Chapter Summaries

Saine traveled with Gemora and the Huya people after they took him aboard their Planetary Fortress, where he secretly used soul magic to gather information. He learned that Gemora believed a divination had marked him as her destined love, and suspected the Huya people’s contract with the Shi'a Empire could draw them into the coming war against Wizard Civilization.

• Grandfather Jida reunited with Gemora and said the war on Green Luo World had ended, though the Riskman people still disputed the mercenary payment.
• Gemora brought Saine aboard the Huya Planetary Fortress while his damaged craft was taken for repairs.
• Saine used Mirage Soul Shackles to influence Gemora and coax confidential information from her.
• Saine learned Gemora had secretly used her clan’s Six-Prism Treasure Box and believed its prophecy identified him as the love of her life.
• Saine inferred that the Shi'a Empire had hired the Huya people for the coming war, potentially setting them against Wizard Civilization.

Saine learned the strength and history of the Huya faction while traveling with Gemora toward the Shi'a Empire. As his fleet neared Galente Federation territory, Galente envoys secretly met with the Lord of the Underworld, Blood River Grand Warlord Nair Wen Yinke.

• Saine concealed his Level-4 aura as more Huya warships and powerful lifeforms gathered around the Planetary Fortress, then met Gemora's Level-5 father.
• Saine learned that Gemora's father led a loose alliance of Huya tribes, including six Level-4 lifeforms, and that the Huya people had agreed to fight for the Shi'a Empire in exchange for help reclaiming their lost homeworld.
• Gemora told Saine that her people had been driven from their red-earth homeworld and that only her father and the elder priests knew its location.
• Saine described the Boke people's world to Gemora as their fleet traveled toward the Galente Federation's sphere of influence.
• Galente Federation envoys secretly met the Lord of the Underworld, Blood River Grand Warlord Nair Wen Yinke, in a demiplane in the Underworld Star Region.

A Galente Federation envoy tried to recruit Nair Wen Yinke by appealing to his grudge against Wizard Civilization and promising the Federation would win the coming war. Nair remained unconvinced, but the envoy’s detailed map of troop positions revealed how deeply Federation agents had infiltrated Wizard territory.

• Nair Wen Yinke confronted the Galente Federation envoy about daring to contact him while Wizard Alliance forces gathered in the Underworld Star Region.
• The envoy invoked the deaths of Nair’s brothers and claimed that the Federation was offering oppressed worlds a chance to oppose Wizard Civilization.
• Nair asked who else the Federation had recruited, but the envoy said he did not know and claimed his own assignment was limited to recruiting Nair.
• Nair rejected the offer as insufficient and argued that Wizard Civilization had greater territory and resources, making victory more likely.
• The Federation envoys displayed a detailed border star map with both civilizations’ military deployments, revealing that the Federation had access to sensitive Wizard Alliance information.
• The envoy claimed the Federation’s technology and military buildup made it at least equal to Wizard Civilization and urged Nair to consider the Underworld Star Region’s inhabitants.

The Blood River Grand Warlord agreed to coordinate with the Galente Federation against Wizard Civilization, while Saine crossed Bester Nebula and entered Shi'a Empire territory. There, he observed the Federation’s elite Rainbow Feather Army and reflected on the blending of cultivation and technology.

• The Galente Federation envoy shared intelligence about Wizard Civilization’s war proposals, gave Nair Wen Yinke an encrypted communicator, and agreed on a timetable for coordinated warfare.
• After the envoys left, the Blood River Grand Warlord confirmed to a Rank Six Cockroach Viper that he would defect to the Galente Federation.
• Saine traveled with the Huya people’s fleet through Bester Nebula and entered the Shi'a Empire, a Galente Federation vassal.
• The Shi'a Empire’s Rainbow Feather Army received the Huya fleet and escorted it toward a prepared rest area in the Empire’s territory.
• Saine observed Shi'a warriors using technological equipment alongside their cultivation and considered how technology and arcane energy both rested on the laws of the Star Realm.

Saine reflected on the damage the Galente Federation’s resource extraction had done to Water Orchid Star, known to its inhabitants as the Sky Water World, and considered the competing civilizations’ exploitation of weaker worlds. As Gemora grew closer to him, Saine remained focused on his secret mission and prepared to leave her behind.

