Chapter Summaries

Sky Wing Mercenaries reunited elderly people and children with imprisoned relatives, easing hostility in occupied towns, while the Mieweng Unit prepared to advance against the Dion Army. The chapter ended with Dion soldiers beating an old villager after discovering his hidden food, as a young girl called out from a concealed space in the roof.

• Sky Wing Mercenaries treated elderly people and children, gathered names of missing relatives, and arranged video calls with prisoners they identified.
• The Sky Wing Mercenaries recorded names, photographs, and videos from local families as the Mieweng Unit prepared its next offensive on July 12, Cosmic Year 126.
• A Dion Army scout reported the Mieweng Unit's vehicles, soldiers, and drones while observing them from cover.
• Dion Army soldiers insulted an old villager, searched his house, and found food he had stored underground.
• Dion Army soldiers accused the old villager of hiding someone, knocked him down, and beat him until a girl cried out from a hidden space in the roof.

Sky Wing Mercenaries wiped out a Dion Army platoon in a town and won the villagers’ cooperation by promising to help them find their abducted relatives. They also captured Dion scouts, whose tortured confessions exposed the locations of Dion ground units.

• Dion Army soldiers threatened a young girl and her great-grandfather, but Sky Wing Mercenaries infiltrated the house and killed the soldiers before they could harm them.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries captured or killed the nearly one hundred Dion soldiers who had entered the town to demand food, then stopped villagers from attacking the captives.
• The mercenaries asked villagers for information and records of relatives taken by the Dion Army, gave them communication devices, and secured their cooperation.
• Dion scouts tried to relocate, but Sky Wing Mercenaries captured them and used intercepted communications to locate and defeat the ground units they had contacted.
• A captured scout resisted questioning until torture forced him to reveal what he knew, after which the mercenaries dragged him into a dark room.

Yelishao De explained to his generals that villagers were helping the Sky Wing Mercenaries because the Dion Empire had oppressed and starved them, while the mercenaries offered food, supplies, and fairer terms. The chapter ended with Yelishao De learning that Salamander had planned the strategy and regretting that he had spared him.

• Yelishao De heard reports that villagers and city residents were aiding the Sky Wing Mercenaries and attacking Dion Army soldiers.
• General Akude blamed the villagers’ rebellion on their rejection of the Emperor’s Newtype doctrine, but Yelishao De challenged his explanation.
• Yelishao De showed General Akude the meager food villagers ate, and the general spat it out in disgust.
• Yelishao De showed the officials how the Sky Wing Mercenaries supplied villages, freed captured soldiers, and promised to take a smaller share of harvests after three years.
• Yelishao De learned that Salamander had planned the strategy and regretted sparing his life.

The Skywing Mercenary Group used drones to broadcast Dion soldiers’ families pleading for them to come home, then showed four women safely reuniting with their families. Mass desertions weakened the city garrisons, forcing Dion commanders to consider abandoning their positions as the Mieweng Unit accepted surrendering soldiers.

• Salamander proposed using drones to persuade forcibly conscripted Dion soldiers to surrender, and Long Fei and most commanders supported the plan.
• Sky Wing Mercenary commanders told soldiers who did not want to fight that they could surrender and, if possible, return to their hometowns and families.
• After four women escaped a city and reached their families safely under Sky Wing Mercenary escort, their reunions were broadcast to Dion troops.
• Forcibly conscripted Dion soldiers began attacking those who tried to stop them and fled the cities to surrender to the Mieweng Unit.
• As fewer soldiers remained at successive roll calls, Dion city commanders realized the garrisons could lose more than half their strength without an assault.
• Some commanders began retreating and offered soldiers from occupied towns the choice to surrender or withdraw with them.

The Mieweng Unit steadily captured Dion Empire territory as conscripts defected and Salamander’s psychological warfare slowed the advance. By August 10, Cosmic Year 126, the Dion Army and Mieweng Unit had begun fighting in some locations.

