Recaps

Lin Yu led a covert strike that ambushed the White Church during its evacuation and stole the Cross-border Device in under five seconds. Archbishop Paulina ordered the Crusader Army to pursue through the teleportation channel and destroy the device, while Lin Yu ordered his forces to withdraw.

• Lin Fan approved Luo Li’s plan to send fleets to a point a hundred Standard Black Hole Units from the Trova Universe.
• Lin Yu arrived near Trova with the fleets but used a single warship to approach unnoticed, then led hundreds of Civilization Guardians in Chaos Mechs toward the White Church’s evacuation point.
• Paulina sensed unease but dismissed it after a bishop reported that scans had detected no enemy intrusion.
• Lin Yu’s force attacked the White Church fleet, killed the bishops guarding the Cross-border Device, cut its energy supply, and hurled it through a newly opened teleportation channel.
• Paulina ordered the Crusader Army to pursue and destroy the Cross-border Device, and Lin Yu ordered his force to withdraw.

Lin Yu stayed behind to cover the Alliance forces’ retreat while the White Church fleet surrounded him, and Paulina recognized him as a Fourth Tier powerhouse and ordered her troops to let him go. When a Heretics fleet of at least fifteen legions arrived near Trowa and threatened the White Church with annihilation, Lin Yu demanded their surrender.

• Lin Yu remained behind in his mech to draw the White Church fleet away while the other Alliance forces escaped.
• Paulina sensed Lin Yu’s Fourth Tier strength and ordered the White Church forces to open the encirclement and let him leave.
• A purple-robed bishop reported that at least fifteen Heretics legions were approaching Trowa at incredible speed.
• Paulina realized the White Church could not retreat because the enemy had taken the Cross-border Device and vastly outnumbered the troops at Trowa.
• Lin Yu addressed every White Church member and demanded surrender or annihilation within one day.

Lin Yu’s attempt to persuade the White Church forces to surrender instead drove them to launch a fanatical assault, including repeated self-destructions. While holding off their attacks, he teleported behind their encirclement toward the enormous cathedral where Paulina was commanding the battle.

• Paulina’s purple-robed bishops rejected surrender and urged her to order a fight to the death using self-destruction attacks.
• Paulina ordered the Crusader Armies to attack and the bishops to charge Lin Yu through a passage in the firepower, sacrificing themselves for the Lord of Darkness.
• A First Tier Black Hole Lifeform charged Lin Yu and self-destructed, then the Crusader fleets opened fire from every direction.
• Lin Yu maintained his defenses and stayed to wear down the White Church forces until the follow-up fleets arrived.
• Lin Yu scanned for the White Church’s female high-ranking official and teleported behind the encirclement, appearing before the enormous cathedral.

Lin Yu captured Paulina and delivered her to the Chaos Research Institute, while the Alliance destroyed the White Church forces on Telohua. After Paulina revealed the Church’s secrets and asked for her husband Ziegler and the younger generation to be spared, Lin Fan agreed, provided her intelligence was accurate.

• Lin Yu captured Paulina aboard the White Church flagship and escaped with her as the Crusader Army fell into chaos.
• Lin Yu escorted Paulina to the Azure Dragon Universe, while the Alliance annihilated three Crusader Army legions on Telohua within two days.
• Ten days later, Luo Li told Lin Fan that Paulina had willingly confessed the White Church’s secrets, including that Paulina and Pope Ziegler knew the truth about the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness.
• Luo Li explained that Paulina hoped Lin Fan would spare Ziegler and the Church’s younger generation so they could establish a new civilization under the Azure Dragon Alliance.
• Lin Fan agreed to Paulina’s request if her intelligence proved accurate.

After the Azure Dragon Alliance annihilated the Teli Empire, the White Church learned of the destruction of Trova and Cardinal Paulina’s capture. Pope Ziegler resolved to launch a full-scale holy war against humanity and ordered the Church to prepare its forces for an invasion in 150 years.

