Chapter Summaries

Duanmu Huai's Inquisition forces trapped the Dark Eldar in Commorragh and pressed their assault, while boarding parties and ground troops fought across the fleet and city. The chapter ended with Dean embracing a fanatical hatred of aliens as he continued killing Dark Eldar.

• Duanmu Huai forced the Dark Eldar to defend Commorragh as the Inquisition fleet advanced and Echote's forces nearly wiped out their fleet.
• Rumiere reported enemy boarders, and Ann, Gureiya, Lorena, and Medea left the bridge to respond.
• Mary, Ellie, Okegis, and Jia Wei protected Echote and killed the Dark Eldar assassins who attacked her.
• Dean fought alongside the Iron Warriors amid the destruction of Commorragh and killed a Dark Eldar pinned beneath rubble.
• Dean shouted, "For the Inquisition! For humanity!" and advanced to kill more Dark Eldar.

Duanmu Huai withdrew his forces from the ground battle and destroyed Commorragh by detonating the stars powering it, refusing to yield to Clive’s threat to unleash a deadly virus on the Systems Alliance Homeworld. The chapter ended with Duanmu Huai ordering an Extermination Order against the infected homeworld.

• Duanmu Huai ordered his troops to withdraw from Commorragh as the Inquisition Fleet prepared to carry out the next phase of the plan.
• Clive led a Dark Eldar fleet toward the Systems Alliance Homeworld to force a ceasefire, but the Inquisition Fleet ambushed it and destroyed most of the ships.
• Clive landed with survivors, captured Li Longcheng, and threatened to spread a lethal virus across the Systems Alliance Homeworld unless Duanmu Huai stopped the attack on Commorragh.
• Duanmu Huai issued an Extermination Order against Commorragh, and the Whirlwind Torpedoes and Myriad Eagle Battleship destroyed the city and its stars.
• After Echote reported that the virus had infected the Systems Alliance Homeworld, Duanmu Huai ordered an Extermination Order against the planet.

Duanmu Huai destroyed the Systems Alliance Homeworld after discovering its population had been infected by a contagious Dark Eldar poison, despite fierce protests from Kelte and the Alliance. The Inquisition prepared to defend its actions and monitor the colonies for surviving Dark Eldar, while Duanmu Huai returned to his room with Okegis.

• Duanmu Huai told Kelte that the Homeworld’s people had been infected and mutated by a contagious Dark Eldar poison, but Kelte insisted they could still be saved.
• Duanmu Huai issued an Extermination Order and destroyed the Homeworld, then had the protesting Kelte dragged away.
• Duanmu Huai ordered surveillance of Systems Alliance colonies to hunt surviving Dark Eldar and told True Clever to seal off the space station.
• True Clever proposed explaining the Inquisition’s actions publicly and reaching out to Human Supremacists, while the others debated the destruction of the Homeworld.
• Duanmu Huai reflected on similar Inquisition choices before Okegis embraced him and told him to take a shower.

Duanmu Huai learned that Rumiere’s home star system was under attack and sent a Scout Ship fleet to investigate. The reconnaissance revealed the World Eaters and Emperor’s Children fighting over the system, and Duanmu Huai prepared to intervene.

• The Inquisition and the Systems Alliance rebuilt their relationship as colonial factions gained political power after the Homeworld’s destruction.
• Duanmu Huai reviewed reports and summoned Rumiere after she confirmed Chaos forces had invaded her home star system.
• Rumiere explained that alien fleets had defeated the system’s human forces and were conquering its planets.
• Duanmu Huai ordered Echote to send a Scout Ship fleet to investigate the star system.
• Echote’s reconnaissance showed the World Eaters and Emperor’s Children battling each other over the spoils.
• Duanmu Huai announced that the Inquisition would confront the heretical forces.

Duanmu Huai’s Inquisition Fleet ambushed the World Eaters and Emperor’s Children, who were fighting each other near Rumiere’s homeworld. He trapped their fleets and boarded Lucius’s flagship, the Crown, intending to test whether his Destruction Magic could finally kill the Eternal.

• Duanmu Huai noticed Lucius’s insignia and ordered the Inquisition Fleet to attack before the traitors could enter Warp Space.
• The Inquisition Fleet emerged from the Webway and caught the World Eaters and Emperor’s Children in an encirclement.
• Duanmu Huai’s forces destroyed the World Eaters’ ships and pressured the Emperor’s Children into retreating.
• Duanmu Huai ordered his fleet to cut off the Crown and launched a boarding torpedo at Lucius’s flagship.
• Duanmu Huai burst onto the Crown’s deck and challenged the Emperor’s Children to fight.

Duanmu Huai boarded the Crown and fought through Lucius the Eternal and his Noise Warriors. He destroyed Lucius and his soul, then prepared to deal with Fulgrim.

