Chapter Summaries

Xina defeated the Herrscher of Sentience and threatened her with a humiliating mental illusion before taking her away for experiments. Galahad then revealed that the Guard Honkai Beasts’ reward was choosing human gene samples for new bodies, and that they would accompany her to North America on a secret mission.

• Xina dismissed the Guard Honkai Beasts after their performance and struck the Herrscher of Sentience when she protested the match.
• Xina grabbed the Herrscher of Sentience and threatened to alter her mind, then taunted her with a false second puberty.
• Yega led the Guard Honkai Beasts and Auxiliary Army out of the Duel Arena while Xina took the Herrscher of Sentience for laboratory experiments.
• The Guard Honkai Beasts rescued the sisters from their damaged bio-armor and placed them in solution tanks for emergency limb maintenance.
• Galahad told the guards they would travel to North America and choose beautiful women’s gene samples for new bodies sculpted by Xina.

Kevin revisited memories of the ancient era before Su showed him an orange target emblem appearing over Antarctica on Blue Star and warned that it signaled a civilization-destroying Herrscher. In Eden Garden, Xina asked Yega why birds fly.

• Kevin watched a philosopher debate why birds wanted to fly and reflected on whether his guidance could change humanity’s fate.
• Kevin returned to the dark memory space and found that long-forgotten memories had resurfaced.
• Su showed Kevin a simulation of Blue Star and pointed out an orange target emblem over Antarctica, indicating that a destructive Herrscher had appeared.
• Su told Kevin that the emblem had barely expanded and said he had something extremely important to explain about the Stigmata Project and humanity.
• In Eden Garden, Xina asked Yega why birds fly.

Xina had Yega clean up the wrecked library, then oversaw the transformation of thirty Guard Honkai Beasts into human beauties based on their chosen gene samples. She left Galahad in charge of preparing the newly transformed Guards for their mission to North America.

• Yega answered Xina’s philosophical question with a biology lecture, and Xina knocked her into a bookshelf, causing the library to collapse.
• Xina ordered Yega to restore the library and moved the entire building into the Theater of Domination.
• Galahad told Xina that the thirty Guards had chosen their gene samples, and Xina went to the activity room to review them.
• Xina put the Guards into a cultivation pool, then reshaped their bodies and faces into beautiful young women.
• Xina handed the Guards over to Galahad and told her to find them clothes before their mission.

Galahad prepared the Guard Honkai Beasts to travel to North America, but their talk about wanting to give themselves to the Queen left him flustered and outraged. The Beasts insisted that their desire was part of their purpose, while Galahad remained unconvinced.

• Galahad told the Guard Honkai Beasts to take clothes from a crate and prepare for their North America mission, which was set to begin the next day.
• The Guard Honkai Beasts changed clothes and discussed how they hoped to serve the Queen at the Golden Castle and offer her everything.
• Galahad erupted when the Beasts suggested they had plenty of time to pursue their bold ideas before departure.
• 2155 teased Galahad about his supposedly impure thoughts, and the Beasts claimed all Guard Honkai Beasts shared their desire to devote themselves to the Queen.
• 2150 reminded Galahad that the Queen had created the Guard Honkai Beasts to devote everything to her.

Galahad and the Guard were ordered by Xina to leave for North America immediately with fewer Auxiliary Army troops than planned. As they traveled through the underground network, Galahad learned why the Guard relied on Tunnel Worms instead of patrolling the passages themselves.

• Xina ordered Yega to send a Tunnel Worm to carry Galahad and the Guard to North America that night, and reduced their Auxiliary Army support from three thousand troops to one thousand.
• Galahad equipped her troops and led them into the Tunnel Worm, which departed through the vast underground passage network.
• Galahad questioned why the Guard did not patrol the passages, and the other guards laughed and asked why she thought they traveled by Tunnel Worm.
• At 2154's request, the Tunnel Worm deployed a Death Stalker, which a hidden Honkai Plant quickly split apart and swallowed.

Galahad led Xina’s Honkai Beast reinforcements to North America, where she used her connections to get them into the former Schicksal New North American Branch. As Peilin briefed the group on Anti-Entropy strongholds, the Honkai Beasts immediately proposed increasingly extreme ways to attack them.

