Recaps

The Plasma Bugs destroyed two interceptor missiles with their beam defenses and shields, while their plasma attacks continued toward Great Xia’s Landing Zone. Han Niba ordered Lin Mo and the Elf elders to evacuate through the Portal, then authorized a missile-and-drone interception as the plasma masses descended.

• The Plasma Bugs shot down both interceptor missiles and blocked the explosions with energy shields, leaving them structurally intact.
• Han Niba ordered Lin Mo and the two Elf elders to withdraw through the Portal before the incoming plasma attacks reached the Landing Zone.
• Lin Mo received central command’s warning and prepared to cross the Portal with the Elf elders, while the Wood Elder protected it with vines.
• The two plasma masses entered Kona Satellite’s atmosphere and shrank, but remained large enough to threaten the Portal and Landing Zone.
• Han Niba ordered air-defense missiles to intercept the plasma masses, with a drone swarm ready as a second defensive barrier.

Great Xia intercepted the first plasma attacks but realized the incoming force could overwhelm its defenses. Han Niba ordered tests of the plasma bugs’ defensive gaps and shield weaknesses as the bugs prepared to fire again.

• Great Xia launched missiles and drones to intercept two plasma clusters, destroying both high above the landing zone.
• Blue plasma fragments burned demon forces and damaged several automatic turrets, but the position, portal, and quantum relay held.
• Han Niba and the staff identified possible blind spots, weak areas, shield limits, and a cooldown period in the plasma bugs’ defenses.
• Han Niba ordered three missile groups to test frontal defenses, rear blind spots, and the midsection using kinetic penetrators and electromagnetic pulse warheads.
• Great Xia rapidly assembled new launch positions as staff estimated that each plasma bug could attack about once every twenty minutes.

Han Niba directed missile tests against two Plasma Bugs to determine their defensive capabilities. The tests showed that the creatures could maintain point defense by firing their jet sacs in batches, cover apparent rear weak points by turning, and resist energy attacks, though fragments penetrated their shields and wounded one.

• The first missile group tested the Plasma Bugs’ frontal defenses, and staff discovered that each jet sac had its own cooldown while the creatures fired their organs in staggered batches to avoid gaps in defense.
• Han Niba sent the second group behind the Plasma Bugs, but they turned to bring their flank and dorsal weapons to bear, while plasma from a propulsion chamber disrupted a missile’s guidance.
• Han Niba ordered the third group to test the creatures’ shields with an electromagnetic pulse missile, but the shield blocked the electrical arc and its heat.
• A high-energy fragmentation missile struck the shield, and some fragments pierced it and wounded a Plasma Bug’s midsection.

Great Xia used armor-piercing shells and coordinated missile attacks to damage and disable several Plasma Bugs, exploiting their energy-focused shields and limited ability to defend multiple directions. The remaining Plasma Bugs formed a layered defensive array and prepared a concentrated volley from 47 targets as Han Niba ordered maximum interception readiness.

• An armor-piercing shell penetrated a Plasma Bug’s shield and damaged its midsection energy sac.
• Han Niba ordered the Supercomputer System to record the Plasma Bugs’ defenses and directed future attacks to pressure them from multiple directions.
• Great Xia’s missiles forced several Plasma Bugs to turn and spread their point-defense fire, allowing armor-piercing shells to rupture energy sacs and disable targets.
• The surviving Plasma Bugs formed a layered array that shielded their inner ranks while leaving them free to charge at the Landing Zone.
• Forty-seven Plasma Bugs aligned for concentrated fire, and Han Niba ordered all air-defense systems to maximum interception readiness.

As the Plasma Bugs formed a rotating firing array to bombard the Kona Satellite Landing Zone, Han Niba ordered Great Xia to exploit the moment they changed positions and increase the flow of reinforcements through the Portals. Meanwhile, Kael continued widening a Portal in the Abandoned Underground City as the Unmanned Legion moved through it toward the battle.

• The forty-seven Plasma Bugs formed staggered rows and began charging their weapons for a rotating bombardment, prompting staff to warn that conventional attacks would struggle to break their overlapping defenses.
• Han Niba identified the moment the Bugs swapped positions as a shield weakness and ordered near-orbit missiles to strike then, while ground-based missiles countered their Plasma Clusters.
• Han Niba ordered Lin Mo to open more Portals, arranged for Great Xia to defend a second Space Wormhole with its remaining Antimatter Bomb, and requested three Seventh Order Holy Human Race mages to open Portals there.
• At the Kona Landing Zone, missile crews launched repeated strikes while the Demon Tide continued attacking the defensive line from the ground.
• In the Abandoned Underground City, the Unmanned Legion streamed through two Portals as Kael widened his Portal beyond ten meters to speed the transfer of vehicles and equipment.

