Arc 15The Architect’s Fall

The allied forces destroyed the Architect’s tower and reclaimed its workshops, while players and craftsmen restored damaged regions and built new ways to fight. Tom Pie advanced through the Black Pool and joined forces with the last members of The Ancient, as [Anemia] uncovered an old transfer station and a possible route to the repair zone.

  • Vanguard Across the Realm and Thunder King killed the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower, and the reopened route helped supply and development surge across Companion Star S-1.
  • Gu Yuan sent the Resurrection Whale after the Architect, while players and Tide Singers began their campaign to reclaim the Architect’s territory.
  • The allied forces captured the logistics hub and flesh-recycling yard, freed the Thunder Messenger, and destroyed the Architect as it tried to flee with the Origin Seeds.
  • The players seized the tower’s workshops, restored cultivation pools, and deployed Hannibal’s Landwalking Brood Mother to break through enemy defenses and reopen a damaged channel.
  • Tom Pie restored three damaged areas, entered the Black Pool, and reached Tier Two as a Nirvana Predator despite resisting its hunger.
  • Tom Pie saved the Warlord of The Ancient, helped free two survivors from a Mother Insect, and fought alongside the giants as they guarded their northern passage.
  • [Anemia] and the Heavy Spearman escorted repair supplies, then discovered the Seventh Transfer Station and a map that suggested a hidden route toward the repair zone.
Chapters 351–375 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 351Changing with Each Passing Day

Vanguard Across the Realm and Thunder King killed a Thorn-Mouthed Burrower blocking a transport route, then Vanguard returned to the thriving City of Light as Companion Star S-1’s development accelerated. Far away, Gu Yuan summoned ancient lifeforms and prepared to confront the Lesions left behind by Architect on Gallbladder.

  • Vanguard Across the Realm, Thunder King, and their allies lured the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower from its underground nest and killed it.
  • Star Spirit patrols reopened the route, and over the next month players and Star Spirits moved supplies across Companion Star S-1 as development surged.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm returned to the City of Light, where bustling workshops and markets showed how much the players’ equipment and skills had advanced.
  • Bi Ren Liang Mou and Hannibal adjusted a giant beast creation for a guild’s cargo needs and prepared to fulfill the order.
  • Gu Yuan turned his attention to Gallbladder, summoned ancient lifeforms from the Life Chasm, and received their response as he prepared to face Architect’s remaining Lesions.

Ch. 352Tide Singer

Gu Yuan ordered the Resurrection Whale and allied Kinfolk to attack the Architect and rescue the Thunder Messenger while he repaired the damaged pathways around his Magic Heart. As players and Tide Singers prepared to reclaim the Gallbladder, they saw the Kinfolk fight a Tier Four Parasitic Matriarch and learned that the Architect was dismantling the tower’s connections to escape.

  • Gu Yuan cautiously repaired a damaged pathway to his Magic Heart, then sent the Resurrection Whale to eliminate the Architect and bring the Thunder Messenger back from the tower’s cage.
  • A server-wide Gallbladder Subjugation Battle quest began, and [Cloud Pomelo] joined [Tian Ce], [Hannibal], and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] as they planned the expedition from Hanging City.
  • The Resurrection Whale arrived above Hanging City with Tide Singers, whose envoy coordinated with [Tian Ce] and shared footage of their Tier Four vanguard fighting a massive Jadefied Parasitic Matriarch.
  • Two Tier Four Tide Singers defeated the Parasitic Matriarch, while [Thunder King] and [Tian Ce] acknowledged the power gap and focused the players’ plans on regions they could reclaim.
  • The Resurrection Whale reported that [Burden Bearer] was clearing routes for the allied forces, then warned that the Architect was dismantling its connection to the tower and trying to escape.

Ch. 353Ancient Burden Bearer

The Burden Bearer and Resurrection Whale confronted the Architect as it tried to pull the Jade Colossal Tower free, while the Hepa Race helped stabilize and clean the wounded divine tissue. The Architect refused to surrender the tower, and the conflict shifted toward an impending battle as players planned to seize its outer workshops and new war constructs awakened.

