Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng and Li Yu discovered they had been gaming partners for two years, settled their rivalry, and became a fearsome duo on the Japan Server. Meanwhile, Kanzaki Rin discussed absorbing the Sessho-seki with Tamamo-no-Mae and realized the stronger monster blood she needed might be available at Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters.

• Fang Cheng and Li Yu recognized each other as their longtime gaming partners, then fought over Li Yu's history of sabotaging teammates until she promised to stop.
• Ye Yuqing, Ugou Mirai, and the Nine-Tailed Fox learned that Li Yu was the notorious Troll Support and rushed to help Fang Cheng, while Kanzaki Rin confirmed the dispute was over a game.
• Tamamo-no-Mae told Kanzaki Rin that safely absorbing the Sessho-seki would require her to become partly a monster, and Kanzaki Rin suspected the needed bloodline could be found at Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters.
• Fang Cheng and Li Yu made peace, formed the Black Wind Duo, and dominated the Japan Server; Li Yu admitted she had been banned from the headquarters server and could stay only one more week.
• Fang Cheng saw that Li Yu's favorability toward him had risen to 45, and Kanzaki Rin approached them as they prepared to start another match.

Fang Cheng asked Li Yu to find powerful Monster blood so Kanzaki Rin could remove the Sessho-seki, then faced Rin’s anger over his growing number of lovers. He took her to Subspace, where she vented her hurt before claiming him for the next three days.

• Kanzaki Rin asked Fang Cheng when they would return, and he chose to wait while they watched for the Foundation Church’s response to Death Knight Death’s death.
• Rin explained Tamamo-no-Mae’s method for removing the Sessho-seki, and Li Yu agreed to seek Monster blood suitable for Rin’s Phoenix Fire ability.
• After Li Yu left, Rin confronted Fang Cheng about Yuguang Kaori, learned that Ugou Mirai already knew, and demanded to know whether he considered his lovers’ feelings.
• Fang Cheng apologized and took Rin to Subspace, where he offered her Dojigiri Yasutsuna and Onikiri so she could vent her anger by attacking him.
• Rin repeatedly struck Fang Cheng with the swords, broke down in tears, then embraced and bit him before declaring that he belonged to her for the next three days.

Fang Cheng saw Li Yu off after she agreed to propose an alliance with the Human Revolutionary Alliance, then returned to Machine City with his companions and its residents. The city was repopulated in secret, though the sudden appearance of more than a hundred thousand people drew renewed attention from intelligence agencies.

• Li Yu revealed that money always vanished when she handled it, refused Fang Cheng’s gift, and promised to seek an alliance with the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters.
• Li Yu departed, and Fang Cheng reassured Kanzaki Rin and Oni Yunjie about the alliance and the Iron-Cast Palace’s future.
• After more than ten peaceful days, Fang Cheng and his companions left the Iron-Cast Palace and returned to Machine City with Oni Yunjie, Tsukikage Hoshi, the Yuguang mother and daughter, and Tamamo-no-Mae.
• Ye Yuqing and Ugou Mirai removed more than one hundred intelligence agents from Machine City while Fang Cheng hid the Spaceship from satellites.
• Fang Cheng’s small airships brought more than one hundred thousand residents down from the Spaceship, making Machine City bustling again and prompting countries to send more agents to Hokkaido.
• Sato Hayato, the Kujo father and son, and Kujo Yuri also left the Spaceship.

Sato Hayato saw the Kujo family off and vowed to stop cross-dressing, while Dr. X gave Fang Cheng five doses of the unfinished A1 Enhancement Serum. Back in Machine City, Fang Cheng prepared to assign a mission to Sato Hayato, who wanted to bury himself in training.

• Kujo Tairou persuaded Kujo Yuri to visit her mother in Tokyo before leaving with Kujo Go.
• After the Kujo father and son departed, Sato Hayato promised Kujo Yuri he would never wear women's clothes again, upsetting her.
• Dr. X told Fang Cheng he had combined Level 4 Enhancement and the Celestial God Serum into A1 but had not solved its fatal side effect.
• Dr. X handed Fang Cheng five doses of A1, and Fang Cheng returned to Machine City to find someone to test them on.
• Kujo Yuri asked Fang Cheng to talk Sato Hayato out of refusing to cross-dress, while Sato Hayato requested a training plan or mission.

