearing completion, though its buildings had to be rebuilt for the Misaka Sisters because the city's projections caused supernatural incidents.
• A Jun met little Misaka and Accelerator, who said life was safer than in Academy City but Accelerator refused to visit the Second District.
• A Jun decided Shadow City needed recreational facilities and proposed turning it into a space-time hub, while Qian Qian imagined an elaborate city spanning dimensions.
• A Jun ordered expanded construction plans for Shadow City, and Qian Qian eagerly took charge of the project.
• A Jun returned home, where Anweina greeted him and prepared an enormous banquet that delighted Sandora and made Qian Qian jealous.

The narrator enjoyed a quiet holiday with the Empire Commanders before learning that a recovered Star Ring Fragment had been altered to use Abyss energy, possibly by the Fallen Apostles. Pandora also reported that the Imperial Army had grown powerful enough to defeat an Azeroth-scale threat with one mothership, and the narrator took her and Viska to an amusement park.

• The narrator scolded Asidda and Asidora for neglecting their flower shop, and the twins said they had been helping Tawell with spatial experiments.
• Tawell told the narrator that a Star Ring Fragment's mutated framework was highly suited to Abyss energy and could still make continuous jumps despite losing its usual power systems.
• Tawell warned that the Fallen Apostles might be behind the fragment's alteration and could possess more fragments.
• Pandora reported that the Empire had completed twenty-two Star-Class Motherships and that one mothership with its fleet could handle a threat like Azeroth.
• The narrator took Pandora and Viska to the amusement park, where the two girls spent the day playing and forgot about military matters.

After a long day at the amusement park, Chen Jun and the others returned home to Older Sister’s scolding and a crowded family dinner, where Sandora discussed Silvia’s mysterious past. Lilina returned from visiting her family with her mother and renewed gratitude, but the chapter ended when Tawell reported a bug in the newly manufactured Sniper Star Cannon.

• Older Sister let Chen Jun, the Head of State, and the Five-Star Generals off with a warning after they returned late from the amusement park, where Anweina’s dinner had gone cold and Sandora had attacked the sofa from hunger.
• Chen Jun asked Sandora about Silvia’s memory scan, and Sandora said Silvia had once been an Emperor-Class Apostle but that her identity remained unknown.
• Chen Jun watched Silvia and Little Pao Pao enjoy the sunny morning before Lilina arrived carrying a huge bundle of local specialties.
• Lilina thanked Chen Jun for helping her reunite with her family, then revealed that she had brought her mother to live with them and would return to work as Chief Goddess Official of the Life Goddess.
• Tawell reported that she had found a bug inside the newly manufactured Sniper Star Cannon.

After a bug survived the Sniper Star Cannon’s extreme radiation, Sandora identified it as a weapon-like member of a destructive alien species and the Empire prepared to exterminate them. Lilina joined the expedition with seeds from the World Tree, but Tawell’s coordinates brought the fleet into the enemy’s asteroid belt instead of outside its planet.

• Tawell reported finding a genetically unusual bug near the Sniper Star Cannon’s energy coils, where it had endured lethal psionic radiation for thirty seconds.
• Sandora judged the bug’s malformed body to be that of a disposable living weapon and suspected its species attacked other lifeforms to advance its own evolution.
• Qian Qian revived the dead bug with time reversal, but Vega killed it when it lunged at the group, and Sandora warned that it might have sent a distress signal.
• Lilina gave the Empire seeds of Sin of Life and explained that the enemy species were Goddess’s people, so Goddess could not personally fight them; Lilina joined as an observer.
• The Empire assembled its fleet in an Asteroid Belt beyond the Solar System, and Lilina named the campaign the Evil Expedition of History’s Largest Pillage and Plunder Gang.
• After the fleet jumped to the coordinates Tawell had calculated from the Sniper Star Cannon, it emerged inside an asteroid belt, and Tawell apologized for the mistake.

Chen Jun’s First Legion discovered a human fleet commanded by James Raynor trapped in a battle with the Zerg and intervened with overwhelming firepower. Raynor’s forces escaped, while the Empire Fleet launched an attack that erased the Zerg army.

• Sandora determined that the Asteroid Belt was a battlefield rather than a Zerg nest, and the fleet found human-looking combat machines among the wreckage.
• Chen Jun and Bubble identified the Zerg as disposable, specialized weapons and detected James Raynor’s fleet fighting a vast swarm.
• Chen Jun opened communications with Raynor and ordered the Empire Fleet to fire a grazing shot to demonstrate its power.
• The Empire Admiral’s beam killed tens of thousands of Zerg and melted part of a nearby planet, prompting Raynor to withdraw through the opening it created.
• Raynor’s forces escaped, and the Empire Fleet fired more than a dozen beams that destroyed the remaining Zerg army.

