Recaps

Moros shattered Isidor’s demon city defenses with powerful Legendary Spells and drew the Soulbinder Demon Lord into a duel in the sky. While they fought, Isidor’s Demon Warlords launched a full-scale attack on the Undead Legion, whose ranks held firm.

• Moros used Armageddon to destroy the demon city’s Spell Shield and damage its defenses, then ordered the Undead Troops to attack.
• After the probing force was wiped out, Moros unleashed Legion Power, blasting through Isidor and the Demon Warlords’ defenses and devastating the city center.
• Isidor emerged from the ruined city, and he and Moros moved their fight into the sky to keep their armies safe from their attacks.
• Isidor ordered the Demon Warlords to assault the Undead Legion before joining Moros in battle.
• The Demon Warlords led a frenzied charge, while the Undead Legion held its formation and continued following its orders.

Moros defeated Isidor and annihilated the Demon Warlords who had led the Soulbinder’s forces, leaving the Undead Legion victorious but badly depleted. Three days later, Moros detected the Shadow Demon Lord’s approaching army and halted the looting to assemble his troops.

• Nasrin killed a Lesser Demon Lord while Moros fought Isidor, prompting the two remaining Lesser Demon Lords to divide their forces and move against them.
• Moros killed Isidor, captured his corpse and sealed his soul in a Magic Crystal, then turned to the battlefield below.
• Moros slew the Demon Warlords and pursued them as they fled, while the Undead Legion routed the leaderless Demon Legion.
• Moros ordered his undead to weaken Nasrin’s potential gains and avoid relying on their devil contract to protect his interests.
• Three days later, Moros learned that the Shadow Demon Lord’s army had wiped out his wraith sentries, so he stopped the city’s plundering and assembled his troops.

Moros and Nasrin learned that the Shadow Demon Lord had abandoned the struggle for the 406th Abyss Layer, leaving Nasrin positioned to become its Demon Lord. After Nasrin fulfilled her contract payment, she negotiated with Moros to leave the Abyss in exchange for valuable magical knowledge, and they agreed on a departure period of two and a half years.

• The Shadow Demon Lord retreated from Isidor's ruined city, and Moros chose to loot the ruins rather than pursue him.
• Moros and Nasrin discovered that the Shadow Demon Lord was leaving the 406th Abyss Layer, and they recognized that their alliance was nearing its end.
• Nasrin sent a High Legendary succubus envoy to deliver the promised Magic Crystal to Moros, weakening the contract's restraint on her.
• Nasrin contacted Moros and offered spell tomes and experimental materials in exchange for his promise to leave The Abyss.
• Moros demanded five years to prepare, Nasrin insisted on no more than one, and they settled on two and a half years.

Moros completed the Abyss Survival Challenge and left The Abyss, earning an S-rank settlement and advancing his Hero Template to Purple Epic. After receiving powerful rewards and new metamagic knowledge, he inspected his renewed Hero Panel and considered the greater realms he hoped to reach.

• Nasrin defeated her rival for the 406th Abyss Layer and awaited Moros's departure so she could become its Demon Lord.
• Moros spent his remaining time in The Abyss studying Nasrin's magical knowledge, using Time Distortion Field to extend his research time.
• On the contract's final day, Moros sent his spell journal through a spatial rift, prepared to leave his workshop, and departed The Abyss.
• The Hero Template Advancement Mission settled at S rank, rewarding Moros with 25 points in each basic attribute and knowledge of four metamagic techniques.
• Moros underwent talent, specialty, and Hero Template advancement, then reviewed his Purple Epic Hero Panel.

After completing his advancement mission, Moros preserved the magic knowledge he had acquired and collapsed into deep sleep. Meanwhile, Dr. Mei sent Elysia and Sakura to investigate his disappearance, and Sakura discovered that his own officials knew only that he had gone somewhere unknown; Elysia reached Vill-V’s base to meet her.

• Moros stored the Toril World’s magic knowledge in a Magic Crystal, returned to the Magic Guild Level 5, and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Dr. Mei learned that Moros had disappeared and sent Elysia to the Australian Continent under the pretext of checking on Vill-V’s shipbuilding work.
• Sakura infiltrated Keen’s residence while officials welcomed Elysia, but found no information about Moros in the diary or private rooms.
• Sakura cracked Keen’s safe and found a secret letter saying Moros was away from Earth and that Vill-V could be contacted about reports.
• Sakura reported her discovery to Dr. Mei as Elysia arrived at Vill-V’s base in the Victoria Great Desert and greeted her.