  • The Burden Bearer stopped the Jade Mountains from being torn free and demanded that the Architect release its roots, while the Resurrection Whale blocked the tower's escape and announced that Father God had awakened.
  • The Architect revealed the imprisoned Thunder Messenger and argued that its towers and nesting grounds had kept its Kinfolk alive, but the Burden Bearer accused it of draining the living tissue and sacrificing its own kin.
  • The Resurrection Whale demanded the tower and the Architect's return, but the Architect retreated behind the tower's defenses and prepared to force an escape route.
  • The Burden Bearer supported the wounded tissue while Hepa alchemists and Biochemical Guards cleared accessible wounds, and the Resurrection Whale and Carapace Kinfolk began moving against the tower's defenses.
  • At the Hanging City, Tian Ce, Hannibal, Bi Ren Liang Mou, and Vanguard Across the Realm reviewed the battlefield and planned routes to capture the outer workshops.
  • The Architect's war constructs opened their eyes in cultivation fluid as enormous gates opened along the tower's outer wall.

Ch. 354Meeting the Hepa Race

The vanguard captured a logistics hub after defeating a self-repairing Prism-Armored Fabricator and cutting off its supply channels. As the repair unit arrived, a Hepa alchemist recognized an emblem in Hannibal's Hepa Alchemy Compendium and urgently asked where it came from.

  • Hannibal freed a jammed cargo rack, and the advance legion marched for four days through the eastern Bone Corridor to the designated coordinates.
  • Tian Ce identified the logistics hub's routes and hidden passage while Vanguard Across the Realm and Dragon Fighting in the Wild prepared to attack the Prism-Armored Fabricator.
  • The Fabricator repeatedly repaired its armor and limbs until Tian Ce found the hidden parts channels and ordered the Mage Corps and players to destroy the supply route.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm, Thunder King, and Dragon Fighting in the Wild exploited the Fabricator's lost supplies and killed it, allowing the repair teams to enter the hub.
  • Hannibal showed the arriving Hepa alchemists his Hepa Alchemy Compendium, and their leader recognized its emblem as one from the Great Library and demanded to know where Hannibal had found it.

Ch. 355Yi'er

Yi'er helped Hannibal's crew turn the transfer yard into a forward supply base and saw their living creations defend it from a Raider Beast attack. Meanwhile, Tian Ce discovered that the Architect was feeding defeated creations into a vast underground furnace to recycle their bodies as supplies.

  • Hannibal showed Yi'er footage of Emerald City and its Great Library, and Yi'er asked him to send a copy to the Grand Elder.
  • Yi'er identified the flesh sacs as high-purity living nutrient stock and began clearing corrosive sludge so Divine Body Weavers could heal the divine body's exposed tissue.
  • Hannibal, Bi Ren Liang Mou, and the craftsmen repaired Mecha using nutrient fluid and living tissue, while Yi'er studied their methods.
  • Crystal Shadow Monsters attacked the supply pump, but the defenders repelled them and Hannibal's newly repaired six-legged beast crushed the last attackers.
  • Yi'er helped establish a forward supply base and sent the Emerald City footage back to Burden Bearer's carapace.
  • Tian Ce saw Tier Three escort beasts drive defeated creations into a giant feeding opening, where crushing pincers tore them apart and sent their remains toward the Architect's underground furnace.

Ch. 356Dismantling the Tower

The players seized a flesh-recycling yard and cut off supplies to the Architect’s Tier Four war behemoths, allowing the Kinfolk to dismantle a subsidiary tower. As the tower fell, the Architect severed its connection to the Main Tower and moved the Lightning Cage and the wounded [Thunder Messenger] toward a protected escape pod.

