Chapter Summaries

After the Thunder Elemental Elves surrendered, Hawkes organized their assimilation and began developing their plane for Taylor. Taylor returned to the Zombie Plane with plans to control 500 Worlds and build a vast fleet, leaving Bobby to argue over the cost and workload before admitting the scheme was possible.

• The Thunder Elemental Elf chieftains surrendered to the Iron Golem Legion and Achilles Warriors Legion after their guardians and renowned warriors vanished.
• Hawkes took charge of the Holy Mountain, organized the elves’ assimilation, and began construction and industrial development around the Roaring Thunder Spring.
• Sargeras sent the Burning Legion to hunt Thunder Beasts for soul fragments and directed its fury toward purging their clans.
• Taylor returned to the Zombie Plane with thunder ores and metals and told Bobby he wanted to control 500 Worlds and build more than a thousand cross-plane warships.
• Bobby complained about the plan’s resource demands, Ship Mind requirements, and the burden it would place on him, but acknowledged that it could be done.

Taylor advanced his 500 Worlds logistics project while strengthening his spatial studies and planning to secure Earth by defeating Mephisto and harnessing dimensional power. Kano revealed that he had absorbed some Hell Dimension energy, and Taylor considered letting him devour the dimension before leaving Earth in Stephen Strange’s hands.

• Taylor borrowed magic metals from the White Tower Alliance, and Bobby and Hawkes directed factories, warship construction, and resource extraction across the planes.
• Taylor’s spatial-law comprehension improved as he studied Kamar-Taj’s runes and worked with the Space Stone.
• Kano eagerly offered to help Taylor pursue his ambitions, and Taylor noticed the Hell Dimension aura within him.
• Kano told Taylor that Mephisto had tried to cause trouble at the Sanctum, but Kano had driven him away and was absorbing the Hell Dimension power Mephisto had infused into his projection.
• Taylor and Kano agreed that killing Mephisto would benefit them, and Taylor planned to help Kano consume the Hell Dimension and use other dimensions to protect Earth.
• Taylor considered giving Stephen Strange a dimension so he could defend Earth while Taylor was away.

Hawkes created the Achilles Codex and proposed forming subordinate warbands so talented veterans could lead new recruits. After Taylor approved the plans, Hawkes selected commanders for three new warbands, which were preparing to receive recruits.

• Hawkes decided to form near-independent warbands led by experienced Achilles Warriors and wrote rules for them in the Achilles Codex.
• Taylor reviewed Hawkes's codex and plans, marked them with his Seven-Pointed Star Mark, and approved them.
• Taylor went to the Knowledge Repository to map nearby planes around the conquered Thunder Elemental Elves' core and plan future conquests.
• A few weeks later, Hawkes gathered the commanders and deputies of the Star Knights Warband, Nova Warriors Warband, and Dawnwatch Warband.
• Hawkes planned to divide nearly 3,000 incoming recruits among the three warbands, each of which had a final target of 10,000 warriors.

The Achilles Legion, Burning Legion, and Iron Golem Legion sought major expansions, and Bobby approved all three requests despite worrying about the resources required. Meanwhile, Taylor continued experimenting with folded space, while Tony remained stranded in a barren desert plane.

• Sargeras dismissed the Achilles Codex, then demanded that the Burning Legion expand from two million to at least five million.
• The Ship Mind calculated that the Iron Golem Legion needed to expand to one million and sent its request to Bobby.
• Bobby reviewed the three expansion requests, complained about their logistical costs, and approved them, accelerating production and mining at the puppet factory.
• Taylor crushed a tiny black hole formed during his spatial experiment and continued testing folded space with the Space Stone.
• Tony, after twenty-three days in a desert plane filled with enormous worms, lamented that the Knowledge Repository's coordinates had brought him to a barren place.

Five years after conquering the Thunder Elemental Elf Plane, Taylor expanded his forces, strengthened his allies, and completed Earth’s Sanctum Protection System. With Earth’s resources nearly exhausted, Taylor and Kano left, and a new outward expansion began as plane coordinates were distributed to the legions.

