Chapter Summaries

Xina visited Galahad, inspected her work on the Replacer Project, and praised the Gene Collector operation and its detailed procedures. She ordered Galahad to share her standards with the other continents and accepted a Beauty Compendium as a gift.

• Galahad assured Xina that the area was under surveillance and identified the Gene Collector leader as Wansa Rossi, a third-generation unit from the Replacer Project.
• Galahad reported that the human gene collection mission in North America was eighty-five percent complete, and Xina authorized her to adapt her methods when the project reached its global Third Stage.
• Galahad showed Xina an underground chamber holding 7,363,400 human Gene Samples, each recorded with detailed information about its source.
• Xina praised Galahad's work and instructed Yega and Galahad to send its standards and procedures to the girls on the other continents.
• Galahad presented Xina with a Beauty Compendium, and Xina teased her while showing that she liked the gift.

Xina stored hundreds of beauty gene samples for future Guard Honkai Beasts, then traveled with Galahad and Yega to the Honkai Holy Church. The three entered a service attended by several hundred Honkai believers, who looked at them with suspicion and hostility.

• Yega and Galahad traded barbs about their standing with Xina before setting off to carry out her orders.
• Xina inspected the beauty gene samples Galahad had gathered and added more than eight hundred to her Gene Pool.
• Yega reported that the Guard Corps on the other continents had received Xina's instructions, while Galahad invited Xina to a banquet.
• Xina declined the banquet and led Galahad and Yega through a Teleportation Gate to the Honkai Holy Church.
• Xina pushed open the church doors during a service, and Galahad stepped in front of her as the believers turned toward them with hostile looks.

Xina watched Anti-Entropy’s Titan Mechs attack the Honkai Holy Church and left the cultists to defend themselves with weapons she had given them. As a strange Honkai energy reading appeared beneath the ruins, the Anti-Entropy commander warned the squad that it was standing beside the source.

• A Honkai Cultist threatened Xina, but she threw him beneath the statues so he would recognize her as the Honkai Angel; another cultist then shot him dead.
• After touring the church, Xina gave its leader a God Key under testing and a strange gemstone, then left with Yega and Galahad through a Teleportation Gate.
• Anti-Entropy Titan Mechs emerged from stealth and bombarded the church district while Xina watched from above with Yega and Galahad.
• Xina explained that the cultists had been given discarded experimental items that could help draw out Anti-Entropy’s troublesome arrival.
• A powerful gust erupted from beneath the collapsed church, and an Anti-Entropy commander warned the Titan squad to run because it was standing beside the strange Honkai energy source.

A failed experimental Honkai Beast called the Screaming Leaper Type-2 attacked the Titan Mechs, killing pilots and tearing apart their machines. After a missile blast and a chain of mishaps left one Titan pilot helpless, something even worse appeared before the creature could reach him.

• The Screaming Leaper Type-2 emerged from a ruined building and incapacitated the Titan pilots with its shriek.
• The specimen leaped onto the Titan squad, crushed one mech, and cut two others in half.
• A Titan pilot fired a missile that knocked the specimen down and stripped away much of its back armor, but failed to kill it.
• Galahad and Xina explained that the specimen was a mindless failed experiment that attacked whoever drew its attention.
• The specimen chased a Titan Mech until it stepped on an anti-armor missile, lost a leg in the blast, and crashed into ruins.
• The specimen approached the stranded pilot, but something even worse appeared.

Xina left Yega and Galahad to use a captured Zeppelin Type 3 as bait while she went to Las Vegas. Yega and Galahad argued over their influence and strength, then prepared to ambush the operation’s “big fish” and deliver it to Xina.

• A Zeppelin Type 3 Honkai Beast surfaced underground, swallowed the Screaming Leaper, and caused the ground around the Broken-Leg Titan to collapse.
• Xina recognized the beast as one of her classified test subjects and decided to use it as bait instead of recovering it.
• Xina opened a Teleportation Gate to Las Vegas and left Yega and Galahad in charge of the area.
• Yega mocked Galahad’s claim that her Gene Collectors could recover the beast, and the two traded insults about their abilities and responsibilities.
• Yega reminded Galahad of her strength and proposed that they ambush the operation’s “big fish” together and send it to Xina.

