Recaps

Li Qinwu and his soldiers fought through rooms of Plague Walkers and Trolls, destroying two Trolls with concentrated Lasgun fire and Bolt Rounds. After learning that more than forty stages remained, Li Qinwu asked Reno where they could restock, and Reno directed them to a security armory ten rooms ahead.

• Li Qinwu and his soldiers killed a Troll made from merged Plague Walkers with repeated maximum-power Lasgun volleys, then cleared the remaining Walkers.
• Reno told Li Qinwu that the next room held more than twenty Walkers and two Trolls, so Li Qinwu planned for the soldiers to attack one while he handled the other with his Bolt Round Shotgun.
• The soldiers destroyed the Troll playing Mother with Lasgun fire while Li Qinwu blew apart the Troll playing Father with two Bolt Rounds.
• Li Qinwu’s group cleared the remaining Walkers and rested while their Lasguns cooled, and Li Qinwu reloaded his limited supply of Bolt Rounds.
• Li Qinwu asked Reno where they could replenish their equipment, and Reno directed the soldiers to a security armory ten rooms ahead.

Li Qinwu’s team resupplied in the armory, cleared a crowded dormitory of Plague Walkers, and reached a clean room to rest. There, they found a frightened man hiding beneath a desk, who identified himself as the technical supervisor for Diving Power Suits.

• Li Qinwu’s team collected grenades and spare weapons from the armory, then loaded the remaining supplies onto a cart.
• Li Qinwu and Black Charcoal opened the dormitory door and threw grenades among more than a thousand Plague Walkers.
• Li Qinwu’s team used more grenades and their Lasguns to clear the dormitory and the next few rooms.
• The team rested in a clean office, where Black Charcoal spotted a man hiding beneath a desk.
• Li Qinwu tested the man with Holy Wine, then learned he maintained the Stillwater Guild’s Diving Power Suits.

Li Qinwu ignored an NPC’s demand to rescue his girlfriend and used Reno’s directions to find a cache of Powered Exoskeletons. After equipping the suits, the group set off toward what Li Qinwu believed was the final boss.

• A Clean Water Guild worker offered to show Li Qinwu the Powered Suits but insisted that Li Qinwu rescue his girlfriend first.
• Reno searched the cameras and guided Li Qinwu’s group toward the compartment containing the Powered Suits.
• When the worker blocked their exit, Reno opened a door behind him, and Plague Walkers contaminated him; Li Qinwu then ordered the group to fire, killing them all.
• Li Qinwu and his companions reached the storage room and equipped the Powered Exoskeletons, testing their strength and learning that the suits had delayed responses.
• Li Qinwu led the newly equipped group toward another room, expecting to face the final boss soon.

Li Qinwu and his fifteen soldiers chose to enter the final room despite the unknown danger, hoping their sacrifice would secure a better future for their families. They found the dark, enormous chamber leading to the Purification Well and advanced into it as an ominous presence filled the room.

• Reno warned Li Qinwu that the camera in the final room was broken and described the chamber as enormous and cluttered with maintenance equipment.
• Li Qinwu told the soldiers they could turn back, but Egghead and all fifteen soldiers chose to fight after asking the priest to care for their families if they died.
• The priest promised to provide for the soldiers’ families and prayed for them before they prepared their weapons and entered the final room.
• Li Qinwu and the soldiers found the dimly lit chamber, where the Purity Seals on their weapons burst into flame and burned to ash.
• Li Qinwu urged everyone to stake their lives on the fight, and the group advanced toward the Purification Well.

Li Qinwu and his PDF squad encountered a two-headed Nurgle Daemon in the equipment room beneath the Purification Well. Their weapons could not harm it, and after it incapacitated the soldiers with a bell, it advanced on Li Qinwu.

• Li Qinwu and the soldiers followed strange voices through the icy equipment room and found a two-headed, antlered monster arguing with its human head.
• The monster revealed that it had promised a human immortality and possessed his body, helping trigger the plague.
• Li Qinwu ordered the squad to fire, but the monster's power decayed their lasers, Bolt Rounds, and grenade before they could reach it.
• The monster struck its bell and unleashed a psychic wave that dropped all fifteen soldiers while leaving Li Qinwu barely standing.
• The monster invited Li Qinwu to join Nurgle, then began approaching him as the steel floor rusted beneath its steps.

Li Qinwu realized the antlered monster’s powers came from three Formation Eyes on the water purification tower and destroyed the one tied to corruption. He sent Egghead, Black Charcoal, and their men to find the other two while he held off the regenerating monster.