• Taylor conquered the Fire Elemental Plane and Natural Elemental Plane, assigning the former to the Burning Legion and expanding his Titan forces.
• Taylor built up twelve interplanar strategic battleships while his experiments with folded space and bloodline growth strengthened his Ghidorah Mode.
• Kano and Taylor killed Mephisto and seized the Hell Dimension, allowing Kano to reach Level 3 and create Blood Hellfire.
• Tony returned from the Desert Plane with metallic resources, settled in the Wizard Plane with Happy and Pepper Potts, and continued his work among mechanical-stream wizards.
• Taylor and Kano completed Earth’s Sanctum Protection System, extracted its remaining resources, and departed after judging that further progress required confronting the Five Great Gods.
• Taylor placed a new outward expansion and the distribution of plane coordinates in the hands of the legions.

Willicks briefed the Star Knights Warband on its mission to conquer a resource-rich plane ruled by Half-Orcs and assigned its forces to coordinated attacks. The warband prepared to advance, with Willicks and Wilren leading separate fronts and the Astral Spear providing support.

• Willicks presented the Half-Orc plane and explained that the Star Knights Warband and its Basic Puppet Legion would be responsible for conquering it.
• Willicks described the plane’s resources and the Half-Orcs’ traits, then assigned the ten companies to targeted assaults and demolitions while the priests organized support and logistics.
• Willicks assigned himself to lead the northern force and Wilren to command the south, with the Astral Spear acting alongside Wilren.
• Wilren worried that the warband lacked heavy weapons, and Willicks promised to allocate half of them to the south while using the Golden Void Lord’s projections against the plane’s two Level 2 lifeforms.
• Willicks and his officers pledged that the Star Knights Warband would not fail the Golden Void Lord.

The Star Knights Warband under Taylor arrived aboard the Astral Spear in a world ruled by Beastmen and half-beasts, tearing open the sky above a developing city-state. The Beastmen mobilized for battle as their two kings recognized the warship’s overwhelming threat, and forces began converging on the transmission beams.

• Beastmen and half-beasts lived under a tribal order in which Beastmen ruled and exploited the ordinary half-beasts.
• A vast spatial rift tore open the sky, sending the half-beasts fleeing and the Beastmen preparing to fight.
• The Astral Spear emerged from the rift, and the Beastmen below roared eagerly for battle.
• The two Level 2 Beastmen kings realized the warship could likely defeat them both.
• Ten transmission beams appeared across the world, the Astral Spear moved south, and Beastmen set out toward the beams while leaving the north to their king.

Willicks organized the Star Knights Warband’s temporary base and deployed scouting forces to investigate the plane. Patton’s group advanced toward a gathering Beastmen army, while two Beastmen kings concealed themselves among its ranks to assess the newcomers.

• Willicks ordered the Basic Puppet Legion to build a temporary command center and sent Achilles Warriors and Puppet Birds to scout the surrounding region.
• Willicks met with Leonard and two priests to discuss deployments, probing attacks, and encirclement maneuvers.
• Patton led a hundred warriors through the forest, hoping to encounter the enemy and earn his third medal.
• More than a dozen Beastmen nobles assembled a mixed army and marched toward the forest to fight the newcomers.
• The two Beastmen kings hid within one of the armies so they could judge the enemy’s strength and decide whether to seize its warship or flee.

Patton spotted a beastfolk force and prepared his warriors to ambush it. While he observed the enemy’s cruelty and infighting, he remained wary of the powerful beastfolk and elemental magic they could bring into battle.

• Patton used the Hawkeye Technique to spot the enemy force twelve miles away and rallied his squad.
• Patton ordered his warriors to prepare an ambush, split into groups to block the enemy’s retreat, and activate the Silencing Rune Field.
• Bingyang whipped and taunted an elephant beastfolk, who endured the abuse because his relatives and tribe were being held by the nobles.
• Fire Fang mocked Bingyang, and the two beastmen traded elemental attacks as the wounded beastfolk kept marching.
• Patton watched the enemy from cover and judged its forces dangerous despite their disorder, remembering Hawkes’s warning that Achilles’s success came from caution.

Patton and the Astral Knights ambushed the mixed Orc army, killing hundreds with their Elemental Bolters. Bingyang threatened the retreating beastmen with their families’ fate and promised them freedom if they fought, leading an elephant-man to charge before the others followed.

• Patton sprang from cover and fired three shots, killing several beast-kin Orcs and freezing the mixed army in shock.
• The Astral Knights surged out behind Patton and opened fire, wiping out nearly a quarter of the army.
• The beastmen began to retreat, but Bingyang threatened their families and promised freedom if they fought.
• An elephant-man led the charge toward the Astral Knights, and an experienced soldier shot his skull apart.
• More elephant-men, buffalo-men, rhino-men, and other beastmen charged behind the fallen elephant-man.