• Yelishao De released conscripts whose homes and relatives were in Skywing-controlled territory, while relocating civilians from areas still held by the Dion Army.
• The Skywing Group attracted investors to the Mars Sphere under harsh terms as Taoxiang helped manage its affairs and cared for their three children.
• The Mieweng Unit observed that Dion Empire territory had fallen to 40% of its former extent, and Salamander’s strategy began losing effectiveness as civilians left villages and towns.
• Long Fei avoided devastating attacks that could harm civilians, while the Mieweng Unit maintained space defenses and produced military equipment.
• The Mieweng Unit surrounded cities, cut off supplies, and intercepted relief forces; on August 10, Cosmic Year 126, fighting began in some locations.

The Great Sword Shield Unit attacked a Glaison Base under heavy interference, and Salamander’s forces gained the advantage. Salamander defeated Veronica in their final duel, but she killed herself rather than live after the Dion Empire’s defeat.

• The Great Sword Shield Unit disrupted the base’s communications and defenses with Neutron Jammers, Minov Particles, and Yahap Particles.
• Salamander and Veronica fought in the Koshi Gundam and Great Guard while the surrounding forces attacked Veronica’s unit.
• Jorge destroyed the Great Guard’s remote cannons, and Salamander’s forces crippled the machine and brought it down.
• Salamander caught the falling Great Guard and urged Veronica to live, but she declared her loyalty to the Dion Empire and shot herself.
• Salamander saluted Veronica’s body in respect.

The Mieweng Unit’s forces advanced on Glaison Base as Gundam TR-6 Dandelion IIs crippled its laser defenses from above. The battle remained a stalemate, with both sides committing more forces, including Gundam TR-6 Fiver IIs attacking the enemy fleet.

• Leiying units and Birgo IIIs advanced behind their shields while exchanging fire with Glaison Base’s defenders, and the Great Sword Shield Unit pushed within fifty kilometers of the base.
• Gundam TR-6 Dandelion IIs destroyed many laser defense turrets from above, while Wing Birds and Azure units trying to intercept them suffered heavy losses.
• Rebecca and Zhou Ya fought Mass-Produced Saint Machines as Zhou Na reported Veronica’s death and the Night Hunt Royal Knights’ clash with the Iron Blossom Group.
• Flints and F90 units broke through a weak point in Glaison Base’s defenses but met fierce resistance, leaving the battle at a stalemate.
• Salamander ordered his subordinates to protect Veronica’s body and led his unit onward, while Gundam TR-6 Fiver IIs and their Gihal II escorts attacked the enemy fleet from the edge of the atmosphere.

Anton and his four subordinates overwhelmed Pamuzhuba’s Witch Hunter Saint Machine in a five-on-one battle. Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City crushed its cockpit, and the surviving Gundams moved on to seek new targets.

• Anton’s Gundam Barbatos Lupus and Mellis’s Gundam Astaroth (Prototype) damaged the Witch Hunter Saint Machine, forcing Pamuzhuba to retreat.
• Gundam Gomory, Gundam Fraus, Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City, and Gundam Dablin surrounded the weakened Witch Hunter Saint Machine as Anton left them to finish the fight.
• Pamuzhuba tried to escape by flying upward, but the five Gundams attacked him with their weapons and drove him back to the ground.
• The Witch Hunter Saint Machine’s shield shattered, its back took repeated hits, and its final Electromagnetic Cannon shot was knocked off course by Gundam Dablin.
• Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City clamped its giant shears around the Witch Hunter Saint Machine’s cockpit and crushed it, killing Pamuzhuba.
• Mellis remarked that none of them could have defeated Pamuzhuba alone, and the four Gundams went searching for their next targets.

Lieutenant General Reigendrey recognized that Glaisen Base was nearing defeat as the Skywing Mercenary Group steadily overwhelmed its forces and weakened its defenses. Salamander ordered an assault on the base’s vulnerable eastern sector, where Zamels provided long-range artillery support.

• Lieutenant General Reigendrey confirmed that two Royal Knights commanders had died and assessed the Dion Army’s worsening casualty ratios and morale.
• When civilians asked for weapons, Lieutenant General Reigendrey refused and told them not to resist if the base fell, assuring them the Skywing Mercenary Group would send them home.
• Gundam Barbatos Lupus and a Delta attacked Glaisen Base’s defenses as failing power plants left Titan’s Wall operating at reduced strength.
• Salamander directed Gundam TR-6 Dandelion II and Gundam TR-6 Fiber II to target the eastern laser batteries and ordered forces to break through the eastern sector.
• A Black Rabbit Unit advanced under fire support from Douwolf and Guntanks while its MS and snipers suppressed the base’s defenders.
• Zamels bombarded the base from high altitude, using their 680mm Cannons and electric shells to destroy or disable defending units.

