Chapter Summaries

Cho'Gath sensed the Antimatter Bomb at the end of the tunnel and retreated rather than risk his life, then ordered Burrowing Earth Dragons to converge on Tianxiong Underground City. Great Xia realized the bomb had deterred the Demon God but had not killed him, and seismic monitors reported fourteen Burrowing Earth Dragons digging toward the city.

• Cho'Gath detected a tiny object ahead that threatened his life and concluded it was likely the weapon that had killed Ao Lingsi.
• Cho'Gath turned back to the surface and ordered the Burrowing Earth Dragons within a hundred kilometers to converge on Tianxiong Underground City.
• The staff watching the surveillance feed were baffled by Cho'Gath's retreat until Lin Shigong explained that he had sensed the Antimatter Bomb.
• The adjutant realized the bomb had kept Cho'Gath away but remained unused, leaving the Demon God alive and dangerous.
• A technician reported that seismic monitoring had detected fourteen Burrowing Earth Dragons digging toward Tianxiong City.

Lin Shigong ordered Tianxiong City to conserve ammunition, restart explosives production, and report its predicament after Cho'Gath sent Burrowing Earth Dragons to wear down its defenses. At headquarters, Han Niba learned the Antimatter Bomb had not detonated and asked whether Lin Mo had secured reinforcements.

• Lin Shigong estimated that Tianxiong City's high-powered explosives and cubic nitrogen bombs would last at most four days and ordered the military factories to restart automated production.
• The adjutant confirmed that Tianxiong City had enough raw materials for five years of consumption, and robots began operating the factories' assembly lines.
• At Tianshu Underground City's Command Hall, staff wondered why Cho'Gath had emerged from the tunnel unharmed and whether the Antimatter Bomb had detonated.
• The communications operator read Tianxiong City's report that Cho'Gath had detected the bomb, retreated, and sent fourteen Burrowing Earth Dragons toward the city to grind down its defenses.
• Han Niba concluded that Cho'Gath was more experienced than expected, and the officers recognized that the Antimatter Bomb was difficult to use against him.
• Han Niba asked how Commander Lin Mo's mission to the Terra Continent was progressing and whether he had secured reinforcements.

Lin Mo told Kael that the Demon Clan had appeared on Blue Star and asked to meet Lord Ryze urgently. Kael agreed to take him to the Holy City, and they flew there together on pegasi.

• Lin Mo hurried to the Holy Human Race’s shop at the Two-World Trade Center and told Kael that the Demon Clan had been discovered on Blue Star.
• Kael was shocked by the news, but believed Lin Mo after he said drones had captured conclusive footage.
• Lin Mo asked to meet Lord Ryze immediately, and Kael agreed to escort him to the Holy City.
• Kael and Lin Mo mounted pegasi and flew through a portal into the Holy Human Race’s territory.
• The two flew over the Holy City toward the church.

Lin Mo asked Ryze to send Holy Human fighters to help Great Xia repel a Demon Clan invasion, warning that Great Xia’s destruction would leave Terra without its only weapon capable of killing an Eighth-Order Demon God. Ryze hesitated over the risk, and Lin Mo argued that all of Terra’s survival depended on helping Great Xia.

• Lin Mo and Kael arrived at the Church and asked to meet Ryze, who received them inside.
• Lin Mo told Ryze that demons had emerged through a space wormhole inside an Underground City on Blue Star and that a Demon God might lead the invasion.
• Lin Mo asked the Holy Human Race to send high-order fighters to support Great Xia.
• Ryze considered the danger of confronting a Demon God, fearing that another major loss would weaken the Holy Human Race after the Pope’s death.
• Lin Mo reminded Ryze that Great Xia alone could make the Antimatter Bomb that had killed Ao Lingsi and warned that Terra would lose its last trump card if Great Xia fell.

Lin Mo secured the Holy Human Race’s agreement to send three seventh order fighters to support Great Xia, then went to seek help from the Elves. He found Princess Fendona at the Starwhisper Grove Ecological Experience Park, where she was posing for tourists.

• Ryze agreed that the Holy Human Race would aid Great Xia and send three seventh order fighters in exchange for standard payment.
• Lin Mo thanked Ryze and said he would seek aid from the Elves, Dwarves, and Half-Orcs.
• Kael warned Lin Mo that the other races might not be as accommodating, but Lin Mo said the Holy Human Race’s backing would help.
• Lin Mo returned to Great Xia’s Fief with Kael and headed to the Elves’ area to find Princess Fendona.
• An Elf shop assistant told Lin Mo that Fendona was at the Starwhisper Grove Ecological Experience Park.
• Lin Mo found Fendona posing for photos with Great Xia tourists.

