Recaps

Lancelot led his team through the final test battle royale, defeating Stell, Bakeluolie, Beate, and finally Rongside. He was declared the joint recruitment champion and celebrated across Younis City.

• Stell unleashed a barrage of spells, but Lancelot trapped him in a lightning net and eliminated him after breaking through his protective crown.
• Bell and Doreen eliminated each other, leaving Lancelot, Rongside, Bakeluolie, and Beate in the arena.
• Beate switched sides to join Bakeluolie, but Lancelot activated Cell Liberation and defeated Bakeluolie head-on.
• Lancelot smashed Beate's weapons and mech, eliminating Beate and leaving Rongside as his final opponent.
• Lancelot defeated Rongside after a prolonged fight, winning the final test and becoming the joint recruitment champion.

Lancelot planned to spend his two-month break cultivating after joining Holy Sword Academy, while Mona prepared to leave for the academy. In Sunset Territory, a dispute over the arms trade ended with the factions agreeing to settle it under the hunting ground rules.

• Lancelot reviewed his academy benefits and told Mona he planned to cultivate at home before enrollment.
• Mona said she was leaving for the academy and would suspend communications, but did not explain what she might need from Lancelot later.
• In Sunset City, Nicole and Luomu argued over whether the Snake Gang or the Three-Eyed Race should control the territory’s gunpowder weapons trade.
• Balielunduo proposed using the hunting ground rules to resolve the dispute, with the Snake Gang and Three-Eyed Race accepting the terms.

Annabelle and the Thorn Clan prepared to fight the Snake Gang under the hunting ground rules, while Logo finished brewing a powerful potion and readied two custom mechas. The chapter left Logo and Crassus poised to join the coming battle with enough combined strength to challenge a sixth-tier transcendent.

• Luomu Yigeng told Annabelle and Ronaldo that the hunting ground would open in three days, allowing both sides to hunt each other's mid-level and lower transcendents, and promised to hold Frost Serpent back.
• Annabelle ordered the Gendaya People to mobilize, and Ronaldo vowed they would defeat the Snake Gang.
• Lunbate informed Logo that his family had been ordered to send forces and hunting beasts to Red Maple Square.
• Logo completed a bottle of Heart of Tranquility but put it away, deciding the coming conflict was a chance to test his new mechas.
• Logo inspected the Sky Eagle Mecha and Thunder Tiger Mecha, which could raise his and Crassus's combat power to the fifth tier and let them challenge a sixth-tier transcendent together.

During secluded cultivation, Logo reached Tier Three and advanced to intermediate alchemist, while Crassus broke through to Tier Four. Logo and Crassus armed themselves in the armory and headed with their clanspeople to Red Maple Square.

• Logo reviewed his improved attributes and alchemy skills, noting that his Fire of Birth had reached level 13.
• Logo woke Crassus and said it was their turn to take the stage; Crassus eagerly agreed to fight the snake brats.
• Logo recalled that Crassus had broken through to Tier Four and had recently defeated an upper-level Tier Five Black-Horned Savage Bull while wearing the Thunder Tiger Mecha.
• In Logo's armory, Crassus chose the Swift Thunder II-Type Electromagnetic Cannon, while Logo gathered rifles, drones, grenades, and other weapons.
• Logo packed the equipment, folded his mecha into a metal backpack, and rode Crassus toward Red Maple Square with their clanspeople.

Logo revealed to Count Herbert that he intended to join the battle against the Snake Gang, then demonstrated the power of his Sky Eagle Mecha and Crassus’s Thunder Tiger Mecha. After gaining the old count’s permission, Logo set out to fight, seeking both combat experience and the strength to command the loyalty of the Gendaya People.

• Count Herbert announced that Madam Poison had agreed to limit the fighting to Manticore Ridge, Raging Bear Valley, and Stone Man Mountain.
• Logo told Count Herbert he planned to join the battle, and the old count angrily tried to talk him out of it.
• Logo equipped the Sky Eagle Mecha, while Crassus put on the Thunder Tiger Mecha, astonishing Count Herbert with their strength.
• Count Herbert agreed to let Logo fight on the condition that Melier protect him and that he prioritize surviving over the clan’s profits.
• Logo and Crassus departed with two hunting-ground badges, as Logo aimed to gain combat experience and prove himself worthy of leading the Gendaya People.

