Chapter Summaries

Qiu Ji began ascending to Epic and entered the time dimension to find and converge his timeline. There, he encountered an immense dragon consuming fragments of timelines.

• Qiu Ji learned from Sid that Balchik had fallen, Shatla had been destroyed, and a mysterious white-clad figure had appeared to collect his Creation Fragments.
• Qiu Ji recovered the divine core fragment from the Pan Chabuko Alliance and planned to reclaim the remaining fragments before ascending to Epic.
• Qiu Ji ordered Sid to guard him and endured the first stage of ascension by stripping the rules from his Legendary body.
• Qiu Ji entered the time dimension, nearly lost himself in a timeline where he saw himself as a child, and then found a relatively open area.
• Qiu Ji saw an immense charcoal-gray and black dragon roaming the time dimension and drawing fragmented timelines into its body.

Qiu Ji wandered the time dimension until he found his own past and witnessed the events surrounding his first Sandbox World. He was discovered by Yog and Grete, then swallowed by Grete as they entered the Sandbox World to complete a spacetime loop.

• Qiu Ji saw a mighty dragon vanish into a reel of time film and continued drifting through the time dimension as his consciousness grew confused.
• Qiu Ji found his own timeline, watched his past self receive the Creation Fragments, and observed him begin creating Sandbox One.
• Qiu Ji witnessed Yog, Grete, and Miss Puppet appear behind his past self during preparations for the Fifth Dynasty and discuss the Universe Seed.
• Yog spotted Qiu Ji in the time dimension and asked to borrow his Universe Sandbox, but Grete swallowed Qiu Ji when he tried to refuse.
• Grete asked Yog when he could return, and Yog said he would go back when Belial arrived before following him into the Sandbox World.

After Qiu Ji's failed advancement left him weakened, he sought to strengthen the Kabonebog Church for the looming threats. Meanwhile, Fat Jack revealed himself to Henry, transferred Vax Corporation's shares to him, and was empowered by Nyarlathotep as Kurl Jacks, the God of Entertainment.

• Qiu Ji summoned Sid and decided to bless the four followers Sid trusted most so the church could help face the Destruction Tide and RTX Destroyer Legion.
• Henry learned Andrea had lost her Limit-Breaking power and confronted Mr. Gu, who said the Creator God was reclaiming the Divine Spark Fragment.
• Mr. Gu turned his chair around, and Henry recognized him as Jack, also known as Fat Jack.
• Fat Jack transferred all his Vax Corporation shares to Henry, making him the controlling shareholder, then vanished.
• Nyarlathotep said Fat Jack's Avatar had been assimilated and sent him to the God Emperor's world.
• Nyarlathotep granted Fat Jack Great Old One power and named him Kurl Jacks, the God of Entertainment, before Jacks departed.

After the Destruction Tide erupted from the Lost Kingdom, Cheng Yu learned that an insectoid race was attacking the Legion’s borders and ordered Performer to defend every occupied stellar system. He reviewed the Legion’s history with the Rachkainis Insectoid Race and was left wondering whether the current attackers were connected to it.

• A Vax Corporation director told Henry that the Destruction Tide had swallowed nearly a fifth of Playa, and Henry began responding to the crisis.
• Cheng Yu learned that the Creator God had crushed Pan Chabuko's Alliance Leader, reclaimed the Creator Godhead Fragments, and unleashed the Destruction Tide across the Star Sea.
• Artist reported the Legion’s growing forces, while Performer said the insectoid attackers resembled the Rachkainis Insectoid Race and had not yet breached the defenses.
• Cheng Yu gave Performer authority to deploy all mechas, including Annihilator 0-9, and ordered the Legion to hold every occupied stellar system.
• Cheng Yu read the record of the Legion’s 163-year war with the Rachkainis Insectoid Race and wondered whether the current insectoids were related to it.