• Yehua failed to secure allies or a surrender agreement as the Azure Dragon Alliance advanced on the Teli Empire.
• An Alliance announcement exposed the Teli Empire’s collusion with the White Church and revealed that its army had been destroyed and Paulina captured.
• In Federation Year 607, the Alliance conquered the Teli Empire and carried out a three-year purge on Lin Fan’s orders.
• In Federation Year 610, six and a half of the White Church’s ten Crusader Army legions returned to the Sera Realm, confirming that Trova had fallen.
• Ziegler ordered Aierduo to assemble the White Church’s forces and equip its warships with sixth-generation Black Hole Engines for a full-scale holy war in 150 years.

Federation Year 760 saw the Alliance continue developing while Luo Li completed a major advance in warship technology. Lin Fan began reorganizing the Federal Fleet with the new ships and planned to finance the rapid refit by selling the previous generation across the Alliance.

• The Federation’s Black Hole Lifeforms surpassed twenty thousand, while the Azure Dragon Alliance grew to seventeen God-tier Civilizations and the Biological Civilization camp added another.
• The Tailo Empire, led by Montero, crushed neighboring God-tier Civilizations, and the Hiltek Empire also began expanding into nearby territory.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that Great Xia’s fleets had once wielded immense power, then developed a new generation of warships with the Federation’s support.
• Simulations showed the new warships could let a legion defeat a Main Legion of the four great empires even at a one-to-ten disadvantage, so Lin Fan ordered the Federal Fleet reorganized into true main fleets.
• The Federation auctioned hundreds of billions of retired warships to Alliance civilizations and decided to expand production and sales of the previous generation, reducing the planned refit from a century to twenty years.

The White Church launched a massive invasion of the Kunsa Realm through a random Cross-border Channel, but the Federation detected it and prepared a defense. Ten years later, the White Church fleet emerged into a Federation ambush, and Ziegler ordered a Divine Punishment Attack after learning the enemy’s ships were far stronger than expected.

• Ziegler set the holy war for three days later and ordered the White Church to enter the Kunsa Realm through a random channel.
• Luo Li detected the channel and later confirmed that at least one White Church legion had entered it, prompting Lin Fan to prepare defenses.
• The Federation stationed twenty legions in three defensive lines near the channel and kept them ready for ten years.
• White Church fleets emerged at the channel entrance, and Lin Fan ordered the Federation’s first defensive line to open fire.
• Aierduo reported that the Federation had twenty legions and warships rated at 278, so Ziegler ordered the arriving Crusader Army to use the Divine Punishment Attack.

The White Church used Divine Punishment Attacks to strike the Federal Fleet with power far beyond the attackers’ tiers, killing each user after the attack. Lin Fan learned from Luo Li that the attackers were the Cleanser’s Martyrs.

• Ziegler ordered Aierduo to use the White Church’s Divine Punishment Attack, which drained its user’s energy and killed them.
• A Divine Punishment Attack tore through the Federal first defensive line, destroying 11.72 billion warships and killing or injuring several Civilization Guardians.
• Lin Fan sent Wang Hai and his squad to defend the line while ordering Luo Li to analyze the attack.
• A second attack from an early Second Tier Black Hole Lifeform was blocked by Wang Hai, who lost nearly twenty percent of his energy, and the attacker died.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that the attackers were the Cleanser’s Martyrs.

Lin Fan took over the first defensive line and effortlessly blocked a White Church martyr’s attack while Luo Li worked on improving the fleet’s scans. After seeing Lin Fan’s pitch-black mech withstand the attack, Ziegler ordered the martyrs to attack in groups of three, though the White Church had only enough martyrs at the front to sustain ten rounds.

• Luo Li explained that martyrs’ attacks had limited range and took about ten seconds to charge, then left to adjust the scanning program.
• Lin Fan ordered the flagship toward the first defensive line, prepared his Chaos Mech, and left Liang Xue in command of the battlefield.
• Lin Fan arrived as Wang Hai withdrew after blocking three attacks, then casually stopped another Divine Punishment Attack.
• Ziegler watched the footage, suspected Lin Fan’s mech was enhancing his power, and ordered Aierduo to have the martyrs attack in groups of three.
• Aierduo relayed the order, but the White Church had enough martyrs at the front for only ten rounds of attacks.

