Recaps

Zhou Shan refused to use a Tactical Nuclear Bomb after Gate One fell and ordered Great Xia’s forces to repel the Demon Clan. Great Xia’s troops and combat robots overwhelmed the invaders across Tianxiong City, leaving the battle as a one-sided slaughter.

• Lin Shigong handed Tianxiong City’s defense to Zhou Shan before collapsing from exhaustion.
• The Demon Clan breached Gate One, and Lin Shigong asked whether to detonate the deployed Tactical Nuclear Bomb.
• Zhou Shan rejected using the bomb and ordered the Jingzhe Rapid Response Brigade to attack with heavy firepower, armored formations, and unmanned combat units.
• Zhao Haidong’s squad used Plasma Rifles and anti-armor Missiles to destroy the demons attacking through a commercial thoroughfare.
• Great Xia’s infantry and combat robots cleared Demon Clan forces across Tianxiong City, including a Fifth Order Blade Demon Spider in Sector H5.

Zhou Shan’s troops retook much of Tianxiong City, allowing Lin Shigong and the exhausted Vault staff to rest as command passed to Zhou Shan. The advance stalled when a disguised Seventh-Order Demon Venerable revealed itself in Sector D7, where it had already killed soldiers and destroyed two robots.

• Zhou Shan’s forces cleared several sectors and drove the demons back, and Lin Shigong ordered a command handover before collapsing to sleep.
• Zhou Shan assumed command and directed his staff to continue the citywide sweep while troops cleared the remaining sectors.
• A report revealed that a disguised demon in Sector D7 had torn apart two Fifth-Order Robots and killed three infantrymen.
• Zhou Shan ordered the battlefield feed onto the main screen and learned the demon ranked as a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• Zhou Shan realized the demon might have been heading for the command hub or the Antimatter Bomb.

Zhou Shan ordered troops to retreat and fifth-order combat robots to pin down a seventh-order Demon Clan creature in D7 while logistics prepared a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb. The robots repeatedly sacrificed themselves to stop the creature from escaping, leaving it surrounded again as the blockade continued.

• Zhou Shan ordered the D7 infantry to withdraw, sent fifth-order robots to contain the creature, and ordered logistics to prepare a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb.
• Forty-seven fifth-order robots surrounded the seventh-order Demon Clan creature, which unleashed its domain and destroyed the first robot with one punch.
• Zhou Shan ordered the robots to attack across all bands, but the creature dodged and dismantled them as reinforcements kept charging into the fight.
• The creature tore a gap in the encirclement and tried to flee, but three newly arrived robots blocked the corridor and delayed it with their bodies and weapons.
• The creature destroyed the three barricading robots, but the robots behind it surged forward and closed the encirclement again.

Zhou Shan’s forces sacrificed nearly a hundred fifth-order combat robots and detonated a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb in the D7 Section to attack the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable. The blast devastated D7 and damaged neighboring sections; the Demon Venerable’s fate remained unconfirmed as soldiers began checking the irradiated ruins.

• Zhou Shan learned that the nuclear-bomb-carrying robot was approaching the target and urged it to hurry while other robots delayed the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• The Demon Venerable tried to escape, but three robots self-destructed to drive it back as the bomb-carrying robot closed in.
• The robot detonated the nuclear bomb, vaporizing the Demon Venerable from view and wrecking the D7 Section while damaging D6 and D8.
• After the tremors subsided, Zhou Shan ordered personnel to confirm the Demon Venerable’s fate, clear the remaining sections, and stabilize the damaged structures.
• A soldier gave a fifth-order robot a Magic Purification Scroll, and the robot opened it above ground zero to reduce the radiation in the ruins.

Human forces cleared the radiation and confirmed that a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable had died in the nuclear blast. Enraged, Cho'Gath opened nine Space Wormholes across three underground cities to unleash a massive invasion, while Zhou Shan prepared for the next attack in Tianxiong Underground City.

• Robots and soldiers used seven Purification Scrolls to clear radiation, then swept the ruins and killed surviving demons.
• A robot squad found the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable's remains and confirmed that it was dead.
• Cho'Gath learned that another subordinate had fallen and sent a psychic command to begin a massive deployment.
• Demon armies and Giant Burrowing Dragons poured through nine Space Wormholes opened in Freedom, Shengdun, and Eolseu Underground Cities.
• Zhou Shan received confirmation of the Demon Venerable's death and remained on alert in Tianxiong Underground City, expecting Cho'Gath's next move.

Han Niba learned that the Demon Clan was massing above captured Underground Cities and sending more troops through Space Wormholes to overwhelm Tianxiong City. He ordered coordinated long-range fire support and demanded a sustainable plan to keep the demons contained in Antarctica.