Yega and Galahad continued their attack as a giant Honkai Beast devastated the area, and civilians were exposed to deadly Honkai contamination. After Galahad took a Prototype God Key and Pseudo-Gem from a slain cultist, the sisters hid when Anti-Entropy arrived, with Galahad urging Yega to attack its Herrscher of Reason.

• Yega punched Galahad through a rooftop after catching her badmouthing her, and Galahad returned with a Prototype God Key and Pseudo-Gem taken from a cultist she had killed.
• Yega criticized Galahad for killing the cultist, but Galahad dismissed the Honkai Cultists as expendable cannon fodder.
• Yega and Galahad finished off several damaged Titan Mechs as the Zeppelin Type 3 transformed into a Wriggler and crawled toward the sea, spreading Honkai contamination.
• Civilians fired weapons at the giant beast, and its severed tentacle sprayed high-concentration Honkai energy solution that killed or transformed people nearby.
• Yega hid with Galahad when Anti-Entropy arrived, while Galahad urged her to attack its Herrscher of Reason and take her core for the Queen.

Xina won a large pile of chips at a Shenzhou card table in a Las Vegas casino, then watched a self-proclaimed Gambling Expert lose after his opponent played all seventeen cards in seconds. Meanwhile, Yega and Galahad hid nearby and decided to wait for Anti-Entropy’s forces and the Death Stalkers to weaken each other.

• Yega convinced Galahad to stay hidden and wait until Anti-Entropy’s forces and the Death Stalkers had fought before attacking.
• Xina used her luck and skill to win chips at a slot machine, then joined a Shenzhou card game in the casino.
• Xina won all the chips from the players at her first table and moved to another game.
• Xina used the Herrscher of Sentience’s powers to read the thoughts at a neighboring table, where Gambling Expert played cards with Auntie.
• Gambling Expert celebrated while his opponent still held seventeen cards, but the opponent emptied their hand in seconds and left him stunned.

Xina drew attention by winning every round of Texas Hold’em, then confronted Zack Sasi after his bodyguards summoned her. She entered his room unharmed by gunfire, protected by the Ideal Fluid Shield.

• Xina won sixty rounds at the card table, drawing the attention of Zack Sasi’s bodyguards.
• When a bodyguard grabbed her and interrupted her, Xina made him wither into a rotting pool and terrified the other guard into revealing Zack Sasi’s location.
• Xina told the surviving bodyguard to announce her arrival, then went to Room 1111.
• Xina entered Zack Sasi’s room, smashed an ashtray into his face, and prompted his subordinates to fire at her.
• Xina stood unharmed after the gunfire, protected by the Ideal Fluid Shield, and asked whether they had run out of bullets.

Xina effortlessly eliminated the thugs in Las Vegas, while Galahad ambushed Siegfried after Anti-Entropy fought a Floating Honkai Beast. Their fierce duel left Siegfried kneeling with a cracked weapon as Galahad’s wounds quickly healed.

• Xina used her Ideal Fluid to disintegrate the thugs and left Room 1111 to cash in her chips.
• Galahad ate part of the defeated Floating Honkai Beast’s severed tentacle while Yega waited for her to act.
• Galahad ambushed Siegfried and struck his black greatsword, chipping its edge.
• Siegfried ordered the Titan Mechs to fire, but Galahad’s God Key blocked and crushed their missiles.
• Galahad tricked Siegfried with a lotus riddle before attacking him with her God Key.
• After dozens of exchanges, Siegfried dropped to one knee with a cracked weapon while Galahad’s wounds rapidly healed.

Xina returned to find Siegfried defeated and confronted him while Galahad and Yega demonstrated their loyalty to her. She accepted that Siegfried might believe she had forced them, then threatened to kill him herself.

• Galahad praised Siegfried's strength after defeating him, but Xina arrived and told him his forces had been eliminated.
• Yega tore off Siegfried's remaining arm after he insulted Xina, and Xina stopped his bleeding while Galahad cleaned blood from her shoes with her tongue.
• Xina asked Galahad to answer Siegfried's accusation that she treated her subordinates like dogs, and Galahad declared herself Xina's dog who would do anything for her.
• Yega knelt beside Xina and copied Galahad, while Siegfried questioned whether Xina had forced them to show such loyalty.
• Xina conceded Siegfried's point, drew her sword, and pressed it to his neck as she warned him he was about to die by her hand.

