Chapter Summaries

Hela took Fulan to a mountain to test her strength, while Tuote came along to observe how her new power and Fulan’s symbiote performed. Hela’s attacks overwhelmed Fulan, and she ended the chapter grinding his hand inside a mass of flesh and teeth.

• Hela asked Fulan to spar with her, and Tuote persuaded him that the fight would test both her strength and his symbiote.
• Hela flew to the mountain, while Fulan followed on his sword qi and Tuote drove there by car.
• Tuote reached Hela and Fulan, then prepared to record their fight as Hela took an attacking stance.
• Hela launched barbed spikes at Fulan, and their fragments burst into his face before growing more spikes.
• Hela struck Fulan with a strangely angled punch, then enveloped his left hand in flesh that grew grinding teeth.

Hela defeated Fulan in a brutal sparring match, and Tuote assessed their fighting abilities. After recommending that Fulan acquire a close-combat Variant Artifact, Hela gave him a living bone blade to try.

• Fulan severed his hand to escape Hela's tumor-like flesh, but Hela attacked him with crawling flesh, bone whips, and tentacles until he surrendered.
• Hela reformed her body and declared herself the strongest.
• Tuote praised Hela's tactics and told Fulan that his weak close-combat and defensive skills were his greatest shortcomings.
• Tuote recommended that Fulan obtain a close-combat Variant Artifact, preferably one suited for defense.
• Fulan said he preferred blades because he had learned basic saber techniques, so Hela grew a bone blade from her palm and forced him to take it.

Hela gave Fulan a living blade that could change shape, then planned to take over the city by recruiting its strongest fighters or killing them. On the way back, she sensed a powerful stranger hiding behind a tree and confronted him; he claimed he had come to play games.

• Hela explained that the living blade was her clone, and Fulan tested its ability to extend and break a tree branch.
• Tuote suggested that Hela create a clone as a second identity, but Hela decided to consider it later.
• Hela said she would assess the city's top fighters, recruiting suitable ones and killing those she could not recruit.
• As Hela, Fulan, and Tuote headed back with Xiao Huan, Hela sensed a Ten Thousand Stars-level presence behind a tree.
• Hela approached the tree and found a young East Asian man holding a newly released game console; he said he had come to play games.

Hela recruited Aikalun, a powerful Ten Thousand Stars expert, by offering him regeneration and a chance to become stronger. After joining her plan to conquer the city, Aikalun explained how he had recognized that Hela was not human.

• Hela approached the quiet young man in the back mountain and asked his realm; he said he was probably in the Ten Thousand Stars realm.
• Hela offered to make him stronger if he became her subordinate, and Aikalun accepted immediately.
• Hela gave Aikalun her severed arm, and its blood-red mist entered his body, granting him regeneration and passing information to him.
• Aikalun told Hela his name was Aikalun and revealed that Xiao Letian was his name in Great Xia, where he had once lived.
• Aikalun told Fulan and Tuote that he had trusted Hela because he could sense she was not human, explaining that he perceived emotions in people's words and actions.

Aidan revealed that his ability, Electronic Fantasy, made him resemble a game character, then demonstrated it in a spar with Fulan. He showed that attacks passed through his body and that his pixel heart was his true target, before evading Fulan and warning him of pixel spears.

• Aidan embarrassed himself while explaining that his ability was Electronic Fantasy, and Hela stopped listening to his thoughts.
• Hela ordered Fulan to spar with Aidan, and Tuote encouraged Fulan to use the fight to test his new weapon and meet their new companion.
• Aidan activated his ability, turning translucent and exposing a pixel heart as a game-like interface and background music appeared.
• Fulan's sword qi passed through Aidan, who explained that his pixel heart was his real body and then dodged Fulan's attacks.
• Aidan lit pixel points beneath Fulan's feet, and Fulan leaped away before white pixel spears struck from them.

