Chapter Summaries

The Gendaya Royal Court expanded Blood Eye’s power and began a sweeping alchemical industry program amid escalating wars with the White Wolf Kingdom and Dawn Empire. After Logo led Blood Eye in wiping out the Linyin Family, he suspected the Dawn Empire’s purge of generals was connected to their opposition to the Sebawen Faith.

• The Royal Court established Blood Eye, arrested thousands of officials and prominent figures, and suppressed opposition to its three-year alchemical industry plan.
• Logo and his allies fought on the borders as the Royal Court suffered military losses, while Logo gained prestige for leading covert operations and defeating enemy forces.
• Logo led an attack that destroyed the Linyin Family, and Blood Eye cleaners arrived afterward to erase evidence and collect supplies.
• Crassus, Tiffany, Caesar, and Logo discussed the Royal Court’s precarious position and the White Wolf Kingdom’s reinforcements and Dawn Empire’s execution of generals.
• Logo reasoned that the Dawn Empire had targeted old-guard believers who opposed the Sebawen Faith, suggesting an unknown conflict involving the faith.

Logo cultivated Devouring Insects and discussed using the Ruibete Group to join the Angedora Bay Rare Metals Community. After considering how to conceal alchemy factories from the Dawn Empire, he proposed building them in a demiplane and sought Maidisenna’s help deciphering a spatial rune array.

• Logo fed holy water and other light-based materials to his Devouring Insects, causing the swarm to evolve and grow.
• Alex invited Logo to represent the Royal Court at a meeting establishing the Angedora Bay Rare Metals Community, and Logo proposed attending as chairman of the Ruibete Group.
• Alex reported that the first alchemy factory was producing individual mechas at high speed, while most of its output had to be sold to fund the three-year plan.
• Logo and Alex considered how to hide reserve alchemy factories, then discussed building them in a demiplane.
• Logo returned to his laboratory and asked Maidisenna to decipher a spatial rune array.

Logo persuaded Maidisenna to calculate the coordinates of a demiplane near Planet Pandora, reducing the estimated time to about a month. Meanwhile, Lancelot disguised himself as a Kaila and followed the fleeing group to another underground base on Planet Golden Bridge.

• Logo asked Maidisenna to derive the demiplane’s coordinates from a runic array, and Maidisenna initially estimated the work would take two years.
• Logo gave Maidisenna crystals containing advanced space-time knowledge, and Maidisenna shortened his estimate to seven months, then two months.
• Logo persuaded Maidisenna to focus exclusively on the calculation, bringing the expected completion time down to about a month.
• Logo informed the Left Minister that the matter was settled and assigned him further work before returning to his laboratory.
• On Planet Golden Bridge, Lancelot used the Molecular Aggregation Insect’s camouflage to replace a fleeing Kaila named Nigu and followed the group.
• The Kaila reached another base hundreds of meters underground, and Lancelot entered the primitive subterranean town with them.

Lancelot infiltrated a Kaila underground base and silently killed dozens of its residents, including a Tier Seven spellcaster, before Grand Commander Dige'er detected him. As Lancelot fled, he realized Dige'er’s power was at the peak of Tier Nine.

• Lancelot refused to call Alliance reinforcements and planned to raid the Kaila base for supplies and military merit.
• Lancelot used molecular aggregation insects to survey the base, then began silently killing Kaila residents with Darkness's Fallen Slaughter.
• By three thirty in the morning, Lancelot had killed fifty-two targets and chosen a wealthy Tier Seven spellcaster as his final victim.
• Dige'er sensed the danger growing, ordered Keli to sound the war horn, and summoned the base’s fighters.
• The spellcaster blinked directly in front of Lancelot, who killed him with a single punch and looted his body.
• Lancelot fled as Dige'er locked onto him, and he recognized the Grand Commander as a peak Tier Nine Transcendent.

