Recaps

Mike used the scale to stake the two anomalies connected to him and received fate’s gift, which offered a way for someone else to confront the evil god. After returning home, he traveled abroad to find a black stone slab and brought it to Wu for examination as Eternal Kingdom’s summoning ritual drew near.

• Mike entered the scale’s space, recognized the statue anomaly, and used it and the bug inside his body as stakes.
• Mike received fate’s gift and learned that someone else could pay the price to deal with the evil god.
• Mike returned home with his mother and found that the statue had become an ordinary, harmless object.
• Mike traveled abroad for five days to retrieve the thing he was searching for, then hurried back as the end of the month approached.
• Mike met Wu at the divination shop and showed him a heavy, completely black stone slab.

Shen Yu learned that Mike’s black stone slab preserved the civilization of the fallen Ancient Youjia Kingdom, while Captain Ritt asked Mike to help the investigation team clear a C-rank Dungeon and find a way to fight Weirds. The chapter ended as Mike read the Dungeon’s description: someone felt watched at home, though no one was there.

• Mike gave Wu the black stone slab, and Shen Yu learned it recorded the Ancient Youjia Kingdom’s civilization and technology.
• Shen Yu declined to open the special Dungeon connected to the slab because Wu’s Character Card was not suited to clearing Dungeons.
• The Eternal Kingdom recruited more believers, while the investigation team struggled to identify its members and Captain Ritt asked Mike whether Contract Anomalists could help.
• Ritt recalled how Contract Anomalists had saved people from powerful Weirds, including after Cherry Blossom Country was destroyed, and said Australia needed to protect itself as well.
• Ritt gave Mike a file about the C-rank Dungeon Eyes in the Cabinet, hoping it might yield something useful against Weirds.

Mike monitored the Eternal Kingdom as its believers prepared to summon their god, while Ritt led soldiers to investigate a dangerous Dungeon. The ritual revealed the cult’s growing power and a formidable bodyguard beside Wu, leaving Mike intimidated by the threat surrounding the believers.

• Mike reviewed the Dungeon information, and Ritt assembled elite soldiers to attempt to clear it while Mike kept watch over the Eternal Kingdom.
• The Eternal Kingdom gathered its believers at the stronghold, where a blood-filled altar grew more powerful as the god’s arrival neared.
• Mike realized the believers were being consumed by their desires and that their god would use them as fresh flesh and blood after descending.
• After the ritual, Mike saw a towering, golden-haired man with a heavy sword standing guard behind Wu.
• The man fixed Mike with a savage stare, and Mike looked away after being overwhelmed by fear.

Mike watched the Eternal Kingdom meeting and wondered whether the Anomaly Containment Association's preparations could change the future Wu had seen. Back in his room, Wu told Bo that the summoned Weird was very powerful, but Bo trusted him to ensure the mission succeeded.

• Mike noted that more than a thousand believers had joined the Eternal Kingdom in recent days and saw its leaders seek Wu's divinations about the summoning.
• Mike noticed a man protecting Wu and suspected that the Contract Anomalists had made preparations against the Eternal Kingdom.
• Wu returned to his luxurious room with Bo, who reported that Headquarters was normal and the team missed Wu.
• Wu checked his crystal ball and told Bo that the upcoming commotion would be significant and the summoned Weird was very powerful.

The Eternal Kingdom expanded its influence in Australia while Mike investigated the scale of its following and the investigation team failed to clear a dangerous Dungeon. Evil Mouth and Love Resentment rejected the Eternal Kingdom’s recruitment attempts, and Deception arrived to assist their organization’s operation.

• The Eternal Kingdom spread promises of divine blessings across Australia, while Mike estimated its formal believers numbered fewer than one hundred thousand.
• Ritt returned from the Dungeon badly injured and reported that his team had failed to contain the Green Face-class Weird.
• Mike visited the closed fortune-telling shop but found it had not opened recently.
• Evil Mouth shook off the Eternal Kingdom’s followers and returned to the safe house, where he told Love Resentment that he had contacted Deception.
• Evil Mouth said Deception had been sent by the leader to help with their operation after progress was made in a recently conquered Dungeon.

Deception arrived in Australia and captured an Eternal Kingdom member to investigate how he controlled anomalous auras without suffering their effects. Love Resentment and Evil Mouth warned him not to interfere in the brewing conflict with the Anomaly Containment Association, but Deception ignored them; the captive was spared dissection only because the safe house lacked the tools and room.