The Great Sword Shield Unit and allied forces breached Glaison Base's eastern defenses, entered the base, and fought through its interior while Lieutenant General Reigendrey struggled to coordinate a defense. Salamander ordered his forces to spare civilians, but the attackers continued destroying enemy machines and base facilities as reinforcements poured through the breaches.

• Gaplant TR-5 Advanced Hrairoos, Rosette Reinforced Ground Types, and other units suppressed the eastern defenses as Gundam TR-6 Dandelion II and Gundam TR-6 Woundwort II attacked from the edge of the atmosphere.
• The Dion Army's eastern defenders were overwhelmed, and Lieutenant General Reigendrey struggled to reinforce them without weakening the southern and western fronts.
• Three Silver Thunders used their Big-W Cannon IIs to blast breaches through Titan's Wall, allowing allied machines and ground forces to enter Glaison Base.
• Lieutenant General Reigendrey sent more forces east and ordered ground troops to escort civilians into underground shelters, while Salamander instructed MD-controlled machines and Haros not to attack civilians.
• Zamels provided long-range artillery support as Zhang Lili and her camera crew followed the ground forces into the base; Pirate Gundam X1, Gundam Gomory, and a Sky Overlord destroyed enemy machines.
• The invading units scattered into small groups and advanced through the base, while Guntanks deployed their transported ground troops and continued providing artillery support.

Sky Wing Mercenaries encountered Dion soldiers escorting civilians and were ordered not to attack while civilians were present. When families pleaded with forcibly conscripted female soldiers to surrender, the commander laid down her arms, allowing the soldiers and civilians to be taken to safety and reunited.

• Maoxile and Ubalos reported Dion troops escorting civilians to shelters, following Mellis's order to leave them to ground forces and report their locations.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries learned that civilians rescued at another base included people abducted from the Colony Sphere and relatives of mercenaries, prompting them to set aside plans for revenge.
• Zhang Lili reported as a Sky Wing ground unit gave Dion troops time to move civilians into an air-raid shelter.
• An elderly woman took a female soldier's gun, then urged her granddaughter to surrender and pleaded for her life; Sky Wing Mercenaries shielded them and escorted them to safety.
• Families begged the forcibly conscripted female soldiers to surrender, and the ground-unit commander surrendered with her troops.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries disarmed the female soldiers and took them and the civilians to safety, where the soldiers embraced their families.

Lieutenant General Reigendrey ordered willing Dion Empire soldiers to surrender and launched Gudrian for a final battle, where he fought off Skywing forces before being surrounded by four Gundams. The chapter left Reigendrey at a severe disadvantage against Pirate Gundam X1, Pirate Gundam X2, Pirate Gundam X3, and Dark Hound.

• Lieutenant General Reigendrey allowed Dion Army soldiers who did not want to fight to surrender and entrusted command to his adjutant before launching in Gudrian.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries secured underground facilities and escorted civilians to safety while encountering both resistance and surrenders.
• Lieutenant General Reigendrey launched Gudrian and destroyed sixteen enemy MS in three minutes.
• Pirate Gundam X1 challenged Gudrian, and Pirate Gundam X2 and Pirate Gundam X3 joined the fight.
• Zhou Na and her older sister ordered all four Gundams to attack together, and Dark Hound helped surround Gudrian as Reigendrey recognized his disadvantage.

The Great Sword Shield Unit captured Glaison Base’s power plant, overwhelmed its defenses, and evacuated civilians while defeating most of the Dion Army’s forces. As the Dion Empire lost more territory and generals, Yelishao De ordered strategic retreats and measures to keep civilians and conscripted soldiers from surrendering.

