Chapter Summaries

Xisen and the Red Gloves completed their missions against the Pro-American Faction in Bucharest and returned to Li Yao's villa for dinner. The chapter ended with Li Yao watching everyone gather and feeling that the lively evening was like a holiday reunion.

• Xisen and the Red Gloves broke into a residence on Puri Ci Street and killed five Pro-American Faction metahumans.
• Xisen reported the completed mission to Li Yao, then learned that the Schutzstaffel had assigned the group two more tasks.
• Xisen and the Red Gloves finished their remaining missions, including attacking a group at an underground club and taking their money.
• Xisen and the others returned to Li Yao's villa, where Jiang Da Jin welcomed them and prepared a feast.
• Li Yao told the group to clean up and play mahjong before dinner, then watched them gather and felt the warmth of a holiday reunion.

Li Yao discussed Lin Xiaowei’s research on Earth’s Otherkind and ordered Xisen to recruit female vampires and other female Otherkind. After reading news of attacks on a pro-American stronghold in Romania, he contacted Oslia to offer intelligence, and she immediately suspected he was responsible.

• Lin Xiaowei told Li Yao that Earth’s vampires and werewolves showed signs of artificial modification, could not help Main World Blood Clan members level up, and had given her new research ideas and Points.
• Li Yao joked with Lin Xiaowei about sending her Avengers 4, then studied magic before sharing dinner with Selma, Jiang Da Jin, Xisen, and the others.
• Li Yao made Xisen and his subordinates wash the dishes and ordered the Red Gloves to recruit female vampires, then asked about female Nightspawn and Moon Demons.
• Li Yao read a forum post reporting twenty-three attacks on a pro-American stronghold in Romania, where no attacked espers survived, and saw accusations against Europe’s native forces.
• Li Yao messaged Oslia to ask about the Foundation’s relationship with the United Nations and offered intelligence leads; Oslia asked if he had carried out the attacks.

Li Yao exposed the Schutzstaffel as the force behind the attacks in Romania, but the American and European factions ignored the accusation and escalated their conflict. As Li Yao considered how to break the deadlock, he offered to help Jiang Da Jin become an esper.

• Li Yao told Oslia that the Schutzstaffel had arranged the attacks and received one million euros from the Foundation for the information.
• The Foundation publicly blamed the Schutzstaffel, but the American and European factions continued accusing each other and sending reinforcements to Romania.
• Saint Laang, Latiss Dracula, Mathers Vescott, and Canterbury arrived in Bucharest as clashes and attacks intensified.
• Li Yao worried that his plan to unite the factions against the Schutzstaffel had failed and agreed to meet Ginawell to discuss their next move.
• Jiang Da Jin asked Xisen about becoming a vampire, and Li Yao offered to formulate a potion that would give him esper abilities.

Li Yao met with Ginawell and the injured Old Guard members in Romania as the American and European factions moved toward open war. He arranged for Baby's Breath to withdraw with help from the Wallfacers and the Foundation, but an air raid siren sounded as they prepared to leave.

• Li Yao met Ginawell, Lothar, Alphonso, and other injured members of Baby's Breath's Old Guard, and learned that Silas had returned to her hometown.
• Ginawell and Lothar reported that the American and European factions had begun fighting with powerful forces and reinforcements.
• Li Yao concluded that the Baby's Breath Society incident had only been a pretext for the American faction's campaign and decided to report the conflict before withdrawing.
• Li Yao called Feng Li, who said she would report the situation to the Foundation and arrange protection for their withdrawal.
• Feng Li reviewed reports of major losses among European organizations and contacted Wallfacers in Europe to receive Li Yao's group.
• Li Yao told Ginawell and the others to gather their people and prepare to leave Europe, but a piercing air raid siren sounded outside.

An air raid siren and thick fog heralded an attack by pale monsters in Bucharest, and Li Yao fought them while trying to direct civilians away from crowded shelters. After Selma warned him of an enemy attack, he took a motorcycle and ordered Ginawell and the others to follow him.

• Li Yao saw a pale, leaping monster emerge from the fog and killed it with Mister Li Flying Blade.
• Li Yao led his group out of the hotel despite the staff's warnings, using magic to move the barricade back into place behind them.
• Li Yao killed monsters attacking pedestrians and told the police to disperse civilians into high-rise homes instead of gathering them in underground shelters.
• Selma messaged Li Yao, confirming that the danger came from an enemy attack.
• Li Yao found motorcycles among the abandoned cars, mounted one, and told Ginawell and the others to follow him.

