Chapter Summaries

Li Aoz livestreamed his assault on Surut Palace, using his streamer skills and battlefield stunts to entertain viewers and earn money. He kept taunting the palace guards until they cracked, then set up a campfire and started making teppanyaki.

• Li Aoz introduced himself on a livestream from the Grant Duchy and presented himself as a gentle, approachable streamer despite Frostplate’s portrayal of him as a ruthless killer.
• Li Aoz invited viewers to donate in exchange for battlefield stunts, and donations quickly flooded in as he joked with the audience and hurled stones at the enemy.
• Li Aoz earned 2.7 million Debis in fifteen minutes, with 900,000 Debis left after taxes and platform cuts.
• Li Aoz harassed the Surut Palace guards with shells and fireballs while viewers laughed and the guards begged for reinforcements.
• Li Aoz shouted for the guards to come outside and warm themselves, then set up a campfire and iron griddle to make teppanyaki as the guards’ resolve broke.

Li Aoz’s barbecue livestream surged in popularity as viewers rallied behind him and connected his fight to Frostplate’s crimes. Enraged Law Enforcement Division Three agents left Surut Palace to confront him, and Li Aoz rose to meet them.

• Sisron and Barnum helped Li Aoz turn his livestream into a barbecue and beer promotion outside Surut Palace.
• Li Aoz’s audience grew as viewers connected his conflict with Frostplate to the government’s efforts to conceal its anti-human crimes.
• Viewers spread Li Aoz’s livestream, and the platform lifted its traffic restrictions, pushing it above Frostplate’s official broadcast.
• Benjeson ordered Enlit and Bodella to hold Surut Palace while he and Zuo Jiajun went out to kill Li Aoz.
• Benjeson demanded that Li Aoz end the livestream, but Li Aoz stood with his Su Zhan longsword and challenged him to take it himself.

Li Aoz survived Benjeson and Zuo Jiajun’s coordinated ambush and overwhelmed both agents with gravity. After revealing that their attacks had failed to kill him, he crushed them and drained their life, leaving the two Law Three Special Agents defeated.

• Benjeson mistook Li Aoz’s relaxed livestream for a distraction and sent two agents into Surut Palace to search for infiltrators.
• Benjeson and Zuo Jiajun attacked Li Aoz with poison, gunfire, bone spikes, blades, and a flashbang, then believed they had killed him.
• Li Aoz revealed that he had survived the attack and used gravity to force Benjeson and Zuo Jiajun to their knees.
• Li Aoz confronted Benjeson about the deaths and displacement caused by his coup in the Harbala Republic, then questioned Zuo Jiajun about Nethermark Heavy Industries and Pioneer N4.
• Li Aoz used Sever Life to pierce the agents’ brains and drain their life.

Alexia killed the Law Enforcement Division Three agents Enlit and Bodella after their attacks failed to stop her. She explained that she had crossed time and space to punish injustice and oppression, leaving Bodella dying as the Bermudes warrior watched.

• Enlit shot into the smoke while Bodella prepared to support her, but a dark golden spike struck Enlit and destroyed her extraordinary traits.
• Enlit's bullets failed to slow the approaching attacker, and Alexia threw her through a reinforced wall, fatally breaking her spine.
• Bodella charged Alexia in fury, but Alexia formed a scythe and cut him in half before beheading him.
• Alexia told Bodella that her former world had perished and that she had come to stand against injustice and shatter oppression.

Ya Wen met Du Zexin to discuss Dai Weilin’s imprisonment and plans to rescue her parents, while they also talked about Li Aoz’s progress in the Grant Duchy. Meanwhile, Alexia’s Assassination Squad moved through Surut Palace as Alexia studied portraits chronicling the Grant rulers and Archduke Gamos.

• Ya Wen told Du Zexin that President Medvi had secretly convicted Dai Weilin of treason and imprisoned him on Elf Island, while her mother was jailed after protesting.
• Ya Wen said she planned to use her position in Law Enforcement Division Four to steal information and rescue her parents, and Du Zexin offered to help.
• Ya Wen told Du Zexin that Li Aoz had reached the Grant Duchy, begun a global livestream of the war, and agreed to help free the prisoners on Elf Island.
• Ya Wen received an urgent call from her agency and excused herself from the meeting.
• Alexia led the Assassination Squad through Surut Palace and examined portraits showing generations of Grant governors, each descended from Archduke Gamos.

