Recaps

Lin Chen stopped Asta’s seductive kiss after realizing a glowing crest from the pills’ side effects had turned her into a little succubus, and March 7th returned before anything more happened. After giving Asta five [Low-Quality Sanity Pills] and arranging to meet at 10:30 that night to confront the Uncanny disaster, Lin Chen walked with March 7th, who asked whether he would join her on an adventure if the Astral Express’s journey ended.

• Asta kissed Lin Chen passionately, but Lin Chen noticed a glowing purple crest and realized the pills’ side effects had made her act like a succubus.
• Lin Chen broke off the kiss, and March 7th returned to Asta’s cabin without catching them in the act.
• March 7th helped Asta lie down, and Asta claimed she was dizzy while concealing what had happened.
• Lin Chen gave Asta five [Low-Quality Sanity Pills] for capable fighters aboard Herta Space Station and arranged to meet her in the Master Control Zone at 10:30 that night.
• March 7th asked Lin Chen whether he would travel with her if the Astral Express’s journey ended, then blushed and kneed him when he teased her about getting married.

Lin Chen agreed to travel with March 7th, then played Honkai: Star Rail Glory with Wolf Girl and her eccentric friend. He and March met Asta at the Space Station for their planned mission, where Arlan arrived transformed into a girl.

• March 7th asked to travel with Lin Chen after leaving the Astral Express, and he agreed.
• Lin Chen played more than a dozen matches with Wolf Girl and her friend Undying Blade, who repeatedly charged into enemies and died.
• Lin Chen logged off, woke March 7th, and went with her to meet Asta at the Space Station's Master Control Zone.
• Asta wondered why Arlan was late, then Arlan arrived in light armor with a large blade, appearing as a girl.
• Asta recognized Arlan and reacted in shock at his transformation.

Lin Chen discovered that Arlan had taken all the Sanity Pills and transformed from a boy into a girl, then led the group’s investigation into the midnight singing and missing security officers. He identified the space station’s reservoir as the likely source of the uncanny and prepared the group to investigate it that night.

• Arlan admitted that he had taken all the Sanity Pills, and Asta scolded him over the severe side effects.
• Lin Chen greeted Arlan, formed a bond with him, and received six Space Marines from the system.
• March 7th told Lin Chen that Arlan had originally been a boy, leaving him embarrassed about mistaking Arlan for a girl.
• Asta and Arlan reported that their investigations had found no clues about the midnight singing or the missing security officers.
• Lin Chen connected the uncanny singing and the books’ seafaring fables to the water supply and chose the B4 reservoir as the group’s destination.

Lin Chen summoned the Conqueror Legion to help find the source of the midnight uncanny singing in Herta Space Station's B4 Load Zone. The soldiers knelt to him, then raised their rifles at March 7th after she kicked him, leaving the group in an armed standoff.

• Lin Chen warned Asta, Arlan, and March 7th to stay close as midnight approached, while Asta argued that the enormous load zone might require them to split up.
• Lin Chen used a system command to summon Alpha and Beta Assault Squads and ordered them to deploy Psionic Detection Field Generators.
• The soldiers arrived in formation and knelt before Lin Chen, stunning Asta and impressing Arlan while March 7th realized they were on their side.
• March 7th accused Lin Chen of lying about being a Demon Hunter, and Lin Chen teased her by claiming the soldiers were Demon Hunters too.
• March 7th kicked Lin Chen in the knee, prompting the soldiers to raise their rifles and aim their laser sights at her head.

Lin Chen used the Conqueror Legion’s psionic detector to locate the source of the uncanny singing on Herta Space Station. The detector traced it to water pipes between rooms 0018 and 0276, revealing that water carried the song through the station.

• March 7th surrendered when Lin Chen’s soldiers aimed their weapons at her, and Lin Chen called off the attack.
• Lin Chen ordered Reynolds to set up the Psionic Detection Field Generator while the Conqueror Legion secured the plaza.
• Asta, Arlan, and March 7th watched as the device began scanning, and midnight brought the eerie singing back.
• Lin Chen told Reynolds to switch the detector to high-power mode, shrinking its range to improve sensitivity.
• Reynolds detected a target jumping between water towers 0018 and 0276, and Lin Chen recognized the numbers from his assigned rooms.
• Lin Chen realized that water flowing through the station’s pipes carried the uncanny singing.

