Recaps

Fendona and the elves toured Kona Base’s automated defenses, while Zheng Jinren asked whether they could add a city-scale Magic Barrier around its outer ring. The elderly Earth Elf said the barrier could be built but might not withstand a Plasma Bug volley, and Zheng Jinren asked how many attacks would overwhelm it.

• Fendona and the elves saw Kona Base’s construction and towering outer wall, whose automated weapons and repair systems astonished them.
• Zheng Jinren explained that Great Xia had designed the wall to withstand large Demon Tide assaults, and Fendona marveled at how quickly Great Xia had grown.
• Zheng Jinren showed Fendona, Lin Mo, and the formation experts the base model and asked whether they could protect the outer ring with a city-scale barrier.
• An elderly Earth Elf said the formation could encircle the wall and work with the World Tree’s roots to defend above and below ground.
• After Lin Mo described Plasma Bug attacks, the elderly Earth Elf warned that the barrier could not absorb a full volley, and Zheng Jinren asked how many impacts would exceed its capacity.

Lin Mo asked Queen Ellari to send three hundred more high-rank Elves to help build Kona Base’s barrier before five hundred Plasma Bugs arrived. Ellari refused to risk leaving the Elf Kingdom’s defenses understaffed, and the negotiations ended in dispute.

• An Earth Elf estimated that building Kona Base’s barrier would take three months with the hundred Elves already there, but said three hundred more array specialists and extensive resources could reduce the time to under two months.
• Zheng Jinren ordered Great Xia to provide the requested resources, personnel support, and construction assistance around the clock.
• Lin Mo and Fendona traveled to Aivinol to ask Queen Ellari for three hundred Fifth Order and Sixth Rank Mages skilled in arrays.
• Lin Mo showed Ellari and the elders the approaching Plasma Bugs and argued that protecting Kona would help keep the Demon Clan from threatening Terra and Blue Star.
• Ellari refused to withdraw another three hundred high-rank Elves because the Elf Kingdom also needed them to defend its cities.
• An elder accused Lin Mo of trying to use the Elves’ limited high-rank forces to hold Great Xia’s front line.

Lin Mo’s request for Elven reinforcements to help defend Kona ended with Queen Ellari dismissing the meeting, but Elder Muyu soon caught up with him to say she had agreed to send two hundred and fifty Elves. Lin Mo prepared to adjust his plans while waiting for the Queen’s decision, and the chapter ended with the promised aid confirmed.

• Queen Ellari rebuked Lin Mo for treating the Elves like a force Great Xia could deploy and ended the meeting without agreeing to send reinforcements.
• Lin Mo and Fendona left the throne hall, and Lin Mo recognized that Ellari was protecting the peaceful lives of her people.
• Lin Mo told Fendona the failed negotiation was not her fault and said he would find another way to finish Kona’s barrier before the Plasma Bugs arrived.
• As Lin Mo and Fendona prepared to enter the Portal, Elder Muyu arrived and said Queen Ellari had agreed to send two hundred and fifty Elves.

Lin Mo welcomed 250 Elves sent by the Elf Kingdom to help defend Kona Base, and two months later their teams completed a magical barrier around the base. The barrier passed its initial stability checks, giving the outpost a new layer of protection against the Demon Clan.

• Lin Mo apologized to Elder Muyu for his earlier remarks, and Elder Muyu reminded Fendona to negotiate compensation, supplies, and a rotation system for the Elves.
• Elder Muyu discussed Great Xia’s rapid development with Lin Mo as 250 Elves assembled to travel to Kona Satellite.
• Lin Mo and Fendona led the Elves through the portal to Kona Base, where they joined the effort to build its barrier.
• Two months later, the Elves completed the array across Kona Base’s outer ring, and technicians confirmed that its array eyes were stable.
• The World Tree Teldrassil strengthened the barrier with its magic, and Kona Base’s soldiers watched as the pale golden shield enveloped the city.

Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren tested the base’s energy-hungry magic barrier and discussed the lack of a way to produce energy crystals. They then inspected the first batch of Burrowing Robots and learned how the robots would intercept Burrowing Earth Dragons underground.

• Zheng Jinren ordered a thirty-second barrier test, and researchers reported that it held at full integrity while consuming thirteen hundred standard crystal grains per second.
• Lin Mo asked about energy crystal research, and Zheng Jinren explained that the Academy of Sciences had made no breakthrough in reproducing crystals or powering magic arrays with technology.
• An adjutant reported that the first batch of Burrowing Robots had passed inspection, so Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren went to the testing ground to examine them.
• A tester explained how the robots drilled through rock and reported that they moved at five kilometers per hour, slower than Burrowing Earth Dragons.
• Zheng Jinren showed Lin Mo how seismic detection and route prediction would let the Burrowing Robots reach likely passage points ahead of the Burrowing Earth Dragons and destroy them with their miniature nuclear bombs.

Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren confirmed that the Burrowing Robot could destroy underground targets, giving Great Xia a countermeasure against the Demon Clan’s Burrowing Earth Dragons. When a Plasma Bug swarm entered Kona Satellite’s gravitational sphere, they prepared the base for an imminent attack, and Lin Mo went to ask Princess Fendona whether the Elves would stay.

• Lin Mo learned that Great Xia planned to use dense deployments of Burrowing Robots to ambush Burrowing Earth Dragons, and Zheng Jinren began a drilling test.
• Earth Dragon Type-1 001 drilled to a depth of 2,500 meters and detonated, with test data showing it could devastate nearby targets and severely injure Burrowing Earth Dragons within the shock-wave range.
• Zheng Jinren received a warning that the Plasma Bug swarm would enter attack orbit within seventy-two hours and ordered Kona Base to prepare its orbital defenses.
• Lin Mo raised the question of whether Princess Fendona and the Elves should remain at the base, and Zheng Jinren agreed to let them decide after Lin Mo sounded out Princess Fendona.
• Lin Mo left for another vehicle to speak with Princess Fendona while Zheng Jinren headed to the Command Center.

Lin Mo invited Fendona and the elves to stay at Kona Base and witness the coming war against the Demon Clan. They agreed and joined him at the command center, where Great Xia prepared its defenses against the approaching Plasma Bug swarm and Burrowing Earth Dragons.

• Lin Mo found Fendona at the elves’ celebration banquet and asked whether they would stay to watch the battle against the Demon Clan.
• Fendona agreed to postpone the elves’ return to Terra, and the elves in the dining hall supported her decision.
• Lin Mo led Fendona and four Sixth Rank elves to the command center, where Zheng Jinren reported that the Plasma Bugs remained outside the Orbital Weapon Platform’s effective strike range.
• A staff officer reported that the first round of Burrowing Robot deliveries was twenty percent complete and four groups were approaching their Ambush Points.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the Burrowing Earth Dragons near the base to be cleared out from nearest to farthest.

Kona Base used paired Burrowing Robots to ambush an advancing Burrowing Earth Dragon. After the lead robot’s blast injured it, the wingman detonated and killed it, confirming the Earth Dragon Type One’s first kill.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the Command Center to display the tactical simulation as Team One positioned two Burrowing Robots along an adult Burrowing Earth Dragon’s route.
• The Burrowing Earth Dragon sensed danger and veered away, so both robots changed course to intercept it.
• The lead Burrowing Robot self-destructed before reaching the ideal range, severely injuring the target but failing to kill it.
• Zheng Jinren confirmed the wingman was still operational and ordered it to pursue the wounded Burrowing Earth Dragon.
• The wingman detonated near the target, and the supercomputer later confirmed the Burrowing Earth Dragon was dead.

Lin Mo’s Burrowing Robots killed three Burrowing Earth Dragons in successive ambushes, proving the machines could work in combat. The fourth target avoided its ambush zone and outran the robots, leaving the latest engagement unresolved.