The Empire rescued James Raynor’s battered fleet from the Zerg and invited him aboard the Empire Admiral, where Chen Jun explained that the Empire had come to fight the bugs. After discussing the strange connection between this star sector and StarCraft, Chen Jun ordered the Empire to establish bases and weapons, then chose an unclaimed planet suggested by Reno as the fleet’s new home.

• The Empire fleet annihilated the Zerg swarm and shattered the nameless planet, then emerged from warped space and invited Reno and his crew aboard the Empire Admiral.
• Reno brought his soldiers aboard, and Chen Jun introduced himself as the Emperor and explained that his forces had come to fight the Zerg.
• Sandora and Chen Jun discussed the strange StarCraft information projection and ordered the legions to establish bases, fortress planets, and Anti-Star Weapons.
• Chen Jun asked Reno to locate an unclaimed planet, and Reno showed him a barren system with a stable outer planet and two large moons.
• Chen Jun chose the planet as the Empire’s new home and jumped the fleet to the system, leaving Reno and Tychus sick from the journey.

Chen Jun’s fleet arrived at a dying star system and found the third planet overrun by Zerg, while a Protoss fleet also arrived to confront the infestation. After EOP-03 burned away the Zerg, the Shilin forces began building a protected landing site and preparing to settle the planet.

• Bubble detected Zerg covering nearly two-thirds of the third planet, and Sandora ordered the fleet to prepare EOP-03.
• An unknown fleet emerged from hyperspace, and Chen Jun identified its commander as Du Han of Aiur, a Protoss seeking to eliminate the Zerg.
• Chen Jun released EOP-03, which set the planet ablaze and killed the Zerg infestation.
• Pandora and Viska descended with Shilin Mainframes and elite troops to protect them and kill the surviving Brain Bug.
• Du Han departed after the Zerg were purified, while the Shilin Mainframes rapidly spread alloy ground across the planet.
• The Empire Fleet began landing on the new metal surface, which was shielded and maintained an Earthlike environment.

The narrator and the Shilin forces transformed their starships into General City on Black Egg Star and prepared to face the local Zerg threat. Three days later, a large human fleet arrived, and its commander claimed the star sector for the Federation while welcoming the newcomers on Emperor Mengsk’s behalf.

• The Empire Admiral and other motherships disassembled into General City, while the narrator, Reno, and Tex surveyed the new fortress and its unusual attractions.
• Pandora and Viska destroyed the Brain Bug, but Pandora reported that it had begun adapting to the planet’s heat and psionic radiation before its death.
• Over three days, General City’s factories began operating, Reno stayed with the group, and Little Pao Pao and Lilina opened a central park.
• Vega reported that navigational beacons had revealed approaching ships, prompting the Imperial forces to enter combat alert and conceal their fleets.
• Bubble identified the arriving fleet as a Federation force commanded by Dantonsentis, who contacted the narrator and claimed the star sector as Federation territory.

Chen Jun rejected Denton’s offer of an alliance with the Terran Federation and ordered Pandora and Viska to confront the fleet. The two Shilin Apostles devastated the human warships, but the chapter ended as two battlecruisers aimed their Yamato Cannons at Pandora.

• Chen Jun refused Denton’s alliance proposal and told him to report back without disturbing the Empire.
• Denton denounced Reno as a terrorist, then cut communications and put the Federation fleet into an attacking formation.
• Chen Jun suspended the Lower Life Protection Act for the Federation and sent Pandora and Viska to intercept its fleet.
• Pandora and Viska destroyed two battlecruisers with their anti-ship cannons and deployed six hundred improved floating cannons across the battlefield.
• The Federation fleet counterattacked under Denton’s orders, but nearly half its warships and most of its fighters were destroyed.
• Two distant battlecruisers secretly charged their Yamato Cannons and aimed at Pandora while she continued directing the bombardment.

The narrator’s forces crushed Denton’s Imperial Federation fleet, warned Mengsk to stay away, and prepared Black Egg Star’s defenses as a hundred million Zerg approached. Sandora declared the planet at war, with the swarm due to arrive before the orbital cannons were ready.

• Pandora and Viska destroyed most of Denton’s fleet, and the narrator sent the surviving Imperial Federation ships away after warning them not to interfere.
• Reno warned that Mengsk would retaliate, while the narrator and Sandora studied the sector’s powers and planned their next steps against the Zerg.
• The Empire built planetary defenses, including ground cannons, orbital weapons, and Lilina’s fast-growing plants designed to consume Zerg.
• Sandora discovered a swarm of at least one hundred million Zerg approaching from a planet beyond an asteroid belt, due to reach the warning perimeter in three days.
• Qian Qian offered to slow the Zerg’s timeline, and Sandora ordered the planet into a state of war and mobilized its defenses.