Alexia reached the Flame Monarch Hall and sent Amanda’s forces to secure Surut Palace, choosing to face Archduke Gamos alone. She opened the hall’s gate without calling Li Aoz, prepared to risk her life, and met an attack from six Beta-rank guards.

• Amanda described how Archduke Gamos had turned the Flame Monarch Hall into a tool for his rule as Alexia’s forces reached its final gate.
• Alexia told Amanda to lead the Alpha Rank warriors away and clear Surut Palace, saying she would handle the enemies inside alone.
• Amanda withdrew with her troops after sensing the danger within the hall and accepting Alexia’s offer to spare them from facing a Gamma Rank opponent.
• Alexia decided not to contact Li Aoz, believing he could not withstand Gamos’s power and resolving to pass on humanity’s desire for a new world.
• Alexia pushed open the gate, and six Beta-rank guards attacked her.

Alexia fought her way through the grand duke's guards inside Surut Palace, using Erbium Gold, overwhelming strength, and strange powers to defeat them. She ended the chapter closing in on the last Martial Artist after her command of “Detain” restrained him.

• Alexia blocked a Beta-rank Martial Artist's Electric Arc blade, broke his grip, and killed him before shielding herself from a Rocket Shell blast.
• Alexia survived thermite grenades, broke through the wall of fire, and killed the ranger and another Martial Artist.
• Alexia killed a hidden assassin with her scythe and resisted the medium's hypnosis, while her conviction drove off the Spirit Wraiths and pierced the medium's Spirit Realm state.
• Alexia declared her belief in eliminating oppression and inequality, then used “Appeal” to reverse the Dragon School Martial Artist's Swaying Sword Light.
• Alexia used “Detain” to twist the Dragon School Martial Artist's hands behind his back and struck at his throat.

Li Aoz arrived at the Flame Monarch Hall as Eagle Emblem tried to take Gamos’s body and kill Alexia. He revived her hope with a promise to take her into space, then prepared to attack with Dual Unity—Phoenix Bomb.

• Alexia killed the six Beta-rank guards and confronted Archduke Gamos, who used spirits to block her attacks and torment her with stories about Yamiliao Ke’s defeat.
• Eagle Emblem overpowered Alexia and began draining her spiritual power while Gamos’s failing body weakened.
• Eagle Emblem possessed Gamos, but Li Aoz broke through the sealed gates before it could kill Alexia.
• Li Aoz regenerated in flames and urged Alexia to believe in him and his promise to take her into space.
• Alexia said she believed in her Groom, and Li Aoz gathered his power to unleash Dual Unity—Phoenix Bomb.

Li Aoz defeated Eagle Emblem in the Flame Monarch Hall and reunited with Alexia as Archduke Gamos summoned his five spirit bodies to attack. Li Aoz and Alexia prepared to fight together, and Li Aoz activated his Overlord forms, ending the chapter as he declared they would go to space together.

• Li Aoz destroyed the three Spirit Wraiths with flames that could burn spirit bodies, while the Verdant Wolf Spirit betrayed Eagle Emblem and helped expose it.
• Li Aoz blasted Eagle Emblem and its radio apart, then caught Alexia and helped her stand after the explosion.
• Archduke Gamos revealed five spirit bodies—Verdant, Human Snail, Nether Wife, Fetus Ghoul, and Thunder Spirit—and ordered them to attack Li Aoz and Alexia.
• Li Aoz told Alexia about his laboratory, and they agreed to stay together and go to space.
• Li Aoz activated multiple Overlord forms, covering himself in magma armor and flames as the five spirit bodies prepared to fight.

Li Aoz and Alexia fought Archduke Gamos’s spirit allies, but Gamos absorbed several of them and transformed into a monstrous being. As lightning engulfed Surut Palace, he descended in his new form and announced, “Taking the field.”

• Alexia exposed the Human Snail and tore through its body, while Li Aoz wounded Verdant Wolf Spirit and Nether Wife with a lightning-fast sword attack.
• Thunder Spirit’s tracking lightning forced Li Aoz to use a stone golem, whose fragments struck Archduke Gamos and drew his attention to the battle.
• Gamos destroyed the Human Snail and Fetus Ghoul, swallowed Nether Wife, and tore off Verdant Wolf Spirit’s skin to wear as a cloak.
• Gamos confronted Li Aoz, recognized his eagerness to fight, and then merged with Thunder Spirit.
• Lightning struck Gamos and spread across Surut Palace, where he transformed into a six-armed monstrous being and declared, “Taking the field.”