Aidan demonstrated his abilities to Hela, Fulan, and Tuote, but an unexpectedly powerful monster friend named Sister Fish interrupted their sparring. After the group parted for the night, Aidan walked home alone, reflecting on the small change in how others treated him.

• Aidan sparred with Fulan using his pixel heart and living weapon, then stopped when Fulan managed to damage the heart and its health regenerated.
• Sister Fish appeared and scolded Aidan for holding back before he dismissed her with his ability.
• Aidan explained that his monster friends sometimes came out on their own, leaving Hela, Fulan, and Tuote impressed by their strength.
• Hela and Fulan returned to Tuote's home, while Tuote offered Aidan a ride that he politely declined.
• Aidan picked up his game console and walked through the nearly empty city with his hood up, feeling a little warmth after Tuote showed concern for him.

Aidan regretted becoming Hela’s underling, while Hela prepared a plan to seize control of the city. The next morning, Hela disguised herself as a tearful assault victim and drew the police into investigating a fabricated crime.

• Aidan confided in Sans that he was wary of making human friends but was not truly sorry he had joined Hela.
• Hela reflected on Aidan’s past and telepathically sent him the plan to eliminate the city’s dangerous fighters and anyone who could alert the outside world.
• Hela considered the plan’s next steps and changed her clothes.
• At dawn, Hela approached a police station disguised as a frightened, tearful girl and told a policewoman she had been violated.
• The policewoman brought Hela inside, and the officers began investigating while leaving her alone in the lounge.
• Hela drank coffee and wondered whether all the police were now present.

Aidan went to Star Gym to report a possible Variant incident, but instead attacked the people inside and offered them a chance to surrender to his boss. The gym’s team lay helpless on the floor as they faced his demand.

• Aidan nervously traveled to Star Gym, where he told the receptionist that he needed to speak with someone about a possible Variant incident.
• The receptionist brought Aidan to meet the gym’s team, including a bearded man, Aka, his girlfriend, and a man with glasses.
• The bearded man dismissed the report as work and went to nap while the others paid little attention to Aidan.
• Aidan turned translucent, released a red pixelated heart, and pressed the fight button before attacking the group.
• Aidan changed his attack at the last moment, turning the heart blue and knocking everyone to the floor.
• Aidan offered to spare them if they surrendered and became his boss’s subordinates.

Aidan trapped the Night Star group in the gym and offered them a chance to become Boss Hela’s subordinates, but saw through the bearded man’s attempted surrender and attacked. As the group counterattacked, Aidan focused on the blonde woman and the blood bag she carried.

• The bearded man broke through a wall to flee with his group, but Aidan chased them and sealed the gym with pixel bones.
• Aidan offered the group one last chance to serve Boss Hela, and the bearded man pretended to accept while the blonde woman moved with a blood bag.
• Aidan spotted the bearded man’s deception and struck him with a laser, destroying his left hand.
• The bearded man called on Shanai to counterattack, and Aidan discovered that her clones had physical bodies.
• A younger muscular man named Aka attacked Aidan with a dumbbell, while Aidan suspected the blood bag was important and remained unharmed by the strike.

Aidan killed the garrison squad while Hela was away, then felt encouraged when she wrapped her scarf around him and praised him. Hela ate the squad’s strongest member and gained an unprecedented surge of energy.

• Aidan killed Shanai, Aka, the blonde woman, the bearded man, and the bespectacled man, then covered their bodies with a sheet.
• Hela returned and told Aidan she had taken care of everyone in the garrison squad.
• Noticing Aidan’s discomfort, Hela wrapped her red scarf around his neck and told him he was amazing and that she liked him a lot.
• Aidan felt overjoyed at Hela’s praise and gift, and his determination increased by one.
• Hela discovered the bearded man and Aka were Transcendents, ate the bearded man, and felt more energy filling her body than ever before.

After reaching Ten Thousand Stars by absorbing energy, Hela created a clone from her severed hand and fed it the remaining corpses, then changed its appearance and named it Xiao Er. Fulan arrived carrying Tuote and released Xiao Huan, who complained about being squeezed.

