Recaps

Meng Yuan uncovered recordings of brutal human experiments on Variants and the researchers’ attempts to control the power behind their abilities. The final tape revealed thousands of tortured souls sealed beneath specially made glass.

• Meng Yuan investigated the hidden laboratory and played its first recording, which described Variants’ unusual physical structures and lack of reproductive functions.
• Meng Yuan watched the second recording, where a researcher announced plans for live-subject experiments.
• Meng Yuan learned that 390 experimental personnel had died and saw evidence of failed attempts to breed, transplant, and pair Variants with humans; she vomited and used Mind Magic to calm herself.
• Meng Yuan played the final tape, which revealed that tortured people produced a resentful power after death and that researchers had sealed thousands of their souls beneath specially made glass.

Meng Yuan discovered that the research facility had tortured a child into becoming the source of its Variant Artifacts, and confronted Telake and Yifan over the experiments. As resentment from the glass room surged toward the culture vessel, the ragdoll cat attacked Meng Yuan.

• Meng Yuan watched footage showing researchers implanting a Breath Bamboo seed in a little girl and later injecting her with Steel Ant Emperor cells, turning her into the monster in the culture vessel.
• The footage revealed that the young researcher had killed himself after learning that ability users had emerged naturally and the experiments had been pointless.
• Meng Yuan restored Telake and Yifan to their senses, restrained them with magic blades, and demanded to know whether they had known about the experiments.
• Telake admitted he knew and argued that the girl’s bamboo and the resulting Variant Artifacts reduced the death rate and had to be preserved to protect humanity.
• A ragdoll cat thanked everyone, shattered the glass room, and unleashed its century-old resentment toward the culture vessel.
• The cat’s scarlet, python-like tail pierced Meng Yuan’s chest before she could cast protection magic.

Hela unleashed the monster known as [Silver Ghost], and Telake died trying to hold it back while Yifan escaped. The monster burst through the building during a party, where Brown confronted it after cutting off its attack.

• Hela fled after her destruction awakened the monster, while the wounded Meng Yuan and her sister tried to escape and warned that its power had reached 'Immortal.'
• The culture tank shattered, and [Silver Ghost] emerged as Yifan tried to flee with the injured Telake.
• Telake told Yifan to evacuate the researchers, then provoked [Silver Ghost] with a remark about her mother and was killed; Yifan escaped and shut the secret-chamber door.
• [Silver Ghost] recovered memories of her mother, tore apart Telake's body, and struck the floor as her resentment intensified.
• At the party, Yixue noticed the highest-level alarm as Brown used a door to inspect the building and saw its floors fly away.
• [Silver Ghost] burst through the foundation and attacked Brown's floor with an iron-bamboo drill, but Brown appeared behind her after severing it.

Hela helped Tuote and Weier escape with a recorder, then learned the Light God Society wanted Meng Yuan captured alive after Hela had gravely wounded her. As a sniper attacked the researchers and the Lord arrived, Hela returned to the building and encountered a monster emerging from the ground.

• Yixue and Xiunuosi watched Hela flee the banquet with Tuote and Weier trapped inside her tumor, while Gu Gongming pursued her and Yixue stayed to protect the guests.
• Hela gave Tuote a miniature recorder and learned from [X] that the Light God Society wanted Meng Yuan captured alive, but she had already damaged Meng Yuan's heart and lungs.
• A sniper shot Gu Gongming and killed researchers in the building, forcing Xiunuosi and Gu Gongming to protect them as Hela released Tuote, Weier, and Shamate and headed back.
• told Hela that the Lord had arrived, and Hela found Brown and [Silver Ghost] no longer fighting as she approached the building.
• A monster with bamboo growing from its back burst from the ground and charged at Hela, crying, "Mommy-!"

Brown trapped Nan Tian in the [Room] and attacked him with [Winter]'s stored power. Hela fought [Silver Ghost], who resisted her flesh and blood attacks, and the chapter left their battle unresolved.