• Love Resentment and Evil Mouth discussed Eternal Kingdom's recent activity and hoped to avoid getting caught in its coming clash with the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Deception arrived in Australia, encountered Eternal Kingdom members, and brought an unconscious member to the safe house.
• Deception became fascinated by the captive's ability to control a chaotic mix of anomalous auras without suffering their effects.
• Love Resentment explained the situation in Australia and urged Deception not to interfere while Eternal Kingdom and the Anomaly Containment Association prepared to clash.
• Deception asked for dissection tools and a room, but Evil Mouth and Love Resentment could not stop him until they pointed out that the safe house had neither.

Deception posed as a divine envoy and tricked Gray Scale into revealing the Eternal Kingdom’s plans, including its attempt to summon a god. The group considered exploiting the coming threat against the Anomaly Containment Association, while Deception learned that the Eternal Kingdom had recruited a diviner.

• Deception showed Gray Scale a divine statue, convincing him that he was a divine envoy.
• Gray Scale revealed internal intelligence about the Eternal Kingdom to Deception while Evil Mouth and Love Resentment watched unseen.
• Love Resentment and Evil Mouth discussed whether Deception could infiltrate the Anomaly Containment Association and considered using the Eternal Kingdom’s plans to weaken it.
• Deception learned that the Eternal Kingdom had recently recruited a diviner who was gaining influence.
• Deception explained that the Anomaly Containment Association had an arbiter of fate who could see the past, present, and future.

Evil Mouth and Love Resentment abandoned their plans after learning that the Diviner had joined the Eternal Kingdom, while Deception secretly left Gray Scale where the group could find him. On January 31st, Pope Bisachi began the ritual, and the chapter ended as the altar filled the sky with black mist.

• Evil Mouth and Love Resentment recognized the Diviner and gave up their plan to attack the Anomaly Containment Association and the Eternal Kingdom.
• Deception joked about joining the Eternal Kingdom, then dragged Gray Scale out of the safe house and left him where Eternal Kingdom members could find him.
• As January 31st approached, Eternal Kingdom members returned to the stronghold for the ritual.
• Pope Bisachi ordered more than a dozen bound young people brought to the altar and had them slowly bled as sacrifices.
• Mike watched the sacrifices, while Eternal Kingdom members surrounded Wu and Bo gripped his greatsword.
• The altar brightened as black mist spread overhead, and Pope Bisachi began chanting.

Mike endured the black fluid’s painful touch as the believers mutated, but Bishop Fuerdu noticed he remained unchanged and sent Gray Scale after him. Mike fled toward Wu for help while the Pope’s ritual intensified and the transformed believers turned on him.

• Black fluid spread from the altar and crawled over Mike and the believers, causing Mike sharp pain while Wu remained outwardly calm.
• The believers transformed into grotesque monsters, and Bishop Fuerdu noticed Mike had not changed and ordered Gray Scale to capture him.
• Mike hid among the mutated believers, but the church’s higher-ups and the crowd turned against him.
• Mike grabbed a mutated believer as a shield and rushed toward Wu while Gray Scale pursued him.
• Bo stepped in front of Wu as Mike begged the Diviner to save him, while the Pope’s chanting intensified and the restless believer began reaching for Mike.

Mike was nearly strangled, but Bo rescued him as Wu revealed himself to be an infiltrator working with the Contract Anomalists. Bo slaughtered the Eternal Kingdom’s fighters and aberrations, leaving the survivors terrified in the cave.

• Bo cut the limbs strangling Mike, then stopped Bishop Fuerdu from stabbing Wu.
• Fuerdu realized Wu had infiltrated the Eternal Kingdom and lost control of his Idol Weird, while Wu dismissed the group’s powers as merely a few Weirds.
• Fuerdu transformed and used divine power to enlarge Bo’s greatsword, but Bo lifted it with ease.
• Wu ordered Bo to leave no one alive, and Bo charged into the Eternal Kingdom members and their aberrations with the enormous sword.
• Bo cut down the attackers as Wu called him the Grim Reaper of the battlefield, and Mike watched in awe.

