Chapter Summaries

Snow White scavenged supplies in the snow before discovering Mo Wang buried beneath it. After he rescued himself and introduced himself as an Ark commander who opposed the Ark, Snow White revealed she was part of the Goddess Unit, and Mo Wang immediately annoyed her by asking whether she had modified her chest.

• Snow White dug up a fallen NIKKE, salvaged usable parts, and found an energy bar.
• A hand grabbed Snow White's ankle, and Mo Wang crawled out of the snow, startling her.
• Mo Wang explained that he had been buried for nearly six hours after an avalanche and said Ark's NIKKEs had attacked him.
• Mo Wang told Snow White that he owned Ark's fourth-largest company and supported destroying the Ark because he believed it threatened humanity.
• Snow White introduced herself as a member of the Goddess Unit, and Mo Wang teased her about being the team's mascot and possibly enlarging her chest.

Mo Wang persuaded Snow White to accompany him to Ark by offering her real chocolate and promising to fight for NIKKEs, humanity, and the reclamation of the surface. Meanwhile, Exia worked to regain control of Ark’s network as Boss Mastin watched anxiously.

• Mo Wang teased Snow White about how her combat role and firepower had changed, then tempted her with real chocolate and roasted jerky.
• Mo Wang asked Snow White to accompany him to Ark and admitted that he intended to gather the Goddess Unit and destroy Ark, though Snow White refused to help destroy humanity.
• Mo Wang declared that he wanted NIKKEs treated as ordinary people, humanity to return to the surface, and the Raptures eradicated, reminding Snow White of her former Commander.
• Snow White agreed to join Mo Wang’s team provisionally, warning that she would leave if his actions did not match his promises.
• Exia worked at her keyboard to regain control of Ark’s network while Boss Mastin asked whether she could help.

Exia failed to breach the hacker controlling the Ark’s network, while Nymph easily repelled the Ark’s attacks and prepared to defend the Counter Force base until Mo Wang returned. At Ark Headquarters, Dovan ordered Anderson to deploy against the base, but Anderson’s response was not shown.

• Exia spent nearly five hours attacking the Ark’s mysterious hacker without making progress, and Mastin pulled an angry ZF official away from her.
• Nymph revealed her overwhelming electronic-warfare abilities to Marian and continued protecting the Counter Force base.
• Nymph detected Ark squads approaching and said she had alerted the Counter Force, intending to hold the base until Mo Wang returned.
• Dovan demanded that Anderson obey the ZF’s order and destroy the forward base, while Burinum stood nearby.

Anderson, Dovan, and Burinum argued over whether to attack Mo Wang’s frontline base, and Dovan revealed that Su En had already sent a force there. Su En led the assault with the Exotic and Metis squads, but Marian emerged alone to face Crow, Viper, and Jackal as the attack began.

• Anderson objected to attacking the frontline base before Anik had decided what to do, while Dovan insisted the Ark could not wait.
• Burinum urged the deputy commanders to act, and Dovan said Su En had already dispatched people to the base.
• Su En brought the Metis Squad, her guard unit, and the Exotic Squad to attack Mo Wang’s base, despite Laplace’s objections.
• Su En ordered Crow, Viper, and Jackal to lead the assault, threatening them with the bombs strapped to them.
• Marian walked out of the base alone, and the assembled NIKKEs recognized her as the powerful Heretic from the intelligence reports.

Su En led Mass-produced Type NIKKEs to seize Marian, accusing Mo Wang’s faction of treason and threatening to capture Marian for experiments. Astrea arrived, revealed herself as Mo Wang’s Mythical Nikke, and blocked the attackers’ gunfire, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Su En confronted Marian with a military order branding Mo Wang’s faction traitors and demanded that she surrender.
• Su En surrounded Marian with Mass-produced Type NIKKEs armed with removal rounds, while Marian called for someone else to handle the threat.
• Astrea crashed into the scene, introduced herself as Mo Wang’s close-combat Mythical Nikke, and drew Su En’s furious attention.
• Su En ordered the Mass-produced Type NIKKEs to shoot Marian and Astrea, but Astrea blocked every bullet with her shield.
• Astrea realized the attackers were enemies and began turning her eyes scarlet, while Marian warned her not to overdo it.

Astrea fought Su En’s forces, rapidly incapacitating dozens of Mass-produced Type NIKKEs and withstanding the Metis Squad’s attack. As the deputy commanders watched, Anderson revealed that Mo Wang had once proposed creating Mythical NIKKEs, a proposal he claimed to have rejected.