• Galahad learned that mutated Honkai Plants formed part of Eden Garden’s underground defenses, then rode a Tunnel Worm across the Pacific with the Guard Honkai Beasts.
• Leviathan carried the Tunnel Worm near North America, where it came ashore and released the Honkai Beast reinforcements after smashing through a coastal patrol unit.
• Galahad called for help, led the group to bury themselves in the soil, and was collected at dawn by a convoy of Gene Collectors.
• Peilin welcomed Galahad and her unusually dressed reinforcements at the former Schicksal New North American Branch and showed them the marked Anti-Entropy strongholds.
• The Honkai Beasts suggested using incendiary bombs and biological weapons, leaving Peilin privately alarmed by their extreme plans.

The Guard Honkai Beasts devastated Anti-Entropy’s North American strongholds, and Galahad reported the victory to Xina. Xina then contacted Schicksal to discuss North America’s ownership, mocking Walter while Otto was present.

• Peilin watched as the Guard Honkai Beasts assigned their tasks, and Galahad assured her they could be trusted with the weapons.
• 2438 and the other Guards loaded bombers with napalm, then launched an attack on Anti-Entropy’s North American strongholds.
• Talunsen watched a bomber crash into his stronghold, and Death Stalkers and Honkai Beasts descended on the wreckage as attacks struck across North America.
• Galahad reported that Anti-Entropy’s major North American strongholds had been cleared, and Xina appointed BishaZhe as her deputy for South America.
• Xina asked Yega to arrange a call with Schicksal Headquarters, then confronted Walter and mocked him over Anti-Entropy’s losses while Otto listened.

Xina claimed North America and challenged Otto and Walter, who refused to let the continent become a Honkai foothold. She taunted Otto with a cross from his office and declared that Kallen Kaslana was dead, leaving Otto silent.

• Walter asked Otto whether he had taught Xina, and Xina mocked their past conflicts.
• Xina claimed North America, but Walter objected after receiving images from Galahad.
• Otto agreed with Walter that they would destroy North America rather than let Honkai use it to attack humanity.
• Xina revealed the cross she had taken from Otto’s office and said it had belonged to someone he loved.
• Xina taunted Otto about Kallen and told him to accept that Kallen Kaslana was already dead.

Xina planned to destroy North America and sacrifice Schicksal’s former North American Branch to keep other defectors from trusting Schicksal, leaving Yega wondering whether she, too, was expendable. Meanwhile, Otto and Walter argued over their factions’ losses, and Vita explained to Sa why she had used Sa’s authority in the Sea of Quanta.

• Xina told Yega to have Galahad move North America’s valuable assets to South America, destroy the continent with Schicksal’s missiles, and blame Schicksal using a released video.
• Xina decided that Schicksal’s former North American Branch also had to be wiped out, and told Yega that the branch was a necessary sacrifice.
• Yega asked whether she was also a price Xina could pay, and Xina called her the heaviest bargaining chip in her hand before taking three Guard Honkai Beasts to play Aeroplane Chess.
• Walter blamed Otto and Schicksal for the Herrschers’ cruelty, and Otto retorted that Walter’s inability to defeat a Herrscher did not justify taking it out on Schicksal.
• On Phobos, Sa confronted Vita about using her authority in the Sea of Quanta, and Vita explained that she had tried to take an interesting girl but failed after an emissary of [Abyss] intervened.

Vita confronted Sa about its plan to gain enough power to become a god, then persuaded it to reconsider what would remain of Froude after its humanity vanished. Sa chose Vita as its successor and gave her a beacon to find someone who could help her use its power without attracting the Imaginary.

• Sa insisted that becoming omniscient and omnipotent would let it achieve its goal, while Vita warned that it would lose its humanity and might no longer want to revive Froude.
• Vita revealed that she wanted to inherit Sa’s authority and challenged Sa to explain how its own actions had meaning.
• Sa recalled its friends and its former life as a Froudean, and recognized that Froude still existed as long as it remained.
• Sa told Vita that her self-awareness made her a true person and chose her to inherit its name and authority as Froude’s final Core Flame.
• Sa said Vita would need to complete trials and gave her a purple beacon to find someone who might help her avoid being targeted by the Imaginary.

