Recaps

Demon God Brett emerged from a deep underground wormhole on Blue Star and withstood repeated Earth-Penetrating Missile strikes. Tianshu Underground City identified the new Demon God, while Han Niba realized the Demon Clan had prepared a serious invasion and its full strength remained unknown.

• Yaxes and Cho'Gath planned to hide underground while the Burrowing Earth Dragons spread the exits, expecting the humans to be distracted.
• Brett and a swarm of demons emerged from a wormhole beneath Blue Star's equator, and Brett sensed the remains of an intelligent civilization.
• Earth-Penetrating Missiles collapsed the rock above Brett, but Brett shielded the demons and broke through to the surface.
• Brett withstood further missile attacks without moving and laughed that it liked prey that struggled.
• Tianshu Underground City's command staff spotted Brett on satellite imagery and confirmed a suspected Demon God-level presence.
• Han Niba warned that the Demon Clan had come prepared and worried that more Demon Gods might be on Blue Star.

Han Niba ordered the Pangu units deployed early against Brett, while Great Xia prepared Plan B in case the Antimatter Bomb attack failed. At Tianshu Underground City, a general sought volunteers for the certain-death mission, but no soldier stepped back when asked to withdraw.

• Han Niba canceled the optimal deployment window and ordered the Pangu formation to enter Zone One early while maintaining missile suppression.
• Ten Pangu units launched from a strategic transport plane and converged on Brett as command staff watched their approach.
• Han Niba explained that Plan B would send a soldier in a Pangu mecha to release an Antimatter Bomb close to the Demon God, bypassing its danger sense at the cost of the soldier's life.
• At Combat Readiness Military Camp Three, a general told more than a thousand assembled soldiers that the mission meant certain death and asked newly married soldiers without children to step back.
• No one moved when the general asked only sons to step back, and he challenged Liu Xi for failing to withdraw.

The general selected 120 soldiers for a mission against the Demon God Brett after none would withdraw. Brett evaded the Pangu units’ antimatter attack by burrowing underground, prompting Han Niba to initiate Plan B.

• Liu Xi and the other soldiers refused to withdraw, so the general ordered a random selection of 120 names and saluted the chosen men alongside the camp.
• Brett sensed the approaching Pangu units, then burrowed deep underground to evade their antimatter attack.
• Brett ordered the Burrowing Earth Dragons to dig tunnels and claim the underground territory beneath the planet.
• Han Niba watched the failed attack and ordered the communications staff officer to initiate Plan B.

Chen Yuan and nine other soldiers received Spatial Rings loaded with weapons and supplies for a mission to deliver Antimatter Bombs close to Demon Gods. After training to retrieve items instantly and boarding their Pangu Mechas, they learned the mission’s lethal requirements and were promised posthumous honors and support for their families.

• The general revealed that Great Xia had obtained ten Spatial Rings capable of concealing their contents from Demon Gods’ danger sense.
• Chen Yuan and nine other soldiers received rings containing Antimatter Bombs, nuclear warheads, and survival supplies, then practiced retrieving equipment from them.
• The general told the remaining 110 soldiers they were reserves who would take over if the first group failed or another Demon God-level target appeared.
• Chen Yuan boarded Pangu Unit Seven and linked his senses to its systems as the ten pilots prepared for the mission.
• The general ordered the pilots to release their bombs within one hundred meters of their targets, warned that Demon Gods could flee at immense speed, and promised honors and family support if the soldiers sacrificed themselves.

Chen Yuan prepared to attack Demon God Brett with the battlefield's only antimatter device as Blue Star Team One entered the interception zone. Brett resurfaced in the Equator Wasteland and flew toward an abandoned industrial belt, unaware that Great Xia's reconnaissance network had detected it.

