Chapter Summaries

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.

Aidan battled [Ground], whose overwhelming gravity and stone forest trapped him despite Aidan’s knife inflicting a serious wound. As Aidan’s health fell to a critical level, scarlet flesh spread through the stone forest and slowed its movement, giving him a chance to recover.

• [Ground] attacked Aidan with tentacles and diamond fragments, but Aidan deflected the fragments with his pixel knife.
• [Life] pinned [Ground] with metal spikes, allowing Aidan to slash open [Ground]’s chest with his knife.
• [Ground] blasted free, crushed Aidan toward the earth with intensified gravity, and used the Power of the Source to suppress his spreading wound.
• [Ground] divided and raised the ground into a churning stone forest that trapped Aidan and steadily drained his health.
• Scarlet flesh spread between the stone pillars, slowing the stone forest and giving Aidan a chance to catch his breath.

[Ground] overwhelmed Hela’s monsters and cornered Aidan, but Hela used a concealed shot powered by the Power of Deconstruction to fatally wound him. Before dying, [Ground] asked after Xiaojie, Beibei, and Shasha, and Aidan reassured him that they were doing well.

• [Ground] endured Hela’s attacks and called down two meteorites, destroying the blood mist and nearly killing Aidan in the blast.
• [Ground] trapped Aidan among stone pillars, dispelled his attacks, and pinned him to the ground with gravity.
• Hela fired a hidden bullet through the stone pillars, destroying [Ground]’s right hand and fatally piercing his body.
• Hela revealed that a star-blue gemstone had concealed her presence and explained that she had hidden underground to take the shot.
• [Ground] asked Aidan how Xiaojie, Beibei, and Shasha were doing, and Aidan told him they were safe and successful.
• [Ground] smiled with relief and collapsed as the light faded from his eyes.

Hela revived and captured Ground, then prepared to take him to Ocean, the only place that could imprison him completely. After Lin Wushuang and the Ye brothers arrived, Aidan recognized the hidden despair and hatred in Ye Yiqing’s eyes before Lin transported Hela, Ground, and Aidan away.

• Hela used blue powder to heal Ground enough to keep him alive, then bound him with an iron chain and carried him away.
• Aidan asked whether Hela had joined the Light God Society, and she said they were cooperating so she could fulfill her purpose.
• Lin Wushuang and Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing arrived, found Ground captured, and praised Hela for taking him down.
• Ye Ciqing and Ye Yiqing questioned Aidan because he seemed familiar, and Aidan glimpsed the terrible emotions hidden in Ye Yiqing’s eyes.
• Lin Wushuang said Ground had to be taken to Ocean, then transported Hela, Ground, and Aidan away while the Ye brothers stayed behind.

Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing reunited with Chi Jiu, Bai Yu, and Xiao Deng after [Ground] was defeated, but their return was interrupted by an attack from the [Godslaying] Squad. As the teams clashed, Bai Yu tried to protect the brothers’ transformation, and Xiao Deng moved when his spear failed to harm Lei Yong.

• Chi Jiu arrived too late to fight [Ground], whom partner [Life] had already defeated, and transformed into her maid-clad human form.
• Ye Ciqing greeted Bai Yu and Xiao Deng, asked Chi Jiu to take them back, and delighted in getting her to call him master.
• A spatial doorway opened, and a man confronted the Light God Society, demanding that they return Meng Yuan before attacking Ye Ciqing with a spatial slash.
• Ye Yiqing pulled Ye Ciqing out of danger, then the brothers merged inside a mass of scarlet flesh while Chi Jiu attacked the [Godslaying] Squad with flames.
• Bai Yu blocked Lei Yong's strike against the tumor, was forced back, and threw his spear, but Lei Yong's pink shield deflected it.
• Xiao Deng moved as Bai Yu realized his attack had failed to harm Lei Yong.

Ye Qing attacked Lei Yong after the masked child’s illusion created an opening, while Jixue and Xiunuosi drove Chi Jiu into her dragon form. Gu Gongming confronted the child, who trapped him in a vision of his own childhood and revealed a bloody scene from his past.

• The masked child made Lei Yong see the tumor as a Sea Herring protecting her brother, but Ye Qing used Lei Yong’s hesitation to launch an attack.
• Ye Qing and Lei Yong exchanged a series of powerful attacks, with Lei Yong destroying his Edgeless Blade and switching to a spear.
• Jixue and the frenzied Xiunuosi forced Chi Jiu to transform into a dragon, then struggled to keep up with her speed and aerial attacks.
• Gu Gongming questioned the masked child and offered him a home, but the child vanished and drew Gu Gongming into a city illusion.
• Gu Gongming found his younger self crying beside the body of a bloodied old man in front of a luxury car.