Recaps

After learning that a Planet Devourer was approaching the Kona Star System, Great Xia’s leaders ordered nationwide special-class wartime mobilization and began preparing weapons and seeking allies. The chapter ended with the emergency measures announced across Great Xia, leaving citizens alarmed and wondering what threat they faced.

• Lin Mo told the conference that the Demon Clan’s Planet Devourer was intelligent, extremely difficult to destroy, and likely to threaten Blue Star and the Terra Continent.
• Han Niba reported that even Great Xia’s entire stockpile of strategic weapons had less than a one percent chance of destroying the Planet Devourer.
• Elder Zhao rejected retreat and ordered Great Xia to mobilize, accelerate antimatter production and the Planet-Buster Cannon, consult the Holy Human Race, Elves, and Dwarf Clan, and develop countermeasures.
• Great Xia announced special-class wartime mobilization, imposed energy rationing, and redirected surplus power to antimatter production and strategic defense projects.
• Residents across Great Xia reacted with shock as energy restrictions took effect and news of the lunar Planet-Buster Cannon spread online.

Great Xia prepared for an undisclosed planetary threat as the people conserved electricity and workers raced to build the Sea-Calming Divine Needle on the Moon. On Terra, Lin Mo gathered the leaders of the surviving races to seek ways to stop the Planet Devourer, but had not yet revealed the danger.

• Great Xia kept the Planet Devourer secret, while rumors spread and residents saved electricity after public officials quelled panic buying.
• Hundreds of thousands of Engineering Robots and workers built the Sea-Calming Divine Needle at Crater Base, and the chief engineer ordered recruitment and construction accelerated.
• Lin Mo returned to the Great Xia Fief and summoned the leaders of Terra's surviving races to an emergency meeting to discuss countering the Planet Devourer.
• Zhao Gang arrived and asked Lin Mo whether the crisis was in Kona, but Lin Mo told him to wait for the other leaders.
• Ryze, Muradin, Ellari, and Warwick arrived and asked Lin Mo whether the Demon Clan had attacked.

Lin Mo revealed that a moon-sized Demon Clan Planet Devourer was approaching and showed the other leaders footage proving that Great Xia's strongest weapons could barely affect it. The leaders admitted that Terra's magic had no spell capable of harming a creature of that scale, leaving them without a known way to stop it.

• Warwick and the other leaders asked Lin Mo where the Demon Clan had appeared and how many Demon Gods had come.
• Lin Mo said a single being called a Planet Devourer had arrived, and that its body was as large as the moon.
• Lin Mo showed footage of the Planet Devourer emerging through a vast wormhole and resisting an antimatter missile.
• Lin Mo explained that the Planet Devourer was at the Tenth Planet in the Kona Star System and could target Terra and Blue Star after consuming the Kona civilization.
• Ryze said Terra's ultimate spells could devastate cities and mountain ranges but could not pierce the Planet Devourer's skin.

Lin Mo asked the leaders of Terra’s Four Races to search their ancient records for a way to stop the Planet Devourer, since their current abilities could not threaten it. After they left, Lin Mo and Zhao Gang prepared Great Xia’s desperate antimatter and Planet-Buster Cannon measures while Lin Mo headed to Kona Base.

• Lin Mo urged the leaders of the Four Races to search their sealed texts and traditions for weapons, formations, or magic that could affect the Planet Devourer.
• Queen Ellari, Pope Ryze, Muradin, and Beast King Warwick each promised to search their peoples’ ancient records and keep the threat secret from the public.
• After the leaders left, Zhao Gang asked whether Great Xia had a viable response, and Lin Mo outlined nationwide combat mobilization and accelerated construction of the Planet-Buster Cannon.
• Lin Mo asked Zhao Gang to oversee Terra’s coordination, reactors, and public sentiment, then left for Kona Base to monitor developments.

Lin Mo returned to Kona Satellite Base after the Terra conference and learned that Great Xia had no direct way to defeat the Planet Devourer. Zheng Jinren revealed a plan to delay it by detecting and destroying its portals before they could expand.

