Recaps

Umbrella launched a massive counter-invasion of Hell, using nuclear detonations and overwhelming forces to devastate the demon army. John ordered the troops to track fleeing demons to locate Doom Slayer, while Umbrella established a relay station and continued its advance.

• Tens of thousands of Astartes and Elite Veterans poured through the rift and attacked Hell’s gathered demons with heavy weapons and tactical nuclear detonations.
• John ordered the Astartes to stop firing and follow fleeing demons to find Doom Slayer, while Mylon warned the sergeants not to kill their targets.
• Leng, Keisha, and several angels cleared flying demons as Leng analyzed them and searched for the Mek Clan’s base and Doom Slayer.
• Umbrella’s engineers began building a temporary teleportation relay station under the protection of the Mars Front and Marine Corps, and MS Mech Squadrons entered Hell to defend it.
• William and Serena joined the Astartes and Elite army in their transformed forms and continued slaughtering demons, while the demons and Mek Clan struggled to understand the human forces’ brutality.

Queen Mek ordered the demons to stop Umbrella’s advance and the Meks to open a rift back to Paradise, while the Hell Priests summoned the Titan Demon. In the ruined capital, William and Serena discovered a passage toward the planet’s core, where the Titan emerged and William prepared to destroy it in one shot.

• Queen Mek ordered the Hell Priests to close the rift and gather the demons, while the Meks prepared a passage back to Paradise to take the Doom Slayer away.
• After Queen Mek left, the Hell Priests directed the remaining demons to resist Umbrella and prepared to summon the Titan Demon.
• One hundred Praetorian Astartes swept through the ruined capital as Umbrella continued clearing the Ring of Nul’s surface.
• Serena detected a huge hollow beneath the city that seemed to lead to the planet’s core, and William agreed it might hold the answers they sought.
• The Titan Demon erupted from beneath the city and roared at William, Serena, and the Praetorians.
• William unfolded his shotgun and ordered everyone to set their warheads to maximum yield so they could finish the Titan in one shot.

William and his forces destroyed the Titan Demon in the Ring of Nul’s capital ruins, then followed Serena’s discovery of an energy source beneath the planet’s core. They teleported to the core palace, where the Terminators cleared the plaza of Guardian Greater Demons.

• William charged his shotgun and ordered the honor guards and Astartes to fire, destroying the Titan Demon in the capital ruins.
• Serena detected massive energy transmissions beneath the Ring of Nul’s core, and William ordered Robert, Kolax, John, and Mylon to assist with the next steps.
• William and Serena teleported with John, Mylon, and the honor guards to the entrance of the Ring of Nul’s core palace.
• The Terminators killed the Guardian Greater Demons guarding the palace plaza within thirty seconds.
• William led the group into the core palace after they observed the exposed metallic core and the palace built atop the spear-like celestial body.

William and the Astartes stormed the palace of the Ring of Nul, defeated its demon defenders, and forced three Hell Priests to open a passage to the Mek Clan’s settlement. The Engineering Team built a temporary teleportation hub at the palace, leaving the invasion ready to continue.

• Serena, William, John, Mylon, and the Astartes fought their way through the palace as the Hell Guards fled in terror.
• William and his allies reached Queen Mek’s former meeting hall, where three Hell Priests begged for their lives.
• William offered the priests their freedom and power if they opened a passage to the Mek Clan’s settlement, then threatened them until they agreed.
• The Hell Priests opened a spatial rift, and William ordered Serena to bring the Dark Raven Terminators and Engineering Team to the hall.
• The Engineering Team built a temporary teleportation hub outside the palace hall in less than half an hour.

William killed the three Hell Priests and led his forces through the rift into the Mek Clan’s artificial heaven to destroy Queen Mek. After Keisha and the Angels arrived and the fighting began, Leng sealed the palace to prevent Queen Mek from escaping.

• William shot the three Hell Priests, confirmed the rift remained open, and ordered Leng and Keisha to join him.
• William led Serena, the Primarchs, and the Terminators through the rift into the Mek Clan’s artificial heaven and ordered them to attack its inhabitants.
• The Terminators opened fire on the animal-like surveillance drones and devastated the area around the rift.
• Leng, Keisha, and six Angels arrived, and Keisha’s barrier burned away nearby Mek people while Leng condemned the so-called angels.
• John and Mylon led the Terminators in a sweep as William and his guards headed for the palace and the Angels flew ahead.
• Leng used her Sub-biological Engine to build an air wall around the palace so Queen Mek could not escape.

William and Umbrella brought Paradise into the Main Universe, then sent Fleet Zero through a rift to a universe where The Understanding King had become US president. William recognized signs that it might be his original home and ordered Serena to recruit people while Umbrella stayed hidden.

• Leng defeated Queen Mek, crushed her, and later offered to revive her, but William told her to wait.
• William used the system to revive Doom Slayer, who smashed his coffin, returned to the Ring of Nul, and left without speaking.
• Serena discovered Paradise could reach hundreds of thousands of universes, including one where The Understanding King had become president, so William ordered a teleportation station built.
• Umbrella moved Paradise into the Main Universe's lunar orbit and sent Fleet Zero through a rift to the newly discovered universe.
• Serena found that the universe was in 2019 and had a website called libilibi, so William ordered her to recruit eligible Chinese netizens and keep Umbrella's presence secret until the USA began acting irrationally.
• The author announced that Containment Control Begins with Umbrella had ended and shared plans for future novels.