Recaps

Moros rescued Eden from the Honkai Beasts in Alexandria and brought her to Canberra, where he arranged a concert for her. Meanwhile, Moth to Fire sent uninformed Special Operations Teams to Cairo to investigate Himiko’s authority, and Himiko appeared before their approaching planes.

• Moros located Eden in Alexandria, killed the Paladin-class Honkai Beast threatening her, and then destroyed an approaching Emperor-class Honkai Beast.
• Moros persuaded Eden to leave Alexandria with him, and they teleported to his territory in Canberra.
• Moros introduced Eden to his officials and ordered Margaret and Keen to prepare an unprecedented concert for her.
• The Moth to Fire Council agreed to send Special Operations Teams to Cairo to investigate the Seventh Herrscher, concealing the mission’s true purpose from them.
• Half a day later, as the transport planes neared Cairo International Airport, Himiko appeared before the fleet.

Himiko, as the Herrscher of Flames, destroyed Moth to Fire forces and burned Egypt’s major cities while the organization’s political conflicts deepened. As her devastation continued, Moros decided to travel to North Africa after Eden’s concert and stop her before Moth to Fire could gain access to Hypermutation Surgery’s power.

• Himiko intercepted and destroyed Moth to Fire’s transport fleet, then reduced Cairo and its airport to ashes, killing more than twenty million people.
• Moth to Fire sent forces from its Egyptian base against Himiko, but she annihilated them, and the organization faced mounting political criticism.
• Politicians dispatched armored forces to challenge the Seventh Herrscher, but Himiko destroyed them as well.
• Moros judged that Moth to Fire acquiring powerful weapons or Hypermutation Surgery would threaten his position, and Himiko continued burning Egyptian cities.
• After Himiko destroyed Egypt’s last large city, Moros decided to head to North Africa once Eden’s concert ended and personally stop her.

Moros traveled to North Africa and overwhelmed Himiko, the Herrscher of Flames, with a relentless barrage of spells. As his final attack decided their battle, Moth to Fire learned that Kevin’s Hypermutation Surgery had succeeded, while Mei’s secrecy continued to preserve a fragile balance between the organization and Moros.

• Moros left Eden’s concert and used wraiths near the Suez Canal to locate Himiko at Harij Oasis.
• Moros struck Himiko and the Honkai Beast hordes with Curse of the Underworld, then launched a spellstorm of fire, curses, summons, and a phoenix.
• Moth to Fire’s Council regretted authorizing Kevin’s Hypermutation Surgery after satellites captured Moros fighting the Seventh Herrscher, but Kevin had already become a Flame-Chaser Warrior.
• Mei kept Mobius’s transformation into a Flame-Chaser Warrior secret from the Council, fearing disclosure would provoke a destructive conflict with Moros.
• Moros steadily weakened Himiko, who struggled to defend herself and find an opening to counterattack.
• Moros’s Level 5 Destruction Magic struck Himiko like a meteor and decided the battle.

After defeating the Herrscher of Flames, Moros returned to his Demiplane, built up his undead forces, and found the Legendary Spell Soul Torrent to address his lack of powerful single-target attacks. Eden then invited him to meet, and he arrived at a Canberra restaurant, stopping outside her private room.

• Moros used Town Portal to leave the Harij Oasis after defeating the Herrscher of Flames, while Moth to Fire's reconnaissance squad cautiously searched the battlefield.
• Moros handed the Herrscher of Flames' remains and Herrscher Core to Vill-V and Mobius, then retreated to the Demiplane to avoid their dispute over the spoils.
• Moros converted saved recruitment slots into undead troops and mastered the metamagic technique Empower Spell through his studies in the Mage Guild.
• Moros found the Legendary Spell Soul Torrent, which consumed intelligent creature souls to unleash devastating attacks on a target's magic, mind, and soul.
• Eden contacted Moros through the Spectre Jar and invited him to meet, and he traveled to a restaurant in Canberra and reached her private room.

