Chapter Summaries

Alijeh’s forces regrouped after the battle, and Tina treated the wounded Princess before Michelle Delanc arrived to support the rebels. The Regent’s elves joined Alijeh, but Anzu Saif revealed a much larger alliance of Orc and foreign experts, leaving the Princess and her allies surrounded on the verge of battle.

• Tina used a special bandage from her Space Ring to treat Alijeh’s wounded leg.
• Michelle Delanc arrived with Pearl City’s experts and declared that she was resisting the royal family, while Alijeh accused her of betrayal.
• Alijeh called the Regent, and Legolas rose from Oran City with eleven elven experts to support her.
• Anzu Saif revealed that the rebels had summoned High Priest Grizel, Bloodthroat Sword Saint Kugul, the Thunder God, Prince Jarvan IV of Demacia, and more than fifty experts from the Orc Kingdom, Rhine Empire, and Wind Chime Empire.
• Rantilus and Anzu Saif joined their allies in surrounding Alijeh and the elves as a major battle threatened to begin.

Alijeh summoned Eileen, Morningstar’s mother, to help defend Oran City and entrusted her with Morningstar’s egg. The Dragon Emperor Bahamut arrived to drive Eileen away, and the two left the battlefield to fight beyond the atmosphere.

• Alijeh revealed a crystal that summoned Eileen, an Astral Cat whose power nearly matched Xifan’s.
• Eileen asked Alijeh to care for Morningstar’s egg, and Alijeh placed it in a portal.
• Su Yu’s login restriction ended, and he returned to the game.
• Duke Rantilus called on Dragon Emperor Bahamut, who appeared and confronted Eileen.
• Eileen chose to fight for Alijeh and Morningstar’s future, then flew toward space with Bahamut following her.

With the Imperial forces overwhelmed and Eileen fighting Bahamut, Su Yu summoned the Village Chief and his companions as reinforcements. Their arrival gave Alijeh’s side three additional Tier 7 experts, though the battle’s outcome remained undecided.

• The rebel experts launched a buffed assault, and Eileen urged the Imperial fighters to hold out while she faced Bahamut.
• Alijeh rallied Shalan, Roland, Andrew, and the other Imperial experts, but the battle turned brutal and many Tier 5–6 fighters died.
• Su Yu returned from the resurrection point and decided he had to intervene before Alijeh and Tina were killed.
• Su Yu used the Group Summon Scroll by shouting, “The Village Chief is so handsome!”
• The Village Chief, Jenny, and Woodcutter Bell appeared, and Alijeh sensed that all three were Tier 7 experts.

The Village Chief, Jenny, and Woodcutter Bell merged into Bernina Tide, whose appearance as a God-tier Expert changed the balance of the battle. Bernina began passing her inheritance to Tina, who fainted under the flood of knowledge.

• The Village Chief, Jenny, and Woodcutter Bell recognized the orcs and merged in a burst of blue light, awakening Bernina Tide.
• The Dragon Emperor identified Bernina Tide, and the experts realized that her return could overwhelm them all.
• Bernina Tide told Tina that she had only awakened a fragment of her consciousness and would pass on her inheritance.
• Bernina sent a vast amount of knowledge into Tina, who fainted after only a few seconds.

Bernina saved Tina, rewarded Su Yu with a quest, and executed the Orc leaders and the two traitorous Dukes, securing the Empire’s victory. The surviving rebels surrendered or withdrew, while Su Yu left Tina safely at home and wondered how Bernina’s intervention would alter the future storyline.

• Su Yu caught the unconscious Tina, and Bernina told him to visit her in Clear Wind Village at Tier 6, triggering a hidden quest.
• Bernina killed Grizel and Kugul Bloodthroat, then executed the traitorous Dukes Rantilus and Anzu Saif.
• Bernina sent Eileen through an Astral Portal and flew north to kill Orc high-tier experts, telling Alijeh and Su Yu to care for Tina.
• The rebel army retreated, Turalyon and the Wind Chime Empire’s forces withdrew, and the remaining rebel experts surrendered to Alijeh.
• Su Yu carried Tina back to her home, laid her in bed, and reflected on how the changed Main Storyline might affect the future.

After the campaign, Su Yu headed to the quartermaster to exchange his military merits for items that could strengthen humanity. The players recognized him and cleared a path so he could reach the quartermaster ahead of the crowd.

