Chapter Summaries

The narrator gave Zeratul Sacred Seeds and examined the Protoss artifact before Zeratul departed with an Anti-Phase Shuttle. Back at Black Egg Star, the narrator greeted newly arrived allied spellcasters and found the English Puritan Church contingent, including Stiyl, assembled in the Church District.

• Lilina explained how the Sacred Seeds could grow and purify Zerg, and Zeratul accepted them for use on Shakuras and other infected planets.
• The narrator examined Zeratul's purple artifact, but the mothership detected no internal structure, and Zeratul left aboard a borrowed Anti-Phase Shuttle.
• The narrator and Lilina returned to Black Egg Star, where Muro and Novia welcomed them as the Vidis spellcasters prepared to join the forces there.
• Sandora ordered the Vidis mages to collect Powered Armor and reported that the English Puritan Church unit had arrived under Stiyl, Kanzaki, and Laura.
• The narrator entered the Church District, teased Stiyl, and learned that the Puritan group had already seen Elves racing through the plaza.

The Empire launched a broad offensive against the Zerg while integrating warriors from many worlds into its expeditionary force. After burning seven Zerg planets and advancing across others, the Empire faced unexpected attacks from Mengsk’s fleet and an unidentified Protoss force.

• The narrator warned Stiyl and Laura that the Empire’s war dwarfed Earth’s conflicts, while Laura questioned whether the expeditionary force was fighting for God.
• The Savior Army trained the newly assembled warriors, and Sandora reported that the Empire had established fortresses and identified ten Zerg-occupied planets as targets.
• The narrator announced that the Empire would draw out the Queen of Blades and joked that Reno should court her; he later promised Reno help if Kerrigan could be brought back.
• The Empire burned seven Zerg-infested planets and advanced on others, while Sandora reported that forces had cleared much of Planet Eight and encountered powerful Zerg on Planet Ten.
• Mengsk’s Battlecruisers ambushed an Empire patrol, and an unidentified Protoss fleet attacked another patrol, leaving only two Assault Ships to escape.

The Empire discovered that the humans, Protoss, and Zerg were all turning against it, but Zeratul revealed that a mysterious revelation had manipulated the humans and Protoss into seeing the Shilin People as a threat. With the cause of the conflict exposed but the enemy still closing in, the Emperor prepared to deploy hidden weapons.

• The Independent Federation ambushed Empire patrols with massed battlecruisers while Protoss forces seized strategic planets in the Eastern Star Sector.
• Lilina reported that the humans had committed their full strength, the Protoss had sent their available forces, and the Zerg were holding much of their army in reserve.
• Zeratul arrived aboard the Empire Admiral and explained that a revelation had convinced the humans and Protoss that the Shilin People planned to conquer and destroy the sector.
• Zeratul said the revelation spread as a manipulated trend of thought, while the people of Shakuras remained clear-headed and Kerrigan appeared unaffected.
• The Emperor contacted the Empire's hidden Fortress Planets and prepared to reveal weapons originally meant to intimidate the Queen of Blades.

As casualties mounted, the Empire prepared a terrifying show of force to make the human, Zerg, and Protoss leaders abandon resistance. After destroying an uninhabited planet as a demonstration, the Empire revealed its Zero Planet Warships moving toward worlds across the Kopru Star Sector.

• Tawell reported that the replicated-core weapons were ready but could operate at only thirty percent power, while the Empire discussed the enemy’s mounting losses.
• Arcturus Mengsk contacted the Empire and issued an ultimatum demanding its withdrawal, but the narrator rejected a peaceful resolution.
• The narrator drew Nulculas Planet from a blank timetable, and a beam erased the abandoned world, terrifying the leaders who were watching.
• Reno learned that the planet’s destruction had been a staged threat, while Sandora said the aim was to create total panic.
• Hundreds of planets in human, Zerg, and Protoss space began moving, unfolded to reveal Zero Planet Warships, and headed toward designated targets including Char, Aiur, and Tarsonis.

Zero described how the Empire’s crude Planetary Fortresses used experimental Mass-Energy Conversion Cores to erase a Zerg colony and overwhelm the allied forces, while Shilin research uncovered the God Realm origin of a mysterious Protoss artifact. The Empire prepared to harvest the enemy’s remaining colonies as Sandora explained that the artifact was a powerful beacon once used as decoration by the Star Domain God Race.

