Recaps

Gepard brought the group to Qlipoth Hall, where they met Cocolia Rand and learned that she was Belobog’s Supreme Guardian. Theresa explained that the Stellar Core was causing the Great Cold and offered to seal it, leaving Cocolia to consider her proposal.

• Gepard handed Sampo over to the Guards and warned the group about his scams and disguises.
• Gepard led the group to Qlipoth Hall, where Bronya argued with Cocolia about sacrificing Guards before leaving.
• Cocolia dismissed Gepard and welcomed the group, revealing that she already knew they came from beyond their world.
• Dan Heng told Cocolia that the group had come to find a Stellar Core and connected it to the Great Cold and Fragmentum.
• Theresa explained that the Stellar Core was causing the disasters and offered to seal it if Cocolia showed them where it was.

Theresa and the Astral Express crew explained to Cocolia how a Stellar Core caused Belobog’s Great Cold and tried to persuade her to cooperate. Cocolia began to trust them, but Theresa’s malfunctioning system and strange claim that she could eat the Stellar Core left everyone bewildered.

• Theresa secretly activated Judas’s recording mode to capture Cocolia for Ruan Mei.
• March 7th explained that Stellar Cores brought the Great Cold, and Dan Heng confirmed her theory.
• March 7th, Stelle, and Theresa struck a ridiculous team pose before Dan Heng and Cocolia.
• Dan Heng told Cocolia that the crew needed to seal the Stellar Core so they could leave the planet.
• Theresa and the others asked Cocolia to let them help Belobog, and Cocolia asked whether they could seal the Stellar Core.
• Dan Heng said they had the means to seal it while Theresa declared that she could eat it.

Cocolia agreed to help the travelers while secretly planning to capture them, and Theresa suspected her offer was a trap. After Gepard lifted their movement restrictions, Theresa noticed the group was being watched by Silvermane Guards.

• Cocolia promised to help the travelers find the Stellar Core and offered them a hotel stay, while privately arguing with the Stellar Core and deciding to act.
• Gepard told Dan Heng, March 7th, Stelle, and Theresa that they were free to move around Belobog and recommended places to visit.
• Theresa asked Gepard what he would do if Cocolia ordered the Silvermane Guards to capture them, and he said he would make his own judgment.
• Theresa pointed out Silvermane Guards patrolling nearby, and Dan Heng realized they were being watched.

Theresa, Dan Heng, March 7th, and Stelle toured Belobog while trying not to draw the Silvermane Guard’s suspicion after learning they were being watched. They met Pela at the Everwinter Monument, and March 7th gave her a photograph of the ice-covered Jarilo-VI before the group continued their cautious sightseeing.

• Theresa and Dan Heng warned March 7th and Stelle that the Silvermane Guard was surveilling them and urged everyone to behave normally.
• The group visited the Everwinter Monument, where Pela was teaching children about Belobog’s history.
• Pela introduced herself as a Silvermane Guard clerk and asked the newcomers about their journey from beyond the sky.
• March 7th showed Pela a photograph of Jarilo-VI, and Pela gratefully accepted it to share with her friend Lingbao.
• Pela offered to guide the group, but Theresa declined, saying they planned to rest at the Goethe Hotel after looking around.

Theresa and the others met Serval at the Everlasting Mechanical House, where they learned the outdoor performance was not taking place and chatted with her over drinks. Theresa then asked the Herta Space Station System whether it could sell things, and it excitedly announced that it could sell anything for Joy Points.

• March 7th, Dan Heng, Stelle, and Theresa arrived at the Everlasting Mechanical House and found no performance underway.
• Serval approached the group, explained that the red device was a broken heater, and invited them inside.
• Serval served the group drinks, and everyone introduced themselves before she asked why they had come.
• Theresa told Serval that Gepard had mentioned a possible outdoor concert, then asked the Herta Space Station System about its sales.
• The Herta Space Station System said it could sell anything, even Aha's mask, and revealed it needed ten million Joy Points in sales to take human form.

Theresa shopped through the Herta Space Station System while the group learned how Belobog’s Geodough-powered heating network worked. Serval explained that she repaired heaters for a city increasingly cut off from its Lower City.

