Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi joins the planned infiltration, delighting the post–public beta players who have long admired him. He offers each participant an extra 500 Void Abyss Coins, while stressing that Maria remains in command.
• The team plans to enter Kaan City with a White Frost coordinate capable of transporting 3,000 people. Su Yi will infiltrate alongside Emma and Dora; Girlfriend and Iron Pillar will lead the larger force.
• The Flesh-and-Spirit Nuns exploit distrust within the coalition, confident that Maria’s faith in the compromised Pioneers has weakened her authority. Their leader, Countess Karen, hopes to corrupt Maria.
• The nuns report their progress to Julie Myers, the Rose Witch, a powerful Order of Flowers figure. Julie approves their preparations and orders them to capture the Pioneers, whom she intends to use as an offering and a weapon against their corporate enemies.
• Indigenous officers begin plotting against Maria. Robinson argues she is unfit to command and claims a rival Grand Adjudicator, backed directly by the corporation, will support them. Maria suspects the rival—and possibly the corporation—is involved, and prepares a counteroperation.
• Natural Jailer leads 1,200 Pioneers into Kaan City through a sewer, falsely claiming their target is a shipyard. The Pioneers fight their way through the city, destroy underground facilities, and board a Storm-class assault ship.
• The ship escapes into orbit, heading toward Julie’s fleet. Karen and the other nuns present the fleeing Pioneers to Julie as their “sweet offering.”

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi balances his legendary status with a low-profile role, encouraging the players while leaving operational command to Maria.
• Maria remains confident in the Pioneers despite mounting opposition, but becomes more suspicious and decisive once evidence emerges of a rival power play.
• Natural Jailer convincingly maintains his cover, guiding the Pioneers into what appears to be a trap while secretly steering events toward the ship.
• Countess Karen directs the four nuns’ scheme and relishes the prospect of corrupting Maria; Julie Myers treats the situation as an opportunity to capture the Pioneers and punish the corporation.
• Robinson turns officers against Maria, while Wolfclaw defends her leadership and is accused of doing so because of his feelings for her.
• The players’ admiration for Su Yi is expressed through excited banter, loyalty, and comic gossip about his companions and reputation.

Significant themes

• Deception and manipulation: Both sides use false loyalties, staged intelligence, and hidden agendas.
• Trust and factional fracture: Maria’s trust in the Pioneers destabilizes the coalition, while rumors of outside corporate backing deepen divisions.
• Power and exploitation: The nuns treat people as offerings and potential slaves, while Julie seeks to turn captured fighters into tools against her enemies.
• Loyalty and camaraderie: The players’ enthusiasm and willingness to risk themselves contrasts with the distrust spreading among the Indigenous forces.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yi, Emma, and Dora infiltrate the Desire Cultivation Faction’s ship alongside captured Human Alliance Players. A pink gas incapacitates most of the Players, but the trio resist it; Su Yi quietly implants them with a dormant, engineered Desire Virus meant to destroy rival infections later.
• The ships dock at the Soul Scream, where Julie and other sorceresses welcome the captives and transport them to the ship’s pleasure halls. The Players are split into small, isolated groups and exposed to visions, creatures, and surroundings designed to overwhelm their minds.
• In Release Hall 112, Su Yi spots Kama Lilop, a once-renowned Black Sun Group exploration representative who has been mentally corrupted. He secretly uses his virus and purification ability to remove the contamination, while Emma calms Kama with her sacred relic.
• Kama supplies crucial intelligence: the navigation route is with Brass Gear, a Navigation Department officer held in Interrogation Room Nine; roughly 3,400 employees were captured, more than 3,000 have been corrupted, and other survivors may be in Sacrificial Hall 222.
• Ashamed and convinced she cannot return to her former life, Kama asks Su Yi to kill her. He reassures her that her worth lies in her character and knowledge, not her body, and offers her a place in his empire serving the Goddess.

Character developments

• Su Yi maintains his cover while advancing the rescue operation. He shows both tactical skill and compassion, prioritizing Kama’s recovery and gathering intelligence without exposing himself.
• Emma and Dora remain disgusted by the sorceresses and their environment, but control their anger to protect the mission. Emma’s ability to soothe Kama proves especially valuable.
• Kama Lilop shifts from traumatized despair to cautious composure and gratitude after Su Yi restores her mind and offers her a future.
• The captured Players are largely incapacitated and endangered, but cooperate with the plan, trusting Su Yi’s promise of a reward.

Significant themes

• Corruption versus agency: The faction uses pleasure and terror to strip captives of reason and control, while Su Yi’s intervention restores their ability to choose.
• Identity beyond bodily violation: Su Yi rejects Kama’s belief that her suffering has made her irredeemable, emphasizing her will, knowledge, and resilience.
• Deception and resistance: The rescuers survive by maintaining disguises, manipulating the enemy’s expectations, and planting a countermeasure among the captives.
• Loyalty and hope: Kama’s devotion to the Goddess and Su Yi’s promise of belonging offer a path forward despite the scale of the defeat.

Character interactions

• Su Yi, Emma, and Dora coordinate silently as infiltrators, suppressing their hostility to avoid compromising the mission.
• Julie and the sorceresses treat the Players as “new comrades,” masking their captivity with a welcome that is plainly coercive.
• Su Yi approaches Kama under the pretense of joining the debauchery, secretly purifies her, then earns her trust by explaining the rescue mission.
• Emma comforts Kama as panic returns; Su Yi follows with reassurance and an offer of refuge, turning her despair into gratitude.

Plot and key events

• Su Yi steadies Kama’s mind and asks her to help the group escape the Pleasure Virus-controlled ship. Kama agrees, pretending to return to her former depraved behavior so they can move without attracting suspicion.
• With Emma and Dora secretly disabling anyone who might expose them, the group travels through the ship. The attendants silently kill more than a dozen Desire Floggers, and Su Yi disguises himself and his companions as Floggers using summoned flesh and a diluted Pleasure Virus.
• They bluff their way past the guards into the interrogation area, where dozens of company employees are being tortured. Kama recognizes Mike, a loyal former superior, but Su Yi insists they prioritize finding the navigation chart.
• Near Interrogation Room Nine, two suspicious snake-headed attendants begin questioning them. A nearby commotion draws the attendants and guards away just long enough for Su Yi to act.
• Su Yi summons a black runic sword from the Divine Tree Space and kills all twelve enemies in a single strike, their souls dragged into the Soul Abyss. The group’s escape and search for the chart remain ongoing.

