Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang completed the trade with Elder Archmond and learned they might obtain a rare Spatial Ring by trading Great Xia equipment with the Dwarf Clan. The Holy Human Race’s Dragon Knight Reynolds arrived with the goods, and the group went to inspect the weapons prepared for his people.

• Kael explained that Spatial Rings were extremely rare, cost at least fifty million gold coins, and might be traded for Great Xia equipment with the Dwarf Clan.
• Zhao Gang inspected the Elves’ goods, including Life Spring Water, diluted youth elixir, rare ores, magic crystals, weapons, and beasts, and approved the trade.
• Kael received word that the Holy Human Race’s cargo escort was approaching, and the group went outside to meet them.
• Reynolds arrived on a dragon with several pegasi, while Fendona explained to Lin Mo why both races used Spatial Rings to transport valuable cargo through dangerous territory.
• Kael introduced Reynolds, and Zhao Gang led the group to Warehouse Four to inspect the Holy Human Race’s weapons and equipment.

Reynolds and the elven envoys collected Great Xia’s weapons and supplies, while researchers rushed to examine the magical goods they left behind. In Holy Light City, the Pope read Kael’s letter identifying Lin Mo as a possible Holy Son and was visibly shaken.

• Reynolds and Kael checked the exchanged goods, stored Great Xia’s weapons and vehicles, and declined Lin Mo’s invitation to stay for a meal.
• Lin Mo reminded the envoys to study the translated manuals and instructional videos before they departed for their homes.
• Zhao Gang summoned Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and their researchers, who hurried into the warehouse to examine the magical materials and samples.
• In Holy Light City, the Pope received and opened a letter from Kael describing Lin Mo’s magical miracle and proposing that he might be the Holy Son.
• The Pope read that Kael had not brought Lin Mo to the Holy City by force and had asked him to decide what to do.

The Pope cautiously considered whether the newly discovered Holy Son was a divine messenger or a deception, and instructed Kael to guide him gently. At the forward base, Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen uncovered major scientific and medical breakthroughs and hurried to report them to Commander Lin.

• The Pope sent Kael a letter affirming the Holy Son's discovery while warning him to guide the Holy Son patiently, then privately wondered whether the boy was God's messenger or a threat.
• On the fourth day after the Portal opened, Qian Zhenhua showed Liu Chengen that mithril had zero electrical resistance at room temperature.
• Qian Zhenhua declared that the mithril solved the Ark Plan's key energy problem and made a controlled nuclear fusion reactor feasible.
• Liu Chengen presented research showing that Holy Water treated infections and Life Spring Water slowed cellular aging and repaired damaged gene chains.
• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen decided to report both discoveries to Commander Lin.

Lin Mo’s team celebrated major scientific breakthroughs before discovering that a Demon Clan army of up to three hundred thousand was gathering near Emerald Leaf City. Meanwhile, engineers at Polaris Military Industry Group successfully tested Sun Zhi’s high-frequency resonance detonation theory, creating a devastating explosive impact.

• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen reported that mithril was a room-temperature superconducting material and that Holy Water and Life Spring Water could help extend lives.
• Zhao Gang contacted the Chief Leader, who approved sending the first batch of Holy Water and Life Spring Water to save veteran military personnel and scientists.
• A satellite revealed that the Demon Clan was massing around Emerald Leaf City under the recovered commander, with its army potentially reaching three hundred thousand.
• At Polaris Military Industry Group, Sun Zhi’s high-frequency resonance detonation theory reached its final test after more than seventy hours of simulations and material screening.
• Old Wu ordered a test shot, and the bullet detonated on impact, blowing a huge hole through the steel target.
• The engineers erupted in celebration after confirming that the test had succeeded.

Ma Dongsheng reported that the new cubic nitrogen ammunition had succeeded and that production would begin within a day. At the Forward Base, Long Zhan oversaw tests showing the bullets and shells could devastate fortified targets, then ordered a test of a 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer.

• Old Wu and Sun Zhi celebrated after the 14.5mm cubic nitrogen bullet penetrated armored steel and demonstrated greatly increased power.
• Ma Dongsheng told a superior that the ammunition was ready for production and that the first bullets would be available within twenty-four hours.
• Long Zhan watched a heavy machine gun fire cubic nitrogen bullets, which destroyed a captured Demon Clan breastplate and showed 4.2 times the combat power of standard rounds.
• Long Zhan ordered a 105mm howitzer test, and its special shell reduced a reinforced concrete bunker to dust with a reported power increase of 4.5 times.
• Long Zhan ordered a 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer to fire a special shell at a rocky hill ten kilometers away.

