Recaps

Galon agreed to let Hypnos study a mysterious silver polyhedron that seemed to stir his desire to evolve. Meanwhile, Amles learned that a vast shadow was killing civilizations and ordered contact with the other Super Civilizations and Turgar to propose a ceasefire and joint research effort.

• Galon felt his body crave the silver polyhedron Hypnos had found, and agreed to leave it with him for study.
• The intelligence minister told Amles that more than twenty-four Level Eight or higher civilizations had been exterminated that month, bringing the total above a thousand.
• The intelligence minister showed Amles recordings of a vast shadow appearing before the civilizations' inhabitants died and reported the Science Department's theory that High-Dimensional Beings were invading.
• The intelligence minister proposed suspending the war against the Alliance and uniting the Four Great Super Civilizations against the crisis.
• Amles ordered him to contact the other three Super Civilizations and the civilization on Turgar to propose a ceasefire and joint research team, while warning that the war would continue if they refused.

At the Big Three meeting, Lin Zhen confirmed that Farn had become a multidimensional lifeform and explained that the Federation had only frightened him away, not learned how to defeat him. The leaders agreed to cooperate with the Sun River Empire on the technology needed to counter Farn, with the Federation leading the research.

• Xilavi told Rotavis and Lin Zhen that Amles had identified the cause of the recent attacks as an invasion by Dimensional Beings and wanted to cooperate on countermeasures.
• Lin Zhen confirmed that Farn was the invader and said the Federation had driven him away from the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster using a trick.
• Lin Zhen explained that Farn had changed through multidimensional fusion and believed he needed to devour living beings to complete his evolution.
• Xilavi and Rotavis considered refusing Amles’s offer, but Lin Zhen argued that the Alliance still needed the Sun River Empire’s top scientists to improve the unfinished technology.
• Lin Zhen said the Federation would lead the cooperation and would not proceed if the Sun River Empire rejected its terms.

Lin Zhen’s plan put the Federation in charge of research into technology against Farn, but Amles rejected the conditions. The chapter ended with Amles learning that Farn had destroyed the Cavite Civilization and annihilated the Sun River Empire’s 19th Legion.

• Xilavi and Rotavis agreed that the Federation should lead the research and host its site, reasoning that Farn’s threat would eventually force Amles to accept.
• Xilavi told Amles the Federation had a prototype technology for dealing with the dimensional lifeform, but Amles refused the proposed terms.
• Amles flew into a rage after Xilavi ended the call.
• The intelligence minister informed Amles that Farn appeared to have attacked the Cavite Civilization and wiped out the Sun River Empire’s 19th Legion.

After the Sun River Empire’s Nineteenth Legion and the Cavite Civilization were wiped out in seconds by a Dimensional Being, Amles feared the empire would lose to the alliance and agreed to cooperate. Three months later, the Federation hosted the five civilizations’ Mirta research effort and prepared to share a limited device that could block Farn from devouring life.

• A shadow engulfed the Cavite Civilization, killing everyone there and aboard the Nineteenth Legion’s three trillion warships within seconds.
• After an investigation confirmed the deaths, Amles realized the empire could not defend itself against the Dimensional Being and agreed to cooperate with the alliance.
• Lin Fan selected the Federation’s Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster as the site for the five civilizations’ research cooperation.
• Lin Zhen agreed to provide the Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire with one hundred Dark Energy Crystals each year.
• Scientists advanced the Mirta project, and the Federation planned to share only a finished First Directorate device while withholding its other technology.

In Federation Year 229, Lin Zhen announced that the first mechanism of the Mirta Device had passed testing and that mass production had begun. He persuaded the Four Great Super Civilizations to share production with ordinary civilizations and required transparent reporting, then proposed distributing devices by region to solve delivery problems.

• Lin Zhen told the leaders of the Four Great Super Civilizations that the first-generation Mirta Device could protect a radius of about one hundred light-years from Farn and that 100,000 units could be produced each day.
• Lin Zhen proposed allocating twenty percent of production to the Federation, twenty percent to ordinary civilizations, and the remaining sixty percent among the Four Great Super Civilizations, prompting Amles and Nevitt to object.
• Lin Zhen explained that the first mechanism could not repel or kill Farn and argued that ordinary civilizations needed devices to preserve their populations; Amles accepted his reasoning, and Nevitt stopped objecting.
• Lin Zhen told the Four Great Super Civilizations they would each receive twenty percent of production and required them to publicly report how devices for ordinary civilizations were distributed.
• When Amles worried that the devices could not be delivered quickly without the Federation’s Black Hole Channels, Lin Zhen proposed distributing them by region.