Elysia and Vill-V discovered that Moros had returned to the Mage Guild and reunited with him as he slept. Meanwhile, Sakura began infiltrating Vill-V’s base on Dr. Mei’s orders to uncover information about Moros.

• Elysia and Vill-V planned a welcome surprise for Moros, then learned from Number One that he had returned to the Mage Guild.
• Elysia and Vill-V entered Moros’s private quarters and embraced him after he woke.
• Dr. Mei sent Sakura to infiltrate Vill-V’s base and investigate Moros’s whereabouts.
• Sakura approached the guarded base at night and studied its defenses for a way inside.

Sakura infiltrated Vill-V’s base to steal intelligence, but the security system detected her and forced her to retreat with only partial data. As Dr. Mei analyzed Sakura’s report, Moth to Fire captured Ling, Sakura’s younger sister, after detecting her as the newly descended Twelfth Herrscher, and Dr. Mei ordered her transfer to headquarters.

• Sakura slipped through Vill-V’s energy barrier and connected Dr. Mei’s hacking tool to a server in the base’s core.
• The server triggered an alarm, and Sakura fled the activated defenses rather than destroy Vill-V’s base; she escaped and sent her findings to Dr. Mei.
• Dr. Mei began analyzing Sakura’s incomplete data, then hurried to the command room when an alarm announced a new Herrscher.
• Moth to Fire’s Far East branch detected a powerful Collapse Energy reaction and dispatched a Special Operations Team to investigate the suspected Herrscher.
• The team captured Ling in a classroom without meeting resistance, and Dr. Mei recognized her as Sakura’s biological younger sister.
• Dr. Mei ordered Ling transferred to Moth to Fire headquarters for research and observation.

Ling was imprisoned after Dr. Mei confirmed she was a Herrscher, then was killed by guards and awakened as the Twelfth Herrscher, unleashing a virus that seized Moth to Fire’s systems and launched fission missiles at cities. In Canberra, Moros learned that missiles were already incoming and realized Dr. Mei might have concealed Ling’s awakening from him.

• Dr. Mei confirmed Ling was a Herrscher but found no Herrscher Core or special abilities, and confined her underground to protect her and reassure Moth to Fire.
• Ling grew lonely in prison while Dr. Mei struggled with guilt and pressure from radicals; Sakura resolved to rescue her sister.
• Moth to Fire members and guards stormed Ling’s cell and killed her, triggering the Twelfth Herrscher’s Corrosion power.
• Ling’s corpse released black mist that transformed people into Shi, and her self-aware virus took control of the base and launched fission missiles at human cities.
• Moros ended a communication with Mobius in Canberra and was warned that Moth to Fire’s missiles were already on their way.
• Moros suspected Dr. Mei had concealed Ling’s awakening, as a guard urged him to enter an air-raid shelter.

Moros intercepted most of the missiles aimed at Canberra, but Ling’s attack devastated cities across the world, including Perth, and killed hundreds of millions in his territory. While the deaths replenished Moros’s soul reserves and left him with conflicted feelings rather than anger toward Ling, Moth to Fire suffered even worse losses, with nearly all unprotected cities destroyed.

• Moros rejected his guard’s plea to take shelter, rose into Canberra’s sky, and destroyed the missiles that broke through the city’s defenses.
• A Collapse Energy Fission Bomb struck Perth, reducing the city to ruins, while attacks devastated cities across Australia and Southeast Asia.
• Moros opened a portal to the Victoria Great Desert and confirmed that Vill-V, Mobius, Elysia, and Eden were safe.
• Wraith intelligence reported that Moros’s territory had lost more than 300 million people, with only Canberra, Sydney, and Bangkok among its attacked cities surviving.
• The Territory-level Soul Collection Arrays gathered at least a billion souls, replenishing Moros’s reserves and leaving him without ill will toward Ling.
• Moth to Fire’s weaker defenses failed to protect most of its cities, and all cities outside those guarded by Heroes were destroyed.

Hua and Padofelis discovered Shi invading Moth to Fire headquarters and fought through the base, then witnessed Kevin confront Sakura as she tried to reach Ling. Kevin insisted Ling was the Twelfth Herrscher, while Sakura argued that Ling was innocent, leaving their standoff unresolved.