Long Zhan tested cubic nitrogen ammunition against Demon Clan territory, and its power devastated Emerald Leaf City. Lin Mo then proposed soaking bullets in holy water, and a test on a captured Heavy Armor Demon Soldier showed that the holy-water round caused a far more damaging reaction than an ordinary bullet.

• Long Zhan fired a nitrogen shell that sheared off half a mountain summit, while technicians measured a power increase of more than fourfold.
• Long Zhan ordered rocket artillery to strike Demon Clan forces around Emerald Leaf City, and satellite footage showed twelve explosions engulfing the area as commander Wolaz watched in shock.
• Long Zhan ordered all units to switch to the new ammunition and prepare for combat within three days.
• Lin Mo suggested soaking bullets in holy water and proposed testing them on a captured Demon Clan prisoner.
• Long Zhan arranged a comparison test in which an ordinary machine-gun round dented the Heavy Armor Demon Soldier's chest, while a holy-water round produced black smoke and a sizzling reaction.

After Holy Water proved capable of stopping a Heavy Armor Demon Soldier from healing, Long Zhan ordered ammunition to be treated with it. Meanwhile, Gao Jianjun and his exhausted team completed ten rockets and sixty Hummingbird satellites, and the first rocket launched from Terra as the story turned to the satellite deployment.

• The Holy Water's effect ended, leaving the Heavy Armor Demon Soldier with a severe chest wound that would not heal, and Long Zhan ordered personnel to soak ammunition and shells in Holy Water.
• Gao Jianjun and the research team completed the final satellite assembly, and Chief Engineer Chen collapsed from exhaustion.
• A senior official inspected the rockets and Hummingbird-series satellites, praised Gao Jianjun's team, and ordered the convoy to begin phase two.
• The rockets and satellites were transported to the northern border, where Zhao Gang and Long Zhan prepared to launch them from the Forward Base.
• A rocket launched from Terra, and six satellites separated from it and began drifting toward their designated orbits.

Great Xia completed the Sky Eye satellite network around Terra Planet, giving Forward Base continuous communications and wartime monitoring as the Portal’s closure approached. With war looming, Zhao Gang approved a final supply shipment weighted heavily toward ammunition, and crates of cubic nitrogen weapons began pouring through the Portal.

• Qian Zhenhua and Zhao Gang oversaw the launches that deployed all sixty-one Hummingbird satellites and brought the Sky Eye monitoring system online.
• Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and Long Zhan applauded the completed satellite network while Kael, Elder Muyu, and the others watched in shock.
• With twenty-four hours left before the Portal closed, Zhao Gang asked Long Zhan whether to increase the share of food and medicine in the final shipment.
• Long Zhan and Lin Mo argued that Forward Base could find food locally but needed Blue Star’s cubic nitrogen ammunition for the coming war, and Zhao Gang agreed.
• A conveyor belt began carrying machine-gun rounds, artillery shells, rockets, and missiles through the Portal to Forward Base.

As the Portal neared closure, Great Xia’s Expeditionary Force assembled to hear Elder Zhao’s farewell and prepare to fight without reliable support from home. Elder Zhao promised to await their return on Blue Star, and Lin Mo led the force in vowing to complete its mission and return victorious.

• Soldiers moved seemingly endless ammunition through the Portal, while Kael and Elder Muyu watched and wondered at Great Xia’s industrial power.
• The Expeditionary Force assembled in Firefly Leaf Valley as the command center prepared a live address from Great Xia.
• Elder Zhao saluted the troops and warned that the Portal was about to close, leaving them without dependable logistics or timely reinforcements.
• Elder Zhao told the soldiers that he and the people of Great Xia would wait for them to come home, moving many of them to tears.
• The soldiers vowed to complete their mission, and Lin Mo promised Elder Zhao that the Expeditionary Force would return victorious before the communication signal cut out.

Kael closed the Portal, leaving the Expeditionary Force isolated from Blue Star, and Long Zhan rallied the troops to begin their mission. Lin Mo and Long Zhan led twenty thousand soldiers out of Firefly Leaf Valley while Zhao Gang stayed behind to oversee the Forward Base.