Lin Fan discussed the Federation’s research into Black Hole Cavity data and explained to Lin Hong why humanity was not advancing toward a Tenth Order Civilization. Meanwhile, Galon’s evolution transformed its energy and rapidly advanced the surrounding Biological Civilization races, leaving Hypnos close to the peak of the Tenth Order.

• The Federation began distributing Mirta Devices across controlled territories through an interstellar delivery operation.
• Lin Hong told Lin Fan that the Alphart Civilization had produced Dark Energy Crystals by analyzing Black Hole Cavity data, and Lin Fan said the Federation could finish its own analysis within five years.
• Lin Hong asked why the Federation was not pursuing a Tenth Order Civilization, and Lin Fan explained his theory about the path to becoming a God-tier Civilization.
• Lin Hong realized the Alphart Civilization might have taken the wrong path as early as the Ninth Order stage and wondered whether the plan to transform Galon had also been mistaken.
• Galon slept in a hidden Minor Universe as its energy transformed, causing hundreds of millions of surrounding Biological Civilization individuals to evolve within three months.
• Hypnos neared the peak of the Tenth Order Biological Civilization and wondered what he had pulled from the strange space.

Hypnos’s new tenth-order ability opened a passage to an undeveloped Interlayer Space, allowing him to bring back Black Hole Crystals that helped Galon begin his final evolution. Meanwhile, the Federation’s Mirta Devices protected civilization safe zones from Farn, who realized someone had developed a way to counter him.

• The chapter explained that tenth-order Biological Civilization individuals needed Black Hole Cavity Particles to complete their evolution, but Dark Energy Crystals provided too few of them for Galon to advance.
• Hypnos’s new organ connected the universe to an undeveloped Interlayer Space near the Azure Dragon Universe, where he found Black Hole Crystals made almost entirely of Black Hole Cavity Particles.
• Hypnos retrieved several hundred Black Hole Crystals, and Galon used them to begin his final evolution, remaining asleep for months as Hypnos worried over him.
• The Federation distributed Mirta Devices to nearly every civilization of the seventh order or above, and civilizations used them to protect their capitals and move elites into safe zones.
• After his attacks repeatedly failed to wipe out protected populations, Farn realized that some civilization had created a device capable of countering him.

Farn discovered that a mysterious force was shielding star regions across many civilizations, and he suspected the humans were responsible. Near the former Alphart Civilization, Galon emerged from a Minor Universe and faced a Sun River Empire legion that recognized him as a Kirin and feared his power.

• Farn found that a familiar force blocked his projections and observations in star regions across many civilizations, and he suspected the human technology he had encountered in Nirkenia.
• A hidden Minor Universe appeared near the former Alphart Civilization, and a stationed Sun River Empire legion detected its immense energy.
• The Legion Commander ordered reconnaissance and defenses, but the Minor Universe's energy surged beyond the fleet's detection limits.
• Galon emerged from the Minor Universe behind a barrier that withstood the legion's full barrage.
• The Legion Commander recognized Galon as a Kirin, judged him far more powerful than a Tenth-order Biological Civilization individual, and ordered every weapon fired while requesting reinforcements from Your Majesty.

The Sun River Empire dispatched three peak Eleventh Order Dark Energy Manipulators to reinforce the Third Legion against Galon, a Kirin who had evolved into a Super Biological Civilization. As Farn approached the battlefield, Galon recognized him and prepared to unleash a devastating attack on the encircling fleet.

• Harris informed Amles that Galon had emerged from a Minor Universe near Dark Energy Spring No. 1 and was impervious to the Third Legion's attacks.
• Amles ordered the Third Legion to hold Galon in place and sent three peak Eleventh Order Dark Energy Manipulators as reinforcements.
• Galon destroyed hundreds of millions of warships at a time while the Third Legion's nearly three trillion ships failed to breach his barrier.
• The Third Legion's commander learned the reinforcements would arrive within an hour and ordered the fleets to maintain their assault.
• Galon sensed Farn approaching, remembered his past experiments in Farn's laboratory, and decided to destroy the fleet quickly before their arrival.
• Galon gathered energy and covered his body in black lightning as he began Thunderclap: World Annihilation.

Galon devastated the Third Legion with his newly mastered Black Hole Energy and confronted Farn, who planned to devour him. Lin Hong recognized Galon and realized Farn was moving to attack him, then rushed to intervene.