• Zero explained that more than a hundred modified Planetary Fortresses had been built, with thirteen carrying Tawell’s experimental Mass-Energy Conversion Cores.
• The Planetary Fortresses erased the Zerg Colonial Star Itharas, killed nearly half of the 6.3 billion Zerg defending it with a Space Jump, and left behind an apple-core-shaped remnant bearing the message “Idiots downstairs.”
• Siweisi reported that human civilians were protesting, the Tal'darim had withdrawn to their home colonies, and the Zerg were defending their worlds without internal collapse.
• Tawell explained how the Protoss converted ambient energy into pseudo-psionic energy and reported that Shilin technology could not reproduce the strange artifact beside Zeratul.
• Sandora identified the artifact as a God Realm creation and recalled receiving one from a Star Domain God Race researcher.
• Sandora explained that the artifact could guide armies through interference and the World Barrier, though the Star Domain God Race had used such devices as decorations.

The Empire continued its televised lottery of planets to destroy while investigating why the star sector’s races refused to surrender. A group of girls from Academy City unexpectedly reached the flagship, and Accelerator questioned whether the Empire was truly a savior or an invading force.

• Zeratul identified Noral Planet as a Tal'darim mining world, and the Empire selected it for destruction in the daily Doomsday Lottery.
• Chen Jun announced that Noral Planet would be destroyed in thirty-seven minutes while Lilina resumed hosting the broadcast.
• Ruiko Saten and the others arrived on the flagship after Little Misaka used the Misaka Network's access privileges to sneak them onto a transport.
• Chen Jun allowed the visitors to stay but warned them that the star sector was at war and that the Empire had become everyone's target.
• Accelerator confronted Chen Jun and asked whether his powerful army was invading under the guise of salvation.

The Emperor brought Academy City’s visitors to watch the Empire’s fleet battle the Tal’darim near Noral Planet, where the Protoss deployed a vast force and concealed Motherships. As the fighting stalemated and the Emperor ordered the Motherships captured, Sandora sent elite reinforcements toward the battlefield.

• Accelerator asked whether the Emperor was plotting against them, and the Emperor said he was launching an invasion but held no ill will toward Misaka.
• Zeratul entered the room and startled Kazari Uiharu before the Emperor introduced him and the visitors to each other.
• Bubble alerted the group that Starship Battleship Number Thirty-Seven had encountered large-scale Protoss resistance near Noral Planet, and the Emperor took the visitors to the bridge.
• The Emperor ordered the fleet to capture the Protoss Motherships, but the Tal’darim ambushed the vanguard under a massive stealth field before the Shilin Mainframe exposed their fleet.
• The Tal’darim and the Empire’s starship fleet fought to a stalemate, and Sandora dispatched elite Motherships as reinforcements.

The Empire Fleet gained the upper hand over the Tal'darim, but the enemy launched a massive ambush against the Empire Admiral using hidden Protoss Motherships and forces from all three races. The battle escalated into a full-scale fight, where Pandora and Viska devastated the enemy while the Empire prepared to hold off its overwhelming numbers.

• Sikaro's elite reinforcements used hit-and-run tactics to strike the Tal'darim fleet from behind, shifting the battle in the Empire's favor.
• The Empire Admiral detected a gravitational collapse too late to stop hidden attackers from surrounding the main fleet and destroying an outer patrol craft.
• The Empire exposed the cloaked Protoss Motherships and discovered they had stored human Battlecruisers in a Different Dimension, while human and Zerg forces led the ambush.
• The Academy City visitors chose to remain aboard the Empire Admiral as the Empire Fleet formed up and fought the attackers, with magic units casting massive Arcane Novas.
• Pandora and Viska entered the battle and coordinated instinctively, destroying hundreds of Battlecruisers and thousands of heavy cruisers in a single devastating attack.
• Siweisi empowered tens of thousands of Empire ships with her Storm Commander abilities as Sandora estimated that eliminating the enemy would take about two days if no reinforcements arrived.