Lin Fan used a Chaos Energy barrier to withstand the White Church’s increasingly powerful martyr attacks. After ten waves, the White Church ran short of martyrs, giving Lin Fan time to recover while he waited for Luo Li’s deadline.

• Three Second Tier Black Hole Lifeforms sacrificed themselves to unleash an attack at Lin Fan exceeding an intensity of fifty thousand.
• Lin Fan deployed a Chaos Energy barrier that remained intact against the attack, while Ziegler explained Chaos Energy and the power gap associated with Fifth Tier lifeforms to Aierduo.
• Ziegler ordered the White Church to keep attacking, and ten waves failed to breach Lin Fan’s defense.
• The White Church halted its attacks because too few martyrs remained on the front lines and reinforcements had not yet arrived.
• Lin Fan estimated that the White Church had run out of martyrs for the moment, rested to recover the sixty percent of his energy he had spent, and watched the enemy formation as he waited for Luo Li’s deadline.

Pope Ziegler tried to break the Federation’s defense with coordinated Divine Punishment Attacks, but Luo Li’s program let the Federation locate and destroy the martyrs as they prepared to strike. The White Church lost another sixty martyrs when it repeated the attack, leaving its passage assault stalled.

• Ziegler ordered the martyrs to conceal their energy and gather for a single coordinated strike as the Federation held the passage entrance.
• Luo Li sent the front lines a program that detected and locked onto martyrs as they began guiding energy, though it could not find them while they remained hidden.
• After three hours of heavy losses, Ziegler ordered sixty gathered martyrs to attack in twenty groups of three.
• The Federation distributed the sixty targets across its first defensive line and destroyed them with a concentrated barrage while they were vulnerable during energy guidance.
• Ziegler rejected Aierduo’s theory that the Federation had learned to track the martyrs and ordered another attempt.
• More than three hours later, the Federation again locked onto and killed sixty martyrs before they could complete their Divine Punishment Attacks.

After more than a century under watch on Outron, Paulina was summoned to communicate with Lin Fan as the White Church’s defeat in the Cross-border Channel became clear. Lin Fan introduced Paulina to Ziegler, who recognized the woman behind the holy war, as she prepared to offer him a suggestion.

• A Federation officer brought Paulina from Outron to an orbiting warship after Lin Fan requested to speak with her.
• On the fifth day of the war, Ziegler agreed to receive a communication from the Human Federation despite Aierduo’s objections.
• Lin Fan told Ziegler that the war’s outcome was already decided and said he had a suggestion for him.
• Lin Fan arranged a three-way communication, and Paulina appeared before Ziegler.

Paulina revealed to Ziegler that she had met Luo Li, while Aierduo secretly exposed Ziegler’s conversation with the Heretics and organized his impeachment. Ziegler refused to help Lin Fan, but Aierduo confronted him as the new Pope and revealed the Black and White Sacred Canon.

• Paulina told Ziegler she had met Luo Li, the chief scientist of the Great Xia Federation, and Ziegler ordered Aierduo to leave.
• Aierduo secretly accessed the communication, heard Ziegler, Paulina, and Lin Fan discuss their plan, and sent an edited recording to the Crusader Army and the White Church bishops.
• Ziegler refused Lin Fan’s proposal to help the Federation avoid casualties, despite asking for more time to consider it.
• Aierduo entered with purple-robed bishops and announced that the impeachment vote had removed Ziegler and made him the new Pope.
• Ziegler threatened Aierduo, who revealed the Black and White Sacred Canon, a relic that could suppress anyone below the Fifth Tier at close range.

