Recaps

Skywing A destroyed the mother entity spreading parasitic Weirds from a lake in Bolo Kingdom, slowing the contamination. After Xia Kingdom’s quarantine zone was cleared, Anomaly Containment Association recruits traveled to Bolo Kingdom to remove parasites from infected people, where they continued working under armed guard.

• Bolo Kingdom initially blocked Xia Kingdom’s Investigation Team and Contract Anomalists, but its leaders sought help after Xia Kingdom explained that the contamination could still be treated before its final stage.
• The Anomaly Containment Association sent Skywing A to Bolo Kingdom, where he used his Ghost Domain to destroy the mother entity and contain its tentacles.
• Bolo Kingdom’s leaders watched Skywing A defeat the source and relaxed after he left, while the remaining parasites weakened and the contamination slowed.
• After the parasitic Weirds were removed from everyone in Xia Kingdom’s quarantine zone, the Anomaly Containment Association sent recruits to Bolo Kingdom to treat infected residents confined in their homes.
• An exhausted recruit continued removing parasites from a family whose Weirds were nearing their final stage, while armed security personnel guarded the operation.

After the mother entity was contained, countries struggled to deal with its offspring, while the Anomaly Containment Association sent newcomers to purge infected people. Zhao Hun and Yang Yu met the newcomers as they finished clearing one area, and Yang Yu warned that even a growing force of Contract Anomalists would remain outmatched by the Horror Game.

• Countries killed infected hosts to prevent the offspring from maturing, while the Security Department protected Contract Anomalists working to remove the Weird.
• Newcomers discussed Headquarters, Mi Lan’s disruptive antics, and their efforts to overcome fear and master their contracted anomalies.
• The newcomers cleared the anomalies from all contaminated people in their area, then met Zhao Hun and Yang Yu.
• Zhao Hun answered the newcomers’ questions about training and controlling anomalous energy, and they thanked him before leaving.
• Zhao Hun hoped that more Contract Anomalists would improve the world, but Yang Yu said their numbers would not matter much against the Horror Game unless they found a way to break through it.

After the anomalous offspring were eliminated, Shen Yu activated the S-level special scene, Realm of Freedom, for Skywing A. Skywing A entered a futuristic city beneath a dome, while his arrival triggered a massive vortex and panic over Ravitan City in the outside world.

• Yang Yu and the Contract Anomalists spent a week eliminating all the anomalous offspring and destroying every anomalous egg.
• Shen Yu raised the Character Perfection of Mi Lan, Xie Yu, Bei Mu, and Void, but Skywing A's Perfection remained at 75%.
• Shen Yu activated the Realm of Freedom special scene, and Skywing A let an enormous vortex pull him into a new world.
• The vortex over Ravitan City caused alarms, accidents, and widespread panic until it slowed and displayed Skywing A's image in the sky.
• Skywing A explored a futuristic steel city beneath a transparent dome and passed through it using his wind ability.

Skywing A explored Ravitan City, where ordinary people labored in stifling conditions and their resentment flowed toward the city’s tallest building. He learned that humanity’s rising temperatures had forced people into insulated cities, but the poor inside had no real hope of escaping a lifetime of work and fees.

• Skywing A entered a cramped, overheated district and heard residents complain about their work, housing fees, and lack of cooling equipment.
• Skywing A saw the residents’ resentment gather into a powerful force flowing toward the city’s tallest building.
• The United States learned of the vortex above Ravitan City and decided to watch footage of Skywing A, an S-rank Contract Anomalist, investigating it.
• Skywing A pieced together that rising temperatures had driven humanity into massive insulated cities, where ordinary residents had to pay steep monthly fees to remain.
• Skywing A realized the poor residents and their descendants had no future beyond continuing to work and pay for shelter.

Skywing A discovered that the Realm of Freedom kept ordinary people trapped in exhausting work and denied them education, while a central skyscraper absorbed their resentment. After promising to bring them true freedom, he infiltrated the building, leaving the United States authorities to wonder whether they could detect him in their own facilities.

