Recaps

After three days of drinking together, Balin and Thorin finally sat down with Lin Mo to discuss the weapons they had come to acquire. Lin Mo challenged their plans to simply transport and fire the equipment, leaving the dwarves facing the need to learn how to operate and maintain it.

• Balin and the others drank through another meal without discussing business, and Balin and Thorin woke on the third day badly hungover.
• Balin and Thorin swore off drinking with Great Xia and realized they had not yet discussed the weapons trade.
• Thorin told Balin that Great Xia's soldiers guarded their weapons closely, though he had picked up a few firearm-disassembly techniques.
• Lin Mo invited the dwarves to eat, promised there would be no pressure to drink, and served them congee before they discussed business.
• Balin said the dwarves would take the weapons home in Spatial Rings and use them against the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo questioned whether the dwarves knew how to aim, coordinate bombardments, repair equipment, clear cannon jams, or read maintenance manuals.

Lin Mo persuaded Balin and Thorin to keep the Dwarves in Great Xia for training before taking their weapons home, then confessed that he had been delaying the equipment handover until supplies improved. Balin and Thorin accepted his explanation, and Lin Mo asked them to deliver some Spatial Rings early, leaving Balin hesitant.

• Lin Mo explained that the Dwarves needed to learn tactics, maintenance, and coordinated combat alongside their weapons.
• Lin Mo offered comprehensive military training for the Dwarves, and Balin and Thorin eagerly agreed.
• Lin Mo admitted he had a selfish reason for delaying the equipment handover: Great Xia lacked supplies and needed time to build its Permanent Portal.
• Balin and Thorin accepted Lin Mo's candor and agreed to wait a few more days for their equipment.
• Lin Mo asked Balin to deliver some Spatial Rings in advance, but Balin hesitated over the risk.

Lin Mo received a Spatial Ring from Balin, who explained how it worked and why it was protected from theft. The ring let Great Xia transport up to a thousand cubic meters of supplies each day before the Permanent Portal was completed, and Zhao Gang hurried off to prepare a list of urgent needs.

• Thorin agreed to let Great Xia train the Dwarves in operating its weapons and equipment, and Balin gave Lin Mo a Spatial Ring.
• Balin explained that Spatial Rings could store objects but not living things, and that each ring’s mental imprint warned its wearer if someone else tried to use it.
• Lin Mo discovered that his ring contained an empty space about ten meters across and learned that the Dwarves had used their rings to transport goods past the Demon Clan’s siege.
• Long Zhan led Balin and Thorin away to begin arranging their training after Thorin eagerly asked to learn to drive a tank.
• Lin Mo let Zhao Gang test the ring, then explained that it could carry a thousand cubic meters of supplies each day before the Permanent Portal was finished.
• Zhao Gang calculated that the ring could carry enormous quantities of ammunition and equipment, then hurried away to assemble a list of urgent supplies.

Lin Mo learned that Dwarf Commander Balin was a Seventh Order Battle Venerable and tested the Spatial Ring's ability to store objects. After returning to Blue Star, he showed Elder Zhao that he could use the ring to bring back large quantities of supplies, leaving the chief stunned by the prospect.

• Lin Mo asked Grom about Balin's strength and learned that the dwarf had reached the Seventh Order decades earlier.
• Lin Mo used the Spatial Ring to make a rock and a Mengshi military vehicle disappear and reappear, astonishing nearby soldiers.
• Zhao Gang gave Lin Mo the Expeditionary Force's supply list and asked him to raise the Permanent Portal's location with the chief.
• Lin Mo purified himself, hid the ring in a sealed bag beneath his tongue, and went to sleep in his tent.
• Lin Mo woke in his private room in Tianshu Underground City, returned the ring to his finger, and went to see Elder Zhao.
• Lin Mo produced the supply list with the Spatial Ring and told Elder Zhao he could bring back another batch of supplies, prompting Elder Zhao to identify the ring.

Lin Mo showed Elder Zhao a Spatial Ring and reported on his dealings in Terra, while they discussed Blue Star’s portal site and preparations for the Expeditionary Force. He then went to Central Ecological Park to find Elder Qian and Elder Liu, but found the World Tree had grown to a hundred meters and the elders were nowhere in sight.