• Zhou Ya and the other three women trapped Gudrian Sacred Machine in a coordinated attack, killed Lieutenant General Reigendrey, and then split up to seek new targets.
• The Great Sword Shield Unit seized Glaison Base’s underground power plant and shut down its defensive laser turrets and Titan’s Wall, allowing its forces to advance on the base.
• Great Sword Shield Unit forces attacked Dion Army warships while allowing civilian transports to escape, and Mother Rabbit’s Silver Thunder shot down a Brock Frigate with Big-W Cannon II.
• Salamander learned that only thirty of more than two hundred Dion Army warships had escaped Glaison Base and that the Dion Army had lost its frontline bases.
• Yelishao De received reports of fallen generals and impending surrenders, then ordered civilians moved to rear areas and arranged farming, renewable-energy, and factory work for them.

After the Great Sword Shield Unit captured Glaison Base, former captives reunited with family, while the Skywing Mercenary Group began searching for missing relatives. At the detention center, Osmane, Russell, Najedah, and Chaplin discussed their futures and the prisoners working in chains, and Chaplin revealed he recognized Muswati.

• Zhang Lili interviewed Ruili after she raised her hand among the former captives, and Ruili reunited with her husband, Lieutenant Ubalos, and their children.
• Former captives reported their names and origins to the Skywing Mercenary Group, which sought records from Colony Sphere countries to help locate their families.
• Netizens condemned some captives who refused to return to countries that still existed, while soldiers from fallen nations learned that relatives had survived and arranged reunions.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group arranged for Dion Army soldiers' relatives to return to their homes and sent captured Dion Army soldiers to prisoner-of-war camps.
• At the detention center, Russell said he wanted to reunite with his wife and children, while Osmane admitted he did not know what to do without family.
• Chaplin said he recognized Muswati among the chained prisoners, explaining that his brother had shown him a photograph of her.

The Mieweng Unit continued advancing while the Dion Empire used civilians and guerrilla attacks to slow its progress. Long Fei and his commanders identified Markus Fortress, where Yelishao De was directing operations, as the crucial target for breaking the enemy’s defenses.

• Russell, Osmane, and Chaplin condemned Muswati’s tactics, while prisoners on Najedah’s side kept their distance from her group.
• From August 13 to 15 of Cosmic Year 126, the Mieweng Unit captured more bases and facilities, and satellite observations revealed that the Dion Empire had activated Titan’s Walls in many places.
• Long Fei’s officers reported that the Dion Army was relocating civilians, waging guerrilla warfare, and damaging logistics camps and transport teams.
• Tols and Shlaik proposed using the Mieweng Unit’s stealth technology, satellite surveillance, drones, and reconnaissance forces to investigate and eliminate enemy guerrillas.
• Shlaik presented a map showing that Yelishao De was overseeing the Dion Army at Markus Fortress, and Salamander explained why the surrounding outposts had to be captured before attacking it.
• Long Fei declared that capturing Markus Fortress would bring the destruction of the Dion Empire closer.

Sky Wing Mercenary Group and Dion Army forces fought a fierce ground battle in a dense forest, where specialized suits, weapons, drones, and the Mobile Assault Shell Unit inflicted heavy losses. Dion’s communications and radar remained crippled by Neutron Jammers and Minov Particles, while the unpredictable prosthetic weapons of the Mobile Assault Shell Unit made the unit especially difficult to counter.

• Sky Wing and Dion special forces exchanged gunfire and fought at close range, with Energy Shields, funnel cannons, Beam Sabers, and other weapons causing casualties on both sides.
• Sky Wing special forces and the Mobile Assault Shell Unit used superior close-combat strength and varied weapons to overwhelm Dion soldiers, while Dion troops relied on heavy weapons to challenge External Armor and Wolf-types.
• Sky Wing remotely controlled drones and Mechanical Dogs through functioning relays, while Dion struggled to communicate and operate radar after Neutron Jammers and Minov Particles disrupted its systems.
• Mobile Assault Shell Unit members used transforming weapons and prosthetic limbs to pierce shields, fire rocket fists, and move through the forest, leaving Dion ground forces unable to predict their attacks.

