Chapter Summaries

Hilbert, Zhao Kai, and six newcomers uncovered and captured a group of weak parasitic Demons hiding in Nottingham's refuge zone. After the mission, Hilbert and those around him became nearly motionless as an illusory voice repeated, “Kings... may...?”

• Zhao Kai drove Hilbert and the others to Nottingham's refuge zone, where the Holy Spirit departed and Qin Xiaoxia sensed several possessed humans.
• Hilbert and Zhao Kai detected a foul odor near prefabricated houses and arranged for the newcomers to surround the suspected hideout while soldiers evacuated nearby civilians.
• The group stormed the houses and found gaunt, gray-skinned Demons possessing humans.
• Zhao Kai restrained the last host as soldiers subdued it with stun guns and transported it in a protective chamber.
• After kissing his pendant, Hilbert felt searing heat and found that he and the others could barely move as a hoarse, distant voice repeated, “Kings... may...?”

Hilbert heard a voice calling him toward something connected to Kingsmire and discovered a strange book titled Cage and Oath in an old bookshop. As he took the book, Qin Xiaoxia secretly replaced Hilbert’s genuine Lionhead Pendant with a magical imitation and destroyed the original.

• Hilbert remembered that Kingsmire appeared in his family records as the source of the barons’ blessings, then continued searching the shelter area with Zhao Kai and the others.
• Hilbert followed a hoarse voice toward an old church and confronted an unseen speaker that called him a hypocrite and claimed he was looking for it.
• Hilbert abruptly entered a bookshop and bought a black magic-script book titled Cage and Oath, which emitted black smoke before he touched it.
• Qin Xiaoxia secretly swapped Hilbert’s genuine Lionhead Pendant for a magical imitation and reduced the original pendant to dust.

Hilbert found an ancient book belonging to the Charkus family, and its voice revealed that the family’s supposedly lost Lionheart King Sword was Kingsmire, transformed into his inherited pendant. As the book offered to help him decipher its contents and restore his family’s glory, the pendant reacted to Hilbert’s resolve.

• Hilbert found the Book of the Cage and Oath in a bookstore, recognized the Charkus family crest, and returned to his patrol with it.
• Hilbert showed the book to Zhao Kai on the drive back, and reading its magic script made his inherited pendant grow scorching hot and transform in appearance.
• A voice from the book told Hilbert that Kingsmire was the Charkus family’s Lionheart King Sword and revealed that the sword was the pendant in his hand.
• The voice urged Hilbert to let it decipher the book and help restore the Charkus family, and Kingsmire grew hotter when Hilbert considered accepting.

Hilbert's attempt to release the oath's power from the Oath Book attracted a horde of demons, leaving him, Zhao Kai, and their companions trapped and badly injured. The hidden magic being finally appeared and focused on Hilbert as the book's voice suggested the demons wanted him handed over.

• Hilbert nearly completed the blood ritual to release the oath's power, but Zhao Kai interrupted him before it took effect.
• The Oath Book warned that its blood seal had leaked the aura of a demon's prison and urged Hilbert and Zhao Kai to flee.
• A Holy Spirit forced a horde of demons toward the car, and the group crashed while trying to evade them.
• Hilbert, Zhao Kai, and six newcomers fought the demons, but one was killed and the others were overwhelmed, leaving several companions incapacitated.
• A shadowy magic being appeared before the group and fixed its gaze on Hilbert, while the Oath Book's voice suggested the demons wanted him handed over.

Hilbert tried to use the Oath Book to escape the demons, but a demon imprisoned inside it tricked him into releasing it. When the demon attacked, Hilbert claimed the Lionheart King Sword, and its power awakened a devastating psychic storm.

• Hilbert opened the Oath Book and repeated the oath, believing he was releasing the power that could help them escape.
• The imprisoned demon revealed its deception, possessed a Magic Being, and restrained Hilbert and the others while taunting him.
• As the demon struck Hilbert, the Oath Book revealed the Lionheart King Sword and urged him to catch it.
• Hilbert caught the sword, which named him its master and unleashed overwhelming power through him.
• Hilbert’s eyes turned silver, and a psychic storm knocked Zhao Kai and the other Dawn Members back and forced the demon down.

Hilbert awakened as the Lionheart Baron, bonding with the Lionheart King Sword and overwhelming the demons attacking him. With the other demons dead and his new power nearly spent, he faced the Holy Spirit’s final puppet, which wondered who Sophilxis was.