• Lin Mo gave Elder Zhao a Spatial Ring, and Elder Zhao overcame its previous user's mental imprint and tested its storage ability.
• Lin Mo reported on the Permanent Portal plans, trade with the Elves and Holy Human Race, and his dealings with the Dwarves and Half-Orcs.
• Elder Zhao ordered the original Arctic site renovated for the Permanent Portal to avoid exposing Blue Star's weakness to outsiders.
• Lin Mo asked Elder Zhao to arrange supplies for the Expeditionary Force and left to show the Spatial Ring to Elder Qian and Elder Liu.
• Lin Mo arrived at Central Ecological Park, saw that the World Tree had grown to a hundred meters beneath a new dome, and asked a researcher where Elder Qian and Elder Liu were.

Lin Mo showed Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen a Spatial Ring, then reclaimed it after their brief study so he could carry emergency supplies to Terra. He tested the upgraded Pangu Mecha and began loading Warehouse Two’s supplies into the ring, leaving the watching soldiers stunned.

• Lin Mo demonstrated the Spatial Ring to Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen and lent it to them for eight hours of study.
• Zhao Kexia explained Pangu’s improved shock resistance and flexible-metal wiring, and Lin Mo tested the mecha under heavy bombardment.
• Secretary Li told Lin Mo that his listed supplies were ready, and Lin Mo reclaimed the ring from the reluctant academicians.
• Lin Mo used the Spatial Ring to make large piles of ammunition and other supplies vanish in Warehouse Two while the soldiers watched in disbelief.

Lin Mo welcomed the Holy Human Race delegation, including the seventh-order Element Walker Ryze, who had come to help build the Permanent Portal. Kael explained that Ryze had to stabilize the enormous passage between the two worlds, and construction was set to begin that afternoon.

• Lin Mo woke in the Terra Continent after Zhao Gang told him the Holy Human Race delegation had arrived.
• A dragon, pegasi, and lizard-like beasts brought the delegation to the Expeditionary Force's Forward Base, where Long Zhan ordered the soldiers to remain calm.
• Dragon Knight Reynolds greeted Lin Mo, while High Archbishop Kael bowed to the delegation's leader, Ryze, a powerful seventh-order Element Walker.
• Ryze examined Lin Mo and said he hoped Lin Mo could guide Terra and illuminate the continent.
• Zhao Gang arranged a welcoming banquet, where dwarf commander Balin teased Reynolds and drank with him.
• Kael told Lin Mo that Portal construction could begin that afternoon and explained that Ryze had to stabilize the passage between the worlds.

Lin Mo and the Holy Human Race established a portal base as Ryze created its foundation and activated the magic circle with overwhelming power. The portal’s spectacle drew an immense underwater Demon Clan force toward the coast, and Long Zhan ordered the Expeditionary Force to prepare for battle.

• Lin Mo returned to the warehouse and appeared over a hundred crates of supplies from Blue Star, then ordered the soldiers to inventory them.
• Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and the Holy Human Race delegation reached the portal site, where Ryze formed a vast circular foundation and the mages arranged the magical materials.
• Ryze activated the magic circle, sending a towering pillar of light through the clouds and astonishing Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and the soldiers.
• Long Zhan told Lin Mo that the land near the site had been cleared of Demon Clan forces, while the Expeditionary Force maintained defenses against possible attacks from the sea.
• A communications soldier reported countless underwater targets approaching at high speed, and Long Zhan ordered level-one combat readiness as the troops aimed their weapons toward the sea.

Great Xia forces devastated the Demon Clan’s low-ranking sea vanguard while Lin Mo and Long Zhan considered the threat posed by unseen elites. As Ryze’s permanent portal expanded, Long Zhan and Lin Mo reached it and began identity checks, but Lin Mo was asked an embarrassing question.

• Long Zhan ordered the Great Xia forces to open fire, and their cannons, rockets, lasers, vehicles, and helicopters slaughtered the Demon Clan’s vanguard in the sea.
• Lin Mo kept Kael, Balin, and the other powerful allies in reserve while Long Zhan warned that the missing high-ranking Demon Clan members might be probing the defenses or waiting for a stronger opportunity.
• Ryze expanded the permanent portal until it revealed a heavily armed Great Xia hangar on the other side.
• Long Zhan passed the portal’s password and biometric checks after admitting he missed the target three times in recruit training.
• The identification machine asked Lin Mo how many terabytes of material he had on his hard drive.

Lin Mo and Long Zhan connected Arctic Base to the Terra Continent, and Ryze reshaped the portal into a massive rectangle to improve passage. Long Zhan took command as Arctic Base’s forces poured through, and the chapter ended with the portal’s interior suddenly changing after the last missile vehicle emerged.

