Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo, acting as Li John, became a Mecha Pilot Guild Grandmaster and received offers of political influence and government service. After learning about Kalaya Province’s neglected departments, he considered seeking command of its underfunded Garrison Fleet.

• Yang Bo accepted the Mecha Pilot Guild’s Super Member terminal and agreed to attend its celebratory reception and serve on the Kalaya Provincial Council.
• Nelson hosted a lavish reception for Li John, where Yang Bo turned down advances and Pete warned him about Kalaya Province’s political rivalries and vacant departments.
• Pete explained that the tax, customs, and security departments were politically fraught and that the council kept the Garrison Fleet weak to limit its power.
• Maria told Yang Bo that the guild’s reception would include politicians and offered to help him obtain a government position.
• After returning to Xiaoyao Manor, Yang Bo considered pursuing the vacant Garrison Fleet Commander post and wondered whether to let the council set a trap he could use to his advantage.

The Mecha Pilot Guild recognized Li John as its newest Grandmaster, prompting its divided leaders to debate his strength and how to recruit or contain him. Meanwhile, Yang Bo traveled to Devon Star disguised as Bart to question the Emperor’s investigation team, leaving with Allen as they discussed the team’s members and the Emperor’s possible motives.

• The Mecha Pilot Guild announced that Li John had become its 3,421st Grandmaster, and its Standing Directors debated his power and political influence after watching his assessment video.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star, then went to Devon Star to find the Emperor’s confidant and try to learn the location of the Second World.
• Yang Bo planned to visit the Ninth Fleet for information about Green Devil Star before attending the Guild celebration and seeking command of the Kalaya Province Garrison Fleet.
• Disguised as Bart, Yang Bo called Allen and asked about the new investigation team sent by the Emperor to Devon Star.
• Allen picked up Bart, and the two argued about Allen’s retro Flying Car and recalled how two investigators had once cost Allen’s family important positions.
• Allen warned Bart not to kill anyone on the Emperor’s investigation team and wondered whether the Emperor might be staging the crisis himself.

Allen and Yang Bo discussed the attacks and the Empire’s power struggles before joining Bart outside the new investigation team’s headquarters in Wan Dao City. Bart and Allen livestreamed their confrontation with security, publicly accusing the government and investigators of protecting themselves while failing to solve the attacks.

• Allen told Yang Bo that a 320 billion bounty had been placed on him through the Assassin Platform, but the authorities had no direct evidence about who ordered the attacks.
• Allen and Yang Bo speculated about the Emperor, the Carter Family, and other factions, and talked about the precarious protection their families provided them.
• Allen brought Yang Bo to the new investigation team’s heavily guarded headquarters beside the Police Station in Wan Dao City.
• Security personnel blocked Allen and Yang Bo from entering, and Bart used his Fire Superpower to blast several of them aside before starting a livestream.
• Bart criticized the investigators and police for failing to prevent or solve the attacks, while Allen livestreamed about how the Empire treated its citizens.
• The Imperial Emperor heard the livestream’s claim that most people in the Empire were treated like livestock and angrily cursed Bart.

The Emperor ordered Devon Star’s Governor to resolve Bart’s case quickly after Bart’s livestream exposed the Empire’s failures and drew a massive audience. At the investigation office, Bart and Allen provoked the Special Service Department’s senior officials, and Bart’s threats forced them to promise a prompt response.

• The Emperor blamed Devon Star’s government for the crisis and gave the Governor ten minutes to handle Bart’s matter, threatening to dismiss local officials if another serious incident occurred.
• After the drones and robots withdrew, Bart and Allen insulted the Security Captain and entered the investigation building.
• Bart demanded an investigation plan and deadline from the Brigadier General and Colonel, while Yang Bo used the confrontation to provoke the officials into changing personnel.
• Bart unleashed his Fire Superpower, triggering alarms and frightening the investigation team with threats of retaliation if they failed to act.
• The Colonel softened his stance and promised to discuss the case and return with an answer, while Yang Bo expected the officials to send someone else in their place.

