Chapter Summaries

Duanmu Huai interrupted Shizuka and Na Ji’s fight, killed their father with a sword strike that split the High Tower, and escaped the collapsing tower with Shizuka and Okegis. When demons destroyed his new gunship and surrounded them, he unleashed his fearsome power and sent the Black Blade Assassins into battle.

• Duanmu Huai stopped Na Ji from killing Shizuka and revealed that his strike had split their father’s jar and killed him.
• Na Ji mourned beside her father’s remains while Duanmu Huai carried Shizuka and Okegis away from the collapsing High Tower.
• Duanmu Huai and the others reached the ground, where he gave Shizuka a cloak after noticing her clothes had been torn.
• Demons destroyed Duanmu Huai’s gunship and surrounded the group.
• Duanmu Huai’s Aura of Fear overwhelmed the demons and left Shizuka trembling on the ground.
• Duanmu Huai summoned the Black Blade Assassins and charged into the fleeing Demonic Army.

Duanmu Huai annihilated the Demonic Army and captured Demonic Human Sezer after defeating her with time-stopping powers. He took her to a looted mansion and began trying to make her his familiar by using the Black Blazing Flame, despite her desperate resistance.

• Duanmu Huai obliterated tens of thousands of Demonic Soldiers with his Black Blazing Flame, leaving Shizuka stunned.
• Demonic Human Sezer attacked Duanmu Huai with giant ice pillars, but he stopped time and struck her down.
• Okegis bound the unconscious Sezer, and Duanmu Huai left the ruins with Okegis and Shizuka as the remaining monsters fled.
• At a looted mansion, Duanmu Huai revealed that he intended to make Sezer, a Majin, his familiar, and she refused.
• Duanmu Huai drew the Three Feet Green Edge and covered it in Black Blazing Flame as Sezer panicked and resisted.

Duanmu Huai learned how he had forced Seizeru to become his familiar and interrogated her about the Kebris Faction’s invasion of Zeth. After discovering that Seizeru’s apparent angels were actually Angel Knight Girl Monsters, he considered recruiting them.

• Duanmu Huai showed Shizuka that Seizeru had become his familiar and explained that his method had made her submit through overwhelming fear.
• Duanmu Huai took Seizeru, Shizuka, and the others toward Fortress City and forced Seizeru to reveal that the Kebris Faction’s invasion was led by Camilla, Kike, and Seizeru.
• Seizeru learned that Duanmu Huai had defeated Satra and killed Nos, Azeru, and former Demon King Jill, and she feared his power.
• Seizeru explained that the angels in her forces were Angel Knights, Girl Monsters who came from the Kara Clan.
• Duanmu Huai considered recruiting the Angel Knights to serve under his command.

Duanmu Huai returned to Sais with Seizeru subdued as his familiar, and the survivors planned a counterattack against the remaining Majin. Before they could act, Lisass prepared to seize Sais, but Duanmu Huai confronted Lia and stopped her invasion.

• Duanmu Huai demonstrated that Seizeru was his familiar by making her obey simple commands, shocking Gandhi King and Magica.
• Seizeru explained the abilities of the remaining Majin, Camilla and Kike, and Gandhi King’s forces planned to counterattack the Royal Capital with Duanmu Huai challenging Kike.
• A soldier reported that Lisass’s army had reached the fortress, and Duanmu Huai realized Lia was taking advantage of Sais’s crisis.
• At the border fortress, Lia prepared to use refugees as shields and declare Lisass’s conquest of Sais fair and square.
• Duanmu Huai interrupted Lia, and she abandoned her plan after he ordered her not to attack Sais.

Duanmu Huai attended Lia’s banquet after Lisass withdrew its threat against Zeth, where Lia provoked Ann and Gureiya by boasting about her intimacy with him. Gandhi King worried that Zeth would lose influence to Lisass and Herman, while Magica struggled with his wish that she grow closer to Duanmu Huai and resolved to study how to approach him.

• Duanmu Huai introduced Ann and Gureiya to Lia at the banquet, and Lia asked whether either fiancée had slept with him.
• Lia claimed she had been intimate with Duanmu Huai several times, then cited Kaname’s experiences as proof; Duanmu Huai corrected her and left the conversation in embarrassment.
• Gandhi King lamented that Magica was not pursuing Duanmu Huai, fearing Zeth would be disadvantaged because Duanmu Huai was close to Lia and Herman might also seek his favor.
• Magica defended her relationship with Alex and admitted she could not bring herself to pursue Duanmu Huai, but decided to find books about how to do so.