• Duanmu Huai killed a squad of Noise Warriors with his warhammer as he advanced through the Crown.
• Duanmu Huai confronted Lucius the Eternal and declared that he had come to destroy him.
• Lucius attacked Duanmu Huai with his whip and scimitar, then injected himself with a potion to increase his strength.
• Duanmu Huai smashed the deck with his warhammer, blasting apart the bridge and sending Lucius flying into the vacuum.
• Duanmu Huai struck Lucius through the chest and destroyed his body and soul, absorbing the soul's red orbs of light.
• Duanmu Huai dismissed Lucius and turned his attention to Fulgrim.

After defeating the Chaos Fleet, Duanmu Huai led a team to investigate a distress signal from the ruined planet AINEIAS, where Eclair hoped to find her former GOTT colleagues. The team reached GOTT Headquarters and discovered signs of a civil war, but had not yet learned what happened.

• Echote reported a distress signal from GOTT Commander Ericpus, and Duanmu Huai ordered the fleet to investigate after reprimanding Eclair for trying to act alone.
• Scans revealed that AINEIAS had suffered widespread nuclear bombardment, but the signal came from the still-standing GOTT Headquarters.
• Duanmu Huai assembled a team, sent the rest to protect the bridge, and flew with Eclair, Rumiere, and others to the planet.
• The team entered the ruined headquarters and found evidence that it had been invaded and conquered.
• Duanmu Huai found no signs of Chaos Legion weapons and followed footprints deeper into the building as Rumiere struggled to understand why a civil war had occurred.

Duanmu Huai’s team discovered that the apparent Systems Alliance soldiers guarding GOTT were Genestealers, then faced a swarm of them underground. A Tyranid hive ship appeared in orbit, leaving the warship crew to warn Duanmu Huai of the new threat.

• Duanmu Huai led the team into GOTT’s underground passages, where they found armed figures posing as Systems Alliance soldiers.
• Duanmu Huai attacked the soldiers, and Rumiere explained that their ordinary uniforms could not protect them from the radiation.
• Duanmu Huai identified the dead soldiers as Genestealers and warned Eclair and Rumiere that Tyranids had reached their world.
• Hundreds of Genestealers swarmed from the passage walls, floor, and ceiling as Duanmu Huai ordered his team to attack.
• Echote detected a powerful psychic signal, and a Tyranid hive ship emerged near the warship.

Duanmu Huai ordered the star system and surrounding systems destroyed to stop the Tyranid Swarm, then led the others through a Soul Resonance gate as the invasion began. They escaped into a desolate version of GOTT’s world, where a monster suddenly attacked Eclair.

• Duanmu Huai learned the Tyranid Swarm had arrived and ordered the fleet to prepare Extermination Orders for the star system and surrounding systems.
• Eclair questioned destroying her home system, but Rumiere persuaded her to accept Duanmu Huai’s decision.
• After their gunship was destroyed, Duanmu Huai led the group toward a Soul Resonance gate while Tyranids descended across the planet.
• Duanmu Huai told Echote to carry out the order, and the star territory erupted in an explosion that cut off the Tyranids’ route.
• Duanmu Huai and the others emerged on an undeveloped version of GOTT’s planet, where a monster burst from the ground and lunged at Eclair.

Duanmu Huai and the others encountered giant cockroaches in a barren Fragment World and explored the ruins of its destroyed civilization. After finding a train at a station, Duanmu Huai decided to use it to travel around and investigate.

• A swarm of human-sized cockroaches emerged from the ground, and Duanmu Huai smashed them with his hammer.
• The girls recoiled from the cockroach blood covering Duanmu Huai's armor, and he cleaned and disinfected it before they approached again.
• Duanmu Huai explained that they were in a Fragment World, a remnant of a world that had already perished, and kept the group in protective helmets because of radiation contamination.
• The group reached human-sized ruins filled with corpses and bloodstains, and Duanmu Huai scanned a bizarre corpse with the Augury Device.
• Duanmu Huai said he needed to find the world's core before they could leave, then suggested they ride a train from the station to explore.

Duanmu Huai and his companions traveled through a ruined world, using the train’s whistle to search for survivors. After a flare revealed people trapped on a shopping mall rooftop, Duanmu Huai sent a Servo-skull to scout them and headed toward them as zombies closed in.

• Eclair and Rumiere observed the empty, devastated cities and doubted that the world could be saved.
• Mary spotted a deer that turned out to be a rotten Zombie Deer, and the girls realized the wilderness was dangerous too.
• Duanmu Huai used the train’s whistle to draw out survivors while Okegis and Jia Wei defended the train from sound-sensitive fungal zombies.
• A group trapped on a shopping mall rooftop fired a signal flare, and Duanmu Huai sent a Servo-skull to locate them.
• The rooftop survivors were overwhelmed after a Teddy’s barking drew zombies back, and they watched in shock as a giant black figure smashed through the horde and landed on their platform.

Duanmu Huai rescued a group of survivors and invited them aboard his train as they prepared to leave the zombie-infested city. The group learned that a deadly Blood Moon would arrive in two days, and they worried about whether the train could survive it.