• Skywing A overheard working-class children dismissing a boy for reading a picture book and learned that their families trained them for labor and residency fees.
• Skywing A told the boy he would learn the book’s story someday, giving him hope before leaving.
• Skywing A concluded that the city’s elites controlled ordinary people and that the skyscraper was absorbing their resentment.
• Skywing A used the wind to enter the skyscraper, jammed its surveillance, knocked out an executive, and impersonated him.
• The United States authorities watched Skywing A’s infiltration and realized they would be unable to stop him from entering their own secret facilities.

Skywing A discovered that the city’s protective barrier ran on energy produced by a sleeping Weird called the Divine Scion, which humans kept captive and fed with resentment. As the United States decided to seize another such creature, fighter jets headed toward Ravitan City.

• Skywing A used his stolen identity to enter restricted areas and read the researchers’ reports about the Divine Scion.
• Skywing A realized the Divine Scion was a Weird and judged that humanity would be in danger if it woke.
• The United States higher-ups considered exploiting the Weird as a source of high-purity energy and planned to take one from another city.
• The United States dispatched fighter jets carrying weapons and soldiers toward Ravitan City.

Skywing A lost interest in the research after realizing the cities were doomed to face the strange entities they depended on. He infiltrated the top floor to inspect one of them, slaughtered the guards who tried to stop him, and left a terrified executive to confront the truth about their so-called Godborn.

• Skywing A left the laboratory and headed upstairs to find the strange entity being kept there.
• Two guards challenged Skywing A for an entry permit, but he killed them and smashed through the alloy door.
• Skywing A killed or frightened off the armed guards on the top floor as the researchers and executives fled.
• Skywing A dropped his disguise, then grabbed a senior executive who tried to escape and asked why everyone was running.
• The executive flattered Skywing A and realized that he might be able to kill people in ways they could not see, like the beings they falsely called Godborn.

Skywing A forced a city executive to lead him to the imprisoned Divine Scion while the city’s leaders watched footage of his massacre and mistook him for one of the Scions’ kind. He reached a heavily fortified room and found the strange entity, a massive blood-vessel-covered tumor whose aura had nearly vanished as it advanced.

• Skywing A admitted he had come for the Divine Scions, and the terrified executive agreed to lead him to them.
• Skywing A waved at a surveillance camera, alarming the city leaders watching from a military base.
• The city lord reviewed footage of Skywing A killing armored guards with unseen attacks and realized the executives’ reports were true.
• The city lord and his followers assumed Skywing A was one of the Divine Scions’ kind and feared that his abilities could threaten their defenses.
• The executive brought Skywing A to a sealed room, where he sensed a powerful presence inside a special-metal container.
• Skywing A saw a massive entity resembling a blood tumor, whose faint aura had been suppressed while it advanced.

After the Divine Scion reacted to Skywing A, City Lord No. 3 and the other city lords debated how to stop the creatures from awakening. As the blood tumor began to stir more violently, No. 3 evacuated the city and activated the base’s self-destruct mode, trapping the executive and everyone still inside with Skywing A and the Divine Scion.

• The executive opened the container, and the blood tumor inside trembled as City Lord No. 3 watched through surveillance footage.
• City Lord No. 3 shared footage of Skywing A and the Divine Scion’s reaction with the other city lords, who panicked and argued over whether to attack or evacuate.
• City Lord No. 3 saw the blood tumor trembling more strongly and led people out of the city, notifying researchers and elite personnel to evacuate.
• The base’s self-destruct mode activated while Skywing A reached the container, and the executive could not cancel it because the city lord had ordered it.

Skywing A took the flesh tumor and escaped the building before its self-destruction, while the city lords considered how to find him. A United States fighter jet entered the Realm of Freedom, but a city’s cannon destroyed it before the pilot could make contact.

• Skywing A stored the advancing flesh tumor in the Anomaly Cage, disabled the self-destruction device, and left without pursuing the fleeing city lords.
• Skywing A reflected on how the elites’ exploitation, propaganda, and the anomaly’s influence had kept ordinary people from imagining resistance.
• City Lord No. 1 told City Lord No. 3 to stay near City No. 8 and ordered the others to search for Skywing A.
• A United States pilot flew through the vortex, surveyed the Realm of Freedom, and spotted a massive steel city.
• The city shot down the fighter jet with a laser cannon, and the United States’ upper echelon discussed the city’s advanced technology and possible need for food.

