Recaps

Lin Mo convinced Great Xia that his journeys to the Terra Continent were real, and the New Hope Plan equipped the Elves with improved weapons and production methods. As the Demon Clan breached Lothia City’s defenses, Lin Mo and the Elves faced a new wave of monsters.

• Lin Mo arrived at a military base with a gemstone from another world, and testing led officers to investigate his claims.
• Lin Mo recounted meeting Fendona and witnessing the Elves’ war against the Demon Clan, then proved his journeys by bringing back a healing World Tree leaf.
• Great Xia’s leaders verified the samples, launched the New Hope Plan, and appointed Lin Mo its commander-in-chief.
• Lin Mo returned to the Elven city with a camera and showed Fendona footage of his world, while she described the Elves’ shortages and losses.
• Lin Mo brought the Elves plans for compound bows and repeating crossbows, and their tests showed the new weapons could strike farther and fire faster than traditional arms.
• After the Elves struggled to produce interchangeable parts and enough arrowheads, Lin Mo introduced standardized tools and stamping methods.
• When the Demon Clan broke through the first wall, Lin Mo helped direct the Elven defense as an Earth Python opened a tunnel into the city.
• Fendona and the Elf mages killed the Earth Python, but demons and larger Corroders poured through the tunnel, threatening the Elves with acid beams.

Lin Mo secured the Elves’ trust and negotiated for a World Tree Seed while Great Xia explored how to aid them. The discovery of astral teleportation gave Great Xia a possible route to survival, and its leaders approved preparations for an expedition to the Terra Continent.

• Lin Mo helped Fendona’s forces defeat the Demon Clan, and Queen Ellari later rewarded him with a Life Fruit that transformed his strength on both worlds.
• After learning how many people Great Xia’s underground cities could not shelter, Lin Mo resolved to obtain a World Tree Seed and traveled with Fendona to meet Ellari.
• At Ellari’s banquet, Valerius insulted Great Xia and demanded it become a vassal state, but Lin Mo rebuked him and Ellari apologized before asking Great Xia for help.
• Lin Mo told Ellari that Great Xia would assist the Elves in exchange for a World Tree Seed, while the Elves demanded that Great Xia help retake Emerald Leaf City.
• Lin Mo and Great Xia’s leaders considered how to transport the soccer-ball-sized seed, and Lin Mo volunteered for surgery to carry it inside his body.
• Ellari explained that the Holy Human Race’s Astral Teleportation could connect worlds, and Lin Mo promised to pursue cooperation so Great Xia might send forces through a portal.
• Zhao Gang told Elder Zhao and Great Xia’s leaders about the possible two-way portal, prompting an emergency discussion about moving troops and resources to the Terra Continent.
• Elder Zhao authorized Lin Mo to negotiate with Ellari and ordered Long Zhan to prepare twenty thousand elite troops for deployment within seventy-two hours.

Lin Mo secured Great Xia’s agreement with the Elves and Holy Human Race to open a Portal, then helped connect Terra to the Arctic Theater base. As the Demon Clan attacked the Portal site, Long Zhan sent drones through to support the defenders.

• Long Zhan and Wang Hai placed the military and industry on wartime footing as Great Xia mobilized for the Terra expedition, and Elder Zhao gave Lin Mo full authority over the project.
• Lin Mo negotiated with Pope Gregory VII and High Archbishop Kael for Astral Teleportation, securing a 25,000-soldier limit and agreeing to weapons inspections and joint oversight.
• Lin Mo arranged for the Elves to provide a World Tree seed and reopen the Portal after the campaign, while Great Xia prepared its expedition at the Arctic Theater base.
• With Kael’s detection array, Lin Mo’s cross-world ripple revealed Blue Star’s coordinates, allowing the mages to establish the Portal’s connection.
• Wolaz spotted the Portal’s pillar of light and ordered the Demon Clan to assemble and march on the Elf Royal City.
• Long Zhan presented the 25,000-soldier Expeditionary Force, then ordered drones through the newly opening Portal to scout the approaching Demon Clan.
• Adrian’s Elf warriors and Elder Muyu’s allies fought the Demon Clan as its forces attacked the defenses and Winged Demons broke toward the Portal.
• Long Zhan sent suicide drones against the Winged Demons, killing them in successive blasts and prompting Elder Muyu to declare that the Elves still had hope.

Great Xia’s forces helped the Elves repel the Demon Clan, but Wolaz’s assault on the Portal led Long Zhan to use a nuclear weapon, leaving many soldiers dead or wounded. With the Portal secured, Great Xia and its new allies began supervising its use, studying magic and electricity, and planning to reclaim Emerald Leaf City without damaging it.

• Long Zhan halted the drones’ pursuit of the Winged Demons and conserved their batteries as Elder Muyu rallied the Elves against the Corroders.
• Long Zhan sent cluster shells and mortars through the Portal, then dispatched Lin Mo and Great Xia troops to reinforce the Elves as the Demon Clan breached their defenses.
• Lin Mo’s soldiers and the Elves fought back with machine guns, artillery, and suicide drones, while Wolaz survived bombardment and led the assault toward the Portal.
• As Wolaz neared the Portal, Long Zhan ordered a nuclear warhead sent through it despite warnings that it could kill Great Xia’s own soldiers.
• Kael completed the Portal ritual and struck Wolaz with holy light, forcing the demon commander to flee as the Demon Clan army retreated.
• Lin Mo found the Portal area devastated and confronted Long Zhan after learning that 123 soldiers had died and many more were wounded.
• Kael and Elder Muyu remained to supervise the Portal, while Great Xia raised its flag, transported defenses and supplies, and began coordinating with its allies.
• Lin Mo arranged for Kael and Elder Muyu to study electricity with Qian Zhenhua, and the visitors later joined Great Xia’s cooking squad for their first meal.
• Long Zhan proposed recruiting powerful fighters, developing weapons, and studying magic, while Lin Mo rejected a thermobaric strike on Emerald Leaf City and planned to learn from Kael and the Elves.