Chapter Summaries

He Kai reunited with He Wei, who learned that Miss Eunice had helped He Kai join the Eldest Princess's service. The He Family began treating He Kai as a valuable connection and offered him people, supplies, and support, leaving him with the family ready to spare no expense for his position.

• He Kai and Li Yang discovered they were both heading to the port to meet relatives and traveled there together.
• He Wei arrived aboard a He Family cruiser and demanded to know how He Kai had come to serve the Eldest Princess.
• He Kai explained that Miss Eunice, his former blind date, had recommended him to the Eldest Princess's service.
• He Wei regretted not pursuing Miss Eunice and then teased He Kai about his remarkable luck.
• He Wei revealed that the He Family had prepared supplies, gifts for the Eldest Princess, and personnel He Kai could choose for her Knight Order.

He Kai and Li Yang tried to find a way for their families to support Her Royal Highness Elf, but Franz warned them that gifts had to respect her status and Duke Palmer’s authority. He arranged for their families to supply the route and send knights to fill vacancies, then reminded them to spend time at home before the group departed.

• He Wei told He Kai that the He Family would fund his efforts to build connections with Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess, and He Kai set out to gather information.
• He Kai met Li Yang, and the two decided to ask Franz how they could contribute to the Princess.
• Franz rejected their offer of gifts, explaining that the Princess could not accept just anything and that gifts had to meet a threshold.
• Franz arranged for their families to provide supplies along the route and send knights to fill vacancies, while warning them that they were in Duke Palmer’s territory.
• Franz advised He Kai to tell his family and spend a few more days at home before the group set out for a long time.

Elf joined the fleet bound for the Chaos Battlefield, while the Blue Star Federation Military Government struggled with the political consequences of her arrival. Once on the battlefield, Elf tried to take part in the fighting herself, but Franz and Shalier moved to keep her safe.

• He Kai and the others prioritized serving His Highness over maintaining family ties as the fleet prepared to depart for the Chaos Battlefield.
• Daniel asked Elvis to intervene and make Elf withdraw her private fleet, but Elvis said the Blue Star Federation had refused Great Xia’s aid and that he could not control Elf.
• Daniel worried that the Blue Star Federation’s circumstances were changing, while Elf remained unaware of the political tensions and eagerly joined the battlefield fleet.
• Elf received the latest battlefield information from Count Simon and prepared to personally fire the first shot, prompting Franz to threaten to take her back.
• Franz asked Royal Knight Shalier to keep Elf off the battlefield, and Shalier pledged to protect her safety.

Elf was allowed to command the fleet but remained under Shalier’s watch, while Daniel urged Lucas to accept a treaty with the Great Xia Empire and was sent to approach Lucas’s opponents instead. As the fleet encountered enemies in the Chaotic Galaxy, Elf tried to get into the fighting, but Shalier blocked her.

• Elf realized Shalier was protecting her at Michel’s and Franz’s request, then agreed to stay in command of the fleet.
• Daniel told Lucas that the Great Xia Empire might be planning to dismember the Federation and urged him to accept a further treaty.
• Lucas refused to change course but told Daniel to contact his opponents, while Daniel prayed for hope for the Blue Star Federation.
• Elf spotted enemy forces and ordered the First Squadron to pursue them, then tried and failed to sneak past Shalier.

Elf joined the Princess Royal Fleet’s battle, discovered that combat was less exciting than she had imagined, and began to understand her responsibility to those who followed her. After leading the fleet to victory and building its morale, she told List she wanted to conquer territory and join the Dark Empire as a Fallen Angel.

• Franz took command, then allowed Elf to practice fighting after the fleet had secured the battlefield.
• Elf charged into battle, destroyed enemy mechs, and returned disappointed when the experience failed to excite her.
• Franz encouraged Elf to seek a meaningful purpose, and she realized she needed to take responsibility for the people who had joined her.
• Elf addressed the fleet, promised its members the chance to become landed nobles, and raised its morale after their victory.
• After the Princess Royal Fleet gained renown and withdrew to reorganize, Elf told List she wanted to conquer territory and join the Dark Empire.

