Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan’s plan used the destruction of the coalition’s Hyperspace Interference Devices to let the Decoy Fleet escape, then unleashed Doomsday Bombs that killed nearly all coalition personnel across ten theaters. The Moy Union gained tens of trillions of intact warships, while agreeing to a hundred years of tariff-free access for Federation goods.

• Bonifacio realized the Moy Union intended to destroy the coalition forces and seize their surviving warships, but he could not stop the plan.
• The Zero-Point Armaments destroyed the coalition’s Hyperspace Interference Devices, allowing the Decoy Fleet to escape through Hyperspace Windows.
• Doomsday Bombs detonated at the ten current mouths, and their Knox Particles killed coalition soldiers and eventually even the Tenth Order Dark Energy Manipulators.
• Life-detection devices confirmed the coalition’s final survivors had died, and the Supreme Commanders congratulated Lin Fan on completing the operation.
• The Moy Union gained nearly seventy trillion coalition warships but agreed to remove tariffs on Federation goods for a hundred years.

The Fario leaders learned that their subsidiary forces had failed to defeat the Moy Union, which had used Knox Particles to seal the surrounding currents and gain a massive fleet. Korlak proposed a way to act against the Moy Union without violating the treaty with the Azure Dragon Universe.

• Nevitt's deputy reported that the allied forces had lost 87 trillion battleships and the Moy Union had sealed all currents except the one leading to Renos.
• Veinright explained that Knox Particles had wiped out at least 70 trillion allied battleships, which the Moy people could now operate using their inherited knowledge.
• Nevitt concluded that the Fario Civilization could not attack the Moy Union directly because of its treaty constraints and the other Super Civilizations' scrutiny.
• Korlak showed the Moy Union's location beside the Viers Supercluster, the former homeland of the Holy Victorians.
• Korlak proposed granting the Viers Supercluster to the White Tiger Empire.

Korlak proposed a plan for Fario Civilization to reclaim the Viers Supercluster by gifting it to the White Tiger Empire and using a Black Hole Channel to launch a surprise attack on the Moy Union. The plan appeared to evade the Azure Dragon Organization’s rules, but Fario’s leaders did not know that humanity owned both the Doomsday Bomb and the Viers Supercluster.

• Fario Civilization’s leaders recalled how Lin Hong had saved their people from the insect race by evacuating them from the Viers Supercluster, which later became their lost homeland.
• Nevitt silenced the outraged leaders and asked Korlak to explain why he had proposed giving the Viers Supercluster to the White Tiger Empire.
• Korlak said Fario needed to defeat the Moy Union, reclaim its homeland, and obey the Azure Dragon Organization’s rules.
• Korlak proposed giving the Viers Supercluster to the White Tiger Empire, helping it build a semi-permanent Black Hole Channel, and sending more than ten trillion warships through it to attack the Moy Union’s rear.
• Fario’s leaders saw how the plan could exploit the rules and expected the White Tiger Empire to return the Viers Supercluster afterward.
• The chapter revealed that Fario had mistaken humanity for the Moy people as the owner of the Doomsday Bomb, and that humanity currently controlled the Viers Supercluster.

Emperor Eboser and Chief Minister Sevester realized the Fario Civilization’s message offered a route for the White Tiger Empire to strike the Moy Union’s undefended rear. At the Viers Supercluster, Lin Fan’s forces detected a Black Hole Energy invasion and deployed two attack groups, which arrived as a massive fleet emerged from a Black Hole Channel.

• Sevester deduced that the Fario Civilization’s passage to the Viers Supercluster would let the White Tiger Empire reach the Renos Supercluster and attack the Moy Union’s rear before its fleets could respond.
• An operator at Federal Interstellar Fleet Headquarters detected a Black Hole Energy reaction in the Boötes Void, and Lin Fan ordered the nearby 107th and 175th Main Attack Groups to investigate.
• Lin Fan authorized General Fujiwara Ayako and General Dennis Linden to use their fleets’ Doomsday Bombs without limit if the newcomers proved hostile and could not be stopped.
• More than twenty billion warships poured from a Black Hole Channel at the edge of the Boötes Void, and the Federation’s two attack groups arrived with ten billion ships.
• Lin Fan watched the fleet’s shared visual feed and reacted in surprise.

