Chapter Summaries

Vax Corporation’s directors protested the decision to wage all-out war on the RTX Destroyer Legion, but Henry and Andrea enforced the gentleman’s order. Henry and Andrea suspected Bennett’s mysterious ally might be connected to the Legion, and Henry decided to consult the Star Sea Hunter King while leaving the corporation’s security to Andrea.

• A Vax Corporation director challenged Henry’s decision to attack the Legion, and Andrea killed him after reminding the directors that the gentleman controlled the corporation.
• Henry calmed the directors while Andrea apologized insincerely, and the directors left without changing the gentleman’s order.
• Henry asked Andrea whether he could kill Bennett within six months, and they both suspected Bennett’s mysterious ally was the only person capable of doing so.
• Henry and Andrea feared the mysterious man might be connected to the RTX Destroyer Legion and considered what that could mean for Vax Corporation.
• Henry decided to meet the Star Sea Hunter King and left the corporation’s security in Andrea’s hands.

Lionel lost communications with the enemy while leading Vax's reinforcements toward the war. At Pan Chabuko's last chokepoint, Wilbur watched Sandglass Point collapse under relentless attacks and waited desperately for help to arrive.

• Lionel learned that Pan Chabuko was close to defeat, then lost communications when the enemy jammed his fleet's signals.
• Wilbur took command of Pan Chabuko's defense at the F0221 Star Sector as successive reports described devastating losses and failing logistics.
• Wilbur reflected on how Pan Chabuko had built Sandglass Point to funnel attacks from Balchik through a single chokepoint.
• The war-preparation zone fell despite its battle-hardened forces, and the enemy's robot defeated Pan Chabuko's hopes of relying on Jenny.
• News of the Star Sea Military Alliance and Vax's incoming reinforcements briefly raised morale, but Sandglass Point continued to collapse as Wilbur prayed for them to hurry.

Cheng Yu discussed his growth and currency with System before learning that Vax Corporation had sent a fleet to Pan Chabuko, where the Legion was already crushing the Alliance’s forces. As Pan Chabuko’s defeat drew near, Wilbur chose to stand and fight, but Alliance True Gods arrived with the general’s severed head and demanded his surrender.

• Cheng Yu and System discussed why System wanted him to grow stronger and the importance of currency.
• Performer reported that a Vax Corporation fleet had entered Pan Chabuko Alliance territory, and Cheng Yu judged its forces unlikely to stop the Legion.
• Cheng Yu planned to send Bodyguard One back to Pan Chabuko and use another Annihilator 0-9 to threaten the other major powers’ bases.
• Wilbur learned that Pan Chabuko had lost a third of its troops and most of Hourglass Point, with its remaining forces expected to collapse within hours.
• Wilbur sent a general to report to the Alliance Leader and prepared to stay behind, but several True Gods returned carrying the general’s severed head and demanded his cooperation.
• Wilbur took a fighting stance and challenged the True Gods to try to kill him.

Cheng Yu’s Legion crushed the forces in the F0221 Star Sector and began overrunning Pan Chabuko, while Alliance Leader Jenny fled to Lionel’s flagship. As the Legion’s conquest continued, Vax Corporation and Shatla launched major attacks against separate Legion targets.

• Cheng Yu rejected the surrender request from Wilbur’s subordinates and ordered them exterminated under the Legion’s First Protocol.
• A leading True God explained that Wilbur’s subordinates had killed him to make the enemy distrust them, then led the remaining True Gods into a final attack as the Legion approached.
• Performer reported that the Legion had taken complete control of the F0221 Star Sector, and Cheng Yu ordered the Legion to take Pan Chabuko as quickly as possible.
• The Legion advanced through Pan Chabuko, forcing Alliance Leader Jenny and the surviving alliance leaders to retreat to Lionel’s flagship.
• Lionel decided to take Jenny and the others back to the corporation rather than risk his forces against the Legion.
• Cheng Yu received reports that Vax Corporation was advancing toward the Legion’s Balchik region and Shatla was attacking another vital Legion node with a large force and Demonic Web encroachment.