• The second ambush team detonated a Burrowing Robot near a Burrowing Earth Dragon, then intercepted and killed the wounded creature with its support unit.
• The third ambush team predicted the target’s route, trapped it between two explosions, and confirmed its death.
• Lin Mo praised the robots’ effectiveness after the three confirmed kills, while Fendona considered their potential use by the Elves.
• The fourth Burrowing Earth Dragon abruptly changed course before reaching the ambush zone, and the two robots failed to catch up as it pulled away.

After the first wave of ambushes achieved only a ten percent kill rate against the Burrowing Earth Dragons, Zheng Jinren ordered five-machine teams to block likely escape routes near the base. The new tactics raised the kill rate in the priority defense zone to seventy percent.

• Zheng Jinren halted pursuit of a Burrowing Earth Dragon that had escaped the interception zone and sent its Earth Dragon Type Ones to backup ambush positions.
• The first-round report recorded three Burrowing Earth Dragons killed and two severely wounded out of thirty engagements, prompting Fendona and Lin Mo to discuss the creatures’ sensitivity to danger.
• Zheng Jinren ordered combat data analyzed and changed the ambush teams from two machines to five, prioritizing targets within eight hundred kilometers of the base.
• A five-machine team intercepted a Burrowing Earth Dragon after it turned left, and successive explosions killed it.
• Further five-machine interceptions killed more Burrowing Earth Dragons, raising the priority defense zone’s effective kill rate to seventy percent.

After the Earth Dragon Type One network killed many Burrowing Earth Dragons, Lin Mo and Fendona responded to a new emergency as five hundred Plasma Bugs approached Kona Satellite. Zheng Jinren ordered more than a thousand Orbital Weapon Platforms to fire, and the chapter ended as their first plasma salvo reached the scattered, shielded swarm.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the Earth Dragon Type One production lines to accelerate and asked the Academy of Sciences to improve the next-generation design.
• Lin Mo discussed the Earth Dragon machines’ strengths and weaknesses with Fendona before an alert summoned them to their stations.
• Lin Mo and Fendona saw five hundred Plasma Bugs closing on Kona Satellite, while Zheng Jinren prepared the 1,024 Orbital Weapon Platforms for combat.
• Zheng Jinren ordered a simultaneous salvo, and the platforms fired plasma clusters toward the approaching swarm.
• The Plasma Bugs spread out, activated energy shields, and maneuvered to evade the incoming fire before the first salvo struck their target area.

The Plasma Bugs shrugged off the orbital platforms’ opening volley and launched a massive plasma counterattack. Sixteen platforms were destroyed and more than thirty damaged, while the shielded swarm continued advancing toward Kona Satellite.

• The orbital platforms hit the Plasma Bugs with only forty-six Plasma Clusters, which rippled harmlessly across the enemies’ shields.
• Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren explained that the platforms’ electromagnetic cannons were ineffective at long range because their slow projectiles gave the Plasma Bugs time to dodge.
• The five hundred Plasma Bugs charged their weapons, and Zheng Jinren ordered the ground forces to activate the Magic Barrier and air-defense systems while the platforms maneuvered and kept firing.
• The Plasma Bugs launched kilometer-scale Plasma Clusters that blocked the platforms’ escape routes and destroyed sixteen platforms while damaging more than thirty others.
• The damaged platforms continued firing, but the shielded Plasma Bugs pushed through the thinning barrage and kept advancing.

Great Xia’s Orbital Platforms used energy fire to drain the Plasma Bugs before launching missiles and tungsten alloy shells. The shells breached the swarm’s shields and disrupted its formation, and Zheng Jinren ordered the missiles to target the Energy Sacs and propulsion chambers.