Elf argued that she should expand into other civilizations' territories to help House Augusta, but List tried to keep her from taking the risk. Derek supported Elf and then announced a plan to unleash an Evolutionary Tide across nearby civilizations, ending with the declaration of the Dark Tide.

• Elf told List she wanted to expand into other civilizations' territories, but he refused and offered to take her along on future conquests instead.
• Elf insisted she could contribute to House Augusta, but List confined her and refused to let her leave.
• Elf complained to Derek, who told her she was capable of going out into the world and revealed that he had let her reach the Dark Empire.
• Derek gathered everyone with Augusta blood and announced a plan to trigger an Evolutionary Tide for all life.
• Derek explained that random Interstellar Passage trials could reach nearby civilizations and declared that House Augusta would unveil the Dark Tide.

House Augusta began its Evolutionary Tide, and the Great Xia Empire tested a new way to open exits from Interstellar Passages. Elf’s team discovered an unknown civilization at an early technological stage, and Elf assigned her brothers and sisters to use it for practice.

• Derek found that the descendants accepted House Augusta’s plan, and he appointed Elf as its first executor.
• The Great Xia Empire used divine statues to open a rift in an Interstellar Passage, and scouts discovered signs of an unknown civilization.
• The research vessel confirmed that the civilization was new and located between known civilizations, then waited for support while keeping its presence hidden.
• Elf and her team learned that the civilization had only recently begun space travel within its planetary system.
• Hans suggested using the civilization for practice, and Elf told her brothers and sisters to cultivate a group of qualified helpers.

Elf and Hans tested the Sacred Evolution Tide on a newly discovered planetary civilization, transforming its technology and forcing life across the planet into a brutal evolutionary process. After observing the carnage from orbit, Elf descended with her siblings and guards to collect specimens, arriving near a massive flesh monster that was beginning to weaken.

• Elf ordered a full reconnaissance of the newly discovered civilization and learned that it had only recently entered the stars.
• Pegasus arrived near the planet, and Derek used divine power to mutate the civilization’s mechanical equipment over seventy-two hours.
• The Great Xia Empire’s warships arrived, and divine power triggered the Sacred Evolution Tide, killing and mutating life throughout the planetary system.
• Elf agreed to collect research samples personally, chose several strong-looking targets, and descended to the planet with Hans, Gwen, and her knight guards.
• Elf landed near a city-sized flesh monster and observed that it was weakening as its supply of living prey ran low.

Elf and her companions surveyed creatures transformed by the Evolutionary Tide, collecting specimens and intervening when Gwen took a liking to a sacred deer-like creature. After Elf dismissed an evolved being’s questions and threats, the group left for their next target.

• Elf collected a living sample from a Flesh Mountain whose assimilated faces had lost their individual identities.
• Gwen asked whether the grotesque creature could evolve successfully, and Hans said that collecting specimens made the outcome worthwhile either way.
• Elf and her companions found evolved beings attacking a powerful, rational deer-like creature that could heal and control plants.
• Elf sent the attackers flying to protect the deer-like creature after Gwen asked to help, while Gwen collected samples from it.
• An evolved being demanded to know who caused the global mutation and vowed to make the gods regret it, but Elf knocked him down and told him to grow stronger.
• Gwen finished sampling and playing with the deer-like creature, then reluctantly left with Elf and the others for their next target.

Elf discovered that the shrinking Flesh Mountain was conscious and had been hiding its intelligence, then ordered it blasted after it tried to communicate. She decided to meet it in person and find out what it wanted.

• Elf noticed a face on the Flesh Mountain watching the satellite and ordered a low-power laser shot to test it.
• The Flesh Mountain tried to disguise its main body, but the Central AI detected its hesitation and Elf concluded it was hiding something.
• The Flesh Mountain used a communicator to say it wanted to talk to the Great Xia Empire.
• Elf ordered another laser blast despite the researchers' protests, and the Flesh Mountain recoiled in pain.
• Elf ordered preparations for a face-to-face meeting and dismissed Hans's concern about the risk.

Elf confronted the Flesh Mountain, struck it with overwhelming force, and urged it to evolve if it wanted to leave its planetary cage. After Elf departed, the Flesh Mountain began shrinking and changing its evolutionary path, while a group of Evolvers returned to investigate.