Lin Fan discovered that a massive Allied Fleet led by the White Tiger Empire had entered Federation territory through a Black Hole Channel to attack the Moy Union from behind. He withheld an answer from the enemy commander and urgently showed the threat to the Moy Union’s Supreme Commanders, leaving them stunned by the fleet’s arrival.

• Lin Fan ordered Fujiwara Ayako and Dennis to activate interference devices and prepare Doomsday Bombs before taking Bonifacio’s call.
• Bonifacio identified himself as the White Tiger Empire’s commander and demanded passage through Federation territory to reach the Renos Supercluster.
• Lin Fan realized the Allied Fleet planned to launch a surprise attack on the Moy Union and asked for three days to respond.
• Rather than contacting the Federation’s leader, Lin Fan summoned the Moy Union’s ten Supreme Commanders and showed them surveillance footage of the Allied Fleet.
• Nina asked about the dark passageway in the footage, and Lin Fan identified it as a Black Hole Channel.

Lin Fan and the Moy Union investigated why the White Tiger Empire’s coalition had used a Black Hole Channel to reach the Viers Supercluster instead of attacking the Moy Union directly. Bonifacio revealed that Viers was the Fario Civilization’s birthplace and had been entrusted to the White Tiger Empire, giving Lin Fan a likely explanation for the Fario Civilization’s involvement.

• Lin Fan explained that Black Hole Channels could bypass cosmic currents, and he and Nina worried that the Federation could not reliably defend against them without exposing itself to a Super Civilization.
• Nivia questioned why the coalition had emerged in the Viers Supercluster rather than placing the channel exit inside the Moy Union, and Lin Fan decided to use the coalition’s need for speed to uncover the reason.
• Lin Fan refused Bonifacio’s demand to let the coalition pass through Federation territory and warned that chained hyperspace interference could delay an invasion.
• Bonifacio revealed that Viers was the birthplace of the Fario Civilization, formerly called the Holy Victory Empire, and that the Fario Civilization had entrusted the supercluster to the White Tiger Empire.
• Lin Fan realized that the Fario Civilization had used its claim over Viers as a loophole to send the coalition fleet there.

Lin Fan invoked the Alphart Civilization’s rules to deter Bonifacio from attacking humanity, gambling that the Fario Civilization would not risk a confrontation. Nevitt ordered the White Tiger Empire to withdraw from the Willster Super Galaxy Cluster and directed Korlak to close the Black Hole Channel.

• Bonifacio threatened humanity, but Lin Fan challenged him and revealed that he knew Super Civilizations were forbidden from interfering with ordinary civilizations.
• Lin Fan said he would appeal the Fario Civilization’s use of a Black Hole Channel to the Alphart Civilization, and Bonifacio paused to consult his superiors.
• Lin Fan confirmed that the Fario Civilization had opened the channel by exploiting Vilsert’s history and that Alphart’s rules applied to Super Civilizations.
• Bonifacio reported Lin Fan’s image and claims to Nevitt, who recognized Lin Fan as resembling an Alphart person.
• Nevitt ordered the White Tiger Empire to withdraw and told Korlak to sever the Black Hole Channel after the withdrawal.

Three years after the Vilsert incident, the Federation and Moy Union continued developing, but the Moy leaders struggled to educate children who had undergone genetic procedures. Larnass revealed that his ten-year-old son Jeram had passed a Federation grade-skipping assessment by building a Level Five Energy Shield Generator, leaving the other Supreme Commanders stunned.