• Dr. Mei noticed Sakura entering headquarters to take Ling and planned to exploit Ling’s emotional reaction so Hua could strike the Herrscher of Corrosion with the Feather of Dust.
• Hua found Padofelis hiding in her wardrobe in a big cat costume, and Padofelis admitted she had come to stock up on forgotten belongings.
• When the base alarm sounded, Hua and Padofelis went to investigate and fought their way through Shi attacking the corridors.
• In the F-23 surveillance room, Hua and Padofelis saw Kevin block Sakura on the seventeenth underground level.
• Kevin warned Sakura that helping Ling amounted to betraying humanity, while Sakura demanded that he move aside and insisted Ling was innocent.

Sakura fought past Kevin and rushed to rescue Ling, while Mei prepared Hua to trap the Twelfth Herrscher with Feather of Dust. Sakura found Ling’s battered body and collapsed in grief, but learned that the Herrscher of Corrosion had not been destroyed and asked whether Ling was still alive.

• Sakura refused to let Kevin stop her from reaching Ling and escaped past him with a space-freezing strike.
• Mei told Hua that Sakura’s reunion with Ling could create an opening to defeat the Twelfth Herrscher, and Hua prepared a hidden Feather of Dust trap despite her anger at Mei.
• Sakura fought through the zombies and reached Ling’s confinement room, where she found Ling covered in wounds and believed her sister was dead.
• Kevin arrived and destroyed the zombies surrounding Sakura, then reported the situation to Mei.
• Mei explained that the Twelfth Herrscher’s true form was still an intelligent virus, prompting Sakura to ask whether Ling was still alive.

Sakura left to reach Ling during Hua’s battle with the Twelfth Herrscher, and died after staying with her sister until the end. After the seal was secured, Kevin told Hua that the Herrscher had launched all stored Collapse Energy Fission Bombs at human settlements, then confessed his despair and doubts about fighting for humanity.

• Sakura froze time long enough to pass Kevin and set out to find Ling.
• Hua trapped the Twelfth Herrscher’s consciousness, and Mei sealed the Herrscher.
• Kevin told the dying Sakura that Mei had sealed the Herrscher; Sakura asked him to take her body home and bury her beneath a cherry blossom tree, and Kevin promised.
• Hua found Kevin and confirmed that the seal was secure; Kevin told her Sakura had died and that fewer than a thousand people in the base had been killed.
• Kevin revealed that the Herrscher had launched every Collapse Energy Fission Bomb in stock at human settlements on Earth.
• Kevin told Hua that he believed humanity had already lost and admitted he had never cared about saving the world, while Hua reassured him that he had chosen his own path.

After Sakura’s death, Kevin vowed to defeat Honkai, while Elysia grieved over his choice and the loss of her friend. Moros offered to resurrect Sakura with a Reincarnation spell, leaving Elysia amazed at how little the spell required.

• Kevin returned Sakura’s body to her homeland, found the Far East Isles reduced to ruins, and vowed that humanity would defeat Honkai at any cost.
• Elysia and the Flame-Chasers gathered for Sakura’s funeral, sharing their grief and concern over Kevin’s unshakable resolve.
• Elysia returned to Canberra and told Moros about Ling, Sakura’s death, and Kevin’s oath.
• Moros asked Elysia if she wanted to see Sakura again and explained that he could use magic to call her soul back.
• Elysia worried that resurrecting Sakura would demand a terrible price, but Moros showed her a Level 5 Reincarnation spell that required an intact corpse and 1500 mana.

Elysia and Moros prepared to resurrect Sakura, and Elysia gathered the Flame-Chasers to witness the spell. They assembled at Sakura’s grave, where Moros promised Eden he would not fail, just before the resurrection ritual began.

• Moros told Elysia that he needed Sakura’s remains to perform reincarnation, and Elysia asked him to let the other Flame-Chasers witness the resurrection.
• Elysia invited Eden, Kevin, Su, and the others, and Moros agreed to proceed once she had made the preparations.
• The Flame-Chasers gathered at Sakura’s grave, where Kalpas confronted Apponia and Padofelis expressed her longing for Sakura.
• Elysia and Moros arrived through a rift, and Elysia assured Padofelis that Sakura could be resurrected.
• Eden thanked Moros and showed concern for him, and Moros promised he would not fail.

Moros used Reincarnation to bring Sakura back to life, and she reunited with the Flame-Chasers. He left the reunion for the Mage Guild, where Elysia, Eden, Mobius, and Vill-V joined him and reminded him that his choices affected them too.

• Moros opened the earth and revealed Sakura's body in a crystal coffin.
• Moros cast Reincarnation, restoring Sakura to life as new growth spread across the scorched land.
• Sakura drank Moros's potion and apologized after Padofelis explained what had happened.
• Moros left through a portal to the Mage Guild, followed by Elysia, Eden, Mobius, and Vill-V.
• At the Mage Guild, Moros's lovers expressed their concern, and he felt reassured by their support.