Moros supported Eden's decision to leave entertainment and join Moth to Fire, offering his territory and resources to help her. Moth to Fire's Council approved her entry, and Moros escorted her to a secured airport as she prepared to depart for the organization.

• Eden told Moros she planned to leave entertainment because her singing could no longer give people hope, and revealed she had decided to join Moth to Fire after speaking with Elysia.
• Moros offered Eden refuge in his territory so she could continue singing, then supported her decision to join Moth to Fire and promised her his help.
• Elysia submitted Eden's proposal to the Moth to Fire Council, which approved it, valuing her fortune, influence, and connection to Moros.
• Moros escorted Eden to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, which he had closed to other flights for her safety, as Elysia waited to receive her aboard a Moth to Fire transport aircraft.

Eden arrived at Moth to Fire under Elysia’s escort as Councillor Vincent promoted the Floating Fleet while opposing Dr. Mei’s Flame-Chaser Project. The chapter ended with Councillors Eugene and Wang tacitly accepting Vincent’s actions because they shared his interest in preserving their privileges.

• Moros watched Eden and Elysia depart for Moth to Fire, then returned through a Demiplane passage.
• Councillor William personally welcomed Eden at Mu Continent Airport, while Councillor Vincent heard of her arrival and chose to wait before making contact.
• Councillor Vincent toured the shipyard and inspected the America, a national-class Floating Battleship nearing its launch.
• Councillor Vincent described how he had championed the Floating Fleet and used opposition to the Flame-Chaser Project to defend his view of human purity and social hierarchy.
• After the Herrscher of Flames devastated Egypt, Moth to Fire authorized Dr. Mei’s Flame-Chaser Project, but Kevin’s apparent longevity and the failures of later surgeries fueled renewed opposition.
• Councillors Eugene and Wang understood Vincent’s efforts and motives but did not oppose him because they shared his interest in keeping immortality beyond the reach of common people.

Moros established a stable soul supply by deploying Territory-level Soul Collection Arrays across his land, while Moth to Fire’s political tensions continued to build. The chapter ended as Forget-Me-Not ambushed Dr. Mei during her boating date with Kevin.

• Moros allowed his bureaucrats to trade souls for tax payments, prompting them to make secret deals with local rulers to collect souls from impoverished regions.
• Moros found plans for a Territory-level Soul Collection Array and decided to improve his alchemy so he could build one independently of the bureaucratic system.
• After months of study, Moros became an advanced alchemist and deployed arrays across his territory, directing the souls of the dead into refined Magic Crystals.
• As a storm brewed inside Moth to Fire, Kevin and Dr. Mei went boating near headquarters, where Forget-Me-Not ambushed Dr. Mei.

Dr. Mei exposed Councillor Vincent’s assassination plot with Forget-Me-Not’s testimony, leading to Vincent’s forced retirement and new support for Hypermutation Surgery. After Kosma, Henk, and Desdona became Flame-Chaser Warriors, Elysia took a genetic sample and traveled to Australia for surgery, prompting alarm among the Moth to Fire councillors.

• Dr. Mei stopped Kevin from killing Forget-Me-Not and recruited her by promising to protect her younger sister.
• Dr. Mei accused Councillor Vincent before the Moth to Fire Council, and Forget-Me-Not testified that he had hired an assassin to murder her.
• The council forced Councillor Vincent into an “honorable retirement” and approved greater resources for Dr. Mei’s Flame-Chaser Project.
• Kosma, Captain Henk, and Desdona underwent Hypermutation Surgery and became Moth to Fire’s first new Flame-Chaser Warriors.
• Elysia took a genetic sample of the End-Law Honkai Beast Great Freedom Heaven and flew to Australia to seek surgery from Mobius.
• Councillor Eugene condemned Elysia’s actions, while Councillor Wang urged the council to examine her motives calmly.