Lin Mo told Fendona that members of the Demon Clan had appeared on Blue Star and asked her to bring him to the Elf Queen so he could seek help from the Elves. They reached the palace in Aivinol, where a guard paused them before they could meet the Queen.

• Lin Mo found Fendona at the park and told her that the Demon Clan had appeared on Blue Star.
• Fendona agreed to take Lin Mo to the Elf Queen and hurried with him to the Griffins.
• Lin Mo and Fendona flew through a Portal to Aivinol, the Elf Royal City built throughout a giant world tree.
• They rode their Griffins to the palace atop the tree, where Fendona requested an audience with the Queen on Lin Mo's behalf.
• The palace guard recognized Lin Mo and asked them to wait while he attended to the request.

Lin Mo asked Elf Queen Ellari to send high-order combatants to Blue Star to help Great Xia fight the Demon Clan, but she resisted because doing so would weaken Terra’s defenses. He argued that helping Great Xia now offered a strong chance of victory, while allowing it to fall would leave the Elves and Terra facing certain defeat.

• Lin Mo entered the Elven palace with Fendona and explained that the Demon Clan had appeared on Blue Star.
• Lin Mo asked Ellari to send high-order combatants to help Great Xia, but she warned that their absence could endanger the Elves on Terra.
• Fendona tried to remind Ellari of Great Xia’s past support, but Ellari stopped her and said that support had been a transaction, not a favor.
• Lin Mo argued that Great Xia was the only race with weapons capable of killing an Eighth-Order Demon God, and that its destruction would expose Terra to a future attack.
• Ellari maintained that keeping her forces on Terra was the safer immediate choice, so Lin Mo argued that helping Great Xia now offered a high chance of victory while waiting meant certain defeat.

Lin Mo negotiated with Ellari for Elven aid against the Demon Clan’s invasion of Blue Star, agreeing that Great Xia would help the Elves twice unconditionally in exchange for three Seventh Order combatants. The deal was put into a magic contract, but its severe penalty for Great Xia breaching the agreement left Lin Mo objecting.

• Lin Mo offered the Elves payment and an unconditional future promise of assistance, and Ellari demanded two future interventions in return.
• Lin Mo argued that helping Great Xia also protected Terra, and Ellari waived the hiring fee while insisting on her terms.
• Lin Mo accepted the deal, and Ellari said the Elves would send three Seventh Order combatants while she stayed on Terra.
• Ellari drafted a magic contract requiring Great Xia to help the Elves twice unconditionally and transferring Great Xia’s Terra holdings to the Elves if Great Xia broke the agreement.
• Lin Mo questioned Ellari about the contract’s harsh breach-of-contract clause.

Lin Mo secured the Elves’ aid for Great Xia by signing a contract that committed three Seventh-Order Experts to help Blue Star. Meanwhile, Great Xia’s missile attacks irritated Cho'Gath without damaging his shield, and he sent more Burrowing Earth Dragons to tunnel toward Tianxiong City.

• Ellari challenged Lin Mo over the contract’s breach clauses, and he agreed to sign, pledging Great Xia’s Terra assets as compensation if the Elves’ Three Elders were harmed.
• Ellari and Lin Mo sealed the contract with their blood, and she promised to send the Three Elders to Great Xia’s fief at once.
• Lin Mo told Fendona that Ellari had been right to protect her people, then left with her to seek aid from the Dwarves and Half-Orcs.
• Great Xia repeatedly struck Cho'Gath with conventional missiles, slightly draining his Dark Purple Shield but causing him no damage.
• Cho'Gath ordered more Burrowing Earth Dragons to tunnel toward Tianxiong City after explosives had destroyed many of them and their tunnels.

Cho'Gath fled the missile barrage and reached Eolseu, Korea's underground city, intending to vent his anger on its inhabitants. The city’s people remained unaware that the Eighth-Order Demon God had arrived above them.

• Cho'Gath roared in anger, then flew southeast toward another human settlement after learning of its location.
• Cho'Gath detected a dense population beneath the ice, landed above the underground city, and sensed no threat.
• The chapter described how Korea obtained a small Antarctic territory from Eagle Country and built Eolseu as its last core city.
• Eolseu's lower-class residents endured cramped housing, ration lines, and dangerous labor while elites enjoyed abundant luxuries.
• Park Chang-da chose to keep Korea's population underground, where leaders used horror livestreams and entertainment to occupy them.
• Cho'Gath stood above Eolseu as its residents remained oblivious to the danger approaching them.

At Eolseu Underground City, Park Chang-da and his staff mistook approaching nuclear explosions for Eagle Country’s successful counterattack and began planning how to profit. Their celebrations ended when an immense, unseen pressure struck the Command Center, forcing everyone, including Park Chang-da, to the floor.