Moros celebrated his reunion with Elysia, Vill-V, Mobius, and Eden while Sakura confronted Dr. Mei over Ling’s imprisonment. The chapter ended with Moros leaving the Demiplane to visit Vill-V and Mobius, as the narration revealed that their research facilities in Australia had survived Ling’s missile attacks.

• Moros proposed a banquet at the Mage Guild, and Elysia, Vill-V, Mobius, and Eden began preparing it.
• Sakura demanded that Dr. Mei release Ling from the black box, but Mei refused, citing the danger to the world.
• Sakura left after warning Mei that she would pay any price for Ling, and Kevin urged Mei to try to fulfill Sakura’s wish.
• Moros left Elysia and Eden sleeping in the Demiplane and teleported away to visit Vill-V and Mobius.
• The narration explained that Ling had launched Collapse Energy Fission Bombs at human settlements, but Moros’s research facilities in Queensland and the Victoria Great Desert had escaped the strikes.

Moros visited Mobius’s research institute and discovered that she had created an artificial dretch by replacing magic with Collapse Energy. Overcome with admiration, he embraced her, and the chapter ended with Danzhu and Cangxuan accidentally walking in on them.

• Moros arrived at Mobius’s institute and used a spell to help Danzhu and Cangxuan carry boxes of demon-worm replicas.
• Moros warned the sisters to be cautious as they took the worms to the underground processing room.
• Moros found Mobius cultivating an artificial dretch and realized it lacked the original demon’s spell-like abilities.
• Mobius revealed that she had replaced magic with Collapse Energy to create a new lifeform, astonishing Moros.
• Moros embraced Mobius, and she relaxed into the unexpected closeness.
• Danzhu and Cangxuan entered, saw them embracing, and hurried out as Mobius blushed.

Dr. Mobius and Moros resumed their work after Klein reassured her that Cangxuan and Danzhu would not be punished for interrupting them. Moros then warned Dr. Mobius that she might not have enough time to finish her research into creating artificial life with a soul.

• Moros let go of Dr. Mobius, and she tried to regain her composure before returning to work.
• Cangxuan and Danzhu asked Klein for help after accidentally witnessing Dr. Mobius and Moros being intimate.
• Klein spoke privately with Dr. Mobius, who promised she would not punish Cangxuan and Danzhu.
• Klein reassured Cangxuan and Danzhu, then returned to work with them.
• Moros embraced Dr. Mobius and reminded her that a Tanar'ri Demon's true appeal lay in its soul.
• Dr. Mobius said she was confident she could create artificial life with a soul, but Moros warned that she might not have enough time.

Moros told Mobius that the next Great Collapse would bring Final Judgment and promised to protect her and their companions. Meanwhile, Mei sent the Herrscher of Corrosion’s black box to Mobius, but Sakura attacked the transport plane to rescue Ling, and Kevin intercepted her above Melbourne’s ruins.

• Moros warned Mobius that the next Great Collapse would be Final Judgment, and he promised to protect everyone.
• Mei approved Mobius’s request to study the black box containing the Herrscher of Corrosion and arranged for Kevin and Hua to escort it.
• Sakura learned the black box was being transferred and decided to intercept the plane to rescue Ling.
• Sakura struck at the transport plane with Cold Hell Ice Sky, but Kevin blocked her attack with an ice barrier.
• Sakura continued attacking and urged Kevin to move, while Kevin tried to persuade her to trust Mei’s plan.
• Kevin defended the plane as Hua watched the clash unfold above Melbourne’s ruins.

Hua delivered the black box containing the Twelfth Herrscher to Mobius’s laboratory after Sakura failed to stop the transport plane. Mobius urged Hua to make her own choice and help save humanity, leaving Hua questioning why Mobius had consulted her and where she was supposed to take the black box.

• Hua ordered Kevin to hold Sakura back while the transport plane continued toward Mobius’s laboratory.
• Kevin countered Sakura’s space-freezing slash with overwhelming power, defeating her interception attempt as the plane escaped.
• Hua arrived at the field airstrip near Brisbane and traveled with Danzhu, Cangxuan, and the Undead Troops through the devastated city to Mobius’s laboratory.
• Hua handed over the black box and saw frightened survivors hide from the Undead Troops as her convoy passed.
• Mobius invited Hua to join her, arguing that Hua needed to make her own decision to save humanity.
• Hua asked Mobius why she had consulted her this time and where she wanted Hua to take the black box.