The Moth to Fire Council decided to investigate Elysia’s actions and tighten internal security while Dr. Mei privately suspected she was hiding a dangerous secret. Elysia reunited with Mobius and Klein in Brisbane and underwent a remarkably smooth Hypermutation Surgery, waking as Mobius welcomed her rebirth.

• Dr. Mei told Councillor Eugene that Elysia’s unusual actions did not necessarily mean she had defected, while keeping her suspicions about Elysia’s secret to herself.
• Councillor Wang proposed a special investigation team, Councillor Alberto agreed to lead it, and the Council approved an internal security review.
• Elysia arrived in Brisbane, reunited warmly with Mobius and Klein, and traveled with them to Mobius’s laboratory to plan her surgery.
• Mobius discovered during the operation that Elysia was a Herrscher, but continued the surgery and found it proceeded without complications.
• Mobius completed the Hypermutation Surgery and spoke to the sleeping Elysia, who opened her eyes as Mobius welcomed her rebirth.

After completing Hypermutation Surgery, Elysia visited Moros in his Demiplane and reunited with him in the Graveyard City. They welcomed each other warmly, and the chapter ended with Moros waking beside Elysia the next morning.

• Elysia used Moros's authority to enter his Demiplane, where Moros spoke to her through a Skeleton Attendant.
• Moros guided Elysia through the Graveyard City, and she noticed that his undead army had grown larger and stronger.
• Elysia reunited with Moros at the Mage Guild, and he embraced her before welcoming her home.
• Elysia teased Moros by pretending to check whether he had been replaced, then linked her arm through his.
• The next morning, Moros woke beside Elysia and savored their peaceful moment together.

Moros accepted Elysia’s decision to return to Moth to Fire and spent over half a year mastering Soul Torrent, reaching level 36. Meanwhile, a young surgeon on the Europa Continent woke from a strange dream and recalled his missing friend Kevin and the spread of Honkai Disease.

• Elysia insisted that she would return to Moth to Fire and fight alongside her comrades, and Moros agreed to respect her choice.
• After Elysia left, Moros researched Soul Torrent and mastered the Legendary Spell in just over half a year.
• Mastering Soul Torrent advanced Moros to level 36 and added the spell to his abilities.
• A gray-haired, green-eyed young man awoke in Europa after falling asleep while studying Honkai Disease cases and remembered his missing friend Kevin.
• The young man recalled that Kevin had vanished after Changkong City disappeared and that Honkai Disease had begun spreading worldwide soon afterward.

Dr. Su struggled to save Honkai Disease patients while hoping to find a cure, and Director Fal encouraged his determination. The chapter ended with Fal, secretly infected, learning from Dr. Spasi that she had six hours left to live.

• Su examined Annie and promised he would cure her Honkai Disease.
• Su and Director Fal operated on a patient whose heart had been invaded, but the patient died.
• Bolong collected the patient's body for Moth to Fire, and Su told Director Fal that Moth to Fire had rejected his application.
• Director Fal praised Su's resolve to keep researching and urged him not to overwork himself.
• Director Fal called Su before dawn but did not tell him about her illness, then asked Dr. Spasi how long she had left.
• Dr. Spasi told Director Fal that she had six hours left to live.

Su learned that Director Fal had died of Honkai Disease after years of treating patients, and he joined Moth to Fire to fight the illness. In the Demiplane, Moros asked Mobius and Vill-V to stay safe from the coming Herrscher of Consciousness, and Vill-V agreed on the condition that she could build a research base.

• Dr. Spasi told Director Fal that Collapse Energy would consume her body within six hours, and she asked him to look after Su.
• Su found the hospital sealed and its patients transferred, then Dr. Spasi led him to Fal's body and explained that Collapse Energy caused Honkai Disease.
• After learning that Fal had treated more than five hundred patients, Su asked to join Moth to Fire and vowed to defeat Honkai Disease.
• At a tea party celebrating Moros's advancement, Moros explained the danger posed by the Herrscher of Consciousness and asked Mobius and Vill-V to remain in the Demiplane.
• Vill-V agreed to stay in the Demiplane but asked to establish a research base there.