Character developments and interactions

• Kama shifts from traumatized captive to determined ally. She willingly risks herself for the Goddess and becomes increasingly awed by Su Yi’s abilities.
• Su Yi shows tactical resourcefulness, disguising the group and exploiting the ship’s routines. His extraordinary powers are revealed: Divine Tree Space and a sword wielding Soul Abyss power.
• Emma and Dora act as efficient, discreet protectors, eliminating threats without drawing attention.
• Mike and the other captives are shown resisting torture with remarkable loyalty and resolve. Su Yi respects their courage but keeps the mission’s priorities in view.
• Kama’s growing admiration culminates in disbelief that someone as powerful as Su Yi is only level 37.

Significant themes

• Faith and sacrifice: Kama accepts pain and danger in service to the Goddess.
• Resistance under oppression: The tortured employees maintain their loyalty despite extreme suffering.
• Deception and survival: The group uses the enemy’s customs, disguises, and assumptions to move through the ship.
• Power and corruption: Su Yi wields abilities associated with dangerous divine forces without apparent corruption, raising questions about the nature and limits of his power.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi silently kills the guards at the interrogation rooms and finds Brass Gear, a mechanical captive being tortured by twisted flesh. Brass Gear suspects Su Yi is a heretic, but accepts his rescue after seeing Su Yi use Ember Divine Flame.
• The alarm triggers an attack by the surrounding flesh creatures. Su Yi unleashes Ember Divine Flame and Ember Scions, burning a path through the attackers while his companions rescue the prisoners.
• Su Yi also frees Yellow Book, an enigmatic man of pure Primordial Empire blood who had already escaped his restraints. Yellow Book agrees to join Su Yi.
• The rescue party saves thirty-two company employees, including Brass Gear and Mike. Su Yi says they will wait for reinforcements.
• Meanwhile, Julie is converting 1,100 poisoned Human Alliance Pioneers into Ecstasy forces, hoping to create Void Abyss War Generals and strengthen her own position. An alarm reveals Su Yi’s attack on the ship.
• Julie realizes too late that the Pioneers were never truly traitors: the Pleasure Virus erupts among them and spreads to more than 2,200 Ecstasy Priests, transforming the priests into helpless, desire-driven masses of flesh. The Pioneers mock Julie for being fooled.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi shows tactical caution, disguising himself to approach the interrogation rooms, then acts decisively once discovered. His Ember Divine Flame reassures Brass Gear and protects the rescue party.
• Brass Gear begins hostile and distrustful, especially toward Kama, whom he believes betrayed the Goddess. He grudgingly accepts Su Yi’s rescue after recognizing the Divine Flame.
• Kama tries to reconcile with Brass Gear and helps guide the rescue.
• Yellow Book is introduced as a relaxed, mysterious Primordial Empire traveler with unusual resistance to the witch’s methods. He admires Su Yi’s abilities and accepts his invitation.
• Julie shifts from confidence about her growing power to panic when she realizes her own forces have been sabotaged. Her ambition blinds her to the danger posed by the Pioneers’ apparent compliance.
• The Pioneers reveal their loyalty through their coordinated trap, taunting Julie as her plan collapses.

Significant themes

• Deception and betrayal: Julie mistakes the Pioneers’ poisoned condition for an opportunity, only to discover that the “offerings” are a trap.
• Power and control: The Pleasure Virus can be exploited as a tool, but losing control of desire turns it into a destructive force.
• Loyalty and trust: Su Yi earns Brass Gear’s confidence through action, while the Pioneers’ loyalty to one another defeats Julie’s scheme.
• Ambition’s risks: Julie’s desire to rise in rank makes her vulnerable to misjudgment and catastrophic reversal.

Plot points and events

• Julie discovers that the 1,100 Human Alliance Pioneers she tried to convert have resisted the Pleasure Virus. Their mutations have empowered them, and they turn on the Pleasure Cultists in the Sacrificial Hall. Julie escapes, but her guards are overwhelmed.
• Su Yi’s group fights out of the Interrogation Zone. Emma and Dora reveal themselves as sorceresses of the Spiritual Cultivation Faction and use their abilities to stop the ship’s tentacles. Julie arrives and briefly takes control of them, but Su Yi frees them with Garbage Purification.
• Julie calls for a Level 4 Alert and orders the intruders destroyed. Su Yi counters by opening five teleportation gates, bringing in a large force of elite, heavily armed Players. The attackers overwhelm the Soul Scream’s undertrained defenders, and Julie flees toward the Energy Room, intending to detonate the reactor.
• At the reactor, Natural Jailer reveals he was undercover. Julie attacks Madam Sewei for her role in the failed conversion, then tries to turn her into a Bone Beast. Natural Jailer defends Sewei, but Julie controls them both and forces him to attack her.
• Natural Jailer calls for “Godfather,” and Su Yi teleports in using coordinates he had planted earlier. He frees Natural Jailer and confronts Julie. She recognizes his unusual powers and questions his identity.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi proves prepared for multiple contingencies: he brings reinforcements, breaks Julie’s control over others, and uses hidden teleportation coordinates to reach Natural Jailer.
• Emma and Dora drop their cover and openly oppose Julie. Their powers surprise Su Yi’s allies, and Dora openly taunts Julie after the tide turns.
• Natural Jailer is revealed as a loyal undercover agent. He risks himself to protect Madam Sewei, and his desperate plea for Su Yi’s help shows his trust in him.
• Madam Sewei learns that Natural Jailer’s affection was part of his cover, but sees him genuinely stand up for her. Her surprise and gratitude suggest the bond may have become real.
• Julie shifts from confident commander to furious, cornered opponent. When her ship’s defenses fail, she resorts to escape and plans to destroy the vessel.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and deception: The Pioneers and Natural Jailer turn Julie’s own conversion scheme against her.
• Power versus preparation: Julie relies on control and numbers, while Su Yi’s planning, allies, and adaptability defeat her advantages.
• Protection and unexpected affection: Natural Jailer’s defense of Sewei complicates the boundary between his undercover role and genuine feeling.
• Resistance to domination: Julie’s control repeatedly fails against people who are prepared, empowered, or rescued by Su Yi.