• Li Qinwu recognized Nurgle’s three authorities in the monster’s abilities and spotted a circular rune on the water purification tower.
• Li Qinwu destroyed the rune with Bolt Rounds, removing the monster’s corruption aura and allowing attacks to damage it.
• Li Qinwu blasted the monster apart with his Lasgun, but its flesh regenerated through the authority of rebirth.
• Li Qinwu ordered Egghead and Black Charcoal to split their men and search the tower for the remaining Formation Eyes.
• The monster called for the Plague Walkers, while Li Qinwu kept blasting its regenerating body and threw a grenade at its scattered flesh.

Li Qinwu fought a regenerating Nurgle Daemon, using Holy Wine to burn it with the God-Emperor’s Psychic Power while fending off Plague Walkers. Just as the Daemon seemed ready to kill him with its bell, the bell shattered.

• Li Qinwu cleared nearby Plague Walkers and drenched the Daemon’s shredded flesh with Holy Wine, igniting Psychic Flame and making its two heads scream.
• The Daemon chopped Li Qinwu’s grenade apart, cut his Lasgun in half, and struck its bell, leaving Li Qinwu overwhelmed by psychic cries.
• The human head on the Daemon’s chest resisted its attack, giving Li Qinwu time to splash more Holy Wine on it and escape the killing blow.
• Li Qinwu killed the surrounding Plague Walkers with his PDF Submachine Gun and grenades while the Daemon extinguished its flames.
• The Daemon rang its bell twice, leaving Li Qinwu bleeding and unable to move, then struck it again; the bell shattered into pus.

Li Qinwu killed the Nurgle Daemon with an axe burning with the Emperor’s Psychic Flame, but the human head inside it regained control as a Chaos Wizard and attacked the survivors. As the Chaos Wizard pinned everyone down with Gravity Control, the priest forced himself to his feet beneath the crushing pressure.

• Egghead’s soldiers destroyed a Formation Eye on the water purification tower, disrupting the Plague Walkers and weakening the Daemon.
• Li Qinwu fought the weakened Daemon with his flaming axe, and the head in its chest helped him land the final blow that killed it permanently.
• The human head took control of the Daemon’s ruined body, revealed its Psyker powers, and seized Li Qinwu’s PDF Submachine Gun with Gravity Control.
• Bullethead tackled Li Qinwu and took the Chaos Wizard’s gunfire, while the Chaos Wizard used Gravity Control to pin down the soldiers and battle priests.
• The priest entered the gravity field and, despite being forced to one knee, trembled as he stood back up.

A priest endured the Chaos Wizard’s Gravity Spell and killed him, while Egghead survived a barrage of bullets thanks to keepsakes that blocked them. The purification ritual weakened the Plague Walkers and let Reno restore power, leaving the PDF poised to reclaim the Spire as Li Qinwu worried he would lose his chance to loot.

• The priest walked through the Gravity Spell and crushed the Chaos Wizard’s head with the Brass Scripture Staff, ending the spell.
• Li Qinwu found that Egghead was unharmed because bullets had lodged in his pocket watch, flask, medal, necklace, fountain pen, and amulet.
• The priest and battle priests set up the Emperor Shrine, performed a purification ritual, and burned the rotting corpses, driving back the Chaos Corruption.
• Reno restored power and told Li Qinwu that the Plague Walkers had weakened and the PDF had already reclaimed one-tenth of the Spire.
• Li Qinwu considered going out for one last haul, while some Plague Walkers regained their human consciousness and the PDF prepared to clear the streets.

After five days in a luxurious dungeon villa, Li Qinwu and his companions worried that the Imperium might punish them despite their role in saving the planet. Imperial Cult priests arrived and ordered them to kill themselves to prevent the spread of possible Chaos Corruption.

• The PDF Regiment, hazmat teams, and clergy began cleansing the Spire after the Purification Well's Chaos corruption vanished.
• Imperial Cult personnel detained Li Qinwu, his fifteen soldiers, Reno, and his ten guards because they had encountered the Chaos Wizard.
• The detainees feasted in their luxurious dungeon villa while Li Qinwu trained and raised his attributes and resistances.
• Reno worried that the Imperium might burn them at the stake, but Li Qinwu trusted that the Archpriest would protect them.
• A priest thanked the detainees for saving the planet, warned that they might be infected by Chaos, and ordered them to take their own lives as priests dropped daggers before them.