Moros pursued the power of Legion Power as he prepared to face the Herrscher of the End, while Dr. Mei presented evidence that humanity’s expansion was worsening Honkai. Her report was overshadowed by a fierce dispute over who would receive homes in Abyssal City and New Atra, as suffering among ordinary people continued to deepen.

• Moros agreed to protect Vill-V and Mobius, but kept his knowledge about the Herrscher of Consciousness secret before sharing a quiet tea gathering with them.
• Moros studied Legion Power and planned to raise his hero level to 37 so the Sylannas Ancients could help him reach level 40 and unlock the skill.
• Abyssal City and New Atra were completed, while Honkai disasters grew more frequent and severe amid humanity’s celebration of the cities.
• Dr. Mei prepared a report linking Honkai to civilization and brought it to Moth to Fire’s main conference room.
• The councilors argued over the limited residential places in the new cities and sought to preserve their privileges, while Dr. Mei renewed her resolve to defeat Honkai.
• Ordinary people remained shut out of the cities’ benefits as Honkai disasters devastated families and left survivors facing grief and hardship.

Moros rejected the Moth to Fire Council’s attempt to use Abyssal City and New Atra to constrain him, leaving the councillors alarmed about the reach of his magic. In a secret meeting, Councillor Eugene and Councillor Wang discussed evidence that the new councillor’s hospital was conducting human experiments and that Griseo had been found there.

• Moros told Councillor William to convey his uncompromising position to the Moth to Fire Council, whose councillors feared he could reach Abyssal City and New Atra with his magic.
• Councillor Wang urged the council to find a way to verify the range of Moros’s power, but the councillors admitted they could not accurately measure magic.
• Councillor Eugene and Councillor Wang met privately and confirmed intelligence that the new councillor’s hospital had conducted experiments on patients.
• Councillor Eugene told Councillor Wang that investigators had found Griseo, the daughter of Blanca and Kosma, in the hospital.

After learning that Griseo was being used in human experiments in Illinois, Mobius asked Moros to help rescue her. Moros located Griseo and opened a portal into her hospital room, where Mobius reunited with the girl as guards rushed in.

• Moros told Mobius that Griseo, Blanca's daughter, was imprisoned and being used in human experiments on the North American Continent.
• Mobius pleaded with Moros for help, and he agreed to rescue Griseo and punish those responsible.
• Moros sent a wraith to locate Griseo and then opened a portal to her room in an Illinois hospital.
• Mobius stepped through the portal to reach Griseo while Moros killed two guards with Eldritch Arrow.
• Griseo woke, recognized Mobius, and smiled as Mobius warned her not to let Elysia lead her astray.

Moros rescued Griseo with Mobius and returned them safely to Australia before confronting the director of the hospital’s underground research center. He controlled the director with Puppet Master and uncovered a list of powerful backers, while witnesses fled in fear.

• Mobius carried Griseo through Moros’s portal to safety in Australia while Moros stayed behind to deal with the experimental facility.
• The hospital director spotted Moros in the surveillance footage, destroyed a laptop containing secrets, and tried to flee while seeking protection from his backers.
• Moros summoned hundreds of undead to block escape routes, then teleported to the surface and intercepted the director.
• Moros used Puppet Master to control the director and learned that Councillors Elroy, Marshall, and McPherson had backed the underground research facility.
• Onlookers secretly listened as Moros questioned the director in the parking lot, and some fled when the names and the scale of the network became clear.

Moros interrogated the hospital director, uncovered the powerful figures and accomplices behind Griseo’s experiments, then killed the director and raised him as a conscious wraith ordered to slaughter his family. The wraith began killing the director’s family in their Chicago villa, and the chapter ended as it plunged toward the eldest son and daughter while they fled.