Cheng Yu learned that the Rachikenis insect race had been created by a man driven mad by Big Shot’s books, and that its leader could not be reasoned with. He ordered the Legion to wipe out the insects, while elsewhere an armored man wondered whether the Creator God had fallen.

• Miss Puppet explained that the insects were modified descendants of the Rachikenis race, whose founder had received knowledge from Big Shot’s books and lost his sanity.
• System told Cheng Yu that the insect leader was a rational religious fanatic and that negotiation was impossible.
• Cheng Yu accepted that the Legion would have to fight the insects despite lacking the Supremacy Series.
• System explained that Miss Puppet was ascending to become a Holy Spirit, with rules of machinery and technology arising from her ascension.
• Cheng Yu ordered Performer to wipe out the organic beings blocking the Legion’s path, and Performer authorized military operations under the First Protocol.
• On a planet where the Lost Kingdom had once been, an armored man saw the immense Insect Swarm and wondered whether the Creator God had fallen.

Shui Feifei used her newly immense power to burn away the Insect Swarm covering the sky, but the swarm’s collective will attacked her mind until Grete intervened. Grete destroyed the attackers’ mental presence, leaving Shui Feifei alive as the Human Federation faced the wider threat of the swarm.

• Shui Feifei told the Human Federation’s leader that she could take everyone out of the insect nest and prepared to act against the swarm overhead.
• Shui Feifei used her Domain to perceive the Insect Swarm spreading across nearly every star and planet.
• Shui Feifei burned away the insects covering the sky, but Ding Yuyi sensed her Legendary power and tried to make her a vessel for the Mother Queen.
• Grete appeared within Shui Feifei’s soul and burned away the Insect Swarm’s attacking will.
• Grete returned to Mephitican’s Palace, dismissed her concern, and resumed his games with Mephitican.

After Grete's strike crippled the Rachkainis Insectoid Race (Modified), the Star Sea's factions fought to exploit the swarm's weakness. Ding Yuyi stole two pieces of the Creator Godhead during the Kabonebog Church's assault, while the Church and Qiu Ji suffered a major setback.

• Ding Yuyi abandoned most of his swarm's collective will to survive Grete's attack, and Shui Feifei escaped the Lost Kingdom as the Rachkainis Insectoid Race (Modified) took it over.
• Playa lost its status as a major power, the Vax Corporation reclaimed its territory, and Henry chose to back the RTX Destroyer Legion.
• Qiu Ji sent Sid and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to attack Ding Yuyi's Hive, and they met Shui Feifei as she fled the Lost Kingdom.
• Two of the horsemen betrayed Sid and the others, joined forces with two Insect Monsters, and stole two pieces of the Creator Godhead.
• Qiu Ji gave up his Divine Status over many worlds, while Ding Yuyi celebrated his success and planned to seize the rest of the Creator Godhead.

After the Legion harvested valuable energy from the insect corpses, Cheng Yu ordered it to advance into Vax Corporation territory while investigating a suspicious surrender message. As the Legion moved toward Vax, the Rachkainis Insectoid Race neared a breakthrough in its defenses, and the betrayed Kabonebog Church Limit-Breaker appeared as the Fourth Mother Empress.

• The Legion melted down the insect corpses and discovered they contained more than three times the energy of ordinary energy crystals.
• Cheng Yu prioritized recovering Big Shot's authority fragments and helping Big Sis ascend to Holy Spirit, then ordered the Legion to secure its territory and advance on Vax Corporation.
• The Legion assembled its main force at a universe on Vax's border, but Cheng Yu became suspicious when a surrender letter arrived and Infiltrator 0-8 stopped reporting.
• Cheng Yu ordered the Legion to continue advancing into Vax territory and told the Conductor to investigate the communication failure and prepare a response.
• The Rachkainis Insectoid Race pushed Vax Corporation's defensive line toward collapse, while the betrayer of the Kabonebog Church appeared aboard a biological warship as the Fourth Mother Empress.