• Brown confronted Nan Tian and kicked him into the [Room], where he claimed he was invincible.
• Brown unleashed [Winter]'s stored cold, but Nan Tian compressed it into an ice ball and fired it at him.
• The [Room] split apart at the waist, and Brown faced Nan Tian in the surrounding void.
• [Silver Ghost] attacked Hela with iron bamboo, but Hela's flesh swallowed the weapons and eventually engulfed [Silver Ghost].
• [Silver Ghost] tore free and continued attacking Hela, rejecting her attempt to redirect her toward the humans in a nearby building.
• Hela cut [Silver Ghost] with blades of blood, striking her as she fell through the air.

Hela subdued Silver Ghost, then joined Nan Tian in escaping Brown and went to find the badly injured Meng Yuan. She arrived just as Yifan was about to use a rare resurrection bead, swallowed it, and left Meng Yuan’s fate unresolved.

• Hela briefly controlled Silver Ghost, restrained her with crimson tentacles, and then released her to fight Brown.
• Nan Tian escaped the Room through a hole he made with a wish and told Hela that Brown controlled its space and time.
• Hela and Nan Tian headed for Meng Yuan, but Brown intercepted them and was thrown into a fight with Silver Ghost.
• Nan Tian and Hela vanished, leaving Silver Ghost to attack Brown with iron bamboo.
• Yifan prepared to use a rare blue glass bead to heal the wounded Meng Yuan, but Hela swallowed it before he could act.

Hela and Nan Tian defeated Meng Yuan and Yifan, and Nan Tian revealed that Meng Yuan’s little sister was a product of her ability. After the sister disappeared, Nan Tian explained that Meng Yuan’s power was Thought, shaped by her fantasies and wishes.

• Hela extinguished Meng Yuan’s fireball and trapped Meng Yuan and Yifan with her tentacles.
• Yifan swallowed a Body-Exploding Agent, but Hela killed him and caught the pill before he could finish swallowing it.
• Nan Tian healed Meng Yuan and explained that her life was tied to the other Meng Yuan’s.
• Nan Tian split the other Meng Yuan in two, and she vanished as Meng Yuan tried to reach her.
• Nan Tian told Meng Yuan about her childhood, then revealed that her ability was Thought and that her imagined little sister had emerged from her wish for protection.

Nan Tian revived Meng Yuan and took her with Hela, who recovered a USB drive containing humanity’s Variant research. They arrived at a battlefield where the Light God Society’s dragon appeared, and Hela attacked the [Godslaying] Squad before Brown and [Silver Ghost] struck back.

• Nan Tian explained that Meng Yuan was a dependent life-form created by Meng Yuan’s fantasy, then revived her and said he needed her help with his plan.
• Hela retrieved a USB drive containing research on Variants and Variant Artifacts, refused to give it to Nan Tian, and swallowed it.
• Nan Tian brought Hela and the unconscious Meng Yuan to the battlefield, where a fire dragon appeared above the fighting.
• Hela attacked the flying floor holding Yixue and the others, but Brown and [Silver Ghost] countered her and sent her crashing into another floor.
• Brown opened a gigantic door and teleported away, leaving [Silver Ghost] to face Hela.

Hela explored a room of Variant Artifacts, fought Silver Ghost, and tested a handgun that fired invisible bullets using mental power. After Hela infused it with the Power of the Source, Silver Ghost transformed into a towering iron-bamboo monster and attacked her.

• Hela found the Mouth of the Void and used it to store the objects filling her body.
• Silver Ghost attacked Hela, but Hela swallowed her hand, used embedded iron bamboo against her, and tore off both her arms.
• Hela slammed Silver Ghost into a thruster, causing the suspended floor to crash, then tested a handgun that pierced Silver Ghost's thigh with an invisible bullet.
• Hela infused the handgun with the Power of the Source as Silver Ghost transformed into a nearly ten-meter iron-bamboo monster.
• Silver Ghost vanished and reappeared before Hela, reaching for her with a massive hand.

Hela killed [Silver Ghost], and Nan Tian comforted the dying creature before confronting Brown over Meng Yuan. Brown received orders to retreat and led the [Godslaying] Squad away, while Nan Tian and his companions prepared to leave on the fire dragon.

• Hela destroyed half of [Silver Ghost]'s body with a shot, and [Silver Ghost] died after Nan Tian held her hand and offered her comfort.
• Nan Tian faced Brown, who demanded that he return Meng Yuan, and warned him that fighting would be irrational.
• [Satellite] relayed Commander Wang Canxin's order for Brown to protect the remaining squad members and research personnel and retreat.
• Brown reluctantly ordered everyone to retreat, and the [Godslaying] Squad and research personnel escaped through doors and by flight.
• Nan Tian stopped the fire dragon from pursuing them, then left with Hela and the other two companions.