The Pope completed the summoning ritual, bringing the Celestial God into the world as the Investigation Team prepared to defend the nearby safe zone with a heavy cannon. The Celestial God summoned countless servants and fixed Its gaze on Bo and Wu.

• The Pope fled the collapsing cave after the summoning ritual succeeded, while Bo carried Wu outside and Mike followed.
• The Celestial God appeared above the ruins, leaving Mike and the Investigation Team uncertain whether It was truly a Weird.
• Ritt ordered the Investigation Team to sound the alarm, evacuate people to shelters, and prepare a heavy cannon obtained from Yi Gui Company.
• The Pope asked the Celestial God to destroy the heretics, while Fuerdu believed his dead child Gray Scale had returned to the divine realm.
• The Celestial God noticed Bo and Wu, narrowed Its eyes, raised a hand, and summoned countless servants through black holes.

Mike, Wu, and Bo escaped the horde of aberrations with help from the investigation team, which used drones and a heavy cannon to suppress them. The One destroyed the cannon and command post, then opened more black holes and unleashed another wave of anomalies.

• The investigation team arrived and helped Mike, Wu, and Bo retreat while guiding the aberrations into the heavy cannon’s strike zone.
• The heavy cannon fired a special shell that crippled the aberration horde, and Ritt sensed The One watching the team from afar.
• Ritt ordered the investigation team to evacuate, and The One’s attacks destroyed the heavy cannon and the nearby command post.
• The investigation team identified the summoned god as the attacker and realized they had escaped the blast just in time.
• The One opened countless black holes again, and more anomalies crawled out as the team faced the loss of its heavy cannon.

As the Weirds overwhelmed Australia's defenses, Skywing A arrived and used Nameless Bird's Spatial Storm to sweep the horde into the sky. He trapped the powerful entity leading them in spatial turbulence, but realized it was likely calamity-level and retreated with the injured Nameless Bird.

• Ritt ordered the defenders to keep the Weirds from entering the safe zone while Australia evacuated residents and deployed modern weapons.
• Mike and the other defenders struggled against the seemingly endless horde, and Mike realized how much the coming Contract Anomalists would matter.
• Skywing A appeared in the sky, and his Character Perfection increased enough to unlock Spatial Storm.
• Skywing A and Nameless Bird swept the weaker Weirds into the air, while the entity leading them attacked with beams formed from black eyes.
• Nameless Bird was struck, so Skywing A opened the spatial turbulence and drew the entity into it, where world fragments battered it.
• Skywing A judged the entity too powerful to defeat alone and retreated with the injured Nameless Bird.

As investigators retreated from the powerful Weird, Mike remained convinced that Skywing A was still alive and that other Contract Anomalists might yet win. The Weird attacked the convoy before it could reach the defensive zone, leaving the investigators exposed.

• The investigators saw the Weird emerge from spatial turbulence, and Mike remembered that Skywing A had escaped its attacks and would later help contain it with other S-rank Contract Anomalists.
• Mike questioned whether he had changed fate and placed his hope in the mysterious Wu, while the investigation teams counted their wounded and dead after fighting the anomaly tide.
• Ritt rallied his team by reminding them that their families were behind them, then ordered the investigators to retreat toward the military defensive zone.
• Mike told his fellow investigators that the Contract Anomalists had not lost, and the team members debated whether several S-rank Contract Anomalists could defeat the Weird.
• The Weird fired a beam at the retreating convoy, flipping vehicles and causing explosions, while its floating eyes shot down the drones sent to distract it.

The Australian authorities urgently bought special weapons from Yi Gui Company, and Ke Fan arranged for an immediate delivery to the front lines. As Ritt’s trapped investigators prepared to sacrifice themselves against a new Weird tide, help was on its way.

• Australia’s top officials contacted Yi Gui Company after conventional weapons failed to stop the Weirds.
• Ke Fan sold the Australians a large batch of special weapons at a 1% discount and agreed to send them immediately to the front lines.
• An attack destroyed the investigators’ vehicles and left several team members dead or wounded, preventing their retreat.
• Ritt realized his team lacked the ammunition and transport to escape or defeat the Weirds.
• As a new horde emerged from black holes, the investigators prepared to cover the army’s retreat before high command’s message arrived.

