Chapter Summaries

Long Fei and Fadis clashed over whether Newtypes and Coordinators deserved higher status, exposing Fadis’s prejudice against ordinary humans. After learning about the Dion Empire’s discrimination and detecting its cloaked troops, Long Fei refused Fadis’s invitation to dinner.

• Fadis argued that Newtypes and Coordinators should receive privileges, while Long Fei insisted that all people should have equal status.
• Long Fei challenged Fadis by pointing out that both groups originated through ordinary humans, and the two debated their opposing views for an hour.
• Pope David left the question of how to treat Newtypes and Coordinators to each nation’s internal affairs.
• Long Fei asked Salamander about the Dion Empire and learned that ordinary humans faced discrimination and were used as expendable soldiers.
• A Sky Wing Mercenaries soldier reported that Dion Empire troops using cloaking technology had detected the mercenaries, and Long Fei ordered his forces to wait and see.
• Fadis invited Long Fei to dinner through an envoy, but Long Fei refused.

Long Fei feared Fadis would start a war and massacre ordinary humans, so he warned other leaders and planned to keep his family out of the conflict. Meanwhile, Yelishao De tried to stop Alexandre from confronting Long Fei, but the Third Prince ignored him, forcing Yelishao De to follow with his ships.

• Fadis refused Julius's suggestion to eliminate Long Fei, choosing not to provoke him while other matters remained.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang he feared Fadis would launch a war and slaughter ordinary humans, and said he had warned his home country's emperor and the Pope.
• Taoxiang agreed to stay with Long Fei and their daughters at the main base for a while.
• Yelishao De learned Alexandre had taken three Escort Ships to pursue Long Fei and warned his younger brother not to offend him.
• Alexandre dismissed Yelishao De's warning and cut off their communication, so Yelishao De sent two Escort Ships after him.

Alexandre led the Dion Empire’s Black Sword Unit against Long Fei’s fleet, but Salamander’s Gundam Delta Kai outperformed Alexandre’s Black Ares in their duel. The battle remained underway as Alexandre struggled to evade Salamander’s attacks.

• Colonel Pelo reported that Alexandre had arrived with Dion Empire warships, and Long Fei refused to meet him.
• Alexandre ordered the Black Sword Unit to capture Long Fei and led 120 Eagle Swords toward his fleet in Black Ares.
• Long Fei deployed 180 Mass-produced Gundams, while Yelishao De watched from a distance and chose not to intervene.
• Long Fei’s fleet used Anti-Beam Missiles to weaken the Dion ships’ beam fire before its Gundams opened fire on the advancing Eagle Swords.
• Salamander and Alexandre recognized each other as Newtypes when their Gundams clashed, and Salamander used Delta Kai’s superior performance to drive Black Ares back.

Taoxiang and her husband discussed the Royal Knights' superior Eagle Sword machines as Salamander fought Alexandre in Gundam Delta Kai. Salamander captured Alexandre after Black Ares's Efficiency Boost Mode failed, but a vast white light appeared in the distance.

• Taoxiang said the Skywing Mercenary Group needed stronger machines and that its shelved Specialized Gundams might need production.
• Salamander used Gundam Delta Kai and its Wing Funnels to pressure Alexandre's Black Ares, which activated Efficiency Boost Mode and briefly matched it.
• Alexandre ordered the remaining Eagle Swords to retreat when Black Ares's boosted mode neared its limit, and Skywing forces pursued them.
• Black Ares's Efficiency Boost Mode expired, and Gundam Delta Kai damaged its wing thrusters as the Eagle Swords tried to shield Alexandre.
• Li Xiucheng destroyed several Eagle Swords with an EX-S Gundam while Salamander cut apart Black Ares and signaled that Alexandre had been captured.
• Alexandre's forces lost their will to fight, and an enormous mass of white light appeared in the distance.

