Chapter Summaries

William and the Blue Team toured Mars City, where they enjoyed the bustling station, simulated Earthlike environment, and abundant restaurants and entertainment. As they settled into a buffet restaurant, the system warned William that a high-threat abnormal phenomenon was about to appear and offered him the StarCraft 2 Terran Pack for containing or controlling it.

• William brought Mylon, Carl, and John through Central Station and told them to relax during their visit to Mars City.
• Serena explained that Mars's domes simulated Earth's environment and synchronized their time zones with Hafa.
• William offered to pay for the Spartans' food, and Mylon, Carl, and John bickered before Serena picked nearby restaurants.
• William and the Spartans toured Mars City's restaurants, theme parks, cinemas, and shops under Serena's guidance.
• As William sat with the Spartans at a buffet restaurant, the system announced an approaching high-threat abnormal phenomenon and offered the StarCraft 2 Terran Pack as a reward for containing or controlling it.

William learned from the system that an abnormal phenomenon was connected to Athens and ordered increased surveillance there. At the Parthenon, a mysterious golden-haired woman claimed the temple had been built for her and was identified as an abnormal phenomenon.

• William asked the system about the coming abnormal phenomenon and received the clue “Athens.”
• William ordered Serena to increase surveillance of Athens and prepare the Shadow of Hades to travel to Earth.
• In Athens, Umbrella security personnel managed the crowds visiting the Parthenon and its statue of Athena.
• A golden-haired woman stayed behind after the tourists were ushered out and criticized the statue.
• The woman said the temple had been built for her, and a security officer raised his rifle and sounded the alarm.

A mysterious woman who appeared at the Parthenon was taken to the Athens military base, where William watched her interrogation. She identified herself as Pallas Athena and asked to speak with William.

• Parthenon guards confronted the woman, who agreed to cooperate but warned them that their weapons could not harm her.
• UBCS escorted the woman to the Athens base, where William arrived with the Sparta Blue Team, Hunk, and the Alphas.
• Serena reported that the woman had appeared in Athens that day and that she had threatened to kill anyone who saw her face if her veil was removed.
• William ordered the base supervisor to show the interrogation-room footage on the main screen.
• The woman told the researcher she was Pallas Athena, the goddess of war, wisdom, order, and law, and said she would demonstrate her abilities for William.

William met the woman calling herself Athena, confirmed that she possessed divine abilities, and learned that she wanted to join forces with him against Cronus. Athena left him with a promise to explain her long observation of him after they dealt with the Titan King.

• William used the system to scan Athena and learned her combat power, abilities, and weakness if her energy ran out.
• William ordered surveillance footage sent to Dr. Halsey for analysis and told the Spartan Squad on Earth to prepare for deployment.
• William entered the interrogation room with the three Johns and asked Athena to prove she was the goddess from the legends.
• Athena removed her veil and transformed into an armored goddess wielding a spear and shield, while the Spartans aimed their Gauss Rifles at her.
• Athena revealed that she had been observing William and proposed that they join forces to stop and ideally kill her grandfather, Cronus.

Athena warned William that Cronus and the Titans would escape Tartarus in Antarctica within seven days, bringing Earth to the brink of destruction alongside a powerful three-headed dragon. William decided Umbrella needed to assemble its strongest forces and tried to secure Athena’s loyalty by proposing that she sign a confidentiality agreement.

• William told Athena that Umbrella would oppose Cronus with or without her cooperation, then asked her to explain the threat.
• Athena explained that the Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus in Antarctica and would escape within seven days, and warned that Cronus had a regenerative three-headed dragon that breathed lightning like Zeus’s Thunderbolt.
• William realized the dragon might be Ghidorah and concluded that the crisis would require a military operation on an Exafanistei-class scale.
• William asked the system whether a god signing Umbrella’s Confidentiality Agreement would gain a high loyalty rating, and the system advised him to try.
• William proposed that Athena sign the agreement, and Athena challenged him to show her what she had to fear.

After Athena signed Umbrella’s Confidentiality Agreement, William ordered the company to prepare for war against Cronus and brought Athena to Halsey for examination. Athena revealed that Kratos had destroyed Olympus, leaving William stunned.