• Lin Mo arrived at the Command Center as Han Niba, Long Zhan, and Liu Yishou finalized preparations for deep-space defenses across Blue Star, Terra, and Kona.
• Lin Mo reported that the other races had no effective weapon against the Planet Devourer and had been asked to search ancient records for possible solutions.
• After the conference ended, Zheng Jinren told Lin Mo that the general staff had devised a delaying tactic despite lacking a way to seriously harm the monster.
• Zheng Jinren explained that Great Xia would blanket the Solar System and Terra's star system with detection networks and antimatter missiles to attack each portal as soon as it opened.

Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren planned to stop the Space-Jumping Beast by destroying its wormhole as it opened, buying Great Xia time. After learning that the Planet Devourer was draining and merging with the Tenth Planet, Lin Mo questioned why it remained only moon-sized despite supposedly consuming many planets.

• Lin Mo agreed that an Antimatter Bomb could exploit a newly opened wormhole to kill the Space-Jumping Beast and collapse the passage.
• Zheng Jinren said the Staff Officer Department planned to use surveillance and fast missiles to destroy new passages and keep the monster from reaching their world.
• Zheng Jinren reported that Watcher’s observations showed the Planet Devourer had emerged from the wormhole and pressed itself against the Tenth Planet.
• Zheng Jinren explained that the monster’s gravity had stretched the Tenth Planet into an egg-shaped contact binary, with its material flowing toward the monster through a bridge.
• Lin Mo wondered why the Planet Devourer was only moon-sized if it had consumed and merged with many planets before.

Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren watched the Planet Devourer siphon matter from the Tenth Planet and learned that the Kona Civilization had sent its entire fleet to attack it. With the devouring expected to take a month, Lin Mo returned through the Cross-World Portal to the Great Xia Fief, where Fendona welcomed him home.

• A satellite video showed the Planet Devourer stretching the Tenth Planet into an egg shape and growing as it siphoned away its matter.
• Lin Mo learned that devouring the Tenth Planet would take at least a month and discussed how slowly the Planet Devourer might move once it was full.
• Zheng Jinren reported that the Kona Civilization had sent five hundred warships toward the Tenth Planet, while three Great Xia High-Speed Cruisers followed to observe and establish a communications warning network.
• Lin Mo received a message from Fendona, left Zheng Jinren to monitor for unusual fluctuations, and returned through the Cross-World Portal to the Great Xia Fief.
• Lin Mo saw increased security and unease in the Two-World Free Trade Zone before Fendona rushed out to welcome him at his villa.

Lin Mo and Great Xia prepared to confront the Planet Devourer as it consumed the Tenth Planet. After seeing five hundred Kona warships' bombardment fail against its shield, Lin Mo realized the monster could not fight back at that moment.

• Fendona greeted Lin Mo affectionately, then rushed to the kitchen after realizing she had burned her new dish again.
• Great Xia accelerated its defenses across the Solar System, using Holy Human Race Portals to deploy surveillance and strike platforms.
• Zheng Jinren told Lin Mo that five hundred Kona warships had surrounded the Planet Devourer and were bombarding it.
• Lin Mo watched the live feed reveal the monster consuming the Tenth Planet while its dark-purple shield absorbed the fleet's attacks.
• Lin Mo concluded that the Planet Devourer was not ignoring the fleet but simply could not fight back right then.

Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren learned that Great Xia’s lunar Planet-Buster Cannon would have only one shot unless the Kona Civilization helped produce antimatter. After the Kona Civilization rejected their initial proposal, Watcher offered a revised plan to jointly build a cannon in the Kona Star System, ending with the cryptic mention of a Kamikaze Contingency Plan.

• Zheng Jinren explained that the Kona fleet’s attacks could not penetrate the massive celestial body’s shield, and the think tank proposed a lunar Planet-Buster Cannon.
• The staff officer warned that Great Xia would have enough antimatter for only one shot, so Zheng Jinren proposed asking the Kona Civilization to help produce more.
• The Kona Civilization rejected the proposal, arguing that supplying Great Xia would leave it without a chance to survive the approaching threat.
• Lin Mo urged the Kona Civilization to help because the monster would destroy it first, but the civilization maintained that the plan would sacrifice it for Great Xia.
• Watcher proposed building Kona-owned Planet-Buster Cannons on the system’s satellites and trading Great Xia’s antimatter for advanced technology.
• Zheng Jinren questioned whether the Kona Civilization could finish a cannon in time, and Watcher said the plan depended on joint construction and the Kamikaze Contingency Plan.