• Astrea transformed her armor and accidentally decapitated a Mass-produced Type NIKKE, then panicked until Nymph reminded her that NIKKEs survived if their brains remained intact.
• Astrea raced through the Mass-produced Type NIKKEs, cutting their necks and leaving more than thirty unable to move.
• Drake attacked Astrea, and Maxwell and Laplace fired at them, but Astrea blocked the beams with Drake and emerged unharmed.
• Su En and the deputy commanders watched the battle through surveillance and were stunned by Astrea’s strength.
• Anderson told Dovan and Burinum that Mo Wang had proposed creating Mythical NIKKEs to surpass the Fairy NIKKEs, and said he had rejected the proposal.

Astrea defeated Su En’s forces and beat Su En on Mo Wang’s orders, leaving the Ark’s deputy commanders convinced that Mo Wang posed an immense threat. On the way back to the Ark, Mo Wang questioned Snow White about why the Goddess Unit had left, but she said they had gone voluntarily except for one person.

• Anderson watched Astrea overwhelm the Metis Squad and said the mythical NIKKE might rival the Ark’s most elite units.
• Nymph identified Crow as Mo Wang’s highest-priority target, and Astrea killed Crow and Viper before defeating the other NIKKEs in Su En’s forces.
• Astrea beat Su En, then left to look for Marian, while the deputy commanders feared an unprecedented storm was coming to the Ark.
• Mo Wang drove Snow White toward the Ark in a vehicle he had assembled from junk parts and asked why she had left the Ark.
• Snow White said the Goddess Unit had realized the Ark was not what they had fought to protect and that, apart from one person, they had left voluntarily.
• Mo Wang imagined that the Goddess Unit had been persecuted and mocked Snow White’s weathered appearance, prompting her to protest.

Mo Wang and Snow White encountered Chatterbox, who attacked them after Mo Wang’s car sent him flying. Snow White fought him until a Heretic appeared and wounded her, leaving Mo Wang and Snow White facing a new threat.

• Snow White told Mo Wang that the Goddess Unit members had gone their separate ways before she warned him about a huge creature in their path.
• Mo Wang’s car knocked Chatterbox into the snow, and Chatterbox later attacked them with his shoulder cannons.
• Chatterbox destroyed Mo Wang’s car, prompting Mo Wang to mourn its wreckage while Snow White questioned his theatrics.
• Snow White fought Chatterbox with the Seven Dwarves while Mo Wang watched, but an unseen attacker struck her thigh with beams from the sky.
• A figure appeared in the sky, and Snow White recognized the newcomer as a Heretic.

Snow White and Mo Wang faced Chatterbox and the Heretic Scorpion, but Mo Wang effortlessly kicked Chatterbox away and revealed that he had already cured a Heretic at home. As Scorpion prepared to fight, Mo Wang called for Nymph to deploy Icarus, ready to test a Mythical NIKKE's power.

• Snow White judged that she could not defeat Scorpion and Chatterbox alone, especially with her injured leg, and Scorpion ordered Chatterbox to attack her.
• Mo Wang kicked Chatterbox away before he could reach Snow White, shocking both Snow White and Scorpion with his strength.
• Mo Wang claimed he was human and explained that he had removed the Erosion from a Heretic he kept at home, leaving Snow White stunned.
• Scorpion prepared to fight Mo Wang, while Snow White warned him about a Heretic's strength.
• Mo Wang called to Nymph to deploy Icarus and test the highest combat power of a Mythical NIKKE.

Mo Wang deployed the Mythical NIKKE Icarus, who effortlessly defeated Chatterbox and prevented his regeneration. Snow White learned that Mythical NIKKEs were made using Tyrant-class Rapture cores, while Mo Wang admitted he did not know how advanced the Ark’s hidden technology was.

• Nymph activated Icarus at Mo Wang’s command, and Icarus blasted out of the frontline base to reach him.
• Icarus arrived before Mo Wang, Snow White, and Scorpion, while Snow White questioned why such a powerful NIKKE was called entertainment-type.
• Chatterbox unleashed his cannons, missiles, and a physical attack, but Icarus’s shield protected Mo Wang and the others without taking damage.
• Icarus destroyed Chatterbox with missiles, then eliminated his remaining body when he began to regenerate.
• Mo Wang retrieved Chatterbox’s core and explained that Mythical NIKKEs used Tyrant-class Rapture cores, leaving Snow White to question the Ark’s technology.