• Zheng Jinren learned that Plasma Cannon fire slowed the Plasma Bugs’ charging cycle but failed to penetrate their shields, while Great Xia lost 247 Orbital Platforms.
• Lin Mo said the weakened shields were vulnerable to weapons that could punch through them, and Zheng Jinren ordered the platforms to deploy Electromagnetic Cannons and missiles.
• The surviving Orbital Platforms formed a three-dimensional firing web and launched tungsten alloy shells and missiles at the approaching swarm.
• The Plasma Bugs intercepted many missiles with their point-defense organs, but the small, fast electromagnetic projectiles struck and pierced their shields and carapaces.
• The wounded Plasma Bugs veered off course and collided, tearing gaps in their formation as Lin Mo recognized that their shields had been disrupted.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the missiles into their penetration phase and directed them to target the Energy Sacs and propulsion chambers.

Great Xia’s forces damaged the Plasma Bug swarm in orbit as Burrowing Earth Dragons began surging toward Kona Base from underground. Zheng Jinren ordered missile strikes against their predicted exits and deployed ground forces as the Demon Clan launched its all-out assault.

• Zheng Jinren ordered follow-up missile fire, disabling dozens of Plasma Bugs while more than four hundred remained combat-ready and advanced toward Kona Satellite.
• A soldier reported that Burrowing Earth Dragons were rising toward the surface from multiple directions, and Lin Mo identified the movements as the Demon Clan’s all-out assault.
• Zheng Jinren ordered Earth-Penetrating Missiles to target predicted exits, and the first strikes collapsed tunnels and eliminated 113 Burrowing Earth Dragons.
• Zheng Jinren ordered ground forces to deploy, the Unmanned Legion to establish a mobile buffer zone, and artillery and drones to attack the emerging threats.
• Kona Base activated its combat readiness systems, and its four alloy gates opened.

Great Xia launched its Unmanned Legion and saturated the emerging Demon Tide with artillery and missiles, holding the first charge outside Kona Base. Zheng Jinren learned that 116 Burrowing Earth Dragons were tunneling toward the base’s core, and ordered Blue Star to send every Burrowing Robot it could produce.

• Zheng Jinren watched the Unmanned Legion deploy from Kona Base while reports confirmed Demon Clan forces emerging in several directions.
• Great Xia began a saturation bombardment, destroying Demon Clan troops and several Burrowing Earth Dragon exits as the Demon Tide continued to grow.
• The Unmanned Combat Vehicles reached their firing positions and used guns, missiles, and mines to hold the Demon Clan’s first charge a hundred kilometers from the base.
• Zheng Jinren learned that 116 Burrowing Earth Dragons were tunneling toward Kona Base’s core, with the nearest targets 430 kilometers away and expected to reach the defense zone within twenty-two hours.
• Fendona said the World Tree and Earth Element formations would block the Burrowing Earth Dragons, but Zheng Jinren ordered Blue Star to send every Burrowing Robot it could produce.

Cho'Gath watched Aker’s forces and the technological civilization devastate each other across Kona Satellite, hoping to profit whichever side lost. As Aker’s troops stalled against the defenses, he led eight Demon Venerables toward the surface to attack the base himself.

• Yaxes reported that Aker had committed his legions to simultaneous battles in space, on the ground, and underground, and Cho'Gath ordered it to keep tracking Aker.
• Cho'Gath welcomed the losses on both sides, expecting to gain whether Aker won or died.
• Aker’s Demon Venerable reported heavy losses from the technological civilization’s weapons, including self-destructing burrowing devices and high-altitude explosives.
• Aker recalled Brett’s death and concluded that the technological civilization might have more dangerous weapons than its defenses had revealed.
• Aker decided to attack the base personally and led eight Demon Venerables through the underground passage toward the surface.

Kona Base detected Aker and eight Demon Venerables approaching, and Zheng Jinren ordered a ten-missile nuclear interception. Aker recognized the incoming weapons and gathered his subordinates beneath his tentacles and energy shield as the missiles reached them.