Plot and events

• Julie confronts Su Yi, who mocks her with absurd claims rather than giving a serious answer. Sylvie warns that Julie is overloading the ship’s Energy Reactor.
• Julie retreats into the walls, seals the reactor controls behind a barrier, and summons desire slaves to delay the group. Natural Jailer fights the creatures while Su Yi destroys the barrier with the Soul Abyss Dominator and disables the reactor’s self-destruct sequence.
• Su Yi realizes Julie is operating a remote-controlled Doppelganger. He taunts her for wasting time, provoking her into attacking. Julie uses her SS-Class Lust Activation ability to split Su Yi’s emotions into competing consciousnesses, but he clears the effect with Garbage Purification and kills her Doppelganger.
• Natural Jailer asks Su Yi to spare Sylvie and let her remain with him. Su Yi stabilizes and restructures the Pleasure Virus in Sylvie’s body, making it strengthen her control while also serving as a safeguard against betrayal. Sylvie pledges loyalty and atonement.
• Su Yi explains that he wants Natural Jailer to help recruit and supervise repentant Pleasure Faction sorceresses, building alliances against the Void Abyss’s greater threats. He tasks Natural Jailer with leading the effort alongside other Players.
• The wider rescue succeeds: the Soul Horn is captured, company employees are freed, and three other powerful captives agree to submit. Su Yi plans to use them to help bring Twin Sun Star under control.
• Just as the group prepares to leave, Maria reports that a Catastrophe-Class company fleet has arrived and surrounded them.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi defeats Julie through a combination of technical skill, the rune sword’s barrier-breaking power, and psychological taunting. He also shows political foresight, turning the rescue into an opportunity to build a broader coalition.
• Julie is exposed as proud and easily provoked despite her manipulative schemes. Her Doppelganger is destroyed, though her true body remains in the Void Abyss.
• Natural Jailer grows more devoted to Su Yi after Su Yi publicly supports him and entrusts him with a major recruiting mission. He hopes to keep Sylvie with him and begins imagining a new organization.
• Sylvie moves from betrayer and captive to a repentant ally, swearing loyalty to Natural Jailer and accepting the Pleasure Virus as both a boon and a threat.
• Su Yi’s interactions with Natural Jailer are supportive but strategic: he protects his subordinate’s standing while using the alliance to advance the larger fight.

Significant themes

• Power balanced by control: The Pleasure Virus can strengthen allies, but Su Yi makes loyalty essential by turning it into a potential weapon against betrayal.
• Unity against greater threats: Su Yi argues that the dangers of the universe require gathering allies, even from dangerous factions.
• Manipulation and pride: Julie’s schemes fail partly because her vanity and anger make her vulnerable to Su Yi’s provocation.
• Atonement and conditional redemption: Sylvie and the other sorceresses are offered a chance to serve, but their new status depends on loyalty and making amends.

Key plot points and events

• The Company’s Catastrophe-Class flagship Flame Force, commanded by Captain Dills, surrounds the Soul Horn and demands that it shut down and submit to inspection. Dills claims he is rescuing Company Heroes held hostage, but his forces begin launching boarding craft and attacking ships in the area.
• Cole Billy, now a temporary adviser to Dills, encourages a forceful intervention and helps frame it as an emergency rescue operation.
• Maria challenges Dills’s authority, insisting that Twin Sun Star is under the Sword of Judgment’s administration. Dills counters that Grand Adjudicator Arvin Shoko authorized the operation and orders Maria’s forces to submit.
• At the same time, Bowen Duncan, head of the Joint Operations Bureau, accuses Maria of provoking a mutiny, causing casualties, and working with Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf. He suspends her command and demands an explanation.
• Evidence from Maria’s team overturns the accusations: a ship used to smuggle supplies passed through Sword of Judgment security checks; the mutiny leader, Robinson, had contacted Arvin; and all fifteen mutinous officers were infected with the Pleasure Virus. The evidence points toward corruption and collusion among Maria’s accusers.
• Maria refuses to hand the witnesses and evidence to Duncan, saying she will submit them directly to the Judgment Court. She ends the call and prepares to support Su Yi, but he tells her to keep control of the ground situation and assures her he can handle the Company fleet.

Character developments

• Maria shows growing confidence and political skill. Rather than panic under accusations and threats, she identifies the attempt to seize credit and control the investigation, presents counterevidence, and defies senior officials.
• Her newfound boldness rests partly on Su Yi’s earlier warning, as well as her standing and protective resources. She privately recognizes that without his guidance, she might have lost command and been framed.
• Su Yi remains a calm, dependable presence from afar. His reassurance steadies Maria and lets her focus on her own battlefield.
• Dills and Billy emerge as opportunists: they use the language of rescue and procedure to justify an armed takeover.
• Duncan responds defensively when confronted with evidence, insisting on controlling the investigation rather than addressing the revelations.

Significant themes

• Power and procedural manipulation: Both the Company officers and Duncan invoke rules and authority to take control of events and information.
• Evidence versus accusation: Maria’s opponents try to discredit her, but concrete records, testimony, and medical findings undermine their story.
• Trust and preparation: Su Yi’s warning enables Maria’s team to preserve evidence and prevent her opponents from controlling the narrative.
• Growing independence: Maria is increasingly able to stand up to powerful superiors rather than depend solely on others to defend her.

Character interactions

• Maria and Dills exchange competing claims of jurisdiction, with Dills using Arvin’s supposed authorization to justify the Company’s intervention.
• Billy privately advises Dills to treat casualties as acceptable during the rescue, reinforcing their shared willingness to exploit the crisis.
• Duncan attempts to intimidate Maria and seize her evidence; Maria counters him directly and chooses the Judgment Court over his review.
• Maria’s team—Evil God, Iron Root, and Iron Pot—provides the findings that support her case.
• Maria warns Su Yi that the Company fleet has surrounded him and offers help; he reassures her, and she accepts his judgment while urging caution.

