Chapter Summaries

Terra’s races rushed to volunteer for Great Xia’s deadly mission to Kona, drawn by the chance to defeat the Demon Clan and secure a safe future for their families. As applicants crowded the Great Xia Fief’s registration hall and staff began organizing them, a startled cry from the crowd drew attention to something overhead.

• Terra’s races debated whether to join the mission, while many envied the promise of support and citizenship for participants’ families; half-orcs flooded the comments with declarations that they would sign up.
• Applicants from many races arrived through portals at the Great Xia Fief and packed the government administration hall, where staff organized them into lines by race and profession.
• Locke recognized Batu, caught him trying to register despite previously discouraging others, and called him out; Batu admitted he had hoped to reduce the competition before the crowd laughed.
• Great Xia staff explained the eligibility rules, warned that cutting in line meant disqualification, and required applicants to register honestly and confirm the mission’s risks.
• Locke joined Batu in line, accepting the danger because the mission could secure his cubs and elderly parents’ future, and many others felt similarly willing to trade their lives for their families’ safety and a chance to kill an eighth-order Demon God.
• A startled cry rang out as someone told the crowd to look up.

Lin Mo announced that the Allied Army had won the defensive battle, with an Eighth-Order Demon God killed and a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable captured. The people of the fief celebrated the victory as the remaining troops pursued the demons and destroyed the space wormholes, while a staff member waited to report to Lin Mo.

• Reynolds, Balin, and other Seventh-Order Experts escorted a bound Demon Venerable over the fief, and the crowd cheered when they realized it was alive.
• An Allied Army unit marched through the fief in a victory procession, telling the crowds that Great Xia’s weapon had killed the Eighth-Order Demon God and that a Demon Venerable had been captured.
• Lin Mo addressed the people and announced that the Demon God was dead, one Demon Venerable was captured and another killed, five fleeing Demon Venerables had been confirmed dead, and the Allied Army was destroying the wormholes.
• The soldiers and civilians erupted in celebration, and Lin Mo left the loudspeaker as a staff member waited to speak with him.

Lin Mo established safeguards for selecting twenty volunteers for the Kona Battlefield, then went to question a captured Seventh-Order Demon Venerable. The prisoner was shocked when Lin Mo spoke to it and it understood him.

• Lin Mo ordered staff to select twenty candidates based on strength and fitness, while barring coercion and poverty from influencing selection.
• Lin Mo arranged for the candidates to be sent to Kona Base and required transparent support for their families under oversight.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that General Long had secured the prisoner, so Lin Mo traveled to the western experimental zone.
• Liu Chengen reported that the Demon Venerable was alive and that existing translation and analysis methods had failed.
• Lin Mo entered the isolation chamber and asked the Demon Venerable its name, and the prisoner was startled to understand him.

Lin Mo interrogated the captured Demon Venerable Herman and learned that the Demon Clan invaded civilizations to harvest their Gaia Cores and strengthen its members. Herman revealed the requirements for advancing through the ranks, then threatened Lin Mo with the Demon Emperor and was shocked again.

• Lin Mo discovered that Herman could understand him, and Herman said the Demon Clan invaded civilizations to grow stronger and obey the Demon Emperor's will.
• Lin Mo learned Herman's identity and reminded it that Sahe was dead, then used electricity to force the prisoner to cooperate.
• Herman explained that Gaia Cores came from the core of a civilization's Gaia consciousness and could help high-ranking demons advance.
• Herman said demons weakened a planet's Gaia consciousness by killing its inhabitants and damaging its ecology, and that roughly ten Gaia Cores were needed to reach the eighth order and at least a hundred to reach the ninth.
• Herman described the ninth-order Demon Emperor's power and threatened Lin Mo, who pressed the shock button again.

