Recaps

Hubble rose through the ranks as Great Xia’s forces advanced, while Fernandez I secretly sabotaged his own army and then rallied the kingdom with an emancipation declaration. Qin’s forces captured New Holy City with the help of the Transcendent Knights, and the story ended with Great Xia exploring how Transcendent Power could be used in new weapons.

• Hubble rallied scattered soldiers, harassed the New Divine United Kingdom’s army, and led the Emerald Militia to rout its retreating troops, earning a regular regiment command.
• As Great Xia counterattacked, Hubble’s regiment helped break enemy positions, while Fernandez I secretly weakened his army and Good pursued influence through business and government ties.
• Qin entered the New Occupied Territories with Franz and the Augusta Knight Order as Great Xia immigrants took over Booker Tribe land and Booker Tribe residents were enslaved.
• Fernandez I abolished the Citizen Hierarchy System, freed enslaved people in resisting territories, promoted Booker Tribe officers, and rallied the kingdom against Great Xia.
• Qin’s forces met Fernandez I’s army near New Holy City, where Man Niu and the Transcendent Knights broke through the defenses and Great Xia captured the city.
• Fernandez I rejected Antoine’s suggestion to flee openly and escaped with him toward the Southern Continent under a false identity, while Qin claimed the New Divine United Kingdom’s territory.
• Franz sought to become a Transcendent Knight and began training with Elf under Burdett, while Derek tested Transcendent Power and piloted Tru’s Mecha Knight prototypes.

Tru’s institute developed practical uses for Transcendent Power as Great Xia expanded its technology and medicine. Meanwhile, Jos and Princess Mary Dajia explored political cooperation, the Lionheart delegation struggled with internal divisions, and Great Xia displayed its growing military strength.

• Tru awakened fiery red Transcendent Power, founded the Transcendent Research Institute, and led its researchers to develop a formula that strengthened iron and healed damage.
• Fernandez I and Antoine searched the Bruno Family’s ancestral caverns for a way to open a stone door, while Qin consolidated Great Xia’s control of the New Continent and prepared to return home.
• Qin returned to Great Xia, where Transcendent technology advanced and Tru’s team presented its first successful work to Derek.
• Tru’s researchers discovered that batteries and other materials could carry Transcendent Energy, while List arranged for Richard and Dust to sell Transcendent Medicine to overseas buyers.
• Princess Mary Dajia and Prince Charlie learned about Great Xia’s Transcendent advances, and Mary proposed that Jos help form a constitutional monarchy with Haman’s civilian elite.
• Jos returned to Great Xia, met Qin and Claire, and gave Kruger Transcendent Pills before Kruger asked him to use his connections to aid the Lionheart delegation.
• Jos chose to seek influence among the Lionheart Kingdom’s old aristocrats as Ambassador Jack dealt with investigators sent by the Queen and blamed one of her confidants for the embassy’s troubles.
• Franz took Jos and the delegation to watch Transcendent Knights test Knight Mechs, where a Winged Mech pilot challenged them to fight in the sky.

Derek expanded Great Xia’s Transcendent forces into space while the Lionheart Kingdom underwent a coup and the Moon became a center of settlement and research. The arc ended with the Investigation Bureau locating Fernandez I’s spacecraft after he and Antoine fled.

• Kruger allied with Jos, who secured Ambassador Jack’s cooperation and an official embassy position, while Haman arrived in Great Xia to consider Prince Charlie’s proposal.
• Derek named the new Knight Mech Angel, flew it into space, and began the Heaven Project, while Fernandez I and Antoine discovered an ancestral spaceship and a warning about the Federation.
• Prince Charlie, Jos, and Haman returned to the Lionheart Kingdom, where eight Angel-class Mecha Knights helped Charlie seize power and launch reforms with Great Xia’s support.
• Derek established Heaven Base, expanded the Transcendent forces, and approved plans for a lunar Spaceport and a cheaper Angel Mecha replacement.
• Mark joined the Spaceport construction effort as a foreman, and Count Simon became its governor and organized the Lunar Guard and a growing civilian community.
• Simon’s survey team found an abandoned lunar settlement, and Derek authorized research there while researchers uncovered evidence of an advanced civilization and a destroyed spacecraft.
• Mark helped manage immigration and community administration, supported his brother Hadige’s schooling, and took Hadige and classmates on a tour of the lunar frontier.
• The Investigation Bureau traced Fernandez I to a karst cave and found his spacecraft, while Fernandez I and Antoine prepared to flee.

Michel founded the New Church and led its forces in repelling Maple Leaf Mining’s fleet, then helped build a partnership between Great Xia and Lin Jie’s company. Lin Jie returned to the Federation with the Friendship, destroyed a Pegasus Group scout ship, and left Pegasus searching for Great Xia’s backing.

• Derek took control of the Sacred Sanctuary spaceship, and Knight Burdett’s faith collapsed after the Bronze Book described God as a mortal who had died on the cross.
• Burdett and Michel created the New Church plan, recruited Transcendent Knights and students, and Michel took command of the warship Ark 009.
• Simon led Great Xia’s fleet against Maple Leaf Mining’s ships, and its Mecha Knights forced Lin Jie’s fleet to surrender.
• Lin Jie met Michel, apologized for the incursion, and offered Federation information and White Swan-class Cruiser blueprints in pursuit of cooperation.
• Great Xia granted Maple Leaf Mining access to Planet 009 and built Black Swan-class Cruisers using its technology, then Michel gave Lin Jie one named Friendship.
• Lin Jie returned to the Federation and learned that Maple Leaf Mining had chosen Great Xia, with the old chairman offering the Empire blueprints for the Thunder God Fortress and the Federation-side Interstellar Passage entrance.
• Lin Jie activated Friendship’s Fire Seeds, identified Pegasus Group’s Tiger Cat as a pursuer, and destroyed it with the Rod of God.
• Pegasus Group examined the battle recordings and ordered its people to find the force backing Maple Leaf Mining.