Chapter Summaries

Alvin told MOSS about the Devourer Civilization’s origins, livestock practices, and overwhelming weapons after the enormous ring-shaped ship appeared in the Solar System. He rejected MOSS’s plan to flee Earth, warning that an even more powerful civilization might exist in the same universe.

• Alvin ordered MOSS to alert the United Human Government and increase surveillance of the ring-shaped ship.
• Alvin explained that the Devourer Civilization originated from Earth’s dinosaurs and survived by consuming planets and raising their inhabitants as livestock.
• Alvin described the Devourers’ weapons, including planetary destruction systems, a barrier that nullified physical weapons, memory manipulation, and a time-dilating cage.
• MOSS proposed building Noah’s Ark to evacuate a small group of humans and the Gene Seed, leaving most of humanity behind to buy time.
• Alvin said the Devourer Civilization was not the enemy he feared most and revealed that another hidden God-level civilization, Li Bai, belonged to the same universe.

Alvin told MOSS that he would only help humanity fight the Devourer Civilization if people proved their courage and chose to resist rather than surrender. At the United Government conference, representatives faced a vote on whether to become the Devourers’ livestock or resist them, with humanity’s odds of victory at just 0.1%.

• Alvin warned MOSS that a possibly existing civilization far beyond the Devourers was the only thing that truly concerned him, and allowed it to share the Devourer information with the United Government.
• MOSS questioned Alvin’s choice to reveal the threat, but Alvin said humanity had to prove its courage before he would help defend it.
• Alvin told MOSS he would abandon the Wandering Earth if humanity chose to surrender and give up its dignity.
• Mike asked Alvin to confirm the report that the Devourers were evolved dinosaurs planning to raise humans as livestock, and the representatives saw MOSS’s 0.1% victory estimate.
• MOSS presented the representatives with red buttons for surrender and blue buttons for resistance, leaving humanity’s choice unresolved.

MOSS gave humanity 24 hours to choose whether to surrender to the Devourer Civilization or resist, while Zhou Zhezhi warned Mike that the vote was a trap and urged humanity to unite. As the Devourers issued their ultimatum, support shifted toward abandoning physical bodies and joining the Digital Faction, leaving the Moving Mountains Plan and Xia Nation isolated.

• MOSS gave the United Government 24 hours to vote on humanity’s response to the approaching Devourer Civilization.
• Zhou Zhezhi told Mike that humanity’s choice was a trap and urged resistance through unity.
• Big Tooth arrived as the Devourer Empire’s envoy and offered to keep humanity as livestock and slaves until age sixty.
• Rebel Army members promoted joining the Digital Faction, and the Moving Mountains Plan stalled as the Digital Faction gained support.
• Several great powers shifted away from the Moving Mountains Plan, leaving Xia Nation isolated while Alvin watched their choices.

Humanity’s vote left only eight countries willing to resist the Devourer Civilization, while most others chose to digitize themselves and flee. Zhou Zhezhi and the remaining representatives asked Alvin to help by promising to join his Holy Terra Alliance Council, then claimed they would prove they represented the real majority.

• The vote revealed that only eight countries would resist, while no countries voted to surrender and many joined the Digital Faction.
• Hao Xiaoxi brought Zhou Zhezhi into the nearly empty assembly hall, where Gregory, Mike, Isabelle, and Arthur declared that they would not surrender or become digital pets.
• Zhou Zhezhi challenged MOSS and Alvin to judge humanity’s response, and Alvin said the results disappointed him because many people had chosen another path.
• Zhou Zhezhi urged Alvin to believe in humanity, but Alvin demanded a reason to help them fight the Devourer Civilization.
• Zhou Zhezhi offered to join the Holy Terra Alliance Council, pay taxes, and rebuild the United Government, but Alvin noted that they were the minority.
• Zhou Zhezhi and Mike insisted they represented the real majority and asked Alvin for one day to prove it.

Zhou Zhezhi and the other leaders launched a global military campaign to force countries back under the United Human Government, with Xia’s forces devastating East Ying after it refused to yield. As wars spread across the world, the chapter ended with the other nations learning who truly held power in the government.

• Zhou Zhezhi and Mike told Alvin they would reunite humanity under one flag within twelve hours, while Mike predicted the campaign would take only six.
• Attacks cut off countries’ satellites and networks, then struck their military bases and forced many to send representatives to the United Government’s council.
• East Ying defied Xia and appealed to the United States, but Mike refused to intervene as Xia’s carrier groups began bombarding the islands.
• Xia’s naval commander ordered the fleet to keep firing until East Ying was completely destroyed, while refusing the army’s request to join the landing.
• A Xia ground forces brigade attacked the White Elephant and threatened its soldiers with extra training if they failed to reach New Delhi within two hours.
• Wars spread across nearly the entire globe, and the nations learned that military might determined who held sway in the United Human Government.