Aierduo activated the Black and White Sacred Canon and tried to rally the purple-robed bishops against Ziegler and Lin Fan, but Lin Fan exposed that Aierduo had hidden most of the communication record. After Ziegler restrained Aierduo, the bishops watched the full recording and learned the Pope had discussed erasing their memories and covering up the truth.

• Aierduo used the Black and White Church's remote authorization to activate the Black and White Sacred Canon and ordered the bishops to provide energy so he could suppress Ziegler.
• Lin Fan questioned whether the White Church would accept the Federation's proposal and pointed out that Aierduo had shown the bishops only part of the communication record.
• The purple-robed bishops grew suspicious when they realized the record Aierduo had shown them was much shorter than the full conversation.
• Lin Fan had Liang Xue play the complete communication record while Ziegler restrained Aierduo and ordered the bishops to watch.
• The bishops watched the recording and learned that the Pope had discussed erasing everyone's memories and handling the aftermath.

After the White Church surrendered, the Federation brought its fleets under control and used Luo Li’s psychological suggestion to prepare for integrating the White Empire into the Azure Dragon Alliance. By Federation Year 800, the Alliance had set out for the Sera Realm, and its leaders turned to their next goal: unifying the Kunsa Realm.

• The White Church agreed to surrender after seven more days of losses, ceding nearly seven hundred universes to the Azure Dragon Alliance while the Federation took responsibility for the Sera Realm and the Church’s basic needs.
• The Federation imposed a rule requiring warships to shut down within three seconds of leaving the Cross-border Channel, destroying those that failed to comply.
• More than a hundred days later, all White Church fleets had passed through the channel, and Ziegler agreed that the renamed White Empire would join the Azure Dragon Alliance.
• By Federation Year 795, Luo Li’s psychological suggestion had replaced the plan to erase memories, implanting the belief that people should not believe in gods.
• In Federation Year 800, a hundred Alliance legions and Ziegler’s White Empire forces departed for the Sera Realm, while the Alliance finalized plans to unify the Kunsa Realm.

After the Azure Dragon Alliance demanded the Kunsa Realm’s submission, the Hiltek Empire refused and was invaded within ten days by a force that appeared impossibly fast and overwhelmingly powerful. Montero advised Emperor Valeri to surrender, while suggesting that humanity was building the alliance to gather strength against another enemy.

• The Azure Dragon Alliance proclaimed that God-tier Civilizations could join with voting seats if they surrendered, while those who refused would be destroyed.
• The Hiltek Empire publicly refused to surrender, and ten days later announced that its outer universes and imperial capital were under attack.
• Montero joined Emperor Valeri and Grand Duke Carterman in a Virtual Meeting Room and identified the alliance’s extraordinary speed, multiple God-tier members, and far superior warships.
• Montero told Valeri that the empire had no chance of victory and advised him to accept the alliance’s terms, which would preserve the empire’s internal rule and fleets.
• Montero suggested that humanity’s confidence and a need to prepare for an enemy might explain why it was gathering strength through the alliance.

Valeri decided that the Tailo Empire would join the Azure Dragon Alliance, and the Human Federation gave it a seat in the alliance’s highest decision-making tier. At his first high-level meeting, Valeri learned that the alliance was already planning campaigns beyond the Kunsa Realm and was told the Empire needed to upgrade its Black Hole Engine technology to take part.

• Montero and Carterman advised Valeri to join the Azure Dragon Alliance as early as possible, and Valeri decided to contact humanity himself.
• After the alliance overwhelmed the Hiltek Empire’s capital defenses, Valeri announced that the Tailo Empire was submitting to the Human Federation and joining the alliance.
• The Federation welcomed the Tailo Empire as an elder-tier civilization with a seat and voting rights in high-level meetings.
• At his first alliance meeting, Lin Zhen introduced Valeri to the other leaders, and Valeri was stunned to learn the Federation had taken over the Sera Realm and was discussing campaigns in other realms.
• Valeri offered the Tailo Empire’s fleets to the alliance, and Lin Zhen advised him to buy the Federation’s Ninth Generation Black Hole Engine because the Empire’s technology was too outdated for the operation.