The United States debated how to respond after its fighter jet was shot down and chose to send a team to seek cooperation with the city authorities. Meanwhile, Skywing A used a cartoon to awaken City No. 3’s ordinary residents to their lack of rights, leaving them beginning to question their lives and demand change.

• The United States’ leaders argued over retaliation or cooperation, then decided to approach the city authorities and offer support in exchange for advanced technology.
• After containing the first Weird, Skywing A stayed in City No. 3 instead of going to another city.
• A child found a flyer inviting people to Plaza No. 11 and joined ordinary residents watching a cartoon about freedom.
• The film and shouts from the crowd prompted residents to demand cooling equipment, equal rights, and a better future for their children.
• The residents reflected on their backbreaking work, poor living conditions, and whether their sacrifices were worth so little.

Skywing A used an animated short to awaken Ravitan City’s ordinary people to their oppression and inspire them to pursue freedom. Footage of his actions spread to the Xia Kingdom, where viewers praised him and began forming the Freedom Alliance in his name.

• Skywing A watched as the people gathered in Ravitan City and their expressions shifted from numbness to hope.
• The United States’ upper echelons recognized Skywing A’s methods and feared the ideology behind them.
• A tourist uploaded footage of the Realm of Freedom to Yi Gui Company’s official website after other platforms removed it.
• Viewers in the Xia Kingdom discussed the city’s exploitation of ordinary people and praised Skywing A for standing up for them.
• Netizens declared their support for Skywing A and began joining the newly proposed Freedom Alliance.

Children in City No. 3 watched an animated story about a bear claiming a home through its own efforts, prompting ordinary residents to question why their hard work could not earn them secure homes. Meanwhile, the lord of City No. 3 struggled to control the growing unrest while the lord of City No. 8 worried the monster would soon come for the Divine Scions in his city.

• Children in City No. 3 watched and read an animated short about a young bear growing up and claiming a territory through its own efforts.
• Children asked their parents whether they could earn a home of their own, and many parents broke down as they confronted their families' insecurity and lack of power.
• Ordinary residents began to recognize that they contributed value to the city and questioned why they could not own homes despite their labor.
• The lord of City No. 3 remotely ordered his subordinates to stop the animation and disperse the crowd, while demanding that they find the monster.
• The lord of City No. 8 asked whether the monster was still in City No. 3, and the lord of City No. 3 warned that it would eventually seek the Divine Scions in other cities.

Skywing A forced City No. 3’s administrators to revoke an order against the people gathered in the square, while his cartoons and appearances inspired a growing movement in his name. The Skywing Alliance took root among ordinary people and elites, and viewers on Blue Star reacted to the new followers.

• Skywing A beat the street-security administrator until he agreed to revoke the order against the people in the square.
• The administrators rescinded their orders, leaving the square peaceful as Skywing A’s cartoons continued to play.
• People who saw Skywing A flying through the city began searching for him and pursuing freedom in his footsteps.
• The Skywing Alliance formed among ordinary people and elites who wanted to follow Skywing A and liberate others.
• Viewers on Blue Star praised the alliance and argued over the growing number of Skywing A fans.

The city lords debated Skywing A’s growing influence in City No. 3 and the threat it posed to their society. With City No. 3’s energy reserves lasting only a week, they discussed sending aid and whether Skywing A might be an alien rather than a monster.

• Skywing A’s free will spread through City No. 3, drawing both ordinary people and industry elites into its cause and baffling the city lords.
• The Lord of City No. 3 had subordinates study the animated short film, while the Lord of City No. 8 reported that viewers from other cities showed no unusual reaction.
• The Lord of City No. 2 contacted the Lord of City No. 3 and said the monster had not come to his city, then proposed sharing intelligence and finding a way to deal with it.
• The Lord of City No. 3 revealed that City No. 3 had only enough high-purity energy to run its protective barrier for one week, and the Lord of City No. 8 offered to transport more if the monster allowed it.
• The Lord of City No. 1 suggested Skywing A might be an alien with human emotions, but the Lords of City No. 2 and City No. 3 rejected the idea and compared him to the Divine Scions.