Great Xia and the Kona Civilization agreed to jointly build Planet-Buster Cannons and engines on the Kona Satellite, while Kona offered miniature Dyson Cloud technology in exchange for Great Xia’s blueprints and engineering support. As the technology arrived for verification, Academician Qian Zhenhua received the urgent request and was stunned by its contents.

• Watcher proposed equipping the Kona Satellite with Planet-Buster Cannons and 24,000 planetary engines, with a collision against the Planet Devourer as a last resort.
• Watcher offered miniature Dyson Cloud Construction Technology in exchange for Great Xia’s cannon and engine blueprints and construction assistance.
• Elder Zhao approved the deal on the condition that the Great Xia Academy of Sciences receive and verify the technology before construction began.
• Watcher accepted, began transmitting the technology, and activated Kona’s First Engineering Cluster to head for the satellite.
• Zheng Jinren ordered Great Xia and Terra’s engineering forces to assemble on the Kona Satellite, while Lin Mo offered to open a Portal for transport.
• Academician Qian Zhenhua received the technology for urgent verification and trembled as he read the request.

Qian Zhenhua and Great Xia’s scientists verified the Kona Civilization’s miniature Dyson Cloud technology as genuine and feasible. At Kona Satellite Base, Zheng Jinren sent Watcher the promised blueprints and began moving personnel and equipment through the portals for the construction operation.

• Qian Zhenhua recognized the Dyson Cloud plans as a major technological advance and ordered Great Xia’s Planet-Buster Cannon and planetary engine blueprints sent to General Zheng at Kona Satellite Base.
• Thirty-two leading scholars and more than a thousand researchers spent two days and nights checking the plans, then confirmed Great Xia could build the technology.
• Zheng Jinren received the verification notice, ordered the promised blueprints sent to Watcher, and told all units to move in according to the plan.
• Personnel and equipment, including a dwarf corps, passed through the base’s five Cross-World Portals onto Kona Satellite.
• Baron stepped outside in his engineering exoskeleton and gaped at the star-filled void, the enormous gas planet, and the silvery Kona Home Planet.

Great Xia and the Kona Civilization began transforming a satellite into a mobile fortress to fight the Planet Devourer, with Zheng Jinren ordering Great Xia’s forces to take on their share of the construction. Lin Mo opened a vast portal to Blue Star’s industrial base, allowing the work to begin in earnest.

• The Kona Civilization’s Watcher divided the construction plan into phases: build a Planet-Buster Cannon, install twenty-four thousand Planetary Propulsion Engines, and add Attitude Adjustment Steering Engines.
• A staff officer explained that Great Xia had to complete work equivalent to six thousand planetary engines, and Zheng Jinren ordered its Engineering Corps, Mechanized Divisions, and Dwarf Craftsmen to begin construction.
• Baron witnessed the Kona workers excavating a vast basin with Nanobot Worker Bees and Plasma Beams at extraordinary speed.
• Lin Mo opened a three-hundred-meter portal from the satellite to Blue Star’s Deep Space Transfer Chamber, creating a route for Great Xia’s factories and equipment to reach the construction site.
• Great Xia’s Red Flag rose over the satellite as its workers prepared to build the Godslaying Spear.

Cho'Gath returned to the Ninth Planet with Yaxes and other Demon Venerables, intending to watch the Planet Devourer and the technological civilizations clash. He recalled how the Planet Devourer's emissary had forced him to hand over star charts by threatening to expose his role in the deaths of other Demon Gods.

• Great Xia and Kona construction crews began building planetary propulsion engines as their race against extinction got underway.
• Cho'Gath emerged from a wormhole onto the Ninth Planet with four Seventh-Order Demon Venerables, including Yaxes, and awakened the dormant Demon Clan hordes.
• Yaxes told Cho'Gath that Blue Star and Kona forces had not reached the Ninth Planet and wondered whether the Planet Devourer had finished consuming the ice giant on the Tenth Planet.
• Cho'Gath recalled how he had returned to the Trading Planet after taking the territories of Aker, Herok, Sahe, and Baroque, hoping to sell more coordinates.
• A Seventh-Order Demon Venerable demanded Cho'Gath's star charts without payment and threatened to report his involvement in the deaths of several Demon Gods if he refused.