Valeri agreed to equip the Tailo Empire with Ninth Generation Black Hole Engines, and the Azure Dragon Alliance finalized its planned expedition to the Dore Realm. In the Black Mang Empire, Sharet rejected joining the Alliance and imprisoned a minister who supported it, leaving the court too afraid to speak up.

• Valeri decided the Tailo Empire would use its resources to buy Ninth Generation Black Hole Engines and prepare at least five upgraded fleets within a hundred years.
• The Alliance finalized an expedition force for the Dore Realm, scheduled to begin in a hundred years and potentially grow to over a hundred legions.
• Sharet asked his ministers to assess the situation in the Kunsa Realm, and Carlotell recommended sealing the passage through the Black Hole collapse region rather than submitting.
• A second minister argued that joining the Azure Dragon Alliance would benefit the Black Mang Empire, but Sharet accused him of dishonoring the Empire and had him imprisoned.
• Although most ministers agreed with the imprisoned minister, Sharet's outburst kept them from voicing their support.

Carlotell persuaded Sharet to offer refuge to other civilizations in exchange for their technological databases, unaware that the Federation planned to exploit the arrangement. Disguised as a Lan Feng Kingdom Seed Fleet, Federation forces destroyed three Black Mang Empire fleets guarding Fault Channels, clearing the way for the next phase of the operation.

• Carlotell convinced Sharet to let small groups from other civilizations take refuge in the Black Mang Empire in exchange for access to their technology.
• Several civilizations secretly reported Carlotell's offer to the Azure Dragon Alliance, and the Federation decided to use the Seed Fleet arrangement to infiltrate the empire.
• Carlotell believed his plan was succeeding as eleven civilizations joined it, while the Lan Feng Kingdom's Seed Fleet entered Black Mang Empire territory in Federation Year 850.
• Wang Hai received reports aboard the disguised fleet and sent three cloaked reconnaissance ships toward the Fault Channels.
• Wang Hai ordered more than a thousand Second Tier or stronger fighters to attack, and the three teams destroyed the Black Mang Empire fleets guarding their targets.
• Wang Hai reported to headquarters that the first phase was complete and that the Federation could coordinate the second phase.

The Federation began its second phase of operations against the Black Mang Empire as Lin Yu led three legions into the passage. Bennett learned the Azure Dragon Alliance fleet was approaching and prepared to destroy the Fault Channel if the defensive line failed, but the three Special Detachments he needed could not be contacted.

• Federal Fleet Headquarters ordered Lin Yu to begin the second phase, and Lin Yu sent the three assembled legions into the passage to attack the Black Mang Empire's forces.
• Bennett received a report that Azure Dragon Alliance fleets were approaching the defensive line and sounded the battle alarm.
• Sharet authorized Bennett to destroy the Fault Channel if the defensive line showed signs of collapse.
• Bennett ordered the 101st, 102nd, and 103rd Special Detachments to send their Transport Ships into the Fault Channel, but none of the three responded.
• Bennett learned that the nearest available 115 Special Detachment was still eight days away, leaving him unsure whether the line could hold.

Bennett ordered the Black Mang Empire fleet to cram into the Fault Channel and hold off the Azure Dragon Alliance for eight days, accepting catastrophic losses to prevent the enemy from breaking through. After two legions were lost in a day, two Lan Feng Kingdom motherships appeared behind headquarters, and Bennett ordered the Second Guard Legion to attack them.

• Bennett realized the Lan Feng Kingdom's Seed Fleet may have enabled the Azure Dragon Alliance's massive offensive, but knew he had to hold for eight days.
• The Azure Dragon Alliance attacked, and its superior warships inflicted devastating losses on the Black Mang Empire fleet.
• Bennett explained that he had packed his fleets into the Fault Channel to block the enemy's escape route and ordered them to replace destroyed frontline ships while his Guard Legion prevented desertions.
• Bennett ordered constant updates from the 115 Special Detachment and accepted the loss of two legions after the first day of fighting.
• Two Lan Feng Kingdom motherships appeared behind headquarters, and Bennett ordered the Second Guard Legion to open fire despite the ships being identified as friendlies.