Mo Wang had Icarus defeat Heretic Scorpion and claimed her core, then questioned Snow White about the Ark while driving toward it at extreme speed. He suggested the Ark was responsible for the endless Rapture attacks and said he was deciding how to destroy it.

• Scorpion tried to escape, but Icarus caught and pummeled her before she transformed into a giant mechanical scorpion.
• Icarus destroyed Scorpion with her Apollo weapon and extracted her intact core at Mo Wang’s command.
• Mo Wang combined the parts from Scorpion and Chatterbox into a super-heavy armored vehicle in under twenty minutes.
• While driving at four hundred kilometers per hour, Mo Wang examined Scorpion’s still-conscious core as Snow White questioned his recklessness.
• Mo Wang asked Snow White about the Ark’s construction and power source, but she said the Goddess Unit had known little about it.
• Mo Wang told Snow White he was considering how to destroy the Ark and suggested it was the reason Raptures kept coming to the surface.

Mo Wang learned that the Ark and the orbital elevator were powered by twin Rapture cores, then returned to the frontline base with Snow White. He found the base under repair and its NIKKEs in conflict, and the chapter ended with Anis punching him after spotting Snow White and Icarus.

• Mo Wang learned that destroying the orbital elevator’s Rapture core would also destroy its twin core and the Ark.
• The Counter Force returned to the frontline base and found Doros and Bangboos repairing its defenses under Astrea’s direction.
• Nymph arrived and scolded Astrea, while Marian introduced the two as Mythical NIKKEs created by Mo Wang.
• Anis and Nymph traded insults and nearly came to blows before Mo Wang arrived with Snow White and Icarus.
• Anis ran toward Mo Wang, noticed Snow White and Icarus, then struck him in the face with a powerful punch.

Mo Wang returned from the wilderness with Snow White and Icarus, then revealed that he had created three powerful but troublesome NIKKEs. He persuaded Snow White to become their teacher and asked Ludmila to help him deal with the Ark’s growing problems with ZF.

• Anis punched Mo Wang, hurt her own fist, and complained that she and the others had spent a day digging for him after an avalanche buried him.
• Mo Wang introduced Snow White as a retired member of the Goddess Unit and introduced Icarus as his strongest combat NIKKE.
• Mo Wang explained that Astrea, Nymph, and Icarus were powerful but had problems that made them difficult to work with as a team.
• Mo Wang persuaded Snow White to teach the three NIKKEs, and she agreed after seeing their pleading faces.
• Mo Wang asked Ludmila to help him handle ZF, and Ludmila asked what she would get in return.

Mo Wang returned to his base with Snow White and the others, while the Ark’s leaders quickly confronted him over the Doros’ actions. Snow White learned about the base and Mo Wang’s work, and the chapter ended with him facing an angry delegation from the military and the ZF.

• Mo Wang welcomed Ludmila’s group into the base and anticipated that the Ark’s leaders would soon demand answers, while D and K continued searching for him in the snow.
• Snow White toured the luxurious base with Doro, learned that Mo Wang had built it for NIKKEs and used part of it for research, and sent her teammates a picture of Doro.
• Mo Wang returned to his office and received a stream of calls from the Ark’s leaders, including Scheffty.
• Dovan shouted at Mo Wang over the monsters in the city, but Mo Wang insulted him, prompting Anderson and Burinum to restrain him.
• Anderson told Mo Wang that the ZF had also come, and the camera revealed several black-clad men watching him solemnly.

Mo Wang defied the Inquisitors after they failed to find the people behind his attempted assassination, and the Ark’s officials stripped him of his rank and placed a bounty on him. He retaliated by sending an armed Doro force to breach command headquarters, leaving Anderson and the others facing a crippled defense system.

• Mo Wang rejected the Inquisitors’ demands, blamed them for the assassination attempt, and hung up on Dovan after refusing to remain Commander.
• The Ark’s officials revoked Mo Wang’s command authority and military rank, prompting him to embrace his Great Demon King persona.
• The higher-ups placed a bounty on Mo Wang and ordered a campaign against him, while Anderson warned that this would make the crisis worse.
• Anderson, Dovan, and Burinum argued over how to deal with Mo Wang and the Mythical NIKKEs as command headquarters suddenly lost contact with its systems.
• Mo Wang’s armored vehicle, packed with armed Doros, charged through the defenses and breached the headquarters’ blast door using Rapture technology.