Lin Mo interrogated the captured Demon Venerable Herman and learned about the Demon Clan’s strength, its search for civilizations, and Cho'Gath’s role in exposing Blue Star. The chapter left Lin Mo realizing that Cho'Gath had sold Blue Star’s coordinates to multiple Demon Gods, putting Blue Star, Terra, and Kona at risk of further invasions.

• Lin Mo and the Terra experts tortured Herman until it agreed to answer their questions.
• Herman said the Demon Emperor was supreme ninth order, two other Demon Gods were ninth order, about 137 were eighth order, and more than a thousand were seventh order.
• Herman said the Demon Clan usually searched for civilizations by using Space-Jumping Beasts to open random wormholes.
• Herman revealed that Cho'Gath had provided Blue Star’s coordinates, and Lin Mo identified it as the Demon God that had previously invaded Blue Star.
• Herman said Cho'Gath had also approached the Demon Gods Herok, Sahe, and Baroque, while Lin Mo considered the danger to the Blue Star, Terra, and Kona alliance.
• Lin Mo asked whether the other Demon Gods knew about their civilizations.

Lin Mo questioned Herman about the Demon Clan’s coordinated invasions, its sale of spatial coordinates, and the limits of its wormhole technology. After threatening Herman with torture if its testimony proved false, Lin Mo offered to spare it if it kept cooperating.

• Herman confirmed that Herok, Sahe, and Baroque had coordinated attacks on Blue Star, Terra, and the Kona Star System because Demon Gods had already died there.
• Herman said Cho'Gath had sold the civilizations’ spatial coordinates and avoided the invasion because it feared dying.
• Herman explained that Space-Jumping Beasts read coordinate crystals and sacrificed themselves to open wormholes, and that only specialized Demon Lairs could breed the rare creatures.
• Herman said wormholes required rare minerals to stay open and collapsed without further supplies, though they could be reopened with enough minerals and another Jumping Beast.
• Lin Mo threatened Herman with torture if other Demon Clan prisoners contradicted its answers, then said it might be spared and kept if it continued cooperating.
• Herman insisted it had told the truth and agreed to answer more questions if Lin Mo did not use the threatened punishments.

Lin Mo learned that the Demon Clan had no writing system, making him the only effective translator while researchers planned further interrogation. After the Demon God’s death, Blue Star’s invasion was under control, but a Planetary Engine site had been destroyed, and Kona reported that its reinforcements had arrived.

• Liu Chengen asked Lin Mo to find out whether the Demon Clan had a script, and Herman explained that demons communicated through speech and hierarchy without writing.
• The researchers realized that translating the Demon Clan’s language would be difficult, and Lin Mo offered to interpret future interrogations remotely.
• Lin Mo went to the Command Center, where Long Zhan reported that Blue Star’s invading Demon God had been killed and the remaining forces were being handled.
• Long Zhan told Lin Mo that the blast had destroyed part of a Planetary Engine construction site and warned that Cho'Gath’s survival meant further attacks remained possible.
• The communications station reported that all twenty reinforcements had reached Kona, and Long Zhan ordered the Kona Battlefield feed brought up.

Zheng Jinren sent twenty Terra warriors to the Third Planet in Pangu Mecha for a suicide attack on the Demon God, while Locke prepared to take part. The warriors began acclimation training during transit, with the mission and their families’ resettlement arrangements confirmed.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the Terra warriors to deploy immediately, with Pangu AI controlling their Mecha and Antimatter Bombs supplied in Spatial Rings.
• Locke learned that Batu had been held back because he was too large to fit inside a Pangu Mecha, and Batu promised to look after Locke’s family.
• The staff explained that the warriors would approach the Demon God in pairs and release their devices from the cockpits, warning them that they would die at the final attack position.
• The twenty warriors accepted the mission, and the staff confirmed that their designated family members had been added to Great Xia’s reception and resettlement list.
• Locke climbed into his Pangu Mecha, which began traveling to the combat zone and conducting acclimation training under its AI’s supervision.