Fang Cheng tested the A1 Enhancement Serum on Sato Hayato, whose death and revival confirmed that its enhancement effects persisted. Hayato reached Ace rank, and Fang Cheng announced that he would continue the trial with two more injections.

• Sato Hayato volunteered to test the A1 Enhancement Serum after Fang Cheng explained its fatal risk, while Kanzaki Rin and Oni Yunjie also offered to help.
• Fang Cheng traded Hayato thirty lives for an ordinary ability and injected him with the serum as their companions watched.
• The serum caused Hayato intense heat and pain, and he died after the enhancement process ended.
• Hayato revived, and Fang Cheng saw that his level had risen from 48 to 60, proving the serum's effects remained after revival.
• Hayato thanked Fang Cheng for helping him reach Ace rank, and Fang Cheng said he would give him two more injections.

Fang Cheng strengthened the Life Extension Society with A1 Enhancement Serum and extra lives, then arranged an alliance delegation to meet the Human Revolutionary Alliance. He returned to Tokyo to bring its monsters into his fold, where Kitajima Maki learned that he was back.

• Fang Cheng tested the remaining A1 Enhancement Serum on Sato Hayato, raising his level to 66, and learned the drug had no effect on himself.
• Fang Cheng distributed serum and extra lives throughout the Life Extension Society, bringing its total to fifteen Aces while keeping the group and its resources secret.
• Li Yu told Fang Cheng that the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters had accepted his alliance proposal, and they agreed to discuss its details in person.
• Fang Cheng sent Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, Minamoto Kaori, Takeda Masumi, and Nangong Saya to the headquarters while he and Qingxue left to recruit monsters in Area 11.
• Fang Cheng checked into the Yuguang Family residence in Tokyo, and Hayakawa Kazuma rushed into Kitajima Maki's office to announce that he had returned.

Fang Cheng returned to Tokyo, unsettling Area 11’s government, while he and Qingxue decided to strip the authorities of their ability to threaten them. At an emergency meeting, Sakaue Yusuke claimed Fang Cheng was only an Ace who had stolen credit for defeating Isis, and circulated a report to support his accusation.

• Hayakawa Kazuma told Kitajima Maki that Fang Cheng had returned from Hokkaido, prompting her to summon the other Aces.
• Fang Cheng relaxed with Qingxue at the Yuguang Family’s home, and they decided to take away Area 11’s ability to cause them trouble.
• Politicians fled or hid as Noda Kaname gathered the government’s senior officials and the Three Aces to discuss Fang Cheng’s return.
• Sakaue Yusuke mocked the officials’ fear and claimed Fang Cheng had not reached Disaster-Class, but had relied on allies and an N5 bomb to defeat Isis.
• Sakaue Yusuke distributed reports naming Ye Yuqing as the Evil God’s Proxy and identifying Tamamo-no-Mae, then urged the officials to stop fearing Fang Cheng.

Sakaue Yusuke persuaded Area 11's leaders to approve an attack on Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng interrupted the meeting and confronted him. Sakaue attacked Fang Cheng and vanished with him, while Qingxue froze the meeting room and restrained everyone.

• Sakaue Yusuke convinced the ministers that Fang Cheng was not as strong as rumored and urged them to kill him with N5 bombs.
• Kitajima Maki sensed something was wrong, but Sakaue accused her of misplaced loyalty and Noda Kaname led a vote approving the attack.
• Fang Cheng and a woman emerged from the conference table, and the panicked ministers found themselves unable to escape.
• Fang Cheng questioned why Sakaue Yusuke hated him, discovered Sakaue's favorability toward him was -100, and watched Sakaue order Kitajima Maki and Kamikawa Mirei to attack.
• Sakaue lunged at Fang Cheng, and the two disappeared; Qingxue then froze the meeting room and warned the ministers not to move.