Lancelot fled a Kaila People base while Dige'er pursued him, and the two fought across the wilderness until Lancelot detonated a nuclear bomb. A young Sanctuary expert rescued him and restrained Dige'er, and Lancelot deduced the rescuer was Zyra's younger brother, White Light Fituosi.

• Lancelot escaped the underground base as Dige'er pursued him, then sent an emergency distress signal after reaching the surface.
• Dige'er used a burst of speed to catch up and struck Lancelot with a sun-like attack, but Lancelot's apparent body turned out to be a fake.
• Dige'er detected Lancelot hiding nearby and unleashed a wide-area attack, leaving Lancelot with no apparent escape.
• Lancelot detonated a nuclear bomb, badly burning Dige'er, but a young Sanctuary expert emerged and bound him with lines of law.
• Lancelot told the young man about another Kaila People base, and the man said he had already sent people there.
• Lancelot recognized the rescuer as White Light Fituosi, Zyra's younger brother, and Fituosi asked how he had guessed.

After completing the Scavenger Operation, Lancelot learned about the Swordbearer Unit and reunited with the other students to settle their prize pool mission. The chapter ended with Vermila accidentally entering Lancelot’s shower and accusing him of wrongdoing.

• Fituosi explained the Swordbearer Unit and invited Lancelot to join, but Lancelot decided to consult Director Steel Tiger first.
• Vermila visited Lancelot at the space station and reminded him that the students were meeting to rank their military merit and distribute the prize pool.
• Vermila told Lancelot that Fax had reported her to the military tribunal after she rescued him, adding to Lancelot’s suspicions about the growing conflict between the military and the Fax People.
• At the gathering, Keaton announced that Lancelot had earned 62,314 military merit as a lone operator, more than any team, and Lancelot received 12,200 credits from the prize pool.
• After the celebration, Vermila woke up in Lancelot’s room and wandered into his shower; Lancelot woke her with a small electric shock, and she accused him of taking advantage of her.

After returning from the Planet Golden Bridge operation, Lancelot spent his credits on bloodline resources, equipment, and supplies before visiting Zyra with Vermila. There he reunited with Mona, and the group settled in to try a rare drink from Black Hole Urta.

• Lancelot teased Vermila over accidentally getting into the wrong bed, then the Holy Sword Academy students left the space station for home.
• Lancelot spent his credits on bloodline potions, supplementary resources, Wind Thunder Shadow boots, Insect King Blood, cloak-upgrade materials, and explosives.
• The students returned to the academy, and Zyra invited Lancelot to visit; he brought Vermila along to meet her.
• At Zyra's home, Lancelot was surprised to find Mona out of seclusion, while Vermila excitedly greeted her idol, Zyra.
• Zyra poured the four of them different amounts of a starlit drink from Black Hole Urta, explaining that the servings matched their strength.

After drinking an energy liquid, Lancelot learned that Mona was the Ross Family’s adopted daughter and had been used by the Second Blood Ancestor to bear his slaughter intent. He agreed to stand with Mona and Zyra against the Peak Demigod, though the story left their confrontation ahead.

• Lancelot drank the energy liquid, causing a violent surge of power that eventually stabilized, while Vermila fainted from the energy shock.
• Zyra introduced Mona Wiggins and revealed that she had SSS psychic potential, which the Ross Family had suppressed.
• Zyra explained that the Second Blood Ancestor adopted Mona to build a karmic bond, then transferred his killing intent to her and created the obedient second personality, Mo Li.
• A human expert rescued Mona during the Second Blood Ancestor’s slumber and severed his control over Mo Li, but Mona refused to let the human Demigod erase her other personality.
• Lancelot learned that the Second Blood Ancestor was their enemy and promised to fight alongside Mona and Zyra.

Lancelot gave Zyra martial-artist cultivation records that might help her reach Demigod and promised Mona that a friend could someday separate her from Mo Li. After leaving Mona and Zyra, he returned home to begin examining the bloodline potions he had ordered.