Plot points and events

• After defeating the Blasphemers, Su Yi uses the Ember Tree’s roots and divine flames to destroy their bodies and secure the ship’s bridge.
• He contacts the Flame Force and tells Captain Dills that he has rescued the company employees and intends to take them to Twin Sun Star for treatment. Dills objects, citing orders to escort them directly to company headquarters.
• Captain Rial, the commander of three fleets, arrives and demands that Su Yi hand over the survivors. He threatens to attack, while Su Yi counters that Rial may be serving the company’s enemies.
• Su Yi orders the ship to push through the blockade, then invokes his status as a Planetary God and bearer of the Goddess’s Hand. In private messages, he warns Rial and Dills that attacking him and the rescued Heroes could destroy their careers.
• Rial backs down and clears a path, allowing Su Yi to return to Twin Sun Star. Su Yi transfers the survivors, gives Maria instructions, then takes the Heroes and evidence to Diamond Star.
• Afterward, Rial and Dills acknowledge that Su Yi handled the confrontation skillfully and choose to report events truthfully. Billy angrily berates them, but they dismiss him as a disgraced, expendable figure and leave him to rage alone.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi demonstrates both overwhelming authority and political tact. He confronts Rial forcefully but privately offers the captains a way to retreat without public humiliation, then reassures them and offers future support.
• Rial and Dills move from suspicion and opposition to reluctant respect. They recognize Su Yi’s strength, his loyalty to the company, and his habit of sharing credit with those who serve him.
• Billy remains consumed by resentment and entitlement. His outburst only exposes how little influence he has with the captains.
• Su Yi’s interaction with Iron Pillar also shows his confidence: he appreciates the fighter’s eagerness but chooses negotiation and rescue over another battle.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Su Yi uses rank, reputation, and his Goddess-given status to deter a potentially disastrous fight.
• Leadership through both strength and generosity: He protects the rescued employees while preserving his opponents’ dignity and recognizing loyalty.
• Political maneuvering and face-saving: A conflict that nearly turns violent is defused by private threats and a public opportunity to yield gracefully.
• Loyalty versus self-interest: The captains ultimately prioritize the Heroes’ safety and their own survival, while Billy’s blind fury leaves him isolated.

Key plot points and events

• After Su Yi leaves Twin Sun Star, Maria reveals that the apparent defection was a covert operation. She exposes the rebels’ identities and Pleasure Virus infection, restoring trust between the Indigenous Soldiers and the Human Alliance Pioneers.
• The surrendered Sisters of Flesh and Spirit—including Sylvie and Lilith—give Maria intelligence about the enemy’s plans: corrupt the planet, sacrifice its Planetary God, and cooperate with merchants from Red Sun Star. In awe of Su Yi, they agree to serve the Northern Knights and atone.
• With the Sisters secretly undermining the enemy and its commanders ordering troops to avoid attacks, Maria’s coalition advances rapidly, capturing five major cities in three days. Maria publicly tries and executes more than 2,300 corrupt officials and magnates, helping restore order.
• Maria’s actions draw the attention of the Eternal Balance. She gains three levels, reaches level 36, and manifests a divine black-and-white form before a vast crowd. Its power purifies corrupted areas and cures many infected people.
• Maria receives Order Aura, which purifies Void Abyss influence nearby and suppresses the skills of suitably close-level opponents, and the SSS-Class trial skill Astral Judgment, whose requirement is to cleanse 200 million people. Her new ability to enter her Deified Form at will makes that goal seem achievable.
• Meanwhile, Operations Bureau director Duncan and Xiao Ke blame Gheros for their failed scheme against Maria. Duncan concludes Gheros—not Maria—is their real obstacle, and an incoming call from Billy appears to offer a new plan.
• The Northwind Knights continue dismantling the Desire Cultivation Faction. When Natural Jailer cannot control Countess Karen, Girlfriend arrives to take charge. He challenges her to ten duels and defeats her in all ten, finally subduing her.

Character developments and interactions

• Maria grows from a forceful adjudicator into a figure revered as the Eternal Balance’s chosen representative. Her convictions deepen through her campaign against corruption, and she gains powerful purifying and suppressive abilities while resisting the seductive call of a throne in the Void Abyss.
• The Sisters of Flesh and Spirit shift from enemy leaders to committed allies. Their awe, gratitude, uncertainty, and personal feelings toward Su Yi motivate them to help the coalition.
• The soldiers and citizens move from distrust and confusion to unity and admiration, especially after Maria’s decisive justice and mass healing.
• Duncan and Xiao Ke reveal their resentment toward Gheros and their frustration at having been outmaneuvered. Duncan remains calculating, while Xiao Ke’s anger recalls how Gheros previously manipulated him.
• Girlfriend turns his long-standing desire to obtain a powerful Sorceress into action. By defeating Karen, he gains both authority over the campaign’s unruly commander and the first top-tier Sorceress he has wanted for years.

Significant themes

• Justice and restoration: Maria’s public trials punish corruption while helping communities recover.
• Redemption and loyalty: Former enemies are offered a chance to atone, and their cooperation helps reverse the tide of war.
• Power and responsibility: Maria’s divine gifts are tied to service—purifying the infected and protecting the population.
• Faith and temptation: Public devotion strengthens Maria, but the Void Abyss’s apparent invitation to a throne tests her ability to remain herself.
• Ambition and control: The struggle to command powerful, independent figures is reflected both in the political conflict and Girlfriend’s contest with Karen.

Plot points and events

• Su Yi returns to Diamond Star with the expedition’s survivors, including Brass Gear, Mike, and Kama. He has controlled their Pleasure Virus infections enough to prevent contagion, though they cannot be cured in their current bodies.
• Joseph Ember and Mo Long welcome the heroes. Joseph offers a formal greeting but is visibly repelled by their corruption; the survivors notice and withdraw. Su Yi takes over their reception, and Joseph privately admits he cannot bear to stay.
• Yellow Book unexpectedly recognizes Mo Long and leaves with him to catch up. Su Yi suspects Yellow Book is hiding something.
• The survivors provide the company with extensive intelligence about the Redstone Empire, travel routes, safe planets, and hostile forces.
• The company rewards the returning heroes with medals, money, and retirement benefits, but retires them early and removes them from its records. The survivors accept this, citing the mission’s terrible losses and their devotion to the Goddess.
• Su Yi uses the Goddess’s Hand and the Divine Tree’s flaming vines to honor them. He promises their deeds will be remembered, and the warmth of the Divine Fire comforts and cleanses their exhausted souls.
• Su Yi proposes taking the heroes into his care as Steel Life, where they can continue serving and put their knowledge to use. He argues that meaningful work will keep them from despair and possible betrayal. Joseph approves, seeing the arrangement as a way to preserve their value outside company rules.