Mike oversaw the reorganization of the United Human Government into the Holy Terra Alliance Council, appointing Alvin Valshius lifelong High Councilor with veto power. When 219 countries voted to strip China of its Councilor State status, Alvin vetoed the proposal and threatened to kill those who opposed him.

• Mike announced the Holy Terra Alliance Council and secured unanimous approval for Alvin Valshius as lifelong High Councilor and for the five major powers to receive Councilor State seats.
• Alvin opened the first council meeting and invited representatives to speak about uniting humanity against the Devourer Civilization.
• The representative from Magpie Country proposed revoking China's Councilor State status, and 219 countries voted in favor while the United States, France, and Britain abstained and Russia opposed.
• Alvin used his veto to reject the proposal, angering the representative from Magpie Country.
• The representative from Magpie Country invoked the will of 219 countries and humanity's need to oppose the Devourer Civilization, but Alvin threatened to kill them until they agreed with him.

Alvin responded to the United Nations representatives’ challenge by ordering an invasion and extermination of Magpie Country, then announced that he would attack the other dissenting nations in turn. The council members condemned him, but Alvin ordered MOSS to keep killing until they submitted.

• The Magpie representative argued that Alvin should respect the will of 219 countries, so Alvin had MOSS display Magpie Country on the screen and silence the council with armed Door Frame Robots.
• Alvin criticized humanity for infighting and praised Zhou Zhezhi of Xia Country, while MOSS warned Mike not to interrupt him again.
• Alvin ordered the Dark Angels to invade Magpie Country, and MOSS shot the representative when he screamed for the attack to stop.
• After Magpie Country was massacred and erased by an extermination bomb, several council members denounced Alvin and refused to submit.
• Alvin ordered MOSS to attack the countries in the order their representatives had spoken, continuing until they bowed their heads.

Alvin destroyed 43 countries to force the Alliance Council to accept Xia's seats and cooperate on the Planetary Engine plan. After the council adjourned, Zhou Zhezhi told Mike he had known Alvin would act, and wondered about Alvin’s connection to Liu Peiqiang, Zhang Peng, Ma Zhao, and Tu Hengyu.

• Alvin bombarded 43 countries, killing nearly a billion people and terrifying the Alliance Council representatives into silence.
• Alvin held a vote on retaining Xia's five seats, and the motion passed unanimously, 190 to 0.
• Alvin presented MOSS's initial Planetary Engine modification plan and ordered the countries to cooperate before adjourning the council.
• Mike confronted Zhou Zhezhi, who admitted he had known about Alvin's plans and urged Mike to put humanity ahead of national interests.
• Zhou Zhezhi told Mike that Alvin had asked him for help before the council and wondered what connection Alvin had to Liu Peiqiang, Zhang Peng, Ma Zhao, and Tu Hengyu.

Big Tooth, a vanguard of the Devourer Imperium, announced that Earth would be consumed and humanity reduced to livestock after eating a United Council representative. Alvin confronted Big Tooth and revealed his fury, striking the giant creature and insisting that he was a pure-blooded human.

• Big Tooth introduced himself to humanity’s representatives and declared that the Devourer Imperium would consume Earth for its resources.
• Big Tooth ate a representative alive while claiming to assess how the Imperium should deal with humanity.
• Big Tooth judged humans to be tender and said they would be raised as livestock, dismissing appeals to morality and civilization.
• Alvin emerged from the crowd and agreed that the universe favored the strong, confusing Big Tooth about whether he was human.
• Alvin attacked Big Tooth with psionic energy, sending him crashing into the warship, then declared himself a pure-blooded human.

Alvin attacked Big Tooth after the Devourer Imperium envoy called him nonhuman and treated humanity as livestock. After the Dark Angels slaughtered Big Tooth’s soldiers, Alvin captured him and ordered Zhou Zhezhi to prepare a cauldron so he could boil the envoy alive.

• Alvin angrily insisted that he was a pure-blooded human and slapped Big Tooth again when the envoy accused him of rebelling against the Devourer Imperium.
• Big Tooth ordered his soldiers to kill the humans, and dozens of heavily armed Lizardmen emerged from the ship.
• Alvin ordered the Dark Angels to attack, and they rapidly cut down the Devourer soldiers with chainswords and other weapons.
• Alvin used psychic power to lift Big Tooth by the throat and declared that the Devourer Imperium had already started a war by treating humanity as livestock.
• Alvin asked Zhou Zhezhi to set up a cauldron and announced that he would boil Big Tooth alive.