• Galon unleashed Thunderclap: World Annihilation, destroying nearly all of the Third Legion's warships.
• Galon sensed Farn and challenged him, while Farn declared his intention to devour Galon and the life within his Minor Universe.
• Lin Hong sensed Galon and identified him as the last Kirin, whom Farn had abducted as a juvenile.
• Lin Fan showed Lin Hong information about the Purgatory Creatures' leader, and Lin Hong confirmed it was Galon.
• Lin Hong explained that Lin Aotian had staged Galon's apparent self-destruction to rescue him.
• Lin Hong sensed Farn heading toward Galon and vanished to stop him.

Lin Hong joined Galon in battle against Farn, forcing Farn to retreat. Galon then asked Lin Hong to explain how he and Farn had gained their strange forms.

• Farn and Galon fought across dimensions, and Farn tried to persuade Galon to let him devour it.
• Lin Hong appeared and attacked Farn to protect Galon, the last sacred totem beast of his race.
• Lin Hong identified himself as Lin Aotian’s son and a member of the Alphart Supreme Council, and he and Galon agreed to drive Farn back.
• Facing their combined attack, Farn withdrew his dimensional projection from the battlefield.
• Galon warned that Farn would target it again and asked Lin Hong about their forms, so Lin Hong began explaining how he had dragged Farn into Zero-Dimensional Space.

Farn’s dwindling hunting gains led Lin Fan to suspect that he had turned to devouring lifeforms in other dimensions. Lin Hong explained that life existed in seven-dimensional and ten-dimensional space, leaving Lin Fan worried that Farn might now be powerful enough to reach them.

• The Federation supplied Galon and the Biological Civilizations with first-generation Mirta Devices despite Galon and Hypnos’s hatred of humanity, to protect them from Farn.
• After Mirta Devices made hunting harder, Farn stopped attacking civilizations for three months, and Lin Fan questioned Lin Hong about his unexplained absence.
• Lin Fan realized Farn might evolve by devouring lifeforms outside three-dimensional space and asked Lin Hong whether that was possible.
• Lin Hong said life existed in three-dimensional, seven-dimensional, ten-dimensional, and zero-dimensional space, and that the higher-dimensional lifeforms were exceptionally powerful.
• Lin Fan asked whether Farn could devour life in seven-dimensional or ten-dimensional space, and Lin Hong feared that he might be able to do so.

The Sun River Empire prepared to attack the Anti-Sun River Alliance as its advantages dwindled, seeking an agreement with Galon’s Biological Civilization faction to free its fleets. Lin Zhen warned the Alliance that Galon would likely stay out of the war against the Empire, leaving the balance at the front in danger.

• Lin Hong left to investigate whether Farn had attacked other seven-dimensional or Ten-dimensional Spaces.
• By Federation Year 232, the Sun River Empire had lost ground as Galon’s faction seized a Dark Energy Spring, the Federation kept its scientists, and the Divine Radiance Civilization and Gem Empire received Dark Energy Crystals.
• Amles told Harris to secure an agreement with Galon’s faction so the Empire could redeploy its fleets and launch a decisive attack on the Alliance.
• Xilavi reported to Lin Zhen and Rotavis that Amles had been in close contact with the Biological Civilization faction.
• Lin Zhen explained Galon’s old grudge against the Federation and warned that Galon’s faction would likely agree not to attack the Empire during its war with the Alliance.

Lin Zhen urged Xilavi and Rotavis to break out of their defensive mindset and launch a surprise offensive against the Sun River Empire. The Alliance attacked seventeen frontline nodes, leaving the Empire’s defensive line at risk of collapsing within three days.

• Lin Zhen persuaded Xilavi and Rotavis that the Alliance could seize the initiative while the Sun River Empire’s forces were divided.
• Lance dismissed the possibility of an Alliance attack until ten Black Hole Channels opened across Rorochair.
• Lance ordered subordinate fleets to hold the channel exits, but the Alliance wiped them out in under two minutes and established landing zones.
• Lar'ao informed Amles that the Alliance had attacked seventeen frontline nodes and inflicted devastating losses.
• Lar'ao warned Amles that the defensive line could collapse within three days without immediate reinforcements.

Amles agreed to trade another Dark Energy Spring with Galon so the Sun River Empire could send reinforcements, and he ordered the fleet and three Guardian Envoys to prepare. At the Alliance conference, Lin Fan revealed that the Federation could collapse the Sun River Empire’s reinforcement channels, while Altra reassured Autwell that the Federation could also address the enemy’s superior top-tier fighters.

• Lar'ao persuaded Amles to prioritize the front-line battle over retaining three Dark Energy Springs, and Amles ordered reinforcements and the three Guardian Envoys to prepare.
• Altra told Lin Fan and Autwell that fleets in the Sun River Empire’s central region were assembling, likely to reinforce the front lines.
• Lin Fan explained that the Federation could use Dark Energy Crystals to collapse any Black Hole Channel the Sun River Empire opened.
• Altra welcomed the plan, while Autwell warned that the Sun River Empire had more peak Eleventh Order Dark Energy Manipulators than the Alliance.
• Altra reminded Autwell that the Federation could help counter the Sun River Empire’s top-tier fighters.

