Recaps

Company Commander Huang’s soldiers completed a virtual-reality battle drill, shared tactics with other units, and earned a higher score after killing a Fallen Elf Matriarch. In Transia, General He’s misplaced unit helped defend Riptide Fortress and prepared to face an approaching swarm of Chaos flying insects.

• Company Commander Huang learned that his company ranked among the top thirty and was assigned a later drill in the Great Wilds.
• Company Commander Huang shared his battle experience with other company commanders, and his soldiers later reported killing a Fallen Elf Matriarch and reaching the top twenty.
• General He’s soldiers helped repair Riptide Fortress after repelling Chaos Ratmen, while General He ordered scouts to investigate hidden enemies and planned a new riverbank defense line.
• Quanxian Bangu explained that General He’s unit had been sent to the wrong war zone and asked it to defend Riptide Fortress against incoming Chaos flying insects.
• General He accepted Sam’s hunting rifle and followed Quanxian Bangu to prepare for the insects’ arrival.

Giant Shark and the player squads raced to reinforce the Daughters of Glory, where Fallen Sentinels were attacking Lord Murphy. After crashing into the hunter-cruiser and arming themselves from Ersha’s private arsenal, the players fought their way through the ship and encountered Old Vam joining the battle.

• Happy Stick summoned Giant Shark and other elite player squads to help defend the Daughters of Glory from the Fallen Sentinels.
• Mannis reversed time on the Star Realm Colossus, restoring its integrity and the damaged Sentinel warriors, while Happy Stick held the front.
• Little Ashina piloted a damaged shuttle through a hole in the Daughters of Glory and crashed into its weapons depot, where the players seized Ersha’s weapons.
• Lumina used Ersha’s ordinary-looking revolver to interrupt a Fallen Sentinel’s attack, revealing that the weapon seemed to hit through causality.
• Giant Shark charged a group of Fallen Sentinels and watched Old Vam arrive, announce that he was ready for the final battle, and offer to teach him to fight.

Wamu and Fiona arrived to reinforce the Order faction, while the Chaos Shadows forcibly transformed Juliana into a Chaos god and sent her after Murphy. Juliana reached the bridge only to find Murphy gone and Maxim waiting, revealing that the battle had been bait and Murphy’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Wamu's arrival unleashed the Daughter of Dawn's power, empowering the Holy Light forces and Fiona as they attacked the fallen Sentinels aboard the Daughter of Glory.
• Juliana defeated Amunis, then resisted as the Chaos Shadows forcibly elevated her into a supreme daemon and overwhelmed her remaining reason.
• Fiona confronted Juliana, rejected her claims about the Sentinel Primarchs, and prepared to fight the corrupted mechanical god.
• Juliana opened a path to the bridge, left her monstrous avatar to hold Fiona back, and rushed to kill Murphy.
• Juliana found Maxim in the captain's chair instead of Murphy, and the Chaos Shadows realized the battle had been a trap while Murphy's location remained unknown.

Fiona and Lao Wa abandoned the Sentry Hunter vessel to help protect the Astral Colossus, while Maxim delayed Juliana long enough for Murphy’s forces to strike her warship. Juliana reached the Daughter of Shame too late, and Great Shark stumbled upon a hidden chamber containing Lady Ersha.

• Fiona and Lao Wa left the Sentry Hunter vessel to assist Mother Gaia at the Astral Colossus.
• Maxim crippled the Daughter of Glory and repeatedly interrupted Juliana’s attempts to escape, but Juliana killed him and reached the Daughter of Shame.
• Murphy and Lady Hettis led the assault on Juliana’s warship, where the Sentries executed captured Fallen sisters as Juliana arrived.
• Juliana saw Murphy and attacked him, while Murphy recalled Long Night’s Guard and ordered Lady Hettis to continue the assault.
• Great Shark survived Juliana’s phase-skip, found a concealed passage aboard the Daughter of Shame, and discovered Lady Ersha in a dark chamber.

Vidia tried to seize the World Tree Seed and make the Star Realm its divine kingdom, but Bor and the Old Gods opposed it. Vidia reached the treehouse only to be confronted by Paine, Lady Lily, and Old Edward, while Bor blocked its call to Chaos.