Xina failed to provoke Siegfried into fearing death, so she used painful memories of Cecilia and his relationship with Otto to feed on his negative emotions. She then revealed that Durandal was Siegfried’s biological daughter, leaving him stunned.

• Xina withdrew her blade after Siegfried faced death without fear and decided to provoke him another way.
• Xina taunted Siegfried about Cecilia, their daughter, and his friendship with Otto while using the Authority of the Herrscher of Sentience to replay his painful memories.
• Xina drew negative energy from Siegfried’s suffering and then changed the subject to Durandal.
• Xina told Siegfried that Durandal was his biological daughter, and he stared at her in shock.

Xina mortally wounded Siegfried, filmed herself disguised as Durandal, and planned to use the footage to provoke Kiana into fighting her biological sister. As Siegfried died, Xina revealed that his vision of Cecilia had been an illusion from the moment he saw her, and warned him that his torment was not over.

• Xina transformed into Durandal and stabbed Siegfried while Yega filmed, then explained that she would send the footage to K-423 to pit her against Durandal.
• Xina taunted Siegfried about the sisters fighting and dismissed his curse before a cyan blade pierced his heart from behind.
• Siegfried saw what he believed was Cecilia, confessed his regrets, and accepted her apparent slap before the figure changed back into Xina.
• Siegfried asked whether Cecilia had been an illusion, and Xina said the illusion had begun when he first saw her and that the end was still far away.

Xina trapped Siegfried and the Titan pilots in the Theater of Domination, forcing them into a deadly performance. Siegfried tried not to harm the controlled fighters, but the relentless attacks left him drenched in blood and surrounded by wreckage and severed limbs.

• Xina transported Siegfried and the Titan pilots into the Theater of Domination and announced a performance in which the pilots would attack Siegfried.
• Xina urged the pilots to kill Siegfried, promising they could leave alive and reunite with their families if they won.
• Siegfried refused to attack the pilots at first and tried to defend himself with a barricade, but the fighters wounded him and then charged with swords.
• Siegfried knocked the thread-controlled pilots down repeatedly, but they kept rising and attacking under Xina's control.
• The audience joined the assault, and Siegfried ended the fight staring at his blood-covered hands amid mech fragments and severed limbs.

Xina received a greeting card from an old acquaintance and decided to meet her, leaving Galahad to arrange a place for their conversation. After Xina departed, Yega flash-froze Siegfried to ensure he could not escape, while the woman who had sent the invitation waited in a North American hotel suite.

• Xina praised Siegfried’s performance and considered what tragedy to make him perform next.
• Galahad brought Xina a greeting card bearing a familiar signature, and Xina recognized the sender as an old acquaintance.
• Xina changed her schedule and told Galahad to find a place for a chat with the woman who had invited her.
• Xina flicked Yega’s nose before leaving, and Yega privately celebrated the gesture.
• Yega found Siegfried still suspended in Golden Threads and flash-froze him to prevent his escape.
• The woman who had sent the card waited with black tea in a North American hotel suite.

Peilin asked Xina to help the New North American Branch counter Anti-Entropy, and Xina demanded political control of North America in exchange. Xina then raised Peilin’s deteriorating health from her artificial Stigmata, leaving Peilin to confront another concern.

• Gene Collector 07-000128 told Peilin that Queen Xina would come to meet her.
• Xina entered through the window and greeted Peilin, who asked to share intelligence against Anti-Entropy.
• Xina offered only symbolic support until Peilin asked her to name a price for real assistance.
• Xina demanded that Peilin temporarily rule North America and eliminate forces opposing her, promising to help against Anti-Entropy and Destiny Headquarters.
• Xina asked Peilin about her artificial Stigmata, and Peilin admitted that her health had begun to decline.

Xina offered to cure Peilin’s artificial Stigmata in exchange for the heads of Anti-Entropy personnel, and promised to send guards to support the New North American Branch. After arranging the deployment, Xina visited Warehouse Zero and continued tormenting the captured Herrscher of Sentience.