As the battle raged, Lilina revealed that the Kopru Star Sector was suffering from an unexplained disease that could force its destruction if left unresolved. Pandora confronted Kerrigan, and Chen Jun ordered her to capture the Queen of Blades alive; Pandora responded by launching thousands of heavy cannons at her.

• Lilina sent the frightened Academy City girls away from the Command Center, then told Chen Jun and the others that Goddess had detected a disease affecting the Kopru Star Sector.
• Lilina explained that if they did not cure the sector within two months, they would have to destroy all life in it, potentially killing hundreds of billions.
• Lilina sensed a powerful lifeform approaching Pandora, and Pandora moved to intercept it as Bubble identified and revealed the cloaked Kerrigan.
• Chen Jun ordered Pandora not to kill Kerrigan and told her to capture her alive, while also asking for Reno to be brought back.
• Kerrigan attacked Pandora's floating cannons with psionic storms, destroying more than half of them, while Pandora's restrained counterattacks inflicted only minor injuries.
• Pandora recalled her remaining floating cannons and summoned more than three thousand heavy vector impact cannons, which she hurled at Kerrigan in hopes of knocking her unconscious.

The Shilin forces captured Kerrigan after Pandora knocked her unconscious, but Sandora suspected the Zerg’s sudden rout concealed a larger danger. Kerrigan revealed that an entity had controlled her and proposed cooperation, and she claimed she still controlled the Zerg.

• Pandora overwhelmed Kerrigan with a relentless barrage of hammers and carried her unconscious body back to the flagship.
• The Zerg fled after Kerrigan fell, while the human and Protoss fleets withdrew under pressure; Sandora stopped Viska from pursuing them because the retreat seemed suspicious.
• The group confined Kerrigan in a Zero Point Cage, where Pandora and Viska kicked the prison’s Main God 2.0 mainframe.
• Kerrigan explained that an unknown entity had controlled her through the Zerg psychic links and that she had deliberately entered the Empire’s trap to escape its influence.
• The narrator agreed to keep Kerrigan alive as an intelligence source without forming an alliance, and Kerrigan said the Zerg remained under her control.

Kerrigan explained how she had copied her consciousness into the Zerg to resist Revelation and bargained for the Shilin Apostles to restore her control. As the Empire prepared to hunt for Revelation’s source, A Jun and Sandora concluded that someone had manipulated events to draw them into the Kopru Star Sector.

• Kerrigan revealed that neural tumors linked the Zerg into a collective mind containing copies of her consciousness, which could keep thinking if she lost herself.
• Kerrigan offered to help avert a war by regaining control of the Zerg, and she calmly reunited with James Reno while Lilina and A Jun joked about arranging their marriage.
• Kerrigan described Revelation as concealed influence that could become forceful mind control, and Sandora judged that it had affected her while leaving the Protoss mostly resistant.
• Zeratul hurried back to Shakuras to warn the Protoss, whose survivors agreed to help find Revelation’s source and fight when needed.
• Sandora and A Jun discussed changing the Empire’s fleet plans and suspected that Revelation, the Star Ring Fragments, and earlier coincidences had been part of a scheme to lead them into the sector.

The Empire destroyed Taidakelan Star by tearing it apart with gravity and hurling its fragments toward the sun, demonstrating its overwhelming power to the Kopru Star Sector. Zeratul then reported that Shakuras scouts had found the Sacred Ground behind the revelation, and the Empire Admiral headed there with the Queen of Blades aboard.

• The Empire announced Taidakelan Star as its next destruction target, and its Tal'darim defenders prepared a vast psionic mirror to deflect the Planet Warship's beam.
• Sandora ordered Siweisi to destroy Taidakelan with conventional weapons after Tawell explained that the mirror might deflect only the first beam strike.
• Zero Number Seven split open and used a gravitational weapon to collapse Taidakelan, then swung the planet's fragments toward its sun.
• Zeratul told the narrator that Shakuras scouts had discovered the hidden Sacred Ground that was the source of the revelation.
• The narrator traveled toward the Sacred Ground aboard the Empire Admiral with the Queen of Blades, while Little Pao Pao bit her bone wings.