• Chen Yuan and Zhou Li received orders to deploy as Blue Star Team One while the other teams stood by in their assigned locations.
• After ten hours in flight, Command reported that Brett had reappeared and ordered Chen Yuan to lead the attack while Zhou Li remained in reserve.
• Command told Chen Yuan that nine unmanned Pangu mecha would support him and that Unit Seven carried the battlefield's only antimatter device.
• Brett emerged from underground in the Equator Wasteland and scanned the surrounding region for signs of civilization.
• Brett flew toward an abandoned industrial belt, unaware that Great Xia's reconnaissance network had locked onto it.

Chen Yuan and nine unmanned Pangu mechas attacked Brett to keep the Demon God aboveground and create an opening for Chen Yuan to use the antimatter bomb stored in his Spatial Ring. Brett destroyed the mechas one by one as Number Seven continued closing in under AI control.

• Great Xia tracked Brett underground with seismic sensors but held its fire so it would not drive the Demon God back underground.
• Chen Yuan leaped from a Transport Plane in Number Seven Pangu as nine unmanned units formed an aerial encirclement around Brett.
• Brett shrugged off the mechas’ ranged attacks, then accelerated to 2,500 meters per second and smashed the first Pangu into a hillside.
• The unmanned Pangu units used close-range attacks to steer Brett’s movements and gather predictions, but Brett knocked several more out of battle.
• Chen Yuan resisted Brett’s domain and watched Number Seven approach while preparing to open his Spatial Ring and retrieve the antimatter bomb.
• Only three mechas remained as Brett continued its attacks.

Chen Yuan sacrificed himself to detonate an antimatter device and kill Demon God Brett above the wasteland. Celestial Pivot City's Command Center confirmed Brett’s death, saluted Chen Yuan, and continued its plans to clear the remaining wormholes while asking about Terra.

• Chen Yuan opened Pangu Seven’s cockpit and exposed himself to draw Brett close, then released Unit Seven’s antimatter device.
• Brett tried to brake and retreat, but the device detonated and engulfed Brett, Chen Yuan, and Pangu Seven in white light.
• Han Niba ordered the Command Center to verify the target’s status using satellites, drones, and seismic nodes.
• The Command Center confirmed that Demon God Brett was dead, and Han Niba led the staff in saluting Chen Yuan.
• Han Niba ordered the campaign against the remaining seven wormholes to continue, warned of possible seventh-order Demon Venerables, and asked his adjutant about Terra.

Long Zhan and Lin Mo sent mixed teams to close Terra’s six Demon Clan wormholes, and the first five teams succeeded without encountering a Demon God. As the sixth team reached the final wormhole, a seventh-order mage sensed a terrifying presence in the darkness.

• Long Zhan learned that Earth-Penetrating Bombs were nearly exhausted and ordered the experts to proceed with the wormhole operation.
• A report arrived that Celestial Pivot City had killed a Demon God using Plan B, prompting Long Zhan to urge Terra’s teams to destroy their targets quickly.
• At wormhole Number One, the Allied Army fought through the underground demons while a Holy Human Race mage analyzed and closed the wormhole.
• The teams closed wormholes Numbers Two through Five without meeting a Demon God.
• As Team Six reached the final target, a seventh-order mage sensed a terrifying will and warned that the Demon God was there.

Cho'Gath abandoned Terra's final Space Wormhole rather than risk another Antimatter Bomb, and eighteen Seventh-Order Experts closed it after defeating the demons left behind. Terra began sealing and monitoring the underground tunnels, while the war on Blue Star continued.

• Cho'Gath sensed the approaching Terra experts and the Pangu carrying an Antimatter Bomb, then ordered Yaxes and the other Demon Venerables to retreat through the wormhole.
• Cho'Gath ordered the demon horde to scatter and hide underground before he and his subordinates escaped through the wormhole.
• Three Seventh-Order Experts detected that the Demon God and Demon Venerables had vanished and waited for reinforcements rather than approaching the cavern.
• Five dragons brought the other Terra experts to the battlefield, gathering eighteen Seventh-Order Experts to clear the demon horde and close the final wormhole.
• Long Zhan ordered the races to seal the six underground combat zones and monitor Burrowing Earth Dragon tunnels, beginning a long-running demon-hunting campaign.