  • [Vanguard Across the Realm] and [Tian Ce] ordered a strike to capture the intake and stop its supplies from reaching the depths.
  • [Brute Force Yields Miracles], [Dragon Fighting in the Wild], and [Vanguard Across the Realm] killed the two escort beasts while the army halted the transport convoy and seized its crates.
  • [Hannibal] and the craftsmen salvaged organs and components as the players took control of the flesh-recycling yard.
  • The Carapace Legion and Tide Singers cut off replacement supplies, then killed a wounded Tier Four behemoth whose abdominal injury could no longer be repaired.
  • The Burden Bearer and the Resurrection Whale helped the Kinfolk separate and topple a subsidiary tower, prompting the Architect to sever its bridge to the Main Tower.
  • The Architect moved the Lightning Cage and the gravely wounded [Thunder Messenger] into a protected Core Escape Pod section.

Ch. 357Taking the Military Base with Ease

The Expeditionary Army seized an enemy hatchery and Workshop while the Resurrection Whale battled the Architect. Hannibal’s craftsmen began using its cultivation pools to raise their guarded embryos, and Bi Ren Liang Mou and Hannibal realized the Workshop could host a powerful project they had been unable to build in Hanging City.

  • The Resurrection Whale battered the Architect’s tower as the Architect initiated self-destruct orders for its remaining outposts.
  • Tian Ce ordered Hannibal and Old Liang to lead craftsmen and melee fighters through a maintenance passage to save the hatchery’s cultivation pools.
  • Hannibal’s force broke into the Workshop, fought the prematurely released war beasts, and stopped a cutting beast from destroying the nutrient tank.
  • Vanguard Across the Realm and Dragon Fighting in the Wild defeated the last Tier Three guards, allowing the Expeditionary Army to capture and clear the Workshop.
  • Hannibal’s craftsmen connected their equipment to the production line and placed the mature embryos from Hanging City into eight clean cultivation pools.
  • Bi Ren Liang Mou told Hannibal the Workshop had the space, foundation, and power interfaces needed to build what they could not construct in Hanging City.

Ch. 358Raising a Beast Horde

Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou completed and tested a new batch of Siege Beasts, then learned that their nutrient concentrate was too low for another batch. Tian Ce ordered them to take the beasts to the Bloodweeping Corridor, where they prepared to attack the Architect’s defenses.

  • Hannibal unveiled six Siege Beasts and eighteen Tier-Two Peak assault war beasts that the craftsmen had grown and modified in the barracks.
  • A Siege Beast smashed through a reinforced blast door but toppled when its added side armor made it too heavy to turn; Bi Ren Liang Mou repaired its injured joint with Hannibal’s help.
  • The craftsmen tested the Siege Beast’s straight-ahead breaching tactic, and a Mech Squad captain asked to lead the breach with one.
  • Yi'er warned Hannibal that heavy-load testing had raised nutrient consumption by thirty percent and advised against growing more embryos until supplies arrived; he also said he hoped to visit Emerald City after the war.
  • Tian Ce reported that the vanguard had been stopped twice at the Bloodweeping Corridor and ordered Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou to take the escort units along a supply route to meet the forward team.
  • Hannibal led the six Siege Beasts and eighteen assault war beasts out of the barracks toward the Architect’s defenses.

Ch. 359Bring Him Back!

The players and war beasts broke through the Bloodweeping Corridor, clearing the route for the repair teams as Burden Bearer and the Resurrection Whale rescued the Thunder Messenger from the Core Escape Pod. With the Architect’s energy supply severed and the players celebrating the rescue, Burden Bearer struck the Main Tower.

  • [Hannibal] led six Siege Beasts in smashing through the Bloodweeping Corridor’s main blast door while the Tier Three fighters engaged the gatekeeper.
  • The players defeated the defenders and cleared the corridor, allowing the logistics and repair teams to advance and free Burden Bearer’s supporting claw.
  • The Architect launched the Core Escape Pod, but Burden Bearer seized it and the Resurrection Whale broke in, severed the energy conduits, and rescued the Thunder Messenger.
  • The Tide Singer liaison officer announced the successful rescue, and the players celebrated as the Main Tower’s outer defenses dimmed.
  • Burden Bearer shielded the withdrawing Resurrection Whale, then struck the outer wall of the Main Tower.

Ch. 360Where Do You Think You're Going?

The Burden Bearer tore into the Main Tower as the Architect abandoned it with its Origin Seed caskets. Tian Ce and the defenders held the canyon against the enemy’s desperate breakout, but the Architect’s escape ended when the Resurrection Whale blocked its path.