Lin Mo coordinated defenses at the Kona Landing Zone while Great Xia’s forces struggled with limited Portal throughput and attacks from the ground, sky, and orbit. The orbital counterattack destroyed or disabled seven Plasma Bugs, but the Landing Zone remained under severe pressure as reinforcements crowded through the Portal.

• Lin Mo accepted central command’s plan to concentrate forces at one Space Wormhole, authorized preparations for a Large Portal, and ordered an unmanned Pangu Mecha to protect the Elf Elders.
• Lin Mo returned to the Abandoned Underground City and began inscribing the foundation of a new teleportation array.
• The Plasma Bugs launched twenty-four orbital strikes, and missiles and Drones intercepted them before they reached the Landing Zone.
• The Plasma Bugs shifted formation to rotate their firing line, creating a brief opening that Anti-Satellite Armor-Piercing Shells used to strike seven Plasma Bugs.
• Han Niba ordered continued missile fire as vehicles crowded through the Portal and the Demon Tide compressed Great Xia’s defensive line.

Lin Mo and three Seventh-Order Holy Human Race Mages worked to open more portals while Great Xia faced an incoming swarm of 250 Plasma Bugs. As Han Niba prepared to order a retreat, Sky Eye detected 1,362 high-speed projectiles closing in on the enemy swarm.

• Lin Mo asked three Seventh-Order Holy Human Race Mages to open additional portals, and they began constructing magic arrays.
• Kael watched the mages work while Lin Mo continued inscribing his own array.
• Sky Eye detected 250 approaching Plasma Bugs as the second round of plasma strikes began charging.
• Han Niba and his staff weighed a retreat after models showed the landing zone was unlikely to withstand the attacks.
• The Sky Eye information officer spotted 1,362 projectiles speeding toward the rear of the Plasma Bug swarm.

The Kona Civilization sent over a thousand interceptor missiles to support Great Xia against the Plasma Bug swarm. The bugs regrouped into a heavily shielded sphere, stopping their concentrated bombardment of the landing zone and giving Great Xia time to reinforce its defenses.

• Han Niba received a broadcast from the Kona Civilization announcing that it had launched its first wave of interceptor missiles.
• Han Niba ordered Great Xia to coordinate with the Kona Civilization and prepare follow-up strikes against the Plasma Bugs' formation nodes.
• The Kona missiles approached from multiple angles, using decoys and tricky trajectories to disrupt the bugs' close-in defenses.
• The Plasma Bugs abandoned their rotating ranks and formed a shielded sphere, turning their weapons away from Kona Satellite to defend themselves.
• Han Niba ordered the landing zone to open all Portals and prioritize sending through air defenses and anti-satellite missiles so Great Xia could attack alongside the Kona Civilization.

Han Niba coordinated Great Xia’s orbital weapons with the Kona Civilization’s missile assault, severely damaging the Plasma Bugs and stabilizing the landing zone as reinforcements poured through new Portals. Beneath the Kona Satellite, Cho'Gath and the Demon Venerables realized their forces were losing ground both in space and on the surface.

• Han Niba waited for the Plasma Bugs’ shields and close-in defenses to fall out of alignment, then ordered Great Xia’s anti-satellite shells to join the Kona missiles’ attack.
• The combined strike severely damaged sixty-three Plasma Bugs, killing thirty-four and disabling twenty-six, while several others broke from the formation with failing life signs.
• Han Niba ordered the orbital forces to keep attacking and warned the command staff not to relax while the Plasma Bugs remained capable of fighting.
• New Portals stabilized at the Kona Satellite, allowing air defenses, missiles, combat vehicles, and engineering robots to reinforce the landing zone and help its defensive line regain ground.
• Cho'Gath and the three Seventh-Order Demon Venerables received reports of the Plasma Bugs’ losses and learned that Great Xia’s forces were pushing outward as more Portals opened.

Cho'Gath ordered the Demon Clan to retreat from the Kona Satellite after deciding that continuing the battle would cost too many Plasma Bugs and high-tier troops. Great Xia celebrated its first victory in the Kona landing campaign, while Han Niba ordered the forces to fortify the Outpost and recover enemy remains.

• Cho'Gath rejected Yaxes's objections and ordered all Demon Clan forces to retreat.
• The Plasma Bugs protected their wounded and withdrew from the Kona Satellite, leaving their dead behind.
• Han Niba ordered Great Xia not to pursue the retreating Plasma Bugs and to watch for a counterattack.
• The Demon Clan's high-tier ground troops withdrew while lesser creatures remained behind to cover them.
• Great Xia celebrated securing the Kona Outpost after the Demon Clan's full retreat.
• Han Niba ordered the front line to fortify its positions, tally losses, expand the existing Portals, and recover Demon Clan and Plasma Bug remains.