• Elf ignored the Flesh Mountain’s mental storm, burned its faces, and challenged it as a creation of God.
• Elf told the Flesh Mountain that she was Goddess Elf, identified it as the product of sacred evolution, and described God as the omniscient Father.
• Elf split the ground with a kick, prompting the Flesh Mountain to submit; she rejected its submission and urged it to evolve and reach the stars.
• Elf flew away, and the Flesh Mountain began shrinking as it abandoned its vast, disorderly growth for a new evolutionary path.
• A group of Evolvers approached the city again, led by the Evolver whom Elf and the others had met at the Deer-shaped Lifeform.

An Evolver leader led his team into the city to investigate the weakening Flesh Mountain and seek information about visitors from beyond the stars. After Flesh Mountain vanished and revealed its humanlike form, it crushed the leader and his team, leaving the leader’s boast that humanity would triumph unanswered.

• The Evolver leader brought his team toward Flesh Mountain, hoping to learn what it knew about the visitors from beyond the stars.
• A winged Evolver spotted Flesh Mountain, which had shrunk to a fraction of its former size, and the team hurried toward it.
• The leader declared that Evolvers were the protagonists of the age, but an unseen attack blasted him away as Flesh Mountain disappeared.
• The leader mistook the figure that emerged from Flesh Mountain’s remains for a weakened, devolved Evolver and urged his team to attack.
• Flesh Mountain forced the team to their knees, crushed the leader beneath its foot, and killed him as he vowed humanity would win.

Flesh Mountain pursued evolution on Earth while Elf and Davis developed a laboratory program to create Flesh Mountain replicants on another planet. Their experiments produced conscious replicants and biological weapons, but none matched the original before Elf urged Davis to broaden his research.

• Flesh Mountain continued growing stronger as super-evolved beings emerged on Earth after receiving word of the assessment required to venture into the stars.
• Elf approved Davis's request to move the Flesh Mountain experiment to the fifth planet, where Davis established facilities and began breeding test subjects.
• Davis's experiments with disorderly and specialized evolution failed to produce stable, conscious Flesh Mountains, so he introduced black slaves during early growth stages.
• Davis created conscious Flesh Mountain Replicants, but many collapsed because their consciousnesses could not withstand their bodies or further proliferation.
• Davis developed degenerated subtypes and standardized biological weapons, but none reached the original's level before Elf asked him to start additional research projects.

Hans reported that the Great Xia Empire had found another civilization, but Elf focused on testing the evolved beings at the end of the Evolutionary Tide. More than a hundred passed the Path to Heaven and were taken toward the next stage, while some survivors suspected the Tide came from genetic technology rather than gods.

• Hans told Elf that the Great Xia Empire had discovered another civilization, and Elf ordered Archangel-class knights to test the evolved beings.
• The knights opened pillars of light across the planet and announced that the Path to Heaven was open, drawing super-evolved beings toward them.
• Flesh Mountain reached his assigned pillar, where the leading knight threatened to erase eligible beings who had failed to arrive and demonstrated the test with the golden giant deer.
• Flesh Mountain passed the genuine mental-attack test and followed the Path to Heaven to Eden Garden, where he saw many other evolved beings.
• After more than a hundred evolved beings passed, the Giant Deer Evolution Field closed, the Evolutionary Tide ended, and knights guided the survivors into the next stage.

Elf and Gwen crushed an attempted uprising by evolvers, then assigned the survivors roles in the Dark Empire’s forces. Elf singled out Flesh Mountain for a reward and invited him to challenge her once he chose a new body.

• Flesh Mountain recognized that he shared the evolvers’ urge to slay gods but restrained himself as some of them attacked Elf and her companions.
• Elf and Gwen beat the attackers and other impulsive evolvers without killing them, revealing that Elf had known about the plot beforehand.
• Elf warned the survivors against further rebellion and Flesh Mountain pledged his support for evolution and the gods.
• Elf declared herself their master and assigned the plotters as war slaves while registering the other survivors as Dark Warriors.
• Elf took Flesh Mountain aside, told him to choose a body at the laboratory, and warned that he would have only one chance to challenge her.