• Theresa bought gifts and supplies, considered purchasing a device that could take her to the Honkai world, and decided to wait until she was stronger.
• Serval told March 7th and Stelle that Geodough powered Belobog’s heaters and other equipment.
• Serval explained that Belobog’s Upper and Lower Cities had stopped interacting after an order from the Supreme Guardian, though resources still passed between them.
• Theresa asked how Belobog’s widespread heaters kept the city warm and how much energy they consumed.
• Serval said Silvermane Guards replaced the Geodough daily and hired mechanics like her to repair broken heaters.

Serval befriended the group and promised to help if they ran into trouble, while they checked into the Goethe Hotel and shared dinner. Theresa bought a Shenzhou cookbook and cooking skill from the Herta Space Station System, leaving her with 7,750 Joy Points.

• Serval told the group she was Gepard's older sister and accepted a model of the Astral Express from Theresa.
• Serval promised to help Theresa if the group ever faced trouble, then said goodbye as they left for the Goethe Hotel.
• Old Gede welcomed the group and arranged for them to stay and eat without Belobog Shields.
• The group ordered every dish on the hotel's menu, and Dan Heng scanned the food before they began eating.
• Theresa bought the Complete Shenzhou Cuisine Cookbook and Cooking Mastery from the Herta Space Station System for 2,000 Joy Points.

Theresa warned the others that Cocolia Rand seemed suspicious and might betray them, then prowled the hotel corridor trying to trigger its ghostly easter egg. She scared off a pair of eerie twin sisters with Judas, leaving March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng bewildered.

• Theresa, Dan Heng, and March 7th discussed Cocolia Rand’s reaction to the Stellar Core, and Theresa suspected she had made an agreement with it.
• Theresa warned everyone to prepare for a possible betrayal, and the group returned to their rooms for the night.
• Theresa secretly listened at several guest-room doors, hearing frightened conversations and strange sounds but failing to provoke anything into appearing.
• Theresa called out to the thing in one room, but it only scurried away from the door.
• Twin sisters appeared at the end of the corridor and invited Theresa to stay with them forever.
• Theresa declared that they were not human and raised an enlarged Judas, causing the twins to vanish and March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng to emerge from their rooms in confusion.

Theresa turned a ghost encounter into a game, then slept with March 7th and Stelle while Dan Heng kept watch. By dawn, Gepard had received Cocolia’s order to capture the Stellaron Hunters and went to Fortress City, where he met Bronya and questioned the accusation.

• Theresa told Stelle, Dan Heng, and March 7th about the ghost and proposed scaring it away instead of running from it.
• Theresa, March 7th, and Stelle hid in a wardrobe and leaped out roaring, frightening the ghost into fleeing.
• Dan Heng dreamed that Blade whispered “Five Names, Three Prices” beside his bed, then stayed awake to watch over the others.
• Cocolia ordered Gepard to lead the Iron Guards in capturing the Stellaron Hunters, and Gepard went to confront her at Fortress City.
• Gepard met Bronya and explained that the Stellaron Hunters had only visited the Eternal Winter Monument and Serval’s Everlasting Mechanical House, asking whether Cocolia’s accusation implicated his sister.

Cocolia ordered Bronya and Gepard to capture the Stellaron Hunters, while the possessed Supreme Guardian prepared to summon the Antimatter Legion. Sampo escaped custody and followed the Guards toward Belobog as he readied himself to act.

• Bronya explained that the Stellaron Hunters had only visited the Eternal Winter Monument, Serval, and the Goethe Hotel, but Cocolia refused to justify her accusations.
• Gepard challenged Cocolia over Serval's fate, and she ordered Guards to surround him and Bronya when they questioned her commands.
• Bronya and Gepard agreed to obey and led the Guards toward the Goethe Hotel to capture the Stellaron Hunters, dead or alive.
• The Stellar Core-possessed Cocolia revealed that she planned to summon the Antimatter Legion.
• Sampo picked the lock, knocked out a patrolling Guard, disguised himself in the Guard's uniform, and followed the troops marching toward Belobog.

Theresa and the Astral Express crew were taken under Guard escort after Cocolia ordered their arrest, but Sampo knocked out most of the group with smoke bombs at the Lower City station. The chapter ended with Sampo revealing himself while Theresa, Dan Heng, Bronya, and Gepard remained conscious.