The Shilin forces fought a hundred-million-strong Zerg swarm around Black Egg Star, but the bugs’ rapid reproduction and adaptation threatened to turn the battle into a costly war of attrition. Tawell revealed that Silvia had once been the Emperor Bellavella and introduced a newly created force of Mass-Produced Ravens, leaving their role in the battle ahead.

• The Zerg swarm reached Black Egg Star, where the planetary Psionic Shield and Psionic Storm Obelisks inflicted heavy losses but could not stop the insects from replenishing their ranks.
• Sandora located Zerg hatcheries deep behind a defense line of forty million bugs, while the Shilin forces struggled to reach them and prevent the battle from dragging on.
• The Zerg adapted to the Shilin weapons, and EOP-03 proved less effective after the bugs learned to evade its chain deflagration.
• Tawell reported that Silvia's soul closely matched an Empire Emperor's file and identified her former identity as Terror Shaper Bellavella, a powerful Raven and Mystic System Apostle.
• Tawell revealed more than one hundred Mass-Produced Ravens, created by analyzing Silvia's soul and Raven technology, and assembled them before the Crystal Tower.

Chen Jun learned that the Ravens were soul-linked copies of Silvia and watched one use the Planetary Shield’s energy to devastate the Zerg. The Ravens had planted Older Sister’s ominous crystal inside a flying dragon, but its effects were still unknown.

• Tawell explained that the Ravens were replicated from Silvia’s soul and would obey orders issued in Chen Jun’s name.
• Chen Jun sent the hundred Ravens toward the Fourth Sky District, and Older Sister gave them a cursed-looking crystal to put inside any bug.
• Chen Jun watched a Raven unleash a vast lightning attack that killed hundreds of thousands of Zerg by drawing energy from the Planetary Shield.
• Sandora explained that the Ravens’ energy conduction let them use energy around them to power their spells.
• Chen Jun learned that No. 017 had planted the crystal in a flying dragon and let it escape, but the Ravens had lost track of it.

The Empire Army destroyed the Zerg assault on Black Egg Star after Raven magic and Older Sister’s cursed crystal devastated the Mutalisks. Tawell discovered that mana made Zerg vulnerable to magic, so the forces began assembling human mages in Shilin-designed Powered Armor for a campaign against the Zerg homeworld.

• The Ravens’ planetary-shield counterattack and Older Sister’s crystal crippled the Mutalisks, allowing Pandora and Viska’s Apostles to destroy the Zerg hatcheries and end the battle.
• The command hall recovered the cursed crystal, and Older Sister explained that she could not mass-produce it because only one crystal could curse a species at a time.
• Tawell reported that magic caused at least three times as much damage to Zerg as ordinary attacks, apparently because mana catalyzed harmful chemical reactions inside their bodies.
• The narrator ordered spellcasters from several worlds to gather into a Holy Expeditionary Force, and Qian Qian proposed using Powered Armor to protect human mages in hostile environments.
• Tawell designed armor with life support and mana amplification, and the first units were ready when Jaina led a thousand mages from Azeroth to General City.
• Jaina told the narrator that the Savior Army had reached Draenor and was helping the Orcs rebuild before her mages began training to use the Powered Armor.

The narrator led an expedition to Geda Star, a ruined Protoss colony, after the Zerg swarm’s collapse. The landing forces found few Zerg and evidence that Protoss had killed a Queen, then discovered hidden life in an underground cavern as Qian Qian and Lilina eagerly prepared to investigate.

• Jaina reported that Azeroth’s mages had adapted to Powered Armor, though their troops needed custom equipment for elves, gnomes, dwarves, and Tauren.
• The narrator, Qian Qian, and Lilina led a fleet to Geda Star, where Vega’s Armored Scorpions, mage teams, and regular troops began landing.
• Jaina’s first landing force reached the creep-covered surface and found no significant Zerg forces as units spread across the planet.
• A landing force discovered a dead Zerg Queen bearing signs of high-temperature cutting and residual Protoss psionic energy, suggesting Protoss had killed it.
• A Raven squad detected concealed life in an underground cavern after a probe lost contact, and the narrator ordered nearby forces to approach while Qian Qian and Lilina rushed to explore.

After three squads disappeared in the underground caverns, the narrator, Qian Qian, and Lilina discovered that a Crystal Jungle disrupted communications and concealed a vast Zerg swarm. They found the missing allies fighting around a communications beacon and launched an assault to reach them.

