Chapter Summaries

Duanmu Huai fought Archaon the Everchosen through magic, weapons, and a battle between their dragons. He used Dimensional Transcendence to outmaneuver Archaon's foresight and kill him, then declared that Chaos would fall.

• Duanmu Huai and Archaon exchanged spells and attacks, but Archaon repeatedly anticipated or blocked Duanmu Huai's strikes.
• Archaon's warhorse transformed into a Three-Headed Dragon, and Duanmu Huai summoned the Metal Secret Dragon to fight it in the sky.
• Archaon exploited the dragons' struggle to attack Duanmu Huai, breaking his defense and thrusting his greatsword toward his chest.
• Duanmu Huai used Dimensional Transcendence to take another turn and killed Archaon with his Chainsaw Sword.
• Duanmu Huai emerged from the wreckage holding a three-eyed demon's head and announced Archaon's death to the armies.

After defeating Archaon, Duanmu Huai chose to consume the Webway Beacon to seal the Chaos gates at the poles and free the planet from Chaos. His rewards included Raven Guard abilities, a Star Gate blueprint, and a Blood Raven specialization, leaving him thrilled with his gains.

• Duanmu Huai and the Allied Forces crushed the retreating Chaos army after he killed Archaon and the four Chaos lords.
• Duanmu Huai chose the special mission option and used the Webway Beacon to seal the collapsed gates at the North and South Poles.
• The mission awarded Duanmu Huai the Raven Guard Primarch Gene and the Stealth Operation, Nighttime Slaughter, and Shadow Blessing specializations.
• Duanmu Huai received a Star Gate mega-structure blueprint and celebrated gaining technology for a rapid-travel network.
• Duanmu Huai opened the Golden Chest and obtained the Blood Raven Heart specialization, which could help him locate special items and places.

After the Everchosen’s defeat, Duanmu Huai integrated his Fragment World and learned that his recruits lacked the combat experience needed to serve as Inquisition soldiers. He put their training problem aside to visit Holy City, where he asked Badi to build him a replacement mount after his Metal Secret Dragon broke.

• Duanmu Huai sent the Guardians back to Guardian Galaxy and began integrating his Fragment World after sealing the Chaos passage.
• The Night Watch told Duanmu Huai that his recruits’ experience was inadequate and that they needed prolonged training in a high-intensity war.
• Duanmu Huai decided to look for a suitable world later and took Okegis to visit Holy City.
• Duanmu Huai visited Puppet District and saw that Badi’s automated puppet factory was under construction.
• Duanmu Huai asked Badi to make him another mount, and Badi reacted with shock when he learned the Metal Secret Dragon had broken.

Duanmu Huai learned that Tong's recurring nightmare might be a message from another Astropath on a world under monster attack. He took the coordinates to investigate, considering the world as a possible training ground for the Inquisition's recruits.

• Duanmu Huai told Badi that the Metal Secret Dragon had been destroyed, and Badi agreed to redesign a replacement.
• Duanmu Huai saw Holy Knights training at the Great Cathedral and worried that he still lacked a suitable battlefield for his recruits.
• Tong awoke from another nightmare of a girl fleeing monsters through a ruined city and went to report it to Duanmu Huai.
• Tong described her dreams to Duanmu Huai, who suspected she had received a message from another Astropath.
• Tong gave Duanmu Huai the approximate coordinates of the world, and he decided to investigate it.

Duanmu Huai brought his fleet to a war-torn planet after Tong received an unencrypted Astropath message, then learned that Beastfolk were threatening humanity’s last surviving city. He prepared the Astra Militarum for an orbital assault, seeing the Beastfolk as a chance to train his army.

• Duanmu Huai explained that Tong’s message might be from the past or future, but warned that its unencrypted signal could reveal the planet to Warp Space daemons.
• Mia activated the Webway and brought the fleet to a green star system, where Duanmu Huai directed the ship to Planet Five.
• Duanmu Huai sent a destroyer to capture satellites, and the Night Watch tech-priests analyzed their data about the planet’s war.
• Duanmu Huai learned that Beastfolk had attacked humanity after a civil war, and that humans had used the Hammer of Dawn to destroy invaded cities from orbit.
• Duanmu Huai ordered the Night Watch and Astra Militarum to prepare for an orbital drop assault against the Beastfolk.