Locke entered the Third Planet’s high-gravity battlefield in a Pangu Mecha, adapting to its strain and practicing Spatial Ring deployment during the long flight. As his team approached a rising Demon God’s predicted location, the ground suddenly bulged upward.

• Locke crossed the Portal and struggled with the Third Planet’s gravity and the Pangu’s acceleration, then gradually learned to brace and control his breathing.
• Locke practiced selecting and deploying items from his Spatial Ring while the Pangu flew toward the front line.
• Locke saw that a reception facility had been destroyed and later reached a battlefield scarred by explosions, wreckage, and advancing Demon Creatures.
• Eighteen accompanying Pangu units split into teams to cover other exits, while Locke and his partner were assigned to approach the Demon God’s predicted location.
• Locke’s partner, a Holy Human Race warrior, asked whether he could still hold up, and Locke said not to fall behind as unmanned machines formed up around them.
• The ground suddenly bulged upward beneath the advancing formation.

Locke and a companion delivered Antimatter Devices to Baroque, triggering a massive explosion that engulfed the Demon God and the surrounding battlefield. At Great Xia’s Kona Base, Zheng Jinren discovered that the Demon Clan’s forces were converging on the blast site and suspected Baroque had survived.

• Baroque emerged from underground and attacked the Unmanned Legion while Locke’s Pangu unit approached the delivery zone.
• Locke remembered his family, confirmed he could use the Spatial Ring, and prepared to release the Antimatter Device.
• Locke and his companion simultaneously deployed their devices, and the resulting explosions swallowed Baroque, the Pangu units, and much of the battlefield.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the Legion to monitor the blast’s effects, and reconnaissance revealed a crater more than ten kilometers across.
• Seventh-Order Demon Venerables retreated underground, while the Demon Clan’s forces across the Third Planet began moving toward the blast’s core.
• Zheng Jinren suspected Baroque was still alive as the Command Center realized the battle might not be over.

Zheng Jinren sent Great Xia and Kona unmanned forces into the underground passages to locate the Demon God Baroque and verify its condition. After reconnaissance revealed Baroque was severely wounded but regenerating, both civilizations agreed to clear a path so Great Xia could deliver an antimatter bomb, leaving the forces fighting toward the core area.

• Zheng Jinren ordered drones and high-rank robots to enter the underground passage while keeping manned crews back, and Kona forces joined the advance.
• Great Xia and Kona units fought through the Demon Clan’s defenses as the passages narrowed and resistance intensified.
• Kona reconnaissance robots found Baroque alive, badly wounded, and regenerating while Demon Clan forces dug to move it.
• Zheng Jinren warned Kona that Baroque might sense an approaching bomb and proposed that Great Xia deliver it while Kona cleared the path.
• The Kona Legion overloaded and self-destructed its units to break through the Demon Clan defenses, opening the way to the core area at the cost of more than three thousand combat units.

Zheng Jinren’s forces killed Demon God Baroque with two antimatter devices, triggering a collapse that buried the underground network and began the counteroffensive against the Demon Clan. After learning that Cho'Gath had sold the civilizations’ coordinates and the Demon Clan still had enormous forces, Terra’s races began preparing modern armies.

• Zheng Jinren’s Pangu units deployed two antimatter devices that shattered Baroque’s depleted shield and killed the Demon God, destroying the surrounding Demon Clan Army.
• The blast collapsed the underground passages, and Zheng Jinren ordered surviving units to withdraw and all legions to launch a counteroffensive.
• The three civilizations celebrated victories on their battlefields while Great Xia shared intelligence from Herman, revealing the Demon Clan’s vast numbers of powerful beings.
• Lin Mo told the leaders that Cho'Gath had sold the coordinates of Blue Star, Terra, and the Kona Civilization to other Demon Gods, and Long Zhan urged the civilizations to prepare for a possible legion-scale invasion.
• Terra’s races sent Great Xia procurement requests for modern weapons, vehicles, drones, and heavy arms to build modern armies.