• Theresa received a mission to persuade Bronya and Gepard to go to the Lower City and leave Cocolia without allies.
• Gepard and Bronya brought the Guards to the Goethe Hotel to arrest Theresa and the others, but agreed to move them somewhere less crowded.
• Theresa persuaded Bronya and Gepard to discuss Cocolia’s strange behavior at the sealed Lower City station.
• Sampo threw smoke bombs that put most of the Guards, March 7th, and Stelle to sleep, while Theresa, Dan Heng, Bronya, and Gepard resisted the effects.
• Sampo removed his Guard disguise and greeted the group.

Sampo helped Theresa and Dan Heng escape the Silvermane Guards by knocking them unconscious with smoke bombs, then offered to take them to the Lower City. They set off on a Geodough-powered train, bringing the sleeping Bronya along and breaking through the chains blocking the route.

• Sampo used sleep-inducing smoke bombs to incapacitate the Silvermane Guards, March 7th, Stelle, Bronya, and Gepard.
• Sampo explained that he was a Lower City merchant and urged Theresa and Dan Heng to meet Oleg of Underworld Fire, which opposed Cocolia and fought Abyss Monsters.
• Theresa and Dan Heng agreed to go to the Lower City, and Sampo said he could drive the train using Geodough while Theresa broke the chains sealing the way.
• Sampo loaded the Silvermane Guards' weapons onto the train, and Theresa brought the sleeping Bronya aboard as a hostage.
• Theresa broke the blocking chains with Oath of Judah's Soul Steel spear as Sampo started the train toward the Lower City.

Theresa took Bronya into the Lower City as a hostage to keep Cocolia from acting recklessly and had March 7th and Stelle help change Bronya out of her Silvermane Guard uniform. The chapter ended with Theresa feeling envious while dressing Bronya, as the Herta Space Station System announced a mysterious mission for her.

• Theresa and the train broke through the chains blocking the route to the Lower City while guards found Gepard stripped to his underwear and blamed Sampo for his swollen buttocks.
• Theresa explained to Dan Heng that bringing Bronya as a hostage would make Cocolia wary, then decided Bronya should see the real Belobog.
• Theresa woke March 7th and Stelle with medicated oil and asked them to help change Bronya out of her Silvermane Guard uniform.
• Theresa, March 7th, and Stelle removed Bronya's chest binder and dressed her in a fitted formal dress resembling a qipao.
• The Herta Space Station System announced the mission “Accept your true self” as Theresa adjusted Bronya's dress and felt unexpectedly envious.

Theresa brought Bronya to the Lower City and reassured her that she could make amends by helping its residents. The group stepped off the train as curious locals gathered around them.

• Theresa considered accepting herself to earn an unknown reward but prioritized the mission to scare Cocolia and gain the Herrscher of Binding’s Core.
• Sampo saw Bronya in her formal dress, took pictures of her and the others, and ran off to find the Underworld Fire leader.
• Theresa asked the guilt-ridden Bronya to help solve the Lower City’s problems and returned her weapon.
• Bronya thanked Theresa and hugged her, nearly suffocating her before March 7th and Stelle pulled them apart.
• Dan Heng watched the curious Lower City residents gathering around the train and kept them at a distance with his weapon.

Theresa, Bronya, March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng found lodging at the Lower City's Goethe Hotel, where its formidable landlady welcomed them. They settled in for a month, though Theresa ended the chapter trapped in the landlady’s crushing hug.

• Bronya carried Theresa through the Lower City as residents admired the group and glared jealously at Dan Heng.
• Theresa asked the locals where they could stay, and March 7th led the group to the Goethe Hotel.
• The landlady welcomed the girls, warned off nearby youths, and questioned whether Dan Heng was with them.
• March 7th asked about cave-roasted salamander and rock crab, and the landlady promised her more authentic food.
• Theresa paid for a month of lodging for the group, and the landlady scooped her up in a powerful embrace.

Theresa and her companions rested at the Goethe Hotel before exploring the Lower City and visiting its Fighting Club. Dr. Curious explained the club’s fees and escalating prizes, while Dan Heng suspected something was amiss.