• Saine observed the drilling wells and pipelines draining the Sky Water World and considered how long its fragile environment would need to recover.
• Saine contrasted the Galente Federation’s exploitation with the Wizard World’s, concluding that both were exploiters in a universe governed by the strong preying on the weak.
• Gemora invited Saine to visit Water Orchid Star, but he declined and said he needed to inspect his aircraft.
• Gemora remembered that Saine would soon leave and that he had repeatedly brushed aside her affection.
• Saine avoided entering Water Orchid Star because its Plane Will might expose his Level-4 lifeform identity, then performed Boke bathing customs to maintain his disguise as Baus.
• Saine found Gemora asleep on his bed, watched her briefly, and headed to the aircraft parking area.

After traveling with the Huya fleet for twenty-two years, Saine parted ways with the Huya sisters in the Crimson Sea and continued his journey alone. He revealed his real name to Gemora and left her with a gift, while sensing they might meet again.

• Saine reached the Crimson Sea with the Huya fleet and decided to leave there because its laws made it harder for others to divine or prophesy about him.
• Gemora and Kamora came to see Saine off, and Gemora asked to speak with him privately.
• Gemora revealed that the Six-Prism Treasure Box had shown her that Baus was not Saine’s real name, and Saine told her his name.
• Saine noticed that Gemora’s hair showed signs of withering, suspecting that she had sacrificed some of her lifespan to divine information about him.
• Saine gave Gemora a Green Bubble, said farewell to the sisters, and departed in his aircraft while sensing he would meet them again.

Saine observed the Galente Federation’s economic strength and technological development, including its artificial Life Planets and Federation Credits. He realized that powerful corporations and financial conglomerates, rather than individual rulers, were the Wizard Civilization’s true opponents.

• Saine saw how the Galente Federation developed Broken Planes and void meteors using its demand for ordinary metals and advanced technology.
• In the Munster Star Region, Saine examined artificial Life Planets and identified their layered energy shields as a key part of the Federation’s transformation technology.
• Saine compared the Life Planet project with Luluenman’s World Laboratory and considered how Federation technology could advance her work.
• Saine learned that Federation Credits dominated the Federation’s economy and that it sold outdated military equipment and planetary transformation services to its Vassal Civilizations.
• Saine discovered that the Federation’s largest corporations controlled much of its economy and recognized them as the Wizard World’s true opponents.

Saine learned more about the Galente Federation’s genetic engineering, vast territory, and citizens’ lives, and his confidence in Wizard Civilization’s victory began to waver. As he traveled toward the Federation’s core, he recognized that its strengths made the coming Civilization War’s outcome uncertain.

• Saine learned that the Galente Federation sold genetic modifications that could give people some Level-4 traits, and he questioned what more advanced technologies its military possessed.
• Saine reflected that Wizard Alliance propaganda had shaped his certainty of victory and admitted he could only fulfill his own duties in the war.
• Saine traveled through the Federation’s immense territory and learned about the Tris Civilization, whose ruling class included Federation-descended elites while most citizens were Tris Creatures.
• Saine observed that ordinary Federation citizens could travel between planets and starfields, though gene treatments remained costly and social equality was limited.
• Saine reconsidered his assumptions about Federation citizens’ vulnerability after learning about their long lifespans, welfare, and Gene Potions, and realized that countering biological attacks would require specialized research.

Saine observed a Galente Federation patrol fleet before entering Federation territory, where he registered his vessel and himself under a Second-Class Citizen identity. He continued toward Cybertron Planet with a Federation tracking panel and virtual currency, wary of the Federation’s extensive information systems.

• Saine watched two Federation Attack Ships clear a Meteorite Belt and judged their weapons powerful enough to threaten Level-3 beings and Demigods.
• The Federation patrol fleet warned Saine to leave the area, and he departed while considering the ships’ defenses and the role of Escort Ships.
• Saine crossed from the Tris Civilization into Galente Federation territory and suspected Wizard Civilization supporters had helped conceal his route.
• Federation border staff registered Saine and his craft in the Central Database and installed a positioning panel in his control room.
• Saine received an Identity Crystal Card identifying him as a Second-Class Citizen and a Black Bracelet containing about one hundred thousand Federation Credits.

Saine traveled through the Galente Federation under the identity of Pulis, an earl’s son, and used his wealth and a charity auction to build a high-profile presence. The chapter ended when an unknown guest offered to help him obtain official Federation citizen status.

• Saine used wormholes to travel through the Galente Federation and avoided heading directly to the military-controlled Cybertron Planet.
• Saine adopted the identity of Pulis, exchanged Federation Credits, and visited star regions to learn about the Federation while appearing to be a wealthy traveler.
• Saine attended a charity auction in the Henghe Star Region and donated a multicolored stone specimen from the Shi'a Empire.
• The stone sold for six hundred thousand Federation Credits, raising Saine's profile among the auction's guests.
• An unidentified person approached Saine and offered to help him obtain an Identity Crystal Card for an official Federation citizen.