Great Xia negotiated weapons sales and joint technology projects with Terra’s races and the Kona Civilization. As Thorin Ironbeard arrived seeking Antimatter Bombs to kill a Demon God, the story left him waiting for Lin Mo’s response.

• Zhao Gang approved selling Terra’s races available weapons and retired equipment, while reserving complicated systems and offering to operate missiles for them.
• The Kona Civilization requested materials for Antimatter Bomb containers, so Lin Mo proposed joint research projects instead of simply selling raw materials.
• Lin Mo and Watcher agreed to begin cooperation on shield miniaturization and robotics, with Antimatter Cannons and Planet-Buster Cannons left for later discussion.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang he expected the Kona Civilization’s attitude to change as Great Xia proved its strength.
• Thorin Ironbeard privately asked Lin Mo whether Great Xia would sell Antimatter Bombs, explaining that nuclear bombs could not kill a Demon God.

Thorin, Grom, Fendona, and Kael asked Lin Mo to sell their races Antimatter Bombs as protection against the Demon Gods. Lin Mo explained why Great Xia could not readily sell such strategic weapons and left the leaders wondering whether certain conditions could make a sale possible.

• Grom, Fendona, and Kael followed Thorin to Lin Mo's office and confronted him for trying to negotiate for Antimatter Bombs alone.
• Fendona, Grom, Kael, and Thorin each told Lin Mo their race needed Antimatter Bombs to deter the Demon Gods.
• Lin Mo considered the risks of selling strategic weapons to other races, including uncontrolled conflicts and undermining Terra's future unity under Great Xia.
• Lin Mo told the visitors that Great Xia would not readily sell Antimatter Bombs, comparing the decision to the Holy Human Race's earlier restrictions on Astral Teleportation.
• Fendona asked Lin Mo whether Great Xia might sell the bombs if the other races met certain conditions.

Lin Mo offered the races access to Antimatter Bombs only if they joined a unified defense system under Great Xia’s command and shared military and resource responsibilities. Fendona, Kael, Thorin, and Grom considered the terms, while Lin Mo left the details for later negotiations.

• Lin Mo said the Antimatter Bombs would have to be stored and maintained in Great Xia, and their use would require Terra Committee approval and Great Xia’s final authorization.
• Lin Mo required Terra’s races to form a Joint Legion under Great Xia’s command, share wartime resources, and support one another against the Demon Clan while retaining their cultures and traditions.
• Fendona recognized that the agreement meant becoming true allies, and the group understood that Great Xia was asking them to entrust their armies and security to a common system.
• Thorin asked whether Great Xia would share weapons and technology in return for access to the races’ resources, and Grom asked whether the soldiers would receive weapons, ammunition, food, and lodging.
• Lin Mo said Great Xia would manufacture and distribute weapons from supplied raw materials and provide soldiers with uniforms and food, while noting that the terms still needed detailed negotiation.

Lin Mo proposed uniting Terra’s armies under Great Xia’s command as a condition for access to Antimatter Bombs, while the race leaders left to consult their rulers. He later visited the laboratory and found Herman cooperating with researchers in exchange for cartoons, leaving Lin Mo surprised by the Demon Venerable’s intelligence.

• Grom nearly accepted Lin Mo’s proposal, but Thorin, Kael, and Fendona said they needed approval from their rulers and elders.
• Lin Mo told the race leaders that Terra could no longer have separate armies and that anyone seeking Antimatter Bombs had to accept responsibility for all of Terra.
• Lin Mo called Zhao Gang, who agreed the plan could accelerate the races’ integration into Great Xia and offered to draft a proposal for senior leadership.
• After hearing nothing from the Four Races, Lin Mo visited the laboratory and found Herman watching Red Fruit Animation with his limbs regrown and his chains removed.
• Liu Chengen explained that researchers had implanted Miniature Nuclear Bombs in Herman and trained him to respond to gestures, and Lin Mo saw Herman comply with an examination before demanding that the cartoons resume.