• Athena signed Umbrella’s Confidentiality Agreement and became an Umbrella member with loyalty of 80.
• William ordered Umbrella employees to prepare for combat, recalled Spartan teams from Mars and Titan, and notified the United Nations.
• William took Athena to Halsey’s laboratory, where scans showed her body contained an unusually high level of energy and functioned like a fusion reactor.
• Halsey examined Athena and obtained a blood sample for research.
• Athena told William that Kratos had destroyed Olympus after conflicts involving Zeus and Ares, and William was shocked by the revelation.

William and Athena returned to Halifax City, where William warned world leaders that Cronus would escape in six days and asked them to join Umbrella’s preparations. Athena appeared before the assembled representatives and demonstrated her divine power, convincing them that the threat was real.

• William asked Athena when she had begun watching him and Umbrella, and she said she had first noticed him defeating Hydra and Nemea at Santorini.
• Serena told William that countries worldwide were preparing for a conference in Halifax City, and William ordered the ship to return there.
• At the conference on November 14, 2009, William announced that Cronus would break free from a mountain in Antarctica in six days and release countless imprisoned creatures.
• William asked the nations to send elite troops to fight Cronus, and he identified the anomaly as the Titans defeated by Zeus and the other gods.
• Athena entered the hall, grew to ten meters tall, and introduced herself as the Goddess of wisdom and war, leaving the representatives stunned.

On November 20, Umbrella and the allied nations prepared a massive defensive line north of McMurdo Station for Cronus, Ghidorah, and their Hellbeasts. With a hydrogen bomb, the First Fleet, ground forces, and the god-bodies ready, Mike awaited the Spartan Force and Athena as they passed through the trenches.

• Umbrella deployed over two hundred thousand soldiers, naval forces, its First Fleet, and fourteen god-bodies along the Antarctic coast.
• William arranged a forty-million-ton hydrogen bomb as a first strike and planned further attacks if it failed to stop the Titan Gods and Hellbeasts.
• A British soldier and a Canadian soldier compared their equipment while a French soldier approached them in the trenches.
• Mike oversaw the forward Command Center with four companies of Sharks guarding operations and prepared the allied ground forces to intercept surviving Hellbeasts.
• An officer told Mike that the Spartan Force and Athena were ready to pass through the trenches, and Mike ordered the ground forces to stand by.

William and Umbrella’s forces prepared to confront Cronus and Ghidorah as Athena led the transformed giants to the front line. William detonated a hydrogen bomb against Cronus, then ordered Serena to assess the damage and prepare the Spartans to attack if the anomalies survived.

• William warned that Cronus was about to emerge, and Andre went to help command the ground forces.
• William gave the Spartans their mission to slay the gods, while Athena agreed to lead them against the Titans and Ghidorah.
• Athena and fourteen divine bodies transformed into 150-meter giants and took positions at the front of the defensive line.
• Serena reported that Cronus had reached the surface and that ancient creatures were moving north toward Australia.
• William ordered Serena to detonate the hydrogen bomb, which erupted in a blinding flash and formed a mushroom cloud over the mountain.
• William ordered Serena to determine whether Cronus and Ghidorah had been eliminated and to send the Spartans forward to snipe if they had survived.

After the hydrogen bomb killed four Titan Gods, Athena, the Spartans, and the fleet attacked the surviving Titans, Ghidorah, and Hellbeasts. William watched the battle turn unexpectedly in humanity’s favor, though Ghidorah was still healing and remained a threat.

• Three British, Canadian, and French soldiers survived the hydrogen bomb’s blast and prepared for battle after seeing Ghidorah and the remaining Titans.
• Athena led the Spartans toward the blast site as Ghidorah appeared with eight Titan Gods; the hydrogen bomb had killed four of the twelve Titans.
• Athena wounded Ghidorah with her spear, and Carl and Jerome’s cannons blasted most of its body away before striking two surviving Titans.
• Athena rallied the humans as twelve frigates fired on the advancing Titans and Hellbeasts.
• Serena told William that six Titans were confirmed dead, Cronus was fighting Athena, and Ghidorah would heal within three minutes; William ordered Carl and Jerome to focus on Ghidorah.
• William watched the Spartans and fleet overwhelm the enemy and wondered why the battle was going so smoothly.