• Hela realized she had reached Ten Thousand Stars and could fight Aidan, but could not safely absorb more energy herself.
• Hela severed her right hand, turned it into a clone, and watched it devour the Transcendent man and the other corpses until it also reached Ten Thousand Stars.
• Hela and Aidan helped the clone choose a male appearance, and Hela named him Xiao Er.
• Fulan flew in carrying Tuote and released Xiao Huan, who protested that Fulan had squeezed her too roughly.

Hela gathered with her allies after they eliminated the city's powerful ability users and authorities, then consumed a Transcendent Blood Artifact to strengthen herself. She stood above the crowded city with her clone and kicked him from the rooftop, where he burst into pieces before reaching the ground.

• Tuote congratulated Hela on creating Xiao Er, and Hela asked the group how they had completed their tasks.
• Tuote reported that he and Fulan had killed the city's strong ability users, while Xiao Huan said he had killed the administrator and other influential people.
• Tuote told Hela the city had 930,000 residents and showed her where the ability users' bodies were stored.
• Aidan gave Hela a Transcendent Blood Artifact, and Hela drank all of its contents to strengthen herself.
• Hela told the group she would eat through the city and left with Xiao Er; Xiao Huan followed, while Fulan, Tuote, and Aidan went their separate ways.
• Hela kicked Xiao Er from the tallest building's rooftop, and he burst into chunks of flesh before hitting the ground.

Hela’s clones massacred the people of City B while Aidan returned to his room and wrestled with his feelings about Hela. In the underground shelter, a giant monster attacked the survivors and loomed over a nurse and a boy.

• Hela’s flesh transformed into monsters that hunted down and devoured people across the city, multiplying as they fed.
• Aidan walked through the bloodied streets, gently touched one of Hela’s clones, and returned to his rented room.
• Aidan smelled Hela’s scarf, resisted his desire to use it for sexual gratification, and hid beneath his covers.
• A nurse reassured an orphaned boy in the crowded underground shelter as she treated injured survivors.
• A giant blood-red monster smashed through the shelter’s doors and charged at the fleeing survivors.
• The boy fell as the nurse tried to lead him away, and the monster appeared behind them.

Armored Warrior saved survivors from Hela’s monster clone using a powerful red mecha, then escorted them onto a Mecha Alliance aircraft. Unknown to the survivors and the crew, a piece of Hela’s flesh hid inside the teddy bear he had discarded.

• Armored Warrior appeared just before Hela’s monster clone attacked the nurse and boy, then fought and destroyed it with his mecha.
• The survivors thanked Armored Warrior, and the boy gave him his teddy bear as a gift.
• Armored Warrior revealed his face, promised to protect the survivors, and led them to the Mecha Alliance escort aircraft.
• A woman in a suit and glasses praised the mission for testing the mecha and boosting the Alliance’s reputation.
• Armored Warrior dismissed the teddy bear as filthy, while a lump of Hela’s flesh burrowed into it unnoticed.
• The aircraft carried the survivors away from the city.

Hela gathered her clones and allies in the city’s central plaza after deciding to leave before the spaceship’s crew reported the massacre. She formed a new battle-ready clone named Xiao San and waited for the group to assemble before heading toward the city the spaceship came from.

• Hela told Fulan that they would leave the city and destroy the place the spaceship had come from.
• Xiao Huan finished eating an ability user’s head and hurried toward Hela with a blood-red monster.
• Tuote packed his equipment, took Weier with him, and drove toward Hela.
• Aidan packed his belongings into a dimensional box and ran toward Hela.
• Hela summoned her clones, which merged into a white-haired man and a giant tyrannosaur-like monster; she named the latter Xiao San.
• Tuote and Weier arrived, followed about ten minutes later by Aidan on a shared electric scooter.