Meng Yuan awoke imprisoned under Ye Ciqing’s guard, while Hela brought Tuote and Weier to a church and learned that the Lord wanted her help capturing Ground. Hela left with Tuote and Weier, and Ye Yiqing drove Shamate out of the church.

• Meng Yuan woke in a dungeon-like room and cowered from Ye Ciqing, who told her not to try escaping.
• Shimizu Ichika arrived to keep Ye Ciqing company, and they became intimate in front of the frightened Meng Yuan.
• Hela brought Tuote and Weier into a church, gave Tuote a USB drive of research information about Variants, and explained that the church served as a Light God Society base.
• Ye Yiqing asked Hela to go to Atan Country’s capital around March ninth to help capture Ground on the Lord’s behalf.
• Hela swallowed Tuote and Weier and vanished, while Ye Yiqing angrily ordered Shamate to leave the church.

Lei Yong confronted Wang Canxin over the abandonment and capture of his squadmates, but Brown and Gu Gongming calmed him and led him back to the [Godslaying] Squad. Afterward, Jian Luo connected Wang Canxin’s suspicious invitation to the Star God Group with the Light God Society’s attack and secretly followed him home to investigate.

• Lei Yong stormed into Wang Canxin’s office, accused him of abandoning Meng Yuan and the others, and attacked him and Jian Luo.
• Brown stopped Lei Yong from choking Wang Canxin and promised they would bring Meng Yuan and the others back.
• Gu Gongming reassured Lei Yong and led him through Brown’s “door” to the waiting [Godslaying] Squad.
• Jian Luo helped Wang Canxin up, then wondered why Wang Canxin had claimed to suspect the Star God Group before the Light God Society attacked.
• Jian Luo followed Wang Canxin to his house by bicycle and entered after praying that Wang Canxin would not discover him.

Jian Luo discovered Wang Canxin secretly kept a Variant in his basement and demanded an explanation after hearing the creature ask for a Ten Thousand Stars human. Meanwhile, Hela and Tuote arrived in Aketan and headed for the capital, planning to find a base and search for Aidan.

• Jian Luo followed Wang Canxin into the basement and saw him uncover a Variant hidden beneath a black cloth.
• The Variant asked Wang Canxin for a prophecy and said it wanted a human at the Ten Thousand Stars realm to eat.
• Jian Luo confronted Wang Canxin at gunpoint and demanded an explanation, and Wang Canxin began to answer.
• On a plane to Aketan, Hela and Tuote discussed their search for Aidan and planned to establish a base in the capital.
• Hela, Tuote, and Weier landed, took a taxi, and set off for the capital.

Tuote, Weier, and Hela entered Atan Country and met Aodili Yuliu, a Light God Society member who agreed to take them to their lodgings. Yuliu brought them to a bar that had not yet opened, while Hela learned about the Fallen God Group from a concert flyer.

• Tuote paid the taxi driver in rubles, and the three travelers headed into the city to escape the heat.
• Hela bypassed the border guards, and [X] created entry permits for all three on a nearby television screen.
• Hela took a passerby's phone and frightened him into falling back with a single look.
• told Hela that a full member was nearby, and Aodili Yuliu arrived to meet her and Tuote.
• Hela saw a flyer for the Fallen God Group and asked Tuote about its members' mechanical prosthetics.
• Yuliu led Tuote, Hela, and Weier to a bar that would serve as their temporary lodging.

Yuliu, Hela, Tuote, and Weier settled into private rooms at a bar, where Yuliu set up precautions against intruders. Meanwhile, a girl who had failed to meet her flyer-distribution target faced her lecherous team leader until the chairman called for her.

• Yuliu paid for three private rooms with a lump of gold, and the bar manager led the group inside.
• Hela chose the last room, while Yuliu selected a secluded room nearby after checking its layout and view.
• Yuliu placed noise-making beads outside Hela's and Tuote's doors, then set an infrared sensor by his own door.
• Hela sensed Yuliu's security measures, searched her room for snacks, and found none.
• A girl reported to her team leader after failing to distribute all her flyers, and he threatened to dock half her salary before making an improper suggestion.
• The team leader answered a call from the chairman and told the girl that the chairman wanted to see her.