Long Fei demanded military technology and ships from Emperor Fadis in exchange for the captured Dion Empire prince, threatening to kill him if the terms were refused. As Fadis sought time to decide, the Skywing Mercenary Group reinforced its position and began salvaging the battlefield.

• Pello told Long Fei that Second Prince Yelishao De wanted to speak with him, and Long Fei realized the prince wanted his captured younger brother released.
• Yelishao De apologized and offered compensation, but Long Fei demanded Eagle Sword and Black Ares, his flagship, another Pokebi Frigate, and money, setting a twenty-four-hour deadline.
• Yelishao De informed Fadis, who reviewed the battle footage with his generals and Julius before contacting Long Fei.
• Long Fei refused to change his terms, and Fadis asked for forty-eight hours to consider them after Long Fei accepted the possibility of war.
• Skywing Mercenary Group fleets arrived as its forces dismantled and studied the captured MS and collected wreckage; Yelishao De held back while the group claimed the surviving Eagle Swords as spoils.

Long Fei punished the arrogant captive Alexandre with Salamander and the mercenaries, forcing him to eat leftovers, humiliating him in the toilet, and whipping him. Long Fei left after ordering them to break Alexandre’s arrogance and make him beg for mercy.

• Pelo told Long Fei that Alexandre had acted arrogantly, and Long Fei went to see him.
• Alexandre rejected the leftovers, so Salamander and the mercenaries beat him and forced him to eat the food.
• Long Fei and the mercenaries repeatedly dunked Alexandre’s head in the toilet while filming and mocking him.
• Salamander stomped on Alexandre’s face and whipped him as his subordinates heard his screams from nearby cells.
• Long Fei ordered the mercenaries to break Alexandre’s arrogance and stubbornness, then left.

After Yelishao De paid additional ransom and retrieved Alexandre, Long Fei studied the captured Dion Empire mobile suits and warships, finding clues about the Amaterasu Organization and ideas for improving Skywing technology. The Skywing Mercenary Group’s generals and researchers then considered how to apply what they had learned, including whether to build larger warships.

• Fadis agreed to Long Fei’s demands, and Yelishao De handed over his flagship, the Pokébi Escort Ship, and his personal mobile suit, Xela.
• After Skywing inspected the ships and uncovered surveillance devices, Yelishao De paid extra ransom and provided non-Saint Machine MS units; he retrieved Alexandre, who had been tortured and planned to seek revenge.
• Long Fei compared Dion Empire and Amaterasu Organization mobile suit technology, suspected a connection between them, and decided to develop a new Efficiency Boost Mode.
• Long Fei studied the captured warships and concluded that a vessel about the size of the Pokébi would suit his needs, though he did not rule out larger ships with stronger weapons.
• Researchers found that Dion Empire warships surpassed Skywing’s in several technical areas, while Skywing’s generals debated whether to build larger warships.

Long Fei and the generals discussed building giant warships and agreed to study Dion Empire ships as references for vessels that could carry his powerful new weapons. After the meeting, he joined Taoxiang, Lixiang, and their infant twins in the MS simulation area, where Lixiang had defeated her sister.

• General Danma argued that giant warships could carry more troops and weapons, while other generals raised concerns about their defenses and construction costs.
• Li Jiaming proposed building a few giant warships for testing, and Long Fei agreed that they should be designed for specific weapons rather than size alone.
• Long Fei showed the generals blueprints for powerful warship weapons, including the Super Electromagnetic Limit Cannon, and said they would study Dion Empire warships as references.
• President Sakchi told Long Fei that his mother country's authorities had requested specialized warships, and Long Fei asked him to tell them to wait.
• Long Fei watched a simulation in which Lixiang's Gundam Dynames Seven Sword Equipment defeated Taoxiang's Super Hyperion Gundam, then comforted Taoxiang and their twins.