Lin Fan proposed misleading the Fario Civilization into helping the Alliance by making it believe defeat would leave Fario next in line for destruction. Altra contacted Nevitt with a promise of a plan to stop the Sun River Empire, and Nevitt agreed to listen.

• Lin Fan reminded Altra and Autwell of the Federation's strength and suggested concealing their plan to stop the Sun River Empire's reinforcements from the Fario Civilization.
• Altra volunteered to handle Nevitt and prevent Fario from joining forces with the Sun River Empire after the battle.
• Nevitt worried that the Sun River Empire's assembling fleet would overwhelm the Alliance, but he rejected Korlak's suggestion that Fario commit its forces without a suitable plan.
• Nevitt initially ordered his secretary to reject Altra's call, then let it through after Korlak urged him to hear Altra out.
• Altra told Nevitt he had a plan to stop the Sun River Empire without heavy losses on either side, and Nevitt asked to hear it.

Altra proposed that Nevitt secretly leak half of the Sun River Empire’s Black Hole Channel coordinates to the alliance, sacrificing some Fario fleets to make the betrayal seem genuine. Convinced by Korlak, Nevitt agreed to identify disloyal fleets for the sacrifice, leaving the plan poised to move forward.

• Altra urged Nevitt to join the Sun River Empire’s reinforcement operation and demand a public promise that it would not attack the Fario Civilization after the war.
• Altra proposed that Nevitt leak half the Black Hole Channel coordinates to the alliance and sacrifice about ten percent of Fario fleets to deflect suspicion.
• Nevitt asked Korlak whether the plan was worth the risk, and Korlak said the resulting balance between the camps would benefit the Fario Civilization despite the danger.
• Korlak suggested using the sacrifice to eliminate restless fleets within the military, whose commanders opposed Nevitt’s shifting alliances.
• Nevitt ordered Korlak to identify every fleet that was not loyal to him, allowing up to forty percent to be sacrificed.

The Sun River Empire publicly promised not to attack the Fario Civilization, while Lin Fan’s Alliance prepared to exploit the locations of the Empire’s Black Hole Channels. Saik launched the Empire’s reinforcement operation, but all seventeen channels immediately became unstable and consumed Dark Energy Crystals at an alarming rate.

• Amles agreed to the Empire’s public promise, believing it would not matter after the Alliance was destroyed.
• The Sun River Empire promised the universe it would not attack the Fario Civilization for ten thousand years, and Lin Fan’s group recognized that their plan had worked.
• Lin Fan told Altra that the Alliance was ready to strike once its frontline fleets reported the Black Hole Channels’ coordinates, and he warned that the Empire’s peak-level Dark Energy Users could fight recklessly.
• Saik assembled twenty-five legions and ordered all seventeen Black Hole Channels opened according to the operation plan.
• The Empire’s adjutant reported that every channel had unstable energy fluctuations and was rapidly consuming Dark Energy Crystals.

Seke discovered that the Alliance was collapsing the Sun River Empire’s Black Hole Channels by striking their exits with other channels, rapidly draining Dark Energy Crystals. He chose to fight a war of attrition, and Amles sent him ninety percent of the empire’s reserves to continue.

• The seventeen Black Hole Channels collapsed after their prepared Dark Energy Crystals were exhausted, and Seke ordered the fleets to try opening them again with their wartime reserves.
• The channels collapsed a second time when their crystals’ energy consumption surged, and Seke’s technical team investigated the cause.
• The technical team confirmed that the Alliance was creating Black Hole Channels to strike the exits of the empire’s channels.
• Seke ordered further attempts to open the channels and requested more Dark Energy Crystals from Amles.
• Amles agreed to wear down the Alliance’s reserves and ordered ninety percent of the empire’s Dark Energy Crystals sent to Seke.

Lin Fan ordered the Alliance fleets to slow their attacks so the Sun River Empire would keep spending Dark Energy Crystals while suffering fewer losses. Amles remained uncertain whether the Federation could outlast the Empire or was bluffing, and Korlak argued that the Alliance was trying to make the Empire give up.