The Empire Fleet discovered that the Protoss Sacred Ground was a Dark Sun, a region where a star had been expelled into a secure partition after its laws were corrupted. Sandora explained how dark existences worked, and the expedition prepared to enter while Kerrigan stayed outside as a watched sentry.

• Kerrigan said she had reclaimed nearly all the Zerg, but a self-aware shadow had isolated the Zerg on Ilsa Na and threatened to create a new Overmind.
• Zeratul guided the fleet toward the missing Protoss Sacred Ground and described the vanished Xel'Naga vessel and the dangerous, invisible region where Protoss explorers had disappeared.
• Sandora's multidimensional scans revealed the Sacred Ground as a Dark Sun and showed that it was a corrupted star preserved in a partition because its laws could no longer be defined.
• Sandora explained that dark existences resulted from damaged laws and that the Dark Sun contained a world of chaotic, unrecognizable reality.
• Kerrigan stayed outside the Dark Sun under surveillance, while the narrator declared Zeratul an honorary citizen of the Empire, allowing him to enter protected from its chaotic laws.

The Empire Fleet entered the Dark Sun and discovered that salvaged relics came from an ancient battlefield where the Star Domain God Race fought the Huron. Sandora explained that the gods’ battle had shattered the star’s laws, while the source of the Dark Sun’s Apocalypse remained unknown as the fleet left the Pseudo-Existence Zone.

• Sandora showed how the Dark Sun’s chaotic laws transformed a drone, then explained that the fleet was approaching a Pseudo-Existence Zone.
• Tawell described a civilization that had formed inside another Pseudo-Existence Zone and was destroyed when it ventured into chaos.
• The fleet entered the zone and salvaged weapons and other relics; Sandora recognized them as artifacts of the Star Domain God Race and identified the area as a battlefield.
• Sandora explained that the Star Domain God Race had once fought the Huron, and that their battle’s aftershocks had destroyed the star’s laws and created the Dark Sun.
• Qian Qian asked why the Dark Sun produced Apocalypse, but Sandora said she did not know; the fleet continued through the darkness and eventually left the Pseudo-Existence Zone.

The Empire Fleet discovered that the Dark Sun was replaying its history in reverse, threatening to recreate the gods’ catastrophic self-destruction and destroy them. With escape routes sealed, Chen Jun ordered the fleet toward the source of the reversing timeline in hopes of stopping it.

• Tawell reported that the fleet had entered the Dark Sun’s core, while Zeratul stayed on the observation platform after abandoning his plan to sense the revelation directly.
• The fleet suffered violent shocks, and Tawell identified the Dark Sun’s apparent collapse as a reverse-flowing timeline rather than an ordinary disaster.
• Sandora concluded that the Dark Sun’s core had been devastated by gods’ self-destruction and that the reversing timeline would soon replay the blast that erased them.
• Bubble found that the Dark Sun had sealed itself, preventing the fleet from navigating back outside, while Asidda and Asidora located only imprecise internal coordinates.
• Chen Jun used Qian Qian’s sense of the timeline’s direction to guide the fleet toward its source, intending to destroy whatever was causing time to reverse.

The Empire Fleet entered a lawless region inside the Dark Sun and discovered a Monarch-class sovereign ship radiating stable laws. Ockham revealed that he had lured the Empire into a trap, and after the Monarch activated Gospel, the Fleet found its attacks could not penetrate the barrier.

• Sandora ordered the Empire Fleet to prepare for entry into the Void-like region, where probes disintegrated outside the mothership fields.
• The Fleet spotted a Monarch-class sovereign ship whose Apocalypse component was stabilizing time and laws throughout the Dark Sun.
• Ockham appeared before the Empire Leaders, addressed Viska as 7535, and claimed he had scripted the chain of events that brought them into his prepared grave.
• The Monarch activated Gospel's Punishment Form, and Sandora explained that its barrier would reflect most attacks until Gospel fully powered up.
• The Empire Fleet fired a saturation barrage at the Monarch, but its beams failed to affect the barrier, leaving the Fleet to consider law-based attacks, attacking during Genesis, or overwhelming Gospel with numbers.

