Chapter Summaries

The Ferocious Hound Squad intervened in a battle between Imperial and Democratic Alliance forces, destroying the Democratic fleet’s escort and forcing it to surrender. Afterward, Song Guowei learned from Elimia that the Shadow Mad Dog Squad was another of Long Fei’s secret direct units.

• Song Guowei launched in a Mass Production Type Nu Gundam with another Nu Gundam and two ZII Gundams as the Ferocious Hound Squad attacked the Democratic Alliance forces.
• Song Guowei and his fellow pilots destroyed the Fierce Eagle MS escort and damaged enemy ships, prompting the Democratic Alliance fleet commander to surrender.
• Major Zhang Luoliang told Lieutenant Colonel Bisc that the Ferocious Hound Squad had been carrying out its mission and declined to discuss attacks on Democratic Alliance bases.
• Elimia told Song Guowei that the Shadow Mad Dog Squad operated from a nearby secret asteroid base and consisted entirely of ordinary humans.

Long Fei reviewed combat data and organized the Newtype Training Plan and Augmented Human Plan, overseeing Li Xiucheng’s enhancements and the improvements they brought to his piloting. He then turned to Skywing Group’s new metal restoration subsidiary and learned that his second sister had arrived.

• Long Fei reviewed AGE System data and combat reports, noting the Black Knight’s optical camouflage limitations and the squads’ successful missions.
• Long Fei assessed the Newtype aptitude results, took note of Alice’s combat abilities, and arranged further training for her and other candidates.
• Long Fei selected more than five hundred pilots for screening under the Augmented Human Plan and arranged dedicated teams to conduct testing, surgery, and training.
• Li Xiucheng joined the Augmented Human Plan, passed its tests, and improved enough to challenge Anton in sparring; the Zhou Ya Sisters and other colleagues then asked Long Fei for enhancements.
• Long Fei reviewed international economic news and waited for his second sister to arrive at Skywing Metal Restoration Company, then received a message that she was there.

Long Xuan visited Long Fei’s base, discussed his new MS Carrier plans, and agreed to manage Skywing Metal Restoration Company. Meanwhile, the Shadow Mad Dog Squad and other Skywing forces intensified attacks on the Democratic Alliance Army, leaving the alliance close to collapse.

• Long Xuan visited Long Fei’s main base and learned that he planned to replace the Albion MS Carrier with the Archangel because the Niyagama’s main-cannon material was scarce.
• Long Fei gave Long Xuan full authority to run Skywing Metal Restoration Company as long as she protected classified technology and kept the company profitable.
• Long Xuan asked Taoxiang to watch over Long Fei because he often neglected sleep while working and researching.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group defended its attacks on the Democratic Alliance Army and described the Knight units’ Shadow Mad Dog Squad as a force that fought until one side was dead.
• The Shadow Mad Dog Squad attacked two Democratic Alliance Army locations and killed surrendered soldiers, while other Skywing units and the Imperial Alliance Army struck elsewhere.
• Democratic Alliance Army members suffered heavy losses and began considering withdrawal as the alliance neared collapse.

The Democratic Alliance Army fractured under domestic pressure and accepted the Imperial Alliance Army’s terms, ending the war with a ceasefire and recognition of newly independent nations. The Skywing Mercenary Group gained territory and profits, while Rebecca joined the group after her country abandoned her and her family was destroyed.

• Several Democratic Alliance Army nations withdrew, and the first negotiations with the Imperial Alliance Army ended without agreement.
• As the Skywing Mercenary Group attacked more territories, the Democratic Alliance Army accepted demands to recognize independent nations and pay partial compensation, and both alliances signed a ceasefire agreement.
• The Solani Republic signed away Logistics Base No. 3, which became the Skywing Mercenary Group’s fifteenth branch base.
• Rebecca gave up her nationality and joined the Skywing Mercenary Group, which demanded ransoms for captured soldiers and executed prisoners when their nations refused to pay.
• Rebecca learned that her family had been purged and her younger brother was in an orphanage, so she agreed to Newtype training on the condition that the Skywing Mercenary Group bring him to her.

After the Skywing Mercenary Group honored its members for their victories, Long Fei and Li Jiaming oversaw new uniforms and preparations for a military parade. The group completed its uniform rollout, announced the parade, and expected two nearly finished MS Carriers to appear in it.

• Long Fei promoted and decorated Li Jiaming and other Skywing Mercenary Group members, while families of fallen mercenaries received pensions.
• Long Fei and Li Jiaming decided to redesign the group's uniforms before holding a military parade, and Long Fei gave Li Jiaming his uniform designs to consider.
• Li Jiaming and other officers settled on standardized ceremonial, work, casual, and combat spacesuit designs, then outfitted the entire group in the new uniforms over two weeks.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group announced that it would hold a parade for itself, allow media to rebroadcast its official livestream, and invite only presidents of other Skywing Group companies.
• Long Fei inspected the nearly completed Archangel-class ship and second Niyagama MS Carrier, which were expected to be ready in time for the parade.