• After the allied fleet returned from Vilsert, Lin Fan concluded that the Federation had to find its own way to deal with Black Hole Channels.
• Over the next three years, the Fario Civilization and White Tiger Empire caused no further trouble, while the Federation helped the Moy Union overcome Congenital Brain Death.
• The ten Supreme Commanders met to discuss the difficulty of educating Moy children, and Ansen said only 1.7% could keep pace with their planned curriculum.
• Larnass explained that Jeram had applied to skip a grade and had passed an assessment requiring him to build a personal Energy Shield Generator.
• The Supreme Commanders were shocked that ten-year-old Jeram had built a generator meeting the Level Five Shield standard and entered middle school.

Larnass explained that the Brain Development Potion had helped him absorb information far faster than he realized, and that his son Jeram’s thorough understanding of Energy Shields showed how learning could surpass inherited knowledge. He argued that the potion let humanity acquire deep understanding quickly, leaving the Moy people reconsidering the limits of their knowledge inheritance.

• Arno questioned whether Jeram had lied about his Energy Shield knowledge, and Larnass defended him.
• Larnass said Jeram understood some Energy Shield concepts better than he did and suspected the Brain Development Potion was responsible.
• Larnass revealed that the potion had made him read documents in seconds and finish official work in under an hour, shocking the other nine.
• Larnass told the group that the Federation had developed from an interstellar civilization to the Eighth Order Peak in only 198 years.
• Larnass argued that Moy knowledge inheritance enabled instant recall but not full understanding, while learning from scratch could bring deeper comprehension.
• Larnass said the Brain Development Potion could reduce centuries of study to twenty or thirty years and overcome the usual drawback of learning from scratch.

The Moy Union asked the Federation for help with Brain Development Potions and genetic enhancement after solving Congenital Brain Death exposed the limits of Moy learning. Meanwhile, the Federation’s Black Hole Channel research stalled for lack of Dark Energy Crystals, and Lin Fan saw Nina’s request as a chance to obtain more from the Moy Union.

• Nina asked whether the Federation could provide the Moy people with Brain Development Potions, genetic enhancement, and more opportunities to study in the Federation, and Larnass explained the genetic risks and limits of Moy technology.
• Federation researchers raised their analysis of Black Hole Channel data to 1.8% and had previously opened a tiny channel, but their Dark Energy Crystal supply ran out.
• Lin Fan considered asking the Moy Union for more Dark Energy Crystals when Liang Xue announced Nina’s communication request.
• Nina told Lin Fan that solving Congenital Brain Death had revealed another problem: the Moy people struggled to learn all the knowledge of a Ninth Order Civilization.
• Lin Fan realized the Federation could use the Moy Union’s need for Brain Development Potions to negotiate for more Dark Energy Crystals.

Lin Fan offered the Moy Union student placements and enhancement potions in exchange for cooperation, while also asking for Dark Energy Crystals to support Black Cavity research. Nina agreed to promote the arrangements at the Supreme Commander Conference but raised a condition of her own.

• Lin Fan offered the Moy Union one hundred million Federation student placements, enhanced benefits for students, and basic potions for other Moy people who had undergone gene surgery.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Federation had deciphered 0.5% of the Black Cavity data and asked the Moy Union to supply more Dark Energy Crystals in exchange for shared research results.
• Nina questioned whether rejecting the research arrangement would jeopardize the education and potion offers, and Lin Fan left her question unanswered.
• Nina agreed to promote the plans at the Supreme Commander Conference, then blushed as she prepared to state her own condition.

Nina told the Moy Union’s supreme leaders that Lin Fan had offered Federation gene and brain-development treatments in exchange for recruiting Moy students, while also requiring continued Dark Energy Crystal supplies for shared Black Hole Cavity research. The leaders recognized that accepting could bring future Federation control, but refusing might leave their civilization to decline or perish.

• Lin Fan agreed to recruit Moy students into the Federation and provide treatments, while offering basic versions to other Moy people.
• Nina told the supreme leaders that the Federation had used the Dark Energy Crystal supplied ten years earlier and deciphered 0.5% of the Black Hole Cavity data.
• Nina explained that Lin Fan required the Moy Union to keep supplying Dark Energy Crystals in exchange for the research results, including future discoveries.
• Belterlun explained that 0.5% matched the level achieved by the Fario Civilization before it became a Super Civilization, prompting several leaders to urge cooperation.
• Aym asked whether the research deal and student proposal could be separated, and Nina said Lin Fan would not omit either condition.