Kate fought the Orks during an ambush on a migrating nomad group and was left wounded and surrounded. As the Orks closed in, strange lights descended from the starry sky and struck them.

• Kate guarded a nomad group on the move and spoke with Kamon, who asked whether humanity still had hope.
• An Ork shot and killed Kamon, then Orks attacked the nomads from the ruins.
• Kate and the guards fought back, but an Ork army overwhelmed the group and the guards began retreating.
• Kate stayed behind, killed an Ork at a heavy weapons emplacement, and fired on the attacking army.
• A large Ork knocked Kate down, but she killed it with a grenade and collapsed as the remaining Orks surrounded her.
• Kate noticed the stars growing brighter, and lights descended from the sky and crashed into the Orks.

Duanmu Huai’s ghostly Astra Militarum routed the Orks with support from his companions and angels. After meeting Kate, a Nomad Guardian who had survived the attack, Duanmu Huai asked her to lead them to the Orks’ nest.

• Duanmu Huai’s Astra Militarum descended in Drop Pods and crushed the Orks with their weapons and Power Armor.
• Duanmu Huai, Okegis, Banbi, Ann, Felin, Ranni, and Lorena supported the assault with magic, summoned creatures, and Heavenly Music.
• Kate watched the Iron Warriors defeat the Orks, then approached Duanmu Huai and thanked him for saving her.
• Kate explained that Orks had attacked the nomads she was escorting and that she knew the area.
• Duanmu Huai asked Kate to guide his forces to the Orks’ nest, leaving her shocked by his request.

Duanmu Huai and the Astra Militarum invaded the Orks’ ruined castle and pushed into their underground lair, where they overwhelmed the defenders. They continued deeper to destroy the Orks’ stronghold, leaving Kate stunned after Duanmu Huai killed a huge Ork she had called a berserk female.

• Kate guided Duanmu Huai and the Astra Militarum to an abandoned castle where the Orks had made their lair.
• Duanmu Huai sent his soldiers into the castle, and they wiped out the Orks there in ten minutes.
• Duanmu Huai ordered some soldiers to secure the castle while he and the rest descended into the mines.
• The Ork general learned that humans had invaded underground and ordered its forces to find and kill them.
• Duanmu Huai charged through the underground Orks’ defenses, shrugging off gunfire and smashing their gun emplacement.
• Kate warned Duanmu Huai about a berserk female orc, but he seized the charging Ork, tore off its head, and asked what made it look female.

Duanmu Huai led Kate and the others through branching underground tunnels, where Kate recounted humanity’s wars and the Ork invasion. They discovered an Ork-held city wall, and the girls revealed their powerful abilities while helping Duanmu Huai fight the defenders, leaving Kate stunned by what she had witnessed.

• Duanmu Huai split his forces among the tunnels to search for threats while his squad continued along a spacious passage.
• Kate told Ann that the planet had endured constant warfare, and that the Orks had invaded after humanity was weakened by the Pendulum War.
• Lorena spotted a Drill Worm, and Kate warned that Orks were often nearby where the creatures appeared.
• Duanmu Huai and the others found an Ork fortress wall in a vast cavern, and Duanmu Huai launched himself at its defenders with his Jetpack.
• Banbi sent bats against the Orks on the wall while Felin, Ann, and Ranni used their powers to defeat attackers near the girls.
• Lorena struck a berserk female orc with her Holy Book, killing it as Kate watched in disbelief.

Duanmu Huai and his companions rescued more than a hundred captives from a Beastfolk prison and left Kate in charge while reinforcements were sent. Lorena and Gospel Angel stayed behind to tend to the survivors, and Gospel Angel’s song brought them a moment of peace.

• Duanmu Huai and his companions fought through Beastfolk forces and reached a cavern prison after Felin sensed humans nearby.
• Duanmu Huai and the others opened the steel coffins and freed more than a hundred prisoners, including Kate’s acquaintance Barek.
• Duanmu Huai arranged for reinforcements to escort the prisoners back and left Kate with Lorena and the others to care for them.
• A grieving woman begged Duanmu Huai to save her child, and Barek explained that the child had died and the woman had lost her reason.
• Lorena asked Gospel Angel to help the woman, and Gospel Angel’s harp song calmed the woman and the frightened nomads.