Fang Cheng defeated Sakaue Yusuke in Subspace and learned that the Happiness Science Cult had used him to infiltrate the Area 11 government and provoke a conflict with Fang Cheng. After returning to the meeting room, Fang Cheng confronted the officials, who blamed Sakaue Yusuke and claimed they had been hypnotized.

• Sakaue Yusuke dragged Fang Cheng into his shadow domain, but Fang Cheng transformed into a Blood Sphere and took over Sakaue Yusuke's body.
• Fang Cheng read Sakaue Yusuke's memories and discovered that the Happiness Science Cult had recruited him to infiltrate the government and turn it against Fang Cheng and Machine City.
• Fang Cheng extinguished Sakaue Yusuke's soul, absorbed energy from his body, and destroyed the corpse in Subspace.
• Fang Cheng returned to the meeting room, where Qingxue and the two female Aces had kept the officials from leaving.
• Fang Cheng told the officials that he had killed Sakaue Yusuke, and Kitajima Maki and Noda Kaname blamed Sakaue Yusuke for deceiving them with hypnosis.

Fang Cheng forced Area 11’s leaders to agree to destroy their nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, then left with Qingxue. He headed for the Happiness Science Cult’s headquarters, intending to wipe it out.

• Fang Cheng killed the Minister of Defense and silenced the panicked officials, then demanded that Noda Kaname take responsibility for deceiving him.
• Fang Cheng demanded the destruction of all nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and the officials agreed after he threatened to kill them if they refused.
• Fang Cheng warned the officials not to hide any weapons, said he would return to discuss another deal, and left with Qingxue.
• Qingxue asked why Fang Cheng had not taken control of the government, and he explained that he needed to show respect to the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters while Kanzaki Rin negotiated an alliance.
• Fang Cheng and Qingxue arrived at the Happiness Science Cult’s headquarters, where Fang Cheng planned to destroy the cult.

Fang Cheng and Qingxue destroyed the Happiness Science Cult’s leadership and Tokyo bases after the Evil God ordered Okawa Ryuho to kill Fang Cheng. Fang Cheng then forced Area 11 to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, and its leaders visited him to learn what he wanted.

• Okawa Ryuho announced that Sakaue Yusuke would seize control of Area 11’s government and eliminate Fang Cheng, while an Evil God watched through him.
• When Fang Cheng and Qingxue appeared, Okawa Ryuho’s followers attacked, and Fang Cheng escaped the manor’s expanding shadow with Qingxue before returning to confront Okawa Ryuho and Sakaue Yusuke.
• Fang Cheng killed Okawa Ryuho, Sakaue Yusuke, and the cult’s officials, then destroyed the Happiness Science Cult’s Tokyo bases with Qingxue.
• Area 11’s Cabinet and National Diet passed bills to destroy nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and Fang Cheng remained in Tokyo to oversee their destruction.
• Prime Minister Noda Kaname, the new Minister of Defense, Kitajima Maki, and Kamikawa Mirei visited Fang Cheng at the Yuguang Family estate to ask what he wanted.

Fang Cheng offered to reclaim Area 11’s monsters in exchange for research resources, promising psychics, and restrictions on religion. The government accepted his terms and sent him research materials first, while he prepared to begin clearing monsters from Tokyo.

• Noda Kaname met Fang Cheng, who offered to make the monsters in Area 11 disappear in exchange for a deal.
• Fang Cheng revealed that he had become the Lord of Ten Thousand Monsters, shocking Kitajima Maki and the other officials.
• Fang Cheng demanded a biological research team and equipment, Enhancement research, Fujiwara Hirotetsu’s research materials, one thousand promising psychics, and a nationwide crackdown on cults and religious growth.
• Fang Cheng told Qingxue that he planned to use Enhancement Drugs to build an Ace army, since humans had greater potential than monsters.
• The Area 11 government accepted Fang Cheng’s demands and sent him the research materials, while it prepared the team, equipment, and psychics.
• Kitajima Maki relayed the government’s request for Fang Cheng to start clearing monsters from Tokyo, and he agreed.