The CEO interrogated a flyer distributor about Hela’s whereabouts and learned she might have gone to the bar beside Star Bar. At the bar, Hela ate and drank through the noisy night, while Yuliu kept watch and the group eventually slept in their private room as morning arrived.

• The CEO questioned a girl who had handed out flyers and learned that Hela had probably gone to the bar next to Star Bar, then promised her a chance to join the Brilliant Girl Group.
• Hela, Tuote, Weier, and Yuliu left their rooms to explore the crowded bar, where the Brilliant Girl Group was performing.
• Hela ordered food and wine at the counter while Tuote and Weier returned to the private room and Yuliu watched the crowd from a quiet corner.
• A middle-aged man tried to grab Hela, but she slapped him across the bar, and Yuliu frightened him into fleeing.
• The bar’s music and lights continued until morning, leaving Tuote and the others asleep on the private-room sofas.

Yuliu, Hela, and Tuote survived an attack by hired mercenaries, but they could not identify who had ordered it and fled the bar. Meanwhile, a mysterious young man entered City A and arrived at the Fallen God Group.

• Yuliu heard three attackers approach the private rooms and killed the men outside his and Tuote's doors.
• Yuliu found Hela eating the killer who had entered her room, and told her to keep the man's head for later.
• Yuliu used the dark web to identify the dead mercenary, but X could not trace the employer behind the virtual account.
• Yuliu, Hela, Tuote, and Weier escaped through a window and quietly left the bar.
• A mysterious young man entered City A without presenting a pass and stopped outside the Fallen God Group, recalling bad memories.

After identifying the Fallen God Group as the likely force behind the assassination attempt, Hela decided to attack its headquarters, and Yuliu agreed to go with her. They reached the building using the address on the tickets and entered after showing them to an attendant.

• Hela realized the winning tickets and earlier flyer connected the Fallen God Group to the attack, and Tuote agreed with her suspicion.
• Hela proposed going straight to the Fallen God Group and killing them, then convinced a cautious Yuliu to join her.
• Hela gave Tuote two fingers to replenish his energy, and Tuote left with Weier while Hela and Yuliu headed for the group's building.
• Hela discovered the building's address on the tickets, and [X] pinpointed it for them.
• Hela and Yuliu arrived at the Fallen God Group building, showed their tickets to an attendant, and Yuliu put out his cigarette when told smoking was prohibited.

Hela and Yuliu entered a party where Hela suspected her old enemy was waiting, while Yuliu was lured to the rooftop by a strange boy. The boy revealed he intended to kill Yuliu, and Yuliu shot him as flames engulfed half his body.

• Hela sensed a familiar woman in the basement and sent a clone through the ventilation system to kill her while she went to the party with Yuliu.
• At the party, Hela noticed that something was blocking her perception of life force but remained relaxed and watched the dancers.
• A timid boy approached Yuliu and led him from the venue to the rooftop, asking whether he had killed people and why.
• Yuliu said he killed because he hated humanity, and the boy claimed he had asked so he could kill Yuliu with a clear conscience.
• Yuliu fired at the boy, engulfing half of his body in flames.

Yuliu fought a boy whose abilities suggested he was the [Blood Scarf], then fled after losing most of his right hand. At the banquet, Liu Ruqing named Hela as her long-sought enemy, while Hela confronted Liu Ruqing’s clone onstage and her main body in the basement.

• Yuliu used smoke and a thermal imager to search for the boy, but a heart-shaped heat signature dodged his shot and attacked him with lasers.
• The lasers destroyed most of Yuliu’s right hand, and he recognized the boy as possibly being the [Blood Scarf] before escaping with grenades.
• An explosion shook the banquet venue, where Liu Ruqing took the stage and revealed that she had invited one person: her enemy of five years, Hela.
• Hela calmly approached Liu Ruqing’s apparent clone onstage and recognized that Liu Ruqing’s main body was elsewhere.
• In the basement, Hela stood over Liu Ruqing’s main body amid severed limbs and burning robot wreckage, and both Helas asked Liu Ruqing, “Are you afraid?”

