Chapter Summaries

Leon joined the expedition to investigate the newly appeared black mountain, which was linked to the crimson glow and seemed to draw anomalies toward him. After encountering a vision and warning his team, Leon blacked out and woke inside an old Jeep in an unfamiliar scene.

• Zoya told the expedition leaders that the black mountain had appeared where the terrain had been flat two Earth months earlier, and they agreed to search it at dawn.
• Leon heard a growl, saw the camp empty in an apparent illusion, and resisted a whisper offering him supreme power before Lin Hong brought him back to his senses.
• Leon ordered the Griffin to prepare for combat and request Grey Knights support, then warned Lin Hong and the Auxilia that the anomaly could affect their thoughts and create illusions.
• Rum told Leon that he and others had dreamed of the same mountain before fleeing the area, and urged Leon to abandon the expedition and escape.
• As the mountain began glowing crimson, Leon blacked out and woke in an antique Jeep as rain fell and an old radio buzzed.

Leon realized he was experiencing a dream that recreated his first trip to Raccoon City, then fought through the zombie-infested city and rescued Claire Redfield. After recognizing Claire as Chris’s sister, he pulled over and demanded that she tell him how to end the dream before a gunshot rang out.

• Leon identified the scene as a dream or illusion and drove toward Raccoon City despite the rain and the anomaly’s attempts to tempt him over the radio.
• Leon shot a zombie outside a gas station, then drove away as more zombies gathered and a red glow spread across the sky.
• Leon rescued a frightened woman from a zombie in a fast-food restaurant and drove her away in a police car.
• Leon recognized the woman as Claire Redfield, Chris’s younger sister, and stopped the car to demand that she explain how to end the dream.
• Claire protested that she did not know what Leon meant, and a gunshot rang out inside the police car.

Leon fought to reach Raccoon City’s police station, where he hoped to find a way out of the illusion, while resisting the anomaly’s attempts to make him doubt reality. At the station, he encountered a Tyrant T-103 and attacked its eyes at close range.

• Leon shot the fake Claire dead, then drove toward the police station and collected weapons before continuing on foot.
• Leon recognized that the anomaly was exploiting his guilt and fought through a growing horde of zombies, Lickers, and Hunters to reach an alley.
• A mutated Claire ambushed Leon in the alley and accused him of serving Umbrella, but he shot her into pieces and continued to the police station.
• Leon struggled to distinguish reality from the illusion outside the station until a Tyrant T-103 crashed down and attacked him.
• Leon dodged the Tyrant’s charge, climbed onto its back, and fired into its eyes with his VP70 before switching to his Glock.

Leon fought through a dreamlike Raccoon City Police Department and the Hive, where an unseen entity distorted his memories and attacked him with Claire-faced monsters. After reaching the Hive’s Underground Proving Ground, Leon recovered his memories and confronted the grotesque creature that had trapped him in the dream.

• Leon killed the Tyrant T-103 by firing into its eyes, then entered the police station and checked its surveillance feeds and his dwindling ammunition.
• Leon killed four zombie officers, escaped a looping corridor after confronting a Licker with Claire’s face, and stocked up on weapons and riot gear in the armory.
• Leon fought through the police station and boarded a railcar to the Hive, where he battled mutated creatures and endured the entity’s unsettling hallucinations.
• After collapsing in a security break room, Leon fought off tentacles with his Desert Eagle and tracked them to the Underground Proving Ground.
• Leon faced the enormous tentacled entity, mocked it, and prepared the L-6 grenade launcher after his memories had returned.

Leon escaped the anomaly’s dream by striking it with his golden M12 bayonet, then woke to find most of the camp still trapped in dreams. As Leon and his group evacuated and called for reinforcements, the camp’s sleeping inhabitants began transforming and slaughtering one another.

• Leon fired blessed grenades and weapons at the retreating creature, then plunged into the abyss and severed its tentacles with his glowing M12 bayonet.
• The anomaly fled Leon’s mind, collapsing the dream, and Leon woke in the camp with Lin Hong beside him while Major General Rum remained asleep.
• Lin Hong reported that the camp had been pulled into separate dreams and that one dream day equaled one minute in reality; Leon ordered airborne reinforcements and naval support.
• Leon ordered Lin Hong and the others to evacuate with Rum in their Warthogs while they waited for reinforcements.
• Mutated mercenaries and gang members emerged from the buildings and began slaughtering and devouring one another as a booming laugh echoed from the mountain.

Sui Bian investigated the anomaly affecting Leon on Srilan and sent Constantine and the Adeptus Custodes to assist, while ordering investigations of two other planets. On Srilan, Leon, Lin Hong, and the Auxilia fought their way through mutated attackers as drop pods began descending.