• Su Yu received Snowflake Leopard's messages about quest rewards and the seven-day expiration on military merits, but his own quest reward had not yet been settled.
• Su Yu chatted with guild members, who compared their quest rewards, and offered to exchange military merits for items on their behalf.
• Su Yu arrived at the crowded quartermaster and tried to leave until players recognized him and urged the crowd to make way.
• Su Yu accepted the players' offer and walked through the cleared path toward the quartermaster.

Su Yu discovered that the Merit Points exchange list offered Tina’s Blood exclusively to him and spent 228,000 Merit Points to obtain 228 drops. He summoned Sky Dragon to the Warm Wind Home tavern to use her luck to gild equipment, and she agreed to help.

• Su Yu found Tina’s Blood in the special items category, where each drop cost 1,000 Merit Points and only he could exchange for it.
• Su Yu spent 228,000 Merit Points on 228 drops of Tina’s Blood and used his remaining points to buy potions.
• Su Yu kept Tina’s Blood’s item-upgrading ability secret, then messaged Sky Dragon to meet him at the Warm Wind Home tavern.
• Su Yu ordered Sky Dragon strawberry juice and fried broad beans, then told her he wanted to gild equipment with Tina’s Blood.
• Sky Dragon agreed to help Su Yu and prepared to use her luck as he sent her an Enchantment Request.

Su Yu successfully upgraded the God Race Emblem with Tina’s blood, while Sky Dragon wondered whether Tina could enter the real world and tried to move in with Su Yu. The chapter ended with Sky Dragon confronting Snowflake Leopard over whether he knew Su Yu’s address and had tried to send his sister to live with him.

• Su Yu used 65 drops of Tina’s blood to plate the God Race Emblem in gold, and Sky Dragon asked whether Tina might use her blood to enter the real world.
• Su Yu agreed to try the idea later, while Sky Dragon decided she wanted to move in with him; he refused and mentioned that Snowflake Leopard had also asked about moving his sister in.
• Sky Dragon left to confront Snowflake Leopard, and Su Yu rode to Tina’s home while considering how she might be summoned into reality.
• Su Yu thanked Tina for the blood she had saved, and she said she had more than 600 drops and would give him the rest if he performed well in future wars.
• Sky Dragon found Snowflake Leopard on Oran City’s walls, aimed her bow at him, and demanded to know whether he knew Su Yu’s real-life address and had wanted his sister to live with him.

Snowflake Leopard agreed not to send his sister to live with Kexing after learning the truth about Sky Dragon and Kexing, while Sky Dragon persuaded him to arrange a review for access to Kexing’s address. Later, Alijeh met Su Yu in her palace garden and asked whether he would choose her or Tina.

• Snowflake Leopard explained that he had planned to send his sister to take care of Kexing, and Sky Dragon attacked him for it.
• Su Yu privately clarified to Snowflake Leopard that he had not accepted Sky Dragon as his girlfriend, and Snowflake Leopard agreed not to send his sister to live with him.
• Sky Dragon asked Snowflake Leopard for Kexing’s real-world address, and he said the Relevant Department would first review her qualifications and require a confidentiality agreement.
• Su Yu rode to Alijeh’s palace, where Alijeh showed him her healed leg and hinted that she wanted his help managing the country.
• Su Yu suggested that Tina might help Alijeh with government affairs, and Alijeh asked him to choose between her and Tina.

Su Yu told Tina and Alijeh that he chose neither of them because he had only ten and a half months to live if the Otherworld Adventurers failed to stop the invasion of his world. They pledged to help him prepare, and Alijeh rewarded him with a Legendary Astral Cat Egg.

• Su Yu chose neither Tina nor Alijeh, then explained that he would tell them why at Tina's house.
• Su Yu described Blue Planet, the Otherworld Invasion, and the Adventurers' mission, revealing how little time he had left if they failed.
• Tina and Alijeh promised to help Su Yu, and he explained that the Adventurers needed to grow stronger and obtain high-tier Gold Equipment and items.
• Alijeh agreed to gather Gold Equipment and items for Su Yu to earn through quests and gave him a Legendary Astral Cat Egg as a reward.

Su Yu received the Astral Cat Egg from Alijeh and learned that Experience Crystal Stones could quickly restore Morningstar’s strength. Tina used her blood to upgrade the egg to Golden Legendary quality, giving Su Yu hope that Morningstar could enter the real world, and he left eager to test it.