  • The Burden Bearer ripped open the Main Tower while the Architect gathered its Origin Seed caskets and ordered the remaining forces to break out.
  • Tian Ce organized the defenders at the Bloodweeping Corridor, where players, craftsmen, Mecha warriors, and their allies funneled and fought the charging beasts.
  • Hannibal rotated the wounded war beasts while Cloud Pomelo healed the defenders, and the canyon force defeated the enemy charge and captured its Transport Beasts.
  • The Architect severed its connection to the Main Tower and fled toward the Void Storm with the caskets.
  • The Resurrection Whale appeared in the Architect’s escape route and confronted it.

Ch. 361Reclaiming Authority, Returning What Was Stolen

The Burden Bearer and Resurrection Whale killed the Architect, reclaimed the Jade Colossal Tower, and helped the players celebrate victory while Gu Yuan continued repairing the divine body. The chapter ended with Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou beginning construction of a mobile, beast-backed barracks.

  • The Architect attacked the Resurrection Whale and tried to escape with the Origin Seeds, but the Burden Bearer and whale destroyed it and caught the falling cases.
  • The tower's defenses faltered without the Architect, and the Burden Bearer steadied the structure while Tide Singers and Carapace Kinfolk recovered the Origin Seeds and cleared its levels.
  • Dragon Fighting in the Wild and the players learned the Architect had been slain, celebrated their victory, and received battle rewards.
  • Gu Yuan praised the warriors, authorized access to the tower's cleared workshops, and ordered captured materials distributed by battle merit while keeping high-level remains sealed.
  • The next morning, workers repaired the divine body's channels, and the Burden Bearer praised them for protecting its lifeblood and Gu Yuan's hope.
  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou unveiled a mobile barracks mounted on a giant beast, and the craftsmen began assembling its reinforced bone keel.

Ch. 362Sailing on Land

Three weeks after construction began, Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou unveiled the Landwalking Brood Mother, a mobile fortress that carried six Tier Two war-beast cultivation pools. After it proved its value by breaching an enemy position, defending its crew, and treating a wounded beast, Hannibal led it onward toward the Three-Way Junction Fortress.

  • Hannibal activated the Landwalking Brood Mother, and the assembled players celebrated as its six cultivation pools remained stable on its back.
  • Yi'er returned from Emerald City with a photograph and advised Hannibal on how to mix nutrients for the moving pools.
  • At the outer war zone, Hannibal anchored the Brood Mother and launched two Tier Two assault beasts to break through an enemy-held underground entrance.
  • Five Raider Beasts attacked the repair crew from behind, but the Brood Mother crushed or disabled all of them with its combat limbs.
  • Yi'er and the craftsmen helped treat a wounded friendly beast aboard the Brood Mother while the assault captain reported that the Three-Way Junction Fortress blocked the route.
  • Hannibal secured the wounded beast and led the Brood Mother and its escort onward toward the fortress.

Ch. 363Bridge to the Magic Heart

Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou captured the Three-Way Junction Fortress, allowing the Divine Body Repair Corps to reopen its drainage ditch and restore circulation. Gu Yuan completed the Bridge of Life near the Magic Heart, and its renewed flow awakened a quest in the liver region.

  • Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou used the Brood Mother to kill the Tier Three Garrison Beast and break through the fortress defenses.
  • The assault squad secured the fortress, while craftsmen began repairing the Brood Mother's damaged forelimb with salvaged armor.
  • Yi'er and the Divine Body Repair Corps cleared the blocked ditch and pulled down its sluice gate, releasing the trapped fluid and restoring flow through the Liberated Zone.
  • Gu Yuan completed the damaged energy channel near the Magic Heart and guided golden spiritual energy into an ancient branch leading toward the liver region.
  • A blood-soaked player on [H-114514] received a quest to consume revived Titan flesh at three marked locations for Nirvana Energy.