• Qin Xiaoxia watched Hilbert’s psychic power erupt and withdraw the magic power he had planted in him, while the Holy Spirit sensed Hilbert’s transformation.
• Hilbert awakened with silver eyes and a powerful bond with the Lionheart King Sword, then challenged the demon controlling the attack.
• Hilbert struck the demon and killed several others, while Zhao Kai supported him with the Magic Steel Hand Cannons.
• The Holy Spirit’s puppets continued losing strength until Hilbert and Zhao Kai had cleared out every demon but one.
• Hilbert confronted the last demon and named Sophilxis, but the Holy Spirit’s control prevented the puppet from asking who Sophilxis was in Magic Language.

Hilbert awakened the Lionheart King Sword and defeated the Demon, earning recognition across the Dawn Association. The story then shifted to Huaguo, where Huang Jiutian traveled with an escort convoy carrying important research from the No. 2 Research Super Base.

• Hilbert used his newly awakened power to slay the Demon, and the Oath Book crumbled after its purpose was fulfilled.
• Hilbert and the wounded Association members reached British-controlled territory, while Qin Xiaoxia and the Holy Spirit reflected on the Lionheart King Sword and Hilbert’s awakening.
• The Dawn Association circulated a new Secret History account of Hilbert’s awakening, which inspired its members and gave Hilbert confidence in his title.
• At Huaguo’s No. 2 Research Super Base, Huang Jiutian rode with Lu Gang and Luo Wei in a convoy escorting important research cargo.

Huang Jiutian’s convoy escorted launch equipment to the National No. 1 Launch Base, where Huaguo and foreign experts prepared for a secret experimental project. After arriving, Jiu Tian, Luo Wei, and Lu Gang met foreign Evolvers over a meal and agreed to head to a nearby military camp afterward.

• Luo Wei relayed Huang Jiutian’s order for the helicopters to destroy six airborne targets without survivors.
• The convoy passed the monster corpses and delivered the covered launch equipment to the National No. 1 Launch Base.
• Huaguo and foreign experts went to inspect the delivered equipment while foreign Evolvers sought a chance to meet Huang Jiutian.
• Luo Wei and Lu Gang teased each other over food and marriage as Huang Jiutian noticed foreign visitors entering the cafeteria.
• Ben, Ivan, and the other foreign Evolvers greeted Huang Jiutian, and he invited them to visit a nearby military camp after eating.
• The group eagerly ate their meal, abandoning their polite restraint over the food.

Huang Jiutian demonstrated his new magic steel gun to elite Evolvers at the 422nd Field Division, using magic power and his perception ability to control bullets with extraordinary precision. He left the group amazed by his strength and control.

• After the meal, Ben accidentally belched a jet of flame that burned a table, and Luo Wei put out the fire.
• Huang Jiutian unveiled a magic steel gun made for him by Qin Xiaoxia and explained that its design suited his abilities.
• Huang Jiutian fired all twenty-three bullets in under a second, then used his magic power to guide them around the parade ground.
• The other Evolvers attacked him with weapons and abilities, but he dodged their assaults and used the bullets to intercept incoming fire and pierce their shields.
• Huang Jiutian recalled the bullets and ended the demonstration, leaving the exhausted Evolvers impressed by his control and power.

Huaguo launched Morning Star 1, humanity’s first quantum-information satellite, but it soon vanished from ground radar and began plummeting despite its signal remaining intact. Holy Spirit sensed something beyond the world as the recovered image data arrived.

• Holy Spirit told Huang Jiutian that the World Mother was tearing open Kasluopa’s world barrier, shortening the timeline to ten to twenty days, and revealed that Hilbert Charkus had awakened his magic power.
• Huaguo completed preparations and launched Morning Star 1, which reached its designated orbit and successfully deployed its solar panels.
• The satellite transmitted space images through a stable quantum signal, prompting celebrations among the scientists, soldiers, and leaders watching.
• Morning Star 1 disappeared from every major ground-based radar and began losing altitude, although technicians confirmed its quantum signal and command exchange still worked.
• Holy Spirit’s nebula eyes blazed as he sensed something beyond the world, while the satellite’s image data returned and startled the staff.

Morning Star One revealed an Earth-to-Kasluopa contact point before burning up in the Fallen World, prompting Earth’s leaders to prepare for further investigation. Akrodos reached the satellite wreckage and encountered the Dawn Sage’s thoughtform.