• Sui Bian sensed Leon's mental distress on Srilan and shielded him with psionic protection.
• Sui Bian ordered Constantine to escort the Plague Doctor to Srilan and help Minister Kennedy investigate the anomaly.
• White Queen reported unusual magnetic activity on Srilan and records of similar anomalies on Orlando and Scolaca, so Sui Bian ordered Adeptus Custodes squads to investigate those planets and destroy related threats.
• Sui Bian continued overseeing the campaign against the Tylo Zerg, while Ark 002 and the Great Devices purged infested extragalactic systems without distinguishing between species.
• Leon, Lin Hong, and the Auxilia fought mutated mercenaries and gang members at a desert camp, escaped in two Warthogs, and saw drop pods descending.

Leon’s forces defeated the mutants at Srilan’s camp, where Rum recovered from the anomaly’s dream and joined the fight. With the abnormal entity silent in the mountains, Leon chose to wait for the Plague Doctor’s arrival but allowed the six Astartes to conduct a small reconnaissance.

• Rum awoke from the anomaly’s dream, recognized it as an illusion, and fought his way free before charging into the mutants with his Energy Swords.
• Six Astartes arrived in drop pods and slaughtered the mutants, while two Thutmose brothers used Psionic Powers and three Auxilia companies deployed to secure the camp.
• After the fighting ended, Rum guessed that Lin Hong’s group worked for the Empire, and Lin Hong told Zoya that Srilan had always remained under Imperial rule.
• Leon judged that the mutants were byproducts of the abnormal entity and said he wanted to wait for Constantine and the Plague Doctor before deciding how to confront it.
• When the Astartes objected to waiting, Leon approved a small-scale reconnaissance of the black mountains and assigned it to the six of them.

The sergeant major and five Astartes explored the black mountain range and fought their way into an immense underground city, where they found the anomalous entity behind the strange phenomena. The entity introduced itself as Asasthiye after severing their communications with the Griffin.

• The sergeant major sent six Astartes to scout the mountains while Leon stayed behind to prepare the camp for Constantine and the Plague Doctor.
• Two Thutmoses blasted open a smooth entrance through the mountain, and the six Astartes ventured into a crystal cavern leading to a vast, decaying city.
• The Astartes chose to press toward the anomaly without waiting for the Plague Doctor, and the sergeant major destroyed a third of the city with an antimatter Bolter Round.
• Ishtar and Caroni dispersed the dark-red mist above a plaza, where the Astartes sensed fear and then jumped down to investigate.
• The six Astartes found the imprisoned man-eating flower from Leon and Lin Hong's dreams, lost contact with the Griffin, and heard it introduce itself as Asasthiye.

Asasthiye trapped the sergeant and five other Astartes in its Divine Realm and tried to devour them, but their Imperial emblems held it back. Sui Bian pulled Asasthiye into a void and began interrogating it, and it admitted that it had others of its kind.

• Asasthiye intensified its oppressive force, knocking the sergeant and the other Astartes to the ground and preparing to devour them.
• The Astartes’ Imperial emblems generated a barrier that resisted Asasthiye’s thorn-vine tentacles, and Asasthiye nearly broke through it.
• Sui Bian noticed the struggle, pulled Asasthiye’s consciousness into a void, and confronted it.
• Sui Bian asked Asasthiye how it originated, whether it had kin, and who had imprisoned it.
• Asasthiye trembled before Sui Bian and admitted that it had others of its kind.

Sui Bian interrogated Asasthiye Brakxstila, learned about its origins and its ancient conflict with the Necrontyr, and confirmed that Necrons threatened humanity. Asasthiye then revealed that Vulkan was trapped in Sanosche, where he repeatedly burned, died, and was reborn.

• Asasthiye Brakxstila explained that beings like it ruled territories across the universe and that it was among the weakest of its kind.
• Asasthiye described fighting Necrontyr explorers on Srilan before an advanced civilization attacked it, imprisoned it, and slaughtered the Necrontyr.
• Asasthiye recounted how it later lured people into the desert to feed on their souls, while Sui Bian decided to keep it for intelligence and research.
• Sui Bian concluded that the ancient attackers might have been the Old Ones and that the Necrons remained a major threat to humanity.
• Sui Bian asked Asasthiye to locate Vulkan, and Asasthiye reported that Vulkan was inside Sanosche's planetary core, trapped in a cycle of burning, death, and rebirth.

Sui Bian spared Asasthiye after it revealed that it could locate Vulkan on Thanosche, and ordered a task force to secure the creature and investigate Thanos. The Moonlight Goddess arrived to carry the mission, while humanity’s new wormhole-engine and dark-matter technologies were introduced.