• Vidia crossed the shattered Star Realm and entered the World Tree Seed’s nursery, where Bor and his Goatfolk disciples guarded it with creation-energy devices.
• Bor rejected Vidia’s offer and warned that Order and Chaos would unite against its plan; Vidia detonated its talismans to unleash Chaos forces and distract the Star Realm deities.
• Great Lord Aurora and the Old Gods arrived to stop Vidia, but Vidia knocked Bor aside and forced its way through the creation-energy barrier into the World Tree’s treehouse.
• Paine and Lady Lily ambushed Vidia inside the treehouse, and Old Edward joined them as the three ancient vampires surrounded it.
• Bor activated Murphy’s Omega energy, sealing the treehouse and preventing Vidia from calling on the Chaos shadows.

Giant Shark freed Lady Elsa from her hidden cell aboard the Daughter of Shame, and she joined Hettis and Murphy in fighting Juliana. Elsa defeated Juliana and vowed to drag her into the Lightless Sea, even if doing so meant her own destruction.

• Giant Shark freed Lady Elsa from the torture device, and Elsa removed the corrupted Webway conduits from her head.
• Giant Shark guarded Elsa from attacking Fallen Sentinels, but they shattered his armor and badly wounded him before Elsa killed them with her bare hands.
• Elsa and Giant Shark fought their way to the Battle Sisters, who armed Elsa and directed her to the battle deck.
• Hettis and Murphy fought Juliana until Elsa arrived and struck her down with her battle axe.
• Juliana told Elsa that corruption had made them both immortal and warned that Elsa's sisters would reject her; Elsa declared she would take Juliana into the Lightless Sea and demanded her final words.

Elsa refused to return to the Sentinel Legion after killing the corrupted Juliana and joined Murphy’s journey into the Lightless Sea. As the Crimson Dawn raced toward the Chaos core, Old Ao and the other gods and players opened a path through Glutton and Longevity, allowing the ship to slip into the depths.

• Elsa killed Juliana, recovered her Fallen cognitive spark, and gave Great Shark the battle-axe before telling Hetis to report her as dead.
• Elsa joined Murphy aboard the Crimson Dawn, while Hetis took the Daughter of Devotion and the captured Daughter of Shame away as a decoy.
• Murphy’s ship entered stealth and accelerated toward the Lightless Sea’s core, but Glutton and Longevity appeared to block its path.
• Old Ao, Old Su, the Father of Oaks, the Feathered Serpent God, Old Wa, and the players arrived to help clear the way for Murphy.
• Great Shark struck Longevity with his axe, and Old Wa spent his remaining power to widen the wound, letting the Crimson Dawn pass through and disappear into the Lightless Sea.

Murphy and Ersha traveled deeper into the Lightless Sea to find the Omega as the crew transformed into Warp life and a Chaos Shadow passed the Scarlet Dawn. Meanwhile, the defenders lost the Star Colossus, the Seed of the Astral Realm reached 56% maturity, and Old Qin awaited Murphy as the material world's forces ran short of reinforcements.

• Murphy entered the Lightless Sea, saw another Scarlet Dawn with Triss aboard, and put on Lady Fendir's protective suit while the rest of the crew remained motionless.
• Murphy met Ersha, who explained that the Lightless Sea blurred the distinction between reality and illusion and transformed material life into Warp life; a Chaos Shadow circled the ship before disappearing.
• Murphy and Ersha followed the intermittent Omega signal toward the bridge, and Ersha told Murphy that the Scarlet Dawn would become a Warp creature and that this journey was her end point.
• Happy Stick ordered a retreat from the Star Colossus, stayed behind to detonate the numerical torpedoes, and destroyed the vessel as Chaos overwhelmed its defenses.
• The Seed of the Astral Realm reached 56% maturity, while Old Qin watched the available reserve manpower fall below twenty thousand and urged Murphy to hurry.

Murphy prepared to leave the Crimson Dawn with Elsa and travel on foot toward the Omega through the Sea of Lightlessness, while reassuring his companions that he would return. After saying goodbye to Triss, Adele, and Shani, he joined Elsa on the bridge, ready to continue the dangerous journey.

• Solma told Murphy that the Crimson Dawn was nearing the Omega by drifting through the Sea of Lightlessness, and Murphy ordered the crew to rest while the ship kept moving.
• Murphy’s system confirmed his transformation into a Warp Creature was in progress and awarded him a Creator point, strengthening his Explorer ability and revealing that a curious new guest had boarded the ship.
• Triss and Adele described frightening visions of possible futures, and Murphy gave them matching rings so they could sense his presence while he continued toward the Omega with Elsa.
• Triss and Adele tried to keep Murphy from leaving, but the Crimson Dawn reached the edge of the shallows, and Murphy set out for the bridge.
• Shani stopped the elevator to delay Murphy, then kissed him and admitted she did not want him to leave; Murphy promised to return.
• Murphy met Elsa on the bridge, and the two prepared to leave the Crimson Dawn and continue their one-way journey.