Sky Wing Mercenaries held its first military parade, displaying its forces and advanced weapons to an international audience. Long Fei praised the mercenaries and declared that the organization would crush anyone who became its enemy.

• Long Xuan and the Skywing Group subsidiary presidents attended the parade as Long Fei watched from the central seat beside Taoxiang.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries showcased its MS units and fleets in space, including Taurus, Birgo, Murasame, the Archangel, and Taurus 2.
• At the main base, the parade featured armored vehicles, amphibious MS, decommissioned Gundams, mercenary units, and active-service Gundams.
• The personnel and subsidiary presidents saluted Long Fei, who ordered them at ease and addressed the assembled mercenaries.
• Long Fei thanked the mercenaries, vowed that enemies would face Sky Wing Mercenaries’ wrath, and led them in chants celebrating the organization.

Billy Amistad learned about the Ferocious Hound Squad’s Newtypes and the Shadow Mad Dog Squad’s Augmented Human Modification while considering Long Fei a threat to the Amistad Family’s businesses. Two weeks after the Sky Wing Mercenaries’ military parade, Long Fei began considering a return to his hometown.

• Sok reported to Billy that his spies had been captured but shared intelligence about the Ferocious Hound Squad and the Shadow Mad Dog Squad.
• Billy forgave Sok for the failed mission to capture Saintess Aina and sent him home.
• Billy concluded that Long Fei might be a highly intelligent Newtype and recalled how Skywing Group’s technologies had damaged the Amistad Family’s businesses.
• Billy’s bearded doctor proposed building a weapon larger than the target they could not defeat at its current scale.
• Two weeks after the parade, Long Fei considered returning to his hometown.

Long Fei prepared to return to his hometown with Taoxiang, while the Skywing Mercenary Group sent a large escort fleet that drew international attention. As the fleet traveled toward the Earth Sphere, Xu Jingyun recalled the university experiences that had first made her fall for Long Fei.

• Long Fei told Taoxiang and Long Xuan that he planned to return home and bring Taoxiang with him, and Long Xuan shared the news with Long Kui and Long Wen.
• Li Jiaming arranged an Army-level Fleet to protect Long Fei, and Long Fei added units from the Ferocious Hound Squad and Shadow Mad Dog Squad.
• The Escort Fleet, commanded by Brigadier General Aixisi, left the home base, and international reporters followed it after recognizing Long Fei's likely presence aboard.
• Long Fei reviewed reports aboard the Great Angel and noted that Hanxia Empire officials were preparing to visit his hometown, Yongsheng City.
• Xu Jingyun finished a portrait of Long Fei and remembered how his brilliance, athleticism, and actions during their university years had drawn her to him.

After fifteen days, the Skywing Mercenary Group’s Escort Fleet reached Earth and landed safely in Hanxia Empire, where Long Fei reunited with his sisters at the Fourteenth Branch Base. The fleet’s grand reception ended with Long Fei learning that the prime minister and two ministers were waiting to meet him.

• Xu Jingyun remembered falling in love with Long Fei and grieving when she learned he already had a lover, while Xu Weiran urged her to let him go.
• Brigadier General Aixisi requested and received permission from Colonel Wen to bring the Escort Fleet directly down to Earth without using the Electromagnetic Orbital Elevator.
• The Escort Fleet landed safely, and Prime Minister Wei Kangping, Minister of National Defense Shu Tielong, and Trade Minister Guo Fengjiang set out for the Fourteenth Branch Base.
• The Fourteenth Branch Base prepared an elaborate welcome as the Escort Fleet arrived, its warships and MS units taking their assigned positions.
• Long Fei stepped off the Archangel, saluted his mercenaries, and embraced Long Kui and Long Wen.
• Pan Jiangdong told Long Fei that the prime minister and two ministers were waiting for him in the VIP room.

Long Fei met with Prime Minister Wei Kangping and Ministers Shu Tielong and Guo Fengjiang, who sought weapons purchases and investment from the Skywing Group. After accepting the emperor’s invitation to a birthday banquet, Long Fei set off for home with his family as his heavily guarded procession drew crowds and international reporters.

• Wei Kangping, Shu Tielong, and Guo Fengjiang watched footage of Long Fei’s arrival before meeting him in the VIP room.
• Long Fei discussed military purchases and Skywing Group investment with the three officials, agreeing to consider investment and design an enhanced War God Armor Battle Suit while refusing to sell the Sparta Battle Suit.
• Wei Kangping gave Long Fei an invitation to the emperor’s birthday banquet, and Long Fei agreed to attend with a companion.
• Long Fei reunited with his sisters and Taoxiang, then decided to go home and eat Aunt Li’s cooking.
• Long Fei’s Gundams, vehicles, and helicopters escorted his party out of Sub-Base No. 14 as reporters followed and Yongsheng City residents gathered to watch.