• A Tianxiong City report confirmed that a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable had been killed and its defensive line had stabilized.
• Satellite footage showed large Demon Clan formations gathering above several fallen Underground Cities and advancing toward Tianxiong City.
• Han Niba warned Zhou Shan that the demons would keep increasing in number as they used the captured cities as bases and opened more Space Wormholes.
• Zhou Shan vowed that the Northern Theater's Second Division would defend Tianxiong City as long as the Eighth-Order Demon God did not enter it.
• Han Niba ordered the major Underground Cities to coordinate long-range strikes against the demons surrounding Tianxiong City.
• Han Niba told his staff that Great Xia had to keep the Demon Clan pinned down in Antarctica and demanded a sustainable long-term war plan.

Han Niba and his staff developed a plan to support the expanding Antarctic battlefield through large portals, naval deployments, unmanned forces, and a national shift to protracted-war production. The chapter ended with Han ordering immediate mobilization and coordination with the Holy Human Race.

• A staff officer proposed opening large portals to safe Antarctic sites so fleets, aircraft, and combat equipment could reach the battlefield directly.
• Han Niba questioned radiation risks, and the staff proposed using Terra’s purification supplies and treating damaged aircraft components as expendable.
• Logistics officers proposed routing equipment from underground cities through Celestial Pivot City before sending it to Antarctica, while factories expanded production of weapons and unmanned units.
• Han Niba asked whether nuclear bombs could destroy Demon Clan-held underground cities, but the staff warned that doing so could drive the enemy to hide its wormholes and spread through underground tunnels.
• Han Niba approved the protracted-war plan and ordered portal coordination, Antarctic deployment sites, fleet and aircraft preparations, stockpile inventories, and expanded wartime production.

Great Xia mobilized its underground cities and prepared a portal to send its industrial war machine to Antarctica. The portal opened onto the ice sheet, where robot dogs deployed first and began establishing a security perimeter.

• Han Niba ordered Great Xia to mobilize its civilization-wide war effort as the Demon Clan advanced.
• Underground cities acknowledged Celestial Pivot City's orders and prepared weapons, vehicles, drones, supplies, and transport for the war.
• Staff beneath Celestial Pivot City finished coordinating with the World Tree, which agreed to be pruned to help open the portal.
• A portal rapidly expanded on the Antarctic ice sheet, revealing an underground plaza filled with Great Xia's robots, vehicles, and aircraft.
• Robot dogs streamed through the stabilized portal and spread across the ice to establish a growing security perimeter.

Great Xia opened a stable Portal to Antarctica and deployed robots, armored vehicles, aircraft, and a temporary runway to establish a forward military base. A second Portal brought a growing fleet into contaminated Antarctic waters, where World Tree branches protected crews from radiation.

• Han Niba received reports that reconnaissance units had found no Burrowing Earth Dragon activity and that the Portal was stable.
• Holy Human Race mages helped stabilize the Portal, allowing Great Xia to open a gateway two hundred meters wide and one hundred meters tall.
• Robot formations crossed the Portal and established defensive positions, communications and fire-control nodes, air defenses, and a temporary runway.
• Unmanned armored vehicles and aircraft crossed into Antarctica, while drones took off to scout and designate targets near Tianxiong City.
• Great Xia opened a sea Portal outside an Arctic harbor and assembled warships in the waters off Antarctica.
• World Tree branches aboard crewed vessels purified radiation around key areas and helped protect the fleet's personnel.

Great Xia completed its naval and ground deployment in Antarctica and began a coordinated assault on the Demon Clan. The chapter left the battle underway as Great Xia’s robots and combat vehicles struck the demon tide advancing from Freedom Underground City.

• An unmanned frigate passed through the portal successfully, and the fleet followed into Antarctic waters and took up its assigned positions.
• Han Niba learned that the Demon Clan was advancing from Freedom, Shengdun, and Eolseu, then ordered joint saturation strikes against Burrowing Earth Dragons, giant siege beasts, and high-ranking targets.
• Warships, rocket artillery, and carrier drones launched attacks toward the Demon Clan concentrations.
• Ground forces advanced to intercept the demon tide from Freedom, with robot dogs scouting and combat robots and unmanned vehicles forming the firing line.
• Great Xia’s ground forces opened fire, killing demon creatures and destroying a giant siege beast with concentrated electromagnetic and missile strikes.

Great Xia’s robot army, aerial units, bombers, and fleet coordinated fire against the Demon Clan across Antarctica, opening support for the besieged underground cities. The attacks disrupted the demonic tide and struck key threats, while the battle continued.