Hela revealed that she had anticipated Liu Ruqing’s moves and prepared for the attack, but the arrival of the strongest mercenary, [Blood Scarf], changed the confrontation. When Hela revealed her identity, [Blood Scarf] stopped his attack and recognized her as his former boss, Aidan.

• Liu Ruqing explained that she had expected Hela to come and kill her, and said she had made preparations.
• [Blood Scarf] crashed through the venue’s window, healed the people injured by the glass, and was identified by Yuliu as the strongest human mercenary.
• Yuliu threatened to detonate a grenade, but Hela stopped three pixel spears from striking him.
• [Blood Scarf] charged at Yuliu, and Hela stopped Yuliu from setting off the grenade.
• Hela told [Blood Scarf] that she was Hela and revealed her former appearance; [Blood Scarf] stopped and called her “boss.”

Hela reunited with Aidan, who had spent five years searching for her, and told him to leave mercenary work and follow her. As Hela prepared to kill Liu Ruqing, Liu revealed her hatred over the destruction of her company and triggered bombs throughout the Fallen God Group building, leaving everyone caught in the impending blast.

• Hela embraced Aidan and learned he had become a mercenary while searching for her over the past five years.
• Hela told Aidan to stop working as a mercenary and follow her, then confronted Liu Ruqing.
• Liu Ruqing explained that Hela had destroyed her Godslaying Technology Company and seized its Battle Armor technology.
• Hela's barbed tentacle pierced Liu Ruqing, who declared she had never planned to survive and activated bombs throughout the building.
• Yuliu recognized the bombs and rushed toward a window, but the bombs detonated.

Aidan and Yuliu survived the explosion and the blue-flame blast behind Aidan’s pixel-bone defenses, while both Helas were badly injured but regenerated. A red-haired youth and a rune-covered man attacked the Helas, and four armed strangers confronted Aidan and Yuliu as the attacks landed.

• Aidan and Yuliu emerged from the rubble in a pixel-bone cube, and Hela warned Aidan to keep his defenses up when blue dust began falling.
• The dust ignited on contact with metal, engulfing the crater in blue flames; Aidan’s defenses protected him and Yuliu while the fire devastated both Helas.
• The two Helas regenerated and moved toward each other, but a rune-covered blade and building debris attacked them as a red-haired youth and a rune-covered man charged in.
• Aidan fell to his knees after maintaining the defenses, and Yuliu aimed his pistol at the red-haired youth while Aidan summoned Gaster Blasters.
• Four armed strangers appeared beside Aidan and Yuliu and ordered them not to move as the attacks struck the Helas.

Hela defeated the Night Stars sent to kill her, while Aidan spared a regenerating survivor. After X warned that the battle had brought [Ground] and the Light God Society to the scene, the group faced another imminent threat.

• Aidan's attack failed, and Hela killed the Night Stars' captain and the red-haired fighter before the survivors could call the [Godslaying] Squad.
• Aidan killed an older Night Star who tried to use an emergency notifier, while Yuliu shot the remaining fighters and Aidan stopped him from killing the regenerating twin-ponytailed girl.
• Hela's two bodies reunited after she devoured her attackers, restoring her energy.
• X warned that the commotion had brought [Ground] early and that Light God Society members would arrive within about an hour.
• Yuliu asked how soon [Ground] would arrive as X began counting down from ten seconds.

Yuliu fled as [Ground] arrived and sentenced Hela Yeager and Aidan to death, but Hela and Aidan fought back. [Ground] overpowered their attacks and escaped Hela’s flesh pillar, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Yuliu ran as the countdown ended, and [Ground] emerged from a rocky hill after crushing the loudspeaker.
• [Ground] sentenced Hela Yeager to death for helping the Light God Society and turned to judge Aidan, but blood slashes interrupted him.
• Hela told Aidan to help, and the twin-tailed girl fled as [Ground] crushed the blood slashes and charged them.
• Aidan attacked with Gaster Blasters while Hela struck [Ground] with a spiked iron hammer and then a serrated tachi, but [Ground] blasted her apart.
• [Ground] repelled Aidan’s pixel spears and targeted his pixel heart, then crimson tentacles trapped him inside a towering pillar of flesh.
• [Ground] broke out of the pillar and smashed it apart with a falling stone cube.