Patton’s squad captured Beastfolk after the Astral Knights easily defeated their forces, and Willicks examined the prisoners to assess their strength. Finding the local enemies weak, Willicks reconsidered the warband’s tactics as its forces expanded their position.

• Patton’s Astral Knights defeated the Beastfolk and Beastmen nobles, then gathered the survivors as prisoners.
• Patton reported that the Beastfolk and Half-Orcs were weak and their weapons backward.
• Willicks left the command center to inspect the captured Minotaur for himself.
• Willicks examined the Beastfolk and concluded that they were physically unimpressive and poorly suited to large-scale battle.
• Willicks decided the warband’s tactics needed adjustment after learning how weak the local forces were.

The Astral Knights and Basic Puppet Legion crushed the Beastmen’s ragtag forces, though powerful Beastmen slowed their advance. After discovering that the Knights’ Energy Cores might help them grow stronger, the Crocodile King and Flying Leopard King decided to attack a heavily protected frontline position.

• The Astral Knights and Basic Puppet Legion fought off vastly larger Beastfolk forces, overpowering ordinary Half-Orcs with their armor and weapons.
• Powerful Level 1 Beastmen halted the rout and fought the Astral Knights on more even terms.
• Willicks complained that the priests kept him from fighting, even as they charged into battle themselves.
• The Crocodile King and Flying Leopard King discovered that Astral Knights’ Energy Cores offered a chance to advance their power.
• The two Beastmen Kings resolved to attack the protected frontline position on the mountainside.

Willicks and the Astral Knights faced two powerful Beastmen kings, who quickly overwhelmed the defenders. When Willicks called upon the Golden Void Lord, the Lord’s projection appeared and turned the tide of the battlefield.

• Willicks demanded a chance to fight while two priests restrained him with their prayers.
• Crocodile King and Flying Leopard King burst into the command center, killed one priest, and badly injured the other.
• Flying Leopard King kicked Willicks into a crater before Willicks could land his full-powered punch.
• Crocodile King grabbed Willicks, but golden light erupted from his power gauntlet and forced both Beastmen kings to their knees.
• The Golden Void Lord’s three-headed dragon projection rose from the distant mountains and fired three beams of lightning as the Astral Knights rallied.

Taylor projected his Ghidorah form to inspire the Astral Knights as they fought several Half-Orc armies across the battlefield. The chapter ended with another veteran and his recruits preparing to face seafood Half-Orcs on a beach.

• Taylor's projected Three-Headed Golden Dragon form filled the Astral Knights with morale and drove them to charge the enemy.
• An Astral Knight veteran, five recruits, and more than three thousand Basic Puppets encountered a Rhino Men tribe and fought its Rhino Beastmen and warriors.
• The veteran dodged a Rhino Beastman's charge and punched it flying while the recruits and Basic Puppets battled the tribe's forces.
• Another veteran and five recruits opened fire with Heavy Rockets and Heavy Elemental Bolters on green monkey Half-Orcs in a forest.
• On a beach, a veteran with two medals and his recruits faced seafood Half-Orcs emerging from the sea.

Kano reviewed stalled campaigns and military requests at Aokelius Tower, allocating ships and troops to strengthen the 500 Worlds Blueprint’s expansion. He ordered the Dawnwatch Warband’s negotiations ended by sending Deputy Legion Commander Dom to lead an operation without restrictions.

• Kano demanded an explanation for the Nova Warriors Warband and Dawnwatch Warband’s lack of progress while the Star Knights Warband suppressed resistance across its plane.
• Kano learned that nearly two billion Dwarves and their magic-crystal technology had stalled the Nova Warriors Warband, which requested reinforcements and heavy weapons.
• Kano assigned a strike cruiser and second-class supplies to Ferillo’s Demon Spirit Envoys Warband, which promised to kill everyone and accept no surrenders.
• Kano sent Norton to help the Burning Legion restore order and obtain more troops while loosening restrictions appropriately.
• Kano ordered Deputy Legion Commander Dom to take troops to the Dawnwatch Warband’s plane and lead an unrestricted operation against its negotiation effort.