• Asasthiye explained that it had tracked Vulkan by the unique scent of his soul, and Sui Bian spared it while warning it to leave his children alone.
• After Sui Bian released the containment space, the Astartes regained consciousness, received Asasthiye’s memories, and stood down while the sergeant ordered them to guard it until Grey Knights reinforcements arrived.
• Leon received Sui Bian’s order to form a task force with Griffin, the Grey Knights, Constantine, Plague Doctor, and Adeptus Custodes, secure Asasthiye, and proceed to Thanos to investigate the Necrons and Vulkan.
• A Moonlight Goddess-class super battleship emerged near Srilan, equipped with powerful weapons and prototype wormhole engines developed using technology from Shield World 002.
• Carrier craft escorted a Large Transport Craft toward the desert surface, apparently to transfer Asasthiye aboard the Moonlight Goddess for Plague Doctor to study.

After leaving Srilan, Leon's task force entered the forbidden Blasphemous Sector and reached Sanosche to search for the missing Primarch Vulkan. Scans revealed faint psychic signatures beneath the planet, and the forces began deploying to investigate as Constantine's team arrived at a temple devoted to Slaanesh.

• Leon left Zoya and the surviving gang members at their camp with their memories erased, while several Elite mercenaries joined his task force.
• The fleet passed through a wormhole into the former Pious Sector, now forbidden territory still marked by Chaos corruption.
• The task force reached Sanosche, surrounded the planet with matrix nodes, and scanned its surface and underground structures.
• The Plague Doctor cut samples from the captive Asasthiye while the fleet's scan identified faint psychic signatures beneath Sanosche.
• Red Queen concluded that Vulkan might be beneath the planet, and Leon ordered the forces to explore their assigned locations.
• Constantine and six Custodes teleported to an equatorial temple connected to the underground network that appeared devoted to Slaanesh.

Constantine and six Adeptus Custodes descended beneath Thanos and discovered that the Chaos Gods had trapped them in an isolated webway. They fought off waves of daemons, but a nine-meter figure emerged from the portal and called the Emperor a False Emperor.

• Constantine and the Adeptus Custodes destroyed the Chaos symbols in a temple on Thanos and found a hidden entrance to the underground webway.
• After traveling through the webway, Constantine and his brothers reached a lava-filled cavern and approached a portal on its central island.
• Slaanesh revealed that the Custodes had triggered a trap and that their allies outside could not see or contact them.
• A spatial distortion isolated the cavern, and a portal opened as a Slaanesh daemon stepped into the Material Universe.
• Constantine killed the first daemon with the Spear of Cassius, and the Custodes destroyed waves of daemons with bolters and antimatter rounds.
• A nine-meter figure emerged from the portal and called the Emperor a False Emperor.

Constantine and six Adeptus Custodes confronted the fallen Vulkan and his mutated Salamanders, but the Chaos army began to overwhelm them after Vulkan’s strength surged. As they prepared to escape, the Webway entrance reopened and Grey Knights arrived with Hades, God of the Underworld, to reinforce them.

• Constantine recognized the mutated Vulkan and Salamanders as Chaos-corrupted enemies, then charged Vulkan while the six Adeptus Custodes attacked the Salamander ranks.
• Constantine held his own against Vulkan and struck him with the Spear of Cassius, sending the fallen Primarch flying.
• Vulkan’s strength and speed increased after he was wounded, and he shattered Constantine’s energy shield and sent him flying.
• The Chaos forces closed in as the Webway entrance vanished, so Constantine and his brothers prepared to use their teleportation device.
• The Webway entrance reappeared, and dozens of Grey Knights charged through with Hades, God of the Underworld, who attacked the Salamanders with jade-green Psionic Power.

Constantine’s force escaped the Chaos-infested Webway beneath Sanosche with Hades’s help, and Constantine ordered his warriors to prepare for a possible war. In the Main Universe, Sui Bian decided to test Astartes recruits by unexpectedly sending them through Space Gates into other universes.

• Grey Knights and Adeptus Custodes regrouped against Vulkan and the Salamanders while Constantine used Dragon Soul to hold Vulkan back.
• Hades teleported Constantine and the others out of the underground Webway to Sanosche’s surface, then departed to guide others below.
• Constantine sent footage of the battle to Sui Bian and ordered the force to remain on standby, guard the fleet, and prepare for war.
• Sui Bian discussed how the Prehistoric Planet no longer challenged Astartes recruits and heard Red Queen suggest using them in warfare.
• Sui Bian proposed sending recruits without warning into other universes to fight unfamiliar creatures and instructed White Queen to draft a confidentiality agreement.

Sui Bian learned that Vulkan had fallen to Chaos beneath Sanosche and summoned the Primarchs to discuss the threat. He announced an expedition toward the Eye of Terror, leaving his sons united behind the mission after promising to protect them with his Psionic Power.