• Kael chanted an incantation that collapsed the Portal after it had remained open for ten days.
• Long Zhan rallied the army and ordered the units to form up and report their status.
• Lin Mo asked Zhao Gang to appoint someone to oversee the Forward Base, and Zhao Gang promised to keep it secure.
• Lin Mo and Long Zhan boarded the command vehicle, saluted the base's new overseer, and Lin Mo ordered the troops to move out.
• The armored column, support vehicles, helicopters, soldiers, and robotic dogs set out from Firefly Leaf Valley.

Lin Mo learned the army’s extensive equipment and firepower configuration as it advanced toward the Demon Clan, while Kael and Elder Muyu traveled alongside it on inspection duty. A Pegasus Knight delivered a message from His Majesty to Kael, who began reading it.

• A staff officer told Lin Mo that the force included twenty thousand troops with exoskeletons and rifles, robotic dogs, drones, heavy weapons, tanks, artillery, air defenses, missiles, and extensive logistics support.
• The staff officer explained that bunker-buster missiles were intended to counter Earth Dragons and that additional missile vehicles at the Forward Base could strike as far as Emerald Leaf City.
• Kael and Elder Muyu accompanied the army to inspect Great Xia’s conduct and equipment during its offensive against the Demon Clan.
• Kael cast a Holy Light Spell to signal a Pegasus Knight, and nearby soldiers felt its familiar restorative effects.
• The Pegasus Knight handed Kael a message from His Majesty, and Kael unrolled the parchment to read it.

As Great Xia’s army marched, Kael and Elder Muyu saw its equipment and firepower firsthand. When a river blocked the route, Great Xia deployed a steel pontoon bridge in ten minutes, leaving them astonished by the army’s ability to overcome the obstacle.

• Kael read the Holy City’s orders to coordinate a counterattack with the Elves, maintain relations with Great Xia, and report on its equipment.
• Kael and Elder Muyu watched Great Xia’s army march and marveled at its vehicles, aircraft, and other machines.
• When a river stopped the army, Lin Mo assured Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona that Great Xia could handle it without their mages.
• Great Xia’s engineers deployed a folding steel pontoon bridge across the river in ten minutes, astonishing Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona.

Lin Mo’s army crossed a wide river on pontoon bridges and continued its advance, impressing Kael and Elder Muyu with its technology. Long Zhan ordered new artillery and missile weapons tested against Demon Clan forces, and the column kept moving after wiping out its targets.

• Lin Mo explained that his unit had five modular pontoon bridges, and the army crossed the fifty-meter river before packing them up and resuming its march.
• A drone spotted about three hundred Demon Clan troops and airborne creatures twenty kilometers ahead, and Long Zhan ordered the column to advance while artillery and missiles attacked them.
• The self-propelled gun-mortars fired cubic nitrogen high-explosive shells, which destroyed the ground troops, while missiles eliminated the winged demons and gargoyles.
• The staff reported that the target area and all aerial enemies had been cleared, and Long Zhan’s forces continued their march as new Demon Clan targets were reported and destroyed.

Kael and Elder Muyu watched Great Xia’s army advance through the Demon Clan’s territory and build a fortified camp, while Mars learned that Great Xia was shipping vast military supplies and specialized satellites to its Arctic base. The chapter left Mars facing new evidence that Great Xia’s retired scientists and veterans had undergone a dramatic rejuvenation.

• Great Xia’s army destroyed detected Demon Clan forces as it marched, leaving Kael and Elder Muyu stunned by its distant, overwhelming style of warfare.
• At sunset, Long Zhan ordered the army to form a defensive perimeter and establish camp, where soldiers built a fortified base and prepared a meal.
• Mars’s intelligence director reported that Great Xia was producing Long March 11 rockets and cubic nitrogen ammunition at full capacity.
• The intelligence director showed Mars convoys carrying weapons, rockets, satellites, and supplies toward Great Xia’s Arctic base, while its planted moles had gone silent.
• The intelligence director revealed photographs showing that Great Xia’s retired scientists and distinguished veterans looked decades younger than before.

After learning that Great Xia had developed rejuvenation technology and applied room-temperature superconductors to nuclear fusion, Mars suspected it had uncovered a world-changing secret and organized a summit to pressure Great Xia into sharing its technology. Elder Zhao joined the call at the last second, where Mars opened with a sarcastic remark.

• Mars learned that Great Xia had developed rejuvenation technology and begun building nuclear fusion reactors in its underground cities.
• Mars ordered an international summit to demand that Great Xia share its superconducting material and nuclear fusion technologies.
• Secretary Li told Elder Zhao about the joint diplomatic note and invitation, and Elder Zhao agreed to attend the video summit.
• Mars planned to accuse Great Xia of avoiding the meeting if it failed to join, then push a joint resolution demanding its technology.
• Elder Zhao joined at the appointed time, and Mars greeted him with a taunt about oversleeping.