Ch. 364This Map? I'll Take It

Tom Pie resisted the urge to devour a newly revived patch of divine flesh, killed three Calamity Kin feeding on it, and discovered the Calamity quest markers pointed to other revived areas. He followed the newly revealed bone slope toward the next marker but stopped when he found Tier Two armored carcasses and a huge venomous bite mark.

  • Tom Pie followed the quest map to a fissure where three Calamity Kin were devouring newly revived divine flesh.
  • Tom Pie ambushed and killed two Calamity Kin, then tore the third away from the living tissue and killed it.
  • Tom Pie refused to eat the corpses despite his wounds and moved them away from the fissure, allowing the dark-gold tissue to heal.
  • The revived tissue shifted the dead shell and drained the wastewater, revealing a bone slope that Tom Pie marked as a route to the other quest coordinates.
  • Tom Pie realized the quest markers revealed nearby revived areas and set off toward the second coordinate.
  • Tom Pie found Tier Two armored carcasses and a giant venomous bite mark, then halted at the edge of the slope.

Ch. 365Stop! I'm on Your Side!

Tom Pie discovered that the Ancient Warlord was a native immune warrior, but its instinct to attack his corrupted blood forced him to evade it and use it against a parasite nest. After the Warlord destroyed the nest and restored a patch of tissue, Tom marked two mission coordinates and climbed toward the final one by taking the Sky Road.

  • Tom Pie recognized the Ancient Warlord as a Titan ally, but it attacked him after smelling his oblivion-tainted blood.
  • Tom Pie found a parasite nest covering a patch of divine tissue and lured the Warlord toward it by throwing a bloodied skull fragment among the larvae.
  • The Ancient Warlord tore apart the nest and killed its adult parasites, while Tom Pie killed a larva that attacked him in a crevice.
  • Tom Pie marked the restored tissue on his system map and warned that the Warlord attacked on sight.
  • With the final mission coordinate beyond the Warlord's patrol area, Tom Pie began climbing the northern cliff toward the Sky Road.

Ch. 366I Really Am a Divine Guard!

[Anemia] and his squad cleared a narrow passage by defeating a healing Modified War Construct, then discovered something moving behind ancient Blast Doors. The squad prepared to face whatever was inside.

  • [Anemia] shielded the Hepa Apprentice from poison-coated bone spikes and fought a Modified War Construct that was feeding on corpses to heal itself.
  • [Anemia] drank pureblood rations, protected his teammates, and wounded the monster by slicing beneath its neck and blasting its feeding tube with blood crystals.
  • [Anemia] drove his Bone Blade into the monster’s neck while his teammates attacked with lightning and fire, killing it.
  • The Divine Body Weavers and Hepa Apprentices entered the cleared repair zone, and the apprentice mistook [Anemia] for a biochemical craftsman until he declared himself a Divine Guard and main tank.
  • A scout found ancient Blast Doors at the end of the passage, with clawing sounds coming from behind them, and [Anemia] drew his Bone Blade.

Ch. 367Don't Blow Up the Money!

[Anemia] led his squad in killing three starving War Constructs without damaging two intact War Beast Incubators, then sold the valuable pods to [Hannibal]. After receiving a huge payment, [Anemia] accepted [Hannibal]'s offer to guard the workshop long-term, negotiating for higher pay.

  • [Anemia] stopped the squad from attacking the War Constructs with area strikes after spotting two intact War Beast Incubators behind them.
  • [Anemia] lured the first War Construct out with Supreme Thunder Rhino Beast Blood, and the squad killed it before baiting and trapping the level 49 leader in the Blast Doors.
  • [Anemia] and the squad killed the remaining War Constructs and confirmed that both incubators were still functional.
  • [Hannibal] inspected the incubators, bought them from [Anemia] for a large sum of bio-energy, and offered the squad a long-term security contract.
  • [Anemia] asked [Hannibal] for higher pay and agreed to have the squad guard the workshop.

Ch. 368The level forty threshold

[Tom Pie] restored the divine body’s final dead zone and reached level forty, but the Abyss blocked his tier breakthrough and directed him back to the Black Pool. Injured and wary of the transformation awaiting him there, he marked a nearby ridge so he could scout the pool before deciding whether to enter.