Li Yao and the Full Sky Star Society arrived at Selma’s villa and helped defeat the Schutzstaffel attackers, but they could not save the mortally wounded Jiang Da Jin. After Jiang Da Jin died, Li Yao asked the surviving Red Gloves what had happened.

• Li Yao and Ginawell rode toward Magglu as monsters and chaos filled the city, passing civilians and metahumans killed amid the violence.
• Li Yao found Selma fighting three Schutzstaffel metahumans at her villa and helped her and Ginawell kill them.
• Li Yao and the Full Sky Star Society fought through the villa, killed the remaining Schutzstaffel members, and treated the survivors.
• Li Yao found Jiang Da Jin gravely wounded and gave him medicine, but Jiang Da Jin died after asking Li Yao to keep his promise to make him a metahuman.
• Sauron confirmed that Jiang Da Jin’s spirit had dispersed, and Li Yao asked the surviving Red Gloves to explain what had happened.

As chaos spread across Europe, Li Yao gathered allies in Bucharest and called Maeve to join him for a fight. Feng Li learned that Nie Weiguo was already there, while Madam Qian said that everything that was meant to happen was unfolding.

• Li Yao saw the devastation around the residential complex, learned from Xisen that the Schutzstaffel was creating an apocalypse, and ordered Ginawell to bring her people to him.
• Li Yao called Maeve, who left the Nevada research base and flew toward his location after Ye Yu tried to stop her.
• Song Duo'er mistook Maeve for an angel, and Ye Yu told Feng Li that she had been summoned by Li Yao.
• Feng Li learned that Bucharest was affected and asked Ye Yu to support Li Yao, but Ye Yu refused because he had a more important mission.
• Feng Li asked Madam Qian what forces she could mobilize, and Madam Qian reassured her that Nie Weiguo was in Bucharest and said everything that was meant to happen was happening.

After Jiang Da Jin died, Li Yao rejected calls to withdraw and prepared to retaliate with Lin Xiaowei’s help. As Full Sky Star Society members gathered at Selma’s house and shared food with the residents, Li Yao remembered Da Jin and grieved his absence.

• Li Yao told Lin Xiaowei about Jiang Da Jin’s death and his failed attempt to save him, then asked her to help attack their enemies with the Cross-Plane Anchoring Beacon.
• Xisen and Garrett left to summon their clanmates, while the Nightspawn surrendered his Red Gloves and fled after Li Yao let him go.
• Feng Li urged Li Yao to withdraw from Europe, but he said someone needed to put the people responsible in line, hung up, and blocked her.
• Nearly two hundred Full Sky Star Society members arrived at the villa, set up camp, and shared food with residents while protecting the complex from monsters.
• Ginawell praised the gathering, and Li Yao approved before calling down to ask whether the Society had paid for the supplies; afterward, he imagined how Jiang Da Jin would have joined them.

Maeve arrived at the Full Sky Star camp and Li Yao tasked her with creating war beasts to fight the monsters spreading through Bucharest. She left to begin the work, and later found monsters incubating spores in corpses while sending Li Yao a photo.

• Maeve descended into the Full Sky Star camp, bowed to Li Yao, and startled the crowd, who mistook her for an angel.
• Li Yao asked Maeve to create a pack of improved Hunter Wolf Pack war beasts and Sentinel Falcons overnight, using monsters rather than human corpses as hatching material.
• Maeve left the residential district, and Li Yao told Ginawell to post sentries and have everyone rest before the battle began the next day.
• As Bucharest continued to fall to the monsters, Maeve found them incubating spores in corpses and photographed the scene for Li Yao.

Li Yao showed the survivors footage of the monsters, while Maeve seeded the creatures with parasitic eggs. In Bucharest, Colonel Mende and Doctor Heikeinier fought their way into the National History Museum to begin a ritual involving Trajan's Column.

• Li Yao played Maeve's footage for the camp, and Ginawell ordered everyone to prepare for battle the next day.
• Maeve made the monsters in a building kill themselves, implanted their corpses with Hunter Wolf Pack eggs, and left to find another gathering point.
• Colonel Mende and Doctor Heikeinier arrived at the National History Museum with Schutzstaffel soldiers to retrieve Trajan's Column.
• Captain Akados killed the museum's guardian and led the Schutzstaffel through the remaining defenders to the museum's lowest level.
• Mende told Heikeinier to begin moving Trajan's Column, while his adjutant questioned the division's destructive actions.