• The landlady treated Theresa and her companions to dinner, arranged rooms, and hugged Theresa before reluctantly letting her go.
• March 7th, Stelle, and Bronya teased Theresa, then the girls washed up, followed a skincare routine, and talked about their feelings before falling asleep.
• The next day, Theresa and the others had breakfast and followed Dan Heng around the Lower City toward the Fighting Club.
• The group entered the Fighting Club, where Dr. Curious described the costs of watching or competing and the club’s cumulative rewards.
• Dan Heng narrowed his eyes as he listened to Dr. Curious, sensing that something was not right.

Theresa and her companions entered Scott’s fighting challenge, agreeing to ten rounds despite the club’s refusal to accept responsibility for injuries. The Teruriri Magical Team easily defeated their first opponents, and Stelle began their second match by beating the Lower City F4.

• Scott offered the group a grand prize of ten thousand Belobog Shields for winning ten rounds, while warning that the club would not cover injuries.
• Theresa accepted the challenge and demanded that the club could not interfere once a match began; Scott agreed to share responsibility for any damaged facilities.
• March 7th, Stelle, and Bronya named their team the Teruriri Magical Team, and Dan Heng bet more than a thousand Belobog Shields on them.
• Theresa and her companions defeated the Don't Want to Mine Squad in seconds during the first round.
• Stelle fought the Lower City F4 with a baseball bat and left all four men sprawled on the ground.

Theresa and the Teruriri Magical Team continued through the Fighting Club’s challenges, and Theresa destroyed Scott’s five deadly robots. Scott summoned Luca for the final battle, while Luca and Theresa both recognized the chance to bring down the club.

• March 7th insisted that the Teruriri Magical Team keep challenging Scott’s opponents, despite Dr. Curious warning them about the robots’ dangerous weapons.
• Theresa smashed the Hammer Machine King and Whip Machine King, then destroyed the Greatsword, Chainsaw, and Crushing Machine Kings with Oath of Judah and her attacks.
• Theresa and March 7th demanded the promised final battle, so Scott ordered Dr. Curious to fetch Luca, the Fighting Club’s three-time champion.
• Dr. Curious revealed that Luca had stopped coming to the club after learning the truth about Scott’s schemes, but Scott insisted Luca owed him for paying for his Mechanical Arm.
• Luca arrived, recognized Theresa’s effort to dismantle the Fighting Club, and prepared to fight while making clear to Scott that this would be his last time.

Theresa and the others sabotaged Scott’s Fighting Club, scattering its Winter City Shields and leaving Scott dead. Luca promised to confess his role in Scott’s business and make amends, while the group went after Sampo.

• Theresa proposed that both sides dodge their attacks into the Fighting Club, and March 7th and Bronya helped bring its walls crashing down.
• Theresa and Luca smashed the table of Winter City Shields, and the Lower City residents rushed to collect them as Scott collapsed and died.
• Luca picked up Scott’s body and left, promising to reveal how he had helped Scott and seek atonement.
• Bronya and March 7th discussed the hardships of the Lower City and the solitude expected of Supreme Guardians.
• Theresa spotted Sampo and the group chased him; after Underworld Fire arrived to handle the ruins, Theresa caught Sampo and March 7th scolded him.

After Sampo betrayed the group again, Theresa and the others punished him and made him promise to lead them to Underworld Fire's leader, Oleg. The next morning, Sampo kept his word and waited at the Goethe Hotel, where he explained to the landlady why he was bringing the wanted newcomers to meet Oleg.

• Theresa stepped on Sampo while Stelle and the others confronted him for trying to run away again.
• Stelle struck Sampo's backside with her baseball bat, and Sampo promised to take the group to meet Oleg the next morning.
• Sampo explained that he had sold Underworld Fire the Silvermane Guard weapons and Gepard's armor, and Bronya decided not to try to reclaim the armor.
• The group returned to the Goethe Hotel to rest, while Sampo went back to his own lodging nursing his injury.
• Sampo arrived at the Goethe Hotel before ten system time and told the landlady he planned to bring the wanted newcomers to meet Oleg to help resist Cocolia.

The group met Oleg and Underworld Fire after breakfast, while Seele confronted Sampo over his profiteering. Oleg welcomed the newcomers, and the chapter ended with him mistaking Theresa for a young child.