The city lords questioned whether Skywing A was a Divine Scion and negotiated with a United States team offering information in exchange for technology. The team confirmed Skywing A was not a Divine Scion, prompting the city lords to seek more information and reconsider whether weapons could hurt him.

• The city lords debated Skywing A’s behavior and whether he could be a monster, while City Lord No. 6 received a communication request from outsiders claiming to know about the Divine Scions.
• City Lord No. 6 hosted a seven-member United States negotiation team at a guesthouse, where they offered information about the Divine Scions in exchange for protective shields and laser weapons.
• The team warned that the sleeping Divine Scions would eventually awaken and bring the end of the world, stirring debate among the city lords.
• City Lord No. 1 noticed the team treated the Divine Scions and Skywing A as separate matters and ordered the manager to ask whether Skywing A was a Divine Scion.
• After City Lord No. 6 offered weapons technology, the negotiation team confirmed that Skywing A was not a Divine Scion, and the city lords ordered further negotiations.

Charles explained to City No. 6’s officials that the Divine Scion was a Weird and described the dangers of Weirds and the people who could fight them. After extracting the information, the officials killed the negotiation team and kept the technology, while the city lords discussed the Contract Anomalist and their need to retain the Weirds.

• Charles told the administrator that the Divine Scion was a Weird and explained Weird ranks, Ghost Domains, Contract Anomalists, and Weird Tamers.
• The administrator showed Charles an image of Skywing A, and Charles confirmed that he was a Contract Anomalist or Weird Tamer.
• After receiving an order, the administrator shielded himself and had his forces attack the negotiation team, killing them and recovering the technological data.
• The administrator reported the team’s deaths to the City Lord of City No. 6, who praised him and joined the other city lords by video call.
• The city lords discussed the intelligence about Contract Anomalists and decided they could not hand the Weirds over, though they needed to address the danger the Weirds posed to humans.

The city lords planned to capture and torture Skywing A, believing they could overpower a human, while a mass protest for freedom gathered in City No. 3. Skywing A watched the march and spotted a strange person.

• City No. 2's lord proposed testing and capturing Skywing A to learn how to control Weirds, and City No. 3's lord agreed.
• The city lords sent death warriors to test Skywing A before Charles and the others could warn them.
• In City No. 3, ordinary people and elites organized a large protest demanding rights, homes, and dignity.
• Skywing A watched the march from a GG sign, then stepped away and saw a strange person.

Wang Yu woke in an unfamiliar room after Skywing A rescued him and overheard Buxi discussing the Skywing Alliance’s efforts to change the city. The chapter ended with Buxi finding Wang Yu listening at the door as Wang Yu feared he would be killed for learning their plans.

• Wang Yu regained consciousness in an unfamiliar room and overheard people discussing his background and lack of medical support.
• Buxi explained to Skywing A that Wang Yu’s parents had died transporting ore for the city and that the city should have provided benefits.
• Buxi described his first meeting with Skywing A and continued discussing the Alliance’s plans to infiltrate city positions and press for change.
• Wang Yu realized the Alliance was challenging the city lord and accidentally made a noise while retreating from the door.
• Buxi opened the door and found Wang Yu listening, and Wang Yu nervously promised not to tell anyone.

Buxi recruited Wang Yu by offering to cure his illness in exchange for a job, then discussed the Divine Scions and the awakening Weird with Skywing A. Buxi pledged the world to Skywing A and the Anomaly Containment Association, hoping to secure their favor.

• Buxi offered to have Wang Yu's illness treated if he took a job, and Wang Yu accepted.
• Skywing A told Buxi he was leaving for the next city and warned that treating the Divine Scions as gods could backfire.
• Buxi explained that the cities depended on the Divine Scions for energy while the higher-ups had neglected research into surviving the heat outside.
• Skywing A said the Weird had evolved through accumulated resentment and were close to awakening, even if he did not contain them.
• Buxi knelt before Skywing A and offered the world in exchange for his favor.