• Lin Mo and Long Zhan confirmed their identities, and Arctic Base stood down its weapons and began the connection.
• Drones flew through the expanding portal, followed by tanks and other military vehicles as the gate grew to ninety meters wide.
• Lin Mo remarked that a rectangular portal would improve throughput, and Ryze reshaped the stable circular gate into a rectangle.
• Ryze returned to camp to rest, and Long Zhan took command of Arctic Base’s deployment.
• Tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, missile launchers, drones, and attack helicopters streamed onto the Terra Continent for an hour.
• The last missile vehicle drove through, and the scene inside the portal suddenly changed.

Great Xia poured soldiers, Mechanical Dogs, supplies, and construction vehicles through the Portal to secure its foothold on Terra. Lin Mo enlisted Elder Muyu’s Earth Elf Mages to excavate a canal, and their magic began reshaping the land before the astonished armies.

• Great Xia’s Exoskeleton-clad soldiers, Mechanical Dogs, and logistics vehicles emerged from the Portal, leaving Kael, Balin, Elder Muyu, Grom, and the others stunned.
• Long Zhan ordered engineering units through the Portal, and a convoy of heavy construction vehicles followed.
• Lin Mo reviewed plans for a canal linking the Portal to the sea and asked Elder Muyu to have Earth Elf Mages dig it in exchange for a Jiefang truck.
• Elder Muyu accepted the truck keys and sent two Earth Elves to the construction site.
• The two Earth Elves used earth magic to peel away soil and rocks, rapidly carving the canal as Great Xia soldiers watched in disbelief.

Lin Mo toured the massive construction effort linking the Terra Continent to Arctic Base, where Great Xia’s engineers were building a canal and a tunnel for ships to pass through the Portal. After learning the first warship would take a month to launch, he worried the Demon Clan at sea would not wait that long.

• The Earth Elf mages exhausted themselves excavating a broad riverbed, and Lin Mo ordered the engineering troops to resume work.
• Lin Mo returned to Arctic Base and inspected its renovation around the enormous Portal and the tunnel-boring project.
• An engineer reported that the tunnel machines had advanced three hundred meters and that the team expected ships to sail through the Portal within a month.
• Lin Mo saw Great Xia’s construction supplies and machinery pouring into the Arctic site and recognized the scale of the nation’s mobilization.
• Lin Mo returned to the Terra Continent and asked Zhao Gang how long construction would take.
• Zhao Gang said the first warship could enter the water in a month, and Lin Mo worried the Demon Clan in the sea would not wait.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang prepared to receive the Elves’ delivery and trade weapons with the representatives of the Elves, Holy Human Race, and dwarves. The representatives arrived, were stunned by Great Xia’s vast arms display, and completed the inspection of their goods before choosing equipment.

• Zhao Gang explained to Lin Mo that building the Super Canal in one month required mobilizing the nation and using oversaturated construction methods.
• A soldier reported that the Elven delegation was approaching, and Lin Mo and Zhao Gang went to meet the delivery and make their purchases.
• Lin Mo and Zhao Gang presented the three parties with a huge display of tanks, artillery, vehicles, weapons, and ammunition.
• High Archbishop Kael, Elder Muyu, Elder Thorin, and Elder Balin marveled at the equipment, and Thorin eagerly examined a tank.
• The Elves, Holy Human Race, and dwarves presented their trade goods, and Zhao Gang’s soldiers inspected them and confirmed the quantities were correct.
• Zhao Gang invited the representatives to choose their merchandise from Great Xia’s arms display.

Zhao Gang recorded the Dwarves’ and Elves’ weapon orders, then advised High Archbishop Kael to spend the Holy Human Race’s allowance on an integrated combined-arms battalion. Kael accepted the plan, deciding the Holy Human Race would fight as an integrated force.

• Thorin ordered tanks, artillery, air defenses, vehicles, weapons, ammunition, supplies, and baijiu for the Dwarves, and Zhao Gang recorded the requests and added ten cases of baijiu.
• Elder Muyu listed the Elves’ requested tanks, artillery, infantry fighting vehicles, air defenses, drones, transport, weapons, and ammunition.
• High Archbishop Kael struggled to choose weapons within the Holy Human Race’s 7.37-billion-dollar allowance.
• Zhao Gang used a tactical demonstration to show Kael how tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery, and air defenses could work together against the Demon Clan.
• Kael accepted Zhao Gang’s proposal to buy a complete Heavy Combined Arms Battalion and declared that the Holy Human Race would fight as an integrated force.

The Half-Orcs began their journey home through the wasteland, pushing the steel vehicles they had obtained from Lin Mo and Zhao Gang toward the Savage Bone Mountains. Their convoy advanced with confidence, and Warwick called a midday meal break as the warriors celebrated their food.