Yang Bo and Bart confronted the Special Service Department over its failure to solve the attacks, while Yang Bo secretly learned more about the Second World by planting Mental Seeds in two investigators. He planned to reach the Second World through the royal family's networks and headed with Allen toward Paradise Island before considering a move to the Imperial Capital.

• The Special Service Department's Brigadier General vowed to target Bart and considered using an organization that restrained A+ Level Superpower Users against him.
• Yang Lei and Su Xing brought Bart an investigation plan promising results within six months, and Yang Bo attacked them when Yang Lei hesitated to guarantee it.
• Bart ordered Yang Lei and Su Xing to tell the Brigadier General to solve the case within six months or face consequences, then left with Allen.
• Yang Bo used Mental Seeds to learn that Yang Lei and Su Xing knew about the Second World, its guarded jump points, and Adri Star as a royal contact point.
• Yang Bo considered traveling to the Imperial Capital to find an opportunity to reach the Second World, while Allen drove him toward Paradise Island and offered to help him invest in assets.

Yang Bo brought Su Wei and the other two women to the Ninth Fleet for weekly mecha training, where Admiral Wang Muxue welcomed them and explained the training program. In a private meeting, Yang Bo discussed customized medicine and the fleet’s troubles while considering how to locate Green Devil Star and tamper with the fleet’s systems.

• Yang Bo returned to March Star, gathered Su Wei and the other two women, and took them aboard an unmanned fighter bound for the Ninth Fleet.
• Wang Muxue greeted the four aboard the fleet, issued the women temporary-access wristwatches, and explained their mecha training.
• Su Wei and the other two selected Training Mechas and began their initial familiarization while Yang Bo spoke privately with Wang Muxue.
• Yang Bo agreed to prepare customized medicine for twelve fleet officers and their families, hoping the officers might help him discover Green Devil Star’s location.
• Wang Muxue said the pirates had postponed their plans after the incident on Tianze Star and described the Ninth Fleet’s shortages; Yang Bo considered inspecting its systems and planting software backdoors.

Yang Bo toured the Ninth Fleet, trained Su Wei and the others, and discovered that the mutated Black Rock Honeybees could produce both Wood Attribute and Mental System serums. As Li John, he prepared to attend a reception in Vicki City, where he planned to assess his standing before making his next move.

• Yang Bo declined to tamper with the warship's systems, spoke with Wang Muxue about his training, and toured the Ninth Fleet's facilities and weapons.
• Yang Bo trained Su Wei and two other Beginner Mecha Pilots before returning with them to March Star, where they rested and continued their superpower training.
• Yang Bo experimented with the mutated Black Rock Honeybees and successfully produced Wood Attribute and Mental System serums, deciding to pass the materials to Ninth Mister for Zhang Bozhen to develop.
• Yang Bo arrived in Vicki City as Li John and learned that Senate members and an Alliance Special Investigation Team would attend the celebratory reception.
• Yang Bo rejected gifts offered to Li John and postponed choosing guild missions until after the reception, intending to assess what position he could obtain.

Yang Bo attended a reception as Li John, met Alliance official Carlos, and agreed to possible future cooperation. Afterward, he learned that Kalaya Province was selling government and military posts, and considered buying the garrison fleet command.

• Yang Bo attended a high-end reception, where Maria introduced him to Kalaya Provincial Senate President Su Xingwang and Alliance Brigadier General Carlos.
• Carlos tried to recruit Li John for the Alliance, but Yang Bo declined and instead agreed to discuss cooperation on missions.
• After the reception, Jenny showed Yang Bo a price list for government and military positions in Kalaya Province.
• Yang Bo considered the listed posts, including commander-in-chief of the garrison fleet, and asked Jenny to analyze which role suited him.

Yang Bo traveled to the Second World, where he killed Prince Holden Ruiz and took his identity to gain access to a noble’s status and potential fief. He returned to Holden’s camp disguised as the Prince and began considering how to recruit the game’s Fourth Calamity players, while suspecting that Holden’s companions had tried to lead him astray.