Long Fei returned to his family home with a heavily guarded convoy and reunited with his sisters, Butler Wu, and Aunt Li. After paying respects to his parents and sharing dinner with his family, he received a phone call and went to handle something in his room.

• Reporters gathered outside Long Fei's home as his convoy arrived, while Sky Wing Mercenaries secured the property and kept drones from filming.
• Long Fei warmly greeted Butler Wu and Aunt Li, introduced Taoxiang and Lixiang, and offered incense at his parents' memorial portraits.
• Long Fei looked through his childhood photograph and found that his room had been restored, though his old drawings, discs, and storage devices were gone.
• Long Wen asked Lixiang about the mercenary units guarding the house and grew concerned that Long Fei had delegated too much authority.
• Taoxiang woke Long Fei from a long nap, and he ate a dinner prepared by his sisters, Taoxiang, and Aunt Li while Long Kui urged him to protect his health.
• After dinner, Long Fei's phone rang, and he went back to his room to take care of something.

Long Kui explained to Long Xuan that Long Fei was wary of his executives and warned that he would deal harshly with the Long Family if they resisted him. The next morning, Long Fei made plans to visit his old schools while his sisters went to work at Skywing subsidiaries.

• Long Kui told Long Xuan that Long Fei secretly monitored his companies and might unleash a bloody storm on the Long Family if they refused to cooperate.
• Long Kui reassured Long Xuan that Long Fei would remain loving toward his sisters unless they crossed his bottom line.
• Taoxiang got up early to help Aunt Li prepare breakfast, and Long Fei decided to visit his elementary, middle, and high schools with Li Xiucheng.
• Long Kui reminded Long Wen that Long Fei had arranged secret protection for her, and Long Fei explained that the RV windows could change color.
• Long Kui and Long Wen left for the company in their RV under mercenary escort, Long Xuan went to inspect Skywing Metal, and Long Fei took Taoxiang and Lixiang to his elementary school.

Long Fei visited his elementary, middle, and high school alma maters with Li Xiucheng and the Taoxiang sisters, drawing crowds and donating one hundred million Earth Sphere Credits to his elementary school. After learning that Taoxiang’s grandfather’s ancestral hometown had been found, Lixiang refused to visit, and Long Fei arranged for her to stay with his sister while he and Taoxiang left the next day.

• Long Fei arrived at his elementary school with Li Xiucheng and the Taoxiang sisters, and the principal welcomed him as reporters gathered outside.
• Long Fei allowed reporters from three media outlets to film, identified Taoxiang as his woman, and donated one hundred million Earth Sphere Credits to the school.
• Long Fei showed Taoxiang and Lixiang his graduation photo, and Lixiang recognized Li Xiucheng in another picture.
• Long Fei visited his middle school and high school, while Taoxiang remembered leaving school to support Lixiang after their parents died.
• At dinner, Long Fei told Taoxiang that her grandfather’s ancestral hometown had been found, but Lixiang refused to visit it.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang that Lixiang could stay with his sister while he and Taoxiang set off the next day.

Long Fei and Taoxiang traveled to the township where Taoxiang’s grandfather’s ancestral home was located, where they witnessed Dongfang Wudi defeat thugs intimidating a shopkeeper. After learning that Boss Sun controlled the township through corrupt officials, Long Fei and Taoxiang continued to the clan ancestral halls, where Taoxiang prepared to face her family’s past.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang arrived in the township and stopped for breakfast at a local shop.
• Five thugs threatened the proprietress over her refusal to sell her shop, and Dongfang Wudi quickly defeated them.
• The proprietress explained that Boss Sun had influence over local officials and had driven away residents who complained.
• Dongfang Wudi offered to work for the proprietress to repay the damage, and Long Fei encouraged her to accept.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang followed directions to the clan ancestral halls, and Long Fei reassured Taoxiang when she grew nervous.

Taoxiang reunited with her family’s history at the Li Family Ancestral Hall, learning that her grandparents and uncle’s family had died and arranging to take their urns. After Long Fei heard about Boss Sun’s bullying of local shop owners, a message sent him rushing back to the old restaurant, and Taoxiang followed.

• Taoxiang found her grandparents’ memorial tablets, and Li Wenke recognized her as his niece after she showed him a childhood photograph.
• Taoxiang learned that her uncle’s family had died in a car accident and that her grandparents died from grief after the loss.
• The ancestral hall’s manager allowed Taoxiang to take the family’s urns, and she added her and her younger sister’s names to the Li family genealogy.
• Li Wenke explained that Boss Sun used thugs and corrupt officials to force local shop owners from their businesses.
• After receiving a message about trouble at the old restaurant, Long Fei left, and Taoxiang followed him there.