Elf convinced Flesh Mountain that evolution could lead him to godhood beneath her father, then sent him to claim a Replicant as his reward. He absorbed Replicant Number 101, regained his assimilation ability, and left with a new path to grow stronger while recognizing that his power still needed limits.

• Elf mocked Flesh Mountain’s hesitation, then encouraged his ambition by promising he might ascend as a subordinate god beneath her father.
• After Flesh Mountain left to claim his reward, Elf told Hans that evolution was meant to collect data, usher in a new era, and find useful allies, not make outsiders into gods.
• A researcher explained that Flesh Mountain could choose between Progenitor Bodies and Specialized Bodies, and Flesh Mountain selected Replicant Number 101 to increase his strength.
• Flesh Mountain entered the testing grounds, absorbed Number 101, and regained his assimilation ability as his power rapidly grew.
• Flesh Mountain considered earning more Replicants but realized he still needed to develop his ability to control his power.

Elf’s team secretly prepared to spread the Evolution Potion through Scale Clan territory after determining that a direct invasion would be too difficult. Flesh Mountain infiltrated a damaged mining ship by killing a crewman and taking his identity.

• Elf learned that reconnaissance had identified the Scale Clan and its strong defenses, while Davis reported that the Evolution Potion was ready.
• Elf ordered agents to infiltrate the Scale Clan and distribute the potion to trigger an Evolutionary Tide.
• Flesh Mountain waited outside a Scale Clan planetary system and damaged the mining ship Stray Cat with space mines.
• The Stray Cat’s crew began emergency repairs, and Flesh Mountain slipped aboard unnoticed.
• Flesh Mountain devoured a damage control crewman, took on his appearance and memories, and answered the foreman as Peter.

Flesh Mountain replaced the captain of the Stray Cat and used his new identity to continue exploiting the crew while testing ways to expand his business. After losing money to the Scale Clan’s corrupt officials, he reported his frustrations to Elf and remained convinced that the Scale Clan needed to be transformed.

• Flesh Mountain refused to leave with resigning crew members because he wanted a stronger identity, then devoured Peter’s captain and took his place.
• Flesh Mountain fooled the crew into believing Peter had died of heart disease, and the new captain paid the dead man’s family less compensation than the insurance payout.
• Flesh Mountain inspected the kitchen and ordered the head chef to cut meat portions in half while drugs were secretly mixed into the ingredients.
• The Stray Cat found precious minerals, and Flesh Mountain used the profits to try businesses including food, transportation, and supermarkets, but lost money.
• Flesh Mountain complained to Elf that corrupt Scale Clan officials had ruined his ventures, and he argued that the Scale Clan needed a complete transformation.

After completing his mission to spread Evolution Potion across the Scale Clan’s ecological planets, Flesh Mountain returned to the Stray Cat and resumed his mining business. A monster then attacked the crew, and Flesh Mountain examined the grisly scene before ordering the security force to be contacted.

• Flesh Mountain reported that he had released Evolution Potion across the Scale Clan’s ecological planets, and Elf told him the Scale Clan had to find salvation amid destruction.
• Flesh Mountain bought cheap supplies, returned to the Stray Cat, and resumed his strict management of the crew.
• A monster burst through a crew quarters door and killed two crewmen despite the others’ gunfire.
• Flesh Mountain examined the bodies and revealed he had once fought pirates with blades.
• Flesh Mountain ordered the crew to contact the security force.

Flesh Mountain kept the Stray Cat’s crew safe as random mutations and evolutions plunged the Scale Clan into civil conflict. After six months, the government welcomed the crew home, and Flesh Mountain revealed that he was an Evolver.

• Flesh Mountain contacted the security force, learned that mutations were occurring elsewhere, and ordered the Stray Cat’s crew to isolate and patrol for monsters.
• Mutation and evolution cases spread across the Scale Clan, and arrests, resistance, and fighting threw society into chaos.
• The Stray Cat remained safe outside the spaceport for six months while the crew waited for the planet’s unrest to subside.
• The Scale Clan government recognized Evolvers and welcomed the Wanderer’s crew home for medical examinations and registration.
• Flesh Mountain told the receiving official that he was an Evolver.