Archduke Gamos descended on Surut Palace and overwhelmed the Grantian forces, revealing the terrifying might of a Gamma Rank. Li Aoz and Alexia attacked him, but Gamos evaded Li Aoz’s opening strike and countered with his six arms and a swarm of ghosts.

• Archduke Gamos appeared amid a supernatural storm, and the Bermudes soldiers fled as his attacks tore through the city and army.
• The Grantian forces bombarded Gamos with rockets and howitzers, but their weapons passed through him without causing harm.
• Li Aoz rescued Alexia from the collapsing palace, and they agreed that humanity should challenge the gods of old.
• Li Aoz accelerated toward Gamos at over Mach 6, but Gamos dodged into the spirit realm.
• Gamos pursued Li Aoz with six arms and a tide of evil ghosts while slipping into the spirit realm to avoid being killed.

Li Aoz maneuvered through the air to find a chance to strike Archduke Gamos while Alexia used Inspect to predict his movements and attack him from the ground. Alexia was struck by lightning and fell, but she invoked Prosecute as Gamos reached to seize her.

• Li Aoz lowered his health to activate his damage bonuses and darted through the evil spirits surrounding Archduke Gamos.
• Li Aoz hurled a flaming spear made from a spirit’s tentacle at Gamos, applying Sever Life and preventing his health from regenerating.
• Gamos sent evil spirits toward the mortals on the ground, forcing Sisron and the others to retreat.
• Alexia charged through the wandering ghosts and used Inspect to read Gamos’s intentions, then climbed his arm while dodging his attacks.
• Gamos summoned lightning that struck Alexia, stopping her heart and sending her falling toward the ground.
• As Gamos reached to seize her, Alexia forced out the word “Prosecute,” and golden light burst across the sky.

Li Aoz combined six Aoneng abilities into Morphedria's Sever-Sky Sword, killing Archduke Gamos and tearing open the Malefic Calamity's clouds to reveal the starry sky. The Main Quest, "Roar of Freedom," met its preliminary settlement conditions as Li Aoz lay badly injured after the attack.

• Golden swords pierced Archduke Gamos and stripped away some of the evil power clinging to his body, but he slammed Alexia into the ground and froze her with spiritual power.
• Alexia called out to Li Aoz, who launched his attack while absorbing two evil ghosts and stacking his abilities.
• Li Aoz's strike cut through the red-black clouds, briefly exposing the starry sky, then pierced Gamos's brow and blasted through a distant mountain.
• Gamos melted and disintegrated as Li Aoz crawled from a crater, badly burned but regenerating through Blood of Immortality.
• The system reported that Morphedria's Sever-Sky Sword had dealt fatal True Damage and that the "Roar of Freedom" quest had met its preliminary settlement conditions.

Imprisoned Frostplate commander Dai Weilin read about Li Aoz’s growing influence and concluded that Medvi’s rule had made Frostplate a danger to its own people. He decided that saving his homeland required a fight and saw Li Aoz as a possible ally in bringing Medvi down.

• A guard delivered a newspaper to Dai Weilin in Cell 92, and he read about the Grant Republic’s recognition and Grand Duke Grant’s death at Li Aoz’s hands.
• Dai Weilin reflected that Li Aoz had removed the harmful Nethermark Humanity program and helped liberate Grant, despite the damage this caused Frostplate.
• Dai Weilin judged that Frostplate’s leaders had twisted the country’s founding principles and that its claims of protecting women concealed deep social inequality.
• After studying Medvi’s writings, Dai Weilin concluded that she was a lunatic who treated Frostplate as a tool for her plans.
• Dai Weilin decided that Frostplate could only be saved through a fight and considered Li Aoz necessary to bring Medvi down.

After the Grant Republic declared independence, Li Aoz focused on helping the new government consolidate power and found a use for Barnum. Bermudes soldiers then arrested Chen Muci, a Colonial Party spokesperson who had been promoting Frostplate rule.

• Sisron announced that Gamos and his followers had been eliminated as Bermudes took control, and the Grant Duchy became the Grant Republic.
• Li Aoz checked the settlement conditions and saw that he still needed to help the Grantians reclaim power and rebuild the republic.
• Li Aoz recruited Barnum to help the provisional government and asked him about Frostplate’s Colonial Party.
• Bermudes soldiers raided a gathering beneath Speria Avenue and identified Chen Muci as the Colonial Party’s spokesperson.
• The soldiers ordered the crowd to disperse and arrested Chen Muci after he protested.