• Han Niba ordered aerial interception units forward as Winged Demons and Gargoyles threatened Great Xia’s drone swarm and reconnaissance network.
• Unmanned fighters, air-defense vehicles, and missiles broke apart the Winged Demon swarm and destroyed attacking Gargoyles.
• Heavy unmanned bombers struck Burrowing Earth Dragons detected beneath the ice, and tank formations finished off those driven to the surface.
• Zhou Shan learned that the Antarctic land deployment point had coordinated fire support with Tianxiong City and ordered his troops to keep defending the city.
• Great Xia’s fleet launched missiles and naval gunfire against Demon Clan forces advancing in the Shengdun’s direction, severely wounding a giant Siege Beast.

Great Xia unleashed coordinated firepower across sea, land, air, and space, disrupting the Demon Clan’s advance and killing a giant Siege Beast near Tianxiong City. Meanwhile, Cho'Gath watched his armies being slaughtered from the ruins of Billy Underground City and erupted with fury.

• Great Xia’s armed satellites disrupted Demon Clan command nodes and elite units, allowing ground forces to destroy them with rocket artillery.
• The Kuafu received authorization to fire its Plasma Main Cannon and killed a sixth-rank mutant Siege Beast approaching Tianxiong City.
• Battle reports showed the Demon Clan’s vanguard driven back, giant Siege Beast herds decimated, and pressure on Tianxiong City reduced.
• Cho'Gath stood amid the ruins of Billy Underground City, where his forces reported heavy losses to Great Xia’s precision bombardments.
• Cho'Gath’s fury intensified as he sensed his Demon Clan Army being slaughtered across the battlefield.

After the Demon Clan suffered heavy losses against Great Xia’s defenses, Cho'Gath ordered every Space-Jumping Beast deployed, opening more than fifty hidden Space Wormholes across Blue Star. As fear and rumors spread through the Underground Cities, Great Xia issued an announcement denying claims of impending defeat and revealing its Antimatter Bomb capability.

• Cho'Gath grew furious at the Demon Clan’s losses and ordered every Space-Jumping Beast to open a Space Wormhole.
• More than fifty Space Wormholes opened in hidden locations across Blue Star, allowing Demon Clan forces to begin surging through them.
• Evacuees carried news of the invasion to other Underground Cities, where panic and rumors about the Demon Clan and Great Xia spread.
• Great Xia’s administrative departments identified the rumors as a threat and activated a joint response mechanism.
• Great Xia issued an announcement denying claims that its defenses were failing and disclosed that Antimatter Bombs had damaged High-Ranking Demon Clan targets.

After footage of an Antimatter Bomb killing the Eighth-Order Demon God Ao Lingsi calmed people in Great Xia’s Underground Cities, Han Niba learned that Demon Clan forces had emerged near the Equator. The war had spread beyond Antarctica, but Han Niba concluded that Blue Star likely had only one Eighth-Order Demon God.

• Official Media released footage of the Pope and Seventh Order fighters killing Ao Lingsi with an Antimatter Bomb, reassuring people across Great Xia’s Underground Cities.
• A satellite detected a tide of Demon Clan creatures emerging from a cave near the Equator, and an information officer reported the activity to Han Niba in Tianshu Underground City.
• Han Niba learned that a Space Wormhole likely existed near the Equator, making Antarctica no longer the only battlefield.
• Staff officers explained that extreme temperatures, disasters, and interference made the Equator deadly to humans and difficult to clear with conventional forces.
• Han Niba asked whether a second Eighth-Order Demon God had appeared, and the head of the information department said none had been detected.
• Han Niba concluded that Blue Star most likely had only one Eighth-Order Demon God.

After Han Niba learned that Demon Clan forces were appearing across Blue Star, he activated Plan C and ordered Great Xia to shift into all-out wartime production. The chapter leaves Great Xia preparing for a global campaign while its commanders face a severe shortage of advanced combat robots, just as an adjutant receives unexpected good news.

• Han Niba ordered a global search to map Demon Clan activity and locate its openings on Blue Star.
• Reports revealed Demon Clan forces and gathering points across nearly every continent, turning the planet into a vast battlefield.
• Han Niba activated Plan C, directing underground cities to prioritize mass production of unmanned combat equipment.
• Command staff noted that Great Xia's advanced robots were too costly and scarce to counter the Demon Clan's worldwide expansion.
• An adjutant received a message, froze, and announced good news.

Han Niba ordered Great Xia to mass-produce a new third-order combat robot as the Demon Clan spread across Blue Star. In Tianshu Underground City, Lu Renjia and his family felt the war reach home as food rations were cut and residents were mobilized to support production.