Cheng Yu learned that an unknown enemy was attacking the Legion’s network and entered the digital battlefield to observe Guardian 0-9 defending it. After becoming Cyber Jörmungandr’s viewpoint, he noticed a new change on the battlefield.

• Cheng Yu learned that the enemy had cut off Infiltrator 0-8’s Subunits and was attacking the Legion’s network, where Guardian 0-9 was holding the line.
• Conductor reported that Infiltrator 0-8 was gathering intelligence, Guardian 0-9 was fighting the intrusion, and White Coat’s team was investigating the enemy network.
• Cheng Yu gave Performer full operational authority and ordered Artist to upgrade the Iron Throne into an Overlord-Class Titan.
• Cheng Yu entered the Legion network and watched Guardian 0-9, Cyber Jörmungandr, battle a swarm of gray Insect Monsters.
• Cheng Yu moved onto Cyber Jörmungandr’s head, became its viewpoint, and noticed a change on the battlefield.

Cheng Yu watched the Legion battle the Rachkainis Insect Swarm inside Cyber Jörmungandr while Wisdom Unit Z-0019 explained that the Legion was gathering intelligence and preparing a counterattack. The Cyber Serpent swallowed the Insect Whale and sealed the data breaches, while in the Lost Kingdom a moss-covered planet revealed an enormous brain.

• Cheng Yu learned from Wisdom Unit Z-0019 that the Legion held the advantage and that White Coat was preparing to breach the hostile network.
• The Insect Whale and other insect monsters emerged through the data holes and fought the Legion’s mecha, including Defender 0-6 and a bladed mecha.
• The Cyber Serpent grew a second head, lunged at the Insect Whale, and swallowed it along with nearby units, as green data blocks covered the breaches.
• A moss-covered planet in the Lost Kingdom stopped moving and revealed an enormous grayish-white brain as armored mayfly-like monsters swam toward it.

Cheng Yu accessed White Coat’s research on the Rachkainis Insect Swarm and learned how its consciousness network worked. When the Legion launched its counteroffensive, Cheng Yu watched the battle begin on the enemy’s network.

• Cheng Yu entered the Research Institute’s database and retrieved reports on the Rachkainis Insectoid Race and its suspected network.
• Cheng Yu ordered the files on the suspected Rachkainis network added to the Legion’s central information database.
• White Coat’s report explained that the insects’ souls and wills formed a consciousness network that grew stronger as their bodies died and their consciousnesses fed back into it.
• Conductor reported that Wisdom Unit Z-0019 had begun the Legion’s counteroffensive with Infiltrator 0-8 as its primary unit.
• Cheng Yu watched green data blocks tear through the gray insect-filled battlefield as the Legion’s attack began.

Infiltrator 0-8 led the Legion’s counterattack against the Insect Swarm in the consciousness battlefield, but the Mechanical Monarch was forced to retreat. Performer then reported that the Legion’s vanguard had encountered hostile organic entities suspected to be the Rachkainis Insectoid Race, leaving Cheng Yu expecting an all-out war.

• Infiltrator 0-8 manifested Purger 0-5 units and Shuttle Fighters, which attacked the gray ocean with lasers and green meteors.
• The Insect Swarm counterattacked with gray plasma, giant spheres, and a Gray Giant God that struck down the Legion’s forces.
• Infiltrator 0-8 divided his data mass and entered the gray world as a Mechanical Monarch to fight the Gray Giant God.
• The Gray Giant God repeatedly recovered from damage, then trapped the Mechanical Monarch in a gray tornado and forced him to retreat through the green opening.
• Performer reported that the Legion’s vanguard had exchanged fire with hostile organic entities suspected to belong to the Rachkainis Insectoid Race, and Cheng Yu anticipated an all-out war.

The Legion and the Insect Swarm began a full-scale war over Vax Corporation’s mining region, where the swarm’s rapid production overwhelmed the Legion’s vanguard. Cheng Yu’s forces regrouped and prepared to turn the fighting in their favor, while the Legion’s main force met the swarm with its organic-targeting Purger Series.