Vita decided to wake the Ark’s sleeping occupant and used a captured exhibit to open the hibernation pod. Griseo awoke, learned the Ark had crashed on a distant planet, and questioned whether Vita was human.

• Vita accepted the trial for inheriting power but decided its timing would be up to her.
• Vita changed course and ordered the exhibit from her museum to open the hibernation pod, threatening it with lightning when it talked back.
• Griseo and a fading phantom agreed to wake, and Griseo emerged from her long dream.
• Griseo used the Ark’s troubleshooting console to learn that the crash site lay about 4,500 astronomical units from the sun and that she was its only occupant.
• Griseo questioned Vita’s humanity, and Vita protested that a machine could not define her.

Vita teased Griseo about the Ark’s unreliable systems, and Griseo discovered that its power was failing and its Gene Pool had already been used up under her own authorization. Vita urged her to return to Earth and seek Kevin’s help, claiming she had fought alongside him.

• Vita teased Griseo about the Ark’s system, prompting Griseo to remember Vill-V explaining the Ark Project to the Previous Civilization’s companions.
• Vill-V told Kevin that the Ark was designed to be simple to operate, with manuals and an AI troubleshooting system, and said even Griseo could learn to use it quickly.
• Griseo asked Troubleshooting why the Ark had stopped moving and learned that its power efficiency was low, its main engine was missing, and the Hibernation Pods were draining its reserves.
• Griseo discovered that every stored plant, animal, and human gene sample had been used by the Ark Project Executor, identified as Griseo herself.
• Vita urged Griseo to return to Earth and seek Kevin’s help, then claimed she had been his companion while fighting a Herrscher.

Xina investigated the destruction of the satellites and discovered that Sangharaksa had died. She summoned the named Guard Honkai Beasts to Eden Garden, where she announced Sangharaksa’s death and left them facing an unknown threat.

• Sangharaksa lost contact with Eden Garden while monitoring Antarctica, and the X-11 Satellite was destroyed as the satellite blackout spread across much of the Southern Hemisphere.
• Guard 9022 and Guard 9065 reported the growing loss of satellite contact, so 9011 activated the Black Alert.
• 0000 learned that Xina had left her study and began assembling the Guard Corps and Auxiliary Army for war.
• Xina found fragments of Sangharaksa’s remains among the debris outside the atmosphere and called the named Guard Honkai Beasts to Eden Garden.
• Xina told the gathered Guards that Sangharaksa had died, shocking 0000.

After Sangharaksa’s death, Xina ordered strategic redeployments and suspected that Eden Garden’s location had been exposed. She kept Sangharaksa’s consciousness preserved as a potential trump card and reassured her that she could not truly perish while the cluster consciousness endured.

• Xina suspended nonessential tasks and ordered the Guard Honkai Beasts to continue the Tiamat Plan, the Replacer Project, and the Burning Heavens Plan.
• Xina directed the ocean forces and Guard Corps regiments to reinforce Antarctica and prepare for possible attacks across several regions, while leaving the external network passage army and Eurasian legions in place.
• Xina dismissed 0000 and told Yega not to ask about her suspicions until the time was right.
• Xina recalled seeing an orange target symbol aimed at Antarctica and considered whether World Serpent, Kevin, or a powerful creature from the Sea of Quanta had killed Sangharaksa.
• Xina entered Imaginary Space, found Sangharaksa’s preserved consciousness, and promised that she would not truly perish while the cluster consciousness remained intact.

Xina concluded that lost people could never truly be recovered and ordered St. Freya Academy's members killed when they met on the battlefield. Meanwhile, ??? returned to Otto and offered help with an approaching crisis in exchange for Void Archives, leaving Otto demanding a reason to trust her.

• Xina used the Biological Brain to calculate possible developments, then reflected on the irretrievability of the past while talking with Yega.
• Xina ordered Yega to arrange for St. Freya Academy's members to be killed cleanly on the battlefield, and Yega relayed the order.
• ??? appeared at Destiny Headquarters, where Otto threatened her with Mimicry: Judgement of Shamash.
• ??? warned Otto of a greater coming crisis and offered to have someone solve it if he gave her Void Archives.
• Otto questioned why he should trust ??? or her promised helper.

Moriarty confronted Vita over years spent conscious inside a display case, while Otto watched their exchange. Xina then appeared and challenged Vita, who taunted her about harming one of her subordinates in outer space.