The Moy Union’s Supreme Commanders debated whether to accept the Federation’s proposal to merge, weighing the Moy people’s future status against the Federation’s rapid technological progress. Nina proposed a marriage alliance with Lin Fan to safeguard her people’s interests, and Aym approved.

• Larnass argued that the Moy people’s status must be guaranteed in any merger, while acknowledging that the Federation would soon surpass the Union.
• Belterlun agreed with Larnass, and Nivia said accepting the Federation’s proposal might be their only choice.
• Nivia inferred that Nina had devised a way to preserve the Moy people’s interests, and Nina confirmed she had made up her mind.
• Aym asked Nina if she planned a marriage alliance with Lin Fan, and Nina said she did.
• Aym approved the alliance, recognizing that Lin Fan’s position in the Federation could help secure the Moy people’s future.

Lin Fan and the Federation accepted the Moy Union’s marriage-alliance condition, beginning a new era of exchange between the two civilizations. Ten years later, as Lin Fan and Nina’s child was born and the Federation became a Ninth Order Civilization, Jeram returned to the Moy Union and realized that the Federation had become his true home.

• Lin Zhen told Lin Fan that the Federation had agreed to Nina’s marriage alliance proposal after Liang Xue and Emma gave their approval.
• After three days of talks, the Moy Union’s ten Supreme Commanders accepted Lin Fan’s proposal on the condition of a marriage alliance, which Lin Fan agreed to.
• Young Moy people began studying in the Federation, and genetic enhancement treatments and Brain Development Potions spread through the Union, sparking a wave of genetic surgery.
• By Federation Year 208, Jeram had completed the Federation’s basic education program and returned to the Moy Union, while Lin Fan and Nina’s child was born and the Federation mastered Time Technology to become a Ninth Order Civilization.
• Jeram found the Moy Union unfamiliar and lacking the Federation’s vitality, and he longed to return to the Federation, which he recognized as his home.

Lin Fan arrived at the Starry Sky Continent to witness humanity's first experiment with a complete Black Hole Channel after researchers reached 5% analysis of Black Hole Cavity data. Meanwhile, Traimson secretly met with Nevitt and revealed that the Black Mang Empire had changed the prospects of their plan against the Alphart.

• Lin Fan arrived aboard Galaxy and learned from Jeram that Black Hole Cavity data analysis had reached 5%, enabling work on a complete Black Hole Channel.
• Lin Fan asked Jeram about sharing only 1% of the data with the Moy Union, and Jeram argued that sharing more would hinder the Moy people's eventual merger with the Federation.
• Lin Fan reassured Jeram that Nina and he had already arranged protections for the Moy people after the merger.
• Lin Fan, Jeram, and Li Lizhi gathered at the test zone's command center, and humanity began its first experiment to establish a complete Black Hole Channel.
• Traimson told Nevitt that their plan against the Alphart would begin immediately and that the Black Mang Empire had removed the obstacles Nevitt feared.

Traimson persuaded Nevitt to accept the Black Mang Empire’s offer to destroy the Alphart Civilization, using humanity’s rapid progress as a reason to act before it could challenge the Sun River Empire. The Alphart Supreme Council received the same news and celebrated humanity’s success as proof that its God-Making Plan was the most promising.

• Traimson told Nevitt that he had accepted the Black Mang Empire’s offer to destroy the Alphart Civilization in exchange for ruling the Azure Dragon Universe.
• Traimson revealed that the Black Mang Empire had provided technology capable of exterminating Energy Lifeforms, and he argued that they could eliminate the Alphart before its allies reacted.
• Nevitt hesitated over the risks until a message reported that a complete Black Hole Channel had opened in the Viers Supercluster and that humanity had deciphered 5% to 6% of the Black Hole data.
• Traimson warned that humanity could soon challenge the Sun River Empire, prompting Nevitt to agree to the plan in exchange for half of the Azure Dragon Universe.
• The Alphart Supreme Council received the report and celebrated humanity’s progress as evidence that its God-Making Plan was the most likely to succeed.