Duanmu Huai joined Gandhi King’s army for a final assault on the Demonic Army and challenged its Majin leader, Kike. After killing Kike and destroying his Demon Blood Soul, Duanmu Huai gave Gandhi King the opening to order the attack.

• Lia urged Duanmu Huai to return safely while he and the others left for the Fortress City.
• Gandhi King reorganized Zeth’s forces and marched on the former Royal Capital as the Majin Legion prepared to meet them.
• Duanmu Huai challenged Kike, who initially bound his greatsword and restrained him with thorny tentacles.
• Duanmu Huai burst free with Black Flame, tore off Kike’s arm, and ripped the Majin in half.
• Duanmu Huai destroyed Kike’s Demon Blood Soul, and Gandhi King ordered the troops to attack.

After the Sais army routed the Demon Army, Duanmu Huai led the pursuit to Sais City and confronted Majin Camilla. He destroyed the city wall and killed Camilla, leaving the remaining demons to face the Inquisition.

• Gureiya disarmed the demons while Ann summoned a Steel Knight heroic spirit, helping the Sais army rout the Demon Army.
• Duanmu Huai and Okegis rescued women from Monster Generals as the Sais army pursued the fleeing demons toward Sais City.
• Camilla learned that Kike was dead and Seizer was missing, then prepared to confront the advancing humans.
• At Sais City, Duanmu Huai revealed that Seizer had become his familiar and challenged Camilla.
• Duanmu Huai destroyed the city wall, overwhelmed Camilla's Invincible Barrier, and tore off her head.
• Duanmu Huai raised Camilla's head and declared that the demons would face the Inquisition's wrath.

After defeating the demons in Zeth, Duanmu Huai assigned Shizuka to investigate the Demon King and the God of Creation as she pursued her own goals. Back aboard the mothership, he learned that Dadanier’s colonists had vanished on a supposedly barren planet and prepared to look into the trouble.

• Duanmu Huai wiped out the demons occupying the Maginot Line, allowing Gandhi King to reclaim it and restore its Magic Amplification Device.
• Shizuka offered Duanmu Huai her savings, then explained that she planned to travel, grow stronger, and find Na Ji; Duanmu Huai asked her to gather information for the Inquisition.
• Duanmu Huai gave Shizuka instructions to locate the Little Demon King and investigate the AL Cult’s upper echelon and the God of Creation, with Kaname accompanying her.
• Duanmu Huai and the others returned to the mothership, where he learned that Dadanier had lost contact with a colony and two armed forces on a barren planet.
• Duanmu Huai considered possible causes for the disappearances and decided to contact Dadanier before choosing how to investigate.

Duanmu Huai investigated Dadanier’s lost colony on LV426 after alien wreckage, missing expeditions, and a transport ship’s destruction suggested a hostile threat. He reached the intact colony and found that its many life signs were underground, preparing to investigate further.

• Dadanier told Duanmu Huai that his colony discovered an alien warship wreck, and that successive teams disappeared after investigating it.
• Duanmu Huai watched a recording showing Dadanier’s transport ship being attacked and destroyed before it reached LV426.
• Duanmu Huai took a Cobra-class Missile Destroyer and a squad of Night Watch to LV426, suspecting the Dark Eldar might be responsible.
• Duanmu Huai scanned the barren planet and detected many life signs beneath the colony facilities.
• Duanmu Huai flew through the planet’s storm to the intact colony, where the buildings remained powered and the life signs were underground.

Duanmu Huai crashed into a sealed colony base and found black, acid-blooded creatures fighting armored aliens. After killing attackers from both sides, he noticed a countdown device on a fallen warrior just before it erupted in white light.

• Duanmu Huai ordered the Night Raven Black Stars to search the base from different directions, then smashed through its ceiling and landed below.
• He found black monsters and armored aliens fighting, drove the monsters into a tunnel, and killed three alien warriors, including one that had turned invisible.
• Duanmu Huai followed the moving life signs deeper into the base and killed black creatures that attacked him from the ceiling and in a group.
• He fought another armored alien warrior and beat it to death with his fists.
• Duanmu Huai spotted a beeping device on the fallen warrior's wrist as its red display vanished, and a burst of white light swallowed everything.

Duanmu Huai drove off an Iron Blood warship, then ordered LV426 destroyed to purge its Xenomorph infestation. The Iron Blood fled toward their Homeworld, unaware that an Inquisition Scout Ship was tracking them.