• Zhao Gang confirmed that the three races had spent their entire allowances, while their representatives looked forward to reclaiming their homes and striking the Demon Clan.
• The Half-Orcs pushed hundreds of combat vehicles across the wasteland toward their last refuge in the Savage Bone Mountains.
• A Bearman scout named Holger fired his Gatling gun at a small group of Demon Clan scouts, and the Minotaur captain scolded and punished him for wasting ammunition.
• Warwick checked the electronic watch Lin Mo had given him and ordered the army to stop for lunch.
• The Half-Orcs cheered as they rested, eager for food after missing the plentiful meals they had enjoyed in Great Xia.

Warwick led the Half-Orc convoy into the Savage Bone Mountains, where scouts discovered more than ten thousand demons and two Sixth-Rank Commanders. He ordered an ambush with the convoy’s new equipment, and the tanks opened fire on the pursuing demons.

• The Half-Orcs shared food as they traveled, and Warwick told them they were about three hours from home.
• Warwick noticed the Savage Bone Mountains were unnaturally quiet and sent scouts ahead.
• A Werewolf scout reported more than ten thousand demons led by two Sixth-Rank Commanders.
• Warwick ordered Alistar to lure the demons into the open while the rest of the force prepared to attack.
• Annie locked onto the targets, and dozens of tanks fired shells into the pursuing demons.

Warwick’s Half-Orc force used Great Xia’s weapons to rout a demon ambush and kill one of its commanders. As they reached the Savage Bone Mountains, they found every outpost destroyed and discovered their tribe under a devastating attack.

• The Half-Orcs used tanks, mortars, and armored vehicles to slaughter the demons, while Warwick killed a sixth-rank commander with his bare hands.
• Warwick abandoned his pursuit of the second demon commander and led the convoy deeper into the mountains.
• The force found the first three outposts reduced to ruins and hurried toward the tribe using Spatial Rings to bypass a mountain.
• Warwick reached a ridge and saw the tribe burning as demonic creatures overwhelmed its last defenders.
• Warwick witnessed his tribesmen being killed and roared his hatred of the Demon Clan.

The Half-Orc tribe faced annihilation as the Demon Clan overwhelmed its defenses, forcing the elders to hold the line while the young and children attempted to escape. Warwick and the returning warriors arrived with Great Xia weapons, devastating the demons and turning the battle around.

• The Half-Orc patriarch ordered the old, weak, sick, and disabled to defend the tribe while the young warriors escorted the children and young females westward.
• Talos left Ursoc to hold off the seventh-order Demon Clan commander and charged to protect the breakout force.
• A barrage of flaming projectiles struck the Demon Clan army, destroying demons and scattering its formation.
• Warwick returned and punched the Demon Clan commander away from the berserk Ursoc.
• Hogg fired a Gatling gun and Alistar launched rockets as the returning Half-Orc warriors attacked with Great Xia weapons.

Warwick's returning Steel Torrent turned the Half-Orcs' desperate defense into a devastating counterattack against the Demon Clan. Warwick, Talos, and Usok pursued a fleeing Seventh Order demon commander, but Usok's berserk state began to fade before they could catch it.

• Warwick displayed the Sixth-Rank Demon Clan commander's head and ordered his troops to attack, while the old chieftain rallied the surviving Half-Orcs to counterattack.
• Half-Orcs wielding Great Xia's tanks, guns, and rocket launchers slaughtered the demons and destroyed several powerful foes.
• Warwick, Talos, and Usok cornered the Seventh Order demon commander, but a Sixth-Rank subordinate shielded it and let it escape.
• Warwick, Talos, and Usok chased the commander across the mountains for over ten minutes, but Usok's berserk state began to wear off and Warwick hesitated over whether to continue.

Warwick and Talos returned to the Half-Orc tribal valley after Usok was injured and the Demon Clan commander escaped, finding the battle won and the survivors grieving and celebrating. The old chief treated Usok, then asked Warwick to explain his dealings with Great Xia after seeing the tribe’s new weapons, including a tank.

• Warwick abandoned the pursuit of the escaping Demon Clan commander and returned to the valley with Talos carrying the injured Usok.
• The Half-Orcs celebrated their victory and reunited with loved ones, while Warwick embraced his father and apologized for arriving too late.
• The old chief ordered the tribe to tend to the wounded, count casualties, and gather their fallen.
• The old chief gave Usok Life Spring Water, easing his convulsions so he could recover after a few days of rest.
• Warwick told the old chief that the steel behemoth was called a Tank and was one of Great Xia’s weapons.
• The old chief asked Warwick to explain everything about his contact with Great Xia.