Fang Cheng began reclaiming every Monster in Tokyo while Kitajima Maki and Kamikawa Mirei watched. He left the story as his Elemental Net spread across the city, turning Monsters into light and absorbing them.

• Fang Cheng hosted Kitajima Maki and Kamikawa Mirei for barbecue before beginning the reclamation, and Kamikawa Mirei asked whether she could defect to Machine City.
• Kitajima Maki revealed that Uehara Takashi had raped and murdered her younger sister, and she thanked Fang Cheng for killing him.
• Kamikawa Mirei teased Kitajima Maki about offering herself to Fang Cheng, prompting an embarrassed misunderstanding before he departed to reclaim the Monsters.
• Fang Cheng multiplied his special elements into a vast Elemental Net that spread outward from the Yuguang Family's home.
• The Elemental Net passed through Tokyo and absorbed Monsters hidden across the city, leaving their human victims unharmed.

Fang Cheng used the Elemental Net to capture every Monster in Tokyo, demonstrating his power and prompting the government to ask him to clear the suburbs as well. After returning to the Yuguang Family, he accepted the possibility of another paid deal, while Sato Hayato returned to his old home and encountered someone unexpected.

• The Countermeasure Department director watched the Monsters in the underground prison vanish into motes of light despite his guards’ efforts to stop them.
• Kitajima Maki learned that Monsters across Tokyo’s four districts had disappeared and realized Fang Cheng had fulfilled his promise.
• Fang Cheng completed two sweeps with the Elemental Net, capturing 110,000 Monsters without harming any humans, then absorbed them himself.
• Kitajima Maki thanked Fang Cheng on behalf of Tokyo’s citizens, and he told her to prepare the agreed payment.
• Kitajima Maki asked whether Fang Cheng would clear Monsters from the suburbs, and he agreed depending on the payment.
• Sato Hayato returned to his old home after Kujo Yuri went to her family and encountered someone he had not expected.

Sato Hayato was ambushed by the shape-shifting Vampire Selina and lost a life before his immortality let him turn the fight around. Selina escaped and revealed that Fang Cheng and the people close to him were her targets.

• Sato Hayato returned to his ransacked childhood home, then visited his parents' graves before encountering a frightened woman at the cemetery.
• Sato Hayato tried to protect the woman from a middle-aged pursuer, but she and the man merged into Selina and stabbed him from behind.
• Selina poisoned Sato Hayato, repeatedly resurrected after his Psychokinetic attacks, and tore out his heart, killing him.
• Sato Hayato revived using one of the thirty lives Fang Cheng had given him, battered Selina, and failed to stop her escape.
• Selina regrouped at a hotel and studied photos of Fang Cheng and the people close to him, calling them her targets.

Fang Cheng confronted Selina after she attacked Sato Hayato, then received an invitation from The Count Dracula to attend the Eternal Life Banquet in Romania and discuss their enemies and hidden secrets. After Selina tried to flee, Fang Cheng caught her and learned she had attacked his people to provoke a war between him and Dracula.

• Selina chose Kanzaki Rin's photo as her next target, but Fang Cheng appeared in her suite after following her from the fight with Sato Hayato.
• Fang Cheng questioned Selina, who revealed that The Count Dracula had sent her to deliver a letter and invite him to the Eternal Life Banquet in Romania.
• Dracula's letter spoke to Fang Cheng and proposed an alliance against the Apocalypse Knights and Evil Gods, promising secrets about the Mother and the Evil Gods at the banquet.
• Fang Cheng pressed Selina about why she had attacked his people, and she tried to escape by scattering into streams of blood.
• Fang Cheng's Elemental Net trapped Selina, and he read her thoughts, discovering that she had planned to provoke Fang Cheng and Dracula into fighting so the Aces could exploit the outcome.