• Yang Bo became a Kalaya Provincial senator, declined a sparring assignment, and discussed buying tenth-generation Air Superiority Mechas with Maria.
• Yang Bo traveled to Adri Star aboard a cargo ship, infiltrated the transport bound for the Second World, and secretly descended to the planet.
• Yang Bo observed a fortified coastal city and decided to find a noble identity; he learned that Prince Holden Ruiz was a seventeen-year-old who mistreated common women.
• Yang Bo killed Holden, Camouflaged himself as the Prince, and subdued a Unicorn Deer while evading Holden’s knights.
• Yang Bo returned to Holden’s camp and discovered that Baron and Holden’s other companion had different motives, including one who had been sent to lead Holden astray.

Yang Bo returned to Reykjavik as Holden, established a way to travel between worlds, and later took command of Kalaya Province’s weak, corrupt fleet as Li John. He shared the valuable Secondary Mutation Black Rock Honeybees with Zhang Bozhen, who agreed to develop them and contact Ninth Mister’s Grandmaster Alchemist.

• Yang Bo returned to Reykjavik with a captured Unicorn Deer, set up a sealed wardrobe for Space Teleportation, and used it to travel between Holden, Bart, and his other identities.
• Yang Bo discovered that the Secondary Mutation Black Rock Honeybees could produce Gene Serum that might increase intelligence, and Su Wei arranged for Su Hai to manage territory in the Second Game World.
• The Federation appointed Li John Brigadier General and Commander-in-Chief of the Kalaya Province Planetary Fleet, where Yang Bo found severe corruption and poor equipment before arranging to exchange mine shares for mechas and other military supplies.
• Yang Bo offered Zhang Bozhen the Secondary Mutation Black Rock Honeybees, and they agreed to an exclusive development deal that gave Yang Bo twenty percent.
• Zhang Bozhen sent Ninth Mister a message asking whether the Grandmaster Alchemist would be interested in studying a naturally occurring Secondary Mutation creature.

Yang Bo advanced his plans in Second World while disguising himself as Grandmaster Brian to make Gene Serums for the Ninth Fleet. Through Anthony, he learned the location of Green Devil Star and arranged a way to connect with researchers there.

• Zhang Bozhen sent Ninth Mister the secondary-mutated Black Rock Honeybee, and Yang Bo later recovered the still-living bee and decided to delay answering Zhang Bozhen.
• Yang Bo gave Su Hai money to manage his game territory, then arranged with Green City's City Lord to hold a banquet and recruit outsiders.
• Disguised as Holden, Yang Bo studied mysticism and travel journals, dismissed Doctor Maureen, and learned that people wanted to send Holden to his fief.
• Yang Bo disguised himself as Brian at the Ninth Fleet, recruited Anthony into his research, and made fifteen five-star Gene Serums for fleet families.
• Yang Bo discovered through Anthony that Green Devil Star was an Alliance-controlled planet with a serum laboratory in orbit and that Anthony's senior fellow disciples worked there.
• Yang Bo invited Anthony to share his research with those senior brothers and offered to make them serums, creating a channel to obtain materials from Green Devil Star.

Yang Bo arranged for the serum to reach Green Devil Star and helped Su Hai establish a role managing outsiders in his Second Game World territory. On Devon Star, Bart received a Longevity Society membership test notice and later asked Ning Xue whether she would consider a second Gene Evolution.

• Anthony watched Yang Bo make a five-star-quality serum, recorded the process, and sent the serum and video to his senior brother; the test subjects showed promising superpower awakenings without side effects.
• Su Hai used Yang Bo's money to recruit fair-weather friends and travel to Green City, where Yang Bo appointed him Butler of the territory.
• At his viscount celebration, Yang Bo agreed to the City Lord's plan to gather outsiders on his territory as workers and a reserve force for Green City's defense.
• Yang Bo received an invitation-like notice requiring Bart to take the Longevity Society's membership test in three months, and he decided to wait before responding.
• After training with Ning Xue and Bai Lu, Yang Bo asked Ning Xue whether she had considered a second Gene Evolution, and she suspected he had been scammed.

Yang Bo told Ning Xue that a Gene Evolution Serum had caused his own Secondary Mutation and left her to decide whether to risk one herself. He then discovered a chance to seize the Black Skull Pirate Crew’s flagship and began planning to use Li John’s Federation position to claim it, while postponing the operation until after Holden’s scheduled outing.