After the Spire was reclaimed, Imperial forces massacred more than 35,000 PDF soldiers who had fought the Plague Walkers, claiming they might be infected or corrupted. The priest condemned the slaughter and ordered the imprisoned heroes freed and canonized as battle saints, but learned that Priest Lainato had entered the dungeon to kill them.

• After the PDF regiments reclaimed the Spire, a general gathered more than 35,000 soldiers in the central square and ordered them executed as possible carriers of infection and Chaos Corruption.
• Imperial forces burned the soldiers' bodies, washed away the evidence, and repaired the square.
• The priest confronted the planet's bishop over the massacre and condemned the decision to kill the soldiers for convenience.
• The bishop admitted that he had imprisoned the heroes and agreed to release them, while the priest ordered them canonized as battle saints.
• A missionary rushed in and warned that Priest Lainato had entered the dungeon intending to kill the heroes.

Li Qinwu and his companions were ordered by Priest Lainato to kill themselves because they had encountered a Chaos Wizard, but Li Qinwu suspected the priest was acting without authorization. When the Planetary Bishop and Devout Priest arrived, Lainato had been beaten badly and Li Qinwu kicked him again.

• Priest Lainato ordered Li Qinwu and the others to take their own lives after their contact with a Chaos Wizard.
• Li Qinwu questioned Lainato’s authority, concluded he was acting on his own, and accused him of being a Daemon in disguise.
• Li Qinwu knocked Lainato unconscious, and Reno and the other soldiers fought and injured the missionaries who tried to intervene.
• The Planetary Bishop and Devout Priest arrived and demanded to know why everyone was fighting.
• Lainato appealed to the Planetary Bishop for help, and Li Qinwu kicked him into a wall.

Li Qinwu and his companions received honors from the Imperial Cult, military, and planetary government for saving the planet. Li Qinwu left the ceremony with a Power Sword, the title of Holy Warrior, a lieutenant’s rank, and a barony with real authority in the Spire.

• Li Qinwu and the others attended a grand investiture ceremony at Spire Cathedral as powerful figures gathered to discuss the Spire’s reconstruction and the division of property left by the dead.
• The planetary bishop named Li Qinwu a Holy Warrior and gave him a Power Sword, which Li Qinwu accepted in the name of the God-Emperor.
• Li Qinwu asked the bishop to place the Holy Warrior mark beneath his ear instead of on his forehead.
• General Zeppelin promoted Li Qinwu from sergeant to lieutenant and raised the others’ ranks by one grade.
• The governor’s steward made Li Qinwu a baron, granting him an estate, private soldiers, administrative rights, and a vote in the selection of the planetary governor.

After receiving noble titles and rewards, Li Qinwu and Reno celebrated their new status and discussed their ambitions. Li Qinwu planned to pursue a spaceship, and Reno offered to introduce him to a stranded cargo captain before Li Qinwu left to inspect his villa with his soldiers.

• Bullethead and the other soldiers received Spire residences for their families, while Reno became a baron and the Clean Water Guild's second-in-command.
• Li Qinwu and Reno celebrated their titles, and Reno said he hoped to marry a noble widow while Li Qinwu planned to make money and acquire a spaceship.
• Reno told Li Qinwu about an Industrial World cargo captain stranded on their planet for three years and offered to introduce them.
• A noble adviser arrived and invited Li Qinwu and his soldiers to inspect the baron's villa, and Li Qinwu led them there.

Li Qinwu toured his new villa and learned about the rights and duties of a noble from an advisor. After hearing that the PDF Regiment had been executed, he worried about Lieutenant Rudosen and contacted headquarters by radio.

• Li Qinwu and his soldiers explored the luxurious villa, and the advisor outlined its facilities.
• The advisor explained Li Qinwu’s rights to maintain soldiers and receive tax exemptions, along with the limits on gaining a fief while rebels remained active outside Hive City.
• The advisor described noble marriage, socializing, duels, and tournaments, then offered to serve as Li Qinwu’s steward.
• Egghead asked whether they could contact headquarters because the soldiers feared Lieutenant Rudosen’s regiment might have been executed.
• Li Qinwu recalled his history with Rudosen, entered the encrypted channel, and pressed the radio’s call button.

After saving the world, Li Qinwu contacted Lieutenant Rudosen and learned he might be assigned to command troops. He secured a battalion command in his regiment and arranged for Egghead and the others to join him, leaving their families free to work at his factory.