• Duanmu Huai spotted an unidentified spacecraft approaching LV426 and recognized its armored, dreadlocked crew as outsiders.
• Duanmu Huai attacked the Iron Blood warship, crippling it, then let it escape so the Inquisition could track it to its lair.
• Duanmu Huai ordered a Whirlwind Torpedo to destroy LV426 and purify the planet of Xenomorphs.
• The Iron Blood commander decided to return to their Homeworld and report the attack, suspecting the Prometheus had struck them.
• An Inquisition Scout Ship followed the damaged Iron Blood warship from a nearby nebula.

Duanmu Huai completed the Inquisition Fleet’s enormous combined flagship and tested its planet-piercing BFG against the Iron Blood Clan. After issuing an Extermination Order, he destroyed the Iron Blood Homeworld in a single shot.

• Maria presented Duanmu Huai with the completed flagship design, combining the Glory Queen-class with the Mantle's Approach and adding a gigantic BFG.
• Duanmu Huai changed the prow design to feature a pink rabbit and announced that the Inquisition Fleet would demonstrate its power.
• The Iron Blood elders detected the enormous warship near their homeworld and prepared their warriors for battle.
• Duanmu Huai issued an Extermination Order against the Iron Blood Homeworld.
• The flagship fired a plasma torrent from the rabbit's mouth, pierced the planet, and destroyed the Iron Blood civilization.

Duanmu Huai assembled a fleet and prepared to intervene in a galactic war between a human civilization and a powerful alien alliance. Knowing that pro-peace leaders would betray the Inquisition after arranging the death of the pro-war candidate, he set out to change that history.

• Duanmu Huai finished assembling his mothership and gathered a fleet of battleships and cruisers, though he lacked carrier pilots.
• Duanmu Huai reviewed the history of a war in which players fought an alien alliance alongside humans, only for the human civilization to seek peace and expel the Inquisition.
• The human civilization joined the alien alliance, while the Inquisition ultimately destroyed its colonies and annihilated the aliens.
• Duanmu Huai learned that the pro-peace faction had arranged the pro-war leader's death by leaking his location to the alien alliance.
• Duanmu Huai decided to prevent the betrayal and change the course of the coming galactic war.

Li Longcheng visited devastated New Shanxi and reaffirmed his demand that humanity answer the Turians with force, despite pressure from the Systems Alliance’s pro-peace faction and the Citadel Council. As Duanmu Huai watched, Batarians arrived at the colony, and he prepared to confront them.

• Li Longcheng surveyed New Shanxi’s destruction and argued that humanity must defend its dignity by fighting the Turians.
• Li Longcheng recalled how the pro-peace faction favored joining the Citadel Council’s alien alliance, while he viewed its invitation as a threat.
• Duanmu Huai defended Li Longcheng’s hardline stance to Eclair and Ann, explaining that humanity needed to show its enemies it would resist.
• Duanmu Huai watched a warship send armored Batarians toward the colonial base and identified them as criminals hostile to humanity.
• Duanmu Huai straightened his equipment and told the others to move out.

Li Longcheng visited Dr. Herman’s secret facility and learned that a Prothean beacon showed humans interacting with the Protheans, contradicting known history. When Batarians attacked the facility, Li Longcheng’s group was nearly overwhelmed until a mysterious black-armored figure arrived and destroyed an autonomous mech.

• Li Longcheng met Dr. Herman at a secret underground research facility to learn why the Turians had attacked New Shanxi.
• Dr. Herman activated a Prothean beacon that showed armored humans meeting the Protheans, but the recording ended before Li Longcheng could learn more.
• A Batarian assault interrupted Li Longcheng, and communications with his escort fleet were cut off.
• Li Longcheng ordered Dr. Herman restrained and fought the Batarians as their autonomous mechs advanced.
• A tall figure in black armor entered the room and destroyed an autonomous mech with a single warhammer strike.

Duanmu Huai and the Inquisition rescued Li Longcheng’s forces from the Batarians, then revealed the Human Empire’s history and called on the Systems Alliance to resist alien domination. Li Longcheng agreed to stand against the Citadel Council as Duanmu Huai began outlining a plan.

• Duanmu Huai crushed the Batarian attackers and destroyed an autonomous mech with his warhammer.
• Dr. Herman recognized Duanmu Huai’s armor as resembling the blue warriors in the beacon projection, and Li Longcheng ordered his soldiers to lower their weapons.
• Duanmu Huai introduced himself as Grand Inquisitor and told Li Longcheng that the Inquisition had followed them to foil the attack while their fleet was lured away.
• Duanmu Huai showed Li Longcheng and Dr. Herman a film explaining the Inquisition and the Human Empire, and said the Systems Alliance was now the most advanced human civilization.
• Duanmu Huai explained that the Protheans had taken former Human Empire territory after its collapse, then urged Li Longcheng to resist the Citadel Council with the Inquisition’s support.
• Li Longcheng agreed that humanity must not submit to alien threats, and Duanmu Huai said he had a proposal.