• Mona explained that the Second Blood Ancestor was asleep, but she could not reach Demigod while she and Mo Li remained connected; Lancelot proposed that his friend might separate them once he became strong enough.
• Lancelot brought Zyra information crystals containing advanced martial-artist cultivation experience, and she became fascinated by their contents.
• Zyra leaped onto Lancelot to demand where he had obtained the crystals, then learned they could help her pursue a Demigod breakthrough.
• Lancelot asked Mona to introduce him to Teacher Saila and left Vermila in her care before departing; Mo Li teased Mona about her feelings for him.
• Back at his villa, Lancelot cooled off under an icy shower and received his ordered supplies, including three bloodline potions; he picked up the Immortal-quality Wellspring of Nature.

Lancelot entered the Totem World and risked awakening two abilities in succession with the help of a Gene Stabilizer, breaking through to Tier Seven and becoming a High-Rank Transcendent. His new attribute panel showed his strengthened abilities and talents after the breakthrough.

• Lancelot decided to attempt a double awakening despite the risks, spurred by his desire to keep pace with Gustavo and Logo.
• Lancelot used his level 11 clearance to enter the Totem World's third region and put on the Intermediate Gene Stabilizer.
• Lancelot drank Breath of Vitality and awakened a new ability, then drank the Immortal-quality Wellspring of Nature potion.
• Lancelot used Absolute Focus to steady his mind and guide his body through the potion's effects as his Life Essence expanded.
• Lancelot broke through to Tier Seven and became a High-Rank Transcendent Lifeform.
• Lancelot checked his attribute panel and saw his new abilities, attribute talents, and combat power rating.

After awakening powerful new talents and reaching upper Tier Nine combat potential, Lancelot kept his advancement quiet and visited Saila to improve his Molecular Aggregation Insects. He agreed to join Beaufort’s team for a mission starting in half a month.

• Lancelot awakened [Electromagnetic Field], [Breath of Vitality], and Legendary-potential [Wellspring of Nature], raising his combat power to upper Tier Nine.
• Lancelot decided not to test himself on the Holy Sword Stairway, then left the Totem World and returned home to rest.
• After Mona arranged a meeting, Lancelot visited Saila, who offered to raise his Molecular Aggregation Insects to Immortal quality and asked him to return in three days.
• Uerniwa led Lancelot to a vast beehive, where Lancelot enjoyed honey and left with a jar of it.
• Beaufort invited Lancelot to replace a dead team member as a scout and sniper, and Lancelot accepted the mission scheduled for half a month later.

Lancelot arranged to have his damaged Steel Feather Cloak reforged and accompanied Sugela to the Divine Research Institute symposium, where he learned why the Alliance’s leaders were pushing ahead with dangerous divine research. He left furious that their desire to extend their lives endangered the entire Crimson Alliance.

• Lancelot received 7,000 credits from Gopher Raquel, visited Sugela, and agreed to accompany him to the symposium at Steel Refining Academy.
• Lancelot showed White his damaged Steel Feather Cloak, and White arranged for a master alchemist to upgrade it using Lancelot’s credits and materials.
• Ms. Saila returned Lancelot’s Molecular Aggregation Insect after it advanced to the Immortal level, improving its combat and concealment abilities.
• Sugela and the Holy Sword Academy researchers traveled to Steel Refining Academy, where Lancelot saw Professor Bai Ge'er present the Divine Research Institute’s work.
• Lancelot warned Sugela that the Alliance’s divine research would invite disaster, and Sugela explained that the human leaders were pursuing it to gain divine power and prolong their lives.
• Lancelot realized the leaders’ selfish motives put the whole Alliance at risk and clenched his fists in anger.

Logo attended the Rare Metals Community Conference in Angedora Bay, where he learned that the southern lords were preparing for war against the Dawn Empire and introduced Qiya as his fiancée. He warned the assembled powers to build strategic reserves and replace the Ta Pound with an independent currency, but they rejected his proposals, leaving him intent on preparing for the Guta Federation’s suspected plans.