Wang Hai led the Civilization Guardian Legion to destroy Bennett’s forces at the passage entrance, then joined Lin Yu’s legions in a pincer attack that sent the Black Mang Empire’s remaining forces into collapse. The chapter left the Empire’s twenty-odd legions in the passage facing defeat after Bennett and two guard fleets were destroyed.

• Bennett’s Second Guard Legion poured fire at the Lan Feng Kingdom’s two motherships, but their defenses held against the barrage.
• Wang Hai’s 3,000 Humanoid Mechs launched attacks that destroyed thirty percent of the Second Guard Legion in one wave, with a second wave crippling the formation further.
• Bennett realized the Mechs were Black Hole Lifeforms and that the missing Special Detachments had likely been wiped out; the next attack destroyed his flagship.
• Thirty minutes later, Wang Hai eliminated the First and Second Guard Fleets and led the Civilization Guardian Legion into the passage.
• Wang Hai joined Lin Yu’s three legions in a pincer attack, and the Black Mang Empire’s remaining forces began to collapse after their supreme commander died.

Lin Yu’s forces advanced on the Black Mang Empire’s capital after trapping the empire inside its territory. Sharet killed himself rather than become a prisoner, while Cui Wa surrendered to Wang Hai and was brought back to Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu left one legion to guard the passage and led his other forces across Black Mang territory toward its heart.
• Sharet learned that the empire’s fleets had been destroyed and ordered guards to protect Cui Wa and surrender her to humanity.
• Sharet and Carlotell waited atop the Imperial Palace as humanity’s forces destroyed the planet’s military installations.
• Sharet shot himself rather than be captured, and Carlotell then picked up the Beam Rifle and shot himself too.
• Wang Hai reported Sharet’s death and Cui Wa’s surrender, and Lin Yu ordered Wang Hai to bring Cui Wa back without the guards.

Lin Fan led the Azure Dragon Alliance’s expedition into the Dore Realm after decades of consolidating the Kunsa Realm and migrating its civilizations. In the Dore Realm, the Black Church received a warning from the Holy Scripture and began preparing to defend against the invasion.

• Lin Yu ordered a full-scale orbital strike that devastated the Black Mang Empire, and the empire’s capital fell after three Federal legions attacked.
• By Federation Year 865, every God-tier Civilization in the Kunsa Realm had submitted to the Azure Dragon Alliance, which began relocating civilizations from other universes.
• By Federation Year 937, the Saido Realm migration was about twenty percent complete, while more than a hundred legions assembled for a new expedition.
• Lin Fan ordered the Cross-border Device activated and calibrated for the Dore Realm, then sent the fleet through the opened Cross-border Channel.
• The Holy Scripture warned Pope Ternova that an Outer Realm Civilization was invading the Dore Realm, and he ordered Cardinal Archbishop Velos and nearby Crusader Armies to establish a defense.

The Black Church deployed a huge force to seize the passage into the Kunsa Realm, where Archbishop Velos’s army confronted the Azure Dragon Alliance’s vanguard. After destroying the first legion, Velos was shocked to see ships from another civilization emerge from the passage.

• The Third Church sent seventy legions toward the invasion point, while other Crusader Armies also advanced.
• Archbishop Velos positioned ten legions around the passage and held sixty in reserve.
• The Azure Dragon Alliance’s vanguard of twenty-six submitted civilizations emerged from the passage and met the Black Church’s crossfire.
• Velos identified the first legion as the Sea Breeze Union but suspected it was cannon fodder for the real enemy.
• The Black Church wiped out the Sea Breeze Union legion after a day of fighting, despite its unexpectedly powerful warships.
• A second legion began emerging from the passage, and Velos realized it belonged to another civilization.