Chapter Summaries

After helping clear the battlefield at Haicheng, Zhao Qiu led the Hunting Squad downstream along the Tiansha River to stop another beast tide. They defeated an ambush by mutant beasts, but then Yue Country espers attacked them.

• Jiang Yao took over the watch at Haicheng and directed people to clear the battlefield and collect crystal cores from the sea beasts.
• Zhao Qiu woke the operatives at the Tiansha River and received orders from Xi Yan to investigate a beast tide forming downstream.
• Zhao Qiu led the team to the lower reaches of the river, where mutant beasts ambushed them from the slopes and water.
• Zhao Qiu opened his second shackle and led the team to defeat the beast tide, with two Hunting Squad members killed and about a dozen lightly injured.
• A sensory-type esper detected danger, and Yue Country espers launched a fireball attack before declaring they had come to kill Zhao Qiu's group.

Yue Country Espers crossed into Xia Country and attacked Zhao Qiu’s group, claiming they had come to avenge Wu Tinglang. After Zhao Qiu defeated their bald captain, Yue Country’s second-ranked fighter Wu Hai arrived and prepared to fight him.

• Tiger Mask warned the Yue Country Espers to leave Xia Country, but their bald captain ordered his forces to attack and kill everyone.
• Zhao Qiu’s group fought back but was outnumbered and pushed onto the defensive.
• Zhao Qiu opened his third Life Shackle and defeated the bald captain with Twin Cannons.
• Wu Hai struck Zhao Qiu hard enough to send him crashing through trees, and Tiger Mask identified him as Yue Country’s second-ranked elite fighter.
• Wu Hai said Yue Country had come to avenge Wu Tinglang, and Zhao Qiu opened his fifth Life Shackle to face him.

Lin Qianqian and Yuhua prepared Yucheng’s defenses when Lin’s shikigami paper detected a massive Sea Beast tide. The cannons and Espers fought back, but the growing horde overwhelmed their firepower and continued reaching shore.

• Lin Qianqian’s elite hunting squad arrived in Yucheng, where she earned Yuhua’s respect by killing over a hundred Sea Beasts during an attack.
• Lin Qianqian sensed an approaching Sea Beast tide before the sentries detected it, and Yuhua ordered the Espers to prepare for battle.
• Yuhua ordered fifteen Superpower Cannons loaded with fourth-tier Crystal Cores to fire on the approaching Sea Beasts.
• The cannon barrage killed dozens of Sea Beasts, but the tide surged forward and began climbing the cliffs.
• Yuhua’s cannons and the Espers fought to hold the shore, but the cannons neared burnout as more Sea Beasts made landfall.