• Zheng Jinren deployed five hundred Earth Dragon Type One Burrowing Robots and requested more units from Blue Star.
• Kona Base detected nine high-speed targets approaching, and officers identified the group as led by a likely Demon God.
• Zheng Jinren ordered ten Hypersonic Nuclear Interceptor Missiles to intercept the targets.
• Aker arrived over the battlefield with eight Demon Venerables, and his aura renewed the Demon Clan's advance.
• Aker spotted the missiles, called his fleeing subordinates back, and sheltered them beneath his tentacles and energy shield as the weapons arrived.

Ten nuclear bombs struck Aker and the eight Demon Venerables, but Aker survived and continued toward Kona Base. Zheng Jinren suspended further nuclear interception and ordered Plan B, leaving Wang Ce and Shen Minghe waiting to attack the Demon God with antimatter bombs.

• Ten nuclear bombs detonated around Aker, and the blast swallowed the Demon God and eight Demon Venerables.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the command staff to track targets through satellite, radar, and thermal data, and they confirmed Aker had survived while carrying the Demon Venerables away from the blast zone.
• Aker continued flying toward Kona Base, and Zheng Jinren suspended further nuclear interception and initiated Plan B.
• Zheng Jinren ordered one hundred unmanned Pangu units to separate and target the Demon Venerables while Wang Ce and Shen Minghe prepared to strike Aker with antimatter bombs.
• Wang Ce asked Shen Minghe how the fighting was going, and Shen Minghe joked that staying alive would be better than going out to fight.

Wang Ce and Shen Minghe shared memories of their parents before receiving orders to carry out a suicide mission against the Demon God Aker. They launched with the Pangu mecha force as Aker rapidly closed in.

• Wang Ce admitted he regretted not being more dutiful to his parents, and Shen Minghe recalled losing his parents when floods destroyed his village during Doomsday.
• Shen Minghe told Wang Ce how he had once joked with his parents about waiting for them to come get him when he grew old.
• Command activated Plan B and ordered Wang Ce and Shen Minghe to approach Aker and deploy their concealed Antimatter Bombs within one thousand meters.
• The mission briefing identified Aker and eight Seventh-Order Demon Venerables as targets, while unmanned Pangu units were assigned to separate the escorts and cover the attack.
• Wang Ce and Shen Minghe launched from the hangar with the Pangu formation as Aker approached, and the distance on their navigation display rapidly decreased.

Wang Ce and Shen Minghe led the Pangu mechas into battle against Aker and eight Demon Venerables, whose forces were weakened by the earlier nuclear blasts. Aker recognized the mechas’ self-destruction threat and helped the Demon Venerables escape underground, leaving the Pangu formation focused on stopping Aker.

• Aker’s domain suppressed Wang Ce and Shen Minghe as a hundred unmanned Pangus attacked Aker and the eight Demon Venerables with missiles, Plasma Cannons, and swords.
• Aker stopped the Demon Venerables from counterattacking after detecting explosives inside the mechas similar to those used in the nuclear blasts.
• Aker ordered the eight Demon Venerables to retreat through a Burrowing Earth Dragon tunnel while it stayed behind to cover them.
• The Pangu AI redirected twelve mechas to cut off Aker, whose energy shield withstood their missile barrage.
• After the last Demon Venerable entered the tunnel, Aker collapsed rock over the entrance and sealed their escape route underground.

Aker broke through the Pangu mechas and raced toward Kona Base, while the base’s defenders faced attacks on every front. Zheng Jinren ordered an evacuation and prepared the base’s Antimatter Bomb, leaving the Command Center to weigh whether stopping Aker required destroying Kona Base as well.

• Aker escaped the Pangu mechas by triggering one mecha’s self-destruction, then outran Wang Ce, Shen Minghe, and the remaining pursuers.
• Kona Base continued fighting demon forces across underground, surface, aerial, and space battlefields as Aker approached.
• The Command Center lost track of the eight Demon Venerables that had followed Aker underground.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the inner-city evacuation, sealed passages between the first four defense zones, and directed the base to strengthen its defenses.
• Zheng Jinren revealed that Kona Base still had an Antimatter Bomb, but its use could destroy the base and leave the defenders facing the prospect of mutual destruction.