At an auction, Saine met Jeremy Dodge, who offered him a Female Angel Robot in exchange for help resolving a business dispute in the Shi'a Empire. Saine suggested Jeremy expand into Daika Province instead, and ended the chapter admiring the robot and asking how to buy more.

• Saine met Jeremy Dodge, a Federation transport businessman, and was fascinated by his Female Angel Robot, Linda No.2.
• Jeremy explained that the robots came from the Icarus Conglomerate and offered Linda No.2 to Saine.
• Jeremy asked Saine to help mediate a conflict with noble families in Goleit Province, and Saine offered to help if Jeremy moved his business to Daika Province.
• Jeremy gave Saine the Angel Robot and changed her ownership authorization.
• Saine examined the robot and asked Jeremy whether he could buy several more.

Saine observed how Jeremy Dodge, George, and the Dodge Family built a network of political and business interests around a garbage-processing planet, while learning more about the Galente Federation’s society. He concluded that Federation lifeforms pursued wealth and power, unlike Wizard Civilization lifeforms, who pursued strength and Truth.

• Saine used his noble upbringing to build rapport with Jeremy Dodge, whose family hoped to use Saine’s influence to ease future business in the Shi’a Empire.
• Saine considered the Dodge Family’s wealth and political reach, as well as the Federation’s advanced technologies and its recent conquest of the Rose Dynasty Civilization.
• George approached Saine and Jeremy, showing deference to Jeremy because the Dodge Family supported him and benefited from his political decisions.
• Jeremy’s charity-auction donation helped George advance a garbage-processing planet project, which brought political gains to George and new business opportunities to the Dodge Family.
• Saine reflected on how the project distributed benefits among voters and supporters, and how Federation politicians used low life levels to appear closer to ordinary citizens.

Saine strengthened his friendship with Jeremy over decades while continuing his covert journey through the Galente Federation. When Jeremy asked about his real purpose, Saine claimed he wanted to build a brighter future and raised military-industrial development as a possible venture.

• Jeremy invited Saine to a private banquet, where Shi'a Empire nobles agreed to help with his business troubles in Goleit Province.
• Saine used his knowledge and connections to assist Jeremy, and the two became closer through frequent gatherings.
• Thirty years later, Saine traveled through the Federation's central Essence Sea Starfield while continuing to study its society and avoid sensitive government, military, and business circles.
• Jeremy questioned Saine's purpose in the Federation, and Saine said he had come to pursue a future greater than the modest status and resources his father had arranged for him.
• Saine asked Jeremy what he thought about military-industrial development.

Saine persuaded Jeremy to investigate military robot manufacturers as a possible business venture ahead of the looming war between the Galente Federation and Wizard Civilization. Meanwhile, Federation leaders debated accelerating the Doomsday Project and ordered a captured Level-4 Knight sent to an experimental base for interrogation.

• Saine told Jeremy that his father expected major changes and a possible catastrophe as tensions with Wizard Civilization escalated.
• Saine proposed entering military robot production, explained that he had sales channels in the Shi'a Empire, and showed Jeremy a star map marking more than a hundred manufacturers for investigation.
• Jeremy agreed to study the manufacturers and noticed that the marked sites included more than a dozen Mechanical Planets, with one starfield near Cybertron Planet.
• In a Federation heavy prison, officials discussed a captured Level-4 Knight and the possibility of activating the Doomsday Project ahead of schedule.
• Federation leaders ordered the Knight transferred to the Apollo Sun-Class Experimental Base so researchers could try to extract information from him.

After receiving a prophecy of great misfortune on Baiyu-2 Planet, Saine suspected that his cover in the Galente Federation had been compromised. He abandoned the drone factory negotiations with Jeremy and hurried to leave the planet, though he still did not know what danger was coming or when.

• With Jeremy's help, Saine reached a military base near the Cybertron Star Region and continued pursuing his plan to contact the Decepticons.
• Seven years later, Saine felt a sudden foreboding while inspecting a suicide drone factory on Baiyu-2 Planet.
• Saine used the Six-Prism Treasure Box to divine that a life-threatening calamity was approaching, but he learned neither its source nor its timing.
• Jeremy told Saine that Dimei Kong Company had offered drones at a discount if they placed an order worth at least one billion Federation Credits.
• Saine urged Jeremy to leave Baiyu-2 Planet and continue their inspections elsewhere, and Jeremy agreed.