• Moros forced the director to reveal the names of powerful conspirators and the reason they targeted Griseo: to brainwash her and exploit her connection to Dr. Mobius and the necromancer.
• Moros killed the director, raised him as a wraith with his consciousness intact, and ordered him to kill his family and friends.
• Moros opened a portal to the underground research center, leaving the parking lot as he went to pursue the conspirators there.
• The director’s wraith entered his Chicago villa and killed his second son while his wife and older children witnessed the attack.
• The wraith killed the director’s wife despite the eldest son’s futile gunfire, and the eldest son dragged his sister toward the garage.
• The director’s wraith passed through the floor and dived toward the fleeing siblings just as the eldest son reached for the garage door.

Moros retaliated against those involved in Griseo’s abuse, turning them into wraiths compelled to kill their loved ones and collecting the resulting Soul Crystals. As the violence spread across North America, political leaders—including Councillor Elroy and Councillor Marshall—discussed the threat and tried to decide how to respond.

• The director’s wraith killed his son and daughter, then vanished when Moros’s spell triggered, leaving behind a Soul Crystal that was teleported away.
• Moros transformed people involved in the underground research center into wraiths and tasked them with killing those they cherished, gathering more than a dozen Soul Crystals.
• Moros pursued indirect participants as well, and Plague Zombies attacked a former research-center security guard in an alley.
• Councillors Eugene and Wang reviewed reports of more than thirteen hundred victims and anticipated that Moros’s retaliation would reach higher-ranking targets.
• Councillors Elroy, Marshall, and McPherson met with other North American leaders to discuss Moros’s escalating retaliation and urge clear judgment.

Moros attacked Washington to punish the officials behind the human experiments on Griseo, destroying the White House bunker and killing those inside. As Dr. Mei learned why he had struck, a mysterious curse killed the assistant monitoring her, leaving Mei to wonder whether the woman had been involved in the conspiracy.

• Moros traced the officials responsible for the experiments to Washington and opened a portal above the city, unleashing Spectral Dragons and wraiths.
• The Spectral Dragons devastated the area around the White House, and Moros destroyed its nuclear-proof bunker with Earthshaker after fighter jets failed to stop him.
• Moros began gathering the dead’s souls, intending to question the powerful officials and torment them in Soul Torture Apparatuses.
• At Moth to Fire headquarters, Dr. Mei learned that Moros had attacked Washington because powerful figures had provoked him over Mobius’s former assistant’s daughter.
• A curse pierced the silver-haired assistant’s heart while Dr. Mei watched, and Mei suspected the assistant might have been involved in the conspiracy.

Moros used higher-grade Death Curse rituals to kill Councillors Winifred and Aubrey, ending his retaliation against those responsible for Griseo’s experiments. As Sleeping Sickness spread to millions, Dr. Mei’s investigation revealed that victims shared dreams, while the disease’s origin remained unknown.

• Moros killed the remaining names on his list, including Councillor Winifred in Sea Abyss City and Councillor Aubrey in Lunar City: New Atra, using Soul Crystals to strengthen his curses.
• After the councillors’ deaths, human elites avoided confronting Moros and sought to ease tensions with him through diplomacy and exchanges of interests.
• Sleeping Sickness spread across both human society and Moros’s territory, exceeding two million cases in a month and overwhelming hospitals.
• Moth to Fire officials initially suspected Moros, but reports from his territory showed that the disease was affecting his people as well.
• Dr. Mei ordered Dr. Spasi to investigate victims’ shared dreams, while artificial intelligence found recurring keywords in the web pages they had visited.

Dr. Mei identified the Eighth Herrscher as the source of Sleeping Sickness, but the Moth to Fire Council rejected her request to cooperate with Moros. With millions falling asleep, Mei launched a dangerous plan to enter the Herrscher’s dream and locate her, while Mobius and Vill-V recalled Moros’s warning about the threat.