Dongfang Wudi defeated Boss Sun’s thugs after they attacked Auntie Wang’s shop, but corrupt police arrived and tried to frame him. After Boss Sun taunted and slapped the handcuffed Dongfang Wudi, Dongfang Wudi kicked him into a police car, and Long Fei ordered his companions to move as officers aimed their guns.

• Dongfang Wudi defeated nearly fifty thugs while residents and disguised Sky Wing Mercenaries watched.
• Dongfang Wudi confronted the thug leader and Boss Sun, but police arrived before he could strike Boss Sun.
• Boss Sun accused Auntie Wang and Dongfang Wudi of attacking him, while the police captain ignored residents’ testimony and destroyed their recordings.
• The officers handcuffed Dongfang Wudi, and Boss Sun taunted and slapped him before Dongfang Wudi kicked him into a police car.
• Several officers aimed their guns at Dongfang Wudi, and Long Fei ordered his companions to move.

Long Fei and the Sky Wing Mercenaries intervened when the police tried to arrest Dongfang Wudi, then Long Fei tested Dongfang Wudi’s fighting skills and recruited him. Dongfang Wudi agreed to join the Skywing Mercenary Group as a combat instructor and Gundam pilot.

• The Sky Wing Mercenaries subdued the police, freed Dongfang Wudi, and stopped the fleeing thugs while Long Fei arranged for Boss Sun to be treated and contacted Wei Kangping.
• A call from the mayor revealed that officials were coming to deal with the police, and Dongfang Wudi mistook Long Fei for an imperial envoy before learning he owned the Skywing Group.
• Long Fei offered Dongfang Wudi a combat instructor job, and Dongfang Wudi defeated three enhanced mercenaries in under twenty seconds.
• Long Fei hired Dongfang Wudi as the Skywing Mercenary Group’s combat instructor, and Dongfang Wudi agreed to join officially after Long Fei offered to develop a Gundam for him.

Long Fei and Taoxiang arrived in Tianyang City and entered Shengqi Palace with a 500-person Sky Wing security detail and two Gundams. After Long Fei’s forces disabled the palace’s hidden cameras and exposed guards monitoring him from afar, Xu Weiran realized Long Fei’s technology surpassed his country’s estimates.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang traveled aboard the Archangel to Tianyang City, where the Escort Fleet landed at the Royal Military Base.
• A female eunuch invited Long Fei to stay in the imperial palace, and he arranged for five hundred special mercenaries, Gundam Dynames, and the Nadleeh Gundam to accompany him.
• Long Fei’s group settled into Shengqi Palace, where his mercenaries took over security and deployed Machine Hounds and Military Haros.
• Sky Wing mercenaries found and disabled the palace’s hidden cameras, while their Machine Hounds detected guards concealed nearby.
• Long Fei used his Sunglasses to spot guards secretly watching him from a distance, prompting them to withdraw.
• Xu Weiran heard the report and concluded that Long Fei’s technology exceeded his experts’ estimates.

Long Fei had Long Dingkun and the Long Family brought under Sky Wing Mercenary control, then forced the patriarch to sign a contract after executing Long Yingxuan. He left the family kneeling and declared that only Long Huijuan deserved the surname Long.

• Long Dingkun's fears grew after Long Fei returned, and Sky Wing Mercenaries seized the Long Family estate and gathered its members in the main hall.
• Long Dingkun, Yang Ruoxi, and Long Huijuan were forced to kneel until Long Fei arrived and allowed Long Huijuan and Yang Ruoxi to sit.
• Long Fei confronted Long Dingkun over the family's past persecution of him and his sisters, then asked whether he wanted to live or die.
• Long Fei had Long Yingxuan shot when Long Dingkun hesitated, prompting Long Dingkun to say he wanted to live.
• Long Fei made Long Dingkun sign a contract under threat to his family, then stepped on his head and said the others deserved the surname Dog.

Long Fei brutally humiliated the Long Family members and renamed them the Gou Family, then relented when Long Kui begged him to stop. He appointed Long Huijuan head of the Long Family and ordered a banquet for the following day.

• Long Fei had the Sky Wing Mercenaries beat the Long Family members, force them to take the surname Gou, and make them bark and eat like dogs.
• Long Huijuan called Long Kui, who saw the abuse over video and asked Long Fei to stop humiliating the family.
• Long Fei threatened to continue tormenting the Gou Family unless Long Kui accepted that they remain his servants; Long Kui knelt and pleaded with him.
• Long Fei stopped the mercenaries and appointed Long Huijuan head of the Long Family, leaving some mercenaries behind to keep the Gou Family in line.
• The Long Family announced a banquet for Long Huijuan’s appointment, and nearby prominent families learned that the family had changed hands.