  • [Tom Pie] killed two Calamity Kin that were feeding on the revived divine flesh and poisoned it with overflowing sewage.
  • [Tom Pie] refused to consume the monsters’ core fragments, then cleared the blocked drainage channel so the divine flesh could heal.
  • [Tom Pie] marked the third restored dead zone, completing all three repairs despite the faction quest still showing incomplete.
  • [Tom Pie] reached level forty, but his advancement remained locked and his class tree displayed only [Nirvana Scion].
  • [Tom Pie] received guidance to return to the Primordial Blood Spring and complete his transformation at the Nirvana Altar.
  • [Tom Pie] bandaged his injured arm, placed a Crimson Recon Marker near the Black Pool, and decided to scout the ridge before choosing whether to enter.

Ch. 369This time, I'll go down myself!

Tom Pie reached the Black Pool and chose to undergo the dangerous blood-spring reconstruction rather than retreat. He broke through to Tier Two, resisted the Abyss’s hunger, and cut himself free before the spring could transform him further.

  • Tom Pie saw a newly evolved Tier Two monster get ambushed and killed, then identified a shallow trough as a safer route to the Black Pool.
  • Tom Pie killed the Calamity Kin blocking the trough and tested the black water, which sent annihilation power surging into his arm.
  • Tom Pie entered the blood spring and endured a brutal reconstruction while fighting its hunger and resisting the urge to consume revived Titan flesh.
  • Tom Pie broke through to Tier Two at LV.40 and advanced his class core to Nirvana Predator.
  • Tom Pie rejected further infusion and cut through the Abyssal Fetal Garment to escape the black water.

Ch. 370Tier Two, Nirvana Predator!

[Tom Pie] broke free from the Black Pool as a Tier Two predator, killed a Tier Two Calamity Kin with his new Corrosion Claw, and spent ten days hunting while resisting the Abyss’s urge to consume. An elimination quest then ordered him to kill the Ancient · Warlord, his allied guardian, and [Tom Pie] ignored the quest and raced toward the northern canyon.

  • [Tom Pie] tore himself free of the Black Pool’s molting membrane and discovered his wounds had healed and his strength had increased.
  • [Tom Pie] used Corrosion Claw to cripple and kill a level 43 Tier Two Calamity Kin, then fought off the urge to devour its corpse.
  • [Tom Pie] logged out to rest, returned at Tier Two level 40, and spent ten days hunting while carefully limiting his use of Nirvana Communion and Corrosion Claw.
  • [Tom Pie] reached Tier Two level 46 before the Abyss quest panel ordered him to hunt the level 48 Ancient · Warlord.
  • [Tom Pie] recognized the target as his allied Warlord, refused to accept the quest, and headed toward the northern canyon.

Ch. 371This Time, It's My Turn to Save You!

[Tom Pie] fought alongside the Warlord of The Ancient to defeat three Tier Two Calamity Kin, then discovered that the Warlord was defending a cavern where two of its brothers still slept. A Marrow-Devouring Mother Insect was draining their life, leaving [Tom Pie] to face a new threat.

  • [Tom Pie] ignored the [Hunt Mission] and attacked the Soul Reaper restraining the Warlord of The Ancient, using Corrosion Claw to weaken its flesh cord so the giant could break free.
  • [Tom Pie] killed the Soul Reaper by tearing out its biochemical core, while the Warlord crushed the other two Tier Two monsters in the valley.
  • [Tom Pie] celebrated that he had saved the Warlord, but fled into a rock fissure when the giant turned its attention toward him.
  • [Tom Pie] slipped into the ancient cavern and found more than a dozen dead members of The Ancient and two survivors sleeping in the deepest hollows.
  • [Tom Pie] spotted a Tier Two Marrow-Devouring Mother Insect above the nourishment vessel, draining the two survivors, and realized the Warlord had been protecting its last living brothers.

Ch. 372The Sleeping Garrison

[Tom Pie] and the Warlord killed a Marrow-Devouring Mother Insect that had been draining the sleeping guardians’ life force, allowing two members of The Ancient to awaken. With the northern passage reopened, [Tom Pie] spotted a new insect threat and marked an ambush route on his map.