• Altra reported that the Sun River Empire had spent 1,666 Dark Energy Crystals in under five hours, and Lin Fan proposed slowing the Alliance's attacks to prolong the attrition war.
• Altra arranged for the frontline fleets to switch from frenzied assaults to a steadier advance, allowing more Sun River Empire ships to survive.
• Korlak presented Amles with possible explanations for the Alliance's slower offensive, including that it wanted to draw out the Empire's crystal reserves or was bluffing about its own.
• Amles asked Korlak to assess the situation, and Korlak argued that the Federation's crystals likely came from the Alphart Civilization and that its reserves were now below 50,000.
• Korlak concluded that the Alliance was deliberately trying to make the Sun River Empire abandon the war of attrition.

After the Sun River Empire spent ninety percent of its Dark Energy Crystal reserves in a failed war of attrition, Galon offered a possible way to reverse its fortunes without directly joining the war. The chapter ended with Amles asking how many Black Hole Crystals Galon could provide.

• Amles accepted Korlak's proposal to continue the war of attrition, but the Empire depleted ninety percent of its Dark Energy Crystal reserves and had to stop.
• Altra and Tarovis celebrated the Alliance's advantage as its commanders calculated that the Empire had nearly exhausted its reserves.
• Amles asked his ministers how the Empire could fight on, but the audience chamber fell silent.
• Harris reported that Galon knew of the Empire's predicament and had offered help in exchange for another Dark Energy Spring.
• Harris revealed that Galon had provided a Black Hole Crystal, which tests confirmed was almost entirely composed of Black Hole Cavity Particles.
• Amles realized that Black Hole Crystals could produce hundreds of Dark Energy Crystals and asked how many Galon could supply.

The Sun River Empire debated how much to demand from Galon for a Dark Energy Spring, realizing Galon urgently needed the springs. Galon immediately accepted their doubled terms, leaving Amles wondering whether the Empire had asked for too little.

• Galon offered 100 Black Hole Crystals upfront and 10 each year for 100 years in exchange for one Dark Energy Spring.
• Amles and the ministers calculated that the crystals could yield Dark Energy Crystals equivalent to 33,000 years of a spring’s output.
• Korlak argued that Galon lacked the technology to use Black Hole Crystals and needed Dark Energy Springs just as urgently as the Empire needed crystals.
• Amles instructed Harris to demand 200 crystals upfront, followed by 20 per year for 100 years or 10 per year for 200 years.
• Harris reported that Galon had agreed to the increased terms, and Amles wondered if they had asked for too little.

Amles agreed to devote a large annual supply of Dark Energy Crystals to advancing the Sun River Empire’s Black Hole data analysis. The Alliance debated whether to press its attack or consolidate, while Farn prepared to hunt Ten-dimensional Beings again.

• Korlak advised Amles to use the Empire’s new crystal reserves to improve Black Hole data analysis rather than continue the war of attrition, and Amles approved allocating ten thousand crystals per year to the Ministry of Science.
• Tarovis told Altra that the Sun River Empire had stopped opening Black Hole Channels for one day, and the Alliance leaders asked Lin Fan whether to attack or consolidate.
• Lin Fan weighed the risks posed by Galon’s Biological Civilization faction and the missing Farn, and favored slowing down to consolidate gains while giving the Federation time to analyze Black Hole data.
• Farn returned to Ten-dimensional Space, where he had previously failed to devour its immortal inhabitants, and prepared to hunt them again using a new plan.

Farn became a successful hunter of Ten-dimensional Beings by devouring their timelines, but a coalition trapped him in a one-second loop. Five years after the last war, the Federation developed the Exile Ray, an immensely powerful weapon that banished its targets into the Black Hole Cavity.

• Farn realized that a Ten-dimensional Being could only be truly killed by devouring its entire timeline, and he successfully hunted several of them.
• Ten-dimensional Beings discovered Farn’s hunts and trapped him in a blank, one-second timeline loop.
• Lin Hong appeared in the loop while searching for traces of Farn.
• In Federation Year 236, the Federation’s Black Hole Cavity data parsing reached 85% in the Boötes Void.
• The Federation developed the Exile Ray, which forcibly pulled targets into the Black Hole Cavity with no known way back.

The Federation strengthened its fleets and top-tier fighters, bringing the Alliance camp closer to parity with the Sun River Empire. Meanwhile, the Lothar Republic faced collapse after losing most of its territory and receiving an order to surrender five more Superclusters, but Krum received startling good news.

• The Federation upgraded 150 billion main warships with low-concentration Black Hole Cavity Armor and improved the Nether Fleet and its Eleventh Order fighters.
• The Lothar Republic lost its main fleet at Turgar, and surrounding civilizations seized seventeen of its twenty-five Superclusters.
• Krum and the Republic's leaders despaired when the Sun River Empire ordered them to surrender five of their remaining eight Superclusters.
• Krum's assistant rushed into the meeting and told him something that made him react with shock and joy.