Long Fei watched his young daughters explore their new surroundings while the Skywing Mercenary Group and the Dion Empire continued developing their forces during a fragile period of peace. The chapter ended with Long Fei preparing for a possible conflict while following the Strategic Type-0 System’s advice to avoid war and keep developing.

• Long Guo and Long Fu crawled around the recreation area as Long Fei and his wife watched them play.
• In April of Cosmic Year 120, the world remained peaceful, but the Dion Empire accelerated Holy Machine development after its Royal Knight’s defeat by the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Long Fei reorganized the Skywing Mercenary Group’s forces, phasing out older machines, upgrading existing models, and testing new machines including the MK IV, Jesta, and Richer.
• Long Fei ordered further research into the Pokébi and Yelishao De warships and began designing improvements for his own giant warships.
• The Strategic Type-0 System advised Long Fei to keep developing and avoid conflicts, especially with the Dion Empire, while remaining prepared for war.

Long Fei enjoyed time with his family before discussing the war in the Colony Sphere of District 10 with his colleagues. He and Li Xiucheng concluded that the Dion Empire was prolonging the conflict for strategic gain, and Long Fei said they should focus on developing their own strength.

• Long Fei welcomed his twin daughters home, played with them, and later spoke privately with Taoxiang.
• War spread through the Colony Sphere of District 10 as the Laida Empire and the Yenuo Kingdom gained territory with support from rival superpowers.
• Long Fei remarked that the Dion Empire’s enthusiastic aid to the Laida Empire concealed a ruthless scheme.
• Li Xiucheng proposed that Dion aimed to block Gas expansion, weaken the Colony Sphere, and test new MS units in battle.
• Long Fei agreed that Dion might stir up wars elsewhere and said his side should focus on becoming stronger.

As wars spread across Colony Districts 3 and 9, the Skywing Mercenary Group’s twentieth sub-base defended its territory while Long Fei celebrated his twin daughters’ first birthday. After seeing videos of refugees suffering in Colony District 3, Long Fei confronted the contrast with his daughters’ carefree happiness.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group’s twentieth sub-base drove back an empire that had occupied its colony satellite and forced its emperor to compensate Long Fei.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang celebrated Long Guo and Long Fu’s first birthday with friends and family, while Xu Jingyun joined by video call and struggled with her feelings.
• Long Fei noticed a subsidiary president was troubled because his parents were helping refugees in war-torn Colony District 3 and would not leave.
• Long Fei gave the president two weeks of leave to visit his parents and asked to see the refugee videos they had sent.
• Long Fei watched the refugees’ fearful faces, then looked at his happy daughters and reflected on their starkly different circumstances.

As war drove refugees into Colonial Districts 5, 6, and 7, the Skywing Group profited from wartime trade while Taoxiang quietly used Long Fei’s money to help refugees. Reporters uncovered her charity work and traced it to her, though the Skywing Group remained silent.

• War worsened across the colonies, leaving families broken and refugees fleeing toward the safer Colonial Districts 5, 6, and 7, where their arrival sparked tensions with local workers.
• Long Fei reviewed the Skywing Group’s wartime gains, including profits from its mercenary escorts and arms sales, while its businesses sold essential goods at fair prices and tried to prevent reselling.
• Long Fei received notice that Taoxiang had withdrawn 500 million Colony Credits to aid war refugees, and he accepted her quiet charity despite preferring that she invest in jobs and businesses instead.
• Media reporters investigated the Skywing Group’s low-profile aid efforts and eventually discovered that Taoxiang was using the group’s name to help refugees.