• A technician reported that more than forty suspected nuclear explosions had moved from the direction of Eagle Country’s Freedom Underground City toward Great Xia’s Tianxiong city area.
• Park Chang-da concluded that Eagle Country had broken through Great Xia’s blockade and was advancing into its territory.
• Park Chang-da and the staff celebrated the prospect of Eagle Country defeating Great Xia and discussed gaining supplies, territory, and access to the surface.
• Park Chang-da estimated that Eagle Country had a sixty to seventy percent chance of winning and approved preparations to support it.
• An incomprehensible pressure overwhelmed the Command Center, knocking down the secretary, officers, technicians, and Park Chang-da.

Ersu City’s Command Center detected underground seismic sources, but its terrified, poorly prepared garrison could not stop the Demon Clan Army from breaking through the city’s walls. As the defenses collapsed, Cho'Gath entered the city and looked down at the humans.

• Park Chang-da and the Command Center staff struggled under a terrifying pressure as technicians detected approaching underground seismic sources.
• Park Chang-da ordered the army to prepare, but the frightened troops could barely hold their weapons or reach the defensive line.
• A Burrowing Earth Dragon smashed through the outer wall, shrugged off gunfire, and charged through the defenders.
• Abyss Hellhounds, Heavy Armor Demon Soldiers, and other Demon Clan troops poured into Ersu City as Burrowing Earth Dragons broke through walls in all four directions.
• Korea's army collapsed within minutes, and Park Chang-da stopped breathing while watching the city fall on the surveillance feed.
• Cho'Gath emerged through the eastern main wall, rose through the ceilings, and grinned down at the humans.

Tianxiong City came under a growing assault from Burrowing Earth Dragons and elite demons infiltrating through tunnels, vents, and pipes. As Lin Shigong’s defenses ran short of robots and explosives, powerful demons began battering the city’s main blast gate, which was close to giving way.

• Burrowing Earth Dragons attacked Tianxiong City from all sides, and its factory-produced explosives and Combat Robots initially sealed their tunnels.
• Fifth-order and sixth-rank demons infiltrated through the main tunnel, ventilation ducts, and drainage pipes, overwhelming the city’s stretched defenses.
• Technicians and staff officers directed the remaining Combat Robots against intruders, while Lin Shigong watched the situation deteriorate.
• An information officer reported that demons were ramming the two-meter-thick blast gate at tunnel two, and its surveillance feed showed it buckling under repeated impacts.
• Lin Shigong ordered explosives placed inside the gate, but the information officer reported that C4 and Cubic Nitrogen Explosive were completely depleted and the next batch would take at least half an hour.

With explosives depleted and the tunnel gate close to collapsing, Lin Shigong ordered tactical nuclear bombs deployed to defend Tianxiong City. Before he could give the detonation order, Great Xia’s Seventh Rapid Response Brigade arrived through a Portal with troops, combat robots, vehicles, and urgently needed explosives.

• Lin Shigong learned that Tianxiong City had run out of C4 and cubic nitrogen as Demon Clan forces attacked through the tunnels and pipes.
• Lin Shigong ordered low-yield tactical nuclear bombs placed at the tunnel gate and breached pipe junctions, while moving the Antimatter Bombs to safety.
• Robots prepared the nuclear bombs as Lin Shigong watched battles and destruction spread throughout Tianxiong City.
• A Portal opened outside the Vault, and the Seventh Rapid Response Brigade of Great Xia’s Northern Theater Command announced its arrival.
• Great Xia soldiers, Combat Robots, armored vehicles, C4, and Cubic Nitrogen Explosive streamed through the Portal and advanced into Tianxiong City.

Zhou Shan arrived with the Second Division to reinforce Tianxiong City after Cho'Gath left for Ersu City, and he explained that Great Xia would not let the Demon Clan destroy the city through attrition. The division took control of the defenses, leaving the city prepared to hold out until Cho'Gath returned and could be trapped by the Antimatter Bomb.

• Zhou Shan and the Second Division emerged from the Portal, and Zhou Shan saluted Lin Shigong before ordering his troops to coordinate with the city's defenses.
• Lin Shigong questioned why a full-strength division had returned after the evacuation, since the earlier orders had been to remove civilians and most of the garrison.
• Zhou Shan explained that the evacuation had been necessary because detonating the Antimatter Bomb against Cho'Gath inside the Underground City would devastate the surrounding crust.
• Zhou Shan told Lin Shigong that Cho'Gath had left for Ersu City and was using cannon fodder to wear down Tianxiong City instead of entering the Antimatter Bomb trap.
• Zhou Shan declared that the Second Division would hold the city against conventional forces until Cho'Gath returned and Great Xia could destroy it with the Antimatter Bomb.