Saine changed course for Mihaki f Logistics Base, where the Dodge Family was negotiating to buy damaged and outdated military robots. Colonel Harris hoped the deal would earn him enough money to improve his prospects, but the negotiations went poorly, and the story left the base awaiting the Dodge representative’s response.

• Saine redirected the spacecraft to Mihaki f Logistics Base, telling Jeremy the new route would save time and let him inspect damaged military-grade robots.
• Colonel Harris, a struggling base commander with ambitions beyond his post, relied on quiet side businesses involving damaged or substandard robot shipments.
• Harris focused on negotiations between the Quartermaster Department lieutenant colonel and visitors from the Dodge Family, hoping to secure income for himself and his soldiers.
• The Dodge representative found Harris’s robot models outdated and the asking price too high, though the lieutenant colonel left his contact information and said the price could be negotiated.

Saine deceived Jeremy and the Federation investigators with a corpse puppet, then reached a hidden warehouse at Mihaki f Logistics Base to contact the Decepticons. A damaged robot activated and said their leader had been waiting for him.

• Colonel Harris regretted that Mihaki f Logistics Base could not supply the elite robots Beckett's Mecha Corps required, but resolved not to give up.
• Jeremy discussed their next stop with Pulis, unaware that Saine had replaced him with a corpse puppet controlled by Corpse and Soul Magic.
• Saine watched Jeremy and the puppet leave, then slipped past the base's monitoring networks using the Faceless Mask.
• Saine entered an abandoned warehouse filled with powered-down gray robots and identified himself to a damaged-model robot as a Wizard Civilization Magician sent to contact the Decepticons.
• The robot's eyes lit up, and it told Saine that the Decepticons' leader had been awaiting him.

Saine traveled with an Awakened robot into the Galente Federation’s heavily defended Cybertron Star Region to investigate how the Intelligent Robots had gained self-awareness and to recruit them. He arrived at a central artificial satellite, where he faced the Level-6 Decepticons and more than ten other powerful Intelligent Robots.

• An Intelligent Robot led Saine through an underground passage to a hidden reconnaissance craft, which carried them toward Cybertron Planet without attracting Federation patrols.
• Saine used Shallow Meditation during the journey and considered the danger of the mission and the robots’ ties to the Federation scientists who had created them.
• The reconnaissance craft crossed the Cybertron Star Region, a vast Federation industrial zone containing more than three hundred Mechanical Planets and extensive military defenses.
• The gray robot brought Saine to an artificial satellite instead of taking him directly to Cybertron Planet.
• Saine met the silver-black Decepticons and more than ten Awakened robots, each at Level 4 or above.

Saine met the Decepticon and its followers at an artificial satellite near Cybertron Planet to negotiate cooperation against the Galente Federation. The talks exposed the three restraints binding the robots, leaving Saine with a difficult sequence of tasks before they could gain their freedom.

• The Decepticon explained that it had arranged the meeting away from Cybertron Planet to avoid detection by the Galente Federation.
• The Decepticon led Saine into the artificial satellite and described its growing faction, its rivalry with Optimus Prime, and the robots’ pursuit of independence.
• The Decepticon introduced Shockwave, Red Spider, Predaking, and Bruticus to Saine before they began negotiations.
• Saine sought the Decepticon faction’s open support for the Wizard Alliance, while the Decepticon wanted technology to free the robots from enslavement.
• The Decepticon revealed that three restraints controlled the robots: one on the robots themselves, one on Cybertron Planet, and one inside the BHR678 space station.

Saine negotiated with Decepticons and the Cybertron Planet robots, who sought freedom and equal rights in exchange for joining Wizard Civilization if war with the Galente Federation began. After the terms were finalized, Saine used the Key of Freedom, and Decepticons wondered aloud whether they had finally gained freedom.

• Saine learned that the robots needed three layers of command shackles unlocked, with Cybertron Planet's Core Control Room and BHR678 Space Station as key targets.
• Decepticons and the other robots recalled their ties to BHR678 Space Station and Michael Bay, the scientist who had nurtured their self-awareness and concealed it from the Federation.
• Saine negotiated with the robots and swiftly finalized terms granting them freedom and equal rights, while they pledged to join Wizard Civilization if war broke out.
• The robots agreed to support Wizard Civilization by force when needed, and the Level Four-and-above robots present added the commitment to their directives.
• Saine activated the blue orb of law, bathing the artificial satellite in azure light as Decepticons asked, “Is this freedom?”