• Egghead told Lieutenant Rudosen that the soldiers had become Spireborn, while Li Qinwu had gained three ranks and a baron’s title.
• Li Qinwu asked Lieutenant Rudosen about his future military post and chose to lead troops rather than take a clerical position.
• Colonel Leo offered to open a battalion commander position in their regiment by recommending the current commander for promotion elsewhere.
• Li Qinwu let Egghead and the soldiers choose between retirement and continued service, and Egghead asked for their families to work at Li Qinwu’s factory.
• Colonel Leo agreed to make room for the soldiers in Li Qinwu’s battalion and give them a month of leave before they reported for duty.

After the unrest, Li Qinwu returned to the Middle Hive and recovered his soldiers’ weapons and powered exoskeletons from the Imperial Cult. The Devout One asked him to secure food from the rebels for the starving Hive City, and Li Qinwu agreed before leaving with the equipment.

• Li Qinwu promised the five soldiers left behind at the Brewing Plant that he would use his private-soldier allowance to bring their families to the Spire.
• Li Qinwu visited the Imperial Cult Cathedral and learned that the Chaos Wizard had been a Rejuvenation Cult doctor who fell to Chaos while seeking more life and greater skill.
• The Devout One returned Li Qinwu’s purified weapons and powered exoskeletons.
• The Devout One asked Li Qinwu to obtain food from the rebels because the Synthetic Starch Factory had been disabled, and Li Qinwu agreed to help.
• The Devout One praised Sister Teresa’s studies and said she would soon lead prayers; Li Qinwu encouraged her to visit home during her next break.
• Li Qinwu left the cathedral with a borrowed truck to collect his equipment.

Li Qinwu negotiated with Father Anthony to convert sixteen industrial exoskeletons into combat-ready Full-Protective Power Armor in exchange for high-purity 101 substance lubricant. The deal was set for delivery the following month, and Father Anthony began testing the lubricant alone in his workshop.

• Li Qinwu brought a powered exoskeleton to Father Anthony and asked him to convert it into a combat model.
• Father Anthony outlined upgrades including ceramite armor, ballistic-fiber lining, a sealed helmet, and a Posu Battery backpack, then argued that Li Qinwu's lubricant offer was insufficient.
• Li Qinwu revealed his Saint Warrior Mark, preventing Father Anthony from seizing him because the Adeptus Mechanicus risked conflict with the Imperial Cult.
• Li Qinwu and Father Anthony agreed to exchange sixteen exoskeletons and sixteen bottles of high-purity 101 substance lubricant for sixteen suits of Full-Protective Power Armor.
• Li Qinwu dropped off the exoskeletons and lubricant, and Father Anthony shut himself in his workshop to test the lubricant on his mechanical body.

Li Qinwu prepared his first batch of Holy Wine for sale and went to Miss Nightingale for help reaching Spire aristocrats. He arrived at her family’s Atmosphere Garden, where he was left to walk to her private chambers.

• Li Qinwu had Big Joel bottle the wine after adding a drop of consecrated Holy Wine to every bottle.
• Li Qinwu decided to ask Miss Nightingale to help sell the wine and used the ring she had given him to arrange a visit.
• A foreman welcomed Li Qinwu at Miss Nightingale’s family warehouse and sent him to her tower spire.
• Li Qinwu learned that Campela XIII commanded five thousand soldiers, including six hundred in Power Armor, and wondered why they had not rescued Miss Nightingale from the Grand Theater.
• A servant drove Li Qinwu to the Atmosphere Garden and left him at the pebble path to walk to Miss Nightingale’s private chambers.

Li Qinwu encountered three nobles who were competing for Miss Nightingale’s affection and teased them about their attempts to win her over. He revealed that he could enter her house with his ring, leaving the rejected suitors heartbroken as he went inside.

• Li Qinwu found Baila Noss and two other nobles outside Miss Nightingale’s house, where they discussed being turned away by her.
• Baila recited a poem for Miss Nightingale, and Li Qinwu praised its expression of longing, earning Baila’s admiration.
• The red-haired noble barked and offered to surrender his wealth and title to Miss Nightingale, while the green-haired noble tried to climb the wall and was restrained by the others.
• After the three nobles fought and asked about Li Qinwu’s own attempt, Li Qinwu scanned his ring at the front door and entered Miss Nightingale’s house.
• The three nobles accepted that they had no chance and walked away together along the pebble path.