• Henry abandoned the Vax Corporation headquarters with Shen Qing and led the remaining executives toward the Legion’s main force, while Cheng Yu’s forces ignored them to seize Vax mines.
• The Legion’s Assault Units and the Insect Swarm clashed at a mining site, where the insects used splitting blade projectiles and a spatial breach to pour in reinforcements.
• The Insect Swarm spread across Legion-held mining planets, producing more insects from moss-covered terrain and forcing the Legion’s vanguard to retreat and regroup.
• Cheng Yu watched the Legion’s coordinated mechas slow the swarm’s advance and decided the defense only needed to hold until Regulator 0-9 was complete.
• The Fourth Mother Empress and the insectified brain concluded that the Legion was formidable, noting that the swarm had failed to breach its network and that the Legion had infiltrated the hive mind.
• The Legion’s main force met the Insect Swarm with numerous Purger Series mechas, and the full-scale war officially began.

The Legion and the insect swarm fought a resource-heavy space war as the Wisdoms adapted their mechas to counter the swarm’s defenses. The battle remained locked in a stalemate while the Legion prepared Regulator 0-9, which neared completion with a sun fitted outside its final ring.

• Regulator 0-3 sent Purger 0-6 and Purger 0-7 on suicide strikes that traded two mechas for an enemy heavy unit.
• The insect swarm deployed moths that absorbed Purger 0-7’s cannon fire and detonated, but Enabler 0-7 absorbed the explosions and returned their energy.
• Purger 0-6 joined Purger 0-7, and together they sharply increased the swarm’s losses.
• The Legion transported military factories to the battlefield and produced mechas while guarding construction of Regulator 0-9.
• Cheng Yu watched the fighting drag on until a sun was fitted outside Regulator 0-9’s final ring.

Cheng Yu’s Legion used Regulator 0-9 to disrupt the Insect Swarm’s Space Worms and seal the passages feeding the battlefield, giving the Legion victory in its first clash. The Legion’s advantages still came at the cost of enormous energy consumption, a weakness Cheng Yu recognized as its central limitation.

• Cheng Yu learned that Performer had completed Regulator 0-9 and ordered it deployed against the Insect Swarm.
• Performer activated Regulator 0-9 while the Legion’s units cooperated to suppress the enemy’s spatial passages.
• The Insect Swarm’s Brain Bugs tried to strengthen the Space Worms, but the escalating interference forced the worms to close their passages.
• Cheng Yu declared the Legion victorious as Regulator 0-9 sealed the routes and the Legion continued replacing its losses.
• Cheng Yu reviewed the Legion’s strategy for fighting stronger enemies and recognized its heavy energy consumption as its greatest weakness.

After the Legion used its advantage in resources and technology to repel the Insect Swarm, Ding Yuyi took personal command of the attack on Vax, and the battle escalated. Cheng Yu learned that the Insect Swarm was attacking other fronts and rapidly evolving to counter the Legion, leaving him alarmed about the war ahead.

• Ding Yuyi witnessed the Insect Swarm's defeat, resolved to seize at least half of Vax Corporation's territory, and chose to personally command the assault there.
• The Legion occupied the contested star sector and secured enormous resource stockpiles before the Insect Swarm poured through the reopened passage.
• Cheng Yu deployed dozens of Purger 0-9s, whose Organic Molecular Chain Disruptors dissolved most of the attacking insects and turned the Legion's advance into an offensive.
• Cheng Yu learned that the Insect Swarm was threatening the Kabonebog Church and Playa as it sought resources to prolong the war.
• White Coat's report warned that the insects could evolve adaptations against the Legion's major series within about two hundred years, and Cheng Yu suspected Ding Yuyi had planned this as his trump card.

Cheng Yu ordered the Legion to abandon its cautious approach and race toward the Insect Swarm’s home nest, while protecting Miss Puppet’s chance to ascend. The Legion and Insect Swarm escalated their campaigns across the Star Sea, leaving Star Sea City as an unlikely refuge for fleeing civilians.