Murphy and Elsa reached the Omega in the Lightless Sea, where they activated the Entropy Converter and encountered Elsa’s sister. The converter began replenishing Order’s power as a Worldgate enhancement started.

• Murphy and Elsa crossed the Lightless Sea’s fading depths toward the Omega while their memories and bodies were stripped away.
• Elsa collapsed into the still-sea, but Murphy pulled her up and carried her onward rather than abandoning his friend.
• Murphy placed the Entropy Converter beneath the Omega, and it began converting Chaotic Psionic Energy into Genesis Energy.
• A faded woman resembling Elsa pulled Murphy and Elsa onto the Omega, where Elsa recognized her as her sister.
• Murphy received notice that the converter was operating and ordered the Worldgate enhancement measures activated.

As the Astral Realm defenders faced annihilation, Bole urged the Genesis Engine to begin reshaping the plane, while Sister Cement hoped Murphy’s promised trump card would arrive. The reserve manpower suddenly surged to infinity, revealing that Murphy had sent an endless stream of foreign heroes into the war and turned the battle in their favor.

• Bole told Hathor and Palanno that the Astral Realm’s revival had reached sixty percent and urged them to evacuate, but they refused to abandon the Astral Seed’s defense.
• Bole returned to the Genesis Engine and asked Rose to begin reshaping the Astral Realm, while Sister Cement argued that they should wait for Murphy’s trump card.
• Rose warned that the reserve manpower was nearly exhausted and said she would start reshaping the Astral Realm if the numbers reached zero.
• Old Qin and General He fought at Eagle Canyon as Old Qin’s reserve manpower count plunged to 17, then suddenly soared to infinity.
• Old Qin realized Murphy’s trump card had arrived, and Sister Cement ordered the sentinels to evacuate the Astral Realm while foreign heroes took over the battlefield.

Cat Brother and the other players returned to the Astral Realm with unrestricted respawns, buying time for the Astral Tree to remake their world. As Chaos retreated and the reshaping began, Old Ma and Uncle Yincha unveiled a devastating weapon in the material world.

• Cat Brother respawned beneath the Astral Tree and joined players who charged into battle to cover the Astral Army’s evacuation.
• The Goddess of Wealth promised to return the players’ lost equipment after victory, and Meow Brother led the Big Bird Squad into the fighting.
• Cat Brother and Sister Pomegranate encountered Niu Haicheng at the respawn point, while Old Niu chased him through the area with a mechanical battle spear.
• The players held back Chaos until its great daemons retreated, and the Astral Tree’s creation energy began reshaping the realm as Old Ao, Ze, Old Su, Avalon, and Kulkan gave their life force to its rebirth.
• Old Ma and Uncle Yincha detonated a powerful weapon in a Chaos-corrupted valley on Greeny Island, and Prince William considered what this new power might mean for his kingship.

Murphy awoke aboard the Omega after the war and learned that his victories had earned him the chance to inherit the Creator’s authority, though the role came with a final trial and the burden of guarding the Lightless Sea. At the end of the passage, he faced Original Sin inhabiting Mairiding’s body.

• Murphy woke from his long sleep and learned that the Astral Realm was being revived and that his Pathfinder power had advanced.
• Captain Lingke told Murphy that he had outlasted the other candidates and was the only one who had chosen to remain and guard his cosmos.
• Lingke explained that the Lightless Sea held the dangerous memories of the cosmos and would become Murphy’s divine realm and responsibility.
• Murphy learned that his final trial was to face Original Sin, which could not be defeated with weapons.
• Murphy met the Faded Mairiding, whose body housed Original Sin, and confronted the entity at the end of the passage.

Murphy confronted Original Sin in the passage to the Creator, arguing that the past should be remembered rather than erased and offering to preserve its history. Original Sin let him pass, and Murphy entered the light carrying a mysterious crystal as Rinko and Eulsha prepared for the Omega to sail toward the future.

• Murphy questioned why Original Sin recruited extremists instead of revealing the truth about the past to ordinary people.
• Murphy argued that remembering the great extinction and its mistakes could prevent history from repeating, then asked Original Sin to make peace.
• Original Sin revealed that part of the vampires' homeworld was incorporated into the Star of the End, but Murphy refused to abandon his argument.
• After striking Murphy, Original Sin chose not to attack again and warned that he would return if future generations repeated the same mistakes.
• Murphy picked up a crystal containing black smoke, opened the door, and entered the light, where he apparently greeted the Creator with a shattered bottle.
• Rinko arrived with Eulsha and told her to clean the passage before the Omega set sail toward the future.