Ritt and the investigators faced an advancing Weird tide until the Anomaly Containment Association’s Black Wolf Security Squad arrived with special weapons. After delivering the weapons and helping suppress the Weirds, the squad withdrew, leaving Ritt’s forces to reinforce the line.

• Ritt asked Yi Gui Company to send special weapons to the rear, but the company stopped answering before he could change the delivery address.
• Ritt ordered the Weird tide into Zone B, where planted bombs slowed it as it pushed through Zones B and C toward the investigators in Zone D.
• A fifty-person squad bearing the Anomaly Containment Association emblem and a black wolf appeared and fought the Weirds with highly coordinated fire.
• Moji introduced himself as captain of the Black Wolf Security Squad and handed Ritt’s team vehicles loaded with special weapons.
• After completing the handover, Moji and his squad withdrew, and Ritt sent investigators and soldiers forward with the weapons to reinforce the line.

Australia’s leaders relied on the Anomaly Containment Association’s special weapons to hold back the Weird tide, while struggling to understand how its forces and equipment had appeared so quickly. As the battle remained stalled, the Pope learned that the summoned deity was recovering its strength after crossing into the world.

• Australia’s leaders discussed the Anomaly Containment Association’s combat power and speculated that its forces had teleported into the defensive zone with their weapons.
• The leaders learned the special weapons were suppressing the Weird tide, but worried the powerful Weird could destroy the heavy cannons and eventually overwhelm them.
• The leaders wondered whether stronger Contract Anomalists would join the fight, since Skywing A had already been defeated by the Weird.
• Mike, while being treated for his wounds, reflected on the fate-altering item he had given to a Contract Anomalist and wondered whether Wu understood how fate had changed.
• The Pope contacted his deity and learned that summoning It into the world had consumed much of Its power, so It was recovering while using a low-cost ability to summon followers.

The Pope learned that the god was weakened and began preparing a sacrificial ritual to restore its strength, while Australian officials and the Anomaly Containment Association reacted to the Eternal Kingdom's movements and the anomaly's power. As the anomaly watched its followers prepare, it sensed something approaching with an oppressive presence.

• The Pope contacted the god, suffered severe mental and physical corruption, and learned that a sacrificial ritual would help the god recover its strength.
• Fuerdu coveted the Pope's position, while the Pope and the Eternal Kingdom members began preparing the ritual using their recruited believers.
• Australian officials noticed the Eternal Kingdom's activity, and Mike suspected it was connected to the sudden deaths of tens of thousands of believers.
• Members of the Anomaly Containment Association discussed Skywing A's defeat, and Bai Zuo said they would soon witness a powerful figure make a rare appearance.
• The anomaly sensed something approaching with a crushing sense of oppression.

A strange thundercloud gathered over the defensive zone as aberrations grew fearful and a plane sent to disperse the clouds lost control and crashed. Wu watched from a nearby ridge as the Association’s live broadcast revealed an enormous aberration with a hint of divinity.

• Ritt and the investigators noticed Green Face-class aberrations hesitating and acting afraid as thunderclouds gathered above the defensive zone.
• Australia's higher-ups sent a plane carrying a cloud disperser toward the thunderclouds, but its instruments failed and it crashed into the formation zone.
• Ritt and the others realized the thundercloud was abnormal after the aberrations' fearful behavior and the plane's crash.
• A powerful aberration looked up at the thundercloud, while Wu watched from a ridge with Bo guarding him.
• The Anomaly Containment Association watched a live broadcast showing an enormous, godlike aberration, and staff wondered how the camera had filmed it so closely.

Skywing A filmed as the Weird God battled a mysterious lightning-wielding opponent, whose strikes devastated the strange-creature tide and forced the defenders to retreat. The opponent finally stepped out of the thunderclouds, surrounded by lightning that moved as though guarding its king.

• Skywing A hid in spatial turbulence and filmed the Weird God while it watched the thunderclouds.
• A lightning strike annihilated the strange-creature tide, and the Weird God attacked the thunderclouds with a beam that collided with lightning.
• The blast injured people at the position and on the livestream; Ritt ordered the defenders to withdraw, while the newcomers speculated that The One was fighting.
• The Weird God saw that lightning had pierced its palm and attacked the thunderclouds with beams from countless eyes, but the lightning held its ground.
• A human silhouette appeared within the thunderclouds, and the figure stepped out as lightning circled him like guards around their king.