• Alijeh gave Su Yu Morningstar’s Astral Cat Egg as a reward for his role in the final battle and explained that Experience Crystal Stones could help Morningstar recover her strength.
• Su Yu worried that Morningstar would be unable to help against the Otherworld Invasion if she could not enter the real world.
• Tina cut her palm and used her blood to raise the Astral Cat Egg’s quality to Golden Legendary.
• Su Yu realized the upgraded egg might let Morningstar enter reality and asked Alijeh to keep Tina’s power secret.
• Alijeh promised to keep Tina’s secret as the third stage of the Main Storyline ended and the next stage was announced for July 16th.

Tina and Alijeh agreed to postpone their dispute over Kexing for ten years, while Princess resolved to grow closer to him. Su Yu helped Morning Star hatch and sign an Equal Contract, and the chapter ended with her beginning to regain her strength by eating experience points.

• Tina and Alijeh agreed to set aside their differences over Kexing for ten years, and Princess planned to cultivate her relationship with him.
• Alijeh placed the Astral Cat Egg on the table, and Su Yu channeled gentle magic power into it so he and Morning Star could sign an Equal Contract.
• Morning Star hatched, revealed her powerful attributes and multiple forms, and reminded Su Yu that he still owed her five hundred jin of dried fish.
• Alijeh gave Morning Star a Star Stone and offered to help her recover and find Hu Tao, but Morning Star refused help with her revenge.
• Su Yu fed Morning Star a Crystal Stone containing 100,000 experience points, raising her from Level 1 to Level 2 before she stopped to digest it.

Su Yu brought Morning Star from the game into the real world, where she explored his apartment and discovered that she was physically present. After confirming he could pet her, Su Yu returned her to the Pet Space and logged back into the game to rejoin Alijeh and Tina.

• Su Yu explained the real world to Morning Star, who eagerly agreed to visit it.
• Su Yu summoned Morning Star into his apartment, where she marveled at the city outside and asked to go exploring.
• Su Yu explained why he wanted to pet Morning Star, then petted her despite her restrictions until she relaxed and enjoyed it.
• Su Yu concluded that Morning Star was physically present, returned her to the Pet Space, and logged back into the game.

Su Yu persuaded Alijeh to take a break and brought her, Tina, and Morningstar to Pearl City for a day of shopping and food. Tina’s favorability reached 46, leaving Su Yu wondering whether he should have a baby with her.

• Su Yu returned to Tina’s bedroom and invited Alijeh to take a holiday with him, Tina, and Morningstar in Pearl City.
• Alijeh agreed to the outing and secretly asked Morningstar to keep Su Yu from getting too close to Tina.
• The next day, Su Yu, Alijeh, Tina, and Morningstar disguised themselves and toured Pearl City, where Su Yu bought the things they liked.
• The outing raised Tina’s favorability to 46, Alijeh’s to 44, and Morningstar’s to 31.
• Su Yu considered whether to have a baby with Tina because her favorability had passed the threshold for having children.

After logging out of the game, Su Yu learned from Morningstar that Bernina Tide served as an assistant to the Time-Space Administrators and that game-world creatures could revive in reality up to ten times. He brought Morningstar’s existence to Zhu Guorui’s attention, then called Xue Wenli, who arrived to ask how he had brought the cat into reality.

• Su Yu decided to postpone studying the child-rearing gameplay, used up his 12 hours of game time, and logged out after spending the day in Pearl City.
• Morningstar told Su Yu that Bernina Tide was assisting the Time-Space Administrators, might adjust the worlds’ time-flow difference, and had explained the limits on revival for creatures from Su Yu’s world.
• Su Yu considered how reviving game-world creatures could help in the fight against the Skrulls, then sensed Zhu Guorui approaching and welcomed him inside.
• Su Yu explained that he had brought Morningstar out of the game, and Zhu Guorui urged him to inform the Relevant Department.
• Su Yu called Xue Wenli, who hurried to his home, saw Morningstar, and asked Su Yu how he had brought it into reality.

Su Yu told Zhu Guorui and Xue Wenli about Morningstar’s origins and her warnings about the Time-Space Administrator, then helped secure permission for Morningstar to go outside. He took her on a nighttime tour of Blue Star and introduced her to electronic devices, which kept her awake until dawn.