Colonel Mende revealed his belief that humanity could not survive and urged Henderson to seize a chance to save themselves. In Bucharest, Li Yao led the Full Sky Star Society and Maeve’s hunter wolves in a sweeping counterattack, then sensed a spatial ritual and set off to confront its culprit, leaving Pattinson to command the expanding force.

• Colonel Mende explained to Henderson that no one would save humanity and that they had to board the otherworldly beings’ ships themselves, leaving Henderson shocked by his father’s apparent support for the Advent Faction.
• Li Yao armed the Baby's Breath members with enchanted firearms and ordered their squads to clear monsters across the city with help from Maeve’s hunter wolves.
• The Full Sky Star Society gathered police, soldiers, and esper groups into its advance, nearly restoring order to District One within two hours and establishing a command base at Union Square.
• Li Yao sensed a spatial-domain psychic fluctuation to the northwest and announced that he knew where the culprit was, then headed there with Selma, Ginawell, Lothar, and Alphonso.
• Lothar and Alphonso passed command duties down to Pattinson, who was left to manage nearly four hundred espers and a growing wolf pack across Bucharest’s six districts.

Li Yao and his allies attacked the National History Museum, where the Schutzstaffel was preparing a ritual. Their forces engaged the Otherkind Guard while Li Yao and Lothar headed for the museum's upper floor, and Li Yao flew ahead without bringing Lothar.

• Xisen brought six relatives and friends of fallen Red Gloves, while Garrett brought nine werewolves, and they joined Li Yao's force outside the museum.
• Xisen charged Akados, and the two fought a fierce, evenly matched duel as their forces clashed below.
• Selma used strange-plant seeds to restrain the enemy, while Ginawell and Alphonso protected her with their firearms.
• Li Yao and Lothar made their way toward the museum as the others held back the Otherkind Guard.
• Li Yao cast Flight Spell and flew toward the museum's upper floor, leaving Lothar below.

Li Yao and Lothar confronted Mende’s group on the museum rooftop, where researchers were conducting a ritual around a damaged stone pillar. After Lothar was overwhelmed by one of the guards, Li Yao summoned allies to restrain the giants and told Mende to continue his work while he looked around.

• Lothar and Li Yao reached the rooftop and found Mende, Henderson, four enormous guards, and researchers preparing a ritual around a damaged stone pillar.
• Mende ordered the guards to kill them, and one guard struck Lothar’s dawnlit sword hard enough to send him flying off the roof.
• Li Yao released black flames with Sauron’s help, then summoned four Blood Red Golems and four Star Rainbow Splendors to attack the guards.
• The Star Rainbow Splendors’ radiation terrified Henderson, who fired wildly at Li Yao’s side until Mende calmed him and moved him behind himself.
• Mende greeted Li Yao, and Li Yao said they could settle their score later while Mende continued his work.

Colonel Mende’s ritual opened a gate to another world and brought a towering armored giant onto the museum rooftop. Li Yao’s Cross-Plane Strike Beacon killed the giant and frightened the other beings back through the gate, leaving Mende’s invasion in ruins.

• Colonel Mende explained that the item hidden beneath Trajan’s Column could open a barrier between worlds, and his occultists activated it.
• An iron-black pillar of light tore open the sky as the fog surged upward and the arriving psychic power strengthened the battling Otherkind.
• A three-faced armored giant descended through the gate, and Mende knelt to welcome it while it ordered Li Yao to kneel.
• Li Yao tossed the Cross-Plane Strike Anchoring Beacon onto the giant, and a cross-plane strike aged its body into ash.
• A second giant fled back through the gate, which slammed shut, and Li Yao told Mende that his lords had chickened out.

Li Yao forced Mende and the occultists to reopen the spatial gate after Lin Xiaowei’s strike killed the Otherkind giant, but the people on the other side seemed too afraid to answer. Li Yao called up to them, trying to coax them into opening the door.

• Lin Xiaowei’s cross-plane strike killed the Otherkind giant, and she angrily rebuked Li Yao when he asked for an even flashier attack.
• Li Yao ordered Mende to have the researchers activate the spatial-linking device again, while Romania’s air force arrived and Selma’s group brought the surviving Otherkind Guard under control.
• Li Yao told the people below to spare the captured guards, withdraw the fighter jets, and leave disaster relief and monster cleanup to the authorities and his allies.
• Mende’s team reopened the device, and Li Yao charged another beacon while asking Lin Xiaowei to make the next strike spectacular.
• Mende explained that the other side had to connect for the gate to open and said they seemed too scared to do so, prompting Li Yao to call out to them.