Cheng Yu devised the Legion’s strategy against Vax and Shatla, prioritizing a fortified defense against Shatla’s mysterious Demonic Web. He prepared to conserve resources for a possible Supremacy Series unit while the Legion investigated whether the web was linked to the Big Shot’s authority fragment.

• Cheng Yu concluded that Vax would likely attack the Legion, but the Legion had freed its forces by taking over Pan Chabuko, so he and the Mecha settled on a strategy for the Vax front.
• Cheng Yu considered why the Legion’s researchers had failed to explain Shatla’s Demonic Web and suspected it might be connected to the Big Shot’s authority fragment.
• Cheng Yu consulted the Wisdom units and ordered them to refine his plan to defend the universe on Shatla’s invasion route.
• Cheng Yu strengthened the plan to turn the defensive outpost into a Mechanical Universe protected by the Guardian, Regulator, and Defender Series.
• Cheng Yu chose a cautious siege strategy against Shatla so the Legion could study the Demonic Web and respond if it corrupted them.
• Cheng Yu halted production of a third Annihilator 0-9 to save resources for a possible Supremacy Series unit.

Xiao led Shatla’s expedition into the mechanical territory where the Hall of Truth had fallen, and the scouts revealed an immense enemy stronghold. Duke activated Shatla’s demonic web, while Cheng Yu considered how its approaching encroachment might affect the Legion’s plans.

• Xiao asked Joyce what to expect from the destroyed Hall of Truth’s star sector, and Joyce warned that he did not know whether the vanished Myriad Forms-Class Meme Weapon had affected the power of truth.
• Xiao sent vanguards ahead, and their footage showed a vast expanse of mechanical planets, defense rings, and constructs blocking the route to the enemy’s home base.
• Xiao showed the footage to Duke, who recognized the scale of the threat and ordered the demonic web activated while Shatla held its positions.
• The Performer reported an unknown high-energy reaction from Shatla’s demonic web to Cheng Yu aboard the Iron Throne.
• Cheng Yu weighed whether the encroachment could harm the Legion and concluded that its response would shape the Legion’s battle plan.

Cheng Yu learned that the Legion could not break through Shatla’s Demonic Web and prepared to rely on its military strength. As Xiao’s fleet emerged from the passage beneath layered defenses, the Legion’s Defender 0-6 units unleashed a massive barrage.

• Performer told Cheng Yu that Infiltrator 0-8 could not reach the Demonic Web’s core or block Shatla’s communications, though he could still gather intelligence and disrupt them.
• Xiao led Shatla’s army into the passage, confident that the Demonic Web would make his forces exceptionally strong within its reach.
• Cheng Yu entered Performer’s command network, heard its units coordinating their deployment, and quickly withdrew from the noisy system.
• Xiao ordered the Shatla fleet to activate its strongest defensive spells as magical patterns and runes layered around the ships.
• The Shatla fleet emerged from the passage, and the Legion’s Defender 0-6 units appeared and fired a torrent of beams at it.

Cheng Yu considered how the Legion could counter the Demonic Web as Defender 0-6's bombardment reached a stalemate against its seemingly endless energy supply. He authorized the Legion to manufacture Enabler 0-9 first, with Bodyguard Two to be deployed if it failed.

• Cheng Yu learned that Defender 0-6 continued firing because the enemy's fluctuations persisted, while the Legion's energy reserves declined.
• Artist explained that Inert Energy Cannons and Death Energy Cannons had not defeated the Demonic Web because it appeared to replenish its energy endlessly.
• Conductor reported that Codename White Coat recommended manufacturing Enabler 0-9, which the Legion believed would affect the Demonic Web.
• Performer requested authorization to deploy Annihilator 0-9 designated Bodyguard Two, citing its domain and the combined potential of several Legion series.
• Cheng Yu ordered the Legion to use Enabler 0-9 first and deploy Bodyguard Two if it failed to resolve the problem.