• Sui Bian considered sending his younger sons across the multiverse to protect humanity from Chaos and other threats, including reincarnators recruited by the Warp posing as Main Gods.
• Red Queen reported that Minister Kennedy and Constantine had found Vulkan leading fallen Astartes beneath Sanosche, and Sui Bian reviewed their battle footage and reports.
• Sui Bian rejected sending a legion to Sanosche and called all the Primarchs to an immediate family meeting.
• Sui Bian announced that the Expeditionary Force would target the Eye of Terror, prompting the Primarchs to debate the dangers of entering the Warp.
• Sui Bian assured his sons that they would not venture deep into the Warp and promised them Psionic protection, after which Robert and the other Primarchs voiced their support.

Sui Bian assigned Russ to lead an expedition into the Eye of Terror, gave the other Primarchs duties across the Imperium, and ordered Artemis's Grey Knights to join the force. Artemis objected because of her family's deaths in the Warp but ultimately accepted the mission, while Vulkan's Chaos forces pursued the survivors on Sanosche.

• Sui Bian ordered Russ to lead an Expeditionary Force to the Eye of Terror and assigned the other Primarchs to support the campaign, guard the Imperium, and monitor for Reincarnators.
• Sui Bian ordered Artemis to send a thousand Grey Knights with the expedition, and Artemis came to the Meditation Hall to argue against entering the Warp before agreeing to go.
• Sui Bian sent Magnus and the Adeptus Custodes fleet through a Psionic Space Gate to Sanosche to support Constantine, Leon Kennedy, and the strike force.
• Hades brought Leon, Lin Hong, Rom, and the others from beneath Sanosche's surface, but the task force had suffered losses from the Salamanders' attack and Chaos Psionic Power.
• Vulkan and tens of thousands of his descendants, accompanied by Chaos daemons, emerged onto the surface in pursuit of the task force.

Leon and the defenders held their fortress on Sanosche as a massive Chaos army emerged from the Warp and charged. As Sui Bian’s reinforcements began arriving, Asasthiye descended to confront the Chaos forces.

• Rum urged Leon to withdraw, but Leon chose to hold the fortress because he expected the Chaos forces to attack if they retreated.
• Pink and purple light opened a vast Portal south of the fortress, releasing nearly a hundred Chaos Titans, hundreds of millions of demons, and over a million Chaos Astartes.
• The task force fleet saturated the Portal’s region with bombardment, but the Titans’ void shields protected the Chaos army.
• Vulkan rallied his forces and led the Salamanders and demons in an assault on the fortress while flying demons advanced on the fleet.
• The Moonlight Goddess-class hurled Asasthiye toward the Portal, and the Old One announced that it would teach the Chaos forces a lesson on Sui Bian’s behalf.
• Sui Bian’s Psionic Power Space Gate formed in orbit over Sanosche’s nightside.

Asasthiye and the Adeptus Custodes fought back against the Chaos army, and one Custodian piloting a Centurion destroyed a Chaos Titan before Vulkan crushed the mech. Vulkan was about to kill the trapped Custodian when Magnus intervened, leaving Vulkan to face his former brother.

• Asasthiye tore through the Chaos army and attacked the Salamanders while the Adeptus Custodes and Grey Knights advanced from the fortress.
• A Custodian piloting a Centurion blasted apart Salamanders squads, fought off Slaanesh daemons, and destroyed a Chaos Titan with a power greatsword.
• Vulkan struck down the Centurion, pinned it beneath his foot, and smashed its head with his Warhammer, leaving the Custodian inside alive but incapacitated.
• Vulkan prepared to crush the trapped Custodian, but he dodged a Psionic Lightning attack that came from behind.
• Magnus appeared with a hundred Honor Guard, and Vulkan recognized him as his former brother still serving the False Emperor.

Magnus and his summoned heroic spirits fought Vulkan as the Primarch transformed into a colossal fire dragon, while Asasthiye disrupted the Salamanders with its brainwaves. Magnus finally killed Vulkan with a devastating psychic blast and teleported the corpse to the Adeptus Custodes flagship.

• Magnus confronted Vulkan while the Sekhmet cleared a battle zone with psychic attacks, and Magnus summoned Ares, Achilles, and Heracles to help restrain him.
• Ares, Achilles, Heracles, and Magnus wounded Vulkan, but Vulkan released a psychic shockwave and mutated into a hundred-meter-long fire dragon.
• Asasthiye charged into the fight and turned some Salamanders against their former allies, while Ares gigantified to battle Vulkan.
• Magnus abandoned the plan to capture Vulkan and unleashed a star-system-destroying psychic blast that killed him.
• Magnus retrieved Vulkan's corpse and teleported it to the Glory Lord-class flagship of the Adeptus Custodes fleet.