• Cheng Yu considered the limits of the Legion’s Supremacy Series and concluded that Miss Puppet’s ascension could not be risked as a last-resort weapon.
• Cheng Yu placed Performer in supreme command, authorized production of Wise Unit Z Series units, and ordered the Legion to reach the Insect Swarm’s home nest as quickly as possible.
• The Legion mobilized its factories and launched aggressive advances, disregarding resource and mecha losses to maximize its gains.
• Ding Yuyi took personal command of the Insect Swarm’s conquest of the Kabonebog Church and Playa, while ordering Brain Bugs to delay the Legion and avoid direct clashes.
• The Legion and Insect Swarm fought across the Kabonebog Church, Playa, and their vast front, while refugees streamed toward Star Sea City and many died en route.

As the Legion and Insect Swarm devastated the Kabonebog Church, Qiu Ji reclaimed the Creator Godhead Fragments and revealed himself to draw out Ding Yuyi. With his power wavering and the Insect Swarm charging, Sid led the Church’s followers into battle beside him.

• The Insect Swarm devoured life across the Kabonebog Church’s border region while the Legion destroyed anything that interfered with its advance.
• Qiu Ji summoned Sid and the other remaining limit-breakers, reclaimed their Creator Godhead Fragments, and transformed into the Father of the World.
• Ding Yuyi rushed toward the Church after sensing Qiu Ji’s power, and Cheng Yu headed there aboard a makeshift Overlord-Class Titan with his guards.
• Qiu Ji erased many insects with a gesture, but Ding Yuyi’s immense brain appeared and taunted him as his divine status began to waver.
• Ding Yuyi sent humanoid insects and the Swarm charging at Qiu Ji, and Sid rallied the Kabonebog Warriors to fight alongside their Lord.

Cheng Yu arrived at the Kabonebog Church's Homeworld as its faithful fought a losing battle against the Insect Swarm, while the believers' gathered willpower transformed Qiu Ji into the Creator God. Sid died protecting Qiu Ji, who surrendered to the believers' will and died as the Creator God appeared.

• Cheng Yu found the Kabonebog faithful fighting the Insect Swarm, and golden motes from the fallen believers began flowing toward Qiu Ji.
• Qiu Ji absorbed the believers' accumulated willpower and resisted becoming the Creator God, even as his strength surged beyond that of other Legendary beings.
• Ding Yuyi sent two Mother Queens to attack Qiu Ji, but Sid blocked them and fought the insects despite his weakened condition.
• Sid recalled his life of service to the Kabonebog Church and, as he died, his final mote of light joined the golden torrent flowing toward Qiu Ji.
• Qiu Ji stopped resisting the believers' will, wondered whether the resulting being was still himself, and died as the Creator God appeared.

The Creator God devastated the Insect Swarm, but Ding Yuyi’s Nhyagha Funeral Song began to unravel the deity by sending the dead souls that formed it back to their world. As the Creator God crumbled and the Swarm’s losses mounted, Cheng Yu ordered a surprise attack to recover Big Shot’s authority fragments.

• The Creator God opened his domain and erased nearly the entire Insect Swarm, while Ding Yuyi and the three Mother Queens survived by activating their domains to protect the Overlord.
• Ding Yuyi recited the Nhyagha Manuscript’s introduction and sang its Funeral Song, causing the Creator God’s body to crumble as the dead souls within it were sent away.
• The Creator God’s domain collapsed, allowing the surviving Insect Swarm to pour back through the passage entrance.
• The system explained the Funeral Song’s effect to Cheng Yu, who ordered an attack on the Orb of Light inside the Creator God to seize Big Shot’s authority fragments.
• Cheng Yu and the Legion’s main force appeared behind the Creator God, but three metallic bodies blocked the Mother Queens as a pure-white figure rushed toward the deity.