Fang Cheng used Dark Consciousness to alter Selina’s mind and sent her back to Dracula as a spy, then learned from Eve that Dracula’s Night Banquet invitation was likely a trap. Eve began considering how Dracula planned to harm Fang Cheng, but the chapter ended before she could answer.

• Fang Cheng raised Dark Consciousness to Level Four and altered Selina’s memories and thoughts, making her devoted to him through a psychic link.
• Fang Cheng ordered Selina to return to Dracula, accept the Night Banquet invitation on his behalf, and investigate Dracula’s plans and contacts.
• Fang Cheng warned Sato Hayato against overconfidence after Selina’s ambush and threatened the group with extra training, then threw Sato out when he offered to dress as a girl.
• Fang Cheng called Eve about Dracula’s Night Banquet invitation, and she concluded Dracula meant to harm him and believed he could succeed.
• Fang Cheng asked Eve how Dracula planned to deal with him.

Fang Cheng secured the 11th District’s support, cleared its monsters, and strengthened Machine City’s research capabilities. Kanzaki Rin returned with an alliance and refuge agreement from the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters, but its condition was that Fang Cheng collect every monster in the world within two years.

• Eve warned Fang Cheng that other monsters might join Dracula and said she would investigate the Undead Kingdom; she also cautioned him about the Foundation Church and the missing War and Famine.
• Fang Cheng reached a deal with the 11th District government, which agreed to fund Machine City and allow free movement in exchange for his clearing the district’s monsters and keeping the Iron-Cast Palace’s monsters in Hokkaido.
• Fang Cheng cleared roughly eight hundred thousand monsters across the 11th District in seven days and gained 1,475 lives.
• Fang Cheng brought the government’s research team, equipment, and Level 4 Enhancement materials to the Spaceship, where Dr. X eagerly took them up for research.
• Kanzaki Rin returned from the Human Revolutionary Alliance headquarters with an alliance and permission for up to ten thousand people to take refuge there if Earth faced an Evil God invasion.
• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that the alliance required him to collect all the world’s monsters within two years, then showed him the monster blood Li Yu had given her.

Kanzaki Rin underwent a transformation using Vermilion Bird Blood to address her Sessho-seki problem, while Dr. X kept a small portion for research. She awoke in a vision of a ruined Japan and reached Machine City, only to find it destroyed.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin identified the gift from Li Yu as Vermilion Bird Blood, and Li Yu hinted that it was a major opportunity for Rin.
• Dr. X tested the blood, then received a tenth of the drop to research while the rest was reserved for Kanzaki Rin’s transformation.
• Dr. X’s team injected diluted Vermilion Bird Blood into Kanzaki Rin as Fang Cheng watched over her and used Lucky Halo.
• Kanzaki Rin awoke in an apocalyptic Tokyo, transformed into a fire phoenix, and protected fleeing citizens from a collapsing building and a meteorite.
• Kanzaki Rin flew through devastated cities and monster hordes toward Hokkaido, then found Machine City reduced to ruins.

Kanzaki Rin experienced a vision of a possible future in which Earth was destroyed and learned that Mother had arranged her reincarnation and entrusted her with humanity’s future. After awakening from her transformation, she gained the Vermilion Bird’s power, absorbed the Sessho-seki, and reached level 97.

• Kanzaki Rin found her friends and Fang Cheng apparently dead beneath a horde of monsters before a giant hand struck her into darkness.
• Kanzaki Rin met Mother in space, saw a possible future of Earth’s destruction, and learned Mother had reincarnated her and had something to entrust to her.
• Kanzaki Rin awakened in a nutrient pod with fiery red hair, and Dr. X confirmed that the Vermilion Bird Blood had integrated perfectly with her body.
• Kanzaki Rin tested her transformed abilities with Fang Cheng, and her Phoenix Fire evolved into Vermilion Bird Divine Flame with Nirvana Rebirth.
• Kanzaki Rin absorbed the Sessho-seki in Subspace and reached level 97, then took on a body of flame and asked Fang Cheng to put on women’s clothes.