Lin Mo and his allies learned that the Demon Clan was withdrawing from Kona Satellite, and Great Xia’s forces celebrated their victory. Kael stabilized the portal after exhausting himself, while Lin Mo credited the joint effort and hurried away when Kael attributed the victory to the God of Holy Light.

• The Pangu Mecha told Lin Mo that the plasma bug swarm and Demon Clan forces were retreating, and Lin Mo confirmed the withdrawal on the horizon.
• Lin Mo announced the victory to Fendona, Thorin, and Grom, who celebrated the Demon Clan’s defeat.
• Lin Mo told Kael the news, and Kael stopped expanding the portal after stabilizing it and admitted he had spent too much magic power.
• Kael credited the victory to the God of Holy Light, but Lin Mo argued that Great Xia and its allies had won through their own efforts.
• Lin Mo interrupted Kael’s religious lecture and ran off to notify the three seventh-order mages.

After Great Xia drove back the Demon Clan at the Kona Satellite Landing Zone, it expanded its Portals and began turning the battlefield and the Demon Clan’s remains into strategic infrastructure and resources. The chapter ended with an on-site corpse-refining factory rapidly taking shape as remains were brought in for processing.

• Lin Mo told Xiluns that the Demon Clan had retreated and urged him and the other mages to expand the Portals; the three mages enlarged them into hundred-meter gates.
• Great Xia’s Unmanned Legion continued fighting and building until the Landing Zone’s first battle phase ended, leaving more than thirty million Demon Clan corpses across the wasteland.
• Reconnaissance Drones marked the remains for recovery, while engineering vehicles and robots began transforming the Landing Zone into a construction site.
• A logistics staff officer advised Han Niba that transporting the corpses to Blue Star was impractical and proposed an on-site refining factory; Han Niba approved the plan and ordered the Plasma Bug remains sent to the Academy of Sciences.
• Factory modules and processing equipment passed through the hundred-meter gates, and workers assembled the factory as unmanned vehicles began hauling Demon Clan remains to its holding area.

Han Niba approved plans for a permanent militarized city on the Kona Satellite, and Great Xia began construction after securing the position. Great Xia then announced its victory and new foothold to the public, whose netizens reacted with astonishment and excitement.

• The Great Xia Design Institute presented plans for a ten-kilometer Outpost Base, and Han Niba adjusted its defenses before approving the phased construction plan.
• The Great Xia Construction Engineering Group and Great Xia Heavy Industry Group sent experienced crews to the Kona Satellite to build the base.
• Great Xia's official media announced that its Unmanned Legion had landed on the Kona Satellite, repelled the Demon Clan, and established a stable forward position.
• Netizens across the Underground Cities reacted to the news, discussing the distant outpost, the Kona Civilization, and job openings on the satellite.

Wang Fugui joined the construction effort on the Kona Satellite and traveled through a Portal to the newly seized territory. He arrived at Zone C3 and saw Great Xia’s rapid, heavily automated construction and cleanup operations underway.

• After seeing the recruitment notice for construction work at the Kona base, Wang Fugui applied and was accepted for his experience building Underground Cities.
• Wang Fugui drove a construction vehicle through an isolation passage and a Portal from Blue Star to the Kona Satellite.
• His supervisor warned him to follow navigation to Zone C3 and stay within the military-controlled area.
• Wang Fugui saw robots and vehicles building roads and structures while workers handled assessments and adjustments.
• Wang Fugui passed transports carrying Demon Clan remains to a refining plant and watched a carrier Rocket launch.

After the Kona War, Lin Mo met with representatives of Terra’s races to discuss compensation and the reactors needed to sustain World Trees. The Demon Clan’s remaining wormholes still threatened Blue Star, while the races prepared to pursue Great Xia’s reactor technology.

• Lin Mo and Han Niba agreed to keep Seventh-Order Experts guarding the Antarctic wormhole until another Antimatter Bomb was ready in about seven days.
• Lin Mo welcomed Kael, Thorin, Fendona, and Grom and assured them that their promised compensation could be exchanged for needed goods.
• Lin Mo offered to buy back the Dwarf Clan’s promised Nuclear Bomb, but Thorin refused and declared that his clan would keep it as a deterrent.
• Grom asked about the small controlled nuclear fusion reactors promised for sustaining World Trees, and Lin Mo explained how World Trees could improve the environment and their races’ abilities.