• The narrator ordered the First Raven Squad to seal the cavern entrance and used probes to discover a Crystal Jungle beyond the Fault Zone.
• The narrator, Qian Qian, and Lilina entered the cavern with Vega and found that the crystals' energy resonance blocked ordinary communications.
• The group tracked the missing squads through the jungle and discovered a huge Zerg swarm gathered beyond a crystal wall.
• Vega detected the allies fighting near a high-energy structure and communications beacon surrounded by the swarm.
• Vega blasted a path through the Zerg, while Qian Qian attacked the swarm and the narrator followed with Lilina toward the beacon.

Chen Jun and his companions rescued Zeratul and his followers from a Zerg siege at an ancient Protoss temple, then learned that an artifact had drawn the Zerg and disrupted their teleportation. Lilina revived the fallen Protoss warriors, leaving Zeratul astonished and facing her demand for payment.

• Vega and Qian Qian cleared a path through the Zerg while Chen Jun carried Lilina to the temple, where the stranded soldiers had formed a defensive perimeter.
• A Shilin Commander reported that three units had been teleported near the temple and were sheltering with the surviving Protoss under Raven 003's shield.
• Chen Jun met Zeratul, who explained that he had discovered the sanctuary, activated its artifact, and become trapped with his followers as the Zerg swarmed toward it.
• Zeratul showed Chen Jun the wounded Templars and the bodies of Protoss warriors who had died defending the temple.
• Lilina cast a divine spell that revived the dead Protoss warriors, then told Zeratul that her service cost sixty-eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty yuan.

Lilina used her divine art to kill the Zerg swarm besieging the Protoss temple, and the group escaped through the Crystal Jungle. After returning to the mothership, they encountered a hostile Protoss fleet commanded by Executor Protos of the Tal'darim, who demanded the divine artifact Zeratul carried.

• Lilina resurrected the fallen Protoss warriors, then used Command Death to kill the Zerg swarm surrounding the temple.
• The group left the cavern through the Crystal Jungle, whose defensive resonance failed to harm the Shilin forces.
• The mothership reported that a large Protoss fleet had surrounded it, so the group teleported back while the landing forces remained on the planet.
• Executor Protos accused the aliens of trespassing and damaging the ancestral halls, then demanded the divine artifact aboard the mothership.
• Zeratul told Protos that the artifact remained in Protoss hands, but Protos identified himself as a Tal'darim Executor and maintained his hostility toward the aliens.

The Empire Fleet fought the Tal'darim after Protos demanded that the humans leave Geda Star and surrender a sacred artifact. The Empire Fleet devastated the enemy with its experimental Energy Scavengers and Star River Main Gun, but the Tal'darim’s carriers launched a surprise attack on the Eternal-class flagship’s main gun.

• Protos demanded that the Empire Fleet leave the Protoss sacred ground, surrender its artifact, and send its leader to repent, so the narrator ordered the ground survey to continue.
• Protos attacked with more than a thousand Warp Rays, but the Empire Fleet entered its inverse-phase state and avoided their first volley.
• The Energy Scavengers siphoned the Warp Rays’ energy and psionic power, destroying the ships, while the Star River Main Gun tore through the Tal'darim fleet.
• The Empire Fleet sealed off the battlefield and used Warp Maneuver to limit damage as the Protoss fleet counterattacked.
• Qian Qian noticed halos forming beneath the three Protoss carriers, then thousands of fighters spatially jumped beside the Eternal-class’s bow and struck the charging Star River Main Gun.

The Shilin Emperor stopped the Tal'darim from destroying the Star River Main Gun by absorbing its runaway energy, forcing their fleet to retreat. Afterward, he gave Zeratul seeds that could restore Geda Star, leaving the Protoss warrior impressed by the Empire and its goodwill.

• Protos sent more than ten thousand suicidal drones into the charging Star River Main Gun, destabilizing its energy crystal and triggering an emergency shutdown.
• The Shilin Emperor appeared beside the main gun and redirected its out-of-control energy into another dimension, then warned the Tal'darim through their minds that he was running out of patience.
• The Tal'darim fleet retreated after witnessing the Emperor's power, and he released their leader while warning Zeratul that another attack could bring war with the entire Protoss race.
• Zeratul suspected the Tal'darim had been instigated to attack the Empire, while the Emperor dismissed the possibility of a conspiracy as a threat to his forces.
• Druids planted Lilina's seeds on Geda Star, where they rapidly spread into green vines that decomposed Zerg remains and began restoring the planet.
• The Emperor gave Zeratul several life-restoring seeds as a gesture of goodwill, and Zeratul praised the Empire after seeing Geda Star bloom.