Zhou Shan refused to use a Tactical Nuclear Bomb after Gate One fell and ordered Great Xia’s forces to repel the Demon Clan. Great Xia’s troops and combat robots overwhelmed the invaders across Tianxiong City, leaving the battle as a one-sided slaughter.

• Lin Shigong handed Tianxiong City’s defense to Zhou Shan before collapsing from exhaustion.
• The Demon Clan breached Gate One, and Lin Shigong asked whether to detonate the deployed Tactical Nuclear Bomb.
• Zhou Shan rejected using the bomb and ordered the Jingzhe Rapid Response Brigade to attack with heavy firepower, armored formations, and unmanned combat units.
• Zhao Haidong’s squad used Plasma Rifles and anti-armor Missiles to destroy the demons attacking through a commercial thoroughfare.
• Great Xia’s infantry and combat robots cleared Demon Clan forces across Tianxiong City, including a Fifth Order Blade Demon Spider in Sector H5.

Zhou Shan’s troops retook much of Tianxiong City, allowing Lin Shigong and the exhausted Vault staff to rest as command passed to Zhou Shan. The advance stalled when a disguised Seventh-Order Demon Venerable revealed itself in Sector D7, where it had already killed soldiers and destroyed two robots.

• Zhou Shan’s forces cleared several sectors and drove the demons back, and Lin Shigong ordered a command handover before collapsing to sleep.
• Zhou Shan assumed command and directed his staff to continue the citywide sweep while troops cleared the remaining sectors.
• A report revealed that a disguised demon in Sector D7 had torn apart two Fifth-Order Robots and killed three infantrymen.
• Zhou Shan ordered the battlefield feed onto the main screen and learned the demon ranked as a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• Zhou Shan realized the demon might have been heading for the command hub or the Antimatter Bomb.

Zhou Shan ordered troops to retreat and fifth-order combat robots to pin down a seventh-order Demon Clan creature in D7 while logistics prepared a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb. The robots repeatedly sacrificed themselves to stop the creature from escaping, leaving it surrounded again as the blockade continued.

• Zhou Shan ordered the D7 infantry to withdraw, sent fifth-order robots to contain the creature, and ordered logistics to prepare a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb.
• Forty-seven fifth-order robots surrounded the seventh-order Demon Clan creature, which unleashed its domain and destroyed the first robot with one punch.
• Zhou Shan ordered the robots to attack across all bands, but the creature dodged and dismantled them as reinforcements kept charging into the fight.
• The creature tore a gap in the encirclement and tried to flee, but three newly arrived robots blocked the corridor and delayed it with their bodies and weapons.
• The creature destroyed the three barricading robots, but the robots behind it surged forward and closed the encirclement again.

Zhou Shan’s forces sacrificed nearly a hundred fifth-order combat robots and detonated a hundred-kiloton nuclear bomb in the D7 Section to attack the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable. The blast devastated D7 and damaged neighboring sections; the Demon Venerable’s fate remained unconfirmed as soldiers began checking the irradiated ruins.

• Zhou Shan learned that the nuclear-bomb-carrying robot was approaching the target and urged it to hurry while other robots delayed the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• The Demon Venerable tried to escape, but three robots self-destructed to drive it back as the bomb-carrying robot closed in.
• The robot detonated the nuclear bomb, vaporizing the Demon Venerable from view and wrecking the D7 Section while damaging D6 and D8.
• After the tremors subsided, Zhou Shan ordered personnel to confirm the Demon Venerable’s fate, clear the remaining sections, and stabilize the damaged structures.
• A soldier gave a fifth-order robot a Magic Purification Scroll, and the robot opened it above ground zero to reduce the radiation in the ruins.

Human forces cleared the radiation and confirmed that a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable had died in the nuclear blast. Enraged, Cho'Gath opened nine Space Wormholes across three underground cities to unleash a massive invasion, while Zhou Shan prepared for the next attack in Tianxiong Underground City.

• Robots and soldiers used seven Purification Scrolls to clear radiation, then swept the ruins and killed surviving demons.
• A robot squad found the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable's remains and confirmed that it was dead.
• Cho'Gath learned that another subordinate had fallen and sent a psychic command to begin a massive deployment.
• Demon armies and Giant Burrowing Dragons poured through nine Space Wormholes opened in Freedom, Shengdun, and Eolseu Underground Cities.
• Zhou Shan received confirmation of the Demon Venerable's death and remained on alert in Tianxiong Underground City, expecting Cho'Gath's next move.