• Dr. Mei and the Moth to Fire research team determined that Sleeping Sickness came from the Eighth Herrscher’s memetic weapon, which infected people through contaminated words and trapped them in dreams.
• Dr. Mei proposed seeking Moros’s help, but the Moth to Fire Council refused, believing it could defeat the concealed Herrscher on its own.
• Dr. Mei devised a plan to send warriors into the Eighth Herrscher’s dream using the Observation Hub, and worked with Dr. Spasi to develop the Consciousness Lock drug.
• With more than ten million people already asleep and the total expected to exceed one hundred million within ten days, Dr. Mei briefed seven Flame-Chaser Warriors and other soldiers before their perilous mission.
• Mobius and Vill-V recalled how Moros had warned them about Sleeping Sickness and the Eighth Herrscher, and recognized that his prediction had come true.

Moros explained why he was waiting rather than risking a search for the hidden Eighth Herrscher, while the Herrscher of Consciousness overwhelmed Moth to Fire with dreams. Su broke free of her dream and revealed her location, allowing Moth to Fire to kill her; afterward, Kevin urged Su to take over Dr. Spasi’s work and keep fighting Honkai.

• Moros told Vill-V and Mobius that his Soul Collection Array limited losses in his territory, so he would wait rather than enter the dangerous dream world to find the Eighth Herrscher.
• The Eighth Herrscher found a way around Moth to Fire’s Consciousness Lock and trapped soldiers and most Flame-Chaser Warriors in dreams, while deciding the necromancer was an even greater threat.
• Su entered the dream through the Observation Hub, resisted its illusions, and discovered the Eighth Herrscher’s location as his mentor restarted the Hub despite suffering a fatal wound.
• Moth to Fire sent one Flame-Chaser Warrior to the Eighth Herrscher’s former home and killed her.
• Kevin told Su that Mei wanted him to succeed Dr. Spasi and lead the Fifth Science Department, and Su accepted the responsibility.

After the Herrscher of Consciousness fell, the dream world collapsed, killing nearly one hundred million people and leaving societies and Moth to Fire’s bureaucracy severely damaged. Moth to Fire expanded its influence while Moros prepared to rebuild his administration, and Vill-V and Mobius returned to Earth with a warning that the next Great Collapse could arrive within two or three years.

• The collapse of the dream world awakened many victims of Sleeping Sickness, but nearly one hundred million people died, including many of society’s leading experts and administrators.
• The deaths of elites disrupted industries and governance, while great-power struggles, resource plunder, and famine plunged underdeveloped regions into violence and anarchy.
• Moth to Fire’s victory over the Herrscher of Consciousness strengthened its standing, and the councilors sent Kalpas and Sakura with the Poison Pupa Unit to kill dozens of powerful figures opposing its expansion.
• Vill-V and Mobius asked Moros to leave the Demiplane and return to Earth, and he warned them that another Great Collapse might occur within two or three years.
• Moros saw Vill-V and Mobius through the planar crystal wall, then turned to rebuilding his bureaucracy after Sleeping Sickness killed many of his administrators.

Moros enforced harsh tax collection to preserve his territory’s revenue, while Moth to Fire councillors Eugene and Wang agreed to send the Poison Pupa Unit after Collapse weapon research. Their plan and General Diego’s soul-trading deal were interrupted when an unknown force attacked his military base.

• Moros ordered Margaret and Keen to ensure quarterly tax targets were met, threatening officials who failed with execution, and the taxes were collected at the people’s expense.
• Councillors Eugene and Wang discussed the major powers’ plan to seize Collapse weapon research and agreed Moth to Fire should secure it first.
• Eugene proposed sending the Poison Pupa Unit, and Wang agreed to support the plan without taking the lead against the major powers.
• General Diego handed Soul Storage Orbs to an Australian visitor as part of their trading arrangement.
• An unknown force attacked Diego’s military base, setting off alarms and explosions and alarming the Australian visitor.