Cheng Yu’s forces defeated Vax Corporation’s battlefield defenses and deployed Enabler 0-9 against Shatla. The device disrupted the demonic web’s energy flow, leaving Xiao and Joyce shocked as the Shatla fleet’s magical barriers stopped repairing.

• Infiltrator 0-8 turned Vax Corporation’s drone forces, while Regulator 0-9 suppressed the spatial effects of Vax’s Prism Warp and final protocol.
• The Conductor reported that Enabler 0-9 had been completed and transferred to the battlefield.
• Cheng Yu confirmed with the Artist that the Legion had enough computing power to operate Enabler 0-9 at full power.
• Enabler 0-9 appeared over the Shatla battlefield, and Defender 0-6 ceased its River of Light attack as the ring began affecting energy across the universe.
• Enabler 0-9 disrupted the demonic web, halting the Shatla fleet’s damaged magical barriers from recovering and sharply reducing the demonic energy Xiao and Joyce could draw.

Cheng Yu’s Legion battled the Shatla forces using Defender 0-6 and Regulator 0-9, but a disturbance in the Demonic Web began overwhelming Enabler 0-9’s suppression. Cheng Yu approved a full-scale operation to crush the Demonic Web, setting the stage for a decisive battle.

• Duke detected Demonic Energy accumulating at a new Demonic Web node, while Performer reported the disturbance to Cheng Yu and received orders to proceed with the plan.
• Defender 0-6 fired physical shells through Regulator 0-9’s spatial openings, breaking the Shatla fleet’s magic barrier and forcing Xiao to order his forces to scatter and attack the mechanical spheres.
• Defender 0-6 launched swarms of splitting missiles, while Regulator 0-9 redirected attacks through wormholes and disrupted the Shatla soldiers’ Demonic Energy teleportation.
• Shatla True Gods used powerful gravitational spheres to destroy many missiles and targeted Enabler 0-9, but Regulator 0-9 kept them from reaching it.
• The suppressed energy fluctuations rebounded, revealing a rust-red Demonic Web across the battlefield and threatening to overwhelm Enabler 0-9.
• Performer recommended a silence matrix, deploying Annihilator 0-9 and disrupting the Demonic Web; Cheng Yu approved the plan and gave every Wisdom authority to carry it out.

Cheng Yu lifted the Legion’s production restrictions as Duke sacrificed his life to strengthen Shatla’s demonic web on the battlefield. The Legion’s hidden attack killed Duke, and Infiltrator 0-6 transmitted images of the purple orb before disintegrating.

• Cheng Yu authorized the Legion’s factories to produce Enabler 0-1 at full capacity and send them to the Shatla battlefield.
• Duke poured his life force into the purple orb, strengthening the demonic web as Shatla’s forces faced growing resistance.
• Bodyguard Two arrived on the battlefield and waited while the Wisdoms in the Strategic Command Center watched for a chance to strike.
• Duke destroyed an unknown life-form that diverted part of the demonic web’s energy, then Berg stabbed him with a technological blade.
• Duke recognized Berg as Infiltrator 0-6 and died; the purple orb absorbed his body.
• Infiltrator 0-6 transmitted images of the purple orb before disintegrating, while Bodyguard One returned for repairs to his crippled forearm.

After Berg's destruction revealed that Shatla's Demonic Web Core might be conscious, Cheng Yu ordered an immediate advance on Shatla while the Core seized control of its people. Yog then agreed to join Nyarlathotep's plan, which she had prepared a contingency for.

• The Shatla True Gods suppressed the energy surge from Berg's collapse, but half of their Homeworld was destroyed and their Supreme Leader disappeared.
• Cheng Yu learned from the System that Shatla's Demonic Web Core might have developed a consciousness and ordered his troops to advance on the Shatla Homeworld.
• The Demonic Web Core spoke in the First Supreme Leader's voice, lamented its failure to escape the Creator God's shackles, and left Shatla's people vacant-eyed with an invisible pulse.
• Nyarlathotep questioned Yog about the authority fragment, and Yog agreed to join her Amusement Park plan to help stop the era backlash.
• Nyarlathotep acknowledged that she had prepared a contingency for her plan.