• Duanmu Huai arrived in his massive armor, cleared away the surrounding zombies, and introduced himself to the survivors.
• Komuro Takashi, Miyamoto Rei, Takagi Saya, Marikawa Shizuka, Shili Alice, Aiden Cladwell, Joel, and Ellie joined Duanmu Huai after he offered them passage on his train.
• Takagi Saya explained that every seven days the Blood Moon drove zombies into a deadly frenzy and brought out powerful creatures.
• The survivors boarded the train and learned from Aiden that many major cities had been destroyed by nuclear bombs.
• As the train traveled toward its next stop, Komuro Takashi and the others worried that the Blood Moon would catch them before they found safety.

The survivors aboard Duanmu Huai’s train worried about their place and future, but a lavish dinner showed them they were being treated kindly. Takagi Saya decided to speak with the train’s crew about how they could repay them and what to do next.

• Miyamoto Rei, Takagi Saya, and the others worried about food, water, and what the train crew expected from them.
• The train’s announcement invited the passengers to dinner, and the survivors followed the others to the dining car.
• Takagi Saya and the survivors found a meal of bread, steak, soup, and salad, then ate their fill.
• Mary told the survivors they did not need to wash the dishes, and everyone returned to their carriages to rest.
• Takagi Saya reflected on the group’s uncertain future and decided to talk to the train’s crew.

The narrator underwent injections, tests, and insulin treatment in the hospital. Their blood sugar fell to 10 before lunch, but testing continued.

• The narrator received injections and underwent tests beginning the previous night.
• The doctor put the narrator on an insulin pump, which a nurse adjusted before each meal.
• The narrator's blood sugar gradually fell to 10 by the pre-lunch check.
• The narrator continued undergoing tests because the examinations were not finished.

The narrator described the strict routine on the second day in the hospital after starting multiple medications and using an insulin pump. They ate the hospital-prescribed meals without complaint.

• The narrator started taking a number of medications.
• The narrator wore an insulin pump and adjusted it before each meal.
• The narrator ate steamed buns, cucumbers, and eggs for breakfast and dinner, with plain boiled water.
• The narrator ate a low-oil, low-salt hospital rice meal for lunch and followed the nurse's dietary instructions.

The narrator described a miserable sixth day in the hospital, with a restricted diet and repeated blood draws. They expected to remain hospitalized for two more days.

• The hospital staff woke the narrator at six and restricted them to water and mantou.
• The narrator forced down one mantou before enduring repeated blood draws.
• The narrator noted they had lost their appetite after taking medicine for two days.
• The narrator guessed they would need to stay in the hospital for another two days.

The narrator’s blood sugar dropped to six, but Metformin caused diarrhea and discomfort. The doctor planned to monitor the treatment and said the narrator would be discharged the day after tomorrow.

• The narrator reported that their blood sugar had dropped to six.
• The narrator said Metformin caused diarrhea and made them feel awful after they had received a Semaglutide injection and taken Metformin and Dapagliflozin.
• The doctor said they would monitor the treatment and might switch the narrator to extended-release Metformin.
• The doctor told the narrator they would be discharged the day after tomorrow.

The narrator returned home after a week in the hospital and learned they could temporarily switch from insulin injections to medication. They still needed to exercise, so their father ruled out riding a horse and they settled on a bicycle.

• The narrator lay on the bed, showered, and changed clothes after returning home.
• The doctor said the narrator could temporarily take medication instead of insulin injections, depending on how things went.
• The doctor said the narrator still had to exercise.
• The narrator considered buying a horse, but their father said riding it would exercise the horse, not the narrator.
• The narrator settled for riding a bicycle.

Takagi Saya asked Mary to let her group stay on the train, then learned that Duanmu Huai planned to take it into a Hazard Zone. As the Seventh Day’s Blood Moon rose, a massive horde of red-eyed zombies charged the train.

• Takagi Saya asked Mary if her group could stay aboard the train and work for the Inquisition.
• Mary said she would ask Duanmu Huai and warned that the train was heading toward a Hazard Zone, where the Inquisition intended to confront the threat.
• Takagi Saya told the others about the destination, but they stayed aboard because the Safe Zone was too far away and the Blood Moon was due the next day.
• Duanmu Huai dismissed the survivors’ preparations for the Blood Moon, while Aiden and the others armed themselves and considered escaping.
• As the red full moon rose, a huge wave of red-eyed zombies appeared beside the tracks and charged the train.

Duanmu Huai and the survivors survived Blood Moon Night aboard the train, which burned through the zombie horde and reached a city. They followed Aiden to a settlement, where armed guards confronted them and demanded to know who Duanmu Huai was.

• A massive horde attacked the train, but invisible defenses shredded ordinary zombies, and the train's bright light set the horde ablaze when Night Demons broke through.
• Duanmu Huai concluded that the Anti-Undead Barrier did not work on the infected zombies, while Mary suspected they were driven by a viral infection rather than negative energy.
• After sunrise, Miyamoto Rei and Takagi Saya's group relaxed and hoped they might be allowed to stay with the Inquisition.
• Duanmu Huai's group accompanied Aiden to a city settlement, while Takagi Saya's group planned to assess it and Joel and Ellie intended to buy supplies.
• Armed survivors surrounded the group in a warehouse courtyard, and their leader demanded an explanation for Duanmu Huai's intimidating Power Armor.