Li Aoz and the Bermudes soldiers exposed Chen Muci’s Colonial Party propaganda and his desperate praise of Frostplate. Chen Muci agreed to recognize the Grant Republic in exchange for a GTB job that could help him immigrate, but he still insisted the republic was legitimate.

• Barnum Ziegler publicly corrected Chen Muci’s claims about life in Frostplate, and Bermudes soldiers took Chen into custody.
• The soldiers brought Chen to Li Aoz, who questioned him about the Colonial Party’s funding from Law Enforcement Division Four.
• Chen admitted he had never visited Frostplate and defended its mistreatment of Grantians, prompting Li Aoz to laugh at him.
• Li Aoz offered Chen a contract to recognize the republican regime, while Barnum explained it could help him qualify for a Frostplate Green Card.
• Chen accepted the premise that the Grant Republic was legitimate, but continued declaring it the rightful government.

After completing his mission in Frostplate District, Li Aoz awakened a new Aoneng and chose the Mu-class Eye of Truth over three powerful alternatives. He tested its ability to reveal information and resolved to use it against the Imitation Humans and the Forgery Society.

• Bermudes's soldiers arrested and interrogated members of Grant's political groups, but some escaped into Frostplate while Li Aoz's mission was completed.
• Li Aoz's Aura Awakening Potion took effect, presenting him with Teleportation, Touch of Corruption, Physical Enhancement, and Eye of Truth as choices.
• Li Aoz weighed the Aoneng's strengths and selected Eye of Truth, deciding that Teleportation was less useful to his path and that he could replace Physical Enhancement with Mountains Armor.
• Eye of Truth awakened in Li Aoz's eyes, letting him perceive detailed information about objects, surroundings, and people.
• Li Aoz decided he would not spare the Forgery Society's Philolis or its Imitation Human citizens.

Li Aoz chose the Superbrain Bio-Armor mutation, rebuilt his body into a powerful bio-armor form, and completed his promotion to Beta-rank. He settled the uprising mission and received the Aura of Goodwill skill, leaving him ready to begin his next push.

• Li Aoz used a Perfect Reset and chose the Superbrain Bio-Armor mutation, allowing his consciousness to control and modify his body.
• Li Aoz transformed his body with Haynes Crystal, correcting and upgrading his organs, nervous system, and brain.
• Li Aoz completed his body tuning and Individual Sublimation, gaining 80 natural years of lifespan and advancing to Beta-rank.
• Li Aoz's Overlord Form evolved, improving his Aoneng, health, movement speed, and ability to integrate living creatures' organs.
• Li Aoz settled the Roar of Freedom mission, earned 1.2 million experience, and received the Aura of Goodwill skill for his outstanding mission evaluation.

Li Aoz examined his newly acquired Aura of Goodwill and surveyed the closed beta players preparing to enter Star Abyss. Sisron then warned him that Frostplate had deployed its troops.

• Li Aoz read the Aura of Goodwill skill description and realized its effects could prevent people from attacking or betraying him, even after he harmed them.
• Li Aoz received messages announcing Star Abyss’s trial operations and the start of its first closed beta test.
• Li Aoz browsed the forums and noted that the Pioneers Club had recruited numerous professional players, while Vault of Heaven had sent Long Yuqiong and Yu Tianxiao to Red Arrow.
• Li Aoz recognized that the arrival of closed beta players would repeat earlier mistakes by Yanxia’s clubs, but he could not visit Red Arrow yet.
• Sisron called Li Aoz and told him that Frostplate had deployed its troops.

Frostplate launched a military invasion of the Grant Republic after isolating it diplomatically and striking its capital. Aboard an invasion aircraft, the agents joked about the war until an elite agent’s grim memories of starvation silenced them.

• Frostplate rejected the Grant Republic’s legitimacy, imposed sanctions, and gained support from countries that severed ties with Grant.
• Frostplate ordered 20,000 Law Enforcement Division Four Agents south under Operation White Afterglow, while missiles and air strikes battered Speria.
• The First Combat Group crossed the Gorba Mountain Range, and Sisron vowed that Grant would resist the invasion.
• Gina and Chu Qi mocked Grant’s soldiers and joked about killing civilians as the agents flew toward the border.
• Gina taunted a stern elite agent, who described watching her family starve to death and said she had experienced it herself.