Buxi watched the march and investigated Wang Yu after Skywing A’s warning, while Wang Yu received costly medicine and resolved to work for the lord who helped him. City Lord No. 3 learned of Wang Yu’s connection to the new faction and decided to use money to recruit him.

• Skywing A stopped Buxi from kneeling, and Buxi ordered his subordinates to monitor the march and watch Wang Yu.
• Buxi learned that officers were keeping their distance from the march because influential lords were among the crowd, and he suspected the City Lord’s side had begun probing the faction.
• Wang Yu received medicine for appendicitis, felt his pain ease, and decided to work for the lord who had paid for his treatment.
• Buxi’s subordinate drove Wang Yu near his home, attracting the attention of watchers who reported his arrival to others.
• City Lord No. 3 learned that Wang Yu was an ordinary man connected to the new faction and decided to offer him money to draw him in.

Wang Yu learned that the City Lord’s faction wanted him to spy on Buxi’s new faction, forcing him to choose between their offer and the cause he had come to support. Though he feared what might happen, he realized he wanted ordinary people to live with dignity and resolved to face the danger.

• Wang Yu’s coworker Skinny visited him and offered him money to work for a figure from the Guard Bureau.
• Skinny told Wang Yu that the authorities intended to crack down on the demonstrations and urged him to accept the offer.
• Wang Yu realized the City Lord’s faction knew he was connected to Buxi and wanted him to become a spy.
• Wang Yu stalled Skinny and sent him away, then worried that he was being watched and could not contact The One.
• Wang Yu wondered why he could not bring himself to serve the City Lord and concluded that he wanted to live as a person, despite being afraid of death.

Wang Yu rejected the City Lord's faction's attempt to recruit him and joined Buxi's Skywing Alliance, while the Alliance's protests and struggle against the city lords intensified. City No. 8 Lord then learned that his hidden Divine Scion had disappeared and suspected an intruder had entered his city.

• Wang Yu avoided the skinny man's repeated efforts to recruit him, reasoning that the offer exploited his connection to the person who had cured him.
• Buxi met Wang Yu again, confirmed his illness was cured, and invited him to join the Skywing Alliance after Wang Yu explained why he had refused the job.
• The Skywing Alliance's demonstrations and strikes disrupted city maintenance as the Alliance and the City Lord's faction escalated their conflict with sabotage and assassination.
• City No. 3 Lord ordered his subordinates to target ordinary people after interrogations of captured Alliance elites failed to reveal the Contract Anomalist's whereabouts.
• City No. 8 Lord learned that his hidden Divine Scion had vanished and that all the guards assigned to protect the Divine Scion had been killed.

City No. 8 Lord and City No. 3 Lord reviewed footage of Skywing A defeating the guards and discussed ways to attack him. Skywing A reached the Divine Scion in City No. 2, where the City No. 2 Lord sprang a poisonous gas trap.

• City No. 8 Lord showed City No. 3 Lord footage of Skywing A stopping bullets and shells with an unknown force and taking the Divine Scion.
• The two lords concluded that Skywing A had weaknesses and shared intelligence about him with the other city lords.
• Skywing A wiped out City No. 5's defenses and then entered City No. 2, where he used the wind to locate the Divine Scion and destroy mechanical traps.
• Skywing A approached the Divine Scion's container as iron pipes emerged and filled the building with poisonous fog.

Skywing A overcame City Lord No. 2’s traps, rescued the Divine Scion with the Anomaly Cage, and appeared to fall victim to a colorless poison. City Lord No. 2 celebrated his presumed victory as the other city lords watched, but Skywing A’s fate remained uncertain.

• Skywing A used a fierce gust to repel the poisonous mist and destroy the mechanisms in the pipes, then reached the Divine Scion’s container unharmed.
• City Lord No. 2 watched Skywing A put the Divine Scion into a black sphere, while the other city lords noticed the Anomaly Cage and wanted to claim it.
• City Lord No. 2 shared the surveillance footage and told the city lords that Skywing A had been inhaling a colorless, odorless poison since entering the building.
• Skywing A stopped moving, and City Lord No. 2 declared him as good as dead while City Lord No. 7 praised the plan.