Character development and interactions

• Su Yi acts as the heroes’ advocate, balancing respect for the company’s principles with compassion for the people it discards. He turns their exclusion into a chance for continued service.
• Joseph shows the limits of his loyalty to company doctrine: he recognizes the heroes’ service but cannot accept their corruption. He trusts Su Yi to handle them and supports his proposal.
• The returning heroes show little bitterness about retirement, framing their losses as part of their mission. Their initial eagerness for Joseph’s welcome gives way to hurt when they sense his disgust, then to peace during Su Yi’s ceremony.
• Mo Long and Yellow Book share a familiar, affectionate reunion, prompting Su Yi’s suspicion.

Significant themes

• Recognition versus institutional acceptance: The company’s official rewards cannot undo its rejection of the heroes, while Su Yi gives them personal honor and a lasting place in memory.
• The cost of service: The expedition’s sacrifice is measured in both lives lost and survivors whose careers and identities are erased.
• Compassion and pragmatism: Su Yi’s care for the heroes is sincere, but he also sees the practical value of their expertise.
• Belonging and remembrance: The Divine Tree offers the wanderers comfort and preserves what the company’s records omit.

Key plot points and events

• Joseph approves Su Yi’s plan to attack Red Sun Star, where the tainted Heroes can be “purified.” The Red Sun Agreement limits the company’s direct interference, but Joseph offers discreet help from the Criminal Department.
• Su Yi prepares a pretext for intervention: the Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf will act against an alleged Sorceress who kidnapped his gang’s third-in-command, targeted his sponsored actress, stole a ship, and helped frame a Sword of Judgment official. He also orders Maria to detain a caravan bound for Red Sun Star.
• Kilman reports that the group has reached Storm Nom, but spatial distortions prevent them from approaching the planet. Su Yi puts out a huge bounty through the Ten Pioneers, offering SS-Class equipment and an S-Class skill to anyone who can help.
• The bounty reaches Master Chief, whose team is stranded on a war-ravaged planet in Storm Nom. After being teleported there during an expedition, the Players have survived for days amid an invasion by Demons of Desire. Seven remaining Players were rescued by golden-armored Sisters, but neither side understands the other.
• Su Yi summons Master Chief to the Molten Fire Temple and asks him to communicate with the Sisters, activate the Imperial Beacon, and mark jump coordinates. Kilman reveals that he has allies in the region and offers to teach Master Chief the Imperial language.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi continues to balance grand plans with improvisation: he secures Joseph’s tacit support, uses the Pioneer network to find help, and presents himself to Kilman as someone with connections everywhere.
• Joseph shifts from discussing support to offering practical assistance, while carefully keeping his involvement deniable.
• Kilman remains awed by Su Yi’s apparent influence. His excitement grows when Su Yi’s network solves the Storm Nom problem, and he takes charge of training Master Chief.
• Master Chief and Bloodline Old Hunter move from desperate survival to renewed hope after learning Su Yi can reach them. Master Chief becomes the key link between the stranded Players and the Sisters.
• The Players’ earlier rescue by Sylva and the Golden Sisters creates the immediate opportunity for cooperation, despite the language barrier.

Significant themes

• Connections and influence: Su Yi’s reputation and networks repeatedly open doors, even when he initially has no direct contacts.
• Faith and performance: Su Yi presents his plans as service to the Goddess, using religious conviction to secure support and justify violence.
• Cooperation across barriers: Players, Sisters, and Kilman’s allies may be able to work together once communication is established.
• Survival and loyalty: The Sisters keep fighting despite being abandoned, while the Players persist through a brutal, unfamiliar warzone.

Chapter summary

The Master Chief spends about two hours learning the Golden Sisters’ language, then agrees to speak with them on behalf of Kilman. Kilman’s fleet has reached the Storm Nom Sector but cannot escape the Dark Universe without the sector’s precise star coordinates. The Master Chief is to persuade the Sisters to activate them, and Kilman gives him a secret that can prove their connection.
At Vanguard Val Monastery on Golden Faith Planet 12, the Golden Sisters are making a desperate last stand against the Demons of Desire. Their troops are overwhelmed by endless enemy reinforcements, a spreading virus mutates wounded soldiers, supplies are nearly exhausted, and most of their original force has been lost. Two battle commanders, Roxy and Lia, bring brief good news—recovered supplies and rescued Resistance Army ships—but the monastery remains isolated and close to collapse. Abbess Sylva, a loyal believer who had spent decades training recruits rather than commanding major battles, accepts that defeat may be inevitable, yet remains determined to fight.
The Master Chief and his companions are brought before Sylva. When he claims that Human Emperor Heavenly Soldiers will come to rescue them, the Sisters suspect a heretic’s deception: communications are blocked, and Kelly puts a sword to his neck. The Master Chief says he knows their Holy Son, Kilman, and proves his claim by revealing a closely guarded truth: the Golden Sisters began as attendants to the Human Emperor’s Soul Experiment, where they unexpectedly gained extraordinary mental powers. This secret convinces Sylva and the others that he may be telling the truth.
He then identifies Kilman, describes his golden armor and ship, the Imperial Fire Phoenix, and names his attendant, Nine Blades. Those names match ancient records about hidden fleets sent into the Dark Universe and a legendary warrior who fought the Void Abyss. The Sisters are left stunned, and the possibility of rescue—and a connection to their ancient history—emerges.

Character developments and interactions

• Master Chief moves from being a language novice to an effective intermediary, using patience and Kilman’s information to earn the Sisters’ attention.
• Kilman remains offstage but guides the mission, supplying the secret needed to establish credibility.
• Sylva shifts from urgent battlefield commander and skeptic toward cautious consideration of the visitors’ claim.
• Roxy and Lia demonstrate the Sisters’ resourcefulness by recovering supplies and rescuing survivors despite the worsening crisis.
• Kelly embodies the Sisters’ distrust, threatening the Master Chief until he offers proof.
• The exchange between the Master Chief and Sylva’s group turns on a contest of trust: the outsiders must establish that their promised aid is real before the Sisters will cooperate.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes faith tested by catastrophe, loyalty amid apparent defeat, and the cost of institutional betrayal and scarcity. It also explores hidden history: the Golden Sisters’ public origin story differs sharply from their secret past. Finally, knowledge—of language, prophecy, and forbidden history—becomes a means of building trust and opening the possibility of rescue.