Umbrella’s forces defeated Cronus, the Titan Gods, and the Hellbeasts with overwhelming firepower and Spartan strength. The battle ended with Ghidorah as the last surviving threat, and Serena confirmed to William that all abnormal phenomena had been eliminated.

• Umbrella’s fleet, soldiers, and Spartans overwhelmed the Hellbeasts and drove Cronus to flee from Athena.
• Mylon intercepted Cronus, broke his arm, and twisted his neck, killing him.
• Cronus’s death turned the Hellbeasts into stone statues, while the Spartans eliminated the other Titan Gods.
• The Spartans and technicians moved Ghidorah to a designated location, where Umbrella killed it with another Hydrogen Bomb.
• Serena told William that the abnormal phenomena had been eliminated and the battle was over.

After Ghidorah was apparently vaporized, William learned that the battle had caused no deaths and visited Dr. Halsey to discuss her analysis of Athena’s blood. The system then awarded him StarCraft 2 Terran technology and unlocked the ability to assimilate highly capable, completely loyal employees.

• Serena reported that nobody had died, though the battle had cost Umbrella forty-five billion dollars in ammunition, and William ordered her to keep monitoring the situation and alert the military leaders and United Nations fleet.
• William visited Dr. Halsey’s laboratory, where she explained that Athena absorbed energy, could create a barrier and enlarge herself, and had nanoscale biological robots that protected her from harmful microorganisms.
• William and Halsey discussed her research while waiting for the hydrogen bomb to finish eliminating Ghidorah.
• The system declared William’s mission complete and awarded him Ghost assimilation, Marine equipment, a Punisher Siege Tank, a Viking fighter, a Thor mech, and a Gon-class Battlecruiser.
• The system explained that William could assimilate employees with combat power of at least 120 and loyalty of 100, increasing their combat power and granting them psionic abilities.

William assimilated 1,200 USS members as Ghost Agents and reviewed Umbrella’s second-generation Spartan program. The system then revealed StarCraft military blueprints that could strengthen Umbrella’s forces and support its expanding colonies.

• William asked whether already-assimilated USS members could undergo Ghost Agent assimilation, and the system assimilated 1,200 members, including Hunk, for 120 million system funds.
• William reviewed the second-generation Spartan program, including its recruitment rules, age requirements, Powered Infiltration Armor, and 240 children training on Minos Island.
• The system reported that CMC Power Armor, C-14 Gauss Rifles, Crucio Siege Tanks, and Viking fighters had been added to The Hive’s blueprints.
• The system described the Thor Heavy Assault Mech and advised William against mass-producing it, while noting its technology could improve Spartan armor.
• The system presented the Gon-class Battlecruiser and its Yamato Cannon as another addition to Umbrella’s fleet options.
• William thanked the system and considered how the new technology could protect colonies and support expansion beyond the Solar System.

William ordered Serena to begin producing new weapons and organize an elite Heavy Soldiers branch while monitoring the United Nations’ efforts to pressure Umbrella into sharing its technology. After Athena and the Spartans returned from the battle, William thanked Athena for helping humanity prepare for Cronus’s attack.

• William asked Serena about The Hive’s new technologies and ordered Canadian armories to produce CMC Power Armor and Piercing Gauss Rifles for a new Heavy Soldiers branch.
• Serena reported that some countries wanted to unite and pressure Umbrella into sharing its Electromagnetic Accelerator Cannon technology, and William ordered her to discreetly target their economies while avoiding sleeper agents.
• British, Canadian, and French soldiers watched Athena and the Spartans return to their trench position, and the French soldier voiced his desire to ask Athena out.
• The Spartans left their divine bodies, while Athena shrank to human size, stowed her weapons, and changed into a white down jacket.
• William greeted Athena and thanked her for providing intelligence that helped humanity prepare for Cronus and avert catastrophic losses.

After Cronus was defeated, Athena agreed to remain with Umbrella and help contain abnormal phenomena, while William promised the Spartans a vacation at Jiu Hai. A month and a half later, the Phantom crew arrived at the lunar colony’s resort center.