Lin Mo offered the Elves, Holy Human Race, Dwarves, and Half-Orc Alliance nuclear reactors to power their World Trees, explaining that four units per tree was the safest configuration. Though the four-unit packages cost four million gold coins each, all four races agreed to buy them, and Lin Mo distributed the contracts.

• Fendona asked Lin Mo how many reactors each World Tree needed and how long they would last, and Lin Mo recommended four units that could operate for at least twenty years.
• Thorin, Grom, Kael, and Fendona each initially requested four reactors for their respective races.
• Lin Mo revealed that each reactor cost one million gold coins and each four-unit package cost four million, shocking the representatives with the expense.
• Grom asked whether the Half-Orc Alliance could buy only two, but Lin Mo warned that insufficient power could stunt or kill a World Tree seedling.
• Fendona, Kael, Thorin, and Grom each confirmed their race would buy four reactors.
• Lin Mo said the first four packages would be delivered in contract-signing order and handed contracts to the representatives.

Lin Mo persuaded Terra’s representatives to buy Great Xia’s Controlled Nuclear Fusion Reactors and explained that they would also need to hire Great Xia’s specialists to operate and maintain them. The representatives accepted the need for long-term technical teams, while Lin Mo prepared to continue the negotiations.

• Lin Mo reasoned that reactor sales would bring Great Xia profits and extend its infrastructure and influence across Terra.
• Lin Mo told the representatives that reactor installation was free, but safe operation and maintenance required trained professionals.
• Thorin objected that dwarves could learn, but Lin Mo warned that mistakes could damage the World Tree and cause a radiation disaster.
• Fendona reassured the others that Great Xia used the equipment in its own cities and asked how many staff each unit required.
• Lin Mo recommended a twelve-person team stationed for at least three years and quoted an average salary of a hundred gold coins per month.
• The representatives accepted the staffing costs after Lin Mo compared training the specialists to raising a Fourth- or Fifth-Order Expert.

Lin Mo laid out the staffing, benefits, and residential-compound costs that the Terra races would have to cover for Great Xia’s World Tree Reactor operations teams. After the races accepted the expenses, Lin Mo rushed from their negotiations to a meeting with Great Xia’s senior leaders.

• Lin Mo explained the overseas staff’s labor costs and benefits, and Kael confirmed that the races would pay them under Great Xia’s standardized price list.
• Lin Mo proposed residential facilities beside each World Tree planting site, and Grom and Thorin agreed that Great Xia should arrange suitable living conditions.
• Fendona and Thorin traded insults about Elves’ and Dwarves’ food, size, and strength before Lin Mo stopped their argument.
• Lin Mo said the races would also cover construction of standardized compounds, and Thorin accepted after realizing he was the only one objecting.
• Lin Mo finished the negotiations, saw the representatives out, noticed he was late, and hurried into a meeting with Elder Zhao, Han Niba, and other senior officials.

Lin Mo joined a meeting where Great Xia's leaders reviewed the Kona Satellite outpost and future development needs. The Kona Civilization withheld its promised technology until the outpost was fully completed, while Great Xia prioritized building up its defenses and developing a fleet.

• Lin Mo arrived and sat beside Elder Zhao as the meeting began.
• Han Niba reported that Great Xia had established a foothold on Kona Satellite, but the Kona Civilization would delay its reward until the outpost was complete and sustainable.
• Elder Zhao told Han Niba to focus on completing the outpost rather than rushing the Kona Civilization for payment.
• Han Niba said Great Xia needed more unmanned combat equipment, faster weapons production, and spaceships to secure air and orbital control.
• Qian Zhenhua reported that Great Xia had nearly mastered Kona shipborne shield technology and planned to build a ship-scale prototype for the Kuafu.

Qian Zhenhua outlined how automated factories and heavy engineering robots could transform Great Xia’s spaceship production and planetary engineering. He revealed that Blue Star could be saved, but its inhabitants would still have to take it and the Moon beyond the Solar System as the planets’ orbits became increasingly unstable.

• Qian Zhenhua said the Kuafu’s successful tests would allow shield modules to enter mass production and described a factory designed to automate a closed-loop industrial chain.
• Qian Zhenhua estimated that mature automated shipyards could build one kilometer-class spaceship each per year, with plans for thirty-six shipyards across the underground cities.
• Qian Zhenhua announced that heavy engineering robot blueprints had been distributed to robotics factories to support projects on the Moon, Terra, Kona, and Blue Star.
• Qian Zhenhua said new calculations showed Great Xia could complete a project to push Blue Star and the Moon out of their orbits before Blue Star fell into the Sun.
• Qian Zhenhua warned that the Solar System’s orbits were becoming unstable, so Great Xia would have to leave the Solar System even though it could save Blue Star.

