Recaps

Gu Chi, as King Ghidorah, unleashed a continent-wide storm, defeated the ancient ocean sovereign Apekus, and explored the devastated Yilisei Continent through an avatar. Meanwhile, regressor Nuoyaji reached Luoweida and began organizing aid for its starving miners, while King Ghidorah encountered the mysterious Fuyila.

• Gu Chi emerged as King Ghidorah on an unfamiliar world and unleashed a massive storm, awakening Apekus beneath the Endless Ocean.
• King Ghidorah defeated Apekus, who recounted the world’s past eras and warned that Nuoyaji’s arrival was an unprecedented danger.
• Nuoyaji returned to his youth and resolved to change the empire’s future, while King Ghidorah learned that he was a regressor.
• King Ghidorah dismantled the super-hurricane at Apekus’s request, then used a projection to watch Nuoyaji and the continent respond to the disaster.
• King Ghidorah collected ancient treasures from Apekus and traveled inland as the storm devastated settlements and crippled Victoria’s defenses.
• King Ghidorah activated a black intelligent unit as an avatar and sent it into the ruins of Luoweida, where he saw the ordinary people suffering from his storm.
• Nuoyaji reached Luoweida and joined Dezi and the miners, proposing to bring grain through an abandoned mine passage before the grand duke’s army arrived.
• King Ghidorah’s avatar encountered Fuyila, fed her, and learned of her missing mother and mysterious red stone before she continued south toward the sea.
• Nuoyaji found Yimulei at the mine and proposed using the old passage to bring in food, after hearing footsteps beyond the rubble, he approached the blocked tunnel.

King Ghidorah pursued a castle and lost Black Owl when an ancient being stirred beneath the Western Mine. He forced Valeria into his service and flew west for ore, while the Silence Society arrived at the mine.

• Nuoyaji and Yimulei rescued thirteen miners, while King Ghidorah drew Nuoyaji’s attention with footsteps from deeper inside the collapsed mine.
• King Ghidorah awakened Voraksa beneath the ruins, then defeated him and ordered him to find a castle.
• Nuoyaji secured aid for Luoweida, organized mine repairs, and accepted Heross’s assignment to inspect the western mines.
• Black Owl vanished in a sealed section of the mine, and King Ghidorah flew west after losing contact with his avatar.
• A purple-lit pit opened beneath the Western Mine, and Valeria emerged before Dezi and the miners.
• King Ghidorah defeated Valeria, demanded compensation for Black Owl, and made Valeria swear a World Will contract to serve him.
• King Ghidorah carried Valeria west toward the ore-rich mountains, while the Silence Society descended into the mine to investigate.

King Ghidorah seized control of Vagrian, installing himself as Caesar and reorganizing its court while the empire’s neighbors and secret societies reacted. As he prepared to investigate the Forbidden Land, rival forces began plotting their own entry.

• Kaidezi and the captain found Grey Eye and other powerful figures dead in the underground hall, then left to contact Duke Desolation before he could reveal what he had seen.
• After the storm devastated the region, King Ghidorah sent Valeria to find a palace and flew to Vagrian, where he defeated Valerirus and took over the capital.
• King Ghidorah appointed Sangis to manage his palace, demoted Valerirus to provincial governor, and made Voraksa captain of the guard.
• Valerirus told King Ghidorah that his ancestors had guarded the Forbidden Land, where the evil god Weiergalun had fallen, and King Ghidorah decided to inspect it.
• Nuoyaji recruited Chaluoke to help prevent disasters, while Chaluoke recalled seeing a storm and a golden three-headed dragon.
• King Ghidorah announced himself as Caesar, and Kaidezi and the captain recognized him as the beast from the Western Mine.
• Felipe Kedaoer took control of the Karelia Empire’s palace as regent after telling Felipe VIII that a demonic god slept in its eastern Forbidden Land.
• King Ghidorah visited Gerlen City, where Hermann recognized and accepted him as emperor, while Lufuna and the Silence Society’s contacts witnessed his arrival.
• Hermann’s forces captured Destruction and Revelation Society agents in Gerlen City, while the Society’s leaders sought help to enter the Forbidden Land.
• King Ghidorah left Sangis to manage the empire and discovered that his body was absorbing mana, as a hooded woman gave Venerable An a key to retrieve Tyrfing for a planned expedition into the Forbidden Land.

As King Ghidorah took the throne in Vagrian, plots and old seals converged around the Forbidden Land. The spreading black corruption unleashed new enemies, swallowed King Ghidorah into a strange realm, and left Valerirus badly wounded by a powerful humanoid foe.

• King Ghidorah displayed Apekus’s treasures, while the Chaos Beast King Core’s hum stirred gray-black powder in a distant barren land.
• Nuoyaji joined Karelia’s delegation to investigate Vagrian and the possibility that the evil god Weiergalun had awakened.
• Wolunxius escaped its underground seal but was killed by Voraksa, and a faction later used its remains in a ritual that awakened Aiyileiyas.
• King Ghidorah took Vagrian’s throne, defeated Weitestan, and sent him to the Forbidden Land to bring Valerirus back.
• Aiyileiyas attacked settlements and fought Valerirus, while its black energy spread through flames and reached the Chaos Beast King Core in the palace.
• Nuoyaji warned Sangis that the Forbidden Land’s seal had weakened, then black tentacles erupted through the palace as corruption spread across the continent.
• A vast toothed mouth swallowed King Ghidorah, who encountered Leonsel, the God of Light, in a realm of floating landmasses.
• Valerirus fought a powerful humanoid figure emerging from black matter, turned back to protect a nearby city, and was punched through the ribs.