• Lancelot felt helpless about his lack of influence over national strategy as the Rare Metals Community Conference approached.
• Logo met Shake Baha at the conference and learned that the Dusk Lord had made him deputy head of the delegation and that the southern lords were stockpiling resources for a possible attack on the Dawn Empire.
• Qiya joined Logo, and he introduced her to Shake as his fiancée, delighting her.
• Logo urged the community to increase strategic reserves fivefold and issue an independent currency, drawing objections from Tia Empire representatives while the fifteen major powers showed little interest.
• Logo left the stage believing the Guta Federation could use its control of the Ta Pound to exploit the plane during a future war, and he planned to use his warning to gain influence over later currency reform.

Logo presented the Devouring Insects to the faction leaders, demonstrating their ability to destroy light-based defenses and winning approval for a resource-funded cultivation plan. The leaders signed a Blazing Sun Contract to protect the insects’ secrecy, while Lancelot returned to Holy Sword Academy with his Steel Feather Cloak upgraded to three-star Legend.

• Balielunduo introduced Logo to the representatives of the fifteen factions, who discussed preparations for their war against the Dawn Empire.
• Logo demonstrated that the Devouring Insects could eat through a Legendary shield’s light inscriptions, impressing the representatives with their value against the Empire’s defenses.
• Balielunduo proposed delaying the war so the factions could fund the Ruibete Group’s cultivation of Devouring Insects, and the representatives approved the plan.
• Balielunduo revealed the Sunset Lord’s Blazing Sun Contract, and the representatives, including Logo, signed it to keep the Devouring Insects secret.
• Lancelot and Teacher Sugela returned to Holy Sword Academy after half a month, and Lancelot retrieved his successfully upgraded three-star Legend Steel Feather Cloak from White.

Lancelot joined Beaufort’s elite team for an operation near the Crimson Alliance’s southern border, where the Alliance covertly managed proxy forces and settlements in the Cantia Mountains. Beaufort briefed him on the team’s two missions: destroy the White Shark Bandit Group and deliver gifts to the chief justice of the Duchy of Lexais.

• Lancelot tested his newly enhanced Steel Feather Cloak and saw that it had raised his combat power above 940.
• Beaufort invited Lancelot aboard the team’s shuttle, where Caroline questioned whether the young student could serve as an effective sniper.
• Beaufort introduced Lancelot to the team’s specialists, who regarded him as a promising but inexperienced genius.
• Lancelot let the team underestimate his abilities and traveled with them toward the Alliance’s southern border.
• Beaufort explained the Alliance’s covert use of proxy forces to manage the Cantia border settlements and gave Lancelot the missions to exterminate the White Shark Bandit Group and deliver gifts to the chief justice of the Duchy of Lexais.

Beaufort led the squad in reconnaissance against the White Shark Bandit Group, while Lancelot secretly used his Molecular Aggregation Insects to scout the base. He discovered three hidden Peak Tier Nine Blue Dragons and revealed them to the squad, leaving Beaufort’s battle planning to account for a concealed ambush.

• Beaufort briefed the squad on the White Shark Bandit Group’s forces and defenses, then said they would verify the month-old intelligence before making a plan.
• Beaufort, Caroline, and Nevis scouted the bandit group while Lancelot secretly sent his Molecular Aggregation Insects throughout the base.
• Lancelot’s insects found three concealed Peak Tier Nine Blue Dragons in the core area, and he suspected the bandits were working with the Dragon Clan to ambush the Alliance squad.
• Beaufort, Caroline, and Nevis reported their reconnaissance findings, and Beaufort began preparing to discuss the battle plan.
• Lancelot contradicted their count of the bandit group’s experts, projected an image of the three Blue Dragons, and explained that he had discovered them through scouting.

After discovering that the White Shark Bandit Group had three peak Tier Nine blue dragons, Lancelot revealed his own peak Tier Nine strength and persuaded Beaufort’s team to attempt a surprise attack. He took command and assigned roles for the operation, which was set to begin in three hours.