Mo Wang attacked Mr. B’s heavily guarded estate alone while Doros assaulted headquarters, leaving the Inquisitor terrified and Anderson unable to send help. Mo Wang slaughtered the estate’s guards and assassins with ease, and Mr. B remained trapped in his safe house awaiting news.

• Doros breached headquarters’ defenses as Mr. B urgently asked Anderson for help, explaining that Mo Wang was attacking his residence alone.
• Mo Wang arrived at Mr. B’s estate, brushed aside the guards, and ignored the gunfire that could not harm him.
• Mo Wang shot the estate’s armed defenders and kicked a hole through the electrified gates.
• Mo Wang advanced through the grounds, killing the assassins and bodyguards who tried to stop him.
• An attacker fired an RPG at Mo Wang, who kicked it back and lit a cigarette with the resulting explosion.

Mo Wang slaughtered the assassins and custom NIKKEs defending Mr. B’s villa, overwhelming them with his speed and firepower. As outside reinforcements fled, Mr. B realized his elite forces had been wiped out in less than twenty minutes.

• Mo Wang gave the two surviving assassins peanuts, then entered the villa and shot down the maid-outfitted NIKKEs guarding it.
• Mo Wang fought through the villa’s defenders, dodging laser cannon fire and cutting down dozens of assassins and NIKKEs with his pistols.
• Mo Wang lured three hidden attackers out and killed them, then found and shot another assassin hiding behind a door.
• Newly arrived thugs and assassins saw the carnage, decided the bounty was not worth the danger, and fled the estate.
• Mr. B waited for reports, realized his carefully trained forces were dead, and struggled to believe Mo Wang had defeated them in under twenty minutes.

Mo Wang broke into Mr. B’s hidden room and killed him before he could finish claiming to serve the Ark. He then answered a call from headquarters and told Deputy Commander Burinum and Dovan that he intended to destroy the Ark.

• Mr. B activated his secret escape elevator, but it failed to move as someone knocked at his door.
• Mo Wang kicked through the wall, found Mr. B hiding behind a sofa, and shot him dead.
• Mo Wang reflected on the Ark’s Inquisitors, their manipulation of K, and their secret memory-wiping practices in the Inner Library.
• A call from headquarters connected Mo Wang to Burinum and Dovan, who were horrified to see him in Mr. B’s room.
• Mo Wang confirmed that he intended to destroy the Ark.

Mo Wang told the deputy commanders he would destroy the Ark’s corrupt order and lead humanity back to the surface, then began killing the Inquisitors he judged guilty. As the military stood down and ZF struggled to respond, Mo Wang killed Ms. C, and Anderson spent his first day off calmly drinking tea.

• Mo Wang told Burinum and Dovan that he intended to reclaim the surface and would keep killing those he considered guilty, while sparing the three deputy commanders.
• Anderson told Dovan and Burinum that the military could do nothing against Mo Wang, and the three resigned themselves to watching events unfold.
• ZF reinforcements found 157 dead at the estate, including 57 of their own people, while the NIKKEs' brains remained intact and could be revived in replacement bodies.
• ZF released the conversation with Mo Wang and raised his bounty to three hundred million Credit Points, but an official doubted anyone could collect it safely.
• Mo Wang killed Ms. C, exposing her crimes and the Inquisitors' suppression of the Outer Rim and new enterprises through information posted online.
• The military took leave after conceding it could not stop Mo Wang, and Anderson relaxed with tea Mo Wang had once given him.

Mo Wang killed Ark’s powerful figures at an accelerating pace while Anderson and Burinum watched the military’s influence collapse. As the remaining higher-ups fled to MMR, Zhi En, Mana, and Aethel faced their demands for a way to stop him.

• Anderson and Burinum learned that Mo Wang had killed Ms. C and F, while the military’s NIKKEs remained badly damaged and unable to intervene.
• Mo Wang killed another Inquisitor and destroyed his home after discovering that he had abducted and abused people, including minors, to turn them into NIKKEs.
• Anderson told Burinum that even Aethel could not explain how Mo Wang had become an irreproducible miracle, while Mo Wang continued through his kill list.
• Within hours, only one person remained on Mo Wang’s list, and Ark’s higher-ups fled to MMR to escape him.
• Zhi En tried to calm the higher-ups, who blamed her and demanded that she reveal something capable of stopping Mo Wang, while Mana and Aethel discussed his origins.