Duanmu Huai’s Astra Militarum crushed the Beastfolk lair, and General Lamb’s attempt to hold them back ended in his death. Duanmu Huai let the surviving Beastfolk escape as messengers, then ordered the lair destroyed with the Earth-Fire System.

• Duanmu Huai arrived to find the Astra Militarum overwhelming the Beastfolk and received a captured Coalition of Ordered Governments gun fitted with a chainsaw.
• General Lamb ordered a soldier to flee through a secret passage and warn the Queen and High Priestess Duo Kou, then prepared to defend the lair with his Night-Flying Bats.
• Lamb unleashed the bats against the charging armored warriors, but their gunfire tore through the swarm and killed him.
• A Night Watch reported that enemy deserters had escaped, and Duanmu Huai chose not to pursue them so they could spread word of the Inquisition’s power.
• Duanmu Huai ordered the prisoners removed and the Beastfolk lair destroyed with the Earth-Fire System, then turned back with his group.

After Duanmu Huai destroyed the Beastfolk tunnels, survivors and nomadic tribes gathered near the Inquisition’s stronghold, while news of the Inquisition reached Jacinto. Prescot chose to hide the reports and proceed with the Lightmass Offensive rather than approach the Inquisition for help.

• Duanmu Huai filled the Underground Tunnels with magma and left the rescued prisoners to decide their own futures.
• Nomadic survivors settled near the Inquisition’s stronghold and spread stories of its power, prompting some tribes to travel there.
• Prescot learned that the Inquisition had defeated the Beastfolk with overwhelming force and discussed the reports with Colonel Hoffman.
• Colonel Hoffman recommended cooperation, but Prescot believed the Coalition of Ordered Governments had too little leverage to request a joint operation.
• Prescot ordered an information lockdown on the Inquisition and instructed Jacinto to proceed with the Lightmass Offensive.

Duanmu Huai chose a Bolter-based chainsaw gun for the Astra Militarum and went to inspect Badi’s new vehicle. He found that Badi had built him a powerful mechanical rhino, which he accepted despite being embarrassed by its appearance.

• Duanmu Huai watched the Astra Militarum sweep the area for Beastfolk soldiers while he reviewed Kula La’s modified Bolter.
• Duanmu Huai tested the laser configuration, missed the target, and chose the more powerful Bolter configuration for the chainsaw gun.
• Kula La told Duanmu Huai that Badi had finished his new vehicle, so Duanmu Huai went to the Holy City to inspect it.
• Badi unveiled the Magic Electromagnetic Giant Rhino, a heavily armored mechanical mount that could create replacement cards when it attacked.
• Duanmu Huai recognized the rhino’s combat potential but questioned why Badi had made him such an intimidating mount, then admitted it worked well enough.

Duanmu Huai agreed to witness a trade deal between the Guardian Civilization and the Merchant Rogue Dadanier, then discovered he could activate a Dreamlike Egg. He entered the Biohazard Disaster collaboration quest alone and chose its highest difficulty.

• Duanmu Huai met Dadanier again and agreed to oversee his trade with the Guardian Civilization, warning him to keep the deal legal and honest.
• Duanmu Huai inspected Dadanier's cargo manifest and spotted a Dreamlike Egg offered for 500,000 Experience Points.
• Duanmu Huai acquired the Dreamlike Egg and activated a collaboration quest that opened the Biohazard Disaster map.
• Duanmu Huai saw that the score ranking was empty, raised the quest difficulty to the highest level, and prepared to face it alone.

Duanmu Huai arrived naked in the city, was arrested, and found himself in the Police Station as a zombie outbreak erupted. After Marvin Berner freed him, Duanmu Huai followed him through the ruined station and rescued a woman from a zombie.

• Duanmu Huai appeared in the city without clothes, was arrested, and was detained at the Police Station.
• A zombie bit a police officer, and the infected officers attacked their colleagues until Marvin Berner arrived and shot the zombies.
• Marvin Berner freed Duanmu Huai and explained that the city had fallen into chaos as the outbreak spread.
• Duanmu Huai took a hammer instead of Marvin’s shotgun and followed him to the Police Station lobby.
• A zombie dragged a woman beneath a roll-up door, and Duanmu Huai pulled her free and crushed the zombie’s head.

Doctor Burke discovered that the infected workers in Diamond Town had transformed into glowing monsters and attacked him and his guards. Meanwhile, Duanmu Huai protected Claire as they searched the police station for the badges needed to reach an underground exit, and Claire saw him kill a mutant that attacked her.