Key plot points and events

• The Master Chief proves his knowledge by revealing the Golden Monastery’s hidden purpose and directing Sylva to a sealed passage and its true power core. Sylva confirms the route is accurate, persuading the three Golden Sisters to trust him—for now.
• The group learns the Holy Son needs the monastery’s Starlight Coordinates relit to reach the planet. Though the sisters had shut them down to conserve power and avoid attracting enemies, they agree to restore them.
• The coordinates activate a brilliant tower, briefly giving hope to exhausted workers and soldiers—but also drawing the Desire Demon Legion. A massive Desire Demon Dragon attacks the tower.
• Anti-aircraft fire barely harms the dragon. More than a thousand Golden Sisters engage it with weapons wreathed in golden flame, which can wound it, but many are battered aside. Their psychic power rapidly heals them, and they return to the fight.
• The enemy overwhelms the defenders, and the dragon destroys the coordinates. Just as the situation seems hopeless, a vast Human Emperor-class warship, the Imperial Fire Phoenix, arrives and blasts through the attacking demons.
• A golden-armored giant descends, pins the dragon to the ruined tower, and burns it with sacred power. The Golden Sisters and soldiers recognize him as the Holy Son and welcome his return.

Character developments and interactions

• Sylva shifts from suspicion to cautious trust after verifying the Master Chief’s secret information. She then takes command of the defense.
• Kelly and Roxy weigh the risks of relighting the coordinates and agree that attempting it is worthwhile, given the planet’s desperate situation.
• The Golden Sisters reveal their courage, loyalty, and extraordinary resilience: despite grievous injuries, they heal and rejoin the battle. The Holy Son’s arrival turns their despair into fervent devotion.
• The Master Chief and the Players move from trying to persuade the sisters to helplessly witnessing the battle. Their shock at the warship and the Holy Son underscores the scale of the Imperial forces.
• The Holy Son makes a dramatic, decisive entrance, instantly reversing the battle’s momentum.

Significant themes

• Trust and hidden history: The monastery’s forgotten secrets challenge the sisters’ inherited understanding and help bridge their distrust of the newcomers.
• Sacrifice and perseverance: The Golden Sisters keep fighting despite overwhelming odds and severe wounds.
• Hope amid despair: The relit tower first attracts danger, but the same crisis culminates in the Holy Son’s return.
• Faith and imperial loyalty: The sisters’ cries of welcome frame the Holy Son not merely as a powerful rescuer, but as a sacred, long-awaited figure.

Summary

The author angrily rejects the accusation that they are planning to abandon the story, taking particular offense at the suggestion that someone in their family’s lack of free time is being used as an excuse.
They calculate that they owe four chapters for days when they posted only once, plus four more because the monthly vote count reached 2,500—eight chapters total. To repay them, they plan to publish three chapters a day starting on the 2nd. If the vote count reaches 2,000 before August 10, they promise to keep posting three chapters a day through the end of the month.
The author ends by challenging the accusation: someone intending to run away would hardly make such ambitious update promises.

Character and thematic notes

• Author’s development: The author moves from indignation to concrete commitments, using a detailed posting plan to demonstrate continued dedication.
• Interaction: The author addresses readers directly, rebuking those who doubt them and inviting them to judge their intentions by their updates.
• Themes: Reliability, reader expectations, accountability, and the tension between personal circumstances and public obligations.

• The battlefield turns decisively: As a vast army of Demons of Desire overruns the human defenses, twenty enormous Ancient Entropy-era Giant Spirit Gods teleport in at Kilman’s command. Their overwhelming weapons, shields, and energy blades destroy the enemy assault and its ground installations in moments, reversing what had seemed a hopeless battle.
• The Golden Sisters recognize a sacred return: The sisters and nearby citizens experience the golden psychic light as a healing, soul-deep force—an extraordinary purity they have not felt for generations. They kneel and weep, recognizing the machines as the legendary Giant Spirit Gods, weapons of the ancient empire thought absent for thirty thousand years.
• The rescue proves a test of faith: Nine Blades explains that the Human Emperor Heavenly Soldiers had initially suspected Su Yi’s information might be a trap, since many factions covet the Imperial Fire Phoenix and its ancient war machines. But they observed the Golden Sisters’ courage, purity, and resolve, and decided they were worthy of rescue. Their rapid intervention saves them while limiting the planet’s destruction.
• Kilman is affirmed as the Holy Son: Nine Blades introduces Kilman Kalbanyan Ancient Entropy as the Human Emperor’s Holy Son. He says Kilman opposes the current empire’s corruption and is gathering people who remain pure in heart and faithful to the Human Emperor. The Golden Sisters are invited aboard the Imperial Fire Phoenix as his followers.
• Su Yi’s influence is revealed: Kilman credits Su Yi as his benefactor, guide, and mentor, explaining that Su Yi directed him to the sisters and helped make the rescue possible. The sisters are astonished and imagine Su Yi must be an exceptionally powerful and devoted servant of the Human Emperor.
  Character developments and interactions: Kilman moves from a burdened, angry state toward confidence, openly trusting Su Yi and publicly crediting him. Nine Blades shifts from suspicion to approval of both Su Yi’s judgment and the Golden Sisters’ faith. The sisters’ desperation gives way to reverence and gratitude, while the Players are left stunned by the scale of the ancient machines.
  Significant themes: The chapter contrasts the soul’s original, sacred power with the corruption brought by the Void Abyss; presents faith and moral purity as sources of strength and legitimacy; and shows ancient technology as a force capable of overwhelming modern warfare. It also emphasizes that trust—especially in Su Yi’s guidance—can unite scattered allies and revive a lost cause.