• Su Yu recounted how he obtained Morningstar and shared the hints she had received from Bernina, shocking Zhu Guorui and Xue Wenli.
• Xue Wenli asked to report the information to senior officials, and Su Yu agreed before asking whether he could take Morningstar outside.
• Morningstar used her Starlight Shield to address concerns about alien bacteria and viruses, and Zhu Guorui promised to seek permission for her to go out.
• After a government review, Xue Wenli told Su Yu that Morningstar could leave home within a three-kilometer radius while hygiene experts monitored her for a week.
• Su Yu took Morningstar around the quiet streets and explained Blue Star’s situation, then showed her his electronic devices at home.
• Morningstar became fascinated by Su Yu’s phone and stayed awake using it until she fell asleep beside it at 4 a.m.

Su Yu learned that Zhu Guorui and Chancellor Cao were worried about his survival during the planned infiltration of Skrull Star and urged him to improve his equipment and skills. Zhu Guorui explained that he and Chancellor Cao intended to seek psionic energy on Skrull Star because humanity’s supplies were scarce, leaving their mission as a gamble to regain strength before the war.

• Su Yu woke to find Morningstar drooling on his arm, returned her to the Pet Space, and went out for breakfast.
• Zhu Guorui invited Su Yu into his renovated residence and told him the government was searching for game NPCs who could enter reality after learning about the kitten.
• Zhu Guorui warned Su Yu that Chancellor Cao feared his inexperience and poor equipment could leave him stranded on Skrull Star, and Su Yu promised to prepare while relying on divination magic.
• Su Yu asked why Zhu Guorui and Chancellor Cao planned to join the infiltration, and Zhu Guorui said they needed psionic energy to restore their strength.
• Zhu Guorui explained that Skrull Star held abundant psionic energy, including energy stolen from Blue Planet, and said he and Chancellor Cao were willing to risk the mission for a chance to grow stronger before the war.

Su Yu helped Tina and Alijeh reclaim most of the Golden Flower Empire, earning enough military merit to obtain Tina’s remaining blood and gathering experience for Morningstar. After reaching Forest City, Morningstar recovered to Level 10, and Su Yu logged off when a visitor called for Kexing.

• Alijeh ordered Tina to lead the Imperial army out to reclaim the Empire’s lost territories, triggering Su Yu’s next Main Storyline stages.
• The army retook Forest City and Broom City, then defeated the noble factions in Maple Leaf City and Giant Rock City, destroying both Dukes’ families.
• Su Yu earned enough military merit to exchange for Tina’s 386 remaining drops of blood and issued side quests that increased stored experience and Morningstar’s cat food.
• Su Yu brought Morningstar to the Mage Tower, where she recovered from Level 2 to Level 10 and refused to reveal her second form.
• Su Yu logged off with Morningstar after receiving notice of a visitor, and a girl at his door asked whether Kexing lived there.

Su Yu met Sky Dragon, whose real name was Xu Xiaotian, after she arrived at his home hoping to live with him. Morningstar appeared in human form and provoked Xu Xiaotian into leaving, while Su Yu confiscated Morningstar’s phone as punishment.

• Sky Dragon arrived at Su Yu’s home with a suitcase and asked him to take her in, explaining that Zhong Feng had given her his address.
• Su Yu tried to stop Xu Xiaotian from entering and discovered he had left his phone behind.
• Morningstar appeared in human form, and Xu Xiaotian mistook her for a young girl Su Yu had slept with.
• Xu Xiaotian denounced Su Yu and left in the elevator without hearing his explanation.
• Su Yu returned to Morningstar, who had changed back into cat form, and confiscated her phone for seven days.

Su Yu resolved the fallout from Sky Dragon learning his address and spent a comfortable week having Morning Star do housework in exchange for phone time. After the Imperial army reclaimed Maple Leaf City, Su Yu asked Princess Alijeh for a large-capacity Space Ring and Xifan’s Soul Fragment, but she refused.

• Su Yu asked Xue Wenli to arrange protection for Xu Xiaotian, then confronted Snowflake Leopard in the game for giving Sky Dragon his address without permission.
• Su Yu explained the misunderstanding to Sky Dragon, who forgave him after seeing Morning Star transform into human form.
• Su Yu devised maid-training plans that traded Morning Star’s housework for phone time, and she cleaned for him over the following week.
• On July 23rd, the Imperial army captured Maple Leaf City and destroyed the Cutler Rebel Army, and Su Yu exchanged for 386 drops of Tina's Blood.
• Su Yu met Princess Alijeh and requested a large-capacity Space Ring and Xifan's Soul Fragment, but Alijeh said she could not give them to him.