Cho'Gath went to the Ninth Planet to see whether Blue Star Civilization could defeat the Planet Devourer and avenge the loss of his coordinate crystals. Through the Magic-Eye Beasts, he witnessed the Devourer consuming the Tenth Planet, then Yaxes cried out that something was happening.

• Cho'Gath recalled being forced to hand over three coordinate crystals and hurried to the Ninth Planet with Yaxes and three other Demon Venerables.
• Cho'Gath ordered Yaxes to fetch two Magic-Eye Beasts so they could search the distant void for the Tenth Planet.
• A Magic-Eye Beast projected an image showing the Planet Devourer tearing apart the Ice Giant and drawing its remains into its own surface.
• Cho'Gath doubted that Blue Star Civilization's Antimatter Weapons could harm the Devourer as Yaxes suddenly shouted that something was happening.

The Planet Devourer used matter from the Tenth Planet as propellant and began accelerating toward the inner Kona Star System. Great Xia estimated it would take at least a century to reach Kona Satellite, but the Kona Civilization’s intelligent brain, Watcher, requested communications.

• Cho'Gath watched the Planet Devourer eject matter from openings across its surface and break out of orbit toward the inner Kona Star System.
• Yaxes explained that the planet moved through the opposing force of ejecting matter, and Cho'Gath slapped him away.
• A communications soldier at Kona Satellite Base spotted the Planet Devourer moving and raised the alarm.
• Zheng Jinren recognized that the planet was using matter from the Tenth Planet as propellant and ordered an orbital trajectory calculation.
• An officer reported that the planet was accelerating and would take at least a hundred years to reach Kona Satellite under a conservative projection.
• The communications soldier announced that the Kona Civilization’s intelligent brain, Watcher, was requesting communications.

Watcher warned Zheng Jinren that the Planet Devourer was accelerating and proposed slowing it with kinetic bombardment from solid ammunition and captured meteoroids. Zheng Jinren committed Great Xia’s available ships and expanded warship production, then contacted the forward cruisers to begin the interception plan.

• Watcher told Zheng Jinren the Planet Devourer could accelerate to a significant fraction of light speed and urged immediate action.
• Watcher proposed using antiship ammunition and accelerated meteoroids to reduce the Planet Devourer’s momentum.
• Zheng Jinren agreed that the tactic could work but explained that Great Xia had few ships in the Kona Star System.
• Watcher ordered its five hundred warships to search for metal-rich asteroids and comet nuclei to use as kinetic projectiles.
• Zheng Jinren committed Great Xia’s cruisers and transports to interception operations and ordered military production lines to build reinforcements.
• Zheng Jinren contacted the three forward cruisers, and Senior Colonel Wang Chong reported that they had the Planet Devourer in view and were awaiting orders.

Zheng Jinren ordered Great Xia’s cruisers and transport ships to join the Kona Civilization’s effort to slow the Planet Devourer with accelerated meteorites. Their first bombardment barely scratched the creature, but it delayed its acceleration by one second.

• Zheng Jinren ordered Wang Chong’s three Cruisers to capture meteorites and launch them at the Planet Devourer, then mobilized heavy transport ships to support the operation.
• The Kona fleet’s five hundred warships gathered huge meteorites from the debris around the destroyed Tenth Planet and accelerated them toward the creature alongside Great Xia’s Cruisers.
• The meteorites struck the Planet Devourer, producing intense collisions that stripped away only a few layers of its outer shell.
• Wang Chong received the impact data and learned that the bombardment had forced the Planet Devourer’s acceleration process back by one second.

Great Xia and the Kona Civilization repeatedly hurled iron-rich meteorites at the Planet Devourer, slowing its acceleration and provoking it into reshaping its crust into a furious giant face. Wang Chong ordered the bombardment to continue, while Cho'Gath watched the battle from afar and hoped both sides would destroy each other.