A Jun used Void Energy to destroy the Monarch-class and stop its time-reversal attack, but Ockham’s apparent defeat triggered an Ultra-Scale Abyss Outbreak. The chapter left the Empire Fleet facing Ockham’s real trap: a completely Abyss-ified Universe.

• Qian Qian warned A Jun and the others that the Dark Sun would recreate the Gods' Self-Destruction in three hours, while the Empire Fleet failed to penetrate Gospel.
• A Jun proposed attacking Gospel with Void Energy and demonstrated that he could Voidify matter, then transformed a heavy Assault Ship into a Void weapon.
• The Empire Admiral launched the Voidified Assault Ship at the Monarch-class, where its impact triggered a chain reaction that destroyed the rings and shattered the command ship.
• Qian Qian sensed that time had returned to chaos, and the fleet began to celebrate the Monarch-class's destruction.
• An unfamiliar alarm sounded, and Sandora identified an Ultra-Scale Abyss Outbreak as Ockham announced that he had prepared a Completely Abyss-ified Universe.

After Ockham’s trap unleashed an Abyss Gate inside the Dark Sun, Sandora and the Empire Fleet learned the universe could be contaminated within days. Ding Dang could delay the spread but proposed sacrificing the Kopru Star Sector, leaving the group searching for a way to evacuate its people and destroy the region as a new ally offered help.

• Sandora deduced that Ockham had hidden an Abyss core and Star Ring Fragment inside the Monarch-class ship, making the Abyss Gate erupt regardless of the Empire Fleet’s actions.
• Bubble estimated that the Dark Sun would collapse and spread Abyss contamination across the universe in about ten days, while Sandora explained that the released Abyss power could not be destroyed by ordinary means.
• The Empire Fleet withdrew from the Dark Sun, and Zeratul learned about the Abyss crisis; Sandora warned that the Kopru Star Sector might have to be abandoned.
• The Queen of Blades questioned whether refuge was worthwhile, and Lilina told her the Empire could shelter survivors in other universes.
• Ding Dang said she could confine and slow the contamination, but saving the universe would require isolating and eventually destroying the entire Kopru Star Sector; she could not do that destruction herself.
• As the group struggled to find a weapon capable of destroying the Kopru Star Sector, a being from another dimension offered to help.

Alaya revealed that the repaired World Arbitration Organization could purify the Abyss-tainted Kopru Star Sector, but activating it required Gaia and a way to bring the home planet into the same world. The group arranged to transfer the planet, then Sandora began explaining Hot Start, a method that erased a target by removing every attribute that constituted its existence.

• Alaya told A Jun that Arbitration Mode could purify the galaxy, and Sandora explained that it required three World Arbitration Organizations: Alaya, Pandora, and Gaia.
• Alaya said she and Gaia had repaired themselves enough to restart Arbitration Mode, while Pandora explained that Gaia could not easily leave the home planet.
• Sandora proposed bringing the home planet to the Kopru Star Sector, and Ding Dang used her authority as a World Managing God to reassign the planet so it could pass through a Space Rift.
• A Jun assigned Alaya and Ding Dang to handle the world-boundary operation and Tawell to activate the Space-Time Management Center's spatial severance system in Shadow City.
• Pandora named Hot Start as the method for purifying the Kopru Star Sector, and Sandora explained that it erased a target by extracting every attribute and information that made it exist.

The narrator explained that World Reactivation would save the universe by formatting and recreating the Kopru Star Sector, forcing its inhabitants to evacuate before the region was destroyed in a month and a half. After warning the local leaders and offering Kerrigan a chance to leave the Zerg, the Empire began broadcasting the evacuation notice across the sector.

• The narrator told Zeratul, Raynor, and the Queen of Blades that the Kopru Star Sector would be sacrificed to stop the universe's destruction and that its inhabitants had to evacuate within a month and a half.
• Raynor agreed to mobilize humanity, while Zeratul warned that many people would refuse to abandon their homes.
• The Queen of Blades asked whether the Zerg had been abandoned, and the narrator explained that the Empire would prevent any Zerg from escaping the sector.
• The narrator offered the Queen of Blades a chance to become Kerrigan again, and she accepted the transformation service.
• The Empire Army broadcast the warning and its account of the Abyss infection across the Kopru Star Sector, beginning the largest evacuation in its history.