• Athena praised Umbrella’s ability to protect humanity and agreed to stay after William asked her to help contain abnormal phenomena.
• Mylon claimed he had defeated the Titan King and asked William to reward the Spartans with a trip to Jiu Hai.
• William agreed to take the Spartans to the resort once everything was settled, and they cheered.
• After a month and a half without reports of abnormal phenomena, William brought the Spartans and Phantom crew to Jiu Hai for vacation.
• William and Dr. Halsey led the casually dressed group through the colony’s spaceport gangway.

William took Halsey and the Spartan children to Jiu Hai Colony for a vacation, where they rode to the resort’s artificial island. The group prepared to enjoy the beach while William relaxed, until Halsey appeared beside him in a bikini.

• William and his group left the Phantom and were escorted through the crowded Spaceport by Marine Corps soldiers.
• William gave everyone time to enjoy the resort, and Hunk led the Alphas toward the hot springs.
• Mylon invited William and Halsey to the artificial island, and Athena joined them.
• William’s group rode the Orbit Train to the island and rented parasols, drinks, and fruit on a quiet beach.
• William lounged with a beer while the Spartans, Athena, and Halsey went to change; Halsey returned in a pale yellow bikini and surprised him.

William and Halsey relaxed at an island resort with the Spartans and Athena, and Halsey asked whether he wanted a demigod child with Athena. William rejected the idea and carried Halsey toward the hotel; an appended file described Nanite Serum and introduced two agents assigned to an Antarctic research station.

• Halsey teased William by asking whether he liked her outfit, and he praised her and asked her to wear the uniform later.
• Mylon leapt into the water with a dramatic cannonball, while John, Carl, and Athena arrived at the beach and drew attention from the tourists.
• Halsey asked William whether he had considered having a demigod child with Athena, and he insisted he had no such feelings and wanted a child with Halsey instead.
• William carried Halsey toward the hotel after she asked him not to wear the uniform that night.
• The appended file described the Nanite Serum's effects and deployment, then identified Li Mu and Rebecca Chambers as agents connected to the Antarctic Multinational Joint Research Station.

At an Antarctic research station, security personnel rescued an exploration team stranded by an approaching blizzard and brought back a large ice block containing an unseen organism. The convoy returned to the station just ahead of the storm, leaving the mysterious specimen in its care.

• Rebecca tried to chat with Li Mu in the lounge, but he gave brief replies until a station broadcast called security personnel to assemble.
• Director Sand ordered Team One to rescue an exploration team stranded southwest of the station before the blizzard arrived.
• Bor and Team One found the exploration team and agreed to transfer its important biological samples, including an enormous half-ice block, onto the rescue vehicles.
• The worsening blizzard forced the teams to abandon the disabled vehicle and race back through near-zero visibility.
• The convoy reached the Research Station before the blizzard overtook it.

Researchers at the Antarctic Research Station debated taking a tissue sample from the strange creature frozen in an ice block, while Rebecca worried it might be dangerous. After Li Mu revealed that the station had lost communications and an artificial structure had been found nearby, the creature broke free of the ice.

• Rebecca warned Dr. Sand that the asymmetrical creature might harbor a virus, but he ordered the researchers to prepare to extract a sample.
• The freezer lights flickered and the laboratory building trembled as a blizzard battered the Research Station.
• Rebecca met Li Mu in the corridor and learned that the station had lost network access and communications.
• Li Mu told Rebecca that the Exploration Team had found a large artificial structure beneath the ice near the creature.
• Li Mu said he would take control of the station himself and told Rebecca to keep her Umbrella identity hidden.
• A security guard announced over the alarm that the creature had broken out of the ice.

Li Mu took command of the Research Station after the creature escaped from its ice block and began attacking staff. He discovered that the anomaly was vulnerable to fire, but it was still alive and the containment incident remained unresolved.

• Li Mu ordered Rebecca to gear up and help him respond to the alarm.
• Sand and the security personnel found that the creature had smashed through the cold-storage room wall and disappeared, then Li Mu claimed command for Umbrella.
• After a crash and a woman's scream, Li Mu sent Rebecca to evacuate the others and went alone to confront the anomaly.
• Li Mu found a dead researcher and two terrified survivors in a damaged research room, where the creature was using tentacles to attack another researcher.
• Li Mu's bullets failed to stop the creature, but his incendiary grenade set it ablaze and made it roar and struggle.