• Wang Chong confirmed that the first meteorite impacts had erased one second of the Planet Devourer's accumulated acceleration, and Zheng Jinren ordered the fleets to keep firing rocks at it.
• Wang Chong led the cruisers in gathering and launching more meteorites, and ten Kona heavy transports joined the bombardment with additional rocks.
• The Planet Devourer's surface twisted into a gigantic roaring face, frightening the crews aboard the warships.
• Wang Chong rallied the shaken officers by arguing that the creature's anger proved the attacks were hurting it, then ordered a fifth round of towing operations.
• Cho'Gath and Yaxes watched the bombardment from orbit around the Ninth Planet, and Cho'Gath wished for the Planet Devourer and the technological civilizations to destroy each other.

Half a year into preparations for the Planet Devourer’s arrival, Great Xia and the Kona Civilization raced to build defenses as the monster accelerated toward Kona Satellite. Zheng Jinren ordered Great Xia’s construction effort prioritized after the meteorites used to slow the threat nearly ran out.

• Great Xia engineers and Dwarf smiths worked together on Kona Satellite to build the Planet-Buster Cannon and planetary engines.
• Zheng Jinren learned that the Planet Devourer had accelerated to more than one hundred kilometers per second and still had roughly nine billion kilometers to travel.
• The technical supervisor reported that the Planet Devourer’s acceleration was increasing and it could reach them in a year and a half or less.
• The technical supervisor said that most usable meteorites had been exhausted, forcing Kona’s fleet to reduce its interdiction launches.
• Zheng Jinren ordered all available resources directed toward phase one of the Planet-Buster Cannon and demanded that Great Xia’s six thousand engine foundations stay on schedule.

Great Xia struggled to maintain its home defenses and megaprojects as prolonged wartime labor pushed its limited workforce toward exhaustion and unrest. After six days of grueling lunar construction work, Wu Fa cursed the endless shifts while Wu Tian warned him that cameras were watching.

• Great Xia kept construction of the Moon’s Planet-Buster Cannon, planetary engines, and a system-wide spatial fluctuation detection network moving despite its manpower shortage.
• Great Xia’s twelve-hour shifts and six-day workweeks led to widespread exhaustion, complaints, and early signs of social unrest.
• Wu Fa and Wu Tian returned to Blue Star after six days working on the Moon and joined their exhausted coworkers in the changing room.
• Wu Fa hurled his spacesuit into a locker and cursed the relentless work schedule.
• Wu Tian warned Wu Fa to keep his voice down because the cameras were watching.

Exhausted moon workers complained about Great Xia’s relentless wartime labor, and Wu Tian argued that the Solar System could defend itself without helping the Kona Civilization. His reasoning stirred resentment among the workers, leaving them increasingly unwilling to keep sacrificing their lives for the war effort.

• Wu Fa denounced the workers’ twelve-hour shifts and the endless construction projects consuming their lives.
• A technician pointed out that Great Xia was sending resources through the Portal to aid the Kona Civilization, while a squad leader warned that the Planet Devourer would threaten the Solar System if Kona fell.
• Wu Tian argued that Great Xia’s defenses could stop the Planet Devourer and that future Dyson Cloud technology would make the Solar System safe without risking lives for Kona.
• Several workers agreed with Wu Tian and began questioning why they should continue enduring wartime conditions to help the Kona Civilization.
• Wu Fa felt excited as resentment spread among his colleagues and imagined returning to an easier life of short shifts and full-dive games.

Wu Fa and Wu Tian organized exhausted workers into a secret movement demanding shorter hours, better rations, and an end to resource diversion toward the Kona Star System. A month later, their hidden chat had grown to more than 210,000 members, and workers began asking when they would strike.

• Wu Fa urged his coworkers to unite and strike, arguing that Great Xia could not afford to imprison its scarce engineers and managers.
• Wu Tian called for restoring the four-hour workday, improving food rations, and stopping the diversion of resources and manpower to the Kona Star System.
• Wu Fa and Wu Tian secretly recruited dissatisfied workers, and their movement spread through industrial communication blind spots over the following month.
• Wu Fa opened the concealed chat room [Rest and Recuperation] in Tianshu Underground City and saw that it had 214,809 online nodes.
• Workers in the chat complained about exhausting shifts, increased quotas, poor food, and the effort devoted to the Kona Star System, then asked when they would go on strike.