Li Yao secured the activation device and the Emperor’s armor after the aberrations retreated, then paid tribute to the dead and confronted Mende’s remaining Schutzstaffel members. He ended by pointing a revolver at Henderson and proposing a game.

• Colonel Mende explained that the dead Emperor had been the aberrations’ supreme commander, and Li Yao took the weakened activation device and the Emperor’s armor.
• Li Yao saw that the Imperial Guard had been subdued and learned the fighting in Bucharest was being brought under control.
• Li Yao lit three of Mende’s cigars and placed them on the rooftop as an offering for Jiang Da Jin and the ordinary people who had died.
• Li Yao told Mende that he had considered torturing the Schutzstaffel members but decided to kill them instead.
• Li Yao took Alphonso’s revolver, removed one bullet, spun the cylinder, and aimed it at Henderson as he said, “Let’s play a game.”

Li Yao killed Henderson and used his ability to subdue Colonel Mende after confronting him on the rooftop. With the city devastated and his tavern empty, Li Yao considered opening an academy to teach practical magical knowledge.

• Henderson survived the first shot from the revolver, then aimed it at Li Yao and demanded that they be allowed to leave.
• Li Yao challenged Henderson to guess the coin’s year of manufacture and shot him when he could not answer.
• Mende calmly confirmed that Henderson was his biological son and offered to take the next bullet himself.
• Li Yao used his ability to make Mende confront his fears, then ordered Ginawell and Alphonso to lock him up.
• Li Yao surveyed the ruined city, missed home, and considered opening an academy to teach practical magic.

Li Yao reflected on how he could combine Earth's psionic knowledge with Main World magecraft to create a better path for Earth's metahumans. He waited at the National History Museum, where Nie Weiguo emerged from a strange rift and confirmed that Li Yao's arrival had been deliberately arranged because he was useful.

• Li Yao compared Earth's Tier 7 cultivation with the Main World's high-rank mages and concluded that Earth's advancement methods still had serious gaps, especially beyond Tier 4.
• Li Yao told Lin Xiaowei that he planned to organize Earth's supernatural psionic knowledge and create a broader path for its people.
• After Ginawell and the others left, Li Yao stayed alone on the National History Museum rooftop, waiting for someone.
• A silver rift opened behind Li Yao, and he briefly examined the strange world beyond it before withdrawing his spiritual tendrils.
• Nie Weiguo stepped through the rift, and Li Yao asked whether his arrival had been arranged; Nie Weiguo said that it proved Li Yao was useful.

Li Yao discussed creating a broadly applicable cultivation method with Nie Weiguo, who revealed that he had killed more than ten would-be assassins and said the American Faction would no longer be an enemy. In Washington, Morgan realized a traitor had exposed American Federation strongholds and suspected the hidden owner of Maeve Manufacturing before an unexpected visitor entered his office.

• Nie Weiguo showed Li Yao the heads of more than ten assassins, each at least mid-Tier 6, and Li Yao admitted he would not have come if he had known.
• Li Yao told Nie Weiguo he wanted to combine existing methods into a more broadly applicable cultivation method, and Nie Weiguo promised to help find the necessary resources.
• Li Yao asked Nie Weiguo for two devices that could open Space Gates, but Nie Weiguo refused and left through a rift after saying the American Faction would no longer be an enemy.
• Morgan realized the American Federation's plans in Europe had failed and that the Wallfacers, the Foundation, and Kassel College were destroying hidden American strongholds worldwide.
• Morgan suspected a traitor had revealed the strongholds and considered the setbacks caused by Maeve Manufacturing's hidden owner before an unexpected person entered his office.

Madam Qian urged Morgan to relinquish the Morgan Family’s hold over the American Federation and join a broader effort to protect humanity, warning that his faction was isolated and its plans could not be humanity’s only hope. Morgan began to reconsider after she invoked the principal, though the chapter left their decision unresolved.

• Morgan greeted Madam Qian, his former classmate, and she asked him to step back from the American Federation’s leadership.
• Madam Qian cited the New Faction’s alliance with the Wallfacers, the loss of Morgan bases and schemes, and opposition within the elders’ council.
• Morgan defended his faction’s control of classified materials and argued that the Ark Project, the Dawn Project, and the Deep Space Exploration Initiative were essential to humanity’s survival.
• Madam Qian said she did not intend to stop Morgan’s plans but warned against relying on them alone, noting that Almoqi, Sion Wright, and the principal shared her view.
• Madam Qian called on Morgan to end internal conflict and join a greater cause, and Morgan admitted that she might be right.