Fu Zhang, one of the Execution Department’s three pillars, confronted the Anomaly God, and their clash shook all of Blue Star. Realizing the planet might not survive the battle, Fu Zhang decided to move the battlefield.

• Observers and members of the Anomaly Containment Association recognized Fu Zhang as the Thunder God Sovereign and marveled at his power.
• Fu Zhang faced the Anomaly God while holding back his strength to avoid destroying Blue Star.
• The Anomaly God attacked Fu Zhang with beams from its floating eyeballs, and Fu Zhang countered with lightning.
• Their attacks collided in a series of explosions, making Blue Star tremble and causing panic among ordinary people.
• Fu Zhang sensed the planet shaking and concluded that he had to move the battlefield.

Fu Zhang and Skywing A drove the Weird God away from Blue Star and continued their battle in outer space. The Weird God unleashed a desperate attack, and Fu Zhang faced it without dodging.

• The Weird God feared Fu Zhang’s powerful aura and tried to escape, but Skywing A sent it into the turbulent currents of space.
• Fu Zhang and Skywing A forced the Weird God beyond Blue Star, where governments reassured the frightened public that the strange lights in the sky were not an omen of disaster.
• In outer space, Fu Zhang’s lightning wounded the Weird God and drained its energy as Skywing A attacked alongside him.
• The near-defeated Weird God poured all its energy into its central eye and fired a beam that disintegrated a giant meteorite.
• Fu Zhang faced the Weird God’s powerful beam without dodging or retreating.

Fu Zhang destroyed most of the Weird God, and Skywing A contained the weakened Foul Eye. After Australia learned the containment operation had succeeded, its investigators moved against the Eternal Kingdom cult.

• Fu Zhang blasted away the Weird God's upper body with a lightning sphere, leaving it too depleted to recover for years.
• Ji Wu explained that the Weird God would survive but had suffered a severe blow, while the Anomaly Containment Association praised Fu Zhang's strength.
• Skywing A brought Nameless Bird to see the defeated Weird God, then contained It as the Calamity-class anomaly Foul Eye.
• Skywing A returned to the Anomaly Containment Facility, locked Foul Eye away, and cleared out several low-level anomalies.
• Australia learned from Yi Gui Company that the containment operation had succeeded, and Ritt ordered investigators to arrest Eternal Kingdom members.
• The Australian crackdown continued until dawn, with most cult members captured and those who resisted fiercely executed.

Captain Ritt’s team searched Australia for the missing Eternal Kingdom Pope and Bishop Fuerdu while investigating the cult’s followers and collecting strange entities from their homes. Meanwhile, Evil Mouth noticed an unusually popular haunted house with a perfect repeat-customer rate, suggesting something was wrong with it.

• Ritt’s investigators expanded the search beyond the sealed formation zone after Mike suggested the Pope and Bishop Fuerdu might have escaped using supernatural abilities.
• The investigation team planned to seal borders, issue wanted notices, and question Eternal Kingdom believers, while arresting followers and containing the strange entities in their homes.
• Sam watched armed investigators arrest his neighbor after a gunfight that left the home riddled with bullet holes but no one injured.
• Australia and other countries circulated hand-drawn wanted portraits of the Pope and Bishop Fuerdu, but the fugitives remained missing.
• Evil Mouth and Love Resentment discussed Deception’s contact with the two people whose strange entities had caused them trouble.
• Evil Mouth found a popular haunted house whose customers praised it and returned at an unusually high rate.

The Anomaly Containment Association absorbed the Polluted World, built a thriving city, and prepared to begin purifying its radiation. After returning to Headquarters, Bai Zuo searched for Shen Yu, but went to Fu Zhang when he could not find the Chairman.

• Love Resentment accepted a high-paying anomalous-incident job, while Evil Mouth booked a flight to the Xia Kingdom to visit a haunted house.
• The Anomaly Containment Association built a well-equipped city in the Polluted World and brought nearby settlements into its growing industrial system.
• The city’s armed forces compelled remaining large bases to join, and Bai Zuo formed the Pure Land security squad from capable residents.
• With purification technology unlocked, Headquarters prepared to begin removing radiation from the Polluted World, which became subsidiary world No. 1082.
• Bai Zuo returned to Headquarters and searched for Shen Yu, then asked Fu Zhang whether the Chairman was there.