• Yang Bo explained that his strength came from a Gene Evolution Serum that had triggered a second evolution, and Ning Xue said she would think about trying it.
• Yang Bo returned to the Second World as Holden, accepted Helson’s invitation to a sea-fishing event, and learned that a mysticism scholar would test him there.
• Yang Bo found out through Ente that the Black Skull Pirate Crew planned to attack a smuggling ship in Federation territory and learned the fleet’s strength, gathering point, and retreat route.
• Yang Bo decided to seize the pirates’ 2,500-meter flagship as Li John, using his role as Kalaya Province Fleet Commander to make the capture appear legitimate.
• Yang Bo planned to prepare Slave Chips and capture the flagship after the Reykjavik event, but wondered how he would expand his power in Kalaya Province afterward.

Yang Bo, disguised as Holden, outsmarted Helson and mysticism scholar Manning during a fishing trip, discovering that Manning’s mysterious power came from controlling his own body with Mental Power. After learning that Helson’s faction was likely to investigate him, Yang Bo returned to Vicki City and went to the Kalaya Province Garrison Fleet headquarters to deal with pirates.

• Yang Bo rode his Unicorn Deer to Helson’s fishing village, where he saw players laboring under the nobles’ control and learned that mysterious forces prevented players from growing stronger.
• Yang Bo noticed Manning using Subsonic Waves to lure Sea Beasts, scanned the scholar with Mental Power, and realized Manning controlled his vocal cords from within.
• Yang Bo planted a Mental Seed in a Sea Beast leader and ordered its group away, then used Mental Power to catch many large fish while ensuring Helson caught nothing.
• Yang Bo won Helson’s wager of one thousand Gold Coins, while Helson blamed Manning and began spreading the idea that Holden might be becoming a mystic scholar.
• Helson told his father about Holden’s unusual abilities, and his father predicted Manning would consult his school’s elders.
• Yang Bo learned of Helson’s suspicions through his memories, then traveled in disguise to the Kalaya Province Garrison Fleet headquarters in Boulder City to deal with pirates.

Yang Bo arranged to take the Bartlow on patrol, expanded his territory in the Second World, and produced experimental serums from mutated Black Rock Honeybees. He left the story preparing to intercept the Black Skull Pirate Crew during a planned patrol.

• Yang Bo ordered Jose to prepare the Bartlow for a month-long patrol, privately funding the first plan and setting a departure date one week away.
• Yang Bo visited his territory, where Su Hai organized players to build houses and prepare land, and agreed they would need tools, weapons, and a militia.
• Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen that the Secondary Mutation appeared to increase intelligence, then supplied him with two Black Rock Honeybees for further trials.
• Yang Bo made ten E-Rank five-star Evolution Serums from the bees, and Zhang Bozhen arranged human trials and compensation for participants.
• Yang Bo planned to use the patrol to encounter the Black Skull Pirate Crew after they attacked a smuggling ship and entered Silent Navigation.

Yang Bo sent the armed spaceship Bartlow on patrol while preparing to intercept the Black Skull Pirate Crew, and Zhang Bozhen began testing a promising gene serum. The chapter ended with Yang Bo back on March Star, planning to visit Green Devil Star once he obtained a warship.

• Yang Bo arranged a cooperation agreement with Zhang Bozhen, whose first five gene serum test subjects showed no adverse effects and whose intelligence tests showed modest gains in three of them.
• Yang Bo disguised as Li John, paid the Bartlow's soldiers, selected a remote patrol route with Jose, and led the armed spaceship into space.
• Yang Bo placed a Space Beacon in his cabin and planned to disrupt the Bartlow's systems before attacking the Black Skull Pirate Crew during its silent voyage.
• Yang Bo learned from Su Wei that Wang Muxue had treated her group kindly, and he approved of Su Wei giving her Black Rock Honey.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star and calculated that he could travel to Green Devil Star after obtaining the warship.