Lin Chen used the Conqueror Legion to destroy the water towers and disrupt the eerie singing, provoking the unseen threat into attacking. After three Space Marines disappeared, he ordered a retreat to loading zone B4 and prepared with March 7th, Arlan, and Asta to face the approaching monster.

• Lin Chen ordered the Space Marines to shoot the water towers, releasing torrents of water that disrupted the singing.
• Lin Chen taunted the unseen being as the singing grew more violent and a wave surged toward the group.
• The system reported that Space Marines 0014, 0016, and 0019 had lost contact, and Lin Chen ordered the Legion to defend loading zone B4.
• Lin Chen concluded that the monster was physical and powerful enough to destroy armored Space Marines instantly.
• Arlan, Asta, and March 7th took positions beside Lin Chen and vowed to defend the Space Station as the unknown threat approached.

A monstrous uncanny creature emerged from the black flood in the B4 Load Zone plaza, and Arlan fought it while Asta and Lin Chen supported him. Arlan and Asta prepared to end the battle quickly, but the monster healed rapidly, leaving the fight unresolved.

• A grotesque, building-sized monster appeared in the flooded plaza and charged at the group.
• Arlan attacked the monster with his lightning-wreathed blade, severing its tentacles and burning its body before it drove him back.
• Lin Chen watched Arlan struggle against the monster’s strength and speed, while the creature’s wounds regenerated within seconds.
• Arlan called on Asta for support and warned that they had to destroy the monster completely.
• Asta used her Staff to cast Starlight Blessing, enveloping everyone present in starlight.

Lin Chen watched March 7th, Arlan, and Asta battle the uncanny monster, whose resilience and eerie song turned the fight against them. As Arlan and Asta succumbed to mental contamination, March 7th appeared unaffected.

• March 7th froze the uncanny monster with Six-Phased Ice, giving Arlan an opening to attack.
• Arlan unleashed a furious flurry of blade strikes while March 7th and Asta supported him with ice arrows and crimson fire.
• The monster broke free of its icy prison and blasted Arlan away with a ring of black light.
• The monster's eerie song caused mental contamination, weakening Lin Chen, Arlan, and Asta.
• Lin Chen noticed that March 7th remained unaffected by the monster's song.

A supernatural sea fog lured Lin Chen toward the black tide, but Reynolds intervened and sacrificed himself to save him from a monstrous attack. Lin Chen survived and resolved to grow stronger, though Reynolds vanished into the fog.

• The dark halo spread across the B4 Load Zone, surrounding Lin Chen in chilling sea fog and separating him from Arlan, Asta, and March 7th.
• A blonde maiden's song lured Lin Chen toward the black tide, promising to guide him to safety and treasure.
• Reynolds arrived, fired into the fog, and urged Lin Chen to escape while he held back the monster.
• When the monster charged Lin Chen, Reynolds stepped in front of him and took the creature's claw through his powered armor.
• Reynolds drove the monster backward with his fusion thruster and disappeared into the fog as Lin Chen watched.
• Lin Chen survived and resolved to use his resources to become stronger.

Lin Chen summoned a Hellfire Battlewagon and brought March 7th, Asta, and Arlan aboard so they could join the fight against the uncanny beast. The Space Marines held the monster at bay with sustained fire as Lin Chen drove toward the battlefield.

• Lin Chen reassured Arlan and Asta, then accepted March 7th's offer to stay behind and watch over them.
• Lin Chen summoned a Hellfire Battlewagon and invited everyone to get inside for protection.
• Lin Chen had the Central Control Tower operate the battlewagon and asked March 7th and Asta if they could fight while it was moving; both agreed.
• Lin Chen drove the battlewagon toward the uncanny beast with March 7th and Asta ready to attack.
• The twenty-six Space Marines maintained crossfire against the regenerating monster, while one Marine picked up Reynolds's weapon and advanced while firing.

Lin Chen and the Conqueror Legion defeated and contained the Uncanny Behemoth by separating its regenerating limbs, then burning its weakened body with the Hellfire Battlewagon's plasma flames. The Space Station was safe, but the containment device had no capacity remaining.