Han Niba sent Terra’s experts and Pangu mechas to destroy Blue Star’s final wormhole, where they found six Demon Venerables. The battle plan isolated the demons, and fifteen mechas detonated around three of them as the remaining fight continued.

• Han Niba asked Lin Mo for Terra’s Seventh-Order Experts and Earth Elves to help clear Blue Star’s underground wormholes.
• The two squads destroyed seven wormholes, then discovered six Demon Venerables guarding the last one.
• Han Niba gathered both squads and seventy Pangu mechas, ordering Terra’s experts to draw off three Demon Venerables while mechas trapped the other three.
• The Earth Elves opened a canyon to the demons, and the battle split into separate fights above the wasteland.
• Fifteen damaged Pangu mechas restrained the three targeted Demon Venerables, and Han Niba ordered them to detonate.

Great Xia used tactical nuclear strikes to kill the three Demon Venerables fleeing the Wasteland, after its earlier strikes had already killed three others. Terra’s experts confirmed that all six were dead and recognized that staying allied with Great Xia was essential to their survival.

• The three Demon Venerables learned that their companions had died and fled in separate directions as Great Xia’s forces kept them within tracking range.
• Great Xia’s command ordered Terra’s experts to maintain a safe distance while follow-up missiles targeted the fleeing Demon Venerables.
• The Bone-Winged Demon Venerable saw hypersonic missiles closing in and failed to destroy them before they detonated.
• Nine tactical nuclear warheads struck the three Demon Venerables, killing them in the resulting blasts.
• Terra’s experts confirmed that the three Demon Venerables’ presences had vanished and agreed that Great Xia’s alliance was necessary for survival.

Great Xia and its allies killed the remaining Demon Venerables and closed Blue Star’s eighth space wormhole. In the Kona Star System, Demon God Aker established a cautious foothold on the third planet while avoiding the Kona home planet and satellite, and a Demon Venerable asked when they would attack.

• Han Niba ordered the joint squad to return to the wormhole after the three Seventh-Order Demon Venerables were confirmed dead.
• The Pangu, Terra’s experts, and Earth Elves fought off the demons while a Holy Human mage analyzed the wormhole.
• The Holy Human mage closed the wormhole, and Tianshu Command Center confirmed that all eight newly appeared wormholes on Blue Star had been eliminated.
• Aker directed demon hordes across the Kona system’s third planet and sent Demon Venerables to establish nests, mine, and search for Kona facilities.
• Aker avoided the Kona home planet and its occupied satellite, and one Demon Venerable asked when they would attack.

Cho'Gath learned that Brett had died on Blue Star while Aker had settled on the third planet of the Kona Star System instead of attacking the Kona Satellite. He ordered his forces to hold position and watch Aker, while Yaxes hinted that they could exploit the situation because only they knew Blue Star's coordinates.

• On the third planet, Aker told the Demon Venerable to establish a foothold and build up their forces before attacking the Kona Home Planet.
• Yaxes informed Cho'Gath that Brett had been killed shortly after landing on Blue Star, and Cho'Gath realized Brett had failed to distract Great Xia from Terra.
• Yaxes reported that Aker had opened eight wormholes on the third planet of the Kona Star System rather than landing on the Kona Satellite.
• Cho'Gath cursed Brett and Aker for their opposing strategies, then chose to wait until Aker began fighting Great Xia and Kona.
• As Yaxes prepared to leave, he told Cho'Gath that only they knew Blue Star's coordinates and suggested Aker's possible death could benefit them.

Cho'Gath devised a plan to profit by repeatedly selling the coordinates of civilizations whose attackers died, while Yaxes advised him to wait before selling Blue Star's coordinates. At Kona Satellite, Great Xia learned that eight new wormholes had appeared on the Kona Civilization's Third Planet, suggesting a fresh Demon Clan force had arrived.