Murphy met with the Creator, learned how the Shadow Brotherhood had created the linked worlds and what responsibilities awaited him, then chose to return to his own universe as its guardian. He left with a new mission to find the End and hoped Triss was waiting for him at home.

• Murphy refused the Creator’s offer to join the Shadow Brotherhood and explained that he wanted to guard the universe he had built.
• The Creator explained that the Brotherhood rescued stranded countrymen, placed them in mirrored worlds, and made Transia part of a selection process for a guardian.
• The Creator told Murphy that Chaos had leaked into the other world and that Murphy, as the Entropy Converter’s owner, had to balance Order and Chaos.
• The Creator appointed Murphy director of the Shadow Kindergarten and advised him to find the End, the second point needed for the cosmic system’s sacred timeline.
• Murphy learned the Creator’s name was Mason, accepted a farewell gift from the Mason family, and returned toward home, hoping Triss had not dismantled the Crimson Dawn.

After thirty-seven days in the Lightless Sea, Murphy returned to the Scarlet Dawn and reunited with Triss and Adele, then returned to Transia as the world continued recovering from the astral war. He left Mirian to handle the news of his return quietly while he took over her work, and the chapter ended with the blood moon shining over the city.

• Triss recorded how the Lightless Sea was eroding memories and time, while the Scarlet Dawn suffered strange energy disturbances and lost contact with the outside world.
• Murphy reappeared in Triss's cabin, and she joyfully embraced him before Adele rushed in and welcomed him back.
• Murphy, Triss, and Adele discovered a bizarre potion among the gifts from the Creator's group, and Murphy stopped Adele and Triss from using it.
• Murphy returned to Transia, where Mirian handed him her unfinished work and went to rest while he began reading it.
• Murphy told Mirian not to announce his return, and Maxim took up guard outside the governor's office as Mirian left beneath the blood moon.

After returning from the Lightless Sea, Murphy planned to let the players search for him as a future quest while he and his companions stayed behind as observers. He opened the Creator’s completion chest, found a helmet for entering the other world, and prepared to launch Real Otherworld.

• Murphy told Triss that the player system could now run without him and proposed making the search for the missing Midnight King a future quest in the Abyssal Space.
• Murphy recalled that several members of the Shadow Brotherhood had attended Mason’s banquet, though he had not noticed them at the time, and said he would follow his own path rather than join their operations.
• Murphy, Triss, and Adele went to the Heart of the World to open the Creator’s completion chest, while Shani appeared from Murphy’s shadow and traded barbs with Triss.
• Adele told Murphy about Boss Huo and Shen Yu’s upcoming wedding and asked whether they could have a home together in the other world; Murphy agreed to try.
• Murphy opened the chest and found a vampire-style full-face helmet inscribed with a hymn to Lord Midnight.
• Murphy put on the helmet and announced the launch of Real Otherworld.

Murphy entered Blue Star through the Alpha Corporation’s VR system and traveled to the wedding celebration, where he reunited with his friends and promised that the next story would unfold across two worlds. He left them with fireworks overhead and declared that he would protect their world from future suffering.

• Murphy accepted his otherworldly template, created a character based on his own face, and logged into Blue Star as the CEO of Alpha Corporation.
• Murphy explored the city with Rose, then realized he had no money to pay their taxi fare and asked Giant Shark to cover it.
• Giant Shark recognized Murphy and brought him and Rose to the theme park where Boss Huo and Sister Shen Yu’s wedding guests were celebrating.
• Murphy reunited with Little Ashina, lifted her from her wheelchair, and promised that Femis would be waiting for her the next morning.
• Murphy promised his friends a new story across two worlds, summoned moonlight over the fireworks, and vowed to prevent disaster from returning.

The author announced that he would give up his high-output “tentacle monster” writing routine to rest and protect his health. He thanked readers for their support and said he would return with another book after recovering.

• The author described his back pain, irritated throat, and hopes that his health-check results would improve.
• The author said he had written 43 million characters over nearly nine years, averaging about fifteen thousand characters a day when not resting.
• The author decided to stop pursuing the “tentacle monster” title and adopt a more sustainable writing schedule.
• The author reflected that the book had flaws but had helped him explore a new direction beyond fanfiction.
• The author thanked readers and said he would meet them again in his next book after recovering.