After Mobius’s experiment released the Twelfth Herrscher, Hua stopped Ling at the cost of falling into a coma, and Mobius operated to save her. Hua woke, while Cangxuan and Danzhu left Mobius’s laboratory for Moth to Fire’s research division, leaving Mobius watching their departure.

• Mobius’s deliberate damage to the black box released Ling, and Hua used the Feather of Dust to fight her in the realm of consciousness while Vill-V helped drive the Herrscher out of the institute’s network.
• Hua fell into a deep coma, and Cangxuan confronted Mobius over her reckless research and her plan to transform humanity into virus-like lifeforms.
• Cangxuan told Mobius she and Danzhu would leave the laboratory after Hua’s operation, and Mobius coldly agreed.
• Mobius operated on Hua, who woke and described seeing a little girl crying alone in a pitch-black void.
• Cangxuan and Danzhu formally requested a transfer, and Mobius approved it and arranged transport and an Undead Troops escort.
• Cangxuan and Danzhu safely boarded an aircraft at the field airfield and flew toward Moth to Fire’s headquarters on Tasmania Island as Mobius watched.

Mobius mourned Cangxuan and Danzhu’s departure, then found comfort and intimacy with Moros before returning to her research. She checked on Hua’s recovery and began persuading her to endure further treatment for humanity’s future.

• Mobius watched Cangxuan and Danzhu leave and expressed her hope that they would find their own paths.
• Moros revealed himself, comforted Mobius, and reminded her that Cangxuan and Danzhu had chosen their own road.
• Mobius invited Moros to reward her, and the two spent the night together in his private quarters.
• Mobius later sent Moros to Vill-V’s place while she recovered and resumed her work in the laboratory.
• Mobius visited the recovering Hua, examined her condition, and urged her to endure pain for humanity’s tomorrow.

Vill-V showed Moros the Moonlight Throne carrier vessel and revealed the Paris-class Heavy Frigate she had built for him, while Moros judged the older vessel unlikely to defeat the Herrscher of Finality. Sakura reached the outskirts of Mobius's laboratory and prepared to rescue Ling.

• Mobius persuaded Hua to return to the operating table and continue their experiment.
• Vill-V explained that the Moonlight Throne carrier vessel could not reliably defeat the Herrscher of Finality under the Cocoon of Finality's control.
• Vill-V brought Moros to see the unfinished Paris-class Heavy Frigate, a warship she had designed and built especially for him.
• Moros praised the battleship, and Vill-V was delighted that he appreciated her gift.
• Sakura escaped Kevin's pursuit, reached Mobius's laboratory, and prepared to rescue Ling.

Sakura infiltrated Mobius's laboratory to find the black box containing her sister Ling's soul, but the apparent breach in the wall was a trap and the facility identified her. As Mobius evacuated with Klein, Hua, and the black box, Moros and Vill-V headed to the laboratory while Canberra and Moth to Fire mobilized; Sakura faced the consequences of her exposed identity.

• Sakura slipped through a tiny crack in the laboratory wall, unaware that the flaw was a deliberate trap, and began searching for Ling's black box.
• The laboratory's artificial intelligence detected Sakura, sent inhibitor-equipped drones to intercept her, and identified her as a Serpent-class Flame-Chaser Warrior after she destroyed them.
• Mobius ordered Klein to accompany her and had Vampire Lords and Undead Troops delay Sakura while they evacuated Hua and Ling's black box through a hidden passage.
• Vill-V informed Moros of the emergency, and they teleported to Mobius's laboratory; Canberra and Moth to Fire also mobilized, with Dr. Mei sending Kevin to assist and retrieve Sakura.
• Sakura realized the crack had exposed her and continued searching for the black box as the drone attack made clear that her infiltration had been discovered.

Sakura fought through Mobius's laboratory to rescue Ling, but Moros captured her with overwhelming magic and offered her a contract in exchange for Ling's protection. Sakura wavered as she weighed binding herself to Moros against leaving her sister unsafe.

• Sakura destroyed Mobius's undead troops and traps as she advanced toward the black box containing Ling.
• Sakura found Moros holding the black box, refused Mobius and Vill-V's pleas to surrender, and attacked him.
• Moros bound Sakura with rapid Dark Magic spells and disarmed her, leaving her unable to fight back.
• Moros told Sakura he wanted her strength rather than intending to harm Ling, and Sakura regained her composure.
• Moros offered Sakura a magic contract promising Ling's protection, and Sakura struggled to decide whether to sign it.