After Duke’s death, Xiao and Joyce failed to complete the Final Grand Sacrifice as the Legion’s Wisdom units disrupted it, and Shatla’s invading forces were annihilated. Cheng Yu arrived aboard the Iron Throne and led the Legion’s advance toward Shatla’s Homeworld to confront the panicked Demonic Web Core.

• Joyce urged Xiao to begin the Final Grand Sacrifice, but the Legion’s Silence Matrix and Regulator 0-9’s attack disrupted the ritual as Joyce took on its energy drain.
• Bodyguard Two used a Legendary domain to shatter the ritual’s magical patterns, and the backlash consumed Xiao, Joyce, and the remaining Shatla soldiers.
• The Iron Throne and the Legion’s combat series arrived, while Cheng Yu ordered forces to advance toward Shatla’s Homeworld and retrieve the authority fragments.
• The Demonic Web Core suffered severe backlash, lost the ability to support high-intensity magic across the demonic web for a time, and realized the Legion was coming for him.
• Conductor reported that the damaged first Infiltrator 0-8 had been retrieved and a replacement was taking over its subunits.
• Cheng Yu ordered the Legion to force open passages, secure them with units, and prevent the Demonic Web Core from recovering.

Cheng Yu led the Legion into the Shatla Star Sector and sent Bodyguard Two to confront the emerging Flesh Monster. The Legion destroyed most of the Shatla forces, but Miss Puppet warned that Bodyguard Two was about to lose.

• Cheng Yu ordered Bodyguard Two to the front despite Artist's objections, and the Legion advanced toward Shatla's core.
• The Shatla True Gods attacked Bodyguard Two, then fled as the Demonic Web collapsed into a Purple Orb and a Flesh Monster began forming.
• Shatla People surged from the Demonic Web, and Bodyguard Two killed them as more appeared and their remains fed the monster.
• Purger 0-9 and the Legion's Purger weapons decomposed most of the Shatla People, while the Legion hunted down the remaining Shatla Puppet People.
• The Flesh Monster finished forming and fought Bodyguard Two after his domain was destroyed, and Miss Puppet told Cheng Yu that Bodyguard Two was about to lose.

Cheng Yu confronted the Flesh-and-Blood Burly Man, a creature formed from Big Shot's Authority Fragment, and used the Galaxy Glass Ball to reclaim the Purple Orb. In the Principal's Office, Nyarlathotep and Yog discussed the incident before Nyarlathotep turned their attention to their Apostle.

• Cheng Yu left Miss Puppet to handle the mechanical forces and confronted the Flesh-and-Blood Burly Man, whose attacks could not harm him.
• Cheng Yu prompted the creature to recall fragments of past events, causing its body to evolve and dissolve into crimson sludge.
• Cheng Yu crushed the Galaxy Glass Ball, and the sludge parted as the Purple Orb floated into his hand and fell dormant.
• In the Principal's Office, Nyarlathotep praised Cheng Yu's entertaining reaction while Yog said the Authority Fragment's memories had only appeared with permission.
• Nyarlathotep denied deliberately arranging the incident and turned their attention to their Apostle.

As the RTX Destroyer Legion's advance devastated the Star Sea, Cheng Yu considered which faction to target next while the surviving powers struggled to learn what had happened. At the Starry Sky Hunter Headquarters, Henry urged Shen Qing to act, but Shen Qing insisted that no one could defeat Him.

• Cheng Yu considered which faction to strike next after obtaining two of Big Shot's seven authority fragments.
• Matthew learned that Shatla showed no signs of life and decided to seek answers from the Starry Sky Hunter King about the pure-white figure.
• Shatla's Colossus Castle collapsed, and Layla Henrietta learned that the network was down again and there was still no news of General Quincy.
• A Starry Sky Hunter receptionist crossed out another squad that had vanished after taking a mission against the RTX Destroyer Legion.
• Henry urged Shen Qing to confront the Legion's advance, but Shen Qing said no one could defeat Him.