• The adjutant announced that the Academy of Sciences had completed a third-order combat robot design that could be mass-produced for about one million per unit.
• Han Niba ordered military production lines across the Underground Cities to switch to the new robot model, with units to be produced and deployed within days.
• Tianshu Underground City introduced wartime rationing, reducing meat and other supplies for residents not doing heavy physical labor.
• Lu Renjia and Li Mei explained the reduced meal to their daughter, Lu Xiaoxiao, who offered her father half of her meat.
• A loudspeaker announced comprehensive controls across the Underground Cities and called on residents to support the production and transport of unmanned combat equipment.

Lu Renjia and other residents of Tianshu Underground City joined the massive wartime production effort as Great Xia prepared to fight the Demon Clan. He reported to the transformed Seventh Industrial District, where combat robot assembly was underway.

• Lu Renjia received notice that his maintenance team would join the Third-Order Combat Robot assembly line on a ten-hour shift rotation.
• Li Mei supported Lu Renjia's new schedule, while Uncle Zhang and local young people volunteered to repair machinery and sort parts.
• Lu Renjia promised Lu Xiaoxiao that the robots he helped build would protect his family.
• Residents accepted reduced services and redirected factories and supplies toward military production.
• Lu Renjia arrived at the Seventh Industrial District and saw its civilian workshops converted into combat robot and weapons production lines.

Lu Renjia helped mass-produce Third Order combat robots as Great Xia’s Underground Cities mobilized against the Demon Clan. In Celestial Pivot City’s Command Center, officers debated whether to cooperate with other countries as attacks and apparent nuclear destructions mounted.

• Old Chen assigned Lu Renjia to assemble knee-joint force-feedback modules for Third Order combat robots, which were urgently needed for testing at the front.
• Lu Renjia worked through the night, and the first finished Third Order combat robot came off the line at three in the morning as Underground Cities across Great Xia ramped up military production.
• An intelligence officer reported that eight Antarctic Underground Cities had been confirmed destroyed by Demon Gods and that twenty-eight more showed signs of internal nuclear detonations.
• A young staff officer proposed joining forces with other countries to share intelligence and coordinate nuclear strikes against the Demon Clan.
• An old staff officer argued that cooperation would be difficult because other countries had little to offer and might resent Great Xia over the earlier global nuclear war and the trapping of their people in Underground Cities, then began explaining a third problem.

Han Niba and his staff rejected a broad alliance with other countries, then learned that the Demon God was approaching Tianyong City through tunnels dug by Burrowing Earth Dragons. At Tianyong Underground City, Chen Jianguo and Li Chousha faced a rapidly advancing threat that could break into the main passage within twenty minutes.

• Han Niba agreed that Great Xia should avoid exposing its command structure and technology by uniting with other countries.
• An information officer reported that Chen Jianguo had detected an enormous seismic source outside Tianyong Underground City, likely the Demon God approaching through tunnels dug by Burrowing Earth Dragons.
• Han Niba and the staff recognized that the Demon God had finally turned toward Tianyong City after destroying Underground Cities elsewhere.
• Chen Jianguo and Li Chousha monitored the Burrowing Earth Dragons attacking Tianyong City’s perimeter and concluded they were clearing a path for the Demon God.
• A staff officer warned Chen Jianguo and Li Chousha that the creatures could reach the first-level main underground passage within twenty minutes.

With a Demon God approaching Tianyong City, Chen Jianguo learned that Tianxiong City was sending an antimatter bomb that might be able to kill it. He ordered Li Chousha’s soldiers to withdraw and leave the defensive line to unmanned forces as Tianyong prepared to lure the Demon God into the bomb’s destruction radius.

• Chen Jianguo confirmed that Tianyong City’s 1.5-megaton nuclear bomb was ready, but the Command Center doubted it could kill the approaching Demon God.
• A Tianshu staff officer informed Chen Jianguo that an antimatter bomb from Tianxiong City was being sent through the portal, with City Lord Lin Shigong’s authorization.
• The Tianshu staff officer relayed Commander-in-Chief Han’s order to use the bomb to deter the Demon God or lure it within range and detonate the weapon.
• Chen Jianguo ordered Li Chousha to withdraw his soldiers and transfer the defensive positions to unmanned forces.
• Li Chousha directed the First and Second Armored Infantry Regiments to withdraw, the Combat Engineer Battalion to complete the transfer, and the Unmanned Combat Group to take over.