• Morning Star One transmitted images of Kasluopa before falling through the atmosphere, and Qin Xiaoxia identified the contact point as an entrance to the Fallen World.
• Earth’s major powers learned of the contact point, while Mo Shaoge told Tao Xingzhi that the Dawn Sage would investigate Kasluopa through a thoughtform.
• Akrodos traveled through dangerous regions of Kasluopa and found Morning Star One’s wreckage.
• The Dawn Sage’s thoughtform appeared beside the wreckage and asked Akrodos whether he had seen an artificial satellite before.

Qin Xiaoxia’s thoughtform encountered Akrodos near the satellite wreckage on Kasluopa and persuaded the cautious insect person to guide him through the corrupted world. Akrodos mistook Qin Xiaoxia for an ancient species, and the two prepared to seek out other souls that had not fallen into corruption.

• Qin Xiaoxia searched the lifeless surroundings for a suitable vessel until Akrodos arrived to investigate the satellite wreckage.
• Qin Xiaoxia startled Akrodos repeatedly with his thoughtform, then explained that he had come to speak because Akrodos’s soul was pure.
• Akrodos introduced himself as the Insect Body Transcendent and told Qin Xiaoxia that Kasluopa had fallen into corruption and lost its connections to other worlds.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked Akrodos to guide him around Kasluopa, and Akrodos wondered whether he was an ancient species.
• Qin Xiaoxia denied being an ancient species, mentioned Dororiankewa and Jilian, and asked to meet Akrodos’s uncorrupted friends.
• Akrodos asked to take the satellite fragments, and Qin Xiaoxia allowed it before warning Akrodos to say so directly if it did not want to serve as his guide.

Qin Xiaoxia reached an Invasive Touchpoint with Earth in Kasluopa and saw a massive demon tide gathering to cross over. He returned to Earth and urgently called for a Core Nations Emergency Meeting.

• Akrodos carried the satellite wreckage while guiding Qin Xiaoxia across Kasluopa, explaining that he and his companions survived in fragile mystic realms.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Akrodos found a huge demon tide surrounding an Invasive Touchpoint, with countless demons waiting or fighting to reach Earth.
• Qin Xiaoxia ordered Akrodos to gather any rational beings he knew at the Highland, then vanished to return to his true body.
• At the Qing Town Sanctuary Dawn Association Headquarters, Qin Xiaoxia sent a magic-script request for an immediate Core Nations Emergency Meeting.

After discovering something crucial in the Otherworld, the Dawn Sage urgently requested a meeting of the alliance’s core nations. Representatives rushed to Moscow as Russia prepared to host the unprecedented conference, which was expected to set humanity’s strategy for the coming war.

• The Dawn Sage’s urgent request reached the alliance’s major nations, prompting them to arrange a meeting in Moscow using their new Quantum Black Boxes for communications.
• The nations prepared special planes and representatives to arrive within hours, while Russian forces readied the Moscow base and fighter escorts.
• Kolinsky and Colonel Ailenova cleared the hangar and prepared aircraft as foreign representatives were expected to land.
• Ailenova told Kolinsky that Huaguo’s failed satellite had fallen into the Otherworld and that the Dawn Sage had investigated it through an avatar projection.
• Ailenova said the Dawn Sage had discovered something vital and that the meeting would determine humanity’s strategy for the war against the Otherworld.

Qin Xiaoxia showed the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance the decayed state of Kasluopa and the hordes of demons gathering beyond its touchpoints, then urged a nuclear response. The alliance unanimously approved strikes and established a massive joint military operation, codenamed “Divine Punishment.”

• At the alliance meeting in the Watchers Base, Qin Xiaoxia used the Red Banshee’s power to show delegates his journey through Kasluopa and the monsters gathered at a touchpoint.
• Qin Xiaoxia warned that stronger demons would pass through as the touchpoints deepened and explained that Kasluopa would eventually be destroyed as Earth absorbed its world power.
• Qin Xiaoxia offered to map major threats in Kasluopa, while the Holy Spirit would locate Earth’s invasive touchpoints there for choosing weapon entry points.
• After consulting their governments, the delegates unanimously voted to launch nuclear strikes against key points.
• On May 19, the alliance established its first massive joint military operation, codenamed “Divine Punishment.”