• Doctor Burke entered the church with armed guards and found that the infected workers had vanished from their beds.
• Glowing monsters clinging to the ceiling attacked Doctor Burke and his guards, and the church fell silent after a brief gunfight.
• Claire learned that her brother had left town on vacation and joined Duanmu Huai in searching for three badges to open the police station's underground passage.
• Duanmu Huai smashed zombies in the corridors while Claire followed and praised his strength.
• A skinless mutant leaped from the ceiling and caught Claire with its tongue, but Duanmu Huai yanked it close and crushed its head.

Duanmu Huai and Claire entered the Police Station’s hidden passage, where they found a frightened blond girl and were confronted by a massive G-Virus mutant. Duanmu Huai fought the monster and tore off its mutated arm, but it fled into the depths below, leaving Claire to check whether he was hurt.

• Duanmu Huai and Claire followed the secret passage beneath the Police Station after Marvin stayed behind.
• They found a timid blond girl hiding in a room, and she warned them that a monster was coming.
• Duanmu Huai told Claire to take the girl to safety and faced the mutant alone as it attacked with a metal pipe.
• The fight broke through the metal-grating passage, and Duanmu Huai’s borrowed sledgehammer broke on impact.
• Duanmu Huai twisted both of the monster’s arms, smashed its oversized eye, and tore off its mutated right arm.
• The wounded monster fled over a railing into the depths below, and Claire called down to ask whether Duanmu Huai was okay.

Duanmu Huai escorted Claire and Sherry through the zombie-infested streets toward the Umbrella Corporation’s underground facility, protecting them with his overwhelming strength. When the Tyrant appeared, Duanmu Huai prepared to fight, eager to take its clothes.

• Duanmu Huai told Claire and Sherry that his kung fu made him impervious to the monster’s claws and bullets, then continued through the underground passage with them and learned Sherry was looking for her mother.
• Duanmu Huai, Claire, and Sherry crawled out into a parking garage, where a policeman confronted them and died after Duanmu Huai’s Aura of Fear caused him to fail a Willpower check.
• The group used the policeman’s access card to leave the garage and decided to take Sherry to the Umbrella Corporation’s underground facility.
• Duanmu Huai killed two zombie dogs as the group crossed the rainy streets, and Sherry thanked him for keeping her and Claire safe.
• A Tyrant appeared ahead and charged toward them, so Duanmu Huai told Claire and Sherry to hide and prepared to fight it.

Duanmu Huai killed the Tyrant and took its coat before helping Claire and Sherry reach the underground waste treatment plant, where they contacted Sherry’s mother, Anni. He defeated Sherry’s mutated father, William, and Anni sent the group toward the Umbrella research facility, but William’s corpse began mutating again after they left.

• Duanmu Huai killed the Tyrant and put on its leather coat.
• Duanmu Huai, Claire, and Sherry reached the underground plant and spoke with Anni over a loudspeaker; Anni argued with Sherry and Duanmu Huai.
• William, now a further-mutated G-Mutant, burst into the room, and Duanmu Huai stayed behind to fight while Claire led Sherry away.
• Anni watched Duanmu Huai overpower William and advised him to destroy the mutant’s head; Duanmu Huai crushed it and killed the creature.
• Anni guided Duanmu Huai, Claire, and Sherry to a cable car bound for the Umbrella research facility.
• After the group left, William’s corpse began to mutate again, grew another head, and crawled into the darkness.

Duanmu Huai, Claire, and Sherry found Sherry’s dying mother in Umbrella’s underground facility and learned that William was still alive and a train could take them out of the city. As Claire led Sherry toward the train, Duanmu Huai stayed behind and finally tore the pursuing Mutated Creature apart.

• Duanmu Huai, Claire, and Sherry searched the infested research facility for Sherry’s mother.
• Claire followed the smell of blood to Sherry’s wounded mother, who gave her a chip and urged her to take Sherry to the train because William was still alive.
• Sherry’s mother died, and Sherry mourned her while Claire comforted her.
• Duanmu Huai spotted the evolved Mutated Creature approaching and told Claire and Sherry to escape to the train while he held it off.
• Duanmu Huai crippled the Mutated Creature, tore off its mutated arms, and ripped its body in half.