Logo and Crassus entered Manticore Ridge to hunt Snake Gang members, using the Eye of Insight and Self-Destruct Bees to locate targets. Crassus ambushed a five-person Snake Gang squad and badly wounded one of its fifth-tier members, while the battle continued.

• Logo directed Crassus toward Manticore Ridge, where they put on their mechas and advanced under optical camouflage.
• Logo released fifty Self-Destruct Bees to scout the area while he conserved energy by limiting his use of the Eye of Insight.
• The Self-Destruct Bees detected five Snake Gang members, and Logo ordered Crassus to carry out battle plan one.
• Crassus silently approached the squad and used Tiger's Might to shake the two fifth-tier Transcendents before attacking.
• Crassus activated Extreme Speed Gait: Thunderclap and tore away nearly half of a fifth-tier snakeman's body with one swipe.

Logo and Crassus slaughtered Snake Gang fighters across Manticore Ridge, causing the gang to call in the Skull Slaughter Squad to hunt them. The werewolf leader accepted the job and prepared his team to go after Red Ghost and Blue Ghost.

• Crassus killed a Tier Five snake-man, and Logo shot another Tier Five Transcendent before killing three fleeing Fourth-Tier Transcendents with the War Falcon IV.
• Logo and Crassus used their reconnaissance and coordinated attacks to kill more Snake Gang members throughout Manticore Ridge.
• After three days, Logo and Crassus had killed 33 Snake Gang Transcendents, prompting lower-tier members to flee and Sixth-Tier members to set unsuccessful ambushes.
• Bo Er decided to hire the Skull Slaughter Squad to capture Red Ghost and Blue Ghost, and Bobby agreed to the squad’s conditions.
• The deputy delivered the job to the werewolf leader, who summoned his team to hunt Logo and Crassus.

Logo and Crassus continued slaughtering Snake Gang fighters in the hunting ground, defeating the Skull Slaughter Squad and driving the gang toward defeat. Madam Poison agreed to give up the contest but demanded that an eighth-tier gunner kill the Red Ghost, setting up a new threat for Logo.

• Logo and Crassus left after extracting transcendent essence from their kills, while the Skull Slaughter Squad tracked them down.
• Logo ambushed the squad with a minefield and sniper fire, gravely wounding an assassin and forcing Skull Slaughter to call for Snake Gang support.
• The Skull Slaughter Squad tried to counter Logo with a sniper, but Logo killed the dwarf sniper in a duel and hunted the squad until only three members remained.
• Logo and Crassus continued killing Snake Gang transcendents, and Madam Poison grew furious as the gang lost ground.
• The duke said the Snake Gang had lost the hunting-ground contest, and Madam Poison accepted defeat only after he agreed to send the eighth-tier gunner Taoruisi after Logo.

Taoruisi Pakwazhi, the duke’s tier-eight gunner, tracked Logo and prepared to kill him with her heavy sniper rifle, the KT-1 Tyrant. She fired from nearly ten kilometers away, leaving the outcome of the shot unknown.

• The duke ordered Taoruisi to intercept Red Ghost, and she moved toward the location of his ambush while staying beyond his detection range.
• Taoruisi reached the devastated site, tracked Logo and Crassus, and approached to about nine kilometers away.
• Taoruisi hovered above the ground and expanded her metal card into the KT-1 Tyrant, then loaded a physical round.
• Taoruisi aimed at Logo and fired the sniper rifle.

Logo and Crassus were ambushed by Taoruisi, and Crassus sacrificed himself to deflect her first bullet before Melier stopped her second. Logo discovered that Crassus still had a trace of life and hurried with Melier back to the Campbell family to save him.

• Logo and Crassus headed back after killing 153 Snake Gang transcendent beings and collecting their essence.
• Taoruisi shot at Logo, and Crassus used his mecha and combat talents to intercept the bullet, leaving him gravely injured.
• Taoruisi fired again, but Melier blocked the shot with the Giant Mountain Mecha and revealed himself to be Berserk Bear Melier.
• Taoruisi recognized Melier, realized Logo was connected to the Campbell Family, and withdrew.
• Logo found that Crassus's emergency life-support system had preserved a trace of vitality and ordered Melier to take them back to the family.