• Tychus attacked the Uncanny Behemoth to avenge fallen soldiers, but it flung him into a corridor wall as two Space Marines died.
• Lin Chen used the Hellfire Battlewagon's autocannons alongside March 7th's ice arrows and Asta's Stardust to wound the Behemoth while evading its pursuit.
• Lin Chen ordered Space Marines to collect the monster's severed pieces and dump them into the Waste Disposal Chute, preventing them from rejoining its body.
• When the Behemoth spread sea mist and eerie singing, Lin Chen tracked it through the dark tide and blasted it with the battlewagon's Plasma Flame Projector.
• Lin Chen contained the Behemoth's ashes, and the system confirmed that Anomaly No. 1376 was contained and the device had zero capacity remaining.

After defeating the Deep-Sea Nightmare, Lin Chen gained Conquest Points and mental resistance, then learned that his Path of Conquest offered no conventional upgrades. He opened a reward for the Conqueror Legion’s victory, and the chapter ended as its roulette spun.

• Lin Chen used Field Decomposition to destroy the Deep-Sea Nightmare and received 3,000 Conquest Points and Intermediate Mental Resistance.
• The system announced that Lin Chen had opened the Path of Conquest, but his tier, skills, talents, and other fields were blank.
• The system explained that no Aeon could strengthen Lin Chen and advised him to build influence, gather resources, and develop the Conqueror Legion.
• The system awarded Lin Chen a Fate's Departure Gift Pack for the legion’s first combat victory, and he opened it as a reward roulette began spinning.

Lin Chen received a Universal Countermeasure Card after the crisis on Herta Space Station ended, then spoke with Asta and Arlan before leaving with March 7th. As they walked, March 7th asked whether Lin Chen would go to Azure Star or return to the Astral Express, and said she wanted him to stay aboard.

• Lin Chen learned that the Universal Countermeasure Card could provide a plan to resolve an immediate crisis, but would disappear after one use.
• Asta thanked Lin Chen for ending the uncanny singing, and Arlan offered to repay his kindness; Lin Chen suggested they have a drink sometime.
• Researchers arrived at the damaged plaza, and Lin Chen left Asta to handle the cleanup as he and March 7th headed back to bed.
• Lin Chen asked what Himeko had told March 7th, and March 7th asked whether he and Himeko were romantically involved.
• March 7th asked whether Lin Chen planned to go to Azure Star or return to the Astral Express, then admitted she wanted him to stay so they could go adventuring together.

After the crisis ended, Lin Chen teased March 7th about staying on Herta Space Station, then returned to Cabin 0276 and fell asleep. He woke in a vivid seaside marketplace that he did not recognize, where a sailing ship was preparing to depart.

• Lin Chen told March 7th he might stay on Herta Space Station as a security guard, prompting her to protest and accuse him of having his eye on Asta.
• Lin Chen reached Cabin 0276 and found that the old book on the desk had vanished.
• Lin Chen went to sleep in his cabin after the eerie singing and the Deep-Sea Nightmare battle had ended.
• Lin Chen awoke in a bustling marketplace and suspected he was dreaming, though the city felt unnervingly real.
• Lin Chen climbed toward the harbor, where he saw crowds boarding ships and an old sailing ship raise its sails as a bell rang.

Lin Chen recognized the port city as a world trapped in an endless cycle and realized the bell, not the Deep-Sea Nightmare's song, was driving the phenomenon. He summoned the Conqueror Legion to attack the bell tower, whose repeated restoration began to weaken under their fire.

• Lin Chen saw ships repeatedly depart and return to the port, sometimes carrying treasure and sometimes corpses, and concluded that the world was caught in an endless spiral.
• Lin Chen jumped from a cliff to escape the dream but returned to the fruit stall, where he realized the bell's tolling marked the beginning and end of each cycle.
• Lin Chen summoned the Conqueror Legion and ordered Tychus to direct its fire at the distant bell tower.
• Tychus and twenty-six Space Marines repeatedly destroyed the bell tower, but it restored itself each time, while the black lines around it steadily shrank.
• Lin Chen concluded that the world was more than a dream and told Tychus to continue firing because the bell tower seemed close to its critical point.

After enduring 276 destructions, Lin Chen woke on the Starrail Platform beside March 7th, apparently back at the beginning of his time on Herta Space Station. Though the scene resembled his first night there, he found his system inventory and Conqueror Legion intact, and summoned his soldiers to attack the Central Broadcasting Tower.