Alvin and the United Nations representatives cooked and ate the Devourers, turning the envoy Big Tooth into a living symbol of humanity's refusal to submit. Alvin planned to preserve the Devourers as food reserves and sell them to the Imperium's Departmento Munitorum.

• Dark Angels carried a national treasure bronze cauldron from a museum and prepared it to cook the Devourers before the United Nations.
• Zhou Zhezhi defended the plan as fitting retribution, and representatives from Xia, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom offered their chefs.
• Zhou Zhezhi explained to Hao Xiaoxi that the spectacle was intended to give humanity confidence to resist the Devourers.
• Chefs prepared the Devourers as dishes while more than a hundred United Nations delegates gathered to eat their flesh.
• Ollsen's men skinned Big Tooth and threw him into boiling oil, and Alvin invited the delegates to enjoy their meal.
• Alvin told Big Tooth that the roles had reversed and decided to sell preserved Devourers to the Imperium's Departmento Munitorum.

Alvin rejected Stone Tooth’s proposed peace treaty and declared war on the Devourer Civilization, vowing to destroy it and make its people humanity’s food. Stone Tooth realized Alvin had decisively chosen the path to war as the chapter ended.

• MOSS informed Alvin that the Devourer Civilization’s fleet had contacted humanity, and Alvin took the call while the others kept eating.
• Stone Tooth identified himself as commander of the Devourer fleet and demanded an explanation for the humans’ treatment of Big Tooth and its guards.
• Stone Tooth offered technology in exchange for resources and proposed peace, explaining that war would cost the Devourers too much.
• Alvin rejected the proposal, declared that the Imperium never accepted Xenos surrender, and announced that humanity liked war.
• Alvin threatened to destroy the Devourer Civilization, smashed the tabletop with the chess piece, and declared that the war had begun; Stone Tooth recognized the piece as the king and heard Alvin call checkmate.

Stone Tooth returned to the Devourer Imperium with news that humanity had rejected peace, while Alvin’s bloodthirst and humanity’s hidden weapons unsettled him. After entering hibernation, Stone Tooth was dragged into a nightmare vision of the Devourer fleet’s destruction and the Blood God, and his mind broke.

• Stone Tooth reported Alvin’s terrifying desire for war, and the Devourer Imperium prepared to invade humanity and divide Earth’s resources.
• Stone Tooth warned the Devourers that Alvin had already caused around a billion human deaths and that humanity possessed mysterious warriors, ships, and a planet-destroying weapon.
• Haunted by Alvin and unable to sleep, Stone Tooth ordered the fleet AI to monitor Earth before entering a hibernation pod and taking sleep medicine.
• A mysterious force drew Stone Tooth into a vision of the Devourer fleet wrecked in a blood-soaked desert, with his companions and family impaled and decapitated.
• Stone Tooth awoke atop a mountain of skulls, saw the Blood God seated on the Brass Throne, heard the skulls chant, and descended into madness.

As humanity raced to complete and modify more than ten thousand Planetary Engines, Zhou Zhezhi confronted Alvin about the six people whose fates seemed tied to his interventions and urged him to sacrifice them if needed. The Devourers’ orbital attack was repelled by Earth’s Planetary Engines, but Stone Tooth ordered the next plan: trapping Earth in a spacetime bubble to freeze time.

• Humanity used automated equipment to build and modify more than ten thousand Planetary Engines before the Devourer Imperium arrived in 25 days.
• Zhou Zhezhi questioned Alvin about whether he knew the fates of Zhou, Hao Xiaoxi, Zhang Peng, Liu Peiqiang, Ma Zhao, and Tu Hengyu, and offered their lives for humanity’s survival.
• Alvin dismissed Zhou’s fears about humanity’s chances and revealed that the Void Dragon Magradros was on his side.
• The Devourer fleet launched an orbital assault, but Earth’s Planetary Engines destroyed the attacking warships with high-energy particle beams.
• Stone Tooth ordered the Devourers to deploy the Time Amber Cage around Earth and freeze its time.

Stone Tooth urged the Devourer Imperium’s High Council to spend most of its energy reserves on a plan to contain humanity, but the council dismissed the threat and removed Stone Tooth from command. Stone Tooth was dragged away for enforced recuperation as the empire prepared to attack under Cracked Jaw.