After the Snake Gang’s assassination attempt on Logo, Herbert and Annabelle pushed the three great clans to declare war, seeking to punish the Snake Gang and bind Logo more closely to them. The clans launched a massive invasion, while Annabelle and Gain attacked the Snake Gang’s headquarters and demanded that Madam Poison come out.

• Herbert learned that the Snake Gang had sent Taoruisi to assassinate Logo, and he was relieved to hear that Melier had protected him.
• Ron Russell and Viscount Rengat objected to war, but Doug Borgia, Viscount Carven, and Viscount Howard supported it.
• Herbert declared war on the Snake Gang, and Annabelle urged the clans to strike hard before the four chief stewards could intervene.
• The three great clans sent 400,000 troops along multiple routes, overwhelming the Snake Gang and seizing territory.
• Annabelle and Gain attacked the Snake Gang’s headquarters, and Annabelle called for Madam Poison to come out.

Logo used consciousness transfer, extraordinary essence liquid, and mechanical augmentation to save Crassus, turning him into a semi-mechanical life-form and giving him mechanical knowledge by sacrificing part of his own soul. After more than half a month, Logo finished the procedure and woke Crassus.

• Logo transferred Crassus's consciousness to the Higher-Dimensional Information Space before his body could die.
• Logo injected Crassus with extraordinary essence liquid and began turning him into a semi-mechanical life-form.
• Logo tore off part of his soul and sent it into Crassus's brain, repairing it and imparting mechanical knowledge so Crassus could become a gunner.
• Logo completed Crassus's mechanical augmentation after more than half a month.
• Logo called to Crassus, who opened his blue and red eyes.

Logo finished transforming Crassus into a heavily augmented Gunslinger, replacing parts of his body with advanced machinery while preserving several of his tiger abilities. Crassus’s new information panel showed that he was healthy and powerful, though some talents had weakened or become unusable because of the implants.

• Crassus rose from the worktable in his new, partly mechanical form and roared.
• Logo equipped Crassus with a Tianhong reactor, mechanical wing, reinforced limbs, a mechanical tail, and other advanced systems.
• Logo used the Eye of Insight to inspect Crassus’s updated attributes, abilities, and equipment.
• Crassus’s panel showed that his speed talents were weakened, Size Multiplication was unavailable, and his combat power ranged from 312 to 425.

After Crassus survived his mechanical augmentation and became a Gunner, Logo learned that the three clans had gone to war with the Snake Gang in response to the attack on him. The conflict paused for negotiations, and Logo felt his connection to the clan begin to change.

• Crassus tested his new mechanical body and Gunner abilities, delighted by his deeper voice and Tiger Roar Series Sonic Emitter.
• Logo told Crassus he did not yet know who had attacked them, and Lunbate arrived with news that the hunt had ended and war with the Snake Gang had begun.
• Lunbate explained that the three clans had sent a combined army of 400,000, and Annabelle and Gain had fought Madam Poison at the Snake Gang headquarters.
• After the four chief stewards intervened, both sides halted their advances and began negotiations in Sunset City, where the Snake Gang appeared ready to accept the clans' terms.
• Logo reflected on the clans' decision to fight for him and felt his mindset toward the clan subtly change.

After devouring a Land Turtle, Gustavo raised Gravity Control to level 9 and reached eighth-tier combat power. He traveled to the Ironback Azure Bear’s territory and prepared to sneak into its den with a pill meant to deepen its sleep.

• Gustavo devoured the Land Turtle’s body and soul, then absorbed its memories and gravity-related cultivation experience.
• Gustavo’s Gravity Control rose to level 9, and he gained Predator and a stronger Exoskeleton Enhancement.
• Gustavo’s combat power increased from 570 to 608 Di’er, passing the threshold for eighth-tier strength.
• Gustavo flew toward the Ironback Azure Bear’s valley, using the air to avoid its earth-sensing ability.
• Gustavo stopped near the bear’s den and took out a bone-white pill to make it sleep more deeply.

Gustavo ambushed the sleeping Ironback Azure Bear in its cave, using his abilities and spider silk to overcome its formidable defenses. After killing the bear, he decided to devour it there, protected by its lingering might.