The Nova Warriors Warband invaded the Dwarf Plane, but the dwarves rapidly adapted the invaders’ technology and turned the war against them. As the warband waited for reinforcements from Aokelius Tower, Kano sent the Demon Spirit Envoys Warband with Blood Plague Bombs to crush the dwarves.

• The Nova Warriors Warband and Basic Puppet Legion invaded the Dwarf Plane, and the dwarves resisted with steam-magic weapons, tanks, airships, and crude mechs.
• The warband’s bombardments killed nearly ten million dwarven troops, but the dwarves mobilized their resources and began producing advanced weapons and mechs.
• The dwarves captured logistical military constructs and used them to improve their technology, developing fighters, tanks, and assault rifles that helped turn the tide.
• Kano learned through his spies that the dwarves had stolen the warband’s rune system and ordered the Demon Spirit Envoys Warband to carry Blood Plague Bombs aboard the strike cruiser Evil Soul Roar.
• The Nova Warriors Warband withdrew to fortified positions and awaited reinforcements from Aokelius Tower while its leader discussed the dwarves’ immense population and strength.

The Demon Spirit Envoys Warband arrived to reinforce the Nova Warriors, whose commander, Liz, had failed to break through the dwarves’ defenses. Ferillo delivered Kano’s orders and took command of the next phase of the war, with Liz assigned as his deputy.

• The Nova Warriors stabilized their battle line against the dwarves but remained unable to seize the world.
• The Demon Spirit Envoys Warband arrived aboard the Evil Soul Roar, led by Ferillo.
• Ferillo met Commander Liz and privately prepared to deliver Kano’s instructions.
• Ferillo told Liz that Kano was furious with the Nova Warriors and the nearby Dawnwatch Warband.
• Ferillo announced that he would command the next phase of the war and that Liz would serve as his deputy.

Warband Leader Ferillo used a Blood Plague Bomb to infect the dwarves’ world, devastating its living resources and ending the resistance there. Meanwhile, Taylor arrived in a new world and entered Uncle's Antique Shop to explore its supernatural knowledge.

• Warband Leader Ferillo announced that he would use Lord Kano’s Blood Plague Bomb, shocking Warband Leader Liz and the Nova Warriors Warband’s leaders.
• The Demon Spirit Envoys Warband fired a black shell from the Evil Soul Roar, and it burst into blood-red strands that spread across the sky.
• The red mist descended and infected the dwarves, animals, and plants, while Warband Leader Ferillo told Liz that the dwarves had brought the outcome upon themselves.
• Taylor used his supernatural ability to travel to a new world after probing it with puppets.
• Taylor entered Uncle's Antique Shop, where he sensed a powerful force in the old man and anticipated gaining new knowledge.

Taylor visited Uncle's Antique Shop, where he examined Uncle's righteous chi and studied an antique jar with a hidden history. After Uncle spoke with Jackie Chan about the shield and Jade, Taylor revealed that he recognized the jar and suggested he and Uncle would meet again.

• Uncle came out of the library and regarded Taylor as an unusual visitor, while Taylor recognized the righteous chi emanating from him.
• Taylor reflected on the balance between dark chi and righteous chi, the disappearance of the Eight Immortal Wizards, and the decline of supernatural power in the world.
• Taylor told Uncle he was interested in antiques and historical records, then examined the shop's wares as Uncle called Jackie Chan about the shield, tea, and Jade's visit.
• Taylor brought Uncle a pottery jar, and Uncle recognized it as the object he had once used to seal the first-generation Dark Chi Warriors.
• Uncle asked Taylor who he really was, and Taylor said he was interested in history and that they would meet again.

Jackie Chan returned to Uncle's Antique Shop with the golden shield, and Taylor examined its sealed Rooster Talisman before returning it. Jade arrived at the shop, leaving Jackie Chan to take in his niece while Uncle concealed the talisman's importance.

• Jackie Chan brought the golden shield and Uncle's tea back to the shop, but the shield vanished from the counter when it touched down.
• Taylor appeared holding the shield, examined the Rooster Talisman's buoyancy and sealed power, then put the shield back.
• Uncle took the shield to make a rubbing while Jackie Chan rested, and he scolded Jackie Chan when he found him dozing.
• Jade arrived at the shop and greeted Taylor before Uncle told Jackie Chan to arrange a place for her.
• Jackie Chan realized that Jade was the niece he had been told about over the phone and groaned at the prospect of looking after her.