Tianyong Underground City prepared to face the approaching Demon God, withdrawing its soldiers and activating its unmanned defenses while the command staff set the Antimatter Bomb and nuclear bombs for detonation. As the Demon God neared the first main defensive wall, seven Burrowing Earth Dragons broke through and the robots opened fire.

• Chen Jianguo ordered the Antimatter Bomb and nuclear bombs to be used together, while Li Chousha transferred control of the unmanned forces and left for the Portal.
• An information officer reported that the Demon God was approaching quickly, and Chen Jianguo placed the entire city on final defensive status and began the Antimatter Bomb's preliminary detonation sequence.
• The Command Center staff shared the last messages they had recorded for their families before Chen Jianguo ordered them to prepare to engage.
• Robots and vehicles took firing positions at the first main defensive wall, while a special operations squad waited with the Antimatter Bomb one kilometer away.
• The domed wall burst open and seven Burrowing Earth Dragons emerged, prompting the robots to open fire.

Tianyong City's defenses destroyed the seven Burrowing Earth Dragons, but vibration detectors showed the Demon God retreating before it reached the city. Tianshu's General Headquarters concluded that the Antimatter Bomb might be driving it away, making their planned ambush unreliable.

• Chen Jianguo ordered the frontline to stop firing, clear the smoke, and check the wall for movement.
• The cleared surveillance feed showed that all seven Burrowing Earth Dragons had been killed and their bodies blocked the tunnels.
• Vibration detectors revealed that the Demon God was moving away from Tianyong City, prompting staff to suspect it had sensed the Antimatter Bomb.
• Chen Jianguo ordered the city to report the data to Tianshu's General Headquarters and keep its defenses and bomb on standby.
• Tianshu's staff compared the Demon God's retreats from Tianxiong City and Tianyong City and judged that it could sense danger, making their planned Antimatter Bomb ambush unworkable.

Han Niba ordered Antimatter Bombs to be transferred between Underground Cities to deter the Demon God and buy Great Xia time. While Tianxiong City received waves of reinforcements, its defenses collapsed under the Demon Clan assault, leaving the city facing a flood of attackers.

• Han Niba argued that Antimatter Bombs could exploit the Demon God’s fear of danger and drive it away without being detonated.
• Han Niba ordered Portals established for thirty-five Underground Cities, with Celestial Pivot City as the transfer hub for rapidly deploying Antimatter Bombs.
• Tianxiong Underground City sent robots, tanks, and drones through Portals to reinforce its defensive lines.
• Hundreds of Burrowing Earth Dragons breached Tianxiong City’s outer walls as explosions and structural damage overwhelmed its defenses.
• A section of Tianxiong City’s wall collapsed, crushing combat robots and allowing Burrowing Earth Dragons and the Demon Clan Army to pour inside.

Tianxiong City’s defenses crumbled under the Demon Clan’s assault as a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable’s pressure weakened its soldiers. Just as Lin Shigong and Zhou Shan faced the prospect of losing the city, a portal opened and powerful allied forces poured through, including numerous Seventh-Order experts.

• The Demon Clan overwhelmed Tianxiong City’s perimeter defenses, while the pressure of a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable hindered the soldiers.
• Lin Shigong and Zhou Shan learned that the Second Defense Line would soon fall, and Zhou Shan proposed sending the Reserve Force to fight at Number Three Block.
• Lin Shigong stopped Zhou Shan from charging into the battle, while staff reported that a new portal had opened on the Main Arterial Road behind the Second Defense Line.
• Seventh-Order experts from the Holy Human Race, Elves, Dwarf Clan, Half-Orc Alliance, and Dragons Clan emerged from the portal.
• A Seventh-Order Dragon unleashed Dragon Spit on the Demon Clan Army as more Dragons came through, bringing the total number of Seventh-Order Dragons inside the Underground City to three.

Fifteen Seventh-Order experts and other allies emerged from the Portal and turned back the Demon Clan's assault on Tianxiong City. Lin Mo arrived with the reinforcements, and the allies launched their counterattack while Fendona healed the wounded soldiers.

• Fifteen Seventh-Order experts appeared through the Portal, restoring the soldiers' morale as they attacked the Demon Clan forces.
• Holy Human, Elf, Dwarf, Half-Orc, and Dragon experts unleashed magic and physical attacks, rapidly shifting the battlefield in Tianxiong City's favor.
• Lin Mo emerged from the Portal, saw the city's destruction, and felt guilty for arriving too late.
• Fendona healed wounded soldiers while Kael joined the fight with holy light spears.
• Thorin Ironbeard and Grom led their allies against the demons, and Yadis charged into battle with its Super Cannon and Dragon Breath.