Key plot points and events

• Kilman and the Golden Sisters recognize the players as allies of Su Yi, whom Kilman regards as his benefactor, guide, and mentor. The players’ rescue of the Sisters further strengthens their standing with the imperial forces.
• The players learn how powerful Su Yi’s connections are and promise to pass along Kilman’s greetings. The Sisters, realizing who the players serve, apologize for their earlier hostility and arrange excellent care for them.
• After the mission, Master Chief reports to Su Yi. Kilman says he will honor Su Yi’s hopes and support. Su Yi leaves the players free to decide whether to build a foothold in the region or return for their rewards.
• Su Yi’s financial problems ease after funding arrives from the Company Ashen Faction. Alton trains the first thousand Void Abyssals, while Molly improves their Powered Armor, fixing cost-cutting flaws so the unit can deploy with reliable equipment.
• Mota tells Su Yi that his group is ready to act. Su Yi supports him but emphasizes that his safety comes first.
• The setting shifts to Red Sun Star’s lawless District 64 and Street 7, a former Leto Gang stronghold now controlled by the Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf. The gang’s reserved leader, Morta Abbas, is feared for his brutality and deadly methods, yet his group is now a legitimate corporate partner.
• Street 7 has expanded under Morta’s leadership, and the gang is promoting rising star Olesia Malcon. Her arrival causes a stir.

Character developments and interactions

• Kilman appears more composed than before and deliberately reinforces Su Yi’s stature, hoping to repay him and gain access to his abilities and resources.
• Nine Blades recognizes evidence of the Mist Sage’s technology among the players’ injured companions, suggesting Su Yi’s influence reaches into advanced imperial projects.
• The players, especially Master Chief, are astonished by Su Yi’s far-reaching connections. Master Chief acts as messenger between Kilman and Su Yi.
• The Golden Sisters move from suspicion to sincere gratitude and apology once they learn the players serve Su Yi.
• Su Yi rewards the players’ success with praise but gives them autonomy, while also investing heavily in the Void Abyssals’ equipment.
• Morta Abbas is presented as deceptively mild-looking but exceptionally dangerous; his reputation has transformed the Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf into a feared and influential organization.

Significant themes

• Influence and reputation: Su Yi’s unseen network changes how powerful groups treat his allies.
• Loyalty and repayment: Kilman’s gratitude drives his efforts to elevate Su Yi’s standing and honor his support.
• Appearances versus reality: Morta’s quiet demeanor conceals extreme ruthlessness, while the players’ humble appearance belies their powerful connections.
• Power amid social decay: District 64’s poverty, exploitation, violence, and desperate ambition contrast with the gang’s relative order and corporate legitimacy.
• Investment and preparedness: Su Yi uses new funding to address earlier compromises and equip his forces properly.

Plot and events

• Huge crowds gather in District 64 to see Aurecia, the beloved Starsea Princess actress, whose charity work has made her a symbol of hope for the poor. The film franchise has also boosted the Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf’s reputation and influence.
• A businesswoman in the crowd hopes the Azure Wolf will fund her company’s research, believing its money could help her escape the Red Sun Chamber of Commerce’s restrictions.
• Aurecia arrives with Kashasha and meets Morta Abbas. Before they can leave, hundreds of Gifted attackers ambush them. The Azure Wolf’s guards fight them off long enough to get the group into cars.
• Pursued through District 64, the cars are driven toward the abandoned Borderlands, where Jiezhen and his forces are waiting. Mantis Maguire, apparently Jiezhen’s ally, triggers an explosion that stops the vehicles.
• Maguire’s trained team captures Morta, Aurecia, Kashasha, and the others using spirit-nullifying restraints. Jiezhen boasts and threatens Aurecia, claiming he will assault her.
• Maguire reveals the deception: he is undercover, and turns his weapons on Jiezhen.

Character developments

• Aurecia is presented as both a glamorous celebrity and a sincere humanitarian. Even under threat, she remains defiant and confident in her master’s power.
• Morta Abbas appears reserved and controlled in public, but is targeted as a key leader of the Azure Wolf.
• Maguire initially seems motivated by money and presents himself as a mercenary willing to work for Jiezhen. His final reveal shows that he has infiltrated the group and was never truly on Jiezhen’s side.
• Jiezhen shifts from smug confidence to shock when Maguire exposes the betrayal.
• The businesswoman’s desperation and ambition illustrate how the poor see the Azure Wolf’s wealth as a possible route to opportunity.

Themes

• Hope amid poverty: Aurecia’s charity gives disadvantaged residents a rare chance to change their lives.
• Celebrity and public image: Aurecia’s fame inspires devotion, while the crowd’s arguments expose cynicism and objectification.
• Power and instability: District 64’s violence is normalized, and ordinary people are quickly overwhelmed by Gifted fighters and advanced weapons.
• Loyalty and deception: Maguire’s undercover role overturns the apparent alliance and leaves Jiezhen’s plans uncertain.

Character interactions

• The crowd’s admiration for Aurecia clashes with crude gossip and resentment about her fame.
• Aurecia and Kashasha greet each other warmly, like close friends or sisters.
• Jiezhen treats Maguire as a trusted partner, only to discover that their relationship was a cover.
• Aurecia openly rejects Jiezhen’s advances, while Maguire intervenes with a taunting reveal.

• Betrayal and confrontation: Jiezhen is stunned when Maguire, his trusted partner of nearly a year, turns a gun on him. Maguire reveals that his soul has long belonged to his master. Aurecia then slaps and brutally kicks Jiezhen, furious that he presumed to touch her when she belongs to her master.
• The ambush: As Jiezhen’s pursuing Gifted arrive, Maguire, Iron Beetle, and the Players open fire. Many of the attackers are former comrades, but the Players’ anger at the gang’s abuses finally breaks through their need to maintain their cover. They kill the traffickers and other perpetrators, while the remaining recruits flee.
• The Gravekeepers hunt the fugitives: The fleeing men are stopped by a gray-robed young man who identifies himself as Hundred Deaths of the Gravekeepers. Using venomous insects and a grotesquely transforming power, he kills two fugitives and invokes his master’s Boon. Similar supernatural executions unfold throughout the abandoned factory district.
• The outcome: Within half an hour, the fighting is over. Hundred Deaths reports that all 212 targets have been killed and that the bodies are being disposed of. Ninety gray-robed Gravekeepers gather before Mota and address him as their master, shocking and unsettling the Players and Maguire’s group.
  Character developments and relationships: Jiezhen’s confidence in his supposed insight and in Maguire’s loyalty collapses into rage and helplessness. Maguire’s betrayal reveals his true allegiance to Mota. Aurecia sheds her public composure and displays her old cruelty, while insisting that her devotion belongs to her master. The Players’ participation is driven not only by their mission but also by long-suppressed disgust at the gang’s crimes. Mota’s power and authority are underscored by the Gravekeepers’ obedience and the group’s awe.
  Themes: The chapter contrasts loyalty and betrayal, moral compromise and resistance, and brutal human cruelty with supernatural punishment. It also emphasizes the dehumanizing power of absolute devotion, as the Gravekeepers see themselves as instruments for their master’s will.