At a global conference, Mars demanded that Great Xia share its fusion and superconducting technologies in the name of humanity’s survival. Elder Zhao turned the moral appeal back on Eagle Country and rejected the proposed trades, leaving the other leaders without a convincing offer.

• Elder Zhao dismissed Mars’s opening remarks, and Bear Country urged the leaders to begin the meeting.
• Mars described Blue Star’s worsening disasters and called for humanity to unite against Doomsday.
• Mars praised Great Xia’s breakthroughs and demanded that it share its controlled nuclear fusion and room-temperature superconducting technologies.
• Elder Zhao agreed that major powers should shoulder greater responsibility and proposed that Eagle Country fund and support underground cities worldwide.
• Mars accused Elder Zhao of joking, and Elder Zhao replied that Mars had joked first.
• The European Union, Cherry Blossom Country, and Camel Country offered technology or payment, but Elder Zhao argued that none could match fusion’s value.

Mars persuaded several nations to prepare joint live-fire military exercises against Great Xia after Elder Zhao rejected their threats and cut off negotiations. Meanwhile, Wolaz learned that a mysterious army had attacked Demon Clan troops near Emerald Leaf City.

• Elder Zhao warned the leaders that Great Xia would punish hostile actions, then disconnected the call.
• Mars proposed joint live-fire military exercises outside the Arctic Circle, and several countries agreed to join.
• Wolaz dismissed reports that Demon Clan foraging squads had gone missing near Emerald Leaf City.
• Damaged Gargoyles crashed into Wolaz's hall and reported that an army of two-legged beasts had attacked them.

Wolaz mobilized more than three hundred thousand Demon Clan troops to attack the approaching Great Xia Expeditionary Force. Great Xia tested its Cubic Nitrogen Ammunition on Demon Clan scouts, and the chapter ended when satellite imagery startled a communications soldier as the army neared Emerald Leaf City.

• A Gargoyle reported that humans with steel weapons were advancing, and Wolaz recognized them as the force that had wounded it before.
• Wolaz sounded the horn and rallied more than three hundred thousand Demon Clan troops, ordering them to spread out and march toward the Great Xia army.
• Great Xia’s reconnaissance drone detected a small group of Demon Clan scouts, and an artillery crew tested Cubic Nitrogen Ammunition on them.
• Great Xia’s artillery vaporized the scouts and surrounding terrain, leaving a vitrified crater, as the army used further strikes to clear threats and test its equipment.
• As the Great Xia army approached within thirty kilometers of Emerald Leaf City, satellite imagery made a communications soldier abruptly stand up.

Great Xia halted its advance and prepared a fortified position before launching a mass artillery strike at the approaching Demon Clan army. Wolaz’s carefully arranged forces spotted the incoming barrage too late, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Satellite reconnaissance detected the Demon Clan assembling outside Emerald Leaf City, and Long Zhan ordered Great Xia’s forces to establish defenses on the plain.
• Long Zhan ordered air defenses activated and artillery prepared to strike the enemy’s wings and central force with cubic nitrogen rounds.
• Great Xia’s artillery and rocket units fired a massive barrage toward the Demon Clan army from twenty kilometers away.
• Wolaz advanced at the head of a 300,000-strong army spread across a wide front, with Winged Demons and Gargoyles overhead and Earth Dragons tunneling below.
• Wolaz spotted hundreds of incoming points of light tearing across the sky toward its army.

Great Xia’s artillery devastated Wolaz’s Demon Clan army, prompting Wolaz to order the survivors to charge while Earth Dragons tunneled toward the steel positions. Meanwhile, Elder Archmond and General Adrian arrived at Lothia City with fifteen thousand Silver Moon Guard Elites equipped with Great Xia’s weapons, ready to join a counteroffensive.

• Great Xia’s artillery salvo struck the Demon Clan army with cluster, thermobaric, and cubic nitrogen munitions, killing a tenth of Wolaz’s three hundred thousand troops.
• Wolaz ordered the surviving demons to charge the Great Xia Expeditionary Force, while three Earth Dragons tunneled toward the steel positions.
• Elder Archmond and General Adrian brought a large elven force to Lothia City after two days of emergency mobilization.
• General Adrian led fifteen thousand Silver Moon Guard Elites, including five thousand specially trained to use Great Xia’s weapons, toward the front for a counteroffensive.