• Xina told Peilin that her artificial Stigmata would leave her only three to five years to live, but offered to extend her life in exchange for the heads of everyone on a list of Anti-Entropy personnel within three days.
• Peilin worried that the Herrscher of Reason might return with Schicksal reinforcements, so Xina promised to send guards to help the New North American Branch.
• Xina ordered Yega to select about a hundred armed guards for Galahad’s command, then gave Galahad a transfer order and sent her to deliver it.
• Yega tried to assemble the Guard Corps, but Guard Honkai Beast 0000 demanded the Queen’s transfer order; Galahad produced it and ordered the corps to gather at the Duel Arena.
• Xina went to Warehouse Zero, adjusted the clothing of several replica collectibles, and taunted and handled the bound Herrscher of Sentience.

Xina left the Herrscher of Sentience restrained in Warehouse 0 and assembled the Guard Corps at the Eden Garden Duel Arena, where she brought the Herrscher of Sentience to make a bet. The gathering ended with 0000 requesting a one-on-one duel against her.

• Xina teased the Herrscher of Sentience in Warehouse 0 before leaving when she learned the Guard Corps had assembled.
• Xina went to the Duel Arena and learned from 0000 that all ten thousand Guard Corps members were present.
• After considering 0000's suggestion to draw lots, Xina vanished from the viewing platform and returned with the Herrscher of Sentience in her Bridal Gown.
• Xina released the Golden Thread's restraint and challenged the Herrscher of Sentience to a bet.
• 0000 knelt before Xina and requested permission to duel the Herrscher of Sentience one-on-one.

Xina arranged a sparring match between the weakened Herrscher of Sentience and thirty Guard Honkai Beasts, with 0000 securing heavy armor for the Guards. The Guards’ coordinated formation and self-repairing shields surprised the Herrscher, who was forced into the air and met by a barrage of gunfire.

• Xina challenged the Herrscher of Sentience to defeat thirty fully armed Guards in exchange for her freedom, and the Herrscher accepted.
• Xina selected three Guard squads and told them the fight was only a sparring match, while promising a reward if they won.
• 0000 got Xina’s approval to equip the Guards with heavy armor, and an Earth-Drilling Beast brought the equipment into the arena.
• The three squads formed a shield-and-lance formation and blocked the Herrscher of Sentience’s punch with shields that repaired themselves.
• The Guards forced the Herrscher into the air, where the Gun Guards opened fire in a coordinated barrage.

The Queen’s Guards attacked the Herrscher of Sentience with coordinated weapons and newly integrated Leap Attackers, but their assaults failed to take her down. The Herrscher countered the Leap Attackers with energy blades and a bladed whip as the battle continued.

• The Herrscher of Sentience broke a Sword Guard’s longsword, and the Sword Guard drew a replacement and continued fighting.
• The Guards changed tactics, using ranged weapons and shields while their commander prepared the Leap Attackers for battle.
• The Herrscher raised a stone barricade and kicked a boulder into the Shield Guards, injuring two of them while the others withdrew.
• Two Guards fused with the Leap Attackers, which fired charged energy spheres that blasted craters into Yega’s Duel Arena floor.
• The Herrscher survived the explosions, launched dark red energy blades at the Leap Attackers, and swung a bladed whip at one charging her from the side.

The Herrscher of Sentience fought Xina’s Guard Honkai Beasts and discovered that Xina had equipped an Ant Queen with a deadly sniper weapon. Xina stopped the ray’s carbonization of the Herrscher of Sentience and revealed that it was a disposable God Key called the Carbon-Based Lifeform Disintegration Ray.

• The Herrscher of Sentience sensed danger from the Ant Queen’s chest-mounted sniper rifle and hid behind a Leap Attacker.
• The Guard Commander ordered the Leap Attacker to expose her while Gun Guards fired, forcing her to leap away and deflect bullets with sword energy.
• The Herrscher of Sentience broke a Gun Guard’s rifle, then faced the Guard’s textbook Inch Punch technique and realized Xina had copied her memories.
• The Ant Queen fired a dark green beam, and the Herrscher of Sentience split it with her sword before the ray carbonized and disintegrated her shoulder and hand.
• Xina halted the spreading damage and identified the weapon as a disposable God Key, the Carbon-Based Lifeform Disintegration Ray.