Yang Bo watched the Black Skull Pirate Crew ambush and loot Troy Company's transport ship, then began his plan to seize one of the pirates' warships. The chapter ended with the Bartlow Armed Spaceship's systems and engines shutting down while Yang Bo pretended to be alarmed.

• Aaron led the Black Skull Pirate Crew's three warships into position to ambush Troy Company's transport ship, the Kabas.
• The pirates attacked the Kabas, and its Captain ordered the crew to abandon ship after seeing the Black Skull Pirate Crew's warships.
• The Black Skull Pirate Crew captured the Kabas and seized its valuable cargo, including 1,100 mechas and mining equipment.
• Yang Bo learned through the Mental Seed in Aaron that the Field Mouse carried the cargo he wanted to capture.
• Yang Bo made the Bartlow Armed Spaceship's systems shut down and began acting surprised as the crew was told to enter the survival pods.

Yang Bo used Li John’s identity to escape the crippled Armed Spaceship in his functioning mecha and staged recordings as he approached the Black Skull Pirate Crew’s flagship, the Field Mouse. He boarded the warship and tore through its systems and crew, leaving the pirates scrambling to fight back with only five of their fifty mechas still available.

• Yang Bo led the crew to the survival compartment after the Armed Spaceship’s systems failed, then found that his mecha was the only one that could power on.
• Yang Bo left the ship, recorded a staged account of his supposed rescue attempt, and secretly navigated toward the Black Skull Pirate Crew using what he knew of Aaron’s memories.
• Yang Bo maneuvered alongside the Field Mouse, boarded it, and smashed into its Maintenance Tunnel while recording himself as Li John.
• Aaron ordered the Field Mouse’s systems started, but Yang Bo rapidly damaged the Energy, Control, and communications systems while attacking the pirates who confronted him.
• The Regiment Commander ordered the crew to withdraw and enter their mechas, but Yang Bo killed most of the pilots as they tried to deploy, leaving only five mechas operational.

Yang Bo, acting as Li John, captured the Black Skull Pirate Crew’s flagship, disabled its self-destruct system, and used it to attack the pirates before registering it as his own battleship, the Prosperity. His recordings made Li John a celebrated Mecha Grandmaster, while the surviving pirates vowed revenge and worried about how he had restored the ship’s systems.

• Yang Bo blinded the five mecha pilots aboard the Field Mouse by destroying their radar systems, then killed them and fought his way toward the command room.
• The Black Skull Pirate Crew’s Regiment Commander ordered the crew to abandon the flagship and start its self-destruct sequence, but Yang Bo disabled the sequence and restored the battleship’s systems.
• Yang Bo took control of the Field Mouse, attacked the Spider, the Locust, and the pirates’ Lifeboats, then escaped with the battleship while the surviving pirates fled.
• Yang Bo contacted Jose aboard the Bartlow, registered the captured battleship under Li John’s name, and shared recordings that showed how he had seized it.
• The Federation Mecha Pilot Guild publicized Li John’s feat, and the captured battleship was renamed the Prosperity as his social media following surged.
• The Black Skull Pirate Crew’s Regiment Commander raged over the capture, while Aaron urged him to investigate how Yang Bo had restored the battleship’s systems.

Yang Bo used the battleship’s restored systems to draw interest from Alliance and Empire organizations, while Anthony’s gift to Mozaro revealed an opportunity for Yang Bo to infiltrate the Green Devil Star spaceport. The chapter ended with Yang Bo arriving there invisibly and wondering how Tie Niu was doing.

• Alliance and Empire companies and fleets panicked after footage showed someone restoring a locked battleship’s systems, prompting inspections and an investigation.
• Yang Bo rejected a repair offer through Maria and proposed an auction for the chance to study the battleship, with weapons and equipment as his preferred payment.
• Yang Bo invited Jose to serve as first officer on his private battleship, but Jose asked for time to consider the offer.
• Alliance and Empire delegations visited Kalaya Province after learning that repairs to Li John’s battleship would be competitively bid.
• Mozaro received Anthony’s gift of a five-star potion and its crafting videos, then stored them in his personal safe.
• Yang Bo used Space Movement to enter Mozaro’s locker, stole the potion and box, and traveled invisibly to Green Devil Star.