Li Qinwu asked Miss Nightingale to help sell his First Sip Wine in the Spire, and she advised him on packaging and pricing. She offered to buy his entire batch for one hundred thousand per bottle, leaving Li Qinwu overwhelmed by the prospect of a fortune.

• Miss Nightingale confronted Li Qinwu with footage of him burning down the Grand Theatre and taking Lasguns, but he dodged the bill by offering her wine.
• Miss Nightingale tasted the wine and discovered that its first sip had an astonishing effect, though later sips tasted ordinary.
• Li Qinwu took Miss Nightingale to his brewery, where she recommended birchwood boxes decorated with holy prayers and Purity Seals.
• Miss Nightingale said the wine should start at one hundred thousand per bottle and offered to buy Li Qinwu's entire batch for that price.
• Li Qinwu realized the sale could make him a hundred million and joked that Miss Nightingale must want to marry him.

Miss Nightingale explained her struggle to inherit the Campela Family and recruited Li Qinwu to help her seize power. Li Qinwu agreed, and a new mission tasked him with recruiting 800 soldiers and equipping them with Power Armor.

• Miss Nightingale revealed that her stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother had isolated her while her ailing father remained out of reach.
• Miss Nightingale rejected marrying a minor noble and admitted she wanted to fight for the Campela Family leadership, with Li Qinwu as her support.
• Miss Nightingale proposed buying the family retainers, eliminating her brother, and claiming he was illegitimate.
• Miss Nightingale pointed out that Li Qinwu commanded private soldiers and had concealed his armored vehicles from the authorities.
• Li Qinwu agreed to help but said he needed time to expand his forces, and Miss Nightingale demanded 800 soldiers equipped with Power Armor.
• A system notification gave Li Qinwu the first phase of a mission to recruit 800 soldiers and equip them with Power Armor.

Li Qinwu used his wine profits to prepare for expansion and traveled to rebel territory to negotiate a steady food supply for the Hive City. After inspecting Parson’s productive vineyard, he learned that an official from the marshal had arrived.

• Miss Nightingale paid Li Qinwu one hundred million for his first thousand bottles of specially packaged wine, and he planned to brew a new batch each month.
• Li Qinwu loaded fertilizer onto three military trucks and took supplies to the rebel camp, where he gave his soldiers three days off to visit their families.
• Li Qinwu told Parson that the Chaos contamination had destroyed the Hive City’s starch factories and asked to negotiate a bulk food exchange with the marshal.
• Parson sent a messenger to contact the marshal and showed Li Qinwu ten mu of grape fields that could produce a monthly harvest of about ten tons.
• A rebel soldier reported that an official from the marshal had arrived.

Li Qinwu confronted the Marshal’s official over the Fortress Cannon’s destruction of rebel farmland, then demanded grain shipments to avert famine in the Hive City. He threatened that the cannons could destroy rebel cities within range, leaving the official to weigh the danger of refusing.

• The Marshal’s official angrily accused Li Qinwu of destroying crops and land with chemical incendiary shells fired at Horse Village and rebel territory.
• Li Qinwu explained that the Hive City faced famine and proposed trading fertilizer for grain, but the official mocked him and refused.
• Li Qinwu said he had come to threaten the Marshal, warning that Fortress Cannons could strike anywhere within two hundred kilometers of the Hive City.
• The official argued that the cannons lacked ammunition, but Li Qinwu claimed the authorities had conserved their stockpiles and could resume shelling if necessary.
• Li Qinwu demanded stable grain shipments and warned that famine could collapse the ceasefire, provoke hungry PDF soldiers to seize rebel grain, and expose the rebels to devastating cannon fire.

Li Qinwu warned the rebels that food shortages could drive PDF soldiers to raid their territory, then proposed trading fertilizer for food and arranging protection. Marshal Dilar agreed to discuss the partnership’s details.

• Li Qinwu warned a rebel official that starving PDF soldiers might organize raids, and the official left to report his proposal to the marshal.
• Parson distributed Li Qinwu’s fertilizer to farmers, and the official returned the next day to escort Li Qinwu to Whitewater City.
• Li Qinwu met Marshal Dilar and explained the Hive City’s food crisis and his plan to exchange fertilizer for food.
• Li Qinwu offered to use his connections to designate Dilar’s territory a Safe Zone in exchange for food supplies.
• Marshal Dilar weighed the danger of PDF raids and agreed to discuss the details of cooperation with Li Qinwu.