Li Longcheng won the Systems Alliance presidency after a Batarian assassination attempt galvanized public support, then joined Duanmu Huai aboard the Inquisition's enormous warship. Duanmu Huai issued an Extermination Order and destroyed the Batarian homeworld, Kroggos Planet, leaving the Alliance officials stunned by the Inquisition's power.

• News that Batarians had attempted to assassinate Li Longcheng drove public support for the War Faction above eighty percent, and Li Longcheng was elected the Systems Alliance's first president.
• Li Longcheng demanded that the Citadel Council surrender the assassination plot's mastermind, while the Batarians denied the attempt, attacked a human colony, and threatened all-out war.
• Admiral Kislev brought Li Longcheng and senior Alliance officials aboard his warship, where they met Duanmu Huai and saw the Inquisition's enormous golden vessel emerge from a rift in space.
• Duanmu Huai transported the ships to the Batarians' Homeworld, Kroggos Planet, and declared an Extermination Order against it.
• Duanmu Huai launched a torpedo that engulfed Kroggos Planet in fire and destroyed all life there, warning that the Inquisition would punish those who provoked humanity.

After the Batari homeworld was destroyed, Li Longcheng explained the Inquisition to the Systems Alliance, whose leaders agreed to negotiate for its protection and assistance. Ann and True Clever secured a cooperation treaty, leaving Li Longcheng confident about facing the Citadel Council.

• Duanmu Huai ended communications after defending his decision to destroy the Batari homeworld, and Li Longcheng briefed the Systems Alliance leaders on the Inquisition.
• The Systems Alliance leaders accepted Li Longcheng’s account after reviewing the Inquisition’s records and witnessing the Extermination Order’s destruction of the Batari homeworld.
• Li Longcheng told the leaders that the Inquisition would not interfere in human politics, while Duanmu Huai planned to counter Warp Space demons by promoting stories about humans resisting gods and demons.
• Duanmu Huai sent Ann, True Clever, Rumiere, and Eclair to negotiate with the Systems Alliance, and Ann and True Clever reached a cooperation treaty within half a day.
• The treaty gave the Inquisition a role in protecting Systems Alliance expansion and providing assistance, while Dadanier arranged to sell the Alliance atmosphere modification technology.
• Li Longcheng welcomed the agreement and felt more confident about facing the Citadel Council.

After the Batarians declared war in response to the destruction of their Homeworld, the Systems Alliance fleet met their invasion at Buros. Duanmu Huai’s Inquisition Fleet appeared inside the Batari formation and tore it into chaos, giving the Alliance fleet a clear chance to attack.

• The Citadel Council refused to help the Batarians, while the Turian fleet withdrew and fortified its Homeworld; the Batarians then declared war on the Systems Alliance.
• In October 2151, the Batari fleet attacked Buros with roughly three thousand ships, and the Systems Alliance sent the Seventh, First, and Third Fleets to meet them.
• Admiral Kislev ordered the Alliance fleets to retreat and hold the Batarians near a designated point, reassuring Admirals Barack and Sly that a response was ready.
• Duanmu Huai’s Inquisition Fleet emerged inside the Batari formation and opened fire, destroying ships and disrupting the enemy’s command system.
• As the Batari fleet fell into confusion and its vanguard became isolated, the Alliance commanders ordered their ships to target and attack.

The Systems Alliance and Inquisition Fleet crushed the Batari fleet and destroyed its military fortress planet, leaving the Batarians in decline. The Citadel Council then sought peace and signed agreements with the Systems Alliance, but Li Longcheng said the Inquisition Fleet was independent and outside the treaty’s military limits.

• The Inquisition Fleet and Systems Alliance shattered the Batari fleet, then pursued the survivors toward their military fortress planet.
• An Inquisition warship launched a torpedo that destroyed the Batari fortress planet, and the Systems Alliance publicized the battle as proof of humanity’s power.
• The Batarians’ losses sparked internal conflicts that fractured their civilization, while the Citadel’s three major races witnessed the battle and sent representatives to seek peace.
• Li Longcheng repeatedly answered the Citadel representative’s threats with “We have the Extermination Order,” and the Systems Alliance later signed agreements to join the Citadel as a permanent council member and receive favorable trade status.
• When the Citadel representative raised limits on the Inquisition Fleet’s size, Li Longcheng explained that the Inquisition was an independent ally and would have to negotiate separately.