Long Fei and Taoxiang visited a war-damaged Colony Satellite in District 3 to see the relief center Taoxiang had funded and show their daughters how others lived. After Long Fei condemned a local election candidate’s staged charity visit, the people applauded him.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang brought Long Guo and Long Fu to the Colony Satellite, where local candidates were campaigning instead of rebuilding war-damaged areas.
• At Taoxiang’s relief center, Long Fei learned that water prices had soared and that many war orphans had no place to live.
• Long Guo and Long Fu went to play with the orphans while Long Fei and Taoxiang observed the aid distribution.
• Long Fei saw a working man argue that he was entitled to relief supplies and suggested the center screen applicants, but the director said people had abused the process before.
• A Chief Governor candidate arrived with reporters to stage a donation and seek a photo with Long Fei and Taoxiang.
• Long Fei denounced the candidate and other politicians for exploiting the needy for votes, drawing applause from the crowd.

Taoxiang fed and clothed orphans, then took in Duo and his companions after finding them beaten for stealing food. A few days later, Duo asked Long Fei and Taoxiang to rescue the priests, nuns, and orphans at Madeline Church, and Long Fei sent mercenaries to help.

• Taoxiang arranged food, clothes, and toys for the relief center's children and taught her daughters to treat them as equals.
• Long Fei asked Li Jiaming to investigate whether Saiwei Nation could host the Skywing Mercenary Group's twenty-first base and related Skywing Group investments.
• Taoxiang saw adults beating children accused of stealing, paid for the adults' losses, and promised the children food and shelter if they stopped stealing.
• Duo and the other children agreed to Taoxiang's offer, and Long Fei brought them aboard the mothership, where mercenaries cared for and taught them.
• Duo asked Long Fei and Taoxiang to save Madeline Church after bad people took it over, and Long Fei dispatched mercenaries to rescue its priests, nuns, and orphans.

Long Fei’s unit rescued the priests, nuns, and orphaned children held hostage in a church by armed men. Duo watched a news report about the rescue and learned that Long Fei’s invisible mercenaries had carried it out.

• An armed leader shot an officer who tried to stop him, then strapped a remote-controlled bomb to a nun and threatened to kill the hostages unless his demands were met.
• The priest and nuns offered themselves as hostages to protect the children, but the armed leader continued threatening them.
• As the deadline passed, Long Fei’s invisible unit killed the armed men, disabled the bomb, and freed the hostages and children.
• Duo and the other children watched news of the rescue, and Long Fei demonstrated how one of his mercenaries could turn invisible.
• Duo decided that he would join the Skywing Mercenary Group and pledge loyalty to Long Fei when he grew up.

The Skywing Mercenary Group openly recruited Newtypes from refugee camps, offering recruits and their families shelter, food, and work while training them at its bases. As countries and the Dion Empire competed to recruit or abduct Newtypes, the war continued to draw support and profit-seeking from distant superpowers.

• Long Fei told Li Jiaming that the Dion Empire was taking refugees, confirmed that it sought Newtypes, and ordered the Skywing Mercenary Group to identify and recruit them while informing other countries.
• In December of Cosmic Year 121, the Skywing Mercenary Group openly tested refugees and recruited willing Newtypes, agreeing to settle and employ their families while leaving those who refused alone.
• Local peacekeeping forces sometimes kidnapped Newtypes who declined the Skywing Mercenary Group’s offer, while human rights organizations criticized the recruitment of children under twelve.
• The main base trained 120 newly recruited Newtypes and received another group of Newtypes and their families, arranging housing, schooling, and training options.
• The Dion Empire accelerated its recruitment and kidnappings as factions worldwide competed for Newtypes, while the Gas Empire and Wanluo Federation supported their allies and profited by reselling arms.

In Cosmic Year 122, Emperor Fadis Samulas III issued a manifesto declaring Newtypes superior to ordinary humans and the Dion Empire their rightful leaders, provoking international condemnation and war. The Dion Empire attacked the Anglus Democratic Federation Army, where its new Crimson Saint Machines and Rilok destroyers’ Plasma Cannons challenged the Federation’s Isogard Kais.