• Yaxes told Cho'Gath that the deaths of Brett and Aker could let him sell Blue Star's and Kona's coordinates again, and Cho'Gath embraced the plan to profit from repeated sales.
• Yaxes advised Cho'Gath to delay selling Blue Star's coordinates so he could first try to conquer Terra and Blue Star himself, and so Aker could not warn other Demon Gods about the danger.
• At Kona Satellite, Information Officer reported that Watcher had detected eight newly formed wormholes on the Kona Civilization's Third Planet and a large withdrawal of the original Demon Clan forces.
• Commander Zheng Jinren ordered Watcher's report sent to Tianshu Underground City and directed orbital equipment to verify the new wormholes.
• Great Xia's observation satellites captured only blurry heat signatures and anomalous spectra, leaving the Demon Clan's situation on the Third Planet unconfirmed.

After confirming that Cho'Gath's Demon Clan forces were withdrawing from Kona Satellite while a new legion appeared on the Third Planet, Han Niba and Zheng Jinren seized the chance to clear the satellite. With headquarters' approval and reinforcements deployed, Great Xia began a coordinated satellite-wide operation, which Zheng Jinren directed from the Command Center.

• Han Niba ordered Kona Base to independently verify Watcher's report, and the base confirmed that most Demon Clan forces on Kona Satellite had withdrawn while eight new wormholes appeared on the Third Planet.
• Han Niba recommended that Zheng Jinren organize a satellite-wide clearing operation and take Kona Satellite while Great Xia lacked the fleet capacity to advance on the Third Planet.
• Zheng Jinren accepted the recommendation, requested wartime reinforcements, and declared that his forces would take the entire satellite.
• Tianshu Commander-in-Chief Headquarters approved the reinforcements, and mechanical troops and unmanned vehicles advanced from Kona Base to begin the clearing operation.
• Zheng Jinren coordinated missile, orbital, robot, and engineering attacks, directing his forces to eliminate nests, investigate underground cavities, and prepare to destroy the wormholes.

Great Xia completed the cleanup of the Kona Satellite and received approval to choose one technological reward from the Kona Civilization. At a meeting in Tianshu Underground City, Qian Zhenhua ruled out three options, leaving the experts debating between heat-resistant alloy technology and a planetary ecological transformation plan.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the final demon nest destroyed and the last Space Wormhole collapsed, completing Great Xia’s sweep of the Kona Satellite.
• The Watcher verified the satellite was free of demons and Space Wormholes, then approved Great Xia’s second-stage mission and offered a technological reward.
• Qian Zhenhua reviewed five reward options and ruled out high-energy particle cannon technology, Nuclear Fusion Battery technology, and the deep-space exploration and star chart database.
• A materials expert argued that Great Xia should choose the high-strength heat-resistant alloy formula, citing the needs of engines, Warships, Mecha, and other industrial projects.

Great Xia chose the Colonized Planet Ecological Transformation Plan over new materials technology, prioritizing the need to restore Blue Star’s surface and expand the population’s living space. The Kona Civilization delivered a complete ecological transformation program, and an initial simulation showed it could make a Mars-class planet habitable in about two hundred years.

• Public Welfare and environmental engineering experts argued that Great Xia needed to restore Blue Star’s surface, while materials experts urged the panel to prioritize technology that would improve planetary engines and other equipment.
• Qian Zhenhua considered both proposals as experts warned that underground cities could not support civilization’s growing population and technological needs indefinitely.
• The expert panel voted for the Colonized Planet Ecological Transformation Plan, and Elder Zhao named materials technology a priority for the next stage.
• Great Xia sent its choice to the Kona Civilization, and the Watcher confirmed the selection and transmitted the plan.
• Experts accessed the translated data and found detailed models and engineering requirements for atmospheric reconstruction, water cycles, soil, climate, microbes, radiation, habitats, and ecological monitoring.
• A simulation estimated that the plan could transform a Mars-class desert planet into a world capable of supporting long-term human survival in approximately two hundred years.