Humanity began preparing powerful nuclear weapons and long-range carriers to fight the Demons, while the Holy Spirit and Qin Xiaoxia took on the search for Otherworld Touchpoints and the work of mapping Kasluopa. A radar sweep found another Touchpoint, and Qin Xiaoxia was left making White Crystal Components while hoping the Insect Person would recruit reliable helpers.

• On May 20, participating countries summoned experts to develop high-yield nuclear weapons and launch vehicles capable of traveling up to twenty thousand kilometers through the Otherworld.
• On May 21, Huaguo technicians deployed Photon Radars so the Holy Spirit could detect Touchpoints by watching for changes in the light streams they sent into the sky.
• The Holy Spirit joined the radar sweep and detected a Touchpoint eight hundred kilometers above Earth shortly after the first search area shifted.
• Qin Xiaoxia stayed in the Association's mystic realm making White Crystal Components while the Insect Person gathered companions in Kasluopa.
• Qin Xiaoxia complained about his workload and hoped the Insect Person would find reliable companions to help locate Touchpoints, map the terrain, and navigate.

Akrodos traveled across Kasluopa to summon untainted magic beings to the Highland, hoping to offer them another path besides entering a Touchpoint. After twelve days, he returned and told Qin Xiaoxia that nearly ten thousand beings, including several hundred magic beings, were expected to gather.

• Akrodos sent a message across Kasluopa, and a dozen Cyclopes awakened to answer it.
• Balendi led eleven Cyclopes toward the Highland, while the corrupted Xibekni broke free and ran in another direction.
• The Armored Unicorn trusted Akrodos's message and prepared to bring its people to the Highland.
• Akrodos spent twelve days gathering allies and returned to his failing mystic realm.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked how many untainted beings would attend, and Akrodos estimated nearly ten thousand, including several hundred magic beings.

Qin Xiaoxia and Akrodos waited for the beings Akrodos had summoned to gather on the highland, while Akrodos wondered whether Earth had deliberately awaited Kasluopa. Nearly ten thousand uncorrupted beings arrived, and Akrodos revealed that it had invited the Rotting Domain as well.

• Akrodos considered why Kasluopa had collided with Earth and suspected Earth had been waiting for it.
• Qin Xiaoxia told Akrodos to stop imagining things and pointed out that its friends were arriving.
• Eleven Cyclopes arrived first, followed by groups of beings gathering around the highland.
• Akrodos used magic power to clear the ground and raise stone seats for the gathering.
• A Cyclops carrying the Black Stone Pillar warned Akrodos that the Rotting Domain had arrived, and Akrodos said it had invited them.

Qin Xiaoxia revealed himself to Kasluopa’s gathered creatures and offered to help them escape to other worlds in exchange for mapping the Touchpoints, corrupted demon settlements, aberrations, and Sleepers. After warning them that Kasluopa was beyond saving and promising a chance to uncover its fall and seek revenge, he left the choice to them, and most agreed to help.

• Akrodos gathered thousands of Kasluopa’s creatures, and Qin Xiaoxia noticed that many were already tainted by corruption.
• Qin Xiaoxia appeared before the gathering, identified himself as a visitor from Earth, and offered to send the creatures to safer worlds if they helped him map Kasluopa.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked them to chart Touchpoints, corrupted demon settlements, aberrations, and Sleepers, explaining that Earth wanted to stop the demon waves and devour Kasluopa.
• Qin Xiaoxia’s warning about Kasluopa’s fate and the World Mother’s presence frightened the gathering, and he urged the creatures to help or leave.
• After Qin Xiaoxia vanished, Balendi, the Armored Unicorn, Akrodos, and most of the other creatures agreed to survey Kasluopa.

Qin Xiaoxia left Kasluopa’s survivors after most agreed to trust him, while the Touchpoint continued expanding. On Earth, patrols fought Demons as civilian internet returned, and the exhausted Goldforgers completed the Magic Steel Heavenly Pillar and quenched it in the sea.

• Qin Xiaoxia planned to screen Kasluopa’s survivors and let some leave for other worlds, but the Touchpoint’s expansion continued despite the World Mother’s wishes.
• A highway patrol squad used GT-1 launchers and incendiary bombs to kill two huge lizard-shaped Demons and clear the road of their corpses.
• A patrol convoy in Gusu City learned that civilian internet had returned through the Quantum Black Boxes, and residents rushed to read official news online.
• The Goldforgers finished forging the Magic Steel Heavenly Pillar on Dawn Silent Moon Island, then used explosives to send it sliding into the sea for quenching.