• Fadis Samulas III issued a manifesto demanding that ordinary humans obey Newtypes, and the Dion Empire declared war on the Colony Sphere nations it blamed for conflict.
• Pope David rejected the manifesto’s claims and called for Newtypes and ordinary humans to respect one another, while Fadis mocked his views.
• The Dion Empire launched an assault on the Anglus Democratic Federation Army, sending AI-controlled Scorpion Tigers and Crimson Saint Machines against its forces.
• Isogard Kais used their firepower, defenses, and transforming forms to fight the Crimson Saint Machines, but a Rilok destroyer’s Plasma Cannon melted an upright Isogard Kai.
• Anglus Democratic Federation Army commanders ordered the Isogard Kais to stay in fish form and use hit-and-run tactics to avoid the Rilok destroyers’ cannons.

The Dion Empire overwhelmed the Anglusa Army in its first battle, prompting a retreat and drawing international attention to its military strength. As Dion forces occupied Anglo-Saxon Colony Satellites, they imposed a rigid citizen hierarchy and enslaved civilians who refused to submit.

• Fenrir, Scorpion Tigers, Wing Birds, and Azure Saint Machines overwhelmed the Anglusa Army, and its commander ordered a retreat after suffering heavy losses.
• Battlefield reporters livestreamed the defeat, and military experts worldwide compared Dion’s strength to that of the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• The Dion Empire suffered further defeats on several fronts and occupied Colony Satellites belonging to the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic.
• Dion occupation forces searched for Newtypes, offering compliant ones Special Citizen status and executing captured Newtypes who refused to surrender within an hour.
• The occupation authorities assigned civilians citizen ranks or slavery according to their status and willingness to submit, then auctioned those sentenced to slavery.
• Buyers could purchase enslaved people, and the Dion official offered seven days of training for General Slaves unless buyers requested immediate delivery.

The Dion Empire intensified its war against the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic through harsh occupation policies and powerful long-range artillery, while colonial nations rallied to support the beleaguered republic. Long Fei allowed Wanluo Federation troops to pass through Skywing territory to prolong the conflict, and the chapter ended with the Anglusa Army seeking ways to counter the Dion Empire’s revived naval artillery tactics.

• The Dion Empire enslaved civilians in occupied territories, threatened surrendered Anglusa soldiers through their detained families, and forced fleeing civilians back to a Colony Satellite by shooting down a spacecraft.
• The Gas Empire and other colonial nations sent aid to the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic, which lost twelve Colony Satellites but maintained a deadlock with the Dion Empire through numerical superiority.
• Long Fei let Wanluo Federation troops pass through Skywing territory because he wanted the colonial nations to unite against the Dion Empire and prolong the war.
• The Dion Empire used its 1,200-meter Sky Rocket Battleship to bombard enemy forces from up to eight hundred kilometers away, reviving long-range naval artillery tactics.
• The Anglusa Army used evasive Ballistic Missile swarms to evade Dion interception, but their missiles could not penetrate the giant warships’ shields, and their Beam Cannons lacked the range to strike back.

The Dongyang Empire revealed that it had obtained Efficiency Boost Mode from Fahdina Samulas, who had lived under the assumed identity Kuroda Seiya before dying three years earlier. After the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic lost three Colony Satellites, Long Fei and the generals prepared a Red-Blue Army exercise to study how the Skywing Mercenary Group could defeat the Dion Empire.

• The Dongyang Empire's prime minister said the country had received Efficiency Boost Mode from a fleeing Dion prince, and the Dion Empire identified him as Fahdina Samulas and demanded his return.
• Kuroda Seiya told Sayama Hidero that Fahdina Samulas had died of illness three years earlier, then accompanied Sayama to meet the Minister of National Defense.
• On May 1, Cosmic Year 122, the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic lost three Colony Satellites in one day.
• Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming told the generals that the Skywing Mercenary Group would study the Dion Empire's forces rather than join the war.
• Long Fei and the generals agreed to hold a Red-Blue Army simulated confrontation, with the Blue Army representing the Dion Empire and the Red Army representing the Skywing Mercenary Group.