Bai Zhenyu and Wan Yuhao fought in the dense forest, using Gundam Faler and Barbatos Gundam with the Hell Warhorse to devastate enemy forces. The battle continued as Barbatos Gundam fired a Crimson Arrow into an enemy reinforcement squad, destroying it in a massive blast.

• Bai Zhenyu piloted Gundam Faler through the forest battle, destroying several enemy machines with her weapons and spatial awareness.
• Bai Zhenyu sniped two enemy targets with her 210mm anti-materiel rifle and recognized Wan Yuhao riding past on the Hell Warhorse with Barbatos Gundam.
• Wan Yuhao charged through enemy ranks on the Hell Warhorse, then dismounted and destroyed an Azure and a silver Special Saint Machine.
• Barbatos Gundam took a crossbow from the Hell Warhorse and fired a Crimson Arrow at an enemy reinforcement force.
• The Crimson Arrow struck the ground and detonated, destroying a one-hundred-MS reinforcement squad.

Trifer piloted Gundam AGE 1 Phoenix Type against Violet and destroyed the Special Saint Machine with the Destroyer Sword’s Rui Star Shot. The Skywing Mercenary Group then broke through Dense One Base’s Zeus Wall and advanced into the base.

• Trifer’s Gundam AGE 1 Phoenix Type used its Phoenix cannons to force Violet into the air, where the pilot risked harming Dion Army allies.
• Violet charged with its longsword, but Trifer transformed the Phoenix equipment into Destroyer Sword Form and broke Violet’s blade.
• Trifer launched Rui Star Shot, and the pursuing phoenix pierced Violet and destroyed it.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group’s forces overwhelmed the Dion Army as FAZZ and other Gundams suppressed enemy machines and ground troops.
• Mieweng Units bombarded Dense One Base’s Zeus Wall until Gundam AGE 1 Phoenix Type shattered it with Star Slash F.
• The Mieweng Units covered the ground forces as mobile suits and Mobile Armors charged into Dense One Base.

The Dion Army’s diversionary assault on Dense One No. 1 drew relief forces away from Dense One No. 3 and No. 4, and the Second Prince ordered the army to abandon all Dense bases and retreat to Markus Fortress. Long Fei’s forces took over the abandoned bases, then prepared for a prolonged battle while Salamander’s guerrilla units continued disrupting enemy supply lines.

• The relief force commander realized the Skywing Mercenary Group had used Dense One No. 1 as a diversion while Wing Gundam Zero and GX 9900 threatened Dense One No. 3 and No. 4.
• Wing Gundam Zero breached the Zeus Wall at Dense One No. 4 and destroyed large sections of the base before its attackers moved toward Dense One No. 2.
• The Second Prince ordered the Dion Army to abandon all Dense bases and withdraw to Markus Fortress after enemy guerrilla units intercepted the relief forces.
• The Dion Army evacuated the bases and destroyed the Zeus Wall installations and supplies, while the Mieweng Unit took over the remaining bases without pursuing the retreating troops.
• Shlaik and the other generals unanimously decided to keep sending guerrilla units against Dion supply lines, and Long Fei summoned Salamander to his office.

Long Fei and Salamander discussed the risk of Yelishao De offering Dion Empire technology to other nations, then set a plan to attack Markus Fortress at the end of next month. As both sides prepared for the decisive battle, Yelishao De’s attempt to seek international help was rejected by his subordinates.

• Salamander told Long Fei that Yelishao De’s filial loyalty to Fadis made him unlikely to share Dion technology while his father remained alive, and that the Skywing Mercenary Group needed to defeat the empire within half a year without suffering severe losses.
• Long Fei learned that the assault on Markus Fortress would begin at the end of next month, with guerrilla forces harassing Dion deployments beforehand.
• Long Fei called Taoxiang and spoke with Long Guo and Long Fu, who asked him to come home for their birthday; he also noticed Long Quan’s spiritual power had nearly caught up with his own.
• Yelishao De gathered the remaining Royal Knights commanders and his generals at Markus Fortress as arriving troops prepared for the coming battle.
• Yelishao De proposed sharing Dion technology with other nations in exchange for their aid, but his subordinates unanimously opposed asking ordinary humans for help, so he turned to planning defenses against Skywing guerrilla forces.