  • [Tom Pie] wounded the Mother Insect and severed its feeding tube while the Warlord attacked it, then helped kill it by ripping out its core crystal.
  • The divine channel resumed flowing, and two members of The Ancient awakened as [Tom Pie] resisted the urge to consume the sacred energy.
  • The Warlord led one awakened guardian to reopen an ancient passage north, while the other stayed behind to regain its strength.
  • [Tom Pie] marked the guardians and the newly revealed road on his map, then spotted a huge insect and heard armored legs stirring throughout the northern gorge.
  • The Warlord growled at the approaching threat, and [Tom Pie] drew a shadowed ambush line along the cliff.

Ch. 373This Meal's on Me!

[Tom Pie] helped The Ancient kill a Carrion-Eating Worm, then spent six days hunting prey and gradually recovering while the giants guarded the cavern. After reaching LV.50, he received a piece of worm flesh from the Warlord and stayed nearby to eat.

  • [Tom Pie] stripped away the worm’s stolen bone armor, letting the Warlord and another member of The Ancient trap and kill it.
  • [Tom Pie] killed a Carrion Beetle, but the Warlord kept him away from the broken bones, so he gave the giants the rest of his beetle and logged out to sleep.
  • Over the next six days, [Tom Pie] learned where he could safely stand, while The Ancient grew stronger and guarded the path and the golden light.
  • [Tom Pie] hunted Kinfolk creatures, recovered from his injuries, and reached LV.50, though his black scales spread after several Communions.
  • The Warlord pushed a piece of worm flesh outside the broken rock for [Tom Pie], who took some and ate nearby instead of retreating farther away.

Ch. 374Now That's Full Logistics Support!

At the Branch Factory, [Anemia] and the Heavy Spearman learned to ride a factory-owned Back-Armored War Beast and used it to protect an escort from a Remnant War Construct. They completed the delivery with little personal damage, and [Hannibal] confirmed the factory would cover repairs and feed for damage sustained on duty.

  • [Anemia] and the Heavy Spearman practiced controlling the Back-Armored War Beast, then accepted an escort contract to transport Weavers and repair materials.
  • A Remnant War Construct ambushed the escort on a narrow road, and [Anemia] used the war beast to shield the carts while the group passed.
  • [Anemia] fought the construct with his Bone Blade and blood crystals as the Heavy Spearman took over the reins and rammed it into a ditch.
  • [Anemia] and the Heavy Spearman killed the Remnant War Construct, and the escort delivered its medicine chests and repair materials safely.
  • [Hannibal] inspected the damaged war beast and said the factory would cover its repairs and nutrients because it had been damaged on duty.
  • [Anemia] celebrated that the escort payment remained untouched and the war beast had shared the danger with them.

Ch. 375This Door Had Been Guarded for Too Long

[Anemia] and Yi'er uncovered the Seventh Transfer Station, where an ancient Biochemical Guard had held up a doorway while wounded people were evacuated during the Black Rain catastrophe. They found the ancestors’ hidden retreat route and prepared to restore the station as a medical supply post, leaving [Anemia] ready to explore the path north.

  • [Anemia] stopped the winch when the buried construct began to give way, and the Hepa Apprentice identified its ancient armor as belonging to his people.
  • Yi'er examined the remains and confirmed that the construct was an old-model Biochemical Guard with no life left in it; the team carefully moved it and entered the chamber it had protected.
  • Yi'er identified the chamber as the Seventh Transfer Station and read the carved records describing the evacuation, the final medical team’s departure, and their instructions to leave a route for those who came after.
  • Yi'er traced an ancient retreat map that revealed a possible hidden route toward the repair zone north of Three-Way Junction, and [Anemia] proposed scouting and building a passage through it.
  • [Anemia] and Yi'er agreed to turn the station into a medical supply post, and the system registered the discovery of the ruins.
  • At dusk, [Anemia] helped honor the guard, saluted it, and vowed to continue along the path it had left behind.
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Arc 15 of 17