Lin Mo and the researchers kept Herman cooperative with food and entertainment while questioning it about the Demon Clan. He then met representatives of several races to discuss forming a Joint Legion, and Fendona ended by demanding a marriage alliance as the Elf Kingdom’s second condition.

• Liu Chengen explained that the researchers rewarded Herman for cooperating, and Lin Mo watched it grow absorbed in a show.
• Herman hurried Lin Mo through its interrogation so it could watch the next episode, while Lin Mo reviewed its answers about the Demon Clan and explained the explosives inside its body.
• Herman accepted the researchers’ terms, reflecting on its examinations, improved meals, and new access to television and games.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the representatives had arrived, and Lin Mo joined Kael, Fendona, Thorin, and Grom in the conference room.
• Fendona said the Elf Kingdom supported forming a Joint Legion but wanted to retain guards for public order and emergencies; Lin Mo agreed to discuss limits on their numbers and duties.
• Fendona stated the Elf Kingdom’s second condition: there must be a marriage alliance.

Fendona revealed that she was the Elf Queen’s choice for a marriage alliance with Great Xia, and Kael clarified that the Queen wanted her to marry Lin Mo. Lin Mo was flustered by the prospect, while Zhao Gang urged him to accept, leaving Lin Mo and Fendona facing their feelings and a possible union.

• Fendona explained that the Elf Queen wanted a marriage alliance to strengthen ties between the Elves and Great Xia, and Lin Mo agreed that the idea was acceptable in principle.
• Lin Mo asked whether the Elves had a candidate, and Fendona said that she was the one chosen.
• Lin Mo mistakenly wished Fendona a happy marriage with someone else, angering her when he added a wish for her to have a baby.
• Kael revealed that the Queen wanted Fendona to marry Lin Mo, leaving Lin Mo stunned and Fendona blushing.
• Zhao Gang praised the match and urged Lin Mo to consider the bigger picture, while Lin Mo protested that he had not agreed yet.

Lin Mo negotiated the Holy Human Race’s terms for joining the Joint Legion and then challenged the dwarves’ proposal to gain Great Xia’s technology while avoiding military obligations. Thorin insisted the dwarves had no intention of exploiting Great Xia, leaving their agreement unresolved.

• Kael agreed that Great Xia would lead the Joint Legion, while Lin Mo accepted the Holy Human Race’s civil autonomy and allowed it to apply to spread its faith under Great Xia’s laws.
• Thorin announced that the Dwarf Kingdom would join the Joint Legion and asked Great Xia not to interfere in its internal affairs.
• Thorin requested access to Great Xia’s education and technology in exchange for selling dwarven-made equipment, and said the dwarves wanted to focus on manufacturing rather than fighting.
• Lin Mo suggested the dwarves could serve as the alliance’s logistics manufacturers but rejected sharing Great Xia’s entire technology base while also paying for dwarven goods.
• Thorin denied intending to make Great Xia a vassal state and asked his attendants to confirm that he had not meant to exploit Great Xia.

Lin Mo offered the Dwarves access to Great Xia’s technology in exchange for joining Great Xia as an autonomous region, while Grom announced that the Half-Orc Alliance had already chosen to incorporate into Great Xia. The chapter ended with Warwick arguing that joining was necessary to protect the Half-Orcs’ future.

• Lin Mo proposed that the Dwarves become Great Xia citizens while retaining limited autonomy, and Thorin said he needed the Dwarf King’s approval.
• Grom told Lin Mo that the Half-Orc Alliance had officially decided to join Great Xia rather than enter the Joint Legion.
• Grom recalled that chieftains had debated the loss of authority, traditions, and autonomy that incorporation might bring.
• Warwick silenced the Half-Orc chieftains and argued that their people’s poverty and hardship made joining Great Xia essential.