Henry and Matthew persuaded Shen Qing to support opening the Lost Kingdom and releasing the Creator God against the World-Destroying God, the Destruction Tide, and the RTX Destroyer Legion. As the Starsea Heavenly Punishment Era began, Shen Qing sensed a cleric’s arrival and started doubting Henry’s plan, while Yog and Nyarlathotep discussed the scene they had watched unfold.

• Matthew arrived in Star Sea City, broke open Shen Qing’s door, and received Shen Qing’s memories of the World-Destroying God and the Lost Kingdom.
• Henry told Shen Qing that Mr. Gu had said the Lost War could begin, and Matthew agreed that releasing the Creator God might be their only chance.
• Henry declared that the Star Sea had entered its darkest hour after Shatla fell and Balchik was destroyed, and Matthew and Shen Qing agreed to help open the Lost Kingdom.
• Henry raised the problem of persuading Pontiff Sid and the Kabonebog Church, then Shen Qing sensed an old cleric’s arrival and grew suspicious of Henry’s plan.
• Yog and Nyarlathotep discussed the scene, and Yog refused Nyarlathotep’s request for compensation.

Cheng Yu learned that the Legion had lost its remaining Legendary combat power while a new Annihilator was still under construction, and the System confirmed his suspicions about the world’s strange twists. Meanwhile, Henry and the others opened the Lost Kingdom’s seal, revealing a black hole and a mysterious voice.

• Conductor and Performer reported the Legion’s combat losses, the intelligence blackout around Hunter Headquarters, and the third Annihilator 0-9’s expected completion in ten days.
• Cheng Yu tried to write in Yog’s Script, found that his words changed, and questioned the System about the world’s strange nature.
• Sid told Henry, Shen Qing, Matthew, Jenny, and Sid that opening the Lost Kingdom followed his god’s guidance, and the group chose to proceed despite the risks.
• Henry said he could temporarily use Andrea’s power, and Shen Qing brought the group to the Lost Kingdom’s Sealing Ground.
• The Legendary individuals merged their domains and shattered the seal, opening a black hole as a mysterious voice spoke in their minds.

Shen Qing and the others witnessed Sid break the seal and summon the Creator God, but Ding Yuyi and his swarm challenged the false god as the Lost Kingdom surged into the Star Sea. The group fled as the two powers vanished into spatial turbulence, while the Emperor of Ten Thousand Insects sent the Destruction Tide toward the shattered seal.

• Sid attacked Jenny, offered her to the Creator God, and revealed that he had fulfilled the god’s oracle by breaking the seal.
• The Creator God announced his imminent entry into the world, and Shen Qing told the others to wait because another power remained in the Lost Kingdom.
• Ding Yuyi accused the Creator God of being a false god, and the two clashed as the passage through the seal widened.
• Shen Qing and the others fled while spatial turbulence swept the Creator God’s radiance and the Destruction Tide away from the seal.
• Ding Yuyi awakened in his moss palace and sent the insect swarm toward the shattered seal in the name of the Emperor of Ten Thousand Insects.

Qiu Ji recalled how a monster from one of his sandbox worlds shattered his Creator Godhead and unleashed an insect invasion on the real world. He had become the real world's Father of the World and created the Lost Kingdom to contain the swarm, but feared his control would fail unless the scattered worlds returned and helped him reclaim the Godhead Fragments.

• Qiu Ji remembered how a carapaced tentacle creature pierced his chest and corroded his Creator Godhead, forcing him to shatter it into seven pieces and flee.
• Qiu Ji cast six Godhead Fragments into six cultivated worlds as the monster civilization spread from its sandbox into the real world.
• Qiu Ji used the real world's faith to claim the Divine Status of Father of the World, fought the insect monsters, and shared cultivation systems and advanced technology to prepare humanity for war.
• Qiu Ji created the Lost Kingdom by using the insect monsters' power to form a barrier that allowed entry but prevented escape.
• Qiu Ji discovered that the insect monsters were breaking free of his connection to their sandbox, so he fought them as sacrifices while hoping his scattered worlds would return and help him gather the Creator Godhead Fragments.