Aker reached Kona Base and battered its northwestern barrier while the demon tide surged behind him. With the barrier weakening rapidly, Zheng Jinren rushed the deployment of three Antimatter Bombs as the base faced imminent danger.

• Zheng Jinren proposed using three Antimatter Bombs near the threatened wall instead of sacrificing the core base, since its Magic Barrier might withstand the blast shock wave.
• Aker arrived less than three kilometers from Kona Base's northwestern wall, and the base's weapons opened fire while his shield stopped every attack.
• The demon tide rallied at Aker's arrival and charged toward the walls as he ignored its cheers and attacked the city barrier.
• Aker battered the barrier with his tentacles, causing its energy crystals and defensive nodes to fail as alarms reported that the northwestern wall could hold for only six minutes.
• Zheng Jinren asked for the Antimatter Bombs, learned their vehicles were still 1.8 kilometers from the wall, and ordered them to move faster.

Aker continued attacking Kona Base despite the Antimatter Bombs, while nine Burrowing Earth Dragons opened an underground escape route beneath it. Zheng Jinren decided to let Aker believe the route would save it and redirected the guns, leaving Aker confused as the chapter ended.

• Aker sensed the Antimatter Bombs and ordered nine Burrowing Earth Dragons to converge beneath it while continuing to strike the barrier.
• Zheng Jinren learned that the northwestern barrier had only four minutes left and confirmed that all three Antimatter Bombs were being positioned.
• The nine Burrowing Earth Dragons surfaced beneath Aker and opened a vast hole, leading the staff to realize Aker intended to escape underground when the bombs detonated.
• Zheng Jinren concluded that the underground route could help Aker survive and ordered the guns to stop targeting it and resume firing on the Demon Clan Army.
• Aker wondered why the defenders had stopped attacking it.

Aker battered Kona Base’s barrier while Wang Ce and Shen Minghe waited for Zheng Jinren’s order to use their antimatter devices. As the barrier neared collapse, they moved into position for a strike, and Aker gathered its power for a final attack.

• Wang Ce and Shen Minghe reached Kona Base with ninety-seven unmanned Pangus, but Zheng Jinren ordered them to hold back because an early explosion could help Aker breach the barrier.
• As the northwestern barrier’s integrity fell below ten percent, Zheng Jinren ordered Wang Ce and Shen Minghe to approach Aker and deploy their antimatter devices only after the barrier shattered.
• Wang Ce and Shen Minghe exchanged farewells and split to approach Aker from opposite sides while the unmanned Pangus covered them with fire.
• Aker noticed the two piloted Mechas but dismissed them, confident it could escape through the tunnel beneath it.
• Aker gathered its domain power for a final strike, and Zheng Jinren realized the danger.

Zheng Jinren’s plan to trap Aker with six Antimatter Bombs succeeded, annihilating Aker and devastating the area around Kona Base. The base survived the blast but suffered heavy damage, and Zheng Jinren ordered the units to report their status and confirm Aker’s death.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the Antimatter Bombs detonated when Aker broke the Northwest Barrier.
• Aker dove underground to escape the surface explosions, unaware that an Earth Dragon Type One Burrowing Robot had planted another Antimatter Bomb in its escape route.
• The six Antimatter Bombs detonated from above, below, and within the tunnel, swallowing Aker and the surrounding Demon Clan forces in white light.
• The overlapping blasts erased much of the Northwest Defense Zone and sent a powerful shock wave into Kona Base, driving its Inner Barrier’s integrity down to 43%.
• The World Tree Root System braced the collapsing rock beneath the base, and Zheng Jinren ordered reports on casualties and confirmation of Aker’s death.