• Gustavo sneaked into the cave and chose the Ironback Azure Bear's kidneys as his target.
• Gustavo activated Muscle Berserk, Blood Qi Berserk, and Mental Resonance, then pierced and shredded the bear's internal organs.
• Gustavo trapped the wounded Ironback Azure Bear in a silver cage and used gravity to keep it from reaching the earth.
• The Ironback Azure Bear tried to flee, but Gustavo blocked the cave entrance and trapped it inside.
• After half an hour, the Ironback Azure Bear died, and Gustavo decided to devour it in the cave.

Gustavo devoured an Ironback Azure Bear and absorbed its genes and memories, then spent half a month recovering and integrating what he had learned. He emerged with greatly enhanced armor and gravity control, leaving him stronger but wary of using Soul Devourer again too soon.

• Gustavo devoured the Ironback Azure Bear and absorbed its gene fragments and memories, but the experience nearly overwhelmed his sense of self.
• Gustavo decided to avoid using Soul Devourer again until he had fully digested the bear’s soul, then slept cocooned in spider silk to recover and integrate its knowledge.
• After half a month, Gustavo emerged larger and covered in a thick, spiked silver exoskeleton.
• Gustavo checked his information panel and discovered the Thorn Iron Armor talent, improved physical stats, and Gravity Control Lv12, which let him exert up to 107 times Planet Pandora’s standard gravity.

After his strength increased, Gustavo built an Intermediate Gene Repository inside his body and reviewed how the seven talent tiers applied to his abilities. He left the Ironback Azure Bear's cave to hunt again, tested his improved flight, and found traces of prey.

• Gustavo's combat power rose to 645 Dale, and his [Exoskeleton Enhancement] evolved into [Thorn Iron Armor].
• Gustavo spent three days weaving a Gene Warehouse from spider silk, gravity, and energy, creating an Intermediate Gene Repository with a capacity of 100 units.
• Gustavo classified his talents according to the seven bloodline tiers and noted that [Predator] remained low-tier because he had not found a creature with a devouring-type bloodline talent.
• Gustavo left the Ironback Azure Bear's cave to search for the three seventh-tier magical beasts and tested his flight, reaching a maximum speed above sound and a sustainable speed of Mach 0.7.
• Gustavo landed after finding traces of his prey.

Gustavo ambushed the Nightblade Leopard at Hidden Star Lake and used his web, Air-Stasis Corridor, and gravity control to overwhelm it. After the leopard’s attack rebounded off his Thorn Iron Armor, Gustavo killed it and ate its heart.

• The Nightblade Leopard hunted and ate a Savage-Horned Rhinoceros beside Hidden Star Lake, unaware Gustavo was watching.
• Gustavo silently trapped the leopard in a web cage, then used Air-Stasis Corridor to force it out of Shadow Flash.
• Gustavo pounced on the leopard and combined 107-times gravity with Air-Stasis Corridor to cripple its movements.
• The Nightblade Leopard fired dark-element rays, but Gustavo’s Thorn Iron Armor deflected part of the attack into its eye.
• Gustavo wounded the leopard with his blade legs, killed it, and ate its heart.

Gustavo hunted two more seventh-tier magical beasts and filled his Gene Warehouse with gene fragments, then considered how to manage his gene chain’s limited capacity. He chose four talents to prioritize and began considering the Puppet Master’s method of using surplus fragments to cultivate puppets.

• Gustavo stored the Nightblade Leopard’s gene fragments and learned that his Predator talent had plundered six units, including no high-level fragments.
• Gustavo killed and devoured the Giant Terror Crocodile and Golden-Scaled Eagle, becoming the last High-Rank Transcendent Lifeform in the Hidden Star Lake region.
• Gustavo sorted his gene fragments, absorbed the useful ones, and decided that talent quality mattered more than acquiring many low-level talents.
• Gustavo chose to focus on improving [Predator], [Energy Optimization], [Spider-Sense], and [Thorn Iron Armor].
• Gustavo recalled that a predecessor nicknamed the Puppet Master had used surplus gene fragments to cultivate a powerful puppet legion.