Warwick and Alistar told the Half-Orc survivors how Great Xia treated them as equals, fed them well, and welcomed them with head-petting. Warwick then revealed that Great Xia had killed the Demon Clan’s supreme commander Malphite with a weapon whose blast erased a vast area of the Mist Forest.

• Warwick and Alistar recounted their journey to Great Xia and described the clean barracks, plentiful meals, and friendly treatment they received.
• Alistar explained that Great Xia’s people liked petting the Half-Orcs, especially Annie’s ears and the Fox Charm Clan’s tails.
• Warwick told the gathered tribespeople that Great Xia’s fief also hosted delegations from the Holy Human Race, the Elves, and the Dwarf Clan without any of them acting superior.
• Warwick announced that Great Xia had killed Malphite, shocking the old chief and the assembled Half-Orcs.
• Warwick described a gigantic explosion that killed Malphite and tens of thousands of demons and destroyed a vast stretch of the Mist Forest.

After the Half-Orcs repelled the Demon Clan with weapons brought back from Great Xia, the Old Chieftain ordered relief efforts for the wounded and survivors. Warwick returned from a hunt with food and prepared to share Great Xia’s “Delicious Powder” as the tribe’s meal was cooked.

• The Old Chieftain learned that Great Xia would not sell the weapon that had destroyed Malphite and asked Warwick to teach the warriors to use their new weapons after the tribe recovered.
• The Half-Orcs counted 4,321 dead and thousands wounded, and the Old Chieftain ordered healing supplies, Life Spring Water, burials, and repairs.
• Warwick led uninjured warriors of the Fifth Order and above into the mountains to hunt while Talos stayed behind to guard the tribe.
• Warwick and the hunters returned with large amounts of prey, including a Mammoth Beast that Warwick carried into the valley.
• Warwick took jars of Great Xia’s “Delicious Powder” from his Spatial Ring and told Alistar to distribute it for the roasting meat and soup.

Alistar and the Half-Orcs added Great Xia seasoning to their food, and its aroma and flavor overwhelmed the valley’s hungry people. Warwick’s father opened the communal meal, leaving Annie’s friends wondering why she cried despite having been to Great Xia.

• Alistar sprinkled Great Xia seasoning over the roast, and the aroma made Hogg and the Half-Orcs crave the food.
• The scent reached grieving survivors and wounded warriors, so Warwick organized the tribespeople into a line for the meal.
• Warwick served the first seasoned roast to his father, who was overcome by its flavor and ordered everyone to eat.
• The Half-Orcs and Merfolk received meat soup and roast, and many wept as they ate and heard about Great Xia’s plentiful meals.
• Annie ate her roast in tears, and a Fox People girl asked why she was crying when she had already eaten well in Great Xia.

Warwick began organizing the Half-Orcs into the Iron Orc Legion and assigned them roles in training with Great Xia’s weapons and vehicles. The first tank-driving lesson ended in disaster when Feilin lost control and crashed into a wooden shed.

• Warwick declared that the tribe would learn to use Great Xia’s weapons and form the Iron Orc Legion, drawing an enthusiastic roar from the Half-Orcs.
• Warwick assigned the Merfolk to fish and dig a river moat, while Alistar directed smaller Half-Orcs toward tank-driving lessons and the larger warriors toward heavy weapons.
• Barton tried to climb into a tank but got stuck in its hatch, then joined the heavy-weapons group and picked up a Gatling gun.
• Feilin volunteered to drive a tank and confidently followed Annie’s instructions, but he panicked as it lurched around the clearing.
• Feilin’s tank spun through the clearing and smashed into a newly built wooden shed.

The Half-Orcs trained with Great Xia’s weapons, exposing problems with the equipment while showing how powerful it could be. Warwick devised a plan for custom weapons built around the Half-Orcs’ strength, and decided to return to Great Xia to arrange them.

• Feilin accidentally wrecked a vehicle during training, while Gelu missed his target with a tank gun and Barton nearly hit other Half-Orcs with a Gatling.
• Warwick and the old chieftain watched the exhausted but excited Half-Orcs discuss how Great Xia’s weapons could help them fight the Demon Clan.
• Warwick identified problems with the weapons, including accidental discharges and vehicles’ heavy diesel consumption.
• Warwick imagined Half-Orc warriors carrying powerful gun barrels and using specialized firearms, and proposed custom weapons that kept Great Xia’s firepower but did not require engines or armor.
• The old chieftain agreed to build a Steel Half-Orc Legion, and Warwick announced he would return to Great Xia with another group to arrange the weapons.