• The old woman affectionately fed Theresa breakfast, and the group left the inn with Sampo after eating.
• Sampo led Bronya, March 7th, Stelle, Dan Heng, and Theresa to Underworld Fire’s hidden meeting place, where Seele and Oleg awaited them.
• Seele tried to stop Sampo from leaving and demanded an explanation for the profit he made selling Oleg the armor.
• Oleg introduced himself as Underworld Fire’s leader and explained that he had bought the armor to help fight the Abyss Monsters.
• Bronya introduced herself without revealing her position, while Oleg noticed her Guard-like manner but did not expose her.
• Oleg mistook Theresa for a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl, prompting Sampo and the others to struggle to hold back their laughter.

Dan Heng explained why the group sought cooperation with Underworld Fire, and Oleg recounted the Lower City's struggle against the Abyss Monsters and pleaded for help. Seele remembered how the monsters destroyed Rivet Town and how her experiences led her to train and fight as a Pathstrider.

• Theresa insisted she was an adult, and Dan Heng and Sampo confirmed it to Oleg.
• Dan Heng offered to cooperate with Underworld Fire against Cocolia and the Upper City, while Theresa sat in Bronya's lap and Seele watched them sourly.
• Oleg described how he formed Underworld Fire after the Silvermane Guards withdrew and how its first battle against the Abyss Monsters caused hundreds of casualties.
• Oleg pleaded with Dan Heng to help the Lower City, and Seele remembered losing her home and children from the orphanage in Rivet Town.
• Seele recalled how Underworld Fire and Natasha rescued her, how Oleg adopted her, and how she trained with a scythe to avenge those who died.

Seele agreed to lead Dan Heng and the others through Rivet Town to the Great Mine Area, where they hoped to find Svarog. Reluctant to walk the twenty-kilometer route, Theresa bought and deployed a huge Schicksal fighter jet, and the group set off aboard it.

• Seele volunteered to guide Dan Heng and the others to the Great Mine Area and warned them about the dangerous route through Rivet Town and the drifters.
• Seele led the group as they accepted rations and water from Underworld Fire and prepared to travel the twenty kilometers to the Great Mine Area.
• Theresa resisted the long walk, then spent ten thousand Joy Points to buy a Schicksal RPC-6626 fighter jet.
• Theresa deployed the huge aircraft, surprising Seele, Dan Heng, March 7th, Bronya, and Stelle.
• Theresa activated 6626, and the fighter began flying the group toward the Great Mine Area at a cautious speed.

Svarog and Clara waited in the Great Mine Area for a mysterious flying fighter, with Svarog ready to defend Clara until she persuaded him not to attack first. The 6626 Destiny fighter landed safely, and Seele, Bronya, Theresa, March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng emerged to meet them.

• Refugees in the Lower City watched the 6626 Destiny fighter fly overhead in astonishment.
• After robots reported the approaching fighter, Svarog brought Clara to the central Geodough vein and prepared to defend her.
• Clara asked Svarog to wait before attacking, and he lowered his arm as the fighter landed.
• Seele stepped off the fighter and greeted Svarog and Clara, easing their suspicion.
• Bronya nearly fell while disembarking, but Seele caught her and teased her.
• Theresa, March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng exited, then Theresa stored the fighter away to protect it.

Theresa and the others sought information about the Stellar Core from Svarog, who attacked when Bronya mentioned it but surrendered after Clara pleaded with him. Svarog shared the records in exchange for the Mechanical Tribe’s neutrality, and the group left with a clearer picture of Jarilo-VI’s history and the Stellar Core’s threat.

• Bronya asked Svarog for his records about the Stellar Core, and he activated extermination mode and fired missiles at the group.
• Theresa blocked the missiles and bound Svarog with the Oath of Judah’s chains, but she released him after Clara begged him to surrender.
• Svarog led the group to the Mechanical Tribe and agreed to share the Stellar Core records if Underworld Fire kept the tribe neutral.
• Svarog’s projection showed how the Stellar Core’s arrival brought the Antimatter Legion, the Great Cold, and Belobog’s decline, and revealed that Cocolia had been bewitched by it.
• The group left after Svarog said the Mechanical Tribe might cooperate if they found hope, while Clara asked him to delete an embarrassing memory and he refused.