Plot and events

• Mota’s Gravekeepers—150 people he once rescued from death—were created as loyal “corpses.” After training under Su Yi and becoming the Elf King, Mota upgraded ninety members with awakened Void Abyss Projections. Using Loving Father Sprites and Life Boon, he gave them tougher bodies, roughly 3,000 health points, and the ability to store life energy and wield Loving Corpse Venom. A later enhancement using the Silicon-Based Symbiote is planned but delayed while Molly works on the Void Abyssal.
• The transformed Gravekeepers are eager to serve Mota and grow stronger. Mota also tells undercover operatives Maguire and Iron Beetle their assignment is over and they can go home when Su Yi arrives.
• Aurecia learns Su Yi is coming and prepares anxiously. Though she reveres and fears him, she hopes to remain under the Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf’s protection.
• An attack in Region 64 briefly makes headlines, but the media’s outrage fades quickly. The region’s chaos is tacitly tolerated by those in power, who have no interest in ending it.
• A week later, Mota’s interrogation of Jiezhen has stalled. Kashasha discovers that Jiezhen’s memories and consciousness have been manipulated, so the team needs an expert.
• Su Yi arrives on Red Sun Star aboard the Osmon Glory, accompanied by Mike, a former Hero whose soul was cleansed and whose new steel body was granted by the Lord of Steel and Souls. Mike is now a loyal believer and Su Yi’s subordinate.
• Su Yi recognizes that the planet will be difficult to control. He intends to shatter its existing order through “fire and blood,” then appear as its savior—symbolically the first to pick up a napkin before everyone’s eyes.

Character developments and interactions

• Mota has become a confident leader and innovator, reshaping his Gravekeepers into a powerful covert force. Their gratitude and loyalty affirm his success.
• The Gravekeepers, especially their leader Hundred Deaths, embrace their new strength and express devotion to Mota, having surrendered ordinary human desires.
• Aurecia remains devoted to Su Yi despite her fear and awareness of her low status. Her diligence and worship are driven by the hope of earning continued protection.
• Mike has undergone a spiritual and physical transformation: freed from corruption and his old body, he now serves Su Yi with unwavering faith.
• Su Yi presents himself as a strategic “savior,” but his plan depends on engineering devastation first. Mota’s operations on the ground are poised to support that larger design.

Significant themes

• Power through transformation: Mota and Su Yi remake people and bodies, often exchanging former freedoms or identities for strength and service.
• Manufactured order: The chapter suggests that political authority preserves chaos when it serves its interests, while Su Yi plans to create a crisis and claim legitimacy by resolving it.
• Devotion and dependence: The Gravekeepers, Aurecia, and Mike each tie loyalty to different forms of rescue, protection, or spiritual renewal.
• Public attention and indifference: A serious attack becomes fleeting news, exposing how easily spectacle displaces concern and how suffering in Region 64 is normalized.

Key plot points and events

• Mike agrees with Su Yi’s view that the company has been too cautious on Red Sun Star. Su Yi tells him the next step is to “pick a fight” with the forces blocking the company’s expansion.
• Matthew Osmond, recently rescued from the Desire Cultivation Faction, thanks Su Yi and invites him to visit his family. Su Yi declines, explaining that he has business to attend to. Matthew’s abduction was part of a planned attempt to compromise or pressure his powerful family.
• Su Yi’s group reunites with his younger brother Mota and with Aurecia, the Starsea Princess. Reporters witness their warm interaction and circulate rumors that Su Yi is Aurecia’s true backer and romantic partner.
• Su Yi publicly connects the recent attack on Aurecia to organized forces rather than ordinary gang activity. He promises to deal with the criminals and whoever is directing them forcefully. His reputation as a powerful company official helps the story spread and excites Aurecia’s supporters.
• Hassie Burton, a powerful Crimson Chamber of Commerce figure, dismisses Su Yi as too low-ranking to challenge the local establishment and orders the planetary police to intimidate him.
• Doyle Elton, Su Yi’s old enemy, also vows revenge. He works with a veiled woman from the Death Church, who warns that Su Yi has evidence against them. Doyle gives her permission to kill the impoverished residents of Zone 65 in exchange for the Church’s continued help—and insists that she keep supplying women for his clubs.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yi moves from private strategy to public confrontation, using his arrival and Aurecia’s attack to challenge Red Sun Star’s entrenched powers.
• Mike shows strong confidence in Su Yi’s judgment and agrees with his aggressive approach.
• Matthew is grateful and eager to form a future business relationship with Su Yi, but respects his decision to decline the invitation.
• Mota greets Su Yi with unusual warmth, revealing their close brotherly bond.
• Aurecia maintains a dignified public image, though her admiration for Su Yi is visible. Their easy, protective conversation fuels speculation among reporters and fans.
• Hassie underestimates Su Yi and uses his influence to prepare an official response.
• Doyle is consumed by hatred and confidence in his local power. The veiled woman cooperates with him while privately harboring a desire for widespread death.

Significant themes

• Escalation and power: Su Yi deliberately shifts from cautious maneuvering to open confrontation.
• Public image and rumor: Reporters and fans turn a private reunion into a widely circulated story, shaping how the public understands Su Yi and Aurecia.
• Corruption and exploitation: The local elite, gangs, and religious factions collaborate in kidnapping, coercion, murder, and trafficking.
• Class contempt: Doyle treats the lives of Zone 65 residents as disposable, exposing the cruelty of Red Sun Star’s hierarchy.