Great Xia’s experts used Kona’s planetary transformation plan and World Tree data to estimate that Blue Star could recover in about fifty years, then moved to master the technology. Meanwhile, Aker finished building its forces on the Third Planet and ordered an invasion of the Kona Satellite.

• Qian Zhenhua added Blue Star’s Cataclysm data to the simulation, which estimated that Kona’s procedures could restore the planet in about one hundred years.
• Qian Zhenhua added World Tree data, reducing the estimated recovery time to about fifty years and inspiring Great Xia’s experts and staff with hope for Blue Star’s return.
• Han Niba ordered the technical materials mastered quickly so work on Blue Star’s transformation could begin.
• Aker learned that Brett had died fighting Blue Star Civilization and concluded that the technological civilization was dangerous, making a cautious approach necessary.
• Aker’s forces completed their preparations on the Third Planet, assembled hundreds of millions of troops and Space-Jumping Beasts, and received orders to invade the Kona Satellite.

Cho'Gath learned that Aker was preparing to attack Kona Satellite and watched for a chance to profit from the fighting. At the same time, Great Xia detected seven Demon Clan spatial fluctuations buried deep underground, where conventional strikes might not reach them before their wormholes stabilized.

• Yaxes told Cho'Gath that Aker was assembling his main force to attack Kona Satellite, and Cho'Gath ordered close surveillance of the clash.
• Great Xia's monitoring network detected seven anomalous spatial fluctuations across Kona Satellite, prompting the Command Center to launch unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
• Zheng Jinren received normal surface scans from all seven sites, then waited for the drones to locate the fluctuation sources underground.
• The drones pinpointed all seven sources at depths greater than two thousand meters, revealing the Demon Clan had placed its wormholes in hard-to-attack locations.
• Great Xia's weapons staff warned Zheng Jinren that earth-penetrating bombs would require hundreds of strikes per target and might not destroy the wormholes before they stabilized.

Zheng Jinren and his staff searched for ways to stop the Demon Clan’s underground infiltration of the Kona Satellite before the demons could spread out from seven wormholes. They added localized collapses to the strike plan and considered reinforcing the base, but the broader threat remained unresolved.

• Zheng Jinren placed all seven regions on maximum alert, ordered patrols halted, and directed the Engineering Corps and Orbital Platforms to track and attack the demons.
• The Kona Civilization’s Watcher confirmed that three anomaly regions were near old energy-pipeline ruins and that Kona had no effective underground countermeasure beyond earth-penetrating missiles.
• A staff officer proposed drilling shafts and planting mines, but Zheng Jinren rejected the plan as too slow and inefficient.
• Another staff officer proposed triggering localized collapses in suitable cavities and fault zones; Zheng Jinren added the tactic to the strike plan but said it could not solve the larger problem.
• A staff officer proposed protecting the base with Earth Element Magic Arrays and World Tree roots, an approach the Elves on Terra had used against Burrowing Earth Dragons.

Zheng Jinren and his staff sought a way to counter the Demon Clan’s deep underground infiltration, which threatened Great Xia’s defenses beyond the Kona Satellite. They proposed swarming Burrowing Robots, and Zheng Jinren asked the Academy of Sciences to develop them as the wormholes continued stabilizing.

• Zheng Jinren warned that simply holding the base would drain Great Xia’s resources and leave its defenses vulnerable to underground attacks.
• A staff officer suggested requesting Earth Elves from Terra to help counter the Burrowing Earth Dragons and destroy deep wormholes, and Zheng Jinren ordered preparations through Tianshu.
• A young staff officer proposed small, self-guided Burrowing Robots with explosives to hunt the Burrowing Earth Dragons underground.
• Staff officers suggested coordinating the robots with Seismic Detection Spikes, and Zheng Jinren contacted the Academy of Sciences.
• Qian Zhenhua said the robots were theoretically feasible but identified challenges with rock breaking, speed, spoil removal, and underground identification.
• Zheng Jinren urged Qian Zhenhua to solve the design problems, warning that the Demon Clan could use deep infiltration against Blue Star and Terra as well.