• Otto revealed the First God Key, Void Archives, as Vita appeared in his office and mocked Moriarty for trying to persuade him.
• Moriarty accused Vita of making him endure loneliness in a display case, while Vita said she had preserved him when he was falling apart in the Sea of Quanta.
• Moriarty told Otto that Vita treated mortals as powerless and insisted his name was Moriarty, while Vita teased him about his display case and called him a failed backup of Otto Apocalypse.
• Xina removed her light-distorting fluid coating, confronted Vita, and threatened to turn her head into a flowerpot.
• Vita laughed at Xina and taunted her by saying she had shattered Xina's subordinate in outer space with little effort.

Xina revealed herself to Vita, then lashed out at Vita, Moriarty, and Otto while explaining that she had come to rob Otto. At a Far East Branch and Anti-Entropy base, two Domination Puppets appeared and taunted Theresa, Tesla, and Himeko, leaving the group on guard.

• Vita admitted that she had been secretly working against Xina, and Xina mocked her for pressing her chest against Xina’s abdomen.
• Moriarty laughed at Vita, so Xina cursed it and smashed Otto’s desk over its head.
• Xina insulted Otto over his failure to save Kallen Kaslana and revealed that she had come to rob him.
• At the Far East Branch and Anti-Entropy base, Theresa and Tesla examined a puppet until it moved and taunted Tesla about Cocolia using her research against her.
• Himeko drew her greatsword as the puppet taunted her about her combat unit’s deaths, and a second puppet crawled in through the window.

A Domination Puppet entered the temporary residence, taunted Einstein about the destroyed laboratory, and delivered a letter supposedly from Siegfried to Kiana. It showed the group footage of Durandal killing Siegfried and tried to learn Kiana’s whereabouts, but Einstein warned Theresa not to reveal them; the puppet claimed it already knew where Kiana and the others were.

• The Domination Puppet told Einstein that Honkai Beasts and Death Stalkers had destroyed her laboratory using the Silver Bullet, but Einstein said she already knew.
• Theresa hurled Judah’s Oath at the puppet, which reassembled itself from a puddle and announced that it had come to deliver a letter from Siegfried to Kiana.
• The puppet claimed Siegfried was dead and showed Theresa a photograph and video depicting Durandal impaling him with her lance.
• Theresa nearly revealed Kiana’s location, but Einstein warned her that the puppet was trying to discover where Kiana and the others were.
• The Domination Puppet laughed off Einstein’s warning and claimed it already knew where Kiana and the others were.

The Domination Puppets taunted Theresa and delivered a message before Bronya and Seele trapped them, while Xina attacked Otto and left Moriarty pinned in his office. Otto returned in a new Soul Steel body and began discussing a supposed deal with Vita, as Xina, Vita, and Otto each secretly monitored the others.

• Lily mocked Theresa, then the Domination Puppets announced that someone else would deal with Kiana and the others before Bronya and Seele trapped them in an electromagnetic barrier.
• Xina attacked Otto with a chitinous whip and split his Soul Steel body in two, then pinned Moriarty to a wall with ice spikes and left.
• Otto returned in a replacement body and listened as Vita proposed a deal, ignoring Moriarty's warnings.
• Xina secretly used a miniature Honkai Beast hidden in an ice spike to relay Otto and Vita's conversation to her.
• Vita had planted a false story to deceive Xina's hidden listener, while Otto secretly connected his body's listening system to Kevin Kaslana's communicator.

Bronya and Seele were attacked by a Domination Puppet, which knocked them into a wall and drew Seele’s other self into the Theater of Domination. There, Lily taunted 'Seele' about being unwanted and abandoned before escaping upward.

• Bronya caught the puppets in the High-Energy Electromagnetic Net and asked Einstein what they were.
• A Domination Puppet broke free, struck the others, and knocked Bronya and Seele aside.
• 'Seele' woke in a ruined landscape inside the Theater of Domination and asked Lily where the exit and Seele were.
• Lily mocked 'Seele' as an unwanted shadow and showed her an image of Seele with Bronya.
• 'Seele' attacked Lily with chain claws, but the attacks veered away under the power Lily attributed to Xina.
• Lily flew upward on a thread while continuing to call 'Seele' a monster.