Elder Zhao warned Great Xia’s officials that the rear had to accelerate wartime production while the front lines fought for time. After reports showed civilian supplies were stabilizing with help from Terra, Lin Mo prepared to report on the Terra operations under his command.

• Elder Zhao rebuked the logistics official for promising to do his best and demanded that every department enter wartime engineering mode.
• Elder Zhao ordered Great Xia to advance the Kona Base, cooperation with Terra, planetary engines, spaceship construction, and preparations to leave the Solar System.
• The civilian welfare official reported that food reserves were projected to last only ten years, but Terra imports, hybrid crops, and cooperation with the Wood Elves had contained the shortfall.
• The civilian welfare official said production of daily necessities had resumed and could meet Underground City residents’ needs.
• Officials from Great Xia’s departments delivered their reports, and Elder Zhao turned to Lin Mo to summarize the Terra operations.

Lin Mo outlined how Great Xia planned to bind Terra’s races to its military, trade, and education systems until they became part of Great Xia’s civilization. As Terra opened to Great Xia’s citizens, Wang Qiang and Li Wen prepared to launch a business there, though they ruled out selling food to the Dragon Clan.

• Lin Mo reported that Great Xia’s weapons, goods, and resource trade had made Terra’s races increasingly dependent on Great Xia.
• Lin Mo proposed expanding that dependence through shared standards and by bringing Terra’s young people into Great Xia’s schools and training systems.
• The officials applauded Lin Mo’s plan to integrate Terra into Great Xia’s future.
• Terra opened its city-states to Great Xia citizens with visas, prompting Wang Qiang and Li Wen to join a convoy of aspiring business owners.
• Wang Qiang and Li Wen reviewed their permits and considered which races to serve, then crossed the Dragon Clan off their list because one dragon could eat their entire truckload of ingredients.

Wang Qiang and Li Wen chose the Holy Human Race’s Holy City as the first destination for their food-truck business. After finding the square’s temporary stalls crowded with Great Xia vendors, they drove to the local Market and prepared to open for business.

• Li Wen and Wang Qiang compared the races’ markets and chose the Holy Human Race because its customers were more likely to buy their meat, bread, and other food.
• Wang Qiang and Li Wen passed the Portal inspection and drove into the Holy City.
• They found the square’s temporary business area packed with Great Xia sellers, so Wang Qiang decided to seek customers at the local Market instead.
• Holy City residents watched and followed the moving truck as Wang Qiang drove through the city toward the Market.
• Wang Qiang parked at an intersection, showed his Temporary Business Permit to a patrolling soldier, and agreed to follow local rules.
• Li Wen relaxed as she and Wang Qiang prepared to start selling.

Wang Qiang and Li Wen opened a Great Xia food stall at the Holy City market, where their freshly cooked dishes and pastries drew a crowd. Their first customers loved the food, and the stall quickly filled with eager diners.

• Wang Qiang transformed the trailer into a mobile kitchen and displayed a translated menu while passersby gathered to watch.
• A young carpenter ordered pork with green peppers and rice for three copper coins, prompting Wang Qiang to cook the first serving.
• The carpenter loved the spicy meal, bought chilled beer, and asked for another serving.
• Li Wen baked bread and egg tarts as the aromas from her oven and Wang Qiang’s wok attracted more customers.
• The crowd ordered food and beer until all ten tables filled and later arrivals ate from paper bowls by the roadside.

Li Wen and Wang Qiang’s food truck drew a huge crowd in the Holy City, and a noble household invited Wang Qiang to cook a private dinner. Meanwhile, Great Xia entrepreneurs rapidly spread their goods across the city and into nearby towns, finding eager customers and new markets.

• Li Wen and Wang Qiang served a long line of customers, including a Patrol Soldier who ordered fried rice after assuring them they were not blocking the street.
• The couple sold through much of their food in less than three hours and realized they had earned about a month of Underground City wages.
• A butler offered Wang Qiang Gold Coins to prepare a private dinner at his master’s residence for a Holy Temple guest.
• Great Xia vendors sold food, daily necessities, and adult products across the Holy City, while customers eagerly bought their goods and patrol soldiers checked the laws.
• By afternoon, stallholders worried about running out of stock, and later arrivals sought Temporary Passes to trade in the outer city.
• On the third day, nobles in Manor Town offered free escorts to bring Great Xia vendors to trade, as entrepreneurs pushed into new markets across Terra.