• Stone Tooth presented a plan to surround Earth with 1.2 million Time Amber Cages, but the High Council objected to the energy cost.
• Stone Tooth insisted humanity was the Devourer Imperium’s most dangerous enemy, while the councilors mocked its assessment and trusted their fleet to win.
• The High Council cited Stone Tooth’s unstable mental state and relieved it of command, appointing Cracked Jaw to lead the coming war.
• Stone Tooth protested that the Devourers were doomed, smashed the instrument panel, and was taken away by guards for enforced recuperation.

Cracked Jaw tried to repel a small human fleet while obeying orders to preserve the Devourer Imperium’s resources, but the humans bypassed the fleet’s defenses and breached the ring. Alvin then summoned reinforcements inside the Devourer Battleship, leaving the Imperium’s command center under attack.

• Cracked Jaw ordered the outer fleet to destroy the approaching human warships, but their Energy Shield blocked the attack.
• Cracked Jaw hesitated to use the Matter Disintegration Beam and instead activated the Quantum Resonance Barrier.
• The human warships vanished past the barrier and crashed into the ring near the command and communications terminal.
• Alvin emerged from a landing craft, deployed a Teleportation Beacon, and summoned Space Marines, Knight Mechs, and Silicon-based lifeforms.
• Alvin’s reinforcements appeared amid the shock waves, and he ordered them to kill the Devourers.

Alvin’s forces overwhelmed the Devourers’ ground troops, whose poor coordination turned their numerical advantage into a rout. As the Devourer Imperium’s leaders recalled Stone Tooth, Cracked Jaw was dismissed and condemned to execution.

• The Dark Angels, Silver Templars, and Iron Warriors broke through and encircled the Devourers while the Iron Men provided support.
• Alvin noticed that the Devourers’ command was in chaos, allowing a force of only a few thousand Space Marines to defeat more than a hundred thousand enemies.
• Cracked Jaw desperately asked the computer for guidance, but it refused to make decisions for him.
• A Supreme Council elder relieved Cracked Jaw of command, ordered his execution, and appointed Stone Tooth to replace him.
• The elder’s guards dragged Cracked Jaw away as he pleaded for his life.

Stone Tooth was awakened and restored to command after Cracked Jaw’s failed defense let human forces seize key zones aboard the Devourer battleship. As Alvin struggled to capture the ship without destroying it, Stone Tooth ordered its fleets to attack Earth and force humanity to surrender.

• The High Council restored Stone Tooth’s command after Cracked Jaw’s decisions allowed humans to teleport troops into the battleship and cut off its energy supply.
• Stone Tooth condemned Cracked Jaw’s restraint and rallied the Devourer forces, whose resistance stiffened against Alvin’s advancing troops.
• Alvin recognized that the Devourers were drawing humanity into a costly street battle, but avoided heavy weapons because he wanted to capture their planet-class battleship intact.
• Stone Tooth ordered all fleets to accelerate toward Earth and seize its people, believing the attack would put humanity in check.

Stone Tooth took command of the Devourer Imperium’s defenses while Alvin uncovered the enemy’s plan to send a fleet toward Earth. Alvin’s forces destroyed the fleet near Luna, ending the Devourers’ last hope of turning the war around.

• Stone Tooth was appointed Supreme Military Marshal and ordered Devourer forces to counterattack with an apparent pincer trap.
• Alvin recognized the trap but withheld interference while he considered the enemy commander’s intentions.
• A message from MOSS revealed that hundreds of Devourer ships had broken away from the main fleet and were heading for Earth.
• Alvin realized the Devourers were using the ground battle to buy time for their fleet to reach Earth and ordered Giant Spirit God and the Decepticons to intercept it.
• At Luna, Giant Spirit God rose from the lunar surface and joined the Decepticons in destroying the Devourer fleet in just over ten minutes.

After the Devourer Imperium’s fleet was destroyed, Stone Tooth prepared to use human-wave tactics, but the High Council ordered surrender and dismissed it as marshal. The Council had surrendered under threat from Alvin’s Children of Midnight, who had secretly infiltrated its chambers.

• Stone Tooth saw the Imperium’s fleet destroyed and learned that its ground forces had only a 10% chance of victory against the human invaders.
• Stone Tooth decided to sacrifice most of the Imperium’s population through human-wave tactics rather than surrender.
• The High Council rejected Stone Tooth’s plan, ordered the Imperium to surrender, and relieved Stone Tooth of its command.
• Stone Tooth denounced the elders, then collapsed after spitting blood.
• The ten High Council elders revealed that the Children of Midnight had infiltrated their chamber and forced them to surrender.