• Caroline’s reaction confirmed Lancelot’s warning about the White Shark Bandit Group’s alliance with three powerful blue dragons, and Beaufort’s team thanked him for preventing them from rushing into a trap.
• Beaufort and the others decided to withdraw and seek reinforcements, but Lancelot revealed his peak Ninth-Rank strength and urged them to hear his plan first.
• Lancelot explained how the Molecular Aggregation Insects could conceal their infiltration, then proposed ambushing one blue dragon, bombing the enemy base, and preparing an escape route.
• Beaufort’s team agreed to Lancelot’s plan and appointed him commander; he assigned the team’s roles and ordered them to prepare to move in three hours.
• Lancelot handed Nevis his explosives, including a nuclear bomb, and Nevis’s alarm at the weapon amused Phoebe, who casually tossed it in the air.

Lancelot’s team used a nuclear bomb to bolster their plans against the White Shark Bandit Group, then lured Bentley away from his brothers and killed the Peak Tier Nine blue dragon in a coordinated ambush. As the team considered striking another enemy, Lancelot and Beaufort sensed that their opponents had arrived.

• Phoebe realized that the weapon Lancelot had brought was a nuclear bomb, and the team’s confidence in their operation against the White Shark Bandit Group rose.
• Lancelot disguised himself as Blood Fang and lured Bentley away from his brothers, while Beaufort concealed the group’s approach with Deep Domain.
• Diliya, Caroline, Maxin, and Gwendolyn restrained and attacked Bentley, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Lancelot charged up his abilities and severed Bentley’s neck with his lightning spear, killing the Peak Tier Nine blue dragon.
• Caroline asked what the team should do next, but Lancelot and Beaufort warned that their enemies had arrived.

Lancelot’s team ambushed the White Shark Bandit Group, using a nuclear bomb and a breach in the enemy’s defenses to gain the upper hand. After Josiah and Mike fled, Lancelot’s side defeated the remaining leaders and prepared to withdraw with their spoils.

• When the three Blue Dragons reacted to Bentley’s death, Lancelot ordered Nevis to detonate the nuclear bomb while Beaufort led the others against White Shark and the Tier Nine fighters.
• The bomb devastated the bandits’ territory, and the Crimson Alliance’s infiltrated defenses fired on White Shark’s group as Lancelot’s allies engaged them.
• Lancelot held off Josiah and Mike, exploiting gaps in their coordination when their three-dragon joint technique failed.
• Josiah and Mike retreated after deciding to preserve their strength, leaving a Dragon’s Curse mark on Lancelot that he recognized as a tracking mark.
• Lancelot joined the other Ninth-Rank Transcendents, and they killed White Shark, Black Dream, Curse Man, and Blood Fang within minutes.
• Lancelot ordered the team to clear the battlefield and withdraw, then recovered several barrels of lightning-shimmering dragon blood from the earth.

Lancelot chose the deadly lone operative test to join the Swordbearer Unit and received a mission to earn 50,000 merit points by hunting the Frenzied Clamor Pirate Crew with the Alliance Navy's Sixth Fleet. Meanwhile, Logo received the coordinates of a demiplane on Planet Pandora and set out with Grand Duke Tielin and the Eye of Gendaya to retrieve it.

• Lancelot gave the blue dragon's remains to Logo to prepare bloodline potions, then completed a second mission with Beaufort's squad and refused their invitation to stay.
• Lancelot reviewed the Swordbearer Unit's entry process and chose the lone operative test despite Fituosi warning that fewer than one in ten new lone operatives survived.
• Lancelot received orders to join the Sixth Fleet in the Whirlpool Sea and earn at least 50,000 merit points by hunting the Frenzied Clamor Pirate Crew.
• Lancelot decided to rely on Logo's intelligence network, prepared his equipment, and flew to rendezvous with the Sixth Fleet.
• Maidisenna calculated the coordinates of the demiplane on Planet Pandora, and Logo and Grand Duke Tielin secretly departed with the Eye of Gendaya to retrieve it.