Gustavo planned to create a Soul Library for storing soul memories and began brewing an incomplete version of the deadly poison Hades. In Night City, Diwoer divined his location for Brooks, who sent Elia and five others after him, while Index secretly intervened and decided to let Gustavo handle them himself.

• Gustavo realized his puppets needed stored soul information, named the planned organ the Soul Library, and set out his many research and training goals.
• Gustavo prepared materials and began concocting a severely incomplete version of the four-star poison Hades.
• Diwoer returned to Brooks Mercenary Corps headquarters, warned that war might come early to the Elven Plane, and divined Gustavo's location from his spider silk.
• Index sensed the divination, learned that Brooks was targeting Number Two, and left the Fallen Star Nest to investigate.
• Index appeared in the Dark Night Temple, reassured Archbishop Andre, then watched Brooks send Elia, Rig, and four others to attack Gustavo before deciding to leave them to him.

Gustavo struggled to refine Hades after its poisonous gas overwhelmed him, realizing he needed greater poison resistance before continuing his experiments. Meanwhile, Elia's mercenary squad traveled toward the Land of Falling Stars, driven by her desire to avenge her family and the tragic loss of Tula.

• Gustavo failed three times to incorporate the Legendary Dark Nightmare Beast's blood into Hades and decided to seek poison-resistance gene fragments.
• Gustavo waited for the poisonous gas to disperse, entered the cave, and began a fourth attempt.
• Elia argued with Lennar about taking a detour around the Land of Falling Stars' core region, then reluctantly accepted the explanation.
• Trisha learned from April that Elia and Tula had once been lovers, and that Elia's family had been slaughtered and Tula had died before they reunited.
• Elia remembered that she had survived through her family's healing talent and had chosen to have her bloodline modified, then ordered the mercenary squad to continue toward revenge.

Gustavo concocted incomplete Hades Poison and gained the Poison Calamity Body talent while hunting near Hidden Star Lake. When he returned to his cave, Lennar's mercenaries ambushed him and trapped the area in a spatial prison.

• Gustavo completed an incomplete batch of Hades Poison, raised his poison-making skill to level 23, and planned to hunt and begin making puppets.
• Gustavo killed and ate a Thousand-Footed Black-Spotted Centipede, forming the Poison Calamity Body talent and increasing his combat power.
• Gustavo collected the centipede's remains as puppet-making materials and returned toward his cave.
• Spider-Sense warned Gustavo of an ambush, so he pulled up as Lennar ordered the mercenaries to attack.
• Elia flew after Gustavo while Lennar opened a Legendary scroll and enclosed the surrounding area in the Alternate Space Prison.
• Gustavo recognized the spatial spell and reacted with alarm.

Brooks’s mercenaries trapped Gustavo in an Alternate Space Prison and launched a coordinated assault, but Gustavo unleashed his full power and released Hades. The mercenaries and Elia were pinned down as Gustavo formed a second cage inside the prison, leaving Hades’s release as the battle’s turning point.

• Brooks sent Lennar, Rig, Elia, and the mercenaries to kill Gustavo, giving Lennar a Legendary scroll to trap him in an Alternate Space Prison.
• Lennar used Mind Contract and Mind Lightning Chain while directing the mercenaries’ attacks, but Gustavo’s Primordial Qi Tyrant Body resisted the control effect.
• Elia kept Gustavo occupied as the mercenaries’ crossbow bolts damaged his silver protective film, forcing him to fight back before they overwhelmed him.
• Gustavo unleashed a surge of silver energy that knocked the mercenaries and Elia to the ground, then used Air-Stasis Corridor to form a web cage within the prison.
• Gustavo detonated the cloth bag and unleashed Hades.

Gustavo used Hades to poison the mercenaries trapped in Lennar’s Alternate Space Prison, though the poison also severely injured his soul. He killed the remaining survivors and learned from April about the Crimson Terror.

• Gustavo released Hades, killing or incapacitating all 106 mercenaries despite their antidotes.
• Lennar, Elia, and April survived, but they were too weak or unable to escape the Alternate Space Prison.
• Gustavo pushed the physical poison mist away and killed Elia with spider silk.
• Gustavo killed Lennar after refusing to reveal his race, then promised April freedom in exchange for information.
• April explained the parchment’s contents, and Gustavo killed him before turning his thoughts to the Crimson Terror.