Zheng Jinren ordered defenses and preparations to slow the Demon Clan’s underground advance on Kona Satellite while the Academy of Sciences developed burrowing robots. The chapter ended as Watcher’s promised images of unidentified deep-space targets arrived, leaving their identity unknown.

• Qian Zhenhua agreed to form a research team to develop a prototype, and Zheng Jinren ordered the front line to send geological and Demon Clan data to the Academy of Sciences.
• Zheng Jinren ordered Earth Elves, the World Tree, and magic barriers to strengthen Kona Base, and directed the Engineering Corps to demolish underground routes and deploy seismic-source sensing spikes.
• Great Xia’s teams began preparing drilling rigs, Engineering Robots, drones, and orbital weapons to counter the underground threat and any surface breach.
• Long-range monitors detected a large group of moving targets approaching Kona Satellite, and staff officers judged they were likely Demon Clan units coming from the direction of the Third Planet.
• Watcher confirmed the targets were not Kona Civilization vessels and promised images after adjusting an observation satellite; the images arrived when the countdown ended.

Great Xia detected five hundred Plasma Bugs approaching the Kona Satellite and began preparing its defenses. Lin Mo sought help from Fendona, requesting one hundred fifth-order and sixth-rank Earth Elves to reinforce the base and counter the underground threat.

• Great Xia identified five hundred Plasma Bugs on course to reach the Kona Satellite in about two months, and Zheng Jinren ordered preparations for orbital defense and underground detection.
• Staff officers proposed sending a fleet, but Zheng Jinren shelved the idea and heard a layered missile and orbital-platform defense plan instead.
• A young staff officer requested additional platforms, missiles, and specialized warheads, and Zheng Jinren ordered him to send the weapons list to Tianshu Command Center.
• Lin Mo received Zheng Jinren's briefing about the seven deep wormholes, Burrowing Earth Dragons, and Plasma Bugs, then went to Fendona for help.
• Lin Mo asked Fendona to hire one hundred fifth-order and sixth-rank Earth Elves to reinforce the base, track the Burrowing Earth Dragons, and help seal them off.

Fendona brought a hundred Earth Elves to Kona Satellite to help Great Xia defend its base from the Demon Clan. After arriving, the Elves agreed to begin work immediately on the World Tree, the base’s defenses, and intercepting Burrowing Earth Dragons.

• Fendona agreed to recruit Earth Elves for paid work, and she returned to the Royal City to seek their help.
• The next day, Fendona arrived at the Great Xia Fief with a hundred Earth Elves, and Lin Mo led them through the Portal to Kona Satellite.
• The Earth Elves adjusted to Kona Satellite’s low gravity and met Zheng Jinren at the base’s Teleportation Plaza.
• Zheng Jinren outlined three tasks: extend the World Tree’s roots underground, build a defensive barrier around the base, and intercept Burrowing Earth Dragons.
• Fendona declined an offer to rest and agreed to take the Elves to the World Tree first.

Zheng Jinren brought Fendona and the Elves to activate Teldrassil, whose roots formed an underground defense for Kona Base against the Demon Clan. After the Elves rested and ate, Zheng Jinren prepared them to inscribe a magic barrier around the base’s exterior.

• Zheng Jinren showed the Elves the World Tree and explained its size and place in Kona Base.
• Fendona and several Sixth Rank Elves carved an activation array while a Wood Elf awakened Teldrassil.
• Fendona asked Teldrassil to reinforce the ground beneath the base and help repel Burrowing Earth Dragons, and Teldrassil agreed.
• Teldrassil extended its roots beneath the base without damaging its pipelines, creating an underground protective network.
• Zheng Jinren arranged food and rest for the Elves, then explained the plan to inscribe a magic barrier around the base’s outer wall.
• Fendona, Lin Mo, Zheng Jinren, and the Elves put on spacesuits and passed through three transfer chambers to begin the barrier work.