Chapter Summaries

Lancelot learned about the final round’s valuable rewards before sweeping through the arena matches and reaching the top hundred. He became Kahn Province’s only remaining contestant, carrying the province’s hopes into the next stage.

• Lancelot entered Younis Stadium at the head of the Southern Division group and exchanged looks with the other groups’ leaders.
• The host announced the final-round rewards, including the Key of Luolunsi, a golden maple leaf, and a True Dragon Series Mecha.
• Lancelot recalled that Mona had urged him to win first place because the Key of Luolunsi was exceptionally valuable.
• Lancelot defeated his opponents in the arena matches and advanced to the top hundred.
• Walmart lost narrowly to an SS-rank ability user from the Eastern Division, while Devin finished somewhere in the four hundreds after receiving several byes.

Lancelot defeated Edward and Phoebe as the final trial narrowed its contestants, securing a place in the top ten. After Phoebe’s kinetic-energy absorption countered Lancelot’s close combat, Lancelot won by overwhelming his barrier with repeated Spiral Hadoken attacks.

• Lancelot defeated Edward in under ten seconds, though Edward’s spell barrage left Lancelot badly injured.
• After treatment, Lancelot easily beat an S-rank opponent in the second round and knocked an SS-rank energy manipulator out of the arena in the third.
• Jimmy received a bye in the fourth round and advanced to the top ten after recovering from his injuries.
• Lancelot faced Phoebe, whose ability absorbed kinetic force and made close-combat attacks ineffective.
• Lancelot fired repeated Spiral Hadoken attacks, breaking Phoebe’s energy barrier and defeating him to claim a top-ten place.

The ten finalists began a battle royale in the yellow sand arena, signaling to allies and forming small teams rather than attacking at once. Lancelot avoided recruiting Bell, who joined Stell’s group, while the contestants prepared for the first clashes.

• The final stage began as the ten contestants entered the arena and the rules established that they would be ranked by elimination order.
• Lancelot stood between Stephanie and Bakeluolie before the match began, and both showed awareness of his strength.
• When the match started, the contestants signaled to their regional allies and raced among the boulders to form teams.
• Stephanie, Bakeluolie, and Stell invited Bell to join them, but Lancelot held back to avoid provoking the others into uniting against his group.
• Bell joined Stell and Phoebe, who looked pleased to see the swordsman choose their side.

The eastern and western teams formed alliances and began fighting in the Yellow Sand Arena, with Lancelot’s side targeting the western and northern fighters first. Bakeluolie trapped Jimmy beside him with his curse-mark chains, while Bell overwhelmed Stephanie under Rongside’s healing, leaving Stephanie’s side in danger.

• Lancelot and Stell allied their six fighters, while Stephanie and Bakeluolie allied their four; both teams planned to eliminate the opposing group first.
• Lancelot and Jimmy attacked Bakeluolie, but his immense defense absorbed their blows and his curse-mark chains tethered Jimmy to him.
• Lancelot ordered Rongside to focus healing on Bell so he could defeat Stephanie, while Stell joined the assault from behind.
• Rongside’s holy light kept Bell healed as he and Stell relentlessly attacked Stephanie, and Beate could not help because Phoebe occupied her.

Stephanie and Jimmy were eliminated after coordinated attacks, followed by Phoebe’s defeat in a simultaneous assault. The remaining contestants split into two opposing camps led by Lancelot and Stell, leaving the arena in uproar.

• Bell kept attacking Stephanie until her emergency rescue device activated, eliminating her in tenth place.
• Stell used Flourishing Movement to engulf Jimmy in scalding steam while Bakeluolie restrained him, eliminating Jimmy in ninth place.
• Bell and Beate attacked Phoebe together, eliminating her in eighth place.
• Bell, Beate, and Rongside joined Lancelot, while Stell joined Bakeluolie and Doreen.
• Lancelot and Stell confronted each other as spectators realized the contestants had split into two camps.

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.