After humanity succeeded in opening a Black Hole Channel, the Federation prepared to invade the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster and seize it from the Zilun Empire. Five months later, its forces assembled in the Viers Supercluster, joined by the Moy Union’s Seventy-Eighth Expeditionary Corps.

• Alphart Civilization’s council celebrated humanity’s progress, then learned that the Sun River Empire had received information from outside the universe.
• Lin Fan called a meeting and announced the Federation’s plan to attack the Zilun Empire and take the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster.
• Lin Fan named himself commander-in-chief and said the Federal Fleet headquarters would move from the Willster Super Galaxy Cluster to Nilkenia after the conquest.
• The Federation assembled its invasion forces in the Viers Supercluster while the Dauntless Fleet reinforced the route to defend against a counterattack.
• Five months later, the assembled fleet included one hundred billion standard battleships, thirty billion Nether Battleships, four Hongmeng-class Warships, and the Moy Union’s Seventy-Eighth Expeditionary Corps.

Nina persuaded Lin Fan to let the Moy Union Fleet join the Federation’s campaign against the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster so its mostly inexperienced troops could gain combat experience. The Nether Fleet emerged through a Black Hole Channel into the Zilun Empire’s capital sphere and caught Commander Skat’s unprepared Guard Fleet in a devastating ambush.

• Nina asked Lin Fan to include the Moy Union Fleet in the campaign without claiming any postwar benefits, and he agreed to send two hundred billion Moy warships.
• The Federation established a stable Black Hole Channel and ordered the Nether Fleet through to secure a safe zone for the forces following it.
• Commander Skat complained about her fruitless patrol duty aboard the Third Guard Fleet in the Zilun Empire’s capital sphere.
• The Nether Fleet emerged from the channel and its first salvo nearly destroyed two hundred thousand unshielded Guard Fleet warships.
• Skat ordered the Guard Fleet to raise shields and return fire, but repeated barrages destroyed millions more ships as many crews remained unprepared.

The Zilun Empire’s Third Fleet failed to damage the human warships, whose Dark Energy Barriers stunned Skat. Emperor Latis ordered forces to defend the passage into the Capital Sphere and recalled Eris’s expeditionary army, but Eris learned that humanity had bypassed the Current Node entirely.

• Skat ordered the Third Fleet to bombard the human fleet, but every attack was blocked by Dark Energy Barriers deployed across the enemy warships.
• Latis learned that humans had appeared in the Capital Sphere through a passage that did not use a Current or a Hyperspace Window.
• Latis ordered all Guard Fleets to block the passage, nearby garrisons to reinforce the Capital Sphere, and the Current Node garrison to attack human territory.
• Latis recalled Eris from the Blood Maple Supercluster and ordered him to gather fleets from subordinate civilizations.
• Eris questioned the urgency, and Latis told him humanity had opened a passage directly into the Capital Sphere, bypassing the Current Node.

After learning that humanity could bypass the Cosmic Currents, Latis and Eris prepared to evacuate the Zilun Empire’s leadership to the Tugal Super Galaxy Cluster. On the front lines, Wang Hai’s Hongmeng-class Warship unleashed a devastating attack on Skat’s fleet, and the nine beams struck Skat’s flagship.

• Eris urged Latis to gather the fleet and move the Empire’s elites to the Tugal Super Galaxy Cluster, and Latis agreed to evacuate them.
• Skat struggled against humanity’s vastly superior fleet and wondered whether the Royal Special Fleet could turn the battle around.
• Wang Hai arrived aboard the Nether Fleet’s seventh Hongmeng-class Warship and learned that his fleet had damaged hundreds of enemy ships while destroying one hundred million Zilun warships.
• Wang Hai located Skat’s flagship, cleared the firing path, and ordered nine Dark Energy Compression Rays to fire simultaneously.
• The nine beams tore through the Zilun formation and destroyed Skat’s flagship along with everything in their path.