• Lin Chen woke beside March 7th on the Starrail Platform and found the time had returned to 10:30 on his first night at Herta Space Station.
• Lin Chen checked his sanity and system, confirming that his conquest points, reward items, and twenty-six Space Marines remained.
• March 7th took Lin Chen to the Master Control Zone and asked Asta to arrange a job and cabin for him.
• Lin Chen rejected cabin 0002 and asked to stay in Asta’s bedroom; Asta quietly invited him to come after midnight, while March 7th warned him not to make trouble.
• Lin Chen declared the situation a farce, summoned the Conqueror Legion, and ordered Tychus to attack the Central Broadcasting Tower.

Lin Chen confronted a mysterious woman who emerged after he destroyed the broadcast tower and plunged Herta Space Station into darkness. He used the Universal Countermeasure Card, saw her true appearance, and learned that the Deep-Sea Nightmare was her pet.

• Lin Chen destroyed the central broadcast tower, and the Space Station went dark as a mysterious woman descended through the chamber.
• Tychus and the Space Marines fired on the woman, but her barrier made the bullets vanish; Lin Chen stored the Marines in system space before her attack could erase them.
• Lin Chen activated the Universal Countermeasure Card, which let him see the woman's face and removed the pressure she had exerted on him.
• Lin Chen taunted the woman about her true form and the Deep-Sea Nightmare, and she revealed that the Nightmare was her pet, a god that could devour everything within conventional understanding.

Lin Chen confronted a mysterious, powerful witch who had shattered Herta Space Station and mocked him as an insignificant human. She revealed that March 7th, Asta, and Arlan were alive, while Lin Chen prepared to capture her and claim the reward for defeating her.

• The witch warped space and shattered Herta Space Station, but her power did not harm Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen flicked away the witch’s attempted kick and moved above her, trading taunts as she described her plans to corrupt and devour the starry expanse.
• Lin Chen demanded to know what she wanted and where she had taken his friends and the station’s people.
• The witch brought March 7th, Asta, and Arlan into view and called one of them an interesting collectible.
• Lin Chen threatened to turn the witch into a specimen and planned to contain her with Field Decomposition for the Conquest Points.

Lin Chen shrugged off Night Queen Lilith’s attack and taunted her, but Lilith revealed a colossal form looming over Azure Star and declared her power over the star sector. The chapter ended with Lilith preparing to harvest souls while Lin Chen faced her true form.

• Night Queen Lilith unleashed a darkness that decayed the Space Station, but Lin Chen’s Lord of the Stars-class shield protected him.
• Lin Chen tore through the darkness, appeared before Lilith, and taunted her after surviving her attack.
• March 7th, Asta, and Arlan watched Lin Chen confront Lilith and feared for Azure Star as she summoned a gigantic apparition behind the planet.
• Lilith declared that the star sector was in her grasp and revealed a vast, winged form that towered over Azure Star.
• Lilith announced that she would harvest souls from the star sector, while Lin Chen silently assessed the threat.

Lin Chen started a Starstream livestream as Lilith threatened to destroy Azure Star, hoping to gain rewards and conquest points. General Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan watched the broadcast on the Xianzhou Luofu and feared Azure Star’s destruction could make the Luofu Lilith’s next target.

• Lilith grew enraged at Lin Chen’s taunts and reached toward Azure Star with a colossal demonic claw.
• The system detected an extinction-level crisis, and Lin Chen ordered it to start a Starstream livestream.
• The broadcast showed Lilith looming over Azure Star as its defenses fired and starships rose to meet her attack.
• Fu Xuan recognized that the livestream showed a real catastrophe and suspected Ms. Herta had run into trouble.
• General Jing Yuan judged that Azure Star might be destroyed and ordered the Cloud Knights to full alert in case Lilith targeted the Xianzhou Luofu next.

On Jarilo-VI and the Xianzhou Luofu, observers watched Lin Chen confront Lilith as her demonic claw threatened Azure Star. Lin Chen shifted from taunting her to declaring the Conqueror Legion’s commitment to defending civilization, leaving Lilith bewildered and Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan hoping the Legion could save the planet.