Hela led her group toward City C to confront the Godslaying Technology Company, whose armored fighters had destroyed one of her clones. At the company, a rescued boy asked [Armored Warrior] to care for his teddy bear, but the hero left it lying aside as he prepared to give a speech.

• Fulan reported that no one had entered the city yet, and Hela announced that she planned to kill the people who destroyed her clone.
• Aidan identified the target as the Godslaying Technology Company in City C and explained that its fighters were known as [Armored Warrior].
• Hela set out with Xiao Er riding Xiao San, while Tuote drove Weier and Aidan along a quiet route and Fulan flew above them.
• A spaceship delivered rescued people to the Godslaying Technology Company, where a little boy asked a secretary to tell his rescuer to take good care of his teddy bear, Andy.
• The secretary found [Armored Warrior] relaxing and gaming without injuries, with Andy left carelessly aside, and told him it was time to prepare his speech.

[Armored Warrior] and [Beloved Battle Sound] prepared to address the people they had rescued while a mass of blood-red flesh escaped from a teddy bear. Meanwhile, Hela’s group buried Xiao San and drove into the dazzling City C, District A, the City of Sin, where Aidan saw the metropolis he had longed for.

• [Armored Warrior] and the woman discussed using a rescued boy and his teddy bear to boost his fame, then he and [Beloved Battle Sound] got ready for a speech.
• A mass of blood-red flesh emerged from the teddy bear and crawled into a ventilation duct unnoticed.
• Weier gave hungry Aidan an energy bar as Tuote drove the group toward their destination.
• Hela, Xiao Er, Fulan, and Aidan helped bury Xiao San, then Hela insisted on driving Tuote’s car herself.
• Hela drove the group into the City of Sin, where Aidan and the others took in the city’s bright, advanced streets.

Hela and her group reached a bustling city and learned that Godslaying Technology Company’s Battle Armor could let its pilots fight far above their own rank. She chose to build up their strength before confronting the company, then used Aidan’s scavenged electronics to get money for lodging.

• Hela searched Tuote’s phone and discovered that Godslaying Technology Company had twenty-one publicly known Battle Armor suits, including three at Ten Thousand Stars, and rumors of one at Starlight.
• Hela decided the group would lie low in the city until she and her allies were strong enough to challenge the company, and the others agreed.
• Fulan and Tuote realized they had almost no money, so Hela considered robbing a wealthy passerby until Aidan offered money from electronics he had taken from shops.
• Aidan pulled out graphics cards and phones, and Hela took them to a secondhand market to sell.
• Hela left the market with a bag of US dollars while its owner called after her and Aidan followed her through the alley.

Hela and Aidan were confronted by two men in black who turned out to be children attempting a robbery. After stopping them, Aidan began disciplining the most insolent child.

• Hela and Aidan walked alone through a dim alley while Aidan nervously tried not to stare at her.
• Two men in black blocked their way and demanded the bag of money, so Aidan stepped in front of Hela to protect her.
• Hela slapped one robber, revealing a little girl beneath his coat, while the other robber's divided body crashed into a trash can.
• Aidan caught two boys and took away their knife, and Hela knocked down the other two children when they moved to help.
• After one boy spat at and insulted him, Aidan pinned him down and smacked his bottom.

Aidan discovered that Fuluolan and the other children robbed people because they had no money for food, so he gave them cash and asked them to stop. Hela and Aidan followed the children to their warehouse, where they found them living with almost no furniture or proper belongings.

• Aidan stopped spanking Fuluolan and learned that he, Tang Jie, Ruibei, and Aimeisha robbed people to get food.
• Aidan gave the children two hundred dollars and suggested they visit a relief station.
• Hela learned from Fulan and Tuote that they had not found a place to rent, then asked the children where they lived.
• Fuluolan and the others led Hela and Aidan to their warehouse and struggled to open its rusted doors.
• Hela pushed the doors open, and she and Aidan saw that the spacious warehouse contained only makeshift beds and a few battered cabinets.