• Cocolia and Bronya watched the livestream, and Cocolia feared that a being serving Nanook would destroy Azure Star.
• Lilith taunted Lin Chen and blamed him for the suffering of Azure Star’s people while her demonic claw threatened the planet.
• Lin Chen mocked Lilith and threatened her, but the system censored his words and urged him to maintain a positive image for the livestream.
• Lin Chen proclaimed that the Conqueror Legion would defend order and justice, leaving Lilith confused.
• Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan agreed that the Legion’s actions mattered more than Lin Chen’s motives and hoped it could protect Azure Star.

Bronya, Cocolia, Gepard, and Serval watched Azure Star’s livestream and reacted to its impending destruction. The evil god crushed the planet’s orbital shield and destroyed its starships, while Azure Star’s people prayed for the Conqueror Legion as Lin Chen received a system notification.

• Bronya watched the livestream and prayed that the Conqueror Legion would save Azure Star.
• Cocolia doubted that the legion could oppose the evil god and reflected on Belobog’s possible fate.
• Gepard discussed Azure Star’s crisis with Serval, then left the Neverwinter Workshop unconvinced by her optimism.
• Serval went to turn off the television, but the livestream showed the evil god crushing Azure Star’s orbital shield and destroying its starships.
• People across Azure Star prayed for the Conqueror Legion as Lin Chen heard a system notification near the shattered Herta Space Station.

Lin Chen used Stars Live to win recognition and conquest points, then revealed the Conqueror Legion’s 114th Star-Sea Combat Group as it arrived to defend Azure Star. The fleet struck Lilith’s meme entity, vaporizing its right arm and saving Azure Star from immediate destruction.

• Lin Chen earned 18,000 conquest points after broadcasting his righteous words and receiving the prayers and recognition of Azure Star’s humans.
• Lilith taunted Lin Chen and prepared to crush Azure Star, believing he had no way to fight her.
• Lin Chen pointed to the sky as the Conqueror Legion’s 114th Star-Sea Combat Group arrived with tens of thousands of cruisers.
• Lin Chen ordered Operation Save Azure Star, and the fleet’s neutron pulse beams vaporized Lilith’s right arm and destroyed the falling starship wreckage.
• Lilith clutched her injured arm in pain while Lin Chen marveled at the fleet’s power.

Lin Chen’s Conqueror Legion crippled the evil god threatening Azure Star, prompting celebration across the planet and awe among observers. As Asta lamented that she could not afford the fleet, Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan discussed Lin Chen’s power, while Bronya urged Cocolia to reconsider uniting Belobog with the Underworld.

• Asta admired the Conqueror Legion’s Star Destroyers, but Arlan pointed out that she and her family could not afford them; March 7th joked that marrying Lin Chen might get her half the fleet.
• After the fleet’s arrival saved Azure Star, its people celebrated the Conqueror Legion and Lin Chen, whose fame spread across social media.
• Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan acknowledged that the Conqueror Legion was far more powerful than they had expected and discussed bringing it before the Xianzhou Alliance’s council.
• Fu Xuan wondered whether Lin Chen was an Emanator or an even greater being whose identity the Matrix of Prescience could not reveal.
• Bronya watched the broadcast in Belobog and urged her mother, Cocolia, to reconsider breaking down the barriers with the Underworld.

Bronya challenged Cocolia’s pessimism about Belobog’s prospects, while Lin Chen received conquest points after the Conqueror Legion’s victory and trapped Lilith as she tried to escape. Lilith feared he might be one of the Sin Gods, but Lin Chen told her to believe in science.

• Bronya argued that the Conqueror Legion’s rescue of Azure Star might mean Belobog could also be saved, but Cocolia insisted the Legion had no reason to help their frozen world.
• Bronya left the central administration hall, and Gepard watched the livestream’s outcome before reconsidering his opinion of his older sister.
• The system awarded Lin Chen 14,000 conquest points for the Legion’s feat and his influence, bringing his balance to 35,000.
• Lilith opened a dark vortex to escape and threatened that the Dream Gods would destroy Lin Chen’s legion.
• Lin Chen activated the HOLO Ring, whose barrier sealed the spatial passage and stopped Lilith from leaving.
• Lilith asked whether Lin Chen was one of the Sin Gods, and he told her to believe in science.